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SEPTEMBER 2015

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Continental shift

Barouche Stud operates a specific strategy aimed at merging the best US pedigrees with those from Europe

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History shaping the future Donn McClean meets John O’Connor to discuss the farm’s rich bloodstock heritage and its exciting future with new owner John Malone

Return to the ranks

After a break of eight years,

Michael Dickinson is taking out his trainer’s licence again

Don’t miss his first yearlings!

Contact: Coolmore Stud, Fethard, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. Tel: 353-52-6131298. Fax: 353-52-6131382. Christy Grassick, David O’Loughlin, Eddie Fitzpatrick, Tim Corballis, Maurice Moloney, Gerry Aherne, Mathieu Legars or Jason Walsh.

Tom Gaffney, David Magnier, Joe Hernon or Cathal Murphy: 353-25-31966/31689. Kevin Buckley (UK Rep.) 44-7827-795156. E-mail: sales@coolmore.ie Web site: www.coolmore.com All stallions nominated to EBF.

Don’t miss his first yearlings!

Contact: Coolmore Stud, Fethard, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. Tel: 353-52-6131298. Fax: 353-52-6131382. Christy Grassick, David O’Loughlin, Eddie Fitzpatrick, Tim Corballis, Maurice Moloney, Gerry Aherne, Mathieu Legars or Jason Walsh.

Tom Gaffney, David Magnier, Joe Hernon or Cathal Murphy: 353-25-31966/31689. Kevin Buckley (UK Rep.) 44-7827-795156. E-mail: sales@coolmore.ie Web site: www.coolmore.com All stallions nominated to EBF.

THE BREEDERS’ CUP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS October 30-31, 2015

Created by racing visionaries in the 80’s, this year-end event has established itself as thoroughbred racing’s greatest achievement. The Breeders’ Cup World Championships brings the best of the best to compete on racing’s biggest stage. Held each fall and hosted by the premier racetracks in North America, this two-day extravaganza crowns Champions in every division and is truly a race fan’s dream come true.

The 2015 Breeders’ Cup World Championships will be hosted by Keeneland Race Course in beautiful Lexington, Kentucky for the first time. It comes home to the Bluegrass State where the very idea of the Breeders’ Cup was conceived. The world’s best will compete in 13 Grade I Championship races on October 30-31 for $26 million in purses and awards.

Participants in the Breeders’ Cup World Championships are treated to an amazing weekend filled with world class hospitality and equally incredible racing. To find out how you can participate on racing’s greatest stage, please call Dora Delgado, Senior Vice President of Racing, +1 859 514 9422 or e-mail dora@breederscup.com.

Pre-entry deadline for all 13 Championship races – Monday, October 19, 2015

THE BREEDERS’ CUP CHALLENGE WIN & YOU’RE IN PROGRAM This Win and You’re In global stakes program features 78 graded or group stakes in 13 countries. All international starters will receive a travel award of $40,000 upon starting in any Breeders’ Cup World Championship race. For the complete Challenge schedule which includes eight Win & You’re In races at Keeneland, please visit members.breederscup.com. Every winner of all 78 Win & You’re In Challenge Races receives free entry fees and an automatic selection in to the Championships.

THE BREEDERS’ CUP INTERNATIONAL STALLION PROGRAM All stallions around the world are now eligible to participate directly in the Breeders’ Cup program. Stallions standing in the Northern Hemisphere outside of North America contribute 50% of their stud fee and the resulting foals are all automatically eligible to the racing programs of the Breeders’ Cup without any further nomination payments due. These automatically nominated foals are eligible for the Breeders’ Cup Challenge program as well as the Breeders’ Cup World Championships.

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Dream Ahead

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CHAMPION 2YO & 3YO, GROUP SIRE WITH HIS FIRST CROP

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

13 first crop 2yo winners*, include the unbeaten Gr.3 winner FINAL FRONTIER, Gr.2 placed RAUCOUS and the highly promising Gr.1 entrant NORDIC DREAM.

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2015 successes include the top Gr.1 sprinter ASTAIRE and smart 2yo's MISS ELIZABETH and SPECIAL FOCUS.

Leading 2nd Crop Sire in 2015 by Stakes winners.

His 15 Group/Stakes horses, include Gr.1 winner BELARDO and Gr.1 placed CONSORT and ENDLESS DRAMA, etc.

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First word

Paul Haigh sees Golden Horn do a “Brigadier Gerard” in the Juddmonte International

13 News

Records broken at Arqana, Night Of Thunder to stud, Ted Voute drives all night and William Huntingdon makes the right decision not to pitch a tent in France

18 The feminine touch

Sue Montgomery reports from a York meeting dominated by three brilliant fillies

26 Donna takes the Diana

Jocelyn de Moubray sees the Doyen filly Turfdonna pick up her first Group 1

30 Stallion stats

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34 Tapit in command at Saratoga

Gainesway sire gets two of the three million dollar yearlings and five of the top eight lots, writes Nancy Sexton

66 Returning to the ranks

Michael Dickinson is taking out his trainer’s licence again. Paul Haigh discovers the reasons why

26 70 Arabian racing

Paul Haigh asks whether Newbury’s DIAR day is achieving its aims

75 Mare of the month

Marasem, dam of the Stewards’ Cup winner, Magical Memory

78 The database

Pedigrees complied by Weatherbys

98 Photo of the month

Riding out on the beach: Sara Moore exercising racehorses at Deauville

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Aisling Crowe travels to Barouche Stud ahead of the Orby Sale and finds that the stud is developing an dual-continent pedigree strategy

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Lissa Oliver meets ITM’s enthusiastic chief executive Charles O’Neill and hears of the marketing plans for the future

66 Q and A

Louise Ruffell speaks to Gerry Aherne, who works with the stallion nominations team at Coolmore

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Covert Love was led out not sold as a yearling, but the Azamour filly is now a Classic winner, reports Jocelyn de Moubray

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Donn McClean talks to John O’Connor of Ballylinch Stud about the farm’s bloodstock history and exciting future

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History repeats itself at York

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Golden Horn does a “Brigadier Gerard” in the Juddmonte International, writes Paul Haigh

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he Juddmonte International, inaugurated in 1972 specifically to bring together two great champions at a distance (1m2f) which should suit them both, is now officially the best horse race in the world.

That’s the judgement of the international handicappers, who make their calculations according to the overall quality of the fields over a number of years.

Everyone with any knowledge of racing history now knows the irony of that first running. Mill Reef, through injury, was unable to turn up, and the previously unbeaten Brigadier Gerard, for whom the event was expected to be a lap of honour, met the only defeat of his 18-race career at the hooves of the Derby winner Roberto, and perhaps more particularly the hands of American-based Panamanian, Braulio Baeza.

There was a similar, possibly even more sensational, irony about the 2015 running. This time the brilliant horses who were supposed to bring their reputations to York for a decider at the distance were the Derby winner Golden Horn and the Guineas winner Gleneagles.

We shouldn’t dismiss the result as an aberration – Arabian Queen out-battled Golden Horn

Both were unbeaten, unless you count the decision – curious to British eyes but impeccable according to their rules – of the French stewards to demote Gleneagles at the Arc meeting last year.

Both should have been suited by the trip. General anticipation was summed up by one tweet among thousands which said: “If you only see one horse race this year, it’s got to be this one”.

This time the defector was Gleneagles who, having been diverted to York because of rain-affected going for the Prix Jacques le Marois (G1) at Deauville, found the same thing waiting for him on the Knavesmire.

This time the one expected to complete the lap of honour was Golden Horn. When he drew alongside the front running 50-1 shot Arabian Queen with a furlong to go everyone waited for the inevitable, and once again the inevitable failed to happen.

It wasn’t a disaster for Golden Horn. He’s a top-of-the-ground horse himself, as John Gosden recognised when withdrawing him from the King George at the end of July, a race which – another irony – in view of the result on Ascot’s quickdrying surface he would very probably have won before being put away to head to the Arc unbeaten.

He hated York’s “dead” ground and couldn’t produce his usual acceleration on it. In retrospect it took a fair bit of sportsmanship from his owner and trainer to let him run at all.

But we shouldn’t dismiss the result as an aberration.

Arabian Queen out-battled him. It was a great performance by her, by her trainer David Elsworth, and by her rider, champion jockey elect, Silvestre de Sousa. (What is it about these Brazilians? See also under Moreira, Joao).

A delighted Silvestre de Sousa in the winners’ enclosure with Arabian Queen after the International.

Are this year’s fillies better than the colts?

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first word Maybe, as a few observers thought, the result does tell us this year’s fillies, notably Legatissimo, are actually better than the colts. At least it seems to confirm that this year’s Derby form is better than last year’s – the 2014 Prix du Jockey Club winner The Grey Gatsby, who had defeated Australia under a dazzling Ryan Moore ride in the Irish Champion Stakes, was beaten just about as easily at York as he had been in the Eclipse.

Maybe Golden Horn will come back better than ever from this defeat, as long as he sticks to good ground or better. But the dream that he’s an invincible, a second coming of Frankel, 7l winner of the Juddmonte in 2013, is over now.

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n America, there is another unbeaten champion, of course. American Pharoah has already done so much for the sport in the US by ending the 34-year wait for a Triple Crown winner that it seems churlish to ask questions about what he has achieved, particularly when the international handicappers, who calculate these things for a living, had already placed him one pound ahead of Golden Horn at the top of the world rankings.

How they work this out though is a huge mystery since American Pharoah has never raced on anything but Dirt and has never raced against anything except American three-year-olds, none of whom has ever raced against anything but American three-year-olds either.

At the time of writing “the Pharoah” is headed for the Travers Stakes at Saratoga where he will meet more American three-year-olds. To some extent this reflects sportsmanship by his connections as there is an almost superstitious notion in US racing that at the so-called “graveyard of champions” anything can happen.

It’s unlikely though that there’s an Onion or an Upset buried in the Travers field, and by the end of the race we should know what we already know: that he is by some way the best three-year-old in the states.

Whether the international handicappers have got American Pharoah right we won’t know until he meets older horses, and, if not internationals, at least a few who can provide at least collateral form with those outside America. Is he, as so many would love to believe, the second coming of Secretariat? We’ll find out when he meets new challenges.

After what we can only think of as the disappointment of the Juddmonte, and the end of the dream that Golden Horn and he might somehow arrive at the post somewhere unbeaten for a Heavyweight Championship of the World, things seem just a little flat at the moment on this side of the Atlantic, though not, of course, if you’re French and happy to bow down before the great goddess, Treve.

There is however another “what-if” scenario to fantasise about.

What if Golden Horn comes back strong in the autumn, then misses the Arc because of the ground?

What if Gleneagles continues his rampage and leaves

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Whether the international handicappers have got American Pharoah right we won’t know until he meets older horses, and, if not internationals, at least a few who can provide at least collateral form with those outside America

The biggest “what if “ of all: what if American Pharoah (below), Golden Horn and Gleneagles were line up to meet in the Breeders’ Cup?

Aidan O’Brien in no doubt that he’s fine with 1m2f? (We all know how much Coolmore loves the Breeders’ Cup).

What if all three arrive at Keeneland for the Breeders’ Cup Classic?

American Pharoah would have a big advantage on home ground and on Dirt, but it might be the chance for him to show he does indeed wield a mighty sceptre.

Or for one of the others to cover themselves in glory by showing he is wearing emperor’s new clothes.

It would require sportsmanship and competitive spirit from all three owners, mostly from the British and Irish obviously.

But if Anthony Oppenheimer and John Magnier wanted it, it wouldn’t be an impossible dream.

Don’t let’s hold our breath though. Getting just two horses to the same spot on the same day is tough enough. Getting three there and all ready to do themselves justice is somewhere beyond that.

Racing is a much deeper mine of irony than of ecstasy.

There is an ecstasy mine though and I can’t end this article without mentioning having seen it. This was at York too, in the Ebor handicap, “the richest handicap in Europe” although that says more about what the rest of bookie-free Europe thinks of handicaps than it does about anything else, but it’s the race that gives the whole Ebor meeting its name.

Joseph Tuite is a small trainer, with a small string.

This year he’s won just 11 races. He won the Ebor with an astonishing feat of training with the seven-year-old Litigant, who’d been off the track for 16 months and started at 33-1.

You know how it is when someone is so happy they just can’t stand still and have to keep wandering about? He was like that. You didn’t have to know him or anything much about him to say it was beautiful to see.

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Arqana has set the ball rolling...

.... and it is now game on for the four other European-based auction houses to match with some record-breaking stats at their yearling sales

The European yearling sale season got off to a recordbreaking start at the Arqana August Sale thanks largely to colts by Dubawi and Frankel, a filly by Invincible Spirit, John Ferguson’s spending, Ecurie des Monceaux’s vision and the second year of the V2 sale.

As often with this boutique, internationally-marketed sale, the statistical results depended on a few headline acts – and as the vagaries of the alphabetically produced catalogue often create, eight of the top ten lots sold on Day 2. It meant that Day 1 figures were actually substantially down on the previous year – the average reduced by 23 per cent and the aggregate by 30 per cent, with some of the day’s most anticipated lots failing to find new buyers. The session was headed by the Shamardal colt, a close relation to Lope De Vega, sold by Ballylinch Stud to John Ferguson for €750,000.

On Day 2 the strong draft of Dubawis, Frankels and Invincible Spirits collected by and offered by leading vendor Ecurie des Monceaux dramatically changed the stats – and amazingly the farm sold seven of the top ten.

The efforts of the farm to

Sire topper: at €2.6 million, this year’s Arqana top lot is the most expensive yearling by Dubawi to be sold at auction to date

invest in stock with appeal to the international market has reaped rewards for Arqana.

Competition for Lot 119, the Dubawi first foal out of the Group 3 winner Pacifique (Montjeu), a sister to the Irish Oaks winner Chicquita, came from all around the sales ring, but in the end it was no surprise that Ferguson was the one who could last longest for the good-looking colt by the Darley sire, currently heading the European sires’ table. The €2,600,000 price is a record for the August Sale.

In total, three lots breached the seven-figure mark – Bertrand le Metayer going to €1,400,000 for Lot 185, the Invincible Spirit grand-daughter of the Prix SaintAlary (G1) winner Vadawina, and Charlie Gordon-Watson spending €1,150,000 on the Frankel-Platonic filly from the same family as the top lot.

The three helped ensure that the average and the turnover for Day 2 rose by 40 per cent and 50 per cent (though notably Day 2 in 2014 was the weaker of that year’s two days).

The two-day Part I of the August yearling sale saw increases of eight per cent in

Arqana August Yearling Sale Statistics 2015-2010 Year

Cat Offered Sold

2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010

374 369 376 471 478 480

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77.78 162,541 9.9 95,000 5.5 80.56 147,864 9.8 90,000 12.5 74.93 134,622 36.7 80,000 23 65.45 98,424 3.1 65,000 4.8 74.66 95,391 1.1 62,000 -11.4 67.38 94,339 70,000

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43,013,000 9.2 39,417,500 13.3 34,790,000 17.6 29,575,500 -9.4 32,666,000 12.5 29,022,500

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Big spender: John Ferguson

The most expensive Frankel yearling so far, the daughter of Platonic. Where will the sire’s results be in December?

gross, seven per cent in average, though there was a fall in the median of five per cent and a drop on the clearance rate from 81 per cent to 76 per cent.

Monday’s Part II section of the sale produced gains across the board, resulting with a first-time turnover in excess of

€10,000,000.

In total, the three days produced a best-ever result for the August Sale with a highestever aggregate of €43,013,000, a best-ever median of €95,000 and a record average of €162,541.

The V2 sale produced its own strong results with a new top-

Monceaux’s results from its 27 sold produced the farm a whopping €12,157,000 in receipts price best, though the average and clearance saw falls, leading to a subsequent drop in the turnover.

Top vendor now for four consecutive years, Monceaux’s results from its 27 sold produced the farm a whopping €12,157,000 in receipts, nearly ten million more than the second-placed Capucines. The second-best vendor by average was Ballylinch Stud – the Irish farm sold just five, but the select bunch fetched an average price of €311,000.

Leading buyer was Ferguson with a near €7 million outlay, a reversal from 2014 when he did Left, Henri Bozo of the sale-topping consignor Ecurie des Monceaux

not buy at all.

It is easily the most he or any other buyer has ever spent at the sale. His previous best – and the previous largest-ever outlay made by one buyer at the sale – was €4,990,000 in 2008.

Coupling this with the purchases made by Ferguson at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale, it seems that Sheikh Mohammed and his advisor are in a buying mood this year.

Conversely, Coolmore, via the signing of MV Magnier, cut its own spend to €910,000 from €2,775,000 in 2014. It is a dramatic fall as the farm traditionally supports this sale and its purchases are generally in the region of €1.5 million to €2.5 million.

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Japanese sire Manhattan Cafe and British stallion Zilzal die The triple Grade 1 winner, son of Sunday Silence and one-time champion Japanese sire Manhattan Cafe has died in Japan at the age of 17, while the former European champion miler Zilzal has been

put down due to the infirmities of old age. He was 29.

Bred by Shadai Farm, Manhattan Cafe was out of the Law Society mare Subtle Change.

Owned by Ken Nishikawa and trained by Futoshi Kojima, Manhattan Cafe won five Graded races, including the Grade 1 Tenno Sho Spring.

He stood his first season at Shadai Stallion Station in 2003 and became champion sire in Japan in 2009. His best progeny

include Hiruno D’Amour, who emulated his sire by winning the Tenno Sho Spring, NHK Mile Cup heroine Jo Cappuccino and Shuka Sho winner Red Desire.

Trained by Sir Michael Stoute and owned by Mana Al Maktoum, the biggest victories for Zilzal, a son of Nureyev, came in the Sussex Stakes (G1) and Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (G1). He was bred in the US by Kentucky Select Bloodstock, and was out of the Grade 2 Del Mar

Oaks heroine French Charmer (Le Fabuleux), dam of four winners, including the Listed scorer Charmante. Further back in the pedigree can be found the likes of the Grade 1 winner Negligee and top miler and sire Polish Precedent.

Shipped to the US to line up in the Breeders’ Cup Mile, he subsequently finished sixth and was retired to stand at Gainsborough Stud in the US. His most notable offspring

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Invincible Spirit colt won the Group 1 Prix Morny adding to his previous July Stakes and Richmond laurels.

On ground much softer than ideal for him, his jockey Frankie Dettori confirmed Shalaa as the best twoyear-old he had ever ridden.

His trainer John Gosden also confirmed that he is aiming the colt at the Middle Park Stakes (G1).

As usual, the Arqana August Sale kicked off the European yearling sales season.

Sadly Norris/Huntingdon had no orders, but we enjoyed the luxury of inspecting many of the progeny by this season’s new sires. It was the new-to-Europe sire Redoute’s Choice

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Rust wants to see a five per cent increase in betting and wants to promote racing as the intelligent arm of gambling

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oodwood, Galway, York and Deauville made August a magic month for the racing industry. Goodwood had earlier received a welcome cash injection from the Qatar ruling family for a ten-year period, resulting in its most prestigious races trebling in prize-money.

The Galway Festival had attendance figures of over 140,000 and Dermot Weld won the trainers’ title for an amazing 30th time.

Chantelle Veterinary sponsored the award and part of the prize was a supply of horse wormer. Perhaps Jamieson’s or Moran’s might be a better-appreciated sponsor...!

York belonged to Newmarket’s Yorkshireman William Haggas, who won the Acomb, Lowther, Gimcrack, Doncaster Sales race and the Voltigeur. He has four exciting two-year-olds and a potential Leger favourite.

At Deauville, the wonderful summer enjoyed by Shalaa, who was consigned by Jenny and Liam Norris from Clairemont Stud and bought by Charlie Gordon-Watson at Tattersalls, continued and the

whose stock impressed us most.

His yearlings also seemed to have more quality than those in Australia.

He was so well supported by the Aga Khan with his wonderful band of broodmares that he must have every chance of success.

On first-crop evidence, Frankel has not stamped his stock as markedly, but neither did Northern Dancer or Galileo and it did not stop them becoming champion sires.

We were kindly invited to the pre-sales party at Haras du Bonneval, hosted to celebrate Siyouni’s wonderful first season.

The highlight was an incredible display from Lorenzo and his white horses.

Fortunately for us, this year we had decided the weather forecast was too uncertain for us pitch and stay the weekend in our tent. Luckily we made a good decision, there was a downpour on Friday night.

My concerned observation about the sales was the fairly widespread use of acepromazine. I realise that consignors need to keep a lid on their stock from a health and safety angle, but it is very difficult to get a good show from a yearling that is over-tranquillized. It is also very

tricky to get a satisfactory scope or wind test.

I previously remember we bought one yearling that, unbeknown to the owner, had been sedated and it took 12 hours to get a satisfactory wind test. The first step would be declaring its use.

Again the use of ACP has often become the first resort in training stables.

Surely it should not replace good horsemanship in the form of a feeding regime tailored to the exercise levels and the developing of good riders?

We used acepromazine sparingly when I was training, generally on horses who had had an enforced layup and needed help to get them safely on the walker.

Boisterous horses would have a session under tack on the walker or be lunged before being ridden.

Over-sedated horses are certainly, not safe to canter.

Congratulations must go to Nick Rust, the chief executive of the British Horseracing Authority, for his diligent work in getting round this summer to meet the stakeholders in racing, as well as his initiative with the Betting Forum.

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Night Of Thunder retires to stud a Darley stallion

include Sussex Stakes winner Among Men, Poule d’Essai des Pouliches heroine Always Loyal and Faithful Son, winner of the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes.

Due to fertility issues he moved to Lanwades Stud and stood ten seasons from 1996 to 2005 before being retired at the age of 19. He spent his retirement at Aston Upthorpe Stud.

Kirsten Rausing of Lanwades said: “We had him here for quite a long time, for ten seasons. He covered 60 mares in his first year over here and I think he got most of them in foal. We found him

fairly easy to work with, we never had any serious fertility issues with him.

“We loved him here and he was looked after by Eoin O’Mahony for the ten seasons.”

Rightly he sees how important punters are to racing’s continued good health.

Rust wants to see a five per cent increase in betting and wants to promote racing as the intelligent arm of gambling.

He would also like to see sectional timings published, as well as the declaration of wind operations and the shoeing status of runners, as is already done in North America.

I think young aspiring punters should be taught about how to read form, look at pedigrees and understand going preferences of runners.

There should be instruction on reading race videos. As an aside it is lamentable that the Racing Post will no longer show replay videos on its website as part of its Member’s Club.

I am seriously questioning my continued membership.

Congratulations are in order for Jeff Smith, David Elsworth, Sylvester de Sousa and the team at Littleton Stud for the stunning performance

by Arabian Queen in overturning the Eclipse form in the Juddmonte.

Good luck to Michael Dickinson (see page 66) in resuming his training career at Tapeta Farm and his espousal of the Water Hay Oats Aliance.

Best wishes also to Richard Hughes on his new training career and good luck with his first yearling purchase at Deauville.

The ex-jockey bought a solid, good-walking son of Myboycharlie out of my mare, Lady Oriande.

I shall be closely following his progress as I did a foal share with Redoute’s Choice and will have a yearling filly to sell at Arqana next year.

On the home front the B&B needs me to work on the website, but it is up and running, while the new Red Poll bull Appleton Barratt arrived and is enjoying the company of his harem.

We have bought a small flock of Wiltshire Horn, which shed their wool, to graze the Duke of Burgundy butterfly territory on the side of the downs and maintain suitable habitat.

The pigs have produced some decent sausages and bacon.

The wildflowers and sanfoin on the zinc-contaminated old artillery site seem to have taken and will provide a great nectar source for the bees.

Flora, Andrew and Anna-Lisa Balding’s four-year-old daughter, has taken a keen interest in how the bees make honey and my bee guru, Colin, has a small beesuit to clothe her with so she can learn more.

Night Of Thunder after the 2,000 Guineas Zilzal: spent ten years at Lanwades

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IGHT OF THUNDER, son of Dubawi and last year’s Qipco 2,000 Guineas hero, has been retired to stud by Godolphin and will now take up duties as a Darley stallion.

A dual winner at two, he finished second in the Greenham Stakes (G3) behind Kingman before going on to beat that rival in the 2,000 Guineas and finishing second to him in the St James’s Palace Stakes (G1).

In Night Of Thunder’s final runs at three, he finished third in the Prix du Moulin (G1) and second in the Qipco Queen Elizabeth Stakes (G1), both times behind Charm Spirit.

At four he returned to win the Al Shaqab Lockinge Stakes (G1) before coming home in fifth in the Queen Anne Stakes (G1) then sixth in the Qatar Sussex Stakes (G1) behind Solow on each occasion.

Night Of Thunder was the first horse trained by Richard Hannon for Godolphin, and he made his debut in the famous blue silks in the Lockinge having previously been owned by Saeed Manana.

The second 2,000 Guineas winner for his sire following Makfi, Night Of Thunder was bred by Frank Dunne and was a 32,000gns yearling.

He is out of the Galileo mare Forest Storm, runner-up in the mile Listed Flame Of Tara Stakes as a juvenile. The family stretches back to the champion two-year-old and Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Forest Flower.

Hannon said to the Racing Post: “He was the perfect package. He had that fantastic blend of speed and determination.

“He was sharp enough to win his only two starts as a juvenile yet he had the class and finishing power to beat one of the strongest Guineas fields of the past 20 years.

“Being by Dubawi out of a Galileo mare, he has plenty going for him in his new role as a stallion. He is perfect for the job.”

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Dalakhani and Charm Spirit under relocation plans to France CLASSIC sire Dalakhani and 2015 first-season sire Charm Spirit will relocate to Haras de Bonneval in France next season.

Dalakhani, winner of the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe and the Prix du Jockey-Club, has stood at his

owner-breeder’s Gilltown Stud in Ireland since retiring to stud in 2004.

His best progeny to date include the Australian and French Group 1 winner Reliable Man, the four-time Group 1

winner Conduit, the Sun Chariot (G1) winner Integral and the Irish St Leger winner Duncan.

Charm Spirit, the threetime Group 1-winning miler who recently completed his first covering season at

Tweenhills Stud, will transfer to Normandy as part of an ongoing arrangement with Tweenhills Stud. In return, Makfi who stood at Bonneval this spring will also transfer, though his base for 2016 has yet to be announced.

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

ith thIS YEAR’s problems at Calais we decided to ship our Deauville yearlings to France via Portsmouth and Caen leaving overnight on the Tuesday before the sale.

Both of my Arqana yearlings had arrived Royal Ascot week from the US to be prepared for the sale so they were both used to travelling.

The BHA now has a rule that the keeper of the horses imported to the UK from the US for the purpose of racing needs to be registered with them within 10 days so that the anti-doping team can take hair and blood samples in order to test for any steroid use, which has to be done in 90 days.

Although these two yearlings where destined for sales not racing, I decided that with so much attention on the US-bred yearlings that I would test any US-bred yearling on arrival from the states. I offered the yearlings with the results in the passport.

With so many more direct flights to Deauville from Southend, Birmingham and Bournemouth it is now much easier to get to the sales for a long weekend and although we had many friends who flew to France, we stuck to the Eurotunnel. Our trip was uneventful and we bumped into Duncan Moir, AL Shaqab’s vet, at the station.

With a series of parties and the business of selling my two yearlings and possibly buying one, I hit the road running and spent my first night in the Hotel du Golf, which is a charming hotel overlooking Deauville.

I like to get my night at Le Drakkar restaurant over and done with early in the week as it is such a difficult place to leave at a suitable hour!

Five years ago the Aga Khan put on a tremendous party, which was repeated again on the Thursday night. The farm is a 30-minute drive or organised bus ride away, and the heavens

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opened, but Haras du Bonneville is a beautiful stud in Normandy and the party was beautifully set up around one of the barns.

Walking through the barn, we saw six Group 1-winning mares and their foals, who paid no attention whatsoever to the 300 or so guests.

The food and wine were fantastic and we were treated to the amazing bare-back riding of 12 grey ponies by Lorenzo, which was was astonishing. With still some time before midnight, we helped Andy Smith celebrate his birthday at Chez Hervé, grabbing some dessert and enjoying a second party of the evening.

The following night was the turn of the sales company with their Argentinian Polo-themed party held in the middle of the rain-sodden racecourse. Taxi ferries took us from the town across the damp course.

Our correspondent multi-tasking at Arqana

As ever, the French are exceptional at style and even the BBQ lamb was presented in Michelin.

With another dinner due back in Deauville we left early only to discover we got into the last taxi that didn’t get stuck!

The sight of a tractor and Rice horse trailer driven by the host Eric Hoyeau to ship out the guests was a spectacle to say the least!

We rest the yearlings on their first full day in France and start to show on Thursday morning.

With a Lot 1 it is always hard to gauge how well you might sell, but the Kitten’s Joy, the first of nine I have to sell in Europe this year, was handpicked to sell at Deauville – he is a forward-type and has a slightly European pedigree. He appeared to be liked by many groups and didn’t disappoint selling for €150,000 to John Ferguson.

Arqana was the first sale to offer yearlings by the legendary Frankel and six were offered. They were all different types, many were saying that they were taking after their mothers. None the less they sold well.

My particular favourite was Lot 125 from Ecurie des Monceaux – he is out of the Montjeu mare Piping, and Tony Nerses was the successful buyer.

I am sure you will read about him in the results section of the Racing Post in time.

With the York meeting looming we left to catch the 1.25am train on Monday morning and drove through the night. It meant that we had two days at home before travelling to York where we enjoyed watching a thrilling race for the Juddmonte International.

Prior to the race I walked with my old boss Jeff Smith, who told me that if he beat the pacemaker with Arabian Queen he would get £12,000 prize-money... well he did a fair bit better than that!

He also reported that he had a gut feeling that the three-year-old fillies are better than the colts this year. I guess he was right – well done Jeff!

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Sir Peter O’Sullevan March 3, 1918 – July 29, 2015

Above, Peter O’Sullevan commentating in 1950, below relaunching the Today newspaper outside the Dorchester Hotel in 1986, bottom, collecting his OBE with his wife Patricia in 1977.

Bottom right, early days commentating in 1950, top right, on Epsom Downs in 1955.

Main picture, enjoying the Cheltenham Festival in 2008 Photos: PA

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The feminine touch

Sue Montgomery reviews a York meeting headlined by three brilliant fillies

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t is a rare enough top-class colt who goes through his career without blemish. Frankel was one, Ribot another. But horses such as Brigadier Gerard, Nijinsky, Mill Reef and Dancing Brave in Europe and Secretariat, Citation, Spectacular Bid, Native Dancer and Man O’War in the States were all beaten at least once.

Despite midcareer reverses, all were outstanding champions and remain Turf legends.

Golden Horn is by no means at that level yet, but had looked an above-average Derby winner at Epsom and again when he saw off older horses in the Eclipse Stakes. Going into the Juddmonte International he had only the US Triple

Crown hero American Pharoah rated above him on the world stage.

At York he was 4-9 to take his unbeaten run to six, but now only time will tell whether his neck defeat by 50-1 shot Arabian Queen was merely a blip on the road to greatness or a burst bubble.

The Knavesmire contest was tactical, and Arabian Queen benefited from an excellent ride by the season’s champion jockey elect, Silvestre De Sousa. As Golden Horn’s pacemaker Dick Doughtywylie went clear, De Sousa was able to lob along in what amounted to a soft lead, dictating a steady pace that had the favourite over-revving under Frankie Dettori.

Arabian Queen took the initiative half-way down the straight and though Golden Horn came to win his race inside the final furlong, he had no answer as Jeff Smith’s home-bred daughter of Dubawi rallied so bravely as one typical of her sire.

Perhaps Golden Horn was undone by his own early keenness and rather dead, rain-eased ground, but if he ran below form, then so did third-placed The Grey Gatsby, whom he beat by pretty much the same margin as in the Eclipse.

The filly was the longest-priced winner of a race that has produced shock results in the past, most notably in its inaugural running in 1972.

Golden Horn was the ninth Derby winner to contest the International since its inception as a bridge between the elite middle-distance programmes The Juddmonte International victory was a seventh Group 1 success for Silvestre de Sousa, but a first for him for on a non-Godolphin owned and Saeed Bin Suroor-trained horse

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of mid-summer and autumn, the fourth to have failed, and the first to do so as favourite.

The winners were: Roberto (12-1), Troy (1979, 1-2f), Authorized (2007, 6-4f), Sea The Stars (2009, 1-4f) and Australia (8-13f) last year. The losers have been Dr Devious (4th 1992, 8-1), Benny The Dip (3rd 1997, 9-2) and New Approach (3rd 2008, 2-1).

The eclipse of an unbeaten Derby winner was disappointing for those who came to hail a champion, and goodness knows what any who had bought into the pre-race marketing hype made of it all. In the so-called “clash of the titans” one of the protagonists,

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Arabian Queen is the latest star produced by Smith in 30 years operating at Littleton Stud and the fourth individual Group 1 winner

uk racing Gleneagles, was a no-show because of the soft ground and the other was turned over by an unconsidered outsider.

But Golden Horn’s trainer John Gosden was philosophical in defeat.

“The pacemaker set a steady pace and we should probably have sat behind that,” he said, “and if we could ride the race again we’d probably do it differently. But I wish to take nothing from the winner. She was gutsy, classy, handled the ground and stuck her neck out and made use of every ounce of her 5lb allowance.”

Golden Horn may seek atonement in the

Teofilo’s daughter, the Jim Bolger-trained Pleascach (blue), just gets the better of Covert Love in the Yorkshire Oaks

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York juvenile winners: above, Recorder took the Acomb Stakes (G3) for The Queen, below, Ajaya the Gimcrack Stakes for trainer William Haggas

Irish Champion Stakes in September, when he could yet meet Gleneagles, the season’s top three-year-old miler. Ground allowing, of course.

If the International result was a freak one which tended to put focus on the vanquished as much as the victrix, full credit nonetheless to Arabian Queen’s connections for pitching their filly in against the perceived big guns.

Her starting price was understandable; she had never run against males before and in four previous Group 1 forays her best result had been her third to Legatissimo in the Nassau Stakes, her first run over as far as 1m2f.

But her trainer David Elsworth – who has even more “been there, done that T-shirts” than Gosden – thought the windmill worth the tilt. The way things turned out, he was right, but his somewhat graceless behaviour after the race – refusing the presentation, refusing to talk to the media – was living proof of the old assertion that you can insult a man’s spouse, but woe betide you if you cast aspersions on his horse.

Arabian Queen is the latest star produced

by Smith in 30 years operating at his Littleton Stud and the fourth individual Group 1 winner in his blue and purple colours, her predecessors being Dashing Blade, Lochsong and Lochangel. The Hampshire nursery’s

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uk racing Debutante Stakes (G2) winner Ballydoyle might be the best European-bred juvenile filly seen so far. She is a Galileo sister to the Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Misty For Me and the Listed winner Twirl.

Her dam Butterfly Cove is an unraced sister to 7f Group 3 winner Kamarinskaya and half-sister to Fasliyev

most prolific winner Persian Punch was several times narrowly denied at the top level, most notably when beaten on the nod in an Ascot Gold Cup. The York heroine is a third-generation Littleton product. Smith acquired her third dam Alsiba, a plating-class staying handicapper, for 58,000gns in 1986. The Northfields mare produced seven winners including Dashiba, by Dashing Blade, who picked up two wins and was Listed-placed twice, and in turn became dam of Arabian Queen’s dam Barshiba, the best of her five winners.

Barshiba, by Barathea, had only one eye, but was very smart at her best. She won two Group 2 Lancashire Oaks and picked up two Group 1 fourths, in the Nassau Stakes and Yorkshire Oaks.

Like Arabian Queen she was trained by Elsworth, and, like her daughter, had longpriced tilts at top company. She was unplaced in the Sun Chariot Stakes at 40-1, the Lockinge Stakes at 50-1, the Prix Rothschild

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Dubawi and Galileo are locked in battle at the top of the sires’ list and the king of Coolmore has a real fight on his hands to claim a seventh title at 33-1 and the Champion Stakes at 33-1.

Arabian Queen is Barshiba’s first foal – her second was the Fastnet Rock filly Australian Queen, who is yet to race. This year she delivered another Dubawi filly and is carrying to New Approach.

Her celebrity daughter was a 22nd individual Group or Grade 1 winner in a remarkable year for Dubawi, who this year has also supplied the winners of the Dubai

World Cup (Prince Bishop), Lockinge Stakes (Night Of Thunder), Tattersalls Gold Cup (Al Kazeem), Prix Du Jockey-Club (New Bay) and King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes (Postponed).

Dubawi and Galileo are locked in battle at the top of the sires’ list and the king of Coolmore has a real fight on his hands to claim a seventh title.

Barshiba improved with maturity – she won her second Lancashire Oaks as a sixyear-old – and Arabian Queen is scheduled to stay in training next year with the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe as her target.

Elsworth maintains that she has proven herself the best of the fillies and, whether or not that is true, the division is notably competitive with considerable strength in depth and formlines intertwined from a mile to 1m4f.

After winning the 1,000 Guineas and losing the Oaks and Pretty Polly Stakes by inches, Legatissimo bounced back in Goodwood’s Nassau Stakes (G1).

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The Nunthorpe Stakes (G1): Mecca’s Angel (Dark Angel) came with a late run to deny the enormous US juvenile filly and race favourite Acapulco

Ervedya took the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches (G1) and Coronation Stakes (G1) before giving best to Falmouth Stakes (G1) heroine Amazing Maria in the Prix Rothschild (G1).

Found, second to Pleascach in the Irish Guineas (G1) and Coronation Stakes (G1), took a Group 3 at The Curragh the Sunday after York and the same day Odeliz and Bawina, fourth and third in the Rothschild, finished first and second in the Prix Jean Romanet (G1) at Deauville.

After her Classic triumph Pleascach was beaten by Curvy in the Ribblesdale Stakes (G2) and then finished only fifth behind Diamondsandrubies in the Pretty Polly Stakes (G1), with moral Beverly D Stakes winner Secret Gesture one place in front.

At York she showed herself at her best again. Looking a picture before the Yorkshire Oaks and settling kindly off a steady pace, she

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Galileo’s sole top-level winners this year have been Gleneagles and Arlington Million hero Highland Reel, but he has some ammunition for an autumn offensive ran down Irish Oaks (G1) winner Covert Love in the final strides, with Sea Calisi and Curvy third and fourth in a finish of necks.

Pleascach, who runs in the Godolphin blue, is trained by Jim Bolger, who also had charge of her contrastingly talented sire and dam.

The filly is one of eight individual top-level winners for Kildangan Stud-based Teofilo, the unbeaten champion juvenile of his

generation, out of the Thunder Gulch mare Toirneach, whose sole successes came in her maiden at two and a minor race at Navan at three but who is from the close family of Breeders’ Cup distaff winner Spain.

Galileo’s sole top-level winners this year have been Gleneagles and Arlington Million hero Highland Reel, but he has some ammunition for an autumn offensive, including three late-maturing colts now prominent in the St Leger betting.

Order Of St George won the Irish St Leger Trial (G3) at The Curragh by seven and a half lengths, but Bondi Beach, half-a-length behind Storm The Stars in the Great Voltigeur Stakes (G2) and Fields Of Athenry, fifth against hardened older handicappers in the Ebor, were as eye-catching in defeat.

Thanks to such as New Bay and Erupt (Grand Prix de Paris) Dubawi tops the European leaderboard by daylight.

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Besharah, a daughter of Kodiac, gave her sire back-to-back Lowthers as he was also responsible for the 2014 winner Tiggy Wiggy Galileo emerged from York ahead on the Great Britain and Irish lists and his three winners on the Knavesmire included two juveniles brimful of promise for the rest of the season and beyond – Recorder and Beautiful Morning.

Recorder, bred by The Queen out of Cherry Hinton Stakes winner Memory (Danehill Dancer), stayed on strongly to take the 7f Group 3 Acomb Stakes by daylight, and is now bound for at step up to Group 1 level in the National Stakes at The Curragh.

He was one of five winners at York for trainer William Haggas, who also struck with Storm The Stars – the Derby third and St Leger favourite – and three more juveniles: Tasleet in the valuable DBS Yearling Stakes and Besharah and Ajaya in the two Group 2 features, the Lowther and Gimcrack Stakes.

Beautiful Morning, saddled by Luca Cumani, took the Convivial Maiden over the same distance in equally smooth fashion and is another with a top-level target, the Fillies’ Mile, in her sights.

Beautiful Morningwas bred by Newsells Park Stud and she is the first foal out of George Washington’s sole progeny Date With Destiny. A 650,000gns yearling, she races for Jon Kelly, whose Mizzou (also by Galileo) chased Max Dynamite home in the Lonsdale Cup (G2).

Besharah, so consistent against the best of her generation all season, notched her fourth success in six outings as she accounted for highly regarded but less experienced Lumiere.

Now bound for the for the Cheveley Park Stakes (G1), Besharah, a daughter of Kodiac, gave her sire back-to-back Lowthers as he was also responsible for the 2014 winner Tiggy Wiggy.

But the best filly on display in August may well have been seen at The Curragh where the beautiful Aidan O’Brien-trained Ballydoyle (another by Galileo) confirmed her Classic potential in the Debutante Stakes (G2).

Mecca’s Angel is now rated the second-best by her sire, after July Cup and Diamond Jubilee Stakes winner Lethal Force

It was an emotional first-time Group 1 win for jockey Paul Mulrennan

Among the juvenile colts, Ajaya put his hat in the ring to be judged one of the best young sprinters as he gained compensation for a narrow Prix Robert Papin (G2) defeat

by Gutaifan with a ready success from Ribchester in the Gimcrack Stakes (G2).

His next task is likely to be the Middle Park Stakes (G1) where he will meet Golden Horn’s young stablemate Shalaa, hugely impressive in the Prix Morny (G1) at Deauville. Both Ajaya and Shalaa are by Kodiac’s half-brother Invincible Spirit.

But the two-year-old who captured the imagination at York was undoubtedly Acapulco. The US raider, trained by Wesley Ward for the Coolmore partners, tackled the older sprinters in the Nunthorpe Stakes and so nearly became the first of her age to win since Lyric Fantasy back in 1992. She beat all the tough colts and geldings, and it was only the filly Mecca’s Angel who got by her.

If Arabian Queen’s performance was a metaphorical act of giant-killing, Mecca’s Angel was a more literal interpretation of a good little ‘un prevailing.

Acapulco is simply huge, not just for her age, but by any chronological yardstick, and

her imposing physique as she swaggered round the parade ring drew gasps of admiration.

In the minimum-trip dash down the York straight the daughter of Scat Daddy, the 13-8 favourite, deployed her freakishly precocious speed to put all her rivals to the sword, bar one.

Mecca’s Angel caught her in the final halffurlong to prevail by 2l and to her credit the two-year-old kept going to come home clear of Mattmu, Sole Power and Goldream.

It was a first Group 1 success for Mecca’s Angel, and also for her County Durhambased trainer Michael Dods and rider Paul Mulrennan.

It is unlikely to be the last for the team as the upwardly-mobile daughter of Dark Angel – who cost owner David Metcalfe just 16,000gns as a yearling – revels in easy ground and the Prix de l’Abbaye (G1) is her end-of-season target. Mecca’s Angel is now rated the second-best by her sire, after July Cup and Diamond Jubilee Stakes winner Lethal Force.

There was another one for the smaller operator in the Ebor Handicap, in which 33-1 shot Litigant gave Joe Tuite his biggest payday with an outstanding training performance.

Litigant, a frighteningly fragile seven-yearold gelding by Sinndar, had raced only seven times previously, most recently before his York triumph at Lingfield on Good Friday 2014.

He had joined Tuite’s yard near Lambourn in the spring, with the Ebor his target as soon as he started working soundly and satisfactorily.

And he duly landed Europe’s richest handicap after an absence of 491 days, looking the winner all the way down the straight before Oisin Murphy unleashed him through the final furlong to land the prize and some hefty bets for owner Tony Byrne.

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Donna takes the Diana The Doyen filly successful at Group 1 level for the first time, writes Jocelyn de Moubray

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urope’s last Group 1 race for three-year-old fillies is the Preis der Diana, run over 1m3f at Dusseldorf at the beginning of August. The race dates back to the mid-19th century and it has been run at several different tracks in June and July as well as in August, but for ten years now it has had a successful home at Dusseldorf, a loyal sponsor in Henkel, and has attracted high-class international fields and a big crowd to watch the spectacle.

The best winners in this decade have been Dancing Rain and Night Magic, but fillies as talented as Lady Marian, Secret Gesture, Nymphea, Baila Me and Elle Shadow have

been placed in the race and it well deserves its Group 1 ranking.

This year’s winner Turfdonna was an outsider, but she may well add to the race’s international reputation – she is owned

by Australian Bloodstock and trained by Andreas Wöhler, trainer of the 2014 winner of the Melbourne Cup, and she is likely to be campaigned outside Germany in the future.

The daughter of Doyen was purchased by her Australian owners after making an impressive winning debut in Berlin in April.

Transferred to the Wöhler stable afterwards, she ran well in the two main Diana trials, finishing fifth around 4l behind Nightflower in the Group 2 Diana Trial and then third

2l behind Anna Katharina in a Group 3 in Hamburg, without looking like a future Group 1 winner.

Dusseldorf is a demanding track, particularly for young horses, and the 1m3f course involves racing up and downhill and round several bends before a relatively short and uphill straight. To beat the best at Dusseldorf a horse needs to have tactical speed, particularly if racing from an outside stall.

Turfdonna was drawn wide, but she had the speed to take up a position just behind the leader on the run-up the home straight into the first turn.

On the prevailing firm ground the race was more or less decided in the first couple of

Turfdonna: the daughter of Doyen will be campaigned on the international stage after her first-time Group 1 success in the Preis der Diana

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furlongs as, when they reached the first bend, Turfdonna, Amona and Let’s Dance were close behind the leader Auctorita, and only Nightflower was able to challenge these three in the straight the next time round.

The favourites for the race Desiree Clary, who had been fourth in the Prix de Diane at Chantilly, Nightflower, the Italian Oaks winner Lovelyn and Anna Katharina just didn’t have the speed to take up a prominent position. Once behind they had to jostle for racing room and then had far too much ground to make up.

At the line, the Aussie Rules filly Amona, who had finished in front of Turfdonna in the two trials, was third followed by the Austrian Derby winner Let’s Dance. The final time of 2mins 13.93secs was the second-fastest since the race moved to Dusseldorf.

Turfdonna is by the Sadler’s Wells sire Doyen, now standing at Sunnyhill Stud in Ireland as a jumps’ stallion. Doyen spent three years in Germany where his progeny includes Group 2 winner Wild Chief, also third in this year’s Prix Jacques les Marois (G1).

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Turfdonna is by the Sadler’s Wells sire Doyen, who is now standing at Sunnyhill Stud in Ireland as a jumps’ stallion

and is out of a Big Shuffle mare who is a fullsister to the Group 1 winner Turfrose from a family which has been producing top horses for 30 years or so and includes names such as Tryphosa, Turf Konig and many others.

Nightflower was bred, like the Derby winner Nutan, by Jurgen Imm and the breeder’s two top three-year-olds are out of the half-sisters Neele and Night of Magic.

Nightflower is not suited to racing in France where she has run well without winning and looks likely to win a top race when she gets the chance to run on a galloping track.

The strength of this year’s female German Classic generation was underlined only the day before the Diana when the Siyouni filly Bourree, trained in Cologne by Andreas Lowe, won the Group 3 Prix de Psyche in Deauville beating several of the Prix de Diane principles over 1m2f.

Bourree had been Germany’s champion two-year-old filly and was an unlucky fourth in the German 1,000 Guineas (G2), but appeared to improve on her first start over a longer trip and beat the Diane fifth Santa Amarante comfortably by half a length.

Bourree is out of a Lomitas mare and went through the ring not sold at only €20,000 at the Baden-Baden October Yearling Sale.

euro racing his jockey Filip Minarik looked round to see where his rivals were his mount began to lose his action and they were passed in the final strides by Second Step, who won by three-quarters of a length with Nutan an excellent third. If Ito could learn to settle he would surely be a top-class international horse, but these three are all worthy Group 1 performers.

Wöhler is currently leading the German trainers’ table, winning with more than 30 per cent of his runners and with more wins than his closest rivals Peter Schiergen and Markus Klug, though the latter had two winners of note at the beginning of August.

On Diana day at Dusseldorf Klug’s fouryear-old Mount Nelson filly Weltmacht returned to something like the level of form she had promised at three when beating Nordic Flight in a high-class Listed race. This half-sister to Wild Coco, Wilddrossel and Wild Silva will return to Group races in the future.

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ermany’s other summer Group 1 is the Grosser Preis von Berlin run over 1m4f in mid-August. The race attracted the Deutsches Derby winner Nutan, the leading older horse Ito and, from England, Second Step, a fouryear-old son of Dalakhani, who had beaten Telescope in a Group 2 at Newmarket in May. For most of the race Ito, Gestüt Schlenderhan’s son of Adlerflug, looked sure to win as he set a strong pace and looked to have all his rivals in trouble with 2f to run.

Second Step and Nutan were both driven hard just to stay in touch, but in the end the final 200m proved too much for Ito. Once

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The Deauville meeting opened with two fantastic performances from English challengers in the Group 1 races, while Prince Khalid Abdullah’s two-year-old Antonoe made an exceptional winning debut when Millowitsch beat Degas by threequarters of a length and the pair pulled 6l clear of their rivals.

Millowitsch had won his debut by 4l and is currently the best juvenile in Germany.

Dr Renz’s home-bred colt is a son of Sehrezad, a Group 2-winning miler, out of a half-sister to the Grade 1 performer Gifted Girl. Gestüt Röttgen’s Degas is an Exceed And Excel colt out of the juvenile stakes winner Diatribe.

August: the month of Deauville

The first two weeks of Deauville’s August meeting took place under blue skies and for once there was no talk of the terrible ground – unfortunately a phenomena which did not continue to last.

Instead the meeting opened with two fantastic performances from English challengers in the Group 1 races, while Prince Khalid Abdullah’s two-year-old filly Antonoe made an exceptional winning debut.

Neither David O’Meara nor Charlie Hills had won a Group 1 in France before, but both Amazing Maria and Muhaarar will be hard to beat if they return to France in the future.

The Group 1 Prix Rothschild run over the straight mile for fillies and mares was run at an excellent pace as two other English-trained fillies Amulet and Odeliz set a good pace. The strong favourite Erveyda, the Aga Khan’s three-year-old daughter of Siyouni followed them on the stands’ rail, followed by Sir Robert Ogden’s Amazing Maria in the centre of the track.

When the leaders tired Amazing Maria was still travelling smoothly and the daughter of Mastercraftsman was always dominating Erveyda and won by a comfortable threequarters of a length.

Hamdan Al Maktoum’s Muhaarar had, like Amazing Maria, won a Group 1 at Newmarket’s July meeting and the threeyear-old son of Oasis Dream followed up with a hard fought but excellent win in the Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest over 6f100yds.

It is a long time since a three-year-old colt has dominated the European sprinters and

this son of the Linamix mare Tahrir will be a very popular stallion. He had to work hard to beat the five-year-old mare Esoterique by a half length with Gordon Lord Bryon behind in third, but never looked like being beaten and this was another high-class performance.

Edouard de Rothschild’s Esoterique won the Prix Rothschild last year and looked as good as ever on her first start over less than a mile in the Maurice de Gheest when second.

She went on to prove her well-being and talent gaining a deserved success in the mile Prix Jacques le Marois (G1), a race that has been good to fillies over the years.

By then the ground had turned to very soft after some heavy rain showers, but it was a competitive race. After waiting in behind horses, she challenged a row of runners in the final furlong before going onto win well from the Prix Jean Prat winner Territories.

One of the few left running by Danehill

Dancer, she is out of Dievotchka, a daughter of Dancing Brave, and is closely related to the Group 2 winner Archange D’Or, a son of Danehill.

Deauville’s two-year-old maidens are not quite the attraction they used to be, but few winners in recent years have looked as good as Antonoe in the 7f Prix des Marettes for unraced fillies.

The Pascal Bary-trained filly made the running at an excellent pace and came 6l away from her rivals under Vincent Cheminaud.

The sectionals and final time were outstanding and, all being well, this daughter of First Defence will win Group races.

She is a daughter of an unraced Dynaformer mare, who is herself a granddaughter of the top racemare All At Sea. The colts’ equivalent was won by the Aga Khan’s Vedevani, a Dubawi son of the top racemare Vadawina and a half-brother to Vadamar and Vedouma. The final time was two seconds slower than Antonoe’s, but he quickened well and won comfortably.

Vadawina was purchased for €600,000 at the 2013 Deauville December sale in-foal to Redoute’s Choice and the resulting colt, bred

by Barronstown Stud, sold at the Deauville August Yearling Sale for €950,000 to John Ferguson.

Esoterique: in 14 starts in Group races she has only twice finished outside of the first four

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stallion stats Leading European Flat stallions 2015: (by prize-money earned, to August 21, 2015) Stallion DUBAWI (IRE) GALILEO (IRE) CAPE CROSS (IRE) INVINCIBLE SPIRIT (IRE) DANEHILL DANCER (IRE) SHAMARDAL (USA) OASIS DREAM (GB) DARK ANGEL (IRE) TEOFILO (IRE) DUKE OF MARMALADE (IRE) MASTERCRAFTSMAN (IRE) HALLING (USA) PIVOTAL (GB) AZAMOUR (IRE) HIGH CHAPARRAL (IRE) KODIAC (GB) ACCLAMATION (GB) FASTNET ROCK (AUS) SEA THE STARS (IRE) EXCEED AND EXCEL (AUS) ELUSIVE CITY (USA) DANSILI (GB) DYLAN THOMAS (IRE) ROCK OF GIBRALTAR (IRE) SIYOUNI (FR) SINGSPIEL (IRE) IFFRAAJ (GB) HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR (IRE) FOOTSTEPSINTHESAND (GB) DUTCH ART (GB) AUSSIE RULES (USA) CHAMPS ELYSEES (GB) NAYEF (USA) MEDICEAN (GB) LOPE DE VEGA (IRE) VERGLAS (IRE) MAKFI (GB) NEW APPROACH (IRE) DALAKHANI (IRE) KING’S BEST (USA) ZEBEDEE (GB) LE HAVRE (IRE) RAVEN’S PASS (USA) KHELEYF (USA) KYLLACHY (GB) BAHAMIAN BOUNTY (GB) EXCELLENT ART (GB) LAWMAN (FR) MONSUN (GER) ORATORIO (IRE)

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Winners

Races Won

Places

169 211 160 213 127 196 186 181 157 144 144 126 140 122 144 222 242 95 89 192 154 134 142 169 72 35 171 164 152 130 149 91 106 138 75 125 97 128 85 123 121 96 72 177 145 123 149 150 53 111

79 84 74 87 57 87 74 71 58 40 46 47 58 52 50 79 98 40 41 74 61 49 56 59 25 15 67 63 57 50 58 37 35 45 34 56 35 44 31 37 45 31 28 61 51 39 49 45 30 51

113 108 100 123 86 137 100 104 85 75 65 62 89 79 67 118 123 53 55 110 102 70 84 89 35 22 93 99 89 74 82 52 48 57 47 83 51 64 39 51 57 44 37 86 79 55 71 57 38 79

224 265 228 319 185 295 287 284 245 189 214 156 200 161 191 324 400 117 110 304 245 154 224 266 108 47 281 247 244 159 245 114 167 181 112 213 120 144 104 162 195 105 91 284 218 180 219 191 65 206

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Money Won (£) 5,070,475 3,980,026 2,850,025 2,638,962 2,575,310 2,512,886 2,320,908 1,993,012 1,967,644 1,960,896 1,649,348 1,625,073 1,477,383 1,465,380 1,425,056 1,367,412 1,317,493 1,282,091 1,270,988 1,263,429 1,216,355 1,180,559 1,170,404 1,115,641 1,102,267 1,101,827 1,079,943 1,020,365 999,412 992,227 991,801 938,156 847,178 842,893 839,963 836,057 816,650 812,739 797,282 791,690 773,701 766,058 758,385 756,669 755,508 712,247 692,961 690,142 678,470 667,138

Wnrs to Rnrs %

Av. earnings

46.74 39.81 46.25 40.84 44.88 44.38 39.78 39.22 36.94 27.77 31.94 37.30 41.42 42.62 34.72 35.58 40.49 42.10 46.06 38.54 39.61 36.56 39.43 34.91 34.72 42.85 39.18 38.41 37.50 38.46 38.92 40.65 33.01 32.60 45.33 44.80 36.08 34.37 36.47 30.08 37.19 32.29 38.88 34.46 35.17 31.70 32.88 30.00 56.60 45.94

30,003 18,863 17,813 12,389 20,278 12,821 12,478 11,011 12,533 13,617 11,454 12,897 10,553 12,011 9,896 6,160 5,444 13,496 14,281 6,580 7,898 8,810 8,242 6,601 15,309 31,481 6,315 6,222 6,575 7,633 6,656 10,309 7,992 6,108 11,200 6,688 8,419 6,350 9,380 6,436 6,394 7,980 10,533 4,275 5,210 5,791 4,651 4,601 12,801 6,010

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stallion stats Leading European 2yo sires 2015: (by prize-money earned, to August 20, 2015) Stallion DARK ANGEL (IRE) ZOFFANY (IRE) KODIAC (GB) CANFORD CLIFFS (IRE) INVINCIBLE SPIRIT (IRE) EXCEED AND EXCEL (AUS) ACCLAMATION (GB) WAR FRONT (USA) EQUIANO (FR) SHOWCASING (GB) PACO BOY (IRE) ZEBEDEE (GB) GALILEO (IRE) ROYAL APPLAUSE (GB) COMPTON PLACE (GB) HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR (IRE) DUBAWI (IRE) SHAMARDAL (USA) DREAM AHEAD (USA) RODERIC O’CONNOR (IRE) PASTORAL PURSUITS (GB) RAVEN’S PASS (USA) AIR CHIEF MARSHAL (IRE) ROCK OF GIBRALTAR (IRE)

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Races Won

Places

Money Won (£)

Wnrs to Rnrs %

Av. earnings

51 46 89 47 37 46 56 11 40 47 32 61 20 40 21 37 26 26 29 25 28 23 19 28

23 14 26 21 13 16 23 6 14 15 8 17 8 17 4 7 9 11 12 6 10 6 6 6

31 21 34 27 17 21 24 9 21 20 12 20 10 19 5 8 11 14 15 7 12 7 8 6

59 48 109 45 48 51 66 8 28 40 24 81 18 37 14 27 20 26 30 31 38 23 24 33

555,952 391,484 372,417 343,670 338,662 294,325 259,385 257,255 230,399 201,723 192,988 180,779 180,292 160,173 150,797 135,666 134,292 133,332 129,026 123,937 122,983 111,766 111,338 110,522

45.09 30.43 29.21 44.68 35.13 34.78 41.07 54.54 35.00 31.91 25.00 27.86 40.00 42.50 19.04 18.91 34.61 42.30 41.37 24.00 35.71 26.08 31.57 21.42

10,901 8,511 4,184 7,312 9,153 6,398 4,632 23,387 5,760 4,292 6,031 2,964 9,015 4,004 7,181 3,667 5,165 5,128 4,449 4,957 4,392 4,859 5,860 3,947

Wnrs to Rnrs %

Leading European first-season sires 2015: (by prize-money earned, to August 20, 2015) Stallion ZOFFANY (IRE) CANFORD CLIFFS (IRE) DREAM AHEAD (USA) RODERIC O’CONNOR (IRE) LILBOURNE LAD (IRE) FROZEN POWER (IRE) POET’S VOICE (GB) WOOTTON BASSETT (GB) NEVER ON SUNDAY (FR) DICK TURPIN (IRE) MILANAIS (FR) SEHREZAD (IRE) POUR MOI (IRE) SHAKESPEAREAN (IRE) ELUSIVE PIMPERNEL (USA) LOUP BRETON (IRE) TRAJANO (USA) SOUL CITY (IRE) DREAM EATER (IRE) OUT LOUD (GB) SLICKLY ROYAL (FR) SIDPOUR (IRE)

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Winners

Races Won

Places

Money Won (£)

46 47 29 25 47 35 35 12 8 17 3 1 8 4 8 3 2 3 2 2 1 5

14 21 12 6 10 9 8 4 2 2 1 1 2 2 2 0 0 2 0 1 0 1

21 27 15 7 11 10 12 5 4 3 1 2 2 2 2 0 0 2 0 1 0 1

48 45 30 31 42 27 21 17 11 13 9 0 5 6 7 7 4 2 5 2 2 6

391,484 343,670 129,026 123,937 93,361 88,179 79,049 73,924 48,760 26,515 24,304 24,031 23,135 21,132 17,653 15,581 13,333 11,044 7,945 7,074 6,860 6,256

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30.43 44.68 41.37 24.00 21.27 25.71 22.85 33.33 25.00 11.76 33.33 100.00 25.00 50.00 25.00 0 0 66.66 0 50.00 0 20.00

Av. earnings 8,511 7,312 4,449 4,957 1,986 2,519 2,259 6,160 6,095 1,560 8,101 24,031 2,892 5,283 2,207 5,194 6,666 3,681 3,972 3,537 6,860 1,251

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The next chapter Frankel’s first six yearlings sold at Arqana August Sale.

They averaged €566,667 with a top price of €1,150,000 for the filly out of Platonic. (pictured below)

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us racing It was a successful renewal of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale, with a decent 40 per cent increase in aggregate

Leading sire Tapit in command at Saratoga And John Ferguson spends his way to the top of the buyers’ list

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ff the track, the industry had plenty to smile about following the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale, at which significant increases were recorded across-the-board.

Of the 171 yearlings offered, 145 changed hands for a total of $46,755,000, up 40.4 per cent from 2014. The average rose 10.4 per cent to $322,448, while the median increased 5.3 per cent to $250,000.

Much of the energy at the top end of the market emanated from Tapit, who is on track to be the US’s leading stallion this season repeating his previous table-topping achievements.

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as five of the top eight yearlings. With the $2 million sale-topping colt leading the way, he ended the sale with an average of $885,714 for seven sold.

El Capi Racing, a partnership of six South American owners and managed by Francisco Convit, signed for the $2 million sale-topper after outbidding Justin Zayat and Bob Baffert.

Bred in Ireland by Ben Sangster and sold through Four Star Sales, the colt is a brother to this season’s Lingfield Derby Trial third Christophermarlowe, now in training in Hong Kong, and out of the Grade 3-winning Galileo mare Dress Rehearsal. In turn, she is a halfsister to Listed winner Fairy Of The Night, dam of King George Stakes winner Muthmir.

The other Tapit to reach seven figures was a colt sold by Denali Stud for $1.2 million to the partnership of John Malone’s Bridlewood Farm, Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and Robert La Penta. A half-brother to two winners, he is out of the 2006 Grade 1 Spinaway Stakes heroine Appealing Zophie.

The sale’s leading buyer, John Ferguson, struck for the third member of the million

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Saratoga $2 million sale topper: by Tapit, the colt is out of the Grade 3 winner Dress Rehearsal

Ferguson also walked away with four of the five Bernardini yearlings on offer, including a $550,000 half-brother to Grade 3 winner Sky Kingdom dollar list, going to $1.4 million for a son of the late Darley stallion Street Cry. Co-bred

by Darley with Ann McBrayer’s Keene Ridge Farm and sold by Paramount Sales, the colt is out of the winning A.P. Indy mare Rcuandry, a half-sister to turf mare Honey Ryder. He had been bought back for $285,000 as a foal.

Ferguson also walked away with four of the five Bernardini yearlings on offer, including a $550,000 half-brother to Grade 3 winner Sky Kingdom, as well as a $750,000 colt by Tapit out of Carriage Trade. In all, he signed for 11 yearlings worth $5.425 million – it is the most he has spent at this sale since 2011.

Another major outfit that made a welcome appearance at Saratoga was Al Shaqab Racing, which signed for three lots worth $1.785 million. The outfit’s purchases were

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us racing led by a $700,000 Tapit colt out of Grade 3 winner Savvy Supreme.

There was also investment from The China Horse Club, which signed at $500,000 for a Pioneerof The Nile colt, alongside three other yearlings with Maverick Racing.

While Tapit stole the show among the stallions with yearlings on offer, there is also an early buzz around the first crop of the Grade 1-winning sprinter The Factor. The Lane’s End resident, who was the first son of War Front to go to stud, had six sell for an average of $386,667 off a fee of $15,000.

The sextet were headed by a half-brother to the Group 1-placed Traffic Guard, who will join D Wayne Lukas after selling for $700,000 to Take Charge Brandi’s owner Willis Horton.

The stallion also struck a chord with European buyers, with Blandford Bloodstock and Tommy Stack each signing for members of his progeny.

The second-best price of $1.4 million was given for Lot 168, a Street Cry colt out of a half-sister to Grade 1 Flower Bowl Invitational Stakes winner Honey Ryder

Victorious American Pharoah continues to pull in the crowds

The Triple Crown winner is the best thing to have happened to US racing in decades and he remained dominant in the Haskell Invitational

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hey descended on Monmouth Park in New Jersey in their thousands on August 2 to watch the first Triple Crown hero in 37 years return in the Haskell Invitational, and nor were they disappointed as American Pharoah treated his fans to yet another imperious display.

In front of a track record of 60,983 people, American Pharoah sauntered to a two-anda-quarter length victory over Belmont Stakes third Keen Ice, whose customary late run took him three lengths ahead of the third Upstart.

The bare winning margin does not reflect the extent of his superiority; American Pharoah needed little encouragement to open up by 5l in the stretch before being geared down by Victor Espinoza to win hard held.

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It was a particularly sweet win for his owner, Ahmed Zayat, who bred the Pioneerof The Nile colt out of Littleprincessemma, given that it was staged in his home state of New Jersey. As for Baffert, American Pharoah provided the trainer with a record eighth win in the Haskell and fifth in the past six renewals following Lookin At Lucky (2010), Coil (2011), Paynter (2012) and Bayern (2014).

The burning question now is where American Pharoah will turn up next. Tracks are understandably clamouring to attract the star, whose importance as an ambassador for US racing had been showcased in the days leading up to Haskell through a staged appearance on the front cover of Vogue.

At the time of writing, Baffert was at Saratoga – not nicknamed “The Graveyard of Champions” for nothing – working out a strategy with a view to a crack at the Travers Stakes on August 29.

The Travers is seemingly Zayat’s first preference although also under consideration is the Pacific Classic. One major advantage of that race is that it is staged at Del Mar in California, where American Pharoah has been based since his Haskell romp.

The Haskell proved once again that American Pharoah stands head and shoulders above his own peer group, one which prior to

the Kentucky Derby had been regarded as the strongest for several years.

Following the Haskell, there was a temptation in various quarters to name him as one of the all-time US greats, a label which will certainly be applicable if he sweeps through the rest of his season unbeaten.

But he has yet to race against the older generation, among them the recent Whitney Handicap winner Honor Code.

The Whitney received a major purse injection last year and this year’s running of the race was worth a total of $1.25 million.

In response, the track was rewarded with one of the deepest fields in memory, including the Grade 1 winners Honor Code, Moreno, Lea, Noble Bird, Tonalist, VE Day and Wicked Strong, as well as the hugely promising Liam’s Map. A beautifully bred colt from the final 36-strong crop of A.P. Indy, Honor Code has very much his own style of running, usually flying from far off the pace to snatch victory as he did when denying Tonalist in the Metropolitan Handicap at Belmont Park back in June. Targeted at the Whitney thereafter, the question was whether Honor Code would prove as effective over the race’s distance of a mile and one eighth. In addition, the fouryear-old wasn’t particularly helpful to trainer Shug McGaughey in the run up to the race,

America’s hero after his Haskell victory

refusing to breeze on Saratoga’s Oklahoma track several days beforehand.

In the event, not one of the concerns came to fruition. As Liam’s Map cut out strong early fractions, Honor Code languished way off the pace in last under Javier Castellano, at one point 15l off the leading group.

Liam’s Map appeared to have poached an unassailable lead, but by that time Honor Code was rolling and ran down Liam’s Map to score by a neck. Tonalist stayed on well to run third.

On a memorable day of racing for the A.P. Indy clan, Honor Code’s victory was preceded that afternoon by that of Cavorting in the Grade 1 Test Stakes. Her win continued a good meeting for A.P. Indy’s son Bernardini, for whom she is the 11th Grade 1 winner, following the impressive debut win of Rachel’s Valentina earlier in the week.

As a daughter of Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra, Rachel’s Valentina has already attracted a lot of hype, but the early signs are that the Stonestreet-homebred could be out of the ordinary.

Secret Gesture demotion appealed

While we go to press the appeal is underway by trainer Ralph Beckett regarding the demotion of Secret Gesture from her winning position in the Beverly D Stakes (G1) after stewards decided she had caused interference to the original third-placed Stephanie’s Kitten.

Whatever the result, Secret Gesture has been a model of consistency at the highest level and deserved her first Group or Grade 1 success in keeping with her top-level family of Sagamix, Sagacity, Sageburg and its Groupclass performers Sage Et Jolie and Sagancea.

Conversely, the replacement winner Watsdachances is already clearly the best by her sire, the former Ballyhane Stud and now Haras des Granges-based Diamond Green.

She is his sole winner so far at the highest level and easily the best from her family, whose previous feature horse was the Nell Gwynn (G3) winner Reunion, a half-sister to Watsdachances’ dam, High Finance (Entrepreneur).

Secret Gesture’s victory would have made a doubly good day for Galileo, so popular in the US, after Highland Reel’s runaway win at Arlington in the Secretariat Stakes (G1).

Yet another bred on the Galileo-Danehill cross, his dam Hveger won over a mile and is sister to the Group 1 winner Elvstroem, and a half-sister to the Queen Anne (G1) and dual Australian Grade 1 winner Haradasun.

barouche stud Zibilene, the half-sister to Barathea, was one of the first mares bought by the farm.

She is grazing here with this year’s foal, a colt by Dawn Approach

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AROUCHE STUD has mastered the art of bi-location. In just 15 years since the operation’s first foals were born in Kildare, the farm owned by Barbara and managed by Rory Matthews has developed both a blue-blooded broodmare band and a reputation to match – and across two continents.

Originally Barbara Facchino and her late husband Tony raced horses and enjoyed some success pin-hooking foals and selling them as yearlings from their Isle of Man base. When Tony sadly passed away in 1997, his widow decided to shift focus and concentrate mainly on breeding.

Matthews had joined the operation in 1990 and stayed with it through the transition period. Once the new direction had been decided upon, a premises needed to be found, but it couldn’t be just any patch of land in Ireland.

Two years later the pair discovered what they felt to be the perfect plot in Two Mile House, between Naas and Kilcullen, in Ireland’s throughbred county. It took two years to design and build the yards and paddocks to their specification and in the spring of 2001 the first Barouche foals were on the ground, the first shoots of a sapling.

Matthews explains the roots that Barouche has established: “The vast majority, 90 per cent, of what we do is breeding to sell yearlings, but we also pin-hook foals. If families do well we will keep a filly, but we don’t like too much of the same family on the farm.

“We like to keep as many lines as possible going. We have a two-year-old filly by Dawn Approach in training with Michael Halford at the moment.”

Twenty mares live in the custom-designed 100-acre farm in Kildare and in the yearling yards are 16 youngsters ready to be dispersed to the auction houses at Goffs, just 15 minutes drive away in Kill, and Tattersalls in Newmarket.

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Continental shift Barouche Stud is developing an exciting strategy merging US and European pedigrees.

Aisling Crowe finds out more ahead of the Goffs Orby Sale

Six more mares live in Kentucky and each year Matthews and Facchino thin the crop, moving three mares on and replacing them with younger, better or differently-bred models.

The operation is very much a two-way street with owner and manager working in partnership in order to bring their mission to fruition.

“Our aim is to bring home some of the best American bloodlines and breed them to the best of the European families,” Matthews says.

A yearling filly by Teofilo and her younger sister by Frankel are the living embodiment of the Barouche Stud guiding principle.

Their unraced dam is Caressor, a full-sister to champion US sire Tapit. Gainesway’s record-breaking stallion is surely the zenith of US bloodstock achievement and crossing his genes with the very best to be found in Europe is certainly pitching plans high.

Caressor never raced because of injury and was brought from Kentucky to County Kildare for her career as a broodmare – so far her foals have been regal. The first was a colt by Galileo, who sold for €420,000 at Goffs Orby Sale last year.

Then came the Teofilo filly whom Matthews hopes will emulate her three-parts brother in the Goffs sales ring come October.

Caressor, with her foal by Frankel at foot, is now in-foal to another son of Galileo – the dual Derby winner Australia.

Tapit was just a yearling when Barouche purchased his dam Tap Your Heels at the Keeneland Breeding Stock Sale in November 2002. The daughter of Unbridled had yet to make her mark on the thoroughbred breed, but in the grey son of Pulpit she has created a remarkable legacy.

“I remember when Tapit won the Wood Memorial Stakes, it was like we had hit the jackpot,” smiles Matthew. “Tapit has been very fortunate for us in the sales ring and we have had a lot of success with him.”

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Tap Your Heels is now 19 and is carrying a Super Saver foal. She is the Queen of the six US-based broodmares that Barouche retain and her yearling daughter by Elusive Quality has been earmarked to eventually take her place.

The US mares board with Gerry Dilger at Dromoland Farm in Lexington, whom Matthews describes as “a very good friend since we started”, while in Florida, any Barouche-owned breeze-up horses for sale are handled by another trusted friend in Niall Brennan.

It was from Dromoland that American Jewel’s million dollar colt by Johannesburg went to Keeneland in 2007.

Bought by Coolmore, he was named Sawtooth Mountain and was sent into training with Aidan O’Brien and achieved Listed placings. Last September, Dilger consigned Tapit’s Medaglio D’Oro half-sister for Barouche Stud and she made $400,000.

Dilger will sell six yearlings at Keeneland this month for Barouche Stud. The highlight looks like being a Harlan’s Holiday colt foal out of Group 1 winner Lucifer’s Stone. The daughter of Horse Chestnut has a colt by Bodemeister at foot and was covered this year by Magician, a perfect link-up as the Irish 2,000 Guineas winner and Breeders’ Cup hero was also Barouche Stud-bred.

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Zibilene was one of the first mares we bought for the new farm as part of the original plan to have ten well-bred mares related to stallions His dam Absolutelyfabulous was bred by Barouche Stud out of Lady Windermere, a Lake Coniston mare and another of the farm’s stalwarts.

Barouche’s US-based half-dozen also includes mares in-foal to Noble Mission, the triple Group 1-winning brother of Frankel, and to Pioneerof the nile, the sire of Triple Crown hero American Pharoah.

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ack in Kildare, on my visit to the stud, two mares and their sons were lazily grazing in the late summer sun.

One of those dams is Zibilene, who has reigned supreme over the Barouche broodmares since her purchase as a four-year-old at Tattersalls December Sale in 2001 from the late Gerald Leigh’s

barouche stud Eydon Hall Farm dispersal.

By Rainbow Quest, she is a half-sister to champion miler and sire Barathea and to the 1,000 Guineas winner Gossamer.

She was carrying her first foal when the farm paid 1,500,000gns for her in 2001.

That colt, a son of Machiavellian, sold for 525,000gns as a yearling. He became the black-type performer Mathematician for Godolphin and Zibilene has been the foundation on which Barouche Stud has built its success.

The Irish 2,000 Guineas third Oracle is her most successful foal to race so far, but in the sale rings of Kill and Newmarket, Zibilene has been Queen.

“Zibilene was one of the first mares we bought for the new farm as part of the original plan to have ten well-bred mares related to stallions – she was just that,” said Matthews.

“We had liked her half-brother Barathea, and had sent Nishan to him. She produced a filly foal in 1997 who we retained and called Molomo. She, in turn, is the dam of Rainfall, a Listed winner, who won the Jersey Stakes was placed in the Sun Chariot and Falmouth Stakes, as well as Complicit, who is rated BHA-rated 109 and in training with Paul Cole.”

Zibilene is also the grand-dam of the Group 2 Champagne Stakes winner Saamid,

The Frankel filly out of Caressor: her yearling half-sister by Teofilo sells at the Orby Sale

Barouche Stud Yearling drafts 2015 Goffs Orby Sale 33 b., c.

80 b., f.

284 gr., f.

333 b., c.

377 b., c.

469 gr., f.

Power-Amber Nectar Teofilo-Caressor Dark Angel-Mia Madonna Poet’s Voice-Pearl Diva Lawman-Rochitta Mastercraftsman-Toppled

Goffs Sportsman Sale 550 b., f.

Holy Roman Emperor-Daraliya Tattersalls Book 1 51 gr., c.

Mastercraftsman-American Jewel 175 b., f.

Sea The Stars-Edaraat 383 ch.,c.

Lope De Vega-Pietra Dura 444 b., f.

Cape Blanco-Shermeen Tattersalls Book 2 566 b., c.

Henrythenavigator-Albarouche 819 b., f.

Dark Angel-Fairy Flight 1004 b., f.

Born To Sea-Lightwood Lady 1059 b., c.

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barouche stud a Street Cry colt out of her Galileo daughter Aryaamm. His Cape Cross sister Talmada is in training with Roger Varian and was second to Irish Oaks winner Covert Love in a Listed race at Newcastle earlier this season. Zibilene’s influence is spanning the generations.

Tapit’s six-year-old sister Caressor, despite sharing those snowy Unbridled genes with her older brother, has not inherited his colour. The bay mare sports a white patch on her back, but Caressor’s inquiring mind and friendly nature seems to be handed down to her daughters.

Her Frankel filly has the presence with which all of that stallion’s progeny appear endowed, allied with her mother’s inquisitive and open personality. Both are first to greet human visitors, standing quietly to be stroked and following their guests interestedly around the field they share with two other mares and foals.

The Teofilo filly, just two weeks in from the field, is relaxing in her box, listening to the radio which Matthews provides for his horses, the chatter and music foreshadowing the experience of the sales ring. She, too, has presence and confirmation and the open disposition of her mother and sister. She is a stunning filly, even at this point in her young life, and is the star of the Barouche yearlings destined for Goffs’ Orby Sale. Matthews says it is no accident that this regal filly will be sold in Kildare.

“We feel very confident in selling our best

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We feel very confident in selling our best horses at Goffs as it is truly an international market and the buyers there now make it the equal of any sale in Europe horses at Goffs as it is truly an international market and the buyers there now make it the equal of any sale in Europe,” explains Matthews.

“Over the last three years,” he continues, “Goffs has increased the number of first-time lookers year on year and this gives us as vendors great confidence in bringing our top yearlings to the Orby Sale.

“With our American influence broodmarewise, and the dollar almost on a par with the euro, allied to the great work Goffs has done in recent years attracting international buyers, it provides great confidence for us to bring these top-class yearlings to that marketplace.”

The Teofilo filly will be joined by five more yearlings, including the first produce of Toppled, who is out of a half-sister to

the dam of July’s Group 1 King George winner Postponed. Matthews says: “Her Mastercraftsman filly is a very nice yearling indeed.”

Toppled was bred by Barouche Stud out of Pietra Dura, a winning daughter of Lowther and Moyglare Stakes winner Bianca Nera and so is a half-sister to Ever Rigg, the dam of Postponed.

The third filly is a daughter of Dark Angel, while there are three gorgeous colts by exciting young sires – Lawman, Power and Poets Voice – to complete the Goffs draft, but it is the fusion of European and American DNA that is certain to electrify the Kill sales complex.

“The American influence is on an upward curve in Europe and our plan is to bring the best bloodlines and cross them,” reiterates Matthews. “The plan is very much in its infancy and this is only our third year trying to match the bloodlines. We have yet to have any runners, but stock-wise we are very pleased. The next two or three years will tell us a lot,” he says, before adding: “Our ultimate aim is to breed a Group 1 winner using the best bloodlines we can.”

Galileo, Sadler’s Wells and Danehill – the best that Europe has seen – combine with Tapit, Unbridled and A.P. Indy – America’s supreme stallions – in the DNA of Caressor’s fillies.

The best of both worlds and in two places at once, Barouche Stud’s mission breathed into life.

It took two years for Matthews and Facchino to find the farm, and a further two to develop it to their specification

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History shaping the future Ballylinch Stud is a farm with a rich bloodstock heritage and a new owner at the helm. Donn McClean meets managing director John O’Connor

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ohn O’Connor takes a sip of water and turns on the television.

A horse is about to run in a Listed race at Clairefontaine, Indigo King, a Danehill Dancer colt bred at Ballylinch Stud racing in Ballylinch Stud’s silks.

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television connection goes down, or that Racing UK doesn’t show the race, because as soon as it is over trainer Nicolas Clement is on the phone giving a blow-by-blow account. O’Connor could have been watching the replay in slow motion. Indigo King finished fourth, beaten a short neck for third.

O’Connor is happy enough with that. He’s a

promising colt.

“We like to have horses in training in France,” says O’Connor. “We have good relationships with good people there, and some horses are just suited to the French way of racing.”

Interestingly, 10 minutes after the French race, Turning The Table, a filly that O’Connor

ballylinch stud racecourse debut and, in training with David Simcock, she could be useful.

Five minutes later, one of Ireland’s leading NH trainers is on the phone, enquiring about the colt that finished fourth in France. On the ball, it is easy to see why he is one of Ireland’s leading National Hunt trainers.

A busy afternoon.

An entertwined history

bred himself and who is out of a half-sister to the O’Connor-bred stalwart I’m Supposin, is running at Chepstow. She wins too.

Okay, so it isn’t a Listed race, it’s a fillies’ maiden, but it is still important. That was her Top, Ballylinch is a beautiful stud farm in County Kilkenny, right, John O’Connor with top sire Lawman

O’Connor and Ballylinch Stud go way back.

He was a teenager when he first visited the farm, travelling there with his father who was bringing a friend’s mare to visit a Ballylinch stallion. The teenager could never have imagined that his and Ballylinch’s future would become inextricably linked.

At the time, O’Connor was besotted with Nijinsky. There was nothing better than Nijinsky. So when Sassafras beat Vincent O’Brien’s horse in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe in 1970, the youngster’s world was rocked. Sassafras was standing at Ballylinch at the time, so O’Connor was intrigued to see him.

“He was a good-looking horse, and I was delighted to be able to see him in the flesh. He was actually in The Tetrarch’s box,” he remembers.

O’Connor spent his childhood doing what most kids with a family involvement with horses and racing and breeding do: show jumping, Pony Club, the lot. All he wanted to do was horses. So when it came to applying for college, he applied for veterinarian studies in UCD. That was the only course he put on his application form.

“I don’t know what I would have done if I hadn’t got the points for it,” he laughs. “I probably would have taken out an amateur licence or something. I would have done something with horses anyway. I’d say I only got in by the skin of my teeth. And all I wanted to study was horses. I would have been

“

We like to have horses in training in France. We have good relationships with good people there, and some horses are just suited to the French way of racing in serious trouble if I had been asked about something exotic like a fish!”

Sean Doyle had a massive influence on the young O’Connor. He was like a mentor to him as a student at UCD and, during his final year, he invited young O’Connor down to him at Baroda Stud to see the practice with Kevin Doyle.

“Kevin was shuttling from the southernhemisphere at the time,” recalls O’Connor.

“He is an excellent vet, an outstanding reproductive vet, and when I qualified he asked me to go down to work with him at New Haven Park in Australia.

“He didn’t really need an assistant at the time, but it was excellent experience for me, he taught me a lot. His friend Phil Redman at Turanga Stud needed a vet shortly afterwards, so I ended up

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ballylinch stud going up there. So, I was just a few months qualified, and I was dropped into the middle of a farm with 300 mares and five stallions. It was tough, but I loved it. I was far from home, but it was a great place to learn. It opened my eyes to how horses can be raised very well out in the open, quite different to how we do it here.”

O’Connor was one of the original shuttle vets. When the breeding season ended in Australia, Sean Doyle organised that O’Connor did a season in Normandy. Then he went back to Australia and then back to Europe, where he started as the vet at Baroda Stud. He was action-learning and it was intense, four seasons in two years.

“Baroda was a busy place at the time, they had four or five stallions, but it was great. I was there for five years, and they were five great years.”

Everything changed one tragic December day, just after the December sales. Sean had bought a new horse, and he asked O’Connor if he would go out riding with him. O’Connor just had a couple of things to finish off first, so Sean went out riding without him. Tragically, Sean’s horse slipped up on the road and Sean was fatally injured.

“That was obviously an enormous shock.

Sean was such a dynamic individual, a leader, he did so much for me, and he was so integral to everything at Baroda,” recounts O’Connor.

“He was irreplaceable. Sean’s executors asked me to take on the management of the stud for a little while, and I helped Sean’s partner Susan for the next couple of years, until the executors wanted to sell. So Baroda was sold and, after a short period of consultancy, I moved on to Ballylinch.”

Of course, Ballylinch had been going for a little while before O’Connor joined. It was founded in 1914 by Major Dermot McCalmont as a home for his stallion The Tetrarch, who was unbeaten in seven runs as a two-year-old and who became a top-class stallion.

Dr Tim Mahony bought the farm from the McCalmont family in 1987, and O’Connor joined in 1988, as manager and resident vet.

“There were just four mares here at the time, and a handful of fillies in training. The veterinarian work was relatively limited, so I had plenty of time for management!”

One of the fillies-in-training was The Caretaker, who won the inaugural running of the Cartier Million in 1989. The intention was always to build up the broodmare band, but also to stand a select number of stallions. The tradition was there, the history was there, the

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Bob Back’s progeny had that quality that I love in horses, that toughness, that will to win.

That’s why he did so well in the NH sphere as well

Ballylinch was founded in 1914 by Major Dermot McCalmont. It has subsequently changed ownership only twice: Dr Tim Mahony bought it in 1987 and new incumbent John Malone purchased the farm just last autumn

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It isn’t easy to get the right stallion, but they are there, and we are always on the lookout facilities were there.

The first stallion that they stood in O’Connor’s time was Bob Back, who came with him from Baroda. Bob Back had stood one season at Baroda and, in his first season there, O’Connor sent a filly Quality Of Life to him and sold her in foal. She produced a colt foal who looked just like Bob Back and, named Bob’s Return, he won the St Leger.

“That was about as close as I have ever got to breeding a Classic winner! But it was great, it got Bob Back off to a great start. He did very well for us, he got us established. Bob Back’s progeny had that quality that I love in horses, that toughness, that will to win. That’s why he did so well in the NH sphere as well.”

Bob Back got a Classic winner on the Flat, and a Cheltenham Gold Cup winner in Bobs Worth, and that dual-type stallion has been a mainstay of Ballylinch in recent years. The wonderful King’s Theatre, a great getter of racehorses and sale store horses, followed Bob Back, and now Beat Hollow is a similar type.

Four other stallions now stand at Ballylinch

as well as Beat Hollow. Intense Focus was second in the first-season sires’ list two years ago, Lope De Vega was champion first-season sire last year, and Dream Ahead lies third in the first-season sires’ list this year. Add the top class stallion Lawman to the list, and it is a compelling roster.

“It isn’t easy to get the right stallion,” says O’Connor. “But they are there, and we

are always on the lookout.”

These are exciting times for Ballylinch. The farm had a fantastic sale at Arqana, and there are some very nice yearlings now coming up at the other yearling sales.

Also, the purchase of the farm by John Malone at the end of last year, combined with the fact that he also bought Castlemartin Stud, could present further opportunities for the stud to expand.

“It won’t be a surprise to anybody to learn that John Malone is a very clever man.

There hasn’t been much change at all at an operational level since he bought the farm.

Like everyone, I was sad by the fact that Castlemartin had to be sold, but John Malone has great vision, and he seems to appreciate the history of this place and of Castlemartin.

There are synergies there, there is great potential,” says O’Connor with a glint in his eye.

John Malone told the Irish Times last February that you never really own the land.

“You are a kind of steward of it,” he said, “so you really want to be a good steward.”

Looks as though Ballylinch Stud is in safe hands.

Two from the current stallion roster: top, first-season sire Dream Ahead, and, left, last year’s leading first-season sire Lope De Vega.

His leading performers this year are the Group 1-placed duo of Consort and Endless Drama

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

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

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

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

Needless to say, this has not happened before.

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

Fifty years after his death, that famous breeder Winston Churchill’s words come to mind - that a pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity while an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

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Jocelyn de Moubray chats to Hugo Palmer, trainer of the Irish Oaks winner Covert Love, and Hugo Merry, breeder of the Azamour filly

Main picture, Covert Love wins the Irish Oaks giving trainer Hugo Palmer (right) a first Classic victory

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n racing and breeding the very unlikely happens surprisingly often.

Breeders, gamblers, trainers and owners are all regularly sustained in their endeavours by this possibility.

Just hoping for the best outcome may not be the soundest business plan, but nevertheless, somebody is proved right at the highest level on a regular basis. The owners of the Irish Oaks winner Covert Love are as aware of this as anybody – after all, it happened to them.

The Azamour filly who nobody, or almost nobody, wanted at the sales has, in less than two years, been transformed into a Classic winner worth millions. But most of the filly’s seven partners were aware that this could happen, which is why they called themselves the “FOMO Syndicate”, short for “Fear Of Missing Out”.

“We called a lot of people after we bought her back at the sales in Ireland,” remembers breeder, syndicate manager Hugo Merry.

“The two selling points were that, one, Hugo Palmer wanted to train her and then, second, imagine how cross you would be if she turned out to be very good and you had said no?!

“Many of them did, and they won’t be feeling too clever now!”

Palmer’s rise through the ranks of trainers is the other unlikely aspect of the Covert Love story. It is very difficult indeed for a new trainer to make a real mark. It does happen, but for those who are not taking over an existing yard the prospect of having a first Classic winner within five years and a stable full of young, selected horses must shimmer in the distance, a most unlikely if alluring mirage.

The 35-year-old started training in Newmarket only five years ago, and in his first season he managed to win seven races with the 11 horses in his care. In 2012, he repeated the achievement with another seven wins, including his first stakes race in Vichy with Making Eyes, a Dansili filly who had not sold when offered as a two-year-old.

“I had seven winners in my second season,” he points out, “and not just the six which show up on the Racing Post site as that doesn’t include the Listed in France.”

Five years on and the trainers’ table has a very different look to it. Sir Henry Cecil and Richard Hannon Senior are, of course, no longer there and although John Gosden remains in first place, a new generation of trainers have made their mark, and few have risen quite as fast as Palmer.

Over the last 12 months he has won Group

races with Aktabantay, New Providence, Home Of The Brave and Galileo Gold, as well as the Group 1 with Covert Love.

He started the 2015 season with 48 two-year-olds, and it is more than likely that he will start next season with significantly more.

“We have,” he says, “been very lucky to have had success with some we bought cheaply – Galileo Gold was a €33,000 purchase at the Tattersalls Ireland Sale, and there are others who were not sold – Covert Love and New Providence. We are at around the mid-60s in numbers now and, yes, I hope to have a few more next season.”

It was in the autumn of 2011 that Palmer first set eyes upon Covert Love at the Goffs Orby Sale.

“I loved her,” he remembers, “but I felt I just couldn’t afford to buy her on spec. I was a new trainer, she is by Azamour out of a non-winning Hawk Wing mare who at the time had not produced a winner.

“I might have had a chance of selling on a racy half-brother to a two-year-old winner with a good rating, but a filly like her?

“An established trainer could probably find a client who trusted their judgement, but I watched her go through the ring and as soon as I realised she hadn’t been sold I went to the breeders and asked them if I could train her.”

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She will always be a Classic winner and the last Irish Classicwinning fillies to go through a ring were Chicquita and Just The Judge, who made six million and four million!

Bloodstock were happy that somebody liked their filly and set about finding partners to keep her in training with Palmer.

However, Covert Love was still an Azamour filly out of an unraced Hawk Wing mare, and even if her half-sister Stealth Missile had won a couple of races for Clive Britain, there was no reason why she was going to precocious.

“She started working in September last year,” remembers Palmer, “and she had an eye-catching way of going, even if she was still too weak to see her gallops out.

“She ran very well to be fifth on her debut at Lingfield from the outside draw.”

Some promise, but still no miracle on the horizon and her dam Wing Stealth was offered for sale at the Arqana December Sale in-foal to Style Vendome. There were no takers for her in the ring either, and she was bought back at €19,000 and stayed in France to foal a filly and be covered by Rio de la Plata.

Covert Love had a winter break at the National Stud in Newmarket and when she returned to the stable she began to please everyone.

“She was working well and everybody liked her and so I was not surprised,” Palmer continues, “when she won on her seasonal

debut at Chelmsford in May.” She won an ordinary maiden, beating horses who are still maidens four months later, but her trainer mentioned to the press afterwards about finding some stakes race options for her.

She made her next start in a handicap at York three weeks later off a mark of 83, and won comfortably.

“Once she had bolted up at York I knew we had to go for stakes races, even if she was still very well handicapped,” explans Palmer.

“The plan we decided upon was to enter her in the Ribblesdale Stakes at Royal Ascot and in the Goffs Royal Ascot Sale. Luckily for everyone she had a temperature and so couldn’t run at Ascot and we didn’t want to take her to the sale without an entry.

“If she had gone to the sale we would probably have sold her for £300,000, which would have been a steal if you look at what she has done since.’

Instead she went for a Listed race at Newcastle and beat older fillies and mares over 1m2f.

“Hugo pushed us to supplement her for the Irish Oaks,” says Merry, “just as he then pushed us to supplement for the Yorkshire Oaks, too.

“For all of us it is a dream come true and although we are not planning

on breeding from her, for now, the plan is to keep her in training at four and offer her for sale at the end of next year.

“She will always be a Classic winner and the last Irish Classic-winning fillies to go through a ring were Chicquita and Just The Judge, who made six million and four million!”

Palmer had always planned to be a trainer and before setting up in Newmarket in 2011 he had worked with Gai Waterhouse in Australia and spent three seasons with Hughie Morrison.

“If I was going to do it I wanted to do it properly,” he says, “and I looked at a lot of yards before speaking to John Warren for whom I had worked at Highclere Stud and he advised me to be in Newmarket.”

The plan for his own career and that for Covert Love have been remarkably successful so far, even if he was clearly disappointed to see his filly passed by Pleascach in the shadow of the post at York.

“I am pleased and gutted in equal measures!” he laughs. “I walked the course carefully beforehand and the ground was sticky in the final furlong, far more so than on the remainder of the track.

“It didn’t help that she had to make her own running, but I think it was the ground in the final furlong which just stopped her, and there were several other leaders caught in the final furlong that day.

“We can’t rerun the race, but I don’t think the winner will beat us again.”

He is leaning towards giving her one more run at three, but even before supplementing her for York he was considering races for her four-year-old career.

“I think she will be better as a four-year-old.

We may have to start in a race like the Pretty Polly, but there are plenty of other suitable races later in the year.

“She will have another break at the National Stud and then we will see where we are.”

If the recent past is a good guide, both Covert Love and Hugo Palmer will be going forward towards the goals they have set themselves.

Just denied: Pleascach narrowly beats Covert Love in the Yorkshire Oaks. Palmer feels certain that the Jim Bolger-trained daughter of Teofilo won’t get the better of his Azamour filly again!

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Ireland Inc.

Chief executive of Irish Thoroughbred Marketing Charles O’Neill talks to Lissa Oliver about marketing plans for the future

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hen meeting with Charles O’Neill in the bright airy offices of Irish Thoroughbred Marketing (ITM), within the Horse Racing Ireland building at Ballymany beside The Curragh, it was something of an anniversary – O’Neill had joined ITM nine months ago to the week.

If anything, O’Neill’s enthusiasm for the role has grown in that time – if only half of that passion rubs off on those he meets through his role marketing the Irish thoroughbred, his job of convincing them to invest in Irish bloodstock will be an easy one.

O’Neill has always had strong links with the thoroughbred industry coming from a family closely involved with hunting and point-topoints and he rode successfully as an amateur in point-to-points in his younger days.

Not surprisingly, agri-science beckoned at university, but showing unusual initiative and a keen eye for achieving goals, he took what appears an unorthodox route on leaving college.

“I always wanted to work within the thoroughbred industry, so I took a job in banking,” he explains wryly. “It might not seem it, going into finance, but I was actually working with people in the industry. I had always intended to move on, but 20 years later I was still there , until the chance came to follow my dream.”

That dream is in “selling the dream” and ITM is certainly reaching out to get as many new people involved in Irish bloodstock as possible.

“My previous background has been a

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Charles O’Neill: has been in the ITM job for nine months and feels that he now has the right structure in place from which to move forwards

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I look purely from an Ireland Inc. aspect – our role is to promote Ireland Inc. and promote every aspect of the bloodstock industry brilliant grounding,” O’Neill says. “I look purely from an Ireland Inc. aspect – our role is to promote Ireland Inc. and promote every aspect of the bloodstock industry, from property investment, to horses-in-training, to export of Irish-bred horses. It’s very much the equivalent of the IDA [Ireland’s Industrial Development Agency].”

Those attending the world’s major sales and race meetings will be familiar with the ITM team, who conduct so much business in person.

But the digital age now adds a whole new dimension and wider reach.

“Throughout the year we promote the success of the Irish thoroughbred through the press and social media, such as Twitter and Facebook. The beauty is, success is everywhere and Irish thoroughbreds have been exported to, and been successful in, 33 different countries,” explains O’Neill.

“I came from a background of agri-science and an understanding of farming and economics. This is a business and, like any business, we need to deliver results. From my financial background, throughout my career, that has always been the case, so it’s something I’m used to,” he says.

“Working with the bank, I spent a lot of time on the road and meeting people and selling the product. So this role is very much the same. The majority of people I’m meeting now are business people so I understand their needs, and they often work in other areas outside the thoroughbred industry and have made their money in other sectors.”

Mind you, a financial background isn’t necessary to recognise one of the current

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We’re upping our game in America and the Americans have a great affinity with Ireland – probably all the managers in America are Irish and they all want to help us biggest selling points for investment in Ireland.

“The big positive this year is the exchange rate and the weakness of the euro,” O’Neill says. “It’s an easy sell, especially in the US. The euro is 30 per cent weaker than this time last year, which, to put it in perspective, means that €100,000 spent last year will now get you a €130,000 yearling this year for the same amount of dollars.”

So, the targets are in place, a clear sight exists of what’s required and a few new ideas have blossomed along the way. Is the settling in period now over?

“It has taken nine months and now we have a real structure in place within the team,” O’Neill agrees. Many of that team are also fairly newly recruited, but bring with them vast experience and knowledge. The overall feeling coming into the office is one of freshness and vitality.

Introducing the team, O’Neill explains: “Katie Rudd recently joined us from

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Glanbia and is mainly responsible for the European market, while Eimear Chance also joined at the beginning of the year and previously worked with Great British Racing International. She works with the British market, with assistance from the whole team – 80 per cent of our market is to Britain.

Eimear is also involved with the market in India.

“In charge of Asia and Australia is Jeremy Green, who joined us recently after many years with the Hong Kong Jockey Club, so he has a thorough knowledge of racing in those jurisdictions. Amy Lynam is in charge of statistics and market analysis and tracking Irish successes around the world, as well as analysing sales results.

“Aidan McGarry’s role is to promote ownership and he faces a big challenge. We are promoting ownership and involvement heavily, and constantly looking to improve the racing experience for owners. The racecourses are working really hard with us, and we’re

building from that. The whole thing is to get people involved and there really is nothing better than having a winner. It’s so important that every owner, syndicate member and their family is looked after and made to feel like a ‘King For The Day’.”

A good team is of little use if no one knows about it, but as well as a physical presence throughout the world, ITM has a strong digital presence.

“Sarah Gavin is our marketing manager and is responsible for all of our advertising and digital media, and she also assists with the North American and British market,” O’Neill explains, which leads him to the subject of a somewhat overlooked market.

“The North American market was one that I felt hadn’t been given enough priority and US owners are now starting to put horses in training in Ireland. Not only are they encouraged to buy horses at Irish sales and to base broodmares on Irish stud farms, but it’s good to see they are leaving horses here and putting them in training with Irish trainers.

“It’s good practise to have two-year-old winners in Ireland and then send them out to the US when they’re older. It already works well with the Singapore and Hong Kong markets.

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But we have the product and it’s an industry in which Ireland is the world leader and our job is to make sure the world knows about it and Calumet Farm is doing this successfully.

We’re upping our game in America and the Americans have a great affinity with Ireland – probably all the managers in America are Irish and they all want to help us.”

And having already discussed the ubiquitous presence of ITM, York Ebor week is an appropriate time to hear about the one of the year’s largest ITM ‘adverts’.

“Our sponsorship of the ITM Gimcrack Stakes at York is our biggest focus and all of the team will be over there on the day,” says O’Neill. “It’s hugely important to get the ITM brand out there and to be associated with such an important race.”

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’NEILL a knack of making everything sound exciting, yet achievable, but exactly how are those achievements measured?

“Between us we draw up a list of targets and look at how we’ve met that. The team has a wish list and we discuss how we’re going to achieve those aims. It’s all about presenting what the industry has to offer. And it’s not only about buying Irish bloodstock, we are encouraging sponsorship and have already gained our first race sponsorship from Qatar.”

Perhaps the biggest gauge of successful marketing was shown last year at Irish Champions Weekend, the second renewal being just three weeks after our meeting.

“Irish Champions Weekend is the most important weekend in Irish racing,” O’Neill enthuses. “It all starts with the select horsesin-training sale by Goffs at Leopardstown before racing and there’s a gala dinner Saturday night after racing.

“The Thoroughbred Trail is held on Sunday morning, in and around The Curragh, and was hugely popular last year, with 250 visitors. This year it’s much bigger, with 400 places available and a bigger uptake from trainers and breeders.

“We’re getting more people involved, with things such as a demonstration from master saddlers Berney Brothers, and there will be

breakfast served before departure.

“For foreign visitors who have the morning to fill before racing starts that afternoon, it’s an ideal chance to see behind the scenes. It’s a great way to showcase the Irish thoroughbred industry and to build on the success of the inaugural Irish Champions Weekend.”

What he’s describing is not just two days of racing, but a “carnival” in the mould of the social whirlwind of the Melbourne Spring Festival. Uniquely to European racing, Irish Champions Weekend is a complete package, filling the day and taking people behind the scenes, up close and personal with the human and equine stars of racing.

“Our role is to involve people and spark their interest and the stallion trail, in February, is another successful example. Irish people loved it and it really opened up the industry, local people got to see inside farms they passed by daily.

“Making people feel welcome and making the industry accessible is something we naturally do very well,” he adds. “We’re an island nation so we have to make sure visitors enjoy their stay. ITM plays its part by helping with hotel bookings and places to visit and entertainment during their stay.”

A salesman’s job is always made easy if there is a great product to sell, but there are plenty of other great thoroughbred industries

out there and O’Neill and his team know that effort is required. There is no resting on laurels.

“The biggest challenge the ITM team faces is a very competitive market on the world stage, and we have to be seen to be out there, competing against the wealthier nations to attract owners and investors,” insists O’Neill.

“Outside of Europe, in the US, Australia and Middle East, uniting to promote Destination Europe makes sense and the aim is to get people to come to Europe and to think European pedigrees.

“It’s the perfect trip – head to the Goffs Orby Sale on to the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe weekend and then to Tattersalls in the UK. We work closely together because everyone is in this industry because they love it and want to see it succeed.”

But, ultimately, we come back to the Ireland Inc. brand and the desire to promote it to the world, which doesn’t just face challenges from the within the bloodstock world.

“The thoroughbred industry is so linked to the well-being of the economy,” O’Neill points out. “The economy is settled at the moment, but it’s always a constant worry and it’s not just the Irish economy – the financial state of the world stage directly affects the bloodstock industry.

“But we have the product and it’s an industry in which Ireland is the world leader and our job is to make sure the world knows about it. We make sure they come here and are looked after. We have the quality, the product and the knowledge.”

An ideal summary upon which to conclude, but O’Neill adds, quite perfectly: “And the passion.”

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Aherne (left) representing Coolmore at Tipperary after the Listed Excelebration Tipperary Stakes won by Promised Money

The Next Generation: Gerry Aherne, who works in the nominations team at Coolmore, tells Louise Ruffell about his bloodstock background, working for the multi-national stallion farm and admits that the son of Tagula is a special one

“I’ve always had a soft spot for Canford Cliffs”

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Camelot: saw 68 black-type performers in his first year at stud and those foals were born this year

Do you have any specific qualifications – and what do you think helps when starting a career in this industry I have a diploma in Business and Marketing, but having been around horses all my life is probably of greater importance.

Canford Cliffs: a good start

Australia: the good-moving, Derby-winning son of Galileo stood his first season at a fee of €50,000

How did you start – do you have a family background in racing / bloodstock?

Our farm at home is located right next to Coolmore and my father always bred some National Hunt stock and trained a few for pointto-points.

How did you get to work for Coolmore and how long have you been there? Was a job such as this always a goal growing up?

During college I worked weekends at one of the Coolmore foaling units and was offered

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gerry aherne over everyone sits down to discuss them, but in truth the market sets the fees.

Yeats and Milan are paving the way in the NH field...

Yes, Milan is very well established and the start made

by Yeats with his first four-yearolds has been nothing short of phenomenal.

With the likes of Fame And Glory, Leading Light and Ocovango also on the roster, National Hunt breeders have never before had access to such quality.

Requinto: winner of the Flying Childers Stakes. The first yearling sold by the son of Dansili made €320,000

a job in the registration department on finishing.

What’s the long-term aim?

To continue to be part of the team here and to assist my clients to achieve their goals as best I can.

What advice would you give to a young person trying to develop a career in bloodstock /racing?

Try and get experience with the best people, work hard and enjoy.

There are some wise owls at Coolmore to learn from…

I’ve been lucky enough to look at plenty of stock with Demi O’Byrne, Paul Shanahan and Harry King – all great judges.

You must get a great sense of history of thoroughbred breeding working at Coolmore, a place where such brilliant stallions have stood?

It’s great to have been here during the stud careers of such legends as Sadler’s Wells, Danehill and Galileo and with the likes of

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Camelot, Australia and Gleneagles in the pipeline, hopefully one or two might follow suit.

It has been a good year for the farm’s developing stallions…

The first-season sires have done particularly well with Zoffany and Canford Cliffs leading the way in Europe, while Pour Moi already has a Group 1 prospect in the shape of Only Mine.

It must make it so much easier to sell noms when a stallion gets that first season off to such a good start?

Absolutely, it looks like they’ll all be in big demand next year.

And trying to maintain the quality of a book through a sire’s second and third seasons at stud, before he has runners, is that the toughest?

Sometimes it can be tricky, but if they get very good stock breeders will continue to use them. Requinto and Zoffany were very well supported this season following their excellent

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foal and yearling sales last year, and Requinto’s first ever yearling through the ring sold for €320,000 at Deauville off a €5,000 nomination!

There are a lot of young sires now at Coolmore – whose progeny are you particularly looking forward to?

I was a huge fan of Australia as a racehorse and it’s hard not to be excited about his future, particularly given the calibre of mares he covered.

And of course there is Gleneagles to come to stud too… Are you already getting enquiries?

Obviously he’s caught the imagination both of the racing public and the professional breeder. He seems to have it all.

And amazingly the year has already rolled on – I suppose early discussions re fees are getting underway now?

Once the main European racing and yearling sales seasons are

And it is exciting times in the US – American Pharoah could become an industry defining horse /stallion It’s great for the industry to have another Triple Crown winner after such a long wait, and the fact that he’s retiring to Ashford makes it all the better.

Of all stallions on the farms, you must have a favourite….

I’ve always had a soft spot for Canford Cliffs and thankfully he seems to be doing everything right so far.

Do you have your own equine interests?

Together with my two brothers I have a small band of broodmares and we sell the foals every year with reasonable success.

Do you spend much time at the yearling sales?

I attend all the yearling, foal and breeding stock sales in Britain and Ireland and enjoy both meeting our clients and looking at stock.

What advice might you give to someone wishing to start a breeding operation?

Try and buy from a young active family. Put plenty of thought into your matings, and don’t be afraid to back your own judgement.

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egend is a sad word, virtually stripped of its original meaning and since rendered almost meaningless by repeated abuse. But if it can still be usefully applied to anyone in racing it has to be used to describe Michael Dickinson.

A champion amateur NH jockey, he became the most successful trainer in the history of British jump racing, setting incredible records that will never be broken.

Transferring to training on the Flat, and then to the US, he established another extraordinary reputation before retiring from training in 2007 to concentrate on the production of an entirely new All-Weather racing surface, Tapeta, named after his Tapeta Farm.

This year, he startled the racing world yet again with the announcement that he will return to training at Tapeta at the age of 65 after a retirement that’s lasted less than eight years.

He tells us about his reasons for retirement and his reasons for return.

Why did you decide in 2008 to retire from training in America?

And what’s made you decide to resume?

I retired from training seven years ago at the request of my wife Joan Wakefield in order to focus on the expansion of Tapeta Footings overseas (now in ten countries).

Six years ago, she actually sent me to Syria for three days to attend a conference – do you think she was trying to have me bumped off?!

At that time I had no intention of training again, but over the next four years I found time to look at different training methods picked up from other industries. I then spent three years conducting

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Returning to the ranks

Michael Dickinson’s life has been punctuated by a number of abrupt changes. A three-time champion NH trainer, he left Britain for the US where he trained eight Grade 1 winners.

He tells Paul Haigh why, after a break of eight years, he has decided to take out his trainer’s licence once again

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trials on these new methods. I discovered that most of them do not work, but we did find some that were most effective.

We are not eliminating the many good methods used by trainers today. We are just adding a lot of new ideas. It will be an aggregate of marginal gains. All the facilities at Tapeta Farm give us a lot of levers to pull.

How big a part in your decision to retire was played by the perception that many other trainers were getting away with drug abuse?

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were getting away with drug abuse: that it’s not a level playing field.

Here are my thoughts on drugs and drug testing in the US and my entry statement for World Hay Oats Alliance (WHOA).

1. I have trained in the UK on zero medication. I’ve also trained in the US using the permitted medications. The job satisfaction of the former easily outweighs the latter. In the US, I raced all my horses on Lasix and used some of the other permitted medications, but I have had my "Road to Damascus" moment.

2. During the last seven years I have travelled extensively around the world to 10 of the best

thoroughbred racing countries where the question is always the same – When is the US going to ditch its permissive medication policies?

My reply is “NEVER”. The rest of the world can run excellent racing without medication and it can’t understand why the US can’t do likewise.

The horseracing world is disappointed that we can’t do what the rest of the world can do and the ability of our horses and the skill of our trainers has become needlessly questioned.

Some people are addicted to the culture of permissive medication, and the leaders of the industry

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don’t have the appetite to change.

The outsiders feel that it is hurting our product. The public don’t like drugs.

3. America doesn't mind being different from the rest of the world, as long as we are not inferior to the rest of the world. Okay, supporters of US medication policy believe that it is superior to that to which the rest of the world subscribes.

The rest of the world believes the converse to be true.

4. Many of the younger trainers have not trained without some of the 26 permitted drugs now allowed and are scared to go “cold turkey.”

Actually, the 26 controlled therapeutics do not require anyone to go “cold turkey”. The intent is to provide guidance on their use such that they can be used to address equine health disorders, but withdrawn prior to a race in such a way that they cannot impact the horse’s performance.

I don't think they have anything to worry about, we have many hardworking good horseman who will have no problem adjusting.

Maybe a small percentage will struggle, then so be it.

5. We are isolating ourselves from the rest of the world, but US racing will survive in isolation. Even though it means we will have fewer runners at the big international festivals such as Royal Ascot, Longchamp, Dubai, Tokyo and Melbourne.

6. It is not true to say that no drugs is inhumane. The injury rate overseas is way less than the USA. If we are saying we need a shedload of drugs because our races and conditions are so severe, then maybe horseracing does not deserve to survive.

7. Surely it is better for the best horse with the best trainer to win the race, rather than the best chemist?

It is not morally defensible to medicate a physically compromised horse in order to get it to race.

8. Gene Blood doping has already been carried out in

Australia for the last two years and it has now arrived in the US. 9. The current Lab testing accreditation is a misnomer and misleading because the bar is so low it is difficult to fail.

One lab director knew their equipment was outdated and feared there was “open season” in the state, so they sent some samples to Hong Kong where they found so many drugs it took seven days to clean the equipment.

10. The Racing Medication and Testing Consortium (RMTC) does good work considering it has a minute budget and no real power.

11. We have good personnel running our racing labs, but they are hopelessly underfunded.

The US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) should legislate and monitor the labs and the Racing Commissions would have to up the ante. This way nobody loses their jobs and the labs will be held to a higher standard. We need more out of competition testing and freezing samples.

12. If there is a change in US racing I believe it will be brought on by the breeders.

There are fewer and fewer international buyers coming to the US and the problem is only going worsen.

Since 2007 yearlings sold for more than $100,000 or more are up 12 per cent in Britain and Ireland, but down 22 per cent in the US. France and Hong Kong are leading the way for all graded stakes to be run medication free – if this does happen it could devalue the American thoroughbred.

13. It is disappointing that the debates always revolve around Lasix when it is the vast amount of painkillers given the week of the race that are far more dangerous.

The stacking of anti-inflammatories for five days leading up to the race is only one paralysed jockey away from a gigantic lawsuit.

You’ve had to put up with criticisms and even satires of your training methods. Have you ever felt truly accepted by the US racing fraternity?

The Americans have been very

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Training racehorses has changed very little over the last 15 years, but I will be introducing technology which will give our horses a huge advantage

good to us and very understanding.

I am quite flattered by their tag of “The Mad Genius”! We are lucky to have a lot of friends in the industry.

How much have you missed training? To what extent has your decision to resume been influenced by the pleasure you get out of the job?

I made the decision to train again purely because I want to. I love the horses and it gives me great pleasure to have all these fantastic facilities at Tapeta Farm to make a better life for my horses.

For example, we are planning to turn the horses out in a fresh grass field for four hours every day. This will help to increase performance and a better quality of life.

You’ve made many mould breaking leaps in your career.

Which were the most difficult?

The move from jumps rider to jumps trainer? The move from jumps trainer to Flat trainer? The move from Britain to America?

Or the creation of Tapeta – both the farm and the surface? The decision to retire from training?

Perhaps the decision to resume?

All were very easy transitions. I never woke up in the morning and said “I need a change”, they all just evolved without me ever making an instant decision.

They all just happened; it was no big deal and felt right. I am starting training again because I want to.

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When you took up Robert Sangster’s offer in the 1980s to train on the Flat, many expected you to transfer effortlessly and take up where you’d left off in jump racing. How frustrating was that first year at Manton?

Robert Sangster should not have asked me to train because at that time I had no experience of training on the Flat, and I should not have accepted the position to jump into a big, high profile stable. We both made a mistake.

How hurtful was all the talk from people, who seemed to relish the problems of transition?

Fair comment, I am not offended by it. Sir Peter O’Sullevan saw the injustice. I had support from Sir Peter, and that was all I needed.

What made you decide to move to America?

We had an American vet working for us at the time, Dr. David Lambert, who knew that the horses were big, backward, latedevelopers.

He asked me to go to America and train 12 horses for him and his clients. I never lost faith in my own ability, so I wanted to continue on the Flat instead of taking the easy route of going back to steeplechasing.

How satisfying were the triumphs? Da Hoss and Tapit in particular.

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the Breeder’s Cup it was quite straightforward and uneventful, in complete contrast to his second win.

He hurt himself training in South Carolina because, as a foal, he lost half of his foot. As a two-year-old he developed two huge spurs in each hock. As he became older, they became more of a problem to him.

Six weeks before the Breeders’ Cup, two well-respected vets stated: “He won’t make the first race, let alone the second race.”

In about 99 cases out of a 100 they would have been right, but my team of Joan, Miguel and JonBoy nursed him through his problems with their horsemanship, love for the horse, and optimism.

Obviously Da Hoss will always be special in our hearts because he overcame so many infirmities.

When we were given the diagnosis that he couldn’t make the Breeders’ Cup, Miguel came to me and said “Don’t worry, we’ll get him there” and it was Miguel’s skill that won the day.

Miguel did say: “He runs with his heart, not his legs.”

Tapit was one of the last horses bought by Verne Winchell, who was a great owner for us. He unfortunately passed away before the horse ran, so his success was poignant in many ways.

Dr. David Lambert found the horse and it was an easy decision for me to approve once I saw Tapit for myself at the sale.

Fortunately, Verne and his racing manager David Fiske also approved

There are three grass gallops at Tapeta Farm: the Noah’s Ark (for wet weather) and the drought track are 40’ wide, the drought track is a mile long, the turf track for normal weather is a mile long and 60’ wide

of the horse.

Dr. Lambert said to me: “Make sure your man buys the grey horse”.

However, at the time, he was by an unproven sire, out of a dam who only won $50,000. I thought based on this we would get him for $300,000. Fortunately, Lambert and Fiske stuck at it and we got him for $650,000.

What prompted you to develop Tapeta (the racing surface)?

Vincent O’Brien ignited my passion for racing surfaces. It was he, in fact, who invented the modern AllWeather gallop.

I thought it would take me three months to develop, but it took me four years to perfect the surface so that it would handle all climates.

I knew if Tapeta Farm was to be a success I had to come up with a better surface than everyone else.

Our goal was to increase the safety and performance of horse and rider over Dirt tracks.

How satisfied are you by the development and acceptance of Tapeta? How much of a blow was its rejection by Meydan and some US tracks? Do you think it was given a fair trial?

Meydan’s decision was not a rejection of Tapeta, but a desire to attract more US horses who run almost exclusively on Dirt.

One mile down the road from Meydan, Sheikh Mohammed still has a really good Tapeta track used

by Saeed bin Suroor and who won

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There are several trainers in Dubai who all train on Dirt and have more horses than Saeed, who trains exclusively on Tapeta.

Despite this, Saeed won 19 races at this year’s Dubai Carnival, and his closest pursuer only had six wins.

You are incorrect to state that Tapeta has been rejected by US tracks; but Golden Gate Fields has been well received and is still going strong, while Presque Isle Downs was the safest track in America three years running.

Development of Tapeta is continuing – will the ‘new surfaces’ you’ve mentioned be developed with a view to countering criticisms of Tapeta as it now exists? If so, what changes might silence the critics.

There has been very little criticism of Tapeta and any critics generally do not take into consideration that the surface was developed to increase the safety of horse and rider.

New development and improvements are aimed at achieving that end – not to silence the critics, of whom there are very few.

There will always be critics, and no surface will ever be able to satisfy everyone. But here are some figures which I hope will put their views into perspective: Last November there were four horses on the short list for Horse of the Year in the US, two of those four horses train exclusively on Tapeta.

Considering there are approximately 500 Dirt tracks in the US and only three Tapeta tracks this is an impressive statistic.

This year the US sent the Kentucky Derby winner and two other Grade 1 performers to run in the Dubai World Cup on Dirt.

These three horses finished in the exact order that most people predicted, but they were beaten by an eight-year-old who’s only been on a Dirt track twice in his life and trains exclusively on Tapeta.

I noticed that at a meeting at Wolverhampton a few weeks ago

all seven races on the Tapeta were won by the favourites. Fair... formful and safe.

I will be training on Tapeta10, aptly named for the ten improvements we have made to the original surface.

Can you describe the roofed “performance centre” mentioned in your press release about returning to training, and what advantage you hope it will give you?

Nearly all trainers in the US train at the racetrack where there is no room, no freedom and no privacy.

They are severely restricted in what they can do. This is in complete contrast to Tapeta Farm where we have 250 acres all to ourselves.

We are at the north end of Chesapeake Bay, halfway between Washington DC and New York, surrounded by 11 major racetracks.

A friend of mine was only joking when he said the performance centre will have more technology than NASA. At least I hope he was only joking! Training racehorses has changed very little over the last 15 years, but I will be introducing technology which will give our horses a huge advantage.

You seem to be a great believer in space and freedom for horses.

Do you feel that turning them out on grass for hours daily is vital for successful training?

There are four advantages to turning horse out: 1. For the brain to help the horse relax; 2. Fresh air to improve the integrity of the lung; 3. Fresh green grass to aid digestion; 4. Extra exercise to increase soundness, reduce injuries and promote collagen turnover.

Previously, we used to turn most of our horses out for two hours, which proved to be of great benefit.

Now I am going to try to turn my horses out for four hours. I am not trying to pretend I know the optimum – it probably depends on the horse and the weather.

Almost certainly no-one else will ever achieve this feat, so there will never be anyone else to ask.

Can you describe the sensation of sending out the first five home in the 1983 Cheltenham Gold Cup? I had rehearsed Sir Peter O’Sullevan’s call of the race to Joan about 50 times during the 12 months before the actual race and got most of the events within the race spot on.

On Boxing Day we had 12 winners and the horses were flying, but in January everything seemed to go wrong.

A month before the Gold Cup, none of the horses were at their best.

There were a lot of sleepless nights and pressure beforehand, but a huge relief when it happened rather more than elation. I also realize now that the whole Harewood team was so young that none of us truly appreciated the

magnitude of what was happening at the time and probably did not appreciate it enough.

Who will be your main owners now you resume training, and to put it bluntly, will they have the spending power to enable you compete?

Many of my old owners are sending me horses: Dr. John Chandler, who is president of Juddmonte USA; Charles Fipke from British Columbia; Jan Naify from San Francisco; Dr. Gary Knapp of Monticule Farm, Kentucky, and Marlene Brody of Gallagher Farm in New York are just a few.

How will you measure success?

By winners obviously, but have you set yourself targets for the first few years?

I do not measure success by the number of winners, but rather by Graded stakes successes.

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DIAR day is achieving its aims?

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Meeting the people: two recently retired racehorses Noted and Saafy are doing their bit to help promote Arabian horses and racing

he Americans have a saying: “it’s difference of opinion makes horseracing”. They have plenty of good sayings, but they use variations of this for all sorts of purposes: like which of two women is the better looking, whether steak should be eaten rare or actually bleeding, or just as a way to end any debate that threatens to get out of hand.

But as with most shrewd observations this one’s most apposite when applied to the subject that gave it rise.

It’s more than 30 years now since Dubai, and in particular Sheikh Hamdan al Maktoum, began a campaign to promote Arabian racing in Britain. That should be long enough for the rest of us to judge the success or otherwise of his mission to popularise the sport he adores.

These days the Dubaians are under

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The question is whether or not Newbury’s annual jamboree is achieving Sheikh Hamdan’s objectives declared three years ago in an interview with International Thoroughbred? challenge (not under threat because the aims of both are identical) for leadership of the movement to raise the profile of Arabian racing, the sport that involves the precursors and progenitors of the thoroughbred breed.

But, in spite of the weight of Qatari money

now promoting some of the richest individual Arabian races, there is no doubt that, as leading Arabian trainer Julian Smart publicly agreed on July 26, the Dubai International Races (DIAR ) at Newbury retain a special status.

Often referred to as “Arabian racing’s equivalent of the Arc meeting”, it remains the premier single day’s racing anywhere in the world dedicated to Arabian racing as a stand-alone rather than as an adjunct to a major thoroughbred meeting.

The question is whether or not Newbury’s annual jamboree is achieving Sheikh Hamdan’s objectives declared three years ago in an interview with International Thoroughbred?

“The Arabian horse is part of my heritage” Sheikh Hamdan said then, “and that of my country and of the Middle East generally. I

arabian racing am keen to promote the racing of Arabian horses all over the world.

“The Arabian horse may not be quite as fast as the thoroughbred, but it is much more beautiful”. (Now there’s a remarkable statement from a man who owns some of the finest of thoroughbreds on earth).

“We have sponsored Arabian races in Germany and France for many years, as well as in Australia to acquaint the southernhemisphere with the existence of the Arabian horse. The objectives are two fold. First, to secure the future of the Arabian breed.

Second, I like to think of the staging of Arabian racing as part of a wider education about Arabic culture and heritage.”

The positives in this project are pretty obvious. First, the future of the Arabian breed is most definitely secure. The million dollar championship events at the Dubai World Cup and the Arc meeting are evidence, as are the increased and increasing numbers of Arabian races “tacked on” to thoroughbred meetings of lesser grandeur.

Second, the DIAR delivers plenty every year to the strengthening of goodwill towards Dubai and thereby the more battered regions of the Middle East in general.

Lovers of Arabian racing need to be realistic about this. These additional races have not come about because of any public clamour from thoroughbred racing fans.

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The Arabian horse is part of my heritage and that of my country and of the Middle East generally On the contrary, they are still tolerated by the majority of thoroughbred racing fans rather than looked forward to, and the still unabashed apathy of most bookmakers as well as low Tote turnover reflect this. They owe their inclusion on thoroughbred racing cards to rich sponsors, and without those sponsors Arabian racing would very probably return to the relative obscurity in which it found itself before the Maktoum family’s intervention.

Whether or not they share Sheikh Hamdan’s opinion about the relative beauty of the two closely related breeds, very few lovers of any other sort of racing can now be ignorant though of the existence of the breed whose four founding fathers, when mingled with local British bloodstock, gave us of the thoroughbred. The extension of that knowledge is a triumph for the family which has striven to spread it.

How much the Newbury event has contributed to the development of Arabian racing though, and the extent to which it has recruited new fans to the sport is

Jockeys for race eight: David Turner in the pink and blue, and Will Pettis seeing the funny side

what is open to doubt.

A straw poll taken by one individual is hardly scientific, but conversations with about 20 racegoers at this year’s meeting seem to indicate that the hoped “great leap forward” in terms of conversion of thoroughbred racing fans, or just casual racegoers, to the joys of Arabian racing is still some way off.

The popularity of the meeting is strong, both among the organisers, including Sheikh Hamdan’s Shadwell Stud, and the racegoers.

But without exception the people buttonholed for their opinions seemed to have little or no idea of what it was they were watching. These included those chosen specifically because they looked like regular racegoers. (And yes you can tell the difference: families with kids look, dress and act quite differently from those who wear what you might call “standard racing gear”).

The switch from random selection seemed only fair after four or five groups in succession admitted unashamedly that they were here for the free day out, the free goodie bags, the free face painting, the free henna hand decoration and the free raffles for holidays in Dubai and – grand prize – a new car.

None of them though, not even Mr and Mrs Broad from Newbury (smart jeans, dark jackets, leather hats) had much idea either, but, like Phil Belcher from Basingstoke (“We’re just here for fun,”said his girlfriend happily) they smiled a lot and said they were having a great time.

Not even the bookies – people you’d expect to be clued up if anyone was going to be – had any real idea of how to frame their markets.

In short, very few racegoers or bookmakers came with any preconceptions about the likely outcomes of races.

Of course, the Arabian racing cognoscenti, the trainers, the owners, the jockeys and the handful, who have deliberately familiarised themselves with this still very much niche sport, knew exactly what was happening.

But not one of the interviewees really knew the difference between the championship races and the handicaps. Not one said: “I’ve come to watch xxxx ride, or to see xxxx run because I believe he’s a champion”.

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Logic would seem to dictate therefore that at least some of the expenditure on DIAR day should be diverted to education That’s not normal, not for any meeting, and certainly not for one that bills itself a sport’s seasonal climax.

In effect, the Newbury DIAR might be of huge significance to the few insiders, those professionally involved in what still thinks of itself as an amateur sport, but more of that obvious contradiction another day. To the rest, to the ordinary racegoers who come through the gates without having to pay a cent, they are nothing more than a garden party with a race meeting attached. Or in this case more like a picnic.

This may not be a bad thing in itself. After all it’s what King Edward VII is alleged to have said about Glorious Goodwood – and that meeting has more than survived the compliment.

But even in the days when King Edward said that, the average racegoer on the Sussex Downs would have had pretty firm opinions about the relative merits of the various horses on show. Even the picnickers who parked themselves free on Trundle Hill would have known.

Surely that is the ingredient currently missing from Arabian racing’s gala day at Newbury? In terms of the objectives of the organisers the ignorance of the average attendee must be something of a disappointment, if not an actual indictment.

It’s all very well for people from the Newbury area, and a few from further afield, to turn up year after year essentially to enjoy Sheikh Hamdan’s hospitality, but if they are coming only for the fun, for the raffles and the game show-style presentation, the sport of Arabian racing does not necessarily benefit or grow at all.

On July 26 one of Arabian racing’s few specialist commentators Gary Capewell gave a brief and informative seminar before racing began, and very efficient he was, as was whoever produced the words in the race card. Most of the results were predicted quite accurately and racegoers of the punting persuasion might have profited quite nicely as a result.

But really most of the crowd were busy by that time tucking into burgers or queueing for the goodie bags. Very few took advantage

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of even what information was available, and without information no opinions can be formed.

But it’s that “difference of opinion” that makes horseracing. Logic would seem to dictate therefore that at least some of the expenditure on DIAR day should be diverted to education.

That means the production of an easily accessible form book: not just a few words, however well chosen at the end of the list of runners, but a few minutes between races spent on discussion of the significance of each race, as well as its likely result.

That doesn’t mean the relentless jollity should be done away with. Newbury regulars obviously enjoy it. But just a little space should be given to the sort of seriousness without which no form of racing can expect to

flourish and win recruits.

How many were attracted this year? There is no way of gauging the size of the crowd because nobody has to pay or click turnstiles, but a semi-educated guess from one who’s been a few times before reckons it was around five or six thousand, not necessarily including VIPs and the personally invited.

That’s not bad, but hardly sensational considering the generosity lavished on those who do choose to show up.

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f course, the Newbury meeting has had appalling luck with the weather. No matter where in the calendar they put it the day seems to attract wind and rain of the sort you might expect in Tierra del Fuego.

This year, Newbury wasn’t quite the blasted heath it had been on some previous renewals, but the relative calm of the Sunday itself was preceded by the sort of weather that keeps people at home watching their game shows on the telly while fondling mugs of hot Bovril.

In the circumstances the number was not too bad. At nearby Ascot the day before

Harry Bentley with Gazwan after winning the Shadwell Dubai International Stakes

arabian racing after all only 27,000 (admittedly paying) customers turned up – and that was while the unbeaten Derby winner Golden Horn was still scheduled to run in the King George.

Some day they’re going to have what most people think of as a perfect English summer’s day at Newbury (although according to folklore most of those were used up while Edward VII was still on the throne) and then we’ll get a true indication of just how much the Sheikh’s munificence has won over the local population.

That munificence was best demonstrated this year in the competition for local schools in which children are invited to paint models of Arabian horses. There are no losers. The least each school gets is £500.

When one teacher was asked what her school would do with its £500, she replied that it would go towards buying iPads.

Sheikh Hamdan immediately told her he would supply them. When another was asked what she would be doing with the £1500 her school had won, she said it would go towards the £3000 needed to buy a piano. Sheikh Hamdan provided the other half as well.

The mastermind of it all: Sheikh Hamdan seen here with Richard Lancaster

Cynics might say this is simply good PR, and in the context of the meeting’s cost, not very expensive PR at that. But fake sincerity is not impossible to see through and there was no reason to doubt the sincerity here.

Nobody leaves Newbury thinking any worse of Dubai. Sheikh Hamdan’s good will and largesse guarantees that. In that respect the meeting remains a great success, and no-one is suggesting a complete change of image. No-one wants it to become too earnest, too educational, too off-putting for its once-a-year clientele. Sheikh Hamdan wants it to have a party atmosphere.

He enjoys it very much himself and demonstrates it with such gestures. Perennial host Derek Thompson may not be everyone’s cup of mint tea, but the Americans have another wise saying: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”.

Somehow or other it needs to convey to its captive audience, seduced to the racecourse by the freebies and the raffles and the ho-ho-ho, the essence of the sport is exists to publicise.

That can only be achieved by creating opportunities for differences of opinion.

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Frankie Dettori celebrates winning the Stewards’ Cup on the three-year-old Magical Memory, the Wardstown Stud-bred son of Marasem

It was undoubtedly the highlight of her year!” laughs Mark Clarke when describing the moment that his wife Elaine watched Magical Memory, a horse bred by the couple out of their mare Marasem, win this year’s Goodwood Stewards’ Cup. “To see our own work come to fruition like that, it fulfilled her dreams. It was an amazing race; we got a huge thrill out of it. So often things don’t go right, but days like that make it all worthwhile. You get there in the end, if you stick at it. It was fantastic that Elaine was at Goodwood with the family.”

The Clarkes have indeed stuck at it and have always had faith in pedigree with three generations of Marasem’s family at their

home, Wardstown Stud. The pair took over the 90-acre farm in the heart of County Meath from Mark’s father Brendan and have been developing their broodmare band, currently numbering 14, since.

Clarke’s first introduction to Marasem’s family was in 2005 when he bought her daughter Faleh at Newmarket for 15,000gns.

“She’s a Shadwell mare by Silver Hawk and I liked her at once; a fine big mare with good form, a good race record, and a very good pedigree,” he remembers.

The following year, Marasem a Cadeaux Genereux mare out of Balaabel (Sadler’s Wells), was listed for sale at the Goffs February Sale. Like her daughter she was Shadwell-bred and Clarke was anxious to see her as soon

as he spotted her catalogue listing. He was impressed: “She is quite alike to Faleh with a lot of substance and very good bone – she was a mare who would give you a lot of options with stallions.”

She had been brought back from Kentucky

by Shadwell and was barren, a fact that did not put Clarke off: “I felt that sooner or later, it would happen for her – sometimes luck changes when you change owner.”

The prophesy was proved correct and Marasem has since been a consistent broodmare for Wardstown with her 2011 Kodiac filly offerering a hint at what was to come.

Sold at the Ireland September Sale for €15,500 to Eve Johnston-Houghton, she

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mare of the month was named Alutiq. She went on to break her maiden over 5f at Kempton on her debut, and was then bought by Qatar Racing.

She reached a career-best rating of 95, and got to run in Group 2 Queen Mary Stakes, the Group 2 Lowther Stakes as well as the Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes, though she finished mid-division and at the back of the field in all three.

Clarke had hoped to buy her back at the last December’s Tattersalls Breeding Stock Sale, but at 50,000gns she fetched too great a price for his budget. In hindsight, and with Magical Memory’s achievements so far in 2015, and with the promise of so much more to come, Alutiq’s latest auction ring purchase might well prove to be a bargain buy for new connections.

Marasem was returned to Kodiac in 2013 and the resulting yearling filly is due to go to this year’s Goffs Orby Sale. Clark admits that the couple are very tempted to keep her in order to maintain the female line at home, but he is also a commercial realist.

“If she sells well, then she has to go – you can’t be too sentimental,” he admits.

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hen deciding upon stallions, the Clarkes are always very specific and try to ensure that mares are matched “as much in distance as in

conformation”.

This approach led to Marasem, who is by the excellent sprinting broodmare sire Cadeaux Genereux and who herself won over 7f, being sent to first-crop sire Zebedee. As a winner of the Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes (G2), the Group 3 Molecomb Stakes, the Tally-Ho Stud-based son of Invincible Spirit fitted their requirements.

“As a racehorse Zebedee had a lot of speed and looked like he would suit the mare physically. He has a lot of quality – he is a very good looking and was a fast horse,” says Clarke.

This match resulted in Magical Memory, who is Zebedee’s second-highest rated protégée (currently BHA rated 108) following

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I know the ingredients that work for her now, so I will continue with the Green Desert line; sprinters suit that mare, particularly Invincible Spirit sires on from the sire’s Richmond Stakes (G2) and 2,000 Guineas (G1) third, Ivawood.

Clarke always believed in his colt and thought that “would turn out to be a lovely horse” and was delighted when he found out that Hills would train him on behalf of the syndicate Kennet Valley Thoroughbreds, which had paid €35,000 for him at the Goffs Orby Sale.

It was a view shared straight off by the Hills yard as the horse has always been held in high regard since arriving at Faringdon Place Stables. As a colt he enjoyed a respectable two-year-old season with one win in six runs coming in a 6f maiden at Leicester, but through the winter and after a few “niggly” problems, he was gelded and was given a winter’s break.

The operation seems to have done the trick as Magical Memory has gone from strength to strength this year becoming the first three-year-old to win the Steward’s Cup since Danetime in 1997, who was also, by coincidence, a Tally-Ho Stud sire.

And the future looks bright – Magical Memory holds an entry in the Group 1 Qipco Champions Sprint Stakes at Ascot in October, and if he takes up his Ascot engagement, the Clarke family will make a big effort to attend.

As Clarke laughed: “It’s seldom that we get a chance to be represented at an event like that!”

It has not been a such a smooth ride for Marasem. After producing Magical Memory and her Kodiac filly in 2014, the mare despite having always been a healthy type, started to go drastically downhill, losing weight and

condition for no apparent reason.

The Clarke’s fears were confirmed when a scan taken at the equine hospital showed a large tumour which was suspected to be cancerous, and they were told to prepare for the worst – they would be lucky to keep their mare until the foal was weaned.

But Mark and Elaine stuck with her and good luck came through as, to their surprise, Marasem started for no apparent reason, other than good care and nurture, to pick up condition.

She has now thrived and the couple saw no reason not to cover her this spring with Morpheus. She has been successfully scanned in-foal and is carrying a colt. Another Tally-Ho stallion, Morpheus has an impeccable pedigree being an Oasis Dream half-brother to Frankel.

Clarke admits that the stallion’s pedigree was a huge factor in his choice, but he was impressed with him in the flesh too.

“Morpheus is physically very imposing, he has a great head, good scope, great bone and a great outlook,” he reports.

Clarke has a lot of belief in the young stallion and high hopes for the future: “A lot of good mares have gone to him this year,” he says, before adding, with a smile: “Not least, I suppose, Marasem!”

“That’s how I would describe her really,” says Clarke, reflecting on his broodmare. “She was a lucky buy; a lucky mare.”

Looking to Marasem’s future, Clarke says she will continue to breed as long as she is healthy and well. He is obviously considering a return visit to Zebedee next year – it is clearly a winning combination.

“I know the ingredients that work for her now, so I will continue with the Green Desert line; sprinters suit that mare, particularly Invincible Spirit sires.”

The Clarke’s aim is to “try to hold on to the family and develop the broodmare band as best we can.” With the good judgement shown so far, good faith, and, of course, the vital luck of the Irish, it looks like they are getting it right.

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1 Carla Bianca (IRE) 4 gr f Dansili (GB) - Majestic Silver (IRE) (Linamix (FR)) 2 Elleval (IRE) 5 b g Kodiac (GB) Penny Rouge (IRE) (Pennekamp (USA)) 3 Brendan Brackan (IRE) 6 b g Big Bad Bob (IRE) - Abeyr (GB) (Unfuwain (USA)) Age: 2-4; Starts: 11; Wins: 5; Places: 6 Earnings: £145,047 Sire: DANSILI. Sire of 106 Stakes winners. In 2015 - MAGOG Doyoun G1, CARLA BIANCA Linamix G3, DORMELLO Selkirk G3, PERMIT Swain G3, WORDS Dalakhani G3, ASHLAN Linamix LR, INDEX LINKED Irish River LR, MAHSOOB Montjeu LR, VICTORY SONG Sadler's Wells LR, KING OF DUDES Diesis LR. 1st Dam: Majestic Silver by Linamix. unraced. Dam of 2 winners: 2011: CARLA BIANCA (f Dansili) 5 wins at 3 and 4, Meld S G3, Xtravision/HMV Dance Design S G3, Irish Stal.FarmsEBF Hurry Harriet S LR, Irish Stallion Farms EBF Naas Oaks Trial LR, 2nd Munster Oaks S G3.

2012: JOAILLIERE (f Dubawi) Winner at 3.

2013: True Solitaire (c Oasis Dream) 2014: (c Shamardal)

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Broodmare Sire: LINAMIX. Sire of the dams of 86 Stakes winners. In 2015 - MUHAARAR Oasis Dream G1, SUMBAL Danehill Dancer G2, CARLA BIANCA Dansili G3, ASHLAN Dansili LR, EYE IN THE SKY Sinndar LR, WOMAN O WAR Kingda Ka LR, DIAKALI Sinndar LR, PEACE AND CO Falco LR. The Dansili/Linamix cross has produced: CARLA BIANCA G3, VISORIYNA G3, ASHLAN LR, Dastarhon G1.

Danzig Danehill Razyana DANSILI b 96 Kahyasi Hasili Kerali CARLA BIANCA gr f 2011 Mendez Linamix Lunadix MAJESTIC SILVER gr 2006 Highest Honor Diamond Trim In Anticipation

Al Basti Equiworld Hackwood Stakes, G3, Newbury, July 18, 6f 1 Strath Burn (GB) 3 b c Equiano (FR) - Irish Light (USA) (Irish River (FR)) 2 Portamento (IRE) 3 gr c Shamardal (USA) - Octave (USA) (Unbridled's Song (USA)) 3 Divine (IRE) 4 b f Dark Angel (IRE) - Carallia (IRE) (Common Grounds) Age: 2-3; Starts: 8; Wins: 2; Places: 4 Earnings: £86,294 Sire: EQUIANO. Sire of 3 Stakes winners. In 2015 - FLY ON THE NIGHT Green Desert G3, STRATH BURN Irish River G3.

1st Dam: IRISH LIGHT by Irish River. 2 wins at 3. Dam of 7 winners: 1999: HARNOUR (c Desert King) 2 wins at 2.

2000: Polar Force (g Polar Falcon) 8 wins at 2 to 8, 3rd Phoenix S G1.

2001: Opalescent (f Polish Precedent) unraced. Broodmare.

2002: OPALINE (c Barathea) 9 wins at 3 to 7 in Greece.

2004: Radiate (f Sadler's Wells) unraced. Broodmare.

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2005: Carnival Queen (f Carnival Dancer) 2 wins, 2nd China Doll S LR. 2006: BROCKFIELD (g Falbrav) 5 wins to 2014.

2007: Indicco (f Carnival Dancer) ran twice in N.H. Flat Races.

2008: Lady Leto (f Royal Applause) ran once.

2009: Velocity of Light (g Kyllachy) 2010: IN SALUTEM (g Sakhee's Secret) 4 wins at 3 to 5.

2012: STRATH BURN (c Equiano) Sold 30,000gns yearling at TADEY. 2 wins at 3, Al Basti Equiworld Hackwood S G3, 2nd Prix Robert Papin G2, Dubai Cornwallis S G3, 3rd British Stallion Studs EBF Westow S LR. 2015: (f Equiano) Broodmare Sire: IRISH RIVER. Sire of the dams of 142 Stakes winners. In 2015 - STRATH BURN Equiano G3, INDEX LINKED Dansili LR. Royal Applause Acclamation Princess Athena EQUIANO b 2005 Ela-Mana-Mou Entente Cordiale Mirmande STRATH BURN b c 2012 Riverman Irish River Irish Star IRISH LIGHT ch 94 Lear Fan Solar Star Lajna

Jebel Ali Anglesey Stakes, G3, Curragh, July 18, 6f 1 Final Frontier (IRE) 2 b c Dream Ahead (USA) - Polly Perkins (IRE) (Pivotal (GB)) 2 Miss Katie Mae (IRE) 2 b f Dark Angel (IRE) - Kate The Great (GB) (Xaar (GB)) 3 Queen of Sicily (USA) 2 b/br f Cape Cross (IRE) - Jealous Again (USA) (Trippi (USA)) Age: 2; Starts: 1; Wins: 1; Places: 0 Earnings: £8,826 Sire: DREAM AHEAD. Sire of 1 Stakes winners. In 2015 - FINAL FRONTIER Pivotal G3.

1st Dam: POLLY PERKINS by Pivotal. 3 wins at 2, bonusprint.com National S LR, Dragon S LR. Dam of 3 winners:

2007: Khateer (g Shamardal) 2008: Heart Beat Song (g Cape Cross) 2011: MARMARUS (g Duke of Marmalade) 3 wins at 3.

2012: Lola Beaux (f Equiano) Winner at 2, 2nd C L & M F Weld Park S G3.

2013: FINAL FRONTIER (c Dream Ahead) Sold 29,364gns yearling at GOOY2. 1 win at 2, Jebel Ali Anglesey S G3.

Broodmare Sire: PIVOTAL. Sire of the dams of 36 Stakes winners. In 2015 - CLADOCERA Oasis Dream G2, MAIN SEQUENCE Aldebaran G2, FINAL FRONTIER Dream Ahead G3, ONENIGHTIDREAMED Footstepsinthesand G3, SILVER GALAXY Galileo G3, ARGENTERO Zoffany LR, BANK OF BURDEN Hawk Wing LR, GOLDEN WOOD Gold Away LR, GOSPEL CHOIR Galileo LR, GREAT MINDS Bahamian Bounty LR, PEARLY STEPH Oasis Dream LR, RIVELLINO Invincible Spirit LR. Diktat

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Arvola DREAM AHEAD b/br 2008 Cadeaux Genereux Land of Dreams Sahara Star FINAL FRONTIER b c 2013 Polar Falcon Pivotal Fearless Revival POLLY PERKINS b 2002 Prince Sabo Prospering Flourishing

Invincible Spirit Sapphire Stakes, G2, Curragh, July 18, 5f 1 Stepper Point (GB) 6 b g Kyllachy (GB) - Sacre Coeur (GB) (Compton Place (GB)) 2 Mecca's Angel (IRE) 4 gr f Dark Angel (IRE) - Folga (GB) (Atraf (GB)) 3 Moviesta (USA) 5 b g Hard Spun (USA) - Miss Brickyard (USA) (A P Indy (USA)) Age: 2-6; Starts: 43; Wins: 7; Places: 14 Earnings: £361,667 Sire: KYLLACHY. Sire of 22 Stakes winners. In 2015 - SOLE POWER Distant View G1, STEPPER POINT Compton Place G2, KYLLACHY QUEEN King Charlemagne LR.

international database 1st Dam: SACRE COEUR by Compton Place. Winner at 2. Dam of 3 winners: 2009: STEPPER POINT (g Kyllachy) Sold 45,000gns yearling at TAOC2.

7 wins at 2, 4 and 5 at home, France, Invincible Spirit Sapphire S G2, Derrinstown Stud Flying Five S G3, Betfred Beverley Bullet Sprint S LR, bookmakers.co.uk Hever Sprint S LR, Criterium de Vitesse LR, 2nd King's Stand S G1, Coolmore Nunthorpe S G1, Prix du Gros-Chene G2, 3rd Prix de SaintGeorges G3, Prix du Cercle LR. 2010: CROSS MY HEART (f Sakhee's Secret) Winner at 2.

2011: GULLAND ROCK (g Exceed And Excel) 2 wins at 2 and 3.

2014: (c Foxwedge) Broodmare Sire: COMPTON PLACE. Sire of the dams of 5 Stakes winners. In 2015 - STEPPER POINT Kyllachy G2.

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Fearless Revival KYLLACHY b 98 Song Pretty Poppy Moonlight Serenade STEPPER POINT b g 2009 Indian Ridge Compton Place Nosey SACRE COEUR b 2004 Electric Take Heart Hollow Heart

Darley Irish Oaks, G1, Curragh, July 18, 12f 1 Covert Love (IRE) 3 b f Azamour (IRE) - Wing Stealth (IRE) (Hawk Wing (USA)) 2 Jack Naylor (GB) 3 b f Champs Elysees (GB) - Fashionable (GB) (Nashwan (USA)) 3 Curvy (GB) 3 b/br f Galileo (IRE) Frappe (IRE) (Inchinor (GB)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 4; Wins: 3; Places: 0 Earnings: £34,005 Sire: AZAMOUR. Sire of 28 Stakes winners. In 2015 - COVERT LOVE Hawk Wing G1, DOLNIYA Indian Ridge G1, RAWNAQ Doyoun LR. 1st Dam: Wing Stealth by Hawk Wing. Dam of 2 winners: 2010: Montjess (f Montjeu)

2011: STEALTH MISSILE (f Invincible Spirit) 2 wins at 2 and 3.

2012: COVERT LOVE (f Azamour) Sold 20,131gns yearling at GOOY1.

3 wins at 3, Darley Irish Oaks G1, Betfred TV EBF Hoppings S LR. 2013: Princesse Eva (f Manduro) Broodmare Sire: HAWK WING. Sire of the dams of 4 Stakes winners. In 2015 - COVERT LOVE Azamour G1, MASTER APPRENTICE Mastercraftsman G3.

Northern Dancer Night Shift Ciboulette AZAMOUR b 2001 Lear Fan Asmara Anaza COVERT LOVE b f 2012 Woodman Hawk Wing La Lorgnette WING STEALTH br 2005 Green Dancer Starlight Smile Bubinka

P.Eugene Adam (G.P.de Maisons-Laffitte), G2, MaisonsLaffitte, July 19, 2000m 1 Dariyan (FR) 3 b c Shamardal (USA) - Daryakana (FR) (Selkirk (USA)) 2 War Dispatch (USA) 3 b c War Front (USA) - Photograph (USA) (Unbridled's Song (USA)) 3 Toruk (FR) 3 b c Arcano (IRE) Celestina Agostino (USA) (Street Cry (IRE)) Age: 3; Starts: 5; Wins: 3; Places: 2 Earnings: £90,388 Sire: SHAMARDAL. Sire of 82 Stakes winners. In 2015 - ABLE FRIEND Volksraad G1, DUNBOYNE EXPRESS Polish Precedent G1, AMARON Bertolini G2, BALIOS Galileo G2, DARIYAN Selkirk G2, DELECTATION More Than Ready G2, FINTRY Indian Ridge G3, FRENCH NAVY Woodman G3, SHAMALIA Redoute's Choice G3, TRYSTER Riverman G3, AKATEA Peintre Celebre LR, DUSKY QUEEN Refuse To Bend LR, FOND WORDS Elusive City LR, JOYFUL HOPE Barathea LR, MAWAAL Darshaan LR, SECRET SHAM Rivotious LR, SPEEDY BOARDING Diktat LR, SPERRY Marju LR, ZAWRAQ Sadler's Wells LR.

1st Dam: DARYAKANA by Selkirk.

5 wins at 3 in France, Hong Kong, Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Vase G1, 3rd Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud G1.

Dam of 1 winner: 2012: DARIYAN (c Shamardal) 3 wins at 3 in France, P.Eugene Adam (G.P.de Maisons-Laffitte) G2.

2013: (c Dansili) 2014: (c Dubawi) Broodmare Sire: SELKIRK. Sire of the dams of 53 Stakes winners. In 2015 - STAR OF SEVILLE Duke of Marmalade G1, DARIYAN Shamardal G2, LADY LARA Excellent Art G2, DORMELLO Dansili G3, ABSOLUTELY SO Acclamation LR, MOOHAARIB Oasis Dream LR, RIFLESCOPE Raven's Pass LR. Storm Cat Giant's Causeway Mariah's Storm SHAMARDAL b 2002 Machiavellian Helsinki Helen Street DARIYAN b c 2012 Sharpen Up Selkirk Annie Edge DARYAKANA ch 2006 Night Shift Daryaba Darata

Kilboy Estate Stakes, G2, Curragh, July 19, 9f 1 Wedding Vow (IRE) 3 b f Galileo (IRE) - Remember When (IRE) (Danehill Dancer (IRE)) 2 Brooch (USA) 4 b f Empire Maker (USA) - Daring Diva (GB) (Dansili (GB)) 3 Bocca Baciata (IRE) 3 b/br f Big Bad Bob (IRE) - Sovana (IRE) (Desert King (IRE)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 6; Wins: 1; Places: 3 Earnings: £67,368 Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 201 Stakes winners. In 2015 - GLENEAGLES Storm Cat G1, AMPERE Sri Pekan G2, CURVY Inchinor G2, SECRET GESTURE Danehill G2, TANBY Danewin G2, WEDDING VOW Danehill Dancer G2, BONDI BEACH Danehill G3, KISSED BY ANGELS Danehill Dancer G3, MIZZOU

Darshaan G3, SERTORIUS Encosta de Lago G3, SILVER GALAXY Pivotal G3, ALOFT Storm Cat LR, EYE OF THE STORM Shirley Heights LR, FAUFILER Celtic Swing LR, FIELDS OF ATHENRY Danehill LR, GOSPEL CHOIR Pivotal LR, KINGFISHER Halling LR, OBSERVATIONAL Cadeaux Genereux LR, OUTSTANDING Mozart LR, TELESCOPE Darshaan LR, THE CORSICAN Danehill LR, WINDSOR PARK Mr Prospector LR. 1st Dam: Remember When by Danehill Dancer. 2nd Investec Oaks S G1. Dam of 1 winner: 2012: WEDDING VOW (f Galileo) 1 win at 3, Kilboy Estate S G2, 2nd ISF Victor McCalmont Memorial EBF S LR, 3rd Betfred Oaks Trial S LR. 2013: Beacon Rock (c Galileo) unraced to date.

2014: (f Galileo) Broodmare Sire: DANEHILL DANCER. Sire of the dams of 34 Stakes winners. In 2015 - LADY TIANA Sir Percy G2, WEDDING VOW Galileo G2, HI WORLD High Chaparral G3, KISSED BY ANGELS Galileo G3, ARTLEE Excellent Art LR, BRIGHTON Buffalo Man LR, GEE GEES TOP NOTCH Wordsmith LR, IT IS WRITTEN Written Tycoon LR, BALMUSETTE Halling LR, DIFFERENT GRAVEY High Chaparral LR, SEMPRE MEDICI Medicean LR. The Galileo/Danehill Dancer cross has produced: QUEST FOR PEACE G2, WEDDING VOW G2, BE MY GAL G3, KISSED BY ANGELS G3, INDIAN MAHARAJA LR, Criteria G2, Lahinch Classics G2, Kingston Jamaica G3, Noble Galileo G3, Queen Nefertiti G3, Felix Mendelssohn LR, Seussical LR. Northern Dancer Sadler's Wells Fairy Bridge GALILEO b 98 Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta WEDDING VOW b f 2012 Danehill Danehill Dancer Mira Adonde REMEMBER WHEN ch 2007 Diesis Lagrion Wrap It Up

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international database Friarstown Stud Minstrel Stakes, G3, Curragh, July 19, 7f 1 Home of The Brave (IRE) 3 ch c Starspangledbanner (AUS) Blissful Beat (GB) (Beat Hollow (GB)) 2 Gordon Lord Byron (IRE) 7 b g Byron (GB) - Boa Estrela (IRE) (Intikhab (USA)) 3 Sovereign Debt (IRE) 6 gr g Dark Angel (IRE) - Kelsey Rose (GB) (Most Welcome) Age: 2-3; Starts: 7; Wins: 3; Places: 2 Earnings: £75,110 Sire: STARSPANGLEDBANNER. Sire of 4 Stakes winners. In 2015 ANTHEM ALEXANDER Night Shift G3, HOME OF THE BRAVE Beat Hollow G3, OF THE BRAVE Rory's Jester G3.

1st Dam: Blissful Beat by Beat Hollow. unraced. Dam of 1 winner: 2012: HOME OF THE BRAVE (c Starspangledbanner) Sold 61,943gns yearling at ARAU1. 3 wins at 2 and 3, Friarstown Stud Minstrel S G3, CSP European Free H LR, 3rd Totescop6 Sirenia S G3.

2013: Abo Sidrah (c Dream Ahead) unraced to date.

2014: (c Excelebration) Broodmare Sire: BEAT HOLLOW. Sire of the dams of 3 Stakes winners. In 2015 - HOME OF THE BRAVE Starspangledbanner G3.

Choisir

Danehill Dancer

Great Selection STARSPANGLEDBANNER ch 2006 Made of Gold Gold Anthem National Song HOME OF THE BRAVE ch c 2012 Sadler's Wells Beat Hollow Wemyss Bight BLISSFUL BEAT b 2007 Good Times Pleasuring Gliding

Grand Prix de Vichy, G3, Vichy, July 22, 2000m 1 Elliptique (IRE) 4 br c New Approach (IRE) - Uryale (FR) (Kendor (FR))

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2 Mambomiss (FR) 4 ch f Mastercraftsman (IRE) - Mambo Mistress (USA) (Kingmambo (USA)) 3 Meadow Creek (GB) 4 b c Dansili (GB) - Gentle On My Mind (IRE) (Sadler's Wells (USA)) Age: 2-4; Starts: 13; Wins: 5; Places: 5 Earnings: £156,936 Sire: NEW APPROACH. Sire of 17 Stakes winners. In 2015 CEISTEACH Noverre G3, ELLIPTIQUE Kendor G3, CONNECTICUT Slip Anchor LR, THA'IR Green Desert LR. 1st Dam: Uryale by Kendor. 3 wins at 2 in France, 3rd Prix des Jouvenceaux et des Jouvencelles LR. Dam of 6 winners: 2004: CICEROLE (f Barathea) 4 wins at 2 to 4 in France, Prix Coronation LR, Prix de LieureyShadwell LR, Prix de Montretout LR, 2nd Princess Elizabeth S G3, Prix des Reservoirs G3, Prix Perth G3. Broodmare.

2005: MIRYALE (f Anabaa) Winner at 3 in France. Broodmare.

2009: UPPER HOUSE (c Barathea) 3 wins at 3 and 4 in France.

2010: LOWER EAST SIDE (c Teofilo) 2 wins at 3 and 4 in France.

2011: ELLIPTIQUE (c New Approach) 5 wins at 2 to 4 in France, Grand Prix de Vichy G3, Prix de Conde G3, 2nd Prix des Chenes G3, 3rd La Coupe G3, Criterium du Fonds Europeen de L'Elevage LR, Prix Jacques Laffitte LR. 2012: UMBERTO (c Lawman) Winner at 3 in France.

Broodmare Sire: KENDOR. Sire of the dams of 50 Stakes winners. In 2015 - FRANKYFOURFINGERS Sunday Break G2, ELLIPTIQUE New Approach G3.

Galileo

Sadler's Wells

Urban Sea NEW APPROACH ch 2005 Ahonoora Park Express Matcher ELLIPTIQUE br c 2011 Kenmare Kendor Belle Mecene URYALE br 98 Akarad Green Field Park Green Rosy

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Turkey Jockey Club Silver Flash Stakes, G3, Leopardstown, July 23, 7f 1 Tanaza (IRE) 2 b f Dubawi (IRE) Tanoura (IRE) (Dalakhani (IRE)) 2 Alice Springs (IRE) 2 ch f Galileo (IRE) - Aleagueoftheirown (IRE) (Danehill Dancer (IRE)) 3 Turret Rocks (IRE) 2 b f Fastnet Rock (AUS) - Beyond Compare (IRE) (Galileo (IRE)) Age: 2; Starts: 2; Wins: 2; Places: 0 Earnings: £39,059 Sire: DUBAWI. Sire of 102 Stakes winners. In 2015 - AL KAZEEM Darshaan G1, ERUPT Caerleon G1, HUNTER'S LIGHT Barathea G1, NEW BAY Zamindar G1, NIGHT OF THUNDER Galileo G1, PRINCE BISHOP Prospect Bay G1, SHAMAL WIND Machiavellian G1, SRIKANDI Hurricane Sky G1, BALL OF MUSCLE Gold Brose G2, BAWINA Sadler's Wells G2, CATKINS Catbird G2, MUBTAAHIJ Pennekamp G2, SAFETY CHECK Royal Academy G2, ALMANAAR Bahhare G3, AMBER ORCHID Hennessy G3, ARABIAN QUEEN Barathea G3, TANAZA Dalakhani G3, TIME TEST Dansili G3, BEST OF TIMES Rahy LR, CRYSTAL ZVEZDA Mark of Esteem LR, DEUCE AGAIN Unfuwain LR, DUBDAY Daylami LR, KATAWI Mountain Cat LR, LADY OF DUBAI Montjeu LR, ROYAL ISLAND Umatilla LR, DODGING BULLETS Kris S LR, LACHLAN BRIDGE Anabaa LR. 1st Dam: TANOURA by Dalakhani.

2 wins at 2 and 3, EBF Galtres S LR, 2nd Noblesse S G3, 3rd DFS Park Hill S G2, Qatar Prix de Royallieu G2. Dam of 2 winners: 2012: Taniyar (c Shamardal) 2 wins at 3 in France, 3rd Prix de Pontarme LR. 2013: TANAZA (f Dubawi) 2 wins at 2, Turkey Jockey Club Silver Flash S G3.

2014: (f Redoute's Choice) Broodmare Sire: DALAKHANI. Sire of the dams of 9 Stakes winners.

In 2015 - TANAZA Dubawi G3, WORDS Dansili G3, KILIMANJARO High Chaparral LR, MASSINGA Selkirk LR, NICHOLS CANYON Authorized LR.

Seeking The Gold Dubai Millennium Colorado Dancer DUBAWI b 2002 Deploy Zomaradah Jawaher TANAZA b f 2013 Darshaan Dalakhani Daltawa TANOURA b 2006 Green Dancer Takarouna Tarsila

Japanese Racing Association Tyros Stakes, G3, Leopardstown, July 23, 7f 1 Deauville (IRE) 2 b c Galileo (IRE) - Walklikeanegyptian (IRE) (Danehill (USA)) 2 Sanus Per Aquam (IRE) 2 b c Teofilo (IRE) - Fainne (IRE) (Peintre Celebre (USA)) 3 Lieutenant General (IRE) 2 b c Fastnet Rock (AUS) - Lady Lupus (IRE) (High Chaparral (IRE)) Age: 2; Starts: 2; Wins: 2; Places: 0 Earnings: £37,989 Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 202 Stakes winners. In 2015 - GLENEAGLES Storm Cat G1, AMPERE Sri Pekan G2, CURVY Inchinor G2, SECRET GESTURE Danehill G2, TANBY Danewin G2, WEDDING VOW Danehill Dancer G2, BONDI BEACH Danehill G3, DEAUVILLE Danehill G3, KISSED BY ANGELS Danehill Dancer G3, MIZZOU Darshaan G3, SERTORIUS Encosta de Lago G3, SILVER GALAXY Pivotal G3, ALOFT Storm Cat LR, EYE OF THE STORM Shirley Heights LR, FAUFILER Celtic Swing LR, FIELDS OF ATHENRY Danehill LR, GOSPEL CHOIR Pivotal LR, KINGFISHER Halling LR, OBSERVATIONAL Cadeaux Genereux LR, OUTSTANDING Mozart LR, TELESCOPE Darshaan LR, THE CORSICAN Danehill LR, WINDSOR PARK Mr Prospector LR. 1st Dam: Walklikeanegyptian by Danehill. 3 wins, 2nd Pucker Up S G3. Dam of 4 winners: 2009: ABSOLUTE SOUL (c Perfect Soul) Winner at 2 in Sweden.

2011: THE CORSICAN (c Galileo) 4 wins at 3 and 4, 888sport Festival S LR. 2012: HEATSTROKE (c Galileo) Winner at 2.

international database 2013: DEAUVILLE (c Galileo) 2 wins at 2, Tyros S G3.

2014: (c Galileo) 2015: (c Galileo) Broodmare Sire: DANEHILL. Sire of the dams of 297 Stakes winners. In 2015 - COSMIC ENDEAVOUR Northern Meteor G1, FREE EAGLE High Chaparral G1, HALLOWED CROWN Street Sense G1, PRIDE OF DUBAI Street Cry G1, VANCOUVER Medaglia d'Oro G1, CUSTOM CUT Notnowcato G2, MUTHMIR Invincible Spirit G2, SECRET GESTURE Galileo G2, BERLING Montjeu G3, BONDI BEACH Galileo G3, DEAUVILLE Galileo G3, EL VALLE Dobby Road G3, FORGOTTEN RULES Nayef G3, KOKORONO AI Stay Gold G3, MAJESTIC QUEEN Kheleyf G3, MR SINGH High Chaparral G3, PASSING SHOT Swiss Ace G3, SCRATCHY BOTTOM Sebring G3, SOLICIT Street Cry G3, FALINO Fusaichi Pegasus LR, FEDERAL Medaglia d'Oro LR, FIELDS OF ATHENRY Galileo LR, KNIGHT'S COMMAND Pins LR, LANDLOCKED Zabeel LR, LET'S MAKE ADEAL Red Ransom LR, NAYELI More Than Ready LR, RACING EIGHT Mossman LR, THE CORSICAN Galileo LR, TOMBELAINE First Defence LR, TOWER OF LONHRO Lonhro LR, WOODWIN W More Than Ready LR, BELTOR Authorized LR, NANDO Hernando LR, RED KINGDOM Deep Impact LR. The Galileo/Danehill cross has produced: BANC DE FORTUNE G1, CIMA DE TRIOMPHE G1, CUIS GHAIRE G1, FRANKEL G1, GOLDEN LILAC G1, HIGHLAND REEL G1, INTELLO G1, MAYBE G1, NOBLE MISSION G1, ORCHESTRA G1, RODERIC O'CONNOR G1, ROMANTICA G1, SCINTILLULA G1, SECRET GESTURE G1, TAPESTRY G1, TEOFILO G1, REEM G2, BONDI BEACH G3, CRYSTAL GAL G3, DAZZLING G3, DEAUVILLE G3, GALIWAY G3, JOHN F KENNEDY G3, LAGALP G3, MEKONG RIVER G3, SIDERA G3, WONDERFULLY G3, FIELDS OF ATHENRY LR, MISS GALILEI LR, THE CORSICAN LR, VIA GALILEI LR, BALLYGLASHEEN LR, SUPASUNDAE LR, Galileo's Destiny G1, Gile Na Greine G1,

Mars G1, The Assayer G1, Brightest G3, Circling G3, Claiomh Solais G3, Impulsive Moment G3, Marksmanship G3, Acteur Celebre LR, Amerique LR, Iltemas LR, Provenance LR, Pageboy LR. Northern Dancer Sadler's Wells Fairy Bridge GALILEO b 98 Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta DEAUVILLE b c 2013 Danzig Danehill Razyana WALKLIKEANEGYPTIAN b 2003 Rahy Ahdaab Dish Dash

Sky Bet York Stakes, G2, York, July 25, 10f 1 Tullius (IRE) 7 ch g Le Vie Dei Colori (GB) - Whipped Queen (USA) (Kingmambo (USA)) 2 Top Notch Tonto (IRE) 5 ch g Thousand Words (GB) - Elite Hope (USA) (Moment of Hope (USA)) 3 Prince Gibraltar (FR) 4 ch c Rock of Gibraltar (IRE) - Princess Sofia (UAE) (Pennekamp (USA)) Age: 2-7; Starts: 29; Wins: 10; Places: 13 Earnings: £432,493 Sire: LE VIE DEI COLORI. Sire of 10 Stakes winners. In 2015 - TULLIUS Kingmambo G2, GOLD-FUN Foxhound LR. 1st Dam: WHIPPED QUEEN by Kingmambo. 2 wins at 3 and 4 in USA. Dam of 5 winners: 2002: (c El Amante) 2003: BADARAS (g Black Minnaloushe) Winner at 4 in USA. 2004: Whippin' Wager (f Valid Wager) 2005: Vivi (c Valid Wager) 2006: POSTER (c Johannesburg) 4 wins.

2007: Acqua Dalla Luna (f Le Vie Dei Colori) unraced. Broodmare.

2008: TULLIUS (g Le Vie Dei Colori) Sold 20,000gns yearling at TAOC2.

10 wins to 2015, York S G2, bet365 Mile G2, Sovereign S G3, Doncaster Mile S LR, Royal Windsor S LR, Ganton S LR, 2nd Lockinge S G1, 3rd Summer Mile G2, Ben Marshall S LR.

2009: MAGLIETTA FINA (f Verglas) 5 wins. Broodmare.

2010: Viva L'Inghilterra (f Refuse To Bend) 2011: TULLIA (f Footstepsinthesand) 2 wins at 2 and 3.

2013: (f Urban Poet) Broodmare Sire: KINGMAMBO. Sire of the dams of 93 Stakes winners. In 2015 - BURATINO Exceed And Excel G2, GOLD MEDAL DANCER Medaglia d'Oro G2, TULLIUS Le Vie Dei Colori G2, WALZERTAKT Montjeu G2, KITTEN'S POINT Kitten's Joy G3, ONE FINE DAY Trippi G3, SKY KINGDOM Empire Maker G3, SPEEDY SUZY Trippi G3, WINNING CAUSE Giant's Causeway G3, MAMBOMISS Mastercraftsman LR, MIDSUMMER SUN Monsun LR, ROUND TWO Teofilo LR, SOLOMON Rebuttal LR, KISANJI Teofilo LR. Efisio

Formidable

Eldoret LE VIE DEI COLORI b 2000 El Gran Senor Mystic Tempo Doubling Time TULLIUS ch g 2008 Mr Prospector Kingmambo Miesque WHIPPED QUEEN b 97 Silent Screen Meringue Pie Bavarian Cream

King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes, G1, Ascot, July 25, 12f 1 Postponed (IRE) 4 b c Dubawi (IRE) - Ever Rigg (GB) (Dubai Destination (USA)) 2 Eagle Top (GB) 4 ch c Pivotal (GB) - Gull Wing (IRE) (In The Wings) 3 Romsdal (GB) 4 ch c Halling (USA) - Pure Song (GB) (Singspiel (IRE)) Age: 2-4; Starts: 12; Wins: 4; Places: 7 Earnings: £980,532 Sire: DUBAWI. Sire of 102 Stakes winners. In 2015 - AL KAZEEM Darshaan G1, ERUPT Caerleon G1, HUNTER'S LIGHT Barathea G1, NEW BAY Zamindar G1, NIGHT OF

THUNDER Galileo G1, POSTPONED Dubai Destination G1, PRINCE BISHOP Prospect Bay G1, SHAMAL WIND Machiavellian G1, SRIKANDI Hurricane Sky G1, BALL OF MUSCLE Gold Brose G2, BAWINA Sadler's Wells G2, CATKINS Catbird G2, MUBTAAHIJ Pennekamp G2, SAFETY CHECK Royal Academy G2, ALMANAAR Bahhare G3, AMBER ORCHID Hennessy G3, ARABIAN QUEEN Barathea G3, TANAZA Dalakhani G3, TIME TEST Dansili G3, BEST OF TIMES Rahy LR, CRYSTAL ZVEZDA Mark of Esteem LR, DEUCE AGAIN Unfuwain LR, DUBDAY Daylami LR, KATAWI Mountain Cat LR, LADY OF DUBAI Montjeu LR, ROYAL ISLAND Umatilla LR, DODGING BULLETS Kris S LR, LACHLAN BRIDGE Anabaa LR. 1st Dam: EVER RIGG by Dubai Destination. Winner at 3. Dam of 1 winner: 2010: Neamour (f Oasis Dream) 2011: POSTPONED (c Dubawi) Sold 360,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 4 wins at 2 to 4, King George VI & Queen Elizabeth S G1, Neptune Great Voltigeur S G2, EBF Stallions Glasgow S LR, 2nd bet365 Gordon Richards S G3, 3rd Tattersalls Gold Cup G1, Hardwicke S G2, Craven S G3, Tercentenary S G3.

2013: (g Iffraaj) 2014: (f Nathaniel) 2015: (c Makfi) Broodmare Sire: DUBAI DESTINATION. Sire of the dams of 8 Stakes winners. In 2015 GOLDEN HORN Cape Cross G1, POSTPONED Dubawi G1, DUTCH CONNECTION Dutch Art G3, SLIGHTLY SWEET Charge Forward G3, LEXINGTON TIMES Paco Boy LR. Seeking The Gold Dubai Millennium Colorado Dancer DUBAWI b 2002 Deploy Zomaradah Jawaher POSTPONED b c 2011 Kingmambo Dubai Destination Mysterial EVER RIGG b 2005 Salse Bianca Nera Birch Creek

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international database Juddmonte Princess Margaret Stakes, G3, Ascot, July 25, 6f 1 Besharah (IRE) 2 b f Kodiac (GB) - Dixieland Kiss (USA) (Dixie Union (USA)) 2 Great Page (IRE) 2 b f Roderic O'Connor (IRE) - Areeda (IRE) (Refuse To Bend (IRE)) 3 Whatdoiwantthatfor (IRE) 2 b f Kodiac (GB) - Penicuik (GB) (Hernando (FR)) Age: 2; Starts: 5; Wins: 3; Places: 2 Earnings: £66,018 Sire: KODIAC. Sire of 17 Stakes winners. In 2015 - ADAAY Royal Applause G2, BESHARAH Dixie Union G3, SPIRIT OF XIAN Touch Gold G3, AZZECCAGARBUGLI Desert Style LR, COULSTY In The Wings LR, KODI BEAR Mujtahid LR. 1st Dam: Dixieland Kiss by Dixie Union. unraced. Dam of 1 winner: 2013: BESHARAH (f Kodiac) Sold 85,000gns yearling at TAOC2. 3 wins at 2, Juddmonte Princess Margaret S G3, 2nd Qipco Duchess Of Cambridge S G2, 3rd Queen Mary S G2.

2014: (c Casamento) Broodmare Sire: DIXIE UNION. Sire of the dams of 10 Stakes winners. In 2015 - IDALINO Pleasantly Perfect G2, BESHARAH Kodiac G3, MY PLEASURE Giacomo LR, SOMERS TOWN Freud LR, VENECIA STYLE Desert Style LR. Danzig Danehill Razyana KODIAC b 2001 Kris Rafha Eljazzi BESHARAH b f 2013 Dixieland Band Dixie Union She's Tops DIXIELAND KISS b/br 2008 Kris S Kiss The Devil Devil's Nell

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2 Ajalo (FR) 3 b c King's Best (USA) - Wings of Glory (GER) (Monsun (GER)) 3 Wunder (GER) 4 ch f Adlerflug (GER) - Wonderful World (GER) (Dashing Blade) Age: 3-4; Starts: 9; Wins: 4; Places: 3 Earnings: £144,109 Sire: TERTULLIAN. Sire of 17 Stakes winners. In 2015 - GUILIANI Monsun G1, KEROSIN Monsun LR. 1st Dam: GUADALUPE by Monsun.

Jt Champion 3yr old filly in Germany in 2002. 4 wins at 2 and 3 in Germany, Italy, Oaks d'Italia G1, 2nd Yorkshire Oaks G1, Gran Premio del Jockey Club G1, 3rd Diana Deutsches Stuten Derby G1.

Own sister to GETAWAY and Guardia. Dam of 5 winners: 2004: Guendalina (f Kingmambo) unraced. Broodmare.

2005: GUANTANA (f Dynaformer) 3 wins at 3 and 4 in Germany, Monsun Oster Stutenpreis LR, Siemens Rennen - Hanshin-Cup LR, 2nd Walther J Jacobs Stutenpreis G3. Dam of GUARDINI (c Dalakhani: 3 wins in France and Germany, Gerling Preis G2) 2006: Glicine (f Tiger Hill) unraced.

Broodmare.

2007: GUIANA (f Tiger Hill) Winner at 3 in Germany. Broodmare.

2008: Guenea (f Sinndar) unraced.

Broodmare.

2010: GLEE (f Dansili) 2 wins at 4 in Germany.

2011: GUILIANI (c Tertullian) 4 wins at 3 and 4 in France, Germany, Grosser Dallmayr Bayerisches Zuchtrennen G1, Prix Matchem LR, Fruhjahrs-Meile C.J.Versicherungskontors LR, 2nd Badener Meile G2, Grosser Preis der Wirtschaft G3, Wettmeister Fruhjahrsmeile G3.

2012: GUIGNOL (c Cape Cross) Winner at 3 in Germany.

2013: Gauguin (c Tertullian) unraced to date.

2015: (f Lawman) Broodmare Sire: MONSUN. Sire of the dams of 38 Stakes winners. In 2015 - GUILIANI Tertullian G1, KAPOUR Toylsome LR, KEROSIN Tertullian LR, MILLE ET MILLE Muhtathir LR.

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The Tertullian/Monsun cross has produced: GUILIANI G1, KEROSIN G3, Latakia LR. Mr Prospector Miswaki Hopespringseternal TERTULLIAN ch 95 Trempolino Turbaine Allegretta GUILIANI br c 2011 Konigsstuhl Monsun Mosella GUADALUPE br 99 Unfuwain Guernica Greenvera

Prix Robert Papin, G2, Maisons-Laffitte, July 26, 1000m 1 Gutaifan (IRE) 2 gr c Dark Angel (IRE) - Alikhlas (GB) (Lahib (USA)) 2 Ajaya (GB) 2 b c Invincible Spirit (IRE) - Nessina (USA) (Hennessy (USA)) 3 Areen (IRE) 2 b c Kodiac (GB) Falcolnry (IRE) (Hawk Wing (USA)) Age: 2; Starts: 4; Wins: 3; Places: 1 Earnings: £81,047 Sire: DARK ANGEL. Sire of 22 Stakes winners. In 2015 BIRCHWOOD Exceed And Excel G2, GUTAIFAN Lahib G2, MARKAZ Atraf G3, MECCA'S ANGEL Atraf G3, STORMFLY Lomitas G3, BOOMSHACKERLACKER Barathea LR, DELIZIA Whipper LR, FANCIFUL ANGEL Groom Dancer LR, HEAVEN'S GUEST Tagula LR, PROMISED MONEY Primo Dominie LR, SOVEREIGN DEBT Most Welcome LR. 1st Dam: ALIKHLAS by Lahib.

Winner at 3. Dam of 7 winners: 1999: ANNE TUDOR (f Anabaa) Winner at 3. Dam of Alhaban (g Verglas: 6 wins at 2 to 8, 2014, 2nd One 51 Railway S G2) 2001: SILK FAN (f Unfuwain) 3 wins at 2 and 3. Dam of Haikbidiac (c Kodiac: 2 wins at 2, 3rd Investec Woodcote S LR, 3rd Prix d'Arenberg G3), Eagle Rock (g High Chaparral: 5 wins, 2nd Summit Juv. Hurdle G2) 2002: IMPERIAL RULE (g Second Empire) Winner at 3.

2003: Shallika (f Alhaarth) unraced. Broodmare.

2004: Zawariq (f Marju) ran twice.

Broodmare.

2005: Granny Bea (f Galileo) unraced. Broodmare.

2007: BLASKET SPIRIT (g King's Best) 5 wins.

2009: WARCROWN (g Azamour) Winner at 3.

2010: Cest Notre Gris (g Verglas) 2 wins at 2, 3rd Eyrefield S LR. 2012: Savvy (f Verglas) in training.

2013: GUTAIFAN (c Dark Angel) 3 wins at 2 at home, France, Prix Robert Papin G2.

Broodmare Sire: LAHIB. Sire of the dams of 16 Stakes winners. In 2015 - GUTAIFAN Dark Angel G2.

Royal Applause Acclamation Princess Athena DARK ANGEL gr 2005 Machiavellian Midnight Angel Night At Sea GUTAIFAN gr c 2013 Riverman Lahib Lady Cutlass ALIKHLAS b/br 94 Shadeed Mathaayl Manal

Qatar Vintage Stakes, G2, Goodwood, July 28, 7f 1 Galileo Gold (GB) 2 ch c Paco Boy (IRE) - Galicuix (GB) (Galileo (IRE)) 2 Ibn Malik (IRE) 2 ch c Raven's Pass (USA) - Moon's Whisper (USA) (Storm Cat (USA)) 3 Palawan (GB) 2 b c Mount Nelson (GB) - Apple Sauce (GB) (Prince Sabo) Age: 2; Starts: 4; Wins: 3; Places: 1 Earnings: £123,720 Sire: PACO BOY. Sire of 7 Stakes winners. In 2015 - GALILEO GOLD Galileo G2, LEXINGTON TIMES Dubai Destination LR, MAKING TROUBLE Dr Fong LR, PEACOCK Rainbow Quest LR, STELLA DI PACO Savabeel LR. 1st Dam: Galicuix by Galileo. ran twice at 3. Dam of 1 winner: 2013: GALILEO GOLD (c Paco Boy) Sold 26,190gns yearling at TISEP. 3 wins at 2, Qatar Vintage S G2.

2014: (f Paco Boy) 2015: (c Champs Elysees)

international database Broodmare Sire: GALILEO. Sire of the dams of 37 Stakes winners. In 2015 - MAGICOOL Fastnet Rock G1, NIGHT OF THUNDER Dubawi G1, QUALIFY Fastnet Rock G1, BALIOS Shamardal G2, GALILEO GOLD Paco Boy G2, MANATEE Monsun G2, LEA First Samurai G3, BERTINORO Aussie Rules LR, GREATWOOD Manduro LR, MOJO RISIN Lope de Vega LR, THUNDER FANTASY Lucky Owners LR, FOR ME Shirocco LR, HARGAM Sinndar LR, SOLAR FOCUS Intense Focus LR. Green Desert Desert Style Organza PACO BOY b 2005 Sandhurst Prince Tappen Zee Rossaldene GALILEO GOLD ch c 2013 Sadler's Wells Galileo Urban Sea GALICUIX ch 2008 Machiavellian Clizia Cuixmala

Qatar Lennox Stakes, G2, Goodwood, July 28, 7f 1 Toormore (IRE) 4 b c Arakan (USA) - Danetime Out (IRE) (Danetime (IRE)) 2 Dutch Connection (GB) 3 ch c Dutch Art (GB) - Endless Love (IRE) (Dubai Destination (USA)) 3 Safety Check (IRE) 4 ch c Dubawi (IRE) - Doors To Manual (USA) (Royal Academy (USA)) Age: 2-4; Starts: 12; Wins: 5; Places: 5 Earnings: £625,959 Sire: ARAKAN. Sire of 5 Stakes winners. In 2015 - TOORMORE Danetime G2.

1st Dam: Danetime Out by Danetime. unraced. Dam of 3 winners: 2008: TRY THE CHANCE (g Majestic Missile) 3 wins at 2 and 3.

2009: Cmonbabylitemyfire (f Piccolo) unraced.

2010: Captain Cruz (c Captain Marvelous) 2011: TOORMORE (c Arakan) Sold 34,285gns yearling at DNPRM. Champion 2yr old colt in Europe in 2013. 5 wins at 2 to 4, Goffs

Vincent O'Brien National S G1, Qatar Lennox S G2, Veuve Clicquot Vintage S G2, Novae Bloodstock Insurance Craven S G3, 2nd Al Shaqab Lockinge S G1, bet365 Lennox S G2, 3rd Qipco Queen Elizabeth II S G1, International Topkapi Trophy G2.

2012: ESTIDHKAAR (c Dark Angel) 3 wins at 2, At the Races Champagne S G2, 666bet Superlative S G2.

2013: Al Markhiya (f Arcano) unraced to date.

2014: (f Sir Prancealot) Broodmare Sire: DANETIME. Sire of the dams of 8 Stakes winners.

In 2015 - TOORMORE Arakan G2, BELLE LA VIE Balmont LR. Northern Dancer Nureyev Special ARAKAN br 2000 Common Grounds Far Across City Ex TOORMORE b c 2011 Danehill Danetime Allegheny River DANETIME OUT b 2003 Persian Bold Matila Peace Girl

Qatar Sussex Stakes, G1, Goodwood, July 29, 8f 1 Solow (GB) 5 gr g Singspiel (IRE) - High Maintenance (FR) (Highest Honor (FR)) 2 Arod (IRE) 4 b c Teofilo (IRE) - My Personal Space (USA) (Rahy (USA)) 3 Gabrial (IRE) 6 b g Dark Angel (IRE) - Guajira (FR) (Mtoto)

Dubai Turf G1, Qatar Prix Daniel Wildenstein G2, Prix Quincey Lucien Barriere G3.

2011: Too High (c High Chaparral) 2012: Prime Spot (c High Chaparral) unraced to date.

2013: High Quality (f Invincible Spirit) unraced to date.

2015: Lunch Lady (f Shamardal) Broodmare Sire: HIGHEST HONOR. Sire of the dams of 62 Stakes winners. In 2015 - SOLOW Singspiel G1, REVE MISTRAL King Kamehameha G2, FLY WITH ME Beat Hollow LR, HONNEUR AU ROI Turtle Bowl LR, PETITE PARISIENNE Montmartre LR. The Singspiel/Highest Honor cross has produced: SOLOW G1, AU REVOIR G2.

Sadler's Wells In The Wings High Hawk SINGSPIEL b 92 Halo Glorious Song Ballade SOLOW gr g 2010 Kenmare Highest Honor High River HIGH MAINTENANCE gr 2004 Fabulous Dancer Fabulous Hostess Young Hostess

Neptune Investment Gordon Stakes, G3, Goodwood, July 29, 12f

Age: 2-5; Starts: 16; Wins: 11; Places: 4 Earnings: £3,415,919

1 Highland Reel (IRE) 3 b c Galileo (IRE) - Hveger (AUS) (Danehill (USA)) 2 Scottish (IRE) 3 b g Teofilo (IRE) Zeiting (IRE) (Zieten (USA)) 3 Disegno (IRE) 3 b c Fastnet Rock (AUS) - Seven Magicians (USA) (Silver Hawk (USA))

Sire: SINGSPIEL. Sire of 101 Stakes winners. In 2015 - SOLOW Highest Honor G1.

Age: 2-3; Starts: 7; Wins: 3; Places: 2 Earnings: £397,810

1st Dam: High Maintenance by Highest Honor. 3 wins at 2 to 4 in France, 2nd G. P. de Lyon Etape du Defi du Galop LR, Prix La Moskowa LR, 3rd Qatar Prix Gladiateur G3.

Dam of 1 winner: 2010: SOLOW (g Singspiel) 11 wins at 3 to 5 at home, France, UAE, Queen Anne S G1, Qatar Sussex S G1, Prix d'Ispahan G1, DP World

Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 203 Stakes winners. In 2015 - GLENEAGLES Storm Cat G1, AMPERE Sri Pekan G2, CURVY Inchinor G2, SECRET GESTURE Danehill G2, TANBY Danewin G2, WEDDING VOW Danehill Dancer G2, BONDI BEACH Danehill G3, DEAUVILLE Danehill G3, HIGHLAND REEL Danehill G3, KISSED BY ANGELS Danehill

Dancer G3, MIZZOU Darshaan G3, SERTORIUS Encosta de Lago G3, SILVER GALAXY Pivotal G3, ALOFT Storm Cat LR, EYE OF THE STORM Shirley Heights LR, FAUFILER Celtic Swing LR, FIELDS OF ATHENRY Danehill LR, GOSPEL CHOIR Pivotal LR, KINGFISHER Halling LR, MONDIALISTE Kaldoun LR, OBSERVATIONAL Cadeaux Genereux LR, OUTSTANDING Mozart LR, TELESCOPE Darshaan LR, THE CORSICAN Danehill LR, WINDSOR PARK Mr Prospector LR. 1st Dam: Hveger by Danehill.

Winner in Australia, 2nd Feltex Carpets South Australia Oaks G2, 3rd Schweppes Australasian Oaks G1. Own sister to ELVSTROEM. Dam of 2 winners: 2006: Valdemoro (f Encosta de Lago) 2 wins in Australia, 2nd Vinery Stud Storm Queen S G1, Crown Victoria Oaks G1.

Broodmare.

2007: Nakata (g Fusaichi Pegasus) 2011: Rings of Saturn (g Galileo) ran on the flat in Singapore.

2012: HIGHLAND REEL (c Galileo) Sold 460,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 3 wins at 2 and 3, Veuve Clicquot Vintage S G2, Neptune Investment Gordon S G3, 2nd Prix du Jockey Club G1.

2013: Idaho (c Galileo) unraced to date.

2014: (f Galileo) Broodmare Sire: DANEHILL. Sire of the dams of 297 Stakes winners. In 2015 - COSMIC ENDEAVOUR Northern Meteor G1, FREE EAGLE High Chaparral G1, HALLOWED CROWN Street Sense G1, PRIDE OF DUBAI Street Cry G1, VANCOUVER Medaglia d'Oro G1, CUSTOM CUT Notnowcato G2, MUTHMIR Invincible Spirit G2, SECRET GESTURE Galileo G2, BERLING Montjeu G3, BONDI BEACH Galileo G3, DEAUVILLE Galileo G3, EL VALLE Dobby Road G3, FORGOTTEN RULES Nayef G3, HIGHLAND REEL Galileo G3, KOKORONO AI Stay Gold G3, MAJESTIC QUEEN Kheleyf G3, MR SINGH High Chaparral G3, PASSING SHOT Swiss Ace G3, SCRATCHY BOTTOM Sebring G3, SOLICIT Street Cry G3, FALINO Fusaichi Pegasus LR, FEDERAL Medaglia d'Oro LR, FIELDS OF

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international database ATHENRY Galileo LR, GOOD BABY Hussonet LR, KNIGHT'S COMMAND Pins LR, LANDLOCKED Zabeel LR, LET'S MAKE ADEAL Red Ransom LR, NAYELI More Than Ready LR, RACING EIGHT Mossman LR, THE CORSICAN Galileo LR, TOMBELAINE First Defence LR, TOWER OF LONHRO Lonhro LR, WOODWIN W More Than Ready LR, BELTOR Authorized LR, NANDO Hernando LR, RED KINGDOM Deep Impact LR. The Galileo/Danehill cross has produced: BANC DE FORTUNE G1, CIMA DE TRIOMPHE G1, CUIS GHAIRE G1, FRANKEL G1, GOLDEN LILAC G1, HIGHLAND REEL G1, INTELLO G1, MAYBE G1, NOBLE MISSION G1, ORCHESTRA G1, RODERIC O'CONNOR G1, ROMANTICA G1, SCINTILLULA G1, SECRET GESTURE G1, TAPESTRY G1, TEOFILO G1, REEM G2, BONDI BEACH G3, CRYSTAL GAL G3, DAZZLING G3, DEAUVILLE G3, GALIWAY G3, JOHN F KENNEDY G3, LAGALP G3, MEKONG RIVER G3, SIDERA G3, WONDERFULLY G3, FIELDS OF ATHENRY LR, MISS GALILEI LR, THE CORSICAN LR, VIA GALILEI LR, BALLYGLASHEEN LR, SUPASUNDAE LR, Galileo's Destiny G1, Gile Na Greine G1, Mars G1, The Assayer G1, Brightest G3, Circling G3, Claiomh Solais G3, Impulsive Moment G3, Marksmanship G3, Acteur Celebre LR, Amerique LR, Iltemas LR, Provenance LR, Pageboy LR. Northern Dancer Sadler's Wells Fairy Bridge GALILEO b 98 Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta HIGHLAND REEL b c 2012 Danzig Danehill Razyana HVEGER b 2001 Marscay Circles of Gold Olympic Aim

Fairmont Molecomb Stakes, G3, Goodwood, July 29, 5f 1 Kachy (GB) 2 b c Kyllachy (GB) Dubai Bounty (GB) (Dubai Destination (USA)) 2 King of Rooks (GB) 2 b c Acclamation (GB) - Slap Shot (IRE) (Lycius (USA))

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3 Rouleau (GB) 2 b c Exceed And Excel (AUS) - Rachelle (IRE) (Mark of Esteem (IRE)) Age: 2; Starts: 2; Wins: 2; Places: 0 Earnings: £49,002 Sire: KYLLACHY. Sire of 23 Stakes winners. In 2015 - SOLE POWER Distant View G1, STEPPER POINT Compton Place G2, KACHY Dubai Destination G3, KYLLACHY QUEEN King Charlemagne LR. 1st Dam: DUBAI BOUNTY by Dubai Destination. 3 wins at 2, 3 and 5.

Dam of 1 winner: 2013: KACHY (c Kyllachy) Sold 49,523gns yearling at DNPRM. 2 wins at 2, Molecomb S G3.

2014: (f Royal Applause) Broodmare Sire: DUBAI DESTINATION. Sire of the dams of 9 Stakes winners. In 2015 GOLDEN HORN Cape Cross G1, POSTPONED Dubawi G1, DUTCH CONNECTION Dutch Art G3, KACHY Kyllachy G3, SLIGHTLY SWEET Charge Forward G3, LEXINGTON TIMES Paco Boy LR. Pivotal

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Fearless Revival KYLLACHY b 98 Song Pretty Poppy Moonlight Serenade KACHY b c 2013 Kingmambo Dubai Destination Mysterial DUBAI BOUNTY ch 2007 Bahamian Bounty Mary Read Hill Welcome

Qatar Richmond Stakes, G2, Goodwood, July 30, 6f 1 Shalaa (IRE) 2 b c Invincible Spirit (IRE) - Ghurra (USA) (War Chant (USA)) 2 Tasleet (GB) 2 b c Showcasing (GB) - Bird Key (GB) (Cadeaux Genereux) 3 Steady Pace (GB) 2 b c Dark Angel (IRE) - Cool Kitten (IRE) (One Cool Cat (USA)) Age: 2; Starts: 4; Wins: 3; Places: 0 Earnings: £163,316 Sire: INVINCIBLE SPIRIT. Sire of 92 Stakes winners. In 2015 TERRITORIES Machiavellian G1,

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IMPASSABLE Green Tune G2, MUTHMIR Danehill G2, SHALAA War Chant G2, CABLE BAY Diktat G3, LOCAL TIME Medicean G3, ARCTIC GYR Kris S LR, GRENDISAR Mark of Esteem LR, PRETEND Indian Ridge LR, PROFITABLE Indian Ridge LR, RIVELLINO Pivotal LR, THAT IS THE SPIRIT Acatenango LR. 1st Dam: Ghurra by War Chant. 3 wins, 3rd Wilshire H G3. Own sister to Zifzaf. Dam of 3 winners: 2009: Nepali Princess (f Mr Greeley) unraced. Broodmare.

2010: PEARL CASTLE (g Montjeu) 5 wins.

2011: Dai Bando (g Montjeu) Winner over hurdles at 3, 2nd Bar One Racing Juvenile Hurdle G3.

2012: Go White Lightning (f Lord Shanakill) 2013: SHALAA (c Invincible Spirit) Sold 170,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 3 wins at 2, Arqana July S G2, Qatar Richmond S G2.

2015: (f High Chaparral) Broodmare Sire: WAR CHANT. Sire of the dams of 6 Stakes winners. In 2015 - SHALAA Invincible Spirit G2, IVEAGH GARDENS Mastercraftsman G3.

The Invincible Spirit/War Chant cross has produced: SHALAA G2, Ballymore Castle LR. Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier INVINCIBLE SPIRIT b 97 Kris Rafha Eljazzi SHALAA b c 2013 Danzig War Chant Hollywood Wildcat GHURRA b 2002 Diesis Futuh Hardship

Qatar Goodwood Cup, G2, Goodwood, July 30, 16f 1 Big Orange (GB) 4 b g Duke of Marmalade (IRE) - Miss Brown To You (IRE) (Fasliyev (USA)) 2 Quest For More (IRE) 5 b g Teofilo (IRE) - No Quest (IRE) (Rainbow Quest (USA))

3 Trip To Paris (IRE) 4 b g Champs Elysees (GB) - La Grande Zoa (IRE) (Fantastic Light (USA)) Age: 2-4; Starts: 12; Wins: 5; Places: 4 Earnings: £290,579 Sire: DUKE OF MARMALADE. Sire of 22 Stakes winners. In 2015 NUTAN Peintre Celebre G1, STAR OF SEVILLE Selkirk G1, BIG ORANGE Fasliyev G2, MOOFEED Encosta de Lago G3, SIMPLE VERSE Sadler's Wells G3, SOUND OF FREEDOM Invincible Spirit G3.

1st Dam: MISS BROWN TO YOU by Fasliyev. Winner at 3. Dam of 2 winners: 2010: EMPOWERMENTOFWOMEN (f Manduro) Winner at 3.

2011: BIG ORANGE (g Duke of Marmalade) 5 wins at 3 and 4, Qatar Goodwood Cup G2, Arqana Princess of Wales's S G2, Betdaq Colossus Chester H LR, Londonmetric Noel Murless S LR. 2012: Verchinina (f Authorized) unraced to date.

2013: The Paris Shrug (f Manduro) unraced to date.

2014: (c Sepoy) 2015: (f Poet's Voice) Broodmare Sire: FASLIYEV. Sire of the dams of 27 Stakes winners. In 2015 - BIG ORANGE Duke of Marmalade G2, AMERICA A P Indy LR, DON'T BE Cape Cross LR, EVIL SPELL Dutch Art LR. Danzig Danehill Razyana DUKE OF MARMALADE b 2004 Kingmambo Love Me True Lassie's Lady BIG ORANGE b g 2011 Nureyev Fasliyev Mr P's Princess MISS BROWN TO YOU b 2005 Dancing Brave Almaaseh Al Bahathri

Markel Insurance Lillie Langtry Stakes, G3, Goodwood, July 30, 14f 1 Simple Verse (IRE) 3 b f Duke of Marmalade (IRE) - Guantanamera (IRE) (Sadler's Wells (USA))

international database 2 Hidden Gold (IRE) 4 b f Shamardal (USA) - Melikah (IRE) (Lammtarra (USA)) 3 Jordan Princess (GB) 4 b f Cape Cross (IRE) - Princess Nada (GB) (Barathea (IRE)) Age: 3; Starts: 6; Wins: 3; Places: 2 Earnings: £76,637 Sire: DUKE OF MARMALADE. Sire of 22 Stakes winners. In 2015 NUTAN Peintre Celebre G1, STAR OF SEVILLE Selkirk G1, BIG ORANGE Fasliyev G2, MOOFEED Encosta de Lago G3, SIMPLE VERSE Sadler's Wells G3, SOUND OF FREEDOM Invincible Spirit G3.

1st Dam: Guantanamera by Sadler's Wells. unraced. Dam of 3 winners: 2008: Marc de Savoie (c Aussie Rules) 2009: LORD JIM (g Holy Roman Emperor) Winner at 3.

2010: Maxentius (g Holy Roman Emperor) 3 wins, 3rd 32red.com Superlative S G2.

2012: SIMPLE VERSE (f Duke of Marmalade) Sold 185,829gns yearling at GOOY1. 3 wins at 3, Markel Ins. Lillie Langtry S G3.

2013: Even Song (f Mastercraftsman) unraced to date.

Broodmare Sire: SADLER'S WELLS. Sire of the dams of 365 Stakes winners. In 2015 - BLAZING SPEED Dylan Thomas G1, DIAMONDSANDRUBIES Fastnet Rock G1, GUST OF WIND Darci Brahma G1, BAWINA Dubawi G2, KARPINO Cape Cross G2, SECOND STEP Dalakhani G2, ALEX MY BOY Dalakhani G3, BEAUTY PARLOR Elusive Quality G3, EH CUMPARI Elusive Quality G3, SIMPLE VERSE Duke of Marmalade G3, AYRAD Dalakhani LR, PECK Pivotal LR, SIXTH SENSE Shamardal LR, STORM THE STARS Sea The Stars LR, VAL D'HIVER Zafeen LR, VICTORY SONG Dansili LR, ZAWRAQ Shamardal LR, CHARBEL Iffraaj LR, STAND TO GAIN Hawk Wing LR, TOP GAMBLE Presenting LR. The Duke of Marmalade/Sadler's Wells cross has produced: ALIVE ALIVE OH G3, SIMPLE VERSE G3, Orange Sun LR.

Danzig Danehill Razyana DUKE OF MARMALADE b 2004 Kingmambo Love Me True Lassie's Lady SIMPLE VERSE b f 2012 Northern Dancer Sadler's Wells Fairy Bridge GUANTANAMERA b 2004 Darshaan Bluffing Instinctive Move

Qatar King George Stakes, G2, Goodwood, July 31, 5f 1 Muthmir (IRE) 5 b g Invincible Spirit (IRE) - Fairy of The Night (IRE) (Danehill (USA)) 2 Take Cover (GB) 8 b g Singspiel (IRE) - Enchanted (GB) (Magic Ring (IRE)) 3 Move In Time (GB) 7 ch g Monsieur Bond (IRE) - Tibesti (GB) (Machiavellian (USA)) Age: 3-5; Starts: 13; Wins: 5; Places: 4 Earnings: £349,013 Sire: INVINCIBLE SPIRIT. Sire of 92 Stakes winners. In 2015 TERRITORIES Machiavellian G1, IMPASSABLE Green Tune G2, MUTHMIR Danehill G2, SHALAA War Chant G2, CABLE BAY Diktat G3, LOCAL TIME Medicean G3, ARCTIC GYR Kris S LR, GRENDISAR Mark of Esteem LR, PRETEND Indian Ridge LR, PROFITABLE Indian Ridge LR, RIVELLINO Pivotal LR, THAT IS THE SPIRIT Acatenango LR. 1st Dam: FAIRY OF THE NIGHT by Danehill. 2 wins at 3, IrishStall.Farms EBF Fairy Bridge S LR. Dam of 3 winners: 2008: Aneedah (f Invincible Spirit) Winner at 2, 2nd Cleanevent Pavilion S LR. Broodmare.

2009: Cape of Night (f Cape Cross) unraced. Broodmare.

2010: MUTHMIR (g Invincible Spirit) Sold 130,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 5 wins at 3 to 5 at home, France, Qatar King George S G2, Prix du Gros-Chene - Equida Alive G2, 3rd King's Stand S G1.

2011: MY TITANIA (f Sea The Stars) 2 wins at 2, C L Weld Park S G3, 3rd Kilboy Estate S G2.

2012: My Fairy (f Sea The Stars) unraced to date.

Broodmare Sire: DANEHILL. Sire of the dams of 298 Stakes winners. In 2015 - COSMIC ENDEAVOUR Northern Meteor G1, FREE EAGLE High Chaparral G1, HALLOWED CROWN Street Sense G1, PRIDE OF DUBAI Street Cry G1, VANCOUVER Medaglia d'Oro G1, CUSTOM CUT Notnowcato G2, MUTHMIR Invincible Spirit G2, SECRET GESTURE Galileo G2, BERLING Montjeu G3, BONDI BEACH Galileo G3, DEAUVILLE Galileo G3, EL VALLE Dobby Road G3, FORGOTTEN RULES Nayef G3, HIGHLAND REEL Galileo G3, KOKORONO AI Stay Gold G3, MAJESTIC QUEEN Kheleyf G3, MR SINGH High Chaparral G3, PASSING SHOT Swiss Ace G3, SCRATCHY BOTTOM Sebring G3, SOLICIT Street Cry G3, FALINO Fusaichi Pegasus LR, FEDERAL Medaglia d'Oro LR, FIELDS OF ATHENRY Galileo LR, GOOD BABY Hussonet LR, GRETCHEN Galileo LR, KNIGHT'S COMMAND Pins LR, LANDLOCKED Zabeel LR, LET'S MAKE ADEAL Red Ransom LR, NAYELI More Than Ready LR, RACING EIGHT Mossman LR, THE CORSICAN Galileo LR, TOMBELAINE First Defence LR, TOWER OF LONHRO Lonhro LR, WOODWIN W More Than Ready LR, BELTOR Authorized LR, NANDO Hernando LR, RED KINGDOM Deep Impact LR. The Invincible Spirit/Danehill cross has produced: MUTHMIR G1, Aneedah LR. Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier INVINCIBLE SPIRIT b 97 Kris Rafha Eljazzi MUTHMIR b g 2010 Danzig Danehill Razyana FAIRY OF THE NIGHT b 2002 Night Shift Sassenach Darabaka

L'Ormarins Queens Plate Oak Tree Stakes, G3, Goodwood, July 31, 7f 1 Amy Eria (IRE) 4 b f Shamardal (USA) - Berroscoberro (FR) (Octagonal (NZ))

2 Osaila (IRE) 3 b f Danehill Dancer (IRE) - Mennetou (IRE) (Entrepreneur (GB)) 3 Montalcino (IRE) 3 b f Big Bad Bob (IRE) - Fair Sailing (IRE) (Docksider (USA)) Age: 2-4; Starts: 11; Wins: 3; Places: 4 Earnings: £104,848 Sire: SHAMARDAL. Sire of 83 Stakes winners. In 2015 - ABLE FRIEND Volksraad G1, DUNBOYNE EXPRESS Polish Precedent G1, AMARON Bertolini G2, BALIOS Galileo G2, DARIYAN Selkirk G2, DELECTATION More Than Ready G2, AMY ERIA Octagonal G3, FINTRY Indian Ridge G3, FRENCH NAVY Woodman G3, SHAMALIA Redoute's Choice G3, TRYSTER Riverman G3, AKATEA Peintre Celebre LR, DUSKY QUEEN Refuse To Bend LR, FOND WORDS Elusive City LR, JOYFUL HOPE Barathea LR, MAWAAL Darshaan LR, SECRET SHAM Rivotious LR, SIXTH SENSE Sadler's Wells LR, SPEEDY BOARDING Diktat LR, SPERRY Marju LR, ZAWRAQ Sadler's Wells LR. 1st Dam: Berroscoberro by Octagonal. Winner at 3 in France, 3rd Prix Joubert LR, Prix de Thiberville LR. Dam of 3 winners: 2006: ANNA ROSAIRES (c Anabaa) Winner at 3 in France.

2007: Valiant Quercus (c Oratorio) unraced.

2008: Rock Quercus (c Azamour) ran on the flat in France.

2009: PASSION ERIA (f Holy Roman Emperor) 2 wins at 3 in France.

2011: AMY ERIA (f Shamardal) Sold 67,460gns yearling at ARAUG. 3 wins at 3 and 4 at home, France, L'Ormarins Queens Plate Oak Tree S G3, Prix Amandine LR, 2nd Bankhaus von der Heydt Silberne Peitsche G3.

2012: Octa Eria (f Amadeus Wolf) unraced to date.

Broodmare Sire: OCTAGONAL. Sire of the dams of 28 Stakes winners. In 2015 - AMY ERIA Shamardal G3, BIG TREE Snitzel G3, BOSSEUR Coastal Path LR.

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international database Storm Cat Giant's Causeway Mariah's Storm SHAMARDAL b 2002 Machiavellian Helsinki Helen Street AMY ERIA b f 2011 Zabeel Octagonal Eight Carat BERROSCOBERRO b/br 2001 Linamix Muramixa Muravera

Gone West Elusive Quality Touch of Greatness RAVEN'S PASS ch 2005 Lord At War Ascutney Right Word MALABAR b f 2012 Blushing Groom Nashwan Height of Fashion WHIRLY BIRD b 2001 Shirley Heights Inchyre Inchmurrin

Bonhams Thoroughbred Stakes, G3, Goodwood, July 31, 8f

Betfred Glorious Stakes, G3, Goodwood, July 31, 12f

1 Malabar (GB) 3 b f Raven's Pass (USA) - Whirly Bird (GB) (Nashwan (USA)) 2 Kool Kompany (IRE) 3 br c Jeremy (USA) - Absolutely Cool (IRE) (Indian Ridge) 3 Latharnach (USA) 3 b c Iffraaj (GB) - Firth of Lorne (IRE) (Danehill (USA)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 10; Wins: 3; Places: 5 Earnings: £134,232 Sire: RAVEN'S PASS. Sire of 11 Stakes winners. In 2015 KATANIYA Darshaan G3, MALABAR Nashwan G3, GREG PASS St Jovite LR, RIFLESCOPE Selkirk LR. 1st Dam: Whirly Bird by Nashwan.

5 wins at 3 and 4, 3rd EBF Harvest S LR. Dam of 4 winners: 2007: WHIRLY DANCER (f Danehill Dancer) 2 wins at 3. Broodmare.

2008: Dervisher (c Dansili) 2009: CLOWANCE ESTATE (g Teofilo) 2 wins at 3 and 4.

2010: ROYAL SIGNALLER (g Dylan Thomas) 3 wins at 3 and 5.

2012: MALABAR (f Raven's Pass) Sold 70,000gns yearling at TAOC1.

3 wins at 2 and 3, Whiteley Clinic Prestige S G3, Bonhams Thoroughbred S G3.

2013: Poet's Word (c Poet's Voice) unraced to date.

2014: (c Rip Van Winkle) Broodmare Sire: NASHWAN. Sire of the dams of 70 Stakes winners.

In 2015 - KINGSTON MINES Archipenko G2, MALABAR Raven's Pass G3.

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1 Dubday (GB) 5 ch c Dubawi (IRE) - Dayrose (GB) (Daylami (IRE)) 2 The Corsican (IRE) 4 b c Galileo (IRE) - Walklikeanegyptian (IRE) (Danehill (USA)) 3 Windshear (GB) 4 b c Hurricane Run (IRE) - Portal (GB) (Hernando (FR)) Age: 3-5; Starts: 16; Wins: 8; Places: 5 Earnings: £948,449 Sire: DUBAWI. Sire of 102 Stakes winners. In 2015 - AL KAZEEM Darshaan G1, ERUPT Caerleon G1, HUNTER'S LIGHT Barathea G1, NEW BAY Zamindar G1, NIGHT OF THUNDER Galileo G1, POSTPONED Dubai Destination G1, PRINCE BISHOP Prospect Bay G1, SHAMAL WIND Machiavellian G1, SRIKANDI Hurricane Sky G1, BALL OF MUSCLE Gold Brose G2, BAWINA Sadler's Wells G2, CATKINS Catbird G2, MUBTAAHIJ Pennekamp G2, SAFETY CHECK Royal Academy G2, ALMANAAR Bahhare G3, AMBER ORCHID Hennessy G3, ARABIAN QUEEN Barathea G3, DUBDAY Daylami G3, TANAZA Dalakhani G3, TIME TEST Dansili G3, BEST OF TIMES Rahy LR, CRYSTAL ZVEZDA Mark of Esteem LR, DEUCE AGAIN Unfuwain LR, KATAWI Mountain Cat LR, LADY OF DUBAI Montjeu LR, ROYAL ISLAND Umatilla LR, DODGING BULLETS Kris S LR, LACHLAN BRIDGE Anabaa LR. 1st Dam: DAYROSE by Daylami. 2 wins at 3. Dam of 3 winners: 2008: Goodness (g Cadeaux Genereux) 2009: Plastiki (g Oasis Dream) 2010: DUBDAY (c Dubawi) 8 wins at 3 to 5 at home, Germany,

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Qatar, Glorious S G3, Qatar Derby LR, Qatar Gold Heir Apparent Trophy LR (twice), His Highness The Emirs's Trophy LR (twice), 2nd Grosser Preis des Audi Zentrums Hannover G3, Al Rayyan Aston Park S LR, Fred Archer S LR. 2011: KISS FROM A ROSE (f Compton Place) Winner at 2.

2012: DANNYDAY (c Dansili) Winner at 3.

2013: Alyday (f Kyllachy) unraced to date.

2014: (c Sir Percy) Broodmare Sire: DAYLAMI. Sire of the dams of 19 Stakes winners. In 2015 - SHIMRANO Monsun G2, DUBDAY Dubawi G3, HERO LOOK Lope de Vega G3, DEAD OR ALIVE Wanted LR. The Dubawi/Daylami cross has produced: DUBDAY G3, HEARTILY G3, NAUSICA TIME G3.

Seeking The Gold Dubai Millennium Colorado Dancer DUBAWI b 2002 Deploy Zomaradah Jawaher DUBDAY ch c 2010 Doyoun Daylami Daltawa DAYROSE ch 2003 Blushing Groom Blush Rambler Nikitina

Qatar Nassau Stakes, G1, Goodwood, August 1, 9f 110yds 1 Legatissimo (IRE) 3 b f Danehill Dancer (IRE) - Yummy Mummy (GB) (Montjeu (IRE)) 2 Wedding Vow (IRE) 3 b f Galileo (IRE) - Remember When (IRE) (Danehill Dancer (IRE)) 3 Arabian Queen (IRE) 3 b f Dubawi (IRE) - Barshiba (IRE) (Barathea (IRE)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 9; Wins: 4; Places: 4 Earnings: £753,050 Sire: DANEHILL DANCER. Sire of 168 Stakes winners. In 2015 LEGATISSIMO Montjeu G1, SUMBAL Linamix G2, WALTZING MATILDA Gone West G2, AFFAIRE SOLITAIRE Alzao G3, OSAILA Entrepreneur G3, JAZZI TOP Zafonic LR.

1st Dam: YUMMY MUMMY by Montjeu. Winner at 3. Own sister to FAME AND GLORY. Dam of 2 winners: 2010: ANOTHER COCKTAIL (g Dalakhani) Winner at 3.

2011: Royal Battalion (g Sea The Stars) 2012: LEGATISSIMO (f Danehill Dancer) Sold 350,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 4 wins at 2 and 3, Qatar Nassau S G1, Qipco 1000 Guineas G1, ISF Victor McCalmont Memorial EBF S LR, 2nd Investec Oaks S G1, Sea the Stars Pretty Polly S G1, Flame of Tara EBF S LR. 2014: (f Redoute's Choice) 2015: (f Shamardal) Broodmare Sire: MONTJEU. Sire of the dams of 30 Stakes winners.

In 2015 - LEGATISSIMO Danehill Dancer G1, EXQUISITE JEWEL Lucky Unicorn G3, BROKEN GAME Broken Vow LR, CODE RED Bahamian Bounty LR, FINIDAPREST Dylan Thomas LR, LADY DUTCH Dutch Art LR, LADY OF DUBAI Dubawi LR, MAHSOOB Dansili LR, PARISH HALL Teofilo LR, MCKINLEY Kheleyf LR, PROLOGUE Duelled LR, SAMSTOWN Kingsalsa LR. The Danehill Dancer/Montjeu cross has produced: LEGATISSIMO G1, Dynasty G3.

Danzig Danehill Razyana DANEHILL DANCER b 93 Sharpen Up Mira Adonde Lettre d'Amour LEGATISSIMO b f 2012 Sadler's Wells Montjeu Floripedes YUMMY MUMMY b 2005 Shirley Heights Gryada Grimpola

Prix de Psyche, G3, Deauville, August 1, 2000m 1 Bourree (GER) 3 b f Siyouni (FR) - Bearlita (GER) (Lomitas (GB)) 2 Sainte Amarante (FR) 3 ch f Le Havre (IRE) - Loyal Lass (USA) (Cadeaux Genereux) 3 Light The Stars (IRE) 3 b f Sea The Stars (IRE) - Lady Vettori (GB) (Vettori (IRE)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 7; Wins: 2; Places: 3 Earnings: £96,155

international database Sire: SIYOUNI. Sire of 5 Stakes winners. In 2015 - ERVEDYA King's Best G1, BOURREE Lomitas G3, LADY SYBIL Tirol LR. 1st Dam: Bearlita by Lomitas. unraced. Dam of 3 winners: 2007: Belle Cite (f Sagacity) 2008: BLUE NOTE (f Okawango) Winner at 2 in Germany.

Broodmare.

2010: Blues Wave (c Gentlewave) 4 wins, 3rd G. P. Ciudad de Madrid-Halcon Viajes LR. 2012: BOURREE (f Siyouni) Sold 15,485gns yearling at BBAGO. Champion 2yr old filly in Germany in 2014. 2 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Germany, Prix de Psyche G3, Soldier Hollow Preis der Winterkonigin G3, 2nd K.Baronin von Ullmann Schwarzgold Rennen G3.

2013: Blues of England (f Lord of England) 2014: Bruckner (c Jukebox Jury) Broodmare Sire: LOMITAS. Sire of the dams of 30 Stakes winners. In 2015 - BOURREE Siyouni G3, STORMFLY Dark Angel G3, WAKE FOREST Sir Percy G3, FEARLESS HUNTER Alhaarth LR, HOLY MOLY Mount Nelson LR, MEDRANO Archipenko LR, CARACCI APACHE High Chaparral LR, SYROS Dynaformer LR. Pivotal

Polar Falcon

Fearless Revival SIYOUNI b 2007 Danehill Sichilla Slipstream Queen BOURREE b f 2012 Niniski Lomitas La Colorada BEARLITA b 2002 Al Hareb Bearall Soxoph

Henkel Preis der Diana German Oaks, G1, Dusseldorf, August 2, 2200m 1 Turfdonna (GER) 3 b f Doyen (IRE) - Turfaue (GER) (Big Shuffle (USA)) 2 Nightflower (IRE) 3 ch f Dylan Thomas (IRE) - Night of Magic (IRE) (Peintre Celebre (USA))

3 Amona (IRE) 3 b/gr f Aussie Rules (USA) - Abbasharjah (GER) (Tiger Hill (IRE)) Age: 3; Starts: 4; Wins: 2; Places: 1 Earnings: £242,636 Sire: DOYEN. Sire of 22 Stakes winners. In 2015 - TURFDONNA Big Shuffle G1, WILD CHIEF Acatenango G2, VIF MONSIEUR Big Shuffle LR. 1st Dam: Turfaue by Big Shuffle. unraced. Own sister to TURFROSE. Dam of 5 winners: 2005: Turfwolke (f Medicean) 2006: TURFLIEBE (f Dashing Blade) 2 wins at 2 and 4 in Germany.

Broodmare.

2008: TURFLOWE (c Lando) 2 wins at 4 in Germany.

2009: Turfflamme (f Lomitas) 2 wins at 2 and 3 in Germany, 3rd Wettenleip-Junioren-Preis LR. Broodmare.

2010: TURFJAGER (g Manduro) 2 wins at 3 and 4 in France, Germany.

2011: Turfano (c Doyen) unraced.

2012: TURFDONNA (f Doyen) 2 wins at 3 in Germany, Henkel Preis der Diana -German Oaks G1, 3rd Almased Cup Hamburger Stuten Preis G3.

2014: Turfstern (c Scalo) Broodmare Sire: BIG SHUFFLE. Sire of the dams of 32 Stakes winners. In 2015 - TURFDONNA Doyen G1, VIF MONSIEUR Doyen LR, ARMAN Lando LR, TWINLIGHT Muhtathir LR. The Doyen/Big Shuffle cross has produced: TURFDONNA G1, VIF MONSIEUR G1, MOLLY LE CLOU G2, ORIENTAL MAGIC G3, PIANA LR, New World LR. Northern Dancer Sadler's Wells Fairy Bridge DOYEN b 2000 Kris Moon Cactus Lady Moon TURFDONNA b f 2012 Super Concorde Big Shuffle Raise Your Skirts TURFAUE b 2000 Shaadi Turfquelle Thekla

Prix de Cabourg Jockey Club de Turquie, G3, Deauville, August 2, 1200m 1 Tourny (FR) 2 b f Country Reel (USA) - Maka (FR) (Slickly (FR)) 2 Du Pyla (FR) 2 b c Vertigineux (FR) - Do I Worry (FR) (Charge d'Affaires (GB)) 3 Mont Kiara (FR) 2 b c Kendargent (FR) - Xaarienne (GB) (Xaar (GB)) Age: 2; Starts: 4; Wins: 2; Places: 2 Earnings: £56,589 Sire: COUNTRY REEL. Sire of 9 Stakes winners. In 2015 - TOURNY Slickly G3.

1st Dam: Maka by Slickly. 2nd G.P.Beachcomber Royal PalmVallee d'Auge LR. Dam of 2 winners: 2011: MAKE IT REEL (c Country Reel) Winner at 2 in France, Prix Yacowlef LR. 2013: TOURNY (f Country Reel) Sold 25,396gns yearling at ARNOV. 2 wins at 2 in France, Prix de Cabourg Jockey Club de Turquie G3, 2nd Prix du Bois G3.

2014: (c Rio de La Plata) Broodmare Sire: SLICKLY. Sire of the dams of 2 Stakes winners. In 2015 - TOURNY Country Reel G3.

The Country Reel/Slickly cross has produced: TOURNY G3, MAKE IT REEL LR. Danzig

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Pas de Nom COUNTRY REEL b/br 2000 Seattle Slew Country Belle Balbonella TOURNY b f 2013 Linamix Slickly Slipstream Queen MAKA b 2004 Funambule Carneia Sally's Room

Prix Rothschild, G1, Deauville, August 2, 1600m 1 Amazing Maria (IRE) 4 gr f Mastercraftsman (IRE) - Messias da Silva (USA) (Tale of The Cat (USA)) 2 Ervedya (FR) 3 b f Siyouni (FR) Elva (IRE) (King's Best (USA)) 3 Bawina (IRE) 4 b f Dubawi (IRE) Esneh (IRE) (Sadler's Wells (USA))

Age: 2-4; Starts: 12; Wins: 5; Places: 3 Earnings: £381,648 Sire: MASTERCRAFTSMAN. Sire of 19 Stakes winners. In 2015 AMAZING MARIA Tale of The Cat G1, IVEAGH GARDENS War Chant G3, MASTER APPRENTICE Hawk Wing G3, THEE AULD FLOOZIE Spinning World G3, UPHAM Gold Brose G3, MAMBOMISS Kingmambo LR, MUTATIS MUTANDIS Darshaan LR, NAKUTI Five Star Day LR, OFF LIMITS Efisio LR, VAGUE NOUVELLE Mr Greeley LR, INTENSE TANGO Fort Wood LR. 1st Dam: MESSIAS DA SILVA by Tale of The Cat. Winner at 2. Dam of 1 winner: 2010: Vulcan (g Tiger Hill) ran once.

2011: AMAZING MARIA (f Mastercraftsman) 5 wins at 2 and 4 at home, France, Qipco Falmouth S G1, Prix Rothschild G1, Duke of Cambridge S G2, Whiteley Clinic Prestige S G3, 3rd Lanwades Stud Ridgewood Pearl S G2.

2012: Madame Butterfly (f Rip Van Winkle) 2013: Constantino (c Danehill Dancer) unraced to date.

2014: (f Mastercraftsman) 2015: (c Mastercraftsman) Broodmare Sire: TALE OF THE CAT. Sire of the dams of 35 Stakes winners. In 2015 - AMAZING MARIA Mastercraftsman G1, DORTMUND Big Brown G1, ADRIFT Zabeel G2, PETALA Captain Al G3, STREET STORY Street Cry G3, SUPER ONE I Am Invincible LR, TIME CHANT War Chant LR. The Mastercraftsman/Tale of The Cat cross has produced: AMAZING MARIA G1, PABLOSKY LR. Danehill Danehill Dancer Mira Adonde MASTERCRAFTSMAN gr/ro 2006 Black Tie Affair Starlight Dreams Reves Celestes AMAZING MARIA gr f 2011 Storm Cat Tale of The Cat Yarn MESSIAS DA SILVA b/br 2005 A P Indy Indy Power Clever Power

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international database Ballyroan Stakes, G3, Leopardstown, August 6, 12f 1 Fields of Athenry (IRE) 3 b c Galileo (IRE) - Last Love (IRE) (Danehill (USA)) 2 Edelpour (IRE) 3 gr c Mastercraftsman (IRE) - Ebadiyla (IRE) (Sadler's Wells (USA)) 3 Roheryn (IRE) 4 b f Galileo (IRE) La Chunga (USA) (More Than Ready (USA)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 5; Wins: 3; Places: 1 Earnings: £73,520 Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 204 Stakes winners. In 2015 - GLENEAGLES Storm Cat G1, AMPERE Sri Pekan G2, CURVY Inchinor G2, SECRET GESTURE Danehill G2, TANBY Danewin G2, WEDDING VOW Danehill Dancer G2, BONDI BEACH Danehill G3, DEAUVILLE Danehill G3, FIELDS OF ATHENRY Danehill G3, HIGHLAND REEL Danehill G3, KISSED BY ANGELS Danehill Dancer G3, MIZZOU Darshaan G3, SERTORIUS Encosta de Lago G3, SILVER GALAXY Pivotal G3, ALOFT Storm Cat LR, EYE OF THE STORM Shirley Heights LR, FAUFILER Celtic Swing LR, GOSPEL CHOIR Pivotal LR, GRETCHEN Danehill LR, KINGFISHER Halling LR, MONDIALISTE Kaldoun LR, OBSERVATIONAL Cadeaux Genereux LR, OUTSTANDING Mozart LR, TELESCOPE Darshaan LR, THE CORSICAN Danehill LR, WINDSOR PARK Mr Prospector LR. 1st Dam: LAST LOVE by Danehill.

Winner at 3. Own sister to Summerland. Dam of 4 winners: 2006: PEGASUS FEVER (c Fusaichi Pegasus) Winner at 4 in USA. 2007: (c Giant's Causeway) 2008: Pageboy (g Galileo) 3 wins, 3rd Fishery Lane Hurdle G3.

2010: LEAGUE OF NATIONS (c Galileo) Winner at 3.

2011: (f Galileo) 2012: FIELDS OF ATHENRY (c Galileo) 3 wins at 3, Ballyroan S G3, Challenge S LR. Broodmare Sire: DANEHILL. Sire of the dams of 298 Stakes winners. In 2015 - COSMIC ENDEAVOUR Northern Meteor G1, FREE EAGLE High Chaparral G1,

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HALLOWED CROWN Street Sense G1, PRIDE OF DUBAI Street Cry G1, VANCOUVER Medaglia d'Oro G1, CUSTOM CUT Notnowcato G2, MUTHMIR Invincible Spirit G2, SECRET GESTURE Galileo G2, BERLING Montjeu G3, BONDI BEACH Galileo G3, DEAUVILLE Galileo G3, EL VALLE Dobby Road G3, FIELDS OF ATHENRY Galileo G3, FORGOTTEN RULES Nayef G3, HIGHLAND REEL Galileo G3, KOKORONO AI Stay Gold G3, MAJESTIC QUEEN Kheleyf G3, MR SINGH High Chaparral G3, PASSING SHOT Swiss Ace G3, SCRATCHY BOTTOM Sebring G3, SOLICIT Street Cry G3, FALINO Fusaichi Pegasus LR, FEDERAL Medaglia d'Oro LR, GOOD BABY Hussonet LR, GRETCHEN Galileo LR, KNIGHT'S COMMAND Pins LR, LANDLOCKED Zabeel LR, LET'S MAKE ADEAL Red Ransom LR, NAYELI More Than Ready LR, RACING EIGHT Mossman LR, THE CORSICAN Galileo LR, TOMBELAINE First Defence LR, TOWER OF LONHRO Lonhro LR, WOODWIN W More Than Ready LR, BELTOR Authorized LR, NANDO Hernando LR, RED KINGDOM Deep Impact LR. The Galileo/Danehill cross has produced: BANC DE FORTUNE G1, CIMA DE TRIOMPHE G1, CUIS GHAIRE G1, FRANKEL G1, GOLDEN LILAC G1, HIGHLAND REEL G1, INTELLO G1, MAYBE G1, NOBLE MISSION G1, ORCHESTRA G1, RODERIC O'CONNOR G1, ROMANTICA G1, SCINTILLULA G1, SECRET GESTURE G1, TAPESTRY G1, TEOFILO G1, REEM G2, BONDI BEACH G3, CRYSTAL GAL G3, DAZZLING G3, DEAUVILLE G3, FIELDS OF ATHENRY G3, GALIWAY G3, JOHN F KENNEDY G3, LAGALP G3, MEKONG RIVER G3, SIDERA G3, THE CORSICAN G3, WONDERFULLY G3, GRETCHEN LR, MISS GALILEI LR, VIA GALILEI LR, BALLYGLASHEEN LR, SUPASUNDAE LR, Galileo's Destiny G1, Gile Na Greine G1, Mars G1, The Assayer G1, Brightest G3, Circling G3, Claiomh Solais G3, Impulsive Moment G3, Marksmanship G3, Acteur Celebre LR, Amerique LR, Iltemas LR, Provenance LR, Pageboy LR.

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Northern Dancer Sadler's Wells Fairy Bridge GALILEO b 98 Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta FIELDS OF ATHENRY b c 2012 Danzig Danehill Razyana LAST LOVE b 2001 Woodman Summerosa Rose Red

germantb.com Sweet Solera Stakes, G3, Newmarket, August 8, 7f 1 Blue Bayou (GB) 2 ch f Bahamian Bounty (GB) Oshiponga (GB) (Barathea (IRE)) 2 Fireglow (GB) 2 b f Teofilo (IRE) Fading Light (GB) (King's Best (USA)) 3 Marenko (GB) 2 b f Exceed And Excel (AUS) - Safina (GB) (Pivotal (GB)) Age: 2; Starts: 3; Wins: 2; Places: 1 Earnings: £40,198 Sire: BAHAMIAN BOUNTY. Sire of 34 Stakes winners. In 2015 - BLUE BAYOU Barathea G3, DONNERSCHLAG Diktat G3, NEW PROVIDENCE Giant's Causeway G3, CODE RED Montjeu LR, EASTERN IMPACT Xaar LR, GREAT MINDS Pivotal LR. 1st Dam: OSHIPONGA by Barathea. Winner at 3. Dam of 7 winners: 2003: TEIDE LADY (f Nashwan) Winner at 3. Dam of AYAAR (c Rock of Gibraltar: 5 wins at 2, 3 and 5 at home, Germany, Belmondo Zukunfts Rennen G3) 2004: African Queen (f Cadeaux Genereux) unraced. Broodmare.

2005: HATTA FORT (c Cape Cross) 5 wins at 2 to 4 at home, UAE, USA, Weatherbys Superlative S G2.

2006: Raskutani (f Dansili) unraced. Dam of AGENT MURPHY (c Cape Cross: 3 wins at 3 and 4, Carey Group Buckhounds S LR, 3rd Grand Prix de Chantilly G2) 2007: OSTENTATION (g Dubawi) 5 wins at 3 and 5.

2008: AL RANNAN (c Nayef) 4 wins at 4, 5 and 7 in Norway, Sweden.

2009: Suedehead (f Cape Cross) ran a few times. Broodmare.

2010: CARAMACK (g Danehill Dancer) 3 wins at 4.

2011: BE SEEING YOU (g Medicean) 2 wins over hurdles.

2012: Prefect (c Paco Boy) 2013: BLUE BAYOU (f Bahamian Bounty) 2 wins at 2, germantb.com Sweet Solera S G3, 3rd Qipco Duchess Of Cambridge S G2.

2014: (c Archipenko) Broodmare Sire: BARATHEA. Sire of the dams of 81 Stakes winners.

In 2015 - HUNTER'S LIGHT Dubawi G1, ARABIAN QUEEN Dubawi G3, BLUE BAYOU Bahamian Bounty G3, BOOMSHACKERLACKER Dark Angel LR, BREX DRAGO Mujahid LR, CANDARLIYA Dalakhani LR, CLOCKWINDER Intikhab LR, JORDAN PRINCESS Cape Cross LR, JOYFUL HOPE Shamardal LR, TALL SHIP Sea The Stars LR, TIGER TOPS Tiger Hill LR, CYRUS DARIUS Overbury LR. The Bahamian Bounty/Barathea cross has produced: BLUE BAYOU G2, Take It To The Max LR. Young Generation Cadeaux Genereux Smarten Up BAHAMIAN BOUNTY ch 94 Ballad Rock Clarentia Laharden BLUE BAYOU ch f 2013 Sadler's Wells Barathea Brocade OSHIPONGA ch 98 Warning Ingozi Inchmurrin

Betfred Rose of Lancaster Stakes, G3, Haydock Park, August 8, 10f 1 Intilaaq (USA) 3 b c Dynaformer (USA) - Torrestrella (IRE) (Orpen (USA)) 2 Master Carpenter (IRE) 4 ch c Mastercraftsman (IRE) - Fringe (GB) (In The Wings) 3 Fire Fighting (IRE) 4 b g Soldier of Fortune (IRE) - Savoie (FR) (Anabaa (USA)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 5; Wins: 3; Places: 1 Earnings: £62,655

international database Sire: DYNAFORMER. Sire of 130 Stakes winners. In 2015 ALMOONQITH Carson City G3, INTILAAQ Orpen G3, QUIET FORCE Royal Academy G3, SOMEWHAT Royal Academy G3, CAUSE OF CAUSES Rainbow Quest LR, CORNHUSKER Storm Cat LR, SYROS Lomitas LR, THUBIAAN Darshaan LR. 1st Dam: TORRESTRELLA by Orpen. 3 wins at 3 in France, Gainsborough Poule d'Essai des Pouliches G1. Dam of 3 winners: 2010: MOOSIR (g Daaher) Winner at 3 in France.

2011: FARMAH (f Speightstown). 4 wins at 3 in France, Italy, Premio Carlo e Francesco Aloisi G3.

2012: INTILAAQ (c Dynaformer) 3 wins at 3, Betfred Rose of Lancaster S G3, Steventon S LR. 2013: Takatul (c Smart Strike) unraced to date.

Broodmare Sire: ORPEN. Sire of the dams of 19 Stakes winners. In 2015 - FIDEDIGNO Forestry G2, ORCADA SALE Not For Sale G2, CIRCUS COUTURE Intikhab G3, INTILAAQ Dynaformer G3, PENMAEN Pivotal LR. Hail To Reason Roberto Bramalea DYNAFORMER b 85 His Majesty Andover Way On The Trail INTILAAQ b c 2012 Lure Orpen Bonita Francita TORRESTRELLA b 2001 Bering Sea Ring Blue River

OSAF Prix de Reux, G3, Deauville, August 9, 2400m 1 Loresho (FR) 4 c Halling (USA) Luna Gulch (FR) (Gulch (USA)) 2 Seaport (GB) 4 ch g Champs Elysees (GB) - Cochin (USA) (Swain (IRE)) 3 Billabong (MOR) 6 ch c Gentlewave (IRE) - Lunattori (GB) (Vettori (IRE)) Age: 3-4; Starts: 10; Wins: 5; Places: 4 Earnings: £87,288 Sire: HALLING. Sire of 65 Stakes winners. In 2015 - JACK HOBBS Swain G1, LORESHO Gulch G3,

JUTLAND Darshaan LR, ROMSDAL Singspiel LR, THUNDER TEDDINGTON Anabaa LR, ALL YOURS Josr Algarhoud LR, BALMUSETTE Danehill Dancer LR. 1st Dam: LUNA GULCH by Gulch.

Winner at 3 in France. Dam of 2 winners: 2006: LAGAN (c Marju) 2 wins at 3 in France.

2007: Lamaya (f Azamour).

Broodmare.

2009: Lamdiya (f Dalakhani) unraced. Broodmare.

2010: Loralai (f High Chaparral) ran on the flat in France.

Broodmare.

2011: LORESHO (c Halling) 5 wins at 3 and 4 in France, OSAF Prix de Reux G3.

2012: Luna Lona (f Whipper) in training.

2013: Delta de Luna (f Silver Frost) unraced to date.

2015: (f French Fifteen) Broodmare Sire: GULCH. Sire of the dams of 59 Stakes winners. In 2015 - BAY ORP Orpen G2, RED RIFLE Giant's Causeway G2, LORESHO Halling G3.

Diesis

Sharpen Up

Doubly Sure HALLING ch 91 Green Dancer Dance Machine Never A Lady LORESHO c 2011 Mr Prospector Gulch Jameela LUNA GULCH b 2001 Saumarez Luna Mareza Luna Maya

LARC - Prix Maurice de Gheest, G1, Deauville, August 9, 1200m 1 Muhaarar (GB) 3 b c Oasis Dream (GB) - Tahrir (IRE) (Linamix (FR)) 2 Esoterique (IRE) 5 b f Danehill Dancer (IRE) - Dievotchka (GB) (Dancing Brave (USA)) 3 Gordon Lord Byron (IRE) 7 b g Byron (GB) - Boa Estrela (IRE) (Intikhab (USA)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 10; Wins: 6; Places: 3 Earnings: £853,708 Sire: OASIS DREAM. Sire of 96 Stakes winners. In 2015 -

GOLDREAM Machiavellian G1, MUHAARAR Linamix G1, CLADOCERA Pivotal G2, ERTIJAAL Seeking The Gold LR, MIRZA Primo Dominie LR, MOOHAARIB Selkirk LR, MUARRAB Wolfhound LR, NAADIRR High Chaparral LR, PEARLY STEPH Pivotal LR. 1st Dam: Tahrir by Linamix. 2 wins at 3, 2nd Wentworth S LR. Own sister to MISTER CHARM. Dam of 5 winners: 2007: Tamaathul (g Tiger Hill) 3 wins, 2nd Dubal Firebreak S G3.

2008: Raasekha (f Pivotal) Winner at 3, 3rd Mobile Casino EBF Conqueror S LR. Broodmare.

2009: SAJWAH (f Exceed And Excel) 2 wins at 2, Irish Stall.Farm EBF Dick Poole S LR. 2010: RUFOOF (f Zamindar) 2 wins at 3. Broodmare.

2012: MUHAARAR (c Oasis Dream) 6 wins at 2 and 3 at home, France, Darley July Cup G1, Commonwealth Cup G1, LARC Prix Maurice de Gheest G1, Irish TB Marketing Gimcrack S G2, AON Greenham S G3, 3rd vision.ae Middle Park S G1, July S G2, Winkfield S LR. 2013: Mootaharer (c Dubawi) unraced to date.

2015: (c Dubawi) Broodmare Sire: LINAMIX. Sire of the dams of 87 Stakes winners. In 2015 - MUHAARAR Oasis Dream G1, SUMBAL Danehill Dancer G2, CARLA BIANCA Dansili G3, EYE IN THE SKY Sinndar G3, ASHLAN Dansili LR, AVABIN Amadeus Wolf LR, ROYAL DOLOIS Silver Frost LR, WOMAN O WAR Kingda Ka LR, DIAKALI Sinndar LR, PEACE AND CO Falco LR. The Oasis Dream/Linamix cross has produced: MUHAARAR G1, THAI HAKU G2, ALBARAAH G3.

Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier OASIS DREAM b 2000 Dancing Brave Hope Bahamian MUHAARAR b c 2012 Mendez Linamix Lunadix TAHRIR gr 2002 Last Tycoon Miss Sacha Heaven High

Qatar Racing Phoenix Sprint Stakes, G3, Curragh, August 9, 6f 1 Mattmu (GB) 3 b c Indesatchel (IRE) - Katie Boo (IRE) (Namid (GB)) 2 Toscanini (IRE) 3 b c Shamardal (USA) - Tuzla (FR) (Panoramic) 3 Fort Del Oro (IRE) 3 b f Lope de Vega (IRE) - Gilded (IRE) (Redback (GB)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 13; Wins: 5; Places: 7 Earnings: £302,808 Sire: INDESATCHEL. Sire of 3 Stakes winners. In 2015 MATTMU Namid G3.

1st Dam: KATIE BOO by Namid. 6 wins at 2, 5 and 6. Dam of 2 winners: 2009: Warrick Brown (g Tagula) 2010: PENNY GARCIA (f Indesatchel) 4 wins at 2 to 4.

2012: MATTMU (c Indesatchel) 5 wins at 2 and 3 at home, France, Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte G2, Qatar Racing Phoenix Sprint S G3, coral.co.uk Rockingham S LR, 2nd Duke of York Clipper Logistics S G2, Betfred Chipchase S G3, Totepool Two Year Old Trophy LR. 2013: Rose Eclair (f Major Cadeaux) 2014: (c Major Cadeaux) Broodmare Sire: NAMID. Sire of the dams of 1 Stakes winners. In 2015 - MATTMU Indesatchel G3.

Danehill Danehill Dancer Mira Adonde INDESATCHEL b 2002 Petorius Floria Candle Hill MATTMU b c 2012 Indian Ridge Namid Dawnsio KATIE BOO br 2002 Sri Pekan Misty Peak Miss Declared

Keeneland Phoenix Stakes, G1, Curragh, August 9, 6f 1 Air Force Blue (USA) 2 b/br c War Front (USA) - Chatham (USA) (Maria's Mon (USA)) 2 Washington DC (IRE) 2 b c Zoffany (IRE) - How's She Cuttin' (IRE) (Shinko Forest (IRE))

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international database 3 Buratino (IRE) 2 ch c Exceed And Excel (AUS) - Bergamask (USA) (Kingmambo (USA))

Age: 2-4; Starts: 9; Wins: 5; Places: 3 Earnings: £198,599

Age: 2; Starts: 3; Wins: 2; Places: 1 Earnings: £147,831

Sire: DALAKHANI. Sire of 46 Stakes winners. In 2015 - SECOND STEP Sadler's Wells G1, GUARDINI Dynaformer G2, ALEX MY BOY Sadler's Wells G3, AYRAD Sadler's Wells LR, CANDARLIYA Barathea LR.

Sire: WAR FRONT. Sire of 32 Stakes winners. In 2015 - AIR FORCE BLUE Maria's Mon G1, JACK MILTON Forty Niner G1, LINES OF BATTLE Arch G1, DEPARTING Pulpit G2, WAR CORRESPONDENT Rahy G3, WAR DISPATCH Unbridled's Song G3.

1st Dam: Chatham by Maria's Mon. 3 wins at 2 and 3 in USA, 2nd Esplanade S LR. Dam of 2 winners: 2009: Pinkie Pact (f Broken Vow) ran on the flat in USA. 2010: (c Arch) 2011: Emperesse (f Empire Maker) ran on the flat in USA. 2012: BUGLE (f War Front) 2 wins at 3 in USA. 2013: AIR FORCE BLUE (c War Front) 2 wins at 2, Keeneland Phoenix S G1, 2nd Coventry S G2.

Broodmare Sire: MARIA'S MON. Sire of the dams of 17 Stakes winners. In 2015 - AIR FORCE BLUE War Front G1, DON'T LEAVE ME Lemon Drop Kid G3, CYCLOGENISIS Stormy Atlantic LR. Danzig

Northern Dancer

Pas de Nom WAR FRONT b 2002 Rubiano Starry Dreamer Lara's Star AIR FORCE BLUE b/br c 2013 Wavering Monarch Maria's Mon Carlotta Maria CHATHAM b 2004 Seeking The Gold Circle Of Gold Starlet Storm

Grosser Preis von Berlin, G1, Berlin-Hoppegarten, August 9, 2400m 1 Second Step (IRE) 4 b g Dalakhani (IRE) - My Dark Rosaleen (GB) (Sadler's Wells (USA)) 2 Ito (GER) 4 b c Adlerflug (GER) Iota (GER) (Tiger Hill (IRE)) 3 Nutan (IRE) 3 b c Duke of Marmalade (IRE) - Neele (IRE) (Peintre Celebre (USA))

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1st Dam: My Dark Rosaleen by Sadler's Wells. Own sister to SILK AND SCARLET. Dam of 2 winners: 2010: MALLORY HEIGHTS (g Dalakhani) 2 wins at 3.

2011: SECOND STEP (g Dalakhani) 5 wins at 3 and 4 at home, Germany, Grosser Preis von Berlin G1, Dunaden at Overbury Jockey Club S G2, Finale S LR, 2nd Arqana Princess of Wales's S G2.

2013: Yellow Band (f Dalakhani) unraced to date.

2014: (c Distorted Humor) Broodmare Sire: SADLER'S WELLS. Sire of the dams of 365 Stakes winners. In 2015 - BLAZING SPEED Dylan Thomas G1, DIAMONDSANDRUBIES Fastnet Rock G1, GUST OF WIND Darci Brahma G1, SECOND STEP Dalakhani G1, BAWINA Dubawi G2, KARPINO Cape Cross G2, ALEX MY BOY Dalakhani G3, BEAUTY PARLOR Elusive Quality G3, EH CUMPARI Elusive Quality G3, SIMPLE VERSE Duke of Marmalade G3, AYRAD Dalakhani LR, PECK Pivotal LR, SIXTH SENSE Shamardal LR, STORM THE STARS Sea The Stars LR, VAL D'HIVER Zafeen LR, VICTORY SONG Dansili LR, ZAWRAQ Shamardal LR, CHARBEL Iffraaj LR, STAND TO GAIN Hawk Wing LR, TOP GAMBLE Presenting LR. The Dalakhani/Sadler's Wells cross has produced: CHINESE WHITE G1, CONDUIT G1, RELIABLE MAN G1, SECOND STEP G1, ALEX MY BOY G3, DEEM G3, SHREYAS G3, YAHRAB G3, AKLAN LR, AYRAD LR, MIREILLE LR, KADABI LR, Little White Cloud G2, Murmansk G3, Unwritten Rule G3, Highly Toxic LR, Oranais LR, Greatness LR, Streets of Newyork LR.

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Shirley Heights Darshaan Delsy DALAKHANI gr 2000 Miswaki Daltawa Damana SECOND STEP b g 2011 Northern Dancer Sadler's Wells Fairy Bridge MY DARK ROSALEEN b 2005 Lyphard Danilova Ballinderry

Totepool Sovereign Stakes, G3, Salisbury, August 13, 8f 1 Kodi Bear (IRE) 3 br c Kodiac (GB) - Hawattef (IRE) (Mujtahid (USA)) 2 Dark Emerald (IRE) 5 gr g Dark Angel (IRE) - Xema (GB) (Danehill (USA)) 3 Custom Cut (IRE) 6 b g Notnowcato (GB) - Polished Gem (IRE) (Danehill (USA)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 7; Wins: 3; Places: 3 Earnings: £200,352 Sire: KODIAC. Sire of 18 Stakes winners. In 2015 - ADAAY Royal Applause G2, BESHARAH Dixie Union G3, KODI BEAR Mujtahid G3, SPIRIT OF XIAN Touch Gold G3, AZZECCAGARBUGLI Desert Style LR, COULSTY In The Wings LR, WHATDOIWANTTHATFOR Hernando LR. 1st Dam: Hawattef by Mujtahid. unraced. Dam of 7 winners: 2000: Danetime Lady (f Danetime). Broodmare.

2001: LADY SUSY (f Danetime) Winner at 2 in Italy. Dam of RIVERTIME (c Tout Seul: 8 wins at 2 and 3 in Italy, Criterium Labronico LR, Premio Divino Amore Trofeo SGA LR), STORM OF WIND (c Tout Seul: 5 wins at 2 to 4 in Italy, Criterium Varesino LR) 2003: Orpens Lad (g Orpen) ran.

2004: DOG SITTER (f Fath) Winner at 2 in Italy.

2005: MAKER MED (c Chevalier) Winner at 3 in Italy.

2007: Pearl of Danon (c Pearl of Love) 2009: MAKALALI (c Kodiac) 2 wins at 3 in Spain.

2010: PRINCESS CAMMIE (f Camacho) Winner at 3.

2011: RALPHY LAD (g Iffraaj) 3 wins at 4.

2012: KODI BEAR (c Kodiac) Sold 62,000gns yearling at TAOC2. 3 wins at 2 and 3, Totepool Sovereign S G3, Unibet Midsummer S LR, Titanic Belfast Winkfield S LR, 2nd Dubai Dewhurst S G1.

2014: (f Zebedee) Broodmare Sire: MUJTAHID. Sire of the dams of 19 Stakes winners.

In 2015 - KODI BEAR Kodiac G3, MY BASKAN Luxor LR, RADYOCU Sri Pekan LR, RENK Divine Light LR, ZEALOUS LINE Win River Win LR. The Kodiac/Mujtahid cross has produced: KODI BEAR G1, Indigo River G2.

Danzig Danehill Razyana KODIAC b 2001 Kris Rafha Eljazzi KODI BEAR br c 2012 Woodman Mujtahid Mesmerize HAWATTEF b 96 Green Desert Madary High And Dry

Invesco Desmond Stakes, G3, Leopardstown, August 13, 8f 1 Cougar Mountain (IRE) 4 b c Fastnet Rock (AUS) - Descant (USA) (Nureyev (USA)) 2 Raydara (IRE) 3 b/br f Rock of Gibraltar (IRE) - Raydiya (IRE) (Marju (IRE)) 3 Convergence (IRE) 3 b c Cape Cross (IRE) - Zahoo (IRE) (Nayef (USA)) Age: 3-4; Starts: 9; Wins: 1; Places: 3 Earnings: £111,686 Sire: FASTNET ROCK. Sire of 80 Stakes winners. In 2015 DIAMONDSANDRUBIES Sadler's Wells G1, MAGICOOL Galileo G1, QUALIFY Galileo G1, FIRST SEAL Scenic G2, COUGAR MOUNTAIN Nureyev G3, FASCINATING ROCK Polar Falcon G3, LA SALDANA Singspiel G3, UCHENNA Acatenango G3, BEWHATYOUWANNABE Beautiful Crown LR, HARLEM RIVER Xaar LR,

international database LUMOSTY Bachelor Duke LR, NINTH LEGION Xaar LR, SATURN ROCK Ne Coupez Pas LR.

Age: 3-4; Starts: 10; Wins: 6; Places: 4 Earnings: £157,119

Age: 2-3; Starts: 9; Wins: 5; Places: 2 Earnings: £199,923

Age: 3-4; Starts: 7; Wins: 4; Places: 3 Earnings: £102,391

1st Dam: Descant by Nureyev. unraced. Dam of 5 winners: 1998: FAR NOTE (g Distant View) 5 wins at 5 to 7.

1999: CLIMATE CONTROL (f Mt Livermore) Winner at 3.

Broodmare.

2001: Holy Song (c Holy Bull) unraced.

2002: Treble Tone (f Cherokee Run) unraced. Broodmare.

2003: Poinciana (f Lear Fan).

Broodmare.

2004: Kings Art (g King's Best) 2005: ROARING FORTE (c Cape Cross) 4 wins at 2 to 4.

2007: DEAR DOCTOR (c Rakti) 4 wins at 3, 4 and 6 in Serbia.

2009: (g Hawk Wing) 2011: COUGAR MOUNTAIN (c Fastnet Rock) 1 win at 3, Desmond S G3, 3rd Queen Anne S G1.

2013: Californiadreaming (f Fastnet Rock) 2014: (c Fastnet Rock)

Sire: JEREMY. Sire of 8 Stakes winners. In 2015 - BAINO HOPE Highest Honor G2, KOOL KOMPANY Indian Ridge G3, SUCCESS DAYS Roi Gironde G3.

Sire: KODIAC. Sire of 18 Stakes winners. In 2015 - ADAAY Royal Applause G2, BESHARAH Dixie Union G3, KODI BEAR Mujtahid G3, SPIRIT OF XIAN Touch Gold G3, AZZECCAGARBUGLI Desert Style LR, COULSTY In The Wings LR, WHATDOIWANTTHATFOR Hernando LR.

Sire: CAPE CROSS. Sire of 102 Stakes winners. In 2015 - GOLDEN HORN Dubai Destination G1, KARPINO Sadler's Wells G2, AGENT MURPHY Dansili G3, CONVERGENCE Nayef G3, DON'T BE Fasliyev LR, JORDAN PRINCESS Barathea LR, PLEASURE GAINS Vettori LR, RUGGED CROSS Soviet Star LR.

Broodmare Sire: NUREYEV. Sire of the dams of 209 Stakes winners. In 2015 - COUGAR MOUNTAIN Fastnet Rock G3, SPARKLING BEAM Nayef LR, GRAN MAESTRO Medicean LR.

Broodmare Sire: HIGHEST HONOR. Sire of the dams of 62 Stakes winners. In 2015 - SOLOW Singspiel G1, BAINO HOPE Jeremy G2, REVE MISTRAL King Kamehameha G2, GOLDY ESPONY Vespone G3, FLY WITH ME Beat Hollow LR, HONNEUR AU ROI Turtle Bowl LR, PETITE PARISIENNE Montmartre LR.

The Fastnet Rock/Nureyev cross has produced: COUGAR MOUNTAIN G1, GYBE G3.

1st Dam: BAINO RIDGE by Highest Honor. Winner at 3 in France. Own sister to TAKE RISKS, Lake Baino, Bainobless and Pride Of Kings.

Dam of 3 winners: 2007: GREEN RIDGE (f Green Tune) 8 wins at 2 to 5 in France.

Broodmare.

2008: (c Refuse To Bend) 2009: BAINO ROCK (f Rock of Gibraltar) 4 wins at 3 and 4 in France, Prix Charles Laffitte LR, 2nd Prix Fille de l'Air G3.

2011: BAINO HOPE (f Jeremy) 6 wins at 3 and 4 in France, Prix de Pomone G2, Prix Michel Houyvet LR, 2nd Grand Prix de Lyon LR, 3rd Qatar Prix Chaudenay G2.

2013: (f Holy Roman Emperor)

Danzig Danehill Razyana FASTNET ROCK b 2001 Royal Academy Piccadilly Circus Gatana COUGAR MOUNTAIN b c 2011 Northern Dancer Nureyev Special DESCANT ch 93 The Minstrel Zaizafon Mofida

Danehill Danehill Dancer Mira Adonde JEREMY b/br 2003 Arazi Glint In Her Eye Wind In Her Hair BAINO HOPE f 2011 Kenmare Highest Honor High River BAINO RIDGE b/br 2002 Be My Guest Baino Bluff Rapids

Shadwell Prix de Pomone, G2, Deauville, August 14, 2400m

Betfred Hungerford Stakes, G2, Newbury, August 15, 7f

1 Baino Hope (FR) 4 f Jeremy (USA) - Baino Ridge (FR) (Highest Honor (FR)) 2 Cocktail Queen (IRE) 5 b f Motivator (GB) - Premier Prize (GB) (Selkirk (USA)) 3 Frine (IRE) 5 b f High Chaparral (IRE) - Castalia (GB) (Cardoun (FR))

1 Adaay (IRE) 3 b c Kodiac (GB) Lady Lucia (IRE) (Royal Applause (GB)) 2 Coulsty (IRE) 4 b c Kodiac (GB) Hazium (IRE) (In The Wings) 3 Breton Rock (IRE) 5 b g Bahamian Bounty (GB) - Anna's Rock (IRE) (Rock of Gibraltar (IRE))

1st Dam: Lady Lucia by Royal Applause. Dam of 6 winners: 2006: Mullionmileanhour (c Mull of Kintyre) Winner at 2, 2nd Connaught Flooring Abernant S LR. Sire.

2007: LADY LUBE RYE (f Catcher In The Rye) Winner at 2. Broodmare.

2009: BAREBACK (g Redback) Winner at 3.

2010: POUR LA VICTOIRE (g Antonius Pius) 6 wins at 3 to 5.

2011: BUSHCRAFT (c Bushranger) 5 wins at 2 and 4.

2012: ADAAY (c Kodiac) 5 wins at 2 and 3, 888sport Sandy Lane S G2, Betfred Hungerford S G2, Toronado Carnarvon S LR, 3rd Merribelle Stable Pavilion S G3, Compton Estates Rose Bowl S LR. Broodmare Sire: ROYAL APPLAUSE. Sire of the dams of 10 Stakes winners. In 2015 - ADAAY Kodiac G2.

1st Dam: Raskutani by Dansili. unraced. Dam of 3 winners: 2010: MYSTERIOUS WONDER (g Oasis Dream) Winner at 3.

2011: AGENT MURPHY (c Cape Cross) Sold 7,000gns yearling at TAOC2. 4 wins at 3 and 4, Geoffrey Freer S G3, Buckhounds S LR, 3rd Grand Prix de Chantilly G2.

2012: KYLACH ME IF U CAN (g Kyllachy) Winner at 2.

2014: (c Royal Applause) Broodmare Sire: DANSILI. Sire of the dams of 17 Stakes winners. In 2015 - BROOCH Empire Maker G2, SNOW SKY Nayef G2, AGENT MURPHY Cape Cross G3, ASTAIRE Intense Focus G3, EXCESS KNOWLEDGE Monsun G3, SON CESIO Zafeen G3, TIME TEST Dubawi G3, POSTULATION Harlan's Holiday LR, TOUJOURS L'AMOUR Authorized LR.

Danzig Danehill Razyana KODIAC b 2001 Kris Rafha Eljazzi ADAAY b c 2012 Waajib Royal Applause Flying Melody LADY LUCIA b 2001 Sheikh Albadou Inventive Ingenuity

Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier CAPE CROSS b/br 94 Ahonoora Park Appeal Balidaress AGENT MURPHY b c 2011 Danehill Dansili Hasili RASKUTANI b 2006 Barathea Oshiponga Ingozi

Betfred Geoffrey Freer Stakes, G3, Newbury, August 15, 13f

Prix de Lieurey, G3, Deauville, August 15, 1600m

1 Agent Murphy (GB) 4 b c Cape Cross (IRE) - Raskutani (GB) (Dansili (GB)) 2 Windshear (GB) 4 b c Hurricane Run (IRE) - Portal (GB) (Hernando (FR)) 3 Red Cadeaux (GB) 9 ch g Cadeaux Genereux - Artisia (IRE) (Peintre Celebre (USA))

1 Maimara (FR) 3 b f Makfi (GB) Hideaway Heroine (IRE) (Hernando (FR)) 2 Akatea (IRE) 3 ch f Shamardal (USA) - Altamira (GB) (Peintre Celebre (USA)) 3 Moonlight In Paris (FR) 3 b f Literato (FR) - Isalou (FR) (Unfuwain (USA))

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international database Age: 2-3; Starts: 6; Wins: 3; Places: 2 Earnings: £79,094 Sire: MAKFI. Sire of 4 Stakes winners. In 2015 - MAKE BELIEVE Suave Dancer G1, MARKY MARK Testa Rossa G1, MAIMARA Hernando G3, CORNWALLVILLE Cadeaux Genereux LR. 1st Dam: Hideaway Heroine by Hernando. 2 wins, 2nd JRA London Office's Kyoto Sceptre S LR. Dam of 4 winners: 2004: Stowed Away (c Swain) 2006: Perils of Pauline (f Stravinsky). Dam of V. I. P. ZONE (c Macho Uno: 4 wins at 2 and 3 in Republic of Panama, Clasico German Ruiz Baqrrancos LR) 2007: STREET LAIR (g Street Cry) 6 wins at 3, 5 and 6 in France.

2008: CISNEROS (c Johannesburg) 3 wins at 2 in Italy, Premio Vittorio Riva LR. 2011: OMBRAGE (f Orpen) 3 wins at 2 in Italy, Premio Dormello G3.

2012: MAIMARA (f Makfi) 3 wins at 3 in France, Prix de Lieurey G3, Prix de Bagatelle LR, 2nd Prix Chloe G3.

2013: Just Another Day (f Orpen) unraced to date.

2014: (c Elusive City) 2015: (f Oasis Dream) Broodmare Sire: HERNANDO. Sire of the dams of 32 Stakes winners.

In 2015 - MAIMARA Makfi G3, WHATDOIWANTTHATFOR Kodiac LR. Dubai Millennium Dubawi Zomaradah MAKFI b 2007 Green Desert Dhelaal Irish Valley MAIMARA b f 2012 Niniski Hernando Whakilyric HIDEAWAY HEROINE ch 99 Selkirk Dulcinea Ahohoney

Prix Guillaume d'Ornano-Logis St Germain, G2, Deauville, August 15, 2000m 1 New Bay (GB) 3 ch c Dubawi (IRE) - Cinnamon Bay (GB) (Zamindar (USA))

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2 Dariyan (FR) 3 b c Shamardal (USA) - Daryakana (FR) (Selkirk (USA)) 3 Ampere (FR) 3 c Galileo (IRE) Amorama (FR) (Sri Pekan (USA)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 5; Wins: 3; Places: 2 Earnings: £956,639 Sire: DUBAWI. Sire of 103 Stakes winners. In 2015 - AL KAZEEM Darshaan G1, ERUPT Caerleon G1, HUNTER'S LIGHT Barathea G1, NEW BAY Zamindar G1, NIGHT OF THUNDER Galileo G1, POSTPONED Dubai Destination G1, PRINCE BISHOP Prospect Bay G1, SHAMAL WIND Machiavellian G1, SRIKANDI Hurricane Sky G1, BALL OF MUSCLE Gold Brose G2, BAWINA Sadler's Wells G2, CATKINS Catbird G2, MUBTAAHIJ Pennekamp G2, SAFETY CHECK Royal Academy G2, ALMANAAR Bahhare G3, AMBER ORCHID Hennessy G3, ARABIAN QUEEN Barathea G3, DUBDAY Daylami G3, TANAZA Dalakhani G3, TIME TEST Dansili G3, BEST OF TIMES Rahy LR, CRYSTAL ZVEZDA Mark of Esteem LR, DEUCE AGAIN Unfuwain LR, JOURNEY Montjeu LR, KATAWI Mountain Cat LR, LADY OF DUBAI Montjeu LR, ROYAL ISLAND Umatilla LR, DODGING BULLETS Kris S LR, LACHLAN BRIDGE Anabaa LR. 1st Dam: CINNAMON BAY by Zamindar. 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix d'Angerville LR. Dam of 2 winners: 2009: MARGATE (f Mizzen Mast) Winner at 3. Broodmare.

2010: Iowa Falls (f Dansili).

Broodmare.

2012: NEW BAY (c Dubawi) 3 wins at 3 in France, Prix du Jockey Club G1, Prix Guillaume d'Ornano-Logis St Germain G2, 2nd Poule d'Essai des Poulains P.le Parisien G1.

2013: Spice Trail (f Champs Elysees) unraced to date.

2014: (c Dansili) 2015: (c Champs Elysees) Broodmare Sire: ZAMINDAR. Sire of the dams of 7 Stakes winners.

In 2015 - NEW BAY Dubawi G1.

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Seeking The Gold Dubai Millennium Colorado Dancer DUBAWI b 2002 Deploy Zomaradah Jawaher NEW BAY ch c 2012 Gone West Zamindar Zaizafon CINNAMON BAY ch 2004 Sadler's Wells Trellis Bay Bahamian

1 Palace Prince (GER) 3 b c Areion (GER) - Palace Princess (GER) (Tiger Hill (IRE)) 2 Iquitos (GER) 3 b c Adlerflug (GER) - Irika (GER) (Areion (GER)) 3 Devastar (GER) 3 b c Areion (GER) - Deva (GER) (Platini (GER))

Prix Gontaut-Biron-Hong Kong Jockey Club, G3, Deauville, August 15, 2000m

Age: 2-3; Starts: 7; Wins: 3; Places: 2 Earnings: £159,066

1 Bello Matteo (FR) 4 b c Montmartre (FR) - Lidawar (FR) (Sendawar (IRE)) 2 Free Port Lux (GB) 4 br c Oasis Dream (GB) - Royal Highness (GER) (Monsun (GER)) 3 Travertine (IRE) 5 b c Danehill Dancer (IRE) - Mer de Corail (IRE) (Sadler's Wells (USA)) Age: 2-4; Starts: 15; Wins: 5; Places: 4 Earnings: £121,576 Sire: MONTMARTRE. Sire of 3 Stakes winners. In 2015 - BELLO MATTEO Sendawar G3, PETITE PARISIENNE Highest Honor LR. 1st Dam: Lidawar by Sendawar. unraced. Dam of 3 winners: 2009: CLARA DE LUNE (f Bleu d'Altair) 5 wins in France.

2011: BELLO MATTEO (c Montmartre) 5 wins at 3 and 4 in France, La Coupe G3, Prix Gontaut-Biron G3.

2012: LA DIVINANDRA (f Le Havre) Winner at 3 in France.

Broodmare Sire: SENDAWAR. Sire of the dams of 4 Stakes winners.

In 2015 - BELLO MATTEO Montmartre G3, TOUNGI Rock of Gibraltar LR. Sadler's Wells Montjeu Floripedes MONTMARTRE gr 2005 Linamix Artistique Armarama BELLO MATTEO b c 2011 Priolo Sendawar Sendana LIDAWAR b 2004 Rainbow Quest Liwana Linnga

Grosser Preis der Sparkasse Krefeld, G3, Krefeld, August 16, 2000m

Sire: AREION. Sire of 24 Stakes winners. In 2015 - PALACE PRINCE Tiger Hill G3, IRAKLION Nebos LR. 1st Dam: PALACE PRINCESS by Tiger Hill. 2 wins at 3 and 4 in Germany. Dam of 2 winners: 2010: PALACE SECRET (f Big Shuffle) Winner at 4 in Germany.

2012: PALACE PRINCE (c Areion) 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Germany, Grosser Preis der Sparkasse Krefeld G3, Prix Ridgway LR, Cagliostro Zweijahrigen Trophy LR, 2nd IDEE Deutsches Derby G1.

Broodmare Sire: TIGER HILL. Sire of the dams of 13 Stakes winners.

In 2015 - ITO Adlerflug G2, PALACE PRINCE Areion G3.

Super Concorde Big Shuffle Raise Your Skirts AREION b 95 Caerleon Aerleona Alata PALACE PRINCE b c 2012 Danehill Tiger Hill The Filly PALACE PRINCESS b 2004 Lagunas Pasca Palmas

Prix Minerve, G3, Deauville, August 16, 2400m 1 Candarliya (FR) 3 gr f Dalakhani (IRE) - Candara (FR) (Barathea (IRE)) 2 Yaazy (IRE) 3 b f Teofilo (IRE) Tanaghum (GB) (Darshaan) 3 Al Naamah (IRE) 3 b f Galileo (IRE) - Alluring Park (IRE) (Green Desert (USA))

international database Age: 2-3; Starts: 7; Wins: 4; Places: 3 Earnings: £86,517 Sire: DALAKHANI. Sire of 46 Stakes winners. In 2015 - SECOND STEP Sadler's Wells G1, GUARDINI Dynaformer G2, ALEX MY BOY Sadler's Wells G3, CANDARLIYA Barathea G3, AYRAD Sadler's Wells LR. 1st Dam: Candara by Barathea.

Dam of 1 winner: 2012: CANDARLIYA (f Dalakhani) 4 wins at 3 in France, Prix Minerve G3, Prix de Thiberville LR. 2013: Canessar (c Kendargent) in training.

2015: (f Sinndar) Broodmare Sire: BARATHEA. Sire of the dams of 81 Stakes winners.

In 2015 - HUNTER'S LIGHT Dubawi G1, ARABIAN QUEEN Dubawi G3, BLUE BAYOU Bahamian Bounty G3, CANDARLIYA Dalakhani G3, BOOMSHACKERLACKER Dark Angel LR, BREX DRAGO Mujahid LR, CLOCKWINDER Intikhab LR, JORDAN PRINCESS Cape Cross LR, JOYFUL HOPE Shamardal LR, TALL SHIP Sea The Stars LR, TIGER TOPS Tiger Hill LR, CYRUS DARIUS Overbury LR. The Dalakhani/Barathea cross has produced: CANDARLIYA G3, LAVA FLOW LR, Vaasa G3, Barring Decree LR, Freezy LR, Mustaqer LR. Shirley Heights Darshaan Delsy DALAKHANI gr 2000 Miswaki Daltawa Damana CANDARLIYA gr f 2012 Sadler's Wells Barathea Brocade CANDARA b 2007 Woodman Caribbeandriftwood Drifting

P. Fresnay le Buffard Jacques Le Marois, G1, Deauville, August 16, 1600m 1 Esoterique (IRE) 5 b f Danehill Dancer (IRE) - Dievotchka (GB) (Dancing Brave (USA))

2 Territories (IRE) 3 b c Invincible Spirit (IRE) - Taranto (GB) (Machiavellian (USA)) 3 Wild Chief (GER) 4 b c Doyen (IRE) - Wild Angel (IRE) (Acatenango (GER)) Age: 3-5; Starts: 15; Wins: 5; Places: 8 Earnings: £812,453 Sire: DANEHILL DANCER. Sire of 168 Stakes winners. In 2015 ESOTERIQUE Dancing Brave G1, LEGATISSIMO Montjeu G1, SUMBAL Linamix G2, WALTZING MATILDA Gone West G2, AFFAIRE SOLITAIRE Alzao G3, OSAILA Entrepreneur G3, JAZZI TOP Zafonic LR. 1st Dam: Dievotchka by Dancing Brave. unraced. Dam of 10 winners: 1995: RUSSIAN HOPE (c Rock Hopper). 11 wins at 2 to 6 in France, Kingdom of Saudi Ara, Grand Prix de Deauville G2.

1996: RUSSIAN SHIFT (g Night Shift) 9 wins in France.

1997: RUSSIAN TYCOON (c Last Tycoon) 2 wins at 3 in France.

1999: DIEVOTCHKINA (f Bluebird) 2 wins at 3 in France. Broodmare.

2000: RUSSIAN HILL (f Indian Ridge) 2 wins at 3 and 5 in France, Grand Prix de Compiegne LR, 2nd Prix de Royallieu Hotel du Golf Barriere G2, Prix Corrida G2. Dam of RUSSIAN SOUL (g Invincible Spirit: 8 wins at 4 to 7, 2015 at home, UAE, Newbridge Renaissance S G3, Ford Mustang Shelby Al Shindagha Sprint G3) 2001: Russian Love (f Machiavellian). Broodmare.

2002: ARCHANGE D'OR (c Danehill) 4 wins at 3 in France, P.Eugene Adam (G.P.de MaisonsLaffitte) G2. Sire.

2004: RUSSIAN DESERT (c Desert Prince) 3 wins at 2, 3 and 5 in France, Prix Matchem LR, 3rd P.Eugene Adam (G.P.de MaisonsLaffitte) G2.

2005: RUSSIAN CROSS (c Cape Cross) 4 wins at 2, 3 and 5 in France, Prix Guillaume d'Ornano G2.

2007: RUSSIAN SYMBOL (f Danehill Dancer) Winner at 3 in France.

Broodmare.

2008: Something Strange (f Holy Roman Emperor) ran on the flat in France. Broodmare.

2010: ESOTERIQUE (f Danehill Dancer). 5 wins at 3 to 5 at home, France, Prix Rothschild G1, P. Fresnay le Buffard Jacques Le Marois G1, Dahlia S G3, Prix Vanteaux G3, 2nd Queen Anne S G1, Poule d'Essai des Pouliches G1, Prix Maurice de Gheest G1, 3rd Prix du Muguet G2.

2011: Histrionique (c Lawman) Broodmare Sire: DANCING BRAVE. Sire of the dams of 71 Stakes winners. In 2015 ESOTERIQUE Danehill Dancer G1, RED ARION Agnes Tachyon G2, ZACK HALL Muhtathir LR. Danzig Danehill Razyana DANEHILL DANCER b 93 Sharpen Up Mira Adonde Lettre d'Amour ESOTERIQUE b f 2010 Lyphard Dancing Brave Navajo Princess DIEVOTCHKA b 89 High Line High And Dry Photo Flash

Prix de la Nonette, G2, Deauville, August 18, 2000m 1 Jazzi Top (GB) 3 b f Danehill Dancer (IRE) - Zee Zee Top (GB) (Zafonic (USA)) 2 Holy Moly (GB) 3 ch/gr f Mount Nelson (GB) - Nolas Lolly (IRE) (Lomitas (GB)) 3 Sainte Amarante (FR) 3 ch f Le Havre (IRE) - Loyal Lass (USA) (Cadeaux Genereux) Age: 2-3; Starts: 7; Wins: 3; Places: 2 Earnings: £112,437 Sire: DANEHILL DANCER. Sire of 168 Stakes winners. In 2015 ESOTERIQUE Dancing Brave G1, LEGATISSIMO Montjeu G1, JAZZI TOP Zafonic G2, SUMBAL Linamix G2, WALTZING MATILDA Gone West G2, AFFAIRE SOLITAIRE Alzao G3, OSAILA Entrepreneur G3.

1st Dam: ZEE ZEE TOP by Zafonic.

3 wins at 3 and 4 at home, France,

Prix de l'Opera Casino Barriere Enghien G1, 3rd Vodafone Nassau S G1. Dam of 3 winners: 2005: Zee Zee Gee (f Galileo) unraced. Broodmare.

2006: Green Top (f Green Desert) unraced.

2007: ROCK N ROLL RANSOM (g Red Ransom) 4 wins.

2008: IZZI TOP (f Pivotal) 6 wins at 3 and 4 at home, France, Barclays Bnk Ireland Pretty Polly S G1, Darley Prix Jean Romanet G1, 2nd Prix de l'Opera Longines G1, 3rd Investec Oaks S G1. Broodmare.

2010: Monzza (f Montjeu) unraced. Broodmare.

2012: JAZZI TOP (f Danehill Dancer) 3 wins at 3 at home, France, Prix de la Nonette G2, Tweenhills Pretty Polly S LR. 2013: Dance Rock (c Oasis Dream) unraced to date.

2014: (f Frankel) 2015: (c Dubawi) Broodmare Sire: ZAFONIC. Sire of the dams of 61 Stakes winners. In 2015 - JAZZI TOP Danehill Dancer G2, SHINING EMERALD Clodovil G3, TAKEDOWN Stratum G3, AKTORIA Canford Cliffs LR, DANDIFIED Rebuttal LR. The Danehill Dancer/Zafonic cross has produced: FAST COMPANY G1, JAZZI TOP G2, La Spezia LR. Danzig Danehill Razyana DANEHILL DANCER b 93 Sharpen Up Mira Adonde Lettre d'Amour JAZZI TOP b f 2012 Gone West Zafonic Zaizafon ZEE ZEE TOP b 99 High Top Colorspin Reprocolor

USA INDIANA OAKS, G2, Indiana Downs, July 18, 8f 110yds 1 High Dollar Woman (USA) 3 ch f Super Saver (USA) - Melissa Jo (USA) (Fusaichi Pegasus (USA)) 2 Sweetgrass (USA) 3 b f Street Sense (USA) - Mondenschein (USA) (Brahms (USA))

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international database 3 Oceanwave (USA) 3 gr/ro f Harlan's Holiday (USA) - Tamboz (USA) (Tapit (USA)) INDIANA DERBY, G2, Indiana Downs, July 18, 8f 110yds 1 Tiz Shea D (USA) 3 b c Tiznow (USA) - Ender's Sister (USA) (A P Indy (USA)) 2 Mr Z (USA) 3 ch c Malibu Moon (USA) - Stormy Bear (USA) (Storm Cat (USA)) 3 Divining Rod (USA) 3 b/br c Tapit (USA) - Precious Kitten (USA) (Catienus (USA)) KENT STAKES, G3, Delaware Park, July 18, 9f 1 Syntax (IRE) 3 ch c Haatef (USA) - African Moonlight (UAE) (Halling (USA)) 2 Money Multiplier (USA) 3 b/br c Lookin At Lucky (USA) - Intensify (USA) (Unbridled's Song (USA)) 3 Tiz My Valentine (USA) 3 b c Tizdejavu (USA) - B A Valentine (USA) (Apalachee (USA)) DELAWARE HANDICAP, G1, Delaware Park, July 18, 10f 1 Sheer Drama (USA) 5 ch f Burning Roma (USA) - Riveting Drama (USA) (Notebook (USA)) 2 Frivolous (USA) 5 b/br f Empire Maker (USA) - Sixty Rocketts (USA) (Belong To Me (USA)) 3 America (USA) 4 b f A P Indy (USA) - Lacadena (USA) (Fasliyev (USA)) EDDIE READ STAKES, G1, Del Mar, July 18, 9f 1 Gabriel Charles (USA) 5 b c Street Hero (USA) - Star of Atticus (USA) (Atticus (USA)) 2 Twentytwentyvision (USA) 4 b g Pollard's Vision (USA) - Miss Alphie (USA) (Candi's Gold (USA)) 3 Finnegans Wake (USA) 6 b c Powerscourt (GB) - Boat's Ghost (USA) (Silver Ghost (USA)) HANSHIN CUP STAKES, G3, Arlington, July 18, 8f 1 Midnight Cello (USA) 5 b/br g Midnight Lute (USA) - Mocella (USA) (Johannesburg (USA)) 2 Mister Marti Gras (USA) 8 ch g Belong To Me (USA) - Miss Marta (USA) (Cure The Blues (USA))

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3 Hogy (USA) 6 b/br g Offlee Wild (USA) - Floy (USA) (Petionville (USA)) NIJINSKY STAKES, G2, Woodbine, July 19, 1800m 1 Are You Kidding Me (USA) 5 b c Run Away And Hide (USA) - Sweet Awakening (USA) (Street Cry (IRE)) 2 Golden Sabre (CAN) 5 b/br c Medaglia d'Oro (USA) - Strike Softly (CAN) (Smart Strike (CAN)) 3 Za Approval (USA) 7 gr/ro g Ghostzapper (USA) - Win Approval (USA) (With Approval (CAN)) SAN CLEMENTE HANDICAP, G2, Del Mar, July 19, 8f 1 Prize Exhibit (GB) 3 b/br f Showcasing (GB) - Roodeye (GB) (Inchinor (GB)) 2 Sunset Glow (USA) 3 gr/ro f Exchange Rate (USA) Perfectforthepart (USA) (Dynaformer (USA)) 3 Paulina's Love (USA) 3 ch f Mizzen Mast (USA) - Electric Cove (USA) (Spinning World (USA)) SCHUYLERVILLE STAKES, G3, Saratoga, July 24, 6f 1 Off The Tracks (USA) 2 b f Curlin (USA) - Harve de Grace (USA) (Boston Harbor (USA)) 2 Banree (USA) 2 gr/ro f Macho Uno (USA) - Grand Glory (USA) (Distorted Humor (USA)) 3 Decked Out (USA) 2 ch f Street Boss (USA) - Once Around (CAN) (You and I (USA)) LAKE GEORGE STAKES, G2, Saratoga, July 24, 8f 110yds

2 Bailoutbobby (USA) 5 gr/ro c Mizzen Mast (USA) - Ride Her Out (USA) (Stormy Atlantic (USA)) 3 Sky Kingdom (USA) 6 b c Empire Maker (USA) - Sky Beam (USA) (Kingmambo (USA)) ONTARIO MATRON STAKES, G3, Woodbine, July 25, 1600m 1 Uchenna (IRE) 4 b f Fastnet Rock (AUS) - Uriah (GER) (Acatenango (GER)) 2 Strut The Course (CAN) 5 b f Strut The Stage (USA) - Bold Course (CAN) (Trajectory (USA)) 3 Skylander Girl (CAN) 4 b/br f Stroll (USA) - Heliotrope (USA) (Northern Score (USA)) SANFORD STAKES, G3, Saratoga, July 25, 6f 1 Uncle Vinny (USA) 2 b c Uncle Mo (USA) - Arealhotlover (USA) (Untuttable (USA)) 2 Percolator (USA) 2 gr/ro c Flashy Bull (USA) - Lady Rushmoore (USA) (Wild Rush (USA)) 3 Magna Light (USA) 2 b c Magna Graduate (USA) - Kimberlite (USA) (Mineshaft (USA)) DIANA STAKES, G1, Saratoga, July 25, 9f 1 Hard Not To Like (CAN) 6 gr/ro f Hard Spun (USA) - Like A Gem (CAN) (Tactical Cat (USA)) 2 Tepin (USA) 4 b f Bernstein (USA) - Life Happened (USA) (Stravinsky (USA)) 3 Kitten's Queen (USA) 5 b f Kitten's Joy (USA) - High Chant (USA) (War Chant (USA)) JERSEY SHORE STAKES, G3, Monmouth Park, July 25, 6f

1 Mrs McDougal (USA) 3 b f Medaglia d'Oro (USA) - Distorted Passion (USA) (Distorted Humor (USA)) 2 Feathered (USA) 3 b f Indian Charlie (USA) - Receipt (USA) (Dynaformer (USA)) 3 Cara Marie (USA) 3 gr/ro f Unbridled's Song (USA) - Miss Kilroy (USA) (A P Indy (USA))

1 Hebbronville (USA) 3 b c Majesticperfection (USA) - More d'Amour (USA) (Tour d'Or (USA)) 2 W V Jetsetter (USA) 3 ch c Jet Phone (USA) - Better Than Most (USA) (Elusive Quality (USA)) 3 Joe Franklin (USA) 3 b/br c Bernstein (USA) - Eternal Grace (USA) (Gilded Time (USA))

COUGAR II HANDICAP, G3, Del Mar, July 24, 12f

SAN DIEGO HANDICAP, G2, Del Mar, July 25, 8f 110yds

1 Big John B (USA) 6 b/br c Hard Spun (USA) - Baldomera (USA) (Doneraile Court (USA))

1 Catch A Flight (ARG) 5 b c Giant's Causeway (USA) - Callaia (ARG) (Lode (USA))

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2 Appealing Tale (USA) 5 b/br c Tale of The Cat (USA) - Appealing Bride (USA) (Unbridled's Song) 3 Bayern (USA) 4 b/br c Offlee Wild (USA) - Alittlebitearly (USA) (Thunder Gulch (USA)) ROYAL NORTH STAKES, G3, Woodbine, July 26, 1200m 1 Ageless (USA) 6 b f Successful Appeal (USA) - Special One (USA) (Point Given (USA)) 2 Leigh Court (USA) 5 b/br f Grand Slam (USA) - Padmore (USA) (French Deputy (USA)) 3 Zensational Bunny (USA) 4 b f Zensational (USA) - Beach Bunny (USA) (Storm Bird (CAN)) COACHING CLUB AMERICAN OAKS, G1, Saratoga, July 26, 9f 1 Curalina (USA) 3 ch f Curlin (USA) - Whatdreamsrmadeof (USA) (Graeme Hall (USA)) 2 I'm A Chatterbox (USA) 3 ch f Munnings (USA) - Chit Chatter (USA) (Lost Soldier (USA)) 3 Include Betty (USA) 3 ch f Include (USA) - Betty's Solutions (USA) (Eltish (USA)) BING CROSBY STAKES, G1, Del Mar, July 26, 6f 1 Wild Dude (USA) 5 b c Wildcat Heir (USA) - Courtly Choice (USA) (Doneraile Court (USA)) 2 Masochistic (USA) 5 b g Sought After (USA) - Trotinette (USA) (Unusual Heat (USA)) 3 Kobe's Back (USA) 4 gr/ro c Flatter (USA) - Well (USA) (Well Decorated (USA)) HONORABLE MISS HANDICAP, G2, Saratoga, July 29, 6f 1 La Verdad (USA) 5 b f Yes It's True (USA) - Noble Fire (USA) (Hook and Ladder (USA)) 2 Street Story (USA) 4 b/br f Street Cry (IRE) - Perfect Story (USA) (Tale of The Cat (USA)) 3 Judy The Beauty (CAN) 6 ch f Ghostzapper (USA) - Holy Blitz (USA) (Holy Bull (USA)) JIM DANDY STAKES, G2, Saratoga, August 1, 9f 1 Texas Red (USA) 3 b c Afleet Alex (USA) - Ramatuelle (CHI) (Jeune Homme (USA))

international database 2 Frosted (USA) 3 gr/ro c Tapit (USA) - Fast Cookie (USA) (Deputy Minister (CAN)) 3 Japan (USA) 3 b/br c Medaglia d'Oro (USA) - Maya (USA) (Capote (USA)) BOWLING GREEN HANDICAP, G2, Saratoga, August 1, 11f 1 Red Rifle (USA) 5 ch c Giant's Causeway (USA) - May Night (USA) (Gulch (USA)) 2 War Dancer (USA) 5 b/br c War Front (USA) - Deed I Do (USA) (Alydeed (CAN)) 3 Imagining (USA) 7 ch c Giant's Causeway (USA) - Daydreaming (USA) (A P Indy (USA)) AMSTERDAM STAKES, G2, Saratoga, August 1, 6f 110yds 1 Holy Boss (USA) 3 ch c Street Boss (USA) - Holy Grace (USA) (Holy Bull (USA)) 2 Requite (USA) 3 b c Warrior's Reward (USA) - New Hope Seven (USA) (Carson City (USA)) 3 Barbados (USA) 3 b c Speightstown (USA) - Northern Station (USA) (Street Cry (IRE)) ALFRED G VANDERBILT HANDICAP, G1, Saratoga, August 1, 6f 1 Rock Fall (USA) 4 b/br c Speightstown (USA) - Renda (USA) (Medaglia d'Oro (USA)) 2 The Big Beast (USA) 4 b c Yes It's True (USA) - V V S Flawless (USA) (Deputy Minister (CAN)) 3 Favorite Tale (USA) 4 b g Tale of The Cat (USA) - Tricky Elaine (USA) (Grindstone (USA)) WEST VIRGINIA DERBY, G2, Mountaineer Park, August 1, 9f 1 Madefromlucky (USA) 3 ch c Lookin At Lucky (USA) - Home From Oz (USA) (Pulpit (USA)) 2 Souper Colossal (USA) 3 b c War Front (USA) - Soaring Emotions (USA) (Kingmambo (USA)) 3 War Story (USA) 3 ch c Northern Afleet (USA) - Belle Watling (USA) (Pulpit (USA))

CLEMENT L HIRSCH STAKES, G1, Del Mar, August 1, 8f 110yds 1 Beholder (USA) 5 b f Henny Hughes (USA) - Leslie's Lady (USA) (Tricky Creek (USA)) 2 Yahilwa (USA) 5 b f Medaglia d'Oro (USA) - Verbanella (USA) (Smart Strike (CAN)) 3 Warren's Veneda (USA) 5 ch f Affirmative (USA) - More Cal Bread (USA) (Flying Continental (USA)) SEAGRAM CUP STAKES, G3, Woodbine, August 2, 1600m 1 Florida Won (USA) 4 ch c Birdstone (USA) - Grand Portege (USA) (Grand Slam (USA)) 2 Pender Harbour (CAN) 7 ch g Philanthropist (USA) - Uproar (CAN) (Hail The Ruckus (CAN)) 3 Asserting Bear (CAN) 4 b c Bear's Kid (USA) - Star Guest (USA) (Assert) SHUVEE HANDICAP, G3, Saratoga, August 2, 9f 1 Stopchargingmaria (USA) 4 b/br f Tale of The Cat (USA) - Exotic Bloom (USA) (Montbrook (USA)) 2 Untapable (USA) 4 b f Tapit (USA) - Fun House (USA) (Prized (USA)) 3 Tiz Windy (USA) 4 b/br f Tiznow (USA) - Windyindy (USA) (A P Indy (USA)) WINSTAR MATCHMAKER STAKES, G3, Monmouth Park, August 2, 9f 1 Casual Smile (GB) 4 ch f Sea The Stars (IRE) - Casual Look (USA) (Red Ransom (USA)) 2 I'm Already Sexy (USA) 5 b/br f Ready's Image (USA) - Klohho (USA) (Trempolino (USA)) 3 Testa Rossi (FR) 4 ch f Dr Fong (USA) - Peggy Lane (FR) (Dancing Spree (USA)) WILLIAM HILL HASKELL INVITATIONAL STAKES, G1, Monmouth Park, August 2, 9f 1 American Pharoah (USA) 3 b c Pioneerof the Nile (USA) Littleprincessemma (USA) (Yankee Gentleman (USA))

2 Keen Ice (USA) 3 b c Curlin (USA) - Medomak (USA) (Awesome Again (CAN)) 3 Upstart (USA) 3 b/br c Flatter (USA) - Party Silks (USA) (Touch Gold (USA)) OCEANPORT STAKES, G3, Monmouth Park, August 2, 8f 110yds 1 Heart To Heart (CAN) 4 b c English Channel (USA) - Ask the Question (USA) (Silver Deputy (CAN)) 2 Hothersal (CAN) 7 b/br c Smart Strike (CAN) - Steel Shed (USA) (Theatrical) 3 Cage Fighter (USA) 5 b c Closing Argument (USA) - Untamed Passion (USA) (Pulpit (USA)) MONMOUTH CUP STAKES, G2, Monmouth Park, August 2, 8f 110yds 1 Bradester (USA) 5 b c Lion Heart (USA) - Grandestofall (USA) (Grand Slam (USA)) 2 Valid (USA) 5 b/br g Medaglia d'Oro (USA) - Grand Prayer (USA) (Grand Slam (USA)) 3 Freestyler (USA) 5 b c Street Cry (IRE) - Dance Swiftly (CAN) (Danzig (USA)) NAT.MUSEUM OF RACING HALL OF FAME STAKES, G2, Saratoga, August 7, 8f 110yds 1 Takeover Target (USA) 3 b c Harlan's Holiday (USA) Vanquished (USA) (Empire Maker (USA)) 2 A Lot (USA) 3 b c Tapit (USA) Overly Tempting (USA) (In Excess) 3 Courtier (USA) 3 b c Pioneerof the Nile (USA) - Soothing Touch (USA) (Touch Gold (USA)) SEAWAY STAKES, G3, Woodbine, August 8, 1400m 1 Marbre Rose (IRE) 4 b f Smart Strike (CAN) - Manerbe (USA) (Unbridled's Song (USA)) 2 Endless Light (GB) 5 ch f Pivotal (GB) - Celeste (GB) (Green Desert (USA)) 3 Cactus Kris (USA) 4 ch f Cactus Ridge (USA) - Highest Ground (USA) (Lemon Drop Kid (USA))

WHITNEY STAKES, G1, Saratoga, August 8, 9f 1 Honor Code (USA) 4 b/br c A P Indy (USA) - Serena's Cat (USA) (Storm Cat (USA)) 2 Liam's Map (USA) 4 gr/ro c Unbridled's Song (USA) - Miss Macy Sue (USA) (Trippi (USA)) 3 Tonalist (USA) 4 b c Tapit (USA) Settling Mist (USA) (Pleasant Colony (USA)) TEST STAKES, G1, Saratoga, August 8, 7f 1 Cavorting (USA) 3 b f Bernardini (USA) - Promenade Girl (USA) (Carson City (USA)) 2 Bar of Gold (USA) 3 b/br f Medaglia d'Oro (USA) - Khancord Kid (USA) (Lemon Drop Kid (USA)) 3 By the Moon (USA) 3 b/br f Indian Charlie (USA) - By The Light (USA) (Malibu Moon (USA)) FASIG-TIPTON WAYA STAKES, G3, Saratoga, August 8, 12f 1 Goldy Espony (FR) 4 gr/ro f Vespone (IRE) - Goldy Honor (FR) (Highest Honor (FR)) 2 Eastern Belle (GB) 4 b f Champs Elysees (GB) - Fleche d'Or (GB) (Dubai Destination (USA)) 3 White Rose (USA) 5 gr/ro f Tapit (USA) - Garden Dance (USA) (El Prado (IRE)) GROUPIE DOLL STAKES, G3, Ellis Park, August 8, 8f 1 Call Pat (USA) 5 b/br f Lawyer Ron (USA) - First Song (USA) (Rahy (USA)) 2 Fioretti (USA) 5 b/br f Bernardini (USA) - Move Clickly (USA) (Cherokee Run (USA)) 3 Pistolpackinpenny (USA) 5 b/br f Portobello Road (USA) - Good Feeling (USA) (Cape Town (USA)) JOHN C MABEE STAKES, G2, Del Mar, August 8, 9f 1 Elektrum (IRE) 4 b f High Chaparral (IRE) - Carolines Secret (GB) (Inchinor (GB)) 2 Queen of The Sand (IRE) 5 ch f Footstepsinthesand (GB) - Lough Mewin (IRE) (Woodman (USA)) 3 Emotional Kitten (USA) 5 ch f Kitten's Joy (USA) - Silent Emotion (USA) (Ghazi (USA))

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international database BEST PAL STAKES, G2, Del Mar, August 8, 6f 110yds 1 Nyquist (USA) 2 b c Uncle Mo (USA) - Seeking Gabrielle (USA) (Forestry (USA)) 2 Swipe (USA) 2 b/br c Birdstone (USA) - Avalanche Lily (USA) (Grand Slam (USA)) 3 Annie's Candy (USA) 2 b/br c Twirling Candy (USA) - Wildcat Princess (USA) (Forest Wildcat) LA JOLLA HANDICAP, G3, Del Mar, August 9, 8f 110yds 1 Prospect Park (USA) 3 b/br c Tapit (USA) - Quiet Romance (USA) (Bertrando (USA)) 2 Om (USA) 3 ch c Munnings (USA) Rare Cat (USA) (Tabasco Cat (USA)) 3 Royal Albert Hall (GB) 3 b g Royal Applause (GB) - Victoria Sponge (IRE) (Marju (IRE)) SORRENTO STAKES, G2, Del Mar, August 12, 6f 110yds 1 Pretty N Cool (USA) 2 gr/ro f Scat Daddy (USA) – Stayclassysandiego (USA) (Rockport Harbor) 2 Gomo (USA) 2 b f Uncle Mo (USA) - Gentle Audrey (USA) (Elusive Quality (USA)) 3 One True Kiss (USA) 2 b f Warrior's Reward (USA) - True Kiss (USA) (Is It True (USA)) MAKER'S MARK LAKE PLACID STAKES, G2, Saratoga, August 14, 9f 1 Sentiero Italia (USA) 3 b f Medaglia d'Oro (USA) - Golden Way (IRE) (Cadeaux Genereux) 2 Miss Temple City (USA) 3 b/br f Temple City (USA) - Glittering Tax (USA) (Artax (USA)) 3 Strict Compliance (USA) 3 b f Into Mischief (USA) - Diva Dyna (USA) (Grand Slam (USA)) FOURSTARDAVE HANDICAP, G2, Saratoga, August 15, 8f 1 Grand Arch (USA) 6 b g Arch (USA) - Bacinella (USA) (El Gran Senor (USA)) 2 Ironicus (USA) 4 gr/ro c Distorted Humor (USA) - Meghan's Joy (USA) (A P Indy (USA)) 3 Seek Again (USA) 5 ch c Speightstown (USA) - Light Jig (GB) (Danehill (USA))

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BEVERLY D STAKES, G1, Arlington, August 15, 9f 110yds

1 Just Wicked (USA) 2 gr/ro f Tapit (USA) - Wicked Deed (USA) (Harlan's Holiday (USA)) 2 Tonasah (USA) 2 b f Malibu Moon (USA) - Quanah County (USA) (Valid Expectations (USA)) 3 Delicate Lady (USA) 2 b f Thunder Gulch (USA) - Love And Lies (USA) (Broken Vow (USA))

1 Watsdachances (IRE) 5 b f Diamond Green (FR) - High Finance (IRE) (Entrepreneur (GB)) 2 Stephanie's Kitten (USA) 6 b f Kitten's Joy (USA) - Unfold the Rose (USA) (Catienus (USA)) 3 Secret Gesture (GB) 5 b f Galileo (IRE) - Shastye (IRE) (Danehill (USA))

CANADIAN DERBY, G3, Northlands Park, August 15, 2200m 1 Academic (CAN) 3 b f Henny Hughes (USA) - Awesome Lass (CAN) (Awesome Again (CAN)) 2 Witt Six (USA) 3 b/br g Drums of Thunder (USA) - Taitt Hill (USA) (Graeme Hall (USA)) 3 Cowboys Don't Cry (USA) 3 b c Include (USA) - Mt Swoosh (USA) (Mt Livermore (USA)) DEL MAR OAKS, G1, Del Mar, August 15, 9f 1 Sharla Rae (USA) 3 b f Afleet Alex (USA) - Jinny's Gold (USA) (Gold Fever (USA)) 2 Her Emmynency (USA) 3 b f Successful Appeal (USA) - Chic Dancer (USA) (Joyeux Danseur) 3 Prize Exhibit (GB) 3 b/br f Showcasing (GB) - Roodeye (GB) (Inchinor (GB)) SECRETARIAT STAKES, G1, Arlington, August 15, 10f 1 Highland Reel (IRE) 3 b c Galileo (IRE) - Hveger (AUS) (Danehill (USA)) 2 Closing Bell (USA) 3 b/br c Tapit (USA) - Rehear (USA) (Coronado's Quest (USA)) 3 Force the Pass (USA) 3 ch c Speightstown (USA) - Social Queen (USA) (Dynaformer (USA)) PUCKER UP STAKES, G3, Arlington, August 15, 9f 1 Mizz Money (USA) 3 gr/ro f Mizzen Mast (USA) - Abbeyville Miss (USA) (Grand Slam (USA)) 2 Return to Grace (USA) 3 ch f English Channel (USA) - Golden Attraction (USA) (Mr Prospector) 3 Prado's Sweet Ride (USA) 3 b f Fort Prado (USA) - Excellent Idea (USA) (General Meeting (USA))

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ARLINGTON MILLION STAKES, G1, Arlington, August 15, 10f 1 The Pizza Man (USA) 6 b g English Channel (USA) - I Can Fan Fan (USA) (Lear Fan (USA)) 2 Big Blue Kitten (USA) 7 b c Kitten's Joy (USA) - Spent Gold (USA) (Unaccounted For (USA)) 3 Shining Copper (USA) 5 ch c Aragorn (IRE) - La Minuta (CHI) (Winged Victory (USA)) AMERICAN ST LEGER STAKES, G3, Arlington, August 15, 13f 110yds 1 Lucky Speed (IRE) 5 b c Silvano (GER) - Lysuna (GER) (Monsun (GER)) 2 Panama Hat (GB) 4 ch g Medicean (GB) - Street Style (IRE) (Rock of Gibraltar (IRE)) 3 Hyper (USA) 8 b c Victory Gallop (CAN) - Raw Nerve (USA) (Nureyev) SKY CLASSIC STAKES, G2, Woodbine, August 16, 2000m 1 Interpol (CAN) 4 b c English Channel (USA) - Adel (USA) (Strawberry Road (AUS)) 2 Golden Sabre (CAN) 5 b/br c Medaglia d'Oro (USA) - Strike Softly (CAN) (Smart Strike (CAN)) 3 Are You Kidding Me (USA) 5 b c Run Away And Hide (USA) - Sweet Awakening (USA) (Street Cry (IRE)) SARATOGA SPECIAL STAKES, G2, Saratoga, August 16, 6f 110yds 1 Exaggerator (USA) 2 b/br c Curlin (USA) - Dawn Raid (CAN) (Vindication (USA)) 2 Saratoga Mischief (USA) 2 b c Into Mischief (USA) - Pacific Destiny (USA) (Mr Greeley (USA)) 3 Hammers Vision (CAN) 2 b c Court Vision (USA) - Baytree (USA) (Forestry (USA))

LONGACRES MILE HANDICAP, G3, Emerald Downs, August 16, 8f 1 Stryker Phd (USA) 6 b c Bertrando (USA) - Striking Scholar (USA) (Smart Strike (CAN)) 2 Sammy Mandeville (USA) 4 b c Rock Hard Ten (USA) - Nadadora (USA) (Carson City (USA)) 3 Alert Bay (USA) 4 b/br g City Zip (USA) - Hickory (CHI) (Dushyantor (USA)) RANCHO BERNARDO HANDICAP, G3, Del Mar, August 16, 6f 110yds 1 Taris (USA) 4 b f Flatter (USA) Comedy (USA) (Theatrical) 2 Baruta (BRZ) 6 b f Crimson Tide (IRE) - Ultrasonic Girl (BRZ) (Mensageiro Alado (BRZ)) 3 Uzziel (USA) 4 b/br f Harlington (USA) - Pretti Woman (USA) (Lord At War (ARG))

WORLDWIDE Grande Premio Farewell, G1, Cidade Jardim, June 27, 1600m 1 Reality Bites (BRZ) 3 b c Silent Times (IRE) - Redeye Special (GB) (Efisio) 2 Full-Stop (BRZ) 3 b c Pounced (USA) - Fui (USA) (Royal Academy (USA)) 3 Panama (BRZ) 3 b c Signal Tap (USA) - Eau de Toilette (BRZ) (Nedawi (GB)) Sire: SILENT TIMES. Sire of 3 Stakes winners. In 2015 CAPITOLIO Aksar G1, REALITY BITES Efisio G1.

1st Dam: REDEYE SPECIAL by Efisio. 2 wins. Dam of 1 winner: 2008: Reckless Behaviour (c Sulamani) unraced.

2012: REALITY BITES (c Silent Times) Grande Premio Farewell G1, 2nd G. P. Presidente Vicente Renato Paolillo G2, 3rd Grande Premio Quari Bravo G3.

Broodmare Sire: EFISIO. Sire of the dams of 37 Stakes winners. In 2015 - REALITY BITES Silent Times G1, ODELIZ Falco G3, VIOLET DANCER Bertolini LR.

international database Danehill Danehill Dancer Mira Adonde SILENT TIMES b/br 2003 Wild Again Recoleta Alvear REALITY BITES b c 2012 Formidable Efisio Eldoret REDEYE SPECIAL b 2002 Persian Bold Red May Stay That Way

Takarazuka Kinen, G1, Hanshin, June 28, 2200m 1 Lovely Day (JPN) 5 b/br c King Kamehameha (JPN) - Popcorn Jazz (JPN) (Dance In The Dark (JPN)) 2 Denim And Ruby (JPN) 5 b f Deep Impact (JPN) - Venenciador (JPN) (King Kamehameha (JPN)) 3 Shonan Pandora (JPN) 4 b f Deep Impact (JPN) - Cutie Gold (JPN) (French Deputy (USA)) Age: 2-5; Starts: 23; Wins: 7; Places: 4 Earnings: ÂŁ2,498,823 Sire: KING KAMEHAMEHA. Sire of 46 Stakes winners. In 2015 DURAMENTE Sunday Silence G1, LET'S GO DONKI Marvelous Sunday G1, LOVELY DAY Dance In The Dark G1, HIT THE TARGET Tamamo Cross G2, REVE MISTRAL Highest Honor G2, YAMAKATSU ACE Grass Wonder G2, KEIAI ELEGANT A P Indy G3, CLARITY CITY Special Week LR, HOKKO TARUMAE Cherokee Run LR. 1st Dam: Popcorn Jazz by Dance In The Dark. Winner at 2 in Japan, 2nd Sweetpea S LR. Dam of 5 winners: 2006: PONO PONO MAUI (c King Kamehameha) 4 wins at 4 in Japan.

2007: BEACH RENDEZVOUS (c Kurofune) 2 wins at 2 and 3 in Japan.

2008: KING JAZZ (c King Kamehameha) 2 wins 4 in Japan.

2010: LOVELY DAY (c King Kamehameha) 7 wins at 2, 4 and 5 in Japan, Takarazuka Kinen G1, Kyoto Kinen G2, Naruo Kinen G3, Nikkan Sports Sho Nakayama Kimpai G3, Metropolitan S LR, 2nd Keio Hai Nisai S G2, Kinko Sho G2, Kokura Kinen G3, 3rd Chunichi Shimbun Hai G3.

2012: SEASIDE JAZZ (c Kurofune) Winner at 3 in Japan.

Broodmare Sire: DANCE IN THE DARK. Sire of the dams of 6 Stakes winners. In 2015 - LOVELY DAY King Kamehameha G1.

The King Kamehameha/Dance In The Dark cross has produced: LOVELY DAY G1, SHORYU MOON G3.

Mr Prospector Kingmambo Miesque KING KAMEHAMEHA b 2001 Last Tycoon Manfath Pilot Bird LOVELY DAY b/br c 2010 Sunday Silence Dance In The Dark Dancing Key POPCORN JAZZ b 2000 Tony Bin Grace Rumor Disc Jockey

Grande Premio Margarida Polak Lara, G1, Cidade Jardim, August 1, 1600m 1 Daffy Girl (BRZ) 3 b f Wild Event (USA) - Ilang-Ilang (BRZ) (Tokatee (USA)) 2 Danza (BRZ) 3 ch f Adriano (USA) - Piroetta (BRZ) (Clackson (BRZ)) 3 Bubbly Blonde (BRZ) 3 ch f Pounced (USA) - Buzz Word (BRZ) (Yagli (USA)) Sire: WILD EVENT. Sire of 52 Stakes winners. In 2015 CRUISELINER Trempolino G1, DAFFY GIRL Tokatee G1, PERFECT EVENT Bernstein G3.

1st Dam: Ilang-Ilang by Tokatee.

2nd Grande Premio Diana G1.

Dam of 2 winners: 2003: Quatro Islas (f Trempolino).

Dam of Camonete (f Put It Back: 3rd C. Presidente Luiz Alves de Almeida LR) 2005: SKYPILOT (c Put It Back) Grande Premio Juliano Martins G1, 2nd Grande Premio Ipiranga (2000 Guineas) G1.

2006: Tarry Town (f Wild Event) unraced. Broodmare.

2010: Bandito (c Elusive Quality) unraced.

2012: DAFFY GIRL (f Wild Event) Grande Premio Margarida Polak Lara G1.

Broodmare Sire: TOKATEE. Sire of the dams of 21 Stakes winners. In 2015 - DAFFY GIRL Wild Event G1.

G. P. Copa A.B.C.P.C.C.-Matias Machline, G1, Cidade Jardim, August 1, 1600m

The Wild Event/Tokatee cross has produced: DAFFY GIRL G1, VIP STAR G2, VIVA-VOZ G3, SANDUKA LR, Trapeze G1, Bonitaca G2.

1 Universal Law (BRZ) 4 b c Christine's Outlaw (USA) Universal Rara (BRZ) (Ramirito) 2 Caballo de Hierro (BRZ) 4 b c Wild Event (USA) - Bukebele (BRZ) (Punk (ARG)) 3 Paint Naif (BRZ) 4 b c Crimson Tide (IRE) - Painter's Dream (BRZ) (Royal Academy (USA))

Icecapade Wild Again Bushel-N-Peck WILD EVENT b 93 Northfields North of Eden Tree of Knowledge DAFFY GIRL b f 2012 Seattle Slew Tokatee Misukaw ILANG-ILANG b 96 Vacilante Ocala Gal Cat Nap

G. P. J Adhemar de Almeida Prado, G1, Cidade Jardim, August 1, 1600m 1 Jopollo (BRZ) 3 b c Public Speaker (USA) - Ottawa (ARG) (Sekari (GB)) 2 Full-Stop (BRZ) 3 b c Pounced (USA) - Fui (USA) (Royal Academy (USA)) 3 Reality Bites (BRZ) 3 b c Silent Times (IRE) - Redeye Special (GB) (Efisio) Sire: PUBLIC SPEAKER. Sire of 1 Stakes winners. In 2015 - JOPOLLO Sekari G1.

1st Dam: Ottawa by Sekari. unraced. Dam of 1 winner: 2012: JOPOLLO (c Public Speaker) G. P. J Adhemar de Almeida Prado G1, G. P. Presidente Jose de Souza Queiroz G3.

Broodmare Sire: SEKARI. Sire of the dams of 1 Stakes winners. In 2015 - JOPOLLO Public Speaker G1.

Forty Niner Distorted Humor Danzig's Beauty PUBLIC SPEAKER ch 2005 Southern Halo Gouache Aquarelle JOPOLLO b c 2012 Polish Precedent Sekari Secret Seeker OTTAWA b 2002 Peace Negotiations Maquila Malena Al Sur

Sire: CHRISTINE'S OUTLAW. Sire of 13 Stakes winners. In 2015 UNIVERSAL LAW Ramirito G1, VEUVE FOURNY Jarraar G1, JOE STAR Ariosto LR. 1st Dam: Universal Rara by Ramirito. 8 wins in Brazil, 3rd Classico Duque de Caxias LR. Dam of 3 winners: 2005: Universina (f Ayrton S) 2007: UAREOUTLAW (c Christine's Outlaw) Champion 2yr old colt in Brazil in 2009-2010. 3 wins in Brazil, G. P. J Adhemar de Almeida Prado G1, 2nd G. P. Juliano Martins G1.

2008: Un Outlaw (c Christine's Outlaw) unraced.

2009: Universal Wach (f Watchmon) unraced.

2010: UAREADEMON (c Watchmon) 3 wins in Brazil, G. P. Copa A.B.C.P.C.C Regional G3.

2011: UNIVERSAL LAW (c Christine's Outlaw) Grande Premio Francisco E Paula Machado G1, G. P. Copa A.B.C.P.C.C.-Matias Machline G1, 2nd Grande Premio Presidente da Republica G1.

Broodmare Sire: RAMIRITO. Sire of the dams of 6 Stakes winners.

In 2015 - UNIVERSAL LAW Christine's Outlaw G1.

The Christine's Outlaw/Ramirito cross has produced: UAREOUTLAW G1, UNIVERSAL LAW G1.

Icecapade Wild Again Bushel-N-Peck CHRISTINE'S OUTLAW b 2000 Dewan Marianna's Girl Marianna Trench UNIVERSAL LAW b c 2011 Clackson Ramirito Khedive UNIVERSAL RARA ch 97 Grimaldi Ola I Ask If I Ask

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photo of the month: on the beach at Deauville

Sara Moore beach-exercising one of the Stan Moore-trained runners out in Deauville for the middle two weeks of August.

From four runners, the yard had a win, three placings and earned over ÂŁ16,000 in prize-money

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Le Havre b / b r. ( I R E ) 2 0 0 6 - N ove r re - M a r i e R h e i n b e r g

THE SOURCE OF BLACK TYPE! Leading Stallions in Europe in 2015 (3yo+, 1000m-1899m) by % Black-Type Winners to Runners Rank Sire

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Rnrs.

LE HAVRE

53 GALILEO 67 MASTERCRAFTSMAN 70 SHAMARDAL 147 INVINCIBLE SPIRIT 155 LOPE DE VEGA 55 DARK ANGEL 129 TEOFILO 78 DUBAWI 98 MAKFI 59

Wnrs. Wins Black-Type Black-Type Group Winners Placed Winners

18 21 13 63 62 25 47 27 34 15

31 24 17 97 83 32 64 35 40 20

4 5 5 9 9 3 7 4 5 3

3 4 1 8 8 4 7 0 8 1

0 3 2 4 4 2 3 3 4 1

Gr. % Winners Pl. /Runners

4 4 0 3 4 2 5 1 5 1

34 31 19 43 40 45 36 35 35 25

% Winners BT/Runners

7.55 7.46 7.14 6.12 5.81 5.45 5.43 5.13 5.10 5.08

Minimum of 40 runners. Statistics supplied by Hyperion Promotions Ltd. Results received to August 2nd.

Already sire of the winners of

17 STAKES races including:

AVENIR CERTAIN Prix de Diane Gr.1 and Poule d’Essai des Pouliches Gr.1 AUVRAY Prix Chaudenay Gr.2 QUEEN BEE Prix du Calvados Gr.3

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Contact: Coolmore Stud, Fethard, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. Tel: 353-52-6131298. Fax: 353-52-6131382. Christy Grassick, David O’Loughlin, Eddie Fitzpatrick, Tim Corballis, Maurice Moloney, Gerry Aherne, Mathieu Legars or Jason Walsh.

Tom Gaffney, David Magnier, Joe Hernon or Cathal Murphy: 353-25-31966/31689. Kevin Buckley (UK Rep.) 44-7827-795156. E-mail: sales@coolmore.ie Web site: www.coolmore.com All stallions nominated to EBF.