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A New Dawn Guineas hero leads Godolphin’s revival

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• Andrew Tinkler on why it pays to keep on the move • Jump sales focus: what’s in store for the store market?

• Graham Motion out to conquer with Animal Kingdom

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he steroids scandal that broke immediately after the May issue of Owner & Breeder went to press caused a media sensation.

The BHA’s office in London was mobbed as the paparazzi fought, literally, to get a shot of disgraced trainer Mahmood Al Zarooni. The trio of racing photographers who turned up to do battle for a prime spot on the High Holborn pavement looked somewhat shell-shocked by the experience.

Al Zarooni’s actions, and the implications of the use of performance-enhancing drugs, both at home and overseas, are covered elsewhere in this magazine. But the clear message must be that there is no place for cheating of any kind in our sport.

One of the questions asked in the wake of the story was what would happen if Sheikh Mohammed, the man whose horses were drugged by Al Zarooni, decided to walk away from British racing and breeding, or scale back his investment?

It is not an easy question to answer, and it must be said there is no immediate prospect of the Sheikh withdrawing from the sport he loves, but the one thing we can be sure of is that there would be very few people in the industry, if any, left unaffected by such an eventuality. It is something that BHA boss Paul Bittar knows only too well, as was evidenced by his united front with Godolphin’s Simon Crisford in the press conference following Al Zarooni’s hearing.

To understand the extent to which Sheikh Mohammed has influenced horseracing and breeding globally, one only needs to look at the contents of this publication. Our Talking To interviewee is Graham Motion, the Englishman training in America and who is returning to the land of his birth to saddle Animal Kingdom in the Queen Anne Stakes.

Last time out, Animal Kingdom travelled to contest the world’s richest horserace, the Dubai World Cup, devised by Sheikh Mohammed as an event to attract the best horses from across the globe.

Undoubtedly, the phenomenal pot landed in the Emirate has enabled Animal Kingdom’s owners to finance a trip to Royal Ascot, because one thing is certain – they’re not coming here for the prize-money.

Also in the spotlight this month is Andrew Tinkler, who talks to Julian Muscat about his huge investment in bloodstock and individual approach to getting the best out of his racehorses.

The Chief Executive of Eddie Stobart, who employs a ‘horses-for-trainers’ policy, is determined to make his equine business pay its way, and that extends to his willingness to part with a yearling or horse in training – if the price is right. Tinkler has recently concluded a deal to sell his exciting miler Fort Knox privately.

The buyer was Sheikh Mohammed.

Jim Bolger was another to attract the Dubai ruler’s interest with his homebred colt Dawn Approach, our cover star and undeniably the ‘horse-of-themoment’ after his demolition job in the 2,000 Guineas.

While the three-year-old is not quite in the Frankel league of guaranteeing extra coverage and devotees to the sport, he’ll remedy that if he continues in his current devastating form.

Now unbeaten in seven races, Dawn Approach heads to Epsom with the age-old question hanging over his chestnut head – will he stay the Derby trip? If he takes after his sire New Approach, a horse that won the blue riband in the silks of Princess Haya, we could soon be talking about another Triple Crown contender, 12 months after Camelot’s glorious failure.

On the subject of staying power, this year marks the 30th anniversary of Sheikh Mohammed’s debut Royal Ascot winner. To find out where it all started, turn to page 104.

Another first in this issue is the sight of Richard Hughes celebrating British Classic success. That a rider of his calibre had to wait so long to do so is testament to the competitiveness of British racing at the highest level. We must do all we can to keep it that way.

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CONTENTS JUNE 2013

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NEWS & VIEWS

FEATURES

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ROA Leader TBA Leader

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News

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Changes Your monthly round-up

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Andrew Tinkler Irish venture working well

Fall-out from steroids cases

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Talking To...

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Breeders’ Digest The change of sales season

Tony Morris Remembering Storm Cat

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Richard Edmondson In praise of Epsom

INTERNATIONAL SCENE 30

View From Ireland Pat Shanahan’s great start

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Continental Tales Whitehead’s Swedish mission

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Around The Globe McGaughey’s special day

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Commercial operator: Andrew Tinkler views his racing interests as a business (pages 43-45)

National Hunt Stores Selection time for Derby Sale

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Sales Circuit Wrapping up the breeze-ups

Trainer Graham Motion

Seeking a level playing field

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All the Guineas action

Unifying global drug rules

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The Big Picture

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Caulfield Files A.P. Indy’s great divide

104 Flashback High Hawk’s Ribblesdale win

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ROA LEADER

RACHEL HOOD President Racehorse Owners Association

Global standardisation of drug rules now required Universal policy must be the objective in aftermath of steroids controversy

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ometimes good things come out of bad things.

Such a thought might not automatically offer much comfort to the racing public in the wake of the recent steroids issue. No more so than it will for the BHA and its Chief Executive, Paul Bittar, who in recent weeks has experienced the full glare of publicity, not just within racing but on the national and international news stage.

But when the dust eventually settles on this very difficult situation some repercussions might, paradoxically, actually prove to be positive. It is not so much that the subject of drug use in racing generally, and the use of anabolic steroids in particular, will come under greater scrutiny than ever before; it is the fact that the wide variations in attitudes towards drug use in different racing jurisdictions is already becoming one of the key issues to fall out from these cases.

Racing has long been part of the general globalisation movement that increasingly demands a standardisation of rules and regulations, not necessarily in the minutia but certainly on the big issues – and, yes, that means the use of medication and drugs, both for training and racing horses. Without this, there can never be absolute confidence that competition between thoroughbreds will always be fair and equitable, any more than we can be confident that horse welfare is treated as a priority. And, without this, we will never be able to dismiss any of the suspicions that are attached to a horse’s performance with absolute certainty, however fanciful they might appear.

To set an objective that all major racing jurisdictions throughout the world must adopt the same policy on medication and drugs may sound slightly more difficult to achieve than having full compliance to proposed European legislation, but getting everyone within the ‘world racing’ camp at least to support such an objective would be a first major step. Full implementation might take years or even decades, but the initiative would quickly achieve absolute

transparency as to the policy of each member country and it would create an impetus for improvement, however slow and gradual progress might be.

To establish such a force for good in the world of racing would clearly require the support of the sport’s biggest owners, trainers and breeders – as much as that of any horseracing authority – for these are the people who have the final say on the conditions under which they are prepared to train and race their horses.

Perhaps, even, there is scope for something more concrete to emanate from the world’s major owners, trainers and breeders. With some international owner/breeders having horses in training in most horseracing jurisdictions and, with stallions, broodmares and stud farms spread around the world, even tacit support of such an idea from these top international players would go a long way.

A number of owner/breeders have put enormous energy and money into so many areas of British horseracing for decades – and, lest we forget, given an invaluable stability to a UK industry that would otherwise have surely sunk to a very low status – so a further lasting legacy would be to help to establish some form of international body that would pull all the strands connected to medication and drugs together and start the process of standardisation of rules and regulations throughout the world.

To appreciate how difficult it will be to put international racing in a better place with medication and drugs, you only have to look at the Americans’ recent reversal of their stated policy to make the Breeders’ Cup lasix-free, or the sort of heated reaction to criticism that came from Australia to concerns expressed about their policy to allow the use of anabolic steroids in training.

But the collective international racing world must at least be seen to be making efforts in this direction however steep the road might first appear. For racing is nothing without integrity.

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TBA LEADER

RICHARD LANCASTER Chairman Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association

A level playing field is in the best interests of us all Future breeding stock must face the racecourse free of performance enhancers

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uch has been written about the use of drugs for therapeutic and/or for improvements in performance following the two recent cases.

The use of anabolic steroids by licensed trainers is outlawed by the BHA. If any grey areas exist where treatment is admissible then it is up to the authorities to address this situation and give clear guidelines. I am confident that this will be undertaken.

The National Trainers’ Federation confirmed that they notified their members in March this year to avoid using a specific veterinary product because it contains an anabolic steroid. No doubt more debate and detail will emerge before my opinion appears in print, but from a breeder’s perspective we must be confident that Great Britain operates on a level playing field, free from illegal performance enhancers, to test its potential breeding stock. The TBA will monitor the situation on behalf of members’ interests.

Following a horrendous winter it is not surprising that the 2013 breeding season has been fraught with challenges. A number of breeders are reporting that their mares are foaling late and the weather has certainly affected the mares’ ability to cycle naturally.

These factors will increase our costs of production and lengthen the season for breeders, underlining the message that the economics of our industry remain challenging.

Despite encouraging noises from those racecourses who have made significant increases in their prize-money contributions, British racing and breeding continues to rely heavily on its international appeal, as evidenced at the conclusion of the breeze-up sales season.

BOBIS has made a promising start, with the BHA noting positive responses in terms of increased field sizes and an interest from racecourses to upgrade their races. This suggests there will be plenty for TBA members to digest and discuss at the annual seminar, entitled ‘The Bloodstock Market Today’, on July 25 (see page 72). A number of leading bloodstock industry figures will be sharing their thoughts with members and this promises to be a not-to-

be-missed occasion which, for the first time, is offered free of charge to members. The afternoon will be devoted to practical veterinary issues at the sales, and to preparing the industry’s response to the scientific developments which could fundamentally affect the breed.

The BHA Veterinary Committee provides an invaluable opportunity for our veterinary representatives to communicate and co-operate on health and welfare matters. Crucially, it serves as a reminder of the importance that the BHA attaches to the horse. I maintain that the TBA’s fundamental role is to represent the veterinary interests of its members and, therefore, it was extremely useful that the BHA’s Chief Veterinary Officer, Jenny Hall, attended a recent meeting of the TBA’s Veterinary Committee.

The Committee had a number of issues to cover, not least to reflect our members’ concerns that Equine Herpesvirus cases have appeared to increase this year.

Working in conjunction with the BHA, we must do all we can to ensure transparency between the relevant authorities in terms of disease surveillance and protocols.

I would like to see every channel explored in our efforts to reduce the number of Herpesvirus cases, and this includes addressing the link between breeding stock and horses in training.

In closing, I would like to pay tribute to three longstanding supporters of British breeding who died recently.

Reg Hollinshead will be remembered for his legendary racing career, but he was also a long-standing breeder, and Longdon Stud has traditionally provided commercial stallions to breeders across the Midlands and further afield.

Bridget Skinner was a much accomplished small breeder and TBA member for over 38 years. The EBN obituary summed up the passing of her magnificent generation so closely associated with our sport in noting that “she was also one of the last of a collection of British ladies who had small studs, the sort who preserved the Empire”. Finally, David Metcalfe, a great supporter of the TBA behind the scenes, will also be fondly remembered.

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NEWS Special report on steroids in racing

The message was very clear: anabolic steroids are banned No excuse for giving racehorses performance-enhancing drugs, says leading expert

Unbeaten juvenile Certify was barred from running in the 1,000 Guineas after failing a drugs test at her stable

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n recent weeks racing has been hit by two unrelated cases involving positive tests for anabolic steroids, which came to light during tests on horses in training. Godolphin trainer Mahmood Al Zarooni has been banned from racing for eight years after 11 horses in his stable tested positive for two different types of anabolic steroids – stanozolol and ethylestranol – and he later admitted administering the substances to another four.

Four days after Al Zarooni’s case was heard by the BHA, Gerard Butler admitted in a newspaper interview that several of his horses had tested positive for anabolic steroids, again during the BHA’s testing-in-training programme.

Butler claims he was advised by a vet to use a product named Sungate, which contains the anabolic steroid stanozolol, to treat the horses for sore joints. He also asserted that horses in other Newmarket stables have been treated with this product.

With Al Zarooni having lodged an appeal as to the severity of his ban and Butler’s case yet to come before a BHA disciplinary panel, racing looks set to remain in the headlines for the wrong reasons for some time to come.

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Steroids are split into two main groups: cortico-steroids, which are antiinflammatories and are permitted in training but must not be present in a horse’s system on a raceday, and anabolic steroids, which are prohibited for use either in training or racing in the UK. “Anabolic steroids allow the horse to increase its muscle mass, to train harder and recover more quickly from training,” says ROA veterinary advisor David Dugdale, who is the managing partner for Newmarket Equine Hospital and sits on the BHA’s veterinary committee. “The general public is very familiar with anabolic steroids because they have been the bane of many human sports for years and years. They are universally recognised as performanceenhancing.

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Disqualified for a period of eight years: that was Mahmood Al Zarooni’s punishment for breaching the rules of racing regarding prohibited substances.

Al Zarooni admitted administering anabolic steroids to 15 horses in his care at Godolphin’s Moulton Paddocks stable in Newmarket, “actions which damaged the reputation of British racing,” according to the British Horseracing Authority.

The transgressions came to light after the BHA’s ‘testing in training’ programme obtained blood samples from 45 horses trained by Al Zarooni on April 9.

Eleven of the samples were found to contain prohibited substances, including that taken from Certify. The daughter of Elusive Quality had been a leading fancy for the 1,000 Guineas after an unbeaten juvenile campaign, but was denied the opportunity to run in the Classic after testing positive for ethylestranol.

Al Zarooni later admitted that a further four horses at his stable had been treated with banned drugs that he himself had brought into the country; all 15 animals

“Until recently, we were fairly confident that anabolic steroids weren’t being used.

However, in 2011, Howard Johnson was found to have administered anabolic steroids to a small number of his horses in training and as a result of that he lost his licence. This case was well publicised at the time and the BHA sent out a clear message that anabolic steroids weren’t allowed either on the day of a race or in training. All veterinary surgeons and trainers would have seen that and been well aware of it.”

While anabolic steroids are not permitted for horses in training, there are occasions when they may be administered to a profoundly sick horse, such as after major abdominal surgery or a severe fracture, or for a horse suffering from grass sickness.

Dugdale explains: “In those instances a horse has to be removed from training and placed in a rehabilitation yard. It must be emphasised that this happens in a very, very small number of cases. Anabolic steroids are not available in the UK and therefore we would have to use those licensed for other species, in this case feline. There can be no misunderstanding – it is limited to animals who have no place in training at that time.”

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were subsequently banned from racing for a period of six months (ending October 8).

The BHA’s Disciplinary Panel concluded that the trainer “had sought to confer an unfair advantage on his horses by the underhand administration of illegal medication,” despite Al Zarooni’s assertion that he did not know that anabolic steroids were not permitted in Britain.

Simon Crisford, Godolphin’s Racing Manager and the man who recommended to Sheikh Mohammed that he employ Al Zarooni as a Godolphin trainer, later said: “He has tarnished the Godolphin brand so badly that it’s going to take a long time to recover.

“I think we will get there because Sheikh Mohammed is passionate and loves horses and horseracing. He is going to make sure everything is done to make sure the stable is absolutely 100% clean before any horses get transferred to any other trainers.”

Mahmood Al Zarooni lodged an appeal against the severity of his ban on May 7. The date for the hearing had yet to be confirmed at the time of going to press.

cortico-steroids, from which veterinary surgeons are able to deduce withdrawal times, which are usually a few days above the advised detection period to allow a margin of error according to individual metabolism. The prime reason anabolic steroids are prohibited for training is that they are believed to have a longterm physiological effect.

“The science isn’t entirely precise but the point about anabolic steroids is the physiological effect persists long after the drug has left the bloodstream, often for up to six months,” says Dugdale. “This is why there’s a feeling that people may be cheating because the muscle development will persist.

“The difficulty arises on an international basis, in that other racing nations have a different approach to anabolic steroids. Most, if not all, prohibit them on racedays but some allow it though the training process. There is always a suspicion that although they are not present on the day of the race, horses are benefiting from the use of anabolic steroids within a month or two of the race.”

Dr Roland Devolz, Technical Adviser on Prohibited Substances at the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities, says: “Every jurisdiction agrees that horses are not allowed to race on anabolic steroids. To do so means disqualification.

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Big ban for ‘underhand’ trainer who cheated

Al Zarooni: appealing disqualification

“In Europe, the horse is regarded as a food animal and therefore it is not allowed to enter the food chain with anabolic steroids present.

Anabolic steroids are banned on horses in training in Europe.

“However, some jurisdictions around the world have not banned steroids for the purposes of training and in those countries the general principle is that what is not banned is allowed.”

Joint treatment It is fairly common for horses in training to suffer from inflamed fetlocks or knees at some stage during training. Affected horses would be treated by a combination of rest and/or physiotherapy, a reduced training schedule which may involve swimming, and if necessary an intra-articular injection of cortico-steroids to the affected joint, followed by a strict withdrawal period before the horse can resume racing.

Dugdale says: “More recently, a way of treating inflamed joints with anabolic steroids has been used but the science is very much unproven. It’s being championed by a small number of veterinary surgeons.

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that it has no real relevance to athletic thoroughbreds. It’s licensed in Italy, not in the UK, but can be imported legitimately with a special treatment certificate.”

With Newmarket Equine Hospital employing 30 vets and treating a significant portion of the horses in training in the town, the practice sought guidance on the potential use of Sungate.

He adds: “Our understanding was that whatever the science of the matter, the rules and regulations of British racing prevented its use. Because it was being discussed quite widely we rang the BHA for clarification and we had a very clear message from the Chief Veterinary Officer Jenny Hall that it could not be used in training under any circumstances.”

International agreement With racing an increasingly global sport and many horses being sent to race in different countries around the world, Dugdale, a former President of the British Equine Veterinary Association, believes the time is right for an international consensus on medication control.

He says: “I know the BHA has been working very hard at regulating the detection time of medications in Europe. It’s a difficult process.

The North Americans have very strong views about the use of raceday medication but nevertheless it must be an aspiration for racing all over the world to move towards a state where horses are drug-free on the day of a race and to adopt a unified approach to the use of anabolic steroids in training.”

His view is shared by BHA Chief Executive Paul Bittar, who said after Mahmood Al Zarooni’s ban: “This case has served to highlight something that we were already aware of, in that there are inconsistencies across international racing jurisdictions regarding what substances are permitted to be used in training.

“While around the world horseracing bodies quite rightly adopt a zero-tolerance policy to the presence of anabolic steroids when carrying out post-race testing, the approach is not so consistent for horses in training.

“In an age of increasing international travel and competition we will put the subject on the agenda for discussion with our

international colleagues.”

Graham Motion, the Englishman who trains US-based star Animal Kingdom, set to compete at Royal Ascot in the Queen Anne Stakes, is another to advocate drug-free racing.

Speaking in this month’s Talking To (pages 36-40), Motion tells Tim Richards: “I was certainly shocked and somewhat disappointed [to hear about the Al Zarooni case].

“There is always going to be a very small percentage of people trying to push the envelope, be it in the US, Europe or Britain and I think it’s a shame because the majority are not trying to do that.

“You are never going to get completely away from the use of drugs in any sport because you are always going to find someone trying to find an advantage.”

Motion would like to see global rules on drug use in the sport, but feels such a move is a distant prospect.

“In a perfect scenario that would be terrific,” he says. “But I can’t see it happening any time soon. It is complicated enough getting the US states to agree, never mind the national bodies.”

University professor casts doubt over Jockey Club foundation The Jockey Club, British racing’s oldest institution, was founded in 1750, according to its own website and literature. But is this date correct?

Mike Huggins, a professor at the University of Cumbria who has written a number of books on the social history of horseracing, claims that the organisation was, in fact, started decades earlier.

His research has identified a number of newspaper references to Jockey Club meetings as far back as the 1720s, taking place in coffee houses in London or at country estates, with some of the same members as in 1750.

Professor Huggins said: “In my opinion, a number of racing researchers have not done the hard work of scouring newspapers of the period.

“In 1729, for example, there is mention of ‘The Jockey Club, consisting of several Noblemen and Gentlemen, are to meet at Hackwood, the Duke of Bolton’s Seat in Hampshire, to consider of methods for the better keeping of their respective strings of horses at Newmarket’.

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The Jockey Club 1750

“While the affairs of the Jockey Club were only rarely reported in the press, it is apparent that men such as Charles Powlett, the third Duke of Bolton and a leading owner of the time, were holding meetings to discuss their racing interests well before 1750.”

He added: “I would also point out that British colonists influenced

the establishment of similar clubs and racing organisations in America – and yet the Maryland Jockey Club was founded in 1743!

“The colonists imported thoroughbreds from England and based their rules and weights on their homeland.

“Any Jockey Club in the USA would certainly have been modelled on an earlier English example.”

Source: Daily Post (London, England), Saturday, August 2, 1729

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NEWS

Reg Hollinshead 1924-2013

Remainder Man (above) finished third to Shirley Heights in the 1978 Derby

Reg Hollinshead, at 89 the oldest active racehorse trainer in Britain at the time of his death on May 6, has been fondly remembered by the top jockeys he nurtured.

The Staffordshire trainer had first taken out a permit in 1948, which was turned into a full licence a few years later. While the training of 1,970 winners, the majority on the Flat, was a tremendous feat in itself, it was Hollinshead’s schooling of two-legged talent for which he will be chiefly remembered.

Kevin Darley, Walter Swinburn, Steve Perks, Paul Eddery and Willie Ryan are just a handful of the jockeys whose successful careers were launched at Lodge Farm in Upper Longdon.

Darley, champion apprentice in 1978 and champion jockey in 2000, said: “Reg was not afraid of giving people chances. There must have been ten or a dozen apprentices there when I was there, but we all got rides.”

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Swinburn, who went on to win the Derby on Shergar – whom he said he would probably never have ridden were it not for Hollinshead, as he was instrumental in setting him up with Michael Stoute – Shahrastani (likewise trained

by Stoute) and Lammtarra, added: “I started with Frenchie Nicholson and when he became unwell he forwarded me to Reg. “It was very much a family operation. His wife Christine, daughter Sarah and sons Tim and Andrew all played a big part, everyone felt included there.”

Willie Ryan was another jockey who would later enjoy Derby success, on Benny The Dip in 1997, and he too stressed that Hollinshead would give apprentices a fair crack of the whip.

“He gave us all a chance,” Ryan said. “Steve Perks was stable jockey but if Reg put one of the boys up the owners never complained.

“His horses were always tough, he could run

them 25 times a year and he kept churning them out. I cannot say enough nice things about him, he was a great guy.”

Suluk was Hollinshead’s most prolific winner, with 25 successes from 1989 to 1993, while Time To Go Home won nine times in 1988.

Remainder Man was the best horse he trained. He was runner-up to Roland Gardens in the 1978 2,000 Guineas and finished third behind Shirley Heights and Hawaiian Sound in that year’s Derby.

Remainder Man was also just one of a number of big handicap winners for his trainer.

He won the Free Handicap, while the November Handicap, Old Newton Cup, Portland, Great St Wilfrid and Northumberland Plate – as recently as 2011 with Tominator – were among others to go Hollinshead’s way.

The son of a farmer, Hollinshead was a successful jumps jockey and he went on to train decent winners in that sphere too, notably Out Of The Gloom, who was champion juvenile hurdler and went on to lift the Fighting Fifth and Long Walk Hurdle. Colonised was a Cheltenham Festival winner for Hollinshead and Afzal and Bluff Cove other crack hurdlers.

His success with equines and humans was recognised with several awards, the latest being the Sir Peter O’Sullevan Award, “for training winners for 60 years and for also being a remarkable trainer of jockeys”.

Born on January 3, 1924, Hollinshead passed away in Burton-on-Trent on May 6. His wife Christine predeceased him.

“Dad was a legend, one of a kind,” said one of his sons, Andrew, who has taken on the licence and runs the yard along with sister Sarah. Tim runs the stud farm side of a family business whose legacy is far from finished.

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RACEHORSE AND STALLION MOVEMENTS AND RETIREMENTS

All Too Hard Black Caviar’s half-brother is retired after landing his fourth Group 1 in the All Aged Stakes at Randwick; he will stand at Vinery Stud in Australia.

Hunt Ball

High-class chaser, victorious at the 2012 Cheltenham Festival for trainer Keiran Burke, is sold by owner Anthony Knott to interests in America.

Pierro

Coolmore buys multiple Australian Group 1 winner, retired from the track in April, to join its Coolmore Australia roster.

Dubawi Gold

Group 2-winning son of Dubawi, runnerup in the English and Irish 2,000 Guineas in 2011, will stand at Whitsbury Manor Stud for the 2014 season.

Fort Knox Ted Spread Talented hurdler and winner of the 2010 Group 3 Chester Vase for the False Nose ‘N Glasses Partnership moves from Paul Nicholls to Suzy Smith’s stable.

PEOPLE OBITUARIES Reg Hollinshead 89 Trained 1,970 winners under both codes over eight decades; champion jockey Kevin Darley and three-time Derby winner Walter Swinburn learnt their trade with him.

Dr Peter Leftley 78 Hampshire-based owner who had horses in training with Toby Balding, Seamus Mullins and Jonathan Geake.

Alan Arnell 79 Former Liverpool striker who scored 35 goals for the Merseyside club and was later a declarations clerk on southern racecourses.

Michael Mangan 83 Owner of Monksfield, winner of the Champion Hurdle in 1978 and 1979, and successful in three Aintree Hurdles.

Noel O’Callaghan 77 Bloodstock agent who was a founding member of BBA Ireland; A.P. Indy and Kooyonga were just two of the stars he purchased.

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Sheikh Mohammed buys exciting threeyear-old colt from Andrew Tinkler; the brother of Dubawi Gold has an entry in the St James’s Palace Stakes.

HORSE OBITUARIES Bertolini 17 High-class sprinter by Danzig who sired Cheveley Park heroine Donna Blini, plus Group winners Prime Defender and Moorhouse Lad.

Epalo 14 Group 1-winning son of Lando who was based at Haras de la Riveiere in France and sired Topham Chase victor Triolo D’Alene.

Goofalik 26

Storm Cat 30

German-based stallion whose best runners include Ungaro, winner of four Group 1s, and Bosphorus Cup scorer Bussoni.

Hugely influential Kentucky stallion whose progeny includes Giant’s Causeway, Aljabr and One Cool Cat (see Tony Morris, pages 26-27).

Captain Steve 16 Winner of the 2001 Dubai World Cup for owner Michael Pegram, trainer Bob Baffert and jockey Jerry Bailey.

Silver Lane 28 Dam of Black Hawk, a top-class sprinter/miler in Japan, and the first foundation mare at the Lloyd-Webbers’ Watership Down Stud.

Air Groove 20 Daughter of Tony Bin who was Japan’s Horse of the Year in 1997 and later produced Group 1 winners Admire Groove and Rulership.

For Bill 10 Popular Irish mare, the winner of nine races under rules for the Michael Winters stable, dies giving birth to her first foal.

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PLENTY OF BOUNTY FOR BAHAMIAN’S PROGENY The National Stud’s Bahamian Bounty

filly Fig Roll who triumphed at Salisbury

continues to hold sway at the top of

in early May.

the table of leading BOBIS sires, being responsible for no less than half of the winners to the middle of May. The dual BOBIS winner Mick’s Yer Man got his sire off to a flying start in the opening days of the turf season, and Eastern Impact and Cool Bahamian have kept up the momentum, along with the

STAR TURN

Darley’s Exceed And Excel is the sire of two winners, including the eye-catching Ifwecan, and Montaigne who won in early April.

Piccolo and the first-season sire Captain

Eastern Impact

Gerrard are both responsible for one winner apiece, to mid-May, namely the fillies Mops Angel and Lexington Rose, who scored at Pontefract and Ripon respectively.

There have been several classy performances from BOBIS winners this month, including Eastern Impact, winner of the ESH Group/ EBF Novice Stakes at Newcastle on April 25th.

IN THE SPOTLIGHT…

Trained by Richard Fahey and qualified for BOBIS by owner David Barker, Eastern Impact easily defeated

We speak to Michael Appleby,

two previous winners in a field that

breeder, trainer and co-owner of Mops Angel, a BOBIS winner at Pontefract.

Q: How did you come to breed Mops Angel?

was high in quality if not quantity.

Michael Appleby (green jacket)

The son of Bahamian Bounty, bought for £25,000 at the DBS

She is the first mare I’ve bred from,

Premier Yearling Sales, skipped well

although I do have a half-share in

clear of his three rivals to score by

A: I trained her dam, Tanning, who was

Midnight Fun who is rated 125 over

three and a half lengths, and the

a jumper, and when she did a tendon I

hurdles. She has tweaked a tendon so

manner of his victory marks him as

decided to keep her and breed from her.

we have put her in foal to Black Sam

one to keep a close eye on.

She was a 3m hurdler, although she did win on the Flat and is from the family of Benny The Dip. She has a four-yearold by Passing Glance, but I wanted to breed something with a bit of speed, so I sent her to Piccolo.

Q: What has the mare produced

Bellamy, but she will probably go back into training after that.

Ascot on May 13th, holds an entry Q: How did Mops Angel get her name?

for the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes at

A: She is named after a very good friend

the Curragh in August, and it would

of mine, Gordon ’Mops’ Hodgetts, who

be no surprise to see him at Royal

sadly passed away about 18 months ago.

Ascot en route to that engagement.

Q: What is next for Mops Angel?

Bred by Peter Tellwright and owned

A: She will go for the Hilary Needler

by Douglas Livingston, the Mark

Trophy at Beverley at the end of May

Johnston-trained colt made virtually

and if she does well there, she could

all the running at Ascot, and, despite

go to Royal Ascot for the Group 3

unshipping Joe Fanning just after the

Albany Stakes.

line, he looked a colt with a big future.

since Mops Angel?

Tanning has a colt foal by Arabian Gleam who looks very nice. I breed from her every two years so I’m hoping to send her back to Piccolo next year.

Ifwecan, winner of a maiden at

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Congratulations to all the connections of this month’s £6,000 BOBIS winners:

Mops Angel Eastern Impact Lexington Rose

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Ifwecan

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Fig Roll Cool Bahamian Cafetiere

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THE BIG PICTURE

DELIGHT AT DAWN The 2,000 Guineas was billed as a two-horse race between unbeaten colts Toronado and Dawn Approach. It was the latter, trained in Ireland by his breeder Jim Bolger, who proved to be a class above his rivals, providing Sheikh Mohammed’s Godolphin operation with its third win in the Classic.

Glory Awaits (blinkered) ran second at 150-1, with Toronado only fourth Photos George Selwyn

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2,000 GUINEAS

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THE BIG PICTURE

RICHARD THE FIRST Twenty-four hours after the disappointment of Toronado’s eclipse in the 2,000 Guineas, Richard Hughes was finally able to celebrate a debut British Classic success aboard Sky Lantern for Richard Hannon in the 1,000 Guineas. “It’s a monkey off my back,” Hughes said of his winner, who races in the colours of Hong Kongbased owner Ben Keswick

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1,000 GUINEAS

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THE BIG PICTURE

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THE MAN YOU CAN’T IGNORE COMMENT

Tony Morris Storm Cat was special – even at $500,000 per cover there were hundreds of takers for the stallion who, uniquely, could guarantee outstanding performers on dirt and grass

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t the end of 1985, Storm Cat’s first season in training, it was possible to believe that he had the potential to carve out a successful career as a stallion. In 1988, when he finally retired to stud, the odds against that eventuality had lengthened considerably.

As it turned out, first impressions were correct, as the horse who was put down in April at the age of 30 became a phenomenon, the outstanding commercial sire of his era, leaving a legacy that will endure for generations to come.

There had been plenty to like about the twoyear-old Storm Cat. He had won three of his six races, including the Grade 1 Young America Stakes at the Meadowlands, and he had opened up a clear lead on the turn for home in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Aqueduct, only to be deprived of victory by Tasso in the last stride. The official handicapper did not flatter him by ranking him 2lb below joint-champions Tasso and Ogygian, some authorities believing that he was actually the best of his generation. In addition, he was by Northern Dancer’s European champion son Storm Bird, who was already making a mark on both sides of the Atlantic, and he was out of Terlingua, Secretariat’s fastest daughter.

With such performance and pedigree credentials, he promised to prove attractive to leading breeders. But Storm Cat lacked the crucial element of soundness. He had offset knees and trainer Jonathan Sheppard had a tough job getting him fit enough to race. He made it to the track on only two occasions as a three-year-old, his win over six furlongs in allowance company at the Meadowlands doing nothing to enhance his reputation. He needed to do more, so was kept in training at four, but it was to no avail. Sheppard was unable to bring him back to the races that year.

Owner-breeder William T Young did not lose faith in Storm Cat, sticking by his original plan to stand him at his Overbrook Farm in Lexington, but at the start of the 1988 breeding season the form that had made him seem a good proposition for stud was well over two years in the past; there was no prospect of being able to syndicate him. Young would have

Giant’s Causeway (left), possibly the best son of Storm Cat, winning the Eclipse

to retain sole ownership, support him with his own mares, and trust his pedigree consultant Ken McLean to procure suitable mates from other breeders. And that would not be easy, given that many regarded his initial $30,000 fee as steep for a somewhat under-sized, unsound individual.

Slowish burner The charge for Storm Cat’s services was down to $20,000 by the time his first crop reached the races and the hoped-for breakthrough with success at the track did not happen immediately. None managed a Graded victory at two, but November Snow came good at three, collecting Grade 1 victories in the Test and Alabama Stakes, and in that season (1992) the second-crop juveniles helped to raise his profile, with two Graded winners at home and another in Italy. For the first of seven occasions, he ranked as America’s leading sire of twoyear-olds.

The auctioned yearlings from his most cheaply conceived crop averaged more than five times his fee, breaking the $100,000 barrier for the first time. Commercial breeders

recognised that here was a horse who represented an opportunity to make serious money, and as his runners earned everincreasing distinction, thriving on dirt and grass, it became clear that he would never want for patronage again, and indeed would always be able to count on quality books and the support of private breeders as well.

Storm Cat’s 1991 crop numbered only 49, but among them were seven future Graded winners and a Group 2 scorer in Germany.

Sardula excelled among the fillies with her toplevel triumphs in the Hollywood Starlet Stakes and Kentucky Oaks, while Tabasco Cat, homebred by Young, notched a Classic double in the Preakness and Belmont Stakes. There would be no looking back after that.

Hopeful Stakes victor Hennessy helped to ensure Storm Cat’s third title as leading sire of juveniles in 1995 and in the following crop came Sharp Cat, a multiple Grade 1 winner in each of her three seasons and earner of over $2 million. It was in 1995 that he first covered for a six-figure sum, and at $100,000 he still represented a bargain, the yearlings auctioned from the ensuing crop of 70 averaging in THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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IF YOU BELIEVE YOUR HORSE FEED IS COMPLETE... excess of $500,000. Ten from that group achieved success at Graded or Pattern level, led by Aljabr, a Group 1 winner in Europe at two, three and four, and Cat Thief, whose second top-level triumph came in the 1999 Breeders’ Cup Classic.

Cat Thief was the principal contributor as Storm Cat gained the first of two consecutive North American sire titles in 1999, and when he repeated that feat in 2000 he was also runner-up to Sadler’s Wells in the Anglo-Irish table, owing his prominence in these parts chiefly to the socalled ‘iron horse’, Giant’s Causeway. Now generally recognised as the best of all his sire’s sons, Giant’s Causeway collected a nap hand of Group 1 scores that year, in the St James’s Palace, the Eclipse, the Sussex, the Juddmonte International and the Irish Champion.

Different class In 2001 Storm Cat had another winner of the St James’s Palace in Black Minnaloushe, who added that Ascot triumph to a previous top-level score in the Irish 2,000 Guineas. He came from the first crop to average upwards of $1m as yearlings, the unprecedented demand reflecting the fact that he was the one stallion in the world who could be depended upon to get outstanding performers on both dirt and grass. For all his lengthy dominance in Europe, Sadler’s Wells was never able to achieve any impact with his runners on dirt, not that there were many of them.

Storm Cat’s stars kept coming, Hold That Tiger, Storm Flag Flying and Nebraska Tornado among the 2000 crop conceived at $200,000; Denebola, One Cool Cat and Good Reward from the 2001 crop conceived at $300,000. For six seasons from 2002 the asking price was $500,000 – with always more than 100 breeders keen to invest at that level. It continued to make sense, as his yearling average was routinely in seven figures, peaking at $1,763,750 for the 28 through the ring in 2005.

Storm Cat covered at $300,000 in 2008, the year when, aged 25, he was finally retired from service because of declining fertility. He remained in honourable retirement at Overbrook, where he had been born and which was his base throughout his stud career, while his descendants continued to enhance his standing, both at the track and in the breeding population.

The outstanding commercial sire of all time, Storm Cat got 91 million-dollar yearlings. He sired a total of 108 stakes winners, 35 of them at Grade 1 or Group 1 level, including 12 champions. In addition to his two general sires’ titles and seven juvenile sires’ titles, he achieved distinction as a sire of sires, represented by such as Hennessy, Tale Of The Cat, Stormy Atlantic and most conspicuously by Giant’s Causeway, the last-named emulating his sire by delivering quality products adept on both dirt and turf. Sons of his sons, such as Johannesburg, Shamardal and Footstepsinthesand, have also made their mark, and he is three generations removed from Scat Daddy, a young horse with a rising reputation among Kentucky sires in 2013. Last year his daughters earned him the title of champion broodmare sire in North America.

Storm Cat was certainly a special horse. While he is commonly regarded as yet another example of the outstanding Northern Dancer line, it should perhaps be noted that he was the only son of Storm Bird to make a wide-ranging and enduring impact. It may well be that the influence of his speedy dam, Terlingua, was a significant factor in the success he achieved.

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RICHARD EDMONDSON COMMENT

Come off it, Mr Moore – Kentucky is only good for fried chicken; the only Derby that matters takes place in Surrey, not Louisville

Why it has to be Epsom

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TREVOR JONES

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’m beginning to fear for dear old Ryan Moore. First the noted adversary of the Fourth Estate comes over all chummy in an interview with our very own Julian Muscat.

Then the former champion jockey appears to slip further into delirium after finishing seventh on Lines Of Battle in the Kentucky Derby.

“I can honestly say that the Derby was the best day’s racing I have ever experienced,” he said in a confused aftermath. “It was different class, on another level to what I have seen, or been involved in, anywhere else around the globe.”

Ryan, Ryan, what are you talking about? You have taken part in the best race in the world several times before and you have even won the blessed thing. It’s called the Derby – the original one – not the imitation in Louisville. Go to the back of the weighing-room.

History and location are the indicators of superiority here. While Diomed was winning the first Derby in 1780 the Americans were not simultaneously watching racing beneath the Twin Spires. They were surrendering to the British after the Siege of Charleston towards the end of the American Revolutionary War. To give Ryan a bit of a break, the Run for the Roses is undeniably a potent occasion. Yet it is still run over one of the States’ one size and shape fits all racecourses.

Epsom’s undulating switchback was presumably designed by someone with an opium problem, but the architect knowingly or otherwise provided a configuration which became the ultimate examination of both racehorse and rider. We are about to be reminded of its magic once again.

The first Derby I can remember watching was in 1973, when I sneaked into the boarders’ territory at my school between lessons to watch Morston triumph. This puzzled me almost as much as my studies because it meant that Lester Piggott did not win the race, which otherwise he did when I was three months old, then a child, teenager and officially a man.

I backed Empery (1976) and The Minstrel (1977) just because Lester was on board and heard about my granny backing Snow Knight (50-1 in 1974) just because the horse had gone berserk in the preliminaries.

Many years later a newspaper actually started paying for me to cover the Derby. They say the first time is the most memorable and

Our columnist was there for Kahyasi’s 1988 Derby win – and boy did he enjoy it

ergo I recall the Blue Riband of 1990.

In the build-up to Derby day I attended a ‘Breakfast with the Stars’ press morning, which featured a piece of track work by Francois Boutin’s Linamix. This exercise was set up to determine if the grey would be suited by the contour of Tattenham Corner, but as he virtually walked into the straight it seemed a little difficult to draw a firm conclusion.

“The track was

presumably designed by someone with an opium problem, but it is the ultimate test” When Gerald Mosse, the French jockey, dismounted he was approached by a posse of journalists, led by John Garnsey of the Daily Express. John does not speak much French and Gerald had not mastered English by that stage, which led to a slight misunderstanding. “Does he act?” asked Garns. Gerald was quietened by this, as he wondered why Linamix should be a thespian as well as a racehorse. Garns broke the

silence with admirable British aplomb. He repeated his question, but this time he shouted it for good measure.

The Daily Express was also a factor in my Epsom experience two years earlier when there was a competition on its racing pages. The big question to win a trip to the races was: which horse won the Derby in 1981 and was subsequently kidnapped and killed by the IRA? It appeared I was the only one shrewd enough to have followed this story and I won first prize.

Thus followed a trip to a champagne tent in the Home Counties on the morning of the race, a helicopter trip to another champagne tent on the Epsom infield and finally more champagne after Waajib (15-8fav) had collected the Diomed Stakes for Alec Stewart and Michael Roberts. Champagne galore!

There have been some poor performances on Derby day – such as Lyphard and the eight consecutive losing favourites from 1973 to 1980 – and mine was soon to be up there.

Kahyasi won the Classic from what seemed to be the biggest field in the race’s history through my eyes. He got the trip better than I did.

The journey back in the helicopter was an aerial nightmare for my fellow passengers, who worried about the consequence of my every hiccough. My partner for the day contemplated whether the wedding organised for the following month was such a good idea. Almost 25 years on she still has the same reservations.

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The Channel Consignment’s Arqana-topping Sea the Stars colt

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By JESSICA LAMB OF THE RACING POST

Personal touch key to Shanahan success Trainer takes loss of My Special J’s in his stride as he looks forward to second term

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econd-season trainer Pat Shanahan is looking forward to a successful campaign despite the loss of his stable star My Special J’s.

Shanahan saddled My Special J’s to a head defeat in a Curragh maiden on Dubai Duty Free Derby weekend and she returned less than two months later to claim a neck win in the Group 2 Keeneland Debutante Stakes.

She travelled on to Meydan and is now trained in the US by Kellyn Gorder, leaving Shanahan without a headliner at the state-ofthe-art Thistle Farm in County Kilkenny.

He said: “My Special J’s was important to me but I think she had run her course here and I think I got the best of her; her two-year-old days were probably her best. She was a star when she was here last year, so of course we miss her around the place.

“She’ll always stand out in my mind as she gave me a Group 2 win in my first season.

Hopefully we can get any Group winner at all this year.”

Another change concerns riding arrangements, with bosses Thistle Bloodstock signing Hamdan Al Maktoum’s former second jockey Tadhg O’Shea late last season as their number one rider. O’Shea took the position despite being champion rider in the UAE and the most likely replacement for Sheikh Hamdan’s retiring first jockey Richard Hills.

Trainer Pat Shanahan has been joined by stable jockey Tadhg O’Shea (below)

Shanahan said: “Tadhg is settling in and working well for us back in Ireland after we spent eight weeks in Dubai. It’s important to me to get him off the mark and we started off with a series of very near misses. That was frustrating, but we’ll get there.”

This month he expects to start producing his juveniles, made up of mostly Thistle Bloodstock’s homebreds, from the everexpanding herd of 22 broodmares kept by owner Jimmy Long on the same farm as Shanahan’s training operation.

“I have a great team

to work with, very experienced, and Thistle Farm is getting bigger by the day” It could also feature the first Group-race appearances of his two top colts, Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby entry Ralston Road and Hold The Line.

Shanahan said: “I think I have some nice twoyear-olds as well but they are backward and it

will be the middle of the season before I start producing them. The weather has been so hard that even my three-year-old fillies were backward in their coats.

“The colts are doing well though and I have two good three-year-olds. Hold The Line will be a nice horse in time. I trained his half-sister Rominintheglomin last year and she got better as the year went on. I think he could do the same.

“Ralston Road [who broke his maiden at Leopardstown on May 12] is shaping up to be a nice stayer for this season. He was second to a filly of Jim Bolger’s, We’ll Go Walking, in a Gowran maiden on his first run this year and she’s a filly he thinks a lot of. He was ten lengths clear of the third.”

The 25-strong team is trained using experience from Shanahan’s time as a jockey with legendary Curragh men Con Collins and Dermot Weld, concentrating on personalised training plans over routines.

Shanahan explained: “I was in two different schools. I was in Con Collins’s for 30-odd years and in Weld’s for 20 years, and I take a bit from both. I don’t have big numbers so I can train them all as individuals.

“I train them differently, treat them differently, feed them differently and get to know them. I think it’s important to know each of them.

That’s been the method of training that I have appreciated watching most over the years and luckily enough now that I am training myself I have the team and the facilities and the numbers to be able to use it.

“Riding was similar; you don’t give every horse the same ride. Just because it’s work morning, it doesn’t mean every horse has to work, for example.”

Numbers may not always be so low though, with Long continuing to expand his successful business and aiming to keep producing quality stock, test them on the racecourse and then return them to the paddocks where they were born to begin the cycle again.

Shanahan added: “Every day is a new day with a challenge ahead of you, like in any sport.

I have a great team to work with, very experienced, and Thistle Farm is getting bigger by the day.

“Jimmy Long doesn’t sell many. Like all owners he wants more good horses, no matter what their age, and he breeds more than he buys too. It’s great to be part of this going forward.”

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Camelot beat just four rivals in last year’s Irish Derby, though officials were happy with that number given the weather

O’Brien’s dominance reduces Classic competition A repeat of last year’s five-runner Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby could be on the cards at the end of this month with field sizes steadily reducing.

The atrocious wet weather conspired against the Classic last year and officials were delighted to have even five runners, despite it being the smallest field the race had attracted for more than 100 years.

However, the dominance of Aidan O’Brien continues to increase and with that the participation of runners trained outside Ireland has waned, more than halving since

1997 through a period of 13 runnings, during which the race was at its wealthiest.

O’Brien has won the last seven renewals and in that time nearly 40% of all runners were his, with less than 30% travelling from outside Ireland. Back in the early 1990s, more than two-thirds of Irish Derby runners were not trained in Ireland, with runners coming from Britain and France just about every year.

This level dropped dramatically from 1997, when O’Brien began his rise to the top and from 1997 to 2009 only 31% of the 136

runners were not trained in Ireland, even though prize-money levels soared well beyond €1 million in the early 2000s and finishers were rewarded down to ninth place.

The issue has escalated in the past three years, with prize- money no longer available past sixth place from 2010 and O’Brien saddling nearly 50% of runners.

Initiatives like reduced supplement fees for Group or Listed winners have been introduced, but their benefit has yet to be proven. Twenty-five of the 40 entries for this year’s race are trained by the champion.

Rain-dancing Nagle hoping Maarek can weave more magic

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1s, then I reckon we’ll be okay.

“He’s an amazing story really because he cost us only £2,500 and he’s gone from winning a 47-70 handicap to winning two

Group 3s and a Group 2 in less than two years.

Please God we get him to Ascot again and the ground falls right, but if it doesn’t, then it doesn’t. He hardly owes us anything, does he?”

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There is one person praying for another wet June. Rookie trainer David Nagle scored a landmark success with his sprinter Maarek at Ascot’s Champions’ Day last October and has his sights set on the Royal meeting for the Group 2 winner.

But in order for him to contest the King’s Stand Stakes or the Diamond Jubilee Stakes, the rain will need to come.

Nagle said: “Last year it was perfect for him at the beginning of the week, but dried and dried and was too quick for him by the time he ran in the Wokingham Stakes.

“He’s a bit older now, though, and I think he could probably handle quicker ground than he used to. We wouldn’t run him on ground with any firm in it, but if it’s on the slow side of good for either of those Group

Maarek beats Hawkeyethenoo in the British Champions Sprint Stakes at Ascot

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Whitehead wary of UK ratings rise

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Shropshire-based permit holder happy to let his star hurdler remain in France

The talented Zaliapour could be bound for the Swedish Champion Hurdle for owners Christina, left, and James Whitehead, right

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ore than half a century after owning and training his first winner, Shropshire-based James Whitehead is finally making waves in the world of jump racing, having got his hands on one big prize in Paris, with his eyes on another in Sweden.

Many seasons have passed since Turk’s Ascent landed the Dover Selling Chase for him at the long-lost venue of Wye racecourse in Kent on March 7, 1960.

Yet the 77-year-old, who goes down in racecards as Arthur James Whitehead, has barely reached the 30-winner mark, even when you combine both the fruits of the permit licence that he has held on and off over that period and his recent forays into foreign ownership.

Training apart, Whitehead’s early career encompassed the army and a spell at that highly esteemed academic institution that was the London School Of Turf Accountancy, not to mention a brief stint with bloodstock agent Richard Galpin in Newmarket.

He then got a sensible job as a stockbroker and it was only after he retired that he began training afresh and started looking around Europe in his search for suitable horse flesh.

Charmed by the climate and atmosphere of

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the French town of Pau, he was introduced to local trainer Charles Gourdain some six years ago.

Their subsequent partnership has been a fruitful one mainly thanks to the exploits of a son of Daliapour called Zaliapour, whom they bought as a yearling at Deauville and has since won 12 of his 28 starts under both codes, finishing out of the money on just six occasions.

“Many seasons have passed since Turk’s Ascent landed the Dover Selling Chase at long-lost Wye”

It seemed that Zaliapour had put their name in lights on Grand Steeple-Chase de Paris day at Auteuil last May when he landed one of the nation’s biggest handicap hurdles, the Prix Wild Risk. But France’s tough rules

on interference, combined with what Whitehead perceives as a stewarding bias against Pau trainers, meant that he was disqualified.

Eleven months on and they really did plunder some Parisian booty, as Zaliapour landed the Listed Prix du Cher at Enghien on April 19. At £33,171 to-the-winner it was worth almost exactly ten times what the exGourdain inmate Della Sun had collected when giving Whitehead his solitary success of the 2012-13 British season at Chepstow 13 days earlier.

Whitehead scoffs at any suggestion that Zaliapour might ever join the small string that he trains at Lawn Farm, Aston-On-Clun, saying: “He’s not Champion Hurdle class and the handicapper would murder him. It took us a year to get Della Sun down to his proper mark after we brought him over.”

Instead, Zaliapour will attempt to gain revenge in a second crack at the Wild Risk.

And Whitehead is hopeful that he might be able to lift a Champion Hurdle – albeit the Swedish variety – with one of the two Czechbred horses he has sent to be trained by Dennis Persson near Stockholm on the recommendation of his Swedish wife, Anna Christina.

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Chopin looks neither flat nor minor Here come the Germans – and not just to Wembley but Epsom and Ascot too! Chopin is about to become the first ever German-trained runner in the Investec Derby and the story of this humbly-bred colt, named after a Polish composer by an unknown stallion with a Chilean name and recently purchased by a Qatari sheikh, beggars belief.

Up until late April, Chopin was not even regarded as the best three-year-old in the 100strong string of Andreas Wöhler, who trains in Gütersloh in North Rhine Westphalia. But then he trounced a strong field for the Group 3 Dr Busch Memorial at Krefeld by a startling eight lengths (below) and everything changed.

The Dr Busch Memorial has quite a pedigree. In the past it has been the springboard to international fame for the likes of Lomitas and Soldier Hollow, and its 2012

renewal turned out to be one of the highest quality Classic trials in Europe, producing three separate subsequent Group 1 winners, not to mention a Royal Ascot winner.

Don’t feel ashamed if you’ve never heard of Chopin’s sire Santiago. The 2003 German 2,000 Guineas winner, he had a 20-race career spanning four seasons but his only attempt at Group 1 level saw him finish sixth behind Sir Michael Stoute’s Linngari in the 2008 Preis Bayerisches Zuchtrennen.

Chopin is one of eight live foals from his first crop and Santiago’s covering fee is €800.

Chopin was an accident as his dam, Caucasienne, herself a disappointment on the track (won Brighton handicap for John Hills) but closely related to the likes of Bosra Sham and Hector Protector, was marked down for a visit to an expensive foreign stallion only for Santiago to cover her by mistake.

Until April 26, when Sheikh Fahad AlThani visited Wöhler’s yard with his racing manager David Redvers and jockey Harry Bentley, and bought the horse a few hours later, Chopin had been owned by his breeder, Gestut Graditz, also home of Santiago.

Graditz dates to the early 17th century, when it was the stud of the royal family of Saxony, and later produced the winners of a dozen German Derbys in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was on the eastern side of the Iron Curtain until German reunification in 1989 and is only now, with Hans Wirth at the helm, returning to former glories.

Should Chopin emerge triumphant on June 1, it could be the first leg of an incredible German summer double as the Prix Ganay winner Pastorius is set to try to defend Danedream’s King George crown at Ascot eight weeks later.

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Racing industry lurches from crisis to calamity Non-payment of prize-money earned since August last year means a number of workers in the racing industry are living hand-to-mouth. Their plight is not attracting much attention given the sport can be portrayed as a rich man’s hobby and the country has just endured 63 days of procrastination while it has waited for a new government to be formed after an election.

While, superficially, everything continues as normal and trophies for the Italian equivalents of our 1,000 and 2,000 Guineas are presented to smiling recipients, the industry is contracting fast and no-one, not even the new Minister of Agriculture, can guarantee where the next euro is coming from. The new minister, Nunzia de Girolamo, cannot even guarantee still having a job in the morning given that within hours of being appointed in one poll her approval rating was less than 25%, the worst in the cabinet.

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Plenty to ponder: Nunzia de Girolamo

slashing it to around 300. Simultaneously, Razza Emiliana, numerically the country’s champion breeder, has cut its broodmare band to just a dozen – it numbered 65 four years ago.

Layers of bureaucracy compound an already dire financial situation. The sport is run directly by the Ministry of Agriculture, ever more so

since its decision in January to disband ASSI (equivalent of BHA and Levy Board combined).

Yet betting turnover is so depressed racing doesn’t even begin to cover its costs, let alone make a profit for the state. For instance, the tax take on betting of €287,000 for the Premio Parioli (2,000 Guineas) amounts to roughly €30,000, or around a quarter of the race’s prizemoney. Quirks of the system throw further obstacles in racing’s path: the provision of foreign racing into Italian betting outlets brings in an annual turnover of around €300 million, of which just over 3% is returned to the respective overseas racing bodies.

So, with betting tax running at over 10%, the government makes a tidy profit. Yet this cannot be used to fund Italian racing because that profit is accrued by the Ministry of Finance and, without a change in the law, it is impossible for it to be passed on to the ministry that had to cough up the fees to import the overseas racing in the first place: the Ministry of Agriculture!

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AROUND THE GLOBE THE WORLDWIDE RACING SCENE

NORT H A M E R I CA

by Steve Andersen

Orb’s Derby win meant the world

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ardly two minutes had passed after Orb’s win in the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs when trainer Shug McGaughey was stopped for the obligatory post-race television interview. McGaughey, a native of Kentucky, was standing trackside, waiting for Orb to return to the winner’s circle, when the magnitude of what had occurred struck the 62-year-old trainer. His eyes became reddened and his voice cracked.

“It means everything to me,” he said. “I’ve dreamed of this day. It finally came.” One of the most popular thoroughbred horsemen in the United States had won the nation’s biggest race.

New York-based McGaughey, a member of racing’s Hall of Fame, did so with his type of horse in Orb, a Malibu Moon colt owned by first cousins Ogden Mills Phipps and Stuart Janney III. Orb was not a horse bought for a big ticket as a yearling, or from a juvenile breeze-up after a fast workout. He was a homebred, representing generations of patience and dedication from Phipps, Janney and their families. Phipps’s father, Ogden, who died in 2002, raced such champions as Easy Goer, Buckpasser and Personal Ensign (who was trained by McGaughey), and he won the 1,000 Guineas in 1980 with Quick As Lightning.

Janney’s late parents – Stuart jnr and Barbara – campaigned such horses as Ruffian, the illfated champion three-year-old filly of 1975, and Private Terms, who was unbeaten in seven starts before finishing ninth as the favourite in the 1988 Kentucky Derby.

The Janney family has bred the last five generations of the female side of Orb’s pedigree.

That was not expected to include a Kentucky Derby contender until late winter, when the colt began to impress McGaughey. Orb needed four starts to beat maidens, doing so at Aqueduct in November. It was the start of a winning streak that reached five races in the Derby. Orb was 51 favourite to win the 19-runner Derby, run on a sloppy track on a cold and wet day.

Ridden by Joel Rosario, he was at the back of the field until the final three furlongs, racing well off the rail. Rosario moved Orb closer to the front on the final turn and got a tremendous response to reach the front with just less than a furlong remaining. Orb won by two and a half lengths from outsider Golden Soul.

Rosario, 28, from the Dominican Republic, has made a rapid rise in American racing in the last five years. He rode Orb in his first five starts, including his first two wins, but was not aboard

Joel Rosario drives Orb to a decisive success on sloppy going at Churchill Downs

for the Fountain of Youth or Florida Derby. John Velazquez rode Orb in those but opted for Verrazano in the Derby, who finished only 14th.

The Derby ended a remarkable six-week span for Rosario, who rode Animal Kingdom to victory in the $10 million Dubai World Cup in late March and was leading rider at the

prestigious Keeneland meeting in April.

“It’s a huge thrill,” McGaughey said. “The Phippses and Janneys have been my whole life for 20-some years now and have really kind of given me everything I’ve got. To bring a day like today into their – into all our lives – is just a huge, huge thrill for me.”

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by Nicola Hayward

Cherry banks Triple Tiara Cherry On The Top gave the Turffontein crowd the most satisfying performance on South African racing’s richest afternoon, Champions’ Day. The near-black filly already had the first two legs of the Triple Tiara under her belt after impressive wins in the Grade 2 Gauteng Fillies Guineas and the Grade 1 SA Fillies Classic, both run in March.

Under a fine ride by Mauritian Nooresh Jugall, she comfortably won the Grade 2 SA Oaks, thus banking a R1 million bonus reserved for the Triple Tiara. Trained by veteran Ormand Ferraris, Cherry On The Top was bred at Mauritzfontein by owner Bridget Oppenheimer. Cherry On The Top’s half-

sister Cherry On The Cake was also in action on Champions’ Day in the Grade 2 Gerald Rosenberg Stakes, finishing second.

The offspring of Kahal dominated two of the Grade 2 races on the card, the Camelia Stakes falling to his daughter Eastern Greeting, who beat older sister Kalaam a short-head. The fillies are out of the Northern Guest mare Salaam and were bred by the Kjell Foundation. The Gerald Rosenberg Stakes also went to a daughter of Kahal, the Summerhill Stud-bred Checcetti.

The Grade 1 SA Derby saw the Australianbred Wylie Hall finish just ahead of Gothic to give the Weiho Mawing stable a one-two.

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AUST R A L I A

by Stephen Howell

At the iconic Warrnambool carnival in Victoria’s south-west two years ago, a horse who lost his rider in the Grand Annual Steeplechase jumped a two-metre fence into the crowd, injuring seven people and almost killing jumping in Australia.

This year, the same horse, New Zealand visitor Banna Strand, returned for the same race, jumped the last of 33 fences about five lengths from the lead and stormed home to win, providing a much-needed feel-good story.

Banna Strand’s comeback to win the 5,500metre race (three and a half miles) is a symbol of the tough and long resurrection of the most challenged branch of racing, which, unlike in the UK, has only niche support.

In May 2011, already under challenge from an animal welfare lobby much more vocal than that in the UK, Racing Victoria gave jumping one last chance, pushing health and safety issues and education programmes on the apparently dwindling number of followers.

RV had financial and promotional backing from a newly-elected Liberal (read Conservative) government, whose Racing Minister Denis Napthine (who earlier this year replaced Ted Baillieu as party leader and Premier and kept his racing portfolio) is a strong supporter of jumping.

Hence the numbers of horses, owners,

bonus

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Jumping’s future looks brighter

Banna Strand (jumping) gains the day

trainer and riders, and prize-money, are climbing again – the Grand Annual had prizemoney of $250,000, whereas the main Flat race, the Warrnambool Cup, had $200,000.

That no horse or rider was hurt at the threeday carnival, and there was minimal protest, gave credence to the claim jumping has a future, albeit on the fourth-ranked of Melbourne’s four metropolitan tracks, Sandown, and in the country, especially in Warrnambool and other towns west of the city.

Banna Strand isn’t Australian but that hasn’t stopped Victorians welcoming him as one of many New Zealanders who have supplemented Australian jumping numbers.

He was one of two chase runners prepared by champion New Zealand trainer John Wheeler, 62, who said the nine-year-old could win only a “marathon” like the Grand Annual in Australia, because he had no pace but could jump and stay.

And he revealed far-sighted plans for Banna Strand and stablemate Tobouggie Nights (fourth in the Grand Annual) as part of a small team he wants to take to England for races like the Grand National. He said: “The Aintree fences have been reduced in size. They’re not massive. Banna Strand would love it, I think.”

Wheeler, a training maestro with a list of Group 1 Flat and major hurdle/steeplechase wins you couldn’t jump over, is not a man to make idle claims. He said he had been planning such an expedition for a little while, but, with a big team and the commitment required, he had not been in a position to go.

“I’m sort of getting close to retiring,” he said.

“I’ve reduced my numbers considerably, which makes it easier to do something like that. I’m pretty serious. I’ve got sort of a prospectus at home. I’m going to offer it to a few people and see if I can get a sponsor. I need a sponsor really to take four or five horses over. I’ve got a good team to do it with but I probably wouldn’t go until next (southern hemisphere) spring or the spring after.”

Cherry On The Top: best performer on Champions’ Day

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LIESL KING

Wylie Hall is a son of Redoute’s Choice out of the Ideal Planet mare Beauty Belle. In the Grade 1 Champions Challenge, Heavy Metal provided a surprise win for trainer Sean Tarry. The son of Silvano was one of four Tarry horses in the race. Owned by Chris van Niekerk, he now has four wins and eight places from 17 starts.

In the Grade 1 Computer Form Sprint, fiveyear-old What A Winter, who is soon take up duties at Drakenstein Stud, stamped his authority as the best sprinter in South Africa.

The Grade 1 SA Nursery was won by an Australian-bred son of Dubawi, Willow Magic, while the Grade 2 SA Fillies Nursery went to Virgo’s Babe, by Malhub.

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GRAHAM MOTION

Graham Motion with his Royal Ascot contender Animal Kingdom at Kingsdown Stables in Lambourn

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Emotional RETURN Englishman abroad Graham Motion captured the world’s richest race with Animal Kingdom; now he’s back in his homeland with the same horse to fulfil a lifelong dream at Royal Ascot

By Tim Richards • Photos George Selwyn

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ou left these shores for America aged 16.

What does it mean to you, coming back to Britain and saddling one of the best horses in the world at Royal Ascot?

It has always been something on my ‘bucket list’ to come back to Europe with a top horse, and what better place than Royal Ascot? It certainly means a lot to me as an Englishman, perhaps more than it would otherwise. I don’t remember going to Royal Ascot as a kid, but I certainly watched it on television. Before, when I have considered the possibility of going to England, I have never been quite sure I had the horse to do the job. But Animal Kingdom has the right credentials.

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Sheikh Mohammed and connections of Animal Kingdom after the Dubai World Cup

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Can you explain why it meant so much to you and the racing industry that Animal Kingdom was able to win a Dubai World Cup without medication?

First of all I think it was extremely important for America to have a horse win the World Cup, because we have struggled over the last few years. The Americans needed a horse to go to Dubai and run well to give them the confidence to continue pursuing their quest; people were getting very down because it was so hard to

compete successfully in the World Cup. However, it must be said we had been taking the wrong horses for the World Cup, as it is a completely different ball game from when we were going over and winning on the dirt. Now you need a turf horse to handle the Meydan Tapeta; not all dirt horses handle it. As far as the medication is concerned, I think it’s reassuring that we have an American horse that can be so competitive on the international stage without medication.

Animal Kingdom’s two biggest wins – the Kentucky Derby and World Cup – have been over a mile and a quarter.

So why are you dropping him back to a mile at Royal Ascot?

First of all, I thought he ran really well in the Breeders’ Cup Mile (second to Wise Dan) and that’s a pretty sharp mile. He is a very adaptable horse, but, having walked the Ascot course, I could see for myself that it is a tough old slog from Swinley Bottom on the round course. It is a very different mile and a quarter to what he’d be used to in the States, plus, he is also going to be galloping right-handed. So I think he will run in the Queen Anne Stakes over the straight course, which is certainly a stiff mile, but should be within his capabilities. I think we would be throwing more at him in the Prince of Wales than in the Queen Anne.

Whatever we do, it is going to be very different to anything he has experienced before, but that’s all part of the challenge. If he was to win over the Ascot mile, having already proved himself over a mile and a quarter, it would be tremendous for his stud career.

John Velazquez will ride at Ascot and that’s no slight on Joel Rosario. The Queen Anne is the first race of the meeting and Barry Irwin [of Team Valor] said it would be unfair to ask Joel to ride him without a practice run over a straight mile, which would be totally new to horse and jockey. John is one of the world’s top riders, has ridden winners at Ascot and knows the horse.

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Should the Breeders’ Cup have banned the use of drugs altogether, instead of confining the ban to twoyear-olds and allowing older horses to continue racing on lasix?

I don’t think the Breeders’ Cup can do away with lasix right now.

When they first came up with this idea of banning lasix altogether, they thought other US jurisdictions would have followed the Breeders’ Cup example and done away with lasix. Until everybody is on the same page the Breeders’ Cup can’t stand on its own in not allowing lasix, because it would lose so many top horses and would cease to be a premier event.

If I have a horse that needs to run on lasix I am not going to ship it across the country to compete against the best horses in the world without lasix if I have other options where lasix is permitted. I’m afraid it’s black and white when it comes down to it and I think

the Breeders’ Cup have done an admirable job. They are right to stand their ground and not allow the two-year-olds to run on it. It’s a start. But until the rest of America falls into line they can’t go out on a limb and have a championship series run on completely different rules to the rest of the country. It just won’t work.

How vital is it that the lasix issue is addressed as a matter of urgency?

There are a lot of other things we need to be dealing with before we talk about lasix. Every country in the world uses lasix at some point.

I assume most trainers use lasix for a morning workout; it is a very beneficial drug for horses that experience pulmonary haemorrhaging. If they said tomorrow that in America we could not run with lasix, I’d be fine with that. But I think it’s the wrong place to start.

Every state has different rules and for that reason the sport is very complicated, very difficult to follow. I’m all for doing away with medication but lasix is the least of our concerns at this point.

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Why did you choose David Lanigan’s Kingsdown stables at Lambourn for Animal Kingdom’s UK base?

I train horses for the Niarchos family and their racing manager, Alan Cooper, suggested I talked to David, who also trains for them. I am extremely glad I made the decision to go to Lambourn because David and his stable have been very accommodating.

I found the idea of lodging at Newmarket quite daunting. The biggest undertaking is changing his training regime and the prospect of Animal Kingdom showing up in the middle of Newmarket on a busy morning might have been a little bit unnerving. I like the fact that David has some semi-private gallops and we can work with his horses and get Animal Kingdom into a routine in slightly more secluded and controlled surroundings.

Is Animal Kingdom as effective on turf as he is on dirt or synthetic surfaces?

I think he is as effective, perhaps even more effective. I think he won the Kentucky Derby despite the surface. I don’t think dirt is necessarily his preferred surface. He handles it, but for me he is really more of a natural grasstype horse. He has such talent that he can take to the surface anywhere; you don’t need to make excuses for the ground. The thing that helps him most is his disposition; he has a remarkably good way of handling situations. It was one of the factors that helped him win the

with lasix now’ What does the future hold for the Breeders’ Cup – and US racing in general – if it continues to allow horses to race on medication that is banned in the rest of the world?

I think we are making a move in this country to get stricter with medication and we need to make a bigger move. What has just happened in England goes to show it is not just a problem for America.

We do get singled out a little bit in this country because we do have some lenient policies. Every jurisdiction has problems to deal with; perhaps America has more than most and we need to wake up and realise we have to catch up with the rest of the world. I do believe that.

Do we need global rules on drug use in racing? If so, can it be achieved?

In a perfect scenario that would be terrific.

But I can’t see it happening any time soon. It is complicated enough getting our states to agree, never mind national bodies.

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Derby. It is like a fishbowl on Derby day at Churchill Downs, with 150,000 people there and the horses in this tiny area. When they come out of the paddock it is important that you have a horse that can handle all the pressures that go with the day. If they can’t take it mentally you’ve had it. Animal Kingdom has never changed, always taken everything in his stride, and I think that’s one of his biggest attributes, apart from his extraordinary ability.

Having won two of the biggest races in the world for Team Valor, how disappointed were you when they removed all their horses from your care, apart from Animal Kingdom?

This was something I chose to walk away from.

Team Valor purchased a separate barn here at Fair Hill, and I had my own barn. I ran their horses from their barn and when it came down to this situation of them wanting a private trainer, I was not prepared to go along with it. I didn’t want it to affect my other owners and how I trained their horses. I had always told Barry [Irwin] that going private was not something I wanted to do.

I’m very proud of what we achieved. The first year we were training their horses, Barry came

“We are running at

Royal Ascot for the prestige – certainly the prize-money does not justify travelling” within a few votes of winning the Eclipse Award for leading owner. For me, it was very rewarding to get an owner to that level of national recognition. We had a great run with this amazing horse for three years. I have no regrets.

You’ve told this magazine before you enjoy the challenge of international racing. Won’t that be so much more difficult without Team Valor’s backing?

I think there is a chance the opportunities might not be so great. The international and sporting outlook of Barry and Team Valor is something I have always admired. At times I think we are all guilty of getting too caught up in trying to find the easier races for our horses. I like the idea that Barry is prepared to take on a challenge and that is the sporting side of his operation. Ultimately that’s why we all got into the business. I’ll miss it but I’d like to think I’ll have another opportunity to do it all again. After all, these amazing experiences with Animal Kingdom should help me to identify the horses most suited to international campaigns.

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PERSONAL The thing I miss most about England… the less hectic way of life I switch off… with my family Favourite meal… a Ruth Chris Steakhouse steak, which we enjoyed in Louisville after winning the Derby Can’t get through the day without… a cup of coffee in the morning and a glass of wine at night Four guests for dinner…

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PROFESSIONAL My racing heroes are… Lester Piggott and Steve Cauthen Luckiest track… Keeneland, though I’m quite partial to Churchill Downs and Meydan Race I dream about winning… the Queen Anne Stakes I handle pressure by… spending time with my family Biggest mistake I’ve made… every time a horse gets hurt I second guess myself and feel responsible We get very few US-trained horses running in Britain. Is that to do with poor prize-money, running on turf, the medication situation or something else?

It comes down to the prize-money. It is very hard to justify flying a horse to Britain to take on conceivably stiffer opposition on grass. We would need to send our very best horses but I don’t think the prize-money would justify doing that. Of course, there’s the prestige and that’s why we are taking a shot with Animal Kingdom.

But it’s a little hard to sit down after winning a $10 million race and discuss taking a horse to what is possibly going to be a stiffer test for a fraction of our prize-money.

The money is fantastic at home, but it has never really been about the money for me. I just feel we are so fortunate to be doing this job, enjoying the animals and the sport. It’s sad that the money takes us away from that a little bit.

How shocked were you by the recent revelations over anabolic steroid use in British racing, which has always regarded itself as drugs-free?

I was certainly shocked and somewhat disappointed. There is always going to be a very small percentage of people trying to push the envelope, be it in the US, Europe or Britain, and I think it’s a shame because the majority are not

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Motion values the quieter environment at David Lanigan’s base, as opposed to the hustle and bustle of Newmarket

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completely away from the use of drugs in any sport because you are always going to find someone trying to find an advantage. Sheikh Mohammed has done such an extraordinary amount for racing worldwide I just hope the misdemeanours of one of his trainers is no more than a bump in the road.

What are your memories of the 1987 Cheltenham Festival where, as assistant to Jonathan Sheppard, you brought over Flatterer from the States to chase home See You Then in the Champion Hurdle?

I have always said taking Flatterer to England is one of the memories I cherish most, perhaps more than some of my own accomplishments.

We used John Francome’s yard for ten days leading up to the Champion Hurdle and John was an idol. As a 20-something having my first visit to Cheltenham, it was an amazing experience. I remember very clearly coming back to the unsaddling enclosure and getting this extraordinary reception for finishing second. That was really sporting and something that I’ll never forget. People were so appreciative of the fact that we had come over from America.

Have you ever considered returning to Europe to train, and have you had any offers?

I have thought about it but never really pursued it or had the opportunity. I am very happy in my present situation and would never have been able to get to where I am now in such a short period had I been training in England. The opportunities are so great here; after all, it is the land of opportunity. I am very lucky to have the

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best of both worlds, training for a lot of Europeans in America. I have not had any offers to train in England.

How much easier is it to set up as a trainer in America than in England?

Basically, all you need is a feed tub and a water bucket and you’re up and running. Of course you have to pass a trainer’s test, as you do in England, but as long as you are prepared to race at the track where you are stabled you are likely to be granted a number of stalls. It is almost too

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about training in Europe? Yes, but I’ve never had the opportunity” easy and we are inclined to take it for granted.

Some of the problems we run into involve trainers who do not always have regard for the rules. It should be a privilege, because we are very fortunate to be able to train these amazing horses for owners, and we should all carry the responsibility that goes with it.

Most of your big-race wins have come over middle distances. Do you dislike sprinters, and wouldn’t Europe suit you better if you prefer training staying types?

I am the opposite of Robert Cowell, who is a

good friend of mine and we joke about it all the time! It is not a coincidence that I have become a trainer of turf horses over longer distances. I spent my ‘five years of college’ working under Jonathan Sheppard and I have shaped my style of training around what I learnt with him.

Having said that, I think we have a pretty good record on the dirt and we do run a lot of twoyear-olds. It’s not that I dislike sprinters at all, I just find the longer-distance races are much more natural for the horses. As long as they’re fast, I am not too choosy!

What do you enjoy about training in America, and what do you dislike?

I am very fortunate being able to train at Fair Hill, which is an amazing facility and enables me to train more European-style, as opposed to being based on the track. The beauty of racing over here is that we have so many options, so many different types of races at so many different tracks at one time. We probably have half a dozen tracks within an hour of us. One of the hardest things to take is the number of injuries we get on the dirt. That’s a very tough part of the game.

How important is your wife, Anita, to the operation at your Maryland stable?

She is the backbone of the operation. At one time she was a very good rider but when you become a big operation it is more about the managerial running of the business, which Anita has taken under her wing and taught herself. You start training because you like the animals, but when you get bigger you need someone to manage the business. That’s what Anita does.

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ANDREW TINKLER

On the MOVE Andrew Tinkler helped revive the fortunes of haulage firm Eddie Stobart and the upwardly mobile owner is not afraid to shift his own horses if it makes business sense Words Julian Muscat • Photos George Selwyn

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t was abundantly clear that Andrew Tinkler enjoyed his entrée into racing. At the height of his expansion in 2010 he would stand by the rope at Tattersalls, visible to all, bidding away with a beaming smile on his face.

On he went: 100,000, 200,000, 300,000 guineas and beyond. On occasions, well beyond. The man who made his fortune through the Stobart Group haulage company was plainly in his element.

But things have changed. Tinkler’s craving for bidding duels has since succumbed to a desire to breed his own. So much so that the recent Tattersalls breeze-up sales, a previously fertile source, did not tempt him.

He now boards 16 broodmares in Newmarket at the Brook Stud, part-owned by his bloodstock advisor Dwayne Woods.

Although he is still interested in the right yearling, it must now have paddocks appeal further down the line.

But that’s not all. The most striking difference between Tinkler old and new is the way he disperses his horses in training. This time two years ago he was keenly anticipating the exploits of around 20 horses he’d sent to be trained in Newmarket.

The twin knights, Cecil and Stoute, were recruited alongside William Haggas and Marco Botti. They complemented existing northern trainers Michael Dods and Bryan Smart, while out west Richard Hannon was sent a dozen juveniles.

Of the nine trainers he employed in 2011, Hannon fared best by far when Dubawi Gold and Tell Dad earned the thick end of £500,000

Andrew Tinkler wants to make his racing interests work commercially

in Britain. Hannon was duly rewarded when Tinkler’s numbers swelled to 35 in 2012.

Hannon vindicated that faith with solid returns last year but, simultaneously, something was stirring in Ireland. Entries on behalf of Tinkler were made at Dundalk in February, when it emerged the owner had sent horses to Johnny Murtagh’s stable that housed Tommy Carmody, the former jumps jockey, as resident trainer.

“It started with Johnny [Murtagh] a few years ago when I was looking to retain a rider in the UK,” Tinkler, 49, reflects. “I ended up sponsoring him. Then I sent him some horses in the winter [of 2011] and we decided to run some of them in Ireland to see if it would work.

Now it has developed further.”

So much so that the Murtagh/Carmody axis

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Johnny Murtagh, here riding Ursa Major for Tinkler in the 2012 St Leger, could train under his own name in the future

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started 2013 with the bulk of Tinkler’s horses.

There are ten juveniles within the team of 37.

The only other trainer to be sent two-year-olds was Hannon, and of the quartet earmarked, three are now with Hannon’s former assistant Sylvester Kirk, also the trainer’s son-in-law.

“Richard [Hannon] deserves good horses and that’s the plan,” Tinkler says. “There’s no point keeping all-weather handicappers with him, which is why Sylvester came on board. Just like horses-for-courses, I believe in horses-fortrainers.”

There must be more to it, because the twoyear-old with Hannon is now the sole horse Tinkler has with the two-time champion trainer.

All the others have been moved.

There has certainly been no fall-out, as was evidenced when Tinkler hosted Hannon and his family in his box on 2,000 Guineas day. It’s more that the association with Murtagh has become all-embracing.

Well though Hannon did with Tinkler’s horses last season, he couldn’t match the Irish St Leger victory of Royal Diamond on the day when Ursa Major, another Tinkler horse trained at Murtagh’s yard, finished fourth in the British equivalent.

Indeed, Ursa Major was the animal responsible for Murtagh losing his retainer with the Aga Khan. The jockey couldn’t ride Hartani through injury when that colt succumbed to Ursa Major at the Curragh in August. Yet Murtagh compounded a delicate situation when he celebrated with the winner, rather than commiserating with connections of the Aga Khan-owned runner-up.

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Murtagh’s fate doubtless encouraged him to look ahead. He has already completed the first course obligatory to all prospective trainers.

“I am certainly expecting Johnny to train one day,” Tinkler says.

However, Tinkler’s assertion that Hannon will train his better horses doesn’t tally with the transfer of Fort Knox, a promising maiden winner last season on his second start, to Murtagh’s stable over the winter.

“I have always

thought outside the box – I’ll go round corners to see if I can do things differently” “You need quality when you are trying to set something up,” Tinkler counters. “We had to move a number of horses to Ireland to make it work. We’re trying to make Johnny successful because that will make us successful.

“I think Richard understands what we’re trying to do. I am quite happy to move horses around when they are in training. That’s just business to me.”

Fort Knox, ridden by Murtagh, opened his account for his new stable with a convincing

victory in April. So much so that he caught Sheikh Mohammed’s eye. A sale was agreed whereby Carmody would saddle Fort Knox for the Irish 2,000 Guineas ahead of a possible change of stable.

Fort Knox’s sale highlights another facet of Tinkler’s approach. Although he loves racing he is adamant it has to pay its way.

“I’ve always said in the past I’m trying to make it work commercially,” he says. “It’s a longterm aim. It won’t happen overnight, but businesses aren’t built overnight. We will also need a bit of luck because we are dealing with live animals.

“The way I look at it, prize-money has to pay the training fees and the rest is down to increasing the value of the horses. I have already sold some decent horses and I will continue to sell yearlings from my mares, provided I get what I think they are worth.

“Value-wise, if you have a horse rated over 80 you have jumped a barrier. And I’ve also learnt it is very important not to make too many mistakes by running them in the wrong place, or the wrong race. That’s a very quick way to erode value.”

He is proud to have brought along a horse wanted by Sheikh Mohammed; doubly so in Fort Knox’s case, since he bought the colt as a foal. He also bought his dam Savannah Belle just before Fort Knox’s older full-brother, Dubawi Gold, chased Frankel home in the 2,000 Guineas two years ago.

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ANDREW TINKLER later, when a yearling full-brother was sold to John Ferguson for 340,000gns.

Tinkler’s purchase of Savannah Belle has paid off handsomely, which may explain his orientation towards breeding his own stock.

“Just as the deal over Fort Knox was being done, Savannah Belle popped out a really nice colt foal,” he says.

He believes the route to profitability lies in a collection of superior mares, adding: “Once you have the mares, the foals are born from a much lower cost base. That’s when I feel I’ll be able to get maximum value out of it. And if the progeny don’t make what you believe they are worth, you can improve the value by racing them. I like having options.”

Although there is nothing unusual in Tinkler’s approach per se, he has reached it by a circuitous route. That mirrors how he came to head up Stobart Group, the company from which he made in excess of £60 million when he took it onto the stock market in 2007.

He still owns a near-10% stake and remains the company’s Chief Executive despite some investor unrest. Together with fellow directors of the company he reversed a recent restructuring at Stobart just two months after it was implemented with a mandate to change direction – the group is involved in far more than haulage – with which Tinkler did not agree.

Despite his unconventional thinking he usually manages to persuade doubters to adopt his philosophy. In the pre-stock market listing he came up with all the ideas and his partner implemented them.

“I have always thought outside the box,” he says. “That’s how I have made my way in life: I’ll go round corners to see if I can do something differently. My way might be a slightly different approach to what you usually see in racing, but that’s because I am different. It hasn’t done me badly.”

As much as racing itself, Tinkler has been stimulated by discovering the complexities surrounding what appears on the surface to be a straightforward sport. His natural inquisitiveness is such that it fast-tracked him into the heart of it.

He has learnt much along the way and does not dwell on mistakes, preferring instead to log them under the “experience” column. Having coursed the sales for a few years he now has a different take on what he sees.

“The biggest lesson I have learnt is not to overpay for your horses in the first place,” he says. “You look at yearlings and they have great pedigrees, so they tempt you, but there is so much about them as individuals that you just don’t know. Very few of them turn out to be superstars.

“You learn something from every horse. A good-looking yearling could become a physical horror by the time it is three. It can fall away dramatically, so when you see a great-looking THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

‘Newmarket is for the better horses’

Irish alliance: Tinkler with Tommy Carmody (left) and Ben Curtis at the Curragh

Rarely has Newmarket been as united as it was last year when Andrew Tinkler moved the majority of his horses out of the town.

The training fraternity rose as one to maintain their fees were competitive with the rest of the country, given the facilities at their disposal.

Tinkler does not dispute that. Where he took issue was that the horses he had in Newmarket had insufficient ability to justify their presence at racing’s self-styled headquarters. A look at their collective achievement underlines why.

In 2012 the combined forces of Sir Michael Stoute, Sir Henry Cecil, William Haggas and Marco Botti ran seven Tinklerowned horses for the collective tally of one individual winner, Solar Deity, whose two allweather victories earned his patron £4,075.

And in 2011, the same four trainers ran 13 individual horses for a combined three winners. The best of them, Uptown Guy, earned £5,178 in winning at Chepstow and Thirsk. Uptown Guy alone had cost Tinkler 215,000gns at the 2010 breeze-up sales, while the collective cost of those 13 horses weighed in at £2 million.

foal or yearling you are probably seeing it at its absolute best.

“At first I wanted those types of horses but now I prefer looking at yearlings where you can see improvement further down the line. And you’ve got to be prepared to forgive some physical faults as well, because the value is with horses in which something isn’t quite right.”

One striking thing about Tinkler is that he will always put his own philosophy into

“I was very happy with my Newmarket trainers but some horses don’t suit certain trainers,” Tinkler reflects. “Some of them said to me, ‘Look, it’s pointless me training this horse for you, it’s not my type.’

“So from my point of view, I wanted to mix the horses about. There’s no point keeping horses in Newmarket if they aren’t going to make it. It makes no commercial sense; it’s an expensive place for 60-rated handicappers to be based.”

He was also taken with the way his Newmarket trainers helped him out during his horses’ two-year tenure. “They couldn’t have been more helpful,” Tinkler says. “Sir Michael Stoute gave me a lot of input and that has been very helpful. It was more that I had to thin the horses out. There are a lot of trainers in the country and I think it’s good for some of them to have a chance.”

In addition to the burgeoning links with Johnny Murtagh’s stable in Ireland, Tinkler has small teams of horses with Nicky Vaughan and Michael Dods, who trained his first racehorse. And links with Newmarket have not been totally severed: he has two he owns in partnership based with Marco Botti.

practice. The business of racing is conservative to the point where tangible progress is made only when someone approaches it with a fresh eye – and Tinkler’s is certainly that.

Time will tell whether his vision for a selffinancing bloodstock model is realised. He does not subscribe to the racing maxim that the only way to end up with a small fortune is to start with a large one. Above all, however, he will do it his way.

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By EMMA BERRY, Bloodstock Editor

Our bloodstock coverage this month includes:

• What’s in store? Carl Evans glimpses the raw materials for the Derby Sale – pages 48-53 • Sales Circuit: Breeze-ups, Goffs Punchestown and South African yearlings – pages 54-58 • Caulfield Files: The contrasting record of A.P. Indy in America and Europe – pages 60-61

From bullet breezers to slow-maturing stores

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It’s a balancing act of equine mind and body.

When it comes to store sales, a different approach, not to mention a bucket of patience, is required. As Carl Evans discovered while on tour with sales inspector Tom Rudd seeking store horses for the forthcoming Derby Sale at Tattersalls Ireland, there’s a fair amount of skill involved in determining which raw, shaggy National Hunt youngster could be the next Champagne Fever (see pages 48-53).

The virtue of patience On the Flat as in jumping, greater emphasis is now placed on precocity. While this almost always comes at a premium for the owner, it can also sometimes be to the horse’s cost. Umpteen quotable one-liners have emanated from the lips of Bart Cummings during his many years as a trainer but the one which has always had the greatest resonance for me is his declaration that, “Patience is the cheapest thing in racing and the thing most seldom used.”

Of course nothing that involves a racehorse is ever really cheap, and that includes taking a horse out of training for a while to give him a spell at grass, but so often this is by far the best course of action. If a horse gets to the stage where anti-inflammatories are required, perhaps we should be interpreting what that horse is unable to say for himself: “I need a break”.

The ramifications of the last few weeks of stories about steroids of a more sinister kind than those used to ease inflamed joints are farreaching and we certainly haven’t heard the last of this subject. But while we point fingers and seek to shift the blame to more permissive regimes in other racing nations, let’s not lose sight of the fact that the world of horseracing does not exist in isolation – it is an important part of a wider sporting environment in which the use of anabolic steroids is almost universally reviled. Certain parties within racing have broken the rules, some unwittingly, but those rules are in place to protect both the sport itself and its principal participants – the horses.

In prohibiting anabolic steroids and other drugs which could potentially be deployed to mask a range of problems while a horse is in training, we are also seeking to protect the future of the thoroughbred. Quite plainly, it generally makes little sense to breed from unsound stock, or from those with other heritable infirmities.

There’s no point collectively bemoaning the increasing weakness of the breed if steps aren’t taken to stop the rot.

Every breeder can aid this process in sending tried and tested mares to stallions who have proven themselves on the track over a number of seasons, while the BHA continues to stand firm on Britain’s strict anti-drugs policy.

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s we put the finishing touches to this issue of the magazine, the DBS May Sale was taking place in Doncaster, the horses-intraining section being followed by the first major store sale of the season.

Just as I love both Flat and National Hunt racing (something that purists under either code would probably claim to be impossible), I also enjoy the changing of the sales seasons. Breezes are watched with admiration for the bold riders, particularly for those facing the vast openness of Newmarket Heath on a relatively green twoyear-old, and with some trepidation that these precious young horses are fully able to cope with what they are being asked to do.

As discussed last month, there is an increasing importance being attached to the timing of breezes but there’s an interesting dichotomy here when speaking to the trainers at the sales who are about to take these juveniles home. Time and again they will say that they like to give the horses a proper break after the rigours of the sale – a sensible response from those who know only too well that even the most robust of thoroughbreds usually benefit from a stop-start approach to training during the formative months of their careers. Being able to stop the clock at just over 20 seconds for two furlongs in April or May is no guarantee of success farther down the line.

The term ‘Ready To Run’ is only applied to one European sale, Goffs’ Kempton auction, which is the first in the calendar and actively seeks a more precocious type. The oft-repeated mantra that owners are saving on six months of training fees by buying a breeze-up horse rather than a yearling is true up to a point but the most important long-term factor is knowing that wherever your young racehorse starts out in life he receives the best possible grounding in the hands of skilled horsemen and women.

The top breeze-up operators are successful for a reason, and that’s because their preparation of these youngsters is sympathetic enough to allow the horses to fulfil their potential over a number of years on the track and professional enough to make them attractive sales prospects.

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WHAT’S IN STORE FOR THE STORES?

An inspector

CALLS Tattersalls Ireland’s flagship store sale at the end of June is the culmination of long road trips by the inspection team to assess more than 1,000 unbroken National Hunt youngsters Words and photos Carl Evans

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mid the lick, spit and manicured polish of the sales ring it is easy to forget that young thoroughbreds thrive in a semi-feral state.

Roaming fields while their manes and tails knot like witches’ hair, their coats become thick and tufted with dirt and natural oil, and their horned feet chip at the edges, adolescent jumping horses, known as ‘stores’, can spend several years living rough.

Yet in just two months of sales preparation they are transformed from hairy bog warriors into bespoke models ready for auction. As that process beckons they receive a call from the sales inspector.

It is late on a Tuesday afternoon in April, betwixt Aintree and Punchestown, and Tom Rudd of Tattersalls Ireland is travelling from Dublin to Galway, stopping along the way to inspect horses entered for his company’s flagship Derby Sale, which takes place on June 27 and 28. This is a challenging mission in a country which has no postcodes and whose web of narrow lanes harbour horses of all shapes and persuasions.

The Derby Sale – hitherto restricted to unbroken stores aged three and four, but now offering a brief horses-in-training section – is one of three main auctions at which raw jumpers are traded. Goffs stages its June Land Rover Sale, while Doncaster’s Spring Sale in May is another source of a store, and there is every chance of finding unbroken youngsters at auctions run by Brightwells and Goresbridge. But the Derby Sale is the recognised number one.

Top prices of €250,000, €340,000 and €325,000 in the past three years – created by familiar racing names such as Potts, Magnier and O’Leary – and averages of around

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€30,000, are good-enough reasons for vendors to seek places, but it is up to Inspector Rudd and half a dozen Tattersalls Ireland colleagues to give the green or red light. For well-made, good-sized horses with pedigree the decision is easy, while others just below the cut may get onto a pending list in the hope a brother or sister wins a race.

For some vendors, of lesser mortals, rejection is like receiving news a child has failed to gain a place at a sought-after school.

Rudd is tactful, but stresses: “It is in no-

“In two months they

are transformed from hairy bog warriors to bespoke models ready for auction” one’s interest to take horses that don’t match the criteria, and a waste of time and money for vendors.”

For borderline horses he can offer a place at the company’s lower-tier August Sale (top prices of €52,000, €44,000 and €120,000 and an average of around €5,500 in the past three years).

The store market is an interesting barometer of racing and breeding’s wellbeing, for it has few if any sheikhs but numerous small players. Many cannot afford to buy a decent Flat-bred mare or pay the fees to visit suitable Flat sires, but the

Four stores being inspected on the move

National Hunt game enables them to roll dice. Rudd says during the boom from early this century to the bust in 2008 the price of stores shot up by 40%, encouraging numerous new breeders but adding to overproduction. He says: “At the peak we would inspect 1,500 to 1,600 horses hoping to fill 500 places at the Derby Sale. This year it will be just over 1,000 horses for just over 400 places.”

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each year raise them on their parents’ Galway farm, then offer them for sale at three. Brian describes this process as “addictive”. His Westerner gelding passes inspection by Rudd and will be at this year’s Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale.

Martin Keane runs a garden centre while his wife keeps a flower shop in Athenry – their Gamut colt and Beneficial filly pass Rudd’s inspection and are booked for the Derby Sale. But at Shrule, to the west of Galway City, farmer Jim Hennelly accepts the inspector’s view that his Kalanisi filly needs more time and would be better suited to the >> Martin Cullinane, left, in discussion with Tattersalls Ireland inspector Tom Rudd THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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One for the future: Rock On Ruby’s sister with dam Stony View and John O’Dwyer

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Sale. Hennelly looks back on a lifetime trying to find a Gold Cup winner, and says: “I bought two foals in the boom time and went home with them feeling very full of myself, but an old fella warned me, ‘Times like these are always followed by a fall’. I could hardly sleep that night and the next day said to the wife, ‘I’m reducing the stock’. I cut back from 33 horses to ten. The old fella did me a favour.”

John Joe O’Shaughnessy’s weather-beaten face has an easy smile and his enthusiasm is infectious, but his health is not at its best, so rather than trot up geldings by Westerner and Choisir for Rudd’s inspection he shoos them across the concrete cattle yard. The Westerner makes the cut for the Derby Sale.

Tom and Kathleen Kelly entered the store

market after BSE took their dairy herd in 2003. “The place was so quiet without animals that we bought a couple of foals,” says Tom Kelly, “and then we bought a mare and began breeding, too.” The couple have an Oscar filly to show Rudd, who recommends she be sent to the August Sale.

The Kellys bought their first foals from Martin Cullinane, a name synonymous with the rearing and racing of young horses.

Kingscliff and Go Native are two of the best to have passed through his hands, and a regular stream of customers make their way to his Mount Brown Farm in Galway, where horses of varying shapes and sizes materialise from every nook and cranny of its stonefaced barns. Rudd takes position in the centre of the yard as 13 horses are led up,

Fillies belonging to Adrian Hynes make

wander up, canter past or gallop through.

When Cullinane remembers he has four additional three-year-olds for inspection they are simply chased into a sand ring where they race around for a few minutes, then stop and roll, giving Rudd the chance for closer surveillance.

Hoping for a lovely time the day we go to Bangor British jump breeders will boost interest in their corner of the industry by taking a lead from French counterparts at a show and social get-together this summer.

Backed by the TBA, the event takes place at Bangor racecourse on Tuesday, July 23, and is being coordinated by stud owners Richard Aston (Goldford), David Futter (Yorton Farm) and Peter Hockenhull (Shade Oak). The trio are based within a short distance of Bangor but are keen to encourage participation by all involved in producing jumping stock in the UK. At the heart of the event will be a show for jumping mares and their foals owned

by British-based breeders, but regardless of the mares’ countries of origin or the

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foals’ sires. A similar concept is firmly established among AQPS breeders in France – Sprinter Sacre’s first public appearance was at one such show when he was two. French shows are used to promoting the breed while also giving mare owners the chance to sell their stock on the day. British organisers say selling foals is not the objective of their event, but if deals take place that is a bonus.

Aston said: “We think the idea is well worth trying and we have to start somewhere. Bangor was happy to accommodate us and stages evening racing that day.

“Dave [Futter] came up with the idea having visited France many times. He has good contacts down there and stands [the

former French-based stallion] Malinas.

The idea is to put on an informal opportunity for everyone in National Hunt breeding to come together to share ideas and thoughts away from the usual meetups at race meetings and regional stud visits.”

AQPS shows involve mares and foals, plus two-year-olds, but the British event will involve classes for mares and colt foals and mares and filly foals.

Taking place during the school holidays, Aston stressed families and the general public will be welcomed – entry is free – and said plans for side events and other points of interest are being formulated.

Channel 4 Racing and RUK presenter Nick Luck will be compere for the day.

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sure that Tom Rudd is giving them a good write-up; new schemes for racing fillies should increase their representation in the sale

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jam and coffee. It is not a bribe to the inspector (and the tag-along journalist from Thoroughbred Owner & Breeder) but an example of Irish hospitality.

Telling it straight “It would be foolish to accept a horse just because the vendor is a regular client of ours,” says Rudd. “If I say, ‘Look, you’re going to struggle to sell this one, he’s not a Derby Sale horse’, they have been doing the job long enough to know where I’m coming from.

“If you bring a horse to the Derby Sale that’s not 16 hands you’re not going to get paid. They need to be a good 16 hands, athletic and with a good page. You can forgive niggly things such as toeing out, a slight curb or a pair of off-set knees. One offset knee means you probably won’t sell.

“Wind is a big issue but two weeks prior to the sale they have to be vetted at home. They arrive on our premises with a vet’s certificate, and three days before the sale we vet them against that certificate. We have 30 vets on the panel but a Meath vet cannot assess a horse from Meath, to ensure there is no bias.

We put them through a five-part vetting that includes lungeing in a pen, a flexion test and checks on their eyes, wind and heart.”

He continues: “In a normal year fillies >> Aiden Murphy: “shortage at top end”

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Cullinane produces stores on a large scale, selling some 25 each year at the Derby and Land Rover sales. Summarising their sales prep, he says: “They walk for the first month and then lunge for three weeks.”

Inside the house in which he was born, he reflects: “I’d be a sucker for a nice foal, regardless of its pedigree. They have to catch my eye and if they do I’ll forgive a foot turning out or them being a little bit off at the knee. If you keep doing what you think is half right it’ll pay off occasionally.”

He adds: “You need a big eyeful of a horse for the Derby Sale.”

At Ballyclerihan breeder John O’Dwyer has the confidence of a man who bred a Champion Hurdle winner. Rock On Ruby left the farm when selling as a foal at Tattersalls Ireland, but O’Dwyer still has his dam, Stony View.

His Oscar gelding out of a full-sister to Rock On Ruby, and a Robin Des Champs filly from the family of Rathconrath and Kesslin, are both Derby Sale-bound.

So too is Mark Molloy’s Arcadio gelding, whose full-brother The Game Changer made €190,000 at Goffs’ Punchestown sale.

Molloy’s home at Crossogue Farm in County Tipperary is an elegant country house, where Rudd’s early-morning inspection is completed in the drawing room with scones,

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An agricultural backdrop to the viewing process as Jim Hennelly parades his Kalanisi filly for Rudd; she heads to the August Sale

Dual Cheltenham Festival winner Champagne Fever is a graduate of the 2010 sale

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catalogue. It has been hard to sell them since the boom ended around 2008, but a number of new schemes have been introduced to get them selling and racing again.”

In England, the TBA was involved with the OLBG Mare of the Month scheme throughout

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the recently concluded season, which rewarded the trainer and stable of a National Hunt mare who had performed well with the aim of encouraging trainers and owners to consider fillies at the sales.

The TBA has also worked with the BHA to improve the jumping programme for mares

in training, while in Ireland there is the National Hunt Fillies’ Bonus Scheme, funded by vendors, purchasers and owners of nonsale fillies, providing €5,000 bonuses to winners of fillies’ maiden races.

Rudd adds: “Very few people are happy to buy a store and wait years to see it run – at four and a half to five they want them fit and ready for war. The days of the big monsters coming to the sale, too heavy and overweight with nothing done to them, are over.

Nowadays horses are very well prepped.

“More and more French-breds are coming to the Derby Sale. Willie Mullins has done particularly well with them and one of the top prices at last year’s auction was for a son of [French sire] Network. Most that come to our sale are owned by Irish or British clients.

The French race their three-year-olds, rather than sell them as stores.”

Among the many ways of pinhooking a thoroughbred, the transition of stores into once-raced pointers or bumper winners has achieved some notable recent profits.

At fledgling sales run by Brightwells at Cheltenham, DBS at Newbury and Goffs at Punchestown – in addition to long-standing auctions – there has been a wealth of sixfigure transactions centring on horses that were sold as unbroken three-year-olds, trained to win a point-to-point, bumper or maiden hurdle, and then resold. Tattersalls

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Signs of revival as crops adjust

The inspections continue with an audience at John Joe O’Shaughnessy’s farm

Ireland will tap into this when selling a ‘select’ number of these proven horses at the Derby Sale.

Recent examples of this store-to-war and back-for-more trading policy include onceraced Irish pointer Padge, who at DBS’s Newbury Sale in March rose from a store price of £16,000 to £160,000 in ten months.

On Blueberry Hill changed hands for €55,000 at last year’s Derby Sale, and ten months later, with a bumper win to his

“You take a chance

with a store horse, but for many people it is a chance to get in at a realistic level” name, topped Brightwells’ Cheltenham April Sale at £250,000. A contemporary at the same Derby Sale, The Game Changer, made €35,000 then but €190,000 when sold by Goffs at Punchestown following a bumper victory.

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pinhookers, but they can also offer value for money for racehorse owners.

Bloodstock agent Aiden Murphy says: “Because of the prices people are having to pay at these boutique horses-in-training sales some will see the value in going back to the old-fashioned method of buying a store and producing it themselves.”

Scores on the stores Murphy says there is a shortage of topquality stores, due to a downturn in production and the cherry-picking of foals and yearlings who never make it to public auction. Does he envisage more store owners electing to keep their horses and put them into training with a view to selling after a victory?

“Once you put a saddle on a horse it becomes high risk,” says Murphy. “If you have a store worth £50,000 then you’re a braver man than me to risk backing it and racing it. It could rise in value but, equally, it could end up worth £500.”

Northern Ireland-based bloodstock agent Kevin Ross agrees, saying: “At a late April point-to-point in the North there were 40 four-year-olds entered – that’s how tough competition is.”

He adds: “Good trade at the horses-intraining sales helped last year’s store sales and I think it will be the same this year.

“I’m expecting trade for quality stores to

The extent to which it is hard for British purpose-bred jumpers to compete with their Irish counterparts is illustrated in the table below, which shows the National Hunt foal crops for the last eight years. That said, both countries have suffered major reductions in the numbers being bred – a necessity to combat the worries of over-production.

The current stores – largely unbroken three- and four-year-olds – were born in 2009 and 2010, the latter yielding the lowest combined crop of 2,800 National Hunt foals in Britain and Ireland. There were 67 more in 2011, while the figure for last year crept back up to 3,318.

This year’s Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Bobs Worth was bought as a four-year-old at DBS for just £20,000 (his fourth appearance in a sales ring, having been sold as a foal for €11,000, a yearling for €16,500 and not sold at €24,000 as a three-year-old) and Grand National winner Auroras Encore was bought by Harvey Smith for just 9,500gns at three. Exciting young hurdlers The New One and Champagne Fever were Derby Sale graduates at €25,000 and €17,500 respectively.

There are plenty of six-figure price tags for store sale graduates, just as there are at the horses-in-training auctions, but patchy clearance rates at the latter signal the limit of their appeal.

Recent signs of revival in the store market have offered promise and it is still a favoured arena for good stockmen, who can select a horse at a reasonable price which could just turn into an incredible bargain.

National Hunt foal crops 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Britain 902 921 892 842 802 583 667 593

Ireland 4,587 4,849 4,342 4,033 3,213 2,217 2,203 2,725

be strong because there are fewer horses in the country. You take a chance on what you are buying with a store horse, but for many people it is a chance to get in at a realistic level.”

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By CARL EVANS and NICOLA HAYWARD

Juvenile season blows through Another record price set at Arqana Breeze-up for first-crop son of Sea The Stars

Tattersalls Guineas Breeze-up and HIT Sale

Doncaster Breeze-up Sale A slimmed-down catalogue, but one that maintained quality, was the underlying theme at Doncaster Bloodstock Sales’ one-

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ritain’s 2013 breeze-up sales season was consigned to history with this Tattersalls-staged, one-day event at Park Paddocks in Newmarket.

Dropped in 2011, but resurrected in 2012 and boosted by gaining a horses-in-training section, it now serves a purpose for vendors of horses that are not good enough, forward enough or lucky enough to appear at Tattersalls’ two-day Craven breezers’ sale.

Inevitably some horses would hold their own in the bigger event, including four that made six-figure sums at this sale. They contributed to a very satisfactory 81% clearance rate, although they could not prevent a drop in average (-7%) and median (-21%) for the breeze-up session alone.

Turnover rose, thanks largely to a bigger catalogue that saw 113 juveniles walk through, compared to 98 in 2012.

Richard Brown of Blandford Bloodstock accounted for the top-priced breezer at Doncaster and he nailed the leading horse here, too, paying 110,000gns for a Teofilo colt who had cost vendor Adrian Costello €25,000 as a yearling. That was the sort of jackpot result which all leading breeze-up consignors expect to gain at least once or twice during their short trading period, although delving into the pinhooking table suggested this sale did not make many rich – and strong yearling prices had made life difficult for them in the autumn, too.

The Horses-in-Training section saw a top price achieved by the Marco Botti-trained Kingsdesire, who was initially led out of the ring unsold, but made 85,000gns soon after in a private sale engineered by Alberto Panetta on behalf of Australian interests.

Tattersalls turned over 411,200gns on this part of the sale, which was handsome enough, but the sales company also regards it as a useful way of getting a few extra overseas buyers to visit Newmarket to massage the breeze trade.

The Teofilo half-brother to Caradak who topped the Guineas Breeze-up Sale

Tattersalls Guineas Breeze-up Sale Top lots Sex/Breeding

Vendor

Price (gns)

Buyer

C Teofilo–Caraiyma

Clenagh Castle Stud

110,000

Blandford Bloodstock

C Dubawi–Late Night

Tally-Ho Stud

105,000

Charlie Gordon-Watson

C Exchange Rate–Deputie’s Notebook Gaybrook Lodge Stud

100,000

Lars Kelp Bloodstock

C Pivotal–Abandon

Powerstown Stud

100,000

David Redvers Bloodstock

C Haatef–Zuniga’s Date

Gaybrook Lodge Stud

70,000

Alberto Panetta

F Dubawi–Summer Sunset

Hawthorn Villa Stud

70,000

Bobby O’Ryan/Brendan Powell

F Acclamation-Ardea Brave

Gaybrook LodgeStud

62,000

BBA Ireland

C Shamardal-Catch The Moon

Jamie Railton

60,000

SackvilleDonald

C Exceed And Excel-Gwyneth

Hillwood Stud

60,000

New Approach Bloodstock

C Kodiac-Gerobies Girl

Yeomanstown Stud

58,000

Rabbah Bloodstock

Price (gns)

Buyer Alberto Panetta (Private Sale)

Tattersalls Guineas HIT Sale Top lots Age/Sex/Name/Sire

Vendor

4 G Kingsdesire (King’s Best)

Prestige Place

85,000

3 C Line Of Reason (Kheleyf)

Trillium Place Stables

80,000

Andrew Taylor

5 G Maverik (Iceman)

Kimpton Down Stables

42,000

SackvilleDonald

Combined figures Year

Sold

Agg (gns)

Avg (gns)

Mdn (gns)

Top Price (gns)

2013

120

2,761,000

23,008

14,000

110,000

2012

104

2,414,650

23,218

15,500

115,000

2011 Not staged

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day breeze-up sale.

Europe’s oldest auction of its type still produced three six-figure lots – identical to last year – and while turnover and the median price fell by 17%, the average nudged up a couple of percentage points and the clearance rate rose, too.

Maktoum family involvement may be less conspicuous than in the past at breeze-up sales, but Middle Eastern money remains a huge factor, and the valuation of a £210,000 sale-topping Lawman filly from Willie Browne’s Mocklershill draft was orchestrated by interests from that region.

Richard Brown of Blandford Bloodstock, acting for Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Sultan Bin Khalifa Al Nahyan whose horses races under the Al Asayl Bloodstock banner, headed David Redvers, who was joined at the ring by his principal client, Sheikh Fahad of Qatar.

Redvers and Sheikh Fahad had landed the top lot at this sale in 2012, Fire Eyes, who cost £300,000.

John Gosden will train the Lawman filly, while John Quinn took delivery of a Compton Place colt who made £155,000 and will race for Paul Chapman, an owner that is new to his Malton yard.

Vendor John Collins of Brown Island Stud had bought the Compton Place for just £16,000 at the DBS Premier Yearling Sale.

At a time when the rich are apparently immune to recession, yet some countries’ racing industries are struggling and workaday folk are pulling belts in by several holes, DBS managing director Henry Beeby could take pleasure in having looked ahead and planned a leaner, meaner sale. Yet the occasion also had a poignant note for him and his family when his father, DBS Chairman Harry Beeby, retired from auctioneering soon after selling the sale-topper.

Beeby snr had wielded his gavel over a 49year period, during which the company’s annual turnover had grown from a modest £1,000 to £47,000,000. The good news for his many friends in the business is that he will remain an active part of Team DBS.

Doncaster Breeze-up Sale Top lots

Sex/Breeding

Vendor

F Lawman–Traou Mad

Mocklershill

Price (£)

Buyer

210,000

Blandford Bloodstock

C Compton Place–Chance For Romance

Brown Island Stables

155,000

Paul Chapman

C Exceed And Excel-Cliche

Mocklershill

100,000

Highfield Farm

C Art Connoisseur–A L’Aube

Horse Park Stud

90,000

Peter & Ross Doyle Bloodstock

F Invincible Spirit–La Reine Mambo

Powerstown Stud

90,000

Anthony Stroud Bloodstock

F Rock Of Gibraltar–Samorra

Mocklershill

88,000

David Redvers

C Kodiac–Shelini

Church Farm Stables

85,000

David Redvers

C Invincible Spirit–Fraulein

Yeomanstown Stud

85,000

S M Hillen Ltd

C Speightstown-Gaudete

Rangefield Bloodstock

80,000

Blandford Bloodstock

C Acclamation-Silverdreammachine

Mocklershill

70,000

BBA Ireland

Five-year tale Year

Sold

Agg (£)

Avg (£)

Mdn (£)

2013

98

2,979,300

30,401

20,000

Top Price (£) 210,000

2012

122

3,601,500

29,520

24,000

300,000

2011

109

3,183,500

29,206

20,000

140,000

2010

122

3,247,300

26,617

19,750

140,000

2009

113

2,708,100

23,965

18,000

190,000

Brightwells Ascot Breeze-up Sale Top lots

Sex/Name

Vendor

Price (£)

Buyer

C War Chant-Morena Park

Knockanglass Stables

25,000

Ed De Giles

C Sleeping Indian-Voice

Knockanglass Stables

22,000

David Evans

C Jeremy-Million All Day

Upshire Stables

20,000

John Collins

Comparative figures Year

Sold

Agg (£)

Avg (£)

Mdn (£)

2013

20

147,300

7,365

4,650

Top Price (£) 25,000

2011

36

575,400

15,983

10,000

100,000

Brightwells returned to the juvenile breezeup scene having first staged such an auction in 2011, but the market is less buoyant now, and it felt the impact.

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Osarus Breeze-up Sale

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Held for the second time, and with a much bigger catalogue, Osarus’s breeze-up sale at Pornichet on the west coast of France is maturing nicely.

In the current market a catalogue of twice the size was likely to show a dip in clearance rate, and it fell to 63%, but finding new homes for 50 horses from 79 offered – up from 38 who entered the ring in 2012 – was pretty good for a fledgling event staged by a youthful company. So too were steep rises in the average and median price, suggesting vendors were prepared to give Osarus better stock.

Tattersalls has put its considerable history, experience and resources into an alliance with Osarus since last year’s first breeze-up auction, and that may have had some role in the auction’s growth, but this was exclusively a sale of French horses eligible for the country’s very tempting premiums.

Tattersalls is not alone in forming a French alliance, and one between British consignor Jamie Railton and Angers-based Alban Chevalier du Fau – in a venture known as The Channel Consignment – had the honour of selling the joint-top lot, a Turtle Bowl colt who made €45,000. His half-sister Testosterone has been a very able performer in the ring and on the racecourse, having won the Group 2 Prix de Malleret last year before being bought for 1,200,000gns at the

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Herefordshire trainer Ed de Giles. That price compared to one of £100,000 for the top lot two years ago, and, after factoring in a muchreduced catalogue (52 were offered in 2011), it was no surprise to see turnover slump and falls occur in the median and average prices.

O’Mara’s draft also contained the secondhighest valued offering, a son of Sleeping Indian, who headed into Wales and a place at David Evans’ yard.

BBAG Breeze-up Sale A soaraway top price of €180,000 for a filly from the first crop of Coolmore Stud sire Mastercraftsman accounted for 30% of turnover and set a new high at BBAG’s May breeze-up sale.

Japanese interests lay behind the transaction which carried the day’s aggregate to €595,300, up 36% on last year’s sale despite a smaller catalogue. Accordingly, the average rose almost 50%, and while the median dropped by 7%, fewer horses helped the clearance rate to a mark of 66%, up from 53% in 2012.

The sale-topper, named Malibu Beach, was offered by France’s Haras de Bernesq. She was produced by the Listed-winning Septieme Ciel mare Spark Sept, making her a year-younger half-sister to the former Jim Bolger-trained Grafelli, who last summer won the Group 3 Railway and Tyros Stakes before moving to Hong Kong.

A son of Dubawi out of Coronation Stakes heroine Balisada took second-place honours

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with a valuation of €43,000, and while Con Marnane’s Bansha House Stables was leading vendor 12 months ago, it had no apparent representation this year.

BBAG Breeze-up Sale Top lots Sex/Breeding

Vendor

F Mastercraftsman-Spark Sept

Haras de Bernesq

Price (€)

C Dubawi-Balisada C Sinndar-Gobhana

Buyer

180,000

IECA

GTM GmbH

43,000

Andi Wyss

LMGW - BS

36,000

HFTB Racing

Comparative figures Year

Sold

Agg (€)

Avg (€)

Mdn (€)

Top Price (€)

2013

45

595,300

13,229

3,500

180,000

2012

48

435,400

9,071

3,750

70,000

Osarus Breeze-up Sale Top lots Sex/Breeding

Vendor

F Soldier Of Fortune-Andramad

Haras du Saubouas

Price (€)

Buyer

45,000

Ecurie Tagada Sarl

C Turtle Bowl-Epopee

The Channel Consignment

45,000

MAB Agency

C Whipper-Lanciana

The Channel Consignment

43,000

Richard Venn B/s

C Naaqoos-Susanne Rheinberg

Haras du Saubouas

40,000

Ecurie Tagada Sas

F Green Tune-Castilly

Richard Xavier

38,000

Nicolas Bertran De Balanda

C Carlotamix-Oui Dire

Haras du Saubouas

32,000

Yan Durepaire

Comparative figures Year

Sold

Agg (€)

Avg (€)

Mdn (€)

2013

50

802,500

16,596

15,000

Top Price (€) 45,000

2012

27

308,000

11,920

10,500

30,000

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Arqana Breeze-up Sale Top lots Sex/Breeding

Vendor

Price (€)

Buyer

C Sea The Stars-Navajo Moon

The Channel Consignment

520,000

Marco Botti

C Raven’s Pass-Nawal

The Channel Consignment

230,000

Mandore International

F New Approach-Madame Arcati

The Channel Consignment

175 000

Blandford B/s

C Sea The Stars-Straight Lass

Prévost-Baratte

165,000

J Bertran De Balanda

C Green Tune-Statia

Church Farm

155,000

Stephen Hillen

F Galileo-Pipalong

Kilminfoyle House

140,000

De Burgh Equine

F Lawman-Secret Me

Haras Du Saubouas

140,000

O St Lawrence

C Sageburg-Double Power

The Channel Consignment

140,000

Mandore International

C Rock Of Gibraltar-Hot Coal

Mayfield Stables

140,000

David Redvers

C Camacho-Catch The Sea

Mocklershill

135,000

David Redvers

Five-year tale Sold

Agg (€)

Avg (€)

Mdn (€)

92

6,143,000

66,772

50,000

Top Price (€) 520,000

2012

102

5,776,000

56,627

42,000

420,000

2011

121

7,241,000

59,843

47,000

260,000

2010

112

5,637,000

50,330

39,500

300,000

2009

98

4,095,000

41,786

30,000

280,000

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Jamie Railton: success across the Channel

Top lots Age/Sex/Name/Sire

Vendor

4 G The Game Changer (Arcadio)

Camas Park Stud

Price (€)

Buyer

190,000

Margaret O’Toole

5 G Pepper Canister (Milan)

Silverfort Stud

170,000

Frank Berry

7 G Mozoltov (Kayf Tara)

Closutton Stables

170,000

H Kirk/WP Mullins

5 G Double Irish (King’s Theatre)

Railstown Farm

100,000

GH Bloodstock

4 G Classic Move (Flying Legend)

Don Cantillon

85,000

Tom Malone

4 G Like It A Lot (Kayf Tara)

Nicholastown Stud

75,000

GH Bloodstock

Comparative figures Year

Sold

Agg (€)

Avg (€)

Mdn (€)

2013

12

1,094,000

91,166

72,500

190,000

2012

16

1,413,000

88,312

80,000

210,000

2011

14

1,013,000

72,357

55,000

200,000

December Sale by Nurlan Bizakov.

Her younger sibling is not yet worth seven figures, but his breeze valuation represented a small profit on his 25,000gns yearling price.

Railton and du Fau also sold a €43,000 Whipper colt to Newmarket agent Richard Venn, while Paul Basquin’s Haras du Saubouas shared top-lot honours when parting with a Soldier Of Fortune filly.

Arqana Breeze-up Sale Smaller was beautiful at France’s most significant breeze-up auction, staged by Arqana.

A near 50% reduction in the number of horses offered not only saw leaps in clearance (from 68% to 80%), average (+18%) and median (+19%), but also a 6.5% rise in turnover. In addition there was the bejewelled pinnacle of a sale-topping colt who set a new THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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mark for a French breeze-up auction.

He was by an unproven stallion, but when that horse is Sea The Stars – whose Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe win made him as famous in France as he was in Ireland and Britain – then a price of €520,000 is perhaps not so remarkable. He had cost €200,000 as an Arqana yearling when knocked down to Herve Bunel’s Agence Fips.

In a cosmopolitan piece of business he was reoffered by the Anglo/French Channel Consignment of Jamie Railton and Alban Chevalier du Fau and bought by UK-based Italian trainer Marco Botti on behalf of Dubai’s Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalifa Al Maktoum, a cousin of Darley’s Sheikh Mohammed.

Named Salamargo, the colt will sport the blue and yellow colours carried with distinction by the Sheikh’s UAE Guineas and Derby winner Asiatic Boy, who was also a

close fourth to Ramonti in the 2007 Sussex Stakes.

Railton and du Fau enjoyed a sale to remember, consigning the top three lots and four of the top ten. Describing the occasion as, “a very special day, followed by quite a late night”, Railton later conceded that “despite the very good clearance rate it felt much harder to sell the €20,000 horse to the domestic market.”

Recognising the obstacles in being British and trying to trade in France, Railton spent two years seeking out a business partner before aligning himself with du Fau, whom he describes as “a very genuine guy and popular in France”.

Railton added: “It’s no surprise the top four vendors at Arqana were French. In France, 70% of the emphasis is the horse on the end of the shank and 30% the breeze, whereas at Tattersalls it’s the other way around. I’ve struggled at Tattersalls because my horses don’t go fast enough – I’m not prepared to wind them up that much. In France that is accepted.

“We bought the horses [as yearlings] on behalf of clients and this was the first time anyone has sold horses at that level at a breezeup sale.”

A Railton and du Fau-consigned Raven’s Pass colt finished second on the list with a valuation of €230,000 – albeit that was only €10,000 up on his yearling price – and the same draft contained the leading filly, a daughter of New Approach bought by Blandford Bloodstock for €175,000, an €85,000 increase since Arqana’s October Sale.

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colt for €155,000, a glowing profit on his €24,000 yearling price.

Goffs Punchestown Invitation Sale A lesson in how to turn over a cool million euros in under an hour was demonstrated by Goffs after racing at Punchestown during the April Festival meeting.

A luxury sale for big-spenders of potential

for a filly by Captain Al out of Hockey Corner (Sportsworld), who fetched R1,100,000 for the Daytona Stud consignment. She is well related as her second dam produced Laptop Lady, the dam of Jay Peg. Trainer Mike Bass went to R1,150,000 for No Resistance, a son of Jay Peg consigned by Hemel ’n Aarde Stud. He will race in the colours of Marsh Shirtliff who campaigned Jay Peg so successfully at home and abroad.

The top sire by aggregate was Dynasty but the late Jet Master topped the list for averages for the final time at R672,500. Dynasty’s yearlings sold at an average of R530,000, with Trippi finding solid support at R438,696.

Stalwarts Silvano, Western Winter, Captain Al, Var and Fort Wood were well supported and Jay Peg returned an impressive average price of R433,750.

Leading vendor was Varsfontein Stud followed by Drakenstein and Avontuur, while leading buyer Form Bloodstock gave a little over R11,000,000 for a number of clients and R5,850,000 on behalf of Shadwell. Singaporebased Patrick Shaw bought 13 yearlings for R7,580,000 and Mayfair Speculators parted with R9,020,000 for nine horses.

Although the top end of the market attracts plenty of interest, the middle and lower end of the catalogue provided quality yearlings. Doug Campbell bought a colt by Mogok out of Stirrup Cup, the dam of Hunting Tower, for just R220,000 and a filly by Trippi out of 2007 Equus Champion Bold Ellinore was sold for the same price. A filly by Judpot out of the Western Winter mare Naledi, who has four Equus champions in the first three generations, was sold for just R75,000. The solid foundation of good quality bloodstock is the backbone of the National Yearling Sale and the 2013 edition provided another excellent set of results for buyers and vendors alike.

sale, the National Sale remains an excellent source of good quality stock.

With 40 withdrawals, 46 unsold and 40 bought back, a total of 411 yearlings were traded at an aggregate of R122,468,000 (£8,681,930). The average of R297,976 was up by 27% but still a way off the R484,408 average of January’s Cape Thoroughbred Sale.

Twelve youngsters breached the millionrand mark with the top price of R3,600,000 given for a bay colt by Dynasty out of the Complete Warrior mare Wonderful World.

Consigned by Drakenstein Stud, he was purchased by Mayfair Speculators. Another bay colt, this one by Jet Master out of the Grade 1-winning Fort Wood mare Urabamba, was sold for R3,400,000 to Form Bloodstock

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in how to turn over a cool million euros in under an hour after racing”

Mags O’Toole went to €190,000 to secure four-year-old The Game Changer

jumping stars – appropriately held in the winner’s enclosure and comprising recent pointto-point and bumper-winning and placed horses – the 2013 renewal could not replicate the perfect clearance rate achieved 12 months earlier, and a tally of 12 sold from 19 offered suggests even deep pockets are being cautious.

The not-solds dragged down turnover, but the top three horses have joined a ‘Who’s Who’ of contemporary jump racing ownership. Mags O’Toole – probably acting for Gigginstown House Stud – landed the numero uno, a horse called The Game Changer who had been brought down in a bumper at the Festival two days earlier. In this instance pride came after a fall.

Emperors Palace National Yearling Sale A catalogue of 537 yearlings were listed for South Africa’s National Yearling Sale held under the umbrella of the TBA at the Gosforth Park sales complex in Johannesburg. While the Cape Thoroughbred Sale in Cape Town has taken over the mantle of the country’s premier

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on behalf of Shadwell. Avontuur Stud consigned a chestnut colt by Trippi out of the Argentinean mare La Normandie and he was another to be knocked down to Form Bloodstock, to the tune of R3,000,000.

Best of the fillies was a Summerhill Studconsigned Australian-bred daughter of Encosta De Lago out of the Danehill mare Catching Moonbeams. She was sold for R1,600,000 and was also a Form Bloodstock purchase, this time on behalf of Mary Slack. During a busy session, Form Bloodstock’s Jehan Malherbe also signed

Emperors Palace National Yearling Sale, South Africa Top lots

(£1 is approx R14)

Sex/Breeding

Vendor

Price (R)

Buyer

C Dynasty-Wonderful World

Drakenstein Stud

3,600,000

Mayfair Speculators

C Jet Master-Urabamba

Klipdrif Stud

3,400,000

Form Bloodstock/Shadwell

C Trippi-La Normandie

Avontuur Thoroughbreds

3,000,000

Lady C Laidlaw

C Dynasty-Moonlit Prairie

Highlands Farm

2,200,000

J T Freeman

C Dynasty-Stormy Appeal

Ascot Stud

2,000,000

Mayfair Speculators

C Jet Master-Tachina

Maine Chance Farms

1,600,000

Equine Group

F Encosta De Lago-Catching Moonbeams

Summerhill Sales

1,600,000

Wilgerbosdrift Stud

C Dynasty-Badger’s Gift

Drakenstein Stud

1,400,000

Mike Bass Racing

C Western Winter-Wise Dame

Avontuur Thoroughbreds

1,200,000

Marsh Shirtliff

C Jay Peg-Imperial Grace

Hemel ‘n Aarde Stud

1,150,000

Mike Bass Racing

Comparative figures Year

Sold

Agg (R)

Avg (R)

Mdn (R)

Top Price (R)

2013

413

122,863,000

297,489

200,000

3,600,000

2012

362

84,730,000

234,061

150,000

1,700,000

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No crossing the Atlantic divide

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He excelled in America, but A.P. Indy is largely lost in translation in Europe

Gamilati, one of three Group winners in Europe for A.P. Indy’s son Bernardini

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f confirmation were needed that the gulf between North American and European breeding is widening, it was surely provided by the results of the Kentucky Oaks and Kentucky Derby.

The winners of these major events – Princess Of Sylmar and Orb – were respectively sired by Majestic Warrior and Malibu Moon, two stallions sired by A.P. Indy from Mr Prospector line mares. Orb’s successes have helped Malibu Moon take top place on America’s leading sires’ list by 2013 North American earnings – a list which also features A.P. Indy’s grandson Tapit in third place, with A.P. Indy’s sons Pulpit and Majestic Warrior also in the top 20.

Only last month, in this column, I pointed out that Malibu Moon didn’t even appear in the 2012 Statistical Record annual, covering racing in Britain and Ireland. Neither did Majestic Warrior, although this wasn’t too surprising as he was a first-season sire in 2012. Even in France, where Malibu Moon’s female line has done so well over the years, he has been represented by only three minor winners.

A.P. Indy was outstanding at virtually every stage of his career. After topping the Keeneland July Yearling Sale, he went on to land the Horse of the Year title and two sires’ championships.

Even so, A.P. Indy’s impact on Europe has been minimal. From his highly impressive total of 142 stakes winners (12%), the pensioned Lane’s End stallion is directly responsible for only two

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European stakes winners. These were the Group 3 scorers Mingun (out of the brilliant Miesque) and Admiral’s Cruise. These came from a total of 40 runners in Britain and Ireland, and A.P. Indy has also had more than 30 runners in France, with only Glia and the English-trained Mineshaft earning black type.

It has been a similar story with his stallion

“It has been a similar story with A.P. Indy’s stallion sons, with the possible exception of Bernardini”

sons, with the possible exception of Bernardini, who has enjoyed European Group success with Biondetti, Gamilati and Theyskens’ Theory. The only other to hit the Group target in Europe is the now deceased Pulpit, sire of the German Group 3 winner Govinda. Perhaps the Frenchbased Muhaymin will one day change that. This two-year-old mile winner at Leicester is wellbred, as he is out of the 1,000 Guineas winner Shadayid. He sired two Listed winners and a Listed race second from ten first-crop foals, born

in 2008 and has some larger crops to come.

A.P. Indy’s comparatively disappointing results on this side of the Atlantic shouldn’t be allowed to detract from his tremendous record in the US. This son of Seattle Slew owes much of his success to the Mr Prospector line. Indeed this cross did so well that A.P. Indy sired 127 foals from 71 daughters of Mr Prospector, with an impressive total of 21 black type winners, or 17%. No fewer than 15 became Graded stakes winners, which equates to nearly 12%. In today’s industry such a figure, from such a substantial sample, is extremely good.

The effectiveness of this A.P. Indy/Mr Prospector cross has also been highlighted by the success enjoyed by several of its representatives as stallions. The Gradedwinning colts Pulpit, Mineshaft and Congrats, together with two less successful racehorses in Malibu Moon and Flatter, have collectively sired 26 Grade 1 winners. This suggests that New York breeders could have a considerable asset in the very well-connected Vosburgh Stakes winner Girolamo, who covered 117 mares in his first season in 2012.

Moon rises the hard way Pulpit has been the biggest contributor to the total of Grade 1 winners, with Tapit and Sky Mesa among his total of ten, but he is rapidly being overhauled by Malibu Moon, with nine.

Having started his career as a cheap stallion in Maryland, this twice-raced horse has worked his way through the ranks to a fee high of $70,000 in 2012 and 2013. Perhaps it would have been even higher if his list of important winners hadn’t been so dominated by daughters, rather than sons. No fewer than seven of his first eight Grade 1 winners were fillies, the single exception being the champion juvenile Declan’s Moon, who was a gelding. The arrival of Orb is therefore all the more welcome, especially as he seems to have the potential to continue as leader of his generation.

Orb has now won the last five of his eight starts, starting favourite for the Kentucky Derby on the strength of his victories in the Fountain of Youth Stakes and Florida Derby.

His triumph in the Kentucky Derby was the first for the A.P. Indy male line, but his dam Lady Liberty was a useful daughter of Unbridled, a stallion who has made a considerable impact on America’s Triple Crown events. A winner of the 1990 Kentucky Derby, THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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Unbridled went on to sire winners of each leg of the Triple Crown, thanks to Grindstone, Red Bullet and Empire Maker. Grindstone later sired the Belmont Stakes winner in Birdstone, himself sire of the Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird and the Belmont Stakes winner Summer Bird. Shackleford, the 2011 Preakness Stakes winner, is another out of an Unbridled mare.

Orb is owned by his breeders, the cousins Stuart S. Janney III and Dinny Phipps, who could be described as American racing royalty.

It was Janney’s parents who bred and raced the superstar filly Ruffian. This daughter of Reviewer was so majestic in winning her first ten races, including the New York Triple Tiara, that she was allowed to take on the Kentucky Derby winner Foolish Pleasure in an event dubbed the Great Match Race. Ruffian started at 2/5 to beat the colt in front of a 50,000-strong crowd and she held a narrow lead passing the half-mile mark. Then she suffered a catastrophic fracture to her off-fore sesamoids and attempts to save her failed.

Appropriately, Orb’s fourth dam, Laughter, was a three-parts-sister, by Bold Ruler, to Ruffian. Laughter and her descendants enjoyed a profitable relationship with Horse of the Year

Damascus and his son Private Account.

Laughter’s foal by Private Account was the Grade 1 Wood Memorial winner Private Terms, and her visits to Damascus resulted in Orb’s stakes-winning third dam Steel Maiden and Laughing Look, who became the dam of the high-class American colt Coronado’s Quest.

A.P. Indy’s success story with Mr Prospector also extended to Mr P’s grand-daughters and he sired top-flight winners from mares by five different sons of Mr Prospector. His 64 foals out of Seeking The Gold mares included eight black-type winners (13%), with five of them scoring at Graded level.

The only Grade 1 winner among them was Majestic Warrior, who proved himself one of A.P. Indy’s fastest and most precocious sons when he won the Hopeful Stakes over seven furlongs at Saratoga. A half-share in him was promptly bought by Michael Tabor and Derrick Smith, with a view to the colt eventually joining the team at Ashford Stud. Unfortunately the unbeaten colt promptly suffered his first defeat, when unplaced in the Champagne Stakes, and his second season proved something of a disaster, as he was unplaced in four starts.

However, as a good-looking two-year-old

Grade 1 winner by A.P. Indy, Majestic Warrior still had his admirers and he covered 169 mares in his first season. He had the added appeal of having Grade 1-winning mares as his first two dams. His dam Dream Supreme won nine of her 16 starts, including two Grade 1 races over seven furlongs – the Test and Ballerina Stakes – at three. Majestic Warrior’s second dam, Spinning Round, also won the Ballerina Stakes.

Majestic Warrior is inbred 3 x 4 to Secretariat and 4 x 4 to another great horse, Buckpasser.

Clearly his bloodlines are so good that it is no surprise that he has sired a Kentucky Oaks winner in his first crop.

Majestic Warrior drew attention to himself by siring 30 individual two-year-old winners from his 69 first-crop runners. At that stage it was more a case of quantity rather than quality, but that all changed with the emergence of Princess Of Sylmar. After winning a pair of stakes races at Aqueduct early this year, she has continued to improve and she accounted for Beholder, the champion juvenile filly of 2012, to take the Kentucky Oaks.

Like Orb, Princess Of Sylmar has two lines of Mr Prospector (4 x 4, compared to Orb’s 4 x 3), but she is also inbred 4 x 3 to Dixieland Band.

One of the hoariest clichés trotted out in racing is that horses are not machines. Of course the familiarity of the phrase doesn’t detract from its truth. We really shouldn’t expect racehorses to reproduce their best form, no matter what, and nor should we expect stallions to come up with the goods time after time, year after year.

Even so, it is hard to explain some of the inconsistencies which inevitably crop up in the records of many stallions. The most likely cause for a change in a stallion’s fortunes is a substantial rise or fall in his fee, but this particular explanation doesn’t apply to a situation which has had me scratching my head. This is the remarkably different results achieved by Exceed And Excel’s 2009 and 2010 Australian crops.

Thanks to the very encouraging early results achieved by Exceed And Excel, this son of Danehill’s fee doubled to AUS$110,000 in 2008 and stayed the same the following year.

Frankly, his 2009 batch of 90 live foals has proved comparatively disappointing. Though six of the 90 have become Listed winners, none has succeeded in becoming a Group

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Exceed in the lead

Exceed And Excel, right, has been joined in Europe by his son Helmet, left

winner after nearly two years on the track.

This crop sowed a few seeds of doubt in my mind, but I shouldn’t have worried.

Exceed And Excel’s second 110,000-dollar crop, numbering 83 foals, has more than made up for its predecessor’s shortcomings.

When Camporella took the Group 3 West Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes on April 20, she became the seventh Group-winning twoyear-old to emerge from this 2010 crop. That statistic would have been impressive enough, but the seven include Guelph, a filly who took the Group 1 Sires’ Produce Stakes and Group 1 Champagne Stakes in the space of 15 days in April, and Overreach, another filly who triumphed in the coveted Golden Slipper.

In addition to these fillies, the Exceed And Excel septet includes the colts Champollion, Kuroshio, Safeguard and Sidestep. Between them the seven have landed three Group 1s, two Group 2s and five Group 3s, plus several other valuable events.

The end result is that Exceed And Excel has a huge lead among the sires of two-year-olds, with earnings in excess of AUS$5 million, and these juveniles have also helped him take top place in the general sires’ table, which, in early May, featured four sons of Danehill among the top five. To add to this Danehill domination, Guelph is inbred 2 x 3 to this great stallion, her second dam being Danehill’s Group 1winning daughter Camarena.

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Lesley Graham: Racing Welfare is my greatest challenge so far New appointments at Racing Welfare

Tansy Challis, Head of Fundraising Tansy (pictured) now oversees all of the charity’s fundraising activities including events, charitable trust applications and engaging major donors. She has worked for Racing Welfare for four and a half years as a fundraising executive and looks forward to the challenge of this new larger role.

Ginny Rose, Communications and Fundraising Executive Ginny has worked at the charity for three years. With previous experience in digital communications and online marketing, she is now responsible for the charity’s online presence including social media, website and communications.

Simone Sear, Deputy Head of Welfare After five years at the charity, Simone has taken this new role, which involves some supervision of the welfare department, management and strategy-based work, and providing cover for the Head of Welfare. Having completed a certificate in Leadership & Management, Simone is looking forward to putting her learning into practice.

New Chief Executive says the charity “cannot be found wanting” when it comes to helping industry’s unsung heroes To the outside world, racing is the most glamorous of sports enjoyed by the rich and famous all over the world. But the sport and the breeding industry relies on an army of backroom men and women whose role is pivotal yet often goes unnoticed by the legions of racegoers who enjoy watching the sport.

It’s a fact that has not escaped Lesley Graham, the former Channel 4 Racing presenter who took over at the beginning of this year as the new Chief Executive.

Graham says: “Racing Welfare is the only charity that supports all existing and retired members of racing’s workforce.

“There are other charities doing fantastic work for specific sectors, such as the Injured Jockeys Fund, but our role is different. We need to be there for every single member of staff who faces issues and needs help.”

For Graham, who has been running the Great British Racing media training programme since 2010, working for a charitable organisation is nothing new, having been involved with the Animal Health Trust and the Princess Royal Trust for Carers.

But she accepts that her role with Racing Welfare, which supports more than 70,000 racing staff and their dependants, represents her greatest challenge yet.

LATEST NEWS FROM RACING WELFARE

Runners turn out in force for the London Marathon Eleven runners representing Racing Welfare lined up on April 21 to pound the streets of London for the world-famous marathon, helping to raise more than £12,000.

The runners represented a diverse crosssection of ‘racing’s people’, including industry professionals, racecourses staff, stud staff, bookmakers, stable staff, jockeys, bloodstock professionals and racing fans.

They each had their own reasons for supporting Racing Welfare but they all acknowledge that the charity provides essential services to racing staff and their dependants.

Newmarket’s New Astley Club Director Matt Mancini was the quickest home, in a time of 3hrs 42mins. The other runners were

Steve Masters (representing the Jockey Cub), Phil White (MD of Matt Mancini: ran Kempton Park), a time of 3h 42m Amanda Miller (the National Stud), Colm Sharkey (BBA Ireland and ex-conditional jockey), Alice Haxby (racing fan), May Kirkby (cousin of Harry Haynes), Gordon Allen (Head Lad to Charlie Hills), Mike Dodgson (Coral Interactive), Lucy Bradley and Jim Jarman (Uttoxeter racecourse).

Jockey Harry Haynes, amateur rider Liz Butterworth and Natalie Sayer, daughter of trainer Dianne, unfortunately had to withdraw before the day due to injuries, all vowing to return for 2014.

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Lesley Graham: up for the fight She says: “The charity provides an absolutely vital source of support to all those upon whom our sport depends. They are the backbone of the sport and I’ve no doubt that, despite the current economic circumstances, racing will ensure that the charity continues to meet its aims and expand its activities.

“Unfortunately the charity does not have the high profile it deserves and I intend to change that. As an industry, we should be very proud that we are accepting responsibility for the support of our grass roots workers. They are the backbone of racing and deserve the support we provide. When an accident occurs during a race, everyone is aware and rightly

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concerned. But accidents and injuries occur regularly away from the racecourse.

“Many of our beneficiaries have had to switch from being young, fit and active, to being confined to a wheelchair. Others are struggling with addictions or mounting debts.

My job is to make sure that out of sight does not mean out of mind. I need to raise the awareness of our work and improve communication between the charity and all other racing interests.”

The charity’s services fall roughly into two categories: housing, which manages around 160 residential units including retirement homes and affordable homes for the young, while support services, managed by a team of welfare officers, provide advice on healthy eating, exercise, debt and benefits, assistance following accidents and injuries, addiction support and help with re-training.

Graham is wasting no time in tackling her aim to raise the charity’s profile with a hectic programme of fundraising events for the year.

“Maintaining and increasing our income is essential,” she says. “The racing industry relies totally on our army of unsung heroes and when they, in turn, need to rely on us, we cannot be found wanting.”

Nominations now open for Pride of Racing Awards 2013 The Betfair Pride of Racing Awards celebrate the people who make British racing special and who, in various ways, enhance the lives of those involved in the industry.

The awards provide a unique opportunity to recognise the positive contributions made by a number of people to the sport of racing.

Your nominee will have made a positive contribution through acts of generosity, heroism, a lifetime commitment to racing or any other act that you think deserves public recognition.

The Betfair Pride of Racing Awards will cover the entire industry and salute achievements and activities not just in the workplace or on the racetrack but throughout the racing community.

All nominations must be submitted before Wednesday, July 3 by going online to www.prideofracing.com or by filling in the Pride of Racing insert within this issue of TOB. Once collated, they will go before a panel of independent judges drawn from across the racing community, with the Awards taking place on Saturday, September 28 at Haydock Park racecourse.

Woburn Golf Day helps to raise £19,000 Twenty-five teams from across the racing world took part in the annual Golf Day at Woburn on April 28, sponsored by Equinity.

The teams included those from Coolmore Stud, the Jockey Club, Weatherbys and the BHA, whose line-up included Chief Executive Paul Bittar, while Frankie Dettori, Kieren Fallon and Michael Hills were among those in action on the famous Marquess’ Course.

It was Fallon’s team, with a score of 95, that claimed top honours, followed by Roger Varian’s Kremlin House Stables. John Francome won the ‘nearest the pin’ contest, while professional golfer Blane Breheny landed the ‘longest drive’ competition.

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Kieren Fallon with the winning team In total, £19,000 was raised on the day and Lesley Graham, Chief Executive of Racing Welfare, said: “We are extremely grateful to the Duke for his continued and longstanding support of Racing Welfare. The whole day was very well organised thanks to the professionalism of everyone at Woburn.”

Tim Jones, Commercial Director at Equinity, commented: “We enjoyed a wonderful day and we look forward to working with the charity again in the future.”

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ROA FORUM The special section for ROA members

Your view can carry weight with BHA Richard Wayman says that a process exists to deal with disputes over handicap ratings One of our team’s key objectives is to increase direct contact with ROA members to ensure that we remain focussed on the issues that matter most to owners.

We have held regional meetings with members since last summer, the most recent being at Kelso at the end of April. They always involve enthusiastic and passionate discussion about our sport, with members raising an array of racing and ownership issues.

Consistent themes have emerged from all of the meetings and, unsurprisingly, the finances associated with owning a racehorse and, more specifically, prize-money levels always sit at the top of the list. The runner-up spot, meanwhile, is usually filled by the owners’ raceday experience and the variation in the facilities provided by racecourses.

A third area is handicapping and, in particular, concerns about the handicappers’ assessment of horses. This shouldn’t be the greatest surprise given that 61% of races run in Britain are handicaps and for many horses there is little alternative but to run in handicaps.

Most owners will have their own stories of feeling hard done by the handicapping system.

I can recall one filly that I was involved with that was awarded an optimistic rating of 80 after she had won a maiden auction race at Newcastle on her third start. By the time she had dropped to a rating where she would have been competitive, she had decided that racing wasn’t for her and she failed to win on her 20 subsequent starts.

Another filly was raised 6lb when second in a Salisbury handicap, beaten just half a length, with the third horse four lengths behind her.

“Owners can pursue

the matter if they feel their horse has been treated unfairly” She raced on without winning and a year later, having been dropped 3lb, was sold overseas.

The BHA employs 11 handicappers and having worked closely with them in my previous role, I must stress that they are an extremely competent team, who consistently produce competitive races. However, handicapping horses is subjective, with the handicappers having to ask questions such as

which horse in the race performed to its rating, should an improved performance be taken at face value, how quickly should a horse’s rating be dropped and what would have happened if a horse hadn’t fallen at the last fence?

Most members are not aware that there is a process in place for dealing with disputed handicap ratings. The BHA asks that such disputes are led by trainers, who, in the first place, should raise their concerns with the handicapper involved and, if still unsatisfied, the Head or Deputy Head of Handicapping.

If these discussions are to no avail, a formalised process exists which enables the trainer to ask an independent panel to review the handicappers’ treatment of a horse. This involves both the trainer and the handicappers providing a written submission, as well as the panel reviewing recordings of the horse’s performances. Ultimately, the panel may confirm the rating or, alternatively, they can require the handicapper to reconsider it, giving greater significance to one or more factors.

It is important that owners are aware that handicap ratings can be questioned, and, where there are reasonable grounds for believing that a horse has been treated unfairly, owners and their trainers should give serious consideration to pursuing the matter. Handicapping isn’t a science and, naturally, handicappers can sometimes get it wrong.

Have your say in Council elections and AGM We strongly appeal to members to use their vote in the ROA Council elections. Each member has a right to vote for the candidates who are standing and this is vital to ensure the ROA is an influential and effective association.

Voting cards have already been mailed out to members. If you require a replacement card, please contact the ROA office. Only one vote per member will be accepted and votes must be received by the Electoral Reform Services by midday on Tuesday, June 18.

There are six candidates standing for two places in this year’s election. Full manifestos for each candidate have been sent out with voting cards, and are also available on the ROA website at racehorseowners.net.

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Results announced June 25

Richard Pitman: AGM guest speaker

The outcome of the ROA Council elections will be announced during the formal business of the ROA AGM, which as usual will include a members’ forum that always provides an interesting and vibrant debate.

The AGM is held on Tuesday, June 25 at the Jumeirah Carlton Tower Hotel, in Knightsbridge, London, from 10.30am12pm. This is your chance to question the ROA Council and staff and be updated on the cutting-edge matters which affect owners and with which the ROA is closely involved.

Keynote speeches on the day will be made by ROA President Rachel Hood and Rod Street, Chief Executive of Great British

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www.racehorseowners.net ROA COUNCIL ELECTIONS: THE CANDIDATES DAN ABRAHAM

SALLY BETHELL

Lives: Surrey Age: 33 Director of Foxtrot Racing Management Ltd Positions held in racing: Committee member of RSACA (Racing Syndicates and Clubs Association) Years as owner: 4 Current trainers: Charlie Longsdon, Dr Richard Newland, Richard Fahey, Ralph Beckett, Olly Stevens, Gina Rarick (France) and Jonathan Ward (France) Horses currently owned: Be My Light, Paddy The Hare, Ostralegus, Foxtrot Jubilee, Foxtrot Pearl, Gold Knight, Venise du Crochet (all shares)

Lives: North Yorkshire Age: 57 Wife of trainer James Bethell. Partner – JDW & Mrs S Bethell Racehorse Training.

Years as owner: 25 Current trainer: James Bethell.

Horses currently owned: Fossgate, partowned Ground Ginger and Clarendon Thoroughbred Racing Horses, will include this year Pintrada, Penhill, Braidley, Starbotton, Hartlebury Horses previously owned: Part-owned Arlequin, Granston and Clarendon Thoroughbred Racing Horses, which have included Hartley, Bradbury, Markington, Starbeck, Healey, Leighton, Mickley, Fearby Cross, Crathorne, Medelai, Abstract Folly

JOHN BROWN

CHARLIE PARKER

Lives: Cumbria Age: 70 Retired. Previously: Partner – Forrester Ketley & Co, Founding Partner – Forrester & Boehmert Years as owner: 7 Current Trainer: Tom Dascombe Horses currently owned: Adorable Choice, Diapason (now retired) Horses previously owned: Drumhallagh (part-owned), Quaestor

Lives: Berkshire Age: 48 CEO Country Club Group Years as owner: 17 Current Trainers: Harry Dunlop, Nicky Henderson Horses currently owned: Roz, Spartan Angel, Dragon City, Macnamara, Havana Girl, Artwolf, Rancher Horses previously owned: Got One Too, Ifni Du Luc, Master Mac

ALEX RIDGERS

PROFESSOR DAVID SILK

Lives: Berkshire Age: 31 Head of Algorithmic Trading, GKFX Ltd Previous Positions: Head of Commodities, CMC Markets; Equity Derivatives Trader, ABN Amro Years as owner: 1 Current Trainer: Ed de Giles Horses currently owned: Jinker Noble

Racing and British Champions Series Ltd. The AGM is followed by a champagne reception and members’ and guests’ lunch.

Places must be booked in advance for the delicious three-course lunch with wine.

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Lives: Hertfordshire Age: 69 Professor of Clinical Nutrition, Imperial College, St Marys Hospital, London W2 Positions held in Racing: Chairman, BHA Medical Appeals Committee, Member of BHA Ethics Committee Years as owner: 25 Current trainers: Alan King, Peter Hedger Horses currently owned: Ishikawa, Afro Horses previously owned: Strong Medicine, Copeland, Carryonharry, Hever Road

Tickets are £90 per person and a table of ten is £810 (a saving of £90). Places can be booked online at racehorseowners.net or by calling the ROA office on 020 7152 0200.

Entertainment after lunch will be

provided by our guest speaker, Richard Pitman, the former jumps jockey and BBC racing presenter, and now an ambassador for the charity Kidney Research UK. We hope to see you there!

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An evening with Jonjo O’Neill

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Sapphire and Pat Smullen win the Fillies’ and Mares’ Stakes on Champions’ Day

A fundraising black tie evening in aid of the Bob Champion Cancer Trust will be held on Saturday, September 28 in the Gold Cup Room at Cheltenham racecourse, starting at 7.30pm. The evening will feature Jonjo O’Neill talking candidly to Mike Cattermole about his fascinating life and career.

Tickets are priced at £95pp, which includes a champagne reception, threecourse dinner and wine. For further details see www.bobchampion.org.uk or call 0207 924 3553.

Private box for Champions’ Day The ROA has secured a private box for members in a fabulous location on the third floor of Ascot’s Grandstand for this year’s QIPCO British Champions’ Day on Saturday, October 19.

Members can book to enjoy a bespoke package for this outstanding day’s racing, now featuring three Group 1 contests, with the Fillies’ And Mares’ Stakes, won last year by the Dermot Weld-trained Sapphire, upgraded to Group 1 status.

The ROA member package includes Premier admission, car parking label, coffee and biscuits on arrival, a three-course sit-down silver service lunch and full afternoon tea.

Guests can also enjoy complimentary house wines, beer and soft drinks that will

be served during the afternoon.

The well-appointed triple box has its own balcony, flat screen TVs and cloakroom, with betting facilities located nearby. Places will be limited to 40 and guests will be seated on shared tables of ten.

The special price package for ROA members is £310 per person. Places will be available on a first-come, first-served basis and early booking is recommended.

For further details of the package, and to book, see the Events section at racehorseowners.net or call 020 7152 0200. ● A very limited number of places remain for the ROA Chalet at Royal Ascot. For details see ‘Events’ on racehorseowners.net

Jonjo O’Neill is the star attraction

Set up a direct debit to receive our new waterproof jacket!

A stylish new lightweight jacket (pictured) has recently been commissioned to replace the ROA waterproof jacket. This jacket will be available as a free gift to members who choose to set up a direct debit or standing order for payment of their annual subscription.

Other merchandise available as part of this incentive includes the ROA silk tie, ladies scarf and ROA branded umbrellas.

Members wishing to take advantage of this offer can download a direct debit or

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standing order mandate form from the ROA website.

In addition, a new renewal incentive has been launched whereby ROA members who renew their subscription within 30 days of receiving their initial invoice will automatically be entered into a free prize draw to win a brand new, limited edition, fleece-lined version of the ROA jacket.

Additional jackets and further ROA merchandise items may be purchased at racehorseowners.net

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Diary dates and reminders

Exclusive visit to Kingsclere

JUNE 7 Newmarket Regional Meeting ROA Regional Meeting before racing at the July course. Invitations will be sent to members local to Newmarket, but if you wish to attend please contact kbrewer@roa.co.uk

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Andrew and Anna Lisa Balding generously extend a warm welcome to ROA members to visit Park House Stables at Kingsclere, one of the leading training establishments in Britain, on the morning of Friday, July 5.

Park House Stables, located close to Watership Down, near Newbury, has been the training base of the Balding family since 1964, when Ian took over the training licence from Peter Hastings-Bass. During his career, Ian sent out over 2,000 winners from Park House Stables, including the brilliant Mill Reef, before handing over the training licence to his son Andrew in January 2003.

Since joining the training ranks, Andrew has sent out over 600 winners and enjoyed Grouprace success with horses such as Casual Look, who captured the 2003 Oaks at Epsom, globetrotter Phoenix Reach, victorious at the highest level in Canada, Hong Kong and Dubai, and more recently Bonfire, who landed last year’s Dante Stakes at York.

ROA members are invited to visit this historic yard which maintains much of its charm as a Victorian racing stable whilst boasting first-class modern facilities, including an equine

Andrew Balding: welcoming the ROA

swimming pool, a treadmill and extensive artificial and grass gallops. Included in the tour will be a chance to watch some of Andrew’s horses exercising on the gallops, perhaps witnessing a future champion!

The tour will last approximately 90 minutes, with guests asked to arrive between 10 and 10.15am for a prompt start at 10.20am.

The tour is free for members and up to three guests to attend, however places are limited and must be booked in advance through the ROA. To book please visit racehorseowners.net or call 020 7152 0200.

National winners at Kelso Around 35 members attended an ROA regional meeting before racing at Kelso on April 29.

The meeting provided an opportunity for owners who live locally to pose questions to members of the ROA Council and staff on hand, and to hear about some of the current racing issues that the ROA is closely involved.

Winning connections from Aintree’s Grand National meeting were welcomed to the meeting.

ROA members Jim Beaumont and Douglas Pryde (pictured), two of Aurora’s Encore’s three owners, were present and brought their John Smith’s Grand National winner’s trophy to the meeting.

Vic Westwood brought along the John Smith’s Fox Hunters’ Chase trophy, dedicated to Thomas Waley-Cohen, and won this year by Tartan Snow.

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Those present enjoyed seeing both trophies on display during the afternoon.

The next ROA regional meeting will be held before racing at Newmarket racecourse on Friday, June 7. Members who are interested in attending can register their interest by contacting Keely Brewer on kbrewer@roa.co.uk

A fabulous package for members in the ROA Chalet for the five days of the Royal meeting.

JUNE 25 ROA AGM The AGM will be held at the Jumeirah Carlton Tower Hotel, London, and is followed by a members’ and guests’ lunch.

JUNE 30 Pretty Polly Stakes day Free admission to members at the Curragh for the third day of the Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby Festival on production of ROA Horseracing Privilege Card.

JULY 5 ROA member visit to Andrew Balding’s Kingsclere stables See adjacent story.

JULY 21 Darley Irish Oaks day Free admission at the Curragh for members on production of ROA Horseracing Privilege Card.

JULY 30-AUGUST 3 Glorious Goodwood Richmond Enclosure badge ordering service and hospitality offer for members. An early booking rate on admission badges only for the Richmond Enclosure applies until June 1.

SEPTEMBER 20 Newbury Regional Meeting ROA Regional Meeting before racing at Newbury.

OCTOBER 19 QIPCO British Champions’ Day Exclusive fine dining package in a sumptuous quad box for ROA members at Ascot.

DECEMBER 5 ROA Horseracing Awards The ROA Horseracing Awards, one of racing’s social events of the year, will be held at a new venue, the InterContinental Hotel, Park Lane, London.

Bookings for all events can be made online at racehorseowners.net or call 020 7152 0200

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STEVE PRESTON

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anted: Trainer to share the risk.

That was essentially the advert Steve Preston had in his mind when he set out to spend the proceeds of his 50th birthday whip round.

A follower of the sport, like so many of us, because his dad was interested, the chance to become an active participant through owning a horse arrived when family, friends and work colleagues created a bank account to serve as a cash depository, in lieu of halfcentury birthday presents. Combining those gifts with his own savings, Preston endeavoured to find a trainer willing to take a 25 per cent share in a horse, and not one who was already in the yard.

Preston, who lives in Cheshire, recalls: “I phoned 12 to 15 trainers. Most turned me down, while some didn’t bother to talk to me. Gary Moore, however, invited me to Horsham.

“He said he’d agree to the 25 per cent provided he was the decision-maker with the horse. We shook on that. About six weeks later he said he might have found one, in France, and Jamie, his son, went over to ride him.

“His report was good but the breeder was unwilling to budge from €50,000, and so Gary thought we should look elsewhere. I said that, for me, getting €5,000 off wouldn’t make a big difference, and we ended up

Steve Preston offers a tasty little treat to his Grade 2 winner Sire De Grugy

buying him.”

The ‘him’ just happens to be Sire De Grugy, winner of the Grade 2 Celebration Chase at Sandown on the final day of the jumps season, victor in eight of his 18 starts in all, and possibly the nearest thing to challenge Sprinter Sacre may have over two miles this term.

“Gary thought a lot was against him at Sandown, though Jamie was much more positive beforehand,” Preston continues.

“What happened was unbelievable.”

Headway charity benefits from ROA Awards

ROA Council member Sheila Bailey presents a cheque for £12,953 to Annie and Chris Richardson, representing brain injury charity Headway, at Newmarket on May 4. The money was the result of fundraising at December's ROA Awards evening, sponsored by Bordeaux Fine Wines Ltd, which produced almost £57,000 in total for five charities.

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What happened was that Sire De Grugy stormed home nearly two lengths ahead of Finian’s Rainbow. “We have had a couple of injury-hit campaigns but overall it has been a brilliant experience, and I do appreciate I’ve been lucky,” says Preston, whose colours of red and blue are a nod to Crystal Palace – he was brought up in Croydon – while the three stars on the sleeves are for his three sons.

Seemingly as important as what Sire De Grugy has done for him, is what he has done for Moore. “I’d urge owners to give trainers like Gary more of a chance,” Preston says. “A horse like Sire De Grugy would be treated as ‘just another horse’ by Henderson or Nicholls, but he’s looked after like a king at Gary’s.

“Gary eats, sleeps, drinks and breathes racing, but he doesn’t overdo it with a horse.

He’s good as gold, it’s no risk to send a horse to him, and the whole team – Gary, Jayne, Jamie, Josh, and the staff – are brilliant with owners.”

Preston’s job – overseeing the international markets for a Dutch sportswear firm –

“Gary eats, sleeps,

drinks and breathes racing, but he doesn’t overdo it with a horse.

He’s good as gold” involves travel, but it wouldn’t be a surprise if he has already identified possible days off in his diary. Ditto the entourage which accompanies him to the races, some of whom hold a small stake in the improving sevenyear-old. Sire De Grugy has run at several big tracks, but the superb treatment Preston has experienced at Sandown, particularly thanks to their owners’ and trainers’ liaison person Petra Gough, could well sway connections towards the Tingle Creek in December, Sprinter Sacre or no Sprinter Sacre.

“He runs in Palace’s colours too!” Preston points out. “The dream would be the Queen Mother Champion Chase and in a way what makes things really exciting is we don’t know what to make of the Celebration Chase form.

We could have a chance against Sprinter Sacre on soft or heavy ground. But we might not!”

Hurdling, Preston says, is an option to keep out of the champion’s way for some of the campaign, but the Cheltenham Festival – what else? – will be the ultimate aim.

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TRACK TALK

THE LATEST NEWS FROM THE UK’S RACECOURSES

Arena Racing Company (ARC) has introduced a new policy for owners across all of its 14 tracks.

Complimentary food and hot drinks will be served to owners and trainers with runners at all fixtures. Those celebrating a winner will be rewarded with a bottle of champagne, trophy, DVD and photograph from the racecourse, whilst a car park label will be issued in advance to those with runners.

In addition, ARC has extended its badge policy so that sole owners can take advantage of six complimentary badges – eight badges are available to partnerships – and all ARC fixtures will be included in the ROA Owners Badge Scheme.

Richard Wayman, ROA Chief Executive, said: “We welcome ARC’s commitment to improving the owners’ raceday experience.

“It is essential that whenever an owner has a runner, they feel valued by the racecourse and its staff. ARC deserves credit for investing in the levels of customer service that it will provide across all its courses.”

New hurdles trial at Newton Abbot Gold Standard racecourse Newton Abbot has begun their trial of the new ‘One-Fit’ padded hurdles. Developed though the BHA’s Course Inspectorate team, these standard timber frame hurdles have been fitted with a onepiece foam pad, rather than the traditional birch, and have been designed to further improve safety and reduce injuries.

Pat Masterson, Newton Abbot’s Managing Director, said: “We are pleased with how the horses and jockeys are responding to the padded hurdles thus far.

“They have been designed as a step forward in racehorse safety, and we intend to gradually introduce them throughout the course.”

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Improved offering to owners at ARC courses

ARC tracks including Lingfield will provide a better deal

Gold Standard awarded at Perth Perth became the 19th racecourse to hold the Gold Standard Award, which recognises excellence in the raceday experience for owners. The presentation was made during Perth’s opening fixture of the 2013/14 season and acknowledges the warm welcome given to owners with runners

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Britain’s most northerly track.

Steven Astaire, ROA Council member, said: “We are delighted to award the Gold Standard to Perth. Sam Morshead and his friendly team do a very good job for owners and it is always a pleasure to have a runner at this beautiful course.”

From L-R: Sarah Holton, ROA Racecourse Relations Executive, ROA Council member Steven Astaire, Perth Racecourse Chairman David Whitaker, General Manager Sam Morshead and ROA Council member Alan Guthrie The new ‘One-Fit’ padded foam hurdle

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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 36

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

Figures for period May 1, 2012 to Apr 30, 2013

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 2011-12 (£)

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

376,146 157,927 116,289 87,914 83,406 70,940 54,920 49,270 45,739 35,139 25,985 25,885 25,649 25,109 22,382 22,021 20,898 20,764 20,344 18,557 18,424 17,126 17,019 16,800 15,448 13,787 13,721 13,592 13,412 13,353 12,506 12,070 11,018 10,805 10,203 9,452 34,706

100,171 83,776 61,632 63,683 69,502 33,606 51,948 48,529 54,834 42,810 12,950 23,644 19,849 21,197 17,398 9,212 17,233 17,692 29,458 26,293 9,375 15,065 18,241 20,790 16,071 10,204 14,766 19,396 12,521 18,090 19,392 15,916 13,703 12,621 14,540 10,985 26,653

155,719 75,943 70,929 24,857 76,927 5,838 36,990 21,359 27,439 14,059 6,380 4,470 4,919 5,416 5,817 2,766 4,941 3,248 7,543 3,590 3,318 3,349 4,477 5,067 4,294 2,870 16,493 4,685 2,409 2,981 2,734 3,027 2,165 2,308 1,752 2,508 14,588

632,036 317,646 249,433 177,537 231,361 111,600 145,627 119,904 131,158 93,219 46,897 55,106 52,878 54,941 48,286 33,999 44,857 41,904 58,052 49,627 32,088 37,503 41,018 43,748 38,000 27,110 45,920 39,143 30,736 36,635 36,330 31,983 28,800 26,470 27,032 24,082 77,431

17 17 12 18 38 15 25 17 17 23 17 14 15 14 14 7 7 15 16 15 21 88 15 22 8 10 15 16 17 18 100 26 124 17 35 11 875

10,744,606 5,399,985 2,993,193 3,195,667 8,791,735 1,674,002 3,640,684 1,978,420 2,229,683 2,117,403 797,254 771,490 793,166 769,168 676,000 220,995 314,000 628,563 928,828 744,410 673,850 3,300,302 615,266 962,446 304,000 271,100 688,794 626,284 522,507 659,424 3,633,029 831,547 3,571,163 449,982 946,116 264,900 67,729,958

351,105 157,030 103,584 78,113 80,239 67,027 63,179 46,615 44,930 37,660 21,262 28,357 38,289 23,736 20,581 26,604 15,521 20,448 27,070 20,777 16,363 16,605 14,683 13,294 16,381 9,065 12,426 14,948 13,344 16,211 12,956 12,761 10,844 9,765 9,864 10,423 34,037

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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 41 42 43

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

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 2011-12 (£)

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

238,026 233,765 109,586 86,177 67,068 46,859 42,259 32,818 28,577 26,551 25,849 25,659 25,324 24,399 22,643 21,429 21,206 20,767 20,405 19,413 18,307 18,041 17,527 17,500 17,168 16,779 14,672 13,996 13,984 13,969 13,632 13,577 12,888 12,626 9,975 9,952 9,918 9,682 9,612 9,543 8,789 8,354 5,470 31,217

99,650 113,921 72,839 63,793 64,629 51,979 60,345 43,855 19,944 25,558 33,116 11,433 18,160 29,776 23,160 26,086 29,459 24,298 15,858 20,635 19,904 23,778 23,933 24,500 20,779 24,175 14,528 15,578 19,230 37,507 25,146 14,377 8,500 13,498 12,191 18,162 21,434 23,781 12,453 21,157 10,418 17,285 28,813 28,304

60,835 62,752 16,877 16,089 13,740 10,525 14,798 11,678 1,895 6,904 6,404 4,595 0 4,632 4,377 3,689 4,535 3,218 4,126 0 3,798 4,738 4,850 0 4,097 3,864 3,027 2,947 3,406 6,198 4,420 3,989 2,773 2,042 3,151 2,253 3,479 3,394 2,679 1,966 1,818 2,581 2,695 7,232

398,511 410,439 199,301 166,059 145,858 109,696 117,402 88,831 50,417 59,663 65,369 41,687 43,484 59,933 50,874 52,679 56,542 49,199 40,921 40,048 42,009 46,843 46,310 42,000 42,594 44,818 32,865 32,911 36,856 57,674 44,341 32,693 25,183 28,167 26,396 30,567 35,453 37,571 25,026 32,665 21,025 28,221 36,978 67,164

15 8 7 7 10 12 10 10 12 12 8 7 14 8 17 8 17 12 16 10 18 14 12 1 18 11 13 20 14 9 14 22 9 11 16 13 13 7 16 9 4 15 9 507

5,977,671 3,283,510 1,395,107 1,209,859 1,385,649 1,316,351 1,174,016 888,315 605,000 715,950 522,952 291,809 608,769 479,462 864,851 421,434 961,222 590,389 654,730 400,484 735,155 655,798 555,722 42,000 766,700 492,999 427,250 658,224 515,990 519,066 620,769 719,241 226,650 309,832 422,337 397,365 460,894 263,000 400,414 293,983 84,100 423,314 332,800 34,071,133

209,545 199,047 122,357 80,033 56,975 45,908 43,018 28,208 22,060 24,676 9,742 18,995 19,802 17,126 19,338 20,611 23,718 22,529 17,097 16,623 18,748 14,528 19,094 0 20,479 14,665 10,974 11,814 10,643 26,363 14,614 13,929 16,279 7,706 11,341 15,413 13,288 8,799 7,657 11,657 10,088 9,829 5,558 28,994

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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.

OWNERSHIP KEY JCR Jockey Club Racecourses

ARC Arena Racing Company

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TBA members are invited to attend the 2013 Seminar on Thursday, July 25 at Tattersalls, Park Paddocks, Newmarket, which focuses on the production and sale of bloodstock in the current commercial market.

The morning will include an update on prospects for the UK economy and the size and shape of the thoroughbred population of today.

Following this, production and purchase of young stock in the current market will be discussed, together with a look at new sales markets and opportunities on the horizon. A discussion session and the chance to pick the brains of our speakers will take place before lunch. During the afternoon, the pertinent topics of vetting and wind issues in the thoroughbred will be addressed, and the day will wind up with a look at scientific developments that will affect all breeders.

The TBA has assembled a host of expert guest speakers to impart and share their knowledge, including: • Adrian Crichton, Weatherbys Bank • Paul Greeves, Weatherbys • John Warren, Highclere Stud • Alastair Donald, SackvilleDonald • Paul Thorman, Trickledown Stud • Dr John McVeigh, Baker & McVeigh • Geoff Lane, FRCVS • Dr Peter Webbon, Animal Health Trust

TREVOR JONES

TBA Annual Seminar – ‘The Bloodstock Market Today’

The TBA Seminar provides informative debate and a meeting place for members

All TBA members are entitled to one free place per membership, with charges applying for additional delegates at £45 per additional TBA guest or £65 for non-members.

Refreshments and a buffet lunch are included.

Registration is at 9.30am and the seminar runs from 10am to 4pm. To book your place, or for

further information please contact Christine Standley at Stanstead House on 01638 661321.

Don’t miss the opportunity to take up your free place at the seminar, which is obtainable by application only. Places are limited and members are advised to apply early to avoid disappointment.

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National Hunt breeding industry.”

Following the afternoon’s show, there is to be a barbecue from 5pm and evening racing.

The six-race card gets under way with a Mares’ Handicap Hurdle over three miles. TBA members can gain free entry to the racecourse on production of their TBA membership card.

Members have already been sent the schedule and an entry form in May. However, if you would like more information on the event or require an additional schedule, please contact Rob Davey at Stanstead House or visit the TBA website (www.thetba.co.uk).

EMMA BERRY

The TBA is hosting the inaugural Stars of Tomorrow National Hunt Show at Bangor-onDee racecourse, on Tuesday, July 23 commencing at 12 noon.

The show is an exciting new initiative created by the National Hunt Committee, the objective being to provide mare owners with the opportunity of showcasing their young stock. There will be individual classes for colt and filly foals plus a championship class. The classes will be judged by leading bloodstock professionals from England, Ireland and France, including Frannie Woods and Pascal Noue, who will be judging the foals on their potential to make a good racehorse. There are no entry fees for this year’s show and entries close on Monday, July 8.

Robert Waley-Cohen, TBA NH Committee Chairman said, “In this, our first year, we hope to attract a sufficient number of quality young stock, supported by National Hunt Members.

We very much hope this will become an annual event, to compliment the other initiatives we organise to support the British

Pascal Noue of Haras de la Hetraie is to be one of the judges at Bangor

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The TBA sponsored the Listed Novice Hurdle over two miles on the second day of Cheltenham’s April meeting, where half of the eight races were confined to mares.

The race drew a field of eight, including Grade 2 winner Ma Filleule, but she was beaten by an old adversary in Doyly Carte, who appreciated the faster conditions at Cheltenham compared to the heavy ground at Taunton in December, where they had met previously. Doyly Carte, a five-year-old Doyen homebred of the Elite Racing Club, is a half-sister to the admirable Flat middledistance performer Dandino.

Elite Racing Club Manager Matthew Budden said after the race, “The mare had attained a black-type placing earlier in the season, but we are very pleased to have got a Listed win from her, especially as she is well-bred. I would like to thank the TBA for encouraging more of these races in the calendar, as they provide opportunities for mares to prove themselves.”

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Doyly Carte adds to the laurels of her Elite family

TBA Chief Executive Louise Kemble with members of the Elite Racing Club, plus Jason Maguire, Donald McCain and National Hunt Committee Chairman Robert Waley-Cohen (back right)

NH STATISTICAL AWARDS

By Alan Yuill Walker

Nineteen-year-old Kayf Tara is now one behind Celtic Cone who headed the list of British-based jump stallions on five (consecutive) occasions from 1988 to 1992.

For the 2012/13 season the son of Sadler’s Wells took the Whitbread Silver Salver with 53 winners of 75 races for earnings of £694,854.

While that was no great surprise, there was an extraordinary outcome to the Horse & Hound Cup which recognises the corresponding stallion in terms of individual chase winners. Believe it or not, but the Overbury Stud stallion and the Shade Oak resident Alflora (who had finished runner-up to Kayf Tara the previous season) deadheated, each recording 21 individual winners of 27 chases.

Two of Kayf Tara’s most notable progeny were Special Tiara, successful in the Grade 1 Maghull Novices’ Chase at Aintree’s Grand National meeting, and Mozoltov, winner of the Grade 2 Moscow Flyer Novice Hurdle at Punchestown. That old favourite Carruthers was another notable contributor. Once again Alflora’s principal flag-bearer was Wishfull Thinking.

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Kayf Tara with Dan Matty at Overbury

many top sires of jumpers, Kayf Tara was bred by Meon Valley Stud from its omnipotent Reprocolor family. A dual Ascot Gold Cup hero, he cost Sheikh Mohammed 210,000gns as a yearling.

Dunlop to be TBA ambassador Former trainer John Dunlop, who is also one of the country’s leading producers of show horses, is to be the TBA Ambassador for the Retraining of Racehorses (RoR).

Already an RoR judge, Dunlop will help to promote the 2013 RoR/TBA Retrained Racehorse Challenge, a series of showing classes for ex-racehorses.

With his wealth of knowledge on the subject, he will also help to produce reports for this publication and the TBA website. A feature in a forthcoming issue will detail what judges are looking for when assessing an ex-racehorse and how riders can successfully reschool horses for an alternative career after racing.

Dunlop said: “I am thrilled to be able to help the TBA in this manner and increase awareness for ex-racehorses.”

The show classes require competitors to jump a round of rustic or coloured jumps before carrying out an individual show. Approximately 30 qualifiers are held around the country and will culminate in a final at the Royal Windsor Horse Show 2014.

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Hard-working Ian Elton is our May winner

Ian Elton, a much valued member of the Whitsbury Manor Stud team

Rose blooms in black type finale The Finale of the EBF/TBA Mares’ Novice Chase was rearranged from Newbury to the second day of Cheltenham’s April meeting.

The race holds significant importance in the Racing Calendar as it is the only black-type race over fences confined to mares. A field of seven started, which included the winners of the jointly-sponsored races from Ludlow, Newbury, Bangor-on-Dee and Plumpton from earlier in the season.

However, it was Tara Rose, trained by Nigel Twiston-Davies, who collected the prize in a

tight battle with her Ludlow conqueror Valmari.

An eight-year-old, Tara Rose is by leading British-based jumps sire Kayf Tara and was bred

by TBA member Miss Sarah Jane Turner.

At Towcester, it was a battle of two Old Vic mares in the closing stages of the final EBF/TBA Mares’ Novice Chase of the season. The Fergal O’Brien-trained Queen of Mantua held off the challenge of Nick Gifford’s Old Dreams. The mare must have a liking for the course, as she had broken her maiden in a novice hurdle there in May 2012.

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Neston Grace triumphs at Taunton

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The unseasonal spring weather has made life exceptionally difficult for all those involved in stud work this year, and the TBA’s Stud Staff Award is an accolade much deserved by May winner, Ian Elton of Whitsbury Manor Stud, of whom Director Ed Harper says, “You could not have chosen a more hardworking person”.

The effort and expertise required to run a barren and maiden mare yard are crucial, and Ian’s thorough approach, phenomenal work rate and willingness to go the extra mile all contribute to the success and efficiency of the stud. Furthermore, earlymorning starts when driving the horsebox on walk-outs, taking responsibility for mares at the sales and maintaining an enthusiastic interest in his charges are additional attributes credited to Ian, who has been a stalwart of Whitsbury Manor for 20 years.

Harper added: “It would be hard to find someone who would be more deserving of recognition for his dedication and loyalty.”

TBA regional rep James Read with Taunton Chairman Mike Foden

Taunton was the latest racecourse from the winners of the 2011/12 season to provide a mares-only race in recognition of winning an award for courses who stage the most National Hunt races restricted to mares as a percentage of total fixtures in a season. A full field of 14 went to post, and it went to the only penalised runner in the field, the British-bred daughter of Kayf Tara, Neston Grace.

The mare races for her owner/breeder Dr Nigel Knott and is trained by Somersetbased Simon Hodgson. The TBA was represented by Somerset regional representative, James Read, who presented the award certificate to Taunton Chairman, Mike Foden.

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The TBA highlights current concerns with government ministers and local MPs The TBA’s recent political lobbying activity saw Chief Executive Louise Kemble join a wider equine delegation which met with David Heath, Minister of State for Agriculture and Food, at Wincanton Racecourse on April 21. Mr Heath’s responsibilities include the Common Agricultural Policy, Single Payments Scheme and the Rural Payments Agency, and he is therefore well placed to give an opinion on the continuation of stud farms’ access to SPS for the maintenance of permanent pasture.

The TBA’s agenda included the management of endemic and exotic diseases in terms of animal welfare and international trade which is also on the Minister’s portfolio. The opportunity to raise these issues in informal surroundings direct with the Minister was extremely useful and a positive valuable contact has been created.

A wider group of thoroughbred breeding industry representatives met with Matthew Hancock, MP for West Suffolk, in Newmarket on April 24. The meeting was led by TBA Chairman Richard Lancaster and included Jimmy George (Tattersalls), Brian O’Rourke (National Stud), Julian Wilson (Newmarket Stud Farmers Association), Philip Freedman (TBA Taxation Group) and Louise Kemble.

Delegates sought support on a range of issues, reinforcing discussion with David Heath a week earlier to retain eligibility for the Single Payments Scheme and concerns regarding equine disease.

Hancock reiterated the government’s wish to

transcribe the EU rules in a fair manner and ensure that the UK government’s treatment and allocation of CAP funds doesn’t disadvantage British businesses with their EU competitors. He encouraged the TBA to advise their members to write to their respective MPs. The importance of maintaining the Notifiable Disease status for CEM remains a high priority for the TBA, and its retention will do much to address threats to international trade and movement, caused by the disease risk attached to the importation of low value nonthoroughbred horses from Europe. Hancock confirmed that he would lend his support to this initiative advising the Secretary of State, Owen Patterson, that we need to retain this statutory requirement to protect international trade.

Discussion also covered the horse passport issue, with the TBA providing a short briefing on the General Stud Book’s passport production and protocols. The TBA supports the Equine Health and Welfare Sector Group’s view that rules governing the requirements from the UK Passport Issuing Organisations (PIOs) have been too relaxed, hence the problems that have occurred, and maintain that DEFRA officials should rigorously enforce these requirements.

Richard Lancaster and Philip Freedman outlined the TBA’s work to address the government’s proposals to limit business tax relief on losses. This will affect smaller breeders who carry out more than one business, eg.

farming and breeding, and could result in the taxpayer paying tax on profits higher than the net combined profit from the two trades. The TBA, supported by the NFU, feels that proposals should be amended to remove this unwanted burden from our members and raising the tax threshold would go a long way towards addressing this problem. The TBA will continue to work with contacts at the NFU to highlight the challenges these changes will bring to rural businesses.

The lack of progress to secure the UK’s export protocol with China continues to frustrate the industry. Hancock confirmed he had close links with UK Trade and Investment and would ensure that DEFRA and UKTI work together to speed up this process. He also ventured to examine the threat to European trade from the agreement between Transpacific Partnership countries, which included Japan and the USA, to adopt a more favourable import duty between their members, making in particular the purchase of European bloodstock less attractive.

Richard Lancaster said, “Lobbying is another area where the TBA can be most effective on behalf of its members. We were very encouraged by Mr Hancock’s support. The racing and breeding industry has an enthusiastic, well-informed MP and it was very satisfying that we were able to cover a number of important issues which bring practical benefits to our members.”

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

D. E. M. Young

8,000

Special Tiara

Kayf Tara

Special Choice

06/04/2013

Aintree

Upton Viva Stud

6,000

Rajdhani Express

Presenting

Violet Express

20/04/2013

Ayr

Bricklow Ltd

4,000

Conquisto

Hernando

Seal Indigo

20/04/2013

Ayr

Miss S. J. Turner

3,000

Tara Rose

Kayf Tara

True Rose

18/04/2013

Cheltenham

P. Dixon Smith

2,500

Noble Legend

Midnight Legend

Elmside Katie

30/03/2013

Haydock Park

R. V. Westwood

2,500

Tartan Snow

Valseur

Whitemoss Leader

04/04/2013

Aintree

Sir Eric Parker

2,500

Pigeon Island

Daylami

Morina

07/04/2013

Ascot

Elite Racing Club

2,500

Doyly Carte

Doyen

Generous Diana

18/04/2013

Cheltenham

P. Murphy

1,750

Fleet Dawn

Polish Precedent

Wychnor Dawn

30/03/2013

Haydock Park

J. and T. Shally

1,750

Stopped Out

Montjoy

Kiomi

27/04/2013

Sandown Park

R. D. Chugg and C. M. A. Aston

1,500

Theatrical Star

King’s Theatre

Lucy Glitters

02/04/2013

Exeter

Mrs Jane Clark

1,250

Fiddlers Reel

Karinga Bay

Festival Fancy

25/04/2013

Perth

Newsells Park Stud

1,000

Calculated Risk

Motivator

Glen Rosie

07/04/2013

Ascot

Mrs R. A. Schofield

1,000

Lower Hope Dandy

Karinga Bay

Cheeky Mare

17/04/2013

Cheltenham

Mrs C. J. Black

1,000

Seymour Eric

Bollin Eric

Seymour Chance

19/04/2013

Ayr

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Breeders’ Prizes Breeder

Prize (£)

Mr & Mrs Kevan Watts

5,400

Horse

Sire

Dam

Date

Course

Montaigne

Exceed And Excel

Autumn Pearl

13/04/2013

Kempton Park

Michael Appleby

5,400

Mops Angel

Piccolo

Tanning

22/04/2013

Pontefract

Mickley Stud & Mr Richard Kent

1,800

Lexington Rose

Captain Gerrard

Silca Destination

27/04/2013

Ripon

These prizes are subject to confirmation of qualification with Weatherbys

Diary dates TUESDAY, JUNE 4

TUESDAY, JULY 23

MONDAY, JULY 22

Scottish Regional Day

Stars of Tomorrow National Hunt Show, Bangor-on-Dee Racecourse

Royal Welsh Show, Builth Wells, Powys

A visit to Linda Perratt’s Northallerton Farm, East Kilbride.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5 South East Regional Day Visit to Marcus Tregoning’s training stables at Whitsbury Manor followed by a tour of Whitsbury Manor Stud

TUESDAY, JUNE 11 West Regional Day Willie Carson’s Minster Stud near Cirencester followed by lunch and a visit to Stratford Place Stud near Cheltenham

MONDAY, JULY 1 Wales & West Midlands Regional Day A visit to Llety Farms near Carmarthen with optional evening racing at Ffos Las.

MONDAY, JULY 8 South West Regional Day A visit to the historic training facilities at Manton, home to Group 1-winning trainer Brian Meehan.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 10 TBA Annual General Meeting This year’s TBA AGM will commence at 5pm at the Jockey Club Rooms, Newmarket. With guest speaker, BHA Chief Executive Paul Bittar.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 10 TBA Awards Presentation Evening This year’s breeders’ awards evening will be held at the Jockey Club Rooms, Newmarket.

The evening will begin with a drinks reception at 6.30pm, followed by the awards presentation and a fork buffet.

Members were sent invitations to apply for tickets in the May send out, which are priced at £50 each, including VAT – numbers are strictly limited and places will be allocated on a ‘first come, first served basis’. To avoid disappointment return your application as soon as possible to Stanstead House.

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A new initiative by the TBA this year, the show will provide mare owners with an excellent opportunity to showcase their A at 12 young stock. The show commences A racing noon, with a barbeque and evening afterwards. Further information is available on the website or email Rob Davey rob@thetba.co.uk

THURSDAY, JULY 25 TBA Annual Seminar – ‘The Bloodstock Market Today’ This year’s seminar will take place at Tattersalls, Park Paddocks with registration and coffee at 9.30am. Further information is available on the website or email Caroline Turnbull on caroline@thetba.co.uk

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 Open Regional Day A visit to the Old Royal Studs at Hampton Court and a tour of Hampton Court Palace

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 North Regional Day A visit to Richard Ford’s Lancashire Racing Stables and the Oakhill Veterinary Centre followed by lunch and a guest speaker

ROR/TBA RETRAINED RACEHORSE CHALLENGE WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12 Yorkshire Sport Horse Show, Thirsk

FRIDAY, JUNE 14 TO SUNDAY, JUNE 16

SATURDAY, JULY 27 AND SUNDAY, JULY 28 Aintree National Showing Show, Aintree Equestrian Centre

SUNDAY, JULY 28 AND MONDAY, JULY 29 Tattersalls Ireland/Ward Union, Co Meath

TUESDAY, JULY 30 Rydale Show, Kirbymoorside

TUESDAY, JULY 30 New Forest & Hampshire County Show, Brockenhurst For more information on this series and how you can be involved please get in touch with Carrie on 01638 661321.

TBA NEW MEMBERS C Anderson, Renfrewshire; Miss C Cory, Cheshire; P Dixon Smith, Leicestershire; R J H Geffen, London; J Good, Renfrewshire; Mr & Mrs B Greening, Surrey; Killashee House, Yorkshire; K G Reveley, Renfrewshire; Ms R A Schofield, Cheshire; R V Westwood, Perthshire; D E M Young, Dorset.

18-35 MEMBERS Joshua Doherty, Lancashire; Lucy Kerr, Yorkshire; Douglas McMahon, Lancashire.

Three Counties Show, Malvern, Worcestershire

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19 AND THURSDAY, JUNE 20 Lincolnshire County Show, Grange – De – Lings.

SUNDAY, JUNE 23 Hickstead Derby Meeting, Hickstead, West Sussex

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Encouraging future thoroughbred breeding enthusiasts is one objective of the TBA’s Education and Employment Committee, and it was the turn of the younger generation to be inspired when the TBA hosted a visit from the Essex and Suffolk Pony Club in the Easter holidays. Twenty-six young people and their parents spent an enjoyable and enlightening day in Newmarket, organised by TBA Regional Representative and breeder Richard Wilson of Hockham Lodge Stud.

Highlights of the day included watching horses work up Warren Hill in the company of James Eustace, practising their jockeyship on simulators at the British Racing School and an excellent lunch at the National Horseracing Museum. The final stop was Lanwades Stud where manager Alastair Watson and staff provided an entertaining and educational introduction to life on a stud farm at this busy time of year. The youngsters learned what makes a good stallion while viewing Archipenko, Sir Percy and Aussie Rules, as well as how to tell when a mare is close to foaling and the importance of handling a foal from day one of its life. The chance to see new born foals less than 12 hours old drew gasps of delight, and ensured that the day ended on a high note.

The TBA is very grateful to all the hosts for the day, whose generosity with their time made a great impression on the visitors.

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DJ and Mrs Deer Owner/breeder John Deer is indelibly linked with the half-brothers Patavellian and Avonbridge, both of whom won the Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp. That pair was trained by Roger Charlton and so too is Deer’s recent Gordon Richards Stakes winner, Al Kazeem.

Patavellian was a gelding whereas Avonbridge now stands at the Deer family’s Oakgrove Stud close to Chepstow racecourse. John Deer is the man behind precision engineers Renishaw, and Oakgrove is where another

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Darley Subsequent events took the gilt off Godolphin’s homebred double at the Dubai World Cup meeting with Sajjhaa (Group 1 Dubai Duty Free) and Cavalryman (Group 3 Dubai Gold Cup), both trained by Saeed Bin Suroor.

Darley-bred mares made quite an impact during March and April. Not only did Sajjhaa win another Group 1 in the Jebel Hatta to remain unbeaten in four starts at Meydan (the others were Group 2s), but also Sama Veda was responsible for Grand National winner Auroras Encore.

Sajjhaa was originally trained by the late Michael Jarvis, who thought so highly of her that she ran in the Oaks on only her second start. He had also trained both her dam Anaamil and grandam Noushkey to score as threeyear-olds, the latter winning the 1999 Lancashire Oaks.

By Polish Precedent, Noushkey, who was runner-up in the Oaks, had been acquired as a yearling by the Maktoums for 55,000gns at the Houghton Sales from Meon Valley Stud. Two years earlier Sheikh Mohammed had won both the Sprint Cup and Prix Maurice de Gheest with her relative, Cherokee Rose.

Meon Valley had bought into this well known McCalmont family when procuring Sajjhaa’s fourth dam, Home And Away, from Oldtown Stud for 60,000gns at the 1978 Houghton Sales – that was a year after they acquired their three original foundation mares, including Reprocolor, as yearlings.

In addition to Noushkey, Sajjhaa’s third dam Top Of The League is also the dam of San Sebastian (Prix du Cadran) and the grandam of Alkaased (Japan Cup). Nowadays the Weinfelds own just one member of the family.

Having sold Top Of The League’s daughter Match Point at the 2011 December Sale, they retain her two-year-old Dubawi filly, Deuce Again.

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successful businessman Colin Davies trained the triple Champion Hurdler, Persian War. A five-year-old entire by Dubawi out of homebred Kazeem, Al Kazeem is a grandson of the well-related Kanz from the immediate family of the brothers Glint Of Gold and Diamond Shoal. Group 3 winner Kanz (The Minstrel – Treasure Chest) cost Sheikh Mohammed $2.1m in 1982 – a world auction record for a yearling filly – and was runner-up in the Yorkshire Oaks.

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Special Tiara is the first foal of the homebred Special Choice. Her dam, Mammy’s Choice, was procured on David Young’s behalf as a three-yearold store at Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale in 1993 for the equivalent of 14,485gns by Robert Alner – his Dorset yard near Blandford is no distance from David Young’s Sherborne home, Folke Manor.

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THE NEXT GENERATION

By SAM HOSKINS, Chairman

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SATURDAY, JUNE 21 A morning on the gallops with trainer Hugo Palmer in Newmarket followed by a tour of Darley’s Dalham Hall Stud.

SUNDAY, JULY 21 A visit to Upton Viva Stud and Stratford races An exciting opportunity to visit Long Run and Rajdhani Express on their summer holidays at the stud owned by the family of NGC President Sam Waley-Cohen, followed by an afternoon at the races.

stall that day at the track, loud tannoy exposure and of course the opportunity to host our members that afternoon. This will be a big day for the NGC.

Reach out and we’ll be there

The hardy NGC members who braved Arctic conditions at Harry Dunlop’s yard

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he Next Generation Club has a fine list of events this year for its young members but the big and blunt question is, what are they achieving?

Preaching to the converted and the few is all fine and dandy but what our Committee is really striving to do is get new faces to these events in order to sow the seed of intrigue about racing and breeding.

Our target audience is young people who have shown an interest in racing already or perhaps are studying on an equine-based university course. We would like to attract as many of these as possible to our events as the more exposure we can give them, the more we can open minds to the many fascinating areas of racing and breeding so they might consider a career in the industry, or perhaps a future business involvement in racing and bloodstock.

Speaking from experience, my own passion for the bloodstock game was derived from racing. That graduated into a bloodstock interest only when I went up to Newmarket aged 18 to be a bid-spotter for Tattersalls and discovered a new and intriguing side to the game of which I had been blissfully unaware.

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events for our members. We are able to publicise these through the racing media, social media such as Facebook and Twitter, via University Racing Clubs and to the heads of the various equine-based courses.

Also, thanks to the TBA, we have a small budget to go towards marketing the NGC

“Interaction is the key and we hope we can share some of our enthusiasm for racing with others”

which until now we have used towards producing flyers and banners.

This year, however, we are putting part of the 2013 budget towards sponsorship at Newmarket on Saturday, October 5, which will be the afternoon after our morning with Frankel at Juddmonte.

Sponsorship will give us the additional benefits of greater exposure via television, a

Expanding our reach is our number one aim.

At the moment, we are focused on getting our message out there to equine students, many of whom are already lectured by the TBA’s Caroline Turnbull. Wherever possible we are trying to ensure committee representation at these lectures so we can put across a young person’s perspective of the industry and the many opportunities it has on an educational and business level. We feel interaction is key and if we can share some of our own enthusiasm for the industry to others, then hopefully it can spark something amongst a few of them too.

Once again this year, there will be an NGC placement for a member of the BHA Graduate Course. Last year, the placement was awarded to Sean McGuinness who spent a month at both Tweenhills Stud and Newsells Park Stud.

Aside from the forthcoming visits to Olly Stevens, Hugo Palmer and Frankel, the buzz and excitement surrounding the autumn bloodstock sales means that the sales grounds are also great places to encourage colleges with equine courses to send their students.

We have a day planned for the Thursday of Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 2 (October 17), which fits in well with university term time.

The visit to Harry Dunlop’s yard at the end of March was a big success despite the heavy snow. Twenty people braved the elements (only five from the original list dropped out despite racing at Newbury being called off), and Harry and Christina Dunlop were superb hosts, giving us all a great insight into how the cogs at Windsor House Stables work.

A very big thank you to Harry, Christina and their excellent team.

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VET FORUM: THE EXPERT VIEW

By ROB PILSWORTH, MA VETMB BSc (Hons) CertVR MRCVS

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Circadian rhythms Almost all animal species, even down to very simple single-cell organisms, show rhythms of biological activity which correspond approximately to a 24-hour cycle. These natural rhythms result in the excretion of chemicals and hormones, which can stimulate both wakefulness and sleepiness. In human beings maintained in constant darkness, these patterns of activity continue for many days, although the exact 24-hour period usually begins to drift a little, a phenomenon known as ‘free-running’.

Nonetheless, for many days and nights in complete darkness humans will be active during the hours when it would have been daytime and will feel the need to sleep in the hours when it would have been night. Mice and rats are identical but opposite. They show a normal activity cycle of sleeping during the day and activity during the night, and once again when subjected to constant 24-hour darkness will

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Racehorses being loaded for an international flight to the races

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e’ve all been there. That dreadful feeling of cotton wool around the head and an inability to think clearly on the first few days abroad. You look at your watch and sure enough it’s around the time that you would have been in bed for an hour or so at home. Similarly, ‘bang, wide awake’ in the middle of the night, you look at the bedside clock and it’s around the time that you would have been getting up at home.

These phenomena, symptoms of ‘jet lag’, happen because our bodies are governed by innate ‘clock’ genes which tell us the time of day or night without any need for an external clock.

This is the reason many of us wake up just minutes before our alarms go off every day. Our innate clock genes are ticking away happily whilst we are fast asleep, but nonetheless remind us bang on time that it’s soon going to be time to wake up.

Jet lag has serious implications in man because of reduction in both mental and physical performance. For these reasons, it’s of serious interest to the military when moving troops across time zones. Because of the negative effects on performance, it is also very much on the radar for athletes. Human athletes and horses are about the only sports competitors who regularly travel by air to compete, often crossing several time zones. Human athletic performance is significantly affected by time zone shift, particularly in the eastward direction. Does the same thing happen in horses? To answer this, a group at the University of Bristol’s School of Veterinary Sciences, led by Dr Domingo Tortonese, investigated the effect of jet lag on athletic performance in the racehorse. This study, supported by research funding from the Horserace Betting Levy Board, turned up some surprising results.

Why horses don’t lag behind after travelling The effect of ‘jet lag’ on horses crossing time zones is markedly different to what might have been expected continue to exhibit patterns of activity at the correct time, even though there are no light cues.

It is this circadian pattern of hormonal activity which is the basis of the awful feeling of jet lag.

These feelings are produced because the body and its chemicals are telling us to sleep and slow down whilst the light cues and the time of day are telling us to ‘rev up’ and perform activities.

This is the basis of the impairment in both mental and physical function which constitutes jet lag. So do horses have the same problem?

Horse sleep patterns The Bristol team kept some thoroughbred horses under continuous observation and logged the amount of activity during the day and night.

What they found was that horses both slept and were active during both the day and the night. They showed periods of activity interspersed with periods of sleep throughout the entire period. Under normal lighting conditions the horses certainly showed more periods of sleep during the night than they did during the day, with a clustering of intense activity just after daybreak but had periods of activity throughout the entire period, including the depth of the night.

The research group then investigated the effect of subjecting the horses to continuous darkness

to see whether this pattern of activity continued.

What they found, in complete contrast to the situation in man and rodents, was that as soon as the light cues were removed, the pattern of activity and sleep became completely random.

Periods of activity were followed by periods of sleep but with no evidence of patterning.

Interestingly, after ten days of continuous darkness, when the lights were turned back on again the horses returned to their normal pattern. They had both sleep and activity spread through the day, but with clustering of bouts of activity during the daylight hours and clustering of bouts of sleep during the night.

This switch back was immediate, in contrast to what would occur in animals with strong inbuilt circadian rhythms. This gave a hint that the horse is different, is extremely sensitive to light, and that much of its activity patterning will be determined by light-dark stimuli rather than by endogenous rhythmicity mediated by circadian rises in hormones and neurotransmitters.

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horses were stabled in an environment in which the hours of daylight could be artificially manipulated.

The horses were accustomed to treadmill exercise as a completely normal part of daily life.

They were then subjected to a standard exercise test on a high-speed treadmill, and a basic ‘athletic ability’ baseline was obtained for each horse. Once the horses were acclimatised to this daily pattern of activity they were subjected to an artificial ‘flight’ by adjusting daylight length for dawn to be seven hours ahead of its normal time. A human in this situation would be expected to perform significantly less well, but did horses follow the same pattern?

Dr Tortonese, the lead investigator, says: “The results were essentially the opposite to what we were expecting. First of all, we assessed several components of the physiology of the animal. We assessed the performance of both the aerobic (exercise using oxygen) and anaerobic (exercise running up an oxygen debt) capacities. We assessed three neuroendocrine systems that measure the response to stress, homeostasis and time measurement, and then we measured clock genes that allowed the animal actually to measure time, so we went through from the molecular aspect of timing to the behavioural aspect, which was the effect on performance.

“The first thing we noticed was that the horse clock gene machinery (the clock genes are the components of the cell nucleus, which work in feedback loops and measure time) was immediately disrupted by the simulated flight but, contrary to the situation in other species, we also found that the readjustment of that clock gene expression was already apparent on the first day after the flight. In other words, the horse adapts instantly to the change in daylight and resets the internal clock. That was something unexpected.

“The second thing we found was that the horse’s athletic performance, instead of being diminished, which is what would happen to a human being after a simulated flight to the east, was actually enhanced. That was very surprising, because of course we had only data from humans and it is very clear that in humans an eastward flight will diminish the performance of the athlete. In our case, it was the opposite, and this was true for both for the aerobic and anaerobic capacities. This was very surprising.

“With time, this effect faded away, and two weeks later, having been maintained in the daylight hours of the ‘new’ time zone, the horses’ performance was identical to that before the simulated flight.”

So paradoxically, jet travel in an eastward direction in the horse appears to significantly enhance athletic performance, if undertaken within the same hemisphere, at least in the first few days following arrival, although the effects of the ‘flight’ were gone two weeks later.

Interestingly, prior to this work trainers tended to fall into one of two groups in their recommendations for flying horses to race in other time zones, for instance, in the USA. One camp believed that the best way to do this was to “run the horse straight off the plane”.

The other camp held an equally strong opinion that the horse should be shipped in at least two weeks prior to its intended race to give it time to acclimatise. These research findings show that both camps were probably correct. The early improvement in athletic performance seen immediately after the flight may well compensate for any of the disadvantages of a period of travel itself: the horse should run well, possibly even showing improved form. Similarly, if the horse is given two weeks to acclimatise to the new location, then its performance should be just as good as at home, and any detriment from feed

and drink disturbances in the flight will have had time to be corrected.

How is performance increased?

The researchers looked at the levels of several hormones and chemicals both before and immediately after the change in time zone. There were several interesting findings. First, changing the time zone did not appear to stress the horse in any way. The horse adapted very quickly and took the cue of ‘lights on’ as meaning the beginning of the day; even on the first day there was no ‘jet lag’. The level of cortisol, the ‘stress’ hormone, was identical throughout the day and night both before and after the time-shift.

Similarly, the production of the hormone melatonin, which is inhibited by light, and is actually used as a medication in man to mitigate the effects of jet lag, was very rapidly re-regulated in the new time zone.

One hormone, prolactin, which has profound physiological effects on many body systems, was seen to be significantly affected by the change in time zone, with a large ‘surge’ on the first day after arrival. It may be this rise in prolactin which is responsible for the apparent increase in athletic performance. As its name suggests, prolactin is involved in the production of milk in the mare but, as with many hormones, over the millennia it has evolved to have many different functions in the body and is well known to have marked effects on the heart and blood vessels, the liver, kidneys, adrenal glands and brain.

European-based horses have always figured large on the international racing scene, with regular success at the Breeders’ Cup, Japan Cup and the Hong Kong international races. Dr Tortonese’s study gives us reassurance that as far as jet lag goes, air travel to the competition need not have any deleterious effect on performance – and in some circumstances might even help.

The Britol University study detailed showed that shifts in photoperiod can produce significant improvement in athletic performance. Some of the experimental horses were able to gallop on the treadmill for a full 25 seconds longer than normal before fatigue began to show, following their simulated travel.

But of course horses do not actually need to travel in order for this phenomenon to occur, as long as the day-night conditions make it appear to them that they have entered a new time zone.

So would it ever be a practical possibility to manipulate photoperiod deliberately to affect athletic performance and the time to fatigue?

Dr. Tortonese comments: “Of course you do

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not need to put the horse on a plane to alter the light-dark cycle. That can be done in the box, and that could be a means by which you can allow the horse to have an advantage – it could be a part of the system of training. It could help the horse to prevent an injury, because you have to remember that both the aerobic and the anaerobic capacities were improved.

“That means that the horse is better off for a short sprint race and also for a long staying race.

We know that many injuries occur towards the end of races, when the horse is fatigued, and this system could in theory be used to delay the onset of that fatigue. This is something that we should keep in mind.”

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‘Jet lag’ as a performance enhancer

One of the jet lag project horses cantering on the treadmill. By exercising in this way, performance indicators could be measured easily during and after exercise

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FOCUS ON... Preparing for the yearling sales The preparation of a good sales yearling begins during the mare’s pregnancy, with good feeding practices to ensure a large, healthy foal. Leading consignor Ted Voute believes his own work as a consignor starts in January and February, planning the right sale to go to with each individual.

“We X-ray in February, so as to allow enough time to correct problems,” he says. By Lissa Oliver

The real work usually starts in earnest ten weeks before the sale, when the fit, healthy and correct yearling is brought in to begin its preparation. All will agree that a good athletic walker creates the perfect first impression and vendors have just ten weeks in which to teach their yearling to show itself to perfection. A simple written plan will help to organise those weeks and ensure that your horse reaches the sales at its best, with nothing overlooked or forgotten.

Week One Charlie Vigors of Hillwood Stud, like most breeders, leaves his yearlings out day and night, but ten weeks before the sales they are all brought in. “They stay in permanently until the sales,” he says, “we might occasionally put one out in a pen if we feel it needs it mentally.”

Bill Dwan, of The Castlebridge Consignment, agrees the trend of poor summers prevents leaving yearlings out during sales preparation.

In stark contrast, Jamie Railton, of Darshams Farms, accepts that the weather can create problems, but advocates leaving horses out for as much as possible. “In a nutshell, I’m a great believer in leaving everything as close to nature as possible,” he says. “Bone density is very important and it’s not right for a young horse to spend 23 hours in a stable. They can be exercised from the paddock and they have a much better temperament when not confined to a stable.” Railton adds that he is in favour of as large a paddock as space allows.

“I find that in a bigger paddock they gallop less and don’t come to so much harm.”

Left in or out, the weather plays a major role.

Charlie Vigors brings in his yearlings about ten weeks before the sales

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Yearlings at Newsells Park Stud on their best behaviour “The big issue is whether to rug – and when,” says Dwan. “It’s a minefield, you never know if you’re doing it right. Some like to put rugs on them the minute they come in, but we prefer to wait a couple of weeks until the weather starts to get cooler. If it gets really bad in late September we’ll double rug, with a light day rug and a night rug. It’s very difficult to get them to hold their coats and there’s no hidden secret, it’s a nightmare.”

Dwan brings his yearlings on slowly, introducing them to walking, in hand, for just 20 minutes in the evening for the first week or two, but it always comes down to the individual horse and its own requirements.

“Hand walking is the cornerstone of sales preparation,” states Railton.

It’s generally agreed that the yearlings should initially be introduced to 20 minutes of walking, twice a day in the weeks to follow, and are often put on a walker as well as walking in hand. The horse must be in good physical condition to begin with and those in a poorer condition require a little extra time. “It’s 99.9% common sense,” says Vigors, “keeping it simple is the most important thing.”

Attention to feet and oiling of hooves is also important, to prepare the horse for a great deal of walking at the sales on a hard surface.

Feed is also an important issue as the yearling begins work. Dr Catherine Dunnett, an independent equine nutritionist, advises: “Ideally a slow steady increase rather than too much too late. One always has to be aware that pushing growth and weight gain too fast may create developmental problems now or later. Personally, I would probably choose a feed that is high in digestible fibre and oil and

lower in starch given the current thoughts on DOD in some susceptible animals.”

Polly Bonner, of Saracen Feeds, spends much of her year working with consignors and advising on feed as the prep’ regime progresses. “Short-coupled sprinter types will need managing differently, they can get too heavy too fast,” she warns. “People don’t tend to stand back and assess each horse enough.”

She also warned consignors to give consideration to the type of hay they feed. “A more mature cut can make a horse look too fat, so try to arrange for an earlier cut to be available. Chopped alfalfa chaff will also bring more fibre to them and tighten them up.”

Weeks Two to Three There are no hard and fast rules and every horse is different. For some, the first two weeks might well be spent being chased around the box! Having a well-handled horse is a great advantage and could provide a little leeway should the yearling require a week’s break later on due to minor knocks and injury.

Railton emphasises that every horse is different and where they have come from, and how well handled they are, is a crucial factor in the length of time they require. “Stick to good horsemanship and don’t try to reinvent the wheel,” he warns. “We mustn’t lose sight that the aim is to raise a good horse, not a sales horse. First and foremost we want a good racehorse. If you produce good racehorses, people will come back to you to buy more. So the more natural their rearing, the closer to nature, the better.”

As the yearling’s work increases, so should its feed, but every horse is an individual and it

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largely takes experience and judgement by eye to get the balance right. A robust colt and slight filly will each require different work schedules, as well as differing amounts of feed.

A higher protein content, 14% maximum, is recommended during preparation, with the ration increased by a couple of pounds each week until the horse is at its maximum. Some horses might finish on 8Ib a day, many on 16Ib. Hay plays a major role, as concentrates put stress on the digestive system, and should be fed as much as the horse wants. A little and often is the best feeding regime, with some consignors choosing to feed three times a day and most feeding four times a day.

A basic linseed oil is a popular supplement, adding sheen to a horse’s coat, but be wary of any additional supplements. A balanced compound feed should already contain many of the necessary nutrients without need of supplementation. “If it’s not in the feed, then change the feed,” advises Dwan, who feeds nuts, or a coarse mix to any not keen on nuts. Dr Dunnett recommends: “Some ingredients in specialised supplements would not be found in concentrate feeds. Oils can help coat condition and skin health particularly those with a high omega 3 content.”

Polly Bonner recommends rice bran fed as an addition to the compound feed. It has a high oil level, which is easy to absorb, a low starch level and a high level of fibre. “It helps with muscle tone and makes a serious difference to their top line, giving them an athletic outline,” she says.

The yearlings should be assessed on a weekly basis, with parades and showings to help get them into the routine. “It’s all done by eye and we parade the yearlings every Friday and adjust their feed and work accordingly,” says Dwan.

Weeks Four to Five Aim to have a farrier check the yearling every four to six weeks; money spent on a good farrier is money well spent indeed. A balanced

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P R E PA R I N G F O R T H E Y E A R L I N G S A L E S foot is very valuable and a good farrier will be able to deal with a correction gradually, given the time.

As the exercise routine builds up, the yearling will be aiming towards walking for up to an hour in the final weeks, ideally with additional 15 minutes lungeing and 20 minutes walking in hand, but it varies widely according to the individual’s needs. Dwan will drive weaker yearlings in long reins and it is important to give each horse the time it needs. While a plan is useful, it shouldn’t be strictly adhered to at the expense of the horse’s well being.

“We’re not too severe on lungeing,” says Dwan, “we only trot, for about five to seven minutes in each direction, three times a week, not every day. They’re lunged in a roller and side reins. We don’t canter. They’ll have maybe two canters, just to test their wind.”

Weeks Six to Eight As any consignor will tell you, the biggest worry is injury and it helps to have a week on your side should a horse require a break from work. By now the yearling should be walking for about an hour, twice a day, and feed rations should be up to maximum, varying according to the individual, but from 12Ib to 20Ib. “Ideally you will be aiming for well covered but fit looking animals rather than being overtopped,” reminds nutritionist Dr Catherine Dunnett.

It is worth planning when to administer

“All consignors should arrive at the sale two days early to enable their yearlings to settle in and relax”

vaccines so as not to be giving several on the day of sale and once again as much thought should be going into the limiting of stress as possible.

Week Nine Yearlings should be shod in front about a week to ten days before the sale and the hind shoes are often fitted at the sale, and can be measured and sent on with them.

Scoping can be a contentious issue and Dwan has an easier solution. “Last year we scoped our Deauville, Goffs and Book I yearlings the week before the sale and put the videos onto DVD. 99% of vets were happy with the DVD, which saved a lot of hardship and heartbreak.”

Week Ten In the last week at home simulate the box at the sales, close up the top door and see how the horse reacts to the inability to put its head out.

Ensure it gets lots of sales practice at home and

Bill Dwan emphasises the need to give each animal the time it needs

invite friends in to see the yearling pulled in and out.

When shipping, less is often best and many do not recommend bandages, which can lead to more accidents through slipping than are caused by their absence. It is important to keep stress levels to a minimum.

At The Sales It is recommended by all consignors to arrive at the sale two days early to enable the yearling to settle in and relax, although at many sales this isn’t always possible. With so many horses on view it is worth paying attention to the extra details to bring buyers to your door. Smartly dressed staff wearing jackets with the vendor’s logo can often catch the eye and many vendors enhance their box area with potted plants. It is also vital to have the box door well marked, with the yearling’s pedigree and any pedigree updates clearly visible to passers-by.

Presentation is important and a clean, oiled bridle, with the catalogue number visible on a clip-on disc, will catch the eye of not only the person inspecting the horse, but others walking past. Many recommend brushing baby oil into the mane and tail of the yearling, to prevent straw from sticking, and the feet should be kept clean and picked. Ted Voute has found from experience that the fitting of hind shoes can often help to sell a horse. “Buyers like to hear the ring of all four shoes, you can hear a good walker,” he advises. Many vendors fit the hind shoes on the day of the sale itself.

First impressions are vital, as buyers, and agents in particular, are short on time and usually reach a decision within 30 seconds of seeing a horse. A frequently aired complaint is the lack of attendants with a horse. Be ready to show your horse as early as possible and have enough staff so that someone is present and able to show the horse at all times.

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DATA BOOK STAKES RESULTS

European Pattern 4 PRIX DJEBEL G3 MAISONS-LAFFITTE. April 4. 3yoc&g. 1400m.

1. STYLE VENDOME (FR) 9-2 £32,520 b c by Anabaa - Place Vendome (Dr Fong) O-Comte Andre de Ganay B-G Pariente TR-N Clement 2. Snowday (FR) 9-2 £13,008 b c by Falco - Oceanique (Forest Wildcat) O/B-Wertheimer et Frere TR-C Laffon-Parias 3. Penny’s Picnic (IRE) 9-2 £9,756 bbr c by Kheleyf - Zerky (Kingmambo) O-Comte Guillaume de Saint-Seine, Thierry Delegue B-F Montauban TR-D Guillemin Margins 2.5, short neck. Time 1:25.98.

Going Good to soft.

Age 2-3

Starts 5

Wins 4

Places 1

Earned £95,295

Sire: ANABAA. Sire of 86 Stakes winners. In 2013 STYLE VENDOME Dr Fong G3.

1st Dam: Place Vendome by Dr Fong. 3 wins at 2 , 2nd Prix Ronde de Nuit LR. Dam of 1 winner: 2009: Vendome Palace (c Barathea) Ran in France.

2010: STYLE VENDOME (c Anabaa) Sold 75,533gns yearling at ARAUG. 4 wins 2-3, Prix Djebel G3, Prix Francois Boutin LR, Prix Montenica LR, 2nd Prix Yacowlef LR. 2011: Prestige Vendome (c Orpen) unraced to date.

2012: Luxe Vendome (c Kendargent) 2nd Dam: Mediaeval by Medaaly. unraced. Dam of Maroon Machine (g Muhtathir: 2nd Criterium du Fonds Europeen de L’Elevage LR, Criterium du Languedoc LR).

Broodmare Sire: DR FONG. Sire of the dams of 8 SWs. In 2013 - STYLE VENDOME Anabaa G3.

STYLE VENDOME b c 2010 Danzig ANABAA b 92 Balbonella

Dr Fong PLACE VENDOME gr 04 Mediaeval

Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Admiral’s Voyage Pas de Nom Petitioner Vaguely Noble Gay Mecene Gay Missile Riverman Bamieres Bergamasque Roberto Kris S Sharp Queen Miswaki Spring Flight Coco La Investment Highest Honor Medaaly Dance of Leaves Primo Dominie Domino Queen The Queen of Soul

5 PRIX IMPRUDENCE G3 MAISONS-LAFFITTE. April 4. 3yof. 1400m.

1. WHAT A NAME (IRE) 9-0 £32,520 ch f by Mr Greeley - Bonnie Byerly (Dayjur) O-HH Sheikh Abdullah Bin Khalifa Al Thani B-Robert B Trussell Jr TR-M Delzangles 2. Holy Dazzle (GB) 9-0 £13,008 b f by Sunday Break - Belle Alicia (Smadoun) O-John Craig Paterson B-SCEA Des Prairies TR-JE Pease 3. Spinacre (IRE) 9-0 £9,756 gr f by Verglas - Spinamix (Spinning World) O-Ecurie La Boetie B-Mrs L Kelly TR-P Bary Margins Neck, neck. Time 1:26.67. Going Good to soft.

Age 2

Starts 4

Wins 2

Places 2

Earned £117,175

Sire: MR GREELEY. Sire of 48 Stakes winners. In 2013 - WHAT A NAME Dayjur G3.

1st Dam: Bonnie Byerly by Dayjur. Dam of 5 winners: 1999: No Pulp (f Silver Deputy) unraced.

2000: Risky Double (f Unbridled) unraced. Dam of Chagall (2nd Debutante S G3).

2001: Deaconess Bonnie (f Pulpit) unraced.

2003: DIABOLICAL (c Artax) 9 wins 2-5, Alfred G Vanderbilt H G2, 2nd Carter H G1, Frank J de Francis Memorial Dash S G1, 3rd Dubai Golden Shaheen S G1.

2004: MT ORIENT (c Orientate) 11 wins 3-7 in USA. 2005: (c Deputy Commander) 2006: MISCHIEVIOUS (f Maria’s Mon) Winner at 2.

2008: JEALOUSOFMYBOOGIE (f Speightstown) Winner at 3 in USA.

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2010: WHAT A NAME (f Mr Greeley). 2 wins 2-3, Prix La Rochette G3, Prix Imprudence G3, 2nd Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere G1.

2011: (f Galileo) 2012: (c Montjeu) 2nd Dam: PLENTY OF GRACE by Roberto. 8 wins 35, Yellow Ribbon H G1, 3rd Flower Bowl H G1.

Grandam of Grace Anatomy, Position A. Broodmare Sire: DAYJUR. Sire of the dams of 40 SWs. In 2013 - WHAT A NAME Mr Greeley G3.

The Mr Greeley/Dayjur cross has produced: WHAT A NAME G1, ZONA LR.

MAXIOS b h 2008 Tamerlane Donna Diana Konigsstuhl Tiepoletto Konigskronung Kronung MONSUN br 90 Literat Surumu Surama Mosella Authi Monasia Monacensia Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Nureyev Forli Special Thong MOONLIGHT’S BOX b 96 Raise A Native Mr Prospector Gold Digger Coup de Genie Halo Coup de Folie Raise The Standard Dschingis Khan

WHAT A NAME ch f 2010 Raise A Native Gold Digger Secretariat Secrettame Tamerett MR GREELEY ch 92 Bold Ruler Reviewer Broadway Long Legend Dancer’s Image Lianga Leven Ones Northern Dancer Danzig Pas de Nom Dayjur Mr Prospector Gold Beauty Stick To Beauty BONNIE BYERLY b/br 95 Hail To Reason Roberto Bramalea Plenty of Grace Key To The Mint Wings of Grace Far Beyond

7 GLADNESS S G3

Mr Prospector

Gone West

6 PRIX D’HARCOURT G2 LONGCHAMP. April 7. 4yo+. 2000m.

1. MAXIOS (GB) 5 8-11 £60,244 b h by Monsun - Moonlight’s Box (Nureyev) O/B-The Niarchos Family TR-JE Pease 2. Don Bosco (FR) 6 8-11 £23,252 ch h by Barathea - Perfidie (Monsun) O-Omar El Sharif B-Haras D’Etreham, Vision Bloodstock Ltd TR-D Smaga 3. Saga Dream (FR) 7 9-1 £11,098 gr g by Sagacity - Manixa (Manninamix) O-F Lemercier B-A Audouinm, F Landais, A Oger, B Audouin TR-F Lemercier Margins 0.75, 1.5. Time 2:04.48. Going Good.

Age 2-5

Starts 13

Wins 6

Places 1

Earned £197,996

Sire: MONSUN. Sire of 102 SWs. In 2013 - MAXIOS Nureyev G2, TRIPLE THREAT Lyphard G3.

1st Dam: Moonlight’s Box by Nureyev. unraced. Dam of 6 winners: 2001: BAGO (c Nashwan) Champion 2yo in Europe in 2003, Champion 3yo in Europe in 2004. 8 wins 2-4, Grand Prix de Paris G1, Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe G1, Prix Ganay G1, Prix Jean Prat G1, Criterium International G1, 2nd Tattersalls Gold Cup G1, 3rd International S G1, King George VI And Queen Elizabeth S G1, Grand Prix de SaintCloud G1, Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe G1. Sire.

2002: MILLION WISHES (f Darshaan) 3 wins 2-3.

2003: Silhouetting (g Hernando) 2004: BETA (f Selkirk) 2 wins at 2 in France, Criterium de Vitesse LR, 2nd Prix de Cabourg G3.

2006: (c A P Indy) Died as a foal.

2007: MAKANI (c A P Indy) 3 wins at 2 to 4 in France.

2008: MAXIOS (c Monsun) 6 wins 2-5, Prix d’Harcourt G2, La Coupe de Maisons-Laffitte G3, Prix Thomas Bryon G3, 2nd Grand Prix de Chantilly G2.

2009: MR MOONLIGHT (c Dansili) Winner at 3.

2010: Parallax (c Galileo) unraced to date.

2012: (f Galileo) 2nd Dam: COUP DE GENIE by Mr Prospector.

Champion 2yo filly in France in 1993. 4 wins 2-3, Prix de la Salamandre G1, Prix Morny G1, 3rd 1000 Guineas G1. Own sister to OCEAN OF WISDOM and MACHIAVELLIAN. Dam of DENEBOLA (f Storm Cat: Prix Marcel Boussac G1, 2nd Prix de la Foret G1, 3rd Prix Morny G1), SNAKE MOUNTAIN (g A P Indy: Aqueduct H G3, Queens County H G3, Stuyvesant H G3), LOVING KINDNESS (f Seattle Slew: Prix de Cabourg G3, 3rd Prix Morny G1), GLIA (f A P Indy: Prix Imprudence LR, Pebbles H LR, 2nd Mrs Revere S G2). Grandam of PEACE CAMP. Broodmare Sire: NUREYEV. Sire of the dams of 200 SWs. In 2013 - MAXIOS Monsun G2, FARRAAJ Dubai Destination G3, TEOPHILIP Teofilo LR.

CURRAGH. April 7. 4yo+. 7f.

1. CUSTOM CUT (IRE) 4 9-3 £31,707 b g by Notnowcato - Polished Gem (Danehill) O-SE Construction (Kent) Ltd B-Moyglare Stud Farm TR-George J Kent 2. Nephrite (GB) 4 9-3 £9,268 ch c by Pivotal - Cape Merino (Clantime) O-M Tabor, D Smith, Mrs J Magnier B-Templeton Stud, Cheveley Park Stud TR-AP O’Brien 3. La Collina (IRE) 4 9-0 £4,390 ch f by Strategic Prince - Starfish (Galileo) O-J Vasicek B-Manister House Stud TR-K Prendergast Margins 0.5, nose. Time 1:32.92 (slow 9.42).

Going Good to yielding.

Age 2-4

Starts 21

Wins 5

Places 7

Earned £75,781

Sire: NOTNOWCATO. Sire of 2 Stakes winners. In 2013 - CUSTOM CUT Danehill G3.

1st Dam: POLISHED GEM by Danehill. Winner at 2.

Own sister to DRESS TO THRILL. Dam of 2 winners: 2008: SAPPHIRE (f Medicean) 6 wins 3-4, British Champions F&M S G2, 2nd Pretty Polly S G1.

2009: CUSTOM CUT (g Notnowcato) Sold 4,761gns 2yo at GOHIT, 105,000gns 3yo at TAAUT. 5 wins 3-4, Gladness S G3.

2010: Amber Romance (f Bahamian Bounty) unraced.

2011: Free Eagle (c High Chaparral) unraced to date.

2012: (c Dark Angel) 2nd Dam: TRUSTED PARTNER by Affirmed. 3 wins at 2 and 3 Goffs Irish 1000 Guineas G1. Own sister to LOW KEY AFFAIR, EASY TO COPY, EPICURE’S GARDEN and Magical Cliche. Dam of DRESS TO THRILL (f Danehill: Matriarch S G1, 2nd Moyglare Stud S G1), Act of Defiance (g Caerleon: 3rd Tyros S LR). Third dam of LOVE LOCKDOWN. Broodmare Sire: DANEHILL. Sire of the dams of 220 SWs. In 2013 - MORE THAN SACRED More Than Ready G1, RUUD AWAKENING Bernardini G1, FENOMENO Stay Gold G2, FIX Iffraaj G2, MULAAZEM Dubai Destination G2, CUSTOM CUT Notnowcato G3, ROMANTIC MOON More Than Ready G3, STAR OF GISELLE Reset G3, TREBLE JIG Gone West G3.

CUSTOM CUT b g 2009 Lorenzaccio Helen Nichols Lomond Inchmurrin On Show Young Generation Cadeaux Genereux Smarten Up Blushing Groom Blush Rambler Nikitina Northern Dancer Danzig Pas de Nom His Majesty Razyana Spring Adieu Exclusive Native Affirmed Won’t Tell You Speak John Talking Picture Poster Girl Ahonoora

Inchinor NOTNOWCATO ch 02 Rambling Rose

Danehill POLISHED GEM b 03 Trusted Partner

8 PRIX LA FORCE G3 LONGCHAMP. April 7. 3yo. 2000m.

1. TRIPLE THREAT (FR) 9-2 £32,520 b c by Monsun - Drei (Lyphard) O-Team Valor B-Team Valor, Dary Barber TR-A Fabre 2. Sefri (USA) 9-2 £13,008 b c by Jazil - Taseel (Danzig) O-Hamdan Al Maktoum B-Shadwell Farm LLC TR-J-C Rouget

3. Ivan Grozny (FR) 9-2 £9,756 b c by Turtle Bowl - Behnesa (Suave Dancer) O-Ecurie de l’Etoile Bleue B-Mme L Kneip TR-D Rabhi Margins 0.75, 1. Time 2:04.16. Going Good.

Starts 5

Age 2-3

Wins 2

Places 3

Earned £67,083

Sire: MONSUN. Sire of 102 SWs. In 2013 - MAXIOS Nureyev G2, TRIPLE THREAT Lyphard G3.

1st Dam: Drei by Lyphard. Dam of 7 winners: 1996: TROIS (g Efisio) 3 wins at 3 and 4.

1997: TRIPLE SHARP (f Selkirk) 2 wins. Dam of Ellmau (3rd Superlative S G2), Nasri (2nd King Charles II S LR), Laureldean Express (2nd Criterium du Languedoc LR).

1998: DRY MARTINI (c Darshaan) 2 wins at 4 in Netherlands.

1999: PINA COLADA (f Sabrehill) 3 wins 2-3, Chandler H, 2nd San Clemente H G2.

2001: Mrs Marsh (f Marju) unraced. Dam of CANFORD CLIFFS (Irish 2000 Guineas G1, Lockinge S G1, Queen Anne S G1, St James’s Palace S G1, Sussex S G1, 2nd Sussex S G1, 3rd 2000 Guineas G1, Prix Morny G1).

2002: BALTIC DIP (f Benny The Dip) Winner at 2.

2004: Broader View (c Spectrum) unraced.

2006: EBIAYN (g Monsun) Winner at 4.

2007: Cape Codder (c Hawk Wing) 2009: Force Three (f Shirocco) unraced.

2010: TRIPLE THREAT (c Monsun) 2 wins 2-3 in France, Prix La Force G3.

2nd Dam: TRIPLE TIPPLE by Raise A Cup. 10 wins at 3-5, Wilshire H G2, 2nd Gamely H G1. Dam of Triode (f Sharpen Up: 2nd Oak Tree S LR, 3rd Premio Bagutta G3). Third dam of FLY BY ME. Broodmare Sire: LYPHARD. Sire of the dams of 202 SWs. In 2013 - TRIPLE THREAT Monsun G3.

TRIPLE THREAT b c 2010 Tamerlane Donna Diana Tiepoletto Konigskronung Kronung Literat Surumu Surama Authi Monasia Monacensia Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Court Martial Goofed Barra II Raise A Native Raise A Cup Spring Sunshine Nodouble Ameridouble Amerigo’s Fancy Dschingis Khan Konigsstuhl MONSUN br 90 Mosella

Lyphard DREI b 91 Triple Tipple

9 PRIX EDMOND BLANC G3 SAINT-CLOUD. April 9. 4yo+. 1600m.

1. SILAS MARNER (FR) 6 8-11 £32,520 b h by Muhtathir - Street Kendra (Kendor) O-Cuadra Montalban SRL B-R Phillips TR-J-C Rouget 2. Menardais (FR) 4 8-11 £13,008 b c by Canyon Creek - Madeleine’s Blush (Rahy) O-Mme Georges Sandor B-G Sandor TR-P Bary 3. Amaron (GB) 4 9-4 £9,756 ch c by Shamardal - Amandalini (Bertolini) O-Gestut Winterhauch B-Genesis Green Stud Ltd TR-Andreas Lowe Margins Short neck, 1.25. Time 1:48.30.

Going Soft.

Age 3-6

Starts 17

Wins 9

Places 6

Earned £163,954

Sire: MUHTATHIR. Sire of 20 Stakes winners. In 2013 - SILAS MARNER Kendor G3.

1st Dam: STREET KENDRA by Kendor. Winner at 3 in France. Dam of 8 winners: 1998: SOIREE DE VIENNE (f Marju) 4 wins 4-5 in Germany. Dam of Sina (2nd Wetten XXL Stutenpreis LR).

1999: Sara Baras (f Turtle Island) Winner at 3 in France, 3rd Prix Caravelle LR. Dam of BARACAS (INH Stallion Owners EBF Novice H Hurdle G2).

2001: High Street (f Desert Story) Ran in France.

2002: Eighth Avenue (c Octagonal) Winner at 3 in Germany, 3rd Markgraf Berthold Hurdle LR. 2003: Saronis (f Poliglote) 3 wins 2-3 in France, 3rd Prix Rose de Mai LR.

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2004: Street Lightning (f Best of The Bests) 2 wins at 2 and 3 in France, 2nd Prix des Jouvenceaux et des Jouvencelles LR. Broodmare.

2005: SONGBIRD (f Starborough) 3 wins over jumps in France.

2006: SIENA SERENADE (f Ballingarry) 2 wins.

2007: SILAS MARNER (c Muhtathir) Sold 98,039gns yearling at AROCT, 59,523gns 5yo at ARARC. 9 wins 3-6, Prix Edmond Blanc G3, Prix Point du Jour LR, Prix Luthier LR. 2008: Warrior (c Poliglote) 2011: Chasse Maree (f Muhtathir) unraced to date.

2012: (f Falco) 2nd Dam: STREET OPERA by Sadler’s Wells. 1 win at 3. Dam of STRETAREZ (c Saumarez: Prix Vicomtesse Vigier G2), STREET SHAANA (f Darshaan: Prix de Lutece G3, 3rd Prix de Royallieu G2). Grandam of SOURABAD, Street Entertainer.

Broodmare Sire: KENDOR. Sire of the dams of 46 SWs. In 2013 - SILAS MARNER Muhtathir G3.

SILAS MARNER b h 2007 Sharpen Up Doubly Sure Roberto Modena Mofida Lyphard Al Nasr Caretta Affirmed Affirmative Fable Fairway Fable Kalamoun Kenmare Belle of Ireland Gay Mecene Belle Mecene Djaka Belle Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge Habitat One Way Street Guillotina Diesis Elmaamul MUHTATHIR ch 95 Majmu

Kendor STREET KENDRA b 92 Street Opera

10 PRIX DE FONTAINEBLEAU G3 LONGCHAMP. April 14. 3yoc. 1600m.

11 1000 GUINEAS TRIAL G3 LEOPARDSTOWN. April 14. 3yof. 7f.

1. RAWAAQ (GB) 9-0 £31,707 b f by Invincible Spirit - Zaqrah (Silver Hawk) O-Hamdan Al Maktoum B-Shadwell Estate Co Ltd TR-DK Weld 2. What Style (IRE) 9-0 £9,268 ch f by Teofilo - Out of Time (Anabaa) O-C Jones B-Ennistown Stud TR-John M Oxx 3. Snow Queen (IRE) 9-0 £4,390 b f by Danehill Dancer - Bonheur (Royal Academy) O-Mrs David Nagle, Mrs John Magnier B-Barronstown Stud TR-AP O’Brien Margins 1.25, neck. Time 1:36.84 (slow 11.14).

Going Soft.

Age 2-3

Starts 5

2nd Dam: Istiqlal by Diesis. unraced. Dam of MUQBIL (c Swain: Greenham S G3, 3rd Belmont Breeders’ Cup H G2), Mostaqeleh (f Rahy: 2nd Prix de Sandringham G2). Grandam of MUTHABARA.

ZAQRAH b 01

Earned £84,187

2nd Dam: ASHTARKA by Dalsaan. 1 win at 3. Dam of ASHKALANI (c Soviet Star: Poule d’Essai des Poulains G1, Prix du Moulin G1, 2nd St James’s Palace S G1). Grandam of ASHIYLA, Ashkiyr.

Broodmare Sire: GREEN DESERT. Sire of the dams of 94 SWs. In 2013 - AMIRA’S PRINCE Teofilo G2, BATTLE OF MARENGO Galileo G3, GENGIS King’s Best G3.

GENGIS b c 2010 Mr Prospector Kingmambo

Miesque

KING’S BEST b 97 Lombard Allegretta Anatevka Green Desert ASHIYNA gr 00 Ashtarka

Danzig Foreign Courier Dalsaan Asharaz

Raise A Native Gold Digger Nureyev Pasadoble Agio Promised Lady Espresso Almyra Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Sir Ivor Courtly Dee Habitat Dumka Sicambre Vareta

Broodmare Sire: DARSHAAN. Sire of the dams of 203 SWs. In 2013 - SAJJHAA King’s Best G1, GLOBAL THRILL Big Shuffle G3, JUTLAND Halling G3.

The Big Shuffle/Darshaan cross has produced: GLOBAL THRILL G3, Global World LR. GLOBAL THRILL b c 2009

Green Desert

Foreign Courier

INVINCIBLE SPIRIT b 97 Kris Rafha Eljazzi Silver Hawk

Istiqlal

Roberto Gris Vitesse Diesis Wasnah

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Sir Ivor Courtly Dee Sharpen Up Doubly Sure Artaius Border Bounty Hail To Reason Bramalea Amerigo Matchiche II Sharpen Up Doubly Sure Nijinsky Highest Trump

12 WETTENLEIP FRUHJAHRSMEILE G3 DUSSELDORF. April 14. 4yo+. 1600m.

1. GLOBAL THRILL (GB) 4 8-11 £26,016 b c by Big Shuffle - Goonda (Darshaan) O/B-Gestut Auenquelle TR-J Hirchberger 2. Neatico (GER) 6 8-11 £8,943 b h by Medicean - Nicola Bella (Sadler’s Wells) O/B-Gestut Ittlingen TR-P Schiergen 3. Point Blank (GER) 5 8-11 £4,472 b h by Royal Dragon - Princess Li (Monsun) O-Stall Antanando B-F-P Von Auersperg, F Haffa TR-M Hofer Margins 1, 3.5. Time 1:41.00. Going Soft.

Age 2-4

Starts 9

Wins 3

Places 5

Earned £69,136

Sire: BIG SHUFFLE. Sire of 75 Stakes winners. In 2013 - GLOBAL THRILL Darshaan G3.

1st Dam: GOONDA by Darshaan. Winner at 3. Dam of 10 winners: 1997: Global Dancer (c Shareef Dancer). 4 wins 2-5 2nd Preis des Winterfavoriten G3.

1998: Global World (f Big Shuffle) Winner at 2 in Germany, 3rd Dortmunder Stutenpreis LR. Dam of GOATHEMALA (Racebets.com Stutenpreis G3, 3rd Diana Trial G2), GALANA (Henkel Trial LR).

1999: Global Pearl (f Acatenango) 2000: Global Star (c Big Shuffle) Died.

2001: Global Sun (f Big Shuffle) Died.

2002: GLOBAL HERO (g Big Shuffle) 11 wins in France, Germany.

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Boldnesian Reason To Earn Primera Prime Abord Homeward Bound Raise A Native Elevation White Peak Tudor Minstrel Strings Attached Timalin Mill Reef Shirley Heights Hardiemma Abdos Delsy Kelty Kaiseradler Windwurf Wiesenweihe Zank Gondel Goldhenne Bold Reasoning

Super Concorde BIG SHUFFLE b 84 Raise Your Skirts

Darshaan GOONDA b 92

Danzig

Sire: KING’S BEST. Sire of 52 SWs. In 2013 SAJJHAA Darshaan G1, GENGIS Green Desert G3.

1st Dam: Ashiyna by Green Desert. unraced. Dam of 2 winners: 2005: Ashkiyra (f Marju) unraced. Broodmare.

2006: ASHKANDI (c Sendawar) Winner at 3.

2008: (c Red Ransom) 2009: Baraket Fayrouz (f Barathea) 2010: GENGIS (c King’s Best) Sold 18,883gns yearling at AROCT. 4 wins 2-3, Prix de Fontainebleau G3, Prix Zeddaan LR.

2nd Dam: GRIMPOLA by Windwurf. 2 wins, Schwarzgold-Rennen G2. Own sister to GRIMBEAU. Dam of Golan Heights (g Shirley Heights: 2nd July Trophy S LR), Gryada (f Shirley Heights: 3rd Premio Dormello G3). Grandam of FAME AND GLORY, GONBARDA, GONFILIA, GONLARGO, GORLOR. Third dam of GRAVITATION, Farhh.

Broodmare Sire: SILVER HAWK. Sire of the dams of 72 SWs. In 2013 - RAWAAQ Invincible Spirit G3.

Age 2-3

Places 1

Earned £52,903

1st Dam: Zaqrah by Silver Hawk. Dam of 3 winners: 2006: ALMAZAR (g Green Desert) Winner in Greece.

2007: TURUQAAT (f Fantastic Light) Winner in Greece.

2009: Talween (f Nayef) unraced.

2010: RAWAAQ (f Invincible Spirit) 2 wins 2-3, Leopardstown 1000 Guineas Trial S G3, 2nd C L Weld Park S G3, 3rd Silken Glider S LR. 2011: (c Royal Applause)

RAWAAQ b f 2010

Wins 4

Places 2

Sire: INVINCIBLE SPIRIT. Sire of 63 Stakes winners.

In 2013 - SPIRIT SONG Kingston Rule G2, RAWAAQ Silver Hawk G3.

1. GENGIS (FR) 9-2 £32,520 b c by King’s Best - Ashiyna (Green Desert) O-Mlle Claire Stephenson B-Edy SRL TR-G Doleuze 2. Morandi (FR) 9-2 £13,008 gr c by Holy Roman Emperor - Vezina (Bering) O-Daniel-Yves Treves B-E Puerari TR-J-C Rouget 3. US Law (IRE) 9-2 £9,756 gr c by Lawman - Dookus (Linamix) O-Ecurie J-L Bouchard B-Ballylinch Stud TR-P Bary Margins 0.5, sh hd. Time 1:44.08. Going Very soft.

Starts 6

Wins 2

2003: GLOBAL RACER (c Big Shuffle) Winner at 3 in Germany.

2004: GLOBAL DREAM (c Seattle Dancer) 5 wins at 2-4, Maurice Lacroix-Trophy G2.

2005: GLOBAL ROSE (f Big Shuffle) 2 wins at 3.

2006: GLOBAL BEAUTY (f Tiger Hill) Winner at 2.

2008: Global Magic (f Lando) 2 wins at 3 in Germany, 2nd Premio Paolo Mezzanotte LR. 2009: GLOBAL THRILL (c Big Shuffle) Sold 16,856 gns yearling at BBAGS, 30,158gns 3yo at BBAGO. 3 wins 2-4, Fruhjahrs-Meile G3, 3rd Preis der Dreijahrigen LR. 2010: GLOBAL BANG (c Manduro) 2 wins at 2 in France, Germany.

2011: Global Wand (f Doyen) unraced to date.

2012: (c Lando)

Grimpola

13 BALLYSAX S G3 LEOPARDSTOWN. April 14. 3yo. 10f.

1. BATTLE OF MARENGO (IRE) 9-8 £31,707 b c by Galileo - Anna Karenina (Green Desert) O-M Tabor, D Smith, Mrs J Magnier B-Anna Karenina Syndicate TR-AP O’Brien 2. Sugar Boy (IRE) 9-3 £9,268 b c by Authorized - Steel Princess (Danehill) O-Richard Barnes B-Grangecon Stud TR-PJ Prendergast 3. Imperial Concorde (IRE) 9-3 £4,390 b c by High Chaparral - Irish Style (Mujadil) O-Dr R Lambe B-Rockfield Farm TR-DK Weld Margins 1.75, 1.5. Time 2:16.58 (slow 13.58).

Going Soft.

Age 2-3

Starts 5

Wins 4

Places 1

The Galileo/Green Desert cross has produced: WAS G1, BATTLE OF MARENGO G2, LAY TIME G2, Boxing Day LR, Precious Stone LR. BATTLE OF MARENGO b c 2010 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells

Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta Green Desert ANNA KARENINA b 03

1st Dam: ANNA KARENINA by Green Desert. 2 wins at 3 and 4, ISF Victor McCalmont EBF S LR. Own sister to Makam. Dam of 2 winners: 2009: Precious Stone (f Galileo) 3 wins at 3 and 4, 2nd Cooley S LR. 2010: BATTLE OF MARENGO (c Galileo) 4 wins at 2 and 3, Beresford S G2, Ballysax S G3, Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Trial S LR. 2011: (f Galileo) 2012: (f Galileo) 2nd Dam: SIMAAT by Mr Prospector. 1 win at 3. Dam of WINDSOR PALACE (c Danehill Dancer: Mooresbridge S G3), Al Ihsas (f Danehill: 2nd Queen Mary S G3), Sidereus (c Grand Lodge: 2nd Premio Roma Vecchia LR), Makam (f Green Desert: 2nd CTT & TB Owners of California H LR). Grandam of RABATASH, IUTURNA. Broodmare Sire: GREEN DESERT. Sire of the dams of 94 Stakes winners. In 2013 - AMIRA’S PRINCE Teofilo G2, BATTLE OF MARENGO Galileo G3, GENGIS King’s Best G3.

Danzig Foreign Courier Mr Prospector

Simaat Satiety

14 PRIX DE LA GROTTE G3 LONGCHAMP. April 14. 3yof. 1600m.

1. KENHOPE (FR) 9-0 £32,520 b f by Kendargent - Bedford Hope (Chato) O/B-G Pariente TR-H-A Pantall 2. Tasaday (USA) 9-0 £13,008 grro f by Nayef - Tashelka (Mujahid) O-Godolphin SNC B-Darley TR-A Fabre 3. Topaze Blanche (IRE) 9-0 £9,756 b f by Zamindar - Pearl Earrine (Kaldounevees) O-HH Sheikh Abdullah Bin Khalifa Al Thani B-Stilvi Compania Financiera SA TR-C Laffon-Parias Margins 1, head. Time 1:50.73. Going Very soft.

Age 2-3

Starts 7

Wins 3

Places 2

Earned £79,632

Sire: KENDARGENT. Sire of 5 Stakes winners. In 2013 - KENHOPE Chato G3.

1st Dam: Bedford Hope by Chato. Dam of 1 winner: 2010: KENHOPE (f Kendargent) 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix de la Grotte G3, 2nd Prix Thomas Bryon G3.

2011: Make Up (f Gentlewave) unraced to date.

2nd Dam: Bedford Flame by Doulab. unraced. Dam of BEDFORD SET (f Second Set: Schwarzgold Rennen LR, Preis der Ford Werke LR, Fahrhofer Stutenpreis LR, 3rd Henkel Rennen G2), BEDFORD FORREST (c Law Society: Prix Edellic LR, Preis der Munte Baunnernehmung LR, 2nd Premio Federico Tesio G3), Bedford Moon (c Platini: 2nd Preis der Firma Jungheinrich Gabelstapler LR). Grandam of Boccatus.

Broodmare Sire: CHATO. Sire of the dams of 1 Stakes winners. In 2013 - KENHOPE Kendargent G3.

KENHOPE b f 2010 Kenmare Kendor

Belle Mecene

KENDARGENT gr 03 Linamix Pax Bella

Earned £114,133

Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 133 Stakes winners. In 2013 BATTLE OF MARENGO Green Desert G3.

Fairy Bridge

GALILEO b 98

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Lombard Anatevka Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Sir Ivor Courtly Dee Raise A Native Gold Digger Our Native Beanery

Palavera Chato BEDFORD HOPE b 05 Bedford Flame

Local Talent Quick Blush Doulab Brilleaux

Kalamoun Belle of Ireland Gay Mecene Djaka Belle Mendez Lunadix Bikala Paulistana Northern Dancer Home Love Blushing Groom Quick Nurse Topsider Passerine Manado Electric Flash

15 PREMIO CARLO CHIESA G3 ROME. April 14. 3yo+f&m. 1200m.

1. BETTOLLE (ITY) 4 9-3 £28,455 b f by Blu Air Force - Happy Sue (City On A Hill) O-Scuderia Topeeka B-Dioscuri di Alduino, Giuseppe Botti TR-Jessica Lari 2. Clorofilla (IRE) 3 8-5 £12,520 b f by Refuse To Bend - Crudelia (Great Commotion) O-Scuderia Caldarola B-F Turri TR-M Gasparini 3. Onlyyouknowme (IRE) 5 9-3 £6,829 b m by Martino Alonso - Sopran New (Cozzene) O-Scuderia Quadrante Rosso B-Quadrante Rosso SRL TR-E Botti Margins 1.75, neck. Time 1:08.24. Going Good.

Age 2-4

Starts 13

Wins 5

Places 7

Earned £77,833

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DATA BOOK STAKES RESULTS

European Pattern Sire: BLU AIR FORCE. Sire of 6 Stakes winners. In 2013 - BETTOLLE City On A Hill G3.

1st Dam: Happy Sue by City On A Hill. Dam of 2 winners: 2008: WATERGATE (c Martino Alonso) Winner at 3 in Italy.

2009: BETTOLLE (f Blu Air Force) 5 wins 2-4, Premio Carlo Chiesa G3, 2nd Gran Premio Citta’ di Napoli LR, Premio Cancelli LR. 2010: Coin Flip (f Colossus) 2011: Fullmoon Party (f Daggers Drawn) unraced.

Broodmare Sire: CITY ON A HILL. Sire of the dams of 1 SW. In 2013 - BETTOLLE Blu Air Force G3.

BETTOLLE b f 2009 Roberto Arabia Son Ange Lady Godolphin Flying Needles Northern Dancer The Minstrel Fleur Buckpasser Sex Appeal Best In Show Blushing Groom Rahy Glorious Song Irish River Ville d’Amore Hanoof Riverman Lahib Lady Cutlass Fappiano Funun Toutski Red Ransom Sri Pekan BLU AIR FORCE b 97 Carillon Miss

City On A Hill HAPPY SUE b 2003 Fun Lover

16 PRIX PENELOPE G3 SAINT-CLOUD. April 16. 3yof. 2100m.

1. FEREVIA (IRE) 9-0 £32,520 b f by Motivator - Frynia (Cat Thief) O-Leonidas Marinopoulos B-Stilvi Compania Financiera SA TR-C Laffon-Parias 2. Baltic Baroness (GER) 9-0 £13,008 bl f by Shamardal - Born Wild (Sadler’s Wells) O/B-Gestut Ammerland TR-A Fabre 3. La Banderilla (FR) 9-0 £9,756 b f by Muhtathir - La Bandera (Bahhare) O-Scuderia Bolgheri B-Scuderia Bolgheri, Finsbury Bloodstock Limited TR-J Heloury Margins 1.75, head. Time 2:23.40.

Going Very soft.

Age 2-3

Starts 3

Wins 2

Places 0

Earned £40,024

Sire: MOTIVATOR. Sire of 11 Stakes winners. In 2013 - FEREVIA Cat Thief G3.

1st Dam: FRYNIA by Cat Thief. 2 wins at 3 in France.

Dam of 1 winner: 2010: FEREVIA (f Motivator) 2 wins at 3 in France, Prix Penelope G3.

2012: (f Duke of Marmalade) 2nd Dam: WAYWARD BOUND by Mr Prospector. 2 wins at 4 in USA. Own sister to LINE IN THE SAND and RAVINELLA. Grandam of YACHT WOMAN, WIND SURF, FOG ISLAND. Broodmare Sire: CAT THIEF. Sire of the dams of 6 Stakes winners. In 2013 - OVERBROOK Flanders Fields G1, FEREVIA Motivator G3.

FEREVIA b f 2010 Sadler’s Wells Montjeu

Floripedes

MOTIVATOR b 02 Gone West Out West Chellingoua Cat Thief FRYNIA b/br 05 Wayward Bound

Storm Cat Train Robbery Mr Prospector Really Lucky

Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Top Ville Toute Cy Mr Prospector Secrettame Sharpen Up Uncommitted Storm Bird Terlingua Alydar Track Robbery Raise A Native Gold Digger Northern Dancer Realty

17 NELL GWYN S G3 NEWMARKET. April 17. 3yof. 7f.

1. HOT SNAP (GB) 8-12 £34,026 ch f by Pivotal - Midsummer (Kingmambo) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-Sir Henry Cecil

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2. Sky Lantern (IRE) 9-1 £12,900 grro f by Red Clubs - Shawanni (Shareef Dancer) O-B Keswick B-Tally-Ho Stud TR-R Hannon 3. Winning Express (IRE) 8-12 £6,456 gr f by Camacho - Lady Fabiola (Open Forum) O-Milton Express Ltd B-Yeomanstown Stud TR-Ed McMahon Margins 2.25, 2.5. Time 1:24.39 (slow 1.89).

Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 2

Wins 2

Places 0

Earned £37,261

Sire: PIVOTAL. Sire of 100 Stakes winners. In 2013 AFRICAN STORY Gone West G3, HOT SNAP Kingmambo G3.

1st Dam: Midsummer by Kingmambo. Winner at 3, 2nd Bet Attheraces Oaks Trial LR. Dam of 4 winners: 2005: Spring Season (f Dansili) ran once.

2006: MIDDAY (f Oasis Dream) Champion older mare in England in 2010. 9 wins 2-5, Nassau S G1 (3 times), Yorkshire Oaks G1, Prix Vermeille G1, Breeders’ Cup F&M Turf G1, 2nd Juddmonte International S G1, Coronation Cup G1, Oaks S G1, Pretty Polly S G1, Breeders’ Cup F&M Turf G1, 3rd Irish Oaks G1, Prix de l’Opera G1.

2008: MIDSUMMER SUN (g Monsun) 3 wins 3-4.

2009: POPULAR (f Oasis Dream) Winner at 3.

2010: HOT SNAP (f Pivotal) 2 wins at 2 and 3, Nell Gwyn S G3.

2011: Posset (f Oasis Dream) unraced to date.

2012: (f Oasis Dream) 2nd Dam: Modena by Roberto. unraced. Dam of ELMAAMUL (c Diesis: Eclipse S G1, Irish Champion S G1, 2nd Juddmonte International S G1, 3rd Derby S G1), REAMS OF VERSE (f Nureyev: Fillies’ Mile S G1, Oaks S G1), MANIFEST (c Rainbow Quest: Yorkshire Cup G2), MODERN DAY (c Dayjur: King’s Cup H G3, 3rd Drill Hall S G2), MODERNISE (c Known Fact: Ascot H G3), HIGH WALDEN (f El Gran Senor: Matiara S LR, 2nd Santa Ana H G2), MODESTA (f Sadler’s Wells: Lady Godiva Fillies’ S LR), NOVELLARA (f Sadler’s Wells: Noel Murless S LR), Midsummer (f Kingmambo, see above). Grandam of CONFRONT, EAGLE POISE, MANY VOLUMES, CHASING STARS. Third dam of ZACINTO. Broodmare Sire: KINGMAMBO. Sire of the dams of 65 Stakes winners. In 2013 - SUPER COOL Fastnet Rock G1, HOT SNAP Pivotal G3, KITTEN’S POINT Kitten’s Joy G3, OLYMPIC OWEN Jay Peg G3, SKY KINGDOM Empire Maker G3.

The Pivotal/Kingmambo cross has produced: REGAL PARADE G1, BRAZILIAN BRIDE G3, HOT SNAP G3, Minute Limit LR, Safina LR. HOT SNAP ch f 2010 Northern Dancer Special Jefferson Marie d’Argonne Mohair Caro Cozzene Ride The Trails Bustino Stufida Zerbinetta Raise A Native Mr Prospector Gold Digger Nureyev Miesque Pasadoble Hail To Reason Roberto Bramalea Right Tack Mofida Wold Lass Nureyev Polar Falcon PIVOTAL ch 93 Fearless Revival

Kingmambo MIDSUMMER ch 00 Modena

18 CRAVEN S G3 NEWMARKET. April 18. 3yoc&g. 8f.

1. TORONADO (IRE) 9-1 £34,026 b c by High Chaparral - Wana Doo (Grand Slam) O-Sheikh Joaan Bin Hamad Al Thani B-Paul Nataf TR-R Hannon 2. Havana Gold (IRE) 8-12 £12,900 b c by Teofilo - Jessica’s Dream (Desert Style) O-Qatar Racing, CSH B-Sir Eric Parker TR-R Hannon 3. Dundonnell (USA) 8-12 £6,456 b c by First Defence - Family (Danzig) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-R Charlton Margins 4, neck. Time 1:35.19 (fast 0.11).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-3

Starts 4

Wins 4

Places 0

Earned £97,057

Sire: HIGH CHAPARRAL. Sire of 41 Stakes winners.

In 2013 - DUNDEEL Zabeel G1, SHOOT OUT Pentire G1, TORONADO Grand Slam G3.

Broodmare Sire: INDIAN RIDGE. Sire of the dams of 62 SWs. In 2013 - MULL OF KILLOUGH Mull of Kintyre G3, TICKLED PINK Invincible Spirit G3.

1st Dam: WANA DOO by Grand Slam. 2 wins at 2 and 3 in France. Dam of 2 winners: 2005: Seventh Cloud (f Septieme Ciel) 2007: WAN (g Tagula) Winner over jumps in France, Gran Steeplechase di Roma G3.

2008: Wedding Dance (f Chichicastenango) Ran in France.

2010: TORONADO (c High Chaparral) Sold 33,712 gns foal at ARDEC, 45,155gns yearling at ARAUG. 4 wins at 2 and 3, Champagne S G2, Craven S G3, Winkfield S LR. 2011: (c Bahri) 2012: (f Lope de Vega)

The Invincible Spirit/Indian Ridge cross has produced: SWISS SPIRIT G3, TICKLED PINK G3, REYKON LR, VARESE LR, Russian Soul LR, Sgarzulina LR, Spirit of Pearl LR.

2nd Dam: WEDDING GIFT by Always Fair. 2 wins in France, Prix Saraca LR, 3rd Prix du Calvados G3, Prix Vanteaux G3. Dam of CASAMENTO (c Shamardal: Racing Post Trophy G1, 2nd National S G1).

TICKLED PINK gr f 2009 Danzig Green Desert INVINCIBLE SPIRIT b 97 Kris Rafha Eljazzi Indian Ridge CASSANDRA GO gr 96 Rahaam

TORONADO b c 2010

Fairy Bridge

HIGH CHAPARRAL b 99 Darshaan Kasora Kozana

WANA DOO b 00 Wedding Gift

Gone West Bright Candles Always Fair Such Style

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Shirley Heights Delsy Kris Koblenza Mr Prospector Secrettame El Gran Senor Christmas Bonus Danzig Carduel Sassafras Regal Lady

19 ABERNANT S G3 NEWMARKET. April 18. 3yo+. 6f.

Starts 5

Wins 2

Secreto

Places 3

NEWMARKET. April 18. 4yo+. 9f.

1. MULL OF KILLOUGH (IRE) 7 9-1 £34,026 b g by Mull of Kintyre - Sun Shower (Indian Ridge) O-Invictus B-Owenstown Stud TR-Jane Chapple-Hyam 2. Stipulate (GB) 4 8-12 £12,900 b g by Dansili - Indication (Sadler’s Wells) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-Sir Henry Cecil 3. Bonfire (GB) 4 8-12 £6,456 b g by Manduro - Night Frolic (Night Shift) O-Highclere Thoroughbred Racing-Pocahontas B-Highclere Stud, Floors Farming TR-AM Balding Margins 1.5, 2.25. Time 1:48.58 (slow 0.58).

Going Good to firm.

Age 3-7

1. TICKLED PINK (IRE) 4 9-3 £34,026 gr f by Invincible Spirit - Cassandra Go (Indian Ridge) O-Trevor C Stewart B-T Stewart TR-Sir Henry Cecil 2. Jimmy Styles (GB) 9 9-6 £12,900 ch g by Inchinor - Inya Lake (Whittingham) O-Gwyn Powell, Peter Ridgers B-Barry Minty TR-CG Cox 3. Move In Time (GB) 5 9-6 £6,456 ch g by Monsieur Bond - Tibesti (Machiavellian) O-A Turton, J Blackburn, R Bond B-Bond Thoroughbred Corporation TR-David O’Meara Margins 2, 2.75. Time 1:09.88 (fast 0.42).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-4

Hillbrow

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Sir Ivor Courtly Dee Sharpen Up Doubly Sure Artaius Border Bounty Lorenzaccio Helen Nichols Swing Easy Golden City Northern Dancer Betty’s Secret Mr Prospector Street’s Glory

20 EARL OF SEFTON S G3

Northern Dancer

Grand Slam

Ahonoora

Fager’s Glory

Broodmare Sire: GRAND SLAM. Sire of the dams of 11 SWs. In 2013 - TORONADO High Chaparral G3.

Sadler’s Wells

Foreign Courier

Earned £39,219

Sire: INVINCIBLE SPIRIT. Sire of 64 Stakes winners.

In 2013 - SPIRIT SONG Kingston Rule G2, RAWAAQ Silver Hawk G3, TICKLED PINK Indian Ridge G3.

1st Dam: CASSANDRA GO by Indian Ridge. 6 wins at 3 to 5, King’s Stand S G2, Temple S G2, 2nd July Cup G1. Sister to Grey Eminence. Dam of 5 winners: 2002: NEVERLETME GO (f Green Desert) 2 wins at 3.

2003: MANNIKKO (g Green Desert) Winner at 3.

2004: THEANN (f Rock of Gibraltar) 2 wins at 2 and 3, Summer S G3.

2005: HALFWAY TO HEAVEN (f Pivotal) 4 wins at 2 and 3, Irish 1000 Guineas G1, Nassau S G1, Sun Chariot S G1, 3rd Matron S G1, Poule d’Essai des Pouliches G1. Dam of Flying The Flag (2nd Futurity S G2).

2007: (c Shamardal) 2008: Velesgo (g Dansili) ran a few times.

2009: TICKLED PINK (f Invincible Spirit) 2 wins at 3 and 4, Abernant S G3.

2010: Jayed Jidan (c Teofilo) unraced to date.

2012: (f Pivotal) 2nd Dam: RAHAAM by Secreto. 1 win at 3. Dam of CASSANDRA GO (f Indian Ridge, see above), VERGLAS (c Highest Honor: Coventry S G3, 2nd Irish 2000 Guineas G1, 3rd Phoenix S G1), PERSIAN SECRET (f Persian Heights: Prix La Sorellina LR), Grey Eminence (c Indian Ridge: 2nd Cathedral S LR).

Grandam of DO THE HONOURS, PRIMA LUCE, OH BEAUTIFUL, SEBA. Third dam of FUTURE GENERATION.

Starts 25

Wins 8

Places 8

Earned £202,090

Sire: MULL OF KINTYRE. Sire of 15 Stakes winners.

In 2013 - MULL OF KILLOUGH Indian Ridge G3.

1st Dam: Sun Shower by Indian Ridge. Dam of 3 winners: 2006: MULL OF KILLOUGH (g Mull of Kintyre) 8 wins 3-7, Earl of Sefton S G3, Darley S G3, James Seymour S LR. 2007: Tashzara (f Intikhab) 2008: EXCELEBRATION (c Exceed And Excel) Champion 3yo colt in Germany, Champion older horse in Ireland. 8 wins 2-4, Queen Elizabeth II S G1, Prix du Moulin de Longchamp G1, Prix Jacques Le Marois G1, 2nd Lockinge S G1, Queen Anne S G1, Queen Elizabeth II S G1.

2009: ASCOT MAGIC (c Strategic Prince) 3 wins at 3 in India.

2010: (f Rebuttal). Died as a foal.

2011: (c Dancing Forever) 2012: (f Rebuttal) Broodmare Sire: INDIAN RIDGE. Sire of the dams of 62 SWs. In 2013 - MULL OF KILLOUGH Mull of Kintyre G3, TICKLED PINK Invincible Spirit G3.

MULL OF KILLOUGH b g 2006 Northern Dancer Danzig

Pas de Nom

MULL OF KINTYRE b 97 Easy Goer Retrospective Hay Patcher Indian Ridge SUN SHOWER br 01 Miss Kemble

Ahonoora Hillbrow Warning Sarah Siddons

Nearctic Natalma Admiral’s Voyage Petitioner Alydar Relaxing Hoist The Flag Turn To Talent Lorenzaccio Helen Nichols Swing Easy Golden City Known Fact Slightly Dangerous Le Levanstell Mariel

21 JOHN PORTER S G3 NEWBURY. April 20. 4yo+. 12f 5yds.

1. UNIVERSAL (IRE) 4 8-11 £34,026 ch c by Dubawi - Winesong (Giant’s Causeway) O-Abdulla Al Mansoori B-Grangecon Stud TR-Mark Johnston

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2. Quiz Mistress (GB) 5 8-9 £12,900 ch m by Doyen - Seren Quest (Rainbow Quest) O-The Fairy Story Partnership B-Deepwood Farm Stud TR-H Morrison 3. Noble Mission (GB) 4 8-11 £6,456 b c by Galileo - Kind (Danehill) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-Sir Henry Cecil Margins Head, head. Time 2:37.86 (slow 7.06).

Going Good to soft.

See race 41 later in this issue

22 FRED DARLING S G3 NEWBURY. April 20. 3yof. 7f.

1. MAUREEN (IRE) 9-0 £34,026 b f by Holy Roman Emperor - Exotic Mix (Linamix) O-Ahmad Alkhallafi B-C McEvoy TR-R Hannon 2. Agent Allison (GB) 9-0 £12,900 b f by Dutch Art - Loquacity (Diktat) O-Mrs Fitri Hay B-DR Botterill TR-PW Chapple-Hyam 3. Melbourne Memories (GB) 9-0 £6,456 b f by Sleeping Indian - Three Decades (Invincible Spirit) O-MP Coleman, RJ Coleman B-MP Coleman, RJ Coleman TR-CG Cox Margins 0.75, 1.5. Time 1:25.45 (slow 2.45).

Going Good to soft.

Age 2-3

Starts 5

Wins 3

Places 1

1st Dam: ACIDANTHERA by Alzao. Winner at 3. Dam of 4 winners: 2000: (c Pursuit of Love) 2001: Margaret’s Dream (f Muhtarram) 2002: PACIFIC STAR (g Tagula) 2 wins at 3 in Spain.

2004: HE’S A HUMBUG (g Tagula) 4 wins 2-5.

2005: Vica Pota (f King Charlemagne) 2006: MISTER DEE BEE (g Orpen) 4 wins.

2008: Gekko (g Iffraaj) 2009: Apsaty Kyz (f Iffraaj) unraced.

2010: OLYMPIC GLORY (c Choisir) Sold 61,904gns yearling at DNPRM. 5 wins 2-3, Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere G1, Vintage S G2, Superlative S G2, Greenham S G3, 2nd Coventry S G2.

Broodmare Sire: ALZAO. Sire of the dams of 99 SWs. In 2013 - OLYMPIC GLORY Choisir G3.

The Choisir/Alzao cross has produced: OLYMPIC GLORY G1, LUNA NEL POZZO LR. OLYMPIC GLORY b c 2010 Danehill Danehill Dancer

Lunchtime Great Selection Pensive Mood

Earned £78,839

Sire: HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR. Sire of 24 Stakes winners. In 2013 - MAUREEN Linamix G3.

1st Dam: Exotic Mix by Linamix. Own sister to Belle Famille. Dam of 3 winners: 2008: GLASS MOUNTAIN (g Verglas) 2 wins at 3.

2009: ROEDEAN (f Oratorio) 4 wins at 3.

2010: MAUREEN (f Holy Roman Emperor) Sold 16,420gns yearling at GOOY1. 3 wins at 2 and 3, Fred Darling S G3, Princess Margaret S G3, 2nd Cherry Hinton S G2.

2011: (c Duke of Marmalade) 2012: (f Duke of Marmalade) 2nd Dam: EXOCET by Deposit Ticket. 1 win at 3 in USA. Dam of SPINOLA (f Spinning World: Cherry Hinton S G2), SHOT TO FAME (g Quest For Fame: Silver Trophy S G3), Belle Famille (f Linamix: 2nd Prix Joubert LR). Grandam of KIRKINOLA, Eldandy.

Broodmare Sire: LINAMIX. Sire of the dams of 68 SWs. In 2013 - MAUREEN Holy Roman Emperor G3.

MAUREEN b f 2010 Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Razyana Spring Adieu HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR b 04 Bold Ruler Secretariat Somethingroyal L’On Vite Northern Dancer Fanfreluche Ciboulette Bellypha Mendez Miss Carina Linamix Breton Lunadix Lutine EXOTIC MIX gr 03 Northern Baby Deposit Ticket Propositioning Exocet General Assembly Parliament House Welsh Garden Danzig

Danehill

23 GREENHAM S G3

Alzao ACIDANTHERA b 95 Amaranthus

Age 2-3

Starts 6

Wins 5

Places 1

Earned £290,246

Sire: CHOISIR. Sire of 50 Stakes winners. In 2013 HISTORIAN Marauding G1, OLYMPIC GLORY Alzao G3, ROYALSECURITYBABY Marscay G3.

Lyphard Lady Rebecca Shirley Heights Amaranda

24 DR BUSCH-MEMORIAL G3 KREFELD. April 21. 3yo. 1700m.

1. CHOPIN (GER) 9-2 £26,016 b c by Santiago - Caucasienne (Galileo) O-Gestut Graditz B-Gestut Graditz TR-A Wohler 2. Global Bang (GER) 9-2 £8,943 b c by Manduro - Goonda (Darshaan) O-Gestut Auenquelle B-Gestut Auenquelle TR-M Hofer 3. Ideal (GER) 9-2 £4,472 b c by Areion - Intschu Tschuna (Lando) O-Gestut Hof Warendorf B-Gestut Hof Warendorf TR-FJ Leve Margins 8, neck. Time 1:43.71. Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 3

Wins 2

Places 1

Earned £30,516

Sire: SANTIAGO. Sire of 1 Stakes winners. In 2013 CHOPIN Galileo G3.

Age 2-4

Starts 20

Wins 4

Places 10

Earned £73,183

Sire: ORPEN. Sire of 70 SWs. In 2013 - ORPELLO Almutawakel G3, SABAYON Fitzcarraldo G3.

1st Dam: PRINCESS ANGELINA by Almutawakel. 3 wins at 2 and 3 in Italy. Dam of 2 winners: 2009: ORPELLO (c Orpen) 4 wins 2-4 in Italy, Premio Ambrosiano G3, 3rd Gran Premio d’Italia LR. 2010: MAN OF THE WORLD (c Refuse To Bend) 2 wins at 2 and 3 in Italy.

2012: (c Champs Elysees) 2nd Dam: RAINSTONE by Rainbow Quest. 1 win at 3 in Belgium. Dam of Gipsy Rose Lee (f Marju: 2nd Princess Margaret S G3).

Broodmare Sire: ALMUTAWAKEL. Sire of the dams of 1 Stakes winners. In 2013 - ORPELLO Orpen G3.

ORPELLO b c 2009 Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Alydar Endear Chappaquiddick ORPEN b 96 Halo Devil’s Bag Ballade Bonita Francita Hoist The Flag Raise The Standard Natalma Mr Prospector Machiavellian Coup de Folie Almutawakel Green Desert Elfaslah Fair of The Furze PRINCESS ANGELINA b 04 Blushing Groom Rainbow Quest I Will Follow Rainstone Empery Emaline Chere Alise Danzig

26 PRIX NOAILLES G2 LONGCHAMP. April 22. 3yoc&f. 2100m.

1. TABLEAUX (USA) 9-2 £60,244 ch c by Giant’s Causeway - Golden Antigua (Hansel) O-D Smith, M Tabor B-Galleria Bloodstock TR-A Fabre 2. Kapour (IRE) 9-2 £23,252 b c by Toylsome - Kitcat (Monsun) O/B-SCEA Haras de Saint Pair TR-F Rohaut 3. Art Contemporain (USA) 9-2 £11,098 gr c by Smart Strike - Super Lina (Linamix) O-Ecurie J-L Bouchard B-Dream With Me Stables TR-P Bary Margins 0.5, short neck. Time 2:19.07.

Going Good to soft.

Age 2-3

Broodmare Sire: GALILEO. Sire of the dams of 13 Stakes winners. In 2013 - ARCETRI PINK Rock of Gibraltar G3, CHOPIN Santiago G3, REHN’S NEST Authorized G3.

Sire: GIANT’S CAUSEWAY. Sire of 116 SWs. 2013 BLUERIDGE MOUNTAIN Distant View G1, FED BIZ Wild Again G2, GIANT’S STEPS Hennessy G2, TABLEAUX Hansel G2, CIAO BELLA French Deputy G3.

CHOPIN b c 2010

1st Dam: GOLDEN ANTIGUA by Hansel. 9 wins 2-5, Nicole S (twice), 2nd Premio Torricola LR, Top Corsage S LR. Dam of 6 winners: 2004: GIANT GIZMO (c Giant’s Causeway) 6 wins at 2-4, Lone Star Park H G3, Alysheba S G3. Sire.

2005: Thunder Dragon (c Golden Missile) Unplaced.

2006: Slick Pardoned Me (g Skip Away) 10 wins 2-7, 3rd Tejano Run S. 2007: GOLDIE’S MISSILE (f Golden Missile) Winner at 2 in USA. 2008: KUHLU (f Ghostzapper) 2 wins at 3 in USA. 2009: VINDI MAN (c Vindication) 2 wins 3-4 in USA. 2010: TABLEAUX (c Giant’s Causeway) 1 win at 3 in France, Prix Noailles G2.

Kenmare Highest Honor

High River

SANTIAGO gr/ro 02 Lomitas Serenata Secret Energy Galileo CAUCASIENNE b 03 Carousel Girl

Sadler’s Wells Urban Sea Gulch Carnet Solaire

Kalamoun Belle of Ireland Riverman Hairbrush Niniski La Colorada Alwuhush Energy Square Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Miswaki Allegretta Mr Prospector Jameela Sharpen Up Konafa

25 PREMIO AMBROSIANO G3 MILAN. April 21. 4yo+. 2000m.

1. ORPELLO (IRE) 4 8-11 £22,764 b c by Orpen - Princess Angelina (Almutawakel) O-Effevi B-Deni SRL, Effevi SNC TR-S Botti

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TABLEAUX ch c 2010 Northern Dancer South Ocean Secretariat Terlingua Crimson Saint GIANT’S CAUSEWAY ch 97 Blushing Groom Rahy Glorious Song Mariah’s Storm Roberto Immense Imsodear Mr Prospector Woodman Playmate Hansel Dancing Count Count On Bonnie Buena Notte GOLDEN ANTIGUA ch 97 Green Dancer Greinton Crystal Queen Greinette Ribot Ribonette Sweet Sovereign Storm Bird

Storm Cat

27 BET365 MILE S G2 SANDOWN PARK. April 26. 4yo+. 8f 14yds.

1. TRUMPET MAJOR (IRE) 4 9-0 £51,039 b c by Arakan - Ashford Cross (Cape Cross) O-John Manley B-John Cullinan TR-R Hannon 2. Highland Knight (IRE) 6 9-0 £19,350 b g by Night Shift - Highland Shot (Selkirk) O-JC Smith B-Littleton Stud TR-AM Balding 3. Chil The Kite (GB) 4 9-0 £9,684 b c by Notnowcato - Copy-Cat (Lion Cavern) O-Hazel Lawrence, Graham Doyle B-Whitsbury Manor Stud, Pigeon House Stud TR-H Morrison Margins 1.25, 1.25. Time 1:45.34 (slow 5.24).

Going Good.

Lure

1st Dam: CAUCASIENNE by Galileo. 2 wins at 4.

Dam of 1 winner: 2009: California (f King’s Best) 2010: CHOPIN (c Santiago) Dr Busch-Memorial G3.

2011: Chartbreaker (c Shirocco) unraced to date.

2012: (c King’s Best)

NEWBURY. April 20. 3yoc&g. 7f.

1. OLYMPIC GLORY (IRE) 9-0 £34,026 b c by Choisir - Acidanthera (Alzao) O-Sheikh Joaan Bin Hamad Al Thani B-Denis McDonnell TR-R Hannon 2. Sir Patrick Moore (FR) 9-0 £12,900 gr c by Astronomer Royal - America Nova (Verglas) O-The Astronomers B-SF Bloodstock LLC TR-Harry Dunlop 3. Moohaajim (IRE) 9-0 £6,456 b c by Cape Cross - Thiella (Kingmambo) O-Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalifa Al Maktoum B-Castlemartin Stud, Skymarc Farm TR-M Botti Margins 1, 0.75. Time 1:26.14 (slow 3.14).

Going Good to soft.

Mira Adonde

CHOISIR ch 99

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

2. Vola E Va (GB) 4 8-11 £10,016 b c by Oratorio - Veronica Franco (Lomitas) O-Scuderia Blueberry B-Razza Del Sole Societa Agricola Srl TR-B Grizzetti 3. Delicatezza (GB) 4 8-8 £5,463 b f by Danehill Dancer - Wickwing (In The Wings) O-Scuderia Francesca B-La Tesa SPA TR-E Botti Margins 4, 3. Time 2:20.50. Going Heavy.

Starts 4

Wins 1

Places 3

Age 2-4

Starts 15

Wins 6

Places 4

Earned £197,148

Sire: ARAKAN. Sire of 2 Stakes winners. In 2013 TRUMPET MAJOR Cape Cross G2.

1st Dam: Ashford Cross by Cape Cross. unraced.

Dam of 2 winners: 2008: MODEL BLACK (f Trade Fair) 2 wins in France.

2009: TRUMPET MAJOR (c Arakan) Sold 16,856gns yearling at TISEP. 6 wins at 2 to 4, Champagne S G2, Bet365 Mile G2, Craven S G3, Thoroughbred S G3, 2nd Winkfield S LR. 2011: (c Arakan) 2012: (f Arakan) 2nd Dam: RISEN RAVEN by Risen Star. 6 wins at 2 and 3 in Germany, GP Dusseldorf Preis der Stadt Sparkasse G2, Preis der Diana G2. Dam of Rinconada (f Lavirco: 2nd IVG Euro Select Preis LR).

Grandam of RASTIGNANO, Amazonas.

Broodmare Sire: CAPE CROSS. Sire of the dams of 11 Stakes winners. In 2013 - TRUMPET MAJOR Arakan G2, SHUKA Bachelor Duke G3.

TRUMPET MAJOR b c 2009 Nearctic Natalma Forli Special Thong Kris Common Grounds Sweetly Ardross City Ex Rythmique Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier Ahonoora Park Appeal Balidaress Secretariat Risen Star Ribbon Judger Aurania Sys Superstar Northern Dancer Nureyev ARAKAN br 00 Far Across

Earned £70,614

Cape Cross ASHFORD CROSS b 03 Risen Raven

28 CLASSIC TRIAL S G3 SANDOWN PARK. April 26. 3yo. 10f 7yds.

Broodmare Sire: HANSEL. Sire of the dams of 9 SWs. In 2013 - TABLEAUX Giant’s Causeway G2.

1. SUGAR BOY (IRE) 9-0 £34,026 b c by Authorized - Steel Princess (Danehill) O-Richard Barnes B-Grangecon Stud TR-PJ Prendergast 2. Eye of The Storm (IRE) 9-0 £12,900 ch c by Galileo - Mohican Princess (Shirley Heights) O-M Tabor, D Smith, Mrs J Magnier B-K Molloy TR-AP O’Brien 3. Galileo Rock (IRE) 9-0 £6,456 ch c by Galileo - Grecian Bride (Groom Dancer) O-Michael O’Flynn B-Rockfield Farm TR-David Wachman Margins Head, 0.5. Time 2:12.26 (slow 6.46).

Going Good.

The Giant’s Causeway/Hansel cross has produced: TABLEAUX G2, GIANT GIZMO G3.

Age 2-3

2nd Dam: Greinette by Greinton. unraced. Dam of GOLDEN ANTIGUA (f Hansel, see above).

Starts 8

Wins 4

Places 4

Earned £92,844

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DATA BOOK STAKES RESULTS

European Pattern Sire: AUTHORIZED. Sire of 6 SWs. 2013 - REHN’S NEST Galileo G3, SUGAR BOY Danehill G3.

1st Dam: STEEL PRINCESS by Danehill. 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix Cleopatre G3. Dam of 2 winners: 2006: Costebelle (g Cape Cross) unraced.

2007: SARAH LYNX (f Montjeu) 3 wins 3-4 in Canada, France, Canadian International S G1.

2008: Bo Hengy (g Dalakhani) 2009: Anklet (f Acclamation) ran twice.

2010: SUGAR BOY (c Authorized) 4 wins at 2 and 3, bet365 Classic Trial G3, Eyrefield S LR, 2nd Ballysax S G3.

2012: (c Rip Van Winkle) 2nd Dam: Champaka by Caerleon. unraced. Dam of STEEL PRINCESS (f Danehill, see above), Falcon Rock (g Hawk Wing: 2nd Jim Murray H G2 (twice), 3rd Hollywood Turf Cup S G1), Vision of Grandeur (c Grand Lodge: 3rd Ballycullen S LR, 2nd Midmar Premier’s Trophy G2).

Broodmare Sire: DANEHILL. Sire of the dams of 221 Stakes winners. In 2013 - MORE THAN SACRED More Than Ready G1, RUUD AWAKENING Bernardini G1, FENOMENO Stay Gold G2, FIX Iffraaj G2, MULAAZEM Dubai Destination G2, CUSTOM CUT Notnowcato G3, MOREISH More Than Ready G3, ROMANTIC MOON More Than Ready G3, STAR OF GISELLE Reset G3, SUGAR BOY Authorized G3, TREBLE JIG Gone West G3.

AUTHORIZED b 04 Funsie

Danehill STEEL PRINCESS b 01 Champaka

Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge Top Ville Floripedes Toute Cy Rainbow Quest Saumarez Fiesta Fun Lyphard Vallee Dansante Green Valley Northern Dancer Danzig Pas de Nom His Majesty Razyana Spring Adieu Nijinsky Caerleon Foreseer Mill Reef Fleur Royale Sweet Mimosa

29 GORDON RICHARDS S G3 SANDOWN PARK. April 27. 4yo+. 10f 7yds.

1. AL KAZEEM (GB) 5 9-0 £34,026 b h by Dubawi - Kazeem (Darshaan) O-DJ Deer B-DJ And Mrs Deer TR-R Charlton 2. Thomas Chippendale (IRE) 4 9-0 £12,900 br c by Dansili - All My Loving (Sadler’s Wells) O-Sir Robert Ogden B-Premier Bloodstock TR-Sir Henry Cecil 3. Ektihaam (IRE) 4 9-0 £6,456 b g by Invincible Spirit - Liscune (King’s Best) O-Hamdan Al Maktoum B-B Cooke TR-R Varian Margins 1, neck. Time 2:10.18 (slow 4.38).

Going Good.

Age 2-5

Starts 9

Wins 4

Places 4

1st Dam: Kazeem by Darshaan. Ran 3 times at 2 and 3. Own sister to Treasurer. Dam of 3 winners: 2003: (f Medicean) 2004: AZEEMA (f Averti) Winner at 3.

2005: King’s Kazeem (f King’s Best) 2006: PARK LANE (g Royal Applause) 4 wins.

2007: Fire Up (f Motivator) 2008: AL KAZEEM (c Dubawi) 4 wins 2-5, Jockey Club S G2, Gordon Richards S G3, 2nd Great Voltigeur S G2, St Simon S G3, Arc Trial G3.

2009: Sanctioned (g Authorized) ran 3 times.

2010: Kazak (c Royal Applause) in training.

2013: (c Makfi) 2nd Dam: KANZ by The Minstrel. 2 wins, Princess Elizabeth S G3, 2nd Yorkshire Oaks G1. Dam of Treasurer (c Darshaan: 3rd Peter Pan S G2).

Broodmare Sire: DARSHAAN. Sire of the dams of 203 Stakes winners. In 2013 - SAJJHAA King’s Best G1, AL KAZEEM Dubawi G3, GLOBAL THRILL Big Shuffle G3, JUTLAND Halling G3.

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Dubai Millennium DUBAWI b 02 Zomaradah

Darshaan KAZEEM b 98 Kanz

2009: PASTORIUS (c Soldier Hollow) Champion 3yo colt in Germany in 2012, Champion 3yo in Europe in 2012 (9.5-10.5f.). 6 wins 2-4, Prix Ganay G1, Grosser Dallmayr Bayerisches Zuchtrennen G1, Deutsches Derby G1, Herzog von Ratibor Rennen G3, Preis der Deutschen Einheit G3, 2nd Winterfavorit-Trial LR, 3rd Grosser Preis von Baden G1.

2011: (f Sholokhov) Broodmare Sire: MONSUN. Sire of the dams of 23 SWs. In 2013 - PASTORIUS Soldier Hollow G1.

PASTORIUS b c 2009

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SOLDIER HOLLOW b 00 Island Race

ROME. April 28. 3yoc. 1600m.

1. BEST TANGO (ITY) 9-2 £48,780 b c by Mujahid - Nikita Tango (Sicyos) O/B-Elia Tanghetti TR-Gianluca Bietolini 2. Fairy Nayef (GB) 9-2 £21,463 b c by Nayef - Fairy Sensazione (Fairy King) O/B-Scuderia Blueberry TR-B Grizzetti 3. Lodovico Il Moro (IRE) 9-2 £11,707 b c by Shamardal - Kykuit (Green Desert) O/B-Allevamento La Nuova Sbarra TR-L Riccardi Margins 0.5, 1.25. Time 1:38.40. Going Good to soft.

Starts 7

Wins 4

Places 2

Earned £81,624

Sire: MUJAHID. Sire of 20 Stakes winners. In 2013 BEST TANGO Sicyos G3, BACCHELLI Kendor LR. 1st Dam: NIKITA TANGO by Sicyos. 3 wins at 2 in Italy. Dam of 2 winners: 2008: Katanga Tango (f Dr Devious) unraced.

2009: BONJOUR TANGO (f Denon) 2 wins at 2 in Italy.

2010: BEST TANGO (c Mujahid) 4 wins 2-3 in Italy, Premio Parioli G3, 2nd Premio Vittorio Riva LR. 2011: Divina Tango (f Ramonti) unraced to date.

Broodmare Sire: SICYOS. Sire of the dams of 19 Stakes winners. In 2013 - BEST TANGO Mujahid G3.

BEST TANGO b c 2010 Nearctic Natalma Admiral’s Voyage Pas de Nom Petitioner Storm Bird Storm Cat Terlingua Fappiano Bubbles Darlene Moment’s Prayer Northern Dancer Lyphard Goofed Habitat Sigy Satu Nonoalco Nikos No No Nanette Rose Laurel Diamarella Daisy Mae Northern Dancer Danzig MUJAHID b 96 Elrafa Ah

Sicyos NIKITA TANGO ch 02 Diamanika

31 PRIX GANAY G1 LONGCHAMP. April 28. 4yo+. 2100m.

1. PASTORIUS (GER) 4 9-2 £139,366 b c by Soldier Hollow - Princess Li (Monsun) O-Stall Antanando B-Franz Prinz Von Auersperg, Florian Haffa TR-Mario Hofer 2. Maxios (GB) 5 9-2 £55,756 b h by Monsun - Moonlight’s Box (Nureyev) O-The Niarchos Family B-The Niarchos Family TR-JE Pease 3. Dunaden (FR) 7 9-2 £27,878 b h by Nicobar - La Marlia (Kaldounevees) O-Pearl Bloodstock Ltd B-Count Edouard Decazes TR-M Delzangles Margins 1, 1. Time 2:08.39. Going Good.

Age 2-4

Starts 12

Wins 6

Places 5

Earned £632,522

Sire: SOLDIER HOLLOW. Sire of 4 Stakes winners. In 2013 - PASTORIUS Monsun G1.

1st Dam: PRINCESS LI by Monsun. 3 wins at 3 and 4 in Germany, Italy. Dam of 3 winners: 2006: PRINCESS LALA (f Royal Dragon) Winner at 4 in Germany.

2008: Point Blank (c Royal Dragon) 3 wins at 2 to 4 in Germany, 2nd Premio del Piazzale G3, 3rd Grosse Europa Meile G2.

Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Shirley Heights High Hawk Sunbittern Kris Common Grounds Sweetly Caerleon Lake Isle Inisfree Dschingis Khan Konigsstuhl Konigskronung Surumu Mosella Monasia Green Dancer Suave Dancer Suavite Bellypha Princess Nana Alys

the German 2,000 Guineas, and then Arcadio, who was third in the 2006 Deutsches Derby after becoming a Gr2 winner over 11 furlongs.

Pastorius’s fifth dam, Bessie Wallis, won the Houghton Stakes. Bessie Wallis’s second dam, Tudor Love, numbers the Deutsches Derby winners Lagunas and Lavirco among her many successful descendants in Germany, which also include Lomitas.

Sadler’s Wells In The Wings

Earned £171,461

Sire: DUBAWI. Sire of 56 Stakes winners. In 2013 HUNTER’S LIGHT Barathea G1, AHZEEMAH Entrepreneur G3, AL KAZEEM Darshaan G3, UNIVERSAL Giant’s Causeway G3.

Mr Prospector Con Game Shareef Dancer Colorado Dancer Fall Aspen Shirley Heights Deploy Slightly Dangerous Dancing Brave Jawaher High Tern Mill Reef Shirley Heights Hardiemma Abdos Delsy Kelty Northern Dancer The Minstrel Fleur Rough’n Tumble Treasure Chest Iltis

Seeking The Gold

Age 2-3

SUGAR BOY b c 2010 Montjeu

AL KAZEEM b h 2008

Monsun PRINCESS LI b 00 Princess Dancer

With only two crops of racing age, Soldier Hollow finished second on Germany’s leading sires’ list in 2012, despite having only 39 runners.

Nineteen of those 39 were winners and among them were the Listed winners Dessau and Sworn Sold, the Group-placed Salon Soldier and the smart Kassiano, who did so well in France and Germany that he was recruited to Saeed bin Suroor’s team.

The Gestut Auenquelle stallion also enjoyed stakes success with Old Pal, winner of the Derby and St Leger in Norway. However, the undoubted star of Soldier Hollow’s 51-strong first crop was Pastorius.

Although he started at 25-1 when he won the Deutsches Derby, Pastorius quickly confirmed that his win had been no fluke. A close third to Danedream in the Grosser Preis von Baden, he comfortably defeated the Gr1 winner Durban Thunder in a Gr3 event at Hoppegarten. The German colt looks likely to do even better at four, judging by his defeat of a strong collection of French defenders in the Prix Ganay.

Soldier Hollow appears to represent good value at his 2013 fee of €10,000. The son of In The Wings enjoyed a long and distinguished racing career, which saw him become a dual Gr1 winner over middle distances in both Germany and Italy.

He also defeated Manduro to take the Gr2 Prix Dollar. Even so, Soldier Hollow hasn’t found things easy. His second crop numbers only 25 foals, and only 13 yearlings from his third crop were offered for sale in 2012.

Pastorius seems to be equally effective over a mile and a quarter and a mile and a half. His dam, the Monsun mare Princess Li, was a middledistance performer who won once in Germany and twice in Italy. Monsun sired two Group winners from another mare from this family, namely the Royal Academy mare Assia. This halfsister to Pastorius’s third dam, the German 1,000 Guineas winner Princess Nana, firstly produced Assiun, a Gr3 winner who was third in

32 PRIX DE BARBEVILLE G3 LONGCHAMP. April 28. 4yo+. 3100m.

1. LAST TRAIN (GB) 4 8-13 £32,520 b c by Rail Link - Rainbow Lake (Rainbow Quest) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-A Fabre 2. Verema (FR) 4 8-11 £13,008 b f by Barathea - Vermentina (Darshaan) O-HH The Aga Khan B-Haras De Son Altesse L’Aga Khan Scea TR-A de Royer-Dupre 3. Domeside (GB) 7 8-11 £9,756 b h by Domedriver - Buck’s Fizz (Kris) O-Safsaf Canarias Srl B-Appleby Lodge Stud TR-M Delcher-Sanchez Margins Head, short neck. Time 3:30.44. Going Good.

Age 3-4

Starts 7

Wins 2

Places 4

Earned £177,487

Sire: RAIL LINK. Sire of 4 Stakes winners. In 2013 LAST TRAIN Rainbow Quest G3.

1st Dam: RAINBOW LAKE by Rainbow Quest. 3 wins at 3, Lancashire Oaks G3. Dam of 7 winners: 1995: BRIMMING (c Generous) 3 wins at 3.

1996: Barbican (c Caerleon) Ran twice in NHFR. 1997: UNAWARE (g Unfuwain) 7 wins.

1998: Polish Lake (f Polish Precedent) unraced.

1999: Lake of Dreams (g Polish Precedent) Unplaced.

2000: POWERSCOURT (c Sadler’s Wells). 5 wins at 2-5, Tattersalls Gold Cup G1, Arlington Million S G1, 2nd Prince of Wales’s S G1, Racing Post Trophy G1, Grosser Dallmayr-Preis G1, 3rd Irish St Leger G1, Irish Champion S G1, Breeders’ Cup Turf G1. Sire.

2001: KIND (f Danehill) 6 wins 3-4, Kilvington S LR, Flower of Scotland S LR, 3rd Ballyogan S G3.

Dam of FRANKEL (Juddmonte International S G1, Champion S G1, Dewhurst S G1, Lockinge S G1, Queen Anne S G1, Queen Elizabeth II S G1, St James’s Palace S G1, Sussex S G1 (twice), 2000 Guineas G1), NOBLE MISSION (Gordon S G3, 2nd King Edward VII S G2), BULLET TRAIN (Derby Trial S G3).

2002: Marella (f Desert Prince) ran once. Broodmare.

2003: Electric Storm (c Zafonic) ran 3 times.

2004: WESTLAKE (c Sadler’s Wells) 3 wins at 3.

2006: Endless (f Sadler’s Wells) unraced.

2008: ARIZONA JEWEL (f Dansili) Winner at 3.

2009: LAST TRAIN (c Rail Link) 2 wins 3-4, Prix de Barbeville G3, 2nd Grand Prix de Paris G1, 3rd Prix Niel G2.

2010: Riposte (f Dansili) 2011: Colourful (f Champs Elysees) unraced to date.

2nd Dam: Rockfest by Stage Door Johnny. 2 wins at 2, 2nd Oaks Trial S G3. Dam of RAINBOW LAKE (f Rainbow Quest, see above), VERTEX (c Shirley Heights: Premio Ezio Vanoni LR), Climber (c Bold Lad: 3rd Grand Prix de Bruxelles LR).

Broodmare Sire: RAINBOW QUEST. Sire of the dams of 152 Stakes winners. In 2013 - JAVA’S WAR War Pass G1, LAST TRAIN Rail Link G3.

LAST TRAIN b c 2009 Danzig Razyana Kahyasi Hasili Kerali Nureyev Theatrical Tree of Knowledge Riverman Dockage Golden Alibi Red God Blushing Groom Runaway Bride Herbager I Will Follow Where You Lead Prince John Stage Door Johnny Peroxide Blonde Roan Rocket Rock Garden Nasira Danehill

Dansili RAIL LINK b 03 Docklands

Rainbow Quest RAINBOW LAKE b 90 Rockfest

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33 FRUHJAHRS-PREIS DES BANKHAUSES METZLER G3 FRANKFURT. April 28. 3yo. 2000m.

1. VIF MONSIEUR (GER) 9-2 £26,016 b c by Doyen - Vive Madame (Big Shuffle) O-F Van Gorp B-Frau U Herberts TR-J Hirchberger 2. Lucky Speed (IRE) 9-2 £8,943 b c by Silvano - Lysuna (Monsun) O-Stall Hornoldendorf B-Gestut Ittlingen TR-P Schiergen 3. Noble Galileo (GER) 9-2 £4,472 B c by Galileo - Nordtanzerin (Danehill Dancer) O-Eckhard Sauren B-Gestut Wittekindshof TR-Mario Hofer Margins 2.5, 3.5. Time 2:14.10. Going Soft.

Age 2-3

Starts 3

Wins 2

Places 1

Earned £47,349

Sire: DOYEN. Sire of 10 Stakes winners. In 2013 VIF MONSIEUR Big Shuffle G3.

1st Dam: VIVE MADAME by Big Shuffle. 3 wins at 3 and 4 in Germany. Own sister to Vive La Reine and Vive La Vie. Dam of 3 winners: 2008: VIVE PAOLO (c Paolini) 3 wins.

2009: VIVE LUMIERE (f Ransom O’War) Winner at 3 in Germany.

2010: VIF MONSIEUR (c Doyen) 2 wins at 2 and 3 in Germany, Fruhjahrs-Preis des Bankhauses Metzler G3.

2011: Vif Garcon (c Doyen) unraced to date.

2012: Vif Ma Fille (f Doyen) 2013: Vif Mon Fils (c Soldier Hollow) 2nd Dam: Vallauris by Surumu. unraced. Dam of VILETTA (f Doyen: Winterkonigin Trial LR, 3rd Preis der Winterkonigin G3), Vive La Reine (f Big Shuffle: 3rd Preis des Porsche Zentrum Koln LR), Vive La Vie (f Big Shuffle: 2nd Henkel Trial LR).

2001: Russian Love (f Machiavellian) 2002: ARCHANGE D’OR (c Danehill) 4 wins at 3 in France, Prix Eugene Adam G2. Sire.

2004: RUSSIAN DESERT (c Desert Prince) 3 wins, Prix Matchem LR, 3rd Prix Eugene Adam G2.

2005: RUSSIAN CROSS (c Cape Cross) 4 wins 2-5, Prix Guillaume d’Ornano G2.

2007: RUSSIAN SYMBOL (f Danehill Dancer) Winner at 3 in France.

2008: Something Strange (f Holy Roman Emperor) Ran in France.

2010: ESOTERIQUE (f Danehill Dancer) 2 wins at 3 in France, Prix Vanteaux G3.

2011: (c Lawman) 2nd Dam: High And Dry by High Line. 1 win at 2, 3rd Waterford Candelabra S G3. Grandam of COOL CREEK, CATHY’S STAR, Encanto Park, Yo Claudio, Chilldown. Third dam of MILES RULES, P TOWN JOHN, ITALIAN BOY, S’Il Vous Plait. Fourth dam of RIVERTIME, STORM OF WIND. Broodmare Sire: DANCING BRAVE. Sire of the dams of 70 Stakes winners. In 2013 - RAVE Oratorio G1, CLARENTE Dance In The Dark G3, ESOTERIQUE Danehill Dancer G3.

ESOTERIQUE b f 2010 Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Razyana Spring Adieu DANEHILL DANCER b 93 Atan Sharpen Up Rocchetta Mira Adonde Caro Lettre d’Amour Lianga Northern Dancer Lyphard Goofed Dancing Brave Drone Navajo Princess Olmec DIEVOTCHKA b 89 High Hat High Line Time Call High And Dry Match II Photo Flash Picture Light Danzig

Danehill

Broodmare Sire: BIG SHUFFLE. Sire of the dams of 21 SWs. In 2013 - VIF MONSIEUR Doyen G3.

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VIF MONSIEUR b c 2010 Sadler’s Wells DOYEN b 00 Moon Cactus

Big Shuffle VIVE MADAME b 02 Vallauris

Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special Sharpen Up Kris Doubly Sure Mill Reef Lady Moon Moonlight Night Bold Reasoning Super Concorde Prime Abord Elevation Raise Your Skirts Strings Attached Literat Surumu Surama Northern Baby Valseuse Salva

Age 3

34 PRIX VANTEAUX G3 LONGCHAMP. April 28. 3yof. 1850m.

1. ESOTERIQUE (IRE) 9-0 £32,520 b f by Danehill Dancer - Dievotchka (Dancing Brave) O-Baron Edouard De Rothschild B-Ecurie de Meautry TR-A Fabre 2. Silasol (IRE) 9-0 £13,008 b f by Monsun - Stormina (Gulch) O/B-Wertheimer et Frere TR-C Laffon-Parias 3. Pearlside (FR) 9-0 £9,756 b f by Alhaarth - Prickly Pearl (Lahib) O-Safsaf Canarias Srl B/TR-M Delcher-Sanchez Margins 1.5, short head. Time 1:53.72. Going Good.

Age 3

Starts 2

Wins 2

Places 0

ROME. April 28. 3yof. 1600m.

1. DANCER DESTINATION (GB) 8-11 £48,780 b f by Dubai Destination - Mara Dancer (Shareef Dancer) O/B-Scuderia Blueberry TR-B Grizzetti 2. Grand Treasure (IRE) 8-11 £21,463 b f by Aussie Rules - Lizzey Letti (Grand Lodge) O-Dream Horse SRL B-Gestut Schlenderhan TR-G Colella 3. Clorofilla (IRE) 8-11 £11,707 b f by Refuse To Bend - Crudelia (Great Commotion) O-Vincenzo Caldarola B-Francesca Turri TR-M Gasparini Margins 1.5, nose. Time 1:37.96. Going Good to soft.

Earned £42,683

Sire: DANEHILL DANCER. Sire of 147 Stakes winners. In 2013 - STEPS IN TIME O’Reilly G2, ESOTERIQUE Dancing Brave G3.

1st Dam: Dievotchka by Dancing Brave. unraced.

Dam of 10 winners: 1995: RUSSIAN HOPE (c Rock Hopper). 11 wins 26, Grand Prix de Deauville G2.

1996: RUSSIAN SHIFT (g Night Shift) 9 wins in France.

1997: RUSSIAN TYCOON (c Last Tycoon) 2 wins at 3.

1999: DIEVOTCHKINA (f Bluebird) 2 wins at 3 in France.

2000: RUSSIAN HILL (f Indian Ridge) 2 wins at 3 and 5 in France, Grand Prix de Compiegne LR, 2nd Prix de Royallieu G2, Prix Corrida G2. Dam of Russian Soul (3rd Meydan Sprint LR).

Starts 3

Wins 2

Places 1

Earned £59,414

Sire: DUBAI DESTINATION. Sire of 23 Stakes winners. In 2013 - MULAAZEM Danehill G2, DANCER DESTINATION Shareef Dancer G3, FARRAAJ Nureyev G3.

1st Dam: Mara Dancer by Shareef Dancer. 3 wins at 2 and 4 in Italy, 2nd Premio Carlo Chiesa LR, Premio Verziere LR. Dam of 4 winners: 2002: Aldance (c Alzao) ran on the flat in Italy.

2003: MARA SPECTRUM (f Spectrum) 5 wins at 2 to 4 in Italy, Premio Pietro Bessero LR. 2004: Celebre Dancer (f Peintre Celebre) unraced.

2005: Wing Dancer (c Hawk Wing) unraced.

2006: MARA CHAPARRAL (f High Chaparral) Winner at 2 in Italy.

2007: Dancer Cat (c One Cool Cat) 7 wins, 2nd Criterium Varesino LR, 2nd Corsa Siepi dei 4 Anni Hurdle G2.

2008: Rundancer (c Hurricane Run) unraced.

2010: DANCER DESTINATION (f Dubai Destination) 2 wins at 3 in Italy, Premio Regina Elena G3.

2011: Nayef Dancer (c Nayef) unraced to date.

2012: Rail Dancer (c Rail Link) 2nd Dam: Cu Na Mara by Never So Bold. 7 wins, 2nd EBF Laidlaw Debutante S LR. Dam of Mara Dancer (f Shareef Dancer, see above).

Broodmare Sire: SHAREEF DANCER. Sire of the dams of 66 Stakes winners. In 2013 - DANCER DESTINATION Dubai Destination G3.

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DANCER DESTINATION b f 2010 Raise A Native Gold Digger Kingmambo Nureyev Miesque Pasadoble DUBAI DESTINATION b 99 Hoist The Flag Alleged Princess Pout Mysterial Seattle Slew Mysteries Phydilla Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Shareef Dancer Sir Ivor Sweet Alliance Mrs Peterkin MARA DANCER b 96 Bold Lad Never So Bold Never Never Land Cu Na Mara Windjammer Sound of The Sea Running Cedar Mr Prospector

36 PRIX ALLEZ FRANCE G3

The Galileo/Danehill cross has produced: BANC DE FORTUNE G1, CIMA DE TRIOMPHE G1, CUIS GHAIRE G1, FRANKEL G1, GOLDEN LILAC G1, MAYBE G1, RODERIC O’CONNOR G1, TEOFILO G1, NOBLE MISSION G2, REEM G2, ROMANTICA G2, CRYSTAL GAL G3, LAGALP G3, SIDERA G3, INTELLO LR, MISS GALILEI LR, VIA GALILEI LR, Galileo’s Destiny G1, Gile Na Greine G1, Scintillula G1, The Assayer G1, Brightest G3, Claiomh Solais G3, Marksmanship G3, Acteur Celebre LR, Amerique LR, Pageboy LR. ROMANTICA b f 2009 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells

Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta

CHANTILLY. April 29. 4yo+f&m. 2000m.

1. ROMANTICA (GB) 4 9-2 £32,520 b f by Galileo - Banks Hill (Danehill) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-A Fabre 2. Harem Lady (FR) 4 8-7 £13,008 b f by Teofilo - Luminosity (Sillery) O-R Nahas B-Vision Bloodstock Ltd TR-D Smaga 3. Victorinna (FR) 5 8-7 £9,756 ch m by Gentlewave - Marcela Howard (Fasliyev) O-Leonidas Marinopoulos B-BF Leclere, Mme R Leclere, V Voisin TR-C Laffon-Parias Margins 0.5, 1. Time 2:04.30. Going Good.

Fairy Bridge

GALILEO b 98

Danzig

Danehill BANKS HILL b 98

Razyana Kahyasi

Hasili

Kerali

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Lombard Anatevka Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Ile de Bourbon Kadissya High Line Sookera

37 SAGARO S G3 ASCOT. May 1. 4yo+. 16f.

Age 3-4

Starts 7

Wins 3

Places 3

Earned £133,936

Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 134 SWs. In 2013 - BATTLE OF MARENGO Green Desert G3, ROMANTICA Danehill G3.

1st Dam: BANKS HILL by Danehill. Champion 3yo filly in Europe in 2001. 5 wins 2-4, Coronation S G1, Prix Jacques Le Marois G1, Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf G1, 2nd Poule d’Essai des Pouliches G1, Prix du Moulin de Longchamp G1 (twice), Prix Jacques Le Marois G1, Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf G1, 3rd Prince of Wales’s S G1, Prix d’Ispahan G1, Yellow Ribbon S G1. Own sister to INTERCONTINENTAL, CHAMPS ELYSEES, CACIQUE and DANSILI. Dam of 3 winners: 2004: Cavvy (c Kingmambo) unraced.

2005: IDEAL WORLD (c Kingmambo) 4 wins at 3 and 4 in France, Prix de Reux LR, Prix Pelleas LR, 2nd Prix Niel G2.

2006: TROJAN QUEEN (f Empire Maker) Winner at 4 in France.

2008: (c Giant’s Causeway) 2009: ROMANTICA (f Galileo) 3 wins 3-4, Prix de la Nonette G2, Prix Allez France G3, 2nd Prix Chloe G3, Prix de Psyche G3.

2010: Dumfriesshire (f Oasis Dream) unraced to date.

2nd Dam: HASILI by Kahyasi. 4 wins at 2 in France Prix des Sablonnets LR. Own sister to ARRIVE. Dam of INTERCONTINENTAL (f Danehill: Matriarch S G1, Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf G1, 3rd 1000 Guineas G1, Grand Criterium G1, John C Mabee H G1), CACIQUE (c Danehill: Manhattan H G1, Man O’War S G1, 2nd Grand Prix de Paris G1, Prix Jean Prat G1, United Nations S G1, Arlington Million S G1, Woodford Reserve Turf Classic S G1, 3rd Prix d’Ispahan G1), HEAT HAZE (f Green Desert: Matriarch S G1, Beverly D S G1, 2nd Diana H G1, 3rd Flower Bowl Invitational S G1), CHAMPS ELYSEES (c Danehill: Canadian International S G1, Hollywood Turf Cup S G1, Northern Dancer Turf S G1, 2nd Gran Premio del Jockey Club e Coppa d’Oro G1, Santa Anita H G1, Hollywood Turf Cup S G1, 3rd Pattison Canadian International S G1, Santa Anita H G1), BANKS HILL (f Danehill, see above), DANSILI (c Danehill: Prix du Muguet G2, 2nd Sussex S G1, Poule d’Essai des Poulains G1, Prix de la Foret G1, 3rd Prix du Moulin de Longchamp G1, P. Fresnay le Buffard Jacques Le Marois G1, Breeders’ Cup Mile G1), DELUXE (f Storm Cat: Cardinal H G3, 2nd Montjeu Prix Saint-Alary G1).

Broodmare Sire: DANEHILL. Sire of the dams of 221 SWs. In 2013 - MORE THAN SACRED More Than Ready G1, RUUD AWAKENING Bernardini G1, FENOMENO Stay Gold G2, FIX Iffraaj G2, MULAAZEM Dubai Destination G2, STAR OF GISELLE Reset G2, CUSTOM CUT Notnowcato G3, MOREISH More Than Ready G3, ROMANTIC MOON More Than Ready G3, ROMANTICA Galileo G3, SUGAR BOY Authorized G3, TREBLE JIG Gone West G3.

1. ESTIMATE (IRE) 4 8-9 £34,026 b f by Monsun - Ebaziya (Darshaan) O-The Queen B-HH The Aga Khan’s Studs SC TR-Sir Michael Stoute 2. Caucus (GB) 6 9-1 £12,900 b g by Cape Cross - Maid To Perfection (Sadler’s Wells) O/B-Normandie Stud Ltd TR-JHM Gosden 3. Sir Graham Wade (IRE) 4 8-12 £6,456 gr c by Dalakhani - Needwood Epic (Midyan) O-Paul Dean B-PD Savill TR-Mark Johnston Margins 1.75, 0.5. Time 3:28.32 (slow 5.82).

Going Good.

Age 2-4

Starts 6

Wins 3

Places 2

Earned £86,783

Sire: MONSUN. Sire of 102 SWs. In 2013 - MAXIOS Nureyev G2, ESTIMATE Darshaan G3, TRIPLE THREAT Lyphard G3.

1st Dam: EBAZIYA by Darshaan. 4 wins 2-3, Trigo S LR, Ballysax S LR, Oyster S LR, 2nd Killavullan S G3, 3rd Blandford S G2. Dam of 8 winners: 1994: EBADIYLA (f Sadler’s Wells) 3 wins at 3, Irish Oaks G1, Prix Royal Oak G1, 3rd Coronation Cup G1. Dam of EYSHAL (Centenary Vase LR, 3rd National S G1). Grandam of Ensaya (3rd Prix Panacee LR, Prix Vulcain LR).

1995: ENZELI (c Kahyasi). 6 wins, Ascot Gold Cup G1.

1996: EDABIYA (f Rainbow Quest). 2 wins at 2, Moyglare Stud S G1, 3rd Fillies’ Mile S G1.

1997: Ezbek (c Suave Dancer) 1998: Elapour (c Sadler’s Wells) 1999: EBARAYA (f Sadler’s Wells) Winner at 3.

2000: Elasouna (f Rainbow Quest) Winner at 2, 3rd Noblesse S LR. 2001: Ebareva (f Machiavellian) Unraced.

2002: Ebaza (f Sinndar). Dam of EMIYNA (f Maria’s Mon: 2 wins at 3, Athasi S G3) 2004: Elbasana (f Indian Ridge) Ran once.

2005: Erzen (g Daylami) 2 wins over hurdles, 2nd Sandown H Hurdle G3.

2006: Eytarna (f Dubai Destination) 2 wins at 3, 3rd Finale S LR. 2007: Edallora (f Refuse To Bend) 2009: ESTIMATE (f Monsun) 3 wins at 3 and 4, Sagaro S G3, Queen’s Vase G3, 3rd Park Hill S G2, Lillie Langtry S G3.

2nd Dam: EZANA by Ela-Mana-Mou. 1 win at 3 in France. Dam of EBAZIYA (f Darshaan, see above).

Grandam of EZIMA, Ezalli.

Broodmare Sire: DARSHAAN. Sire of the dams of 203 Stakes winners. In 2013 - SAJJHAA King’s Best G1, AL KAZEEM Dubawi G3, ESTIMATE Monsun G3, GLOBAL THRILL Big Shuffle G3, JUTLAND Halling G3.

The Monsun/Darshaan cross has produced: ESTIMATE G2, SUESTADO LR.

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DATA BOOK STAKES RESULTS

European Pattern ESTIMATE b f 2009 Dschingis Khan Konigsstuhl

Konigskronung

MONSUN br 90 Surumu Mosella Monasia Darshaan EBAZIYA b 89 Ezana

Shirley Heights Delsy Ela-Mana-Mou Evisa

Tamerlane Donna Diana Tiepoletto Kronung Literat Surama Authi Monacensia Mill Reef Hardiemma Abdos Kelty Pitcairn Rose Bertin Dan Cupid Albanilla

38 PRIX DU MUGUET G2 SAINT-CLOUD. May 1. 4yo+. 1600m.

1. DON BOSCO (FR) 6 8-11 £60,244 ch h by Barathea - Perfidie (Monsun) O-Omar El Sharif B-Haras D’Etreham, Vision Bloodstock Ltd TR-D Smaga 2. Sarkiyla (FR) 4 8-8 £23,252 b f by Oasis Dream - Sarlisa (Rainbow Quest) O/B-HH The Aga Khan TR-A de Royer-Dupre 3. Sofast (FR) 4 8-11 £11,098 ch c by Rock of Gibraltar - Beautifix (Bering) O/B-Wertheimer et Frere TR-F Head Margins Hd, sh nk. Time 1:39.00. Going Good to soft.

Age 3-6

Starts 32

Wins 9

Places 14

1st Dam: Perfidie by Monsun. unraced. Dam of 3 winners: 2007: DON BOSCO (c Barathea) Sold 38,515gns yearling at ARAUG. 9 wins 3-6, Prix du Muguet G2, Prix Gontaut-Biron G3, Prix Perth G3, Grand Prix de la Riviera Cote d’Azur LR, 2nd Prix d’Harcourt G2, Prix Exbury G3, Prix de Boulogne LR, GP Region Alsace LR, 3rd GP de Vichy G3, GP de Compiegne LR. 2008: VODKATO (g Russian Blue) 4 wins at 3 and 4 in France, Prix Lyphard LR. 2009: Orcus (c Russian Blue) 3 wins, 2nd Criterium du FEE LR, Criterium de Lyon LR. 2010: Clara Luna (f Muhtathir) unraced to date.

2011: Shayboob (c Rock of Gibraltar) unraced to date.

2012: (f Lawman) 2nd Dam: Pelagic by Rainbow Quest. 1 win at 3, 3rd Prix des Tuileries LR. Dam of PAMPA NEGRA (f Barathea: Prix Solitude LR), Zaragozo (c Zafonic: 3rd Prix Matchem LR).

Broodmare Sire: MONSUN. Sire of the dams of 23 SWs. In 2013 - PASTORIUS Soldier Hollow G1, DON BOSCO Barathea G2.

DON BOSCO ch h 2007 Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge

BARATHEA b 90 Habitat Brocade Canton Silk Monsun PERFIDIE b 2002 Pelagic

Konigsstuhl Mosella Rainbow Quest Fleet Girl

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Sir Gaylord Little Hut Runnymede Clouded Lamp Dschingis Khan Konigskronung Surumu Monasia Blushing Groom I Will Follow Habitat Fleet Noble

39 PRIX GREFFULHE G2 SAINT-CLOUD. May 4. 3yoc&f. 2000m.

1. OCOVANGO (GB) 9-2 £60,244 br c by Monsun - Crystal Maze (Gone West) O-Prince Faisal B-Watership Down TR-A Fabre 2. Bravodino (USA) 9-2 £23,252 bbr c by Dynaformer - Angel In My Heart (Rainbow Quest) O-The Niarchos Family B-Flaxman Holdings Ltd TR-JE Pease 3. Wire To Wire (FR) 9-2 £11,098 b c by Observatory - Sachet (Royal Academy) O-Ecurie IM Fares B-Haras de Manneville TR-J-C Rouget

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Age 2-3

Starts 3

Wins 3

Places 0

Earned £92,602

Sire: MONSUN. Sire of 102 SWs. In 2013 - MAXIOS Nureyev G2, OCOVANGO Gone West G2, ESTIMATE Darshaan G3, TRIPLE THREAT Lyphard G3.

1st Dam: Crystal Maze by Gone West. Unraced. Dam of 1 winner: 2010: OCOVANGO (c Monsun) Sold 147,783gns yearling at ARAUG. 3 wins 2-3, Prix Greffulhe G2, Prix Francois Mathet LR. 2011: If So Minded (f Shamardal) unraced to date.

2012: (f New Approach) 2013: (c Fastnet Rock) 2nd Dam: CRYSTAL MUSIC by Nureyev. 3 wins at 2 Fillies’ Mile S G1, 2nd Coronation S G1, Irish 1000 Guineas G1. Dam of Crystal Moment (g Distorted Humor: 3rd Evangeline Mile H LR), Treasury Devil (c Bernardini: 3rd Newmarket S LR), Crystany (f Green Desert: 2nd Kilvington S LR).

Broodmare Sire: GONE WEST. Sire of the dams of 98 Stakes winners. In 2013 - DISCREET DANCER Discreet Cat G2, OCOVANGO Monsun G2, AFRICAN STORY Pivotal G3, GOL TRICOLOR North Light G3, KUROSHIO Exceed And Excel G3.

OCOVANGO br c 2010

Earned £356,517

Sire: BARATHEA. Sire of 87 Stakes winners. In 2013 - DON BOSCO Monsun G2.

Sadler’s Wells

Margins 0.5, 2.5. Time 2:06.96. Going Good to soft.

Dschingis Khan Konigsstuhl

Konigskronung

MONSUN br 90 Surumu Mosella Monasia Gone West CRYSTAL MAZE b 04 Crystal Music

Mr Prospector Secrettame Nureyev Crystal Spray

Tamerlane Donna Diana Tiepoletto Kronung Literat Surama Authi Monacensia Raise A Native Gold Digger Secretariat Tamerett Northern Dancer Special Beldale Flutter Crystal Fountain

40 2000 GUINEAS S G1 NEWMARKET. May 4. 3yoc&f. 8f.

1. DAWN APPROACH (IRE) 9-0 £226,840 ch c by New Approach - Hymn of The Dawn (Phone Trick) O-Godolphin B-JS Bolger TR-JS Bolger 2. Glory Awaits (IRE) 9-0 £86,000 ch c by Choisir - Sandbox Two (Foxhound) O-A&A B-J Fisher TR-KA Ryan 3. Van Der Neer (GB) 9-0 £43,040 b c by Dutch Art - Lalectra (King Charlemagne) O-Saeed Manana B-Jeremy Green And Sons TR-R Hannon Margins 5, 2.25. Time 1:35.84 (slow 0.54).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-3

Starts 7

Wins 7

Places 0

Earned £593,029

Sire: NEW APPROACH. Sire of 5 Stakes winners. In 2013 - DAWN APPROACH Phone Trick G1, MONTSEGUR Flying Spur G3.

1st Dam: Hymn of The Dawn by Phone Trick. Dam of 2 winners: 2004: Fainne (f Peintre Celebre) Ran once.

2005: (c Lil’s Boy) 2006: COMADOIR (g Medecis) 3 wins 3-6.

2007: Wake Me Up (f Rock of Gibraltar) Unplaced.

2010: DAWN APPROACH (c New Approach) Champion 2yo in Europe in 2012. 7 wins at 2 and 3, Dubai Dewhurst S G1, Goffs Vincent O’Brien National S G1, Qipco 2000 Guineas G1, Coventry S G2, Alfred Nobel Rochestown S LR. 2011: Prudent Approach (f New Approach) Unraced to date.

2012: (c Vocalised) 2nd Dam: Colonial Debut by Pleasant Colony. Dam of Galantas (c Tale of The Cat: 2nd Galileo EBF Futurity G2, 2nd Sea O Erin H LR, 3rd Woodbine Mile S G1) Broodmare Sire: PHONE TRICK. Sire of the dams of 42 Stakes winners. In 2013 - DAWN APPROACH New Approach G1.

DAWN APPROACH ch c 2010 Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta NEW APPROACH ch 05 Lorenzaccio Ahonoora Helen Nichols Park Express Match II Matcher Lachine Icecapade Clever Trick Kankakee Miss Phone Trick Finnegan Over The Phone Prattle HYMN OF THE DAWN b 99 His Majesty Pleasant Colony Sun Colony Colonial Debut Alydar Kittihawk Miss Kittiwake

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Sadler’s Wells

Galileo

For the third successive year, a European Derby winner was responsible for the winner of the 2,000 Guineas, with Dawn Approach’s sire New Approach following in the footsteps of his own sire Galileo, sire of Frankel, and Montjeu, sire of Camelot. Does this make Dawn Approach an automatic Derby candidate like Camelot? A fairer comparison, on pedigree, would probably be Frankel, as both he and Dawn Approach are out of mares sired by sprinters. Of course, Frankel was never asked to tackle a distance as long as a mile and a half. However, pedigree isn’t the only criterion that needs taking into account.

Temperament is also vitally important and here Dawn Approach appears to be a very different type to the threeyear-old Frankel. Whereas Frankel’s headstrong tendencies effectively ruled out a trip to Epsom, Dawn Approach is much more relaxed and it is in his favour that he often reserves his best work for the closing stages.

All we can do at this stage is hope that Dawn Approach will stay. The bare facts are that New Approach won the Derby after failing by only a nose to defeat Henrythenavigator in the 2,000 Guineas. It is worth remembering that New Approach was never asked to tackle a mile and a half after the Derby, but it is Dawn Approach’s broodmare sire, Phone Trick, who is the main cause for doubt.

Phone Trick won nine of his ten starts, all over six or seven furlongs, and went on to sire an unbeaten champion twoyear-old colt in Favorite Trick, a champion juvenile filly in Phone Chatter, plus sprinters of the calibre of Caller One, Intidab and Mazel Trick.

The ray of hope comes from the fact that Dawn Approach’s next three dams are by Pleasant Colony, a winner of the first two legs of the American Triple Crown, Alydar, who was runnerup in all three legs of the American Triple Crown, and Sea-Bird II, arguably the best Derby winner ever seen.

The Sea-Bird mare in question is the excellent broodmare Kittiwake, a winner of 18 of her 54 starts in the days when American racehorses were super tough. Even though she raced no fewer than13 times as a two-yearold, she still progressed to win as many as eight stakes races.

Joshua Tree and the American filly Aruna are two other recent Gr1 middle-distance winners among her descendants.

NEWMARKET. May 4. 4yo+. 12f.

1. UNIVERSAL (IRE) 4 8-12 £56,710 ch c by Dubawi - Winesong (Giant’s Causeway) O-Abdulla Al Mansoori B-Grangecon Stud TR-Mark Johnston 2. Dandino (GB) 6 8-12 £21,500 br h by Dansili - Generous Diana (Generous) O-Australian Thoroughbred Bloodstock B-Elite Racing Club TR-Marco Botti 3. Wigmore Hall (IRE) 6 9-3 £10,760 b g by High Chaparral - Love And Laughter (Theatrical) O-MB Hawtin B-K And Mrs Cullen TR-MLW Bell Margins Neck, 2.5. Time 2:32.83 (slow 4.83).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-4

Starts 16

Wins 6

Places 5

Earned £147,996

Sire: DUBAWI. Sire of 57 Stakes winners. In 2013 HUNTER’S LIGHT Barathea G1, WILLOW MAGIC Tierce G1, UNIVERSAL Giant’s Causeway G2, AHZEEMAH Entrepreneur G3, AL KAZEEM Darshaan G3.

1st Dam: Winesong by Giant’s Causeway. Dam of 1 winner: 2008: Mancunian (g Motivator) 2009: UNIVERSAL (c Dubawi) Sold 134,850gns yearling at ARAUG. 6 wins 3-4, Jockey Club S G2, John Porter S G3.

2010: Madam Mo (f Motivator) 2011: Windward Passage (c Dubawi) unraced to date.

2012: (c Dark Angel) 2nd Dam: SUNSET CAFE by Red Sunset. 1 win at 3.

Own sister to BEESHI. Dam of SEAZUN (f Zieten: Cheveley Park S G1), Albertinelli (g Danehill: 3rd Celebration S LR, 2nd Premier’s Cup G3), Mahogany (c Orpen: 3rd Tyros S LR), Albert Einstein (c Danehill: 2nd Killavullan S G3).

Broodmare Sire: GIANT’S CAUSEWAY. Sire of the dams of 21 Stakes winners. In 2013 - VERRAZANO More Than Ready G1, SOFT FALLING RAIN National Assembly G2, UNIVERSAL Dubawi G2.

The Dubawi/Giant’s Causeway cross has produced: PRINCIPE ADEPTO G2, UNIVERSAL G2.

UNIVERSAL ch c 2009 Mr Prospector Con Game Shareef Dancer Colorado Dancer Fall Aspen DUBAWI b 02 Shirley Heights Deploy Slightly Dangerous Zomaradah Dancing Brave Jawaher High Tern Storm Bird Storm Cat Terlingua Giant’s Causeway Rahy Mariah’s Storm Immense WINESONG ch 02 Red God Red Sunset Centre Piece Sunset Cafe Espresso Cafe Au Lait Blue Sash Seeking The Gold

Dubai Millennium

42 PALACE HOUSE S G3 NEWMARKET. May 4. 3yo+. 5f.

1. SOLE POWER (GB) 6 9-0 £34,026 b g by Kyllachy - Demerger (Distant View) O-Mrs S Power B-G Russell TR-Edward Lynam 2. Kingsgate Native (IRE) 8 9-0 £12,900 b g by Mujadil - Native Force (Indian Ridge) O-Cheveley Park Stud B-Peter McCutcheon TR-RMH Cowell 3. Tangerine Trees (GB) 8 9-0 £6,456 b g by Mind Games - Easy To Imagine (Cozzene) O-Tangerine Trees Partnership B-Mrs BA Matthews TR-B Smart Margins 1, 1.25. Time 0:57.20 (fast 0.48).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-6

Starts 30

Wins 6

Places 14

Earned £613,594

Sire: KYLLACHY. Sire of 20 Stakes winners. In 2013 SOLE POWER Distant View G3.

1st Dam: Demerger by Distant View. unraced. Dam of 3 winners:

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2002: Cornus (g Inchinor) 15 wins, 2nd Cornwallis S G3.

2003: Be My Charm (f Polish Precedent) 2007: SOLE POWER (g Kyllachy) Sold 30,476gns yearling at DNSLY. Champion 3yo sprinter in Europe in 2010. 6 wins 2-6, Nunthorpe S G1, Temple S G2, Palace House S G3, Scarbrough S LR, 2nd Al Quoz Sprint G1, Temple S G2, Flying Five S G3, Grangecon Stud S LR, Meydan Sprint LR, 3rd King’s Stand S G1, Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp G1, Palace House S G3.

2008: Sonny Sunshine (f Royal Applause) Unraced.

2009: Sotka (f Dutch Art) Winner at 2 in France, 2nd Prix des Reves d’Or LR. 2011: Crafty Exit (c Mastercraftsman) Unraced to date.

2012: (c Exceed And Excel)

3rd 1000 Guineas G1. Own sister to Ala Mahlik.

Dam of BLATANT (g Machiavellian: Sheikh Maktoum Challenge I G3, 2nd Premio Vittorio di Capua G1, 3rd Queen Elizabeth II S G1), SONGLARK (g Singspiel: Prix Thomas Bryon G3, 2nd UAE Derby G2). Grandam of So Belle, Silver Grey.

Broodmare Sire: SHAREEF DANCER. Sire of the dams of 66 Stakes winners. In 2013 - SKY LANTERN Red Clubs G1, DANCER DESTINATION Dubai Destination G3.

RED CLUBS br 03 Two Clubs

Broodmare Sire: DISTANT VIEW. Sire of the dams of 18 Stakes winners. In 2013 - BLUERIDGE MOUNTAIN Giant’s Causeway G1, SOLE POWER Kyllachy G3.

Shareef Dancer SHAWANNI gr 93 Negligent

SOLE POWER b g 2007 Nureyev Marie d’Argonne Cozzene Fearless Revival Stufida Sing Sing Song Intent Crooner Moonlight Serenade March Moonlight Raise A Native Mr Prospector Gold Digger Irish River Seven Springs La Trinite Known Fact Warning Slightly Dangerous Laser Light Metair Treatisan

Pivotal KYLLACHY b 98 Pretty Poppy

Distant View DEMERGER b 97 Merida

43 1000 GUINEAS S G1 NEWMARKET. May 5. 3yof. 8f.

1. SKY LANTERN (IRE) 9-0 £241,585 grro f by Red Clubs - Shawanni (Shareef Dancer) O-B Keswick B-Tally-Ho Stud TR-R Hannon 2. Just The Judge (IRE) 9-0 £91,590 br f by Lawman - Faraday Light (Rainbow Quest) O-Qatar Racing Ltd, Sangster Family B-Mrs J Dempsey TR-Charles Hills 3. Moth (IRE) 9-0 £45,838 b f by Galileo - Pieds de Plume (Seattle Slew) O-Mrs J Magnier, M Tabor, D Smith B-Smythson TR-AP O’Brien Margins 0.5, 1.5. Time 1:36.38 (slow 1.08).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-3

Starts 8

Wins 4

Places 3

Earned £421,308

Sire: RED CLUBS. Sire of 5 Stakes winners. In 2013 - SKY LANTERN Shareef Dancer G1.

1st Dam: SHAWANNI by Shareef Dancer. Winner at 2. Dam of 10 winners: 1998: MYSTIC MAN (g Cadeaux Genereux) 14 wins at 3 to 9.

1999: TWILIGHT SONNET (f Exit To Nowhere) 2 wins at 2.

2000: SHANTY STAR (g Hector Protector) 4 wins 2-6, Queen’s Vase G3.

2001: Shazana (f Key of Luck) Ran 3 times and ran once over hurdles.

2002: SHARABY (f Cadeaux Genereux) 2 wins at 3.

2003: LUCKY TOKEN (f Key of Luck) Winner at 3.

2004: HINTON ADMIRAL (g Spectrum) 16 wins to 2012, Doncaster S LR, Spring Cup LR. 2005: SUMMER GAMES (f Storming Home) 2 wins at 4 in UAE. 2006: Scarlet Empire (f Red Ransom) unraced.

2007: ARCTIC (g Shamardal) 4 wins at 2 and 5, Round Tower S G3.

2008: Shropshire (g Shamardal) 3 wins at 2 and 4, 3rd Greenham S G3.

2010: SKY LANTERN (f Red Clubs) Sold 61,576gns yearling at GOOY1. 4 wins at 2 and 3, Moyglare Stud S G1, 1000 Guineas G1, Coolmore Stud EBF Sprint S LR, 2nd Nell Gwyn S G3, Prestige S G3, Sweet Solera S G3.

2nd Dam: NEGLIGENT by Ahonoora. Champion 2yr old filly in England in 1989. 1 win at 2, Rockfel S G3,

Hail To Reason Bramalea Damascus Arabia Christmas Wind Primo Dominie First Trump Valika Mansingh Miss Cindy Iridium Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Sir Ivor Sweet Alliance Mrs Peterkin Lorenzaccio Ahonoora Helen Nichols Roan Rocket Negligence Malpractice Roberto

Red Ransom

Roberto’s son Red Ransom was represented by some excellent fillies worldwide, including the prolific Gr1 winners Perfect Sting in the US, Typhoon Tracy in Australia and Rumya in South Africa, so it isn’t too surprising that he and his sons are also making a mark on Britain’s fillies’ Classics. Red Ransom himself sired the 2003 Oaks winner Casual Look, while his son Intikhab is responsible for the exceptional Snow Fairy, winner of the Oaks and Irish Oaks in 2010.

Now Red Clubs, another son of Red Ransom, has supplied the latest 1,000 Guineas winner, Sky Lantern.

Sadly Red Clubs is no longer with us and his death at the age of seven is all the more regrettable at a time when the Roberto male line is struggling to maintain a foothold in Europe. Red Clubs was much tougher than his sire, making 25 starts, compared to Red Ransom’s three. However, one thing they had in common was speed. Red Clubs gained all six of his victories at up to seven furlongs, notably taking the Coventry Stakes, Diadem Stakes and Sprint Cup. Red Clubs lived long enough to sire only two crops, but he quickly established his ability to pass on his precocity. He ended 2012 as leading sire of two-year-olds, thanks largely to his daughters The Gold Cheongsam, Ceiling Kitty and Sky Lantern. The future 1,000 Guineas winner won the Gr1 Moyglare Stud Stakes decisively and was unlucky in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf.

Red Clubs’s previous crop had contained a pair of two-year-old Group winners, including the tough filly Roger Sez. Sky Lantern was bred by Tally-Ho Stud, who bought her dam Shawanni for €78,000 in 2007. This daughter of Shareef Dancer had done good work for Darley, producing Arctic (Gr3 Round Tower Stakes), Shanty Star (Gr3 Queen’s Vase) and Hinton Admiral (a Listed winner over six and seven furlongs).

Sky Lantern’s Classic victory at Newmarket was well deserved, as her second dam Negligent was third in the 1990 1,000 Guineas, four years after

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National Hunt Grade Ones 219 ANNIVERSARY JUVENILE HURDLE G1 AINTREE. April 4. 16f 110yds. Good.

SKY LANTERN gr/ro f 2010

2nd Dam: MERIDA by Warning. 2 wins at 3 and 4 in France, USA. Grandam of PENCIL HILL.

Polar Falcon

her sister Ala Mahlik had finished fourth in the same Classic. Negligent had won the 1989 Rockfel Stakes so impressively that she was rated the year’s best juvenile filly. She produced two smart performers, namely the miler Blatant to Machiavellian and the stayer Songlark to Singspiel.

44 DAHLIA S G3 NEWMARKET. May 5. 4yo+f&m. 9f.

1. DANK (GB) 4 9-1 £34,026 b f by Dansili - Masskana (Darshaan) O-James Wigan B-London Thoroughbred Services Ltd TR-Sir Michael Stoute 2. Chigun (GB) 4 8-12 £12,900 b f by Oasis Dream - Stormy Weather (Nashwan) O-VI Araci B-Whatton Manor Stud TR-Sir Henry Cecil 3. Thistle Bird (GB) 5 8-12 £6,456 b m by Selkirk - Dolma (Marchand de Sable) O-Lady Rothschild B-Lord Rothschild TR-R Charlton Margins Short head, 3. Time 1:49.69 (slow 1.69).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-4

Starts 8

Wins 4

Places 2

Earned £89,039

Sire: DANSILI. Sire of 76 Stakes winners. In 2013 FORETELLER Warning G1, DANK Darshaan G3.

1st Dam: MASSKANA by Darshaan. 3 wins at 4 and 5 in France. Dam of 6 winners: 1995: Guinevere (f Fairy King) Unraced. Grandam of LORD BADGER (East Cape Guineas LR, 3rd Champion Juvenile Cup G3).

1996: WALLACE (c Royal Academy) 2 wins at 3, Silver Trophy S LR, 2nd Park S G3.

1997: TWILIGHT WORLD (g Night Shift) Winner at 3.

1999: SULK (f Selkirk) Champion 2yo filly in France in 2001. 2 wins at 2, Prix Marcel Boussac G1, 2nd Nassau S G1, Prix Royal-Oak G1, 3rd Yorkshire Oaks G1. Dam of IBN BATTUTA (HH The President Cup LR, 3rd Al Fahidi Fort S G2).

2000: Shostakovich (c Danehill) 2001: ANNA PALLIDA (f Sadler’s Wells) Winner at 3.

Dam of PIMPERNEL (Radley S LR, 2nd Rockfel S G2).

2003: Broadway Hit (f Sadler’s Wells) unraced.

2004: EAGLE MOUNTAIN (c Rock of Gibraltar). 5 wins 2-4, Hong Kong Cup G1, 2nd Champion S G1, Derby S G1, Breeders’ Cup Turf G1, 3rd Irish Derby G1.

2005: Slink (f Selkirk) Unraced.

2007: Moby Dick (g Montjeu) 2009: DANK (f Dansili) 4 wins at 3 and 4, Atalanta S G3, Dahlia S G3, 2nd Dick Hern EBF S LR. 2011: Household Cavalry (c Oasis Dream) Unraced.

2nd Dam: MASARIKA by Thatch. 4 wins at 2 and 3, Poule d’Essai des Pouliches G1, Prix Robert Papin G1, 2nd Prix Marcel Boussac G1, 3rd Prix Morny G1. Dam of MASSYAR (c Kahyasi: Gallinule S G2, 3rd Irish 2000 Guineas G1), MADJARISTAN (c Irish River: Arcadia H G3, 3rd Eddie Read H G1). Grandam of MASALARIAN, Masani.

Broodmare Sire: DARSHAAN. Sire of the dams of 203 SWs. In 2013 - SAJJHAA King’s Best G1, AL KAZEEM Dubawi G3, DANK Dansili G3, ESTIMATE Monsun G3, GLOBAL THRILL Big Shuffle G3, JUTLAND Halling G3, VIZTORIA Oratorio G3.

The Dansili/Darshaan cross has produced: DREAM PEACE G1, DANK G3.

DANK b f 2009 Danzig Danehill

Razyana

DANSILI b 96 Kahyasi Hasili Kerali Darshaan MASSKANA b 88 Masarika

Shirley Heights Delsy Thatch Miss Melody

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Ile de Bourbon Kadissya High Line Sookera Mill Reef Hardiemma Abdos Kelty Forli Thong Tudor Melody The Veil

1. L’UNIQUE (FR) 4 b f Reefscape - Sans Tune (Green Tune) O-Denis Barry B-SARL Ecurie D TR-Alan King 2. Runswick Royal (IRE) 4 ch g Excellent Art - Renada (Sinndar) 3. Irish Saint (FR) 4 b/br g Saint des Saints - Minirose (Mansonnien) Age 3-4

Starts 5

Wins 3

Places 2

Earned £79,648

L’UNIQUE b f 2009 Mendez Linamix

Lunadix

REEFSCAPE gr 01 Sadler’s Wells Coraline Bahamian Green Tune SANS TUNE b 97 Battani

Green Dancer Soundings Top Ville Boreale

Bellypha Miss Carina Breton Lutine Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Mill Reef Sorbus Nijinsky Green Valley Mr Prospector Ocean’s Answer High Top Sega Ville Bellypha Princesse Tora

It looks as though National Hunt breeding lost a significant talent when Reefscape ran into fertility problems early in his stallion career. After siring eight foals when initially retired to stud in Northern Ireland in 2007, Reefscape was relocated to France, where he had a single foal born in 2009. Then came the unkindest cut of all and a return to racing. Although he managed to win a small race over hurdles at Lyon in June 2009, Reefscape ended up falling in a claiming steeplechase at Cagnes on his tenth and last start.

This was a sad conclusion to a career which had earlier seen Reefscape win the Gr1 Prix du Cadran over two and a half miles and finish second to Yeats in the Gold Cup. At his best Reefscape was rated 118 by Timeform, which was the same figure achieved by his Gr2-winning older brother Martaline. Martaline has gone on to be represented by the likes of Dynaste and Pique Sous on this side of the Channel, plus Vanilla Crush and Laskaline in France.

Reefscape, for his part, is the sire of L’Unique, who owes her name to being the only foal from his French efforts.

She is now a winner of three of her five starts, most notably the Anniversary 4-y-o-Juvenile Hurdle.

As a daughter of Reefscape, L’Unique should eventually stay two and a half miles. She comes from a classy female line. Her third dam, the very well-related Boreale, was a Gr3 two-year-old winner who finished runner-up in the French 1,000 Guineas. Boreale produced River Of Light, a smart miler in France and the USA, as well as Dibenoise, dam of the high-class Flat performers Corre Caminos, Racinger and Recital.

However, the family also has some links to jumping. Boreale’s Top Ville

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National Hunt Grade Ones filly Battani is the dam of Me Voici, a Gr1 winner over hurdles, and is the second dam of the smart French hurdler Baan Rim Pa and of L’Unique.

L’Unique is a half-sister to Sanglote, a useful hurdler/chaser in Ireland, and their dam Sans Tune won on the Flat and then over hurdles and fences in France. Sans Tune’s sire Green Tune sired the smart chaser Got One Too but is better known for his high-class Flat performers Fuisse and Zangora.

also has a talented jumper to her credit in Shop DJ. Their dam Sea Gale was a talented performer at around two miles over jumps, notably winning a Gr3 novices’ chase at Galway.

His third dam Sea Scope was a sister to Mister Bosun, a smart novice chaser in 1979/80, and his fourth dam Mare Nostrom was a prolific winner over hurdles and fences. Mare Nostrom was a half-sister to two multiple winners in Pawnbroker and Flashy Boy.

Zarkandar’s dam Zarkasha is bred along similar lines to Prix de Diane winner Zainta, the dam of the very smart hurdler Zaidpour. Both mares are by Kahyasi and descend from Zahra, a daughter of Petite Etoile.

Zahra ranks as the second dam of Zainta and the third dam of Zarkasha.

This family has also produced the top French hurdler Zaiyad, winner of the Grande Course de Haies d’Auteuil over nearly three and a quarter miles.

220 BETFRED BOWL CHASE G1

221 AINTREE HURDLE G1

222 BETFRED MANIFESTO NOVICES’ CHASE G1

AINTREE. April 4. 25f. Good.

AINTREE. April 4. 20f. Good.

1. FIRST LIEUTENANT (IRE) 8 ch g Presenting - Fourstargale (Fourstars Allstar) O-Gigginstown House Stud B-Mrs M O’Connor TR-MF Morris 2. Menorah (IRE) 8 b g King’s Theatre - Maid For Adventure (Strong Gale) 3. Silviniaco Conti (FR) 7 ch g Dom Alco - Gazelle Lulu (Altayan)

1. ZARKANDAR (IRE) 6 b g Azamour - Zarkasha (Kahyasi) O-Chris Giles, Potensis Limited B-His Highness the Aga Khan’s Studs SC TR-Paul Nicholls 2. The New One (IRE) 5 b g King’s Theatre - Thuringe (Turgeon) 3. Thousand Stars (FR) 9 gr g Grey Risk - Livaniana (Saint Estephe)

Age 5-8

Age 3-6

Starts 21

Wins 8

Places 12

Earned £414,608

Mtoto

Amazer

PRESENTING br 92 Persian Bold D’Azy Belle Viking Fourstars Allstar FOURSTARGALE ch 97 Sea Gale

Compliance Broadway Joan Strong Gale Sea Scope

Crepello Sans Le Sou Mincio Alzara Bold Lad Relkarunner Riverman Vallarta Northern Dancer Sex Appeal Bold Arian Courtneys Doll Lord Gayle Sterntau Deep Run Mare Nostrom

The €255,000 invested in a threeyear-old gelding by Presenting at the 2008 Derby Sale continues to pay substantial dividends. Named First Lieutenant, he became a dual Gr1 winner during a comparatively brief hurdling career, notably taking the Baring Bingham at the Cheltenham Festival. Everything about First Lieutenant suggested that he would be even more effective over fences.

Although this has proved to be so, he has found it harder to win in this competitive sphere. He finally became a Gr1 winner over fences at his 13th attempt, in the Betfred Bowl.

First Lieutenant ranks alongside Bright New Dawn, On His Own, Whatuthink, Mad Moose and Rajdhani Express among the best current representatives of Presenting, who was champion sire four times in five years.

First Lieutenant stays well, even though his dam Fourstargale never tackled more than two and a quarter miles in 11 starts in bumpers and one over hurdles. Both her wins came over two and a quarter miles. Her American sire Fourstars Allstar mounted a successful raid on the Irish 2,000 Guineas in 1991 and raced until he was seven, gaining a further six Graded stakes successes at around nine furlongs. Fourstars Allstar sired some successful jumpers, such as Aces Four, A New Story, Davenport Democrat and Chomba Womba.

Fourstargale’s half-sister Shoplifter

94

Wins 9

Places 3

Earned £516,022

ZARKANDAR b g 2007

FIRST LIEUTENANT ch g 2005 Busted

Starts 14

Northern Dancer Night Shift

Ciboulette

AZAMOUR b 2001 Lear Fan Asmara Anaza Kahyasi ZARKASHA b 99 Zarkana

Ile de Bourbon Kadissya Doyoun Zarna

AINTREE. April 4. 20f. Good.

1. CAPTAIN CONAN (FR) 6 b g Kingsalsa - Lavandou (Sadler’s Wells) O-Triermore B-Woodcote Stud TR-N Henderson 2. Tap Night (USA) 6 ch g Pleasant Tap - Day Mate (Dayjur) 3. Changing Times (IRE) 7 b g Dr Massini - Pharenna (Phardante) Age Starts Wins Places 4-6 12 6 4 See race 69 in the February issue

Earned £163,908

CAPTAIN CONAN b g 2007 Nearctic Natalma Chop Chop Windy Answer Roberto Wac Darshaan Azaarika Nijinsky Roseliere Blushing Groom Kalkeen Mill Reef Dumka Shernazar Zahra

The first crop by the great Sea The Stars includes a filly out of Zarkasha and a colt out of Zarkasha’s daughter Zarkava. Zarkava, of course, was unbeaten in seven career starts, including the 2008 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches, Prix de Diane, Prix Vermeille and the Arc, but her younger half-brother Zarkandar won nothing better than a newcomers’ race at Clairefontaine during his brief Flat career in France.

However, Zarkandar has also developed into a big earner. His victory in the Aintree Hurdle boosted his bank balance to more than £500,000 and his admirable record of eight wins from 11 starts over hurdles have all come in Graded races. They include the Triumph Hurdle and another of Aintree’s Gr1s, the Anniversary Juvenile Hurdle. Zarkandar isn’t the only talented jumper sired by Azamour, another being the very useful novice chaser Third Intention, who also won a Gr2 over hurdles.

Part of Zarkandar’s attraction as a potential jumper must have been the fact that he is out of a daughter of Kahyasi, a stallion responsible for such fine jumpers as Kasbah Bliss, Paddy’s Return, Kalahari King, Karabak, Ansar, Afsoun, Sentry Duty, Mahogany Blaze and Coralhasi. Other good current performers out of Kahyasi mares include Zaidpour, Pont Alexandre and Caid du Berlais, and the high-class hurdler Mourad is another with a dam by the 1968 Derby winner.

AT FISHERS CROSS b g 2007 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells

Reliance II Snow Day Vindaria Supreme Leader FERMOY SUPREME b 00 Jilly Jaffa Cake

KINGSALSA b 96 Caretta

Sadler’s Wells LAVANDOU b 99 Intellectuelle

AINTREE. April 5. 20f. Good.

1. SPRINTER SACRE (FR) 7 b/br g Network - Fatima III (Bayolidaan) O-Mrs C Mould B-C Masle TR-Nicky Henderson 2. Cue Card (GB) 7 b g King’s Theatre - Wicked Crack (King’s Ride) 3. Flemenstar (IRE) 8 b g Flemensfirth - Different Dee (Beau Sher) Age Starts Wins Places 4-7 15 13 2 See race 70 in the February issue

Earned £624,073

SPRINTER SACRE b/br g 2006 Konigsstuhl Mosella

NETWORK br 97 Reliance II Note Nicotiana Bayolidaan FATIMA III b 93 Viva Sacree

Kamaridaan Bayonne Maiymad Kiki Sacree

Princess Zena Waajib

225 MAGHULL NOVICES’ CHASE G1 AINTREE. April 6. 16f. Good.

1. SPECIAL TIARA (GB) 6 b g Kayf Tara - Special Choice (Bob Back) O-Mrs S Rowley-Williams B-DEM Young TR-Henry de Bromhead 2. Overturn (IRE) 9 b g Barathea - Kristal Bridge (Kris) 3. Alderwood (IRE) 9 b g Alderbrook - Clamit Falls (Homo Sapien) Age 4-6

Starts 8

Wins 3

Places 4

Earned £77,457

SPECIAL TIARA b g 2007

Raise A Native Gold Digger Nureyev Miesque Pasadoble Fortino II Caro Chambord Klairon Klainia Kalitka Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special Nijinsky Caerleon Foreseer Persian Bold Sarah Georgina Dance By Night

223 MELLING CHASE G1

Monsun

Bustino

Lady Fandet

Mr Prospector Kingmambo

Fairy Bridge

OSCAR b 94

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Tantieme Relance III Roi Dagobert Heavenly Body Busted Ship Yard Habitat Guiding Light Try My Best Coryana Gay Fandango Norfolk Bonnet

Dschingis Khan Konigskronung Surumu Monasia Tantieme Relance III Naras Nina Djakao Diamond Drop Stymphale Belsta Rheingold Miss Melody Edellic Amie Sacree

224 SEFTON NOVICES’ HURDLE G1 AINTREE. April 5. 24f 110yds. Good to Soft.

1. AT FISHERS CROSS (IRE) 6 b g Oscar - Fermoy Supreme (Supreme Leader) O-JP McManus B-L O’Regan TR-Rebecca Curtis 2. Just A Par (IRE) 6 b g Island House - Thebrownhen (Henbit) 3. Buachaill Alainn (IRE) 6 b g Oscar - Bottle A Knock (Le Moss) Age Starts Wins Places 4-6 10 8 1 See race 189 in the May issue

Earned £180,359

Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells

Fairy Bridge

KAYF TARA b 94 High Top Colorspin Reprocolor Bob Back SPECIAL CHOICE b 02 Mammy’s Choice

Roberto Toter Back Mandalus Liffey’s Choice

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Derring-Do Camenae Jimmy Reppin Blue Queen Hail To Reason Bramalea Carry Back Romantic Miss Mandamus Laminate Little Buskins Nenagh Belle

The unconsidered Special Tiara stayed on too strongly for the game Overturn in the Maghull Novice Chase.

Although just about everything about the gelding’s pedigree shouts “stayer,” it is interesting that this son of Kayf Tara has yet to tackle more than two and a quarter miles in his seven starts under rules (he was second over three miles in his only point-to-point).

Kayf Tara, of course, was an outstanding long-distance performer whose CV featured two victories in the Gold Cup, two in the Irish St Leger, plus single editions of the Yorkshire and Goodwood Cups. As a stallion he is best known for Carruthers, winner of the Hennessy Gold Cup, and Planet Of Sound, a Gr1-winning chaser beyond three miles.

Then there’s Bob Back, Mandalus and Little Buskins, the stallions responsible for Special Tiara’s first three dams. Stamina is one of the main assets of Bob Back’s Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Bobs Worth, and many of his other top winners have won over three miles or more, including Back In Front, Burton Port, Bacchanal, Roberto Goldback and Rare Bob. We have also seen another daughter of Bob Back produce the Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Synchronised.

Special Tiara’s second dam Mammy’s Choice won three chases, at up to an extended three and a quarter miles, and has also produced Royal Choice, a Listed winner over fences.

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Caulfield on Mount Benbulben: “His victory at Punchestown confirmed that he stays very well. This is hardly surprising as his dam, Dramatic Dame, is a daughter of Buckskin”

Mammy’s Choice’s sire, the versatile Mandalus, was once third in the Queen Alexandra Stakes over two and three-quarter miles. Mandalus sired such good staying chasers as Sir Rembrandt and Macgeorge.

The next dam was by Little Buskins.

This winner of the Great Metropolitan Handicap over more than two miles sired Galway Blaze (Hennessy Gold Cup), Three Counties, Little Bay, Last Serenade, Garnishee and Mayotte.

226 LIVERPOOL HURDLE G1 AINTREE. April 6. 24f 110yds. Good to Soft.

1. SOLWHIT (FR) 9 b g Solon - Toowhit Towhee (Lucky North) O-Top Of The Hill Syndicate B-Haras de Preaux TR-Charles Byrnes 2. Holywell (IRE) 6 b g Gold Well - Hillcrest (Thatching) 3. Smad Place (FR) 6 gr g Smadoun - Bienna Star (Village Star) Age Starts Wins 3-9 27 14 See race 187 in the May issue

Places 9

Earned £822,312

SOLWHIT b g 2004

SPRINTER SACRE b/br g 2006 Monsun

Reliance II Note Nicotiana Bayolidaan FATIMA III b 93 Viva Sacree

227 CHAMPION NOVICE HURDLE G1 PUNCHESTOWN. April 23. 16f. Soft.

1. JEZKI (IRE) 5 b g Milan - La Noire (Phardante) O-JP McManus B-GM McGrath TR-Mrs J Harrington 2. Ted Veale (IRE) 6 b g Revoque - Rose Tanner (Roselier) 3. Champagne Fever (IRE) 6 gr g Stowaway - Forever Bubbles (Roselier) Age Starts Wins Places 4-5 10 7 1 See race 5 in the January issue

Earned £168,119

JEZKI b g 2008 Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special Shirley Heights Darshaan Delsy Assert Kalata Kalkeen Lyphard Pharly Comely Taj Dewan Pallante Cavadonga Pampered King Deep Run Trial By Fire Bargello Arctic Rhapsody Arctic Blaze Northern Dancer

Kithanga

Phardante LA NOIRE b 95 Arctic Run

Kamaridaan Bayonne Maiymad Kiki Sacree

228 CHAMPION CHASE G1 PUNCHESTOWN. April 23. 16f. Soft.

1. SPRINTER SACRE (FR) 7 b/br g Network - Fatima III (Bayolidaan) O-Mrs C Mould B-C Masle TR-Nicky Henderson 2. Sizing Europe (IRE) 11 b g Pistolet Bleu - Jennie Dun (Mandalus) 3. Days Hotel (IRE) 8 b g Oscar - Call Catherine (Strong Gale) Age Starts Wins Places 4-7 16 14 2 See race 70 in the February issue

Earned £724,886

hurdler Lovely Stranger, was by the stamina-packed Le Bavard and was also a half-sister to the smart staying chaser Cavity Hunter. Mount Benbulben’s third dam was by Vulgan, sire of three winners of the Grand National. Dramatic Dame’s half-sister Lady Bellingham has the distinction of having produced two Gr1-winning chasers to Old Vic, namely One Cool Cookie (Powers Gold Cup) and In Compliance (Punchestown Chase).

stallion at the age of 12. His fee for 2013 is €4,500 at Burgage Stud.

Shantou’s first Irish crop has produced several talented chasers, including Ballynagour, Super Duty, Our Father, Sword Of Destiny and Dylan Ross, and it looks as though we will be hearing more from him, even though he is now 20 years old. Morning Assembly comes from his second Irish crop and the Weatherbys Champion Bumper winner Briar Hill from his third.

230 IRISH DAILY MIRROR NOVICE HURDLE G1

231 PUNCHESTOWN GOLD CUP CHASE G1

229 CHAMPION NOVICE CHASE G1 PUNCHESTOWN. April 23. 25f. Soft.

PUNCHESTOWN. April 24. 24f. Soft.

1. MOUNT BENBULBEN (IRE) 8 b g Beneficial - Dramatic Dame (Buckskin) O-Barry Connell B-Mrs M McGearty TR-Gordon Elliott 2. Tofino Bay (IRE) 10 br g Bishop of Cashel - Boyne View (Buckskin) 3. Lyreen Legend (IRE) 6 b g Saint des Saints - Bint Bladi (Garde Royale)

1. MORNING ASSEMBLY (IRE) 6 b g Shantou - Barrack Village (Montelimar) O-Clipper Logistics Group Ltd B-JJ Brennan TR-PA Fahy 2. Inish Island (IRE) 7 ch g Trans Island - Ish (Danehill) 3. Ballycasey (IRE) 6 gr g Presenting - Pink Mist (Montelimar)

Age 5-8

Age 5-6

Starts 19

Wins 8

Places 7

Earned £114,653

MOUNT BENBULBEN b g 2005

Red God Runaway Bride Local Suitor Vaguely Noble Home Love Homespun SOLON b 92 Tamerlane Alpenkonig Alpenlerche Scilla Alizier Saxifraga Suleika Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Lucky North Olden Times Lucky Ole Me Me Next TOOWHIT TOWHEE b 88 The Axe II Hatchet Man Bebopper Chop Towhee Crozier Swiftybyrd Miss Glamour Gal

MILAN b 98

Mosella

NETWORK br 97

Blushing Groom

Sadler’s Wells

Dschingis Khan Konigskronung Surumu Monasia Tantieme Relance III Naras Nina Djakao Diamond Drop Stymphale Belsta Rheingold Miss Melody Edellic Amie Sacree

Konigsstuhl

Derring-Do Camenae Charlottesville Sega Ville La Sega Nijinsky Green Dancer Green Valley Primera First Bloom Flower Dance Mossborough Yelapa Your Point Herbager Bete A Bon Dieu Caralline II Devon Le Bavard Lueur Doree Vulgan Vulvic Lucky Hand High Top

Top Ville BENEFICIAL b 90 Youthful

Buckskin DRAMATIC DAME b 93 Lovely Stranger

In last month’s notes I mentioned that an excellent treble on the opening day of Fairyhouse’s Grand National meeting had extended Beneficial’s lead on the sires’ table to nearly £200,000, adding that only time would tell whether this would be enough to earn him a first sires’ championship. Fortunately, he enjoyed another substantial payday when Mount Benbulben benefited from the misfortunes of three of his main rivals to become a Gr1 winner at Punchestown. This versatile gelding has also won as a point-to-pointer, a bumper horse and a hurdler.

Mount Benbulben’s victory at Punchestown confirmed that he stays very well. This is hardly surprising, as his dam Dramatic Dame is a daughter of Buckskin. This exceptional stayer sired a host of successful staying chasers, including the Grand National winner Amberleigh House and the likes of Black Humour, Givus A Buck, Ebony Light, Micko’s Dream and Hollybank Buck. Other daughters of Buckskin have produced the Scottish Grand National winners Joes Edge and Beshabar , plus the likes of Dedigout, Court In Motion, Our Vic, Knockara Beau, Cousin Vinny, Simon, Hairy Molly, Turpin Green, Brewster and Georges Girl. Buckskin also sired the second dam of Big Buck’s.

Dramatic Dame won a bumper and a maiden hurdle over two and a quarter miles but she should have stayed very well. Her dam, the winning

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Starts 6

Wins 3

Places 2

Earned £55,176

MORNING ASSEMBLY b g 2007 Tom Rolfe Wavy Navy Alleged Prince John Princess Pout Determined Lady SHANTOU b 93 Northern Dancer Shareef Dancer Sweet Alliance Shaima Kris Oh So Sharp Oh So Fair Hoist The Flag Alleged Princess Pout Montelimar Le Fabuleux L’Extravagante Fanfreluche BARRACK VILLAGE b 92 Beau Sabreur Prominer Snob Hill Always Smiling Continuation Perennial Twinkle Winky Joe

PUNCHESTOWN. April 24. 25f. Soft.

1. SIR DES CHAMPS (FR) 7 b/br g Robin des Champs - Liste En Tete (Video Rock) O-Gigginstown House Stud B-D Clayeux TR-WP Mullins 2. Long Run (FR) 8 b/br g Cadoudal - Libertina (Balsamo) 3. First Lieutenant (IRE) 8 ch g Presenting - Fourstargale (Fourstars Allstar) Age Starts Wins Places 3-7 17 10 4 See race 137 in the April issue SIR DES CHAMPS b/br g 2006 Mill Reef

Hoist The Flag

Sons of the dual Arc winner Alleged have enjoyed considerable success as National Hunt stallions, with the likes of Flemensfirth, Montelimar, Sir Harry Lewis, Husyan, Alesso, Jurado, Religiously and Leading Counsel now being joined by Morning Assembly’s sire Shantou.

It is easy to see why JJ Brennan decided it was worth experimenting with close inbreeding to Alleged. In sending his Montelimar mare Barrack Village to Shantou, he produced a foal inbred 2 x 3 and the experiment paid off handsomely when Morning Assembly became a Gr1 winner over hurdles at Punchestown. The gelding has now won three of his six starts, including a bumper, and the inbreeding can take some credit for his talent, as the only other notable jumper from recent generations of this family is The Extra Man, a useful hurdler.

Morning Assembly showed admirable stamina in winning at Punchestown, on his first attempt at three miles. This isn’t too surprising, as Alleged was second in the St Leger, a race which later fell to both Shantou and his dam Oh So Sharp.

Shantou was initially retired to stud in Italy, scene of his victories in the Gran Premio del Jockey Club and Gran Premio di Milano. He sired several very useful performers during his time in Italy, notably the Prix Vermeille winner Sweet Stream, but was transferred to Ireland as a jumps

Earned £480,239

Garde Royale

Royal Way

ROBIN DES CHAMPS b 97 Iron Duke Relayeuse Reliorneuse Video Rock LISTE EN TETE b/br 99 Badrapette

No Lute Pauvresse Bad Conduct Trapette

Never Bend Milan Mill Sicambre Right Away Sicambre Insulaire El Relicario Ordonneuse Luthier Prudent Miss Home Guard Misoptimist Stalwart White Lie Perouges Graminee

232 CHAMPION INH FLAT RACE G1 PUNCHESTOWN. April 24. 16f. Soft.

1. THE LIQUIDATOR (GB) 5 b g Overbury - Alikat (Alhaarth) O-RS Brookhouse B-Ms EL White TR-David Pipe 2. Gilt Shadow (IRE) 5 b g Beneficial - Baile An Droichid (King’s Ride) 3. Apache Stronghold (IRE) 5 b g Milan - First Battle (Un Desperado) Age 4-5

Starts 5

Wins 2

Places 3

Earned £65,496

THE LIQUIDATOR b g 2008 Northern Dancer Flaming Page Round Table Foreseer Regal Gleam Busted Bustino Ship Yard Tudor Melody Melodramatic Irish Flight Northern Dancer Unfuwain Height of Fashion Irish River Irish Valley Green Valley Mr Prospector Crafty Prospector Real Crafty Lady Mehmet Bubbie Eva Think Music Nijinsky Caerleon OVERBURY br 91 Overcall

Alhaarth ALIKAT b 01 Be Crafty

Caerleon’s accomplished son Overbury has had some smart bumpers performers to his credit. One, Publican, was a Gr2 winner at Navan, while Missed That won the Weatherbys Champion Bumper. Now The Liquidator has given him another Gr1 success by taking the Champion INH Flat Race at Punchestown.

There is good reason for thinking that The Liquidator will eventually develop into a smart chaser, following in the footsteps of Missed That, who

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National Hunt Grade Ones died before he could reach his full potential. Overbury, who made his name with victories in the Gr2 American Derby and the Gr1 Queen Elizabeth II Cup in Hong Kong, has several successful staying chasers to his credit, such as Simon (Racing Post Chase), Stewarts House (Sefton Chase) and Ballyfitz.

The Liquidator was sold for only £2,500 as a two-year-old but has already earned more than £65,000.

His Gr1 win came days before the announcement that his broodmare sire, Alhaarth, was being retired from stud duties at the age of 20, because of a heart condition. Best known as the sire of such capable Flat performers as Haafhd, Phoenix Reach, Awzaan, Bandari and the smart Australian horse Mourayan, Alhaarth also enjoyed occasional success as a sire of jumpers. Comfortably the best of his hurdlers was Iktitaf, a winner of three Gr1 races.

The Liquidator’s dam, Alikat, won five times over jumps, scoring at up to three miles over hurdles and over an extended three and a quarter miles over fences. Stamina was no problem, even though one might have expected her to be a ten-furlong performer on the Flat. Her half-brother Spirit Of Sport was a Listed winner at around that distance in Italy and The Liquidator’s second dam, Be Crafty, was a three-parts-sister to Music Prospector, an earner of $500,000plus at up to nine furlongs in the U.S. 233 WORLD SERIES HURDLE G1 PUNCHESTOWN. April 25. 24f. Heavy.

Starts 22

Wins 15

Places 5

234 RYANAIR NOVICE CHASE G1 PUNCHESTOWN. April 25. 16f. Heavy.

1. ARVIKA LIGEONNIERE (FR) 8 b g Arvico - Daraka (Akarad) O-Mrs S Ricci B-Y Lepage TR-WP Mullins 2. Oscars Well (IRE) 8 b/br g Oscar - Placid Willow (Convinced) 3. Special Tiara (GB) 6 b g Kayf Tara - Special Choice (Bob Back) Age Starts Wins Places 4-8 12 6 4 See race 6 in the January issue

Earned £183,451

ARVIKA LIGEONNIERE b g 2005 High Top Sega Ville Armos Pampa Bella Kendie Blushing Groom Baillamont Lodeve Nureyev Beaute Dangereuse Allicance Busted Labus Cordovilla Abdos Licata Gaia Diatome Margouillat Tita Huntercombe Vanda Diana Bowling Green Top Ville

Pistolet Bleu

1. QUEVEGA (FR) 9 b m Robin des Champs - Vega IV (Cap Martin) O-Hammer & Trowel Syndicate B-P Rives TR-WP Mullins 2. Reve de Sivola (FR) 8 b g Assessor - Eva de Chalamont (Iron Duke) 3. Zaidpour (FR) 7 b g Red Ransom - Zainta (Kahyasi) Age 3-9

that her dam Vega IV produced to Robin des Champs. One of the others, Sivega, won a mile-and-a-half race for non-thoroughbreds. Vega IV won six steeplechases at up to two and threequarter miles, gaining her final success as a nine-year-old. Vega IV was a half-sister to three winning jumpers and a couple of Flat winners.

Although Quevega’s broodmare sire Cap Martin won only one of his 16 starts, he was second in the Gr3 Prix de l’Esperance over 15 furlongs. His appeal to jumping breeders was primarily that he was a son of Carmarthen, France’s dominant sire of jumpers during the 1980s.

The maximum distance tackled by Quevega’s lightly-raced sire Robin des Champs was 3,500 metres, or just under two and a quarter miles.

However, he would probably have stayed further. His sire Garde Royale was a very smart mile-and-a-half horse and his broodmare sire Iron Duke also stayed that far.

ARVICO b 98 Arvika

Akarad DARAKA b 86 Vanelia

Earned £676,205

The standard of Punchestown’s Gr1 novice hurdles came in for some criticism, and there were only three runners in the Champion Novice Hurdle. However, there is still every chance that plenty more will be heard about the narrow winner, Un Atout.

This five-year-old completed a tremendous Gr1 treble for his sire Robin des Champs at the Punchestown Festival, following the triumphs of Sir des Champs and Quevega. The good news is that the Glenview Stud stallion is still a comparative youngster at the age of 16.

Badrapette, the second dam of Sir des Champs, is the dam of Un Atout, whose only defeat in four starts over hurdles was his fourth place, after some blunders, in the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle. Un Atout has therefore achieved at least as much over hurdles as his close relative, who was unbeaten in three races over hurdles. Sir des Champs didn’t blossom fully until he started to tackle distances of around three miles over fences and Un Atout’s future surely lies over fences.

Badrapette was herself a half-sister to Draborgie, a mare who broke a leg when favourite for the 1996 Arkle Trophy Chase. Badrapette wasn’t nearly as talented, her best effort during a brief career being third place in a chase. Her sire Bad Conduct won the Gr3 Prix de Guiche over a distance just short of a mile and a quarter.

Un Atout is the ninth foal of Badrapette, whose third foal was Sir des Champs’s dam Liste En Tete, a middle-distance winner on the Flat.

Badrapette has a 2010 filly by Alberto Giacometti and a 2011 filly by Vendangeur. Alberto Giacometti also sired Sappo, a useful jumper out of Badrapette, as well as Unicite, a winning hurdler/chaser out of Liste en Tete. This is also the family of Louping d’Ainay, a Gr2 winner over fences at Auteuil.

QUEVEGA b f 2004 Mill Reef Garde Royale

Royal Way

ROBIN DES CHAMPS b 97 Iron Duke Relayeuse Reliorneuse Cap Martin VEGA IV ch 87 Negrilla

Carmarthen Grande Hetaire Signani Escarbille II

Never Bend Milan Mill Sicambre Right Away Sicambre Insulaire El Relicario Ordonneuse Devon Kuwait O’Grady Haiti Shikani La Signorina Or de Chine Venus

The many admirers of Quevega will be delighted that retirement isn’t on the cards for this exceptional mare, who has been lightly campaigned. For the fourth successive year, the daughter of Robin des Champs triumphed in the Gr1 World Series Hurdle, having already secured her fifth successive success in the Gr2 David Nicholson Mares’ Hurdle. She is now unbeaten in her eight starts since she disappointed at Auteuil in May 2009.

Quevega is the first of three foals

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235 CHAMPION NOVICE HURDLE G1 PUNCHESTOWN. April 26. 20f. Heavy.

1. UN ATOUT (FR) 5 b g Robin des Champs - Badrapette (Bad Conduct) O-Gigginstown House Stud B-Dominique Clayeux, Haras de Saint-Voir TR-WP Mullins 2. Ubak (FR) 5 b g Kapgarde - Gesse Parade (Dress Parade) 3. Sizing Rio (IRE) 5 b g Heron Island - Shyanne (Mandalus) Age 4-5

Starts 4

Wins 3

Places 1

Earned £27,405

UN ATOUT b g 2008

Royal Way

ROBIN DES CHAMPS b 97 Iron Duke Relayeuse Reliorneuse Bad Conduct BADRAPETTE b 89 Trapette

PUNCHESTOWN. April 26. 16f. Heavy.

1. HURRICANE FLY (IRE) 9 b g Montjeu - Scandisk (Kenmare) O-George Creighton, Rose Boyd B-Agricola Del Parco SS TR-WP Mullins 2. Thousand Stars (FR) 9 gr g Grey Risk - Livaniana (Saint Estephe) 3. Rock On Ruby (IRE) 8 b g Oscar - Stony View (Tirol) Age Starts Wins Places Earned 2-9 30 19 7 £1,372,474 See race 2 in the January issue HURRICANE FLY b g 2004

Mill Reef Garde Royale

236 CHAMPION HURDLE G1

Stalwart White Lie Perouges Graminee

Never Bend Milan Mill Sicambre Right Away Sicambre Insulaire El Relicario Ordonneuse Hoist The Flag Yes Dear Maggy Bald Eagle Etiquette Tiffauges Petula II Faristan Oseille

Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells

Fairy Bridge

MONTJEU b 96 Top Ville Floripedes Toute Cy Kenmare SCANDISK b 95 Yankee Lady

Kalamoun Belle of Ireland Lord Gayle Ceol An Oir

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special High Top Sega Ville Tennyson Adele Toumignon Zeddaan Khairunissa Milesian Belle of The Ball Sir Gaylord Sticky Case Vimy Pal An Oir

237 ITBA EBF MARES’ HURDLE G1 PUNCHESTOWN. April 27. 18f. Heavy.

1. GLENS MELODY (IRE) 5 b m King’s Theatre - Glens Music (Orchestra) O-Ms Fiona McStay B-Mrs F McStay TR-WP Mullins 2. Shadow Eile (IRE) 8 b m Beneficial - Rubys Shadow (Supreme Leader) 3. Swincombe Flame (GB) 7 b m Exit To Nowhere - Lady Felix (Batshoof) Age 4-5

Starts 10

Wins 7

Places 3

Earned £136,239

GLENS MELODY b m 2008 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells

Fairy Bridge

KING’S THEATRE b 91 Princely Native Regal Beauty Dennis Belle Orchestra GLENS MUSIC b 93 Glen’s Pride

Tudor Music Golden Moss Furry Glen Santa Brigida

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Raise A Native Charlo Crafty Admiral Evasion Tudor Melody Fran Sheshoon Muscosa Wolver Hollow Cleftess Rarity Santa Nan

Anyone with a prejudice against running mares over hurdles or fences should study the results at the 2013 Punchestown Festival. Quevega again proved herself a match for the males by winning the World Hurdle and so did Madam Bovary and Carrig Millie when they won valuable handicap chases. There were also some good performances in races confined to fillies and mares, especially by the very consistent Glens Melody. The daughter of King’s Theatre has now won four of her seven starts over hurdles, having previously been unbeaten in three bumpers.

Judging by the record of her dam Glens Music, Glens Melody is likely to continue to do well. A daughter of Orchestra, Glens Music raced until she was ten, winning two bumpers, five hurdle races and a chase, and she also had time to win over two miles on the Flat as an eight-year-old. This demanding career hasn’t harmed her prospects as a broodmare, as Glens Melody is her third black-type performer, one of the others being Ceol Rua, a Listed winner over hurdles.

Glens Melody’s Gr1 victory completed another fine season for King’s Theatre, who took third place behind Beneficial and Oscar on the sires’ table, thanks to considerable help from Cue Card, Menorah, Captain Chris, The New One and Baily Green.

Glens Melody’s broodmare sire Orchestra was responsible for such good chasers as Dorans Pride, Rince Ri, Pat’s Jester and Fiddling The Facts.

Other daughters of Orchestra produced Hello Bud, winner of the 2009 Scottish National, plus recent stakes winners such as Court Minstrel, Molly’s A Diva, Trustan Times, Deireadh Re and Whatuthink. The lastnamed, whose exploits include a third in the Irish Grand National, is out of Glen’s Encore, a sister to Glens Music.

Glens Melody’s second dam, the Furry Glen mare Glen’s Pride, won a pair of hurdle races over two miles.

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Caulfield on Diakali: “Having shown ability without winning any of his four starts, the son of Sinndar was sold for €160,000 at Arqana, and it has been a different story over hurdles”

238 CHAMPION 4YO HURDLE G1

Starts 8

Wins 3

Places 4

Chief’s Crown Grand Lodge

PUNCHESTOWN. April 27. 16f. Heavy.

1. DIAKALI (FR) 4 gr g Sinndar - Diasilixa (Linamix) O-Wicklow Bloodstock Limited B-Haras de Son Altesse L’Aga Khan SCEA TR-WP Mullins 2. Blood Cotil (FR) 4 b g Enrique - Move Along (Northern Crystal) 3. Dogora (FR) 4 gr g Robin des Pres - Garde de Nuit (Courtroom) Age 3-4

DIAKALI gr g 2009

Earned £86,234

La Papagena

SINNDAR b 97 Lashkari Sinntara Sidama Mendez

Linamix

Lunadix

DIASILIXA gr 2000 Diamond Seal

Persian Bold Panserina

Danzig Six Crowns Habitat Magic Flute Mill Reef Larannda Top Ville Stoyana Bellypha Miss Carina Breton Lutine Bold Lad Relkarunner Sovereign Path Pampalina

Having shown ability without winning any of his four starts, the son of Sinndar was sold for €160,000 at Arqana. It has been a different story over hurdles, his win at Punchestown being his third from five starts.

Diakali is by no means the first talented hurdler by dual Derby winner Sinndar, previous examples being Mourad and Mandali.

His dam Diasilixa took the Prix de Royaumont to become one of the many Group winners by the excellent

Linamix. Other daughters of Linamix have produced a string of high-class Flat performers, including the Classic winners Natagora, Blue Bunting, Clodovil and Valyra. Linamix is making an impact in jumping too, largely via stallion sons like Martaline, Reefscape, Fair Mix, Carlotamix and Al Namix.

Diakali’s second dam is Diamond Seal, a mare who did very well for the late Jean-Luc Lagardere. Diasilixa is one of three Group winners out of this daughter of Persian Bold.

National Hunt Graded races Date Apr 04 Apr 04 Apr 05 Apr 05 Apr 05 Apr 06 Apr 06 Apr 06 Apr 06 Apr 07 Apr 17 Apr 20 Apr 20 Apr 23 Apr 24 Apr 26 Apr 27 Apr 27 Apr 27 Apr 27

Grade G3 G3 G2 G2 G3 G2 G2 G3 G2 G2 G2 G2 G3 GrC GrA GrA GrB G2 GrB G3

Race (course) Red Rum H Chase (Aintree) Silver Cross H Hurdle (Aintree) Top Novices' Hurdle (Aintree) Mildmay Novices' Chase (Aintree) Topham H Chase (Aintree) Mersey Novices Hurdle (Aintree) An Uaimh Chase (Navan) Grand National H Chase (Aintree) Champion Open NH Flat Race (Aintree) Hugh McMahon Memorial Novice Chase (Limerick) Silver Trophy Chase (Cheltenham) Scottish Champion Hurdle (Ayr) Scottish Grand National H Chase (Ayr) Bragbet.com H Hurdle (Punchestown) Guinness H Chase (Punchestown) Aon Novice H Chase (Punchestown) Pat Taaffe H Chase (Punchestown) Celebration Chase (Sandown Park) Setanta Sports H Hurdle (Punchestown) Bet365 Gold Cup H Chase (Sandown Park)

Dist 16f 24.5f 16.5f 25f 21.5f 20f 20f 35.5f 17f 24f 21f 16f 32.5f 16f 20f 21f 25f 16f 20f 29.5f

Horse Oiseau De Nuit (FR) Battle Group (GB) My Tent Or Yours (IRE) Dynaste (FR) Triolo D'alene (FR) Ubak (FR) Sumkindasuprstar (IRE) Auroras Encore (IRE) Killyglass (IRE) Argocat (IRE) Champion Court (IRE) Court Minstrel (IRE) Godsmejudge (IRE) Il Fenomeno (ITY) Klepht (IRE) Madam Bovary (IRE) Carrig Millie (IRE) Sire De Grugy (FR) The Paparrazi Kid (IRE) Quentin Collonges (FR)

Age 11 8 6 7 6 5 9 11 6 5 8 6 7 7 8 7 8 7 6 9

Sex G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G M M G G G

Sire Evening World Beat Hollow Desert Prince Martaline Epalo Kapgarde Gulland Second Empire Heron Island Montjeu Court Cave Court Cave Witness Box Denon Great Palm Old Vic Milan My Risk Milan Dom Alco

Dam Idylle du Marais Cantanta Spartan Girl Bellissima de Mai Joliette d'Alene Gesse Parade Rockababy Sama Veda Grande Solitaire Spirit of South Mooneys Hill Theatral Eliza Everett Fabulous Charm What A Mewsment Saraemma Stormy Skies Hirlish Banbury Cross Grace Collonges

Broodmare Sire Panoramic Top Ville Ela-Mana-Mou Pistolet Bleu Garde Royale Dress Parade King's Ride Rainbow Quest Loup Solitaire Giant's Causeway Supreme Leader Orchestra Meneval Fabulous Dancer Persian Mews Wolver Hollow Strong Gale Passing Sale Supreme Leader Bayolidaan

Index 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258

Leading National Hunt sires 2012/13 by earnings Name

Oscar Beneficial King's Theatre Flemensfirth Milan Presenting Bob Back Old Vic Montjeu Kayf Tara Dom Alco Network Robin des Champs Second Empire Witness Box Pistolet Bleu Alflora Alderbrook Accordion Karinga Bay Winged Love Azamour Stowaway Dr Massini Definite Article Midnight Legend Lavirco Sadler's Wells Westerner Cadoudal Shantou Heron Island Galileo Bob's Return Anshan Martaline Generous Saddlers' Hall Solon Saint des Saints Dynaformer Hernando Gold Well Turgeon Luso Overbury Silver Patriarch Kahyasi

YOF

1994 1990 1991 1992 1998 1992 1981 1986 1996 1994 1987 1997 1997 1995 1987 1988 1989 1989 1986 1987 1992 2001 1994 1993 1992 1991 1993 1981 1999 1979 1993 1993 1998 1990 1987 1999 1988 1988 1992 1998 1985 1990 2001 1986 1992 1991 1994 1985

Sire

Sadler's Wells Top Ville Sadler's Wells Alleged Sadler's Wells Mtoto Roberto Sadler's Wells Sadler's Wells Sadler's Wells Dom Pasquini Monsun Garde Royale Fairy King Lyphard Top Ville Niniski Ardross Sadler's Wells Ardross In The Wings Night Shift Slip Anchor Sadler's Wells Indian Ridge Night Shift Konigsstuhl Northern Dancer Danehill Green Dancer Alleged Shirley Heights Sadler's Wells Bob Back Persian Bold Linamix Caerleon Sadler's Wells Local Suitor Cadoudal Roberto Niniski Sadler's Wells Caro Salse Caerleon Saddlers' Hall Ile de Bourbon

Rnrs

332 316 221 281 274 329 77 221 65 149 26 17 21 7 58 19 152 92 73 112 69 19 32 106 135 82 19 58 109 11 55 91 61 43 94 25 85 74 2 16 16 32 34 33 89 94 66 28

Wnrs

92 107 73 79 91 84 30 67 24 53 13 10 11 1 17 3 37 27 26 37 21 7 13 30 32 30 9 20 31 5 19 19 15 14 22 9 25 16 1 8 10 12 8 14 19 23 13 10

%WR

27.7 33.9 33.0 28.1 33.2 25.5 39.0 30.3 36.9 35.6 50.0 58.8 52.4 14.3 29.3 15.8 24.3 29.4 35.6 33.0 30.4 36.8 40.6 28.3 23.7 36.6 47.4 34.5 28.4 45.5 34.6 20.9 24.6 32.6 23.4 36.0 29.4 21.6 50.0 50.0 62.5 37.5 23.5 42.4 21.4 24.5 19.7 35.7

Races

147 156 116 112 137 109 45 92 37 71 27 20 19 1 22 7 47 46 37 56 34 11 20 44 44 46 23 27 41 7 27 28 20 19 26 17 37 19 3 13 17 19 12 28 24 31 18 15

AWD

19.3 19.6 19.6 20.0 20.3 20.2 21.3 19.9 19.5 20.1 22.4 18.8 21.0 35.5 23.4 19.7 20.5 20.0 19.6 20.2 20.9 17.1 18.3 19.9 19.7 19.8 19.7 19.5 18.8 24.2 19.1 18.4 18.7 21.6 20.6 18.6 19.4 20.9 22.5 17.5 18.1 19.8 18.7 20.5 20.5 20.0 20.4 20.3

Earnings (£)

1,847,351 1,756,503 1,692,724 1,469,432 1,236,440 1,192,975 1,015,786 883,399 836,484 672,152 671,567 638,354 585,857 569,644 495,355 470,144 464,237 438,719 430,070 392,262 363,116 360,702 346,261 344,147 332,476 328,325 327,670 314,813 314,410 311,976 297,514 297,289 278,300 275,053 275,031 268,260 261,538 245,877 241,835 239,784 236,258 231,527 229,208 218,469 218,345 218,082 217,923 215,572

Top horse

At Fishers Cross Benefficient Cue Card Tidal Bay Jezki First Lieutenant Bobs Worth Madam Bovary Hurricane Fly Special Tiara Silviniaco Conti Sprinter Sacre Sir des Champs Auroras Encore Godsmejudge Sizing Europe Wishfull Thinking Alderwood Fairy Rath Sweeney Tunes Hunt Ball Zarkandar Champagne Fever Rocky Creek Pride Of The Artic Noble Legend Roi du Mee Big Occasion Minella Forfitness Long Run Morning Assembly Trustan Times Celestial Halo Bob Lingo Ackertac Dynaste Close Touch Jadanli Solwhit Lyreen Legend Cause Of Causes Cape Tribulation Holywell Tarquinius Chicago Grey The Liquidator Carrickboy Vino Griego

Earned (£)

171,703 115,599 324,903 127,779 157,769 217,163 398,650 48,486 469,126 82,773 211,105 529,914 281,919 551,544 137,646 229,862 123,033 84,684 49,317 47,047 52,296 274,811 138,851 44,126 41,417 48,999 104,517 89,263 40,192 238,321 49,646 66,516 63,562 116,069 41,264 113,423 46,745 46,098 241,836 55,779 159,131 100,395 98,526 43,708 24,735 49,663 69,094 66,298

April showers money for Oscar progeny After being £62,000 adrift of Beneficial last month, Oscar had a cracking time in April with his progeny earning nearly £400,000. At Fishers Cross’s victory at Aintree, making it six from six for the campaign, was the highlight and helped his sire go one better than in 2011/12. The winning margin of just over £90,000 was pretty comfortable in the end.

The 19-year-old, one of six by Sadler’s Wells in the top ten, is the only active member of the first three, since Beneficial died in March and King’s Theatre in 2011.

Oscar, standing at Grange Stud for €6,500, had strength in numbers – his 332 runners gave him a narrow margin over Presenting with Beneficial third.

It is hardly a coincidence that Oscar and Presenting had the lowest percentage of winners to runners among the main contenders. Given that he had by far the fewest representatives of the leading group, King’s Theatre deserves a fair bit of posthumous credit.

Statistics to May 5

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Global Stakes Results Date Grade Argentina 01/05 G1 01/05 G1 01/05 G1 01/05 G1 01/05 G1 01/05 G1 06/04 G1 06/04 G1 02/05 G2 28/04 G2 21/04 G2 05/04 G2 21/04 G3 20/04 G3 16/04 G3 12/04 G3 07/04 G3

Race

Dist

Horse

Gran Premio Montevideo Gran Premio Republica Argentina G P de las Americas-OSAF E Blousson Gran Premio Jorge de Atucha Gran Premio CriadoresGran Premio Ciudad de Buenos Aires Int Gran Premio Raul y Raul E Chevalier Gran Premio Eliseo Ramirez Clasico Raul Aristegui Clasico Pedro Goenaga Clasico Paseana Clasico Benito Villanueva Clasico Porteno Asoc de Propietarios Caballos de Carrera Asoc. Bonarense Prop. Caballos Carrera Clasico Olavarria Clasico Coronel Pringles

7.5f 10.0f 8.0f 7.5f 10.0f 5.0f 7.0f 7.0f 7.0f 7.0f 9.0f 8.0f 12.0f 7.0f 6.0f 5.0f 5.0f

Sabayon (ARG) Di Giorgio (ARG) Todo Un Amiguito (ARG) Locasa Nistel (ARG) Candy Marie (ARG) Watch Her (ARG) Forza Key (ARG) Emirate's Girl (ARG) Travelwell (ARG) Lunero Cat (ARG) Miss Pinky (ARG) Todo Un Amiguito (ARG) Storm Rancher (ARG) Infiltrada (ARG) Fancy Cruz (USA) Peluca Fizz (ARG) Angiolo (ARG)

Palermo laid on a bumper May Day celebration with six G1 events on a 17race card. It attracted a 55,000 crowd, the biggest for many years, on a track where some of the giant stands have long stood empty. Di Giorgio was a mildly surprising winner of the principal prize, not so much because he won but because he did so by six easy lengths.

He had finished 12th in the GP Latinoamericana in Chile on March 16 in his only appearance since running fourth in the GP Carlos Pellegrini before Christmas. No explanation has yet emerged for that poor performance and it was a very different colt who triumphed in the Republica Argentina.

The stallion Mutakddim celebrated a double with Todo Un Amiguito and Australia 27/04 27/04 27/04 27/04 27/04 27/04 20/04 20/04 13/04 13/04 13/04 06/04 06/04 06/04 06/04 06/04 27/04 27/04 27/04 20/04 13/04 13/04 06/04 06/04 27/04 27/04 27/04 27/04 20/04 20/04 13/04 13/04 13/04 13/04 13/04 13/04 06/04 06/04 06/04 06/04 06/04

G1 G1 G1 G1 G1 G1 G1 G1 G1 G1 G1 G1 G1 G1 G1 G1 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3

All Aged Stakes Queen Elizabeth Stakes Sydney Cup Champagne Stakes Schweppes Oaks Robert Sangster Stakes BMW Doncaster Handicap Patinack Farm Australian Oaks David Jones Australian Derby Inglis Sires' Produce Stakes Darley T J Smith Stakes Daily Telegraph George Ryder Stakes Tooheys New Golden Slipper Stakes Vinery Stud Storm Queen Stakes Inglis Queen of the Turf Stakes BMW H E Tancred Stakes Queen of the South Stakes Emancipation Stakes Victory Stakes Schweppes Western Australian Derby Schweppes Chairman's Quality Handicap Belvedere Sapphire Stakes Emirates Park Tulloch Stakes Audrill Karrakatta Plate Chairman's Stakes Gunsynd Classic Frank Packer Plate D C McKay Stakes Western Australian Sires' Produce Stakes South Australian Sires' Produce Stakes Ticketek Kindergarten Stakes Schweppervescence Auraria Stakes Taqbcorp Adrian Knox Stakes R N Irwin Stakes BMW Doncaster Prelude Royal Parma Stakes Bacardi Rum Carbine Club Stakes Schweppervescence T L Baillieu Handicap Western Australian Oaks Neville Sellwood Stakes Morphettville Junction Breeders' Stakes Sebring HKJC Star Kingdom Stakes

Black Caviar, her half-brother All Too Hard, and the 2012 Sydney Juvenile Triple Crown winner Pierro all retired within a three-week period during April and early May to leave a huge hole in

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Watch Her, both of them the produce of Southern Halo mares. Todo Un Amiguito completed a hat-trick of wins over this mile. He had been strongly fancied when only sixth in this race last year and made no mistake as favourite this time. Watch Her was in the front rank all the way in the sprint and held off the strong late run of 58-1 shot Don Bruma by a neck. She is a daughter of the brilliant Wally, victorious in this race three years running (1995-97).

Candy Marie gained her fourth consecutive success and her second G1 in the Criadores. Only four opposed her and Sea Brava chased her home for the third consecutive time.

The Jorge de Atucha didn’t look that competitive but Locasa Nistel, well7.0f 10.0f 16.0f 8.0f 10.0f 6.0f 8.0f 12.0f 12.0f 7.0f 6.0f 7.5f 6.0f 10.0f 7.5f 12.0f 8.0f 8.0f 6.0f 12.0f 13.0f 6.0f 10.0f 6.0f 10.0f 8.0f 10.0f 5.5f 7.0f 7.0f 5.5f 9.0f 10.0f 5.5f 8.0f 8.0f 7.0f 12.0f 10.0f 6.0f 6.0f

All Too Hard (AUS) Reliable Man (GB) Mourayan (IRE) Guelph (AUS) Maybe Discreet (AUS) Platelet (AUS) Sacred Falls (NZ) Royal Descent (AUS) Dundeel (NZ) Guelph (AUS) Black Caviar (AUS) Pierro (AUS) Overreach (AUS) Norzita (NZ) Appearance (AUS) Fiveandahalfstar (AUS) Star of Giselle (AUS) Skyerush (AUS) Buffering (AUS) Mystic Prince (AUS) Tremec (NZ) Arinosa (AUS) Philippi (AUS) Ms Funovits (AUS) Hioctdane (AUS) Proverb (AUS) Usainity (NZ) General Truce (AUS) Camporella (AUS) The Voice (AUS) Safeguard (AUS) Global Balance (AUS) Royal Descent (AUS) Kulgrinda (AUS) Skyerush (AUS) Toydini (AUS) Champollion (AUS) Moreish (AUS) Lights of Heaven (NZ) Excites Zelady (AUS) Hot Snitzel (AUS)

Australian racing. The trio had been responsible for no fewer than 24 Group 1 victories in the previous two and a half years. Black Caviar took her personal tally of top-level triumphs to an

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Orpen Star Dabbler Mutakddim Van Nistelrooy Pure Prize Mutakddim Key Deputy Lizard Island True Cause Easing Along Numerous Mutakddim Bernstein Footstepsinthesand Giacomo Slew Gin Fizz Grand Reward

Sabatica Fitz Devonia Yankee Star Crazy Wells Candy Of Mine Wally For Me Cat Embrasable Cipaya Girl Hedgewood Rosada Fitz Yankee Star Ramada Inn Ibella Fancy Tale Lucky Peineta Wait

Fitzcarraldo Candy Stripes Southern Halo Poliglote Candy Stripes Southern Halo Easing Along Equalize Fitzcarraldo Kitwood Fitzcarraldo Southern Halo Ahmad Lode Rahy Lucky Roberto Southern Halo

beaten in two previous G1 attempts, still managed to run 0.16s faster than the colts in the Montevideo. Much of that was due to the strong pace set by the favourite City Tune. Locasa Nistel caught her inside the final furlong and scored by one and a half lengths.

Sabayon, the Montevideo winner, was caught on the rails straightening for home and had to be switched to the outside before producing a strong run to score by three lengths. A G3 winner over course and distance on April 1, he remains undefeated after three starts.

Zapata challenged between the Haras El Alfalfar’s homebred jointfavourites Forza Key and Todo Tango Key to ‘win’ the Chevalier by a head and the same. Both those sons of Key 4 5 7 3 4 5 4 4 4 3 7 4 3 4 5 4 6 8 6 4 5 6 4 3 4 4 4 6 3 3 3 4 4 6 8 4 3 4 6 3 5

C H H F F M C F C F M C F F M G M M G G H M C F G G G G F G C F F M M G C F M G G

Casino Prince Dalakhani Alhaarth Exceed And Excel Shamardal Strategic O'Reilly Redoute's Choice High Chaparral Exceed And Excel Bel Esprit Lonhro Exceed And Excel Thorn Park Commands Hotel Grand Reset Super Jet Mossman Reset Zabeel Dash For Cash Host Reset Strada Commands Zed Brief Truce Exceed And Excel Northern Meteor Exceed And Excel Redoute's Choice Redoute's Choice Exceed And Excel Super Jet Bernardini Exceed And Excel More Than Ready Zabeel Excites Snitzel

Deputy fought back gamely but it was the less-exposed Forza Key who stayed on better than the unbeaten four-time winner Todo Tango Key. As a result Forza Key started favourite in his first attempt on dirt in the Montevideo but finished a never-dangerous fourth.

There was a consolation prize though. It was announced that same weekend that Zapata had been tested positive for furosemide (lasix), so Forza Key was declared the Chevalier winner. Nicholas Gaitan, who trains Zapata, received a four-month suspension.

Preferences for the different surfaces are still being established. Emirate's Girl relished the return to turf in the Eliseo Ramirez after a dirt flop and score by a commanding four lengths.

Helsinge On Fair Stage Mouramara Camarilla Oh So Discreet Bloodline Iguazu's Girl Mulan Princess Stareel Camarilla Helsinge Right Note Bahia Visique Disguise Cryptic Miss Princesa Bally Aura Action Annie Purfect Size Tipple Amoroso Soorena Illusional Autobahn More Haste Day Tripper General Resolve Really Flying Ceol Na Sraide Preserve Balance of Nature Mulan Princess River Crossing Bally Aura Johan's Toy Hierogram Pink City I'm In Heaven Zelady Flames of Paris

Australian record 15 when signing off with arguably her best ever display, treating a strong TJ Smith Stakes field with utter contempt before scoring by three lengths. All Too Hard also

Desert Sun Sadler's Wells Kahyasi Elusive Quality Bluebird Dracula Redoute's Choice Kaapstad Zabeel Elusive Quality Desert Sun Daylami Snippets Quest For Fame Grand Lodge Snippets Danehill Bellotto Anabaa Catbird Stravinsky Revoque Encosta de Lago Redoute's Choice Octagonal Brief Truce Bin Ajwaad General Nediym Real Quiet King's Theatre Canny Lad Storm Cat Kaapstad Bellotto Bellotto Johan Cruyff Octagonal Danehill Volksraad Zeditave Blushing Groom

departed in a blaze of glory, beating Rain Affair, who had finished fourth in the TJ Smith, and Fiorente (winner of the 2012 Princess Of Wales’s Stakes for Sir Michael Stoute) in the All Aged

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Stakes. A few day later his owners, Vinery Stud, called time on plans to emulate his big sister at Royal Ascot in favour of beginning his stallion career.

Pierro, by contrast, went out on a low note, suffering his first defeat in 11 starts in Sydney when failing by threequarters of a length to give 9lb to fellow three-year-old Sacred Falls in a Doncaster Mile run on heavy ground.

Another member of the Classic generation, Norzita, who three weeks earlier had given trainer Bart Cummings the 266th Group 1 win of his career in the Vinery Stud Stakes, was third.

Sacred Falls’s victory completed a brilliant double for trainer Chris Waller, as less than an hour earlier he had sent out Royal Descent to a runaway win in the Australian Oaks – her ten-length Brazil 14/04 14/04 20/04 14/04 13/04 07/04 21/04 14/04 13/04 13/04 13/04 12/04 31/03 24/03 24/03

G1 G1 G2 G2 G2 G2 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3

margin was the biggest in a contest of this status for 15 years. So who are the future stars who can fill the void? Given that Royal Descent had only broken through in Group 3 company a week earlier she will probably be only a member of the supporting cast once returned to faster underfoot conditions.

However, the crack two-year-old filly Guelph definitely has star quality. A homebred Sheikh Mohammed-owned daughter of Exceed And Excel, her campaign was initially built around February’s Blue Diamond Stakes. She lost all chance in that when almost falling coming out of the stalls, then suffered traffic problems en route to a fast-finishing fourth to another of her stallion’s progeny, Overreach, in the world’s richest juvenile race, the Golden

GP Cruzeiro Sul Derby Carioca-Stud TNT GP.Zelia Gonzaga Peixoto Castro-Stud TNT Grande Premio Oswaldo Aranha GP. Presidente Antonio T Assumpcao Netto Grande Premio Hernani Azevedo Silva Grande Premio Joao Borges Filho Grande Premio Presidente Julio Mesquita Classico Jockey Club de Sao Paulo G. P. Presidente Jose de Souza Queiroz Grande Presidente Vargas Grande Premio Henrique de Toledo Lara G P Derby Paranaense - P.A.A. de Camargo Grande Premio Mario Azevedo Ribeiro G. P. Presidente Carlos Paes de Barros Grande Premio Euvaldo Lodi

Mojito, a proven stayer with a couple of successes over the Derby distance already to his name, including a G2 in December, had too much stamina for his 11 rivals in a race run on soft going.

12.0f 12.0f 12.0f 8.0f 10.0f 12.0f 5.0f 5.0f 7.0f 8.0f 10.0f 11.0f 7.0f 8.0f 8.0f

Mojito (BRZ) Abidjan (BRZ) Gober (BRZ) Que Espetaculo (BRZ) Garota Do Verde (BRZ) Invictus (BRZ) Valente Master (BRZ) Billion Dollar (BRZ) Undostais (BRZ) Arkansas Sand (BRZ) Arizona Gipsy (BRZ) Maisesperto Gais (BRZ) Bal A Bali (BRZ) Gol Tricolor (BRZ) Hegemonia (BRZ)

He took it up over a furlong out and soon pulled clear to take his career record to six wins in nine appearances.

Only five turned out for the final leg of the fillies' Triple Crown but they

Slipper. But she put the record straight in the Sires’ Produce Stakes (with Overreach back in third) and followed up two weeks later when getting up from a seemingly impossible position in the Champagne Stakes.

It’s A Dundeel marked himself out as a new big name with an effortless Australian Derby victory to become only the fifth horse to land Sydney’s ThreeYear-Old Triple Crown. But that race was devalued by the absence of the Victoria Derby winner Fiveandahalfstar, who suffered a fetlock injury while beating older horses in the BMW Stakes a week earlier.

And It’s A Dundeel’s reputation plummeted when he was brushed aside by the 2011 French Derby winner Reliable Man in the Queen Elizabeth 4 4 4 5 4 5 4 3 3 4 4 4 3 5 5

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Dubai Dust Agnes Gold Yagli Northern Afleet Crimson Tide Sulamani Holzmeister Put It Back Silent Times Point Given American Gipsy Qais Put It Back North Light Red Runner

II Stakes. It’s A Dundeel may not get the chance to take his revenge as Reliable Man, a third big winner of the month for trainer Waller, suffered a tendon injury 50 yards from the line.

Mourayan, another imported horse with top European form (third in the 2009 Irish Derby) landed the Sydney Cup, while Appearance won her third Group 1 of the season (all at juicy odds) in the Queen Of The Turf Stakes.

In South Australia, the Robert Sangster as expected went to a Victoria visitor, but it was Platelet rather than the odds-on Snitzerland who prevailed.

By contrast, the Australasian Oaks trophy did not have to travel far as the comfortable winner, Maybe Discreet, is trained at Morphettville racecourse by Phillip Stokes.

For Freedom Nina Preta Visa Max Clausen Export Andrea Girl Get Back Madam du Bois Laura Ricci Dirty Dancer Quartz Sand Queen Nishka Wreath In My Side Maiouest Ambergris

included the winners of the first two Classics, Antonella Baby and Sutil, plus Abidjan, who had finished runner-up by half a length each time. Sutil took it up early in the straight but gave way to

Ghadeer New Colony Kenetico Spend A Buck Mensageiro Alado Fast Gold Coax Me Clyde Lode Knifebox Trempolino Dodge Purple Mountain Clackson Gone West Clackson

Antonella Baby two out. Abidjan, who had been last for a long way, then cut between her old rivals and quickly pulled clear to score by three and a quarter lengths.

Canada 28/04

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Whimsical Stakes

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Acting Naughty (CAN)

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Offlee Wild

Mariaburg

Langfuhr

Chile 14/04 10/04 27/03 26/04 26/04 13/04 06/04 06/04

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Copa de Oro Premio El Estreno Nicanor Senoret Premio Municipal de Vina del Mar Premio Cotejo de Potrillos Premio Cotejo de Potrancas Premio Ignacio Urrutia de la Sotta Gran Handicap de Chile Premio Juan Cavieres Mella

9.0f 6.5f 9.5f 6.5f 6.5f 6.5f 8.0f 6.5f

Giant's Steps (ARG) Gaturro (CHI) Victory Roar (CHI) El Bromista (CHI) Solaria (CHI) Magico Genial (CHI) Bronzo (CHI) Safawi (CHI)

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Giant's Causeway Sonoma Cat Victory Gallop Scat Daddy Scat Daddy Monthir Fusaichi Pegasus Seeking The Dia

Hamsaat Hi Haat Luna Arabe Roar Franka Roar Bresca So Linda Galera Imperial Bateria Blindada Sirena Del Egeo

Hennessy Sadlers Congress Roar Seeker's Reward Seeker's Reward Edgy Diplomat Memo Indian Lodge

Audemars Piguet Queen Elizabeth II Cup

10.0f

Military Attack (IRE)

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Oratorio

Almaaseh

Dancing Brave

Hong Kong 28/04 G1

A messy race for the Audemars Piguet Queen Elizabeth II Cup witnessed victory go to Military Attack, an Oratorio Japan 14/04 07/04 21/04 21/04 06/04 06/04 20/04 13/04

G1 G1 G2 G2 G2 G2 G3 G3

Satsuki Sho (2000 Guineas) Oka Sho (1000 Guineas) Yomiuri Milers Cup Sankei Sports Sho Flora Tokubetsu New Zealand Trophy Sankeisports Hai Hanshin Himba Fukushima Himba Stakes Antares Stakes

The first Japanese Classic of the season, the Oka Sho (1,000 Guineas) was a story of one stallion and two brothers. Deep Impact sired the first New Zealand 13/04 G1 06/04 G1 27/04 G2 27/04 G3 20/04 G3 20/04 G3

Easter Handicap Fiber Fresh NZ TB Breeders Stakes Travis Stakes Windsor Park Stud Breeders Stakes Hawke's Bay Gold Cup Canterbury Gold Cup

gelding now trained by John Moore who had been known as Rave when winning half of his six British starts for 10.0f 8.0f 8.0f 10.0f 8.0f 7.0f 9.0f 9.0f

Logotype (JPN) Ayusan (JPN) Grand Prix Boss (JPN) Denim And Ruby (JPN) A Shin Top (USA) Sound of Heart (JPN) All That Jazz (JPN) Hokko Tarumae (JPN)

two home, Ayusan and Red Oval, while visiting Italian rider Cristian Demuro took the prize a neck ahead of his older brother, Mirco.

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Viadana (NZ) Xanadu (NZ) Pimms Time (NZ) Little Wonder (NZ) Survived (NZ) Shuka (NZ)

John Hills up until late 2011.

Godolphin’s Dubai Duty Free winner Sajjhaa battled on gamely to finish 3 3 5 3 3 4 5 4

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Lohengrin Deep Impact Sakura Bakushin O Deep Impact Tale of The Cat Agnes Tachyon Tanino Gimlet King Kamehameha

Stereotype Buy the Cat Rosy Mist Venenciador Ecology Shimmei Minerva Diamond Pisa Madam Cherokee

Seniority amongst the Demuro siblings returned to normality a week later when Mirco guided the champion two-year-old colt Logotype to a half6 5 5 4 4 5

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Towkay Elusive City Pins Volksraad Zed Bachelor Duke

fourth, having started slowly and been caught out wide for much of the contest.

Sunday Silence Storm Cat Sunday Silence King Kamehameha Unbridled's Song Caerleon Sunday Silence Cherokee Run

length success in the Satsuki Sho (2,000 Guineas), with Cristian well beaten in tenth of the 18 runners aboard Imperator.

Yeah Nah Forest Dream Brampton Legs Shortblackmini Liberal Alabama Rose

Kinjite Forest Glow Zabeel Black Minnaloushe Generous Cape Cross

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Xanadu finally got her head in front in a big one after three seconds, two thirds and a fourth in Group 1 company by Peru 14/04

G3

South Africa 27/04 G1 27/04 G1 27/04 G1 27/04 G1 12/04 G1 G2 28/04 G2 28/04 G2 27/04 G2 27/04 G2 27/04 G2 27/04 G2 27/04 G2 06/04 G2 06/04 28/04 G3 13/04 G3 13/04 G3 07/04 G3 07/04 G3 06/04 G3

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fast-finishing Twilight Granita.

Viadana’s narrow triumph in a renewal of the Easter Handicap

dominated by mares also produced an initial Group 1 win for both the daughter of Towkay and her trainer, Lance Noble.

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5.5f 12.0f 5.0f 10.0f 8.0f 6.0f 6.0f 5.5f 12.0f 5.5f 10.0f 16.0f 10.0f 5.5f 6.0f 7.0f 7.0f 5.5f 5.5f 5.5f

Willow Magic (AUS) Wylie Hall (AUS) What A Winter (SAF) Heavy Metal (SAF) Thunder Dance (SAF) Colour of Courage (SAF) My Sanctuary (SAF) Virgo's Babe (SAF) Cherry On The Top (SAF) Eastern Greeting (SAF) Checcetti (SAF) Canterbury Tale (SAF) E-Jet (SAF) Merhee (AUS) All Is Secret (SAF) Capetown Noir (SAF) Jet Supreme (SAF) Normanz (SAF) Royalsecuritybaby (AUS) Kinematic Countess (SAF)

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Dubawi Redoute's Choice Western Winter Silvano Jet Master Judpot Antonius Pius Malhub Tiger Ridge Kahal Kahal Greys Inn Jet Master Elusive Quality Captain Al Western Winter Jet Master Var Choisir Count Dubois

La Willow Beauty Belle Waseela Percussion Shadow Dancing Exclusive Honour Temple Goddess Linzertorte Carolina Cherry Salaam Dancer's Choice Classique Story Esmaltina Dizzy de Lago Secret of Victoria Akinfeet Solea La Normandie Serene City National Navigator

Tierce Ideal Planet Ahonoora Baroon Fort Wood Exclusive Patriot Pulpit Special Preview Fort Wood Northern Guest Royal Prerogative Elliodor Equalize Encosta de Lago Goldkeeper Fort Wood Zabeel American Chance Marscay National Emblem

Turffontein hosted South Africa’s richest race day on April 27 and though four Group 1 races topped the bill it was Cherry On Top, winner of the Group 2 SA Oaks, who arguably stole the show as in so doing she became only the second filly to complete the Triple Tiara.

The other highly popular winner was What A Winter, as he landed the United States 04/05 G1 04/05 G1 04/05 G1 03/05 G1 13/04 G1 13/04 G1 13/04 G1 13/04 G1 12/04 G1 12/04 G1 06/04 G1 06/04 G1 06/04 G1 06/04 G1 06/04 G1 G2 04/05 G2 04/05 G2 03/05 G2 03/05 G2 03/05 G2 26/04 G2 21/04 G2 20/04 G2 20/04 G2 14/04 G2 13/04 G2 13/04 G2 06/04 G2 06/04 G2 06/04 G2 30/03 04/05 G3 04/05 G3 04/05 G3 03/05 G3 27/04 G3 27/04 G3 27/04 G3 27/04 G3 25/04 G3 21/04 G3 20/04 G3 20/04 G3 20/04 G3 20/04 G3 20/04 G3 19/04 G3 18/04 G3 13/04 G3 13/04 G3 13/04 G3 13/04 G3 10/04 G3

taking the NZ Thoroughbred Breeders Stakes. And she did it in style, coming home more than a length clear of the

Kentucky Derby Woodford Reserve Turf Classic Stakes Humana Distaff Handicap Kentucky Oaks Toyota Blue Grass Stakes Arkansas Derby Jenny Wiley Stakes Madison Stakes Apple Blossom Handicap Maker's 46 Mile Stakes Santa Anita Derby Wood Memorial Stakes Carter Handicap Santa Anita Oaks Central Bank Ashland Stakes Mervyn LeRoy Handicap Churchill Downs Stakes American Turf Stakes Alysheba Stakes La Troienne Stakes Elkhorn Stakes San Juan Capistrano Handicap Santa Barbara Handicap Charles Town Classic Stakes Keeneland Select Beaumont Stakes Oaklawn Handicap Distaff Handicap Potrero Grande Stakes Gazelle Stakes Rufian Handicap Louisiana Derby Fort Marcy Stakes Twin Spires Turf Sprint Stakes Beaugay Stakes Eight Belles Stakes Derby Trial Stakes Texas Mile Stakes San Francisco Mile Stakes Westchester Stakes Bewitch Stakes Ben Ali Stakes Illinois Derby Coolmore Lexington Stakes San Simeon Stakes Miami Mile Handicap Sixty Sails Handicap Hillard Lyons Doubledogdare Stakes Japan Racing Assoc. Appalachian Stakes Commonwealth Stakes Count Fleet Sprint Handicap Las Cienegas Stakes Shakertown Stakes Fantasy Stakes

Computaform Sprint at the third time of asking following two placed efforts.

Weiho Marwing rivalled Sean Tarry as training hero of the day. Marwing saddled the first two, Wylie Hall and Gothic, in a renewal of the SA Derby in which Robbie Fradd gave the favourite, Tellina, a huge amount of ground to make up before finishing fourth.

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Orb (USA) Wise Dan (USA) Aubby K (USA) Princess Of Sylmar (USA) Java's War (USA) Overanalyze (USA) Centre Court (USA) Last Full Measure (USA) On Fire Baby (USA) Wise Dan (USA) Goldencents (USA) Verrazano (USA) Swagger Jack (USA) Beholder (USA) Emollient (USA) Liaison (USA) Delaunay (USA) Noble Tune (USA) Take Charge Indy (USA) Authenticity (USA) Dark Cove (USA) Interaction (ARG) Lady of Shamrock (USA) Game On Dude (USA) Ciao Bella Luna (USA) Cyber Secret (USA) Cluster of Stars (USA) Jimmy Creed (USA) Close Hatches (USA) Withgreatpleasure (USA) Revolutionary (USA) Lubash (USA) Berlino di Tiger (BRZ) Hessonite (USA) So Many Ways (USA) Forty Tales (USA) Master Rick (USA) Tigah (GB) Flat Out (USA) Strathnaver (GB) Successful Dan (USA) Departing (USA) Winning Cause (USA) Chips All In (USA) Summer Front (USA) Disposablepleasure (USA) Ice Cream Silence (USA) Unbelievable Dream (USA) Handsome Mike (USA) Justin Phillip (USA) Mizdirection (USA) Havelock (USA) Rose To Gold (USA)

Tarry moved past Mike de Kock to the head of the trainers’ championship by taking both the most valuable event on the card, the Champions Challenge, with the 40-1 outsider Heavy Metal, and the SA Nursery with Willow Magic, who inflicted a first defeat on hot favourite Red Ray by a length and three-quarters.

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Malibu Moon Wiseman's Ferry Street Sense Majestic Warrior War Pass Dixie Union Smart Strike Empire Maker Smoke Glacken Wiseman's Ferry Into Mischief More Than Ready Smart Strike Henny Hughes Empire Maker Indian Charlie Smoke Glacken Unbridled's Song A P Indy Quiet American Medaglia d'Oro Easing Along Scat Daddy Awesome Again Tribal Rule Broken Vow Greeley's Galaxy Distorted Humor First Defence Hold That Tiger War Pass Freud Tiger Heart Freud Sightseeing Tale of The Cat Master Command Dalakhani Flatter Oasis Dream Successful Appeal War Front Giant's Causeway North Light War Front Giacomo Street Sense Kitalpha Scat Daddy First Samurai Mizzen Mast Great Notion Friends Lake

A fortnight earlier and the Cape Town raider Thunder Dance landed the Empress Club Stakes for trainer Brett Crawford. The result had an ironic twist as both the runner-up, Festival Of Fire, and the unlucky beaten favourite, Ihla Bela, are trained by de Kock, whose yard had played host to Thunder Dance during her visit to Johannesburg.

Lady Liberty Lisa Danielle Lilly Capote Storm Dixie Java Unacloud Let Lazy Slusan Ornate Lisa Danielle Golden Works Enchanted Rock Lyrical Prayer Leslie's Lady Soothing Touch Galloping Gal Perilous Night Serena's Cat Take Charge Lady Court Of Appeal Crystal Cove Inter Rails Blushing Issue Worldly Pleasure Shadow of the Moon Stomping Babyurthegreatest Hookedonthefeelin Rising Tornado Doubleyourpleasure Runup The Colors Nasty Cure Rainha da Bateria Lakab Happy Scene Forty Love Whata Gem Macina Cresta Lil River Belle Lisa Danielle Leave Raffishing Look Maria's Mirage Rose of Summer My Canada Double Scoop A Perfect Weekend Classic Strike Ava Knowsthecode Deceptive Piconeach Saucy

Unbridled Wolf Power Capote Catienus Rainbow Quest Unaccounted For A P Indy Slewvescent Gilded Time Wolf Power Banker's Gold Giant's Causeway The Minstrel Tricky Creek Touch Gold Victory Gallop Coronado's Quest Storm Cat Dehere Deputy Minister Kris S Ride The Rails Blushing John Devil His Due Conquistador Cielo Dixieland Band Honour And Glory Citidancer Storm Cat Double Negative A P Indy Cure The Blues Torrential Manila Dehere Forty Niner Maria's Mon Platini Cresta Rider Lahib Wolf Power Pulpit Kingmambo Maria's Mon El Prado With Approval Seeking The Gold Stephen Got Even Smart Strike Cryptoclearance Clever Trick Spectacular Love Tabasco Cat

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Bay Shore Stakes Providencia Stakes Transylvania Stakes

7.0f 9.0f 8.5f

Shug McGaughey, a 63-year-old Kentucky native, crowned a training career that stretches back to 1979 with his first Kentucky Derby victory. The horse responsible was Orb, who was nothing special as a juvenile but made it four wins from as many starts at three and followed up his Florida Derby triumph. As the experienced Mike Smith lulled many of his rivals into chasing a suicidal pace that he set aboard Palace Malice, Orb came from nearly last in a full field of 20 under jockey-of-themoment Joel Rosario, fresh from his Dubai World Cup triumph, to score by two and a half lengths. The next four home were tightly grouped and included three who had contested the Louisiana Derby, runner-up Golden Soul, improving from fourth at Fair Grounds thanks to a rail-hugging ride.

The Aidan O’Brien-trained UAE Derby hero Lines Of Battle was a respectable seventh, while the Wood Memorial and

Declan's Warrior (USA) Scarlet Strike (USA) Jack Milton (USA)

3 3 3

Santa Anita Derby winners, Verrazano and Goldencents, paid for racing prominently in finishing 14th and 17th.

There were no such excuses for 11thpaced Overanalyze, winner of the Arkansas Derby or 13th-placed Java’s War, who had earlier lifted the Blue Grass Stakes. A miserable wet day made the track sloppy but did not deter over 151,000 from showing up.

They also got to admire reigning Horse Of The Year Wise Dan, who overcame doubts about his ability to handle a turf course rated ‘yielding’ with a comfortable Woodford Reserve Turf Classic victory achieved without jockey Jose Lezcano having to resort to the whip. This was Wise Dan’s seventh straight success (the last five at Grade 1 level) and came three weeks after he had beaten Data Link by a length in the Maker’s 46 Mile on his reappearance.

A good proportion of the crowd must have made a profit as favourites

C F C

Majestic Warrior Smart Strike War Front

Comanche Star Scarlet Tango Preserver

did well all afternoon, including in the Humana Distaff, in which Aubby K beat Burban by a length and a half for a first top-level victory.

Almost 114,000 had turned out at Churchill Downs the previous day for the Oaks, but this time the form did not work out so well as the hot favourite Dreaming Of Julia “got creamed at the start and lost all chance”, in the words of her trainer Todd Pletcher. In the circumstances she did well to finish fourth, within three lengths of the 38-1 winner, her stablemate Princess Of Sylmar. The half-length runner-up was the 2012 champion Juvenile filly Beholder, who had won the Santa Anita Oaks four weeks earlier. She also had a hard-luck story to tell as she played up in the preliminaries, at one stage momentarily getting rid of jockey Garrett Gomez. Part of the reason for Dreaming Of Julia’s very short price was because Emollient, whom she

Saint Ballado French Deputy Forty Niner

had beaten by no less than 30 lengths in March 30’s Gulfstream Park Oaks, turned out again just a week later to land the Ashland Stakes.

There were also surprises in two other big fillies events, Last Full Measure (17-1) coming from miles back to take the Madison Stakes, and On Fire Baby, who later had her colours lowered by a third Pletcher inmate, Authenticity, in the La Troienne Stakes on Kentucky Oaks day, making all in the Apple Blossom Handicap.

Centre Court is an early frontrunner for end-of-year champion turf filly honours after denying Daisy Devine back-to-back Jenny Willey Stakes victories by two lengths.

A very fast pace meant the two horses who sat furthest off it fought out the finish of the Carter Handicap, Swagger Jack getting the better of Sahara Sky by three-quarters of a length.

Leading sires 2013 by earnings Name

YOF

1998 1994 Holy Roman Emperor 2004 Oasis Dream 2000 Muhtathir 1995 Rock Of Gibraltar 1999 Oratorio 2002 Verglas 1994 Monsun 1990 Dansili 1996 Red Clubs 2003 Medicean 1997 Danehill Dancer 1993 Teofilo 2004 Pivotal 1993 Elusive City 2000 Dubawi 2002 Invincible Spirit 1997 Slickly 1996 Gold Away 1995 New Approach 2005 Refuse To Bend 2000 Kheleyf 2001 Motivator 2002 Choisir 1999 Acclamation 1999 Dubai Destination 1999 Galileo Cape Cross

Sire

Sadler's Wells Green Desert Danehill Green Desert Elmaamul Danehill Danehill Highest Honor Konigsstuhl Danehill Red Ransom Machiavellian Danehill Galileo Polar Falcon Elusive Quality Dubai Millennium Green Desert Linamix Goldneyev Galileo Sadler's Wells Green Desert Montjeu Danehill Dancer Royal Applause Kingmambo

Rnrs

109 125 109 139 88 103 135 138 31 89 60 101 113 77 107 122 59 128 80 70 30 110 127 70 70 116 78

Wnrs

31 30 25 32 18 30 33 34 11 26 16 27 28 23 29 26 19 31 12 16 8 36 32 25 19 30 19

%WR

28.4 24.0 22.9 23.0 20.5 29.1 24.4 24.6 35.5 29.2 26.7 26.7 24.8 29.9 27.1 21.3 32.2 24.2 15.0 22.9 26.7 32.7 25.2 35.7 27.1 25.9 24.4

Races

33 35 35 40 24 37 50 38 14 34 27 35 31 32 34 38 21 47 14 20 8 49 45 28 22 37 28

AWD

11.0 8.9 7.6 8.3 9.5 9.2 8.5 8.1 11.2 10.2 6.6 9.5 8.9 9.3 7.5 7.5 9.8 7.1 10.1 9.6 8.8 8.8 7.1 10.6 7.1 7.1 9.0

Earnings (£)

485,667 481,280 446,460 424,190 416,130 414,718 409,540 400,952 399,121 396,303 382,191 367,643 367,460 362,907 359,375 355,830 344,252 337,900 326,674 324,961 322,616 318,290 290,808 287,823 286,551 285,160 283,683

SH

9 7 4 4 4 3 6 5 7 5 1 2 7 8 4 3 8 4 2 0 3 2 4 4 2 1 2

%

8.3 5.6 3.7 2.9 4.6 2.9 4.4 3.6 22.6 5.6 1.7 2.0 6.2 10.4 3.7 2.5 13.6 3.1 2.5 10.0 1.8 3.2 5.7 2.9 0.9 2.6

SW

3 2 2 1 2 1 3 1 4 2 1 0 2 3 3 0 4 2 1 0 2 1 0 1 1 0 2

%

2.8 1.6 1.8 0.7 2.3 1.0 2.2 0.7 12.9 2.3 1.7 1.8 3.9 2.8 6.8 1.6 1.3 6.7 0.9 1.4 1.4 2.6

Galileo firing early With New Approach and Red Clubs among the younger brigade, the 2,000 Guineas and 1,000 Guineas are unlikely to have a major long-term impact on the table, and it hardly bodes well for his opponents that Galileo is already on top. His tally will surely increase prodigiously once the major middle-distance events start being contested.

Monsun and Dubawi are ahead of him in stakes winners and there are ten who have had more runners. These are headed by Oasis Dream, followed by Verglas and Oratorio.

Leading sires of two-year-olds 2013 by earnings Name

YOF

2001 1996 2000 1994 2003 2005 2001 Holy Roman Emperor 2004 Mastercraftsman 2006 Pyrus 1998 Kheleyf 2001 Panis 1998 Kodiac 2001 Captain Gerrard 2005 Hold That Tiger 2000 Early March 2002 Intense Focus 2006 Excellent Art 2004 Camacho 2002 Elusive City 2000 Blu Air Force 1997 Red Rocks 2003 Moss Vale 2001 Desert Style 1992 Whipper 2001 Footstepsinthesand 2002 Exceed And Excel 2000 Chineur Orpen Deportivo Bahamian Bounty Dandy Man Falco Pastoral Pursuits

Sire

Fasliyev Lure Night Shift Cadeaux Genereux Mozart Pivotal Bahamian Bounty Danehill Danehill Dancer Mr Prospector Green Desert Miswaki Danehill Oasis Dream Storm Cat Dansili Giant's Causeway Pivotal Danehill Elusive Quality Sri Pekan Galileo Shinko Forest Green Desert Miesque's Son Giant's Causeway Danehill

Rnrs

8 5 10 11 10 2 12 7 4 3 10 2 9 11 2 3 12 6 10 6 4 6 4 2 4 7 6

Wnrs

2 3 2 5 4 1 3 1 3 1 3 1 4 3 1 1 2 1 2 0 2 1 2 1 1 1 2

%WR

25.0 60.0 20.0 45.5 40.0 50.0 25.0 14.3 75.0 33.3 30.0 50.0 44.4 27.3 50.0 33.3 16.7 16.7 20.0 50.0 16.7 50.0 50.0 25.0 14.3 33.3

Races

2 3 2 6 4 2 4 2 3 2 3 2 4 3 2 1 2 1 2 0 2 1 2 1 2 1 2

AWD

4.6 4.9 5.5 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 4.9 5.1 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.5 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.1

Earnings (£)

47,642 38,455 38,373 34,669 27,073 26,504 25,495 21,575 21,018 19,918 18,768 18,048 17,933 17,894 17,398 16,260 15,331 15,323 15,190 13,573 12,568 12,406 12,207 12,032 11,626 11,103 10,526

Top horse

Pengabelot Vorda Larra Chope Mick's Yer Man Gwen Lady Byron Indiaco Weisses Rossl Atlantic City Double Look Dix Neuf Six Maremmadiavola New Elite Alutiq Limegrove Bolga Bere Early Prime Focus On Venice Nisharora Green Door Reign Stay Tuned Crissolo Orton Park Yosra Anticipated Fast In The Wind Montaigne

Earned (£)

18,415 13,821 13,374 14,232 8,415 23,577 8,942 20,325 8,943 16,179 8,130 18,049 3,742 5,330 15,447 13,902 9,256 6,504 10,040 5,854 5,544 6,098 7,127 10,732 11,626 9,256 4,728

Master blaster Mastercraftsman was a crackerjack at two and at three, and was always oddson to make a mark with his first runners from a crop containing more than 130 registered juveniles. So far the Coolmore stallion has had three winners from four runners, an impressive start.

He is not leading the list among freshmen though. That honour goes to Dandy Man, based at Ballyhane Stud and responsible for four winners from ten runners. Mickley Stud’s Captain Gerrard has weighed in with three from 11.

Statistics to May 5

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DATA BOOK OVERSEAS STAKES RESULTS WINNERS Breeder Abbeville & Meadow Court Partners All. Pian Di Neve Ashburton Property Finance Ltd Allevamento Gialloblu SRL Azienda Agricola La Morosina Azienda Agricola Luciani Loreto Azienda Agricola Mariano Azienda Agricola Rosati Colarieti Bamford, Lady Banahan, P. E. Barouche Stud Ireland Ltd Barronstown Stud Barronstown Stud Beckitt & Son, J. K. Bifova, Mrs E. Blows & Miss J. Hall, P. Bloomsbury Stud Brook Stud Bloodstock Ltd Broughton, Mr M. E. Burke, Mr J. Capital Pur Sang & Haras D'Etreham Carlingford Breeding Syndicate Carpet Lady Partnership Cheveley Park Stud Limited Cheveley Park Stud Ltd Chevotel Clee, Mr & Mrs D. D. Clee, Mr & Mrs D. D. Compagnia Generale SRL Connaughton, J. Connaughton, J. Coonan, Mrs M. Crone Stud Farms Ltd Cullinan, J. Dachel Stud Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley David Jamison Bloodstock Dayton Investments Ltd Dayton Investments Ltd Dayton Investments Ltd Dayton Investments Ltd de Moratalla, Marquesa de Moratalla, Marquesa Derrymore House Syndicate Duffy, Mr & Mrs J. A. Ellis Stud Partnership Ellis, Exors of the Late J. Ennistown Stud Enterprise Bloodstock & Newsells Park Stud Epona Bloodstock Ltd Erhardt, Mr J. Fabre, Mrs Elisabeth Fabre, Mrs Elisabeth Fair Salinia Limited Faldutto, G. Faldutto, G. Farrell, C. M. Finegan & Noel Cogan, N. Firestone, Mr and Mrs B. Firestone, Mr and Mrs B. Floors Farming & Beckhampton Stables Ltd Fogarty, J. Gallagher, Mrs M. Georgestown Stud Georgestown Stud Gestut Ammerland Gestut Hof Ittlingen Gigginstown House Stud Gleeson, J. Guglielmi, Exors of the late Marchese G. Guglielmi, Exors of the late Marchese G. Hannon, Mrs Kathleen Haras Chevotel Haras de Son Altesse l'Aga Khan SCEA Haras d'Etreham Haras du Mezeray Hascombe & Valiant Studs Hedley & Mike Channon Bloodstock Limited, G. Hillwood Thoroughbred Breeding & Cheveley Park Stud Ltd Hillwood Thoroughbred Breeding & Cheveley Park Stud Ltd Hillwood Thoroughbred Breeding & Cheveley Park Stud Ltd

His Highness the Aga Khan's Studs S.C. His Highness the Aga Khan's Studs S.C. His Highness the Aga Khan's Studs S.C. Hofgut Heymann Kg Hong Kong Breeders Club Horizon Bloodstock Limited Imm, J. Irish National Stud Juddmonte Farms Ltd

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Winner Blasket Spirit (IRE) Stand And Fight (IRE) Taty Sprint (GB) Le Moline (IRE) Vioz (IRE) Blu Petraeus (IRE) Celticus (IRE) The Lion Fish (GB) Relco Nordic (GB) Rave (IRE) Russian Jar (IRE) Emperors Pearl (IRE) Hongkong Dancer (IRE) Pearl Goddess (GB) Muharaaj (IRE) Poetic Princess (GB) Next One (GB) Rainbow Seeker (GB) Jack's Lantern (GB) Love Shack (IRE) Agy (IRE) Eccellente Idea (IRE) Highest Acclaim (IRE) Streamer (GB) Appoint (GB) Speed of Anabaa (IRE) Rainbow Knight (GB) Longhunter (GB) Yachtclubgenoa (IRE) Sango (IRE) Dunboyne Express (IRE) City of Tribes (IRE) What's Up (IRE) Al Rep (IRE) Leiba Leiba (GB) Fitful Skies (IRE) Vancouverite (GB) Quenching (IRE) Ruggero (GB) Key To Peace (IRE) Cosmic Flame (GB) Blue Rambler (GB) Al Sharood (GB) Sky Hunter (GB) Lava Flow (IRE) Curia Regis (GB) Lava Flow (IRE) Nuracale (GB) Sano di Pietro (GB) Agasse (IRE) Bank Guard (IRE) Planete Bleue (IRE) Sea of Grass (IRE) Double Look (IRE) Chiara Wells (IRE) Belmondo (GB) Lord Victor (GB) Kheywunder (GB) Puncher Clynch (IRE) Gerfalcon (GB) Omaticaya (IRE) Marangu (IRE) Mahnaz (GB) Montclair (IRE) Reliable Man (GB) Javier (IRE) Cazals (IRE) The Name Is Don (IRE) Sweet Whip (IRE) Victory Laurel (IRE) Cannon Hill (IRE) Baroness Daniela (GB) Lightening Thief (IRE) Hot Gold (IRE) Giving Orders (IRE) Giving Orders (IRE) Burggraf (GB) Lalandia (IRE) Cape Devotion (IRE) Timelord (IRE) Keshiro (IRE) Russianduke (IRE) Eragons Dream (IRE) Tres Blue (IRE) Mizani (IRE) Quirinus (GB) Sigane (IRE) Quizzed (GB) Yorkshire Icon (GB) Amy Dorrit (GB) Amy Dorrit (GB) Amy Dorrit (GB) Elishpour (IRE) Shikarpour (IRE) Mourayan (IRE) Night Chaparral (IRE) Farmer Giles (IRE) Moody Dancer (GB) Artemisia (IRE) Legendary Lad (IRE) Bookend (GB)

Sire King's Best (USA) Invincible Spirit (IRE) Hurricane Run (IRE) Footstepsinthesand (GB) Rakti (GB) Teofilo (IRE) Stroll (USA) Echo of Light (GB) Raven's Pass (USA) Oratorio (IRE) Xaar (GB) Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) Danehill Dancer (IRE) Dubawi (IRE) Iffraaj (GB) Byron (GB) Cape Cross (IRE) Dubai Destination (USA) Pastoral Pursuits (GB) Holy Bull (USA) Dylan Thomas (IRE) Excellent Art (GB) Acclamation (GB) Medicean (GB) Pivotal (GB) Anabaa (USA) Rainbow Quest (USA) Halling (USA) Teofilo (IRE) Dalakhani (IRE) Shamardal (USA) Invincible Spirit (IRE) Dylan Thomas (IRE) Trade Fair (GB) Librettist (USA) Dubawi (IRE) Dansili (GB) Street Cry (IRE) Tiger Hill (IRE) Kheleyf (USA) Doyen (IRE) Monsun (GER) Shamardal (USA) Motivator (GB) Dalakhani (IRE) Exceed And Excel (AUS) Dalakhani (IRE) Compton Place (GB) Dalakhani (IRE) Galileo (IRE) Peintre Celebre (USA) Dansili (GB) Starborough (GB) Mastercraftsman (IRE) Refuse To Bend (IRE) Lawman (FR) Needwood Blade (GB) Kheleyf (USA) Azamour (IRE) Hawk Wing (USA) Bernstein (USA) Intikhab (USA) Dansili (GB) Montjeu (IRE) Dalakhani (IRE) Ad Valorem (USA) Aussie Rules (USA) One Cool Cat (USA) Whipper (USA) Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) Tiger Hill (IRE) Acclamation (GB) Iffraaj (GB) Encosta de Lago (AUS) Encosta de Lago (AUS) Medicean (GB) Medicean (GB) Cape Cross (IRE) Chineur (FR) Shirocco (GER) Duke of Marmalade (IRE) Arakan (USA) Anabaa Blue (GB) Bachelor Duke (USA) Okawango (USA) Arch (USA) Oratorio (IRE) Sixties Icon (GB) Pivotal (GB) Pivotal (GB) Pivotal (GB) Oasis Dream (GB) Dr Fong (USA) Alhaarth (IRE) High Chaparral (IRE) Danroad (AUS) Cape Cross (IRE) Peintre Celebre (USA) Dubawi (IRE) Dansili (GB)

Age/sex 6g 6g 3f 3c 5h 4c 3c 3c 3c 5g 7g 4f 4c 3f 2c 3f 4f 7g 2c 6m 3c 4f 4g 3f 5h 3f 5h 5g 2f 3c 5g 9g 4f 5g 5g 4f 3c 3f 3c 3f 3f 3c 5m 3c 3f 4g 3f 3c 5h 5h 8g 3f 9h 2c 4f 4c 6h 4c 6h 4g 2f 7g 4f 3c 5h 4c 5g 4g 5m 3c 5g 3f 5h 4g 5m 5m 3c 4f 3f 6g 3c 3c 6h 3c 4g 6h 3f 4f 3c 4f 4f 4f 3c 3c 7h 4c 6h 4f 3f 6g 9g

Dam Alikhlas (GB) Up On Points (GB) Gillstown Great (GB) Late Bloomer (IRE) Happy Dancer (USA) Fafinta (IRE) Bois Joli (IRE) Miss Zoe (GB) Be My Queen (IRE) Almaaseh (IRE) Lady Windermere (IRE) On The Nile (IRE) Showbiz (IRE) Grey Again (GB) Desert Sprite (IRE) April Lee (GB) Next (GB) Zephirine Drouhin (GB) Broughtons Flight (IRE) Love Spiel (CAN) Diamond Star (IRE) Ravish (GB) Carpet Lady (IRE) Striving (IRE) Constitute (USA) Speedgirl (FR) Poli Knight (GB) Dawnus (IRE) Yacht Woman (USA) Home You Stroll (IRE) Love Excelling (FR) Yellow Trumpet (GB) Ridotto (GB) Swizzle (GB) Giusina Mia (USA) Wajd (USA) Villarrica (USA) Sundrop (JPN) Bergamask (USA) African Peace (USA) The World (GB) La Nuit Rose (FR) Massomah (USA) Pearl Kite (USA) Mount Elbrus (GB) Court Lane (USA) Mount Elbrus (GB) Nevada Princess (IRE) Special Delivery (IRE) Airline (USA) Blue Cloud (IRE) Poughkeepsie (IRE) Ultimate Court (IRE) Paper Profits (GB) Docklands Grace (USA) Lettre Symbolique (IRE) La Victoria (GER) Iwunder (IRE) Dance Troupe (GB) Give A Whistle (IRE) Pronghorn (USA) Massada (GB) Minaccia (GER) Minaccia (GER) On Fair Stage (IRE) Secrete Marina (IRE) Secrete Marina (IRE) Waroonga (IRE) Sierva (GER) Special Cause (IRE) Upperville (IRE) Bedara (GB) Mrs Cee (IRE) Timewee (USA) My Girl Lisa (USA) My Girl Lisa (USA) Borghesa (GER) Landia (GB) Royal Devotion (IRE) My Gray (FR) Kesh Kumay (IRE) Russian Roubles (IRE) Embraceable (IRE) Tres Ravi (GER) Miss Sazanica (FR) Habidancer (IRE) Grande Rousse (FR) Tree Peony (GB) Evanesce (GB) Fascination Street (IRE) Fascination Street (IRE) Fascination Street (IRE) Elbasana (IRE) Shibina (IRE) Mouramara (IRE) Nachtigall (GER) Demeter (USA) Bluebelle Dancer (IRE) Antique Rose (GER) Lishaway (FR) Roupala (USA)

Ctry Hk Hk Ity Ity Ity Ity Ity Ity Ity Hk Aus Gr Hk Fr Fr Gr Fr Hk Ity Usa Fr Ity Hk Gr Ity Fr Fr Usa Fr Fr Hk Mac Usa Hk Hk Fr Fr Fr Fr Fr Fr Fr Fr Fr Fr Sin Fr Ity Fr Fr Fr Fr Fr Fr Ity Gny Mac Ity Hk Hk Ity Fr Fr Fr Aus Ity Hk Mac Fr Ity Sin Fr Hk Sin Gr Gr Fr Gny Ity Fr Ity Ity Fr Fr Hk Fr Fr Aus Usa Gr Gr Gr Fr Fr Aus Gny Usa Gr Gny Gr Fr

Date 4/10/2013 4/14/2013 4/16/2013 4/19/2013 5/5/2013 4/13/2013 4/21/2013 4/27/2013 5/1/2013 4/28/2013 4/6/2013 2/8/2013 5/1/2013 5/1/2013 5/7/2013 3/22/2013 5/9/2013 5/1/2013 5/1/2013 4/30/2013 5/4/2013 4/21/2013 4/17/2013 2/4/2013 5/1/2013 4/20/2013 5/12/2013 4/27/2013 5/10/2013 4/22/2013 5/5/2013 4/5/2013 4/25/2013 4/7/2013 4/24/2013 5/8/2013 4/19/2013 5/4/2013 4/29/2013 5/2/2013 5/12/2013 4/28/2013 4/22/2013 4/25/2013 4/18/2013 5/3/2013 5/12/2013 5/5/2013 5/9/2013 5/10/2013 5/1/2013 5/1/2013 5/12/2013 5/2/2013 4/27/2013 5/9/2013 4/6/2013 5/10/2013 4/17/2013 4/10/2013 4/12/2013 5/6/2013 4/18/2013 5/8/2013 4/27/2013 5/4/2013 4/17/2013 4/5/2013 5/10/2013 4/19/2013 4/7/2013 5/11/2013 4/14/2013 4/7/2013 2/8/2013 2/18/2013 5/5/2013 5/9/2013 4/20/2013 4/19/2013 4/25/2013 4/17/2013 4/20/2013 5/9/2013 4/14/2013 4/26/2013 5/11/2013 4/11/2013 5/4/2013 3/4/2013 3/15/2013 2/15/2013 5/5/2013 5/12/2013 4/27/2013 5/9/2013 5/3/2013 3/8/2013 4/21/2013 3/25/2013 4/28/2013

Racecourse Happy Valley Happy Valley Rome Rome Milan Milan Milan Milan Milan Sha Tin Alice Springs Athens Sha Tin Tours Chantilly Athens Le Lion D'Angers Sha Tin Rome Atlantic City Lyon La Soie Milan Happy Valley Athens Rome Argentan Nimes Belmont Park Lyon-Parilly Longchamp Sha Tin Taipa Atlantic City Sha Tin Happy Valley Senonnes-Pouance Chateaubriant Lyon La Soie Chantilly Longchamp Longchamp Angers Longchamp Longchamp Longchamp Kranji Longchamp Rome Le Lion D'Angers Lyon-Parilly Saint-Cloud Saint-Cloud Agen Bordeaux Le Bouscat Milan Baden-Baden Taipa Rome Happy Valley Happy Valley Rome Maisons-Laffitte Longchamp Longchamp Randwick Siracusa Happy Valley Taipa Lyon-Parilly Rome Kranji Strasbourg Happy Valley Kranji Athens Athens Le Pin Au Haras Baden-Baden Siracusa Chateaubriant Florence Milan Marseille Pont De Vivaux Lyon-Parilly Happy Valley Toulouse Fontainebleau Hawkesbury Arlington International Athens Athens Athens Dax Longchamp Randwick Baden-Baden Golden Gate Athens Krefeld Athens Longchamp

Distance 5f 6f 1m1f 6f 7f 1m1f 1m2f 1m 1m4f 1m2f 1m 7f 7f 7f165y 5f 6f 1m2f 1m55y 5f 1m 1m1f 1m2f 6f 6f 6f 1m4f110y 1m5f 6f 5f 1m4f 1m 5f55y 1m 1m 6f 1m2f110y 1m1f165y 1m1f 1m4f 1m 1m3f 1m2f110y 7f 1m1f165y 1m1f165y 6f 1m3f 6f 1m2f 1m7f165y 1m2f110y 1m4f 6f 5f 5f 7f 1m1f165y 7f110y 1m55y 1m55y 5f 6f 1m4f 1m4f 1m2f 1m2f110y 1m3f 5f55y 1m3f 6f 1m3f 1m3f165y 5f 6f 1m 1m 1m3f 1m3f 1m 1m5f 1m2f 1m2f 1m2f 1m4f 1m55y 1m 1m 7f110y 1m 1m1f 1m 1m 1m2f110y 1m3f 2m 1m4f 1m 1m 1m110y 6f 1m4f

Prize-money (ÂŁ) 24,448 24,448 5,284 4,471 5,691 8,943 15,447 (L) 7,317 4,065 633,836 (Gr1) 4,936 4,748 31,692 4,472 9,756 5,163 4,878 24,448 8,130 5,890 6,504 6,504 31,692 4,646 4,471 8,130 4,065 12,147 6,504 9,350 543,288 (Gr1) 8,993 9,202 135,822 (L) 24,448 4,878 6,504 6,504 10,163 10,163 10,163 10,976 11,382 11,789 13,821 14,875 22,358 (L) 4,471 4,065 6,911 7,724 10,163 4,065 8,943 15,447 (L) 4,065 8,993 4,878 43,010 31,692 4,472 7,317 11,382 13,821 195,513 (Gr1) 4,065 63,384 12,633 6,504 8,130 20,284 8,943 31,692 14,875 4,673 6,054 4,065 4,634 4,065 6,911 4,065 7,317 6,911 22,358 (L) 90,548 7,724 7,724 7,853 14,356 4,563 5,787 7,597 7,317 10,163 210,256 (Gr1) 4,065 5,521 3,561 4,065 4,303 6,504

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OVERSEAS WINNERS

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FLASHBACK

June 14, 1983 Sheikh Mohammed celebrates a first winner at Royal Ascot courtesy of High Hawk in the Ribblesdale Stakes

GEORGE SELWYN

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t was 30 years ago this month that Sheikh Mohammed enjoyed his first winner at Royal Ascot.

High Hawk’s defeat of Current Raiser in the Ribblesdale Stakes may have been notable in itself, yet the victorious filly’s significance to the Sheikh’s fledgling racing and breeding operation would extend far beyond the confines of Berkshire.

After a career that yielded further successes in the Park Hill Stakes, Prix de Royallieu and Premio Roma for the John Dunlop stable, High Hawk became one of the first broodmares to retire to her owner’s recently purchased Dalham Hall Stud in Newmarket.

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A mating with Sadler’s Wells in his first season at Coolmore Stud produced In The Wings, who became his sire’s first winner when scoring at Chantilly in June 1988. In The Wings blossomed as a four-year-old under the skillful guidance of Andre Fabre, with victories in the Coronation Cup, Grand Prix de Saint Cloud and Breeders’ Cup Turf.

Standing at Kildangan Stud in Ireland, In The Wings went on to produce a host of top-notch runners, his signature being horses that stayed as well as, if not better, than he did.

Irish Derby victor Winged Love, topclass French performer Act One and Group 1 winners Kutub, Central Park,

Adlerflug, Mamool and Solder Hollow – plus triple World Hurdle hero Inglis Drever – all shone for In The Wings.

However his best son was Singspiel, who raced in Sheikh Mohammed’s silks and retired with earnings of £3.6 million after a career that yielded four wins at the highest level, as well as the Dubai World Cup. Like his sire, Singspiel went on to prove himself a big success at stud.

As for High Hawk, her influence is still felt in Sheikh Mohammed’s broodmare band through her daughter Arlette. Now aged 13, Arlette is the dam of Group 3 winner Alexandros and produced a colt by Street Cry on February 15.

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The Castlebridge Consignment in 2012 the leading consignor at Tattersalls October Sales Book 1, Book 2, and Book 3.

The top priced yearling in the world last year was sold at Tattersalls by The Castlebridge Consignment having been prepared at Castlebridge Stud.

Please contact BILL DWAN or ANDREW MEAD to discuss selling and preparing your horse as part of the Castlebridge draft at Arqana, Doncaster, Goffs, Tattersalls or Tattersalls Ireland.

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He’s going down a storm!

Brilliant and fabulous-looking son of Monsun and an outstanding sire of high-class stock.

St Leger runner-up in his first crop.

Oaks runner-up in his second.

Four G1 horses so far, and a higher ratio of 2012 three-year-olds rated 100 or above than Oasis Dream, Pivotal, Acclamation and Invincible Spirit.

That’s how good he is.

Summer breeze!

One of the three G1 horses from the first crop of Shirocco was conceived in May. And another was conceived in June! In fact, 29% of all Shiroccos rated over 100 were foaled in late April or May. The message is: it’s not too late to breed a classy horse.

Especially if you’re using a classy stallion...

SHIROCCO Monsun – So Sedulous (The Minstrel) £7,000 Oct 1, Special live foal. Stands at Dalham Hall Stud, Britain. +44 (0)1638 730070 +353 (0)45 527600 www.darleystallions.com

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