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Great hopes Warren Greatrex on his ambition to become a top-ten trainer

Plus • Elm Park breathes new life into sire Phoenix Reach • Back on track: are Newbury’s problems all in the past?

• Tributes paid to Dessie Hughes and Nelson Bunker Hunt

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Great hopes Warren Greatrex on his ambition to become a top-ten trainer

Plus • Elm Park breathes new life into sire Phoenix Reach • Back on track: are Newbury’s problems all in the past?

• Tributes paid to Dessie Hughes and Nelson Bunker Hunt

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here’s a well-known saying in the bloodstock industry about ‘breeding the best to the best and hoping for the best’. It’s a perfectly sound theory – highlighted this year by the success of Galileo and Ouija Board’s son Australia – yet with the top stallions commanding fees well into six figures, even those with a black-type mare could be forgiven for thinking twice about parting with enough cash to buy a couple of new Ferraris.

In the ante-post lists for next year’s Derby, nestled among the blue-bloods of Coolmore, sits a colt whose racecourse brilliance belies his sire’s modest reputation and stud fee. Step forward Elm Park, emphatic winner of the Racing Post Trophy, who is a son of Phoenix Reach. A liaison with this triple Group 1 winner had cost roughly the same as a fortnight in Marbella, all inclusive. Value for money, as Lady Emma Balding, the breeder of Elm Park, would no doubt agree.

Phoenix Reach will stand the new season at a slightly grander £5,000 on the back of Elm Park’s exploits and Richard Kent, owner of Mickley Stud where the 14-year-old is based alongside four other affordable stallions, would like to improve on this year’s underwhelming tally of nine bookings.

“Realistically we hope Phoenix Reach can cover 40 mares next season,” Kent tells Carl Evans (pages 76-80).

“I’ll be very disappointed if people who appreciate racing and racehorses don’t use him.

“The longer you stay in this business the less you know – you could never have forecast this sort of success. We would have covered a mare for a load of straw!

“After Elm Park won at Doncaster we had lots of jumping people asking us for good packages but we’ve had to say no. He deserves a fee increase.

“The lesson is you should never turn your back on a horse that wins three Group 1 races.”

Warren Greatrex may have to wait to get his hands on Phoenix Reach’s progeny but the up-and-coming

jumps handler is doing perfectly well with what he has, as evidenced by a 35% strike-rate at the time of writing.

Greatrex, whose wife Tessa is integral to the set-up as she helps to buy the horses that he trains, is a rising star of the National Hunt scene with a host of promising youngsters in his stable, including possible World Hurdle contender Cole Harden.

The trainer, who learnt his trade under the great David Nicholson, made the move to leave salaried employment with owner Malcolm Denmark and start his own operation at the historic Uplands stable in Lambourn, the former base of another legend in Fred Winter. It was a brave call.

“I did three seasons at Weathercock House and I felt things weren’t going the way I wanted,” Greatrex explains to Tim Richards (Talking To, pages 6268). “Therefore a decision had to be made.

“I knew it was a risk, having a young family and leaving a salaried job with 40 horses. I started at Uplands in 2011 with only ten horses, but I believed in myself. On reflection, it’s probably the best decision I’ve ever made.

“Our string is now up to 70 and I get a great buzz from having young horses with bright futures. I couldn’t have imagined it would have gone so well so quickly.”

It’s not been going well for Newbury racecourse lately – and no, I don’t mean The Racecourse, Newbury – with numerous complaints covering everything from outdated amenities to pitiful prize-money and improbable dress codes.

Chairman Dominic Burke admits to Alan Lee that Newbury was “stuck in time” but says that all the track’s shortcomings have been recognised and are being addressed as a matter of urgency.

“We need to be leaders and our intention is to be there,” he states (pages 56-60). “By the start of 2018, we will be in a position to launch a Newbury that aspires to be the York of the south.”

We will hold you to that, Dominic.

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CONTENTS DECEMBER 2014

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FEATURES

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ROA Leader

Cups on three continents

Nick Rust the right call

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TBA Leader

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Political lobbying vital

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Dessie Hughes Jockey, trainer, father, husband

News

Trainer Warren Greatrex

Cartier Awards A great night for Juddmonte

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Changes Your monthly round-up

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Tony Morris US racing’s struggle

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Howard Wright Media rights fight

INTERNATIONAL SCENE 43

View From Ireland Little King Robin’s progress

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Continental Tales Gordon gets a good’un

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Around The Globe Bayern and Protectionist

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Berkshire venue back on track

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Mickley Stud Plenty to celebrate in Shropshire

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Breeders’ Digest A resurgent year for bloodstock

Newbury Racecourse COVER STORY Talking To...

Paul Bittar’s successor unveiled

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The Big Picture

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Nelson Bunker Hunt The man who had it all and lost it all

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Sales Circuit Boom time at Tattersalls

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Caulfield Files Danzig male line dominates

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Champion jockey AP McCoy Jamie Spencer cuts a dejected figure after Toast Of New York loses out by a nose to Bayern in the Breeders’ Cup Classic

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ROA LEADER

RACHEL HOOD President Racehorse Owners Association

New BHA appointment can prove inspired move Recruitment of Nick Rust from Ladbrokes strikes several right notes for sport

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hose who might feel uncomfortable about giving the job of BHA Chief Executive to a man who has spent much of his working life in the betting industry should think again.

I believe, and sincerely hope, the appointment of Nick Rust is an inspired one. The fact that the current Head of Retail for Ladbrokes has ability, drive and a passion for racing is not at issue. Neither is the fact that he knows all about racing’s many intricacies. He describes himself as a passionate racing enthusiast who has worked in bookmaking, as opposed to a bookmaker who has worked in racing.

But those who find it extraordinary that we have given a leading betting industry figure the top job in racing when most of us have decried bookmakers for their paltry contribution to our sport should realise that Nick Rust will come to racing with a breadth of knowledge that is close to being unique.

Also, as a racehorse owner, he will have a good understanding of how poor prize-money hardly makes a dent in the expenses of most owners and how the dire economics of the sport reflect on stable staff and racing’s grass roots.

The importance of betting as a source of income to racing – not just through money collected by the levy but through media rights and sponsorship – is not in doubt.

It wasn’t long ago that Nick was on record as saying these three major income sources should be viewed as a sort of bookmaker package. Coming from a Ladbrokes’ man, our suspicions were raised but now, in his new role, it will be interesting to hear his views.

This appointment is not, however, simply about employing a man who knows how to squeeze more money from his former colleagues. It is as much to do with using the specialised knowledge he has to increase the amount of betting that takes place on horseracing and in showing bookmakers there are benefits from increasing their promotion of racing. The so-called symbiotic

relationship is a card he will doubtless play to its full effect.

Of course, Nick will need to convince racing’s constituents they have to show greater flexibility and a better grasp of the big picture. Next year’s fixture list will have been put to bed well before his arrival but the problems that surround the annual fight over the allocation of fixtures will provide him with plenty to think about in the years to come.

All the arguments as to whether the fixture list should be constructed primarily to maximise income or to fit the horse population will be well known to him. Likewise, the equally important subjects of the race programme, small fields (particularly relating to jump racing) and getting the balance right between turf and all-weather fixtures.

Nick will, of course, be joining the BHA at a time when racing’s focus will be on discussions with government about creating a sustainable, commercially-based relationship between racing and betting and whether we take the route of levy reform or levy replacement, whereby a new Horserace Betting Authorisation would empower the sport to authorise all betting activity on racing in return for an appropriate contribution from bookmakers. There are many complex arguments surrounding this most important of all issues, and Nick will be able to hit the ground running, unlike some of his recent predecessors.

He will also know that racing is primarily an entertainment business and, while attracting large crowds and converting people from being casual racegoers into racing enthusiasts is a crucial role of the sport’s governing authority, racing’s relationship with large numbers of people comes predominantly through betting.

These, then, are the main reasons why Nick Rust, under Steve Harman’s chairmanship, is a wise choice to take racing forward. His appointment also sends an irrefutable message that the BHA, far from being purely a regulator, is a body with broad and definite ambitions for the whole sport.

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TBA LEADER

RICHARD LANCASTER Chairman Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association

Political lobbying a vital but unseen role for TBA Forthcoming elections mean message will have to be reiterated to new faces

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eaving aside personal satisfaction – not an easy matter considering that my day job has been lifted by the deeds of Taghrooda, Mukhadram, Muhaarar and others – 2014 has been a good year for the TBA board and executive in our mission to provide meaningful support for all members.

Publication of the Economic Impact Study early in the year marked the release of perhaps the single most important piece of work ever put together by the TBA. It provided an enormous amount of independently verified statistical information, most notably demonstrating the crucial role that small breeders – those with two or three mares – play in providing the raw material for the British racing industry and beyond.

A study of this kind is of no real benefit if it is not accepted outside the confines of those who commissioned it, and I am delighted that the EIS was well received across the board.

Acceptance by the Levy Board, for instance, was important. It means now that when we go to them and the BHA to discuss matters affecting breeders, we are armed with factual evidence, independently verified, which underpins our arguments about their plight, especially among National Hunt breeders.

Nor is it of any value if such a study is pushed to the back of a drawer and forgotten after the initial rush of interest. It has to be acted upon. In the case of the EIS, we have already added the findings to our ongoing work on a scheme that centres on National Hunt mares and will provide financial support in this crucial area of breeding.

The EIS will continue to be a vital tool in the executive’s kitbag, particularly when they and board members tackle the job of political lobbying. This often unseen, unsung area has become increasingly important, and its emphasis is unlikely to shrink in the near future. Dealing with the government and the EU does not work like that!

The opening of the thoroughbred export market to China, the retention of notifiable disease status for CEM and EVA, and continued entitlement to single farm

payments for stud properties, following the CAP review and reform – none makes headlines in the way that a bigrace win or a major sale might do, but they were all achieved with painstaking effort and contact through individual lobbying.

Change is not always for the better, and the government’s approach to one part of its Red Tape Challenge was a good example. In seeking to remove notifiable disease status for CEM and EVA, they hoped to save money, but if they had looked more carefully they would have realised that there wasn’t any money to save.

Worse still, though, getting rid of this element of socalled red tape would have been severely counterproductive. The TBA and Tattersalls, which added its weight to the campaign, estimated it would have resulted in the loss of £30 million of annual overseas trade.

EU deliberations also present serious challenges, and with a new intake of MEPs taking their place after the May elections, we have put time and effort into refreshing old links and making new ones.

Interestingly, among the latest batch of newcomers to the Brussels MEP roster is Jane Collins, who stands out from the crowd on two counts. She is a member of UKIP and, probably more significantly, a very keen horsewoman.

As far as next year is concerned we will need to keep a close eye on the general election, ensuring that whatever the outcome we demonstrate the breeding industry’s value to the rural economy and the significant opportunities it creates for inward investment. Similar messages will be conveyed closer to home, as part of the TBA’s shareholder role in the Horsemen’s Group, where we will continue to monitor British racing’s structure from within.

The BHA is undergoing huge structural change, and we will have to get to know, deal with and establish a good relationship with a new team, particularly ensuring that the four new independent directors are aware of and alive to the interests of thoroughbred breeders.

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Dessie Hughes 1943 - 2014

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eading Irish trainer Dessie Hughes, who also enjoyed a hugely successful career in the saddle, died on November 15.

He was 71.

Hughes, who trained at the Curragh in County Kildare, landed six Cheltenham Festival races as a jockey, tasting Gold Cup glory on Davy Lad in 1977, defeating Tied Cottage and Tommy Carberry.

In 1979 he captured the Champion Hurdle on the diminutive Monksfield, getting the better of Sea Pigeon and Jonjo O’Neill after an epic duel up the Cheltenham hill. The two rivals, along with Night Nurse, helped to make the 1970s and early 1980s a golden era for twomile hurdlers.

Hughes bettered his Champion Hurdle record as a trainer, winning it with the tough-asteak Hardy Eustace in 2004 and 2005.

The Grand National eluded him, although he sent out Black Apalachi to chase home Don’t Push It and AP McCoy in 2010.

Hughes was the father of three-time British champion jockey Richard; he dedicated his most recent title triumph to his father, who had been ill for some time.

He wrote: “After every winner I rode I would look for his approval. He has always been my mentor, my biggest supporter and my biggest

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DESSIE HUGHES

Clockwise from above: the Hughestrained Hardy Eustace (right) sees off Harchibald and Brave Inca to win his second Champion Hurdle in 2005; with son Richard, who dedicated his third champion jockeys’ title to his father; surviving a blunder on Davy Lad in the 1977 Cheltenham Gold Cup; jumping the second on Monksfield en route to winning the 1979 Champion Hurdle

critic. That has been the case throughout my career, from my time spending the weekends going across Ireland pony racing right up to the present day.

“I vowed to do everything I could to defend the title for him. He was the one I was doing it for. I know how much he wanted me to do it and I know how proud of me he is.

“I was with him the other day when there was a news story on TV about Richard Hughes winning the jockeys’ championship for the third time and I could see what it meant to him.”

There were, as befitting one of racing’s bestknown and respected characters, stacks of tributes to Hughes, including from Mick O’Toole, trainer of Davy Lad. He said: “Dessie was with me a long time and it was a lucky day for me when he came along.

We had many great days together, and he rode six Cheltenham Festival winners for me. He was a very consistent rider, very strong in a finish and a great man to school horses.”

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his Champion Hurdle triumphs, said: “There are gentlemen and then there was Dessie Hughes.

I’ve ridden for many good people during my career but Dessie really stood out as a proper gentleman.

“We had some brilliant times together, some of the best times of my career. No one ever had a bad word to say about Dessie, and Dessie never had a bad word to say about anyone. It’s a sad

day for everyone and for racing.”

Hughes, whose first runner as a trainer, Church Island, was a winner at Fairyhouse on January 1, 1980, enjoyed his most recent bigrace strike when the ill-fated Our Conor powered to a 15-length victory in last year’s Triumph Hurdle.

He is also survived by wife Eileen and daughter Sandra.

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NEWS Stories from the racing world

Nick Rust is new BHA Chief Executive Racing breaks with tradition and chooses former bookmaker as Paul Bittar’s replacement

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aul Bittar’s successor as BHA Chief Executive was finally unveiled last month with Nick Rust, currently Director of Retail for Ladbrokes, the man chosen from a final shortlist of four candidates.

His appointment is described as “inspired”

by ROA President Rachel Hood in this month’s Leader column (page 9).

Racing and betting have frequently been at loggerheads, something Rust will be only to aware of as he prepares to take over the hotseat at High Holborn. It will be hoped his appointment will enable the more cordial relationship of recent times to continue.

As with Bittar, a honeymoon window will afford Rust some time to make his mark, although it is not yet known when he will take over. Bittar’s departure date is also unknown, and there could be a spell of interim management.

The BHA Nominations Committee comprised Rachel Hood, Steve Harman (BHA Chairman) and Ian Barlow (Racecourse Association Chairman). Hood said: “The appointment process has been very thorough and meticulous, culminating I believe in the collaborative appointment of an outstanding and professional candidate who will serve the horseracing industry with commitment, understanding and vision.

“Nick is a long-time racehorse owner, with a track record of investment and involvement in a racing stable, and a passion for horseracing itself.

“His hugely successful career in the betting industry brings with it a profound understanding of so many issues facing the future growth of our sport.

“The Horsemen’s Group expects its members to be well-served by Nick’s appointment, which we welcome along with our colleagues at the RCA and the Chairman of the BHA.” Harman said: “We’re delighted to have appointed Nick. The quality of candidates was amongst the highest I’ve ever seen for any CEO position, with a range of senior leaders from the UK business, consumer and leisure industries. Nick impressed us all the way through the process.

“He has been an avid racing fan since childhood, has an impressive track record in his business life, and a great understanding of the opportunities for the sport. Those that know Nick know that he has a natural and

Switching sides: Nick Rust has a wealth of experience in the betting industry

collaborative leadership style with staff and stakeholders alike, a good blend of humility and desire to get things done. He is comfortable from ‘stable to boardroom’ and understands how pivotal this sport is to jobs and UK PLC.” Rust, 47, has 27 years of experience in the betting and gaming industry, and in his current role has charge of around 2,500 betting shops and 13,000 staff.

He rejoined Ladbrokes in 2011, having started at the firm as a cashier in 1987, and held roles at BSkyB between 2002 and 2007, including as Managing Director of SkyBet, and at Gala Coral from 2007 to 2010, including as Managing Director, Remote

Gambling and Coral Retail.

He has been an owner since 2005 and currently has four horses in training with Micky Hammond.

Rust, an ROA member, said: “Given my lifelong passion for British racing, I am thrilled and honoured to be taking up the role of Chief Executive.

“Racing is a huge sport, and critical to many areas of the economy. It has many exciting opportunities ahead and I know the racing industry can grasp these.

“I look forward to working with the new board, and the wider team, as well as our many stakeholders, to build on what has already been achieved by Paul and his team.”

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NEWS

RoR resets goals after strategy review Retraining of Racehorses (RoR) should be the “go-to organisation” for owners and trainers wanting to re-home former runners according to the findings of an independent review into its strategy and policy.

A total of ten recommendations were published in November, including that RoR continues to create demand for exracehorses and offer advice and education to those wishing to look after them.

RoR, which was established in 2000 and is the official charity partner of the Racehorse Owners Association for 2014, will provide a comprehensive database, covering animals that leave the racing industry, an online ‘for sale’ facility and a list of recommended ‘re-trainers’ to assist in assessing a horse’s options once it leaves the sport.

In terms of funding the four re-training centres – Greatwood, HEROS, Moorcroft and The Thoroughbred Rehabilitation Centre – the review stated that financial support would be “adjusted” over a period of time by introducing more specific criteria, the idea being that grants will only be provided to support the most vulnerable cases.

RoR will also adopt a pragmatic and transparent euthanasia policy, one that is supported by the rest of the British racing industry.

Paul Roy, RoR Chairman, said: “We need to get the message out to racing about what exactly we do and help to increase demand for former racehorses.

“Our support of the re-training centres is vital and will continue, however we recognised that there was a need to tighten the funding mechanism.”

The popular RoR competition series, which has given ex-racehorses such as dual Gold Cup winner Kauto Star the opportunity to participate in public shows,

RoR Chairman Paul Roy (right) wants to expand the competition series and give ex-racehorses like Kauto Star (above) the chance to excel in a second career

will also be expanded according to Roy, who stated his desire to increase the number of re-homing facilities across the UK. “Many of the competitions are oversubscribed – they have been a huge success,” Roy said. “We want to continue to grow the series and let people know about the enormous number of possibilities that exist for former racehorses.”

The RoR review also revealed that a new role of Welfare Consultant would be created to monitor vulnerable and unwanted horses and act as liaison with the re-training centres.

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DECEMBER 2014

Stud fees announced for 2015 Stallion fees for Tweenhills Farm & Stud’s three resident sires have been announced ahead of the next covering season.

Triple Group One winner Charm Spirit will stand at a fee of £25,000 (October 1, SLF), while Harbour Watch (pictured right), the unbeaten champion two-year old of 2011, will continue to stand for £7,500 (October 1, SLF). Foals from his first crop are set to make their mark at the Tattersalls December Foal Sale.

Group One-winning miler Havana Gold, whose first foals will be arriving in the New Year, will again stand for £8,500 (October 1, SLF).

Makfi, a resident at Tweenhills for the past four years and about to stand at Haras de Bonneval, is available at €17,500 (October 1, SLF), while Pearl Bloodstock’s Dunaden, who begins covering duties at Overbury Stud, has a fee of £3,000 (October 1, SLF).

Spirit, Gold and Dunaden set to par ade Charm Spirit looked superb when he arrived at Tweenhills Farm & Stud in early November ahead of his debut in the breeding sheds next year.

The triple Group One-winning son of Invincible Spirit (pictured left) joins the stud’s roster to stand alongside Harbour Watch and Havana Gold.

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Judge and Storm so brave At Santa Anita The Charlie Hills-trained Just The Judge showed her usual tenacity when finishing strongly to take third place in the Gr.1 Filly & Mare Turf, beaten less than two lengths by winner Dayatthespa, while Trade Storm, who is trained by David Simcock, was third in the Gr.1 Breeders’ Cup Mile.

Lisa Charles Groom

An all-rounder?

I joined the stud nearly nine months ago and work with all the horses bar stallions.

Prior to that?

I was an event organiser with a company based in Gloucestershire. We were involved in such diverse events as the CLA Game Fair, the Silverstone Grand Prix and music concerts.

Sounds interesting…

It was, but after three years I was keen to find employment with horses. There were always horses at home when I was growing up – show jumpers and hunters – and this job came along at the right time. The hours suit me because I have a nine-year-old son, Callum, and there’s a good team spirit.

New to racing then…

The longer you work at a stud the more you understand the families, and I have started to gain an interest in racing through the breeding. You get attached to certain horses – the foals are fun and you can relate to the mares.

Next up?

The December Sales – I’ve never worked at a sale and I’m looking forward to it.

There will be a chance to view Charm Spirit, Havana Gold and Dunaden – who has also been retired from racing this year – at Longholes Stud in Newmarket during Tattersalls’ December Sales. They will be parading from the Friday of the foal sales (November 28) through to the Wednesday of the mares’ sale (December 3).

Qatar Racing’s Just The Judge and Trade Storm covered themselves in glory when placed at the Breeders’ Cup in Santa Anita, California.

Tattersalls December Mares’ Sale is next on the agenda for double Group One winner Just The Judge, a rare Guineas heroine to be offered at public auction – she appears as Lot 1852 on Tuesday, December 2, consigned by Tweenhills Farm & Stud to complete a partnership between the Sangster Family and Qatar Racing.

Cornwallville a great advert for Makfi Tough Cornwallville, a son of Qatar Bloodstock stallion Makfi, won the Listed Criterium Du Languedoc at Toulouse in November – on his fourteenth start of the season.

prepares to begin covering at Haras de Bonneval in 2015 under the Qatar Bloodstock banner.

The one-mile contest was the twoyear-old’s fifth victory having started the campaign in the Brocklesby Stakes at Doncaster in March. Trained then by Stan Moore, he was claimed by French trainer David Windrif in June and was later purchased by Pearl Bloodstock and sent to Francis Graffard.

Cornwallville is a reminder to French breeders of Makfi’s prowess as the stallion

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NEWS

Kingman rules at the Cartier Awards Outstanding miler Kingman duly took one of the season’s most prestigious honours when named Horse of the Year at the Cartier Awards in London on November 11.

Through a mixture of points earned in Pattern races in 2014 and the votes of a panel of racing journalists, along with readers of the Racing Post and The Daily Telegraph plus Channel 4 viewers, Kingman beat fellow Juddmonte retiree Noble Mission, back-toback Arc heroine Treve and dual Derby winner Australia to the trophy.

Lord Grimthorpe, Racing Manager to Kingman’s owner/breeder Khalid Abdullah, was on hand to collect the prize in a glittering ceremony at the Dorchester, and recognised the efforts of trainer John Gosden and jockey James Doyle in a memorable campaign that garnered four Group 1 triumphs.

He said: “A big thank you to John and all his team at Clarehaven, they’ve really performed miracles with this horse and brought him absolutely to his peak, and he was wonderfully ridden by James Doyle, who has ridden brilliantly for us all year.”

Referring to the rider’s recent appointment, Grimthorpe added: “We wish him all the best with Godolphin, it will be fantastic for him.”

In a splendid evening for Juddmonte, Kingman beat Australia to the three-year-old colt award, while Noble Mission, who

ROLL OF HONOUR Horse of the Year KINGMAN Three-Year-Old Colt KINGMAN Three-Year-Old Filly TAGHROODA Sprinter SOLE POWER Stayer LEADING LIGHT Older Horse NOBLE MISSION Two-Year-Old Colt GLENEAGLES Two-Year-Old Filly TIGGY WIGGY Cartier/Daily Telegraph Award of Merit SHEIKH HAMDAN BIN RASHID AL MAKTOUM

Sally Eddery with Lady Cecil, trainer of champion older horse Noble Mission

captured this year’s Champion Stakes after an epic battle with Al Kazeem, outpointed Treve in the older horse category.

Taghrooda – another trained by Gosden and who has a date in the breeding shed with former stablemate Kingman – Sole Power, Leading Light, Gleneagles and Tiggy Wiggy were also honoured, along with Taghrooda’s owner/breeder Hamdan Al Maktoum, who after finishing the season as leading owner received the Award of Merit.

Arnaud Bamberger (centre) with Kingman’s team of Philip Mitchell, Douglas Erskine-Crum, John Gosden and Lord Grimthorpe

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Racing’s news in a nutshell PEOPLE AND BUSINESS Andy Mason Newmarket’s senior medical officer retires after 28 years of service at the course.

Sir Alex Ferguson Former Manchester United manager has purchased half-shares in two yearlings bred by German Stud Gestut Fahrhof.

Lockinge Stakes Newbury’s flagship Flat race increases in value by 64% to £350,000 following fiveyear sponsorship deal for the meeting with Al Shaqab Racing.

BetVictor Rosie Napravnik Jockey reveals she is pregnant after partnering Untapable to victory in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff and announces retirement from race-riding.

Richard Hughes Claims his third straight champion jockey title, with Richard Hannon champion trainer in his debut season and Hamdan Al Maktoum leading owner.

Bet365 Sponsor of Sandown’s two-day meeting in April have announced the extension of their backing for a further three years.

Charles Egerton Trainer who had nearly 400 winners during a 20-year career has handed in his licence but will remain involved in racing through his bloodstock business.

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Owen Burrows Long-serving assistant to Sir Michael Stoute joins Barry Hills at Kingwood Stables in Lambourn.

James Doyle Godolphin signs up Kingman’s jockey and William Buick as retained riders for next season; Silvestre de Sousa’s contract is not being renewed and he will now operate as a freelance.

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Wetherby escapes punishment despite BHA enquiry finding that races run at the track over four distances have been incorrect for the last five years. Trainer Neil Mulholland is fined £250 after The Young Master, winner of the Badger Ales Trophy at Wincanton, is disqualified due to being ineligible to run in the race. The Tingle Creek Chase pot increases to £150,000 after 888sport step in to back Sandown’s Grade 1 contest. Wexford officials consider switching to a left-handed track in a bid to make the course stiffer and the bends less dangerous. Tom Dascombe’s stable jockey Richard Kingscote suffers multiple injuries, including a broken collarbone, arm, wrist and elbow and punctured lung, in a five-horse pile-up at Wolverhampton.

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RACEHORSE AND STALLION MOVEMENTS AND RETIREMENTS

Slade Power Diamond Jubilee Stakes winner, who was bought by Darley after the race, will stand at Kildangan Stud in County Kildare for a fee of €20,000.

Noble Mission Frankel’s brother, winner of this year’s Champion Stakes, is retired and will stand at Lane’s End Farm in Kentucky next year.

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Solwhit 10 Top staying hurdler for Charles Byrnes’s stable, his 15 career victories included the 2013 World Hurdle among eight Grade 1s.

Rositary 31

Middleham Park Racing’s Sprint Cup winner will remain in training next year before taking up stallion duties at Tally-Ho Stud in Ireland in 2016.

French-bred daughter of Trenel, a tough and talented hurdler/chaser who was the winner of nine races for Stan Mellor and Peter Winkworth.

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Await The Dawn 7

Runner-up in the Breeders’ Cup Mile, and a full-brother to brilliant miler Goldikova, has been retired to stand at Haras du Quesnay.

Son of Giant’s Causeway, whose biggest win came in the Hardwicke Stakes at Royal Ascot, dies covering a mare at stud in South Africa.

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No Nay Never, runner-up in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint, will stand at Coolmore in Ireland next year at a fee of €20,000. Ruler Of The World, the 2013 Derby winner, has been retired to stand at Coolmore Stud in 2015, where his fee will be €15,000. Gwanako, the winner of 13 races from 38 starts, including the 2008 Topham Chase, and over £240,000 has been retired aged 11. Value At Risk, who notched two wins last season in Ireland and was third in Punchestown’s Grade 1 bumper, has been switched to Dan Skelton’s yard from Philip Fenton.

Dank, winner of last year’s Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf and Beverly D Stakes for owner/breeder James Wigan, has been retired to the paddocks. Peintre Celebre, who has stood at Coolmore for 17 seasons, siring 12 stakes winners, including triple Group 1 winner Pride, is retired from covering duties aged 20. Godolphin purchases a majority share in this year’s Dewhurst winner Belardo, a son of Lope De Vega, from Prince A A Faisal. Cubanita has been retired by her owner/breeder Kirsten Rausing after her second place behind Ivanhowe in a Group 1 in Germany. Morpheus, a son of Oasis Dream and a half-brother to champions Frankel and Noble Mission, is retired to stand at Tally-Ho Stud in Ireland at a fee of €6,000.

Valirann, a son of Nayef who was a Group 2 winner in France, will stand alongside Stowaway at Whytemount Stud in County Kilkenny at €1,600. Wall Of Sound has been retired to her owner/breeder Andrew Black’s Chasemore Farm following her third in the Grade 2 Goldikova Stakes at Santa Anita. Nick Williams’s cross-country stalwart Maljimar is retired aged 14.

Winner of the 2002 Champion Hurdle for owner Paul Green, trainer James Fanshawe and jockey Dean Gallagher.

Admire Rakti 6 Caulfield Cup winner from Japan collapses and dies after finishing last in this year’s Melbourne Cup. Johar, 15 Son of Gone West who deadheated with High Chaparral in the 2003 Breeders’ Cup Turf; he sired Grade 1winning filly Joha. Tugela, 19 Dam of three-time Melbourne Cup heroine Makybe Diva dies after giving birth to her 11th foal. Un Beau Matin, 6 Useful hurdler/chaser for Gigginstown House Stud and Gordon Elliott.

PEOPLE OBITUARIES John Gough 77

Martin Rolke 68

David Hastings 77

Professional gambler whose career was documented in a 1960s TV show and was an early pioneer of tipping lines.

German trainer and seven-times champion jockey who won the East German Derby and 833 races throughout his career.

Racecourse photographer who supplied the picture for the front page of the first edition of the Racing Post in April 1986.

Neville Dent 85

Jimmy Tormey 77

Dessie Hughes 71

Former trainer and breeder who recommended the fillies’ and mares’ allowance on the Flat should be extended to jump racing.

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Trainer whose biggest success came in 1967 at the Galway Festival on Evilo and who was also successful with El Kekni and Grand Visier.

Cheltenham Gold Cup and Champion Hurdle-winning jockey, he also trained dual Champion Hurdler Hardy Eustace and was the father of top Flat rider Richard Hughes.

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BREEDERS’ CUP

NO FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK Toast Of New York and the soon-to-retire Jamie Spencer (left) fail by a nose to catch Bayern and Martin Garcia in the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Santa Anita on November 2.

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MOORE AUSSIE GLORY Protectionist became the first German-trained winner of the Melbourne Cup, and the fifth in a row to have started life racing in Europe, when surging to a four-length victory under man-of-the-moment Ryan Moore.

The four-year-old, trained by Andreas Wohler, pulled clear of the veteran Red Cadeaux, who ran second for the third time aged eight in his fourth Cup start, with Who Shot Thebarman best of the home brigade in third Photo Bronwen Healy

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BERLAIS THE BOSS The partnership of Paul Nicholls and Sam Twiston-Davies enjoyed three winners at Cheltenham’s Open meeting, highlighted by the Paddy Power Gold Cup triumph of Caid Du Berlais (far left), who stormed up the famous hill to deny Johns Spirit (red) his second win in the race Photo George Selwyn

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THE MAN YOU CAN’T IGNORE COMMENT

Tony Morris The concept of a late-season championship raceday began in America with the Breeders’ Cup, yet it’s doubtful whether such events really do produce many extra horseracing fans

Most US racing under-publicised Most racing in North America is mundane, as is most football in England. But even mundane football here gets some TV exposure. The US media do go to town over the Triple Crown and the Breeders’ Cup, but all that achieves is to give the Triple Crown and the Breeders’ Cup high profiles; the rest of racing in the States is woefully under-publicised by media who

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ack in 1983, when it was announced that November of the following year would bring the inauguration of a richly endowed programme of seven Grade 1 races, to be contested annually and known as the Breeders’ Cup, I was not among the cheerleaders.

There had long been a well-established pattern of racing in North America that readily facilitated the identification of the best horses, and I didn’t see the point of disrupting it, which was what offering an obscene amount of money for such an occasion would inevitably do. A lot of traditionally important races were going to suffer for the sake of this hugely expensive innovation, and it was surely a moot point whether it would achieve its principal objective.

What was the principal objective, as stated at the time by those involved in its creation? That has been largely forgotten over the years. It was all about trying to reverse the decline in numbers attending the tracks nationwide. The thinking was that a gala day, staging a series of championship events, especially if televised live on one of the major networks, would help to widen the fan base for the sport as a whole. I considered that to be pie in the sky.

I was correct in that judgement. Whatever the Breeders’ Cup has done in its 31 years – and let’s grant that it has provided plenty of top-quality racing and a number of outstanding performances – it has done nothing to broaden the fan base for the sport. But why would it? The fact that Chelsea v Manchester City might fill Stamford Bridge and attract television viewers in their millions doesn’t mean that my club, lowly Exeter City, can expect a bumper gate for the visit of Hartlepool. It may be the same game, but the stark difference in quality counts.

The placards were all very well, but how many wavers of them became converts?

recognise the want of interest, while the likes of baseball, basketball and America’s perversion of football receive blanket coverage. There is a certain irony in the fact that Hollywood Park, scene of the first Breeders’ Cup, is no more.

Remember how, a few years ago, excitement about the Breeders’ Cup was exemplified by all those spectators waving banners in support of Zenyatta? The images were accompanied by the familiar assertions from commentators that a great horse was always good for the game. Up to a point, perhaps. But the fans of Zenyatta were doing no more than expressing appreciation of one individual. There was no reason to assume that because they liked Zenyatta they had become converted to racing and would in future be regular attendees at their local track.

Still, we must acknowledge that the Breeders’ Cup, long since expanded from a one-day event to occupy two afternoons of highly competitive racing and to carry the erroneous sub-title ‘World Thoroughbred Championships’ has succeeded on some levels. It has diminished the importance of certain other races, and even killed off the Washington D.C. International, which a generation ago was held in much the same esteem as the Arc, at least from a European perspective, but it has found its own niche in

the calendar and it is arguable that it now ranks above anything else in the US season.

The reverence once granted to the winner of the Kentucky Derby is now a thing of the past, and not until one goes on to add victories in the Preakness and Belmont will that return. These days the highest accolade in North American racing goes to the Breeders’ Cup Classic winner.

You’ve got one, we want one The Breeders’ Cup’s conspicuous success in having provided a late-season series of championship races for all ages and over a variety of distances has resulted in everyone wanting one. The French were in first with the Arc weekend, and a first-class job they made of it, with minimal disruption to its own and Europe’s traditional calendar. With four Group 2s on the Saturday, followed by seven races at the highest level on the Sunday, the first weekend in October is all about Longchamp, clashes with Ascot and Newmarket notwithstanding. The purses are rewarding, even if the prize for the Arc itself might seem irrationally high, given it means that just by getting the winner of that one race a stallion acquires the title of France’s champion sire.

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months ago on how Ireland’s first stab at a Breeders’ Cup emulation had worked well in September. There had been some inevitable switching of dates for some races, but nothing so drastic as to have Irish trainers up in arms about them. The changes had no discernible impact on the racing programme for horses in any age-group, and if we had thought that splitting the occasion between Leopardstown and the Curragh was less than ideal, in practice there were no complaints. It was not as though the venues were at opposite ends of the country. What complaints there were – beforehand – came from Doncaster, upset that the Irish innovations had become a fait accompli without any consultation. But there was a bumper crowd on Town Moor for St Leger day, and the Sunday clash with Arc trials day at Longchamp was never going to be affected.

It is not possible to be so positive about Britain’s version of the Breeders’ Cup, staged in mid-October and divided between Newmarket’s Rowley Mile course on Friday and Ascot on Saturday, and styled as Future Champions Day and Champions Day respectively. This was the first time the cards had been presented on consecutive days, emulating the BC format. As many had predicted, it was not a great success.

Of course, there had been widespread dissatisfaction over the decision to move the Champion Stakes from its natural home in Newmarket, where it had thrived from 1877 to 2010 and was unique in the world as the only major race contested over a straight mile and a quarter. It could be only a different race at Ascot. At the same time the decision was taken to stage the two top juvenile events in the HQ calendar, the six-furlong Middle Park and seven-furlong Dewhurst, formerly run two weeks apart and both won by Diesis in 1982, on the same Future Champions Day card. Recognition by the authorities of that folly remains lacking.

In 2014 we were supposed to link the Newmarket and Ascot programmes as some kind of united festival, though the courses are over 100 miles apart. In addition, they were ludicrously fixed for Friday and Saturday, when any reasonable individual would have realised that Saturday and Sunday represented a much more sensible option. Either day would have served Ascot equally well, while Newmarket would inevitably have drawn a bigger crowd.

It has long been common knowledge that Newmarket is a suitable course for autumn racing because it drains so well, and that the same cannot be said for Ascot. For the third year out of four the ground at Ascot on Champions Day was more suitable for winter jumping than for staging championship Flat contests and, unsurprisingly, there were significant withdrawals.

Sure, there was a stirring contest for the main event, with Noble Mission and Al Kazeem engaging in a tremendous tussle, and I could concur with those who noticed a resemblance to the Grundy-Bustino clash over the same course and distance in the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes of 1975. But that was a race run in record time on proper summer ground, plus this year’s principals were not in the same class as their illustrious predecessors.

I remain unconvinced that Britain needs a counterpart to the Breeders’ Cup. We always knew how to identify our best horses before the meddlers got to interfere with the schedule, and I strongly doubt whether the changes we have witnessed have recruited more than a handful to become regular racegoers.

“I remain

unconvinced that Britain needs a counterpart to the Breeders’ Cup”

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HOWARD WRIGHT COMMENT

The retail betting industry can be expected to play much harder ball with racecourses than last time when the next round of negotiations take place

Media rights fight brewing

“A further threat to

the media rights pot comes from within, with ARC preparing to go it alone” ATR and SIS will have 15 completely dark days, including eight Sundays, and a further 25, including ten all-important Saturdays, when the only British racing coverage comprises a twilight or evening meeting. The figures highlight the crucial nature of SIS’s deal with Chelmsford City, the all-weather track due to rise from the ashes of Great Leighs. Without its 58 fixtures – and the retention of ten sold by Towcester to Arena Racing Company – the position would

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ook out, there’s a red signal ahead, and the media rights gravy train is heading for the buffers. That light at the end of the tunnel could be an express coming the other way! It’s hard to distinguish at the moment, but April 2017 is closer than some may think.

The last negotiations between British racing’s media rights’ holders and the retail betting industry resulted in a significant hike in returns to the sport. The grand total from this relatively new revenue source was recently said to have risen from £104 million in 2009 to £173m this year, compared with a drop in levy income from the blip of £116.5m to the 2014-15 estimate of £80.2m.

But while some sports – Premier League football being the obvious example – can expect to continue riding the rising tide, as Sky and BT battle for a share of a burgeoning market, racing will do well to hang on to what it has got when SIS contracts are the first to come up for renegotiation in April 2017.

The danger signs are visible on all sides of the line, beginning with evidence from the recentlypublished 2015 fixture list, which reveals a significant number of blank sessions on At The Races and Racing UK, and more importantly their betting partners SIS and TurfTV, which now operate along parallel lines after Ascot’s decision to stop straddling the fence.

Chelmsford City’s appearance in 2015 will be a boon to At The Races and SIS

have been bleaker.

SIS, which will also have to juggle its service within the extended hours expected to be introduced in Ireland shortly, needs horseracing content to fill the gaps for its betting-shop customers, preferably of the thoroughbred kind.

The answer lies outside the UK, so any media rights involved will not find their way into British pockets.

The situation is similarly mixed on RUK and TurfTV, which in 2015, partly due to the impact of Kempton’s losses, will have 26 blank days, also including eight Sundays, and a further five when twilight or evening fixtures prevent a total blackout of British racing.

RUK subscribers asking for a 9% refund to compensate for the lack of live British action will probably get a polite reply but short shrift.

TurfTV customers, though, may be offered alternative content, possibly in the form of greyhound racing from Ireland, but there’s no benefit to British racing in that.

A further threat to the established broadcasters’ ability to sustain media rights’ payments at current levels comes from within, with ARC apparently preparing to go it alone,

as it has with such as the starting-stalls operation.

It seems to be an open secret – well, it was to those who asked the right questions at October’s bookmakers’ trade show at ARC-operated Wolverhampton – that Mark Kingston is providing serious advice on establishing an independent unit. Having spent 17 years with SIS, latterly as chief operations officer, Kingston should have the right cost-cutting solutions.

And all the while, as British racing’s share of the betting industry’s gross win hovers around 23%, from more than twice as much not so long ago, the major chains are closing retail outlets – 100 Hills shops this year, 90 by Ladbrokes, around 50 by Coral. Each one represents leakage from the media rights’ pot.

Yet help may be at hand. Given the direction in which the train is moving, the appointment of Nick Rust as BHA engine driver seems opportune. After all, Rust was at Coral when they broke ranks from the other major bookmakers and threw in their lot with the emerging TurfTV operation, which heralded the escalation in media rights’ competition in the first place.

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By JESSICA LAMB OF THE RACING POST

Rockin’ Robin on road to Festival Trainer Colin Bowe has a serious mare on his hands – and he knew it before the public did

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illie Mullins has dominated the mares’ division in recent seasons but this December at Leopardstown another name could well be making the headlines.

Twelve months ago Little King Robin was just a maiden hurdle winner rated 116 and perhaps heading for a handicap hurdle campaign, yet her trainer Colin Bowe knew different.

He said: “She’d always raced keenly so we changed tactics to let her bowl along at Fairyhouse in April and she ran a cracker in the novice handicap hurdle, finishing fifth.

“It works because her appetite is so huge – she just loves racing and she’s happy to gallop along on her own all day.”

The daughter of King’s Theatre has not finished out of the first three in 13 runs since Fairyhouse, and at Down Royal in October she romped to Grade 2 success in the WKD Hurdle. She followed that effort with a fine third behind Champion Hurdle winners

everything with her and he has to take a lot of credit for what she has become”

CAROLINE NORRIS

“Brendan Walsh does

Hurricane Fly and Jezki in the Grade 1 Morgiana Hurdle at Punchestown on November 16.

Her handicap mark now stands at 145, 10lb lower than the British mark Quevega had when winning the David Nicholson Mares’ Hurdle for the first time.

Jockey Mark Walsh said: “She is definitely on her way to the mares’ hurdle at Cheltenham. I thought that the Down Royal race against Arctic Fire would be too much for her. She was entered at Naas on the Sunday and that looked the right option for her. But Colin thought she could do it.”

Next up is the Grade 3 mares’ event at Leopardstown’s Christmas festival, won by fellow Wexford trainer Sean Doyle with Theatre Bird last year.

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Little King Robin (left) jumps the last on the way to victory in the WKD Hurdle

Bowe added: “A lot of it has to do with Brendan Walsh, my head lad. He does everything with her and he knows her inside out. I have only to ask him how she is and he’ll be able to tell me exactly whether we should run her or not. He minds her like a baby and has to take a lot of credit for what she has become.”

This success gives Bowe a kick but he is equally famous for saddling subsequent Racing Post Arkle Chase winner Western Warhorse to win a point-to-point first time out, before selling the horse on.

Willie Mullins’s promising Clondaw Court started the same way and the likes of Donald McCain and Nicky Henderson are also on Bowe’s client list. What he does in the pointto-point field has been backed up by his exploits on the track.

Our Victoria, the mare who finished fourth

in the 2012 National Hunt Chase at Cheltenham, and Askanna, who won the then Grade 2 Irish Daily Mirror Novice Hurdle at the 2011 Punchestown festival, were the first to showcase his skills with mares and horses racing under rules.

He said: “It was super watching Our Victoria at Cheltenham. She normally doesn’t travel as well in a race as she did then. I said to Barry [O’Neill, jockey], ‘She’s small and if she was in on the rail she’d get bumped around so keep her out wide’.

“I knew she’d like the ground and I knew she’d jump well and I knew that every day she ran she was always staying on at the end, but to see it all come together was super.

“As for Askanna, she was just so tough.

She was tiny but never knew how to give up.

She stayed and stayed and stayed. They were calling her the iron mare at one point.” >>

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VIEW FROM IRELAND

Legislation aiming to replace all existing documents that govern Irish horseracing was last month nearing completion in the wake of news that funding from the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund will increase by €11.2 million in 2015.

The Horse Racing Ireland Bill is set to give the minister more control over Horse Racing Ireland, the sport’s promotional body, as well as the Turf Club and Irish National Hunt Steeplechase Committee, which presently deals with integrity and licences.

The potential new regime was scrutinised by a government committee that concluded in September and featured submissions from stakeholders, jockeys and breeders.

The committee was quick to produce a report for the department of agriculture to review before drafting the legislation. The report took on board many common points made in submissions.

A key recommendation was to reduce the HRI board from 13 members to 12, requesting specifically that stable staff be better represented. Irish Stable Staff Association boss Bernard Caldwell supported the call for his organisation to have more of a voice.

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Stable staff want to have more say in how the racing industry is run

He said: “The stable staff are the backbone of the industry and we need to be able to have our say. The main issue at the moment is the evening racing and staff having to work the next morning after not getting back from the races until very late.

“That is still happening and we need to keep working on it. There’s also the issue of

no full weekends off.”

Leading farrier Paul Fahey agrees. He said: “A lot of guys have families and it’s very tough not having full weekends off. There must be some way to shift the rotas to allow staff to go home on a Friday night and not come back until Monday, rather than working that halfday on a Saturday.”

In Brief Heskin replaces Mullins Adrian Heskin has replaced Danny Mullins as retained jockey for owner Barry Connell and follows Jonathan Burke’s unexpected signing as retained rider for Ann and Alan Potts. Riders under the age of 23 presently occupy three of the five best jobs in Irish jumps racing with Bryan Cooper, 22, employed by Gigginstown House Stud.

Ruby Walsh, stable jockey to Willie Mullins, and Paul Carberry, Noel Meade’s number one, hold the other top jobs in Irish racing. There’s no clear successor to those positions but the fact that these young riders are being given the opportunity to shine is exciting news for Irish racing.

Former stars return

Adrian Heskin: exciting opportunity

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Leopardstown could play host to the return from injury of one-time leading World Hurdle hope Dedigout.

Dedigout missed the majority of last season due to several minor injuries and ailments.

Connections were keen to continue after his run last December, but were forced to

give him an extended break to ensure there was no further recurrence of his problems.

His Tony Martin-trained stablemate Flemenstar, a Ryanair or Champion Chase candidate, is due to return next month. He has not run since winning the Fortria Chase at Navan in November 2013.

One horse who sadly won’t be returning to the track is 2013 World Hurdle winner Solwhit, who suffered a fatal injury during a schooling session.

Charity status granted The Irish Injured Jockeys Fund has been registered as a charity and given a board, led by the jockeys it supports.

This organisation has for years been the unofficial and largely unrecognised fundraising body for the Turf Club’s four racing charities. Chaired by Ruby Walsh, it has signed up to become the official promotional body for the Jockeys Emergency Fund, Drogheda Memorial Fund, Jockeys Accident Fund and the Qualified Riders Accident Fund.

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Gordon deserving of his good’un Leeds-based owner’s colours to the fore on Grade 1 winner Bonito Du Berlais APRH

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im Gordon may be about to prove the old saying ‘Good things come to he who waits’.

More than 60 years after Gordon’s first visit to a racecourse – Ripon – and some 25 years after the Leeds-based owner first registered his ‘red with black triple diamond and sleeves’ silks, he has finally got himself a top-class horse, the recent Auteuil Grade 1 winner Bonito Du Berlais.

Gordon made his money importing doors and furniture and in 1981 founded Leeds Plywood and Doors, where he remains the Managing Director at the age of 71. He has loved racing virtually all his life but it was not until the late 1980s that he could afford to get involved in ownership.

“I soon came to

realise that prizemoney in France was four times what it is here in Britain” Andy Crook was a family friend and it was on his advice that Gordon had his first horse, Explosive Spirit, in training with George Moore. Since then he has maintained a small, single-figure string, mainly concentrated over jumps, and clocked up just over 50 winners.

His current trainers are Crook, Martin Todhunter, James Ewart and Simon West over the sticks, and Nigel Tinkler on the Flat.

High points have been a tilt at the 1996 Grand National with Over The Stream – when Gordon was interviewed live on BBC television during the build-up – and a Cheltenham Festival start in 2011 with Aikman.

His involvement in French racing began by accident, as Gordon explained, saying: “Barry Simpson, Robert Ogden’s Racing Manager, tipped me off about a nice French horse called Jondali, so I bought him. He was ready to go into training with Martin Todhunter only for us to discover a problem with his pedigree, which meant that he was ineligible to race in either Britain or Ireland.

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Jim Gordon (inset) has a classy horse on his hands in Bonito Du Berlais

quite well [Jondali won over €110,000 in prizemoney and premiums and finished third in the 2002 renewal of the Prix du President de la Republique – the French Grand National]. I soon came to realise that prize-money in France was four times what it is here in Britain!”

Gordon has had a number of high-class French horses since then, including Janville, who was favourite for the 2004 President de la Republique only to get hampered and fall on the final circuit.

Aside from Bonito Du Berlais, he also has an exciting prospect on these shores in the Westtrained Maximiser, who routed his rivals on his hurdling debut at Carlisle on October 23.

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France means racing fans on this side of the Channel are unlikely to be seeing Bonito Du Berlais any time soon. Trainer Arnaud ChailleChaille has said that the Trempolino gelding will stay over the smaller obstacles before going chasing in the autumn.

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Leon Phillips has become the first British national to commence his training career at La Zarzuela in Madrid. And, with prize-money at the track continuing to rise and 350 of its 800 boxes standing empty, the course executive is keen for others to follow his lead.

Brought up in Redcar, Phillips knew from a young age that he wanted to make his living in racing, inspired by his grandfather, the jockey-turned-horse transporter Jimmy Patterson. So, without telling his parents, instead of attending his final day at school at the age of 16, he sneaked off to Redcar races and, stowing away in his grandad’s horsebox, got a lift down to Newmarket, where he found himself a job working for Mark Tompkins.

Four years later he had a triumphant first ride as an amateur aboard Sky Dome for Tompkins at Newmarket. But his riding career never took off and, after spells with Karl Burke and John Matthias, he set up a breaking and pre-training yard prior to graduating into the breeding and sales preparation business.

His bloodstock interests are now based at Brickfield Stud on Newmarket’s Exning Road.

But he had always wanted to train and, realising starting up in Britain would be too expensive, he took the plunge in Madrid while

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continuing his breeding operation at home.

“I looked at lots of different options,” 35year-old Phillips admitted. “But as soon as I went racing in Madrid I fell in love with the place. The stands were packed and there was an electric atmosphere – every day there is like a Royal Ascot day.

“In order to get my licence I had to have three separate meetings with the stewards, produce numerous references, including from vets I had worked with, and pass an exam in

Improvements on and off the track

At last some good news for the Italian racing industry. Not only has the European Pattern Race Committee (EPRC) held back on its threat of withdrawing Group status for Italian races owing to slow payment of prizemoney, but the Classic crop of 2014 has thrown up a couple of colts in Priore Philip and Dylan Mouth who may be able to make an impact on a wider stage next season.

The payment of prize-money has been greatly accelerated over the past year or so, with all prizes having been paid within 60 days of the last day of the month in which any given race took place.

Of course, although the preservation of Pattern status is highly significant, it does not mean that Italy is out of the woods yet.

Hardly surprisingly, given the near two-year delay in payment of some prizes won in 2012, foreign participation in the nation’s top races fell out of fashion.

Confidence in getting paid on time seems to have returned to a few French and German trainers, hence the 2014 autumn highlights enjoyed a sprinkling of overseas

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Leon Phillips (right) enjoys a winner

Spanish. My Spanish was terrible when I first arrived, but I got some help with translation in the exam and the local trainers have been extremely helpful so I can get by now.

“When I first arrived I thought that it would be easy but racing in Spain is as competitive as in England and it has been a big learning curve for me. I have negotiated a good deal with a horse transporter so that I can travel horses for just €500 a head, but even then I wouldn’t have been able to get going but for the support of a fantastic Lincolnshire-based owner, Ian Hatton, who operates under the Howdale Bloodstock banner.

“Training facilities are excellent – everyone gets their own beautifully looked-after courtyard-style yard and the training tracks are also well run. You have the option of going on turf or either an outside track all-weather, which is like Lingfield, or an inside track which is deeper and similar to Southwell.”

Phillips’s first-season statistics have been just one victory from 24 runners, with the cheaply-bought ex-Chris Dwyer mare, Sarah Berry, scoring at San Sebastian in June. But, as he admits, he is just learning the ropes and he has particularly high hopes of a Showcasing juvenile filly who has shown plenty of dash at home and is almost ready to make her debut.

contestants. However, with the duration and expense of the return journey more extreme, British and Irish trainers have yet to be wooed back, which means that the showpiece events may fail to attract horses of sufficient quality to surpass the average race ratings necessary to justify Pattern or Listed status.

Last January the EPRC placed more than 20% of Italy’s 84 Group and Listed races on the ‘at risk of downgrading’ register and it is hard to see how most of these can be saved.

One race that may be spared the chop is the solitary Group 1 event on the list, the Premio Vittorio di Capua, owing to the excellence of its 2014 winner Priore Philip.

A remarkable colt who began life in claiming company, Priore Philip is by far the best offspring of the little-known stallion Dane Friendly.

Defeat on his claiming debut last June was followed by six consecutive juvenile wins, culminating in victory in the nation’s top two-year-old contest, the Gran Criterium. Priore Philip’s three-year-old

campaign has been equally spectacular, his only defeat coming when he pulled too hard and suffered a half-length reverse in the Premio Parioli (2,000 Guineas).

His cosy Vittorio di Capua triumph was lent substance by the presence of two useful German raiders, Calyxa and Magic Artist, in third and fourth. It was followed five weeks later by an even better effort when, stepped up to a mile and a quarter for the first time, he ran away with the Premio Roma to land his owner, Luciano Monaldi, a second victory in this Group 1 event over a quarter of a century after Welsh Guide gave him his first.

Priore Philip is, like both the Oaks and Derby winners, Final Score and Dylan Mouth, in the care of the champion trainer Stefano Botti.

Final Score has now been sold to Japan as a broodmare but Dylan Mouth, who supplemented his Classic victory with an easy Group 1 success in Milan on October 19, will, like Priore Philip, still be around next term, when both are set for international campaigns.

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Boos for Bayern at Santa Anita

“The stewards agreed that the incident happened too early to affect Shared Belief’s finishing position”

The three stewards at Santa Anita – Scott Chaney, Kim Sawyer and Tom Ward, appointed by the California Horse Racing Board – did not alter the finishing order after a lengthy review. In an unprecedented press conference the following day, Chaney cited two aspects of a California racing rule regarding whether interference occurred, and whether “it cost the horse interfered with the opportunity for a better placing at a specific point in the race.”

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he gasps gave way to cheers and eventually a chorus of boos. The result of the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic at Santa Anita on November 1 packed more drama into two minutes of racing, and a sixminute stewards’ enquiry, than any other horserace in the United States this year.

Bayern, the three-year-old who missed the Kentucky Derby in May because of insufficient qualifying points, led throughout the Classic, winning in controversial style. As the gates opened in the nation’s richest race, Bayern drifted to the inside and dramatically collided with unbeaten race favourite Shared Belief.

Bayern rolled along in front, unbothered, and held off a sustained threat from the Jamie Osborne-trained Toast Of New York to win by a nose. Kentucky Derby hero California Chrome was beaten a neck in third. Shared Belief was fourth, three and three-quarter lengths behind Bayern, followed by Belmont Stakes winner Tonalist and Robert B Lewis Stakes victor Candy Boy. The first six home in the field of 14 were three-year-olds.

What should have been celebrated as an epic finish was instead overshadowed by the subsequent enquiry into bumping between Bayern and Shared Belief.

Bayern and Martin Garcia after their dramatic victory in the Breeders’ Cup Classic

that Chaney said they voted unanimously not to change the order “because it didn’t happen at a point that it was reasonable to speculate that they didn’t finish in a position where they would be reasonably expected to have finished.”

Their decision set off widespread debate about the interpretation of interference, a debate that, to some extent, will last until early January when Horse of the Year ballots are due.

There will be support for Bayern, who won the Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park and Pennsylvania Derby at Parx Racing. Also California Chrome, who additionally won the Santa Anita Derby and Preakness Stakes, and Shared Belief, who beat older horses in the Pacific Classic and Awesome Again Stakes before losing at Santa Anita for the first time in his career.

Another horse sure to receive votes is the former David Lanigan-trained Main Sequence, second to Camelot in the 2012 English Derby. Transferred to Graham Motion in Maryland last winter, Main Sequence has now won all four races in 2014, culminating

with a victory in the Breeders’ Cup Turf, defeating Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe second Flintshire.

Main Sequence was gelded before being sent to the United States, and was transferred at the recommendation of Lanigan, who suggested an American training set-up would help to settle a horse who was winless in six starts in Britain last year.

Main Sequence’s victory was part of a fairytale afternoon for the Niarchos family, who as owners won the Breeders’ Cup Mile for a record fifth time with Karakontie, trained in France by Jonathan Pease.

Karakontie was the only winner for Europe, with the well-fancied Sir Michael Stoute-trained duo Dank and Telescope finishing fourth in the Filly & Mare Turf and Turf respectively.

The 2014 Breeders’ Cup was the third consecutive year it had been held at Santa Anita, where it will return in 2016. The twoday event drew 98,319 racegoers, a record for Santa Anita when it has been held over the course of two days. Keeneland will host the 2015 event, followed by Del Mar in 2017.

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AROUND THE GLOBE

AUST R A L I A

by Stephen Howell

A Melbourne Cup that had it all line 70 lengths behind winner Protectionist. He collapsed and died from a heart attack in his tie-up stall.

While this tragedy was unfolding, seventhplaced Araldo, locally trained since mid-2013

by Michael Moroney but bought from Germany, was being treated for a severe leg injury, the result of kicking out when spooked by a flag waved as he returned to the mounting yard. He was put down hours later.

Racing authorities, who at times overreact to media scrutiny, were dragged into the flurry of ‘news worthiness’ in explanations aimed at dampening criticism, but by week’s end the racing and its associated social and economic highlights had regained centre stage.

In a society so different to that of years long gone, when the horse ruled and news was slowly disseminated, controversy will continue.

However, modifications will be minor and the carnival, with its week-long Flemington fling and finale, will continue as an iconic Australian sporting event that also is of interest in the northern hemisphere.

This was the first time a northern hemisphere-trained horse had won all three majors: Admire Rakti landed the Caulfield

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Melbourne’s spring carnival stories cover the extreme range from the peak of Everest to the trough of the Mariana Trench, and rouse passions of great intensity. That is not unexpected because racing is a microcosm of life itself; and it is to be expected because of the focus on the sport/industry at its calendar high point. The carnival runs over five weeks in October-November and this year lived up to the show that has been put on for Australia for a century and a half.

Unfortunately, a few minutes after the headline race, the Emirates Melbourne Cup at Flemington, the heart-breaking death of two high-profile runners threatened to overshadow the racing and engulf the publicity machine.

Admire Rakti impressed so much with his Caulfield Cup win that he started favourite in the Melbourne Cup, but he weakened badly before the turn into the straight and cantered over the

Number one – and the jockey’s not bad either. Protectionist and Ryan Moore after their Cup win

Cup, Adelaide the Cox Plate, and Protectionist the big one. German owner-breeder Christoph Berglar sold a half-share to Australian syndicator Australian Bloodstock months before the Cup, and immediately after it the local group took up its option on full ownership, Berglar generously leaving the $175,000 gold cup, as well as the horse, with the Australian Bloodstock team.

Trainer Kris Lees will prepare Protectionist for the Australian autumn and, most likely, for next spring’s Melbourne Cup, although there

“In a society so

different to that of years long gone, controversy will continue” remain thoughts that he is up to a ‘reverse invasion’ north of the equator.

British readers will take pleasure in Ryan Moore’s two wins and from evergreen Red Cadeaux’s marvellous fourth Cup run, as a southern-hemisphere nine-year-old.

The old boy was taken to hearts by Aussies last year, when he followed his 2011 second (to Dunaden by a pixel in a much-displayed photograph) with another second last year after an eighth in 2012. To run second again cemented Red Cadeaux’s position as a fan favourite, underlined Newmarket trainer Ed Dunlop’s reputation as a good bloke and sportsman, and had all hoping that there’s another visit in the stayer.

Moore’s rating as one of the world’s best riders had been questioned in Australia, where races are run and ridden so differently from those in Britain, after fifth-placed Cup efforts on Mount Athos (2012) and Dandino (last year).

But his brilliantly tough and smooth last-tofirst circling of the Cox Plate field on the saucer-tight Moonee Valley track with Adelaide, disadvantaged as a four-year-old in the southern hemisphere, saw many promote Moore from lost cause to world’s best. And after smothering Protectionist away in the Cup pack, his balanced urging and smooth through-thefield route silenced all doubters.

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Can Newbury emerge FROM THE SHADOWS? It has been a difficult few years for Newbury racecourse, with outdated facilities, poor prize-money and indifferent management seeing the venue fall from grace, yet changes are underway and Chairman Dominic Burke believes the track “has got its mojo back” Words Alan Lee • Photos George Selwyn

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D

ominic Burke stood at the panoramic window of his ninth-floor office in the City of London and jabbed a finger – part identification, part accusation – at the nearby high-rises housing his rivals in the insurance sector. Soon, his combative nature emerged again as he turned to his out-of-hours role in what many would consider the tortured post of Newbury racecourse Chairman.

Burke has not achieved his position in the city, as CEO of JLT, by being negative or bashful. In a 2011 interview with a Sunday newspaper, he said: “I have always liked leading. It is the best place to be – in front.”

Now, he is directing this philosophy to his role with the racecourse that has alienated much of its constituency while staggering from one crisis to another in recent years.

“By the start of 2018, we will be in a position to launch a Newbury that aspires to be the York of the south,” he said boldly. “We need to be leaders and our intention is to be there. Anyone who underestimates our resolve does so at their own cost. Newbury has got its mojo back.”

These are tub-thumping sentiments from a man who might have been created for such a role. Implicitly, however, they acknowledged the time and effort required to restore lustre to a tarnished – some would say neglected – jewel of British racing.

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When I began attending Newbury, 35 years ago, the instant impression was of quality – a well-heeled crowd, civilised facilities and topclass racing on a peerlessly fair track. It was all taken for granted. That, perhaps, was the root of its problems.

Tradition counts for far less in racing these days. Newbury wallowed in it far too long, failing to recognise that its race programme was

“By 2018 we will be

in a position to launch a Newbury that aspires to be the York of the south” uneven, its prize-money inadequate, its amenities dated and its attitude complacent.

Trainers and owners, instinctively supportive of such a venue, began to express open resentment of Newbury’s failure to keep up with the enterprise of apparent inferiors, such as Taunton and Ludlow. Crowds dwindled,

drifting away from a place that seemed to believe spectator loyalty was an entitlement, not a prize.

When recognition dawned, piecemeal initiatives were easily lampooned. Both a misguided dress code, clumsily imposed at the Hennessy meeting last year, and a risible name change to ‘The Racecourse, Newbury’, have since been abandoned. Burke said: “I take some responsibility. The marketing experts and power-point presentations swayed us on the name, but confusion reigned. The board was not even aware of the dress code but we’ve had the courage to address both. Owning up to a mistake is nothing to be embarrassed about.”

Perhaps, though, it is significant that the reversion to ‘Newbury Racecourse’ was directed by a new management team. Burke dismantled the previous structure, in which Stephen Higgins and Sarah Hordern were joint Managing Directors. Last December, Julian Thick, previously of Kempton Park and Aintree, was appointed Chief Executive.

Thick is a business strategist who prefers to achieve quietly, which may not have been an advantage in his previous job in charge of the Grand National but suits his present role admirably. He is also an arch diplomat. Asked if he was surprised by the scale of the challenges at Newbury, he said carefully: “I’m more excited THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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Newbury racecourse, home of the Hennessy Gold Cup, is undergoing massive regeneration according to Chairman Dominic Burke (right)

about the opportunity than I was. A lot can be improved.”

In pursuit of this aim, he has assembled hand-picked lieutenants. The latest is Andy Clifton, lured back from the Hong Kong Jockey Club to take up the role he formerly conducted for Cheltenham in communications, an area sorely lacking in Newbury’s recent history.

Clifton illustrates his own agenda with a personal anecdote. “I went to Hennessy day two years ago, when Bobs Worth won. It was wet and the car parks were at their worst. I must have heard a dozen irritated jokes about needing wellies just to get out of the car. It takes a while to get those things out of people’s minds. One bad experience can form the basis of your view for two or three years.

“I hadn’t been back to Newbury for 18 months but when I drove in during September, I really got an impression of progress. For years the place felt tired, like it needed a kick up the backside. Now, you have penthouse apartments framing the course, just like in Hong Kong.”

Ah, the housing development, another source of apprehension and indignation for Newbury’s patrons. As all concerned freely admit, it is tough converting the disaffected back to the charms of a racecourse while it is a building site, let alone while long-held car park spaces are being eaten up by the development.

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It is generally accepted, now, that Newbury would be a busted flush without the housing deal. “It would be in terminal decline,” Burke said succinctly. But the need to do it bred conspiracy theories suggesting that the whole place would soon be sold off – a fate that may have been inevitable if the course had fallen into predatory hands during an attempted takeover by the Guinness Peat Group (GPG), a saga still unresolved when Burke was approached to take the chair in 2010.

Burke is not a man who is easily intimidated.

He was born in Liverpool and raised to support the Reds of Anfield, not from afar but up close.

He was present both at the Heysel stadium tragedy of 1985 and

the Hillsborough disaster four years later. Before starting his climb up the business ladder, his racing interests had begun while he studied at York University and he relished the chance to take a more active role, yet he could scarcely have had a more discouraging introduction than the day, early in 2011, when two horses died after being electrocuted in the paddock.

“It was Christopher Spence’s final day as Chairman and I was in the royal box for lunch,” he recalled. “My wife saw a commotion on TV and I went out to investigate. I was horrified. It was a tragedy for the horses and connections but I think we acted correctly throughout.”

This unforeseeable event, though, was one more setback for an increasingly accidentprone racecourse. “It’s fair to say Newbury had lost its way,” Burke conceded. “We had got stuck around the development and weren’t getting to a conclusion, so we were draining money. I suppose I was brought in to try and bring some clarity.”

He began this process by concluding a partnership with David Wilson Homes. “It’s working well,” he said. “Of course, there are operational difficulties as they are trying to build out and we’re trying to run a racecourse, but it meant we had certainty.

We could start to plan.”

Especially after the GPG threat was resolved by a share buyback, facilitated by the financier and

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NEWBURY RACECOURSE >> Newbury director Erik Penser. “We tried to

raise the capital but there were no takers so Erik, fantastic guy that he is, lent us the money,” Burke explained.

The critical nature of Penser’s intervention is now clear. Other, less benevolent suitors, were on the case. “The Reuben brothers were looking to acquire that 30% stake,” Burke said. If the owners of Arena Racing Company had bought into Newbury, what would its future have been? “We had planning permission for an allweather track,” Burke went on, answering the unspoken question. “I am happy to say we have allowed that to lapse – and it won’t be back on the agenda any time soon.”

Though Penser owns 40% of the shares, Newbury is proudly independent – an asset, in Burke’s opinion. “Our racing is dominated by two groups, so strong independent courses are very important,” he said. “There are really positive signs at Newbury now – you only have to go there to see that. I was nervous about the housing development. When you sell your back yard, that’s natural. But it’s chic, modern and atmospheric. It sits well.

“Now we are addressing other concerns. I hear the stories that Newbury was the favourite track of so many people but they fell out of love with it. I can understand that. We didn’t do a good enough job. Newbury got stuck in time.

“The Reuben brothers wanted to acquire a stake and install an all-weather track – that’s off the agenda”

“Some of our racedays are not good enough and the customer experience has not been good enough, but we have acknowledged all that and begun to address it. Crowds are up 9% this year – and that’s before we have really started.”

Thick might dispute that, of course, for his first year has been relentless. “Those who come to the Hennessy will see significant progress,” he said. “The first apartment block overlooking the course is complete and 10% of the properties are occupied. The rest will fill over the coming six years. Our £1 million stables refurbishment is finished and we’ve broken ground on a 36-bed stable hostel. The road network around the site is progressing and work has started on the new bridge over the railway, which will create a new main entrance.”

The bridge project is key to transforming image and perception. Mention Newbury to most people who go racing and the most common reactions are tales of appalling traffic, along with a vaguely unsatisfactory impression

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Chief Executive Julian Thick (above left) and Head of Communications Andy Clifton (above right) are tasked with ensuring that Newbury regains its former popularity

at the entrances – altogether, a bad start to a leisure day.

Thick is acutely aware of all this. “The bridge is three months in and due to be completed by the end of next summer,” he said. “Effectively, it will split the traffic. In the past, people have battled with traffic jams and then driven into tired car parks down a back alley and entered through ancient turnstiles. All that will be gone.

You will sweep in over the railway, looking straight into the racecourse, the car parks will be landscaped and the entrances modern.

“The arrival experience is important to everyone and we recognise that. We have a wonderful track but we now need a standard of facilities and service that will benchmark us alongside anyone in racing. We accept that Newbury had lost its way but we are reinvesting in the business. Those people concerned about losing the old Newbury are going to get a much better Newbury back.”

A healthy proportion of that investment is going towards a new owners and trainers’ facility. “We’re not satisfied with what we offer,” Burke admitted. “We need to be market leaders and the proposition we’ve got will put us at the very forefront. I don’t like playing catch-up at anything.”

Newbury has exceptional diversity among its directors and is making full use of it. Madeleine Lloyd-Webber and Harry Herbert were heavily involved in the planning of the new owners’ and trainers’ building. “Madeleine brings her theatre experience and Harry his marketing and entrepreneurial personality,” Burke said. “A lot of thought has gone into it.”

Thick explained: “We will create a dedicated O&T Club, with its own entrance and VIP drop-off area. They will walk into a hotel lobby-

style reception, then sweep left into a large bar.

It will all be central to the action, next to the pre-parade ring, and should make a big difference. We get decent feedback from owners and trainers but we know we can get better.”

The same applies to Newbury’s race programme, although it has received a significant boost with a five-year sponsorship of the Lockinge meeting by Al Shaqab Racing.

Thick admitted: “Prize-money is not what we’d like it to be. We’ve increased our racecourse contribution by 12% this year and that’s a big move forwards. But we are committed to growing it further and we’ll put in more as the business can afford to do so.

“We have some great jumps fixtures and our Flat season starts well. But in the middle of the year, there is a lull. We’re building our Thursday evenings and I think we can make something of that, but we also feel there is an opportunity to get the Hungerford upgraded to Group 1.”

The biggest opportunity, though, surely lies with the Hennessy meeting, a guaranteed success on the big day but echoingly empty on the Thursday and Friday. “The first two days under-perform, that’s obvious,” Thick said.

“First we need to make the Friday good enough to get its Channel 4 slot back, then start work on the Thursday. It is an exciting challenge.”

Burke is typically bullish. “By 2018, the infrastructure and setting will be complete, the finance from the housing will be there and we’ll be in a position to power ahead with the race programme. Maybe we can create some new races. We’re going on the front foot.”

He added: “It’s a competitive world and we are going to compete for horses and prizemoney and crowds. We’re going to be a force to be reckoned with.”

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Onwards & UPLANDS Warren Greatrex’s go-it-alone gamble has started to pay off big time as the up-and-coming trainer now has 70 horses and ambitions to post a top-ten finish

By Tim Richards • Photos George Selwyn

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umour has it that you skipped rugby at school to watch Desert Orchid’s 1989 Gold Cup. What initially fired that interest in racing?

My Dad is a farmer on Dartmoor and we always had point-to-pointers. From a very early age I was always helping him on the farm and messing around with the horses.

That’s what initially got me hooked. I did a bit of pony clubbing and hunting on Dartmoor, which was a great place to grow up with loads of freedom.

After taking my A-levels I was thinking about university and trying to decide which way I should go. I managed to persuade my parents that a racing stable was best. I wrote ten letters to various trainers, got nine replies in three days and

David Nicholson’s was the first. I went to see him and he gave me a job on the spot.

You shared a room with Richard Johnson at David Nicholson’s. What did you learn during those early days with ‘The Duke’ and were your aspirations to follow the same route as your roommate?

We had a brilliant team of youngsters there – Richard Johnson, Robert Thornton, Gerry Hogan, now a successful bloodstock agent, and Joe Tizzard. The Duke was a stickler for good manners and how to behave. If you start with the best you learn the right way.

He was the same with everybody, quite hard on us but very fair. It didn’t matter whether it was me or Richard Dunwoody, if The

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“Our string is now

up to 70. I couldn’t have imagined it would have gone so well so quickly” >> Duke felt you weren’t pulling your weight he’d

Did the fact that you failed to make it as a jockey mean you had to work a lot harder when starting out as a trainer?

When I finished riding I started as head lad to Bryan Smart when he was in Lambourn. I don’t think the fact that I didn’t make it as a jockey forced me to work harder; it’s all about wanting to be the best. That’s what spurs me on. Failure is a ‘no-no’ in my mind.

After assisting Oliver Sherwood you became salaried trainer at Malcolm Denmark’s Weathercock House in Lambourn, following Carl Llewellyn.

How difficult a decision was it to leave and set up on your own at Uplands stables?

I did three seasons at Weathercock House and I felt things weren’t going the way I wanted them to go and therefore a decision had to be made. I knew it was a risk, having a young family and leaving a salaried job with 40 horses. I started at Uplands in 2011 virtually from scratch with only ten horses, but I believed in myself and had some great backing from the owners I had. On reflection, it’s probably the best decision I’ve ever made.

What were the biggest challenges you faced in setting up on your own?

My main concern was people thinking I was just a one trick pony and could train for only one person. In our first season I was mucking out every day, working full weekends and riding out because I couldn’t afford to pay

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I never really thought I’d take the same route as Richard Johnson. I rode for a bit and wasn’t very good; I didn’t have the killer instinct like Richard, who from the age of 16 wasn’t fussed about anything except riding. I was different; I liked being with the horses rather than race-riding. I had a fair few rides and my first winner was for Josh Gifford, but I didn’t have many more. It was a good experience and I learnt a lot, but training was what I wanted to do.

Tessa Greatrex “has a great eye for a horse” according to her trainer husband

enough staff. I was very fortunate to have my head lad, Graham Baines, who was with me from the start. He worked his socks off.

Uplands had been empty for three years and we completely did the place up ourselves. Having done the job on our own on a very small budget makes it all the more rewarding. Luckily, we had a bit of success early on, which helped. I had to take a chance buying horses I didn’t have owners for. But I’m lucky that my wife Tessa is a very good bloodstock agent and if we both like a horse we find we’re more likely to be able to sell it on. Our string is now up to 70 and I get a great buzz from having young horses with bright futures. I couldn’t have imagined it would have gone so well so quickly.

Your wife, Tessa, works for Highflyer Bloodstock. How involved is she in your training business?

We have just had another baby, Nancy, our third, so Tess is very much being a mum at the moment. But before that she rode out every day and she does a bit of work in the office. She has a wealth of experience, having worked in America and for Nicky Henderson. To get on as a trainer you need a good woman next to you and Tess keeps me on the straight and narrow.

You have enjoyed tremendous success in bumpers, particularly with

first-time-out runners. Presumably, Tessa plays a big part in securing the right horses for the job…

Tess has a great eye for a horse and is brilliant on the buying side. You can’t do this job unless you’ve got the ammunition and that means the right engine in the right horse.

And Tess obviously has a big influence on that side of the operation. She does all the buying with me and she also buys for other trainers, like Oliver Sherwood, Charlie Longsdon and Ben Pauling. It’s no coincidence that they are all doing well. I have a good team of people riding out here and the method seems to be working; it’s about patience and giving horses time.

What’s the secret to winning these races and are you concerned that you will be known as a specialist bumper trainer?

There’s no real secret. I try to prepare them for their first day at the races so that when they get there it is not a big shock to the system. They will be used to a lot of horses around them, will have done a lot of cantering on grass and some will have gone to a racecourse if I think the outing would benefit them. And I take my time with them.

But there’s no magic formula.

My biggest problem with training bumper horses is the lack of prize-money. Most of the time they are running for about £1,500, but,

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WA R R E N G R E AT R E X >> for me, the great thing is that they have a future in front of them. I think my stats suggest that I can win with any type, not just bumpers.

You must be thrilled with how the season is going. Is it realistic to think that you can break into the top-ten trainers’ list this term?

It’s a possibility. You just need a couple of horses that can compete on the big days. It’s all about prize-money and if I can produce a couple of Saturday winners and compete in the big races then I have a chance. I have a young string and some very promising novice hurdlers. It would be a huge achievement if we could finish in the top ten.

It might be a season too soon but I’d be chuffed to bits if we could make it this time.

Cole Harden was an impressive winner of the West Yorkshire Hurdle at Wetherby, a first Grade 2 success for the stable. What are the plans for him and how far can he go?

He will head to Newbury for the Long Distance Hurdle on Hennessy day. He’s come out of Wetherby extremely well and has gone up 8lb to a mark of 158, so he is very close to being competitive in these Grade 1 races.

He is still only a five-year-old and I think there’s more improvement. He’s got to keep progressing but I hope he’d be up to competing in the World Hurdle at the Festival. Eventually he should go over fences; he’s not over big, but he’s very strong and

Warren Greatrex says his stats suggest he can win with any type of horse

jumps extremely well. He has such a big heart and wants to win. You can’t buy that.

You are the proud father of five children. Do any of them play a part in the yard?

The three girls are too young. They are four, two and a few weeks old. My two boys are 16-year-old twins. When they are at home they ride out a lot. Tom has gone as an amateur to David Pipe and Ed is apprenticed

to Andrew Balding. I wanted to send them away to learn from the best. I think they’ll learn a lot better being away from home.

Are there any trainers you particularly admire and would like to emulate?

Alan King was assistant when I was at David Nicholson’s and he’s always great to talk to and we are good friends. I was with Oliver Sherwood for nine years and I learnt a lot from him, not least how to behave. He is possibly the

Cole Harden, a contender for the top staying hurdle races this season, is led back to the stable by head lad Graham Baines

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WA R R E N G R E AT R E X >> nicest man you’ll ever meet. I am chuffed to bits

that he’s doing well and I hope I am doing him proud. Vincent O’Brien is the man we all dream of emulating. He was incredible both on the Flat and over jumps. If you can ever get anywhere near any of his records you’d be doing bloody well.

After winning at Worcester in October with Miss Sophierose, part-owned by QPR footballer Charlie Austin, you said it is your policy to encourage young owners. How do you go about this?

It helps having winners for higher-profile people like Charlie, who are roughly my age, 39. They are on twitter and often have a website, so they are broadcasting the word, which is always helpful. Charlie scored two goals for QPR on the Monday and two days later was saying that winning with Miss Sophierose was the best thing that ever happened to him! Paul Fisher, a former footballer, is in the horse with Charlie and is currently setting up a racing club.

The older owner/breeders are fantastic, but you do need to keep bringing in new blood, and importantly, people that are going to stick around.

You’ve got to give them a good time and ensure they enjoy the experience.

If you were in charge of the sport, what would you do to encourage more people into getting involved in ownership?

Prize-money is not good enough. We have the best racing in the world and probably the worst prize-money. That’s because the bookmakers generally run racing and have such a strong

‘He just likes to get the job done’ You employ a young and highly promising jockey in Gavin Sheehan.

How did you come together and what are his biggest assets?

During the summer of 2013 I was getting more horses and it was becoming tiresome trying to find jockeys. I like a good team ethic and wanted someone who could ride our horses on a regular basis. I’d been watching Gavin for a season and when I heard he was on the move from Charlie Mann’s I was on the phone. He rides well from the front and has a very good clock in his head; he’s an excellent schooling jockey and gets his mounts jumping well. Tactically for a young jockey of 22, he has no fear and is not worried about what people think or say.

He just likes to get the job done.

What do you see as your role in continuing to help him and ensure that he stays on course for the top?

He needs to keep his feet on the ground. I was lucky enough to be at Nicholson’s when Richard Johnson and Robert Thornton were starting off, and Adrian Maguire was there as well.

I could see then that The Duke would not let them get above themselves and he kept them working. In the end the youngsters can only help themselves if they really want it, and Gavin definitely does.

In Gavin’s case, he is in here most mornings, knows all the horses inside out and takes criticism very well. If he makes a mistake he rarely repeats it. That’s a big factor in learning. It’s the same in any sport; when you’re young and on an upward curve everyone wants a piece of you. When you’re in the limelight it’s easy to stray and go down the wrong road. It’s my job not to just put Gavin on a horse; it’s the in-between bits, the days when he’s feeling down or over-excited that I’ve got to make it level for him. We have a good relationship and he must never feel he can’t come and talk to me.

Gavin Sheehan has played a big part in the Greatrex success story

influence. I worked in France for a bit and the prize-money there is exceptional as a result of their Tote pool betting system. I have had people looking into the possibilities of owning horses and been put off by the paltry prize-money. You always hope the bumper horses are the stars of the future, but when owners see they are running for £1,500, which barely covers the cost of getting to the races, it’s not very encouraging.

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PROFESSIONAL

My relaxation is… time with the family

Best bet I’ve ever had…

Miinnehoma to win the 1994 Grand National

I am annoyed by… whinging Four dinner party guests… Vincent O’Brien, Kirsten Dunst, Lance Armstrong and my wife Tess

My racing hero is… Vincent O’Brien I handle losing by… sulking

My guiltiest pleasure is… chocolate

A horse to watch out for…

King’s Tempest

Favourite place I’ve visited…

Killarney racecourse

My ambition is… to be the best I can be

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You give the impression of being a well-organised person. Are you, and to what degree?

I never stop thinking about improvements we can make. The little things can make a big difference. I probably drive my secretary mad because I am very rarely in the office. In my opinion, my biggest asset is being around the horses so I do a lot of work on the mobile. I am planning all the time and like having things to aim at.

If there is one horse you’d like to take to the Cheltenham Festival, which is it and why?

Paint The Clouds, who has won nine races for us and is unbeaten in five over fences. He had a horrendous tendon injury and I was told he would never run again; he came back to run at Cheltenham 2012 but ended up fracturing a pelvis. I then sent him hunter chasing and his aim will be the Foxhunter. He is the first horse we bought and is quite brilliant to deal with.

He always works hard and when he goes out on the track he gives it everything, a real lifelover. If he were to win at the Cheltenham Festival, I can tell you now, it will be very emotional!

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NELSON BUNKER HUNT

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Nelson Bunker Hunt shares a hug with actress Eva Gabor after his Exceller wins the 1978 Hollywood Invitational, and below, at Keeneland with wife Caroline and Breeders’ Cup founder John Gaines

Silver dream

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To the wider world, Nelson Bunker Hunt was the man who had it all but lost it all when he failed to corner the global market in silver, but to our industry he was an owner and breeder of immense influence for two decades Words Tony Morris • Photos Keeneland and George Selwyn

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he Times obituary of Nelson Bunker Hunt, who died at the age of 88 on October 21, referred to him as “one of the most predatory capitalists of modern times.” Outside of the world of racing and breeding, he will inevitably be remembered as the man who had it all and lost it all, his audacious plan to corner the international silver market becoming scuppered dramatically in March 1980, when $10 billion was suddenly wiped off the value of his holdings.

Within our little world he will be remembered rather as an owner and breeder of immense importance and influence over a 20-year period that extended some way beyond the silver catastrophe.

Hunt first came to my notice in 1966, when his homebred filly Gazala proved herself one of the best juveniles in France, even beating the season’s champion colt Roi Dagobert by a length in the Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte. The fellow was a mighty force in the oil industry, I learnt, and was

thought by some to be the wealthiest man in the world. He had been buying up broodmares in a number of countries with a view to playing a major role in the thoroughbred industry.

Gazala went on to land the French fillies’ Classic double in 1967, when another homebred, Amerigo Lady, notched a victory in the Hollywood Oaks. But it was at that year’s December Sales in Newmarket that Hunt first signalled his intention to figure significantly at the top level of the thoroughbred market. Acting through his French-based agent Godolphin Darley, he bid up to 135,000gns for the Observer Gold Cup winner Vaguely Noble. That was not enough to secure the colt, who was knocked down to American agent Albert Yank for 136,000gns, but within a few days we discovered that Hunt had entered into a 50-50 partnership in the colt with Yank’s clients, Robert and Wilma Franklyn.

The price, for a colt who held no Classic engagements, seemed wildly excessive.

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Vaguely Noble after victory in the 1968 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe; Palace Music, sire of Cigar, wins the 1984 Champion Stakes

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l’Arc de Triomphe to justify that outlay. But that is precisely what Vaguely Noble did, and after his retirement to stud in Kentucky he was largely instrumental in establishing Hunt as a major owner and breeder on two continents. In 1969, when another topquality juvenile colt turned up in the December Sales catalogue, it was unsurprising that Hunt was a player again.

Decies, the only rival to have given Nijinsky any kind of contest that season, was bought on the Texan’s behalf for 110,000gns. His only Classic engagement in 1970 was in the Irish 2,000 Guineas, and he won it by a shorthead under a typically forceful Piggott ride.

The first of Vaguely Noble’s stallion’s progeny to win a major stakes race was $145,000 yearling purchase Noble Decree in the 1972 Observer Gold Cup, but there was a far more important runner from that initial crop in the brilliant chesnut filly Dahlia, a Hunt homebred who would race for five seasons and notch triumphs in the best company that England, Ireland, France, Canada and the US could muster against her.

Here she is probably best remembered for her consecutive victories in the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes, performances which ensured that in 1973 and 1974 Vaguely Noble would reign as champion Anglo-Irish sire and Hunt would feature as leading owner here. Hunt was also leading breeder in 1974.

The crop bred by Hunt’s Bluegrass Farm in 1971 included French champion two-yearold Mississipian (Vaguely Noble – Gazala), and the best from the 1972 batch was Nobiliary, another by the same sire. That halfsister to Lyphard won the Prix Saint-Alary and the Washington International, but was

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distinguished more for her second place in Grundy’s Derby, which remains the best effort by a filly in that Classic since Fifinella’s victory in the substitute wartime event of 1916.

Dahlia’s last major triumph came as a sixyear-old in the Hollywood Invitational Handicap, and it ushered in a month of phenomenal success for Hunt’s light and dark green check colours. That race took place on May 31. On June 2, Empery, by Vaguely Noble out of Peruvian champion Pamplona,

“Hunt had the knack of selling and buying well at auction, Exceller being a prime example”

gave Lester Piggott his record seventh victory in the Derby. On June 6 the Prix du JockeyClub fell to Youth (Ack Ack – Gazala) and on the same Chantilly card the Group 3 Prix du Lys was won by $25,000 yearling purchase Exceller (Vaguely Noble – Too Bald), tuning up for his successful run in the Grand Prix de Paris three weeks later. Empery and Youth were both trained by Maurice Zilber, who had charge of Dahlia when she was based in Europe, while Exceller was in the care of Francois Mathet.

Also in that remarkable summer of 1976, Hunt became the first vendor of a sevenfigure yearling when he sold his homebred

son of Secretariat and Dahlia’s dam Charming Alibi for $1.5 million at Keeneland. The colt, later named Canadian Bound, never won a race. Hunt had the knack of selling and buying well at auction, Exceller being a prime example, as was Italian champion filly Carnauba, bought for only $20,000. Palace Music, who was to win a Champion Stakes and become the sire of Cigar, was a $130,000 acquisition as late as 1982, by which time the bloodstock market had risen much higher and Hunt’s financial resources had taken a dive.

Exceller, after further notable triumphs in the Prix Royal-Oak, Coronation Cup and Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud in Europe, became a multiple Grade 1 winner in the States as a five-year-old from Charlie Whittingham’s barn, dirt and turf coming alike to him. In the Jockey Club Gold Cup, then run at a mile and a half, he achieved the distinction of defeating two Triple Crown winners in Seattle Slew and Affirmed. His performances that year surely made him a contender for Best Older Horse, Best Grass Horse and Horse of the Year, but he wound up without a title.

The American Stud Book records Hunt as the sole breeder of Trillion, the tough 1974 daughter of Hail To Reason who competed valiantly at the top level for three seasons, won nine races and had 17 minor placings, including as runner-up in Alleged’s second Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe. In fact, Hunt bred the filly in partnership with his old friend Ed Stephenson, who had been responsible for introducing him to racing in the early 1950s, and she raced in Stephenson’s colours. From 32 lifetime starts, Trillion contrived to finish second 14 times, but her resolution was never in doubt; she notched her one top-level

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NELSON BUNKER HUNT

Triptych, jointly-bred by Hunt, was a phenomenal mare in a vintage era

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victory as a four-year-old in the Prix Ganay.

At five she was beaten into second place in all four of her races Stateside, but was nevertheless named champion distaff turf performer.

The best of Hunt’s products in 1975 was a colt he sold as a $200,000 Keeneland yearling. A grandson of Oaks heroine Homeward Bound, he became France’s champion juvenile as Super Concorde, successful in the Prix Morny and Grand Criterium. Destined to be known as “the other son of Bold Reasoning”, Super Concorde was never going to have the impact of Seattle Slew at stud, but as the sire of Big Shuffle he is regularly encountered in the pedigrees of notable German performers.

One of the last Vaguely Noble celebrities bred by Hunt was Estrapade, a filly conceived when the plan to corner the world’s silver market was ongoing, but her birth came four days after the collapse. Maurice Zilber trained her for Bruce McNall in France, where her best performance came in a victory over Palace Music in the Group 3 Coupe de Maisons-Laffitte. She later distinguished herself for Charlie Whittingham with five wins in Grade 1 company in the States, and was in the ownership of Allen Paulson when she famously filled third place behind Manila and Theatrical – and ahead of Dancing Brave – in the most competitive edition of the Breeders’ Cup Turf.

Dahlia’s 1981 and 1982 foals both won at the top level. Dahar (by Lyphard) took the Prix Lupin in France before notching a Grade 1 treble in California, and Rivlia (by Riverman), only a Group 3 scorer in Europe, THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

had a brace of Grade 1 wins in the US, setting a new course record in the Hollywood Invitational Handicap. But neither achieved the renown of Rivlia’s contemporary Triptych (Riverman – Trillion), bred by Hunt and Ed Stephenson, and sold for $2.15m at Keeneland, where agents for Alan Clore and Stavros Niarchos vied for her.

“By the time of

Triptych’s last Group 1 triumph, Hunt was an ex-owner and ex-breeder” In Clore’s colours – and latterly those of Peter Brant – Triptych proved a veritable star, collecting nine Group 1 victories, starting with the Prix Marcel Boussac at two. The following spring she beat the colts in the Irish 2,000 Guineas, and at four she added the Champion Stakes. Better still at five, she collected the Prix Ganay, the Coronation Cup, the York International, the Phoenix Champion, and a second Champion Stakes at Newmarket. A repeat win in the Coronation Cup followed at six. The toughest and classiest member of a notably tough and classy family, Triptych met a cruel death when hit by a stud vehicle in Kentucky; she was carrying what would have been her first foal,

by Mr Prospector, at the time.

By the time of Triptych’s last Group 1 triumph, Hunt was an ex-owner and exbreeder. He had filed for bankruptcy, and over two days at Keeneland in January 1988 a total of 580 lots were dispersed, mostly broodmares and broodmare prospects, but also featuring numerous two-year-olds and yearlings of both sexes. The top-priced lot was eight-year-old multiple Grade 1 winner Sangue, in foal to Alydar; she fetched $2.5m.

Dahlia went to Allen Paulson for $1.1m, her yearling daughter by Northern Dancer for $1.3m. Named Wajd, that filly was to win twice in Pattern company in France.

The total proceeds of the auction were $46,911,800, the strong demand for Hunt’s stock being understandable, as he had actually achieved a higher profile as a breeder since the silver debacle, heading the list of North American breeders by wide margins in both 1986 and 1987, having ranked second in 1985. In 25 years in the business – active in Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand as well as in Kentucky – Hunt bred, on his own or in partnership, over 130 stakes winners.

In the early 1960s, when first becoming serious about developing a breeding enterprise, he concentrated on acquiring stakes-winning fillies and mares, and he went far afield in search of them. The first major winner he raced in America was Amerigo Lady, whose dam Lady Sybil had been bred in New Zealand and had become a champion in Australia. He also bought extensively from Europe and from several South American countries. It was always racing form he sought to purchase rather than pedigrees, about which he was no expert. But sage breeding pundit Joe Estes assured him that he was on the right lines by pursuing that policy, and the level of success he attained was to prove the point. “High-class performance amounts to proof of pedigree” was the lesson that Estes strove to impart.

Given the impact made by Hunt’s stock over more than a quarter of a century, we might have expected to note more reminders of him in today’s pedigrees than we do. But Vaguely Noble failed as a sire of sires – except for Noble Bijou, who thrived in New Zealand chiefly with geldings – and is encountered now only through a number of daughters.

My favourite Bunker Hunt story concerns the time when one of his managers had to inform him that a colt of no great distinction had broken down and could not race again.

Asked what he would like to do with him, the boss replied: “We’ll put him to stud.”

The incredulous employee was so bold as to query whether the horse had the appropriate credentials for such a role, only to receive the swift response: “To the best of my knowledge, he needs only two, and I know he still has them.”

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MICKLEY STUD

Phoenix

RISING There’s plenty to celebrate at Mickley Stud, with a Group 1-winning juvenile for Phoenix Reach plus the arrival of two new stallions

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n a Shropshire field stands a well-rugged and muddy-legged sire who could swagger into any of Europe’s hallowed stallion stations and proudly say two words.

Not ‘Up yours’, but ‘Elm Park’.

The sire is, of course, Phoenix Reach, who, ahead of the covering season, happily roams a couple of acres at Richard Kent’s Mickley Stud unaware that his juvenile son Elm Park, recent winner of the Group 1 Racing Post Trophy, is now a leading candidate for the breed-defining Epsom Derby.

Not bad for a stallion who stood this year at an advertised fee of £1,500 and covered just nine mares. It would be fair to say the 14-yearold’s fee was negotiable in the spring, and Kent admits: “We would have covered a mare for a load of straw.” Times have changed, and he will stand at a fee of £5,000 next season.

On the one hand it is a totally improbable story; on the other it is confirmation of the mysteries of breeding. It reminds us a top-class racehorse can produce similar offspring, and gives hope to all stallion masters that their boy cracks the code.

Kent, a man of Cork but a resident of Britain for 23 years, is one of those hard-grafting, multi-taskers who deserves luck, although he takes no credit for Elm Park’s conception.

It was planned by Emma Balding, whose son Andrew trained Phoenix Reach to win Group 1 races on three continents. In 2007 the horse’s owner, Andrew Christou of Winterbeck Manor Stud, retired him to the National Stud and it was his covering of Lady Emma’s mare Lady Brora

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in 2011, his final season in Newmarket, which resulted in Elm Park.

It is ironic Phoenix Reach left the National Stud – ostensibly to gain access to a pool of jumping mares in and around Mickley – when his best foal was about to enter the world, but that is not uncommon in the annals of stallion movements.

Reflecting on the sire’s arrival, Kent says: “We had a very nice foal here by Phoenix Reach that really caught my eye – he is now named Phoenix Returns and has recently won and been placed in handicap hurdles.

“The recession was starting to get going and I knew Phoenix Reach wasn’t really hitting the heights in Newmarket – middle-distance winners were going out of fashion – so I suggested to William Huntingdon [Andrew Balding’s uncle and an advisor to Christou] that he might do better coming to a farm in the country and getting more country [jumping] mares. It was decided to give him one more season in Newmarket and the following year the horse came to us.

“He had been a dual-purpose sire and we continued along that route, but a lot of the older owner/breeders who liked middle-

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“Phoenix Reach has the most beautiful temperament – you could bring him into the house” – Richard Kent

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Now, with so much interest from Australia, the middle-distance sire is coming back into fashion, and that’s before you factor in the Dubai Carnival, demand from Qatar and jump racing. There are a lot of options again.

“We were keen to stand Phoenix Reach because he had won three Group 1 races, he is sound and has the most beautiful temperament – you could bring him into the house. With those attributes you can recommend him to any breeder.”

Elm Park’s Group 2 Royal Lodge Stakes win, followed by the Racing Post Trophy success, has changed the racing and bloodstock world’s view of the stallion, and therefore it was not such a surprise when one of his yearling daughters, bred at Winterbeck Manor Stud and a full-sister to a recent juvenile winner, topped the yearling section at DBS’s Autumn Sale with a £70,000 valuation.

Kent says: “The longer you stay in this business the less you know – you could never have forecast this sort of success. After Elm Park won at Doncaster we had lots of jumping people asking us for good packages, but we had to say no. He deserves a fee increase, just to show respect to the horse, and so he will stand for £5,000 [Oct 1] next year.

“The lesson is that you should never turn your back on a horse that wins three Group 1 races. Elm Park put up a special performance in the Racing Post Trophy and skipped away from the opposition. He looked very happy about the job, but that is typical of stock by the sire – they are all happy and have confidence.”

Without the chosen son, Phoenix Reach would have remained under the Flat radar. Yet closer inspection shows other foals from his relatively small crops have performed admirably. At the turf season’s close they had garnered 13 wins from 28 runners at a strikerate of 46%, and included Whiplash Willie, second in the Group 2 Doncaster Cup and a close fourth in two Group 1 staying races,

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Above: Mickley weanlings; below: Heeraat enjoys a stretch along Shropshire lanes

Rawaki, a conditions race winner and Listedplaced, and Chesil Beach, who ended the season with four straight wins. The latter pair were bred by Emma Balding and run in the colours of Kingsclere Racing, which owned Elm Park outright until selling an equal share to Sheikh Fahad.

Kent says: “Realistically we hope Phoenix Reach can cover 40 mares next season. I’ll be very disappointed if people who appreciate racing and racehorses don’t use him.”

The Mickley mix Kent’s work involves Flat and jumping sires, mares and foals, pinhooking, buying stores and selling them as horses in training, breakers and racehorse ownership.

In fact, just about anything connected with thoroughbreds.

You can sense his pride that son Finn, 19, is now working at Mickley, although he is about to gain further stud experience overseas, while Kent says of daughter Aoife, 17: “We got her to

muck out her first stable three weeks ago, so that’s a start.”

Two other children, Fraser and Nell, are too young to help their dad, and when asked if they are into pony racing, Kent says: “No – all my family were bred to stay close to the ground.”

The shortage of quality jumping mares in Britain has led to changes in Kent’s business, and he says: “We are now trying to produce horses you can market, we can’t rely purely on standing jumps stallions. You have to work in the industry, selling here and buying there, and going with the market. We love being involved, so hard work is a pleasure. And I like partnerships because I like talking. You spread the risk and share the fun.”

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MICKLEY STUD that dramatic Doncaster win.

He says: “We used to board Treble Heights, the dam of Brown Panther, before she died, and now keep her three-parts sister Extreme Pleasure, plus another mare for Michael Owen, who we advise on breeding. It was great when Brown Panther won the Irish St Leger. We sold Blazing Speed, who has won two Group 1s in Hong Kong, and we’ve bred 70-odd winners during 2014.

“It was also a marvellous day when Ballynagour won the Byrne Group Plate at the Cheltenham Festival. He was bought for Allan Stennett from Kevin Ross and was pre-trained at Mickley Stud before joining David Pipe.”

Stallion parade Reliable Overbury had to be put down earlier this year, but new blood has arrived at Mickley Stud.

In Phoenix Reach (Alhaarth) and Multiplex (Danehill) the farm has two horses capable of getting winners under both codes, Captain Gerrard (Oasis Dream), whose oldest crop are three, is steadily compiling winners here and in Australia, while Yorgunnabelucky and Heeraat are about to stand their first season at Mickley.

Roger Brookhouse’s Yorgunnabelucky (Giant’s Causeway), whose oldest crop are foals, is a full-brother to Shamardal. He arrived recently after two seasons at Throckmorton

Shamardal’s brother Yorgunnabelucky

Court Stud, while Heeraat (Dark Angel), a Group 3-winning sprinter, was retired from racing by Sheikh Hamdan this summer.

Kent says: “Multiplex has been here eight seasons and will be with us for life. He has sired the winners of 110 races, and this year has had six two-year-old winners over five and six furlongs, three point-to-point winners, and bumper and hurdle winners. He is an allrounder whose pedigree is a mix of speed and stamina. For a working farm which is trying to produce sound horses we can sell, he has been ideal.

“Captain Gerrard was bought in partnership with Australian interests and recently did his fifth shuttle season in a row, so he is paying his way and has had the winners of 58 races.

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Anippe, a mare foaled in 1963, links the Balding family’s Kingsclere Stud through six generations to Elm Park.

What makes this story rare is that the five sires involved were all trained at Kingsclere,

by Ian Balding or his son Andrew. Silly Season’s mating with Anippe produced Siliciana, whose mating with Mill Reef led to Island Mill. Mated with Selkirk, Island Mill foaled Tweed Mill, whose Dashing Blade cover resulted in Lady Brora. It was Lady Brora’s mating with Phoenix Reach that produced Elm Park.

Lady Emma Balding, Ian’s wife, admits the matings owed little to detailed analysis of pedigrees, and more to the trainer getting a nomination to a stallion whose career he developed on the racecourse. Anippe’s mating with Silly Season is a case in point.

“Silly Season was the first good horse Ian trained,” explains Lady Emma. “He won the Coventry Stakes just weeks after Ian took over the licence.

“When the horse was retired to stud Ian was given a nomination to him, so when Anippe, who he also trained, finished racing he asked the owners if he could buy her as a broodmare.

“To be honest the matings were governed by the nominations we had, although we have an insight when seeing the progeny of sires at home, which gives an idea of what stallions you might like to use.

“Along came Siliciana, who proved rather good, winning a maiden at two, the Ebbisham Stakes and Prix de Flore at three, and the Cambridgeshire and Virginia Stakes the following year.

“In our opinion she was good enough for a mating with Mill Reef, and Mr Mellon [Mill Reef’s owner], who was an old friend of my family, kindly gave me a nomination.

“Their daughter, Island Mill, was pretty slow, but she did win, finally, on the last day of the Flat season as a three-year-old at Doncaster in the mud. Her cover by Selkirk led to Tweed Mill, who proved rather like her mother, for while she bolted up at Epsom on her third start she barely beat another horse in four more runs.

“We took her to Germany to be covered “Yorgunnabelucky is an ideal horse to improve the bloodlines of a jumping mare and, while we would take a Flat mare, his future lies with some of the bigger National Hunt breeders.

“Heeraat is standing in partnership with Shadwell, the first time we have entered such an agreement with them. Being by Dark Angel, a lot of commercial stallion masters were trying

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by Dashing Blade, who had enjoyed little success in England but became leading sire of two-year-olds in his new homeland. The mating produced Lady Brora, who won a race at Great Leighs and always threatened to be good, but she was an absolutely appalling traveller. She weaves and walks her box, but is a wonderful mother and luckily her four foals to date have temperaments a great deal better than hers.

“Phoenix Reach was bought by Ian as a yearling and trained by him as a two-yearold before Andrew took over in 2003. He was a very tough racehorse, whose cover to Lady Brora produced Elm Park, her second foal. He is a big, gawky colt, but in the spring this year the lad who rode Phoenix Reach sat on him and said, ‘You’ve got a proper horse here – the best I’ve ridden since his sire’.

“It’s the mystique of the whole thing. You can sit down and talk pedigree language and 4 x 2 inbreeding, and you would never have come up with this horse!” to get him, but I had been following his career since Liam Cashman pinhooked him as a foal.

I’d idolised Liam from when I was a lad, and Heeraat was his sire’s most expensive first-crop foal. He was sound and tough, and from a fantastic line out of a Green Desert mare.

“The first man to book two nominations to him was Paul McCartan, the breeder of Tiggy Wiggy, which gave us a confidence boost.”

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By EMMA BERRY, Bloodstock Editor

Our bloodstock coverage this month includes:

• Sales Circuit: Global demand for British and Irish stock soars at Tattersalls – pages 84-90 • Caulfield Files: Oasis Dream making his mark as a broodmare sire – pages 93-94

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t no time in the year is the draw of the British Isles for major buyers more apparent than during foal and breeding stock sales.

No matter what the type of sale, we can look back on 2014 as a pretty solid 12 months – the year that the ghost of the recession was finally laid to rest.

And with regard to going out on a high, there could hardly be a bigger show-stopper than the appearance of ten Frankel foals in the public arena at Goffs and Tattersalls.

Last December the great horse made his presence felt when the first mares in foal to him were offered for auction. The combination of a Frankel cover and a dual Oaks heroine ensured that Tattersalls’ December Sale was reported far beyond the normal racing publications, with slots on the evening news, Radio 2’s Drive Time and the front page of The Daily Telegraph when Dancing Rain sold for 4,000,000gns.

With the Flat foal sales likely to be every bit as strong as the recent round of yearling sales, it was also encouraging to see a resurgence in the market for National Hunt foals with more than €10 million changing hands at Fairyhouse. A 35% increase in the median price reflected the depth in the market, echoing the summer’s store sales, and was particularly welcome considering that the jumping sales generally do not benefit from broad international participation.

No sector was hit harder during the recession than that of Irish National Hunt breeding. The drop in jumps foals bred in Ireland, from 4,342 in 2007 to 2,203 in 2011, has helped to boost the strength of the jumping stock sales which have benefited from smaller numbers – predominantly the offspring of better mares.

The breeding business is always cyclical, however, and judging by the number of mares covered by some Irish National Hunt stallions in particular from Weatherbys’ Return Of Mares, we can expect a return to larger sales catalogues in years to come.

The excellence of Monsun is hardly a secret among Flat or jumps breeders and in the last few months the staying races have been dominated by his offspring, who between them have won the Melbourne Cup, Prix du Conseil de Paris, Prix Gladiateur, Doncaster Cup and Prix Kergorlay. Not to be outdone, the beautifully bred Parlour Games – by Monsun out of Irish Oaks winner Petrushka – demonstrated his versatility when winning the Grade 2 Neptune Investment Management Novices’ Hurdle at Cheltenham’s Open meeting for John Ferguson and now has three hurdle victories to add to his four on the Flat.

It’s little surprise then that sons of Monsun are being increasingly well supported by jump breeders. Three of the four busiest stallions in Ireland this year were his sons Getaway (295 mares), Shirocco (274) and Arcadio (262), with Galileo’s Mahler (278) and Imperial Monarch (261) completing the top five.

Busiest stallions in 2014 Britain – Flat Champs Elysees Dubawi Poet’s Voice Nathaniel Equiano

169 160 153 148 134

Britain – National Hunt Kayf Tara Malinas Black Sam Bellamy Great Pretender Midnight Legend

143 66 62 58 52

Ireland – Flat Kodiac Mastercraftsman Camelot Footstepsinthesand Galileo

234 221 195 184 179

Ireland – National Hunt Getaway Mahler Shirocco Arcadio Imperial Monarch

295 278 274 262 261

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In Britain, the relatively small pool of jumping mares means the National Hunt stallions on these shores can never compete numerically – though the five-time British champion Kayf Tara didn’t do too badly when covering 143 mares. He has a well-credentialed son of Monsun as his stud mate, the five-time Group 1 winner Schiaparelli, who hails from one of the finest families in the German studbook, but the relative of Sea The Moon was sent only 49 mares in 2014. It will be interesting to see how Yorton Farm’s new Monsun recruit, Gentlewave, fares next season.

For now, however, the focus has turned back to Flat-bred stock. We’ve already seen a new American record price for a weanling set at Keeneland this November with a filly by Tapit – whose fee for next season has doubled to $300,000 – selling for $3 million. By this time next month we can expect, yet again, to be reflecting on some pretty stellar trade in Europe – and maybe even a new foal record.

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SALES CIRCUIT

By CARL EVANS

International cast prompts healthy autumn trade at Tatts Unprecedented demand for British and Irish stock from all corners of the racing world

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n an industry where auctions shuffle in the calendar, are given format revamps or feel the effects of rival sales, this annual intraining giant is a steady ship.

Its role as finder of new homes for Flat racers at the season’s conclusion has remained steadfast for decades, if not hundreds of years, and the figures rise steadily in line with inflation and the occasional market bubble – only the buyers’ faces are new.

Once again the overseas visitor – or their representative – was king, for the most significant change to this auction since the millennium’s turn has been growth from abroad. The Dubai Carnival, Australia, the USA and interest from Qatar and Saudi Arabia’s domestic racing scenes drive the upper-end of the sale – although British and Irish jumps owners and trainers can still make their presence felt on occasions – while the middle and lower tiers see demand from European trainers and racehorse owners who reckon they can squeeze improvement from a horse, plus numerous smaller racing nations.

Representatives from these minnows of horseracing – particularly those whose homes are in the Middle East – invariably gather in clumps around the sales complex and indulge themselves in the Tattersalls experience, relaxing on benches in the sun to smoke cigarettes, chattering and gesticulating excitedly in the sales ring, and occasionally bidding against each other on cheap horses. Friendly, but heated remonstrations and admonishments are not uncommon.

From this cornucopia of humanity sprang another marvellous set of results – marvellous for Tattersalls, but also for racehorse owners who can regard this sale as an end game for their favourite pastime. A clearance rate of 88% (+7%) is a grand figure to dangle in front of would-be racehorse owners or syndicate members, while a 13% rise in average and 30% increase in the median are also worthy of note.

Tattersalls auctioneers took bids on 1,047 horses during this four-day auction and brought the hammer down on more than

Havana Cooler topped a strong draft from Luca Cumani’s Bedford House Stables

Tattersalls Horses In Training Sale Top lots Name/Breeding

Vendor

Havana Cooler (Hurricane Run-Unquenchable)

Bedford House

Price (gns) Buyer

Velox (Zamindar-Victoire Finale)

Bedford House

375,000 Blandford B/s & Lindsay Park

Magnolia Beach (Footstepsinthesand-Misskinta)

Jamie Railton

350,000 Mohammed Alattiyah

Assez Clair (Pleasant Tap-Pretty Clear)

Juddmonte

330,000 Voute Sales

Northern Solstice (Shamardal-Winter Solstice)

Juddmonte

310,000 BBA Ireland/Gai Waterhouse

Ajmany (Kheleyf-Passarelle)

Darley/Bedford House 280,000 David Redvers Bloodstock

Tinghir (Dansili-Palmeraie)

Kingsdown Stables

255,000 Anthony Stroud Bloodstock

Producer (Dutch Art-River Saint)

East Everleigh

250,000 Bobby O’Ryan

425,000 Anthony Stroud Bloodstock

Five-year tale Year

Sold

Agg (gns)

Avg (gns)

Mdn (gns)

2014

922

24,304,100

26,360

13,000

Top Price (gns) 425,000

2013

894

20,863,800

23,338

10,000

380,000

2012

909

20,761,100

22,839

11,000

370,000

2011

848

16,584,600

19,557

9,000

310,000

2010

865

17,577,300

20,321

9,000

550,000

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24,000,000gns worth of sales. They deserve praise for stepping on the gas and ensuring long days did not become long nights, but there has been a marked increase in lots sold per hour throughout the autumn sales period at Park Paddocks. It has been welcomed from the press bench to the Highflyer Kitchen, a café where grooms gather.

Bloodstock agent Anthony Stroud, who combs this sale with ally David Loder in order to source horses for the Dubai Carnival, was joined this time by ex-Godolphin racing manager Simon Crisford, now a trainer in his own right. There was a sense of déjà vu about their purchase of 425,000gns top lot Havana Cooler, for he came from Luca Cumani’s Bedford Lodge Stables – 12 months earlier Stroud had bought top lot Validus from the same draft, a group of horses that each year salivate the driest mouth.

The top seven horses will all race outside of Europe – in the UAE, Australia, Qatar and Saudi Arabia – including Ajmany, who was bought by David Redvers for Sheikh Abdullah to race in his homeland.

This sale was a landmark for Redvers and his main client, Sheikh Abdullah’s son Sheikh Fahad, whose Qatar Racing Ltd moved up several gears in its role as a vendor of horses.

Last year at the same sale it parted with G Force, who subsequently won Haydock’s Group 1 Sprint Cup, and this time it offered a stronger consignment through Jamie Railton. Several sixfigure horses resulted, headed by Magnolia Beach and Snowmane, both of whom reached the top-ten board.

Tattersalls October Sales Book 4 Brought back for a second year – following a three-year hiatus after 2009 – this short session yearling sale followed Tattersalls’ Horses-inTraining auction.

A total of 61 youngsters were offered – well up on last year’s 37 – and they generated turnover of 184,300gns, a modest sum for an event at Park Paddocks, but a welcome opportunity for breeders and a few pinhookers to trade yearlings deemed too backward for the gala shows at Books 1 and 2, let alone 3.

New homes were found for 74% of those on show, although the increase in numbers probably lay behind small falls in the average and median prices. Heading the parade was a Paco Boy colt who made 18,000gns to a bid from racehorse owner Darren Popely.

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further stock, and the free-spending Qatari royal family is not immune to that dictum.

Sheikh Joaan upped his investment in yearlings after Treve’s first Arc win and, following Charm Spirit’s impressive Queen Elizabeth II Stakes win at QIPCO British Champions Day, his uncle, Umm Qarn Farm’s Sheikh Abdulla bin Khalifa Al Thani, stepped up to the plate at this four-day sale. He will have some 40 yearlings based in France next year, double his total in 2014.

Charm Spirit was being announced as a new sire at Tweenhills Farm & Stud in Gloucestershire as Umm Qarn became the leading buyer at this auction by securing 14 horses for €1,059,000, some to race from Freddy Head’s yard in a new partnership between Sheikh Abdulla and his son Sheikh Fahad, who heads the Qatar Racing operation.

Sheikh Abdulla bought Charm Spirit at this sale – Treve also appeared at it but was unsold in 2011 – and is said to prefer it to other busier yearling auctions because he has more time to

pick and choose his own stock. He clearly has an eye for the task and there must be high hopes for his most valuable purchase on this occasion, a €225,000 Galileo colt offered by Ecurie des Monceaux.

Heading the top-ten board, however, was the second horse into the ring, who was knocked down for €350,000 and held onto the number one slot through to the sale’s conclusion 445 horses later. This was a Dubawi colt, out of EP Taylor Stakes winner Reggane, who left Juergen Winter’s Haras de la Perelle bound for Italian owners based with Alain de Royer-Dupre.

Apart from a drop in the clearance rate – 83% last year, 78% this – the other figures were all positive, with records for average and median, plus a new high in six-figure lots comprising 25 horses who changed homes for €100,000 or above. Lucien Urano’s Ecurie des Monceaux could not hold on to top consignor honours as Anna and Etienne Drion’s Coulonces Consignment crept past, trading 28 yearlings for €1,252,000.

Tattersalls October Sales Book 4 Top lots

Sex/Breeding

Vendor

C Paco Boy-Miss Excel Salcey

Forest Stud

Price (gns) 18,000

Buyer

C Motivator-Quip

Warren Place Stud

13,000

Dermot Farrington

F Shirocco-River Of Silence

Catridge Farm Stud

12,000

Highflyer Bloodstock

F Zebedee-Dazzling View

Piermill B/s

12,000

Dermot Farrington

C Lord Shanakill-Moonchild

Houghton B/s

10,000

Are Hyldmo

F Multiplex-Icky

Mickley Stud

8,000

Jo Hughes

Follow the Flag P’ship

Comparative figures Year

Sold

Agg (gns)

Avg (gns)

Mdn (gns)

2014

46

184,300

4,007

2,300

Top Price (gns) 18,000

2013

25

115,700

4,628

3,500

14,000

Arqana October Yearling Sale Top lots Sex/Breeding

Vendor

C Dubawi-Reggane (Red Ransom)

Perelle

Price (€) Buyer

C Lope De Vega-Atlanda (Hernando)

Lieu Des Champs

270,000 Bertrand Le Metayer

C Galileo-Quetsche (Gone West)

Monceaux

225,000 Umm Qarn

C Sea The Stars-Olga Prekrasa (Kingmambo)

Quesnay

180,000 Al Shaqab Racing

F Le Havre-Brave Power (Aldebaran)

Elbe

170,000 Umm Qarn

C Lope De Vega-Queen Bodicea (Revoque)

Coulonces Consignment

170,000 Stephen Hillen

F Lawman-Queseraisjesanstoi (Rainbow Quest)

Etreham

160,000 Clement/Rau

C Dansili-Gracefully (Orpen)

Perelle

155,000 Bertrand Le Metayer

350,000 Royer Dupre

Five-year tale Year

Sold

Agg (€)

Avg (€)

Mdn (€)

2014

447

15,988,200

36,247

26,000

Top Price (€) 350,000

2013

452

15,092,000

33,389

25,000

320,000

2012

345

10,921,000

31,665

24,000

210,000

2011

375

10,327,000

27,539

20,000

310,000

2010

384

10,665,000

27,773

21,000

300,000

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French yearlings, let alone French racing, are in demand, and when the aggregate from this sale was added to that at Arqana’s August and v.2 auction the average reached €72,307, up 19% on the very healthy 2013 figure.

DBS Autumn HIT and Yearlings

Two weeks after sister company Goffs staged a single session of yearlings and horses-intraining, DBS did the same over two days.

A smaller catalogue saw 92 fewer horses go through the ring. While the in-training session lacked a prized horse, the turnover for both sessions crept up by 0.5%, a good achievement given the fall in lots to peruse.

Foreign buyers rarely travel a long way to go home empty-handed, and they helped the clearance rate rise to 81% overall, and the average figure looked quite perky for a sale of modest stature. The yearling average rose by 21% to £6,188.

Stallion Phoenix Reach topped the yearling section in 2013 with a £30,000 filly (a winner since), but this year one of his daughters topped the entire sale, rising above the in-training horses too.

Less than two weeks earlier the Mickley Studbased stallion’s Elm Park had taken the Group 1 Racing Post Trophy, which was a vote of confidence in his paternal half-sister, who was offered by Winterbeck Manor Stud’s Andrew Christou, Phoenix Reach’s owner. Gay Kelleway, who trained the filly’s dam Beat Seven, took the prize with a £70,000 bid that gave the stallion his best public sale to date.

Christou enjoyed a particularly good day for he also consigned a £35,000 Phoenix Reach colt who proved the third-highest yearling. Elm Park’s trainer Andrew Balding signed the sheet for this one, while sandwiched between this pair was a daughter of leading first-season sire Showcasing. She went to Bobby O’Ryan for £48,000.

Dermot Farrington took the pick of horses who had shown form, his £65,000 bid securing two-year-old Golden Spun, who had won over six furlongs at Pontefract for Bryan Smart one month earlier and now resides at the blooming David O’Meara yard. DBS was left rueing that the juvenile’s stablemate Moviesta, a Group 2winning sprinter due to precede him into the ring, failed to keep his appointment with the auctioneer.

Goffs Open Yearling and Horses In Training Sale

This mixed sale of 215 horses comprised approximately two-thirds yearlings and a third of horses in training.

Down in size on last year and feeling the tailspin of Goffs’ new Champions Sale at Leopardstown the previous month, it still

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DBS Autumn HIT and Yearlings Top lots

Sex/Name/Breeding

Vendor

F Phoenix Reach-Beat Seven

Winterbeck Manor

Price (£) Buyer 70,000 Gay Kelleway

Golden Spun (Hard Spun-Scarlet’s Tara)

Hambleton House

65,000 Dermot Farrington

Red Sunset (Oscar-One Hell Ofa Woman)

Lomogue Stables

50,000 B O’Ryan/J Ewart

F Showcasing-Local Fancy

West Dereham Abbey/Bumble Mitchell 48,000 Bobby O’Ryan

Dan Emmett (Flower Alley-Singing Dixie)

Granary House Stables

Mystery Bet )Kheleyf-Dancing Prize)

Musley Bank Stables

42,000 Michael Scudamore (PS) 42,000 Anthony Stroud B/s

She’s A Worldie (Kodiac-Petite Boulangere)

Hambleton House Stables

38,000 Ollie Pimlott

Space Walker (Astronomer Royal-Hot Property)

Quixote Quintet/Windsor House

38,000 B O’Ryan/J Ewart

Five-year tale Year

Sold

Agg (£)

Avg (£)

Mdn (£)

2014

277

2,144,250

7,741

4,000

Top Price (£) 70,000

2013

306

2,133,400

6,972

3,800

240,000

2012

288

1,542,300

5,355

3,350

50,000

2011

308

1,632,200

5,299

3,200

32,000

2010

361

2,273,500

6,298

4,000

120,000

Goffs Open Yearling and Horses In Training Sale Top lots

Sex/Name/Breeding

Vendor

Rocky Bleier (Rock Of Gibraltar-Partly Sunny)

Eyrefield House Stud

Price (€)

Dabadiyan (Zamindar-Dabista)

Aga Khan Studs

80,000

Gary Moore

Enzani (Cape Cross-Eytarna)

Aga Khan Studs

78,000

D K Racing

F Lope De Vega-Marie Osorio (Medicean)

Miller Hill

75,000

Peter & Ross Doyle B/s

Benkei (Galileo-Bywayofthestars)

Old Mew Stable

70,000

Harry Rogers

Zarib (Azamour-Zariziyna)

Aga Khan Studs

56,000

Dan Skelton

F Mastercraftsman-Bon Expresso (Spectrum)

Owenstown Stud

30,000

G H Bloodstock

Hudson’s Bay (Teofilo-Cache Creek)

Darley/Glebe House

27,000

Kilronan Stud

150,000

Buyer G H B/s

Five-year tale Year

Sold

Agg (€)

Avg (€)

Mdn (€)

2014

163

1,566,800

9,612

4,500

150,000

2013

193

1,589,800

8,237

3,500

225,000

2012

153

1,380,900

9,025

5,000

80,000

2011

128

1,432,200

11,189

5,000

130,000

2010

124

461,550

3,722

2,000

29,000

produced some encouraging figures. In-form Rocky Bleier led the charge when knocked down for €150,000 to Gerry Hogan on behalf of enthusiastic jumps owner Barry Connell. A dual recent winner with a rating of 93 on the Flat gained while under the care of trainer Bill Farrell, the four-year-old son of Rock Of Gibraltar stays 12 furlongs and should make a mark over hurdles.

Fifty-two of the 55 in-training horses left with a new owner, but Goffs’ Chief Executive Henry Beeby conceded the Champions Sale, which cleared nine lots for just over €2,000,000, had not helped this sale’s aggregate figure, which fell marginally. He also sounded a note of frustration that more Irish horses with form are not put through this sale, although he does have the handy patronage of the Aga Khan, whose draft featured prominently on the top-ten board. The clearance rate of 76% was the best mark for at least five years.

Top Price (€)

Topping the yearling section was a Lope De Vega filly whose €75,000 price was more than double the high of 2013. Her second-season sire had come up with major juvenile winners Belardo and Royal Razalma shortly before her ring appearance, which did the Miller Hillconsigned offering no harm. Bloodstock agent Ross Doyle signed for her passport.

The average and median prices for yearlings – €7,648 and €4,500 – were up by 50%, with a clearance rate of 68%.

Tattersalls Ireland November National Hunt Sale

Roger Casey, managing director of Tattersalls Ireland, referred to this six-day sale as “the barometer of health for the National Hunt bloodstock industry”, so fans of jump racing will be pleased to know it produced some excellent figures.

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Topping the leaderboard was a broodmare – Tarla, who left Willie Mullins’s care in foal to Shantou with a £170,000 price tag paid by Mick Carty on behalf of a client at his stud in County Kildare – but the mainstay of this event is foals, four sessions of them, all waiting to jump a hurdle or fence.

An 81% clearance rate in this category (74% overall) and rise in turnover despite a fall in numbers were signs that pinhookers were eager to get in early and secure foals they can trade in a year or three’s time. The three- and four-yearold store market was very good this year and lightly-raced four- and five-year-olds have been making big sums at in-training sales, so it would have been a shock of grand scale had this foal superstore not been popular.

Weanlings generated turnover of €10,064,900 – not far short of the turnover for foals, yearlings and mares at last year’s sale – while the average and median marks of €14,018 and €11,500 were well up. A brother of Grade 2-placed hurdler and chaser Sizing Gold topped the foal list following a €95,000 bid by bloodstock agent Aiden Murphy. A son of Flemensfirth, he was offered by Eudora O’Connor of Lough Na Sollis Stud in Tallow, County Waterford, on behalf of neighbour Martin Fleming.

Tarla’s place at the head of the sale was not an indication of the demand for jumping mares, for just 58 of the 124 breeders who walked through found new homes. Buyers, of whom there were plenty of British and French in attendance, were clearly selective about taking on the additional cost of breeding a foal, but the opening-day yearling section fared better with a 70% clearance rate.

Another Flemensfirth, this one a half-brother to Fred Winter Hurdle winner Dabiroun, headed this session with a €62,000 valuation.

Brightwells Cheltenham November Sale

An Indian summer and transfer of this auction’s breeze-up section to the sales company’s Cheltenham December Sale were factors in a fall in turnover at this single-session of jumping horses.

The number of entries was down – 52 offered compared to 80 last year – although the average price held steady at just over £44,000.

Moving the breeze-up meant avoiding another clash with the racecourse’s hugely popular Countryside Day – part of the threeday Open meeting – and, while blaming the weather might be a lame excuse on occasions, it had substance in this instance. These sales are dominated by Irish point-to-pointers and quick ground at rural tracks during the autumn had kept some of the best horses in their boxes.

Talented top-of-the-ground performers may have been successful, but in November buyers are usually looking for horses that can handle THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

Tattersalls Ireland November National Hunt Sale Top lots

Name/Sex/Breeding

Vendor

Tarla (Lavirco-Targerine)

Closutton Stables

Price (€)

C Flemensfirth-Mandys Gold (Mandalus)

Lough Na Sollis Stud

95,000

Aiden Murphy

C Martaline-Theatre Girl (King’s Theatre)

Goldford Stud

65,000

John O’Byrne

Gemini Lucy (Glacial Storm-Jodi)

Mill House Stud (Agent)

65,000

Swanbridge Bloodstock

She Ranks Me (Golan-Rosealainn)

Castledillon Stud

64,000

Clarendon Farm

170,000

Buyer Kilmoney Cottage Stud

C Flemensfirth-Dabaya (In The Wings)

Screenhill Lodge

62,000

John O’Byrne

C Robin Des Champs-Zita Hall (Saddlers’ Hall)

Ballincurrig House Stud

62,000

Aiden Murphy

C Beat Hollow-Bannow Girl (Glacial Storm)

Clonmore House Stud

62,000

John O’Byrne

Five-year tale Year

Sold

Agg (€)

Avg (€)

Mdn (€)

2014

976

13,619,550

13,992

11,000

Top Price (€) 170,000

2013

882

10,850,417

12,302

8,500

120,000

2012

679

8,064,250

11,877

8,000

110,000

2011

660

7,576,800

11,448

7,500

120,000

2010

631

6,670,557

10,571

6,000

68,000

Brightwells Cheltenham November Sale Top lots Name/Breeding

Vendor

Stilletto (Westerner-Eastertide)

Ballinakill Stables

Price (£) 130,000

Buyer R Brookhouse

Amber Gambler (Doyen-Auenglocke)

Suirview Stables

125,000

G Costelloe

For Instance (Milan-Justamemory)

Lingstown Stables

85,000

Peter & Ross Doyle

Shantou Village (Shantou-Village Queen)

Ballyboy Stables

80,000

N Mulholland

Kavanaghs Corner (Coroner-Annacarney)

Cobajay Stables

75,000

S Earle

Shotofwine (Grape Tree Road-Icy Gunner)

Downton Hall Stables

75,000

D McCain

Mr Mountain (Mountain High-Not Mine)

Monbeg Stables

60,000

G H Bloodstock

Shanroe Santos (Definite Article-Jane Hall)

Brian Smyth

50,000

Tom Malone B/s

Portrade (Trade Fair-Portorosa)

The Paddocks

50,000

M Flanagan

Alistair (Turtle Island-Woodfield Lady)

Skryne Stables

50,000

Highflyer/Paul Nicholls

Pawn Star (Beneficial-Missindependence)

Monbeg Stables

50,000

G H Bloodstock

Five-year tale Year

Sold

Agg (£)

Avg (£)

Mdn (£)

2014

33

1,459,500

44,227

40,000

130,000

2013

52

2,320,500

44,625

30,000

200,000

2012

59

3,185,000

53,983

35,000

260,000

2011

26

1,226,000

47,154

43,500

170,000

2010

20

863,000

43,150

27,750

210,000

winter conditions.

You don’t have to take Brightwells’ word; the detail can be seen in a fall in registrations and runners at early autumn Irish points, and the top-ten board was dominated by horses that had run very recently following rain and an ease in the going. A number of five-year-olds were among them, suggesting four-year-olds have been kept on tick-over by Irish point-to-point trainers. They should make their presence felt at forthcoming auctions.

One five-year-old who was never going to be rushed was Stilletto, a big son of Westerner who became a sales-ring high for trainer and consignor Andrew Latta, 24, from Wexford. His octogenarian grandfather, William PowellHarris, bred the gelding, who had won the previous weekend at Maralin.

Top Price (£)

Roger Brookhouse, who took the top two lots at this sale last year, headed by a £200,000 purchase, did not have to dig so deep for Stilletto, but £130,000 was a fine result for the vendors.

Amber Gambler was an even bigger fouryear-old, but there was precocity in his German pedigree which was full of smart Flat horses, including top sprinter Auenklang. Pat Doyle had saddled this one to win at Kilworth five days earlier and the performance encouraged Gearoid Costelloe to invest £125,000 to take him back to Rebecca Curtis’s yard in West Wales.

Harold Kirk, the ever-present face of Ireland’s champion trainer Willie Mullins at this venue, apparently left with nothing, which told its own tale.

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SALES CIRCUIT

‘Scent of money’ in Lexington air as new weanling record set Fasig-Tipton and Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sales

By Sid Fernando Over the course of three consecutive days at the autumn mixed sales in Lexington, Kentucky, the air was pungent with the scent of money as buyers from around the world competed for young in-foal mares, broodmare/racing prospects, and weanlings. All told, 41 lots exchanged hands for $1 million or more at Fasig-Tipton (23) on Monday, November 3, and at Keeneland (18) on the following Tuesday and Wednesday.

One lot, a filly foal by Tapit from the Storm Cat mare Serena’s Cat, sold for a North American record price for a weanling at $3m.

The previous record of $2.7m had been set by a colt from a different era not that long ago – in 2006, at Keeneland at the height of the market before the global economies melted in late 2008 and changed the names of some of the players at the top of the game.

Much of the high-end spending now is fuelled by a cadre of new buyers like Mandy Pope of Whisper Hill Farm in Ocala, Florida, and their targets are frequently mares in foal to Tapit and War Front, the top two sires in the US. Pope, never previously a big-time player before the economic crisis, purchased the sale-topper at Keeneland this year, paying $3.9m for the Galileo mare Aloof in foal to War Front on the Wednesday that the Tapit filly set the foal record.

Last year Pope topped Fasig-Tipton’s oneday November sale by buying the Galileo mare Betterbetterbetter, also in foal to War Front, for $5.2m, and in 2012 she’d famously paid $10m for Horse of the Year Havre De Grace to also lead Fasig-Tipton. She bred Havre De Grace to Tapit in 2013 and has a weanling filly by the leading sire, who had a breakout season in 2014 with Breeders’ Cup winner Untapable and Belmont Stakes winner Tonalist, among others.

Both Tapit and War Front stood for $150,000 last spring, but Claiborne has kept

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War Front’s farm price the same for 2015 despite no guarantee seasons trading for twice that amount on the open market over the summer. Gainesway, however, bit the bullet and jumped Tapit officially to $300,000, which is the highest published stud fee for a North American stallion since Storm Cat, AP Indy, and Distorted Humor commanded that amount in 2008 before the bubble burst.

The buyer of the record Tapit filly came into the business in August of 2013 with the purchase of Bridlewood Farm, which like Pope’s place is located in Ocala, Florida.

Bridlewood, once the operation of the late Arthur Appleton, who bred more than 100 stakes winners, is now owned by billionaire John Malone and his wife Leslie, who plan on building up a broodmare band of about 20.

Through chance the Malones came upon the showcase property with no previous knowledge of its considerable reputation, and they retained longtime Bridlewood general manager George Isaacs, who was successful for Appleton.

Isaacs is the tall, reserved and quiet type who’s as well known for his thrifty business practices as he is for the omnipresent Bridlewood baseball cap on his head. He’s said he never lost money for Appleton and his heirs, but Isaacs has now been thrust into

Mandy Pope, of Florida’s Whisper Hill Farm, is a major buying force

the high-profile role of buyer of expensive horses for the Malones, and he handles it with aplomb.

On the night he bought the Tapit filly, Isaacs was dining quietly at a table at the popular Lexington restaurant Dudley’s in typical low-key style, and he might not have been noticed except for the giveaway baseball cap on his head.

A few tables away the affable John Phillips of Darby Dan Farm had the satisfied countenance of a successful seller. Two days earlier at Fasig-Tipton, Darby Dan had sold the three-year-old Grade 2 winner and racing prospect Taris for $2.35m and its homebred Grade 3 winner La Cloche, in foal to Tapit, for $2.4m.

La Cloche had been purchased by Don Alberto Corp., the North American racing and breeding entity of Chileans Carlos Heller and his mother Liliana Solari, who had purchased Vinery near Lexington in October 2013 and renamed it Don Alberto Farm.

Like the Malones, Heller has a plan to build a top-level band of broodmares, and it is notable that Don Alberto was the leading buyer by gross at both Fasig-Tipton, with three purchased for $5.65m, and Keeneland, with nine bought for $8.57m, just ahead of Malone’s Bridlewood with four purchased for $7.9m.

Like Malone and Pope – and other leading buyers at both Fasig-Tipton and Keeneland – Heller is a fan of Tapit and War Front. Besides La Cloche’s in-utero foal, Don Alberto purchased three Tapit daughters at Keeneland, including the mare Modeling for $2.85m carrying to Distorted Humor. Don Alberto also bought the Galileo mare Precious Stone, in foal to War Front, for $1.8m.

On a misty Thursday afternoon at Don Alberto Farm, the day after Isaacs and Phillips dined at Dudley’s, Heller and his mother enjoyed a private viewing of their new mares, $14m worth all housed in the same barn. At the level at which they, Pope, the Malones, Coolmore, the China Horse Club, the Yoshida brothers Katsumi and Teruya, the Qataris and others like them are playing, the game has started to heat up again with a bunch of new names in the mix.

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CAULFIELD FILES ANDREW CAULFIELD REPORTS ON THE BLOODSTOCK WORLD

Danzig’s dominance on show at HQ Late Claiborne sire’s male line responsible for all six starters in the Middle Park Stakes

“Lacy is a reminder

that Oasis Dream’s career as a broodmare sire is unlikely to be all about speed” year-olds of 2014, so few have had a chance to prove themselves. They have done well to produce 73 winners from 114 runners. More importantly, they have produced seven blacktype winners, of which five have won at Group level. Another five have earned black-type, to make the totals 12 black-type performers from 114 runners – more than 10%.

It will surprise no-one that three of the Group winners have scored at the age of two.

All three are juveniles of 2014 and two of them THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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f anyone needed a reminder of the Danzig male line’s dominance of Britain’s speed events, one was provided by the latest edition of the historic Middle Park Stakes. All six runners were by Danzig line stallions and the first four all descend from Green Desert.

It was the 2002 Middle Park winner Oasis Dream who was responsible for the unexpected winner Charming Thought, as well as the Gimcrack winner Muhaarar, who filled third place. Showcasing, another Gimcrack-winning son of Oasis Dream, supplied the fourth-placed Cappella Sansevero, but Oasis Dream was denied a clean sweep of the first four places by Invincible Spirit. His son Zebedee sired the narrowly-beaten second, Ivawood.

Showcasing had appeared assured of ending the year as leading first-crop sire until Lope De Vega’s Group-race double on Future Champions Day helped the Ballylinch stallion snatch the lead. Showcasing is one of three sons of Oasis Dream to have sired at least one Group-winning two-year-old in 2014, but it is not his stallion sons which interest me here, but his broodmare daughters.

Oasis Dream’s eldest daughters are nine. Any filly which raced at three will not have a runner until she is seven, so we are seeing only the tip of the iceberg where his broodmare daughters are concerned. Equineline credits them with 174 foals of racing age, of which 100 are two-

Charming Thought outguns Ivawood in the Danzig-dominated Middle Park Stakes

enjoyed Group success on the same day. The Equiano filly Dark Reckoning landed the Firth of Clyde Stakes to improve her record to three wins from six starts. In France, Evasive’s First scored for the fifth time in seven starts when he defeated Oasis Dream’s high-priced son De Treville in the Prix des Chenes. It is worth mentioning that Dark Reckoning’s dam Impressible was just a fairly useful sprint handicapper, while Evasive’s First’s dam Zalia never finished closer than fourth in five starts.

This trend continues with the two three-yearold Group winners out of daughters of Oasis Dream. Extortionist, the fast Dandy Man colt, is out of a dual all-weather winner with a Timeform rating of 78. And Lacy, the Authorized filly who failed by only a nose to add the Group 1 Premio Lydia Tesio to her German Group 3 success, is out of an unraced mare. Lacy acts as a reminder that Oasis Dream’s career as a broodmare sire is unlikely to be all about speed – his first three dams were all sired by outstanding mile-and-a-half winners, so his daughters will probably also produce good performers beyond a mile when mated to the likes of Galileo or Authorized.

The latest of the five Group winners out of Oasis Dream’s daughters, Zamindar’s Group 3 Autumn Stakes winner Commemorative, has a more blue-blooded dam in Revered. She is a winning daughter of Arrive, a Broodmare of the

Year whose other claim to fame is that she is a sister to the celebrated Hasili. Arrive earned her title by producing the Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes winner Promising Lead and Revered’s very smart but diminutive sister Visit.

Revered has produced foals by Dubawi and Frankel, and it will be fascinating to chart the progress of Oasis Dream mares over the next few years. For example, five of his stakeswinning daughters have 2013 foals by the mighty Galileo. Bearing in mind that Galileo has sired an Oaks winner from a Green Desert mare and a Derby winner from a granddaughter, his alliance with Oasis Dream’s daughters should be very fruitful. One of these Galileo youngsters is the first foal of the six-time Group 1 winner Midday, who went so close to winning the Oaks.

Naturally, many daughters of Oasis Dream have been mated to reinforce his speed, with the likes of Acclamation, Equiano, Kyllachy, Pivotal and Royal Applause all being popular choices. I shall be watching the filly by Zoffany, out of Oasis Dream’s winning daughter Sioduil, which sold for 260,000gns as a yearling. There should also be some quick returns from the Bahamian Bounty colt out of the speedy Mullein which was bought by Shadwell for 100,000gns, and from the Dark Angel colt out of the Listed-placed Glisten, which went to Barry Hills for 100,000gns.

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CAULFIELD FILES

GEORGE SELWYN

Kitten’s Joy continues to shine for Ramseys

Bobby’s Kitten (nearside), a Breeders’ Cup-winning son of the versatile Kitten’s Joy

On the weekend of the Breeders’ Cup, I scanned the leading sire lists for Britain and Ireland to check how many American-based stallions they featured. In sharp contrast to the situation a couple of decades ago, I had to trawl down as far as 48th place before I found one, namely Claiborne Farm’s War Front, who had had 18 winners from 38 runners. I had to go down to 67th place before I found another, the recently-deceased Street Cry, who finished four places ahead of Speightstown. The only others who made the top 100 were Distorted Humor, Arch and Elusive Quality. War Front was also the top-ranked American stallion on the twoyear-old sires’ list, but down in 25th place.

I was hopeful that the list of leading sires of European stakes winners would show the American stallions in a better light. What I found was Street Cry was the most successful

with five (but only one at Group level), and then came War Front with four and Bernstein and Speightstown with three apiece. There were also several with a brace of stakes winners, including War Chant, Distorted Humor, Elusive Quality, Arch and Kitten’s Joy. Of course, these low tallies are often the result of the low numbers of American-bred horses which are nowadays brought to Europe.

There can be little doubt that some American stallions would shine more brightly given the chance. One I particularly admire is Kitten’s Joy, the grandson of Sadler’s Wells whose 2014 stakes successes in Europe came via the French two-year-old Jolly Good Kitten and the Italian Group 3 winner Steaming Kitten.

One can hardly fail to be impressed with Kitten’s Joy’s achievements in his native US, where he and his main supporters, his owner-

breeders Sarah and Ken Ramsey, enjoy a mutually beneficial association.

The Breeders’ Cup provided the perfect showcase for Kitten’s Joy’s progeny to display their talent and their versatility. Luck Of The Kitten made a bold attempt to lead throughout in the Juvenile Turf, only to be cut down by Hootenanny in the final stages. Stephanie’s Kitten also found just one too good for her in the Filly & Mare Turf, but still proved too good for the British raiders Just The Judge, Dank and Secret Gesture, while Bobby’s Kitten’s late burst denied No Nay Never a perfect end to his career in the Turf Sprint.

Kitten’s Joy’s other stakes winners in 2014 include one over two miles, a Grade 3 winner over 12f and two Grade 1 winners over a mile and a quarter, so they span most of the distance scale. He also has a Grade 2 winner on dirt.

These efforts helped Kitten’s Joy into third place among North America’s leading sires – a position he owes to the impressive total of 23 stakes winners, headed by nine Graded winners and three Grade 1 winners. The son of El Prado, born in 2001, had topped the general sires’ table in 2013 but he comes into his own among America’s turf sires. He won the turf championship in 2013 with earnings more than double those of his nearest rival. It is proving to be a similar story this year, with Kitten’s Joy’s turf earnings standing in excess of $8.1 million, compared to the $4.4m accumulated by Giant’s Causeway. He has even been champion sire of two-year-olds, in 2011.

All of Kitten’s Joy’s progeny of racing age come from his first six crops, sired at fees ranging between $20,000 and $40,000. Since then he has spent the 2012 and 2013 seasons at $50,000 and he will stand at $100,000 in 2015, the same as in 2014.

One of my pet grievances about National Hunt racing, and has been for a number of years, is the eagerness of the top trainers to castrate any male recruit to the sport, no matter how well bred.

This attitude isn’t shared by some of their Gallic counterparts, however, and this has allowed French jumping breeders to develop a breeding industry which, contradictorily, has steadily become a powerful magnet for British buyers.

So there will be no stallion career for such well-connected hurdlers as Hurricane Fly, Celestial Halo or Zarkandar, but it has been announced that a stud career beckons for

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Zarkandar’s rival Gemix, winner of the last two editions of the Grande Course de Haies d’Auteuil.

Altogether Gemix won eight of his 20 starts over hurdles and was second or third in another nine. He also collected two wins on the Flat as a two-year-old and another two the following year.

The chesnut is by Carlotamix, a Linamix colt who was rated the best French-trained juvenile of 2005, when he won the Group 1 Criterium International, and his broodmare sire is Hours After, winner of the 1988 Prix du Jockey-Club, so he possesses some classy Flat bloodlines.

GEORGE SELWYN

Gemix jumps to the stallion ranks

Dual Grade 1 winner Gemix

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GALILEO ex LOVE DIVINE (Diesis)

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BREEDS WINNERS, BREEDS 2 YEAR OLDS, BREEDS SPEED LEADING GB & IRE SIRES 2012 – 2014

LEADING GB & IRE SIRES OF 2YOs 2012 – 2014

In order of percentage of winners to runners

In order of percentage of winners to runners

Sire

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Runners

Winners % W/R

50

34

68

484 433 430 432 240 430 98 253 126 253 135 61

320 277 269 271 150 268 61 155 77 155 83 37

66 64 63 63 62 62 62 61 61 61 61 61

Minimum of 50 runners.

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Runners

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Winners % W/R

35

20

57

104 186 36 20 51 42 116 158

53 95 18 10 25 20 55 68

51 51 50 50 49 48 47 43

Minimum of 20 runners.

Statistics supplied by Hyperion Promotions Ltd. Results received to 8th November.

LEADING ACTIVE GB & IRE SIRES OF SPRINTERS (5f - 6f) 2012 – 2014

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In order of percentage of winners to runners Sire

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OASIS DREAM KYLLACHY LOPE DE VEGA KODIAC SHOWCASING ASSERTIVE PIVOTAL WINDSOR KNOT MAJESTIC MISSILE PASTORAL PURSUITS

Runners

Winners % W/R

30

16

53

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137 138 13 102 22 18 76 11 30 80

53 51 50 47 47 46 46 46 44 44

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ROA FORUM The special section for ROA members

Jockeys compensated for late non-runners Richard Wayman says the change is justified and will not disadvantage racehorse owners Although there are some aspects of British racing, especially on the funding side, that put us a long way behind other countries, I don’t think too many would disagree that the standards of raceriding here compare favourably with just about every other racing nation.

At the top of their profession, Ryan Moore’s recent success in the Melbourne Cup drew praise from locals not renowned for their appreciation of foreign sportsmen, while over jumps the record-breaking heroics of AP McCoy impress even those who are otherwise unmoved by our game. Just like in other sports, those at the very top earn a fabulous living from their exploits, but what about jockeys who operate further down the scale, chasing around the country to ride average horses running for much more modest prizemoney?

Earlier this year the Professional Jockeys Association produced an analysis of the average jockey’s finances. This showed the average Flat jockey generated just over £30,000 in riding fees and their share of prize-money. By the time you had deducted their not insignificant expenses headed by fuel costs, agent fees and valet payments, the annual salary was only around £20,000.

It is against this backdrop that the ROA has been working with the PJA and BHA to see whether the financial situation of those jockeys operating below the highest level can be improved without simply adding to the already considerable costs borne by racehorse owners. A number of areas for potential improvements have been identified but one issue remained a constant focus for the jockeys’ representatives.

“Being a jockey is high risk and this new fee should provide some help to riders who are left out of pocket”

Non-runners frustrate us all and, as owners are only too aware, they are an inevitability, because the welfare of our horses will always come first. They are costly for owners and the same can be true for jockeys. As well as foregoing income if a rider chooses one mount over another only for their choice to be pulled out, they can also incur significant expense travelling to a race meeting only for their ride to be declared a non-runner.

It is difficult to think of other professions that wouldn’t apply some sort of call-out charge in similar situations and, indeed, in many other countries jockeys currently receive all or part of their riding fee in such circumstances.

Addressing these concerns is the reason behind the introduction of a new charge to owners to apply from the beginning of 2015.

Under the Rules of Racing, a jockey will receive a payment from the owner for all nonrunners advised to Weatherbys after 9am on the day of the race. The payment will be £47.32 on the Flat and £64.60 over Jumps, which equates to 40% of the respective riding fees.

An important point to stress is that based on the current numbers of non-runners, the total cost to owners of this new charge is very similar to an inflationary increase in the riding fee which would have otherwise been applied. The jockeys have agreed to waive a rise to the riding fee in 2015 which means, in total, the introduction of this payment will have a neutral financial impact on racehorse owners.

Being a jockey is a high risk and often relatively short career, and this new fee should provide some help to riders who are left out of pocket when an intended ride becomes a non-runner relatively late in the day. The ROA believes that addressing this issue whilst also safeguarding owners’ interests should be viewed as progress.

Owner discount on Plus 10 yearling registrations Plus 10 is the industry-funded bonus scheme for owners and breeders in Britain and Ireland that will see eligible two- and three-year-old horses race for cash bonuses of £10,000.

The scheme will operate alongside the British Owners and Breeders Incentive Scheme (BOBIS) in 2015 before expanding into threeyear-old races and replacing BOBIS in 2016.

The Racing Post Yearling Bonus Scheme will be phased out. The Plus 10 registration process involves three payment stages, which must be paid in order and in full for a horse to be eligible to compete for Plus 10 bonuses.

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horses is December 15. The owner registration (third stage) will close at the end of March, but owners can enjoy a discount of £50 on the registration fee if it is paid by December 31.

Thereafter the fee is £350 until March 31 in the horse’s two-year-old season. New owners can check if their horse has been registered and download registration forms at plus10bonus.com or call 020 7152 0026.

The £10,000 is split between the registered owner at the time of the horse’s win (75%), payer of the foal registration fee (10%), payer of the yearling registration fee (10%) and the trainer, jockey and staff of the winning stable (5%). In 2015 there will be 560-plus bonuses.

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ROA Gold Standard set for makeover It’s all change for the ROA Gold Standard Award. The much-coveted accolade has proven to be the yardstick for the owners’ raceday experience since its introduction in 2006, driving up standards across the country and resulting in 21 courses currently holding the Award.

However, in order for it to continue to be a force for positive change, the basis for awarding the Gold Standard will change from the beginning of 2015.

ROA Raceday Committee Chairman Alan Pickering explains why the changes are needed.

How will the Gold Standard Award be changing?

At the moment, there is no limit to the number of courses who can hold the Gold Standard at any one time and little incentive to keep improving once the accolade has been awarded. In future, the Award will be made annually and to a limited number of courses.

Each year, we will be acknowledging the owners’ raceday experience at 12 courses – six large courses and six smaller or mediumsized venues. The Award will only have a one-year lifespan, with the process being repeated annually.

Nottingham is the latest racecourse to be rewarded for its efforts by the ROA

biggest and best will have to go the extra mile in the way they look after owners if they do not want to run the risk of having a blank space on their wall.

How will it be awarded?

A member of the ROA Raceday Committee will continue to visit every racecourse on a raceday to assess their offering to owners. A number of factors will be considered, including pre-raceday communication, badge allocation, car parking, the owners’ arrival, the welcome from racecourse staff, owners’ exclusive facilities, the food and drink offering, viewing arrangements, the post-race treatment of winning owners and prize-money.

All visits will have been completed by October, when the Committee will meet to agree the identity of the six larger and six smaller tracks that offer owners the best raceday experience.

What will happen to the racecourses that currently hold

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How can ROA members get involved?

It is essential that feedback from members forms part of the Gold Standard Award process. This will be achieved by the introduction of an enhanced online survey that members can complete following their own racecourse visits. It will be introduced from the start of 2015 and accessed via the ROA website homepage.

Alan Pickering: new format needed

When will the new Award holders be announced?

the Gold Standard Award?

In November 2015, the ROA will announce the 12 courses that have hit the mark in terms of providing owners with the raceday experience that they deserve. At the ROA Awards in December, we will be announcing the champion in each category.

They will keep the award until the end of 2014. Hopefully they will do everything they can to improve their chances of winning the Award in next year’s competition. To do this, however, even the

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MAGICAL MOMENTS with ROA member Mike Prince

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irst he bought some shares in horses.

Then he bought a share of the business.

Then he left his job to go full-time. It’s fair to say Mike Prince was quite taken with Middleham Park Racing.

A member of the ROA for ten years, Prince, like many others, got into owning racehorses through the syndicate route. He enjoyed the experience so much he was to become a fulltime fourth wheel in the successful ownership vehicle that is Middleham Park, working with Nick Bradley and Tim and Tom Palin.

Also like other owners, his love for the sport began early. “I had my first bet when I was four, on L’Escargot when he won the Grand National, and that was me hooked,” says Prince.

“My mum and dad used to take us all racing quite frequently and I used to bunk off school and go to Chester and Uttoxeter because I could get the train back and get home in time for tea and nobody would be any the wiser!”

From past to present, Prince explains his current circumstances by saying: “My first taste of ownership was when I bought some shares with Middleham Park, and I loved it so much I bought into the business in 2005.

“I was Finance Director for a media/education company called Confetti, based in Nottingham, for ten years but quit the day job around three years ago to concentrate on Middleham Park. It was a no-brainer of a decision!”

With the business nearing 700 winners, there is choice aplenty when it comes to choosing favourite horses and magical moments.

Prince says: “Victoire De Lyphar will always have a special place in my heart. He won on his seasonal debut as a three-year-old at Doncaster in 2010 and then we saved him for the Reg Griffin on charity day at York, which he duly won. It was a £100,000 heritage handicap and our biggest win at that point. Junior then won at

Junior (blinkers) gave Mike Prince (inset) a great thrill when winning the Kim Muir

Royal Ascot three days later, and we haven't looked back.

“Personally, my magical moment would be either when Esentepe and Lily’s Angel came first and third in the 2012 Nell Gwyn, or when Junior came 24 lengths clear in the 2011 Kim Muir at the Cheltenham Festival. I’m not sure I could split them for the sheer exhilaration of the moment.”

With leaves on the ground, the Flat is just about done for 2014, but Middleham Park’s G Force could give Prince and co a memorable send-off this month in Hong Kong.

Prince reveals: “G Force showed he was the real deal at Haydock when he won the Sprint Cup, so we’ll have plenty of fun with him over the next year. We’ve accepted the invitation to Hong Kong, so all being well he’ll run. We’ll have a better idea when we know who he’s lining up against and where he’s drawn, but Hong Kong should suit his style of racing.”

He continues: “He’ll have a Group 1

campaign next year, as will Toormore. It was great to see Toormore bounce back to form in the QEII on Champions Day and the Lockinge seems the obvious place to start, especially as a number of the current crop of Group 1 milers are off to stud.

“Of the current two-year-old colts, Hail Clodius and Crafty Choice at Richard Hannon’s look like they have bright futures, as do fillies Shalabina and Liberty Sky with Richard Fahey.”

And what about a couple to follow under the winter code?

Prince replies: “We don’t have that many jumpers but a couple of unraced ones with Nicky Henderson are pleasing at home.

“Premier Bond, a four-year-old full-brother to Ace High should be making his debut before Christmas, and Duke Dubarry, a three-year-old Presenting gelding, looks a nice prospect. He will probably be out in bumpers in 2015 and then go hurdling next season.”

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In Brief...

Transfer of colours The Rules of Racing now provide the option of transferring or selling colours to non-family members for a charge of £300 exc VAT (Schedule 1 of the Fees in the General Manual (A) refers). Any owners wishing to transfer colours to a non-family member should contact Weatherbys’ ownership registration desk to request a Transfer form, on 01933 440077.

Special rules may apply where a transfer is made to a spouse, parent, child, executors/ administrators, or in the case of a deceased transferor the heir to his/her racing interests.

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Wetherby’s Boxing Day fixture Members on the Racecourse Badge Scheme for Owners are advised that Wetherby’s fixture on Friday, December 26, is not a participating fixture in the scheme and should not have been included in the booklet of participating fixtures.

Apologies for any inconvenience this may potentially cause.

Racing Post 2015 desk calendar Members will receive an ROA-branded Racing Post desk calendar during December. This will be sent out with the ROA car parking label and

a new, more durable ROA-branded car park label holder.

Stud and Stable Staff Awards Nominations for the 2015 Godolphin Stud and Stable Staff Awards close on Friday, December 12. Recommendations are welcomed from owners in appreciation for the hard work of stud and stable staff. Nomination forms can be completed online at britishhorseracing.com or on request by emailing awards@britishhorseracing.com or texting AWARDS to 07584 171551.

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Diary dates and reminders DECEMBER 4 ROA Horseracing Awards sponsored by Weatherbys Bank The Awards celebrate the equine stars of the year and their connections at the InterContinental Hotel, Park Lane, London.

JANUARY 1 Car parking label The ROA/RCA car parking label will be effective. Labels and new holders will be sent out to all ROA members during December.

Racecourse Badge Scheme for Owners

ROA Council member Sheila Bailey (right) with some happy Jackpot winners

Winners galore at Fakenham Those in attendance at Fakenham on November 6 could have been forgiven for thinking the bonfire night celebrations had spilled over into a second day as the fireworks continued on a competitive card, with six eligible horses triumphing in the penultimate renewal of the ROA Owners Jackpot in 2014.

The meeting sparked into life as early as the first, with Stags Leap comfortably prevailing for his owner John Platts in the ROA Owners Jackpot Handicap Hurdle. There was little time to take stock, however, before Brass Monkey proved a popular winner for the Ridgeway Racing For Fun Partnership.

“The tingle as he jumped the last in front was second to none,” said partnership member Michelle Folley. “It’s for days like these you go racing, and with the added bonus of the ROA Owners Jackpot the champagne is really going to be flowing.”

For only the second time the Jackpot also saw a double winner after both Broxbourne and Nicolas Chauvin finished in front for the Gleneagles Partnership. In what emerged to be the first ever runners for the partnership, it was unsurprising to hear that, thanks to two cheques for £1,666, the journey home would be much more enjoyable.

The ROA Owners Jackpot will finish the year over jumps, with the concluding fixture set for Bangor-on-Dee on Friday, December 12.

• Around 40 members gathered before racing at Fakenham for the final ROA regional meeting of the year. Chief Executive Richard Wayman gave an update on current issues and the ROA’s work, while Council members Sheila Bailey and Justin Wadham and members of the ROA staff were on hand to discuss ownership and membership issues.

During late December/early January all members with a Horseracing Privilege Card that has been activated onto the 2015 scheme will receive a letter of confirmation and booklet of participating fixtures. This is an automated process, so ROA members who qualify will automatically have their cards activated for the scheme. Any members who feel they qualify for the Racecourse Badge Scheme for Owners and have not received the letter or booklet by January 10 should contact the ROA office.

MARCH 10-13 ROA Marquee at the Cheltenham Festival Badges for the ROA marquee at the Cheltenham Festival will go on sale in the New Year. This facility always proves very popular with members and early booking is highly recommended. In the meantime, an early booking rate applies on admission tickets into the racecourse until December 13. Tickets can be bought online at cheltenham.co.uk or by calling 0844 579 3003.

Booking for all ROA events can be made online at racehorseowners.net or by calling the ROA on 020 7152 0200

Exeter enhances owner offering for 2014/15 Exeter racecourse has introduced a number of enhancements for owners during its 2014/15 season headed by a new owners’ and trainers’ entrance hall.

With leather sofas and plenty of local literature available, one wall has been decorated with ceramic images depicting the colours of every Haldon Gold Cup winner since the race’s inception in 1982, meaning the Crossed Fingers Partnership will be added to the display following God’s Own’s victory at the beginning of the month.

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In addition, each winning owner will be presented with a handmade tankard, which has been specifically commissioned for the racecourse and features the names of stars who have raced at Exeter, such as Best Mate, Denman, Kauto Star and Cue Card.

The racecourse has also teamed up with Devon Hampers to create a special hamper comprising a dozen local products that will be presented to the winning owner of each day’s feature race at its 15 meetings during its 2014-2015 season.

Lucky owners will receive a hamper

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Perfect stocking fillers this Christmas Christmas sales are a vital part of the Injured Jockeys Fund’s income and IJF Christmas cards and calendars are always well received by racing devotees. This year the IJF has launched a supporters club that will give people the opportunity to support the IJF’s work whilst enjoying some unique benefits.

An annual subscription of £40 includes a welcome pack, 10% discount on all IJF merchandise and a host of exclusive ‘behind the scenes’ opportunities such as social events and unique access to racing’s leading names.

All gifts can be purchased online at www.ijf.org.uk or by calling 08080 453453.

Inkerman goods are offering ROA members a 10% discount on a range of glassware, leather and jewellery gifts. All items arrive beautifully wrapped in red boxes, and many products can be personalised with initials.

For more details see www.inkerman.co.uk/sales@inkerman.co.uk or telephone 01892 752211 quoting the discount code ROA14. Discount Code excludes Roberts Radio and Montblanc Products. No minimum orders. Code expires December 20.

Racing Scarves are offering ROA members a 20% discount off the cost of multiple scarf orders to keep the chill out this winter. This offer is particularly suited to racing partnerships and syndicates as minimum orders are 25 or 50 depending on the design.

Please note that individual scarves cannot be produced. Please use the code ROA20 when placing an order to enjoy this discount. Call 01242 500292 or visit racingscarves.co.uk.

Weatherbys provide a range of

The Injured Jockeys Fund Christmas cards are always popular with racing fans

personalised gifts and bespoke mementos appropriate for all owners, and a wide choice of racing books and titles at weatherbysshop.co.uk. Weatherbys also has a giftshop which features mugs, prints and phone covers suitable for stocking fillers.

Members can enjoy a 10% discount on orders using the promotional code Weatherbys10 until the end of December. The full range can be seen at weatherbyspersonalisedgifts.co.uk.

ROA members can enjoy a 33% discount

on prints and gifts on a stunning range of Racing Post photos. Details of the voucher code can be found in the member area of the ROA website at racehorseowners.net.

A £20 free credit on Timeform online subscriptions or features is also available to members. Timeform products provide an expert analysis of racing with form, tips and ratings. Members can claim their credit by entering the voucher code, which appears in the member area of the ROA website.

ROA/JCR admission scheme commitment We are delighted to reveal that Jockey Club Racecourses have committed to continue the ROA/JCR admission scheme for ROA members into 2015.

This popular scheme allows free premier enclosure admission to selected fixtures to ROA members who don’t currently qualify for the ROA Racecourse Badge Scheme for Owners. It is open to ROA members who own up to 50% of a horse in training, and are part of a joint ownership or a nonnominated partner in a racing partnership.

The full list of fixtures included in the ROA/JCR racecourse admission scheme will be confirmed before the new year.

Each ROA member will be able to order a maximum of two badges for these fixtures, booked in advance.

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applauded the extension of the scheme, saying: “This is excellent news and I’m very grateful that Jockey Club Racecourses are recognising the contribution made by owners who own part, but less than half, of a horse.

“Providing free admission helps owners to feel valued and appreciated, and is likely to encourage some to become more deeply involved and engaged in pursuing their passion.”

To enjoy free admission under the ROA/JCR admission scheme, members are required to book tickets in advance through the online JCR ticketing system, which can be accessed via the member area of the ROA website at racehorseowners.net.

For badges booked seven days or more in advance, badges will be posted. For

bookings made within a week of the fixture, badges will be available for collection at the general ticket collection point at the racecourse (not the owners’ entrance).

Free admission under the scheme would apply only to those who reserve badges in advance, and not to members who turn up on the day.

This month’s fixtures December 4 Market Rasen December 4 Wincanton December 5 Exeter December 5 Sandown Park December 12 Cheltenham December 13 Cheltenham December 14 Carlisle December 18 Exeter December 26 Huntingdon December 30 Haydock Park

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Flat Racecourse League Table Ptn Racecourse

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35

Ascot York Epsom Downs Goodwood Newmarket Chester Doncaster Newbury Sandown Park Haydock Park Musselburgh Ripon Pontefract Ayr Lingfield Park Salisbury Thirsk Ffos Las Newcastle Hamilton Park Beverley Carlisle Kempton Park Leicester Nottingham Windsor Bath Catterick Bridge Yarmouth Redcar Wolverhampton Chepstow Brighton Warwick Southwell Total

Figures for period November 1, 2013 to October 31, 2014

Ownership

Avg racecourse spend per fixture (£)

Avg HBLB spend per fixture (£)

Avg owner spend per fixture (£)

Avg prizemoney per fixture (£)

Total no. of fixtures

Total prize-money (£)

Avg racecourse spend per fixture 2012-13 (£)

I I JCR I JCR I ARC I JCR JCR I I I I ARC I I I ARC I I JCR JCR I JCR ARC ARC I ARC I ARC ARC ARC JCR ARC

360,861 169,619 118,711 88,884 88,635 81,446 63,220 55,785 54,675 47,465 39,444 31,611 30,775 30,759 28,159 27,442 27,174 24,490 23,350 22,641 21,852 21,234 20,335 20,104 19,709 19,707 17,760 16,912 16,478 16,447 16,058 13,169 12,786 11,757 11,164 40,575

140,561 101,795 84,726 77,199 86,754 47,063 59,888 61,138 56,651 48,867 25,367 28,557 33,991 33,722 24,316 30,130 21,832 9,578 23,269 21,083 19,205 17,357 18,520 22,309 22,981 22,168 15,996 20,273 20,188 19,865 18,320 14,808 16,723 16,166 19,609 33,751

218,152 93,710 109,390 26,402 88,436 10,055 43,632 27,621 23,058 17,037 5,677 4,658 3,719 9,959 4,313 4,942 5,603 3,323 7,075 3,333 2,954 3,945 3,802 4,822 5,463 4,795 3,165 2,739 3,389 15,480 2,723 2,874 2,481 3,305 1,996 18,119

719,574 365,418 312,828 192,709 264,075 138,898 167,333 144,853 134,759 113,796 70,489 64,825 68,485 74,735 56,893 63,181 54,943 37,390 54,532 47,058 44,289 42,689 42,868 47,521 48,588 47,040 37,671 40,276 40,273 51,791 37,199 31,620 31,991 31,228 32,770 92,671

18 17 11 19 40 15 24 17 16 23 17 16 15 17 96 15 15 7 17 18 18 13 83 21 23 27 20 17 23 17 102 13 21 6 51 888

12,952,340 6,212,100 3,441,104 3,661,465 10,562,981 2,083,471 4,016,000 2,462,493 2,156,139 2,666,084 1,198,306 1,037,208 1,027,280 1,270,500 5,445,451 947,720 824,139 243,035 927,050 847,044 797,200 554,959 3,558,037 997,934 1,117,519 1,270,087 753,415 684,700 926,282 880,450 3,794,339 411,058 671,809 187,365 1,671,248 82,258,310

349,480 160,032 120,544 84,714 91,764 77,393 55,019 46,673 53,586 41,800 31,993 27,030 28,935 29,569 13,624 27,239 20,943 23,461 20,782 17,024 17,864 21,280 18,269 18,719 16,558 20,262 14,678 15,840 12,327 14,657 11,038 10,464 8,671 15,897 9,228 36,028

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Jumps Racecourse League Table Ptn Racecourse

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40

Aintree Cheltenham Sandown Park Ascot Haydock Park Kempton Park Newbury Ayr Wincanton Chepstow Perth Newcastle Wetherby Cartmel Kelso Ludlow Doncaster Stratford-on-Avon Musselburgh Newton Abbot Huntingdon Exeter Market Rasen Fakenham Carlisle Warwick Ffos Las Uttoxeter Bangor-on-Dee Catterick Bridge Fontwell Park Hexham Worcester Plumpton Lingfield Park Taunton Southwell Sedgefield Leicester Towcester Total

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Avg racecourse spend per fixture (£)

Avg HBLB spend per fixture (£)

Avg owner spend per fixture (£)

Avg prizemoney per fixture (£)

Total no. of fixtures

Total prize-money (£)

Avg racecourse spend per fixture 2012-13 (£)

JCR JCR JCR I JCR JCR I I JCR ARC I ARC I I I I ARC I I I JCR JCR JCR I JCR JCR I ARC I I ARC I ARC I ARC I ARC ARC I I

240,668 209,205 103,163 101,655 88,098 56,558 47,222 32,761 29,007 27,102 25,650 25,605 25,252 24,425 24,096 23,911 23,093 22,552 21,859 21,497 21,375 21,040 20,816 19,117 19,109 17,953 16,663 16,153 16,146 15,554 14,873 14,435 14,083 13,834 13,805 13,221 12,593 11,849 11,747 10,227 32,663

126,713 123,019 78,580 86,381 75,226 57,106 68,498 41,346 29,761 30,362 22,799 28,654 24,890 18,129 31,672 33,240 43,762 18,394 34,379 26,962 20,494 29,217 26,114 20,716 25,903 38,225 22,052 22,738 19,102 26,703 22,565 17,399 18,487 26,976 21,240 24,842 18,061 21,046 26,216 15,721 33,302

69,309 56,609 17,396 16,745 16,030 9,650 16,025 11,527 5,047 7,288 1,953 4,577 4,554 4,014 3,099 4,733 6,613 3,866 4,298 0 3,917 4,508 4,418 0 3,868 5,527 3,302 4,602 3,358 2,484 3,170 2,402 3,263 3,598 2,026 3,823 2,793 2,843 4,080 2,877 7,231

437,565 388,833 201,139 206,031 180,519 123,583 131,745 86,634 63,815 64,751 50,516 59,536 55,080 46,568 59,867 61,884 73,469 44,976 61,236 48,459 45,785 55,232 51,348 39,834 49,114 61,704 42,018 43,493 38,606 44,742 40,609 34,757 35,833 44,408 37,071 41,886 33,447 36,087 42,073 28,825 73,410

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3,500,518 6,221,329 1,407,973 1,648,249 1,547,310 1,606,585 1,449,191 866,339 1,021,033 906,520 808,250 595,358 1,046,513 325,975 778,269 866,373 734,685 764,600 612,358 872,259 732,559 828,485 1,078,300 398,337 589,364 678,743 693,290 1,043,829 501,874 447,415 771,564 486,600 788,317 621,706 195,948 586,400 702,382 721,741 420,732 461,200 40,328,470

231,797 234,051 68,189 109,586 103,319 44,049 42,259 32,818 21,532 25,900 28,814 21,633 24,017 24,931 19,117 19,625 13,969 17,770 24,399 20,588 11,689 14,637 18,579 14,561 14,390 27,256 17,365 11,644 8,001 5,470 13,156 12,934 12,278 14,181 9,543 17,872 11,872 7,207 9,682 9,022 30,623

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EXPLANATION The tables set out the average prize-money at each fixture staged by a racecourse over the last 12 months. They show how this is made up of the three sources of prizemoney: 1. Racecourses’ contribution 2. Levy Board (HBLB) 3. Owners The tables also confirm the number of fixtures staged and the total amount of prize-money paid out by each racecourse throughout this period.

The racecourses are ordered by the average amount of their own contribution to prizemoney at each fixture. This contribution originates from various sources including media rights, admission revenues and racecourse sponsors.

If a racecourse has increased its average contribution at each fixture compared with the previous 12 months, it receives a green ‘up’ arrow. If its average contribution has fallen, however, it receives a red ‘down’ arrow.

As these tables are based on the prize-money paid out by each racecourse, the abandonment of a major fixture could distort a racecourse’s performance.

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TBA FORUM The special section for TBA members

The Economic Impact Study – a report on our progress Nine months ago we shared with you the fascinating and insightful findings from the report we commissioned into the Economic Impact Study of Thoroughbred Breeding in the UK. As you may recall, some of the figures shown were concerning and, as a result, the Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association’s strategy for 2014 was steered towards creating solutions for the issues raised.

Some of the answers are more clear and simple than others. So, whilst some great initiatives have been introduced already, there are more in the pipeline. As we have been working away furiously on these projects we wanted to give an update, where we can, on the particular focus areas.

From the outset we made it our mission to ensure we focused on the small breeders as this was a key issue highlighted by the report.

While bigger projects and ideas were initiated, simple things can make all the difference and so our TBA Buying Group was set up offering all members access to worthwhile and impressive discounts across a vast range of products. The introduction of this unique offering was received extremely well and we currently see members registering for this benefit every day.

Acknowledging that our Board lacked a small breeder representative, another move for us was to set up a Small Breeders’ Group.

This team of members meets to discuss concepts and concerns with TBA Board member Philip Newton and Chief Executive Louise Kemble so that their notions, apprehensions and experience can be relayed and used when planning or compiling proposals and looking into supporting schemes, etc.

As the financial battles of most breeders were made very apparent by the study, we set about researching government schemes in existence in the UK and, for comparative reasons, in France and Ireland, in order to establish if there is a level playing field.

Richard Lancaster addresses the audience at the EIS Launch earlier this year

We have almost completed the review and, once finalised, the results will provide us with some sound statistics and information on the different support mechanisms. The TBA then plans to identify if there are any opportunities that can lead towards harmonisation across all markets without jeopardising those arrangements that are currently beneficial to UK breeders.

With the new CAP arrangements going live on January 1, 2015, we are monitoring the guidance being issued by government. At present this is very fragmented and we await a clearer idea as to how the UK is going to apply the reformed policy. As soon as we hear anything on this front we will ensure you are updated. In addition to this activity, The Bloodstock Taxation Guide has been updated and is available on the TBA website.

The concerning situation with National Hunt breeding was a key message from the study and, as a result, the TBA has for the last nine months been working on a new supportive scheme to address the low demand for fillies as racing prospects.

Alongside our programme of enhanced fillies races, the TBA has been focusing on The NH Mares Owners Prize Scheme (‘NH MOPS’) which was announced to NH

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breeders earlier this year. The basis of the scheme is that it would provide substantial prizes for British-bred or sired NH fillies winning MOPS events. These prizes would have a major impact on the prospects of British NH breeders by improving the prizes paid for fillies nominated to the scheme and increasing the chances of breeders recovering the costs of putting their most promising homebred fillies into training.

The funding required for the scheme is far beyond anything that could be generated by income from nominations, and an approach was made to the Levy Board. Getting this funding agreed has proved a lengthy process, since it involves negotiation with various racing bodies, all of whom are well aware that racing funds are not easily come by.

Information provided by the Economic Impact Study has been very helpful in this, as were the letters of support sent by many breeders; but at the time of writing there is more to do. However, we still hope that the Levy Board will support our proposal for NH MOPS in 2015, and as soon as we can tell you more we shall.

Recognising that there are many breeders retiring and this coupled with the British foal crop versus race programme statistics, the TBA sees the requirement to be investing both time and money into the next generation of breeders and therefore the Next Generation Club (NGC) and its effectiveness.

As such a new NGC strategy has been compiled and will be introduced next year. At the start of the year, the picture painted by the report could have been labelled ‘worrying’, but we remain confident that the work the TBA has been doing subsequently – and will continue to do – will help to brighten the future of thoroughbred breeding and, as a consequence, racing.

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Jill Forrester a great credit to Lawn Stud Our November award winner is Jill Forrester, Stud Groom at Lawn Stud in Northamptonshire, where she has worked since 2007.

During this time, Jill has managed the broodmare band as well as the yearlings and horses out of training, being responsible for homebreds such as Regardez, Ceilidh House and Tottie, as well as caring for Look Here in her two-year-old break.

Stud owner Julian Richmond-Watson nominated Jill for her consistently high standards, excellent animal husbandry and horse handling skills, and she also received plaudits from agent James Delahooke for her calm, determined and professional attitude, and from trainer Ralph Beckett for her ability to produce well-handled young horses ready for the transition to racing. A conscientious and dedicated employee who ensures that her charges are relaxed, healthy and happy, Jill richly deserves to win this month’s TBA Award.

The TBA Stud Staff Award is awarded bi-monthly and consists of a cheque for £200, a certificate and membership of the TBA for a year.

To nominate a member of staff, please complete a nomination form available on the TBA website or from Stanstead House.

Jill is pictured receiving her award from TBA Chairman Richard Lancaster at Newmarket racecourse on October 22

Here come the girls: represent the TBA at your local point-to-point

The TBA’s Lucinda Miller with other national sponsors at the PPA media day

As part of the TBA’s mandate to improve race opportunities for mares, we are delighted to announce the continued support of point-to-point in a renewed sponsorship agreement.

On the back of the success of last year’s sponsorship, and after taking on board feedback from members and industry, the TBA has been working with the Point-toPoint Authority (PPA) to select a number of races taking place from January to May across the country, ensuring an improved geographical spread and subsequently creating an increase in mares-only races.

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on behalf of the TBA, please contact us on 01638 661321 or via an email to Lucinda.Miller@thetba.co.uk.

Commenting on the backing, TBA Chief Executive Louise Kemble said: “We look forward to this renewed sponsorship. Our goal is to ensure we provide more opportunities for mares and a boost to the grassroots level of the sport so we are delighted to be increasing our support from eight to ten races this year.”

Clare Hazell of the PPA added: “We are very pleased that the TBA has decided to build upon our successful partnership by continuing as a national sponsor.

“This is good news for our ambitious sport and those fixtures staging these important races next season will fully embrace the TBA’s generous support.”

Confirmed TBA mares-only races for 2015 Tiverton Chipley Park Waveney Harriers Higham New Forest Larkhill Holcombe Whittington Oakley Brafield-on-the-Green North Warwickshire Hunt Club Mollington East Sussex & Romney Marsh Aldington Melton Hunt Club Garthorpe West Wales Area Club Lydstep Border Hexham

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TBA Sponsors National Stud Apprenticeship Course

TBA diary dates SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29 TBA Mares’ Listed Novice Hurdle Race at Newbury, Hennessy day

DECEMBER 9-11 TBA Annual Stud Farming Course at the British Racing School Contact Christine Standley at the TBA on 01638 661321 or Christine@thetba.co.uk

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2 Next Generation Club Visit to Tattersalls followed by a tour of Rossdales. Contact info@the-ngc.co.uk for more information or to register.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7 EBF/TBA Mares’ Novices’ Chase Series at Huntingdon

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18 EBF/TBA Mares’ Novices’ Chase Series at Exeter

NEW MEMBERS The latest recruits to the National Stud apprenticeship course

This year’s new intake of youngsters embarking on the National Stud’s Apprenticeship course is being supported by the TBA, which has sponsored them on the first part of the journey to fulltime employment in the breeding industry.

Nineteen students recently started their nine-week residential course, which is designed to prepare them for the rigours of working on a stud farm. Between October and December they will gain practical experience at the National Stud and on local stud farms, attend the sales at Tattersalls and learn about reproductive management of the mare, young stock care, foaling, health and safety and other relevant topics. After successful completion of the course, students are guaranteed a work placement where they will achieve their Level 2 Diploma in Racehorse Care – Breeding, and from that be ready to follow their careers in the industry.

Frederic E Barrelet, Cambridgeshire; Michael Burbidge, Wiltshire; Francis G Butler, Norfolk; Barrie Etchells, Kent; Mrs Antonia Jamison, West Sussex; Paul Merritt, Surrey; Mrs Kay L Oliver, Nottinghamshire; Peter O’Neill, Surrey; Charlie Parker, Berkshire; Ms Julia SmithPearse, Suffolk; Guy H Watkins, West Sussex; A M Wragg, Nottinghamshire; Nick Yates, Worcestershire.

18-35 MEMBERS Miss Emma Beazley, Norfolk; Miss Aimi Kerton, Wiltshire; Tim O’Hagan, Avon.

Final opportunity to nominate for the Godolphin Awards The deadline for nominations for the Awards is Friday, December 12.

With £120,000 in prize-money to be awarded to some of the most dedicated staff in the industry, and their respective yards, don’t miss the nomination deadline. TBA members have received nomination forms in their recent mailing, and nominations can be made by anyone within the industry. This means trainers, owners, managers or colleagues can all show their appreciation for the hard work of stud and stable staff.

The Awards, sponsored by Godolphin and run by the British Horseracing Authority in association with the Racing Post, are divided into the following categories; Leadership Award, Rider/Groom Award, Stud Staff Award, Dedication to Racing Award, David Nicholson Newcomer Award and the Administration Staff

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Award. Stud staff qualify for all awards apart from the Rider/Groom category.

One of the world’s best jockeys, Ryan Moore, will present the trophies at the Godolphin Stud and Stable Staff Awards 2015, taking place at the Jumeirah Carlton Tower Hotel in Knightsbridge, London, on Monday, February 23.

He will join presenter Clare Balding on stage in front of an audience that will include leading industry figures and media as well as the finalists, their colleagues and family.

Nomination forms can be completed and submitted online, via www.britishhorseracing.com/stablestaff or www.racingpost.com.

Alternatively, email awards@britishhorseracing.com or simply text AWARDS to 07584 171551 and a member of the team will arrange for a form to be sent out.

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Stud Farming Course – last chance to sign up Racing Post Trophy winner Elm Park

Special Merit October/November: Kingsclere Stud Racing Post Trophy winner Elm Park goes back five generations to the mare Anippe, who was acquired by her trainer Ian Balding and his family as the owner was not interested in breeding.

Not only was Elm Park’s sire Phoenix Reach also trained at Park House, Kingsclere, but so too were his first four (homebred) dams, Lady Brora (by Dashing Blade), Tweed Mill (by Selkirk), Island Mill (by Mill Reef) and Siliciana (by Silly Season), as well as their respective sires.

While Kingsclere Stud has always been the particular domain of Ian’s wife Emma, Elm Park is still part-owned by Kingsclere Racing, whose runners carry the Paul Mellon colours, as did Mill Reef and Silly Season. The popular American philanthropist used to keep a few mares at both Kingsclere and New England Stud.

Elm Park’s pedigree is topped and tailed by two additional connections with Kingsclere. His maternal grandsire Dashing Blade was by Mill Reef’s grandson Elegant Air (ex Elegant Tern), two more Paul Mellon/Kingsclere runners, while his sixth dam River Clyde was by Falls Of Clyde.

In 1946, Bunty Vaughan and her sister Bobs Protheroe-Beynon of Langham Stud in Dorset (Bobs instigated the TBA’s annual Special Merit award for a small breeder) acquired Falls Of Clyde from Evan Williams, who then trained at Kingsclere and saddled the colt to win the following year’s July Cup. Elm Park is Lady Brora’s second foal.

Since then she has produced a yearling colt by Shirocco (sire of her initial offspring Jonny Rae), and a filly foal by homebred Passing Glance, sire of the stable’s international flagbearer Side Glance, another homebred. Currently the mare is not in foal, but a reunion with Phoenix Reach looks assured.

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For a greater understanding of the stud farming world, join our three-day course

There is still time to register as a delegate on this year’s TBA Stud Farming Course which takes place at the British Racing School and runs from Tuesday, December 9 to Thursday, December 11.

The course covers a multitude of stud management topics, from conception of the potential racehorse through to the management of limb deformities to ensure soundness, and taking in transport, infectious disease, nutrition and pedigrees along the way. Delegates will get

to know each other over dinner on the first evening and as a break from the lecture theatre will visit the Newmarket Equine Hospital and Darley’s pre-training yard at Hamilton Hill, as well as having an early morning tour of the British Racing School.

The course fee for 2014 is £395 for TBA members or £495 for non-members. For more information contact Christine Standley at Stanstead House on 01638 661321 or email Christine.standley@thetba.co.uk

The TBA team at Stanstead House would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas

From left to right: Pauline Stoddart, Carrie Cherry, Lucinda Miller, Louise Kemble, Christine Standley and Caroline Turnbull

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TBA FORUM The TBA/HBLB Elite Mares National Hunt Scheme: is your mare eligible for free or subsidised nominations for next season?

Team National Hunt As the National Hunt season gets under way the TBA would like to introduce the 2014/2015 TBA National Hunt Committee. All members of the committee seek to maintain and create the most suitable environment for the breeding of National Hunt horses in Great Britain. For any National Hunt-related enquires, please contact Stanstead House.

ROBERT WALEY-COHEN (CHAIRMAN) - Upton Viva Stud RICHARD ASTON - Goldford Stud DAVID FUTTER - Yorton Farm Stud PETER HOCKENHULL - Shade Oak Stud TIM KENT - Doncaster Bloodstock Sales NICK LUCK - Chanel 4 Racing and NH breeder

In the four years that the TBA/HBLB Elite Mares National Hunt Scheme has been running, almost 250 mares have been covered using free or subsidised nominations.

The TBA would like even more of the best British NH mares to visit British stallions and next year’s new, improved scheme gives owners of high-class NH broodmares further incentives to do so.

British-based mares aged 18 years and under that have achieved a defined level of NH racing performance, or that have produced NH runners of a defined level, will be able to visit British-based NH stallions on significantly advantageous terms, provided that they are owned by Members of the Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association.

NH Stallions included in the scheme are divided into two categories, Proven or High Potential, dependent on their racing and breeding records.

If your mare is in one of the categories below, you may be eligible for free or subsidised nominations for next season...

Category 1: Mares that achieved a peak official rating of 135 or more (Category 1a) or that have produced a NH winner rated 150 or more (Category 1b).

Category 2: Mares that achieved a peak official rating of between 125 and 134 (Category 2a) or that have produced a NH winner rated 140-149 (Category 2b).

The TBA will shortly be writing to all owners of eligible mares and sending them the necessary application form to apply for the scheme.

Full details can be found on the TBA website www.thetba.co.uk, or contact Stanstead House.

BRYAN MAYOH - TBA Board Member and NH Breeder MATT MITCHELL - Brightwells AIDEN MURPHY - Warren Chase Stud SIMON SWEETING - Overbury Stud TOM SYMONDS - National Hunt trainer LIZ LUCAS (from 2015) - Swanbridge Veterinary Group LOUISE KEMBLE - TBA Chief Executive

Competitive Newmarket fillies’ handicap concludes TBA Flat sponsorship for 2014

TBA member Helen Gipson and TBA Membership Manager Carrie Cherry present the award to a representative from The Caledonian Racing Society, owners of the Hughie Morrison-trained Fruit Pastille (Pastoral Pursuits)

Breeders’ Prizes National Hunt HBLB Breeders’ Prizes worth £1,000 or more Breeder

Prize (£)

Based on date money was paid

Horse

Sire

Dam

Date

Course

Karen George

1,750

Henryville

Generous

Aquavita

04/10/2014

Fontwell Park

Michael Griese and Mrs Mary Griese

1,500

Little Jon

Pasternak

Jowoody

10/10/2014

Newton Abbot

Stewart Pike

2,000

Splash Of Ginge

Oscar

Land Of Honour

18/10/2014

Cheltenham

Mrs M. D. W. Morrison

5,000

Blaklion

Kayf Tara

Franciscaine

25/10/2014

Chepstow

Cobhall Court Stud

8,000

Wishfull Thinking

Alflora

Poussetiere Deux

25/10/2014

Aintree

A. E. Smith and Co

2,500

Parsnip Pete

Pasternak

Bella Coola

26/10/2014

Aintree

R. D and Mrs J. S. Chugg

1,000

Supreme Present

Presenting

Deep Sunset

29/10/2014

Taunton

London Thoroughbred Services Ltd

4,000

Shadows Lengthen

Dansili

Bay Shade

31/10/2014

Wetherby

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Madame Chiang won the Group 1 Fillies & Mares Stakes at Ascot carrying the second colours of Kirsten Rausing, whose other representative was the better-fancied Cubanita – a fortnight later Cubanita, recently retired, finished second at the top level in Germany.

Five-year-old Cubanita (Selkirk) and threeyear-old Madame Chiang (Archipenko), both conceived at their owner/breeder’s Lanwades Stud in Newmarket, had each won a Group 3 this spring, the former the John Porter Stakes and latter Musidora Stakes.

It was at Ascot that Rausing recorded a famous success as a breeder with the Niniski colt Petoski in the 1985 King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes. Champions Day has a particular resonance as her star homebred grey filly Alborada won the Champion Stakes at Newmarket in 1998 and 1999.

Sentiment must have played its part when Rausing, former Chairman of the TBA, acquired Madame Chiang’s grandam Kaliniski, as the mare belonged to the first crop of Niniski, the very first stallion ever stood at Lanwades.

One of Sheikh Mohammed’s early homebreds, Kaliniski won the Lingfield Oaks Trial, was runner-up in the Yorkshire Oaks and ran fourth in the Epsom Classic behind her owner’s Triple Crown heroine Oh So Sharp.

However, Madame Chiang’s dam, Robe Chinoise, managed to win only two small races at that age before being mated almost exclusively with Lanwades stallions. Both Madam Chiang’s sire and dam trace back to the great matriarch Special, the dam of Nureyev and the grandam of Sadler’s Wells.

Rausing was responsible for another homebred Group-winning filly with Alea Iacta in the Prix Thomas Bryon at Saint-Cloud – her dam Almiranta and third dam Alborada have the same names as two good fillies of the 1960s.

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wenty-two speakers, four visits, two lunches, one evening in the historic Jockey Club Rooms and more than 80 delegates all combined to ensure the first Next Generation Club Careers Course was a resounding success.

TBA Chairman Richard Lancaster opened proceedings at Tattersalls’ Park Paddocks on a bright and breezy November morning, and from there NGC members were treated to a whistlestop tour of the racing and breeding industries.

Shadwell HR Manager Simon Beet imparted some invaluable advice regarding career progression for those looking to enter the industry and those already in it, while Annie Bishop from Abingdon and Witney College, the National Stud’s Tabbi Smith, Zoe

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Elliott from the BHA and current Darley Flying Start students Miriam Wadham and Violet Hesketh gave delegates an overview of the various courses and professional qualifications available.

In addition, National Stud Director Brian O’Rourke, bloodstock agent Matt Coleman and Whitsbury Manor Stud Manager Phil Haworth discussed their various routes into the industry and gave detailed insights on their current roles. Juddmonte nominations executive James O’Donnell won over the crowd when opening his presentation with a video of Frankel demolishing his Queen Anne rivals – and closed with a replay of Cartier Horse of the Year Kingman routing the St James’s Palace field at Royal Ascot.

On day two, Weatherbys company secretary Adrian McGlynn ensured the delegates were fully awake after the previous evening’s social event at the Jockey Club Rooms – which included an overview racing broadcasting from RUK’s Oli Bell – with a humorous look at the many roles undertaken by the historic company, following a talk from Shadwell marketing and nominations manager Rachael Gowland on the role of a stud secretary. The pair preceded talks in the afternoon on the diverse topics of equine transport, bloodstock marketing, bloodstock insurance and accountancy and taxation from BBA’s Kevin Needham, Darley’s Ali Rea, Kate Moon and Siena Knight-Bruce from Amlin Insurance, and Tom Blanshard and Hannah

Hiscock of Smith & Williamson.

Matt Prior, the latest addition to the auctioneers’ roster at Tattersalls and an NGC committee member, closed the first day in fine style with a tour of Park Paddocks and a few entertaining anecdotes from the sales ring, while Ed Walker ensured day two, and the course itself, closed in suitable fashion with an inspiring talk about life as a trainer.

However, the industry not being a sedentary one, delegates were also given the opportunity to get out and about, with visits to Cheveley Park and Dalham Hall studs, the Newmarket Equine Hospital and Darley’s pre-training establishment at Hamilton Hill all crammed into what was a packed, broad, but most of all enjoyable, itinerary.

One of the primary aims of the Next Generation Club is to encourage and support those wishing to work in the diverse and rewarding racing and breeding industries.

With funding from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the BHA and TBA, November’s Careers Course helped the NGC achieve a major goal for 2014.

It could not have been achieved without the months of hard work from TBA employment and education manager Caroline Turnbull and BHA Graduate Scheme graduate Sara Rose – who features in next month’s edition – but most of all, the committee would like to thank all of the speakers, who gave up their valuable time for free to support the next generation of our industry.

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VET FORUM: THE EXPERT VIEW

By DEIDRE CARSON BVSC, MRCVS

Covering fillies in training There are advantages to be had – but not without careful consideration

Covering a filly while in training can make a temperamental horse more biddable and improve performance, but there’s no guarantee

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very year a certain proportion of fillies in training are covered and a significant percentage of them successfully conceive. As we approach the beginning of another breeding season it might be interesting to look at some of the reasons why fillies might be covered in training, some of the advantages and disadvantages of covering them, some of the problems encountered, and some of the alternatives which might need to be explored when the aim is to manage behaviour rather than produce a foal.

undergo significant behavioural changes when they are in season, in some instances rendering them essentially un-trainable for five days out of 21. Covering the filly and having her conceive is one way of providing a prolonged period without cycling so that her training and racing can continue without interference by her unhelpful temperament.

A third reason is to try to exploit the physiological positives that occur with pregnancy, which in some cases can result in improved performance on the racecourse and the much coveted increase in value of the individual and her offspring.

Why cover a filly in training?

Very often the decision is made to cover a filly in training because the connections wish to optimise the use of that period of time – usually as a three- or four-year-old – so that they might be a step on the way to having a foal from the filly whilst still having a chance of winning a race with her. Both might, hopefully, improve her value, while the latter would also increase the value of the foal that she is carrying.

For some people, putting a filly in foal is a method of attempting to alter behaviour or improving the temperament of a tricky filly.

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Surely it’s a simple thing?

After an initial gynaecological examination to ensure that the reproductive tract is normal, it is often easier to see if she is cycling and to follow the filly’s cycle by taking serial blood samples to monitor progesterone levels, rather than doing repeated gynaecological examinations.

Fillies in training are less likely to cycle early in the season or as regularly (at least early on) as their stud-based counterparts and this can scupper any hope of an early mating.

This is partly due to the fact that the latter are usually given access to grazing and more

daylight. Additionally, the physiological effects of an intensive training regime can have a negative effect on a filly’s reproductive cycle so that they do not start to ovulate until much later in the season.

It may be necessary to resort to medical treatment such as Regumate, sulpiride or domperidone to try to stimulate ovarian activity. These treatments may or may not have the desired effect and the period of treatment might be prolonged or might be interrupted due to racing commitments.

The actual physical process of doing examinations in training yards can also be made more difficult due to the lack of experience of yard staff in handling fillies for these examinations and procedures, lack of facilities, and in some cases the need for sedation to ensure that the procedure is safe for the horse as well as the veterinary surgeon and handlers. Because there are no teasers in training yards, examinations are often more frequent than on a stud.

Another factor to consider is the proposed racing schedule and how this may or may not clash with being able to send the filly off for covering at the most appropriate time. It is very important to have an idea of whether the priority is to get the filly onto the racecourse

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or to get her covered, as it may not be possible to achieve both if they both need to be done on the same day or if the filly is having to travel a long distance for one or the other event. On a practical level, hind shoes need to be removed for covering, transport has to be arranged, she may need to be sedated for covering, post-breeding treatments may be required, and if the filly doesn’t conceive then the whole process has to be repeated only two to three weeks later.

Fillies in training also need to undergo the same pre-breeding testing regime as other walking-in mares. This is usually based on the HBLB Codes of Practice and the TBArecommended guidelines, but individual stallion owners and studs might have additional pre-breeding test requirements.

NSFA recommends their ‘breeding regulations’ to their members. Because of their lack of experience in such matters, some trainers find it difficult to get their head around these tests and the paperwork involved, and occasionally a covering slot is missed due to a missing bit of paper. This can be very frustrating for all concerned.

What are the advantages and disadvantages?

As touched on earlier, there can be significant physiological benefits to having a filly in training conceive. The hormone changes associated with pregnancy, certainly in the early stages, are dominated by an increase in levels of progesterone. This hormone tends to have a placatory effect on temperament so that a difficult filly might become calmer and more kind-natured. They appear to ‘do’ better. We are all familiar with the way that in-foal mares ‘bloom’ in the early stages of pregnancy – even as early as 16 days from covering.

A combination of temperament and physiological changes mean that in-foal fillies might be easier to train, respond better to training, mentally and physically, and race more successfully than when they are not in foal. However, none of this is guaranteed. If the filly is being covered for temperament or performance reasons, there is a chance that even being in foal may not have the desired effect.

Another plus is that the filly will produce a foal less than a year after she completes her racing career, effectively doing two jobs at the same time: racing and carrying a foal.

Some of the disadvantages however are associated with the costs involved. Some fillies in training can be very straightforward when it comes to trying to get them cycling, covered and in foal. Others require significant amounts of veterinary treatment and management, such as travel, farrier fees and additional stud fees, all on top of the nomination itself. All these costs add up.

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or mare does conceive, she is permitted to race for only until 120 days of pregnancy and this may prematurely curtail her racing career.

Alternatives?

Walking in fillies to studs from training yards can be costly and time-consuming

There will be issues around timing of examinations, covering and treatments to fit in with stable hours and the training and racing programme, and the slightly reduced chance of her conceiving compared to young mares boarding on a stud. Some of the hormones, sedation and other medications used have withdrawal times which must be taken into consideration when planning mating and racing commitments.

Largely for reasons discussed, if the filly is being covered for temperament or performance reasons there is a chance that even being in foal may not have the desired effect. Another consideration is that if the filly

If the aim of covering a filly in training is to stop her from cycling and thus improve her ‘trainability’, there are other alternatives. One is the use of Regumate to try to simulate or replicate the progesterone dominance of pregnancy. This can be very effective but it can also be expensive, and consideration must be given to a period of withdrawal before the filly is able to run.

Another alternative is to use a glass marble inserted into the uterus. This appears to have the effect of convincing the mare that she is pregnant, so a similar hormonal pattern to that which results from a true pregnancy becomes established.

There are a couple of disadvantages to this procedure, one being that it is only temporary in most cases, another being that the marble does have to be removed when the filly is sent to stud and this can be more difficult than it sounds. A third is that some fillies are being retired to stud without the information that they have had a marble inserted being passed on to those concerned and many months or an entire season is wasted on a filly that won’t conceive.

Relatively recently, it has been discovered that administering oxytocin for several days within a set period after ovulation can delay the onset of a filly’s next oestrus period. This effect appears to be reversible once treatment is withdrawn or in response to prostaglandin.

GnRH vaccine: a cautionary tale There has been considerable discussion about the use of a GnRH vaccine in recent years to try to inhibit the cyclic activity of fillies in training. There is no such product licensed for use in horses in the UK but there is a product licensed in Australia and a vaccine licensed for use in pigs in Europe (including UK). In theory, the effects are reversible but unfortunately, anecdotal reports suggest that some mares treated with these vaccines in training subsequently do not cycle or conceive for very prolonged periods of time – sometimes appearing to become permanently infertile. The data sheet supplied by the Australian manufacturer states clearly that the product should not be used in horses intended for breeding.

There are also anecdotal reports of an increase in the use of these vaccines in colts to try to reduce libido and improve temperament (effectively ‘temporary castration’) for easier management and handling, even though they are not licensed for this purpose. Fears are being raised in some circles that such treatment might result in long term or permanent infertility in some colts, rendering them useless for stallion purposes.

There are implications on the potential performance of the GnRH vaccinated horse (whether male or female) and also, potentially, for the reproductive potential of any horse, which goes to sale. Under the BHA rules of racing, GnRH vaccines are prohibited substances because they have an effect on the endocrine system. There is a very real risk that these products might prove extremely expensive in the long term both to purchasers of stallions and also to the insurance industry. Owner-breeders expect their horses (male and female) to be fertile when they retire from racing and if these vaccines have been used in training, without the owner’s knowledge, this could cause enormous disappointment if the effects of the vaccine are long term or permanent. There are calls for the use of these vaccines in horses to be banned in some countries or at least for their use to be declared.

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DATA BOOK STAKES RESULTS

European Pattern 287 KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN SUN CHARIOT STAKES G1 NEWMARKET. Oct 4. 3yo+f. 8f.

1. INTEGRAL (GB) 4 9-3 £113,420 b f by Dalakhani - Echelon (Danehill) O-Cheveley Park Stud B-Cheveley Park Stud Ltd TR-Sir Michael Stoute 2. Miss France (IRE) 3 9-0 £43,000 b f by Dansili - Miss Tahiti (Tirol) O-Ballymore Thoroughbred Ltd B-Dayton Investments Ltd TR-A. Fabre 3. Fintry (IRE) 3 9-0 £21,520 b f by Shamardal - Campsie Fells (Indian Ridge) O-Godolphin S.N.C. B-Darley TR-A. Fabre Margins 1, Neck. Time 1:37.50. Going Good.

Age 3-4

Starts 11

Wins 6

Places 3

Earned £441,706

Sire: DALAKHANI. Sire of 42 Stakes winners. In 2014 - INTEGRAL Danehill G1, SILK SARI Rainbow Quest G2, TERRUBI Diesis G2, GOTHIC DANCE Polar Falcon G3, GUARDINI Dynaformer G3, SEISMOS Dashing Blade G3, MIREILLE Sadler’s Wells LR, SECOND STEP Sadler’s Wells LR. 1st Dam: ECHELON by Danehill. Champion older mare in Ireland in 2007. 9 wins at 2 to 5, Coolmore Fusaichi Pegasus Matron S G1, 3rd Kingdom of Bahrain Sun Chariot S G1. Dam of 3 winners: 2009: ELYSIAN (f Galileo) Winner at 4. Broodmare.

2010: INTEGRAL (f Dalakhani). 6 wins at 3 and 4, Qipco Falmouth S G1, Kingdom of Bahrain Sun Chariot S G1, Duke of Cambridge S G2, TBA Atalanta S G3, The Coral Distaff LR, 2nd Kingdom of Bahrain Sun Chariot S G1, Qatar Bloodstock Dahlia S G3, 3rd Prix Rothschild G1.

2011: Provenance (f Galileo) 3 wins at 3, 3rd Nayef Rosemary S LR. 2012: Entity (f Shamardal) in training.

2013: (c Medicean) 2nd Dam: EXCLUSIVE by Polar Falcon. 2 wins at 2 and 3 Coronation S G1, 3rd Fillies’ Mile S G1, Sagitta 1000 Guineas G1. Dam of ECHELON (f Danehill, see above), CHIC (f Machiavellian: Totesport Celebration Mile G2 (twice), 2nd Kingdom of Bahrain Sun Chariot S G1, Coolmore Fusaichi Pegasus Matron S G1), De Rigueur (g Montjeu: 3rd Betdaq Colossus Chester H LR) Broodmare Sire: DANEHILL. Sire of the dams of 277 Stakes winners. In 2014 - BELARDO Lope de Vega G1, COSMIC ENDEAVOUR Northern Meteor G1, DICK WHITTINGTON Rip Van Winkle G1, FENOMENO Stay Gold G1, HALLOWED CROWN Street Sense G1, INTEGRAL Dalakhani G1, MISS MOSSMAN Mossman G1, NOBLE MISSION Galileo G1, STEINBECK Footstepsinthesand G1, TAPESTRY Galileo G1.

The Dalakhani/Danehill cross has produced: DUNCAN G1, INTEGRAL G1, SHEMIYLA G3, Sano di Pietro LR.

2. Ribbons (GB) 4 9-2 £76,200 ch f by Manduro - Sister Act (Marju) O-Elite Racing Club B-Elite Racing Club TR-James Fanshawe 3. Hadaatha (IRE) 3 8-12 £38,100 gr f by Sea The Stars - Hathrah (Linamix) O-Mr Hamdan Al Maktoum B-Shadwell Estate Co Ltd TR-Roger Varian Margins Neck, Neck. Time 2:02.33. Going Good.

Age 3

Starts 5

Wins 2

Places 0

Earned £200,884

Sire: DANSILI. Sire of 99 Stakes winners. In 2014 FORETELLER Warning G1, MISS FRANCE Tirol G1, THE FUGUE Sadler’s Wells G1, WE ARE Inchinor G1, ESPUMANTI Reprimand G2, L’AMOUR DE MA VIE Smoke Glacken G2, RIPOSTE Rainbow Quest G2, BIG BREAK Quest For Fame G3, BRISANTO Pivotal G3, CARLA BIANCA Linamix G3, DISCLAIMER Sadler’s Wells G3.

1st Dam: IN CLOVER by Inchinor. 4 wins at 3 in France, Prix de Flore G3. Dam of 3 winners: 2008: ELODIE (f Dansili) Winner at 3 in France.

Broodmare.

2009: DREAM CLOVER (f Oasis Dream) 4 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix de Saint-Cyr LR, Prix de la Cochere LR, 3rd Prix de Lieurey G3.

2010: (c Danehill Dancer) 2011: WE ARE (f Dansili) 2 wins at 3 in France, Prix de l’Opera Longines G1.

2012: Incahoots (f Oasis Dream) unraced to date.

2014: (c Frankel) 2nd Dam: BELLARIDA by Bellypha. 4 wins at 2 and 3 in France Prix de Royaumont G3. Dam of IN CLOVER (f Inchinor, see above), BAYOURIDA (f Slew O’ Gold: Prix Madame Jean Couturie LR, 2nd Prix de la Nonette G3), BELLONA (f Bering: Prix Rose de Mai LR, 3rd Prix Penelope G3), Fumarelli (c Trempolino: 3rd Prix Le Fabuleux LR). Grandam of LILY’S ANGEL, ZURIGHA, TELLURIDE, PARTY, Bee Charmer, Bella Ida. Third dam of DOMINANT, ES QUE LOVE, OBSERVATIONAL, Another Party, Miss Laa di Da. Broodmare Sire: INCHINOR. Sire of the dams of 18 Stakes winners. In 2014 - WE ARE Dansili G1, ES QUE LOVE Clodovil G2.

WE ARE b f 2011 Danzig Danehill Razyana DANSILI b 96 Kahyasi Hasili Kerali Ahonoora Inchinor Inchmurrin IN CLOVER b 02 Bellypha Bellarida Lerida

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Ile de Bourbon Kadissya High Line Sookera Lorenzaccio Helen Nichols Lomond On Show Lyphard Belga Riverman Lalika

1st Dam: YASHMAK by Danzig. 4 wins at 2 and 3 at home, USA, Flower Bowl Invitational H G1, 2nd Kildangan Stud Irish Oaks G1, P.Marcel BoussacCriterium des Pouliches G1. Own sister to JIBE. Dam of 5 winners: 1999: In Yarak (c Zafonic) unraced.

2000: Force of Nature (f Sadler’s Wells).

Broodmare.

2001: EYES ONLY (f Distant View) Winner at 3.

2002: Shamana (f Woodman) unraced. Broodmare.

2003: SOUND OF NATURE (g Chester House) 7 wins at home, Australia, C S Hayes Memorial Cup LR, 2nd Patinack Farm Crystal Mile G2.

2004: Maquillage (f Diesis) unraced. Broodmare.

2005: SPOKESMAN (c Empire Maker) 5 wins at 4, 5 and 8 in USA. 2006: Hidden Face (f Empire Maker) ran on the flat in USA. Broodmare.

2008: Striking Veil (f Smart Strike) ran twice.

2011: HOODED (c Empire Maker) Winner at 2.

2012: FULL MAST (c Mizzen Mast) 3 wins at 2 in France, Qatar PX Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere Gd.Crit G1, Prix La Rochette G3.

2nd Dam: SLIGHTLY DANGEROUS by Roberto. 2 wins at 2 and 3 Fred Darling S G3, 2nd Oaks S G1.

Dam of WARNING (c Known Fact: Queen Elizabeth II S G1, Swettenham Stud Sussex S G1, 2nd P. Fresnay-leBuffard Jacques Le Marois G1, 4th Coral Eclipse S G1), COMMANDER IN CHIEF (c Dancing Brave: Ever Ready Derby S G1, Budweiser Irish Derby G1, 3rd King George VI & Queen Elizabeth S G1), YASHMAK (f Danzig, see above), DUSHYANTOR (c Sadler’s Wells: Great Voltigeur S G2, Tripleprint Geoffrey Freer S G2, 2nd Vodafone Coronation Cup G1, Vodafone Derby S G1, Pertemps St Leger S G1, 3rd Sword Dancer H G1, Breeders’ Cup Turf G1), JIBE (f Danzig: Newbury Fillies’ Trial S LR, 2nd Fillies’ Mile S G1), Deploy (c Shirley Heights: 2nd Budweiser Irish Derby G1), Totality (f Dancing Brave: 2nd Lancashire Oaks G3), Timefighter (c Star Appeal: 2nd Breeder’ Cup Classic Trial LR), Shirley Valentine (f Shirley Heights: 3rd Galtres S LR). Grandam of MEMORISE, MULTIPLEX, TO SENDER, ADDRESS UNKNOWN, Sparkling Water, Picture Editor, Fully Invested, Valentine Band, JULIUS CAESAR, Articulation. Third dam of AWAIT THE DAWN, PUTNEY BRIDGE, FULLY FUNDED. Broodmare Sire: DANZIG. Sire of the dams of 176 Stakes winners. In 2014 - FULL MAST Mizzen Mast G1, AURELIA’S BELLE Lemon Drop Kid G3, CAN THE MAN Into Mischief G3, DANCING SANDS Dubawi LR, SHIVALIK STAR Shamardal LR, SHIVALIK STORM Dancing Forever LR, SUSHI EMPIRE Empire Maker LR. The Mizzen Mast/Danzig cross has produced: FULL MAST G1, MOONEE PONDS LR.

FULL MAST b c 2012 Caro Cozzene Ride The Trails MIZZEN MAST gr/ro 98 Graustark Kinema

INTEGRAL b f 2010 Shirley Heights Darshaan Delsy DALAKHANI gr 00 Miswaki Daltawa Damana Danzig Danehill Razyana ECHELON b 02 Polar Falcon Exclusive Exclusive Order

Mill Reef Hardiemma Abdos Kelty Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Crystal Palace Denia Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Nureyev Marie d’Argonne Exclusive Native Bonavista

See race 160 in the September issue 288 PRIX DE L’OPERA LONGINES G1 LONGCHAMP. Oct 5. 3yo+f. 2000m.

1. WE ARE (IRE) 3 8-12 £190,467 b f by Dansili - In Clover (Inchinor) O-George Strawbridge B-G. Strawbridge TR-F Head

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Starts 3

Wins 3

Places 0

Pas de Nom YASHMAK b 94 Roberto

LONGCHAMP. Oct 5. 2yoc&f. 1400m.

1. FULL MAST (USA) 9-0 £166,658 b c by Mizzen Mast - Yashmak (Danzig) O-Mr K. Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms Inc TR-Mme C. Head-Maarek 2. Territories (IRE) 9-0 £66,675 b c by Invincible Spirit - Taranto (Machiavellian) O-Godolphin SNC B-Darley TR-A Fabre 3. Gleneagles (IRE) 9-0 £33,338 b c by Galileo - You’resothrilling (Storm Cat) O-Mr M. Tabor, D. Smith & Mrs John Magnier B-You’resothrilling Syndicate TR-Aidan O’Brien Margins Short Neck, 0. Time 1:20.11.

Going Good.

Age 2

Northern Dancer Danzig

Earned £210,408

Sire: MIZZEN MAST. Sire of 28 Stakes winners. In 2014 - FULL MAST Danzig G1, LIDERIS Dynaformer G1, FILIMBI Seattle Slew G2, STONETASTIC Unbridled’s Song G2, EDEN PRAIRIE Elusive Quality LR, MULTILATERAL Dynaformer LR.

Slightly Dangerous Where You Lead

Fortino II Chambord Prince John Wildwook Ribot Flower Bowl Tom Fool Legendra Nearctic Natalma Admiral’s Voyage Petitioner Hail To Reason Bramalea Raise A Native Noblesse

Slightly Dangerous’s award of 1997 Kentucky Broodmare of the Year was tremendously well deserved. Having produced the outstanding Warning as her second foal, this Classic-placed daughter of Roberto had gone on to considerable further success with Deploy (second in the Irish Derby), Commander In Chief (Derby and Irish Derby), Dushyantor (second in the Derby and St Leger) and Yashmak (runner-up in the 1996 Prix Marcel Boussac before winning the Gr2 Ribblesdale Stakes and Gr1 Flower Bowl Invitational Handicap).

Altogether nine of Slightly Dangerous’s progeny earned black type, which suggested that Yashmak too would develop into an outstanding broodmare. Sadly she didn’t have much luck and was still waiting for her first Group winner when she was retired at the end of 2013. However, her final foal, Full Mast, has now corrected that omission. This son of Mizzen Mast won the Gr3 Prix La Rochette to earn his place in the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere and he was awarded this Gr1 event after being intimidated in the closing stages by Gleneagles.

Mizzen Mast has never commanded a fee higher than $20,000 during a long innings at Juddmonte Farms, and his fee was only $12,500 in the year of Full Mast’s conception. However, he has certainly had his moments, especially at the Breeders’ Cup. His daughter Mizdirection landed two editions of the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint, while Flotilla took the Juvenile Fillies’ Turf as a prelude to her victory in the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches.

Mizzen Mast had contested the equivalent to the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere but was unsuited by the soft ground. He proved very smart at around a mile and a quarter in France before showing high class form on dirt in the US, taking the Gr1 Malibu Stakes over seven furlongs and then the Gr2 Strub Stakes over nine furlongs before being injured.

290 QATAR PRIX DE L’ARC DE TRIOMPHE G1 LONGCHAMP. Oct 5. 3yo+c&f. 2400m.

1. TREVE (FR) 4 9-2 £2,380,833 b f by Motivator - Trevise (Anabaa) O-Al Shaqab Racing B-Haras du Quesnay TR-Mme C. Head-Maarek 2. Flintshire (GB) 4 9-5 £952,500 b/br c by Dansili - Dance Routine (Sadler’s Wells) O-Mr K. Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms Ltd TR-A. Fabre 3. Taghrooda (GB) 3 8-8 £476,250 b f by Sea The Stars - Ezima (Sadler’s Wells) O-Mr Hamdan Al Maktoum B-Shadwell Estate Co Ltd TR-John Gosden Margins 2, 1.25. Time 2:26.50. Going Good.

Age 2-4

Starts 9

Wins 6

Places Earned 3 £5,391,949

Sire: MOTIVATOR. Sire of 22 Stakes winners. In 2014 TREVE Anabaa G1, COCKTAIL QUEEN Selkirk G2, ROBIN HOODS BAY Rainbow Quest G3, SHAHAH Olden Times G3, SKY HUNTER Silver Hawk G3, PALLASATOR Ezzoud LR. 1st Dam: TREVISE by Anabaa. Winner at 2 in France.

Own sister to TSIGANE. Dam of 2 winners: 2005: TROIS ROIS (c Hernando) 4 wins at 3 and 5 in France, UAE, G.P. de Marseille Etapi du Defi du Galop LR, 3rd Prix Greffulhe G2.

2006: Trevimix (c Linamix) 2008: Tocqueville (f Numerous) unraced.

Broodmare.

2010: TREVE (f Motivator) Sold 18,062gns yearling at AROCT. Champion 3yr old in Europe in 2013. 6 wins at 2 to 4 in France, Prix de Diane Longines G1, Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe G1 (twice), Qatar Prix Vermeille G1, 2nd Prix Ganay G1, 3rd Prince of Wales’s S G1.

2011: Trophee (f Mr Sidney) 2012: (f Fuisse) 2nd Dam: Trevillari by Riverman. Own sister to TREBLE. Dam of TSIGANE (c Anabaa: Wickerr H LR,

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Caulfield on Treve: “To some extent she’s been following in the footsteps of her fourth dam, the wonderfully tough Trillion, but the dual Arc winner has generally gone one step further”

3rd Shoemaker Breeders’ Cup Mile S G1) Broodmare Sire: ANABAA. Sire of the dams of 47 Stakes winners. In 2014 - BUFFERING Mossman G1, DISSIDENT Sebring G1, HARRY’S SON Haradasun G1, TREVE Motivator G1, SPIRITJIM Galileo G2, TANGO’S DAUGHTER Redoute’s Choice G2.

TREVE b f 2010 Sadler’s Wells Montjeu Floripedes MOTIVATOR b 02 Gone West Out West Chellingoua Danzig Anabaa Balbonella TREVISE b 00 Riverman Trevillari Trevilla

Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Top Ville Toute Cy Mr Prospector Secrettame Sharpen Up Uncommitted Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Gay Mecene Bamieres Never Bend River Lady Lyphard Trillion

Just as Motivator’s stallion career has occasionally been hindered by physical ailments, the four year-old campaign of his daughter Treve was initially blighted by a variety of issues, including back and foot problems.

Three defeats from her first three starts of 2014 represented a stark contrast to her unbeaten three-year-old season, when she took the Prix de Diane by four lengths and the Arc by five. It was therefore a tremendous effort by both horse and trainer, Criquette Head-Maarek, when Treve returned to something like her best to land a second Arc, this time by two lengths from Flintshire.

Treve’s return to form means that she ranks as one of only seven horses to have won two editions of the Arc and the first since Alleged in 1978. She will now get a chance of a third victory, after the reversal of the announcement that she would be retired immediately to visit Dubawi.

To some extent, Treve has been following in the footsteps of her fourth dam, the wonderfully tough Trillion, but Treve has generally gone one step further. Trillion was beaten only a head in the Prix de Diane, but didn’t tackle the Arc as a three-year-old (she won the Prix de Royallieu a week later). However, she went on to win the Prix Ganay (a race in which Treve suffered a narrow defeat) and tackled the Arc both at four and five, with her better effort coming – coincidentally – when she finished runner-up behind Alleged when he landed his second Arc. Trillion’s second in the Arc was just one of ten occasions when she found only one too good for her at Gr1 level.

Trillion produced a filly even better than herself in her second foal, Triptych. This daughter of Riverman landed such prizes as the Prix Marcel Boussac, Irish 2,000 Guineas, Prix Ganay, Coronation Cup, Matchmaker International, Irish Champion Stakes and the Champion Stakes, but she wasn’t quite able to match Treve’s Arc exploits, finishing third to Dancing Brave in 1986 and to Trempolino a year later.

Trillion had two other Riverman fillies that made their mark. Barger, winner of the Gr3 Prix Vanteaux, is the second dam of Tawqeet (Caulfield Cup), while Triple Couronne is the second dam of Amorama (a dual Gr1 winner on turf in California).

This made Riverman a natural choice for Trillion’s unraced Lyphard filly Trevilla (who is also the second dam of the high-class sprinter Tamarisk).

Trevilla’s first Riverman filly Trevillari failed to win in 13 attempts, but her second, Treble, won the Gr1 Prix Saint-Alary. Trevillari made amends by producing nine winners and now ranks as the second dam of Treve.

Treve’s dam, the two-year-old sprint winner Trevise, is a sister by Anabaa to Trevillari’s best winner, the smart international miler Tsigane.

Motivator was under the considerable handicap of having no three-year-olds in 2013 and only 40 two-year-olds (one of which is the Gr3 Prix d’Aumale winner Shahah).

However, his older progeny have served him well. In addition to Treve they include Cocktail Queen (Gr2 Grand Prix de Deauville) and the geldings Pallasator, Sky Hunter and Robin Hoods Bay. Cocktail Queen and Shahah have added to Motivator’s reputation as a sire of fillies, which now account for nine of his 12 Group winners.

291 QATAR PRIX DE LA FORET G1 LONGCHAMP. Oct 5. 3yo+. 1400m.

1. OLYMPIC GLORY (IRE) 4 9-2 £142,850 b c by Choisir - Acidanthera (Alzao) O-Al Shaqab Racing B-D. McDonnell TR-Richard Hannon 2. Gordon Lord Byron (IRE) 6 9-2 £57,150 b g by Byron - Boa Estrela (Intikhab) O-Dr Cyrus Poonawalla/Morgan J Cahalan B-R. H. Alder TR-T. Hogan 3. Noozhoh Canarias (SPA) 3 9-0 £28,575 b c by Caradak - Noozhah (Singspiel) O-Grupo Bolanos Gran Canarias S.L. B-Grupo Bolanos Gran Canaria TR-Enrique Leon Penate Margins 2, Head. Time 1:17.73. Going Good.

Age 2-4

Starts 15

Wins 8

Places Earned 5 £1,419,773

Sire: CHOISIR. Sire of 63 Stakes winners. In 2014 KUSHADASI Carnegie G1, OBVIOUSLY Montjeu G1, OLYMPIC GLORY Alzao G1, GLORY AWAITS Foxhound G2, SIR MOMENTS Zabeel G2, BIG MONEY Humam G3, ELOPING Rory’s Jester G3, WOULDNT IT BE NICE Tactical Cat G3, MARCADO Marauding LR, SIREEZE Dr Johnson LR. 1st Dam: ACIDANTHERA by Alzao. Winner at 3. Dam of 4 winners: 2000: (c Pursuit of Love) 2001: Margaret’s Dream (f Muhtarram). Broodmare.

2002: PACIFIC STAR (g Tagula) 2 wins at 3 in Spain.

2004: HE’S A HUMBUG (g Tagula) 4 wins at 2 to 5.

2005: Vica Pota (f King Charlemagne) 2006: MISTER DEE BEE (g Orpen) 4 wins.

2008: Gekko (g Iffraaj) ran.

2009: Apsaty Kyz (f Iffraaj) unraced.

2010: OLYMPIC GLORY (c Choisir) Sold 61,904gns yearling at DNPRM. Jt Champion 3yr old colt in Europe in 2013, Jt Champion 3yr old miler in Europe in 2013. 8 wins at 2 to 4 at home, France, JLT Lockinge S G1, Qipco Queen Elizabeth II S G1, Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere Grand Criterium G1, Qatar Prix de la Foret G1, Veuve Clicquot Vintage S G2, 32red.com Superlative S G2, AON Greenham S G3, 2nd Qatar Prix du Moulin de Longchamp G1, P. Fresnay le Buffard

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HIGH JINX b g 2008 Northern Dancer

Broodmare Sire: ALZAO. Sire of the dams of 110 Stakes winners. In 2014 - OLYMPIC GLORY Choisir G1, ALL AT SEA Sea The Stars LR, BIOLOGIST Danehill Dancer LR, IZZTHATRIGHT Moss Vale LR, MUSICAL COMEDY Royal Applause LR, NOBLE PROTECTOR Haafhd LR, RAPHINAE Dubawi LR, SHIFTING POWER Compton Place LR, TARGARYEN Red Clubs LR. The Choisir/Alzao cross has produced: OLYMPIC GLORY G1, LUNA NEL POZZO LR.

Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge HIGH CHAPARRAL b 99 Darshaan Kasora Kozana Literat Surumu Surama LEONARA ch 97 Vitiges Leraba Leticia

OLYMPIC GLORY b c 2010 Danehill Danehill Dancer Mira Adonde CHOISIR ch 99 Lunchtime Great Selection Pensive Mood Lyphard Alzao Lady Rebecca ACIDANTHERA b 95 Shirley Heights Amaranthus Amaranda

Danzig Razyana Sharpen Up Lettre d’Amour Silly Season Great Occasion Biscay Staid Northern Dancer Goofed Sir Ivor Pocahontas II Mill Reef Hardiemma Bold Lad Favoletta

See race 50 in the July issue 292 QATAR PRIX DU CADRAN G1 LONGCHAMP. Oct 5. 4yo+. 4000m.

1. HIGH JINX (IRE) 6 9-2 £142,850 b g by High Chaparral - Leonara (Surumu) O-Mr & Mrs W. J. Williams B-Haras De La Perelle TR-James Fanshawe 2. Bathyrhon (GER) 4 9-2 £57,150 b c by Monsun - Be My Lady (Be My Guest) O-Avaz Ismoilov B-Frau I Meinke & D Meinke TR-Mme Pia Brandt 3. Pale Mimosa (IRE) 5 8-13 £28,575 b m by Singspiel - Katch Me Katie (Danehill) O-Dr R Lambe/Merriebelle Irish Farm Ltd B-Irish National Stud TR-D. K. Weld Margins Neck, 0.75. Time 4:12.22. Going Good.

Age 2-6

Starts 21

Wins 4

Places 14

Earned £447,976

Sire: HIGH CHAPARRAL. Sire of 64 Stakes winners.

In 2014 - DUNDEEL Zabeel G1, HIGH JINX Surumu G1, LUCKY LION Big Shuffle G1, TORONADO Grand Slam G1, FOREVER LOVED Danehill G2, FRINE Cardoun G2, SHOW THE WORLD Zabeel G2, WESTERN HYMN Cape Cross G2, CONTRIBUTER Exit To Nowhere G3, FREE EAGLE Danehill G3.

1st Dam: Leonara by Surumu. ran on the flat in France at 3. Dam of 6 winners: 2002: DELOS (g Spectrum) 5 wins.

2003: PRINCE ORANGE (g Desert Prince) 4 wins over jumps in France.

2004: Lethe (f Kalanisi) unraced.

2005: Levadia (f Barathea) ran on the flat in France.

2006: TAPTI RIVER (c Namid) Winner at 4 in France.

2007: CALBLANQUE (c Marju) 2 wins at 2 and 3 in Spain.

2008: HIGH JINX (g High Chaparral) Sold 34,211gns yearling at AROCT. 4 wins at 3, 4 and 6 at home, France, Qatar Prix du Cadran G1, Prix du Carrousel LR, 2nd Qatar Prix du Cadran G1, Stobart Doncaster Cup G2 (twice), Weatherbys Insurance Lonsdale Cup G2, Cantor Fitzgerald Henry II S G3, John Smith’s Silver Cup H LR, 3rd Qatar Prix Gladiateur G3, EBF Barry Hills Further Flight S LR. 2010: MEDELA (f Medecis) Winner at 4 in France.

2nd Dam: Leraba by Vitiges. 1 win at 2 in West Germany, 2nd Fruhjahrs Stuten Preis LR, 3rd ARAG Schwarzgold-Rennen (1000 Guineas) G2. Dam of Leonas (c Lagunas: 2nd Spreti Memorial LR), Legende (f Priamos: 3rd Las Vegas-Slenderella Rennen LR) Broodmare Sire: SURUMU. Sire of the dams of 90 Stakes winners. In 2014 - HIGH JINX High Chaparral G1, MANINGREY Soldier Hollow LR.

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Shirley Heights Delsy Kris Koblenza Birkhahn Lis Reliance II Suncourt Phaeton Vale Caracol Loanda

Is the Prix du Cadran becoming a bit of an anachronism? I ask the question because each of the last five winners was recording its first Gr1 victory and they were respectively aged six (Gentoo), nine (Kasbah Bliss), four (Molly Malone), seven (Altano) and six (High Jinx). It’s hard to imagine one of today’s Cadran winners going on to win the Arc, as Levmoss and Gold River did.

For High Jinx the Cadran represented a first Group success and only his fourth victory in a 20race career. Although he carries the (IRE) suffix, he is more of a combined European production. His sire High Chaparral is Irish but High Jinx was bred by Haras de la Perelle from the German-bred Leonara and was sold as a yearling at Arqana for €37,000.

England gets into the picture because the gelding has spent his career in the care of James Fanshawe at Newmarket.

High Chaparral has enjoyed quite a lot of success with German mares, siring High Jinx from a Surumu mare and the Gr1-placed Araldo from a mare closely inbred to Surumu.

Surumu’s son Acatenango sired the dams of two of his Listed winners. His 2014 Gr1 winner Lucky Lion is also out of a German mare, but not one with any German bloodlines.

High Jinx’s dam, Leonara, was unplaced in two starts in France but she is a granddaughter of Leticia, winner of both of Germany’s fillies’ Classics in 1980. Leticia also enjoyed success as a broodmare, producing three stakes winners. One of them, Leona, was second when she attempted to emulate her dam’s success in the Preis der Diana.

Another of Leticia’s descendants was the Monsun filly La Boum, who won at up to 15 furlongs but put up one of her best efforts when seventh of 19 to Sea The Stars in the 2009 Arc. 293 QNB PRIX DE L’ABBAYE DE LONGCHAMP G1 LONGCHAMP. Oct 5. 2yo+. 1000m.

1. MOVE IN TIME (GB) 6 9-11 £166,658 ch g by Monsieur Bond - Tibesti (Machiavellian) O-A. Turton, J. Blackburn & R. Bond B-Bond Thoroughbred Corporation TR-David O’Meara 2. Rangali (GB) 3 9-11 £66,675 ch c by Namid - Tejaara (Kingmambo) O-H. Pantall B-Y. Chabot & H. Pantall TR-H. Pantall 3. Moviesta (USA) 4 9-11 £33,338 b g by Hard Spun - Miss Brickyard (A P Indy) O-Redknapp, Salthouse & Fiddes B-Mr J. D. Gunther TR-Bryan Smart Margins Head, Head. Time 0:56.42. Going Good.

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European Pattern Age 2-6

Starts 40

Wins 7

Places 17

Earned £355,935

Sire: MONSIEUR BOND. Sire of 5 Stakes winners. In 2014 - MOVE IN TIME Machiavellian G1, LADIES ARE FOREVER Danetime G3, CHOOKIE ROYALE Woods of Windsor LR, MY NAME IS BOND Makbul LR. 1st Dam: Tibesti by Machiavellian. unraced. Own sister to TROPICAL STAR. Dam of 4 winners: 2006: SAN MACCHIA (f Rock of Gibraltar) Winner at 4 in Italy.

2008: MOVE IN TIME (g Monsieur Bond) Sold 13,333gns yearling at DNFES. 7 wins to 2014 at home, France, Qnb Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp G1, Macquarie Group Rous S LR, 2nd Sodexo Prestige Cornwallis S G3, Prix de Saint-Georges G3, Qatar Prix du Petit Couvert G3, Abergwaun S LR, 3rd Connaught Flooring Abernant S G3, Woodies D.I.Y. Sapphire S G3, totesport.com Scurry S LR, Prix Cor de Chasse LR. 2009: Doyouknowwhoiam (g Monsieur Bond) 2010: ABSOLUTE DIAMOND (f Monsieur Bond) Winner at 3.

2011: MEADWAY (g Captain Gerrard) 3 wins at 2 and 3.

2012: Magh Meall (f Monsieur Bond) in training.

2013: (f Monsieur Bond) 2014: (f Monsieur Bond) 2nd Dam: TROPICAL by Green Desert. 7 wins at 2 to 4 Shernazar EBF Curragh S G3, Phoenix Sprint S G3, Arthur Guinness EBF Flying Five G3 (twice). Dam of TROPICAL STAR (g Machiavellian: Naja Al Shindagha Sprint G3, Derrinstown Stud Mahab Al Shimaal S G3, 2nd Gulf News Dubai Golden Shaheen S G1) Broodmare Sire: MACHIAVELLIAN. Sire of the dams of 101 Stakes winners. In 2014 - GALLANTE Montjeu G1, MOVE IN TIME Monsieur Bond G1, VERXINA Deep Impact G1, LIVING THE LIFE Footstepsinthesand G2, CARAVAN ROLLS ON Hernando G3, GIRL IN FLIGHT Commands G3.

MOVE IN TIME ch g 2008 Danzig Razyana Sharpen Up Lettre d’Amour MONSIEUR BOND ch 00 Sing Sing Song Intent Musical Essence Charlottesville Effervescence II Vareta Raise A Native Mr Prospector Gold Digger Machiavellian Halo Coup de Folie Raise The Standard TIBESTI b 02 Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier Tropical Bermuda Classic Double Form Minnie Tudor Danehill

Danehill Dancer

Mira Adonde

The odds against a stallion that has never stood for more than £5,000 siring two winners of one of Europe’s most competitive sprints are very long.

But Monsieur Bond has pulled off this unlikely double, thanks to outsiders Gilt Edge Girl (50-1) in 2010 and Move In Time (25-1). Move In Time was recording his best win in a career that had seen him finish second or third in several other Group races.

Monsieur Bond has been resident at Norton Grove Stud for several years but both his Abbaye winners were sired in his time at Whitsbury Manor Stud. Monsieur Bond earned his place at stud largely with victory in the Gr2 Duke of York Stakes, and this son of Danehill Dancer has also passed on speed to highly successful brother-and-sister team Hoof It and Ladies Are Forever. A Group win eluded Hoof It, though he achieved the excellent Timeform rating of 128, but Ladies Are Forever is a three-time winner of the Gr3 Summer Stakes.

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Ladies Are Forever and Hoof It are inbred 3 x 3 to Danzig’s son Danehill, who was himself inbred 3 x 3 to Natalma. Move In Time is also an advertisement for 4 x 4 inbreeding to Danzig, as his second dam Tropical was a fast daughter of Green Desert.

The gelding’s dam Tibesti is a sister to Tropical Star, a smart sprinter/miler in the UAE. Move In Time’s third dam Bermuda Classic collected both the Railway Stakes and Curragh Stakes at two before becoming the dam not only of Tropical but Shake The Yoke, winner of the Coronation Stakes after finishing an unlucky second in the French 1,000 Guineas.

294 TOTAL PRIX MARCEL BOUSSAC G1 LONGCHAMP. Oct 5. 2yof. 1600m.

1. FOUND (IRE) 8-12 £142,850 b f by Galileo - Red Evie (Intikhab) O-Mr M. Tabor B-Roncon, Wynatt & Chelston TR-Aidan O’Brien 2. Ervedya (FR) 8-12 £57,150 b f by Siyouni - Elva (King’s Best) O-H H Aga Khan B-S.A. Aga Khan TR-J-C Rouget 3. Jack Naylor (GB) 8-12 £28,575 b f by Champs Elysees - Fashionable (Nashwan) O-Gerard Byrne B-Mr O. D. Costello TR-Mrs John Harrington Margins 2.5, 1.5. Time 1:37.45. Going Good.

Age 2

Starts 3

Wins 2

Places 1

Earned £174,838

Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 188 Stakes winners. In 2014 ADELAIDE Elnadim G1, AUSTRALIA Cape Cross G1, FOUND Intikhab G1, GLENEAGLES Storm Cat G1, MARVELLOUS Storm Cat G1, NOBLE MISSION Danehill G1, TAPESTRY Danehill G1, TOGETHER FOREVER Theatrical G1, GLOBAL VIEW Storm Cat G2, GOSPEL CHOIR Pivotal G2, HIGHLAND REEL Danehill G2, RULER OF THE WORLD Kingmambo G2, SPIRITJIM Anabaa G2, TELESCOPE Darshaan G2.

For the second time in five years, Galileo supplied the winner of the Prix Marcel Boussac when Found quickened in good style to account for five previous Group winners. Her only defeat in three starts came when a close third to Cursory Glance and Lucida in the Gr1 Moyglare Stud Stakes. Found’s predecessor, Misty For Me, went on to win the Irish 1,000 Guineas and Pretty Polly Stakes but seemed to run out of stamina when fifth in the Oaks (she later proved she stayed 11 furlongs when third in the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf).

It is easy to envisage a similar career awaiting Found, as she is out of Red Evie, an excellent performer who never tackled more than a mile during a 15-race career. Good enough to win her first seven races as a three-year-old, including the Gr1 Matron Stakes, Red Evie later beat the colts in the Gr1 Lockinge Stakes.

This daughter of Intikhab was led out unsold at 1,000,000gns at the 2007 December Sales, but Coolmore stepped in to buy her privately and has sent her consistently to Galileo.

Galileo is building up a fine record with daughters of Intikhab. Found’s older sister, Magical Dream, was a Gr3 winner over seven furlongs at two and Igugu, another representative of this cross, was a champion in South Africa. Incidentally, Magical Dream went close to winning a Group race over a mile and a half, so Found has prospects in both the 1,000 Guineas and Oaks.

341 DUBAI DEWHURST STAKES G1 NEWMARKET. Oct 17. 2yoc&f. 7f.

1st Dam: RED EVIE by Intikhab. 9 wins at 3 and 4, Juddmonte Lockinge S G1, Coolmore Fusaichi Pegasus Matron S G1, 2nd Coolmore Fusaichi Pegasus Matron S G1. Dam of 3 winners: 2009: Red Corvette (f Galileo) unraced.

2010: MAGICAL DREAM (f Galileo) 2 wins at 2, C L Weld Park S G3, 3rd Lanwades Stud Blandford S G2.

2011: INIESTA (c Galileo) Winner at 2.

2012: FOUND (f Galileo) 2 wins at 2 at home, France, Total Prix Marcel Boussac G1, 3rd Moyglare Stud S G1.

2013: (f Galileo)

1. BELARDO (IRE) 9-1 £255,762 b c by Lope de Vega - Danaskaya (Danehill) O-Prince A. A. Faisal B-Ballylinch Stud TR-Roger Varian 2. Kodi Bear (IRE) 9-1 £96,965 br c by Kodiac - Hawattef (Mujtahid) O-Mrs Olive Shaw B-Mrs M. Fox TR-Clive Cox 3. Smuggler’s Cove (IRE) 9-1 £48,528 b c by Fastnet Rock - Chenchikova (Sadler’s Wells) O-Mr D. Smith, Mrs J. Magnier, Mr M. Tabor B-Chenchikova Syndicate TR-Aidan O’Brien Margins 2, 2.5. Time 1:27.30. Going Soft.

2nd Dam: MALAFEMMENA by Nordico. 1 win at 2 in Italy Premio Vittorio Crespi LR, 3rd Prix du Calvados G3. Dam of RED EVIE (f Intikhab, see above)

Age 2

Broodmare Sire: INTIKHAB. Sire of the dams of 9 Stakes winners. In 2014 - FOUND Galileo G1, GORDON LORD BYRON Byron G1, SHAMKALA Pivotal G3, LUCKY SERENA Bertolini LR. The Galileo/Intikhab cross has produced: FOUND G1, IGUGU G1, MAGICAL DREAM G2.

FOUND b f 2012 Sadler’s Wells GALILEO b 98 Urban Sea

Intikhab RED EVIE b 03 Malafemmena

Northern Dancer Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special Mr Prospector Miswaki Hopespringseternal Lombard Allegretta Anatevka Roberto Red Ransom Arabia Crafty Prospector Crafty Example Zienelle Northern Dancer Nordico Kennelot Martinmas Martinova Pavlova

Starts 5

Wins 3

Places 2

Earned £281,766

Sire: LOPE DE VEGA. Sire of 4 Stakes winners.

In 2014 - BELARDO Danehill G1, HERO LOOK Daylami G2, BURNT SUGAR Titus Livius G3, ROYAL RAZALMA Flying Spur G3.

1st Dam: Danaskaya by Danehill. Champion 2yr old filly in Ireland in 2002. Winner at 2, 2nd Peugeot Lowther S G2, 3rd betfair Cheveley Park S G1. Dam of 4 winners: 2005: KAYD KODAUN (f Traditionally) 2 wins.

Broodmare.

2006: Liaskaya (g Dalakhani) unraced.

2007: BERLING (g Montjeu) 6 wins to 2014 at home, Norway, Sweden, Marit Sveaas Minnelop G3.

2009: SMOKY HILL (c Galileo) 2 wins at 3 and 4 in France.

2010: Diamond Sky (f Montjeu) 3rd Keeneland Debutante S G2.

2011: French Painter (c Sea The Stars) in training.

2012: BELARDO (c Lope de Vega) Sold 77,429gns yearling at ARAU1. 3 wins at 2, Dubai Dewhurst S G1, Denford Stud Washington Singer S LR. 2013: (c Dream Ahead)

2nd Dam: MAJINSKAYA by Marignan. 3 wins at 3 in France Prix des Tuileries LR, 2nd Prix de Psyche G3.

Dam of MODEEROCH (f Mozart: Tyros S LR, Knockaire S LR, IrishStall.Farms EBF Fairy Bridge S LR, 2nd Robert H Griffin Debutante S G2), Danaskaya (f Danehill, see above), Chinese Whisper (c Montjeu: 2nd El Gran Senor S LR, 2nd Prix La Force G3, 3rd Gran Criterium G1). Grandam of Drumbeat.

Broodmare Sire: DANEHILL. Sire of the dams of 277 Stakes winners. In 2014 - BELARDO Lope de Vega G1, COSMIC ENDEAVOUR Northern Meteor G1, DICK WHITTINGTON Rip Van Winkle G1, FENOMENO Stay Gold G1, HALLOWED CROWN Street Sense G1, INTEGRAL Dalakhani G1, MISS MOSSMAN Mossman G1, NOBLE MISSION Galileo G1, STEINBECK Footstepsinthesand G1, TAPESTRY Galileo G1.

BELARDO b c 2012 Shamardal LOPE DE VEGA ch 07 Lady Vettori

Danehill DANASKAYA gr 00 Majinskaya

Giant’s Causeway Storm Cat Mariah’s Storm Machiavellian Helsinki Helen Street Machiavellian Vettori Air Distingue Kendor Lady Golconda Lady Sharp Northern Dancer Danzig Pas de Nom His Majesty Razyana Spring Adieu Blushing Groom Marignan Madelia Nijinsky Makarova Midou

The race for the title of champion first-crop sire has been competitive, with Showcasing, Rip Van Winkle, Paco Boy and Starspangledbanner all siring more than one Group winner.

But even these promising stallions have been outpointed by Lope De Vega, who achieved a brilliant Grouprace double on Future Champions Day at Newmarket to boost his total of Group winners to four.

It seems the son of Shamardal has inherited much of his sire’s prowess as a stallion, in much the same way he followed in Shamardal’s footsteps as a racehorse. Both father and son triumphed in the Poule d’Essai des Poulains and Prix du Jockey Club. The difference between the two is that Lope De Vega is inbred 3 x 3 to the champion two-year-old Machiavellian, and his pedigree has made him an intriguing prospect.

Altogether Lope De Vega has seven distant lines to Almahmoud, a mare who produced only three daughters, each of which became the dam of a champion sire. Four of the lines come through Machiavellian’s dam Coup De Folie, who was inbred 3 x 3 to Almahmoud via her daughters Cosmah and Natalma.

We learnt a while ago that Machiavellian combines well with Danehill, who was himself inbred 3 x 3 to Natalma. For example Machiavellian’s son Medicean, who is inbred 4 x 4 to Natalma and 5 x 5 x 5 to Almahmoud, has four Group winners out of Danehill mares.

It therefore comes as no surprise that Natalma, Cosmah and Almahmoud have made a sizeable contribution to Lope De Vega’s fast start. His son Belardo, winner of the Gr1 Dewhurst Stakes, is out of a daughter of Danehill. Then there’s Royal Razalma, winner of the Gr’3 Cornwallis Stakes, who is out of a

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Caulfield on Found: “It is easy to envisage a similar career to Misty For Me awaiting her as she is out of Red Evie, an excellent performer who never tackled more than a mile”

mare by Danehill’s son Flying Spur.

Also, the Gr3 Solario Stakes winner Burnt Sugar has a dam by Machiavellian’s son Titus Livius, so is inbred 4 x 4 x 3 to Machiavellian.

Belardo has seven lines to Natalma, with his dam Danaskaya adding three lines to Lope De Vega’s four, with Lope De Vega also having three lines of Cosmah. Danaskaya, like Belardo, was bred by Ballylinch Stud, who acquired the colt’s second dam Majinskaya for 190,000gns in 1997. Earlier that year Majinskaya – a former claimer – had improved enough to become a Group-placed Listed winner over ten furlongs.

Majinskaya also produced the very useful Modeeroch to Danehill’s son Mozart. Danaskaya was also well above average, as she showed when second to Russian Rhythm in the Gr2 Lowther Stakes and third behind Airwave and Russian Rhythm in the Gr1 Cheveley Park Stakes.

Danaskaya came from a distinguished female line which traces to Midget, winner of the 1955 Cheveley Park Stakes, as well as the Prix de la Foret and Queen Elizabeth II Stakes. As a broodmare, Midget helped the family increase its influence on the Cheveley Park Stakes, as her daughter Mige won the 1968 contest. Midget’s Roi Dagobert filly Madge also contributed to the family’s reputation, notably producing the Cheveley Park and 1,000 Guineas winner Ma Biche.

Belardo comes from another branch of the Midget family, descending from Mige’s sister Midou.

Midou’s Nijinsky filly Makarova is his third dam, as well as being the second dam of Prix de l’Abbaye winner Kistena.

342 DUBAI FILLIES’ MILE STAKES G1 NEWMARKET. Oct 17. 2yof. 8f.

1. TOGETHER FOREVER (IRE) 9-0 £133,269 b f by Galileo - Green Room (Theatrical) O-Mrs John Magnier,Mr M.Tabor & Mr D.Smith B-Mr and Mrs V. Khosla TR-Aidan O’Brien 2. Agnes Stewart (IRE) 9-0 £50,525 gr f by Lawman - Anice Stellato (Dalakhani) O-Clipper Logistics Group Ltd B-J. O’Connor & Ballyhane Stud TR-Edward Lynam 3. Winters Moon (IRE) 9-0 £25,286 ch f by New Approach - Summertime Legacy (Darshaan) O-Godolphin B-Darley TR-Saeed bin Suroor Margins 0.5, Nose. Time 1:41.00. Going Soft.

Age 2

Starts 6

Wins 3

Places 3

Earned £170,857

Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 188 Stakes winners. In 2014 ADELAIDE Elnadim G1, AUSTRALIA Cape Cross G1, FOUND Intikhab G1, GLENEAGLES Storm Cat G1, MARVELLOUS Storm Cat G1, NOBLE MISSION Danehill G1, TAPESTRY Danehill G1, TOGETHER FOREVER Theatrical G1, GLOBAL VIEW Storm Cat G2, GOSPEL CHOIR Pivotal G2, HIGHLAND REEL Danehill G2, RULER OF THE WORLD Kingmambo G2, SPIRITJIM Anabaa G2, TELESCOPE Darshaan G2.

1st Dam: Green Room by Theatrical. unraced. Dam of 3 winners: 2006: LORD SHANAKILL (c Speightstown) 5 wins at 2 to 4 at home, France, Etihad Airways Prix Jean Prat G1, 2nd Darley Dewhurst S G1, 3rd totesport.com Lockinge S G1, St James’s Palace S G1, Darley Prix Morny G1. Sire.

2007: BRANNAGH (c Hennessy) 3 wins.

2008: 2009: 2011: 2012:

2013: 2014:

Dressing Room (g Dixie Union) Nimboo (f Lemon Drop Kid) unraced.

Broodmare.

Smartie Artie (c Smart Strike) unraced to date.

TOGETHER FOREVER (f Galileo) Sold 526,519gns yearling at GOOY1. 3 wins at 2, Dubai Fillies’ Mile S G1, Staffordstown Stud Silken Glider S LR, 3rd Flame of Tara EBF S LR. Signe (f Sea The Stars) (f Dansili)

2nd Dam: Chain Fern by Blushing Groom. unraced.

Own sister to AL BAHATHRI. Dam of SPANISH FERN (f El Gran Senor: Yellow Ribbon H G1, 2nd Yellow Ribbon S G1, 3rd Ramona H G1, Matriarch S G1).

Grandam of HEATSEEKER, GRAN ZAMIR, Day Of Conquest, Day By Day, Kirkwood, Thought Is Free.

Third dam of HEARTS OF FIRE, Kenny Powers.

Broodmare Sire: THEATRICAL. Sire of the dams of 61 Stakes winners. In 2014 - ROSALIND Broken Vow G1, TOGETHER FOREVER Galileo G1, TARIS Flatter G2, AVANZARE Grand Reward G3, GOLDEN ACTOR Curlin LR, TWYA Thewayyouare LR.

TOGETHER FOREVER b f 2012 Sadler’s Wells GALILEO b 98 Urban Sea

Theatrical GREEN ROOM b/br 02 Chain Fern

Northern Dancer Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special Mr Prospector Miswaki Hopespringseternal Lombard Allegretta Anatevka Northern Dancer Nureyev Special Tree of Knowledge Sassafras Sensibility Blushing Groom Red God Runaway Bride Nodouble Chain Store General Store

When an unraced three-year-old daughter of Theatrical entered the Tattersalls sales ring at the 2005 February Sale, the bidding rose no higher than 20,000gns. Admittedly, that was nearly twice the average price, but it was just a fraction of the €1,100,000 paid for Green Room’s 2014 yearling, a filly by Sea The Stars. Part of the yearling’s attraction was she is a half-sister to high-class Lord Shanakill (Gr1 Prix Jean Prat).

The filly’s price might have risen still higher had the sale been a few weeks later. At the time, Green Room’s two-year-old filly Together Forever had been Listed-placed and had won a maiden at Gowran Park on her fourth start. However, the Galileo filly’s true ability became fully apparent only after the sale. First she won a Listed race by three lengths, then she reappeared only five days later to take the Gr1 Fillies’ Mile.

Galileo, of course, is a half-brother to Sea The Stars, sire of the yearling filly.

Green Room’s record makes one wonder what her half-sister Spanish Fern might have achieved as a broodmare had she not suffered a fatal injury leaving the stalls in the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf in 2000. Not only was Spanish Fern a winner of the Gr1 Yellow Ribbon Stakes, but she had an excellent pedigree. By El Gran Senor, sire also of Juddmonte’s exceptional producer Toussaud, Spanish Fern was out of Chain Fern, a sister to Haafhd’s excellent dam Al Bahathri.

Green Room is one of two daughters of Chain Fern to have

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produced a Gr1 winner. The first, the Defensive Play mare Rusty Back, produced the Santa Anita Handicap winner Heatseeker to Giant’s Causeway. Another of Chain Fern’s daughters, Dayville, is the second dam of Hearts Of Fire, winner of the Gr1 Gran Criterium.

343 VISION.AE MIDDLE PARK STAKES G1 NEWMARKET. Oct 17. 2yoc. 6f.

1. CHARMING THOUGHT (GB) 9-0 £123,344 b c by Oasis Dream - Annabelle’s Charm (Indian Ridge) O-Godolphin B-Merry Fox Stud Limited TR-Charlie Appleby 2. Ivawood (IRE) 9-0 £46,763 b c by Zebedee - Keenes Royale (Red Ransom) O-Carmichael Jennings B-Miss M. Davison & Miss D. Kitchin TR-Richard Hannon 3. Muhaarar (GB) 9-0 £23,403 b c by Oasis Dream - Tahrir (Linamix) O-Mr Hamdan Al Maktoum B-Shadwell Estate Co Ltd TR-Charles Hills Margins Nose, 1.25. Time 1:13.00. Going Soft.

Age 2

Starts 4

Wins 3

Places 1

Earned £134,011

Sire: OASIS DREAM. Sire of 92 Stakes winners. In 2014 - CHARMING THOUGHT Indian Ridge G1, FREE PORT LUX Monsun G2, MUHAARAR Linamix G2, AKTABANTAY Falbrav G3, BERMUDA REEF Acatenango G3, FLYING JIB Mizzen Mast G3, FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH Efisio G3, MIRZA Primo Dominie G3, CLADOCERA Pivotal LR, ERTIJAAL Seeking The Gold LR, GOIANIA Black Sam Bellamy LR, GOMATI Orpen LR, JOYEUSE Danehill LR, MAXIMUS DREAM Sadler’s Wells LR, MINALISA Selkirk LR, NAADIRR High Chaparral LR, OMINOUS Selkirk LR, OPINION Sadler’s Wells LR, RAFAADAH High Chaparral LR. 1st Dam: ANNABELLE’S CHARM by Indian Ridge. 3 wins at 4, EBF Dick Hern Fillies S LR, 2nd Premio Sergio Cumani G3. Dam of 1 winner: 2012: CHARMING THOUGHT (c Oasis Dream) Sold 625,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 3 wins at 2, vision.ae Middle Park S G1.

2013: (c Exceed And Excel) 2014: (c Dubawi) 2nd Dam: Kylemore by Sadler’s Wells. ran twice at 2.

Own sister to BALLINGARRY and ARISTOTLE. Dam of ANNABELLE’S CHARM (f Indian Ridge, see above), Purple Sage (f Danehill Dancer: 3rd GPD Investments UAE 1000 Guineas LR) Broodmare Sire: INDIAN RIDGE. Sire of the dams of 81 Stakes winners. In 2014 - CHARMING THOUGHT Oasis Dream G1, DOLNIYA Azamour G2, FINTRY Shamardal G2, KOOL KOMPANY Jeremy G2, EDELMIRA Peintre Celebre G3, GAMMARTH Layman G3, HALL OF MIRRORS Duke of Marmalade G3, MULL OF KILLOUGH Mull of Kintyre G3, ROCK OF ROMANCE Rock of Gibraltar G3, RUSSIAN SOUL Invincible Spirit G3, TOBANN Teofilo G3.

The Oasis Dream/Indian Ridge cross has produced: CHARMING THOUGHT G1, JWALA G1, REPLY G1, Expedition G3, SWISS DREAM LR, Elishpour LR, Glisten LR, Run For The Hills LR.

CHARMING THOUGHT b c 2012 Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier OASIS DREAM b 00 Dancing Brave Hope Bahamian Ahonoora Indian Ridge Hillbrow ANNABELLE’S CHARM ch 05 Sadler’s Wells Kylemore Flamenco Wave

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Sir Ivor Courtly Dee Lyphard Navajo Princess Mill Reef Sorbus Lorenzaccio Helen Nichols Swing Easy Golden City Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Desert Wine Armada Way

Oasis Dream provided some of the higher prices for 2014 yearlings out

of Sadler’s Wells mares but his overall record with Sadler’s Wells is generally one of so near and yet so far. From 44 starters, he’s had 27 winners. but just three stakes winners (5%). Only one of them, Approve, has won a Group race. Oddly, Oasis Dream seems to do better when Sadler’s Wells appears as the sire of the second dam, with this combination producing eight stakes winners. They include three Group winners, the latest being Charming Thought.

Tackling stakes company for the first time, he emulated Oasis Dream’s victory in the Gr1 Middle Park Stakes, inflicting the first defeat on Ivawood.

Charming Thought’s dam, Annabelle’s Charm, represents a successful partnership. She is one of the eight stakes winners – 15% – among the 53 foals sired by Indian Ridge out of Sadler’s Wells mares.

They won Group races from seven furlongs to two miles, but Annabelle’s Charm, a 425,000gns yearling, gained her stakes success over a mile, having earlier won at around a mile and a quarter. She is the second Indian Ridge mare to produce a Gr1 winner by Oasis Dream, the first being the Nunthorpe winner Jwala.

Charming Thought’s second dam, Kylemore, was very well related. Her dam Flamenco Wave produced four Group winners, including three at the top level. Two of those three Gr1 winners were brothers to Kylemore, namely Aristotle (Racing Post Trophy) and Ballingarry (Criterium de SaintCloud and Canadian International).

Flamenco Wave’s other Gr1 winner was Starborough (St James’s Palace Stakes).

Flamenco Wave won the Moyglare Stud Stakes but disappointed badly in the Irish 1,000 Guineas and was covered by Sure Blade soon after.

That mating resulted in Leaping Water, who found fame as the dam of the outstanding middle-distance horse St Nicholas Abbey.

344 QIPCO BRIT.CHAMPIONS FILLIES/MARE STAKES G1 ASCOT. Oct 18. 3yo+f. 12f.

1. MADAME CHIANG (GB) 3 8-12 £344,513 b f by Archipenko - Robe Chinoise (Robellino) O-Miss K. Rausing B-Miss K. Rausing TR-David Simcock 2. Silk Sari (GB) 4 9-5 £130,613 b f by Dalakhani - So Silk (Rainbow Quest) O-Fittocks Stud & Andrew Bengough B-Fittocks Stud & Arrow Farm & Stud TR-Luca Cumani 3. Chicquita (IRE) 4 9-5 £65,367 b/br f by Montjeu - Prudenzia (Dansili) O-Mr D. Smith, Mrs J. Magnier, Mr M. Tabor B-Ecurie Des Monceaux & Skymarc Farm Inc TR-Aidan O’Brien Margins 2, 0.75. Time 2:38.70. Going Heavy.

Age 2-3

Starts 5

Wins 3

Places 0

Earned £392,792

Sire: ARCHIPENKO. Sire of 3 Stakes winners. In 2014 - MADAME CHIANG Robellino G1, LADY PENKO Danehill LR, RUSSIAN PUNCH Beat Hollow LR. 1st Dam: ROBE CHINOISE by Robellino. 2 wins at 3.

Dam of 3 winners: 2006: MANNLICHEN (g Selkirk) 3 wins.

2007: ORIENTAL SCOT (g Selkirk) 4 wins at 3 to 5.

2008: Soie de Chine (f Selkirk). Broodmare.

2010: (f Aussie Rules)

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European Pattern 2011:

MADAME CHIANG (f Archipenko) 3 wins at 2 and 3, Qipco Brit.Champions Fillies/Mare S G1, Tattersalls Musidora S G3.

Chinoiseries (f Archipenko) (c Aussie Rules)

2013: 2014:

2nd Dam: KILINISKI by Niniski. 1 win at 3 Marley Roof Tile Oaks Trial S G3, 2nd Yorkshire Oaks G1, 4th Gold Seal Oaks S G1, G.P. del Jockey Club Coppa d’Oro G1. Dam of KISWAHILI (f Selkirk: Etzel- Rennen LR).

Grandam of BRIVIESCA, KINETICA, Senafe. Third dam of Aguafria.

Broodmare Sire: ROBELLINO. Sire of the dams of 34 Stakes winners. In 2014 - MADAME CHIANG Archipenko G1, I’M YOURS Invincible Spirit LR, SEPERATE OPINION Osorio LR.

MADAME CHIANG b f 2011 Mr Prospector Kingmambo Miesque ARCHIPENKO b 04 Nijinsky Bound Special Roberto Robellino Isobelline ROBE CHINOISE b 99 Niniski Kiliniski Kilavea

Raise A Native Gold Digger Nureyev Pasadoble Northern Dancer Flaming Page Forli Thong Hail To Reason Bramalea Pronto Isobella Nijinsky Virginia Hills Hawaii Special

A day after the Dewhurst Stakes fell to a son of Lope De Vega, a stallion inbred 3 x 3 to Machiavellian, the British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes was won by Madame Chiang, a filly by another closely inbred stallion. This is Archipenko, who is inbred 4 x 3 to Northern Dancer and 4 x 2 to Special. The incentive for this double inbreeding was that Northern Dancer had sired Nureyev from Special and he had also sired Sadler’s Wells and Fairy King from Special’s daughter Fairy Bridge. The quality of this combination is underlined by the fact that Nureyev, Sadler’s Wells and Fairy King all sired winners of the Arc. Kirsten Rausing, a connoisseur of pedigrees, sought out Archipenko to stand at her Lanwades Stud and in his first year sent him Robe Chinoise, a great-grand-daughter of none other than Special. Robe Chinoise’s pedigree also contains Nijinsky, which means that Madame Chiang is inbred 5 x 3 x 4 to Special, 3 x 4 to Nijinsky and 5 x 4 x 5 to Northern Dancer.

Madame Chiang is one of 47 foals in Archipenko’s first crop and there are already 13 two-year-old winners from the 42 foals in his second crop.

With his aristocratic bloodlines, Archipenko started his racing career in the care of Aidan O’Brien. Despite the handicap of a May 30 birthday, he won at two and then landed the Gr2 Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial, only to disappoint in the Derby. It was as a four-year-old, when his late birthday was no longer significant, he proved very successful for Mike de Kock. His campaign took him from Dubai to Hong Kong, to England and finally the USA. He won valuable prizes in each of the first three countries, including two over a mile, and was a good second in the Arlington Million. His earnings for the year fell just short of the equivalent of £1 million.

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sister and Robe Chinoise visited Archipenko again in 2014. Robe Chinoise showed useful form at up to a mile and three-quarters without achieving the same high standard as her dam Kiliniski. This daughter of Lanwades’ Niniski finished fourth in the Oaks and second in the Yorkshire Oaks after winning Lingfield’s Oaks Trial.

345 QIPCO CHAMPION STAKES G1 ASCOT. Oct 18. 3yo+. 10f.

1. NOBLE MISSION (GB) 5 9-5 £770,547 b h by Galileo - Kind (Danehill) O-Mr K. Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms Ltd TR-Lady Cecil 2. Al Kazeem (GB) 6 9-5 £292,131 b h by Dubawi - Kazeem (Darshaan) O-Mr D. J. Deer B-Mr & Mrs D. J. Deer TR-Roger Charlton 3. Free Eagle (IRE) 3 9-0 £146,202 b c by High Chaparral - Polished Gem (Danehill) O-Moyglare Stud Farms Ltd B-Moyglare Stud Farm Ltd TR-D. K. Weld Margins Neck, 1.25. Time 2:11.20. Going Heavy.

Age 2-5

Starts 21

Wins 9

MOSSMAN Mossman G1, NOBLE MISSION Galileo G1, STEINBECK Footstepsinthesand G1, TAPESTRY Galileo G1.

The Galileo/Danehill cross has produced: BANC DE FORTUNE G1, CIMA DE TRIOMPHE G1, CUIS GHAIRE G1, FRANKEL G1, GOLDEN LILAC G1, INTELLO G1, MAYBE G1, NOBLE MISSION G1, ORCHESTRA G1, RODERIC O’CONNOR G1, ROMANTICA G1, SCINTILLULA G1, SECRET GESTURE G1, TAPESTRY G1, TEOFILO G1, Galileo’s Destiny G1, Gile Na Greine G1, Mars G1, The Assayer G1, HIGHLAND REEL G2, REEM G2, CRYSTAL GAL G3, DAZZLING G3, GALIWAY G3, JOHN F KENNEDY G3, LAGALP G3, MEKONG RIVER G3, SIDERA G3, WONDERFULLY G3, Brightest G3, Circling G3, Claiomh Solais G3, Impulsive Moment G3, Marksmanship G3, MISS GALILEI LR, Acteur Celebre LR, Amerique LR, Provenance LR, Via Galilei LR.

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), RIPOSTE (f Dansili: Ribblesdale S G2, New York S G2, Sheepshead Bay S G2), LAST TRAIN (c Rail Link: Prix de Barbeville G3, 2nd Juddmonte Grand Prix de Paris G1), KIND (f Danehill, see above) Broodmare Sire: DANEHILL. Sire of the dams of 277 Stakes winners. In 2014 - BELARDO Lope de Vega G1, COSMIC ENDEAVOUR Northern Meteor G1, DICK WHITTINGTON Rip Van Winkle G1, FENOMENO Stay Gold G1, HALLOWED CROWN Street Sense G1, INTEGRAL Dalakhani G1, MISS

Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier INVINCIBLE SPIRIT b 97 Kris Rafha Eljazzi Sadler’s Wells Montjeu Floripedes L’ENJOLEUSE b 02 Machiavellian Somfas

NOBLE MISSION b h 2009 Sadler’s Wells

Northern Dancer Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Mr Prospector Miswaki Hopespringseternal Lombard Allegretta Anatevka Northern Dancer Danzig Pas de Nom His Majesty Razyana Spring Adieu Blushing Groom Rainbow Quest I Will Follow Stage Door Johnny Rockfest Rock Garden

GALILEO b 98 Urban Sea

Danehill KIND b 01 Rainbow Lake

See race 53 in the July issue 346 QIPCO QUEEN ELIZABETH II STAKES G1 1. CHARM SPIRIT (IRE) 3 9-1 £632,345 b c by Invincible Spirit - L’Enjoleuse (Montjeu) O-H.H. Sheikh Abdulla bin Khalifa Al Thani B-Ecurie Des Monceaux TR-F. Head 2. Night of Thunder (IRE) 3 9-1 £239,736 ch c by Dubawi - Forest Storm (Galileo) O-Mr Saeed Manana B-F. Dunne TR-Richard Hannon 3. Toormore (IRE) 3 9-1 £119,979 b c by Arakan - Danetime Out (Danetime) O-Middleham Park Racing IX & James Pak B-Bec Bloodstock TR-Richard Hannon Margins 0.5, 0.5. Time 1:46.20. Going Heavy.

Age 2-3

Starts 9

Wins 6

Places Earned 2 £1,166,105

Sire: INVINCIBLE SPIRIT. Sire of 81 Stakes winners.

In 2014 - CHARM SPIRIT Montjeu G1, KINGMAN Zamindar G1, SPEAKING OF WHICH Mr Prospector G2, ALEA IACTA Galileo G3, CITRON SPIRIT Lemon Drop Kid G3, HIGH CELEBRITY Storm Cat G3, LOCAL TIME Medicean G3, RUSSIAN SOUL Indian Ridge G3, SIGNS OF BLESSING Seeking The Gold G3, APACHE SPIRIT Sadler’s Wells LR, ARMY BULLETIN Sunday Silence LR, BEACH BELLE High Chaparral LR, I’M YOURS Robellino LR, THAT IS THE SPIRIT Acatenango LR. 1st Dam: L’ENJOLEUSE by Montjeu. 2 wins at 3 in France. Dam of 1 winner: 2008: L’Ensorceleuse (f Oasis Dream) unraced.

Broodmare.

2010: (f Holy Roman Emperor) 2011: CHARM SPIRIT (c Invincible Spirit) Sold 111,111gns yearling at AROCT. 6 wins at 2 and 3 at home, France, Qipco Queen Elizabeth II S G1, Qatar Prix du Moulin de Longchamp G1, Prix Jean Prat G1, Prix Paul de Moussac G3, Prix Djebel G3, 3rd Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere Grand Criterium G1.

2012: Reem (f Lawman) 2013: (f Kendargent) 2014: (c Myboycharlie) 2nd Dam: Machaera by Machiavellian. unraced. Dam of Megec Blis (f Soviet Star: 3rd Irish Stallion Farms EBF Athasi S G3), Squadron (g Sakhee: 3rd Wragge & Co. Juv.Finesse Novices’ Hurdle G2) Broodmare Sire: MONTJEU. Sire of the dams of 21

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Sir Ivor Courtly Dee Sharpen Up Doubly Sure Artaius Border Bounty Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Top Ville Toute Cy Mr Prospector Coup de Folie What A Pleasure Ciboulette

See race 163 in the September issue

Fairy Bridge

ASCOT. Oct 18. 3yo+. 8f.

1st Dam: KIND by Danehill. 6 wins at 3 and 4, Totesport Kilvington S LR, betfair.com Flower of Scotland S LR, 3rd Ballyogan S G3. Dam of 5 winners: 2007: BULLET TRAIN (c Sadler’s Wells) 2 wins at 2 and 3, totesport.com Derby Trial S G3. Sire.

2008: FRANKEL (c Galileo) Champion 3yr old colt in Europe in 2011, Champion older horse in Europe in 2012. 14 wins at 2 to 4, Juddmonte International S G1, Qipco Champion S G1, Dubai Dewhurst S G1, JLT Lockinge S G1, Queen Anne S G1, Qipco Queen Elizabeth II S G1, St James’s Palace S G1, Qipco Sussex S G1 (twice), Qipco 2000 Guineas G1. Sire.

2009: NOBLE MISSION (c Galileo) 9 wins at 3 to 5 at home, France, Tattersalls Gold Cup G1, Qipco Champion S G1, Grand Prix de SaintCloud G1, bet365 Gordon S G3, bet365 Gordon Richards S G3, Betfair Huxley S G3, Qatar Racing Newmarket S LR, Tapster S LR, 2nd Grosser Dallmayr Bayerisches Zuchtrennen G1, King Edward VII S G2, Dubai Duty Free John Porter S G3, Worthington’s St Simon S G3, poptelecom.co.uk Fairway S LR, 3rd Dubai Duty Free John Porter S G3, Betfred Rose of Lancaster S G3.

2010: MORPHEUS (c Oasis Dream) 3 wins at 3.

2011: JOYEUSE (f Oasis Dream) 3 wins at 2 and 3, Betfred EBF Stallions Cecil Frail S LR, Country Gentlemen’s EBF D. Poole S LR, 2nd Ballyogan S G3, Totepol Summer S G3.

2013: (c Galileo)

CHARM SPIRIT b c 2011

Machaera

Places Earned 12 £1,364,058

Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 188 Stakes winners. In 2014 ADELAIDE Elnadim G1, AUSTRALIA Cape Cross G1, FOUND Intikhab G1, GLENEAGLES Storm Cat G1, MARVELLOUS Storm Cat G1, NOBLE MISSION Danehill G1, TAPESTRY Danehill G1, TOGETHER FOREVER Theatrical G1, GLOBAL VIEW Storm Cat G2, GOSPEL CHOIR Pivotal G2, HIGHLAND REEL Danehill G2, RULER OF THE WORLD Kingmambo G2, SPIRITJIM Anabaa G2, TELESCOPE Darshaan G2.

Stakes winners. In 2014 - CHARM SPIRIT Invincible Spirit G1, LUCIA VALENTINA Savabeel G1, OBVIOUSLY Choisir G1, GINNER HART Volksraad G3, MOOZOON Perfectly Ready G3, PARISH HALL Teofilo G3.

347 GRAN PREMIO DEL JOCKEY CLUB G1 MILAN. Oct 19. 3yo+. 2400m.

1. DYLAN MOUTH (IRE) 3 8-13 £79,166 b c by Dylan Thomas - Cottonmouth (Noverre) O-Scuderia Effevi SRL B-Azienda Agricola Mariano TR-Stefano Botti 2. Duca di Mantova (GB) 5 9-4 £34,833 ch h by Manduro - Vale Mantovani (Wolfhound) O-Incolinx B-Stefano Luciani TR-R Biondi 3. Biz The Nurse (IRE) 4 9-4 £19,000 b c by Oratorio - Biz Bar (Tobougg) O-Scuderia Aleali Srl B-Massimo Parri TR-Stefano Botti Margins 4, 14. Going Soft.

Age 2-3

Starts 8

Wins 7

Places 0

Earned £448,382

Sire: DYLAN THOMAS. Sire of 17 Stakes winners. In 2014 - DYLAN MOUTH Noverre G1, FINAL SCORE Hernando G1, DYLAN’S PROMISE Rigoletto G2, PETHER’S MOON Tirol G2, PORSENNA Hussonet G2, CAPTAIN CAT Sadler’s Wells G3, NOT LISTENIN’TOME Encosta de Lago G3, BLAZING SPEED Sadler’s Wells LR, RALSTON ROAD Galileo LR, TANNERY Sadler’s Wells LR. 1st Dam: COTTONMOUTH by Noverre. 12 wins at 2 to 5 in Italy, Premio Verziere G3. Dam of 2 winners: 2011: DYLAN MOUTH (c Dylan Thomas) 7 wins at 2 and 3 in Italy, Gran Premio del Jockey Club G1, Derby Italiano G2, Premio Federico Tesio G2, Premio Emanuele Filiberto LR. 2012: PROMISSORY NOTE (f Rock of Gibraltar) Winner at 2 in Italy.

2013: Per Un Dixir (c Holy Roman Emperor) 2014: (f Lawman) 2nd Dam: NAFZIRA by Darshaan. 1 win at 2 in France.

Dam of COTTONMOUTH (f Noverre, see above), JUMBO RIO (g Captain Rio: Ballymore Champion 4yo Hurdle G1, 3rd Golf Centre December Festival Hurdle G1, 2nd Prix Renaud du Vivier Hurdle G1, Prix Alain du Breil d’Ete 4yo Hurdle G1) Broodmare Sire: NOVERRE. Sire of the dams of 5 Stakes winners. In 2014 - DYLAN MOUTH Dylan Thomas G1, SHURUQ Elusive Quality G2, STEIP AMACH Vocalised G3, UNDER THE LOUVRE Excellent Art LR.

DYLAN MOUTH b c 2011 Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Razyana Spring Adieu Sharpen Up Diesis Doubly Sure Mount Hagen Wrap It Up Doc Nan Blushing Groom Rahy Glorious Song Danseur Fabuleux Northern Dancer Fabuleux Jane Shirley Heights Darshaan Delsy Green Dancer Nafzawa Nawazish Danzig

Danehill DYLAN THOMAS b 03 Lagrion

Noverre COTTONMOUTH b 04 Nafzira

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Caulfield on Elm Park: “The Racing Post Trophy winner is out of Lady Brora, a mare whose pedigree encapsulates some of the finest horses trained over the decades at Kingsclere”

Although originally included on Coolmore’s roster of Flat stallions for 2014, at a fee of €10,000, the imposing Dylan Thomas was soon transferred to the National Hunt team, to stand at half the original fee. You can be pretty sure that breeders from both sectors will be interested in using the 2007 Arc winner in 2015, following a very successful year with his progeny throughout Europe.

In the process Dylan Thomas established his ability to sire a wide range of smart performers, ranging from the useful Irish sprint performer Caspian Prince through the tough miler Captain Cat and the versatile Hong Kong Gr1 winner Blazing Speed, to the smart mile-and-a-half performer Pether’s Moon and talented stayer Ralston Road.

Dylan Thomas also advertised his talents to Italian breeders, thanks to a pair of leading three-year-olds. One, Final Score, took the Oaks d’Italia and the Gr1 Premio Lydia Tesio, while Dylan Mouth is unbeaten in seven starts in Italy, his only setback coming in the King Edward VII Stakes. Dylan Mouth’s Italian performances include decisive victories in the Derby Italiano, Premio Federico Tesio and the Gr1 Gran Premio del Jockey Club.

Dylan Mouth’s dam Cottonmouth was also well above average in Italy, where she won 12 of her 27 starts, including the Gr3 Premio Verziere over a mile and a quarter.

Cottonmouth is by the Sussex Stakes winner Noverre, who has also been in the news in 2014 as the sire of the promising French stallion Le Havre.

Other daughters of Noverre have enjoyed Group success in 2014, with Shuruq, a multiple Group winner in the UAE and Turkey, and Steip Amach, winner of the Gr3 Killavullan Stakes. Cottonmouth comes from an Aga Khan family with plenty of stamina. His fifth dam Nilmeen was a half-sister to Sharmeen, dam of the brilliant Shergar.

348 RACING POST TROPHY G1 DONCASTER. Oct 25. 2yoc&f. 8f.

1. ELM PARK (GB) 9-1 £122,494 b c by Phoenix Reach - Lady Brora (Dashing Blade) O-Qatar Racing & Kingsclere Racing B-Kingsclere Stud TR-Andrew Balding 2. Aloft (IRE) 9-1 £46,440 b c by Galileo - Dietrich (Storm Cat) O-Mr D. Smith, Mrs J. Magnier, Mr M. Tabor B-Southern Bloodstock TR-Aidan O’Brien 3. Celestial Path (IRE) 9-1 £23,242 br c by Footstepsinthesand - Miss Kittyhawk (Hawk Wing) O-Mr Gordon Woodall & Prof C Tisdall B-Miss C. Monaghan TR-Sir Mark Prescott Bt Margins 2.75, 0.5. Time 1:43.80. Going Soft.

Age 2

Starts 5

Wins 4

Places 1

Earned £212,040

Sire: PHOENIX REACH. Sire of 1 Stakes winner.

1st Dam: LADY BRORA by Dashing Blade. Winner at 3. Dam of 1 winner: 2011: Jonny Rae (g Shirocco) 2012: ELM PARK (c Phoenix Reach) 4 wins at 2, Racing Post Trophy G1, Juddmonte Royal Lodge S G2, EBF Stallions Stonehenge S LR. 2013: (c Shirocco) 2014: (f Passing Glance) Broodmare Sire: DASHING BLADE. Sire of the dams

of 42 Stakes winners. In 2014 - ELM PARK Phoenix Reach G1, MEERJUNGFRAU Manduro G3, OCEAN BLUE Stay Gold G3, SEISMOS Dalakhani G3, WUNDER Adlerflug G3.

not only 4 x 3 inbreeding to Mill Reef but also 3 x 3 inbreeding to that excellent stallion Sharpen Up. 349 PRIX ROYAL-OAK G1

ELM PARK b c 2012 Unfuwain Alhaarth Irish Valley PHOENIX REACH b 00 Hatim Carroll’s Canyon Tuna Elegant Air Dashing Blade Sharp Castan LADY BRORA b 05 Selkirk Tweed Mill Island Mill

Northern Dancer Height of Fashion Irish River Green Valley Exclusive Native Sunday Purchase Silver Shark Vimelette Shirley Heights Elegant Tern Sharpen Up Sultry One Sharpen Up Annie Edge Mill Reef Siliciana

Trainer Andrew Balding once described Phoenix Reach as “an amazing horse,” explaining that, but for being beset by injuries and setbacks, he could have been a champion. The achievements of this son of Alhaarth go some way to supporting this view, as he collected the equivalent of nearly £2 million, thanks principally to Gr1 victories in Canada, Hong Kong and the UAE. Unfortunately for Phoenix Reach, those Gr1 victories were gained over a mile and a half, something hardly likely to endear him to commercial breeders when he retired to the National Stud at a fee of £3,500.

Sure enough, his first five crops contain only 114 foals, but he has occasionally hinted at what might have been had he received stronger support. For example, his son Whiplash Willie ran well in several of Europe’s top stayers’ races in 2014.

By 2011 Phoenix Reach was being promoted as a dual-purpose sire and he soon left the National Stud for Mickley Stud in Shropshire. However, his last National Stud crop has produced a potential star in Elm Park, who was recording his fourth consecutive victory when he took the Racing Post Trophy.

Phoenix Reach has the Balding family to thank for his first Gr1 winner.

Bred by Kingsclere Stud, Elm Park is out of Lady Brora, a mare whose pedigree encapsulates some of the finest horses trained over the decades at Kingsclere. For a start, Lady Brora is inbred 4 x 3 to the great Mill Reef, and Elm Park’s fourth dam, the Prix de Flore and Cambridgeshire winner Siliciana, was

by Silly Season, winner of the Dewhurst Stakes and Champion Stakes for Ian Balding.

Lady Brora’s sire, the Dewhurst Stakes winner Dashing Blade, and her grandsires Elegant Air and Selkirk were others trained by Ian Balding.

That said, none of Elm Park’s first three dams proved out of the ordinary for the Baldings. Lady Brora’s only victory came in a one-mile all-weather event; second dam Tweed Mill won only once, over 8.5 furlongs at Epsom; and third dam Island Mill gained her only success over the St Leger course and distance.

Perhaps Lady Brora has been helped in breaking this sequence by her intricate pedigree, which contains

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LONGCHAMP. Oct 26. 3yo+. 3100m.

1. TAC DE BOISTRON (FR) 7 9-4 £166,658 gr g by Take Risks - Pondiki (Sicyos) O-Australian Thoroughbred Bloodstock B-Mme I. Reverseau TR-Marco Botti 2. High Jinx (IRE) 6 9-4 £66,675 b g by High Chaparral - Leonara (Surumu) O-Mr & Mrs W. J. Williams B-Haras De La Perelle TR-James Fanshawe 3. Narrow Hill (GER) 6 9-4 £33,338 b g by Tiger Hill - Narooma (Silver Hawk) O-Simon Springer B-Gestut Park Wiedingen TR-P Sogorb Margins 1, Nose. Time 3:32.73. Going Soft.

Age 3-7

Starts 35

Wins 9

Places 13

Earned £636,510

Sire: TAKE RISKS. Sire of 14 Stakes winners.

1st Dam: Pondiki by Sicyos. Dam of 4 winners: 1996: PONDIMARI (f Marignan) 11 wins at 3 to 6 in France. Broodmare.

1998: Soliki (f Solid Illusion) 2001: Breche de Boitron (f Great Palm) ran over jumps in France. Broodmare.

2004: De Boitron (g Sassanian) 8 wins, 3rd Masterson Holdings SilverTrophy H Stp G2, Ulster Bank H. Chase G2.

2005: LA VIE DE BOITRON (f Lavirco) Winner at 5 in France. Broodmare.

2007: TAC DE BOISTRON (g Take Risks) 9 wins at 3 to 7, 2014 at home, France, Prix Royal-Oak G1 (twice), Prix Maurice de Nieuil G2, Longines Sagaro S G3, Stella Artois Stand Cup LR, Prix Denisy LR, 2nd Qatar Prix du Cadran G1, Sky Bet Yorkshire Cup G2, Qatar Prix Gladiateur G3, Prix La Moskowa LR, 3rd Prix de Barbeville-Beachcomber Hotels G3, March S LR. 2009: Rime de Boitron (f My Risk) ran on the flat in France.

2010: Lys de Boitron (c My Risk) ran on the flat in France and over jumps in France.

2012: Nana de Boitron (f Nickname) unraced to date.

Tac De Boistron may not be top class but he is still a considerable over-achiever. His sire Take Risks won nothing better than three Gr3 contests and was rated 116 by Timeform. He seemed an unlikely candidate to sire a leading longdistance horse, especially when the four Group winners from Take Risks’s early crops included the smart miler My Risk and the dual seven-furlong Gr3 winner Coupe De Champe.

Tac De Boistron’s broodmare sire Sicyos was another unlikely source of stamina. He gained his Group successes over five furlongs, showing much of the speed that had helped his dam Sigy land the Prix de l’Abbaye. Also, Sicyos was a brotherin-blood to Funambule, the broodmare sire of Take Risks’s speedy son Coupe De Champe.

However, Sicyos sired all sorts of winners, ranging from Porlezza (Prix Maurice de Gheest) to Ponte Tresa (Prix Kergorlay). Takes Risks, too, had enough stamina in his make-up to sire the smart British-trained chasers Walkon and Takeroc.

Even so, there is a good chance that Tac De Boistron’s stamina has been inherited via Bon Mot, sire of his second dam Tikiti. Bon Mot won the 1966 Arc, having earlier finished a half-length second in the Prix RoyalOak. Significantly, Bon Mot was a grandson of Wild Risk, a winner at up to two and a half miles on the Flat in addition to winning two editions of the Grande Course de Haies d’Auteuil.

350 PREMIO LYDIA TESIO LONGINES TRIS STR. G1 ROME. Oct 26. 3yo+f. 2000m.

2nd Dam: Tikiti by Bon Mot III. 1 win at 3 in France, 3rd Prix de la Porte de Passy LR. Dam of Alta (f Luthier: 3rd Prix Belle de Nuit LR), TIKITI DANCER (f Fabulous Dancer: Prix Cambaceres 3yo Hurdle LR, Prix de Chambly Hurdle LR, Prix Sagan Hurdle LR). Grandam of KATIKI, EDGARDO SOL. Third dam of CHANT DE LUNE, A Dieu Vat. Broodmare Sire: SICYOS. Sire of the dams of 20 Stakes winners.

TAC DE BOISTRON gr g 2007 Kenmare Highest Honor High River TAKE RISKS gr 89 Be My Guest Baino Bluff Rapids Lyphard Sicyos Sigy PONDIKI b 91 Bon Mot III Tikiti Tadjikie

Kalamoun Belle of Ireland Riverman Hairbrush Northern Dancer What A Treat Head of The River Sound of Success Northern Dancer Goofed Habitat Satu Worden Djebel Idra Prince Taj Laughing Sun

The Prix Royal-Oak, the so-called French St Leger, doesn’t appear to be flourishing. Having been won in the first decade of the 21st century by horses such as Vinnie Roe (Timeform 126), Westerner (123), Yeats (128) and Ask (126), recent editions have fallen to Gentoo (119), Be Fabulous (116) and Les Beaufs (114), with the last two editions providing the only Gr1 victories in Tac De Boistron’s 35race career.

1. FINAL SCORE (IRE) 3 8-10 ch f by Dylan Thomas - Holy Moon (Hernando) O-Scuderia Effevi SRL B-Razza Del Velino SRL TR-Stefano Botti 2. Lacy (GER) 3 8-10 £40,333 f by Authorized - La Vinchina (Oasis Dream) O- Stiftung Gestut Fahrhof B-Gestut Fahrhof TR-Waldemar Hickst 3. Calyxa (GB) 4 9-0 b f by Pivotal - Chantra (Lando) O-Gestut Haus Ittlingen B-Gestut Haus Ittlingen TR-Ferdinand J Leve Margins Nose, 0.75. Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 6

Wins 5

Places 0

Earned £272,894

Sire: DYLAN THOMAS. Sire of 17 Stakes winners. In 2014 - DYLAN MOUTH Noverre G1, FINAL SCORE Hernando G1, DYLAN’S PROMISE Rigoletto G2, PETHER’S MOON Tirol G2, PORSENNA Hussonet G2, CAPTAIN CAT Sadler’s Wells G3, NOT LISTENIN’TOME Encosta de Lago G3, BLAZING SPEED Sadler’s Wells LR, RALSTON ROAD Galileo LR, TANNERY Sadler’s Wells LR. 1st Dam: HOLY MOON by Hernando. 5 wins at 3 and 4 in Italy, Premio EBF Terme di Merano LR. Dam of 5 winners: 2006: MOONEY RIDGE (f Indian Ridge) 2 wins at 3 and 4 in Italy. Broodmare.

2008: HOLY BALLET (c Shamardal) 10 wins at 3 to 6, 2014 in Italy.

2009: CHERRY COLLECT (f Oratorio) Champion 3yr old filly in Italy in 2012. 8 wins at 2 and 3 in Italy, Oaks d’Italia Trofeo Snai G2, 2nd Premio Lydia Tesio Longines G1.

2010: CHARITY LINE (f Manduro) 6 wins at 2 and 3 in Italy, Premio Lydia Tesio Longines G1, highclass filly.

2011: FINAL SCORE (f Dylan Thomas) 5 wins at 2 and 3 in Italy, Premio Lydia Tesio Longines G1, Oaks d’Italia G2.

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DATA BOOK STAKES RESULTS

European Pattern 2012:

Wordless (f Rock of Gibraltar) unraced to date. (c Pour Moi) (c Nathaniel)

2013: 2014:

2nd Dam: Centinela by Caerleon. ran a few times at 2 and 3. Dam of HOLY MOON (f Hernando, see above) Broodmare Sire: HERNANDO. Sire of the dams of 30 Stakes winners. In 2014 - FINAL SCORE Dylan Thomas G1, CUBANITA Selkirk G3, CHAMEUR Shirocco LR, LUSTROUS Champs Elysees LR. The Dylan Thomas/Hernando cross has produced: FINAL SCORE G1, Holly Polly LR.

FINAL SCORE ch f 2011 Danzig Danehill Razyana DYLAN THOMAS b 03 Diesis Lagrion Wrap It Up Niniski Hernando Whakilyric HOLY MOON b 00 Caerleon Centinela New Generation

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Sharpen Up Doubly Sure Mount Hagen Doc Nan Nijinsky Virginia Hills Miswaki Lyrism Nijinsky Foreseer Young Generation Madina

Final Score demonstrated her talents when contesting the Gr2 Ribblesdale Stakes, finishing a two-length fifth behind the future Irish Oaks winner Bracelet. Final Score had already won the Oaks d’Italia and now has the status of Gr1 winner after a narrow victory in the Premio Lydia Tesio.

Final Score shares the same sire, Dylan Thomas, as the top Italian colt Dylan Mouth, but Dylan Thomas must share the credit for her talent with the filly’s dam Holy Moon. This daughter of Hernando has built a tremendous

record, producing three consecutive winners of the Oaks d’Italia and consecutive winners of the Premio Lydia Tesio. Her achievement looks all the better for the fact her daughters were sired by three different stallions.

The first was Oratorio’s daughter Cherry Collect, who also won the Premio Regina Elena, and next came her Manduro filly Charity Line.

There is no shortage of stamina in this family, as Holy Moon, a Listed winner over 11 furlongs, is inbred 3 x 3 to Nijinsky. Holy Moon’s dam Centinela also had links to the Oaks d’Italia, a race won by her half-sister Bright Generation in 1993. Bright Generation has since become second dam of Dabirsim, winner of the Prix Morny and Jean-Luc Lagardere in 2011. Final Score’s fourth dam Madina won the Prix Morny in 1967.

351 CRITERIUM INTERNATIONAL G1

Sun LR, SILVER PHANTOM Sadler’s Wells LR, STEPS Vettori LR. 1st Dam: Tiny Petal by Grand Lodge. unraced. Dam of 3 winners: 2007: (c One Cool Cat) 2008: TINY SMILE (f Celtic Swing) 4 wins at 3, 4 and 6 in Hungary.

2009: (f Celtic Swing) 2011: NANCY ROSE (f Verglas) Winner at 3.

2012: VERT DE GRECE (c Verglas) Sold 30,476gns yearling at DNPRM. 2 wins at 2 at home, France, Criterium International G1, 2nd Galileo EBF Futurity S G2.

2nd Dam: TRUST IN LUCK by Nashwan. 1 win at 3.

Dam of Aahaykid (g Intikhab: 3rd Mountgrange Horris Hill S G3). Grandam of LOVE LOCKDOWN, TABLE ROCK. Broodmare Sire: GRAND LODGE. Sire of the dams of 54 Stakes winners. In 2014 - APPEARANCE Commands G1, VERT DE GRECE Verglas G1, WANNABE YOURS Dubawi G3, BUBBLE CHIC Chichicastenango LR, KASPERSKY Footstepsinthesand LR, LONHSPRESSO Lonhro LR.

VERT DE GRECE gr c 2012 Kenmare

SAINT-CLOUD. Oct 30. 2yoc&f. 1600m.

1. VERT DE GRECE (IRE) 9-0 £119,042 gr c by Verglas - Tiny Petal (Grand Lodge) O-Britannia Thoroughbreds 1 B-K. Murphy TR-Roger Varian 2. Johnny Barnes (IRE) 9-0 £47,625 b c by Acclamation - Mahalia (Danehill) O-Bermuda Thoroughbred Racing Limited B-Citadel Stud TR-John Gosden 3. Sherlock (GER) 9-0 £23,813 b c by Areion - Sun Valley (Lando) O-Capricorn Stud B-Capricorn Stud TR-M Rulec Margins 4, 0.75. Time 1:43.16. Going Soft.

Age Starts Wins Places Earned 2 4 2 2 £146,696 Sire: VERGLAS. Sire of 41 Stakes winners. In 2014 VERT DE GRECE Grand Lodge G1, LET’SGOFORIT Seattle Slew G3, ABRAXA Compton Place LR, GO FOR GOAL Sadler’s Wells LR, GRANDEUR Desert

Highest Honor High River VERGLAS gr 94 Secreto Rahaam Fager’s Glory Chief’s Crown Grand Lodge La Papagena TINY PETAL ch 02 Nashwan Trust In Luck Trusted Partner

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The 1996 Coventry Stakes winner Verglas died on May 17, 2011, after an accident at the Irish National Stud.

His death at the age of 17 was regrettable, as he had worked his way up from obscurity thanks to the likes

of Silver Frost (Poule d’Essai des Poulains) and Stormy River (Prix Jean Prat). However, he lived long enough to add another Gr1 winner to his collection in the shape of Vert De Grece, who was conceived about three months before Verglas’s death.

Vert De Grece was impressive in winning the Criterium International and it is worth noting that Verglas’s previous European Gr1 winners had been defeated in this race, Stormy River finishing second and Silver Frost third. Vert De Grece was clearly very much at home on the soft ground at Saint-Cloud, which is par for the course with Verglas’s progeny, but he also has a good effort to his credit on good to firm ground, when second to Gleneagles in the Gr2 Futurity Stakes.

Vert De Grece’s dam Tiny Petal was bred by Moyglare Stud, which sold her cheaply as an unraced twoyear-old. His fourth dam is Moyglare’s famous Talking Picture, America’s champion juvenile filly of 1973.

Talking Picture was a regular visitor to the American Triple Crown winner Affirmed, producing the 1988 Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Trusted Partner and three other stakes winners.

Trusted Partner in turn visited Danehill to produce top-class Dress To Thrill and successful broodmare Polished Gem, who has enjoyed Group success with Sapphire, Custom Cut and the very promising Free Eagle.

Vert De Grece’s second dam, Trust In Luck, has also played her part, as Tiny Petal is her third daughter to produce a stakes winner. One of the others produced the Gr3 two-year-old winner Love Lockdown to Verglas.

Group 2 and 3 Results Date 03/10 03/10 04/10 04/10 04/10 04/10 04/10 04/10 05/10 05/10 09/10 10/10 11/10 12/10 12/10 12/10 14/10 17/10 17/10 17/10 18/10 18/10 19/10 19/10 19/10 19/10 19/10 19/10 19/10 22/10 25/10 25/10 25/10 25/10 26/10 26/10 30/10 30/10 01/11

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Grade G3 G3 G2 G2 G2 G2 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G2 G3 G3 G3 G2 G3 G3 G2 G2 G2 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3

Race (course) pferdewetten.de 24 P. Deutschen Einheit (Berlin-Hoppegarten) Diamond Stakes (Dundalk) Qatar Prix Chaudenay (Longchamp) Qatar Prix Daniel Wildenstein (Longchamp) Qatar Prix de Royallieu (Longchamp) Qnb Prix Dollar (Longchamp) BMW Cumberland Lodge Stakes (Ascot) John Guest Bengough Stakes (Ascot) G.P. der Landeshauptstadt Dusseldorf (Dusseldorf) Coolmore Stud Concorde Stakes (Tipperary) Prix Thomas Bryon (Saint-Cloud) Prix Eclipse (Chantilly) Betfred Goals Galore Autumn Stakes (Newmarket) Premio Gran Criterium (Milan) Preis des Winterfavoriten (Cologne) Premio Verziere - Memorial Aldo Cirla (Milan) Prix Andre Baboin Musee Gallo Romain (Bordeaux Le Bouscat) vision.ae Challenge Stakes (Newmarket) Darley Stakes (Newmarket) Dubai Cornwallis Stakes (Newmarket) Qipco Brit. Champions Long Distance Cup (Ascot) Qipco British Champions Sprint Stakes (Ascot) Prix du Conseil de Paris (Longchamp) H.Liebrecht-Gedachtnispreis Wurttemberg (Baden-Baden) Soldier Hollow Preis der Winterkonigin (Baden-Baden) Prix de Conde (Longchamp) Premio Dormello (Milan) Premio Omenoni (Milan) Premio del Piazzale (Milan) Prix des Reservoirs (Deauville) Killavullan Stakes (Leopardstown) Premio St Leger Italiano (Milan) Worthington’s Horris Hill Stakes (Newbury) Worthington’s St Simon Stakes (Newbury) G.P. der Mehl-Mulhens Herbst Stutenpreis (Hannover) Premio Guido Berardelli (Rome) Prix Perth (Saint-Cloud) Prix de Flore (Saint-Cloud) Premio Chiusura (Milan)

Dist 10f 10.5f 15f 8f 12.5f 9.5f 12f 6f 8.5f 7f 8f 6f 8f 7.5f 8f 10f 10f 7f 9f 5f 16f 6f 12f 10f 8f 9f 8f 5f 8f 8f 7f 14f 7f 12f 11f 9f 8f 10.5f 7f

Horse Wake Forest (GER) Cat O’Mountain (USA) Auvray (FR) Solow (GB) Frine (IRE) Fractional (IRE) Pether’s Moon (IRE) Lightning Moon (IRE) Flamingo Star (GER) Big Break (GB) Alea Iacta (GB) Souvenir Delondres (FR) Commemorative (GB) Hero Look (IRE) Brisanto (GB) Quaduna (GB) Dartagnan d’Azur (FR) Here Comes When (IRE) Berkshire (IRE) Royal Razalma (IRE) Forgotten Rules (IRE) Gordon Lord Byron (IRE) Manatee (GB) Ever Strong (GER) Bourree (GER) Epicuris (GB) Fontanelice (IRE) Harlem Shake (IRE) Spoil The Fun (FR) Moonee Valley (FR) Steip Amach (IRE) Rock of Romance (IRE) Smaih (GER) Sky Hunter (GB) Good Donna (GER) Misterious Boy (IRE) Flamingo Star (GER) Fate (FR) Gothic Dance (IRE)

Age 4 4 3 4 4 5 4 3 4 4 2 2 2 2 2 4 5 4 3 2 4 6 3 6 2 2 2 3 5 2 2 4 2 4 3 2 4 5 5

Sex C G C C F G C C C F F F C C C F H G C F G G C H F C F G H F F C C G F C C M M

Sire Sir Percy Street Cry Le Havre Singspiel High Chaparral Manduro Dylan Thomas Shamardal Areion Dansili Invincible Spirit Siyouni Zamindar Lope de Vega Dansili Duke Of Marmalade Slickly Danehill Dancer Mount Nelson Lope de Vega Nayef Byron Monsun Lomitas Siyouni Rail Link Vale of York Moss Vale Rock of Gibraltar Aqlaam Vocalised Rock Of Gibraltar Paco Boy Motivator Doyen Arcano Areion Teofilo Dalakhani

Dam Wurfspiel Thunder Kitten Ameyrah High Maintenance Castalia Sharp Point Softly Tread Catch The Moon Flamingo Island Fame At Last Almiranta Dilag Revered Roscoff Briseida Quelle Amore Dinner Bell Quad’s Melody Kinnaird Twiggy’s Sister Utterly Heaven Boa Estrela Galatee Emy Coasting Bearlita Argumentative Choose Me Please Ladylishandra Avezia Moon Romance Ceist Eile Romantic Venture Solola Pearl Kite Good Harmony Biz Bar Flamingo Island Specificity Future Flight

Broodmare Sire Lomitas Storm Cat In The Wings Highest Honor Cardoun Royal Academy Tirol Peintre Celebre Acatenango Quest For Fame Galileo Almutawakel Oasis Dream Daylami Pivotal Monsun Highest Honor Spinning World Dr Devious Flying Spur Danehill Intikhab Galileo El Gran Senor Lomitas Observatory Choisir Mujadil Night Shift Nayef Noverre Indian Ridge Black Sam Bellamy Silver Hawk King’s Best Tobougg Acatenango Alleged Polar Falcon

Index 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381

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DATA BOOK EXCLUSIVE STALLION STATS – FOR THE LATEST SIRE LISTS GO TO WWW.OWNERBREEDER.CO.UK

Leading sires 2014 by percentage of stakes winners to runners Name

YOF

Galileo Sea The Stars Dubawi Monsun Banknote *Lope de Vega Oasis Dream Champs Elysees Motivator Le Havre Shamardal Archipenko Selkirk Montjeu Dalakhani Dansili Duke Of Marmalade Teofilo Authorized Mount Nelson Invincible Spirit Nayef Clodovil Sir Percy Luxor Manduro Iffraaj Zamindar High Chaparral Pivotal Areion Monsieur Bond Tamayuz Cape Cross Azamour Rock Of Gibraltar Dylan Thomas Kodiac Aussie Rules Singspiel Bahamian Bounty Sabirli Hurricane Run Choisir Jeremy Bin Ajwaad Tertullian Sri Pekan Kaneko Acclamation

1998 2006 2002 1990 2002 2007 2000 2003 2002 2006 2002 2004 1988 1996 2000 1996 2004 2004 2004 2004 1997 1998 2000 2003 2000 2002 2001 1994 1999 1993 1995 2000 2005 1994 2001 1999 2003 2001 2003 1992 1994 2001 2002 1999 2003 1990 1995 1992 2001 1999 Holy Roman Emperor 2004 Win River Win 1999 Mastercraftsman 2006 Verglas 1994 Dark Angel 2005 Refuse To Bend 2000 Muhtathir 1995 Dutch Art 2004

Sire

Rnrs

Wnrs

%WR

Sadler's Wells Cape Cross Dubai Millennium Königsstuhl Zafonic Shamardal Green Desert Danehill Montjeu Noverre Giant's Causeway Kingmambo Sharpen Up Sadler's Wells Darshaan Danehill Danehill Galileo Montjeu Rock Of Gibraltar Green Desert Gulch Danehill Mark Of Esteem Distant Relative Monsun Zafonic Gone West Sadler's Wells Polar Falcon Big Shuffle Danehill Dancer Nayef Green Desert Night Shift Danehill Danehill Danehill Danehill In the Wings Cadeaux Genereux Strike The Gold Montjeu Danehill Dancer Danehill Dancer Rainbow Quest Miswaki Red Ransom Pivotal Royal Applause Danehill Virginia Rapids Danehill Dancer Highest Honor Acclamation Sadler's Wells Elmaamul Medicean

283 95 204 88 12 52 235 84 90 90 237 52 73 166 148 191 173 222 169 106 295 159 138 125 51 134 189 135 218 193 116 88 88 239 152 245 185 185 155 93 155 31 126 64 103 69 104 70 70 256 220 74 149 229 154 118 120 163

135 51 106 45 4 21 118 34 30 35 124 26 36 62 61 92 68 86 67 49 134 73 69 44 12 45 86 56 86 97 52 21 46 100 60 87 76 93 74 39 55 15 54 25 35 22 46 35 36 112 105 33 57 111 75 57 51 76

47.70 53.68 51.96 51.14 33.33 40.38 50.21 40.48 33.33 38.89 52.32 50.00 49.32 37.35 41.22 48.17 39.31 38.74 39.65 46.23 45.42 45.91 50.00 35.20 23.53 33.58 45.50 41.48 39.45 50.26 44.83 23.86 52.27 41.84 39.47 35.51 41.08 50.27 47.74 41.94 35.48 48.39 42.86 39.06 33.98 31.88 44.23 50.00 51.43 43.75 47.73 44.59 38.26 48.47 48.70 48.31 42.50 46.63

Races

AWD

Earnings (£)

SH

191 75 161 66 7 29 180 44 51 64 215 41 60 107 90 133 104 131 95 69 207 107 121 61 30 60 136 85 141 148 76 36 70 143 81 116 122 140 106 68 89 39 77 38 57 45 68 61 66 166 161 84 76 190 118 104 79 120

10.7 9.8 9.0 11.2 9.0 6.5 7.5 9.6 11.2 9.4 7.9 8.8 9.2 11.9 10.8 9.2 9.7 10.0 10.9 8.9 7.2 9.4 7.2 9.7 6.9 9.8 7.8 8.5 10.5 8.2 7.7 6.3 8.9 9.4 9.1 9.4 9.3 6.7 8.7 10.0 6.8 7.8 11.5 7.5 8.9 8.6 8.5 8.0 7.4 7.0 8.3 8.5 9.2 8.7 7.3 8.4 9.8 7.2

8,567,320 3,337,493 3,591,268 1,286,478 714,881 711,310 2,950,288 774,712 3,259,244 2,012,770 3,921,725 791,262 747,443 2,501,009 1,652,327 3,529,168 1,426,715 2,691,670 1,674,133 877,434 4,761,235 1,531,772 1,582,184 809,360 778,569 1,225,927 1,713,634 985,682 2,800,521 1,969,453 734,521 967,371 924,497 2,213,569 1,065,965 1,962,333 2,218,632 1,669,898 1,206,817 944,312 886,854 760,502 1,390,916 844,323 696,584 940,563 750,004 1,512,501 1,414,990 2,073,045 1,894,590 2,012,287 3,311,783 1,871,284 1,724,841 695,946 1,148,885 2,317,734

58 17 31 11 1 5 30 7 11 9 7 7 6 19 12 18 17 23 16 10 31 11 13 10 4 8 12 7 14 16 10 6 8 23 10 15 10 11 9 10 8 1 12 3 4 4 8 5 3 17 14 2 13 9 15 7 9 16

%

20.49 17.89 15.2 12.5 8.33 9.62 12.77 8.33 12.22 10.0 11.39 13.46 8.22 11.45 8.11 9.42 9.83 10.36 9.47 9.43 10.51 6.92 9.42 8.0 7.84 5.97 6.35 5.19 6.42 8.29 8.62 6.82 9.09 9.62 6.58 6.12 5.41 5.95 5.81 10.75 5.16 3.23 9.52 4.69 3.88 5.8 7.69 7.14 4.29 6.64 6.36 2.7 8.72 3.93 9.74 5.93 7.5 9.82

SW

%

35 10 20 8 1 4 17 6 6 6 14 3 4 9 8 10 9 11 8 5 13 7 6 5 2 5 7 5 8 7 4 3 3 8 5 8 6 6 5 3 5 1 4 2 3 2 3 2 2 7 6 2 4 6 4 3 3 4

12.37 10.53 9.80 9.09 8.33 7.69 7.23 7.14 6.67 6.67 5.91 5.77 5.48 5.42 5.41 5.24 5.20 4.95 4.73 4.72 4.41 4.40 4.35 4.00 3.92 3.73 3.70 3.70 3.67 3.63 3.45 3.41 3.41 3.35 3.29 3.27 3.24 3.24 3.23 3.23 3.23 3.23 3.17 3.13 2.91 2.90 2.88 2.86 2.86 2.73 2.73 2.70 2.68 2.62 2.60 2.54 2.5 2.45

Leading sires of two-year-olds 2014 by earnings Name

Galileo Kodiac Lion Heart Shamardal *Lope de Vega Invincible Spirit Oasis Dream *Siyouni Acclamation *Showcasing *Zebedee Dark Angel

YOF

1998 2001 2001 2002 2007 1997 2000 2007 1999 2007 2008 2005 *Starspangledbanner 2006 Monsieur Bond 2000 Iffraaj 2001 *Paco Boy 2005 Bosporus 1995 Victory Gallop 1995 Kaneko 2001 *Equiano 2005 *Rip Van Winkle 2006 Clodovil 2000 Exceed And Excel 2000 Divine Light 1995 *Fast Company 2005 Lawman 2004 Authorized 2004 Dutch Art 2004 Dubawi 2002 *Arcano 2007 Azamour 2001 Luxor 2000 Danehill Dancer 1993

Sire

Rnrs

Wnrs

Sadler's Wells Danehill Tale Of The Cat Giant's Causeway Shamardal Green Desert Green Desert Pivotal Royal Applause Oasis Dream Invincible Spirit Acclamation Choisir Danehill Dancer Zafonic Desert Style Night Shift Cryptoclearance Pivotal Acclamation Galileo Danehill Danehill Sunday Silence Danehill Dancer Invincible Spirit Montjeu Medicean Dubai Millennium Oasis Dream Night Shift Distant Relative Danehill

63 86 40 54 52 63 48 38 79 51 81 62 20 48 69 56 36 18 32 59 53 26 58 15 67 53 20 49 57 49 61 25 30

29 41 20 20 21 26 19 18 23 25 30 25 11 7 27 24 13 9 14 14 14 16 22 8 26 14 5 16 19 17 22 5 6

%WR

46.03 47.67 50.00 37.04 40.38 41.27 39.58 47.37 29.11 49.02 37.04 40.32 55.00 14.58 39.13 42.86 36.11 50.00 43.75 23.73 26.42 61.54 37.93 53.33 38.81 26.42 25.00 32.65 33.33 34.69 36.07 20.00 20.00

Monsun still doing well home and away Most of the changes are cosmetic, predictably at a time of year when the number of new runners for the best sires is dropping off though there are plenty of stakes to target.

Galileo’s percentage has declined only slightly – his figure of 12.37% is still mindboggling – and he remains in an unassailable position, since Sea The Stars and Dubawi have also fallen back by a small amount.

One who has risen marginally is old favourite Monsun, neither of whose main successes during the year by Fiorente in the Australian Cup and Protectionist in the Melbourne Cup – giving the stallion memorable back-to-back strikes in that race – is included in our tables.

Manatee’s success in the Group 2 Prix du Conseil de Paris was a fresh European stakes triumph for him.

Four stakes winners from 52 runners have propelled Lope De Vega into fifth, a splendid position for a first-season sire. He is unlikely to be a one-season wonder.

Intriguingly, among the top 12 active sires, Coolmore have just one (Galileo) and Darley two (Shamardal and Dubawi), while Juddmonte, which hosts only four stallions with horses of racing age, has three (Oasis Dream, Champs Elysees and Dansili).

Kodiac snaps away

Races

AWD

Earnings (£)

Top horse

Earned (£)

38 64 39 28 29 37 26 27 31 39 44 34 16 13 33 32 25 14 22 18 20 24 29 21 39 16 10 22 26 24 29 9 9

7.6 5.7 6.5 6.6 6.5 6.4 6.7 6.2 5.8 5.7 5.9 6.7 6.2 5.7 6.6 6.4 6.1 6.2 6.0 5.7 6.8 6.4 5.9 6.1 6.3 7.3 7.0 6.3 7.2 6.9 7.0 6.3 6.7

1,090,367 1,042,611 795,689 791,213 711,310 630,634 600,967 578,939 520,205 493,730 467,036 456,849 437,722 408,632 398,892 382,470 367,045 361,459 354,963 354,562 351,783 346,575 341,569 338,298 338,208 310,702 309,440 307,242 299,585 299,584 297,271 295,131 292,583

Gleneagles Tiggy Wiggy Lion Wind Secret Brief Belardo Territories Muhaarar Ervedya Mubtaghaa Cappella Sansevero Ivawood Estidhkaar The Wow Signal Bond's Girl Jungle Cat Beacon Bade Hanim Oglum Berat Special Sword Lacing Dick Whittington Berkarar Heartbreak Hero Renk Baitha Alga Agnes Stewart Bici Bici Dutch Connection Arabian Queen Misterious Boy Mind Of Madness Dedemsah Osaila

259,327 381,181 193,467 354,941 281,766 88,639 151,247 135,300 177,911 128,415 141,380 117,111 232,068 312,515 87,598 72,467 59,575 155,412 56,340 127,880 147,818 93,567 122,607 119,517 77,791 106,985 270,982 82,128 52,425 47,185 63,804 182,427 210,650

Despite Galileo’s recent surge to the front things are still pretty tight on top, with Kodiac also past the £1 million mark and less than £50,000 adrift of the leader. His tally of eight stakes horses puts him in the first five in that department. Galileo has the highest number of stakes horses, narrowly from Invincible Spirit and Oasis Dream. Those two are jointleaders with Galileo in stakes winners.

Belardo’s victory in the Dewhurst Stakes has guaranteed Lope De Vega the first-season title on earnings from Siyouni and with 21 winners he is behind only Zebedee (30), Fast Company (26), Showcasing (25), Approve and Paco Boy (both 24) in numbers. Siyouni does not feature there because he had insufficient ammunition with only 38 runners.

*denotes first-season sire; statistics to November 13

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do need an alarm clock to wake me, but never have any trouble getting out of bed. If I’m riding out at Jonjo O’Neill’s or Nicky Henderson’s I’ll be up at quarter past six, but if I’m not I’ll be in bed until about quarter to eight.

I’ll make a cup of tea; I drink a lot of tea right through the day. I suppose it’s a form of sustenance. If I am not riding out I’ll spend between 20 minutes and half an hour on the treadmilI. I enjoy a hot bath every morning, which is a good soak and if I have time I read the Racing Post in the bath.

Breakfast is usually no more than another cup of tea, though some mornings I might have a bit of cereal as well.

When I can, I help Chanelle getting Eve and Archie ready. Eve is seven and Archie nearly one and a half. Sometimes I am left in control and obviously like to spend as much time as possible with them. I often take Eve to school, which is about 15 minutes away.

If I haven’t had time to read the papers in the bath I’ll take them with me in the car as I always have my driver, Steve Kelly. We do about 75,000 miles a year in my Audi A8. I don’t get lifts with anyone else so the car is on the road every day I’m racing. Obviously, I couldn’t do it without a driver.

I normally do most of my interviews and phone calls from the car. My PA, Gee Bradburne, handles all my paperwork, that way I am free for the family when I get home in the evening.

At 40, I am probably hungrier now than I have ever been for winners.

Simply because there is more of my racing life behind me than there is in front of me and I want to make the most of what’s left.

It’s all about winning and I

At 40, AP McCOY is showing no signs of slowing down and is hungrier than ever to ride winners, wanting to make the most of the career he has left.

Put simply, he loves what he does wish I could do it all over again. Put at its simplest, I love what I do.

I’m 5ft 10 and a half and can’t do less than 10st 4lb.

To be honest, a lack of food does depress you some days. But then you think about the real world and soon snap out of it; all those lads working on building sites makes you realise how lucky you are. Going without a bit of food suddenly becomes a minor problem.

I believe a certain amount of mind-over-matter is built into your character, but you

need to be challenged to really bring it out. And the more you are tested the more that characteristic comes into play and the stronger you become.

Having said that, there isn’t a person who can mentally go through life without a treat; we all have to have something to look forward to. I regularly break out and enjoy a proper meal.

Recently when I was off due to injury I was eating pretty normally and that, for me, was real enjoyment. I would have to say that

chicken is my favourite dish.

If I’m at the races lunch is picking at bits and pieces in the weighing room, while at home it just depends what’s on offer. I can’t cook, won’t cook. Anyway, Chanelle is very good, so I leave it to her.

A relaxing day for me is a round of golf. I like to watch Arsenal at the Emirates and went to see Liverpool play Real Madrid at Anfield in October. A lot of footballers have an interest in racing so I do meet up with quite a few of them.

I think I watch Sky Sports News more than any other programme and I am looking forward to reading Roy Keane’s second autobiography, The Second Half, which has just come out. I really enjoyed his first instalment.

I found it hard work writing my first novel, Taking A Fall. I consulted friends and colleagues about different angles and storylines, and had someone helping me put it together. I have started another, but it’s on hold at the moment.

The earlier we have our evening meal the better, but it does depend on where I’m racing. I don’t like eating late; it’s not good for the weight or the metabolism.

We have a lot of fish in the evening and Chanelle is probably a healthier eater than I am.

I wind down lying on the couch watching television. If I’ve got a long journey the next day I go to bed as late as possible, about midnight, so I can sleep in the car on the way to the races. That breaks up the travelling.

I sleep a lot, more than anyone else on the planet I reckon, and right through the night as well. I dream all the time – and never a bad one.

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