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SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2019

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Making Magic Magical wins the QIPCO Irish Champion Stakes: the Galileo filly's third Group 1 success

US yearling buyers are making more and more cross-Atlantic raids

Dan Ross finds the reasons behind the attractions of European bloodstock

Taylor Made Sales: Keeneland Book 1's leading consignor, again Melissa Bauer-Herzog chats with the farm and hears about its young stallion roster

We meet yearling consignors: Hillwood Stud, Philipp Stauffenberg, Boherguy Stud, Ringfort Stud, Oneliner Stables

SUNLIGHT (AUS) (Zoustar ex Solar Charged) Winner of the: Coolmore Stud Stakes, Gr.1 Newmarket Handicap, Gr.1 William Reid Stakes, Gr.1

TOP KNIGHT (AUS) (Zoustar ex Nero Cavallo) Winner of the Singapore Guineas, Gr.1

TABDEED (GB) TF 117p (Havana Gold ex Puzzled) Unbeaten over 6f and targets the QIPCO British Champion Sprint Stakes, Gr.1

2019 International Success KICK ON (GB) (Charm Spirit ex Marika) Winner of the Sovereign Stakes, Gr.3

ARETHA (NZ) (Charm Spirit ex Tsikory) Winner of the Breeders Stakes, Gr.2 2nd Sire Produce Stakes, Gr.1

FLAMING PRINCESS (IRE) (Hot Streak ex Qatar Princess) Winner of the Prix Cavalassur, Listed 3rd Prix d’Arenberg, Gr.3

Also home to Sussex Stakes, Gr.1 winner LIGHTNING SPEAR. First foals 2020.

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I knew he had a bundle of raw ability…He's very, very “ fast and a gorgeous-looking horse with a lovely mind. ” JOHN GOSDEN

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CALYX looked one of the most exciting Coventry winners for some time Timeform, who rated him 120p as a 2YO and 124 as a 3YO

Frankie Dettori on his runaway Commonwealth Cup Trial-Gr.3 success

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He went so fast I lost my hat blessed with a turn of foot reminiscent of his sire

Timeform after the Commonwealth Cup Trial

“Despite running green at Newmarket, CALYX achieved the rare feat for a newcomer of recording a rating in excess of 100" TIMEFORM, on his 5-length maiden win

The fastest son of exceptional young sire KINGMAN. His dam, Helleborine, is a Group winning 2YO and a full-sister to Gr.1 winning sprinter African Rose.

W E N Contact: Coolmore Stud, Fethard, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. Tel: +353-52-6131298. Fax: +353-52-6131382. Christy Grassick, David O’Loughlin, Eddie Fitzpatrick, Maurice Moloney, Gerry Aherne, Jason Walsh, Tom Miller, Neil Magee or Hermine Bastide. Tom Gaffney, David Magnier, Joe Hernon, Paddy Fleming or Cathal Murphy: +353-25-31966/31689. Kevin Buckley (UK Rep.) +44-7827-795156.

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

GREAT CARE FROM THE VERY BEGINNING

COULONCES SALES HARAS DU BOIS ROUSSEL

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

GREAT RESULTS ON THE RACETRACK

LAURENS - Six Gr.1 wins inc. Prix Rothschild in 2019, total earnings of over £1,750,000

AROHA Two Gr.3 placings in 2019 inc. Albany Stakes, Royal Ascot

BREATHALYZE Two wins at 2 in 2019

Looking forward to seeing you soon in Newmarket where we have two beautiful yearlings for sale in Book 1 and in Arqana where there are another 22 fantastic lots on offer.

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After the Irish Champions weekend, Paul Haigh can’t see that anything is likely to beat Enable at the begining of October in Paris

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Stan Cogrove, Robin Knipe and the 10th Duke of Roxburghe have died, Badgers Bloodstock recalls the past on a visit to York, and we discuss the bloodstock industry

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Racing review

The second weekend in September was Magical for racing in Britain and Ireland, writes Aisling Crowe

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European stallion statistics

Data from Weatherbys

Circus Maximus beat his elders...

...but it might not be for long, writes Jocelyn de Moubray

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“She’s been special from day one” Melissa Bauer-Herzog reports from a record-breaking Keeneland Book 1

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Turnaround for 2019’s season

Simon Rowlands has to reconsider his assessment of the 2019 season after some big summer performances

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Queen of Japan

Sally Duckett meets the Deirdre team on the Newmarket leg of their world tour

Hill climbing

It has been a fantastic start to the yearling sales season for Charlie and Tracy Vigors’ Hillwood Stud, with the promise of much more to come in October

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Going it alone

Clare Manning of Boherguy Stud consigns first yearlings at the Orby and Tattersalls sales

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German precision

Philipp Stauffenberg is wary of the current political situation in Britain, but is looking forward to selling his biggest draft to date at the Tattersalls yearling sales

Playing the long game

Derek Veitch of Ringfort Stud was disappointed when his Slade Power filly foal failed to sell, but it might now just have been the best result for the stud

Breaking new ground

The Lowry family of Oneliner Stables heads to Goffs and Tattersalls with their first draft of pinhooked colts

Crossing the high seas

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Dan Ross chats to a number of US buyers to find out the reasoning behind their growing cross-Atlantic raids on the European yearling and 2yo sales

Soldiering on up

Soldier Hollow has been a stalwart in the German stallion ranks for over a decade.

Liz Price meets his breeder Helmet von Finck and finds out just what an impact the stallion has had on his life

Leading the field

Taylor Made Farm has a young stallion roster and its sales division once again topped Keeneland Book 1.

Melissa Bauer-Herzog visits the Kentucky farm to meet the team

Photo of the month

The record-breaking Arqana August Sale

Magical at Leopardstown

Photo from PA Images

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Enable wins the Yorkshire Oaks at York from the subsequent Irish Champion Stakes winner, Magical.

Paul Haigh can’t see any logical reason for the form to be reversed at ParisLongchamp

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Over Irish Champions weekend, Paul Haigh did not see any horse who looked capable of taking on Enable in her bid for a record-breaking third Arc win

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HE IRISH CHAMPION STAKES has grown steadily in prestige and influence this century and is now arguably the premier Arc trial. But those hoping to witness the emergence from it this year of any serious challenger to the imperious Enable are probably going to meet with disappointment.

The Irish Champion may have the venue to match its status, but this year’s renewal really didn’t seem to have the field.

Or did it?

This is a puzzle of the sort that often trails in the wake of great horses. Was there anything in there who will trouble Her? All right then, was there anything in the field who might reveal itself as a rival who might even fluster her?

Not the red hot, fully deserved favourite and winner Magical, that’s for sure. She’s an outstanding racehorse in her own right – the winner of three Group 1s and runner-up in five – but she’s been seen off so many times and with so little fuss by the empress.

Magical now seems to stand in relation to Her rather in the same way that the original Cape Of Good Hope (not the one now in training) used to stand to the great Silent Witness. COGH had to be sent from Hong Kong to Royal Ascot to win the Golden Jubilee in order to avoid the almost ritual view of the same receding tail that awaited him every time he stepped out on a racecourse with the one who was simply too good for him.

But the figures just aren’t there.

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first word The second-placed Magic Wand is another admirable four-year-old filly from the O’Brien academy but, in 13 starts since taking the Group 2 Ribblesdale Stakes last year, she has not won. She seems an habitual runner-up with seven second spots to her name now.

At Leopardstown, this year’s Derby winner Anthony Van Dyck was a head back in third, his first outing since he beat just one – Magic Wand – in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot.

It was a far better performance from him, and he should finish closer at ParisLongchamp to Her than he did at Ascot, but he does not look capable of taking Her on.

Ghaiyyath looks a good one in the making, but at distances up to 1m2f rather than beyond. Sottsass won the Group 2 Prix Niel last time over 1m4f and the 1m2f Jockey-Club earlier in the year, but I can’t see him being up to the task either.

Put simply, the three-year-old challenge to the best horse in the world doesn’t seem to have materialised.

Sadly – we might even say “tragically” if there weren’t so many even more tragic deaths overtaking human beings these days – the horse many thought should have been Her main danger died of colic earlier this year.

The Arc trials at ParisLongchamp seem to have declined in stature and, while Treve used them as a warm-up, we no longer expect to see something startling leap from the Prix Foy, the Prix Niel or even the Prix Vermeille and demand attention for the world’s premier horserace.

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APAN? He must have a chance as he is the best 1m4f three-year-old around. But there shouldn’t be any real reason to get too excited about his narrow defeat of Crystal Ocean in the Juddmonte International.

For one thing it was an “on the nod” result.

For another the distance was short of Crystal Ocean’s best.

For a third, Enable, running from an awful draw and never getting a look at the rail until near the end, beat him much more easily in the King George, in which everything went perfectly for the horse the handicappers were trying to sell us as the world’s best.

The unforeseen could intervene. Appalling weather.

Really bad ground. An even worse draw than the one She had at Ascot. Clipped heels. A collision in running.

A gap that refuses to open.

But if none of these occur there seems no reason at all to oppose Her. Once you have eliminated lesser possiblities the most obvious thing to do is to accept the likelihood of the probable. She wins. That’s what she does. She doesn’t do it in the spectacular fashion of a Frankel or a Secretariat. She does it in the fashion of an Enable.

This leaves us space to go back to the much chewed-over question of whether she is even the greatest mare of the last however many years you want to make it or in the whole history of the sport.

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Once you have eliminated lesser possiblities the most obvious thing to do is to accept the likelihood of the probable.

She wins.

That’s what she does.

She doesn’t do it in the spectacular fashion of a Frankel or a Secretariat.

She does it in the fashion of an Enable

The magnificent Winx firmly occupies that place in the minds of all Australasians. She would certainly have widened the geographical range of her idolisation if she’d be asked to show herself off abroad, but her connections chose not to do that.

Their reward was an unbeaten run that lasted twice a long as Enable’s and a dazzling talent that never looked as though it might decline. Mares of her age just aren’t supposed to keep reproducing their form the way Winx did.

The decision to protect her does, however, leave the door open just a crack for those who want to, not denigrate, but question her record. The easy shot, the cheap shot, is ‘Oh but nearly all of those she beat were Australians.

Those who weren’t were horses who’d travelled miles to come and take her on or those whose own connections didn’t think it would do their stud value too much harm if they tried and failed. Besides, everyone knows Australian middle-distance horses just aren’t as good as those in the northern-hemisphere. That’s not opinion. It’s just fact’.

Who would have won if they’d ever met in battle on neutral ground? It’s quite impossible to say. The hunch says that at 1m2f on fast ground it might be Winx, until the mind rebels when trying to imagine any horse going past Enable the way Winx used to go past her rivals.

The point where the cognitive dissonance really does kick in though is when you think of the quality of the races Enable has already won.

The two Arcs, the two King Georges, the Breeders’ Cup Turf, The Eclipse, any number of Oaks.

That is just a ridiculous record.

No horse in the history of the game has ever won three.

Frankie Dettori with his favourite racehorse at York

Bungle Inthejungle Sire of LIVING IN THE PAST, an impressive winner of the Gr.2 Lowther Stakes at York.

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The Duke of Roxburghe, breeder of Attraction, dies at 67 GUY INNES-KER, the 10th Duke of Roxburghe, died at Floors Castle on August 29 following a lengthy illness. He was 67.

Guy Roxburghe inherited the

title at 19 and served for three years in the Blues and Royals before officially taking the running of Roxburghe Estates.

The 60,000-acre property

includes Floors Castle, fishing on the River Tweed, top-class pheasant and grouse shooting, a thoroughbred stud, 43 tenanted farms, five farms run inhand, a forestry operation, Roxburghe Hotel and golf course, as well as a wind farm.

Floors Castle, which opened to the public in 1977, is now a premier visitor attraction.

The Duke was also a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of

Fishmongers, a freeman of the City of London, president of the Border Union Agricultural Society, director of Kelso Races and a member of the Tweed Commission.

The bloodstock industry will, of course, remember him for his successful Flat breeding.

Floors Stud was founded by his father in 1947 and rose to emimence thanks to Attraction, who became the first filly to win

Prince Khalid Abdullah’s Logician wins the Group 2 Sky Bet Stakes at York

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Raiding the memory banks at York

ONG DRIVES ALONE give plenty of time for thinking and memories.

The mid-August drive to York has been part of my life for 36 years and much of this journey has been spent harking back to some wonderful days at my favourite racecourse.

Being privileged to receive the much-prized invitation to the annual Juddmonte lunch for around 200 guests was to kick-start a couple of remarkable days for dredging the memory bank.

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It is not for me to make the judgement, but it would be a surprise if York was not high on Prince Khalid Abdullah’s list of favourite courses, too.

He has been winning races at York for more than 40 years and has sponsored the Juddmonte International for 30 years.

On May 14, 1979, Prince Khalid had his first-ever winner in his colours. The very next day he had another at York – trainer Jeremy Tree sent Marzook to contest a maiden race to be ridden by Lester Piggott.

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The newly appointed assistant trainer was Roger Charlton, who remembers telling the owner that his horse was a certainty and the trainer should be sacked if he got beaten!

Under the strongest of Piggott finishes, Marzook got his nose just in front in the dying strides of the race.

Perhaps this sharp lesson is why Roger Charlton has now become one of the least optimistic trainers of this era?!

In 1980 Prince Khalid’s colours were carried to victory in the Gimcrack Stakes

by Known Fact.

The owner declined the opportunity to make the Gimcrack speech, but was so worried about what his incorrigible racing manager Humphrey Cotterill might say that he insisted that every word was to be recorded on a small tape machine that he provided.

Through the 1980s and 1990s, Prince Khalid won practically all of the major races at York.

Band won the 1984 Yorkshire Cup, Kingscote took the 1985 Lowther Stakes.

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the Musidora by Rejuvenate, All At Sea and Reams Of Verse. The Dante was won for him by Sanglamore and Tenby.

My memory bank went into overdrive when this year’s Group 2 Great Voltigeur Stakes was won by Prince Khalid’s highly impressive Logician.

His win was nearly as dominating as the victory achieved by Rainbow Quest when he won the same race in 1984, Pat Eddery then motionless in the saddle.

Dushyantor also won the race in 1996, but not in quite the same style.

Logician’s pedigree is steeped in York tradition – his third dam Didina won a Listed Race at York for Prince Khalid before going on to Graded stakes Rory Mahon

both the 1,000 Guineas and Irish 1,000 Guineas in 2004. In total, she won five Group 1 races.

Floors Stud has sold three lots at Tattersalls for over a million guineas. In 2016 a Frankel colt out of Attraction was bought by Shadwell Estate for 1.6 million guineas, the top price achieved by the farm at auction. Named Elarqam, he finished third in the Group 1 Juddmonte International just a week before the Duke’s death.

This year Floors is due to sell nine lots at Tattersalls, including

success in California.

Prince Khalid has raced five generations of this family, starting with Monroe, whom he bought off Robert Sangster.

In these days of dwindling numbers of owner-breeders, it is remarkable that Prince Khalid had two important winners at this year’s York meeting from families he has owned for five generations.

The second day of the York meeting saw the return of Enable to the Knavesmire to defend her remarkable run of Group 1 successes in the Yorkshire Oaks.

Rarely does such a race produce such an atmosphere of excitement, nerves and anticipation. An enormous crowd lifted the roof as Enable made every yard for her tenth Group 1 victory.

Frankie Dettori paraded his favourite racemare in front of the most appreciative gathering of Yorkshire men and women, before returning to the unsaddling enclosure for his customary leaping dismount.

It was a really sad moment for me that Prince Khalid was not able to be present for such a special moment, but there was one man standing amongst the crowd who would have felt just as proud of this achievement.

Rory Mahon is not a man of many words on the best of days, but he was certainly speechless and emotional as we stood together and watched from afar the debriefing from jockey to trainer and racing manager.

In more than 45 years as manager of Ferrans Stud for Prince Khalid, Rory

a Frankel colt out of Attraction, and a Kingman filly out of Comic.

She is a half-sister to Comic Strip (Viva Pataca), a dual champion in Hong Kong, bred by Floors Farming with Side Hill Stud.

A Jockey Club member, the Duke chaired the BHA disciplinary board and in 2017 became chairman of the National Stud.

He is survived by Virginia, the Duchess of Roxburghe, five children and five grandchildren.

The Duke’s eldest son, Charles, will succeed his father as the 11th Duke of Roxburghe.

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At the end of August, the 91-year-old Stan Cosgrove died. An esteemed equine vet, he established Troytown equine hospital, and managed Moyglare Stud until retiring in 2013.

On September 1, we also lost Robin Knipe, owner of Cobhall Stud and breeder of Gold Cup winner Master Oats, the Grade 1 winners Thistlecrack and Anzum, as well the Listed winner Baltic King and Group 2 winner Fulbright.

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It is remarkable that Prince Khalid had two important winners at this year’s York meeting from families he has owned for five generations

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has overseen the formative years and breaking regimes of practically every member of the five generations of this remarkable family.

Rory and I had dined together on the night before the Yorkshire Oaks and reminisced at length about the pedigree.

The fifth dam Fleet Noble and her daughter Fleet Girl were part of the package that Prince Khalid bought from Dr Schnapka in 1982.

Rory already knew the pair as he had foaled the tiny Fleet Girl and remembers well the day that she ran down the country in Ireland to win her maiden by 12l when ridden by an apprentice.

It was remarkable that she then produced such a high-class daughter in Bourbon Girl, whom Barry Hills trained to win her only start as a two-year-old at Ascot.

She did not win again, but was second to Indian Skimmer in the Musidora, second to Unite in the Oaks and the Irish Oaks before returning to York to run third in the Yorkshire Oaks... yes, another part of the continuing theme of York and this family.

Her daughter Apogee won a Group 3 in France and produced two Group 3 winners herself.

However, it was her daughters that put the family on the global map – one produced the American Turf champion Flintshire, while Enable has proved to be the Queen of England, France and America.

No wonder that Rory had tears welling up as he watched his protégé produce yet another masterclass in racing.

Who else could claim such a record?

And this is the man who also has nurtured the likes of Frankel and Kingman!

I would love to know just how many Group 1 winners have been through his hands?

So the long drive home that night had the memory yet again in overdrive.

Juddmonte pedigrees have flourished in all four corners of the world. York racecourse has played a huge part in that success story.

And, in case you think I have omitted it, yes, the great stallion Danehill also won at York for Prince Khalid.

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HAD AN INTERESTING ENCOUNTER in the summer. I was at a bar waiting to be served, the guy in front was getting a fairly large round in, but it was just the two of us and the barman was working quickly.

Another chap (I will call him Guy No 2) came up to get a couple of drinks in, he nodded his acknowledgement of me, assessed the situation and quickly decided he couldn’t be bothered to wait.

“You don’t mind if I head in front, I’ve got to rush to a meeting,” he proclaimed to myself, the barman and Guy No 1.

To give him his due the barman said: “Sir, I am serving this man and this lady is waiting.”

The barman’s “Sir” was a little over-generous in the circumstances, but his attempts were just met with: “Got to get on, got a meeting to get to.”

Guy No 1 decided it was going to be easiest to buy Guy No 2 his two bottles of beer and generously offered to add them to his round.

The cold beer came out, but unfortunately as the barman placed the beer down, one of the bottles tipped and a small amount split.

Unbelievably, instead of just picking up the bottle realising the circumstances in which his order had been accommodated, Guy No 2 said: “Take that back and get a full one.”

He duly got his full beer and departed without a thank you to any of us.

Barman gave the rejected beer to Guy No 1 for free.

The point of this story is that the situation could have been handled very differently by Guy No 2 if he had been blessed with some measure of class.

He might have had a meeting to rush to, he might not have, but if he had been a gentleman, he would have come over, seen the small queue at the bar and, instead of barging in front, said to barman: “I am afraid I am in a bit of hurry, here is the cash, please serve me and also get these people their drinks as I don’t have time to wait.”

I would have obviously refused initially (this is not a story about me hussling to get free drinks at a bar!), but it would have made sense in view of his time schedule and we would’ve accommodated his needs.

The point of this is that pushy people will always be as such, and in whatever walk of life and whatever circumstances they find themselves in, even if it as something as inconsequential as a queue at a bar.

It has been mentioned in the press in discussion subsequent to the leaking of the bloodstock review that some bullying behaviour takes place on the sales ground. Little can be done directly by the sales companies about such behaviour – bullies can not be legislated against.

What the auction companies can do is ensure that the sales process itself is robust enough to revert such behaviour so that it can not lead to anything illegal or incorrect, and if that is threatened then others can freely report such actions if necessary.

But the very best way for the bloodstock and racing industries to safeguard against such behaviour is to ensure that there is a strong and vibrate bloodstock market place with horses in demand, at all levels.

Then there is no place for the bullying mentality to take a foothold; those demanding luck money and the like can be ignored by consignors as there are many more buyers out there for their horses.

It has also been proposed that agents should be licensed, I am not sure that provides a practical answer. Then, surely, every purchaser – whether they are trainers, owners, breeders, pinhookers, friends at the sales just to help out – would need to be licensed, not just agents?

The bloodstock market works because it it acts quickly (it has to, bloodstock values can change almost by the hour) and that anyone, as long as they have proven funds, can buy a horse if they have such a whim.

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Sally Duckett discusses the bloodstock industry

There are plenty of barriers to racehorse purchase; we certainly don’t need to create any more. But if every purchaser needs to be licensed, or has to buy though an agent and so be charged commission, that could amount to fortunes in lost bids – money would be spent on percentages, on the middle-men, not on horse flesh.

No more buying a horse on spec as it walks in the ring, no more ringing friends who are at the sales and asking them to follow one through.

And who would be the ones who would lose out? The consignors through lost bids and purchasers due to greater expenses. And just more paper work and administration would be created.

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HE BLOODSTOCK INDUSTRY needs to make money, it is there to make money by selling horses, eventually, to a racehorse owner.

It should not be giving horses away, it should not even provide them on a generous basis (though both do happen, often) – businesses need to survive.

Just like any sales channel, sellers need to hussle to sell their stock for as much as they can, in reverse buyers need to purchase horses for as little as they can. Much hangs in the balance for both sides.

It is a difficult business – at the recent Tattersalls Ireland Ascot Yearling Sale, a growing sale with well-respected people buying and selling lower-produced yet viable horses, the average price was a tot over 10,000gns... and it was deemed a successful sale. That average is unlikely to cover most production costs.

Few trainers can buy many horses on spec now, yet perhaps it is a more preferable way to transfer a horse from the bloodstock to the racing industry.

Owners then can work with a trainer and his or her agent, aim to form a working and trusting relationship with the pair from the outset, and head to the trainer’s yard to pick their own selections, away from the intensity of the sale ring, with a glass of champagne or a coffee in hand, happy to trust the judgement of those who work in the industry.

Working in such a manner could help ensure an owner is not taken for a ride, with the benefit that a trainer is already licensed.

A trainer needs to ensure he or she can sell the horse a second time, needs to form a long-term relationship with that buyer and then needs to have regard for that owner’s cash funds for the future.

Such a purchasing methodology does require a suitable cash flow, but also that trainers can form good working, enduring relationships with their owners and with their selected agents.

Owners enjoy buying racehorses, and the thrill, excitement and optimism that generates must never be lost in administration, negative thought or red tape, or else we are all, indeed, doomed.

Some owners are more involved in the process than others, but whatever angle is taken, ownership is not something to walk into unawares.

Improvements in the auction process should be facilitated using the latest in IT knowledge, opening up the industry for the next generation, the computer kids, rather than opting to use dated legislation and red tape that does not advance any processes and the industry can ill afford to pay for.

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Logic dictates And becomes the second Classic winner in 2019 for Frankel, writes Aisling Crowe The exciting unbeaten Logician, by Frankel and out of the Daylami mare Scuffle, made it look easy in the St Leger. He has been put away now for the year

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OHN GOSDEN AND FRANKIE DETTORI are the men of the moment, and indeed many moments over the past year, with Dettori eyeing his best-ever tally of Group 1 winners – already at 16 – and Gosden providing the effervescent jockey with the steeds to bear him to glory.

The most recent British Group 1 success for the pair came in the St Leger at Doncaster when Logician maintained his unbeaten record with a smooth victory on his first attempt at the distance.

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is the second Classic winner this season for Juddmonte’s superb Frankel after Anapurna’s Oaks success for, those men again, Gosden and Dettori.

Logician became the 110th Group 1 winner bred by Prince Khalid’s operation and the 26th individual Classic winner.

He is a half-sister to the Grade 3 The Very One Stakes winner Suffused by Champs Elysses, who was beaten a nose into second in the Grade 1 E P Taylor Stakes.

They are two of the five winners from five runners produced by Scuffle, a Listed-placed Daylami half-sister to Group 1 Dubai Duty

Free Stakes winner and sire Cityscape and Juddmonte’s own Bated Breath.

Second dam Tantina was a Listed winner herself and is a daughter of Juddmonte’s Sussex Stakes (G1) winner Distant View and Didina, winner of the Grade 2 Dahlia Handicap who was also placed in the Grade 1 .

Didina is a granddaughter of one of Juddmonte’s foundation mares Monroe, who continues to make her presence felt in the pedigrees of its star performers today, including in that of this season’s Group 1 Phoenix Stakes winner Siskin.

Monroe is out of the blue hen Best In

gb and ire racing review Dettori and Gosden were also celebrating the exploits of their superstar stayer at Doncaster’s St Leger Festival as Stradivarius won a second consecutive Group 2 Doncaster Cup, to add to the Group 1 triumphs at York’s Ebor meeting and Glorious Goodwood which earned him a second Weatherbys’ Hamilton Stayers’ Million. That may be the final straw for the bonus, there have been reports that it won’t be continued in 2020.

The diminutive son of Sea The Stars extended his unbeaten streak to ten at Doncaster, his last defeat coming in the Group 2 QIPCO British Champions’ Long Distance Cup of 2017 when he was third to Order Of St George.

Bjorn Nielsen’s beloved star has been one of the flag-bearers for Sea The Stars, who produced another Classic winner in the form of Star Catcher, victorious in July’s Group 1 Kerrygold Irish Oaks for the same team of Gosden and Dettori. Over the same weekend in September, she added to her Group 1 glory taking the Prix Vermeille Owned and bred by Anthony Oppenheimer, the filly is the third Group winner produced by the late mare Lynnwood Chase after the Lemon Drop Kid pair of Group 1 Canadian International winner Stradivarius: unbeaten in 10 outings since 2017

Show, who is firmly established as one of the most influential broodmares of the past 50 years.

It was a hugely successful weekend for Tantina’s branch of the family, even though she only produced six foals before her untimely death.

Her Oasis Dream daughter Tarentaise is the dam of Equilateral (Equiano), who won the Listed Scarbrough Stakes at Doncaster earlier in the meeting.

Bated Breath sired the Group 3 Sceptre Stakes winner Breathtaking Look as well as Space Traveller, who won the Group 2 Clipper

Logistics Boomerang Stakes at Leopardstown on the first day of Irish Champions’ Weekend.

This year, Scuffle produced a colt from the first crop of National Stud sire Time Test and was covered by Frankel.

Logician’s Leger success gave Frankel his fourth individual Group 1 winner for this season, to bring his tally to nine Group 1 winners and counting.

And there looks to be plenty more to come from Logician, who has been carefully taken through his three-year-old season. All being well he looks as though he will be adding to that Group 1 sucess in future.

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gb and ire racing review Cannock Chase and Pisco Sour, who won the Group 2 Prix Eugene Adam.

Lynnwood Chase is by South African champion Horse Chestnut, a grandson of Sadler’s Wells.

The cross of Sea The Stars with Sadler’s Wells line mares is working very well with Oaks and King George heroine Taghrooda by Sadler’s Wells himself as is the Derby third Storm The Stars, Almodovar, who was second in the Group 1 Prix d’Ispahan, and the Group 2 Prix Guillaume Ornano winner Knight To Behold.

Sea The Stars also has an 86 per cent winners to runners ratio with daughters of Montjeu.

The late summer success for Dettori and Gosden wasn’t purely with their middledistance stars as Too Darn Hot looked back to his best when winning the Group 1 Sussex Stakes at Glorious Goodwood in what proved to be his swansong.

The three-year-old son of Dubawi sustained an hairline fracture of his off-hind cannon bone which ended his racing career.

Successful surgery on the injury will see him recover in time to join his sire at Darley’s Dalham Hall Stud for the next round of nominations.

Of course, no account of the Gosden and Dettori Group 1 winners of the summer

Even when a race is not graced with her presence, Enable is the ghost at every feast, the victories of her foes in her absence only emphasising her superiority could be complete without mention of the outstanding Enable.

The five-year-old daughter of Nathaniel’s imperious journey towards immortality in the “City of Light” next month continued unabated. First, with victory in the King George, her second in the race, after a thrilling contest with Crystal Ocean in which both horses emerged with their reputations enhanced. Crystal Ocean conceding 3lb

It was a head bob between Crystal Ocean (far side) and Japan in the Juddmonte International at York

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to Enable but holding her to neck in a memorable duel up the Ascot straight Sir Michael Stoute’s five-year-old and his conqueror then both headed to the Knavesmire, but Crystal Ocean’s target was the Group 1 Juddmonte International, while Enable went to regain her Yorkshire Oaks crown.

Prince Khalid’s unbeaten supernova locked horns once again with Magical, with whom she combined so thrillingly in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Turf last year.

It was much more comfortable for Enable at York as she defeated the Ballydoyle filly by 2l further than the three-quarters of a length margin at Churchill Downs last November.

Even when a race is not graced with her presence, Enable is the ghost at every feast, the victories of her foes in her absence only emphasising her superiority.

That certainly looked the case in the Juddmonte International as Crystal Ocean, conceding 7lb to the hree-year-old Japan, engaged in a pulsating battle with the Aidan O’Brien-trained Grand Prix de Paris winner up the York straight, the younger horse winning by a head in what proved to be the final race of Crystal Ocean’s excellent career.

The son of Sea The Stars suffered a careerending injury while training for the Arc and underwent surgery to have screws inserted Search For A Song: emotional winner for Moyglare

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Bred by Sir Evelyn de Rothschild’s Southcourt Stud, Crystal Ocean is a wonderfully honest and talented competitor who never finished out of the first three in his career. Winner of the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot earlier in the season, he was second in the five other top level races he contested.

He is out the Mark Of Esteem mare Crystal Star and he is closely related to the Cape Cross Group 2 1m4f winner, Crystal Capella, and a half-brother ot the Canadian

International (G1) winner, Hillstar (Danehill Dancer), who stands at Garryrichard Stud.

There is no Sadler’s Wells or, in particular, Galileo in his pedigree so that will open up many options for mare owners looking to double up the influence of Urban Sea. Gosden and Dettori dominated in the human stakes, but it was Galileo, the phenomenal sire, who monopolised the equine plaudits.

The sire of Japan added a further two new Group 1 winners to his incredible record over Irish Champions weekend, including Search

For A Song, who was an emotional heroine of the Irish St Leger at The Curragh ahead of Pat Smullen’s Legends Race for Caner Trials Ireland.

Bred by Moyglare Stud with whom Smullen enjoyed a long and fruitful relationship before pancreatic cancer forced the champion’s retirement last year, Search For A Song is a full-sister to the Listed winner and Lonsdale Cup (G2) fourth Falcon Eight and a three-parts sister to Group 1 Prince Of Wales’s Stakes winner and the Irish National Stud’s first-season sire Free Eagle, who

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Pinatubo lit up this year’s juvenile form with his Group 1 win at The Curragh

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INATUBO LIT UP a murky Curragh afternoon with a scintillating success in the Group 1 Goffs Vincent O’Brien National Stakes on the second half of the Irish Champions’ Weekend festivities.

Charlie Appleby’s son of Shamardal was simply sublime in his demolition of a field, which included impressive Group 2 Futurity Stakes winner Armory and the Group 2 Coventry Stakes winner Arizona, who fought out the podium positions behind the 9l winner.

One of five Royal Ascot winners for his sire when claiming the Listed Chesham Stakes, Pinatubo is unbeaten in his five starts and will surely be the red-hot favourite for the Group 1

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William Buick can’t hide his delight as his crosses the line on the son of Shamardal an untroubled 9l clear of the field

Dewhurst Stakes, which trainer Appleby hinted is set to be his next task.

His dam is the Dalakhani mare Lava Flow, who won the Listed Prix de la Seine over 1m3f in France and had a Teofilo filly foal this spring.

The season is turning out to be rather spectacular for Shamardal, the French Classic winner bred from the first crop of legendary Giant’s Causeway.

Now restricted to covering mares privately owned by Sheikh Mohammed, his family and associates at Kildangan Stud, the 19-year-old is enjoying a fantastic season.

He is the sire of 14 individual stakes winners so far this year, including four at Group 1 level – the now-retired Group 1 Kings’ Stand and Diamond Jubilee Stake winner Blue Point, Poule

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d’Essai des Pouliches winner Castle Lady and Earthlight, successful in the Prix Morny.

Shamardal is also the damsire of Group 1 Sprint Cup winner Hello Youmzain.

In her own way the distinctive Love was as authoritative a winner of the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes, which preceded Pinatubo’s electrifying display.

The flashy chestnut initiated a double of new Group 1 winners on the afternoon for her sire Galileo to move him on an astonishing 82, now just two behind the record held by Danehill.

Bred by Coolmore, Love previously won the Group 3 Silver Flash Stakes and displayed all of the heart and tenacity Galileo is renowned for

imparting to his progeny in her threeparts of a length victory over Group 3 Albany Stakes winner Daahyeh.

She is a half-sister to the Group 2 Cherry Hinton and Lowther Stakes winner Lucky Kristale (Lucky Story), and their dam Pikaboo was acquired

by Coolmore after Lucky Kristale’s emergence.

Since joining Coolmore’s broodmare band she has been mated exclusively with Galileo.

The first product of that liaison was the Group 3 Munster Oaks winner Flattering with this season’s Group 3 Stanerra Stakes winner Peach Tree following on behind.

Pikaboo is a three-parts sister to the multiple Group 2 winner and sire Arabian Gleam and the multiple Listed winner Kimberella,

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She is also a half-sister to multiple Group 2 and Group 3 winner Custom Cut by Notnowcato, Sapphire by Medicean, who won the QIPCO British Champions’ Fillies and Mares race when it was a Group 2, and Valac, a Dark Angel gelding who won the Group 3 Dominant Queen’s Cup in Australia in May. She has a two-year-old full-sister named Amma Grace, who was third on her debut at Cork on September 1 for Dermot Weld and Oisin Orr, and a yearling full-brother.

Fourth in a Group 3 over 7f, Polished Gem,

both sons of Kyllachy.

Pikaboo shares her sire Pivotal with Kyllachy and Love’s victory in the Moyglare Stakes was the third Group 1 win of Irish Champions’ Weekend with Pivotal in the role of broodmare sire, following those of four-year-old Magical in the Irish Champions’ Stakes and the yearyounger Fairyland in the Flying Five.

The 26-year-old Cheveley Park Stud king is now the damsire of seven individual Group 1 winners this season.

Galileo and Pivotal has almost superseded Galileo and Danehill as the most potent cross in the business, but the victory of Mogul in the Group 2 KPMG Juvenile Champions’ Stakes at Leopardstown was a reminder of the success of that particular nick.

Mogul is out of Newsells Park Stud’s phenomenal producer Shastye, a Danehill half-sister to Arc winner and sire Sagamix, the Group 1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud winner Sagacity and the Group 2 Prix de Malleret winner Sage Et Jolie, who is the dam of Group 1 Prix d’Ispahan winner and sire Sageburg.

Shastye was only Listed-placed on the track, but her progeny have earned more than 11m guineas in the sales ring, headed by subsequent Group 1 fourth Sir Isaac Newton, who cost 3.6m guineas and is a full-brother to Mogul. Mogul himself was just 200,000gns cheaper than his Group 3-winning sibling while the 2016-born Japan, winner of the Group 1 Grand Prix de Paris and Group 1 Juddmonte International this season, and now a leading challenger to Enable in the

a daughter of the Moyglare homebred Irish 1,000 Guineas (G1) winner Trusted Partner, was covered by Galileo in the spring.

She was yet another winner for dedicated breeders and revealed the importance of breeders retaining their family connections, which was also another notch for the incredibly potent Galileo-Danehill cross which powered Galileo’s early success as a stallion.

Polished Gem is a winning full-sister to Moyglare’s Grade 1 Matriarch Stakes winner Dress To Thrill out of their Irish 1,000

Arc, was a comparative bargain as just a 1.3m guineas purchase.

The late Iron Horse Giant’s Causeway is making his presence felt in this year’s crop of juveniles through his sire sons.

At Doncaster’s St Leger Festival, Threat confirmed the exciting potential of his Group 2 Gimcrack Stakes success with victory in the Group 2 Champagne Stakes. The son of Footstepsinthesand led home a onetwo for grandsons of Giant’s Causeway with Royal Crusade, by Shamardal, making Threat pull out all the stops to fend him off. Threat was carrying a Group 2 penalty and trainer Richard Hannon was not dissuaded of his belief that Treat is a genuine contender for next season’s 2,000 Guineas.

Second in both the Coventry and Richmond Stakes, Threat is a winner of three of his five starts so far, stepping up from five to six and then the seven furlongs of the Champagne Stakes.

Bred by Derek and Gay Veitch’s Ringfort Stud in Count Offaly (see page 78), Threat was purchased for 100,000gns by Capital Bloodstock and runs for Cheveley Park Stud.

He is the second foal out of the Birdstone mare Flare Of Firelight who was placed three times in France.

Bred by the Niarchos family, she is out of the Group 1 Tattersalls Gold Cup winner Shiva, a half-sister to the Oaks heroine Light Shift, the dam of Irish Champion Stakes winner and Cheveley Park Stud’s first-crop sire Ulysses, and to Strawberry Fledge. She is the dam of Group 1 winner Cloth Of Stars in his first season at Haras de Logis.

Guineas winner Trusted Partner. She was a daughter of Affirmed and Talking Picture, the US champion two-year-old filly of 1973 and winner of the Grade 1 Spinaway Stakes and Matron Stakes. She was purchased by the late Walter Haefner and his legendary stud manager Stan Cosgrove, who sadly died just a fortnight before Search For A Song’s Classic success.

Magical led home a 1-2-3 for Galileo, Coolmore, Ballydoyle and Aidan O’Brien in the Group 1 QIPCO Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown on the first day of Irish

Mogul: the latest star out of Shastye wins the Group 2 at Leopardstown

A’Ali carried forward his good form from Royal Ascot to Doncaster with a successful trip to France sandwiched between those runs.

The colt from the third and final crop of the ill-fated Society Rock won the Group 2 Norfolk Stakes, then the Group 2 Prix Robert Papin before finishing fifth to Earthlight in the Prix Morny (G1). He returned to the winners’ enclosure in the 5f Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes.

Bred by Tally-Ho Stud where Society Rock stood, A’Ali was bought from Star Bloodstock for £135,000 at the GoffsUK Breeze Up Sale.

He is the second foal and second winner out of Motion Lass, a winning Motivator half-sister to Group 3 Darley Stakes winner Enforcer by Efisio, who was third in the Group 1 Coronation

Cup and Preis von Europa.

Despite holding entries in the Mill Reef and Dewhurst Stakes, trainer Simon Crisford reported that A’Ali will stick to 5f with his end of season aim the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf.

Darley’s first-season sire Night Of Thunder sired his third stakes winner courtesy of Molatham in the Listed Flying Scotsman at the same meeting.

The dual Group 1 winner of the 2,000 Guineas and Lockinge Stakes, Night Of Thunder currently boasts an impressive 60 per cent winners to runners strike-rate with Molatham, another stakes winner for broodmare sire Pivotal, joining fellow Listed winner Thunderous and Group 3 Princess Margaret Stakes winner Under The Stars as black-type winners for their sire.

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gb and ire racing review Champions’ Weekend with Japanese heroine Deirdre looking terribly unlucky.

The five-year-old daughter of Harbinger has regularly made history during her sojourn in Newmarket, becoming the first Japanesetrained horse to win a British Group 1 with her heartwarming victory in the Goodwood’s Nassau Stakes.

She received a rapturous welcome at Leopardstown as the “cead mile fáilte” was extended to the first Japanese-trained horse to run in Ireland.

Deirdre and Oisin Murphy’s run was halted at a pivotal moment with the five-year-old having to drop back to last with roughly a furlong to run. Murphy manoeuvred her out wide of the field and she gave a fair impression of a bullet train as she flew down the outside to claim fourth, bearing down on the podium positions.

It was the eighth time that Galileo has sired the first three home in a Group 1, most memorably when Found led home Highland Reel and Order Of St George in the 2016 Arc, and incredibly the second time this

Remarkably the ninth such Group 1 1-2-3 result for Galileo occurred less than 24 hours later as Search For A Song led home the 2017 St Leger winner Kew Gardens and Southern France in the Irish St Leger

season after Sovereign’s Irish Derby win over paternal half-siblings Anthony Van Dyck and Norway.

Remarkably the ninth such 1-2-3 result for Galileo occurred less than 24 hours later as Search For A Song led home the 2017 St Leger winner Kew Gardens and Southern France in the St Leger.

Epsom Derby winner Anthony Van Dyck was third in the Leopardstown event behind Magical and Magic Wand while Norway, a full-brother to Derby winner Ruler Of The World and a half-brother to multiple Group 1 winner and Drakenstein Stud sire Duke Of Marmalade, won the Group 3 Solonoway Stakes on the same Leopardstown card.

Iridessa, Ruler Of The World’s Group 1 winner from his small first crop, added the Group 1 Matron Stakes on the same card to her victory in the Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes this season.

Magical’s success inevitably brought thoughts of Enable, the mare with whom she has clashed on four occasions and will challenge at ParisLongchamp in October.

Magical enjoyed her day in the sun and led home a Galileo 1-2-3 when taking the QIPCO Irish Champions Stakes from Magic Wand and Anthony Van Dyck

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Fairyland is one of four individual Group 1 winners for Kodiac, and was the second in eight days after Hello Youmzain won the Group 1 Sprint Cup The last run for Fairyland was a Group 1 Flying Five success: she heads to stud due to visit Galileo

Magical is a full-sister to Rhododendron, whose three Group 1 victories included the Lockinge Stakes, and Flying The Flag, who was a Group 3 winner. They are out of Halfway To Heaven, a daughter of King’s Stand stakes winner Cassandra Go and Pivotal, the broodmare sire who only Galileo currently rivals for pre-eminence.

Pivotal is damsire of three of the Group 1 winners over Irish Champions’ Weekend with Fairyland (Kodiac) adding the Group 1 Flying Five Stakes to her 2018 victory in the Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes.

The filly carries the colours of Mrs Evie Stockwell, mother of Coolmore supremo John Magnier, she was bred by Mrs Stockwell’s daughter Anne O’Callaghan of Tally-Ho Stud and was bought by MV Magnier/Mayfair/ P&R Doyle as a yearling for 925,000gns at Tattersalls, making her the most expensive yearling by Koadic to sell at auction to date.

Fairyland is one of four individual Group 1 winners for Kodiac, and the second in eight days as Hello Youmzain won the Group 1 Sprint Cup at Haydock on September 7.

MV Magnier’s grandmother revealed that the dual Group 1 heroine has run her last race and has a date with Galileo next spring.

Hello Youmzain runs in the colours of Jaber Abdullah and is a homebred winner for Rabbah Bloodsotck. The three-year-old was third in the Group 1 Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot and prior to that beat Calyx in the Group 2 Sandy Lane Stakes.

He ended last season with success in the Group 2 Criterium de Maisons-Lafitte.

Trained by Kevin Ryan, he is a half-brother to three black-type horses, including the 5f Listed winner Zuhoor Baynoona (Elnadim).

She is the dam of Custodian, a winner by

Muhaarar and her first runner.

She was sold in July 2016 by Godolphin to Cormac McCormack for 250,000gns, and reoffered in December 2017, in-foal to Frankel, at last year’s Tattersalls December Mare Sale.

Then she upgraded her valuation to 560,000gns, bought by Cheveley Park Stud, which had purchased Custodian the week before as a foal from the Norelands Stud

consignment for 260,000gns.

Another half-sibling is the multiple Group 1-placed Royal Youmzain and Saglawy, who was Listed-placed on the Flat in France and is now a Grade 2 winner and Grade 1-placed over hurdles for Willie Mullins.

They are out of the unraced Shamardal mare Spasha, who hails from the family of Sandmason and the Group 1 Diamond Sires’ Produce Stakes winner Summer Passage.

Nine champion jockeys with Pat Smullen ahead of the Pat Smullen Champions Race For Cancer Trials.

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stallion stats Leading sires in Europe 2019: (by prize-money earned to September 12, 2019) Stallion Galileo Dubawi Sea The Stars Shamardal Dark Angel Frankel Nathaniel Siyouni Le Havre Kodiac Lope de Vega Invincible Spirit Kingman Zoffany Camelot Oasis Dream Showcasing Kendargent Holy Roman Emperor Mastercraftsman Dandy Man Acclamation Pivotal Footstepsinthesand Champs Elysees Teofilo Dansili Bated Breath Exceed And Excel New Approach Iffraaj Dream Ahead Rock of Gibraltar Zebedee No Nay Never Casamento Australia Rajsaman Dutch Art Elusive City Medicean Makfi Dawn Approach Olympic Glory Soldier Hollow Sea The Moon Motivator Wootton Bassett

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Breeding

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

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693 627 589 758 1409 418 646 810 711 1703 899 959 335 1057 630 868 761 879 856 930 1312 1024 530 906 683 639 545 757 969 490 850 707 678 1182 360 695 363 787 755 776 381 622 413 302 515 280 495 354

Wnrs 78 84 79 74 107 57 54 77 75 134 81 91 58 85 63 66 54 75 62 75 91 65 48 68 59 42 51 65 72 49 65 53 45 76 39 48 28 53 72 55 25 42 32 23 64 29 33 32

Wins 115 124 111 111 159 90 79 103 112 181 121 128 77 116 89 94 78 106 90 106 138 102 79 99 83 62 74 85 110 75 96 82 62 100 49 66 57 75 100 71 34 58 41 33 91 49 45 42

Wnrs/Rnrs% SWnrs SWs 40.00 47.72 47.87 41.57 35.19 49.13 35.52 36.66 45.18 37.01 36.16 43.33 50.87 35.41 37.95 36.06 30.33 43.35 37.12 36.58 36.40 34.21 41.73 35.23 38.81 27.45 36.17 37.35 36.92 35.50 32.82 37.06 33.08 34.54 36.44 30.37 28.86 30.99 49.31 42.30 32.46 33.33 25.39 28.39 50.39 35.80 29.46 35.95

22 17 10 13 7 13 6 8 11 6 10 8 13 6 9 6 3 6 3 6 3 2 4 2 6 4 2 7 4 7 3 5 1 3 8 3 7 0 5 1 1 1 1 3 7 5 2 1

£

31 8,942,279 22 4,294,322 17 4,045,682 22 3,888,932 9 3,203,045 21 3,165,914 9 3,106,771 9 3,017,619 11 2,718,994 7 2,641,082 13 2,551,625 11 2,454,609 15 2,379,594 7 2,103,134 11 1,938,193 8 1,892,872 5 1,860,073 7 1,840,804 4 1,793,055 8 1,682,839 3 1,682,628 2 1,601,469 5 1,593,373 2 1,582,415 9 1,495,175 7 1,494,015 2 1,437,334 7 1,408,488 5 1,378,767 8 1,335,600 3 1,302,543 5 1,277,641 1 1,227,877 3 1,215,214 9 1,202,757 4 1,192,050 9 1,180,782 0 1,141,668 5 1,126,009 2 1,115,817 1 1,029,885 1 1,029,170 1 1,011,334 4 1,008,166 8 1,003,799 5 1,000,456 2 991,816 1 950,710

European Champion two-year-old who went on to be a G1-winning miler – just like his grandsire Shamardal.

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stallion stats Leading sires of two-year-olds in Europe 2019: (by prize-money earned to September 12, 2019) Stallion

Breeding

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No Nay Never Scat Daddy-Cat’s Eye Witness (Elusive Quality) 2015 36 76 10 13 27.77 2 2 278,892 Shamardal Giant’s Causeway–Helsinki (Machiavellian) 2005 15 31 6 13 40.00 3 5 525,949 Footstepsinthesand Giant’s Causeway–Glatisant (Rainbow Quest) 2006 37 95 11 a18 29.72 1 1 491,106 No Nay Never Scat Daddy–Cat’s Eye Witness (Elusive Quality) 2015 56 152 22 27 39.28 3 3 451,839 Dandy Man Mozart–Lady Alexander (Night Shift) 2010 72 252 26 36 36.11 0 0 418,511 Cable Bay Invincible Spirit–Rose de France (Diktat) 2016 50 165 16 25 32.00 1 2 386,403 Dark Angel Acclamation–Midnight Angel ( Machiavellian) 2008 76 207 19 24 25.00 1 1 382,840 Lope de Vega Shamardal–Lady Vettori (Vettori) 2011 34 72 12 18 35.29 3 3 378,612 Siyouni Pivotal–Sichilla (Danehill) 2011 44 100 19 22 43.18 2 2 376,649 Gleneagles Galileo–You’resothrilling (Storm Cat) 2016 37 79 13 16 35.13 2 2 355,757 Kodiac Danehill–Rafha (Kris) 2007 89 268 27 30 30.33 0 0 354,879 Night of Thunder Dubawi–Forest Storm (Galileo) 2016 32 87 18 24 56.25 2 2 351,645 Kingman Invincible Spirit–Zenda (Zamindar) 2015 38 80 17 21 44.73 3 3 332,258 Wootton Bassett Iffraaj–Balladonia (Primo Dominie) 2012 32 80 10 12 31.25 1 1 322,688 Galileo Sadler’s Wells–Urban Sea (Miswaki) 2002 42 78 11 14 26.19 2 3 317,604 Anjaal Bahamian Bounty–Ballymore Celebre (Peintre Celebre) 2016 53 177 11 19 20.75 0 0 312,488 Zoffany Dansili–Tyranny (Machiavellian) 2012 55 138 15 16 27.27 1 1 307,406 Showcasing Oasis Dream–Arabesque (Zafonic) 2011 43 110 10 12 23.25 1 2 289,898 War Front Danzig–Starry Dreamer(Rubiano) 2007 23 64 10 11 43.47 1 1 277,970 Gutaifan Dark Angel–Alikhlas ( Lahib) 2016 65 218 25 30 38.46 0 0 276,645 Lethal Force Dark Angel–Land Army (Desert Style) 2014 37 100 12 14 32.43 1 1 267,201 First Defence Unbridled’s Song–Honest Lady (Seattle Slew) 2009 1 4 1 4 100.00 1 3 265,574 Slade Power Dutch Art–Girl Power (Key of Luck) 2015 28 63 5 7 17.85 1 2 244,307 Bungle Inthejungle Exceed And Excel–Licence To Thrill (Wolfhound) 2015 25 74 8 13 32.00 1 1 242,059 Charm Spirit Invincible Spirit–L’Enjoleuse (Montjeu) 2015 31 84 9 11 29.03 0 0 225,112 Starspangledbanner Choisir–Gold Anthem (Made of Gold) 2011 37 109 13 17 35.13 1 1 224,360 Bated Breath Dansili–Tantina (Distant View) 2013 31 80 8 11 25.80 3 3 221,883 Due Diligence War Front–Bema (Pulpit) 2016 37 111 14 22 37.83 2 2 218,901 Camacho Danehill–Arabesque (Zafonic) 2006 67 226 16 20 23.88 0 0 214,887 Society Rock Rock of Gibraltar–High Society (Key of Luck) 2014 25 84 4 5 16.00 1 2 201,764 Epaulette Commands–Accessories (Singspiel) 2014 34 109 9 14 26.47 0 0 200,695 Sakhee’s Secret Sakhee–Palace Street (Secreto) 2009 26 72 10 11 38.46 1 1 194,833 Invincible Spirit Green Desert–Rafha ( Kris) 2003 37 85 10 11 27.02 0 0 194,147 Acclamation Royal Applause–Princess Athena (Ahonoora) 2004 35 102 10 11 28.57 0 0 190,128 Toronado High Chaparral–Wana Doo (Grand Slam) 2015 22 70 10 17 45.45 0 0 187,966 Oasis Dream Green Desert–Hope (Dancing Brave) 2004 29 75 8 11 27.58 1 1 187,207 Ivawood Zebedee–Keenes Royale (Red Ransom) 2016 39 142 12 13 30.76 0 0 182,491 Areion Big Shuffle–Aerleona (Caerleon) 2001 8 19 6 10 75.00 2 2 173,513 American Pharoah Pioneerof the Nile–Littleprincessemma (Yankee Gentleman) 2016 6 15 3 3 50.00 1 1 163,151 Outstrip Exceed And Excel–Asi Siempre (El Prado) 2016 40 117 9 14 22.50 1 1 163,078 Holy Roman Emperor Danehill–L’On Vite (Secretariat) 2007 21 57 7 9 33.33 1 1 154,603 Kheleyf Green Desert–Society Lady (Mr. Prospector) 2005 19 71 6 8 31.57 0 0 150,060 Power Oasis Dream–Frappe (Inchinor) 2013 25 71 4 8 16.00 0 0 148,284 Sir Prancealot Tamayuz–Mona Em (Catrail) 2013 25 92 8 12 32.00 0 0 147,100 Dabirsim Hat Trick–Rumored (Royal Academy) 2014 29 58 9 10 31.03 0 0 145,976 Dubawi Dubai Millennium–Zomaradah (Deploy) 2006 29 67 11 12 37.93 1 1 141,420 Sommerabend Shamardal–Sommernacht (Monsun) 2015 15 46 6 7 40.00 0 0 140,999 Sidestep Exceed And Excel–Dextrous ( Quest for Fame) 2016 16 58 6 8 37.50 1 1 140,774

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FASCINATING ROCK Dual Group 1 winner and TFR 127 By top international sire FASTNET ROCK Won the Group 1 Champion Stakes in a time faster than FRANKEL and CRACKSMAN Also won the Group 1 Tattersalls Gold Cup from FOUND

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stallion stats Leading first-season sires in Europe 2019: (by prize-money earned to Septebmer 12, 2019) Stallion Gleneagles Cable Bay Gleneagles Night of Thunder Anjaal Gutaifan Due Diligence Ivawood American Pharoah Outstrip Sidestep Hot Streak Brazen Beau Make Believe Galiway Muhaarar Free Eagle Golden Horn Cappella Sansevero French Navy Fountain of Youth Hallowed Crown Mustajeeb Amaron Kingston Hill The Wow Signal Karakontie Summer Front Prince Gibraltar Machucambo Evasive’s First Wilshire Boulevard Supplicant Red Dubawi Amarillo Fulbright Daredevil Intrinsic Hunter’s Light Kenbest Music Master Dogma Noir G Force Wicked Strong Jimmy Mack Shooting To Win Competitive Edge

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Breeding Galileo-You’resothrilling (Storm Cat) Invincible Spirit–Rose de France (Diktat) Galileo–You’resothrilling (Storm Cat) Dubawi–Forest Storm (Galileo)

To Stud

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2016 18 29 2016 50 165 2016 37 79 2016 32 87 Bahamian Bounty–Ballymore Celebre (Peintre Celebre) 2016 53 177 Dark Angel–Alikhlas (Lahib) 2016 65 218 War Front–Bema (Pulpit) 2016 37 111 Zebedee–Keenes Royale (Red Ransom) 2016 39 142 Pioneerof the Nile–Littleprincessemma (Yankee Gentleman) 2016 6 15 Exceed And Excel–Asi Siempre (El Prado) 2016 40 117 Exceed And Excel–Dextrous (Quest for Fame) 2016 16 58 Iffraaj–Ashirah (Housebuster) 2016 35 114 I Am Invincible–Sansadee (Snaadee) 2016 34 98 Makfi–Rosie’s Posy (Suave Dancer) 2016 29 77 Galileo–Danzigaway (Danehill) 2016 7 21 Oasis Dream–Tahrir (Linamix) 2016 29 70 High Chaparral–Polished Gem (Danehill) 2016 22 54 Cape Cross–Fleche d’Or (Dubai Destination) 2016 19 33 Showcasing–Madam President (Royal Applause) 2016 13 45 Shamardal–First Fleet (Woodman) 2016 10 26 Oasis Dream–Attraction (Efisio) 2016 26 74 Street Sense–Crowned Glory (Danehill) 2016 14 45 Nayef–Rifqah (Elusive Quality) 2016 3 14 Shamardal–Amandalini (Bertolini) 2016 11 22 Mastercraftsman–Audacieuse (Rainbow Quest) 2016 8 21 Starspangledbanner–Muravka (High Chaparral) 2016 4 13 Bernstein–Sun Is Up (Sunday Silence) 2016 5 9 War Front–Rose of Summer (El Prado) 2016 3 6 Rock of Gibraltar–Princess Sofia (Pennekamp) 2016 4 11 Anabaa Blue–Materialiste (Zafonic) 2016 1 5 Evasive–Zalia (Oasis Dream) 2016 5 12 Holy Roman Emperor–Tyranny (Machiavellian) 2016 4 10 Kyllachy–Pious (Bishop of Cashel) 2016 5 16 Dubawi–Maredsous (Homme de Loi) 2016 5 15 Holy Roman Emperor–Alte Kunst (Royal Academy) 2016 3 7 Exceed And Excel–Lindfield Belle (Fairy King) 2016 8 23 More Than Ready–Chasethewildwind (Forty Niner) 2016 2 7 Oasis Dream–Infallible (Pivotal) 2016 4 12 Dubawi–Portmanteau (Barathea) 2016 7 13 Kendargent–Maybe (Dashing Blade) 2016 2 6 Piccolo–Twilight Mistress (Bin Ajwaad) 2016 4 9 Iffraaj–Patruel (Rainbow Quest) 2016 4 9 Tamayuz–Flanders (Common Grounds) 2016 2 7 Hard Spun–Moyne Abbey (Charismatic) 2016 1 1 Eishin Dunkirk–Delta Downs (Deputy Minister) 2016 1 2 Northern Meteor–Listen Here (Elusive Quality) 2016 3 4 Super Saver–Magdalena’s Chase (Cape Town) 2016 1 3

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6 7 16 25 13 16 18 24 11 19 25 30 14 22 12 13 3 3 9 14 6 8 8 9 9 10 7 10 2 5 11 11 7 9 3 4 5 7 2 2 3 4 1 1 2 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

33.33 32.00 35.13 56.25 20.75 38.46 37.83 30.76 50.00 22.50 37.50 22.85 26.47 24.13 28.57 37.93 31.81 15.78 38.46 20.00 11.53 7.14 66.66 27.27 25.00 50.00 40.00 33.33 25.00 100.00 0.00 25.00 20.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 50.00 0.00 28.57 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

£

2 2 190,872 1 2 386,403 2 2 355,757 2 2 351,645 0 0 312,488 0 0 276,645 2 2 218,901 0 0 182,491 1 1 163,151 1 1 163,078 1 1 140,774 1 1 131,208 1 1 130,101 0 0 127,208 1 2 125,082 0 0 109,619 1 1 93,774 1 1 73,692 0 0 53,638 0 0 46,431 0 0 36,766 0 0 28,578 0 0 25,358 0 0 22,658 0 0 20,532 0 0 19,802 0 0 17,500 0 0 17,105 0 0 16,865 0 0 16,805 0 0 13,446 0 0 12,564 0 0 11,876 0 0 9,744 0 0 5,980 0 0 5,895 0 0 4,938 0 0 4,331 0 0 3,852 0 0 2,934 0 0 2,114 0 0 1,508 0 0 902 0 0 866 0 0 850 0 0 207 0 0 173

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Classic winning son of DUBAWI and TFR 128 Won the Gr.1 Prix du Jockey Club just like leading sire sensation LOPE DE VEGA From the immediate family of KINGMAN and OASIS DREAM

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Circus Maximus beat the older horses...

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T DOES FEEL AS IF EVERY YEAR at the beginning of September there is a general consensus that the Classic generation is not up to much.

This year is certainly no exception to the rule. At the time of writing, before the ratings for the Irish Champion, the Prix Vermeille and the St Leger are produced, there are only nine three-year-olds rated 120 or higher by Racing Post and only five have succeeded in beating older horses to win a Group 1.

This seems a long way removed from

... in the Moulin, but that might still change, writes Jocelyn de Moubray

the Frankel crop, which was three in 2011, when 22 from the Classic generation achieved a rating of 120 or higher and the other champions included Dream Ahead, Nathaniel, Danedream and Excelebration.

It is surely significant, too, that of the five colts who have defeated older horses to win a Group 1 in 2019, Japan is the only one to have done so over further than a mile.

Ten Sovereigns and Advertise are sprinters, while Too Darn Hot and Circus Maximus won all-aged Group 1s over a mile.

Why there should be so many fewer high

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It may well be an anomaly of no long-term significance, or it could be that changes in weather patterns, racing programmes and objectives or even genetic diversity have altered the type of production in Europe, alongside the way in which the best horses are campaigned and rated.

Circus Maximus is far from certain to remain a Group 1 winner against older horses as his narrow defeat of Romanised in the Group 1 Prix du Moulin de Longchamp may yet be overturned.

The Moulin attracted a stronger field than the Prix Jacques Le Marois had three weeks earlier as the first three home from Deauville – Romanised, Shaman and Line Of Duty – were joined by the Group 1 winners Olmedo, Circus Maximus and Phoenix of Spain.

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ESPITE THE PRESENCE of a pacemaker for Romanised the race was not run at a furious pace, the final time was slower than that recorded by recent winners such as Recolletos and Charm Spirit. Olemdo and Phoenix Of Spain, who waited in the rear, were never on terms with their rivals who had been closer to the early pace.

For most of the straight it looked as though Robert Ng’s Romanised was going to complete the rare double of winning France’s two top mile races in the same year.

The son of Holy Roman Emperor was the last to come off the bridle and seemed sure to hold any late challenges, but Circus Maximus and Ryan Moore proved to be very tough rivals. Under strong driving, and despite drifting away from the rail towards his rivals, Flaxman Stables and Coolmore’s son of Galileo managed to edge ahead and hold the late thrust of his rival to win by a nose. Godolphin’s Line Of Duty was only a length behind in third followed by the closers Olmedo and Phoenix Of Spain.

There was a stewards’ enquiry into interference inside the final 200m, but to the surprise of most of those who had seen the head-on Circus Maximus was not disqualified.

There is no doubt that he did drift out towards the centre of the track and did make contact with Romanised, but the question was whether this affected the result and or whether the interference came too late in the day to have made a difference.

Romanised’s owner has lodged an appeal

Why there should be so many fewer high class three-year-olds now than there were only eight years ago is impossible to say.

It may well be an anomaly of no long-term significance, or it could be that changes in weather patterns, racing programmes and objectives or even genetic diversity have altered the type of production in Europe against the decision and so a new set of stewards will review the original decision.

In any effect, both Circus Maximus and Romanised are high-class milers who have been running consistently well in top class races for some time now.

Circus Maximus is the first foal of his dam Duntle, a daughter of Danehill Dancer who won the Group 1 Matron Stakes for the Niarchos family and trainer David Wachman.

Duntle was bred by Airlie Stud and was not sold as both a foal and a yearling before being purchased by the Niarchos family after breaking her maiden impressively on the All-Weather at Dundalk as a three-year-old.

There was much less suspense in the other major all-aged race at the beginning of September as Godolphin’s Ghaiyyath had won the Group 1 Grosser Preis von Baden before the field had even reached the home straight.

Charlie Appleby: sprang something of a surprise with Ghaiyyath in the Grosser Preis von Baden

To the astonishment of most German observers the Charlie Appleby-trained son of Dubawi pulled himself into the lead as the field passed the winning post on the first circuit. He then set off in front at such a fast pace that long before the home turn the best three-year-olds in Germany and several other 2019 Group winners were completely incapable of staying in touch with the leader.

Ghaiyyath ran up the straight in isolation winning unchallenged by 14l and, despite being eased down, he recorded the fastest time in the race since Quijano won in 2007.

Ghaiyyath is clearly not an easy horse to train as this was only his seventh start in three seasons racing.

However, when he is on form, he has looked very difficult to beat and he had put up a similarly overwhelming performance when winning the Group 2 Prix Hocquart at ParisLongchamp in the spring.

This was his first start over 1m4f and if he stays sound and on form he is going to be

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Classy juveniles on show in Germany GERMANY’S TRAINERS may have been disappointed to see the Derby winner Laccario and probably the country’s best middle-distance filly Donjah put in their places by Ghaiyyath, but they have produced several good-looking two-yearolds in both France and at home over recent weeks.

Three of the most promising are all by the veteran stallion Areion, who was still covering at Gestüt Eztean this year at the age of 24.

Gestüt Schlenderhan’s Alson, an Areion half-brother to the German 2,000 Guineas winner Ancient Spirit, first came to notice when turning over the odds-on Jean Claude Rouget-trained Sujet Libre, who was later a close third to Kenway in a Group 3, in a conditions race at Clairefontaine in early August.

The Jean Pierre Cavalho-trained colt reappeared in a Group 3 over 7f at Baden-Baden at the end of August and defeated the English-trained Well Of Wisdom and Above.

Areion’s filly, confusingly called Alison, has if anything been even more impressive winning both of her starts, a maiden at Hamburg and then a big auction race at Baden-Baden for trainer Hans-Jurgen Groschel. Both times Alison came from an impossible position way off the pace to win comfortably.

Bred in Sweden, Alison was a €22,000 yearling at the BBAG October Sale and is a full-sister to the stakes performer Cabarita.

The third promising Areion is the colt Rubaiyat trained by Henk Grewe for Darius Racing. He is unbeaten in two starts after winning a Listed race in Dusseldorf in early September.

Grewe, who is based in Cologne, is set to become champion trainer for the first time this year as he has a big lead over his closest rival Andreas Wöhler. He has had, at the time of writing, 48 wins in Germany and another 16 in France.

Areion, a son of Big Shuffle out of a Caerleon mare, was a Group-winning sprinter himself and has had a long successful stud career after starting out at a modest fee. Alson was his 24th Group winner.

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Haras de Colleville’s first-season sire Galiway is sire of the Group 3-winning juvenile Kenway

very difficult to beat, even if in the future he is unlikely to be given an uncontested lead.

Ghaiyyath was purchased for €1.1 million as a foal at Goffs and is the second Group 1 winner produced by his dam the Irish 1,000 Guineas winner, Nightime.

If France’s trainers were unable to gain a place in the Prix du Moulin, the other early September Group races confirmed – as Earthlight and Tropbeau had already shown in Deauville – that there are some high-class two-year-olds in France this year.

Kenway, Ecrivain and Savarin all won their Group 3s in the style of horses who will be able to progress further.

Kenway is a son of first-season sire Galiway trained in Marseilles by Frederic Rossi for Kamel Chehboub’s Haras de la Gousserie.

After several years acting as Jean Claude Seroul’s private trainer Rossi has built-up a large and very successful public stable over the last two years. He is now among the top five trainers in the country, by both number of winners and prize-money.

Kenway, a son of the Kendargent mare Kendam, a Group winner over 6f, was beaten on his first two starts back in March and April. But since stepping up in trip and being held up for a late run he has been transformed into a high-class performer.

He won a Listed race in Vichy easily when coming from last place in the straight

and then in the Group 3 Prix la Rochette he quickened from an impossible position with only a furlong to run to get up on the line to defeat Wooded and Sujet Libre by a neck and half a length.

The Wertheimers-owned Ecrivain is a son of Lope De Vega and another Danehill Dancer mare in Sapphire Pendant. He is trained

by Carlos Laffon Parias, who like Rossi, is enjoying an outstanding season.

Ecrivain won a Group 3 over a mile comfortably at ParisLongchamp in September from his stable companion Hopeful with the Ascot Listed winner Al Dabaran only third.

The Wertheimers have several other high-class two-year-old prospects, including the Deep Impact filly Hidaka, trained by André Fabre and who made a winning debut in Deauville, and the Intello colt Pao Alto. He is trained by Christophe Ferland and was second to Hopeful at Deauville before breaking his maiden with ease at ParisLongchamp in September.

Savarin, another Fabre-trained daughter of Deep Impact, was a decisive winner of the Group 3 Prix d’Aumale for two-year-old fillies in early September.

Running in the colours of Masaaki Matsushima, Savarin had made a winning debut in Deauville too, and if she was not as impressive as either Kenway or Ecrivain she was always on top in a slowly run race.

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“She’s been special since day one” Filly by American Pharoah sells for a record price of $8.2 million at Keeneland September, writes Melissa Bauer-Herzog

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HILE US RACING has had some rocky moments this year with some saying its demise is near, there was no sign of doom and gloom through Book 1 of the Keeneland September Yearling sale when 20 yearlings sold for seven-figure sums.

Only days after The Jockey Club proposed a new rule that would see stallions limited to breeding 140 mares a year in the US starting in 2021, the first horse went through the ring at the September Sale.

While breeders are currently debating the merits of limiting stallion books, buyers were upbeat when filling their orders with 340 yearlings for a gross over $160 million, an average of $471,950 and median of $355,000 in a re-vamped smaller Book 1.

Sheikh Mohammed proved he hadn’t just flown to Kentucky to have a good time when he appeared at the sales grounds during the preview days.

Once the action started in the sales ring, Godolphin was often signing tickets on bigmoney horses and over the Book 1 sale bought 10 yearlings for an average of $1.6 million and gross of $16 million.

His first purchase came just 75 lots into the sale when he took home a Tapit half-brother to Darley stallion Nyquist for $2.5 million from the Hinkle Farms consignment.

That colt joins his year-older War Front half-sister in the Godolphin ranks with that

“She’s just been special since day one.

We dream of breeding a nice horse, and this is what it’s all about for the little consignors filly, now named Maria Rosa, in training in Europe.

But the colt was the third highest of the week price for Sheikh Mohammed, who was often in bidding wars with Coolmore throughout the sale. In a battle reminiscent of times gone by, the pair duelled side-by-side in the back ring of the Keeneland sales pavilion for a Curlin colt from Eaton Sales (Lot 274).

The first foal out of the New Zealand champion Bounding, the colt is out of a half-sister to Coolmore Stud’s Epsom Derby winner Anthony Van Dyck (Galileo) – neither party was going to let him go easily.

When the hammer fell for the final time, Godolphin was the proud owner of the bay for

Below, the record-breaking filly. Her sire American Pharoah finished out Book 1 as the second-best leading sire on aggregate behind Curlin

Record-breaking buyer Mandy Pope

$4.1 million – the highest price paid for a colt at the Keeneland September sale since 2010.

He came only 16 lots after Godolphin had taken over the sales lead when buying a War Front colt out of Kentucky Oaks (G1) winner and stakes producer Believe You Can for $2.9 million (Lot 258).

But it wasn’t the winning action at the Keeneland September sale that Godolphin will be remembered for at this sale.

Instead, it will be the operation playing a part in pushing Mandy Pope’s Whisper Hill Farm all the way to $8.2 million to purchase a daughter of broodmare of the year, Leslie’s Lady (Lot 498) .

The bidding was fast and furious early on for the daughter of American Pharoah, but as the price continued to tick up, it slowed as other bidders began to drop away.

When all was said and done, Pope came out the winner of the most expensive filly sold in Keeneland September history. She is also the fourth most-expensive yearling ever purchased at Keeneland September.

“She was born with muscle,” said Clarkland’s Fred Mitchell, breeder and consigner of the filly.

“She was correct when she was born, and she just has such a mind on her. When I watched her – compared to Beholder and Mendelssohn growing up – it looked like she had Beholder’s sprinting speed because when the other fillies came to her out in the field and were running, she was like, ‘I’ll see ya!’ and had another gear.

“She’s just been special since day one. We

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“The farm has been in the family since 1774, and it’ll be there for the children for the rest of their lives. We’re keeping two fillies out of the old mare; this is the last one to sell out of her. The fillies will stay there for the kids and grandkids.”

The filly led the prices for the 26 American Pharoah yearlings sold at this year’s auction with the leading freshman sire also adding a $1.3 million colt from the family of Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) winner Bayern to his resume.

In all, the Coolmore America stallion ended Book 1 with a gross of $17,565,000 and average of $675,577 over the three days.

While American Pharoah sired the top lot, multiple sires saw at least one of their yearlings sell for seven figures with eight different stallions breaking the $1 million mark.

Those eight were led by Hill ‘n’ Dale Farm’s Curlin, who has proven to be an indemand sire in 2019 leading both the August Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale and the FasigTipton Gulfstream Selected Two-Year-Olds In Training Sale earlier this year with sevenfigure offerings.

The stallion had four other million dollar yearlings in addition to the Bounding colt, the most of any stallion, to finish as the leading sire by both average – at $697,222 – and gross.

Darley stalwart Medaglia D’Oro was right behind Curlin by number of $1 million yearlings sold with four – led by a colt out of Grade 1 winner Tara’s Tango bought by Godolphin.

In all, six sires had two or more yearlings sell for $1 million or more with Gainesway’s Empire Maker the biggest winner of the sale.

The grandsire of American Pharoah, Empire Maker sired the second-most expensive filly of the sale with the $2 million half-sister to last year’s champion two-yearold filly Jaywalker.

The stallion’s late son Pioneerof The Nile sired three seven-figure horses led by Lot 519, a $2.1 million half-brother to 2019 Grade 1 winner Guarana, while American Pharoah’s two seven-figure lots gave the trio six of the 20 yearlings to sell in that price range.

While there has undoubtedly been cause for concern for US racing in 2019, it’s clear that even with those worries, buyers aren’t afraid to continue investing in the country’s bloodstock to race both domestically and abroad.

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Battaash broke Dayjur’s course record when winning August’s Group 1 5f Nunthorpe Stakes and in the process took his Timeform rating to 136

Massive turnaround for 2019’s profile After writing off this season as a bit “quiet”, some big performances since August have caused Simon Rowlands to reconsider

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HEY CALL IT “commentator’s curse”: the idea that by commenting openly on something the opposite is almost bound to occur.

It is usually reserved for praising an individual, or team, immediately prior to them making a howling error, but it

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can be applied to the opposite, of stating that something is no great shakes only for it to show that it is many great shakes indeed.

Two months on from describing 2019 as “a quiet year in horseracing [so far]” on these pages, I think I can claim some credit for the way in which it has sprung into life!

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simon says... longer, but we do have a dual Arc winner (Enable) back in rude health, a brilliant sprinter (Battaash) back in scintillating form, a millionaire stayer (Stradivarius) sweeping all before him, and a two-year-old phenomenon (Pinatubo) to get excited about, and that is just among horses trained in Britain.

Meanwhile, a strong homebased defence of the Breeders’ Cup is building up in North America, though events on the track there have at times been overshadowed by those off it.

The most recent Longines World Best Racehorse Rankings have Enable top on 128, but Timeform, whose much-longerestablished level is about 5lb higher, disagree and has Battaash leading the way on 136.

This is partly down to differences in opinion about individual performances, but even more down to a fundamental disagreement about methodology.

The official assessors use a remarkably conservative poundsfor-margins conversion, one of the consequences of which is the harsh treatment of sprinters.

Battaash won the Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes at York in August by the kind of margin – three and three quarters of a length – seldom seen in sprints, let alone in Group 1s, and his performance was backed up by a top-drawer overall time and blistering sectionals.

By Timeform’s reckoning that returned Battaash to the level he had shown when winning the Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp in 2017 by 4l from proven Group 1 winners.

On his day, which has been not as often as it might have been, Battaash is well-nigh unbeatable over a bare 5f.

Enable (rated 129 by Timeform) and Stradivarius (128) have looked a bit less invincible, but, unlike Battaash, the pair has risen to every challenge. They have won their last 12 and last 10 respectively,

On his day, which has been not as often as it might have been, Battaash is well-nigh unbeatable over a bare 5f but recently by an average of only around a length.

Enable saw off Crystal Ocean (131 with Timeform, and now retired) by a neck when receiving a sex allowance in Ascot’s King George in July and her old sparring partner Magical by two and three quarter lengths in the Yorkshire Oaks in August.

Stradivarius landed a millionpound bonus in the Group 2 Lonsdale Cup at York for the second year running and

has since added the Group 2 Doncaster Cup to his tally.

Magical (125) did Enable’s form no harm when comfortably going one better in the Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown. The Irish Champions Weekend also saw major triumphs from Iridessa (119, Matron Stakes), Fairyland (118, Flying Five Stakes) and Search For A Song (121, Irish St Leger), the last two coming on the second day at The Curragh.

Other notable winners in Britain and Ireland in the period under review include: Star Catcher (116, Irish Oaks), Too Darn Hot (127, Sussex Stakes, and since retired), Deirdre (121, Nassau Stakes), Japan (127, International Stakes), Hello Youmzain (124, Haydock Sprint Cup) and Logician (126, St Leger, and still unbeaten).

Star Catcher pitched up at Longchamp to win a substandard Group 1 Prix Vermeille, with the other Arc “trials” going to 127-rated Waldgeist (Prix Foy) and 123-rated Sottsass (Prix Niel), without either having to run to their very best.

Timeform’s third top-rated horse in Europe, recent retiree Crystal Ocean

Leading Timeform horses (17.09.19) Rating Horse

Sire

Older Horses 136 BATTAASH

Dark Angel

131 BLUE POINT

Shamardal

131 CRYSTAL OCEAN

Sea The Stars

130 GHAIYYATH

Dubawi

129 BENBATL

Dubawi

129 ENABLE 128

Nathaniel

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Sea The Stars

128 THUNDER SNOW

Helmet

127 KEW GARDENS

Galileo

127 WALDGEIST

Galileo

126 DEFOE

Dalakhani

125 ELARQAM

Frankel

125 FRENCH KING

French Fifteen

125 INNS OF COURT Invincible Spirit 125 MAGICAL 125 MASAR

Galileo New Approach

125 MATTERHORN

Raven’s Pass

125 OLD PERSIAN

Dubawi

Three-year-olds 127p JAPAN

Galileo

127 TOO DARN HOT

Dubawi

126p LOGICIAN

Frankel

126 TEN SOVEREIGNS No Nay Never 125 ADVERTISE

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125 KING OF COMEDY

Kingman

124 CALYX

Kingman

124 CIRCUS MAXIMUS

Galileo

124 HELLO YOUMZAIN

Kodiac

124 MAGNA GRECIA Invincible Spirit 124 QUORTO

Dubawi

123p SOTTSASS

Siyouni

123 ANTHONY VAN DYCK

Galileo

123 SOVEREIGN

Galileo

122p SANGARIUS

Kingman

122+ HEADMAN

Kingman

122 BROOME 122 KHAADEM 122 MADHMOON 122 PERSIAN KING 122

Australia Dark Angel Dawn Approach Kingman

PHOENIX OF SPAIN Lope De Vega

122 SIR DRAGONET

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Two-Year-Olds 134p PINATUBO

Shamardal

124p MUMS TIPPLE Footstepsinthesand 117p EARTHLIGHT

Shamardal

116p SISKIN 114p THREAT 113p

First Defence Footstepsinthesand

MONARCH OF EGYPT American Pharoah

113p ROYAL LYTHAM RAFFLE PRIZE

Slade Power

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A’ALI

Society Rock

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POSITIVE

Dutch Art

110p ARMORY

Galileo

110p MOGUL

Galileo

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GOLDEN HORDE

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LOPE Y FERNANDEZ Lope De Vega

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PLATINUM STAR

Lethal Force Lope de Vega Night Of Thunder

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performance of the entire summer was Ghaiyyath’s astonishing 14l win in the Grosser Preis von Baden, an effort which gained him a 130 figure from Timeform and a third place on the WBRRs with 126.

Ghaiyyath had looked good in winning the Prix d’Harcourt at Longchamp earlier in the year before being beaten by Waldgeist when odds-on for the Ganay there.

The US has strength in depth but nothing to compare to some

of their stars of recent years.

City Of Light is that country’s highest-rated horse on WBRRs (125 in joint fourth, and 130 on Timeform), but was retired after his Pegasus World Cup win.

Imperial Hint (126 on Timeform, Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap), McKinzie (129, Whitney Stakes), Mitole (128, Forego Stakes) and Midnight Bisou (126, Personal Ensign Stakes) are among those to have won Grade 1s recently.

Gleneagles

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It has been another tough year for French-trained horses at the elite level, and other French Group 1s have gone abroad courtesy of Laurens (121, Rothschild), Advertise (125, Maurice de Gheest), Romanised (123, Jacques le Marois), Coronet (121, Jean Romanet) and Circus Maximus (124, Moulin de Longchamp), the last-named arguably fortunate to keep the race from Romanised.

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Pinatubo: best two-year-old since Celtic Swing THERE IS NO DOUBT about the identity of the best two-year-old on the planet right now, with the arguments regarding Pinatubo now moving onto whether he is better than Frankel was at the same time or better even than some legendary juveniles of the last century, like Celtic Swing (rated 138 by Timeform in 1994) and Arazi (135 in 1991).

Pinatubo’s CV lists five wins out of five now, each more impressive than the last, and the latest, in the Group 1 National Stakes at the Curragh, by a remarkable nine lengths and in a very fast time from the 110-rated Group 2 winners Armory and Arizona.

Timeform has gone for a rating of 134 on Pinatubo, almost entirely backed up by his overall time, which is one higher than awarded to Frankel at the end of his two-year-old career (and not in September, which is the case with Pinatubo), though it is fair to say, with hindsight, that Frankel was not the finished article back then!

Pinatubo is exceptional, but a couple of European juvenile colts would be up-to-scratch divisional leaders at this juncture in most years. Earthlight (117) is unbeaten in four, notably the Prix Morny at Deauville in August, when he beat the leading two-year-old filly Raffle Prize (113) by a neck, while Mums Tipple (124) won a Sales Race at York by 11 lengths and in such a good time that he has been rated 124 by Timeform after just two starts.

Siskin (116), Threat (114) and the filly Love (108) are very useful winners who could yet build further on some solid achievements so far.

Timeform has the filly Bast and the colt Basin top among North American two-year-olds at this stage, on 115 and 114 respectively, but that division usually takes off a bit later than in Europe, and plenty of movements up and down the table can be expected in the weeks leading into the Breeders’ Cup at Santa Anita at the beginning of November.

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Queen of Japan We meet the wonderful mare Deirdre and her enthusiastic connections on the Newmarket leg of their racing world tour Photography by Laura Green

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EIRDRE KNOWS HER OWN MIND and she certainly knows her own routine, it is one that can’t be broken no matter where in the world the global traveller happens to be.

Each morning her faithful work rider Yute, who has been with the mare since she arrived in Mitsuru Hashida’s stables from the JRHA Select Sale as a yearling in 2015, tacks her up and spends quality time in the stable with her; her current abode being her British lodgings at Jane Chapple-Hyam’s Abingdon Stables.

Yute gets on board and the pair go for a bit of a wander around – and while the Deirdre team has been on the British stint of their unofficial world tour, it has meant she enjoys a pleasant walk straight out onto the Heath.

There she will walk, stop, look around, watch other strings as they trot past on their way to work, then walk again. It is all very relaxing and Yute lets his lady essentially do exactly what she wants. This goes on for about a half hour, and has been repeated whereever in the world she is.

She then heads back to the outdoor menege for a trot before joining the back of ChappleHyam’s string for a second trot in the indoor ride. After all of this, on the day we visited, she finally went for a routine canter up Warren Hill.

Following in Deirdre’s attendance are two more of her faithful and adoring humans: brother and sister Yoshi and Seiko Hashida, racing manager and assistant trainer for their father and owner Toji Morita.

“Every time Yute is with Deirdre he doesn’t make her do things,” says Seiko. “Deirdre understands all the things Yute wants, and he understands everything she wants.”

This intimate understanding, as well as Deirdre’s own ability to take everything in her stride, has been integral to helping her become 2019’s most celebrated international traveller.

She has been in Dubai, Hong Kong, Britain since May, has had a day in Ireland and will probably be heading to France in October for the Arc, and then possibly onto the Breeders’ Cup in November. It has been some trip for all involved, and culminated in the glorious success at Goodwood when she won the Group 1 Nassau Stakes by a length and a quarter from Mehdaayih, and

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Team Hashida: above, work rider Yute and assistant Yoshi Hashida, below, manager Seiko Hashinda, and, above right, trainer Mitsuru Hashida

her unlucky run in fourth in the QIPCO Irish Champions Stakes. It has been a trip that has been organised on the fly and the Hashidas recognise the part many have played in helping it come together.

“We were Dubai in March, and then Hong Kong in April, we were not really planning to come to England and staying for so long,” says Seiko. “In Hong Kong we decided to come to the UK, with help from the International Racing Bureau.

“After her run at Royal Ascot, which was a little disappointing, we decided to stay for Goodwood, but we were not sure how much more we could be away with her.

“But everyone has been so helpful – from the stable team in Dubai to everyone here in Newmarket, Hanako Varian, who is Japanese, been especially so. It is very important to make a good atmosphere in the stable so that Deirdre is happy as well.”

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“But as she got older she was getting better and better, and after each race she improved, then we thought she was going to be special It was during the time in Dubai, that the Hashidas picked up some useful insider knowledge about travelling and staying in Newmarket.

“We learned a lot in Dubai and there we met Paddy Bell, who used to ride Black Caviar. We were always together, even though

queen of japan we are from different countries and he told us a lot about how things work in Newmarket,” says Seiko, before Yoshi adds: “Maybe the biggest problem for us in Dubai was the price of beer! In fact, everything is very expensive – but if you are there for the invitational races at least we can get treated to a very good breakfast!”

Hashida Snr, busy at home in charge of his 60-strong stable at Ritto training centre, is kept fully aware of his star mare’s daily activities via daily reports and updates from his children, alongside videos of her working.

He has travelled over for her races, alongside her owner’s grandson who has taken the trip to represent his grandfather.

Hashida Snr and Morita selected Deirdre from a catalogue of 238 yearlings at the 2015 Select Sale.

“They liked her good conformation with competent thoracic capacity, so he recommended to the owner that she is good for a racehorse, as well as for a broodmare in the future,” says Seiko.

“He mainly said he liked the good and strong conformation she had, and, even at her young age, she had a big rib cage with plenty of heart room.

“The owner was looking for a good racehorse, but also for a good mother-to-be for the future.”

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S MORE OF A LATERDEVELOPING type with middle-distance ability, her talent was perhaps not immediately obvious but she still managed to win her third start as a two-year-old and then finished third in the Group 3 Kyoto Sho Fantasy Stakes, giving some hints of what was to come.

At three, she finished sixth in the Group 1 Oka Sho (Japanese 1,000 Guineas) before winning next time out and then taking fourth in May’s Group 1 Yushin Himba (the Japanese Oaks).

She was then given a deserved break – by the end of May she had already run five times as a three-year-old, having also had four starts as a juvenile between October and December.

“Yute at first thought she could be or three times winner. In the spring of her three-yearold when heading to Classic, she had a tough season, short gaps between races, we thought it was very tiring for her and she is better with a good gap between races,” says Hashida.

“But as she got older she has got better and better, and after each race she improved, then

in the second-half of her three-year-old year we thought she was going to be special.”

She returned that August to win three races on the bounce: a standard race at Sapparo worth the equivalent of £100,000, the Group 3 Shion Stakes at Nakayama worth £246,000 before she collected her first Group 1 – the Shuka Sho, a victory which added over £600,000 to her prize haul. She was put away for the year after a down-the-field run in the Queen Elizabeth II Cup. Her first visit to Meydan came as a four-year-old when she finished third in the

Group 1 Dubai Turf, and she returned home to back up with a Group 3 and a Group 2 with the two runs spaced out over four months, a differing approach taken with her training regime. Her last run of the year came in December when second in the Hong Kong Cup (G1) behind Glorious Forever.

She returned to Japan over the winter before embarking on this year’s world tour which produced a Group 1 fourth back at Meydan in the Dubai Turf, a sixth at Sha Tin in the QEII Cup (G1) and her sixth in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes (G1).

It was at this point that the Japanese media coverage, writing for its huge, racing-mad audience, started to question the validity of campaign.

“There has lots of interest in Japan and media interest is high,” says Yoshi.

“However, some have been negative too – just before the Nassau some were saying that as we had lost three times overseas and we should go back to Japan!”

Luckily for Deirdre’s team her owner Morita, who has a further 20 horses in his ownership, including broodmares and youngstock, has taken a very broadminded attitude to the trip, an especially worthy attribute when considering the possibility of the huge prize-money haul that he has left behind in Japan.

“We are really fortunate to have an owner who appreciated the challenge more than the money,” says Seiko. “He recognises that Deirdre had already earned a lot of money for

The yearling daughter of Harbinger was bought by Toji Morita at the JRHA Select Sale for ¥21,000,000

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“Deirdre is so adaptable and takes everything in her stride, it is so important in a travelling horse

Deirdre adapted easily to Newmarket’s way of doing things, but still has her own individual routine

him, so it meant that he could be adventurous and do something different.

“We are all happy to have achieved that so maybe any following Japanese horses can go further than this,” rationalises the Hashidas rightly proud of their achievements and for taking the first Japanese horse to run in Ireland.

“If we had gone back home, where was the challenge? We have taken time on this trip for Deirdre to acclimatise everywhere.

Success is very important and hopefully it will encourage more Japanese horses to Europe.

She is making the way for other Japanese; proving that Japanese can do it.”

Of the frustrating run in Ireland, the team is magnanious in defeat.

“Even though Deirdre didn’t win we are so delighted to have shown how good she is and the quality of Japanese racing,” says Hashida.

“It has been a historic journey for Japanese racing and we are delighted to have taken it.”

Of the future, an Arc quest is a possibility and, of course, the Breeders’ Cup is out there too, while a 2020 campaign has yet to be decided.

“Another year? That is a good question!” says Yoshi. “She has had a very good season for her and us too, but it has been long for Deirdre so we will see how she is before we decide what to do next.

“She has raced all year from spring in Japan to Dubai, Hong Kong and in Britain, we need to think very carefully.

“She obviously is very promising as a broodmare and her owner is keen to breed

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from her and is increasing his breeding interests, but no decision has been made yet – Deirdre and Yute will tell us.”

But thoughts are of the future, and the team has been to visit those star Newmarketbased stallions befit of the Queen of Japan – Dubawi, Kingman and Frankel. The team has reported back, each with a different favourite and selection!

One thing for certain, the British Champion Flat jockey elect Oisin Murphy has successfully strengthened his ties to Japan before he heads East again for a repeat four-month winter stint.

“Before Oisin rode Deirdre at Goodwood, she was getting a bit excited, a bit jiggy in the parade ring,” smiles Seiko. “In Japanese he said, ‘Please walk, please Dierdre!’ It was funny that, in the parade ring, heading to racec and he was speaking in Japanese!

Hashinda adds: “He is a lovely guy, a gentleman. We had a party after the Nassau, and he came along. Usually, if a jockey comes to the party, he is going to be the star, the centre of attention, but he was just part of us.”

As the summer turns to autumn so the Hashidas are beginning to think of their return home to Japan after their conquering trip of the global racing world, also mindful that Deirdre’s doting work rider has been a long way from home for a long time.

“We won’t decide on the race options in a hurry, but Yute has been away from his family for half a year already, though he is keen that we work out the best opportunities for her and, if that means staying longer, he is happy for that.

“It has been a great journey so far. Her Group 1 win was such a big effort, but she has never been tired, or exhausted, we are so delighted to have such a beautiful and strong filly. Deirdre is so adaptable and takes everything in her stride, it is so important in a travelling horse.”

The future is exciting for the team as they take in the final Group 1 options, and then start to ponder to consider the second stage of Deirdre’s career.

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Charlie and Tracy Vigors of Hillwood Stud are looking forward to the Tattersalls yearling sales after selling the record-breaking Kingman colt at the recent GoffsUK Premier Sale

T HAS BEEN A PRETTY HOT START to the 2019 yearling sales season for Charlie and Tracy Vigors of Hillwood Stud. Selling a record-breaking yearling at the GoffsUK Premier Sale, the first major sale on British or Irish shores for the 2019 season, is a neat accomplishment, and one that must give the couple plenty of optimisim, even amidst the current choppy political waters, for the remaining autumn.

That yearling was, of course, by one of the most celebrated sires of the year in Juddmonte Farm’s Kingman, a stallion who seems to be pushing his early-career achievements further and further up the results table.

The team’s hopes were high heading to Doncaster that they might just have a horse in their draft who might be a star.

“He was and always has been an exceptionally nice physical,” says Charlie Vigors. “It was perhaps a bit of a punt sending him to Doncaster, but the page fitted the sale – we thought he would be notable as a son of Kingman and out of a two-year-old stakeswinning mare. It was an opportunity to stand out from the crowd.”

The reckoning paid off with MV Magnier, signing via UK representative Kevin Buckley, going to £440,0000, a record price for the sale. It was certainly the biggest auction ring success for his breeders, Robert and Pauline Scott of Park Farm Stud.

“They are such lovely people, it is wonderful to have got such a result for them,” says Tracy Vigors. “They were at home and were shaking as they watched online! We spoke to them ten minutes after the sale and they were in tears – they are lovely people, who love racing and are big supporters of the sport.

“They have put a lot of money into breeding and racing so it is great they have got something back.”

The Scotts still sell under their own banner – and in the Silver Sale successfully offered a Dutch Art filly who fetched £27,000 – but Vigors explains the reasoning behind Hillwood’s involvement.

“We started selling for them a couple of years ago,” he reports. “We go and see the yearlings in the spring and help advise which ones should be sold through us and which by themselves. They would be the first to admit they are probably lacking a bit on sales ‘know how’ at the top end of the market, which is where we can come in; Pauline also tends to fall in love with them and then can’t sell them!”

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The Lope De Vega ex Moi Meme colt (Lot 451) is one of the “nicest colts” that the Vigors’ have handled. His full-sister is in training with Chad Brown in the US

management 14 years ago when they took on the tenancy at the 130-acre farm, part of a big Wiltshire farming estate.

And while a big multi-national and multi-horse operation such as Rabbah Bloodstock has been a long-term client, and for whom Vigors sold the Street Cry ex Meeznah colt for 1 million gns in 2014, working alongside individual British breeders and getting them good results in the sale ring gives the couple a great deal of satisfaction.

“One of the joys of the job is working with these breeders and having and enjoying the success that this year the Scotts, and previously Gaye Johnson-Houghton and Barry Walter have enjoyed over the years; to be a small part of that success is very satisfying,” says Vigors, adding: “It is important as the small breeder is a dying breed.”

Tracy adds: “Barry Taylor was one of our first owners and he has bred horses such as Kalindi and Medicean Man from an amazing family. Sadly, he has his last yearling with us as a lot of his mares have gone to heaven and he stopped keeping the fillies to race. He has

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always had two or three mares with us until this year and has had huge success with a number of horses selling for over 200,000gns.”

The couple now have around 21 permanent boarding mares at Hillwood, their business becoming more focused on this arm of the operation alongside yearling consigning, pinhooking and the spelling and resting of racehorses.

It is very much a hands-on operation, the couple work alongside each other 365 days of the year with the focus purely and simply on doing a good job well.

“We don’t have any temporary boarders,” says Vigors. “We hope to be sizeable enough to have a presence, but still provide a

‘boutique service’ for our clients, that is important for us.

“Everyone wants to upgrade and to move their stock up the ladder, it is difficult to Bred by Gaye Johnson-Houghton, a filly by Charming Thought out of Roodle, a half-sister to Accidental Agent (Lot 1332)

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“One of the joys of the job is working with breeders and enjoying the success, that this year the Scotts, and previously that Gaye JohnsonHoughton and Barry Walter have enjoyed over the years Lot 438: by Dubawi ex Meeznah and a half-sister to a million guinea Street Cry yearling sold in 2014

buy into that, but that is everyone’s aim and aspiration.

“We are obviously fully involved in the decision-making process with the boarding mares, while for the clients who send us yearlings to prep for the sales, we give a bit of advice as to what we think, they probably ignore it! We try and get to see their horses as foals, and then again in the spring time of their yearling year; it helps to make plans to get into the right slots at the sales.”

Some changes have had to be be enacted along the way – primarily due to the addition of the two family members, Harry and Oliver, ten and eight years of age.

“The biggest thing, I think, has been my step back from the sales,” explains Tracy.

“It was a must-have with the kids and staffing situation – when Charlie is selling through Book 1 we will still have 100-odd horses at home to be done!”

The farm used to also consign foals and sell breeze-up horses, but Hillwood has not offered a foal at the Tattersalls December Sale since 2014, and brought its breeze-up consigning to an end in 2016.

As was published at the time this was driven by the lack of available top-class work riders, but also because the couple realised “you can’t do everything” and found that people were “questioning when you are off trying to buy yearlings as well as sell them”.

The couple has six pinhooked yearlings to sell for this season, as well a mix of homebred and preps, the majority produced from home.

Knowing their stock and producing them well really is Hillwood Stud’s USP.

“In the first two years we met horses at the sales, but then we said no more, it works for some but it is not for us,” explains Tracy.

“It means that every yearling we take to the sales will be raised here or we will have had had for ten weeks in prep work.

“At the beginning we see them and lunge them together and for every single one we listen to their wind, we watch them move.

“We also do the early and late feeds ourselves, which means we see every horse three or four times daily.”

Vigors, the partner entrusted with getting a successful sale concluded at GoffsUK or

Tattersalls, adds: “When they go to the sales we know each horse intimately, we can stand by them.

“A lot of this business is done on trust and reputation, buyers ask us ‘what can you recommend, what have you got, what do you think would suit us?’

“Our job is not just to sell a horse, it is to find the right horse for the right person, if you know the horse well, then hopefully then you can do that job. The personal touch is really important.”

“Buyers can trust that we have fit, sound horses at the sales,”explains Tracy. “We can’t

The lowdown on the Tattersalls draft “It is really nice to have a Frankel (Lot 91) on the team. He has thrived the last few weeks both mentally and physically, which is nice. He is a good, straightforward colt.

“The Awtaad is a lovely colt (Lot 125). He looks ready to rock, he has done well, he has a good pedigree, fingers crossed!

“We are excited about the Kodiac ex Yarrow (Lot 126), she is the most expensive mare we’ve bought. Kodiac has had countless stakes winners from humble mares, so hopefully he can continue.

This colt is sharp, has a great mind, he is racey and has a lot going on – he is the real package.

“We have two Lope De Vega’s for Book 1 (Lot 417, 451) and two for Book 2 (Lot 1019, 1183). The ‘Lope De Vegas’ are a different type of horse all together. They look ready to go – they are big and strong, and when they move it just makes you go ‘wow’! They have size but have everything else as well, which sometimes the big horse doesn’t.

“The colt out of Moi Meme is to die for, we think he is perhaps the nicest colt we have had anything to do with. He is a beauty, his mind is excellent. His full-sister sold well to Chad Brown last year, early reports are good, hopefully she will be out soon.

“We had a great touch last year with a homebred Lope De Vega colt and have his half-sister by Sea The Stars to sell this year (Lot 447).”

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“Our job is not just to sell a horse, it is to find the right horse for the right person, if you know the horse well, then hopefully then you can do that job A 2019 foal from the 21-strong broodmare band

tell whether they have the right heart and lungs, but everything else is there and correct at the sales stage.”

Upgrading the type of foal they pinhook has been a goal, but it has proved difficult to achieve and, when the foal sale season is at its raging height, is easier said than done.

Vigors adds: “We have six pinhooks for this year, about the same number as recently, but less than some previous years as we have been making a conscious effort to concentrate on quality, trying to get more of the Book 1-type horses as the market is getting more polarised.”

“The foal end of the market is so strong though, we couldn’t get near them,” reports an exasperated Tracy. “We can’t afford to out-lay 150,000gns on one foal, we’d rather have four for that than one. We tried to change our buying, but we had to step back as we couldn’t get in.”

A realistic approach has been adopted by the pair, who pinhook for themselves and for a small syndicate that they have operated since year one when they sold Dubai’s Touch.

That was literally a decent touch as they upgraded him from a foal price of 27,000gns to a yearling price of 115,000gns, an important success achieved at the beginning of their business life.

“The day you are buying you have to think who are you going to sell to,” reasons Vigors, adding: “You have to think which sale that horse will get into and at what price is it likely to sell. It is important, if the foal market is running away with a big head of steam, to sit and wait; they tend to come, as long as you are patient. At the end of the day, we don’t

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need to fill the stable with a pinhook, we have plenty others around and about.

“But pinhooking is part of the business we love, and, touch wood, have been successful at it. We have been doing a while now and are still at it so must have been successful enough!”

The couple has also made a big investment in its mares and the Listed-placed winning mare Yarrow (Sea The Stars), a half-sister to the dual Group 1 winner Golan and Group 2 Dante winner Tartan Bearer, was purchased from the Ballymacoll Stud dispersal in 2017.

Her purchase a clear indication as to where

they hope the broodmare band to be heading.

Yarrow was given a very commercial first covering and that first foal, a colt by Kodiac, is due to sell in Book 1 (Lot 126).

Producing a quality horse at its best for sales day is clearly what motivates the couple, both brought up in the racing and bloodstock industries, but who forged their own career paths before meeting at Kingwood Stud.

The pair are exactly what the industry should be boasting of, promoting and proud of: talented hard-working, grounded individuals who have made a success of the route they have chosen. The pair do welcome the upcoming bloodstock review, but they are a little exsaperated by the approach that has been taken by the media.

“Buyer confidence is key and it is important,”says Vigors. “If the report helps install buyer confidence all well and good, but the general tarring of everyone has been disappointing and badly handled.

“The trade paper should not be so sensationalist as it has been. Everyone is being tarred with the same brush and it is turning the process into a media circus.”

Hillwood Stud’s average Book 1 price has been over 100,00gns since 2011, and last year it was its largest since 2014. The farm is making ever-increasing gains on quality – in the three years since 2016 it has doubled its Book 2 average from one that resided in the 40,000gns to one over 90,000gns last year.

It is exciting times for this sale season, and those in the future for Team Vigors.

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Going it alone

Clare Manning is looking forward to the Orby Sale and Tattersalls with a first draft of yearlings selling from Boherguy Stud.

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TRIKING OUT. Making that decision to go out on your own and taking that first step by yourself; chasing the tomorrow you want to create for yourself.

For Clare Manning, Boherguy Stud and the yearlings she will consign at Goffs and Tattersalls this autumn, are the physical embodiment of that act.

After an education that encompassed three continents and an apprenticeship served with some of the best in the business, Manning took the bold decision to go out on her own and, less than a year since handing in her notice at Baroda Stud, is certain the decision was the right one.

“I wanted something different,” she explains. “Baroda was great and I learned so much, especially behind the scenes and dealing with clients, but the job I wanted, the sales coordinator role, just didn’t exist in Ireland, and I didn’t know what to do.

“I was winging it really and I got asked to take a couple of foals after Goffs and I had my own mare here and I thought I could do that and maybe take on something part-time in the afternoons, maybe a small farm that needed help in the office.

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Mares grazing at Boherguy Stud, near The Curragh in County Kildare, above, Clare Manning, a graduate of the Irish National Stud course.

She has settled back at home after a self-styled Flying Start bloodstock and stud apprenticeship, with her first yearlings to be offered at Goffs and Tattersalls

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Frankel x Izzi Top•(Pivotal/Zee Zee Top) • DEUCE AGAIN • CAROLINAE • BALLET CONCERTO • ANAPURNA • TWIST ‘N’ SHAKE • TELECASTER • DASHING WILLOUGHBY • CAROLINAE • ALESSANDRO VOLTA • OPERA HOUSE ZEECh.C. ZEE TOP • DASH TO THETop FRONT • POET • ONE SO • COLORSPIN • MILLIGRAM • Lot• 363 Pivotal x Jazzi (Danehill Dancer/Zee ZeeWONDERFUL Top) NOUSHKEY • SOMEONE SPECIAL • YOUR OLD PAL • YANKEE DOODLE • LADY CARLA • IZZI TOP • SUEZ • SUN BOAT • FRANCE • ALKAADHEM • KAYF TARA • MONA LISA • PHOTOGENIC BALALAIKA • JUST SPECIAL • NECKLACE UNSCRUPULOUS • MUDEER • HYABELLA • KISSOGRAM • Lot 401 • B.C. Camelot x Last Tango InParis •(Aqlaam/Strictly Lambada) MOVIEGOER • CEZANNE • DYNASTY • STAGECRAFT • CHESA PLANA • RAPPA TAP TAP • PICK OF THE POPS • SAN SEBASTIAN • RELATIVELY SPECIAL 455 B.F. Exceed• DASH And TO Excel Monzza Zee Top) • MULLINS BAY • HAVANE SMOKER • Lot CASPAR NETSCHER THE x TOP • TORCH(Montjeu/Zee ROUGE • BELLA COLORA • CROESO CARIAD • SHIROCCO STAR • COQUET • HIPPY HIPPY SHAKE • MEDIA HYPE • MARSH DAISY • JAZZI TOP • SPEEDY BOARDING • DEUCE AGAIN • CAROLINAE • BALLET LotSHAKE 459 B.F.• TELECASTER Mukhadram x Musical Sands (Green Desert/Balalaika) CONCERTO • ANAPURNA • TWIST ‘N’ • DASHING WILLOUGHBY • CAROLINAE • ALESSANDRO VOLTA • OPERA HOUSE • ZEE ZEE TOP • DASH TO THE FRONT • POET • ONE SO WONDERFUL • COLORSPIN • MILLIGRAM • NOUSHKEY • SOMEONE SPECIAL • YOUR OLD PAL Lot 521•B.C. Intello x Queen Arabella* (Medicean/Hyabella) • YANKEE DOODLE • LADY CARLA • IZZI TOP SUEZ • SUN BOAT • FRANCE • ALKAADHEM • KAYF TARA • MONA LISA • BALLET CONCERTO • PHOTOGENIC • BALALAIKA • JUST SPECIAL • NECKLACE • UNSCRUPULOUS • MUDEER • HYABELLA • KISSOGRAM • MOVIEGOER • CEZANNE • TWO OF THE POPS • SAN SEBASTIAN • RELATIVELY SPECIAL • MULLINS BAY • HAVANE DYNASTY • STAGECRAFT • CHESA PLANA • RAPPA TAP TAP • PICK BOOK SMOKER • CASPAR NETSCHER • DASH TO THE TOP • TORCH ROUGE • BELLA COLORA • CROESO CARIAD • SHIROCCO STAR • COQUET • HIPPY Lawman x Dylanesque Applause/Ventura Highway)• BALLET CONCERTO • ANAPURNA Lot DAISY 933 B.C. • JAZZI TOP • SPEEDY BOARDING(Royal • DEUCE AGAIN • CAROLINAE HIPPY SHAKE • MEDIA HYPE • MARSH • TWIST ‘N’ SHAKE • TELECASTER • DASHING WILLOUGHBY • CAROLINAE • ALESSANDRO VOLTA • OPERA HOUSE • ZEE ZEE TOP • DASH TO Lot 1259 B.F. Dawn Approach x Perfectly Spirited (Invincible Spirit/Design Perfection) THE FRONT • POET • ONE SO WONDERFUL • COLORSPIN • MILLIGRAM • NOUSHKEY • SOMEONE SPECIAL • YOUR OLD PAL • YANKEE DOODLE • LADY CARLA • IZZI TOP • SUEZ • SUN BOAT • FRANCE • ALKAADHEM • KAYF TARA • MONA LISA • PHOTOGENIC • BALALAIKA • JUST SPECIAL • BOOK• THREE NECKLACE • UNSCRUPULOUS • MUDEER • HYABELLA • KISSOGRAM MOVIEGOER • CEZANNE • DYNASTY • STAGECRAFT • CHESA PLANA • RAPPA TAP TAP • PICK OF THE POPS • SAN SEBASTIAN • RELATIVELY SPECIAL • MULLINS BAY • HAVANE SMOKER • CASPAR NETSCHER • DASH TO Lot 1402 B.F. Bobby’s Kitten x Wonderful Desert (Green Desert/One So Wonderful) THE TOP • TORCH ROUGE • BELLA COLORA • CROESO CARIAD • SHIROCCO STAR • COQUET • HIPPY HIPPY SHAKE • MEDIA HYPE • MARSH DAISY • JAZZI TOP • SPEEDY BOARDINGLot • DEUCE AGAIN • CAROLINAE • BALLET CONCERTO • ANAPURNA • TWIST ‘N’ SHAKE • TELECASTER • DASHING 1423 B.C. Bobby’s Kitten x Avon Lady (Avonbridge/Delightful Rhythm) WILLOUGHBY • CAROLINAE • ALESSANDRO VOLTA • OPERA HOUSE • ZEE ZEE TOP • DASH TO THE FRONT • POET • ONE SO WONDERFUL • Lot 1512 B.C. French Navy x Fondant Chaparral/Peppermint COLORSPIN • MILLIGRAM • NOUSHKEY • SOMEONE SPECIAL • YOUR OLD PAL (High • YANKEE DOODLE • LADYGreen) CARLA • IZZI TOP • SUEZ • SUN BOAT • FRANCE • ALKAADHEM • KAYF TARA • MONA LISA • PHOTOGENIC • BALALAIKA • JUST SPECIAL • NECKLACE • UNSCRUPULOUS • MUDEER • HYABELLA • KISSOGRAM • MOVIEGOER • CEZANNE • DYNASTY • STAGECRAFT • CHESA PLANA • RAPPA TAP TAP • PICK OF THE POPS • SAN All yearlings are eligible for PLUS TEN Bonus Schemes SEBASTIAN • RELATIVELY SPECIAL • MULLINS BAY • HAVANE SMOKER • CASPAR NETSCHER • DASH TO THE TOP • TORCH ROUGE • BELLA COLORA (*apart •from Intello/Queen Arabella) • CROESO CARIAD • SHIROCCO STAR • COQUET HIPPY HIPPY SHAKE • MEDIA HYPE • MARSH DAISY • JAZZI TOP • SPEEDY BOARDING • DEUCE AGAIN • CAROLINAE • BALLET CONCERTO • ANAPURNA • TWIST ‘N’ SHAKE • TELECASTER • DASHING WILLOUGHBY • CAROLINAE • ALESSANDRO VOLTA • OPERA HOUSE • ZEE ZEE TOP • DASH TO THE FRONT • POET • ONE SO WONDERFUL • COLORSPIN • MILLIGRAM • NOUSHKEY • SOMEONE SPECIAL • YOUR OLD PAL • YANKEE DOODLE • LADY CARLA • IZZI TOP • SUEZ • SUN BOAT • FRANCE • ALKAADHEM • KAYF TARA • MONA LISA • BALLET CONCERTO • PHOTOGENIC • BALALAIKA • JUST SPECIAL • NECKLACE • UNSCRUPULOUS • MUDEER • HYABELLA •

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boherguy stud “Then I thought I’d foal my own mare here and I got asked by someone if I was foaling and the next thing I knew I ended up foaling ten! It kind of took off really through word of mouth, just getting it out there.

“I went up to the February Sale, I met people there and thought I’d sit on it for two months and if I didn’t get anything then I’d look for that part-time job, but it grew and grew.”

Taught to ride by her father, the Classicwinning jockey Kevin, and raised on a diet of pedigrees and brilliant racehorses ridden by him, trained, and in many cases bred, by her grandfather, the champion trainer Jim Bolger, the chain that connects to her current venture is not so obvious.

Her passion for the adrenaline rush of the sales, and working with yearlings in particular, was ignited by time spent at Goffs, flicking through catalogues and watching the horses go through the ring, taken there after school by her mother Úna.

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ATER MANNING worked as a bidspotter at the sales ring after her teenage dreams of a showjumping career foundered on the rocks of reality.

When her schooldays ended, she went first to her grandfather’s Redmondstown Stud in County Wexford and then to Kildangan Stud. Her mentors there suggested foreign shores as the next step in her apprenticeship and that led her to Kentucky and WinStar Farm, where she spent a year. That was where her infatuation with thoroughbred sales was well and truly kindled.

“I ended up falling in love with sales work. As much as I loved it coming out of Kildangan, if I had any hesitations they were gone coming out of WinStar, I did yearling prep, mare prep, foaling, I had a barn of 20 mares and foals to look after as well,” she says.

“But then I went into yearling prep and I was in the Derby barn, which is the barn for their top 20 yearling colts and just loved it, the hand walking and everything,” she recalls, her eyes dancing at the memory. “That was the first yearling prep I had ever done. In between that I did the sales for Brookdale, Hunter Valley and Eaton and did sales for them at different times and went back out the next year and did more sales.”

While in America she met with David Cox, who invited her to work the sales season in Ireland and England for his Baroda Stud,

Manning fitted in a sale season for Baroda and Colbinstown before she headed back to Kentucky

which she did before travelling back to Kentucky to work the breeding stock sales.

All the while, she debated the merits of applying for the Irish National Stud course, and the benefits of a more formal qualification. Unsure as to whether it was the right move for her, any indecision evaporated the second she received the call from Sally Carroll, informing her that she had secured her place as part of the 2016 intake of students.

“Between America and the Irish National Stud course those 18 months were probably hands down the best and where I learned the most, from scratch in a way.”

Paca Paca Farm’s Harry Sweeney was a guest lecturer on the course and she asked if she could travel to Japan to work the sales season for him. Then followed Arrowfield Stud and the Magic Millions and Inglis Easter Sales. In between were stints in America with Hunter Valley and in Europe working the

sales season for Baroda Stud, to where she returned in the spring of 2017.

Then for the first time in her life, she was solely responsible with nobody more senior to turn to when decisions had to be made.

Before foaling began, this was a concern for her but she found that when needed, she had the decisiveness required.

“It’s great being out on my own, I love it.

At the start, even though I’ve done plenty of foaling, I was trying to figure out who I’d ring if something went wrong, I’ve always had someone more senior, but it is funny when you get into it, when you have to make the call, then you do.

“You don’t think about it anymore, I was probably over thinking it in the build-up, but once you’re in the situation it’s up to you.”

Her experiences preparing yearlings for sale on four continents have informed her approach to the process the yearlings who are going through Boherguy Stud.

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Treating each yearling as an individual and designing their preparation is the cornerstone on which she is hoping to build the reputation of Boherguy Stud.

“They are all prepped as individuals, the Dandy Man filly [Lot 130 Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale] is lunged for 20 to 25 minutes a day but the others don’t.

“Feed is also designed for the individual, same with tack – everything gets rollers or bungees, depending on what needs what.

Little things are important.

“Some need to get out first, do their work and get straight into it whereas others like to chill out. It doesn’t take any longer; if you take the time in the beginning to figure out what each horse needs or even to make little changes along the way. If you are constantly watching it is very easy to make the little changes and it makes your life easier because your horses are happier. They are not going to thrive if they are not happy and relaxed.”

Her Goffs debut sees her send two regally-

“If you are constantly watching it is very easy to make the little changes and it makes your life easier because your horses are happier bred fillies to the Orby Sale, both pinhooks from last November’s Foal Sale.

First up is Lot 277, a Sea The Stars granddaughter of Because, a full-sister to Yesterday and Quarter Moon, while Lot 460 is a Galileo grand-daughter of Group 1 winner Banks Hill, a full-sister to Dansili, Interncontinental, Cacique and Champs Elysees.

Through the Sportsman Sale she consigns Lot 690, a filly from the first crop of the dual

Derby winner Harzand out of a half-sister to the dam of Group 2 Ribblesdale Stakes winner Banimpire, who was trained by Jim Bolger.

Tattersalls Book 1 wasn’t in her initial plans for her first year consigning, but when asked to prepare a quartet of high-class fillies, she couldn’t refuse.

Lot 14 is a New Approach daughter of Scribonia, from the family of Cuis Ghaire and Verbal Dexterity, Lot 195 a full-sister to the Group 2 winner and Group 1-placed Turret Rocks and she is followed into the ring by a Dawn Approach filly out of Beyond Intensity.

She is a half-sister to Beyond Compare, the dam of Lot 195.

The challenge of striking out on her own and making her own name for herself is one which she is relishing.

“The next thing now is to get foals in for the foal sales; I am hoping that people will see how well I have done the yearlings. I suppose this year is a showcase really of what I can do, regardless of pedigrees, pages whatever, that this is the way our horses are prepped, this is how it is done and this is the standard we achieve.”

Manning is more than prepared to be heading out under her own steam.

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ON’T MENTION THE B WORD. Actually don’t mention either of the B-words – Brexit and Boris.

For Stauffenberg Bloodstock the unpredictable nature of the latest occupant of No 10 Downing Street is the variable whose impact on the carefully planned exercise in logistics that is its annual trip to Newmarket is creating some uncertainty.

When Boris, Brexit and everything else is left to one side, Philipp Stauffenberg is anticipating the Tattersalls October Yearling Sales with quiet excitement.

Five years after taking the bold decision to consign the Stauffenberg Bloodstock yearlings under his own banner, he travels to Newmarket with his largest consignment yet.

“This year we are going to Tattersalls with our biggest consignment ever of 22 horses for Books 1 and 2 with nine pinhooks, some homebreds and horses for clients. It is quite a big challenge coming from Germany and we don’t know what Boris will do yet so it is a little unnerving!” he says.

Stauffenberg and his wife Marion maintain a select broodmare band at their farm in Munster, a property and enterprise which was enabled by the success of Que Belle.

The sale of their dual Classic winner financed the purchase of Schlossgut Ittlingen in 1999 and the couple spent their first decade at the farm building and developing their foundation families.

Although she died in 1998, La Concordia has left a lasting legacy as the second dam of Prix de l’Opera winner Lady Marian, who was the first Group 1 winner bred by the couple.

They retained Lady Marian’s year-younger Rainbow Quest sister La Reine Noire.

The Group 1 winners Lady Marian and Lucky Speed are two of the best horses bred at Ittlingen, a farm which is as much a part of German bloodstock’s history as it is its present and future.

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Philipp Stauffenberg is bringing his biggest yearling consignment to date to sell at Tattersalls, but he is not enjoying watching recent events in Westminster.

Aisling Crowe chats with the German breeder and pinhooker For 40 years the castle, which traces back to the 14th century, was home to Carl Fastenrath’s Gestüt Quenhorn where champions such as Arjon, Zank and Ziethen were born and where the Die Spaetlase Sale was held for a number of years in the 1980s and 1990s.

Seven years ago, Stauffenberg began operating pinhooking syndicates for investors and it is these syndicate yearlings, as well as a mixture of homebreds and those belonging to clients, which Stauffenberg Bloodstock will consign at Park Paddocks.

He explains the rationale behind the success of the Stauffenberg pinhooks.

“The investors in the syndicate look for profit so the aim is to put together a portfolio of foals by stallions with different attributes,” he says. “We try to buy foals who will make up into Orby, Book 1 and Book 2 yearlings but

it has been getting increasingly difficult to get Book 1 foals. The competition for high-end foals at the sales has got furious over the last years and the selection of foals we can buy for value is smaller. This is why we have tried to widen the number and so we have three for Book 1 and six for Book 2.”

Last year, the fifth consigning under their own name, a venture that was encouraged

by Angus Gold, Tom Goff and Andreas Putsch, who has sold yearlings through the consignment, Stauffenberg Bloodstock was the leading consignor in Book 2 by average price.

Stauffenberg attributes this to focusing on quality rather than quantity, an approach he continues to employ with the larger draft of 16 yearlings he sends this year and the half dozen Stauffenberg will present in Book 1.

In that sale is Lot 185, a colt by Siyouni, who received the type of pedigree boost every vendor dreams of recently when Danceteria, his four-year-old half-brother by Redoute’s Choice, won the Group 1 Grosser DallmayerPreis Bayerisches Zuchtrennen for David Menuisier.

Even without that impressive upgrade, the colt’s pedigree still has much to boast about as his dam is a half-sister to Classic winner and sire Lope De Vega.

“He was a lucky pinhook!” Stauffenberg exclaims. “Danceteria was not even a black-type horse when we bought him and now he is a Group 1 winner, it is the update you always hope for!

“He was quite a costly foal at €180,000, but is an exceptional walker and is a lovely individual with a great temperament. I really like the way he uses himself.”

Lope De Vega himself is the sire of Lot 117, the first foal out of What Say You, a winning full-sister to 2018 St Leger third Southern France. If any of his foal purchases of 2018 were to receive the ultimate upgrade, Stauffenberg thought it would be this filly.

“I had hoped that Southern France would

stauffenberg bloodstock be a Group 1 winner by now and he has knocked on the door so far this season, maybe now that he will be going to Australia with the Melbourne Cup as his aim, he might make the breakthrough in the southern-hemisphere,” hopes Stauffenberg.

“Lope De Vega is like Siyouni in that he is a younger stallion doing exceptionally well and is a proven source of Classic horses. She is such a gorgeous filly to handle with a good mind and she is a good mover, which is very important.

“For me a horse has to move well. She was not the cheapest foal, but has done very well since I bought her and when the physical specimen and the pedigree are both this good, hopefully buyers will like her.”

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EPARTING FROM HIS CLASSIC IDEALS, but not deviating from the stipulation that a sire should be a Group 1 producer, is Lot 506.

A colt by Showcasing, he is the first foal out of Porthilly, a Listed winner and Group 3-placed daughter by the outstanding broodmare sire Pivotal. The cross is already bearing golden fruit.

“The Showcasing colt is bred on the same cross as Advertise out of a mare with a speedy background. The second dam only bred two foals, but both of them are Listed winners so there is class in the family. He is a strong and very well-muscled colt.”

Stauffenberg offers three yearlings by Sea The Moon at Tattersalls – in Book 1 he consigns a full-brother to Quest The Moon, a multiple Group winner at two and three and who was third to Danceteria at Munich.

Lots 558 and 673 in Book 2 are both sons of stakes winners.

The consignor is very pleased at the success of the sire, who stands at Lanwades Stud.

That satisfaction also has a personal element as, when manager of Gestüt Karlshof, Stauffenberg purchased Sacarina for the farm. For Karlshorf she produced three Classic winners – Samum, Schiaparelli and Salve Regina all by Monsun as well as their full-sister Senwa, the dam of Sea The Moon.

“Sea The Moon is doing very well and it is satisfying to watch that given

my connection to him. He produced some very good horses in his first crop and looks to have an exciting two-year-old in Alpine Star.”

Sea The Moon’s promising start at stud does not gloss over the reality of the German thoroughbred industry – the fact that Sea The Moon stands in Newmarket and not his home country gives an indication of the situation in Germany right now.

“You would have to be a little worried when you look into German breeding and racing,” he confides. “Most of the top-class racemares have been sold abroad, mainly to Japan, over the last 15 years and when you are selling always your best potential broodmares it is not good for the breed.

“The number is dropping and the quality is too, the one thing you need for the health of your herd is to keep good horses and in Germany, we are not doing that.

“We have enjoyed some

fantastic results over the last number of years with horses such as Danedream and Novellist, but they were sold abroad. It is not easy to keep producing horses of that class when the numbers are dropping.

“The quality and number of stallions is decreasing too, our best stallion Soldier Hollow is aging and many people had hoped Philipp Stauffenberg: has concerns regarding the onward development of the German bloodstock industry

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stauffenberg bloodstock that Maxios could be the future champion sire. His daughter, the Preis der Diana winner Diamanta, will hopefully be a flagbearer for him, but the market is not very forgiving for stallions.”

Stauffenberg Bloodstock’s Book 2 consignment of 16, includes a well-related son of Cable Bay, whose first runners have acquitted themselves so well this season.

Lot 878 was purchased from Genesis Green Stud at last year’s December Sale for 40,000gns and is reported to be a “good moving and looking colt”.

He is the first foal out of Conservatory, a full-sister to Group 1 Sprint Cup winner African Rose and to the Group 3 Prix d’Aumale winner and Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac second Helleborine. She is the dam of Calyx, who is by another of Invincible Spirit’s young sire sons, Kingman.

Stauffenberg has a filly to sell by the Juddmonte sire who has made such a scintillating start to his stud career.

Lot 843 is named Chloe and is the third foal of Calyxa, by Pivotal and the winner of the Group 3 Hamburger Meile and placed in three Group 1 contests.

“You would have to be a little worried when you look into German breeding and racing.

Most of the top-class racemares have been sold abroad...

The Group 2 Preis der Diane winner Centaine is represented by a yearling out of her winning Shirocco daughter Capichera (Lot 846).

Last year Cassandra, her homebred daughter by Dansili, made 360,000gns to Stroud Coleman during Book 2.

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the Gleneagles half-sister – he already bears the classy name Coupe De Champagne and is a half-sister to Catan, a three-year-old son of Oasis Dream, now successful in Hong Kong.

“Catan won twice in England and has now been sold to Hong Kong and the Dansili two-year-old filly is in training with John Gosden for Godolphin, and reports about her are good so hopefully she will add to the pedigree,” outlines Stauffenberg.

Lot 648 is by Holy Roman Emperor out of the German champion two-year-old Swordhalf . He is a brother to this year’s stakes-winning Sword Peinture and Group 2-placed Satomi, the first two foals for the mare.

For the same breeder, Stauffenberg is consigning Lot 1334, a “loose-moving” daughter of Sea The Stars and the first foal out the stakes-winning Rose Rized “As 10 of the lots are either out of or are siblings to stakes winners the quality in the consignment is there on paper. The pedigrees are more than matched by the individuals,” says Staufffenberg Whatever happens to the “B” word this autumn, Stauffenberg is anticipating one word beginning with “S”... Sold.

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Playing the long game Derek Veitch of Ringfort Stud is pleased he made the decision not to sell his Slade Power filly last November – she is now a half-sister to the dual Group 2 winner Threat

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ORTUNE SOMETIMES has a strange way of turning in your favour, transforming a disappointment into a stroke of good luck.

Last December, Derek and Gaye Veitch and the team from the couple’s County Offaly Ringfort Stud left Newmarket after the December Foal Sales with mixed feelings.

For the second successive December Sale, Ringfort Stud had enjoyed enormous success with a foal out of Indigo Lady, a mare owned in partnership with Paul Hancock.

In 2017, the partnership sold her Dark Angel filly to Capital Bloodstock for 600,000gns (Indie Lady is now owned by Cheveley Park and in training with John Gosden) and 12 months later her Lope De Vega colt made 500,000gns to Stroud Coleman on behalf of Godolphin.

However, not all the foals Ringfort took to Newmarket were sold and there was disappointment about the failure of one in particular. That was a Slade Power filly from a fine Niarchos family whose year-older Footstepsinthesand half-brother had sold for 100,000gns to Capital Bloodstock a year previously.

Now the Veitchs are preparing a return to Park Paddocks with the filly, only the second time since 2008 that Ringfort Farm has offered yearlings in Book 1. Significantly that first year was in 2016 when the farm sold Indigo Lady’s first foal, a Camelot filly, to Tim Gredley for 155,000gns.

The Slade Power filly overlooked by purchasers on her first trip to the sales is certain to be on the shortlists of many second time around.

What has changed since December?

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Footstepsinthesand half-brother is now the Group 2 Gimcrack Stakes and Group 2 Champagne Stakes winner Threat, and her sire Slade Power has produced the Group 2 Queen Mary Stakes winner, the Group 2 Duchess of Cambridge Stakes winner and Group 1 Prix Morny runner-up Raffle Prize from his second crop.

“I normally consign foals, not yearlings, and I tried to sell this filly as a foal but she didn’t meet her reserve of €29,000 so I took her home,” reports Veitch. “Threat has given the pedigree a big update since then and we are blessed to have her now! And with Raffle Prize coming on the scene for Slade Power, hopefully he will be more acceptable to buyers now as well.”

A veterinary surgeon by profession, Veitch is thoughtful and reflective and he allows a glimpse into the reasoning behind the mating which produced Lot 287 of Book 1.

“Slade Power is by Dutch Art and that sire line was important as the mare had produced a good-looking Garswood foal who made 80,000gns as a foal – that was a lot of money for a foal by the sire,” he remarks.

“I liked the foal enough to find another Dutch Art line stallion and Slade Power is a good-looking son of Dutch Art, a multiple Group 1 winner who was standing for a reasonable fee at Kildangan. He looked the sort to get maturing sprinting horses so the cover made economic sense.”

The resulting filly is now a half-sister to the two-time Group 2-winning juvenile, but before Threat had even set foot on a racecourse, his sibling’s looks and pedigree had secured her a place in Book 1.

That pedigree has done mothing but improve since Veitch purchased dam Flare Of Firelight for just 9,000gns at the 2014 December Mare Sale.

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Just three years old at the time, the daughter of Bigstone had been placed three times in her six runs. She was out of the Group 1 Tattersalls Gold Cup winner Shiva, herself a half-sister to an Oaks heroine in Light Shift.

The US champion Turf horse Main Sequence was also under the second dam, but Light Shift’s Group 1-winning son Ulysses and the Group 1 winner Cloth Of Stars, out of another half-sister in Strawberry Fledge, were yet to appear on the page.

Veitch was already well acquainted with the family as he previously purchased Flare Of Firelight’s Giant’s Causeway half-sister Tymora for the value sum of 10,500gns.

“Threat has given the pedigree a big update since then and we are blessed to have her now!

“The family has been a life-changing one for us,” reveals Veitch. “I bought Tymora at the 2010 mare sale and sent her to Kodiac for her first cover as I have a breeding right in him.

“The foal turned out to be Eltezam, who was third in the Group 2 Coventry Stakes.

“Subsequently I sold Tymora privately, but it meant that I then had nothing from

the family so when I saw Flare Of Firelight come up in the December Mare Sale I hoped she would be within my budget so I could get back in. It has been such a lucky family for us.”

The pedigree holds the promise of much more good fortune to come with both Ulysses and Cloth Of Stars at the threshold of successful stallion careers.

There is a potential place alongside Ulysses at stud for Threat should he fulfil the potential he has demonstrated in his five starts so far which also include second place finishes in the Group 2 Coventry Stakes and the Group 2 Richmond Stakes.

That breeding right in Kodiac has been put to good use by Veitch and he offers a colt by the sire as his second yearling in Book 1.

Lot 399 has speed written all over him as a son of the Mujadil mare Ladylishandra, a winner at two and the dam of six winners.

Three of those foals were successful in black-type contests headed by the Group 3 winner Harlem Shake, a son of Moss Vale.

Her five-year-old Arcano mare Shenanigans is in training with Roger Varian and was successful in the Listed Rothesay Stakes earlier this season and has also been placed twice at Group 3 level, including on her most recent run.

Tropical Paradise, her Group 3 Oak Tree Stakes winner by Verglas, is also the dam of two winners.

The yearling has also benefitted from recent success with the victory of Hello Youmzain in the Group 1 Sprint Cup highlighting once more the prowess of Kodiac.

“He is a very straightforward colt, a typical powerful 5f or 6f horse by the sire who just got a nice 6f Group 1 horse to light him up going into the sales season again.

“I liked the Mujadil line as a broodmare sire and she was affordable and in-foal to Footstepsinthesand when we bought her.

“Tropical Paradise had yet to win her Group race and the mare was still quite young.”

As well as his Tattersalls Book 1 brace, Veitch’s Ringfort Stud consigns two colts at Goffs Orby Sale with the first a Camacho colt out of Arabian Pearl.

A winning daughter of Refuse To Bend, Arabian Pearl is from a strong Juddmonte family and shares her second dam Intermission with Interim, the dam of the Grade 1 winner and sire Midships.

Intermission is also the ancestress of Group 1 winners Continent, Zambezi Sun, who stands at Coolagown Stud, and Temida Lot 237 is a filly from the first crop of the Group 2 winner and new sire Mehmas. She is out of the proven producer Esterlina, dam of Listed winners Pepita and Redolent, who was also third in the Criterium International (G1).

It is also the family of the champion twoyear-old filly Forest Flower, Grade 1 Toyota Bluegrass Stakes winner High Yield and the 2,000 Guineas and Lockinge winner Night Of Thunder, who has made such a bright start to his stud career.

“The Mehmas filly has a big page but she is unlucky to be the first lot on the second day, she is a lovely filly, and I really like her.

“The Camacho colt is a very nice horse and his half-brother made 220,000gns in Book 1 but had an unfortunate accident,” adds Veitch.

Fortune’s favours are easily won and lost, something Veitch knows only too well, but he will hope that providence will continue her favourable watch over the Ringfort yearlings this autumn.

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Breaking new ground Oneliner Stables made its name selling NH horses, but this autumn it is making its second venture to the Orby Sale and debuting at Book 1 with colts pinhooked by the Lowry family

Oneliner offers two pinhooked lots in Book 1: this is the Sea The Stars colt bought for 330,000gns

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NELINER STABLES is a new name on the pages of Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 1, but the story of the Lowry family’s journey from Tipperary to this year’s sale is 15 years in the making.

Siblings Gerard and Michelle, and father Jimmy Lowry, are familiar faces on the NH sale circuit where they have developed a successful business over the past 15 years.

Buyers of the Oneliner stock include David Minton, Anthony Bromley, Henrietta Knight and Nicky Richards. In just its third year, the Lowrys sold an Oscar gelding at Tattersalls Ireland – subsequently named Oscars Well he became a dual Grade 1-winning novice hurdler for Jessica Harrington and was placed in six more top level races.

The connection with top-class horses goes back even further as Jimmy managed the mares at Moygaddy Stud in Maynooth, County Kildare when the champion sprinter Habibti was foaled and raised.

“Our father bred Oneliner. He was trained

by Neville Callaghan and won a couple of races, ridden by Willie Carson and Frankie Dettori, so that’s where the name comes from.

“It’s a conversation starter at the sales, people ask the question and think it’s because our father is known for witty phrase or oneliners,” smiles Gerard Lowry.

The new chapter in the story of Oneliner Stables begins on Tuesday, October 8, when Lot 146 becomes the first horse consigned by the team to sell in Book 1.

A son of Exceed And Excel, he was purchased at Goffs November Foal Sale for €100,000 and is a half-brother to three winners, all by sons of Danehill, which was a strong motivator for his purchase.

The mare is a half-sister to Strategic Prince, who is by Dansili, so the Danehill line has worked with two generations of the family.

The third dam bred the champion Ramruma.

Exceed And Excel is Darley’s most successful shuttle sire with 12 individual Group 1 winners and over 150 stakes winners.

“Exceed And Excel’s international success as a sire of sires was a big factor with this horse, he has 19 sons at stud across both hemispheres,” says Lowry.

The colt’s damsire is Dubai Destination

“Exceed And Excel’s international success as a sire of sires was a big factor with this horse, he has 19 sons at stud across both hemispheres and the success of the son of Kingmambo, and indeed Kingmambo himself, in that role formed another piece of an attractive puzzle: Exceed And Excel over Dubai Destination has already produced the Group 1 winner Thunder Snow, who is a son of Helmet (Exceed And Excel).

Dubai Destination is also the broodmare sire of Golden Horn, Postponed and Dutch Connection, while Buratino, whose first yearlings are selling this year, is by Exceed And Excel out of a Kingmambo mare so the cross has worked that way too.

“Physically the colt has matured in the intervening ten months and I am pleased with his development. He is very typical of his sire in that he is a strong, precocious horse but he also moves very well,” says Lowry.

The select draft of two is completed by Lot 268, a son of the outstanding champion Sea The Stars. The colt was purchased at the December Foal Sale for 330,000gns.

His expensive price tag is readily explained by both his sire, who continues to add glory to his incredible family’s legacy as a stallion, his damsire and the strong Aga Khan family from which he springs.

Sea The Stars is now the sire of 12 individual Group 1 winners and he added Irish Oaks heroine Star Catcher to his role of honour this summer.

Trained by John Gosden she was one of the three 2019 Royal Ascot Group winners for the Giltown Stud resident – the others being

the brilliant stayer Stradivarius and Crystal Ocean, who won his deserved first Group 1 in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes.

This particular son of Sea The Stars is a half-brother to two winners, both Listed-placed, out of Emreliya, a daughter of Danehill Dancer. He is an influential broodmare sire with champion Minding, The Gurkha, Alice Springs, Circus Maximus and Sovereign all produced by his daughters and sired by Sea The Stars’s half-brother Galileo.

The dual Group 2 winner Sir Dancealot also has Danehill Dancer as his sire and he is by Sir Prancealot, a son of Tamayuz who is descended, like Galileo and Sea The Stars, from Allegretta.

“Danehill Dancer is a fantastic broodmare sire and that was a big factor, as was how well Danehill Dancer has worked with Galileo,” remarks Lowry. “That cross is a proven source of Group 1 winners and there is no reason to think that it wouldn’t work with Galileo’s half-brother. It has worked out well as this year Lavender’s Blue has come out and won the Group 3 Atalanta Stakes.”

There is evidence to back up that theory as Sea The Stars has sired the Group 1-placed Stellar Mass, Star Terms and My Titania out of mares by Danehill and the French Listed winner and Group 1-placed filly Hebah out of a daughter of Desert King.

The colt’s dam line is equally important and Emreliya hails from one of the Aga Khan’s most famous families, that of the Group 1-winning half-sisters Enzeli, Estimate and Edabiya, with Ebadiyla, a champion three-year-old and winner of the Irish Oaks, this colt’s third dam.

The bay colt is the only Sea The Stars colt in Book 1 out of a Danehill Dancer mare and comes from the outstanding Aga Khan pedigree that seems to come up with a good horse every year. The mare has produced two black-type horses from her first two runners so she has made the right start at stud and there are few Sea The Stars yearlings in the catalogue out of black-type-producing mares.

The family keeps on producing and its latest good horse is recent Jockey Club Oaks Invitational (G1) winner Edisa, while it is, of course the family of Sea The Stars’s firstcrop dual Group 1 winner and champion, the talented Taghrooda.

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HEN WAR OF WILL overpowered his competitors in this year’s Grade 1 Preakness Stakes, his win proved significant for a couple of reasons.

For one, it was a redemption of sorts for the horse’s controversial trip in a roughhouse Kentucky Derby. To recap, coming out of the home turn, War Of Will’s wet-sail run was all but obliterated by Maximum Security’s wayward antics immediately in front – what War Of Will’s trainer Mark Casse later likened to finding oneself caught behind a drunk driver.

The other reason? That the son of War Front was purchased at last year’s Arqana Breeze-Up Sale in May representing just the latest example of an American racing industry widening its embrace of the European yearling and two-year-old markets.

“We’re not stratified,” says the US-based bloodstock agent Marette Farrell, about racing’s global reach, and the boundaryshifting impact that has had on the bloodstock world. When it comes to who or what played a seminal part in focusing America’s attention across the Atlantic once again, Farrell has in mind one man in particular.

“What Wesley [Ward] did opened up American people’s eyes to what can be done,”

Crossing the high seas US buyers are turning up at European yearling and two-year-old sales in growing numbers.

Dan Ross discovers the reasoning behind the cross-Atlantic trips

Justin Casse bought the Grade 1 Preakness Stakes winner War Of Will (right) at the Arqana Breeze-Up Sale.

Casse, brother to trainer Mark, attends all the major European yearling, breeding stock and horses in training sales

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she said, about the trainer’s annual Vikingstyled Royal Ascot raids, beginning in 2009.

“The Americans suddenly saw this amazing world that they don’t really have here.”

In the years since, the world that Ward threw open has extended outwards to include European sales rings, capitalised upon by trainers such as Chad Brown, some of whose European purchases – like Breeders’ Cup winning Newspaperofrecord, a Tattersalls October Yearling Sale alumna – have risen to the highest echelons of the sport back in the US. “There’s a lot of good bloodstock over there in Europe that suits US racing, and then is able to go back into our breeding stock, stallion barns and broodmare bands around here,” says agent David Ingordo, who’s based in Kentucky.

“Unfortunately, people are sometimes afraid to go outside the box,”adds Ingordo.

“But it’s very important that we do. Good horses, they come from everywhere.”

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O, WHAT KIND OF HORSE are US buyers looking for when they cross the pond with cheque books in hand?

“You look for an athlete – something who walks well, presents well,” says bloodstock agent Shawn Dugan, a regular face at the European sales.

“There are no set rules. You just have to be there and find the ones who are a good physical and mental fit.”

One thing that all agree upon, however, is the need for a horse with the physicality and constitution to withstand the rigors of training day-in, day-out on US racetracks – a vastly different world to the decidedly more languid environs of the European training centers.

“You have to visualise if this particular individual can handle training on the Dirt every day,” said Farrell. “Some of those floaty, weak-looking fillies that do so well over there [in Europe], they might not necessarily work over here. Maybe as an older horse, but not as a yearling or two-year-old in training.”

Nevertheless, though the European model might not always be as physically imposing as its Stateside counterpart, says Farrell, that can be a desirable trait for American buyers.

“Nobody wants a big heavy horse – they train heavy,” she said. “The European horses tend not to be quite so hard on themselves.”

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“In general, the European horse has a longer, sexier type of walk, while typically, the American horse has more hip.

I love it if I can get both in the same horse explain why Justin Casse, brother of Mark and the man who singled out in France the trainer’s future Preakness winner, identifies soundness and confirmation to be an integral component of his selection process.

“You’ve really got to be hard on the x-ray results,” he says. “You have to be very strict about what you’re doing, and I just want a horse with substance to come back to America.”

So, what attributes of European bloodstock attract him? “In general, the European horse has a longer, sexier type of walk, while typically, the American horse has more hip,” he said. “I love it if I can get both in the same horse.”

The horses that catch Ingordo’s eye, he says, are the ones who catch his eye in any sale’s ring, irrespective of geography. “They’re big, they’re strong, they have good bone, good feet. They have good tail-ends on them, good shoulders.”

There’s one deal-breaker, Ingordo added, when it comes to European stock returning to the US. “When you have the really long pasterns, that doesn’t work,” he said.

“Here, the horses are mostly working on the Dirt surfaces, and they take a lot of pounding.”

That said, the continued expansion of Turf racing Stateside will only further enhance the appeal of the European market for American buyers, said US agent, Jason Litt.

“The trend is for more and more grass racing,” he forecasts. “Just look today at Kentucky Downs – they’re running races a

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1m4f and beyond, with more big purses.”

And as Turf racing proliferates, those prolific European family trees will only grow in lustre, said Litt, especially among buyers looking for residual value in the breeding shed.

“So much of this game is trial and error,” says Litt, who maintains a small band of broodmares in France for a client. “You don’t know how they’re going to fit here, so why not try it?”

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HICH BEGS THE QUESTION: are there certain European stallions and pedigrees that experts are especially drawn to?

“You’ve got to keep an open mind,” reports Dugan. “You do the same thing as you do anywhere around the world – you look for an athlete and you look for a proven stallion. Or, on the other side, you look for something young, stallion wise, that was a very good racehorse.”

According to Casse, his US clients typically prefer the more fashionable sire lines.

“If I have to explain the stallion to them,

that might turn them off,” he says. “Frankel’s been good to me,” he added, before singling out Galileo and Kodiac for special mention, along with the likes Belardo and Shalaa among the freshman ranks.

“No Nay Never has been fantastic for me,” he adds. “I sold a couple of them this year for over half a million which we bought for under a hundred thousand as yearlings. He’s been great to me from a pin-hooking perspective.”

Stallions gifted in the twin assets of speed and precocity tend to do well Stateside, says Ingordo, before ticking off a list that included the likes of Bated Breath, Sir Prancealot, and Dark Angel.

“Speed is a dangerous weapon,” Ingordo smiles. “You’ve got to have speed on the Dirt.

You’ve got to have speed on the Turf.”

What helps is that the expansion of global racing has blurred the lines that formerly delineated stallion expectations, with sires ostensibly geared for the Dirt now producing quality Turf runners – here’s looking at you, American Pharoah – and vice versa.

“We sometimes put ourselves into boxes and say, ‘we can’t do this, and we can’t do that.’ Instead, I think we need to open ourselves up to what the horses can do and then allow them to do it,” says Farrell.

“Those international families will work in any country around the world – they’re just talented,” she adds, saying that buyers can currently find value in European bloodstock at a time of often “outrageous prices” in the US market.

Of course, the intercontinental ties binding together global racing are hardly a modern phenomenon, and those who take advantage of them today are quick to acknowledge the progenitors of our shrinking world.

“A few decades ago, people such as John Magnier and Vincent O’Brien and Tom Cooper, all these people were buying horses at Keeneland and sending them to Europe,” remembers Dugan, describing as an inspiration these towering figures and their myth-making exploits. “That’s something I haven’t forgotten,” Dugan adds, “and nobody should.”

Ingordo wound the clock back even further, to the sepia-tinged annals of racing’s past, when blue-blooded European family members were routinely whisked back across the pond.

“If you look at it historically, after World War II when racing was decimated over there, a lot of those pedigrees came to America,” he said. “History’s a great teacher.”

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Soldier Hollow: the son of In The Wings stands at Gestϋt Auenquelle at a feee of €30,000. He started out at just €6,500 in 2008

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Liz Price chats to owner-breeder Helmet von Finck and trainer Andre Fabre about the talented Soldier Hollow, such a consistent sourch of quality middle-distance performers

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ELMUT VON FINCK bought Soldier Hollow as a yearling in the 2001 Tattersalls October sales with the idea of one day running him in the Deutsches Derby.

Sent to Cologne to be trained by Peter Schiergen, Soldier Hollow won on his debut and the following year enjoyed an equally promising start to the Classic season.

At that point, everything was going as planned and his owner had every right to start dreaming about the Derby.

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However, on Soldier Hollow’s next start in the Group 2 Mehl-Mulhens-Rennan (German 2,000 Guineas), where he was sent off the hot favourite, he produced a rather lacklustre run in fourth.

The result was considered too bad to be true and shortly after it was discovered that he was suffering from colitis.

The Deutches Derby dream was over and Soldier Hollow was left fighting for his life.

Many anxious moments followed, but Soldier Hollow showed his trademark fighting spirit and slowly but surely recovered.

It was nearly a year before von Finck would see the son of In The Wings run again, but when he finally did return to the competition at the age of four, he showed that he had lost none of his ability.

Underestandably, he was bit rusty on his first couple of starts, but the winning thread was soon picked up again.

It was the moment he was stepped up to Group 1 company in the Premio Roma that he revealed himself as the champion his owner always thought he was.

Over the next three years Soldier Hollow won three more Group 1 races and will always be remembered as the last horse to beat Manduro, the world’s top-rated racehorse of 2007, after going neck to neck to the line with the Godolphin runner in one of the most thrilling finishes of the Group 2 Prix Dollar at Longchamp.

Von Finck, who got involved in horseracing more than 30 years ago when he chanced upon a race meeting in his hometown of Munich, was rightfully proud of his little horse, who might not have had the chance to prove himself in the German Derby but who was bursting with courage, power and obviously had a heart as big as a lion.

soldier hollow He was still going strong at the age of seven when he took Munich’s Group 1 Grosser Dallmayr Preis, it was nevertheless decided that the time had come to call an end to a hugely successful career and Soldier Hollow was retired to stud at Gestüt Röttgen.

Like many stallions he got off to a rather inconspicuous start, but after his first crop son Pastorius won the Deutsches Derby in 2012, his popularity soared and by the time Weltstar, another of his sons, won the Derby in 2018, he had been leading sire in Germany for two years.

“I think every owner wants to win the Derby,” von Finck, who came agonisingly close to winning the Deutsches Derby in 2018 with Destino, naturally a son of Soldier

“Obviously, Pastorius and Weltstar didn’t carry my colours, but I have found more pleasure in watching his sons and daughters succeed

Onwer-breeder Helmet von Finck with his superstar after Group 3 success at Dortmund in 2007 Photo: Marc Ruehl

Hollow. He was beaten just a neck by Weltstar.

“I still would like to win it,” he laughs.

“But, in a way, I have already won the Derby thanks to Soldier Hollow’s progeny.

Obviously, Pastorius and Weltstar didn’t carry my colours, but I have found more pleasure in watching his sons and daughters succeed at the racecourse than winning those races myself, breeding horses is extremely satisfying and I really enjoy it.”

Von Finck, who in 2000 purchased Gestüt Park Wiedingen, nestled in the heart of the Lüneburg Heath, near Hamburg, the home of the Derby, was a bit of a pioneer in the German breeding industry – he bought two mares from the Northern Dancer bloodline at Keeneland and brought them back to Germany.

“I have been very lucky with the female line of horses that I have bought,” admits the colourful owner who has always liked to do things differently to everyone else.

“I had bought horses before in France and in England, as well as in Baden-Baden, but the acquisition of these mares was the true birth of my breeding operation.

“I just fell in love with those two mares, simply because they were chestnuts, which I adore, and also because they were by Northern Dancer.

“It was love at first sight and Diana Dance, who was brilliant on the racetrack, unfortunately died early at stud, while Fabula Dancer was not very good on the track but she produced Flamingo Road, who won the Pres der Diana (G2) and finished placed in three Group 1 races.

“However, I was very lucky, Diana Dance’s second foal was a filly named Diana’s Quest whom I kept. She who produced Divya, the dam of Destino and of Dschingis Secret, who finished an unlucky sixth in the Arc de Triomphe to Enable and is now standing at stud in France.”

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UCCESS IN THE WORLD OF RACING and breeding is rarely immediate, but over the years von Finck has learnt that patience and persistence can go a long way.

In the beginning, he was a bit disheartened when Soldier Hollow, whose fee was just €3,000 when he started his new career at Gestüt Röttgen, the home of the 1975 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner Star Appeal, was not greeted with more enthusiasm by German and international breeders.

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soldier hollow After an initial rush, his book dried up over the next two years and it took the arrival of Pastorius and a move to Gestüt Auenquelle that lies at the feet of the Wiehengebirge, a little mountain range in North RhineWestphalia, to put him on the path that would turn him into the leading sire in Germany.

“I bought Soldier Hollow 20 years ago at the sales for 75,000gns,” remembers Von Finck, who counts Soldier Hollow’s third place in the Arlington Million as one of his most memorable experiences in his life as an owner.

“There were two horses I was interested in, one was quite big and the other was on the smaller side – in the end, fortunately, I went for the smaller one.

“Just like the mares I have bought, at stud he took some time to get going. It is typically German to be a bit on the cautious side, so while he had plenty of mares to cover in his first season, the breeders then waited to see what he would bring before sending him more.

“In the midst of it we had the financial crisis in 2007 and 2008, so yes, it would be fair to say that he struggled a bit during that period. But once he had Pastorius, he became very popular, especially since he regularly produced Group winners, even when he didn’t have a full book of mares.”

Last year Soldier Hollow stood for a fee of €30,000, but this season Soldier Hollow’s fee

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Trainer André Fabre (above) is a strong supporter of the stallion and recommends him to his owners

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has been listed as private.

He covers between 70 and 100 mares, which now come to him from both Germany and further afield.

One of the biggest supporters of Soldier Hollow is French trainer André Fabre, who recently saddled the three-year-old filly Pelligrina, owned by HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalifa Al Thani, to win the Group 3 Prix de Royaumont.

Fabre said: “Soldier Hollow is a son of In The Wings, who for me was one of the best horses I have ever trained and like In The Wings, Soldier Hollow had a real turn of foot.

“He is a good stallion, one of Europe’s leading sires. I have recommended Soldier Hollow to my owners and will always support him by sending him a mare. He has a lot of class. He is not big, which is exactly what you want.”

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ELLIGRINA, who is out of Pearls Or Passion, a daughter of Monsun, is currently unbeaten in two starts and her handler added: “She had a little accident and was operated on the knee.

But she is doing well and is back in training.

We shall wait for the autumn and the big autumn races. I have entered her in the Prix de Royallieu and she will stay in training at four as she is very good.”

At this year’s Baden-Baden Autumn Yearling Sale, Fabre proved true to his word and bought a filly by the stallion and out of the Lando mare Azalee from Gstut Gorlsdorf.

Today, Soldier Hollow has established himself as one of the most important sires to come out of Germany.

His sons and daughters have won Classic races and his owner concludes: “Soldier Hollow is a horse of a lifetime. He is a real success story, as he was just as successful on the track as he is at stud.

“I am only a small breeder and for 20 years he has given me so much joy. His offspring all inherit this incredible fighting spirit, his fabulous temperament.

“They will always give their best and will always be involved in the finish. And they can win over any distance. He produces milers, as well as stayers. He is a very versatile stallion and I hope he is going to be the leading sire of Germany once more this year.”

Von Finck might not have seen his colours triumph in the Deutsches Derby, but he certainly backed a winner on that autumnal morning at Newmarket when he decided to buy “the little horse with the fighting spirit”.

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Melissa Bauer-Herzog chats with the team at Taylor Made Farm about its young stallion roster and its highly successful sales division

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CHANGING OF THE GUARD in the stallion barn and a re-evaluation of their goals in recent years has seen many changes at Taylor Made Farm.

The operation is now entering an exciting era and while the young roster sees only new addition Daddy Long Legs with runners on the track, this year’s sales has been one of the more important in the history of the operation’s stallion division.

Each of the stallions are hitting a “first” in the sales ring – whether it was with first yearlings at Keeneland or first US mares sellling in foal in November.

The farm’s trio of two-time Horse of the Year California Chrome (Lucky Pulpit), twotime Grade 1 winner Mshawish (Medaglia D’Oro), and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) runner-up Not This Time (Giant’s Causeway) have been well supported by breeders in their first three seasons at stud and were tested this year by the commercial market when their first yearlings hit the ring.

With strong support behind them, Taylor Made’s nominations manager Travis White expects that the stallions won’t only be a hit in the ring but on the track as well.

“In our opinion, each horse has the license to make it,” says White. “They’ve all gotten good support whether it’s us internally or shareholders we’ve brought in for each horse.

“We’ve got good nicks and breeders

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Yet again, Taylor Made Sales Agency was leading consignor at Keeneland Book 1: 61 horses sold an average of $389,262 and gross of $23,745,000

you want to be breeding to your horse have supported, both those who breed commercially and those who breed to race.

I think we’ve got a good mix. And some of those guys will support the horses when it comes to buying as well.”

The leader of their roster at a fee of $35,000, California Chrome has done more than his share of the work in bringing potential breeders to the barns.

Over the stallion’s three years at the farm, the breeders have come to see him, but then also send mares to other stallions on the roster.

“He definitely brings in the phone calls then you have to work your sales angle,” reports Taylor. “He has definitely brought the phone calls and interest. People want to come out and see him. It just gives you an extra opportunity to talk to that person about a different horse and, if they’re looking at Chrome, we’ll try to pull out any other horses, too. They might learn something about that horse that they didn’t know prior to talking to us. It just kind of opens up discussions about

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the other horses.”

This year’s yearling market has been the first major test for that batch of stallions but when the last yearling goes through the ring in October, it won’t be the end of Taylor Made’s test for their roster.

Just weeks after Fasig-Tipton’s October Yearling Sale concludes, the breeding stock sales will see the debut of the first foals by the farm’s Grade 1 winner Midnight Storm.

It will also be the first major US test for Chilean champion first crop-sire Daddy Long Legs, who was brought back to the US in late 2018.

Standing for a season in Florida in 2016 before standing solely in Chile the past two years, Daddy Long Legs had just four foals from his first stallion foray in North America with that crop including the stakes-placed Montauk Daddy, who finished third in the Listed Skidmore Stakes at Saratoga in August.

While the powerful young stallion roster has helped bring mares to the breeding shed, Taylor Made’s vice president of marketing and public sales operations Mark Taylor also

taylor made sales believes it has helped out at the yearling sales as well.

The group of promising young stallions brings in more buyers and being intimately familiar with them also helps the Taylor Made crew find the right fit for customers.

“Having three Taylor Made sires with first yearlings selling is a good thing from my perspective,” says Taylor. “We very much believe that Mshawish, Not This Time and California Chrome all have a big chance to succeed.

“Knowing each horse inside and out helps us as consignors tremendously. You can sell the yearling itself, but also use our unique insight of the sire to help the buyer see added possibilities for the future.

“The one challenge is trying to spread them out so we don’t have too many by one sire selling in the same session. This really isn’t just for our stallions, it applies to our whole consignment to an extent.”

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AYLOR MADE is known for its large consignments at all the major sales and Taylor admits that when they get to a bigger sale like Keeneland it can be challenging to make sure the right horse is in the right book.

“Within September each book is a sale in its own right,” he explains. “Huge groups of buyers rotate in and out of the market through the six books.

“In recent years the format has continually changed which adds a degree of difficulty to placement.

“You need to factor in sire quality and book size, pedigree, conformation, international appeal and vetting into the formula. It’s more art than science and our size helps us keep our finger on the pulse of the market. This really helps us get our customers in the books that fit. We also believe that a good horse can sell well in any book. It’s the middle tier and inferior horses that are the biggest challenge for sellers.”

However, finding the right sale for every yearling has been a successful venture for Taylor Made this year with the consignment selling 16 horses for an average of $108,750 at the Fasig-Tipton July Sale including a $200,000 Not This Time colt. Their 22 yearlings sold at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale also made a splash in August when averaging $301,227.

Through Book 1 of the Keeneland September Sale, Taylor Made again found success and was leading consignor with 61

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Pioneerof The Nile colt bought by E Five Racing and Mike Ryan for $2.1 million

“You need to factor in sire quality and book size, pedigree, conformation, international appeal and vetting into the formula horses sold for an average price of $389,262 and an aggregate of $23,745,000 – the only consignor to break the $20 million barrier.

The stallion side of the operation was

also celebrating with California Chrome and Not This time well received in Book 1 with California Chrome’s three offerings selling for an average of $201,665 and Not This Time’s three making up to $150,000.

Taylor credits the operation’s sales successes to a great group of clients who have sent them some of the top thoroughbreds in recent times for both yearling and breeding stock sales.

The operation’s yearling graduates include over 100 Grade or Group 1 winners with names such as Triple Crown winner American Pharoah (Pioneerof The Nile) and European Horse of the Year Roaring Lion (Kitten’s Joy) amongst them. The consignment is also closing in on its 200th million-dollar mare sold at breeding stock sales.

“In recent years horses such as American Pharoah and Roaring Lion were raised and consigned by our team,” he says. “It’s a tribute to the customers, our team and the buyers

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Lot 199: filly by Union Rags ex Zayanna fetched $1 million, sold for Siena Farm bought by Godolphin

that ultimately developed the potential.

“In terms of fillies and mares off the track we are not far off selling our 200th million-dollar filly or mare sold. Icons such as Havre De Grace, Songbird, Ashado, Cash Run, Mariah’s Storm, Abel Tasman, Stopchargingmaria, Princess Of Sylmar are just a few to go through our hands.”

But Taylor Made isn’t just focusing on providing quality horses to the North American market with the farm branching out to European sales over the past 12 months.

“We set a vision about every three years and we said we would like to become more global and look for opportunities,” outlines Taylor Made’s president and CEO Duncan Taylor.

“Last year we had some fillies and mares off the track that went to England and sold over there. We were pleased with the results and think that’s still an outlet and something

“We set a vision about every three years and we said we would like to become more global and look for opportunities we will continue to do if the pedigree is right and we think it is better suited for that market.”

That first foray into the European market proved to be successful at the Tattersalls December Sale with the six-strong draft

led by Grade 3 winner Midnight Crossing bringing 400,000gns.

Nine months later the operation branched out into the French yearling market when their partnership with Haras de Gouffern saw five yearlings head to the Arqana August Sale for the joint venture.

While the recruiting for the first Arqana sale didn’t go as well as Duncan Taylor had planned with only one colt they shipped over from the US going through the ring, the four offerings they sent to the sale proved to be popular.

The two colts sold brought an average of €62,000 with a colt by Iffraaj topping the consignment when bringing €90,000.

Taylor already has thoughts on how to improve the US participation at the sale in 2020 with a focus of buying yearlings to send over to have results to show American owners who may be a bit more reluctant to ship horses over.

“I still like the idea, I just think that next year we’re going to have to start earlier and buy some of our own to show that it works before other US owners will step up and pull the trigger,” he said of selling in France.

“The owners were a little more reluctant to take a shot on taking a horse to France. When there’s change and people are used to doing things the way they are, it was just more difficult.

“There were several sires we looked at for the sale, especially Kitten’s Joy. With how Roaring Lion did last year I think his offspring would have been a really hot commodity to sell in Europe this year.

“I was actually trying to buy a Kitten’s Joy, but never could find the right horse that the people wanted to sell.

“I think that we will keep trying and it just makes sense to me. Every horse is a unique individual and fits a certain book or a certain country and you’re trying to get the right horse and put it in the right place where you have the most buyers who are willing to buy that kind of horse.”

With yearling sales nearly concluded, Taylor Made is starting to turn its focus to the November and December breeding stock sales.

Taylor Made has topped the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale by gross sales three of the last five years and sold the sale-topping mare at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale every year from 2014 – 2017 with the second most expensive mare in 2018.

With a focus on quality both in the stallion barn and the sales ring, the future looks bright for Taylor Made.

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photo of the month: arqana august yearling sale

A yearling queues to enter the Arqana August sale ring. The three-day sale was a record renewal, with a full set of best-ever figures – a record aggregate of €42,829,000, the first time the figure had ever breached the €42,000,000 mark, while the average of €187,846 and median of €125,000 were both easily the best recorded at the sale. In total, 20 lots made over €500,000 topping the previous best of 14.

With such a talented bunch of young consignors in France – headed by Haras du Monceaux, leading consignor for the eighth year in succession – global-quality stallions standing in the country and a buying bench made up of visitors from around the world, it was a sale that promised much... and delivered

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