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Workforce is on a par with the best
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28 46 Interaction: Horse of the Year
40 A new star is in the ascendant
stallions in the latest Group race action
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Giorgio Barsotti describes the latest political developments for a sport under threat
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114 Notable maiden winners
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Frank Mitchell is disparing of the three-year-old crop in the US
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52 Young ladies who train Elaine Clark and Sally Duckett
Gryada: a Group 1-producing dam
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28 Ascot in all is glory
Sally Duckett reviews a fantastic Royal meeting where champions were made
80 Mare of the month
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The Epsom Derby in pictures
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50 Looking after each other Liz Price explains how thoroughbred
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the foreword
Give a celebrity a racehorse...
... and get him to sell the sport to the world
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am so glad that I am not a football fan. It has been a difficult World Cup and being British I am obviously highly ashamed of our team’s early performances. I don’t know how the poor guys for whom the result really matters are managing to cope. One thing for certain there was a marked disappearance of football flags hanging off cars through the week after the team’s dismal display against Algeria as people sought, like outlawed religious groups, to hide their allegiances. Difficult too for the mass advertising campaigns planned on the back of England’s successful progress through into the knock out stages. The usual companies had obviously gotten in on the act, but through the commercial slots (which felt more like 15 minutes than five) throughout the World Cup all manner of companies sought to ally with the game through some sort of jokey imagery or football punditry. The last ad that came to me ahead of the Slovenia match was over my email and was from a florist, urging us to support the team with a bouquet of flowers. But how many ads are targeted in a similar fashion to racing? Apart from the Weetabix ad – and a highly successful campaign it was too – few. Even when the big meetings are on, no clothes or perfumes or aftershaves are marketed on the back of a day at the races. No Hugo Boss man smoulders sexily into the camera wearing just a top hat with a pair of binoculars slung around his body, carefully placed in a strategic position. And that is evidence of just how far the sport needs to go to register in the public consciousness. Racing currently just ain’t sexy – yet. But, with effort it could be, and there could be one simple solution – celebrity endorsement. Instead of spending vital finance on committees, brand endorsements and Brians and Bens (oops, too late), why not pay for celebrities to go to the races? Hell, why not buy them some racehorses? Finance a decent agent – possibly one with a respectable Royal Ascot record – with two or three batches of £50,000, buy a few yearlings, send them to a personable trainer and ensure that said celebrity has a good time, which might just have the potential to go particularly well. Then every time he or she gets interviewed, whether it be for Hello, Vogue or even The Mail
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said star is under strict instruction to ensure that they mention just what a great time they have at the races. And every time the horse makes it to a racecourse, press releases should be written, facebook comments made and emails pushed into cyber space. Newspapers, websites and magazines love to use the beautiful people – why can’t racing make use of them too? Kylie Minogue lives in England and surely would enjoy going racing, Cheryl Cole will do most things for a bit of publicity and even a pair such as Ant and Dec would have some appeal. I, for one, certainly wouldn’t mind seeing Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth or Hugh Grant stepping out into the parade ring. Pop stars go to the races to play their music after the sport is over – why not get them to the track earlier to see a horse run? Come to think of it, why aren’t these people being brought to the races earlier and made to
work? Presenting prizes, discussing the day in a racecourse interview, signing autographs: they are already there at a racecourse, let’s not waste valuable opportunities. The celebrity world has been tentatively approached by racing – Highclere Thoroughbreds have gained a few TV types, Katie Price has become involved in the female apprentice series, while Royal Ascot got a few names – all sporting though – to present prizes. But to increase racing’s “sexy” appeal to both the younger crowd as well as the more mature audience, the world of celebrity must be tapped into by racing in order to bring a much-needed fan base into the sport. Unlike football, we are the best in the world at horseracing, so let’s encourage everyone to enjoy it. It’s not fair that the sporting fan should not have to rely on watching underperforming, overpaid football players for entertainment.
This has been discussed everywhere and by the time we are published an appeal may have been successfully concluded, but the British Horseracing Authority’s (BHA) six-month ban of Harry Findlay is crazy in the extreme. But forgetting the rights and wrongs of it, the BHA has to accept that by allowing the existence of Betfair it has allowed people to act as their own bookmaker. And in doing so they are naturally going to lay horses in order to protect their financial positions. The BHA argues that laying your own horse is against the spirit of horseracing betting and can quite easily become something more sinister. Furthermore, banning owners from laying their own horses stops racing’s equivalent to insider trading. However, if that argument were taken a step further, owners should not be allowed to back their own horse to win. As I am not a Ballydoyle insider I did not know that Starspangledbanner had been putting in electrifying splits at Ballydoyle until after the event. Or that Laddies Poker Two was as near a handicap certainty as Fabio Capello getting the sack. Is that fair to the punter? No, but betting is not fair. So if an owner or someone knows that a horse in a yard is not quite at the top of its game, that it has only just got over a bout of ringworm or that, although perceived opinion believes that the horse wants it soft, having watched it gallop on quicker surface it looks equally at home on good ground, why is that different? And why should they not state that position in order to make money financially? And in Findlay’s case he has not revealed that he believed any of those things about his horses – he was merely protecting his bets. The BHA doesn’t know how to handle the situation that it has created. But one thing must be certain – even if ignoring the increasing need for a fair contribution from the bookmaking industry to racing, the ever-increasing integrity costs caused by today’s betting world must be wholly financed by the bookmakers rather than racing. It is crazy that racing currently foots that bill. And while we are talking about bookmakers, why don’t we ask them to come up with an alternative financial solution if they continue to refuse to increase their Levy contributions? They say that they should not be the ones asked to pay more. If that is the case, why don’t we get them to give us a realistic and workable plan capable of pulling racing out of its financial strife.
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Presvis was out of sight as Byword went away to win the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes
We’re better P than you are! Paul Haigh realises (a little unwillingly) that good horses can come from anywhere
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arochialism is this month’s theme. Everyone’s heard of it. Everyone thinks it’s a failing of others. Americans, famously, think nothing very interesting happens outside the US – unless it happens to Americans. The strange discovery for those of us now based in Asia is that we tend to think the same about Asia, and to an only slightly lesser extent about Asians. Cecil Rhodes however advised all his countrymen to bear in mind that by having been born an Englishman you had “won first prize in the great lottery of life” and – never mind evidence to the contrary – Englishmen, particularly but not exclusively those who like to fly white flags with red crosses from their car radio aerials during football tournaments, have tended to cling to this view as though it were the 11th instruction brought down from the mountain.
the first word In June, and as far as racing is concerned, they are of course right. If you think it must be a curious thing to find yourself watching the Derby with a Japanese commentary in Tokyo where they’ve inconsiderately decided to run the Yasuda Kinen on the same day, try watching Royal Ascot from Hong Kong with the help of ATR’s full menagerie, which prowls through your consciousness like creatures from a previous existence. We parochials considered the Prince of Wales’s Stakes, for example, largely in relation to Presvis, winner of the APQEII in 2009. Since then things have not gone anywhere near right for the Luca Cumani star, who a year ago was being tipped to become one of the world’s best. In fact he’s now become one of those with whom you can play “Guess The Next Excuse”. This is not to say that any of the excuses are invalid. It’s just to say he now always seems to find a way to get beaten. In the SAI Cup of 2009 he came just too late to catch Gloria De Campeao, who at that time looked his obvious inferior. In the 2009 Hong Kong Cup he wasn’t quite ready to do himself justice. In the 2010 Dubai Duty Free he never got a run. In the 2010 APQE II he got a run, but came flying too late again. In the 2010 SAI Cup he wrenched a shoe half off early on and actually did very well in the circumstances to finish where he did. In the Ascot race he what? He came there along the rail with every chance 2f out then died on his run. Too many air miles on the clock for the time being? The unluckiest very good horse in training? Or maybe just a horse who’s good but not as good as we, or more important Luca, thought? See how parochialism can make you discursive? Byword trained by Fabre beat Twice Over trained by Cecil in the Prince of Wales’s by the way. That’s what should have been the subject of the previous paragraph and there’s naughty old Presvis again stealing what should been their thunder. But wait, we at Parochialists Anonymous are getting ahead of ourselves. Ascot began with a display of some of its finest jewels. La Belle France’s Goldikova took her Group 1 tally to nine in the Queen Anne, in which astonishingly she somehow drifted to bigger than 42/1 in-running when Paco Boy came charging at her. She is a wonderful mare, even if Paco Boy has now improved so much that allowances taken into consideration he’s just about her equal. Every time Goldikova wins, however,
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Happy Zero’s abject display had me rushing to the phone to the Society of Universal Conspiracy Theorists. Sadly the lines to SUCT were jammed, and the Secretary General probably wouldn’t have had time to chat anyway
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you can’t help thinking of her early retired contemporary and superior Zarkava and what sort of a race mare she might have been. The following day from Twice Over we got a nudge about Zenyatta who some, particularly parochial Americans, like to think of as Zarkava’s equal. How silly can you get? How seriously can you take a horse who never races outside California anyway? And no, in case you were wondering, cry the Euro-parochialists, racing only in France isn’t the same thing at all. An hour or so later came first warning of what was to prove a distressing meeting for horses trained East of Suez when Gold Trail made no show at all in the King’s Stand. Leading to the last furlong then folding would have been comprehensible. Not being able to go the pace after one furlong just wasn’t. This was the horse who had led Rocket Man on his home turf until close to the line after all. Slow horses don’t do that. Defeat you can cope with. Utter rout without form book explanation is a little tougher on the gullet. Nicconi didn’t do very much better. And so Australia’s hold on the King’s Stand was loosened this year. Good horses can come from anywhere though, as all parochialists must learn and as Equiano proved. This year he only came from Barry Hills’s yard. Two years ago it was from Spain. Doesn’t it make you wonder how good Overdose might be if ever the Flying Magyar’s well enough again to get on a course that befits him? But, oh Gold Trail. As it turned out his was a rout that almost exactly presaged that of Happy Zero, another who had caught him at
Kranji (or “Kranj-eye” as some underprepared ATR ignoramus persisted in calling it a couple of days later) in what for Hong Kong parochialists is unquestionably the meeting’s climax, the Golden Jubilee. How do these things happen? How can anyone trust the concept of a benevolent deity? Speaking of which, Richard Hughes probably believes in one. Canford Cliffs is a terrific colt, isn’t he? And Strong Suit may be even better. How he got himself out of the hole that had been dug for him was pretty near supernatural. The Gold Cup is not really of that much interest outside Europe anymore. And for some this proving ground for jumping stallions never was. Apparently an Irish horse won it again. And in record time too. Well done. A nod to Lily Langtree, and so to the race to which all this had been building up. Another ATR ignoramus described Happy Zero as “almost unbeatable at Sha Tin”, thereby showing that he had heard of Hong Kong’s premier racecourse but not of the world’s top-rated sprinter for the last three years, Sacred Kingdom. Happy Zero’s trainer John Moore was supremely confident. So for what is was worth (nothing) was I. In view of the fact that Joy And Fun had been going very strongly behind the leaders until breaking a leg (often a valid excuse) and still managed to finish midfield before Brett Doyle could dismount him; of the fact that in three attempts Joy And Fun had never finished in front of Happy Zero before and that Happy Zero had gone off about 6/4 on the tote in Hong Kong where illegal bookies are an enormous problem, his abject display had me rushing to the phone to the Society of Universal Conspiracy Theorists. Sadly the lines to SUCT were jammed, and the Secretary General probably wouldn’t have had time to chat anyway. We mustn’t take anything away from Starspanglebanner of course, who confuses parochialists by being an Australian actually trained for the race at Ballydoyle. He thrills Aidan O’Brien at “home” where he allegedly runs sub-10 second furlongs. Starspangledbanner, or “Starspangledspanner” as the excellent Hong Kong racing commentator Clint Hutcheson (who cannot be accused of parochialism because he’s an Aussie too) called him in a slip of the tongue, may well take over Sacred Kingdom’s mantle after this. But there’s no way he’s that much better than the real Happy Zero. Starspangledspanner indeed. And right in this parochialist’s works.
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Racing flexes its muscles A proposal to build 1,200 houses in Newmarket has been blocked, while the Australian government has halted plans for a coal mine in the Hunter Valley The racing industries in both the northern and southern hemispheres have been flexing their muscles against development plans – and in both instances have come out on top. Newmarket town council threw out Lord Derby’s controversial plan to build 1,200 houses at Hatchfield Farm on the edge of Newmarket at a planning meeting at the beginning of June. The plans had come under severe criticism from the town and from the racing industry. The Save Historic Newmarket group was formed in 2008 and has been instrumental in running petitions, protests and organising a campaign against the project. It is chaired by Rachel Hood, wife of trainer John Gosden, and many trainers have been fully involved and have lodged objections, including James Fanshawe, John Berry, Luca Cumani and Sir Michael Stoute as well as the town’s sales company Tattersalls. The recommendation given to councillors was to put off making a decision after the Highways Agency announced that because it did not have enough information to consider the proprosal’s effect on the traffic. Newmarket councillor Ian Radford called to refuse the plan, highlighting the traffic problems it would cause, its likely detrimental effect on residents and the loss of 58 hectares of prime agricultural green belt
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land. He said: “We have more than sufficient grounds to refuse this application.” His view was backed by the Conservative council leader Geoffrey Jaggard, who in light of the new government’s pledge to abolish the regional housing
strategies, which had been a key factor in council officers’ support for the Hatchfield project, felt the scheme was redundant. Lord Derby had told councillors he saw the development of Hatchfield Farm as a “positive progression for Newmarket”. But William Gittus, managing director of Jockey Club Estates, said that although Lord Derby had promised to fund a raft of measures, including an equine underpass and a host of improvements to horsewalks and horse crossings, the Jockey Club held on to the view that
In Australia, the Bickham coal mine project, which stud farmers in the Upper Hunter Valley feared threatened to contaminate water supplies and ruin livelihoods, has been halted by the New South Wales Premier Kristina Keneally. It was announced in May that the project, which would have extracted up to 36 million tonnes of coal from two adjacent open cut pits over a period of up to 25 years, would not be allowed to proceed. Further, the NSW Government will amend legislation to permanently ban mining on the site near the Pages River. Keneally said the decision would protect the thoroughbred industry and noted that the Planning Assessment Commission (PAC) report found that the potential impacts on water resources would far outweigh any benefits of proceeding with the project. “This decision gives the state’s thoroughbred industry the increased certainty it needs to continue to harness the dynamic global market, of which it is a leader,” she said. “We will not jeopardise the growth of this important Australian export industry. “Furthermore, this mine is simply not compatible with the unique rural characteristics of this locality, including the horse breeding industry.” The local thoroughbred community had launched a strong campaign against the proposal, included a mounted protest along with threats to leave from the large farms. Darley Stud said that if the project went ahead Sheikh Mohammed would be likely to cease trading in Australia.
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development of Hatchfield Farm would be harmful to Newmarket’s racing industry. Hugh Anderson, a director of Godolphin, said: “There is nowhere in the world where there is such a density of world-class horses and trainers. Godolphin would not be in Newmarket were it not for the unique environment the town offers. The training and breeding of racehorses requires a rural environment and it is inconceivable that this development would not destroy this fragile balance town.” Derby said that he is likely to consider appealing.
After the decision by Keneally, Darley Australia’s managing director Henry Plumptre, who is also the campaign leader for the “Protect Our Industries” campaign, said that it was important to achieve sustainable long-term land management in the Upper Hunter Valley. In particular, the exploration licences for “wildcat mines” such as Doyles Creek at Jerry’s Plains, Ferndale at Yarrawa and Spur Hill at Denman should be addressed within a broader strategic plan beyond Upper Hunter boundaries. “The Bickham decision was an important benchmark decision for the region but already there are half a dozen other separate exploration licences in existence that pose just as big a threat, not in the Segenhoe Valley but further down, around Muswellbrook, Jerry’s Plains and Denman,” said Plumptre. “There are six projects that could have a massive impact. We are hoping with the bigger, more responsible mining companies, for direct consultation, in other words, getting a resolution that suits us and suits them and then going to government saying we are mutually agreed and this is the way we ought to go,” he said. “If we can be involved in the process of deciding the mining footprint to ensure it doesn’t impact us too much then we are happy to move forward. Projects unacceptable to us are the standalone projects that currently have very little infrastructure, would have a profound impact on the region, and have no place to be there,” he explained.
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India lifts ban on importing Epsom’s success brought breeding stock from Britain a hint of a smile to young After extensive lobbying by the Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association (TBA), alongside DEFRA, the National Horse Breeding Society of India as well as MPS and MEPS, the 15-year ban on the importation of breeding stock from Britain to Indian has been lifted. TBA chairman Kirsten Rausing said: “The TBA has been working to secure the movement of horses since the restriction was imposed in 1995. This has been a long campaign, but one which was stepped up a gear last year.
Hugo Merry: will be buying for his Indian clients at Tattersalls as well at Goffs in future
“Whilst it was unfortunate that we were unable to welcome Indian buyers to the 2009 Tattersalls December Sales, we now look forward to their return to British sales later this year. “This campaign would not have succeeded without support from our opposite numbers,
the National Horse Breeding Society of India, and DEFRA, who through Dr Mauricio Lopez, Veterinary Head Global Animal Health, represented the industry at high-level meetings in Delhi, supported by the British Trade Office in India. “We also have to recognise the contribution made by a number of supporters, whose close contacts with India provided the necessary guidance and advice, local MPs and MEPs who also supported our intensive lobbying.” The restrictions were imposed in 1995 following a UK outbreak of CEM, a disease which occurs widely within the nonthoroughbred population and is notifiable by law. Although the disease was swiftly eradicated, there have since been isolated cases detected in Britain, causing the restrictions to remain in place. The Indian authorities were only persuaded to lift the restrictions after members of the veterinary profession were able to clarify the distinction between thoroughbred and nonthoroughbred trade, supported by the Levy Board’s Codes of Practice. In line with the announcement, the Indian government has amended its import conditions to allow the import of breeding stock from countries where CEM has been detected within three years before export. In recent years Indian-based buyers have been busy in the European bloodstock market, in particularly at the Goffs breeding stock sales. Last autumn Indian interests bought €1.7 million worth of mares, mainly through bloodstock agent Hugo Merry.
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First cloned polo pony born Genetically identical to the brilliant pony Califa and with a stallion’s future ahead The first cloned polo pony will be used to pass on the genes of the brilliant pony Califa
The prospect of a cloned racehorse is moving ever closer with the news that the first cloned polo pony has been born in Texas. The cloned foal is genetically identical to the famed polo gelding, Califa, who is owned by Mariano Aguerre, one of the few players
in the world with a ten-goal handicap. The foal was born on April 22, making him the first cloned polo pony in the world. The colt will be kept as an entire in order to pass Califa’s genetics, an opportunity that otherwise would have not existed.
Buyers can now discover a horse’s genetic capabilities The growth industry within the thoroughbred world certainly appears to be commercial genetic profiling with the announcement that buyers will be able to assess a horse’s genetic potential. LifeLine Labs in the US has produced its “Pegasus Profile”, which the company describes as a “modern high-tech way to assess a thoroughbred’s potential performance using the latest DNA technology.“ According to the company, the Pegasus Profile analyses a horse’s “genetic profile using a proprietary panel of 40 genetic regions of the equine
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genome. The genome is the total amount of genetic information in the horse’s 64 chromosomes. Using a small blood sample, your horse’s genetic profile can be determined from its DNA and then compared to a database of retired thoroughbred horses that have a documented performance history.” According to Dr. Dav Doodnauth, CEO of LifeLine Labs, the service is being offered to owners, breeders, bloodstock agents, stallion managers, pinhookers and trainers. “Each horse is assigned a genetic similarity score
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and the top 10 scores are provided for review,” Doodnauth explained. “Your individualised report will allow you to see the genetic similarities for such performance data as class summary, earnings per start, lifetime Best Beyer figure, two-year-old Best Beyer figure, average winning distance and winning distance range. “The process is independent of pedigree analysis, allowing samples to be submitted with a code for later identification.” Any horse tested will remain anonymous in the database.”
Califa has won all of the top titles in the world of polo, including the US Polo Association Horse of the Year in 2005. Recently the horse was included on the American Polo Horse Association’s Legendary Ponies list, while he was also named the 2009 APHA Horse of the Year. He returned to Argentina last year to join Aguerre’s string for the Argentine Open. “I was actually surprised how much the foal looks like Califa,” Aguerre said. “I couldn’t believe it. The position of his neck, hind-end, and even expression in his face is so much like the original. I never saw Califa at that age, but he already looks like him.” Califa is not only a tremendous athlete, but also possesses a top-class polo pedigree. “The chance to have him back as a stallion is incredible,” continued Aguerre. “His mother Luna was one of the greatest broodmares of all time. The whole family line is strong.” Aguerre is to take the colt to Argentina as a yearling and will stand him at his own Los Machitos farm when he reaches breeding age.
Big Bucks voted Horse of the Year by British public The Paul Nicholls-trained hurdler, Big Buck’s, winner of this year’s World and Liverpool Hurdles, has been voted NH Horse of the Year. The horse, who was winning the World Hurdle for the second year in succession, is unbeaten in his last nine completed starts. Big Buck’s was bred by Henri Poulat at the Haras de Gouffern et de Rabodanges. Jean-Pierre de Gasté of Gouffern said: “Breeding is my passion and to have bred such a champion is immensely satisfying. His dam Buck’s is a wonderful mare who also produced the useful Buck’s Boom, a brother to Big Buck’s. She has also produced Buck’s Business, a son of Turgeon. He is only three years old and already promising.”
the news Summer Bird retired to Pauls Mill farm
Hertfordshire eyes are smiling: Equiano wins the King’s Stand Stakes
Newsells Park can give itself a pat on the back
Newsells Park Stud can be forgiven for a little selfcongratulation for buying the recent Group 1 winner Equiano. The colt was purchased with the view of increasing the Newsells stallion roster by one for 2011, the farm entering into a jointownership deal with owner James Acheson this spring But by luck, or extremely good foresight, the farm sealed the deal just ahead of the sprinter’s second King’s Stand Stakes (G1) success last month. The Acclamation colt is now a dual Group 1 winner having returned to the form that he first produced as a three-year-old when winning the Ascot Group 1 sprint for the first time. Julian Dollar, general manager of Newsells, said: “We are delighted to have bought into such a top-class sprinter and believe it is a very exciting deal for us, particularly as other successful sires such as Cadeaux Genereux, Oasis Dream and Pivotal also won Group 1 sprints as three-year-olds. In addition, he is a good-looking colt who is as sound and as good as ever after 24 starts.” The stud also owns Equiano’s dam Entente Cordiale (Ela-ManaMou), who is the dam of three winners from her five foals of racing age. She is from a family developed by Airlie Stud. Equiano will continue to race for Acheson for the remainder of this season.
Norwich, sire of leading chaser Newmill, dies
THE National Hunt sire Norwich died in May at Knockhouse Stud in County Kilkenny. He was 23. The son of Top Ville was bred by David Shirley out of the Blakeney mare Dame Julian, and was sold as a yearling for 76,000gns. Trained by Barry Hills for Sheikh Mohammed, he won two Listed races, the Ballycorus Stakes and Hardwicke Cup, as well as the Group 3 Hungerford Stakes. He also finished second in the Group 1 Prix De La Foret. Unfortunately, it was not his successes that put his name in the headlines, but rather a defeat. After finishing a lacklustre fourth in the Kiveton Park Stakes at the 1990 St Leger meeting, having been sent off a 11-4 joint-favourite, he was found to have been doped. He tested positive for the tranquiliser acetylpromazine. After that highly publicised incident, Norwich ran for another two seasons, winning just once at Listed level. The stallion’s runners include the three-time Grade 1 winner and Champion Chaser Newmill and the Grade 2-winning chaser River City.
SUMMER BIRD, last year’s champion US three-year-old colt, has been retired due to a hairline fracture in his off-fore canon bone. He will begin his stud career at Pauls Mill in Kentucky next spring. A son of Kentucky Derby winner Birdstone, Summer Bird won three Grade 1 races – the Belmont Stakes, the Travers Stakes and the Jockey Club Gold Cup. He finished sixth in the Kentucky Derby and his last run was when fourth in the Breeders’ Cup Classic. He is currently being syndicated and his owners and breeders, Doctors K.K. and Devi Jayaraman, have retained an interest and are planning to support him. Pauls Mill owner Ben P. Walden jr said: “You’d have to look long and hard to find a Classic winner whose first three sires are also Classic winners and whose first three dams are by Classic winners. “Summer Bird is an unqualified talent with an outstanding physique. He is truly a great American dirt horse.” A fee will be announced later in the year.
Avenue Of Flags dies in New Mexico
Avenue Of Flags, sire of 2009 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint winner California Flag, died in May in a paddock accident at G.W. Stables Estate in Anthony, New Mexico. He was 22. By the 1977 Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew and out of graded stakes winner Beautiful Glass, Avenue Of Flags is the sire of 208 winners from 299 starters, 25 stakes winners, including eight Graded stakes winners, from 17 crops of racing age. He stood the 2010 breeding season for a private fee at James and Lorraine Wasson’s Winners Circle Bloodstock Farms in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Avenue Of Flags won two of three career starts for owner John and Betty Mabee’s Golden Eagle Farm and finished second in the 1990 Hollywood Juvenile Championship Stakes (G2). He started his stud career at Golden Eagle Farm in Ramona, California, where he stood for 14 years before moving to New Mexico in 2005.
Widden Stud buys Nicconi
WIDDEN STUD in Australia has bought the David Hayes-trained sprinter Nicconi, who finished fourth in the Kings’ Stand Stakes (G1). The four-year-old is by Bianconi and is unbeaten over 5f. He is the winner of two Group 1 races, the Galaxy Stakes and the Lightning Stakes. He has earned over £500,000 in prize-money. He is a half-brother to the five-time Group 1 winner Niconero, and the stakes winners Recooperate and Holly Go Lightly. He traces in tail female line to the New Zealand-bred mare Froth, whose descendants include General Nediym, who stood at Widden until his death in 2009. Widden has provisionally set his fee at A$20,000, but that may be subject to change.
Florida stallion Marquetry retired
Marquetry, sire of Artax and Squirtle Squirt, winners of the 1999 and 2001 Breeders’ Cup Sprint, has been retired from stud duty due to declining fertility. The 23-year-old stallion was standing his first year in Florida at Stonewall Farm, Ocala.
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Is it cold, light, imagination or the influence of Dr Green? Is it the light or it is the cold, or is it just imagination? Many studs have reported that this spring
many mares have not only been late foaling, but that more than usual have struggled to get quickly back in foal. Most stud managers have blamed the cold spring weather that was endured throughout Britain and Europe during January (snow and frost) and right through to April when temperatures were well below average for the time of year. While it has been proved that a mare’s oestrous cycle reacts to changes in light – a mare is hard-wired to begin her cycle when the days are longer, a natural mechanism that
studs can artificially manipulate – there is no proof that her cycle is related to the changes in temperatures and seasons. Neither do the cold wintery days lead to a later-than-usual increase in daylight hours. However, what has been proved is that broodmares are highly responsive to the emergence of new grass in the spring. Dr Twink Allen believes it has been this factor, or rather the lack of it, this spring which has caused the slightly more unusual patterns that have been seen by the studs and the vets. “This spring’s new grass growth was delayed
Bloodstock agent William Huntingdon takes a look at the varied world of racing and bloodstock
With passion, anything is possible
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have now been back in England for six weeks after my seasonal migration to Australia. I returned just in time for the election and the sea change in British politics. As a nation we have been having a harrowing time – British Airways has still not resolved its disputes; British Petroleum has been dealt a reeling blow and the British football team seems to be going down the drain. British racing is hardly in better shape. Prize-money and funding is at a critical level, administration costs are still far too high and the “adspeak” of Racing for Change leaves many people confused by jargon. Can we perhaps abandon phrases such as “paradigm shifts”, “improving narratives”, “synergies” and “taking it to the next level” for plain English? Racing countries worldwide are all having to cope with funding difficulties – the problems which Italy and Germany are experiencing are explained in this issue.
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Even France has now lost its Pari Mutuel monopoly. In New South Wales racing is on the backfoot after some expensive, and losing, court cases that found they had meted out favourable treatment to Tab Corp. We are having to face shrinking prize-money, higher costs, diminishing viewing figures on national TV and a public that is becoming increasingly selective in what they want, and can afford, to see. The fixture list is over-crowded with low standard racing at the behest of the bookmakers. So what to do? Racing has to market itself to the gambling public as the intelligent form of punting. Both form and the evaluation of the horse’s well-being in the paddock should give the racing punter an edge that they do not enjoy at the casino or with the poker machines. New customers to racing need looking after by the racecourses and educating in betting techniques. They need to be able
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to buy good food and drink at reasonable prices in order to enjoy a “whole” experience. While racing at Royal Ascot, I was approached many times by strangers looking for both directions and tips. I, and many others, would be only too happy to share knowledge and experience in order to try and ensure that racing is both fun and successful for newcomers to the sport. What is needed is passion. What was lacking in the early English World Cup games was passion. Former head of the British Horseracing Board Peter Savill had passion and an enormous capacity for work. Ken Robinson wrote an excellent book called The Element. The element is the “place where the things you have to do and the things you are good at come together”. If you have passion, no task is too hard. Norman Gundill has a passion for Pontefract racecourse that
enables it to outperform itself. In a small way, I have passion for gardening and do not count the time of weeding, sowing, watering and mowing as a cost to me. I also have a passion for food and wine so I have had to learn to cook healthily and properly, while I have also had to develop a passion for exercise to deal with the results! Since returning to Britain, I made a quick visit to Ireland and combined my passions of racing, gardening and culinary delights. Unfortunately, exercise was a little limited and I felt very guilty driving through Clonmel and seeing so many others out powerwalking or running. The Curragh was the scene of a splendid victory by Canford Cliffs, who looked outstanding in the paddock when he eventually appeared after having to be reshod. I missed the Irish 1000 Guineas in order to go to the Laois Hunt point-to-point, but saw both the Classic and Fame And Glory on TV. I then had the pleasure of
the news by about three weeks due to the unsually cold weather,” explained Dr Allen. “Cycling is triggered by light, but it is also influenced by improved nutrition through grass growth. There used to be a saying that you can’t get a mare pregnant until Dr Green arrives, and the influence of grass upon broodmares can not be underestimated.” Studs have reported a lack of trouble with their early mares due to the fact that many have either been under lights or had treatments to encourage early cycling. However, some of the later and pregnant mares, who were moved to Newmarket through the middle part of this spring, transferring to a cold environment with behind schedule grass growth, showed this late and
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rather erratic cycling. So although the cold 2010 spring itself has not been the cause for mares failing to cycle
as expected, indirectly it has indeed been the problem. At least we have an opportunity to blame the weather once again.
Hunting around
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a second visit to Morrissey’s in Abbeyleix, one of the Classic Irish family grocershops which sells rather more Guinness than bread. The whole racing fraternity of southern Ireland seemed to be visiting on its return from The Curragh. My gardening taste-buds were satisfyingly stimulated by a visit to Mrs Valentine’s garden at Golden, which has been masterminded for years by Charles Parker, a trip to Demi O’Byrne’s new arboretum at his stud as well as the magnificent established garden at Coolcarrigan House. I also visited Flash Conroy’s Glenvale Stud. The yearling I had went to see looked very well, but I fear there will be little left of his garden after his two sons have been inspired by the World Cup – they both kick a bold football! Returning to England, quick trips to Normandy and Pau, as well as racing days at Epsom and Ascot, were on the agenda. Oaks Day was a great day’s racing, without having to deal with the crowds of Derby Day. The Coronation Cup was a cracking race and it’s great to see the two four-year-old mares still in
Mares benefit so much from a good bite of grass
training and in such good form. Fame And Glory was able to mollify the effects of a bunch of disappointing Classic contenders from Ballydoyle. The course was in great shape and both Andrew Cooper of Epsom and Chris Stickels at Ascot deserve high praise for the quality of the sward. The Derby was won in comprehensive fashion and record time by Workforce whose sire, King’s Best, was exiled to France and was singularly unsuccessful as a shuttle sire in Australia.
Ascot had some wonderful racing, even though I still find it difficult to love the new stand and paddock. It is an exhausting business to see the horses in the pre-paddock, paddock and on the course, let alone have time to have a bet, a drink or a meal. Weatherbys does a marvellous job of entertaining owners above the saddling boxes, but it is tough for them to find a good place to watch their runners, if they are not in the Royal Enclosure. From a personal point of view it is hard to get a good cup of coffee and the brew served above the saddling boxes bears little resemblance to the real thing. As often, Tuesday offered rich fare whereas Friday, the only day I did not see live owing to a loose alpaca and mowing duties, was less exciting. Once again the runners from the Oaks and Derby found it difficult to reproduce their form so close to Epsom. In future, it might be better to run the Ribblesdale and King Edward VII on the Saturday, just to try and give the Classic runners maximum time between runs.
Canford Cliffs again delighted his fan club and it was a pity Dick Turpin was not allowed to run in the Jersey, where he would have had an easy opportunity. Goldikova was exhilarating when defeating Paco Boy, even if her jockey may have gone for home rather too soon, while Harbinger had a bloodless victory in the Hardwicke over modest opponents, but looks a genuine Group 1 horse this year. Richard Hannon had a consistently good Ascot and both Godolphin and Ballydoyle came good eventually. Starspangledbanner raised the roof for his Irish and Australian fans by winning the Golden Jubilee with authority, though the time of the race was slower than that put up by Laddies Poker Two in the Wokingham. Fleeting Spirit ran well on the unfavourable far side and would have gone very close in King’s Stand, even though Equiano has regained a consistent run of form. Finally, I hope to provide Andrew and Anna Lisa Balding’s two boys with a couple of vuvuzelas with which to entertain owners at Kingsclere!
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...for leading sales consignor Ted Voute, who voices his opinion on all things bloodstock and sales-related
he Derby and Royal Ascot are what remain of quintessential English racing life with top hats and tails, beautiful dresses and top-class racing. Any racing professional who has not walked the course at Epsom must add it to their “things to do list”. Its contours, twists and turns have been described many times, but there is nothing like the mile and a half stroll to get the adrenaline going for the day. The other astounding features are the number of roads and tracks that cut across the track on the backside and the camber on the straight from the bend. How any horse can keep its balance after a mile climbing 40 feet and not drift into the rail is a mystery to me – and is just why the Derby is the ultimate test of a three-year-old over 1m4f. The start of Royal Ascot week took me to Warwick racecourse, where we sponsored the Warwickshire Oaks. Warwick is our local Flat track and is a fabulous course found pretty much in the town centre. It has a great team, who seemingly can not do enough for you. I was delighted to see our race won by Lady Jane Digby (Oasis Dream), owned and bred by the head of the Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association, Kirsten Rausing.
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Usually we base ourselves at home during Ascot, but we decided to split ourselves between London and Stratford-upon-Avon this year. Armed with our various invitations to picnics in the car park, we set off each morning at just before 11am with a plan to arrive just after noon, with our badges for the week firmly attached to our clothes. Gaynor has a car park 2 badge, but I have one for a car park 1 which I am reluctant to give up having waited over 20 years for it. I received it the year Ascot had to be relocated to York and had to wait a further year to use it! Who in their right mind waits 20 years for a car park space! To make maters worse, most of the car park picnics we go to are in the owners’ and trainers’ car pack or in car park 2. Our first port of call was with Jim Wordsworth and John Ferguson, who were next to Anthony Speelman’s and Charlie Mason’s picnic, all of whom we seemed to have a drink with. The first day’s racing is so spectacular that at 2pm the car park empties dramatically as everybody filters onto the course. We used the Royal Ascot Racing Club as a base for the day and really enjoyed the racing. It’s hard to bump into people like we used to in the old stand, and I don’t really understand why – perhaps the new stand is just too spacious?
I try to get to see the two-year-olds in the paddock, but I still have not found the ideal place from which to see the conformation, but I am sure with each year, as we tweak the routine, we will not remember what the old facilities where like and will get the best out of the new stand. After racing we returned to the car park for more picnics and back to London at a civilised hour to meet friends at Caprice for a birthday party before eventually getting to bed at midnight. Having picked up Reilly McDonald from Blake’s Hotel on the way to the races for the second day, we were invited to George Baker’s and David Loder’s, as well as Patrick Cooper’s, picnics. It would be rude not to have attended all! After racing, we had a short spell with Brian Meehan before going back to London to meet Chris and Annie Richardson and friends in the Sydney Arms on Sydney Street for supper. I always look forward to Thursday – we take a day-off at the farm – returning to Ascot on Friday, which we traditionally do with all the children and friends from outside of racing. We enjoyed a great couple of weeks’ racing, and it is a time that I traditionally view as heralding the start of the trading season. I am glad Royal Ascot is just a once a year occasion, but it is a privilege that I so enjoy.
Scientists looking to fungi to solve the issue of strongyles resistance IT HAS been found that the deaths of 23 horses at Alain Brandebourger’s Haras des Chartreux in Normandy were caused by larval cyathostomosis. The disease, which is caused by encysted small strongyles (worms), can lead to an inflammation of the colon, weight loss, diarrhoea, oedema of the legs and abdomen and possible death in the most severe cases. The dead horses had developed resistance to wormers, with the cold winter exacerbating the problem. Strongyles – blood worms, palisade worms and red worms – are becoming increasingly resistant to current worming products. In order to combat the problem, equine
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scientists and researchers throughout the world are looking to various alternative treatment methods to combat the problem. In Brazil, current thinking believes that worms could be controlled environmentally – with the use of fungus. “Due to the emergence of resistance, current treatments have not been fully effective,” said Juliana Milani Araujo, MSc, of Universidad Federal de Vicosa in Brazil. “So researchers are looking for new alternatives to control the parasites.” Araujo and her colleagues have found that the nematophagous fungi kills infective larvae of Strongyloides westeri (the cause of strongyles in Brazil).
It was found that by encouraging growth of the fungus the worm larvae burden in pasture was reduced. This, in turn, limited the number of parasites to which the horse was exposed, so reducing worm levels. Until such biological controls become fully available, advice is for horse owners to use worming treatments discriminately. Araujo said: “The use of the same class of anthelminthic, the rapid rotation of the compounds, and the use of doses below those recommended should be avoided.” Araujo predicts that such biological controls will be used on farms in the near future. The study was originally published in the April issue of Parasitology Research.
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Tour of the best of British bloodstock
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ritish Bloodstock Marketing (BBM) has been busy doing its bit to encourage European breeders to spend their money on stallions and bloodstock in Britain. In May the marketing group organised a three-day tour of studs, farms, gallops and stables in and around Newmarket and Lambourn for a handpicked group of 16 breeders from Italy and Germany. After visits to the stallion farms of Darley, Juddmonte, Cheveley Park and Newsells on day one (interspersed with a visit to Newmarket gallops), on day two delegates were able to see the progeny of many of those stallions with a morning spent in the yards of Marcus Tregoning and Barry Hills. Through the afternoon the group headed to Highclere Stud, Newbury and Kingsdown Stud, Lambourn where they got the chance to view some of this year’s foals and yearlings. Despite the volcano in Iceland doing its best to disrupt plans, Anna Powell of BBM declared the trip a success. International Thoroughbred finds out just what went on and whether the trip will result in extra investment from Europe. a mix of both established as well as upcoming What was the premise behind the trip? breeders, whom we felt would benefit the We work closely with the sales companies in most from the trip. We really felt that there targeting international markets and we wish was no point in inviting those breeders who to encourage international professionals to had perhaps already spent an amount of time invest in Britain. We wanted to do something in Britain and on the studs, or had already similar for the breeders. seen many of the stallions and knew about We decided to run our own version of the British bloodstock. saying “bums on seats” – essentially to bring It was an idea that worked well. Originally, international mare owners to view British20 delegates were booked in to come over but based stallions first hand, to see British-sired unfortunately that number fell to 16 due to the progeny and see something of British racing travel complications from the volcanic ash. and bloodstock. Basically, we wanted to show them the best of British in the hope that the visitors would, in the long-term, consider sending their mares to visit stallions in Britain. Last year we organised a similar trip for French breeders, which worked well. We decided once more to concentrate on European-based breeders, but this time focussing on those from Germany and Italy.
How did you ‘select’ the group?
We had a specific target – we wanted to invite
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How was the trip financed?
The delegates paid for their own flights, but the rest was taken care of by BBM and the many sponsors who got involved. We had great support both financially and logistically from many studs who alongside hosting stallion parades, receptions or lunches, gave donations that covered the cost of accommodation and transport. Weatherbys and the feed company Saracen also sponsored dinners, while Newsells Park
Stud kindly sponsored the first-night dinner held at the Jockey Club Rooms. It was a great value, very low-cost exercise to BBM although the organisation was quite time-consuming
Do you feel your objectives were achieved? How will you judge if the tour was a success?
The aims were to promote the best of British to the breeders, who, will in time, hopefully use British-based stallions, come to buy or sell in Britain or even consider becoming owners here. It’s hard to quantify the success because the majority of the delegates are upcoming breeders so we don’t necessarily expect them to be booking mares to our top international level stallions next autumn. However, it was rewarding to have their extremely positive feedback. Many felt privileged to see and experience areas of the industry that they would never have discovered or dreamt of seeing – for example strolling through Barry Hills’ yard as he talked his way round the horses, hearing how the leading sales consignors Highclere prepare their yearlings or just how the Jockey Club run the gallops to such fine precision and detail. I think all learnt plenty from the trip, which I think in itself is a sign of being a useful and successful exercise. We will keep in close contact with all of the delegates and we will keep an eye on any investment that may follow. However, I also hope that they will all be positive advocates at home and will spread the word that Britain is not only a wonderful, welcoming place, but also a country that can also offer the best options for breeders and bloodstock investors.
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Left, the group view a yearling at Highclere Stud, above on Warren Hill at Newmarket and, below, viewing stallions at Juddmonte Farm
he DBS NH Breeze-Up is to get its third home in four years with the announcement that for 2010 it is to be held at Newbury racecourse on Saturday, November 27 in conjunction with the Hennessy Gold Cup meeting. The DBS executive hopes that the move from Kempton racecourse, where it has been based for two years, to Newbury will give purchasers the chance to buy their “future stars, whilst enjoying the most prestigious NH meeting of the Newbury racecourse calendar”. The horses will breeze on grass on Saturday morning before coming under the hammer after racing on Saturday. DBS managing director Henry Beeby said: “DBS is delighted to reschedule the world’s premier NH Breeze-Up sales to coincide with the prestigious Hennessy meeting at Newbury. “The move Where’s Romeo allows us to Acclamation-Our Juliette carry on the Trainer: D.H. Brown success that we Owner: J.C Fretwell achieved at both Breeder: Patrick Hayes Cheltenham and Kempton and we Sale: DBS St Leger Festival are sure that the Sale to Mr P. Hayes From timing, facilities James Reardon, Ireland and location bought by J.C. Fretwell will be a huge PHILHARMONIC HALL success.” The sale, Victory Note-Lambast which was held Trainer: R A Fahey at Cheltenham Owner: R Cowie for four years, Breeder: Raymond Cowie has found life Sale: Not sold for 4,200gns a little difficult at Tattersalls October from in recent years Mr R. Cowie, Stanneylands in line with the Stud recession. In 2009 the aggregate fell by 33 per cent compared with The original St Leger 2008, while the Sale now seems to have clearance rate become called the Premier last year was just Sale. see www.dbsauctions.com 40 per cent.
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How did the two days go – from both sides? Any communication difficulties?! When we first considered the idea, I was a little concerned at first about the mixing of nationalities but the majority of the delegates spoke good enough English, though some were better than others! I canvassed views amongst the visitors over the few days as to whether it was a good idea to mix nationalities, and all reported that they thought it was a positive thing. As ever with such events it did take some time for the different groups to mix, but I think that there was so much to do and see over the days that they were too busy for that to be a concern. In the evenings they were rather thrown together for suppers but racing and horse people from around the world will always find a way of communicating, even if they do not share the same language. The subsequent feedback we have had was most rewarding as it has to be admitted it was an exhausting three days. One particular text
was very satisfying: “Many thanks again for inviting us to this outstanding trip perfectly organised. All the best from Cologne....” If Germans say perfectly, then they mean perfectly!
Would you do something similar again next year? I think that we improved greatly on the trip we organised for the French breeders last year by opening it out and combining a visit to Berkshire. We would look to improve again for next year and you only really learn as you go. The best feedback you get is from those that actually come on the trip. The date seemed to work well although unfortunately it clashed this year with the DBS NH sale, which we would avoid doing next time. May is the one time of year that Flat breeders have a small window in which to take time out and travel. I will definitely mix nationalities again next year, and would still aim to keep the group size to a similar number and target audience.
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Workforce up with best
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After winning the Derby by a wide margin and in a record time, Workforce must now mix it with the older horses
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he last Derby winner successful in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes was Galileo in 2001 and the last three-year-old to win was the Irish Derby winner Alamshar in 2003, which was also the last year that the Derby winner went on to run in the race. When the King George was inaugurated in 1951, it was one of the first major developments which diluted the importance of the traditional Classic races. Races such as the King George and the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe – which had its prize-money raised substantially two years before the King George came into being – brought the leaders of the Classic generation into regular competition with the best of the older horses. Before the King George and the reinvigorated Arc, Classic winners did not have to race outside their own age Group in order to enjoy exalted status. Nowadays, however, the Classics are seldom the most rigorous tests that a three-year-old faces. Outstanding Classic winners ideally have to go on to prove themselves in the top open-aged championships, but the King George, it must be said, has struggled to maintain its status as the most important of the mid-summer clashes of the generations, its position increasingly challenged by the Eclipse in recent seasons. When Sea The Stars ran in last year’s Eclipse, he was the third Epsom Derby winner to do so in five years following Motivator and Authorized. Through that period the Oaks winner Eswarah in 2005 and the relatively unexceptional trio – by the highest standards – of Alwaary, Golden Sword and Rockhampton, who was used as a pacemaker in 2009, were the only
three-year-olds to run in the King George. But the situation is not quite so bad as the stark facts suggest. Had Sea The Stars run in the Irish Derby as planned (he was pulled out following heavy rain), he would have run in the King George, a plan which was confirmed by his connections after he had won at Sandown. Furthermore, the 2008 Derby winner New Approach might well have run in the King George had he not been sidelined by injury. The Ascot executive must hope that nothing untoward befalls the latest Derby winner Workforce to prevent him taking his place in the King George line-up at the end of July. Workforce’s presence looks set to provide just the shot in the arm that the race needs after the experience of recent years. He put up an outstanding performance to win the Derby by 7l, eclipsing the 5l-winning margins of Motivator and Authorized, while at the same time recording an exceptional time performance. He won by the widest official winning margin recorded in the race for a quarter of a century, in fact since Slip Anchor scored by 7l when making all in 1985. Slip Anchor’s winning distance equalled that of Troy six years earlier; 7l an official margin of victory bettered in the history of the Derby only by Shergar, who won by ten in 1981, and by the last of Steve Donoghue’s six Derby winners, Manna, who won by eight in 1925. Workforce won the Derby in devastating style, finishing with gusto reminiscent of Troy who swamped his field after having eight horses in front of him at the 2f pole before quickening and going away with every stride over the last furlong.
NUMBER 1 BY NATION Australia Australia Canada France Germany GB HK IRE Italy Japan UAE USA
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All Silent Whobegotyou Careless Jewel Goldikova Wiener Walzer Workforce Sacred Kingdom Rip Van Winkle Jakkalberry Dream Journey Allybar Quality Road
G Begg M Kavanagh J Carroll F Head J Hirschberger Sir Michael Stoute P F Yiu A P O’Brien E Botti Y Ikee M Al Zarooni T A Pletcher
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Workforce didn’t have so many horses in front of him as Troy, but he had 8l to make up on the leader At First Sight with 3f to go before romping home in similar fashion. The ease with which he won is an extremely rare sight in a top race. In fact, it was a magnificent display, backed up by the clock as his winning time of 2:31.33 was well inside Lammtarra’s Derby record of 2:32.31 set on firm going, though the time itself was of little significance. Record times usually indicate no more than that prevailing conditions were favourable for the setting of a fast time. However, when Workforce’s time was analysed, it came out at 1.35 fast, equivalent to a timerating of 134, one that can only be recorded by a top-class Group 1 performer (the best timerating recorded by Sea The Stars was 132 in the Eclipse, the fastest recorded by any horse over any distance in Britain in his year). Wide margin victories in the top races are always hard to follow. Slip Anchor’s subsequent career was restricted by injury, but both Troy and Shergar, genuine giants in the Derby’s history, went on to cement their reputations in top all-aged company, starting in the King George after both had followed up their Derby victories in the Irish Derby. The Derby rarely turns out to be the most significant race of the year, but, this is one year when it might do. Workforce will do well to better his performance on Derby Day (Shergar and Troy didn’t better theirs) but, whatever happens, he is already established beyond doubt as an exceptional middle-distance performer. His form puts him right up there with the best of the older horses. A clash with Coronation Cup winner Fame And Glory, who won a good renewal very readily, will not, however, take place in the King George since Fame And Glory is being aimed principally at an autumn campaign.
The Derby field rounding Tattenham Corner. Workforce and Moore (green cap) are on the rail
The Coronation Cup runner-up Sariska and the Sheema Classic winner Dar Re Mi head a formidable team of older middledistance fillies, who look as if they will provide too big an obstacle to the Classic fillies – Snow Fairy won a substandard Oaks. The miling division for older horses looks close and Goldikova and Paco Boy fought out a tremendous finish to the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot. Rip Van Winkle returned from a seven month lay-off and was in need of the race.
The three-year-old milers are now headed by Canford Cliffs, who followed up his Irish 2000 Guineas win in a strong renewal of the St James’s Palace Stakes. On the sprinting front, Royal Ascot staged two legs of the Global Sprint Challenge, Equiano taking the King’s Stand in good style before ex-Australian Starspangledbanner put up an even better performance to win the Golden Jubilee from a cosmopolitan field. It was the start of a new era in the Gold Cup without four-time winner Yeats, and
Leading three-year-olds in europe Workforce Canford Cliffs Makfi St Nicholas Abbey Lope de Vega Hearts Of Fire Jan Vermeer Rewilding Cape Blanco Dick Turpin Showcasing Siyouni Sarafina At First Sight Society Rock
132p 128 127 126 125 123 123 122p 122 122 122 121+ 120p 120 120
Leading three-year-olds in THE USA Eskendereya Super Saver Ice Box Sidney’s Candy Blind Luck (f) Drosselmeyer Lookin At Lucky Evening Jewel (f) First Dude Fly Down Paddy O’Prado Jackson Bend
127 124 123 123 121 121 121 120 120 120 120 119
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view from timeform his successors Rite Of Passage (rated 124) and Age of Aquarius – separated by a neck at the end of a gruelling race – both recorded high-class performances, which suggests the quality in the staying ranks is not likely to drop. Royal Ascot again featured a small number of challengers from the US, Kinsale King doing best of them when third in the Golden Jubilee Stakes.
In the US, the running of the Preakness and the Belmont completed the Triple Crown series, but neither winner, Lookin At Lucky or Drosselmeyer, put up performances within reach of those of now-retired Eskendereya, who annihilated Preakness third Jackson Bend and Kentucky Derby runner-up Ice Box when catching the eye in winning the Fountain of Youth Stakes and the Wood Memorial earlier in the year.
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Rip Van Winkle Fame And Glory Goldikova Harbinger Paco Boy Byword Starspangledbanner Manifest Twice Over Vision d’Etat Age of Aquarius Allybar Equiano Ask Cavalryman Delegator Famous Name
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Leading older horses in THE USA Quality Road Zenyatta Gio Ponti Rachel Alexandra Kinsale King Presious Passion Bob Black Jack Take The Points Life Is Sweet Rail Trip Blame Cost of Freedom Misremembered Tuscan Evening Winchester Court Vision Forever Together
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Zenyatta continues to enhance her reputation, taking her unbeaten run to 17 with her third win of the season in the Vanity Handicap at Hollywood Park, the same weekend as Rachel Alexandra at last began to look a little like something like her old self when winning a Grade 2 at Churchill Downs. The prospects of a summer showdown between the pair are, excitingly, enhanced by Rachel Alexandra’s return to form.
Rip Van Winkle Fame And Glory Goldikova Quality Road Workforce Harbinger Zenyatta Gio Ponti Paco Boy Rachel Alexandra Sacred Kingdom Byword Canford Cliffs Starspangledbanner All Silent Eskendereya Makfi Manifest Twice Over Vision D’Etat Whobegotyou Age of Aquarius Allybar Dream Journey Equiano Green Birdie Kinsale King Lizard’s Desire Mic Mac Predatory Pricer Racing To Win Rangirangdoo St Nicholas Abbey Viewed Wanted
A P O’Brien, Ireland A P O’Brien, Ireland F Head, France T A Pletcher, USA Sir Michael Stoute, GB Sir Michael Stoute, GB J A Shirreffs, USA C Clement, USA R Hannon, GB S M Asmussen, USA P F Yiu, Hong Kong A Fabre, France R Hannon, GB A P O’Brien, Ireland G Begg, Australia T Pletcher, USA M Delzangles, France H R A Cecil, GB H R A Cecil, GB E Libaud, France M Kavanagh, Australia A P O’Brien, Ireland M Al Zarooni, GB Y Ikee, Japan B W Hills, GB C Fownes, Hong Kong C O’Callaghan, USA M F de Kock, South Africa G Eurell, Australia P Murray, Australia J O’Shea, Australia C Waller, Australia A P O’Brien, Ireland J B Cummings, Australia P Moody, Australia
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he results of the Epsom and Royal Ascot meetings in June confirmed the theme for 2010 established by the Newmarket and Kentucky Classics: the Mr. Prospector male line is on the rise in Europe. Following hard on the heels of Makfi’s 2000 Guineas win, Workforce’s tour de force around Epsom was the first Derby win for the Mr. Prospector male line. As shown in the table on this page, Workforce’s Derby was the 13th English Classic win for the male line descending from Mr. Prospector and 2010 marks the first year his descendants have won more than one English Classic in the same year. The results of the Royal Ascot meeting consolidated the trend with male line descendants of Mr. Prospector capturing five of the 30 races at Europe’s most prestigious race meeting. As shown in the table on the facing page, which combines Royal Ascot results with the Group 1 races at the Epsom meeting, that means that Mr. Prospector accounted for the winners of about 18 per cent of the major races in England during the first half of June. The US, of course, has no real equivalent of Royal Ascot, but, over a roughly equivalent time period and number of races of comparable quality in the US, Mr. Prospectors won twice as large a share of US races, including three Classics (Preakness Stakes, Belmont Stakes, and Kentucky Oaks) and three other Grade 1s. Northern Dancer has long been much more dominant in Europe than he ever was in the
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US. Over the last 20 years, male line descendants of Northern Dancer have won 13 of 20 Derbys, 12 of 12 2000 Guineas and 12 of 20 Oaks. By contrast, over the same time frame, Mr. Prospectors have dominated in the US winning 13 of 20 Belmont Stakes, nine of 20 Kentucky Derbys, and 11 of 20 Preakness Stakes. If Mr. Prospector’s great grandson Dubawi duplicates his sensational first crop success in his subsequent crops, those comparative balances may soon shift in Mr. Prospector’s direction. Already the sire of the aforementioned Guineas winner Makfi and Italian Derby and Italian 2000 Guineas winner Worthadd, Dubawi added King Edward VII (G2) winner Monterosso and Hampton Court Stakes winner Afsare to his tally at Royal Ascot. That brought the tally for Dubawi’s first northern hemisphere crop to seven stakes winners, six at Group level. Since only about ten significant male line descendants of Mr. Prospector now stand in England and Ireland, compared with the hundreds of Northern Dancers, the current prominence of his representatives in English racing is far above the level predicted by chance. Whether that heralds a dangerous challenge to Northern Dancer’s dominance or merely a statistical blip, only time will tell.
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With the victories of Snow Fairy in the Oaks, and Canford Cliffs in the Irish 2000 Guineas and St. James’s Palace Stakes (G1), the Hail To Reason male line has also performed far above its numerical representation in recent weeks.
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Snow Fairy is the first Classic winner and third Group 1 winner by Intikhab following 2007 Lockinge winner Red Evie and 2004 Criterium de Saint-Cloud winner Paita. By Roberto’s son Red Ransom, Intikhab was rated the best older horse in England at 7f - 9f in 1998, but he has not really made it to the top of the tree as a sire. Snow Fairy is his 16th and best black-type winner. Red Ransom himself sired a Royal Ascot winner, the Brittania Stakes victor Ransom Note. Canford Cliffs is by far the best son of 1995 Prix Morny (G1) winner Tagula, who was, in turn, the best son of Taufan. Taufan was a long way from being the best son of Hail To Reason’s wellnamed son Stop The Music (out
of Bebopper, by Tom Fool), but he was a useful sire from limited opportunity in Ireland, siring 27 stakes winners in a long and honorable career. Northern Dancer, of course, remains the dominant force in European racing, especially at the top level. Fame And Glory, Goldikova, Equiano, Byword, Rite Of Passage, Lillie Langtry and Starspangledbanner all scored Group 1 victories at Epsom or Ascot for Northern Dancer. The Nureyev, Storm Cat, and Sadler’s Wells branches of Northern Dancer all provided top-level winners at Ascot, but the Danzig branch dominated with 11 of the 21 Northern Dancer winners, compared to four for Sadler’s Wells. Danehill and Green Desert
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Bosra Sham Finsceal Beo Harayir Henrythenavigator King’s Best Light Shift Makfi Ravinella Rule of Law Russian Rhythm Virginia Waters Workforce Zafonic
Woodman Mr. Greeley Gulch Kingmambo Kingmambo Kingmambo Dubawi Mr. Prospector Kingmambo Kingmambo Kingmambo King’s Best Gone West
Woodman Gone West Gulch Kingmambo Kingmambo Kingmambo Seeking the Gold Mr. Prospector Kingmambo Kingmambo Kingmambo Kingmambo Gone West
Classic 1996: 1000 Guineas 2007: 1000 Guineas 1995: 1000 Guineas 2008: 2000 Guineas 2000: 2000 Guineas 2007: Oaks 2010: 2000 Guineas 1988: 1000 Guineas 2004: St. Leger 2003: 1000 Guineas 2005: 1000 Guineas 2010: Derby 1993: 2000 Guineas
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Hail To Reason Hyperion In Reality Mr. Prospector Nasrullah Northern Dancer Raise a Native Ribot
England % of major winners 9.1 3.0 0 18.1 6.1 63.6 0 0
US % of major winners 10 0 6.7 36.7 10 30 3.3 3.3
john sparkman Royal Ascot and Epsom Group 1 winners 2010 and US 2010 Grade 1 winners to June provided most of those winners, but Anabaa chipped in with Goldikova in the Queen Anne. Northern Dancer’s grandson Storm Cat shows signs at last of establishing a foothold in Europe as well. His son Giant’s Causeway and grandson Footstepsinthesand both had winners at Ascot, supplementing the brilliant first representatives of Shamardal. The bloodstock industry in the US is, of course, more than twice as large as that of England and Ireland combined, and, partly as a result, remains rather more varied in terms of viable sire lines. The Nasrullah line, primarily through the A.P. Indy and In Reality lines, remains stronger than in Europe. Only two of the winners at Royal Ascot carried the US suffix, the two-year-olds Strong Suit and Zaidan. Strong Suit is by the veteran Blushing Groom horse Rahy, while Zaidan is a fourth important European winner for Street Cry, following 2007 Sun Chariot (G1) winner Majestic Roi, Italian highweight Per Incanto, 2007 Acomb (G3) winner Big Timer and 2008 Washington Singer Usk Valley Stud Stakes winner Cry Of Freedom. Only two, relatively distant foundation mares provided more than one winner at the combined Ascot and Epsom meetings. The great US broodmare Frizette appears as eighth dam of Gold Cup (G1) winner Rite Of Passage and as 11th dam of Jersey Stakes (G3) winner Rainfall. Rite Of Passage is a great-grandson of the great racemare Dahlia, by Vaguely Noble. Similarly, Carpet Slipper, dam of Classic winners Godiva and Windsor Slipper, is the seventh dam of Buckingham Palace Handicap winner Treadwell and tenth dam of Duke Of Edinburgh Handicap winner Cill Rialaig, who surely possessed the most unusual pedigree of the week. Cill Rialaig is a son of 1991 Coral Eclipse (G1) winner Environment Friend, by Cozzene, a name rarely seen these days in Flat winners.
Race Oaks Britannia S. St. James’s Palace Windsor Castle Royal Hunt Cup Sandringham S. Derby Chesham S. Hampton Court S. King Edward VII Coventry Duke of Edinburgh H. Queen Anne Jersey S. Windsor Forst S. Queen Mary S. Norfolk King George S. Albany S. Coronation S. Hardwicke S. Golden Jubilee Wokingham H. Wolferton H. Queen Alexandra Prince of Wales Coronation Cup Ascot S. Ribblesdale Queen’s Vase Gold Cup Buckikngham Palace King’s Stand
Horse Snow Fairy Ransom Note Canford Cliffs Marine Commando Invisible Man Timepiece Workforce Zaidan (USA) Afsare Monterosso Strong Suit (USA) Cill Rialaig Goldikova Rainfall Strawberrydaiquiri Maqaasid Approve Dandino Memory Lillie Langtry Harbinger Starspangledbanner Laddies Poker Two Rainbow Peak Bergo Byword Fame and Glory Junior Hibaayeb Mikhail Glinka Rite of Passage Treadwell Equiano
Sire Intikhab Red Ransom Tagula Pastoral Pursuits Elusive Quality Zamindar King’s Best Street Cry Dubawi Dubawi Rahy Environment Friend Anabaa Oasis Dream Dansili Green Desert Oasis Dream Dansili Danehill Dancer Danehill Dancer Dansili Choisir Choisir Hernando Silvano Peintre Celebre Montjeu Singspiel Singspiel Galileo Giant’s Causeway Footstepsinthesand Acclamation
Dam Woodland Dream Zacheta Mrs Marsh Carollan Eternal Reve Clepsydra Soviet Moon Element of Truth Jumaireyah Porto Roca Helwa Pang Valley Girl Born Gold Molomo Strawberry Morn Eshaadeh Wyola Generous Diana Nausicaa Hoity Toity Penang Pearl Gold Anthem Break of Day Celtic Fling Bella Figura Binche Gryada For More Lady Zonda Lady Carr Dahlia’s Krissy Lady Wells Entente Cordiale
Bdmare Sire Charnwood Forest Polish Precedent Marju Marju Diesis Sadler’s Wells Sadler’s Wells Atticus Fairy King Barathea Silver Hawk Rock Hopper Blushing Groom Barathea Travelling Victor Storm Cat Sadler’s Wells Generous Diesis Darshaan Bering Made of Gold Favorite Trick Lion Cavern Surumu Woodman Shirley Heights Sanglamore Lion Cavern Mark of Esteem Kris S. Sadler’s Wells Ela-Mana-Mou
Sire Line Branch Hail to Reason Roberto Hail to Reason Roberto Hail to Reason Stop The Music Hyperion Cadeaux Genereux Mr. Prospector Gone West Mr. Prospector Gone West Mr. Prospector Kingmambo Mr. Prospector Machiavellian Mr. Prospector Seeking the Gold Mr. Prospector Seeking the Gold Nasrullah Blushing Groom Nasrullah Caro Northern Dancer Danzig Northern Dancer Danzig Northern Dancer Danzig Northern Dancer Danzig Northern Dancer Danzig Northern Dancer Danzig Northern Dancer Danzig Northern Dancer Danzig Northern Dancer Danzig Northern Dancer Danzig Northern Dancer Danzig Northern Dancer Nijinsky II Northern Dancer Nijinsky II Northern Dancer Nureyev Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Northern Dancer Storm Cat Northern Dancer Storm Cat Northern Dancer Try My Best
Race Stephen Foster H. Hill Prince S. Regret S. Los Angeles H. Affirmed S. Kentucky Oaks Preakness Stakes Belmont Stakes Metropolitan H. Shoemaker Mile Vanity H. Hollywood Oaks Monmouth S. Northern Dancer S. Jefferson Cup Pegasus Brooklyn H. True North Ogden Phipps Manhattan H. Mint Julep Woody Stephens Just a Game Acorn Whittingham Obeah S. Colonial Turf Cup New York S. Kentucky Derby All Along
Horse Blame Krypton Caminadora Cost of Freedom Golden Itiz Blind Luck Lookin At Lucky Drosselmeyer Quality Road Victor’s Cry Zenyatta Switch Get Serious Colizeo Gleam of Hope Afleet Express Alcomo Bribon Life At Ten Winchester Hot Cha Cha D’Funnybone Proviso Champagne d’Oro Acclamation Miss Singhsix Paddy O’Prado Lady Shakespeare Super Saver Shared Account
Sire Arch Rock Hard Ten More Than Ready Cee’s Tizzy Tiznow Pollard’s Vision Smart Strike Distorted Humor Elusive Quality Street Cry Street Cry Quiet American City Zip Distorted Humor City Zip Afleet Alex Rainbow Corner Mark of Esteem Malibu Moon Theatrical Cactus Ridge D’Wildcat Dansili Medaglia d’Oro Unusual Heat Singspiel El Prado Theatrical Maria’s Mon Pleasantly Perfect
Dam Liable Freedom Reigns Stoneway Freedom Dance Golden Tiy Lucky One Private Feeling Golden Ballet Kobla Short Time Vertigineux Antoniette Java Gal Colony Band Victorious Vice Expanse Amazing Singer Rowat Arazi Rahrahsixboombah Rum Charger Reduced Sentence Elbow Binche Champagne Glow Winning in Style Whatamiss Fun House Lady Shirl Supercharger Silk n’ Sapphire
Bdmare Sire Seeking the Gold Unbridled’s Song Storm Boot Moscow Ballet Dixieland Band Best of Luck Belong to Me Moscow Ballet Strawberry Road Clever Trick Kris S. Nicholas Java Gold Dixieland Band Vice Regent Distant View Tokatee Arazi Rahy Spectrum Broad Brush Woodman Woodman Saratoga Six Silveyville Miswaki Prized That’s a Nice A.P. Indy Smart Strike
Sire Line Hail to Reason Hail to Reason Hail to Reason In Reality In Reality Mr. Prospector Mr. Prospector Mr. Prospector Mr. Prospector Mr. Prospector Mr. Prospector Mr. Prospector Mr. Prospector Mr. Prospector Mr. Prospector Mr. Prospector Nasrullah Nasrullah Nasrullah Northern Dancer Northern Dancer Northern Dancer Northern Dancer Northern Dancer Northern Dancer Northern Dancer Northern Dancer Northern Dancer Raise a Native Ribot
Branch Roberto Roberto Halo Cee’s Tizzy Cee’s Tizzy Carson City Smart Strike Forty Niner Gone West Machiavellian Machiavellian Fappiano Carson City Forty Niner Carson City Afleet Blushing Groom Mill Reef A.P. Indy Nureyev Storm Cat Storm Cat Danzig Sadler’s Wells Nureyev Sadler’s Wells Sadler’s Wells Nureyev Maria’s Mon Pleasant Colony
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Trevor Jones captures all the action from Epsom where Workforce galloped to a record-breaking Derby win, and Snow Fairy proved her supplementary entry in the Oaks a well-executed plan by connections when taking the filliesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Classic by a neck. Both horses benefitted from superbly judged rides by jockey Ryan Moore
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Left, Workforce was the only horse to come out of the field to chase down the pacesetting surprise act At First Sight, a 100-1 chance. By the line, the result was never in doubt with the son of King’s Best 7l clear, beating Lammtarra’s previous record-time by nearly a second. Owner Prince Khalid Abdullah greets and congratulates jockey Ryan Moore before, above, happily discussing the race with a smiling Moore and trainer Sir Michael Stoute at the prize-giving ceremony. Right, Stoute and partner Coral Pritchard-Gordon, look a little concerned, while below Snow Fairy (yellow colours) wins the Oaks fom Meeznah and Remember When. As a foal, the daughter of Intikhab was led out of the ring unsold at Fairyhouse for Є1,800.
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Ascot in all its itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;sglory glory Sally Duckett reviews the action from the five most glorious days in June
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Starspangledbanner’s win at Ascot – and a piece of work in the run-up to the meeting, the likes of which has never apparently been seen before at Ballydoyle – put those doubts away restricted approach to spending through the recession has been taken, while a back-up approach to buying many of the best horses in training has not been widely adopted. Coolmore waited until they had really found one before moving. The team struck in substantial fashion buying the son of Choisir for a reported A$10 million on the recommendation of Australian-based Tom Magnier. And it was not just young Tom who had been seeing things in the horse that others
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fter all of everything, A.P. O’Brien ended up as the leading trainer at Royal Ascot and Choisir as the leading sire (by money earned). But by the Wednesday, it had looked as though the biggest racing operation in the world was going to be ousted from its habitual position at the top by the other biggest operation in the world, but in the end normal order was restored. And that, judging by the smiles all round in the winners’ enclosure post Starspangledbanner’s Group 1 Jubilee Stakes, was rather pleasing, and indeed must have been something of a financial relief to the Coolmore Crew. The last couple of years have seen the organisation take their foot off the gas at the yearling sales, reducing the amount spent while refusing to get into the fights of old with its Arab foes over those horses that the two groups both believe could be future sires. A
had missed. In one of the supposedly hottest Caulfield Guineas fields for years, Starspangledbanner wooed the Australian public – he smashed the opposition after leading from the front and staying there over the mile trip. The horse, though a respectable twoyear-old with a Group 3 placing, took until his three-year-old career to really flourish when he won three straight races before a short-head, a neck and a head fourth in the
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Who will be champion? Starspangledbanner, the beast from Australia, who made all to win the Golden Jubilee Stakes (left) from a star-studded international field or will it be Equiano (above), the all-the-way winner of the King’s Stand Stakes?
Caulfield Guineas Prelude. After making up for that omission in the Guineas itself, he finished fourth in the Lightning Stakes back over 5f (behind King’s Stand Stakes fourth Nicconi). After his victory in the Oakleigh Plate and a third in the Newmarket Handicap, the wings of Coolmore closed and the horse was purchased, very much with his stallion career in mind. His initial European run in the Duke Of York Stakes did raise a few question marks, but the horse had only been in the northern hemisphere since April, was wrong at the weights and was running while a few of Aidan’s were not right. The win at Ascot – and a piece of work in the run-up to the meeting, the likes of which has apparently never been seen before at Ballydoyle – put those doubts away. Coolmore now has itself a fast stallion to retire to stud, a son of its own sire Choisir (keeping to its own, semms to be of
importance to the farm), who will be of equal attraction at both its southern and northern hemisphere bases. And don’t underestimate the importance of this to the farm. Having looked slightly bogged down with below-standard, threeyear-old middle-distance horses and having missed out on the panache of retiring the top three-year-old in 2009 – Sea The Stars having wiped out his opposition – the farm was in need of this uplift at the moment having only the older Fame And Glory, who was shrewdly kept in training, and Rip Van Winkle, waiting in the wings, to retire with aplomb. Will Starspangledbanner be this year’s champion European sprinter? The plan is to run him next in the July Cup with a follow-up entry in the Sussex Stakes in an attempt to win two more Group 1s while the sun shines as the horse is obviously a fast ground performer, but with a stud fee already set at A$33,000 (£20,090) for this year’s
A glass must be raised to Lambourn trainers Nicky Henderson and Jamie Osborne: Henderson for turning out the 13-year-old Caracciola to finish fourth in the Queen Alexandra Stakes (the horse won in 2009) and Osborne, who has had a troublesome time businesswise, for producing Treadwell to win the Buckingham Palace Handicap. Elzaam nearly gave leading southern hemisphere stallion Redoute’s Choice a juvenile Group race winner north of the equator when finishing a nose second in the Coventry Stakes (G2). The Arrowfield Stud stallion has not been risked on the reverse shuttle bus, so the Kingmambo mare Mambo In Freeport, a half-sister to the Del Mar Debutante Stakes winner Point Ashley, was covered on European time. Bred by Kia Ora Stud in Scone, the colt was sold by Haras D’Etreham at the Arqana August Sale realising a price of €280,000. He was bought by Shadwell.
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Maxime Guyon (pink cap) and Byword range upsides Sheikh Hamdan’s Tazeez in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes (G1). The victory helped propel owner Khalid Abdullah to leading Royal Ascot owner honours. Below, Goldikova (far side) just keeps her head in front from Paco Boy in the Queen Anne
Australian stud season (in the initial version of this piece, we questioned whether this was a little premature and have been proved right with the announcement that this fee is now on hold), the horse is due to be shipped back home in August to start his second career.
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On the Coolmore website, Aidan said: “It’s a privilege to have him, if only for a few races, but the lads will decide whether they want to stand him at stud this season or next.” Perhaps plans will change. You do get the feeling that until those pre-Ascot bits of work,
Coolmore did not quite know what they had on their hands – hence the stud fee decision – and quite possibly plans may now be revised. Coolmore Australia has obviously reported plenty of interest in the horse and it will be interesting to see what moves are made. Surely a Breeders’ Cup win would have its appeal? If Starspangledbanner is indeed retired, the door might be left open for Newsells Park’s stallion prospect Equiano, who was also bought in training, to challenge for sprint championship honours, a title that really would seal the farm’s deal on its stallion prospect. Having come back to form this season after not quite firing through 2009, reportedly having been given some small wind operation over the winter, the Acclamation colt had given hope that he was back to his King’s Stand-winning three-year-old form when picking up a Listed race, the Palace House Stakes (G3), and finishing second in the Temple Stakes (G2) through the early spring. This revitalisation must have urged Newsells Park Stud to act quickly – the stallion market is one in which you need
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The award for the bravest and unluckiest horse currently in training has to go to Dick Turpin (red colours). The son of Arakan so deserves a top-flight success –
The plan could not have gone any better for Newsells, who now has a dual Group 1 winning colt and a stallion prospect with legitimate claims as the best sprinter of the season
Mr Hannon, far be it from International Thoroughbred to tell you how to train horses, but please find him a race away from your star Canford Cliffs (orange).
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to strike bravely and fast – buying into the horse and announcing its acquisition ahead of Royal Ascot. The plan could not have gone any better for Newsells, who now has a dual Group 1-winning sprint colt and a stallion prospect with legitimate claims as the best sprinter of the season. If he can maintain his form, steer clear of the Coolmore beast – as mentioned on
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racing royal ascot review racingpost.com the Nunthorpe is the obvious target – and stay running through to the end of the year, the substantially smaller Hertfordshire operation might just have an even more exciting stallion to market than it had initially bargained for. In fact, Royal Ascot was truly a royal affair for Newsells Park, the farm also owning and breeding Strawberrydaiquiri, winner of the Group 2 Windsor Forest Stakes, and St Moritz, who finished third in the Royal Hunt Cup. It also bred Rite Of Passage, the son of Giant’s Causeway and the hurdler-cum-Flat runner, who beat the two Galileo horses, Age Of Aquarius and Purple Moon, in the Gold Cup (G1). Strangely, the Royal Ascot meeting concluded with something of a NH flavour to it as not only did Rite Of Passage, now favourite for the Melbourne Cup, strike a blow for Flat racing’s winter cousins, but Cill Rialaig, who was a Listed bumper winner, won the penultimate Duke Of Edinburgh Stakes, while Bergo, the Gary Moore-trained winner of the Queen Alexandra Stakes
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The run of success that Juddmonte has enjoyed this spring was continued ensuring that Khalid Abdullah finished up as easily the leading owner on prize-money
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and the horse that concluded the jockey’s championship in favour of Ryan Moore, had been plying his trade over hurdles and fences through the colder months. Rather than criticising the quality of these Flat races, it is probably a reflection of the improvement in quality on the NH circuit. The run of success that Juddmonte has enjoyed this spring was continued ensuring that Khalid Abdullah finished up as easily the leading owner on prize-money, enjoying two race victories with Byword and Timepiece, while the form that Darley has found this year was maintained breeding eight money earners, including three winners.
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Above, trainer Dermot Weld and jockey Pat Smullen enjoy the moment after Rite Of Passage won the Gold Cup (G1), left the Danehill Dancer filly Memory under jockey Richard Hughes goes clear to win the Albany Stakes (G3), and below Lillie Langtry (near side) begins a turn-around in fortunes for Ballydoyle and Johnny Murtagh in the Coronation Stakes. Johnny Murtagh bows to the Queen – again
racing royal ascot review Young operation Rabbah Bloodstock also got in on the act as a breeder and was responsible for producing Hibaayeb, winner of the Ribblesdale Stakes (G2) for Godolphin, and Ransom Note, who won the Brittania. The stud’s young stallions did not quite hit the board in the style they achieved through the early Classic season (although Dubawi did get two winners, including a Group 2 winner) and the leading stallions were all Coolmore domiciled (Choisir, Peintre Celebre, Danehill
Dancer and Galileo) but Singspiel, who unfortunately is about to be retired due to declining fertility, had an amazing meeting with six winners and placed horses, including two one-twos. The highly impressive and well-backed Harbinger gave Dansili another highly respectable Ascot. Things were a little quieter than usual for Pivotal and he failed to get a winner, a remark that can also be applied to Invincible Spirit, although Fleeting Spirit looks on the way back to her best. The National Stud will have revelled in Marine Commando’s Windsor Castle Stakes (L) victory. The horse is by the stud’s Pastoral Pursuits, who looks to be building on his first crop of runners. It was a tight finish with the Richard Fahey-trained horse coming home a neck ahead of Petronius Maximus, a son of the firstseason stallion Holy Roman Emperor. In a currently unexciting first-season sires’ competition, it was a result Coolmore would have preferred reversed in order to give the sire a second, and important, Listed race winner.
And while there is a fantastic bunch of young jockeys riding at present, all being entrusted with some of the biggest jobs in racing, Maxime Guyon is making claims to be the best. On his first ride at Royal Ascot, even at Ascot, the young Frenchman was rein-perfect on the Peintre Celebre horse Byword. Seemingly unfazed by big occasions, the young man looks to the perfect partner for top trainer André Fabre. While Guyon was winning one of the richest mid-week races in Europe, jockey Christophe Soumillon won the richest race in Europe on the Saturday of Ascot. It was not at the Berkshire venue, but rather over hurdles at Auteuil where in a farce of a race, and on only his second ride over hurdles, Soumillon rode his fellow jockeys to sleep. He came home to cheers – the remainder of the field returned to football-like jeers from the crowd.
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A void at the top this year
Lookin At Lucky wins the Preakness
There are no stars amongst this seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s batch of US three-year-old colts, writes Frank Mitchell
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f any gentle students of form were expecting the US Classics to prepare a solid hierarchy amongst our three-year-old colts, we apologise for the inconvenience. Apart from Eskendereya, the Kentucky Derby favourite who was scratched the week of the race and has since been retired, none of the other three-year-olds has emerged from the Classics as a solid leader of the division. To the contrary, from the results of the Kentucky Derby at 1m2f and the Preakness at only a half-furlong less, we found two notably different pecking orders. And in the 1m4f Belmont Stakes, yet another arrangement of form seemed to emerge. Are there any connections among the Classics that make sense of the whole? There are some tenuous lines of form, and overall
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there is little evidence to encourage the belief that this is an above-average crop of threeyear-olds. And, furthermore, we can say without any fear that this lot of ambitiously placed colts will only dream of seeing Rachel Alexandra or Zenyatta in the breeding shed. The closest this lot of sturdy beggars will ever get to those mares is seeing the much faster beasts draw away from them in the stretch. Oh, yes, a trio or so of these colts will find a place at stud. But, please, please geld the rest of them! Too many colts are finishing too closely together for this group to have produced a superstar. To wit, 3l would catch the first five colts home in the Belmont Stakes. In the days leading up to the Belmont, much press coverage was made of the fact
that neither the Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver nor Preakness winner Lookin At Lucky would attempt the third leg of the Triple Crown. It was, I suppose, disappointing. But realistically, neither would have had much chance of winning. According to his connections, Super Saver was overdone toast after his return engagement in the Preakness and should have been given more time to recuperate. Otherwise, he should have been a serious threat over the extended distance. In hindsight, his victory at Churchill Downs was probably as much the result of appreciating the consistency of the muddy racetrack as it was in staying on stoutly in a strongly run race. In the Preakness, the Derby form was turned upside down. Perhaps because of the change of surface, the humidity in the air, the closeness of the return engagement, or the colour of his jockeyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eyes, Super Saver pressed the pace of First Dude through a mile of the second Classic, then folded like
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a busted kite, failing to reproduce anything similar to his finish two weeks earlier. It is fair to give him another chance or two before writing off his effort in Kentucky. Bad horses do not win Classics. Given that, better horses sometimes lose them due to circumstances, and from the evidence to date, it is probable that Lookin At Lucky will continue to have some level of superiority against Super Saver. At least at distances up to 1m2f. Lookin At Lucky is game as gold, and he needed every ounce of his nerve and
determination to win the Preakness at Pimlico. Although the early pace in the race was solid, perhaps even slightly quicker than average, Lookin At Lucky made an eyecatching move into contention around the turn of the second American Classic. When he came to leader First Dude at the head of the stretch in the Preakness, the juvenile champion appeared ready to blow past his opposition and confirm his margin of superiority. That did not happen. Instead, the son of Smart Strike appeared
to hang just a bit as they raced through the stretch, and his opposition appeared to get very brave. Instead of Lookin At Lucky drawing away from First Dude to finish alone, it was instead the long-time leader, as well as Jackson Bend and Yawanna Twist, who closed some ground on Lookin At Lucky through the stretch. Not willing to lose, Lookin At Lucky put his head down and went and won his race. The handsome bay colt was good and game, but I will decline to believe he truly stays 1m2f until he proves it. From the evidence, Lookin At Lucky is a better colt at 1m1f than 1m2f, and he gets the distance on class and willpower more than innate aptitude for the distance.
Could Lookin At Lucky have won the Belmont?
I doubt it. Certainly trainer Bob Baffert read the Preakness form much as I did and chose to reserve his high-class colt for races better suited to his natural abilities. Baffert knows the degree to which the Belmont taxes a racehorse’s constitution, and without a Triple
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been near the leaders and would have stayed on for good or ill effect.
Zenyatta is continuing her regal domination of her inferiors, and the only horse possessing testicles who appears to be within hailing distance of her is the big Elusive Quality colt Quality Road
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Crown to race for, there is little reason to put a decent horse at risk with relatively little to gain. That said, could such a colt have succeeded in the 1m4f Classic? I am certain of this: if Lookin At Lucky had been in the Belmont, the race would have been run much differently. For one thing, the son of Smart Strike cannot run as slowly as the horses in the Belmont went. Turtles race faster than that. But if Lookin At Lucky had been the “one to beat” in the Belmont, others would have been intent on testing his stamina, pushing the pace and taking the life out of him before the field turned into the stretch. That would have played much more to the needs of race favorite Ice Box, who loved the killing pace in the Kentucky Derby and closed so impressively in the Churchill Downs stretch. Knowing this, the connections of Lookin At Lucky saw no reason to set up their champion as the punching bag in difficult situation. And the resulting race, which featured Ice Box as the horse to beat, was run much differently. Although time is given much less consideration abroad, on the Flat and smoothly groomed dirt tracks here in the US, time frequently offers some lively insights into how races are run and which horses are compromised or assisted by the play of the race. In the Belmont, the leading set of horses (headed by Preakness second First Dude) were allowed to gallop a pedestrian halfmile in 49.19, three-quarters in 1:14.94, a mile in 1:40.25, and 1m2f in 2:04.97, with Drosselmeyer and Fly Down tracking them at most four and five lengths behind in fifth and sixth. To put that in perspective on a fast track, the pacesetters were racing about 20l behind the pace of a top-class Belmont like the one from 1973 which was won by Secretariat.
Even in the context of an average Belmont, this running was a solid 10l or more behind the norms through the early part of the race. And the final ignominy was the final time of 2:31.57. That is the third-slowest Belmont of the last 66 years (when Bounding Home beat the Hyperion colt Pensive in 1944). And for the first time, a Derby at Epsom was run faster than a Belmont Stakes, although Workforce needed to set a time record to do so over the undulations of the course at Epsom. So, despite the appearance of closing that Drosselmeyer and Fly Down made through the Belmont stretch, they were truly passing horses slowing down faster than themselves. And where was Ice Box during this hot fun? At the start, he was overexcited but was pulled back into the ruck by empathic jockey Jose Lezcano and appeared not to run a step. Had the chestnut son of Pulpit raced the same pace he followed in the Derby, he would have
Revenge is working
Last year’s Kentucky Derby favourite I Want Revenge is back in training and progressing well. I Want Revenge inherited sole favouritism in the Classic when Quality Road was sidelined with a quarter crack, but then was himself was scratched on the morning of the race due to an ankle injury. Unraced since winning the Wood Memorial at Aqueduct on April 4, 2009, I Want Revenge may have returned to racing in the Suburban Handicap at Belmont Park by the time you read this. The big colt is regularly working over 4f and 5f at Belmont Park and is reportedly doing well. I Want Revenge is now trained by Dick Dutrow, who said that: “I’m very happy with him. I hope he stays this way for a long, long time.”
Now for the horses at the head of the class
While it appears that the local Classic crop is somewhat limited, the best horses of the year are still training away. Rachel Alexandra is hinting with good works that she may be approaching the powerful form that kept her unbeaten in 2009, while last year’s Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird is training smartly for Wayne Lukas, his new trainer. Zenyatta is continuing her regal domination of her inferiors, and the only horse possessing testicles who appears to be within hailing distance of her is the big Elusive Quality colt Quality Road. A hot prospect for the Kentucky Derby last year, Quality Road was sidelined through the Classics with quarter cracks, and his hooves continue to give pause to anyone with a taste for future-book wagering. Off the course since his powerful victory in the Donn Handicap on February 6 in Florida, Quality Road returned to the races at Belmont Park for the Metropolitan Handicap on May 31. Trainer Todd Pletcher said that part of the reason for the timing of Quality Road’s races is that “he runs so well fresh.” Considering how massive the colt is and how fast he races, I also expect that Quality Road is rather hard on himself and his fragile hooves whenever let loose to race. The big bay was certainly impressive when he broke from the gate at Belmont to race around one turn of the sandy oval. Just like his gifted sire, Quality Road took to the track from start, setting quick fractions and daring anything to keep up with him. Several dared but none succeeded. After a quarter-mile in 22.55 and a half in 45.19, Quality Road’s early company in the race was wilting, and the top-class miler applied the coup de grace with a threequarter time of 1:08.57. Carter Handicap winner Warrior’s Reward tried to close on the leader through that quarter-mile and perished for his efforts, finishing sixth. Quality Road continued his furious offensive to finish the mile in 1:33.11 and win by a length and a half from last year’s Kentucky Derby third Musket Man. The colt’s opposition was solid and good class, and his effort was most impressive, both visually and on the clock.
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A new star is in his ascendant
Lope De Vega picks up the two French colts’ Classics in the manner of a very decent animal, says Jocelyn de Moubray
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ope de Vega became the latest superstar of French racing when successful first in the Poule d’Essai des Poulains at Longchamp over a mile, before three weeks later, winning the Prix du Jockey Club at Chantilly. The Gestüt Ammerland-bred champion not only emulated the successes of his sire Shamardal in the same races in 2005, but has also established the Darley stallion as a Classic sire. It was also a fitting result for Ammerland as Shamardal had looked very lucky to defeat the stud’s own Hurricane Run in the Prix du Jockey Club five years ago. In England it is generally assumed that the French Derby is an ordinary race, except perhaps when it is won by either André Fabre or the Aga Khan as nobody doubted the ability of either Peintre Celebre or Dalakhani. Since the race has been shortened to 1m2f the prejudice against the Chantilly Classic has become even stronger. Of the six winners of the new shortened race, Le Havre did not run again while Lawman, Darsi and Shamardal made only four subsequent starts between them with both Lawman and Shamardal adding another Group 1 to their records – but over a mile. The only winner, who has really created a middle-distance name for himself, is Vision d’Etat who is still in training and has won a further three Group 1s in France, England and Hong Kong over 1m2f and 1m3f.
Lope will be the first superstar from the short race – you read it here first! There are several reasons to think that Lope de Vega could be the first superstar to come out of the new Jockey Club. First, in both races he defeated horses with a direct line to the best international form. At Longchamp he defeated the English 2000
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Where are they all? Jockey Maxime Guyon looks around for non-exsistent opposition when winning the Jockey Club on Lope De Vega Photo: aprh
racing europe Guineas runner-up Dick Turpin by a decisive half-length. To do so he had to overcome the huge obstacle of being drawn 15 of the 15 runners, whereas the Richard Hannontrained colt was drawn one and had a perfect run throughout the race. When there are more than ten runners at Longchamp it is pretty well impossible to win the Poule d’Essai des Poulains from a draw of ten or higher – you have to be lengths better than the others, or at least better than those with favourable draws. A jockey’s choice with a wide draw is either to race wide all the way down the hill and round the bends, which means giving away lengths, or to hold up his mount and then hope for a miracle run up the inside in the straight, or come round all of the other runners and make his run on the outside. Frankie Dettori chose the later course on Rio de la Plata in 2008 and, although his mount responded, they were still 3l behind Falco at the line. Maxime Guyon is young and is riding for André Fabre and so he is already used to riding top horses in top races. He has ridden Lope de Vega in all of his runs and, in the races which have counted, he has done so with complete confidence. In the Poule d’Essai he took the big chestnut back into last place and had no trouble to get him to relax behind the fast early pace. In the straight he brought him out into the centre of the track and, in a matter of strides, the pair went past the whole field to win comfortably. If it is not easy to win the French Guineas when drawn 15 of 15 runners, it is probably even harder to win the Jockey Club when drawn 20 of 22. This time there can be no alternative strategy – you either make all the running or you have to be so far behind to get a place near the rails that there is almost no chance of making up the ground on the leaders in the straight. In 2009, Feels Alright, one of the favourites, was drawn 16 of 17 and tried to make all the running and finished tailed off last. In 2008, Famous Name was drawn 17 of 20 and was among the backmarkers coming into the straight and despite a fantastic run on the outside was still a head behind Vision d’Etat at the line. The closest parallel to Lope de Vega’s victory can be drawn with Shamardal himself. He was drawn 13 of 17 and succeeded in making all the running to hold off Hurricane Run, wihiout a pacemaker in the field and with his jockey Frankie Dettori succeeding in setting a slow pace when he got to the front.
Gestüt Ammerland enjoys run of form THe JOCKEY CLUB winner is an exceptional horse who appears to have the perfect blend of speed and stamina. He was bred and raised at his owner Dietrich von Boetticher’s Gestüt Ammerland, which is on the shore of Lake Starnberg near Munich in southern Germany. Von Boetticher’s first major win came with Luigi in the 1988 German Derby and his stud and racing stable came to international prominence when Borgia was placed in both the Arc de Triomphe and the Breeders’ Cup Turf in 1997 at the end of a season in which she had won the German Derby and the Grosser Preis von Baden. Since then von Boetticher has bred and bought several top-class horses including Grey Lilas, Boreal, Hurricane Run and now Lope De Vega. All are Group 1 winners in either England, France or Ireland. Ammerland’s current crop of three-yearolds also include Nordic Truce, a Graded stakes winner trained by Christophe Clement who was most unlucky to lose his unbeaten record in a Grade 3 at Belmont two days before the Jockey Club. Daniella Nowara has been the manager of Gestüt Ammerland throughout the years of success, while I have to admit some family interest as my brother Crispin de Moubray is von Boetticher’s principal advisor and purchased Grey Lilas as well as the dams of Lope De Vega and Nordic Truce.
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Fabre has reported that Lope De Vega is likely to run next time out in the mile Prix Jacques le Marois, possibly against Goldikova. However, the time of the Jockey Club and his performance in the race suggests that Lope De Vega stays 1m2f well and has every chance of getting further, if allowed a little more chance to relax in the early part of the race. He is inbred to Machiavellian, but, perhaps more significantly, both Vettori, the sire of Lope De Vega’s dam Lady Vettori, and Helsinki, the dam of Shamardal, are bred in a similar way. Helsinki is by Machiavellian out of the
Irish Oaks winner Helen Street, who was by the Derby winner Troy. She was also trained by Fabre and made three starts finishing sixth in a Group 3 over 1m4f last time out. Vettori’s dam Air Distingue was by the Derby winner Sir Ivor, To the winner the spoils: and finished Dietrich von Boetticher with placed in the the Jockey Club trophy Prix de Diane. Photo: aprh Vettori won an ordinary Poule d’Essai des Poulains and probably put up as good a performance on his next start when sixth to Lammtarra in the Derby. Lady Vettori herself never had a chance to race over further than a mile as her career ended after one race at three. As a two-yearold, though, she made a winning debut over 5f in April, but she had enough stamina to be third in the Marcel Boussac over a mile, which was ran that year on heavy ground. As a mare she appears to be producing horses with stamina as four of her first five foals have now looked to be at their best over 1m2f or further. Her first foal, a filly by Anabaa, broke her maiden over 1m4f, her second foal by Cadeaux Genereux won a Group 3 over 1m2f and then her Montjeu colt put up his best performance over 1m6f as a three-year-old. Nobody wanted to buy Lope de Vega’s half-sister by Hurricane Run at the Arqana August sale last year and she was retained, has been named Lavande Violet and has been sent into training with Fabre. Lady Vettori now has a yearling colt by Monsun and is back in foal to Shamardal.
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racing europe Guyon was once again not short of confidence and took Lope De Vega straight out of the stalls and into the lead at a sprinter’s pace and then succeeded in settling the colt behind Planteur’s pacemaker Vivre Libre when he caught up with him. This pair covered the first 5f100yds in 58.3. Even if this part of the track includes the downhill run towards the chateau, this is an average of 10.6 per furlong for 5f, which very few sprinters indeed would be able to match. For a couple of furlongs on the bend, while the pacemaker dropped away and Lope De Vega took over in front, he ran two furlongs in an average of 13.0 per furlong. And then the last six furlongs of the uphill straight, he ran in fractions of 11.9, 12.0 and then, through the final furlong while Guyon was waving to the crowd, 13.1. Lope De Vega more or less sprinted for 1m2f before being allowed to ease up in the last 100m, when he was still 4l or more clear of his rivals. He was in the lead on his own or just behind the pacemaker throughout a race run at an average speed of 11.6 per furlong. No wonder so few of the other horses ever got into the race, most of them will never have had to race quite so fast in their lives before – and may never have to do so again. Interestingly, the day Shamardal won the Jockey Club the going was good and yet his winning time was two seconds slower than Lope De Vega’s on good to soft ground.
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If it is not easy to win the French Guineas when drawn 15 of 15 runners, it is probably even harder to win the Jockey Club when drawn 20 of 22
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Vespone: a sire of promise
For the first time since he started running against high-class horses, Pain Perdu did not have to make his own pace, which appeared to suit this son of Vespone. He is one of five winners from the 24 foals in the first crop of the Haras du Petit Tellier’s stallion, and at least two of the others are also good class winners. Vespone is a half-brother to Purple Moon and from a top Wildenstein family. He won four of his first six starts including Group 1s over a 1m1f and a 1m2f before being sold to Godolphin.
Diane goes to the Aga Khan
Is Timeform’s assessment correct?
Lope De Vega finished 3l ahead of Planteur having been eased in the final stages. Planteur was one of many who found the early pace a struggle, but the Wildenstein family’s son of Danehill Dancer is a high-class colt and struggled through to finish a clear second. On his only other start in 2010 he had defeated Rewilding, the Derby third, by a comfortable length and a half. It is very hard to understand how Timeform can have decided that Planteur ran well below his best in the Jockey Club and rate Lope De Vega 7lb behind Workforce without even a ‘p’.
Plans for the others
Planteur is likely to start favourite for the Group 1 Grand Prix de Paris over 1m4f on July 14. The Elie Lellouche-trained colt was not suited to the furious early pace and had not run for two months as the prep races for Jockey Club are still organised as if the race
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length and a half behind Planteur. The other unlucky horse was Godolphin’s Simon de Montfort, who was withdrawn on the morning of the race. The son of King’s Best had defeated Pain Perdu on his two previous starts and with Pain Perdu finishing an excellent third in the Jockey Club, he would surely have finished there or thereabouts. Just like this year’s other two top-class sons of King’s Best, Simon De Montfort is out of a staying mare: his dam Noble Rose won the Galtres Stakes and the Park Hill Stakes, Workforce’s dam is a sister to a St Leger winner while Eishin Flash’s dam won the German St Leger.
Sarafina says hello to the camera after her success in the Prix Diane Photo: aprh
was still over 1m4f. However, a major rival at Longchamp will be the Wertheimer brothers’ Lumineux, who was one of the few very unlucky horses in the Jockey Club. This Fabre-trained son of Motivator had looked very good when winning a B race at Longchamp over 1m2f on his previous start after showing promise at both two and three. In the Jockey Club he was nearly pushed through the rails by Viscount Nelson before the home turn and Olivier Peslier was forced to pull his mount back to avoid a fall. Nevertheless, Lumineux was still running on well in the straight and finished sixth, only a
The Prix Diane was won by the Alain de Royer-Dupre-trained and Aga Khan-owned Sarafina, who was gaining her second Group 1 victory after winning the Prix Saint Alary in May. She came home ahead of her stablemate and fellow Aga Khan-owned and bred Rosanara, winner of last season’s Prix Marcel Boussac. Both fillies are by what might be termed “unfashionable” sires: the winner being by the relocated Darley and now Whitsbury Studbased stallion Refuse To Bend and his only Group 1 winner to date. Rosanara is by the Aga Khan’s own Sinndar, a stallion who has enjoyed results at the highest level through the likes of the dual Group 1 winner Youmzain, the Irish Oaks winner Shawanda and the Derby third Aqaleem, but who has never really caught the imagination of the commercial crowd as his horses tend to need a distance and some time; Rosanara’s two-year-old form being the exception. Only three yearlings were offered by him at auction in 2009, two less than in 2008 when his average was 80,000gns. The stallion’s average in 2009 was 43,000gns.
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Home team holds the aces
Australian stallions saw off the shuttle sires through the end of the season
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among the brighter lights of his many new studmates, but, instead, he has risen to the fore as a sire to note. Pressday is one of four stakes performers for him this season, including the Group 1-placed filly Divorces, and with Domesday’s 2010 fee already set at an eminently affordable A$11,000, he is almost guaranteed to attract a large book. Another former resident of Woodlands Stud was also responsible for a Group 1 winner in May, but, unlike Domesday, Viscount was not retained by Darley. Instead, the son of Quest For Fame now stands at Oakland Park Stud in Western Australia. Darley executives could well be forgiven for ruing the day they chose to move Viscount on as he already has the STC Queen of the Turf (G1) heroine Neroli and the Group 1-winning Singapore sprinter Rocket Man on his honour roll. Adding to that pair is his son Kidnapped, who was an impressive winner of the South Australia Derby (G1) at Morphettville in early May in the colours of Sheikh Mohammed. However, when the decision was taken in 2008, it looked a logical move; the Woodlands purchase meant Darley had in one swoop acquired not only Viscount, but
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Redoute’s Choice may no longer be Australia’s most expensive stallion – that title now belongs to Encosta de Lago – but his appeal has not waned and neither have his results
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INCE the shuttle stallion movement really began in earnest in the wake of Danehill’s achievements in Australia, it has been a worry in some quarters that northern hemisphere stallions dominate racing results to the detriment of their southern hemisphere counterparts. That has assuredly not been the case in recent weeks. Group 1 racing has finished for the season in New Zealand but Australia has hosted nine such races since the beginning of May, and it is remarkable that all of those winners have been sired by a stallion resident in Australia or New Zealand on a full-time basis. Perhaps the most noteworthy of those is Domesday, who’s son Pressday has dominated the autumn two-year-old contests. After taking the Champagne Classic (G2) at Doomben in May, the Chris Wallertrained colt swept to victory in the QTC Sires’ Produce (G2) at Eagle Farm before rounding off his season in the T.J. Smith (G1) over a mile at the same venue. Pressday was clearly not always so highly regarded. Offered at William Inglis & Son’s Classic Yearling Sale in February 2009, rather than the more glittering Easter Yearling Sale, the colt brought a final bid of just A$38,000 from his future trainer. Out of the New Zealand-bred Kaapstad mare Kaaptive Edition, Pressday has now amassed over A$623,000 in earnings. Domesday was himself a smart juvenile, winning the Silver Slipper (G2) at Rosehill and taking fourth in the AJC Sires’ Produce (G1). However, he ran only three times the following season, with a fourth place his best effort, and he was not among the most prominent of his generation when he was retired to his owner’s Woodlands Stud. When that operation was bought by Sheikh Mohammed, Domesday could well have sunk
also Quest For Fame as well as Viscount’s close relative Octagonal and his son Lonhro – a surfeit of the same line if ever there was. It is particularly apt that Viscount should be enjoying sire success now following the announcement that his own sire has been retired from stud duties. Having covered around 90 mares last season at fee of just under A$10,000, plenty more opportunities should now come his way. One of Viscount’s former raceday foes also celebrated a recent Group 1 winner when Albert The Fat triumphed in the BTC Cup (G1) over 6f at Doomben in May. Albert The Fat (an unfortunately named horse if ever there was) had warmed up for his effort with a good third in the Sir Byrne Hart Stakes (G2) earlier in the month, and turned in a great effort to cause an upset at Doomben, closing late in the race to score by a nose. The five-year-old is a son of Magic Albert, a son of Zeditave who got off to a flying start after retiring to stud in 2002. His first crop contained the Group 1 winner Magic Cape, but he remained the stallion’s only winner at the highest level until Albert The Fat came along. Magic Albert, who stands at Yarraman Park, is that increasing rarity – a sire completely free of Northern Dancer blood. Standing for A$13,750, he has also proved a popular draw during his stud career – he has never covered less than 80 mares and in 2006, he year that Magic Cape won the New Zealand 2,000 Guineas (G1), hit a peak of 180. Even last year, with fewer stakes performers on the board, he covered 120 mares. Following an almost identical career trajectory as Magic Albert is the Belloto stallion Clang, whose son Black Piranha secured back to back victories in the Stradbroke Handicap (G1) at Eagle Farm on June 12.
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Magic Albert: the Yarraman Park stallion got a Group 1 winner in his first crop and now a second after Albert The Fat’s victory in the BTC Cup at Doomben
Clang also enjoyed Group 1 glory early in his stud career with the 2003 AJC Derby victor Clangalang and the 2002 Golden Slipper winner in Calaway Gal, but had yet to produce another winner at the highest level until Black Piranha scored his breakthrough win last season. His popularity remained consistent however, and he covered 91 mares last season at his base of Willowbend Stud in Queensland where he will stand this year for A$5,500. At the other end of the scale from both Magic Albert and Clang is Redoute’s Choice, surely the best of all Danehill’s stallion sons sired in the southern hemisphere. Redoute’s Choice may no longer be Australia’s most expensive stallion – that title now belongs to Encosta De Lago – but his appeal has not waned and neither have his results. On June 12, Dariana became her sire’s 18th Group 1 winner and third of the season when triumphing over the colts in the Queensland Derby (G1). That result was also
notable for being the 260th Group 1 winner trained by the legendary Bart Cummings. Dariana may not have looked nailed on for Derby glory, having disgraced herself just a week earlier when refusing to leave the stalls and participate in the Queensland Oaks (G1). However, that tantrum was put far behind her as she cruised home by over 4l at Eagle Farm. The filly was Redoute’s Choice’s second in the Queensland Derby and fourth Derby winner in all following Empires Choice (Queensland 2007), Redoute’s Dancer (New Zealand, 2007), and Musir (UAE (G2), 2010). Dariana’s win also came in the same week that Redoute’s Choice came close to scoring a first Royal Ascot victory when Elzaam was just pipped in the Coventry Stakes.
Dariana was trainer Bart Cummings 260th Group 1 winner when successful in the Queensland Derby
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rix de l’Arc de Triomphe hope Interaction, winner of the Gran Premio Carlos Pellegrini, was further rewarded for his brilliant victory in South America’s Arc by being named Argentine Horse of the Year for 2009. South America’s top-rated racehorse has recently joined Pascal Bary for the European Group 1. According to co-owner Fernando Fantini, he is expected to make his European debut in the Group 2 Grand Prix de Deauville on August 29. Interaction is one of three former South American-trained horses, which have been nominated for the Arc alongside Dubai World Cup winner Gloria de Campeao and Hot Six, both of whom were bred in Brazil. Interaction was also recognised as Argentina’s champion stayer and three-yearold at a ceremony in Buenos Aires on May 20. Formerly trained in his native homeland by Alfredo Gaitan Dassie, the Classic winner recorded three stakes wins from as many starts during his championship season in Argentina. His victories included last year’s Group 1 Gran Premio Jockey Club, the second leg of Argentina’s Triple Crown series. He has won four Group races altogether with three coming at the highest level. Interaction became the first champion for former Claiborne Farm sire Easing Along, a 12-year-old by Storm Cat, who was named stallion of the year. Easing Along, who stands at Haras La Quebrada in joint-ownership with Haras La Pasion and Haras Futuro, also garnered his second champion when Lloron Cat was named champion sprinter. Interaction’s dam, the Ride The Rails mare Inter Rails, was honored as broodmare of the year. It was certainly a memorable night for the connections as Dassie was named champion trainer and owner Haras Futuro was honoured as outstanding owner. Interaction’s jockey Edwin Talaverano took the Pellegrini of the Year Award, the
Left: Interaction with Pascal Bary Photo: courtesy of Fernando Fantini
Below: Jockey Edwin Talaverano receives the Carlos Pellegrini Award from Argentine Jockey Club president Bruno Quintana Photo: Marcelo Sarachi
highest distinction of the evening presented exclusively by Argentine Jockey Club president Bruno Quintana, in recognition of his outstanding sweep of all four Group 1 internationals comprising the Carlos Pellegrini international series. “I couldn’t be happier,” said prominent Chilean owner and international breeder Jorge Cardemil. “You can’t ask for more from only an average of 17 horses in training and in only our second year of racing in Argentina.” Other winners included the outstanding breeder Juan Carlos Bago’s Haras Firmamento, breeder of the mare of the year and champion three-year-old filly Kalath Wells. Other honorees were Life Of Victory (older horse), Maruko Plus (miler), San Livinus (two-year-old colt), Ishitaki (twoyear-old filly) and Ollagua (older female).
highlight of Hipodromo San Isidro’s holiday card. Champion jockey Edwin Talaverano guided the chestnut Pure Prize colt to a 2l victory. The beaten horse, a son of Incurable Optimist, is now scheduled to make his fourth straight appearance in the Gran Premio Estrellas Classic, Argentina’s equivalent of the U.S. Breeders’ Cup Classic, on June 26. South American superstar Latency, Argentina’s 2007 Horse of the Year, also made a return to the races on May 30 in Buenos Aires, finishing an unthreatening
Life Of Victory beaten
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racing south america fourth in the Clasico Malvinas Argentina over 1,800 meters at Palermo. The 2007 Carlos Pellegrini and seven-time Group 1 winner was having his first outing since finishing fifth in the Gran Premio Republica (G1) Argentina in May 2009. Property of cardio surgeon Darado Fernandez Aramburu and family, the top-class eightyear-old Slew Gin Fizz horse, considered one of Argentina’s greatest thoroughbreds, will now target a repeat victory in the Estrellas Classic. In Buenos Aires, Quick Val, a daughter of the deceased Breeders’ Cup Mile winner Val Royal, became her sire’s first South American stakes winner when capturing the Gran Premio de Potrancas (G1) for two-year-old fillies at San Isidro on May 29.
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Belle Watling, Chile’s leading lady, coasted home to the applause of the Hipodromo Chile crowd as the top-class daughter of Dushyantor followed up on her exceptional victory last month
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Also on the San Isidro card, Malhechor Int (Gradepoint) upset the favourite and Group 1 winner Phone Time (Gilded Time) by a neck in the Gran Premio Gran Criterium (G1) to become his sire’s first South Americanstakes winner. Shifting to Peru, the Argentine-bred Toruk became Grand Reward’s first stakes winner when comfortably winning the Clasico Luis Olaechea Du Bois (G3), Peru’s only Group race for two-year-old colts, on June 7. The promising chestnut colt from the family of Argentine champion Mi Quimera stamped himself as Peru’s top-rated juvenile and leading candidate heading into the Peruvian Classics come September. His sire Grand Reward, currently standing at Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms, was a maiden winner in England and finished second in the Mill Reef Stakes (G2) and third in the Gimrack
La Pasion: building for the future
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n last month’s issue we presented a feature on Argentina’s fledging Haras La Leyenda and Alberto and Renata Stein’s plans to bridge hemispheres with a business plan that involves long-term foal sharing arrangements involving mares owned by horthern hemisphere breeders interested in Argentine racing. To further explain the program, Alberto said: “Owners of mares can participate in the La Leyenda programme by having their mare covered by a northern hemisphere stallion on southern hemisphere time and then exporting that mare to La Leyenda for five years. The mare is bred to La Leyenda stallions during that time and the owner and farm share each foal. After five years, the owner takes back complete control of the mare. We anticipate that about half of the foals will be sold as yearlings or weanlings.” Haras La Pasion, is also a young ambitious young operation, and has already become a major player in Argentina. The farm is run by Ricardo and Nicolas Benedicto, whose black, green and gold Rubio B silks won nearly 100 races last year, who are rapidly expanding their involvement in breeding. The farm celebrated a successful first year at the sales ring as the top consigner at the recently concluded aBullrich SA Copa Bullrich Yearling Sale, having produced Payton, who broke the Argentine record price ($640,000 and $530,000 Argentine pesos) “Haras La Pasion began in 2005 with the purchase of 256 acres in Solis, Providence of Buenos Aires, an hour’s drive from the Argentine capital,” Nicolas explains. “Today we have 100 broodmares and a first twoyear-old crop of 13 youngsters, which has already yielded our first stakes winner (Shy Candela). Our crop of yearlings more than doubled the first one with 36 foals of which 20 were prepared for the sales in April and May. The 2009 crop consists of 65 foals and this year we hope to get nearly 90 foals,” says Nicolas, reflecting on the growth of the farm. “The development of the first stage facilities are completed. Work has begun on the second stage which includes development of the stallion barn.”
Haras La Pasion stallion Lizard Island
La Pasion recently bought a half interest in the leading Argentine-based stallion Easing Along (Storm Cat), who stands at Haras La Quebrada, as well as 33 per cent of the Danzig stallion Exchange Rate in association with Haras Santa Ines and La Leyenda. Furthermore, the farm owns 50 per cent of second-season stallion Lizard Island (Danehill Dancer) in association with Haras Abolengo and the locally owned Emperor Richard, a lightly raced and unbeaten son of Southern Halo. “It is a big punt, but we have 100 per cent confidence behind Easing Along,” asserts Nicolas. “He is by far the best stallion at the moment in Argentina.” The Benedicto’s efforts don’t stop there. The father and son team recently made a second attempt to acquire a share of successful North American sire Candy Ride, but instead acquired 20 exclusive breeding rights to breed to the stallion on southern hemisphere time from Lane’s End. “For many years we’ve been after Candy Ride, the idea was to purchase 25 per cent of him and we put in an offer when the horse was at Hill ‘N’ Dale Farms, although it was rejected. This year we tried once more, but when Misremembered won California’s number one race, the Santa Anita Handicap (G1), the farm was by then convinced themselves of the full potential of the stallion. That result meant that, for now, Candy Ride will be staying put in the US,” explained Benedicto. Next year La Pasion hopes to their luck may change with Candy Ride. “Perhaps in 2011 we can happily say, welcome home champion!” smiles Bendicto.
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racing south america Stakes (G2) at two. He went onto finish second in the The Tetrarch Stakes (G3) and won the Oaklawn Handicap (G2) at four. Cruella Deville, a Chilean-bred daughter of Monthir took the female division, the Clasico Augusto Mostajo Barrera (G3), stamping herself as Peru’s top-rated two-year-old filly. Belle Watling, Chile’s leading lady, coasted home to the applause of the Hipodromo Chile crowd as the top-class daughter of Dushyantor followed up on her exceptional victory in last month’s Gran Premio Hipodromo Chile (G1) with an encore performance in the Gran Premio de Honor (G2) at the Santiago oval on June 12. The win marked her seventh consecutive victory, her six straight stakes win and a third consecutive win on dirt. She is already considered among one of Chile’s greatest.
Record at aBullrich SA Sale: McKeever underbidder
Payton, an Argentine-bred colt by Kentucky sire Tiznow, topped the five-day session of the aBullrich Copa Bullrich Yearling Sale, which concluded on June 15 at the Hipodromo San Isidro Tattersall sales ring in Buenos Aires. John Fulton Bloodstock purchased the colt out of the stakes-placed winner Penny Hole (Seeking The Gold) for $162,025, a national record price. Susie McKeever of McKeever Bloodstock was the underbidder. Consigned by Haras La Pasion, the session topper’s second dam is the Grade 3 winner Miss Turkana (Turkoman). “He is identical to his father,” said Fulton of the colt from the family of Group 1 winner Mamool. “I am including him in a package of yearlings and will take in partners for racing here in Argentina.” “I am very happy,” said aBullrich SA managing director Antonio Bullrich, reflecting on the sale. “To sell the record-price horse was unbelievable. The most important thing was the international buyers who came from Ireland, the US, Peru, Libya and England; every one of them bought something. Equally important was the quality of horses that the breeders brought to the sale.”
Grand-daughter of Kingmambo breaks Peru record
In Peru an unnamed bay filly by the Kingmambo stallion Quintillon topped the Asociacion de Criadores de Caballos de Carrera del Peru, a two-day sale of selected yearlings held on June 7 and 9 at Lima’s Hipodromo de Monterrico Adolfo Vasquez Mansilla sales ring. Football player Paolo Guerrero, a striker for Peru’s national team and Germany’s Bundesliga, purchased the half-sister to two-year-old champion female Cried and Group 1 Peruvian Oaks winner Allianz Arena for $46,000, a sale record. Bred by Alvaro Lucioni’s Haras Alydar, the sale topper is out of 2008 Broodmare of the Year Engreida (Swiss Native).
Peintre Celebre, Forestry, Macho Uno to shuttle
Peintre Celebre, sire of recent Prince Of Wales’s Stakes (G1) winner Byword, heads a list of prominent stallions shuttling to South
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The record-breaking top lot at the aBullrich sale, Payton, a good-looking colt by Tiznow Photo: FLO
America for the upcoming southern hemisphere breeding season. The 16-year-old Peintre Celebre, sire of 15 Group 1 winners, including world champion Pride, will shuttle for the first time to Sao Paulo, Brazil. A farm remains to be decided. Eduardo Guimaraes of Belair Stallions handled the lease agreement and will manage his book. He said: “We are delighted to have Peintre Celebre, a fourth winner of the Prix the l’Arc de Triomphe to shuttle to Sao Paulo this season, following Sagamix, Trempolino and Sinndar. We are obviously happy with Byword’s Royal Ascot victory, the stallion’s 15th Group / Grade 1 winner. “Peintre Celebre fits perfectly with Belair’s policy of shuttling top class French-raced stallions to Brazil not only because racing in France is drug free, but also because the foundation of Brazilian breeding is French. Our main Group 1 races are held on the turf course at distances between a mile and 1m2f”. Frank Stronach’s Adena Springs Farm’s Macho Uno will be another stallion heading to Brazil for the 2010 southern hemisphere season. He will stand at Sao Jose da Serra farm in partnership with Parana Breeders & Owners Association of Brazil (ACPCCP). ACPCCP and Adena Springs have agreed to use some of the revenue generated by Macho Uno to provide bonuses for Brazilian breeders and to sponsor the “Macho Uno Cup” to be run in 2014. Eduardo Buffara, director of TBS said that: “Macho Uno will be the most important stallion to ever stand in Parana state.” Forestry will shuttle to South America for the first time to stand the season at Julio Bozano’s Haras Santa Maria de Araras in Argentina. The sire of 37 stakes winners, Forestry currently stands for $17,500 at Taylor Made Stallions in Kentucky. A returning shuttler to South America is Real Quiet, who is expected to return to Pablo and Claudia Salomone’s Haras Cuatro Piedras in Progreso, Uruguay for a second straight year. Hiad Hamide’s Hamide Stables in Peru has added Grade 3-placed stakes winner Spin Master, a son of Distorted Humor, to its stallion roster. A $500,000 purchase at the 2006 Fasig-Tipton Calder TwoYear-Old Sale, Spin Master won five of 17 starts. He is the first son of Distorted Humor to stand in Peru.
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Looking after one another
Liz Price finds that thoroughbred and Purebred Arabian racing can be both mutually and financially supportive
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he Olympic Games was the first mega sports’ event to be associated with sports’ sponsorship when marketing powerhouse Coca-Cola placed ads in the official programme in 1896. In the UK the first sport to attract commercial sponsorship was not, as one might believe, football, cricket or rugby, but horseracing. It all started in 1957, when Whitbread Brewers sponsored a jump race at Sandown Park at the instigation of Colonel Bill Whitbread, the company’s chairman, who had twice ridden in the Grand National. Sponsorship deals of individual races, as well as entire meetings, soared in the 1980s and 1990s, but recently it has become increasingly difficult to convince companies to associate their names with the sport of kings. The news that the sponsorship deal of the Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe weekend had been extended from 2013 to 2022 was not only very welcome, but also proved the existence of a perfect symbiosis between thoroughbred and Purebred Arabian racing. Like it or not, Purebred Arabian horseracing, which has become an integral part at major race meetings throughout the world, whether it be at Longchamp or Ascot, has forever changed and more importantly improved the future of the sport. Thanks to the rise in prize-money, the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe remains the most prestigious and important race for thoroughbreds in Europe, if not in the world. At the same time, Purebred Arabian racing benefits from worldwide exposure as the
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Hubert Monzat: French thoroughbred racing has established an “harmonious” partnership with Purebred Arabian racing
Group 1 PA Qatar Arabian World is run in the wake of the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe. Hubert Monzat, general manager of France Galop, confirms: “There is no doubt that Qatar views sponsoring of the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe as a way to promote the Purebred Arabian breed and its races. “For France Galop, of course the Arc weekend is the thoroughbred weekend in the racing calendar. “But we have been able to establish a very harmonious relationship, which allows us to promote Purebred Arabian racing, to pay tribute to the efforts and achievements of the French breeders in that field and to maintain a thoroughbred race at the highest level.” And he concludes: “Peoples’ attitudes have changed towards the PA races and it
showed last year when the stands remained packed for the Qatar Arabian World Cup and the betting turnover was one of the highest of the afternoon. I wouldn’t be surprised if the obvious interest from the many spectators that day led to the extension of the partnership between Qatar and France Galop.” Jean-Pierre de Gasté, president of AFAC (French Arabian Horse Racing Association), who has been instrumental in securing this exceptional and valuable sponsorship deal, adds: “The renewal of the sponsorship deal of the Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe is fantastic news for the entire racing program in France. It is the result of a relationship, cultivated by Jean-Pierre Deroubaix and myself, that started nearly 20 years ago thanks to a shared interest in the Purebred Arabian breeding and racing industry. “The aim was to broaden and promote French breeding throughout the world and particularly in the Middle East. There can’t be any doubt that Qatar’s presence at Longchamp is intrinsically linked to its leader’s interest in Purebred Arabian racing. “Hence, Qatar’s motivation does not only lie with the prestigious Arc de Triomphe, but also with the inclusion of the Qatar Arabian World Cup on the day of the Arc.”
Changes are here to stay
When it was first announced that there would be a Purebred Arabian race on the day of the Arc, an audible sigh of surprise swept through the neighbouring countries. But that same sigh was also heard when the first All-Weather tracks were introduced, when geldings were allowed to compete in Group 1 races and when the betting exchanges flooded the markets. All of those changes are here to stay and have one way or another changed the future of the sport. “It is not the aim of Purebred Arabian racing to compete with thoroughbred racing,” continues Jean-Pierre de Gasté. “But it
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has proved the perfect complement and its success proves that no avenue should remain unexplored. “And if you look at today’s racing programmes, there are many racecourses that welcome sponsors and their Purebred Arabian races on the most important days of their calendar. The Irish Guineas is sponsored by the Emirates Equestrian Federation, Ascot has a Group 1 PA race on the day of the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, Shadwell hosts a Group 1 PA race on its Prix Minerve day at Deauville and, for the first time, Keeneland will also have a Grade 1 race in October. That Purebred Arabian races have brought about such vital sponsorship deals is a natural evolution of the world becoming smaller, countries growing closer together and, above all, a shared passion in everything that involves horses. “Historically, Purebred Arabians have been born and bred in France for many years,” explains Eric Hoyeau, director of Arqana, which since 1994 has held, in partnership with AFAC, the most important Purebred Arabian sales in Europe. “The National Stud used them to improve the bloodlines of war horses and it was only
The next step was to organise a sale, to help to put French PA breeding on the map. “There couldn’t have been a more appropriate man than Eric Hoyeau to start this operation,” adds de Gasté. Indeed, Hoyeau enjoyed a successful partnership with Dormane, now one of the most important stallions in the world, at the Shadwell Dubai International Meeting. “We have always tried to have the Purebred Arabian sale alongside a big race,” continues Hoyeau. “At one time it took place alongside the Prix du Jockey Club, which was sponsored by the UAE, and now it takes place in conjunction with the Arc. “The reason behind this thinking is to hold a horses-in-training sale, which might be of interest to those from the Gulf States, at the same time as the racing. It is a strategy that
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logical that they would also race them. When the Gulf States showed some interest in developing their Purebred Arabian racing, they naturally turned towards France, which probably had the biggest breeding pool for Purebred Arabians,” he says.
also works for the thoroughbreds as Allybar, who finished third in this year’s Dubai World Cup, was sold at the sale by Wertheimer brothers to Anthony Stroud for €370,000. “It also proves that there is a true link between thoroughbred and Purebred Arabian racing. The link is created by buyers, who are as interested in Purebred Arabians as they are in thoroughbreds. As Monzat points out, combining thoroughbred and PA racing is a “win-win situation”.
Ascot and Newbury on the horizon
Top, Eric Hoyeau of Arqana, and, below, bloodstock agent Jean-Pierre Deroubaix
Charles Barnett, CEO of Ascot, agrees. “The addition of a high-profile Arab race to the Arc Day has been a great success and we believe that incorporating this strand of horseracing into any high profile card is interesting and exciting for racegoers and the wider industry,” he confirms. “We look forward to celebrating the Arabian breed at Ascot, remembering the huge part that it has played in the development of the thoroughbred, beginning, of course, with the Darley Arabian.” While a Purebred Arabian race was incorporated into the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes card at Ascot, Newbury racecourse hosts the renowned International Arabian Raceday, which offers a racing programme entirely dedicated to the Purebred Arabian breed. The day attracts up to 15,000 spectators confirming that you don’t have to be born in the Middle East to be captivated by the Purebred Arabian.
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Young ladies who train After watching Criquette Head-Maareq win the Guineas, it struck International Thoroughbred that the world of Flat training is still a very male dominated arena. Sally Duckett and Elaine Clark meet Ruth Carr, Tracey Collins and Eve Johnson Houghton, who are all starting to show the boys just how its done
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I have a lot of respect for grand-dad because he has been there and done it. For me to have someone here with his depth of knowledge and wisdom is great. I hope it has been good for both of us winner at Newmarket courtesy of Dubai Dynamo. She also enjoyed her first Royal Ascot runner, courtesy of the same horse who finished mid-division in the Buckingham Palace Stakes. Her “alternative” system has been inherited from her grandfather, David Chapman, who, after a highly sucessful 40-year-long training career, decided in 2008 to call it a day.
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Ruth’s and Chapman’s training techiques might not be suitable for young horses requiring educating, but their system fits perfectly the kind of horse they like to concentrate on – those who at the end of their two or three-year-old year might have lost their way, need freshening up, have slipped through the net in a bigger year or just have dropped down to a winning mark.
The “geldings field”: Ruth turns out the majority of her horses all day and whatever the weather
young ladies who train Most of them are also sprint handicappers – if taking a look at the racingpost.com statistics, a whopping 54 of Ruth’s winners have come in handicaps, while 28 have won races over distances between 5-6f and 26 over 7f to a mile. Ruth, who was the leading female trainer on the Flat in 2009 by wins, is busy carving out a fine niche for herself at her yard in Yorkshire. It is a niche that she also realises she has a lot to thank her grandfather for. “I have not really changed that much here,” she admits, “grandfather fine-tuned a system here that works and so why change? I still feed four times a day – I do the early feed, while grand-dad does a late feed in the evening – and we source the very best quality food and hay that we can get. “I could not be in this position if it had not been for him, but I hope that it has been good for him too. If he had retired and there was just an empty yard here, there would have been nothing for him to get up for. “I have a lot of respect for grand-dad because he has been there and done it. For me to have someone here with his depth of knowledge and wisdom is great; I hope it has been good for both of us.” Ruth left school and went straight to work for Chapman. Although she admits that she did not have any real career ambitions, she is a competitive person and when riding as an amateur bagged herself 34 winners. “When I was riding I had a Category B license so got to ride against the professionals over hurdles,” she says. “The jockeys did not make any exceptions for me being female and you can imagine what it was like on the northern circuit! “But work-wise I was quite happy being grand-dad’s assistant and travelling head lad – I was a jack of all trades – but when he told me that he was not going to renew his license I thought ‘Now what?’. “I decided that it was now or never and to give it a go. To start with it was quite scary and kept thinking, ‘How am I going to make it pay?’ I had always been on a wage myself and changing to a self-employed income, with a mortgage to pay and being responsible for other people’s wages, it was all quite daunting at first. “But I always had the confidence that I could do the horses, it was just all of the other bits that go with it! When I was working for grand-dad I always had the good bits of the job – doing the horses – without having to deal with the rest!” But, as Ruth admits, things could not have
Ruth Carr: has only been training for two seasons but was at Royal Ascot with a runner
gone better and indeed have been “far better” than she could have hoped for – despite starting off her business in the middle of the recession. “All the owners in the yard stuck with me, but grand-dad had been winding down the yard so it has been up to me to find new clients. It has been hard because times are so tight at present, but we have got a few new faces and their horses have been doing well.” Ruth’s first winner Avontuur, who is still in the yard, won at Wolverhampton in March 2008. He was bought by Chapman at the Tattersalls Horses in Training Sale in 2004 as
an unraced two-year-old from Darley. Now an eight-year-old, he has since run 68 times, won seven races (five for Ruth) and earned £32,000 in prize-money. He is fairly typical of the horses purchased for the yard. “We specialise in picking up horses at the end of their two or three-year-old careers,” says Ruth, “or older full horses that have ability and need a change of scenery. Some are just horses whom we like the look of, but have not yet proven anything. “It takes more balls to do less with a horse than to do more. I often wonder in a more conventional yard, why would horses want to
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young ladies who train gallop everyday and then gallop again when they are at the races?” “Our horses keep racing until they are eight or nine and I do think we are able to keep them going longer than the average. “We have a lot of contacts in the big yards, who might point us in the right direction if they think they might know of one that will do our job. “Grand-dad was a great form book man,” she continues, “but I don’t bother with that much now. The form is all in the catalogues and in Timeform’s sales books, while the internet and the video footage can provide more information.” Until recently, all the purchasing decisions had been Chapman’s responsibility. “Granddad loves buying things and he recently has become addicated to ebay!”smiles Ruth, who is picking up the thread in the bidders’ row. “There are certain trainers you would not buy from, but there are others who will always tell you straight,” she says. “Of course, our policy means that we are in danger of buying horses with problems, but I do think that as a smaller yard it means that we can
deal with those problems a little better.” And this is where Ruth feels the lungeing method is vital to her training technique as not only does it keep the day-to-day mileage and the daily galloping down on the horses, it also means that she is basically exercising all those horses herself every day. She is in a position to spot if a horse is not moving quite right or looks to be carrying a bit of an illness. When asked of her ambitions for the yard, it is this hands-on approach which Ruth does not want to lose. “I don’t particularly want a massive number of horses because then I would lose track of my roots,” she explains. “I could never ride everything out myself, but I can lunge most of them. If we got bigger I would need to delegate the lunging work, which I don’t want to do. “What I do want to do is to have a better quality type of horse, which can run in the bigger handicaps.” Due to the nature of the business, there are always horses coming to the end of their racing careers and for whom have to be found an alternative job. It is something that Ruth is
passionate about achieving. “Some of the horses may have been with us for six or eight years and it is important to me to find another job for those that are capable. Apart from anything the punters and public like to see that they have a second career. “We don’t spend a lot of time doing work with them, but will put a full-tree saddle on them and long reins and then aim to find someone who will be capable of riding, looking after and feeding a racehorse. “I love hunting and have recently started team chasing in the winter (if asked what my hobby is, it has to be that – it gives me chance to be competitive away from racing) and I rode a horse called Lunar Storm, whom we had run nine times but he was not really a racehorse. I took him hunting and then hunter trialling and then did two team chases on him last spring – we finished second on our last start. “He is by Machiavellian and out of the Oaks winner Moonshell, who is a sister to Doyen, winner of the King George and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes, and to the Group 2-winning filly Hatha Anna.”
Elaine Clarke finds out that it’s a real family affair Conyngham Lodge
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Those ringing Conyngham Lodge to speak to trainer Tracey Collins are probably going to be greeted by a female voice, but it is likely to be that of Mrs Barbara Collins, wife of the late Con Collins and mother to Sheena, Tracey and Natalie. Mrs. Collins, a familiar face to racegoers, has been running the busy racing office at The Curragh yard for decades, a supporting roll in a very successful partnership with her Classic-winning husband. Despite her husband’s death, she remains at the helm of what is a real family enterprise and continues to efficiently and effectively support her daughter Tracey, now the holder of the training license. “Conyngham Lodge is a different place to most other yards – it’s a family, our family has always worked as a unit,” explains Tracey proudly. “Mum runs the office, while Sheena and I have always worked really well together and my younger sister Natalie, who is successful in her own right running restaurants at The Irish National Stud and Newbridge Silverware, joins in when needed.” Since the early 1930s Conyngham Lodge has been home to the Collins family. Michael Collins, Tracey’s grandfather, acquired the
training yard and successfully held the license before handing it over to his son Con. A wellknown and respected figure in Irish racing, Con Collins’s success as a trainer was without question with perhaps his finest moment coming when winning the 1984 Irish Oaks with Princess Patti, a daughter of Top Ville and Sarah Siddons. Given her family background, it comes as no surprise that Tracey wanted to follow in her father’s footsteps. After leaving school, she spent some time at Gulfstream in US
to gain some wider experience and to see alternative training methods before returning to base herself alongside her father, who was riding then as an amateur. When asked about possible alternative careers, there was never going to be anything else but racing for Tracey. “I always grew up with the thought that this is what I wanted to do – being a woman has not made any difference to me, I am very confident and capable in my own abilities,” she smiles. “We were taken to the sales by my father since we could walk – it was like children going to school. Dad was a brilliant teacher and gave us a great insight into horses and told us that, although horses don’t have to be perfect, they need legs that can be trained. He taught us what to forgive and showed us what athleticism and presence are.” Tracey, who took over the license after her father’s death at the beginning of 2007, still uses those same criteria today when she and Sheena travel the sales circuit in search of new blood. “We buy our own horses, usually yearlings – pedigree is very important – a horse has to ‘catch you’, has to have presence. We go
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Tracey Collins took over the license after her father Con’s death, but very much believes that she is merely just a figurehead for Team Collins
to every sale, there is no rush to buy but if the right one turns up and we can afford it we buy it. You know the individuals and the pedigrees you want to buy if you can.” When considering stallions, the girls are a little fussy over their choices – they like to buy the progeny of sires who were precocious at two and showed the ability to mature, develop and race on successfully in their later years. They are looking for stock who will replicate those trends and remain progressive for connections. Evidence of their early shopping successes includes Chelsea Rose, who was a 38,000gns purchase at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sales. The daughter of Desert King went onto reap rewards at the highest level for father Con when winning the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes in 2004. More recently the sisters were very happy to take a chance on a grey son of Shamardal,
whom they thought had “great presence” and “a very good pedigree”. Picking him up for a mere 9,000gns, Arctic proved himself to be a highly capable juvenile performer for Tracey last year winning the Go and Go Round Tower Stakes (G3) before finishing fifth in the Middle Park Stakes (G1). “He started to grow at the wrong time last spring. A midsummer campaign beckons now, which we are looking forward to,” says Tracey. The colt holds early entries in the Sapphire Stakes, the July Cup, the Minstrel Stakes and the Sussex Stakes. Tracey’s first runner in her own name got her new career off to a dream start. Dandy Man, under stable jockey Pat Shanahan, won a Listed race at Naas in April 2007 – it was an emotional and rewarding experience. But this inaugural victory fuelled the trainer’s thirst for success and was a fitting start to the level of commitment from his handler to both her
new career and to maintain the legacy of her father. Dandy Man went on to finish second in that season’s King’s Stand Stakes (then a Group 2) and third in the Nunthorpe Stakes (G1). He was sold through the following winter to Godolphin finishing fourth behind Equiano in the Ascot sprint. He now stands at Ballyhane Stud. The trainer admits to getting a “great kick” when the older horses run well such as Lord Rathvinden, something of a character who has a preference for fresh air and open fields rather than the confines of a stable. “Anytime we have a winner, we get a great buzz – if you didn’t then you would be in the wrong game!” smiles Tracey, who is married and whose husband Pat Munnelly works out of racing but is very supportive. Hard work, a 100 per cent commitment and a talent to maximise the ability of its
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charges has always been a hallmark of the stable’s success. Although the name at the top of the gate is now different, things have not changed and the curve has been steady and progressive since Tracey took over. After a first-year score of nine winners, the stable has hit 16 and 14 winners in the subsequent two seasons. The £200,000 won in prize-money earnings in 2008 was bettered by nearly £100,000 in 2009 and, already in 2010, the yard has already produced six winners and earned £77,000 in prize-money. From her two runners at Royal Ascot, Tracey hit the placings with Rock Jock in the Jersey Stakes (G3), who finished fourth in May in the Listed Carnavon Stakes. “You want to compete against the best with your horses – Royal Ascot is a world stage,” she explains. This year’s bunch of two-year-olds were bought as a work in progress rather than a source of cheap speed. “We have some nice two year olds – they are babies and need time to develop, a lot of them are not ready mentally,” she says. “We will allow them the chance to develop both physically and mentally before exposing them to racing and they are certainly more backend types.” Tracey’s ambition is to “hold her own” when competing in the bigger races, while also increasing the calibre of the horses in the
yard. But she is also careful to ensure that she does not lose sight of the basic necessity of keeping the boxes full and continuing to turn out winners. As do all the best trainers, Tracey recognises the importance of the team around her, is quick to offer her praise, as well as realising the importance of having top-class facilities at her disposal. “We have a loyal staff, many of whom have been here for a number of years, including the two secretaries, Sandra and Rosalina, who have worked here for 20 and 10 years. We are also fortunate to have two top-class jockeys with Pat Shanahan and Michael Hussey. “The Curragh is a great base with facilities as good as anywhere. Top-class veterinary care is on our doorstep and all the usual services are in easy reach – we can certainly provide five star accommodation here!” Always one to push the family’s involvement to the business as a positive, Tracey tells prospective owners that they will “get two trainers for the price of one!” as sister Sheena was previously a successful trainer in her own right. She decided to relinquish her license in 2009 and act as support to Tracey; the pair forming a formidable female partnership. Life as a trainer is intense and busy and there isn’t much “time out” for Tracey for something of a normal life, but just to keep
her busy in the winter months she plays hockey with the ladies’ team at nearby Newbridge. “It’s a good way to relax and the club is great!” Like all three women in this feature, she is competitive throughout. Although Ireland is continuing to suffering under the clouds of the global recession, Collins is still able to look at the strength of the industry in Ireland as a positive. “In Ireland, 22,000 people are directly employed rurally within the racing industry. We are world players with some of the best horses, breeders, trainers and jockeys – it’s an industry that has to be looked after by our government,” she states emphatically. And a stroll around Conyngham Lodge would enthuse any would-be owner to shrug off the doom of recession and get involved in horseracing. Through each archway there are yards full of contented horses happily keeping an eye on a wheelbarrow full of freshly cut grass, which is delivering a tasty mid-afternoon snack. “We are lucky to have our own paddocks around the yard which provide a pick of grass to horses. We are able to cut our own grass daily – it keeps them all happy,” says Tracey. The mood in the yard is certainly one of happy contentment with large leafy lime trees in the centre offering shade and respite to the busy staff as they work hard through the height of the summer season. But looks can be deceiving and the tranquility of the scene belies the intense, competitive nature of Team Collins. As she oversees the afternoon’s proceedings Tracey is followed and guarded by her canine companions – a very happy troop. Rose, Rosie, Ben, Toby, Zeb, Boo and Lillie are all part of the extended family. Through the afternoon, the multi-tasking granny, Mrs Collins, pops out of the office to collect Sheena’s five-year-old from school, while big sister Kate (seven) gets home later. Having refuelled and changed the girls wait excitedly while Samantha (a thelwell lookalike) is prepared for an afternoon ride. “It’s pony club camp soon,” pipes up an enthusiastic Anna, “and five-year-olds can go!” “No doubt they will be riding out before we know it!” smiles an indulgent aunt. And the two young girls could do a lot worse than emulate and follow the example of their hard-working and professional aunt and mother. Who knows in years to come maybe a second generation of female Collins’s will be at the helm of Conynham Lodge? And, for Tracey, that is what this is all about.
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Johnson Houghton has a Group-winning legacy to live up to at Woodway Farm Berkshire trainer Eve Johnson Houghton is busy making a name for herself as a highly competent racehorse trainer, but a career in racing and training was not the original plan for the daughter of Fulke, a man who sent out over 15 Group 1 winners, including horses such as Rose Bowl, Ribocco, Ribero, Ile de Bourbon and Habitat. “No, I wanted to be as far away from racing as possible!” laughs the current incumbent at Woodway Farm. “I had really bad knees when I was a youngster and riding out exacerbated the problem. So although I loved and enjoyed going racing and loved my hunting, I think, because I could not ride out properly, racing did not really grab me initially.” But a two-year stint in Australia, which included a short time riding work for Bill Mitchell, relit a few embers while a subsequent job in London confirmed to Eve that the City life was not for her. She returned to rural Berkshire to work for syndicate organiser Henry Ponsonby. “While working for Henry – which I can safely say was an ‘experience!’ – I rode out for Barry Hills and loved it. After working for Henry I became secretary for John Hills and while I was with him his assistant left. We could not find anyone else so I told him that he had no choice but to let me do the job! I came back to be assistant to dad in 1999 with a view to building up the numbers and eventually taking over, which I did in 2007.” Eve should have no cause to regret her decision to return to racing and take over the mantle at Woodway Farm, which is based on the top of the Berkshire Downs in an idyllic beautifully quiet spot of its own. Her first season yielded 22 winners and over £200,000 in prize-money earnings and although the figures for next two seasons were slightly down as she concentrated on establishing herself, each year the stable has earned in excess of £150,000. Eve has consistently and successfully produced some great stalwarts such as Beaver Patrol, who
Eve Johnson Houghton: would love to be regularly running Group-class horses
has run over 70 times and won £340,000, the ten-time winner Judd Street, and Mujood, another ten time winner who is currently sitting on his highest-ever official rating. This season she ran The Cheka, a one-time Guineas hope, in the Lockinge giving her a first runner in a Group 1. “Some head out to buy yearlings when they start out, but I had a nice base of older horses and, you know what, you can run them, and keep running them! It is great for the owners and can be a brilliant advert for us,” she says. Yearlings have since been bought and this season, including those sent to her by owners, Eve has around 18 juveniles in her yard. “I try not to buy on spec, but if I do, I try and make sure that I sell the horse on before buying another,” she says sensibly. “Otherwise not only does my business have to pay the sales company for the horse, but it also has to pay the lads to look after it as well
as feed companies out of its own pocket!” This highly realistic approach is typical of the trainer, who realises just how lucky she is to be in the situation she is in and is aware that she needs to make it work. “I know that I am blessed to train here, I have to regularly pinch myself!” she smiles. “I don’t think that I would have trained if I had not been here. I would not have wanted to be in the centre of things and be judged everyday. I don’t mind being judged on a racecourse – racing is a competition and you are there to be judged – but here, I mean, I have forgotten what it is to queue for gallops and we don’t have to get up at stupid o’clock to gallop before everyone else.” The gallops at Woodway are indeed out of this world and with an all-weather, peat moss and grass gallops, and different summer and winter grounds, Eve has options throughout the year. And being in such a quiet, rural
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young ladies who train Eve’s string working up the 7f all-weather. It runs alongside some of Woodway Farm’s grass gallops and was financed by the successful sale of a racehorse!
location, without a car or house, in sight can often help “seal the deal” for her when prospective owners come visiting. And the trainer ensures that she gets full benefit from the quality of those gallops as, apart from work mornings, she tries to ride out two lots herself everyday, giving her a very hands-on approach to the business. “I try and sit on pretty much all of them,” she says, “though, on work days I will watch from the truck, unless there is one that I really want to find out about. “But riding out is really important to me as you get to learn so much more about the lads
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and the horses than when sat in the truck. “For instance, the lads might say something about a horse in passing that they had not mentioned before and, although it might seem insignificant, it can make a difference.” Not only does Eve ride out, but also her mother Gaie (a former leading amateur) while dad is always out on the gallops watching horses, helping with entries and decisions. As for all of the women trainers in this feature, family input and involvement is integral to the operation at Woodway. “I don’t think dad really wanted to stop when he did,” says Eve ruefully, “but the time was right. He was a pretty special trainer and pretty good at what he did and still does; you don’t forget what to do. I am so lucky to have the pair of them, they are amazing.” And the Johnson Houghton family racing history stretches back another generation as grand-mother Helen, who is “nearly 100 but watches all the racing and is as sharp as”, was one of the first women to train racehorses, although the license was held in her head lad’s name. “The family history was not a burden as such,” says Eve, “but just a lot to live up to. Ambitions-wise I always tell people that, as long as I can pay the mortgage and feed the dog, all is fine! But looking forward I would like to around 60-65 horses in the yard – we have 40 odd in at present and going up to that number would suit me fine – and I want to increase the standard of horses here. I really
want to have more Group runners, runners in Dubai and be competing frequently at that level. I would love The Cheka to be good – well, I know he is good – but really want him to prove himself at the top.” Ambitions aside not only has Eve had to establish her name at the head of the business, but she has had to do so through the tough times of recession. “It has not been so bad in one respect because, as I have been establishing myself I have had to sell myself anyway, but I have had to work really hard. “All the owners stayed with me when I took over the license, those that left would have gone anyway as they re-evaluated what they wanted or could spend their money on, and I now have some new owners, including some new names this season. “What I have noticed through this recession is a change in the profile of the owners. Many of the younger City types are not making the money anymore to afford racehorses or have the time to enjoy racing. “The 30-40 generation has school fees to pay and not many can afford a racehorse as well. “I have more older owners now: they might be retired, have some money available, which is no longer earning in the bank, and they think they might as well have some fun.” Just as with the rest of the women in this piece, Eve has not found that being female has been an issue – but she does find that
being single represents its own challenges. “I think it is more exhausting!” she smiles. “Although mum and dad are great – mum cooks breakfast for owners after riding out – it would just be nice to have a partner to throw ideas around with. I do envy those trainers with wives, they act like tag teams and come up with ideas and share the load. I couldn’t ask for more, but I could perhaps do with a trainer’s wife!” Multi-tasking is very much a trainer’s lot and Eve, while happy to deal with the many aspects of running a business, finds the inordinate amount of red tape from the government and the EU a battle she could do without. And though she does run her own website for her marketing which she “tries to keep updated as much as possible”, she does find the continual day to day, personal push for clients a little more challenging. “You are always on show and that is perhaps the worst bit,” she grimaces. “Even if I am out with friends, I can’t be completely relaxed, you are thinking that perhaps someone might be interested in being an owner. “You have to sell yourself and then I worry that I am being too pushy, it’s horrible really, but you always have to keep an eye on your business as you never know who you are going to meet where.” Eve enjoys her hunting through the winter, but through the summer the telephone is something that takes an infrequent rest – even while enjoying herself at the Ledbury Hunt Ball she had to take time out from her dancing to deal with a horsebox that had broken down on the way back from the races. But multi-tasking and meeting life head on is what women are good at and Eve is clearly more than capable of meeting her challenges. In fact all three of these young, focused female trainers are proving that they are more than capable of taking the challenges of training racehorses in their strides.
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New ladies who go racing Having discovered Racing Belles, a female-only racing club run by Eileen Hart who is keen to bring new women into the sport of horseracing, International Thoroughbred talked to three of its members about their experiences of horseracing. We found that these three 35-year-old and something (sorry girls!) women are perhaps the forgotten social group in the world of horseracing as, despite having the time and the money to go racing or become owners, neither betting nor ladies’ days hold great appeal. The three women we met are really enjoying the greater involvement in racing that the club offers them, and are currently learning lots about the sport. After all, betting is fairly mystifying and just what is handicapping all about? Next month, Nick Attenborough explains what Racing for Change is doing for the girls and newcomers to racing. What was your experience of racing before getting involved with the Racing Belles?
Kirsten Parrish (KP): I had very little experience at all – apart from watching the usual big events such as Cheltenham, Ascot or the Grand National in the pub and I really wouldn’t take much notice. I had only been to the races once, and that was in Ireland about 20 years ago! Kate Senior (KS): I have ridden since I was a teenager and I’d describe myself now as a “happy hacker”. I have always loved horseracing and went to Chester races with friends as a teenager. In recent years I have regularly been to the Derby, Ascot, Cheltenham and Goodwood. I love being able to dress up and share good food and wine with friends as part of the day. Maggie Irwin (MI): I grew up in Ireland riding ponies, progressing onto horses and I was one of the first women to ride in point-topoints in Ireland. However, I married, moved away to live in Europe and my interest fell away. When returning to live in England, I would go with my husband to the big meetings, such as Cheltenham, but lately not quite so much.
And subsequently – are you more or less interested?
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really considered looking at what is going on at the smaller race meetings and have enjoyed them equally.
How did you become involved?
KP: I saw the advert for Racing Belles in our village newsletter and thought it was a great idea. I had no idea such clubs existed and would never have dreamt of being part of a syndicate. I see the horses being raised on the nearby stud farm when I walk the dog and am fascinated by them – but to be honest until I became aware of Racing Belles it’s doubtful I’d have taken that mild interest any further. KS: When Eileen and I became neighbours we shared an interest in horses so it was a natural progression that we would go racing together. I was a complete novice, but enjoyed the information that Eileen shared, which made racing seem so much more interesting. MI: It was not something I had been thinking about at all, it was just through word of mouth. Eileen is passionate about this concept, and that appealed to me. I don’t think I would have got involved without a “personal” aspect – I would not have known where to start.
Would you consider that ownership or some involvement in racing would be accessible to you before?
KP: I think it’s unlikely I would have ever considered going to the races or even looking for the results of a race without being involved. It’s given me a reason to get involved, and it’s nice to be a part of a group of people all rooting for the same horse. I think visiting the stables and meeting the filly really helped. It’s impossible not to get attached and feel more involved after that!
Without that level of personal involvement I may have gone to the races as a oneoff, but it’s unlikely I’d go regularly and I certainly wouldn’t bother to find out about handicapping! KS: I always felt that racing was an elite pastime and out of my league financially so never contemplated owning or having a share in a racehorse. MI: I might have looked at getting involved in a syndicate, but it did not appeal as those things can be impersonal. In those large groups, you wouldn’t meet all the people involved.
Is the club attractive because it is womenonly and you are more comfortable with that?
KP: The ladies only side does appeal because it makes it a bit different – and it’s a chance to meet people and make friends as well as get involved in something new. The “ownership” side definitely makes racing more interesting as it’s not just about one day or one race, it’s about the training, the progress of the horse and other experiences beyond the race day itself. MI: I love the concept of the club being a ladies only group and I considered that it was a lovely social thing to do – with my golf it is something to do with a bunch of friends. Definitely for me, the involvement came about from a social side of things, and in particular the “other” things that the club can offer such as days out and lunches. I like being involved with the filly – seeing her run and having the opportunity to be part of it, going to the parade ring and speaking to the trainer. That’s is the really important thing – the involvement.
ladies who go racing I did have a friend who was big into her racing and was in a syndicate, but it was all men, it revolved around betting and she just did not feel comfortable at all with the group.
If you went racing before, how does your day with the Racing Belles compare?
Does racing do enough to attract women? Do ladies’ days appeal to you?
KP: As an outsider it does feel as though the purpose of ladies’ days is more about the social occasion and having an excuse to glam-up for the day rather than getting really involved with the racing. There’s nothing wrong with that, and if it attracts people to the races there’s definitely a place for it, but I think it’s much more interesting and fun if you give yourself the opportunity to learn about the sport and have a chance to get to know the horses and trainers as well. KS: I wouldn’t necessarily choose to go racing on a ladies’ day, I would probably steer clear. MI: When speaking to many girls about going to the races and about the sport, you do tend to get very blank faces – no one really has any understanding of the sport. Women are very slow to get involved in anything – I know many would enjoy being part of the group and being part of something such as this, but it is getting them to bridge that gap. I don’t think much is done to overcome this. Girls don’t tend to like doing things on their own – they much prefer to do things in a group. How often do you see a girl on her own at the races? You often see men – betting men – but very rarely will a girl be racing alone. Ladies days do not appeal at all – they are really just for the young to sit in the hospitality for the day. They never go to the paddock or see
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The girls interrogate Seb Sanders before their filly, the Peter Makin-trained Fever Tree, ran at Lingfield in April
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KP: The main difference is feeling like you can ask people for advice, and there’s no such thing as a stupid question, which is really important for a complete novice like me! It can be a bit over-whelming when you really have no idea what’s going on, but because the club is specifically designed to attract new people to racing it gives you the freedom to ask questions you’d otherwise be too embarrassed to ask. Other members are passionate about the subject and want to share that passion – which makes you feel more enthusiastic about it as well. MI: When I go racing with my husband, it is a totally different sort of day out – much more revolving around his betting and a more a “male” orientated day. I enjoy the freedom to do my own thing with the club and it is a far more “relaxing” day out with the girls.
the horses or learn anything about the sport.
What would you like to see on the racecourses to make your day more enjoyable? KP: The basics always help – decent, clean loos and lots of them as there are never enough and there is always a queue at the ladies! Good, cold wine and nice, fresh food rather than cheap lager and burger vans would certainly be a help, while friendly people who can point you in the right direction and give advice if you need it is a must.
Is racing understandable? Do the added bits of the club aid your understanding of racing KS: The club yard visits and trips to the gallops have been an interesting insight. We are looked after very well, those at the yard are always very informative, which in turn makes me feel involved and a big part of the club. Armed with a little more information has made following the filly much more enjoyable. MI: The visits to the gallops were exciting and have so much helped my knowledge of racing. Something would get mentioned on the gallops and afterwards at lunch we could ask: “What did you mean by that?” It is great to hear all about the sport and training straight from the stable – it can be intimating to ask “silly’ questions if you don’t have that personal connection.
But then, if you don’t understand something properly, how do get the enjoyment from it? I really feel that the club is there to help us learn.
Do you bet? Do you understand betting?
KP: I’ve had a go at betting, but it’s completely confusing and I can’t say betting shops are the most welcoming of places to a newcomer. However, I definitely back a Racing Belles’ horse because it’s not just about the money it’s about being involved. As an outsider, racing certainly seems to be primarily about betting and money, but perhaps as I get more involved I’ll get to know the sport better and my views will change. KS: Betting does not feature highly on my agenda, which is probably why I don't understand it fully. MI: I used to just bet on the big races such as the Derby and would back something that caught my eye – either through a horse’s name or a jockey’s name that I recognised. I have to say that I am not a great one for looking the form I always back the filly, but I do find the odds very confusing. I might get a win, but I am not always sure what I am going to get back. And it’s not just a case of putting a bet on, its knowing what is going on
Would you take “new” people to the races?
KP: Definitely – I’ve already talked to lots of people about the club and I’m trying to encourage them to join. I’d also be far more likely to go with my husband or friends to the races than before – I don’t think I’d have been confident enough to do that before getting involved with the club. KS: I do try to encourage friends to join me racing, but many still feel it’s an expensive trip out, even without a new outfit or a meal. I tend to just go as a one-off treat doing it in style.
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With three businessmen... ...rest the fortunes of German racing. Jocelyn de Moubray discovers more
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t is very easy to be negative about German racing. Prize-money in Germany is very low and falling, the number of fixtures has been cut back, while the country’s best-known racecourse Baden Baden was forced into bankruptcy and had to cancel its spring meeting this year. The outlook for Germany’s breeding industry is at first glance also equally gloomy with most of its high profile graduates like Manduro, Shirocco and Hurricane Run now at stud elsewhere, turnover and average prices falling at the Baden Baden sales and few new investors or owners on the horizon. In many ways the German racing scene today resembles that of France 20 years ago. At the beginning of the 1990s the outlook for French racing and breeding was dismal and at the time prize-money, betting turnover as well as the quality and value of French
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bloodstock were all on what appeared to be an accelerating downward trend. In France, of course, things have been turned around; it was not an easy or smooth process but the two most important factors in this French racing renaissance were first, changes in the management structure of French racing and the creation of France Galop with Jean Luc Lagardère at its head, and second the transformation of the PMU and the betting market.
Change in Germany is on its way
If there is a reason to be positive about German racing it is that, over the last year, for the first time there has been a concerted effort to change these two crucial elements of the racing system. The new head of the Direktorium, Albrecht Woeste, is a man with an international stature as a businessman and a long-held love
€8,000, compared with €23,000 in France. It is very easy to see why there are so many German-trained runners in France Germany is a small racing and breeding when you compare an average day at country. There are only about 1,500 races Cologne, one of the major tracks with highrun a year, compared with 6,000 in Britain class racing, which has around €60,000 on or 5,000 in France. Total prize-money in offer in eight races with an average day at Germany is at about the same level as in Nancy or Strasbourg. These minor French Greece or Venezuela with an average purse of racecourses near the German border average something like €140,000 and €170,000 respectively. There are few races in Germany and betting turnover is small. In 2007 turnover on horseracing in Germany was about 1 per cent of the total in Britain or 2 per cent of turnover on thoroughbred racing in France. Germany is a small breeding country as well with only around 1,300 foals born a year, a Manduro winning at figure which has been level Royal Ascot over the last ten years while
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of German horseracing. Baden Baden racecourse has been taken over by a new company headed by Dr Andreas Jacobs, another leading businessman whose family have developed three top studs in Germany, England and South Africa. Finally, and perhaps more surprisingly, Gerhard Schoningh, the new owner of Berlin’s racecourse Hoppegarten, has transformed the capital’s racecourse into a thriving and popular business. Relatively little has been achieved so far, but at the very least these three mens’ ambitions give reasons to be hopeful about the future. “German Racing”, the new body created on Woeste’s initiative, is less than six months old, Baden Baden will not open its gates under Jacobs’ management until September, and if Hoppegarten’s fortunes have been turned around its long term future very much the foal crop in Britain rose by 50 per cent and in Ireland by 200 per cent. This difference in these trends makes it even more extraordinary that over the last ten years German-bred horses have begun to make their mark all over the world. German breeders produce 1 per cent of global production of thoroughbreds, and yet this 1 per cent has included champions such as Manduro, Shirocco, Hurricane Run and Lope De Vega, as well as Monsun, one of the world’s leading sires. In recent years German breeders have produced an average of seven Group 1 winners per 1,000 foals, compared with five in Britain, two and a half in France and two in Ireland. For years critics could have said that this was because German Group 1s are of a lower standard, but since the lack of domestic prize-money has forced German breds to compete abroad the results have changed the image of German bloodlines.
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What is German Racing all about?
The fund is an investment and not a donation and €4.2 million was raised with individual placements ranging from €2,000 to €250,000 and includes most of the players in the German racing world
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depends on broader changes within the management of German racing and betting. In the racing world it is very difficult to persuade professionals to agree upon anything – each has such different interests and perspectives and many are unusually competitive. It is easy to find German racing professionals who think German Racing has already made major errors or is too small to have a real influence, and there are those who are cynical about what is happening at Hoppegarten but, at least for time being, the ambitions of those prepared to be positive are more interesting.
For nearly 20 years Albrecht Woeste acted as chairman for Henkel, one of Germany’s most successful multinational companies. Woeste is a great grandson of the company’s founder and what began as a company producing machine fittings has become a specialist in a wide range of products including cosmetics, toiletries and adhesives and employs 50,000 people all over the world. Woeste has been a keen racegoer for 60 years and is the owner of Lindentree, a Waldemar Hickst-trained son of the leading young German sire Dai Jin and amongst the favourites for the German Derby. Since retiring from the board of Henkel he has devoted his time and considerable political influence to the racing world. Together with Manfred Ostermann, the owner of Gestüt Itlingen and the chairman of the owners’ and breeders’ association, Woeste launched the idea of German Racing, which asked participants big and small to invest in a fund to promote and change racing in Germany. The fund is an investment and not a donation and €4.2 million was raised with individual placements ranging from €2,000 to €250,000 and includes most of the players in the German racing world. The first major decision taken was to purchase 40 per cent of Racebets, the
leading German online bookmaker for racing. Racebets is only four years old but has more than 40 per cent of the online market for betting on German racing. The opportunity to buy into Racebets came about as one of the principal shareholders Paul von Schubert, whose family own Gestüt Ebbesloh, was prepared to sell to German Racing at about 50 per cent below the market price. Since making this acquisition, German Racing has also invested in a bookmaking shop in Cologne and has plans to acquire more shops in the future. Not everybody Albrecht Woeste: the brainchild behind German Racing
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believes that it makes sense to compete directly with bookmakers or that German Racing has the expertise to make these investments work, but Andreas Tiedtke explains the thinking behind the acquisition. “We negotiated with the bookmakers for years and years,” says Tiedtke, the new managing director of Baden Baden who is a member of the board of German Racing. “However, if you you can’t cooperate with someone then there comes a moment when it makes sense to go into competition with them. We reasoned that if the bookmakers make money from our product why shouldn’t we do the same ?” Bookmakers have been legal in Germany since the 1920s, but there is no structure that gives the racing business a return on betting on horseracing. “We sell pictures and data to bookmakers,” continues Tiedtke, “but we needed a new way of funding racing. We have bought into Racebets with the possibility of taking a majority share in two years’ time, but we will not change the management of the company. The idea is to help develop the business with Racebets, and to take 40 per cent of its profits.” In Germany sports betting is illegal and the state has a monopoly for all lottery betting. The only legal betting is on horseracing but it
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is generally assumed that there is significant illegal betting, mostly via the internet, which is tolerated. In the short run, German Racing’s main aims are to streamline the management structure of German racing, for instance, to introduce centralised marketing for all 40 racecourses in Germany and to promote betting turnover. There are plans to introduce a new bet, offering high returns which could compete with the very popular state lotteries, and then there is also the possibility of reducing the take out from betting pools, which would encourage more betting by allowing punters to win more. Marketing is a priority and there has been a noticeable increase in advertising for racing and major racedays. Furthermore, the management structure will have to evolve as, even those who disagree on what should be done, agree that a board of 25 owners and breeders who meet once a month cannot continue to take all major decisions.
The long road back for Baden Baden
The management structure is one thing which has been settled at Baden Baden. The racecourse was run by a club which collapsed under its debts following the construction of
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a new stand which coincided with a downturn in revenues from the gate and betting. The future of Baden Baden is vital to the future of racing in Germany as not only is it the most prestigious and international of racecourses, but it accounts for about 25 per cent of total betting turnover and prizemoney. The majority shareholder is now Infront Sports & Media, Europe’s leading sports marketing agency whose chairman is Andreas Jacobs. Jacobs’s grandfather created Gestüt Fährhof, his father Newsells Park Stud in England, and he himself Main Chance Farm in South Africa, where he stands among others the leading young sire Silvano. “Infront is,” says Jacobs “a major international player in sports media, marketing, hospitality, sponsorship and production. We have offices over Europe, Africa and Asia and, for example, we are producing the images for the World Cup in South Africa and the images for France’s premier football leagues. Our clients include the German Football Association, but we also work in most of the winter sports as well as basketball and handball. “We want Baden Baden to become a showcase for the best of German racing and we plan to invest in hospitality, marketing, media presence and TV production to make racegoing in Baden Baden a great experience at every level, from the professionals to the hospitality clients and the first-time racegoers. “For those who can’t come to the meetings we are looking to make partnerships with the PMU and other pool operators to make sure everyone has access to images of racing in Baden Baden, and the possibility of betting on its races. This is a long-term project, which is on a 20-year contract, but we will spend €500,000 before the first meeting opens in September and I want everyone to come and see what we are doing.” Tiedtke, the racecourse’s new managing director gives more details of the immediate priorities. “We only took over at the beginning of June,” he says, “three months before the first meeting but we want to make sure our facilities fulfill the expectations of everyone who comes in September. The priorities include introducing modern information technology for betting, improving the standard of catering and the services we can offer sponsors. The level of prize-money and quality of racing are also very important for the future.”
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In 2008, a company he established for the purpose, bought Hoppegarten, the capital’s racecourse which had never recovered from its years in East Berlin, despite a brief moment of hope in the early 1990s. “Hoppegarten had,” he says, “a lot of negative publicity since reunification. A lot of people locally and in the media were cynical when I turned up – there had been plenty of false dawns during the 1990s. People are on the whole more supportive now.” If Schöningh has convinced many people it is because the figures speak for themselves. Since he took over, attendances on course have been up by about 50 per cent and betting turnover by 25 per cent both on and off course. “We have bigger crowds,” he explains, “and more competitive racing. Beforehand the races were framed for the local trainers, but now we have the enthusiastic support of all of the big yards.” Schöningh acknowledges that many of the changes he has introduced were inspired by his experiences as a racegoer in England. “In England, racecourses have a diversified revenue base. A racecourse is a complex
beast,” he adds with a new metaphor, “and it is exciting to shake all of the trees and see what falls off. There are many more trees than I had imagined at the beginning.” He cites two examples, the first of which is gate money. “Our revenue from the gate is up far more than the 50 per cent attendances have risen. A great deal of money is spent in Berlin and the city has a competitive entertainment and media market, which has helped us get exposure. “We introduced family entry tickets for €12 on ordinary days and €18 on days with Group races. Small money compared with England, but far more than is charged in France or on other German racecourses. It has been very successful as people compare the price with other alternative entertainments and think we are offering good value. We have continental-type boxes or ‘loges’ and here again we have put up prices and increased the number of rentals by offering a better product.” When Schöningh arrived the racecourse catering was losing money and he was told it was a hopeless prospect. “We do our own catering now,” he says, “and we make a profit of at least €7,000 a meeting. When I arrived every meeting cost money to put on whereas from next year every meeting will make money. “We have also increased total prize-money from €400,000 to nearly €800,000 and plan to take on more racedays in the future.” The critics say it is easy to make improvements if you throw enough money at a project, but Schöningh rejects this analysis. “We have a full-time staff of eight or nine people, but if you want to do your marketing properly and engage with the media, you need a professional team. “We have a young team which is still finding its feet, but I think the days when you could successfully run a racecourse with an amateur club and one full-time manager have passed.”
significant changes very difficult. However, if the two major racecourses are thriving under dynamic private ownership, many things could become possible. The future could well be something along the lines of the model decided upon at Monmouth Park in New Jersey. All the different parties involved agreed to cut back the number of racing days in order to offer a more attractive racing and betting model, and it appears to be working.
In the future both Hoppegarten and Baden Baden could offer high-class international racing with top-class prizemoney to match, funded by a partnership with a non-German betting operation and television channel. This would not solve all of German racing’s problems, but it would be a huge leap in the right direction. As it is not possible to put a French racing and betting system in place now, a long term view has to be maintained.
Gerhard Schoningh: explaining at the ITBA Expo just how he is revitalising Hoppegarten
Hoppegarten under Schöningh impressing
The public will get its first glimpse of the new Baden Baden in September but some of the changes at Hoppegarten are already in place and Berlin’s racecourse and its new owner, the London-based racehorse owner Gerhard Schöningh, who was little known in German racing until two years ago, have impressed many people. “He is doing just an incredible job,” said one insider, while another remarked, “other people announce what they are going to do – Hoppegarten sends out press releases saying, we have built a new press room; they get things done.” Schöningh has always loved racing and his own professional success has allowed him to play an active part in the sport. He set up Ennismore Fund Management in 1999, an investment fund specialising in small European companies, and sold his 50 per cent share in early 2006. By that time he was already a successful owner whose horses with Henry Cecil have included the Group performers Brisk Breeze and Tempelstern, as well as this year’s promising three-year-old Channel Squadron.
Will hopes be realised?
Everyone in German and European racing should fervently hope that these three men’s ambitions are fulfilled – success in one market in Europe will inevitably help the others. The overriding problem for German racing is its betting market. In the eyes of many of the major European players, German racing is already a marginalised product and the lack of funding available will make any
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Italian racing in
crisis PART 2
Unlike in Germany, writes Giorgio Barsotti, few plans are being put together to solve the ills of racing, which is verging on the brink of bankrupcy
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t San Siro racecourse on June 13, Jakkalberry, an Italian-bred and owned fouryear-old by Storming Home, won the Group 1 Gran Premio di Milano. The day turned out to be quite a stunner for owner Felice Villa as not only did his yellow and blue checked colours cross the line first in the Group 1 race, they were also carried to success in the Gram Premio d’Italia (a Group 1 race for many years and now a Listed event) courtesy of Jakkalberry’s younger brother, Kidnapping, a son of Intikhab. Villa, an insurance broker in Milan, has just a handful number of horses in training, but he has touched upon a fine line of form as in 2007, Awelrmaduk, an earlier colt out of Jakkalberry’s dam Claba di San Jore, won the Derby Italiano. This mare, who won just once, is owned by Allevamento Deni, which is the breeding arm of Alduino and Giuseppe Botti, the leading Italian trainers. She was bred by Allevamento
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San Jore, the breeding operation of sc. Gabriella, which was once the most famous racing stable in Italy and owned by the Zanocchio family. If you looked at the results from that Sunday in June, you would think that Italian racing was in a fine state: top-class horses
being produced by the very best trainers and studs in the land. But, as we discussed last month, racing in Italy is currently in a terrible situation. Many of the big stables and families, who in the past have invested heavily in racehorses and breeding stock, have now disappeared –
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Jakkalberry (checked colours): wins the Gran Premio di Milano (G1) in front of an audience of just 4,000
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the industry to survive and would have been sourced from a small percentage taken from the many alternative forms of Italian gambling, such as slot machines and poker betting. However, upon realising that he did not have support of Giancarlo Galan, the new Minister of Agriculture, who had been appointed in May, Baggio felt he had no option but to resign from the post. Explaining in a letter to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and to Galan, Baggio wrote that he could not even obtain a meeting with Galan in order to formulate something of an action plan for horseracing’s revival. The letter speaks of several attempts by telephone and email to meet with the ministers concerned, but without response. Unire has now been left without a president and without a commissario, although Galan has promised that a new name will be
Unire, the body which rules Italian racing, is expecting a new president or for a new “commissario” as the last one, Tiziano Baggio, who was supposed to hold the position for one year resigned after just two months in office sending their mares to Ireland, Britain or France. While all of this broodmare traffic goes out of the country, very little comes back as no stud from outside of the country patronises Italian stallions. The situation has developed into an ever-decreasing circle with a lack of investment and support. The situation on the racecourse, which developed into a critical state at the turn of the century has continued: betting turnover is still falling and, while prize-money has been maintained at €210 million for the year, Unire is now out of funds. Unire, the body which rules Italian racing, is expecting a new president or a new “commissario”, as the last one, Tiziano Baggio, who was supposed to hold the position for one year, resigned after just two months in office. Baggio, alongside the former Minister of Agriculture Luca Zaia, was attempting to put together workable plans which would have ensured an injection of funds into racing each year, on top of any income from betting on races. The money would have permitted
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the Zanocchio family being just one. Gabriele, who ran the stable, has moved his business outside the country and now lives in Eastern Europe and, just a couple of months ago, the family leased their historical San Jore stud, near Torino, and for the moment is out of the game. Italian horses have not disappeared from the international racing scene as the Italianbred Joanna won the Prix De Sandringham (G2) and finished third in the Poule D’Essai des Pouliches (G1), but, like Jakkalberry and Kidnapping, she is by an Irish-based sire. It is hard for Italian studs to first get hold of highly commercial stallions – they are not cheap commodities – and it is even more difficult for Italian-based sires to really get a foothold in the wider bloodstock industry. Many Italian breeders no longer use their home-based stallions as they are not the sires that yearling buyers wish to see, instead
proposed in the immediate future. Confidence from the racing industry in Galan has waned. Many believe that Galan, unlike Zaia, has little interest in looking to revitalise the horseracing industry and indeed he has told the racing world that the government will never help racing again. Referring to the €150 million stop-gap achieved by Zaia, in order to ensure racing’s survival two years ago, Galan said: “The racing industry has received a contribution of €150 million, but has still been unable to recover. With this in mind, and in a period of general economic crisis, can I ask the government to make further contributions? It seems unthinkable.” A new “Comitato Interministeriale” (committe) has been proposed by Galan and approved by the Consiglio dei Ministri in order to look into the problems of racing in consultation with racing representatives in order to find solutions. The committee will be meeting in the near future. This has been met with something of a positive response and Attilio Dalesio,
Flourishing egambling market in Italy – the biggest in Europe In total contrast to betting on horseracing, the Italian sports and egambling market is huge. In 2009 regulated activities generated just under €18.7bn, making it by far the largest European egaming and betting market. Italy took the mantel of Europe’s largest market and the world’s third-largest market from the UK as far back as 2006. Although AAMS seems to have distanced itself from horseracing betting, AAMS moved quickly to make Italy the forerunner in egaming, setting the standards and regulations for other countries to follow. The exsisting land-based industry is so large (particularly lotteries and gaming machines), that the percentage of the money lost by Italians betting online is expected to be just 5 per cent this year. This compares to a rate of between 18-20 per cent in the UK, where egaming performs in line with ecommerce in general, and the 25 per cent in countries such as Sweden, where broadband penetration and internet use is relatively high. Going forward, it is expected that the proportion of Italian egaming to increase to 7.3 per cent by 2012. Italy’s onshore internet poker turnover stood at €177.4m in August. Overall, the first year of an onshore tournament poker has generated a turnover of €1.6bn. In total, Italy’s regulated internet gaming sector generated a turnover of €243m through to July 2009, rising to €272m during August. The latter represented a 257 per cent increase on August 2008, the last month without regulated internet poker activity. During the year to August, the total turnover generated by Italy’s regulated internet gaming market was €3bn, of which betting accounted for 43 per cent, gaming for 54 per cent and lotteries just 3 per cent. Going forward, and with the addition of cash games and casino, it is expected that onshore regulated internet gaming will generate gross revenues of approximately €630m during 2010 rising to nearly €800m by 2012.
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italy state of the nation president of Coordinamento Ippodromi, which represents 10 racetracks, agrees with the concept of the committee. Dalesio has urged a unified approach by racing in order to provide a reliable and a powerful voice, which will be able to help and consult with the new group and work the best forward. However, time is limited and, as Dalesio has also intimated, if no short-term solution is found, racing may struggle to continue from August. Unire owes the banks €208 million, and is in need of a further €60 million to meet its prize-money requirements through to the end of the year. It is not yet known where these funds will be sourced. The committee, which is not yet in place, needs to work fast and, as yet, Galan has not come up with any new thoughts or practical help, merely stating that the racing industry is in an emergency and is in need of serious structural reform.
As yet there are no serious plans to save racing and find a new financial solution, and once again strikes have hit the sport as those who are income-reliant on the industry have continued to lose faith in the management. In May, Capannelle lost two cards, including the Listed Premio Tadolina due to strikes after 18 employees were made redundant. The strikes unfortunately merely compound the problems.
Surviving – just
What has happened?
The basic fact is that horseracing betting in Italy now does not produce enough income to ensure the continuation of the sport. In a letter written in June to the daily racing paper Trotto And Turf (a publication in crisis too) Dr Carlo Zuccoli, a racing journalist and betting expert, outlined in clear details that Unire loses money on racing – every day. The disaster started in 1995 with the arrival of the pari mutuel system and today the betting shops take 42.5 per cent of the turnover as commission, just for producing tickets and opening their shops, Unire takes another 32 per cent, while the rest goes on tax. Furthermore, betting turnover has crashed and the racing punter has almost all but disappeared. They cannot bet with this takeout, while the pool is not big enough to cope with heavy bets. Most punters are now betting on football, where the percentage of the odds is around 103-104 per cent. Betting by the average punter just doesn’t produce the turnover required to sustain the industry. Exacerbating the problem, much of the spend by the average punter is being pushed into exotic bets, where the take goes up to 42 per cent of the pool. Unfortunately, when the betting shop middle-man bets on exotics bets, his pocket goes empty quickly. In the past the punter,
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Tiziano Baggio: quit his job after only two months
with €100 betting on “simple bets”, would have spent his €100 through the course of one afternoon; today his €100 is spent in one hit by betting in tris bets (tricast or trio). This fails to generate any serious turnover for racing. There is a tendency to put all of the blame of poor turnover on the development of sports betting in the old racing betting shops, but this is just a part of the problem. The government has to realise that betting on racing is no longer fair for punters. Couple this with the complete lack of media coverage of racing which is a problem not only in the newspapers as we discussed in the last issue, but also on TV. While satellite and terrestrial televisions seem to be happy to show any sort of live sport, mainly football, racing gets no coverage at all. Betting is ruled by Azienda Autonoma Monopoli di Stato (AAMS) but racing betting does not seem to be a priority for AAMS, the organisation seems more interested in producing its popular and income-rich scratch cards, all types of lottery, slot machine and poker cards, rather than looking into the ills of betting in racing.
In spite of all these problems and issues, the current quality of racing in the country is of a decent standard and it is no longer so easy for foreign-trained competition to cherry-pick races. Competition is strong but the best horses do not have a good stakes programme anymore and often have to run in small condition races. At the Group 1 meeting at San Siro in June the marvellous statue of the Cavallo di Leonardo, a prancing horse designed by Leonard Di Vinci and found in front of the second stand, looked lonely and abandoned as the Group 1 event attracted just 4,000 racegoers. You have to ask just how many “Milanesi” actually knew that the Group 1 contest, the track’s biggest day’s racing, was taking place on their doorstep? And, furthermore, how much the event registered with Italians further afield? The trotting track, which is found beside the giant San Siro football stadium, is now almost empty on racedays. The era when the great champion trotting horse Varenne, who won 63 of his 73 starts in the 1990s in front of packed stands, has gone. But Italian racing has a fanastic legacy to uphold and can’t be just lost. A new way forward for betting has to be found, a major improvement of facilities for trainers and racegoers at all the major tracks must be instigated, alongside an aggressive media advertising campaign in an attempt to successfully market the attractions of the sport. These are the vital three key ways needed in order to move forward in an attempt to solve the problems currently affecting the industry. But is any of this affordable? Will time and money will run out first? So what does the future hold for the Italian racing industry? It’s a million euro question that needs an answer. At the moment, it appears there is no solution.
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A slowly returning confidence
After a nervous start at the beginning of the year, Kathleen Donovan saw the US two-year-old market take a definite and notable turn for the better
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ith so many leading runners in the last couple of years being graduates of the juvenile sales, the two-year-old sales are the healthiest marketplace for thoroughbreds in the US right now. Among significant juvenile
sales graduates this year have been Kentucky Oaks (G1) winner Blind Luck (who sold at FasigTipton, Timonium), Preakness Stakes (G1) winner Lookin At Lucky (Keeneland, April), Blue Grass Stakes (G1) winner Stately Victor (Adena Springs), and the Grade 3 winner Krypton (OBS, March). This year the sales in February started cautiously, but as the
spring continued the tension gradually decreased and positive signs started to emerge. The buybacks dropping were a relief to all. In 2009, the market remained strong at the top but fell out considerably after that. This year, the top brackets still had buyers such as Jess Jackson actively pushing prices on the most desirable lots, but the middle
and lower markets also began to see signs of life again. The feeling among pinhookers is that perhaps the worst is over, which bodes well for this autumn’s yearling sales. Gulf Coast Bloodstock’s Jerry Bailey has weathered the storm by relying on selling his homebreds – among last year’s offerings was the Preakness winner Lookin At Lucky – while
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made a tidy profit having purchased him at Keeneland in the autumn for just $55,000.
Fasig-Tipton February Calder Sale
OBS March Select Sale
Early in February apprehension remained the watchword over the two-year-old market in the US and beleaguered pinhookers wondered if 2010 would deal a blow as bad as 2009. With conservative purchases offered and the chance for many other sales down the road, only the top ones made it through the ring, with a drop of 15 per cent sold from last year, down to 91 sold This obviously led to the decline in aggregate by 10.4 per cent to $23,430,000, but the buyers who purchased those horses paid more for them than last year. The average was up 9.3 per cent to $254,473, while the median soared 33.3 per cent to $150,000. However, as consignors still had future chances, the buybacks rose slightly to 37.2 per cent from 35.5 per cent. Jess Jackson’s Stonestreet Stables purchased the sale-topping colt by Distorted Humor out of Tomisue’s Delight (A.P. Indy) for $2.3 million. The half-brother to Grade 1 winner Mr. Sidney was consigned by Jill Julian and Stacy Yagoda’s Two Beaches.
Optimism returned at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales March Select Sale with the buyback rate plummeting to 27.8 per cent from the excruciating 42.5 per cent experienced in 2009. Overall, 171 horses sold for $18,341,000, the number down 17 per cent, but as the gross figure fell by only 8.2 per cent it meant that the average recorded was an improved $107,257, a 10.6 per cent increase from last year. The median of $80,000 was up 16.8 per cent. The sale topper was a filly by More Than Ready out of Meadow
OBS February Select Sale
The OBS February Select Sale was strong at the top, but that momentum didn’t carry through to the middle and lower markets. The numbers showed a 35 per cent drop in horses sold, a gross of $6,414,000, while the average dropped 8.4 per cent to $97,182 and the median was down a depressing 26.7 per cent to $60,000. Bo Hunt, agent for Carl Bowling’s Straightaway Farm, consigned the sale topper by Tiznow. Out of Six Pack Sally (Tale Of The Cat), the colt was purchased by Chuck Sandford for $475,000. Bowling
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us breeze-up review this year he sold the OBS March Select sale topper by More Than Ready. By staying out of the yearling market through the last two rough years, Gulf Coast has positioned itself to remain liquid, which is still a necessity in this market as banks are not yet comfortable loaning to those intending to buy horses. Howevr, those pinhookers who did buy, albeit conservatively, found that, even with lower overall prices, they profited and were happy to sell. Fillies were notable for topping the sale at OBS March, Timonium as well as at the OBS April. Bailey astutely noted that the general lack of top quality horses led many buyers to fall onto the few fillies with pedigree, a group a little scarce this year but which he and partner
Lance Robinson were able to provide from their own breeding operation. Bailey does feel though that the ship has begun to turn and he will be buying again this fall. “We saw, for the first time in a while, a couple of moderately positive aspects,” he noted. “Lots of the horses were sold and there were buyers at levels other than the top. “I saw signs that the two-yearold market has bottomed out and is on its way back, so it could be a good time to get back in. There were fewer pinhookers with good horses, too, so there was less competition.” As many pinhookers took outright losses on expensive yearlings purchased before the economy collapsed, the number of pinhookers with liquid reserves just hasn’t been there.
Silk (Meadowlake). She sold for $525,000 to Steve Young and was a homebred consigned by Jerry Bailey and Lance Robinson’s Gulf Coast Farm.
The banks have not revised their outlook in 2010, either. “There was so much uncertainty in the market,” explained Bailey. “Some pinhookers had some buyers capitalising them, but not many. I don’t see that changing.” International buyers have been making up the difference in the middle and lower markets. European, Korean and especially Japanese buyers, who mde the most of exchange rate moves, helped keep US breeders and pinhookers afloat, and have given them the ability to come back swinging this fall. Prices on yearlings are not expected to rise, but the middle and lower markets now have a chance again to profit. And for next spring? The eternal wheel of optimism is rising for pinhookers to profit once again.
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At this sale where California breeders have suffered worse than the national average, horses were either making a profit for the consignors or they weren’t getting sold. Buybacks fell to 31 per cent from 37 per cent, but buyers accepted much lower prices. The average of $90,652 was down significantly from last year’s $123,245, a drop of 26.4 per cent, while the gross remained just about static at $6,255,000. The median dropped 25 per cent to $60,000. Sixty-nine horses that sold this year as opposed to 51 in 2009 with sellers letting go horses that they had put little into in the first place. They made a total profit of $511,500 on 55 pinhooked horses.
cent, signaling that consignors and buyers had finally reached a meeting point. “It’s a phenomenal buyback rate for any sale, and you always have an expectation of it being a little higher at a two-year-old sale,” FasigTipton President Boyd T. Browning Jr said. “Generally, you’re always happy if you are at 25 per cent or less at a two-year-old sale. “It was indicative of a depth of buyers at all levels. You could tell people were walking in the front door interested in buying horses this year.” Indeed, the depth across the board drove the median up 8 per cent to $27,000, and the average up 14 per cent to $47,984 on the 273 horses sold for a gross of $13,099,500, up 23 perc cent. Barry Eisamann as agent for Edmund Gann consigned the sale-topping Medaglia d’Oro filly out of Chit Chat Pam (Valid Expectations) for $650,000. Stonestreet Stables again was the buyer.
Keeneland April Two-Year-Old Sale
OBS April Two-Year-Old Sale
Barretts March
Gross sales on the 71 sold rose a little to $12,013,000, and while the average dropped 5.4 per cent to $169,197, the market was less topheavy and a little more balanced with the median up 14.9 per cent to $135,000. Perhaps, most importantly, buybacks were down to 36.6 per cent from 43.6 per cent in 2009. Stonestreet again purchased the sale-topper with Jess Jackson going to $625,000 for a Bernardini colt out of Moonlight Sonata (Carson City), a half-brother to the Grade 2 winner Beethoven colt named Wilburn. The colt was consigned by William Helmbrecht, agent for his brother Mike’s Woodbridge Bloodstock, who bred him.
Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Sale at Timonium
The buyback rate at this sale plummeted to a record low of 12.4 per
Ending the major juvenile sales on a high note, OBS April sold more than twice as many six-figure horses as last year at 32, proving the top end is as viable as ever, although buybacks rose to 26 per cent from 24 per cent. All other indicators were improved, however, with 739 sold for $20,754,400, up 4.4 per cent. Average rose 12.9 per cent to $28,084, and median was up 33.3 per cent to $20,000, giving the deeper markets a boost as well. Mark Casse purchased the sales topper for $500,000 from the Hobeau Farm dispersal, consigned by Craig Wheeler. The filly is called Delightful Mary and is by Limehouse out of Deputy’s Delight (French Deputy). She is a half-sister to multiple graded stakes winner Delightful Kiss.
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stallion profile
Two Derby winners in a week
Alan Porter profiles King’s Best, a stallion who is enjoying a resurgence of form
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hen King’s Best comprehensively outpaced Giant’s Causeway in the final furlong of the millennial 2,000 Guineas (G1), sprinting clear for a three and a half length triumph, it appeared as if he was on the verge of a magnificent career. However, it was his Guineas victim, Giant’s Causeway, who went on to earn a European Championship and a reputation as “The Iron Horse” – King’s Best ran just once more before retiring to stud, leaving the scope of his talent an enigma.
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Following his scintillating Guineas display, King’s Best was to run in the Epsom Derby (G1), but missed the race with a muscle problem. Sent instead for the Irish Derby (G1) he started as third favourite. Held-up at the rear of the field in the early stages, he failed to finish the race suffering a fracture of his off-fore cannon bone. He was pulled-up at halfway. If his mishaps left connections with a feeling of unfinished business as far as Derbys are concerned, they will have achieved a degree of closure this summer as, in the space of just one week King’s Best’s son
Eishin Flash took the Japanese Derby (G1) and Workforce stormed home 7l clear in the Epsom Derby (G1), breaking a course record in the process.
Would he have stayed?
One of the unsolved mysteries regarding King’s Best’s career concerned his potential stamina – his performances and character, as well as his pedigree, conveyed mixed messages. He had frequently been very keen in his races – although after being equipped with a noseband he settled better in the 2000
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One of the unsolved mysteries regarding King’s Best’s career concerned his potential stamina – his performances and character, as well as his pedigree, conveyed mixed messages
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Guineas and Irish Derby. He was a highly strung type and was awash with sweat before the Guineas. As far as pedigree goes, King’s Best’s sire Kingmambo – a son of Mr. Prospector out of the great mare Miesque – was a specialist miler, his victories including the French 2000 Guineas (G1), the St. James’s Palace Stakes (G1) and Prix du Moulin (G1), before he embarked on a stud career that has seen him become firmly established amongst the world’s best for more than a decade. As a stallion, Kingmambo has proved to be far more versatile than he was as a runner. He has been represented by one Group 1-winning sprinter, Malhub, and a host of top-class milers, which in addition to King’s Best include Henrythenavigator, Divine Proportions, Russian Rhythm, Virginia Waters and Bluemamba. However, when he has been bred to mares with stamina in their background he also has sired plenty of horses capable of winning good races at 1m2f or more, among them El Condor Pasa, a champion in Japan and France and successful in the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud (G1); King Kamehameha, winner
of the Japan Derby (G1); Lemon Drop Kid, who was a champion older horse in the US and winner of the Belmont Stakes; the Epsom Oaks (G1) heroine Light Shift; Rule Of Law, who won the St. Leger (G1), and Tawqeet, who took the Caulfield Cup (G1) in Australia.
An unlikely journey for Allegretta
There is no doubt that King’s Best’s dam Allegretta not only owned, but also demonstrated, that she could transmit sufficient stamina to produce a Derbydistance horse to Kingmambo. By the time that King’s Best was born in 1997, Allegretta was already a producer
of some renown, primarily as dam of the upset Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (G1) winner Urban Sea. She was by Miswaki, another son of Kingmambo’s sire Mr. Prospector, and certainly no greater an influence for stamina than Kingmambo. Urban Sea and King’s Best are part of an unlikely journey that saw Allegretta’s career take an upward an arc from a promising youngster to a disappointing runner, from a poor producer to an outstanding producer, before finally becoming one of the most important broodmares of her era. Foaled in England but bred by Gestüt Schlenderhan, Allegretta had a purely
king’s best: five-generation pedigree MR. PROSPECTOR (USA) b. 1970 KINGMAMBO (USA) b. 1990 MIESQUE (USA) b. 1984
LOMBARD (GER) ch. 1967 ALLEGRETTA (GB) ch. 1978 ANATEVKA (GER) ch. 1969
native dancer (usa) gr. 1950
Polynesian Geisha
raise you (usa) ch. 1946
Case Ace Lady Glory
GOLD DIGGER (usa) b. 1962
nashua (usa) ch. 1952
Nasrullah Segula
sequence (usa) b. 1946
Count Fleet Miss Dogwood
nureyev (usa) b. 1977
northern dancer (can) b.
Neartic Natalma
special (usa) b. 1969
Forli Thong
pasadoble (usa) b. 1979
prove out (usa) ch. 1969
Graustark Equal Venture
santa quilla (fr) dkb/br. 1970
Sanctus Neriad
agio (ger) b. 1955
tantieme (fr) b. 1947
Deux-Pour-Cent Terka
aralia (Ger) b. 1945
Alchimist Aster
promised lady (GB) ch. 1961
prince chevalier (fr) b. 1943
Prince Rose Chevalerie
belle sauvage (GB) ch. 1949
Big Game Tropical Sun
espresso (GB) ch. 1958
acropolis (GB) ch. 1952
Donatello Aurora
babylon (GB) b. 1940
Bahram Clairvoyante
almyra (Ger) ch. 1962
birkhahn (Ger) b. 1945
Alchimist Bramouse
alameda (Ger) b. 1951
Magnat Asterblute
RAISE A NATIVE (USA) ch. 1961
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She was a useful race filly who gave the impression of not having much heart, but she descended from an exceptional family. I went to look at her. She was not elegant, but she had an exceptional body. I was seduced! “She was a useful race filly, who gave the impression of not having much heart, but she descended from an exceptional family. “I went to look at her. She was not elegant, but had an exceptional body. I was seduced!” We can also add that she had some interesting pedigree features, including a rarely seen double of the English Triple Crown winner Bahram, along with linebreeding to Asterblute’s dam, Aster. Not surprisingly in view of her background, Allegretta was disappointing when mated with US dirt horses and her first four foals achieved little of note as runners (although one, Anzille, has subsequently produced the Dusseldor Deutschland-Preis (G1) victor Anzillero). However, the birth of Urban Sea, her fifth foal, marked the beginning of a dramatic redemption process which saw her going on to produce not only King’s Best, but also the Group winner Allez Le Trois (subsequently dam of three black-type winners, including French Derby (G1) winner Anabaa Blue), and the stakes-placed Turbaine (dam of three
Workforce in the winners’ enclosure after success in the Epsom Derby
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German pedigree. She was a daughter of the formidable, if somewhat one-paced, front-runner Lombard and from an excellent German family that traces through her fourth dam, the 1949 German Derby and Oaks winner Asterblute, to St. Alvere, one of a group of very important foundation mares sired by Hermit out of mares descended from Maid Of Masham. Sent to be trained in England by Sir Michael Stoute, Allegretta made a winning start in a maiden at Leicester at two, and followed up with a score in a 1m1f conditions race at Wolverhampton. On her only other start at two, she finished second to the colt Krug in the 1m2f Zetland Stakes, a race that now has Listed status. Allegretta began her three-year-old career with a second to Leap Lively in the Oaks Trial (G3), but her temperament and performance deteriorated considerably after that. Visibly wound up before the Oaks (G1) she finished last, and was in an even worse state before the Park Hill Stakes (G1) where she virtually refused to race, despite being equipped with blinkers. She was sold at the turn of the year to Big E Farm for 24,000gns at the Tattersalls December Sale with a view to racing in the US. Unfortunately, she continued to disappoint, her best effort being a third in a 6f race at Suffolk Downs. After failing to get in foal, Allegretta was consigned at the 1984 Keeneland November Sale where Robert Nataf of Horse France purchased her for $55,000 on behalf of Michel Henochsberg’s Marystead Farm. Henochsberg later told Paris-Turf:
black-type winners, including the Group winner Tertullian, a Classic sire in Germany). Of course while the story has yet to be completed, the seal on Allegretta’s standing has been firmly stamped by the offspring of Urban Sea, seven of whom have won stakes events, among them the reigning European Horse of the Century Sea the Stars, as well as Galileo, the winner of the English and Irish Derbys (G1) and King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes (G1), and who is, alongside stud companion Montjeu, one of the two heirs apparent to the throne of his sire Sadler’s Wells. Anyway, whatever King’s Best’s fate might have been had he enjoyed a fair crack at 11m4f, we’d have to credit Allegretta with the potential to supply King’s Best (or at least some incarnations of the mating that produced) with sufficient stamina to get the trip, alongside a more-than-sufficient staying background for King’s Best to get middledistance runners out of the right type of mare. As an aside, we can also note that Allegretta can probably also be credited for the highly strung temperament displayed by not only King’s Best, but a significant number of his offspring.
Revision of stallion statue required?
Bred by M-3 Elevage, who had bought Allegretta in 1993 after Urban Sea’s threeyear-old season, King’s Best was purchased for 2,300,000 Ffr. as a yearling by Saeed Suhail, but, at the conclusion of his racing career, was sold to Darley for whom he retired to Kildangan Stud in Ireland at a fee of Ir£25,000 for his first season in 2001. For the 2009 breeding season, he was transferred to Haras de Logis in France, and he stood for €15,000 for 2010. With two current Derby winners, King’s Best’s standing as a sire is going to be due for some revision. Prior to the Classic-winning duo, one would have to credit him as a sire of a satisfactory supply of stakes winners, with
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stallion profile 27 in his first five crops, 16 of them being Group class. Meanwhile, a tally of four Group 1 winners in those five crops marked him as a horse capable of getting a top-class runner, but without the frequency to establish him as a stallion at the very highest level. We’d also have to notice a bias towards his males being superior to the females, the score of stakes winners being 20 – 10 in their favour, with 11 – 2 at Group level. King’s Best did make a promising beginning to his stud career with a first crop of seven stakes winners, headed by the Sussex Stakes (G1) and Jersey Stakes (G1) winner Proclamation and Dubai Surprise, who won the Premio Lydia Tesio (G1), and the Group winners Oiseau Rare and Notability. His second crop also included seven blacktype scorers. None won at the highest level with the most accomplished being Best Alibi, who was successful in the York Stakes (G2). Best Alibi and Best Name scored at Group 3 level. The third crop saw a fall in the number of stakes winners (five) although the quality was maintained through a pair of Group 1 winners Creachadoir and King’s Apostle. The best runner for his sire prior to the two Derby winners, Creachadoir won four Group races, including the Lockinge Stakes (G1). He also finished second in the Irish 2,000 Guineas (G1) and French 2,000 Guineas (G1). King’s Apostle, King’s Best’s most talented sprinting offspring, gained a Group 1 score in last year’s Prix Maurice de Gheest (G1). Some momentum was lost with King’s Best’s fourth and fifth crops – not an unusual pattern, especially as his best first-crop runners came good as three-year-olds. There were five stakes winners in his fourth crop, but only two, Ancien Regime and Albabilla, won Pattern events, and those at “just” Group 3 level, while his fifth crop supplied just three black-type winners of whom Allybar, a Group winner in Dubai, and a close third in the Dubai World Cup (G1) this year, is the sole Group/Graded winner. It may be no coincidience that King’s Best’s current crop of three-year-olds were conceived in 2006, the year after the Group 1 victories by King’s Best’s first crop three-yearolds, Proclamation and Dubai Surprise. In addition to Workforce and Eishin Flash, King’s Best’s three-year-olds includes another promising runner in Simon de Montfort, a winner of four of his five starts, including the Prix Francois Mathet and Prix La Force (G3) and a late non-runner from the French Derby (G1) when fancied by many to run well.
Is the King’s Best / Sadler’s Wells nick that successful?
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iven that he is a Mr. Prospector line horse free of Northern Dancer, King’s Best retired as an obvious mate for Northern Dancer line mares. Coupled with that the knowledge that Kingmambo has sired horses such as El Condor Pasa, Henrythenavigator, Divine Proportions and Virginia Waters out of mares by Sadler’s Wells, and that Sadler’s Wells sired Galileo out of a three-parts sister to King’s Best, it’s clear that Sadler’s Wells mares would be obvious mates for King’s Best. A quick glance might lead one to think that the formula has been an unqualified success, as there are five stakes winners on the cross, including Workforce and Creachadoir. However, it’s taken 72 starters to achieve those five stakes winners, and this is a strike-rate that is inferior to that of King’s Best with all other mares, and the Sadler’s Wells mares bred to King’s Best when bred to all other stallions. To a degree this probably reflects that King’s Best is being tried as a default alternative with a lot of accomplished Sadler’s Wells mares, some who would probably have been past their prime producing years, but it’s also somewhat reminiscent of the fact that Kingmambo has eight stakes winners from 75 starters out of Sadler’s Wells mares – actually slightly below his overall stakes winners/starters strike-rate – but with five of them being Group or Grade 1 winners. Overall, one would have to conclude that for both father and son, it is cross that has distinguished itself with relatively average frequency, but well above normal quality. By way of contrast, King’s Best has shown his ability to upgrade mares by sons of Sadler’s Wells – presumably a less well-credentialed group than the daughters of Sadler’s Wells – and his four stakes winners (all Group/Graded) from 28 foals on the cross include Group 1 winner King’s Apostle, and Group winners Spice Route, Best Name
Eishin Flash wins in Japan
and Queen’ Best, out of daughters of Barathea, In The Wings (twice) and Old Vic. King’s Best has also followed Kingmambo in demonstrating an affinity for Nijinsky line mares. He has Oiseau Rare, who is out of a mare by Nijinsky himself, while Notability, Simon de Montforte and King Luna are out of mares by Caerleon. Khateeb is out of a mare by Kahyasi. As a variation on that theme, his first crop blacktype winner, Army Of Angels, is out of a mare by The Noble Play, a son of Nijinsky’s three-parts brother The Minstrel. Out of other branches of the Northern Dancer line, there are also two stakes winners by King’s Best out of mares by Lyphard, one out of a mare Shaadi (by Danzig, a cross that in general has not worked well, with one Group 3 winner from 69 starters) and one out of a mare by Be My Guest. The strain of Mill Reef and Shirley Heights has often crossed well with German bloodlines, and King’s Best’s first English Group 1 winner Proclamation was out of a mare by Zayyani, a son of the Shirley Heights stallion Darshaan. He has also sired the Group winner Albabilia out of a mare by Darshaan. Riverman is a son of Mill Reef’s sire Never Bend and is bred on very similar lines to Mill Reef. From a pair of sisters by Riverman’s son Irish River – Toujours Irish and Irika – King’s Best has sired the Group 1 winner Dubai Surprise and the Graded winning and Graded-placed Allybar, the former directly inspiring the latter. Never Bend was a Nasrullah son and King’s Best has also sired stakes winner Mary Boleyn out of mare by Kaldoun (from the Caro branch of Nasrullah), and stakes winner Not Just Swing out of a mare by Baillamont (by Blushing Groom, a grandson of Nasrullah from Mill Reef’s family). Kingmambo sired his sprint Group 1 winner Malhub out of a mare by Ahonoora, and from Ahonoora’s excellent daughter Park Appeal, King’s Best has produced the Group winner Vincennes, and from a mare by Ahonoora’s son, Indian Ridge, comes the Group 2 winner Calming Influence. Japan Derby victor Eishin Flash represents something a little different as he’s out of a mare by the German-bred Platini (by Surumu, giving linebreeding to the great German stallion, Birkhahn, sire of King’s Best’s third dam).
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veterinary notes
Getting to grips with strangles Andrew Waller of the Animal Health Trust reports on research findings announced at the recent international conference on strangles, including the latest on vaccine development
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trangles, as a result of infection with Streptococcus equi subspecies equi (S. equi) remains the most frequently diagnosed infectious disease of horses throughout the world. It results in incalculable welfare and economic costs and wreaks havoc, despite decades of research. This meeting sponsored by Intervacc, Pfizer and Intervet brought together world experts to discuss the progress that is being made towards increasing knowledge of this bacterium and the way in which it causes disease. Indeed the efficacy of emerging strangles vaccines and the sensitivity of new diagnostic tests have the potential to finally enable us to get to grips with strangles. Recent research presented by Andrew Waller and Carl Robinson (Animal Health Trust) has confirmed that despite the order suggested by their names, S. equi actually evolved from an ancestral strain of the closely related bacterium Streptococcus equi subspecies zooepidemicus (S. zooepidemicus). Interestingly, this same method found that S. equi strains were extremely closely related and fell into only two types. This suggests that vaccines and
diagnostic tests would be effective at preventing or diagnosing strangles, and, for example, a vaccine in the UK would also protect horses in the US or Australia.
The development of the disease
Ken Smith (Royal Veterinary College) described how S. equi infects horses by entering via the nose or mouth and rapidly invades tonsillar tissue that drains to the lymph nodes of the head and neck. The bacterium can be detected in these lymph nodes as quickly as just one hour post-infection. Once in the lymph nodes the bacterium produces a variety of toxins and other proteins that misdirect the equine immune response and shield S. equi from its damaging effects. This inability of the horse’s immune response to kill S. equi leads to rapid abscessation of infected lymph nodes. As the abscesses form, so the lymph nodes swell and eventually (approximately four to 21 days post-infection) rupture either externally through the horse’s skin or, in the case of abscesses in the retropharyngeal lymph nodes, internally into the guttural pouch. This air-filled sack is an enlargement of the eustachian tube and drains into the nasal cavity.
A horse with strangles showing the characteristic nasal discharge, while, opposite, abscesses, which have formed in the lymph nodes, have burst through the skin
It is this drainage of abscess material into the nasal cavity from the guttural pouch that results in the characteristic mucopurulent nasal discharge commonly observed during strangles. In most horses this abscess material drains and the infection is cleared. However, in a proportion of horses (approximately one in 10) complete drainage does not occur, resulting in the drying of residual abscess material, which forms balls of dried pus called chondroids that contain billions of live S. equi. These balls can remain in the guttural pouch for up to several years. The establishment of these persistent infections in “carrier” horses is believed to have been critical to the global success of S. equi and intermittent shedding of bacteria from chondroids contained in the guttural pouches of apparently healthy carriers is likely to be responsible for the
initiation of many new strangles outbreaks each year. The importance of carriers to the recurrence of strangles outbreaks was expertly demonstrated by Robert Holland (Pfizer), who presented a series of management strategies to convert the once terrifying proclamation: “This horse has strangles” into a manageable problem. The single most important step in eradicating strangles from premises has involved the effective identification of carriers through a combination of good sample collection and reliable diagnostics. The best method has proven to be a combination of culture and PCR from nasal or guttural pouch washes. The sensitivity of PCR tests that detect DNA unique to S. equi makes them better suited to the detection of carriers shedding low quantities of S. equi, but recent findings have demonstrated that the target selection for such PCR
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Carriers can be treated by the physical removal of chondroids from the guttural pouch followed by the administration of antibiotics to kill any residual bacteria
Chondroid removal
Once identified, carriers can be treated by the physical removal of chondroids from the guttural pouch followed by the administration of antibiotics to kill any residual bacteria. Using such methods Dr. Holland was able to eradicate strangles from a population of 2,000 horses located on a farm with a 75-year history of endemic strangles.
Test development
Susanne Lindahl (National Veterinary Institute, Sweden) spoke about her work to detect S. equi using PCR and pointed out that the “enrichment” of clinical samples using overnight culture had a negative effect on the sensitivity of PCR-based tests, probably due to overgrowth and competition with contaminating bacteria also present in the sample. There are problems in the speed of diagnosis using the currently available tests, as highlighted by John Pringle (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences). This can be particularly problematic in the initial phases of an outbreak where the rapid identification and isolation of infected horses can dramatically reduce the spread and impact of strangles. A new project is currently under consideration is a point of care test and is being devoloped by the Wellcome Trust. David Pearce presented data from its work which would enable a positive or negative diagnosis within 35 minutes of sampling a suspect case. This exciting new
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technology could also have knockon benefits for the diagnosis of other equine infectious disease caused by equine influenza and herpes virus. Richard Newton (Animal Health Trust) gave an update on the effectiveness of a diagnostic blood test that was developed two years ago for the detection of horses exposed to S. equi. The test can be used for the identification of carriers and the determination of the extent of S. equi transmission at the end of an outbreak to enable veterinarians to quickly focus on groups of horses most likely to contain apparently healthy carriers that require more detailed investigation.
The latest vaccination hopes
The meeting then moved on to discuss the prospects of vaccination against strangles. Roberto Ragni-Alunni (Intervet) presented field data collected from the use of Equilis StrepE, a live attenuated vaccine strain which is administered into the inside of the upper lip. The vaccine strain lacks the aroA gene, which restricts its ability to grow in horses and preventing it from causing strangles, but use of this vaccine in an embryo transfer facility coincided with a reduction in the number of strangles cases from 65 per cent of the 290 mares (80 per cent of resident mares and 60 per cent of newcomers) in 2004 pre-vaccination, to none of 25 resident mares and only four of 287 newcomers (1.4%) in 2005. In 2006 the prevalence of
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tests is critical if false negative diagnosis is to be avoided. Specifically, strains in the US have been identified that lack a gene target called seeI, which is used in some tests and the future use of multiple gene targets may help to ensure that such strains can be detected and eradicated from infected horses.
strangles remained low with none of 108 residents and 11 of 387 vaccinated newcomers (2.8%) affected. Equilis StrepE will be relaunched this year. Susan Corning (Pfizer) presented data on its Pinnacle IN vaccine, which is a live attenuated vaccine for intranasal administration that was licensed in the US in 1997, but has not been approved for use in Europe. The vaccine given to weanlings at high and low doses, protected 36 per cent (8/22) and 55 per cent (12/22), respectively from developing lymph node abscesses and proved safe over subsequent studies including during field use. The AHT has also developed a new live attenuated vaccine called SHMAPR. The vaccine contains six separate gene deletions that prevent it from causing strangles and permits the differentiation of vaccinated horses from those subsequently infected with S. equi using a simple blood test. The vaccine protected 78 per cent (7/9) of ponies from strangles, but caused adverse reactions at the intramuscular injection site in 4/9 ponies on first vaccination. A second vaccine was developed lacking a further six genes (12 in total), which were targeted to reduce adverse reactions, but this vaccine (SHMAPR2) only protected 33 per cent (2/6) of ponies from strangles and led to adverse reactions in all ponies on first vaccination. Surprisingly, intranasal vaccination with SHMAPR
appeared to prevent injection site reactions and this strategy may provide an opportunity to maximise vaccine efficacy whilst eliminating adverse reactions. Jan Ingmar-Flock (Karolinska Institute) presented data on an exciting new vaccine, Strangvacc, based on eight S. equi proteins that are fused together to form three proteins. The vaccine proved to be safe and protected 63 per cent (7/11) of ponies from lymph node abscesses, whilst all 11 non-vaccinated ponies developed abscesses. It is hoped that the Strangvacc vaccine will be launched within the next two years. Another newly developed vaccine containing a fusion of SeM and Se18.9, two S. equi proteins linked to the ability of this organism to evade the equine immune response, was described by John Timoney. This vaccine conferred protection to 71 per cent (5/7) of vaccinated ponies in a pilot study and may offer another opportunity to protect horses against S. equi infection. Matt Holden and Simon Harris (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) presented exciting new data following the sequencing of an additional 51 strains of S. equi isolated from the UK, Ireland, Sweden, US, Canada and Australia. Despite the close overall similarity of S. equi isolates to one another relative to S. zooepidemicus, they found that S. equi is an agile pathogen, which continues to evolve and change. In particular, some isolates recovered from persistently infected carriers were found to have genome decay i.e the isolates lost genes no longer required for survival in the new environment in which they find themselves, the guttural pouch. In this way S. equi in the guttural pouch may gradually become adapted to this environment, potentially over time becoming less able to cause strangles.
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Gryada: Group 1-producing dam
Fame and glory has come to the Plantation Stud-bred mare Gryada, who is now in Coln Valley Stud ownership and in foal to Montjeu once again
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the same day’s Group 1 Coronation Cup winner, Fame And Glory, has a very different background in which many big-name sires and pedigrees feature prominently, as well as richly rewarded sales at auction. Both though hail from long-term owner-
breeder developed families, with Snow Fairy’s owner-breeding Cristina Patino having owned the filly’s fourth dam, while Fame And Glory’s roots are based in the late lord Howard de Walden’s Plantation farm stock. Fame And Glory is out of Gryada, a mare
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by Sadler’s Wells bred by Plantation Stud under the late Leslie Harrison’s guidance. He was responsible for bringing her own dam Grimpola, winner of the German 1000 Guineas, to Britain for Plantation’s owners Lord Howard de Walden, importing her from that country in a repeat of a previously successful raid on the country had netted him Sayonara, the dam of Derby winner Slip Anchor. Grimpola, a daughter of German sire Windwurf, did not immediately prove a worthwhile acquisition and when only one of her foals Golan Heights managed a Listed placing, she was sent back to Germany. Since then a number of her daughters have proved themselves to be fine broodmares: Goonda is dam of the Group 2 winner Global Dream and grand-dam of the Group 3-winning Goathemala, while Gonfalon has achieved even greater heights producing the dual Group 1 winner Gonbarda alongside two Group 3 winners. But it is the last of Grimpola’s British-bred Shirley Heights daughters, Gryada, who has carried the flame high and long for Harrison. Decent enough as a racehorse she managed two wins at two for trainer Willie Jarvis before picking up a third in the Premio Dormello (G3). Unfortunately, that was to be the last time the filly troubled the judge and she was quickly packed off to the broodmare unit at Plantation. Initially returned to her homeland to visit Acatenango, Gryada produced Guaranda, who after a two-year-old victory in 2000, turned in a Listed-placed performance at three. Guaranda is already a dam of the Group 3 Lille Langtry Stakes winner Gravitation. A following year’s mating to Selkirk produced Grampian, who was sold by Plantation to Amanda Skifington for 200,000gns at Tattersalls in 2000. He was a winner at two and three and achieved a Listed-placing.
For Gryada, year 2000 resulted in a slipped foal to Kris and so without a foal at foot in 2000, Harrison returned her to Acatenango with Guaranda then looking a highly promising racehorse. The colt was sold by Plantation for 100,000gns to Borje Olsson and Mollers Racing. Named Graham Island, unfortunately little of that outlay was recouped with the colt only amassing £15,000 in prize-money. Graham Island was the first of Gryada’s offspring to be bred under the name of Plantation Stud, Lord Howard de Walden having died in 1999. Lady Howard continued with the farm until 2005 when she sold the property to Celtic Tiger businessman Dermot O’Rourke. Harrison had continued to manage the farm after Lord Howard’s death but planned his retirement with the transfer of ownership. In the interim Gryada had been back to Selkirk producing the one-time winner Gryskirk, before a change of tactic by Harrison led him to use Coolmore’s multiple Group 1 winner, champion and 2002 first-season sire Galileo. Unfortunately, the resulting filly Gaze did not prove to be one of the new sire’s stars, failing to even register a race victory to her name. The mare was not covered in 2004, and one of Harrison’s final jobs at Plantation was to arrange matings for the spring of 2005. He booked Gryada to new sire Montjeu. While Harrison retired from his post, Gryada bred a filly foal before being returned to the same stallion, producing a colt in 2006. The O’Rourkes, having incoporated their mares into their new Newmarket stud, operated something of a dispersal sale at the 2005 Tattersalls December Sale – Gryada was one on the transfer list. Ptarmigan Bloodstock and Kirsten Rausing gleefully picked up the mare for 160,000gns in order to take her Montjeu colt foal. The mare was then sent to Sadler’s Wells and was reconsigned the following year fetching
180,000gns, being bought by Nicholas Jones’s Coln Valley Stud. The Montjeu colt was sold as a foal by St Simon Stud for 190,000gns to Timmy Hyde. Unlike most of Hyde’s pinhooks, the colt was not returned to the yearling sales, instead re-emerging as a two-year-old at Ballydoyle with the name Fame And Glory. He was unbeaten at two and three until coming across Sea The Stars in the Epsom Derby, but picked up his own Classic victory when successful in the Irish Derby. Subsequently beaten again by last season’s wonder horse in the Irish Champion Stakes, Fame And Glory’s form tailed off at the end of 2009 finishing down the field in the Champion Stakes and the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe. His four-year-old year has seen him quickly become a dual Group 1-winning four-year-old having taken the Tattersalls Gold Cup at The Curragh before his imperious victory in the Coronation Cup. Immediately after the race he was installed as one of the favourites for this autumn’s Arc and is now recongnised as the leading older horse of this year with his nemesis Sea The Stars having safely been packed off to Gilltown Stud. Meanwhile, Coln Valley Stud, which happily installed Gryada into its broodmare band, has bred the Sadler’s Wells colt Rain Forest, who was bought by Demi O’Byrne for 200,000gns at Tattersalls. Now a three-yearold, he is at Ballydoyle, has won two races from three starts and held an entry in the Irish Derby. This spring Gyrada has produced a sister to Fame And Glory (she aborted to the sire in 2009) and Coln Valley returned her to Montjeu. The filly is likely to be kept by the farm to race. With the O’Rourke dynasty experiencing cash flow difficulties with the onset of recession, Yummy Mummy, the year-older sister to Fame And Glory, was sold at the 2009 Tattersalls December Sale, fetching 460,000gns. She was bought by John Warren in-foal to Dalakhani for Newsells Park Stud with a view to visiting the stud’s own sire, the Rock Of Gibraltar horse Mount Nelson. Harrison got to enjoy less than two years of his retirement, dying from a brain haemorrhage in the spring of 2007. Sadly, he failed to see his dreams come to fruition for Plantation, but hopefully somewhere he is revelling in the current majesty of the family that he created.
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The Global Database Group1 pedigree profiles by Alan Porter
Data supplied by Weatherbys EUROPE 384 - Prix du Palais Royal, G3, Longchamp, May 5, 1400m 1 Dalghar (FR) 4 gr c Anabaa (USA) Daltawa (IRE) (Miswaki (USA)) 2 Colonial (IRE) 3 b c Cape Cross (IRE) Elizabeth Bay (USA) (Mr Prospector (USA)) 3 Salut L’Africain (FR) 5 b c Ski Chief (USA) - Mamana (IRE) (Highest Honor (FR))
Champion S G1, King George VI & Queen Elizabeth S G1, Dubai Poule d’Essai des Poulains G1, Man O’War S G1, Breeders’ Cup Turf G1, 2nd Tattersalls Gold Cup G1, Criterium de Saint-Cloud G1, P. Fresnay le Buffard Jacques Le Marois G1, 3rd Dubai Champion S G1, St James’s Palace S G1, Emirates Prix du Moulin de Longchamp G1. Sire. 1995: DAYMARTI (c Caerleon) 6 wins at 4 and 5 in France, Singapore, G. P. Anjou Bretagne-Prix Rose de Loire LR, 2nd Prix Lupin G1, 3rd Criterium de Saint-Cloud G1. 1997: Daltabad (c Priolo) unraced. 1998: DALTAIYMA (f Doyoun) Winner at 3 in France. Dam of DALTAYA (f Anabaa: 2 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix de la Grotte G3) 2000: DALAKHANI (c Darshaan) Champion 3yr old in Europe in 2003. 8 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe G1, Prix du Jockey Club G1, Prix Lupin G1, Criterium International G1, 2nd Budweiser Irish Derby G1. Sire. 2001: Dalataya (f Sadler’s Wells) ran on the flat in France. Broodmare. 2003: Dalmiya (f Kalanisi) unraced. Broodmare. 2005: Daltama (f Indian Ridge). Broodmare. 2006: DALGHAR (c Anabaa) 4 wins at 2 to 4 in France, Prix du Palais Royal G3, Prix Luthier LR, 2nd Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte G2, Prix Montretout LR. 2009: (f Dansili) 2nd Dam: Damana by Crystal Palace. 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, 2nd Prix de l’Elevage LR. Dam of DALTAWA (f Miswaki, see above). Grandam of Extend, STRANGELY BROWN. Third dam of SESENTA. Broodmare Sire: MISWAKI. Sire of the dams of 107 Stakes winners. In 2010 DALGHAR Anabaa G3, MR TOMMY Stephen Got Even LR.
Age: 2-4; Starts: 8; Wins: 4; Places: 3 Earnings: £128,923 Sire: ANABAA. Sire of 76 Stakes winners. In 2010 - GOLDIKOVA Blushing Groom G1, LOUP BRETON Irish River G2, PLUMANIA Rainbow Quest G2, BE POSITIVE Hennessy G3, DALGHAR Miswaki G3, KUTCHINSKY Zabeel G3, SLAPSTICK Red Ransom G3, COURT Zedavite LR.
Northern Dancer Danzig Pas de Nom ANABAA b 92 Gay Mecene Balbonella Bamieres DALGHAR gr c 2006 Mr Prospector
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Age: 2-5; Starts: 20; Wins: 6; Places: 8 Earnings: £136,540 Sire: INVINCIBLE SPIRIT. Sire of 34 Stakes winners. In 2010 - YOSEI Fuji Kiseki G1, ALLIED POWERS High Line G3, CHARMING WOMAN Kendor G3, KARGALI Last Tycoon G3, REYKON Indian Ridge LR, SPIRIT OF FORTUNE Machiavellian LR, SPIRIT OF SHARJAH Doulab LR. 1st Dam: ALWAYS FRIENDLY by High Line. 3 wins at 3 and 5, Princess Royal S G3, 2nd Prix Royal Oak G1. Dam of 5 winners: 1996: DANE FRIENDLY (c Danehill) 3 wins at 4 and 6 in Italy, Premio Ribot G2, 2nd Premio Vittorio di Capua G1. Sire. 1998: Arabie (g Polish Precedent) 3 wins at 3 and 7, 2nd Wolferton Rated S LR. 1999: Mackenzie’s Friend (f Selkirk) unraced. Broodmare. 2000: (c Polish Precedent). Died as a yearling. 2001: IMPARTIAL (g Polish Precedent) 3 wins. 2003: WARSAW PACT (g Polish Precedent) 9 wins. 2005: ALLIED POWERS (c Invincible Spirit) Sold 62,000gns yearling at TAOC1, 220,000gns 3yo at TAAUT. 6 wins at 3 to 5 at home, France, Prix d’Hedouville G3, McGrattan Piling Braveheart S LR, 2nd Sky Bet York S G2, At The Races Kilternan S G3, 3rd Ardilaun Hotel Oyster S LR. 2007: La Chicana (f Invincible Spirit) unraced to date. 2009: (c Kodiac) 2nd Dam: Wise Speculation by Mr Prospector. ran 3 times at 2 and 3. Dam of ALWAYS FRIENDLY (f High Line, see above), Hawkes Run (g Hernando: 3rd Worthington Classic Finale Junior Hurdle G1) Broodmare Sire: HIGH LINE. Sire of the dams of 52 Stakes winners. In 2010 - ALLIED POWERS Invincible Spirit G3.
Miswaki Hopespringseternal DALTAWA gr 89 Crystal Palace Damana Denia
1st Dam: DALTAWA by Miswaki. 2 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix Ronde de Nuit LR, 2nd Prix Penelope G3. Dam of 5 winners: 1994: DAYLAMI (c Doyoun) Champion older horse in Europe in 1999. 11 wins at 2 to 5 at home, France, USA, Vodafone Coronation Cup G1, Coral Eclipse S G1, Esat Digifone
2 Mores Wells (GB) 6 b c Sadler’s Wells (USA) - Endorsement (GB) (Warning) 3 Aizavoski (IRE) 4 b c Monsun (GER) Arlesienne (IRE) (Alzao (USA))
385 - Prix d’Hedouville, G3, Longchamp, May 6, 2400m 1 Allied Powers (IRE) 5 b c Invincible Spirit (IRE) - Always Friendly (GB) (High Line)
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386 - MBNA Chester Vase, G3, Chester, May 6, 12f 110yds 1 Ted Spread (GB) 3 b c Beat Hollow (GB) - Highbrook (USA) (Alphabatim (USA)) 2 Icon Dream (IRE) 3 b g Sadler’s Wells (USA) - Silver Skates (IRE) (Slip Anchor) 3 Chink of Light (GB) 3 ch c Dr Fong (USA) - Isle of Flame (GB) (Shirley Heights) Age: 2-3; Starts: 4; Wins: 2; Places: 1 Earnings: £46,226 Sire: BEAT HOLLOW. Sire of 6 Stakes winners. In 2010 - TED SPREAD Alphabatim G3. 1st Dam: HIGHBROOK by Alphabatim. 7 wins inc. Montana Wines Stakes, Newmarket, Roseland Group City Trial H. Hurdle LR. Dam of 3 winners: 1997: NIAGARA (g Rainbows For Life) 7 wins. 1999: (f Bigstone) 2001: PINK SAPPHIRE (f Bluebird) Winner at 2. 2002: High Dawn (g Namid) ran once. 2005: Natural Spring (f Generous) 2007: TED SPREAD (c Beat Hollow) 2 wins at 2 and 3, MBNA Chester Vase G3. 2008: Ruby Brook (g Sakhee) unraced to date. 2009: (c Act One) 2nd Dam: Tellspot by Tell. Dam of HIGHBROOK (f Alphabatim, see above). Grandam of Wee Willie Wink. Broodmare Sire: ALPHABATIM. Sire of the dams of 4 Stakes winners. In 2010 TED SPREAD Beat Hollow G3, AN CATHAOIR MOR Turtle Island LR.
Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge BEAT HOLLOW b 97 Dancing Brave Wemyss Bight Bahamian TED SPREAD b c 2007 Verbatim Alphabatim Morning Games HIGHBROOK b 88 Tell Tellspot Spotter
Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier INVINCIBLE SPIRIT b 97 Kris Rafha Eljazzi ALLIED POWERS b c 2005 High Hat High Line Time Call ALWAYS FRIENDLY ch 88 Mr Prospector Wise Speculation Wisdom
387 - Betfair Huxley Stakes, G3, Chester, May 6, 10f 110yds 1 Debussy (IRE) 4 b c Diesis - Opera Comique (FR) (Singspiel (IRE)) 2 Les Fazzani (IRE) 6 b f Intikhab (USA) Massada (GB) (Most Welcome) 3 South Easter (IRE) 4 ch c Galileo (IRE) Dance Treat (USA) (Nureyev (USA))
international database Age: 2-4; Starts: 11; Wins: 4; Places: 1 Earnings: £283,118 Sire: DIESIS. Sire of 85 Stakes winners. In 2010 - DEBUSSY Singspiel G3. 1st Dam: Opera Comique by Singspiel. Winner at 2, 3rd C L Weld Park S G3. Dam of 1 winner: 2006: DEBUSSY (c Diesis) 4 wins at 3 and 4 at home, France, P.Eugene Adam (G.P.de Maisons-Laffitte) G2, Betfair Huxley S G3, 3rd Virgin Money Chester Vase G3. 2007: Lightening Stricks (c King’s Best) unraced to date. 2008: Lyrique (f Iffraaj) unraced to date. 2009: (f Cape Cross) 2010: (f Raven’s Pass) 2nd Dam: Grace Note by Top Ville. 1 win at 3, 2nd Marley Roof Tile Oaks Trial S G3. Dam of BELMEZ (c El Gran Senor: King George VI & Queen Elizabeth S G1, 3rd Budweiser Irish Derby G1), DOWLAND (c Sovereign Dancer: Ulster Harp Derby LR, 3rd Juddmonte EBF Beresford S G2), Opera Comique (f Singspiel, see above). Third dam of RED DESIRE. Broodmare Sire: SINGSPIEL. Sire of the dams of 4 Stakes winners. In 2010 COSMO NEMO SHIN Zenno Rob Roy G3, DEBUSSY Diesis G3.
1st Dam: PENANG PEARL by Bering. 3 wins at 3, Financial Dynamics October S LR. Dam of 3 winners: 2002: PENANG SAPPHIRE (g Spectrum) Winner at 2. 2003: PENANG CINTA (g Halling) 8 wins. 2004: Autour du Monde (f Spinning World) 2005: Penang Cry (f Barathea) unraced. Broodmare. 2006: HARBINGER (c Dansili) Sold 180,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 4 wins at 3 and 4, Betfair Gordon S G3, Dubai Duty Free John Porter S G3, Boodles Diamond Ormonde S G3, 3rd totesport.com St Simon S G3. 2007: Penangdouble O One (c Starcraft) 2008: (c Sakhee) 2009: (c Zamindar) 2nd Dam: GUAPA by Shareef Dancer. 2 wins at 3. Dam of PENANG PEARL (f Bering, see above) Broodmare Sire: BERING. Sire of the dams of 53 Stakes winners. In 2010 HARBINGER Dansili G3, BLUE PANIS Panis LR, CLASSIC COLORI Le Vie Dei Colori LR, ORO SOLIDO Solitary Vision LR, PEDRA POMPAS Mark of Esteem LR, ALARM CALL Solar One LR. The Dansili/Bering cross has produced: HARBINGER G3, Handsome Maestro G3.
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2nd Dam: MOOD SWINGS by Shirley Heights. 1 win at 2. Own sister to CATWALK. Dam of GRAND DUCAL (c Danehill Dancer: Airlie Stud Gallinule S G3, 3rd Galileo EBF Futurity G2), Best Side (f King’s Best, see above), Hurricane Floyd (g Pennekamp: 2nd Milcars King Charles II S LR) Broodmare Sire: KING’S BEST. Sire of the dams of 1 Stakes winners. In 2010 AZMEEL Azamour G3.
Broodmare Sire: UNFUWAIN. Sire of the dams of 27 Stakes winners. In 2010 - ICE BLUE Dansili G2.
Northern Dancer Night Shift Ciboulette AZAMOUR b 2001
Hasili Kerali
In The Wings Singspiel Glorious Song OPERA COMIQUE b 2001 Top Ville Grace Note Val de Grace
HARBINGER b c 2006 Arctic Tern Bering Beaune PENANG PEARL b 96 Shareef Dancer Guapa Sauceboat
388 - Boodles Diamond Ormonde Stakes, G3, Chester, May 7, 13f 110yds 1 Harbinger (GB) 4 b c Dansili (GB) Penang Pearl (FR) (Bering) 2 Age of Aquarius (IRE) 4 b c Galileo (IRE) - Clara Bow (FR) (Top Ville) 3 Munsef (GB) 8 b g Zafonic (USA) Mazaya (IRE) (Sadler’s Wells (USA)) Age: 3-4; Starts: 7; Wins: 4; Places: 2 Earnings: £135,270 Sire: DANSILI. Sire of 39 Stakes winners. In 2010 - PROVISO Woodman G1, HARBINGER Bering G3, ILLUSTRIOUS BLUE Efisio G3, STRAWBERRYDAIQUIRI Travelling Victor G3, ABATON Night Shift LR, FAMOUS NAME Quest For Fame LR, FORETELLER Warning LR.
Danzig Danehill Razyana DANSILI b 96
Lear Fan
Kahyasi
Asmara
Hasili
Anaza
Kerali
AZMEEL b c 2007 Kingmambo King’s Best BEST SIDE b 2002 Shirley Heights Mood Swings Moogie
ICE BLUE b c 2007 Northern Dancer Unfuwain Height of Fashion WINTER SOLSTICE b 98 Rainbow Quest Hunt The Sun Suntrap
390 - Prix Greffulhe, G2, Saint-Cloud, May 8, 2000m
391 - Prix Cleopatre, G3, Saint-Cloud, May 8, 2000m
1 Ice Blue (GB) 3 b c Dansili (GB) Winter Solstice (GB) (Unfuwain (USA)) 2 Handsome Devil (GB) 3 b c Footstepsinthesand (GB) - Acqua Verde (GB) (King’s Best (USA)) 3 Green Rock (FR) 3 b c Green Tune (USA) - Pyramid Painter (IRE) (Peintre Celebre (USA))
1 Sandbar (GB) 3 b f Oasis Dream (GB) - Shifting Sands (FR) (Hernando (FR)) 2 Pearl Away (FR) 3 b f Gold Away (IRE) Severina (GB) (Darshaan) 3 Heaven’s Vault (IRE) 3 b f Hernando (FR) - Neutrina (IRE) (Hector Protector (USA))
Kahyasi Soft Angels
(c Dansili) (c Zamindar)
DANSILI b 96
Doubly Sure DEBUSSY b c 2006
2008: 2010:
2nd Dam: Hunt The Sun by Rainbow Quest. Own sister to SUNSHACK, RAINTRAP and Summer Breeze. Dam of METEOR STORM (c Bigstone: Manhattan H G1, 2nd Pattison Canadian International S G1, Woodford Reserve Turf Classic S G1, 3rd Hollywood Turf Cup S G1), POLISH SUMMER (c Polish Precedent: The Palm Dubai Sheema Classic G1, 2nd Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud G1 (twice), Hong Kong Vase G1), HOST NATION (g Grand Lodge: Prix de Barbeville G3), MORNING ECLIPSE (c Zafonic: Prix de Boulogne LR), Winter Solstice (f Unfuwain, see above), Winter Silence (f Dansili: 3rd Prix des Tourelles LR)
Allegretta
Sharpen Up Rocchetta
EBF Give Thanks S LR. Dam of 1 winner: 2007: AZMEEL (c Azamour) Sold 60,000gns foal at TADEF, 45,518gns yearling at GOOY1. 3 wins at 2 and 3, Addleshaw Goddard Dee S G3, Usk Valley Stud Washington Singer S LR, 2nd Bet365 Classic Trial G3. 2008: Baisse (f High Chaparral) unraced to date. 2009: (f Motivator)
389 - Addleshaw Goddard Dee Stakes, G3, Chester, May 7, 10f 110yds 1 Azmeel (GB) 3 b c Azamour (IRE) Best Side (IRE) (King’s Best (USA)) 2 Dancing David (IRE) 3 b c Danehill Dancer (IRE) - Seek Easy (USA) (Seeking The Gold (USA)) 3 Rasmy (GB) 3 b c Red Ransom (USA) Shadow Dancing (GB) (Unfuwain (USA)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 5; Wins: 3; Places: 1 Earnings: £75,939 Sire: AZAMOUR. Sire of 2 Stakes winners. In 2010 - AZMEEL King’s Best G3, PUNCHER CLYNCH Rainbow Quest G3. 1st Dam: Best Side by King’s Best. 2 wins at 2 and 3, 3rd Irish Stallion Farms
Age: 2-3; Starts: 3; Wins: 2; Places: 1 Earnings: £84,114 Sire: DANSILI. Sire of 40 Stakes winners. In 2010 - PROVISO Woodman G1, ICE BLUE Unfuwain G2, FAMOUS NAME Quest For Fame G3, HARBINGER Bering G3, ILLUSTRIOUS BLUE Efisio G3, STRAWBERRYDAIQUIRI Travelling Victor G3, ABATON Night Shift LR, FORETELLER Warning LR. 1st Dam: Winter Solstice by Unfuwain. Winner at 2 in France, 2nd Prix d’Aumale G3. Dam of 3 winners: 2003: SHORTEST DAY (f Zafonic) 2 wins at 2 and 3. 2004: WINTER SUNRISE (f Pivotal) 2 wins at 3. Broodmare. 2006: December (g Oasis Dream) 2007: ICE BLUE (c Dansili) 2 wins at 3 in France, Prix Greffulhe G2.
Age: 2-3; Starts: 6; Wins: 4; Places: 1 Earnings: £84,293 Sire: OASIS DREAM. Sire of 29 Stakes winners. In 2010 - TUSCAN EVENING Suave Dancer G2, ALTA FEDELTA Luge G3, SANDBAR Hernando G3, SRI PUTRA In The Wings G3, KEREDARI Doyoun LR, RAIN DELAYED Shareef Dancer LR. 1st Dam: Shifting Sands by Hernando. 2 wins at 2 and 3 in France, 2nd Prix Petite Etoile LR. Dam of 2 winners: 2005: SANDSLIDE (f King’s Best) Winner at 4 in Germany. 2006: Spicy Sauce (f Lujain) ran on the flat in France. 2007: SANDBAR (f Oasis Dream) 4 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix Cleopatre G3, Prix Rose de Mai LR. 2008: Brasileira (f Dubai Destination) unraced to date.
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Sandstern (c Shirocco)
2nd Dam: Sahara Sunrise by Houston. unraced. Dam of Shifting Sands (f Hernando, see above) Broodmare Sire: HERNANDO. Sire of the dams of 9 Stakes winners. In 2010 SANDBAR Oasis Dream G3, AOIFE ALAINN Dr Fong LR. Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier OASIS DREAM b 2000 Dancing Brave Hope Bahamian
Broodmare Sire: KENDOR. Sire of the dams of 33 Stakes winners. In 2010 CHARMING WOMAN Invincible Spirit G3, LADY SPRINGBANK Choisir G3.
Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier INVINCIBLE SPIRIT b 97 Kris Rafha Eljazzi CHARMING WOMAN b f 2007 Kenmare Kendor Belle Mecene SOSPEL b 94 Sicyos Scene Galante Lilac Charm
SANDBAR b f 2007
DANCER. Sire of the dams of 59 Stakes winners. In 2010 - IL FENOMENO Denon G3, DULCE LEO Priolo LR. His Majesty Pleasant Colony Sun Colony DENON b 98 Northfields Aviance Minnie Hauk IL FENOMENO b c 2006 Northern Dancer Fabulous Dancer Last of The Line FABULOUS CHARM b 95 Sham Fatal Charm Proud Delta
Niniski Hernando Whakilyric SHIFTING SANDS b 99 Houston Sahara Sunrise Sahara Sun
392 - Premio Tudini, G3, Rome, May 8, 1200m 1 Charming Woman (IRE) 3 b f Invincible Spirit (IRE) - Sospel (GB) (Kendor (FR)) 2 Alta Fedelta (GB) 4 b f Oasis Dream (GB) - Infiel (GB) (Luge) 3 Titus Shadow (IRE) 6 ch c Titus Livius (FR) - Mujadil Shadow (IRE) (Mujadil (USA)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 5; Wins: 1; Places: 2 Earnings: £28,233 Sire: INVINCIBLE SPIRIT. Sire of 34 Stakes winners. In 2010 - YOSEI Fuji Kiseki G1, ALLIED POWERS High Line G3, CHARMING WOMAN Kendor G3, KARGALI Last Tycoon G3, REYKON Indian Ridge LR, SPIRIT OF FORTUNE Machiavellian LR, SPIRIT OF SHARJAH Doulab LR. 1st Dam: SOSPEL by Kendor. Winner at 2 in Germany. Dam of 6 winners: 1999: DIDASCALIA (f Dolphin Street) 4 wins at 3 and 4 in Italy. 2000: Cronaca Rosa (f Bluebird) 2002: WOMAN’S MAGAZINE (f Danehill Dancer) 7 wins at 2 to 4 in Italy. 2003: SPECIAL NIGHT (f Night Shift) Winner at 3 in Italy. 2004: MEN’S MAGAZINE (c Dr Devious) 3 wins at 2 in Italy, Premio Vittorio Riva LR. 2005: LOVE IN THE CITY (f Dr Devious) 2 wins at 3 in Italy. 2006: Cool Woman (f One Cool Cat) 2007: CHARMING WOMAN (f Invincible Spirit) Sold 45,518gns yearling at SGSEP. 1 win at 2 in Italy, Premio Tudini G3, Premio Ubaldo Pandolfi Nayef LR. 2009: Vanity Woman (f Nayef ) 2010: (f Manduro)
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393 - Premio Carlo d’Alessio, G3, Rome, May 8, 2400m 1 Il Fenomeno (ITY) 4 b c Denon (USA) - Fabulous Charm (ITY ) (Fabulous Dancer (USA)) 2 Sant’antonio (ITY ) 5 b c Shantou (USA) - Nonna Rina (IRE) (Bluebird (USA)) 3 Permesso (GB) 5 b/br c Sakhee (USA) - Persian Filly (IRE) (Persian Bold) Age: 2-4; Starts: 18; Wins: 4; Places: 8 Earnings: £80,958 Sire: DENON. Sire of 2 Stakes winners. In 2010 - IL FENOMENO Fabulous Dancer G3. 1st Dam: FABULOUS CHARM by Fabulous Dancer. 2 wins at 2 and 3 in Italy. Dam of 4 winners: 2000: SOFFIO (c Efisio) 2 wins at 2 and 4 in Italy. 2001: TANTE GRAZIE (f Halling) 6 wins at 4 to 7 in Italy. 2002: UNA SPECIALE (f Alzao) 2 wins at 2 and 3 in Italy. 2004: Zarina Caterina (f Mark of Esteem) 2005: Matifacilefacile (f Compton Place) ran on the flat in Italy. 2006: IL FENOMENO (c Denon) 4 wins at 3 and 4 in Italy, Premio Carlo d’Alessio G3, 2nd Premio Duca d’Aosta LR. 2nd Dam: Fatal Charm by Sham. 2 wins, 3rd Galtres S LR. Dam of FAIRY CHARM (c Fairy King: Premio Ambrosiano LR), Alabastro (c Fairy King: 2nd Premio Daumier LR), FATAL MAC (c Machiavellian: P.del Nazioni Mem. M Rocca X Country Stp LR (4 times)) Broodmare Sire: FABULOUS
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394 - Derby Italiano Better, G2, Rome, May 8, 2200m 1 Worthadd (IRE) 3 b c Dubawi (IRE) - Wigman (USA) (Rahy (USA)) 2 Ansiei (ITY) 3 b c Highest Honor (FR) - Albiatra (USA) (Dixieland Band (USA)) 3 Saratoga Black (IRE) 3 br c Pyrus (USA) - Mary Martins (IRE) (Orpen (USA)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 5; Wins: 4; Places: 1 Earnings: £370,938 Sire: DUBAWI. Sire of 7 Stakes winners. In 2010 - MAKFI Green Desert G1, WORTHADD Rahy G2, ANNA SALAI Caerleon G3, CELLARMASTER Sound Reason G3, GOLDEN MILLENNIUM Eagle Eyed LR. 1st Dam: WIGMAN by Rahy. 3 wins at 3 and 4 in Italy. Dam of 1 winner: 2006: (c Xaar) 2007: WORTHADD (c Dubawi) 4 wins at 3 in Italy, Derby Italiano Better G2, Premio Parioli G3, Premio Gardone LR. 2009: (c One Cool Cat)
FLAWLESS GOLD Gold Tribute LR, HEEDAS Lomitas LR, ONASSIS Glory of Dancer LR. Seeking The Gold Dubai Millennium Colorado Dancer DUBAWI b 2002 Deploy Zomaradah Jawaher WORTHADD b c 2007 Blushing Groom Rahy Glorious Song WIGMAN b 2000 Seattle Slew Urjwan White Star Line
395 - totesport.com Derby Trial Stakes, G3, Lingfield Park, May 8, 11f 110yds 1 Bullet Train (GB) 3 b c Sadler’s Wells (USA) - Kind (IRE) (Danehill (USA)) 2 Dubawi Phantom (GB) 3 ch c Dubawi (IRE) - Anna Amalia (IRE) (In The Wings) 3 Hot Prospect (GB) 3 b c Motivator (GB) - Model Queen (USA) (Kingmambo (USA)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 3; Wins: 2; Places: 1 Earnings: £42,609 Sire: SADLER’S WELLS. Sire of 314 Stakes winners. In 2010 - BULLET TRAIN Danehill G3, CHANGING SKIES Silver Hawk G3, POUVOIR ABSOLU Nureyev LR, ROSES FOR THE LADY Rainbow Quest LR, ASHKAZAR Darshaan LR, SYNCHRONISED Bob Back LR. 1st Dam: KIND by Danehill. 6 wins at 3 and 4, Totesport Kilvington Fillies S LR, betfair.com Flower of Scotland S LR, 3rd Ballyogan S G3. Dam of 1 winner: 2007: BULLET TRAIN (c Sadler’s Wells) 2 wins at 2 and 3, totesport.com Derby Trial S G3. 2008: (c Galileo) 2009: (c Galileo) 2010: (c Oasis Dream)
2nd Dam: URJWAN by Seattle Slew. 1 win at 3. Dam of HISTORIC (g Sadler’s Wells: De Vere Prestige Novices’ Hurdle G2, Cahoot Long Distance Hurdle G2, 2nd Martell Sefton Novices’ Hurdle G1, williamhill.co.uk Marathon Chase LR). Grandam of DAI JIN, Directa Queen, Dissney. Third dam of VUPT VAPT, Elis Elis.
2nd Dam: RAINBOW LAKE by Rainbow Quest. 3 wins at 3 Lancashire Oaks G3. Dam of POWERSCOURT (c Sadler’s Wells: Tattersalls Gold Cup G1, Arlington Million S G1, 2nd Prince of Wales’s S G1, Racing Post Trophy G1, G.Dallmayr-Preis Bayerisches Zuchtrennen G1, 3rd Irish Field Irish St Leger G1, Baileys Irish Champion S G1, John Deere Breeders’ Cup Turf G1), KIND (f Danehill, see above)
Broodmare Sire: RAHY. Sire of the dams of 69 Stakes winners. In 2010 ALVERTA Flying Spur G1, DOUBLES PARTNER Rock Hard Ten G2, WORTHADD Dubawi G2, COURAGEOUS CAT Storm Cat G3, LIFE AT TEN Malibu Moon G3, CAMILLE C Roman Dancer LR,
Broodmare Sire: DANEHILL. Sire of the dams of 131 Stakes winners. In 2010 - ABLE ONE Cape Cross G1, ZABRASIVE Zabeel G1, STRIKING DANCER Smart Strike G2, BULLET TRAIN Sadler’s Wells G3, NOLL WALLOP High Chaparral G3, SHEMIYLA Dalakhani G3, SOLAR
CHARGED Charge Forward G3, CAPTAIN COLTISH Fusaichi Pegasus LR, COULIS Zabeel LR, DANE JULIA Caesour LR, LATIN NEWS Hussonet LR, PRECIOUS LORRAINE Encosta de Lago LR, ZABENE Zabeel LR, ZAGREB Zabeel LR. The Sadler’s Wells/Danehill cross has produced: BULLET TRAIN G3, Fergus McIver G2, Precious Gem LR, Hills of Aran LR. Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma SADLER’S WELLS b 81 Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special BULLET TRAIN b c 2007 Danzig Danehill Razyana KIND b 2001 Rainbow Quest Rainbow Lake Rockfest
396 - totesport 0800 221 221 Chartwell Stakes, G3, Lingfield Park, May 8, 7f 1 Pyrrha (GB) 4 b f Pyrus (USA) Demeter (USA) (Diesis) 2 Golden Stream (IRE) 4 b f Sadler’s Wells (USA) - Phantom Gold (GB) (Machiavellian (USA)) 3 Reggane (GB) 4 b f Red Ransom (USA) - Reine Zao (FR) (Alzao (USA)) Age: 2-4; Starts: 9; Wins: 4; Places: 4 Earnings: £128,750 Sire: PYRUS. Sire of 3 Stakes winners. In 2010 - PYRRHA Diesis G3. 1st Dam: Demeter by Diesis. Dam of 3 winners: 2002: ALRAFIDAIN (g Monsun) Winner at 3. 2003: Paradigm Shift (g Night Shift) ran once in a N.H. Flat Race. 2004: (f Iron Mask) 2006: PYRRHA (f Pyrus) Sold 9,195gns foal at GONO1, 7,000gns yearling at TAOC3. 4 wins at 2 to 4, totesport 0800 221 221 Chartwell S G3. 2007: FARMER GILES (c Danroad) Winner at 2.
2010 - PYRRHA Pyrus G3, BUXTED Dynaformer LR, HUXSSEN Hussonet LR, RHEIN PRAYER Kurofune LR. Raise A Native Mr Prospector Gold Digger PYRUS b/br 98 Nureyev Most Precious Miss Summer PYRRHA b f 2006 Sharpen Up Diesis Doubly Sure DEMETER b 97 Pennine Walk Nicer Everything Nice
G2, ADORED G3, PERFECT TRUTH G3, SEVENNA G3, JANE AUSTEN LR, Gan Amhras G1, New Zealand G1, Acapulco LR, Perseida LR, Sense of Purpose LR.
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Sire of the dams of 36 Stakes winners. In 2010 - BETHRAH Marju G3, SAPHINA DE KERSER Al Namix LR. Try My Best
Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge GALILEO b 98
Last Tycoon Mill Princess MARJU br 88 Artaius Flame of Tara
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Welsh Flame
Urban Sea Allegretta MIDAS TOUCH b c 2007 Shirley Heights Darshaan Delsy APPROACH gr 2000 Alzao Last Second
BETHRAH br f 2007 Kenmare Highest Honor High River REVE D’IMAN b 2001 Baillamont Numidie Yamuna
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397 - Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial Stakes, G2, Leopardstown, May 9, 10f 1 Midas Touch (GB) 3 b c Galileo (IRE) Approach (GB) (Darshaan) 2 Address Unknown (GB) 3 b c Oasis Dream (GB) - Return (USA) (Sadler’s Wells (USA)) 3 At First Sight (IRE) 3 ch c Galileo (IRE) Healing Music (FR) (Bering) Age: 2-3; Starts: 4; Wins: 2; Places: 2 Earnings: £81,170 Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 69 Stakes winners. In 2010 - LINTON Centaine G2, MAHBOOBA Red Ransom G2, MIDAS TOUCH Darshaan G2, CHABAL Zafonic G3, SOUTH EASTER Nureyev LR. 1st Dam: APPROACH by Darshaan. 3 wins at 2 to 4 at home, USA, Lord Weinstock Mem.Ballymacoll Stud S LR, 2nd Winstar Galaxy S G2. Own sister to Intrigued. Dam of 1 winner: 2006: By Request (f Giant’s Causeway) ran twice. 2007: MIDAS TOUCH (c Galileo) 2 wins at 2 and 3, Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial S G2. 2008: Arabescatta (f Monsun) unraced to date. 2009: (f Dansili) 2nd Dam: LAST SECOND by Alzao. 4 wins at 2 and 3 Vodafone Nassau S G2, Sun Chariot S G2, 2nd Coronation S G1. Dam of AUSSIE RULES (c Danehill: Gainsborough Poule d’Essai des Poulains G1, Shadwell Turf Mile S G1), APPROACH (f Darshaan, see above), Intrigued (f Darshaan: 3rd EBF Chalice S LR, EBF Joan Westbrook Pinnacle S LR)
2nd Dam: NICER by Pennine Walk. 3 wins at 2 and 3 The I.A.W.S. Irish 1000 Guineas G1, 3rd P. Vittorio di Capua-Consiglio d’ Europa G1. Grandam of Pinot Grigio.
Broodmare Sire: DARSHAAN. Sire of the dams of 146 Stakes winners. In 2010 - MIDAS TOUCH Galileo G2, GLASS HARMONIUM Verglas G3, ASHKAZAR Sadler’s Wells LR, PITTONI Peintre Celebre LR, ZARINAVA Daylami LR.
Broodmare Sire: DIESIS. Sire of the dams of 78 Stakes winners. In
The Galileo/Darshaan cross has produced: ALANDI G1, MIDAS TOUCH
398 - Derrinstown Stud 1000 Guineas Trial, G3, Leopardstown, May 9, 8f 1 Bethrah (IRE) 3 br f Marju (IRE) Reve d’Iman (FR) (Highest Honor (FR)) 2 Atasari (IRE) 3 b f Whipper (USA) Azra (IRE) (Danehill (USA)) 3 Hen Night (IRE) 3 b f Danehill Dancer (IRE) - Twice The Ease (GB) (Green Desert (USA)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 3; Wins: 2; Places: 0 Earnings: £45,022 Sire: MARJU. Sire of 54 Stakes winners. In 2010 - COMIC STRIP Be My Chief G1, BETHRAH Highest Honor G3, CHINCHON Hector Protector G3, FANJURA Lear Fan G3, MARPIONE Pine Bluff LR. 1st Dam: REVE D’IMAN by Highest Honor. Winner at 3 in France. Own sister to NUMIDE, REVE D’OSCAR and SIR ERIC. Dam of 1 winner: 2006: Alrescha (f Marju) 2007: BETHRAH (f Marju) Sold 34,000gns foal at TADEF, 112,044gns yearling at GOOY1. 2 wins at 3, Derrinstown Stud 1000 Guineas Trial G3. 2008: (c Tiger Hill) 2nd Dam: NUMIDIE by Baillamont. 2 wins at 3 in France Prix de la Cochere LR. Dam of NUMIDE (g Highest Honor: Prix Hocquart G2, Greatwood H. Hurdle G3), REVE D’OSCAR (f Highest Honor: Prix Saint-Alary G1, 2nd Prix de l’Opera-Hotel du Lac Barriere G1, Prix Vermeille Normandy Barriere G1, Gran Premio del Jockey Club G1), SIR ERIC (g Highest Honor: Grand Prix Inter-Regional des 3 Ans LR). Grandam of APRES UN REVE, Reve d’Orient, Reve d’Amour. Broodmare Sire: HIGHEST HONOR.
399 - Amethyst Stakes, G3, Leopardstown, May 9, 8f 1 Famous Name (GB) 5 b c Dansili (GB) - Fame At Last (USA) (Quest For Fame) 2 King Jock (USA) 9 b/br g Ghazi (USA) - Glen Kate (Glenstal (USA)) 3 Rose Hip (IRE) 6 b f Rossini (USA) Rose Tint (IRE) (Salse (USA)) Age: 2-5; Starts: 17; Wins: 8; Places: 8 Earnings: £703,049 Sire: DANSILI. Sire of 40 Stakes winners. In 2010 - PROVISO Woodman G1, ICE BLUE Unfuwain G2, FAMOUS NAME Quest For Fame G3, HARBINGER Bering G3, ILLUSTRIOUS BLUE Efisio G3, STRAWBERRYDAIQUIRI Travelling Victor G3, ABATON Night Shift LR, FORETELLER Warning LR. 1st Dam: FAME AT LAST by Quest For Fame. Winner at 2. Dam of 4 winners: 2002: ANCHOR DATE (c Zafonic) Winner at 3. 2003: FINAL ESTEEM (g Lomitas) Winner at 3. 2004: EVERLASTING FAME (c Zamindar) Winner at 3 in France. 2005: FAMOUS NAME (c Dansili) 8 wins at 2 to 5, 2010, Desmond S G3, Leopardstown 2000 Guineas Trial G3, Keeneland International S G3, Amethyst S G3, Jockey Club of Turkey Trigo S LR, Woodies DIY Celebration S LR, Heritage S LR, 2nd Tattersalls Gold Cup G1, Prix du Jockey Club G1, Prix du Moulin de Longchamp G1, Killavullan S G3, High Chaparral EBF Mooresbridge S G3, At The Races Kilternan S G3, 3rd Qatar Prix Dollar G2, Qatar Prix Daniel Wildenstein G2. 2007: Photo Opportunity (c Zamindar) unraced to date. 2008: (f Zamindar) Broodmare Sire: QUEST FOR FAME. Sire of the dams of 21 Stakes winners. In 2010 - SKILLED
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Broodmare Sire: ROBELLINO. Sire of the dams of 26 Stakes winners. In 2010 - CONTAT Diktat G3, WAYWARD PRINCE Alflora LR.
Danzig
Known Fact
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Warning Razyana
Slightly Dangerous
DANSILI b 96 Kahyasi
DIKTAT br 95
Hasili
Sadler’s Wells Kerali
Arvola
FAMOUS NAME b c 2005 Rainbow Quest Quest For Fame Aryenne FAME AT LAST b 97 Majestic Light Ranales Katsura
Park Appeal CONTAT b c 2003 Roberto Robellino Isobelline CONGA b 94 Dancing Brave Congress Celtic Assembly
400 - Silberne Peitsche, G3, Cologne, May 9, 1200m 1 Contat (GER) 7 b c Diktat (GB) Conga (GB) (Robellino (USA)) 2 Smooth Operator (GER) 4 b g Big Shuffle (USA) - Salzgitter (GB) (Salse (USA)) 3 Amico Fritz (GER) 4 b c Fasliyev (USA) - Arctic Appeal (IRE) (Ahonoora)
401 - Gerling Preis, G2, Cologne, May 9, 2400m 1 Eye of The Tiger (GER) 5 b c Tiger Hill (IRE) - Evening Breeze (GER) (Surumu (GER)) 2 Getaway (GER) 7 b c Monsun (GER) Guernica (GB) (Unfuwain (USA)) 3 Norderney (GER) 4 ch f Dai Jin (GB) Nouvelle Princesse (GER) (Bluebird (USA))
Bagutta - Memorial Sergio Cumani G3. Dam of EPALO (c Lando: Singapore Airlines International Cup G1, 2nd G.Dallmayr-Preis Bayerisches Zuchtrennen G1, Man O’War S G1, 3rd Premio Roma at The Races G1, Arlington Million S G1), ELOPA (f Tiger Hill: Prix Corrida G2, 3rd Audi Pretty Polly S G1), EVENING BREEZE (f Surumu, see above), EVENING STORM (c Acatenango: Buchmacher Kottkamp Silbernes Band Ruhr LR, Oettingen Wallerstein Memorial LR, 2nd Grosser Muller Brot-Preis G2) Broodmare Sire: SURUMU. Sire of the dams of 78 Stakes winners. In 2010 EYE OF THE TIGER Tiger Hill G2, WIN FOR SURE Stravinsky LR, MALBERAUX Michel Georges LR. The Tiger Hill/Surumu cross has produced: EYE OF THE TIGER G2, ECHOES ROCK G3, Katalog LR. Danzig Danehill Razyana
Sire: DIKTAT. Sire of 17 Stakes winners. In 2010 - CONTAT Robellino G3, SKINS GAME Akarad LR. 1st Dam: Conga by Robellino. unraced. Dam of 4 winners: 1998: Conto (c Acatenango) ran on the flat in Germany. 1999: CONANGA (f Acatenango) 7 wins at 2 to 5 in Italy. Broodmare. 2000: Collow (g Lando) 5 wins at 3 to 6 in Germany, Switzerland, 3rd Prix Vulcain LR. 2001: Contala (f Tannenkonig) unraced. 2003: CONTAT (c Diktat) 9 wins at 3 to 7, 2010 in Germany, Benazet Rennen G3, Silberne Peitsche G3 (twice), Bremer Oster Sprint Cup LR, BWIN Sachsenpreis LR, 2nd Oppenheim Fonds Trust Silberne Peitsche G3, 3rd Jaxx Pokal G3. 2005: CAPE TOWN (c Diktat) 3 wins at 3 to 5 in Switzerland. 2008: Cool Burn (c Ransom O’War) unraced to date. 2009: Charles Darwin (c Tannenkonig) 2nd Dam: CONGRESS by Dancing Brave. 1 win at 2. Own sister to CHEROKEE ROSE. Dam of ROYAL INTRIGUE (c Royal Applause: Glenman Corporation Ltd. Lenebane S LR). Grandam of NOORDHOEK FLYER.
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Age: 3-5; Starts: 7; Wins: 5; Places: 2 Earnings: £76,463 Sire: TIGER HILL. Sire of 28 Stakes winners. In 2010 - EYE OF THE TIGER Surumu G2, POSAVINA Sadler’s Wells G3, YABIGORSE Mukaddamah LR, YOUNG TIGER Trempolino LR. 1st Dam: EVENING BREEZE by Surumu. 6 wins at 3 and 4 in Germany, Nereide Rennen LR. Dam of 5 winners: 2000: EAGLE RISE (c Danehill) Champion 2yr old in Germany in 2002. 8 wins at 2 to 5 in Germany, Italy, Premio Ribot G2, Grosser Europa Meile G2, pferdewetten.de-Trophy G2. Sire. 2001: EVENING VIEW (c Spectrum) 4 wins at 3 to 5 in Austria. 2002: EVENSONG (f Waky Nao) 4 wins at 3 in France, Germany, Prix Solitude LR. Broodmare. 2003: ECHOES ROCK (g Tiger Hill) 3 wins at 3 and 4 in France, Grand Prix de Compiegne LR, 2nd Prix La Force G3. 2004: Endless Night (f Tiger Hill) unraced. Broodmare. 2005: EYE OF THE TIGER (c Tiger Hill) Sold 13,869gns 4yo at ARARC. 5 wins at 3 to 5 in France, Germany, Gerling Preis G2. 2006: Ember Eve (f Tiger Hill) unraced. 2007: Elusive Light (f Fantastic Light) unraced to date. 2008: Elope (f Tiger Hill) unraced to date. 2nd Dam: EVENING KISS by Kris. 3 wins at 3 in France, Italy Premio
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Broodmare Sire: KRIS. Sire of the dams of 101 Stakes winners. In 2010 NOORDHOEK FLYER Pivotal G2, BEHKABAD Cape Cross G3, OVERTURN Barathea LR.
TIGER HILL b 95 Appiani II The Filly Tigress Silver EYE OF THE TIGER b c 2005 Literat
Age: 2-7; Starts: 29; Wins: 9; Places: 11 Earnings: £145,412
Champion 3yr old filly in Europe in 1989 (11-14f.). 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France Prix Saint-Alary G1, 2nd Ciga Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe G1, 4th Breeders’ Cup Turf G1. Dam of BEHKARA (f Kris, see above), BAYRIKA (f Kahyasi: Prix Berteux G3, 2nd Prix Hubert de Chaudenay G2), BEHKIYRA (f Entrepreneur: Martin Molony S LR), Behra (f Grand Lodge: 3rd Prix Petite Etoile LR), BEHRAJAN (g Arazi: Sun’King of the Punters’ Tolworth Hurdle G1, 3rd Bonusprint Stayers’ Hurdle G1, Bonusprint Distance Championship Hurdle G1, Pillar Property Chase G2, 2nd Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup Chase G1), Beherayn (g Dansili: 3rd totesport Standard Open NH Flat Race LR). Grandam of BAYLANI DE S’ENA, Behreyma, Behasni, Behrasia, BARIZAN, BEHNASAN. Third dam of VITAL EQUINE.
Surumu Surama EVENING BREEZE ch 94 Kris Evening Kiss Racquette
Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier CAPE CROSS b/br 94 Ahonoora Park Appeal Balidaress BEHKABAD b c 2007 Sharpen Up Kris Doubly Sure BEHKARA b 2000
402 - Prix de Guiche, G3, Chantilly, May 10, 1800m 1 Behkabad (FR) 3 b c Cape Cross (IRE) - Behkara (IRE) (Kris) 2 No Risk At All (FR) 3 ch c My Risk (FR) Newness (IRE) (Simply Great (FR)) 3 Tip Toe (FR) 3 b c Footstepsinthesand (GB) - Midnight Queen (GER) (Platini (GER)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 5; Wins: 4; Places: 1 Earnings: £104,835 Sire: CAPE CROSS. Sire of 58 Stakes winners. In 2010 - ABLE ONE Danehill G1, CAPECOVER Zabeel G2, BEHKABAD Kris G3. 1st Dam: BEHKARA by Kris. 4 wins at 3 and 4 in France, Prix Hubert de Chaudenay Casino Barriere G2, 2nd Prix Royal-Oak G1, 3rd Prix Royal-Oak G1. Dam of 2 winners: 2006: BEHESHTAM (c Peintre Celebre) 2 wins at 3 in France, Prix de l’Avre LR, 2nd Qatar Prix Niel G2. 2007: BEHKABAD (c Cape Cross) 4 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix de Guiche G3, Prix des Chenes G3, 3rd Prix Omnium II LR. 2008: (c Green Desert) 2nd Dam: BEHERA by Mill Reef.
Mill Reef Behera Borushka
403 - Tattersalls Musidora Stakes, G3, York, May 12, 10f 1 Aviate (GB) 3 b f Dansili (GB) Emplane (USA) (Irish River (FR)) 2 Gold Bubbles (USA) 3 b f Street Cry (IRE) - Well Revered (USA) (Red Ransom (USA)) 3 Eleanora Duse (IRE) 3 b f Azamour (IRE) - Drama Class (IRE) (Caerleon (USA)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 3; Wins: 3; Places: 0 Earnings: £46,682 Sire: DANSILI. Sire of 41 Stakes winners. In 2010 - PROVISO Woodman G1, ICE BLUE Unfuwain G2, AVIATE Irish River G3, FAMOUS NAME Quest For Fame G3, HARBINGER Bering G3, ILLUSTRIOUS BLUE Efisio G3, STRAWBERRYDAIQUIRI Travelling Victor G3, ABATON Night Shift LR, FORETELLER Warning LR. 1st Dam: EMPLANE by Irish River. Winner at 3. Own sister to Boatman. Dam of 6 winners: 2000: Boarding Card (g Zafonic) unraced.
international database 2001: COACH LANE (g Barathea) 9 wins. 2002: EARLY MARCH (c Dansili) 2 wins at 2 in France, Prix La Rochette G3, 2nd Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere-Grand Criterium G1. 2003: PAINTED SKY (g Rainbow Quest) 4 wins. 2004: ITINERARY (g Dr Fong) Winner at 3 in France. 2006: WINGWALKER (c Dansili) 2 wins at 2. 2007: AVIATE (f Dansili) 3 wins at 2 and 3, Tattersalls Musidora S G3. 2008: Air Traffic (c Dansili) unraced to date. 2009: (f Galileo) 2nd Dam: PEPLUM by Nijinsky. 2 wins at 3 Shadwell Stud Cheshire Oaks LR, 3rd Princess Royal S G3. Dam of Boatman (c Irish River: 2nd Tom McGee Autumn S LR, 2nd Clement L Hirsch Turf Championship G1, Manhattan H G1). Grandam of JIBBOOM. Broodmare Sire: IRISH RIVER. Sire of the dams of 125 Stakes winners. In 2010 - LOUP BRETON Anabaa G2, ALLYBAR King’s Best G3, AVIATE Dansili G3, ALWAYS WAINING Unfuwain LR. The Dansili/Irish River cross has produced: EARLY MARCH G1, AVIATE G3.
Ring) ran and ran a few times over hurdles. 2004: PRIME DEFENDER (c Bertolini) Sold 14,000gns yearling at DNSLY, 130,000gns 5yo at TAAUT. 7 wins to 2010, Duke of York Blue Square S G2, Sporting Index European Free H LR, Watson/McCrohan Sandy Lane S LR, williamhill.com Cammidge Trophy LR, 2nd Champagne Lanson Sprint S G3, Shadwell Hackwood S G3, intercasino.co.uk Easter S LR, williamhill.com Cammidge Trophy LR, Axminster Carpets Cathedral S LR, 3rd St Jovite Renaissance S G3, Trailfinders World Wide Travel Leisure S LR. 2005: Yattendon (g Compton Place) 2006: Hapipi (f Bertolini) unraced. 2007: (c Avonbridge) 2008: (f Tiger Hill) 2nd Dam: NELL OF THE NORTH by Canadian Gil. 5 wins in USA. Own sister to SPRINK. Dam of Northern Cache (f Drum Fire: 3rd Broderick Memorial S), Super High (g Superlative: 2nd For Auction Novices’ Hurdle G3) Broodmare Sire: SUPERLATIVE. Sire of the dams of 7 Stakes winners. In 2010 PRIME DEFENDER Bertolini G2. Northern Dancer Danzig
Danzig Danehill Razyana DANSILI b 96 Kahyasi Hasili Kerali AVIATE b f 2007 Riverman Irish River Irish Star EMPLANE b 95 Nijinsky
The Hernando/Shirley Heights cross has produced: PORTAL G2, AKDARENA G3, ASIAN HEIGHTS G3, LA HERNANDA G3.
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Aquilegia Courtly Dee PRIME DEFENDER ch c 2004 Nebbiolo Superlative Clariden ARIAN DA ch 95 Canadian Gil Nell of The North Sprinkle Power
405 - Blue Wind Stakes, G3, Naas, May 12, 10f
Age: 2-6; Starts: 40; Wins: 7; Places: 12 Earnings: £242,429
Broodmare Sire: SHIRLEY HEIGHTS. Sire of the dams of 174 Stakes winners. In 2010 - AKDARENA Hernando G3, FAME AND GLORY Montjeu G3, CAPE MARTIN Polish Precedent LR, OPINION POLL Halling LR, KHYBER KIM Mujahid LR.
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Chain Store
1 Prime Defender (GB) 6 ch c Bertolini (USA) - Arian Da (GB) (Superlative) 2 Showcasing (GB) 3 b c Oasis Dream (GB) - Arabesque (GB) (Zafonic (USA)) 3 Main Aim (GB) 5 b c Oasis Dream (GB) - Orford Ness (GB) (Selkirk (USA))
2nd Dam: Akishka by Nishapour. unraced. Dam of AKBAR (c Doyoun: Bonusprint Henry II S G2), AKHIYAR (g Doyoun: Amethyst S LR, 3rd Gallinule S G2), Akdariya (f Shirley Heights, see above), AKASIAN (g Alzao: Listowel Races Sup. Club Lartigue Hurdle G2). Grandam of Akshar, AKILAK, Akadora.
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Peplum
404 - Duke of York Blue Square Stakes, G2, York, May 12, 6f
2001: Akaliya (f Daylami) unraced. Broodmare. 2002: AKRAM (g Night Shift) 4 wins. 2004: (c Soviet Star) 2005: (f Domedriver) 2006: AKBABEND (g Refuse To Bend) Winner at 3. 2007: AKDARENA (f Hernando) 3 wins at 2 and 3, Blue Wind S G3, Irish Stallion Farms EBF Salsabil S LR, 3rd Lanwades/Staffordstown Silken Glider S LR, Flame of Tara EBF S LR. 2009: (f Hernando)
1 Akdarena (GB) 3 b f Hernando (FR) Akdariya (IRE) (Shirley Heights) 2 Indiana Gal (IRE) 5 b f Intikhab (USA) Genial Jenny (IRE) (Danehill (USA)) 3 Grace O’Malley (IRE) 4 b f Refuse To Bend (IRE) - Lionne (GB) (Darshaan) Age: 2-3; Starts: 8; Wins: 3; Places: 5 Earnings: £107,745
Sire: BERTOLINI. Sire of 12 Stakes winners. In 2010 - JUICE Christmas Tree G1, PRIME DEFENDER Superlative G2.
Sire: HERNANDO. Sire of 45 Stakes winners. In 2010 - AKDARENA Shirley Heights G3, GITANO HERNANDO Perugino LR, MAGIC MAMBO Exit To Nowhere LR.
1st Dam: ARIAN DA by Superlative. Winner at 2 viz. Surbiton Maiden Stakes, Sandown. Dam of 1 winner: 2000: (c Primo Dominie) 2001: Arian’s Lad (g Prince Sabo) 2002: Back To Reality (g Magic
1st Dam: Akdariya by Shirley Heights. Winner at 3, 2nd Ribblesdale S G2. Dam of 4 winners: 1999: Akrabad (c Fairy King) 2000: AKDARA (f Sadler’s Wells) Winner at 3. Broodmare.
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Muhtarram. 2 wins at 4, Foster’s Silver Cup Rated S LR. Dam of 2 winners: 2003: Cassava (f Vettori) GULL WING (f In The 2004: Wings) 3 wins at 2 to 4, Weatherbys Bank Further Flight S LR. 2006: SARISKA (f Pivotal) 5 wins at 2 to 4, Darley Irish Oaks G1, Investec Oaks S G1, Totesport.com Middleton S G2, Tattersalls Musidora S G3, 2nd Darley Yorkshire Oaks G1, 3rd Emirates Airline Champion S G1. 2007: Zigato (c Azamour) in training. 2008: Rishikesh (c Cape Cross) unraced to date. 2nd Dam: Beacon by High Top. unraced. Dam of MAYCOCKS BAY (f Muhtarram, see above), Indian Light (c Be My Chief: 2nd Robert Sice Memorial July Trophy S LR) Broodmare Sire: MUHTARRAM. Sire of the dams of 4 Stakes winners. In 2010 SARISKA Pivotal G2. Nureyev Polar Falcon Marie d’Argonne PIVOTAL ch 93 Cozzene Fearless Revival Stufida SARISKA b f 2006 Alleged Muhtarram Ballet de France MAYCOCKS BAY b 98 High Top Beacon Mountain Lodge
Niniski Virginia Hills HERNANDO b 90 Miswaki
407 - Totesport Dante Stakes, G2, York, May 13, 10f
Whakilyric Lyrism AKDARENA b f 2007 Mill Reef Shirley Heights Hardiemma AKDARIYA b 94 Nishapour Akishka Akiyda
406 - Totesport.com Middleton Stakes, G2, York, May 13, 10f 110yds 1 Sariska (GB) 4 b f Pivotal (GB) Maycocks Bay (GB) (Muhtarram (USA)) 2 Midday (GB) 4 b f Oasis Dream (GB) Midsummer (GB) (Kingmambo (USA)) 3 Flying Cloud (IRE) 4 b f Storming Home (GB) - Criquette (GB) (Shirley Heights) Age: 2-4; Starts: 8; Wins: 5; Places: 3 Earnings: £680,305 Sire: PIVOTAL. Sire of 75 Stakes winners. In 2010 - NOORDHOEK FLYER Kris G2, SARISKA Muhtarram G2, FRATAZZ Local Suitor LR, PEARL BANKS Efisio LR, PRESCRIPTION Elmaamul LR. 1st Dam: MAYCOCKS BAY by
1 Cape Blanco (IRE) 3 ch c Galileo (IRE) - Laurel Delight (GB) (Presidium) 2 Workforce (GB) 3 b c King’s Best (USA) - Soviet Moon (IRE) (Sadler’s Wells (USA)) 3 Coordinated Cut (IRE) 3 b c Montjeu (IRE) - Apache Star (GB) (Arazi (USA)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 4; Wins: 4; Places: 0 Earnings: £202,400 Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 69 Stakes winners. In 2010 - CAPE BLANCO Presidium G2, LINTON Centaine G2, MAHBOOBA Red Ransom G2, MIDAS TOUCH Darshaan G2, CHABAL Zafonic G3, SOUTH EASTER Nureyev LR. 1st Dam: LAUREL DELIGHT by Presidium. 4 wins at 2, 4 and 6 inc. Anthony Fawcett Memorial Handicap, York. Dam of 4 winners: 1995: LAUREL PLEASURE (f Selkirk) 2 wins. Broodmare. 1998: SPASSKY (c Emperor Jones) 7 wins at 3 to 7 in Italy. 1999: MR O’BRIEN (g Mukaddamah) 8 wins at 3 to 5 in USA, Kelso Breeders’ Cup H G2, Aregent
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international database Dixie S G2, 2nd United Nations S G1, 3rd Manhattan H G1. 2000: Koh Tao (f Turtle Island). Broodmare. 2002: Forest Delight (f Shinko Forest) ran a few times. Broodmare. 2003: Laurel Lassie (f Shinko Forest) ran on the flat in USA. Broodmare. 2005: Safari Time (f Danetime). died at 3 years. 2007: CAPE BLANCO (c Galileo) Sold 231,092gns yearling at GOOY1. 4 wins at 2 and 3, Galileo EBF Futurity G2, Totesport Dante S G2, Korean Racing Authority Tyros S G3. 2008: (f Oratorio) 2009: (c Oratorio) 2nd Dam: Foudroyer by Artaius. ran twice at 3. Dam of PARIS HOUSE (c Petong: Flying Childers S G2, United Breweries Group Temple S G2, 2nd Keeneland Nunthorpe S G1 (twice)). Grandam of POLISH MAGIC. Broodmare Sire: PRESIDIUM. Sire of the dams of 3 Stakes winners. In 2010 CAPE BLANCO Galileo G2. Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge GALILEO b 98 Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta CAPE BLANCO ch c 2007 General Assembly Presidium Doubly Sure LAUREL DELIGHT ch 90 Artaius Foudroyer Foudre
408 - Emirates Airline Yorkshire Cup, G2, York, May 14, 14f 1 Manifest (GB) 4 b c Rainbow Quest (USA) - Modena (USA) (Roberto (USA)) 2 Purple Moon (IRE) 7 ch g Galileo (IRE) - Vanishing Prairie (USA) (Alysheba (USA)) 3 Wajir (FR) 4 b c Danehill Dancer (IRE) War Game (FR) (Caerleon (USA)) Age: 3-4; Starts: 5; Wins: 2; Places: 3 Earnings: £105,846 Sire: RAINBOW QUEST. Sire of 108 Stakes winners. In 2010 - MANIFEST Roberto G2. 1st Dam: Modena by Roberto. unraced. Dam of 11 winners: 1987: ELMAAMUL (c Diesis). 5 wins at 2 and 3, Coral Eclipse S G1, Phoenix Champion S G1, 2nd Juddmonte International S G1, 3rd Ever Ready Derby S G1. Sire. 1988: MODESTO (g Al Nasr) 9 wins at 3 to 5 inc. Baker Lorenz Stakes, Sandown.
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1989: MODERNISE (c Known Fact) 5 wins at 2 to 4 at home, USA, Ascot H G3. Sire. 1992: A LA MODE (f Known Fact) Winner at 5 in USA. Broodmare. 1993: MODERN DAY (c Dayjur) 9 wins at 2, 4 and 5 at home, South Africa, King’s Cup H G3, 3rd Drill Hall S G2. Sire. 1994: REAMS OF VERSE (f Nureyev). 5 wins at 2 and 3, Fillies’ Mile S G1, Vodafone Oaks S G1. Dam of MANY VOLUMES (c Chester House: 4 wins at 3 and 4, William Ewart Properties Gala S LR), Eagle Poise (c Empire Maker: 4 wins at 3 in Canada, 2nd Ontario Derby LR, Valedictory S LR, 3rd Tokyo City H G3), Ithaca (f Distant View: Winner at 2, 2nd Malaysia Airlines Non Stop Prestige S G3). Grandam of ZACINTO (c Dansili: 3 wins at 2 and 3, totesport.com Celebration Mile S G2, 2nd Sony Queen Elizabeth II S G1) 1995: Post Modern (f Nureyev) unraced. Dam of CHASING STARS (f Observatory: 4 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix Isola Bella LR), Risk Taker (g Rainbow Quest: 2 wins at 3 and 9, 3rd Victor Chandler Chester Vase G3) 1997: HIGH WALDEN (f El Gran Senor) 3 wins at 2 to 4 at home, USA, Matiara S LR, 2nd Santa Ana H G2. Broodmare. 1998: Contiguous (f Danzig) unraced. Dam of CONFRONT (g Nayef: 5 wins at 2 and 4, Nayef Joel S G3, 2nd totesport.com Summer Mile S G2), Nearby (g King’s Best: 3 wins, 2nd Prix de Suresnes LR) 2000: Midsummer (f Kingmambo) Winner at 3, 2nd Bet Attheraces on 08000838383 Oaks Trial LR. Dam of MIDDAY (f Oasis Dream: 4 wins at 2 and 3 at home, USA, Blue Square Nassau S G1, Emirates Airlines Breeders’ Cup f&m Turf G1, 2nd Investec Oaks S G1, 3rd Darley Irish Oaks G1, Qatar Petroleum Prix de l’Opera G1) 2001: MODESTA (f Sadler’s Wells) 2 wins at 3, Toteexacta Lady Godiva Fillies’ S LR. Broodmare. 2003: NOVELLARA (f Sadler’s Wells) 2 wins at 3, Unicoin Homes Noel Murless S LR. Broodmare. 2004: Pretty Face (f Rainbow Quest) unraced. Broodmare. 2006: MANIFEST (c Rainbow Quest) 2 wins at 3 and 4, Emirates Airline Yorkshire Cup G2, 2nd Dubai Duty Free John Porter S G3, 3rd Directa Signs Noel Murless S LR. 2nd Dam: MOFIDA by Right Tack. 8 wins at 2 and 3 William Hill Trophy H LR, 2nd Ascot 1000 Guineas Trial S G3, Duke of York S G3, Ladbroke Nell Gwyn S G3. Dam of ZAIZAFON (f The Minstrel: Seaton Delaval S G3, 3rd Queen Elizabeth II S G2), Factual (c Known Fact: 3rd Newgate Stud Middle Park S G1), Dangora (f Sovereign Dancer: 2nd Pacemaker Update Lowther S G2), Magnified (g Known
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Fact: 3rd Centurion Cup LR). Grandam of ZAFONIC, ZAMINDAR, WELL BEYOND, CHOICE SPIRIT, ARABRIDE, DANZARI, Shuttle Diplomacy, Delegate, Press Baron, Botanic, Western Appeal. Third dam of REGAL PARADE, OUT OF REACH, ACOUSTICAL, Hasanat, Keld, The Cheka, Well Warned. Broodmare Sire: ROBERTO. Sire of the dams of 127 Stakes winners. In 2010 MANIFEST Rainbow Quest G2. The Rainbow Quest/Roberto cross has produced: PANORAMIC G1, RAINTRAP G1, SUNSHACK G1, MANIFEST G2, Tuning G2, Summer Breeze G3. Red God Blushing Groom Runaway Bride RAINBOW QUEST b 81 Herbager I Will Follow Where You Lead MANIFEST b c 2006 Hail To Reason Roberto Bramalea MODENA b 83 Right Tack Mofida Wold Lass
409 - Emirates Airline Yorkshire Cup, G2, York, May 14, 14f 1 Manifest (GB) 4 b c Rainbow Quest (USA) - Modena (USA) (Roberto (USA)) 2 Purple Moon (IRE) 7 ch g Galileo (IRE) - Vanishing Prairie (USA) (Alysheba (USA)) 3 Wajir (FR) 4 b c Danehill Dancer (IRE) War Game (FR) (Caerleon (USA)) Age: 3-4; Starts: 5; Wins: 2; Places: 3 Earnings: £105,846 Sire: RAINBOW QUEST. Sire of 108 Stakes winners. In 2010 - MANIFEST Roberto G2. 1st Dam: Modena by Roberto. unraced. Dam of 11 winners: 1987: ELMAAMUL (c Diesis). 5 wins at 2 and 3, Coral Eclipse S G1, Phoenix Champion S G1, 2nd Juddmonte International S G1, 3rd Ever Ready Derby S G1. Sire. 1988: MODESTO (g Al Nasr) 9 wins at 3 to 5 inc. Baker Lorenz Stakes, Sandown. 1989: MODERNISE (c Known Fact) 5 wins at 2 to 4 at home, USA, Ascot H G3. Sire. 1992: A LA MODE (f Known Fact) Winner at 5 in USA. Broodmare. 1993: MODERN DAY (c Dayjur) 9 wins at 2, 4 and 5 at home, South Africa, King’s Cup H G3, 3rd Drill Hall S G2. Sire. 1994: REAMS OF VERSE (f Nureyev). 5 wins at 2 and 3, Fillies’ Mile
S G1, Vodafone Oaks S G1. Dam of MANY VOLUMES (c Chester House: 4 wins at 3 and 4, William Ewart Properties Gala S LR), Eagle Poise (c Empire Maker: 4 wins at 3 in Canada, 2nd Ontario Derby LR, Valedictory S LR, 3rd Tokyo City H G3), Ithaca (f Distant View: Winner at 2, 2nd Malaysia Airlines Non Stop Prestige S G3). Grandam of ZACINTO (c Dansili: 3 wins at 2 and 3, totesport.com Celebration Mile S G2, 2nd Sony Queen Elizabeth II S G1) 1995: Post Modern (f Nureyev) unraced. Dam of CHASING STARS (f Observatory: 4 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix Isola Bella LR), Risk Taker (g Rainbow Quest: 2 wins at 3 and 9, 3rd Victor Chandler Chester Vase G3) 1997: HIGH WALDEN (f El Gran Senor) 3 wins at 2 to 4 at home, USA, Matiara S LR, 2nd Santa Ana H G2. Broodmare. 1998: Contiguous (f Danzig) unraced. Dam of CONFRONT (g Nayef: 5 wins at 2 and 4, Nayef Joel S G3, 2nd totesport.com Summer Mile S G2), Nearby (g King’s Best: 3 wins, 2nd Prix de Suresnes LR) 2000: Midsummer (f Kingmambo) Winner at 3, 2nd Bet Attheraces on 08000838383 Oaks Trial LR. Dam of MIDDAY (f Oasis Dream: 4 wins at 2 and 3 at home, USA, Blue Square Nassau S G1, Emirates Airlines Breeders’ Cup f&m Turf G1, 2nd Investec Oaks S G1, 3rd Darley Irish Oaks G1, Qatar Petroleum Prix de l’Opera G1) 2001: MODESTA (f Sadler’s Wells) 2 wins at 3, Toteexacta Lady Godiva Fillies’ S LR. Broodmare. 2003: NOVELLARA (f Sadler’s Wells) 2 wins at 3, Unicoin Homes Noel Murless S LR. Broodmare. 2004: Pretty Face (f Rainbow Quest) unraced. Broodmare. 2006: MANIFEST (c Rainbow Quest) 2 wins at 3 and 4, Emirates Airline Yorkshire Cup G2, 2nd Dubai Duty Free John Porter S G3, 3rd Directa Signs Noel Murless S LR. 2nd Dam: MOFIDA by Right Tack. 8 wins at 2 and 3 William Hill Trophy H LR, 2nd Ascot 1000 Guineas Trial S G3, Duke of York S G3, Ladbroke Nell Gwyn S G3. Dam of ZAIZAFON (f The Minstrel: Seaton Delaval S G3, 3rd Queen Elizabeth II S G2), Factual (c Known Fact: 3rd Newgate Stud Middle Park S G1), Dangora (f Sovereign Dancer: 2nd Pacemaker Update Lowther S G2), Magnified (g Known Fact: 3rd Centurion Cup LR). Grandam of ZAFONIC, ZAMINDAR, WELL BEYOND, CHOICE SPIRIT, ARABRIDE, DANZARI, Shuttle Diplomacy, Delegate, Press Baron, Botanic, Western Appeal. Third dam of REGAL PARADE, OUT OF REACH, ACOUSTICAL, Hasanat, Keld, The Cheka, Well Warned. Broodmare Sire: ROBERTO. Sire of the
international database dams of 127 Stakes winners. In 2010 MANIFEST Rainbow Quest G2. The Rainbow Quest/Roberto cross has produced: PANORAMIC G1, RAINTRAP G1, SUNSHACK G1, MANIFEST G2, Tuning G2, Summer Breeze G3. Red God Blushing Groom Runaway Bride RAINBOW QUEST b 81 Herbager I Will Follow Where You Lead MANIFEST b c 2006 Hail To Reason Roberto Bramalea MODENA b 83 Right Tack Mofida Wold Lass
2nd Dam: ROSSALDENE by Mummy’s Pet. 1 win at 2. Dam of CAPE TOWN (c Desert Style: Victor Chandler European Free H LR, Michael Page International Silver Trophy LR, 2nd Attheraces Mile S G2, 3rd Entenmann’s Irish 2000 Guineas G1), REGIMENT (c Shaadi: Easter S LR), Green’s Ferneley (c Taufan: 3rd Bovis Autumn S LR), Lammastide (f Martinmas: 3rd Precocious National S LR). Grandam of COCONUT JOHNNY, SKY CRUSADER, Harvest Warrior, Gypsy Johnny. Third dam of ELECTRIC BEAT, Blakey’s Boy. Broodmare Sire: SANDHURST PRINCE. Sire of the dams of 8 Stakes winners. In 2010 - PACO BOY Desert Style G1. Danzig
410 - totesport.com Lockinge Stakes, G1, Newbury, May 15, 8f
Green Desert Foreign Courier DESERT STYLE b 92 High Top Organza
1 Paco Boy (IRE) 5 b c Desert Style (IRE) - Tappen Zee (Sandhurst Prince) 2 Ouqba (GB) 4 b c Red Ransom (USA) Dancing Mirage (IRE) (Machiavellian (USA)) 3 Lord Shanakill (USA) 4 b/br c Speightstown (USA) - Green Room (USA) (Theatrical) Age: 2-5; Starts: 18; Wins: 11; Places: 4 Earnings: £816,409 Sire: DESERT STYLE. Sire of 18 Stakes winners. In 2010 - PACO BOY Sandhurst Prince G1, MISTER MANANNAN Common Grounds LR. 1st Dam: TAPPEN ZEE by Sandhurst Prince. 2 wins at 3. Dam of 6 winners: 1992: Tappen Lady (f Doulab) 1993: MAWINGO (g Taufan) 3 wins at 3 inc. Dom Ruinart Champagne Handicap, Newmarket, Baileys Irish Cream Liqueur Handicap, Newmarket. 1995: (f Balla Cove) 1996: SUPER PERFORMANCE (g Mujadil) 3 wins at 4 and 5 in Hong Kong. 1998: ZACHOLIV (f Desert Style) 2 wins at 3. Broodmare. 2001: FUEL CELL (g Desert Style) 4 wins. 2003: Xarzee (f Xaar) ran twice. Broodmare. 2005: PACO BOY (c Desert Style) Sold 12,157gns foal at GONO1, 10,508gns yearling at TIDEC, 30,000gns 2yo at DNAPR. 11 wins at 2 to 5, 2010 at home, France, totesport.com Lockinge S G1, Queen Anne S G1, Total Prix de la Foret G1, Betfair Cup Lennox S G2, CGA Hungerford S G2, Bet365 Mile G2 (twice), Bathwick Tyres Greenham S G3, betdirect.com Spring Cup LR, 2nd BGC Sussex S G1. 2006: TARTAN TURBAN (c Invincible Spirit) Winner at 2.
Canton Silk PACO BOY b c 2005 Pampapaul Sandhurst Prince Blue Shark TAPPEN ZEE ch 86 Mummy’s Pet Rossaldene Palestra
ANALYSIS: Paco Boy’s sire Desert Style won three Group 3 races over 6f and 7f. He’s never hit the heights of fellow Green Desert sons Oasis Dream, Street Cry and Invincible Spirit, but has been represented by more than his share of good horses, his offspring also including Caradak, Mandesha, Bachir and the German Derby (G1) winner Next Desert. Paco Boy’s dam Tappan Zee is a daughter of the Group-winning miler but disappointing sire Sandhurst Prince and is a half-sister to another good Desert Style horse in Cape Town. He won the European Free Handicap and was several times Group placed, including when third in the Irish 2,000 Guineas (G1). She is also half-sister to the Easter Stakes winner Regiment, and to Grey Patience, who is grand-dam of the Goldene Peitsche (G2) victor Electric Beat (by Shinko Forest, like Desert Style, a son of Green Desert). Paco Boy’s pedigree is something of an outcross, but he has Fair Trial combined with one or other of the three-parts brothers Nimbus and Grey Sovereign in the pedigrees of both the second dam of his sire and of his own second dam.
411 - P.Presidente della RepubblicaGBI Racing, G1, Rome, May 16, 2000m 1 Querari (GER) 4 b c Oasis Dream (GB) - Quetena (GER) (Acatenango (GER))
2 Voila Ici (IRE) 5 gr c Daylami (IRE) - Far Hope (GB) (Barathea (IRE)) 3 Pressing (IRE) 7 b/br c Soviet Star (USA) - Rafif (USA) (Riverman (USA)) Age: 2-4; Starts: 11; Wins: 5; Places: 3 Earnings: £170,097 Sire: OASIS DREAM. Sire of 29 Stakes winners. In 2010 - QUERARI Acatenango G1, TUSCAN EVENING Suave Dancer G2, ALTA FEDELTA Luge G3, SANDBAR Hernando G3, SRI PUTRA In The Wings G3, KEREDARI Doyoun LR, RAIN DELAYED Shareef Dancer LR. 1st Dam: Quetena by Acatenango. 3 wins at 3 and 4 in Germany, 2nd Premio Archidamia LR. Dam of 1 winner: 2006: QUERARI (c Oasis Dream) 5 wins at 2 to 4 in Germany, Italy, P.Presidente della Repubblica-GBI Racing G1, Euro Cup G3, Preis des Casino Baden-Baden LR, 2nd Henkel Trophy G2, Grosse Hessen Meile Fraport AG Pokal G3. 2007: Quixada (f Konigstiger) unraced to date. 2008: Qualita (f Konigstiger) unraced to date. 2010: (f Oasis Dream) 2nd Dam: QUEBRADA by Devil’s Bag. Champion 2yr old filly in Germany in 1992, Champion 3yr old filly in Germany in 1993. 7 wins at 2 and 3 in West Germany ARAG Preis (1000 Guineas) G2. Own sister to COURT. Dam of QUILANGA (f Lomitas: Prix de Psyche G3), Quebra (f Surumu: 2nd P. der Stadtsparkasse Hannover & VGH G3), Quetena (f Acatenango, see above) Broodmare Sire: ACATENANGO. Sire of the dams of 31 Stakes winners. In 2010 - QUERARI Oasis Dream G1, URAMAZIN Danehill Dancer LR. Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier OASIS DREAM b 2000 Dancing Brave Hope Bahamian QUERARI b c 2006
3 Kolokol (IRE) 3 br c Statue of Liberty (USA) - Hecterine (IRE) (Hector Protector (USA)) Age: 2-7; Starts: 26; Wins: 11; Places: 5 Earnings: £929,919 Sire: MARCHAND DE SABLE. Sire of 11 Stakes winners. In 2010 - MARCHAND D’OR Kendor G3, SABLE DES ONGRAIS Zilzal LR. 1st Dam: Fedora by Kendor. ran on the flat in France at 3. Dam of 3 winners: 2003: MARCHAND D’OR (g Marchand de Sable) Champion 3yr old sprinter in Europe in 2006, Champion older sprinter in Europe in 2008. 11 wins to 2010 at home, France, Darley July Cup G1, Qatar Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp G1, Prix Maurice de Gheest G1 (3 times), Prix du Gros-Chene G2, Prix de la Porte Maillot G3 (twice), Prix de Saint-Georges G3, Prix du Pont-Neuf LR, 2nd Betfred Sprint Cup G1, Prix Djebel LR, 3rd P. de la Foret Casino Barriere Biarritz G1. 2004: Take Fedor (c Take Risks). unraced, died as a yearling. 2005: SAGA D’OR (f Sagacity) Winner at 2 in France. Broodmare. 2006: TAKE D’OR (c Take Risks) Winner at 3 in France. 2008: Dora de Green (f Green Tune) unraced to date. 2009: (c Rock of Gibraltar) Broodmare Sire: KENDOR. Sire of the dams of 33 Stakes winners. In 2010 CHARMING WOMAN Invincible Spirit G3, LADY SPRINGBANK Choisir G3, MARCHAND D’OR Marchand de Sable G3. Nureyev Theatrical Tree of Knowledge MARCHAND DE SABLE br/b 90 Kenmare Mercantile Mercuriale MARCHAND D’OR gr g 2003 Kenmare Kendor Belle Mecene FEDORA gr 98 Far North Far But Near Kesar Queen
Surumu Acatenango Aggravate QUETENA br/br 2000 Devil’s Bag Quebrada
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international database Sire: ACT ONE. Sire of 6 Stakes winners. In 2010 - SILVER POND Quest For Fame G2. 1st Dam: SILVER FAME by Quest For Fame. Winner at 3 in France. Dam of 3 winners: 2003: SILVER POINT (g Commands) 8 wins in France, Grand Prix de la Riviera Cote d’Azur LR. 2004: STATIA (f Anabaa) Winner at 3 in France. 2005: Savoya (f Anabaa) unraced. 2007: SILVER POND (c Act One) 3 wins at 3 in France, Prix Hocquart G2. 2008: Societe (f Panis) unraced to date. 2009: Smyrnes (f Anabaa) 2nd Dam: SILVERQUEEN by Alydar. 1 win at 3 in France. Dam of SILVA (f Anabaa: Prix Zeddaan LR, Prix Sigy LR), Sylvestre (c Anabaa: 2nd Prix Thomas Bryon G3). Grandam of SAVOIE, Silverlord. Broodmare Sire: QUEST FOR FAME. Sire of the dams of 22 Stakes winners. In 2010 - SKILLED Commands G1, TAVISTOCK Montjeu G1, SILVER POND Act One G2, FAMOUS NAME Dansili G3, SERENISSIMA Lonhro LR, WIND SHEAR Flying Spur LR. Sadler’s Wells In The Wings High Hawk ACT ONE gr 99 Baillamont Summer Sonnet Noesis SILVER POND gr c 2007 Rainbow Quest Quest For Fame Aryenne SILVER FAME b 98 Alydar Silverqueen Silvermine
414 - Poule d’Essai des Pouliches, G1, Longchamp, May 16, 1600m 1 Lope de Vega (IRE) 3 ch c Shamardal (USA) - Lady Vettori (GB) (Vettori (IRE)) 2 Dick Turpin (IRE) 3 b c Arakan (USA) Merrily (GB) (Sharrood (USA)) 3 Shamalgan (FR) 3 b c Footstepsinthesand (GB) - Genevale (FR) (Unfuwain (USA)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 5; Wins: 3; Places: 2 Earnings: £285,726 Sire: SHAMARDAL. Sire of 12 Stakes winners. In 2010 - FAINT PERFUME Zabeel G1, LOPE DE VEGA Vettori G1, ZAZOU Lomitas G3, ELLE SHADOW Roi Danzig LR, FEMINA FASHION Jeune LR, HAPPY HIPPY Soviet Lad LR, SIYAADAH Lahib LR. 1st Dam: LADY VETTORI by Vettori. 5 wins at 2 in France, Prix du Calvados G3, 3rd Prix Marcel Boussac-Royal
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Barriere G1. Dam of 5 winners: 2002: FLOWER BOWL (f Anabaa) Winner at 3 in France. Broodmare. 2004: BAL DE LA ROSE (f Cadeaux Genereux) 4 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix Andre Baboin (G.P.des Provinces) G3. Broodmare. 2005: LEAP AHEAD (g Desert Prince) 3 wins at 4 in France. 2006: LE ROC (c Montjeu) Winner at 2 in France. 2007: LOPE DE VEGA (c Shamardal) 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Poule d’Essai des Pouliches G1, 3rd Prix de Fontainebleau G3. 2008: (f Hurricane Run) 2009: (c Monsun) 2nd Dam: Lady Golconda by Kendor. unraced. Dam of LADY VETTORI (f Vettori, see above), Rosey de Megeve (f Efisio: 2nd Prix La Camargo LR, Prix de la Cochere LR, Prix La Sorellina LR, Prix du Pont-Neuf LR) Broodmare Sire: VETTORI. Sire of the dams of 5 Stakes winners. In 2010 LOPE DE VEGA Shamardal G1. Storm Cat Giant’s Causeway Mariah’s Storm SHAMARDAL b 2002 Machiavellian Helsinki Helen Street LOPE DE VEGA ch c 2007 Machiavellian Vettori Air Distingue LADY VETTORI b 97 Kendor Lady Golconda Lady Sharp
ANALYSIS: Lope De Vega was certainly bred for this race as both his sire and his broodmare sire, Vettori, preceded him to French Guineas glory. Shamardal, who like Lope De Vega won the two French Classics, was undefeated in Europe and he has made a great start to his stud career. Lope De Vega is the fifth stakes winner from Shamardal’s first European crop, with Arctic, Shakespearean and Zazou all also winning Group races. He’s been equally effective with his first runners from his shuttle crop sired in Australia, with another five winning black-type events, including the multiple Grade 1 winner Faint Perfume. Lope De Vega is a half-brother to the Cadeaux Genereux filly Bal De Rose, winner of the Prix Andre Baboin (G3). The dam Lady Vettori was also a Group winner and won the Prix du Calvados (G3) before finishing third in the Prix Marcel Boussac (G1). The grand-dam Lady Golconda is a half-sister to Lady Blessington, a Group/Graded winner in France and
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the US, to the French Group winner Lowell and to Red Cat, a daughter of Shamardal’s grandsire Storm Cat. She who won two black-type races and was graded placed in the US. Lope De Vega has an intriguing pedigree pattern as Shamardal’s dam is a sister to Street Cry and is by Machiavellian, who also appears as sire of Lope De Vega’s broodmare sire Vettori, and so is 3x3 in the pedigree. Machiavellian is out of a mare by Halo (also here in Sharmardal, through Rahy) and the pedigree also features that horse’s genetic relative, Sir Ivor. 415 - Poule d’Essai des Poulains, G1, Longchamp, May 16, 1600m 1 Special Duty (GB) 3 ch f Hennessy (USA) - Quest To Peak (USA) (Distant View (USA)) 2 Baine (FR) 3 b f Country Reel (USA) Benzolina (IRE) (Second Empire (IRE)) 3 Joanna (IRE) 3 b f High Chaparral (IRE) - Secrete Marina (IRE) (Mujadil (USA)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 7; Wins: 4; Places: 3 Earnings: £722,059 Sire: HENNESSY. Sire of 59 Stakes winners. In 2010 - SPECIAL DUTY Distant View G1, THE ROSY Roy G2. 1st Dam: Quest To Peak by Distant View. ran on the flat in USA at 3. Own sister to SIGHTSEEK. Dam of 1 winner: 2007: SPECIAL DUTY (f Hennessy) 4 wins at 2 and 3 at home, France, Electrolux Cheveley Park S G1, stanjames.com 1000 Guineas G1, Poule d’Essai des Poulains G1, Prix Robert Papin G2, 2nd Darley Prix Morny G1, Prix Yacowlef LR, 3rd Prix Imprudence G3. 2008: (f Dansili) 2009: (f Galileo) 2nd Dam: VIVIANA by Nureyev. 3 wins at 3 in France Prix des Tuileries LR, Prix Melisande LR, 2nd Prix de Psyche G3. Dam of SIGHTSEEK (f Distant View: Beldame S G1 (twice), Ogden Phipps H G1 (twice), Go For Wand H G1, Ruffian H G1, Humana Distaff H G1, 2nd Go For Wand H G1, Santa Margarita Invitational H G1, Santa Monica H G1), TATES CREEK (f Rahy: Yellow Ribbon S G1, Gamely Breeders’ Cup H G1, 2nd John C Mabee H G1) Broodmare Sire: DISTANT VIEW. Sire of the dams of 7 Stakes winners. In 2010 - SPECIAL DUTY Hennessy G1, TRANQUIL TIGER Selkirk G3.
The Hennessy/Distant View cross has produced: SPECIAL DUTY G1, Southern Prince LR. Storm Bird Storm Cat Terlingua HENNESSY ch 93 Hawaii Island Kitty T C Kitten SPECIAL DUTY ch f 2007 Mr Prospector Distant View Seven Springs QUEST TO PEAK b 2002 Nureyev Viviana Nijinsky Star
416 - betfred.com Temple Stakes, G2, Haydock Park, May 22, 5f 1 Kingsgate Native (IRE) 5 b g Mujadil (USA) - Native Force (IRE) (Indian Ridge) 2 Equiano (FR) 5 b c Acclamation (GB) - Entente Cordiale (IRE) (Ela-ManaMou) 3 Borderlescott (GB) 8 b g Compton Place (GB) - Jeewan (Touching Wood (USA)) Age: 2-5; Starts: 12; Wins: 4; Places: 4 Earnings: £538,537 Sire: MUJADIL. Sire of 25 Stakes winners. In 2010 - KINGSGATE NATIVE Indian Ridge G2. 1st Dam: NATIVE FORCE by Indian Ridge. Winner at 3. Dam of 3 winners: 2003: ASSUMPTION (f Beckett) Winner at 3. Broodmare. 2005: KINGSGATE NATIVE (g Mujadil) Sold 18,912gns foal at GONO1, 20,000gns yearling at DNSLY. 4 wins at 2 to 5, 2010, Golden Jubilee S G1, Coolmore Nunthorpe S G1, betfred.com Temple S G2, Audi King George S G3, 2nd P.de l’Abbaye de Longchamp Maj. Barriere G1, Betfair Molecomb S G3, Windsor Castle S LR, 3rd Coolmore Nunthorpe S G1. Sire. 2007: VANISHING GREY (f Verglas) Winner at 2. 2008: (f Kodiac) 2009: (f Cape Cross) Broodmare Sire: INDIAN RIDGE. Sire of the dams of 38 Stakes winners. In 2010 - CALMING INFLUENCE King’s Best G2, CAT BY THE TALE Tale of The Cat G2, KINGSGATE NATIVE Mujadil G2, REYKON Invincible Spirit LR, ERADICATE Montjeu LR. The Mujadil/Indian Ridge cross has
international database produced: KINGSGATE NATIVE G1, Mermaid Island LR. Northern Dancer Storm Bird South Ocean MUJADIL b 88 Secretariat Vallee Secrete Midou KINGSGATE NATIVE b g 2005 Ahonoora Indian Ridge Hillbrow NATIVE FORCE b 98 Be My Guest La Pellegrina Spanish Habit
417 - Weatherbys Ireland Greenlands Stakes, G3, Curragh, May 22, 6f 1 Markab (GB) 7 b g Green Desert (USA) Hawafiz (GB) (Nashwan (USA)) 2 Snaefell (IRE) 6 gr g Danehill Dancer (IRE) - Sovereign Grace (IRE) (Standaan (FR)) 3 Alfred Nobel (IRE) 3 b/br c Danehill Dancer (IRE) - Glinting Desert (IRE) (Desert Prince (IRE))
418 - TRI Equestrian Ridgewood Pearl Stakes, G3, Curragh, May 22, 8f 1 Shamwari Lodge (IRE) 4 b f Hawk Wing (USA) - Ripalong (IRE) (Revoque (IRE)) 2 Indiana Gal (IRE) 5 b f Intikhab (USA) Genial Jenny (IRE) (Danehill (USA)) 3 Annabelle’s Charm (IRE) 5 ch f Indian Ridge - Kylemore (IRE) (Sadler’s Wells (USA)) Age: 2-4; Starts: 12; Wins: 5; Places: 3 Earnings: £95,470 Sire: HAWK WING. Sire of 9 Stakes winners. In 2010 - SHAMWARI LODGE Revoque G3, BECKET Dayjur LR, LEUCI LAMPS Roi Danzig LR.
Sire: GREEN DESERT. Sire of 93 Stakes winners. In 2010 - MARKAB Nashwan G3.
1st Dam: Ripalong by Revoque. ran a few times at 2 and 3. Dam of 1 winner: 2006: SHAMWARI LODGE (f Hawk Wing) 5 wins at 2 to 4, TRI Equestrian Ridgewood Pearl S G3, EBF Conqueror S LR, 32red Casino Snowdrop S LR, 2nd Japan Racing Association Sceptre S LR. 2007: Shamardal Phantom (f Shamardal) unraced to date. 2008: Imperial Rome (c Holy Roman Emperor) unraced to date. 2009: (c Excellent Art)
1st Dam: HAWAFIZ by Nashwan. 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France. Dam of 2 winners: 2003: MARKAB (g Green Desert) Sold 33,000gns 4yo at DNLNC. 6 wins at 3 to 7, 2010 at home, France, Weatherbys Ireland Greenlands S G3. 2004: RAML (f In The Wings) Winner at 4 in France. 2005: Deraaya (f Mujahid) 2006: Anan (c Cape Cross) 2007: Naabegha (g Muhtathir) in training.
2nd Dam: Limpopo by Green Desert. Dam of PIPALONG (f Pips Pride: Stanley Leisure Sprint Cup G1, 3rd Darley July Cup G1, Victor Chandler Nunthorpe S G1, Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp G1 (twice)), OUT OF AFRICA (f Common Grounds: Coldstream Guards Rockingham S LR), Silver Shoon (f Fasliyev: 2nd Go And Go Round Tower S G3), China Eyes (f Fasliyev: 2nd Polypipe Flying Childers S G2). Grandam of WALK ON BYE.
2nd Dam: Taghareed by Shadeed. 1 win at 2, 2nd Columbus Sweet Solera S LR. Dam of Rahn (g Elmaamul: 3rd Ballysax S LR)
Broodmare Sire: REVOQUE. Sire of the dams of 2 Stakes winners. In 2010 SHAMWARI LODGE Hawk Wing G3.
Age: 3-7; Starts: 26; Wins: 6; Places: 9 Earnings: £112,152
Broodmare Sire: NASHWAN. Sire of the dams of 40 Stakes winners. In 2010 - MARKAB Green Desert G3, SIR HARRY ORMESHER Sir Harry Lewis LR. The Green Desert/Nashwan cross has produced: MARKAB G3, Ego LR. Northern Dancer Danzig Pas de Nom
Mr Prospector Woodman Playmate HAWK WING b 99 Val de L’Orne La Lorgnette The Temptress SHAMWARI LODGE b f 2006 Fairy King Revoque La Bella Fontana RIPALONG b 2000 Green Desert Limpopo Grey Goddess
GREEN DESERT b 83 Sir Ivor Foreign Courier Courtly Dee MARKAB b g 2003 Blushing Groom Nashwan Height of Fashion HAWAFIZ ch 98 Shadeed Taghareed Alghuzaylah
419 - Abu Dhabi Irish 2000 Guineas, G1, Curragh, May 22, 8f 1 Canford Cliffs (IRE) 3 b c Tagula (IRE) - Mrs Marsh (GB) (Marju (IRE)) 2 Free Judgement (USA) 3 b/br c
Vindication (USA) - South Bay Cove (CAN) (Fusaichi Pegasus (USA)) 3 Viscount Nelson (USA) 3 b/br c Giant’s Causeway (USA) - Imagine (IRE) (Sadler’s Wells (USA)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 5; Wins: 2; Places: 3 Earnings: £157,535 Sire: TAGULA. Sire of 12 Stakes winners. In 2010 - CANFORD CLIFFS Marju G1. 1st Dam: Mrs Marsh by Marju. unraced. Dam of 2 winners: 2005: ZEERAN (c Barathea) 3 wins at 4 in Sweden. 2007: CANFORD CLIFFS (c Tagula) Sold 29,600gns foal at GONO1, 47,619gns yearling at DNSLY. 2 wins at 2, Abu Dhabi Irish 2000 Guineas G1, Coventry S G2, 2nd Bathwick Tyres Greenham S G3, 3rd stanjames.com 2000 Guineas G1, Darley Prix Morny G1. 2009: (c Holy Roman Emperor) 2nd Dam: Drei by Lyphard. Dam of PINA COLADA (f Sabrehill: Chandler H, 2nd San Clemente H G2). Grandam of Ellmau, Nasri, Laureldean Express. Broodmare Sire: MARJU. Sire of the dams of 13 Stakes winners. In 2010 CANFORD CLIFFS Tagula G1, DUNELIGHT Desert Sun LR. Stop The Music Taufan Stolen Date TAGULA b 93 Standaan Twin Island Jolly Widow CANFORD CLIFFS b c 2007 Last Tycoon
placed in Europe and a two-time graded winner in the US. Canford Cliffs is the product of a cross that’s had limited opportunities, but his pedigree is not without interest. He has the mare Stolen Hour 3x7 (as grand-dam of Taufan and as third dam of Try My Best, the sire of Last Tycoon) and she is combined with Buckpasser (dam, Busanda, a three-parts sister to Mr. Busher, the sire of Stolen Hour). Canford Cliffs grandsire Taufan has Buckpasser’s sire Tom Fool close up with Stolen Hour. Overall, we can find Stolen Hour together with Buckpasser in at least 76 stakes winners, 13 at Grade 1, other names including Empire Maker, Redoute’s Choice, Rags To Riches, Grey Swallow and Peeping Fawn.
420 - Prix d’Ispahan, G1, Longchamp, May 23, 1800m 1 Goldikova (IRE) 5 b f Anabaa (USA) Born Gold (USA) (Blushing Groom (FR)) 2 Byword (GB) 4 ch c Peintre Celebre (USA) - Binche (USA) (Woodman (USA)) 3 Wiener Walzer (GER) 4 b c Dynaformer (USA) - Walzerkoenigin (USA) (Kingmambo (USA)) Age: 2-5; Starts: 16; Wins: 11; Places: 4 Earnings: £2,527,791 Sire: ANABAA. Sire of 75 Stakes winners. In 2010 - GOLDIKOVA Blushing Groom G1, LOUP BRETON Irish River G2, PLUMANIA Rainbow Quest G2, BE POSITIVE Hennessy G3, SLAPSTICK Red Ransom G3, COURT Zedavite LR.
Marju Flame of Tara MRS MARSH b 2001 Lyphard Drei Triple Tipple
ANALYSIS: Canford Cliffs stems from a uniquely Irish-branch of a US male line. His grandsire, the handsome Taufan, was an English two-year-old Group 2 winner by Stop The Music and out of Stolen Date, a half-sister to Best In Show. Canford Cliffs’ sire Tagula was the best son of Taufan and won the Prix Morny (G1) and July Stakes (G3) at two, and the Supreme Stakes (G3) at three, as well as earning thirds in the Dewhurst Stakes (G1) and French 2,000 Guineas (G1). He’s been a useful sire, but Canford Cliffs is only his third Group winner and first Group 1 winner. Canford Cliffs is out of Mrs. Marsh, a daughter of Marju (Last Tycoon) and a half-sister to the minor US stakes winner Pina Colada. The second dam Drei is by Lyphard and out of the Raise A Cup mare Triple Tipple, a Listed winner and Group-
1st Dam: BORN GOLD by Blushing Groom. Winner at 4 in France. Own sister to GOLD SPLASH. Dam of 10 winners: 1996: GLAMADOUR (f Sanglamore) Winner at 3 in France. Broodmare. 1997: GOLD ROUND (f Caerleon) 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix Cleopatre G3. Dam of SPECTACULAIRE (c Spectrum: 4 wins at 3, 4 and 6 in France, Prix Right Royal LR), GOLDWAKI (c Dalakhani: 3 wins at 3 in France, Coupe des Trois Ans LR) 1998: Born Something (f Caerleon) 4 wins at 2, 4 and 5 in France, USA, 2nd West Virginia Senate President’s Cup S LR, 3rd Prix de la Grotte G3. Broodmare. 1999: DEMONIOUS (g Dr Devious) 7 wins at 4 to 8 in France. 2000: SUPERFONIC (f Zafonic) Winner at 3 in France. Broodmare. 2001: Red Tune (g Green Tune) 3 wins at 3, 6 and 7 in France, 2nd Prix de Guiche G3. 2002: GOLD SOUND (g Green Tune) 9 wins to 2009 in France, USA,
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international database Prix de Guiche G3, 2nd Prix Noailles G2. 2004: NEARTICA (f Sadler’s Wells) Winner at 3 in France. Broodmare. 2005: GOLDIKOVA (f Anabaa) Champion older mare in Europe in 2009. 11 wins at 2 to 5, 2010 at home, France, USA, Etihad Airways Falmouth S G1, Prix Rothschild G1 (twice), Prix d’Ispahan G1, Prix du Moulin de Longchamp G1, P. Fresnay le Buffard Jacques Le Marois G1, Breeders’ Cup Mile G1 (twice), Prix Chloe G3, 2nd Poule d’Essai des Pouliches G1, 3rd Prix de Diane G1, Total Prix de la Foret G1. 2006: Born Again (f Cape Cross) 2007: OCEAN SEVEN (c Green Tune) Winner at 2 in France. 2008: Galikova (f Galileo) unraced to date. 2010: (c Anabaa) 2nd Dam: RIVIERE D’OR by Lyphard. 4 wins at 2 and 3 in France Prix SaintAlary G1, 2nd Prix Marcel Boussac G1, Prix de Diane Hermes G1. Dam of GOLD SPLASH (f Blushing Groom: Coronation S G1, Prix Marcel Boussac G1, 3rd Dubai Poule d’Essai des Pouliches G1). Grandam of ROYAL GOD. Broodmare Sire: BLUSHING GROOM. Sire of the dams of 143 Stakes winners. In 2010 - GOLDIKOVA Anabaa G1.
Round, winner of the Prix Cleopatre (G3), the Listed winners Goldwaki (a promising 2010 three-year-old) and Spectaculaire, as well as the Prix de Guiche (G3) winner Gold Sound and the group-placed pair of Born Something and Red Tune. Born Gold is an exceptionally wellbred mare. A daughter of Blushing Groom, she is a sister to the Coronation Stakes (G1) and Prix Marcel Boussac (G1) heroine Gold Splash. Her dam Riviere d’Or won the Prix Saint-Alary (G1) and finished second in the Prix de Diane (G1), and she is out of the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (G1) winner Gold River. Goldikova, the Group 1 winner Rouvres, Plumania, who won the Prix Corrida (G2) the day after Goldikova’s victory and the Group 3 winner Marshall are the four stakes winners by Anabaa out of Blushing Groom line mares. It’s worth nothing that Rouvres and Marshall are out of mares by Groom Dancer, who is by Blushing Groom out of a Lyphard mare, as is the dam of Goldikova. Plumania, who like Goldikova, was bred by Wertheimer et Frere, has a dam by Rainbow Quest out of a Lyphard mare. Goldikova is also one of ten Anabaa stakes winners with inbreeding to Riverman.
Northern Dancer Danzig Pas de Nom ANABAA b 92 Gay Mecene Balbonella Bamieres
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Freer S G3, Deloitte Autumn S G3, Bahrain Trophy G3, 2nd Ladbrokes St Leger S G1. 2007: Musical Mark (g Oratorio) 2009: (c Teofilo) 2nd Dam: Shadywood by Habitat. 1 win at 3, 2nd Lancashire Oaks G3. Dam of MADAME DUBOIS (f Legend of France: Park Hill S G2, Ciga Prix de Royallieu G2), Sun And Shade (f Ajdal: 2nd Lady Morvich H LR). Grandam of INDIAN HAVEN, COUNT DUBOIS, DAGGERS DRAWN, Place de L’Opera, Enemy Action. Third dam of IMPERIAL STRIDE, HIGH PITCHED, EVADING TEMPETE, ZERO TOLERANCE, Middlemarch, Lady High Havens, Super Sleuth. Broodmare Sire: MARK OF ESTEEM. Sire of the dams of 7 Stakes winners. In 2010 - DANON CHANTILLY Fuji Kiseki G1, KITE WOOD Galileo G2. The Galileo/Mark of Esteem cross has produced: KITE WOOD G1, MIKHAIL GLINKA G1.
ANALYSIS: Anabaa, Goldikova’s sire, was one of the best European-raced sons of Danzig and was an outstanding sprinter at four when his wins included the July Cup (G1) and Prix Maurice de Gheest (G1). Anabaa was a very successful sire in Europe and with his Australian-sired shuttle crops. He has sired 56 stakes winners and these include Prix du Jockey-Club victor Anabaa Blue, the Group 1 winners Amonita and Rouvres, and Hong Kong Group 1 winner Precision from his northern hemisphere crops. His Australian runners include champion Australia sprinter Yell, the Australian Derby (G1) winner Headturner, Spring Champion Stakes (G1) winner Teranaba, the threetime Grade1 winner Virage de Fortune and Le Drakkar, a Grade 1 winner in South Africa. Goldikova’s dam Born Gold has been a successful producer and in addition to Goldikova she has produced Gold
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1 Kite Wood (IRE) 4 b c Galileo (IRE) Kite Mark (GB) (Mark of Esteem (IRE)) 2 Kasbah Bliss (FR) 8 b g Kahyasi Marital Bliss (FR) (Double Bed (FR)) 3 Blek (FR) 5 gr c Chichicastenango (FR) - Exande (FR) (Exit To Nowhere (USA)) Age: 2-4; Starts: 9; Wins: 5; Places: 2 Earnings: £295,678 Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 70 Stakes winners. In 2010 - CAPE BLANCO Presidium G2, KITE WOOD Mark of Esteem G2, LINTON Centaine G2, MAHBOOBA Red Ransom G2, MIDAS TOUCH Darshaan G2, CHABAL Zafonic G3, LILY OF THE VALLEY Pennekamp LR, SOUTH EASTER Nureyev LR. 1st Dam: Kite Mark by Mark of Esteem. ran once at 3. Dam of 4 winners: 2003: PRINCE ZAFONIC (g Zafonic) Winner over hurdles at 6. 2004: DAYLAMI DREAMS (g Daylami) 2 wins at 3 and 4. 2005: LEGISLATION (g Oasis Dream) 2 wins at 2 and 3. 2006: KITE WOOD (c Galileo) Sold 270,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 5 wins at 2 to 4 at home, France, Prix Vicomtesse Vigier G2, CGA Geoffrey
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2nd Dam: Sanamia by Top Ville. 1 win at 3, 3rd A & M Construction EBF Challenge Race LR. Broodmare Sire: DARSHAAN. Sire of the dams of 149 Stakes winners. In 2010 - SARAFINA Refuse To Bend G1, MIDAS TOUCH Galileo G2, GLASS HARMONIUM Verglas G3, CLAREMONT Sadler’s Wells LR, TACTIC Sadler’s Wells LR, ASHKAZAR Sadler’s Wells LR, PITTONI Peintre Celebre LR, SLINGSHOT Kahyasi LR, ZARINAVA Daylami LR. The Refuse To Bend/Darshaan cross has produced: SARAFINA G1, GRACE O’MALLEY G3, ALAIYMA LR.
Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge GALILEO b 98 Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta KITE WOOD b c 2006 Darshaan Mark of Esteem Homage KITE MARK ch 98 Habitat Shadywood Milly Moss
GOLDIKOVA b f 2005 Red God Blushing Groom Runaway Bride BORN GOLD ch 91 Lyphard Riviere d’Or Gold River
Prix Charles Laffitte LR, Prix Volterra LR, Prix Occitanie LR, 3rd Prix Cleopatre G3, Prix de Conde G3, Prix Penelope G3. Broodmare. 2006: Sanabyra (f Kahyasi) unraced. 2007: SARAFINA (f Refuse To Bend) 2 wins at 3 in France, Montjeu Coolmore Prix Saint-Alary G1. 2008: (c Dr Fong)
422 - Montjeu Coolmore Prix SaintAlary, G1, Longchamp, May 23, 2000m 1 Sarafina (FR) 3 f Refuse To Bend (IRE) - Sanariya (IRE) (Darshaan) 2 Deluxe (USA) 3 b/br f Storm Cat (USA) - Hasili (IRE) (Kahyasi) 3 Hibaayeb (GB) 3 b f Singspiel (IRE) Lady Zonda (GB) (Lion Cavern (USA)) Age: 3; Starts: 2; Wins: 2; Places: 0 Earnings: £137,035 Sire: REFUSE TO BEND. Sire of 5 Stakes winners. In 2010 - SARAFINA Darshaan G1. 1st Dam: Sanariya by Darshaan. Dam of 5 winners: 2001: SANADA (f Priolo) Winner at 3 in France. Broodmare. 2002: SANAGORA (f Mujadil) 2 wins at 3 in France. Broodmare. 2003: SANAYA (f Barathea) 4 wins at 2 to 4 in France, UAE, Prix Casimir Delamarre LR, Storming Home Cape Verdi S LR, 2nd Montjeu Coolmore Prix Saint-Alary G1. 2005: Sanjida (f Polish Precedent) Winner at 2 in France, 2nd
Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge REFUSE TO BEND b 2000 Gulch Market Slide Grenzen SARAFINA f 2007 Shirley Heights Darshaan Delsy SANARIYA b/br 96 Top Ville Sanamia Santalina
ANALYSIS: Sarafina is from the second crop of 2,000 Guineas (G1) winner Refuse to Bend, and is the first Group 1 winner for the son of Sadler’s Wells. Her dam Sanariya had previously produced the high-class filly Sanaya, winner of the Cape Verdi Stakes and the Prix Casimir Delamarre, and runner-up in the Prix Saint-Alary (G1). She is by Barathea, another son of Sadler’s Wells. It’s no surprise to see Sanariya do so well with the Sadler’s Wells line as she is a daughter of Darshaan. Sadler’s Wells has sired 28 stakes winners from 112 starters out of mares by Darshaan, and there are a further 24 stakes winners from 232 starters by sons of Sadler’s Wells out of mares by Darshaan, including an earlier Refuse to Bend stakes winner, Alaiyma. The second dam, the black-type placed Sanamia, is out of French Listed winner Santalina, a daughter of Relko. She is half-sister to Sumayr, winner of the Grand Prix de Paris (G1) and Preis von Europa (G1), and to Listed winner Samata.
international database 423 - Tattersalls Gold Cup, G1, Curragh, May 23, 10f 110yds 1 Fame And Glory (GB) 4 b c Montjeu (IRE) - Gryada (GB) (Shirley Heights) 2 Recharge (IRE) 4 b c Cape Cross (IRE) Rebelline (IRE) (Robellino (USA)) 3 Chinese White (IRE) 5 gr f Dalakhani (IRE) - Chiang Mai (IRE) (Sadler’s Wells (USA)) Age: 2-4; Starts: 11; Wins: 6; Places: 3 Earnings: £1,550,496 Sire: MONTJEU. Sire of 86 Stakes winners. In 2010 - FAME AND GLORY Shirley Heights G1, TAVISTOCK Quest For Fame G1, WALL STREET Grand Lodge G1, JUKEBOX JURY Kenmare G2, GROWL Western Symphony G3, JAN VERMEER Pennekamp G3, OLD JOCK Dance Floor LR, BUDAPEST Doyoun LR, ERADICATE Indian Ridge LR, HURRICANE FLY Kenmare LR. 1st Dam: Gryada by Shirley Heights. 2 wins at 2, 3rd Premio Dormello G3. Own sister to Golan Heights. Dam of 8 winners: 1998: Guaranda (f Acatenango) 2 wins at 3, 3rd EBF Upavon S LR. Dam of GRAVITATION (f Galileo: 2 wins at 3, Moet Hennessy Lillie Langtry S G3) 1999: Grampian (c Selkirk) 4 wins at 2, 3 and 6, 2nd Manchester Evening News July S LR, John Smith’s Extra Smooth Silver Cup H LR. 2001: GRAHAM ISLAND (g Acatenango) 2 wins at 3 and 4. 2002: GRYSKIRK (g Selkirk) Winner at 2. 2003: GAZE (f Galileo) 2 wins at 4 in Germany. Broodmare. 2005: YUMMY MUMMY (f Montjeu) Winner at 3. 2006: FAME AND GLORY (c Montjeu) Sold 190,000gns foal at TADEF. 6 wins at 2 to 4 at home, France, Tattersalls Gold Cup G1, Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby G1, Criterium de SaintCloud G1, Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial S G2, High Chaparral EBF Mooresbridge S G3, P W McGrath Memorial Ballysax S G3, 2nd Investec Derby S G1, Tattersalls Millions Irish Champion S G1, 3rd New Tote Sports Lounge Alleged S LR. 2007: RAIN FOREST (c Sadler’s Wells) 2 wins at 3. 2010: (f Montjeu) 2nd Dam: GRIMPOLA by Windwurf. 2 wins in West Germany ARAG Schwarzgold-Rennen (1000 Guineas) G2. Own sister to GRIMBEAU. Dam of Golan Heights (g Shirley Heights: 2nd Parfetts Anniversary July Trophy S LR), Gryada (f Shirley Heights, see above). Grandam of GONBARDA, GLOBAL DREAM, GONFILIA, GONLARGO, GORLOR, Gondoro, Global Dancer, Global World. Third dam of
GOATHEMALA, GALANA. Broodmare Sire: SHIRLEY HEIGHTS. Sire of the dams of 174 Stakes winners. In 2010 - FAME AND GLORY Montjeu G1, AKDARENA Hernando G3, CAPE MARTIN Polish Precedent LR, OPINION POLL Halling LR, KHYBER KIM Mujahid LR. The Montjeu/Shirley Heights cross has produced: ANTON CHEKHOV G1, FAME AND GLORY G1, MONTARE G1, Washington Irving G2, Red Peony G3. Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge MONTJEU b 96 Top Ville Floripedes Toute Cy FAME AND GLORY b c 2006 Mill Reef Shirley Heights Hardiemma GRYADA b/br 93 Windwurf Grimpola Gondel
ANALYSIS: Fame And Glory is another major credit for his remarkable young sire Montjeu, whose other northern hemisphere celebrities include Hurricane Run, Motivator, Montmartre, Scorpion and Authorized, as well current three-year-olds Jan Vermeer and St. Nicholas Abbey. Fame And Glory’s dam Gryada, who was Group-placed in Italy at two, is by Shirley Heights – like Montjeu a Derby winner and sire of Derby winners – and is out of Grimpola, who won the Schwarzgold Rennen (G2) and was third in the German Oaks (G2). Gryada is also grand-dam of Fame And Glory’s near relative Gravitation, a daughter of Galileo (by Montjeu’s sire, Sadler’s Wells), who won the Lillie Langtry Stakes (G3) last year. Grand-dam Grimpola never produced a black-type winner, but she is grand-dam of several other notable performers, including Gonbarda, a filly who won the Deutschland-Preis (G1) and Pries Von Europa (G1), and the Group winner Gonlargo – both are out of a three-parts sister to Gryada. The Princess Elizabeth Stakes (G3) winner Gonfilia and the group winner Global Dream are two more grand-daughters. Grimpola is also third dam of 2008 Group winner Goathemala, who is by Black Sam Bellamy, another son of Sadler’s Wells. The structure of Fame And Glory’s pedigree is also well proven. The cross of Mill Reef and his sons over mares from German families resulted in several good winners, most notably Shirley Height’s Derby winner Slip Anchor. The Sadler’s Wells/Shirley Heights cross has been producing top-class horses for nearly 20 years.
As far as Montjeu is concerned he also has Montare and the Group winner Anton Chekov out of mares by Shirley Heights, and four other blacktype winners out of Shirley Heights line mares.
424 - Etihad Airways Irish 1000 Guineas, G1, Curragh, May 23, 8f 1 Bethrah (IRE) 3 br f Marju (IRE) - Reve d’Iman (FR) (Highest Honor (FR)) 2 Anna Salai (USA) 3 b f Dubawi (IRE) Anna Palariva (IRE) (Caerleon (USA)) 3 Music Show (IRE) 3 b f Noverre (USA) Dreamboat (USA) (Mr Prospector (USA)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 3; Wins: 2; Places: 0 Earnings: £45,022 Sire: MARJU. Sire of 54 Stakes winners. In 2010 - BETHRAH Highest Honor G1, COMIC STRIP Be My Chief G1, CHINCHON Hector Protector G3, FANJURA Lear Fan G3, MARPIONE Pine Bluff LR. 1st Dam: REVE D’IMAN by Highest Honor. Winner at 3 in France. Own sister to NUMIDE, REVE D’OSCAR and SIR ERIC. Dam of 1 winner: 2006: Alrescha (f Marju) 2007: BETHRAH (f Marju) Sold 34,000gns foal at TADEF, 112,044gns yearling at GOOY1. 2 wins at 3, Etihad Airways Irish 1000 Guineas G1, Derrinstown Stud 1000 Guineas Trial G3. 2008: (c Tiger Hill) 2nd Dam: NUMIDIE by Baillamont. 2 wins at 3 in France Prix de la Cochere LR. Dam of NUMIDE (g Highest Honor: Prix Hocquart G2, Greatwood H. Hurdle G3), REVE D’OSCAR (f Highest Honor: Prix Saint-Alary G1, 2nd Prix de l’Opera-Hotel du Lac Barriere G1, Prix Vermeille Normandy Barriere G1, Gran Premio del Jockey Club G1), SIR ERIC (g Highest Honor: Grand Prix Inter-Regional des 3 Ans LR). Grandam of APRES UN REVE, Reve d’Orient, Reve d’Amour. Broodmare Sire: HIGHEST HONOR. Sire of the dams of 36 Stakes winners. In 2010 - BETHRAH Marju G1, SAPHINA DE KERSER Al Namix LR. Try My Best Last Tycoon Mill Princess MARJU br 88 Artaius Flame of Tara Welsh Flame BETHRAH br f 2007 Kenmare Highest Honor High River REVE D’IMAN b 2001 Baillamont Numidie Yamuna
ANALYSIS: Although he has sired a couple of males who have won major races in Hong Kong, Marju has become particularly noted for his daughters – Soviet Song, a five-time Group winner at a mile; Sil Sila, who won the French Oaks (G1); My Emma, winner of the Yorkshire Oaks (G1) and the Prix Vermeille (gr. I); Marbye, successful in the Prix d’Astarte (G1) and Marju Snip, who took the Australasian Oaks (G1). To that group can now be added Bethrah, who won the Irish 1,000 Guineas (G1), just a day after Canford Cliffs – who is out of a Marju mare – won the Irish 2,000 Guineas (G1). Bethrah’s dam, the Highest Honor mare Reve d’Iman, is a sister to the Prix Saint-Alary (G1) heroine Reve d’Oscar, the Group 1 winner Numide and the stakes winner Sir Eric. The second dam Numidie is a daughter of Baillamont and was also a Listed winner in France. Bethrah has a rather interesting pedigree structure as she is a granddaughter of Last Tycoon (dam by Mill Reef (Never Bend), a Nasrullah/Djebel cross), and her broodmare sire Highest Honor is by Kenmare (Nasrullah/Djebel cross) out of a mare by Riverman (Never Bend, and similarly-bred to Mill Reef ). Ultimately she may prove to be a good cross for a son or grandson of Sadler’s Wells, who is out of a mare by Never Bend’s half-brother Bold Reason, and who has combined very well with Last Tycoon.
425 - Airlie Stud Gallinule Stakes, G3, Curragh, May 23, 10f 1 Jan Vermeer (IRE) 3 b c Montjeu (IRE) - Shadow Song (IRE) (Pennekamp (USA)) 2 Bobbyscot (IRE) 3 b c Alhaarth (IRE) Sogno Verde (IRE) (Green Desert (USA)) 3 Shintoh (USA) 3 br c Giant’s Causeway (USA) - Hollywood Wildcat (USA) (Kris S (USA)) Age: 2; Starts: 3; Wins: 2; Places: 1 Earnings: £149,705 Sire: MONTJEU. Sire of 86 Stakes winners. In 2010 - FAME AND GLORY Shirley Heights G1, TAVISTOCK Quest For Fame G1, WALL STREET Grand Lodge G1, JUKEBOX JURY Kenmare G2, GROWL Western Symphony G3, JAN VERMEER Pennekamp G3, OLD JOCK Dance Floor LR, BUDAPEST Doyoun LR, ERADICATE Indian Ridge LR, HURRICANE FLY Kenmare LR. 1st Dam: SHADOW SONG by Pennekamp. Winner at 3 in France. Dam of 1 winner: 2007: JAN VERMEER (c Montjeu). 2 wins at 2 at home, France,
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international database Criterium International G1, Airlie Stud Gallinule S G3. 2008: Together (f Galileo) 2009: (f Montjeu) 2nd Dam: Evening Air by J O Tobin. unraced. Dam of MIDNIGHT AIR (f Green Dancer: May Hill S G3), Greenstead (g Green Dancer: 2nd Country Pride Champion Novices’ Hurdle G1, 2nd Fighting Blindness H. Chase G3). Grandam of IMPERIAL BEAUTY, MIDNIGHT LINE, Mr Olimpia, Be My Queen, SILLY GAME. Third dam of Better Hand.
Grandam of Party Girl. Broodmare Sire: ZINAAD. Sire of the dams of 5 Stakes winners. In 2010 VANJURA Areion G2. The Areion/Zinaad cross has produced: VANJURA G2, ASHANTEE G3. Super Concorde Big Shuffle Raise Your Skirts AREION b 95 Caerleon Aerleona Alata VANJURA ch f 2007
Broodmare Sire: PENNEKAMP. Sire of the dams of 3 Stakes winners. In 2010 JAN VERMEER Montjeu G3, LILY OF THE VALLEY Galileo LR.
Shirley Heights Zinaad Time Charter VENIA LEGENDI b 98 Salse Vecchia Romagna Princess Eboli
Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge MONTJEU b 96 Top Ville Toute Cy Bering Pennekamp Coral Dance SHADOW SONG b 2002 J O Tobin Evening Air Nellie Forbes
426 - Diana Trial, G2, BerlinHoppegarten, May 23, 2000m 1 Vanjura (GER) 3 ch f Areion (GER) Venia Legendi (GER) (Zinaad (GB)) 2 Waldjagd (GB) 3 ch f Observatory (USA) - Wurftaube (GER) (Acatenango (GER)) 3 Elle Shadow (IRE) 3 b f Shamardal (USA) - Elle Danzig (GER) (Roi Danzig (USA)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 5; Wins: 3; Places: 1 Earnings: £79,127 Sire: AREION. Sire of 9 Stakes winners. In 2010 - KALI Dashing Blade G2, VANJURA Zinaad G2, PRAKASA Lomitas G3. 1st Dam: VENIA LEGENDI by Zinaad. 2 wins at 3 in Germany. Dam of 2 winners: 2005: VANCOVIA (f Dream Well) 2 wins at 2 and 3 in Germany, Preis der BHF Bank LR. 2007: VANJURA (f Areion) Sold 19,607gns yearling at BBAGO. 3 wins at 2 in Germany, Diana Trial G2. 2008: Ventiane (f Konigstiger) unraced to date. 2009: Velayati (c Sholokhov) 2nd Dam: VECCHIA ROMAGNA by Salse. 2 wins at 2 in West Germany. Dam of Voodoo Lounge (f Turfkonig: 3rd Scherping-Rennen LR, ClemensKleine-Dusseldorfer Stutenpreis LR).
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Broodmare Sire: RAINBOW QUEST. Sire of the dams of 112 Stakes winners. In 2010 - PLUMANIA Anabaa G2, PUNCHER CLYNCH Azamour G3, ROSES FOR THE LADY Sadler’s Wells LR, AURORAS ENCORE Second Empire LR, EBADIYAN Daylami LR. The Anabaa/Rainbow Quest cross has produced: PLUMANIA G1, Baahama G3, Cielago G3, Lunaa LR.
427 - Prix Corrida, G2, Saint-Cloud, May 24, 2000m
Age: 2-4; Starts: 12; Wins: 2; Places: 9 Earnings: £303,701 Sire: ANABAA. Sire of 75 Stakes winners. In 2010 - GOLDIKOVA Blushing Groom G1, LOUP BRETON Irish River G2, PLUMANIA Rainbow Quest G2, BE POSITIVE Hennessy G3, SLAPSTICK Red Ransom G3, COURT Zedavite LR. 1st Dam: FEATHERQUEST by Rainbow Quest. Winner at 2 in France. Dam of 4 winners: 2003: OMITAS (g Lomitas) 3 wins at 4 to 6 in France. 2004: HANDO (c Hernando) 5 wins at 3 to 6, 2010 in France. 2005: BALLADEUSE (f Singspiel) 2 wins at 3 in France, Qatar Prix de Royallieu G2. Broodmare. 2006: PLUMANIA (f Anabaa) 2 wins at 2 and 4 in France, Prix Corrida G2, 2nd Qatar Prix Vermeille G1, Prix Penelope G3, 3rd Prix de Diane G1, Qatar Prix de Royallieu G2, P de Psyche Beachcomber Hotel Royal Palm G3. 2007: Singuliere (f Singspiel) 2008: Insoumise (f Galileo) unraced to date. 2009: Secrete (f Cape Cross) 2010: (f Anabaa) 2nd Dam: Featherhill by Lyphard. 2 wins at 2 and 3 in France, 3rd Lady Morvich H. Dam of GROOM DANCER (c Blushing Groom: Prix Lupin G1), TAGEL (c Cox’s Ridge: Ciga Prix Saint-Roman G3, 3rd Breeders’ Cup Juvenile G1),
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2nd Dam: Saquiace by Sagace. 4 wins at 3 and 4 in France, 2nd Grand Prix de Villeurbanne LR. Dam of SKY DANCING (f Exit To Nowhere, see above), Starla (f Lando: 3rd Bremer Stuten Meile LR). Grandam of WHAT’S UP PUSSYCAT. Broodmare Sire: EXIT TO NOWHERE. Sire of the dams of 22 Stakes winners. In 2010 - BLEK Chichicastenango G3, DARIOLE Highest Honor G3, SCALO Lando G3, EKIN Mujahid LR, BANJAXED GIRL King’s Theatre LR, MAGIC MAMBO Hernando LR. Surumu Acatenango Aggravate LANDO b 90 Sharpman Licata
Danzig
1 Plumania (GB) 4 b f Anabaa (USA) Featherquest (GB) (Rainbow Quest (USA)) 2 Celimene (IRE) 4 b f Dr Fong (USA) Lunassa (FR) (Groom Dancer (USA)) 3 Daryakana (FR) 4 ch f Selkirk (USA) Daryaba (IRE) (Night Shift (USA))
unraced to date. 2009: (f Lomitas)
Laurea Northern Dancer
Floripedes JAN VERMEER b c 2007
SLEW THE SLEWOR (c Slew O’ Gold: Prix Omnium II LR, Hurricane H LR, Robert F Carey Memorial H LR, 2nd Elkhorn S G2), Feathertop (c Alydar: 3rd Prix Herbager LR). Grandam of KINSHASA NO KISEKI, LEGERETE, HEARTHSTEAD MAISON, RAVE REVIEWS, FERMION, SAIL, Underwater, Raging Fire, Feather Duster. Third dam of FALCO, IRON LIPS, Investissement.
Pas de Nom ANABAA b 92 Gay Mecene Balbonella Bamieres PLUMANIA b f 2006 Blushing Groom Rainbow Quest I Will Follow FEATHERQUEST b 98 Lyphard Featherhill Lady Berry
SCALO b c 2007 Irish River Exit To Nowhere Coup de Folie SKY DANCING b 97 Sagace Saquiace Laquiola
429 - Mehl-Mulhens Rennen (2000 Guineas), G2, Cologne, May 24, 1600m
1 Scalo (GB) 3 b c Lando (GER) - Sky Dancing (IRE) (Exit To Nowhere (USA)) 2 Wheredreamsare (GB) 3 b c Monsun (GER) - Wakytara (GER) (Danehill (USA)) 3 Nightdance Paolo (GER) 3 b c Paolini (GER) - Nightdance (GER) (Shareef Dancer (USA))
1 Frozen Power (IRE) 3 b c Oasis Dream (GB) - Musical Treat (IRE) (Royal Academy (USA)) 2 Kite Hunter (IRE) 3 ch c Muhtathir (GB) - Miss Chryss (IRE) (Indian Ridge) 3 Russian Tango (GER) 3 ch c Tertullian (USA) - Russian Samba (IRE) (Laroche (GER)) 3 Noble Alpha (IRE) 3 b c Shamardal (USA) - Nouvelle Noblesse (GER) (Singspiel (IRE))
Age: 2-3; Starts: 3; Wins: 3; Places: 0 Earnings: £59,356
Age: 2-3; Starts: 11; Wins: 5; Places: 3 Earnings: £253,854
Sire: LANDO. Sire of 24 Stakes winners. In 2010 - SCALO Exit To Nowhere G3.
Sire: OASIS DREAM. Sire of 29 Stakes winners. In 2010 - QUERARI Acatenango G1, FROZEN POWER Royal Academy G2, TUSCAN EVENING Suave Dancer G2, ALTA FEDELTA Luge G3, SANDBAR Hernando G3, SRI PUTRA In The Wings G3, KEREDARI Doyoun LR, RAIN DELAYED Shareef Dancer LR.
428 - onextwo.com Bavarian Classic, G3, Munich, May 24, 2000m
1st Dam: SKY DANCING by Exit To Nowhere. 5 wins at 2 and 4 in Germany, Italy, Premio Buontalenta LR. Dam of 4 winners: 2003: SEXY LADY (f Danehill Dancer) 4 wins at 3 in France, Germany, Prix Chloe G3. Broodmare. 2004: Sky Express (c Lando) unraced. 2005: SCOLARI (c Monsun) 4 wins at 4 and 5 in Germany. 2006: SKYLOR (c Sakhee) 2 wins at 4 in Germany. 2007: SCALO (c Lando) 3 wins at 2 and 3 in Germany, Fruhjahrspreis des Bankhauses Metzler G3, onextwo.com Bavarian Classic G3. 2008: Stromberg (c Medicean)
1st Dam: Musical Treat by Royal Academy. 3 wins, 2nd Victor Chandler Lupe S LR. Dam of 4 winners: 2002: RED RIOT (c Red Ransom) Winner at 3 in Czech Republic. 2003: (c Rahy). died as a yearling. 2004: FINSCEAL BEO (f Mr Greeley) Champion 2yr old filly in Europe in 2006. 5 wins at 2 and 3 at home, France, Boylesports Irish 1000 Guineas G1, Stan James 1000 Guineas G1, Prix Marcel Boussac-Barriere
international database Deauville G1, 2nd Tattersalls Gold Cup G1, Poule d’Essai des Pouliches G1, 3rd Queen Anne S G1. 2005: Musical Bar (f Barathea) Winner at 3, 2nd Michael Seely Memorial Fillies’ S LR. 2007: FROZEN POWER (c Oasis Dream) Sold 500,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 5 wins at 2 and 3 at home, France, Germany, UAE, Mehl-Mulhens Rennen (2000 Guineas) G2, Prix Haras de la Huderie LR, 2nd Sakhee Shadwell Estate UAE 2000 Guineas G3. 2008: Zabeel Park (f Medicean) unraced to date. 2009: (c Mr Greeley) 2nd Dam: MOUNTAIN ASH by Dominion. 10 wins at 2 to 4 at home, Italy Premio Royal Mares G3. Dam of Whistledownwind (g Danehill Dancer: 2nd Casino at bet365.com Classic Trial G3), Musical Treat (f Royal Academy, see above) Broodmare Sire: ROYAL ACADEMY. Sire of the dams of 76 Stakes winners. In 2010 - FROZEN POWER Oasis Dream G2, MAJESTIC MUSIC Al Maher G2, LAST REGAL Jallad G3, RIGHTFULLY YOURS Show A Heart G3, GLORY HUNTER Metal Storm LR, MOON ROYAL Mojave Moon LR, RONJA El Corredor LR, KEMPES Intikhab LR. Danzig
at 2 and 3 in Germany, K.Baronin von Ullmann Schwarzgold Rennen G3, 3rd Wettenleip Junioren Preis LR. 2008: Perpignon (c Numerous) unraced to date. 2009: (f Big Shuffle)
2nd Dam: OUMALDAAYA by Nureyev. Champion 3yr old filly in Italy in 1992. 3 wins at 2 and 3 at home, Italy Premio Lydia Tesio G2. Dam of HAAMI (c Nashwan: Ridgewood Pearl Desmond S G3, 2nd Dixie H G2)
2nd Dam: PROVACATRICE by Irish River. 1 win at 3 in France. Dam of Pardus (g Unfuwain: 2nd Grosser Karstadt Meile G2, 3rd Grosser Preis von Karlshorst Chase LR), Provolino (c Trempolino: 2nd Preis der Deutschen Bank AG LR, 3rd BMW Europachampionat G3), Pacific Blue (f Bluebird: 3rd Kolner Stuten Meile LR). Grandam of PELIGROSO, Provocador. Third dam of PRECIOUS BOY, Prema.
Broodmare Sire: SWAIN. Sire of the dams of 1 Stakes winners. In 2010 AKMAL Selkirk G2.
Broodmare Sire: LOMITAS. Sire of the dams of 11 Stakes winners. In 2010 PRAKASA Areion G3, ZAZOU Shamardal G3, HOLLYWOOD KISS Paolini LR. Super Concorde Big Shuffle
Caerleon Aerleona Alata PRAKASA b f 2007 Niniski Lomitas La Colorada PEPPLES BEACH b 2001 Irish River Provacatrice Don’t Sulk
Green Desert Foreign Courier
Hope Bahamian
431 - Blue Square Henry II Stakes, G2, Sandown Park, May 27, 16f
FROZEN POWER b c 2007 Nijinsky Royal Academy Crimson Saint MUSICAL TREAT ch 96 Dominion Mountain Ash Red Berry
430 - K.Baronin von Ullmann Schwarzgold Rennen, G3, Cologne, May 24, 1600m 1 Prakasa (FR) 3 b f Areion (GER) Pepples Beach (GER) (Lomitas (GB)) 2 Reine Heureuse (GER) 3 b f Big Shuffle (USA) - Reine Galante (IRE) (Danehill (USA)) 3 Mahamaya (GER) 3 b f Seattle Dancer (USA) - Mille Espoir (FR) (Mille Balles (FR)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 6; Wins: 2; Places: 4 Earnings: £53,723 Sire: AREION. Sire of 9 Stakes winners. In 2010 - KALI Dashing Blade G2, VANJURA Zinaad G2, PRAKASA Lomitas G3. 1st Dam: PEPPLES BEACH by Lomitas. 3 wins at 4 in Germany. Dam of 1 winner: 2007: PRAKASA (f Areion) 2 wins
Rocchetta SELKIRK ch 88 Nebbiolo Annie Edge Friendly Court AKMAL ch g 2006 Nashwan Swain Love Smitten AYUN ch 2000 Nureyev Oumaldaaya Histoire
432 - Blue Square Brigadier Gerard Stakes, G3, Sandown Park, May 27, 10f
Broodmare Sire: SHIRLEY HEIGHTS. Sire of the dams of 174 Stakes winners. In 2010 - FAME AND GLORY Montjeu G1, AKDARENA Hernando G3, STOTSFOLD Barathea G3, CAPE MARTIN Polish Precedent LR, OPINION POLL Halling LR, KHYBER KIM Mujahid LR. The Barathea/Shirley Heights cross has produced: BARATHEA GUEST G1, MAGICAL ROMANCE G1, STOTSFOLD G1, APSIS G3, BARAFAMY G3, SHIELD G3, COCKAYNE LR, Saree G3, Inchberry LR.
Raise Your Skirts AREION b 95
OASIS DREAM b 2000 Dancing Brave
Atan Sharpen Up
SUPREME SOUND (c Superlative: Hawthorne Gold Cup H G3, 2nd United Nations H G1), TOP CEES (g Shirley Heights: Coral Cup H. Hurdle G3), Dominant Serenade (g Dominion: 2nd Sandown H. Hurdle LR). Grandam of LEPORELLO, POPPY CAREW, CALYPSO GRANT. Third dam of DEVIOUS BOY, MARZELLINE, Fairmile, Against The Grain, Mr Keppel. Fourth dam of City Dancer.
1 Akmal (GB) 4 ch g Selkirk (USA) Ayun (USA) (Swain (IRE)) 2 Saptapadi (IRE) 4 ch g Indian Ridge Olympienne (IRE) (Sadler’s Wells (USA)) 3 Darley Sun (IRE) 4 b c Tiger Hill (IRE) Sagamartha (GB) (Rainbow Quest (USA)) Age: 2-4; Starts: 17; Wins: 8; Places: 3 Earnings: £182,485 Sire: SELKIRK. Sire of 78 Stakes winners. In 2010 - AKMAL Swain G2, TRANQUIL TIGER Distant View G3, GARDENING LEAVE Caerleon LR. 1st Dam: AYUN by Swain. 3 wins at 3. Dam of 2 winners: 2005: FERAA (f Sakhee) 2 wins at 3 and 4 in Greece. 2006: AKMAL (g Selkirk) 8 wins at 3 and 4, Blue Square Henry II S G2, Jockey Club Cup G3, Directa Signs Noel Murless S LR. 2007: Albeed (f Tiger Hill) in training. 2008: Elrasheed (c Red Ransom) unraced to date. 2009: (c Nayef ) 2010: (f Cape Cross)
1 Stotsfold (GB) 7 b g Barathea (IRE) Eliza Acton (GB) (Shirley Heights) 2 Tazeez (USA) 6 b/br g Silver Hawk (USA) - Soiree Russe (USA) (Nureyev (USA)) 3 Glass Harmonium (IRE) 4 gr c Verglas (IRE) - Spring Symphony (IRE) (Darshaan) Age: 3-7; Starts: 28; Wins: 8; Places: 8 Earnings: £248,948 Sire: BARATHEA. Sire of 81 Stakes winners. In 2010 - STOTSFOLD Shirley Heights G3, BARSHIBA Dashing Blade LR, GEESALA Rahy LR, OVERTURN Kris LR. 1st Dam: ELIZA ACTON by Shirley Heights. Winner at 2. Dam of 3 winners: 2001: Torley Grange (c Grand Lodge) unraced. 2002: MAGGIE TULLIVER (f Spectrum) 2 wins at 2 and 3. Broodmare. 2003: STOTSFOLD (g Barathea) 8 wins at 3 to 7, 2010 at home, France, Blue Square Brigadier Gerard S G3, Select Racing UK On Sky 432 S G3, Toteswinger Winter Hill S G3, La Coupe G3, 2nd Select Racing UK On Sky 432 S G3, 3rd Arlington Million S G1, Blue Square Brigadier Gerard S G3, Coutts Glorious S LR. 2004: Anna Towkaska (f Polish Precedent) 2006: MRS BEETON (f Dansili) Winner at 3. 2008: (c Barathea) 2009: (f Motivator) 2nd Dam: SING SOFTLY by Luthier. 3 wins at 2 and 3 Lancashire Oaks G3, 2nd Ribblesdale S G2. Dam of
Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge BARATHEA b 90 Habitat Brocade Canton Silk STOTSFOLD b g 2003 Mill Reef Shirley Heights Hardiemma ELIZA ACTON b 95 Luthier Sing Softly Melody Hour
433 - Timeform Jury John of Gaunt Stakes, G3, Haydock Park, May 29, 7f 1 Main Aim (GB) 5 b c Oasis Dream (GB) - Orford Ness (GB) (Selkirk (USA)) 2 Doncaster Rover (USA) 4 b g War Chant (USA) - Rebridled Dreams (USA) (Unbridled’s Song (USA)) 3 Dream Eater (IRE) 5 gr c Night Shift (USA) - Kapria (FR) (Simon du Desert (FR)) Age: 3-5; Starts: 15; Wins: 6; Places: 5 Earnings: £231,165 Sire: OASIS DREAM. Sire of 29 Stakes winners. In 2010 - QUERARI Acatenango G1, TUSCAN EVENING Suave Dancer G1, FROZEN POWER Royal Academy G2, ALTA FEDELTA Luge G3, MAIN AIM Selkirk G3, SANDBAR Hernando G3, SRI PUTRA In The Wings G3, FIELD OF DREAM Selkirk LR, KEREDARI Doyoun LR, RAIN DELAYED Shareef Dancer LR. 1st Dam: ORFORD NESS by Selkirk. 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix de Sandringham G3. Dam of 5 winners: 2000: WEIGHTLESS (g In The Wings) 7 wins at 3 to 7 at home, France,
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international database Prix Dollar Fouquet’s Barriere G2. 2001: CASTLE RISING (c Indian Ridge) 5 wins at 3 to 6 in France, Kingdom of Saudi Ara. 2002: HOME AFFAIRS (c Dansili) 3 wins at 2 to 4, vccasino.com Royal Windsor S LR, 3rd Vodafone Diomed S G3, Jersey S G3. 2003: Codename (f Sadler’s Wells) unraced. Broodmare. 2004: Change Course (f Sadler’s Wells). Broodmare. 2005: MAIN AIM (c Oasis Dream) 6 wins at 3 to 5, Timeform Jury John of Gaunt S G3 (twice), 2nd Darley July Cup G1, 3rd Duke of York Blue Square S G2. 2006: Simulate (c Dansili) ran once. 2007: VERDANT (c Singspiel) 2 wins at 2 and 3. 2009: (c Oasis Dream) 2nd Dam: Nesaah by Topsider. 2 wins at 3, 2nd Galtres S LR. Dam of ORFORD NESS (f Selkirk, see above), Aware (c Kenmare: 2nd Prix Eugene Adam G2), Legion (c Kris: 3rd Prix Pelleas LR). Grandam of Molomo, Pepperwood. Third dam of Rainfall. Broodmare Sire: SELKIRK. Sire of the dams of 20 Stakes winners. In 2010 MAIN AIM Oasis Dream G3, FIELD OF DREAM Oasis Dream LR, HIGH STANDING High Yield LR. The Oasis Dream/Selkirk cross has produced: MAIN AIM G1, MONITOR CLOSELY G1, FIELD OF DREAM LR. Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier OASIS DREAM b 2000 Dancing Brave Hope Bahamian MAIN AIM b c 2005 Sharpen Up Selkirk
POSAVINA Sadler’s Wells G3, REWILDING Top Ville LR, YABIGORSE Mukaddamah LR, YOUNG TIGER Trempolino LR. 1st Dam: ABBA by Goofalik. 2 wins at 3 in Germany. Own sister to ACAMBARO. Dam of 2 winners: 2004: ABBADJINN (c Big Shuffle). 7 wins at 3 and 4 in Germany, Von Wert Benazet Rennen G3, Oppenheim Fonds Trust Silberne Peitsche G3, 2nd bestwetten.de Goldene Peitsche G2. 2005: ABBASHIVA (c Tiger Hill) 3 wins at 2 and 3 in Germany, P. Freunde/Forderer Reiter Rennvereins G3, Grosse Hessen Meile - Fraport AG Pokal G3, Grosser Plural Preis LR, 2nd Excelsior Hotel Ernst-Meile LR, P.der Wettenleip GmbH-P.der Dreijahrgen LR, 3rd Christlacke Preis des Winterfavoriten G3. 2006: Abbasharjah (f Tiger Hill) unraced. 2007: Abbanandi (c Black Sam Bellamy) in training. 2nd Dam: Astica by Surumu. 3 wins at 2 and 3 in Germany, 2nd Preis von Koln LR. Dam of ACAMBARO (c Goofalik: Grosser Muller Brot-Preis G2, 2nd BMW Deutsches Derby G1), ADDICTED (f Diktat: Schwarzgold Rennen G3), ARTICA (f Pentire: G.Jubliaumspreis Hannoverschen Volksbank LR), AUETALER (g Niniski: Agfa Hurdle LR, 2nd Axminster 100 Kingwell Hurdle G2, Martell Mersey Novices’ Hurdle G2). Grandam of ALL SPIRIT. Broodmare Sire: GOOFALIK. Sire of the dams of 6 Stakes winners. In 2010 ABBASHIVA Tiger Hill G3, PALERMO Kalatos LR. The Tiger Hill/Goofalik cross has produced: ABBASHIVA G3, Foreign Music G3.
Annie Edge ORFORD NESS b 94 Topsider
Danzig
Nesaah
Danehill
Sylph
Razyana TIGER HILL b 95 Appiani II
434 - P. Freunde/Forderer Reiter Rennvereins, G3, Dusseldorf, May 29, 1600m
The Filly Tigress Silver ABBASHIVA b c 2005 Goofalik Alik
Age: 2-5; Starts: 16; Wins: 3; Places: 5 Earnings: £61,687 Sire: TIGER HILL. Sire of 29 Stakes winners. In 2010 - EYE OF THE TIGER Surumu G2, ABBASHIVA Goofalik G3,
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Surumu Astica Auenliebe
435 - Premio Carlo Vittadini, G2, Milan, May 30, 1600m 1 Pressing (IRE) 7 b/br c Soviet Star (USA) - Rafif (USA) (Riverman (USA)) 2 Summit Surge (IRE) 6 b g Noverre (USA) - Lady Peculiar (CAN) (Sunshine Forever (USA)) 3 Win For Sure (GER) 5 b g Stravinsky
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Sire: SOVIET STAR. Sire of 41 Stakes winners. In 2010 - PRESSING Riverman G2. 1st Dam: RAFIF by Riverman. Winner at 3. Dam of 5 winners: 1995: KADIR (c Unfuwain) 2 wins viz. Sha Tin Stakes, Sandown. 1996: Azimah (f Unfuwain). Broodmare. 1997: Tabashir (f Cadeaux Genereux) unraced. 1998: Rajam (g Sadler’s Wells) 9 wins, 2nd Prix Roland de Chambure LR. 1999: Al Wadood (f Cadeaux Genereux). unraced, died at 3 years. 2000: Lady Machiavellian (f Machiavellian) unraced. Broodmare. 2001: Land of Nod (f Barathea) 2002: Ebaaraat (f Sinndar) ran once. 2003: PRESSING (c Soviet Star) Sold 23,474gns yearling at ANSEP. 12 wins at 3 to 7, 2010 in Germany, Italy, Turkey, Premio Roma - Attheraces G1, Grosser Dallmayr Bayerisches Zuchtrennen G1, Premio Carlo Vittadini G2 (twice), Premio Ribot G2, Topkapi Trophy G2, Premio Ambrosiano G3, Premio Federico Tesio G3, Topkapi Trophy LR, 2nd P.Presidente della RepubblicaAttheraces G1 (twice), Grosser Dallmayr Bayerisches Zuchtrennen G1, Bet365 Mile G2, Premio del Dado LR, Premio Emanuele Filiberto LR, Premio Giuseppe de Montel LR, Bosphorus Cup LR, 3rd P.Presidente della Repubblica-GBI Racing G1, Premio Ribot - Tris Internazionale G2, Gran Premio d’Italia LR. 2004: MAKE ME AN OFFER (c Fasliyev) 3 wins at 3 in Spain. 2005: ROUGHTING (c Celtic Swing) 3 wins at 3 to 5 in Italy. 2008: Growling (f Celtic Swing) unraced to date. 2009: (c Soviet Star)
Lyphard
ABBA gr 99
1 Abbashiva (GER) 5 b c Tiger Hill (IRE) - Abba (GER) (Goofalik (USA)) 2 Alianthus (GER) 5 b c Hernando (FR) Allure (GER) (Konigsstuhl (GER)) 3 Sanjii Danon (GER) 4 b c Big Shuffle (USA) - Serpina (IRE) (Grand Lodge (USA))
(USA) - Win For Us (GER) (Surumu (GER))
2nd Dam: REVES CELESTES by Lyphard. 3 wins at 3. Dam of MATAHIF (g Wassl: Jennings The Bookmakers Zetland S LR, Milka Steher Cup LR, Dansk Eclipse S LR, Fyenslob LR, 3rd Stockholms Cup International G3), Keswa (f Kings Lake: 3rd Premio Giovanni Falck LR). Grandam of MASTERCRAFTSMAN, GENUINE DEVOTION, MAZUNA, Famous, Nobilissime. Third dam of BEYOND DESIRE, Esplendido. Broodmare Sire: RIVERMAN. Sire of the dams of 176 Stakes winners. In
Venture Veruschka Marie d’Anjou PRESSING b/br c 2003 Never Bend Riverman River Lady RAFIF b 90 Lyphard Reves Celestes Tobira Celeste
436 - Oaks d’Italia, G2, Milan, May 30, 2200m 1 Contredanse (IRE) 3 bl f Danehill Dancer (IRE) - Ahdaab (USA) (Rahy (USA)) 2 Middle Club (GB) 3 b f Fantastic Light (USA) - Anna Oleanda (IRE) (Old Vic) 3 Isantha (GER) 3 b f Dai Jin (GB) - Iaskre (GER) (Slip Anchor) Age: 2-3; Starts: 6; Wins: 3; Places: 1 Earnings: £168,618 Sire: DANEHILL DANCER. Sire of 111 Stakes winners. In 2010 CONTREDANSE Rahy G2, PLANTEUR Giant’s Causeway G2, MONTE ALTO Perugino LR, NEWS ALERT Brief Truce LR, SAMUEL MORSE Mt Livermore LR, SANJUAN Last Tycoon LR, SUPER SATIN Rock City LR, THE MIKADO Rigoletto LR, URAMAZIN Acatenango LR. 1st Dam: Ahdaab by Rahy. Dam of 5 winners: 2003: Walklikeanegyptian (f Danehill) 3 wins, 2nd Pucker Up S G3. Broodmare. 2004: CALLWOOD DANCER (f Danehill Dancer) 6 wins at 3 and 4 in Canada, Nassau S G2, 2nd E P Taylor S G1. 2005: MISS SIVIVATU (f Danehill Dancer) 2 wins at 4 in New Zealand. 2006: Set Sail (g Danehill Dancer) Winner at 2, 3rd Juddmonte International S G1. 2007: CONTREDANSE (f Danehill Dancer) Sold 200,000gns yearling at TAOC1, 135,000gns 2yo at TADEM. 3 wins at 3 at home, Italy, Oaks d’Italia G2. 2009: (f Danehill Dancer) 2nd Dam: DISH DASH by Bustino. 3 wins at 2 and 3 Ribblesdale S G2, 3rd Yorkshire Oaks G1. Dam of MAROOF (c Danzig: Queen Elizabeth II S G1, 2nd Smurfit National S G1), Arrasas (c Irish River: 2nd Jennings The Bookmakers Zetland S LR), Dahomey (c Dayjur: 3rd Milcars Easter S LR). Grandam of DESERT KING, CAIRDEAS, Chianti, Fatwa, Wahj, Elghani.
international database Broodmare Sire: RAHY. Sire of the dams of 71 Stakes winners. In 2010 ALVERTA Flying Spur G1, CONTREDANSE Danehill Dancer G2, DOUBLES PARTNER Rock Hard Ten G2, WORTHADD Dubawi G2, COURAGEOUS CAT Storm Cat G3, LIFE AT TEN Malibu Moon G3, CAMILLE C Roman Dancer LR, FLAWLESS GOLD Gold Tribute LR, GEESALA Barathea LR, HEEDAS Lomitas LR, MISS EUROPA Monsun LR, ONASSIS Glory of Dancer LR. The Danehill Dancer/Rahy cross has produced: CALLWOOD DANCER G1, CONTREDANSE G2, Set Sail G1.
2nd Dam: Add by Spectacular Bid. 4 wins at 3 and 4 in USA, 3rd Mademoiselle S. Dam of LIZARD ISLAND (c Danehill Dancer: Anheuser Busch Adventure Parks Railway S G2), INFLATE (c Forty Niner: Island Whirl H), Arabian Prince (g Fusaichi Pegasus: 2nd Platinum S LR, 3rd Desmond S G3, skybet.com Autumn S G3). Grandam of CORINTHIAN, DESERT HERO. Broodmare Sire: DEVIL’S BAG. Sire of the dams of 47 Stakes winners. In 2010 - SIX OF HEARTS Pivotal G3, FAHED JR Apprentice LR.
437 - Vodafone Foundation Gaisce Ballycorus S, G3, Leopardstown, May 30, 7f 1 Six of Hearts (GB) 6 b g Pivotal (GB) Additive (USA) (Devil’s Bag (USA)) 2 Duff (IRE) 7 b g Spinning World (USA) - Shining Prospect (GB) (Lycius (USA)) 3 Croisultan (IRE) 4 ch g Refuse To Bend (IRE) - Zoudie (GB) (Ezzoud (IRE)) Age: 3-6; Starts: 55; Wins: 7; Places: 23 Earnings: £130,522 Sire: PIVOTAL. Sire of 77 Stakes winners. In 2010 - NOORDHOEK FLYER Kris G2, SARISKA Muhtarram G2, SIX OF HEARTS Devil’s Bag G3, FALLEN IDOL Brief Truce LR, FRATAZZ Local Suitor LR, PEARL BANKS Efisio LR, PRESCRIPTION Elmaamul LR. 1st Dam: Additive by Devil’s Bag. Dam of 3 winners: 2002: Mystic Sea (f Barathea) ran a few times. 2003: ADD WINGS (f In The Wings) 2 wins. 2004: SIX OF HEARTS (g Pivotal) Sold 67,543gns yearling at GOOY1, 11,000gns 3yo at DNOC1. 7 wins at 4 to 6, Vodafone Foundation Gaisce Ballycorus S G3, 3rd Navigation Stakes LR. 2005: JOKIPUR (g Act One) Winner at 3. 2006: Contradiktive (g Diktat) ran a few times. 2007: Cataspheric (g One Cool Cat) in training.
Broodmare Sire: MONSUN. Sire of the dams of 7 Stakes winners. In 2010 TRES ROCK DANON Rock of Gibraltar G3.
FOREST. Sire of the dams of 2 Stakes winners. In 2010 - SNOW FAIRY Intikhab G1. Roberto Red Ransom Arabia INTIKHAB b 94 Crafty Prospector Crafty Example Zienelle SNOW FAIRY b f 2007 Warning Charnwood Forest Dance of Leaves WOODLAND DREAM br 2002 Marju Fantasy Girl Persian Fantasy
Nureyev Marie d’Argonne
Danehill Razyana DANEHILL DANCER b 93 Sharpen Up Mira Adonde Lettre d’Amour CONTREDANSE bl f 2007 Blushing Groom Rahy Glorious Song AHDAAB ch 96 Bustino Dish Dash Loose Cover
2nd Dam: Tres Magnifique by Gay Fandango. 1 win at 2 in West Germany, 2nd Ludwig GoebelsErinnerungsrennen G3, 3rd ARAG Schwarzgold-Rennen (1000 Guineas) G2. Dam of TRES HEUREUX (c Konigsstuhl: G. P. von Dusseldorf Stadt Sparkasse G2), Tres Ravi (f Monsun, see above)
Polar Falcon PIVOTAL ch 93
Danzig
American Post)
Cozzene Fearless Revival Stufida SIX OF HEARTS b g 2004 Halo Devil’s Bag Ballade ADDITIVE b 97 Spectacular Bid Add Number
438 - Grosser Erhmann Steher Cup, G3, Krefeld, May 30, 3200m 1 Tres Rock Danon (FR) 4 b c Rock of Gibraltar (IRE) - Tres Ravi (GER) (Monsun (GER)) 2 Brisant (GER) 8 b/br g Goofalik (USA) Beresina (GB) (Surumu (GER)) 3 Eye of The Tiger (GER) 5 b c Tiger Hill (IRE) - Evening Breeze (GER) (Surumu (GER)) Age: 3-4; Starts: 6; Wins: 2; Places: 3 Earnings: £24,168 Sire: ROCK OF GIBRALTAR. Sire of 52 Stakes winners. In 2010 - GIBRALTAR BLUE Bluebird G2, LA ROCKET Desert Sun G2, TRES ROCK DANON Monsun G3, BRUSCO Rainbow Quest LR, SOCIETY ROCK Key of Luck LR, FINGAL ROCK Soviet Star LR. 1st Dam: Tres Ravi by Monsun. Winner at 3 in Germany, 2nd Prix de la Nonette G3, Deutscher Herold-Preis G3. Dam of 4 winners: 2002: Tres Preneur (c Entrepreneur) unraced. 2003: TRES BRAVE (c Fasliyev) Winner at 2 in France. 2004: TRES FINE (f Kutub) Winner at 3 in France. 2005: Tres Rapide (f Anabaa Blue) 2 wins at 3 in France, 2nd Qatar Prix de Royallieu G2, Grosser Preis der Badischen Unternehmen G2. 2006: TRES ROCK DANON (c Rock of Gibraltar) Sold 64,350gns yearling at ARAUG. 2 wins at 3 in Germany, Grosser Erhmann Steher Cup G3, 2nd Prix Denisy LR. 2007: Tres American Girl (f
Danzig Danehill Razyana ROCK OF GIBRALTAR b 99 Be My Guest Offshore Boom Push A Button TRES ROCK DANON b c 2006 Konigsstuhl Monsun Mosella TRES RAVI br 97 Gay Fandango Tres Magnifique Toscadora
440 - Investec Diomed Stakes, G3, Epsom Downs, June 4, 8f 110yds 1 Bushman (GB) 6 gr g Maria’s Mon (USA) - Housa Dancer (FR) (Fabulous Dancer (USA)) 2 Alexandros (GB) 5 ch c Kingmambo (USA) - Arlette (IRE) (King of Kings (IRE)) 3 Mabait (GB) 4 b c Kyllachy (GB) Czarna Roza (GB) (Polish Precedent (USA)) Age: 4-6; Starts: 15; Wins: 5; Places: 4 Earnings: £106,913
439 - Investec Oaks Stakes, G1, Epsom Downs, June 4, 12f 1 Snow Fairy (IRE) 3 b f Intikhab (USA) - Woodland Dream (IRE) (Charnwood Forest (IRE)) 2 Meeznah (USA) 3 b f Dynaformer (USA) - String Quartet (IRE) (Sadler’s Wells (USA)) 3 Remember When (IRE) 3 ch f Danehill Dancer (IRE) - Lagrion (USA) (Diesis) Age: 2-3; Starts: 8; Wins: 3; Places: 4 Earnings: £246,905 Sire: INTIKHAB. Sire of 17 Stakes winners. In 2010 - SNOW FAIRY Charnwood Forest G1, FAT CHOY ICHIBAN Riverman LR, KIDNAPPING Barathea LR, KURT Machiavellian LR, LES FAZZANI Most Welcome LR, KEMPES Royal Academy LR. 1st Dam: WOODLAND DREAM by Charnwood Forest. Winner at 3. Dam of 1 winner: 2007: SNOW FAIRY (f Intikhab) Sold 1,260gns yearling at TIDEC. 3 wins at 2 and 3, Investec Oaks S G1, Blue Square Height of Fashion S LR, 3rd Berry Brothers & Rudd Prestige S G3. 2nd Dam: Fantasy Girl by Marju. ran at 2 and 3. Dam of BIG BAD BOB (c Bob Back: Furstenberg-Rennen G3) Broodmare Sire: CHARNWOOD
Sire: MARIA’S MON. Sire of 37 Stakes winners. In 2010 - SUPER SAVER A P Indy G1, EXHI Polish Numbers G2, BUSHMAN Fabulous Dancer G3, PARIS VEGAS A P Indy LR, DIVA MARIA Spend A Buck LR. 1st Dam: HOUSA DANCER by Fabulous Dancer. 6 wins in France, USA, Prix Finlande LR, Miss America H LR, Emerald Breeders’ Cup Distaff H LR, 2nd Vanity Invitational H G1. Dam of 3 winners: 2000: LEWA DANCE (c Mr Prospector) Winner at 7 in Kingdom of Saudi Ara. 2001: HOUSE OF YORK (c Seeking The Gold) Winner at 4 in Austria. 2002: Muwali (f Kingmambo) ran on the flat in France. Broodmare. 2004: BUSHMAN (g Maria’s Mon) Sold 15,000gns 3yo at TAAUT. 5 wins at 4 to 6, Investec Diomed S G3, sportingbet.com Royal Windsor S LR, 2nd William Ewart Properties Gala S LR, Betfred Harley Slack Fund Superior Mile LR, 3rd Bet365 Ben Marshall S LR. 2006: Soho (f Cape Cross) 2007: Greek Dancer (c Daylami) unraced to date. 2008: Grand Vent (c Shirocco) unraced to date. 2009: (c Dubawi) 2nd Dam: HOUSATONIC by Riverman. 1 win at 3. Dam of HOUSAMIX (c Linamix: Prix Niel G2), HOUSA DANCER (f Fabulous Dancer, see above). Grandam of ALEXANDER
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international database TANGO. Broodmare Sire: FABULOUS DANCER. Sire of the dams of 60 Stakes winners. In 2010 - BUSHMAN Maria’s Mon G3, IL FENOMENO Denon G3, DULCE LEO Priolo LR. Majestic Light Wavering Monarch Uncommitted MARIA’S MON gr/ro 93 Caro Carlotta Maria Water Malone BUSHMAN gr g 2004 Northern Dancer Fabulous Dancer Last of The Line HOUSA DANCER b/br 93 Riverman Housatonic Hippodamia
441 - Investec Coronation Cup, G1, Epsom Downs, June 4, 12f 1 Fame And Glory (GB) 4 b c Montjeu (IRE) - Gryada (GB) (Shirley Heights) 2 Sariska (GB) 4 b f Pivotal (GB) Maycocks Bay (GB) (Muhtarram (USA)) 3 High Heeled (IRE) 4 b f High Chaparral (IRE) - Uncharted Haven (GB) (Turtle Island (IRE)) Age: 2-4; Starts: 13; Wins: 8; Places: 3 Earnings: £1,801,680 Sire: MONTJEU. Sire of 88 Stakes winners. In 2010 - FAME AND GLORY Shirley Heights G1, TAVISTOCK Quest For Fame G1, WALL STREET Grand Lodge G1, JUKEBOX JURY Kenmare G2, GROWL Western Symphony G3, JAN VERMEER Pennekamp G3, CLASS IS CLASS Hector Protector LR, GREEN MOON Green Tune LR, OLD JOCK Dance Floor LR, BUDAPEST Doyoun LR, ERADICATE Indian Ridge LR, HURRICANE FLY Kenmare LR. 1st Dam: Gryada by Shirley Heights. 2 wins at 2, 3rd Premio Dormello G3. Own sister to Golan Heights. Dam of 8 winners: 1998: Guaranda (f Acatenango) 2 wins at 3, 3rd EBF Upavon S LR. Dam of GRAVITATION (f Galileo: 2 wins at 3, Moet Hennessy Lillie Langtry S G3) 1999: Grampian (c Selkirk) 4 wins at 2, 3 and 6, 2nd Manchester Evening News July S LR, John Smith’s Extra Smooth Silver Cup H LR. 2001: GRAHAM ISLAND (g Acatenango) 2 wins at 3 and 4. 2002: GRYSKIRK (g Selkirk) Winner at 2. 2003: GAZE (f Galileo) 2 wins at 4 in Germany. Broodmare. 2005: YUMMY MUMMY (f Montjeu) Winner at 3. 2006: FAME AND GLORY (c Montjeu) Sold 190,000gns foal at TADEF. 8 wins at 2 to 4 at home, France, Tattersalls Gold Cup G1, Investec
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Coronation Cup G1, Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby G1, Criterium de SaintCloud G1, Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial S G2, High Chaparral EBF Mooresbridge S G3, P W McGrath Memorial Ballysax S G3, 2nd Investec Derby S G1, Tattersalls Millions Irish Champion S G1, 3rd New Tote Sports Lounge Alleged S LR. 2007: RAIN FOREST (c Sadler’s Wells) 2 wins at 3. 2010: (f Montjeu) 2nd Dam: GRIMPOLA by Windwurf. 2 wins in West Germany ARAG Schwarzgold-Rennen (1000 Guineas) G2. Own sister to GRIMBEAU. Dam of Golan Heights (g Shirley Heights: 2nd Parfetts Anniversary July Trophy S LR), Gryada (f Shirley Heights, see above). Grandam of GONBARDA, GLOBAL DREAM, GONFILIA, GONLARGO, GORLOR, Gondoro, Global Dancer, Global World. Third dam of GOATHEMALA, GALANA. Broodmare Sire: SHIRLEY HEIGHTS. Sire of the dams of 174 Stakes winners. In 2010 - FAME AND GLORY Montjeu G1, AKDARENA Hernando G3, STOTSFOLD Barathea G3, CAPE MARTIN Polish Precedent LR, OPINION POLL Halling LR, KHYBER KIM Mujahid LR. The Montjeu/Shirley Heights cross has produced: ANTON CHEKHOV G1, FAME AND GLORY G1, MONTARE G1, Washington Irving G2, Red Peony G3. Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells
Assembly. 2 wins at 2 and 3 in Germany. Dam of 2 winners: 2004: ANASTRA (f Seattle Dancer) 3 wins at 5 in Germany. 2006: ANTARA (f Platini) Champion 3yr old filly in Germany in 2009. 6 wins at 2 to 4 at home, Germany, Investec Princess Elizabeth S G3, Westminster Preis der Deutschen Einheit G3, G. P. der Metallbau Burckhardt GMBH LR, 3rd Dalmayr Coupe Lukull LR. 2008: Antaro (c Tertullian) unraced to date. 2009: Andolino (c Kallisto) 2nd Dam: AUENQUEEN by Big Shuffle. 2 wins in Germany. Dam of Auenteufel (c Lomitas: 3rd Oppenheim UnionRennen G2) Broodmare Sire: GENERAL ASSEMBLY. Sire of the dams of 41 Stakes winners. In 2010 - ANTARA Platini G3. Literat Surumu Surama PLATINI ch 89 Stanford Prairie Darling Prairie Belle ANTARA b f 2006 Secretariat General Assembly Exclusive Dancer AUENPRACHT bl 98 Big Shuffle Auenqueen Auenquelle
443 - Investec Derby Stakes, G1, Epsom Downs, June 5, 12f
Top Ville Floripedes Toute Cy FAME AND GLORY b c 2006 Mill Reef Shirley Heights Hardiemma GRYADA b/br 93 Windwurf Grimpola Gondel
1 Antara (GER) 4 b f Platini (GER) Auenpracht (GER) (General Assembly (USA)) 2 Reggane (GB) 4 b f Red Ransom (USA) - Reine Zao (FR) (Alzao (USA)) 3 Pachattack (USA) 4 ch f Pulpit (USA) El Laoob (USA) (Red Ransom (USA)) Age: 2-4; Starts: 9; Wins: 6; Places: 3 Earnings: £138,459 Sire: PLATINI. Sire of 31 Stakes winners. In 2010 - ANTARA General Assembly G3. 1st Dam: AUENPRACHT by General
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2nd Dam: EVA LUNA by Alleged. 4 wins at 4 and 5 Stones Bitter Park Hill S G3. Own sister to Petralona. Dam of BRIAN BORU (c Sadler’s Wells: Seabiscuit St Leger S G1, Racing Post Trophy G1, 2nd Irish Field Irish St Leger G1, 3rd Pattison Canadian International S G1 (twice)), MOON SEARCH (f Rainbow Quest: Prix de Royallieu Hotel du Golf Barriere G2), KITTY O’SHEA (f Sadler’s Wells: EBF Park Express S LR), Kushnarenkovo (f Sadler’s Wells: 2nd Kerry Group EBF Noblesse S G3). Grandam of Kingdom of Munster. Broodmare Sire: SADLER’S WELLS. Sire of the dams of 228 Stakes winners. In 2010 - WORKFORCE King’s Best G1, BANKABLE Medicean G2, CAMPANOLOGIST Kingmambo G2, MEISHO BELUGA French Deputy G2, ZARIUS Zabeel G2, BALETTI Gulch G3, CAT JUNIOR Storm Cat G3, DEEM Dalakhani G3, ELUSIVE PIMPERNEL Elusive Quality G3, POSAVINA Tiger Hill G3, A CHANCE TO DREAM Volksraad LR, CHINESE WHITE Dalakhani LR, OCEAN AND BEYOND Kingsalsa LR, PRINCIPAL ROLE Empire Maker LR, FRENCH OPERA Bering LR. The King’s Best/Sadler’s Wells cross has produced: BEST ALIBI G1, CREACHADOIR G1, RUNAWAY G1, WORKFORCE G1, TO SENDER LR, Gemini Gold G3, Angelonmyshoulder LR, Earl’s Court LR, Honour System LR, Ski Sunday LR.
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1 Workforce (GB) 3 b c King’s Best (USA) - Soviet Moon (IRE) (Sadler’s Wells (USA)) 2 At First Sight (IRE) 3 ch c Galileo (IRE) Healing Music (FR) (Bering) 3 Rewilding (GB) 3 b c Tiger Hill (IRE) Darara (Top Ville) Age: 2-3; Starts: 3; Wins: 2; Places: 1 Earnings: £807,346
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Sire: KING’S BEST. Sire of 33 Stakes winners. In 2010 - EISHIN FLASH Platini G1, WORKFORCE Sadler’s Wells G1, CALMING INFLUENCE Indian Ridge G2, ALLYBAR Irish River G3, SIMON DE MONTFORT Caerleon G3. 1st Dam: Soviet Moon by Sadler’s Wells. unraced. Own sister to BRIAN BORU, KITTY O’SHEA and Kushnarenkovo. Dam of 3 winners: 2005: ROCKET LAUNCH (c Oasis Dream) 3 wins at 3 to 5 in Greece. 2006: EXTREME IMPACT (g Rock of Gibraltar) Winner over hurdles at 4. 2007: WORKFORCE (c King’s Best) 2 wins at 2 and 3, Investec Derby S G1, 2nd Totesport Dante S G2. 2008: (f Dalakhani)
Miesque KING’S BEST b 97 Lombard Allegretta Anatevka WORKFORCE b c 2007 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge SOVIET MOON b 2001 Alleged Eva Luna Media Luna
ANALYSIS: One week after his son, Eishin Flash captured the Japan Derby, King’s Best completed a remarkable Derby double when his son Workforce took the Epsom Derby (gr. I) by 7l in a new course record. Winner of the 2,000 Guineas (G1) from Giant’s Causeway, King’s Best missed the Derby with a muscle problem and then suffered a careerending injury in the Irish Derby (G1). A son of Kingmambo out of the great broodmare Allegretta, and a three-parts brother to Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (G1) heroine Urban Sea (also dam of Galileo), King’s Best had not previously lived up to the highest expectations as a stallion, although he does have 33 stakes winners to his
international database name, including earlier Group 1 winners King’s Apostle, Creachadoir, Proclamation and Dubai Surprise. Prior to the Derby winners, his Group 1 winners had distinguished themselves over shorter distances, scoring at 6f, a mile and 1m2f. Workforce has plenty of stamina in the distaff side of the pedigree. His dam, an unraced daughter of Sadler’s Wells, is a sister to Brian Boru, winner of the St. Leger (G1). The grand-dam Eva Luna, who won the Park Hill Stakes (G1) and was top older mare in Europe over extended distances, is by two-time Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (G1) winner Alleged and out of Media Luna (by another Arc hero Star Appeal). Media Luna is also dam of Rougeur, a US stakes-winning daughter of Blushing Groom, who produced the Alabama Stakes (G1) and Kentucky Oaks (G1) winner Flute (Seattle Slew). In tail-female line, the family goes back to Pretty Polly via Lady Sybil, a threeparts-sister to Nearctic. Workforce is the fifth stakes winner and second Group 1 scorer by King’s Best out of a mare by Sadler’s Wells. Given the high-profile of the Kingmambo/Sadler’s Wells cross, which brings together the three-parts brothers Sadler’s Wells and Nureyev, who are 4 x 2 in Workforce, and the fact that King’s Best is three-parts brother to the dam of Sadler’s Wells’s son Galileo it’s not surprising that Sadler’s Wells mares have been tried a lot with King’s Best. The cross has produced five stakes winners from 72 starters and this is not an exceptional strike-rate relative to that achieved by King’s Best with all other mares, and by the Sadler’s Wells mares bred to King’s Best when tried with all other stallions. This result is almost certainly a function of King’s Best having been tried as a default alternative with a lot of accomplished Sadler’s Wells mares, some who would probably been past their prime producing years. In contrast, King’s Best has shown his ability to upgrade mares by sons of Sadler’s Wells – presumably a less wellcredentialed group than the daughters of Sadler’s Wells – and has four stakes winners (all group/graded) from 28 starters on the cross.
Coastline (GB) (Night Shift (USA)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 5; Wins: 3; Places: 2 Earnings: £285,726 Sire: SHAMARDAL. Sire of 12 Stakes winners. In 2010 - FAINT PERFUME Zabeel G1, LOPE DE VEGA Vettori G1, ZAZOU Lomitas G3, ELLE SHADOW Roi Danzig LR, FEMINA FASHION Jeune LR, HAPPY HIPPY Soviet Lad LR, SHAKESPEAREAN Priolo LR, SIYAADAH Lahib LR. 1st Dam: LADY VETTORI by Vettori. 5 wins at 2 in France, Prix du Calvados G3, 3rd Prix Marcel Boussac-Royal Barriere G1. Dam of 5 winners: 2002: FLOWER BOWL (f Anabaa) Winner at 3 in France. Broodmare. 2004: BAL DE LA ROSE (f Cadeaux Genereux) 4 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix Andre Baboin (G.P.des Provinces) G3. Broodmare. 2005: LEAP AHEAD (g Desert Prince) 3 wins at 4 in France. 2006: LE ROC (c Montjeu) Winner at 2 in France. 2007: LOPE DE VEGA (c Shamardal) 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Poule d’Essai des Pouliches G1, Prix du Jockey Club G1, 3rd Prix de Fontainebleau G3. 2008: Lavande Violet (f Hurricane Run) unraced to date. 2009: (c Monsun) 2nd Dam: Lady Golconda by Kendor. unraced. Dam of LADY VETTORI (f Vettori, see above), Rosey de Megeve (f Efisio: 2nd Prix La Camargo LR, Prix de la Cochere LR, Prix La Sorellina LR, Prix du Pont-Neuf LR) Broodmare Sire: VETTORI. Sire of the dams of 5 Stakes winners. In 2010 LOPE DE VEGA Shamardal G1.
Stakes winners. In 2010 - SHOOT OUT Pentire G1, JOANNA Mujadil G2, FAIRY OAK Sir Tristram G3, NOLL WALLOP Danehill G3, CHAPARELLA Straight Strike LR, BACCALAUREATE Polish Precedent LR.
Sire: STORM CAT. Sire of 152 Stakes winners. In 2010 - PLANET FIVE Celtic Swing G2, CAT JUNIOR Sadler’s Wells G3, COURAGEOUS CAT Rahy G3.
1st Dam: Secrete Marina by Mujadil. 6 wins at 2 to 4 in Italy, 3rd Premio Ubaldo Pandolfi LR. Dam of 2 winners: 2005: ALEPH (c Night Shift) 3 wins at 3 in Italy. 2006: Lady Joe (f Spinning World) 2007: JOANNA (f High Chaparral) Champion 2yr old filly in Italy in 2009. 5 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Italy, Prix de Sandringham G2, Prix du Calvados - Haras des Capucines G3, Prix Imprudence G3, Premio Vittorio Crespi Trofeo Snai LR, 2nd Premio Alessandro Perrone LR, 3rd Total Prix Marcel Boussac G1, Poule d’Essai des Poulains G1. 2008: Cazals (c Aussie Rules) unraced to date. 2009: (c Ad Valorem)
1st Dam: SIX PERFECTIONS by Celtic Swing. Champion 2yr old filly in Europe in 2002. 6 wins at 2 and 3 in France, USA, Prix Marcel Boussac G1, P. Fresnay le Buffard Jacques Le Marois G1, NetJets Breeders’ Cup Mile G1, 2nd Entenmann’s Irish 1000 Guineas G1, Sagitta 1000 Guineas G1, Prix d’Ispahan G1, P. Fresnay le Buffard Jacques Le Marois G1, 3rd NetJets Breeders’ Cup Mile G1. Dam of 1 winner: 2006: PLANET FIVE (c Storm Cat) 3 wins at 3 and 4 in France, Prix du Gros-Chene G2, 2nd Prix Servanne LR. 2007: Six Realms (c Storm Cat) in training. 2008: (c Kingmambo). died as a foal. 2009: (f Galileo) 2nd Dam: Yogya by Riverman. unraced. Dam of SIX PERFECTIONS (f Celtic Swing, see above) Broodmare Sire: CELTIC SWING. Sire of the dams of 5 Stakes winners. In 2010 - PLANET FIVE Storm Cat G2. Northern Dancer Storm Bird South Ocean STORM CAT b 83 Secretariat
Storm Cat Giant’s Causeway Mariah’s Storm SHAMARDAL b 2002 Machiavellian Helsinki Helen Street LOPE DE VEGA ch c 2007 Machiavellian Vettori Air Distingue LADY VETTORI b 97 Kendor Lady Golconda Lady Sharp
ANALYSIS: See Poule D’Essai Des Poulains, race number 444 - Prix du Jockey Club, G1, Chantilly, June 6, 2000m 1 Lope de Vega (IRE) 3 ch c Shamardal (USA) - Lady Vettori (GB) (Vettori (IRE)) 2 Planteur (IRE) 3 b c Danehill Dancer (IRE) - Plante Rare (IRE) (Giant’s Causeway (USA)) 3 Pain Perdu (FR) 3 b c Vespone (IRE) -
(IRE)) 3 Marchand d’Or (FR) 7 gr g Marchand de Sable (USA) - Fedora (FR) (Kendor (FR)) Age: 2-4; Starts: 9; Wins: 3; Places: 2 Earnings: £107,884
445 - Prix du Gros-Chene, G2, Chantilly, June 6, 1000m 1 Planet Five (USA) 4 b/br c Storm Cat (USA) - Six Perfections (FR) (Celtic Swing (GB)) 2 Piccadilly Filly (IRE) 3 ch f Exceed And Excel (AUS) - Tortue (IRE) (Turtle Island
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2nd Dam: Marina Lady by Riverman. unraced. Dam of Secrete Marina (f Mujadil, see above) Broodmare Sire: MUJADIL. Sire of the dams of 12 Stakes winners. In 2010 JOANNA High Chaparral G2. Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge HIGH CHAPARRAL b 99 Darshaan Kasora Kozana JOANNA b f 2007 Storm Bird Mujadil Vallee Secrete SECRETE MARINA b 99 Riverman Marina Lady Amenity
Crimson Saint PLANET FIVE b/br c 2006 Damister Celtic Swing Celtic Ring SIX PERFECTIONS bl 2000 Riverman Yogya Pasadoble
446 - Prix de Sandringham, G2, Chantilly, June 6, 1600m 1 Joanna (IRE) 3 b f High Chaparral (IRE) - Secrete Marina (IRE) (Mujadil (USA)) 2 Kali (GER) 3 b f Areion (GER) Kahlua (GER) (Dashing Blade) 3 Evaporation (FR) 3 b f Red Ransom (USA) - Polygreen (FR) (Green Tune (USA)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 8; Wins: 5; Places: 3 Earnings: £260,836 Sire: HIGH CHAPARRAL. Sire of 20
447 - Prix de Royaumont, G3, Chantilly, June 6, 2400m 1 Lady’s Purse (GB) 3 b f Doyen (IRE) Jetbeeah (IRE) (Lomond (USA)) 2 Pearl Away (FR) 3 b f Gold Away (IRE) Severina (GB) (Darshaan) 3 Never Forget (FR) 3 b f Westerner (GB) - Topira (FR) (Pistolet Bleu (IRE)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 4; Wins: 3; Places: 0 Earnings: £65,929 Sire: DOYEN. Sire of 2 Stakes winners. In 2010 - LADY’S PURSE Lomond G3, PEACOAT Caerleon LR. 1st Dam: Jetbeeah by Lomond. Winner at 3, 2nd Rosemary S LR. Dam of 9 winners: 1995: Dazilyn Lady (f Zilzal) 2 wins at 2, 2nd Milcars Masaka S LR, 2nd
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DESIRE Mujtahid LR, REYKON Indian Ridge LR, SPIRIT OF FORTUNE Machiavellian LR, SPIRIT OF SHARJAH Doulab LR. 1st Dam: ALWAYS FRIENDLY by High Line. 3 wins at 3 and 5, Princess Royal S G3, 2nd Prix Royal Oak G1. Dam of 5 winners: 1996: DANE FRIENDLY (c Danehill) 3 wins at 4 and 6 in Italy, Premio Ribot G2, 2nd Premio Vittorio di Capua G1. Sire. 1998: Arabie (g Polish Precedent) 3 wins at 3 and 7, 2nd Wolferton Rated S LR. 1999: Mackenzie’s Friend (f Selkirk) unraced. Broodmare. 2000: (c Polish Precedent). Died as a yearling. 2001: IMPARTIAL (g Polish Precedent) 3 wins. 2003: WARSAW PACT (g Polish Precedent) 9 wins. 2005: ALLIED POWERS (c Invincible Spirit) Sold 62,000gns yearling at TAOC1, 220,000gns 3yo at TAAUT. 7 wins at 3 to 5 at home, France, Grand Prix de Chantilly G2, Prix d’Hedouville G3, McGrattan Piling Braveheart S LR, 2nd Sky Bet York S G2, At The Races Kilternan S G3, 3rd Ardilaun Hotel Oyster S LR. 2007: La Chicana (f Invincible Spirit) in training. 2009: (c Kodiac) 2nd Dam: Wise Speculation by Mr Prospector. ran 3 times at 2 and 3. Dam of ALWAYS FRIENDLY (f High Line, see above), Hawkes Run (g Hernando: 3rd Worthington Classic Finale Junior Hurdle G1) Broodmare Sire: HIGH LINE. Sire of the dams of 52 Stakes winners. In 2010 - ALLIED POWERS Invincible Spirit G2.
Age: 2-4; Starts: 12; Wins: 5; Places: 4 Earnings: £390,054 Sire: SHOLOKHOV. Sire of 6 Stakes winners. In 2010 - NIGHT MAGIC Monsun G2. 1st Dam: Night Woman by Monsun. 4 wins at 3 and 4 in Germany, 2nd Frankfurter der Mehl Mulhens Stiftung LR. Dam of 2 winners: NIGHT PRINCE (c Dashing 2005: Blade) 3 wins at 3 and 4 in Germany. 2006: NIGHT MAGIC (f Sholokhov) Sold 27,670gns yearling at BBAGS, 739,713gns 3yo at ARDEC. 5 wins at 2 to 4 in Germany, Henkel Preis der Diana (Oaks) G1, Grosser Preis der Hauptstadtregion G2, G. P. der Jungheinrich Gabelstapler G3, 2nd Premio Lydia Tesio Shadwell - Tris Int G1, 3rd Diana Trial G2, Fruhjahrspreis des Bankhauses Metzler G3, Junioren Preis LR. 2007: Night Fashion (f Sholokhov) unraced to date. 2008: Night of Dubai (f Lord of England) unraced to date. 2009: Night Flash (c Oratorio) 2010: Night Wish (c Sholokhov) 2nd Dam: NOVEKA by Kalaglow. 3 wins at 2 and 3 in West Germany, foaled in Germany. Dam of Night Woman (f Monsun, see above) Broodmare Sire: MONSUN. Sire of the dams of 8 Stakes winners. In 2010 NIGHT MAGIC Sholokhov G2, TRES ROCK DANON Rock of Gibraltar G3, SAMADEN Ad Valorem LR. The Sholokhov/Monsun cross has produced: NIGHT MAGIC G1, ADOLFINA G3.
Sire: FASLIYEV. Sire of 33 Stakes winners. In 2010 - AMICO FRITZ Ahonoora G3, DR ZHIVAGO Scenic LR, VELVET FLICKER Petorius LR. 1st Dam: ARCTIC APPEAL by Ahonoora. 3 wins at 2 and 3. Dam of 5 winners: 1995: Anna Bolena (f Goofalik) unraced. 1996: Snowbound (f In The Wings) unraced. Broodmare. (f Thatching). died since 1997: birth. 1999: Arlekinada (f Lycius) 3 wins at 2 and 5 in Germany, Italy, 3rd G. Preis der Stadtsparkasse Dusseldorf LR. Broodmare. 2000: ARLECCHINA (f Mtoto) 3 wins at 3 in Germany, Switzerland, Grosser Hoppegartener 3yo Stutenpreis LR, 3rd Premio Sergio Cumani G3, Premio Carlo Chiesa G3, Grosser Preis der Dortmunder Wirtschaft G3, Fahrhofer Stutenpreis G3. Broodmare. 2001: ARTICO (c Lando) 4 wins at 3 to 5 in Italy. 2002: (c Lando). died. 2003: ANEMOS (c Lando) 3 wins at 4 in Germany. 2004: Artic World (f Spinning World) 2006: AMICO FRITZ (c Fasliyev) Sold 20,592gns yearling at BBAGS. 7 wins at 3 and 4 in France, Germany, Benazet Rennen - der Deutschen Besitzer G3, Prix Cor de Chasse LR, 3rd Silberne Peitsche des Gerling Quartiers G3. 2nd Dam: ARITA by Kronzeuge. 2 wins at 2 and 3 in West Germany Festa Rennen LR. Own sister to AUGUSTINUS. Dam of ANUSHA (f Alzao: The Ladbroke Ltd. H. Hurdle LR)
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448 - Grand Prix de Chantilly, G2, Chantilly, June 6, 2400m 1 Allied Powers (IRE) 5 b c Invincible Spirit (IRE) - Always Friendly (GB) (High Line) 2 Timos (GER) 5 ch c Sholokhov (IRE) Triclaria (GER) (Surumu (GER)) 3 Pouvoir Absolu (GB) 5 b c Sadler’s Wells (USA) - Pine Chip (USA) (Nureyev (USA)) Age: 2-5; Starts: 22; Wins: 7; Places: 8 Earnings: £202,341 Sire: INVINCIBLE SPIRIT. Sire of 35 Stakes winners. In 2010 - YOSEI Fuji Kiseki G1, ALLIED POWERS High Line G2, CHARMING WOMAN Kendor G3, KARGALI Last Tycoon G3, BEYOND
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Northern Dancer Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier INVINCIBLE SPIRIT b 97 Kris Rafha Eljazzi ALLIED POWERS b c 2005 High Hat High Line Time Call ALWAYS FRIENDLY ch 88 Mr Prospector Wise Speculation Wisdom
449 - Grosser Preis der Hauptstadtregion, G2, BerlinHoppegarten, June 6, 2200m 1 Night Magic (GER) 4 b f Sholokhov (IRE) - Night Woman (GER) (Monsun (GER)) 2 Sordino (GER) 4 ch c Samum (GER) Serenata (GER) (Lomitas (GB)) 3 Miss Europa (IRE) 4 b/br f Monsun (GER) - Miss Hoeny (USA) (Rahy (USA))
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Broodmare Sire: AHONOORA. Sire of the dams of 78 Stakes winners. In 2010 - AMICO FRITZ Fasliyev G3, VIJAY MONARCH Diffident LR.
Gradille NIGHT MAGIC b f 2006 Konigsstuhl Monsun Mosella NIGHT WOMAN gr 98 Kalaglow Noveka Novelle
450 - Benazet Rennen - der Deutschen Besitzer, G3, BerlinHoppegarten, June 6, 1200m 1 Amico Fritz (GER) 4 b c Fasliyev (USA) - Arctic Appeal (IRE) (Ahonoora) 2 Indomito (GER) 4 b c Areion (GER) Insola (GER) (Royal Solo (IRE)) 3 Contat (GER) 7 b c Diktat (GB) - Conga (GB) (Robellino (USA)) Age: 3-4; Starts: 19; Wins: 7; Places: 6 Earnings: £142,167
Northern Dancer Nureyev Special FASLIYEV b 97 Mr Prospector Mr P’s Princess Anne Campbell AMICO FRITZ b c 2006 Lorenzaccio Ahonoora Helen Nichols ARCTIC APPEAL b 89 Kronzeuge Arita Akita
451 - Coolmore Stud Sprint Stakes, G3, Naas, June 7, 6f 1 Radharcnafarraige (IRE) 2 b f Distorted Humor (USA) - Extraterrestral (USA) (Storm Bird (CAN)) 2 Emerald Ring (IRE) 2 ch f
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MONARCH Conquistador Cielo LR. The Distorted Humor/Storm Bird cross has produced: COMMENTATOR G1, RADHARCNAFARRAIGE G3.
Age: 2; Starts: 4; Wins: 2; Places: 2 Earnings: £68,717
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Sire: DISTORTED HUMOR. Sire of 62 Stakes winners. In 2010 DROSSELMEYER Moscow Ballet G1, ENDORSEMENT A P Indy G3, RADHARCNAFARRAIGE Storm Bird G3, CRIMSON COMIC Forest Wildcat LR, FUNNY FEELING Citidancer LR. 1st Dam: EXTRATERRESTRAL by Storm Bird. Winner in USA. Dam of 8 winners: 1998: Machikane Isaribi (c Gone West) 3 wins in Japan, 3rd Keio Hai Sansai S LR. 1999: ALIENATED (f Gone West) 3 wins in USA, Golden Triangle S. Broodmare. 2000: Grass Trueno (c Swain) 2002: EXHAUST NOTE (c A P Indy) 3 wins, Hopeful S LR. 2003: Fidrych (c Grand Slam) 3 wins at 2 and 3 in USA, 2nd Mountain Valley S. 2004: Allwise (f Mr Greeley) 3 wins at 2 to 4 in Japan, 3rd Kanto Oaks LR. 2005: EMBELLISH (f Mineshaft) Winner at 3 in Canada. 2006: BLAS CEOIL (f Mr Greeley) 2 wins at 2. 2007: Purple Land (c Tiznow) 2008: RADHARCNAFARRAIGE (f Distorted Humor) 2 wins at 2, Coolmore Stud Sprint S G3. 2nd Dam: VICTORIAN QUEEN by Victoria Park. Champion older mare in Canada in 1975. 12 wins in Canada Ontario Sire S. (3yo & up fillies), Canadian S LR, 2nd Arlington Matron H G2, Canadian Maturity S G2, Diana H G2, Wonder Where S G2. Dam of JUDGE ANGELUCCI (c Honest Pleasure: Mervyn Leroy H G1, Californian S G1, San Antonio S G1, 2nd Hollywood Gold Cup H G1, 3rd Californian S G1, Breeders’ Cup Classic G1, 4th Santa Anita H G1), PEACE (c Naskra: John Henry H G1), WAR (c Majestic Light: Blue Grass S G1). Grandam of GRADUATED, SPEIRBHEAN, Cornwall. Third dam of TEOFILO, Via Galilei. Broodmare Sire: STORM BIRD. Sire of the dams of 123 Stakes winners. In 2010 - COURT VISION Gulch G1, RADHARCNAFARRAIGE Distorted Humor G3, SOUPER MISS Alphabet Soup LR, STORMING SAINT Sweetsouthernsaint LR, SOUTH
File DISTORTED HUMOR ch 93 Danzig Danzig’s Beauty Sweetest Chant RADHARCNAFARRAIGE b f 2008 Northern Dancer Storm Bird South Ocean EXTRATERRESTRAL b/br 93 Victoria Park Victorian Queen Willowfield
452 - Ballyogan Stakes, G3, Leopardstown, June 10, 6f 1 Gilt Edge Girl (GB) 4 ch f Monsieur Bond (IRE) - Tahara (IRE) (Caerleon (USA)) 2 Beyond Desire (GB) 3 b f Invincible Spirit (IRE) - Compradore (GB) (Mujtahid (USA)) 3 Distinctive (GB) 3 b f Tobougg (IRE) Blue Azure (USA) (American Chance (USA)) Age: 2-4; Starts: 13; Wins: 5; Places: 7 Earnings: £77,285 Sire: MONSIEUR BOND. Sire of 1 Stakes winners. In 2010 - GILT EDGE GIRL Caerleon G3. 1st Dam: Tahara by Caerleon. ran twice at 3, retired due to injury whilst in training. Dam of 6 winners: 1999: THE NAME GAME’S (c Pennekamp) 9 wins at 3 to 7 in Italy. 2000: ZAIZATAH (f Zamindar) 2 wins at 3 and 4 in Belgium, Germany. Broodmare. 2001: Tagrand (c Grand Lodge) 2002: TAMORA (f Dr Fong) Winner at 4. Broodmare. 2003: GODFREY STREET (g Compton Place) 8 wins at 2 to 6, 2009, Polypipe Flying Childers S G2. 2005: ALWAYS READY (c Best of The Bests) 3 wins. 2006: GILT EDGE GIRL (f Monsieur Bond) Sold 17,000gns yearling at DNSLY, 22,000gns 3yo at TADEM. 5 wins at 3 and 4, Ballyogan S G3, EBF Lansdown S LR. 2007: Ahwahnee (f Compton Place) in training. 2008: Xclaim (c Proclamation) unraced to date. 2009: (c Notnowcato) 2nd Dam: TARWIYA by Dominion. 3 wins at 2 C L Weld EBF Park S G3, 2nd Moyglare Stud S G1, 3rd Goffs Irish 1000 Guineas G1. Dam of Tarwila (f In The Wings: 3rd Trigo S LR). Grandam of
ARCANO, MESSAGER DU ROI, BIG AUDIO. Broodmare Sire: CAERLEON. Sire of the dams of 152 Stakes winners. In 2010 - BUENA VISTA Special Week G1, RED DESIRE Manhattan Cafe G2, ANNA SALAI Dubawi G3, GILT EDGE GIRL Monsieur Bond G3, SIMON DE MONTFORT King’s Best G3, APOLLO PHOENIX Afleet LR, ELEANORA DUSE Azamour LR, GARDENING LEAVE Selkirk LR, GOLDWAKI Dalakhani LR, MARIE DE MEDICI Medicean LR, PEACOAT Doyen LR. Danehill Danehill Dancer Mira Adonde MONSIEUR BOND ch 2000 Song Musical Essence Effervescence II GILT EDGE GIRL ch f 2006 Nijinsky Caerleon Foreseer TAHARA ch 94 Dominion Tarwiya Touraya
453 - Gran Premio di Milano, G1, Milan, June 13, 2400m 1 Jakkalberry (IRE) 4 b c Storming Home (GB) - Claba di San Jore (IRE) (Barathea (IRE)) 2 Getaway (GER) 7 b c Monsun (GER) Guernica (GB) (Unfuwain (USA)) 3 Campanologist (USA) 5 b c Kingmambo (USA) - Ring of Music (GB) (Sadler’s Wells (USA)) Age: 3-4; Starts: 10; Wins: 6; Places: 2 Earnings: £257,918 Sire: STORMING HOME. Sire of 6 Stakes winners. In 2010 JAKKALBERRY Barathea G1, LION TAMER Generous LR. 1st Dam: CLABA DI SAN JORE by Barathea. Winner at 3 in Italy. Dam of 4 winners: 2004: AWELMARDUK (c Almutawakel) 5 wins at 2, 3 and 5 in Italy, Derby Italiano G1. 2005: BOIS JOLI (f Orpen) 2 wins. Broodmare. 2006: JAKKALBERRY (c Storming Home) 6 wins at 3 and 4 in Italy, Gran Premio di Milano G1, Premio Ambrosiano G3, 3rd Derby Italiano Better G2. 2007: KIDNAPPING (c Intikhab) 4 wins at 2 and 3 in Italy, Premio Emanuele Filiberto LR, Premio Merano LR, Gran Premio d’Italia C Naz LR, 3rd Premio Guido Berardelli G3. 2008: Crackerjack King (c Shamardal) unraced to date. 2009: (f Dalakhani) 2nd Dam: Claw by Law Society. 7 wins
at 2 to 4 in Italy, 2nd Premio Giovanni Falck LR, Premio delle Aste LR. Dam of CLASEM DI SAN JORE (c Second Empire: Premio Merano LR), Clelt di San Jore (c Celtic Swing: 2nd Premio Merano LR), Clades di San Jore (c Desert Prince: 3rd Corsa Corona Ferrea Hurdle LR) Broodmare Sire: BARATHEA. Sire of the dams of 30 Stakes winners. In 2010 - JAKKALBERRY Storming Home G1, GEORGETTE SILK Flying Spur LR, KIDNAPPING Intikhab LR. Mr Prospector Machiavellian Coup de Folie STORMING HOME b 98 Shareef Dancer Try To Catch Me It’s In The Air JAKKALBERRY b c 2006 Sadler’s Wells Barathea Brocade CLABA DI SAN JORE gr 99 Law Society Claw Crodas
ANALYSIS: Jakkalberry is by the talented, but sometimes wayward, Machiavellian horse Storming Home, winner of the Champion Stakes (G1), the Charles Whittingham Handicap (G1) and Clement L. Hirsch Memorial Turf Championship Stakes (G1). Jakkalberry is from the third crop of Storming Home, and supercedes last year’s Ribblesdale Stakes (G3) and Prix Cleopatre (G3) winner Flying Cloud as his highest-ranking winner. Jakkalberry is a three-parts brother to the Italian Derby (G1) winner Awelmarduk (Almutawakel, also a son of Machiavellian), and half-brother to Kidnapping (Intikhab), who took the Gran Premio d’Italia on the Gran Premio di Milano undercard. The dam Claba Di San Jore, a daughter of Barathea, is a half-sister to Italian Listed winner Clasem di San Jore. Dam Claw is a half-sister to Cromac, an Italian Listed winner by Jakkalberry’s grandsire Machiavellian, who subsequently produced Group winner Kykuit and Italian Derby (G1) third, Rockmaster. The third dam Crodas (Shirley Heights) won three Listed races in Italy and is out of champion Italian three-year-old filly Croda Alta. There is a little bit of a mini-nick appearing with Jakkalberry and Awelmarduk being joined as by Tie Black (by Machiavellian) as Group/Grade 1 winners by Machiavellian or sons, out of mares by Barathea. Storming Home is likely to do well with Northern Dancer line mares in general, as he is inbred 3 x 4 to Mr. Prospector with Northern Dancer (through Shareef Dancer) sitting between the inbreeding.
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international database Obvious targets would be Green Desert, Alzao, Dancing Brave, Be My Chief and Grand Lodge, who all (like Barathea – are parallel Northern Dancer/Sir Gaylord crosses to Shareef Dancer, the broodmare sire of Storming Home).
Celebre LR, SLINGSHOT Kahyasi LR, ZARINAVA Daylami LR. The Refuse To Bend/Darshaan cross has produced: SARAFINA G1, GRACE O’MALLEY G3, ALAIYMA LR. Northern Dancer
454 - Kerry Group Noblesse Stakes, G3, Cork, June 13, 12f 1 Grace O’Malley (IRE) 4 b f Refuse To Bend (IRE) - Lionne (GB) (Darshaan) 2 Karasiyra (IRE) 3 ch f Alhaarth (IRE) Kerania (IRE) (Daylami (IRE)) 3 Unity (IRE) 3 b f Sadler’s Wells (USA) Moments of Joy (GB) (Darshaan) Age: 2-4; Starts: 8; Wins: 3; Places: 3 Earnings: £138,371 Sire: REFUSE TO BEND. Sire of 5 Stakes winners. In 2010 - SARAFINA Darshaan G1, GRACE O’MALLEY Darshaan G3. 1st Dam: Lionne by Darshaan. unraced. Dam of 6 winners: 2000: GREAT IDEA (f Lion Cavern) Winner at 2. Broodmare. 2001: ALEXANDER DUCHESS (f Desert Prince) 2 wins at 2. Broodmare. 2003: JADALEE (g Desert Prince) 4 wins at 2, 3 and 6, Windflower March S LR, 2nd BGC Gordon S G3. 2004: COEUR DE LIONNE (g Invincible Spirit) 4 wins at 3 and 5. 2005: HALL HEE (f Invincible Spirit) 2 wins at 3. 2006: GRACE O’MALLEY (f Refuse To Bend) Sold 140,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 3 wins at 2 to 4, Kerry Group Noblesse S G3 (twice), 3rd Blue Wind S G3, Vintage Crop S LR. 2nd Dam: PERCY’S LASS by Blakeney. 5 wins at 2 to 4 Bonusprint September S G3, 3rd Cheveley Park Stud Sun Chariot S G2. Own sister to Percy’s Girl. Dam of SIR PERCY (c Mark of Esteem: Vodafone Derby S G1, Darley Dewhurst S G1, 2nd Stan James 2000 Guineas G1), Blue Lion (g Lomond: 3rd Tennents Scottish Classic G3). Grandam of MIKHAIL GLINKA. Broodmare Sire: DARSHAAN. Sire of the dams of 149 Stakes winners. In 2010 - SARAFINA Refuse To Bend G1, MIDAS TOUCH Galileo G2, GLASS HARMONIUM Verglas G3, GRACE O’MALLEY Refuse To Bend G3, CLAREMONT Sadler’s Wells LR, TACTIC Sadler’s Wells LR, ASHKAZAR Sadler’s Wells LR, PITTONI Peintre
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455 - Oppenheim Union-Rennen, G2, Cologne, June 13, 2200m 1 Zazou (GER) 3 b c Shamardal (USA) Zaza Top (GER) (Lomitas (GB)) 2 Lindentree (GB) 3 ch c Dai Jin (GB) Lindenblute (GB) (Surumu (GER)) 3 Baschar (GB) 3 b c Starcraft (NZ) Belle Et Deluree (USA) (The Minstrel (CAN)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 8; Wins: 4; Places: 3 Earnings: £233,430 Sire: SHAMARDAL. Sire of 12 Stakes winners. In 2010 - FAINT PERFUME Zabeel G1, LOPE DE VEGA Vettori G1, ZAZOU Lomitas G2, ELLE SHADOW Roi Danzig LR, FEMINA FASHION Jeune LR, HAPPY HIPPY Soviet Lad LR, SHAKESPEAREAN Priolo LR, SIYAADAH Lahib LR. 1st Dam: ZAZA TOP by Lomitas. 4 wins at 2 to 4 in Germany, Luhrs & Holst GMBH Co. K G Stutenpreis LR, 2nd Premio Dormello G3. Dam of 3 winners: 2004: ZOE DREAM (g Galileo) 6 wins. 2005: ZHOUZHI (f Anabaa) Winner at 4 in Germany. 2006: King Maui (c High Chaparral) 2007: ZAZOU (c Shamardal) Sold 26,610gns yearling at BBAGS. 4 wins at 2 and 3 in Germany, Oppenheim Union-Rennen G2, G.P. Krefelder Wirtschaft-Dr Busch Mem G3, 3rd Criterium de Saint-Cloud G1. 2009: (f Librettist) 2nd Dam: ZORINA by Shirley Heights. 1 win at 2. Own sister to Nadina. Dam of ZAZA TOP (f Lomitas, see above), Zolango (c Acatenango: 2nd Premio Emanuele Filiberto LR). Grandam of Zoom. Broodmare Sire: LOMITAS. Sire of
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Storm Cat Giant’s Causeway Mariah’s Storm SHAMARDAL b 2002 Machiavellian Helsinki Helen Street ZAZOU b c 2007 Niniski Lomitas La Colorada ZAZA TOP ch 98 Shirley Heights Zorina Nadia Nerina
456 - Prix du Lys, G3, Chantilly, June 13, 2400m 1 Goldwaki (GER) 3 b c Dalakhani (IRE) - Gold Round (IRE) (Caerleon (USA)) 2 Mashoor (FR) 3 b c Monsun (GER) Gontcharova (IRE) (Zafonic (USA)) 3 Le Larron (IRE) 3 gr c High Chaparral (IRE) - Mare Aux Fees (GB) (Kenmare (FR)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 5; Wins: 4; Places: 0 Earnings: £77,574
SOUND (g Green Tune: Prix de Guiche G3, 2nd Prix Noailles G2), GOLD ROUND (f Caerleon, see above), Born Something (f Caerleon: 2nd West Virginia Senate President’s Cup S LR, 3rd Prix de la Grotte G3), Red Tune (g Green Tune: 2nd Prix de Guiche G3) Broodmare Sire: CAERLEON. Sire of the dams of 152 Stakes winners. In 2010 - BUENA VISTA Special Week G1, RED DESIRE Manhattan Cafe G2, ANNA SALAI Dubawi G3, GILT EDGE GIRL Monsieur Bond G3, GOLDWAKI Dalakhani G3, SIMON DE MONTFORT King’s Best G3, APOLLO PHOENIX Afleet LR, ELEANORA DUSE Azamour LR, GARDENING LEAVE Selkirk LR, MARIE DE MEDICI Medicean LR, PEACOAT Doyen LR. The Dalakhani/Caerleon cross has produced: GOLDWAKI G3, King of Queens LR. Shirley Heights Darshaan Delsy DALAKHANI gr 2000 Miswaki Daltawa Damana GOLDWAKI b c 2007 Nijinsky Caerleon Foreseer GOLD ROUND b 97 Blushing Groom
Sire: DALAKHANI. Sire of 18 Stakes winners. In 2010 - DEEM Sadler’s Wells G3, GOLDWAKI Caerleon G3, SHEMIYLA Danehill G3, CHINESE WHITE Sadler’s Wells LR. 1st Dam: GOLD ROUND by Caerleon. 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix Cleopatre G3. Own sister to Born Something. Dam of 4 winners: 2002: BORN FRIENDLY (c Selkirk) 4 wins to 2010 in France. 2003: SPECTACULAIRE (c Spectrum) 4 wins at 3, 4 and 6 in France, Prix Right Royal LR. 2004: REGAL EDGE (c Selkirk) Winner at 4 in Belgium. 2005: Born Red (c Red Ransom) ran on the flat in Spain. 2006: Wild Bride (f Daylami) 2007: GOLDWAKI (c Dalakhani) 4 wins at 3 in France, Prix du Lys G3, Coupe des Trois Ans LR. 2008: Next Round (c Monsun) unraced to date. 2009: Looking (c Gold Away) 2nd Dam: BORN GOLD by Blushing Groom. 1 win at 4 in France. Own sister to GOLD SPLASH. Dam of GOLDIKOVA (f Anabaa: Etihad Airways Falmouth S G1, Prix Rothschild G1 (twice), Prix d’Ispahan G1, Prix du Moulin de Longchamp G1, P. Fresnay le Buffard Jacques Le Marois G1, Breeders’ Cup Mile G1 (twice), 2nd Poule d’Essai des Pouliches G1, 3rd Prix de Diane G1, Total Prix de la Foret G1), GOLD
Born Gold Riviere d’Or
457 - Prix du Chemin de Fer du Nord, G3, Chantilly, June 13, 1600m 1 Fuisse (FR) 4 bl c Green Tune (USA) Funny Feerie (FR) (Sillery (USA)) 2 Vertigineux (FR) 6 b/br c Nombre Premier (GB) - Very Gold (FR) (Goldneyev (USA)) 3 Slickly Royal (FR) 6 b/br c Slickly (FR) Royal Bride (FR) (Garde Royale) Age: 2-4; Starts: 10; Wins: 5; Places: 5 Earnings: £475,781 Sire: GREEN TUNE. Sire of 29 Stakes winners. In 2010 - FUISSE Sillery G3, ZAGORA Mtoto G3, KING TUNE Crystal Glitters LR. 1st Dam: FUNNY FEERIE by Sillery. 3 wins over jumps in France, Prix Finot Hurdle (fillies) LR, Prix Christian de Tredern H’cp Hurdle LR. Dam of 5 winners: 2002: FREJUS (g Mansonnien) Winner over jumps in France. 2003: FIRST FEERIE (f Turgeon) 3 wins. 2004: FUNNY LINE (f Emperor Jones) Winner at 3 in France. 2005: FULL OF GOLD (c Gold Away) 4 wins at 2 to 4 in France, Criterium de Saint-Cloud G1. 2006: FUISSE (c Green Tune) 5
international database wins at 2 to 4 in France, Prix du Chemin de Fer du Nord G3, Prix du Mesnil Le Roi Prix de Pontarme LR, Prix Montretout LR, 2nd Prix du Jockey Club G1, Prix Thomas Bryon G3, 3rd Prix Francois Mathet LR, Prix Jacques Laffitte LR. 2007: Flagstaff (c Numerous) 2008: Finella (f Kingsalsa) unraced to date. 2009: Francastel (c Gold Away) 2010: (f Anabaa) Broodmare Sire: SILLERY. Sire of the dams of 13 Stakes winners. In 2010 FUISSE Green Tune G3, GULENGUL Unaccounted For LR, ZALIAPOUR Daliapour LR. The Green Tune/Sillery cross has produced: FUISSE G1, POLYGREEN G3. Nijinsky Green Dancer Green Valley GREEN TUNE ch 91 Mr Prospector Soundings Ocean’s Answer FUISSE bl c 2006 Blushing Groom Sillery Silvermine FUNNY FEERIE b 95 Irish River Funny Pearl Messenie
458 - Prix de Diane, G1, Chantilly, June 13, 2000m 1 Sarafina (FR) 3 f Refuse To Bend (IRE) - Sanariya (IRE) (Darshaan) 2 Rosanara (FR) 3 gr f Sinndar (IRE) Rosawa (FR) (Linamix (FR)) 3 Sandbar (GB) 3 b f Oasis Dream (GB) - Shifting Sands (FR) (Hernando (FR)) Age: 3; Starts: 3; Wins: 3; Places: 0 Earnings: £541,566 Sire: REFUSE TO BEND. Sire of 5 Stakes winners. In 2010 - SARAFINA Darshaan G1, GRACE O’MALLEY Darshaan G3. 1st Dam: Sanariya by Darshaan. Dam of 5 winners: 2001: SANADA (f Priolo) Winner at 3 in France. Broodmare. 2002: SANAGORA (f Mujadil) 2 wins at 3 in France. Broodmare. 2003: SANAYA (f Barathea) 4 wins at 2 to 4 in France, UAE, Prix Casimir Delamarre LR, Storming Home Cape Verdi S LR, 2nd Montjeu Coolmore Prix Saint-Alary G1. 2005: Sanjida (f Polish Precedent) Winner at 2 in France, 2nd Prix Charles Laffitte LR, Prix Volterra LR, Prix Occitanie LR, 3rd Prix Cleopatre G3, Prix de Conde G3, Prix Penelope G3. Broodmare. 2006: Sanabyra (f Kahyasi)
unraced. 2007: SARAFINA (f Refuse To Bend) 3 wins at 3 in France, Prix de Diane G1, Montjeu Coolmore Prix Saint-Alary G1. 2008: (c Dr Fong) 2nd Dam: Sanamia by Top Ville. 1 win at 3, 3rd A & M Construction EBF Challenge Race LR. Broodmare Sire: DARSHAAN. Sire of the dams of 149 Stakes winners. In 2010 - SARAFINA Refuse To Bend G1, MIDAS TOUCH Galileo G2, GLASS HARMONIUM Verglas G3, GRACE O’MALLEY Refuse To Bend G3, CLAREMONT Sadler’s Wells LR, TACTIC Sadler’s Wells LR, ASHKAZAR Sadler’s Wells LR, PITTONI Peintre Celebre LR, SLINGSHOT Kahyasi LR, ZARINAVA Daylami LR. The Refuse To Bend/Darshaan cross has produced: SARAFINA G1, GRACE O’MALLEY G3, ALAIYMA LR. Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge REFUSE TO BEND b 2000 Gulch Market Slide Grenzen SARAFINA f 2007 Shirley Heights Darshaan Delsy SANARIYA b/br 96 Top Ville Sanamia Santalina
459 - Prix Paul de Moussac, G3, Chantilly, June 13, 1600m 1 Sormiou (FR) 3 b c Califet (FR) Melodya (FR) (Great Palm (USA)) 2 Blue Panis (FR) 3 b c Panis (USA) Rhapsody In Blue (FR) (Bering) 3 Emerald Commander (IRE) 3 b c Pivotal (GB) - Brigitta (IRE) (Sadler’s Wells (USA)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 11; Wins: 5; Places: 4 Earnings: £120,363 Sire: CALIFET. Sire of 5 Stakes winners. In 2010 - SORMIOU Great Palm G3, KRISS WILLIAM Bojador LR. 1st Dam: MELODYA by Great Palm. Winner at 3 in France. Dam of 1 winner: 2005: Melokase (f Agnes Kamikaze) ran on the flat in France. 2006: Rochegirl (f Rochesson) ran on the flat in France. 2007: SORMIOU (c Califet) 5 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix Paul de Moussac G3, Prix du Pont-Neuf LR,
3rd Prix F.B.A-Aymeri de Mauleon LR. 2009: Mururoa (f Great Journey) Broodmare Sire: GREAT PALM. Sire of the dams of 3 Stakes winners. In 2010 - SORMIOU Califet G3.
Soviet Star Freedom Cry Falling Star CALIFET br 98 Kendor Sally’s Room
Saga. Broodmare Sire: DASHING BLADE. Sire of the dams of 26 Stakes winners. In 2010 - KALI Areion G2, STACELITA Monsun G3, BARSHIBA Barathea LR, EARLSALSA Kingsalsa LR. The Monsun/Dashing Blade cross has produced: STACELITA G1, NOBLE STELLA G2, FOREMAN LR, Soberania G1, Prairie Moonlight LR.
Square Room SORMIOU b c 2007 Manila
Dschingis Khan
Great Palm Hat Tab Girl MELODYA b 99
Konigsstuhl Konigskronung MONSUN br 90
Kaldoun
Surumu
Madragoa Mana Margaeux
Mosella Monasia STACELITA bl f 2006
460 - La Coupe, G3, Longchamp, June 14, 2000m 1 Stacelita (FR) 4 bl f Monsun (GER) Soignee (GER) (Dashing Blade) 2 Court Canibal (GB) 5 b c Montjeu (IRE) - Pas d’Heure (IRE) (Arazi (USA)) 3 Russian Cross (IRE) 5 b c Cape Cross (IRE) - Dievotchka (GB) (Dancing Brave (USA)) Age: 2-4; Starts: 9; Wins: 7; Places: 1 Earnings: £835,713 Sire: MONSUN. Sire of 72 Stakes winners. In 2010 - STACELITA Dashing Blade G3, TERTULLUS Be My Guest G3, AIR TROOPER Old Vic LR, MISS EUROPA Rahy LR. 1st Dam: SOIGNEE by Dashing Blade. 2 wins at 2 in Germany, Kronimus Rennen LR, 2nd Prix des Reservoirs G3. Dam of 2 winners: 2006: STACELITA (f Monsun) Champion 3yr old filly in France in 2009. 7 wins at 2 to 4 in France, Prix de Diane G1, Montjeu Coolmore Prix Saint-Alary G1, Qatar Prix Vermeille G1, La Coupe G3, Prix Rose de Mai LR. 2007: SANDY GIRL (f Footstepsinthesand) 3 wins at 3 in France. 2008: (f Shamardal) 2009: (f Aragorn) 2nd Dam: Suivez by Fioravanti. 2 wins at 2 and 3 in West Germany, 2nd Kronimus Rennen LR, IDEE Festa Rennen LR. Dam of SIMOUN (g Monsun: Idee Hansa-Preis G2, Grosser Mercedes-Benz Preis G2), SHINING (c Surumu: P. der Landwirtschaft-Grosser 3yo Herbst LR), SOUDAINE (f Monsun: Preis der Hotellerie Baden-Baden LR, 3rd Grosser Preis der Helaba Hessen Pokal G3), SOIGNEE (f Dashing Blade, see above). Grandam of SUESTADO. Third dam of Shawnee
Elegant Air Dashing Blade Sharp Castan SOIGNEE b 2002 Fioravanti Suivez Sea Symphony
461 - St James’s Palace Stakes, G1, Ascot, June 15, 8f 1 Canford Cliffs (IRE) 3 b c Tagula (IRE) - Mrs Marsh (GB) (Marju (IRE)) 2 Dick Turpin (IRE) 3 b c Arakan (USA) - Merrily (GB) (Sharrood (USA)) 3 Hearts of Fire (GB) 3 b c Firebreak (GB) - Alexander Ballet (GB) (Mind Games (GB)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 7; Wins: 4; Places: 3 Earnings: £466,274 Sire: TAGULA. Sire of 12 Stakes winners. In 2010 - CANFORD CLIFFS Marju G1. 1st Dam: Mrs Marsh by Marju. unraced. Dam of 2 winners: 2005: ZEERAN (c Barathea) 3 wins at 4 in Sweden. 2007: CANFORD CLIFFS (c Tagula) Sold 29,600gns foal at GONO1, 47,619gns yearling at DNSLY. 4 wins at 2 and 3, Abu Dhabi Irish 2000 Guineas G1, St James’s Palace S G1, Coventry S G2, 2nd Bathwick Tyres Greenham S G3, 3rd stanjames.com 2000 Guineas G1, Darley Prix Morny G1. 2009: (c Holy Roman Emperor) 2nd Dam: Drei by Lyphard. Dam of PINA COLADA (f Sabrehill: Chandler H, 2nd San Clemente H G2). Grandam of Ellmau, Nasri, Laureldean Express. Broodmare Sire: MARJU. Sire of the dams of 14 Stakes winners. In 2010 CANFORD CLIFFS Tagula G1,
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Stop The Music Taufan Stolen Date TAGULA b 93 Standaan Twin Island Jolly Widow CANFORD CLIFFS b c 2007 Last Tycoon Marju Flame of Tara MRS MARSH b 2001 Lyphard Drei Triple Tipple
462 - Queen Anne Stakes, G1, Ascot, June 15, 8f 1 Goldikova (IRE) 5 b f Anabaa (USA) Born Gold (USA) (Blushing Groom (FR)) 2 Paco Boy (IRE) 5 b c Desert Style (IRE) - Tappen Zee (Sandhurst Prince) 3 Dream Eater (IRE) 5 gr c Night Shift (USA) - Kapria (FR) (Simon du Desert (FR)) Age: 2-5; Starts: 17; Wins: 12; Places: 4 Earnings: £2,669,716 Sire: ANABAA. Sire of 76 Stakes winners. In 2010 - GOLDIKOVA Blushing Groom G1, LOUP BRETON Irish River G2, PLUMANIA Rainbow Quest G2, BE POSITIVE Hennessy G3, DALGHAR Miswaki G3, KUTCHINSKY Zabeel G3, SLAPSTICK Red Ransom G3, COURT Zedavite LR. 1st Dam: BORN GOLD by Blushing Groom. Winner at 4 in France. Own sister to GOLD SPLASH. Dam of 10 winners: 1996: GLAMADOUR (f Sanglamore) Winner at 3 in France. Broodmare. 1997: GOLD ROUND (f Caerleon) 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix Cleopatre G3. Dam of GOLDWAKI (c Dalakhani: 4 wins at 3 in France, Prix du Lys G3), SPECTACULAIRE (c Spectrum: 4 wins at 3, 4 and 6 in France, Prix Right Royal LR) 1998: Born Something (f Caerleon) 4 wins at 2, 4 and 5 in France, USA, 2nd West Virginia Senate President’s Cup S LR, 3rd Prix de la Grotte G3. Broodmare. 1999: DEMONIOUS (g Dr Devious) 7 wins at 4 to 8 in France. 2000: SUPERFONIC (f Zafonic) Winner at 3 in France. Broodmare. 2001: Red Tune (g Green Tune) 3 wins at 3, 6 and 7 in France, 2nd Prix de Guiche G3. 2002: GOLD SOUND (g Green Tune) 9 wins to 2009 in France, USA, Prix de Guiche G3, 2nd Prix Noailles G2. 2004: NEARTICA (f Sadler’s Wells) Winner at 3 in France. Broodmare. 2005: GOLDIKOVA (f Anabaa)
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Champion older mare in Europe in 2009. 12 wins at 2 to 5, 2010 at home, France, USA, Etihad Airways Falmouth S G1, Queen Anne S G1, Prix Rothschild G1 (twice), Prix d’Ispahan G1, Prix du Moulin de Longchamp G1, P. Fresnay le Buffard Jacques Le Marois G1, Breeders’ Cup Mile G1 (twice), Prix Chloe G3, 2nd Poule d’Essai des Pouliches G1, 3rd Prix de Diane G1, Total Prix de la Foret G1. 2006: Born Again (f Cape Cross) 2007: OCEAN SEVEN (c Green Tune) Winner at 2 in France. 2008: Galikova (f Galileo) unraced to date. 2010: (c Anabaa) 2nd Dam: RIVIERE D’OR by Lyphard. 4 wins at 2 and 3 in France Prix SaintAlary G1, 2nd Prix Marcel Boussac G1, Prix de Diane Hermes G1. Dam of GOLD SPLASH (f Blushing Groom: Coronation S G1, Prix Marcel Boussac G1, 3rd Dubai Poule d’Essai des Pouliches G1). Grandam of ROYAL GOD. Broodmare Sire: BLUSHING GROOM. Sire of the dams of 143 Stakes winners. In 2010 - GOLDIKOVA Anabaa G1.
(twice), stanjames.com Palace House S G3, Connaught Access Flooring Abernant S LR, 2nd betfred.com Temple S G2, Prix du Gros-Chene G2, Connaught Access Flooring Abernant S LR, 3rd Criterium de MaisonsLaffitte G2. 2006: Nessa (f Marchand de Sable) unraced. 2007: ORIFE (c Marchand de Sable) 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France. 2008: Elvira Delight (f Desert Style) unraced to date. Broodmare Sire: ELA-MANA-MOU. Sire of the dams of 83 Stakes winners. In 2010 - EQUIANO Acclamation G1, ALAIVAN Kalanisi LR. Waajib Royal Applause Flying Melody ACCLAMATION b 99 Ahonoora Princess Athena Shopping Wise EQUIANO b c 2005 Pitcairn Ela-Mana-Mou Rose Bertin ENTENTE CORDIALE ch 98 Kris Mirmande Secala
Northern Dancer Danzig Pas de Nom ANABAA b 92 Gay Mecene Balbonella Bamieres GOLDIKOVA b f 2005 Red God Blushing Groom Runaway Bride BORN GOLD ch 91 Lyphard Riviere d’Or Gold River
463 - King’s Stand Stakes, G1, Ascot, June 15, 5f 1 Equiano (FR) 5 b c Acclamation (GB) - Entente Cordiale (IRE) (ElaMana-Mou) 2 Markab (GB) 7 b g Green Desert (USA) - Hawafiz (GB) (Nashwan (USA)) 3 Borderlescott (GB) 8 b g Compton Place (GB) - Jeewan (Touching Wood (USA)) Age: 2-5; Starts: 24; Wins: 7; Places: 8 Earnings: £485,869 Sire: ACCLAMATION. Sire of 6 Stakes winners. In 2010 - EQUIANO ElaMana-Mou G1. 1st Dam: Entente Cordiale by ElaMana-Mou. Dam of 3 winners: 2004: BARAHIR (c Key of Luck) 6 wins at 2 and 3 in Spain. 2005: EQUIANO (c Acclamation) Sold 17,561gns foal at AFDEC. 7 wins at 2, 3 and 5 at home, France, Spain, King’s Stand S G1
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ANALYSIS: Equiano, who has had a wind operation, has rebounded to form and despite stumbling at the start of this race was soon in front and never looked in danger of defeat. He’s the first horse to win two renewals of the King’s Stand since Elbio completed the feat in 1997. Foaled in France, Equiano is from the first crop of Acclamation, himself runner-up in the King’s Stand Stakes (G2) and winner of the Diadem Stakes (G1) over 6f at Ascot. In addition to Equiano, Acclamation’s first crop has also supplied the Middle Park Stakes (G1) winner Dark Angel, and the Listed winners Cake, Pencil Hill and Sweetstake, while the Listed winner Pietra Santa is from his second crop. There was no previous black-type in the first two generations of Equiano’s pedigree, although his grand-dam, the Kris mare Mirmande, is a sister to Aljood, who earned black-type with a fourth in the Prix Marcel Boussac (G1). Mirmande is also a half-sister to Ulster Harp Derby winner Sir Simon, the group-placed Dartrey and blacktype placed Blue Hen Blend, granddam of French Listed winner Cricket Bat). Gemaasheh, another half-sister to Mirmande, is grand-dam of black-type winner Ponty Rossa. The fourth dam Aladancer a daughter of Northern Dancer was a three-time stakes winner in the US, and is half-sister to the dual Premio Roma (G1) victor Duke Of Marmalade. Aladancer produced two stakes
winners, and is ancestress of several other talented performers, including the Grade 1 winners Latin America and Devil May Career, the US graded winners Run Softly, Pico Teneriffe, Marchfield, Regal Ransom and Minister Eric, as well as the European Group winners Berceau, Wixim and Salmon Ladder.
464 - Coventry Stakes, G2, Ascot, June 15, 6f 1 Strong Suit (USA) 2 ch c Rahy (USA) Helwa (USA) (Silver Hawk (USA)) 2 Elzaam (AUS) 2 b c Redoute’s Choice (AUS) - Mambo In Freeport (USA) (Kingmambo (USA)) 3 Roayh (USA) 2 ch c Speightstown (USA) - Most Remarkable (USA) (Marquetry (USA)) Age: 2; Starts: 2; Wins: 2; Places: 0 Earnings: £60,979 Sire: RAHY. Sire of 75 Stakes winners. In 2010 - STRONG SUIT Silver Hawk G2, RUMOUSH Mr Prospector LR. 1st Dam: Helwa by Silver Hawk. unraced. Own sister to SILVER COLOURS. Dam of 3 winners: 2000: WHIMISCAL DAY (f Spinning World) 3 wins at 3 and 4 in USA. Broodmare. 2003: B Berry Brandy (f Event of The Year). Broodmare. 2004: Independent Kate (f Bold Anthony) unraced. 2006: NASEEHAH (c Rahy) Winner at 3. 2008: STRONG SUIT (c Rahy) Sold 38,095gns yearling at DNSLY. 2 wins at 2, Coventry S G2. 2nd Dam: Team Colors by Mr Prospector. unraced. Dam of GOD OF CHANCE (c Cozzene: Keio Hai Spring Cup G2), SILVER COLOURS (f Silver Hawk: EBF Montrose Fillies’ S LR), Desaru (g Chief’s Crown: 3rd GTECH Royal Lodge S G2). Grandam of SILVER PIVOTAL, Aristocrat. Broodmare Sire: SILVER HAWK. Sire of the dams of 53 Stakes winners. In 2010 - STRONG SUIT Rahy G2, TOKAI TRICK El Condor Pasa G2, CHANGING SKIES Sadler’s Wells G3. Red God Blushing Groom Runaway Bride RAHY ch 85 Halo Glorious Song Ballade STRONG SUIT ch c 2008 Roberto Silver Hawk Gris Vitesse HELWA ch 95 Mr Prospector Team Colors Private Colors
international database 465 - Windsor Forest Stakes, G2, Ascot, June 16, 8f
466 - Queen Mary Stakes, G2, Ascot, June 16, 5f
467 - Prince of Wales’s Stakes, G1, Ascot, June 16, 10f
G1, SUPER CELEBRE G1. Northern Dancer
1 Strawberrydaiquiri (GB) 4 gr f Dansili (GB) - Strawberry Morn (CAN) (Travelling Victor (CAN)) 2 Spacious (GB) 5 b f Nayef (USA) Palatial (GB) (Green Desert (USA)) 3 Antara (GER) 4 b f Platini (GER) Auenpracht (GER) (General Assembly (USA)) Age: 3-4; Starts: 8; Wins: 6; Places: 2 Earnings: £193,103 Sire: DANSILI. Sire of 42 Stakes winners. In 2010 - PROVISO Woodman G1, ICE BLUE Unfuwain G2, STRAWBERRYDAIQUIRI Travelling Victor G2, AVIATE Irish River G3, FAMOUS NAME Quest For Fame G3, HARBINGER Bering G3, ILLUSTRIOUS BLUE Efisio G3, ABATON Night Shift LR, BEWITCHED Kaldoun LR, FORETELLER Warning LR. 1st Dam: STRAWBERRY MORN by Travelling Victor. 15 wins at 2 to 5 in Canada, USA, British Columbia Stallion S.(fillies) LR, Metrotown Distaff S LR, Jack Diamond Futurity (fillies) LR. Dam of 3 winners: 2001: Versailles King (c Broad Brush) unraced. 2002: Silver Heist (f Silver Deputy) unraced. Broodmare. 2003: STRAWBERRY LOLLY (f Lomitas) 3 wins at 3 and 4. Broodmare. 2004: STRABINIOS KING (g King’s Best) 5 wins at 3 to 5. 2006: STRAWBERRYDAIQUIRI (f Dansili) Sold 105,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 6 wins at 3 and 4, Windsor Forest S G2, stanjames.com Dahlia S G3, Iveco Atalanta S LR, Transformers/Recitifers EBF Valiant S LR, The Coral Distaff LR. 2007: Strawberry Rose (f Dr Fong) in training. 2008: Strawberrymystique (f Motivator) unraced to date. 2009: (f Motivator) 2nd Dam: STRAWBERRY’S CHARM by Strawberry Road. 1 win in USA. Dam of STRAWBERRY MORN (f Travelling Victor, see above), C R Special (g Taylor’s Special: 3rd Inaugural Stakes), Rohaani (c High Yield: 2nd Nayef Jebel Ali S LR). Grandam of Fresa Margarita. Broodmare Sire: TRAVELLING VICTOR. Sire of the dams of 1 Stakes winners. In 2010 STRAWBERRYDAIQUIRI Dansili G2.
1 Maqaasid (GB) 2 b f Green Desert (USA) - Eshaadeh (USA) (Storm Cat (USA)) 2 Meow (IRE) 2 b f Storm Cat (USA) Airwave (GB) (Air Express (IRE)) 3 Ladies Are Forever (GB) 2 b f Monsieur Bond (IRE) - Forever Bond (GB) (Danetime (IRE)) Age: 2; Starts: 2; Wins: 2; Places: 0 Earnings: £55,626 Sire: GREEN DESERT. Sire of 94 Stakes winners. In 2010 - MAQAASID Storm Cat G2, MARKAB Nashwan G3. 1st Dam: Eshaadeh by Storm Cat. ran twice at 3. Dam of 1 winner: 2006: Istishaary (f Haafhd) unraced. 2007: Jumooh (f Monsun) in training. 2008: MAQAASID (f Green Desert) 2 wins at 2, Queen Mary S G2. (f Singspiel) 2009: 2nd Dam: SARAYIR by Mr Prospector. 3 wins at 2 and 3 Pertemps Virginia Rated S. H LR, Oh So Sharp S LR. Own sister to Wijdan and Bashayer. Dam of GHANAATI (f Giant’s Causeway: Coronation S G1, stanjames.com 1000 Guineas G1, 2nd Kingdom of Bahrain Sun Chariot S G1, 3rd BGC Sussex S G1), MAWATHEEQ (c Danzig: Grosvenor Casinos Cumberland Lodge S G3, 2nd Emirates Airline Champion S G1), RUMOUSH (f Rahy: Blue Square Feilden S LR) Broodmare Sire: STORM CAT. Sire of the dams of 94 Stakes winners. In 2010 - SIDNEY’S CANDY Candy Ride G1, CITY TO CITY City Zip G2, MAQAASID Green Desert G2, EL CABALLO El Corredor G3, KHANCORD KID Lemon Drop Kid G3, RED SPADA Taiki Shuttle G3, ANNIHILATION Northern Afleet LR, CUQUI’S LOVE Afleet Alex LR, DREAM NETTIE Dixie Union LR, KID MAMBO Lemon Drop Kid LR, PINKARELLA Malibu Moon LR. The Green Desert/Storm Cat cross has produced: MAQAASID G2, Tenzan Desert LR. Northern Dancer
Danzig Danzig
Danehill Razyana DANSILI b 96 Kahyasi Hasili Kerali STRAWBERRYDAIQUIRI gr f 2006 Hail To Victory Travelling Victor Travelling Round STRAWBERRY MORN gr 93 Strawberry Road Strawberry’s Charm Al’s Charm
Pas de Nom GREEN DESERT b 83 Sir Ivor Foreign Courier Courtly Dee MAQAASID b f 2008 Storm Bird Storm Cat Terlingua ESHAADEH b 2001 Mr Prospector Sarayir Height of Fashion
Nureyev
1 Byword (GB) 4 ch c Peintre Celebre (USA) - Binche (USA) (Woodman (USA)) 2 Twice Over (GB) 5 b/br c Observatory (USA) - Double Crossed (GB) (Caerleon (USA)) 3 Tazeez (USA) 6 b/br g Silver Hawk (USA) - Soiree Russe (USA) (Nureyev (USA))
Special PEINTRE CELEBRE ch 94 Alydar Peinture Bleue Petroleuse BYWORD ch c 2006 Mr Prospector Woodman Playmate BINCHE ch 99 Rainbow Quest Binary Balabina
Age: 3-4; Starts: 8; Wins: 5; Places: 3 Earnings: £454,430
ANALYSIS: Byword is the 14th Group or Grade 1 winner for Peintre Celebre, those victories being achieved in seven different countries, and the son of Nureyev has sired 47 stakes winners in his first eight years at stud. Byword is half-brother to Proviso (Dansili), winner of the Prix du Calvados (G3) and Prix du Pin (G3) in France, and of the Just A Game Stakes (G1) and Frank E. Kilroe Mile (G1) this year in the US. Their dam Binche is a half-sister to Binary File, a Nureyev colt who had outstanding form in Scandinavia, but also won the Strensall Stakes in England. The grand-dam Binary was a Listed winner and Group-placed in France, and is a sister to Listed scorer Bequeath and half-sister to Listed scorer Bal Harbour. Binary is by Rainbow Quest and out of the Nijinsky daughter Balabina (sister to Group 1 winner Quiet Fling) from a Whitney family that goes back to the Klairon mare Peace II, also ancestress of such well-known runners as US champion turf mare Wandesta (a three-parts sister to Byword’s granddam), Zambezi Sun, Invited Guest, Interval, Bon Point, Continent, Midships, Much Faster and Deportivo. Byword’s dam Binche is by Woodman and Peintre Celebre has three Group winners, two Group 1s, from just 18 starters on that cross. The mating combines Peintre Celebre’s broodmare sire Alydar with his genetic relative Mr. Prospector (sire of Woodman), although Woodman appears to be a particularly good channel, as Peintre Celebre has five stakes winners from 58 starters overall with mares by sons of Mr. Prospector.
Sire: PEINTRE CELEBRE. Sire of 48 Stakes winners. In 2010 - BYWORD Woodman G1, CELTIC CELEB Gay Mecene LR, COLLECTION American Chance LR, PITTONI Darshaan LR. 1st Dam: Binche by Woodman. Dam of 2 winners: 2004: Louviere (f Alhaarth) 2005: PROVISO (f Dansili). 7 wins at 2 to 5, 2010 in France, USA, Frank E Kilroe Mile H G1, Just A Game H G1, 2nd Meon Valley Stud Fillies’ Mile S G1, Juddmonte Spinster S G1, Santa Monica H G1, 3rd Prix Rothschild G1, Montjeu Coolmore Prix Saint-Alary G1. 2006: BYWORD (c Peintre Celebre) 5 wins at 3 and 4 at home, France, Prince of Wales’s S G1, Prix du Muguet G2, Prix Jacques Laffitte LR, Prix Pelleas LR, 2nd Prix d’Ispahan G1. 2007: Askew (f Beat Hollow) in training. 2008: Epinois (f Dansili) unraced to date. 2009: (c Dansili) 2010: (f Oasis Dream) 2nd Dam: BINARY by Rainbow Quest. 3 wins at 3 and 4 in France, USA Prix des Tuileries LR, 2nd Prix de Psyche G3. Own sister to BEQUEATH. Dam of BINARY FILE (c Nureyev: Marit Sveaas Minnelop G3, 2nd Prix Dollar Fouquet’s Barriere G2) Broodmare Sire: WOODMAN. Sire of the dams of 133 Stakes winners. In 2010 - BYWORD Peintre Celebre G1, KINSALE KING Yankee Victor G1, PROVISO Dansili G1, D’ FUNNYBONE D’Wildcat G2, ROTHESAY Fastnet Rock G2, AILALEA Pulpit G3, STRYKER Fastnet Rock G3, HERCULIAN PRINCE Yamanin Vital LR, HIDDEN UNIVERSE Linamix LR, I’M SO LUCKY Zilzal LR, TORLUNDY Monarchos LR. The Peintre Celebre/Woodman cross has produced: BYWORD G1, SUDAN
468 - 171 -Jersey Stakes, G3, Ascot, June 16, 7f 1 Rainfall (IRE) 3 b f Oasis Dream (GB) Molomo (GB) (Barathea (IRE)) 2 Red Jazz (USA) 3 b c Johannesburg (USA) - Now That’s Jazz (USA) (Sword Dance) 3 Rock Jock (IRE) 3 b c Rock of Gibraltar (IRE) - Perfect Touch (USA) (Miswaki (USA))
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international database Age: 3; Starts: 3; Wins: 2; Places: 1 Earnings: £59,593 Sire: OASIS DREAM. Sire of 31 Stakes winners. In 2010 - QUERARI Acatenango G1, TUSCAN EVENING Suave Dancer G1, APPROVE Sadler’s Wells G2, FROZEN POWER Royal Academy G2, ALTA FEDELTA Luge G3, MAIN AIM Selkirk G3, RAINFALL Barathea G3, SANDBAR Hernando G3, SRI PUTRA In The Wings G3, FIELD OF DREAM Selkirk LR, KEREDARI Doyoun LR, LADY JANE DIGBY Niniski LR, RAIN DELAYED Shareef Dancer LR. 1st Dam: Molomo by Barathea. Winner at 4, 2nd Hunston Financial Pretty Polly S G2, Royal Whip S G2. Own sister to Pepperwood. Dam of 2 winners: 2003: Asleep At The Back (g Halling) 2004: ONIDA (f Noverre) Winner at 2. 2005: Park Acclaim (f Clodovil) unraced. Broodmare. 2007: RAINFALL (f Oasis Dream) Sold 140,000gns 2yo at TAGUN. 2 wins at 3, Jersey S G3, 2nd J W Lees Sandy Lane S LR. 2008: Bint Nas (f Clodovil) unraced to date. 2009: (c Diamond Green) 2nd Dam: Nishan by Nashwan. Dam of Molomo (f Barathea, see above), Pepperwood (g Barathea: 3rd Trigo S LR) Broodmare Sire: BARATHEA. Sire of the dams of 31 Stakes winners. In 2010 - JAKKALBERRY Storming Home G1, RAINFALL Oasis Dream G3, GEORGETTE SILK Flying Spur LR, KIDNAPPING Intikhab LR, MARCETI Verglas LR. Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier OASIS DREAM b 2000 Dancing Brave Hope Bahamian
Sire: SINGSPIEL. Sire of 73 Stakes winners. In 2010 - DAR RE MI Top Ville G1, HIBAAYEB Lion Cavern G2, LIVE CONCERT Kingmambo G3, MISS SINGHSIX Miswaki G3, LAWSPEAKER Danasinga LR, LUCA BRASI Mr Prospector LR. 1st Dam: LADY ZONDA by Lion Cavern. 2 wins at 3. Dam of 2 winners: 2004: Miss Respect (f Mark of Esteem) unraced. Broodmare. 2005: May Meeting (f Diktat) Winner at 2, 2nd Kerry Spring Water Rochestown S LR. 2006: Kattar (c Singspiel) HIBAAYEB (f Singspiel). 2 2007: wins at 2 and 3, Meon Valley Stud Fillies’ Mile S G1, Ribblesdale S G2, 2nd DFS May Hill S G2, 3rd Montjeu Coolmore Prix Saint-Alary G1. 2008: Halifax (c Halling) unraced to date. 2009: (f Refuse To Bend) 2010: (c Authorized) 2nd Dam: Zonda by Fabulous Dancer. 4 wins, 3rd Milcars Temple Fortune S LR. Dam of Zoning (c Warning: 2nd Jebel Ali Mile LR), Zambezi (f Rahy: 2nd Prix Aymeri de Mauleon LR). Grandam of Fragrancy. Broodmare Sire: LION CAVERN. Sire of the dams of 14 Stakes winners. In 2010 - HIBAAYEB Singspiel G2, BEAUCHAMP XERXES Compton Admiral LR, RAINBOW PEAK Hernando LR. Sadler’s Wells In The Wings High Hawk SINGSPIEL b 92 Halo Glorious Song Ballade HIBAAYEB b f 2007 Mr Prospector Lion Cavern Secrettame LADY ZONDA b 99 Fabulous Dancer Zonda Oh So Hot
RAINFALL b f 2007
Brocade MOLOMO b 97 Nashwan
470 - Norfolk Stakes, G2, Ascot, June 17, 5f
Nesaah
1 Hibaayeb (GB) 3 b f Singspiel (IRE) Lady Zonda (GB) (Lion Cavern (USA)) 2 Eldalil (GB) 3 br f Singspiel (IRE) White House (GB) (Pursuit of Love (GB)) 3 Gallic Star (IRE) 3 b f Galileo (IRE) Oman Sea (USA) (Rahy (USA)) Age: 2-3; Starts: 7; Wins: 2; Places: 4 Earnings: £239,249
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2nd Dam: Rubies From Burma by Forty Niner. 3 wins at 3, 3rd Belgrave S LR. Dam of Alo Pura (f Anabaa: 3rd Nayef Shadwell Jebel Ali Sprint LR (twice)), Ivory Gala (f Galileo: 2nd Prix Joubert LR) Broodmare Sire: SADLER’S WELLS. Sire of the dams of 229 Stakes winners. In 2010 - WORKFORCE King’s Best G1, APPROVE Oasis Dream G2, BANKABLE Medicean G2, CAMPANOLOGIST Kingmambo G2, MEISHO BELUGA French Deputy G2, ZARIUS Zabeel G2, BALETTI Gulch G3, CAT JUNIOR Storm Cat G3, DEEM Dalakhani G3, ELUSIVE PIMPERNEL Elusive Quality G3, POSAVINA Tiger Hill G3, A CHANCE TO DREAM Volksraad LR, CHINESE WHITE Dalakhani LR, OCEAN AND BEYOND Kingsalsa LR, PRINCIPAL ROLE Empire Maker LR, TIMEPIECE Zamindar LR, FRENCH OPERA Bering LR. The Oasis Dream/Sadler’s Wells cross has produced: APPROVE G2, Address Unknown G2. Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier OASIS DREAM b 2000 Dancing Brave Hope APPROVE b c 2008
Nishan
469 - Ribblesdale Stakes, G2, Ascot, June 17, 12f
1st Dam: Wyola by Sadler’s Wells. Dam of 1 winner: 2007: The Tito Angel (c Rock of Gibraltar) 2008: APPROVE (c Oasis Dream) Sold 36,414gns foal at GONO1, 65,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 2 wins at 2, Norfolk S G2. 2009: (c Cape Cross)
Bahamian
Sadler’s Wells Barathea
Suave Dancer G1, APPROVE Sadler’s Wells G2, FROZEN POWER Royal Academy G2, ALTA FEDELTA Luge G3, MAIN AIM Selkirk G3, RAINFALL Barathea G3, SANDBAR Hernando G3, SRI PUTRA In The Wings G3, FIELD OF DREAM Selkirk LR, KEREDARI Doyoun LR, LADY JANE DIGBY Niniski LR, RAIN DELAYED Shareef Dancer LR.
1 Approve (IRE) 2 b c Oasis Dream (GB) - Wyola (USA) (Sadler’s Wells (USA)) 2 Reckless Reward (IRE) 2 ch c Choisir (AUS) - Champagne Toni (IRE) (Second Empire (IRE)) 3 Excel Bolt (GB) 2 ch c Exceed And Excel (AUS) - Dearest Daisy (GB) (Forzando) Age: 2; Starts: 4; Wins: 2; Places: 2 Earnings: £58,362 Sire: OASIS DREAM. Sire of 31 Stakes winners. In 2010 - QUERARI Acatenango G1, TUSCAN EVENING
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Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge WYOLA b 2001 Forty Niner Rubies From Burma Perfect Example
471 - Gold Cup, G1, Ascot, June 17, 20f 1 Rite of Passage (GB) 6 ch g Giant’s Causeway (USA) - Dahlia’s Krissy (USA) (Kris S (USA)) 2 Age of Aquarius (IRE) 4 b c Galileo (IRE) - Clara Bow (FR) (Top Ville) 3 Purple Moon (IRE) 7 ch g Galileo (IRE) - Vanishing Prairie (USA) (Alysheba (USA))
Age: 4-6; Starts: 10; Wins: 7; Places: 3 Earnings: £219,559 Sire: GIANT’S CAUSEWAY. Sire of 72 Stakes winners. In 2010 ESKENDEREYA Seattle Slew G1, RITE OF PASSAGE Kris S G1, NEKO BAY Rubiano G2, CONNEMARA Mr Leader G3, NADEGE Zabeel LR, RABBUKA Fappiano LR. 1st Dam: Dahlia’s Krissy by Kris S. 5 wins in USA, 3rd Indian Maid S LR. Dam of 2 winners: 2003: Jazz At The Sands (g Forest Wildcat) ran. 2004: RITE OF PASSAGE (g Giant’s Causeway) Sold 20,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 7 wins, Gold Cup G1, 3rd Weatherbys Champion Bumper NH Flat Race G1, 3rd Neptune Investment Bingham Nov Hurdle G1. 2006: BIBURY (f Royal Applause) Winner at 3. 2008: Dahlia’s Spirit (c Invincible Spirit) unraced to date. 2009: (f Royal Applause) 2nd Dam: Dahlia’s Image by Lyphard. 2nd Prix de Lieurey LR. Own sister to LLANDAFF and DAHAR. Dam of River Image (c Irish River: 3rd Old Ironsides S), Dahlia’s Krissy (f Kris S, see above). Third dam of Super Envoy. Broodmare Sire: KRIS S. Sire of the dams of 58 Stakes winners. In 2010 RITE OF PASSAGE Giant’s Causeway G1, ZENYATTA Street Cry G1. The Giant’s Causeway/Kris S cross has produced: RITE OF PASSAGE G1, Shintoh G3, Polo Argentina LR. Storm Bird Storm Cat Terlingua GIANT’S CAUSEWAY ch 97 Rahy Mariah’s Storm Immense RITE OF PASSAGE ch g 2004 Roberto Kris S Sharp Queen DAHLIA’S KRISSY b/br 96 Lyphard Dahlia’s Image Dahlia
ANALYSIS: When Newsells Park Stud sent the mare Dahlia’s Krissy, a stakesplaced Kris S. mare out of a stakesplaced daughter of the great runner and producer Dahlia, to the court of Giant’s Causeway, we doubt that they expected that the resultant foal would start his career at four in a NH Flat race! However, when he did appear on the Flat he wore down Age of Aquarius, who’d to score in a new course record. The newly crowned Group 1 winner is bred on a cross that has enjoyed a very good strike-rate – that of Storm Cat and his sons with mares by Kris S.
international database The cross has produced three stakes winners from 14 starters for Storm Cat, including the champion two-year-old filly Sweet Catomine, and her sister the Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic (G1) winner Life Is Sweet. Further there are nine stakes winners from 91 starters for Storm Cat and his sons. Rite Of Passage has Kris S.’s sire Roberto 4 x 3, and although there have been 23 stakes winners with Roberto inbreeding, the only previous Group or Grade 1 winner was also by Giant’s Causeway, this being the Australianbred Juste Momente. Despite this being an illustrious family, Rite Of Passage is the first stakes winner to appear under the first two dams of this pedigree. The first two dams did earn placed black-type, however, and the grand-dam, the Lyphard mare Dahia’s Image is a sister to Group and Grade 1 winner Dahar and to the graded stakes winner Llandaff. That pair were just two of the six Group or Graded winners – four of them Group or Grade 1 – produced by Dahlia, a dual Horse of the Year in England and champion turf horse in the US.
472 - King Edward VII Stakes, G2, Ascot, June 18, 12f
Light Fingers S G3. Dam of BLUEBIRD THE WORD (c Bluebird: Whakanui Stud International S G1, 2nd Sleepyhead New Zealand Derby G1, Hutt Valley Cartage Thorndon Mile G1, 3rd Mercedes Benz Queensland Derby G1, Whakanui Stud International S G1), PORTO ROCA (f Barathea, see above), Aristocracy (f Danehill: 3rd Richmond Grove Padthaway Golden S LR) Broodmare Sire: BARATHEA. Sire of the dams of 32 Stakes winners. In 2010 - JAKKALBERRY Storming Home G1, MONTEROSSO Dubawi G2, RAINFALL Oasis Dream G3, GEORGETTE SILK Flying Spur LR, KIDNAPPING Intikhab LR, MARCETI Verglas LR. Seeking The Gold Dubai Millennium Colorado Dancer DUBAWI b 2002 Deploy Zomaradah Jawaher MONTEROSSO b c 2007 Sadler’s Wells Barathea Brocade PORTO ROCA b 96 Salieri Antelliere Anntelle
473 - Coronation Stakes, G1, Ascot, June 18, 8f
1 Monterosso (GB) 3 b c Dubawi (IRE) Porto Roca (AUS) (Barathea (IRE)) 2 Arctic Cosmos (USA) 3 b c North Light (IRE) - Fifth Avenue Doll (USA) (Marquetry (USA)) 3 Buzzword (GB) 3 b c Pivotal (GB) Bustling (GB) (Danehill (USA))
1 Lillie Langtry (IRE) 3 b/br f Danehill Dancer (IRE) - Hoity Toity (GB) (Darshaan) 2 Gile Na Greine (IRE) 3 b f Galileo (IRE) Scribonia (IRE) (Danehill (USA)) 3 Jacqueline Quest (IRE) 3 b f Rock of Gibraltar (IRE) - Coquette Rouge (IRE) (Croco Rouge (IRE))
Age: 2-3; Starts: 8; Wins: 5; Places: 2 Earnings: £126,003
Age: 2-3; Starts: 8; Wins: 4; Places: 3 Earnings: £768,781
Sire: DUBAWI. Sire of 9 Stakes winners. In 2010 - MAKFI Green Desert G1, MONTEROSSO Barathea G2, WORTHADD Rahy G2, ANNA SALAI Caerleon G3, CELLARMASTER Sound Reason G3, AFSARE Fairy King LR, GOLDEN MILLENNIUM Eagle Eyed LR.
Sire: DANEHILL DANCER. Sire of 112 Stakes winners. In 2010 - LILLIE LANGTRY Darshaan G1, CONTREDANSE Rahy G2, PLANTEUR Giant’s Causeway G2, MEMORY Diesis G3, MONTE ALTO Perugino LR, NEWS ALERT Brief Truce LR, SAMUEL MORSE Mt Livermore LR, SANJUAN Last Tycoon LR, SUPER SATIN Rock City LR, THE MIKADO Rigoletto LR, URAMAZIN Acatenango LR.
1st Dam: PORTO ROCA by Barathea. Coolmore Classic G1, 3rd Futurity S G1, Eat Well Live Well Cup G1, Australasian Oaks G1. Dam of 2 winners: 2002: SEVEN STARS (f King’s Best) 3 wins at 3 in Australia. 2004: Elusive Port (c Elusive Quality) unraced. 2005: Fiorentina (f Dubai Destination) unraced. 2007: MONTEROSSO (c Dubawi) 5 wins at 3, King Edward VII S G2. 2008: Manarola (c Tiger Hill) unraced to date. 2009: (c Dubai Destination) 2nd Dam: Antelliere by Salieri. 2nd
1st Dam: Hoity Toity by Darshaan. unraced. Dam of 1 winner: 2005: Song of Freedom (g Montjeu) unraced. 2006: Lady Hawkfield (f Hawk Wing) ran once. 2007: LILLIE LANGTRY (f Danehill Dancer) Sold 70,000gns foal at TADEF, 230,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 4 wins at 2 and 3, Coronation S G1, Debutante S G2, Coolmore Stud Sprint S G3, 2nd Albany S G3, 3rd Moyglare Stud S G1.
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2nd Dam: Hiwaayati by Shadeed. unraced. Dam of Sweet Emotion (f Bering: 2nd EBF Insulpak Swinley S LR). Grandam of WINGED CUPID. Broodmare Sire: DARSHAAN. Sire of the dams of 149 Stakes winners. In 2010 - LILLIE LANGTRY Danehill Dancer G1, SARAFINA Refuse To Bend G1, MIDAS TOUCH Galileo G2, GLASS HARMONIUM Verglas G3, GRACE O’MALLEY Refuse To Bend G3, CLAREMONT Sadler’s Wells LR, TACTIC Sadler’s Wells LR, ASHKAZAR Sadler’s Wells LR, PITTONI Peintre Celebre LR, SLINGSHOT Kahyasi LR, ZARINAVA Daylami LR. The Danehill Dancer/Darshaan cross has produced: LILLIE LANGTRY G1, JALMIRA LR, Glitter Baby LR, Shendaya LR. Danzig Danehill Razyana DANEHILL DANCER b 93 Sharpen Up Mira Adonde Lettre d’Amour LILLIE LANGTRY b/br f 2007 Shirley Heights Darshaan Delsy HOITY TOITY br 2000 Shadeed Hiwaayati Alathea
ANALYSIS: Lillie Langtry’s win completed a double on the day for Danehill Dancer, which had been initiated by his juvenile daughter Memory, who won the 6f Albany Stakes (G3). The win also took Danehill Dancer’s total of Group and Grade 1 winners to 14, firmly established himself as one of the premier sons of Danehill. His best runners include Mastercraftsman, a champion twoyear-old and winner of the Irish 2,000 Guineas (G1) and St. James’s Palace Stakes (G1); the Irish 1000 Guineas (G1) heroines Again and Speciosa as well as the champion Australian filly Private Steer and sprinter Choisir. Lillie Langtry is out of the Darshaan mare Hoity Toity, a half-sister to the dam of stakes-winning and Group 1placed Winged Cupid. She follows Eagle Mountain (Rock of Gibraltar) and Mountain High (Danehill) and is the third Group 1 winner for the Danehill/Darshaan cross. Her grand-dam Hiwaayati is a Shadeed half-sister to the Nureyev Group winners Great Commotion and Lead On Time, while her fourth dam Vive La Reine is a sister to Vaguely Noble. Just the previous weekend another sister, Viennese Rose, featured as the fourth dam of Roan Inish, winner of the Canadian Oaks.
474 - Albany Stakes, G3, Ascot, June 18, 6f 1 Memory (IRE) 2 b f Danehill Dancer (IRE) - Nausicaa (USA) (Diesis) 2 Margot Did (IRE) 2 b f Exceed And Excel (AUS) - Special Dancer (GB) (Shareef Dancer (USA)) 3 Tiz My Time (USA) 2 b f Sharp Humor (USA) - Tiz the Hour (USA) (Tiznow (USA)) Age: 2; Starts: 2; Wins: 2; Places: 0 Earnings: £43,301 Sire: DANEHILL DANCER. Sire of 112 Stakes winners. In 2010 - LILLIE LANGTRY Darshaan G1, CONTREDANSE Rahy G2, PLANTEUR Giant’s Causeway G2, MEMORY Diesis G3, MONTE ALTO Perugino LR, NEWS ALERT Brief Truce LR, SAMUEL MORSE Mt Livermore LR, SANJUAN Last Tycoon LR, SUPER SATIN Rock City LR, THE MIKADO Rigoletto LR, URAMAZIN Acatenango LR. 1st Dam: Nausicaa by Diesis. 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, USA, 3rd Miesque S G3. Dam of 4 winners: 2004: KAFUU (c Danehill Dancer) 2 wins at 2 and 4. 2005: NAUGHTY FRIDA (f Royal Applause) 2 wins at 2 and 3. 2006: Heading East (g Dubai Destination) 2007: HEDAAYA (f Indian Ridge) Winner at 3. 2008: MEMORY (f Danehill Dancer) Sold 72,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 2 wins at 2, Albany S G3. 2009: (f Teofilo) 2nd Dam: BLUSHING ALL OVER by Blushing Groom. 6 wins at 3, 4 and 6 in France, USA Handicap de la Tamise LR. Dam of Nausicaa (f Diesis, see above), Sahib (g Colonial Affair: 2nd Prix Edellic LR) Broodmare Sire: DIESIS. Sire of the dams of 79 Stakes winners. In 2010 MEMORY Danehill Dancer G3, PYRRHA Pyrus G3, BUXTED Dynaformer LR, HUXSSEN Hussonet LR, RHEIN PRAYER Kurofune LR. The Danehill Dancer/Diesis cross has produced: MEMORY G3, Remember When G1. Danzig Danehill Razyana DANEHILL DANCER b 93 Sharpen Up Mira Adonde Lettre d’Amour MEMORY b f 2008 Sharpen Up Diesis Doubly Sure NAUSICAA ch 96 Blushing Groom Blushing All Over Victory Kingdom
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international database 475 - Hardwicke Stakes, G2, Ascot, June 19, 12f 1 Harbinger (GB) 4 b c Dansili (GB) Penang Pearl (FR) (Bering) 2 Duncan (GB) 5 b c Dalakhani (IRE) Dolores (GB) (Danehill (USA)) 3 Barshiba (IRE) 6 ch f Barathea (IRE) Dashiba (GB) (Dashing Blade) Age: 3-4; Starts: 8; Wins: 5; Places: 2 Earnings: £206,233 Sire: DANSILI. Sire of 42 Stakes winners. In 2010 - PROVISO Woodman G1, HARBINGER Bering G2, ICE BLUE Unfuwain G2, STRAWBERRYDAIQUIRI Travelling Victor G2, AVIATE Irish River G3, FAMOUS NAME Quest For Fame G3, ILLUSTRIOUS BLUE Efisio G3, ABATON Night Shift LR, BEWITCHED Kaldoun LR, FORETELLER Warning LR. 1st Dam: PENANG PEARL by Bering. 3 wins at 3, Financial Dynamics October S LR. Dam of 3 winners: 2002: PENANG SAPPHIRE (g Spectrum) Winner at 2. 2003: PENANG CINTA (g Halling) 9 wins. 2004: Autour du Monde (f Spinning World) 2005: Penang Cry (f Barathea) unraced. Broodmare. 2006: HARBINGER (c Dansili) Sold 180,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 5 wins at 3 and 4, Hardwicke S G2, Betfair Gordon S G3, Dubai Duty Free John Porter S G3, Boodles Diamond Ormonde S G3, 3rd totesport.com St Simon S G3. 2007: Penangdouble O One (c Starcraft) 2008: (c Sakhee) 2009: (c Zamindar) 2nd Dam: GUAPA by Shareef Dancer. 2 wins at 3. Dam of PENANG PEARL (f Bering, see above) Broodmare Sire: BERING. Sire of the dams of 53 Stakes winners. In 2010 HARBINGER Dansili G2, BLUE PANIS Panis LR, CLASSIC COLORI Le Vie Dei Colori LR, ORO SOLIDO Solitary Vision LR, PEDRA POMPAS Mark of Esteem LR, ALARM CALL Solar One LR. The Dansili/Bering cross has produced: HARBINGER G2, Handsome Maestro G3. Danzig Danehill Razyana DANSILI b 96 Kahyasi Hasili Kerali HARBINGER b c 2006 Arctic Tern Bering Beaune PENANG PEARL b 96 Shareef Dancer Guapa Sauceboat
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476 - Golden Jubilee Stakes, G1, Ascot, June 19, 6f 1 Starspangledbanner (AUS) 4 ch c Choisir (AUS) - Gold Anthem (AUS) (Made of Gold (USA)) 2 Society Rock (IRE) 3 b c Rock of Gibraltar (IRE) - High Society (IRE) (Key of Luck (USA)) 3 Kinsale King (USA) 5 b/br g Yankee Victor (USA) - Flaming Mirage (USA) (Woodman (USA)) Age: 2-4; Starts: 14; Wins: 7; Places: 3 Earnings: £918,342 Sire: CHOISIR. Sire of 25 Stakes winners. In 2010 STARSPANGLEDBANNER Made of Gold G1, SACRED CHOICE Sir Tristram G2, DREAMSCAPE Ferdinand G3, LADY SPRINGBANK Kendor G3, PSYCHOLOGIST Danzero G3, CLONDINNERY Linamix LR, MESSENGER Sky Chase LR. 1st Dam: Gold Anthem by Made of Gold. 2 wins in Australia, 2nd Balcrest S LR. Dam of 3 winners: 2004: Gold Chant (f El Moxie) 5 wins in Australia, 3rd Dermody S LR. Broodmare. 2005: TINKLING (f Markane) 2 wins in Australia. 2006: STARSPANGLEDBANNER (c Choisir) 7 wins at 2 to 4 at home, Australia, Golden Jubilee S G1, The Age Caulfield Guineas G1, Sportingbet Oakleigh Plate G1, H D F McNeil S G3, RSL Vain S LR, 2nd Festival of Racing S LR, 3rd Newmarket H G1, Arrowfield Stud Blue Diamond Prelude(cg) G3. 2007: Regally Blonde (f Royal Academy) unraced to date. 2008: (f Rock of Gibraltar) 2009: (c Purrealist) 2nd Dam: National Song by Vain. ran on the flat in Australia. Dam of Gold Anthem (f Made of Gold, see above). Grandam of TAGINE. Third dam of Trisara. Broodmare Sire: MADE OF GOLD. Sire of the dams of 4 Stakes winners. In 2010 STARSPANGLEDBANNER Choisir G1, MISS CONDITION Blackfriars LR, SUPER GOLD Golden Snake LR. Danehill Danehill Dancer Mira Adonde CHOISIR ch 99 Lunchtime Great Selection Pensive Mood STARSPANGLEDBANNER ch c 2006 Green Forest Made of Gold Vindaria GOLD ANTHEM ch 99 Vain National Song Olympic Aim
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ANALYSIS: Generations of breeding for speed and precocity have resulted in Australian sprinters being the most formidable turf speedsters in the world. Over the last few years, British racegoers in particular have had an opportunity to develop a healthy respect for Australian sprinters. One of the first horses to school them in that regard was Choisir, a Danehill Dancer son who took both the King’s Stand Stakes (G1) and Golden Jubilee Stakes (G1) at the same Royal Meeting. This year Choisir’s Australianbred son Starspangledbanner followed in his sire’s footsteps and defeated a field in which 12 of the 24 starters were winners or Group or Grade 1 events. Starspangledbanner is the first Grade 1 winner for Choisir, but he has already sired 11 other group or graded winners. The dam of Starspangledbanner is the stakes-placed Gold Anthem, who is by Made of Gold and from the Shecky Greene/Noholme branch of the Star Kingdom line. His second dam National Song is half-sister to the Australian Oaks (G1) heroine, Circles Of Gold. She who was by Marscay, who is from the Biscay branch of the Star Kingdom line). Circles Of Gold is another from this family to produce a Royal Ascot winner as her Fusaichi Pegasus son Haradasun won Queen Anne Stakes (G1) a couple of years ago. Another of her offspring, Elvstroem (by Danehill, and bred on similar lines to Starspangledbanner), won four Grade 1s in Australia as well as the Dubai Duty Free (G1). He also finished second in the Prix d’Ispahan (G1) and third in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes (G1) in a European sojourn.
477 - Premio Primi Passi, G3, Milan, June 20, 1200m 1 Blu Constellation (ITY) 2 b c Orpen (USA) - Stella Celtica (ITY) (Celtic Swing (GB)) 2 Avatar Day (USA) 2 b c Afleet Alex (USA) - Investagain (USA) (Salt Lake (USA)) 3 Step Up (ITY) 2 c Footstepsinthesand (GB) - Lady Melbourne (IRE) (Indian Ridge) Age: 2; Starts: 3; Wins: 2; Places: 1 Earnings: £39,836 Sire: ORPEN. Sire of 52 Stakes winners. In 2010 - LINGOTE DE ORO Old Trieste G1, BLU CONSTELLATION Celtic Swing G3, NORQUINCO The Watcher G3, ORPEN FAIN Southern Halo G3, POLLEN Chief Singer G3, WAR ARTIST Brocco G3, CELESTIAL WAY Slip Anchor LR, INVINCIBLE SON Exit To Nowhere LR.
1st Dam: STELLA CELTICA by Celtic Swing. 3 wins at 3 in Italy. Dam of 1 winner: 2008: BLU CONSTELLATION (c Orpen) 2 wins at 2 in Italy, Premio Primi Passi G3. 2009: Star Force (f Blu Air Force) Broodmare Sire: CELTIC SWING. Sire of the dams of 6 Stakes winners. In 2010 - PLANET FIVE Storm Cat G2, BLU CONSTELLATION Orpen G3. Danzig Lure Endear ORPEN b 96 Devil’s Bag Bonita Francita Raise The Standard BLU CONSTELLATION b c 2008 Damister Celtic Swing Celtic Ring STELLA CELTICA b 2003 Dancing Brave Kanun Mahrah
478 - Grosser Preis der Dortmunder Wirtschaft, G3, Dortmund, June 20, 2000m 1 Norderney (GER) 4 ch f Dai Jin (GB) Nouvelle Princesse (GER) (Bluebird (USA)) 2 Scolari (GB) 5 b c Monsun (GER) - Sky Dancing (IRE) (Exit To Nowhere (USA)) 3 Illo (GER) 4 b c Tertullian (USA) - Iora (GER) (Konigsstuhl (GER)) Age: 2-4; Starts: 8; Wins: 3; Places: 4 Earnings: £67,180 Sire: DAI JIN. Sire of 4 Stakes winners. In 2010 - NORDERNEY Bluebird G3. 1st Dam: NOUVELLE PRINCESSE by Bluebird. 3 wins at 3 and 4 in Germany. Own sister to NOBILISSIMA. Dam of 5 winners: NYLON (f Law Society) 2 2002: wins. Broodmare. 2003: NESTOR (c Silvano) 5 wins, Badener Roulette Preis Hurdle LR. 2004: NASIBOW (c Silvano) 6 wins at 3 to 5 in Germany. 2005: Natalis (f Law Society) 2006: NORDERNEY (f Dai Jin) 3 wins at 2 and 3 in Germany, Grosser Preis der Dortmunder Wirtschaft G3, Herbstpreis Frankfurter Stutenpreis G3, RaceBets Dusseldorfer Stutenpreis LR, 3rd Gerling Preis G2, Euro Cup G3, G. P. der Jungheinrich Gabelstapler G3. 2007: NOCTURNA (f Dai Jin) 2 wins at 2 in Germany. 2008: Nafar (c Singspiel) unraced to date. 2009: Next Topmodel (f Sholokhov) 2010: Naftali (f Dai Jin) 2nd Dam: NOUVELLE REINE by
international database Konigsstuhl. 5 wins at 3 in Germany Spreti Memorial LR. Dam of NOBILISSIMA (f Bluebird: Kolner Stuten Meile LR), NOUVELLE FORTUNE (f Alzao: Frankfurter der Mehl Mulhens Stiftung LR, 2nd Deutscher Herold-Preis G3, 3rd Ostermann - Diana Deutsches Stuten Derby G1), NOVITA (f American Post: Junioren Preis LR, 3rd Schwarzgold Rennen G3), NOBILITA (g Orpen: Prix Challenge de Haies des 4 Ans Hurdle LR, Prix de Besancon Hurdle LR, 2nd Prix Leopold d’Orsetti d’Enghien Hurdle G3). Grandam of NOUVELLE NOBLESSE, NIANGA, NUEVO LEON. Third dam of Noble Alpha. Broodmare Sire: BLUEBIRD. Sire of the dams of 48 Stakes winners. In 2010 - METAL BENDER Danasinga G1, GIBRALTAR BLUE Rock of Gibraltar G2, MONTANA FLYER Flying Spur G3, NORDERNEY Dai Jin G3, NIANGA Lomitas LR, RIGHT FONG Dr Fong LR. Nureyev Peintre Celebre Peinture Bleue DAI JIN b 2000 Shirley Heights Dawlah Urjwan NORDERNEY ch f 2006 Storm Bird Bluebird Ivory Dawn NOUVELLE PRINCESSE b 96 Konigsstuhl Nouvelle Reine Night Blue
USA 479 - LONE STAR DERBY, G3, Lone Star Park, May 8, 8f 110yds 1 Game On Dude (USA) 3 b/br g Awesome Again (CAN) - Worldly Pleasure (USA) (Devil His Due (USA)) 2 Crider (USA) 3 b c Closing Argument (USA) - Frankie’s Lady (USA) (Meadowlake (USA)) 3 Henshin Hero (USA) 3 b g Dance Master (USA) - Flawless Diamond (USA) (Saint Ballado (CAN)) 480 - MERVYN LEROY HANDICAP, G2, Hollywood Park, May 8, 8f 110yds 1 Rail Trip (USA) 5 b g Jump Start (USA) - Sweet Trip (USA) (Carson City (USA)) 2 Sangaree (USA) 5 ch c Awesome Again (CAN) - Mari’s Sheba (USA) (Mari’s Book (USA)) 3 Cigar Man (USA) 5 b/br c Drewman (USA) - Foxey’s Last Key (USA) (Big Bold Sefa (USA))
481 - DWYER STAKES, G2, Belmont Park, May 8, 9f 1 Fly Down (USA) 3 ch c Mineshaft (USA) - Queen Randi (USA) (Fly So Free (USA)) 2 Drosselmeyer (USA) 3 ch c Distorted Humor (USA) - Golden Ballet (USA) (Moscow Ballet (USA)) 3 Remand (USA) 3 b/br c Successful Appeal (USA) - Fast ‘n Fleet (USA) (Mr Greeley (USA)) 482 - VIGIL STAKES, G3, Woodbine, May 9, 1400m 1 Hollywood Hit (USA) 4 b/br g Cactus Ridge (USA) - Solid Hit (USA) (Time For A Change (USA)) 2 Fatal Bullet (USA) 5 b g Red Bullet (USA) - Sararegal (CAN) (Regal Classic (CAN)) 3 Signature Red (USA) 4 b c Bernstein (USA) - Irish And Foxy (USA) (Irish Open (USA)) 483 - RAILBIRD STAKES, G3, Hollywood Park, May 9, 7f 1 Tanda (USA) 3 b f Sweetsouthernsaint (USA) - Doc’s Stormy Girl (USA) (Dr Caton (USA)) 2 Switch (USA) 3 b f Quiet American (USA) - Antoniette (USA) (Nicholas (USA)) 3 All Due Respect (USA) 3 b/br f Value Plus (USA) - Aunt Due (USA) (Devil His Due (USA)) 484 - BLACK-EYED SUSAN STAKES, G2, Pimlico, May 14, 9f 1 Acting Happy (USA) 3 b/br f Empire Maker (USA) - I Ain’t Bluffing (USA) (Pine Bluff (USA)) 2 No Such Word (USA) 3 b f Canadian Frontier (USA) - Muskoka Ice (USA) (It’s Freezing (USA)) 3 Tidal Pool (USA) 3 b f Yankee Gentleman (USA) - Sea Rhythm (USA) (Deputy Minister (CAN)) 485 - WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER STAKES, G3, Pimlico, May 15, 8f 110yds 1 Blame (USA) 4 b c Arch (USA) - Liable (USA) (Seeking The Gold (USA)) 2 No Advantage (USA) 5 b/br c Posse (USA) - Prime Advantage (USA) (Tactical Advantage (USA)) 3 Timber Reserve (USA) 6 b/br c Forest Camp (USA) - Fountain Square (USA) (Danzig Connection (USA))
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1 Lookin At Lucky (USA) 3 b c Smart Strike (CAN) - Private Feeling (USA) (Belong To Me (USA)) 2 First Dude (USA) 3 b c Stephen Got Even (USA) - Run Sarah Run (USA) (Smart Strike (CAN)) 3 Jackson Bend (USA) 3 ch c Hear No Evil (USA) - Sexy Stockings (USA) (Tabasco Cat (USA)) ANALYSIS: In the Preakness Stakes (G1), Lookin At Lucky finally found a trouble-free trip, and wore down the brave pacesetter First Dude to score by three-quarters of a length. Lookin At Lucky is the second Preakness Stakes (G1) victor for his sire Smart Strike, the first being Curlin, who won the 2007 renewal after finishing third in the Derby. A son of Mr. Prospector, Smart Strike won six of eight starts, including the Philip H. Iselin Handicap (G1) and Salvator Mile (G1). He wasn’t particularly commercial when retired to stud, but has climbed to the top of the tree and was leading sire in 2007 and 2008. In addition to Lookin At Lucky and Curlin, he’s also got horses suc has the champion turf horse English Channel, and the Canadian champions Soaring Free, Eye Of The Sphynx, Portcullis, Gold Strike and Added Edge. Lookin At Lucky’s dam Private Feeling is also dam of Kensei (by Mr. Prospector’s grandson Mr. Greeley), winner of the 2009 Jim Dandy Stakes (G2) and the Dwyer Stakes (G2), Lookin At Lucky and Kensei being her first two runners. Private Feeling was sold back in foal to Mr. Greeley for $2,000,000 at the 2009 Fasig-Tipton November Sale. A daughter of the Danzig horse Belong To Me, already broodmare sire of two other Smart Strike stakes winners, Private Feeling is a halfsister to the graded stakes winner Grand Charmer, subsequently second dam of champion three-year-old filly Wait A While. The second dam, the stakes-placed Clever Trick mare Regal Feeling, is out of the Monmouth Oaks (G1) winner, Sharp Belle. That mare has ties to a European Classic winner as her stakes-winning Mr. Prospector half-sister Sue Babe produced the Irish Derby (G1) winner Sir Harry Lewis. The family goes back to Nectariine, a sister to multiple Champion Sire, Bull Lea.
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international database 492 - SHUVEE HANDICAP, G2, Belmont Park, May 15, 8f 1 Funny Moon (USA) 4 ch f Malibu Moon (USA) - Fun Crowd (USA) (Easy Goer (USA)) 2 Seattle Smooth (USA) 5 b f Quiet American (USA) - Our Seattle Star (USA) (Seattle Song (USA)) 3 Milwaukee Appeal (CAN) 4 b f Milwaukee Brew (USA) - Appealing Forum (USA) (Open Forum (USA)) 493 - HENDRIE STAKES, G3, Woodbine, May 16, 1200m 1 Tribal Belle (CAN) 5 b/br f Tribunal (USA) - B B Belle (CAN) (Vying Victor (USA)) 2 Dr Zic (USA) 4 ch f Milwaukee Brew (USA) - Royal Corona (USA) (Holy Bull (USA)) 3 Carem Crescent (CAN) 4 b/br f Distorted Humor (USA) - Can’t Be Late (USA) (Seattle Slew (USA)) 494 - MILADY HANDICAP, G2, Hollywood Park, May 16, 8f 110yds 1 Made For Magic (USA) 5 b f Cape Canaveral (USA) - Only Seventeen (USA) (Exploit (USA)) 2 Wynning Ride (CAN) 4 ch f Candy Ride (ARG) - Wynyard (CAN) (Mr Greeley (USA)) 3 Third Dawn (USA) 4 b f Sky Mesa (USA) - Chalmette (USA) (Quiet American (USA)) 495 - LAZARO BARRERA MEMORIAL STAKES, G3, Hollywood Park, May 22, 7f 1 Smiling Tiger (USA) 3 ch c Hold That Tiger (USA) - Shandra Smiles (USA) (Cahill Road (USA)) 2 Concord Point (USA) 3 gr/ro c Tapit (USA) - Harve de Grace (USA) (Boston Harbor (USA)) 3 Domonation (USA) 3 gr/ro c Maria’s Mon (USA) - Snickeez (USA) (Mr Greeley (USA)) 496 - LOUISVILLE HANDICAP, G3, Churchill Downs, May 22, 12f 1 Free Fighter (USA) 5 ch c Out of Place (USA) - Taxable Deduction (USA) (Prized (USA)) 2 Bearpath (USA) 4 b c Dynaformer (USA) - Song ‘n Silk (USA) (Unbridled’s Song (USA)) 3 Brass Hat (USA) 9 b g Prized (USA) Brassy (USA) (Dixie Brass (USA))
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497 - SHEEPSHEAD BAY STAKES, G2, Belmont Park, May 22, 11f 1 Treat Gently (GB) 5 b f Cape Cross (IRE) - Kid Gloves (GB) (In The Wings) 2 Nehantic Kat (USA) 7 b/br f Tomorrows Cat (USA) - Knightly Thunder (USA) (Thunder Puddles (USA)) 3 Bubbly Jane (BRZ) 5 b/br f Yagli (USA) - Built To Last (BRZ) (Knifebox (USA)) 498- GAMELY STAKES, G1, Hollywood Park, May 29, 9f 1 Tuscan Evening (IRE) 5 b f Oasis Dream (GB) - The Faraway Tree (GB) (Suave Dancer (USA)) 2 Forever Together (USA) 6 gr/ro f Belong To Me (USA) - Constant Companion (USA) (Relaunch (USA)) 3 Cat by the Tale (USA) 5 ch f Tale of The Cat (USA) - St Clair Ridge (IRE) (Indian Ridge) ANALYSIS:Given the status to which she has risen in the US, it’s remarkable to recall that Tuscan Evening failed to win a single race in 11 starts in England and Ireland. And good as she was last term, she’s been even better this year.After a successful start to the year over 1m2f for the Gamely Stakes, Tuscan Evening confirmed herself as one of the best older turf mares in the country. A 4,500gns purchase at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sales, Tuscan Evening is from the first crop of Oasis Dream, a stallion whose rise to the top has been every bit as dramatic, if somewhat more predictable, than that of Tuscan Evening. With three crops aged threeyears-old or up, Oasis Dream has already been represented by 29 stakes winners, 19 Group or Graded, with Oasis Dream joining Midday, Aqlaam, Arcano, Querar and Naaqoos as scorers at the highest level. Given that Oaisis Dream was a sprint specialist, it’s interesting to note that Midday, Tuscan Evening and Querari have won over 1m2f or more. There is plenty of stamina in the pedigree of Tuscan Evening’s dam, the Park Hill Stakes (G2) second The Faraway Tree. Her sire Suave Dancer and broodmare sire Sassafras both won the French Derby and Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe. The Faraway Tree is half-sister to Prix d’Ispahan (G1) victor Sasuru. to Sally Rous, who took the Challenge Stakes (G2) and Jersey Stakes (G3) and to the Listed winners Sossus Vlei and Little Bean. Another half-sister to The Faraway Tree, Krisalya, is dam of the French 1,000 Guineas (G1) winner Rose Gypsy, a daughter of Oasis Dream’s sire Green Desert.
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499 - DOGWOOD STAKES, G3, Churchill Downs, May 29, 8f 1 Ailalea (USA) 3 b f Pulpit (USA) Wood Sprite (USA) (Woodman (USA)) 2 Tap Tap Tapping (USA) 3 ch f Tapit (USA) - Senorita Spike (USA) (El Gran Senor (USA)) 3 Fuzzy Britches (USA) 3 b/br f Pollard’s Vision (USA) - Flame Trick (USA) (Mt Livermore (USA)) 500 - ARISTIDES STAKES, G3, Churchill Downs, May 29, 6f 1 Riley Tucker (USA) 5 b/br c Harlan’s Holiday (USA) - My Sweet Country (CAN) (Bold Ruckus (USA)) 2 Atta Boy Roy (USA) 5 b c Tribunal (USA) - Irish Toast (USA) (Synastry (USA)) 3 Cash Refund (USA) 4 b g Petionville (USA) - Swept Away (USA) (Mystery Storm (USA)) 501 - VAGRANCY HANDICAP, G2, Belmont Park, May 29, 6f 110yds 1 Hour Glass (USA) 4 b f Petionville (USA) - Suzanna Anna (USA) (Tale of The Cat (USA)) 2 Rightly So (USA) 4 b/br f Read the Footnotes (USA) - Fit Right In (USA) (Out of Place (USA)) 3 Tar Heel Mom (USA) 5 b/br f Flatter (USA) - Perpetual Light (USA) (Sunny’s Halo (CAN)) 502 - HANSHIN CUP HANDICAP, G3, Arlington International, May 29, 8f 1 Country Flavor (USA) 4 b c Empire Maker (USA) - Allspice (USA) (Coronado’s Quest (USA)) 2 Tybalt (USA) 6 b c Storm Cat (USA) Tuzla (FR) (Panoramic) 3 Gran Estreno (ARG) 7 ch c Lucky Roberto (USA) - Great Stampa (ARG) (Senor Pete (USA)) 503 - ARLINGTON MATRON HANDICAP, G3, Arlington International, May 29, 9f 1 Tizaqueena (USA) 5 b/br f Tiznow (USA) - Issaqueena (USA) (Mr Prospector (USA)) 2 Floating Heart (USA) 4 b/br f Giant’s Causeway (USA) - Love Lock (USA) (Silver Ghost (USA)) 3 Euphony (USA) 5 b/br f Forest Wildcat (USA) - Strike It Up (USA) (Smart Strike (CAN))
504 - CONNAUGHT CUP STAKES, G3, Woodbine, May 30, 1400m 1 Grand Adventure (USA) 4 b/br c Grand Slam (USA) - Val Marie (USA) (Coronado’s Quest (USA)) 2 Field Commission (CAN) 5 ch c Service Stripe (USA) - Tearfull Moment (CAN) (Schossberg (CAN)) 3 Jungle Wave (USA) 5 b g Hold That Tiger (USA) - Darien Blue Wave (USA) (Cure The Blues (USA)) 505 - EATONTOWN HANDICAP, G3, Monmouth Park, May 31, 8f 110yds 1 Gypsy’s Warning (SAF) 5 b f Mogok (USA) - Gypsy Queen (SAF) (Royal Chalice (SAF)) 2 Maram (USA) 4 b/br f Sahm (USA) American Dreamer (USA) (Quest For Fame) 3 Scolara (USA) 5 b f Quiet American (USA) - Millie’s Delight (USA) (El Gran Senor (USA)) 506 - OUIJA BOARD DISTAFF HANDICAP, G3, Lone Star Park, May 31, 8f 1 Wasted Tears (USA) 5 b/br f Najran (USA) - Wishes And Roses (USA) (Greinton) 2 Fortunia (USA) 3 b f Leroidesanimaux (BRZ) - Essie’s Maid (USA) (Linkage (USA)) 3 Bubbler (USA) 4 b/br f Distorted Humor (USA) - Grechelle (USA) (Deputy Minister (CAN)) 507 - LONE STAR PARK HANDICAP, G3, Lone Star Park, May 31, 8f 110yds 1 Redding Colliery (USA) 4 gr/ro c Mineshaft (USA) - Joop (USA) (Zilzal (USA)) 2 Awesome Gem (USA) 7 ch g Awesome Again (CAN) - Piano (USA) (Pentelicus (USA)) 3 Euroears (USA) 6 ch c Langfuhr (CAN) - Unky And Ally (USA) (Heff (USA)) 508 - SHOEMAKER MILE STAKES, G1, Hollywood Park, May 31, 8f 1 Victor’s Cry (USA) 5 b/br c Street Cry (IRE) - Short Time (USA) (Clever Trick (USA)) 2 Karelian (USA) 8 b g Bertrando (USA) Leaning Tower (USA) (Theatrical) 3 Mr Gruff (USA) 6 b/br c Mr Greeley (USA) - Ruff (USA) (Clever Trick (USA)) ANALYSIS: Victory’s Cry is one of 11 Group or Grade 1 winners by Street Cry,
international database who has rapidly risen to a place among the world’s leading sires, his other notable offspring including Zenyatta, Street Sense, Majestic Roi, Street Boss, Street Hero and the Australia stars Whobegotyou and Shocking. Victor’s Cry is the second black-type performer produced by his dam Short Time, the first being the graded-placed Smart Strike filly, Clever Strike. Short Time, a daughter of Clever Trick, was also graded placed when third in the All Along Stakes (G3), and she is half-sister to the US stakes winner Electorde. The grand-dam, Maria Fumata (by the Vaguely Noble horse, Semenenko), was a top class performer in Chile, where her victories included the Las Oaks (G1) and Premio Nacional Ricardo Lyon (G1). Victor’s Cry’s third dam Magnicia won the Premio Cotejo de Potrancas (G3), and she is half-sister to the dams of Castellano, who won the Tanteo de Potrillos (G1), and Millalonco, who won the El Derby (G1).
509 - HONEYMOON HANDICAP, G2, Hollywood Park, May 31, 9f 1 Evening Jewel (USA) 3 b f Northern Afleet (USA) - Jewel of the Night (USA) (Giant’s Causeway (USA)) 2 Cozi Rosie (USA) 3 ch f Pleasantly Perfect (USA) - Felidia (Golden Fleece (USA)) 3 City To City (USA) 3 ch f City Zip (USA) - Stormbow (USA) (Storm Cat (USA)) 510 - BERKELEY STAKES, G3, Golden Gate, May 31, 8f 110yds 1 Run It (USA) 4 b c Cherokee Run (USA) - Tracy (USA) (Theatrical) 2 Bold Chieftain (USA) 7 b/br c Chief Seattle (USA) - Hooked On Music (USA) (Seattle Dancer (USA)) 3 Dakota Phone (USA) 5 b g Zavata (USA) - World of Gold (USA) (Spinning World (USA)) 511 - WINNING COLORS STAKES, G3, Churchill Downs, May 31, 6f 1 Dubai Majesty (USA) 5 b/br f Essence of Dubai (USA) - Great Majesty (USA) (Great Above (USA)) 2 Secret Gypsy (USA) 5 ch f Sea of Secrets (USA) - Miss Utada (USA) (Rahy (USA)) 3 Hot Dixie Chick (USA) 3 b/br f Dixie Union (USA) - Above Perfection (USA) (In Excess)
512 - MEMORIAL DAY HANDICAP, G3, Calder, May 31, 8f 110yds 1 Mambo Meister (USA) 5 b g King Cugat (USA) - Bleu’slittlesecret (USA) (Desert Secret (IRE)) 2 Causeway’s Kin (USA) 4 ch c Giant’s Causeway (USA) - You (USA) (You and I (USA)) 3 Cinnamon Road (USA) 4 ch c Delaware Township (USA) - Baybrooke (USA) (Montbrook (USA)) 513 - SANDS POINT STAKES, G2, Belmont Park, May 31, 9f 1 Check the Label (USA) 3 b f Stormin Fever (USA) - Don’t Trick Her (USA) (Mazel Trick (USA)) 2 Crescenda (USA) 3 ch f Bowman’s Band (USA) - Waevus On (USA) (Naevus (USA)) 3 Negligee (USA) 3 b f Northern Afleet (USA) - Naughty Notions (USA) (Relaunch (USA)) 514 - METROPOLITAN HANDICAP, G1, Belmont Park, May 31, 8f 1 Quality Road (USA) 4 b c Elusive Quality (USA) - Kobla (USA) (Strawberry Road (AUS)) 2 Musket Man (USA) 4 b/br c Yonaguska (USA) - Fortuesque (USA) (Fortunate Prospect (USA)) 3 Tizway (USA) 5 b/br c Tiznow (USA) Bethany (USA) (Dayjur (USA)) 515 - HILL PRINCE STAKES, G3, Belmont Park, June 4, 8f 1 Krypton (USA) 3 b/br c Rock Hard Ten (USA) - Freedom Reigns (USA) (Unbridled’s Song (USA)) 2 Nordic Truce (USA) 3 b c Yes It’s True (USA) - Nyramba (GB) (Night Shift (USA)) 3 Lethal Combination (USA) 3 b/br g Broken Vow (USA) - Yard (USA) (Boundary (USA)) 516 - BROOKLYN HANDICAP, G2, Belmont Park, June 4, 12f 1 Alcomo (BRZ) 7 b c Rainbow Corner (GB) - Amazing Singer (BRZ) (Tokatee (USA)) 2 Gabriel’s Hill (USA) 6 b c A P Indy (USA) - Lailani (GB) (Unfuwain (USA)) 3 Eldaafer (USA) 5 b/br c A P Indy (USA) - Habibti (USA) (Tabasco Cat (USA))
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1 D’ Funnybone (USA) 3 ch c D’Wildcat (USA) - Elbow (USA) (Woodman (USA)) 2 Discreetly Mine (USA) 3 b c Mineshaft (USA) - Pretty Discreet (USA) (Private Account (USA)) 3 Remand (USA) 3 b/br c Successful Appeal (USA) - Fast ‘n Fleet (USA) (Mr Greeley (USA)) 523 - WOODFORD RESERVE MANHATTAN HANDICAP, G1, Belmont Park, June 5, 10f
518 - ECLIPSE STAKES, G3, Woodbine, June 5, 1600m 1 Southdale (CAN) 4 b/br c Street Cry (IRE) - Pinafores Pride (CAN) (Saint Ballado (CAN)) 2 Stunning Stag (CAN) 6 b/br c Running Stag (USA) - Midday Fun (USA) (The Prime Minister (USA)) 3 Fatal Bullet (USA) 5 b g Red Bullet (USA) - Sararegal (CAN) (Regal Classic (CAN)) 519 - LOS ANGELES HANDICAP, G3, Hollywood Park, June 5, 6f 1 Cost of Freedom (USA) 7 b/br g Cee’s Tizzy (USA) - Freedom Dance (USA) (Moscow Ballet (USA)) 2 E Z’s Gentleman (USA) 5 b c Yankee Gentleman (USA) - Tensie’s Pro (USA) (Distinctive Pro (USA)) 3 My Summer Slew (USA) 5 b/br g Siberian Summer (USA) - My Bouquet (USA) (Slewpy (USA)) 520 - CHARLES WHITTINGHAM MEMORIAL HANDICAP, G1, Hollywood Park, June 5, 10f 1 Acclamation (USA) 4 b c Unusual Heat (USA) - Winning In Style (USA) (Silveyville (USA)) 2 Hyades (USA) 4 b c Aldebaran (USA) Lingerie (GB) (Shirley Heights) 3 Brushburn (USA) 4 ch g Unusual Heat (USA) - Little Hottie (USA) (Afternoon Deelites (USA)) 521 - EARLY TIMES MINT JULEP HANDICAP, G3, Churchill Downs, June 5, 8f 110yds 1 Hot Cha Cha (USA) 4 b/br f Cactus Ridge (USA) - Reduced Sentence (USA) (Broad Brush (USA)) 2 Acoma (USA) 5 b f Empire Maker (USA) - Aurora (USA) (Danzig (USA)) 3 Keertana (USA) 4 b/br f Johar (USA) Motokiks (USA) (Storm Cat (USA))
1 Winchester (USA) 5 b c Theatrical Rum Charger (IRE) (Spectrum (IRE)) 2 Gio Ponti (USA) 5 b c Tale of The Cat (USA) - Chipeta Springs (USA) (Alydar (USA)) 3 Expansion (USA) 5 b c Maria’s Mon (USA) - La Sylphide (SWI) (Barathea (IRE)) ANALYSIS: Bred by his owners Mr and Mrs Bertram R. Firestone, who also campaigned his sire Theatrical, Winchester is out of the Irish-bred mare Rum Charger, winner of the Ballychorus Stakes (G3) and Athasi Stakes. The grand-dam Park Charger was several times black-type placed in Ireland and she is also grand-dam of English Ballet, winner of the Sweet Solera Stakes (G3), runner-up in the May Hill Stakes (G2) and third in the Fillies Mile (G1). The third dam Haitienne (Green Dancer) is a sister to the French Listedwinning and Group 1-placed Harifa, and is out of the Prix de la Porte Maillot (G3) and Prix de Sandringham (G3) winner Hamada.
524 - TRUE NORTH HANDICAP, G2, Belmont Park, June 5, 6f 1 Bribon (FR) 7 ch g Mark of Esteem (IRE) - Rowat Arazi (GB) (Arazi (USA)) 2 Snapshot (USA) 4 b/br c Awesome Again (CAN) - Cajun Flash (USA) (Bertrando (USA)) 3 Checklist (USA) 4 b c Gone West (USA) - Yearly Report (USA) (General Meeting (USA)) 525 - JUST A GAME HANDICAP, G1, Belmont Park, June 5, 8f 1 Proviso (GB) 5 b f Dansili (GB) Binche (USA) (Woodman (USA)) 2 Phola (USA) 4 b/br f Johannesburg (USA) - Humbling (IRE) (Petionville (USA)) 3 My Princess Jess (USA) 5 b/br f
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ANALYSIS: Hot young sire Medaglia D’Oro continued to enhance his reputation, especially as a sire of fillies, when his daughter Champagne D’Oro upset a strong field to take the Acorn Stakes (G1). A son Sadler’s Wells’s champion Irish two-year-old El Prado, Medaglia D’Oro sired 14 stakes winners in his first crop, 12 of which were fillies, including Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra and Grade 1 winner Gabby’s Golden Gal. The crop has produced a Grade 1-winning colt in Warrior’s Reward. Medaglia D’Oro’s second crop, currently three-year-olds, has redressed the balance a little with two stakes winners of each sex – Champagne D’Oro and Passion For Gold, successful in last year’s Criterium de Saint-Cloud (G1). Champagne D’Oro was born when her dam Champagne Glow was 19, and is the mare’s first stakes winner. A daughter of Saratoga Six, Champagne Glow was a smart runner winning the Schuylkill Stakes and finishing second in the Frizette Stakes (G1). She is a half-sister to the Hollywood Futurity (G1) and Norfolk Stakes (G1) winner Grand Canyon, and to Italian Group 1 winner Jurado. The mating represents a cross that is two-for-two for stakes winners as Champagne D’Oro and graded winner Buffalo Man (by El Prado, the sire of Medaglia d’Oro) are the only starters for the sire line out of Saratoga Six mares. 527 - BELMONT STAKES, G1, Belmont Park, June 5, 12f 1 Drosselmeyer (USA) 3 ch c Distorted Humor (USA) - Golden Ballet (USA) (Moscow Ballet (USA)) 2 Fly Down (USA) 3 ch c Mineshaft (USA) - Queen Randi (USA) (Fly So Free (USA)) 3 First Dude (USA) 3 b c Stephen Got
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Even (USA) - Run Sarah Run (USA) (Smart Strike (CAN)) ANALYSIS: Although he is by champion two-year-old Forty Niner and out of a mare by Danzig – often an influence for precocity – Drosselmeyer’s sire Distorted Humor didn’t run at two. In fact he did his best work as a fiveyear-old taking three graded stakes over 7f and 7f100yds, including the Churchill Downs Handicap (G2) in a new track-record. Distorted Humor was a leading freshman sire with a first crop that included Grade 1-winning juvenile filly Awesome Humor, but, in general, his offspring are progressive types doing their best work at three and up. Many have shown ability over Classic distances, among them the Kentucky Derby (G1) and Preakness Stakes (G1) winner Funny Cide, who finished third in the Belmont. Drosselmeyer’s dam Golden Ballet was a versatile and talented performer. A California-bred, as a juvenile she won the Cinderella Stakes by 8l. At three she won the 7f Las Virgenes Stakes (G1), Santa Anita Oaks (G1), Santa Ynez Stakes (G2) and Railbird Stakes (G2). Golden Ballet has already produced another very accomplished runner in the Unbridled’s Song filly Stage Luck, winner of the Affectionately Handicap, and also third in the Ruffian Handicap (G1). Golden Ballet’s sire Moscow Ballet had a true Classic pedigree as he was by Nijinsky and out of a half-sister to Mill Reef, winner of the Epsom Derby the year after Nijinsky. Moscow Ballet only ran four times, winning twice over six furlongs, and gaining a black-type win in the Railway Stakes (G3) at two. He went on to be a useful regional sire in California. Golden Ballet’s second dam Golden Jewel Box was an unraced daughter of the champion older horse, Slew O’Gold. Her grand-dam Miss Storm Bird was by Storm Bird out of the stakes winner Nasomo mare Sun Lover. Miss Storm Bird did not win, but was a sister to stakes-placed English two-year-old Sungull, and a half-sister to the speedy Hawkin’s Special and to Chati, a tough middle-distance horse who was stakes placed over 1m4f and won the Riggs Handicap (G2) and Lamplighter Handicap (G3). 528 - HOLLYWOOD OAKS, G2, Hollywood Park, June 6, 8f 110yds 1 Switch (USA) 3 b f Quiet American (USA) - Antoniette (USA) (Nicholas (USA)) 2 Blind Luck (USA) 3 ch f Pollard’s Vision (USA) - Lucky One (USA) (Best of Luck (USA))
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(G1). With this victory, Blame moves close to the top of the ranks of a formidable group of US older horses, currently headed by Quality Road and the exceptional fillies Rachel Alexandra and Zenyatta. Blame has the race-record and pedigree to make him an interesting stallion prospect. His sire Arch (by Kris S., a son of Roberto) isn’t the most commercial of stallions, but has sired several other high-class performers, including Canadian Horse of the Year Arravale, Les Arcs, winner of the July Cup (G1) and Golden Jubilee (G1); Champion South African sprinter Overarching and other Grade 1 winners Pine Island and Prince Arch. Out of Liable, a stakes-placed daughter of Seeking The Gold mare, Blame is a product of the same cross as Pine Island, who won the Alabama Stakes (G1) and Gazelle Stakes (G1), but suffered a career-ending breakdown in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1). To another Roberto line horse Dynaformer, Liable produced the stakes-winning Tend. Liable is a threeparts sister to the Grade 1 winner Archipenko, but, more importantly as far as Blame’s prospects as a stallion are concerned, is out of Bound, a stakeswinning three-parts sister to Nureyev, and a close relative to Sadler’s Wells and Fairy King. 533 - REGRET STAKES, G3, Churchill Downs, June 12, 9f 1 Caminadora (USA) 3 ch f More Than Ready (USA) - Stoneway (USA) (Storm Boot (USA)) 2 Snow Top Mountain (USA) 3 gr/ro f Najran (USA) - Motokiks (USA) (Storm Cat (USA)) 3 Queen Hazel (USA) 3 b f Monarchos (USA) - Flying Afleet (USA) (Afleet (CAN)) 534 - NORTHERN DANCER STAKES, G3, Churchill Downs, June 12, 8f 110yds 1 Colizeo (USA) 3 b/br c Distorted Humor (USA) - Colony Band (USA) (Dixieland Band (USA)) 2 Worldly (USA) 3 b c A P Indy (USA) Urbane (USA) (Citidancer (USA)) 3 Vow To Wager (USA) 3 b/br c Broken Vow (USA) - Wage a Penny (USA) (Valid Wager (USA)) 535 - JEFFERSON CUP STAKES, G3, Churchill Downs, June 12, 8f 110yds 1 Gleam of Hope (USA) 3 ch c City Zip (USA) - Victorious Vice (USA) (Vice Regent (CAN))
international database 2 Psychic Income (USA) 3 b c Toccet (USA) - Shoofha (IRE) (Bluebird (USA)) 3 Asphalt (USA) 3 b c War Chant (USA) Island Fire (USA) (Island Whirl (USA)) 536 - FLEUR DE LIS HANDICAP, G2, Churchill Downs, June 12, 9f 1 Rachel Alexandra (USA) 4 b f Medaglia d’Oro (USA) - Lotta Kim (USA) (Roar (USA)) 2 Distinctive Dixie (USA) 5 b f Fusaichi Pegasus (USA) - A Lady From Dixie (USA) (Dixieland Band (USA)) 3 Jessica Is Back (USA) 6 ch f Put It Back (USA) - Jessica’s Halo (USA) (Jolie’s Halo (USA)) 537 - OGDEN PHIPPS HANDICAP, G1, Belmont Park, June 12, 8f 110yds 1 Life At Ten (USA) 5 ch f Malibu Moon (USA) - Rahrahsixboombah (USA) (Rahy (USA)) 2 Unrivaled Belle (USA) 4 gr/ro f Unbridled’s Song (USA) - Queenie Belle (USA) (Bertrando (USA)) 3 Funny Moon (USA) 4 ch f Malibu Moon (USA) - Fun Crowd (USA) (Easy Goer (USA)) 538 - VANITY HANDICAP, G1, Hollywood Park, June 13, 9f 1 Zenyatta (USA) 6 b/br f Street Cry (IRE) - Vertigineux (USA) (Kris S (USA)) 2 St Trinians (GB) 5 b f Piccolo (GB) Cherrycombe-Row (GB) (Classic Cliche (IRE)) 3 Zardana (BRZ) 6 b f Crimson Tide (IRE) - Dear Filly (ARG) (Southern Halo (USA)) 539 - PEGASUS STAKES, G3, Monmouth Park, June 19, 8f 110yds 1 Afleet Express (USA) 3 b/br c Afleet Alex (USA) - Expanse (USA) (Distant View (USA)) 2 Afleet Again (USA) 3 gr/ro c Afleet Alex (USA) - Lucky Again (USA) (Wild Again (USA)) 3 Soaring Empire (USA) 3 b/br c Empire Maker (USA) - Flying Passage (USA) (A P Indy (USA)) 540 - AFFIRMED HANDICAP, G3, Hollywood Park, June 19, 8f 110yds 1 Golden Itiz (USA) 3 b/br c Tiznow (USA) - Golden Tiy (USA) (Dixieland Band (USA)) 2 Skipshot (USA) 3 ch c Skip Away (USA) - Heavenly Note (USA) (Sunny’s Halo (CAN)) 3 Alphie’s Bet (USA) 3 b c Tribal Rule (USA) - Miss Alphie (USA) (Candi’s Gold (USA))
541 - COLONIAL TURF CUP STAKES, G2, Colonial Downs, June 19, 9f 110yds 1 Paddy O’prado (USA) 3 gr/ro c El Prado (IRE) - Fun House (USA) (Prized (USA)) 2 Workin For Hops (USA) 3 ch g City Zip (USA) - Citi Pearl (USA) (Citidancer (USA)) 3 Two Notch Road (USA) 3 b/br g Partner’s Hero (USA) - Capiana (CAN) (Capote (USA)) 542 - NEW YORK STAKES, G2, Belmont Park, June 19, 10f 1 Lady Shakespeare (USA) 4 ch f Theatrical - Lady Shirl (USA) (That’s A Nice (USA)) 2 Changing Skies (IRE) 5 b f Sadler’s Wells (USA) - Magnificient Style (USA) (Silver Hawk (USA)) 3 Ave (GB) 4 b f Danehill Dancer (IRE) Anna Amalia (IRE) (In The Wings) 543 - WILL ROGERS STAKES, G3, Hollywood Park, June 20, 8f 110yds 1 Leroy’s Dynameaux (USA) 3 b/br g Leroidesanimaux (BRZ) - Dyna Peak (USA) (Dynaformer (USA)) 2 Bogie (IRE) 3 ch c Pivotal (GB) Barring Order (IRE) (Barathea (IRE)) 3 Macias (USA) 3 b/br c Purge (USA) Azelna (FR) (Tropular)
WORLDWIDE 544 - Daily Telegraph All Aged Stakes, G1, Randwick, April 24, 1400m 1 Hot Danish (AUS) 7 b f Nothin’ Leica Dane (AUS) - Hot ‘n’ Breezy (AUS) (Zephyr Zip (NZ)) 2 Melito (AUS) 4 b/br f Redoute’s Choice (AUS) - Cloister (AUS) (Marauding (NZ)) 3 Beaded (AUS) 5 br f Lonhro (AUS) Subtle (AUS) (Night Shift (USA)) Sire: NOTHIN’ LEICA DANE. Sire of 8 Stakes winners. In 2010 - HOT DANISH Zephyr Zip G1. 1st Dam: HOT ‘N’ BREEZY by Zephyr Zip. 4 wins in Australia. Dam of 2 winners: 2000: Jindalee (c Nothin’ Leica Dane) unraced. 2001: PRINCE FREDERIK (g Nothin’ Leica Dane) Winner in Australia. 2003: HOT DANISH (f Nothin’ Leica Dane) 13 wins in Australia, Daily Telegraph All Aged S G1, Myer Canterbury S G2, Seppelt Salinger
Linlithgow S G2, Woodlands Stud Emancipation S G2, Breeders’ Classic G2, APN Outdoor Research S G3, Canadian Club Wiggle S LR (twice), Invermien Triscay S LR, Lakeline Butchery Keith F Nolan Classic LR, 2nd Big6 Queen of the Turf S G1, Coolmore Classic G1, Darley T J Smith S G1, The Sydney City Lexus Shorts H G2, Harrolds Tristarc S G2. 2005: Hot ‘n’ Tipsy (g Half Hennessy) unraced. 2006: Hot ‘n’ Dreamin (f Nothin’ Leica Dane) unraced. 2008: (f Nothin’ Leica Dane) Broodmare Sire: ZEPHYR ZIP. Sire of the dams of 10 Stakes winners. In 2010 - HOT DANISH Nothin’ Leica Dane G1.
produced: EQUITANA G1, QUESTING NEW G1, Digital G2, Principe Do Egito LR. Felicio II Itajara Apple Honey ROMARIN b 90 Sallust Salluca Canelle EQUITANA b f 2007 Mr Prospector Choctaw Ridge Cinegita UAIASOL b 98 Mannsfeld Red Ink Redra
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Danzig Danehill Razyana NOTHIN’ LEICA DANE br 92 Sir Tristram Leica Pretender Pretend To Leica HOT DANISH b f 2003 Zephyr Bay Zephyr Zip Corso HOT ‘N’ BREEZY b 94 Kaoru Star Only Make Believe Hot Fantasy
545 - Grande Premio Joao Cecilio Ferraz, G1, Cidade Jardim, April 24, 1400m 1 Equitana (BRZ) 3 b f Romarin (BRZ) Uaiasol (BRZ) (Choctaw Ridge (USA)) 2 Let’s Kiss (BRZ) 3 b f Ski Champ (USA) Esa Copelan (USA) (Copelan (USA)) 3 Valsinha (BRZ) 3 ch f Nedawi (GB) Oeiras (BRZ) (Ghadeer (FR)) Sire: ROMARIN. Sire of 18 Stakes winners. In 2010 - EQUITANA Choctaw Ridge G1, CALLING ELVIS Sea of Secrets G2. 1st Dam: Uaiasol by Choctaw Ridge. ran on the flat in Brazil. Dam of 2 winners: 2003: Amarvilas (f Astor Place) ran on the flat in Brazil. 2004: BAIN DOUCHE (c Know Heights) 5 wins in Brazil, G. P. Presidente Jose de Souza Queiroz G2, 2nd Grande Premio Ipiranga (2000 Guineas) G1, 3rd Grande Premio Jockey Club de Sao Paulo G1. 2005: Redatora (f Redattore) unraced. 2007: EQUITANA (f Romarin) 1 win in Brazil, Grande Premio Joao Cecilio Ferraz G1. 2nd Dam: Red Ink by Mannsfeld. unraced. Dam of Red Valley (c Sestero: 3rd Classico Presidente Herculano de Freitas LR) Broodmare Sire: CHOCTAW RIDGE. Sire of the dams of 11 Stakes winners. In 2010 - EQUITANA Romarin G1. The Romarin/Choctaw Ridge cross has
1 Chartreux (AUS) 4 b g Catbird (AUS) French Resort (AUS) (Bonhomie (USA)) 2 Bridgestone (NZ) 4 b c Pentire (GB) Golden Dawn (NZ) (Gold Brose (AUS)) 3 Brother Mak (NZ) 4 b g Zabeel (NZ) Enhancer (NZ) (Red Tempo (NZ)) Sire: CATBIRD. Sire of 19 Stakes winners. In 2010 - CHARTREUX Bonhomie G1, MONTON Marauding G2, CATAPULTED Umatilla G3, CRAIG’S DRAGON Salieri LR. 1st Dam: FRENCH RESORT by Bonhomie. 9 wins in Australia, West End Draught Adelaide Cup G1. Dam of 5 winners: 1998: FRENCH SNIP (f Snippets) 2 wins in Australia. Broodmare. 1999: RESORT TO RORY (c Rory’s Jester) 5 wins in Australia. 2000: Sir Piquay (g Bubble Gum Fellow) 2001: OUR LAST RESORT (g Spartacus) 9 wins in Australia. 2002: Dane Noir (g Danehill Dancer) unraced. 2004: MR AZNAVOUR (g Distant Music) Winner in Australia. 2006: CHARTREUX (g Catbird) 4 wins in Australia, Schweppes WATC Derby G1. 2nd Dam: Mahogany Isle by Luskin Star. ran on the flat in Australia. Dam of FRENCH RESORT (f Bonhomie, see above), Perfect Prospect (f Gold Carat: 3rd Debutante S G3) Broodmare Sire: BONHOMIE. Sire of the dams of 2 Stakes winners. In 2010 CHARTREUX Catbird G1. Danzig Danehill Razyana CATBIRD b 96 Marscay Fitting Corn CHARTREUX b g 2006 What A Pleasure Bonhomie Chatter Box FRENCH RESORT br 91 Luskin Star Mahogany Isle Enid Calling
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notable maiden winners Folkestone 12th April 5f auct mdn 2yrs CAPE TO RIO b c Captain Rio-Misaayef (Swain)
Half-brother to Solar Spirit, Misaayef winning halfsister to Ridaa (dam of G3 winner Alwaheeja)
B: Paul Hensey 7f mdn 3yrs & up WHIRLY DANCER 3 f Danehill Dancer-Whirly Bird (Nashwan) Whirly Bird Listed-placed half-sister to Oaks fourth Inchberry and Listed winner Inchiri B: Woodcote Stud Windsor 12th April 5f EBF mdn 2yrs ZEBEDEE gr c Invincible Spirit-Cozy Maria (Cozzene) Cozy Maria group-placed full-sister to Mazaaya B: Hascombe & Valiant Studs 10f mdn 3yrs HEDDWYN b g Bahri-Penny Rouge (Pennekamp ) Penny Rouge half-sister to G3 winner Redstone Dancer and German 1,000 Gns third Red Liason B: Austin Lyons Pontefract 13th April 10f auct mdn 3yrs ZUIDER ZEE b c Sakhee-Zephyrine (Highest Honor) Half-sister to Scandinavian Group-placed Zenato, Zacatecas, Grey Hawk, Zia, Zuckerpuppe and Makhsusah (dam of stakes winner Market Day), Zephyrine half-sister to G1 winner Mutamam and Group-placed Lafi B: Von Stauffenbergs 6f mdn 3yr fillies MAID IN HEAVEN b f Clodovil-Serious Delight (Lomond ) Half-sister to Delphie Queen, Wathiq, Everygrainofsand and Foxhollow Lady. Serious Delight half-sister to Limpopo (dam of Pipalong, Listed winner Out Of Africa) B: Mrs C Hartery Yarmouth 13th April 8f auct mdn 3 to 5yr fillies I’M A DREAMER 3 f Noverre-Summer Dreams (Sadler’s Wells ) Half-sister to stakes winner and groupplaced Moudez, Summer Dreams half-sister to German G2 winner All My Dreams and Top Speed (dam of German Listed-placed Toamasina and Listed-placed Lady Weasley) B: Sean Murphy Limerick 13th April 6 1/2f mdn 3yrs DANCE HALL GIRL b f Dansili-Dawn Raid (Docksider ) Dawn Raid winning half-sister to Irish and French 2,000 Gns winner Bachir and Listed winner Elliots World B: Skymarc & Castlemartin 7f EBF mdn 3yr fillies BETHRAH br f Marju-Reve d’Iman (Highest Honor) Reve d’Iman winning sister to Saint-Alary winner Reve d’Oscar, G2 winner Numide and Listed winner Sir Eric B: Tullpark Park 8f mdn 3yr c & g ENCOMPASSING b c Montjeu-Sophisticat (Storm Cat) Half-sister to Listed and graded-placed
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Sefroua, and G1-placed Pursuit Of Glory, Sophisticat Coronation Stakes winner and Cheveley Park runner-up and sister to G2 winner Grand Reward and half-sister to G2 winner Harlington, stakes winner Serena’s Tune (dam of stakes winner Serena’s Cat) and stakes-placed Arbitrate B: Pacelco Saint-Cloud 13th April 4 1/2f unraced 2yrs CLARA MOLESNE b f Indian Rocket-Amour Parfait (Spinning World) Sister to Listed-placed Molesne Bay, Amour Parfait half-sister to Restless Genius and Lady Washington, Mainmise winning to Criterium de Saint-Cloud winner Magistros B: M Perret/A Chopard Beverley 14th April 5f auct mdn 2yrs MAPPIN TIME b c Orientate-Different Story (Stravinsky) Different Story half-sister to Sari (dam of stakes winner My Magic Moment) B: J Jamgotchian 5f auct mdn 2yrs ABOVE THE STARS b f Piccolo-Swindling (Bahamian Bounty) Swindling half-sister to Good Health; 2nd dam, Fiddling winning half-sister to Group-placed Clanetime and Spinner (dam of Listed-placed Seigneurial) B: Manor Farm Stud (Rutland) Newmarket 14th April 7f mdn 3yr c & g BALDUCCI b c Dansili-Miss Meltemi (Miswaki Tern ) Brother to Group-placed Dont Dili Dali and Listed-placed Ada River and half-brother to Haigh Hall, Miss Meltemi third in Italian Oaks B: G Russell 5f cond 2yrs RETAINER gr c Acclamation-Felicita (Catrail ) Half-brother to Listed-placed Bunditten, Facilita and Midnite Blews. Felicita Listed winning half-sister to Listed-placed Anemone Garden. B: Des Vere Hunt & Jack Ronan Farming 10f mdn 3yrs DESERT MYTH b c Smart Strike-Colonella (Pleasant Colony) Brother to G3 winner Pleasant Strike and half-brother to Colonial Kid. Colonella winning sister to G2 winner Colonial Minstrel (dam of stakes winners Storm Minstrel and Grand Minstrel and stakes-placed Ziegfeld), halfsister to Minidar (grand-dam of G2 winner Minisermon), stakes winner Unrestained and Minicolony (dam of stakes-placed Sea Pines and Suzy Smart) B: Edward P Evans Kempton 14th April 12f (AW) mdn 3 to 5yrs IPSWICH LAD 3 g Halling -Poised (Rahy) Brother to Gothenburg. Poised sister to disqualified French 2,000 Gns winner and Sussex winner Noverre, half-sister to Breeder’s Cup Juvenile Colt winner Arazi and Listedplaced Fortrose B: Darley
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Newmarket 15th April 5f EBF mdn 2yr fillies PENNY’S PEARL b f Royal Applause-Pearl Venture (Salse) Half-sister to Breathing Fire, Pearl Venture Listed-placed B: Liam O’Neill 8f mdn 3yrs (Wood Ditton) DIESCENTRIC b c Diesis-Hawzah (Green Desert) Half-brother to Sharplaw Autumn and Caona. Hawzah sister to Irish Champion Oratorio, stakes winner Fahim and Listed-placed Mowaadah B: Morgan’s Ford Farm 7f mdn 3yr fillies ELDALIL br f Singspiel-White House (Pursuit Of Love) 3/4-sister to recent winner High Office and half-sister to Bronze Star and Madam President. White House winning half-sister to Epsom Oaks third and Yorkshire Oaks runnerup Short Skirt, half-sister to Princess of Wales’s Stakes winner Little Rock, Pomone winner Whitewater Affair, Listed winner Seductress (dam of Listed winner Swiss Law), Listedplaced Rich Affair and Shorthand B: Genesis Green Stud Ripon 15th April 5f EBF mdn 2yrs COCKTAIL CHARLIE b c Danbird-Royal Punch (Royal Applause) Royal Punch half-sister to Listed-placed Practitioner, 2nd dam Macina group-placed half-sister to group-placed The Loan Express, Sandy Lane and Rafflesia B: Habton Farms 8f mdn 3yrs MUCH ACCLAIMED b g Sulamani-Much Commended (Most Welcome) Brother to Few Are Chosen, half-brother to Listed winner Magic Eye and Listed-placed and recent winner Dabbers Ridge. Much Commended Italian Group-placed half-sister to G2 winner Prize Giving, Listed-placed Victoria Cross, Roberts Pride (dam of G1 winner Alpride and Listed placed Monte Carlo) and Glenfinlass B: Glending Bloodstock 8f mdn 3yrs CELENDINE b f Oratorio-Affaire d’Amour (Hernando) Half-sister to Sangfroid. Affaire D´Amour winning sister to Listed winner Foreign Affairs. B: Kirsten Rausing Kempton 15th April 5f (AW) auct mdn 2yrs PICK A LITTLE b c Piccolo-Little Caroline (Great Commotion) Little Caroline half-brother to German Groupplaced Chagall B: D R Tucker Tipperary 15th April 5f EBF mdn 2yrs MR MOJITO ch c Danehill Dancer-Pina Colada (Sabrehill) Pina Colada stakes winning half-sister to recent mdn winner Colonel Carter – see Newbury, Apr 17 – and Mrs Marsh (dam of recent Irish 2,000 Gns winner Canford Cliffs), Listed-fourth Baltic Dip, Trois, recent winner Ebiayn, Dry Martini, B: Ceka Ireland
7 1/2f EBF mdn 3yrs FULL OF HOPE b f Invincible Spirit-Tathkara (Alydar) Half-sister to Tumbleweed Glory and Top Ticket. Tathkara sister to G1 winner Talinum and half-sister to Group-placed Gharam (dam of Group-placed Shaya and Elshaams, herself dam of stakes winner Taqseem), Noble Lily (dam of French Derby third Simeon, Listed winner Noctilucent and G3 winner Noble Rose, herself dam of German G2 winner Notability) and Evening Primrose (dam of stakes winner Great Norton and stakes-placed Chester Le Street) B: Kilcarn Stud Newbury 16th April 5f EBF mdn 2yrs KLAMMER b c Exceed And Excel-Aymara (Darshaan) Half-brother to Adage, Aymara winning halfsister to Indoctrinate; 2nd dam Chipaya Listed winning half-sister to Group-placed Fernanda, Gin Rosa (dam of Italian Listed-placed Dimmi di Su) and Bonica (dam of July Stakes winner winker Watson) B: Ermyn Lodge Stud 7f mdn 3yrs fillies FUNKY LADY b f El Corredor-Anja (Indian Ridge) Anja half-sister to French Derby winner Anabaa Blue and Listed winners Measured Tempo and Reunite and Al Ishq (dam of Jean Prat and Jacques Le Marois winner Tamayuz) B: Etreham/Vision Bloodstock 10f mdn 3yr fillies PINK SYMPHONY b f Montjeu-Blue Symphony (Darshaan) 3/4-sister to Nell Gwyn winner Fantasia and half-sister to Blue Rhapsody, Blue Symphony winning half-sister to Blue Leader B: Ronchalon Racing 10f mdn 3yr fillies GERTRUDE BELL ch f Sinndar-Sugar Mill (Fr) (Polar Falcon ) Sugar Mill Listed-placed; 2nd dam Anastina winning half-sister to Blush Rambler (dam of Ribblesdale winner Rambling Rose, herself dam of Tattersalls Gold Cup and Eclipse winner Notnowcato) B: Rachel Hood Newbury 17th April 8f mdn 3yrs COLONEL CARTER br c Danehill Dancer-Pina Colada (Sabrehill) Brother to recent mdn winner Mr Mojito – see Tipperary Apr 15. Pina Colada stakes-winning half-sister to Mrs Marsh (dam of Irish 2,000 Gns winner Canford Cliffs), Listed-fourth Baltic Dip, Trois, recent mdn winner Ebiayn, Dry Martini, etc B: Ceka Ireland 11f mdn 3yrs TACTICIAN b c Motivator-Tempting Prospect (Shirley Heights) 3/4-brother to Listed-placed Promotion and half-brother to Border Castle and Garden Party. Tempting Prospect Listed-placed half-sister to Ribblesdale and Geoffrey Freer winner Phantom Gold (dam of Epsom Oaks runner-up Flight of Fancy and Listed winner Golden Stream) and G3 winner Fictitious B: The Queen
notable maiden winners 8f mdn 3yrs FAIR TRADE ch c Trade Fair-Ballet (Sharrood ) Half-brother to Listed winner Island Sound, Listed-placed Ballyhaunis, Charlie’s Gold, Serge Lifar, Batanga and Quintoto. Ballet half-sister to May Hill winner Satinette, Group-placed Brandon Magic, Blue Patrol, Silk Pyjamas and Tender Loving Care (grand-dam of Lockinge winner Peeress) B: Highclere Stud Doncaster 17th April 5f mdn 2yr fillies DINGLE VIEW b f Mujadil -Livius Lady (Titus Livius (Fr)) Sister to Listed-placed Vhujon B: Robert Berns Nottingham 17th April 5f mdn 2yrs MY SON MAX b c Avonbridge-Pendulum Pursuit Of Love Half-brother to Every Second, recent winner Medici Time and Pendulum Star, Pendulum winning half-sister to Listed-placed watched The Clock B: Fiona Denniff Dundalk 17th April 8f (AW) EBF mdn 3yr fillies ALAMANDA b f Oratorio-Bluffing (Darshaan) Half-sister to Listed-placed Really, Magen’s Star and Silky Dawn. Bluffing Listed-placed half-sister to Listed winner Feminine Wiles (dam of Listed-placed Connoisseur Bay), Sharnazad (dam of Italian Listed winner Spledida Idea and Italian Listed-placed Sensum), Dancing Spirit (dam of Group-placed Pastel) and Shigeki (dam of Australian G2 winner Keiki) B: Barronstown Stud 12f (AW) mdn 3yrs CAPTAIN JAMES COOK b c Montjeu-Pink Crystal (Dilum ) Half-brother to St Leger fourth and G2 winner Always First, Listed-placed Orientalist Art and Motaraqeb. Pink Crystal Listed-winning half-sister to German G2 winner Crystal Hearted and Crystal Spray (dam of Fillies Mile winner and Irish 1,000 Gns runner-up Crystal Music, Lancashire Oaks winner State Crystal, May Hill winner Solar Crystal, Irish Derby third Tchaikovsky, John Porter Dubai Success and grand-dam of winner Grande Melody) B: Lady Bamford Naas 17th April 8f mdn 3yrs ZAYAAN b c Motivator-Mufradat (Desert Prince) Mufradat winning half-sister to Epsom Derby runner-up Walk In The Park and Lockinge fourth Secret World B: Shadwell Estates 5f EBF mdn 2yrs HEAD SPACE b c Invincible Spirit-Danzelline (Danzero) Half-brother to Diva Dolce, Danzelline winning half-sister to Tattersalls Gold Cup winner Rebelline, G2 winner Quws and Listed-placed Moonlight Man B: Castlemartin Stud & Skymarc
The joint-leading sires of two-year-olds currently in the UK and Ireland are Invincible Spirit (Green Desert) and Exceed And Excel (Danehill), who at writing have both sired 11 juvenile winners. April saw Invincible Spirit get three juvenile maiden winners and one three-year-old winner. His juvenile victors include the Windsor winner Zebedee, Naas winner Head Space, who is out of Danzero daughter and therefore bred 3x3 to Danzig, and Child Bride, who won her maiden at Yarmouth. Leading broodmare sire Darshaan got six notable maiden winners through April courtesy of his daughters. What is remarkable is that apart from Pontefract maiden winner, Bahceli (Mujadil), all the other winners are either by the Danehill or Sadler’s Wells sire lines, both proven stakes crosses. The Sadler’s Wells line winners were all three-year-old fillies and include Newbury winner and subsequently Listed-placed Pink Symphony, Leopardstown winner Snow Blizzard (Sadler’s Wells) and Lingfield victor Bintalwaadi (Barathea). The Danehill line winners are the Dundalk three-year-old filly winner Alamanda (Oratorio) and the smart-looking juvenile colt Klammer (Exceed And Excel), who won his maiden at Newbury. Canford Cliffs may have surprised many with his ability to stay a mile and to do it at Classic level, but his family is certainly active at the moment – his Danehill Dancer brothers Mr Mojito and Colonel Carter won their maidens within two days of each other at Tipperary and Newbury in April. 7f mdn 3yrs & up PICTURE PERFECT b f Danehill Dancer-Makarova (Sadler’s Wells) Makarova sister to Listed winner French Ballerina and half-sister to Fillies’ Mile winner Sunspangled B: Southern Bloodstock Leopardstown 18th April 6f EBF mdn 2yrs ZOFFANY b c Dansili-Tyranny (Machiavellian ) Tyranny winning half-sister to G3 winner Spotlight and Listed-placed Dusty Answer, Dust Dancer G3 winning half-sister to G3 winner Bulaxie (dam of Lupe winner Claxon and Bull Run), G1-placed Zimzalabim, Galactic Miss (dam of Mowelga) B: Epona Bloodstock 10f EBF mdn 3yrs & up SNOW BLIZZARD b c Sadler’s Wells-Pescia (Darshaan) 3/4-brother to Listed-placed Stately Home. Pescia third in Royaumont B: Barronstown Stud Pontefract 19th April 5f auct mdn 2yrs GEESALA ch f Barathea-Shivaree (Rahy ) Half-sister to Listed-placed Tomintoul Singer B: Paul & T J Monaghan 6f mdn 3yrs & up BATED BREATH 3 c Dansili-Tantina (Distant View) Half-brother to Royal Lodge runner-up Cityscape and Listed-placed Scuffle. Tantina Listed-winning half-sister to graded-placed Trekking B: Juddmonte Farms Windsor 19th April 5f EBF mdn 2yrs BILKO PAK b c Barathea-Vale View (Anabaa ) Vale View half-sister to Foret winner Dolphin Street, E P Taylor winner Insight (dam of Group-placed Ershaad and Listed-placed Gopher), Irish 2,000 Gns winner Saffron Walden and German Listed-placed Vision’s Flight B: Stuart Weld
8 1/2f mdn 3yr fillies CIRCUS GIRL ch f Bertolini -Blew Her Top (Blushing John) Half-sister to stakes winner Arabic Song and Musical High. Blew Her Top half-sister to G1 winner Life At The Top (dam of Coronation Stakes runner-up Elizabeth Bay, herself dam of group-placed Bayeux), and stakes-placed Gingerbread Feast), Dream Season (dam of Gros-Chene runner-up Season’s Greeting B: J Jamgotchian 10f mdn 3yrs & up VISUALIZE 3 f Medicean-Fantasize (Groom Dancer) Half-sister to Listed-placed Illusion. Fantasize Listed-winning half-sister to 1,000 Gns third Dazzle, Listed winner Hypnotize (dam of Listed winner Hypnotic), Listed-placed Enchant and Miswaki Belle (dam of Flying Five winner Danehurst and Humouresque) B: Cheveley Park Stud Maisons-Laffitte 19th April 4 1/2f mdn 2yrs ULIVATE b f Poliglote-Be Prepared (Broad Brush) Half-sister to Ghost Suzuka, Storm Forward and Scout About. Be Prepared half-sister to stakes-placed Back In Shape B: Haras de Manneville Brighton 20th April 6f mdn 3yrs & up CURTAINS b f Dubawi-Voile (Barathea) Voile group-placed half-sister to Baby Grand (dam of stakes winner Running Free) B: Sir Eric Parker Folkestone 20th April 7f mdn 3yrs & up THE RECTIFIER 3 c Langfuhr-Western Vision (Gone West) Western Vision half-sister to G2 winner Rahy’s Appeal B: Ceka Ireland Epsom 21st April 8 1/2f mdn 3 & 4yrs QUICK REACTION 3 g Elusive Quality-Arutua (Riverman) Half-brother to Listed winner Juliette, graded-
placed Plato, useful Tempestad and Farha, Oh So Precious and Lost In Wonder. Arutua winning half-sister to G2 winner Along All, G2-placed Arnaqueen and All Dancing (dam of German St Leger second Asolo) B:The Queen Kempton 21st April 11f (AW) auct mdn 3 to 5yrs HUFF AND PUFF 3 c Azamour-Coyote (Indian Ridge) Half-brother to Listed winner and Groupplaced Eradicate and G3 winner and Irish 1,000 Gns third Oh Goodness Me, Coyote Listedplaced B: Sir Eric Parker Beverley 22nd April 8 1/2f mdn 3yrs & up BIN SHAMARDAL 3 c Shamardal-Lonely Ahead (Rahy) Lonely Ahead Group-placed fourth half-sister to Champagne Stakes winner Almushahar B: Rabbah Bloodstock Sandown 23rd April 10f mdn 3yr fillies FATANAH b f Green Desert-Wijdan (Mr Prospector) Half-sister to G2 and G1-placed Makderah, Italian Gp 3 winner Oriental Fashion, Tanfidh and Ezdiyaad. Wijdan Listed-placed sister to Listed winner Sarayir (dam of 1,000 Gns and Coronation Stakes winner Ghanaati, Cumberland Lodge winner Mawatheeq and Fielden winner and Epsom Oaks fourth Rumoush) and Cheshire Oaks runner-up Bashayer, and half-sister to Nayef, Nashwan, Unfuwain, John Porter winner Alwasmi, Listed winner Mukddaam and Manwah (dam of G2 winner Mustanfar and Listed winner Tadris) B: Shadwell Estates Wolverhampton 23rd April 7f (AW) mdn 3yr fillies FLIGHTY FRANCES ch f Camacho-Moon Diamond (Unfuwain ) Half-sister to useful Hippodrome, Moon Diamond half-sister to Coventry runner up Moon King, Vintage Stakes third Devil Moon, Listed-placed Dancing Drop (dam of Cherry Hinton winner Jewel In The Sand and Listed winner Davignon) and Listed placed Mithl Al Hawa B: Yeomanstown Stud Leicester 24th April 5f auct mdn 2yrs DRAWING BOARD b c Pastoral Pursuits-Grand Design (Danzero) Grand Design half-sister to Listed winner Jalousie and group-placed The Deep, Duende winning half-sister to stakes winner Blushing All Over (dam of graded-placed Nausicaa and Listed-placed Sahib) B: Peter Webb 10f mdn 3yrs & up GREEN MOON b c Montjeu-Green Noon (Green Tune) Green Moon won Aumale, next dam, Terring half-sister to Listed-placed Hunter of Nowhere B: Goldsmith Bloodstock Ripon 24th April 10f mdn 3yrs HARRIS TWEED b c Hernando (Fr)-Frog (Akarad)
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notable maiden winners half-brother to Vale de Lobo, Froglet and Sel, Frong winning half-sister to Italian Gp 1-placed Best Grey and Brazilian stakes-placed Ovo Frito B: J B Haggas Haydock 24th April 5f EBF mdn 2yr fillies TURN THE TIDE b f Footstepsinthesand-Syrian Dancer (Groom Dancer) Syrian Dancer half-sister to Sham Sharif, Dark Mischief and Sargon; 2nd dam, Syrian Queen winning half-sister to Cherry Hinton winner Kerrera (dam of group-placed Shmoose and granddam of German 2,000 Guineas winners Dupont and Pacino), Gimcrack winner Rock City and Rock The Boat (dam of Masaka winner Heavenly Whisper and German Listed winner Gipsy Moth, and grand dam of recent Sagaro winner Illustrious Blue, Listed winner Mullein and recent mdn winner Sweet Clementine - see Kempton 28th April) B: P T Tellwright 12f mdn 3yrs DEAUVILLE POST b c American Post-Loyola (Sicyos ) half-brother to Lady of Shanghai, Treizième Ciel and Bily Kelly. Loyola winning half-sister to G3 winner Boreale (dam of stakes winner River Of Light, Listed-placed Si Je N’Avais Plus, granddam of Ganay winner Corre Caminos and G2 winner Racinger), group-placed Princesses Lee (dam of Morny winner Princesse Lida and Listed winner Princesse Vali) B: Haras d’Etreham Wolverhampton 24th April 9 1/2f (AW) mdn 3yrs & up fillies BAKONGO 3 f Cape Cross-Badawi (Diesis) Sister to Badalona, 3/4 sister to Group-placed Cala, Listed-placed Balfour, Saguaro, and halfsister to Lowther Stakes runner-up Badminton, group-placed Fox, Rafferty. Badawi Listedplaced sister to stakes winner Songlines (grand-dam of stakes winner Vespers) and half-sister to stakes winner Binalong, Arjumand (dam of graded-placed Boyum) and Rajmata (dam of G2 winner Kumari Continent) B: Darley Bath 25th April 5f EBF mdn 2yrs ROSINA GREY gr f Proclamation-Rosina May (Danehill Dancer) Rosina May winner B: Three Point Partnership 8f auct mdn 3 to 4yrs SEAFARER 3 c Footstepsinthesand-Innocence (Unfuwain ) Half-brother to Najeyba (dam of Italian Listedplaced Soviet Ridge), Black Herod and Lithgow Flash. Innocence half-sister to Australian G1 winner Jeune, G3 winner Beneficial, Listedplaced Dorset Duke and Muschana and Dreams (dam of listed winner First Fantasy) B: Emily Henry Gowran Park 25th April 8f mdn 3yr c & g AZNAVOUR b c Azamour-Cadence (Cadeaux Genereux) Half-brother to Rhythm ‘N’ Blues and Blues In Cee. Cadence winner, next dam, Cambrel winning half-sister to G3 winner Pluralisme, German G3 winner Singletta, G3 winner Only,
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Listed winner Classic Tale (dam of Listedplaced Camvara and Group-placed Samhari) and Ghislaine (dam of Queen Elizabeth II winner Markofdistinction and Listed winner Criquette, etc) B: C D A Bloodstock 8f EBF mdn 3yr fillies BELLINI BLISS b f Big Bad Bob-Soviet Belle (Soviet Star ) Soviet Belle winning sister to Italian G1 winner Eva’s Request, half-sister to Moyglare winner Priory Belle (dam of Listed-placed Kiltubber) and G3 winner Wild Bluebell (dam of Railway third Il Pirata) B: Anamoine Navan 25th April 5f EBF mdn 2yr fillies SO STYLISH b f Johannesburg-Tacha (Mr Prospector) 3/4-sister to National Stakes winner One Cool Cat and recent mdn winner African Cat, Tacha winning sister to French 1,000 Gns runner-up Sha Tha (dam of Dollar winner State Shinto) and half-sister to G3 winner Brier Creek B: Orpendale 10f mdn 3yrs & up c & g RAIN FOREST b c Sadler’s Wells-Gryada (Shirley Heights) 3/4-brother to Irish Derby and recent Tattersalls Gold Cup winner Fame And Glory, Yummy Mummy and Gaze, half-brother to Listed-placed Grampian, Listed-placed Guaranda (dam of Lillie Langtry winner Gravitation), Graham Island and Gryskirk, Gryada Italian group-placed full-sister to Listed-placed Golan Heights and half-sister to Goonda (dam of German group-placed Global Dancer and German Listed-placed Global World) and Gonfalon (dam of German G2 winner Gonlargo and German Listed-placed Gorlor) B: Coln Valley Stud Longchamp 25th April 11f unraced 3yr fillies MARIA ROYAL b f Montjeu-Notable (Zafonic ) Notable half-sister to G3 winner Orford Ness (dam of Gp 2 winner Weightless, Gp 3 winner Main Aim and Listed winner Home Affairs), group-placed Aware, Listed-placed Legion and Nushan (dam of Group-placed Molomo and Listed-placed Pepperwood) B: Lynch-Bages 11f unraced 3yr c & g PLENTY POCKET ch c Super Celebre-Almadina (Pistolet Bleu) Almadina half-sister to Listed winner L’Emeraude B: E & S Lellouche Newcastle 26th April 12f mdn 3 & 4yrs DANCING DUDE 3 c Danehill Dancer-Wadud (Nashwan ) Brother to Irish Oaks runner-up Ice Queen, Wadud full-sister to G3 winner Rabah and Cheveley Park third Najiya B: Wadud Syndicate Windsor 26th April 5f auct mdn 2yr fillies THE SYDNEY ARMS b f Elusive City-Daftara (Caerleon) Half-sister to Dahindar, Dafarabad and Purple Gallery. Daftara half-sister to Listedplaced Dafayna (dam of Listed-placed Dear
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Kempton 28th April 8f mdn 3yrs & up fillies SWEET CLEMENTINE 3 f Shamardal-Heavenly Whisper (Halling) Half-sister to group-placed River Tiber, Twilight Star and Premier Banker. Heavenly Whisper won Masaka Stakes and second in Falmouth Stakes and half-sister to German Listed winner Gipsy Moth (dam of Sagaro winner Illustrious Blue, Listed winner Mullein) and Syrian Queen (grand-dam of recent mdn winner Turn The Tide – see Kempton 28th April) B: D G Hardisty Bloodstock 8f mdn 3yrs & up fillies TOWBAAT 3 f Halling -Nasmatt (Danehill) Half-sister to Emmrooz, Nasmatt Listed-placed half-sister to Jersey winner Kheleyf, Lowther winner Bint Allayl and G3 winner Laa Rayb B: Darley 6f mdn 3yrs ISLAND RHAPSODY ch f Bahamian Bounty-Lovely Lyca (Night Shift) Half-sister to Listed-placed Jeanmaire, Polish Off, Sophia Gardens, Topiary Ted, Lyca Ballerina and Brooksby. Lovely Lyca sister to Listed winner Barboukh (dam of G3 winner Barbola), Listed-placed Papaha and Tricorne B: Stowell Hill Stud Maisons-Laffitte 28th April 5f unraced 2yrs CHINESE WALL b f Aussie Rules-Ganar El Cielo (Ashkalani) Ganar El Cielo half-sister to Some One B: Mqsa de Moratalla Folkestone 29th April 9 1/2f auct mdn 3 & 4yrs ROUND WON 3 c Two Punch-Indy Go Go (A.P. Indy) Half-brother to stakes winner Raise The Bluff and Inside Lane. Indy Go Go winning half-sister to stakes winner Mumbo Jumbo (dam of stakes-placed Crossword and Trusty Temper), recent Listed winner King Of Dixie, and Munch N Grass (dam of stakes winner Mikimoto’s Mojo) B: Mrs Thomas Bowman & Rebecca Davis Redcar 29th April 5f auct mdn 2yrs MISTY MORN ch f Cadeaux Genereux-Dolce Piccata (Piccolo) Dolce Piccata Listed-placed half-sister to Muja Farewell B: A Mason 7f auct mdn 3yrs ALWAYS DAZZLING ch f Cadeaux Genereux-Woodlass (Woodman) Half-sister to Duke Of Homberg. Woodlass stakes-winning half-sister to Listed winner Vitaba (grand-dam of Listed-placed El Rosa) and Listed-placed Adalgisa B: Aston Mullins Stud & Knockainey Stud Brighton 29th April 5 1/2f EBF mdn 2yrs PROPHET IN A DREAM b c Fath-Princess Dariyba (Victory Note ) Princess Dariyba half-sister to Listed-placed Major Title B: Mike Channon Bloodstock Longchamp 29th April 9f mdn 3yr c & g (F) DON BOSCO ch c
notable maiden winners Barathea-Perfidie (Monsun) Perfidie half-sister to Listed winner Pampa Negra and Listed-placed Zara B: Haras d’Etreham/Vision Bloodstock 9f mdn 3yr fillies (F) FEE REVEE ch c Doyen-Star Des Evees (Moulin) Half-sister to Listed winner Joha, Montparno and Hot Table, Star des Evees Listed-placed half-sister to G3 winner Kaldounevees and Danse Bretonne (dam of G3 winner Varevees) B: D Cherdo Lingfield 30th April 7f (AW) mdn 3 & 4yrs FAITHFUL ONE 3 f Dubawi-Have Faith (Machiavellian ) Have Faith winning full-sister to UAE Groupplaced Opportunist and half-sister to Nassau winner Favourable Terms B: Darley 5f EBF mdn 2yrs PHOEBS b f Where Or When-Sheila’s Secret (Bluebird ) Sister to Secret Venue and half-sister to Listed-placed Olivia Grace Our Fred, Diriculous, Figjam and Ok Pal, Sheila’s Secret half-sister to German Listed placed Run For Ever, Arctic Kite (dam of Listed placed Arctic Bay), etc B: Sherwoods Transport 7f mdn 3 & 4yrs HIDDEN FIRE 3 f Alhaarth-Premier Prize (Selkirk ) Premier Prize Listed winner and half-sister to G2 winner Gold Medallist and Listed-placed Stage Right B: Littleton Stud Musselburgh 30th April 5f EBF mdn 2yrs MAJESTIC MYLES b c Majestic Missile-Gala Style (Elnadim) Gala Style half-sister to Certain Charm (dam of Listed-placed Sanserif) B: Arctic Tack Cork 30th April 8f mdn 3yrs & up c & g BLASKET SPIRIT 3 g King’s Best-Alikhlas (Lahib ) Half-brother to Silk Fan, Imperial Rule and Anne Tudor, Alikhlas half-sister to Ribblesdale runner-up Sahool and Nasanice (dam of Juddmonte International third Maraahel, group-placed Huja, recent winner Sharedah) B: Abbeville & Meadows Court Studs 10f EBF mdn 3yr fillies AWE INSPIRING b f Montjeu-Nuriva (Woodman) Half-brother to Brave Dane and State Dilemma, Nuriva group-placed half-sister to Gimcrack winner Mujtahid, Guillaume d’Ornano winner Just Happy, Listed winner Tanaasa, Listedplaced Mesmeric and Casting For Gold (dam of Listed placed Golden Gift) B: Lynch Bages Goodwood 1st May 7f auct mdn 3yrs SARD b f Bahamian Bounty-Clincher Club (Polish Patriot ) Half-brother to Listed-placed Bishop’s Lake, G1 placed Henrik and Spritzeria B: Jeremy Green
5f mdn 2yrs CASUAL GLIMPSE b c Compton Place-Glimpse (Night Shift ) Half-brother to Masazza, Shenley Charm and Focus. Glimpse winning half-sister to Dancing Candle, Ribot’s Pearl, Eliki, Wanza and Moonlight Monty B: Wickfield Farm Partnership Thirsk 1st May 5f auct mdn 2yrs SIR LUNCHALOTT b c Pastoral Pursuits-Jasmine Breeze (Saddlers’ Hall) Jasmine Breeze half-sister to Listed-placed Royal Mistress B: The National Stud 12f mdn 3yrs & up PARK VIEW 3 f With Approval-Bayswater (Caerleon ) Half-sister to Montbretia, Art Work and Portland. Bayswater sister to Grand Criterium winner Tenby and half-sister to Listed winner Bristol Channel, Racing Post Trophy third Bude and group placed Bright and Clear, Listedplaced Bright Water and River Usk, Water Quest (dam of Chester Vase third Tantalus and Listed placed Water Quiff) B: Juddmonte Farms 7f mdn 3yrs RAINFALL b f Oasis Dream-Molomo (Barathea) Half-sister to Navajo Squaw. Molomo placed runner-up in Irish Pretty Polly and half-sister to Listed-placed Pepperwood B: Barouche Stud Doncaster 1st May 5f mdn 2yrs ZAIDAN b c Street Cry-Element Of Truth (Atticus) Element Of Truth Listed-placed half-sister to G3 winner Ramooz and Fillies Mile runner-up My Hansel B: Stratford Place Stud Newmarket 2nd May 5f mdn 2yrs TEMPLE MEADS ch c Avonbridge-Harryana (Efisio) Half-brother to Group-placed Sneak Preview, Flaxby. Harryana winning half-sister to Swedish Listed winner Miss Lovely, Listedplaced Love Returned, Lucky Dip (dam of Listed winner Fortunately) B: Whitsbury Manor Stud 13f mdn 3 to 5yrs RAWNAQ 3 c Azamour-Sharemata (Doyoun) Half-sister to Sharena and Sharesha, Sharemata winning half-sister to Listed winner Sharekann and Sharera B: Jim Monaghan Salisbury 2nd May 12f mdn 3yrs AWSAAL b c Nayef-Design Perfection (Diesis) Design Perfection Listed-placed. 2nd dam Bella Ballerina sister to G2 winner Stagecraft and Listed winner Balalaika, half-sister to Italian G2 winner Mullins Bay, Listed winner Hyabella (dam of Group-placed Hothaifah and Listed-placed Poet and grand-dam of Irish 2,000 Gns runner-up France) and Panache Arabelle (dam of Listed winner Maidaan) B: Meon Valley Stud
Gowran Park 2nd May 7f EBF mdn 2yrs JACKAROO b c Galileo-Ardbrae Lady (Overbury) Ardbrae Lady G1-placed and G3 winner and half-sister to Listed-placed Under My Spell and Italian Group-placed Obe Gold B: Robert Power Bloodstock 9 1/2f EBF mdn 3yrs & up fillies BARBADINE 3 f Giant’s Causeway-Damson (Entrepreneur) Damson Phoenix Stakes winner and 3/4-sister to Prestige Stakes winner Geminiani (dam of group-placed Amerigo) B: Liberty Bloodstock Beverley 3rd May 5f auct mdn 2yrs DADS AMIGO b c Bertolini-Pip’s Way (Pips Pride) Pip’s Way winning half-sister to Teacher Preacher. Mr Park, Silver Wings, Wilfred Sherman, Hits Only Heaven, Spagna and Manitou Lake B: Grove Farm Stud Kempton 3rd May 5f (AW) EBF mdn 2yrs LORD AVON ch c Avonbridge-Lady Filly (Atraf) Lady Filly winning half-sister to Justalord B: Monica Teversham Warwick 3rd May 5f EBF mdn 2yr fillies GOLDEN SHINE b f Royal Applause-Branston Jewel (Prince Sabo) half-sister to Listed winner Falcon Hill, Listed-placed Raine’s Cross and Branston Gem, Branston Jewel group-placed half-sister to Gp 2 winner Desert Deer, Listed winner Branston Abby and Listed-placed Big Blow B: Mickley Stud & Mr & Mrs D Leggate Curragh 3rd May 6f EBF mdn 2yr CLONDINNERY b c Choisir-Grand Lili (Linamix) Grand Lili winning half-sister to Bartholomeo, Far From Old and Cara Power B: Pat Gilsenan Bath 4th May 5f auct mdn 2yrs FIFTH AVE b f Avonbridge-Cozette (Danehill Dancer) half-sister to Autumn Storm and Moscow Oznick, Cozette half-sister to Desert Wind, next dam Great Splendour half-sister to Listedplaced Desert Splendour B: Llety Stud Newcastle 4th May 5f EBF auct mdn 2yrs ON THE HIGH TOPS b g Kheleyf (USA)-Diplomats Daughter (Unfuwain) half-brother to Elusive Boy, Diplomats Daughter winning half-sister to Quila (dam of Italian Gp 1 winner Quijano) B: Clodagh McStay Catterick 4th May 5f auct mdn 2yrs FIRST CLASS FAVOUR b f Exceed And Excel-Lamh Eile (Lend A Hand) Lamh Eile winning half-sister to Wendy Wendy,
next dam Mothers Footprints half-sister to Listed-placed Bonny Light B: Oghill House Maisons-Laffitte 4th May 5f mdn 2yrs (F) UIGHUR gr c Verglas-Up To Date (Valanour) Half-brother to recent winner Ufologue, Ultramarin and Umiko Up To Date winning half-sister to Lagardere third Ximb, Listed winner and French 1,000 Gns fourth Welcome Millennium and Listed-placed Tadorne, Up To Date and Viva Maria B: Elisabeth Fabre Chester 5th May 5f cond 2yrs (Lily Agnes) JULIUS GEEZER b c Antonius Pius-Victoria’s Secret (Law Society) half-brother to Listed-placed Master Robbie, Grand Opera, Legal Lover, Private Passion and Small Secret, Victoria’s Secret winning half-sister to Sheer Royalty (dam of stakesplaced Sheer, herself dam of stakes-placed Shawteesh) B: Ballyhane Stud Ffos Las 6th May 5f EBF mdn 2yrs STYLE AND PANACHE b f Trans Island-El Corazon (Mujadil (USA)) half-sister to Estoy Enamorada and Putra Laju, El Corazon winning half-sister to Listed winner Sunset Boulevard, Swedish Listed-placed Cajun Sunset, Springwell (dam of Swedish Listed winner Itsalady), Ghanayem (dam of Indian Listed winners Treasure Hunt and Life Divine) B: Rathasker Stud Goodwood 6th May 6f EBF mdn 2yrs SIKEEB b c Alhaarth-Erstwhile (Fr) (Desert Prince (Ire)) half-brother to Gypsie Queen, Erstwhile winning half-sister to Listed winner Urgele and Italian Listed-placed Ussaro B: Dolores Jones Lingfield 7th May 5f EBF mdn 2yrs ROCHE DES VENTS b c Bahamian Bounty-Tokyo Rose (Agnes World (USA))Tokyo Rose half-sister to Bandit Queen etc, next dam Wildwood Flower Listed-placed half-sister to stakes winner His Tern to Win and Angel Rose (dam of group-placed Kay Es Jay) B: Geoff Howard-Spink Ripon 7th May 5f mdn 2yrs PUDDLE DUCK b c Pastoral Pursuits-Poyle Caitlin (Bachir) Poyle Caitlin half-sister to Lowther winner Jemima (dam of stakes winner English Colony and stakes-placed Pinckney Hill) B: Cecil & Alison Wiggins Ascot 8th May 5f mdn 2yrs CHILWORTH LAD b c Diktat-Dowhatjen (Desert Style) Dowhatjen half-sister to Listed-placed Cupids Ray B: l Jen Racing
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Bobby O’Ryan: bloodstock agent How did you come to be a bloodstock agent? My family has been involved in racing for generations. I started in racing, eventually becoming head lad to Adrian Maxwell, Jim Bolger and Mick O’Toole. I began going to sales and became interested in buying and selling. We bought our farm Kirriemuir and then set up business in 1995. Somehow we are still doing it!
What do you most like / dislike about your job? I love everything about what I do, except going to and being in airports.
Do you attend every sale even if you have not got a set order? I try to attend every sale, under both Rules, in Ireland, UK, France and Italy. I don’t have a particular favourite sale.
Do you have a holiday that does not revolve around a sale or horses? I rarely take a holiday, but have seen a lot of the world by going to the sales and through the horses.
Who do you admire most in racing? Who has been most helpful to your career? I don’t admire anyone in particular, but those who survive in this business year after year! My wife Sheila has been the most helpful to my career – she takes care of all the administration side of things, travels with me to many sales and always puts up with me.
What horses / mares do you and Sheila own? We have three mares: Mardi Roberta and Prioress are two NH mares, while Angel Nights is a Flat mare. We bred Mardi Roberta ourselves – she is out of Native Shore, whom we also bred and who won five races. Mardi is yet to have a runner, but has a two-year-old by Pilsudski and a foal by Presenting Prioress has offspring by Indian River, Shantou and Pilsudski. Angel Nights is a Flat mare by Night Shift and was in training with Michael Bell. She has a yearling colt by Excellent Art and her foal is by Elusive City.
If you were on the Racing for Change board, what would be your recommendations? We have an all-weather track at Dundalk, but it is not used throughout the winter, which seems a waste.
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What are the best horses you have bought? I have bought winners at Cheltenham, and Royal Ascot, also winners of the Singapore Gold Cup, as well as the English and Irish Guineas.
Where do you see the bloodstock industry heading? What are your thoughts regarding the upcoming yearling season? The selectivity that has been a feature of the market I think will become more pronounced. There will be continued reduced production as a result of this and due to the fact that it will continue to be difficult to make breeding horses for sale pay. O’Ryan, who is rarely seen more than five paces away from a sales catalogue, I think was once considered for the Post Office there will be more foreign business and this year’s yearling market probably my fault!) and the dogs are old now. should be okay – I think results will be much But she also loves opera and Classical on a par with last year, if not better. music, travelling and reading and is very enthusiastic about good wine! She can enjoy Any thoughts on young sires with new stock? a lot of these while she is travelling with me. On the Flat I have liked the progeny I have seen by Amadeus Wolf, Multiplex and Moss What race is particularly memorable to you? Vale, while NH-wise I like Shantou, who is For both of us it has to be our son Kevin’s just beginning to get a few jumpers after De first winner. He rode as an amateur and won Valira’s sucesses, and the Cadoudal horse on our first mare, Sarah Blue, over hurdles at Indian River, who was formerly in France Kilbeggan. Sarah went on to breed winners. but now stands at Park House Stud. He is Other than this, it has to be when Cockney sire of Madison Du Berlais. Rebel won the 2000 Guineas. We bought him at the DBS St Leger Sale for 30,000gns.
What might you have done instead of being a bloodstock agent?
I would always have been involved working in some way with horses but I did pass an exam to go and work at the Post Office!
What outside interests do you both have? I don’t really have any outside interests, but Sheila has many! For many years she bred and showed dogs, but doesn’t have much time now (which is
What advice would you give to a young person coming into the industry / an owner wanting to get involved? To a young person coming into the business, have faith in your own judgment and treat everyone with the same respect. To an owner: contact me!
You enjoy a cigar – are they a special brand? Ritmeester Pikeur.