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yan Moore – he’s always miserable, right?

Never says much when he’s interviewed on TV, never smiles – even when he’s just landed a Classic – always looks like he’d rather be somewhere else, preferably around horses, not people. We all know Ryan Moore. Or do we?

Those who have witnessed the outstanding jockey of his generation at work might not be too familiar with the proud father pictured on this month’s cover, someone who looks happy and relaxed in front of the camera, without a horse in sight. Frankly, it’s not a side of his character we’re used to seeing.

On the racecourse, Moore’s persona is that of an uncompromising and committed sportsman, one who has little time for trivialities and questions about how the ground is riding or what he thinks of his next mount’s chances. As a consequence he has earned a reputation as being a somewhat difficult interviewee, who can often appear uncooperative in front of the media.

Yet is this representative of the real personality hidden beneath the cap and goggles?

Almost certainly not, is the answer, in the same way that those colleagues who are always smiling and joking for an audience might not be all sweetness and light when they’re off duty.

Away from the track, Moore is an engaging and intelligent subject with plenty of forthright views, as readers of this month’s exclusive and revealing interview will discover.

Moore has won three jockeys’ championships and it would have been more but for a series of injuries.

He’s captured the Derby, the Arc and big races all over the world; one of the few domestic Group Ones yet to fall his way is the 2,000 Guineas, so you’d be forgiven for thinking that he’d be desperate for a Rowley Mile triumph on May 4. Think again.

“Everyone makes a big deal about the Classics, much bigger than I think they deserve,” Moore tells Julian Muscat.

“Races like the Eclipse, King George, Juddmonte and Champion Stakes are more important. That’s my opinion. To me, riding a Classic winner doesn’t measure up to riding the winner of one of those races.

“The 2,000 Guineas is massively important from a breeding point of view. I’d like to win it, obviously, but I’d prefer to win others first.”

As it turns out, there are four international races that the jockey prizes above the rest. To find out what they are, and to see what Moore really thinks about his chances of becoming champion again, turn to page 40 for an essential read.

One (former) jockey who has never had a problem with talking on telly is John Francome, whose decision to step down from Channel 4 Racing was one of the most disappointing aspects of Highflyer Productions losing the contract to IMG last year.

The sound of Francome and Jim McGrath working through the runners on a Saturday – their excellent commentaries frequently interrupted by bouts of laugher – was one of the most enjoyable aspects of 4’s racing coverage.

They were the engine room of the show, the midfield duo that kept the team ticking over, with Francome’s wayward talent, capable of either the sublime or the ridiculous, playing off the ultra-consistent McGrath. The two complemented each other perfectly and although I cannot criticise any of the new personnel, you can’t help but feel that something is now missing.

As for Francome, surely he must be struggling without the buzz of working on live television?

“I haven’t missed anything,” he explains to Tim Richards (pages 34-39). “I never missed riding when I packed up and if you’ve got loads to do I don’t think you miss things.

“I sat in the armchair [watching the Grand National] thinking how nice it was being entertained.

Stepping down from the TV work has not made me feel left out in any way.”

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CONTENTS MAY 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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Black Caviar retires

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Changes Your monthly round-up

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Tony Morris The bizarre Derby of 1913

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Richard Edmondson Battle over biography

INTERNATIONAL SCENE 28

View From Ireland Boost for twilight horses

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Continental Tales Emmanuel Clayeux will be back

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Around The Globe Gary Stevens’ comeback

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Talking To...

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The top jockey at home

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Ed Walker and friends Family man: Ryan Moore talks about life in and out of the saddle (pages 40-44)

Sales Circuit Record-breaking breeze-ups

COVER STORY Ryan Moore Young Trainers

Breeders’ Digest Debate on timing two-year-olds

John Francome

Membership is vital

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Aintree, Dubai and Newmarket

Credit where credit’s due

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The Big Picture

Caulfield Files National Assembly’s legacy

Flashback The 1984 Lockinge Stakes

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RACHEL HOOD President Racehorse Owners Association

Cheltenham and Aintree strike the perfect balance Flagship jump fixtures marry commercial considerations with top-class racing

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he bitter easterly winds of early spring were not enough to dampen the spirits of racing people when first Cheltenham and then Aintree put on extraordinary racing shows in front of sell-out crowds and large television audiences.

Both meetings were, of course, blessed by the appearance of the incomparable Sprinter Sacre who is now looking so imperious that even racing’s old timers are allowing the comparison with Arkle. And, following last year’s exploits of Frankel, we now find ourselves in an era where two super-horses have linked the sometimes insular world of horseracing with an adoring general public. The worth of such equine stars in marketing and promotional terms is incalculable.

A similar comment might also apply to the outcome of a Grand National where all horses and riders returned from the race unscathed and in doing so provided complete justification for all the work and thought that was given to changing the National fences and moving the great race’s starting position.

The cheer that rang out from the Aintree crowd at hearing that the whole field had jumped Becher’s on the first circuit was not only a resounding response to animal rights campaigners but also, conversely, to those who thought that nothing needed to be changed.

The success of the Cheltenham and Aintree meetings is also a testament to the outstanding management skills of the Jockey Club who, as owner of both racecourses, have carefully blended commercial considerations with those affecting the racing. They have balanced the criticism of the Grand National with a profound understanding of the huge importance of the event and, over time, moved to a solution that will not always produce a perfect result but which has sent the right message to the outside world.

It is also appropriate – while in the mood for handing out bouquets rather than brickbats – to say a few words in praise of the BHA whose Chief Executive and staff

were also instrumental in the National course changes and who must have been mightily relieved to see how well the event turned out.

It is not entirely accidental that the work of the BHA’s Chief Executive, Paul Bittar, is coinciding with what is developing into a very positive era for British horseracing. It must be hoped that his policy of seeking rapprochement with the betting industry and the part he is playing in facilitating prize-money agreements between horsemen and racecourses will help to create an ideal launching pad for the BHA Chairman-designate, Steve Harman, from whom we expect much.

The other group of people who were very much up against it on Grand National day were those responsible for the first-ever Channel 4 coverage of the race. It was a test they passed admirably. Of course, we were hardly surprised to see Clare Balding put in her usual superb and insightful performance but the whole team worked in unison as part of an impressive production of which Channel’s 4 Sports Editor, Jamie Aitchison, should be immensely proud.

Not only that, but Channel 4 threw its heart and soul into the event so that a documentary and chat show were wrapped around the race in a way where racing was linked with well-known celebrities and massive TV audiences. We know that such programmes do not always appeal to the purist but racing must use every opportunity to be inclusive, embracing both the casual fan and the uninitiated.

So the last word on these events must go in celebration of Auroras Encore. Not only did his surprise victory perpetuate the sort of human interest story that is so embedded in Grand National folklore, it also earned a lot of money for British horseracing. When a horse wins our biggest betting race of the year at 66/1, you suddenly start thinking where we would be if bookmakers’ offshore business was back in the UK where it belongs.

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RICHARD LANCASTER Chairman Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association

Members have a right to benefit from trade body As with the ROA, the work of the TBA aids members and non-members alike

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OA President Rachel Hood’s observation in her February Leader column that most of the work the ROA undertakes is to the benefit of all owners, not just ROA members, rings true for all Horsemen’s Group constituent members.

Strong, well-supported and informed representative bodies are essential to balance and inform the racing industry. Breeders, owners, trainers, jockeys and stable staff are the bedrock of the industry and it is their financial input, knowledge and expertise that supports the British Horseracing Authority to stage a race programme that creates a true sporting spectacle, generates meaningful government revenues, supports employment and boosts overseas trade.

The Horsemen’s Group, now under the chairmanship of Philip Freedman, provides an essential voice for racing’s constituents and all have a part to play in representing their interests, as well as endorsing the work of the BHA. Like Rachel, however, I believe our members have a right to receive a tangible uplift in their reward in recognition of the value of their commitment. In the absence of such a return it is only natural that a number of breeders and owners would question the need to retain membership of their respective associations, and quite frankly who then would be in a formal position to represent their interests and, where necessary, offer an alternative opinion on the decisions made on their behalf.

Sadly, it is a fact of life that economic passengers exist throughout society, yet the TBA and other associations devote a great deal of time and effort to convince them of the benefits of membership with a view to ensuring we represent their views. I have raised this issue because I understand that a review of the current enhanced rewards offered by BOBIS to the Horsemen’s Group members is proposed by the BHA. The Horserace Betting Levy Board’s Breeders’ Prizes Scheme has historically included a modest administration fee applied to non-TBA members winning prizes. In

applying the fee, the HBLB acknowledges the work undertaken by the TBA to maintain the scheme, produce annual business plans, measure and demonstrate its effect.

Therefore, we should not be shy of accusations that a differential reward for members is “unfair” or even illegal.

The fact that the scheme has also been an effective recruitment tool is all the more reason that its successor BOBIS provides for a similar structure.

Ironically, the TBA is currently being consulted on the BHA’s proposal to create single integrated submission to the Levy Board on behalf of British racing for industry recruitment, training and education. Whilst undoubtedly this is a very relevant project, it relies on the input and support of the member associations to represent the views of breeders, trainers, jockeys and stable staff for both communication and delivery.

Without the support of the stakeholders and the required resource to implement more checks and balances, this would not be possible.

Politics aside, the Flat season has started in earnest and there is much to look forward to in the coming weeks. The importance of attracting international interest in British racing is widely acknowledged and vital in our now global industry, which has witnessed some strong sales in the southern hemisphere. But closer to home, British racing needs a strong confidence boost via an injection of prize-money to stimulate the domestic bloodstock market, which is vital to increasing thoroughbred foal production in this country.

It is, therefore, encouraging that a number of racecourses have recently announced significant and very welcome increases in their prize-money allocations, in spite of formal prize-money agreements remaining unfinished business. The ROA’s racecourse league tables (page 66) are particularly helpful at pinpointing trends. The Horsemen’s Group recognised that it must secure agreements with all racecourses operating at all levels of the fixture list. The alternative is to let field sizes continue to decline and the importance of our race programme diminish.

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NEWS Stories from the racing world

Black Caviar retired after win number 25 Trainer Peter Moody says there’s nothing left to prove for Australia’s exceptional racemare

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lack Caviar never met Frankel on the racecourse but the Australian wonder mare could now meet him in the breeding shed after being retired from racing in April.

Connections made the decision just days after the daughter of Bel Esprit had captured the TJ Smith Stakes at Randwick, where she defeated ten rivals with ease, to extend her unbeaten record to 25 races.

Black Caviar, who was being considered for another trip to Royal Ascot having landed last year’s Diamond Jubilee Stakes in dramatic style, bows out having established a new Australasian record of 15 victories at Group 1 level.

Peter Moody, Black Caviar’s trainer, said: “The owners and myself had a long chat and we decided 25 was a great number to go out on.

“Collectively the mare is in great shape. We thought long and hard about Ascot, Brisbane and Adelaide but it’s a good time to finish as she’s done everything we’ve asked of her.

“It’s time to pull the career on one of our finest horses ever. Let’s stop now before something can go haywire.”

Black Caviar’s popularity at home spawned a website, merchandise and Twitter page dedicated to the superstar.

The big question now is which stallion will be selected for Black Caviar’s first covering, although it is thought likely to be an Australian-based sire this year. Frankel will have to wait in line.

Black Caviar bows out with a three-length win in the TJ Smith Stakes at Randwick

Launch of new data service Racehorse owners will now be able to watch and assess how their horse works at home on a laptop from the comfort of their armchair, thanks to a new service that combines video footage with a comprehensive range of statistical information.

Total Performance Data has been launched to demystify the training and racing regime by providing heart rate data, sectional times, stride length and other key indicators of performance.

The service has debuted to the 4,000 members of the Coral Champions’ Club and Eamonn Wilmott, founder and Chairman of Total Performance Data, said: “In the 21st century there is a new breed of racehorse owner who wants to know more about their horses in training.

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Jeremy Gask: trains Never A Quarrel

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Coral Champions’ Club has the unraced three-year-old filly Never A Quarrel in training with Wiltshire-based handler Jeremy Gask.

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The sixth and final OLBG Mare of the Month Award for the 2012/13 season has been given to L’Unique for her victory in the Grade 1 Matalan Anniversary 4-Y-O Juvenile Hurdle at Aintree.

The daughter of Reefscape raced just once in her native France, finishing fourth in a Listed hurdle race for three-year-olds, before being bought privately for owner Denis Barry and joining Alan King’s stable last autumn. Her first British start, also at Aintree in December, saw her claim her first success in Listed company, with fellow Grand National meeting winner Cockney Sparrow taking second that day.

L’Unique has subsequently won and been Grade 2-placed at Kempton before gaining topflight honours against male rivals in Liverpool.

Speaking after her Aintree victory, Alan King

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L’Unique the one and only winner of final OLBG prize

The Alan King-trained L’Unique jumps the last flight to land Grade 1 Aintree glory

said: “She’s very, very progressive. We resisted the temptation to enter her at Punchestown and I’m glad we did. She’ll stay over hurdles especially with all the good mares’ races now.

She’s got some filling out to do as she’s quite leggy, but she has an engine. I wouldn’t mind stepping her up to two and a half miles either.”

L’Unique’s sire, the Juddmonte-bred Prix du Cadran winner Reefscape, started his stud career

EBF gives £1 million to UK racing in 2013 support and will now be worth £30,000.

“The Trustees would like to thank British stallion owners for their continued support, enabling these races to be staged,” said Philip Freedman, Chairman of the British Trustees of the EBF. “Thanks also go to the BHA Racing Department for their assistance in creating the EBF programme of races, and to the racecourses for their cooperation in implementing the EBF’s wishes.”

EBF-sponsored races will feature at every racecourse in the country and support is only given for races run above the BHA minimum vale for prize-money.

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The British wing of the European Breeders’ Fund (EBF) has announced a total contribution of £1 million to be spread across 500 races on the Flat in 2013.

Sixteen Listed races have been added to the EBF programme for this season, bringing the total to 40, with Listed events for threeyear-olds and up each being worth a minimum of £40,000 and juvenile Listed races being run for no less than £35,000.

An additional 11 conditions races are also on the agenda, with all 26 included being run for a minimum of £10,000. The threeyear-old sprint at York’s May Meeting has seen its value boosted by 50% thanks to EBF

York’s three-year-old sprint prize in May has been boosted by 50% to £30,000

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at Glebe House Stud in Ireland before relocating to France but has subsequently been gelded having proved to be subfertile. His full-brother Martaline, the sire of Dynaste and Up And Go, and half-brother Coastal Path, are both standing at stud in France.

Stefanie Reeve, who organised the inaugural Mare of the Month Series for sports betting community OLBG, said: “How could you not be impressed with L’Unique’s performance at Aintree? To beat the likes of Irish Saint, Flaxen Flare and Rolling Star in the manner she did suggests she has a very bright future ahead and we look forward to seeing her run in some OLBG-sponsored races next season.”

OLBG first sponsored the Grade 2 David Nicholson Mares’ Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival in 2012 before expanding its commitment to National Hunt racing and mares’ races in particular with a sponsorship programme throughout the 2012/13 season and the OLBG Mare of the Month Awards Series, which was aimed at increasing the appeal of having National Hunt mares in training and boosting their value at the sales.

Other recipients of the monthly awards this season are Une Artiste, trained by Nicky Henderson, She Ranks Me (Donald McCain), Mischievous Milly (Oliver Sherwood), Swing Bowler (David Pipe) and Violin Davis (Harry Fry). The trainer of each of the winners received a memento while staff at the yard shared in a £1,000 cash prize.

OLBG also sponsored an award for the trainer winning the highest number of races with mares throughout the season. At the time of writing, Nicky Henderson was out in front with 15 wins, with Neil Mulholland and Kevin Bishop tied in second with nine winners apiece. The winner of the series will receive free use of an Equi-Trek two-berth horsebox for 12 months.

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Racing’s news in a nutshell PEOPLE AND BUSINESS Martin Dwyer Jockey is hit with 56-day ban by the Indian authorities after riding a beaten favourite in a race at Mahalaxmi racecourse on February 17 – the ban is not being reciprocated in Britain while the appeal process is in motion.

Cheltenham racecourse Set for £45 million redevelopment that will see the Queen Mother stand demolished, with work due to start after next year’s Festival and lasting 22 months.

Sir Peter O’Sullevan Legendary broadcaster recovers after suffering a mild stroke in March.

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JT McNamara Amateur rider and former point-to-point champion is transferred to a hospital in Dublin having suffered paralysis after a fall at the Cheltenham Festival.

Arena Racing Company announces an increase of £3.8 million to prize-money at its 15 courses in 2013 – making the total £24.3m. James Babbs, former racehorse owner, is banned for four years by the BHA after being found guilty of laying two horses that he part-owned.

Betfair pays £5m for the 120,000-strong customer database of online bookmaker Blue Square.

Australian business magnate Nathan Tinkler plans to sell his Patinack Farm racing and breeding operation in its entirety (see story page 33). Ladbrokes reports a poor start to 2013 with group operating profit down £13 million to £37.4m for the first three months of the year.

Sir Henry Cecil hits out at Brough Scott’s biography on him due to the focus on his private life, claiming the book is “rather boring and lacking in humour”.

HORSE OBITUARIES Moorcroft Boy 28 Staying chaser (pictured) for the David Nicholson stable who recorded his biggest success in the 1996 Scottish Grand National under Mark Dwyer.

Beneficial 23 Stalwart of the Irish jumps stallion ranks who has sired Grade 1 winners Cooldine, Realt Dubh, Benefficient and Realt Mor.

Iver Bridge Lad 6 John Ryan-trained sprinter, winner of five races including a French Group 3 and almost £200,000 in prize-money.

Fair Along, 11 Fantastic servant to the Philip Hobbs yard, winner of 16 races over hurdles, fences and on the Flat for owner Alan Peterson. Little Josh, 11 Stable stalwart for Nigel Twiston-Davies, winner of nine races including the 2010 Paddy Power Gold Cup and the 2012 Grand Sefton Chase.

Helenus, 13 Multiple Group 1 winner in Australia and sire of 2012 Australian Derby winner Ethiopia. Umpact, 5 Promising novice hurdler trained by Tony Martin for Gigginstown. Slew City Slew, 29 Sire of US star Lava Man, winner of seven Grade 1s.

Lady Rebecca, 21 Top-class mare who won Cheltenham’s Cleeve Hurdle three times.

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RACEHORSE AND STALLION MOVEMENT AND RETIREMENTS Dalakhani Sire of Conduit and Reliable Man will shuttle to Australasia later this year along with Azamour in a first for the Aga Khan Studs operation.

Mon Mome Winner of the 2009 Grand National at 100-1 for owner Vida Bingham, trainer Venetia Williams and jockey Liam Treadwell is retired aged 13.

Campanologist Gestut Fahrhof stallion, a four-time Group 1 winner on the track, will shuttle to Haras Santa Maria de Araras in Argentina for their covering season.

Ballabriggs Victorious in the 2011 Grand National for owner Trevor Hemmings, trainer Donald McCain and jockey Jason Maguire, he is retired aged 12.

Power Last year’s Irish 2,000 Guineas winner will shuttle to Cambridge Stud in New Zealand for the southern hemisphere breeding season.

Caspar Netscher Son of Dutch Art, winner of last year’s German 2,000 Guineas, proves subfertile in his first season at stud and is prepared for private sale.

Duc De Regniere High-class hurdler/chaser in his prime is retired aged 11, having won eight races and almost £200,000 in prize-money for owners Sir Peter and Lady Gibbins.

PEOPLE OBITUARIES Merigo Dual winner of the Scottish Grand National in the silks of Raymond and Anita Anderson Green is retired aged 12.

John Penney 86 Racing commentator synonymous with the ITV Seven who also worked for the BBC and Channel 4.

Mick Quinlan 61 Trainer of Royal Ascot winner Langs Lash and Cheltenham Festival scorer Silk Affair; he handed over the licence to his brother Noel in 2011 (Mick pictured below right with Noel and Langs Lash).

Gerry Oldham 87 Owner and breeder of top Flat stayer Sagaro (above), triple winner of the Gold Cup at Ascot between 1975-1977 under Lester Piggott.

Serge Gorli 50 Former top French jockey who took the 1981 Prix du Jockey Club on Bikala and also rode future Arc winner All Along.

Albertas Run Trevor Hemmings-owned chaser (pictured) whose 15 career wins included two Ryanair Chases, an RSA Chase and a Melling Chase, is retired aged 12.

Derek Larkin 32

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Bruce Gregory 68

Andre Fabre-trained son of Slickly is purchased by Ramzan Kadyrov from the Rothschild family prior to unplaced effort in the Dubai World Cup.

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Assistant manager at Biddestone Stud in Wiltshire, where he had worked for four years.

Jump jockey who rode for the Queen Mother and Peter Cazalet; he later relocated to the south of France and then moved to Madagascar.

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BOBIS BOUNTY FOR BAHAMIAN

Buyers at the breeze-up sales have plenty of opportunities

The National Stud’s Bahamian Bounty has enjoyed a

to purchase horses eligible to be qualified for BOBIS.

great start to the season with BOBIS runners, being

A number of registered horses are entered in the Tattersalls Craven, DBS, Brightwells, and Tattersalls Guineas breeze-up

responsible for two winners and a runner-up from the first six races.

sales, as well as numerous lots who are eligible to be fully

A noted sire of two-year-olds, Bahamian Bounty has been

qualified. Buyers will have 14 days from the date of the sale to

represented by the dual winner Mick’s Yer Man as well as

fully qualify eligible horses with Weatherbys, for a cost of £275

Fig Roll, runner-up to BOBIS winner Montaigne (Exceed

for a registered horse and £425 for an eligible horse.

And Excel) at Kempton on April 13th.

To view a list of eligible horses in each sale, visit bobis.co.uk

IN THE SPOTLIGHT…

STAR TURN led him up, my grandson rode him and he won in my colours, trained by my husband!

Q: Why did you qualify Mick’s Yer Man for BOBIS? A: Obviously money comes into it as

We speak to Tracy Turner, who has won over £10,000 in BOBIS prizes as owner of dual BOBIS winner Mick’s Yer Man. Q: How did you acquire Mick’s Yer Man? A: My husband Bill bought him at Doncaster, at the DBS Autumn Yearling Sales, and he was named for Mick Easterby. The last few years I’ve had a

it costs so much to keep a horse in training now. This scheme seems such

Who else could it be but the very first

a good idea as it is a chance to earn

BOBIS winner Mick’s Yer Man? Trained by

more prize money, and we have several

Bill Turner and running in the colours of

more horses in the yard who have

Bill’s wife Tracy, Mick’s Yer Man landed the

been qualified for it, including Twist

Brocklesby in some style on the opening

And Shout who we bred.

day of the turf season before making it a quick-fire double the following week at

Q: What’s next for Mick’s Yer Man? A: We’ve given him a bit of a holiday

Musselburgh, netting his connections an extra £12,000 in BOBIS prizes.

now as he’s a big growing type. He

Purchased for £21,000 as a yearling at

could go for the Lily Agnes at Chester

the DBS Autumn Yearling Sales, and

[also a BOBIS race] but the aim is

for 10,000gns as a foal at Tattersalls,

Royal Ascot. He’s a nice horse and my

Mick’s Yer Man looks well capable of

Mick’s Yer Man’s win in the Brocklesby

husband thinks he could be one of the

adding a few more prizes to his tally in

was a real family affair, as my daughter

best he’s ever had.

the coming months.

few more of our horses run in my colours; our grandson Ryan While is an apprentice jockey and we’re trying to support him.

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Over £2.4m in prizes still to be won this season.

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THE BIG PICTURE

MANIA SHINES ON AURORAS Auroras Encore was certainly lit up by the Aintree fences to give jockey Ryan Mania the biggest success of his career on his first ride in the Grand National.

The 66-1 winner, trained by Sue Smith and owned by Douglas Pryde, Jim Beaumont and David van der Hoeven, is seen here jumping Valentine’s second time on the far side, as Soll and Mark Grant send the spruce flying

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KINGDOM CONQUERS Animal Kingdom, trained in America by Englishman Graham Motion, proved far too good for his rivals in the Dubai World Cup. Jockey Joel Rosario only had to push out his mount for a two-length defeat of Red Cadeaux, representing Newmarket handler Ed Dunlop

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TORONADO STRIKES Richard Hughes can afford a casual glance at the Newmarket grandstand as Toronado maintains his unbeaten record with an easy victory in the Craven Stakes over the Rowley Mile.

Next stop is the Guineas and then a likely tilt at the Derby

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THE MAN YOU CAN’T IGNORE COMMENT

Tony Morris One hundred years on it may be, but the shenanigans surrounding the 1913 Derby still amount to a more captivating tale than any the world’s greatest Flat race has produced

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It was certainly a rough race, run on hard ground, and there is no doubt that there was contact between Craganour and Aboyeur but, as most people saw it, it was simply a case of six of one and half a dozen of the other. There was a head between them at the finish and Edwin Piper, rider of Aboyeur, had no thoughts of lodging an objection.

But if Craganour had won in the style of a Troy or a Shergar, he would probably still have been disqualified. The reason was that there was one man determined Craganour would not win, and he was the one man capable of ensuring he didn’t. That man was Eustace Loder, who had actually bred the colt.

If it seems strange he would want to forgo the kudos of having bred a Derby winner, it is less so given the colt was owned by the man he hated most in all the world.

Loder, an Old Etonian from a patrician family, brought up with Victorian values, was as solid and upright a citizen as might be imagined. He commanded huge respect both as a career soldier – major in the 12th Lancers, which regiment represented his most abiding passion – and as a sportsman, in which field he was

famed as the owner-breeder of triple Classic heroine Pretty Polly and owner of Derby winner Spearmint, a colt he had bought as a yearling.

But Loder’s mind had been turned, and the man responsible for that was Bower Ismay, son of the founder of the White Star Line, the company that built and operated the ill-fated Titanic. Ismay, coming from ‘trade’ but Harroweducated – for some time as a classmate of Winston Churchill – was a cad and a bounder, a hedonist pure and simple. Those flaws alone did not mark him down as the devil incarnate in Eustace Loder’s eyes, but that is what he became when he embarked on an affair with Nellie, the wife of Sydney Loder, Eustace’s beloved twin brother.

Brother nature Both Loders were shy and reserved, but while Eustace, a bachelor, had 15 years in the army in which to express his manly qualities, Sydney was excessively diffident and, not to put too fine a point on it, clearly asexual.

What he was trying to prove by marrying Nellie, whose father was a well-known horsecoper with a flourishing livery business in

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always used to think that the most sensational Derby in history must have been that of 1844, when the colt who finished first, known as Running Rein, was disqualified after it was established he was a four-year-old ringer. But that was before I researched the circumstances of the only other time when the winner was disqualified, a race whose centenary falls this year.

That race has gone down in history as a landmark event for the fact that it was the one in which the militant suffragette Emily Davison lost her life, fatally injured under the hooves of Anmer. And, along with the history, there has been some mythology.

Miss Davison did not, as is often stated, throw herself under the King’s horse. She walked out onto the course at Tattenham Corner, believing all the runners had already passed, and her intention was to unfurl the banner wrapped around her waist which carried a legend demanding votes for women, then to hold it aloft as she strode purposefully towards the stands and inevitable arrest.

She had no idea there were stragglers far behind the rest of the field, and could not in any case have guessed the royal runner would be one of them. She would not have known which horse was bounding in her direction when she belatedly heard the hoofbeats and turned in a vain effort to divert its course.

Still, however that incident was portrayed, it was the one for which the race became remembered. If the public prints of the day after 1913’s Derby had been anything like the tabloids of our own era they would have played down what was obviously just another suffragette stunt – the victim survived until the following Sunday, so was not immediately a martyr to her cause – and concentrated on the real reason why that Derby rivalled, if not surpassed, the 1844 event in infamy.

Some insiders undoubtedly knew why 6-4 favourite Craganour had been stripped of his victory and 100-1 shot Aboyeur promoted to first place. But nobody was prepared to expose the scandal, and a century has gone by with successive generations accepting that Craganour’s number came down for bumping and boring his rival.

Bower Ismay leads in Craganour after ‘winning’ the 1913 Derby

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Northamptonshire, is hard to imagine. And while marrying Sydney clearly meant a rise up the social scale for Nellie, it did not mean much else. So when the dashing Ismay came on the scene, offering the kind of excitement that her husband could never supply, it was hardly surprising that Nellie fell for his charms.

Whether Sydney ever cared about being cuckolded, who knows? But it soon became common knowledge in society circles, and when Eustace got to hear about it he was enraged over the Loder family’s honour being so openly besmirched. Ismay never had reason to hate Eustace Loder, but he probably did regard him as a rather pompous fellow who stood a little too much on his dignity and needed cutting down to size.

And that was where Ismay compounded his felony, taunting and provoking Loder by buying horses he had bred and seeking to make a fool of him by winning major races with them. Ismay had had a few without realising his objective when he became the third-hand owner of Craganour, whom Loder had sold as a foal; the colt became Ismay’s property as a 3,200gns yearling and in 1912 he was clearly the best juvenile, winning five of six races, including the Champagne and Middle Park Stakes. His owner naturally anticipated Classic wins to come, relishing the prospect of rubbing Loder’s nose in it.

On 2,000 Guineas day Ismay appeared to have achieved his goal.

But while just about everyone in the stand reckoned that Craganour had won the Classic, the judge decreed otherwise.

The Rowley Mile course then was twice as wide as now, with 3-1 favourite Craganour and 25-1 shot Louvois separated by its full width. In such circumstances the official might have been excused an error, which most assumed it to have been when he gave the verdict to Louvois by a head. But there was still the Derby to come, and after he had won the Newmarket Stakes with Louvois a well-beaten third, the public could not see beyond Craganour as its hero. Judge Robinson could not be seen to miss the winner this time, when so many cameras would be focused on the finish, and he duly got that right, though he did miss the third, an error that was never corrected.

But Craganour’s triumph was short-lived. An announcement was made to the effect that the stewards had objected to the winner, and from that moment Ismay must have realised his fate. For the man presiding over the inquiry was Eustace Loder, and he was effectively judge and jury in the proceedings. There was no way Loder was ever going to allow the result to stand.

It seems probable this was the only dishonourable act that could ever be laid at Loder’s door. In his determination to thwart his implacable enemy, he had robbed countless thousands of favourite backers, and his conscience would never be clear for the rest of his life. In fact, he was not spared long to rue his unforgivable action, for within 14 months he was dead at the age of 47, having suffered the fearful agonies of Bright’s Disease.

Ismay took the verdict philosophically, with the £30,000 which he accepted from Argentina for Craganour as some consolation. And when war was declared in 1914 the former ne’er-do-well exhibited a formerly unsuspected honourable trait.

It could not have been sheer coincidence that the regiment to which he applied successfully for a commission was the 12th Lancers.

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RICHARD EDMONDSON COMMENT

Brough Scott’s recently published biography of Sir Henry Cecil should have been a literary triumph – so why has the trainer disowned it?

Don’t look back in anger

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know it’s a 100-1 shot, but I just hope they are merely doing it for the publicity.

I just hope that Sir Henry Cecil and Brough Scott have not really fallen out but are rather chasing each other round the table in the manner of Tom and Jerry. Please let it all be a cartoon.

The reality, however, seems to be that two of racing’s doyens – men born less than a month apart – will not be swapping Christmas cards this year. Immediately after the recent publication of Henry Cecil – Trainer Of Genius, the journalist’s authorised biography of the master of Warren Place, we seemed to get Brough Scott – Writer Of Hurt, the said genius’s statement of response.

Cecil believes Scott has broken a confidence by dwelling overly on the negative aspects of his life. He spoke of “disappointment”. Brough replied that he was simply trying to paint a rounded portrait of his subject and was not in the business of betraying trusts. He said he was “disappointed”.

Oh dear. Judging from chatroom responses, commentators are fairly split on the hero/villain narrative in this unfortunate episode. Before I form my opinion I must make two admissions: 1) I have not read the book; 2) I have not trained any Classic winners, but I have had a go at being a journalist.

During the course of my work I’ve obviously bumped into Brough, quite literally. He may be an unbelievable 70, but he’s still acutely sharp of mind and elbow, as you soon learn when a big story breaks on the racecourse.

Brough is an acclaimed author, journalist and editor. He has been horseracing’s writer of the year and he’s been the nation’s sports feature writer of the year on no less than three occasions. He is not renowned as a master of the stitch-up. He takes writing very seriously, as becomes apparent when you witness him physically geeing himself up in the press room before he pens a significant piece.

The Cecil book will have tested twin loyalties. Brough loves racing and would not have wanted to upset one of its greatest trainers. But he also loves his craft and part of that is getting the full story across.

Sir Henry Cecil and Brough Scott are masters of their respective disciplines

If he has made a misjudgment here it is in anticipating Cecil’s reaction to his detail. Sir Henry seems to have imagined a hagiography rather than a biography. Something like: Chapter One: Those 10 championships; Chapter Two: My 75 Royal Ascot wins; Chapter Three: Frankel. The End. It would have been a book of sorts but not the one

“Brough takes writing very seriously – he loves his craft and part of that is getting the full story across”

Brough chose to write. It would have been like a biography of Tiger Woods that talked only about golf.

Like any sentient human being, there are things in Sir Henry’s past he would like to change. Probably one of them is when he agreed to my interview request for The Independent at the depth of his fortunes in

2005, a year that yielded just 12 winners for a trainer more used to celebrating centuries.

Henry was charm itself in the ‘old boys’ room at his Warren Place stable, but the moment I tried to bring up the spicier elements of his life, the windows started frosting from the inside.

“You mustn’t talk about the downs.” Cecil said at the time. “I don’t want to go into the Fallon thing or anything like that and I don’t want anything about Natalie. Basically, I’m still a positive person, so I don’t want a negative article.”

Thus Henry commanded a promise that no detail should be included on the split from his second wife, Natalie, neither the subsequent sacking of his stable jockey, Kieren Fallon.

“I don’t like reminiscing,” Cecil explained.

“It’s no good to anybody. People can do it for me if they like, but life’s about what you’re going to do, not what you have done.

“I could retire and become a member of White’s Club [the exclusive Mayfair establishment] and sit there with a glass of port and some stilton and talk all day long about what I’ve done. But who’s interested?

Least of all me.”

Yet, as Henry and Brough found out, that’s the problem with biographies. They are all about reminiscing.

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VIEW FROM IRELAND

By JESSICA LAMB OF THE RACING POST

Helping the twilight zone horses Those rated 90-100 will benefit most from big cash injection for premier handicaps

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gainst the odds, prize-money is increasing for certain races and the pumping of it into a series of premier handicaps this season could not only keep horses at home but help receding attendances.

With the best Group races concentrated around just a few weekends of the year, Horse Racing Ireland has sought to create a series of 12 early-closing premier handicaps with a minimum prize fund of €100,000 to give ordinary weekends a more intriguing feature.

This is the sort of money that Irish trainers – in search of easier options rather than taking on Aidan O’Brien in the lesser Group and Listed races – regularly travel to Britain for, as in the past Ireland’s premier handicaps have not been able to attract horses rated as highly as those that run in the likes of Newmarket’s Cesarewitch.

In search of decent pots and better ground, trainer David Marnane ran his three best horses 21 times in Britain and Meydan last year.

Dandy Boy, Nocturnal Affair and Jamesie ran only seven times in their own country and, though the first two have moved on to the top drawer, Jamesie will be joined by several more in the not-quite-Group class bracket this term.

He said: “It’s a good move. We don’t have a very big string, but what we do have is a lot of older, 90-plus rated horses who need these races. Hopefully with these pots we won’t have to go to England as much, which is expensive and doesn’t pay off every time. It’ll hopefully

David Marnane, and Dandy Boy (near) winning the Wokingham

improve the races too, tempting more 100-plus horses.”

The races cover the full range of distances and run throughout the season, with funds for established races like the Cambridgeshire, Rockingham and November boosted, tweaks to dates and the substantial upgrade of the seven-furlong handicap on the final day of the Galway festival in August.

Improving the quality of the races improves the quality of the cards they inhabit and Jason Morris, Horse Racing Ireland’s Director of Racing, hopes this will create excitement on otherwise average weekends. He said: “We have a relatively small number of Flat feature races.

You have only the 12 Group 1s and they are run on just five weekends through the season, so where possible we wanted to up the prize-

money and generate more interest in Flat racing outside those Group 1 days.

“The intention is that these races will be the feature event on their days and they will all now be early-closers, to give them further promotion to the public. Even the second series of races we have created this year, the non-early closers with a minimum fund of €50,000, will assist with this.”

Morris sees this series of 26 premier handicaps as an incentive to keep horses in training, therefore generating revenue for smaller trainers and encouraging new owners.

He added: “There is a need to encourage the retention of the twilight horse, those rated between 90 and 100 that are not competitive at Group level. For their owners and trainers it will be nice to have a chance to land a big pot.”

One breakthrough could be followed by another for Lynam Eddie Lynam (pictured) has had his breakthrough year – now it’s time for the Classics. This month, Viztoria is set to take in the Irish 1,000 Guineas at the Curragh, giving the trainer his first runner in the fillies’ Classic.

He said: “It’s something we’ve never done before, but we did have a runner in the Irish Oaks last year and had one in the French Guineas many years ago, and you just prepare them the same as any other top class horse for a Group 1. The main thing we have to work on with Viztoria is to get her thinking like a miler rather than a sprinter, as that’s how we campaigned her last year.

“I didn’t think Newmarket will suit her as well as the Curragh. We’ll run in the Athasi Stakes at the Curragh before the 1,000 Guineas, but we’ll do most of the work

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to get her thinking differently at home and in racecourse gallops, with Johnny Murtagh educating her.”

Lynam’s season began with a bang in Meydan as Sole Power, who gave him that breakthrough Group 1 win, finished fourth in the Al Quoz Sprint, and Balmont Mast was second in the Golden Shaheen.

Lynam said: “The first four in the Sprint broke the track record and Sole Power lost no weight with his effort. We were thrilled and he goes for the Temple at Haydock next. Balmont Mast will take up his invitation to the KrisFlyer Sprint in Singapore, while Muck ‘N’ Brass, who went over as their lead horse, came back looking like Cary Grant so we’ll have some fun with him this summer.”

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In Brief...

Liberty Counsel (left) en route to victory in the Irish Grand National at Fairyhouse

Secret Counsel proves far better than a pointer Last month’s Irish Grand National winner Liberty Counsel was a secret buy out of a non-thoroughbred mare whose first job was as a foster mother.

My Free Mantel came to Clongiffen Stud in Enfield, County Meath, to look after a thoroughbred foal who had lost its dam, but stud owner Winston Honner liked her so much he allowed her to be covered by his stallion Leading Counsel. The result is Liberty Counsel.

“I don’t think I

stopped talking from the minute she crossed the line until about nine that night” Son Robert explained: “Her owner decided he didn’t want her any more when she was in foal, so we got her registered as a non-thoroughbred so we could then register her progeny as thoroughbreds and THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

therefore use them to race.

“We were thinking they’d end up being nice horses for a bit of fun point-topointing, or at the very least make good eventers. How wrong were we?”

Local man Bernard Murtagh bought a share in Liberty Counsel when she came of age and put her in training with the Honners for a point-to-point campaign – on one condition.

“We weren’t allowed to tell his wife Helen,” Robert said. “Liberty Counsel would have been third to Seabass on her first run only for a tired fall at the last and we were gearing up then for a run at Loughrea, in Galway, when Bernard died suddenly from a heart attack.”

Helen found out about the mare, but instead of discarding the secret racehorse, she and her sister Irene Neale bought out the Honners to own her completely, and 16 months later, on her fourth outing, she landed the first of her six wins.

“I don’t think I stopped talking from the minute she crossed the line at Fairyhouse until about nine that night,” Honner added.

“It was unbelievable how many calls Winston and I took. You’d swear we trained her to win ourselves. I only had a tenner

Gigginstown House Stud has created a fund to help paralysed amateur rider John Thomas McNamara’s rehabilitation.

The leading owner had set aside €200,000 to buy the winner of the Racing Post Champion Point-To-Point Bumper, but when their own horse won the race, managers Eddie and Michael O’Leary offered the sum to support McNamara, who became paralysed from the neck down after a fall at the Cheltenham Festival. The 37-year-old from Limerick has three young children, Dylan, Harry and Olivia, and will be cared for by his wife Caroline.

On-course bookmakers have split with the Irish National Bookmakers Association over policy disagreements.

The 20 most prominent names, including BetChronicle, David Power and Pat O’Hare, formed their own representation, the Professional Bookmakers’ Association, in a bid to work together to achieve further modernisation of on-course bookmaking.

Evergreen 15-year-old A New Story and the Willie Mullins-trained Uncle Junior are set to take part in a cross country race at Le Lion D’Angers on May 9. Mullins is also set to be represented at Auteuil a week later, with Thousand Stars bidding for back-to-back Prix La Barka wins.

each-way on her, but dad did much better; he had €50 each-way.”

My Free Mantel died foaling her third foal, but left Liberty Counsel with one sibling, Rohans Pride, the son of Pushkin who Honner aims to put over hurdles shortly.

“I’ve had a great time riding him in points and bumpers, but it’s time to put a better jockey on him and I’ve no doubt he’ll do well in maiden hurdles,” he said.

“I actually think he’s better than Liberty Counsel as he seems sharper than her. He’s got a lot to prove now though.”

The 2013 Irish National heroine was not the first with a connection to Clongiffen Stud. Larry Hope trained Princess Hilda and Mavis Of Meath to win the 1899 and 1900 renewals of the race from Clongiffen, with the latter carrying the welter burden of 12st 12lb.

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By JAMES CRISPE, INTERNATIONAL RACING BUREAU

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Bitten by the Prestbury Park bug

GEORGE SELWYN

Clayeux vows to return to the Festival, perhaps via prep races in Britain

Sirene D’Ainay, who was an excellent second to Quevega at Cheltenham

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mmanuel Clayeux may have suffered two agonising near misses on his first visit to the Cheltenham Festival in March. But this has not stopped the coming man of French jump racing from waxing lyrical about the experience, nor from vowing to return and go one better.

Sirene D’Ainay, his initial runner at Prestbury Park, looked likely to pull off a shock success when holding a four-length lead approaching the final flight in the OLBG Mares Hurdle, only to be cut down by the indomitable Quevega. Nevertheless, as Clayeux himself admitted afterwards, to finish second to such an exceptional winner “almost felt like a victory”.

Three days later in the biggest race of all, the Betfred Gold Cup itself, Sir Des Champs, who Clayeux once trained and who was bred by his father Dominique, lost his unbeaten course record but went down with all guns blazing in finishing second to Bobs Worth.

One month on and Clayeux is still bubbling about his trip to Gloucestershire.

“We spent five truly exceptional days at Cheltenham, it had everything – the beauty and the grandeur of the course, the atmosphere, the kindness of the organisers and my fellow racing professionals, the hospitality for visiting horses and stable staff, the Guinness, the crowds and even the snow!

“I had my first runners in Britain [he also saddled Sacree Tiepy to finish sixth in the

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Cross Country Chase] and they certainly won’t be my last. Of course I would love to come back, for the 2014 Cheltenham Festival and maybe for some prep races there or at other courses.

“Sirene D’Ainay is a mare with lots of rhythm and a big heart. And, like her jockey, Jonathan Plouganou, she is very adaptable.

She is going to spend the spring back with her owner and when she returns she will follow the same kind of programme [in 201213 she had a six-race winter campaign

“We spent five truly exceptional days at Cheltenham, it had everything. I would love to come back”

culminating in victory in the Pau Champion Hurdle], with Cheltenham as her ultimate objective.”

Quizzed about the paucity of recent French runners at the Festival (Francois Doumen’s Kelami in the 2005 William Hill Trophy was their last winner), he alludes to the glaring difference in prize-money on opposite sides

of the Channel.

“In France we have a programme that allows us to run all year round for decent prizes,” he stressed. “I was able to persuade Sirene D’Ainay’s owner to take up the sporting challenge of coming to Cheltenham only because her recent victories had more than covered the costs of both her oats and the trip to England.

“You have to understand that, financially speaking, bringing horses to Britain is of little interest to French owners. And maybe French owners don’t like driving on the left!”

Clayeux, who recently celebrated his 45th birthday, hails from Vaumas, near Vichy in central France, and began training there on a small scale in 2001 while concentrating mainly on pre-training for numerous bigname clients, including Guillaume Macaire.

It was only in 2007 that he took out a public licence. Within a few months his name was up in lights after Etoile D’Ainay had won him the biggest race of the French winter season, the Grand Prix de Pau. He soon became a regular competitor in the country’s top chases and in 2011 broke into the top ten in the trainers’ championship for the first time.

Now with 75 horses under his care, he has begun 2013 in outstanding form, his tally of 18 successes in the first three months (recorded at a strike-rate second only to Macaire) leaving him in fourth place in the overall standings.

He has a particularly sure touch with the fairer sex as, Etoile D’Ainay and Sirene D’Ainay apart, his current top horse is another mare, Net Lovely, who won three Grade 3 chases at Auteuil in 2012 and ended the year with a second place in the French equivalent of our King George, the Prix La Haye Jousselin. But he can train geldings too, as he proved when Rhialco finished second in the 2011 Haye Jousselin.

Despite this rapid ascent to the top of his profession, Clayeux insists he is still happy to sell his charges to British owners if the price is right, as it was for both Sir Des Champs and Nacarat, who won four graded chases after his 2007 acquisition by Tom George.

“Selling young horses across the Channel is a part of my business,” he explained. “It allows my owners the financial security to make their involvement in the sport permanent, and I get great satisfaction seeing them go on to win, especially at Cheltenham.”

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More meetings and money at Ostend

Ostend racecourse, which re-opened in 2012 following a fouryear hiatus, is celebrating its 130th anniversary and is determined to attract runners from Britain, as it takes an hour only from Calais to reach the historic seaside venue. Last year’s summer season was a great success, with crowds of between 5,000 and 8,000 attracted to the track’s ten Monday evening fixtures. Now the season has been extended to 11 consecutive Mondays, starting on June 24, and a big increase in prize-money will make a visit much more attractive to cross-Channel raiders.

This cash boost has been financed by other factors apart from the large attendance figures. Five of the 11 meetings will be ‘premium’ days, when the action will be

shown live on the French racing channel Equidia, and, more importantly, French gamblers will be able to bet on them using the Pari-Mutuel.

These five days will be turf Flat racing only (the other cards will be shared with trotting) and between them will boast €296,400 in prize-money, which is more than £240,000.

The course has also managed to secure sponsorship from Qatar and Dubai, meaning that three of the premium meetings will include a contest for Purebred Arabians.

The jewel in Ostend’s thoroughbred crown has always been the Prix Prince Rose, formerly known as the Grand Prix International d’Ostende.

This is a ten and a half furlong event run this year on July 22 and offering a first prize of €10,000 (£8,130), double its 2012 mark.

The rest of the Prince Rose card consists of a two-mile stamina test, a sprint claimer, a nine-furlong event restricted to three-yearolds and a pair of mile handicaps. For these handicaps, just as for other handicaps at the course, British horses need not run in Belgium beforehand – their domestic handicap marks will simply be converted by the Belgian Jockey Club.

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Animal underlines global nature of sport

One aspect of the great triumph of Animal Kingdom in the Dubai World Cup that has largely been overlooked is the role German bloodstock played in his success – his dam is Dalicia, a German-bred daughter of Acatenango, who won a BadenBaden Group 3 event in 2005.

The victory could be seen as vindication of the policy of winning owner/breeders Team Valor, one of very few international owners to have horses in training in Germany. Prizemoney there may be modest but the insistence of the Direktorium (Jockey Club) that any mare or stallion that has ever raced on drugs is not allowed to breed, produces THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

bloodstock with a worldwide reputation for toughness and adaptability.

Animal Kingdom’s Meydan win underlines how global the racing industry has become.

Here is a horse trained by an Englishman living in America, ridden by a native of the Dominican Republic, by a Brazilian sire, out of a German dam, who is now owned by Japan’s Shadai Farm and whose own dam, Dynamis, was last heard of in Russia.

Yet, as the Dubai World Cup was presented, the music played was the national anthem of Australia, where Animal Kingdom will begin his stallion career at Arrowfield Stud.

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There is almost €300,000 in prize-money up for grabs over five days at Ostend

Animal Kingdom and Joel Rosario

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AROUND THE GLOBE THE WORLDWIDE RACING SCENE

NORT H A M E R I CA

by Steve Andersen

Stevens sets sights on UK return

“I’m taking things a

little different. I’m still pretty fiery, but at night I can step back and assess the day” 9-10, when he swept the two weekend stakes at Santa Anita.

“I didn’t know what the acceptance would be,” he reflected in early spring. “It’s like any big race, you know how tough the challenge can be and the competition. You’re hoping for the best and preparing for the worst. This was like a big race.”

By early April, Stevens had amassed 13 wins in nearly three months, giving him 4,901 in his career, which began in Idaho in 1979.

“I’ve been comfortable with the horses that I’ve ridden,” he said. “They’re running well.”

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hortly after the Breeders’ Cup at Santa Anita in November, retired Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens left southern California for Washington state and a six-week change of scenery. He moved at a quiet time of year in American racing, to a quiet corner of the country, with a plan in the back of his mind for a career change.

Stevens, two months shy of his 50th birthday and more than seven years removed from raceriding, was thinking of a comeback. The rumours flew around Santa Anita in late December when Stevens returned home and began exercising horses. They were confirmed when he announced his return to riding in early January.

Stevens began riding at Santa Anita on January 6 and won his first race since the autumn of 2005 six days later. Any discussion that Stevens was unfit for a comeback, or that the whole thing was a publicity stunt, was essentially erased on the weekend of February

Gary Stevens now (inset), and in action for the Queen at Royal Ascot in 1999

In a way, he looks like he never retired, even though he had spent time in the last decade working as an actor on the movie Seabiscuit and television series Luck, trained a small stable of horses at Santa Anita, and worked as a commentator on the HRTV racing network and NBC’s national racing coverage.

While Stevens has ridden his share of minor races, he has plans in the spring and summer to focus on riding quality runners. Stevens, who has won three Kentucky Derbys, eight Breeders’ Cup races, and an Eclipse Award as America’s outstanding jockey of 1998, is hoping to gain mounts in the Triple Crown races, and aiming to ride at Royal Ascot. He has plans to be at Ascot in August for the Shergar Cup. Stevens is not riding every race daily at Santa Anita, and does not plan to. He prefers to ride for horsemen with whom he had previous associations, such as Richard Mandella and Tom Proctor, or new faces that have gained his respect, such as former Newmarket trainer Simon Callaghan. For Callaghan, Stevens rode Slim Shadey to win the Grade 2 San Marcos Stakes on turf on that milestone weekend in February.

This is Stevens’s second comeback. He retired in 2000, citing sore knees, and worked as an

assistant trainer for a period and did television work before returning to riding the following year, winning the Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes on Point Given.

He quit again in autumn 2005. At 50, he is the senior member of the jockeys’ room at Santa Anita, and says age has provided a meaningful perspective. Gone are the occasional flares of temper, replaced by the perspective that comes with age.

“Being off that long and being 50 years old, I’m taking things a little different,” he said. “I’m still pretty fiery, but at night I can step back and assess the day.”

In the spring, Stevens said he plans to travel extensively, riding throughout the United States, particularly in Kentucky in April and May. “Have saddle, will travel,” he said.

Aside from California, he has a home in Louisville, Kentucky, which allows for convenient airline connections to both California and New York when major races occur. Since his comeback, his outlook on riding has been altered. He thrives on the action of a big race and hopes to do even more.

“I’m a full-time rider now,” he said. “When I started back, I was kind of a gentleman rider and that has now changed.”

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AUST R A L I A

by Stephen Howell

Nathan Tinkler, the man who has had the biggest impact on Australian racing over the past decade, is shutting up shop. His decision comes six years into a failed attempt to replicate the success Jack and Bob Ingham had with their Woodlands racing and breeding empires over a generation, which Bob Ingham sold to Sheikh Mohammed’s Darley for almost A$500 million (£343m) in 2008.

Media-wary Tinkler, with a dwindling fortune and no cash flow because of financial woes with his Whitehaven coal-mining investments, announced in a press release in early April his plans to sell Patinack Farm, which he described as Australia’s “most successful locally-owned thoroughbred breeding and racing operation”.

He was quoted as saying the sale sign was going up on the business that employs 150 staff because he was spending more time overseas and did not have the time to manage it, and because the sale would “allow the Tinkler Group to focus on its core operations, spanning resources, port and rail infrastructure and property”.

The May sale is on a walk-in, walk-out basis, with Tinkler, who is in his late 30s, optimistically looking at A$250m, which is considerably less than his investment; insiders suggest that half that figure would be more realistic.

The deal offers the 3,300-acre Sandy Hollow facility in the Hunter Valley of NSW, Australia’s breeding centre; the 1,000-acre Patinack Canungra property on Queensland’s Gold Coast, with a stud farm, training track and stables, and spelling areas; a 2,400-acre property at Broke in the Hunter Valley; about 1,000 racehorses and broodmares and a handful of stallions, including Casino Prince, sire of champion three-year-old colt All Too Hard, who has the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot as a target before being sent to stud.

Unfortunately for Tinkler, he sold All Too Hard to a syndicate that included studs Vinery and Kia-Ora as the centrepiece of a A$25m deal in December to cover debts, after earlier getting rid of 200 broodmares at auction for the ‘fire sale’ price of A$2m.

Still on the Patinack books, however, are stallions Casino Prince and Husson, Group 1 winners Nechita and Pearl Tart for trainer THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

BRONWEN HEALY

Tinkler to quit racing industry

Nathan Tinkler is selling Patinack Farm

John Thompson, and many outstanding broodmares, including Sun Classique and Bel Mer. The press release indicated that lifetime breeding rights to All Too Hard and

“There were claims

that Patinack’s racing empire was costing Tinkler some A$600,000 a week” Onemorenomore, a stallion sold in the All Too Hard deal, were part of the justannounced sale, to be held by Magic Millions, which has its headquarters on the Gold Coast.

Tinkler, now based in Singapore, will be

missed, for a variety of reasons. If a buyer can be found internationally to come in and take over, the ‘trickle down’ effect will fall from huge to small.

One of the major criticisms of Tinkler, in both his horse and his other businesses, has been his ‘drip-feed’ style of payment from suppliers big and small that at times has brought legal action.

Even his considerable sponsorship of major races, such as Victoria’s Group 1 race for two-year-olds, the Blue Diamond Stakes at Caulfield in February, had the Melbourne Racing Club chasing its money. And Racing NSW withheld prize-money to cover what Patinack owed it.

Another complaint has been the constant turnover of staff, from key decision makers to stablehands, which has earned Patinack the nickname Pat’n’sack.

Whether there is a big owner, be he Arab or Asian, out there with sufficient interest remains moot; beyond dispute is that any new owner would have plenty of trimming to do. This is evident from the oft-reported claims that Patinack’s racing empire was costing Tinkler some A$600,000 a week.

Inglis, the premier bloodstock company that, initially, benefited from Tinkler’s spending sprees at yearling sales, not only lost the Tinkler sell-off business to rival Magic Millions, but also had 24 Patinack yearlings withdrawn from its big Easter sale in Sydney.

Inglis general manager Mark Webster told the Herald Sun: “He has been good for the industry for the past five years, especially during the global financial crisis when he bought a lot of yearlings, broodmares and stallions. Perhaps he tried to get too big too quickly.”

Figures published in News Ltd’s papers last December showed that from 2008 Tinkler spent A$77m on 410 horses at Australian sales at an average of about A$190,000. He also bought in New Zealand, Japan and France. In October 2012 he sold 303 broodmares and racehorses for A$4.1m (average of A$13,500).

With guesstimates that in May a A$500mplus investment will return A$100m-plus, the one-time billionaire certainly proved the adage that the way to make a small fortune in racing is to start with a large one.

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JOHN FRANCOME

No REGRETS John Francome has always been frank, to the point and worth listening to. Happily, none of that has changed since he quit Channel 4 Racing to begin a new chapter in his life

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“I never missed

riding when I packed up and I don’t miss anything about working on TV”

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hen you hung up your microphone after 27 years of broadcasting, your relaxed, entertaining and informed style left racing fans wanting more.

What was behind your decision?

I’d worked for 27 years for Andrew Franklin, who was the boss of Channel 4 Racing, and I’d seen enough of what went on to know that there wasn’t anyone better out there.

And I felt that he should have been given the opportunity to produce Royal Ascot and the Grand National.

Channel 4 got the gig for making the current racing programmes on the back of what Andrew achieved. Not one single person throughout the sport, from Richard Hannon to AP McCoy, is more passionate about racing than Andrew. Yes, I suppose you can call it loyalty. It was like working for Fred Winter for 15 years; I didn’t want to go off and start again with somebody else. It would never have been the same.

Watching the Grand National coverage on Channel 4, did you have

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any regrets that you weren’t there working with Jim McGrath and co?

I didn’t have any regrets whatsoever. In fact, I sat in the armchair thinking how nice it was being entertained. I thought they did a good job, though a few of the camera angles weren’t up to scratch. If I’m totally honest, the Grand National is no longer the race it was originally meant to be – a proper test of jumping. I can see why they have altered the fences but it was quite clear to me that the horses don’t have to make so much effort jumping and this has detracted from the race.

The jumping discipline has been taken out of the event; it’s like taking the Bank out of the Hickstead Derby. I hope to God they rename Becher’s Brook because that’s what it isn’t any more. There’s no brook, no drop; it’s just not the same fence. It’s a travesty.

What have you missed most since leaving broadcasting and could you ever see yourself returning to TV? I haven’t missed anything. I never missed riding when I packed up and if you’ve got loads to do I don’t think you miss things.

Stepping down from the TV work has not made me feel left out in any way. I might watch The Morning Line when I get in from riding out on Saturday morning, though if I’m honest, most Saturdays I wouldn’t.

In your opinion, has IMG improved Channel 4’s racing coverage since taking over from Highflyer?

The presenters are just a matter of choice.

Some people like Fiona Bruce reading the news, some people don’t. It’s the same with the racing personnel. But I have to say I was horrified when I came in from riding out on that Saturday in March when Newbury and Doncaster were abandoned to find that The Morning Line had been reduced to half an hour. In Andrew Franklin’s day there would have been more chance of a pig flying up to Aintree than that happening. And it does concern me.

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I’ve seen plenty of him; he spends most of his time either asleep or eating. If he could play football in his stable he would, he’s got unbelievable energy. He has grown and definitely filled out through the winter and you’d have to say he looks a sprinter. When he won his two Group 1s last year he overcame a bad draw on both occasions and was definitely three or four pounds better than the result.

Having built your house at the yard, will you be involved in more construction projects?

I am going to try and build a couple of houses on some land I have bought. I’ll oversee the building and do some of the navying, which should keep me out of mischief.

Left: Francome on the day of his final winner at Huntingdon in 1985; Above: jumping Becher’s Brook on Grittar (mauve, white hoops) in the 1984 Grand National; Below: with his former colleagues on the Channel 4 Racing team, including Andrew Franklin (left)

You rode 1,138 winners, won seven championships and landed the Gold Cup. Is there one moment that stands out above all others?

Yes, and I was reminded of it watching Hurricane Fly win the Champion Hurdle this year. Grandouet fell in front of Hurricane Fly at the fourth last and could have easily brought him down. It just happened that Ruby Walsh, on Hurricane Fly, decided to go one side of Grandouet and he fell the other way. That incident brought back the memory of what could so easily have been a first-flight disaster in 1981 when I won the Champion Hurdle on Sea Pigeon. I was following the Irish horse, Ivan King, going into the first and thinking to myself, ‘What if he happens

worry is that the people now running Channel 4 Racing are not as passionate about the sport. If they can give up half an hour of valuable coverage that racing needs, then that’s a big worry.

How heavily involved are you in Clive Cox’s Lambourn yard, which you own and where you ride out every day?

Since I packed up doing television I have become the odd job man around the yard. I ride out every morning, which I love, and being able to do that makes me realise how lucky I am. But basically my task is repairing all the bits and pieces that have been kicked and broken by the horses. I also have a share with Clive in the dual-purpose horse, Poet.

And that’s really the total of my involvement.

What is the plan for last year’s unbeaten juvenile Reckless Abandon?

I’m not sure which route they’re going to take with him. He’s two boxes away from Poet and spent the winter in the box opposite so THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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TALKING TO... >> to fall, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll bring me downâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. So I decided to

go one way and sure enough Ivan King came down, luckily, falling the other way. Pure luck on my part, but that split-second decision was the difference between winning the Champion Hurdle and picking myself up off the floor.

When you retired from the saddle you trained for 18 months. Would you ever consider training again?

No, I see how hard Clive Cox works 24 hours a day, seven days a week. And for every horse that wins there are four with all sorts of problems and different things wrong with them. All the Chief Executives of big companies should come and try to run a racing yard for a week, then theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d soon realise how lucky they are. I tell you itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the hardest job in the world and those highly paid CEOs would find it a much bigger test than the jobs they are doing.

Francome is happy to assist Clive Cox but has no plans to take out his own licence

Is it possible to compare the jockeys of your era with todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s riders? Are the present bunch fitter or were you and your colleagues better horsemen?

I expect they are fitter but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d question whether they are better. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d say Jeff King would hold his own against any jockey today,

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TALKING TO... be it AP McCoy, Barry Geraghty or Ruby Walsh. So too would Ken White. I think it’s got to the stage now where the jockeys are almost getting fitter than the horses and I’ve seen a lot of horses ridden into the ground recently and it drives me mad. It’s embarrassing to see the gun put to some horses’ heads and being driven from the front and then not getting home. Present day jocks might be fitter, though I’d be staggered if any could outstrip those weighing-room colleagues of my era, Graham McCourt and Graham Thorner.

“All the Chief

Executives of big companies should try to run a racing yard for a week” In your heyday you were game for anything, including controversial brushes with the authorities. Are there fewer characters in the weighing room now?

I’d hate to think that was the case. I am sure there must be plenty and Mattie Batchelor is certainly one; it would be disappointing if the jocks didn’t enjoy their journeys to the races and all the in-between times you spend hanging around together as much as we used to. I doubt whether they stop for a drink on the way to the races like they used to because nowadays they can be breathalysed when they get to the racecourse.

Is racing in a better place now than it was when you were riding?

Horse and rider welfare is much better now.

Jockeys are looked after in terms of nutrition and on-course medical facilities. There is a physio available on the course and if anything goes wrong there is wide ranging back-up and a lot of this is the result of work put in by John Oaksey and latterly Brough Scott. Also those horrible concrete posts and rails are long gone from the racecourse and their abolition was a massive step forward in protecting horse and rider. Generally it’s a much more horse-friendly environment. On the veterinary side the horses are looked after and attended from the moment they arrive at the course. I think all this welfare is something racing ought to be proud of.

What change would you like to see that would benefit the sport?

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racing and a complete break between the jumping seasons. I don’t think there is anything better than when you have something to look forward to. I always eagerly anticipate the new football season, but jumping just goes on and on to such an extent that it gets you down. Once the season ends there should be a couple of weeks to enable all those involved to take stock, and even better take a holiday.

Society today demands that we must have everything on tap all day, every day and even throughout the night in the case of some supermarkets. Racing has become like that and I believe we would all benefit from a break.

You have written books that have appeared in the best-seller lists. Are you still writing and do you do much after-dinner speaking or talking on cruise ships?

I stopped writing two years ago, having produced 22 novels. And it’s a long time since I did any after-dinner speaking. I decided to pull the plug on that and I certainly wouldn’t entertain giving talks on cruises. I can’t think of anything worse than being stuck on a boat for days with all the people you’ve been talking to. I’d jump over board!

How long and hard did you have to think before accepting the position as President of the Injured Jockeys Fund, succeeding the late John Oaksey?

I didn’t have to think for a nanosecond. I was very honoured to have been asked. John had done an amazing job for the Injured Jockeys Fund and if I can maintain it and maybe just push it forward so that it is a little bit more self-funding then I shall be more than pleased.

How can the IJF service be improved and what goals do you have?

Over and above the initial funding, Jack Berry House in Malton [see next question] is going to add to the annual costs of running the IJF, so we shall need to be more pro-active. It would be nice if we did something for ourselves because the sale of Christmas cards and calendars come round only once a year.

We need a business providing a good service for people who are inclined to support the IJF and I am hoping we might be able to start insuring people’s cars and houses.

Jack Berry House, the north’s version of Oaksey House, has finally got the go-ahead in Malton. How important is this development?

It is very important and will mean an awful lot to jockeys based in the north. There won’t

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be any permanent residency at Jack Berry House but there will be facilities for jockeys undergoing treatment to stay overnight. The fact that it is next door to Malton Rugby Club means that the two facilities should complement each other and it should be of benefit to the local community as well. I have to say if you had five people like Jack Berry working for you, you could run the country; he has done an enormous amount for the IJF. You visited the paralysed JT McNamara in hospital after his horrific Cheltenham fall. What can the IJF learn from such a very sad saga?

I’m not sure there is an awful lot we can learn. We look after Robert Alner, Wayne Burton and Isabel Tompsett, to name but three, who have suffered similar injuries.

Andy Stewart, owner of Big Buck’s and whose son Paul was injured in a winter sports accident, has been very pro-active and done an awful lot to help to ensure that people doing spinal injuries research around the world are not duplicating each other’s work. Of course, we are hoping a cure or partial cure won’t be too far away.

Finally, you look in cracking shape for a 60-year-old. What’s the secret?

Mixing with young people and plenty of sleep. I’m mentally nine!

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Moore MERRIER Ryan Moore has a reputation for being curt and intense on the racecourse but a visit to his Newmarket home finds the three-times champion jockey in more relaxed mood Words Julian Muscat • Photos George Selwyn

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yan Moore opens the door to his modest house on the eastern fringe of Newmarket looking as though he’s just been dragged through a wind tunnel.

On this Tuesday morning his hair, normally flat against his head, rises up in randomly dishevelled tufts. It’s not how he appears at the races, when he is invariably well turned out, but this is the other side to a jockey who divides opinion like no other since Lester Piggott.

This is Moore at his leisure. He is out of the spotlight, insulated from demands on his time. The mask of inscrutability he dons on racedays is not in place.

His appearance results from having just ridden out four lots, the first of them in temperatures of -5 degrees. And that’s without factoring in Newmarket’s brutal wind-chill, or that Moore has just flown back from Dubai’s desert heat.

That latter detail is especially relevant, because Moore, 29, is the first of an emerging new breed. Both by his schedule and in his outlook, he is a truly international jockey.

He is the product of a sport where the best horses now travel extensively, in the process exposing riders to the merits of big races far distant from Britain’s shores. His views have evolved accordingly.

Moore plainly likes Britain, wouldn’t choose to live anywhere else, but he’s not prepared to recite the mantra that British racing is the best in the world. He believes we have many of the best horses, but that’s a different matter entirely.

Ed Dunlop is of similar hue. One of the younger breed of trainers prepared to travel horses far and wide, Dunlop is adamant races

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like the Melbourne Cup and Dubai World Cup generate infinitely more global publicity than our own.

Indeed, the two men have combined to telling effect on foreign fields. In November 2010, Moore rode the Dunlop-trained Snow Fairy to win the Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative Cup in Japan – a month later they captured the Hong Kong Cup at Sha Tin. In 2011, Moore and Snow Fairy landed their second Commemorative Cup.

“I didn’t beat the best when I won my first championship so it wasn’t a really big deal”

“I would always hope to ride here as long as I was riding some of the best horses,” Moore says, “but racing is big in Japan. I rode there for seven weeks after the Melbourne Cup (in November last year).

“It’s about the most alien place in the world: you have to eat the local food, all the signs are in a different language and no-one speaks English. Even though they try to help you as much as they can, it wasn’t easy.

“You might as well be on a different planet, but you go to ride good horses. There was a Group 1 race every weekend I was there and I’d definitely go back. At that time of year

you’re not going to ride a better class of horse anywhere else in the world.”

Moore returned to Britain on Christmas Day, since when he has commuted to Dubai four or five times during the carnival. That, however, was not so rewarding.

“It used to be great but now there’s a lack of good horses unless you’re riding for Godolphin or [Mike] de Kock,” he says. “It doesn’t really pay to go there. You’re hoping to take a horse through to World Cup night but owners are there on holiday with their horses, really.”

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predecessors. In consequence, he has little interest in what has preoccupied parochial minds for decades.

This causes him complications (see sidebar following page). It is why some of his responses to routine media questions can raise eyebrows and hackles asunder. Above all, it is an important distinction to recognise ahead of any conversation with him.

The more he converses, the more evident it becomes that Moore’s take on the game is purely about the horses. Or to be more precise, the big horses in the big races. Not for him the business of chalking up personal milestones or crunching career numbers, as it

was for those before him.

As much is evident by his lack of animation over the British jockeys’ title, which he has won three times. It would have been more but for injuries, yet there is no sense of loss.

The roots of his ambivalence probably trace back to his first triumph in 2006. It felt like a hollow victory.

“It wasn’t a really big deal,” Moore recalls.

“Frankie [Dettori] and Hughsie weren’t trying and Kieren [Fallon] was away in Ireland, so I didn’t beat the best.

I didn’t feel I should be winning the championship at that stage anyway.”

At that time Moore had just turned 23 and had benefited from his father’s experience as a jockey-turned-trainer. Gary

Moore and his family are closely knit. He himself was the son of a car salesman-turnedtrainer who understood the game’s perils, having operated at its blue-collar face for much of his life.

The eldest of four children, Ryan was first into the yard and first into the saddle. His debut winner actually came over jumps at Towcester: on that day, aged 16, he weighed out at 8st 10lb and would have followed his father into the jump jockey ranks had he not stopped growing.

Even then, his mother Jayne harboured reservations. She encouraged him to continue his education beyond his GCSEs but the lure of the saddle proved too strong.

“I started doing my A-Levels but I was riding out in the morning and going racing on some afternoons,” Moore reflects. “I was only

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Clockwise from top left: Moore and Snow Fairy capture the 2010 Hong Kong Cup at Sha Tin; taking the plaudits after Workforce provides a debut Derby victory; riding for his boss Sir Michael Stoute and the Queen at Royal Ascot last year

‘I’d take a victory in the Kentucky Derby over the “It’s not the Derby, is it?” That was Ryan Moore’s response to an excited television interviewer after he had just won the Oaks aboard Snow Fairy in 2010.

To many, his appraisal was as astonishing as it was unwarranted. If Moore barely cared about winning a British Classic, why should anyone else?

Yet Moore insists he has no cause to regret those words. “Yes,” he maintains. “I stand by what I said.” He then explains why.

“Everyone makes a big deal about the Classics, much bigger than I think they deserve. Races like the Eclipse, King George, Juddmonte and Champion Stakes are more

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important. That’s my opinion. To me, riding a Classic winner doesn’t measure up to riding the winner of one of those races.”

And the Derby? “The Derby is different,” he says. “It’s a massive race, but the Classics here are like they are in America – the Kentucky Derby is big but is anyone really bothered about the Preakness?

“It’s the same with the Breeders’ Cup: we get excited about the Mile but it’s all about the Classic. Same with the Dubai World Cup: there are some tremendous supporting races on that night but the World Cup is the one that matters.”

Moore is not being contrary, either. Some

time later I venture there are some big races he has yet to win.

“Yes,” he replies. “The Kentucky Derby, the Melbourne Cup, the Japan Cup and the Dubai World Cup. Those are the four.”

And what of the 2,000 Guineas and St Leger, neither of which he has yet annexed?

“The 2,000 Guineas is massively important from a breeding point of view. I’d like to win it, obviously, but I’d prefer to win the others first.

“Racing is a global game and the four races I mentioned are the most important in their countries,” he continues. “The Melbourne Cup is arguably becoming the biggest race in

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>> doing half of both jobs so it just felt better to

the world these days; rightly or wrongly I’m not sure.

“You feel the buzz when you go there but I’d be more of a purist. If I could only win one, I’d like it to be the Kentucky Derby. It’s a really amazing race.

“I’d love to sit on a horse that could jump and had the speed to go with those 22 runners into that first turn. It is probably the most unrealistic of the four races to think I could win, but I’d take it over the 2,000 Guineas.”

Much though it may baffle domesticallyoriented minds, here speaks a man grown accustomed to international racing.

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get on with the riding.

“When you’re young you are in too much of a rush anyway. You see other people riding winners and think, ‘I can do a better job.’

Looking back, it would have been lovely to have had a few A-Levels, a longer education. It turns out there was no rush; it just felt like it back then.”

That’s when his father’s wisdom kicked in.

With Moore’s weight having stabilised, Gary called Richard Hannon to enrol his son with the Wiltshire trainer. Hannon’s yard was expanding quickly: there would be plenty of rides if Moore could cut it.

“I was there at 18 and had great fun,” the jockey reflects in obviously fond tones. “I hardly rode in the first year, the second year was better and then I rode a lot of winners very quickly after I rode out my claim, which

was a big help to me.”

It was just as his father envisaged. Moore made light of the perilous period young jockeys must confront when they lose their claim. Hannon’s winner machine rendered that period academic.

“I got on very well with him,” Moore says of Hannon. “He wasn’t a hard man at all; he’d give you the odd bit of advice but he was very relaxed. Dad wouldn’t be one to stand and shout either, and that suited me.”

A great deal in racing is down to circumstance, as was Moore’s apparently seamless ascent to the very top flight.

The year after his first jockeys’ title saw Richard Hughes’s tenure as Khalid Abdullah’s retained jockey draw to a close. As Hughes increasingly gravitated towards Hannon, whose daughter Lizzie he’d married, Moore found opportunity with Sir Michael Stoute.

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Will Toby follow his father into the saddle? “I’d be happy provided he could do it at the right level,” says Moore

>> The two formalised their association at the end

of 2007.

By then Moore had already decided to ride sparingly. “It’s just crazy to go knocking yourself around the whole time,” he says. “You have to be ready to do the job on a Saturday afternoon. You have to do as well as you can every day but you must be prepared for the big races. It’s more of a mental thing.”

The same applies to Moore’s personal arrangements. The sponsors he embraced make relatively little demand on his time beyond the saddle, which he guards jealously – not least because he dotes on his two children, Toby and Sophie.

His relationship with Amlin, specialists in thoroughbred insurance, is a case in point.

“I’ve been with them for a few years now,” he says. “They call on me a couple of times a year and the company is a help to me anyway when it comes to insurance.”

Much about Moore at home comes in stark contrast to his racecourse demeanour. He is attentive and courteous, the very qualities he is accused of lacking when wearing his gameface. Initially shy, he is soon willing to engage practically any question. It is a long way from a po-faced racing façade that can drive the sport’s promoters to despair.

In the middle of Glorious Goodwood last year, Moore took umbrage when a journalist criticised him for not giving an interview to a satellite racing channel. Moore took to his Betfair column to offer his side of the story – whereupon all manner of postings lit up the

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associated chatroom.

“That was just a bit of fun,” he says with a smile.

Was he aware of the strident response from the public, both for and against his stance? “I was. A couple of them were forwarded on to me.”

Didn’t he read them for himself on the site?

“No.” Another smile. “I was just surprised at the response, really. I gather it was half for and half against.”

“I can get on with

most of the racing writers but one or two are too nosy and should know better” And his take on the media, with whom he is perceived to be on permanent war footing? “I feel I can get on with most of the regular racing writers,” he says. “They are fine, although one or two are too nosy, wanting to know my business when they should know better.”

It’s a little-known fact that Moore’s grandfather (on his mother’s side) was a journalist. “He retired a while ago but he still does some writing,” Moore says. “He was

always keen for one of us to work as a commentator on the BBC but I was never interested in that sort of thing.”

One contemporary for whom a media career would be second nature is Frankie Dettori, who will endeavour to resurrect his career on imminent completion of his sixmonth ban. Moore is unsure what the future holds for Dettori.

“I really don’t know,” he says. “Frankie still has the ability but he is not getting any younger and might have different priorities with his family now. I’m sure lots of people will want to use him and I suppose it depends on how things drop for him. He will need to get back in the swing, although I don’t agree when people say he needs to make a fast start.”

Talking of jockeys, the wooden rockinghorse in Moore’s sitting room – bedecked in the number cloth worn by Moore’s 2010 Derby winner Workforce – suggests four-yearold Toby has designs on following in father’s footsteps.

“I’d be happy provided he could do it at the right level,” Moore says. “Obviously it’s been great for me but you see others struggle and I don’t want that for him. My brothers and I were brought up on the yard but I’d like Toby to have other options, starting with a full education.”

Like mother, like son. The wheel has turned full circle for three successive generations of Moores. Toby must be long odds-on to make it four.

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cover so to finish third was very encouraging.

“Willie Wag Tail is an exciting horse and will probably run at the Guineas meeting. He’s bigger and stronger this year and he’s by Theatrical, whose progeny improve with age.

“Nicholascopernicus needs soft ground so it won’t be easy to place him.

His reappearance run in France was a nonevent but he has done well from three to four.”

erfect starts don’t come much better than that made by Ed Walker when his first runner Riggins dead-heated for first in the Listed Hyde Stakes at Kempton in November 2010.

Since then his yearly totals have continued to rise and a doubling of stable numbers this season saw Walker make the move to Grange House Stables, having previously rented a yard at St Gatien stables.

“We’ve settled in well and all the horses and staff have adjusted to the new regime,” Walker says. “It’s good to have a proper yard as we didn’t have our own facilities before.

“It would be nice to continue on an upward curve and reach 30 winners this season. We’ve had Listed successes and now we want to win a Group race.”

Walker’s string includes four-year-old handicappers Ruscello, Willie Wag Tail and Nicholascopernicus, who contributed eight wins between them in 2012, while Glorious Protector, a promising son of Azamour, is entered in the Group 2 Dante Stakes.

“Sound Of Guns will drop back to six furlongs after her run in the Nell Gwyn. We didn’t leant much in truth as she was badly impeded and although we will scrap our Guineas plans, I still think she will get seven furlongs later this year.

“We’ll try and win a stakes race now – I still think a huge amount of her and she is very exciting.”

Stable stalwart…

One for later on…

“Ruscello won four times for us last year and ran a great race on his reappearance at Kempton. He was a bit fresh and really needs

“I have an unraced three-year-old gelding called Able Dash. He’s a huge horse and is starting to work nicely.”

“Sound Of Guns was badly impeded in the Nell Gwyn and I still think a huge amount of her”

There’s more to come from…

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YOUNG TRAINERS

JAMES TATE Age: 32 Based: Jamesfield Place stables, Newmarket Yearly winners (2011-2013): 1; 21; 11* Horses in training: 60-plus Background: Son of trainer Tom Tate, his father-in-law is Len Lungo, while Michael Dickinson is his uncle. Saddled around 20 point-to-point winners. Six years as vet to Mark Johnston, past contributor to Thoroughbred Owner & Breeder magazine This is James Tate’s second full season with a licence and the 32-year-old is looking to build on the 21 winners he sent out in 2012.

El Manati, a daughter of Iffraaj, provided plenty of cheer in her two-year-old season, landing her maiden by nine lengths at Leicester and running a close third in the

Group 3 Cornwallis Stakes at Ascot.

Tate is private trainer to Rabbah Bloodstock and, with his string increasing form 40 to over 60 horses, the future looks bright for one of Newmarket’s newest faces.

“The aim this season is to win a Pattern race for my owners,” Tate says. “We’ve already been placed in Listed and Group 3 races so a win is a minimum target.

“Obviously I’d like to beat last year’s total and we’re already halfway there so that’s pleasing, as I had a successful spell on the allweather earlier in the year.

“Most of my horses enjoy fast ground so we’re looking forward to the better weather.”

Stable stalwart…

“Naru has continued to improve and I think the penny’s still dropping with

James Tate is aiming for a Group win in 2013

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OLLY STEVENS Age: 34 Based: Robins Farm, Chiddingfold, Surrey Yearly winners (2013): 4* Horses in training: 40 Background: Worked for James Fanshawe, Jessica Harrington, Bob Hess and Ed Peate.

Assistant to Kellyn Gorder in the US, prior to being appointed trainer to Sheikh Fahad AlThani at Peter Winkworth’s former base Sheikh Fahad Al-Thani’s burgeoning interest in British racing has been great news for Olly Stevens, who embarks on his first season with a licence having been installed at the Sheikh’s Robins Farm in Chiddingfold, Surrey.

Stevens met future wife Hetta while working in America and the duo share the training duties, with Hetta also riding work for the stable.

He explains: “It’s very much a joint effort but one name had to go on the licence. We’re thrilled to have got off the mark so quickly – it’s just what we needed and took some of the pressure off.”

While many of the Robins Farm runners carry the Pearl Bloodstock/Qatar Racing silks, Stevens is not a private trainer and the number of outside owners is growing rapidly.

The top-rated performer in the yard is fouryear-old Jacob Cats, a highly progressive miler last season when trained by Richard Hannon and subsequently purchased by David Redvers for 240,000gns.

“Jacob Cats will run at Thirsk in early May before heading straight to the Royal Hunt

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Cup,” Stevens says. “He’s all man – a very big horse – and it’s great for us to have a horse of his quality in our first year.”

Stable stalwart…

“Hard Walnut was our first winner – she’s now won twice and I wouldn’t be surprised if she won a couple more. She is a consistent performer and it’s very useful when gauging the two-year-olds’ work.”

There’s more to come from…

“I was thrilled to get The Art Of Racing this year – he was bought back at the Horses in Training Sale having been trained by Richard Hannon last year.

“He’s a very free-running horse and Harry Bentley did a terrific job to settle him behind horses when he finished second on his comeback run at Nottingham.

“I’m hoping he’ll get better as the year goes on and prove a useful sprint handicapper – he needs a fast pace and fast ground.”

One for later on…

“We have plenty of sharp, early two-year-olds but we wanted some runners for the backend and an unnamed Hurricane Run colt out of a Shirley Heights mare [bought for 28,000gns at Tattersalls in October] fits into that bracket.

“He’s very good looking but I’m waiting for his legs to grow so I’m not even thinking about working him yet. He has looked nice, however, and we’re taking care of him.”

Olly Stevens with classy miler Jacob Cats

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him. He wants a galloping course and will win plenty more races before the year is out.”

TOBY COLES

There’s more to come from…

“El Manati was a very smart two-year-old but she had a little problem after her disappointing comeback run at Leicester so we’ll bring her back in the summer. It could actually be a blessing as it’s very hard for three-year-old sprinters in the early part of the season. I’ve lost none of my faith in her.

“Regal Hawk is unbeaten in two races on the all-weather but she’s a turf filly and I’m looking forward to getting her on grass.”

One for later on…

EMMA BERRY

“I’ve got a lovely two-year-old filly (Cape Cross-Deveron) who is already pleasing me in her work. Her pedigree suggests she should start at seven furlongs but I may give her an outing over six furlongs, as she might be an Ascot filly.”

Toby Coles: trainer of Newmarket’s first juvenile winner for the past two years

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Age: 28 Based: The Far Yard, Phantom House, Newmarket Yearly winners (2010-2013): 2; 7; 5; 1* Horses in training: 20 Background: Worked for Christophe Clement in America and spent time with Murray Baker in New Zealand, later pupil assistant to Sir Mark Prescott and assistant to Ed Dunlop Toby Coles is improving the quality and size of his string having taken out his licence in 2010 at the tender age of 25.

Having sent out Newmarket’s first twoyear-old winner of 2012 with All On Red, Coles repeated the trick this year with Orton Park, subsequently purchased by Qatar Racing owner Sheikh Fahad AlThani.

His string is now hovering around the 20-mark and Coles, who moved to The Far Yard at Phantom House a year ago, is anticipating a good year.

Coles says: “On paper we’ve a good bunch of horses. Now they need to go and do it. I’d love to have around 35 horses but to do that I need to get results on the track.

“There are some fantastic owners in the

yard and if you’d have told me a year ago who I would be training for, I’d have laughed at you!

“My target is simply to do the best I can with the horses I’ve got. This is a numbers game but we’re moving in the right direction.”

Stable stalwart…

“Dear Maurice is nine now but he always runs to his mark and usually finishes in the first three. He helps the younger horses at home and is worth his weight in gold.”

There’s more to come from…

“Lycidas won his maiden well but then fractured his pelvis in a Group 3 race in Germany a year ago and hasn’t raced since. He’s been slightly plagued by injury problems but hopefully I’ll get him back on a racecourse in four or five weeks.”

One for later on…

“An unnamed two-year-old colt by Hernando out of Ryella is a lovely looking sort and showing me all the right signs at the moment. Considering his size he’s well forward.”

whose target is the Royal Hunt Cup

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BREEDERS’ DIGEST

By EMMA BERRY, Bloodstock Editor

Our bloodstock coverage this month includes:

• Sales Circuit: Records broken at the Craven Sale and Australia’s Easter Sale – pages 52-57 • Caulfield Files: National Assembly’s legacy at the Dubai World Cup meeting – pages 58-59

Prices suggest that timing is everything

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he major difference between domestic breeze-up sales and those in America is an absence of official timing on these shores. That doesn’t mean that the breezes aren’t timed.

Several high-tech Tag Heuer systems were in evidence at Newmarket and Kempton for the first two breeze-up auctions of the year, and many potential purchasers still hand-time with stopwatches. Indeed, Tattersalls even provides free stopwatches for those who wish to add further evidence to the visual impression of each galloper.

As discussed in last month’s breeze-up sales preview, there are of course plenty of factors to take into consideration when it comes to coaxing the best performance from each inexperienced two-year-old asked to work at speed in front of an audience in unfamiliar circumstances. Having the right rider on board is key, a factor which will have aided Friarstown Bloodstock’s first-night Craven success when it consigned the session’s two best-sellers. The man behind Friarstown is Flat jockey John Egan, who breezes his own charges and whose skill in the saddle is a huge attribute. His More Than Ready colt, which sold for 320,000gns, was widely believed to have been the fastest breezer at the sale.

Many vendors are not in favour of the idea of official times – while a fast time could guarantee a big return on investment, a slower breeze might mean no sale at all. Research shared with this magazine following the Craven Sale points to the fact that breezers whose times were in the fastest quartile sold on average for around three times more than those in the slowest quartile.

While the pricier lots have passed their sales test, one must not lose sight of the fact that these are potential racehorses and it is on the track where performance really counts. We’ll be following these sales graduates through their juvenile season and will provide more detailed analysis on their progress ahead of next season’s two-year-old sales.

For every buyer for whom the time of the breeze is an essential consideration, there’s another who will vouch that observing a horse’s action and attitude is more important and in

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addition to that will assess riding tactics and the potential long-term career of the horse in front of them – let’s face it, not every horse in an elite auction such as the Craven Sale is bred to be an early sprinter.

The sole turf breeze of the season to date benefited from decent conditions underfoot but horses had to contend with a strong crosswind on Newmarket Heath where the undulations can catch out even more seasoned gallopers. Consideration of the unique turf on which Tattersalls breezers are asked to perform is just one of the reasons why the company is yet to embrace official times for its two-year-old sales.

“From year to year we can experience fairly different going conditions and there can even be going changes within the breeze, as there were last year, when those breezing later were at a disadvantage in the soft ground,” says Tattersalls Marketing Director Jimmy George.

“I think on the whole European horsemen are wary of slavish adherence to the clock as it can encourage consignors to push horses at a young age to go as fast as they possibly can.

“There are different aspects of this topic to take into account but timing breezes is not

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something we would be looking to leap into.”

Whether or not official times are adopted for European sales, there’s no doubt that the major buying teams are already compiling their own data – along with regular considerations such as pedigree and vetting – in order to determine their bidding strategies.

Support from the grass roots British-bred two-year-olds of 2013, or those by a British-based sire, are the first to be eligible for the new BOBIS races. It has been heartening to hear so many breeze-up horses ushered into the ring as the auctioneer announces that they have been signed up for the scheme.

At the helm as BOBIS establishes its foothold in the industry is Amy Bennett, a familiar face to many though her former roles as a Racing Post bloodstock journalist and a member of the British Bloodstock Marketing team.

She says: “The first two breeze-up sales of the season have shown the level of support for the scheme and we’ve had a whole range of breeders signing up, from those with just one mare to big studs like Cheveley Park. We’ve been really encouraged by the numbers, especially considering the size of the foal crop in Britain has dropped in recent years.

“We’re happy with the model we’re running but we’re also listening to feedback from owners and breeders so the scheme can evolve over time.”

Also Newmarket-based and overseeing an important operation which benefits owners all over Europe is Kerry Murphy, who has been Chief Executive of the European Breeders’ Fund (EBF) since January following the retirement of Sam Sheppard.

Murphy, formerly the co-ordinator for the Racing Post Yearling Bonus Scheme, is enjoying the challenge of raising awareness of the EBF, the British wing of which has recently announced a contribution to the 2013 Flat turf season of £1 million (see news, pages 10-11).

“With the EBF having been established for 30 years and run superbly by Sam Sheppard it’s been a great opportunity for me to come in and see how we can freshen up our profile,” says Murphy. “I want to ensure people realise how the EBF is funded and the important contribution it makes to racing throughout the member countries.”

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SALES CIRCUIT

By EMMA BERRY and CARL EVANS

Quality colt sets strong pace Lynn Lodge Stud graduate creates new record price for the European breeze-ups

Tattersalls Craven Breeze-up Sale

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f Roy Castle and Norris McWhirter were still around they’d have featured the Tattersalls team on ‘Record Breakers’ on a number of occasions. The most recent landmark transaction at the Newmarket sales house was a new top price for a European breeze-up horse of 760,0000gns, given by Jamie McCalmont for a strong bay son of Elusive Quality at the Craven Sale. The 2006 version of the same auction had provided the previous record of 625,000gns for a Japanesebought son of Green Desert.

In the ring the colt out of the winning Miesque’s Son mare Gender Dance certainly looked the part but it is on the stretch of ground adjacent to Newmarket’s Rowley Mile that these horses really sell themselves and in that respect the colt described as “the complete package” by his vendor Eddie O’Leary did not disappoint when posting one of the fastest breezes of the session.

There’s been much debate in these pages and beyond as to the increasing importance of the times set by the two-year-olds in their breezes but the evidence points clearly to the fact that speed sells (see page 51).

The first day’s session-topper, a son of More Than Ready offered by John Egan’s Friarstown Bloodstock, was another to have the stopwatch operators in a frenzy and after bidding 320,000gns for the dark brown galloper who is to be trained in the UK, purchasing agent Anthony Stroud said: “According to our times, he did one of the fastest breezes of the day, if not the fastest.

More Than Ready is a good solid stallion and the horse vetted well.”

Like the record-breaking colt, the Friarstown offering had been pinhooked at Keeneland’s September Yearling Sale. He cost $90,000 as a yearling while the eventual Craven-topper was $120,000. As our tables on page 54 show, the offspring of American sires are still largely well received despite comments to the contrary regarding concerns over the country’s liberal raceday medication regulations.

Thirty-four two-year-olds sold for six-figure sums – a chunky 22% of the 155 lots offered – and though it wasn’t quite a case of all duck or no dinner, no sale can be regarded as a

He’s a record-breaker: the Elusive Quality colt sold for 760,000gns at Tattersalls

Tattersalls Craven Breeze-up Sale Top lots

Sex/Breeding

Vendor

Price (gns)

Buyer

C Elusive Quality-Gender Dance

Lynn Lodge Stud

760,000

McCalmont Bloodstock

C Dutch Art-Develyn

Mocklershill

320,000

Shadwell Estate Company

C More Than Ready-Mary Ellise

Friarstown Bloodstock

320,000

Anthony Stroud Bloodstock

C Invincible Spirit-Carrig Girl

Clenagh Castle Stud

300,000

Peter & Ross Doyle Bloodstock

C Arch-Touch Of Truth

Friarstown Bloodstock

270,000

Richard Frisby Bloodstock

C Oasis Dream-Evita

Malcolm Bastard

230,000

Blandford Bloodstock

C Invincible Spirit-Arbella

Mocklershill

230,000

David Redvers Bloodstock

C Royal Applause-Our Poppet

Bansha House Stables

215,000

Miko Racing & Trading Ltd

C Arch-Bourbon Ball

Oaks Farm Stables

210,000

David Redvers Bloodstock

C Invincible Spirit-Quad’s Melody

Grove Stud

210,000

Philip Robinson

Five-year tale Year

Catalogued

Offered

Sold

Agg (gns)

Avg (gns)

Mdn (gns)

2013

182

155

103

9,235,000

89,660

55,000

2012

183

150

117

8,578,000

73,716

57,000

2011

196

164

112

7,987,000

71,313

60,000

2010

166

139

96

7,656,500

79,755

70,000

2009

183

163

115

8,561,000

74,443

60,000

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John Egan breezes a colt by More Than Ready, later sold through his Friarstown Bloodstock for 320,000gns to Anthony Stroud

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An expensive lot during the first session was the Bansha House Stables-consigned Royal Applause half-brother to Overdose, the sprinter nicknamed The Budapest Bullet.

Overdose’s Hungarian owner Zoltan Mikoczy had travelled to the sale with the specific purpose of securing his star’s sibling and was forced to stretch to 215,000gns to ensure he wouldn’t go home empty-handed. He subsequently described the price tag as “horrible”, which it certainly is when set against the 2,000gns he had spent to obtain

Overdose at Tattersalls in 2006.

The colt, bred by Graham and Diane Robinson and sold through Whatton Manor Stud, where his dam Our Poppet resides, as a yearling for 35,000gns to Con Marnane, will now be trained in Budapest alongside his famous elder brother, now eight, in the stable of Jozef Roszival.

Gains of 8% for the sale’s aggregate and 22% for the average price were tempered by a slight reduction in the median, down by 2%, and a 15% drop in the clearance rate to 66%. >>

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complete success when a third of the horses offered fail to sell. This was acknowledged by Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony in his post-sale assessment.

He said: “While there have been so many positives to take from the sale, including the first purchases at Tattersalls by mainland Chinese buyers, it should also be recognised that the market has been selective at times. We would have liked to have seen a higher clearance rate, and economic realities understandably continue to play a part in this business.”

Following a strong yearling season in 2012 when a number of breeze-up consignors had expressed concerns that they were unable to have much of a say for the horses they were keen to acquire, there were however some notable pinhooking triumphs. Willie Browne displayed his magical abilities once again when turning a 10,000-guinea yearling son of Invincible Spirit into a 230,000-guinea two-year-old.

The colt’s purchaser David Redvers, who was accompanied at the sale by Pearl Bloodstock’s Sheikh Fahad Al-Thani, said: “How they managed to buy him last year for 10,000gns is a complete mystery. He’s a lovely horse and he breezed exceptionally well.

Congratulations to the best operators in the business.”

Emma O’Gorman and Armando Duarte of Seven Springs also turned a tidy profit on a Footstepsinthesand filly out of dual sprint winner La Caprice, who was knocked down for 190,000gns having been bought at Tattersalls Ireland’s September Yearling Sale for €17,000.

Oliver Gaisford St. Lawrence assisted Zoltan Mikoczy in buying Overdose’s sibling

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American shopping trips still bearing fruit The American sale rings have long been a happy hunting ground for breeze-up vendors and while US sires may have less of an influence in Europe these days, they certainly made a splash at the first two domestic two-year-old sales held at Newmarket and Kempton.

Most of the dearest US purchases turned up at the Tattersalls Craven Sale where the happiest vendor was Eddie O’Leary of Lynn Lodge Stud, who – even after expenses – cleared a profit of over £700,000 on the saletopping Elusive Quality colt who had been picked up at Keeneland in September for $120,000.

In all, 27 American-bought yearlings were

offered as two-year-olds at the Craven Sale and – factoring in £12,000 for shipping and preparation costs – he was one of 15 who showed a profit, among them six who cleared a surplus of over £50,000.

Meanwhile, nine failed to sell and three made a loss, reflecting the overall selective market in Newmarket.

With a median price of £20,000 at Goffs’ Kempton Sale, there was never going to be a huge margin for profit for those who had the additional cost of shipping horses from across the Atlantic and five sold as yearlings in the US turned up at the Sunbury venue.

Two English Channel colts, realising £33,000 and £35,000, showed marginal profits while

– of the remaining imports – one didn’t sell and two showed losses.

Consignors have long targeted a small band of US sires when buying yearlings to breeze and few are brave enough to bring over representatives of stallions yet to make their mark in Europe.

The likes of Elusive Quality, Arch and Speightstown (who sired breeze-up graduate Bapak Chinta to win the 2011 Norfolk States) are old favourites but juvenile Group success in Europe over the past couple of seasons for stallions like Exchange Rate, Hard Spun, Hat Trick and the now Irishbased Henrythenavigator have added them to the list of ‘in sires’ for consignors.

Goffs Kempton Breeze-up Sale Lots bought as yearlings in America Lot/Sex Breeding

Vendor

22 c

Gaybrook Lodge

English Channel-Raw Gold

Yearling Price (conversion)

2yo Price

Buyer

$30,000 (£19,600)

£33,000

Blandford BS

38 c

Hard Spun-Sindy Jacobson

Mocklershill

$60,000 (£39,200)

£15,000

Ron Harris

47 c

Henrythenavigator-Trulips

Rangefield BS

$35,000 (£22,900)

£25,000

Tom Morley

61 c

English Channel-Antahkarana

Katie Walsh

$30,000 (£19,600)

£35,000

Pat Flynn

70 c

Henrythenavigator-Clayton’s Lass

Oak Tree Farm

$60,000 (£39,200)

£20,000

Vendor

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Lot/Sex Breeding

Vendor

2c

Friarstown BS

Street Cry-Mama Nadine

Yearling Price (conversion)

2yo Price (conversion)

Buyer

$45,000 (£29,400)

48,000gns (£50,400)

Not Sold

4c

Elusive Quality-Mananiyya

Tally-Ho Stud

$95,000 (£62,000)

55,000gns (£57,750)

Robert Ng

5c

Awesome Again-Maria Elena

Knockanglass

$16,000 (£10,500)

28,000gns (£29,400)

Not Sold

6c

More Than Ready-Mary Ellise

Friarstown BS

$90,000 (£58,800)

320,000gns (£336,000)

A Stroud

23 c

Hard Spun-Ms Blue Blood

Knockanglass

$30,000 (£19,600)

38,000gns (£39,900)

Not Sold

28 c

War Front-Niceling

Kilminfoyle House

$50,000 (£32,700)

180,000gns (£189,000)

John McCormack

32 c

Henrythenavigator-Ometz

Rangefield BS

$75,000 (£45,700)

105,000gns (£110,250)

D Redvers

58 f

Bernardini-Saunter

Oak Tree Farm

$80,000 (£52,200)

46,000gns (£48,300)

Aran Bloodstock

63 c

Speightstown-Sinister Sister

Knockanglass

$42,000 (£27,400)

40,000gns (£42,000)

Robert Ng

64 c

Tapit-Smara

Oak Tree Farm

$95,000 (£62,000)

100,000gns (£105,000)

Oliver St Lawrence/Tregoning

68 f

Any Given Saturday-Steal The Thunder

Ballyhane

Cuadra Inguis SL

70 c

Malibu Moon-Summer Delight

Friarstown BS

75 f

Henrythenavigator-Tatou

Mocklershill

81 c

Candy Ride-Tight Spin

Knockanglass

82 c

Arch-Touch Of Truth

Friarstown BS

83 f

Elusive Quality-Unacloud

Tally-Ho

87 c

First Samurai-Willow

97 c

Candy Ride-Apt

121 c

$4,000 (£2,600)

34,000gns (£35,700)

$200,000 (£130,600)

150,000gns (£157,000)

Vendor

$37,000 (£24,200)

30,000gns (£31,600)

Vendor

$12,000 (£7,800)

45,000gns (£47,250)

D Redvers

$250,000 (£163,200)

270,000gns (£283,500)

R Frisby

$40,000 (£26,100)

80,000gns (£84,000)

Oliver St Lawrence

Point Brown Island

$22,000 (£14,400)

80,000gns (£84,000)

John/Sean Quinn

Mocklershill

$85,000 (£55,500)

50,000gns (£52,500)

Vendor

Exchange Rate-Colonaa Traiana

Brown Island

$37,000 (£24,200)

50,000gns (£52,500)

Charles Fox

131 f

Mr Greeley-Dive

Friarstown BS

$75,000 (£45,700)

68,000gns (£71,400)

Not Sold

135 c

Big Brown-Elbow

Mocklershill

$145,000 (£94,700)

72,000gns (£75,600)

Vendor

148 c

Elusive Quality-Gender Dance

Lynn Lodge

$120,000 (£78,400)

760,000gns (£798,000)

McCalmont BS

157c

Henrythenavigator-Ing Ing

Lynn Lodge

$60,000 (£39,200)

65,000gns (£68,250)

Middleham Park Racing

166 c

First Samurai-Keep On Burnin

Knockanglass

$15,000 (£9,800)

62,000gns (£65,100)

Blandford BS

169 c

Giant’s Causeway-Kissed By A Star

Lynn Lodge

$45,000 (£29,400)

25,000gns (£26,250)

Stan Moore

173 f

Dynaformer-Lantern Glow

Brown Island

$12,000 (£7,800)

60,000gns (£63,000)

Blandford

176 c

Hard Spun-Layounne

Tally-Ho

$60,000 (£39,200)

38,000gns (£39,900)

Not Sold

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Goffs Kempton Breeze-up Sale

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Now settled into a late March slot, this oneday breeze-up on Kempton’s Polytrack surface is holding steady, but now seeks to improve the quality of stock on offer.

That is the goal for Goffs’ Group Chief Executive Henry Beeby, who remains convinced a morning spin on the all-weather followed by a lunch break and then sale in the grandstand restaurant is a format that works well. True to a point, but being three storeys above the horse under the hammer – who is circling in the paddock below – is not quite the same as seeing it in the flesh, and a long, thin sales room fails to generate the atmosphere of a circular one.

David Redvers setting up timing equipment ahead of Goffs’ Kempton breeze-up

Goffs’ Kempton Breeze-up Sale Top lots

Sex/Breeding

Vendor

C Intense Focus-Runway Dancer

Grove Stud

Price (£)

Buyer

70,000

Hillen & Ryan Hillen & Ryan

Church Farm Stables

70,000

Kilminfoyle House Stud

60,000

Pat Flynn

C Kodiac-Woodren

Oak Tree Farm

54,000

Anne Cowley

C Verglas-Bashful Clenagh

Castle Stud

50,000

Peter Hickey/Gay Kelleway

C Arch-Doryphar

Kilminfoyle House Stud

50,000

Andrew Balding

Seamus Durack, right, will train a Kodiac colt from the Goffs sale for Anne Cowley

C Kodiac-Church Mice

Mocklershill

43,000

G L Moore

C Acclamation-Rock Exhibition

Bansha House

42,000

David Elsworth

C Henrythenavigator-Pete's Fancy

Lynn Lodge Stud

40,000

Arturo San Jose

Despite these minor details the expected vendors and buyers were present and witnessed two colts top proceedings at £70,000 – which tends to bear out Beeby’s quest for better pedigrees. A drop in sales to 73% led to a fall in turnover of 21%, but the average and median rose by 2.3% and 11% respectively.

Colts by first-crop sire Intense Focus and Holy Roman Emperor had the honour of the leading slot after both were signed for by agent Stephen Hillen and Yorkshire trainer Kevin Ryan.

C Manduro-Precious Citizen

Knockanglass Stables

40,000

Jo Hughes

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C Holy Roman Emperor-Catherine Palace C Exceed And Excel-Anse Victorin

Five-year tale Year

Sold

Agg (£)

Avg (£)

Mdn (£)

Top Price (£)

2013

62

1,492,000

24,064

20,000

70,000

2012

77

1,795,000

23,311

18,000

80,000

2011

65

1,600,500

24,623

20,000

130,000

2010

57

895,500

15,710

12,000

55,000

2009

43

721,100

16,769

12,000

58,000

A trio of USA-based Irishmen dominated the leader board at this one-day breeze-up sale which saw a percentage rise in all the figures.

A top price of $700,000 was achieved when John McCormack brought the hammer down on an Unbridled’s Song filly whose half-sister, Eden’s Moon, won last year’s Grade 1 Las Virgenes Stakes and Grade 2 San Clemente Handicap. The agent could not publicly divulge details of the filly’s new owner or training plans, but that did not matter to another Irishman, Ciaran Dunne, who with his wife Amy runs Florida-based >> This Holy Roman Emperor colt shared top billing at Kempton when selling for £70,000 THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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SALES CIRCUIT >> Wavertree Stables. It sold four of the top five

lots and became leading consignor for the second year, selling 19 horses for $4,445,000.

The Dunnes opened their Ocala operation in 1995, although their success today stems from his father’s position as gardener at the Irish National Stud. That opened the door to a place on a stud management course run within its corridors, and Dunne has barely looked back since.

His Ocala neighbour and fellow Irishman Eddie Woods made it a good day for expatriates when selling the second-highest lot, a colt by Arch out of the Mr Prospector mare Falling Springs. He made $535,000 to a bid from agent Steven Young.

Keeneland traded 59 horses during the session for $11,640,000, up 19% compared to 2012 from the same number of horses sold.

The average of $197,288 increased 19%, while the median of $150,000 rose 25%.

DBS Newbury March Sale Small and select, this Saturday evening sale at Newbury racecourse defied the weather even though racing at the venue was abandoned soon after daylight due to a covering of snow on the track.

Despite these trying conditions and the lack of racecourse action a healthy number of trainers or their bloodstock-buying representatives turned out, encouraged by a catalogue that was 50% bigger than in 2012 (34 compared to 21 the previous year). Peter Bowen had travelled from West Wales to offer Kian’s Delight and Grand National entry Mumbles Head – he sold both to new owners to stay in his yard – while his Welsh counterpart, Evan Williams, made the shorter trip from near Cardiff to gain the top lot. This was Irish pointing winner Padge, who failed to sell in the ring, but was bought minutes later by racehorse owners William and Angela Rucker for £160,000.

They recouped that and some when the Williams-trained Cappa Bleu finished runnerup in the subsequent John Smith’s Grand National.

Now in its third year, the sale is gradually achieving a better clearance rate, turnover rose in line with the bigger catalogue, and while the average fell by 22%, the median rose by 10%.

Brightwells Cheltenham April NH Sale Some notable highs, but slight falls in the figures, marked this, Brightwells’ premier bloodstock sale at Cheltenham.

Dominated by young, lightly-raced Irish point-to-pointers, the event nonetheless raised a new record price for a British pointer

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Keeneland April 2yos In Training Sale Top lots

Sex/Breeding

Vendor

F Unbridled's Song-Eden's Causeway

Wavertree Stables

Price ($)

Buyer

700,000

John McCormack Bloodstock

C Arch-Falling Springs

Eddie Woods

535,000

Steven Young

C Bernardini-Jaramar Rain

Wavertree Stables

500,000

Mike Repole/Todd Pletcher

C Stormy Atlantic-Forest Lady

Wavertree Stables

400,000

Robert Hess Jr

F Bernardini-Motivated Sreva

Wavertree Stables

390,000

Patrice Miller/EQB

C Bernardini-Sweet Arizona

Niall Brennan Stables

390,000

Reddam Racing

F Broken Vow-Kootenai

Wavertree Stables

375,000

Green Hills Farm

C Street Sense-Lightfoot Lane

Murray Smith

360,000

Mike McCarty

F Unbridled's Song-Queen of Money

The Kindergarten Farm

350,000

Lane Seliger as Baumann Stables

Five-year tale Year

Sold

Agg ($)

Avg ($)

Mdn ($)

Top Price ($)

2013

59

11,640,000

197,288

150,000

700,000

2012

59

9,754,000

165,322

120,000

700,000

2011

70

11,564,000

165,200

130,000

625,000

2010

71

12,013,000

169,197

135,000

625,000

2009

31

6,885,000

222,097

120,000

1,900,000

DBS Newbury March Sale Top lots

Sex/Breeding

Vendor

Price (£)

Buyer

Padge (Flemensfirth- Mona Vic)

Monbeg Stables

160,000

Evan Williams

Hills Of Dubai (Dubai Destination-Mowazana)

Glenview Stables

100,000

Donald McCain

Howlongisafoot (Beneficial-Miss Vic)

Monbeg Stables

75,000

Highflyer Bloodstock

A Hare Breath (Alkaadhem-Lady Willmurt)

Ballycurragh Stud

70,000

Nick Gifford

Kian's Delight (Whipper-Desert Royalty)

Yet-Y-Rhug Stables

70,000

Owen/Fullager

Regal Diamond (Vinnie Roe-Paper Money)

D Smith

70,000

Owen/Fullager

Scolboaqueen (Lahib-Ladyrosaro)

Mrs D. Arthur

50,000

Highflyer Bloodstock

Mortlestown (Milan-Pima)

Nicholastown Stables

50,000

G H Bloodstock

Makethedifference (Shantou-La Panthere)

Drummona House Stables

50,000

Eoin Griffin

Comparative figures Year

Sold

Agg (£)

Avg (£)

Mdn (£)

Top Price (€)

2013

21

1,073,000

51,095

44,000

160,000

2012

12

751,000

62,583

40,000

220,000

2011

14

900,000

64,285

40,500

155,000

Brightwells Cheltenham April NH Sale Top lots

Sex/Name

Vendor

G On Blueberry Hill

Camas Park Stud

Price (£)

Buyer

250,000

Aiden Murphy

G Midnight Thunder

Meadowview Stables

215,000

Malone/Tizzard

M Legacy Gold

Newlands Farm

210,000

Rober Brookhouse

G Flemenson

Michael Ahern

190,000

Jonjo O’Neill

G Vazaro Delafayette

Cottage Field Stables

160,000

Bryan Drew

G Milan Bound

T J Nagle

145,000

Frank Berry

G Champagne Splash

Knockanglass Stables

125,000

Kirk/Mullins

G Champagne At Tara

Magee & Considine

110,000

Frank Berry

Five-year tale Year

Sold

Agg (£)

Avg (£)

Top Price (£)

2013

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3,702,500

64,956

250,000

2012

55

3,810,500

69,282

310,000

2011

59

3,555,000

63,482

250,000

2010

49

2,507,500

51,173

260,000

2009

45

1,829,500

42,546

200,000

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when the Tom Lacey-trained Vazaro Delafayette, a four-year-old with a single runand-win record, was knocked down for £160,000 to David Pipe’s client Bryan Drew.

He and top lot On Blueberry Hill, who made £250,000 when selling to agent Aiden Murphy, were store graduates from Tattersalls’ Ireland’s Derby Sale in June last year.

On Blueberry Hill, who will race for a syndicate of owners with trainer Paul Nicholls, was consigned by Camas Park Stud’s Timmy Hyde having recently won a Fairyhouse bumper. Another notable sale centred on Legacy Gold, who boasted three straight bumper wins for trainer Stuart Crawford, including a Listed race at Aintree.

She made £210,000 to a bid from racehorse owner Roger Brookhouse, narrowly missing Brightwells’ best price for a mare in training, that of £220,000 for Rhacophorus, who in 2006 won the same Aintree bumper.

Brightwells’ successes at the home of jump racing has made it a popular venue for vendors, and the 2012 staging of this sale produced tremendous figures that could not quite be matched 12 months later. Several traders felt the bigger catalogue was a retrograde step for a select sale that follows an important afternoon’s racing at the track.

The clearance rate dropped to 64% as 57 of the 88 horses offered found new homes, while turnover and average figures were slightly down.

Inglis Easter Yearling Sale A half-brother to superstar Black Caviar who made A$5 million and the emergence of Chinese buyers shopping in public were highlights from a very strong Inglis Easter Yearling Sale held in Sydney.

A large contingent of European buyers also featured and helped push turnover past A$84m, but the name of China Horse Club on the buyers’ list was a breakthrough moment. Chinese interests are said to have been tinkering at the edges covertly, but this was the first time the world’s most populated country has invested openly, albeit doing so in conjunction with established racing concerns such as Coolmore.

John Warren, who with Coolmore’s Tom Magnier acted as advisor to the Chinese, was making his third consecutive visit to the event. Reflecting on trade, Warren said: “Sheikh Hamdan hadn’t bought at the sale for a year or two and he contributed more than A$8m to the pot. That was significant in the aggregate figure, but regardless of that there was a magnificent collection of horses on offer and an unsually high number of very correct, imposing individuals who matched up to their pedigrees.”

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Black Caviar’s half-brother, the most expensive yearling ever auctioned in Australia

with Sheikh Mohammed and is now creating a racecourse in Tianjin, explained Warren, who added: “They are now signing up a ‘lifestyle’ group of people to develop knowledge and interest in racing, to race horses internationally in partnerships, and hopefully to race horses back in China one day. We bought three for them and were underbidder on several expensive horses.”

Heading the sale was a colt by Redoute’s Choice out of the mare Helsinge, whose most celebrated offspring is Black Caviar. A few days after her half-brother had gone through the ring she recorded her 25th win in the TJ Smith Stakes and was subsequently retired.

Yearlings by Helsinge have topped this particular sale three years in a row, making her a colossal money-spinner for owner Rick Jamieson’s Gilgai Farm. Jamieson looked on

as BC3 Thoroughbreds, which had purchased the colt’s sister, Belle Couture, for A$2,600,000 at the Easter Sale 12 months ago, brought the hammer down.

Satisfyingly for Inglis, this event was about more than one horse, as more than A$90,000,000 was spent during three days on Australia and New Zealand’s best yearlings, with the sale average and median up 32% and 25% respectively on corresponding figures from 12 months earlier.

Shadwell Australia, represented by Angus Gold, finished as the leading buyer of 21 yearlings for A$8,270,000, while Coolmore Stud finished at the top of the vendors’ list by aggregate having sold 33 yearlings for A$9,645,000 in session one. Outside of Redoute’s Choice and Fastnet Rock only one other sire, Snitzel, got onto the top-ten list.

Inglis Easter Yearling Sale Top lots Sex/Breeding

Vendor

Price (A$)

Buyer

C Redoute's Choice-Helsinge

Three Bridges T’breds

5,000,000

BC3 Thoroughbreds

C Fastnet Rock-River Dove

Cressfield

4,000,000

Emirates Park Pty Ltd

C Fastnet Rock-Gold Anthem

Tyreel Stud

2,400,000

J Warren for Coolmore/China Horse Club

F Fastnet Rock-Mani Bhavan

Kia-Ora Stud

1,550,000

James Bester Bloodstock

C Fastnet Rock-Dream Play

Kia-Ora Stud

1,500,000

T Magnier for Coolmore/China Horse Club

C Redoute's Choice-Scandinavia

Eliza Park

1,200,000

James Bester Bloodstock

C Snitzel-La Bamba

Arrowfield Stud

1,000,000

James Harron Bloodstock

F Fastnet Rock-Park Esteem

Cressfield

1,000,000

Moody Racing Pty Ltd

F Redoute's Choice-Star Satire

Cressfield

1,000,000

John Warren

F Redoute's Choice-Vormista

Kitchwin Hills

900,000

James Harron Bloodstock

C Fastnet Rock-Hips Don't Lie

Coolmore Stud

900,000

Mark Kavanagh Racing Stables

Comparative figures Year

Sold

Agg (A$)

Avg (A$)

Mdn (A$)

Top Price (A$)

2013

290

84,444,090

291,187

200,000

5,000,000

2012

330

72,825,000

220,682

160,000

2,600,000

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CAULFIELD FILES ANDREW CAULFIELD REPORTS ON THE BLOODSTOCK WORLD

Blood will out

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A son and grandson of the unraced but well-bred National Assembly shine on Dubai World Cup day

National Emblem’s Al Quoz Sprint hero Shea Shea, so good they named him twice

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he mammoth books covered by so many of today’s stallions have several disadvantages, not least the fact that they tend to prevent a wider range of stallions being given a chance to prove themselves. The likes of Alzao, Fairy King and Night Shift still all rank among the top 30 on Weatherbys’ list of leading sires in order of cumulative earnings, yet Alzao won nothing more important than a Group 3 in Italy, Fairy King ran only once and Night Shift won only one of his seven starts.

However, these three all had very strong pedigrees. Alzao was by Lyphard out of a Group-winning half-sister to the top American colt Tom Rolfe; Fairy King, of course, was a brother to Sadler’s Wells; and Night Shift was a brother to the champion filly Fanfreluche.

Needless to say, their bloodlines proved more important than their performances and between them they sired getting on for 40 Group 1 winners, including winners of the Derby, Oaks, Arc and King George.

The lists of champion stallions in New Zealand and South Africa contain numerous other impeccably bred horses who shook off their comparatively unimpressive racing careers. New Zealand’s imported champions included Noble Bijou, an unraced half-brother to Allez France by the great Vaguely Noble, and

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Mellay, an unraced son of the winners of five British Classics.

The South African list includes Northern Guest, with this unraced brother to El Gran Senor and Try My Best becoming another example of the Northern Dancer magic.

Danzig’s unraced son National Assembly never quite made it to the top of South Africa’s general sires’ list, but he finished as high as second and was rarely out of the top half dozen. As befits a son of Danzig, he also became champion sire of two-year-olds on several occasions.

You can get some idea of the power of National Assembly’s pedigree from his yearling price of $2,500,000 at Saratoga in the heady days of 1985. His third dam was Grey Flight, who, together with her champion daughter Misty Morn, enjoyed a remarkably successful partnership with Bold Ruler. This cross produced the champion American stallion What A Pleasure, plus the champion racehorses Bold Lad (USA) and Successor.

National Assembly’s dam Renounce was out of What A Pleasure’s smart sister Bold Princess, which made her a half-sister to the high-class American turf horse Intrepid Hero and to Sovereign Dancer, yet another Northern Dancer colt whose stallion career outshone a

less-than-inspiring racing career. National Assembly went into training with Vincent O’Brien, but never had the chance of adding to his family’s illustrious history.

National Assembly’s merit was perfectly demonstrated at Meydan on Dubai World Cup day. Soft Falling Rain, a colt who was conceived when National Assembly was a veteran of 24, improved his record to seven wins from seven starts when he defied being the youngest in the field to win the Godolphin Mile. Nearly two hours later it was the turn of another of National Assembly’s sons to shine.

This time it was National Emblem, a champion older horse in South Africa who sired Shea Shea, winner of the Al Quoz Sprint. Shea Shea now has the King’s Stand Stakes on his agenda.

Sadly, National Emblem is no longer around to capitalise on Shea Shea’s success, as this Klawervlei Stud stallion died of colic early in 2013, at the age of 21.

National Emblem’s 15 victories from the ages of two to five were gained at up to a mile and a quarter, so Shea Shea’s connections can’t be blamed for trying him over a mile earlier in his career. However, another of National Emblem’s best sons, Nhlavini, was a dual winner of the Cape Flying Championship over five furlongs. Also, Shea Shea’s broodmare sire, the Blushing Groom horse Jallad, gained his Group successes over six and seven furlongs.

Sprinting is also what Shea Shea does best.

Blushing Groom also appears in the pedigree of Soft Falling Rain, but in the fifth generation. Sheikh Hamdan’s admirable colt may have been conceived and foaled in South Africa, but his pedigree is essentially American.

His dam Gardener’s Delight was bought by Gainesway for $250,000 as a yearling at Keeneland in 2004. With Giant’s Causeway as her sire and a Seattle Slew mare as her dam, Gardener’s Delight is bred to the same pattern as Eskendereya, who looked like a champion in the making when he won the Fountain of Youth Stakes and Wood Memorial over nine furlongs in 2010. Although Gardener’s Delight never raced, she could have been expected to stay a mile and a quarter as both her parents scored over that distance.

Gainesway was owned by the late Graham Beck, a South African who transferred Gardener’s Delight to his Highlands Farm, which numbers Main Aim and Pathfork among its stallions.

It will be fascinating to see what Highlands Farm achieves with its very well-connected stallion Great Britain, a Listed winner in Dubai and brother to Cape Cross who was rated 118

by Timeform. Once upon a time, when stallions’ books were smaller, some brave Irish breeder would probably have taken a chance on this son of sire of sires Green Desert.

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Speightstown’s appeal an exception to rule during the first eight months of his second season. Unfortunately further problems then arose. Off the track for 21 months, Speightstown returned to make two starts in May 2003, only to be sidelined again until the end of March 2004. He then more than made up for lost time by winning five of his six starts, including four graded stakes.

You wouldn’t have expected a patchy record like this to endear Speightstown to Europeans, but Speightstown is very good looking and can sire imposing yearlings. He was helped considerably when one of his first-crop runners in Britain turned out to be Lord Shanakill, winner of the Mill Reef Stakes before finishing second in the Dewhurst. This tough colt went on to Group 1 success at three, when he landed the Prix Jean Prat. Last year the WinStar stallion had no fewer than 31 runners in Britain and Ireland, but his 13 winners didn’t include Bapak Chinta, who was unable to reproduce the form that had won him the Norfolk Stakes in 2011.

Although Speightstown’s Anglo-Irish results were unexceptional in 2012 (with an average earnings index of 0.79), it has been a very different story elsewhere. His talent was demonstrated on Dubai World Cup day

by Reynaldothewizard, who has improved with age and gained his finest victory in the

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When John Gosden was asked to comment on the Breeders’ Cup’s turnaround on banning Lasix, he said: “There’s no doubt medication weakens the breed. It has to be looked at from the point of view of the American thoroughbred. There’s no doubt we’re finding them increasingly unsound and not the tough horses they used to be.”

Last year’s champion trainer is by no means the only person thinking along these lines, and there aren’t too many American stallions with European appeal.

Oddly enough, one exception to the rule is Speightstown, a champion sprinter whose career was seriously interrupted by soundness issues. Eugene Melnyk, who paid $2 million for the son of Gone West as a yearling, made some interesting comments after Speightstown’s victory in the 2004 Breeders’ Cup Sprint (in which, incidentally, all 13 runners competed on Lasix).

He said: “I learned a lot with the experience with Speightstown, and what I learned is not to push a horse when he is not ready. We really believed that he was ready as a two-year-old and we pushed a little bit, and finally nature took its course and said, ‘Forget about it, pack it in’ and we did that.”

After making just a single start at two, Speightstown won four of his seven starts

Lord Shanakill helped sire’s UK cause

Group 1 Dubai Golden Shaheen.

A striking aspect of his Meydan success is that it made him the fifth Group/Grade 1 winner to emerge from the 99 named foals in Speightstown’s first crop, which contains three other graded winners, including the speedy American colt Munnings.

Several of these winners are now themselves at stud, with Haynesfield, Jersey Town and Munnings in Kentucky, and Lord Shanakill in Ireland.

Speightstown also has Grade 1 winners Poseidon’s Warrior and Golden Ticket in his third and fourth crops. It will be interesting to see whether his future European runners can come close to matching the success of their American counterparts.

Exactly how big has the divide become between the North American industry and British and Irish racing, I wondered recently? I thought it might be revealing to look at the 11 Kentucky stallions who this year command fees of $70,000 or more. I expected the Darley USA residents would have been substantially represented during 2012 and this proved to be the case for Street Cry, with 80 Anglo-Irish runners, but the younger Bernardini and Medaglia D’Oro lagged behind with 20 and 19.

The tried-and-tested Giant’s Causeway, with his Coolmore connection, had a sizeable 2012 representation, with 47 runners. Distorted Humor, with two European Group 1 winners to his credit, had only 19 representatives, while Smart Strike, who has had Group winners in Britain, Ireland and France, had 13.

Some of the others showed just how hard it can be to overcome the catch-22 situation whereby breeders and buyers are reluctant to give a stallion a chance until he has proved himself in Europe. And of course that can’t THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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How well represented are American sires over here?

Lines Of Battle, left, a son of War Front

happen until they have sufficient runners. The excellent Tapit (fee now $125,000) had only five runners in Britain and Ireland, and so did War Front, whose fee is up to $80,000.

Awesome Again, with dirt the preferred surface of most of his best winners, had only three – the same figure as Tiznow, another very American stallion.

That leaves Malibu Moon, who like Bernardini is a son of AP Indy, the retired champion sire whose only Group successes in Europe were the Group 3 victories of Mingun and Admiral’s Cruise. The highly progressive Malibu Moon doesn’t even make it into the 2012 Statistic Record annual.

I suspect the one to keep an eye on is Danzig’s son War Front, whose cumulative total of eight runners in Britain and Ireland includes Declaration Of War, Lines Of Battle and Warning Flag (a Group-placed two-year-old winner in Ireland in 2010 who has since done well under the name of Sweet Orange in Hong Kong). Interestingly, all three of these good winners have form on turf and all-weather.

Hard Spun, another of Danzig’s higherpriced sons, stands at $60,000. Thanks to his Darley connection, he had 31 runners over here in 2012. But will Europe be the destination for as many of his progeny now that his best daughter, the ex-English Questing, showed much better form on dirt in the USA?

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ROA FORUM The special section for ROA members

Taking note of inside information case Richard Wayman on the implications of the recent findings of the BHA Disciplinary Panel There has been plenty of recent press coverage about former owner James Babbs, who was disqualified for four years by the BHA’s Disciplinary Panel having been found in breach of the inside information rules.

The details of the case, which also resulted in his colleague John Celaschi receiving a fouryear ban, are posted on the BHA website. It centred around three races from 2010. In summary, Mr Babbs was found in breach on two counts of assisting Mr Celaschi to benefit from laying horses co-owned by Mr Babbs, and on one count of laying his own horse.

The panel’s conclusion stated: “As an owner, Mr Babbs was required to observe certain strictures regarding the information he received as a result of his position as an owner… [this information] enabled him to make an informed choice as to whether to back his horse in a particular race – it put him in a better position than the general public. It is one of the privileges of ownership to receive such information… it was open to Mr Babbs to share this information with Mr Celaschi as long as there was no payment or benefit in kind

received from him in return and the information was not put to a corrupt or fraudulent use. What it was not permissible for was for Mr Babbs to provide this information to Mr Celaschi knowing Mr Celaschi would use the information on Betfair to lay his horses.”

Mr Babbs, who is not an ROA member, and Mr Celaschi are currently appealing against their bans. The panel’s findings, however, highlight a couple of implications that it is worth bringing to the attention of all owners.

“Guilt can be inferred; the BHA may prove its case on a balance of probability”

Firstly, an owner can be found in breach of rules even if the BHA cannot prove exactly who said what to whom and what benefits, if any, were transferred between the parties involved. Guilt can be inferred in these cases from a pattern of conduct, communication, betting activity and the associated timing of all relevant events. The BHA has to prove its case

only on a balance of probability, which means that the panel could assume guilt if the pattern of activity makes it, in their view, more likely than not that there was a transfer for illicit purposes.

Secondly, there can be a breach of the inside information rules even if, as in this case, there is no suggestion that the horses involved did not run on their merits. What makes the use of information fraudulent is if it gives the ultimate user of information an unfair advantage in the betting market. Moreover, this information may not even be factual but simply that the trainer has a negative opinion about a horse’s chances.

That said, it appears that the BHA will pursue an individual only if fraudulent intent can be inferred from the pattern of their activity, with inside information cases invariably involving a detailed audit trail of communication considered alongside when lay bets were made in relation to phone calls and text messages. If such records exist and create a strong impression that something dishonest is going on, dishonesty may be inferred, rather than proved beyond reasonable doubt.

We eagerly await the findings of Mr Babbs’s appeal, but caution has to remain the owner’s watchword.

Champagne reception and lunch at June’s AGM All members are actively encouraged to attend the ROA AGM, which will be held on Tuesday, June 25 at the Jumeirah Carlton Tower Hotel, in Knightsbridge, London, starting at 10.15am.

The AGM gives members the opportunity to be updated on ownership issues, and members can pose questions to the Council – including ROA President Rachel Hood – in an owners’ forum. It will feature keynote speeches on industry matters and the results of the ROA Council elections will be announced.

At the time of writing, six candidates have put themselves forward to stand for the two available places in the election. The candidates are Dan Abraham (Surrey), Sally Bethell (North Yorkshire), John Brown (Cumbria), Charlie Parker (Berkshire), Alex Ridgers (Berkshire) and David Silk (Hertfordshire).

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Candidate profiles and manifestos will be mailed out to all members with a voting card.

We would urge members to cast their vote, to help ensure that the ROA Council represents and serves the membership as effectively as possible.

The results of the ROA Council election will be announced at the AGM. Members are also encouraged to book for the champagne reception and members and guests lunch, which will follow the morning session.

Members can book places for the lunch online at racehorseowners.net or by contacting the office on 020 7152 0200.

Tickets are £90 per person and tables of ten are available at a discounted rate of £810.

Special resolutions An ROA Extraordinary General Meeting was held in London on March 26. The purpose of the meeting was to approve 22 special

Rachel Hood: member of AGM panel

resolutions. There were 153 proxy forms received and all the resolutions were passed.

The revised Articles of Association appear on the ROA website.

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Get online to find out all the latest news, views and events Members are encouraged to take a look at racehorseowners.net, where some significant changes have taken place, making it a more user-friendly and valuable ownership resource.

The new rotating banner on the homepage directs users toward the latest ROA events whilst also relaying any important updates relating to general ownership and membership.

The main homepage is also the place to keep up to date with the latest racing news and to find out about the work of the ROA. A library of resources is available for owners to browse and download useful documents.

Examples of such documents that are available

online include: the new ROA/NTF Training Agreement, racehorse owners’ VAT and sponsorship guidelines, prize-money statistics and BHA minimum race values.

Members also have special access to the Members’ Area, which also benefits from a new streamlined design as well as a rotating banner directing users towards latest offers, discounts and exclusive new benefits.

From the members’ homepage users can view and edit their own unique Member Profile. They can also apply for benefits such as the owners’ car park label and the SIS ownersponsorship scheme, and upload a photo for

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The revamped ROA website is more user-friendly

use on their Horseracing Privilege Photocard.

By utilising the website in this way members can reduce postage times and manage their memberships more efficiently.

Another feature that can be found behind the membership barrier is the ROA Members’ Weekly News Digest. Updated every Monday, the Digest brings together all of the past week’s news stories which may be of particular interest to racehorse owners. Stories range from prizemoney updates or racecourse developments, to quirky tales about certain well-known racehorses and their owners.

The website and Members’ Area is updated regularly, and any new features, offers and competitions are circulated to members via the email bulletins service. To sign up to this service please email ebulletins@roa.co.uk stating your name, membership number and email address.

Glorious hospitality and entrance offers at Goodwood Goodwood racecourse is repeating a substantially discounted hospitality offer to ROA members for each of the five days of Glorious Goodwood, July 30-August 3.

The bespoke package comprises a Richmond Enclosure badge, a reserved grandstand seat, a three-course lunch in the Horsewalk Restaurant located in the Charlton Stand, afternoon tea, a racecard and Racing Post, plus valet parking. The package is priced at £158 per person per day.

Bookings will be limited to a maximum of six places per booking. Places are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Bookings will close on May 31, but we anticipate selling out early.

ROA members can also enjoy a special service whereby badges can be booked through the ROA for the Richmond Enclosure for Glorious Goodwood.

The Richmond Enclosure is otherwise restricted on each of the five days of the

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Frankel starred at Goodwood last year – who will take his Sussex Stakes crown?

meeting to annual members and owners with a runner at the meeting.

Daily badges are priced at £72 per person for orders placed by June 1 and will increase

to £82 per day thereafter.

For further details and to take up either of these offers see racehorseowners.net or call 020 7152 0200.

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Over recent months the racing world has taken great interest in following Kauto Star’s transition from steeplechaser to dressage horse, in the care of event rider Laura Collett.

This example of a racehorse changing career after retirement is not unusual and is something that owners may consider when their horse’s racing career ends.

There will always be a number of factors that may influence the options available for an individual horse and the following guidance may be helpful for owners in this position.

The questions you need to ask An owner should ask themselves, ideally with input from their trainer, whether their horse is physically sound and whether it has a temperament suitable for a future career outside racing.

Thoroughbreds are versatile and intelligent and respond very well to retraining by a competent person. They need experienced care and attention, and after a racing career that has involved regular routine and exercise, to leave a horse in a field is not necessarily in the best interests of the horse and may lead to boredom and temperament problems.

Provided the horse is sound and has a good temperament, it is likely that it can be reschooled for another career, either as a riding horse, for eventing, dressage, showjumping, showing or polo, and have a well cared for life after racing.

With the right retraining, ex-

Kauto Star is now excelling in the field of dressage

racehorses can go on to successful second careers. Horses are often re-homed via a recommendation from their trainer or staff member, who have an in-depth knowledge of the horse’s physical soundness and temperament. Different disciplines require different attributes and a horse’s trainer is often best placed to guide an owner as to its suitability as a sport horse.

Retraining of Racehorses (RoR) is the racing industry’s official charity dedicated to the welfare of former racehorses. The charity’s website, www.ror.org.uk, has a wealth of information for owners and prospective owners wishing to take on a retired racehorse.

RoR supports four charitable rehabilitation centres around the country. These are Greatwood, HEROS (Homing Ex-Racehorses Organisation Scheme), Moorcroft Racehorse Welfare Centre and the Thoroughbred Rehabilitation Centre. While capacity is limited, the centres do an excellent job of providing a safety net for ex-racehorses who need charitable intervention. They also take in horses for retraining and rehoming.

Sheila Bailey, ROA Council member and the ROA’s representative on RoR’s Board of Trustees, said: “RoR is delighted to support the four centres. In the last financial year we donated £390,000 to them in core funding. This represents our largest charitable expenditure, followed closely by our educational programme, which offers advice and clinics to new owners so that horse and rider can maximise the fun and pleasure they get from their new partnership.

“We also run competition classes and series in a number of disciplines; in the past five years the number of horses entered in the RoR series has increased from 553 to 4,222, which demonstrates just how successful ex-racehorses can be in their new lives.”

There are a number of professional ‘retrainers’ who can take on horses for a preliminary assessment and retraining, and owners who want to influence their horse’s

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Is your racehorse ready for a change of career?

Sheila Bailey: supporting charity work

future might consider arranging for retraining before they pass their horses on.

Get it down in writing An owner should give or sell their horse only to a responsible person. If they are not known to you, ask for a written reference from a vet or someone else you trust. Sometimes a horse can be sold or given away in good faith, but the new owner’s circumstances may change, or they may decide to sell. To avoid such a situation, an owner may consider drafting a sale contract.

This can give a seller a right of refusal on any future sale, but it should be borne in mind that such a clause might be difficult to enforce.

Check that the new owner has public liability insurance, to minimise the risk of any claim for liability reverting to you. Likewise you might recommend veterinary insurance cover is in place for the horse. RoR can give advice on competitive insurance providers.

An owner might like to suggest their horse’s new owner registers the horse with RoR to have access to workshops and regional clinics, and the sport horse series where ex-racehorses can win prizes. There is also a comprehensive training DVD available featuring Yogi Breisner and Tina Cook, and RoR offers free advice for any problems encountered by new owners.

Owners can ask for feedback on their horse’s progress and perhaps arrange a visit after three months to check the horse’s health and welfare, and/or ask for a photograph to be sent.

Owners who want to prevent their horse from racing under rules again can register a Non-Racing Agreement with Weatherbys.

Registration is free and forms can be obtained from trainers or by users of racingadmin.co.uk.

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Racing Foundation pays out £228,000

Sixty Something won a Sunday Bonus Race for owners Alexandra and John Timpson

Sunday Bonus Race delivers an extra prize to Sixty’s owners Every Sunday two races will carry a £5,000 bonus, with the objective of improving competitiveness and field sizes on a day of the week which has struggled historically in both areas.

The bonus is split among winning connections, specifically the owner, trainer, jockey, breeder and stable staff. ROA members can benefit from an enhanced bonus prize payment if their horse wins a Sunday Bonus Race, as the owners’ share of the bonus is increased from £1,000 to £3,150 where the successful horse is owned at least 51% by ROA members.

Recent winners include owners Alexandra and John Timpson, whose Sixty Something qualified for the bonus when winning at Market Rasen in March.

Details of upcoming Sunday Bonus Races programmed through to the end of June can be found on the ROA website at racehorseowners.net

Prize-money is making headway ROA Forum will carry quarterly updates on total prize-money levels and its various sources. Prize-money paid out in the first quarter of the year can often be affected by abandonments and, given the recent hard winter, it is no surprise that more than 50 fewer races were staged in the first quarter of 2013 compared with 2012.

In summary, the table below shows that the prize-money level is heading in the right direction, primarily due to increased Levy Board contributions, albeit that there is still a long way to go to get to the levels that the sport needs.

Improving prize-money sits at the top of the ROA’s list of objectives. As we have reported in previous months, we believe that this will require the introduction of contractual prizemoney agreements with racecourses to ensure that a fair and reasonable share of their racing-related revenue is allocated to prizemoney.

In addition, we will continue to work with the BHA and the racecourses to seek commercial arrangements with the bookmakers that capture a share of betting on racing through all platforms.

Whilst those areas of work continue, the

Sources of prize-money (January-March) HBLB Racecourses Owners TOTAL

2010 (£m) 10.6 4.3 1.7 16.6

2011 (£m) 6.4 6.3 1.6 14.3

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2012 (£m) 6.1 7.2 1.6 14.9

2013 (£m) 8.1 7.2 1.8 17.1

The Racing Foundation has announced the award of grants totalling £228,000 to charities working within racing. The Racing Foundation, which is receiving the majority of horseracing’s share of the net proceeds from the sale of the Tote, supports charitable activities associated with the UK thoroughbred racing and breeding industry.

So far, the Racing Foundation has received £19 million from the Tote sale proceeds. This money has been invested to generate investment income, which will be used to fund grants for a range of charitable causes associated with the horseracing industry. Charitable activities that are eligible for support include social welfare, training and education, racehorse welfare, equine science research, heritage and culture.

The Racing Foundation is now open for applications for its next general funding round. The deadline for applications is Friday, June 21. The Foundation will also be running a separate equine science research grants programme this year, for which the application deadline is Thursday, June 13. Further details on how to apply are available on the Racing Foundation’s website www.racingfoundation.co.uk

Continued support for disease control The ROA Council has endorsed its support for the continuation of a surcharge of £1.20 on each chargeable race entry, paid to the Levy Board for the benefit of the Equine Infectious Diseases Services.

This will help support a two-year Infectious Disease Service programme at the Animal Health Trust through collaborative funding from the Levy Board and Thoroughbred Breeders Association.

The Infectious Disease Service provides the British thoroughbred industry with a first-class diagnostic and surveillance facility for new and emerging equine diseases.

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TIM PALIN

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successful 25p each-way wager on Teenoso in the 1983 Derby was the hook for Tim Palin, who from then on became an avid racing fan.

As a teacher in his early 20s, Palin looked on enviously from the silver ring – “or Tattersalls when I could afford it” – at owners standing in the paddock, dreaming that one day it would be him.

The first steps towards realising that came with a tenth share and 1/12th share in horses, but Palin believed there was scope for syndicating better horses to more people.

Pat Haslam, the trainer who has since handed on the licence to son Ben, played ball and Middleham Park Racing was born. China Castle, their first horse, won 26 races, which wasn’t a bad start!

“It was a hobby that got out of hand,” reflects Palin, who along with son Tom, Nick Bradley and Mike Prince runs Middleham Park.

“A bit of success breeds further success, more horses, more trainers. We’re on 495 winners as we speak, and we could never have dreamed that.

“We have still got horses with our original trainers but have been able to add to our roster.

There’s been no revolution, but evolution.

“We used to have an advertising budget but don’t now as most people find us themselves.

We’re growing but not spending money advertising. Our repeat business is good and we’re getting new people all the time; numbers are up massively on three to five years ago.”

At last count there were 411 Middleham Park owners and 76 horses listed on their website.

Palin takes great pride in saying that, between the four organisers, they are on familiar, first-name terms with every member.

“I always wanted to be in the service industry, be it RAF, police, firefighting, teaching, and that lends itself to what we do,” Palin says.

“Middleham Park is about serving, entertaining people; when you see a smile on a member’s face when one of our horses win, that makes it all worthwhile. It’s about fulfilling dreams.”

The service members receive at the races is, naturally, important to Palin, and he has almost nothing but praise for the way racecourses have “wised up to the importance of syndicates”.

He adds: “The dynamic of ownership has changed, and while one or two tracks are still what you might call old school, 95% are very accommodating. I would say that the level of service at Chester, and Ascot on Shergar Cup day, is outstanding, silver service really.

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Diary dates and reminders MAY 21 Visit to Weatherbys Members visit to Weatherbys in Wellingborough with tour and lunch. See the itinerary at racehorseowners.net. Bookings can be made by emailing Amy Haxby at ahaxby@weatherbys.co.uk (May 10 latest)

JUNE 7 Newmarket Regional Meeting ROA regional meeting (see opposite).

JUNE 18-22 Royal Ascot The ROA has a chalet for members and guests for the five days of the Royal meeting.

Tim and Tom Palin taste Epsom triumph

“York and Goodwood are excellent, and I can’t remember the last time we had an argument.”

Penitent was a runner for Middleham Park on Dubai World Cup day, and Palin adds: “Mike and Nick went, as did most of Penitent’s owners, for a week and I am told it was a great experience, what dreams are made of.”

Dubai prize-money, of course, knocks spots

“Middleham Park is

about entertaining people; seeing our members smile makes it all worthwhile” off Britain’s, but Palin believes the situation at home is heading in the right direction, and of the yearling bonus and BOBIS programmes he says: “You couldn’t wish for better self-help schemes.”

Such initiatives inform Middleham Park’s planning, some of which is done in the dead of night.

“I still do some teaching, but, and I don’t think I’d get into bother for saying this, my passion and energies are almost exclusively Middleham Park, and I sometimes wake up in the middle of the night thinking about what races we might win and what horses we might buy,” says Palin.

So not just living the dream, sleeping it too!

JUNE 25 ROA AGM Members are encouraged to attend the ROA AGM, which will be held at the Jumeirah Carlton Tower Hotel, London. The AGM is followed by a champagne reception and lunch for members and their guests.

JUNE 30 Pretty Polly Stakes day Free admission to members at the Curragh on production of their ROA Horseracing Privilege Card.

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

JULY 30-AUGUST 3 Glorious Goodwood Richmond Enclosure badge ordering service and hospitality offer for members. Details of the fabulous hospitality package are available on page 61 and at racehorseowners.net

SEPTEMBER 20 Newbury Regional Meeting ROA regional meeting at Newbury.

OCTOBER 19 QIPCO British Champions’ Day Exclusive box and fine dining package for ROA members at Ascot.

DECEMBER 5 ROA Horseracing Awards The ROA Horseracing Awards 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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TRACK TALK

THE LATEST NEWS FROM THE UK’S RACECOURSES

Perth has become the latest British racecourse to receive the Gold Standard Award from the ROA, with a presentation planned during the opening meeting of 2013.

The accolade recognises overall excellence in the raceday experience for owners. Perth impressed with the warm welcome that it consistently provides to owners who make the journey to Britain’s most northerly track. In particular, the Raceday Committee valued Perth’s food and beverage offering, with owners given the option of free food in the owners’ and trainers’ bar or subsidised fine dining in the restaurant. In addition, Perth adopts a flexible approach to badge allocation for syndicates and entertains the connections of the winner and placed horses following each race.

Perth’s total prize fund for 2012 was over £560,000, putting the venue in the top ten jumps racecourses for average prize-money per fixture.

This year, the racecourse will offer £820,000 in prize-money across its 16 fixtures, an increase of 30% on 2012.

Sam Morshead, General Manager of Perth, said: “Perth is delighted and honoured to be recognised with this much coveted award.

Racehorse owners are very important to us and we shall endeavour to continue to enhance their raceday experience.”

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All Gold at Perth

Perth is in the top ten jumps tracks for prize-money per fixture

July course next stop for regional meeting

GEORGE SELWYN

ARC boosts prize-money

Newmarket’s picturesque July course is the perfect spot for summer racing

The ROA will hold its third regional meeting of this year at Newmarket’s July racecourse on Friday, June 7.

ROA regional meetings give local members an opportunity to meet ROA Council members and staff, and provide a forum for an open discussion about industry developments which impact on owners.

Members can pose questions about any aspect of ownership or the association’s work, either during an open discussion or on THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

an individual basis.

Members who live close to Newmarket will be sent an invitation, and the meeting is open to any members who are racing on the day.

Guests will be welcomed with drinks and light refreshments an hour before racing. We would just ask that you book a place beforehand by contacting Keely Brewer on 020 7152 0200 or email kbrewer@roa.co.uk.

A fourth regional meeting is planned later this year at Newbury on September 20.

Arena Racing Company (ARC), which operates 15 racecourses and is responsible for nearly 40% of the fixture list, will offer prize-money that totals £24.3 million, an increase of 18% on 2012’s total of £20.5m.

The £3.8m rise in prize-money reflects an additional £1m from ARC combined with a £2.8m increase in Levy Board grants. The group’s own contribution to prize-money will now total £9.6m.

The Ladbrokes St Leger meeting will receive a prize-money boost of 9%, taking prize-money for the final Classic of the year from £550,000 to £600,000.

Nottingham’s lunch offer Owners with runners at Nottingham in 2013 will now be offered a complimentary lunch dish, plus tea and coffee throughout the day, and at their behest, the owners’ and trainers’ car park has been relocated back to the main entrance. Those lucky enough to have a winner will find themselves awarded a hamper of local produce, whilst the average prize-money per fixture will increase from £38,000 to £44,000.

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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 Musselburgh Newcastle Ripon Salisbury Thirsk Warwick Ffos Las Hamilton Park Ayr Pontefract Bath Kempton Park Windsor Carlisle Leicester Redcar Catterick Bridge Nottingham Beverley Folkestone Lingfield Park Yarmouth Wolverhampton Brighton Southwell Chepstow Total

Figures for period Apr 1, 2012 to Mar 31, 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 I ARC I I I JCR ARC I I I ARC JCR ARC JCR I I I JCR I ARC ARC ARC ARC ARC ARC ARC

376,146 157,927 115,897 87,914 84,383 70,940 54,927 48,039 45,320 35,090 29,533 26,320 25,580 25,109 22,834 22,120 22,021 20,764 20,344 18,755 18,037 17,224 16,451 15,448 14,628 13,484 13,267 13,222 13,214 13,001 12,543 11,967 11,103 10,900 10,332 9,452 35,007

100,171 83,776 59,928 63,683 68,662 33,606 50,939 46,832 52,991 42,362 18,932 14,299 22,130 21,197 16,481 15,150 9,212 17,692 29,458 24,944 9,535 14,831 20,844 16,071 17,419 14,120 11,625 18,829 17,248 9,946 19,436 15,236 13,299 12,454 13,794 10,985 26,329

155,719 75,943 70,941 24,857 77,927 5,838 37,042 21,144 27,530 14,028 5,022 6,974 4,382 5,416 5,745 5,030 2,766 3,248 7,543 3,669 3,188 3,366 5,107 4,294 4,184 16,409 2,362 4,648 3,028 2,603 2,770 3,005 2,137 2,300 1,696 2,508 14,768

632,036 317,646 247,349 177,537 232,498 111,600 145,097 116,760 129,871 92,691 56,127 49,120 53,128 54,941 47,789 44,943 33,999 41,904 58,052 48,787 31,780 37,467 43,712 38,000 37,602 44,953 29,354 38,387 35,746 25,758 36,532 31,216 28,392 26,349 26,359 24,082 77,642

17 17 12 18 38 15 25 17 17 23 17 15 14 14 14 7 7 15 16 15 20 85 21 8 14 15 17 16 17 12 95 25 123 18 35 11 864

10,744,606 5,399,985 2,968,193 3,195,667 8,834,928 1,674,002 3,627,434 1,926,548 2,207,804 2,105,403 954,166 736,804 743,788 769,168 669,050 314,600 220,995 628,563 928,828 731,810 635,600 3,184,666 917,946 304,000 526,426 674,294 499,011 614,184 607,674 309,100 3,470,533 780,397 3,492,207 474,282 922,558 264,900 67,060,119

333,521 157,030 102,510 76,321 87,878 67,027 62,909 48,175 45,295 37,850 33,220 20,745 29,190 23,736 21,976 14,877 26,604 20,448 27,070 19,609 15,507 16,612 12,815 16,381 15,889 12,053 13,370 14,735 16,417 8,576 12,971 12,471 10,846 10,586 9,892 10,423 34,270

Up/ down

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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 Wetherby Newton Abbot Warwick Cartmel Newcastle Musselburgh Wincanton Kelso Stratford-on-Avon Fakenham Ludlow Ffos Las Market Rasen Wolverhampton Carlisle Southwell Doncaster Fontwell Park Exeter Plumpton Uttoxeter Taunton Hereford Hexham Bangor-on-Dee Towcester Leicester Lingfield Park Worcester Sedgefield Folkestone Huntingdon 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 I I JCR I ARC I JCR I I I I ARC JCR ARC JCR ARC ARC ARC JCR I ARC I ARC I I I I ARC ARC ARC ARC JCR I

240,465 231,612 112,402 87,106 66,577 46,901 42,259 29,580 28,788 28,173 26,429 25,929 25,849 25,659 25,195 24,399 22,134 21,499 20,566 19,324 18,695 18,682 17,680 17,500 15,970 14,545 13,969 13,923 13,776 13,321 13,262 13,149 12,619 12,363 10,225 9,963 9,682 9,543 9,210 8,943 8,789 8,651 5,470 31,820

93,810 99,348 64,797 64,623 63,115 48,688 60,345 36,819 16,443 23,713 23,483 16,787 33,116 11,433 25,155 29,776 27,699 22,738 15,075 21,425 22,562 19,310 19,963 24,500 25,285 14,190 37,507 14,783 24,352 17,658 14,445 24,874 8,650 13,097 17,903 11,294 23,781 21,157 12,817 16,513 10,418 20,823 28,813 27,254

60,374 55,702 16,260 16,580 13,113 10,024 14,798 8,687 1,646 6,551 4,561 0 6,404 4,595 4,139 4,632 4,443 3,154 3,748 0 4,711 3,937 4,018 0 3,999 2,969 6,198 2,781 3,931 3,081 3,852 4,049 2,722 1,966 2,320 2,644 3,394 1,966 3,042 2,471 1,818 3,707 2,695 7,035

394,650 386,662 193,460 168,309 143,226 105,946 117,402 75,566 46,877 58,682 54,759 42,716 65,369 41,687 55,239 59,933 55,045 47,935 39,622 40,748 45,967 41,929 42,211 42,000 45,709 32,342 57,674 31,486 42,636 34,279 32,345 42,071 24,911 27,726 30,647 24,032 37,571 32,665 26,219 27,928 21,025 33,631 36,978 66,412

15 8 7 8 10 12 10 10 12 11 14 15 8 7 6 8 16 11 15 10 14 18 18 1 11 13 9 20 13 15 21 10 10 10 13 16 7 9 15 15 4 12 9 495

5,919,743 3,093,294 1,354,217 1,394,559 1,360,649 1,271,351 1,174,016 755,665 562,523 645,500 766,628 640,739 522,952 291,809 331,434 479,462 880,714 527,289 594,330 407,484 643,541 733,755 759,800 42,000 502,799 420,450 519,066 629,724 554,269 514,190 679,241 420,713 249,114 277,259 398,415 384,514 263,000 293,983 393,287 418,914 84,100 403,571 332,800 32,892,861

208,942 195,014 119,573 74,561 50,474 52,353 43,018 26,878 20,480 25,020 18,030 20,336 9,742 18,995 18,571 17,126 24,815 21,531 16,340 17,163 13,490 19,048 19,841 0 14,745 10,536 26,363 11,692 13,067 10,999 14,201 19,164 16,221 8,186 15,041 6,716 8,799 11,657 11,341 11,704 10,088 12,713 5,558 28,210

Up/ down

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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

I Independently owned racecourse Gold Standard Award

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Jackies Solitaire landed the joint-sponsored EBF and TBA Mares’ Novice Chase at Warwick on the Sunday before the Cheltenham Festival.

Grade 2-placed last season, Jackies Solitaire drew away from her rivals down the back straight and maintained the gallop to come home a 35-length winner in the hands of Aidan Coleman for owners Steve and Jackie Fleetham and trainer Anthony Honeyball. The daughter of Generous was bred by Alfie Buller, a TBA member for many years, who receives a bonus of £500.

This race was run with a Sunday Bonus, a new initiative by the BHA which rewards connections with an extra £5,000 on top of prize-money. Funded through the sale of leasehold fixtures to racecourses, two races per Sunday will receive this bonus. The scheme has been developed with the Horsemen’s Group and the Racecourse Association and aims to build competitive Sunday fields across a wide range of courses. If the breeder of the winning horse is a TBA member they will receive £500.

For full details on the races involved up until the end of June, please visit the TBA website.

LES HURLEY

Game Jackies Solitaire comes home alone

TBA representative Aiden Murphy, left, with winning owner Steve Fleetham

2013 non-domestic rate demands: are you paying too much?

The rate demands for 2013/14 will be arriving shortly, if not already received, and it is in your interest to review whether you are paying too much in rates.

The Rateable Value is set by the Valuation Office, which is a Department of HMRC. You can check and see how the Rateable Value is arrived at by going to the Valuation Office Agency website (www.voa.gov.uk). Go to ‘Business rates, ‘Check the 2010 and 2005 rateable value of your property’, then ‘Find my property’ through your postcode. This will show how the Rateable Value is made up and includes the details of the accommodation that is in the VO records. By going to ‘Compare my property’ you can also see valuations of other comparable properties.

The Rateable Value should include a reduction at the end of the valuation of up to £4,200 for stud relief. This relief is for buildings that are “used for the breeding and rearing of horses and ponies”.

As a guide, the value of stud farm stables should be in the bracket of £150-£225 per box. The value of office space should be about £25 per square metre and barns at around £4 per metre. These are values set by the VO and

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appear to be fairly consistent across the country. An appeal can be made at any time and has the advantage of being backdated to April 1, 2010, with the prospect of refunds for overpayment for that period. However, if the details are incorrect and do not show the full extent of the property then there must be an element of caution, as an appeal usually results in an inspection by the Valuation Officer.

Studs are eligible for a rate reduction

If your Rateable Value is below £12,000 you should apply for Small Business Rate Relief to your billing/local authority. This relief must be claimed, otherwise the billing authority will charge you the full amount.

Properties with a Rateable Value below £6,000 pay no rates, and a sliding scale relief then applies up to £12,000 RV, when 100% rates are payable, so at £9,000 RV the relief is 50%. The details of how to apply should be included with the rate demand papers.

As the application is to the billing authority this should not trigger any reference to the VO or an inspection. Inspections from the VO tend to be made only when planning permission is granted for alterations and the billing/planning authority requests a review, or when an appeal is made.

If you have any questions on the matter please contact the TBA’s advisor Bill Simpson on 01488 685111 or e-mail tyto@btconnect.com. Bill acts for many stud farm occupiers and will be able to give informal advice free of charge and indicate whether an appeal is warranted. He has been an advisor to the TBA on rating matters for many years and also to the NTF since 1990.

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Make sure you don’t let your membership lapse The TBA is the only official body representing thoroughbred breeders in Great Britain and as such it seems timely to remind all members of the benefits of being part of the Association.

Membership is open to everyone with an interest in breeding thoroughbreds, be it as an active breeder or a keen enthusiast.

The TBA helps create confidence in the breeding industry – seeking to encourage and secure the most favourable conditions for you to be able to run a successful and profitable breeding business by ensuring that it is well run, well administered, and has fair legislation. The TBA actively lobbies in defence of breeder interests across the country and internationally, and also helps you in a variety of practical ways to run your business and to save you money.

• British Owners and Breeders Incentive Scheme (BOBIS): Prizes have started to be won by breeders who nominated their twoyear-olds into the British Owners and Breeders Incentive Scheme (BOBIS). Every time a qualified horse wins a relevant race, the member will receive £1,800 and there is no limit to the number of times that a horse can win, providing that it is a qualifying race. All two-year-old Class 2-4 maidens, Class 2-4 nurseries, conditions, novice or Class 5 fillies-only maiden races qualify.

• Sunday Bonus Races: The British Horseracing Authority announced this spring that Sunday racing would benefit from a boost in funds. Two races per weekend will benefit with a £5,000 bonus attached to them. The scheme has been developed in conjunction with the Horsemen’s Group and the Racecourse Association with the aim of increasing competitiveness and field sizes in certain Sunday races, across as many different racecourses as possible. If the winner of a Sunday Bonus Race is bred by a TBA member, then the member is rewarded with £500. For a full list of the races up until the end of June, please visit the Sunday Bonus section on the TBA website.

• HBLB National Hunt Breeders’ Prize Scheme: If you are not a member you will be deducted an administration fee of £250 every time you win a prize.

• Third Party Liability insurance cover: Full details can be found on the TBA website.

• Free legal, veterinary and accountancy advice from our professional advisors.

• Sub committees: Specific objectives of the association are carried out through these sub committees, who specialise in the differing areas that affect members.

• 2013-2014 TBA/RCA Breeders’ Badge Scheme: Membership to this scheme entitles complimentary access to watch a horse you have bred run at participating fixtures. If your card has not been updated then it will automatically de-activate on April 30. To ensure this does not happen, please return the forms that were sent in the February send-out to Weatherbys.

• Annual seminar and stud farming course.

• Regional days for members: A number of excellent and informative days are organised around the country.

• Free copy of the Stallion Guide, Irish Racing Yearbook and discounts on other industry publications.

• Monthly and annual breeding industry Awards, including Breeder of the Month, bimonthly Stud Staff award.

• TBA Website: Free Bloodstock Taxation Guide, employment law guides and legal contracts, as well as access to Stanstead House reports.

For further information on TBA membership, or to renew your subscription, please contact Carrie Cherry at Stanstead House on 01638 661321, via email info@thetba.co.uk or visit www.thetba.co.uk

Breeders’ Prizes National Hunt HBLB Breeders’ Prizes worth £1,000 or more Breeder

Prize (£)

Horse

Sire

Dam

R. T. Crellin

10,000

Cue Card

King’s Theatre

Simon Tindall

8,000

Simonsig

The Queen

5,750

Based on date money was paid

Date

Course

Wicked Crack

14/03/2013

Cheltenham

Fair Mix

Dusty Too

12/03/2013

Cheltenham

Close Touch

Generous

Romantic Dream

09/03/2013

Sandown Park

Open Hearted

Generous

Romantic Dream

16/03/2013

Kempton Park

The National Stud Never Say Die Club Ltd

3,000

First Avenue

Montjeu

Marciala

09/03/2013

Sandown Park

Upton Viva Stud

3,000

Rajdhani Express

Presenting

Violet Express

12/03/2013

Cheltenham

J. F. Perriss

2,500

Molly’s A Diva

Midnight Legend

Smokey Diva

09/03/2013

Sandown Park

J. Good, C. Anderson and K. G. Reveley

1,750

Crowning Jewel

Sulamani

Pennys Pride

20/03/2013

Haydock Park

Bricklow Ltd

1,500

Conquisto

Hernando

Seal Indigo

04/03/2013

Southwell

Richard Mathias

1,250

Morgan’s Bay

Karinga Bay

Dubai Dolly

16/03/2013

Kempton Park

Newsells Park Stud

1,000

Calculated Risk

Motivator

Glen Rosie

09/03/2013

Sandown Park

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Notes for employers Employment law news The second TBA quarterly employment law newsletter of 2013 is now available for members to view on the TBA website. It includes information on changes to the law on discrimination, flexible working, maternity leave, unfair dismissal and sickness absence, all of which will affect employers,

and therefore it’s well worth visiting the employers’ pages now to download the newsletter.

In addition, some of the TBA employment law fact sheets have been updated (see following list). If you are using these documents, you should download the latest versions now and discard the old ones:

• Flexible working • Parental rights • Working time regulations For further information regarding employment law news, please visit www.thetba.co.uk and register or log in to access the employers’ area.

Diary dates TUESDAY, APRIL 30

WEDNESDAY, JULY 10

Breeders’ Badge Scheme 2013/2014

TBA Awards Presentation Evening

If you do not update your TBA/RCA Horseracing Privilege card it will automatically de-activate on April 30. Forms should by now have been returned to Weatherbys, however they will still continue to be accepted. The scheme is a great way for TBA members to gain free access to view horses that they have bred run. If you require forms, then please visit the TBA website.

This year’s awards presentation 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 supper.

Members will be sent an invitation to apply for tickets at the end of April, 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.

THURSDAY, MAY 23 East Regional Day A visit to Roger Varian’s Kremlin House, Darley’s Pre-Training yard, followed by Rossdales Veterinary Hospital, Exning, Newmarket.

TUESDAY, JULY 23 National Hunt Show at Bangor

TUESDAY, JUNE 4 Scottish Regional Day A visit to Linda Perratt’s Northallerton Farm, East Kilbride.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5 South East Regional Day Visit to Marcus Tregoning at Whitsbury Manor, followed by a tour of Whitsbury Manor Stud.

TUESDAY, JUNE 11 West Regional Day A visit to Willie Carson’s Minster Stud near Cirencester followed by lunch, then a visit to Stratford Place Stud near Cheltenham (date change).

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

A social opportunity for National Hunt breeders and enthusiasts to attend a ‘showcase’ of NH classes, barbecue and evening racing.

THURSDAY, JULY 25 TBA Annual Seminar, Tattersalls, Newmarket Save the date for the TBA Seminar, which focuses on the production and purchase of bloodstock in the current economic and commercial environment. The day’s programme will start with an update on the economic situation and the changing trends in thoroughbred horse production, will then move on to selling and buying bloodstock and conclude by taking a look at new markets and opportunities. Afternoon speakers will address some practical aspects, including wind-testing and X-rays, as well as taking a look at what the future holds for the thoroughbred breed.

Speakers include Adrian Crichton and Paul Greeves (Weatherbys), Paul Thorman (Trickledown Stud), Geoff Lane MRCVS and Peter Webbon (Animal Health Trust).

South West Regional Day A visit to the historic training facilities at Manton, home to Classic-winning trainer Brian Meehan.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11

WEDNESDAY, JULY 10

*Please note that the Northern regional visit to the University of Liverpool’s Philip Leverhulme Equine Hospital has unfortunately had to be cancelled owing to external circumstances. The TBA is currently in the process of organising another event and members will be notified once finalised.

TBA Annual General Meeting and Presentation Evening Commencing at 5pm at the Jockey Club Rooms, Newmarket.

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Open Regional Day A visit to the Royal Studs at Hampton Court.

ROR/TBA RETRAINED RACEHORSE CHALLENGE SATURDAY, MAY 18 RoR/TBA Retrained Racehorse Challenge, Shropshire County Show.

SATURDAY, MAY 25 AND SUNDAY, MAY 26 RoR/TBA Retrained Racehorse Challenge, Hertfordshire County Show, Redbourn.

SUNDAY, MAY 26 RoR/TBA Retrained Racehorse Challenge, Heathfield & District Show, East Sussex.

SUNDAY, MAY 26 RoR/TBA Retrained Racehorse Challenge, Hambleton Show, Yorkshire.

THURSDAY, MAY 30 RoR/TBA Retrained Racehorse Challenge, Bath & West Show, Somerset.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12 RoR/TBA Retrained Racehorse Challenge, Yorkshire Sport Horse Show, Thirsk.

FRIDAY, JUNE 14 TO SUNDAY, JUNE 16 RoR/TBA Retrained Racehorse Challenge, Three Counties Show, Malvern, Worcestershire.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19 AND THURSDAY, JUNE 20 RoR/TBA Retrained Racehorse Challenge, Lincolnshire County Show, Grange de Lings.

SUNDAY, JUNE 23 RoR/TBA Retrained Racehorse Challenge, Hickstead Derby meeting, Hickstead, West Sussex.

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Rajdhani Express, a homebred winner for the Waley-Cohens

While Long Run failed valiantly to provide Robert Waley-Cohen with a repeat victory in the Gold Cup, this year’s Cheltenham Festival was still a fantastically successful one for the racecourse’s Chairman.

On the opening day, his son Sam steered Rajdhani Express to victory in the Listed novices’ handicap chase. This was a notable milestone as the top-weight became the first homebred winner at the meeting for the family, and just to cap it all Sam had become a father for the first time just two days earlier when his wife Annabel produced a son, Max. Robert Waley-Cohen receives a bottle of premium Irish whiskey and a supply of TRM’s world famous Calphormin.

Rajdhani Express’s neck success at Cheltenham was in marked contrast to his 34-length win in a novices’ handicap chase at Kempton Park on Boxing Day, when he prefaced a memorable double for the Waley-Cohen/Nicky Henderson camp with Long Run regaining his crown in the King George VI Chase.

Although Long Run was bought and Rajdhani Express, who followed up at Ayr on April 20, is a homebred, they both come from French distaff families, and there is another strong Gallic influence in terms of sires, as both Long Run and Rajdhani Express’s dam Violet Express are by the outstanding French stallion Cadoudal.

Robert Waley-Cohen lives outside Banbury at the family’s beautifully appointed Upton Viva Stud, founded at the turn of the present century.

Initially the Waley-Cohens were searching for young store fillies with the ability not only to make their mark jumping, but also with suitable pedigrees as prospective broodmares. With its well-endowed programme of juvenile hurdle races across the Channel, it is not surprising that Upton Viva Stud is now dominated by French-breds.

The star of the show is Long Run’s half-sister Liberthine, winner of the Mildmay of Flete Chase and the Topham Chase over the big fences, where she finished fifth in the 2007 Grand National. Liberthine earned more than £200,000, whereas Makounji, whose seven victories included the Pendil Novices’ Chase, earned more than £140,000.

Violet Express was also well proven on the racecourse. From 25 starts she scored four times, winning the Grade 2 Dovecote Novices’ Hurdle, and added another £47,000 into the stud’s kitty. Now aged 19 and due to foal to Milan this time, she has two daughters in the Upton Viva broodmare band – Shatabdi, the stud’s very first homebred winner, and Tay Jay Vay. Violet Express’s latest offspring is a two-year-old by Presenting and this own-sister to Rajdhani Express is called The Missus. Like most of the stud’s progeny, she has been well handled at home but will go away to be broken in before departing to France. Should she prove herself there, she would then be repatriated to join either Nicky Henderson or David Pipe.

This season Waley-Cohen has had three horses in training at Seven Barrows: Long Run, Rajdhani Express and Free Thinking (Liberthine’s first foal, a dual bumper winner and third in a Listed bumper). And his first ever colt in training is the homebred juvenile Storm Force Ten with Andrew Balding. This son of Shirocco is out of Stravinsky Dance, a champion three-year-old hurdler in France.

Somehow Waley-Cohen also finds the time to be Chairman of the TBA’s National Hunt Committee, in which capacity he is doing everything to promote races exclusive to mares. He says: “To know if your mare is any good you need to race her, and with a dwindling number of horses being bred it makes no sense to dispense with half the population because you don’t run them.”

The respective breeders of Simonsig and Cue Card, both Grade 1 winners at the Cheltenham Festival, were ineligible for the March Breeder of the Month award as both had already won awards during the 2012/13 season.

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BREEDERS IN THE NEWS

Special day for Young as Tiara sparkles GEORGE SELWYN

Kayf Tara six-year-old Special Tiara provided a welcome British-bred Grade 1 success at Aintree with his victory in the Maghull Novices’ Chase.

Though he is trained in Ireland and now raced

by American owner and former ROA Council member Sally Rowley-Williams, Special Tiara hails from Dorset, where he was bred by David Young.

“I raced him initially in partnership with my nephew Henry de Bromhead, who trains him, and then we sold him last year,” said Young, who has raced three generations of the family, having bought Special Tiara’s granddam Mammy’s Choice, a three-time steeplechase winner trained by Robert Alner.

Mammy’s Choice, a daughter of Mandalus, has produced winning fullsisters by King’s Theatre, Royal Choice and The Folkes Choice, both in training with de Bromhead, but Special Tiara’s dam Special Choice was unraced owing to a callous on her fetlock. The Bob Back mare has, however, immediately vindicated her owner/breeder’s decision to persist with her at stud. Special Tiara is her first foal and has

Special Tiara leaps to Grade 1 success at Aintree under Bryan Cooper

won or finished runner-up in six of his seven starts to date.

“Believe it or not, he’s the first colt I’ve bred,” Young said. “The family is a real fillies’ family otherwise and I have a yearling fullsister to Special Tiara at the moment. Connie

Colfox gets all my young horses going for me and she is preparing the two yearlings from my two broodmares.”

Special Choice was not covered last year but unsurprisingly Young is considering a return to Kayf Tara this season.

Molly’s a hat-trick winner for patient owner/breeder Perriss

GEORGE SELWYN

Patience is a requisite trait for National Hunt owners and breeders and this quality has certainly been rewarded in John Perriss, whose mare Molly’s A Diva secured a hattrick of wins when landing the Listed mares’ bumper at Sandown in March.

The mare made a somewhat belated debut at the age of six and even then the portents weren’t good as both her pre-trainer and

Molly’s A Diva wins at Sandown

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trainer had reservations about her ability.

“Kim Bailey warned us that she was slow and nobody really thought she was any good,” said Perriss. “She’s a proper chasing type and I was keen to run her in a bumper but we were running out of time. She went to Ffos Las in January and the ground was terrible but she battled away and won.”

The daughter of Midnight Legend followed that success less than a month later with victory at Huntingdon before reappearing at Sandown for a valuable blacktype win.

“She went to Aintree but that was probably one too many runs for her in quick succession. She’ll come home to us over the summer and then we’ll hope to go novice hurdling in the autumn,” Perriss added.

The fact that Molly’s A Diva and her winning brother Max Bygraves and halfbrother Smokey George exist at all is all down to Perriss’ perseverance with their dam Smokey Diva, a “proper old-fashioned stamp of an Irish steeplechaser” by Orchestra.

He explained: “Smokey Diva was placed a few times but then a sarcoid grew on her fetlock and started growing into the joint.”

Having been advised she had only months to live, Perriss opted to try radical radiation treatment to save the mare.

“She had pioneering surgery at the Cambridge Veterinary Hospital. We had a nuclear physicist from Addenbrooke’s Hospital to advise on how much radiation should be given. Anyway, it worked and she had a year off being looked after by Alan and Anna Varey, who did a terrific job with her.”

Smokey Diva, now 20, is retired from breeding but still resides with the Vareys at Batsford Stud. John Perriss and his wife Penny have a five-year-old full-brother to Molly’s A Diva, who is likely to go into training later this year, and also have another Midnight Legend filly foal, this time out of their other broodmare, Even Flo, a winning chaser out of a half-sister to Grand National winner Party Politics.

“We’ve had horses with Kim Bailey for more than 20 years and it’s been a huge amount of fun, we’ve had winners up and down the country,” said Perriss, who lives at Sibford Ferris near Banbury. “The breeding is only a hobby for us but the highs from the good days are just fantastic.”

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Battle regroups for big double

Rory Westwood, left, and Tartan Snow

A Fox Hunters’ winner and an accidental sire By the time Tartan Snow crossed the line a neck in front in the Aintree Fox Hunters’ Chase, trainer Stuart Coltherd could have been forgiven for feeling just a tad weary. A sheep farmer in his ‘day job’, the Selkirk trainer had been up since 2am lambing ewes so the 13-year-old gelding’s 100/1 surprise victory in the hands of Jamie Hamilton provided a welcome tonic.

Tartan Snow’s owner/breeder Rory Westwood, also a sheep farmer, almost didn’t make it to Aintree from his home at Auchterarder in Perthshire.

“It’s such a busy time for us with the lambing that I wasn’t sure I’d get there but I’m really glad I did,” said the former point-topoint trainer and rider.

Tartan Snow is out of the Supreme Leader mare Whitemoss Leader, who raced briefly for Westwood after being bought for 1,700gns in 1995.

He recalled: “The mare was very difficult to get in foal, and she produced just two foals – this one and his four-year-old half-brother who I have at home and will go to the sales later this year.”

Tartan Snow may have just one sibling but, rather surprisingly for a gelding, he also has one daughter.

“When he was a three-year-old colt, he was temporarily in with the mares and he managed to cover one of them,” explained Westwood, who ended up racing the resultant filly, named Snow Easy. She ran just once for Coltherd and, now nine, is one of THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

The Juddmonte drafts at horses-in-training sales are always keenly perused by National Hunt trainers and, at Aintree, Battle Group provided two very good reasons for this to remain so. The eight-year-old son of Beat Hollow stormed to a ten-length victory in the Grade 3 Silver Cross Hurdle – a race he had won two years earlier – before bouncing back two days later to land the Listed John Smith’s Handicap Chase by an even wider margin of 16 lengths.

Sold as an unraced three-year-old at Tattersalls’ July Sale in 2008, he was snapped up for 35,000gns and won a bumper for Lucinda Russell before adding another five victories to his tally from David Pipe’s stable, culminating in his initial Grand National meeting success in 2011.

Another move, this time to Kevin Bishop’s stable under the care of assistant Johnny Farrelly, has resulted in another two wins from two starts.

When set against some of the lofty prices given for form horses, Battle Group looks a real value-for-money purchase for his owners, the Jolly Boys Outing syndicate, but his paternal half-brother Cinders And Ashes was even more of a bargain. The 2012 Supreme Novices’ Hurdle winner was bought unraced from Juddmonte’s draft at the DBS May Sale of 2009 for just £4,500 by his trainer Donald McCain.

Sparrow is one tough bird Father and son Philip and Phil Cunningham have had many successful outings as owners over the years, most notably teaming up in Six Star Racing, who campaigned 2,000 Guineas runner-up Rebel Rebel. That particular Classic has been an extraordinarily lucky race for Cunningham junior, who also owned the 2007 winner Cockney Rebel and saw his homebred Slim Shadey finish fourth to Frankel in 2011.

With Cockney Rebel, now co-owned by Mette Campbell-Andenaes, having retired to the National Stud, both father and son have supported him in his second career and the most recent success for the family came via juvenile hurdler Cockney Sparrow,

two broodmares at Westwood’s farm.

Just as Snow Easy is her sire’s sole representative, Tartan Snow is himself the sole runner under rules for his sire Valseur, who stood in Stirlingshire covering mainly sport horse mares. The son of Lyphard was bred by Lord Howard de Walden and won on the Flat

winner of the John Smith’s Handicap Hurdle at Aintree on National day. A dual winner on the Flat for her breeder Philip, the first-crop daughter of Cockney Rebel was sold last October for 35,000gns to Sean Quinn, son of her new trainer John Quinn.

The four-year-old has made a terrific start to her new career over hurdles, finishing runner-up in a Listed contest to subsequent Grade 1 winner L’Unique in December before adding three victories and another second place to her record.

“I had to sell her to pay for other horses I have in training but I’m delighted for her new owners, Mrs and Mrs Gaffney,” said Philip Cunningham. “I have her three-yearold sister Colleen Bawn in training in France with Eoghan O’Neill and he thinks an awful lot of her. I’m hoping she could run in the French Oaks.”

Cockney Sparrow’s dam Compose, a Juddmonte-bred mare by Anabaa out of a daughter of Slightly Dangerous, was passed on by Cunningham to his son Phil, who has a yearling full-sister to the Aintree winner and sold Compose at last year’s Tattersalls’ December Sale once again carrying to Cockney Rebel.

Savannah Belle stays true In 2011, breeder Albert Bennett received a TBA Special Merit award for the exploits of dual Guineas runner-up Dubawi Gold and he may well be on course for further honours judging by the performance of Dubawi Gold’s full-brother Fort Knox in the Leopardstown 2,000 Guineas Trial.

The Tommy Carmody-trained colt was bought as a weanling by Dwayne Woods on behalf of owner Andrew Tinkler, who subsequently purchased his dam, the Savannah Belle. The Green Desert mare was again carrying to his sire Dubawi and the resultant foal – her first bred by Tinkler at Woods’s Brook Stud – was another colt, sold at Tattersalls’ October Sale last year to John Ferguson for 340,000gns. With no yearling this year, Savannah Belle is again due to foal to Dubawi.

“She’s about to foal any day, in fact she’s a little bit overdue. She’ll be going back to Dubawi again this year,” confirmed Woods.

when trained by Julie Cecil before being bought by Len Lungo, for whom he scored four times over hurdles.

“Valseur stood about 30 miles from us and was a well-bred horse with a bit of jumping form so we thought we’d give him a try,” said Westwood. “I’m pretty glad we did now.”

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Paddock Maintenance

With the effects of global warming leading to more extremes of weather there has never been a better time to re-assess our approach to paddock maintenance. The performance of the horse is built on good nutrition, which begins quite literally at the grass roots. And while we may have a fit and healthy horse, much of the battle lies in keeping that horse injury-free, so providing a weedfree environment, secure fencing and active disease prevention are essential, writes Lissa Oliver

Fencing Maintenance of a paddock begins at the boundaries, with the object of keeping a horse safe and secure, with minimum risk of injury.

Traditionally post and rail has been the paddock fencing of choice, being long lasting, durable and low maintenance, but recycled plastic and PVC products now offer a modern alternative to wooden rails, with the advantage of allowing horses to bounce off them rather than possibly breaking and splintering.

Declan Landy, proprietor of Declan Landy Fencing Limited, reminds landowners to run an eye over their fencing at least once a week, to check for damage or rails coming loose. “We recommend using imported Swedish Redwood,” he advises, “as it’s slow growing, has less knots and therefore doesn’t crack so easily.” All wood requires maintenance, both for the benefit of the stock’s safety and for the general appearance of the farm, and Landy advises painting preservative on post and rail every four or five years, using a water-based paint that allows the wood to breathe.

For additional security and to prevent common accidents, such as a horse putting its foot through a rail, a mesh (such as V, Diamond or Stable) can be used, requiring posts and just a single top rail. V Mesh is the fencing of choice for most of the larger studs, while Stable Mesh offers a cheaper alternative and is safer than using sheep netting.

It is often recommended to run an electric wire about six inches above the top rail of any fence, to prevent chewing. It can also deter passers-by from leaning over and attempting to pet or feed the horses, which is an added advantage for roadside paddocks. Electric tape is perhaps the cheapest fencing solution of all and can be useful in the temporary division of paddocks. In terms of safety, horses can run straight through it without injury, but it is no substitute for a secure permanent fence and isn’t as durable and long lasting.

Field shelters Once secured out at grass, one of the basic welfare requirements of a horse is shelter from the elements, and a field shelter is therefore essential. It need not be a permanent fixture, however, and there are a range of mobile shelters available, which can be moved from paddock to paddock with the horse. A minimum head height of six foot is recommended, though eight foot is considered standard. Ideally a field shelter should be installed on a concrete base with a plinth course of bricks, but railway sleepers are commonly used as a base and are relatively inexpensive and easy to lay. The shelter should offer protection on at least three sides and a THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

The best paddocks keep horses safe, and come with minimal risk of injury front partition will provide additional protection against the weather.

An easily hitched mobile shelter doesn’t differ visually from a fixed shelter, but will cost around £1,000 extra for a standard 15’x12’, though most static shelters are sold for selfassembly while the mobile shelter is delivered fully assembled. Steel-framed modular shelters are more expensive again, but have the advantage of added durability. As with all wooden structures, a regular watch should be kept for damage and water-based preservatives applied every four or five years.

Pasture care As important as it is to ensure a horse’s wellbeing with the fixtures and fittings of a well-maintained paddock, it’s the pasture itself that returns the dividends. A good pasture consists of good grass cover, thick sod and a deep root system, with optimum soil fertility and pH levels of six to seven, and should be free draining and free from weeds.

Grass is the most economic feed available.

While some may seek to use supplements in the hope of getting optimum growth rate in raising their horses, nature has already provided the best nutrients available and 25Ib forage per day meets a mare’s full energy requirements, according to the findings of Stephen Jackson, President of Bluegrass Equine Nutrition.

There are few seasonal differences in the nutrients within grass, only a reduction of grass available in winter months, and grazing alone provides the mare with 200% over her requirement of protein intake, 500% over her potassium requirement and 400% over her Vitamin A needs. She can consume adequate pasture, when available, to meet all her

requirements, without need of supplements.

Maximising forage is of prime importance.

Grass types The most highly recommended grass types for horses are red fescue, cocksfoot, meadow grasses, crested dogs tail, timothy, ryegrass and white clover, and natural herbs such as dandelion, yarrow, ribwort plantain, chicory and burnet are to be encouraged. Jim Bolger, when speaking at an Irish Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association seminar, said he found Italian rye grass to be the most suitable for the Irish climate and cuts it for haylage at a height of two and a half inches.

Soil analysis and fertiliser Pasture should be analysed regularly to establish its nutrient value and any possible nutrient deficiencies. Many larger studs carry out soil tests seasonally. The results will also determine the fertiliser best used and liming requirements, if necessary. Organic fertiliser, which is animal waste and manure, is slow releasing and longer lasting, while inorganic fertilisers are quick reacting and promote fast growth, though this does increase unwelcome protein content. Many leading studs use a nitrogen fertiliser in the spring, although it should be a specially designed formula specifically for horse pastures, which provides a boost to growth without the usual protein increase caused by normal nitrogen.

If the soil analysis shows a very low pH, the addition of lime in the autumn may be necessary, while a phosphorus supplement in spring can provide a boost for the initial growth of grass roots, with the bonus that weeds and unwanted grasses find it difficult to grow in a phosphorus-rich soil.

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>> Annual maintenance Fiona McKenna B.Agr.Sc. M.Sc., stresses the importance of taking a long-term approach and adopting a yearly grassland management plan. Summer paddocks should be closed off in October/November in preparation for spring grazing. Crucially, grass requires temperatures of six degrees or higher for growth, and poor grass cover will result in poaching and a slower recovery period, as well as providing an opportunity for weeds. Rotation of paddocks is therefore vital and they should be allowed a recovery period of three to five weeks after grazing during the growing season.

Topping is essential during the growing season and should begin in mid-May to maintain quality. Regular topping of the grass encourages the production of the young sweet shoots that horses so enjoy and is best done at least once a month during the season.

Harrowing serves in spreading manure, exposing worm eggs, levelling the ground and lifting dead grass. Lifting old dead grass allows the pasture to breath again and should be carried out at least once a year. Ideally, harrow in the spring and then give a light harrow when rotating the pasture.

The regular lifting of droppings is also essential to the health of the pasture and the horse. It should be carried out at least once a week, although it is labour intensive.

Mechanical sweeping is the most efficient method to pick up droppings and there are a range of sweepers on the market, from hand operated vacuums from £1,000, to sweepers that can be towed by a quad bike or tractor, from £3,000. As we will learn later, a clean paddock minimises the risk of disease and prevents worm contamination.

While rolling can be effective for poached ground, it should be carried out only when required. Ploughing should be only a last resort for a horse sick pasture or excessive ragwort.

Seeding The recommended types of grass for an equine pasture have already been mentioned but, while some works of reference advise reseeding every 10-15 years, in practise many stud owners would be against the idea.

Dermot Cantillon of Tinnakill House Stud and a former Chairman of the ITBA warns: “We wouldn’t be in favour of re-seeding pastures.

For horses you need a good mature sward that you get from a mature pasture, to provide plenty of cushion when horses gallop. It’s essential in terms of nutrients and maintaining a good mass of grass. If you have a newly laid pasture you are going to run into problems.”

In essence, if an annual plan is adhered to and the paddocks properly maintained, reseeding shouldn’t have to be an option. Mixed grazing, with sheep and cattle, is another very popular method of maintenance and not only promotes grass growth, but also eliminates worm infestation in both species.

Ragwort control Ragwort remains a serious ongoing problem. It is prevalent on over-grazed pasture and rough ground, so over-stocking must be avoided.

Leaving horses out at grass all winter can also exacerbate the situation, as grass cover will become thin and the ground poached, an ideal growing condition for ragwort.

Sadly there is no simple solution. Ragwort remains toxic when sprayed, cut, dug or pulled.

Cutting ragwort simply encourages further growth and it will flower again later on, as well as leaving the plant in place, posing a threat to grazing horses. In addition, cut ragwort can still set fresh seeds.

Hand held flame guns have quite a good effect on rosettes, but surviving plants enjoy rapid re-growth. Poisoning can be effective, but large plants need to be sprayed again two weeks later. It necessitates the removal of horses from the treated paddock and it is safe to graze the paddock again only once the ragwort has disintegrated fully and can no longer be accidentally ingested. Once cut or poisoned, it loses its naturally bitter taste and is no longer off-putting to horses.

Pulling or levering up plants, best done when the ground is wet, may help to contain seed spread and may provide long-term control, but any root fragments left behind will produce fresh growth the following year.

Digging out the plants is possibly the most successful method, since it is less likely to leave

Dermot Cantillon: “We wouldn’t be in favour of re-seeding pastures”

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behind any root fragments. But whatever method is used, when handling ragwort it is essential to wear protective gloves and to safely dispose of the plants in sealed bags.

All-Weather paddocks With the risk of winter paddocks becoming over-grazed and poached, leading to ragwort headaches in the summer, more and more farms are installing all-weather paddocks and over-wintering horses in barns.

Peter Kavanagh of Kildaragh Stud uses running barns for groups of up to ten horses throughout the winter, saying: “The horses are left loose in a five-span barn, providing them with exercise space.” This is a practice increasingly followed by leading breeders.

Kavanagh also likes all-weather paddocks.

“Your most important asset is the land, look after it, and it will look after you,” he stresses.

Worming Looking after the land includes keeping it free of worm infestation, particularly important in modern times when a high percentage of worms are resistant to wormers. Giving insufficient worming dosage for the weight of the horse enables worms to survive the smaller dose and pass on resistance as they breed. The bad news for horse owners is that there are no new wormers in development.

Dr. Theo De Waal, Senior Lecturer and European Veterinary Specialist in Parasitology, UCD, blames the resistance to the practice, established in 1966, of dosing horses every six to eight weeks. “Dependence on the calendar schedule only increases resistance,” he warns.

In reality, many horses have a natural immunity to worms and 20% of horses are responsible for 80% of eggs on a pasture. De Waal recommends instead carrying out a Faecal Egg Count Reduction Test (FECRT) to target and treat only those animals that require it. By leaving some horses untreated, the worm population will become diluted, introducing non-resistant worms back into the cycle.

Treated horses should not be moved onto a clean pasture after treatment, as they will introduce resistant worms.

For horses with counts of less than 200 eggs per gram no treatment is necessary. Between 200-500 eggs per gram is moderate and some treatment should be given at targeted times, while frequent treatment of those with higher than 500 eggs per gram is advised. An annual FECRT is essential in monitoring levels and the effectiveness of the wormers being used.

The regular removal of droppings is at least five times more effective than the use of wormers alone. Paddocks should be harrowed during hot dry periods, eggs exposed to extreme hot dry conditions dying, while harrowing a paddock at the end of the grazing season also exposes eggs and reduces over winter survival.

If a pasture is left ungrazed for three months, most types of worm will die. Mixed species grazing is also of benefit, as worms are hostspecific and are killed when ingested by a different species. All horses, however, should be treated for Tapeworm at the end of each grazing season.

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VET FORUM: THE EXPERT VIEW

By DEIDRE CARSON, BVSc MRCVS

Fighting infections in young foals Picking up on subtle changes in demeanour and appearance can aid survival chances

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newborn foal has an immature and incomplete immune system and is dependent on getting enough high quality colostrum from the mare in the first few hours after birth to provide it with antibodies to help fight infection in the first few weeks of life.

In foals which have not received adequate colostrum, the level of antibody in the foal’s blood, usually measured as IgG, is low. Most vets have a minimum cut-off mark of four grams per litre but some use a cut-off of eight grams per litre when measured between 12 and 48 hours of age. If a foal’s IgG level is below the vet’s or stud’s cut-off, a plasma transfusion will be given, most often using commercially available plasma to raise the foal’s antibody levels. The protection provided by colostral and plasma-derived antibodies declines over the first few months of life.

During the period from approximately three weeks to about three or four months of age, the foal’s own immune system begins to mature and it becomes increasingly able to produce its own response to infection. Unfortunately, until the foal’s own immune system has developed adequately, the foal is more susceptible to many infections than older horses.

Neonatal foal infections Occasionally, foals are born already carrying infections that they have picked up from the dam’s circulation (eg Equine Herpes virus) or via infection of the placenta during pregnancy.

These foals may be born dead, weak, sick or may appear normal at parturition but then deteriorate. They can be very hard to save.

Other foals will pick up an infection at the time of parturition via their navel or following ingestion of infectious material while exploring their environment. These foals may develop systemic infection, otherwise known as septicaemia. Unfortunately even with aggressive, intensive treatment, survival rates are pretty low in septicaemic foals, in the order of about 25%. In most instances death is associated with severe complications and multiple organ failure, but the earlier treatment can be instigated, the better the chances of the foal’s survival. Neonatal foals can also pick up gastro-intestinal infections by the ingestion of contaminating bacteria such as E. coli, which can cause profound diarrhoea within the first 24 to 36 hours after birth.

Rotavirus can cause severe, acute diarrhoea in foals from a few days to a few months of age.

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A foal being treated in hospital with fluids, oxygen and antibiotics for Rhodococcus

The virus attacks the cells lining the intestine interfering with absorption of nutrients and this can exacerbate the diarrhoea. Some of the affected foals become very ill and require fluids, electrolytes and plasma intravenously as well as anti-ulcer medication and intestinal adsorbents by mouth. Diagnosis can usually be confirmed using an ELISA test on a droppings sample.

There is a vaccine available for administration to pregnant mares during the last few months

“Good hygiene

measures should be observed, such as disinfecting foaling boxes between mares” of pregnancy to try to boost the level of antirotavirus antibody in the colostrum and to reduce the amount of virus shed in the droppings of carrier animals.

Foals of a few weeks of age are susceptible to bacterial infections of the urachus (umbilicus or navel). These are usually considered to be an ascending infection from the stump of the cord.

In most instances, an abscess forms just inside

the abdominal cavity and these can be quite large. Some of these cases respond to aggressive treatment with antibiotics, however others require surgical removal of the infected tissues.

One of the biggest problems with an umbilical abscess is that infection can spread from here to other sites, particularly joints.

All young animals, but particularly those with a low IgG, are susceptible to joint ill (septic arthritis) because of the nature of the blood supply to the joint structures. In these cases infection becomes localised in one or more of the joints, causing lameness and swelling.

Infection within a joint is potentially lifethreatening and should be treated as an emergency, as the bacteria and associated inflammatory reaction can cause severe damage to the cartilage on the bone ends, the bone itself and also the adjacent growth plates.

Early diagnosis and aggressive treatment is called for, including flushing the joints with large volumes of sterile saline, under sedation or general anaesthesia. Depending on the joint, the site of infection, which tissues are involved and how much damage has already been caused, it may also be necessary to arthroscope the joint to enable the damaged tissues to be debrided. Appropriate antibiotic treatment is absolutely essential and it may be necessary to repeat the joint flushing in some cases. Even with intensive early intervention and treatment, some cases of joint ill cannot be successfully THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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treated and the foal will require euthanasia. Any foal, particularly in the first six to eight weeks of age, which shows any signs of lameness should be examined as a matter of urgency, in case the lameness is due to joint infection.

Rhodococcus Rhodococcus equi is a serious cause of pneumonia in foals and seems to be increasingly common in the UK, where it appears to have become endemic on many studs.

One of the biggest problems with Rhodococcus is that the affected foals may not show any clinical signs of disease until lung abscesses are well developed and subsequently harder to treat. The bacteria enter the lungs via inhalation of dust particles contaminated with Rhodococcus organisms. Occasionally the infection spreads to other parts of the body, such as the abdomen, lymph nodes and the joints.

The greatest risk of infection occurs where there are high densities of horses, such as barns or gateways, where there is a considerable amount of dust and/or where air circulation is restricted or poor. Foals often pick up the infections from their dams and from other foals that contaminate the environment by passing bacteria in their droppings.

Early signs of infection can include elevated temperature, cough, increased respiratory rate and effort, nasal discharge, and depression or lethargy. Diagnosis is usually based on a history of Rhodococcus on the property and/or characteristic clinical signs. Ultrasound examination is very useful and will provide evidence of ‘comet tails’ (a characteristic appearance of the surface of the lung due to the presence of abnormal lung density).

There are significant elevations in

inflammatory parameters on blood tests and in some cases it is possible to see abscesses on radiographs or ultrasound of the chest. If further evidence is required, it may be possible to isolate the bacteria on a tracheal wash, but in most instances that is not performed as the process may stress an already sick foal.

There is a fairly rapid qPCR test available which can be performed on nasopharyngeal or abscess swabs or tracheal wash samples.

Treatment involves several weeks of one of the macrolide antibiotics (such as Azithromycin) plus Rifampicin. It may be necessary to administer non-steroidal anti-inflammatories to improve comfort and reduce body temperature.

In severe cases it may even be necessary to administer oxygen.

It is difficult to prevent Rhodococcus infection on farms where the disease is endemic, but steps can be taken to minimise the severity of disease and the amount of environmental contamination. These include taking blood samples from the foals at monthly intervals from three to four weeks of age to check white cell count and inflammatory markers and/or regular ultrasonographic examination of the chest for early detection of ‘comet tails’. On some stud farms, administration of hyper-immune plasma has been used to try to minimise disease in foals from approximately one month of age.

Lawsonia Lawsonia is an intestinal infection associated with diarrhoea, weight loss, dependant oedema (fluid accumulation in tissues such as the lower limbs, lower abdomen, sheath and under the jaw), colic and a protein-losing enteropathy (protein loss via damaged intestinal lining). It usually affects weanlings or yearlings. They pick

up the infection from an environment which has become contaminated by other infected or carrier animals. The affected animal may initially appear dull and weak, with some vague limb swelling, or may present with profuse watery diarrhoea and sudden, profound weight loss.

The causative organism, Lawsonia intracellularis, causes severe thickening of the lining of the intestine, which may be picked up on ultrasound examination of the abdomen.

Lawsonia can be fatal in severely affected animals. It is easy to confuse the condition with cyathostomiasis, where there is massive release of small strongyle (worm) larvae from the lining of the large intestine. This also causes diarrhoea, protein and weight loss, and can be fatal. A diagnosis of Lawsonia is usually based on clinical signs, laboratory results, ultrasound examination and history of previous infection on the premises. Blood tests reveal abnormally low protein levels. It can be quite difficult to isolate Lawsonia from the faeces of affected horses. However, a QPCR test (which picks up Lawsonia DNA) is available to try to detect Lawsonia in droppings samples and this is being used increasingly frequently.

Treatment involves the administration of oxytetracycline or doxycycline for a minimum of two weeks and response to treatment is usually monitored by improvement in clinical signs and return to more normal protein levels in the blood. In severe cases, it may be necessary to give plasma or other colloidal fluid therapy and to provide additional good quality protein in the diet to help make up for the losses.

Some work has been done using vaccines licensed for use in other species, such as pigs, to try to reduce the incidence of disease on premises where Lawsonia is endemic. The vaccine is administered per rectum on two occasions, 30 days apart, approximately one month prior to the day disease first occurred the previous year. In one study this seemed to result in reduced incidence of disease in some groups.

More work is needed before this protocol can actually be recommended.

Conclusion

Swelling around the jaw in weanlings can be a sign of Lawsonia infection

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Foals are particularly susceptible to many infections and the risks increase significantly if the foal did not receive adequate good quality colostrum from its dam. Good hygiene measures should be maintained at all times, such as disinfecting foaling boxes between mares, avoiding overcrowding and avoiding mixing of groups.

Young foals can become very ill very quickly so be on the lookout for even subtle changes in appearance, demeanour and appetite as these may be the early indicators that there is a problem. If in doubt, seek veterinary advice sooner rather than later.

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DATA BOOK STAKES RESULTS

National Hunt Grade Ones 179 SUPREME NOVICES’ HURDLE G1 CHELTENHAM. March 12. 16f 110yds. Soft.

1. CHAMPAGNE FEVER (IRE) 6 gr g Stowaway - Forever Bubbles (Roselier) O-Mrs S Ricci B-JP Cahill TR-WP Mullins 2. My Tent Or Yours (IRE) 6 b g Desert Prince - Spartan Girl (Ela-Mana-Mou) 3. Jezki (IRE) 5 b g Milan - La Noire (Phardante) Age Starts Wins Places 4-6 10 7 3 See race 139 in the April issue

Earned £211,960

CHAMPAGNE FEVER gr g 2007 Mill Reef Hardiemma Birkhahn Sayonara Suleika STOWAWAY b 94 Northfields No Pass No Sale No Disgrace On Credit Vaguely Noble Noble Tiara Tayyara Medium Misti IV Mist Roselier Fastnet Rock Peace Rose La Paix FOREVER BUBBLES gr 92 Pampered King Deep Run Trial By Fire Cool Blue Royal Buck Blue Buck Blue Jirao Shirley Heights

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such as Grandouet, Vasco du Ronceray, Solix and Baby Mix. Simonsig’s dam Dusty Too won a pair of bumpers and two novice hurdles. Her 2009 Presenting gelding sold for €50,000 as a three-year-old.

Simonsig’s broodmare sire Terimon won the Gr1 Juddmonte International more than two years after he chased home Nashwan in the Derby. As a son of Bustino, Terimon was expected to succeed as a sire of jumpers but he didn’t live up to expectations, his best winners being the very useful chaser Roman Ark and the versatile stayer Scots Grey. Another of Terimon’s daughters is the dam of the admirable Countrywide Flame.

Simonsig’s second dam, the unraced Princess Florine, is also the second dam of the smart My Murphy, a Gr3 winner over hurdles. Queen Vega, Simonsig’s third dam, was a half-sister to In Fijar, a talented French miler and winner of the Poule d’Essai des Poulains.

180 ARKLE CHALLENGE TROPHY CHASE G1 CHELTENHAM. March 12. 16f. Soft.

1. SIMONSIG (GB) 7 gr g Fair Mix - Dusty Too (Terimon) O-Mr RA Bartlett B-S Tindall TR-Nicky Henderson 2. Baily Green (IRE) 7 b g King’s Theatre - Dream On Boys (Anshan) 3. His Excellency (IRE) 5 ch g King’s Best - Road Harbour (Rodrigo de Triano) Age 5-7

Starts 12

Wins 10

Places 1

Earned £248,772

SIMONSIG gr g 2006 Mendez Linamix

Lunadix

FAIR MIX gr 98 Wild Again Fairlee Wild Raise Me Terimon DUSTY TOO gr 98 Princess Florine

Bustino Nicholas Grey Our Native Queen Vega

CHELTENHAM. March 12. 16f 110yds. Soft.

1. HURRICANE FLY (IRE) 9 b g Montjeu - Scandisk (Kenmare) O-G Creighton, Rose Boyd B-Agricola Del Parco TR-WP Mullins 2. Rock On Ruby (IRE) 8 b g Oscar - Stony View (Tirol) 3. Countrywide Flame (GB) 5 b g Haafhd - Third Party (Terimon) 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

Bellypha Miss Carina Breton Lutine Icecapade Bushel-N-Peck Mr Prospector Leave Me Busted Ship Yard Track Spare Rosy Morn Exclusive Native Our Jackie Te Vega Apache Queen

It is a measure of Simonsig’s star quality that his performance in the Arkle Chase was considered a bit lacklustre, even though he scored by more than two lengths. But this was understandable when the son of Fair Mix had won Gr2 events on his last three appearances by a minimum of 15 lengths. He has now won eight of his nine starts under rules.

The seven-year-old belongs to Fair Mix’s first crop, and is by far his best representative. Fair Mix won the Gr1 Prix Ganay as a five-year-old in 2003 but his biggest prize came from his victory in the Gr3 Dubai City of Gold Stakes in 2004. Remarkably, he had left the stable of his breeder Jean-Luc Lagardere after winning a claiming race at Saint-Cloud on his second start.

Fair Mix isn’t the only son of Linamix making his mark on the jumping world, as Martaline has sired/the Gr1 winner Dynaste, and Al Namix has been ably represented by

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181 CHAMPION HURDLE G1

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

The 2012 edition of Aintree’s Champion Standard Open National Hunt Flat Race appears to be living up to its ambitious name. The runner-up, My Tent Or Yours, went close to justifying favouritism in the 2013 Supreme Novices’ Hurdle and the winner, The New One, was highly impressive in taking the Neptune Investment Management Novices’ Hurdle. The New One’s win was his third in four starts over hurdles, his defeat being a narrow one at the hands of At Fishers Cross, winner of the Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle.

The New One has been racing beyond two and a half miles over hurdles, but his dazzling Cheltenham Festival win raised the possibility that he might have enough speed to become a Champion Hurdle contender. However, his pedigree isn’t that of a two-mile specialist. He ranks alongside African Gold as one of the very smart young hurdlers by King’s Theatre, who has been making a bold bid to repeat his well-deserved sires’ championship during the 2011-12 season. The former Ballylinch stallion has also received strong support from such as Cue Card, Menorah, Captain Chris, Baily Green and Balthazar King.

Sadly he died in 2011, at the age of 20.

The New One’s dam Thuringe finished a creditable third in a Listed race on her debut over hurdles at Auteuil. Her sire Turgeon numbered the Irish St Leger and Prix Royal-Oak among his victories, and he was twice third in the Ascot Gold Cup. Turgeon sired the smart English chasers Exotic Dancer, Chapoturgeon, Aerial, Turko and Turgeonev, and his French representatives did so well in 2011 that he ended the year as champion sire of jumpers. The next three mares in The New One’s female line all raced at around 12 furlongs. They were respectively daughters of Comrade In Arms, the Brazilian star Emerson and Carmarthen, France’s dominant sire of jumpers during the 1980s.

Lord Windermere was still in third place when Boston Bob fell in the lead at the last in the RSA Chase, but his stamina came into play on the run-in.

He wore down Lyreen Legend to win in the style of a potential Gold Cup contender.

His win – together with the Festival efforts of At Fishers Cross and Rock On Ruby – ensured that his sire Oscar is yet again contending for the title of champion sire, having finished runnerup to Presenting in 2010/2011 and to King’s Theatre in 2011/2012.

Oscar’s progeny vary in their distance requirements but they include stayers of the calibre of Black Jack Ketchum and At Fishers Cross.

It is possible that Oscar needs a bit of help to sire a top-notch stayer, and he received it from Lord Windermere’s dam Satellite Dancer. This lightlyraced hurdler is by Satco, a son of Derby winner Blakeney who won the Prix Berteux over 15 furlongs and also contested France’s Gold Cup, the Prix du Cadran, finishing second to Royal Gait in 1987 and third in 1988.

Satco passed on plenty of stamina to his best sons, including the Cesarewitch winner Turnpike, the Scottish Grand National winner Paris Pike and the high-class chaser Sackville.

Lord Windermere’s second dam Greek Empress is also the second dam of the very useful jumpers Stars Out Tonight and Start Me Up. Greek Empress was by Royal Buck, who also sired the dam of Paris Pike.

Royal Buck was best known as the sire of the Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Royal Frolic, the Queen Mother Champion Chase winner Buck House and the very good chasers What A Buck and The Pilgarlic.

This is a good old-fashioned jumping family, Greek Empress being a half-sister to the talented Rathgorman, winner of the Queen Mother Champion Chase. The next dam, Greek Light, was a half-sister to the smart chaser Garnishee.

183 RSA CHASE G1

184 QUEEN MOTHER CHAMPION CHASE G1

182 BINGHAM NOVICES’ HURDLE G1 CHELTENHAM. March 13. 21f. Good to Soft.

CHELTENHAM. March 13. 24.5f. Good to Soft.

1. THE NEW ONE (IRE) 5 b g King’s Theatre - Thuringe (Turgeon) O-Mrs S Such B-R Brown, Ballylinch Stud TR-Nigel Twiston-Davies 2. Rule The World (GB) 6 b g Sulamani - Elaine Tully (Persian Bold) 3. Pont Alexandre (GER) 5 b g Dai Jin - Panzella (Kahyasi)

1. LORD WINDERMERE (IRE) 7 b g Oscar - Satellite Dancer (Satco) O-Dr R Lambe B-E Coleman TR-J Culloty 2. Lyreen Legend (IRE) 6 b g Saint des Saints - Bint Bladi (Garde Royale) 3. Hadrian’s Approach (IRE) 6 b g High Chaparral - Gifted Approach (Roselier)

Age 3-5

Age 5-7

Starts 9

Wins 7

Places 1

Earned £128,206

THE NEW ONE b g 2008 Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special Raise A Native Princely Native Charlo Crafty Admiral Dennis Belle Evasion Fortino II Caro Chambord Targowice Reiko Beronaire Brigadier Gerard Comrade In Arms Girl Friend Emerson Munsingen Langenargen

Starts 12

KING’S THEATRE b 91 Regal Beauty

Turgeon THURINGE b 2001 L’Arme Au Poing

Places 5

Earned £141,955

LORD WINDERMERE b g 2006

Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells

Wins 5

Fairy Bridge

OSCAR b 94 Reliance II Snow Day Vindaria Satco SATELLITE DANCER b 93 Greek Empress

Blakeney Satwa Royal Buck Greek Light

Age Starts Wins Places 4-7 14 12 2 See race 70 in the February issue.

Earned £511,001

SPRINTER SACRE b/br g 2006

Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells

CHELTENHAM. March 13. 16f. Good to Soft.

1. SPRINTER SACRE (FR) 7 b/br g Network - Fatima III (Bayolidaan) O-Caroline Mould B-C Masle TR-N Henderson 2. Sizing Europe (IRE) 11 b g Pistolet Bleu - Jennie Dun (Mandalus) 3. Wishfull Thinking (GB) 10 ch g Alflora - Poussetiere Deux (Garde Royale)

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Tantieme Relance III Roi Dagobert Heavenly Body Hethersett Windmill Girl Nonoalco Sinaia Buckhound Royal Charge Greek Star Only Light

Konigsstuhl Monsun

Mosella

NETWORK br 97 Reliance II Note Nicotiana Bayolidaan FATIMA III b 93 Viva Sacree

Kamaridaan Bayonne Maiymad Kiki Sacree

Dschingis Khan Konigskronung Surumu Monasia Tantieme Relance III Naras Nina Djakao Diamond Drop Stymphale Belsta Rheingold Miss Melody Edellic Amie Sacree

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Caulfield on Simonsig: “His sire Fair Mix isn’t the only son of Linamix making his mark on the jumping world, as Martaline has sired the Grade 1 winner Dynaste”

185 CHAMPION BUMPER NH FLAT RACE G1 CHELTENHAM. March 13. 16.5f. Good to Soft.

1. BRIAR HILL (IRE) 5 b g Shantou - Backaway (Bob Back) O-Andrea & Graham Wylie B-V Connolly TR-WP Mullins 2. Regal Encore (IRE) 5 b g King’s Theatre - Go On Eileen (Bob Back) 3. Golantilla (IRE) 5 b g Golan - Scintilla (Sir Harry Lewis) Age 4-5

Starts 4

Wins 3

Places 0

Earned £38,097

BRIAR HILL b g 2008 Hoist The Flag Alleged

Princess Pout

SHANTOU b 93 Shareef Dancer Shaima Oh So Sharp Bob Back BACKAWAY b 02 Bavaway

Roberto Toter Back Le Bavard Chillaway

Tom Rolfe Wavy Navy Prince John Determined Lady Northern Dancer Sweet Alliance Kris Oh So Fair Hail To Reason Bramalea Carry Back Romantic Miss Devon Lueur Doree Arctic Slave Freezeaway

The £100,000 invested in the winning point-to-pointer Briar Hill at Doncaster’s 2012 Spring Sale is proving to be money well spent. His two subsequent outings in bumpers have resulted in decisive victories, including at 25-1 in the Weatherbys Champion Bumper.

Briar Hill powered through from the rear to score at Cheltenham, with the style of his victory supporting the theory that he is bred to stay well. His sire Shantou won the St Leger, to follow in the footsteps of his second dam Oh So Sharp, the last horse to win three Classics in England.

Unfortunately Shantou was unable to race when kept in training at five and it took no more than £450,000 for an Italian syndicate to buy him for stud duties. The Italian interest reflected the fact that Shantou had won the Gran Premio del Jockey Club and the Gran Premio di Milano.

Shantou 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 stallion at the age of 12 in 2005. No doubt he appealed to Irish breeders on the score that he shares the same sire, Alleged, as Montelimar, Flemensfirth and several other notable jumping sires. Shantou’s first Irish crop has produced the very useful chasers Ballynagour, Super Duty and Our Father, and his success earned him a book of around 120 mares in 2012.

Briar Hill is viewed very much as a chaser in the making. His dam Backaway is an unraced sister to Boston Bob, who very nearly pulled off another Festival victory for the family when he fell at the final fence when leading in the RSA Chase. The son of Bob Back had earlier recorded Gr1 victories over hurdles and fences.

Briar Hill’s second dam Bavaway was an unraced half-sister to the smart hurdler/chaser Danny Harrold and the next dam, Chillaway, was a

half-sister to the very useful steeplechaser Golden Freeze.

Bob Back is making a name for himself as a broodmare sire, as he also sired the dam of Regal Encore, runner-up to Briar Hill in the Champion Bumper. He also sired the dams of the ill-fated 2012 Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Synchronised, plus recent stakes winners such as Bright New Dawn, Bold Sir Brian and Joanne One. 186 FESTIVAL TROPHY CHASE G1 CHELTENHAM. March 14. 21f. Good to Soft.

1. CUE CARD (GB) 7 b g King’s Theatre - Wicked Crack (King’s Ride) O- Jean Bishop B- RT Crellin TR-Colin Tizzard 2. First Lieutenant (IRE) 8 ch g Presenting - Fourstargale (Fourstars Allstar) 3. For Non Stop (IRE) 8 b g Alderbrook - Lost Link (Shernazar) Age Starts Wins Places 4-7 16 9 5 See race 140 in the April issue

Earned £432,987

CUE CARD b g 2006 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells

Fairy Bridge

KING’S THEATRE b 91 Princely Native Regal Beauty Dennis Belle King’s Ride WICKED CRACK b 93 Mighty Crack

Rarity Ride Deep Run Treize

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Raise A Native Charlo Crafty Admiral Evasion Hethersett Who Can Tell Sovereign Path Turf Pampered King Trial By Fire Thirteen of Diamonds Clear Bay

to answer in the World Hurdle was whether he would stay the distance, which was half a mile further than he had ever been asked to tackle. The fact that he had won the Leopardstown November Handicap over two miles on the Flat suggested that he wasn’t short of stamina and his rider gave him every chance of staying by settling him in the rear. The nineyear-old responded by quickening well on the final hill.

Solwhit’s sire Solon is a Germanbred grandson of Blushing Groom.

After winning three of his four starts as a juvenile, Solon achieved a sequence of five successes at three, which started in the Swiss Derby and ended in the Gr1 Europa-Preis. Solon has spent his stallion career in France, where his best previous winners include Magadino, a multiple Listed winner over middle distances in France, and Si Sol, a dual Listed winner over hurdles. He hasn’t been widely used, with 265 foals in 15 crops.

Solwhit’s dam, Toowhit Towhee, was sold for 3,800gns after failing to show much ability in three starts on the Flat for John Gosden but she later did well over jumps in Germany, of all places, where she won good chases at four and six.

Her sire Lucky North was a useful miler in England and this son of Northern Dancer became a stakes winner at Keeneland and Oaklawn Park after his return to the USA.

187 WORLD HURDLE G1 CHELTENHAM. March 14. 24f. 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. Celestial Halo (IRE) 9 b g Galileo - Pay The Bank (High Top) 3. Smad Place (FR) 6 gr g Smadoun - Bienna Star (Village Star) Age 3-9

Starts 26

Wins 13

Places 9

Earned £754,788

SOLWHIT b g 2004

188 TRIUMPH HURDLE G1 CHELTENHAM. March 15. 17f. Good to Soft.

1. OUR CONOR (IRE) 4 b g Jeremy - Flamands (Sadler’s Wells) O-Man About Town Syndicate B-Gerrardstown House Stud TR-DT Hughes 2. Far West (FR) 4 b g Poliglote - Far Away Girl (Cadoudal) 3. Sametegal (FR) 4 b g Saint des Saints - Loya Lescribaa (Robin des Champs) Age Starts Wins Places 3-4 10 6 3 See race 136 in the April issue OUR CONOR b g 2009

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 Blushing Groom

The World Hurdle wasn’t quite the same without Big Buck’s, winner of the last four editions. However, admirers of this great stayer can derive some hope of a successful return from the record of the 2013 winner Solwhit. This son of Solon was sidelined after notching up six Gr1 victories over hurdles and he was off the track from January 2011 until December 2012. He has won two of his three races since his return.

The big question that Solwhit had

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Earned £142,244

Danzig Razyana Sharpen Up Mira Adonde Lettre d’Amour Blushing Groom Arazi Danseur Fabuleux Alzao Wind In Her Hair Burghclere Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special Never Bend Mill Reef Milan Mill Le Levanstell Sweet Mimosa Feemoss Danehill

Danehill Dancer JEREMY b/br 2003 Glint In Her Eye

Sadler’s Wells FLAMANDS b 93 Fleur Royale

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

Bustino Princess Zena Waajib Lady Fandet

The topic of successful nicks probably isn’t as prevalent in jump breeding as it is in its Flat counterpart. Breeders instead tend to support successive stallions at particular studs, to the extent that some jumpers almost bear the Rathbarry or Coolmore hallmark.

Location has played a part in the emergence of arguably the most prominent of today’s nicks in the jumping sector – that of Supreme Leader mares with sons of Sadler’s Wells. Supreme Leader, the champion sire of 2004/5 and 2005/6, was a member of Coolmore’s National Hunt team, so it was inevitable that his daughters would often visit one or other of the numerous Sadler’s Wells sons which have also stood under the Coolmore banner.

During the 2012/13 season we have seen Supreme Leader mares represented by good winners by Oscar (At Fishers Cross, Oscar Rock), Saddlers’ Hall (Down In Neworleans), Brian Boru and Milan. Previously they had produced Psycho, Clopf and Massini’s Maguire to Dr Massini, plus the Tolworth Hurdle winner Minella Class, the high-class Black Jack Ketchum, the Grand National second Oscar Time and the Gr2 novice chase winner Oscar Looby to Oscar.

Coolmore’s Sadler’s Wells stallions didn’t have a monopoly with Supreme Leader mares, as we have also seen Blazing Tempo (by Accordion), Great Oak (by Dushyantor), Mischievous Milly and Aiteen Thirtythree (both by Old Vic), and Champion Court (by Court Cave). Their success hasn’t been limited solely to Sadler’s Wells’s sons, as Beneficial’s Benefficient and Top Madam have shown.

At Fishers Cross was winning his fifth consecutive race when he landed the Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle. He also won a pair of bumpers. His dam Fermoy Supreme never raced but his third dam Lady Fandet produced US jumper Mario, and is second dam of Rhythm Section, winner of the Champion Bumper in 1993.

190 CHELTENHAM GOLD CUP CHASE G1

189 SPA NOVICES’ HURDLE G1 CHELTENHAM. March 15. 24f. Soft.

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

CHELTENHAM. March 15. 26f 110yds. Soft.

1. AT FISHERS CROSS (IRE) 6 b g Oscar - Fermoy Supreme (Supreme Leader) O-John P McManus B-L O’Regan TR-Rebecca Curtis 2. African Gold (IRE) 5 b g King’s Theatre - Mrs Dempsey (Presenting) 3. Inish Island (IRE) 7 ch g Trans Island - Ish (Danehill)

1. BOBS WORTH (IRE) 8 b g Bob Back - Fashionista (King’s Theatre) O-The Not Afraid Partnership B-Mrs L Eadie TR-Nicky Henderson 2. Sir des Champs (FR) 7 b/br g Robin des Champs - Liste En Tete (Video Rock) 3. Long Run (FR) 8 b/br g Cadoudal - Libertina (Balsamo)

Age 4-6

Age 5-8

Starts 9

Wins 7

Places 1

Earned £124,089

Starts 12

Wins 9

Places 3

Earned £578,136

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National Hunt Grade Ones BOBS WORTH b g 2005 Hail To Reason Roberto

Bramalea

BOB BACK br 81 Carry Back Toter Back Romantic Miss King’s Theatre FASHIONISTA b 99 Last Flair

Sadler’s Wells Regal Beauty Busted Paddy’s Flair

Turn-To Nothirdchance Nashua Rarelea Saggy Joppy Beauchef Roman Zephyr Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Princely Native Dennis Belle Crepello Sans Le Sou Alcide Paddy’s Sister

Last year, after Bobs Worth had added the RSA Chase to his Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle success, I commented that it takes a very good horse to win at successive Cheltenham Festivals.

Now this remarkable gelding has extended the sequence to three, having used his stamina to draw away from Sir des Champs and Long Run in the Cheltenham Gold Cup. So how much does it take to buy such a phenomenon? The answer is that Bobs Worth was unsold at €24,000 at the 2008 Land Rover Sale and then made £20,000 at Doncaster’s 2009 Spring Sale.

Together with Boston Bob, Roberto Goldback, Dedigout and Back In Focus, Bobs Worth represents a sizeable legacy left by Bob Back, who died in 2011 at the age of 30.

Although Bob Back never won beyond a mile and a quarter, the distance of his victories in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes and Premio Presidente della Repubblica, plenty of his best winners stay well – and Bobs Worth is clearly one of them.

Bobs Worth is the second Gr1 jumping winner produced by a daughter of King’s Theatre, following Shinrock Paddy, winner of a Gr1 novice hurdle.

Bobs Worth’s dam Fashionista is a sister to Last Theatre, a Listed-placed winner of five races at up to 13 furlongs on the Flat, prior to winning over hurdles, and Fashionista is also a three-parts sister to the smart middledistance filly Ballykett Nancy (by

Northern Dancer’s son Hero’s Honor).

Fashionista’s 2011 Presenting colt sold for €44,000 as a foal. Bobs Worth’s second dam Last Flair produced another three black-type performers, including the useful hurdler Il Trovatore. Last Flair was herself a half-sister to Ukraine Girl, and Bobs Worth’s third dam Paddy’s Flair was a half-sister to the Irish 2,000 Guineas winner Ballymore, their dam being the top two-year-old Paddy’s Sister.

191 MARES NOVICE HURDLE CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL G1 FAIRYHOUSE. March 31. 20f. Soft.

1. ANNIE POWER (IRE) 5 ch m Shirocco - Anno Luce (Old Vic) O-Mrs S Ricci B-E Cleary TR-WP Mullins 2. Glens Melody (IRE) 5 b m King’s Theatre – Glens Music (Orchestra) 3. Jennies Jewel (IRE) 6 b m Flemensfirth – Fishin Joella (Gone Fishin) Age 4-5

Starts 7

Wins 7

Places 0

Earned £98,964

ANNIE POWER ch f 2008 Konigsstuhl Monsun

Mosella

SHIROCCO b 01 The Minstrel So Sedulous Sedulous Sadler’s Wells

Old Vic

Cockade

ANNO LUCE ch 93

Prince Ippi

Anna Paola

Antwerpen

Dschingis Khan Konigskronung Surumu Monasia Northern Dancer Fleur Tap On Wood Pendulina Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Derring-Do Camenae Imperial Prinzess Addi Waldcanter Adelsweihe

When Darley sold Anno Luce for €60,000 at Goffs’ 2007 November sale, this 14-year-old mare must have appealed to breeders from both the Flat and jumping worlds.

Anno Luce had been a Gr3 winner in Germany before being switched to England, where she won a mile-and-ahalf Listed race. More to the point, she is a daughter of the champion German filly Anna Paola, a Preis der Diana winner who became the ancestress of numerous Group performers after her

purchase by Darley. For example Anna Petrovna, another successful daughter of Anna Paola, produced the remarkably tough Annus Mirabilis, who earned over £1 million in Europe, Dubai and Japan.

Anno Luce had herself produced a Monsun colt in the year of her sale and this colt, Air Trooper, looked very promising when he won his first two starts in France, including the Listed Prix de l’Avre, in which he defeated a future Gr2 winner.

However, the fact that Anno Luce is a daughter of top-class middledistance Sadler’s Wells stallion Old Vic, the sire of two Grand National winners, must have appealed to jumping breeders. Another attraction for the jumping enthusiast was the fact that the Anna Paola family had previously produced Atlaal, a useful performer over hurdles and fences, and Sadlers Wings, a Gr1 winner over hurdles. At the time of her sale, Anno Lune had already been represented by the talented hurdler Head Waiter, who went on to win a valuable steeplechase.

Anno Luce was in foal to Monsun’s top-class son Shirocco at the time of her sale. The resultant filly, Annie Power, has now won all seven of her starts, including three bumpers. It is as a hurdler that she seems to have huge potential and she became a Gr1 winner by 12 lengths in the Mares Novice Hurdle Championship Final.

She gives every indication that she will eventually stay three miles.

192 POWERS GOLD CUP CHASE G1 FAIRYHOUSE. March 31. 20f. Soft.

1. REALT MOR (IRE) 8 b g Beneficial - Suez Canal (Exit To Nowhere) O-Mrs P Sloan B-R Hartigan TR-Gordon Elliott 2. Dedigout (IRE) 7 b g Bob Back - Dainty Daisy (Buckskin) 3. Mikael d’Haguenet (FR) 9 b g Lavirco - Fleur d’Haguenet (Dark Stone) Age 4-8

Starts 10

Age 6 5 7 9 8 9 6 4 9 7 9 6 6 6 6 8 5 5 6 6 10 10 7 9 4 7

Sex G G G G G M G G G G G G M M M G G G M G M G M G F G

Wins 4

Places 3

Earned £60,023

REALT MOR b g 2005 High Top Top Ville

Sega Ville

BENEFICIAL b 90 Green Dancer Youthful First Bloom Exit To Nowhere SUEZ CANAL b 94 Cairene

Irish River Coup de Folie Artaius Jem Jen

Derring-Do Camenae Charlottesville La Sega Nijinsky Green Valley Primera Flower Dance Riverman Irish Star Halo Raise The Standard Round Table Stylish Pattern Great Nephew Io

Thanks to Mala Beach in the Gr2 novice hurdle, Call Rog in the Grade B hurdle and Realt Mor in the Gr1 Powers Gold Cup, Beneficial enjoyed an excellent treble on the opening day of Fairyhouse’s Grand National meeting – just a day after the Knockhouse Stud veteran had died at the age of 23. This treble extended Beneficial’s lead on the sires’ table to nearly £200,000, but only time will tell whether this will be enough to earn him a first sires’ championship.

A point-to-point winner in February 2009, Realt Mor didn’t make his debut under rules until he was six. As he raced only twice over hurdles, he was clearly regarded as a chaser, which is hardly surprising as he is a brother to Realt Dubh, an earner of more than £250,000 over fences. Realt Dubh’s victories include the 2011 Powers Gold Cup, so Realt Mor was completing a remarkable double.

Exit To Nowhere, the broodmare sire of the Gr1-winning brothers, also sired the high-class chaser Noland and the Scottish Champion Hurdle winner Milligan. However, it was during his earlier role as a Flat stallion in France that he sired Suez Canal, whose half-sister Guiza was a stakes winner in the USA, winning the Gr2 Palomar Handicap at Del Mar. She was also a Gr1 performer in France (third in the Criterium de SaintCloud) and the USA (second in the Gamely Handicap). Realt Dubh’s third dam Jem Jen won the Pretty Polly Stakes at Newmarket.

National Hunt Graded races Date 09/03 09/03 10/03 10/03 12/03 12/03 13/03 13/03 14/03 14/03 15/03 15/03 17/03 17/03 31/03 31/03 31/03 31/03 01/04 01/04 01/04 01/04 02/04 02/04 02/04 02/04

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Grade GrB G3 G3 GrB G3 G2 G3 G3 G2 G2 G3 G3 G3 G3 GrC G3 G2 GrB G2 G2 GrA GrB G3 G2 G3 GrB

Race (course) Shamrock H Chase (Gowran Park) NH Novice' H Hurdle (Sandown Park) Naas Directos Plate Novice Chase (Naas) Leinster National H Chase (Naas) JLT Specialty H Chase (Cheltenham) David Nicholson Mares' Hurdle (Cheltenham) Coral Cup H Hurdle (Cheltenham) Fred Winter Juvenile H Hurdle (Cheltenham) Byrne Group Plate H Chase (Cheltenham) Golden Miller Novices' Chase (Cheltenham) Grand Annual Challenge Cup Chase (Cheltenham) Vincent O'Brien County H Hurdle (Cheltenham) Dawn Run Mares Novice Chase (Limerick) Shannon Spray Novice Hurdle (Limerick) Easter H Hurdle (Cork) Imperial Call Chase (Cork) Coolmore NH Sires Novice Hurdle (Fairyhouse) Novice H Hurdle Series Final (Fairyhouse) Keelings Irish Strawberry Hurdle (Fairyhouse) Rathbarry And Glenview Studs Novice Hurdle (Fairyhouse) Irish Grand National H Chase (Fairyhouse) Ladbrokes.com H Chase (Fairyhouse) John And Chich Fowler Memorial Mares Chase (Fairyhouse) Normans Grove Chase (Fairyhouse) Weatherbys Ireland GSB Hurdle (Fairyhouse) Www.The Tote.Com H Hurdle (Fairyhouse)

Dist 18f 20f 20f 24f 24.5f 20f 21f 16.5f 21f 20f 16.5f 17f 22f 16f 19f 24f 20f 24f 20f 16f 29f 17f 20f 17f 16f 16f

Horse Competitive Edge (IRE) Close Touch (GB) Dedigout (IRE) Rich Revival (IRE) Golden Chieftain (IRE) Quevala (FR) Medinas (FR) Flaxen Flare (IRE) Carrickboy (IRE) Benefficient (IRE) Alderwood (IRE) Ted Veale (IRE) Charlie's Vic (IRE) Missunited (IRE) Byerley Babe (IRE) Roi Du Mee (FR) Mala Beach (IRE) Call Rog (IRE) Dressedtothenines (IRE) Pique Sous (FR) Liberty Councel (IRE) Carlowsantana (IRE) Nadiya De La Vega (FR) Foildubh (IRE) One Fine Day (IRE) Captain Arceus (IRE)

Sire Presenting Generous Bob Back Turtle Island Tikkanen Kendor Malinas Windsor Knot Silver Patriarch Beneficial Alderbrook Revoque Old Vic Golan Beneficial Lavirco Beneficial Beneficial Oscar Martaline Leading Counsel Blue Ocean Lost World Woods of Windsor Choisir Captain Rio

Dam Sanghasta Romantic Dream Dainty Daisy Rich Desire Golden Flower France Rodney Medicis Golden Angel Alaskan Princess Supreme Breda Clamit Falls Rose Tanner Scoop Thirty Nine Lets Clic Together I Can Imagine British Nellerie Peppardstown Lady Fancy Regal Holly Six Fois Sept My Free Mantel VII Lees First Step Shinobie Bushey Glen Night Eyes Siana Springs

Broodmare Sire Un Desperado Bustino Buckskin Grey Desire Highland Chieftain Assert Sicyos Slew O' Gold Prince Rupert Supreme Leader Homo Sapien Roselier Petoski Don't Forget Me Husyan Le Pontet Old Vic Taipan Gildoran Epervier Blue Unregistered Reprimand Le Nain Jaune Roselier Night Shift Emarati

Index 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218

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DATA BOOK EXCLUSIVE STALLION STATISTICS

Leading National Hunt sires 2012/13 by earnings Name

Beneficial Oscar King's Theatre Flemensfirth Milan Presenting Bob Back Old Vic Montjeu Dom Alco Kayf Tara Alflora Network Alderbrook Witness Box Accordion Robin des Champs Karinga Bay Lavirco Stowaway Winged Love Midnight Legend Cadoudal Dr Massini Definite Article Heron Island Bob's Return Westerner Sadler's Wells Galileo Generous Dynaformer Pistolet Bleu Azamour Saddlers' Hall Shantou Anshan Martaline Agent Bleu Brian Boru Luso Jeremy Saint des Saints Cloudings Kahyasi Vinnie Roe Hernando Silver Patriarch Turgeon Solon Fair Mix Tiger Hill Poliglote Dushyantor Haafhd Malinas Gold Well Desert Prince Revoque Snurge King's Best Sir Harry Lewis Laveron Smadoun Overbury Sulamani Moscow Society Turtle Island Exit To Nowhere Shirocco Leading Counsel Morozov Supreme Leader Court Cave Mr Combustible Golan Beat Hollow Lord Americo Double Trigger Dubawi High Chaparral Cape Cross Catcher In The Rye Tikkanen Bishop Of Cashel Assessor Daylami Muhtathir Medicean Robin des Pres Kapgarde Craigsteel Red Ransom Doyen Norwich Zagreb Lando Arvico Blueprint Danehill Dancer

YOF

1990 1994 1991 1992 1998 1992 1981 1986 1996 1987 1994 1989 1997 1989 1987 1986 1997 1987 1993 1994 1992 1991 1979 1993 1992 1993 1990 1999 1981 1998 1988 1985 1988 2001 1988 1993 1987 1999 1987 2000 1992 2003 1998 1994 1985 1998 1990 1994 1986 1992 1998 1995 1992 1993 2001 2001 2001 1995 1994 1987 1997 1984 1995 1990 1991 1999 1985 1991 1988 2001 1982 1999 1982 2001 1998 1998 1997 1984 1991 2002 1999 1994 2000 1991 1992 1989 1994 1995 1997 1994 1999 1995 1987 2000 1987 1993 1990 1998 1995 1993

Sire

Top Ville Sadler's Wells Sadler's Wells Alleged Sadler's Wells Mtoto Roberto Sadler's Wells Sadler's Wells Dom Pasquini Sadler's Wells Niniski Monsun Ardross Lyphard Sadler's Wells Garde Royale Ardross Konigsstuhl Slip Anchor In The Wings Night Shift Green Dancer Sadler's Wells Indian Ridge Shirley Heights Bob Back Danehill Northern Dancer Sadler's Wells Caerleon Roberto Top Ville Night Shift Sadler's Wells Alleged Persian Bold Linamix Vacarme Sadler's Wells Salse Danehill Dancer Cadoudal Sadler's Wells Ile de Bourbon Definite Article Niniski Saddlers' Hall Caro Local Suitor Linamix Danehill Sadler's Wells Sadler's Wells Alhaarth Lomitas Sadler's Wells Green Desert Fairy King Ela-Mana-Mou Kingmambo Alleged Konigsstuhl Kaldoun Caerleon Hernando Nijinsky Fairy King Irish River Monsun Alleged Sadler's Wells Bustino Sadler's Wells Hernando Spectrum Sadler's Wells Lord Gayle Ela-Mana-Mou Dubai Millennium Sadler's Wells Green Desert Danehill Cozzene Warning Niniski Doyoun Elmaamul Machiavellian Cadoudal Garde Royale Suave Dancer Roberto Sadler's Wells Top Ville Theatrical Acatenango Pistolet Bleu Generous Danehill

Rnrs

294 312 210 257 253 305 75 205 62 26 134 138 16 88 55 70 20 106 19 32 67 78 11 100 115 87 41 96 56 60 79 16 16 17 67 48 87 22 3 71 84 7 14 62 26 56 32 60 31 2 44 46 15 45 21 9 29 17 60 32 41 57 21 11 90 23 64 56 65 16 4 14 25 51 16 55 33 38 25 17 52 33 58 42 19 7 23 8 39 9 28 50 24 29 39 53 14 2 27 37

Wnrs

93 84 64 72 82 77 27 55 19 12 41 33 7 23 17 25 10 30 9 11 14 29 5 29 29 18 13 28 20 15 23 10 3 6 12 16 19 7 3 14 18 3 8 16 7 15 11 11 14 1 8 11 7 15 5 5 6 4 10 9 14 17 9 5 20 11 15 6 15 7 2 7 6 12 4 10 8 14 5 7 9 10 12 7 2 3 9 4 10 4 11 6 3 6 9 8 6 1 11 6

%WR

31.6 26.9 30.5 28.0 32.4 25.3 36.0 26.8 30.7 46.2 30.6 23.9 43.8 26.1 30.9 35.7 50.0 28.3 47.4 34.4 20.9 37.2 45.5 29.0 25.2 20.7 31.7 29.2 35.7 25.0 29.1 62.5 18.8 35.3 17.9 33.3 21.8 31.8 100.0 19.7 21.4 42.9 57.1 25.8 26.9 26.8 34.4 18.3 45.2 50.0 18.2 23.9 46.7 33.3 23.8 55.6 20.7 23.5 16.7 28.1 34.2 29.8 42.9 45.5 22.2 47.8 23.4 10.7 23.1 43.8 50.0 50.0 24.0 23.5 25.0 18.2 24.2 36.8 20.0 41.2 17.3 30.3 20.7 16.7 10.5 42.9 39.1 50.0 25.6 44.4 39.3 12.0 12.5 20.7 23.1 15.1 42.9 50.0 40.7 16.2

Races

136 131 97 101 119 97 41 77 29 25 53 42 15 38 20 35 15 46 23 18 25 42 7 38 38 26 16 35 25 18 34 17 6 9 15 22 21 14 5 21 23 8 11 22 12 23 15 14 24 2 11 13 14 19 6 10 8 7 14 15 19 25 18 8 26 14 18 9 19 15 3 14 9 17 7 17 12 18 5 11 12 12 15 9 4 4 14 7 15 7 13 10 4 9 10 9 8 2 17 9

AWD

19.5 19.1 19.7 20.2 20.3 19.9 21.2 20.2 20.0 22.3 20.3 20.3 18.6 19.7 23.0 19.6 20.1 19.9 19.7 17.7 21.0 19.4 24.2 19.5 19.8 18.5 21.8 18.7 19.6 18.1 19.4 18.1 18.9 16.8 20.7 18.8 20.6 18.1 18.2 19.3 20.3 16.1 17.3 21.1 20.5 18.6 19.2 21.3 20.4 21.5 18.1 17.8 16.7 21.4 16.8 19.9 18.2 17.7 19.6 21.9 17.7 21.0 22.0 17.9 20.2 17.1 20.8 21.4 19.1 16.7 25.8 18.6 20.7 18.6 23.2 17.8 19.2 21.0 23.7 16.5 17.4 18.2 18.1 20.9 23.1 21.3 18.7 18.1 17.7 16.4 19.0 21.2 19.5 17.1 17.5 19.6 19.3 18.5 18.6 16.4

Earnings (£)

1,510,705 1,448,551 1,387,291 1,257,492 1,015,540 968,616 960,215 753,957 667,176 555,381 457,501 415,709 409,231 383,229 382,572 376,566 374,853 343,362 317,371 312,490 304,263 288,870 288,805 288,022 269,824 262,775 262,478 256,704 251,036 245,278 241,618 235,943 231,636 225,384 218,864 216,994 208,064 201,502 200,444 198,769 194,902 188,838 186,773 179,767 179,766 179,703 177,854 177,586 177,173 174,311 167,662 165,947 163,783 161,991 161,638 160,657 160,076 158,951 158,163 157,918 156,623 155,515 155,498 154,158 151,649 150,090 149,046 144,938 144,633 140,642 140,134 135,099 133,965 132,236 131,814 130,367 129,662 129,096 127,947 121,181 119,541 116,893 115,670 113,619 113,471 109,963 107,573 107,064 106,533 104,526 103,098 99,890 97,491 96,975 96,812 95,256 93,404 90,864 90,787 88,757

Top horse

Benefficient At Fishers Cross Cue Card Tidal Bay Jezki First Lieutenant Bobs Worth Panther Claw Hurricane Fly Silviniaco Conti The Package Wishfull Thinking Sprinter Sacre For Non Stop Colbert Station Gus Macrae Sir des Champs Sweeney Tunes Roi du Mee Champagne Fever Bless The Wings Noble Legend Long Run Rocky Creek Pride Of The Artic Trustan Times Bob Lingo Grandioso Big Occasion Celestial Halo Close Touch Cause Of Causes Sizing Europe Zarkandar Jadanli Briar Hill Ackertac Dynaste Rebel Fitz Noras Fancy Chicago Grey Our Conor Lyreen Legend Cloudy Too Vino Griego Our Vinnie Cape Tribulation Carrickboy Tarquinius Solwhit Simonsig Ghizao Far West Great Oak Countrywide Flame Medinas Holywell My Tent Or Yours Ted Veale The Disengager His Excellency Harry Topper Katenko Smad Place Swift Arrow Rule The World Mossey Joe Rich Revival Art Of Logistics Annie Power Liberty Counsel Opening Batsman Lastoftheleaders Champion Court Same Difference She Ranks Me Tweedledrum Bangonform Faltering Fullback Dodging Bullets Hadrian's Approach Ruacana Shesonlyahorse Golden Chieftain Tofino Bay Reve de Sivola Tetlami Twinlight Speed Dial Petit Robin Edgardo Sol What A Steel Zaidpour Kumbeshwar Far Away So Close River Maigue Akorakor Arvika Ligeonniere Quaddick Lake Forgotten Voice

Earned (£)

115,599 115,433 281,971 127,779 117,444 121,709 398,650 48,036 371,972 195,118 42,326 112,333 316,029 78,200 106,037 46,275 208,748 47,047 104,517 132,998 38,407 48,999 215,150 35,900 41,417 66,516 115,154 35,442 50,797 61,966 46,745 159,131 198,968 162,271 46,098 38,097 28,752 70,510 187,673 36,419 24,735 125,978 49,925 30,406 64,087 41,842 96,333 68,424 40,198 174,312 118,418 39,979 66,576 37,304 110,018 82,661 68,939 124,368 64,860 40,854 61,750 30,143 70,324 48,749 13,462 65,019 15,667 42,571 18,766 98,964 127,251 70,847 56,187 30,964 46,345 36,746 32,260 16,217 80,333 42,100 33,865 27,654 18,303 71,997 100,501 98,510 20,695 54,026 23,083 62,891 34,223 19,530 68,203 58,138 17,319 17,996 24,187 86,667 21,071 21,159

Beneficial bonanza at the Festival – and he even benefited from Foxhunter mishap!

Cheltenham had an impact on the table, but not a hugely significant one, and with Grand National winner Auroras Encore sired by Second Empire nothing dramatic will happen overall when that result is included next month.

It will change Second Empire’s position pretty dramatically though, since this time around he is in 291st place with earnings of £21,452.

Last month’s leader Beneficial retains his standing thanks to being the most successful stallion in terms of winners at the Festival. None of the late stallion’s trio – Benefficient, Salubrious and Salsify – landed a Grade 1 event but to get that many on target at the most competitive meeting of the season is a fine achievement.

Mind you, Salsify’s victory in the Foxhunter Chase clearly owed something to good fortune. Had Oscar Delta not unseated his rider on the run-in there might well have been another strike (and £24,000) for second-placed Oscar, who enjoyed a fine meeting through the Grade 1 successes of At Fishers Cross and Lord Windermere.

King’s Theatre also had a pair of winners at the highest level, Cue Card and The New One. Another three of his progeny, African Gold, Baily Green and Regal Encore, finished second in Grade 1s, giving him the clear advantage in quality over the four days.

The only other sire to be responsible for more than one scorer was Bob Back, with Be In Focus and Bobs Worth.

The remaining winners showed considerable variation in their background, with one each for Alderbrook (Alderwood), Fair Mix (Simonsig), Gold Well (Holywell), Jeremy (Our Conor), Malinas (Medinas), Milan (Big Shu), Montjeu (Hurricane Fly), Mr Combustible (Same Difference), Network (Sprinter Sacre), Presenting (Rajdhani Express), Revoque (Ted Veale), Robin Des Champs (Quevega), Shantou (Briar Hill), Silver Patriarch (Carrickboy), Solon (Solwhit), Stowaway (Champagne Fever), Tikkanen (Golden Chieftain) and Windsor Knot (Flaxen Flare).

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G. P. de Honor - Copa J y C Menditeguy Gran Premio Gilberto Lerena Gran Premio Santiago Luro Gran Premio Saturnino J Unzue G. P. Miguel Alfredo Martinez de Hoz Clasico Ricardo y E Fernandez Guerrico Clasico America Clasico Pedro E y Manuel A Crespo Clasico Irlanda Clasico Arturo A Bullrich Premio General Arenales

10.0f 11.0f 6.0f 6.0f 10.0f 8.0f 8.0f 7.5f 5.0f 6.0f 5.0f

Arte Pop (ARG) Candy Marie (ARG) Todo Tango Key (ARG) Wanna Dance (ARG) Flowing Rye (ARG) Infiltrada (ARG) Music Van (ARG) Sabayon (ARG) Un Clasico (ARG) Sound Music (ARG) Kuznetsova (ARG)

Todo Tango Key extended his unbeaten record to four with a one and a half-length defeat of the outsider Saharien. He is the leading early colt but his time was 1.71s slower than that of Wanna Dance in the GP Saturnino J Unzue two races earlier. She had been beaten twice over four furlongs before completing a hat-trick in less Australia 30/03 30/03 23/03 23/03 23/03 22/03 16/03 09/03 09/03 09/03 30/03 30/03 30/03 23/03 23/03 23/03 22/03 16/03 15/03 11/03 11/03 09/03 09/03 09/03 09/03 09/03 30/03 30/03 30/03 30/03 24/03 20/03 16/03 16/03 09/03 09/03 09/03

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M J Bale Rosehill Guineas Canterbury BMW The Galaxy Cellarbrations Canterbury Stakes Coolmore Classic Ranvet Rawson Stakes Hacer Group William Reid Stakes Royal Randwick Guineas Lexus Newmarket Handicap Darley Australian Cup Chipping Norton Stakes Bowermans Pago Pago Stakes Pararmatta Leagues Magic Night Stakes Hyland Race Colours Ajax Stakes Spotless Todman Stakes Moet & Chandon Reisling Slipper Trial Spotless Phar Lap Stakes Sportingbet Sunline Stakes Challenge Stakes Sportingbet Alister Clark Stakes Centrebet Yallambee Classic Adelaide Casino Adelaide Cup Henry Bucks Sires' Produce Stakes Surround Stakes TAB Kewney Stakes Blamey Stakes Blamey Stakes Tab Epona Stakes Le Pines Funerals Easter Cup Ascend Sales Birthday Card Stakes Zaidee's Rainbow Victoria Handicap Illawarra Mercury Keith F Nolan Classic Enviropacific Newmarket Handicap Skyline Stakes Sweet Embrace Stakes TBV Thoroughbred Breeders' Stakes Schweppervescence Matron Stakes Liverpool City Cup

Royal Ascot is back on Black Caviar’s agenda after a crowd of 25,000, many waving flags in her colours of pink with black spots, saw what looked like a routine exercise gallop as she routed the opposition in the William Reid Stakes. In posting her 24th straight win she equalled the Australian record of 14 Group 1 triumphs and, with connections believing that she is better than ever, a return visit to Berkshire is under consideration.

Ascot could also be a destination for Shamexpress after the three-year-old got up on the line to nail Black Caviar’s stablemate Moment Of Change in the Newmarket Handicap. Winning trainer Danny O’Brien, who saddled Star Brazil 17/03 17/03 30/03

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demanding company at La Plata and started second favourite behind Emirate’s Girl, an impressive winner of her only race. Wanna Dance scored by four lengths from the 14-1 chance Norina, with Emirate’s Girl the same distance back in third.

Haras La Quebrada, owner-breeders of Wanna Dance, and trainer and jockey 10.0f 5.5f 6.5f 7.5f 10.0f 6.0f 8.0f 6.0f 10.0f 8.0f 6.0f 6.0f 7.5f 6.0f 6.0f 7.5f 8.0f 5.0f 10.0f 6.0f 16.0f 7.0f 7.0f 7.0f 8.0f 8.0f 9.5f 10.0f 6.0f 7.0f 8.0f 7.0f 6.0f 6.0f 6.0f 8.0f 6.5f

Dundeel (NZ) Bel Sprinter (AUS) Pierro (AUS) Appearance (AUS) Foreteller (GB) Black Caviar (AUS) Dundeel (NZ) Shamexpress (NZ) Super Cool (AUS) Shoot Out (AUS) Sidestep (AUS) Scandiva (AUS) Havana Rey (AUS) Criterion (NZ) Overreach (AUS) Toydini (AUS) Spirit Song (AUS) Snitzerland (AUS) Hvasstan (AUS) Lonhspresso (AUS) Norsqui (AUS) Twilight Royale (AUS) Dear Demi (AUS) Flying Snitzel (AUS) Puissance de Lune (IRE) Budriguez (AUS) Aliyana Tilde (AUS) Jet Away (GB) Arinosa (AUS) Budriguez (AUS) Cameo (AUS) Bello (AUS) All The Talk (AUS) Romantic Moon (AUS) Montsegur (AUS) Bonaria (AUS) Skyerush (AUS)

Witness to be placed twice at the Royal meeting two years ago, is keen on another British adventure.

The month’s other big sprint, the Galaxy, was won by Bel Sprinter, who blew the start as usual yet was over three lengths clear at the winning post.

This was just the 15th appearance for the injury-plagued five-year-old, who was returning from a near five-month break and a wind operation to maintain his impeccable first-time-out record.

Pierro has already run 12 times before the end of his three-year-old career and proved he still has what it takes almost a year after winning the Juvenile Triple Crown when beating the eight-time Group 1-winning mare More

G.P. Francisco E Paula Machado-Stud TNT Grande Premio Diana-Stud TNT Grande Premio Luiz Fernando Cirne Lima

10.0f 10.0f 7.0f

Holding Glory (BRZ) Sutil (BRZ) Billy Girl (BRZ)

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Broodmare Sire

Mutakddim (USA) Pure Prize (USA) Key Deputy (USA) The Leopard (USA) Catcher In The Rye (IRE) Footstepsinthesand (GB) Van Nistelrooy (USA) Orpen (USA) Mutakddim (USA) Storm Surge (USA) Russian Blue (IRE)

Arteba (ARG) Candy Of Mine (ARG) La Mistonga (ARG) Wannabe (ARG) Stormy Flo (ARG) Ibella (ARG) Music Parade (ARG) Sabatica Fitz (ARG) Gambuzina (ARG) Saga (ARG) Es Favorita (ARG)

Southern Halo (USA) Candy Stripes (USA) Tempranero (CHI) Mutakddim (USA) Bernstein (USA) Lode (USA) Parade Marshal (USA) Fitzcarraldo (ARG) Grand Chelem Roy (USA) Escoltado (ARG)

Isidoro San Millan and Jorge Ruiz Diaz, also triumphed with Arte Pop in the GP de Honor on April 1. Arte Pop had won last year’s GP Santiago Luro but did not race again for nine months. This was his first try beyond a mile but he disposed of another three-year-old, Julius Top, by four lengths, and is on a run of six wins in seven outings.

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High Chaparral (IRE) Bel Esprit (AUS) Lonhro (AUS) Commands (AUS) Dansili (GB) Bel Esprit (AUS) High Chaparral (IRE) O'Reilly (NZ) Fastnet Rock (AUS) High Chaparral (IRE) Exceed And Excel (AUS) Fastnet Rock (AUS) King Cugat (USA) Sebring (AUS) Exceed And Excel (AUS) Bernardini (USA) Invincible Spirit (IRE) Snitzel (AUS) Fastnet Rock (AUS) Lonhro (AUS) Matsqui (AUS) Testa Rossa (AUS) Dehere (USA) Snitzel (AUS) Shamardal (USA) Al Maher (AUS) Snitzel (AUS) Cape Cross (IRE) Dash For Cash (AUS) Al Maher (AUS) Shamardal (USA) Exceed And Excel (AUS) Stratum (AUS) More Than Ready (USA) New Approach (IRE) Redoute's Choice (AUS) Super Jet (USA)

Stareel (NZ) Gavroche (AUS) Right Note (IRE) Disguise (AUS) Prophecy (IRE) Helsinge (AUS) Stareel (NZ) Volkrose (NZ) Queen Mother (USA) Pentamerous (NZ) Dextrous (AUS) Scandinavia (AUS) Dydeedoe (AUS) Mica's Pride (AUS) Bahia (AUS) Johan's Toy (AUS) Lightning Rules (AUS) Monte Rosa (AUS) Snow Hero (AUS) As Simple As That (AUS) Esprit du Nord (AUS) Royal Season (AUS) Shirley (AUS) Hula Flight (NZ) Princess Serena (USA) Deni (AUS) Patronella (AUS) Kalima (GB) Amoroso (AUS) Deni (AUS) Portrait of A Lady (USA) Cara Bella (GB) Weekend Gossip (AUS) Tropical Affair (AUS) Chatoyant (AUS) Decidity (AUS) Bally Aura (AUS)

Joyous in the Canterbury Stakes.

Kiwi visitor It’s A Dundeel, who began the month finishing fourth to Pierro over an inadequate seven furlongs, looks set to become the first horse since Octagonal in 1996 to complete the Sydney Autumn Triple Crown for three-year-olds. He had firsttime blinkers when taking the first leg, the Randwick Guineas, by half a length and sported them once more when landing the second, the Rosehill Guineas, by almost seven lengths.

His only real adversary at the top of the three-year-old staying division is Fiveandahalfstar, who of late has twice had to settle for second place in an allaged race. He was beaten a short head 4 4 3

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The GP Gilberto Lerena was a triumph for stallion Pure Prize. Already sire of 2010 winner Ollagua (one of her five G1 victories), the son of Storm Cat supplied the first three on this occasion with Candy Marie, Sea Brava and Girlie. Candy Marie won just a maiden in her first nine outings but has added a G3, G2 and now G1 in her next three.

Zabeel (NZ) Snippets (AUS) Daylami (IRE) Grand Lodge (USA) Warning Desert Sun (GB) Zabeel (NZ) Volksraad (GB) Kingmambo (USA) Pentire (GB) Quest For Fame Snippets (AUS) King of Kings (IRE) Bite The Bullet (USA) Snippets (AUS) Johan Cruyff (GB) Kingston Rule (USA) Fraar (USA) True Hero (USA) Grand Lodge (USA) Celtic Spirit (NZ) Royal Academy (USA) Zabeel (NZ) Hula Town (NZ) Unbridled's Song (USA) St Covet (AUS) Mister C (USA) Kahyasi Revoque (IRE) St Covet (AUS) A P Indy (USA) Seeking The Gold (USA) Hussonet (USA) Danehill (USA) Flying Spur (AUS) Last Tycoon Bellotto (USA)

by the horse who chased him home in November’s Victoria Derby, Super Cool, in the Australian Cup, then found Foreteller half a length too strong in the Ranvet Stakes. A late-developing six-year-old, Foreteller began his career in France with David Smaga before being bought by his current handler, Chris Waller, for 100,000gns in Newmarket in October 2010.

Waller added another Group 1 prize to his cv when Shoot Out took the Chipping Norton Stakes for the second consecutive year, but was edged out in a finish of two noses when Appearance got the better of his Red Tracer and Norzita in the Coolmore Classic.

Mexican Daisy (BRZ) Sweet Biscuit (BRZ) Lizzy Girl (BRZ)

Jules (USA) Effervescing (USA) Lode (USA)

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Argentine-based jockey Jorge Ricardo came back to Gavea to partner the favourites in the Rio Guineas on February 10. Holding Glory finished fifth and Sutil was sixth, and both reverted to jockeys who had previously Chile 16/03 16/03 09/03

G1 G3 G3

G1 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3

New Zealand G1 30/03 G1 16/03 G1 09/03 G1 09/03 G1 06/03 G2 30/03 G2 23/03 G3 30/03 G3 16/03 G3 09/03 G3 06/03 G3 06/03

South Africa G1 30/03 G1 30/03 G1 30/03 G3 30/03 G3 30/03 G3 30/03 G3 30/03 G3 30/03 G3 24/03

6.0f 10.0f 12.5f 9.0f 15.0f 7.0f 8.0f 9.0f 9.0f 7.0f 9.0f 9.0f 10.0f

Wilgerbosdrift South African Classic (f) South African Classic H F Oppenheimer Horse Chestnut Stakes Pretty Polly Stakes Protea Stakes Man O'War Sprint Caradoc Gold Cup Jacaranda Handicap Kings Cup

The first seven home from the Gauteng Guineas four weeks earlier reopposed in the SA Classic and it was the seventh of them, Love Struck, who prevailed this time, edging out the Guineas winner Tellina by a nose and United Arab Emirates G1 30/03 Emirates Airline Dubai World Cup G1 30/03 Longines Dubai Sheema Classic G1 30/03 Dubai Duty Free Stakes G1 30/03 Emirates NBD Al Quoz Sprint G1 30/03 Gulf News Dubai Golden Shaheen Stakes G1 09/03 Emirates Airline Al Maktoum Challenge R3 G1 09/03 Emirates Airline Jebel Hatta

Sabor A Triunfo (CHI) El Cantante (CHI) Safawi (CHI)

Lord Kanaloa (JPN) Orfevre (JPN) Fenomeno (JPN) Logotype (JPN) Gold Ship (JPN) Meisho Mambo (JPN) Tokei Halo (JPN) Grand City (JPN) Kizuna (JPN) Impulse Hero (JPN) Sakura Plaisir (JPN) Meine Isabel (JPN) Satono Apollo (JPN)

the five-year-old should be regarded as the world’s best sprinter. Lord Kanaloa had proved himself on the global stage

Oaks Stud Manawatu Sires' Prod. Stakes Wellfield New Zealand Oaks Haunui Fm. Diamond Sires' Produce Stakes Lindauer New Zealand 2nd Century Stakes Barfoot and Thompson Auckland Cup Lawnmaster Awapuni Gold Cup Windsor Park Stud Japan NZ Int. Trophy Higgins Manawatu Classic teakaustud.co.nz Cuddle Stakes NZB Insurance Pearl Series Mr Tiz Trophy Mckee Family Sunline Vase Westbury Classic

Sangster, who endured a long drought after landing the 2011 Victoria Derby in Australia, notched his third straight win (two Group 1s and a Group 2) when taking advantage of a lenient handicap mark in magnificent style in the Auckland Cup. But the most impressive

10.0f 6.0f 6.0f

was one of six home-trained hopes, opposed by three each from Argentina, Brazil and Peru and one from Uruguay.

Few of them got into it thanks to the

Takamatsunomiya Kinen Sankei Osaka Hai Nikkei Sho Fuji-TV Sho Spring Stakes (Gns Trial) Hanshin Daishoten Hochi Hai Revue (fillies GnsTrial) Lord Derby Challenge Trophy March Stakes Mainichi Hai Chunichi Sports Sho Falcon Stakes Flower Cup Laurel R.C. Sho Nakayama Himba Stakes Chunichi Shimbun Hai

Lord Kanaloa’s decisive success in the Takamatsunomiya Kinen prompted his jockey, Yasunari Iwata, to claim that

Ana Luisa (BRZ)

ridden them to victory when they reappeared in the second leg of the Triple Crowns. Carlos Lavor partnered Holding Glory to score by one and three-quarter lengths. But for a technicality, Holding Glory would have

GP.Asoc.Latinoamericana de Jockey Clubes Premio Seleccion de Potrillos Premio Seleccion de Potrancas

Sabor A Triunfo, who received a place in the field at the last minute, became the third filly to win the Latinoamericana in 29 runnings. She Japan 24/03 31/03 23/03 17/03 17/03 10/03 31/03 24/03 23/03 16/03 16/03 10/03 09/03

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7.0f 12.0f 6.0f 10.0f 16.0f 10.0f 8.0f 10.0f 8.0f 6.0f 10.5f 7.0f

Recite (NZ) More Than Sacred (AUS) Ruud Awakening (AUS) Ocean Park (NZ) Sangster (NZ) Better Than Ever (AUS) Our Famous Eve (NZ) Survived (NZ) O'Fille (NZ) So Wotif (NZ) More Than Sacred (AUS) Diademe (NZ)

performance of the Auckland Cup Carnival came from the juvenile daughter of Bernardini, Ruud Awakening, who clocked a scorching 68.78s in the Diamond Stakes to book herself a supplementary entry to the Golden Slipper Stakes over in Australia.

Al Strada came out best of the colts 9.0f 9.0f 8.0f 5.5f 5.5f 5.5f 14.0f 9.0f 8.0f

Cherry On The Top (SAF) Love Struck (SAF) Slumdogmillionaire (SAF) Arcetri Pink (AUS) Olympic Owen (SAF) Alcanina (SAF) Masai Warrior (SAF) Cherry On The Cake (SAF) Pessoa (SAF)

then surviving a stewards’ enquiry.

But the Gauteng Fillies Guineas form was upheld in the SA Fillies Classic, with the first two home, Cherry On The Top and Do You Remember, again filling the top two positions, although 10.0f 12.0f 9.0f 5.0f 6.0f 10.0f 9.0f

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Animal Kingdom (USA) St Nicholas Abbey (IRE) Sajjhaa (GB) Shea Shea (SAF) Reynaldothewizard (USA) Hunter's Light (IRE) Sajjhaa (GB)

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Elusive Quality (USA)

New Regina (BRZ)

already moved to California. His owner, Luiz Fernando Dannemann, has fallen out of love with Brazilian racing and will be relocating to the United States the few horses that he retains. Sutil had won the GP Osvaldo Aranha over one 4 3 3

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Dance Brightly (CAN) Newfoundland (USA) Seeking The Dia (USA)

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King Kamehameha (JPN) Stay Gold (JPN) Stay Gold (JPN) Lohengrin (JPN) Stay Gold (JPN) Suzuka Mambo (JPN) Gold Halo (JPN) King Kamehameha (JPN) Deep Impact (JPN) Kurofune (USA) Sakura President (JPN) Telegnosis (JPN) Symboli Kris S (USA)

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Darci Brahma (NZ) More Than Ready (USA) Bernardini (USA) Thorn Park (AUS) Savabeel (AUS) French Deputy (USA) Fast 'n' Famous (AUS) Zed (NZ) O'Reilly (NZ) Iffraaj (GB) More Than Ready (USA) Savabeel (AUS)

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Tiger Ridge (USA) Kahal (GB) Strike Smartly (CAN) Rock of Gibraltar (IRE) Jay Peg (SAF) Mogok (USA) Wolfhound (USA) Strike Smartly (CAN) Go Deputy (USA)

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Leroidesanimaux (BRZ) Montjeu (IRE) King's Best (USA) National Emblem (SAF) Speightstown (USA) Dubawi (IRE) King's Best (USA)

Traditionally (USA) Danehill (USA) Danehill (USA) Zabeel (NZ) Spectrum (IRE) Unbridled's Song (USA) Exploding Prospect (USA) Generous (IRE) Grosvenor (NZ) Geiger Counter (USA) Danehill (USA) O'Reilly (NZ)

win with a much more clear-cut triumph in the New Zealand Oaks.

Ocean Park left for Dubai a week after again proving himself among Australasia’s best in the New Zealand Stakes, but a career-ending injury meant he could finish no better than 12th in the Dubai Duty Free.

Carolina Cherry (SAF) Particular Passion (SAF) Make A Million (AUS) Arcetri (AUS) Kelly's Olympics (USA) In The Gloaming (SAF) Serengetti (SAF) Carolina Cherry (SAF) Printemp (ARG)

this time Cherry On Top extended her winning margin to an imperious five and a quarter lengths.

Slumdogmillionaire was absent for nine months because of a bone chip in a foreleg after winning the 2012 SA

Storm Cat (USA) Mejiro McQueen (JPN) Danehill (USA) Sunday Silence (USA) Mejiro McQueen (JPN) Grass Wonder (USA) Mill George (USA) Brian's Time (USA) Storm Cat (USA) Sunday Silence (USA) Brian's Time (USA) Sunday Silence (USA) Bering

defeating Dream Valentino, the best of his 16 opponents, by a length and a quarter.

Chant (NZ) Danalaga (AUS) Dawn Almighty (AUS) Sayyida (NZ) Quinta Special (IRE) Songfest (AUS) Expoeve (NZ) Liberal (NZ) La Fille (NZ) Electricity (AUS) Danalaga (AUS) Bling (NZ)

in the Diamond, beaten over four lengths in third, and he franked the form when taking second, this time just a length and a half behind another filly, Recite, in the Sires’ Produce Stakes.

More Than Sacred, who lost her maiden tag only on January 23, followed up her narrow Sunline Vase

Mash One (CHI) African Dancer (USA) Indian Lodge (IRE)

inside the final furlong and was driven right out to score by five lengths from Energia Eros, with Giant's Steps back in third.

Lady Blossom (JPN) Oriental Art (JPN) De Laroche (IRE) Stereotype (JPN) Point Flag (JPN) Meisho Momoka (JPN) Dance Queen (JPN) Lady Classic (JPN) Catequil (CAN) Classical Taste (JPN) Sakura Prestige (JPN) Meine Regina (JPN) Miss Berbere (FR)

in December when running away with the Hong Kong Sprint and justified prohibitive odds of 30-100 here by 3 4 3 5 5 7 5 4 6 4 4 5

and a half miles on November 17 so it was asking quite a lot of her to revert to one mile for the Guineas. Vagner Borges teamed up with Sutil again for a half-length success – his first top-flight victory.

Sally Mash (CHI) Rafaela Carra (CHI) Sirena Del Egeo (CHI)

strong pace set by the Santiago Derby winner Giant's Steps. David Sanchez was hard at work on Sabor A Triunfo well before the straight but she led

Royal Academy (USA)

Fort Wood (USA) Rambo Dancer (CAN) Last Tycoon Galileo (IRE) Kingmambo (USA) Lambent Light (USA) Jallad (USA) Fort Wood (USA) Ringaro (USA)

Classic. Again wearing the blinkers that had prompted a return to form in a minor event on his previous start, he showed a most willing attitude to land a second Group 1 in the Horse Chestnut Stakes, just catching Whiteline Fever.

Dalicia (GER) Leaping Water (GB) Anaamil (IRE) Yankee Clipper (SAF) Holiday Runner (USA) Portmanteau (GB) Anaamil (IRE)

Acatenango (GER) Sure Blade (USA) Darshaan Jallad (USA) Meadowlake (USA) Barathea (IRE) Darshaan

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Animal Kingdom has, owing to injury, gained little international attention since his Triple Crown quest after his 2011 Kentucky Derby triumph ended in unfortunate defeats in the Preakness and the Belmont. Again unlucky in the Breeders’ Cup Mile last October, the five-year-old, for whom all surfaces seem to come the same, be they grass, dirt or synthetic, finally showed us how good he is in the Dubai World Cup. Next stop is the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot. The Brits had been having United States G1 30/03 G1 16/03 30/03 G2 30/03 G2 30/03 G2 30/03 G2 30/03 G2 24/03 G2 23/03 G2 17/03 G2 16/03 G2 16/03 G2 16/03 G2 09/03 G2 09/03 G2 09/03 G2 30/03 G3 30/03 G3 30/03 G3 30/03 G3 24/03 G3 23/03 G3 23/03 G3 23/03 G3 23/03 G3 16/03 G3 10/03 G3 09/03 G3 09/03 G3 09/03 G3 03/03 G3

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a pretty ordinary Dubai World Cup night up until the big race itself and they didn’t win it but, thanks to the exploits of Animal Kingdom’s three closest pursuers – Red Cadeaux, Planteur and Side Glance – they managed to plunder £2.15 million even in defeat.

The Irish, and in particular Aidan O’Brien, enjoyed a rather better evening. The master of Ballydoyle saddled the Kentucky Derby-bound Lines Of Battle to beat his fellow countryman Elleval in a ridiculously

Besilu Stables Florida Derby Santa Margarita Stakes Louisiana Derby Fair Grounds Oaks Gulfstream Oaks Mervin Muniz Jr Handicap New Orleans Handicap Santa Ana Stakes Pan American Stakes Inside Information Stakes Rebel Stakes San Luis Rey Stakes Honey Fox Stakes San Felipe Stakes Tampa Bay Derby Gulfstream Park Handicap Skip Away Stakes Orchid Stakes Rampart Stakes Appleton Stakes Sunland Derby Horseshoe Casino Spiral Stakes Fathead Bourbonette Oaks Tokyo City Cup Stakes Excelsior Stakes Azeri Stakes Las Flores Stakes Honeybee Stakes Razorback Handicap Hillsborough Stakes Palm Beach Stakes

The first Grade 1 clue of the year en route to the Kentucky Derby was provided by the Florida Derby. The easy two and three-quarter length winner was Orb, who will probably again go up

9.5f 8.0f 12.0f 16.0f 11.0f 8.0f 6.0f

9.0f 9.0f 9.0f 8.5f 9.0f 9.0f 9.0f 9.0f 12.0f 7.0f 8.5f 12.0f 8.0f 8.5f 8.5f 8.0f 9.5f 12.0f 9.0f 8.0f 9.0f 9.0f 8.0f 12.0f 9.0f 8.5f 6.5f 8.5f 8.5f 9.0f 9.0f

Orb (USA) Joyful Victory (CAN) Revolutionary (USA) Unlimited Budget (USA) Dreaming of Julia (USA) Amira's Prince (IRE) Graydar (USA) Tiz Flirtatious (USA) Twilight Eclipse (USA) Aubby K (USA) Will Take Charge (USA) Bright Thought (USA) Centre Court (USA) Hear The Ghost (USA) Verrazano (USA) Discreet Dancer (USA) Cigar Street (USA) Regalo Mia (USA) Ciao Bella (USA) Za Approval (USA) Govenor Charlie (USA) Black Onyx (USA) Silsita (USA) Sky Kingdom (USA) Last Gunfighter (USA) Tiz Miz Sue (USA) Rumor (USA) Rose To Gold (USA) Cyber Secret (USA) Old Tune (BRZ) Rydilluc (USA)

against the runner-up, Itsmyluckyday, at Churchill Downs on May 4 as he bids to give veteran trainer Shug McGaughey a first success in the Run For The Roses.

The Kentucky Oaks picture is rather

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War Front (USA) National Assembly (CAN) Storming Home (GB) Halling (USA) Halling (USA) Pivotal (GB) Speightstown (USA)

Black Speck (USA) Gardener's Delight (USA) Claba di San Jore (IRE) Silversword (FR) Dramatique (GB) Blixen (USA) Holiday Runner (USA)

slowly-run UAE Derby, prior to doubling up in the Dubai Sheema Classic when St Nicholas Abbey downed the Japan Cup heroine Gentildonna.

Two crack Eddie Lynam-trained sprinters bagged a good share of the incredible prize-money on offer, Balmont Mast chasing home Reynaldothewizard in the Golden Shaheen and Sole Power taking fourth behind Shea Shea in the Al Quoz Sprint.

The Godolphin team kept two of the 3 5 3 3 3 4 4 5 4 4 3 4 4 3 3 4 4 4 4 5 3 3 3 4 4 6 5 3 4 5 3

C M C F F C C M G F C C F C C C C F F G C C F C C M M F C M C

Malibu Moon (USA) Tapit (USA) War Pass (USA) Street Sense (USA) A P Indy (USA) Teofilo (IRE) Unbridled's Song (USA) Tizbud (USA) Purim (USA) Street Sense (USA) Unbridled's Song (USA) Hat Trick (JPN) Smart Strike (CAN) Ghostzapper (USA) More Than Ready (USA) Discreet Cat (USA) Street Sense (USA) Sligo Bay (IRE) Giant's Causeway (USA) Ghostzapper (USA) Midnight Lute (USA) Rock Hard Ten (USA) Macho Uno (USA) Empire Maker (USA) First Samurai (USA) Tiznow (USA) Indian Charlie (USA) Friends Lake (USA) Broken Vow (USA) Wild Event (USA) Medaglia d'Oro (USA)

trophies at home. Cavalryman, a close third to Marco Botti’s Jakkalberry in the Dubai City Of Gold on Super Saturday at Meydan three weeks earlier, landed the Dubai Gold Cup. And Sajjhaa took her 2013 tally to four wins (two Group 1s and two Group 2s) in the Dubai Duty Free. But Hunter’s Light, the big World Cup hope for the ‘boys in blue’ having landed two rounds of the Maktoum Challenge, could finish no better than seventh behind Animal Kingdom.

Lady Liberty (USA) Wild Lucy Black (USA) Runup The Colors (USA) Unlimited Pleasure (USA) Dream Rush (USA) Twice The Ease (GB) Sweetest Smile (USA) Masquerade Belle (USA) My Twilight Dancer (USA) Lilly Capote (USA) Take Charge Lady (USA) Smart Thought (USA) Let (USA) Rehear (USA) Enchanted Rock (USA) West Side Dancer (USA) Arcadiana (USA) Shake It Up (USA) Bella Bellucci (USA) Win Approval (USA) Silverbulletway (USA) Kalahari Cat (USA) Naturally Wild (USA) Sky Beam (USA) Saratoga Cat (USA) Sue's Good News (USA) Mini Chat (USA) Saucy (USA) Stomping (USA) Chanson Pour Julia (BRZ) Swift and Classy (USA)

clearer as, on the Florida Derby undercard, Dreaming Of Julia won the Gulfstream Oaks by almost 22 lengths in a time nearly two seconds quicker than the colts managed in the Derby.

Arch (USA) Giant's Causeway (USA) Barathea (IRE) Highest Honor (FR) Darshaan Gone West (USA) Meadowlake (USA)

Unbridled (USA) Wild Again (USA) A P Indy (USA) Valid Appeal (USA) Wild Rush (USA) Green Desert (USA) Dehere (USA) Victory Gallop (CAN) Twilight Agenda (USA) Capote (USA) Dehere (USA) Smart Strike (CAN) A P Indy (USA) Coronado's Quest (USA) Giant's Causeway (USA) Gone West (USA) Deputy Minister (CAN) Red Bullet (USA) French Deputy (USA) With Approval (CAN) Storm Cat (USA) Cape Town (USA) Wild Again (USA) Kingmambo (USA) Sir Cat (USA) Woodman (USA) Deputy Minister (CAN) Tabasco Cat (USA) Dixieland Band (USA) Irish Fighter (USA) Clever Trick (USA)

Last year’s Kentucky Oaks beaten favourite Joyful Victory finally bagged her first top-level win at the sixth attempt when making all to land the Santa Margarita Stakes by four lengths.

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Breeder Appleby Lodge Stud Appleby Lodge Stud Ballygallon Stud Ltd Ballyhane Stud Ballylinch Stud Banahan, P. E. Barronstown Stud Barronstown Stud Barronstown Stud Barton Bloodstock & Villiers Synd Bearstone Stud Begley, M. Bolger, Mr K. Byrne, Miss A. R. Castlefarm Stud Castlemartin Stud & Skymarc Farm Childwick Bury Stud Management Limited Clee, Mr & Mrs D. D. Commins, M. Connaughton, J. Connolly, S. Crone Stud Farms Ltd Cullen, J. & E. Cullen, K. and Mrs Curran, A. Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Davis & Star Pointe Ltd, J. G. Dawson, M. J. Dayton Investments Ltd Dayton Investments Ltd Dayton Investments Ltd Dayton Investments Ltd Deerpark Stud Deerpark Stud Downey & Roalso Ltd, M. Duffy, M. Ennis, C. Ennistown Stud Gigginstown House Stud Grangecon Stud Green & Sons, J. Hernon, Mr J. Islanmore Stud & Niarchos Family J. A. and M. A. Knox Johnson Houghton, Mrs F. M. Juddmonte Farms Inc Juddmonte Farms Ltd Juddmonte Farms Ltd Juddmonte Farms Ltd Juddmonte Farms Ltd Juddmonte Farms Ltd. Juddmonte Farms Ltd. Juddmonte Farms Ltd. Juddmonte Farms Ltd. Keatly Overseas Ltd Kilfrush Stud Kilfrush Stud Kilfrush Stud Latina, Mr G. Loder, Sir E. J. Lynch Bages Ltd Lynn Lodge Stud & Foxtale Farm Madigan, S. Magnier & Cobra Bloodstock, David Major, R. A. Malingue, D. Manor Farm Stud (Rutland) McCutcheon, Mr P. McCutcheon, Mr P. McDonnell, D. McDonnell, D. McGinn, M. Monahan, Mr P. Mountarmstrong Stud Mulhern J. Flynn & Abbeville Stud, E. New Deal Partnership Newsells Park Stud Newsells Park Stud Newsells Park Stud Newsells Park Stud Limited O'Brien B. McGarvey & D. Everard, C. O'Carroll, Mr P. Old Mill Stud Old Mill Stud & Partners Ormiston, Mr N. Ormsby, L. Pegasus Farms Ltd Pembroke, S. J. and Mrs Pendley Farm Pendley Farm Rathbarry Stud Redmyre Bloodstock & Silfield Bloodstock Ronchalon Racing (UK) Ltd Sangster, Mr B. Seaton Partnership Seaton Partnership Shadwell Estate Co Ltd Shadwell Estate Company Limited Shadwell Estate Company Limited Skinner, P. J. Skinner, P. J. St Clare Hall Stud Tally-Ho Stud Tally-Ho Stud Tipper House Stud Trussell Jr., R. B. Tullamaine Castle Stud Watership Down Stud Wilson, Mr D.

Winner Domeside (GB) Domeside (GB) Eldarion (IRE) Julius Geezer (IRE) Widyaan (IRE) Rave (IRE) Hi Holy (IRE) Hi Holy (IRE) Notion (IRE) St Nicholas Abbey (IRE) Vital Gold (GB) Lucky Fantasy (IRE) Luna Park (IRE) Tagseed (IRE) Lady Silvy (IRE) Grey Delice (IRE) Broken Hill (GB) Rainbow Knight (GB) Universo Star (IRE) Sango (IRE) Slow Cavern (IRE) Shamar Love (IRE) Virtual Game (IRE) Eriugena (IRE) Dos Tumbos (IRE) Petty Officer (IRE) Midnight Moon (GB) Jutland (GB) Blue Rambler (GB) Cavalryman (GB) Sajjhaa (GB) Valley of Destiny (GB) Piece By Piece (GB) Accent Francais (IRE) Louve Nationale (IRE) Tartarin (IRE) Apollo Eleven (IRE) Ighraa (IRE) Ighraa (IRE) Forjatt (IRE) Marcus Augustus (IRE) Clean Bowled (IRE) Gothic Dance (IRE) Amira's Prince (IRE) Suneagle (IRE) Glee (GB) Akemi (IRE) Stateos (IRE) Momalorka (GB) Must Be Me (GB) Treble Jig (USA) Foreteller (GB) Index Linked (GB) Bookend (GB) Venteuse (GB) Jet Away (GB) Monopolize (GB) Jet Away (GB) Uphold (GB) Five Avenue (IRE) Tortoni (IRE) Tortoni (IRE) Rain of Melody (IRE) Salar Glorious (GB) Picking Up Pieces (IRE) Shada (IRE) Wittgenstein (IRE) Lady Moonlight (IRE) Chiquitita (IRE) Aristotelicienne (IRE) Staros (IRE) The Long Game (GB) Elettrotreno (IRE) Elettrotreno (IRE) Irish Field (IRE) Cardolan (IRE) Lucky Serena (IRE) Wish Come True (IRE) Air Mail (IRE) Impendor (IRE) New Pearl (IRE) Al Muthanaa (GB) The Only Key (GB) Manhaj (GB) Royal Import (GB) Soulside (IRE) Vetriano (IRE) Weisses Rossl (GB) Itsher (GB) Margutta Studios (IRE) I'malwaysright (IRE) Sweet Cassandra (IRE) Caelis (GB) Julienas (IRE) Julienas (IRE) Mister Vellucci (IRE) Navajo Nights (GB) Smiling Watch (IRE) Silvertrees (IRE) My Sharona (GB) My Sharona (GB) Ghalaa (IRE) Mefraas (IRE) Talkhees (IRE) Majd Al Shajaa (GB) Majd Al Shajaa (GB) Arabic (GB) Roi de Vitesse (IRE) Ladyanne (IRE) Ramonti Flash (IRE) What A Name (IRE) Mount Mayday (IRE) Ocovango (GB) Backstreet Fighter (IRE)

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Age/sex 7h 7h 5h 5g 4g 5g 4c 4c 5h 6h 4c 5h 3c 7g 3f 5m 4f 5h 3f 3c 3c 3f 3c 3c 3c 5h 5g 6g 3c 7h 6m 4c 4g 3c 3f 6h 4c 3f 3f 5g 4g 4g 4f 4c 4c 4f 3f 4c 3f 3f 6h 6g 5g 9g 3f 6h 5h 6h 6g 3c 4g 4g 7h 4c 4c 4f 3f 3f 4f 3f 5h 5h 3c 3c 5g 4c 3f 3c 3f 4c 3c 6g 7m 5g 6g 4c 3c 2c 7m 3c 6g 4f 5m 6g 6g 5h 3c 5g 5g 4f 4f 4f 7g 5m 5h 5h 4g 6h 5m 3c 3f 4g 3c 5g

Dam Buck's Fizz (GB) Buck's Fizz (GB) Madame Cerito (USA) Victoria's Secret (IRE) Lady Livius (IRE) Almaaseh (IRE) Arpege (IRE) Arpege (IRE) Reina Blanca (GB) Leaping Water (GB) Golden Nun (GB) Colour And Spice (IRE) Lilabelle (IRE) Allegorica (IRE) Beacon of Hope (IRE) Delicia (IRE) Drama Playout (GB) Poli Knight (GB) Shinkoh Rose (FR) Home You Stroll (IRE) Home Comforts (GB) Quality Love (USA) Engraving (GB) Novelina (IRE) Daily Help (GB) Miss Particular (IRE) Carisolo (GB) Dramatique (GB) La Nuit Rose (FR) Silversword (FR) Anaamil (IRE) Nouvelle Lune (GB) Queen Jean (GB) Actrice Francaise (USA) Louve (USA) Tigresse Africaine (FR) Arlesienne (IRE) Frond (GB) Frond (GB) Graceful Air (IRE) Lulua (USA) Miznapp (GB) Future Flight (GB) Twice The Ease (GB) Much Faster (IRE) Syrian Queen (GB) Hitra (USA) Mary Arnold (IRE) Scarlet Royal (GB) Roodeye (GB) Light Jig (GB) Prophecy (IRE) Fully Invested (USA) Roupala (USA) Summer Breeze (GB) Kalima (GB) Modesta (IRE) Kalima (GB) Allegro Viva (USA) Luminata (IRE) Nipping (IRE) Nipping (IRE) Hit The Sky (IRE) Salar Violet (IRE) Bee Eater (IRE) Banquise (IRE) La Vita E Bella (IRE) Lady Georgina (GB) Sweeten Up (GB) Talah (GB) Stylish (GB) Something Blue (GB) Alycus (USA) Alycus (USA) Turkana Girl (GB) Plutonia (GB) Singora Lady (IRE) Tibouchina (IRE) Alexander Express (IRE) Landela (GB) New Deal (GB) Mail The Desert (IRE) Sierra Virgen (USA) La Dangeville (GB) Flamingo Queen (GER) Bali Breeze (IRE) Russian Countess (USA) Kool Acclaim (GB) Shararah (GB) Lella Beya (GB) Tashyra (IRE) Well Spoken (IRE) Shona (USA) Dora Carrington (IRE) Dora Carrington (IRE) Edwina (IRE) Nuit Sans Fin (FR) Barlaine (IRE) Kingsridge (IRE) Tanda Tula (IRE) Tanda Tula (IRE) Mouwadh (USA) Khaizarana (GB) Asaafeer (USA) Twice Upon A Time (GB) Twice Upon A Time (GB) Artifice (GB) Face The Storm (IRE) Gillipops (IRE) Hymenee (USA) Bonnie Byerly (USA) Fille de Joie (IRE) Crystal Maze (GB) Saraparda (IRE)

Ctry Fr Spa Fr Usa Fr Hk Qtr Qtr Fr Uae Hk Ity Ity Uae Ity Fr Fr Fr Ity Fr Ity Ity Ity Usa Spa Uae Uae Uae Fr Uae Uae Qtr Hk Fr Fr Fr Fr Fr Fr Uae Qtr Qtr Ity Usa Qtr Usa Fr Mac Qtr Ity Uae Aus Aus Fr Fr Aus Aus Aus Fr Fr Qtr Qtr Fr Ity Fr Fr Usa Qtr Fr Fr Fr Hk Ity Ity Hk Fr Ity Ity Ity Ity Qtr Qtr Usa Spa Usa Fr Fr Ity Qtr Ity Mac Fr Usa Aus Aus Ity Spa Hk Hk Qtr Qtr Qtr Qtr Qtr Qtr Qtr Qtr Qtr Qtr Uae Fr Qtr Fr Hk

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Racecourse Saint-Cloud Zarzuela Chantilly Aqueduct Amiens Sha Tin Al Rayyan Al Rayyan Maisons-Laffitte Meydan Happy Valley Rome Rome Sharjah Milan Lyon-Parilly Carpentras Lyon-Parilly Milan Carpentras Rome Milan Milan Tampa Bay Downs Zarzuela Meydan Meydan Abu Dhabi Lyon-Parilly Meydan Meydan Al Rayyan Happy Valley Durtal Longchamp Lyon-Parilly Lignieres Lyon La Soie Longchamp Jebel Ali Al Rayyan Al Rayyan Milan Fair Grounds Al Rayyan Turf Paradise Chantilly Taipa Al Rayyan Milan Jebel Ali Rosehill Newcastle Compiegne Longchamp Bendigo Newcastle Caulfield Chantilly Bordeaux Le Bouscat Al Rayyan Al Rayyan Nancy Milan Bordeaux Le Bouscat Nancy Santa Anita Al Rayyan Lyon-Parilly Chantilly Le Croise-Laroche Happy Valley Rome Milan Happy Valley Chantilly Rome Rome Rome Milan Al Rayyan Al Rayyan Santa Anita Zarzuela Golden Gate Compiegne Fontainebleau Rome Al Rayyan Milan Taipa Amiens Santa Anita Rosehill Rosehill Rome Zarzuela Sha Tin Sha Tin Al Rayyan Al Rayyan Al Rayyan Al Rayyan Al Rayyan Al Rayyan Al Rayyan Al Rayyan Al Rayyan Al Rayyan Meydan Maisons-Laffitte Al Rayyan Saint-Cloud Sha Tin

Distance 1m4f 1m3f 1m5f110y 1m 1m3f 1m1f 1m 7f 1m4f110y 1m4f11y 1m55y 6f 7f 6f 6f 1m 1m2f165y 1m4f 5f 1m5f165y 1m110y 1m 1m 1m 1m1f 1m 1m3f 1m3f 1m3f 2m 1m1f 1m1f 1m55y 1m3f 1m3f 1m3f 1m4f 1m1f 1m1f 7f 6f 1m4f 7f 1m1f 1m1f110y 7f 1m 7f110y 7f 1m 1m1f 1m2f 7f110y 1m4f 1m2f 1m 1m1f55y 1m2f 1m1f110y 1m 1m 1m2f 1m4f 1m 1m 1m4f 1m1f 6f 1m3f 6f110y 1m4f110y 5f 6f 5f 6f 1m1f110y 1m2f110y 1m2f110y 1m2f 5f 6f 7f 1m2f 7f 1m 1m 5f110y 5f 6f 5f 7f110y 1m3f 1m 1m1f110y 1m4f 5f 7f 6f 7f 7f 5f110y 6f 1m110y 6f 7f 6f 1m2f 6f 7f 1m 7f 7f 1m2f110y 7f

Prize-money (ÂŁ) 7,724 4,878 8,537 16,933 5,691 108,658 (L) 9,645 4,340 10,569 1,849,246 (Gr1) 43,010 5,284 6,097 6,030 8,130 6,504 4,878 7,317 5,691 4,878 6,097 4,065 8,943 6,258 8,130 6,030 8,040 37,185 (Gr3) 8,943 369,849 (Gr3) 1,849,246 (Gr1) 4,822 31,692 5,691 13,821 7,317 4,878 8,130 22,358 (L) 12,060 4,822 12,056 5,691 147,239 (Gr2) 4,340 5,719 12,195 7,708 4,340 8,943 12,060 157,051 (Gr1) 7,853 6,504 10,163 58,974 7,853 58,173 (Gr3) 7,724 6,504 9,645 5,305 6,504 7,317 6,504 6,504 21,350 14,467 6,504 9,350 6,098 31,692 8,130 10,162 31,692 7,724 8,130 8,130 8,130 8,943 4,340 5,787 21,350 9,756 5,521 8,537 7,724 4,471 7,716 7,317 10,278 6,504 22,086 38,462 (L) 38,974 (L) 7,317 9,756 43,010 31,692 5,305 5,305 5,305 7,716 4,340 9,645 5,305 4,340 67,513 5,787 5,025 32,520 (Gr3) 4,340 22,358 (L) 24,448

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FLASHBACK

May 19, 1984 Wassl and Cormorant Wood dispute the closest finish that the Lockinge Stakes at Newbury has ever witnessed

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he Lockinge Stakes has enjoyed something of a resurgence in the last couple of years, with the Newbury Group 1 being taken by Canford Cliffs and Frankel, two of the best winners since the mile contest attained top-flight status in 1995.

Frankel won by five lengths. It was rather closer in 1984, with our picture here showing the thrilling, driving finish between Wassl and Willie Carson on the left and Cormorant Wood and Steve Cauthen.

For the only time in the Lockinge’s history, the race having been inaugurated in 1958, the judge couldn’t split them and called a dead-heat.

The John Dunlop-trained 9-2 chance Wassl, who was conceding 3lb to his

fellow four-year-old Cormorant Wood, led for a large slice of the contest and stayed prominent after being headed first by Welsh Idol (far right, who finished third, beaten three lengths under Walter Swinburn) and then by the Barry Hills-trained 7-1 shot Cormorant Wood, battling on to force a dead-heat with Cauthen’s mount, who had led a furlong out.

There were only half a dozen runners but there had been drama at the start as well as the finish, as 7-4 favourite Trojan Fen unshipped jockey Paul Eddery when the saddle slipped. Also in shot above, behind the dead-heaters, is Joe Mercer aboard Another Realm, who finished fifth, just a head behind Lester Piggott’s mount Sackford.

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CAMACHO

NEW TO MICKLEY STUD FOR 2013

b. 2002 Danehill – Arabesque (Zafonic)

The son of DANEHILL, who was champion three-year-old sprinter, he has already made a bright start to his stud career thanks to black-type winners such as 2013 1,000 Guineas contender WINNING EXPRESS, high-class sprinter HUMIDOR, a Listed winner who finished a close fourth in last season’s Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes. Also Group 3 Fred Darling Stakes heroine PUFF, Roses Stakes winner STAR ROVER and Harry Rosebery Stakes scorer ARCTIC FEELING.

Fee: £2,750 1st Oct

Yearlings by CAMACHO, a sibling to Gimcrack Stakes winner SHOWCASING, were also in high demand at the 2012 sales, making prices of €85,000, €70,000 etc.

CAPTAIN GERRARD b. 2005 Oasis Dream – Delphinus (Soviet Star) Fee: £3,000 1st Oct

Won 5 times as a juvenile including Gr.3 Cornwallis Stakes and two Listed races, also third in the Gr.3 Molecomb Stakes to Gr.1 winners FLEETING SPIRIT and KINGSGATE NATIVE. At 3, winner of the Gr.3 Palace House Stakes beating Gr.1 July Cup winner SAKHEE’S SECRET. From the family of SOLDIER OF FORTUNE & DOUBLE FORM.

Impressive first time out winner ONE BOY and 11 entries in the Super Sprint FIRST TWO-YEAR-OLDS 2013

MULTIPLEX b. 2003 Danehill – Shirley Valentine (Shirley Heights) Fee: £3,000 1st Oct

Second crop of yearlings sold for up to 145,000 guineas and foals sold up to 130,000 guineas.

Sire of 2 stakes performers, Radio Gaga, Timeform Rated 91P and Luv U Forever.

Sire of winners of 45 races including Derby prospect Superplex.

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SHIROCCO

AMAYZING!

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 the Shiroccos rated over 100 were foaled in late-April or May. The two most exciting 2013 prospects by Authorized – recent G3 winner Rehn’s Nest and runaway Listed winner Sugar Boy – are both late-April foals.

And it’s not just our Classic stallions who are at it: three of the top five horses

by Kheleyf were conceived in May, including his G1 son Sayif.

The message is: it’s not too late to breed a classy horse.

Especially if you’re using a classy stallion...

To enquire about late availability and terms to Darley stallions, please call the team on +44 (0)1638 730070 or +353 (0)45 527600 www.darleystallions.com

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