ITB October2015

OCTOBER 2015

OCTOBER 2015

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A mix of business and pleasure

Ahead of the Tattersalls October Sale, Jocelyn de Moubray chats to Mark Weinfeld of Meon Valley Stud about the remarkable legacy left by his father and four yearlings bought in the 1970s

The modern racehorse trainer Trainer and businessman Mark Johnston has enjoyed a fine summer with his two-year-old string

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First word

Paul Haigh thinks we’ve found a possible solution to British racing’s finances

13 News

RIP Bart Cummings, Green Desert, Compton Place and Last Second, a flying visit to the US for Ted, William had a good trip to Osarus

18 Phew...!

St Leger and Irish Champions weekend provided top-class racing, stewards’ enquiries, drama in the changing room, as well as a 50th Group1 winner for Galileo – though at the time of writing, we are not quite sure who it is!

26 Autumn form

Edouard de Rothschild found a spring in his step after Esoterique’s Prix Jacques les Marois success

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30 Bloodstock stats

Stalllion statistics from Weatherbys

37 Pope acting on both sides

Mandy Pope buys the Keeneland top lot, and sells a seven-figure War Front colt to Shadwell, reports Nancy Sexton

77 Mare of the Month

Blue Diamond Stud’s Nessina

81 The database

With pedigrees from Weatherbys

110 Photo of the month The Syrian refugee crisis

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42 Mixing business and pleasure

Jocelyn de Moubray chats to Mark Weinfeld of Meon Valley Stud about the legacy created by his father and four yearlings bought in the 1970s

Sally Duckett discusses breeding strategies with Wellsummers Farm

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Mixing busi nes

Ahead of the Tattersalls October Sale Gerry Meehan, yearling manager at Newsells Park Stud, answers Louise Ruffell’s questions about his important role at the farm

70 NOPS: vital guidelines

We visit the Saracen Feed mill in Kent and find out the lengths that feed companies need to go to remove the threat of a NOP from their finished products

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A WINNING ROSTER AT BALLYLINCH

Dream Ahead

Final Frontier

CHAMPION 2YO AND 3YO, GROUP SIRE WITH HIS FIRST CROP 15 first crop 2yo winners and 79% of runners have won or placed*, including Gr.3 winner FINAL FRONTIER, and Gr.2 placed RAUCOUS * 20/9/15

Lawman SIRE OF 3 GR.1 WINNERS FROM HIS FIRST 2 CROPS La Berma

Proven Classic sire whose 2015 notables include Gr.2 placed 3yo LA BERMA, Stakes winner LAVINIAD and exciting 2yo’s MARCEL, NOTARY, PLAY THE GAME and TAISCE NAISIUNTA

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Astaire

GR.1 WINNING 2YO AND SIRE OF A GR.1 WINNING 2YO 2015 successes include the top Gr.1 sprinter ASTAIRE and smart 2yo’s GO KART and SPECIAL FOCUS

Lope de Vega

DUAL CLASSIC WINNER AND CHAMPION FIRST CROP SIRE IN 2014

Consort

Leading 2nd Crop Sire in 2015 by Stakes winners.

His 16 Group/Stakes horses, include Gr.1 winner BELARDO and Gr.1 placed CONSORT and ENDLESS DRAMA, etc.

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Have we got a solution?

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Paul Haigh gets political and asks if a long-shot answer has been found to cure racing’s finances

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ost racing people see our sport as a way of ignoring such tedious nonsense as politics. We know what matters to us in life, and it’s not windbags sounding off about public finance or EU membership or who we should or shouldn’t bomb.

Those who do take an interest tend to be conservative, both with a large and a small C, and do so only to pronounce anathema on anything that might threaten enjoyment of what Timeform founder Phil Bull so memorably called “The Great Triviality”.

Sometimes though, politics does interfere with it. It did so in 1963 when the Macmillan government decided to end the farce that was illegal off-course betting. Until then you had to go to the local greengrocer if you fancied a punt and couldn’t get to the races, or to the bloke who looked like the late George Cole in his Flash Harry outfit

The result was the system of betting, and of financing racing out of the tiny fraction of turnover which the bookmakers allow it, that we have in place today

Bookmaker William Hill laughed himself all the way to the bank in the 1960s

who stood on the street corner checking the view over both shoulders and sucking a gasper under his pencil moustache.

According to the now widely accepted story though, the government wasn’t sure how to do this without causing chaos. So they approached the then chairman of the Jockey Club, Lord Willoughby de Brooke, and asked for his suggestions.

Lord Willoughby didn’t have to go to the greengrocer or to Flash Harry. He had an account with the late William Hill. Unfortunately for his lordship, however, this account was in the red for at least six figures. (£178,000 is a figure often bandied about).

Hill got to hear of the government’s approach and went to see Lord Willoughby who had no idea what to say in response to the government’s request, and told him that he’d be happy to draw up a list of ideas which his lordship could present as his own. What’s more, apparently, he said that if the government adopted them, he would waive Lord Willoughby’s debt.

The result was the system of betting, and of financing racing out of the tiny fraction of turnover which the bookmakers allow it, that we have in place today.

What Macmillan would think of the future his government had created which has seen bookmakers grow into colossal corporations which have merged like continents and moved themselves offshore to avoid paying tax is anyone’s guess.

What he, a decent liberal Conservative with a fair amount of noblesse oblige, would have thought of their current practice of stripping the last few pennies off the addicted poor with their fixed odds betting terminals (FOBTs) is anyone’s guess too.

So what does all this ancient history have to do with modern politics and British racing’s current situation?

(And more interestingly what’s it got to do with who’s going to win the 3.30 at Kempton?)

For the first 20 or 30 years after the catastrophe of 1963 certain racing people realised the enormity of the mistake that had been made by not introducing a Tote Monopoly of the sort that exists in almost every other major racing country of the world.

Then gradually they became used to the system, or at least reconciled to it, even became fond of it thanks to clever self-publicity of the bookmakers which involved modest sponsorships, and – this is a fact – the handing of sweeteners of various sorts (cut price hotels, free dinners, “special prices” on races, betting accounts that didn’t actually have to be paid if they went into the red)

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first word to the very racing journalists who should have been speaking out against the mistake that had been made.

Besides, nearly everyone said, “It’s been done. So what can we do?” particularly since the bookies now have their own paid spokesmen in the House of Commons, who will filibuster any amendments to legislation that might make their situations less lucrative.

To make the situation even less retrievable, the bookmakers’ shareholders had to be taken into consideration – and these included some trade unions, which meant that Labour governments were just as hostile to reform as Conservative. So what was there that anyone could do?

British racing shrugged and just got on with it, hardly even aware of the wealth the sport was accumulating in other countries such as Hong Kong and Japan and Australia which offered perfect templates of how the sport could be financed and prize-money raised, and trainers saved from having to fiddle coups, and stable staff getting proper pay, and racegoers able to go racing without having to fork out half a week’s wages. (See Mark Johnston’s comments on this subject in another article in this issue, page 50).

They were hardly aware that in these countries profit went to beneficial social projects as well as to prizemoney, to the building of universities and hospitals and charities, while in Britain they just went towards making the big bookies’ and their shareholders fat. They hardly even knew that in most other racing countries of the world, if bookmakers get caught, they get sent to jail.

And so? Come to the point will you? What’s this got to do with racing now?

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n September 12 a colossal longshot came up. A runner that opened up in the betting at 200/1 charged through the field during the race and won drawing away by a distance.

It is hardly controversial to point out that Jeremy Corbyn is not everyone’s cup of tea. With a massive majority of the media sneering at a teetotaller who wears sandals, rides a bike, won’t wear a tie, wants the billions to be spent on Trident diverted to education and the NHS and won’t join in ‘God Save the Queen’ even when surrounded by other party leaders standing at the Cenotaph, that’s hardly a major surprise.

But his astonishing election as leader of the Labour Party with more than three times as many votes as any of his rivals after having been dismissed, then ridiculed, then insulted, then feverishly attacked, could be the last best hope of British racing.

Whether he has any hope of overcoming the concerted howls of the traditional media and becoming Prime Minister remains to be seen. But he is a politician who says quietly, exactly what he thinks, however outrageous that may seem to the Establishment, which is why the new media, notably Twitter and Facebook, have become besotted with him.

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Most racing people, particularly the wealthiest, might still see the possibility of a Corbyn government as the ultimate disaster: the end of Britain as we know it.

But the curious thing is that it could be racing’s last chance of digging ourselves out of the hole

It is why Betfair, which is by far the best assessor of the chances of anything happening because it excludes sentiment entirely, currently puts the odds against Labour winning the next election at 3.15 or just under 9/4 – which is a very long way indeed from 200/1.

Most racing people, particularly the wealthiest, might still see the possibility of a Corbyn government as the ultimate disaster: the end of Britain as we know it.

But the curious thing is that it could be racing’s last chance of digging ourselves out of the hole that was dug for us more than 50 years ago, because there can be hardly any doubt that if the Willoughby de Broke system, or rather the William Hill system, were drawn to his attention he would certainly want to do something about it. It is exactly the sort of cause he’d take up.

And as long as he wasn’t persuaded to ban racing altogether as the Daily Mail, the Sun, the Telegraph and others would no doubt insist was his master plan, everyone in racing – except the bookmakers who are more concerned anyway with football betting and FOBTs nowadays – would benefit from it, even the wealthiest owners, because prize-money would almost immediately rise to levels that would bring it into line with the rest of the world’s.

As Paul Haigh says Jermey Corbyn is not “everyone‘s cup of tea”, but Haigh believes he could be the one to take up the challenge of sorting racing’s finance (if he does not, as the Daily Mail would argue, ban the sport first)

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RIP Green Desert The sire of 12 individual Group 1 winners and over 90 stakes winners, inc: DESERT PRINCE: Irish 2,000 Guineas (G1) CAPE CROSS: Lockinge Stakes (G1) OWINGTON and OASIS DREAM: July Cup (G1) INVINCIBLE SPIRIT, MARKAB, OASIS DREAM, SHEIKH ALBADOU & TAMARISK: Haydock Sprint Cup (G1) DESERT LORD: Prix de l’Abbaye (G1)

Sire of leading sires: Cape Cross Invincible Spirit Oasis Dream Desert Style

Grand-sire of:

GOLDEN HORN SEA THE STARS OUIJA BOARD MUHAARAR MOONLIGHT CLOUD ARCANO AQLAAM

Stud plans announced for Bayern and Tapiture LEADING US studs are beginning to release details of new stallions to be added to rosters and early announcements have been made by Hill ‘n’Dale, which is to stand Breeders' Cup Classic winner Bayern, while Darby Dan Farm is to become the base for Tapiture, the dual Grade 2-winning son of Tapit, after the farm bought breeding rights to the stallion.

Bayern is a son of Offlee Wild and is being aimed at the Grade 1 Awesome Again Stakes at Santa Anita by trainer Bob Baffert.

Bayern has won six of his 14 starts for career earnings of more than $4.4 million.

The four-year-old won two Grade 1 races last year, the Haskell Invitational and the

Breeders’ Cup winner Bayern

Classic in which he got the better of Toast Of New York and dual Classic winner California Chrome.

Bred in Kentucky by Helen Alexander, Bayern was bought as a two-year-old at Fasig-Tipton for $320,000.

He is out of the unraced Thunder Gulch mare Alittlebitearly, who is a half-sister to the July Stakes winner and sire Bertolini and the US Listed winner Amelia.

It is also the family of top-class runner and sire Arch and the late Shadwell-based stallion Green Desert.

The four-year-old Tapiture will continue to race this year in the colours of his owner-breeder Ron Winchell and is to be aimed at the Breeders’ Cup Mile.

“We are thrilled and extremely grateful to partner with Ron Winchell on Tapiture, who is

quite simply one of the most impressive individuals by Tapit,” said Robert Hammond, vice chairman at Darby Dan Farm.

“When you combine his physical and sire power with his race record, it’s easy to see why he's such an exciting stallion prospect.”

Winchell said: “From day one, Tapiture has been a favourite.

Our racing and farm manager David Fiske and Steve Asmussen and his team have always been super high on this colt and he displayed his brilliance on several occasions as a two-year-old and as a three-year-old.

“There’s no question he’s one of Tapit’s best sons and breeders are really going to like him when they see him.”

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Long-serving Whitsbury Manor Stud stallion Compton Place dies from colic Compton Place has died at the age of 21 from a bout of colic.

The stud reported that, although an attempt was made to operate, it was soon apparent the horse could not be saved.

The son of Indian Ridge,

who had stood at Whitsbury Manor Stud in Hampshire for 17 consecutive seasons, was out of the Listed-placed Nebbiolo mare Nosey.

Trained by James Toller for the Duke of Devonshire, Compton Place finished second in the Gimcrack Stakes (G2) and the Flying Childers Stakes (G2).

At three he beat Royal Applause in the July Cup (G1) and was crowned the European champion three-year-old sprinter.

After retiring to Whitsbury in

1999, he made a fine start with his first two-year-old crop, which included Prix d’Arenberg winner Pleasure Place and unbeaten juvenile Captain Saif.

His top-rated offspring was the Champions Sprint (G2) winner Deacon Blues and his dual Group 1 winner, the Nunthorpe hero Borderlescott. Further stakes class horses include Boogie Street, Intrepid Jack, Judd Street, Shifting Power and this year’s Temple Stakes (G2) winner Pearl Secret.

In total, Compton Place has sired 37 stakes performers, including 13 Group winners and 12 Listed scorers.

Whitsbury Manor Stud director Ed Harper said: “The loss of Compton Place will be sorely felt here at the stud by everyone who has worked with, and been around him, for so long.

“You couldn’t find a kinder horse to deal with and in his latter years he became less like a stallion and more like a trusted member of staff.”

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down to the steppings and had much better luck.

Five of the leading French trainers were there rather than in the US at Keeneland – Jean-Claude Rouget, Henri-Alex Pantall, Phillipe Sogorb, Francois Rohaut and Christophe Ferland, who is based at La Teste and trained Dabirsim.

Eoghan O’Neill was also buying in an attempt to repeat his success of last year’s sale with Suits You, his Chesham winner by Youmzain.

A fair scattering of English trainers, agents and pinhookers also added to

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Patience is the cheapest thing in racing and the thing most seldom used.

Apart from that you’ve got to have a bit of luck, and the harder you work, the more luck you have

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IAM Norris and I have just returned from a five-day buying expedition to the Osarus yearling sale near Arcachon, La Teste the summer racecourse of Bordeaux and training complex.

I was lucky enough to win four Listed Criteriums there when training and have since been back three times for the yearling sales.

The first sale was held in 2008 and working with Luis Urbano we bought four yearlings for a total of €14,000.

Commander Cat is still racing and has won 12 races and nearly €200,000; the other three all won too.

Some things have changed since the beginning – the yearlings are no longer housed in tented stalls and are now stabled in a smart new big yard with plenty of hard standing and a 100 new boxes.

The grandstand now houses a smart restaurant that overlooks the auctioneer, sales ring and is by the winning post – it makes buying horses while eating lunch a pleasurable occupation.

We were based there for some time, but having failed to buy a very nice Mastercraftsman colt we moved

their teams and, despite the inclement weather, they enjoyed the delights of the south-west coast of France.

Like myself, Con Marnane was also at that first sale in 2008. He has supported the venue ever since and this year bought 11 yearlings.

He and Theresa run a number of horses in France and are currently in thirteenth position on the owners’ table.

All the yearlings carry French premiums, a welcome addition to the good prize-money in France.

Liam and I came away with two fillies to add to John Berry’s team in Newmarket for a Suffolk-based owner.

Racing in Europe has been overshadowed by mainly negative headlines. Sadly, Michael Owen lost his much-loved stable star Brown Panther in the Irish St Leger, while Ralph Beckett and Sheikh Fahd have suffered the double misfortune of two Group 1 disqualifications, the appeal results of which you will now know.

Golden Horn and Team Gosden were fortunate that Found overhauled Free Eagle at Leopardstown as, had the latter finished second, he would probably have been awarded the race.

On a positive note, Treve

demolished a high-class field in the Prix Vermeille and will certainly start a short-priced favourite to win a third Arc. On a much lower, but still a French note, my Multiplex mare Lady Melior won an amateur conditions race at Bordeaux.

Her rider Florent Guy has a strikerate of 40 per cent with 27 victories, while 73 per cent of his rides finish in the placings. Hopefully, the mare is in-foal to Phoenix Reach whose flagship offspring Elm Park regained the winning thread at Sandown in the Listed Fortune Stakes.

Lady Melior managed to beat an older gelding who had won a Listed on his last start, admittedly last December, but met him on 30lb worse terms than in a handicap!

When training, I had quite a bit of luck racing in-foal mares – Indian Queen won the Gold Cup in-foal to Night Shift, Starlet a Group 2 in Germany and was second in the Nassau while in foal, and Granny’s Bank was just beaten in a photo for the Hunt Cup. The foal carried by Indian Queen, Prince Of India, turned out to be her best offspring.

Strong rumours suggest East

the news

Due Diligence: first War Front son to retire to stud in Britain

Compton Place: Whitsbury Manor Stud stalwart stallion for 17 years

German athletes used “abortion doping” to enhance their performances when they won so many Olympic medals.

I am hopeful Lady Melior will be carrying a champion foal instead!

The recent shenanigans by Australian trainers were put out of the news by the death and state funeral of Bart Cummings.

Cummings was a living legend and I was lucky enough to spend three months at his Flemington stables in 1976 when he had Think Big, Leilani, Lord Dudley, Cap d’Antibes and Vivarchi in 1976.

He won 12 Melbourne Cups and his most recent champion was So You Think. He was a man of few words, but had a quick wit. Famously, when he was once threatened with stable closure by an Adelaide health inspector for having too many flies, Cummings asked the naïve inspector just how many he was allowed to have!

Once when quizzed by a prospective owner what his training fees were he replied: “$50 a day but $75 if you try to help!”

And, just like Lester Piggott, he was almost always first out of a taxi and rarely paid.

When he asked what was the secret of his success, he replied: “Patience is the cheapest thing in racing and the thing most seldom

used. Apart from that you’ve got to have a bit of luck, and the harder you work, the more luck you have.”

Nigel “Pommy” Blackiston, who started his racing life with Bruce Hobbs, was lucky enough to be his stable foreman for his Saintly, Rogan Josh and Let’s Elope years and is now an established Flemington trainer in his own right. He remembers Cummings’s fondness for plants and trees and he was at his happiest at Prince’s Farm, his stud, found on the banks of the Nepean River in New South Wales.

Back at Kingsclere, the wheat harvest was eventually finished after one of the wettest Augusts on record.

The only upsides from the rain were a bumper crop of mushrooms and some succulent elderberries that are about to be turned into homemade cassis.

Appleton Barratt, the new Red Poll bull, seems to be enjoying his new harem and they will be all shortly moving to the downside site designated to support the Duke of Burgundy butterflies.

One lesson to be learnt from our trip back from Ouistreham, especially in someone else’s car, is to remember and write down your parking level and exit door... it is more than a little embarrassing to find it only because it is the last car on the ferry!

Career high for Due Diligence was his second in the Diamond Jubilee (G1)

WHITSBURY Manor Stud in Hampshire has bought a share in the Group-class sprinter Due Diligence and will stand the son of War Front next spring.

Due Diligence becomes the first son of Kentucky stallion War Front to stand in Britain. Coolmore will retain part-ownership of the fouryear-old, who finished fifth in this year’s Haydock Sprint Cup. Originally trained in the US, Due Diligence won a maiden at Saratoga on his debut by 8l and finished fourth in the Pilgrim Stakes (G3). Purchased privately then by the Coolmore team, he transferred to Aidan O’Brien’s care at three. He was the impressive winner of the Listed Lacken Stakes at Naas before finishing second to Slade Power in the Group 1 Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot. He was named Ireland’s champion three-year-old sprinter of 2014.

Due Diligence was bred by Claiborne Farm and Adele Dilshneider and is the sixth winner from six runners for his dam the Listedwinning Pulpit mare Bema.

“We are immensely excited to stand the first son of War Front in Britain,” said Whitsbury Manor Stud director Ed Harper. “His performance in the Diamond Jubilee at Royal Ascot last year singled him out as a sprinter of the highest calibre and, were it not for his injury, who knows what he would have achieved.

“He is a gorgeous dark bay individual typical of his sire with an exaggerated athletic walk, who will offer our clients an extremely commercial option for next season.”

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Classic-producing broodmare Last Second dies at 22 DENFORD STUD’s foundation mare Last Second, the dam of Classic winner and sire Aussie Rules, died in September. The daughter of Alzao was 22.

Bred by Kirsten Rausing and Sonia Rogers out of their legendary broodmare Alruccaba, Last Second was bought as a yearling by the Curragh Bloodstock Agency for Ir£120,000 at Goffs on behalf of Prince Faisal.

She won the Group 1 Nassau Stakes, Sun Chariot and C.L. Weld Park Stakes.

Last Second’s second foal Approach became the mare’s first black-type scorer when winning the the Listed Ballymacoll Stakes and finishing second in the Grade 2 Galaxy Stakes.

Aussie Rules, a son of Danehill, was born in 2006.

Trained by Aidan O’Brien for a partnership between Coolmore and Prince Faisal, he won the Group 3 Somerville Tattersalls Stakes, and at three became a Classic winner after victory in the Poule d’Essai des Poulains.

He won the Shadwell Turf Mile

later that season.

Last Second produced nine winners from 12 runners.

Her offspring and relations have been keenly sought after Last Second (right) with daughters Intrigued (left) and Approach

at auction and in 2005 her son topped Tattersalls October Yearling Sale selling for 1,250,000gns to Gainsborough Stud.

Denford Stud manager Richard Evans paid tribute to the mare and said to the Racing Post:“She was an outstanding filly in training before going on to be a top-flight broodmare.

“Not only was she an outstanding servant, but the kindest mare you could wish for with not a bad bone in her body”.

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

lightning visit to Keeneland in September to check on a client’s mares, foals and yearlings resulted in a purchase on behalf of Nawara Stud.

Since the direct flight from London to Cincinnati was cancelled a number of years ago I have been trying many ways to avoid long lines in immigration or hefty

layovers.

This trip I decided to fly from Birmingham, my closest airport, to Paris and direct to Cincinnati thinking that the immigration would be quicker as they currently have fewer international flights.

Unfortunately, I was proved wrong: not only did I have a very early start in Birmingham to catch the 6.30am flight, but there was only one immigration officer on duty and it took 45 minutes to clear customs – mainly because I had forgotten about an apple I had in my hand luggage!

It meant that I arrived in Lexington at the same time as I would have travelling through Chicago and starting comfortably later in the morning!

I had a quick look at the mares at Royal Oak Farm, based between Lexington and Paris and where Braxton and Damien Lynch raised Belmont winner Union Rags. It is an undulating peaceful farm and perfect for raising bloodstock.

I manage three mares on behalf of Nawara Stud and they are ready to return to the UK having each had two foals in the US. They are back in-foal and we are trying to introduce some alternative bloodlines into the broodmare band.

First thing the next morning I checked on the foals at Mike Evans quarantine facility, found off Richmond Road, and then it was on to Keeneland to inspect a few yearlings.

I like to look at all the Kitten’s Joy yearlings – the colt consigned by

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Warrendale Sales out of Maids Service (Arch) and subsequently bought

by John Ferguson for $375,000 was my pick. At least I should be able to follow his progress in the UK. Next stop was a visit to the Clearsky Consignment as, having worked with Eamon Jr and Bernard for a couple of years, I know the families quite well, having years before bought mares in Europe for their father.

A tour of the Frankel yearlings followed as I had tried to buy a yearling by him for a client at Arqana and failed.

At Keeneland I was taken by the colt out of Compelling (Kingmambo) from the speedy family of Damson offered by Man O War Farm for Reiko and Michael Baum.

It’s important that yearlings are raised on well managed farms and good land. Having come across the Baums when they boarded mares at Clovelly Farm many years ago before they bought their own farm, I figured that the old stud manager for Robin Scully, Lars La Cour, taught them a traditional way to bring up a horse!

With yearlings of my own to prepare and sell I needed to be back so my whirlwind visit to Lexington lasted barely 48 hours and before the sale even started!

There were plenty of bloodstock agents in attendance so it did not matter that I was not there to buy, and we made use of Hugo Merry’s services.

We used the same formula to try and buy the Frankel colt which proved successful – at least to the point of purchase!

The Frankel yearling now joins the weanlings in quarantine with Mike Evans. He is travelling back to England to spend a little time on the turf at Eydon before pre-training and ultimately going into training.

Now time to buckle down and sell a few of our own over the coming weeks!

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uk racing Frankie Dettori and owner Anthony Oppenheimer enjoy their moments in the sun after Golden Horn confirmed his place at the top of the three-year-old rankings in the Irish Champion Stakes

Phew...!

That was a weekend of all sorts, and you will now know the result of the St Leger appeal, but the two men opposite were caught smiling in Ireland only as Group 1-winning connections can when they know they have dodged a bullet

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T MAY NOT have been entirely straightforward on the track for the St Leger meeting and Irish Champions weekend, but with one bound what has been the smooth natural order of things at the top of the stallion lists for six of the past seven years was restored, writes Sue Montgomery.

For much of the 2015 season, Galileo’s usual place at the head of affairs had been usurped by Dubawi. But, after a bonanza in three countries that yielded four top-level victories and produced a notable milestone, the king of Coolmore is back at the top to claim his seventh sires’ title.

Galileo’s first Group 1 strike over that weekend came from Bondi Beach in the Ladbrokes St Leger, though he needed the help of the Doncaster stewards to reverse his head defeat by Simple Verse after their welldocumented mutual barging match.

The following day at The Curragh, the colt’s young Aidan O’Brien-trained stablemate Minding led home a 1-2-3 for her sire in Ireland’s top juvenile filly contest, the Moyglare Stud Stakes (G1).

Then in the Irish version of the oldest Classic, Order Of St George produced a solo

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tour de force to give O’Brien a St Leger double and Galileo his 50th individual Group or Grade 1 winner. A few hours later in Canada, David O’Meara’s charge Mondialiste won the Woodbine Mile to make it 51.

However, the identity of the horse who actually brought up the half-century may yet have been revised by the time you read this.

Galileo has a way to go before he matches the 14 titles held by his own sire Sadler’s Wells, but he is eclipsing many of that great horse’s achievements along the way. With the help of the growing number of top-level contests and the racing world becoming a smaller place the effect can be seen in the stats – the old man had 13 crops race before he hit the round 50, his son has done it with 11.

By the end of four days at Doncaster and the Irish weekend at Leopardstown and The Curragh, Galileo had pulled nearly £1.3 million clear of Dubawi on the GB and Ire leaderboard.

His three Group 1 victors were the main contributors, but there was winning back-up from Gretchen (Group 2 Park Hill Stakes) and Johannes Vermeer (the Group 3 Champions

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Controversy: Bondi Beach (left) goes head to head with Simple Verse in the St Leger. The subsequent decision to relegate the filly divided racing opinion

Juvenile Stakes) along with a multitude of valuable placings from Fields Of Athenry, who was third in the St Leger (G1), Found, second in the Irish Champion Stakes (G1), Blandford Stakes (G2) runner-up Tapestry and Ballydoyle and Alice Springs, who finished second and third in the Moyglare Stud Stakes (G1).

On the European earnings’ list, though, the Arc trials day at Longchamp brought the two protagonists back together again with victories for two of Dubawi’s flagbearers, the Prix du Jockey-Club hero New Bay in the Prix Niel, and King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes winner Postponed in the Prix Foy. Arabian Queen, his surprise conqueror of

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Golden Horn in the International, made no show behind the peerless Treve in the Prix Vermeille (G1), but by the end of the weekend Dubawi was only some £250,000 behind his Irish rival. Galileo has topped the European table for the past five years, but that title may not be resolved until Arc weekend.

Bondi Beach earned nearly £400,000 at Doncaster and with the European title so close, there could be more at stake for the Coolmore team than the prestige of a Group 1 victory on their colt’s CV. The connections of Simple Verse lodged an appeal against the filly’s demotion, but at the time of writing, Bondi Beach was still the winner of the 239th edition of the

world’s oldest Classic.

He gave O’Brien his fifth St Leger, after Milan (2001), Brian Boru (2003), Scorpion (2005) and Leading Light (2013).

He was only the second horse to get the Doncaster prize in the stewards’ room, after Pewett in 1789, when Zanga the first past the post then was disqualified for “jostling”. Only six other British Classic winners have ever been disqualified or demoted.

The circumstances of the St Leger finish meant an unhappy top-level double for Simple Verse’s owner Sheikh Fahad Al Thani and trainer Ralph Beckett after Secret Gesture had been relegated to third for interference after finishing a comfortable first

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After bashing into Free Eagle, Golden Horn (right), despite continuing to drift right as he galloped to the line, holds his rival in the Irish Champion Stakes

in the Beverly D Stakes (G1) at Arlington Park in August.

That decision, too, is under appeal (the process taking longer in the US), and if reversed it will mean a further readjustment of Galileo’s fastest 50, as Secret Gesture is one of his daughters.

It was a tremendous shout by Beckett and Al Thani to pay the £50,000 to supplement the rapidly improving Simple Verse into the St Leger field five days before the race.

Whether it ultimately gets its reward remains to be seen, but the young Qatari Sheikh is rapidly discovering that involvement in racing can be regarded as character-building. The racing saying “this

game could tame lions” is quite appropriate.

The St Leger is not only the world’s oldest and longest Classic, but also the toughest.

With a distance of an extended mile and three-quarters, and its demanding home straight of more than half a mile, it puts stamina and resolution at a premium.

In the latest rough finish both Simple Verse, ridden by Andrea Atzeni, and Bondi Beach, under Colm O’Donoghue, showed both admirable qualities as they bounced off each other under pressure through the final quarter of a mile. The articulate O’Donoghue played a particular blinder in the subsequent enquiry.

In a career that started in May, Bondi

Beach has never had it easy. In five runs he has never finished worse than second, and all his finishes have been tight. On the two occasions he passed the post first, the winning distance was a short-head, most recently when beating Order Of St George at The Curragh in June.

Bondi Beach was bred by the Coolmore partners from the Danehill mare One Moment In Time, who was acquired for 520,000gns as a yearling in 2004, but failed to make the track.

At the time of her purchase she was wellbred – her dam Hotelgenie Dot Com, by Selkirk, ran second in a Moyglare Stud Stakes and is a half-sister to Bianca Nera, a winner of

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Order Of St George completed a Group 1 five-timer for the Coolmore partners who, apart from Galileo’s sons and daughter, had to their credit Matron Stakes heroine Legatissimo that same prestige Curragh contest.

Her page has only improved since then.

In 2006, One Moment In Time’s yearyounger sister Simply Perfect won the Fillies’ Mile and added another Group 1 prize, the Falmouth Stakes, the following year, while one of Bianca Nera’s daughters Ever Rigg has become the dam of Postponed.

Simple Verse, bred by Barronstown and acquired by the Qataris for €240,000 as a yearling, was also conceived at Coolmore and is also out of an unraced mare, Guantanamera a daughter of Sadler’s Wells.

Her sire Duke Of Marmalade (Danehill) is having his best European season with Nutan, winner of the Deustsches Derby (G1), Prix de Diane (G1) winner Star Of Seville, as well as Big Orange, winner of the Group 2 Princess Of Wales Stakes and Goodwood Cup to his credit, but he is now based at Drakenstein Stud in South Africa. His Galileo half-brother Ruler Of The World, the 2013 Derby winner, started stallion duties in County Tipperary this year.

Two hours after the dramatic events at Doncaster, there was the spectre of an action replay as the Leopardstown stewards convened in the wake of the weekend’s richest contest, the Quipco Irish Champion Stakes.

The winner Golden Horn veered violently right under Frankie Dettori inside the final furlong and collided with the Pat Smullenridden Free Eagle, who was launching a challenge under driving.

With his momentum gone, Free Eagle dropped to third as Golden Horn regained his composure and strode forward (albeit still a little on the sideways) to take the prize by a length from staying-on Found. On this occasion the stewards let the result stand.

Their Doncaster colleagues had deemed Atzeni to be guilty of careless riding for one of the manoeuvres that impeded Bondi Beach, but Golden Horn’s shift was considered accidental – he seemed to jink at a shadow – with no fault ascribed to rider Frankie Dettori.

But in the two controversial finishes, his did seem the most blatant interference – it

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could have been considered tit for tat between Simple Verse and Bondi Beach whereas Golden Horn comprehensively broadsided Free Eagle. On both occasions, it is probable that the best horse on the day was first past the post, but human decisions went against one and with the other.

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fter that shock reverse at York, the first of his career, Golden Horn – trained by John Gosden for his owner-breeder Anthony Oppenheimer – steadied his ship with his third Group 1 success and confirmed his place at the top of the three-year-old turf rankings.

He is ahead of his own stablemate Jack Hobbs and the Ballydoyle pair Gleneagles, who missed his first crack at 1m2f in the Irish Champion Stakes because of the ground, and the rapidly upwardly-mobile Order Of St George.

Golden Horn, from the fine Hascombe & Valiant family that also produced Rebecca Sharp, is the second son of 21-year-old

Kildangan-based Cape Cross to notch the Derby-Eclipse Stakes-Irish Champion Stakes treble after the illustrious Sea The Stars. He will, ground allowing, bid to follow in the 2009 champion’s hoofprints at Longchamp in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.

An 11l rout of his older rivals in the Irish St Leger (a race marred by a fatal injury to the defending champion Brown Panther) meant that Order Of St George has now won three in a row by an aggregate 24l and if his Curragh performance was as good as it looked he is a Cup star waiting to happen.

Bred by Paget Bloodstock from the Gone West mare Another Storm (a daughter of US champion juvenile filly Storm Song), he was a $550,000 Keeneland yearling, a rare enough one by his sire offered in the States.

Order Of St George completed a Group 1 five-timer for the Coolmore partners who, apart from Galileo’s sons and daughter, had to their credit Matron Stakes heroine Legatissimo and the juvenile colt Air Force Blue, who took the National Stakes.

The wholly admirable Legatissimo, trained

by David Wachman, has now won three of the five Group 1s she has contested – the others being the 1,000 Guineas and Nassau Stakes. She has been beaten a short-head by Ballydoyle inmates in the other two – Qualify in the Oaks and Diamondsandrubies in the Pretty Polly Stakes.

Back over a mile, she produced another

Order Of St George: a “Cup star” waiting to happen and is a possible for the 2015 Melbourne Cup

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Limato produced a devasting turn of foot to put daylight between himself and the field in the 7f Group 2 Park Stakes. He might be tried over a mile in 2016

top-notch performance under Wayne Lordan for a clear-cut defeat of Cladocera and Ainippe.

She has the pedigree to match her class and versatility on the track, being by nowpensioned Danehill Dancer out of Yummy Mummy, a Montjeu sister to Irish Derby and Gold Cup winner Fame And Glory (see Gerry Meehan, page 64) . The Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf is now on her agenda.

Of the sprint performances in Ireland most honourable mention must go to Eddie Lynam’s star Sole Power, who scored his first turf victory in front of a home crowd in the Flying Five (G2) at The Curragh. The eight-year-old Kyllachy gelding, the only Group 1 winner in the field, gave weight and a head beating to Maarek and, as the class act, was an appropriate winner to mark the race upgrade to Group 2.

At Doncaster the speedy three-year-old

Limato bounced back from his defeat in the Commonwealth Cup (G1) by sprint champion-elect Muhaarar to take the Group 2 Park Stakes, his first try beyond 6f.

The Henry Candy stable already houses a solid sprint prospect for next year in the three-year-old Twilight Son, who preserved his unbeaten record in the Haydock Sprint Cup (G1) earlier in the month, so although Limato has plenty of pace, the way he ran away from Markaz and the rest over 7f on Town Moor means he may tackle a mile in the future. He will likely take in the Prix de la Forêt in October.

With next year’s Classics in mind, the juvenile hierarchy is taking solid shape.

Among the colts, Air Force Blue stamped himself as the highest-rated with a swaggering 3l defeat of Herald The Dawn in the National Stakes, having previously won the Phoenix Stakes with similar ease.

The son of War Front – a $490,000 Keeneland yearling out of the Maria’s Mon mare Chatham – gave O’Brien a tenth victory in Ireland’s top two-year-old contest, a sequence that started in 1996 with Desert King.

The other eyecatching performance came at Doncaster where the imposing Godolphin colour-bearer Emotionless belied his name with a performance to quicken the pulse, barely coming off the bridle to beat Ibn Malik three and a half lengths in the Group 2 Champagne Stakes.

The Darley-bred son of Shamardal, out of Breeders’ Cup Distaff winner Unbridled Elaine, will have his first Group 1 test in the Dewhurst Stakes, where he may meet Air Force Blue.

The Irish colt heads the market for next year’s 2,000 Guineas, with Emotionless second choice.

Champagne Stakes (G2) winner Emotionless is likely to run in the Dewhurst Stakes and aims to become Shamardal’s second Group 1-winning juvenile

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Jocelyn de Moubray sees a class performance from Esoterique, while the French-trained juveniles find their pecking order

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douard de Rothschild has been racing and breeding highclass thoroughbreds for nearly 30 years, his first major victory coming right back in 1988 when his two-year-old filly Oczy Czarnie won the 1988 Prix de la Salamandre. There can be no doubt, though, that Esoterique’s win in the Prix Jacques le Marois (G1) has been his most important to date.

Rothschild, who was president of France Galop from 2003-2011, has recently had to end his own show jumping career due to back problems, but he managed to overcome any issues after his filly’s win.

“I sprinted from the stands the moment Esoterique passed the post and reached her as she was coming off the track,” he smiles, surpised at his own burst of speed.

As a five-year-old the daughter of Danehill Dancer has looked to be better than ever.

At Royal Ascot she came close to upsetting Solow and then her trainer Andre Fabré decide to run her in the 6f Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest a week before the Jacques Le Marois.

If the plan was to sharpen the mare it worked perfectly as a week after failing by only a half-length to catch Muharaar, she came right away from a high-class field to win her second Group 1 by a length and a

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Edouard de Rothschild: sprinted to the winners’ enclosure after Esoterique’s Marois victory

half from Territories with Wild Chief and Lightning Spear in a photo finish for third and fourth.

Esoterique has always been very gifted.

She didn’t run at two and won her first Group race on her second start at three. It has taken a little time for her connections to realise that she is at her best when held up for a late run in a fast-run race, and over the last two years she has established a great partnership with jockey Pierre Charles Boudot.

She is the sixth black-type winner produced by the unraced Dancing Brave mare Dievotchka, who was 21 when foaling Esoterique.

Dievotchka was purchased as a yearling at the Wednesday session of the Keeneland July Sale where she was sold by Windfields Farm – names and events which are no more than distant memories.

Esoterique may race on as a six-yearold; her owner is considering the option while at the same time, according to several reports, weighing up the possibility of being a candidate himself at the elections for a new president of France Galop, due in 2016.

Esoterique’s sire Danehill Dancer covered only 18 mares in his last season at Coolmore Stud and so has only a handful of yearlings and a small two-year-old crop to race.

In his first four seasons Danehill Dancer stood at £IR4,000 or less and yet he is, beyond any doubt, one of the best stallion sons of Danehill.

His sons Mastercraftsman and Choisir are established sires themselves and from the time he began to receive quality mares the record of his daughters has been exceptional.

On the racecourse Danehill Dancer fillies include the major winners Esoterique, Legatissimo, Osaila and Jazzi Top, while the leading performers out of Danehill Dancer mares include Recorder, Zipzip, Kind Of Magic, Hawksmoor, Fadhayyil, Wedding Vow, Lady Tiana and Kissed By Angels.

Meon Valley’s Jazzi Top looked like her sire’s next Group 1 winner when winning a slowly run Group 2 Prix de la Nonnette at Deauville. Some of the best French-trained three-year-old fillies, including Sainte Amirante and Little Nightingale who had been fifth and third in the Prix de Diane (G1), were outclassed by the foreign raiders.

Jazzi Top, trained by John Gosden, had been unlucky in the Nassau Stakes and showed impressive acceleration to take a winning lead early in the home straight. She was chased home by the Andreas Wöhler-

trained Mount Nelson filly Holy Moly, who took time to get into her stride but stayed to be a clear second.

Jazzi Top is a half sister to the Group 1-winning Pivotal filly Izzi Top. Barbara Keller’s Odeliz won her first Group 1 race in the Prix Jean Romanet at Deauville on the 21st start of her career.

The daughter of Falco has been a remarkably consistent performer for trainer Karl Burke over the last three years and has run in 17 Group or stakes races in England, Ireland, France, Canada and Germany finishing in the first four 15 times.

At Deauville she was given a fantastic front-running ride by Adrie de Vries and held on for a narrow win over Bawina and Avenir Certain, who were probably both given too much to do in what was a slowly run race.

Odeliz was purchased for €22,000 at the Deauville October Yearling Sale, but she was

by Falco out of an unraced Efisio mare.

Odeliz’s dam Acatama is a valuable asset now and her Siyouni yearling was sold to Jason Litt for €250,000 at the Arqana August sale.

She is from the close family of the 2015 Group 2 winner Ampere, her second dam was a half-sister to Triptych, and this is also the family of Treve.

Many, if not quite all of the better twoyear-old races at Deauville, were won by

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Odeliz’s dam Acatama is a valuable asset now and her Siyouni yearling was sold to Jason Litt for €250,000 at the Arqana August Sale

English-trained horses, who often took the places as well.

There are, however, a few French-trained juveniles with the potential to be top-class headed by Juddmonte’s First Defence filly Antonoe. Her debut win at Deauville was spectacular and looked better still when the placed horses came out and won impressively too.

The second at Deauville was the Jean Claude Rouget-trained Danehill Dancer filly Qemah, who looked top-class herself when winning a conditions race at Longchamp by 3l in early September, while the third, a Rougettrained Galileo filly Apple Betty, won well at La Teste.

Rouget has a third possible contender for the best races in the Elusive Quality filly High School Days, who had flopped on heavy ground at Deauville before winning eased

Odeliz: the Group 1 Prix Jean Romanet winner, easily the best by Falco, has run in 17 black-type races, finished in the first four 15 times and has now won £330,722 in prize-money

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Antonoe herself maintained her unbeaten record with a comfortable front-running victory in the Group 3 Prix d’Aumale at Chantilly.

At first sight it was a little disappointing that she won by only two and a half lengths this time, but the race was run very slowly and her final fractions were exceptional.

Only a top-class filly would have been able to quicken away from good rivals in such a manner.

The other proven top-class filly in France is the Wertheimer-owned Yakaba. Trained by Freddy Head, the daughter of Medicean won a Listed over 5f on heavy ground at Deauville and then put up the excellent time of 55.93secs to win the Group 3 Prix d’Arenberg at Longchamp in September.

Longchamp’s two Group 3s for colts in early September over 7f and a mile attracted small fields, and surprisingly only one English challenger.

Mark Johnston’s Sixth Sense took on two of the better-looking Deauville debutants in the Prix des Chenes and, after making the running, was well held in the final furlong finishing third 3l behind Godolphin’s Cloth Of Stars.

The Fabré-trained son of Sea The Stars held the late challenge of the Aga Khan’s Dubawi colt Vedevani and looks like France’s best candidate for the Group 1 contests to come.

The 7f Prix de La Rochette three days earlier featured a close finish between three colts, who had already run against each other in a debutants’ race at Deauville at the end of July.

On their debuts over 6f Omar Bradley (War Front) was an impressive winner over Attendu and Lawmaking (Zamindar), whereas five weeks later it was the Wertheimers’ Acclamation colt Attendu who won by a head and a short head from Lawmaking and Omar Bradley.

There is not much between these three, but Attendu seemed to win with a little in hand and may be progressing faster than the other two.

The Arc Trials weekend produced the results that everyone wanted - the three-year-old Prix du Jockey-Club winner New Bay continuing his progression and looking Arc class, while Treve to astound her fans.

She is currently evens favourite for the Group 1 and, by the time you read this, you will know whether or not the three-time dream has been realised.

Vadamos continues Haras de Saint-Pair’s run of 2015 form

The two best performances at Baden-Baden’s “Grosse Woche” or “Big Week” came from the French-trained colts Vadamos and Prince Gibraltar.

The Haras de Saint Pair’s Vadamos, a four-year-old son of Monsun, had been supplemented by his new trainer Fabré to run in the Prix Jacques le Marois only to spike a temperature the day before the race.

There was clearly no long term harm done and the colt was sent instead to Germany for the Group 2 Darley Oettingen Rennen over a mile.

The race was no contest at all and after settling beautifully under Vincent Cheminaud, Vadamos sauntered away from his rivals to win unchallenged by 5l.

It was a high-class performance and if he had been able to run in the Marois, Fabré would surely have had the first three home, although there has to be doubt as to which order Esoterique, Territories and Vadamos would have finished. We will find out in the Prince Gibraltar: a second Group 1 in the Grosser Preis von Baden

weeks to come.

Vadamos was making only his second start for the Fabré stable having won a Listed race over 1m4f for Francis Rohaut last year before running far too freely in the Prix Niel.

He is entered in all of the best races over distances from a mile to 1m4f although his trainer suggested afterwards that he is likely to run in the Champion Stakes at Ascot in October.

Andreas Putsch’s Haras de Saint Pair is enjoying an outstanding season having won Group 2 races with Ampere and Vadamos, as well as stakes races with Pearly Steph and Iromea. The stable is in eighth place in the French breeders’ table with fewer than 20 runners.

Jean-Francois Gribomont’s Prince Gibraltar recorded the second Group 1 victory of his career coming off a fast pace to beat the Group 1 performers Nightflower and Sirius in the Grosser Preis von Baden.

This was the son of Rock Of Gibraltar’s first win since May last year, but he has been running consistently well in the mean time recording a string of placed performances in Group 1 and Group 2 races, as well as finishing less than 5l behind Treve in the 2014 Arc de Triomphe. Nightflower had been a consistent performer all season and this second place confirmed the quality of this year’s German Oaks in which she had finished second.

Germany’s leading older horse Ito, a son of Adlerflug, was withdrawn on the morning of the race with a temperature.

Shivajia, a three-year-old filly from Adlerflug’s second crop, created a surprise by breaking her maiden in the Group 2 T. von Zastrow Stutenpreis over 1m4f getting up in the last stride to pip the Diana second Amona and win by a short head.

Adlerflug, a son of In The Wings from the family of Galileo and Sea The Stars, has not received many mares since retiring to Gestüt Harzburg, but with three Group winners and two Listed winners and several other useful performers from only 68 foals in his first two crops he is set to join Solider Hollow, another son of In The Wings, among the leading sires in Germany.

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stallion stats Leading European sires 2015: (by prize-money earned, to September 18, 2015) Stallion GALILEO (IRE) DUBAWI (IRE) CAPE CROSS (IRE) INVINCIBLE SPIRIT (IRE) SHAMARDAL (USA) DANEHILL DANCER (IRE) DARK ANGEL (IRE) OASIS DREAM (GB) TEOFILO (IRE) DUKE OF MARMALADE (IRE) MASTERCRAFTSMAN (IRE) HALLING (USA) KODIAC (GB) PIVOTAL (GB) AZAMOUR (IRE) ACCLAMATION (GB) HIGH CHAPARRAL (IRE) EXCEED AND EXCEL (AUS) FASTNET ROCK (AUS) SEA THE STARS (IRE) ROCK OF GIBRALTAR (IRE) SIYOUNI (FR) DANSILI (GB) ELUSIVE CITY (USA) DYLAN THOMAS (IRE) IFFRAAJ (GB) HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR (IRE) SINGSPIEL (IRE) KYLLACHY (GB) DUTCH ART (GB) FOOTSTEPSINTHESAND (GB) NEW APPROACH (IRE) AUSSIE RULES (USA) CHAMPS ELYSEES (GB) DALAKHANI (IRE) VERGLAS (IRE) MAKFI (GB) KING’S BEST (USA) MEDICEAN (GB) MOTIVATOR (GB) NAYEF (USA) LOPE DE VEGA (IRE) ZEBEDEE (GB) LE HAVRE (IRE) KHELEYF (USA) RAVEN’S PASS (USA) BAHAMIAN BOUNTY (GB) LAWMAN (FR) PASTORAL PURSUITS (GB) WAR FRONT (USA)

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Runners

Winners

Races Won

Places

222 180 168 226 206 134 195 192 165 151 154 131 227 149 126 258 149 205 104 94 177 76 144 161 149 186 176 36 152 138 160 135 152 96 88 130 103 130 145 75 110 83 131 101 185 84 126 161 134 38

97 92 79 97 98 60 72 77 63 48 52 49 84 64 55 109 55 85 41 44 66 27 56 63 58 80 71 15 56 58 63 49 60 43 32 62 47 39 47 28 43 39 47 34 69 35 45 52 57 14

132 133 111 139 155 96 119 108 96 85 76 72 136 101 91 144 78 132 59 63 102 41 82 109 93 111 115 24 93 87 103 75 90 59 44 101 65 60 68 40 60 54 63 48 102 46 65 67 82 21

312 254 249 366 340 208 342 323 276 226 238 192 385 225 187 458 218 359 140 128 299 125 187 289 261 325 285 52 246 191 276 172 276 136 125 237 152 183 206 112 187 129 234 124 334 112 213 223 235 35

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Money Won (£) 5,702,165 5,441,327 3,574,270 3,142,421 2,998,236 2,887,454 2,661,956 2,547,278 2,391,612 2,218,198 1,854,511 1,815,568 1,763,359 1,710,468 1,672,586 1,670,305 1,625,823 1,552,243 1,533,210 1,485,028 1,398,341 1,394,884 1,392,996 1,387,946 1,326,295 1,297,657 1,174,756 1,125,514 1,119,507 1,110,981 1,105,836 1,060,842 1,050,956 1,026,241 1,003,521 988,439 983,749 978,839 971,501 960,350 945,372 941,132 912,548 903,792 891,857 879,206 829,284 814,114 804,747 801,023

Wnrs to Rnrs %

Av. earnings

43.69 51.11 47.02 42.92 47.57 44.77 36.92 40.10 38.18 31.78 33.76 37.40 37.00 42.95 43.65 42.24 36.91 41.46 39.42 46.80 37.28 35.52 38.88 39.13 38.92 43.01 40.34 41.66 36.84 42.02 39.37 36.29 39.47 44.79 36.36 47.69 45.63 30.00 32.41 37.33 39.09 46.98 35.87 33.66 37.29 41.66 35.71 32.29 42.53 36.84

25,685 30,230 21,275 13,905 14,555 21,548 13,651 13,267 14,495 14,690 12,042 13,859 7,768 11,480 13,274 6,474 10,912 7,572 14,742 15,798 7,900 18,354 9,674 8,621 8,901 6,977 6,675 31,264 7,365 8,051 6,911 7,858 6,914 10,690 11,404 7,603 9,551 7,530 6,700 12,805 8,594 11,339 6,966 8,948 4,821 10,467 6,582 5,057 6,006 21,080

Renewed appreciation!

New Approach’s fourth crop are now two and, according to Timeform, no stallion in Europe has produced a better bunch.

Stallions by average Timeform rating of 2015 juveniles

1 New Approach 3 4 5 7 9

Galileo Dream Ahead Exceed And Excel Teofilo Street Cry Raven’s Pass Invincible Spirit Dark Angel Sea The Stars

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10+ runners, to 2 September

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stallion stats Leading European sires of 2yos 2015: (by prize-money earned, to September 18, 2015) Stallion DARK ANGEL (IRE) INVINCIBLE SPIRIT (IRE) KODIAC (GB) GALILEO (IRE) SHOWCASING (GB) ZOFFANY (IRE) CANFORD CLIFFS (IRE) WAR FRONT (USA) EXCEED AND EXCEL (AUS) ACCLAMATION (GB) SHAMARDAL (USA) EQUIANO (FR) ZEBEDEE (GB) ELNADIM (USA) ROYAL APPLAUSE (GB) PACO BOY (IRE) DUBAWI (IRE) DREAM AHEAD (USA) RODERIC O’CONNOR (IRE) IFFRAAJ (GB) PASTORAL PURSUITS (GB) AMERICAN POST (GB) HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR (IRE) NEW APPROACH (IRE) RAVEN’S PASS (USA) AIR CHIEF MARSHAL (IRE) COMPTON PLACE (GB) FASTNET ROCK (AUS) SCAT DADDY (USA) ROCK OF GIBRALTAR (IRE) SIYOUNI (FR) TURTLE BOWL (IRE) SIR PERCY (GB) KHELEYF (USA) BUSHRANGER (IRE) DUTCH ART (GB) SAKHEE’S SECRET (GB) BAHAMIAN BOUNTY (GB) TEOFILO (IRE) COUNTRY REEL (USA) KYLLACHY (GB) ARCANO (IRE) KENDARGENT (FR) LILBOURNE LAD (IRE) POET’S VOICE (GB) ELUSIVE CITY (USA) MAKFI (GB) APPROVE (IRE) LAWMAN (FR) FAST COMPANY (IRE)

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Runners

Winners

Races Won

Places

Money Won (£)

Wnrs to Rnrs %

Av. earnings

61 46 94 25 48 58 58 13 56 69 35 48 70 14 48 37 35 34 31 37 29 14 46 15 28 23 26 30 8 34 22 18 36 47 60 27 47 29 19 8 36 37 24 55 38 16 29 32 39 32

23 18 29 12 20 19 24 8 20 24 15 17 18 5 18 11 17 14 8 13 11 6 9 6 10 8 6 9 6 7 7 6 10 12 14 10 13 7 3 5 8 13 11 12 8 4 10 13 10 13

34 24 44 17 28 29 32 12 27 27 21 25 24 7 20 15 19 19 11 15 14 9 11 8 13 11 7 10 6 9 9 11 11 14 17 16 17 9 6 6 11 14 11 13 16 7 12 17 11 16

78 62 132 25 53 66 69 10 72 94 35 38 99 15 55 37 27 42 44 48 46 19 40 17 31 31 18 25 9 38 24 24 43 58 45 18 70 39 14 13 26 43 21 54 31 20 30 53 30 35

761,580 674,013 605,807 581,927 530,018 478,244 419,223 417,990 415,426 396,886 306,777 270,846 259,946 252,493 221,757 217,565 201,327 200,931 199,914 198,280 197,433 184,613 179,720 176,054 175,986 164,912 160,056 159,461 158,159 156,802 154,043 148,134 145,832 141,638 139,554 136,551 131,905 130,692 129,933 129,383 128,093 126,760 126,727 123,879 123,707 123,451 121,557 119,618 119,076 116,103

37.70 39.13 30.85 48.00 41.66 32.75 41.37 61.53 35.71 34.78 42.85 35.41 25.71 35.71 37.50 29.72 48.57 41.17 25.80 35.13 37.93 42.85 19.56 40.00 35.71 34.78 23.07 30.00 75.00 20.58 31.81 33.33 27.77 25.53 23.33 37.03 27.65 24.13 15.78 62.50 22.22 35.13 45.83 21.81 21.05 25.00 34.48 40.62 25.64 40.62

12,485 14,652 6,445 23,277 11,042 8,246 7,228 32,153 7,418 5,752 8,765 5,643 3,714 18,035 4,620 5,880 5,752 5,910 6,449 5,359 6,808 13,187 3,907 11,737 6,285 7,170 6,156 5,315 19,770 4,612 7,002 8,230 4,051 3,014 2,326 5,057 2,806 4,507 6,839 16,173 3,558 3,426 5,280 2,252 3,255 7,716 4,192 3,738 3,053 3,628

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OLYMPIC GLORY Choisir x Acidanthera (Alzao)

Gr.1 winner at 2, 3 & 4, track record holder «Olympic Glory is the most amazingly consistent horse who we have enjoyed campaigning at the highest level for the past three years.

He has a wonderful temperament, and physically you could not wish to see a more imposing individual.» Richard Hannon Jnr, trainer.

Standing at Haras de Bouquetot, FR

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stallion stats Leading European first-season sires 2015: (by prize-money earned, to September 18, 2015) Stallion ZOFFANY (IRE) CANFORD CLIFFS (IRE) DREAM AHEAD (USA) RODERIC O’CONNOR (IRE) LILBOURNE LAD (IRE) POET’S VOICE (GB) FROZEN POWER (IRE) WOOTTON BASSETT (GB) NEVER ON SUNDAY (FR) MILANAIS (FR) DICK TURPIN (IRE) SHAKESPEAREAN (IRE) POUR MOI (IRE) ELUSIVE PIMPERNEL (USA) SEHREZAD (IRE) LOUP BRETON (IRE) TWIRLING CANDY (USA) SOUL CITY (IRE) TRAJANO (USA) CAPE BLANCO (IRE) SLICKLY ROYAL (FR) SIDPOUR (IRE) DREAM EATER (IRE) OUT LOUD (GB) GALIDON (IRE)

Winners

Races Won

Places

Money Won (£)

58 58 34 31 55 38 44 12 8 3 25 4 13 13 1 4 1 3 2 9 1 5 3 2 1

19 24 14 8 12 8 10 4 4 2 3 2 3 3 1 0 1 2 0 2 0 2 0 1 1

29 32 19 11 13 16 11 6 6 2 5 3 3 4 2 0 1 3 0 2 0 2 0 1 1

66 69 42 44 54 31 36 20 14 11 17 7 10 12 1 9 1 2 5 6 3 8 6 3 2

478,244 419,223 200,931 199,914 123,879 123,707 101,941 92,090 69,031 43,916 42,949 31,635 30,274 29,428 28,295 18,702 17,834 17,633 14,961 11,652 10,271 10,225 9,418 7,834 6,138

Leading European second-season sires 2015: (by prize-money earned, to September 20, 2015) Stallion Siyouni (FR) Makfi (GB) Lope de Vega (IRE) Zebedee (GB) Showcasing (GB) Paco Boy (IRE) Equiano (FR) Silver Frost (IRE) Rip Van Winkle (IRE) Pressing (IRE) Arcano (IRE) Air Chief Marshal (IRE) Youmzain (IRE) Approve (IRE) Fast Company (IRE) Starspangledbanner (AUS) Vale of York (IRE) Lord Shanakill (USA) Zanzibari (USA)

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Runners

Winners

Races Won

29 49 42 52 42 38 41 29 33 20 42 19 15 27 41 15 24 16 8

44 67 58 73 59 51 59 38 43 30 52 27 20 43 51 23 37 23 14

79 108 90 138 103 101 110 63 96 64 105 68 44 87 95 27 60 50 24

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Money Won (£) 1,323,218 962,854 939,102 906,327 819,572 606,437 588,348 501,207 461,707 459,661 457,864 448,039 440,003 438,087 436,256 333,947 325,697 257,950 254,476

Wnrs to Rnrs % 32.75 41.37 41.17 25.80 21.81 21.05 22.72 33.33 50.00 66.66 12.00 50.00 23.07 23.07 100.00 0 100.00 66.66 0 22.22 0 40 0 50.00 100

Av. earnings 8,246 7,228 5,910 6,449 2,252 3,255 2,317 7,674 8,629 14,639 1,718 7,909 2,329 2,264 28,295 4,675 17,834 5,878 7,480 1,295 10,271 2,045 3,139 3,917 6,138

courtesy of Weatherbys Wnrs to Rnrs % 36.71 45.37 46.67 37.68 40.78 37.62 37.27 46.03 34.38 31.25 40.00 27.94 34.09 31.03 43.16 55.56 40.00 32.00 33.33

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Nancy Sexton reports from a select but successful Keeneland September Yearling Sale PERSON who has put an immense amount of time and investment into the sport, Mandy Pope assumed the difficult role of successful seller and buyer during a solid renewal of Book 1 of the Keeneland September Sale in Kentucky.

Pope went to $2.1 million for the saletopping Tapit colt during the closing session of the sale, two days after selling a $1.45 million War Front filly through consignor Timber Town to Shadwell Estates.

Pope has been an extremely active purchaser of high-end bloodstock in recent years, paying $10 million for Horse of the Year, Havre De Grace, and $4.2 million for Kentucky Oaks heroine Plum Pretty in 2012.

The decision to sell the War Front filly, who topped the opening session, provided the Florida-based breeder with her first major entry into the market as elite vendor.

Her production didn’t come cheap – she is the first foal out of the Group 3-placed Betterbetterbetter, an Irish-bred three-parts sister to Group 1 winners Yesterday and Quarter Moon who cost Pope $5.2 million at the 2013 Fasig-Tipton November Sale.

The sale of the $2.1 million Tapit colt headed an excellent renewal for his breeder Gainesway Farm, who sold three of the top four yearlings overall, including a $1.6 million colt by the same sire.

With four Grade 1 winners to his credit already this year, the farm’s flagship sire is on Seller and buyer Mandy Pope

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September Sale 2015 top lot: by Tapit out of Silver Colors, a grand-daughter of Winning Colors

his way to annexing a second consecutive champion sires’ title, so it was no surprise to see him again act as a driving factor within the top end of the market. Led by the top two yearlings sold, 14 of his yearlings realised $500,000 or more, resulting in an average of $540,172.

In that department, however, he was eclipsed by War Front, whose appeal to buyers on both sides of the Atlantic fuelled a Book 1 average of $636,842.

Led by the $1.45 million Betterbetterbetter filly, War Front accounted for four million dollar yearlings as well as a dozen who broke the $500,000 barrier. Unsurprisingly, three of his progeny – including a $1.15 million relation to Pulpit – were bought to join Coolmore, for whom the stallion has been so successful.

Sheikh Mohammed’s advisor John Ferguson also struck for a pair of War Fronts, including a $900,000 colt out of Grade 2 winner Bauble Queen. He was the dearest purchase made by Ferguson, who ended the three days as leading buyer with 22 yearlings bought worth $7,965,000.

Shortened by a day this year to three sessions, a solid edition of Book 1 saw 443 yearlings sell for a total of $134,361,000.

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Catalogue

Offered

2015 724 2014 762

641 651

Sold 443 473

There was some selectivity to the market – the buyback rate rose from last year’s figure of 27.3 per cent to 30.9 per cent, prompting the aggregate to fall by 5.4 per cent – but the average rose minimally by 0.9 per cent to $303,298 and the median increased by 4.2 per cent to $250,000.

While the number of million dollar yearlings dropped from 13 to 11, 62 realised $500,000 or more, on a par with the 61 in 2014.

Several operations partnered on expensive yearlings, allowing an encouraging breadth to the top end of the market, further illustrated by the fact that ten of the 11 million dollar yearlings fell to different buyers.

The sale-topping $2.1 million colt fell to Mandy Pope following a dramatic bidding duel with Bob Baffert, sitting with Dortmund’s owner Kaleem Shah. A half-brother to minor winner Silver Ride, he was bred by Gainesway

% Sold

Aggregate

+/-

Average

+/-

69 134,361,000 -5.4 303,298 0.9 72 142,153,000 300,535

out of the Mr Greeley mare Silver Colors, the final foal out of Kentucky Derby heroine Winning Colors.

Pope also added another well-connected filly to her collection at Whisper Hill Farm when paying $1.05 million for a Street Cry half-sister to Grade 1 winner Paynter.

Roy and Gretchen Jackson of Lael Stable went to $1.6 million to secure Gainesway’s other star son of Tapit, a colt bred by the Borges Torrealba family’s Three Chimneys Farm out of Grade 1 winner Pure Clan. The Jacksons’ commented that they expect to campaign the colt in partnership with his breeder.

Three Chimneys also made their presence felt as a buyer with the purchase of a Distorted Humor colt out of Grade 2 winner Forest Music for $1.5 million. Bred by Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings and sold through Taylor Made Sales, the colt is a half-brother

Median

+/-

Top price

250,000 +4.1 2,100,000 240,000 2,200,000

to this year’s Grade 3 winner Kentuckian and a brother to the once-raced Maclean’s Music, whose lightning-fast maiden victory at Santa Anita earned him a 114 Beyer figure and stallion berth at Hill ’n’ Dale Farm.

Zayat Stables, meanwhile, partnered with Coolmore on a $1.5 million Bernardini sister to Grade 1 winner To Honor And Serve, while agents Alex Solis and Jason Litt signed at $1.1 million on behalf of the Winchell family and Gainesway for a Medaglia D’Oro colt out of minor stakes winner Kid Kate.

Many eyes were on Frankel yearlings. Two failed to change hands, but the half-brother to Grade 1 winner Laragh lit up the ring when selling to Japanese owner Teruo Ono for $800,000. The colt out of Compelling was purchased by Hugo Merry on behalf of Prince Faisal for $500,000.

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American Pharoah will go there without the air of invincibility gained during his dominant Triple Crown sweep. Eight-time Grade 1 winner Beholder, by contrast, could not have been more impressive when thrashing a field of nine by eight-and-a-quarter lengths in the Pacific Classic at Del Mar. Saratoga isn’t known as the ‘Graveyard of Champions’ for nothing and American Pharoah’s shock defeat in the Travers Stakes handed the track another high-profile victim.

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here was nothing untoward in the vibes heading into the race; indeed, there remained something majestic about the colt as he galloped in front of a crowd of 15,000 before the race.

However, although the Travers field consisted of several rivals who had fallen victim to American Pharoah before, the script did not go to plan. After fending off the attentions of Frosted, who helped set the pace, American Pharoah could not withstand the challenge of Donegal Racing’s Keen Ice, who ran down the colt to win going away.

None of that colt’s form suggested he was capable of dethroning American Pharoah, but in his defence, this powerful closer sat nearer to the pace in the Travers than ever before and is obviously progressing fast.

His sire, dual Horse of the Year Curlin, is in the midst of a breakout season.

Keen Ice is from his third crop, who was also represented at Saratoga by Coaching Club

September Yearling Sale Bk 1: leading sire

September Yearling Sale Bk 1: leading consignors

Stallion

Consignor

Nos sold

Average

Tapit 29 540,172 War Front 19 636,842 Medaglia D'Oro 24 409,583 Distorted Humor 26 354,231 Bernardini 22 327,273 Speightstown 17 315,882 Smart Strike 18 281,944 Bodemeister 17 284,412 Malibu Moon 16 284,688 Unbridled's Song 13 340,385 Harlan's Holiday 18 240,389 Giant's Causeway 17 198,647 Pioneerof the Nile 11 296,364 Street Cry 10 294,000 Candy Ride 13 220,769

American Oaks winner Curalina and Saratoga Special Stakes winner Exaggerator.

Such results are good news for John Sikura’s Hill ’n’ Dale Farm, which purchased a 20 per cent share in Curlin in partnership with Elevage II for $6,218,160 in a deal brokered by Chad Schumer and M2 Transport in June.

The share had previously been held by dis-barred attorneys Shirley Cunningham and William Gallion. The transaction has resulted in Curlin’s transfer from Lane’s End Farm to Hill ’n’ Dale Farm for the 2016 season.

Keen Ice is the first foal out of the shortlived Medomak, an Awesome Again halfsister to the Grade 1-placed Coal Play.

He is inbred 3x3 to Curlin’s damsire Deputy Minister; incidentally, Curalina is also inbred to Deputy Minister.

Medomak was purchased by Chad Schumer for $80,000 at the 2013 Keeneland January Sale to continue her stud career in Saudi Arabia but has died since.

On a loaded Travers Stakes card at Saratoga, racegoers were treated to an imperious winning display by Flintshire in the Sword Dancer Invitational Handicap, while Runhappy provided Keen Ice: spoiled the American Pharoah Travers party

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Lanes End Farm Taylor Made Sales Gainesway Farm Dromoland Farm Denali Stud Eaton Sales Inc. Paramount Sales Clearsky Farms Woods Edge Farm Stone Farm

Nos sold 48 62 28 15 18 18 21 7 16 10

Average 362,083 264,710 356,786 382,333 308,611 291,111 246,190 682,857 292,500 432,000

Maria Borrell with a landmark first Grade 1 victory when the impressive winner of the King’s Bishop Stakes. In doing so, the colt, who raced without Lasix, became the second Grade 1 winner of the Saratoga meeting for WinStar Farm’s young sire Super Saver following Embellish The Lace, successful in the Alabama Stakes.

The meeting came to a close in style thanks to scintillating performances from Rachel’s Valentina and Liam’s Map. Rachel’s Valentina has already lived up to her illustrious breeding by developing into arguably the most exciting two-year-old filly seen so far in the US.

By Bernardini and out of Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra, the filly returned to the scene of her impressive maiden score to take the Spinaway Stakes.

Her win came less than two weeks after Rachel Alexandra’s first foal, the Curlin colt Jess’s Dream, had made his own impressive winning debut for Kiaran McLaughlin.

The pair are the only two foals out of the mare, who suffered severe complications after foaling Rachel’s Valentina in 2013.

Beholder’s dominant display in the Pacific Classic was the highlight of the Del Mar meeting, but it also played host to two impressive winning performances from the juvenile Nyquist, who looked a youngster out of the top drawer when landing the Del Mar Futurity by nearly 4l.

So far, the Doug O’Neill-trained colt is the standout performer from the first crop of Coolmore’s Uncle Mo. A champion two-year-old himself, the son of Indian Charlie has already sired three stakes winners and is already well on his way to breaking the million dollar barrier by earnings.

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Jocelyn de Moubray chats to Mark Weinfeld of Meon Valley Stud about the farm’s remarkable broodmare band which once again has produced top-class fillies this year

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eon Valley Stud is one of Britain’s oldest, and most successful commercial studs.

This year the farm will offer ten yearlings at Tattersalls October Book 1 over 30 years after the first equine generation left the Hampshire stud to be sold in Newmarket.

The stud has now passed on to its second human generation as it is owned in partnership by Mark Weinfeld and his sister Helena Ellingsen, children of the founder Egon Weinfeld who died in 2013. Success at the highest level, at the sales and on the racecourse, remains a regular occurrence.

“We have good years and bad years,” says Weinfeld, smiling. “Sometimes we breed a lovely, good-looking horse who disappoints and it all goes a little quiet, but most years we have at least one good horse.”

This year the stud’s two most prominent runners are home-bred fillies – the threeyear-olds Jazzi Top and Speedy Boarding, who were being prepared for Group 1 targets in October.

The John Gosden-trained Jazzi Top was only fifth in the Oaks, but has revealed her true level since finishing a most unlucky fifth behind Legatissimo in the Nassau Stakes and winning the Group 2 Prix de la Nonnette in Deauville in August.

Speedy Boarding, a daughter of Shamardal trained by James Fanshawe, was fifth in the Irish Oaks having won her Listed race at Newbury in July.

Last year’s autumn sales saw some notable successes for the stud, too, at October Book 1

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A mix of business and pleasure

Mark Weinfeld with a bunch of playful weanlings at Meon Valley Stud.

Weinfeld admits that his main focus was on farming initially, but now he gets more satisfaction from the racing and stud operation

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This Champs Elysees ex Ventura Highway colt is catalogued as Lot 510 at Tattersalls October

Meon Valley sold colts by Dubawi and Oasis Dream to John Ferguson for 800,000gns and 625,000gns.

What started out as a hobby for Egon Weinfeld remains a source of pleasure for his son Mark, but is, at the same time, a successful business.

There are many remarkable aspects to the Meon Valley story.

It all began with the extraordinary initial purchases of One In A Million, Odeon, Reprocolor and Hone And Away.

The stud purchased these four as yearlings in three years from 1977 to 1979, and then did not buy another horse for nearly 30 years.

It is one thing to select two of the best fillies of their generation from two purchases at the same sale but another, perhaps equally

Weinfeld with Irish Oaks runner-up Shirocco Star, a great grand-daughter of Bella Colora

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surprising, that these two should have produced dynasties that are still competing at the top level nearly 40 years later.

Meon Valley was started as a hobby by Egon Weinfield to keep himself occupied when his children grew out of their involvement with show jumping.

“My sister and I were always involved with horses,” Weinfield Jnr remembers, “and Dad enjoyed being involved with the show jumping and our horses.

“When we grew up and began to be too busy to continue my mother suggested that he bought a racehorse as a pastime as he already followed racing [He bought three!].

“At the time he didn’t know a great deal about racing and breeding and I am sure he would have got bored very quickly if he hadn’t had success or if it had cost him a lot of money.”

Lack of success has never been a problem for long at Meon Valley. The first two yearlings purchased by Richard Galpin for the stud played a prominent role in more or less all of the principal races for their generation.

One In A Million won the 1,000 Guineas and, together with Odeon, they either won or placed in the Group 1 Fillies’ Mile, the Group 2 Sun Chariot, the Musidora Stakes (G3), the Park Hill Stakes (G2), the Nassau Stakes (G2), the Coronation Stakes (G1) , and Nell Gwyn for Meon Valley and trainer Henry Cecil.

They were not cheap yearlings – One In A Million cost 18,500gns and Odeon 38,000gns, equivalent of 100,000gns and 200,000gns in today’s money, but they were extraordinarily good investments.

“My father picked Richard Galpin out of a directory,” continues Weinfeld. “He wanted to use a bloodstock agent who was neither too important nor an unknown and Galpin came in the middle.

“He met Galpin in Newmarket where they discussed what to look for pedigree wise and conformation.

“Galpin explained that selecting racehorses was not dissimilar to showjumpers, they had to have good legs and come from good families. They didn’t work together for long, my father didn’t appreciate Galpin turning up for unscheduled meetings at his London office, but they selected the four foundation mares together. Galpin was a very a good judge of horses.”

One In A Million’s descendants include the champion fillies Milligram and One So Wonderful, as well as more recent arrival

meon valley stud Speedy Boarding. Odeon’s include the Oaks winner Lady Carla, while Reprocolor has too many to list but those at the top include Cezanne, Opera House, Colorspin, Stagecraft, Bella Colora, Zee Zee Top, Izzi Top and Jazzi Top. Home And Away’s home-bred descendants include Alkaased and San Sebastian.

By the time One In A Million and Odeon retired to stud Meon Valley was already on the way to becoming a serious stud.

“As I remember it,” says Wienfeld, “the original plan was to have 12 mares and to keep the fillies and sell the colts.

“However, when we moved to Hampshire buying Dean Farm, which became Meon Valley Stud, we built 16 boxes at the beginning – just in case!”

As for why his father didn’t buy any more horses for nearly 30 years Weinfield is not entirely sure.

“I don’t think it was something he decided not to do, it was more that if you are breeding lovely fillies who are very successful it is a lot cheaper to raise your own future mares rather than going out and buying more and the chances of repeating such a spectacular early success seemed relatively unlikely.

“Every year we select two or three fillies whom we don’t offer for sale, but we have also bought back several unsold fillies who came good such as Shirocco Star and Speedy Boarding,” continues Weinfeld. “My own feeling is that it is very often what is in their heads which often makes the difference between a lovely filly and a very good one, and at the sales it is hard to see what their temperament will be.”

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Lot 152: By Nathaniel, this colt is out of the Listed winner Dash To The Front, dam of Speedy Boarding and half-sister to Dash To The Top. It is the family of Milligram and One In A Million

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oday Meon Valley has 30 mares in foal, but only 19 yearlings.

“We had a poor breeding season in 2013 with several mares not getting in foal,” eplains Weinfeld, “and so we have fewer than usual and only 14 going to the sales.

“We have, though,” he adds quickly, “a great and full crop of foals.”

When Meon Valley started Weinfeld’s main interest was in farming rather than racing, but although he still farms his focus has changed.

“I think the farm produces 90 per cent of the aggravation and 10 per cent of the income, with the stud being the other way around, 90 per cent of the income and

Tattersalls October Lot 173: by Exceed And Excel, this filly is out of Dylanesque (Royal Applause)

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Meon Valley team: Debbie our photographer asked the group to say “sales toppers” instead of cheese to get the smile for the shot... let’s hope its was a premonition

possibly 10 per cent of the aggravation,” he reasons.

“There is little or no upside with farming – even if you have a bumper yield you can be sure that the prices will go down!

“I like going racing to watch the horses we have bred, I enjoy doing the matings, and I

enjoy the sales. There is a great satisfaction if something sells well, and I am not too downhearted to bring home a filly I like who hasn’t made her reserve.

“There is always something to be excited about for the stud: the next race, the next crop of foals, yearlings, the matings...

Meon Valley Stud Tattersalls 2015 draft: Book 1 and 2 28 69 119 152 173 251 254 294 364 510 536 1344

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Pivotal-Zee Zee Gee (Galileo) Mastercraftsman-Avon Lady (Avonbridge) Shamardal-Celestial Girl (Dubai Destination) Nathaniel-Dash To The Front (Diktat) Exceed And Excel-Dylanesque (Royal Applause) Foxwedge-Italian Connection (Cadeaux Genereux) Oasis Dream-Izzi Top (Pivotal) Sepoy-Likeable (Dalakhani) Dansili-One So Marvellous (Nashwan) Champs Elysees-Ventura Highway (Machiavellian) Henrythenavigator-Wonderful Desert (Green Desert) Sir Percy-Strictly Lambada (Red Ransom)

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“The worst day of the year is the day I return from the sales. The sales staff have gone, the yearlings have (hopefully) gone, after such a long build-up, with all its excitement, it’s very deflating!’

Weinfeld is pragmatic about the stud’s policies. He uses a wide range of stallions including first-season sires.

“I think you need to use the best,” he says, “but then we also use more reasonably-priced stallions too, and have had great success with them.

“For instance, Caspar Netscher, who we bred, was unlucky not to win a Group 1 as a two-year-old and he was from the first crop of Dutch Art.” He sends his fillies to several different trainers – John Gosden, James Fanshawe, Hughie Morrison, Roger Varian, Luca Cumani – because it is too much of a risk to have them all in only one stable.

It is a pragmatism based upon nearly 30 years of experience, and of course years of breeding almost exclusively from the same families.

“We do know our families well,” he agrees, “and this is often a help. It helps with matings as you get to know which sires and sirelines work with which family.

“The Green Desert line worked well with the Reprocolor family, for example, but seemingly not with the One In A Million line, to date anyway. But, even if you have a clearcut idea, more often than not it doesn’t work out exactly as you would have hoped!”

He doesn’t appear to believe in any certainties or shortcuts to future success.

Breeding is something which takes time, and reflection.

He doesn’t, however, hesitate when asked about the future.

“My father wanted to breed a Derby winner but never did, and I would love to breed one too,” he reflects.

“I would also like to win another Oaks or 1,000 Guineas, or perhaps I should say my ambition is to breed more Classic winners!”

Weinfeld is in many ways very down to earth. He believes that you can never stop learning and knows how luck can play such an important role, and seems surprised that an agent from Australia would want to visit the farm exclaiming “goodness they know about us over there!”

With an affable exterior Weinfeld is an experienced professional, who knows something about breeding Classic winners.

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lot of people think they know Mark Johnston pretty well. Which is to say a lot of people have formed their opinions.

To list them: Typical Scot, though not dour. Quite the opposite in fact.

But confident, opinionated, no shrinking violet. A man who speaks his mind. Not aggressively, but one who likes to leave interlocutors in no doubt that if they don’t care to listen to what he has to say they can, er… go and find something else they’d like to do.

Then there’s the business: the production of winners, mass production some might say, on what now seems to many like an almost industrial scale. In 2009 he became the first trainer to hit 200 winners in a British season, a feat he’s repeated often since. At the time of writing this year’s score is in the 170s. He’s not willing to predict the 200 will be reached again. Only he knows the fire power he has left.

A popular man for all his forthrightness – and occasional truculence – although like all successful people he has his critics.

The loudest of these perhaps are those who say they can’t quite make his stable out. Which is another way of saying they can’t quite figure out when a Johnston horse is going to run down the field, or run out of its skin while (metaphorically) slapping

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Paul Haigh talks with trainer Mark Johnston about the business of training racehorses

The modern racehorse trainer the one they decided to back against him contemptuously on the chops. Once upon a time US punters used to take out D.Wayne Lucas insurance bets. Now sensible Brits do the same with Mark Johnston.

Some like to complain too that he’s a numbers man: plenty of quantity in the winner’s enclosure, not much quality. They reckon this might be a policy – an example of industrialisation perhaps. They think it particularly about the horses he gets from Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed al Maktoum (son and heir apparent of Sheikh Mohammed).

Johnston is just a businessman, they think, this qualified-vet-turned-trainer, a man to whom the horse may be a commodity (not true) or at least merely a tool (also not true) a man for whom the bottom line is the only line that counts.

He’s certainly a modern trainer, fully clued up on the subject of what some might call social media trumpet blowing; publisher

of his own magazine The Kingsley Klarion (named after his stables – note the typically ironic use of the K).

Was it a business decision to produce his own publication, a vehicle for his views as well as a means of promoting his stable, to go with the high social media profile? Or does he have an agenda? He even finds time to write a blog, again with the ironic, perhaps self-mocking title “Bletherings” (a Scots word some might translate as “Waffling”).

“No, no agenda” he says, relaxed. “It’s something that was drawn to my attention that other trainers were using social media and we were lacking in that department.

It’s now in full swing, but the Klarion isn’t online”.

How happy has he been with the way things have been going this season?

“Delighted. With very few reservations.

There’s been quite a change in the make-up of the string.

“Most other big yards have about 50/50

two-year-olds and older horses. This year, largely because of the horses Darley’s been sending us, we’ve gone from two-thirds older horses to two-thirds two-year-olds, and I’m pleased to say they’ve been doing very well.

“We don’t set out to look for early twoyear-olds. Darley doesn’t breed that sort of horse. With exceptions such as Exceed And Excel they’re mostly potential middledistance horses, and they’re the ones they’ve sent me so it’s very good to see they’ve been doing well”.

Has this required any change in the way he’s prepared them?

“No, no new approach. I’ve always been a successful trainer of two-year-olds. Back in 2003, for example, we had three two-yearold winners at Royal Ascot. But the biggest reason for success with two-year-olds this year is that we’ve got more of them.

“In terms of the work I give them, nothing much has changed except we gave them the first fast gallop about a week earlier this year.

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I’ve felt under a bit of pressure to get more two-year-old winners this year”.

One of the characteristics of his twoyear-olds is that they tend to bounce off in front and play catch me if you can. It’s a characteristic of Johnston horses generally – if they are challenged they tend to find more.

Is that a deliberate policy? Does he instruct his jockeys that’s the way he wants to see them run?

“No” he says, “I’ve never in my career told a jockey how to ride a race. I never say anything to them except ‘just jump and bowl along wherever you feel happy’.

“Most of my jockeys have been with us a long time, Joe Fanning and Franny Norton for example, and they’ve been joined now by people like James Doyle and William Buick who are riding for Godolphin, and Paul Hanagan and Dane O’Neill for Shadwell, but they don’t get given any orders.

“We do reward loyalty with loyalty and we also have a little competition at Kingsley, like a squash ladder on which the jockeys go up and down according to the results they’re getting. It’s quite popular.”

He’s known for racing horses to keep them fit rather than putting them in cotton wool in preparation for a specific day. Is that a fair impression?

“Yes I do believe in training horses by running them. I think it makes good sense. I think there’s always some risk whenever and wherever you gallop a horse, whether you do it at home or on the course, and the risk is only slightly greater on the course.

“One of my owners with a horse who’s been very successful but hasn’t really produced lately, asked me recently ‘Why don’t you get him ready at home and only run him when you’re sure he’s ready to go?’.

“And I said ‘That’s the old gambling trainers’ policy, and we’re not a gambling stable. You run him at home and you get nothing for it. As long as he’s sound and healthy you might as well run him on the course where he’s competing for prize-money.

“Our motto is ‘Always trying’. There are a lot of trainers who deliberately get them beat so they’ll get down the handicap. We don’t do that. I let them find their own level and most of my owners are quite happy with it.

“Sometimes it means there are surprises.

Why does a horse such as Notarised get beaten a long way in the Northumberland Plate and then come out next time at a big price and win the Old Newton Cup? I can’t say I know. It just happens.

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The biggest reason for success with two-year-olds this year is that we’ve got more of them “There are any number of reasons why a horse may run well one day and not on another. But my attitude is that as long as a horse is well, there’s nothing wrong with it.”

There are 210 horses in the Johnston yard, a figure which is “about the same as last year and about 30 fewer than our peak. This time last year we were down at 160 because of the Darley changes in strategy, but now we’re back up again”.

So what about the suggestion that Kingsley House, now increased in size to 270 acres, having added two adjoining properties, is a numbers’ enterprise?

mark johnston “I don’t put quantity over quality. I would love to have quality every year, but all you can do is maximise the potential of the horses you’re given, and I think we do that,” responds Johnston. “Only a very tiny number of horses can be considered to have improved after they’ve left here, and very many have improved for coming here.

“When we set out, I made it my target some day to get 100 winners, a million in prize-money a year, and at least one Group 1 winner a year. Well, we haven’t had a Group 1 winner for three years now, but it’s not for want of trying.”

He used to run a lot of horses overseas.

Now it seems he concentrates mainly on British targets. Why is that? And does he miss his overseas forays?

“I used to run in Italy, but the prizemoney’s declined and there’s always the question of whether you’re going to get paid anyway!

“I only go to Germany for Group races, but their prize-money isn’t strong now either.

Same with the US. It’s all a question of cost

Johnston had two Royal Ascot winners this year – here Oriental Fox wins the Queen Alexandra

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mark johnston v potential return. I’ve only ever had one Breeders’ Cup runner. I believe in treating my owners’ money like my own, and since very few of my horses are Breeders’ Cup nominated I don’t believe in going there.

“That doesn’t mean I don’t believe in going abroad though as long as the cost/reward equation looks right. We’ve had five runners in the Melbourne Cup and we go to Dubai for the Carnival every winter.”

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ow he’s into his late 50s there’s very little evidence of let up in what has always seemed his almost limitless energy. Until last year however he was an advisory member of the BHA, but gave it up along with other nontraining jobs last year. What influence was he able to bring to them and what did he feel he was able to achieve?

“Not a lot. I did three years at the BHA and two years as President of the Trainers’ Federation, but I’ve given that up too,” he replies with a shrug.

Does that suggest an absence of ideas?

Or just that he wants to concentrate on his horses?

“Not at all. Ideas I’ve got lots of them.

It’s putting them into practice that’s the difficult bit. What’s the point in banging your head against a wall if you’re

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Responsibility takes away a lot of the fun. But the objective is still the same – I still want winners not going to get through the things you want to see done?”

So what if you were king for a day and could issue any racing decree you wanted?

“I was asked that on At The Races once. It was with John McCririck. I said ‘First thing I want is a tote monopoly’. I think he said ‘Oh but you can’t have that’ and I think I said or should have said ‘Yes I can. I’m the dictator today. I can have what I want and what I don’t want is to see the bookmakers creaming off the money anymore. “‘I want British racing to have the same rights as Japan and Australia and Hong Kong and the other tote monopolies, the places where racing is more successful than anywhere else in the world. And I dictate a level playing field. “‘That one decree would solve all the issues of prize-money and staffing and entry to the racecourse and almost

every one of British racing’s problems at a stroke. And I want it.’”

He knows very well this interviewer isn’t going to splutter out any objections to that ideal. Maybe there’s a hint of the diplomat in Johnston after all. Any other decrees?

“I’d scrap the handicap system and start again with a blank sheet. There are no beneficiaries of the handicap system except the bookmaking industry. Why owners and fellow trainers and the betting public have been conned into believing there’s any advantage at all to the handicap system is beyond me. It’s principally about stopping the best horses from winning, and for me that’s wrong.”

So… will there be a Group 1 winner this year?

“Lumiere is the horse I’d most like to train next year. I think she can win the Guineas. Of course, it depends on Sheikh Mohammed’s decision, but our relations have always worked very well.”

He decided at the age of 14 that he wanted to become a trainer, and got his veterinary science degree as a means to that end. Does he still feel the same excitement that’s always characterised his trainer career? Is it as thrilling as it used to be?

“When I started training I did lose money.

When I first moved to Kingsley House (in 1988) I did get a lot of pressure from the bank manager. We (his childhood sweetheart Deirdre, now his wife, is the other half of the ‘we’) sailed very close to the wind.

“But I didn’t want to hear any of the bank manager’s suggestions – as long as I put some money in every month it’s none of your business is how I thought.

“All I wanted then was to train winners.

It wasn’t about making a living even. All I wanted was winners. Times have changed. It’s not just my hobby anymore. We’ve got over 200 horses. It’s a business now. We’ve got a staff of 125 people and I do feel responsibility.

And I don’t have time to follow horses the way I used to. Responsibility takes away a lot of the fun. But the objective is still the same. I still want winners.”

Lumiere might be the one to restore the first fine careless rapture – and if not her, maybe another from the twothirds of this year’s intake can grab that Group 1 success.

Group 2 Lowther Stakes runner-up Lumiere is this year’s juvenile Johnston would like to train for the 1,000 Guineas

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James Stewart with the farm’s homebred Dansili mare Raskutani, dam of the Group 1 runner-up Agent Murphy

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Sally Duckett meets James Stewart of Wellsummers Farm, breeder of the juvenile Group 2 winner Blue Bayou and Agent Murphy, who finished second in the Irish St Leger (G1)

or any stud of any size to have two Group 1 runners on the same day is no mean feat, for a farm boasting just a handful of five or six mares, meaning that 40 per cent of a broodmare band is being represented at the highest level, it is a pretty stunning achievement.

Blue Bayou, fifth in the Moyglare Stud Stakes (G1), and Agent Murphy second in the Irish St Leger (G1), were bred by Wellsummers Farm in Wiltshire by James Stewart and his wife Marie-Dominique.

While we appreciate that luck needs to be on your side in the breeding game, that every single star needs to align and the moon shine brightly for a breeder to achieve that so longed for goal of producing a “properly good” horse, Stewart has applied a certain amount of economic strategy and thought to his bloodstock business. That strategy was particularly relevant through 2008 to 2012 when the breeding industry devolved to survival tactics.

“Like a lot of small breeders,” remembers Stewart, “we found in 2008 that we had a significant problem selling our horses at auction.

“No one wanted to buy a horse, we were at the bottom of the cycle and it was a case of biting the bullet and recalibrating the stallion choices we were making in that market. Things did not really start to pick up for five years until 2013.”

That recalibration was economic and the obvious requirement for Wellsummers was to cut its costs and liabilities.

“We had been using stallions costing in the region of £40,000, well that became a no-go area,” explains Stewart. “We made a ruling that no nomination was to cost over £10,000.

“Further, the stallion had to be a proven sire, had to be nice physical model, suit the mares and sell at least respectably getting a median of about two or three times his fee.”

But even in this containment policy Stewart still had an eye to the future and was not closing shop completely.

“We needed to use stallions who were getting winners – another plank in our

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thinking was to ensure that we set the mares up to be available for the better times ahead.

“So we needed to get winners on the page as what do all the buyers look for? Winners – and recent ones at that too. Our stallions needed to tick those boxes.”

Finding capable and proven stallions standing at those sort of fees, even at the height of recession was difficult, but Stewart’s policy found him an answer.

“The nuggets can be found,” he smiles.

“You just have to be focused and be the poker player who is prepared to race them if they don’t sell – it is not such a possible scenario if you need to sell the yearling.”

Stewart’s search led him to Bahamian Bounty, who in 2012 fulfilled his needs for Wellsummers’ Barathea mare Oshiponga.

She is a daughter of Ingozi, was bred by Hascombe and Valliant Studs, and is a halfsister to E.P. Taylor Stakes (G1) winner Miss Keller from the great Britsh-based family of Inchmurrin and Inchinor, whose Group 1 results included a runner-up spot in the Dewhurst Stakes (G1) behind Zafonic and a third in the Sussex Stakes to Bigstone and Sayyedati.

Geoffrey Howson Bloodstock bought Oshiponga on behalf of Wellsummers in 2004 for 65,000gns from Wrottesley Ltd, the mare carrying a pregnancy to Cape Cross.

The purchase proved inspired – that Cape Cross covering resulted in a colt named Hatta Fort. For Godolphin and Saeed Bin Suroor, he won five races, including the Superlative Stakes (G2) and Perryville Stakes (G3) at Keeneland, and gathered over £200,000 in prize-money.

Oshiponga’s second foal for Wellsummers, a daughter of Dansili named Raskutani, did not make it to the racecourse, and was retained by the farm. After producing an Oasis Dream colt in 2010, in 2011 Raskutani gave birth to a colt by Cape Cross.

“We could not sell him and another so we decide to retain. The Cape Cross was very big as a youngster and was always going to be a three-year-old, so we kept the other who was

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wellsummers farm Blue Bayou and Dane O’Neill going to post for the Group 2 Duchess Of Cambridge Stakes.

his maiden did not build on that and did not win until sold to go hurdling.”

The Cape Cross transferral was named Agent Murphy. The Stewarts were correct in thinking he would not run at two, but that has certainly not been a negative for his career – trained by Brian Meehan and owned

by William Harrison-Allan he won his first two starts as a three-year-old and has never finished out of the first three in seven starts.

In May this year, first time out at four, he

won the Listed Buckhounds Stakes at Ascot before going on to finish third in a Group 2 in Chantilly, win the Geoffrey Freer Stakes (G3) and then run a great race to finish second in the Irish St Leger Stakes (G1).

Subsequently the farm’s “family-hold-back” strategy of covering was enacted and the mare was sent to Kyllachy in 2011 (then available at an advertised fee of £8,000) producing the consistent runner Kylach Me If U Can. She missed to Azamour in 2013 before

producing colts (the mare has yet to have a filly) by Royal Applause in 2014 and Azamour this year. Typically, the Stewarts were hoping for a filly from the Azamour covering as the sire has done so well with daughters such as Covert Love, though equally they are very proud of the fact that he was spotted as a mate in 2012 and stood in 2014 at €8,000.

Meanwhile, Oshiponga’s breeding career did not appear to be flourishing after her initial head start – although a Dubawi covering in 2005 produced a five-time winner he was never rated above 75, while the next batch of foals failed to collect a win between them.

Despite her achievement getting Hatta Fort, the mare’s place at stud must have begun to look in doubt. The Stewart’s policy of culling mares is based on a “three strikes and you are out” policy - i.e. if a mare has not produced a good winner in her first three years then she is sent elsewhere. While Oshiponga had cleared that hurdle with Hatta Fort, it was beginning to look a long time between drinks since his last Group race placing in 2009.

Blue Bayou, who trainer Brian Meehan says has always been an “uncomplicated filly and always looked to have ability” has the potential to turn the pedigree page on its head after her Group 3 success and fifth placing in the Moyglare Stakes.

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Top, left, Oshiponga grazing at Wellsummers, below left, this summer’s prize haul, top: “foal fun”

Foals by Foxwedge (left) and Azamour

Stewart said: “We were taking on the Irish in ‘their race’ and it was full of horses from Bolger’s and O’Brien’s – with O’Brien’s three Galileos finishing in the first three places!

“It was a lot of money to enter, but she is a horse we believe in and we were delighted with the run.”

As would be expected, the phone has been red hot with offers to purchase Blue Bayou since she started to show her promise when winning her maiden in June, finishing second in the Duchess of Cambridge (G2) and winning the Sweet Solera Stakes (G3).

“Over 70 per cent of the promising race fillies are locked up in private hands and large stud farms and will never appear on the market,” reasons Stewart.

“With just 30 per cent to pick from it makes their value grow out of proportion to reality.”

At the present time the filly is not for sale which returns us to the Stewarts’ logical strategisation of their bloodstock business.

“We’ve done the financial analysis to see

possibly be subject to depreciation, which can be incredibly important.”

And, of course, bringing a Group 1 performer back to the fold can have immeasurable affects on the family fortunes of the broodmare band at home.

With an associated upswing in the global economic horizon, the Stewarts have revised the sub-£10,000 covering rule and this spring Raskutani was covered by Toronado, and Oshiponga visited Poet’s Voice.

Moonlight Rhapsody, who is out of half-sister to Last Tycoon, was puchased in 2012. She has an Acclamation two-year-old running this year called Caledonian Gold and is carrying to Sea The Moon. She also has a Zamindar filly yearling to sell and had a foal this year by Lawman.

With an upwardly mobile trend in stallion coverings, and “as good a quality of mare on the farm as we have had”, two runners this year in Group 1s, Wellsummers Farm, once a chicken farm and converted to a successful stud operation by the Stewarts, is on form!

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Over 70 per cent of the promising race fillies are locked up in private hands and by large stud farms and will never appear on the market what we’d be giving up at a given price,” he explains. “Obviously, there is prize-money, but then there is also the price of her first three yearlings if they are correct – which knowing the family we’d expect them to be – as well as another filly following on behind we’d be able to sell if we’d kept her.

“Being a breeder puts you in a very different place when the phone call comes from a trainer to say he has had an offer and needs a decision by that afternoon than if you had bought a yearling.

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THE NET EFFECT OF ALL OF THIS? What British Breeders need to know if sending mares to Ireland this Spring

Uncertainty on world financial markets means that Sterling’s as strong as it has been for seven years against the Euro, making Irishbased stallions better value than ever to British breeders.

Covering fees of Irish-based stallions have fallen by 10% since the December Sales. This seismic shift has been caused not by any issue within the bloodstock industry but by the larger problem of the continuing downward spiral of the European single currency against Sterling.

Don’t just take our word for it – have you noticed how Coolmore’s recent advertisements have emphasised the advantageous Sterling equivalent of their stallions’ Euro stud fees? And when did John Magnier’s marketing men last make a mistake?

At the beginning of the December Sales in Newmarket, £1 would have bought €1.25. Into March, £1 is worth €1.38, an increase of 10% in your favour, driven by Greek uncertainty, politicians and widespread financial market negativity about the Eurozone’s problems. In real terms, €100,000 of 2015 covering fees have fallen in cost to British breeders by £7,500 in just 100 days.

Needless to say, this has not happened before.

Nor is this an isolated blip on the graph: compared to a year ago, when £1 was worth €1.19, €100,000 now costs you £11,000 less.

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“Never ever think you know it all, always listen”

The Next Generation: ahead of the busy sales month of October, Louise Ruffell talks to Gerry Meehan, yearling manager at Newsells Park Stud and finds out that the current love of his life is the Redoute’s Choice half-sister to Legatissimo 64

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Left, yearlings at Newsells Park, above, Nathaniel who has 18 lots in Book 1 and 23 in Book 2

Did you always want to work in the bloodstock industry?

Yes, it was how we were brought up. I was raised at Ballymacoll where my dad was stud groom, so from the start it was all we knew and loved.

Did you ever think of staying in your native country of Ireland? Do you think there are more opportunities within the industry in England?

It never crossed my mind when I was young, but I always knew I had so much to learn and the only way to do that was to travel, to see how other people did things.

I worked in the UK, the US and Ireland before I decided to return to the UK and settle here.

I don’t think me settling in the UK is about another country but having better opportunities – it’s about what opportunities come along and at what time.

What advice would you give to a young person embarking on a career in bloodstock?

Start at the bottom getting your hands dirty, it’s the best way to learn. Never ever think you know it all, always listen, work hard

and have respect for yourself.

Dad told me: “If you don’t have respect for yourself, don’t expect anybody else to have respect for you”.

And the most important thing is not to lower your standards, stay true to who you are.

What is it about preparing yearlings and stud work that you particularly enjoy?

Forming a bond with the horses that you have had from foals, and getting to know what makes them tick. Sometimes it’s a challenge to get the best out of them, but that’s what floats my boat!

What are your thoughts on the future of the bloodstock industry?

It really concerns me as to the calibre of the staff that are coming into the industry.

Stud grooms and second man’s sons and daughters are not following in their parent’s footsteps anymore.

So we need to ask ourselves – why not? Is this really such a bad job that youngsters do not want to do it and would rather take a

trade, or work in Tesco?

I do worry how the industry will sustain the quality of care for bloodstock in say 20 years’ time as many studs are growing, but the available workforce is decreasing, and with it standards.

You have been at Newsells for over ten years now and must have had many yearlings through your hands – what have been your highlights? Is it big prices or big winners that give you more satisfaction?

Yes, there have been many. I am very proud to still hold the record for taking the highest-priced colt sold at public auction in Europe through the ring.

But the highlight would have been Legatissimo’s Group 1 wins, especially her 1,000 Guineas success. It was great to be there on the day and be a part of the celebrations when she crossed the line. Big prices are great, but Classic winners are very special.

How have the early yearling sales gone so far this year for Newsells?

Okay so far, but it’s almost the same every year – some make more than you think and some

make less. It all balances out in the end.

There are 83 broodmares listed on the stud’s website, a lot of youngstock to look after – what are your keys to success?

Feeding the correct food to each individual and making sure they have plenty of exercise. We try to keep everything as natural as possible yet watch them like a hawk at the same time as youngsters can change overnight.

You have to continually assess them and how to respond to any changes you might see in them.

You are quoted on the stud’s website as saying “You don’t like to leave anything to chance”, how do you achieve that?

Never assume it will be okay, or that anyone will do it for you!

Work long days (and nights) and the rest is up to nature.

Do you find that a yearling’s attitude towards work translates to their performance on the racecourse?

No, not at all. I have had yearlings who would work all day and night, enjoy every minute of it, but never win a race.

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I cope with the sales stress by singing and whistling, Julian on the other hand eats chocolate...!!!

I have found over the years that it’s the quirky ones, the ones with attitude (colts or fillies) who seem to perform consistently better on the track.

Just like a trainer, you have to work each individual out to get the best out of them. An “attitude” that can be channelled is good, but the wrong sort of handling can easily turn it into “bad attitude” – it’s a fine line!

Do you think the bloodstock industry, in particular bloodstock sales, has changed a lot in the time you have been at Newsells?

Definitely! Sales in particular have become much more dependent on vets and technology. Now everything from x-rays, scans and even heart scans are done on a regular basis.

Gone are the days when your eye was your judge!

There must be a lot of pressure bringing yearlings to the big days at Tattersalls – do you enjoy it? (And does stud director Julian...?!)

There is a huge amount of pressure from the time we load them, for example, Will they load ok? Will they travel ok? Will they unload ok? Then will they settle at the sales ground? How will they show? How do they look compared to everybody else’s yearlings? And ultimately, how will they sell?

Two years’ hard work has gone into producing these animals, so yes you could say there is a lot of pressure. But again it’s a challenge, and that is what I love!

I cope with the sales stress by singing and whistling, Julian on the other hand eats chocolate...!!!

We are both perfectionists and just want everything to go right.

Nathaniel’s first yearlings have done well at Arqana, DBS and BBAG sales. You have six at Tattersalls, what can you tell us about Nathaniel’s yearlings? Has the stallion stamped his stock?

All of the yearlings I have either prepped or seen at the sales have been very athletic like himself.

They are all great walkers and seem to have plenty of substance along with elegance. I very much like what I have seen so far. So yes I would say he is definitely stamping his stock.

You have a Street Cry filly out of Shastye going to Tattersalls Book 1, whose Galileo colt fetched the European record 3.6million guineas at the same sale in 2013 with you leading him up. How does the filly compare?

She, like him, is a good looking and athletic individual and it’s very exciting to have a filly out of this Danehill / Street Cry cross to take to public auction.

Also a Redoute’s Choice filly out of Yummy Mummy, the dam of Legatissimo. It sounds like a match made in heaven, what do you think?

I personally think this filly was made in heaven!

Newsells are consigning three Frankel yearlings in Book 1. It has been said that the Frankel youngstock seen so far this year are all sorts of types, what do you think?

The ones I have prepped all seem to take after their dam, so yes all quite different, but all very nice.

However, it doesn’t matter what they look like or how they sell, it’s how they run that really matters.

Does it make a difference when there are high expectations?

It doesn’t make any difference

Highlight: Meehan with the most expensive yearling colt sold at auction in Europe

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Time to get up boys!

One early riser tries to rouse his reluctant friends from their afternoon naps at Newsells Park Stud

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....there is no substitute for hand-walking yearlings and these old legs of mine will have to go on for a few years yet! from my point of view, whether the yearling is potentially worth two million or two thousand, they are all treated the same by me.

When prepping the yearlings do you end up walking miles?

Yes, we walk on average one hour per lot, and we do three lots per day. I now have an inbuilt GPS system as to every uneven bit of ground on the rolling hills of Hertfordshire!!

We are very lucky to also have two very large horsewalkers which Mr Jacobs invested in, but as there is no substitute for handwalking yearlings and these old legs of mine will have to go on for a few years yet!

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Last year’s highlight must have been your Montjeu colt out of Honorina sold for 675,000gns to M.V. Magnier. This year she has an Oasis Dream colt – is he another promising yearling?

Yes he is! He is a lot different from his half-brother, the Montjeu was a bit more of a twoyear-old type, while the Oasis Dream is scopier, taller and has quite a Classic look to him.

When do you ship the yearlings to Tattersalls? It must be a logistical challenge getting horses and staff in place safely and securely? It is not too far from Newmarket to Newsells, do all the staff stay in Newmarket?

We usually ship in five days

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before the first horse sells, so that I am ready for any situation that may arise and it gives us at least one day to get everything settled into it’s place. We practice shows and change things if need be.

It is much more of a challenge to get staff in place safely and securely than it is horses.

Newsells is approximately 40 minutes from Newmarket and we travel back and forth every day, this means leaving the farm at 3.30am each morning and maybe not getting back, depending on sales times, till around 9pm.

At least two of our team are lucky to have good friends in Newmarket who they stay with, which is very important as they can keep a check on the yearlings through the night.

You won the Godolphin Stud Staff award in 2014. It must have been a thrill to win the award?

It was a great thrill, I am so grateful to Julian for nominating me. It felt strange at the time as I was winning something for

simply doing my job, however it was nice to get some recognition from the outside world as to the hard work everyone puts in.

I couldn’t do my job without the support I have from the rest of my team so the fact that the prize fund generously given to us from Godolphin was able to be shared by everyone was fantastic.

As a past winner how important do you feel such awards are for staff in the industry? Do you think there is anything else that can be done to extend them?

I feel awards such as this are very important as it is a great boost for moral and gives you something to remember for working hard.

It can also be something younger members of staff will want to strive to achieve.

Keeping good staff within the industry can be challenging at the best of times, so we should always be looking for ways to encourage and support the “next generation”.

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NOPS: guidelines for feed companies Sally Duckett visits the Saracen Feed Mill and discovers the lengths feed companies need to go to in order to adhere to the NOPS advice

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ast summer the unwanted phrase “morphine positive” hit British racing and the country’s industry went onto high alert.

Immediately, the wider media misunderstood the background and delved into evil stories of doping; the story being given extra spice as unfortunately the Queen’s horse Estimate was found to be amongst those who tested positive after she finished second in the Ascot Gold Cup (G1).

Thankfully, the sensationalist headlines suggesting that all in racing is wrong and that trainers and connections were busy cheating the odds, were laid to rest when it was discovered that the positives had been inadvertently caused by a feed source contaminated by the incredibly potent seeds from naturally growing poppies.

While it can be argued that any effect the morphine from the poppies may have had would have been negligible, the zero tolerance doping stance taken by British horseracing regarding any performance-enhancing product found in a post-race sample means that if any such contamination, no matter how nanogram small and how innocently it has taken place, will cause a post-race fail.

This leads to demotion from the win or placed finishing position, possible loss of earnings, stakes performances and general disappointment. After the hard work and money spent getting a horse to the racecourse and capable of finishing in a competitive position, having the race removed from the CV six weeks after the event is incredibly disappointing and upsetting for all concerned.

In Estimate’s case, it led to a loss of earnings of £80,625, the most valuable race loss in the period last summer, with the whole seven cases costing connections over £100,000.

Such incidents do not occur frequently, but equally the risk must be negated as far as is possible – the loss in confidence would be too great and the all-important zero-tolerance

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stance, the gold seal in international racing that British racing can rightfully claim as a leader, would be unworkable.

Battling with the forces of nature

As those who work with children and animals often reiterate, you are never quite sure what is going to happen when you are dealing with the potential of nature, in particular with plants such as opium-carrying poppies. They are categorised within the feed industry as a Naturally Occurring Prohibitive Substance (NOPS) and the table below lists all the plants categorised as such.

All feed companies are keen to stress they cannot guarantee that the problem will never happen again, but as much as possible is done throughout the whole supply chain,

from accessing raw materials through to delivery of bags to the racing yard, to ensure that products are delivered “clean” and NOPS free.

But the risk is managed, never excluded.

More than ever before poppies are now grown in Britain on a commercial basis for the pharmaceutical industry and the threat of contamination is ever present.

“Not that long ago, all feed companies would say to clients that we would ‘guarantee’ a clean product,” said Polly Bonner, director of Thoroughbred Nutrition at Saracen Horse Feeds.

“That is what clients want to hear, but what we have all learnt is that it is an impossible.

Clients need to understand this, and they also need to understand that no feed company can give that guarantee.”

NOPS (Naturally Occurring Prohibitive Substances) THE definition of a prohibited substance is “any substance that can exert an effect on a horse” a broad, allencompassing definition. A naturally occurring prohibited substance (or NOPS) is one that is either naturally present within certain ingredients or that occurs as a result of inadvertent cross contamination during processing before arriving at the feed manufacturer’s facility.

The main NOPS and their sources are: Caffeine (cacao) Theobromine (cacao) Theophylline (tea) Morphine (opium poppy, Papaver somniferum) Hyoscine (nightshade, Datura) Hordenine (germinating barley) Atropine (nightshade – Atropa belladonna)

Historically the principal risk has come from caffeine and theobromine, but more recently several incidences of morphine contamination of feed have occurred, coinciding with the cultivation of morphine poppies in the UK. The British Horseracing Authority’s Rules of Racing and International FEI rules for competition state a no-threshold policy for naturally occurring substances that could affect performance, with the exception of theobromine.

The scheme requires “manufacturers to evaluate the risk of a NOPS contamination during every step of the sourcing, storage, transport and manufacturing processes for each product, and design their quality management systems in line with the risks identified”.

It adds that “suppliers of raw materials will be regularly audited and staff will also undergo rigorous training to ensure strict adherence to the code.”

equine nutrition NOPS-free is not guaranteed, but it is the aim and equine clients probably have very little understanding of the lengths that are adhered to by the feed companies in order to meet their NOPS agreements and to attempt to ensure that contamination doesn’t occur.

And if there is a problem and a contaminated feed product does make its way to equine mouths, the protocol in place means that the positive can, as far as and as quickly as possible, be traced to source.

The British Equine Trade Association (BETA) NOPs scheme was introduced in 2009, outlined as opposite, and most major feed companies and supplement providers voluntarily signed up to the scheme.

Professor Tim Morris, director of Equine Health and Welfare of the British Horseracing Authority, said of the code: “By significantly

reducing the risk of NOPS, the new code provides important protection for those competing or racing under Rules.

“The fact that most of the UK’s major feed manufacturers have already agreed to comply with the code confirms its viability as a workable verification system.”

It all begins at source

The NOPS code extends to advice and recommendations within the stable yards and facilities, but the NOPS process starts at source and feed companies need to ensure that the purchased raw material is fit for purpose. All farms supplying the products are risk assessed and audited to ensure that the NOPS code of conduct is brought from field to factory.

Richard Knapp is responsible for sourcing

the base materials for Saracen Horse Feeds, largely oats, barley and maize.

“We have a good relationship with farmers, our regular suppliers, and with the larger farmer-owned grain stores,” he says. “We only buy from quality assured farms at which the vigorous conditions are met. We buy oats and barley to specifications, and from sample we buy oatss.

“We will reject a product if it does not meet our requirements – if, for instance, moisture levels are too high, or if there are visible signs of contamination.

“We need to buy maize from the south of France as it grows best there, but for a product such as sugar beet, we buy from a UK company, such as Trident Feeds. It means that the supply chain is much more manageable – it is much shorter and can be

Mark Hook, (below), the Saracen mill manager, inspects every lorry (right) arriving at the mill and will reject a product if necessary. All raw materials are dealt with and stored separately to avoid and threat of cross contamination (bottom, right)

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equine nutrition risk managed. The product goes from field to factory and then to us – there is less risk than if the product is placed in a port facility next to something undesirable!”

A perfect product required

When the lorries loaded with grain arrive at Saracen’s Kent-based mill, they come under the strict scrutiny of mill manager Mark Hook.

“I can turn back a load if I am not happy with it,” reports Hook. “We have had odd instances of products not being up to specification or something on the bulk trailer’s last three loads that we are not happy with; on arrival that would mean rejection – as would evidence that the driver has been drinking coffee.”

(Coffee is a huge no-no in the world of equine competition feed, more of which we will report on later, but for now it is safe to assume that if you are a Starbucks loyalty customer you would struggle for employment in this environment).

Hook records every haulage movement, the lorry registration number, the driver’s details, and he will have been informed of the lorry’s recent historical haulage past – if any future checks need to be made, the process is easy and quick.

It is the responsibility of the haulage company to ensure that the lorry is properly cleaned before carrying a load destined for horse feed.

“The same material is kept in the same bins and silos in order to avoid any threat of crosscontamination, and each material is checked again on site on arrival and is cleaned twice, while the machinery is self-cleaning and dust

The high-tech mixing, weighing and bagging machinery at the Saracen feed mill has recently been the recipient of inward investment by Saracen in order to make the process even more efficient, streamlined and as NOPS secure as possible

A sample taken from a bag: half is recorded

by Saracen, the other half is sent to the LGC

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equine nutrition levels are managed,” confirms Hook of the process that takes place when the material arrives at the mill.

Via an intricate arrangement of scales, elevators and an automated system, the raw cereals for each feed product are taken efficiently from storage to weighing and portioning to bagging control – think Wallace & Gromit’s bread-making factory and add a very modern upgrade.

Quarantine until advised otherwise

From every two bags of feed a sample is taken – half of which is kept at the factory as a record, with the other half sent on to the LGC Group at Fordham, near Newmarket, for contamination testing.

LGC Group purchased HFL Sport Science, where animal feed, sport drug tests and all British post horserace drug tests are examined, in 2010.

Now compound feed and supplement testing, as well as post-race sample testing, is just a small part of a myriad of operations run by the company with services including forensic analysis, drug testing, analytical services, paternity testing, as well as work with DNA examination.

On arrival at the company’s Fordham base, the feed sample is ground down, liquidized and put through a gas chromatography mass spectrometry drug test. There are then a myriad of incredibly intensive testing procedures designed to bring particle sizes to minute levels and detect at nanogram level, a unit of measurement that is equal to one billionth of a gram.

At Saracen HQ, the bagged product from which the sample was taken will remain in the factory (with recorded dates and details on file as well as attached to the bag) and sidelined in quarantine. Once the okay is sent from LGC, the batch can be released from its enforced containment, sent to distributors and into the equine community. The whole process takes around five working days.

“We work with Saracen using a continual sampling process,” explains Paul Brown, laboratory manager for the Sports and Specialised Analytical Services Department at LGC. “A sub portion of every bag is tested and provides us the best chance of catching a problem through the production run and is the best method of eliminating the risk.

“We test so sensitively because it gives us the best chance of detecting contamination.

“When looking for poppy seeds in a feed batch the spread is not going to be

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homogenous as, if say, a teaspoon of a product were added to a swimming pool – which is an equivalent amount that we are looking for. If we find an issue, we alert the manufacturing company immediately.”

“In the instances when contamination has occurred, it has been in pockets,” adds Bonnor. “At Saracen, we have worked hard to ensure that the sampling procedure is vigorous and Mark and his team at the mill have fine-tuned the operation.

“There has not been, touch-wood, a postrace drug test fail due to a Saracen horse feed.

The guys from LGC often come down to the mill to check on our operations and offer their opinion on our approach, it gives us belt and braces security.

“If we do ever get a positive response from a batch at LGC – and that has happened – the batch will be disposed of and will never get near a racehorse,” continues Bonnor.

“Importantly, due to our bonding and quarantine system, which automatically brings a delay in to the supply chain, neither will it have had the chance to get near a horse.”

Yards need to play their part too

Responsibility for a clean product does not end with the laboratory or at the factory, and all those involved with the process at the production end stress how important it is for the racehorse trainers and staff to buy into the NOPS culture too.

And so we return to the problem of contamination from caffeine in coffee, which until commercial poppies were grown on a wide-scale in the UK, was the deadliest threat

for the deed suppliers.

“Coffee is everywhere!” sighs Hook, adding: “That bit of coffee in the bottom of the cup that everyone throws away, well, that it is a positive waiting to happen.”

The racing stable needs to play its part too in the recording and checking process right through until the danger zone of a post-race positive has passed.

“Trainers should keep delivery notes, samples of feed, ensure that all bags are used up one by one,” advises Bonnor. “If there ever was a positive result, it would greatly aid traceability of the problem – whether it be a feed source or a source closer to the yard – and ensure that a process of containment is operated as a quickly as possible.

“Working then with distributors, who also record and keep delivery notes, it will pinpoint where and when feed went.”

In the instance of a wide-spread contamination problem, such as the morphine positives that occurred last summer, the NOPS Scheme will swing into a red alert stage, informing all those companies signed up that there is a problem at hand and, if there are no yard sources as likely causes, that there is a possible issue with a raw material. To ensure manufacturing confidence at that stage no names of companies involved will be released.

As Bonnor says: “The NOPS scheme is important, not only does it protect the feed companies through its guidelines, but also the feed industry and the competitive equine industry at large. The due diligence we carry out looks after our company and our clients.”

Loaded and ready to go: the lorry is packed with sampled-tested feed fit for equine consumption

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Mare of the month

Nessina

Hennessy-Didina (Nashwan)

Ajaya wins the Gimcrack: it was a first homebred Group win for Saleh Al Homaizi and Imad Al Sagar’s Blue Diamond Stud. The colt has Group 1 races on the agenda now, while owners and racing manager Tony Nerses have a Gimcrack speech to prepare for – who will get the job?

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WNERS Saleh Al Homaizi and Imad Al Sagar are no strangers to rapid success – the duo realising the highest of highs in 2007 when their colt Authorized won the Derby. It was only a third year of racehorse ownership in Britain for the partnership.

It seems that the magic has worked a second time as the pair’s Blue Diamond Stud has produced one of the leading juveniles of this year in Ajaya, winner of the Group 2 Gimcrack Stakes in August.

When Authorized won the Derby for the enthusiastic owners, the son of Montjeu became the only horse in living memory to have been bought at auction as a foal to win the Classic for his purchasers. It’s a statistic that reveals just how difficult it is to purchase Group-level youngstock.

Producing top-class thoroughbreds is exactly the challenge that Al Homaizi and Al Sagar decided to take up when founding their Blue Diamond Stud. They clearly had interest in following the journey of their horses from the very beginning – they have now gone one step further and are striving to breed their own champions. With their homebred Ajaya’s

victory in the Gimcrack, it looks like they are, once again, off to a flying start.

Tony Nerses, racing manager to Al Homaizi and Al Sagar, has certainly earned his position at the helm of this up-and-coming stud operation – and the affable character seems to have a knack for finding winners.

In 2004, Nerses advised Al Homaizi and Al Sagar on the purchase of just three horses who performed at the highest levels – Authorized, who was crowned the Cartier Champion Three-Year-Old in 2007 and was privately purchased to stand at stud for Darley, Irish 2,000 Guineas and the St James’s Palace Stakes (G1) winner Araafa (Mull Of Kintyre), who went on to stand at Plantation Stud, and Tariq (Kyllachy), who won the Group 2 Betfair Cup, the Group 3 Jersey Stakes and was placed in both the Lockinge (G1) and Coventry Stakes (G2). He also went on to stand as stallion at a stud in India.

Now Nerses’ expertise is being put to the test in the field of breeding, not buying.

Purchased in 2010, and later added to, Blue Diamond Stud consists of two sites either side of Newmarket and of over 300 acres.

Nerses has selected a band of over 40 beautifully bred mares, including Pearling,

a full-sister to Giant’s Causeway, dam of the promising three-year-old Decorated Knight, Maid To Master, a full-sister to Mastercraftsman, the Listed winner and Group 3-placed Soon, a half-sister to Walk In The Park, as well as the Holy Roman Emperor filly Princess Noor, winner of the 2013 Princess Margaret Stakes.

When Nerses advised Al Homaizi and Al Sagar to purchase Nessina he was adding to an already top-class band of broodmares.

Juddmonte bred and imported from the US in 2009, Nessina was bought from agent John Troy at the 2012 Tattersalls Breeding Stock Sale for 300,000gns.

“We were keen to add a Hennessy mare to our broodmare band and Nessina fitted the bill,” explains Nerses. “She possesses a royal page being the beautifully bred half-sister to the dam of Cityscape and Bated Breath, from the family of champion two-year-old Xaar and Close Hatches, Redoute’s Choice, Chimes Of Freedom and Spinning World.

“Nessina is a wonderfully put together mare with good size and substance. When we bought her she was also in-foal to Invincible Spirit, a mating made in heaven, and it greatly influenced the purchase.”

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To breed a first and third Raucous in the Gimcrack was a huge highlight for young Blue Diamond Stud breeding operation Nessina was unraced but her dam Didina (Nashwan) won five races at home and in the US as a two and three-year-old, including the Dahlia Handicap, Hollywood Park Stakes (G2) and City of York Stakes (L).

Didina is dam to seven winners, including Tantina (Distant View), who won four races at three, including the Listed Oak Tree Stakes at Goodwood, and the Listed JRA London Office’s Kyoto Sceptre Stakes.

Tantina’s excellent record as a race filly translated to her career as a broodmare and just her second foal and runner was Cityscape (Selkirk). He was a top-rated older miler in 2011 and top-rated older miler in UAE in 2012, winner of £3,003,962. His six victories included the Dubai Duty Free Stakes (G1), Solonaway Stakes, Curragh Stakes (G3), Nayef Joel Stakes (G3) and the Prix Perth at Saint-Cloud (G3).

A consistent performer, he finished second four times at the highest level behind some of the best horses to run globally over his fiveyear racing career. In the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes and the Jacques le Maris he was second to Excelebration, also finishing runner-up to Able One in the Hong Kong Mile. He finished third in the Queen Anne to Canford Cliffs, and in the Woodbine Mile was third behind Wise Dan, one of the best US Turf horses for some years. He is now at Overbury Stud with a first crop of foals on the ground.

Didina’s following foal was Bated Breath (Dansili). The influence of his sire gave Bated Breath more speed than his half-brother.

He won six races, five of which came over 6f with his final victory, in which he beat the admirable Sole Power in the Group 2 Temple Stakes at Haydock, coming over 5f. Perhaps his best efforts came in defeat and he boasts runner-up spots in four Group 1s races, including the July Cup and the Haydock Sprint Cup to Dream Ahead, and in the King’s Stand Stakes to Hong Kong raider Little Bridge.

He retired to Juddmonte for the 2013 covering season and his first auctioned yearlings have averaged over 36,000gns for 11 sold with a top-price so far of £100,000.

Nessina’s second dam Didicoy (Danzig) was the dam of eight winners, five of which achieved black type.

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Her third dam is Monroe, dam of 14 winners, eight of whom are black-type, and, of course, included the European two and three-year-old champion of 1997 and 1998, and winner of four Group races, including the Dewhurst Stakes (G1), Xaar.

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essina’s “royal page” earned her that maiden covering to Invincible Spirit, and it seems Nerses was right to describe it “a mating made in heaven”.

Her first foal, a colt, was named Ajaya, a Hindu name of Sanskrit origin meaning “invincible”.

Sent into training with William Haggas, Ajaya debuted in May finishing second in a maiden at Nottingham. His pedigree and perhaps his home-work caused him to be sent off as a 2/1 favourite, but he was beaten just three-quarters of a length by the Marco Bottitrained Dhahmaan.

Above, broodmare Nessina and, below, her foal of this year, a colt by Mastercraftsman

Nevertheless, it was a strong start and gave Haggas reason to step him up to Group-class company in the Norfolk Stakes (G2) where he finished seventh.

The attractive colt bounced back to break his maiden in dominant fashion at York beating Top Of The Bank by over 4l.

Sent to France and Maisons-Laffitte for his next assignment he ran Gutaifan to a head in the Prix Robert Papin (G2). The form of that race is already a pivotal juvenile race of the year – Gutaifan went on to finish second behind Shalaa in the Darley Prix Morny (G1).

He returned to York to contest the Irish Thoroughbred Marketing Gimcrack Stakes (G2), winning at the Knavesmire for the second time in impressive style under Graham Gibbons, who said to Channel 4 Racing: “Ajaya has got some turn of foot. He was doing a halfspeed down to the 2f mark!”

Nerses describes his team’s elation upon breeding their first Group winner: “Being bred and raised, Ajaya’s Gimcrack win gave Salah Al Homaizi and Imad Al Sagar an incredible feeling of pride and joy, and for me an electrifying, powerful surge of satisfaction,” smiled Nerses. “To breed a first as well as the third Raucous in the Gimcrack was a huge highlight for young Blue Diamond Stud breeding operation.”

Success at Group 1 level is the next aim with Ajaya, who is entered in the Middle Park Stakes in Newmarket and where he might face Shalaa. If this race goes well then Classics will be on the agenda for next year with plans to enter him in both the English and Irish 2,000 Guineas. Nerses, as always, is positive as regards the colt getting the mile: “Given his relaxed outlook and way of racing, I am hopeful that he would get a mile at three.”

Ajaya’s success, particularly as a first foal, is an amazing start for the young dam Nessina, and her next protégée.

“Nessina has a handsome yearling colt

by Oasis Dream, a cracking quality foal by Mastercraftsman, and is in foal to Dansili,” reports Nerses.

Having got off to such a strong start as a broodmare, and with such attractive coverings, this is just the beginning for Nessina and Blue Diamond Stud.

“What we have achieved at Blue Diamond Stud in the space of five years is amazing, what every breeder dreams about, but few ever get to experience,” reports Nerses, who adds, with a further ambitious glint in his eye: “Our aim is to drive Blue Diamond Stud from good to great.”

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EUROPE Tattersalls Acomb Stakes, G3, York, August 19, 7f 1 Recorder (GB) 2 ch c Galileo (IRE) - Memory (IRE) (Danehill Dancer (IRE)) 2 Bing Bang Bong (IRE) 2 b g Big Bad Bob (IRE) - Dreamaway (IRE) (Oasis Dream (GB)) 3 Cymric (USA) 2 b c Kitten's Joy (USA) - Fastbridled (USA) (Unbridled's Song (USA)) Age: 2; Starts: 3; Wins: 2; Places: 1 Earnings: £53,694 Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 207 Stakes winners. In 2015 - GLENEAGLES Storm Cat G1, HIGHLAND REEL Danehill G1, AMPERE Sri Pekan G2, CURVY Inchinor G2, SECRET GESTURE Danehill G2, TANBY Danewin G2, WEDDING VOW Danehill Dancer G2, BONDI BEACH Danehill G3, DEAUVILLE Danehill G3, FIELDS OF ATHENRY Danehill G3, KISSED

BY ANGELS Danehill Dancer G3, MIZZOU Darshaan G3, RECORDER Danehill Dancer G3, SERTORIUS Encosta de Lago G3, SILVER GALAXY Pivotal G3, ALOFT Storm Cat LR, BIG BLUE Anabaa LR, EASTER Stravinsky LR, EYE OF THE STORM Shirley Heights LR, FAUFILER Celtic Swing LR, GOSPEL CHOIR Pivotal

LR, GRETCHEN Danehill LR, KINGFISHER Halling LR, MONDIALISTE Kaldoun LR, OBSERVATIONAL Cadeaux Genereux LR, OUTSTANDING Mozart LR, TELESCOPE Darshaan LR, THE CORSICAN Danehill LR, WINDSOR PARK Mr Prospector LR. 1st Dam: MEMORY by Danehill Dancer. 3 wins at 2, Irish TB Marketing Cherry Hinton S G2.

Dam of 1 winner: 2013: RECORDER (c Galileo) 2 wins at 2, Tattersalls Acomb S G3.

2014: Call To Mind (c Galileo) 2015: (c Frankel) 2nd Dam: Nausicaa by Diesis. 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, USA, 3rd Miesque S G3. Dam of MEMORY (f Danehill Dancer, see above), REMEMBER ALEXANDER (f Teofilo: Korean Racing Authority Tyros S G3).

Grandam of Tamadhor.

Broodmare Sire: DANEHILL DANCER. Sire of the dams of 35 Stakes winners. In 2015 - LADY TIANA Sir Percy G2, WEDDING VOW Galileo G2, HI WORLD High Chaparral G3, KISSED BY ANGELS Galileo G3, RECORDER Galileo G3, ARTLEE Excellent Art LR, BRIGHTON Buffalo Man LR, GEE GEES TOP NOTCH Wordsmith LR, IT IS WRITTEN Written Tycoon LR, BALMUSETTE Halling LR, DIFFERENT GRAVEY High Chaparral LR, SEMPRE MEDICI Medicean LR. The Galileo/Danehill Dancer cross has produced: WEDDING VOW G1, QUEST FOR PEACE G2, BE MY GAL G3, KISSED BY ANGELS G3, RECORDER G3, INDIAN MAHARAJA LR, Criteria G2, Lahinch Classics G2, Alice Springs G3, Kingston Jamaica G3, Noble Galileo G3, Queen Nefertiti G3, Felix Mendelssohn LR, Seussical LR.

Northern Dancer Sadler's Wells Fairy Bridge GALILEO b 98 Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta RECORDER ch c 2013 Danehill Danehill Dancer Mira Adonde MEMORY b 2008 Diesis Nausicaa Blushing All Over

Juddmonte International Stakes, G1, York, August 19, 10f 1 Arabian Queen (IRE) 3 b f Dubawi (IRE) - Barshiba (IRE) (Barathea (IRE)) 2 Golden Horn (GB) 3 b c Cape Cross (IRE) - Fleche d'Or (GB) (Dubai Destination (USA)) 3 The Grey Gatsby (IRE) 4 gr c Mastercraftsman (IRE) - Marie Vison (IRE) (Entrepreneur (GB)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 11; Wins: 4; Places: 1 Earnings: £687,477 Sire: DUBAWI. Sire of 103 Stakes winners. In 2015 - AL KAZEEM Darshaan G1, ARABIAN QUEEN Barathea G1, ERUPT Caerleon G1, HUNTER'S LIGHT Barathea G1, NEW BAY Zamindar G1, NIGHT OF THUNDER Galileo G1, POSTPONED Dubai Destination G1, PRINCE BISHOP Prospect Bay G1, SHAMAL WIND Machiavellian G1, SRIKANDI Hurricane Sky G1, BALL OF MUSCLE Gold Brose G2, BAWINA Sadler's Wells G2, CATKINS Catbird G2, MUBTAAHIJ Pennekamp G2, SAFETY CHECK Royal Academy G2, ALMANAAR Bahhare G3, AMBER ORCHID Hennessy G3, DUBDAY Daylami G3, TANAZA Dalakhani G3, TIME TEST Dansili G3, BEST OF TIMES Rahy LR, CRYSTAL ZVEZDA Mark of Esteem LR, DEUCE AGAIN Unfuwain LR, JOURNEY Montjeu LR, KATAWI Mountain Cat LR, LADY OF DUBAI Montjeu LR, ROYAL ISLAND Umatilla LR,

DODGING BULLETS Kris S LR, LACHLAN BRIDGE Anabaa LR. 1st Dam: BARSHIBA by Barathea. 7 wins at 3 to 6, Bet 365 Lancashire Oaks G2 (twice).

Dam of 1 winner: 2012: ARABIAN QUEEN (f Dubawi) 4 wins at 2 and 3, Juddmonte International S G1, Qipco Duchess Of Cambridge S G2, Investec Princess Elizabeth S G3, 3rd Qatar Nassau S G1.

2013: Australian Queen (f Fastnet Rock) unraced to date.

2015: (f Dubawi) 2nd Dam: Dashiba by Dashing Blade. 2 wins at 3, 2nd EBF Upavon S LR. Dam of BARSHIBA (f Barathea, see above), DOCTOR DASH (g Dr Fong: Weatherbys Bank Stonehenge S LR), Dashing Star (g Teofilo: 2nd John Smith's Silver Cup H LR) Broodmare Sire: BARATHEA. Sire of the dams of 81 Stakes winners. In 2015 - ARABIAN QUEEN Dubawi G1, HUNTER'S LIGHT Dubawi G1, BLUE BAYOU Bahamian Bounty G3, CANDARLIYA Dalakhani G3, BOOMSHACKERLACKER Dark Angel LR, BREX DRAGO Mujahid LR, CLOCKWINDER Intikhab LR, JORDAN PRINCESS Cape Cross LR, JOYFUL HOPE Shamardal LR, TALL SHIP Sea The Stars LR, TIGER TOPS Tiger Hill LR, CYRUS DARIUS Overbury LR. The Dubawi/Barathea cross has produced: ARABIAN QUEEN G1, HUNTER'S LIGHT G1, MONTEROSSO G1, DANADANA G3.

Seeking The Gold Dubai Millennium Colorado Dancer DUBAWI b 2002 Deploy Zomaradah Jawaher ARABIAN QUEEN b f 2012 Sadler's Wells Barathea Brocade BARSHIBA ch 2004 Dashing Blade Dashiba Alsiba

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international database Betway Great Voltigeur Stakes, G2, York, August 19, 12f 1 Storm The Stars (USA) 3 b c Sea The Stars (IRE) - Love Me Only (IRE) (Sadler's Wells (USA)) 2 Bondi Beach (IRE) 3 b c Galileo (IRE) - One Moment In Time (IRE) (Danehill (USA)) 3 Giovanni Canaletto (IRE) 3 ch c Galileo (IRE) - Love Me True (USA) (Kingmambo (USA)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 10; Wins: 3; Places: 6 Earnings: £535,089 Sire: SEA THE STARS. Sire of 19 Stakes winners. In 2015 STORM THE STARS Sadler's Wells G2, CASUAL SMILE Red Ransom G3, QUASILLO Acatenango G3, ALL AT SEA Alzao LR, ASTRONEREUS Surako LR, FRENCH DRESSING Halling LR, NIGHT OF LIGHT Sunday Silence LR, RADANPOUR Lammtarra LR, TALL SHIP Barathea LR. 1st Dam: Love Me Only by Sadler's Wells. unraced. Dam of 1 winner: 2012: STORM THE STARS (c Sea The Stars) 3 wins at 3, Betway Great Voltigeur S G2, Casco EBF Stallions Cocked Hat S LR, 2nd Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby G1, MBNA Chester Vase G3, 3rd Investec Derby S G1, Juddmonte Grand Prix de Paris G1.

2013: Bridegroom (c Distorted Humor) unraced to date.

2nd Dam: MARIAH'S STORM by Rahy. 10 wins at 2 to 4 in USA Arlington Washington Lassie S G2, Budweiser Turfway Park Breeders' Cup H G2, 3rd Spinster S G1. Dam of GIANT'S CAUSEWAY (c Storm Cat: Juddmonte Int. S G1, Eclipse S G1, Esat Digifone Champion S G1, St James's Palace S G1, Sussex S G1, Prix de la Salamandre G1, 2nd Irish 2000 Guineas G1, Queen Elizabeth II S G1, Sagitta 2000 Guineas G1,

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Breeders' Cup Classic G1), YOU'RESOTHRILLING (f Storm Cat: Irish Thoroughbred Cherry Hinton S G2), Hanky Panky (f Galileo: 3rd Ballyogan S G3), Freud (c Storm Cat: 3rd Cork and Orrery S G2), Tumblebrutus (c Storm Cat: 2nd Galileo EBF Futurity G2), Tiger Dance (c Storm Cat: 3rd Emirates Airline Minstrel S G3), Roar of The Tiger (c Storm Cat: 3rd Governor's H LR). Grandam of GLENEAGLES, MARVELLOUS. Broodmare Sire: SADLER'S WELLS. Sire of the dams of 367 Stakes winners. In 2015 BLAZING SPEED Dylan Thomas G1, DIAMONDSANDRUBIES Fastnet Rock G1, GUST OF WIND Darci Brahma G1, SECOND STEP Dalakhani G1, BAWINA Dubawi G2, KARPINO Cape Cross G2, STORM THE STARS Sea The Stars G2, ALEX MY BOY Dalakhani G3, BEAUTY PARLOR Elusive Quality G3, EH CUMPARI Elusive Quality G3, SIMPLE VERSE Duke of Marmalade G3, AYRAD Dalakhani LR, ORANGE SUN Duke of Marmalade LR, PECK Pivotal LR, SIXTH SENSE Shamardal LR, TACTICUS A P Indy LR, VAL D'HIVER Zafeen LR, VICTORY SONG Dansili LR, ZAWRAQ Shamardal LR, CHARBEL Iffraaj LR, STAND TO GAIN Hawk Wing LR, TOP GAMBLE Presenting LR. The Sea The Stars/Sadler's Wells cross has produced: STORM THE STARS G1, TAGHROODA G1, Starchitect LR. Green Desert Cape Cross Park Appeal SEA THE STARS b 2006 Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta STORM THE STARS b c 2012 Northern Dancer Sadler's Wells Fairy Bridge LOVE ME ONLY b 2008 Rahy Mariah's Storm Immense

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Pinsent Masons Lowther Stks, G2, York, August 20, 6f 1 Besharah (IRE) 2 b f Kodiac (GB) - Dixieland Kiss (USA) (Dixie Union (USA)) 2 Lumiere (GB) 2 b f Shamardal (USA) - Screen Star (IRE) (Tobougg (IRE)) 3 Easton Angel (IRE) 2 gr f Dark Angel (IRE) - Staceymac (IRE) (Elnadim (USA)) Age: 2; Starts: 6; Wins: 4; Places: 2 Earnings: £184,911 Sire: KODIAC. Sire of 18 Stakes winners. In 2015 - ADAAY Royal Applause G2, BESHARAH Dixie Union G2, KODI BEAR Mujtahid G3, SPIRIT OF XIAN Touch Gold G3, AZZECCAGARBUGLI Desert Style LR, COULSTY In The Wings LR, WHATDOIWANTTHATFOR Hernando LR. 1st Dam: Dixieland Kiss by Dixie Union. unraced. Dam of 1 winner: 2013: BESHARAH (f Kodiac) Sold 85,000gns yearling at TAOC2. 4 wins at 2, P Lowther S G2, Juddmonte Princess Margaret S G3, 2nd Duchess Of Cambridge S G2, 3rd Queen Mary S G2.

2014: (c Casamento) 2015: (f Epaulette) 2nd Dam: KISS THE DEVIL by Kris S. 6 wins at 3 to 5 in USA Earlytimes Mint Julep H G3. Dam of KISS MOON (f Malibu Moon: Old Forester Mint Julep H G3, 3rd Mrs Revere S G2), KISS MINE (f Mineshaft: Ellis Park Turf S LR, Summer Finale S LR, Decoration Day H LR, West Virginia Senate President's S LR (twice), 2nd Cardinal H G3) Broodmare Sire: DIXIE UNION. Sire of the dams of 10 Stakes winners. In 2015 - BESHARAH Kodiac G2, IDALINO Pleasantly Perfect G2, MY PLEASURE Giacomo LR, SOMERS TOWN Freud LR, VENECIA STYLE Desert Style LR.

Danzig Danehill Razyana KODIAC b 2001 Kris Rafha Eljazzi BESHARAH b f 2013 Dixieland Band Dixie Union She's Tops DIXIELAND KISS b/br 2008 Kris S Kiss The Devil Devil's Nell

Darley Yorkshire Oaks, G1, York, August 20, 12f 1 Pleascach (IRE) 3 b f Teofilo (IRE) - Toirneach (USA) (Thunder Gulch (USA)) 2 Covert Love (IRE) 3 b f Azamour (IRE) - Wing Stealth (IRE) (Hawk Wing (USA)) 3 Sea Calisi (FR) 3 b f Youmzain (IRE) - Triclaria (GER) (Surumu) Age: 2-3; Starts: 8; Wins: 4; Places: 3 Earnings: £446,099 Sire: TEOFILO. Sire of 43 Stakes winners. In 2015 - KERMADEC Fuji Kiseki G1, PLEASCACH Thunder Gulch G1, AROD Rahy G2, TAMAANEE Perugino G2, FLIGHT RISK Nordico G3, FIREGLOW King's Best LR, GENERAL SHERMAN Machiavellian LR, PARISH HALL Montjeu LR, RESONATES Warning LR, ROUND TWO Kingmambo LR, KISANJI Kingmambo LR. 1st Dam: TOIRNEACH by Thunder Gulch. 2 wins at 2 and 3. Dam of 1 winner: 2011: Ionsai Nua (f New Approach) unraced.

2012: PLEASCACH (f Teofilo) 4 wins at 2 and 3, Tattersalls Irish 1000 Guineas G1, Yorkshire Oaks G1, Blue Wind S G3, 2nd Ribblesdale S G2, Salsabil S LR. 2013: Brontide (g Vocalised) 2nd Dam: WANDERING PINE by Country Pine. 1 win at 3 in USA. Dam of CAPOMORANO (c Bluegrass Cat: Clasico Laffit Pincay Jr LR)

international database Broodmare Sire: THUNDER GULCH. Sire of the dams of 62 Stakes winners. In 2015 LOVELY MARIA Majesticperfection G1, MSHAWISH Medaglia d'Oro G1, PLEASCACH Teofilo G1, DELAGO'S SECRET Encosta de Lago G3, EL BILLARISTA El Corredor G3, FUMINO MOON Admire Moon LR, GHOST LOCKET Ghostzapper LR, SNITZEL SPIRIT Snitzel LR. Sadler's Wells

Galileo Urban Sea TEOFILO b 2004 Danehill Speirbhean Saviour PLEASCACH b f 2012 Gulch Thunder Gulch Line of Thunder TOIRNEACH b 2005 Country Pine Wandering Pine Wandering Lace

Weatherbys Hamilton Lonsdale Cup, G2, York, August 21, 16f 1 Max Dynamite (FR) 5 b g Great Journey (JPN) - Mascara (GER) (Monsun (GER)) 2 Mizzou (IRE) 4 b c Galileo (IRE) - Moments of Joy (Darshaan) 3 Hidden Gold (IRE) 4 b f Shamardal (USA) - Melikah (IRE) (Lammtarra (USA)) Age: 2-5; Starts: 18; Wins: 3; Places: 9 Earnings: £204,955 Sire: GREAT JOURNEY. Sire of 1 Stakes winners. In 2015 - MAX DYNAMITE Monsun G2.

1st Dam: MASCARA by Monsun.

3 wins at 2 and 4 in Germany.

Dam of 3 winners: 2008: High Picasso (c High Chaparral) ran in France.

2009: Gold For Tina (f Lando) 3rd Prix de la Pepiniere LR. 2010: MAX DYNAMITE (g Great Journey) 3 wins, Lonsdale Cup G2, 3rd Prix Francois Mathet LR, 2nd Galway H. Hurdle G1, Irish Ind. Sporting Limerick Hurdle LR.

2011: KIZZY NIZZY (f Anabaa Blue) Winner at 3 in France.

2012: SOMEBODY TO LOVE (c Fuisse) Winner at 3 in France.

2014: Queen of Fortune (f Soldier of Fortune) 2nd Dam: MURNAU by Rudimentary. 3 wins at 3 in Germany IDEE Festa Rennen LR. Dam of Mombasa (f Black Sam Bellamy: 3rd Preis des Porsche Zentrum-Koln LR) Broodmare Sire: MONSUN. Sire of the dams of 39 Stakes winners. In 2015 - GUILIANI Tertullian G1, MAX DYNAMITE Great Journey G2, LUCKY SPEED Silvano G3, KAPOUR Toylsome LR, KEROSIN Tertullian LR, MILLE ET MILLE Muhtathir LR. Halo Sunday Silence Wishing Well GREAT JOURNEY b/br 2001 Mr Prospector Ambrosine Barada MAX DYNAMITE b g 2010 Konigsstuhl Monsun Mosella MASCARA b 2002 Rudimentary Murnau Bargouzine

Coolmore Nunthorpe Stakes, G1, York, August 21, 5f 1 Mecca's Angel (IRE) 4 gr f Dark Angel (IRE) - Folga (GB) (Atraf (GB)) 2 Acapulco (USA) 2 ch f Scat Daddy (USA) - Global Finance (USA) (End Sweep (USA)) 3 Mattmu (GB) 3 b c Indesatchel (IRE) - Katie Boo (IRE) (Namid) Age: 2-4; Starts: 14; Wins: 8; Places: 5 Earnings: £340,345 Sire: DARK ANGEL. Sire of 24 Stakes winners. In 2015 MECCA'S ANGEL Atraf G1, BIRCHWOOD Exceed And Excel G2, GUTAIFAN Lahib G2, MARKAZ Atraf G3, STORMFLY Lomitas G3, BOOMSHACKERLACKER

Barathea LR, DELIZIA Whipper LR, DIVINE Common Grounds LR, FANCIFUL ANGEL Groom Dancer LR, HEAVEN'S GUEST Tagula LR, PROMISED MONEY Primo Dominie LR, REALTRA Dr Devious LR, SOVEREIGN DEBT Most Welcome LR. 1st Dam: Folga by Atraf. 6 wins at 2 to 4, 2nd EBF Lansdown S LR. Dam of 2 winners: 2011: MECCA'S ANGEL (f Dark Angel) Sold 16,000gns yearling at TAOC2. 8 wins at 2 to 4 at home, France, Coolmore Nunthorpe S G1, Dubai International Airport World Trophy G3, Prix de SaintGeorges G3, John Smith's Original Scarbrough S LR, 2nd Invincible Spirit Sapphire S G2, Shadwell EBF Stallions H.Rosebery S LR, Julia Graves Roses S LR. 2012: MARKAZ (c Dark Angel) 2 wins at 2 and 3, John Sunley Memorial Criterion S G3.

2014: (f Dark Angel) 2015: (f Dark Angel) 2nd Dam: DESERT DAWN by Belfort. 3 wins at 2 and 3 at home, France Prix d'Arenberg G3. Dam of DESERT KAYA (f Bikala: Prix de Lieurey LR), Folga (f Atraf, see above) Broodmare Sire: ATRAF. Sire of the dams of 4 Stakes winners. In 2015 - MECCA'S ANGEL Dark Angel G1, MARKAZ Dark Angel G3.

The Dark Angel/Atraf cross has produced: MECCA'S ANGEL G1, MARKAZ G3.

Royal Applause Acclamation Princess Athena DARK ANGEL gr 2005 Machiavellian Midnight Angel Night At Sea MECCA'S ANGEL gr f 2011 Clantime Atraf Flitteriss Park FOLGA b 2002 Belfort Desert Dawn Cast Pearls

Irish TB Marketing Gimcrack Stakes, G2, York, August 22, 6f 1 Ajaya (GB) 2 b c Invincible Spirit (IRE) - Nessina (USA) (Hennessy (USA)) 2 Ribchester (IRE) 2 b c Iffraaj (GB) - Mujarah (IRE) (Marju) 3 Raucous (GB) 2 b c Dream Ahead (USA) - Shyrl (GB) (Acclamation (GB)) Age: 2; Starts: 5; Wins: 2; Places: 2 Earnings: £155,204 Sire: INVINCIBLE SPIRIT. Sire of 94 Stakes winners. In 2015 SHALAA War Chant G1, TERRITORIES Machiavellian G1, AJAYA Hennessy G2, IMPASSABLE Green Tune G2, MUTHMIR Danehill G2, CABLE BAY Diktat G3, LOCAL TIME Medicean G3, ARCTIC GYR Kris S LR, GRENDISAR Mark of Esteem LR, MR OWEN Theatrical LR, PRETEND Indian Ridge LR, PROFITABLE Indian Ridge LR, RIVELLINO Pivotal LR, THAT IS THE SPIRIT Acatenango LR. 1st Dam: Nessina by Hennessy. unraced. Dam of 1 winner: 2013: AJAYA (c Invincible Spirit) Sold 150,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 2 wins at 2, Irish TB Marketing Gimcrack S G2, 2nd Prix Robert Papin G2.

2014: (c Oasis Dream) 2015: (c Mastercraftsman) 2nd Dam: DIDINA by Nashwan.

5 wins at 2 and 3 at home, USA Dahlia H G2, 3rd Gamely H G1.

Dam of COLONIALISM (c Empire Maker: P. Ilustre Municipalidad de Santiago LR), TANTINA (f Distant View: Oak Tree S LR, JRA London Office's Kyoto Sceptre S LR, 3rd Charlton Hunt Supreme S G3), Trekking (f Gone West: 2nd Santa Barbara H G2).

Grandam of CITYSCAPE, BATED BREATH, CRYING LIGHTENING, Lucky Bridle, Scuffle. Third dam of FAME AND POWER, Suffused.

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international database Broodmare Sire: HENNESSY. Sire of the dams of 43 Stakes winners. In 2015 - AJAYA Invincible Spirit G2, AMBER ORCHID Dubawi G3.

Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier INVINCIBLE SPIRIT b 97 Kris Rafha Eljazzi AJAYA b c 2013 Storm Cat Hennessy Island Kitty NESSINA ch 2008 Nashwan Didina Didicoy

Betfred Strensall Stakes, G3, York, August 22, 8f 110yds 1 Mondialiste (IRE) 5 b c Galileo (IRE) - Occupandiste (IRE) (Kaldoun (FR)) 2 Mutakayyef (GB) 4 ch c Sea The Stars (IRE) - Infallible (GB) (Pivotal (GB)) 3 Basem (GB) 4 b c Pivotal (GB) Gonbarda (GER) (Lando (GER)) Age: 3-5; Starts: 14; Wins: 3; Places: 8 Earnings: £169,318 Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 209 Stakes winners. In 2015 - GLENEAGLES Storm Cat G1, HIGHLAND REEL Danehill G1, AMPERE Sri Pekan G2, BALLYDOYLE Storm Cat G2, CURVY Inchinor G2, SECRET GESTURE Danehill G2, TANBY Danewin G2, WEDDING VOW Danehill Dancer G2, BONDI BEACH Danehill G3, DEAUVILLE Danehill G3, FIELDS OF ATHENRY Danehill G3, FOUND Intikhab G3, KISSED BY ANGELS Danehill Dancer G3, MIZZOU Darshaan G3, MONDIALISTE Kaldoun G3, ORDER OF ST GEORGE Gone West G3, RECORDER Danehill Dancer G3, SERTORIUS Encosta de Lago G3, SILVER GALAXY Pivotal G3, ALOFT Storm Cat LR, BIG BLUE Anabaa LR, EASTER Stravinsky LR, EYE OF THE STORM Shirley Heights LR, FAUFILER Celtic Swing LR, GOSPEL CHOIR Pivotal

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LR, GRETCHEN Danehill LR, KINGFISHER Halling LR, OBSERVATIONAL Cadeaux Genereux LR, OUTSTANDING Mozart LR, TELESCOPE Darshaan LR, THE CORSICAN Danehill LR, WINDSOR PARK Mr Prospector LR.

Saint-Cyr LR, Prix du Pont-Neuf LR, 3rd Prix Imprudence G3), Seulement (g Rahy: 3rd Prix Matchem LR), Onlyman (c Woodman: 2nd Prix Djebel LR).

Grandam of GREEN SWEET, Indian Chief, Rock of Nassau.

Third dam of MENEAS.

1st Dam: OCCUPANDISTE by Kaldoun. Champion older mare in France in 1997. 6 wins at 2 and 4 in France, Prix de la Foret G1, Prix Maurice de Gheest G1.

Dam of 7 winners: 2000: Lui Seul (c Sadler's Wells). unraced, died at 3 years.

2003: IMPRESSIONNANTE (f Danehill) 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix de SandringhamMitsubishi Motors G2, 2nd Poule d'Essai des Pouliches G1, Prix d'Astarte G1. Dam of INTELLO (c Galileo: 6 wins at 2 and 3 at home, France, Prix du Jockey Club G1, 3rd Poule d'Essai des Poulains G1, Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe G1, P. Fresnay le Buffard Jacques Le Marois G1) 2004: ONLY ANSWER (f Green Desert) 5 wins at 3 and 4 in France, Prix de Saint-Georges G3, Prix du Petit Couvert G3.

2006: DESERTISTE (f Green Desert) 2 wins at 3 in France.

Broodmare.

2009: ACTIVISTE (c Giant's Causeway) 4 wins at 2, 4 and 5 in France.

2010: MONDIALISTE (c Galileo) 3 wins at 4 and 5 at home, France, Strensall S G3, Pomfret S LR, 3rd Prix Jean Prat G1, Weatherbys Earl of Sefton S G3, Paradise S LR, Prix Altipan LR. 2011: PLANETAIRE (c Galileo) 2 wins at 3 in France, Prix Pelleas Ecole Blondeau LR, 3rd La Coupe de Maisons-Laffitte G3.

2012: ATTENTIF (c Oasis Dream) Winner at 3 in France.

2013: Spartakiste (c Dansili) unraced to date.

Broodmare Sire: KALDOUN. Sire of the dams of 52 Stakes winners. In 2015 MONDIALISTE Galileo G3, YANG TSE KIANG Kahyasi LR.

2nd Dam: ONLY SEULE by Lyphard. 1 win at 2 in France.

Dam of OCCUPANDISTE (f Kaldoun, see above), ONLY GREEN (f Green Desert: Prix de

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Northern Dancer Sadler's Wells Fairy Bridge GALILEO b 98 Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta MONDIALISTE b c 2010 Caro Kaldoun Katana OCCUPANDISTE b 93 Lyphard Only Seule Elle Seule

TBA Atalanta Stakes, G3, Sandown Park, August 22, 8f 1 Nakuti (IRE) 4 b f Mastercraftsman (IRE) - Sheba Five (USA) (Five Star Day (USA)) 2 Blond Me (IRE) 3 ch f Tamayuz (GB) - Holda (IRE) (Docksider) 3 Black Cherry (GB) 3 b f Mount Nelson (GB) - Arctic Char (GB) (Polar Falcon (USA)) Age: 2-4; Starts: 25; Wins: 4; Places: 9 Earnings: £99,435 Sire: MASTERCRAFTSMAN. Sire of 19 Stakes winners. In 2015 AMAZING MARIA Tale of The Cat G1, IVEAGH GARDENS War Chant G3, MASTER APPRENTICE Hawk Wing G3, NAKUTI Five Star Day G3, THEE AULD FLOOZIE Spinning World G3, UPHAM Gold Brose G3, MAMBOMISS Kingmambo LR, MUTATIS MUTANDIS Darshaan LR, OFF LIMITS Efisio LR, VAGUE

NOUVELLE Mr Greeley LR, INTENSE TANGO Fort Wood LR. 1st Dam: Sheba Five by Five Star Day. Dam of 2 winners: 2011: NAKUTI (f Mastercraftsman) Sold 22,000gns yearling at TAOC2. 4 wins at 3 and 4, TBA Atalanta S G3, Weatherbys VAT Services Pipalong S LR. 2012: BAPAK ASMARA (g Zebedee) 2 wins at 3.

2013: Sou Anguillarina (f Bushranger) unraced to date.

2014: (c Casamento) 2nd Dam: Sheba's Step by Alysheba. unraced. Dam of ARCH REBEL (g Arch: Trigo S LR, Amethyst S LR, Diamond S LR, Alleged S LR, 2nd Prix du Conseil de Paris G2, Durkan New Homes Juvenile Hurdle G2), ON MY DIME (c Mizzen Mast: Cotton Fitzsimmons Mile H LR), Livin for Love (f Tactical Advantage: 2nd Plum Country H, 3rd Central Iowa S LR). Grandam of CUSTOMER BASE, HYPERLINK, LIVINONLOVANADIME, Fast Flying Rumor.

Broodmare Sire: FIVE STAR DAY. Sire of the dams of 1 Stakes winners. In 2015 NAKUTI Mastercraftsman G3.

Danehill Danehill Dancer Mira Adonde MASTERCRAFTSMAN gr/ro 2006 Black Tie Affair Starlight Dreams Reves Celestes NAKUTI b f 2011 Carson City Five Star Day Reggie V SHEBA FIVE b 2006 Alysheba Sheba's Step Pattern Step

888sport Solario Stakes, G3, Sandown Park, August 22, 7f 1 First Selection (SPA) 2 b c Diktat (GB) - Villa Sonata (GB) (Mozart (IRE)) 2 Manaafidh (IRE) 2 b c Zebedee (GB) - Starring (FR) (Ashkalani (IRE))

international database 3 Mr Wizard (GB) 2 b c Major Cadeaux (GB) - Yearbook (GB) (Byron (GB)) Age: 2; Starts: 5; Wins: 4; Places: 0 Earnings: £60,491 Sire: DIKTAT. Sire of 26 Stakes winners. In 2015 - FIRST SELECTION Mozart G3.

1st Dam: VILLA SONATA by Mozart. Winner at 3. Dam of 4 winners: 2008: TOUT A COEUR (f Silent Times) 5 wins at 2 to 4 in France, Spain.

2009: POMPOM COEUR (f Green Tune) 2 wins at 3 in Spain.

2010: SERGI SWING (c Keltos) 2 wins at 3 in Spain.

2011: Kaleria (f Keltos) unraced.

2012: Thabazinbi (c Delfos) in training.

2013: FIRST SELECTION (c Diktat) Sold 18,253gns yearling at DDMSP. 4 wins at 2, 888sport Solario S G3.

Longines Prix du Calvados, G3, Deauville, August 22, 1400m 1 Great Page (IRE) 2 b f Roderic O'Connor (IRE) - Areeda (IRE) (Refuse To Bend (IRE)) 2 Marenko (GB) 2 b f Exceed And Excel (AUS) - Safina (GB) (Pivotal (GB)) 3 Katie's Diamond (FR) 2 b f Turtle Bowl (IRE) - Aaliyah (GER) (Anabaa (USA))

1 Moviesta (USA) 5 b g Hard Spun (USA) - Miss Brickyard (USA) (A P Indy (USA)) 2 Toscanini (IRE) 3 b c Shamardal (USA) - Tuzla (FR) (Panoramic) 3 Gordon Lord Byron (IRE) 7 b g Byron (GB) - Boa Estrela (IRE) (Intikhab (USA))

Age: 2; Starts: 7; Wins: 3; Places: 3 Earnings: £86,001

Age: 2-5; Starts: 21; Wins: 4; Places: 8 Earnings: £183,244

Sire: RODERIC O'CONNOR. Sire of 1 Stakes winners. In 2015 GREAT PAGE Refuse To Bend G3.

Sire: HARD SPUN. Sire of 37 Stakes winners. In 2015 ERTIJAAL Jeune G1, HARD ACES Quiet American G1, HARD NOT TO LIKE Tactical Cat G1, BIG JOHN B Doneraile Court G2, SAN NICASIO Snippets G2, TARQUIN Rahy G2, ISLAND TOWN Distorted Humor G3, MAFTOOL Mr Greeley G3, MOVIESTA A P Indy G3.

1st Dam: AREEDA by Refuse To Bend. Winner at 3. Dam of 1 winner: 2011: Exceed Areeda (f Exceed And Excel) 2013: GREAT PAGE (f Roderic O'Connor) Sold 27,777gns yearling at TISEP. 3 wins at 2 at home, France, Longines Prix du Calvados G3, Coolmore Stud EBF Naas Juv.Sprint S LR, 2nd Princess Margaret S G3.

2nd Dam: VILLA CARLOTTA by Rainbow Quest. 4 wins at 3 and 4 at home, Italy EBF Blue Wind S LR, Premio Giovanni Falck LR. Dam of CEILIDH HOUSE (f Selkirk: totesport.com EBF Gillies S LR), Bothy (g Pivotal: 2nd Totesport Trophy H. Hurdle G3, Greatwood H. Hurdle G3, Coral Cup H. Hurdle G3, 3rd Fighting Fifth Hurdle G1)

2nd Dam: Raindancing by Tirol.

1 win at 2, 3rd Princess Margaret S G3. Own sister to Mountain Song. Dam of Jack Spratt (c So Factual: 2nd Criterium de Vitesse LR)

Broodmare Sire: MOZART. Sire of the dams of 5 Stakes winners. In 2015 - FIRST SELECTION Diktat G3, LA VACANZA Aussie Rules LR, OUTSTANDING Galileo LR.

Broodmare Sire: REFUSE TO BEND. Sire of the dams of 2 Stakes winners. In 2015 - GREAT PAGE Roderic O'Connor G3, DUSKY QUEEN Shamardal LR.

Known Fact Warning Slightly Dangerous DIKTAT br 95 Sadler's Wells Arvola Park Appeal FIRST SELECTION b c 2013 Danehill Mozart Victoria Cross VILLA SONATA b 2003 Rainbow Quest Villa Carlotta Subya

Gerrardstown Stud Renaissance Stakes, G3, Curragh, August 22, 6f

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Sadler's Wells

Urban Sea RODERIC O'CONNOR b 2008 Danehill Secret Garden Chalamont GREAT PAGE b f 2013 Sadler's Wells Refuse To Bend Market Slide AREEDA b 2007 Tirol Raindancing Persian Song

1st Dam: MISS BRICKYARD by A P Indy. Winner at 4 in USA. Dam of 5 winners: 2004: War Baby (f Belong To Me) ran on the flat in USA. 2005: Brickyard Gal (f Proud Citizen) ran on the flat in USA. Broodmare.

2006: Ayrus (c Dixie Union) 2007: BRICKLAYER (c El Corredor) Winner at 2 in USA. 2008: GOODTIMEHADBYALL (g Quiet American) 10 wins at 2 to 6, 2014 in USA. 2009: SEA BUTTERFLY (c Henny Hughes) Winner in Malaysia.

2010: MOVIESTA (g Hard Spun) 4 wins at 2 and 3, Betfred King George S G2, Gerrardstown Stud Renaissance S G3, 3rd Qnb Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp G1, Betfred King George S G2, Invincible Spirit Sapphire S G2.

2012: Liatris (f Warrior's Reward) Winner at 2 in USA, 2nd Astoria S. 2014: Danica (f Warrior's Reward)

2nd Dam: MAGICAL MAIDEN by Lord Avie. 8 wins at 2 to 5 in USA Hollywood Starlet S G1, Las Virgenes S G1, 2nd Santa Anita Oaks G1, 3rd Breeders' Cup Distaff G1. Dam of MISS HOUDINI (f Belong To Me: Del Mar Debutante S G1). Grandam of PAPA CLEM, Jomelo, Magical Victory.

Broodmare Sire: A P INDY. Sire of the dams of 106 Stakes winners. In 2015 - DRAMEDY Distorted Humor G2, IMAGINING Giant's Causeway G2, IRONICUS Distorted Humor G2, MORENO Ghostzapper G2, PROTONICO Giant's Causeway G2, TIZ SHEA D Tiznow G2, FAR FROM OVER Blame G3, KEIAI ELEGANT King Kamehameha G3, MOVIESTA Hard Spun G3, A P INDIAN Indian Charlie LR, CALGARY CAT Cowtown Cat LR, CARVE First Samurai LR, CHECKERED PAST Smart Strike LR, NORTH SLOPE Elusive Quality LR, PICAHIELO After Market LR, ROYAL SON Tiznow LR. The Hard Spun/A P Indy cross has produced: MOVIESTA G1, NOW SPUN LR. Danzig

Northern Dancer

Pas de Nom HARD SPUN b 2004 Turkoman Turkish Tryst Darbyvail MOVIESTA b g 2010 Seattle Slew A P Indy Weekend Surprise MISS BRICKYARD b/br 98 Lord Avie Magical Maiden Gils Magic

Curragh Stakes, G3, Curragh, August 22, 5f 1 Bear Cheek (IRE) 2 b f Kodiac (GB) - See Nuala (IRE) (Kyllachy) 2 Independence Day (IRE) 2 b c Dansili (GB) - Damson (IRE) (Entrepreneur (GB)) 3 Blood Moon (GB) 2 b g Equiano (FR) - First Eclipse (IRE) (Fayruz)

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3 Most Beautiful (GB) 2 b f Canford Cliffs (IRE) - Saphira's Fire (IRE) (Cape Cross (IRE))

Sire: KODIAC. Sire of 19 Stakes winners. In 2015 - ADAAY Royal Applause G2, BESHARAH Dixie Union G2, BEAR CHEEK Kyllachy G3, KODI BEAR Mujtahid G3, SPIRIT OF XIAN Touch Gold G3, AZZECCAGARBUGLI Desert Style LR, COULSTY In The Wings LR, WHATDOIWANTTHATFOR Hernando LR.

Age: 2; Starts: 3; Wins: 1; Places: 2 Earnings: £19,881

1st Dam: SEE NUALA by Kyllachy. Winner at 3. Dam of 1 winner: 2009: No Title (f Chineur) unraced.

2010: (f Baltic King) 2011: Kuala Queen (f Kodiac) 2013: BEAR CHEEK (f Kodiac) 2 wins at 2, Curragh S G3.

2014: (f Sir Prancealot) 2nd Dam: Rose Vibert by Caerleon. unraced. Dam of ASPECTOFLOVE (f Danetime: Bab al Shams Cape Verdi S G2) Broodmare Sire: KYLLACHY. Sire of the dams of 7 Stakes winners.

In 2015 - PAINTED CLIFFS Canford Cliffs G2, BEAR CHEEK Kodiac G3.

Danzig Danehill Razyana KODIAC b 2001 Kris Rafha Eljazzi BEAR CHEEK b f 2013 Pivotal Kyllachy Pretty Poppy SEE NUALA br/b 2004 Caerleon Rose Vibert Premier Rose

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Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 209 Stakes winners. In 2015 - GLENEAGLES Storm Cat G1, HIGHLAND REEL Danehill G1, AMPERE Sri Pekan G2, BALLYDOYLE Storm Cat G2, CURVY Inchinor G2, SECRET GESTURE Danehill G2, TANBY Danewin G2, WEDDING VOW Danehill Dancer G2, BONDI BEACH Danehill G3, DEAUVILLE Danehill G3, FIELDS OF ATHENRY Danehill G3, FOUND Intikhab G3, KISSED BY ANGELS Danehill Dancer G3, MIZZOU Darshaan G3, MONDIALISTE Kaldoun G3, ORDER OF ST GEORGE Gone West G3, RECORDER Danehill Dancer G3, SERTORIUS Encosta de Lago G3, SILVER GALAXY Pivotal G3, ALOFT Storm Cat LR, BIG BLUE Anabaa LR, EASTER Stravinsky LR, EYE OF THE STORM Shirley Heights LR, FAUFILER Celtic Swing LR, GOSPEL CHOIR Pivotal LR, GRETCHEN Danehill LR, KINGFISHER Halling LR, OBSERVATIONAL Cadeaux Genereux LR, OUTSTANDING Mozart LR, TELESCOPE Darshaan LR, THE CORSICAN Danehill LR, WINDSOR PARK Mr Prospector LR. 1st Dam: Butterfly Cove by Storm Cat. unraced. Own sister to KAMARINSKAYA. Dam of 5 winners: 2005: Showcall (f Kingmambo) ran once. Broodmare.

2006: Pedasus (g Fusaichi Pegasus) 2007: COME TOUCH THE SUN (f Fusaichi Pegasus) Winner at 3 in USA. Broodmare.

2008: MISTY FOR ME (f Galileo) Champion 2yo filly in Ireland and France, Champion 3yr old filly in Ireland in 2011. 5 wins at 2 and 3 at home, France, Irish 1000 Gns G1, Moyglare Stud S G1, Pretty

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Polly S G1, Prix Marcel Boussac G1, 3rd Matron S G1, Breeders' Cup F&M Turf G1. Broodmare.

2009: TWIRL (f Galileo) 2 wins at 2 and 3, Irish Stal.FarmsEBF Hurry Harriet S LR, 2nd Tattersalls Musidora S G3, Lodge Park EBF Park Express S G3.

2010: Could It Be (f Galileo) unraced. Broodmare.

2011: ALEXANOR (c Pivotal) 2 wins at 3 and 4 in Italy.

2013: BALLYDOYLE (f Galileo) 1 win at 2, Debutante S G2, 2nd Chesham S LR. 2014: (c Galileo) 2nd Dam: Mr P's Princess by Mr Prospector. unraced. Own sister to Excavate. Dam of FASLIYEV (c Nureyev: Phoenix S G1, Prix Morny G1), KAMARINSKAYA (f Storm Cat: 1000 Guineas Trial S G3), Maderno (g Nureyev: 3rd Lane's End Greenham S G3) Broodmare Sire: STORM CAT. Sire of the dams of 178 Stakes winners. In 2015 - GLENEAGLES Galileo G1, HONOR CODE A P Indy G1, SHARED BELIEF Candy Ride G1, BALLYDOYLE Galileo G2, DIVERSY HARBOR Curlin G2, LACHESIS Deep Impact G2, A SHIN HIKARI Deep Impact G3, CAT COIN Stay Gold G3, REAL STEEL Deep Impact G3, ALOFT Galileo LR, DANON LEGEND Macho Uno LR, DIVIDED ATTENTION A P Indy LR, MR Z Malibu Moon LR, CORNHUSKER Dynaformer LR. The Galileo/Storm Cat cross has produced: ALOFT G1, GLENEAGLES G1, MARVELLOUS G1, MISTY FOR ME G1, BALLYDOYLE G2, GLOBAL VIEW G2, TWIRL G3.

Northern Dancer Sadler's Wells Fairy Bridge GALILEO b 98 Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta BALLYDOYLE b f 2013 Storm Bird Storm Cat Terlingua BUTTERFLY COVE b/br 2001 Mr Prospector Mr P's Princess Anne Campbell

Darley Prix Morny, G1, Deauville, August 23, 1200m 1 Shalaa (IRE) 2 b c Invincible Spirit (IRE) - Ghurra (USA) (War Chant (USA)) 2 Gutaifan (IRE) 2 gr c Dark Angel (IRE) - Alikhlas (GB) (Lahib (USA)) 3 Tourny (FR) 2 b f Country Reel (USA) - Maka (FR) (Slickly (FR)) Age: 2; Starts: 5; Wins: 4; Places: 0 Earnings: £318,347 Sire: INVINCIBLE SPIRIT. Sire of 94 Stakes winners. In 2015 SHALAA War Chant G1, TERRITORIES Machiavellian G1, AJAYA Hennessy G2, IMPASSABLE Green Tune G2, MUTHMIR Danehill G2, CABLE BAY Diktat G3, LOCAL TIME Medicean G3, ARCTIC GYR Kris S LR, GRENDISAR Mark of Esteem LR, MR OWEN Theatrical LR, PRETEND Indian Ridge LR, PROFITABLE Indian Ridge LR, RIVELLINO Pivotal LR, THAT IS THE SPIRIT Acatenango LR. 1st Dam: Ghurra by War Chant.

3 wins, 3rd Wilshire H G3. Own sister to Zifzaf. Dam of 3 winners: 2009: Nepali Princess (f Mr Greeley) unraced. Broodmare.

2010: PEARL CASTLE (g Montjeu) 5 wins.

2011: Dai Bando (g Montjeu) Winner over hurdles at 3, 2nd Bar One Racing Juv. Hurdle G3.

2012: Go White Lightning (f Lord Shanakill) 2013: SHALAA (c Invincible Spirit) Sold 170,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 4 wins at 2 at home, France, Prix Morny G1, Arqana July S G2, Richmond S G2.

2015: (f High Chaparral) 2nd Dam: Futuh by Diesis. 1 win at 2, 2nd Doncaster S LR. Dam of HAYIL (c Dayjur: Middle Park S G1), Tamhid (c Gulch: 2nd Strensall S LR, 2nd Bernard Baruch H G2), Ghurra (f War Chant, see above), Zifzaf (g War Chant: 3rd Fourstardave H G2),

international database Ebraam (g Red Ransom: 2nd Betdaq Golden Rose S LR), Elnahaar (c Silver Hawk: 3rd Feilden S LR), Farqad (c Danzig: 3rd On The House S LR).

Grandam of Poetical. Third dam of DRAGON PULSE. Fourth dam of MIND OF MADNESS. Broodmare Sire: WAR CHANT. Sire of the dams of 6 Stakes winners. In 2015 - SHALAA Invincible Spirit G1, IVEAGH GARDENS Mastercraftsman G3.

The Invincible Spirit/War Chant cross has produced: SHALAA G1, Ballymore Castle LR. Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier INVINCIBLE SPIRIT b 97 Kris Rafha Eljazzi SHALAA b c 2013 Danzig War Chant Hollywood Wildcat GHURRA b 2002 Diesis Futuh Hardship

Darley Prix Kergorlay, G2, Deauville, August 23, 3000m 1 Alex My Boy (IRE) 4 b c Dalakhani (IRE) - Alexandrova (IRE) (Sadler's Wells (USA)) 2 Oriental Fox (GER) 7 ch g Lomitas (GB) - Oriental Pearl (GER) (Big Shuffle (USA)) 3 Walzertakt (GER) 6 b c Montjeu (IRE) - Walzerkoenigin (USA) (Kingmambo (USA)) Age: 2-4; Starts: 12; Wins: 5; Places: 4 Earnings: £147,061 Sire: DALAKHANI. Sire of 46 Stakes winners. In 2015 SECOND STEP Sadler's Wells G1, ALEX MY BOY Sadler's Wells G2, GUARDINI Dynaformer G2, CANDARLIYA Barathea G3, AYRAD Sadler's Wells LR. 1st Dam: ALEXANDROVA by Sadler's Wells. Champion 3yr old filly in England & Ireland in

2006, Jt Champion 3yr old filly in Europe in 2006. 4 wins at 2 and 3, Darley Irish Oaks G1, Vodafone Oaks S G1, Darley Yorkshire Oaks G1, 2nd Meon Valley Stud Fillies' Mile S G1, 3rd Prix de l'Opera Casino Barriere Enghien G1. Own sister to Masterofthehorse. Dam of 2 winners: 2009: Drops (f Kingmambo).

Broodmare.

2010: BELLA QATARA (f Dansili) Winner at 3 in France.

2011: ALEX MY BOY (c Dalakhani) Sold 59,523gns yearling at ARAUG. 5 wins at 3 and 4 at home, France, Darley Prix Kergorlay G2, Prix de Barbeville G3, 2nd Absolute March S LR, Prix Right Royal LR. 2012: Fonteyn (f Oasis Dream). unraced to date, died at 2 years.

2013: Somehow (f Fastnet Rock) unraced to date.

2nd Dam: SHOUK by Shirley Heights. 1 win at 3. Dam of ALEXANDROVA (f Sadler's Wells, see above), MAGICAL ROMANCE (f Barathea: Sky Bet Cheveley Park S G1), Washington Irving (g Montjeu: 2nd Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial S G2), Saree (f Barathea: 2nd Natalma S G3), Masterofthehorse (c Sadler's Wells: 2nd Virgin Money Chester Vase G3, 3rd Investec Derby S G1). Grandam of TALL SHIP, Prince Khurram.

Broodmare Sire: SADLER'S WELLS. Sire of the dams of 367 Stakes winners. In 2015 BLAZING SPEED Dylan Thomas G1, DIAMONDSANDRUBIES Fastnet Rock G1, GUST OF WIND Darci Brahma G1, SECOND STEP Dalakhani G1, ALEX MY BOY Dalakhani G2, BAWINA Dubawi G2, KARPINO Cape Cross G2, STORM THE STARS Sea The Stars G2, BEAUTY PARLOR Elusive Quality G3, EH CUMPARI Elusive Quality G3, SIMPLE VERSE Duke of Marmalade G3, AYRAD Dalakhani LR, CIELO CANARIAS Exceed And Excel LR,

ORANGE SUN Duke of Marmalade LR, PECK Pivotal LR, SIXTH SENSE Shamardal LR, TACTICUS A P Indy LR, VAL D'HIVER Zafeen LR, VICTORY SONG Dansili LR, ZAWRAQ Shamardal LR, CHARBEL Iffraaj LR, STAND TO GAIN Hawk Wing LR, TOP GAMBLE Presenting LR. The Dalakhani/Sadler's Wells cross has produced: CHINESE WHITE G1, CONDUIT G1, RELIABLE MAN G1, SECOND STEP G1, ALEX MY BOY G2, DEEM G3, SHREYAS G3, YAHRAB G3, AKLAN LR, AYRAD LR, MIREILLE LR, KADABI LR, Little White Cloud G2, Highly Toxic G3, Murmansk G3, Unwritten Rule G3, Oranais LR, Greatness LR, Streets of Newyork LR. Shirley Heights Darshaan Delsy DALAKHANI gr 2000 Miswaki Daltawa Damana ALEX MY BOY b c 2011 Northern Dancer Sadler's Wells Fairy Bridge ALEXANDROVA b 2003 Shirley Heights Shouk Souk

Darley Prix Jean Romanet, G1, Deauville, August 23, 2000m 1 Odeliz (IRE) 5 ch f Falco (USA) Acatama (USA) (Efisio) 2 Bawina (IRE) 4 b f Dubawi (IRE) - Esneh (IRE) (Sadler's Wells) 3 Avenir Certain (FR) 4 b f Le Havre (IRE) - Puggy (IRE) (Mark of Esteem (IRE)) Age: 3-5; Starts: 21; Wins: 5; Places: 14 Earnings: £330,723 Sire: FALCO. Sire of 6 Stakes winners. In 2015 - ODELIZ Efisio G1, FALCONET Woodman LR, PEACE AND CO Linamix LR. 1st Dam: Acatama by Efisio. unraced. Dam of 4 winners:

2009: CHARITABLE ACT (g Cadeaux Genereux) 3 wins at 2 to 4.

2010: ODELIZ (f Falco) Sold 18,062gns yearling at AROCT. 5 wins at 3 and 5 at home, France, Germany, Prix Jean Romanet G1, F.G.G. Gedachtnisrennen Hamburger Meile G3, Prix de Liancourt LR, 2nd E P Taylor S G1, Atalanta S G3, Princess Elizabeth S G3, Park Express S G3, 3rd Middleton S G2, Princess Elizabeth S G3, D. C. Lavarack & Lanwades Stud S G3, P. d'Automne LR. 2011: TRIPTYKA (f Mastercraftsman) Winner at 3 in France.

2012: ACASTER MALBIS (c Arcano) Winner at 3.

2013: Prince Admiral (c Zanzibari) unraced to date.

2014: (f Siyouni) 2nd Dam: TANZANIA by Alzao. 2 wins at 3. Dam of AMORAMA (f Sri Pekan: Del Mar Oaks G1, John C Mabee H G1, 3rd Gamely Breeders' Cup H G1), UNCOILED (c Giant's Causeway: Shirafuji S LR, 2nd Kyoto Daishoten G2), TABLE RONDE (f Astronomer Royal: Prix Volterra LR, 2nd Prix de Lieurey G3), Milwaukee (f Desert King: 3rd Prix Belle de Nuit LR), SHANGANI (g Giant's Causeway: Greatwood Gold Cup H Chase G3). Grandam of AMPERE, TUNKWA. Broodmare Sire: EFISIO. Sire of the dams of 38 Stakes winners.

In 2015 - ODELIZ Falco G1, REALITY BITES Silent Times G1, OFF LIMITS Mastercraftsman LR, VIOLET DANCER Bertolini LR. Pivotal

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Fearless Revival FALCO b 2005 Unbridled Icelips Sea Hill ODELIZ ch f 2010 Formidable Efisio Eldoret ACATAMA b/br 2005 Alzao Tanzania Triple Couronne

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international database Kilfrush Stud Royal Whip Stakes, G3, Curragh, August 23, 10f 1 Found (IRE) 3 b f Galileo (IRE) Red Evie (IRE) (Intikhab (USA)) 2 Answered (GB) 4 b c Authorized (IRE) - Dublino (USA) (Lear Fan (USA)) 3 Highly Toxic (IRE) 4 gr g Dalakhani (IRE) - Chiang Mai (IRE) (Sadler's Wells (USA)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 7; Wins: 3; Places: 4 Earnings: £349,965 Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 209 Stakes winners. In 2015 - GLENEAGLES Storm Cat G1, HIGHLAND REEL Danehill G1, AMPERE Sri Pekan G2, BALLYDOYLE Storm Cat G2, CURVY Inchinor G2, SECRET GESTURE Danehill G2, TANBY Danewin G2, WEDDING VOW Danehill Dancer G2, BONDI BEACH Danehill G3, DEAUVILLE Danehill G3, FIELDS OF ATHENRY Danehill G3, FOUND Intikhab G3, KISSED BY ANGELS Danehill Dancer G3, MIZZOU Darshaan G3, MONDIALISTE Kaldoun G3, ORDER OF ST GEORGE Gone West G3, RECORDER Danehill Dancer G3, SERTORIUS Encosta de Lago G3, SILVER GALAXY Pivotal G3, ALOFT Storm Cat LR, BIG BLUE Anabaa LR, EASTER Stravinsky LR, EYE OF THE STORM Shirley Heights LR, FAUFILER Celtic Swing LR, GOSPEL CHOIR Pivotal LR, GRETCHEN Danehill LR, KINGFISHER Halling LR, OBSERVATIONAL Cadeaux Genereux LR, OUTSTANDING Mozart LR, TELESCOPE Darshaan LR, THE CORSICAN Danehill LR, WINDSOR PARK Mr Prospector LR. 1st Dam: RED EVIE by Intikhab.

9 wins at 3 and 4, Juddmonte Lockinge S G1, Coolmore Fusaichi Pegasus Matron S G1, 2nd Coolmore Fusaichi Pegasus Matron S G1. Dam of 3 winners: 2009: Red Corvette (f Galileo) unraced.

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2010: MAGICAL DREAM (f Galileo) 2 wins at 2, Park S G3, 3rd Stud Blandford S G2.

2011: INIESTA (c Galileo) Winner at 2.

2012: FOUND (f Galileo) Champion 2yr old filly in Ireland and France in 2014, Jt Champion 2yr old filly in Europe in 2014. 3 wins at 2 and 3 at home, France, Prix Marcel Boussac G1, Royal Whip S G3, 2nd Coronation S G1, Tattersalls Irish 1000 Guineas G1, Athasi S G3, 3rd Moyglare Stud S G1.

2013: Best In The World (f Galileo) unraced to date.

2nd Dam: MALAFEMMENA by Nordico. 1 win at 2 in Italy Premio Vittorio Crespi LR, 3rd Prix du Calvados G3. Dam of RED EVIE (f Intikhab, see above) Broodmare Sire: INTIKHAB. Sire of the dams of 11 Stakes winners. In 2015 - SATONO RASEN Deep Impact G2, FOUND Galileo G3, EMPEROR'S BANQUET Holy Roman Emperor LR, GORDON LORD BYRON Byron LR. The Galileo/Intikhab cross has produced: FOUND G1, IGUGU G1, MAGICAL DREAM G2.

Northern Dancer Sadler's Wells Fairy Bridge GALILEO b 98 Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta FOUND b f 2012 Red Ransom Intikhab Crafty Example RED EVIE b 2003 Nordico Malafemmena Martinova

Galileo EBF Futurity Stakes, G2, Curragh, August 23, 7f 1 Herald The Dawn (IRE) 2 b c New Approach (IRE) - Hymn of The Dawn (USA) (Phone Trick) 2 Now Or Never (IRE) 2 b f Bushranger (IRE) Queenofthefairies (GB) (Pivotal (GB))

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3 Shogun (IRE) 2 b c Fastnet Rock (AUS) - Perihelion (IRE) (Galileo (IRE)) Age: 2; Starts: 3; Wins: 2; Places: 1 Earnings: £70,678 Sire: NEW APPROACH. Sire of 19 Stakes winners. In 2015 HERALD THE DAWN Phone Trick G2, CEISTEACH Noverre G3, ELLIPTIQUE Kendor G3, CONNECTICUT Slip Anchor LR, THA'IR Green Desert LR, WALDNAH Mark of Esteem LR. 1st Dam: Hymn of The Dawn by Phone Trick. Dam of 3 winners: 2004: Fainne (f Peintre Celebre).

Dam of Sanus Per Aquam (c Teofilo: 2 wins at 2, 2nd Japanese Racing Association Tyros S G3), Morning Mix (g Teofilo: Winner at 3, 2nd King George V Cup Nijinsky S LR) 2005: (c Lil's Boy) 2006: COMADOIR (g Medecis) 3 wins at 3 and 6.

2007: Wake Me Up (f Rock of Gibraltar) ran. Broodmare.

2010: DAWN APPROACH (c New Approach) Champion 2yr old in Europe in 2012. 8 wins at 2 and 3, Dubai Dewhurst S G1, Goffs Vincent O'Brien National S G1, St James's Palace S G1, Qipco 2000 Guineas G1, 2nd Qipco Sussex S G1. Sire.

2011: Prudent Approach (f New Approach) ran twice.

2012: Invocation (g Vocalised) unraced to date.

2013: HERALD THE DAWN (c New Approach) 2 wins at 2, Galileo EBF Futurity S G2.

2014: (f New Approach) 2nd Dam: Colonial Debut by Pleasant Colony. Dam of Galantas (c Tale of The Cat: 2nd Galileo EBF Futurity G2, 2nd Sea O Erin H LR, 3rd Woodbine Mile S G1) Broodmare Sire: PHONE TRICK. Sire of the dams of 47 Stakes winners. In 2015 - HERALD THE

DAWN New Approach G2, LINE OF REASON Kheleyf LR. The New Approach/Phone Trick cross has produced: DAWN APPROACH G1, HERALD THE DAWN G2.

Galileo

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Urban Sea NEW APPROACH ch 2005 Ahonoora Park Express Matcher HERALD THE DAWN b c 2013 Clever Trick Phone Trick Over The Phone HYMN OF THE DAWN b 99 Pleasant Colony Colonial Debut Kittihawk Miss

Ballycullen Palmerstown St Leger Trial, G3, Curragh, August 23, 14f 1 Order of St George (IRE) 3 b c Galileo (IRE) - Another Storm (USA) (Gone West (USA)) 2 Sea Moon (GB) 7 b c Beat Hollow (GB) - Eva Luna (USA) (Alleged (USA)) 3 Kingfisher (IRE) 4 b c Galileo (IRE) - Mystical Lady (IRE) (Halling (USA)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 8; Wins: 3; Places: 4 Earnings: £69,850 Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 209 Stakes winners. In 2015 - GLENEAGLES Storm Cat G1, HIGHLAND REEL Danehill G1, AMPERE Sri Pekan G2, BALLYDOYLE Storm Cat G2, CURVY Inchinor G2, SECRET GESTURE Danehill G2, TANBY Danewin G2, WEDDING VOW Danehill Dancer G2, BONDI BEACH Danehill G3, DEAUVILLE Danehill G3, FIELDS OF ATHENRY Danehill G3, FOUND Intikhab G3, KISSED BY ANGELS Danehill Dancer G3, MIZZOU Darshaan G3, MONDIALISTE Kaldoun G3, ORDER OF ST GEORGE Gone West G3, RECORDER Danehill Dancer G3, SERTORIUS Encosta de Lago G3, SILVER GALAXY Pivotal G3, ALOFT Storm Cat LR, BIG BLUE

international database Anabaa LR, EASTER Stravinsky LR, EYE OF THE STORM Shirley Heights LR, FAUFILER Celtic Swing LR, GOSPEL CHOIR Pivotal LR, GRETCHEN Danehill LR, KINGFISHER Halling LR, OBSERVATIONAL Cadeaux Genereux LR, OUTSTANDING Mozart LR, TELESCOPE Darshaan LR, THE CORSICAN Danehill LR, WINDSOR PARK Mr Prospector LR. 1st Dam: ANOTHER STORM by Gone West. Winner at 2 in USA. Dam of 5 winners: 2004: ASPERITY (c War Chant) 7 wins at home, France, USA, Prix Paul de Moussac G3.

2005: Stormy View (f Cozzene).

Broodmare.

2006: SEHOY (c Menifee) 9 wins at 3 to 5 at home, Sweden, Sk. Faltrittklubbens Jubileumslopning LR. 2007: KITTY LOVE (f Kitten's Joy) 2 wins at 3 in USA. Broodmare.

2009: ANGEL TERRACE (f Ghostzapper) 4 wins at 3 and 5 in USA, Pin Oak Valley View S G3.

2010: Our Smile (f Medaglia d'Oro) unraced.

2012: ORDER OF ST GEORGE (c Galileo) Sold 321,355gns yearling at KESEP. 3 wins at 2 and 3, Ballycullen Palmerstown St Leger Trial G3, 2nd At The Races Curragh Cup G3, thetote.com Eyrefield S LR. 2013: Kellstorm (c Galileo) unraced to date.

2014: (f Holy Roman Emperor) 2015: (c Declaration of War) 2nd Dam: STORM SONG by Summer Squall. Champion 2yr old filly in U.S.A. in 1996. 4 wins at 2 in USA Frizette S G1, Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies G1, 2nd Matron S G1, 3rd Ashland S G1, Kentucky Oaks G1. Dam of Balladry (c Unbridled's Song: 2nd San Fernando S G2), Piano Concerto (g Red Ransom: 3rd Ch'ship Open NH Flat Race LR).

Grandam of MIDSUMMER FAIR, BETTER LIFE.

Broodmare Sire: GONE WEST. Sire of the dams of 110 Stakes winners. In 2015 - AFRICAN STORY Pivotal G1, WALTZING MATILDA Danehill Dancer G2, MEXICAN GOLD Medaglia d'Oro G3, ORDER OF ST GEORGE Galileo G3.

The Galileo/Gone West cross has produced: ORDER OF ST GEORGE G3, Amazing Beauty G3.

Northern Dancer Sadler's Wells Fairy Bridge GALILEO b 98 Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta ORDER OF ST GEORGE b c 2012 Mr Prospector Gone West Secrettame ANOTHER STORM b 99 Summer Squall Storm Song Hum Along

Coolmore Stud Fairy Bridge Stakes, G3, Tipperary, August 27, 7f 1 Tested (GB) 4 b f Selkirk (USA) - Prove (GB) (Danehill (USA)) 2 Military Angel (USA) 3 b f Big Brown (USA) - Hannabarbera (FR) (Darshaan) 3 Calypso Beat (USA) 3 b f Speightstown (USA) - African Skies (GB) (Johannesburg (USA)) Age: 2-4; Starts: 10; Wins: 5; Places: 3 Earnings: £136,594 Sire: SELKIRK. Sire of 97 Stakes winners. In 2015 - TESTED Danehill G3, MASSINGA Dalakhani LR. 1st Dam: PROVE by Danehill. 4 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix Chloe G3. Own sister to VORTEX and DANEFAIR. Dam of 4 winners: 2003: Evidential (f Sadler's Wells) ran once. Broodmare.

2004: Designed (f Zamindar) unraced. Broodmare.

2005: Track Record (g Montjeu) 2 wins at 3 in France, 3rd Prix Ridgway LR.

2007: TRAJECTORY (c Dubai Destination) 2 wins at 3 and 5 in Bahrain, France.

2008: Malinowski (c Montjeu) unraced.

2009: Incriminate (g Selkirk) ran once in a N.H. Flat Race.

2010: SUBSTANTIATE (c Singspiel) 6 wins at 3 to 5 in Qatar.

2011: TESTED (f Selkirk) 5 wins at 2 to 4, Coolmore Stud Fairy Bridge S G3 (twice), Owenstown Stud Whitehead Mem. S LR, 2nd Ballycorus S G3, Arthur Guinness EBF Corrib S LR (twice) 2012: New Agenda (c New Approach) 2013: Brevet (c Zamindar) in training.

2014: (f Nathaniel) 2015: (f New Approach) 2nd Dam: ROUPALA by Vaguely Noble. 1 win at 3. Dam of VORTEX (g Danehill: Haven/British Holidays Criterion S G3), PROVE (f Danehill, see above), DANEFAIR (f Danehill: Prix Minerve G3), ERUDITE (f Generous: Prix Joubert LR, 2nd Prix Royal Oak G1), Estala (f Be My Guest: 2nd Prix Isola Bella LR). Grandam of VENTURA, TRADE FAIR, SILVER TOUCH, RICH COAST, MIRROR LAKE, VILLAGE FETE, Readings, Hills of Aran, Talarive. Third dam of HARLEM, BE READY, Mac Row, Kings Fete. Fourth dam of SINGLE SPICE. Broodmare Sire: DANEHILL. Sire of the dams of 298 Stakes winners. In 2015 - COSMIC ENDEAVOUR Northern Meteor G1, FREE EAGLE High Chaparral G1, HALLOWED CROWN Street Sense G1, HIGHLAND REEL Galileo G1, PRIDE OF DUBAI Street Cry G1, VANCOUVER Medaglia d'Oro G1, CUSTOM CUT Notnowcato G2, MUTHMIR Invincible Spirit G2, SECRET GESTURE Galileo G2, BERLING Montjeu G3, BONDI BEACH Galileo G3, DEAUVILLE Galileo G3, EL VALLE Dobby Road G3, FIELDS OF ATHENRY Galileo G3,

FORGOTTEN RULES Nayef G3, KOKORONO AI Stay Gold G3, MAJESTIC QUEEN Kheleyf G3, MR SINGH High Chaparral G3, PASSING SHOT Swiss Ace G3, SCRATCHY BOTTOM Sebring G3, SOLICIT Street Cry G3, TESTED Selkirk G3, FALINO Fusaichi Pegasus LR, FEDERAL Medaglia d'Oro LR, GOOD BABY Hussonet LR, GRETCHEN Galileo LR, KNIGHT'S COMMAND Pins LR, LANDLOCKED Zabeel LR, LET'S MAKE ADEAL Red Ransom LR, NAYELI More Than Ready LR, RACING EIGHT Mossman LR, THE CORSICAN Galileo LR, TOMBELAINE First Defence LR, TOWER OF LONHRO Lonhro LR, WOODWIN W More Than Ready LR, BELTOR Authorized LR, NANDO Hernando LR, RED KINGDOM Deep Impact LR. The Selkirk/Danehill cross has produced: ETENDARD INDIEN G3, TESTED G3, Zetto Kirk LR, Pasco LR. Atan Sharpen Up Rocchetta SELKIRK ch 88 Nebbiolo Annie Edge Friendly Court TESTED b f 2011 Danzig Danehill Razyana PROVE b 98 Vaguely Noble Roupala Cairn Rouge

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international database Sire: PIVOTAL. Sire of 118 Stakes winners. In 2015 - AFRICAN STORY Gone West G1, QUEEN'S JEWEL Lode G1, TALCO Diesis G1, RACING HISTORY Lando G3, DREAM CHILD Seeking The Gold LR, EVITA PERON Ela-ManaMou LR, MAAREK Indian Rocket LR, PECK Sadler's Wells LR, PENMAEN Orpen LR. 1st Dam: GONBARDA by Lando.

5 wins at 2 and 3 in Germany, P. Freunde und Forderer Deutschlandpreis G1, IVG Preis von Europa G1, 2nd Grosser Volkswagen Preis von Baden G1.

Own sister to GORLOR. Dam of 4 winners: 2008: FARHH (c Pivotal) Champion older miler in Europe in 2013, Jt Champion older horse in Europe in 2013 (9.510.5f.). 5 wins at 2 to 5, Qipco Champion S G1, JLT Lockinge S G1, 2nd Juddmonte International S G1, Coral Eclipse S G1, Qipco Sussex S G1, Qatar Prix du Moulin de Longchamp G1, 3rd 150th Anniv. Prince of Wales's S G1. Sire.

2009: WELCOME GIFT (c Pivotal) Winner at 2.

2010: Royal Flag (g New Approach) 2011: Basem (c Pivotal) 4 wins at 3 and 4, 3rd Betfred Strensall S G3.

2012: RACING HISTORY (c Pivotal) 3 wins at 3, Unibet Winter Hill S G3.

2014: (c Dubawi) 2nd Dam: Gonfalon by Slip Anchor. unraced. Dam of GONBARDA (f Lando, see above), GONFILIA (f Big Shuffle: Vodafone Princess Elizabeth S G3), GONLARGO (g Big Shuffle: Grosser Preis der Dortmunder Wirtschaft G3, 2nd MehlMulhens Rennen G2, Raab Karcher Baustoffe Cup G2, Berlin Brandenburg Trophy G2), GORLOR (c Lando: Preis des Casino Baden-Baden LR, 2nd Grosser Preis der Dortmunder Wirtschaft G3), Gondoro (c Big Shuffle: 3rd Preis des

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Broodmare Sire: LANDO. Sire of the dams of 19 Stakes winners.

In 2015 - RACING HISTORY Pivotal G3, SHADOW SADNESS Soldier Hollow G3.

The Pivotal/Lando cross has produced: CALYXA G1, FARHH G1, RACING HISTORY G3, Basem G3.

Nureyev Polar Falcon Marie d'Argonne PIVOTAL ch 93 Cozzene Fearless Revival Stufida RACING HISTORY b c 2012 Acatenango Lando Laurea GONBARDA b 2002 Slip Anchor Gonfalon Grimpola

Doom Bar Celebration Mile, G2, Goodwood, August 29, 8f 1 Kodi Bear (IRE) 3 br c Kodiac (GB) - Hawattef (IRE) (Mujtahid (USA)) 2 Gabrial (IRE) 6 b g Dark Angel (IRE) - Guajira (FR) (Mtoto) 3 Breton Rock (IRE) 5 b g Bahamian Bounty (GB) - Anna's Rock (IRE) (Rock of Gibraltar (IRE)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 8; Wins: 4; Places: 3 Earnings: £257,062 Sire: KODIAC. Sire of 19 Stakes winners. In 2015 - ADAAY Royal Applause G2, BESHARAH Dixie Union G2, KODI BEAR Mujtahid G2, BEAR CHEEK Kyllachy G3, SPIRIT OF XIAN Touch Gold G3, AZZECCAGARBUGLI Desert Style LR, COULSTY In The Wings LR, WHATDOIWANTTHATFOR Hernando LR. 1st Dam: Hawattef by Mujtahid. unraced. Dam of 7 winners: 2000: Danetime Lady (f Danetime). Broodmare.

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2001: LADY SUSY (f Danetime) Winner at 2 in Italy. Dam of RIVERTIME (c Tout Seul: 8 wins at 2 and 3 in Italy, Criterium Labronico LR, Premio Divino Amore Trofeo SGA LR), STORM OF WIND (c Tout Seul: 5 wins at 2 to 4 in Italy, Criterium Varesino LR) 2003: Orpens Lad (g Orpen) ran.

2004: DOG SITTER (f Fath) Winner at 2 in Italy.

2005: MAKER MED (c Chevalier) Winner at 3 in Italy.

2007: Pearl of Danon (c Pearl of Love) 2009: MAKALALI (c Kodiac) 2 wins at 3 in Spain.

2010: PRINCESS CAMMIE (f Camacho) Winner at 3.

2011: RALPHY LAD (g Iffraaj) 3 wins at 4.

2012: KODI BEAR (c Kodiac) Sold 62,000gns yearling at TAOC2. 4 wins at 2 and 3, Doom Bar Celebration Mile G2, Totepool Sovereign S G3, Unibet Midsummer S LR, Titanic Belfast Winkfield S LR, 2nd Dubai Dewhurst S G1.

2014: (f Zebedee) 2nd Dam: MADARY by Green Desert. 2 wins at 3. Grandam of S'Il Vous Plait.

Broodmare Sire: MUJTAHID. Sire of the dams of 19 Stakes winners. In 2015 - KODI BEAR Kodiac G2, MY BASKAN Luxor LR, RADYOCU Sri Pekan LR, RENK Divine Light LR, ZEALOUS LINE Win River Win LR. The Kodiac/Mujtahid cross has produced: KODI BEAR G1, Indigo River G2.

Danzig Danehill Razyana KODIAC b 2001 Kris Rafha Eljazzi KODI BEAR br c 2012 Woodman Mujtahid Mesmerize HAWATTEF b 96 Green Desert Madary High And Dry

888sport Prestige Stakes, G3, Goodwood, August 29, 7f 1 Hawksmoor (IRE) 2 b f Azamour (IRE) - Bridal Dance (IRE) (Danehill Dancer (IRE)) 2 Fireglow (GB) 2 b f Teofilo (IRE) - Fading Light (GB) (King's Best (USA)) 3 Light Up Our World (IRE) 2 b f Zoffany (IRE) - Shine Like A Star (GB) (Fantastic Light (USA)) Age: 2; Starts: 3; Wins: 2; Places: 0 Earnings: £26,594 Sire: AZAMOUR. Sire of 31 Stakes winners. In 2015 COVERT LOVE Hawk Wing G1, DOLNIYA Indian Ridge G1, HAWKSMOOR Danehill Dancer G3, ZANNDA Dalakhani G3, LETTERS OF NOTE Almutawakel LR, RAWNAQ Doyoun LR. 1st Dam: Bridal Dance by Danehill Dancer. ran a few times at 3. Dam of 1 winner: 2011: Qatar Princess (f Marju) 2012: Kitu Kidogo (c Verglas) 2013: HAWKSMOOR (f Azamour) Sold 63,491gns yearling at TISEP. 2 wins at 2, 888sport Prestige S G3.

2014: (f Dragon Pulse) 2nd Dam: FEATHER BRIDE by Groom Dancer. 1 win at 3 in France. Dam of MILLENNIUM DRAGON (c Mark of Esteem: Appleton H G3, 2nd Manhattan H G1). Grandam of MEERISS, Chala Ja Bachha.

Broodmare Sire: DANEHILL DANCER. Sire of the dams of 37 Stakes winners. In 2015 - LADY TIANA Sir Percy G2, WEDDING VOW Galileo G2, HAWKSMOOR Azamour G3, HI WORLD High Chaparral G3, KISSED BY ANGELS Galileo G3, RECORDER Galileo G3, ARTLEE Excellent Art LR, BRIGHTON Buffalo Man LR, FADHAYYIL Tamayuz LR, GEE GEES TOP NOTCH Wordsmith LR, IT IS WRITTEN Written Tycoon LR, BALMUSETTE Halling

international database LR, DIFFERENT GRAVEY High Chaparral LR, SEMPRE MEDICI Medicean LR. The Azamour/Danehill Dancer cross has produced: HAWKSMOOR G3, Tamga LR. Northern Dancer Night Shift Ciboulette AZAMOUR b 2001 Lear Fan Asmara Anaza HAWKSMOOR b f 2013 Danehill Danehill Dancer Mira Adonde BRIDAL DANCE b 2006 Groom Dancer Feather Bride Bubbling Danseuse

Preis der Sparkassen Finanzgruppe, G3, BadenBaden, August 29, 2000m 1 Pas de Deux (GER) 5 b g Saddex (GB) - Palucca (GER) (Big Shuffle (USA)) 2 Wildpark (GER) 4 b c Shamardal (USA) - Wildfahrte (GER) (Mark of Esteem (IRE)) 3 Lucky Lion (GB) 4 b c High Chaparral (IRE) - Lips Arrow (GER) (Big Shuffle (USA)) Age: 3-5; Starts: 14; Wins: 4; Places: 5 Earnings: £73,573 Sire: SADDEX. Sire of 1 Stakes winners. In 2015 - PAS DE DEUX Big Shuffle G3.

1st Dam: Palucca by Big Shuffle. unraced. Dam of 2 winners: 2007: (f Konigstiger). died as a yearling.

2008: PONGAL (f Ransom O'War) 2 wins at 4 in Germany.

2009: Priwall (f Desert Prince) 2010: PAS DE DEUX (g Saddex) 4 wins at 4 and 5 in Germany, Preis der Sparkassen Finanzgruppe G3, 2nd G.P. de Compiegne Etapi du Defi du Galop LR. 2012: Pazzia (f Youmzain) in training.

2nd Dam: PUNTILLA by Acatenango. 2 wins at 3 in Germany Ostermann - Diana Deutsches Stuten Derby G2.

Dam of Pakama (f Kalatos: 3rd Berberis Rennen LR) Broodmare Sire: BIG SHUFFLE. Sire of the dams of 33 Stakes winners. In 2015 - TURFDONNA Doyen G1, PAS DE DEUX Saddex G3, VIF MONSIEUR Doyen LR, ARMAN Lando LR, TWINLIGHT Muhtathir LR. Northern Dancer Sadler's Wells Fairy Bridge SADDEX b 2003 Irish River Remote Romance Aviance PAS DE DEUX b g 2010 Super Concorde Big Shuffle Raise Your Skirts PALUCCA br 2002 Acatenango Puntilla Prada

Doom Bar Supreme Stakes, G3, Goodwood, August 30, 7f 1 So Beloved (GB) 5 b g Dansili (GB) - Valencia (GB) (Kenmare (FR)) 2 Here Comes When (IRE) 5 b g Danehill Dancer (IRE) - Quad's Melody (IRE) (Spinning World (USA)) 3 Emell (GB) 5 ch c Medicean (GB) - Londonnetdotcom (IRE) (Night Shift (USA)) Age: 2-5; Starts: 20; Wins: 6; Places: 4 Earnings: £175,044 Sire: DANSILI. Sire of 109 Stakes winners. In 2015 - FLINTSHIRE Sadler's Wells G1, MAGOG Doyoun G1, CARLA BIANCA Linamix G3, DORMELLO Selkirk G3, PERMIT Swain G3, SO BELOVED Kenmare G3, WORDS Dalakhani G3, ASHLAN Linamix LR, INDEX LINKED Irish River LR, IROMEA Pivotal LR, MAHSOOB Montjeu LR, MARTLET Selkirk LR, VICTORY SONG Sadler's Wells LR, KING OF DUDES Diesis LR.

1st Dam: Valencia by Kenmare.

Dam of 7 winners: 1999: IRISH VALE (c Wolfhound) 2 wins at 2, betfair.com Harry Rosebery S LR. 2000: DEPORTIVO (c Night Shift) 6 wins at 2 and 3, Big Shuffle Flying Five G2. Sire.

2001: LA CORUNA (f Deploy) 2 wins at 2. Broodmare.

2003: Cantabria (f Dansili) 3 wins, 2nd Dubai Duty Free Fred Darling S G3, 2nd Hawthorne H G3.

2004: SUBADAR (g Zamindar) 9 wins.

2006: AFFLUENT (f Oasis Dream) 2 wins at 2 and 3. Broodmare.

2008: Valencia City (g Dansili) unraced.

2009: Espagnolette (f Oasis Dream) unraced. Broodmare.

2010: SO BELOVED (g Dansili) 6 wins at 2 to 5, 2015, Doom Bar Supreme S G3.

2013: Isostatic (f Champs Elysees) unraced to date.

2nd Dam: DE STAEL by Nijinsky.

2 wins at 2. Own sister to PEACETIME, QUIET FLING and Balabina. Dam of WANDESTA (f Nashwan: Santa Ana H G1, Santa Barbara H G1, Matriarch S G1, 2nd San Luis Rey S G1, 3rd Beverly Hills H G1, Vanity Invitational H G1, Matriarch S G1 (twice)), DE QUEST (c Rainbow Quest: Prix du Conseil de Paris G2, 3rd Vodafone Coronation Cup G1), SOURCE OF LIGHT (g Rainbow Quest: Chester Rated S LR), TURNERS HILL (c Top Ville: Grand Prix de Compiegne LR, Prix de la Moskowa LR, Prix d'Avilly-SaintLeonard LR, 2nd Prix du Conseil de Paris G2), Piano Star (g Darshaan: 3rd Fishpools Furnishings Godolphin S LR), Stance (g Salse: 2nd Vincent O'Brien County H. Hurdle G3, 3rd totesport.com Scilly Isles Nov. Chase G1). Grandam of FASHIONABLE, Blueberry Forest, Noahs Ark, Modicum.

Third dam of JACK NAYLOR,

TEMPS AU TEMPS, KRAMULKIE, After, Eva Kant, Harmonic.

Broodmare Sire: KENMARE. Sire of the dams of 84 Stakes winners. In 2015 - BOBAN Bernardini G1, SO BELOVED Dansili G3, HURRICANE FLY Montjeu LR. The Dansili/Kenmare cross has produced: SO BELOVED G3, Cantabria G3.

Danzig Danehill Razyana DANSILI b 96 Kahyasi Hasili Kerali SO BELOVED b g 2010 Kalamoun Kenmare Belle of Ireland VALENCIA b 94 Nijinsky De Stael Peace

Grand Prix de Deauville, G2, Deauville, August 30, 2500m 1 Siljan's Saga (FR) 4 bl f Sagamix (FR) - Humoriste (FR) (Saint Cyrien (FR)) 2 Cocktail Queen (IRE) 5 b f Motivator (GB) - Premier Prize (GB) (Selkirk (USA)) 3 Loresho (FR) 4 c Halling (USA) Luna Gulch (FR) (Gulch (USA)) Age: 2-5; Starts: 21; Wins: 7; Places: 4 Earnings: £333,523 Sire: SAGAMIX. Sire of 9 Stakes winners. In 2015 - SILJAN'S SAGA Saint Cyrien G2.

1st Dam: HUMORISTE by Saint Cyrien. Winner at 3 in France.

Dam of 4 winners: 2001: Kel Chic (c Limnos) ran on the flat in France.

2002: KENAREVA (f Kendor) 4 wins at 5, 7 and 8 in Belgium, France.

2003: Powys (c Silver Patriarch) unraced.

2004: SPRINGER (g Sagamix) 3 wins over jumps in France.

2005: Kendova (f Kendor)

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2010: SILJAN'S SAGA (f Sagamix) Sold 2,052gns yearling at ARNOV. 7 wins at 3 to 5 in France, Grand Prix de Deauville G2 , Prix Corrida G2, Prix Joubert LR, Prix Madame Jean Couturie LR, 3rd Grand Prix de SaintCloud G1, 3rd Prix Allez France G3.

2nd Dam: DIAMOND DOVE by Bellypha. 2 wins at 3 and 4 in France. Dam of YVECRIQUE (f Epervier Bleu: Tierce MagazinePrix Fille de l'Air G3). Grandam of Wake Board.

Broodmare Sire: SAINT CYRIEN. Sire of the dams of 21 Stakes winners. In 2015 - SILJAN'S SAGA Sagamix G2.

Mendez Linamix Lunadix SAGAMIX gr 95 Sagace Saganeca Haglette SILJAN'S SAGA bl f 2010 Luthier Saint Cyrien Sevres HUMORISTE b 96 Bellypha Diamond Dove Dovetail

Prix de Meautry- Lucien Barriere, G3, Deauville, August 30, 1200m 1 Suedois (FR) 4 b c Le Havre (IRE) - Cup Cake (IRE) (Singspiel (IRE)) 2 The Right Man (GB) 3 br c Lope de Vega (IRE) - Three Owls (IRE) (Warning) 3 Queen Bee (FR) 3 b f Le Havre (IRE) - Pan Tadeus (GB) (Kyllachy (GB)) Age: 2-4; Starts: 17; Wins: 6; Places: 8 Earnings: £148,313 Sire: LE HAVRE. Sire of 11 Stakes winners. In 2015 - SUEDOIS Singspiel G3, NOCE Dynaformer LR, SAINTE AMARANTE Cadeaux

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2 wins at 3 in Sweden. Dam of 1 winner: 2011: SUEDOIS (c Le Havre) 6 wins at 3 and 4 in France, Prix de Meautry- Lucien Barriere G3, Prix Servanne LR, 2nd Prix de Ris-Orangis G3, Prix Montenica LR, 3rd Prix Hampton LR. Broodmare Sire: SINGSPIEL. Sire of the dams of 38 Stakes winners. In 2015 - LA SALDANA Fastnet Rock G3, LIMATO Tagula G3, SUEDOIS Le Havre G3, ADAM'S BRIDGE Zenno Rob Roy LR, COSTA DEL SOL Phoenix Tower LR, MOMENTO DE ALEGRIA Refuse To Bend LR, MONEY MAKER American Post LR, ROMSDAL Halling LR. Rahy Noverre Danseur Fabuleux LE HAVRE b 2006 Surako Marie Rheinberg Marie d'Argonne SUEDOIS b c 2011 In The Wings Singspiel Glorious Song CUP CAKE ch 2006 Mark of Esteem Gold Mark Gold Script

Prix Quincey - Barriere, G3, Deauville, August 30, 1600m 1 Johnny Barnes (IRE) 3 b c Acclamation (GB) - Mahalia (IRE) (Danehill (USA)) 2 Stillman (FR) 4 b c Vespone (IRE) - Kikinda (FR) (Daliapour (IRE)) 2 Spoil The Fun (FR) 6 ch c Rock of Gibraltar (IRE) - Avezia (FR) (Night Shift (USA)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 7; Wins: 3; Places: 2 Earnings: £91,662 Sire: ACCLAMATION. Sire of 31 Stakes winners. In 2015 JOHNNY BARNES Danehill G3,

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ABSOLUTELY SO Selkirk LR, KING OF ROOKS Lycius LR. 1st Dam: MAHALIA by Danehill.

2 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix Imprudence LR. Dam of 8 winners: 1998: MARLIANA (f Mtoto) Winner at 2 in France.

Broodmare.

1999: Brenta (f Mtoto). died at 3 years.

2000: Debona (f Nashwan).

Broodmare.

2001: Verdala (f Linamix) unraced. Broodmare.

2002: SALTINO (g Daylami) Winner at 3 in France.

2003: Tonnara (f Linamix). Dam of ECTOT (c Hurricane Run: 6 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Criterium International G1), MOST IMPROVED (c Lawman: 2 wins at 2 and 3, St James's Palace S G1, 3rd Dubai Dewhurst S G1) 2004: CALASETTA (f Montjeu) 2 wins. Broodmare.

2005: ALBISOLA (f Montjeu) 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix de Flore G3, 3rd Prix de Sandringham G2. Broodmare.

2006: Bufera (f King's Best) 2 wins at 2 and 3 in France, 3rd Prix des Reservoirs-Haras d'Etreham G3. Broodmare.

2007: Malaspina (f Whipper).

Broodmare.

2008: Tramontana (f Peintre Celebre). Broodmare.

2009: PEMBINA (f Dalakhani) Winner at 3 in France.

2010: TECLA (f Whipper) 2 wins at 3 in France. Broodmare.

2012: JOHNNY BARNES (c Acclamation) Sold 240,030gns yearling at GOOY1. 3 wins at 2 and 3 at home, France, Prix Quincey - Barriere G3, 2nd Criterium International G1.

2nd Dam: Maresca by Mill Reef.

Dam of MUROTO (c Busted: Prix Gontaut-Biron G3, 2nd CIGA Prix Dollar G2), VELLANO (c Lycius: P.Louis Desboudet- Trophee Centre-Est LR), VANYA (f Busted: Prix d'Automne LR, 3rd Prix Minerve G3), MAHALIA (f

Danehill, see above), Zivania (f Shernazar: 2nd Diamond S LR, Oaks Trial LR, Hotel Conrad Silver Race LR), Urbino (c Be My Guest: 3rd Prix du Lion d'Angers LR). Grandam of IVAN LUIS, STAGELIGHT, ZERO PROBLEMO, CAPRACOTTA, SALIM TOTO, AMATHIA, HATHRAH, Von Jawlensky, Torcello, Tencarola, Atacat, Viscaria. Third dam of DISTANT MEMORIES, MUTATIS MUTANDIS, MOHEDIAN LADY, HADAATHA. Broodmare Sire: DANEHILL. Sire of the dams of 300 Stakes winners. In 2015 - COSMIC ENDEAVOUR Northern Meteor G1, FREE EAGLE High Chaparral G1, HALLOWED CROWN Street Sense G1, HIGHLAND REEL Galileo G1, PRIDE OF DUBAI Street Cry G1, VANCOUVER Medaglia d'Oro G1, CUSTOM CUT Notnowcato G2, MUTHMIR Invincible Spirit G2, SECRET GESTURE Galileo G2, BERLING Montjeu G3, BONDI BEACH Galileo G3, DEAUVILLE Galileo G3, EL VALLE Dobby Road G3, FIELDS OF ATHENRY Galileo G3, FORGOTTEN RULES Nayef G3, JOHNNY BARNES Acclamation G3, KOKORONO AI Stay Gold G3, MAJESTIC QUEEN Kheleyf G3, MR SINGH High Chaparral G3, PASSING SHOT Swiss Ace G3, SCRATCHY BOTTOM Sebring G3, SOLICIT Street Cry G3, TESTED Selkirk G3, FALINO Fusaichi Pegasus LR, FEDERAL Medaglia d'Oro LR, GOOD BABY Hussonet LR, GRETCHEN Galileo LR, KNIGHT'S COMMAND Pins LR, LANDLOCKED Zabeel LR, LET'S MAKE ADEAL Red Ransom LR, MAGIC HURRICANE Hurricane Run LR, NAYELI More Than Ready LR, RACING EIGHT Mossman LR, THE CORSICAN Galileo LR, TOMBELAINE First Defence LR, TOWER OF LONHRO Lonhro LR, WOODWIN W More Than Ready LR, BELTOR Authorized LR, NANDO Hernando LR, RED KINGDOM Deep Impact LR.

international database The Acclamation/Danehill cross has produced: JOHNNY BARNES G1, Mubtaghaa G3, Sesso Forte LR. Waajib Royal Applause Flying Melody ACCLAMATION b 99 Ahonoora Princess Athena Shopping Wise JOHNNY BARNES b c 2012 Danzig Danehill Razyana MAHALIA b 93 Mill Reef Maresca Caprera

Round Tower Stakes, G3, Curragh, August 30, 6f 1 Smash Williams (IRE) 2 ch c Fracas (IRE) - Take Flight (IRE) (Pivotal (GB)) 2 Rockaway Valley (IRE) 2 b c Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) Sharapova (IRE) (Elusive Quality (USA)) 3 Al Qahwa (IRE) 2 b c Fast Company (IRE) - Cappuccino (IRE) (Mujadil (USA)) Age: 2; Starts: 2; Wins: 2; Places: 0 Earnings: £39,059 Sire: FRACAS. Sire of 1 Stakes winners. In 2015 - SMASH WILLIAMS Pivotal G3.

1st Dam: TAKE FLIGHT by Pivotal. Winner at 2. Own sister to SAOIRE. Dam of 1 winner: 2013: SMASH WILLIAMS (c Fracas) 2 wins at 2, Round Tower S G3.

2014: (f High Chaparral) 2015: (c Iffraaj) 2nd Dam: Polish Descent by Danehill. unraced. Dam of SAOIRE (f Pivotal: Boylesports Irish 1000 Guineas G1, 3rd Moyglare Stud S G1), Awinnersgame (g Kyllachy: 2nd Better Bet European Free H LR).

Grandam of REQUISITION. Broodmare Sire: PIVOTAL. Sire of the dams of 40 Stakes

winners. In 2015 - CLADOCERA Oasis Dream G2, MAIN SEQUENCE Aldebaran G2, EASY ROAD Compton Place G3, FINAL FRONTIER Dream Ahead G3, ONENIGHTIDREAMED Footstepsinthesand G3, SILVER GALAXY Galileo G3, SMASH WILLIAMS Fracas G3, ARGENTERO Zoffany LR, BANK OF BURDEN Hawk Wing LR, GOLDEN WOOD Gold Away LR, GOSPEL CHOIR Galileo LR, GREAT MINDS Bahamian Bounty LR, IROMEA Dansili LR, MOMAYYAZ Elusive Quality LR, PEARLY STEPH Oasis Dream LR, RIVELLINO Invincible Spirit LR. Sadler's Wells In The Wings High Hawk FRACAS b 2002 Habitat Klarifi Sorbus SMASH WILLIAMS ch c 2013 Polar Falcon Pivotal Fearless Revival TAKE FLIGHT ch 2008 Danehill Polish Descent Nolnocan

Dance Design Stakes, G3, Curragh, August 30, 9f 1 Bocca Baciata (IRE) 3 b/br f Big Bad Bob (IRE) - Sovana (IRE) (Desert King (IRE)) 2 Easter (IRE) 3 b f Galileo (IRE) Missvinski (USA) (Stravinsky (USA)) 3 Brooch (USA) 4 b f Empire Maker (USA) - Daring Diva (GB) (Dansili (GB)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 8; Wins: 3; Places: 3 Earnings: £81,757 Sire: BIG BAD BOB. Sire of 8 Stakes winners. In 2015 - BOCCA BACIATA Desert King G3, BOB LE BEAU Bering LR. 1st Dam: Sovana by Desert King.

Winner at 3 in France, 3rd Prix Minerve G3. Dam of 6 winners: 2005: Stella Rossa (f Key of Luck) ran on the flat in France.

Broodmare.

2006: MAFRA (f Kalanisi) 9 wins at 3 to 5 in France. Broodmare.

2007: Vervono (g Verglas) unraced.

2008: FIAMMELLA (f Verglas) 3 wins at 3 and 4 in France.

Broodmare.

2009: TOPEKA (f Whipper) 4 wins at 2 in France, Prix Miesque G3, 3rd Poule d'Essai des Pouliches G1. Broodmare.

2010: MINDELO (c Whipper) Winner at 3 in France.

2011: KALSA (f Whipper) 3 wins at 3 and 4 in France, Prix Edmond Blanc G3.

2012: BOCCA BACIATA (f Big Bad Bob) Sold 178,086gns yearling at GOOY1. 3 wins at 2 and 3, Dance Design S G3, Irish Stallion Farms EBF Salsabil S LR, 3rd Kilboy Estate S G2.

2013: Suvenna (f Arcano) unraced to date.

2nd Dam: PIACENZA by Darshaan. 1 win at 3 in France.

Dam of PERUGINA (f Highest Honor: Prix Eclipse G3), Sovana (f Desert King, see above) Broodmare Sire: DESERT KING. Sire of the dams of 16 Stakes winners. In 2015 - BOCCA BACIATA Big Bad Bob G3, KALSA Whipper G3, OLORDA Lord of England G3.

Roberto Bob Back Toter Back BIG BAD BOB br 2000 Marju Fantasy Girl Persian Fantasy BOCCA BACIATA b/br f 2012 Danehill Desert King Sabaah SOVANA b 2000 Darshaan Piacenza Kahara

Goldene Peitsche, G2, Munich, August 30, 1200m 1 Shining Emerald (GB) 4 gr g Clodovil (IRE) - Janayen (USA) (Zafonic (USA)) 2 Son Cesio (IRE) 4 b c Zafeen (FR) - Slitana (FR) (Dansili (GB))

3 Daring Match (GER) 4 b c Call Me Big (GER) – Daring Action (GB) (Arazi (USA)) Age: 2-4; Starts: 14; Wins: 5; Places: 6 Earnings: £109,364 Sire: CLODOVIL. Sire of 19 Stakes winners. In 2015 SHINING EMERALD Zafonic G3.

1st Dam: JANAYEN by Zafonic. 2 wins at 3. Dam of 4 winners: 2007: NADEEN (g Bahamian Bounty) 3 wins at 2, 4 and 5.

2008: SECRET GOLD (f Exceed And Excel) 3 wins.

2009: ROYAL SEA (g Refuse To Bend) 3 wins at 3 and 4.

2010: Sea Shadow (f Cape Cross) 2011: SHINING EMERALD (g Clodovil) 5 wins at 2 and 4 at home, Germany, Goldene Peitsche G2/3 (twice), Bankhaus von der Heydt Silberne Peitsche G3, Anglesey Equine Hospital Blenheim S LR, 2nd Leopardstown 2000 Guineas Trial S LR, 2nd Dallmayr Trophy LR, 3rd JRA Killavullan S G3, Lacken S LR. 2nd Dam: SAAFEYA by Sadler's Wells. 6 wins at 3 and 4 at home, France James Seymour S LR, John Musker S LR, Coupe du Fonds Europeen de l'Elevage LR, 2nd Prix du Conseil de Paris G2.

Broodmare Sire: ZAFONIC. Sire of the dams of 61 Stakes winners. In 2015 - SHINING EMERALD Clodovil G2, JAZZI TOP Danehill Dancer G2, TAKEDOWN Stratum G3, AKTORIA Canford Cliffs LR, DANDIFIED Rebuttal LR. Danzig Danehill Razyana CLODOVIL gr 2000 Linamix Clodora Cloche d'Or SHINING EMERALD gr g 2011 Gone West Zafonic Zaizafon JANAYEN b 2000 Sadler's Wells Saafeya Safa

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international database Baden-Badener Zukunfts Rennen, G3, Baden-Baden, September 2, 1400m 1 Dessertoflife (IRE) 2 gr f Mastercraftsman (IRE) - Cranky Spanky (IRE) (Spectrum (IRE)) 2 Shy Witch (GER) 2 b f Areion (GER) - Shyla (GER) (Monsagem) 3 Millowitsch (GER) 2 br c Sehrezad (IRE) - Muriel (IRE) (Fath (USA)) Age: 2; Starts: 6; Wins: 2; Places: 3 Earnings: £41,025 Sire: MASTERCRAFTSMAN. Sire of 20 Stakes winners. In 2015 AMAZING MARIA Tale of The Cat G1, DESSERTOFLIFE Spectrum G3, IVEAGH GARDENS War Chant G3, MASTER APPRENTICE Hawk Wing G3, NAKUTI Five Star Day G3, THEE AULD FLOOZIE Spinning World G3, UPHAM Gold Brose G3, MAMBOMISS Kingmambo LR, MUTATIS MUTANDIS Darshaan LR, OFF LIMITS Efisio LR, VAGUE NOUVELLE Mr Greeley LR, INTENSE TANGO Fort Wood LR. 1st Dam: CRANKY SPANKY by Spectrum. 4 wins at 3 and 4 in Italy, Premio Royal Mares LR. Dam of 2 winners: 2009: HOTKISS (c Footstepsinthesand) 3 wins at 2 and 3 in Italy.

2010: Opitopi (c Shirocco) unraced.

2011: Almeisan (f Footstepsinthesand) unraced.

2013: DESSERTOFLIFE (f Mastercraftsman) Sold 42,000gns yearling at TAOC2. 2 wins at 2 at home, Germany, Baden-Badener Zukunfts Rennen G3, 2nd Washington Singer S LR, Irish Champions Weekend Star S LR. 2014: (c Mastercraftsman) 2015: (f Most Improved) 2nd Dam: ARMENIA by Arazi. 1 win at 3. Dam of CRANKY SPANKY (f Spectrum, see above), Pepper Popper (c Indian Haven: 2nd Premio Natale di Roma LR)

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Broodmare Sire: SPECTRUM. Sire of the dams of 31 Stakes winners. In 2015 DESSERTOFLIFE Mastercraftsman G3, MIDDLEBURG Lemon Drop Kid G3.

Danehill Danehill Dancer Mira Adonde MASTERCRAFTSMAN gr/ro 2006 Black Tie Affair Starlight Dreams Reves Celestes DESSERTOFLIFE gr f 2013 Rainbow Quest Spectrum River Dancer CRANKY SPANKY ch 2003 Arazi Armenia Atlantic Flyer

Country Gentlemen's EBF D. Poole Stakes, G3, Salisbury, September 3, 6f 1 La Rioja (GB) 2 b f Hellvelyn (GB) - Talampaya (USA) (Elusive Quality (USA)) 2 Whatdoiwantthatfor (IRE) 2 b f Kodiac (GB) - Penicuik (GB) (Hernando (FR)) 3 Unilit (IRE) 2 b f Approve (IRE) - Riymaisa (IRE) (Traditionally (USA)) Age: 2; Starts: 3; Wins: 2; Places: 1 Earnings: £30,103 Sire: HELLVELYN. Sire of 1 Stakes winners. In 2015 - LA RIOJA Elusive Quality G3.

1st Dam: Talampaya by Elusive Quality. unraced. Dam of 4 winners: 2010: FLIRTINASKIRT (f Avonbridge) Winner at 3.

2011: Lilbourne Lass (f Pastoral Pursuits) 3 wins at 2, 3rd Bathwick Tyres St Hugh's S LR. 2012: Pastoral Girl (f Pastoral Pursuits) Winner at 2, 2nd Juddmonte Princess Margaret S G3.

2013: LA RIOJA (f Hellvelyn) Sold 50,000gns yearling at TAOC2. 2 wins at 2, Country Gentlemen's EBF D. Poole S G3.

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2nd Dam: ARGENTINA by Storm Cat. 1 win at 2 in USA. Own sister to T S Eliot. Dam of Bernasconi (g Rahy: 3rd Oceanside S LR)

2013: YAKABA (f Medicean) 3 wins at 2 in France, Prix d'Arenberg G3, Prix de la Vallee d'Auge LR. 2015: Hergame (f Motivator)

Broodmare Sire: ELUSIVE QUALITY. Sire of the dams of 19 Stakes winners. In 2015 MUSTAJEEB Nayef G2, GET HAPPY MISTER First Samurai G3, LA RIOJA Hellvelyn G3, OTTOMAN Exceed And Excel G3, QUALITY ROCKS Rock Hard Ten G3, DUBLIN LASS O'Reilly LR.

2nd Dam: SENKAYA by Valanour. 1 win at 3 in France.

Dam of KAYABA (f Anabaa, see above), BARBAYAM (f Stormy River: Prix Amandine LR, 2nd Prix Miesque G3)

Danzig Ishiguru Strategic Maneuver HELLVELYN gr/ro 2004 Petong Cumbrian Melody Avahra LA RIOJA b f 2013 Gone West Elusive Quality Touch of Greatness TALAMPAYA b 2006 Storm Cat Argentina Gold Sunrise

Prix d'Arenberg, G3, Longchamp, September 3, 1000m 1 Yakaba (FR) 2 f Medicean (GB) - Kayaba (GB) (Anabaa (USA)) 2 Lil's Joy (IRE) 2 b f Lilbourne Lad (IRE) - Eman's Joy (GB) (Lion Cavern (USA)) 3 Noce (FR) 2 ch f Le Havre (IRE) - Simple Solution (USA) (Dynaformer (USA)) Age: 2; Starts: 4; Wins: 3; Places: 0 Earnings: £62,016 Sire: MEDICEAN. Sire of 47 Stakes winners. In 2015 NORDICO Diktat G3, YAKABA Anabaa G3, PANAMA HAT Rock of Gibraltar LR, GRAN MAESTRO Nureyev LR, SEMPRE MEDICI Danehill Dancer LR. 1st Dam: KAYABA by Anabaa. 3 wins at 3 in France, Prix La Sorellina LR. Dam of 2 winners: 2010: KORAYA (f Halling) Winner at 3 in France.

2012: Kobaka (f Falco) in training.

Broodmare Sire: ANABAA. Sire of the dams of 55 Stakes winners. In 2015 - DISSIDENT Sebring G1, HARTNELL Authorized G1, TREVE Motivator G1, ENGLISH Encosta de Lago G2, HARRY'S SON Haradasun G2, QUEENS RING Manhattan Cafe G2, YAKABA Medicean G3, BIG BLUE Galileo LR, KATIE'S DIAMOND Turtle Bowl LR, MANAPINE Manhattan Rain LR, NEWSLETTER Sir Percy LR, THUNDER TEDDINGTON Halling LR, LACHLAN BRIDGE Dubawi LR. Mr Prospector Machiavellian Coup de Folie MEDICEAN ch 97 Storm Bird Mystic Goddess Rose Goddess YAKABA f 2013 Danzig Anabaa Balbonella KAYABA b 2005 Valanour Senkaya Sendana

Darley Oettingen Rennen, G2, Baden-Baden, September 3, 1600m 1 Vadamos (FR) 4 b c Monsun (GER) - Celebre Vadala (FR) (Peintre Celebre (USA)) 2 Merry Me (IRE) 4 b f Invincible Spirit (IRE) - Thought Is Free (GB) (Cadeaux Genereux) 3 Diplomat (GER) 4 c Teofilo (IRE) - Desidera (IRE) (Shaadi (USA)) Age: 2-4; Starts: 10; Wins: 5; Places: 4 Earnings: £98,003

international database Sire: MONSUN. Sire of 119 Stakes winners. In 2015 BATHYRHON Be My Guest G2, MANATEE Galileo G2, SHIMRANO Daylami G2, TRIPLE THREAT Lyphard G2, VADAMOS Peintre Celebre G2, ARAB SPRING Darshaan G3, EXCESS KNOWLEDGE Dansili G3, MIDSUMMER SUN Kingmambo LR, SARRASIN High Chaparral LR. 1st Dam: CELEBRE VADALA by Peintre Celebre. 2 wins at 3 in France, Prix Melisande-G.P. de Fontainebleau LR. Dam of 3 winners: 2008: CELENZA (f Dansili) 2 wins at 2 in France. Broodmare.

2009: VADANOR (g Selkirk) 6 wins at 3 to 6, 2015 in France.

2010: Red Sun (f Monsun) ran on France. Broodmare.

2011: VADAMOS (c Monsun) 5 wins at 3 and 4 in France, Germany, Oettingen Rennen G2, Prix Frederic de Lagrange LR. 2012: Vaugondi (c Invincible Spirit) unraced to date.

2014: (c Dutch Art) 2015: (c Pour Moi) 2nd Dam: VADLAMIXA by Linamix. 2 wins at 2 and 3 in France P. de Lieurey LR. Dam of VALIXIR (c Trempolino: Queen Anne S G1, Prix d'Ispahan G1, 3rd P. du Jockey Club G1, P. Jacques Le Marois G1, Prix Lupin G1), CELEBRE VADALA (f Peintre Celebre, see above), Vadaza (f Zafonic: 2nd Prix de la Seine LR).

Grandam of VAZIRA, VADAWINA, VADAPOLINA, VADSALINA, Vayakhan. Third dam of VADAMAR, VEDOUMA, Veda.

Broodmare Sire: PEINTRE CELEBRE. Sire of the dams of 39 Stakes winners. In 2015 NUTAN Duke of Marmalade G1, NIGHTFLOWER Dylan Thomas G2, VADAMOS Monsun G2, LITTLE NIGHTINGALE Muhtathir G3, PERFECT START Perfectly Ready G3, AKATEA Shamardal LR.

The Monsun/Peintre Celebre cross has produced: PROTECTIONIST G1, VADAMOS G2, Pure Brise G1.

Dschingis Khan Konigsstuhl Konigskronung MONSUN br 90 Surumu Mosella Monasia VADAMOS b c 2011 Nureyev Peintre Celebre Peinture Bleue CELEBRE VADALA b 2003 Linamix Vadlamixa Vadlava

Totescoop6 September Stakes, G3, Kempton Park, September 5, 12f 1 Jack Hobbs (GB) 3 br c Halling (USA) - Swain's Gold (USA) (Swain (IRE)) 2 Sweeping Up (GB) 4 b f Sea The Stars (IRE) - Farfala (FR) (Linamix (FR)) 3 Arab Dawn (GB) 4 gr g Dalakhani (IRE) - Victoire Celebre (USA) (Stravinsky (USA)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 6; Wins: 4; Places: 2 Earnings: £952,134 Sire: HALLING. Sire of 65 Stakes winners. In 2015 - JACK HOBBS Swain G1, LORESHO Gulch G3, JUTLAND Darshaan LR, ROMSDAL Singspiel LR, THUNDER TEDDINGTON Anabaa LR, ALL YOURS Josr Algarhoud LR, BALMUSETTE Danehill Dancer LR. 1st Dam: SWAIN'S GOLD by Swain. 3 wins at 3 in USA. Dam of 3 winners: 2006: Dropped Change (f Came Home) unraced. Broodmare.

2007: Fleetwoodmaxi (g Afleet Alex) ran.

2008: MRS GREELEY (f Mr Greeley) 3 wins at 3 and 4.

Broodmare.

2009: Niceofyoutotellme (g Hernando) 4 wins at 3 to 5, 3rd CantorFitzgerald Brigadier Gerard S G3.

2012: JACK HOBBS (c Halling) Sold 60,000gns yearling at TAOC2. 4 wins at 2 and 3, Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby G1, Totescoop6 September S G3, 2nd Investec Derby S G1, Betfred Dante S G2.

2013: Manson (c Equiano) 2014: (c Mayson) 2015: (f Sepoy) 2nd Dam: GOLDEN POND by Don't Forget Me. 7 wins at 2 to 4 at home, France, USA Orchid H G2. Dam of BRAZILIAN (f Stravinsky: Lemhi Go S).

Grandam of LA MALAGUENA. Broodmare Sire: SWAIN. Sire of the dams of 7 Stakes winners. In 2015 - JACK HOBBS Halling G1, PERMIT Dansili G3.

Diesis

Sharpen Up

Doubly Sure HALLING ch 91 Green Dancer Dance Machine Never A Lady JACK HOBBS br c 2012 Nashwan Swain Love Smitten SWAIN'S GOLD b/br 2001 Don't Forget Me Golden Pond Golden Bloom

Toteexacta Sirenia Stakes, G3, Kempton Park, September 5, 6f 1 Rouleau (GB) 2 b c Exceed And Excel (AUS) - Rachelle (IRE) (Mark of Esteem (IRE)) 2 Dream Destination (IRE) 2 b c Showcasing (GB) - Never Let You Down (IRE) (Barathea (IRE)) 3 Adventurous (IRE) 2 b c Invincible Spirit (IRE) - Rosia (IRE) (Mr Prospector (USA)) Age: 2; Starts: 6; Wins: 3; Places: 3 Earnings: £55,703 Sire: EXCEED AND EXCEL. Sire of 99 Stakes winners. In 2015 FLAMBERGE Blazing Sword G1, BURATINO Kingmambo G2, HEADWATER Hurricane Sky G2, JABALI King of Kings G2,

FURNACES Strategic G3, MAMWAAZEL Last Tycoon G3, OTTOMAN Elusive Quality G3, ROULEAU Mark of Esteem G3, THERMAL CURRENT Twining G3, CHLOE IN PARIS Rubiton LR, CIELO CANARIAS Sadler's Wells LR, HAPTIC Beautiful Crown LR, LE CHEF Testa Rossa LR, MOHAVE Encosta de Lago LR, OUT DO Cadeaux Genereux LR, REPARATIONS Red Ransom LR, REWARDING HERO Soviet Star LR. 1st Dam: RACHELLE by Mark of Esteem. Winner at 3 in Italy.

Dam of 4 winners: 2003: AMADEUS WOLF (c Mozart). 4 wins at 2 and 4, Shadwell Stud Middle Park S G1, 2nd VC Bet Nunthorpe S G1, 3rd Betfred Sprint Cup G1, Prix Maurice de Gheest G1. Sire.

2004: Czarina Umbra (f Zamindar) unraced. Broodmare.

2005: ALWAYS A ROCK (c Rock of Gibraltar) 4 wins.

2006: BENEDICTE (f Galileo) Winner at 3. Broodmare.

2008: Universe (f Cape Cross) unraced. Broodmare.

2011: Salvadori (c Teofilo) ran on the flat in UAE. 2013: ROULEAU (c Exceed And Excel) 3 wins at 2, Toteexacta Sirenia S G3, 2nd Julia Graves Roses S LR, 3rd Molecomb S G3.

2014: (c New Approach) 2015: (c Exceed And Excel) 2nd Dam: ROSE VIOLET by Alleged. 2 wins in Italy Premio Minerva LR, 2nd Oaks d'Italia G1. Grandam of WILD WOLF, Mary Pekan. Third dam of MANTISSA. Broodmare Sire: MARK OF ESTEEM. Sire of the dams of 35 Stakes winners. In 2015 ROULEAU Exceed And Excel G3, SANDIVA Footstepsinthesand G3, CRYSTAL ZVEZDA Dubawi LR, GRENDISAR Invincible Spirit LR, TRIP TO RHODOS Rail Link LR, WALDNAH New Approach LR, WILDPARK Shamardal LR, KATIE T Beneficial LR.

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international database The Exceed And Excel/Mark of Esteem cross has produced: ROULEAU G3, EXCELETTE LR. Danzig Danehill Razyana EXCEED AND EXCEL b 2000 Lomond Patrona Gladiolus ROULEAU b c 2013 Darshaan Mark of Esteem Homage RACHELLE b 98 Alleged Rose Violet Shawnee Creek

betfred.com Superior Mile, G3, Haydock Park, September 5, 8f 1 Balty Boys (IRE) 6 b g Cape Cross (IRE) - Chatham Islands (USA) (Elusive Quality (USA)) 2 Sovereign Debt (IRE) 6 gr g Dark Angel (IRE) - Kelsey Rose (GB) (Most Welcome) 3 Hors de Combat (GB) 4 ch g Mount Nelson (GB) - Maid For Winning (USA) (Gone West (USA)) Age: 2-6; Starts: 44; Wins: 7; Places: 14 Earnings: £219,111 Sire: CAPE CROSS. Sire of 103 Stakes winners. In 2015 GOLDEN HORN Dubai Destination G1, KARPINO Sadler's Wells G2, AGENT MURPHY Dansili G3, BALTY BOYS Elusive Quality G3, CONVERGENCE Nayef G3, DON'T BE Fasliyev LR, JORDAN PRINCESS Barathea LR, PLEASURE GAINS Vettori LR, RUGGED CROSS Soviet Star LR. 1st Dam: CHATHAM ISLANDS by Elusive Quality. Winner at 2.

Own sister to TIME PRISONER. Dam of 2 winners: 2009: BALTY BOYS (g Cape Cross) Sold 100,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 7 wins at 2 to 6, 2015, betfred.com Superior Mile G3, 2nd betfred.com Superior Mile G3, 3rd poptelecom.co.uk King Charles II S LR.

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2010: SHORE STEP (g Footstepsinthesand) 4 wins.

2011: (f Footstepsinthesand) 2012: Catsbury (f Teofilo) unraced to date.

2013: The Doha Express (c Canford Cliffs) unraced to date.

2nd Dam: ZELANDA by Night Shift. 4 wins at 2 and 3 Flying Fillies' S LR. Dam of TIME PRISONER (g Elusive Quality: Prix de Ris-Orangis G3), PEARL GREY (f Gone West: Green Ridge Stables Empress S LR, 2nd Chippenham Lodge Cherry Hinton S G2). Grandam of Triple Gold.

Broodmare Sire: ELUSIVE QUALITY. Sire of the dams of 20 Stakes winners. In 2015 MUSTAJEEB Nayef G2, BALTY BOYS Cape Cross G3, GET HAPPY MISTER First Samurai G3, LA RIOJA Hellvelyn G3, OTTOMAN Exceed And Excel G3, QUALITY ROCKS Rock Hard Ten G3, DUBLIN LASS O'Reilly LR. Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier CAPE CROSS b/br 94 Ahonoora Park Appeal Balidaress BALTY BOYS b g 2009 Gone West Elusive Quality Touch of Greatness CHATHAM ISLANDS b 2005 Night Shift Zelanda Zafadola

Betfred Sprint Cup, G1, Haydock Park, September 5, 6f 1 Twilight Son (GB) 3 b c Kyllachy (GB) - Twilight Mistress (GB) (Bin Ajwaad (IRE)) 2 Strath Burn (GB) 3 b c Equiano (FR) - Irish Light (USA) (Irish River (FR)) 3 Magical Memory (IRE) 3 gr g Zebedee (GB) - Marasem (GB) (Cadeaux Genereux) Age: 2-3; Starts: 5; Wins: 5; Places: 0 Earnings: £245,674

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Sire: KYLLACHY. Sire of 25 Stakes winners. In 2015 - SOLE POWER Distant View G1, TWILIGHT SON Bin Ajwaad G1, STEPPER POINT Compton Place G2, KACHY Dubai Destination G3, KYLLACHY QUEEN King Charlemagne LR, ZAPEL Dubai Destination LR. 1st Dam: TWILIGHT MISTRESS

by Bin Ajwaad. 3 wins at 3 to 5.

Dam of 6 winners: 2004: SHADED EDGE (g Bold Edge) 6 wins at 3 to 5.

2006: NIGHT AFFAIR (f Bold Edge) 3 wins at 2 and 4.

Broodmare.

2007: THE CONFESSOR (g Piccolo) 5 wins at 3, 5 and 6.

2010: MUSIC MASTER (c Piccolo) 3 wins at 3 and 4, Al Basti Equiworld Hackwood S G3, 3rd Betfred Sprint Cup G1.

2011: SPRING FLING (f Assertive) Winner at 3.

2012: TWILIGHT SON (c Kyllachy) 5 wins at 2 and 3, Betfred Sprint Cup G1.

2014: (f Assertive) 2015: (f Bahamian Bounty) 2nd Dam: BY CANDLELIGHT by Roi Danzig. 1 win at 3. Dam of Romantic Evening (c Dr Fong: 3rd Stan James Washington Singer S LR) Broodmare Sire: BIN AJWAAD. Sire of the dams of 9 Stakes winners. In 2015 - TWILIGHT SON Kyllachy G1, ACRIDER Placerville LR. Pivotal

Polar Falcon

Fearless Revival KYLLACHY b 98 Song Pretty Poppy Moonlight Serenade TWILIGHT SON b c 2012 Rainbow Quest Bin Ajwaad Salidar TWILIGHT MISTRESS b 98 Roi Danzig

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T von Zastrow Stutenpreis, G2, Baden-Baden, September 5, 2400m 1 Shivajia (GER) 3 ch f Adlerflug (GER) - Shivara (GER) (Monsun) 2 Amona (IRE) 3 b/gr f Aussie Rules (USA) - Abbasharjah (GER) (Tiger Hill (IRE)) 3 Winnemark (GER) 3 b f Lando (GER) - Winterthur (GER) (Alkalde (GER)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 6; Wins: 0; Places: 4 Earnings: £5,807 Sire: ADLERFLUG. Sire of 5 Stakes winners. In 2015 - ITO Tiger Hill G2, SHIVAJIA Monsun G2, NORDIC FLIGHT Diktat LR, WUNDER Dashing Blade LR. 1st Dam: SHIVARA by Monsun.

Winner in Germany. Own sister to Silent Wind. Dam of 4 winners: 2009: SHANJIA (f Soldier Hollow) 2 wins at 3 and 4 in France, Germany, Prix Luth Enchantee Radio Balances LR. 2010: SILVANA (f Silvano) Winner at 3 in Germany.

2011: SHILAYA (f Adlerflug) Winner at 4 in Germany.

2012: SHIVAJIA (f Adlerflug) T von Zastrow Stutenpreis G2.

2014: Shanjo (c Soldier Hollow) 2nd Dam: STROCKIDA by Rocket.

4 wins at 3 and 4 in Germany.

Dam of Silent Wind (g Monsun: 2nd Oppenheim Union-Rennen G2), Stravini (c Platini: 2nd TotoLotto Sprint LR). Grandam of SCOVILLE, SKAGEN. Broodmare Sire: MONSUN. Sire of the dams of 40 Stakes winners. In 2015 - GUILIANI Tertullian G1, MAX DYNAMITE Great Journey G2, SHIVAJIA Adlerflug G2, LUCKY SPEED Silvano G3, KAPOUR Toylsome LR, KEROSIN Tertullian LR, MILLE ET MILLE Muhtathir LR. The Adlerflug/Monsun cross has produced: SHIVAJIA G2, SWACADELIC G2.

international database Sadler's Wells In The Wings High Hawk ADLERFLUG ch 2004 Last Tycoon Aiyana Alya SHIVAJIA ch f 2012 Konigsstuhl Monsun Mosella SHIVARA b 2004 Rocket Strockida Strategie

Prix du Pin, G3, Longchamp, September 6, 1400m 1 Taniyar (IRE) 3 b c Shamardal (USA) - Tanoura (IRE) (Dalakhani (IRE)) 2 La Berma (IRE) 3 b f Lawman (FR) - Full Snow Moon (USA) (Vindication (USA)) 3 Ride Like The Wind (IRE) 3 b c Lope de Vega (IRE) - Biswa (USA) (Kafwain (USA)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 6; Wins: 3; Places: 3 Earnings: £69,210 Sire: SHAMARDAL. Sire of 85 Stakes winners. In 2015 - ABLE FRIEND Volksraad G1, DUNBOYNE EXPRESS Polish Precedent G1, AMARON Bertolini G2, BALIOS Galileo G2, DARIYAN Selkirk G2, DELECTATION More Than Ready G2, AMY ERIA Octagonal G3, FINTRY Indian Ridge G3, FRENCH NAVY Woodman G3, SHAMALIA Redoute's Choice G3, TANIYAR Dalakhani G3, TRYSTER Riverman G3, AKATEA Peintre Celebre LR, DUSKY QUEEN Refuse To Bend LR, FOND WORDS Elusive City LR, JOYFUL HOPE Barathea LR, MAWAAL Darshaan LR, SECRET SHAM Rivotious LR, SIXTH SENSE Sadler's Wells LR, SPEEDY BOARDING Diktat LR, SPERRY Marju LR, WILDPARK Mark of Esteem LR, ZAWRAQ Sadler's Wells LR. 1st Dam: TANOURA by Dalakhani. 2 wins at 2 and 3, EBF Galtres S LR, 2nd Kerry Group Noblesse S G3, 3rd DFS Park Hill

S G2, Qatar Prix de Royallieu G2.

Dam of 2 winners: 2012: TANIYAR (c Shamardal) 3 wins at 3 in France, Prix du Pin G3, 3rd Prix de Pontarme LR. 2013: TANAZA (f Dubawi) 2 wins at 2, Turkey Jockey Club Silver Flash S G3.

2014: (f Redoute's Choice) 2015: (c Excelebration) 2nd Dam: TAKAROUNA by Green Dancer. 2 wins at 3 Pretty Polly S G2. Own sister to TORJOUN. Dam of TAKARIAN (c Doyoun: American H G2 (twice)), TAKALI (c Kris: Royal Whip S G2), TAKAR (c Oratorio: Minstrel S G3), TANOURA (f Dalakhani, see above), Takariya (f Arazi: 3rd Brownstown S LR, Bluebird Platinum S LR) Broodmare Sire: DALAKHANI. Sire of the dams of 11 Stakes winners. In 2015 - TANAZA Dubawi G3, TANIYAR Shamardal G3, WORDS Dansili G3, ZANNDA Azamour G3, KILIMANJARO High Chaparral LR, MASSINGA Selkirk LR, NICHOLS CANYON Authorized LR. The Shamardal/Dalakhani cross has produced: TANIYAR G3, Balansiya G3.

Storm Cat Giant's Causeway Mariah's Storm SHAMARDAL b 2002 Machiavellian Helsinki Helen Street TANIYAR b c 2012 Darshaan Dalakhani Daltawa TANOURA b 2006 Green Dancer Takarouna Tarsila

Prix de Lutece, G3, Longchamp, September 6, 3000m 1 Vazirabad (FR) 3 b g Manduro (GER) - Visorama (IRE) (Linamix (FR)) 2 Big Blue (GB) 3 ch c Galileo (IRE) - Board Meeting (IRE) (Anabaa (USA))

3 Slatina (IRE) 3 ch/gr f Mastercraftsman (IRE) Saudade (GER) (Linamix (FR)) Age: 3; Starts: 5; Wins: 3; Places: 1 Earnings: £53,101 Sire: MANDURO. Sire of 21 Stakes winners. In 2015 - BRACO FORTE First American G1, FRACTIONAL Royal Academy G3, VAZIRABAD Linamix G3, BARAO DA SERRA Ghadeer LR, BONFIRE Night Shift LR, GREATWOOD Galileo LR, TECHNO QUEEN Priolo LR, TRUE STORY Darshaan LR, BARADARI Grand Lodge LR. 1st Dam: VISORAMA by Linamix. 3 wins at 3 in France, Prix de Flore G3, 2nd Prix Corrida G2, 3rd Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud G1. Own sister to VISIONARY and Visionnaire.

Dam of 7 winners: 2006: VIDIYNA (f Danehill Dancer) Winner at 3 in France.

Broodmare.

2007: VIZIYYA (f Sinndar) 2 wins at 3 in France. Broodmare.

2008: VIDAYAR (c Shamardal) 2 wins at 4 in France.

2009: VIZINGA (f Marju) 2 wins at 3 in France. Broodmare.

2010: VISOMIYA (f Rock of Gibraltar) Winner at 3 in France.

Broodmare.

2011: VISORIYNA (f Dansili) 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix La Sorellina LR, 3rd Prix Perth G3, Prix de Lieurey G3.

2012: VAZIRABAD (g Manduro) 3 wins at 3 in France, Prix de Lutece G3.

2nd Dam: VISOR by Mr Prospector. 1 win at 3 in USA. Dam of VARENAR (c Rock of Gibraltar: Total Prix de la Foret G1), VISINDAR (c Sinndar: Prix Greffulhe G2), VISORAMA (f Linamix, see above), VISIONARY (c Linamix: Prix Matchem LR, 3rd Dubai Poule d'Essai des Poulains G1), Visorhill (c Danehill: 2nd La Coupe de Maisons-Laffitte G3), Visionnaire (f Linamix: 2nd Prix Chloe G3, Prix de la Grotte G3,

3rd Prix de Diane Hermes G1, Prix Saint-Alary G1). Grandam of VISIONARIO, Visiyani, Vison Celebre, Danon Major.

Broodmare Sire: LINAMIX. Sire of the dams of 89 Stakes winners. In 2015 - MUHAARAR Oasis Dream G1, SUMBAL Danehill Dancer G2, CARLA BIANCA Dansili G3, EYE IN THE SKY Sinndar G3, VAZIRABAD Manduro G3, ASHLAN Dansili LR, AVABIN Amadeus Wolf LR, HELISA Elusive City LR, ROYAL DOLOIS Silver Frost LR, WOMAN O WAR Kingda Ka LR, DIAKALI Sinndar LR, PEACE AND CO Falco LR. Konigsstuhl Monsun Mosella MANDURO b 2002 Be My Guest Mandellicht Mandelauge VAZIRABAD b g 2012 Mendez Linamix Lunadix VISORAMA gr 2000 Mr Prospector Visor Look

Prix La Rochette, G3, Longchamp, September 6, 1400m 1 Attendu (FR) 2 b c Acclamation (GB) - Gwenseb (FR) (Green Tune (USA)) 2 Lawmaking (GB) 2 b c Zamindar (USA) - Canada Water (GB) (Dansili (GB)) 3 Omar Bradley (USA) 2 b c War Front (USA) - Louve des Reves (IRE) (Sadler's Wells (USA)) Age: 2; Starts: 3; Wins: 2; Places: 1 Earnings: £44,574 Sire: ACCLAMATION. Sire of 32 Stakes winners. In 2015 ATTENDU Green Tune G3, JOHNNY BARNES Danehill G3, ABSOLUTELY SO Selkirk LR, KING OF ROOKS Lycius LR. 1st Dam: GWENSEB by Green Tune. 4 wins at 2 and 3 in

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international database France, Prix du Bois G3, 2nd Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte G2. Dam of 3 winners: 2009: FOREIGN TUNE (f Invincible Spirit) 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix Coronation LR, 2nd Prix de Lieurey G3.

Broodmare.

2010: Coalis (c Oasis Dream) unraced.

2012: IMPASSABLE (f Invincible Spirit) 3 wins at 3 in France, Prix de Sandringham G2.

2013: ATTENDU (c Acclamation) 2 wins at 2 in France, Prix La Rochette G3.

2nd Dam: LA POPESSE by St Jovite. 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France. Dam of GWENSEB (f Green Tune, see above), POP ART (g Bering: Prix Hardatit H. Hurdle LR) Broodmare Sire: GREEN TUNE. Sire of the dams of 19 Stakes winners. In 2015 - IMPASSABLE Invincible Spirit G2, ATTENDU Acclamation G3.

Waajib Royal Applause Flying Melody ACCLAMATION b 99 Ahonoora Princess Athena Shopping Wise ATTENDU b c 2013 Green Dancer Green Tune Soundings GWENSEB ch 2003 St Jovite La Popesse Madonna Sprite

Longines Grosser Preis von Baden, G1, Baden-Baden, September 6, 2400m 1 Prince Gibraltar (FR) 4 ch c Rock of Gibraltar (IRE) - Princess Sofia (UAE) (Pennekamp (USA)) 2 Nightflower (IRE) 3 ch f Dylan Thomas (IRE) - Night of Magic (IRE) (Peintre Celebre (USA)) 3 Sirius (GER) 4 ch c Dashing Blade - Saratina (IRE) (Monsun (GER)) Age: 2-4; Starts: 12; Wins: 4; Places: 6 Earnings: £631,956

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Sire: ROCK OF GIBRALTAR. Sire of 106 Stakes winners. In 2015 ALBORAN SEA Toolighttoquit G1, PRINCE GIBRALTAR Pennekamp G1, AGATON Special Quest LR, AJAXANA Lycius LR, ROYAL ZULU GUARD King's Theatre LR, TONY CURTIS Lomitas LR, TOUNGI Sendawar LR. 1st Dam: PRINCESS SOFIA by Pennekamp. 5 wins at 4 and 5 in France. Dam of 3 winners: 2009: PRINCE OF SOFIA (c Rock of Gibraltar) 3 wins at 3 in France.

2010: LE DELUGE (g Oratorio) 4 wins.

2011: PRINCE GIBRALTAR (c Rock of Gibraltar) Sold 31,746gns yearling at ARAUG. 4 wins at 2 to 4 in France, Germany, Criterium de SaintCloud G1, Longines Grosser Preis von Baden G1, Prix Greffulhe G2, 2nd Juddmonte Grand Prix de Paris G1, Grand Prix de Chantilly G2, 3rd Prix du Jockey Club G1, Sky Bet York S G2, Prix Guillaume d'OrnanoLogis St Germain G2.

2013: Princess Gibraltar (f Rock of Gibraltar) unraced to date.

2014: (c Rock of Gibraltar) 2nd Dam: Russian Royal by Nureyev. 2 wins at 2 and 3, 2nd Federation Brewery Beeswing S G3, Gainsborough Stud Fred Darling S G3, Jersey S G3. Dam of QUEEN CATHERINE (f Machiavellian: Prix de Bagatelle LR), Gretel (f Hansel: 3rd May Hill S G3). Grandam of BOBS PRIDE, GIRL IN FLIGHT, LADY CATHERINE, MOSKOVA, Lakil Princess. Third dam of ILLUMINATE, Export.

Broodmare Sire: PENNEKAMP. Sire of the dams of 9 Stakes winners. In 2015 - PRINCE GIBRALTAR Rock of Gibraltar G1, MUBTAAHIJ Dubawi G2, STRAIGHT TO IT Giant's Causeway LR.

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Danzig Danehill Razyana ROCK OF GIBRALTAR b 99 Be My Guest Offshore Boom Push A Button PRINCE GIBRALTAR ch c 2011 Bering Pennekamp Coral Dance PRINCESS SOFIA b 2002 Nureyev Russian Royal Princess Karenda

Prix d'Aumale, G3, Chantilly, September 8, 1600m 1 Antonoe (USA) 2 b f First Defence (USA) - Ixora (USA) (Dynaformer (USA)) 2 Pleasemetoo (IRE) 2 b f Vale of York (IRE) - Shakeyourbody (USA) (Giant's Causeway (USA)) 3 Gherdaiya (GB) 2 b f Shamardal (USA) - First Fleet (USA) (Woodman (USA)) Age: 2; Starts: 2; Wins: 2; Places: 0 Earnings: £40,698 Sire: FIRST DEFENCE. Sire of 6 Stakes winners. In 2015 ANTONOE Dynaformer G3, IRISH JASPER Mr Greeley G3, DUNDONNELL Danzig LR, TOMBELAINE Danehill LR. 1st Dam: Ixora by Dynaformer. unraced. Dam of 4 winners: 2009: MIXORA (f Mizzen Mast) Winner at 3. Broodmare.

2010: Upbeat Mood (f Mizzen Mast) Winner at 2 in USA, 3rd Runway S, Manhattan Beach S. 2011: PHINDA (f Officer) Winner at 3 in USA. 2013: ANTONOE (f First Defence) 2 wins at 2 in France, Prix d'Aumale G3.

2014: (c Successful Appeal) 2nd Dam: Imroz by Nureyev. 3 wins at 2 and 3, 3rd City of York S LR, 3rd Las Cienegas H G3.

Dam of POSTERITAS (f Lear Fan: Saltwell Signs Virginia Rated S LR). Grandam of MUTUAL TRUST, Pilansberg, Far Afield, Pure Joy.

Broodmare Sire: DYNAFORMER. Sire of the dams of 75 Stakes winners. In 2015 - FORCE THE PASS Speightstown G1, FOREVER SALE Not For Sale G1, GUARDINI Dalakhani G2, ANTONOE First Defence G3, FEATHERED Indian Charlie G3, MULTILATERAL Mizzen Mast LR, NOCE Le Havre LR, TALES OF GRIMM Distorted Humor LR, THE PICKETT FACTOR Gold Tribute LR, TURN IN GREY Martaline LR. Unbridled Unbridled's Song Trolley Song FIRST DEFENCE b 2004 Seattle Slew Honest Lady Toussaud ANTONOE b f 2013 Roberto Dynaformer Andover Way IXORA b 2005 Nureyev Imroz All At Sea

Prix des Chenes, G3, Longchamp, September 9, 1600m 1 Cloth of Stars (IRE) 2 b c Sea The Stars (IRE) - Strawberry Fledge (USA) (Kingmambo (USA)) 2 Vedevani (FR) 2 b c Dubawi (IRE) - Vadawina (IRE) (Unfuwain) 3 Sixth Sense (IRE) 2 ch c Shamardal (USA) - Shinko Hermes (IRE) (Sadler's Wells (USA)) Age: 2; Starts: 2; Wins: 2; Places: 0 Earnings: £40,698 Sire: SEA THE STARS. Sire of 20 Stakes winners. In 2015 STORM THE STARS Sadler's Wells G2, CASUAL SMILE Red Ransom G3, CLOTH OF STARS Kingmambo G3, QUASILLO Acatenango G3, ALL AT SEA Alzao LR, ASTRONEREUS Surako LR, FRENCH DRESSING Halling LR, NIGHT OF LIGHT Sunday Silence LR, RADANPOUR Lammtarra LR, TALL SHIP Barathea LR.

international database 1st Dam: Strawberry Fledge by Kingmambo. Own sister to LIGHT SHIFT and Erewhon. Dam of 2 winners: 2010: The Best Doctor (c Pivotal) 2011: WARRIOR OF LIGHT (g High Chaparral) 2 wins at 2 and 3.

2013: CLOTH OF STARS (c Sea The Stars) Sold 400,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 2 wins at 2 in France, Prix des Chenes G3.

2014: (c High Chaparral) 2015: (f High Chaparral) 2nd Dam: Lingerie by Shirley Heights. Dam of LIGHT SHIFT (f Kingmambo: Vodafone Oaks S G1, 2nd Irish Oaks G1, 3rd Blue Square Nassau S G1), SHIVA (f Hector Protector: Tattersalls Gold Cup G1, 2nd Champion S G1, 3rd Eclipse S G1), LIMNOS (c Hector Protector: Prix Foy G2, P. Jean de Chaudenay-G. P. du Printemps G2), BURNING SUNSET (f Caerleon: Prix Solitude LR, 3rd Prix d'Harcourt G2), Hyades (c Aldebaran: 2nd Charles Whittingham Mem. H G1), Erewhon (c Kingmambo: 2nd Pasadena S LR, La Puente S LR). Grandam of SMOKING SUN, MAGADAN, ZHIYI, Ikat, KING OF DUDES. Third dam of MAIN SEQUENCE, Eltezam.

Broodmare Sire: KINGMAMBO. Sire of the dams of 96 Stakes winners. In 2015 - BURATINO Exceed And Excel G2, GOLD MEDAL DANCER Medaglia d'Oro G2, SUSKA Exchange Rate G2, TULLIUS Le Vie Dei Colori G2, WALZERTAKT Montjeu G2, CLOTH OF STARS Sea The Stars G3, KARAMELA Mastercraftsman G3, KITTEN'S POINT Kitten's Joy G3, ONE FINE DAY Trippi G3, SHUJI Kinshasa No Kiseki G3, SKY KINGDOM Empire Maker G3, SPEEDY SUZY Trippi G3, WINNING CAUSE Giant's Causeway G3, MAMBOMISS Mastercraftsman LR, MIDSUMMER SUN Monsun LR, ROUND TWO Teofilo LR, SOLOMON Rebuttal LR, KISANJI Teofilo LR.

The Sea The Stars/Kingmambo cross has produced: CLOTH OF STARS G3, SIVOLIERE G3, Migwar LR. Green Desert Cape Cross Park Appeal SEA THE STARS b 2006 Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta CLOTH OF STARS b c 2013 Mr Prospector Kingmambo Miesque STRAWBERRY FLEDGE b 2005 Shirley Heights Lingerie Northern Trick

Japan Racing Association Sceptre Stakes, G3, Doncaster, September 10, 7f 1 Realtra (IRE) 3 gr f Dark Angel (IRE) - Devious Diva (IRE) (Dr Devious (IRE)) 2 Pelerin (IRE) 4 ch f Shamardal (USA) - Fragrancy (IRE) (Singspiel (IRE)) 3 Terror (IRE) 3 b f Kodiac (GB) Baltic Belle (IRE) (Redback (GB)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 14; Wins: 4; Places: 6 Earnings: £130,387 Sire: DARK ANGEL. Sire of 24 Stakes winners. In 2015 MECCA'S ANGEL Atraf G1, BIRCHWOOD Exceed And Excel G2, GUTAIFAN Lahib G2, MARKAZ Atraf G3, REALTRA Dr Devious G3, STORMFLY Lomitas G3, BOOMSHACKERLACKER Barathea LR, DELIZIA Whipper LR, DIVINE Common Grounds LR, FANCIFUL ANGEL Groom Dancer LR, HEAVEN'S GUEST Tagula LR, PROMISED MONEY Primo Dominie LR, SOVEREIGN DEBT Most Welcome LR. 1st Dam: DEVIOUS DIVA by Dr Devious. Winner at 2. Dam of 1 winner: 2007: Eden Green (c Verglas) unraced.

2008: Divas Dream (f Refuse To Bend) 2010: Molans Mare (f Shirocco) ran a few times.

2011: Salut Titi (f Manduro) 2012: REALTRA (f Dark Angel) Sold 7,742gns yearling at TISEP. 4 wins at 2 and 3, Japan Racing Association Sceptre S G3, Betfred EBF Stallions Dick Hern S LR, 2nd Coolmore Stud EBF Naas Juv.Sprint S LR, 3rd Longines Michael Seely Memorial S LR. 2014: (f Elusive Pimpernel) 2nd Dam: Dawn Chorus by Mukaddamah. unraced. Dam of SOLID APPROACH (g Definite Article: Queen Mother's Memorial Cup LR), Bahati (f Intikhab: 2nd Racehorse Warwick Pub Eternal S LR), Dangle (f Desert Style: 2nd Flame of Tara EBF S LR).

Grandam of Reroute.

Broodmare Sire: DR DEVIOUS. Sire of the dams of 22 Stakes winners. In 2015 - AIR PILOT Zamindar G3, REALTRA Dark Angel G3.

Royal Applause Acclamation Princess Athena DARK ANGEL gr 2005 Machiavellian Midnight Angel Night At Sea REALTRA gr f 2012 Ahonoora Dr Devious Rose of Jericho DEVIOUS DIVA ch 2002 Mukaddamah Dawn Chorus Singing Millie

DFS Park Hill Stakes, G2, Doncaster, September 10, 14f 110yds 1 Gretchen (GB) 3 ch f Galileo (IRE) - Dolores (GB) (Danehill) 2 Melodious (GB) 3 b f Cape Cross (IRE) - Gower Song (GB) (Singspiel (IRE)) 3 Asyad (IRE) 4 b f New Approach (IRE) - Elle Danzig (GER) (Roi Danzig (USA)) Age: 3; Starts: 5; Wins: 3; Places: 0 Earnings: £82,629 Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 212 Stakes winners. In 2015 - GLENEAGLES

Storm Cat G1, HIGHLAND REEL Danehill G1, AMPERE Sri Pekan G2, BALLYDOYLE Storm Cat G2, CURVY Inchinor G2, GRETCHEN Danehill G2, SECRET GESTURE Danehill G2, TANBY Danewin G2, WEDDING VOW Danehill Dancer G2, BONDI BEACH Danehill G3, DEAUVILLE Danehill G3, FIELDS OF ATHENRY Danehill G3, FOUND Intikhab G3, KISSED BY ANGELS Danehill Dancer G3, MIZZOU Darshaan G3, MONDIALISTE Kaldoun G3, ORDER OF ST GEORGE Gone West G3, PHOTO CALL Rock of Gibraltar G3, RECORDER Danehill Dancer G3, SERTORIUS Encosta de Lago G3, SILVER GALAXY Pivotal G3, ALOFT Storm Cat LR, BIG BLUE Anabaa LR, EASTER Stravinsky LR, EYE OF THE STORM Shirley Heights LR, FAUFILER Celtic Swing LR, GOSPEL CHOIR Pivotal LR, ILTEMAS Danehill LR, KIND OF MAGIC Danehill Dancer LR, KINGFISHER Halling LR, OBSERVATIONAL Cadeaux Genereux LR, OUTSTANDING Mozart LR, TELESCOPE Darshaan LR, THE CORSICAN Danehill LR, WINDSOR PARK Mr Prospector LR. 1st Dam: DOLORES by Danehill.

Winner at 3, EBF Conqueror S LR, 2nd Peugeot Sun Chariot S G2, 3rd Coronation S G1. Dam of 5 winners: 2004: SAMUEL (g Sakhee) 2 wins at 4 and 6, Doncaster Cup G2.

2005: DUNCAN (g Dalakhani) 6 wins at 3 to 6 at home, France, Irish Field Irish St Leger G1.

2006: Howard (c Haafhd) ran.

2007: Deirdre (f Dubawi) Winner at 2, 3rd Blue Square Height of Fashion S LR. Broodmare.

2011: STELLA BELLISSIMA (f Sea The Stars) Winner at 3.

2012: GRETCHEN (f Galileo) 3 wins at 3, DFS Park Hill S G2, British Stallion Stud EBF Chalice S LR. 2014: Romina (f Raven's Pass) 2015: (f Al Kazeem)

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international database 2nd Dam: AGNUS by In The Wings. 2 wins at 2 and 3 in Belgium. Dam of DOLORES (f Danehill, see above) Broodmare Sire: DANEHILL. Sire of the dams of 301 Stakes winners. In 2015 - COSMIC ENDEAVOUR Northern Meteor G1, FREE EAGLE High Chaparral G1, HALLOWED CROWN Street Sense G1, HIGHLAND REEL Galileo G1, PRIDE OF DUBAI Street Cry G1, VANCOUVER Medaglia d'Oro G1, CUSTOM CUT Notnowcato G2, GRETCHEN Galileo G2, MUTHMIR Invincible Spirit G2, SECRET GESTURE Galileo G2, BERLING Montjeu G3, BONDI BEACH Galileo G3, DEAUVILLE Galileo G3, EL VALLE Dobby Road G3, FIELDS OF ATHENRY Galileo G3, FORGOTTEN RULES Nayef G3, JOHNNY BARNES Acclamation G3, KOKORONO AI Stay Gold G3, MAJESTIC QUEEN Kheleyf G3, MR SINGH High Chaparral G3, PASSING SHOT Swiss Ace G3, SCRATCHY BOTTOM Sebring G3, SOLICIT Street Cry G3, TESTED Selkirk G3, FALINO Fusaichi Pegasus LR, FEDERAL Medaglia d'Oro LR, GOOD BABY Hussonet LR, ILTEMAS Galileo LR, KNIGHT'S COMMAND Pins LR, LANDLOCKED Zabeel LR, LET'S MAKE ADEAL Red Ransom LR, MAGIC HURRICANE Hurricane Run LR, NAYELI More Than Ready LR, RACING EIGHT Mossman LR, THE CORSICAN Galileo LR, TOMBELAINE First Defence LR, TOWER OF LONHRO Lonhro LR, WOODWIN W More Than Ready LR, BELTOR Authorized LR, NANDO Hernando LR, RED KINGDOM Deep Impact LR. The Galileo/Danehill cross has produced: BANC DE FORTUNE G1, CIMA DE TRIOMPHE G1, CUIS GHAIRE G1, FRANKEL G1, GOLDEN LILAC G1, HIGHLAND REEL G1, INTELLO G1, MAYBE G1, NOBLE MISSION G1, ORCHESTRA G1, RODERIC O'CONNOR G1, ROMANTICA

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G1, SCINTILLULA G1, SECRET GESTURE G1, TAPESTRY G1, TEOFILO G1, BONDI BEACH G2, GRETCHEN G2, REEM G2, CRYSTAL GAL G3, DAZZLING G3, DEAUVILLE G3, FIELDS OF ATHENRY G3, GALIWAY G3, JOHN F KENNEDY G3, LAGALP G3, MEKONG RIVER G3, SIDERA G3, THE CORSICAN G3, WONDERFULLY G3, ILTEMAS LR, MISS GALILEI LR, VIA GALILEI LR, BALLYGLASHEEN LR, SUPASUNDAE LR, Galileo's Destiny G1, Gile Na Greine G1, Mars G1, The Assayer G1, Brightest G3, Circling G3, Claiomh Solais G3, Impulsive Moment G3, Marksmanship G3, Acteur Celebre LR, Amerique LR, Provenance LR, Pageboy LR. Northern Dancer Sadler's Wells Fairy Bridge GALILEO b 98 Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta GRETCHEN ch f 2012 Danzig Danehill Razyana DOLORES b 99 In The Wings Agnus Wavy Reef

lstsecuritysolutions May Hill Stakes, G2, Doncaster, September 11, 8f 1 Turret Rocks (IRE) 2 b f Fastnet Rock (AUS) - Beyond Compare (IRE) (Galileo (IRE)) 2 Marenko (GB) 2 b f Exceed And Excel (AUS) - Safina (GB) (Pivotal (GB)) 3 Opal Tiara (IRE) 2 b f Thousand Words (GB) - Zarafa (GB) (Fraam (GB)) Age: 2; Starts: 4; Wins: 2; Places: 2 Earnings: £54,848 Sire: FASTNET ROCK. Sire of 83 Stakes winners. In 2015 DIAMONDSANDRUBIES Sadler's Wells G1, MAGICOOL Galileo G1, QUALIFY Galileo G1, FIRST SEAL Scenic G2, TURRET ROCKS Galileo G2, AMICUS El Moxie

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G3, COUGAR MOUNTAIN Nureyev G3, FASCINATING ROCK Polar Falcon G3, LA SALDANA Singspiel G3, UCHENNA Acatenango G3, BEWHATYOUWANNABE Beautiful Crown LR, HARLEM RIVER Xaar LR, LUMOSTY Bachelor Duke LR, NINTH LEGION Xaar LR, RESET IN BLUE Indian Ridge LR, SATURN ROCK Ne Coupez Pas LR, ZHUKOVA Galileo LR. 1st Dam: Beyond Compare by Galileo. Dam of 2 winners: 2010: BEYOND THANKFUL (c Whipper) 7 wins at 2, 4 and 5 at home, Australia, Carlton Mid Wyong Gold Cup LR, 2nd JRA Killavullan S G3.

2011: Beyond Intensity (f Intense Focus) 2012: Vintage Charm (f Vocalised) 2013: TURRET ROCKS (f Fastnet Rock) 2 wins at 2, lstsecuritysolutions May Hill S G2, 3rd Turkey Jockey Club Silver Flash S G3.

2014: (c Intense Focus) Broodmare Sire: GALILEO. Sire of the dams of 40 Stakes winners. In 2015 - MAGICOOL Fastnet Rock G1, NIGHT OF THUNDER Dubawi G1, QUALIFY Fastnet Rock G1, BALIOS Shamardal G2, GALILEO GOLD Paco Boy G2, MANATEE Monsun G2, TURRET ROCKS Fastnet Rock G2, LEA First Samurai G3, BERTINORO Aussie Rules LR, BEYOND THANKFUL Whipper LR, GREATWOOD Manduro LR, MOJO RISIN Lope de Vega LR, THUNDER FANTASY Lucky Owners LR, ZHUKOVA Fastnet Rock LR, FOR ME Shirocco LR, HARGAM Sinndar LR, SOLAR FOCUS Intense Focus LR. The Fastnet Rock/Galileo cross has produced: MAGICOOL G1, QUALIFY G1, ROCK HERO G2, TURRET ROCKS G2, EAGLE ISLAND LR, ZHUKOVA LR, Shogun G2, Sailing By G3.

Danzig Danehill Razyana FASTNET ROCK b 2001 Royal Academy Piccadilly Circus Gatana TURRET ROCKS b f 2013 Sadler's Wells Galileo Urban Sea BEYOND COMPARE ch 2005 Nashwan Gold Bust Riviere d'Or

Socialites Cigarettes Doncaster Cup, G2, Doncaster, September 11, 18f 1 Pallasator (GB) 6 b g Motivator (GB) - Ela Athena (GB) (Ezzoud (IRE)) 2 Clondaw Warrior (IRE) 8 br g Overbury (IRE) - Thespian (IRE) (Tiraaz (USA)) 3 Suegioo (FR) 6 ch g Manduro (GER) - Mantesera (IRE) (In The Wings) Age: 2-6; Starts: 16; Wins: 6; Places: 6 Earnings: £206,524 Sire: MOTIVATOR. Sire of 23 Stakes winners. In 2015 - TREVE Anabaa G1, PALLASATOR Ezzoud G2, SKY HUNTER Silver Hawk G2, THE TWISLER Polish Precedent LR. 1st Dam: ELA ATHENA by Ezzoud. 3 wins at 3 and 4, Unigate Foodservice Lancashire Oaks G3, 2nd Nassau S G1, Yorkshire Oaks G1, Gran Premio di Milano G1, Man O'War S G1, Hong Kong Vase G1, 3rd Turf Classic Invitational S G1, Man O'War S G1. Dam of 3 winners: 2003: Inbuilt Beauty (f Giant's Causeway) ran 3 times.

Broodmare.

2004: Ela's Giant (f Giant's Causeway) unraced. Broodmare.

2005: Fastella (f Fasliyev).

Broodmare.

2006: KHAN TENGRI (g Sadler's Wells) 3 wins over hurdles.

2008: Elas Diamond (f Danehill Dancer) Winner at 2, 2nd Montrose S LR. Broodmare.

international database 2009: PALLASATOR (g Motivator) Sold 32,000gns yearling at TAOC2. 6 wins at 3, 5 and 6, Socialites Cigarettes Doncaster Cup G2, Jockey Club Rose Bowl LR, 3rd Qipco Brit.

Champions Long Distance Cup G2.

2010: Elas Law (f Lawman) ran once.

2013: Alphonsus (c Invincible Spirit) unraced to date.

2014: (f Exceed And Excel) 2nd Dam: CRODELLE by Formidable. 1 win at 3 in France.

Dam of ELA ATHENA (f Ezzoud, see above) Broodmare Sire: EZZOUD. Sire of the dams of 11 Stakes winners. In 2015 - PALLASATOR Motivator G2.

Sadler's Wells Montjeu Floripedes MOTIVATOR b 2002 Gone West Out West Chellingoua PALLASATOR b g 2009 Last Tycoon Ezzoud Royal Sister II ELA ATHENA gr 96 Formidable Crodelle Pizziri

Fly Aer Lingus Flying Childers Stakes, G2, Doncaster, September 11, 5f 1 Gutaifan (IRE) 2 gr c Dark Angel (IRE) - Alikhlas (GB) (Lahib (USA)) 2 Ornate (GB) 2 b c Bahamian Bounty (GB) - Adorn (GB) (Kyllachy (GB)) 3 Log Out Island (IRE) 2 b c Dark Angel (IRE) - White Daffodil (IRE) (Footstepsinthesand (GB)) Age: 2; Starts: 6; Wins: 4; Places: 2 Earnings: £182,767 Sire: DARK ANGEL. Sire of 24 Stakes winners. In 2015 MECCA'S ANGEL Atraf G1, BIRCHWOOD Exceed And Excel G2, GUTAIFAN Lahib G2,

MARKAZ Atraf G3, REALTRA Dr Devious G3, STORMFLY Lomitas G3, BOOMSHACKERLACKER Barathea LR, DELIZIA Whipper LR, DIVINE Common Grounds LR, FANCIFUL ANGEL Groom Dancer LR, HEAVEN'S GUEST Tagula LR, PROMISED MONEY Primo Dominie LR, SOVEREIGN DEBT Most Welcome LR. 1st Dam: ALIKHLAS by Lahib.

Winner at 3. Dam of 7 winners: 1999: ANNE TUDOR (f Anabaa) Winner at 3. Dam of Alhaban (g Verglas: 6 wins at 2 to 8, 2014, 2nd One 51 Railway S G2) 2001: SILK FAN (f Unfuwain) 3 wins at 2 and 3. Dam of Haikbidiac (c Kodiac: 2 wins at 2, 3rd Investec Woodcote S LR, 3rd Prix d'Arenberg G3), Eagle Rock (g High Chaparral: 5 wins, 2nd victorchandler.com Summit Juv. Hurdle G2) 2002: IMPERIAL RULE (g Second Empire) Winner at 3.

2003: Shallika (f Alhaarth) unraced. Broodmare.

2004: Zawariq (f Marju) ran twice. Broodmare.

2005: Granny Bea (f Galileo) unraced. Broodmare.

2007: BLASKET SPIRIT (g King's Best) 5 wins.

2009: WARCROWN (g Azamour) Winner at 3.

2010: Cest Notre Gris (g Verglas) 2 wins at 2, 3rd Eyrefield S LR. 2012: Savvy (f Verglas) 2013: GUTAIFAN (c Dark Angel) 4 wins at 2 at home, France, Fly Aer Lingus Flying Childers S G2, Prix Robert Papin G2, 2nd Darley Prix Morny G1.

2nd Dam: MATHAAYL by Shadeed. 2 wins at 3. Dam of SAHOOL (f Unfuwain: EBF Chalice S LR, 2nd Bet365 Lancashire Oaks G2, Ribblesdale S G2). Grandam of MARAAHEL, Huja. Third dam of TAZAHUM. Broodmare Sire: LAHIB. Sire of the dams of 16 Stakes winners.

In 2015 - GUTAIFAN Dark Angel G2.

Royal Applause Acclamation Princess Athena DARK ANGEL gr 2005 Machiavellian Midnight Angel Night At Sea GUTAIFAN gr c 2013 Riverman Lahib Lady Cutlass ALIKHLAS b/br 94 Shadeed Mathaayl Manal

Willis Champions Juvenile Stakes, G3, Leopardstown, September 12, 8f 1 Johannes Vermeer (IRE) 2 b c Galileo (IRE) - Inca Princess (IRE) (Holy Roman Emperor (IRE)) 2 True Solitaire (IRE) 2 b c Oasis Dream (GB) - Majestic Silver (IRE) (Linamix (FR)) 3 Sanus Per Aquam (IRE) 2 b c Teofilo (IRE) - Fainne (IRE) (Peintre Celebre (USA)) Age: 2; Starts: 2; Wins: 1; Places: 1 Earnings: £7,981 Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 214 Stakes winners. In 2015 - BONDI BEACH Danehill G1, GLENEAGLES Storm Cat G1, HIGHLAND REEL Danehill G1, MINDING Danehill Dancer G1, ORDER OF ST GEORGE Gone West G1, AMPERE Sri Pekan G2, BALLYDOYLE Storm Cat G2, CURVY Inchinor G2, GRETCHEN Danehill G2, SECRET GESTURE Danehill G2, TANBY Danewin G2, WEDDING VOW Danehill Dancer G2, DEAUVILLE Danehill G3, FIELDS OF ATHENRY Danehill G3, FOUND Intikhab G3, JOHANNES VERMEER Holy Roman Emperor G3, KISSED BY ANGELS Danehill Dancer G3, MIZZOU Darshaan G3, MONDIALISTE Kaldoun G3, PHOTO CALL Rock of Gibraltar G3, RECORDER Danehill Dancer G3, SERTORIUS Encosta de Lago G3, SILVER GALAXY Pivotal G3, ALOFT Storm Cat LR, BIG BLUE Anabaa LR, EASTER Stravinsky LR, EYE OF THE STORM Shirley Heights LR, FAUFILER Celtic

Swing LR, GOSPEL CHOIR Pivotal LR, ILTEMAS Danehill LR, KIND OF MAGIC Danehill Dancer LR, KINGFISHER Halling LR, OBSERVATIONAL Cadeaux Genereux LR, OUTSTANDING Mozart LR, TELESCOPE Darshaan LR, THE CORSICAN Danehill LR, WINDSOR PARK Mr Prospector LR. 1st Dam: INCA PRINCESS by Holy Roman Emperor. Winner at 2.

Dam of 1 winner: 2013: JOHANNES VERMEER (c Galileo) Sold 238,095gns yearling at GOOY1. 1 win at 2, Willis Champions Juvenile S G3.

2014: (f Galileo) 2nd Dam: MILETRIAN by Marju.

3 wins at 2 and 3 Ribblesdale S G2.

Broodmare Sire: HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR. Sire of the dams of 1 Stakes winners. In 2015 JOHANNES VERMEER Galileo G3.

Northern Dancer Sadler's Wells Fairy Bridge GALILEO b 98 Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta JOHANNES VERMEER b c 2013 Danehill Holy Roman Emperor L'On Vite INCA PRINCESS b 2008 Marju Miletrian Warg

QIPCO Irish Champion Stakes, G1, Leopardstown, September 12, 10f 1 Golden Horn (GB) 3 b c Cape Cross (IRE) - Fleche d'Or (GB) (Dubai Destination (USA)) 2 Found (IRE) 3 b f Galileo (IRE) Red Evie (IRE) (Intikhab (USA)) 3 Free Eagle (IRE) 4 b c High Chaparral (IRE) - Polished Gem (IRE) (Danehill (USA)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 7; Wins: 6; Places: 1 Earnings: £1,877,769

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international database Sire: CAPE CROSS. Sire of 103 Stakes winners. In 2015 GOLDEN HORN Dubai Destination G1, KARPINO Sadler's Wells G2, AGENT MURPHY Dansili G3, BALTY BOYS Elusive Quality G3, CONVERGENCE Nayef G3, DON'T BE Fasliyev LR, JORDAN PRINCESS Barathea LR, PLEASURE GAINS Vettori LR, RUGGED CROSS Soviet Star LR. 1st Dam: Fleche d'Or by Dubai Destination. unraced. Dam of 2 winners: 2011: EASTERN BELLE (f Champs Elysees) Winner at 3, Lord Weinstock Mem. Ballymacoll S LR, 2nd New York S G2.

2012: GOLDEN HORN (c Cape Cross) Sold 190,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 6 wins at 2 and 3, Investec Derby S G1, Coral Eclipse S G1, QIPCO Irish Champion S G1, Betfred Dante S G2, Feilden S LR, 2nd Juddmonte International S G1.

2013: Golden Reign (f Champs Elysees) unraced to date.

2014: (f Acclamation) 2nd Dam: NURYANA by Nureyev. 2 wins at 3 Grand Metropolitan S LR. Dam of REBECCA SHARP (f Machiavellian: Coronation S G1, 2nd Queen Elizabeth II S G1), MYSTIC KNIGHT (g Caerleon: Tripleprint Derby Trial S G3), HIDDEN HOPE (f Daylami: Cheshire Oaks LR, 2nd Lancashire Oaks G2, Prix de Pomone G2), Rosse (f Kris: 2nd Charles Heidsieck Marshall S LR), Nyarhini (f Fantastic Light: 3rd 32red.com Lupe S LR, intercasino.co.uk Masaka S LR), Nuryandra (f Reference Point: 3rd Chesham S LR). Grandam of TOKEN OF LOVE, OUR OBSESSION, MISS PINKERTON, BROCCO BABE, Grand Central, Fidelia, Farringdon. Third dam of GOLDONI, This Is The Day, Vanity Rules.

Broodmare Sire: DUBAI DESTINATION. Sire of the dams

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of 11 Stakes winners. In 2015 GOLDEN HORN Cape Cross G1, POSTPONED Dubawi G1, DUTCH CONNECTION Dutch Art G3, KACHY Kyllachy G3, SLIGHTLY SWEET Charge Forward G3, ESHERA Oratorio LR, LEXINGTON TIMES Paco Boy LR, ZAPEL Kyllachy LR. The Cape Cross/Dubai Destination cross has produced: GOLDEN HORN G1, Always Smile LR. Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier CAPE CROSS b/br 94 Ahonoora Park Appeal Balidaress GOLDEN HORN b c 2012 Kingmambo Dubai Destination Mysterial FLECHE D'OR b 2006 Nureyev Nuryana Loralane

KPMG Enterprise Stakes, G3, Leopardstown, September 12, 12f 1 Fascinating Rock (IRE) 4 b c Fastnet Rock (AUS) - Miss Polaris (GB) (Polar Falcon (USA)) 2 Panama Hat (GB) 4 ch g Medicean (GB) - Street Style (IRE) (Rock of Gibraltar (IRE)) 3 John F Kennedy (IRE) 3 b c Galileo (IRE) - Rumplestiltskin (IRE) (Danehill (USA)) Age: 2-4; Starts: 10; Wins: 5; Places: 1 Earnings: £209,134 Sire: FASTNET ROCK. Sire of 83 Stakes winners. In 2015 DIAMONDSANDRUBIES Sadler's Wells G1, MAGICOOL Galileo G1, QUALIFY Galileo G1, FIRST SEAL Scenic G2, TURRET ROCKS Galileo G2, AMICUS El Moxie G3, COUGAR MOUNTAIN Nureyev G3, FASCINATING ROCK Polar Falcon G3, LA SALDANA Singspiel G3, UCHENNA Acatenango G3, BEWHATYOUWANNABE Beautiful Crown LR, HARLEM

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RIVER Xaar LR, LUMOSTY Bachelor Duke LR, NINTH LEGION Xaar LR, RESET IN BLUE Indian Ridge LR, SATURN ROCK Ne Coupez Pas LR, ZHUKOVA Galileo LR. 1st Dam: MISS POLARIS by Polar Falcon. 2 wins at 3 and 4. Own sister to EURO FALCON. Dam of 3 winners: 2008: SECRETSUBSTITUTE (g High Chaparral) Winner at 3.

2009: QUICK JACK (g Footstepsinthesand) 6 wins, Guinness Galway H. Hurdle G1.

2011: FASCINATING ROCK (c Fastnet Rock) 5 wins at 3 and 4, Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial S G3, So You Think EBF Mooresbridge S G3, P W McGrath Memorial Ballysax S G3, KPMG Enterprise S G3, Heritage S LR, 2nd Tattersalls Gold Cup G1.

2013: (c Cape Cross) 2015: (f Rock of Gibraltar) 2nd Dam: SARABAH by ElaMana-Mou. 1 win at 3. Dam of EURO FALCON (c Polar Falcon: Sandbahn G. P. Deutschen Buchmacher LR), Saratov (g Rudimentary: 3rd Acomb S LR), Mangusta (f Shareef Dancer: 3rd Nereide Rennen LR), Basbousate Nadia (f Wolfhound: 3rd ABN Amro Futures Ltd Dragon S LR).

Grandam of MANOU. Broodmare Sire: POLAR FALCON. Sire of the dams of 32 Stakes winners. In 2015 FASCINATING ROCK Fastnet Rock G3, QUICK JACK Footstepsinthesand LR. Danzig Danehill Razyana FASTNET ROCK b 2001 Royal Academy Piccadilly Circus Gatana FASCINATING ROCK b c 2011 Nureyev Polar Falcon Marie d'Argonne MISS POLARIS b 2001 Ela-Mana-Mou Sarabah Be Discreet

Coolmore Fastnet Rock Matron Stakes, G1, Leopardstown, September 12, 8f 1 Legatissimo (IRE) 3 b f Danehill Dancer (IRE) - Yummy Mummy (GB) (Montjeu (IRE)) 2 Cladocera (GER) 4 b f Oasis Dream (GB) - Caesarine (FR) (Pivotal (GB)) 3 Ainippe (IRE) 3 b f Captain Rio (GB) - Imitation (GB) (Darshaan) Age: 2-3; Starts: 10; Wins: 5; Places: 4 Earnings: £892,585 Sire: DANEHILL DANCER. Sire of 169 Stakes winners. In 2015 ESOTERIQUE Dancing Brave G1, LEGATISSIMO Montjeu G1, JAZZI TOP Zafonic G2, SUMBAL Linamix G2, WALTZING MATILDA Gone West G2, AFFAIRE SOLITAIRE Alzao G3, OSAILA Entrepreneur G3, AMABELLE Bahri LR. 1st Dam: YUMMY MUMMY by Montjeu. Winner at 3. Own sister to FAME AND GLORY. Dam of 3 winners: 2010: ANOTHER COCKTAIL (g Dalakhani) Winner at 3.

2011: ROYAL BATTALION (g Sea The Stars) Winner over hurdles at 4.

2012: LEGATISSIMO (f Danehill Dancer) Sold 350,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 5 wins at 2 and 3, Qatar Nassau S G1, Qipco 1000 Guineas G1, Coolmore Fastnet Rock Matron S G1, ISF Victor McCalmont Memorial EBF S LR, 2nd Investec Oaks S G1, Sea the Stars Pretty Polly S G1, Flame of Tara EBF S LR. 2014: (f Redoute's Choice) 2015: (f Shamardal) 2nd Dam: Gryada by Shirley Heights. 2 wins at 2, 3rd Premio Dormello G3. Own sister to Golan Heights. Dam of FAME AND GLORY (c Montjeu: Ascot Gold Cup G1, Tattersalls Gold Cup G1, Coronation Cup G1, Irish Derby G1, Criterium de

international database Saint-Cloud G1, 2nd Derby S G1, Tatts Millions Irish Champion S G1), Grampian (c Selkirk: 2nd Manchester Evening News July S LR, Silver Cup H LR), Guaranda (f Acatenango: 3rd EBF Upavon S LR). Grandam of GRAVITATION, GREATWOOD. Third dam of GOOD DONNA, Gibeon.

Broodmare Sire: MONTJEU. Sire of the dams of 31 Stakes winners. In 2015 - LEGATISSIMO Danehill Dancer G1, EXQUISITE JEWEL Lucky Unicorn G3, BROKEN GAME Broken Vow LR, CODE RED Bahamian Bounty LR, FINIDAPREST Dylan Thomas LR, JOURNEY Dubawi LR, LADY DUTCH Dutch Art LR, LADY OF DUBAI Dubawi LR, MAHSOOB Dansili LR, PARISH HALL Teofilo LR, MCKINLEY Kheleyf LR, PROLOGUE Duelled LR, SAMSTOWN Kingsalsa LR. The Danehill Dancer/Montjeu cross has produced: LEGATISSIMO G1, Dynasty G3.

Danzig Danehill Razyana DANEHILL DANCER b 93 Sharpen Up Mira Adonde Lettre d'Amour LEGATISSIMO b f 2012 Sadler's Wells Montjeu Floripedes YUMMY MUMMY b 2005 Shirley Heights Gryada Grimpola

Clipper Logistics Solonaway Stakes, G2, Leopardstown, September 12, 8f 1 Custom Cut (IRE) 6 b g Notnowcato (GB) - Polished Gem (IRE) (Danehill (USA)) 2 Top Notch Tonto (IRE) 5 ch g Thousand Words (GB) - Elite Hope (USA) (Moment of Hope) 3 Lightning Spear (GB) 4 ch c Pivotal (GB) - Atlantic Destiny (IRE) (Royal Academy (USA)) Age: 2-6; Starts: 43; Wins: 12; Places: 16 Earnings: £476,211

Sire: NOTNOWCATO. Sire of 4 Stakes winners. In 2015 - CUSTOM CUT Danehill G2, CORNET OBOLENSKY Caerleon LR. 1st Dam: POLISHED GEM by Danehill. Winner at 2. Own sister to DRESS TO THRILL. Dam of 4 winners: 2008: SAPPHIRE (f Medicean) 6 wins at 3 and 4, Qipco Brit.Champions Fillies/Mare S G2, 2nd Barclays Bnk Ireland Pretty Polly S G1. Broodmare.

2009: CUSTOM CUT (g Notnowcato) 12 wins at 3 to 6, 2015, bet365 Mile G2, Solonaway S G2, Joel S G2, Desmond S G3, Gladness S G3, Strensall S G3, Midsummer S LR, Pomfret S LR, 2nd Investec Diomed S G3, Big Bad Bob Gladness S G3, Amethyst S G3, Spring Trophy S LR, 3rd Totepool Sovereign S G3, Doncaster Mile S LR, Ganton S LR. 2010: AMBER ROMANCE (f Bahamian Bounty) Winner at 4.

Broodmare.

2011: FREE EAGLE (c High Chaparral). 3 wins at 2 to 4, Prince of Wales's S G1, 3rd Qipco Champion S G1, QIPCO Irish Champion S G1.

2012: Valac (g Dark Angel) 2014: (c Dubawi) 2015: (c Galileo) 2nd Dam: TRUSTED PARTNER

by Affirmed. 3 wins at 2 and 3 Irish 1000 Guineas G1. Own sister to LOW KEY AFFAIR, EASY TO COPY, EPICURE'S GARDEN and Magical Cliche. Dam of DRESS TO THRILL (f Danehill: Matriarch S G1, 2nd Moyglare Stud S G1), Act of Defiance (g Caerleon: 3rd Tyros S LR), ARCHIVE FOOTAGE (g Sadler's Wells: The Ladbroke Hurdle G1).

Grandam of Aahaykid, INDIAN PACE. Third dam of VERT DE GRECE, LOVE LOCKDOWN, TABLE ROCK, Glory.

Broodmare Sire: DANEHILL. Sire of the dams of 301 Stakes winners. In 2015 - BONDI BEACH Galileo G1, COSMIC

ENDEAVOUR Northern Meteor G1, FREE EAGLE High Chaparral G1, HALLOWED CROWN Street Sense G1, HIGHLAND REEL Galileo G1, PRIDE OF DUBAI Street Cry G1, VANCOUVER Medaglia d'Oro G1, CUSTOM CUT Notnowcato G2, GRETCHEN Galileo G2, MUTHMIR Invincible Spirit G2, SECRET GESTURE Galileo G2, BERLING Montjeu G3, DEAUVILLE Galileo G3, EL VALLE Dobby Road G3, FIELDS OF ATHENRY Galileo G3, FORGOTTEN RULES Nayef G3, JOHNNY BARNES Acclamation G3, KOKORONO AI Stay Gold G3, MAJESTIC QUEEN Kheleyf G3, MR SINGH High Chaparral G3, PASSING SHOT Swiss Ace G3, SCRATCHY BOTTOM Sebring G3, SOLICIT Street Cry G3, TESTED Selkirk G3, FALINO Fusaichi Pegasus LR, FEDERAL Medaglia d'Oro LR, GOOD BABY Hussonet LR, ILTEMAS Galileo LR, KNIGHT'S COMMAND Pins LR, LANDLOCKED Zabeel LR, LET'S MAKE ADEAL Red Ransom LR, MAGIC HURRICANE Hurricane Run LR, NAYELI More Than Ready LR, RACING EIGHT Mossman LR, THE CORSICAN Galileo LR, TOMBELAINE First Defence LR, TOWER OF LONHRO Lonhro LR, WOODWIN W More Than Ready LR, BELTOR Authorized LR, NANDO Hernando LR, RED KINGDOM Deep Impact LR. Ahonoora Inchinor Inchmurrin NOTNOWCATO ch 2002 Cadeaux Genereux Rambling Rose Blush Rambler CUSTOM CUT b g 2009 Danzig Danehill Razyana POLISHED GEM b 2003 Affirmed Trusted Partner Talking Picture

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1 Limato (IRE) 3 b g Tagula (IRE) - Come April (GB) (Singspiel (IRE))

2 Markaz (IRE) 3 gr c Dark Angel (IRE) - Folga (GB) (Atraf (GB)) 3 Breton Rock (IRE) 5 b g Bahamian Bounty (GB) - Anna's Rock (IRE) (Rock of Gibraltar (IRE)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 8; Wins: 6; Places: 2 Earnings: £349,065 Sire: TAGULA. Sire of 17 Stakes winners. In 2015 - LIMATO Singspiel G2, TAGLIETELLE Averti LR. 1st Dam: COME APRIL by Singspiel. Winner at 3. Dam of 1 winner: 2011: (c Tagula). died as a yearling.

2012: LIMATO (g Tagula) Sold 39,047gns yearling at DNPRM. 6 wins at 2 and 3, Saint Gobain Weber Park S G2, Merribelle Stable Pavilion S G3, Compton Estates Rose Bowl S LR, Totepool Two Year Old Trophy LR, 2nd Commonwealth Cup G1, 888sport Sandy Lane S G2.

2013: Limonata (f Bushranger) in training.

2014: Leisurely (f Arcano) 2015: (c Arcano) Broodmare Sire: SINGSPIEL. Sire of the dams of 38 Stakes winners. In 2015 - LIMATO Tagula G2, LA SALDANA Fastnet Rock G3, SUEDOIS Le Havre G3, ADAM'S BRIDGE Zenno Rob Roy LR, COSTA DEL SOL Phoenix Tower LR, MOMENTO DE ALEGRIA Refuse To Bend LR, MONEY MAKER American Post LR, ROMSDAL Halling LR. Taufan TAGULA b 93

Stop The Music Stolen Date

Standaan Twin Island Jolly Widow LIMATO b g 2012 In The Wings Singspiel Glorious Song COME APRIL b 2004 Suave Dancer So Admirable Sumoto

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international database Ladbrokes St Leger Stakes, G1, Doncaster, September 12, 14f 110yds 1 Bondi Beach (IRE) 3 b c Galileo (IRE) - One Moment In Time (IRE) (Danehill (USA)) 2 Simple Verse (IRE) 3 b f Duke of Marmalade (IRE) Guantanamera (IRE) (Sadler's Wells (USA)) 3 Fields of Athenry (IRE) 3 b c Galileo (IRE) - Last Love (IRE) (Danehill (USA)) Age: 3; Starts: 5; Wins: 3; Places: 2 Earnings: £473,039 Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 214 Stakes winners. In 2015 - BONDI BEACH Danehill G1, GLENEAGLES Storm Cat G1, HIGHLAND REEL Danehill G1, MINDING Danehill Dancer G1, ORDER OF ST GEORGE Gone West G1, AMPERE Sri Pekan G2, BALLYDOYLE Storm Cat G2, CURVY Inchinor G2, GRETCHEN Danehill G2, SECRET GESTURE Danehill G2, TANBY Danewin G2, WEDDING VOW Danehill Dancer G2, DEAUVILLE Danehill G3, FIELDS OF ATHENRY Danehill G3, FOUND Intikhab G3, JOHANNES VERMEER Holy Roman Emperor G3, KISSED BY ANGELS Danehill Dancer G3, MIZZOU Darshaan G3, MONDIALISTE Kaldoun G3, PHOTO CALL Rock of Gibraltar G3, RECORDER Danehill Dancer G3, SERTORIUS Encosta de Lago G3, SILVER GALAXY Pivotal G3, ALOFT Storm Cat LR, BIG BLUE Anabaa LR, EASTER Stravinsky LR, EYE OF THE STORM Shirley Heights LR, FAUFILER Celtic Swing LR, GOSPEL CHOIR Pivotal LR, ILTEMAS Danehill LR, KIND OF MAGIC Danehill Dancer LR, KINGFISHER Halling LR, OBSERVATIONAL Cadeaux Genereux LR, OUTSTANDING Mozart LR, TELESCOPE Darshaan LR, THE CORSICAN Danehill LR, WINDSOR PARK Mr Prospector LR.

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by Danehill. unraced. Own sister to SIMPLY PERFECT. Dam of 4 winners: 2007: Pink Salt (f Encosta de Lago) unraced. Broodmare.

2008: FULGOR PEARL (f Fusaichi Pegasus) Winner in Malaysia.

2009: (g Encosta de Lago) 2011: BAZAAR (c Galileo) 2 wins at 3.

2012: BONDI BEACH (c Galileo) 3 wins at 3, Ladbrokes St Leger S G1, At The Races Curragh Cup G3, 2nd Great Voltigeur S G2, King George V Cup Nijinsky S LR. 2013: UNICORN (c Galileo) Winner at 2.

2015: (c Galileo) 2nd Dam: Hotelgenie Dot Com

by Selkirk. 1 win at 2, 2nd Moyglare Stud S G1, 3rd Meon Valley Stud Fillies' Mile S G1.

Dam of SIMPLY PERFECT (f Danehill: Meon Valley Stud Fillies' Mile S G1, UAE Hydra Properties Falmouth S G1, 3rd Stan James 1000 Guineas G1, Prix d'Astarte G1). Grandam of MEKONG RIVER. Broodmare Sire: DANEHILL. Sire of the dams of 301 Stakes winners. In 2015 - BONDI BEACH Galileo G1, COSMIC ENDEAVOUR Northern Meteor G1, FREE EAGLE High Chaparral G1, HALLOWED CROWN Street Sense G1, HIGHLAND REEL Galileo G1, PRIDE OF DUBAI Street Cry G1, VANCOUVER Medaglia d'Oro G1, CUSTOM CUT Notnowcato G2, GRETCHEN Galileo G2, MUTHMIR Invincible Spirit G2, SECRET GESTURE Galileo G2, BERLING Montjeu G3, DEAUVILLE Galileo G3, EL VALLE Dobby Road G3, FIELDS OF ATHENRY Galileo G3, FORGOTTEN RULES Nayef G3, JOHNNY BARNES Acclamation G3, KOKORONO AI Stay Gold G3, MAJESTIC QUEEN Kheleyf G3, MR SINGH High Chaparral G3, PASSING SHOT Swiss Ace G3, SCRATCHY BOTTOM Sebring G3, SOLICIT Street Cry G3, TESTED Selkirk G3, FALINO

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Fusaichi Pegasus LR, FEDERAL Medaglia d'Oro LR, GOOD BABY Hussonet LR, ILTEMAS Galileo LR, KNIGHT'S COMMAND Pins LR, LANDLOCKED Zabeel LR, LET'S MAKE ADEAL Red Ransom LR, MAGIC HURRICANE Hurricane Run LR, NAYELI More Than Ready LR, RACING EIGHT Mossman LR, THE CORSICAN Galileo LR, TOMBELAINE First Defence LR, TOWER OF LONHRO Lonhro LR, WOODWIN W More Than Ready LR, BELTOR Authorized LR, NANDO Hernando LR, RED KINGDOM Deep Impact LR. The Galileo/Danehill cross has produced: BANC DE FORTUNE G1, BONDI BEACH G1, CIMA DE TRIOMPHE G1, CUIS GHAIRE G1, FIELDS OF ATHENRY G1, FRANKEL G1, GOLDEN LILAC G1, HIGHLAND REEL G1, INTELLO G1, MAYBE G1, NOBLE MISSION G1, ORCHESTRA G1, RODERIC O'CONNOR G1, ROMANTICA G1, SCINTILLULA G1, SECRET GESTURE G1, TAPESTRY G1, TEOFILO G1, GRETCHEN G2, REEM G2, CRYSTAL GAL G3, DAZZLING G3, DEAUVILLE G3, GALIWAY G3, JOHN F KENNEDY G3, LAGALP G3, MEKONG RIVER G3, SIDERA G3, THE CORSICAN G3, WONDERFULLY G3, ILTEMAS LR, MISS GALILEI LR, VIA GALILEI LR, BALLYGLASHEEN LR, SUPASUNDAE LR, Galileo's Destiny G1, Gile Na Greine G1, Mars G1, The Assayer G1, Brightest G3, Circling G3, Claiomh Solais G3, Impulsive Moment G3, Marksmanship G3, Acteur Celebre LR, Amerique LR, Provenance LR, Pageboy LR. Northern Dancer Sadler's Wells Fairy Bridge GALILEO b 98 Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta BONDI BEACH b c 2012 Danzig Danehill Razyana ONE MOMENT IN TIME b 2003 Selkirk Hotelgenie Dot Com Birch Creek

At the Races Champagne Stakes, G2, Doncaster, September 12, 7f 1 Emotionless (IRE) 2 b c Shamardal (USA) - Unbridled Elaine (USA) (Unbridled's Song) 2 Ibn Malik (IRE) 2 ch c Raven's Pass (USA) - Moon's Whisper (USA) (Storm Cat (USA)) 3 Palawan (GB) 2 b c Mount Nelson (GB) - Apple Sauce (GB) (Prince Sabo) Age: 2; Starts: 2; Wins: 2; Places: 0 Earnings: £47,061 Sire: SHAMARDAL. Sire of 86 Stakes winners. In 2015 - ABLE FRIEND Volksraad G1, DUNBOYNE EXPRESS Polish Precedent G1, AMARON Bertolini G2, BALIOS Galileo G2, DARIYAN Selkirk G2, DELECTATION More Than Ready G2, EMOTIONLESS Unbridled's Song G2, AMY ERIA Octagonal G3, FINTRY Indian Ridge G3, FRENCH NAVY Woodman G3, SHAMALIA Redoute's Choice G3, TANIYAR Dalakhani G3, TRYSTER Riverman G3, AKATEA Peintre Celebre LR, DUSKY QUEEN Refuse To Bend LR, FOND WORDS Elusive City LR, JOYFUL HOPE Barathea LR, MAWAAL Darshaan LR, SECRET SHAM Rivotious LR, SIXTH SENSE Sadler's Wells LR, SPEEDY BOARDING Diktat LR, SPERRY Marju LR, WILDPARK Mark of Esteem LR, ZAWRAQ Sadler's Wells LR. 1st Dam: UNBRIDLED ELAINE by Unbridled's Song. 6 wins at 2 and 3 in USA, Breeders' Cup Distaff G1. Dam of 3 winners: 2003: Seresa's Spirit (f Rahy) unraced. Broodmare.

2005: ETCHED (c Forestry) 7 wins at 2 to 5 in USA, Meadowlands Cup S G2 (twice) 2006: Broad Choice (f A P Indy) unraced. Broodmare.

2007: Perceive (f A P Indy) unraced. Broodmare.

2008: Blunt (c Distorted Humor) ran on the flat in USA.

international database 2009: OUT OF BOUNDS (c Discreet Cat) Winner at 4, Sham S G3, 2nd Longines Al Maktoum Challenge Round 1 G2.

2010: (c Distorted Humor) 2013: EMOTIONLESS (c Shamardal) 2 wins at 2, At the Races Champagne S G2.

2nd Dam: CAROLS FOLLY by Taylor's Falls. Airdrie S. Dam of UNBRIDLED ELAINE (f Unbridled's Song, see above), GLITTER WOMAN (f Glitterman: Ashland S G1, 2nd Apple Blossom H G1, Hempstead H G1). Grandam of POLITICAL FORCE, LEAD STORY, CAPEJINSKY, PRIZE CATCH, Glory Glory. Third dam of Welcome Guest.

Broodmare Sire: UNBRIDLED'S SONG. Sire of the dams of 70 Stakes winners. In 2015 - CARPE DIEM Giant's Causeway G1, APPEALING TALE Tale of The Cat G2, EMOTIONLESS Shamardal G2, MARCH Blame G2, DAYTONA GREY Artie Schiller G3, EL KABEIR Scat Daddy G3, KENTUCKIAN Tiznow G3, MARBRE ROSE Smart Strike G3, WAR DISPATCH War Front G3, BLUEGRASS SINGER Bluegrass Cat LR, CONSORT Lope de Vega LR, VAPORETTO Tiz Wonderful LR. The Shamardal/Unbridled's Song cross has produced: PUISSANCE DE LUNE G1, EMOTIONLESS G2, Portamento G3.

Storm Cat Giant's Causeway Mariah's Storm SHAMARDAL b 2002 Machiavellian Helsinki Helen Street EMOTIONLESS b c 2013 Unbridled Unbridled's Song Trolley Song UNBRIDLED ELAINE gr/ro 98 Taylor's Falls Carols Folly No Trespassing

Honda Grosse Europa Meile, G3, Munich, September 13, 1600m

1 Pas de Deux (GER) 5 b g Saddex (GB) - Palucca (GER) (Big Shuffle (USA)) 2 Mata Utu (IRE) 4 gr c Slickly (FR) - Efisia (FR) (Efisio) 3 Diplomat (GER) 4 c Teofilo (IRE) - Desidera (IRE) (Shaadi) Age: 3-5; Starts: 15; Wins: 5; Places: 5 Earnings: £98,379 Sire: SADDEX. Sire of 1 Stakes winners. In 2015 - PAS DE DEUX Big Shuffle G3.

1st Dam: Palucca by Big Shuffle. unraced. Dam of 2 winners: 2007: (f Konigstiger). died as a yearling.

2008: PONGAL (f Ransom O'War) 2 wins at 4 in Germany.

2009: Priwall (f Desert Prince) 2010: PAS DE DEUX (g Saddex) 5 wins at 4 and 5 in Germany, Honda Grosse Europa Meile G3, Preis der Sparkassen Finanzgruppe G3, 2nd G.P. de Compiegne Etapi du Defi du Galop LR. 2012: Pazzia (f Youmzain) in training.

2nd Dam: PUNTILLA by Acatenango. 2 wins at 3 in Germany Ostermann - Diana Deutsches Stuten Derby G2.

Dam of Pakama (f Kalatos: 3rd Berberis Rennen LR) Broodmare Sire: BIG SHUFFLE. Sire of the dams of 33 Stakes winners. In 2015 - TURFDONNA Doyen G1, PAS DE DEUX Saddex G3, VIF MONSIEUR Doyen LR, ARMAN Lando LR, TWINLIGHT Muhtathir LR. Northern Dancer Sadler's Wells Fairy Bridge SADDEX b 2003 Irish River Remote Romance Aviance PAS DE DEUX b g 2010 Super Concorde Big Shuffle Raise Your Skirts PALUCCA br 2002 Acatenango Puntilla Prada

Qatar Prix du Petit Couvert, G3, Longchamp, September 13, 1000m 1 Move In Time (GB) 7 ch g Monsieur Bond (IRE) - Tibesti (GB) (Machiavellian (USA)) 2 Gengis (FR) 5 b c King's Best (USA) - Ashiyna (IRE) (Green Desert (USA)) 3 Mirza (GB) 8 b g Oasis Dream (GB) - Millyant (GB) (Primo Dominie) Age: 2-7; Starts: 44; Wins: 9; Places: 18 Earnings: £429,183 Sire: MONSIEUR BOND. Sire of 6 Stakes winners. In 2015 - MOVE IN TIME Machiavellian G3, ALFRED HUTCHINSON Wolfhound LR. 1st Dam: Tibesti by Machiavellian. unraced. Own sister to TROPICAL STAR. Dam of 5 winners: 2006: SAN MACCHIA (f Rock of Gibraltar) Winner at 4 in Italy.

Broodmare.

2008: MOVE IN TIME (g Monsieur Bond) Sold 13,333gns yearling at DNFES. 9 wins to 2015 at home, France, Qnb Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp G1, Prix du Petit Couvert G3, Rous S LR, 2nd Prestige Cornwallis S G3, Prix de Saint-Georges G3, Prix du Petit Couvert G3, Abergwaun S LR, 3rd King George S G2, Abernant S G3, Sapphire S G3, Scurry S LR, P. Cor de Chasse LR. 2009: Doyouknowwhoiam (g Monsieur Bond) 2010: ABSOLUTE DIAMOND (f Monsieur Bond) Winner at 3.

2011: MEADWAY (g Captain Gerrard) 4 wins at 2 and 3.

2012: MAGH MEALL (f Monsieur Bond) Winner at 2.

2013: Sciarra (f Monsieur Bond) unraced to date.

2014: (f Monsieur Bond) 2015: (c Monsieur Bond) 2nd Dam: TROPICAL by Green Desert. 7 wins at 2 to 4 Curragh S G3, Phoenix Sprint S G3,

Arthur Guinness EBF Flying Five G3 (twice). Dam of TROPICAL STAR (g Machiavellian: Naja Al Shindagha Sprint G3, Derrinstown Stud Mahab Al Shimaal S G3, 2nd Gulf News Dubai Golden Shaheen S G1) Broodmare Sire: MACHIAVELLIAN. Sire of the dams of 107 Stakes winners. In 2015 - GOLDREAM Oasis Dream G1, SAKHEE'S SOLDIER Sakhee's Secret G1, SHAMAL WIND Dubawi G1, TERRITORIES Invincible Spirit G1, LIVING THE LIFE Footstepsinthesand G2, INCANTATION Sinister Minister G3, MOVE IN TIME Monsieur Bond G3, ACCLAIMED Burden of Proof LR, GENERAL SHERMAN Teofilo LR, NIGHT TRIP Trippi LR, NORTHERN RIVER Agnes Tachyon LR, STARENZO Northern Meteor LR. Danehill Danehill Dancer Mira Adonde MONSIEUR BOND ch 2000 Song Musical Essence Effervescence II MOVE IN TIME ch g 2008 Mr Prospector Machiavellian Coup de Folie TIBESTI b 2002 Green Desert Tropical Bermuda Classic

Qatar Prix du Moulin de Longchamp, G1, Longchamp, September 13, 1600m 1 Ervedya (FR) 3 b f Siyouni (FR) - Elva (IRE) (King's Best (USA)) 2 Akatea (IRE) 3 ch f Shamardal (USA) - Altamira (GB) (Peintre Celebre (USA)) 3 Karakontie (JPN) 4 b c Bernstein (USA) - Sun Is Up (JPN) (Sunday Silence (USA)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 10; Wins: 7; Places: 3 Earnings: £854,831 Sire: SIYOUNI. Sire of 5 Stakes winners. In 2015 - ERVEDYA King's Best G1, BOURREE Lomitas G3, LADY SYBIL Tirol LR.

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international database 1st Dam: Elva by King's Best. 2 wins at 2 and 3 in France, 2nd Prix Vanteaux G3. Dam of 3 winners: 2009: ELMAL (c Dalakhani) 3 wins.

2010: Elayouna (f Dr Fong) 2011: ENNAYA (f Nayef) 2 wins at 3 in France.

2012: ERVEDYA (f Siyouni). 7 wins at 2 and 3 at home, France, Coronation S G1, Prix Poule d'Essai des Pouliches G1, Qatar Prix du Moulin G1, Prix de Cabourg G3, Prix Imprudence G3, 2nd Total Prix Marcel Boussac G1, Prix Rothschild G1, 3rd Darley Prix Morny G1.

2013: Elennga (f Exceed And Excel) 2nd Dam: EVORA by Marju. 1 win at 2. Dam of Elva (f King's Best, see above) Broodmare Sire: KING'S BEST. Sire of the dams of 24 Stakes winners. In 2015 - ERVEDYA Siyouni G1, KINGLIKE Exceed And Excel G2, KARAKTAR High Chaparral G3, BE SAFE Holy Roman Emperor LR, FIREGLOW Teofilo LR, MOSTANEER Dutch Art LR, MULTITUDE Multidimensional LR. Pivotal

Polar Falcon

Fearless Revival SIYOUNI b 2007 Danehill Sichilla Slipstream Queen ERVEDYA b f 2012 Kingmambo King's Best Allegretta ELVA b 2004 Marju Evora Eviyrna

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3 Sea Calisi (FR) 3 b f Youmzain (IRE) - Triclaria (GER) (Surumu (GER)) Age: 2-5; Starts: 12; Wins: 9; Places: 3 Earnings: £5,781,600 Sire: MOTIVATOR. Sire of 23 Stakes winners. In 2015 - TREVE Anabaa G1, PALLASATOR Ezzoud G2, SKY HUNTER Silver Hawk G2, THE TWISLER Polish Precedent LR. 1st Dam: TREVISE by Anabaa.

Winner at 2 in France. Own sister to TSIGANE. Dam of 3 winners: 2005: TROIS ROIS (c Hernando) 4 wins at 3 and 5 in France, UAE, G.P. de Marseille Etapi du Defi du Galop LR, 3rd Prix Greffulhe G2.

2006: Trevimix (c Linamix) 2008: Tocqueville (f Numerous) unraced. Broodmare.

2010: TREVE (f Motivator) Sold 18,062gns yearling at AROCT. Champion 3yr old in Europe in 2013, Champion older mare in Europe in 2014. 9 wins at 2 to 5, 2015 in France, G.P. de SaintCloud G1, Prix de Diane G1, Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe G1 (twice), Prix Vermeille G1 (twice), Prix Corrida G2, 2nd Prix Ganay G1, 3rd Prince of Wales's S G1.

2011: TROPHEE (f Mr Sidney) 2 wins at 4 in USA. 2012: Toride (f Fuisse) unraced to date.

2014: (f Motivator) 2nd Dam: Trevillari by Riverman.

Own sister to TREBLE. Dam of TSIGANE (c Anabaa: Wickerr H LR, 3rd Shoemaker Breeders' Cup Mile S G1). Grandam of THUNDER TEDDINGTON. Broodmare Sire: ANABAA. Sire of the dams of 55 Stakes winners. In 2015 - DISSIDENT Sebring G1, HARTNELL Authorized G1, TREVE Motivator G1, ENGLISH Encosta de Lago G2, HARRY'S SON Haradasun G2, QUEENS RING Manhattan

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Cafe G2, YAKABA Medicean G3, BIG BLUE Galileo LR, KATIE'S DIAMOND Turtle Bowl LR, MANAPINE Manhattan Rain LR, NEWSLETTER Sir Percy LR, THUNDER TEDDINGTON Halling LR, LACHLAN BRIDGE Dubawi LR. The Motivator/Anabaa cross has produced: TREVE G1, Million LR. Sadler's Wells Montjeu Floripedes MOTIVATOR b 2002 Gone West Out West Chellingoua TREVE b f 2010 Danzig Anabaa Balbonella TREVISE b 2000 Riverman Trevillari Trevilla

Qatar Prix Niel, G2, Longchamp, September 13, 2400m 1 New Bay (GB) 3 ch c Dubawi (IRE) - Cinnamon Bay (GB) (Zamindar (USA)) 2 Silverwave (FR) 3 b c Silver Frost (IRE) - Miss Bio (FR) (River Mist (USA)) 3 Migwar (IRE) 3 b c Sea The Stars (IRE) - Katyusha (USA) (Kingmambo (USA)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 6; Wins: 4; Places: 2 Earnings: £1,014,081 Sire: DUBAWI. Sire of 103 Stakes winners. In 2015 - AL KAZEEM Darshaan G1, ARABIAN QUEEN Barathea G1, ERUPT Caerleon G1, HUNTER'S LIGHT Barathea G1, NEW BAY Zamindar G1, NIGHT OF THUNDER Galileo G1, POSTPONED Dubai Destination G1, PRINCE BISHOP Prospect Bay G1, SHAMAL WIND Machiavellian G1, SRIKANDI Hurricane Sky G1, BALL OF MUSCLE Gold Brose G2, BAWINA Sadler's Wells G2, CATKINS Catbird G2, MUBTAAHIJ Pennekamp G2,

SAFETY CHECK Royal Academy G2, ALMANAAR Bahhare G3, AMBER ORCHID Hennessy G3, DUBDAY Daylami G3, TANAZA Dalakhani G3, TIME TEST Dansili G3, BEST OF TIMES Rahy LR, CRYSTAL ZVEZDA Mark of Esteem LR, DEUCE AGAIN Unfuwain LR, JOURNEY Montjeu LR, KATAWI Mountain Cat LR, LADY OF DUBAI Montjeu LR, ROYAL ISLAND Umatilla LR, DODGING BULLETS Kris S LR, LACHLAN BRIDGE Anabaa LR. 1st Dam: CINNAMON BAY by Zamindar. 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix d'Angerville LR. Dam of 2 winners: 2009: MARGATE (f Mizzen Mast) Winner at 3. Broodmare.

2010: Iowa Falls (f Dansili).

Broodmare.

2012: NEW BAY (c Dubawi) 4 wins at 3 in France, Prix du Jockey Club G1, Prix Guillaume d'Ornano-Logis St Germain G2, Qatar Prix Niel G2, 2nd Poule d'Essai des Poulains G1.

2013: Spice Trail (f Champs Elysees) unraced to date.

2014: (c Dansili) 2015: (c Champs Elysees) 2nd Dam: Trellis Bay by Sadler's Wells. 1 win at 3, 2nd NGK Spark Plugs Stubbs Rated S LR. Own sister to New Abbey. Dam of BELLAMY CAY (g Kris: Prix Maurice de Nieuil G2, 2nd Prix Royal-Oak G1), CINNAMON BAY (f Zamindar, see above).

Grandam of San Miguel.

Broodmare Sire: ZAMINDAR. Sire of the dams of 7 Stakes winners. In 2015 - NEW BAY Dubawi G1.

Seeking The Gold Dubai Millennium Colorado Dancer DUBAWI b 2002 Deploy Zomaradah Jawaher NEW BAY ch c 2012 Gone West Zamindar Zaizafon CINNAMON BAY ch 2004 Sadler's Wells Trellis Bay Bahamian

international database Qatar Prix Gladiateur, G3, Longchamp, September 13, 3000m 1 Fly With Me (FR) 5 gr c Beat Hollow (GB) - Bird of Paradise (FR) (Highest Honor (FR)) 2 Walzertakt (GER) 6 b c Montjeu (IRE) - Walzerkoenigin (USA) (Kingmambo (USA)) 3 Oriental Fox (GER) 7 ch g Lomitas (GB) - Oriental Pearl (GER) (Big Shuffle (USA)) Age: 3-5; Starts: 21; Wins: 8; Places: 6 Earnings: £239,553 Sire: BEAT HOLLOW. Sire of 25 Stakes winners. In 2015 - FLY WITH ME Highest Honor G3, NOT SO SLEEPY Marju LR, RIGHT CONNECTION Miswaki Tern LR, WICKLOW BRAVE Rainbow Quest LR. 1st Dam: Bird of Paradise by Highest Honor. 11 wins at 3 to 6 in France, 3rd Prix Tantieme LR. Dam of 1 winner: 2010: FLY WITH ME (c Beat Hollow) 8 wins at 3 to 5 in France, Prix Vicomtesse Vigier G2, Qatar Prix Gladiateur G3, Prix La Moskowa LR, Prix Right Royal LR, 2nd Darley Prix Kergorlay G2, Prix de Barbeville G3, 3rd Prix de Barbeville G3, Prix Max Sicard Etape du Defi du Galop LR. 2011: Cite des Anges (f Elusive City) ran on the flat in France.

2012: Vision de Paradis (c Vision d'Etat) in training.

2nd Dam: KALDANCE by Kaldoun. 2 wins, 3rd Coupe des Trois Ans LR Prix Finot Hurdle (fillies) LR. Dam of Bird of Paradise (f Highest Honor, see above) Broodmare Sire: HIGHEST HONOR. Sire of the dams of 62 Stakes winners. In 2015 SOLOW Singspiel G1, BAINO HOPE Jeremy G2, REVE MISTRAL

King Kamehameha G2, FLY WITH ME Beat Hollow G3, GOLDY ESPONY Vespone G3, HONNEUR AU ROI Turtle Bowl LR, PETITE PARISIENNE Montmartre LR. Northern Dancer Sadler's Wells Fairy Bridge BEAT HOLLOW b 97 Dancing Brave Wemyss Bight Bahamian FLY WITH ME gr c 2010 Kenmare Highest Honor High River BIRD OF PARADISE gr 2002 Kaldoun Kaldance Violet Dancer

Qatar Prix Foy, G2, Longchamp, September 13, 2400m 1 Postponed (IRE) 4 b c Dubawi (IRE) - Ever Rigg (GB) (Dubai Destination (USA)) 2 Spiritjim (FR) 5 b c Galileo (IRE) - Hidden Silver (GB) (Anabaa (USA)) 3 Baino Hope (FR) 4 f Jeremy (USA) - Baino Ridge (FR) (Highest Honor (FR)) Age: 2-4; Starts: 13; Wins: 5; Places: 7 Earnings: £1,037,974 Sire: DUBAWI. Sire of 103 Stakes winners. In 2015 - AL KAZEEM Darshaan G1, ARABIAN QUEEN Barathea G1, ERUPT Caerleon G1, HUNTER'S LIGHT Barathea G1, NEW BAY Zamindar G1, NIGHT OF THUNDER Galileo G1, POSTPONED Dubai Destination G1, PRINCE BISHOP Prospect Bay G1, SHAMAL WIND Machiavellian G1, SRIKANDI Hurricane Sky G1, BALL OF MUSCLE Gold Brose G2, BAWINA Sadler's Wells G2, CATKINS Catbird G2, MUBTAAHIJ Pennekamp G2, SAFETY CHECK Royal Academy G2, ALMANAAR Bahhare G3, AMBER ORCHID Hennessy G3,

DUBDAY Daylami G3, TANAZA Dalakhani G3, TIME TEST Dansili G3, BEST OF TIMES Rahy LR, CRYSTAL ZVEZDA Mark of Esteem LR, DEUCE AGAIN Unfuwain LR, JOURNEY Montjeu LR, KATAWI Mountain Cat LR, LADY OF DUBAI Montjeu LR, ROYAL ISLAND Umatilla LR, DODGING BULLETS Kris S LR, LACHLAN BRIDGE Anabaa LR. 1st Dam: EVER RIGG by Dubai Destination. Winner at 3. Dam of 1 winner: 2010: Neamour (f Oasis Dream) 2011: POSTPONED (c Dubawi) Sold 360,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 5 wins at 2 to 4 at home, France, King George VI & Queen Elizabeth S G1, Neptune Great Voltigeur S G2, Qatar Prix Foy G2, EBF Stallions Glasgow S LR, 2nd bet365 Gordon Richards S G3, 3rd Tattersalls Gold Cup G1, Hardwicke S G2, Novae Bloodstock Insurance Craven S G3, Tercentenary S G3.

2013: (g Iffraaj) 2014: (f Nathaniel) 2015: (c Makfi) 2nd Dam: BIANCA NERA by Salse. Champion 2yr old filly in Ireland in 1996. 3 wins at 2 Moyglare Stud S G1. Dam of Bite of The Cherry (f Dalakhani: 2nd Golden Square Centre Chester H LR, Stowe Family Law LLP Grand Cup LR), Pietra Dura (f Cadeaux Genereux: 2nd Victor McCalmont Memorial EBF S LR).

Grandam of ROBIN HOODS BAY, TURNING TOP. Broodmare Sire: DUBAI DESTINATION. Sire of the dams of 11 Stakes winners. In 2015 GOLDEN HORN Cape Cross G1, POSTPONED Dubawi G1, DUTCH CONNECTION Dutch Art G3, KACHY Kyllachy G3, SLIGHTLY SWEET Charge Forward G3, ESHERA Oratorio LR, LEXINGTON TIMES Paco Boy LR, ZAPEL Kyllachy LR.

Seeking The Gold Dubai Millennium Colorado Dancer DUBAWI b 2002 Deploy Zomaradah Jawaher POSTPONED b c 2011 Kingmambo Dubai Destination Mysterial EVER RIGG b 2005 Salse Bianca Nera Birch Creek

Palmerstown House Estate Irish St Leger, G1, Curragh, September 13, 14f 1 Order of St George (IRE) 3 b c Galileo (IRE) - Another Storm (USA) (Gone West (USA)) 2 Agent Murphy (GB) 4 b c Cape Cross (IRE) - Raskutani (GB) (Dansili (GB)) 3 Wicklow Brave (GB) 6 b g Beat Hollow (GB) - Moraine (GB) (Rainbow Quest (USA)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 9; Wins: 4; Places: 4 Earnings: £227,214 Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 214 Stakes winners. In 2015 - BONDI BEACH Danehill G1, GLENEAGLES Storm Cat G1, HIGHLAND REEL Danehill G1, MINDING Danehill Dancer G1, MONDIALISTE Kaldoun G1, ORDER OF ST GEORGE Gone West G1, AMPERE Sri Pekan G2, BALLYDOYLE Storm Cat G2, CURVY Inchinor G2, GRETCHEN Danehill G2, SECRET GESTURE Danehill G2, TANBY Danewin G2, WEDDING VOW Danehill Dancer G2, DEAUVILLE Danehill G3, FIELDS OF ATHENRY Danehill G3, FOUND Intikhab G3, JOHANNES VERMEER Holy Roman Emperor G3, KISSED BY ANGELS Danehill Dancer G3, MIZZOU Darshaan G3, PHOTO CALL Rock of Gibraltar G3, RECORDER Danehill Dancer G3, SERTORIUS Encosta de Lago G3, SILVER GALAXY Pivotal G3, ALOFT Storm Cat LR, BIG BLUE Anabaa LR, EASTER Stravinsky LR, EYE OF THE STORM Shirley Heights LR, FAUFILER Celtic

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international database Swing LR, GOSPEL CHOIR Pivotal LR, ILTEMAS Danehill LR, KIND OF MAGIC Danehill Dancer LR, KINGFISHER Halling LR, OBSERVATIONAL Cadeaux Genereux LR, OUTSTANDING Mozart LR, TELESCOPE Darshaan LR, THE CORSICAN Danehill LR, WINDSOR PARK Mr Prospector LR. 1st Dam: ANOTHER STORM by Gone West. Winner at 2 in USA. Dam of 5 winners: 2004: ASPERITY (c War Chant) 7 wins at home, France, USA, Prix Paul de Moussac G3.

2005: Stormy View (f Cozzene).

Broodmare.

2006: SEHOY (c Menifee) 9 wins at 3 to 5 at home, Sweden, Sk. Faltrittklubbens Jubileumslopning LR. 2007: KITTY LOVE (f Kitten's Joy) 2 wins at 3 in USA. Broodmare.

2009: ANGEL TERRACE (f Ghostzapper) 4 wins at 3 and 5 in USA, Pin Oak Valley View S G3.

2010: Our Smile (f Medaglia d'Oro) unraced.

2012: ORDER OF ST GEORGE (c Galileo) Sold 321,355gns yearling at KESEP. 4 wins at 2 and 3, Palmerstown House Estate Irish St Leger G1, Ballycullen Palmerstown St Leger Trial G3, 2nd At The Races Curragh Cup G3, thetote.com Eyrefield S LR. 2013: Kellstorm (c Galileo) unraced to date.

2014: (f Holy Roman Emperor) 2015: (c Declaration of War) 2nd Dam: STORM SONG by Summer Squall. Champion 2yr old filly in U.S.A. in 1996. 4 wins at 2 in USA Frizette S G1, Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies G1, 2nd Matron S G1, 3rd Ashland S G1, Kentucky Oaks G1. Dam of Balladry (c Unbridled's Song: 2nd San Fernando S G2), Piano Concerto (g Red Ransom: 3rd Toteexacta Ch'ship Open NH Flat Race LR). Grandam of MIDSUMMER FAIR, BETTER LIFE.

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Broodmare Sire: GONE WEST. Sire of the dams of 111 Stakes winners. In 2015 - AFRICAN STORY Pivotal G1, ORDER OF ST GEORGE Galileo G1, WALTZING MATILDA Danehill Dancer G2, MEXICAN GOLD Medaglia d'Oro G3, AQUAMARINE Mastercraftsman LR. The Galileo/Gone West cross has produced: ORDER OF ST GEORGE G1, Amazing Beauty G3.

Northern Dancer Sadler's Wells Fairy Bridge GALILEO b 98 Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta ORDER OF ST GEORGE b c 2012 Mr Prospector Gone West Secrettame ANOTHER STORM b 99 Summer Squall Storm Song Hum Along

Moyglare Stud Stakes, G1, Curragh, September 13, 7f 1 Minding (IRE) 2 b f Galileo (IRE) - Lillie Langtry (IRE) (Danehill Dancer (IRE)) 2 Ballydoyle (IRE) 2 b f Galileo (IRE) - Butterfly Cove (USA) (Storm Cat (USA)) 3 Alice Springs (IRE) 2 ch f Galileo (IRE) Aleagueoftheirown (IRE) (Danehill Dancer (IRE)) Age: 2; Starts: 4; Wins: 2; Places: 2 Earnings: £162,695 Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 214 Stakes winners. In 2015 - BONDI BEACH Danehill G1, GLENEAGLES Storm Cat G1, HIGHLAND REEL Danehill G1, MINDING Danehill Dancer G1, MONDIALISTE Kaldoun G1, ORDER OF ST GEORGE Gone West G1, AMPERE Sri Pekan G2, BALLYDOYLE Storm Cat G2, CURVY Inchinor G2, GRETCHEN Danehill G2, SECRET GESTURE Danehill G2, TANBY Danewin G2, WEDDING VOW Danehill

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Dancer G2, DEAUVILLE Danehill G3, FIELDS OF ATHENRY Danehill G3, FOUND Intikhab G3, JOHANNES VERMEER Holy Roman Emperor G3, KISSED BY ANGELS Danehill Dancer G3, MIZZOU Darshaan G3, PHOTO CALL Rock of Gibraltar G3, RECORDER Danehill Dancer G3, SERTORIUS Encosta de Lago G3, SILVER GALAXY Pivotal G3, ALOFT Storm Cat LR, BIG BLUE Anabaa LR, EASTER Stravinsky LR, EYE OF THE STORM Shirley Heights LR, FAUFILER Celtic Swing LR, GOSPEL CHOIR Pivotal LR, ILTEMAS Danehill LR, KIND OF MAGIC Danehill Dancer LR, KINGFISHER Halling LR, OBSERVATIONAL Cadeaux Genereux LR, OUTSTANDING Mozart LR, TELESCOPE Darshaan LR, THE CORSICAN Danehill LR, WINDSOR PARK Mr Prospector LR. 1st Dam: LILLIE LANGTRY by Danehill Dancer. 5 wins at 2 and 3, Coronation S G1, Coolmore Fusaichi Pegasus Matron S G1, 3rd Moyglare Stud S G1. Dam of 2 winners: 2012: KISSED BY ANGELS (f Galileo) Winner at 3, Derrinstown Stud 1000 Guineas Trial G3.

2013: MINDING (f Galileo) 2 wins at 2, Moyglare Stud S G1, 2nd Breast Cancer Research Debutante S G2.

2014: (f Galileo) 2015: (f Galileo) 2nd Dam: Hoity Toity by Darshaan. unraced. Dam of LILLIE LANGTRY (f Danehill Dancer, see above), COUNT OF LIMONADE (c Duke of Marmalade: Dubai Duty Free Celebration S LR, 3rd Jebel Ali Anglesey S G3, Airlie Stud Gallinule S G3). Grandam of MASTER APPRENTICE. Broodmare Sire: DANEHILL DANCER. Sire of the dams of 41 Stakes winners. In 2015 MINDING Galileo G1, LADY TIANA Sir Percy G2, WEDDING

VOW Galileo G2, HAWKSMOOR Azamour G3, HI WORLD High Chaparral G3, KISSED BY ANGELS Galileo G3, RECORDER Galileo G3, ARTLEE Excellent Art LR, BRIGHTON Buffalo Man LR, CASSINA DE POMM Pounced LR, FADHAYYIL Tamayuz LR, GEE GEES TOP NOTCH Wordsmith LR, IT IS WRITTEN Written Tycoon LR, KIND OF MAGIC Galileo LR, ZIPZIP Whipper LR, BALMUSETTE Halling LR, DIFFERENT GRAVEY High Chaparral LR, SEMPRE MEDICI Medicean LR. The Galileo/Danehill Dancer cross has produced: MINDING G1, WEDDING VOW G1, QUEST FOR PEACE G2, BE MY GAL G3, KISSED BY ANGELS G3, RECORDER G3, INDIAN MAHARAJA LR, KIND OF MAGIC LR, Alice Springs G1, Criteria G2, Lahinch Classics G2, Kingston Jamaica G3, Noble Galileo G3, Queen Nefertiti G3, Felix Mendelssohn LR, Seussical LR. Northern Dancer Sadler's Wells Fairy Bridge GALILEO b 98 Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta MINDING b f 2013 Danehill Danehill Dancer Mira Adonde LILLIE LANGTRY b/br 2007 Darshaan Hoity Toity Hiwaayati

Moyglare Jewels Blandford Stakes, G2, Curragh, September 13, 10f 1 Ribbons (GB) 5 ch f Manduro (GER) - Sister Act (GB) (Marju (IRE)) 2 Tapestry (IRE) 4 b f Galileo (IRE) - Rumplestiltskin (IRE) (Danehill (USA)) 3 Bocca Baciata (IRE) 3 b/br f Big Bad Bob (IRE) - Sovana (IRE) (Desert King (IRE)) Age: 2-5; Starts: 13; Wins: 7; Places: 5 Earnings: £378,668

international database Sire: MANDURO. Sire of 21 Stakes winners. In 2015 - BRACO FORTE First American G1, RIBBONS Marju G2, FRACTIONAL Royal Academy G3, VAZIRABAD Linamix G3, BARAO DA SERRA Ghadeer LR, BONFIRE Night Shift LR, GREATWOOD Galileo LR, TECHNO QUEEN Priolo LR, TRUE STORY Darshaan LR, BARADARI Grand Lodge LR. 1st Dam: SISTER ACT by Marju.

Winner at 3. Own sister to SOVIET SONG. Dam of 1 winner: 2009: One Vision (c Oasis Dream) unraced.

2010: RIBBONS (f Manduro) 7 wins at 2 to 5, 2015 at home, France, Darley Prix Jean Romanet G1, Moyglare Jewels Blandford S G2, Betfred Snowdrop Fillies' S LR, 2nd Prix de l'Opera Longines G1, 3rd Sea the Stars Pretty Polly S G1, Betfred Middleton S G2, EBF At the Races John Musker S LR. 2013: Goldmember (c New Approach) unraced to date.

2014: (f Exceed And Excel) 2nd Dam: KALINKA by Soviet Star. 1 win at 2. Dam of SOVIET SONG (f Marju: Meon Valley Stud Fillies' Mile S G1, UAE Equestrian Racing Falmouth S G1 (twice), Cantor Odds Sussex S G1, Coolmore Fusaichi Pegasus Matron S G1, 2nd Coronation S G1, Queen Anne S G1, Kingdom of Bahrain Sun Chariot S G1, Cantor Spreadfair Sussex S G1 (twice)), PENZANCE (g Pennekamp: JCB Triumph Hurdle G1, 3rd Stan James Christmas Hurdle G1). Grandam of MISS MARJURIE, MARLINKA, STARS ABOVE ME. Broodmare Sire: MARJU. Sire of the dams of 37 Stakes winners.

In 2015 - RIBBONS Manduro G2, DURHAM TOWN Falkirk G3, GRANDEZZA Agnes Tachyon G3, CATALINA BAY Pastoral Pursuits LR, EXCLUSIVE POTION Elusive City LR, MERHABA Mullins Bay LR, NOT SO SLEEPY Beat Hollow LR, SPERRY Shamardal LR.

Konigsstuhl Monsun Mosella MANDURO b 2002 Be My Guest Mandellicht Mandelauge RIBBONS ch f 2010 Last Tycoon Marju Flame of Tara SISTER ACT b 2004 Soviet Star Kalinka Tralthee

Goffs Vincent O'Brien National Stakes, G1, Curragh, September 13, 7f 1 Air Force Blue (USA) 2 b/br c War Front (USA) - Chatham (USA) (Maria's Mon (USA)) 2 Herald The Dawn (IRE) 2 b c New Approach (IRE) - Hymn of The Dawn (USA) (Phone Trick) 3 Birchwood (IRE) 2 b c Dark Angel (IRE) - Layla Jamil (IRE) (Exceed And Excel (AUS)) Age: 2; Starts: 4; Wins: 3; Places: 1 Earnings: £282,715 Sire: WAR FRONT. Sire of 32 Stakes winners. In 2015 - AIR FORCE BLUE Maria's Mon G1, JACK MILTON Forty Niner G1, LINES OF BATTLE Arch G1, DEPARTING Pulpit G2, WAR CORRESPONDENT Rahy G3, WAR DISPATCH Unbridled's Song G3.

1st Dam: Chatham by Maria's Mon. 3 wins at 2 and 3 in USA, 2nd Esplanade S LR. Dam of 2 winners: 2009: Pinkie Pact (f Broken Vow) ran on the flat in USA. 2010: (c Arch) 2011: Emperesse (f Empire Maker) ran on the flat in USA. 2012: BUGLE (f War Front) 2 wins at 3 in USA. 2013: AIR FORCE BLUE (c War Front) 3 wins at 2, Goffs Vincent O'Brien National S G1, Keeneland Phoenix S G1, 2nd Coventry S G2.

2nd Dam: Circle Of Gold by Seeking The Gold. unraced. Own

sister to FLANDERS. Dam of Chatham (f Maria's Mon, see above). Grandam of MISS DOUBLE D'ORO. Broodmare Sire: MARIA'S MON. Sire of the dams of 17 Stakes winners. In 2015 - AIR FORCE BLUE War Front G1, DON'T LEAVE ME Lemon Drop Kid G3, CYCLOGENISIS Stormy Atlantic LR. Danzig

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Pas de Nom WAR FRONT b 2002 Rubiano Starry Dreamer Lara's Star AIR FORCE BLUE b/br c 2013 Wavering Monarch Maria's Mon Carlotta Maria CHATHAM b 2004 Seeking The Gold Circle Of Gold Starlet Storm

Derrinstown Stud Flying Five Stakes, G2, Curragh, September 13, 5f 1 Sole Power (GB) 8 b g Kyllachy (GB) - Demerger (USA) (Distant View (USA)) 2 Maarek (GB) 8 b g Pivotal (GB) - Ruby Rocket (IRE) (Indian Rocket (GB)) 3 Take Cover (GB) 8 b g Singspiel (IRE) - Enchanted (GB) (Magic Ring (IRE)) Age: 2-8; Starts: 50; Wins: 12; Places: 21 Earnings: £2,074,993 Sire: KYLLACHY. Sire of 25 Stakes winners. In 2015 - SOLE POWER Distant View G1, TWILIGHT SON Bin Ajwaad G1, STEPPER POINT Compton Place G2, KACHY Dubai Destination G3, KYLLACHY QUEEN King Charlemagne LR, ZAPEL Dubai Destination LR. 1st Dam: Demerger by Distant View. unraced. Dam of 4 winners: 2002: Cornus (g Inchinor) 15 wins, 2nd Cornwallis S G3.

2003: Be My Charm (f Polish Precedent). Broodmare.

2007: SOLE POWER (g Kyllachy) Sold 30,476gns yearling at DNSLY. Champion 3yr old sprinter in Europe in 2010. 12 wins at 2 to 8, 2015 at home, UAE, King's Stand S G1 (twice), Nunthorpe S G1 (twice), IPIC Al Quoz Sprint G1, betfred.com Temple S G2, Flying Five S G2, Palace House S G3 (twice), Scarbrough S LR, 2nd Hong Kong Sprint G1, Al Quoz Sprint G1, Temple S G2, Flying Five S G3, Grangecon Stud S LR, Emirates Holidays Meydan Sprint LR, 3rd King's Stand S G1, Coolmore Nunthorpe S G1, Qatar Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp G1, Palace House S G3.

2008: Sonny Sunshine (f Royal Applause) unraced. Broodmare.

2009: Sotka (f Dutch Art) Winner at 2 in France, 2nd Prix des Reves d'Or - Jacques Bouchara LR. Broodmare.

2011: CRAFTY EXIT (g Mastercraftsman) 2 wins at 3 and 4 in Sweden.

2012: (c Exceed And Excel) 2013: Greatest Virtue (f Poet's Voice) unraced to date.

2014: (f Sepoy) 2nd Dam: MERIDA by Warning.

2 wins at 3 and 4 in France, USA. Grandam of PENCIL HILL. Broodmare Sire: DISTANT VIEW. Sire of the dams of 22 Stakes winners. In 2015 EMBELLISH THE LACE Super Saver G1, SOLE POWER Kyllachy G1.

Pivotal

Polar Falcon

Fearless Revival KYLLACHY b 98 Song Pretty Poppy Moonlight Serenade SOLE POWER b g 2007 Mr Prospector Distant View Seven Springs DEMERGER b 97 Warning Merida Metair

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photos of the month: syrian refugee crisis, photos by PA Images THOSE who have a problem with housing and caring for those escaping the horrors of today’s Syria, please take a look at these photos below.

We admit that we are straying far from our small world of racing and bloodstock, and we apologise for not publishing, probably to some dismay, our usual glowing and beautiful shots of equines in their prowess.

But we felt uncomfortable chosing to publish a glorious summer racing scene once we had seen these sights of the human disaster currently taking place in the Middle East.

And we wanted to follow in a small way the world’s wider media, which sadly proved in September that images really do speak louder than words. We wanted to try and continue to raise awareness of the crisis.

As of January 2015, the death toll in Syria had risen above 220,000, with some estimates as high as 310,000. International organisations have accused the Syrian government, ISIL and other opposition forces of severe human rights violations, with many massacres.

Chemical weapons have been used, with the

Syrian government reportedly responsible for the majority of civilian casualties and war crimes.

Tens of thousands of protesters and activists have been imprisoned and there are reports of torture in state prisons.

More than 7.6 million Syrians have been displaced, and more than 4 million have fled their homeland.

Left: the ruined housing in large parties of the country (who could begin to live there?), while children, still in the country, live side by side with warfare.

Bottom left: Palestinians act as dead Syrian migrants found on Libyan and Turkish coasts during a protest at Gaza City’s beach.

Below, right: an online image released by Islamic State militants showing explosives planted at the temple of Baal Shamin in the ancient city of Palmyra, a World Heritage site.

Middle: the recorded journey made by one refugee as he has tried to find somewhere he could call home.

Bottom: “Your Silence is Killing Us” displayed during a rally outside Downing Street in London on March 15, 2014, to mark the third anniversary since the start of the conflict.

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Le Havre b / b r. ( I R E ) 2 0 0 6 - N ove r re - M a r i e R h e i n b e r g

A proven source of Black Type winners!

LEADING 3rd CROP SIRES IN EUROPE In order of lifetime percentage of black type winners to runners Sire

Runners

Black-Type % Black-Type Winners Winners to Runners

Group Winners

Gr.1 Winners

1

SEA THE STARS

153

18

11.76

9

3

2

FASTNET ROCK

146

12

8.22

6

2

3

LE HAVRE

149

11

7.38

4

1

4

MASTERCRAFTSMAN

222

15

6.76

10

3

5

CHAMPS ELYSEES

129

8

6.2

3

1

6

MYBOYCHARLIE

105

2

1.9

0

0

7

DANDY MAN

106

2

1.89

1

0

8

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE

133

2

1.5

0

0

9

RED ROCKS

106

1

0.94

0

0

10 INTENSE FOCUS

154

1

0.65

1

1

Minimum of 100 runners. Statistics supplied by Hyperion Promotions Ltd. Results received to September 20th.

12 Black Type horses to date in 2015!

LA CAUVINIÈRE SYLVAIN VIDAL haras@lacauviniere.com • +33 (0)6 20 99 10 15

MATHIEU ALEX +33 (0)6 26 59 19 18 • malex@lacauviniere.com

Haras de la Cauvinière • 14140 Notre Dame de Courson • France • Tél: +33 (0)2 31 31 48 78 • Fax: +33 (0)2 31 32 17 70 • www.lacauviniere.com

in Europe 2015 Leading Sires G ROUP

STALLION

WINNERS

1 GALILEO 2 Dubawi

19 11

EARNINGS £

5,788,362 5,466,145

Hyperion Promotions, 17/9/15

2015 European Third Crop Sires (EUROPEAN CROPS ONLY )

STALLION

1 2 3 4 5

MASTERCRAFTSMAN Sea The Stars FASTNET ROCK Champs Elysees Le Havre

STAKES WINNERS

6 4 7 1 1

EARNINGS £

2,960,893 1,855,675 1,826,417 1,316,633 996,330

Hyperion Promotions, 17/9/1

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in Europe in 2015 Leading First Crop Sires S TAKES

STALLION

1 2 3 4

ZOFFANY CANFORD CLIFFS Dream Ahead Roderic O’Connor

WINNERS

EARNINGS £

5 3 1 1

620,418 541,310 259,485 245,052

Hyperion Promotions, 17/9/15

Christy Grassick, David O’Loughlin, Eddie Fitzpatrick, Tim Corballis, Maurice Moloney, Gerry Aherne, Mathieu Legars or Jason Walsh Tel: +353-52-6131298. David Magnier, Tom Gaffney, Joe Hernon or Cathal Murphy. Tel: 353-25-31966/31689. Kevin Buckley (UK Rep.) Tel: +44-7827-795156. E-mail: sales@coolmore.ie Web site: www.coolmore.com