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he ground at Ascot for QIPCO British Champions Day may have convinced many people that top-class jump racing cannot return soon enough, but it is worth reflecting on what was a memorable and exciting afternoon of Flat action.

Noble Mission and Al Kazeem served up a finish fit for such an occasion in the Champion Stakes, their duel down the Ascot straight set to go down in history as one of the most thrilling battles ever seen at the top level in this country. George Selwyn’s wonderful photograph captures this sensational race in all its glory (pages 26-27).

It proved, unsurprisingly, an emotional victory for Lady Cecil, who took over the horses and licence from her husband, Sir Henry Cecil, when he passed away in June last year. For Noble Mission to replicate his brilliant brother Frankel and win the Group 1 prize is a truly remarkable achievement for all concerned with Khalid Abdullah’s homebred.

The sting in the tale for jockey James Doyle, rider of Noble Mission, was a seven-day ban and £10,000 fine for excessive use of the whip. The rules as they are do not discourage jockeys from keeping to a limited number of strikes in such high profile events, simply because they know the result will not be affected.

A crowd approaching 29,000 is testament to the pulling power that Champions Day, which received plenty of media coverage in the build-up and afterwards, has at its current home – for those unsure whether Ascot in October is the most suitable venue for the event, it is worth bearing in mind that less than half that number saw Twice Over record his second Champion Stakes victory at Newmarket in 2010.

French raider Cirrus Des Aigles, making his fourth appearance in the Champion Stakes having won the race in 2011 and been runner-up for the last two years, could only manage fifth this time, perhaps showing that age may finally have blunted his finishing kick.

The eight-year-old has been a familiar face in Berkshire, due to the fact that his status as a gelding rules him out of contesting the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe. His trainer, Corine Barande-Barbe, will have noted that her stable star had beaten Treve and Flintshire, the first two home in this year’s Arc (see pages 24-25), in the Prix Ganay and Coronation Cup earlier this season.

Longchamp’s loss has certainly been Ascot’s gain, however if Europe’s top races are about establishing who the best horses are, it seems strange to bar runners on the basis that they cannot produce offspring later in their life.

The argument about protecting the breed and the European Pattern would be easier to understand if all (male) winners of the Arc or Derby, for example, had to stand their stallion careers in Europe, yet plenty have retired and been shipped off to Japan, which means their impact on bloodlines and races on this side of the world is minimal.

One operation that remains proudly British-based is Cheveley Park Stud, the racing and breeding business that featured in the first ever edition of this magazine back in September 2004.

Star filly Integral has been its leading performer on the track this year, bagging a brace of Group 1s, while its stallion ranks have been swelled by the recent addition of Garswood, who joins the roster to stand alongside his father, Dutch Art. Patricia Thompson, who owns Cheveley Park Stud with husband David, tells Julian Muscat about their recipe for success and why she retains all her enthusiasm for the sport.

“It has become a tough business; it is even tougher for us because we don’t shuttle our stallions. But we are very happy,” she says (pages 56-60).

“This is a challenging and seductive business and, above all, fun. You enjoy it more as you get older because you know more about it. It has been very satisfying – and it hasn’t ended yet.”

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CONTENTS NOVEMBER 2014

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ROA Leader

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Toby Balding

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Tribute to the late, great trainer

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Jockey deaths tragedy

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Changes Your monthly round-up

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Tony Morris Could Treve trump Corrida?

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Howard Wright The all-weather’s alright

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View From Ireland Rich Ricci’s tricky decisions

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Continental Tales Coolmore buys strike

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Around The Globe Suffolk Downs closes its doors

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COVER STORY Cheveley Park Stud UK breeding’s top operator

News 62

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Foals in the frame Assessing the freshman sires

Sales Circuit Huge demand for yearlings as Tattersalls records tumble

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Trainer Dr Richard Newland

Breeders’ Digest Young sires making a name

The Big Picture Longchamp, Ascot and Kempton

Time to replace the levy

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RACHEL HOOD President Racehorse Owners Association

Time for sport to embrace a replacement for the levy New system is needed to ensure racing receives its rightful share of revenue

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t last we are seeing some real action from the government. The setting up of a formal consultation process that asks whether the levy should be reformed or replaced indicates a real determination to transform the way in which British horseracing is funded.

The relevant government office, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, says that doing nothing is not an option – which is music to my ears. After years of inaction, deliberation and obfuscation, this consultation process puts us on the first step to achieving a funding system for racing that is fit for purpose.

Whatever is eventually adopted must be enshrined in law so that any notion of voluntary systems is consigned to history.

The basic questions are simple; not so the underlying complexity. In this consultation we are being asked to choose between a reformed levy and a completely new system. A new system would demand that betting operators have an agreement with a body representing the whole of the sport that allows them to take bets on British horseracing, wherever those bets are struck.

It would be premature for me to pre-judge which of these two systems racing will eventually opt for, but it is my firm belief we should now adopt an entirely new system.

Of course, I appreciate that reforming the levy would probably be a cleaner process and might therefore represent a faster way of getting onto statute books. It also has already established the principle of the betting industry’s payments to racing being VAT free. But, to my mind, whatever the extent of the reform, the levy comes with too much baggage and would be unlikely to ever entirely sever its links with government. And, as ever, the European Commission will also no doubt take an interest in whatever system we choose to adopt.

A new system, broadly, would involve two proposals being evaluated. One is based on the establishment of a property right (the so-called ‘right to bet’); the other a regulatory-based system where betting operators have to pay British horseracing for the administration and integrity services of the sport.

The consultation is not primarily about increasing or decreasing the amount of money going from the betting industry to racing; it is about finding a modern model that works for all participants. It is also about creating a level playing field that ensures it is not just the good corporate citizens who pay a fair share back to the sport their customers are betting on.

The old concept of the levy being based on ‘racing’s needs’ and the bookmaker’s ‘capacity to pay’ would also be supplanted by the fundamental principle that the betting industry pays a sum that represents the value of British horseracing to them.

This, of course, is not without its dangers for our sport. It will be crucial to get the balance right between payment and value because in a wholly commercial world racing must also act reasonably and responsibly.

The fact that the betting industry is more likely to opt for levy reform than replacement immediately raises suspicion. Either way, the need for primary legislation will ensure that the process will not be expedient.

We are certain the VAT issue will not prove an impediment to the new system, which would also allow racing to distribute its money for the betterment of the sport, and the mutual benefit of the racing and betting industries.

Thanks to the government’s recognition of the economic impact of our industry, racing has the opportunity of a lifetime. Working collaboratively, the horsemen, racecourses and governing authority have never been in a better position.

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RICHARD LANCASTER Chairman Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association

January heralds start of GB zero-tolerance policy Anabolic steroid stance by BHA will increase appeal of British stock at the sales

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ack in the late-1960s there was a brief, eventually ill-fated sales campaign with the slogan ‘Buy British’. This burst of patriotism figured under the wider banner of a movement known as ‘I’m Backing Britain’, which flourished for a few weeks but quickly died away as interest waned and the interests of some of the individuals involved came under question.

But perhaps it’s time to bring back the slogan, especially with the imminent foal sales in mind, for these lots will be among the youngest batch of horses whose racing careers will be monitored under new BHA rules banning the use of anabolic steroids from birth to retirement.

Discussion about the therapeutic benefits of anabolic steroids and whether there should be a pre-training cut-off point is bound to continue. Even the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities has accepted that not every jurisdiction will readily give up the therapeutic concession.

Interestingly, given the welter of interest generated the year before, there was no formal debate during and around the IFHA’s annual conference about regulation of anabolic steroids.

Maybe the practicalities of pretraining testing have proved more formidable than originally imagined, or some countries are simply waiting for others to take a lead.

Regardless of indecision elsewhere, the BHA is pressing ahead with its January 1 implementation date, which makes the unequivocal position in Britain all the more appropriate for those promoting their sales at the forthcoming foal auctions, and perhaps all the more significant for those buying. British-breds that have followed the rules will be clean. If France and Ireland accept the same terms, that’s fine, but until our breeders meet all their overseas counterparts on a level playing field, the safest message is: Buy British.

That said, while the rules might be clear, the impact and practicalities of testing for anabolic steroids, notably out of competition, remain under scrutiny, and the TBA

will be monitoring events to ensure the law of unintended consequences does not rebound on members.

Human athletes have to inform the authorities of their whereabouts at all times, day and night, so that unannounced, out-of-competition tests can be properly conducted. So far as I am aware, horses have not yet developed the ability to use email or a mobile phone, so the BHA will have to use a different technique to determine their exact location. This is a grey area, and although the banning of anabolic steroids is a racing issue, with breaches of regulations coming under the Rules of Racing, there could be serious implications for breeders after a horse is sold. The TBA will be seeking assurances over determining the exact whereabouts of horses, in or out of training, so as to avoid the risk of false accusations.

Turning from one topic that involves new regulations to another – work-based pensions.

Not the most stirring of subjects, I admit, but one that will eventually affect the majority of TBA members, since under new government legislation employers must enrol staff into a scheme that meets certain standards. And that will apply even if you employ only one person.

The TBA board was keen for the racing industry to introduce its own scheme, but that idea disappeared into the ‘too difficult’ tray, so we have taken advice from the pensions specialists PFP Benefit Solutions, who have assisted members in the past. The buzz words are auto enrolment, signifying the introduction of compulsory pension membership, which will start to affect many TBA members very shortly and is due to be phased in for those with fewer than 30 employees from the summer of 2015.

The TBA cannot get involved directly but it’s our duty to make members aware of the situation. The National Employment Savings Trust website (nestpensions.org.uk) has all the answers, but a guide to auto enrolment is available from Caroline Turnbull at the TBA office. It’s all part of the service.

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“He had time for everybody”

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oby Balding, who passed away on September 25 aged 78, is one of a very select group of trainers to produce the winners of the Cheltenham Gold Cup, Champion Hurdle and Grand National.

But he was so much more than that. From Grand Nationals to sprint handicaps, dual-purpose handler Balding thrived on the challenge of training winners, while he also nurtured two-legged stars of the turf, most notably AP McCoy. McCoy, indeed, was one of the first to be told of his mentor’s death, and one of the first of countless to post a public tribute.

“We had great times together,” the perennial champion jumps jockey tweeted. “Tonight I cried when I heard the news my old boss and friend had died.”

Gerald Barnard Balding was born in New York and called Toby from a young age to disassociate him from his father Gerald, one of the world’s leading polo players.

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Toby beat brother Ian into the world by two years. Both would carve their name into racing folklore – Ian, most famously, with brilliant colt Mill Reef – and both would serve their sport with distinction on the political front through the Racehorse Owners Association Council, with Toby also active on the Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association and National Trainers Federation Councils.

At the end of World War II, the Balding family returned to Britain and Gerald started training jumpers in Gloucestershire. Expansion led to a switch to Wiltshire, followed by another move to Hampshire.

Gerald was subsequently diagnosed with cancer and Toby, then aged 20 and just a few months into his assistant trainer role following two years of National Service, was propelled into the responsibility of training.

Crucial in those infant years was finance, and the new trainer – then Britain’s youngest – aided his cause no end by earning a reputation for being able to plot and land a coup.

In later years, Toby enjoyed relaying the tale of his life-changing 1959 Portland Handicap gamble with New World.

Above: Cool Ground (right) causes a 25-1 upset in the 1992 Cheltenham Gold Cup under Adrian Maguire.

Left: Brothers Toby and Ian walk the course together at Aintree in 2009.

Below right: Little Polveir gets a welldeserved pat from his trainer after winning the 1989 Grand National

“From the start of the season I’d regarded the Portland as his ideal objective,” he said. “Caro [then his girlfriend, a year later his wife] came with me to help get our cash on. We spread about £200 at 33-1.”

The blinkered, heavily-bandaged New World led throughout to win in a time that equalled the course record.

“I’ve no doubt New World was my best training performance, and believe it or not that was my last serious punt,” Balding was to reflect in an interview just before his retirement a decade ago.

It was to be another ten years before Balding truly established himself, with the victory of Highland Wedding in the 1969 Grand National, though of course he was still only 32, having started his career so young. That season, Balding managed his best placing in the trainers’ championship, finishing second.

Plenty of big-race winners followed under both codes, though it was not until the late eighties and early nineties that he was to enjoy his finest hours.

In 1989 Beech Road – as temperamental as he was talented – won the Champion Hurdle, which was followed quickly by a second Grand National victory through Little Polveir.

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meeting, in the Aintree Hurdle, which was to be a race Balding made his own thanks to Morley Street, another brilliant but difficult horse.

Morley Street won the Aintree Hurdle for the following four years, while he also won backto-back Breeders’ Cup Chases, not to mention the Champion Hurdle in 1991. In all, Morley Street won 20 of his 45 races.

The exceptional hurdler died in 2009 at the good age of 25, and Balding said at the time: “He was without doubt the most versatile horse that I trained. He was a bleeder throughout his career, which makes his achievements all the more amazing.”

It is telling perhaps that Balding’s biggest winner has not even had a mention yet. Step forward Cool Ground, the 25-1 shot who beat The Fellow by a short-head in the 1992 Cheltenham Gold Cup, a famous victory that came during the brief period when Balding was away from his beloved Hampshire, in Dorset.

Cool Ground was partnered by Adrian Maguire, like McCoy a champion jumps jockey, whose riding talent was established under the tutelage of Balding.

Also among the impressive list of National Hunt riders fostered to great heights by the trainer were Bob Champion and Richard Linley.

money purchases so commonplace in jumps racing these days started to filter in, and Balding was unwilling to countenance paying six-figure sums.

“When someone comes to me with £25,000 for a jumper I think they’re bringing a nice lot of money,” he reasoned. “A sum like that should be sufficient to buy what they require.”

Money was not an issue per se, however, and after selling his yard at Fyfield for housing development, Balding reinvested to construct a state-of-the-art, self-contained £2m training establishment at nearby Kimpton Down.

A year later, with his wife’s health deteriorating, Balding retired, handing on the licence and operation to his son-in-law, Jonathan Geake.

Success, however, eluded his son-in-law – he was always going to be a hard act to follow – and Balding subsequently decided to sell the yard.

“This is the end of a long family sequence,” Balding said. “That’s life, but I shall continue my role as an independent director of the BHA.” Very sadly, Caro succumbed to cancer aged 68 soon after Balding’s retirement from training, and the loss devastated him.

In 2011, aged 74, Balding was slowed considerably by a stroke, which he suffered just a few weeks before he was due at Buckingham Palace to receive the OBE he had been awarded for services to racing.

The stroke impaired his sight, which was to prove his main affliction in later years, though he did again become a regular at the racecourse, much to the delight of his countless friends and colleagues – many were one and the same of course.

Heartfelt tributes poured in following his death, including from his nephew and niece, trainer Andrew and broadcaster Clare, who both spoke eloquently of their affection for their uncle, and his former jockeys and assistants,

who thanked the legendary trainer for the role he played in their careers.

Clare Balding said: “It’s been a long time since I cried myself to sleep but I did last night in memory of a warm-hearted, funny, generous man who saw the best in every person and horse.”

Her brother Andrew added: “I was extremely close to him and he was very good to me throughout my life and I will miss him tremendously.

“He loved his racing and loved talking to people who shared his passion. He had time for everybody – it didn’t matter if they were the person serving the jellied eels, he would stop and talk to them all.

“He gave so many people their start in racing and was a very good judge. He loved the underdog and people who didn’t get help. He gave everyone a chance and he was very loyal to some unfashionable jockeys.”

A statement from the National Trainers Federation read: “With Toby Balding’s passing, the National Trainers Federation has lost a founding father and guiding light.

“He was central to the NTF’s work for so many years, representing trainers throughout the industry and particularly keen to promote National Hunt racing which he loved with a passion.

“With his beguiling mix of wisdom and humour, he was always persuasive and immensely popular. Above all, he was totally dedicated to our sport – a man for all seasons and all people, a true horseman to his core; for so many, a friend who will be deeply missed.”

Balding was an honorary member of the Jockey Club, whose Senior Steward Roger Weatherby said: “Toby meant a huge amount to so many people and he made a tremendous contribution to our sport.”

Balding is survived by his son and two daughters.

Big hit on the Flat Balding’s career was nothing if not varied, however, and certainly not all about the winter code. Handicaps, rather than Group races, were his forte on the level, and in addition to the Portland he saddled Green Ruby to win the Stewards’ Cup and Ayr Gold Cup in the same year, 1986.

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NEWS Stories from the racing world

Jockey deaths stun global racing community Three fatalities in two days across Australia and America highlight dangers of race-riding

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ctober witnessed a tragic few days for racing with the death of three young jockeys, two in Australia and one in the United States.

Carly-Mae Pye, 26, and Caitlin Forrest, 19, died after falls in Australia, while 17-year-old Juan Saez was fatally injured in the US. A champion equestrian rider and gifted jockey, Pye was thrown onto the track at Callaghan Park in Queensland and crushed when the horse she was riding broke down and rolled on her. The horse, who had to be euthanised, was being educated in a barrier trial for trainer John Manzelmann.

Pye’s partner, trainer Tim Cook, said: “She was an extraordinary person and she had been my life partner as well as my track work rider. She put more into the racing industry than anyone knows and her whole life revolved around the horses. She lived for horses.”

A day later came the death of Forrest in a fall at Murray Bridge racecourse, near Adelaide. Her mount Colla Voce had been leading when breaking down, causing three other horses to fall. Forrest was airlifted to the Royal Adelaide Hospital but died that evening.

Commentator Terry McAuliffe said it was one of his most difficult days at the racetrack and that Forrest was a rising star in South Australian racing.

“It’s the worst possible scenario when we have a horse fall at the front of the field,” he said. “Caitlin was only 19 and had been riding for a short time, but she was already carving her own name in the industry.”

Caitlin Forrest, 19, had been riding at Murray Bridge racecourse near Adelaide

Last year Forrest was named finest firstyear apprentice rider in South Australia and secured the country premiership for winners.

Her mother, Yvonne, a former jockey-turnedtrainer, was at Murray Bridge when the fall occurred, while her father Darren is a leading harness racing driver.

Saez, who graduated at the top of his class from the Laffit Pincay Jr Jockey School in his native Panama and the younger brother of well-known jockey Luis, was killed by a fall at Indiana Grand racetrack. His mount,

Montezuma Express, appeared to clip heels with a tiring horse in front.

Saez had made a promising start to his career, riding 89 winners for more than $2 million in prize-money since June.

“Juan was such a talented and sweet kid, with a promising future,” said jockey John Velazquez, Chairman of the Jockeys’ Guild. “It is like losing a member of the family. We are competing against one another on the track, but off the track we are all very close.”

Seven extra fixtures takes 2015 total to 1,471 Britain will stage a total of 1,471 fixtures in 2015, seven more than this year, after the BHA published its fixture list following a lengthy consultation with industry stakeholders.

Despite the increase in meetings, Paul Bittar, outgoing BHA Chief Executive, warned that “the current horse population is not able to satisfactorily sustain the number of races we have staged in recent years”.

The BHA plans to tackle this issue by sanctioning a higher number of races at periods of the season when the supply of horses is greater and therefore more

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opportunities to run are required. It was also revealed that 170 races – 70 on the all-weather and 100 over jumps – will be strategically removed from the race programme.

Whether or not this combined approach works and successfully addresses the problem of small fields, only time will tell.

Out of the 1,471 fixtures, which includes nine ‘twilight’ meetings scheduled for September, October and November, Flat Turf racing accounts for 39.1%, jumping 40% and all-weather racing 20.9% – roughly the same as this year. Those figures equate to 882 Flat

fixtures, of which 307 will be held on the all-weather, and 589 National Hunt fixtures.

Chelmsford City racecourse, formerly known as Great Leighs and which last raced in 2009, returns to the fold on Sunday, January 11 with the first of 58 scheduled meetings.

Wetherby, allocated 16 jumps fixtures, debuts as a Flat course with four meetings next year, the first on Sunday, April 26.

Bittar said that the process to work out the 2015 fixture list “has been among the most complex and challenging in recent years”. He leaves his role with the BHA in the new year.

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NEWS

Racecourse Performance Table January-September 2014 Racecourse contribution to prize-money per fixture Racecourse

2014 (£)

2013 (£)

1. ASCOT

245,006

247,061

2. YORK

182,510

179,221

3. GOODWOOD

91,878

90,070

4. CHESTER/BANGOR GROUP

54,658

50,088

5. JOCKEY CLUB GROUP

53,795

53,455

6. NEWBURY

51,162

44,515

Stud farms: eligible for CAP payments

7. MUSSELBURGH

34,248

31,444

8. AYR

33,700

32,037

9. RIPON

31,611

27,030

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10. PONTEFRACT

30,300

29,136

11. SALISBURY

27,714

27,435

12. THIRSK

27,174

20,943

13. LUDLOW

25,912

17,726

14. PERTH

25,650

28,814

15. CARTMEL

24,425

24,931

16. HAMILTON PARK

22,641

17,024

17. STRATFORD

22,562

18,605

18. KELSO

22,292

17,794

19. BEVERLEY

22,241

17,864

20. FFOS LAS

21,660

19,414

21. ARC

20,941

14,940

22. NEWTON ABBOT

20,193

20,820

23. WETHERBY

19,999

13,524

24. LEICESTER

17,857

16,029

25. FAKENHAM

17,148

15,832

26. CATTERICK

16,675

11,740

27. REDCAR

15,277

13,090

28. HEXHAM

15,103

13,303

29. TAUNTON

14,825

22,066

30. PLUMPTON

14,694

13,147

31. TOWCESTER

9,816

8,287

Key to agreement level: GOLD Premier Tier • SILVER Standard Tier • RED Not Signed Notes: 1. Racecourse Groups have signed single agreements to cover all of their tracks. Jockey Club group comprises Aintree, Carlise, Cheltenham, Epsom, Exeter, Haydock, Huntingdon, Kempton, Market Rasen, Newmarket, Nottingham, Sandown, Warwick and Wincanton. ARC comprises Bath, Brighton, Chepstow, Doncaster, Fontwell, Lingfield, Newcastle, Sedgefield, Southwell, Uttoxeter, Windsor, Wolverhampton, Worcester and Yarmouth.

2. The average racecourse contribution per fixture shows the average amount provided by the racecourse to prize-money at all fixtures during the period including any abandoned fixtures.

Hexham has become the latest track to sign a prize-money agreement with the Horsemen’s Group and BHA. The standard tier agreement will run for two years from the beginning of 2015 and means that Hexham will allocate at least 33% of their media rights income to prize-money.

Richard Wayman, Chief Executive of the ROA, said: “There were five tracks that originally decided against signing a prizemoney agreement with the Horsemen’s Group and we have remained in contact with all of them with a view to encouraging

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them to enter a contractual commitment to pass on a share of their betting related income to prize-money.

“We are very pleased that the Hexham board understood the benefits of entering into an agreement. Jumping in the north remains under considerable pressure and the track’s associated commitment to up their prize-money in 2015 is excellent news and sends a positive message to owners.”

Catterick, Plumpton, Redcar and Towcester remain the only tracks that will not be covered by an agreement in 2015.

Lobbying by the Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association has played a key part in stud farms’ eligibility for payments under the Common Agricultural Policy being retained.

Much of the political lobbying conducted by the TBA on behalf of members in 2014 has focused on retaining this eligibility, and the announcement that their efforts, in conjunction with DEFRA ministers, have not gone to waste naturally met with a warm welcome.

TBA Chief Executive, Louise Kemble, said: “This is a piece of news we are pleased to celebrate. It has been a fundamental campaign and an important piece of work for the TBA, which protects a valuable income stream for stud farms.

“We are extremely grateful for the support and time Matthew Hancock MP has invested in this project and delighted to see such great results.”

Hancock, the minister for Business, Enterprise and Energy, and whose West Suffolk constituency includes Newmarket, remarked: “I’m delighted that the government has made this clear decision, which will support racing and the rural economy.

“I pay tribute to the work of the TBA, who work hard on behalf of this industry to get the best deal for British breeders. Around 9,000 jobs around West Suffolk depend on racing and will be made that little bit more secure by this decision.”

Breeders will be required to establish that their businesses are compliant with any new requirements. The TBA understands DEFRA is in the process of circulating guidance on 2015 reforms to members with entitlements.

Also occupying TBA time has been the need to provide, in association with industry experts, upto-date, easy-to-use taxation guides.

Commenting on the guides, Peter Mendham of AGM Partners LLP, said: “The Direct Tax and VAT Guides provide a valuable overview of the issues likely to affect those involved in the breeding industry.

“They have been written by people with many years of professional and practical experience in the field, and are both relevant and user- friendly.”

To access the four guides, visit the news page of thetba.co.uk and click on the links to download, or contact Stanstead House on 01638 661321.

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TWEENHILLS TIMES AN EYE FOR SUCCESS

November 2014

Triple Group One winner Charm Spirit joins Tweenhills A new sire will stand at Tweenhills Farm & Stud in 2015 – triple Group One winner Charm Spirit.

came on QIPCO British Champions Day, when beating Classic winner Night Of Thunder.

Trained by Freddy Head for Sheikh Abdullah bin Khalifa Al Thani, the son of champion sire Invincible Spirit was a winner at two when he was also Group One placed. This year his four victories include three at the top level – the Prix Jean Prat, Prix du Moulin and Queen Elizabeth II Stakes.

In a related agreement between Qatar Bloodstock and the Aga Khan Studs, Makfi is moving to Haras de Bonneval in Normandy for 2015, signalling opportunities for French breeders to gain access to Tweenhills stallions.

Charm Spirit, who joins the roster of Qatar Bloodstock stallions, was foaled by the Montjeu mare L’Enjoleuse. His final victory

David Redvers said: “We are thrilled to stand Charm Spirit. In an exceptional year for milers he has proved himself time and again.”

Judge just brilliant

Tepee returns at Tattersalls The big talking point at last year’s December Sale was Tweenhills Farm & Stud’s tepee, which took hospitality to an awe-inspiring new level.

Classic-winning filly Just The Judge recently added Canada’s Gr.1 EP Taylor Stakes to her list of victories, and she and Jamie Spencer are now en route to the Breeders Cup. After running in the Filly & Mare Turf at Santa Anita the four-year-old daughter of Lawman will head to Tattersalls December Sale where she will be offered to complete a partnership involving Qatar Racing Ltd and the Sangster Family. She was produced by the Rainbow Quest mare Faraday Light, who is a half-sister to the Oaks-placed, Group Three winner High Heeled.

Trained by Charlie Hills, Just The Judge was unbeaten in three starts as a two-year-old before finishing runner-up to Sky Lantern in last season’s Gr.1 QIPCO 1000 Guineas.

A few weeks later she landed the Gr.1 Irish 1000 Guineas, while this season she gained third places in the Gr.1 Pretty Polly Stakes and the Gr.1 Beverly D Stakes at Arlington before her EP Taylor triumph.

A fabulous broodmare prospect, Just The Judge becomes the first Guineas winner to be offered at the December Sale since Ravinella in 1988.

Staff from the stud welcomed guests, discussed resident stallions Makfi, Harbour Watch and Havana Gold and invited visitors to enjoy a selection of fine foods with local flavours. Soft furnishings and blazing fires created an ambience that was second to none and warmly welcome in chilly weather.

Drafts of foals and mares were stabled in the adjacent Terrace House Yard which was branded with distinctive scenes from the stud and gave potential buyers privacy for viewing the consignment.

Stud groom Ben Hyde and his staff will be in the same stables this year and look forward to meeting clients old and new.

Dunaden Breeders’ Club announced The launch of the Dunaden Breeders’ Club means mare owners who use the triple Group One winner and new stallion could win valuable bonuses.

The Dunaden Owners & Breeders Premium means owners of two- and three-year-olds by the sire will have winnings in Britain and Ireland supplemented by 64%, while an additional 15% of the combined prize money and premium will go to the breeder.

G Force a gem Victory for G Force in the Gr.1 Haydock Sprint Cup was a reminder of gems to be found among horses offered for sale by Qatar Racing and Pearl Bloodstock.

G Force raced once as a two-year-old for Qatar Racing from Richard Hannon’s stable before heading to Tattersalls Horses-in-

In addition, breeders of stakes winners at two or three in Britain, Ireland or France will be rewarded with one-off £25,000 prizes.

Dunaden, a winner of more than £5,000,000 in prize money, takes up stallion duties at Overbury Stud, under the management of Simon Sweeting, in 2015. He and Tweenhills Farm & Stud resident Havana Gold can be viewed at Longholes Stud near Newmarket during Tattersalls’ December Sale. Longholes Stud was purchased by Sheikh Fahad last year and is now fully established as a breaking, pre-training, rest and rehabilitation centre under Louise Cornwell. Its new website is www.longholes.com.

Training Sale 12 months ago when he was bought for 25,000gns by Middleham Park Racing. He has since won three times, highlighted by his Haydock success.

A draft from Qatar Racing and Pearl Bloodstock will be offered at Tattersalls HIT sale, and some quality fillies to breed or continue racing will grace the same company’s December Sale (December 1 to 4).

Tweenhills Farm & Stud, Hartpury, Gloucestershire, GL19 3BG W: www.tweenhills.com T: + 44 (0) 1452 700177 / 700545 M: + 44 (0) 7767 436373 E: davidredvers@tweenhills.com

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Richard Barber Point-to-point trainer retires and hands over his horses to grandson Jack; his graduates include Cheltenham Gold Cup winner See More Business.

Pat Hughes Kirsty Milczarek Jockey, 30, quits the saddle on medical advice following a serious neck injury sustained last year in a stalls accident at Brighton.

Kerrin McEvoy Australian jockey, 33, ends ten-year association with Sheikh Mohammed to become a freelance.

Mike Marshall Former assistant trainer to Sir Henry Cecil joins the Roger Varian stable after spells with Lady Cecil and Martyn Meade, replacing David Eustace.

Pat Smullen Six-time champion jockey in Ireland rides 100 winners in a season for the first time.

Maxime Guyon 25-year-old replaces Olivier Peslier as number one rider to the Wertheimer family, having signed a four-year contract that begins in January.

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Betway Online betting firm announced as new sponsor of the Queen Mother Champion Chase in a three-year deal after BetVictor ended its backing of the race.

Guy Henderson Wincanton Chairman, 56, is chosen to succeed Charles Barnett as Chief Executive of Ascot racecourse.

Doug O’Neill Leading US trainer is banned from having any runners at the Breeders’ Cup after a medication violation in New York involving the sedative Oxazepam.

David Walker New Zealand rider is banned for seven years after preventing a horse he was riding from running to its merits in a race where he had bet on a rival runner.

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Yorkshire track Wetherby receives an additional three Flat fixtures bringing its total to four in 2015; its jumping programme has not been affected. Olly Tait, Darley’s Chief Operating Officer, leaves the organisation after 15 years’ service; he helped establish Darley’s bloodstock operations in Japan and Australia. Irish government’s budget reveals €11.2m extra will be allocated to racing in 2015, with the Horse and Greyhound Fund now receiving €68m, up from €54m.

Edward Prosser, Keeneland’s European representative, leaves Racenews, which provides services for racing, after 18 years.

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RACEHORSE AND STALLION MOVEMENTS AND RETIREMENTS

HORSE OBITUARIES

Captain Cee Bee Grade 1 winner over hurdles and fences for owner JP McManus and trainer Edward Harty is retired aged 13; he won the 2008 Supreme Novices’ Hurdle (pictured nearside), beating Binocular.

Celestial Halo

Kingman Khalid Abdullah’s exceptional miler, the winner of seven of his eight races, is retired aged three following a throat infection and joins the sire roster at Banstead Manor Stud.

Australia

Grand servant for owner Andy Stewart and trainer Paul Nicholls is retired aged ten; he won ten races over jumps, including the 2008 Triumph Hurdle.

Game On Dude Top-class gelding on dirt in the US, winner of eight Grade 1s, including three runnings of the Santa Anita Handicap, is retired aged seven.

Brilliant son of Galileo and Ouija Board who completed the Epsom/Irish Derby double is retired to Coolmore for the 2015 breeding season.

Charm Spirit Son of Invincible Spirit, winner of three Group 1s in 2014 including the QEII, is retired to stand at Tweenhills Stud next year.

Mukhadram This year’s Eclipse winner becomes the first son of Shamardal to stand in the UK having retired to Shadwell’s Nunnery Stud for 2015.

Toronado, the outstanding miler by High Chaparral, winner of the 2013 Sussex Stakes and Queen Anne Stakes this year, will stand at the National Stud in 2015. Will Take Charge, a Grade 1-winning son of Unbridled’s Song, is retired aged four to stand at Three Chimneys Stud.

Sea The Moon, the eleven-length winner of this year’s Deutsches Derby, will stand his first season at Kirsten Rausing’s Lanwades Stud in Newmarket at a fee of £15,000. Mickley Stud in Shropshire acquires Heeraat, a Group 3-winning son of Dark Angel. Alpha, a son of Bernardini and winner of two Grade 1s in America, is retired from racing by Darley and will begin his stallion career at Sequel Stallions in New York. Last year’s St Leger hero and 2014 Gold Cup victor Leading Light looks to have run his last race, while 2013 Gold Cup heroine Estimate, owned by the Queen, is retired to the paddocks. Es Que Love, winner of this year’s Group 2 Lennox Stakes, retires to Rathasker Stud to stand alongside his sire Clodovil. Grands Crus, the winner of seven races including the 2011 Grade 1 Feltham Novices’ Chase, is retired aged nine.

Pure Grain 22

Top-class filly for owner/breeder Robert Barnett and trainer Sir Michael Stoute, successful in the Irish Oaks and Yorkshire Oaks in 1995.

Eton Rifles, 9 Talented sprinter, winner of ten races including six Listed contests, and over £300,000. Behrens, 20 Grade 1winning son of Pleasant Colony, winner of back-to-back renewals of the Gulfstream Park Handicap. Strategic Maneuver, 23 Daughter of Cryptoclearance won two Grade 1s in the US and produced Group 3 winner Ishiguru, sire of Coventry Stakes victor Hellvelyn. Delightfully, 10 Frenchbred mare who won four hurdle races in Britain, latterly for owner Robert Boyd and trainer Lucinda Russell. Countrywide Flame, 6 Useful Flat handicapper and topnotch hurdler, winner of the Triumph and Fighting Fifth in 2012 for John Quinn’s yard. Cigar, 24 Outstanding performer for owner/breeder Allen Paulson, winner of a Breeders’ Cup Classic and Dubai World Cup and over £5.6m. Spirit Son, 8 Highclass hurdler for Michael Buckley and Nicky Henderson. Toner D’Oudairies, 7 Prolific winner over fences for Gigginstown and Gordon Elliott, he scored ten times in all. Encke, 5 Foiled Camelot’s Triple Crown bid in 2012 when winning the St Leger; later banned after steroids were found in his system. Jazil, 11 Winner of the 2006 Belmont Stakes for Hamdan Al Maktoum is killed in a paddock accident in the US. Soviet Star, 30 Outstanding racehorse and stallion, sire of Starcraft, Ashkalani and Soviet Line.

PEOPLE OBITUARIES Toby Balding 78

Trainer whose list of big-race victories included two Grand Nationals, two Champion Hurdles and a Cheltenham Gold Cup.

Sir Nevil Macready 94

Racing administrator who was the first Vice-Chairman of the BHB and also a member of the Levy Board.

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Loreto Luciani 75

Peter Luff 78

Aaron Jones 93

Nelson Bunker Hunt 88

Italy’s reigning champion breeder, responsible for George Washington’s only foal Date With Destiny.

US owner/breeder who bred Belmont Stakes and Breeders’ Cup Classic hero Drosselmeyer, top sprinter Speightstown and superb mare Ashado

Property developer and owner whose best horse was West Tip, winner of the 1986 Grand National under Richard Dunwoody.

Texas oil tycoon and owner/breeder, he won the 1976 Derby with Empery and his brilliant filly Dahlia won the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes in 1973 and 1974.

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THE BIG PICTURE

DÉJÀ VU Cometh the hour, cometh the horse – Treve had looked well short of her brilliant best in three runs prior to the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe but a return to Longchamp in October worked the oracle and she produced her blistering turn of foot to win back-to-back renewals of the Paris race. Sheikh Joaan Al Thani’s filly, trained by Criquette Head-Maarek and ridden by veteran Thierry Jarnet, was initially retired after the race but connections quickly backtracked and announced that Treve would race on next year aged five in a bid to land an unprecedented third Arc Photos George Selwyn

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TREVE

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THE BIG PICTURE

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED Noble Mission followed in the hoofprints of his legendary brother Frankel by lifting the QIPCO Champion Stakes under James Doyle (pink).

Khalid Abdullah’s five-year-old, trained by Lady Cecil, endured an epic battle with Al Kazeem and George Baker, prevailing, just, by a neck Photo George Selwyn

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NEW SEASON KICKS OFF Exciting hurdler The New One (right) got his campaign underway with an easy success under regular rider Sam Twiston-Davies at Kempton on October 19.

The six-year-old, who kicked the top bar out of the final flight but still had far too much class for his rivals, is at the head of the betting for the Champion Hurdle in March, having finished an unlucky third in this year’s renewal Photo George Selwyn

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THE MAN YOU CAN’T IGNORE COMMENT

Tony Morris The reversal of the decision to retire Treve means she now has a date with destiny in the diary for next October, but what of the only other female to have won two Arcs?

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he Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe is generally the most hotly contested race of the year in Europe, so it is understandable that dual winners are something of a rarity. The very idea that there could be a triple winner of the race might have seemed fanciful enough to be considered a virtual impossibility, but it’s time for a re-think now that Sheikh Joaan Al Thani has accepted the challenge with his brilliant filly Treve.

Few apart from trainer Criquette HeadMaarek believed that the daughter of Motivator could claim a second Arc after three previous disappointing efforts on 2014, but on the big day she was scarcely less impressive than when retaining her unbeaten record in 2013, again displaying a lethal burst of acceleration to settle the issue in a few strides. It would be hard, at present, to name a threat to her in 2015, but who knows whether there might be an exceptional performer among the new threeyear-olds? We must also trust that Treve will turn up fit and in top form for her date with destiny, which is not something we can take for granted.

Plenty of horses have had three – or even more – shots at winning the Arc, and we don’t have to look back far to remember Youmzain’s gallant second places behind Dylan Thomas in 2007, Zarkava in 2008 and Sea The Stars in 2009. But none of the previous dual winners has returned in an attempt to secure a third triumph, though two doubled up after failing at their first attempt. One was Motrico, who finished fourth at three and scored his wins at five and seven, the latter when he already had foals on the ground. The other was Corrida, like Treve the daughter of a Derby winner (Coronach), and she came closest to pulling off the treble, beaten two necks as a three-year-old before her successes at four and five.

Corrida, a foal of 1932, was bred and raced

by Marcel Boussac, and it was during her career on the turf that he established his dominance of the French racing and breeding scene that would endure for two decades. Already smart at two, Corrida began with a third place in the Prix Yacowlef, then as now, the most important newcomers’ race at Deauville. Nine days later

Thierry Jarnet takes the plaudits after partnering Treve to her second Arc victory

she won the Prix Morny, and after a break she returned to finish second in the Grand Criterium, then an unexciting fifth in the allaged Prix de la Foret.

No fan of Newmarket The filly was based with Boussac’s private trainer William Hall at Chantilly at two, but in the following spring her owner switched her to England, targeting major races from George Lambton’s stable. The move was not a success.

Corrida finished stone last of 22 in the 1,000 Guineas, and nearly last in both the Oaks and Coronation Stakes. Lambton decided that the filly did not like Newmarket and advised that she should return to Hall, although it became clear in the following years that she was never at her best early in the season.

There was improvement after Corrida’s return to Chantilly. She ran a half-length second to the older Rarity in the Prix d’Astarte, a performance she repeated behind Admiral Drake in the Grand International d’Ostende. To that point she had run nine times for just that single victory in the previous year’s Morny, yet she was now sent for the Arc and only Baron Edouard de Rothschild’s pair Brantome and Peniche, coupled at 2-1 on, started at shorter

odds. There were only three three-year-old fillies in the 12-strong field, and they finished 1-2-3, Samos prevailing by a neck over Peniche, who had the same margin to spare over Corrida. Two more runs at three brought Corrida second place, beaten a short head, in the Prix du Conseil Municipal and at last another victory, in the Grand Prix de Marseille, a race which carried plenty of prestige in those days.

After two wins from 13 lifetime starts, Corrida could not be considered any kind of champion, but she showed marked improvement as a four-year-old, when she ran 12 times for seven wins, three seconds, a third and a fourth. Now trained by Jack Watts, who had replaced the retired Hall, she began as runner-up in the Prix Boiard, filled the same place in the Prix de la Jonchere, then ran fourth in the Prix Daphnis et Chloe, giving 3kg to those who finished in front of her. Four consecutive victories followed, including the Hardwicke Stakes at Royal Ascot and Prix du President de la Republique at Saint-Cloud, before two other foreign visits. She failed by a length to give 7kg to the celebrated German three-year-old filly Nereide in the Braunes Band von Deutschland in Munich, but then scored a fluent victory in the Grand International d’Ostende.

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In the enforced absence of Prix du Jockey-Club and Grand Prix de Paris hero Mieuxce, who had split a pastern, Corrida was an odds-on chance for her second shot at the Arc and she won in impeccable style, with the previous year’s winner Samos back in fifth place. A trip to Newmarket shortly afterwards resulted in third place in a falsely-run Champion Stakes, but she concluded her season with a second triumph in the Grand Prix de Marseille.

As usual, Corrida took some time to reach her peak as a five-year-old.

She won only an uncompetitive edition of the Grand Prix du Tremblay from her first six starts that year, but she finished in the frame in four of the other five, her one indifferent effort being a fifth behind dead-heaters Cecil and His Grace in the Coronation Cup. She picked up the winning thread again when scoring her second success in the Grand International d’Ostende, then gave a convincing display at Hoppegarten in the Grosser Preis der Reichshauptstadt, leaving two winners of the Deutsches Derby in arrears.

There was now no doubt that, at her formidable best, Corrida was the top middle-distance performer of either sex active in Europe. The leaders of the three-year-old division, Clairvoyant (injured) and Donatello (already retired), were not going to be around to test her in her third Arc bid, so it was no surprise she started even-money favourite (coupled with stablemate Dadji) in what would be her swansong. It was not all plain sailing, however, as Dadji’s jockey failed to set the required strong pace and at the turn for home Corrida was seemingly in a hopeless position, going nowhere in ninth place. The mare’s rider, Charlie Elliott, had to bring her on the wide outside to launch her challenge, but her trademark burst of acceleration was once more in evidence, allied to admirable resolution under pressure. In the dying strides of a thrilling contest, she edged ahead of Prix Vermeille heroine Tonnelle to win by a short head.

A true international champion, successful in Belgium, Germany and England as well as her native France, Corrida retired as a winner of 13 of her 34 races. Her win-to-start ratio does not do her justice because, like Dahlia, another chesnut mare of a later vintage, she was unable to produce her best until the second half of the season.

Hopes were naturally high that she would prove as outstanding at stud as she had been on the racecourse. It was not to be.

Corrida slipped twins to Tourbillon in 1939 as a result of her first covering, and her 1940 filly by Mahmoud broke her spine in a freak accident in her box. She proved barren to Pharis in 1941 and to Tourbillon again in 1943 and 1944, and in late July of the latter year she disappeared, stolen by the retreating German army. We can never be certain of her fate, but it seems likely that she was killed and fed to hungry soldiers.

Corrida’s only surviving produce was her 1942 Tourbillon colt Coaraze, who provided an indication of what might have been, winning the Prix Morny at two, the Prix du Jockey-Club and Prix Jacques le Marois at three, the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud at four, and the Prix d’Ispahan at both four and five. Later a successful sire in Brazil, Coaraze was noted in France chiefly for his daughter La Mirambule, eight-length winner of the 1952 Prix Vermeille before starting favourite for, and finishing second in, the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.

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HOWARD WRIGHT COMMENT

All-weather racing has a poor reputation, but for what is has done for countless careers – two-legged and four – it deserves a better press

o horse with a bad name ever won the Derby, so they say, but give a dog a bad name, and it sticks, which seems to have become the fate of all-weather racing in Britain.

If various comments made to and in the media, let alone those emanating from forums and blogs, are to be believed, the very mention of all-weather racing conjures up images of lowgrade horses, derisory prize-money, tiny crowds, betting markets open to manipulation and races at the mercy of integrity violations.

Taken in the round, and treated to a fair not prejudiced assessment, the truth is somewhat different, but maybe increased exposure has helped to foster an impression that is worth examining as the phenomenon celebrates its 25th anniversary.

When the Jockey Club devised an insurance policy for the raft of abandoned meetings that had blighted winter jump racing, and Lingfield played host to Britain’s first all-weather race at 11am on Monday, October 30, 1989, no-one could have forecast where this new-fangled branch of the sport would be heading over the next quarter of a century.

Maybe the portents were obvious from the opening 12-race card sponsored by a bookmaker, but only a very accurate crystal ball could have forecast that by 2014, all-weather racing would extend to four venues – two operating floodlights – with another night-time attraction coming back into focus at Chelmsford City in January, plus Newcastle and Catterick waiting in the wings.

First intentions mean nothing now. However, the evidence of the last ten years is straightforward: while the total number of Flat fixtures has increased by 86, or 9.7%, since 2004, those on turf have gone down by 17, and the difference is in all-weather racing, which accounted for around one-third of this year’s scheduled Flat programme – 34.5% to be exact – compared with one-quarter (25.4%) ten years ago.

Concentrating criticism solely around prizemoney levels is too simplistic, for the growth of all-weather racing is a story of increased opportunities in many areas.

An opportunity for racing to generate levy by competing in the increasingly crowded betting market, especially since retail opening hours were extended way beyond the sport’s

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Don’t knock opportunity

Richard Hughes is not a fan of all-weather racing, but crucial winners come his way

traditional day-time and summer-evening parameters, even entering the valuable customer-friendly Good Friday vacuum.

An opportunity for owners to see their Flat horses running throughout the year, 20 or more times in some cases, and having the chance to earn prize-money that 25 years ago was nonexistent from early-November to late-March.

An opportunity for Flat-only trainers to build a business based on 12 months’ activity, where they can bring out horses that for one reason or another – injury, backwardness, inability to act on firmish going – have not seen the light of a racecourse day in midsummer.

And an opportunity for jockeys, stable staff and ancillary workers to share in the pursuit of year-round employment.

The days when top jockeys would spend their winters in an Alpine ski resort or riding for one of the Indian maharajahs had largely disappeared when all-weather racing was introduced. India did remain a haunt for one or

two, and the opening of the UAE would soon provide a valuable off-season diversion for several more, but for the best part of five months the majority of journeymen jockeys had nothing competitive to occupy their time.

Then along came all-weather racing, which has been the making of some jockeys and the saving of several more.

It has certainly helped Richard Hughes to claim his third jockeys’ championship.

Although the rider has said he would like to see turf racing restored to Kempton, going into the last four weeks of the season over which the championship is decided, a dozen of his winners had come at the all-weather track.

Hughes, of course, would not be concerned one jot if he had beaten Ryan Moore by the difference in their wins over the all-weather circuits at Kempton, Lingfield and Wolverhampton. When opportunity knocks, you have to answer. So let’s not knock the allweather opportunity quite so vigorously.

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VIEW FROM IRELAND

By JESSICA LAMB OF THE RACING POST

Hurdling or chasing: decision time Owner Rich Ricci and trainer Willie Mullins have some tough, but enviable, calls to make

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ebates raged at the end of last season over one man’s horses – now is the month of decision.

US-born owner Rich Ricci closed out the term with two sensational novice hurdlers in Vautour and Faugheen, one Grade 1 mare in Annie Power and a plethora of other stars.

Why the debates? Because neither Ricci, his trainer Willie Mullins, his back-up team nor his jockey Ruby Walsh were in agreement as to what to do with them all this season.

Fences versus hurdles. Novice versus championship.

As this campaign ground into gear last month, views still differed and Walsh still had a potential Champion Hurdle headache with Vautour, Faugheen and Annie Power – and even Un De Sceaux – all contenders for the championship event, even though Vautour is likely to start off over fences.

Patrick Mullins, Willie’s son and an integral part of the set up at Closutton, was looking to Champagne Fever for clues to help decide.

Ricci’s Champion Bumper winner went on to land the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle and then switched to fences, but with little success as the two horses he beat in the Supreme Novices’, Jezki and My Tent Or Yours, finished first and second in the Champion Hurdle.

He said: “Vautour went from strength to strength last year. He won the Supreme Novices’ and he looked like a chaser and could still go chasing, but after Champagne Fever maybe you could do the obvious thing [and stay hurdling]. I think he could be a live contender for the Champion Hurdle, but dad will decide.”

Of Faugheen, he added: “He is incredibly versatile. He’s won a point-to-point and doesn’t particularly seem to respect hurdles so I’d like to see him over

Ricci with Supreme Novices’ Hurdle hero Vautour, and below Faugheen flies a flight

fences, but he’s a bit like The New One; he could go for the Champion Hurdle instead and dad will make that decision, but he has won over fences so we know he jumps them.”

Though his father remained tight-lipped about his views on both, their owner was keen that Faugheen be the one to remain over hurdles, with Annie Power a future Gold Cup candidate in his mind, and Vautour bound for the Arkle.

Ricci said: “Faugheen stays over hurdles and, given that performance at Punchestown, the Champion Hurdle would be his target, but it depends what we do with Annie Power and Vautour. If they jump fences then it’s pretty clear what

Faugheen’s route is.

“We all think Vautour is a chaser, no doubt about it, but it’s hard to get his Supreme Novices’ run out of our minds.”

With stablemate Quevega retired to stud, Annie Power not only has the Champion Hurdle and World Hurdle as potential targets over smaller obstacles, but also Cheltenham’s David Nicholson Mares’ Hurdle, the race Quevega made her own. Ricci appears poised to crack on with his long-term ambition for the mare though.

He said: “You probably wouldn’t want to be trying to win the Gold Cup at nine or ten, so we’ll have to see where we go with her.”

His Gold Cup hope this season is Djakadam. The five-year-old fell in the Jewson Novices’ Chase at Cheltenham, but it was a minor blip on an otherwise exciting record.

His trainer said: “He is just such a natural jumper and galloper. He has so much scope and I was really happy with his first two runs over fences. His pedigree suggests he will have no problem staying three miles and he’ll get some big entries.”

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VIEW FROM IRELAND Mullins was so taken by him that he has acquired his four-year-old full-brother, Sambremont, who began his career over hurdles with Arnaud Chaille-Chaille in France last year.

Patrick Mullins is already excited about the novice. He said: “Sambremont could possibly turn out to be a three-mile Grade 1 chaser. He does everything right at home, moves lovely and is a fantastic looker. He’s one we’re

“Sambremont could

possibly turn out to be a three-mile Grade 1 chaser. He’s a fantastic looker” looking forward to getting out on the track later in the season.”

Ricci’s 2013 Neptune Novices’ Hurdle third Pont Alexandre, not seen since that Cheltenham Festival run, is set to go novice chasing, and so is the unbeaten Clondaw Court. The son of Court Cave won a point-topoint, bumper, maiden hurdle and novice hurdle for Ricci, then got injured and has not run since January.

The Morgiana Hurdle at Punchestown in the middle of November is the first test for the Grade 1 two-mile hurdlers and will be where we receive a big clue as to which Ricci star is being aimed at the Champion Hurdle.

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The move secures 24 days of live Irish racing on terrestrial television up to 2017 and will give the bookmaker a strong partnership with the programme, featuring on radio, online and television.

Groundsman death rocks Gowran Gowran Park officials were saddened and shocked by the sudden death of its longserving head groundsman Pat Walsh.

The 63-year-old, who had cared for the track for more than 31 years, had been suffering from a brain tumour and was improving with treatment but fell ill shortly before the track’s PWC Champion Chase day and did not recover.

Many of Walsh’s family also worked on the racecourse and he had treated it with as much care as his own garden. He had as much pride in it as he did his own garden, too.

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Sprinter Sacre will hopefully return to form for Geraghty this season

Geraghty keen for big two to prove their worth He won the Champion Hurdle on spare ride Jezki, but for Barry Geraghty last season still lacked something: Sprinter Sacre and Simonsig.

Champion chaser Sprinter Sacre, the highest-rated horse in the land, did not make it past the Desert Orchid Chase owing to a heart condition, while Simonsig developed a splint on his near-fore after winning last year’s Arkle.

They were Geraghty’s two most exciting mounts for last season and neither was able to make his mark. Now they are back and Geraghty is keen to show what they are made of.

He said: “Sprinter Sacre and Simonsig didn’t get a chance to perform last year so I would be really anxious to get those two back to where they were. They look in good shape at the minute, so fingers crossed they stay that way. There is a lot to look forward to.”

Sprinter Sacre’s aim is to regain his Champion Chase crown, while the King George is on Simonsig’s agenda, giving Geraghty a week of Gold Cup clues as 2013 winner Bobs Worth is bound for the Lexus Chase at Leopardstown two days later.

Geraghty said: “Bobs Worth won the Lexus, but he did disappoint in the Gold Cup [fifth] after that. It’s difficult because the race programme isn’t brilliant for him.

The ground for the Betfair Chase is generally soft and the track at Haydock is a bit sharp, but top-weight in the Hennessy Gold Cup isn’t ideal either.

“Winning with top-weight has been done, but by Denman, who is a more robust horse – Bobs Worth is neater. He did win the Hennessy with 11st 6lb though and was then a stone below where he is now. I’m not sure what the plan beyond the Hennessy is, but he might go back to the Lexus.”

In the Lexus he would meet Ireland’s top Gold Cup prospects and Geraghty feels chief among them is the Willie Mullinstrained youngster Djakadam and returning Sir Des Champs.

He said: “You have to respect the Gold Cup winner Lord Windermere and Sir Des Champs, if he can come back. I don’t think we have seen the best of him yet.

Djakadam is only five and was travelling well when he fell at Cheltenham. He’s definitely a player as well.”

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CONTINENTAL TALES

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Coolmore buys state Velin’s intent Trainer Bettina Andersen the beneficiary of big-spending owner’s ambitions

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ettina Andersen is a coming force within Denmark’s training fraternity, backed by a big-spending owner in Flemming Velin and his newly-acquired battalion of recruits from the Coolmore Stud operation’s giant band of horses in training.

In recent months a steady stream of beautifully-bred colts have been arriving at Andersen’s barn at Klampenborg racecourse in Copenhagen. Most began their careers with Aidan O’Brien, though one, Wentworth, sported the Coolmore silks whilst winning last year’s Betfred Mile at Glorious Goodwood for Richard Hannon. Wentworth is an Acclamation half-brother to the dual Group 3-winning filly Sandiva, and five Ballydoyle imports reached Copenhagen with similarly promising resumes.

Perhaps the best-known of the quintet is Giovanni Boldini, a $675,000 yearling purchase who made the frame in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (second), the Jersey Stakes (third) and UAE Derby (fourth). Wilshire Boulevard is another six figure yearling buy with classy twoyear-old form – a Group 3 victory

Velin, who races under the banner of ‘ScanVet Stallions’, is an ex-trainer who rode in amateur races until the age of 45. He already has knowledge of breeding, albeit in a slightly different sphere, as his son, Thomas, is an international showjumper who has twice finished in the top ten at the Olympics on a horse bought for him by his father, Quidam de Revel. Bred and originally competed in France, Quidam de Revel stood for Velin snr in Denmark until his death in February 2014, becoming the world’s leading showjumping stallion. Velin once likened him to the legendary Northern Dancer, saying: “If you got the chance to compare the two, you couldn’t tell between them. They could be twins.”

But Velin is a self-professed ‘thoroughbred man’ and, possibly prompted by Quidam de Revel’s death, earlier this year he oversaw the laying down of a one-mile-seven-furlong allweather training track at his property in Fredensborg, north of Copenhagen. This is where his Coolmore colts did much of their training before they moved to join Andersen .

Herself once a jockey and in possession of a full training licence since 2010, Andersen is a member of a successful racing family. Divorced from British-born Klampenborg trainer Brian Wilson, she is now married to the retired multiple Danish champion jockey Kim Andersen, who acts as her assistant.

And Oliver Wilson, her 19-year-old son and stable jockey, is a rising star among Scandinavian riding ranks. Destined to make a career in the saddle from a very young age (he came over to Scotland to spend a winter with Lucinda Russell and Peter Scudamore when he was only 15), he landed his national riding title for the first time two years ago, when he was still an apprentice, and is assured of regaining that crown in 2014.

Andersen’s best results so far have been victories in Listed races at Klampenborg (with Wentworth) and Taby (with Giovanni Boldini) and she has higher hopes for the future.

“We have been waiting for a chance to get some proper horses and show what we can do after previously doing well with handicappers,” she said. “This season has gone okay but has been something of a test year – next year will be Bettina Andersen different. Mr Velin wants to make his Coolmore with ex-Coolmore purchases into stallions so the aim is to gain black type. That means taking them abroad.”

Giovanni Boldini

and a second place in York’s Gimcrack Stakes.

The shipment is completed by three Coolmore homebreds out of Group 1-winning mares. Stubbs is a Listed-winning son of Danehill Dancer, while Friendship and Mekong River are by the world’s top sire, Galileo – the former contested both the National Stakes and Dewhurst last term, while Mekong River landed the Group 3 International Stakes for O’Brien at the Curragh as recently as June 29.

“He wants to make

his new purchases into stallions – that means black type and taking them abroad”

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San plan works for Team Tindaro

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Tindaro and Oscar Urbina hold the thrust of Andry Bruselles to justify the ambitious trip arranged by trainer Paul Webber

Most trainers have their pet races but Cropredy handler Paul Webber has taken the concept to extremes. Not for him the targeting of a novice hurdle at Towcester or a staying handicap at Warwick.

Oh no, the Royal Ascot-winning trainer best known for his handling of chasers and hurdlers has taken a liking to a Flat race staged a 900-mile box drive from his Oxfordshire base – in San Sebastian, on the north coast of Spain.

Frustrated by the lack of opportunities for his useful chaser Australia Day, who needs fast ground and to go right-handed, Webber first dreamed up the idea of a trip to the Basque Country in the summer of 2012.

So, incorporating a stopover at JeanClaude Rouget’s yard in Pau, France, he sent Australia Day on the long trek to contest both the Copa de Oro de San Sebastian and, three weeks later, the Gran Premio de San Sebastian.

The Key Of Luck gelding found the mile and a half of the initial event a trifle on the short side, finishing third, but made the trip worthwhile by landing the Gran Premio over an extra quarter mile. The same itinerary was repeated last year but this time a fifth in the Copa de Oro was followed by a gallant fourth, just over a length behind the winner, in the Gran Premio.

Undaunted, and realising the enigmatic Australia Day was needing fences to bring out the best in him these days, Webber came

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up with an able deputy in Tindaro.

“This year we went down only for the Copa de Oro and we stopped off at Chantilly before journeying through the night with two drivers to arrive at San Sebastian early the next morning,” Webber revealed.

“That way it was cool and there was less traffic, and it also cut expenses, meaning that

“Tindaro arrived on

the Tuesday morning and had plenty of time to rehydrate before the race” the trip cost around £3,500 rather than £5,000, though it still meant that we needed to finish in the first two to make a profit.

“So Tindaro arrived on the Tuesday morning and had plenty of time to rehydrate before the race on the Friday evening. We gave him an electrolyte drip on arrival, just as we had done in Chantilly, to aid the process.”

The race itself, on September 12, was a searching test, as a locally-trained mare set a scorching gallop and at one stage went 20 lengths clear. Tindaro’s jockey, the former Newmarket-based Oscar Urbina, kept calm

and, after hitting the front with a furlong and a half to run, the British raider kept on stoutly to see off the late challenge of Andry Brusselles by a neck and pouch the £12,500 first prize.

“Unfortunately only two members of the winning ownership syndicate, Ian and Pam Magee, were able to make it to Spain but the whole visit was great fun,” Webber added.

“San Sebastian is a beautiful city, within easy reach of both Biarritz and Bilbao airports, and after the race we went up into the mountains for a night at a cider restaurant organised by the racecourse’s British representative, Nick Higgins.”

The restaurant in question is the Sidreria Aginaga and included in the price of its meals are unlimited tastings from the six enormous vats of cider that make up one wall of its dining room!

The form of the victory was given some substance when Andry Brusselles won a Listed race at Saint-Cloud in Paris three weeks later, and Webber is already pondering a return visit next year.

“There are a couple of possible targets coming up for Tindaro over jumps, including one at Ascot on November 1, then he will be put away for the winter,” he revealed.

“We will then go down the handicap route with him on the Flat, though he might get close to becoming a Listed-class horse, and he could well go back to San Sebastian for two races next summer.”

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AROUND THE GLOBE THE WORLDWIDE RACING SCENE

by Steve Andersen

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US champion Cigar is one of the best-known horses to have run at Suffolk Downs, which looks to have staged its final race

Suffolk down and out after casino bid fails

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uffolk Downs in Boston may have run its last race. On September 16, the track lost a bid to gain the single casino licence for the Boston area awarded by the Massachusetts Gaming Commission. The following day, track officials said the 79-year-old racecourse would cease racing in early October.

The final day of scheduled racing occurred on October 4, a nine-race card played out before a crowd of 9,153. Closing day was pushed back five days to allow the final day to fall on a Saturday, when more fans could attend.

Track officials said that without casino gambling at the track, there is no way to sustain business. The track had partnered with the Connecticut casino giant Mohegan Sun on a casino bid, but lost out to Wynn Resorts, which lists the Wynn and Encore casinos in Las Vegas among its properties. A $1.6 billion casino is scheduled to be built two miles from racecourse property.

A casino was considered vital for the continuation of racing. Suffolk officials said the track has not been profitable since 2006, and that principal owner Richard Fields and partners have lost $60m in recent years.

Following the gaming commission’s decision, there was a wave of activity in the

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second half of September in an effort to save New England’s last major racecourse. A region that once had 17 racecourses has dwindled to a county fair meeting in Massachusetts and a few harness racing venues. A once-vibrant racing circuit of Suffolk Downs in Massachusetts and Rockingham Park in New Hampshire seemed over.

A group of owners and trainers, through the New England Horsemen’s and Benevolent and Protective Association, filed documents with Massachusetts officials in late September hoping to lease the track for a 65-day season in 2015. Negotiations continued in early October, with no guarantee of success. A decision is expected in the second half of November.

If the proposal fails, owners and trainers are expected to relocate their horses to other circuits such as Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. All of those states have purses that have benefited from some form of casino gambling.

The ramifications of the closure of Suffolk Downs will be widespread. Breeding will dwindle in the region and migrate to nearby states. For racing fans, there will be an absence of live sport in one of the region’s most populous cities.

The closest major thoroughbred racing will be at Aqueduct and Belmont Park in the New York City area and Saratoga in upstate New York, about 200 miles west of Boston.

The track had a unique history in New England racing – and entertainment. The Beatles played there in 1966, and legends such as Seabiscuit, Whirlaway and Cigar, who died in October, raced there. The Massachusetts Handicap was a fixture on the schedule for older horses on the East Coast for decades.

Suffolk is the third American track to cease racing in the last year. Last December, Hollywood Park in the Los Angeles area was closed for development. Fairplex Park, in eastern Los Angeles county, is no longer holding its brief September meeting, choosing to transfer the dates to Los Alamitos racecourse in Orange County, which also added thoroughbred dates following the closure of Hollywood Park.

In a different vein, Beulah Park, near Columbus, Ohio, closed in May, but relocated across the state to Austintown, near Youngstown, about a three-hour drive away.

Track owner Penn National Gaming sought a new venue for racing, one that will also be home to a casino.

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AROUND THE GLOBE

AU S T RA L IA

by Danny Power

They think it’s all over... it is now returned $12.7m, but the Magic Millions withdrew a large block of racehorses late in the sale after protests from buyers that they were bidding against Tinkler, who was picking the eyes out of the catalogue in what was supposed to be a completely unreserved dispersal.

Controversy has followed Tinkler since he burst on the scene in January 2008 when he spent nearly $50m at the Magic Millions and the New Zealand Bloodstock (Karaka, Auckland)

“It’s believed Tinkler

spent more than A$300m on 500-plus horses and farms in the first two years” yearling sales, and he kept spending. If there was a yearling or broodmare sale, Tinkler’s men were there and the breeding industry embraced the new player as a godsend after a few lean years. With Tinkler’s help, the Australian breeding industry bucked the international downturn caused by the global financial crisis.

His money came from shrewd investments and smart gambling in the coal industry. Tinkler,

an electrician, made his first wad of cash when he developed a machinery maintenance business that serviced the mines. In 2006, he borrowed $500,000 as a down payment for an $11m struggling coal mine in Queensland, which he then sold to Macarthur Coal for a profit and a large parcel of shares. In early 2008, Macarthur Coal became a takeover target and Tinkler’s wealth climbed to $422m. By 2010, at 34, he became Australia’s youngest billionaire.

Tinkler kept borrowing on his new-found capital wealth and it funded his massive investment in thoroughbreds, properties, rugby league and football teams, and massive sponsorship for his Patinack Farm.

It’s believed Tinkler spent more than $300m on 500-plus horses and a handful of farms in those first two years, but it wasn’t long before the wheels began to fall off. New staff came and went quickly, which resulted in the industry referring to the outfit as ‘Patinsack’, and it wasn’t long before cash flow problems, after the value of the coal mines dropped, resulted in a number of disenchanted creditors.

Tinkler’s vision was to be bigger and more successful than the ‘Chicken Kings’ Bob and Jack Ingham, who developed their Woodlands Stud racing and breeding empire over more than two decades. Woodlands Stud was eventually sold to Sheikh Mohammed in 2008 for a reported $500m – a sale that influenced Tinkler’s decision to launch into the business.

MAGIC MILLIONS

The blimp that came in the ample shape of Nathan Tinkler and hovered over Australian racing for the past six years has run out of energy, or in Tinkler’s case, money. Tinkler’s Patinack Farm shed the last of its horses in a fire sale at the Magic Millions complex on the Gold Coast from September 28 to October 1.

Nearly all the 516 lots found new homes, although the five stallions – dual French Classic winner Lope De Vega, Victoria Derby winner Monaco Consul, Trusting, Murtajill and Raheeb – did not go under the hammer owing to some legal issues that needed to be resolved.

The sale netted Tinkler $A33.9 million, although he’ll see none of it as Magic Millions’ owner, Gerry Harvey, after lending Tinkler a reported $40m, will clamp on the dividend. It was the billionaire Harvey, one of Australia’s leading retailers and a huge investor in racing, who finally let the helium out of Tinkler’s balloon and demanded the big sell-off after Tinkler failed to find an overseas buyer for his bloodstock interests. This was not the first reduction of Patinack’s horses. In 2012, 11 racehorses and 203 broodmares went through the Magic Millions complex and yielded $3.2m.

Last June Patinack Farm held a dispersal at the Magic Millions, when it shed 400 breeding and racing stock, not without controversy.

The sale

Nathan Tinkler’s bloodstock empire went under the hammer on the Gold Coast, with Believe’n’succeed fetching A$1.1 million

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OLYMPIC GLORY

New in 2015

Gr.1 winner at 2, 3 & 4, track record holder Standing at Haras de Bouquetot, FR

Anabaa & Place Vendome (Dr Fong)

Classic Gr.1 winner, track record holder Standing at Haras de Bouquetot, FR

New in 2015

High Chaparral & Wana Doo (Grand Slam) Undefeated Gr.2 winning 2yo, European Champion 3yo Standing at the National Stud, GB

Choisir & Acidanthera (Alzao)

STYLE VENDOME

TORONADO

1st Foals in 2015

PLANTEUR

1st Foals in 2015

Danehill Dancer & Plante Rare (Giant’s Causeway)

Multi-millionaire Gr.1 winner Standing at Haras de Bouquetot, FR

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TALKING TO...

DR RICHARD NEWLAND

Dr Richard Newland was thrilled – though not surprised, as he tells Owner & Breeder – to win the world’s most famous horserace

The doc’s DOZEN Dr Richard Newland’s ambition is to win back-to-back Grand Nationals with Pineau De Re – that wouldn’t be bad going for a 12-horse trainer who only took out his professional licence seven years ago

By Tim Richards • Photos George Selwyn

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arlier this year you saddled Pineau De Re to win the Grand National. How long did your achievement take to sink in properly?

Of course, you watch the video numerous times, keep pinching yourself and eventually you get your head round what you’ve done and realise, ‘My God, it’s happened!’ Away from the races there were people who recognised me and wanted to shake my hand and I didn’t know who they were at all, while in the racing world people wanted me to sign autographs.

Someone at the races said to me recently that you can win a Gold Cup and a Champion Hurdle but you’ll always be the ‘Grand National-winning trainer’. The National does seem to transcend any other race and when you consider 600 million people watch it there must be some who know nothing about racing but have heard of the Grand National.

Did your Aintree success attract queues of prospective owners outside the gates of your 12-horse Worcestershire yard?

No, the floodgates haven’t opened. It’s bizarre because our operation is exactly the same as it was before we won. Perhaps we give out the wrong signals and everyone thinks we are small and private. I am always very happy to look for new owners and to improve the quality of the yard. We may be expanding, but only on a very small scale.

I work full-time and am Chief Executive of a growing business, which takes up a lot of my time. I enjoy the stable at this level with 12 horses; it’s manageable with a small team of people doing all the work. As soon as it

becomes 25-30 horses in training it will be too much with my other work.

How is Pineau De Re and what is the plan for him?

He took the National extremely well.

Afterwards, when I was parading him before the Bet365 Gold Cup at Sandown, he was bouncing. He could have run in the race without a penalty and hosed up, he was in such good form. He’s had a nice long break and did so well out in the field he was getting fatter and fatter. He’s been doing road work for over two months and the plan is to have him in top shape for another crack at the National. He’ll go handicap hurdling and hopefully run in the Pertemps Final like he did last year, and then Aintree. These older horses can go wrong very easily, so my job is to deliver him there for that one big day.

Your policy has been to find cheaper horses that have lost their way and bring them back to form. How do you go about finding the type of horse that will recover its old sparkle?

I do like buying a horse that’s proved it’s got an engine. I have a theory that you can’t fluke good form. If a horse has run to a high level of ability it means that it is genetically capable of doing that. Then the only question is: can you bring it back? What I tend to do is try to focus on buying from yards where I think we’ve got a chance, where perhaps the stable has been out of form and the horses have not been firing.

If a horse is coming from Willie Mullins it’s unlikely I will improve it. It would be unusual for us to consider horses from somewhere like that. There’s no magic to our policy but I do like a horse to have shown some ability.

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DR RICHARD NEWLAND >> What is it about the way you train that

enables your horses to relive past glories?

We have a bit of a joke because when the horses walk through the door here I say: “Welcome to holiday camp, lads!” And when they’re not doing very well we have a word in their ear: “Listen lad, buck your ideas up otherwise you’re going back to a proper yard!” We’re very small with just 12 horses at a time based at the house, but we rotate them and have a total of 25 around the place. The 12 in training are turned out in paddocks all day long as soon as they’ve completed their interval training, which totals three miles a day. Our horses spend at least eight hours a day walking round the fields.

We call it free range training.

“A lot of family and

friends were shocked at my winning the Grand National, but I wasn’t” Can you ever see yourself changing your strategy and buying stores or unraced horses to train?

No. I could see myself buying better horses, but what we do is not dissimilar to what Nicky Henderson and Paul Nicholls do. The only difference is that they go off to France and write a cheque for four or five hundred thousand euros for a Grade 1 winner! They are still buying form, like a Kauto Star or a Long Run. I buy quite a few in Ireland that hopefully will improve and win something in England where it is less competitive.

The stat I’m most proud of is our winners to runners ratio: in each of the last five years we have had the highest percentage of horses in a yard that win a race. They might be winning only a seller, but they are winning. My analysis is that you don’t get a very good return on stores. So many have the breeding and look the part but can’t stand racing. You might be buying a champion, but it’s more likely to be a cart horse.

You are the co-founder of Birmingham’s first private GP surgery and also manage specialist services in prostate cancer, anorexia nervosa and foot and ankle surgery. How do you find time for the horses?

With difficulty! I am Chief Executive of CSH Healthcare and Newbridge, which is an anorexia treatment centre, and my role is commercial. I haven’t actually treated a patient for 18 months. In a sense, I run the horses like

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a small business and do like it to wash its face; I charge training fees and have five key staff, two grooms and three work riders. I feed the horses in the morning, harrow the gallops and put a list up on the board of what I want doing.

I start feeding at seven, then after watching a couple of lots and chatting to the staff I can be in my office by 9.15. I keep a busy diary but I keep it myself so I can juggle it to suit my own arrangements.

In your first season training you

saddled Overstrand to win two big handicap hurdles and Burntoakboy captured the Coral Cup at the Cheltenham Festival. That must have given you so much confidence…

It definitely did. And, to be quite honest, at the time I didn’t know what to expect as we only had four horses and it was our first season.

Overstrand and Burntoakboy’s successes did come as a shock but made me realise I must have been doing something right. A lot of family and friends were shocked at my winning THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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DR RICHARD NEWLAND of the fact there are a lot of people who are not in my fortunate position of training almost as a hobby. But I have never felt anyone had been put out by any success I have had. All trainers understand the pressure and I think we all have respect for one another.

What is tough for trainers is that everything is so open and measurable. I could do my other job and have a bad day at the office and no one except me and very few others would know.

But every Tom, Dick and Harry knows if a trainer is out of form and the horses are running badly. When it’s going well you’re a hero, but when you’re having a bad run you feel the pressure, particularly if you’re a trainer paying big prices for wealthy owners who think they can just buy success.

How did your racing interest start and when did you begin to study the art of training racehorses?

I am not from a horse background but started following racing at 18. My cousin Chris Stedman, who still has horses with me, invited me to the Cheltenham Festival and I started having small bets. I am a bit of an anorak and enjoyed analytically working out the form, delving into the breeding and was captivated by the majesty of the horses themselves.

I started getting interested in the possibility of training in 2000 and actually started in 2006.

I moved here in 1999 and my wife Laura was into horses and my three daughters, aged six, four and one at the time, were learning to ride ponies. I learnt with them, and rode well enough to hunt and do some showjumping. I can ride up the gallops but I’m no great horseman! I used to visit different yards and was fascinated by the science of training. I became a permit holder first and got my full licence in 2007.

the Grand National, but I wasn’t. Of course I was massively thrilled with the result and overwhelmed by the impact it had. But I always thought Pineau had a fantastic chance and it wasn’t a surprise.

Did you encounter any hostility from professionals who were jealous that a GP who trained for a hobby was enjoying so much success?

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Above: Dr Richard Newland chats to Leighton Aspell after Pineau De Re’s Grand National triumph in April.

Right: Burntoakboy gives his handler a Cheltenham Festival success in his debut season by winning the 2007 Coral Cup

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DR RICHARD NEWLAND >> In your view, what is the most

important aspect of training racehorses?

Selecting good horses, having the right facilities to get them fit and knowing where to place them. A lot of trainers are very good horse people, but some aren’t the cleverest at assessing form and knowing which horses to run against and which ones to avoid. Also being able to keep horses mentally right. My motto is: ‘If in doubt treat a racehorse like a horse’. In other words don’t keep them in stables all day long. I like to train some horses from the field; that’s why they spend most of the time outside.

“I was always a big

John Francome fan.

He was the supremo, a great jockey and I just loved his riding Have you worked in any yards and have you modelled yourself on anyone in particular?

No. I think it is an advantage not to have a pre-set formula. A lot of people who have worked in a yard try and follow that particular trainer’s system when they start out.

We have had nothing to go on and tried to do what we thought was instinctively right.

The chap I respect a lot is Martin Pipe, who came from no racing stables, did it differently and did terribly well. He was innovative, creative, an intelligent business guy and would have been successful in whatever he did. You have to surround yourself with the people who have the skills you haven’t got and I have some very good horsey people in the yard, but they wouldn’t know what I know in terms of buying horses and placing them. It’s a team effort.

Is it healthy for jump racing that all roads lead to the Cheltenham Festival from day one of the season?

I like it as it is and wouldn’t change a lot. There are other races to go for; I do a bit of summer jumping and

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there are numerous options as well. You could argue that we are a bit ‘Cheltenham-centric’, but I do think having the one Festival with all the lead-ups creates fantastic interest. I’m not a great follower of Flat racing but the way it is all staggered through your Ascots and Yorks, etc, is inclined to dilute things. I like all the champions turning up on the big day at Cheltenham. There’s something magical about the all-important decider.

As a Cambridge University undergraduate, did you ever visit Newmarket or consider venturing into Flat racing?

I used to go to Newmarket and Huntingdon and remember watching El Gran Senor beat Chief Singer and Lear Fan in the 1984 2,000 Guineas. About four years ago I thought I’d have a go at training sprinters, instead of summer jumping. But I didn’t have any success and didn’t really enjoy it.

Do you have much time for any other interests or hobbies apart from your medical businesses and training?

I love all sports, my favourite being Test cricket. I used to be a keen golfer and watched this year’s Ryder Cup. I used to do quite a bit of running but now I go cycling. At weekends I’ll bike 30-40 miles.

You obviously have a good business brain. Do you have any thoughts on how to improve racing’s finances or attract more participants?

My biggest bugbear in racing is the cost of the administration for an owner.

To register as an owner costs about £1,000. That’s to get set up before you have a horse; you get flooded with a variety of paperwork from authority to act to registering colours and buying silks. It shouldn’t be that expensive, but there is a culture of thinking that if you’re wealthy enough to own a horse you can afford to pay these fees. That’s why there are more and more syndicates and racing clubs, which of course can be great fun.

What’s the best bet you’ve ever had?

When Silver Adonis won the 2010 Fox Hunters’ at Aintree he was 50-1, and as big as 100-1 on Betfair. I kept banging John Francome: different class, whatever the weather

CLOSE UP AND...

PERSONAL Favourite book…

Jonjo, An Autobiography Best advice I’ve been given…

“The more you practise, the luckier you get” – Gary Player I keep fit by… cycling and running Four dinner party guests… Sir Peter O’Sullevan, Seve Ballesteros, Sir Bradley Wiggins and Geoffrey Boycott On the radio I listen to… 5 Live Sport and Classic FM

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PROFESSIONAL Racing hero… Sir Peter O’Sullevan Favourite racecourse…

Market Rasen My ambition is… back-to-back Grand Nationals with Pineau De Re I handle defeat by… planning how to win the next one Biggest lesson I’ve learnt… if there’s a problem with a horse don’t delude yourself – get it sorted on about him in the bar beforehand and all my family and friends backed him. John Provan, Pineau De Re’s owner, had £50 on at 66-1.

When he came into our hotel room that evening he emptied £3,000 in readies from his pockets!

I had a bit on, too.

If you could chose any rider from this period or previous generations to be your stable jockey, who would it be?

I was always a big Johnny Francome fan. He was the supremo, just a great rider. I remember on my 21st birthday I drank too much, had a stinking hangover and couldn’t cope with medical school at St Mary’s Hospital the next morning. But I suddenly felt well enough to go to Ascot, where I put £15 on Townley Stone, winner of the first, and proceeded to back five winners. Come the last race there was thick fog on the far side of the course and Francome went into the fog three lengths last and emerged from it three lengths clear of the field. I don’t know what happened in the fog, but from that day John has been my hero. I just loved his riding.

Can you give us a horse to follow through the winter?

Rock Gone, a nice big staying chase type, who will go novice hurdling this season. He is the most expensive I’ve ever bought, £58,000 at Brightwells. He was second in a maiden hurdle in Ireland and should be able to win a hurdle or two, though really he is a future chaser.

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Sea The Stars ex Sanwa (Monsun)

Brilliant winner of the Group 1 German Derby by 11 lengths ❚ Winner of 4 races (3 at Group level) at 2 and 3, 8f to 12f, from just 5 starts.

New for 2015

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Sire of a Group 1 winner with his first crop ❚ Sire in 2014 of: MADAME CHIANG (right) (Group 1 Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes and Group 3 Musidora Stakes) LADY PENKO (FR) (Listed winner and Group 1 placed) ❚ The Leading British-based sire of 2yos in 2014 by % winners to runners (54%) as at 19/10/14 ❚ Sire of 13 individual 2yo winners in 2014,* incl.

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Classic winning miler – dual Gr.1 winner at 3 ❚ Sire of 10 Stakes horses to date in 2014, including FIESOLANA (Group 1 Matron Stakes) and Listed winners AUSSIE CELEBRE, BERTINORO, DINKUM DIAMOND and KRAMULKIE. ❚ Also sire of 17 individual 2yo winners (to 21/10).

His 2014 yearlings have made up to 210,000gns

LEROIDESANIMAUX Candy Stripes ex Dissemble (Ahonoora)

Eclipse Award winning Champion Turf Horse in the USA ❚ Won 9 races and $1,658,377 including 3 Group 1’s over 1m on turf. ❚ Sire of World Champion ANIMAL KINGDOM and of the winners of over $18m.

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Unbeaten Champion 2yo and Classic winning Champion 3yo ❚ Sire of 12 Stakes horses to date in 2014, including Group 3 winner WAKE FOREST, Listed winners NAFAQA (at 2, also Gr.2 placed), LADY PIMPERNEL and INDIGO LADY. ❚ Also sire of 11 individual 2yo winners (to 21/10).

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CHEVELEY PARK STUD

A Pivotal

ROLE The red, white and blue silks of Cheveley Park Stud could hardly be a better symbol of British-bred success, both for the Thompsons’ own horses and for the breeders who support their stallions Words Julian Muscat • Photos George Selwyn

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t can’t have been ten years ago, surely? That was Patricia Thompson’s reaction to the prompt that Cheveley Park Stud’s famous silks featured on the front cover of Owner & Breeder’s inaugural issue in September 2004.

Time flies when you’re having fun, and it has been a memorable decade for the Newmarket nursery. On the racing front it has campaigned nine individual Group 1-winning fillies in addition to Virtual, winner of the 2009 Lockinge Stakes. And its tribe of stallions is flourishing, with Pivotal continuing to lead the way with more than 100 individual stakes winners, 24 of them in Group 1 company.

Those are the headline acts, but there is plenty of depth to the story. Dutch Art, a son of the stud’s homebred stallion, Medicean, propelled himself to the forefront of breeders’ thinking after Slade Power’s sizzling Diamond Jubilee-July Cup double. Moreover, Dutch Art’s son, the Group 1-winning sprinter Garswood, joins the roster for 2015.

Add in the likes of proven speed source Kyllachy, together with young wannabes Mayson and Dark Angel’s son Lethal Force, and the portents for the next decade are encouraging. In truth, it is as much as Cheveley Park Stud deserves. A deal of good fortune is required to scale such heights but the stud has stood so firmly behind its own horses it is entitled to believe it has made its own luck.

There have also been disappointments, as is preordained in this business, but the stud stands out as a bastion of the British breeding scene every bit as prominently as its red, white and blue silks stand out on the racetrack.

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The latter detail is highlighted by Cheveley Park Stud’s long-serving Managing Director, Chris Richardson. “It makes us proud when commentators refer to ‘those well-known Cheveley Park colours’ as they call a race,” he says. “It shows we have achieved something.”

Patricia Thompson who, with her husband David, has owned the stud for 39 years, believes continuity of purpose is paramount.

“I don’t like new ideas if the old ones work well,” she says.

“Our path is well established, although this is an everchanging industry, a fascinating industry, and we are involved in every facet.”

One constant since the Thompsons’ purchase of the property, then a 270acre concern in receivership, has been Cheveley Park Stud’s association with fast horses. Back in 1975 they walked through the gates to find a couple of forlorn broodmares and Forlorn River, a 13year-old stallion who’d pulled off the July Cup-Nunthorpe double.

Two years later and Music Boy, winner of the Gimcrack Stakes for the Thompsons, was

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Intello leads Dutch Art and Lethal Force on exercise around the farm, while, right, this bronze of Music Boy, the Thompsons’ first stallion, has pride of place outside the stud office

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CHEVELEY PARK STUD >> installed as their first new stallion. They were

advised against it but put their faith in Music Boy, who went on to become leading firstseason sire with a crop of just 17 foals.

Subsequently a strong influence for speed, Music Boy is commemorated in bronze outside the stud’s office.

This predilection for fast horses remains a Cheveley Park Stud bedrock. “We have a very strong client base of breeders who want that particular strain of stallion,” Richardson says.

“We have tried other types here, horses like Saddlers’ Hall, Benny The Dip and Groom Dancer, but they are much harder to sell. Over the years we have worked out that sprinter types work best for us. Other horses just don’t seem to fit the Cheveley Park Stud perspective.”

The theme extends to the Richard Faheytrained Garswood, who truly epitomises the brand. The four-year-old was bred by Cheveley Park Stud and sold as a foal for 19,000gns before the stud bought back into him at the end of his two-year-old season. As a grandson of Medicean, he represents the third generation of his male line at Cheveley Park Stud. And since Garswood is out of a Kyllachy mare, three of his four grandparents are scions of the stud.

“Some people believe

we keep the best colts but we show them all unless there’s an issue that may affect a sale” Garswood, who is Cheveley Park Stud’s fourth new stallion in the last three years, came from the same source as Mayson. Both were originally raced from Richard Fahey’s prolific stable by David Armstrong. Where they differ is that Mayson is a son of Invincible Spirit, which introduces a new male line into the stud – even if he is out of a Pivotal mare.

“It is important for us to stand stallions from different lines,” Patricia Thompson says. “It’s a bit like a shop window: you don’t fill it with the same dresses if you want to attract a broad range of clients.”

Armstrong has been a regular supporter of the stud’s stallions, which made the decision to buy into his racehorses a natural fit. “We have enjoyed a long and successful relationship,” Richardson reflects. “David has used our stallions religiously so we were pleased to be able to reciprocate.”

Indeed, the success of their joint racing ventures tempted David Thompson to join Armstrong in placing a handful of yearling purchases with Fahey. Although the partnership was a one-off venture, it serves to

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Integral: dual Group 1 winner in 2014

highlight the Thompsons’ insatiable enthusiasm after four decades of involvement.

While the stud is run on a business footing, the Thompsons still enjoy digressing into funloving aspects of the sport. In Patricia’s case this received expression when her husband gifted her Party Politics 48 eight hours before the horse won the 1992 Grand National.

One aspect of Cheveley Park Stud’s policy to have evolved is that it no longer buys yearlings in the US. Like many British-based breeders, it believes the quality of stallions now available in Europe has negated the need, although the stud has reason to be grateful for its early penchant for American blood.

The likes of Exclusive Order, Gay Gallanta, Polish Romance and Russian Rhythm, from whom so many of its contemporary mares descend, have proved worth their weight in gold.

Integral, Cheveley Park Stud’s banner racehorse this year, is a greatgranddaughter of Exclusive Order, while Garswood is a greatgrandson of Polish Romance.

And if buying American distaff blood Cheveley Park Stud’s homebred stalwart, Pivotal, is now 21

has run its course, the stud’s policy of selling some of its homebred yearlings has crystallised over the last decade. All the yearling colts are offered for sale except those with a less-thanflawless upbringing. Conversely, all the homebred fillies are allocated to one of 13 trainers. The stud has around 100 horses in training each season.

Although the policy of selling all the colts is not new, it still raises certain questions. “We are slightly tarnished with a brush in that some people believe we keep the best colts at home, which we don’t,” Richardson says. “If there’s an issue that could affect a sale, there is no point in offering them. Otherwise we show them all.”

The advantages of selling its colts are twofold.

The first is to limit the number of horses the stud puts into training each year to around 100; the second is to raise capital for the purchase of future stallions. In the latter respect the stud has found that buying shares in a horse in training, rather than buying well-bred yearling colts, is the better way.

“We have tried buying yearling colts,” Richardson says. “We have also tried a combination of racing our better colts together with a handful of yearling purchases, while selling the other homebred colts, but it just confused everybody.”

The dilemma resolved itself when Cheveley Park Stud concentrated on using funds from the sale of yearling colts to buy into specificallytargeted horses in training. “It is more cost-effective,” Richardson says. “We take an interest with a view to taking a bigger stake in the horse later on. It is highly competitive.”

Mayson, Lethal Force and Garswood were all recruited in this way. So too was Polar Falcon, who was bought from Michel Zerolo at the end of his three-year-old season in 1990 and subsequently sired both Pivotal and Integral’s granddam, Exclusive, before his death at the age of 14. Little wonder that Patricia Thompson prefers proven formulae over the new-fangled.

On a broader note, Richardson says the business of standing stallions has

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BAHAMIAN BOUNTY Sire of 50 Stakes performers including 2014 Gr.2 Hungerford Stakes winner Breton Rock and Gr.3 winning 2yo, New Providence Yearling average of 57,777gns in Books 1 and 2 of 2014 Tattersalls October Sale

DICK TURPIN Yearlings averaged over 57,000gns in Book 2 of 2014 Tattersalls October Sale Doncaster Premier Yearling Sale average of £25,500 First crop of yearlings sold have gone to leading trainers: Richard Hannon, Charlie Hills, Kevin Ryan, Richard Fahey and Henry Candy

PASTORAL PURSUITS Sire of 20 Stakes performers including 2014 Group placed 2yos: Louie De Palma, Pastoral Girl and Kibaar Winners/runners strike rate of 43% (GB/IRE 2yos of 2014)

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Independent and traditional For Patricia Thompson, the recipe for success over the last ten years is uncomplicated. “We have very much stuck to how we run things in our own independent and traditional way,” she says.

“We have had lots of support from breeders on the stallion side, so we have them to thank. And on the racing side, you have to be patient. We had three quiet seasons after Hooray won the [2010] Cheveley Park Stakes but there’s no point in flapping.

I’m quite calm, temperamentally, and these things are cyclical. If you are lucky, fortune will smile on you again.”

Thompson is smiling again after Integral posted her second Group 1 triumph of the season in the Sun Chariot Stakes. And her enthusiasm for the homebred four-year-old filly is such that Integral is scheduled to race again next season.

“Why not?” her owner asks. “She had only really spent one and a half seasons in training. What I would really like to see next year is Integral and her two halfsisters all running on the same day.” In which case Provenance, a three-year-old filly by Galileo, and Entity, a two-year-old filly by Shamardal, had better raise their game.

Even after 40 years of involvement her enthusiasm remains that of a racing debutante. But the traffic is rarely one way: Thompson has also had to contend with the death this year of two of the stud’s prized racemares, the Group 1 winners Chorist and Russian Rhythm, who were 15 and 14.

The breeding business teaches those involved to guard against expectation but Thompson believes it is part of the game’s magnetic appeal. Sentiment is also part of the mix: every year she must wave goodbye to the homebred yearling colts bound for the sales, although not all will find buyers.

The stud’s policy dictates that all blemish-free colts must be offered, yet Thompson leaves the impression she welcomes some of them back with open arms. “If people don’t want them we are quite happy to race them ourselves,” she says.

She was quietly hoping such a fate would befall Integral’s yearling halfbrother by Medicean, who was recently offered in Book 1 at Tattersalls. But alas, the colt caught Sheikh Hamdan’s eye and, at 400,000gns, he had to go.

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The most attractive statement about any farm is the willingness of industry leaders to embrace it. That was evident when the Wertheimer brothers sent Intello to open his stallion innings at Cheveley Park Stud.

The son of Galileo, winner of the 2013 Prix du Jockey-Club, completed the first of two scheduled seasons earlier this year.

“Getting Intello was a tremendous feather in our cap,” Thompson says. “It was a real compliment, especially to Chris [Richardson], who sells the stud so well.

We took it as a good signal from the international bloodstock industry.”

As for the future, Thompson’s ambitions reflect the times.

“Just to still be here in the face of increasing competition,” she says. “It has become a tough business; it is even tougher for us because we don’t shuttle our stallions. But we are very happy.

“I hope we can continue to do things well for our clients,” she continues. “Some of the staff have been here for 30 years. It has been very fulfilling for us, everything is solid.

“It has been a good decade for us. This is a challenging and seductive business and, above all, it is fun. You enjoy it more as you get older because you know more about it. It has been very satisfying – and it hasn’t ended yet.”

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“There are infinitely more opportunities for breeders who can choose from a wide pool of stallions in Britain and Ireland,” he says.

“It has even encouraged international breeders to come to breed their mares here,” he continues. “It was all America 30 years ago; now it’s all in Europe thanks principally to the Maktoum family, Coolmore Stud and now the Al Thanis. We are in a very fortunate position.”

Richardson also feels the last decade has highlighted how robustly the breeding industry coped in the face of a recession that brought other industries to their knees. Cheveley Park Stud felt the icy blast without having to confront a blizzard.

“We had to be very aware of the financial difficulties people faced when setting our stallion fees,” Richardson says. “Overall, however, we are left with the impression a lot of breeders and owners were perhaps happier – or considered it a good investment – to be involved in bloodstock rather than leaving their money in the bank.”

As for the next ten years, Richardson would like a reprise. “We always strive to do better,” he says. “At the moment we are fifth on the owners’ table, which I think is very respectable considering the four outfits above us, but we will keep our heads down and keep trying.”

He adds: “The team here is a great strength.

We all treat Cheveley Park Stud as if it was our own, but we know full well that Mr and Mrs Thompson are the owners, the driving force.

We want to do as well as we can for them and I think that’s true of our 13 trainers. There’s a great sense of pride in being involved.”

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Come the foal sales, the first Frankel weanlings will doubtless dominate the headlines, just as the great horse did himself, but there are plenty of other first-crop stallions of note to watch out for this season Words John Berry

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hen Frankel was racing, it was easy to overlook the merit of his principal rivals, so marked was his superiority over even the very best of the rest.

We have a similar scenario now that he is a stallion with foals on the ground: his first weanlings are going to attract so many headlines that it would be easy to forget that he is merely one of several extremely promising young sires whose first offspring were born earlier this year.

The fact that Frankel, with a fee of £125,000, was the most expensive of Europe’s first-season sires of 2013 implies that he is the obvious leader of the pack as these horses begin their second careers. It is, of course, far from guaranteed that he will turn out to be the best stallion of his generation – in fact, it is highly unlikely that his superiority at stud can be as pronounced as it was on the racecourse – but he has certainly been given every chance to succeed as a sire, having covered stellar books of mares.

For a rough guide to the quality of mare covered by Frankel, one need look no farther than his six foals who are included in the catalogue for Goffs November Foal Sale. All are true blue-bloods, with none having more obvious credentials than the daughter of dual 1,000 Guineas heroine Finsceal Beo. This filly’s already-impressive profile received a terrific boost when Finsceal Beo bred two winners on the same weekend in September. While the victory at Goodwood of her three-year-old Sea The Stars filly Too The Stars was good, the win

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of her Montjeu two-year-old at Leopardstown was outstanding: Ol’ Man River galloped to the head of the market for next year’s Investec Derby when strolling home in the Group 2 Juddmonte Beresford Stakes.

Of the many racehorses who must have become sick of the sight of Frankel in his racing days, Excelebration, who was placed behind the

The Frankel filly out of Finsceal Beo, a half-sister to Ol’ Man River, is lot 897 at Goffs

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A filly by Australian champion two-year-old Sepoy out of Baheeja

champion on five occasions, took particularly high rank. The fact that Frankel was able consistently to slam Excelebration so decisively was remarkable, because Excelebration was a world-class miler in his own right, as he demonstrated with his victories in Prix du Moulin, Prix Jacques le Marois and Queen Elizabeth II Stakes. His first foals will also be particularly interesting as their father begins the task of trying to help establish the dualhemisphere stud success Exceed And Excel as a notable sire of sires.

Another top-class horse to endure Frankel’s rear view was Nathaniel. Remarkably, the two best colts of their generation made their debuts in the same maiden race, Nathaniel – subsequently winner of the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and the Eclipse –

finishing second to his supremely talented contemporary on Newmarket’s July Course in August 2010. Nathaniel too has had his first foals this year born, and they are sure to attract plenty of attention.

Any new batch of stallions generally includes a wide cross-section of horses, ranging from proven champion racehorses right through to virtual unknowns who are being given a chance at stud because of the strength of their pedigrees. Among those with first foals currently on the ground, in the latter category we find Finsceal Fior, a son of Galileo and the aforementioned Finsceal Beo; while the proven horses – besides Frankel, Excelebration and Nathaniel – include European Classic winners Arctic Cosmos, Fame And Glory, Power, Sans Frontieres and Tin Horse, as well as some

international superstars including the mighty So You Think and former Australian champion two-year-old Sepoy.

Incidentally, it speaks volumes for current fashions among the European breeding community that a horse of the calibre of Fame And Glory – winner not only of the Ascot Gold Cup, but of the Criterium de Saint-Cloud and the Tattersalls Gold Cup at ten furlongs, and of the Irish Derby and Coronation Cup over a mile and a half – should have been inserted into Coolmore’s National Hunt division from the outset. If given the chance, he would surely be able to prove himself capable of throwing topclass Flat horses – but, such is the glorious uncertainty about the breeding game, it is possible that such a remark could be made about any of the 34 horses listed overleaf.

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S T A L L I O N S W I T H F I R S T- C R O P F O A L S >> ARCTIC COSMOS (USA)

2007, by North Light ex Fifth Avenue Doll (Marquetry) The Old Road Stud, Ireland Hugely impressive winner of the 2010 St Leger, Arctic Cosmos has the physique and the form to sire good winners under both codes.

BATED BREATH (GB) 2007, Dansili ex Tantina (Distant View) Banstead Manor Stud

talented. He was precocious too, making a winning debut at Sandown as a juvenile and winning at Royal Ascot at three, and comes from the immediate family of successful sires Singspiel, Rahy, Saint Ballado and Devil’s Bag. Overall, he won 11 of his 36 races, and earned over £1 million.

CASAMENTO (IRE) 2008, Shamardal ex Wedding Gift (Always Fair) Kildangan Stud, Ireland A first-crop daughter of Arctic Cosmos

A top-class and consistent sprinter from the Best In Show family which has thrown up umpteen successful sires including El Gran Senor and Redoute’s Choice, Bated Breath recorded his best victory when breaking a course record in the Group 2 Temple Stakes at Haydock Park, running the five furlongs in 56.39 seconds. He was also runner-up in Group/Grade 1 company on four occasions.

BORN TO SEA (IRE) 2009, Invincible Spirit ex Urban Sea (Miswaki) Rathasker Stud, Ireland So strong is his pedigree, Born To Sea – a threeparts-brother to Sea The Stars and a half-brother to Galileo – could have gone to stud even if he had never raced. As it was, he showed high-class form, including when chasing home Camelot in the 2012 Irish Derby.

CAMPANOLOGIST (USA) 2005, Kingmambo ex Ring Of Music (Sadler’s Wells) Gestut Fahrhof, Germany Winner of four Group 1 races over 2400m (two as a five-year-old, two at six) Campanologist was tough, sound and durable, as well as very

A top-class juvenile in 2010 when he won the Racing Post Trophy, Casamento trained on well enough to land the Group 3 Prix du Prince d’Orange over 2000m as a three-year-old. His family continues to thrive, his half-sister Wana Doo being the dam of Toronado.

DELEGATOR (GB) 2006, Dansili ex Indian Love Bird (Efisio) Overbury Stud One of the best three-year-olds of his generation (as he showed by chasing home Sea The Stars in the 2,000 Guineas before going down by only a neck to Mastercraftsman in the St James’s Palace Stakes), Delegator was durable enough – and fast enough – to win the Group 2 Duke Of York Stakes over six furlongs as a five-yearold.

DONCASTER ROVER (USA) 2006, War Chant ex Rebridled Dreams (Unbridled’s Song) Hedgeholme Stud Sound enough to race regularly from ages two to six inclusive, Doncaster Rover, a half-brother to US Grade 1-winning juvenile J B’s Thunder, proved his merit as a sprinter, most obviously by winning three Listed races.

DRAGON PULSE (IRE) 2009, Kyllachy ex Poetical (Croco Rouge) Irish National Stud, Ireland One of Ireland’s top juveniles of 2011 when he won the Futurity Stakes at the Curragh before finishing second in the National Stakes, Dragon Pulse reaffirmed his class after his transferral to France, where he won the Prix de Fontainebleau as a three-year-old.

ELZAAM (AUS) 2008, Redoute’s Choice ex Mambo In Freeport (Kingmambo) Ballyhane Stud, Ireland Redoute’s Choice is established as a proven sire of sires Down Under. Only narrowly beaten in the Coventry Stakes at two, his son Elzaam, a descendant of Champion Stakes heroine Hurry Harriet, could do plenty to extend his father’s reputation in this role to Europe.

EXCELEBRATION (IRE) 2008, Exceed And Excel ex Sun Shower (Indian Ridge) Coolmore, Ireland A half-brother to the redoubtable Mull Of Killough, Excelebration put up some magnificent performances both in victory (winning thrice at Group 1 level) and defeat (four times finishing second to Frankel).

FAME AND GLORY (GB) 2006, Montjeu ex Gryada (Shirley Heights) Coolmore National Hunt, Ireland One of the most admirable racehorses of the current century, Fame And Glory scored at Group 1 level at ages two to five inclusive, landing some of Europe’s greatest races including the Irish Derby, Coronation Cup and Ascot Gold Cup, as well as finishing second to Sea The Stars in both the Derby and the Irish Champion Stakes.

FAMOUS NAME (GB) A Nathaniel half-brother to Gale Force Ten, out of Stowell Hill’s Ronaldsay

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Unbeaten 2yo and Champion 3yo Colt in France Won 6 races, including the Gr.1 Prix du Jockey-Club; also finished third in the Gr.1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains (“stopped in his run... in another couple of strides he would have won.” – Racing Post) and Gr.1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (to Treve).

Bred on the same Galileo/Danehill cross as FRANKEL

By GALILEO out a Gr.2 winning and Gr.1 Classic placed daughter of DANEHILL, from the family of Dubai Millennium (sire of DUBAWI). His grandam won both the Gr.1 Prix de la Foret and Gr.1 Prix Maurice de Gheest.

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Remarkably, he comes from the immediate family of one of the few high-class few horses blessed with similar toughness: the champion Australian racemare Makybe Diva.

FINSCEAL FIOR (IRE) 2010, Galileo ex Finsceal Beo (Mr Greeley) Green Hills Stud, Ireland Never having raced, Finsceal Fior received his place at stud by virtue of his stellar pedigree – which could look even better come next summer if his three-parts-brother Ol’ Man River wins the Derby.

FOXWEDGE (AUS) 2008, Fastnet Rock ex Forest Native (Forest Wildcat) Whitsbury Manor Stud One of the best Australian sprinters of recent years, Foxwedge earned nearly a million dollars in a racing career whose highlight came when he beat Hay List in the Group 1 MVRC William Reid Stakes over 1200m at Moonee Valley. He ranks as one of several high-class horses to have helped to establish his sire Fastnet Rock as a world-class stallion.

FRANKEL (GB) 2008, Galileo ex Kind (Danehill) Banstead Manor Stud Nothing says more about Frankel’s majesty than the fact that he finally persuaded his trainer, the late Sir Henry Cecil, to break a lifetime’s habit of understatement by admitting, “He’s the best horse I have ever seen; in fact, I think that he is the best horse anyone has ever seen.”

HARBOUR WATCH (IRE) 2009, Acclamation ex Gorband (Woodman) Tweenhills Farm & Stud It is not unprecedented for stallions to succeed at stud after having raced only at two. The Tetrarch, champion sire of Great Britain and Ireland in 1919, is a notable example from yesteryear, while currently the likes of Dark Angel, Teofilo, Holy Roman Emperor and Zebedee are making this practice fashionable.

Harbour Watch, impressive winner of all his three races in 2011 including the Group 2 Richmond Stakes at Goodwood, could be the next stallion to hit the heights via this route.

HELMET (AUS) 2008, Exceed And Excel ex Accessories (Singspiel) Dalham Hall Stud Winner of two Group 1 races in Sydney as a THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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two-year-old before taking the Caulfield Guineas in Melbourne at three, Helmet is an imposing horse who seems a natural for stud duties in Europe, where his distinguished German great-granddam Anna Paola established a family bursting with stakes winners.

Group 1 level) bred by his dam, the 1996 Musidora Stakes victrix Magnificient Style.

JUKEBOX JURY (IRE)

Unplaced on the all-weather in his only run from Jeremy Gask’s stable, Phenomena owes his place at stud to his pedigree: by Galileo, he is a son of 2005 Oaks runner-up Something Exciting, from the immediate family of 1992 Grand Criterium winner Tenby.

2006, Montjeu ex Mare Aux Fees (Kenmare) Gestut Etzean, Germany A Group race winner from ages two to five inclusive, Jukebox Jury became a byword for toughness during his racing career, landing Pattern races at various distances from a mile to 3000m, and showing high-class form all around Europe and in North America.

MAYSON (GB) 2008, Invincible Spirit ex Mayleaf (Pivotal) Cheveley Park Stud Mayson matured into a top-class sprinter as a four-year-old in 2012, following up his victory in the Palace House Stakes with a wide-margin success in the July Cup. He bids to become the latest top-class sire descending from 1922 Park Hill Stakes victrix Selene, dam of Hyperion, Sickle, Pharamond and Hunter’s Moon and ancestress of Mossborough, Sir Tristram, Sabaean and Star Way.

NATHANIEL (IRE) 2008, Galileo ex Magnificient Style (Silver Hawk) Newsells Park Stud A magnificent horse, Nathaniel began his racing career by chasing home Frankel at Newmarket as a two-year-old, and ended up with victories in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and the Eclipse Stakes to his name. As well-bred as he was talented, he is one of six Group winners (three of whom have scored at

PHENOMENA (GB) 2009, Galileo ex Something Exciting (Halling) Vauterhill Stud

POWER (GB) 2009, Oasis Dream ex Frappe (Inchinor) Coolmore, Ireland A terrific two-year-old in 2011 when he took the Coventry Stakes and the National Stakes as well as finishing runner-up in both the Phoenix Stakes and Dewhurst, Power raced less often at three but, even so, still won the Irish 2,000 Guineas. From a family which has served Hascombe and Valiant Studs very well, his dam Frappe is a half-sister to 2,000 Guineas winner Footstepsinthesand, while he is a half-brother to Ribblesdale Stakes heroine Thakafaat.

RAJSAMAN (FR) 2007, Linamix ex Rose Quartz (Lammtarra) Haras de la Cauviniere, France Haras de la Cauvinière has already unearthed one upwardly mobile young stallion (Le Havre) and Rajsaman, winner of four Pattern races over 1600m and twice Group 1-placed, bids to be the stud’s next star. He has been given every chance to do so, having set a new French record for number of mares covered in a season.

REQUINTO (IRE) 2009, Dansili ex Damson (Entrepreneur) Coolmore, Ireland

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Like his Queen Mary- and Phoenix Stakeswinning dam, Requinto was a high-class two-year-old, as he showed by winning both the Molecomb Stakes and the Flying Childers Stakes in 2011.

Ballydoyle. The decision did not go down well down under, but it proved justified when he compiled a terrific record in Europe, winning five Group 1 races including both the Eclipse and the Irish Champion Stakes.

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STEELE TANGO (USA)

2005, Rahy ex Express Way (Ahmad) Haras du Logis, France

2005, Okawango ex Waltzing Around (Ela-Mana-Mou) Lodge Farm

One of the best horses to have emerged from Tattersalls’ breeze-up sales, Rio De La Plata proved admirably durable, racing until he was seven. He recorded his first Group 1 victory (in the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere over 1400m) aged two and his last (in the Premio Roma over 2000m) aged five.

SANS FRONTIERES (IRE) 2006, Galileo ex Llia (Shirley Heights) Coolmore National Hunt, Ireland As is the case with Fame And Glory, Group 1 success on the Flat has not prevented Sans Frontieres, winner of three Pattern races in 2010 including the Irish St Leger and the Princess Of Wales’s Stakes, from being directed straight towards the National Hunt market. A grandson of the former high-class filly Llyn Gwynant, he should have the potential to breed decent winners under both codes.

SAYIF (IRE) 2006, Kheleyf ex Sewards Folly (Rudimentary) Llety Farms A very handsome horse, Sayif made the frame in several high-class sprints at both two and three, most notably finishing second in the Middle Park Stakes as a juvenile and winning the Group 2 Diadem Stakes at Ascot during his second season.

SEPOY (AUS) 2008, Elusive Quality ex Watchful (Danehill) Dalham Hall Stud

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One of the best two-year-olds to have raced anywhere in the world this century, Sepoy dominated the juvenile division in Australia in the 2010/11 season, taking both the Blue Diamond and the Golden Slipper. Victory in the latter race enabled him to emulate the feat of his close relative Canny Lad, winner of ‘the Slipper’ 21 years previously. He was arguably even better as a three-year-old, when he rattled up a brilliant five-timer in Melbourne during the spring, and looks guaranteed to sire fast, precocious horses.

SIR PRANCEALOT (IRE) 2010, Tamayuz ex Mona Em (Catrail) Tally-Ho Stud, Ireland Sir Prancealot only raced as a two-year-old, but he proved himself very fast at that age, winning three races including the Flying Childers Stakes at Doncaster.

SO YOU THINK (NZ) 2006, High Chaparral ex Triassic (Tights) Coolmore, Ireland An extremely handsome horse, So You Think looked poised to become only the second horse in history (after Kingston Town) to win three Cox Plates when Coolmore pulled off a coup by negotiating to bring him from Australia to

Steele Tango comes from one of the best families in the book, with his dam a half-sister to Poule d’Essai des Pouliches winner Valentine Waltz and his second dam a half-sister to Last Tycoon, as well as to the dams of Immortal Verse and Tie Black. Another member of the family (Irish Bird, dam of Assert, Bikala and Eurobird) bred three Classic winners, and Steele Tango upheld the family honour by taking the Group 3 Darley Stakes over nine furlongs at Newmarket as a four-year-old.

TIN HORSE (IRE) 2008, Sakhee ex Joyeuse Entree (Kendor) Haras de Grandcamp, France Winner of the Poule d’Essai des Poulains in 2011, Tin Horse doubled his Pattern race tally by taking the Prix Messidor as a four-year-old.

His dam had been a Group-winning juvenile, having taken the Prix d’Aumale as a two-yearold, at which age Tin Horse finished second in both the Prix Morny and Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere.

YORGUNNABELUCKY (USA) 2006, Giant’s Causeway ex Helsinki (Machiavellian) Mickley Stud Yorgunnabelucky was an admirable racehorse, racing regularly for four years and winning five of his 24 starts. However, his principal appeal lies in his pedigree: he is a full-brother to Shamardal, from a Listed-placed full-sister to Street Cry.

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BREEDERS’ DIGEST

By EMMA BERRY, Bloodstock Editor

Our bloodstock coverage this month includes:

• Sales Circuit: yearling sales continue to flourish in Britain and Ireland – pages 72-78 • Caulfield Files: relatives Street Cry and Shamardal combine in Group 2 winner – pages 81-82

Starting to tell the men from the boys

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t’s that time of the year when stallion championships are settled and reputations are either enhanced or shattered – the latter often with too much haste for some young sires.

The battle for star pupil among this year’s freshmen has been fascinating, with a decent handful set to graduate with honours to their sophomore season.

Shamardal’s son Lope De Vega, who had been simmering promisingly all summer, came to the boil on Future Champions Day with Royal Razalma’s Cornwallis Stakes victory, which was swiftly followed by his first Group 1 winner in the form of Belardo, who was bred at Ballylinch Stud where Lope De Vega stands. The pair brought their sire’s tally of Group winners to four, including Burnt Sugar and the Italian-trained Hero Look, with each win coming at a different distance from five furlongs to a mile.

Shamardal has enjoyed another terrific season and is headed only by Galileo and Invincible Spirit on the overall sires’ list. The Darley sire is about to embark on his tenth season at stud and it is encouraging to see his fellow dual Classic-winning son make such a promising start at stud – especially for those selling a first-crop foal by Casamento, another young son of Shamardal, later this month.

Of a similarly encouraging nature, particularly for the Aga Khan Studs, is the rise of Siyouni, who, at the time of writing, shades Lope De Vega with five individual stakes winners. As successful a stallion as Pivotal has been and remains, it’s fair to say that he is not yet noted as a sire of sires. Siyouni may well start to tip his reputation a little in that regard.

A trio of Group 3 winners, including the Aga Khan’s twice Group 1-placed Erveyda, is complemented by a brace of Listed scorers and a thumpingly good strike-rate of almost 46% winners to runners.

Of the leading players in the first-season sires’ table, only Showcasing has a better strike-rate, which is knocking on the door of 50%. He has been a tremendous boost to Whitsbury Manor Stud and his success means that England, Ireland and France all

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have highly exciting new recruits to trumpet.

Showcasing has a number of black-type representatives to his credit already, headed by the Group 2 Mill Reef Stakes winner Toocoolforschool, while his tally of individual winners is equal to Fast Company (24) and bettered only by Zebedee (28), whose sire Invincible Spirit set a European record for number of first-crop winners back in 2006.

Beacon may have been gifted the Flying Childers Stakes by the unfortunate unshipping of George Baker from Cotai Glory but he has nevertheless been a shining light for Paco Boy this term, winning four of his seven starts, including the Listed Dragon Stakes, and he leads a pack of 22 winners for the Highclere Stud resident.

Equiano won twice at two in Spain, where he started his racing career, but he was much more of a force to be reckoned with at three, four and five, and that longevity makes his first-crop members, which include Group 3 winner Dark Reckoning, well worth following next year.

Similar note should be made of Lord Shanakill’s offspring. He’s already posted a decent number of winners – 14 from 31 runners – and a number of his youngsters look scopier than one might have expected.

On the track and in the sales ring his family has been very much to the fore in the past month, with his Galileo half-sister Together Forever winning the Group 1 Dubai Fillies’

Mile and another Sea The Stars half-sister becoming the most expensive filly at the Goffs Orby Sale when selling for €1.1 million.

For reasons close to home, personal interest has been taken in the first runners for Haras du Quesnay-based Youmzain this season and, for a stallion whose stock should be progressive as he was, it is therefore pleasing to see him post five winners from just ten runners to date.

Next year’s stars?

On pages 72 to 78, Carl Evans recaps an extraordinary few weeks in the sales rings of Britain and Ireland, where there has of course been continued interest in the offspring of stallions with first-crop yearlings.

Poet’s Voice is this year’s show-stopper – and as a son of Dubawi that’s perhaps no surprise – with a Tattersalls October Book 1 average of 257,143gns for seven yearlings sold and a Book 2 average of 94,096gns for 26 sold. Zoffany, too, has been popular, his three yearlings in Book 1 returning an average of 336,667gns, while his ten Book 2 offerings averaged 86,400gns. Ballylinch Stud will be hoping it has another Lope De Vega on its hands with Dream Ahead, who had nine sell in Book 1 for an average of 140,444gns and 18 in Book 2 for 75,667gns.

Popularity in the ring is one thing, but they’ll have it all to prove again come next spring and beyond.

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f any yearling sale was to produce the sort of results that bewilder heads of other industries this was it.

Not that it began its three-day run with a fireworks display, for while a catalogue that follows the alphabet attempts to provide an even spread of quality, nuances occur, and the opening session was widely tipped to be overshadowed. That proved to be accurate, and by the close on day three another bulging set of figures proved Book 1’s appeal to the world’s super rich. European record turnover of more than 79,000,000gns was a rise of 13% on 2013 – and we thought last year would be a hard act to follow.

Trade at such heights is like foie gras – not to everyone’s taste – and as the strong get stronger so those just below the peak look for other opportunities to avoid being compared to the pure diamonds. Hence Book 1 was smaller, yet the figures went up – the average and median prices have more than doubled in the past five years, and the clearance rate rose to 81%.

Very rich players are drawn to racing and buying bloodstock, but even those who have set out their stall to play a long game fluctuate their buying habits, and the price of 5,000,000gns paid by Sheikh Joaan for the Galileo filly Al Naamah at this sale 12 months earlier was never threatened. One of 2,600,000gns – for a Galileo colt, of course, offered by the Somerset’s Ashbrittle Stud on behalf of British-based businessman Nick Ooi and his wife Anita, and bought by Coolmore Stud’s MV Magnier – was still a world’s best for a yearling in 2014.

Sheikh Joaan was present, but took a more covert role this time and his Al Shaqab operation was credited with just three sales for 1,400,000gns. It is likely he spent more than that through the agents Ross Doyle, Charlie Gordon-Watson and John Warren, but they were tight-lipped on the subject of clients.

Another emerging force, Sheikh Fahad, was circumspect, his four purchases for just over 1,000,000gns being a long way removed from the 2,500,000gns he paid for the Galileo colt

The bidding opened at just 5,000gns but the Ashbrittle Stud-consigned Galileo halfbrother to Harbinger eventually topped October Book 1 when sold for 2.6 million gns

Tattersalls October Sales Book 1 Top lots Sex/Breeding

Vendor

C Galileo-Penang Pearl

Ashbrittle Stud

Price (gns) 2,600,000

Buyer MV Magnier

C Shamardal-Cassandra Go

Ballyhimikin Stud

1,700,000

John Ferguson

C Dubawi-Crystal Music

Watership Down Stud

1,600,000

John Ferguson

C Dubawi-Comic

Floors Stud

1,400,000

John Ferguson

F Galileo-Gwynn

Camas Park Stud

1,250,000

J Delahooke, agent for Bobby Flay

C Street Cry-Meeznah

Hillwood Stud

1,000,000

John Ferguson

F War Front-Icon Project

Watership Down Stud

950,000

John Ferguson

C Galileo-Another Storm Clare

Castle Stud

875,000

China Horse/Michael Wallace B/s

C Dubawi-Dash To The Front

Meon Valley Stud

800,000

John Ferguson

C Oasis Dream-Titivation

Floors Stud

775,000

John Ferguson

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Sold

Agg (gns)

Avg (gns)

Mdn (gns)

2014

336

79,274,000

235,935

150,000

Top Price (gns) 2,600,000

2013

339

70,343,000

207,501

130,000

5,000,000

2012

418

68,102,500

162,925

100,000

2,500,000

2011

364

51,634,000

141,852

100,000

1,700,000

2010

449

48,243,000

107,445

70,000

1,200,000

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The Shamardal colt out of top sprinter Cassandra Go led the many Darley purchases

81%, while the average and median were up by 14% and 15% respectively.

It was a great sale for Highclere Stud, the leading consignor, and positively brilliant for the Duke Of Roxburghe’s Floors Stud in Scotland, which twice broke its personal best. First it sold a session-topping 775,000gns Oasis Dream colt on day one, then trumped that with a Dubawi colt who made 1,400,000gns. Charlie and Tracy Vigors of Hillwood Stud also posted a first seven-figure yearling when securing a round million for a Street Cry colt, but it was hard work for Japanese buyers.

Highly influential on occasions in the past,

Hydrogen two years ago, yet Sheikh Mohammed put on the full thrusters, instructing John Ferguson to avail himself of 38 yearlings for more than 17,000,000gns, or 22% of the catalogue.

Ferguson’s name was all over the top-ten board, and he signed for four of the six horses that made a seven-figure sum, which was two more than the previous best dating back to 2007. There were also huge increases in the number of horses who made 500,000gns or more – the 38 that did so compares to just nine as recently as 2011.

The clearance rate rose by a healthy 8% to

A delighted Duke of Roxburghe

they managed to purchase just two horses, the strength in trade and weakness of the Yen being dual factors, but an inroad to China – via the privately-run China Horse Club – remained active through a spend of 1,375,000gns on three horses.

Tattersalls October Sales Book 2 As Book 1 heads into an ever-higher orbit, slimming down as it ascends, a similar pattern shapes Book 2, which was this year cut to just

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Top lots Sex/Breeding

Vendor

C Poet’s Voice-Poppets Sweetlove (Foxhound)

Whatton Manor Stud

Price (gns) Buyer

C Holy Roman Emperor-Misskinta (Desert Sun)

Tourgar House/Ballylinch

390,000 K McManus

C Shamardal-Via Milano (Singspiel)

Stauffenberg Bloodstock

370,000 John Ferguson

F Pour Moi-Sistine (Dubai Destination)

Oak Lodge/Springfield House 350,000 J Warren Bloodstock

C Dutch Art-Kelowna (Pivotal)

Keith Harte

340,000 Al Mirqab Racing

C Danehill Dancer-Alsace Lorraine (Giant’s Causeway)

Castlebridge Consignment

330,000 Paul Smith

C Kyllachy-Constitute (Gone West)

Cheveley Park Stud

320,000 Shadwell Estates

C Pivotal-Sabreon (Caerleon)

Watership Down Stud

300,000 J Warren Bloodstock

F Dark Angel-Warshah (Shamardal)

Yeomanstown Stud

300,000 Cheveley Park Stud

C Poet´s Voice-Whirly Bird (Nashwan)

Woodcote Stud

300,000 C Gordon-Watson B/s

C Dream Ahead-Whisper Dance (Stravinsky)

Pier House Stud

300,000 Pan Sutong

525,000 Shadwell

Five-year tale Year

Sold

Agg (gns)

Avg (gns)

Mdn (gns)

2014

660

42,555,500

64,478

50,000

Top Price (gns) 525,000

2013

765

36,359,500

47,529

37,000

320,000

2012

788

31,039,000

39,390

32,000

245,000

2011

635

25,284,500

39,818

30,000

260,000

2010

685

22,241,900

32,470

25,000

240,000

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three days of trade with Book 3 extended to compensate for the shortfall.

The primary reason was to ensure Tattersalls could provide a stable for every lot to ensure even-handedness in viewing, yet despite the smaller catalogue there were more records and astonishing figures. By the conclusion one statistician described the October Sales as having “shifted” the market, and not merely generated a rise in the figures – this view was given further credence at Book 3.

These are remarkable times, and while Book 2 horses do not, overall, match their Book 1 contemporaries in terms of pedigree and appearance, they were certainly not dismissed by the world’s elite buyers on this occasion.

Their spending power saw the average and median prices double from five years ago, and they were steeply up on 2013. The average rose 36% and the median showed a 35% increase.

Just one horse made 300,000gns last year, but 11 breasted that level 12 months later.

Headed by the extraordinary input of Sheikh Mohammed’s Darley operation, Britain can boast of housing some top stallions, and when it comes to rearing stock and selling yearlings UK-based farms are pretty good too. In what has been a vintage year for those who foal, wean and raise young racehorses, Watership Down, Floors Stud and Highclere were among those who enjoyed great results at Book 1, and it was the turn of the Player family’s Whatton Manor Stud in Nottinghamshire to reap the chief accolade at Book 2.

Their homebred colt by Darley sire Poet’s Voice achieved a remarkable 525,000gns following a bid battle between Kuwaiti businessman and stud owner Saleh Al Homaizi and Shadwell’s Angus Gold, who held the winning offer. The price was 25% up

Warm autumn weather in Newmarket aided the feel-good factor at Tattersalls

on the previous best of 420,000gns set six years earlier.

Tattersalls October Sales Book 3 Revamped as a two-day sale, this event continued the theme of growth and strength seen at other more exalted yearling auctions.

It says something that last year’s top lot – a 57,000gns Dutch Art colt – would have been at the foot of the leaderboard this time. Top billing

went to a 100,000gns son of Cacique offered by a partnership involving New England and Barton Studs.

It was the first time a six-figure sum had changed hands at Book 3, which has been steadily growing in importance following its move from a slot after the conclusion of the Horses-in-Training Sale (a position now held by Book 4) to one in which it follows Book 2.

Very strong trade at the last-named event inevitably had a knock-on effect, and numerous buyers who failed to secure horses at the first attempt had to wait for opportunities in Book

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Vendor

C Cacique-Bantu (Cape Cross)

New England Stud

Price (gns) Buyer

F Iffraaj-Seminole Lass (Indian Charlie)

Ballyhimikin Stud

85,000 Anthony Stroud B/s

F Tamayuz-Lovers Peace (Oratorio)

Ballyhampshire Stud

85,000 SC Williams

C Kyllachy-Night Premiere (Night Shift)

Round Hill Stud

80,000 Clive Cox Racing

C Zebedee-Prime Time Girl (Primo Dominie)

Shinglis Stud

80,000 Peter & Ross Doyle B/s

C Acclamation-Fashion Rocks (Rock Of Gibraltar)

Rathbarry Stud

75,000 Suzanne Roberts

F Kodiac-Miss Chaumiere (Selkirk)

Taroka Stud

72,000 Peter & Ross Doyle B/s

C Footstepsinthesand-Leonica (Lion Cavern)

Worksop Manor Stud

65,000 Jeremy Brummitt

C Kyllachy-Red Tiara (Mr Prospector)

Cheveley Park Stud

57,000 Anthony Stroud B/s

C Showcasing-Kathy’s Rocket (Gold Legend)

Kassala/Charlock Stud

55,000 Anthony Stroud B/s

100,000 Blandford B/s

Five-year tale Year

Sold

Agg (gns)

Avg (gns)

Mdn (gns)

Top Price (gns)

2014

436

7,164,350

16,432

11,500

100,000

2013

216

2,304,300

10,668

6,900

57,000

2012

199

1,669,600

8,390

6,000

52,000

2011

223

1,864,000

8,361

5,500

65,000

2010

284

1,842,200

6,847

3,500

82,000

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Grey, 2009, 16.1hh, by DARK ANGEL ex LAND ARMY (Desert Style)

The fastest horse EVER over 6f at Newmarket

LETHAL FORCE beats five other Gr.1 winners, including Slade Power and Sole Power, when landing the Gr.1 July Cup at Newmarket in a new course record time.

Winner of 4 races and £746,568 from 6 to 7 furlongs, including: Won Gr.1 July Cup at Newmarket in a new 6f course record time (beating the winners of 12 other Gr.1 sprints, including SLADE POWER and SOLE POWER); Won Gr.1 Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot (beating 6 other Gr.1 winners); Won Gr.2 Hungerford Stakes at Newbury (beating 6 other Group winners).

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catalogue being offered on day one. Almost doubling the number of horses on offer – from 259 to 511 – led to a huge rise in turnover, yet it was significant that the average and median figures rose by 54% and 67% respectively.

Pinhookers hoping to buy breeze-up horses were evident during both days, and the strength of trade at this relatively low level was another indication of likely events at the forthcoming foal sales.

Goffs Orby Yearling Sale Having picked itself up from the wobble of several years ago created by the recession in Ireland, this two-day sale of yearlings pressed further ahead.

International buyers are now confident of finding world-class stock, and the mighty Galileo and other top stallions ensure the catalogue looks very inviting. Coolmore Stud’s great sire was responsible for the top lot, and while that colt’s valuation of €1,500,000 was some way down on the previous year’s best, you can generally find positives from negatives in these heady times for bloodstock sales.

First, the aforementioned 2013 high of €2,850,000 now looks justified, for the horse in question, Ol’ Man River (by the late Montjeu), is undefeated in two starts and looks a Classic prospect, and second, the absence of such an influential sum did not prevent this year’s turnover (+11%) and average (+8%) from increasing again. In addition, the median went up by a meaty 23%, while the clearance rate held firm at 87%.

After day one the average was running parallel to the median, and it was during this session that the sale-topping Galileo colt from a family developed by trainer Jim Bolger made his appearance. It was no surprise to see Coolmore interest in this colt, and while agent Mick Flanagan had the resources to make his presence felt, MV Magnier’s offer of €1,500,000 brought the hammer down.

Future historians will look back and marvel at Coolmore’s ability to stand the mighty Sadler’s Wells followed in quick succession by Galileo, but there is strong competition from other European farms to find the next giant.

Coolmore keeps home-produced stallions coming (Australia being the latest Derby winner to join the fold), and judging by John and MV Magnier’s pursuit of top yearlings by their sires at this sale and Tattersalls’ Book 1 they are determined to be in pole position when Galileo’s star wanes.

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Vendor

Price (€) Buyer

C Galileo-Scribonia (Danehill)

Redmonstown Stud

1,500,000 M V Magnier

F Sea The Stars-Green Room (Theatrical)

Ballylinch Stud

1,100,000 Amanda Skiffington

F Teofilo-Grecian Bride (Groom Dancer)

Rockfield Farm

950,000 Shadwell Estate

F Teofilo-Night Visit (Sinndar)

Redmonstown Stud

950,000 John McCormack B/s

C Sea The Stars-Evensong (Waky Nao)

Roundhill Stud

850,000 China Horse/M Wallace B/s

F Invincible Spirit-Propaganda (Sadler’s Wells)

Irish National Stud

720,000 Shadwell Estate

F Lawman-Rose De France (Diktat)

Irish National Stud

520,000 Tony Nerses

C Lonhro-Freefourracing (French Deputy)

Hollyhill Stud

450,000 Shadwell Estate

C Exceed And Excel-Special Dancer (Shareef Dancer) Castlebridge Consignment 400,000 Shadwell Estate C Fastnet Rock-Perihelion (Galileo)

Castlebridge Consignment 400,000 Blandford B/s

Five-year tale Year

Sold

Agg (€)

Avg (€)

Mdn (€)

Top Price (€)

2014

352

38,450,500

109,234

70,000

1,500,000

2013

344

34,940,500

101,571

57,500

2,850,000

2012

301

27,189,500

90,331

58,000

800,000

2011

487

22,522,500

46,247

30,000

€350,000

2010

467

22,322,500

47,800

29,000

€950,000

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The Jim Bolger-bred Galileo colt out of Scribonia takes top billing at Goffs at €1.5m

daughter of the first-named who became this sale’s second seven-figure horse. Amanda Skiffington secured this one, a half-sister to Group 1 winners Lord Shanakill and Together Forever, for Ivawood’s owners Fiona Carmichael and Ian Jennings, while another Sea The Stars yearling – a colt – became a first Goffs’ purchase by the China Horse Club.

Goffs Sportsman’s Yearling Sale Goffs tacked this lower-tier yearling auction onto its prestige Orby Sale in 2013, and liked the results so much it repeated the format.

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This is a good year to get a horse to market, and Goffs catalogued an additional 35 for this sale compared to 12 months ago, but the clearance rate held steady at 82% and the additional 28 lots that found new homes helped the aggregate saunter past €4,000,000 for the first time and produce a 15% increase. The average rose by just 1% while the median dipped 6%.

Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale This auction was given a makeover by introducing a third session and putting an emphasis on quality by reducing numbers on the first two days.

The new look was well received, and, despite the overall increase in numbers, the market buoyancy carried the larger girth to a satisfactory set of figures. The clearance rate went up marginally to 87%, while the average rose 4.5%.

There was a slight drop in the median, but that figure and the average had risen steeply 12 months earlier, and they were both well ahead following the select first two days.

Those two sessions saw 112 fewer horses walk the ring compared to 2013, yet turnover still cruised past the total set 12 months earlier, and when the third day’s turnover was added an additional €1,812,300 had been gained.

Tattersalls Ireland was able to spice up the event with the offer of a sales race restricted to graduates – held on Irish Champions Day in 2015 – and lure vendors and buyers with a reminder that it sold top juvenile The Wow Signal at the previous running, albeit that horse found his way to John Quinn’s yard via Ascot’s April breeze-up sale.

His buyers on the latter occasion – the trainer’s son Sean and bloodstock agent Richard Knight – were in action at this sale and gained a spot on the top ten board when taking a son of leading first-crop sire Zebedee with a bid of €60,000.

Heading trade, however, was a Twirling Candy colt knocked down to Ross Doyle. The youngster had been bought just three months earlier at Fasig-Tipton for $35,000, but, when reoffered through the Castlebridge Consignment, gained a new valuation of €115,000. The sire’s name may not have been familiar to all at the auction – Twirling Candy won seven of 11 starts and stands at Lane’s End Farm – but Doyle knew the dam, Blue Angel, who raced for Richard Hannon. Baroda & Colbinstown Studs sold the other six-figure lot, a son of Dark Angel, for €110,000.

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Michael Wallace of China Horse Club, Joey Cullen and Paul Moroney at the Orby Sale

Goffs Sportsman’s Yearling Sale Top lots Sex/Breeding

Vendor

F Motivator-Bridal Path (Groom Dancer)

Cregg Stud

Price (€) 90,000

Buyer Edward Lynam

F Shamardal-Shamayel (Pivotal)

Lumville Farm

85,000

Bobby O’Ryan/D Weld

C Arcano-Alsalwa (Nayef)

Lumville Farm

80,000

R O’Ryan/R Fahey

C Jeremy-Step With Style (Gulch)

Ballyhane

70,000

Bobby O’Ryan/Keith Dalgleish

F Dark Angel-Line Ahead (Sadler’s Wells)

Thomas Molan/Riversfield Stud

65,000

Edward Lynam

F Zebedee-Jaywick (Jade Robbery)

Pier House Stud

62,000

Sylvester Kirk

F Lawman-Nurture (Bachelor Duke)

Ballylinch Stud

58,000

John Weld

C Clodovil-Aldburgh (Bluebird)

Farranamanagh House

52,000

Alex Elliott Bloodstock

F Showcasing-Winifred Jo (Bahamian Bounty)

Rathasker Stud

48,000

Lazy Days Farm

C Frozen Power-Karaliyfa (Kahyasi)

Esker Lodge/Tally-Ho Stud

48,000

Federico Barberini

Comparative figures Year

Sold

Agg (€)

Avg (€)

Mdn (€)

2014

228

4,408,550

19,336

15,000

Top Price (€) 90,000

2013

200

3,830,750

19,154

16,000

100,000

2012

138

2,372,700

17,193

14,000

75,000

Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale Top lots Sex/Breeding

Vendor

C Twirling Candy-Blue Angel (Oratorio)

Castlebridge Consignment

Price (€) Buyer

C Dark Angel-Bogini (Holy Roman Emperor)

Baroda & Colbinstown Studs 110,000 Bobby O’Ryan/DK Weld

C Kodiac-Fikrah (Medicean)

Alice Fitzgerald

115,000 Peter & Ross Doyle B/s 85,000 Rex Gorell

C Mastercraftsman-No Quest (Rainbow Quest) Croom House

85,000 Hillen & Ryan

C Azamour-Bridal Dance (Danehill Dancer)

Ridge Manor Stud

80,000 Amanda Skiffington

F Acclamation-New Deal (Rainbow Quest)

Rathbarry Stud

67,000 David Redvers

F Intikhab-Precious Citizen (Proud Citizen)

Baroda & Colbinstown Studs

65,000 Gary Moore

C Zebedee-Sampers (Exceed And Excel)

Castlebridge Consignment

60,000 Richard Knight/Sean Quinn

F Zebedee-Breedj (Acclamation)

Alice Fitzgerald

52,000 Edward Lynam

C Acclamation-Pretty Demanding (Night Shift) Castledillon Stud

52,000 Con Marnane

Five-year tale Year

Sold

Agg (€)

Avg (€)

Mdn (€)

2014

568

8,692,200

15,303

11,000

Top Price (€) 115,000

2013

470

6,879,900

14,638

12,000

180,000

2012

414

4,823,000

11,650

9,250

75,000

2011

424

4,626,400

10,911

8,000

70,000

2010

426

4,336,450

10,179

6,500

70,000

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Lucida a triumph of bold inbreeding Close relatives Shamardal and Street Cry combine in Godolphin’s Rockfel Stakes winner

“Lucida’s efforts have played their part in making 2014 a rewarding year for Shamardal”

This no doubt provided Darley with enough encouragement to experiment with sending Lura, a Street Cry mare, to Shamardal in 2011.

A $725,000 yearling purchase, Lura had managed only one start, when fifth of 14 in a Nottingham maiden. Despite the brevity of her career, Lura was retained by Darley on the strength of her bloodlines: she is a half-sister to English Channel, a champion turf horse in the USA, and her dam Belva was a sister to Pharma, another American Grade 1 winner. Lura also had an illustrious second dam, the champion sprinter Committed, who twice won the Prix de l’Abbaye and also landed the Nunthorpe.

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ack in 2008, before Shamardal’s eldest progeny had reached the racecourse, Darley’s advertising campaign for this formidable son of Giant’s Causeway made a point of highlighting Shamardal’s relationship to Street Cry. With a touch of overstatement, his advertisements declared “He’s out of [Helsinki] a sister to Street Cry, the most exciting young sire since the mighty Danzig.”

Surely, though, it was one step too far – or too close – to consider sending daughters of Street Cry to Shamardal, as this produces a pedigree featuring the sister-and-brother team of Helsinki and Street Cry in the second generation. Put another way, this combination would create 3 x 3 to the champion two-yearold Machiavellian and 3 x 3 to the Irish Oaks winner Helen Street.

Then Shamardal’s first crop confirmed that he too was a stallion of considerable potential, with its leading light, Lope de Vega, emulating Shamardal’s victories in the Poule d’Essai des Poulains and Prix du Jockey-Club. The striking aspect of Lope de Vega’s background was that he is out of a grand-daughter of Machiavellian and is therefore inbred 3 x 3 to this fast son of Mr Prospector.

Lucida strikes at Newmarket

Lura hadn’t had much luck at the start of her broodmare career, producing a dead foal by Singspiel in her first year, before being barren to Selkirk. However, she produced a bay Shamardal filly on April 24, 2012 and was then returned to Shamardal, this time producing a chesnut colt on May 18.

The Shamardal filly – the stallion’s first foal out of a Street Cry mare – has more than justified the bold strategy. Named Lucida, she has made an impressive start to her career, with two wins and two close seconds in her first five starts. After failing by only a neck to beat Cursory Glance in the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes, she reappeared only 12 days later to record a decisive victory in the Group 2 Rockfel Stakes. She is clearly tough, as might be expected of a Jim Bolger filly, and takes her racing well (her fifth-place effort in the Fillies’ Mile could be attributed to unsuitably soft ground). She could be described as a chip off the old block, as Shamardal once reeled off three Group 1 victories in the space of a month.

One of the concerns about such close inbreeding is whether the inbreeding will greatly reduce the options when the animal eventually

retires to stud. This isn’t a worry here, as Lucida has no Danzig or Sadler’s Wells blood.

Lucida’s efforts have played their part in making 2014 an exceptionally rewarding year for Shamardal. He ranks third behind Galileo and Invincible Spirit on the Anglo-Irish prizemoney table and he is mixing it with the big boys when it comes to Group/Graded winners sired in the northern hemisphere. His 2014 total of 12 ranks him fourth behind Galileo, Deep Impact and Dubawi, ahead of such reliable performers as Tapit, Candy Ride, Dansili and Giant’s Causeway.

What is exciting about this widespread success is the fact that 11 of the 12 Group winners were sired in the five years before Shamardal’s fee soared to €50,000 on the back of his excellent first crop. There is every reason to have high hopes for all of his subsequent €50,000 crops. Of his current winners, his Eclipse Stakes hero Mukhadram and his Group 3 winner Amaron were sired at £25,000, his Group 1 Prix Vermeille winner Baltic Baroness was the result of a €20,000 fee, and so were Group 2-winning three-year-olds Bow Creek and Fintry and the UAE Classic winner Ihtimal.

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Lucida’s Rockfel Stakes success made her the best winner produced so far by Street Cry’s daughters, the eldest of whom are still only ten years old. Sadly her victory came just a matter of days after the impressive 2002 Dubai World Cup winner had had to be euthanised at the age of 16.

Street Cry will be remembered as the sire of the incomparable Zenyatta, a winner of 13 Grade 1 races including the Breeders’ Cup Classic. She was a member of Street Cry’s first crop, as was Street Sense, who became the first Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner to go on to success in the Kentucky Derby. Unfortunately his second Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner, New Year’s Day, had to be retired soon afterwards.

Other highlights included the Melbourne Cup success of his son Shocking and the exploits of two other Australian sons, Whobegotyou and Long John.

Any stallion who can sire the winners of four Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup events has to be very talented, but the comparison to Danzig mentioned elsewhere in this column proved a bit premature. Not that anyone could be blamed for getting excited by Street Cry’s early achievements. From a crop of 86 named foals, he sired 16 stakes winners, with Zenyatta and Street Sense among its four top-level winners.

This crop produced ten Graded/Group winners, for a strike-rate of nearly 12%, an achievement made all the more meritorious by the fact that Street Cry had started out at

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Early exploits make Street Cry a huge loss

Street Cry wins the 2002 Dubai World Cup by more than four lengths

$30,000 in 2003.

Inevitably these splendid early results soon sent Street Cry’s fee soaring, to the extent that it stood at $100,000 by 2008, before rising to $150,000 for the next four years. This put Street Cry on terms with the likes of AP Indy, Dynaformer and Bernardini as one of the highest-priced stallions in Kentucky.

Oddly, these higher-priced crops have so far failed to match the achievements of Street Cry’s first three crops, all sired at $30,000, but they still have time to correct this, as the last of the $150,000 crops were born in 2012 and 2013.

Street Cry’s first three crops produced nine winners at Grade 1 level, four at Grade 2 and seven at Grade 3. That’s 20 Graded winners in three years. However, the next five crops (the youngest being three years old in 2014) have so far produced just two Group/Grade 1 winners in Lyric Of Light and New Year’s Day, and 13 Graded winners in all.

So what happened? Perhaps the type of mare that Street Cry received began to change as his fee rose. It is also important to remember that, of the 20 Graded/Group winners in his first three crops, only three of them were trained in Europe. Last year, though, Street Cry had 79 runners in Britain and Ireland and 15 in France, with only Emirates Queen scoring at Group level.

His cumulative Average Earnings Index in Britain and Ireland stood at an unexceptional 1.19 to the end of 2013, whereas his American figure stood at 2.20.

Despite being bred in Europe, Street Cry made his name on dirt tracks in the UAE and the USA. While he was perfectly capable of siring very good turf runners, his finest moments as a stallion came on dirt or allweather tracks, thanks to such as Zenyatta, Street Sense, New Year’s Day, Street Boss and Street Hero.

Lope De Vega emulated his sire Shamardal by winning the Poule d’Essai des Poulains and Prix du Jockey-Club, but there was one difference between father and son. Whereas Shamardal remained unbeaten when he challenged for the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes on his third juvenile start, Lope De Vega could finish only fourth when he stepped up to Group 1 company in the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere, having also won his first two starts.

Timeform rated Shamardal 126p, but the two-year-old Lope De Vega was rated 108.

Therefore was it fair to expect Lope De Vega to make as fast a start with his first crop two-year-olds as Shamardal had done in 2009, with two Group 3 winners? Well, Lope De Vega is inbred 3 x 3 to Machiavellian, an unbeaten champion at two, and his dam Lady Vettori had been a Group 3 two-year-old winner at Deauville, so he is well qualified to sire quality two-year-olds.

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This he is doing, with early stakes winners including Belardo (Dewhurst Stakes), Burnt Sugar (Sirenia Stakes) and Hero Look (Gran Criterium). When Baltic Comtesse won at Maisons-Laffitte in late September this threeparts-sister to the Prix Vermeille winner Baltic Baroness became his 16th winner in Britain, Ireland, France and Italy. Could it be that Lope De Vega will be very useful to the many mare owners looking for options for Danehill line mares? This is an interesting cross, as Lope De Vega is inbred to Machiavellian, whose dam was closely inbred to Almahmoud, via Cosmah and Natalma.

Danehill was inbred 3 x 3 to Natalma. Two of Lope De Vega’s better winners are out of daughters of Danehill and others are out of mares by his sons Flying Spur and Dansili.

This would make sense, as Shamardal has sired Group winners from mares by five different sons of Danzig, including Danehill.

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Lope De Vega’s bright start with Danehill-line mares

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GALILEO ex LOVE DIVINE (Diesis)

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HE MIGHT BE A LEGER WINNER . . . BUT LOOK AT HIS STATS! LEADING GB & IRE SIRES 2012 – 2014

In order of percentage of winners to runners Sire

1 SIXTIES ICON

2 OASIS DREAM 3 HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR 4 AUSSIE RULES DANSILI SHAMARDAL 7 DOYEN ISHIGURU PIVOTAL 10 CLODOVIL DUBAWI DUTCH ART GREEN DESERT

Runners

Winners % W/R

50

34

479 425 233 425 419 125 98 423 251 381 251 135

320 274 146 266 264 77 61 262 152 231 152 83

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Minimum of 50 runners.

Statistics supplied by Hyperion Promotions Ltd. Results received to 16th October.

LEADING GB & IRE SIRES OF 2YOs 2012 – 2014 In order of percentage of winners to runners

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Runners

1 SIXTIES ICON 2 KODIAC 3 LUCKY STORY 4 CLODOVIL SHOWCASING 6 AUSSIE RULES 7 ARCHIPENKO 8 OASIS DREAM 9 DARK ANGEL 10 DOYEN ELNADIM KHELEYF

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183 36 102 49 110 40 155 128 31 48 174

Winners % W/R

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93 18 50 24 51 18 68 55 13 20 73

Minimum of 20 runners.

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LEADING ACTIVE GB & IRE SIRES OF SPRINTERS (5f - 6f) 2012 – 2014 In order of percentage of winners to runners

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Sire OASIS DREAM

2 SIXTIES ICON 3 4

6 8

KYLLACHY KODIAC LOPE DE VEGA PIVOTAL SHOWCASING ASSERTIVE ELNADIM MAJESTIC MISSILE

Runners 254

30

267 212 25 160 45 38 75 67

Winners % W/R 137 54

16

138 101 12 75 21 17 34 30

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51 50 49 49 46 45 44 43 42 42 42

53

52 48 48 47 47 45 45 45

Minimum of 20 runners.

Statistics supplied by Hyperion Promotions Ltd. Results received to 16th October.

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Now is the time to tackle small fields Richard Wayman warns that planned initiatives will need to be applied with care by BHA After a lengthy period of consultation, the BHA has announced a number of measures to address growing concerns about the competitiveness of British racing and, more specifically, the increasing number of races with small fields.

The background to this issue is a simple one. The number of horses in training has been in steady decline since 2008, falling by over 1,600. During the same period, the number of races run has increased by over 650. The result, unsurprisingly, has been a decline in competitiveness with the percentage of races attracting fewer than eight runners increasing from 23% to 37%.

Of course, from an owner’s perspective, a small field isn’t necessarily bad news given the greater prospect of success. However, I know most recognise the bigger picture that for any sport to thrive and attract the public’s interest, competition is crucial.

Tackling this issue is far from straightforward given that the sport’s current funding model, including in relation to media rights and levy, encourages racecourses to stage more races. Much of the reason for taking steps is to support the value of these income streams in the future.

The initiatives, which will begin in 2015,

are headed by programming around 170 fewer races at those times of year when the small field issue is at its worst.

Over jumps, there will be new restrictions on the number of races programmed on cards in the periods from January to March, and from September to November. During these same months, racecourses will be also limited in the number of chases they stage, which have grown considerably in recent years.

On the Flat, there will be a similar restriction to races programmed from January

“The axe must fall

only on races where there are other options for horses involved” to March, although there will be an extra nine twilight fixtures in the autumn.

The most crucial aspect of the reduction is ensuring the process for selecting races for removal is skilfully managed to ensure the axe only falls on failing races where there are other options for the horses involved.

Otherwise, the unintended result will be horses left standing in their boxes with nowhere to run.

The initiative causing greater concern is the removal of races at short notice. A trial will be staged on the all-weather between January and March, which will put races ‘at risk’ if they fail to attract more than ten entries and cancelling those races if they subsequently attract four or fewer declarations. It will apply to handicaps, claimers and sellers at Class 4 and below, and not extend to Saturdays.

If this had been in place in 2014, 11 races would have been cancelled during the 13week period, which illustrates only the very least attractive races would be lost in this way.

Of course, that will be of little consolation to the owners directly involved and inconveniencing racing’s largest investors in this way is why this option should, in my view, have been a very last resort.

Other more positive measures that should assist field sizes include the impact of paying prize-money down to sixth place in many races funded by the additional voluntary contribution, the outcome of a BHA review of the race programme to deliver a better match with the requirements of the horse population and also the effects of increased investment in the winter’s all-weather programme.

Addressing small fields is not easy and implementation of these measures will have to be very carefully managed. With the future popularity and prosperity of the sport at stake, however, the BHA is right to grasp the nettle and tackle this issue now.

Stud and Stable Staff Awards: nominations open Owners are invited to support the Godolphin Stud and Stable Staff Awards, which offer £120,000 in prize money to some of the most dedicated stable staff, and their respective yards.

The Awards, sponsored by Godolphin and run by the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) in association with the Racing Post, are divided into six categories including Leadership, Rider/Groom Award, Stud Staff, Dedication to Racing Award, David Nicholson Newcomer Award and Administration Staff Award.

Nominations are open until Friday, December 12 and can be made by owners, trainers, managers or colleagues.

Full details appear at britishhorseracing.com, where nominations can be completed and submitted online.

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This year’s winners with champion jumps jockey AP McCoy

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Have you booked for racing’s social highlight?

Voting for the ROA Awards, which takes place at the InterContinental Park Lane in London on December 4, will be conducted online

Preparations are well under way for racing’s most popular social event of the year, the ROA Horseracing Awards, sponsored by Weatherbys Bank, which takes place at the InterContinental Hotel, Park Lane, London on Thursday, December 4.

The Awards celebrate the achievements of the Flat and jumps season’s best racehorses, recognising their owners and connections.

Nick Luck and Mike Cattermole will compere the presentation of 15 individual awards, including Horse of the Year and Owner of the Year.

The black-tie evening always proves to be a memorable occasion and is well attended by the owners, trainers and riders of the top performers of the year. The net proceeds from this year’s event will be donated to Retraining of Racehorses, the ROA’s charity partner for 2014.

Tickets are now on sale at £175 per person. The price includes a champagne reception and three-course dinner including half a bottle of wine per person. Tables of ten are available at a discounted rate of £1,550. Tickets can be booked online at racehorseowners.net or by calling the ROA office on 020 7152 0200.

Each Award winner will be decided by a

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vote amongst members. This year, voting will be conducted online and all members who receive ROA email bulletins will be emailed full details of the award categories and nominations in late October.

Postal voting forms will also be available on request from the ROA office for any members without online access. Please call the ROA to request a form. Voting will close on November 25.

The evening will feature a silent auction of 30 items and, in addition, any owner who would like to show their support of fundraising on the evening can do so by including their racing colours in the brochure, for £100 per set. This can be arranged by contacting the ROA office or emailing info@roa.co.uk.

Bid for the Frankel bronze The wonderful bronze pictured above, depicting Frankel turning for home at Ascot in 2012, has been generously given by the sculptor, Philip Blacker, to the National Horseracing Museum to be auctioned for Museum funds on Awards evening. It is

number one of a limited edition of six and during the month of November it will be shown at the Osborne Studio Gallery in Motcomb Street, London, SW1.

If you are interested in making a bid for the bronze, please contact Julia Harman at the Racing Museum in Newmarket on 01638 667333 (ext 12) or julia@nhrm.co.uk.

The Racing Museum is teaming up with the British Sporting Art Trust and the Retraining of Racehorses Charity to form a National Heritage Centre for Horseracing and Sporting Art at the historic Palace House site in Newmarket.

This very exciting and important project will provide a worthy showcase for British racing and act as a catalyst for regenerating the centre of Newmarket. Building work started in early January this year and it will be ready to open in early 2016.

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Frankel still thrilling at stud

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Two years on from his retirement, the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Frankel factorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; shows no sign of abating. The annual ROA member visit to Banstead Manor Stud, home of the unbeaten champion, proved as popular as ever, with all places booked in just under two hours.

For the 50 lucky attendees, September 18 proved a day to remember, as they met the wonderfully charismatic stallion (pictured), as well as two of his neighbours, extremely successful sires in their own right, Oasis Dream and Dansili. Our thanks go to the Banstead Manor team for providing such an informative and enjoyable visit.

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with ROA member John Blackburn

Move In Time wins a typically thrilling Prix de l’Abbaye, whose co-owner John Blackburn is pictured (inset) with the race trophy

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he two most abiding post-race images from Arc day were that of a tearful Thierry Jarnet after Treve’s second win in the Longchamp showpiece, and the owners of Move In Time celebrating with gusto his victory in the Prix de l’Abbaye.

One of those was John Blackburn, an ROA member for eight years – he shares the sprinting star with Andrew Turton and Reg Bond, who bred the David O’Meara-trained six-year-old.

Blackburn admits that he “hated having to watch the racing” while in his early teens – both his grandads being horse mad and loving a bet – but he started to warm to it by the time he was working in a pub while studying for his A- Levels.

Fast forward around 13 years ago, and an advert in the Racing Post from trainer Michael Dods led to Blackburn and two friends, both now sadly deceased, going to meet him. “It all went from there,” he recalls.

The first horse was Balakiref and there have been plenty more since, in single ownership and partnerships, Blackburn’s favourite being Spring Breeze, who raced for seven years and won eight

place in the memory banks, for now at least.

Blackburn says: “My magical moment to date has got to be winning the Abbaye. He wasn’t expected to do well and we were told we could actually disappoint him if we ran him. But David said he would run well and the rest is fish and chip paper!”

Little fish mean a lot too, however, and Blackburn is keen to stress he is just as happy having a runner at small tracks as at Europe’s richest raceday in Paris.

He says: “Ayr is fantastic but I’m not posh and enjoy a day at Catterick just as much, even though you go outside for a pee – which reminds me of my gran’s outside loo!”

The aforementioned Ocean Sheridan is a nod to Blackburn’s business, Sheridan, which is the UK’s largest manufacturer of specialist work surfaces like Corian, quartz, granite and wood.

“I’ve been in the industry nearly 25 years and I started working for myself at an early age, 27,” says Blackburn. “This time next year we will be planning our 20th anniversary bash, I hope.”

Those last two words bear all the hallmarks of a racehorse owner!

times in 63 starts, over hurdles and on the Flat.

Currently, the John Quinn-trained trio Poetic Verse, Darling Boyz and Youonlyliveonce all race solely for Blackburn, while shared with Turton – “a good friend from school” – are Saved By The Bell (O’Meara), Ocean Sheridan (Dods) and Dabuki (Geoff Harker).

Blackburn and Turton share the Mick Easterby-trained duo Ambleside and Hot Spice with Steve Hull and Dave Squires, as well as Move In Time, Blackburn and Turton are partners with Bond In Bop It, another trained

by O’Meara and bred by Bond.

“Move In Time gave Reg his first Group 1 when he won the Abbaye,” says Blackburn. “I’m so pleased for Reg. He’s a great guy and his family are always very welcoming.”

Blackburn himself, at the time of going to press, has enjoyed 14 winners this year, and Move In Time could bid for further top-flight honours in Hong Kong. “Running in Group races is brilliant but anything less than Group 1 and you are carrying a penalty now,” Blackburn points out.

His victory in France last month gets pride of

Diary dates and reminders NOVEMBER 6

DECEMBER 12

Fakenham plays host to the ROA, where members have a chance to scoop a £10,000 jackpot.

The final jackpot fixture of year at Bangor-on-Dee, offering a festive £10,000 bonus.

DECEMBER 4

JANUARY 1

The InterContinental, Park Lane, London, is the setting for this prestigious evening, which celebrates the outstanding achievements of this year’s horses, their owners and connections.

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

ROA Regional Meeting and Owners Jackpot Day

ROA/Weatherbys Bank Horseracing Awards

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New ROA/RCA car park label will apply

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Jackpot’s farewell to the Flat As Flat turf racing comes to its conclusion for another year and the jumps season begins to bound into view, there was just enough time for one last hurrah for six lucky owners on the Flat when the ROA Owners Jackpot headed north to Beverley on September 17, before qualified National Hunt owners went through the card at Newton Abbot on October 10.

With £10,000 in bonuses on offer at Beverley, it proved to be the perfect start for owners David Metcalfe and Michael Dods when Mecca’s Mirage held on over the minimum trip in the opening claiming event. As the afternoon continued the winners kept coming, with the Market Avenue Racing Club claiming their £1,666 owing to the performance of Canny Kool, and Julian Ball and Bryan Smart thanks to the well-timed ride of Joe Doyle aboard Ice Mayden.

It was the family affair in the fifth, however, that really put smiles on faces, when Bondi Beach Boy emerged victorious in the Totepool Supporting The ROA Owners Jackpot Handicap for brothers George and Hugh Turner, and the trainer, their uncle Jimmy.

After the win, the brothers described their ROA memberships as “the best investment we’ve ever made” and, as Hugh proudly bore his winning cheque to the winning connections area, George commented of Bondi Beach Boy: “He loves Beverley and was showing a few signs at home that he was back to his best.”

Despite the switch in codes, the success

The ROA’s Harry Williams (left) presents a cheque to Bondi Beach Boy’s owners

of ROA-owned horses continued at Newton Abbot just three weeks later, with all six races dominated by eligible owners.

Winners on the day, who each secured a £1,500 bonus on top of their prize-money, included Robert Frosell and Lavinia Taylor thanks to their six-year-old gelding Little Jon, as well as The Maugersbury Racegoers

and Andy and Sharon Measham owing to the exploits of Our Maimie and Dashing Oscar respectively.

The ROA Owners Jackpot will now continue over jumps, with the next fixture set for Fakenham on Thursday, November 6, before a trip to Bangor-on-Dee on Friday, December 12.

In Brief... will receive a free Racing Post 2015 desk calendar, to arrive before Christmas. The calendar, with details of the 2015 fixture list and principle races, will also highlight dates of ROA events to help members plan their racing in the new year.

New three-year-old Group 1 sprint at Royal Ascot

Racing Post desk calendar The ROA is delighted to announce that in a collaboration with the Racing Post, members

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The European Pattern Committee has agreed to make the new three-year-old Group 1 sprint at Royal Ascot open to geldings during a three-year trial period. This dispensation has been granted to encourage the best chance of success for the race in terms of quality and quantity, to achieve the required rating

parameter within the timeframe. The situation will be reviewed after three years.

RBSO fixtures ROA members using the Racecourse Badge Scheme for Owners are now able to view and download details of participating fixtures on to their desktop calendar and then synchronise it to their mobile and tablet devices from the Member Area of the ROA website at racehorseowners.net

NASS pay rates The National Trainers Federation and National Association of Stable Staff have concluded pay negotiations for 2014/15. The new rates start from November 10. For more details see www.racehorsetrainers.org.

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THE LATEST NEWS FROM THE UK’S RACECOURSES

The ROA is delighted to announce that from Sandown Park’s first jumps meeting on November 8, members of the Racecourse Badge Scheme for Owners will be offered two premier admission badges at each Sandown Park participating fixture instead of the usual one.

Sandown Park has undergone a rejuvenation project this year, which will bring several additional benefits to owners this winter. Exterior flat-screen TVs have been placed on the owners’ and trainers’ balcony, allowing people to watch the racing without having to go inside, whilst the winners’ enclosure and horsewalk have both been refurbished to further improve safety.

The patio area outside the owners’ and trainers’ facility has been extended and boasts new furniture. The winning connections room has also been fully redecorated and the decor will now represent the heritage of Sandown Park, reflecting the success of owners past and present.

Taunton takes it to next level It’s all change at Taunton racecourse this National Hunt season, with a raft of ownerrelated improvements. Financial assistance from the BHA Grant Scheme means that phase one of their Paddock Stand improvement should be complete in time for the start of their new season.

Other news...

Stratford-on-Avon has introduced an ingenious new fillip for owners with a runner at this Gold Standard racecourse.

Commencing at their October 25 meeting, owners who also own a company will be offered free advertising in the racecard on the day their horse runs. All owners will be contacted at the five-day entry stage and will need to provide the racecourse with their business card and a short description of their organisation in order to be included.

Owners with a runner at Ascot will be racing for even greater dividends than normal during the jumps season, as the track has announced a 10% increase in prizemoney. The biggest single increase concerns the Mappin & Webb Silver Cup Chase on

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Owners will note improvements come Sandown’s first jump meeting of the season

The owners’ and trainers’ bar will be increased in size by approximately a third, and a new terrace will be created on the top floor of the stand with a spectacular view of the racecourse. The owners’ entrance will also now boast a new covered building.

The improvements don’t stop there though; for the first time, Taunton will also

be offering owners a discount in either the Members or Orchard Restaurants, should they wish to dine there instead of redeeming their voucher for the snack of their choice in the owners’ bar. Horses, meanwhile, will be racing on ground that has benefited from £25,000 worth of drainage improvements in both the home and back straight.

December 20, in which participants will be racing for a prize fund more than double that of 2013 at £100,000.

Following a successful year-long trial at Newton Abbot, ‘One-Fit’ padded hurdles have become a permanent fixture at the course. Unlike regular hurdles, the padded hurdle design fits a single foam pad to the standard timber frame, rather than birch, designed to reduce the likelihood of injuries, as well as further improving horse safety. This winter the BHA have asked Taunton to expand the trial further and all hurdles at the track will have been replaced in time for their first fixture of the new season on October 29.

The re-development of The Racecourse, Newbury continues, currently affecting the owners’ car park. As it is likely to take in the region of nine months to complete, Newbury

have created two new temporary car parks for owners, each with their own entrance.

Car Parks 2 and 4 are situated on either side of the racecourse complex.

Lingfield Park have expanded their owners’ and trainers’ ‘Winter Warmer’ package, allowing up to six people per runner to dine in the Trackside Restaurant for £20 per person. It runs from the end of September until March, excluding December 13 and 21 and Winter Derby Day. National Hunt owners will also be pleased to hear that a significant drainage project on the hill was completed this summer, which should help to improve ground conditions this winter.

Gold Standard Award holder Wincanton has completed a three-year project to increase the size of the owners’ and trainers’ bar, which is sure to prove popular.

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Flat Racecourse League Table Ptn Racecourse

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

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

Figures for period October 1, 2013 to September 30, 2014

Ownership

Avg racecourse spend per fixture (£)

Avg HBLB spend per fixture (£)

Avg owner spend per fixture (£)

Avg prizemoney per fixture (£)

Total no. of fixtures

Total prize-money (£)

Avg racecourse spend per fixture 2012-13 (£)

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

347,994 162,934 118,711 89,333 86,427 81,446 62,378 54,675 53,662 46,498 36,367 31,611 30,335 28,599 28,154 27,495 27,174 24,490 22,641 21,852 21,447 21,234 20,372 19,245 18,278 17,749 17,103 16,888 16,294 15,985 15,576 15,481 13,169 11,874 11,078 39,591

142,571 108,549 84,726 80,662 79,551 47,063 60,143 56,651 63,259 49,785 26,918 28,557 34,141 34,520 24,103 29,577 21,832 9,578 21,083 19,205 24,744 17,357 18,278 20,555 23,256 23,114 19,900 19,315 15,420 17,863 18,626 20,476 14,808 17,264 19,641 33,611

200,955 93,641 109,390 83,244 26,507 10,055 45,661 23,058 27,775 17,019 5,616 4,658 3,762 9,563 4,298 5,109 5,603 3,323 3,333 2,954 7,015 3,945 3,803 4,723 4,872 5,424 2,771 13,463 2,932 2,584 4,071 3,494 2,874 2,532 2,007 17,335

691,519 365,418 312,828 253,501 192,709 138,898 168,775 134,759 144,755 113,728 68,900 64,825 68,238 72,960 56,659 62,493 54,943 37,390 47,058 44,289 54,044 42,689 42,575 44,823 46,790 46,723 39,832 49,666 35,396 36,481 38,274 39,651 31,620 31,670 32,726 90,733

18 17 11 38 19 15 24 16 17 23 17 16 15 18 96 16 15 7 18 18 17 13 84 20 26 23 17 16 20 101 7 25 13 21 52 889

12,447,350 6,212,100 3,441,104 9,633,043 3,661,465 2,083,471 4,050,598 2,156,139 2,460,843 2,664,483 1,171,306 1,037,208 1,023,564 1,313,284 5,423,051 999,890 824,139 243,035 847,044 797,200 918,750 554,959 3,576,320 896,459 1,216,538 1,074,619 677,150 794,650 707,915 3,684,589 267,915 991,282 411,058 665,074 1,701,748 80,629,340

360,121 161,427 120,544 89,287 84,645 77,393 54,713 53,586 46,422 41,474 31,363 27,030 27,249 29,423 13,217 26,245 20,943 23,461 17,024 17,864 23,190 21,280 18,038 18,510 19,866 16,218 15,457 14,691 15,243 10,895 16,320 12,687 10,464 9,097 9,307 35,969

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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

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Aintree Cheltenham Sandown Park Ascot Haydock Park Kempton Park Newbury Ayr Chepstow Wincanton Perth Newcastle Wetherby Cartmel Ludlow Doncaster Stratford-on-Avon Kelso Musselburgh Huntingdon Market Rasen Exeter Newton Abbot Warwick Fakenham Ffos Las Catterick Bridge Carlisle Fontwell Park Bangor-on-Dee Uttoxeter Lingfield Park Hexham Plumpton Southwell Worcester Leicester Taunton Sedgefield Towcester 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 2012-13 (£)

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

211,204 201,036 103,163 101,655 88,098 53,982 47,222 34,902 27,915 27,188 25,650 25,605 24,528 24,425 23,509 23,093 22,821 22,143 21,859 21,818 20,816 20,104 19,983 17,959 16,868 16,076 15,554 15,304 15,235 15,218 15,096 13,805 13,651 13,625 12,640 12,507 11,747 11,317 10,790 9,990 31,576

154,953 131,106 78,580 86,381 75,226 59,379 68,498 43,744 26,813 31,609 22,799 28,654 24,870 18,129 32,888 43,762 19,657 32,042 34,379 20,024 26,114 30,063 26,262 39,825 20,999 22,606 26,703 30,606 21,983 20,076 23,810 21,240 17,405 26,949 17,969 20,038 26,216 26,753 20,893 16,069 34,438

68,700 56,656 17,396 16,745 16,030 9,628 16,025 12,425 6,840 5,142 1,953 4,577 4,407 4,014 4,662 6,613 4,060 3,099 4,298 3,992 4,418 4,466 0 5,750 0 3,335 2,484 4,026 3,187 3,370 4,681 2,026 2,380 3,620 2,822 3,272 4,080 3,799 2,690 2,915 7,265

434,857 388,797 201,139 206,031 180,519 123,258 131,745 92,182 61,568 63,939 50,516 59,536 54,210 46,568 61,060 73,469 46,713 58,283 61,236 45,834 51,348 55,100 46,245 63,534 37,867 42,018 44,742 50,151 40,405 38,664 43,587 37,071 33,457 44,193 33,431 35,817 42,073 41,869 34,723 28,975 73,469

8 16 7 8 9 13 11 9 15 16 16 10 18 7 14 10 16 13 10 16 21 15 18 10 10 17 10 13 19 13 23 5 14 14 20 21 10 13 20 16 543

3,478,857 6,220,754 1,407,973 1,648,249 1,547,310 1,602,352 1,449,191 829,639 923,520 1,023,021 808,250 595,358 975,784 325,975 854,835 734,685 747,400 757,684 612,358 733,345 1,078,300 826,503 832,409 635,343 378,669 693,290 447,415 651,964 767,698 502,637 1,002,503 195,948 468,400 618,706 668,610 752,158 420,732 544,300 694,451 463,600 39,920,175

235,377 236,956 68,189 109,586 87,068 44,662 42,259 32,818 26,551 21,121 28,814 21,429 23,488 24,931 18,485 13,969 18,163 19,845 24,399 10,887 18,579 14,605 20,513 27,256 18,469 17,520 5,470 16,779 13,233 9,187 11,919 9,543 13,166 13,656 12,285 13,069 9,682 18,722 7,512 8,945 30,936

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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

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National Hunt stallions invited for November Parade

The TBA National Hunt Stallion Parade takes place in the parade ring at Cheltenham

A selection of invited National Hunt stallions, including Black Sam Bellamy, Brian Boru, Dunaden, Gentlewave, Geordieland, Lucarno, Malinas, Schiaparelli, Sun Central and Universal, will be making an appearance in the parade ring at Cheltenham racecourse on Countryside Raceday, Friday, November 14 at 11am.

The parade will last for half an hour, after

which members and their guests are invited to enjoy the use of the TBA Stallion Parade Marquee, where facilities include a cash bar and light refreshments, plus the opportunity to meet TBA Ambassador, eventer Tina Cook, the Olympic and World Equestrian Games Silver Medal winner, who will be co-presenting the stallion parade with DBS Director Tim Kent.

Stallion connections will also be on hand in

Christmas is not far away…

Looking for inspiration for presents this year?

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20% off full membership when you buy 18-35 membership 18-35 membership is for anybody who loves racing or breeding on any level and is aged 18-35. For just £50 a year you will receive free subscriptions to Thoroughbred Owner & Breeder magazine, get access to our unique raceday offers, exclusive stud and yard visits, and the opportunity to attend social events and educational lectures and seminars. If you are a current member of the TBA and purchase 18-35 membership before December 1, 2014 we will give you 20% off full membership when you renew.

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their National Hunt racing, have you considered Cheltenham Breeders Club membership as a gift? For just £150, TBA or NGC members will receive two badges, a car park label and use of a Club marquee on three days at Cheltenham for the 2014/15 season: Paddy Power day (November 15), Champion Hurdle day (March 10), and National Hunt Breeders’ day (April 16). And now, in addition to the raceday badges, you can also have access to some unique experiences and events including: • Visit to Tom George’s yard on April 16, to include breakfast, the gallops and a yard tour before racing in the afternoon • Join Olympian Tina Cook on a tour of her and her brother Nick Gifford’s yard in Sussex • A behind the scenes visit to The Morning Line (date tbc) The Club is a very cost effective way of enjoying some great racing. For more details please call 01242 537602.

the marque after the parade to answer any questions and a silent auction of stallion nominations, generously donated by the respective stallion owners, will be held in support of TBA National Hunt initiatives.

The TBA would like to thank the stallion parade sponsors, the British European Breeders’ Fund (BEBF) and Doncaster Bloodstock Sales (DBS), who have generously sponsored the stallion handlers’ jackets, and Weatherbys General Stud Book Ltd, for their help and support in the production of the TBA National Hunt Yearbook, which will include a report from the National Hunt Stars of Tomorrow Foal Show, details of the stallions at the parade and the Elite Mares Scheme for 2015. Complimentary copies will be handed out at the parade.

TBA members can gain free entry to Cheltenham on the day by producing their valid TBA membership card at the owners’ and trainers’ desks at either the North or Hall of Fame entrances only. Discounted badges for guests can be bought at the special advance purchase rate of £22 per person, by contacting Cheltenham racecourse direct on 0844 5793003 up until Thursday, November 6. Tickets purchased on the day will be £27 per person.

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Congratulations to our Marketing and Communications Director Lucinda Hird, who married Will Miller on September 20 at her parents’ house in Goudhurst, Kent. Lucinda is now Lucinda Miller and her email address is Lucinda.miller@thetba.co.uk. However, emails to Lucinda’s former address will still reach her.

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Breeders’ Prizes for TBA members Name

Horse

Sire

Dam

Date

Course

Natton House Thoroughbreds

1,800

Renaissant

Dutch Art

Sofonisba

01/09/2014

Brighton

Wilde & Webster

5,400

King Crimson

Captain Gerrard

Elegant Lady

02/09/2014

Carlisle

Mr George Strawbridge

5,400

Timba

Oasis Dream

Teeky

02/09/2014

Goodwood

Mr George Strawbridge

5,400

Make It Up

Halling

American Spirit

02/09/2014

Goodwood

Juddmonte Farms Inc

1,800

Tendu

Oasis Dream

Arabesque

03/09/2014

Kempton Park

Stanley House Stud

1,800

Charlotte's Day

Dalakhani

Charlotte O Fraise

04/09/2014

Wolverhampton

Jeremy Green & Sons & Mr P. Bickmore

1,800

Mutasayyid

Bahamian Bounty

Clear Voice

06/09/2014

Ascot

Newsells Park Stud

1,800

Battersea

Galileo

Gino's Spirits

06/09/2014

Ascot

Millsec Limited

1,800

Jelly Fish

Observatory

Grand Coral

06/09/2014

Kempton Park

Mr B. Haggas

9,000

Tadpole

Sir Percy

Frog

06/09/2014

Thirsk

Mrs James Wigan

1,800

Dark Angel

Caster Sugar

06/09/2014

Thirsk

Mr John E. Rose

1,800

Mukhayyam A Distant Past

Pastoral Pursuits

Faraway Lass

06/09/2014

Thirsk

Bumble Bloodstock & Catridge Farm Stud

1,800

Bamboccianti

Dutch Art

Brooklyn's Sky

07/09/2014

York

Lady Legard

1,800

Bright Flash

Dutch Art

Quadri

10/09/2014

Carlisle

M. R. Channon

5,400

Lincoln

Clodovil

Gilt Linked

10/09/2014

Doncaster

Cheveley Park Stud Ltd

5,400

Finial

Dutch Art

Rotunda

11/09/2014

Chepstow

Mr D. Holgate

1,800

Bond's Girl

Monsieur Bond

Blades Girl

11/09/2014

Doncaster

Juddmonte Farms Inc

1,800

Commemorative

Zamindar

Revered

11/09/2014

Doncaster

Around The World Partnership

5,400

Mambo Rhythm

Authorized

Mambo Halo

12/09/2014

Chester

Mr R. J. H. Geffen

5,400

Gm Hopkins

Dubawi

Varsity

12/09/2014

Sandown Park

Sheik K. B. Z. Al Nahyan

1,800

Stereo Love

Champs Elysees

My Heart's Deelite

13/09/2014

Bath

Kingsclere Stud

1,800

Chesil Beach

Phoenix Reach

Seaflower Reef

13/09/2014

Chester

Swettenham Stud

1,800

Red Lady

Dutch Art

Felucca

14/09/2014

Bath

Cheveley Park Stud

5,400

Eternitys Gate

Dutch Art

Regency Rose

14/09/2014

Bath

Mrs M. E. Slade

9,000

Air of Mystery

Sakhee's Secret

Belle des Airs

14/09/2014

Bath

H.H Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalifa Al Thani

5,400

Wonder Of Qatar

Exceed And Excel

Imperial Quest

14/09/2014

Ffos Las

Mr Godfrey Wilson

5,400

Twilight Son

Kyllachy

Twilight Mistress

16/09/2014

Thirsk

Galadari Sons Stud Company Limited

1,800

Queen's Pearl

Exceed And Excel

Gimasha

16/09/2014

Yarmouth

Mrs P. Hart

1,800

Notarised

Authorized

Caribbean Dancer

16/09/2014

Yarmouth

Miss K. Rausing

5,400

Leaderene

Selkirk

La Felicita

17/09/2014

Beverley

Time Test

Dubawi

Passage Of Time

17/09/2014

Sandown Park

Juddmonte Farms Inc

Prize (£)

900

A

Southcourt Stud

3,000

Ajig

Bahamian Bounty

Atwirl

17/09/2014

Sandown Park

James Ortega Bloodstock

1,800

Raise Your Gaze

Mastercraftsman

Regal Magic

17/09/2014

Sandown Park

Juddmonte Farms Inc

1,800

Cordial

Oasis Dream

Mirabilis

17/09/2014

Yarmouth

The Green Door Partnership

5,400

Moscato

Hernando

Alba Stella

18/09/2014

Yarmouth

Rockcliffe Stud

9,000

Marsh Hawk

Invincible Spirit

Asaawir

19/09/2014

Newbury

Clarendon Thoroughbred Racing

5,400

Scrafton

Leporello

Some Diva

20/09/2014

Catterick Bridge

Harlequin Direct Ltd

5,400

Harlequin Striker

Bahamian Bounty

Air Maze

20/09/2014

Newbury

The Rt Hon Lord Rothschild

1,800

McCreery

Big Bad Bob

Dolma

20/09/2014

Newbury

Stratford Place Stud

3,000

Toujours L'Amour

Authorized

High Heel Sneakers

20/09/2014

Newmarket

Fittocks Stud

3,000

Lady Of Dubai

Dubawi

Lady Of Everest

20/09/2014

Newmarket

Newsells Park Stud

3,000

Lacing

Equiano

Lacework

20/09/2014

Newmarket

The Niarchos Family

5,400

Polybius

Oasis Dream

Freedonia

22/09/2014

Kempton Park

Sir Gordon Brunton

5,400

Royal Warranty

Sir Percy

Royal Patron

22/09/2014

Kempton Park

Merry Fox Stud Limited

3,000

Charming Thought

Oasis Dream

Annabelle's Charm

22/09/2014

Leicester

900

Surewecan

Royal Applause

Edge of Light

22/09/2014

Leicester

Mr D. Ablitt

1,800

Ryeolliean

Haafhd

Brave Mave

23/01/1900

Newcastle

Juddmonte Farms Inc

1,800

Dissolution

New Approach

Portodora

24/09/2014

Goodwood

Mrs H. Raw

1,800

Serena Grae

Arakan

Success Story

24/09/2014

Goodwood

The ABC Partnership

5,400

Black Granite

Dark Angel

Glisten

25/09/2014

Newmarket

Downfield Cottage Stud

1,800

Captain Revelation

Captain Rio

Agony Aunt

25/09/2014

Pontefract

Avenue Farm Stud

1,800

Darrington

Archipenko

Rosablanca

25/09/2014

Pontefract

Coln Valley Stud

1,800

William Of Orange

Duke Of Marmalade

Critical Acclaim

26/09/2014

Haydock Park

Kingsclere Stud

1,800

Chesil Beach

Phoenix Reach

Seaflower Reef

27/09/2014

Chester

Mrs Hugh Maitland-Jones

9,000

Rosalee Bonheur

Siyouni

Crozon

27/09/2014

Newmarket

Mr Christopher J. Mason

Prizes subject to confirmation of qualification with Weatherbys

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Successful Saturday at Yorton Farm

Members viewing the stallions at Yorton Farm in Leighton

A departure from our usual midweek meetings saw a maximum turnout of members from Wales and West Midlands visit David Loder’s Lodge Farm and David and Teresa Futter’s Yorton Farm Stud on Saturday, September 13.

Members were very impressed by David Loder’s new pre-training facility at Bishop’s Castle in Shropshire. Although clearly in its infancy, the property caters for every aspect of pre-training and possibly the option of a licensed training yard in the fullness of time.

Ample opportunity to tour the facilities and hear plans for the future was the order of the day and,

after a hearty lunch in Marton, members made the short journey across the border into Wales for the second venue of the day.

Having relocated to Leighton, near Welshpool, some 12 months ago and with their first season in new premises behind them, David, Teresa and family have made a great impact on the British National Hunt breeding industry in a relatively short space of time.

Their stallion roster features Sulamani, Malinas, Norse Dancer and more recently Universal. The new recruit for 2015, Monsun’s son Gentlewave, had arrived a matter of days earlier.

David explained his philosophy to stand different commercial stallions for breeders, moving horses to and from the UK, France and Ireland, citing Great Pretender’s return to France for the 2015 season as an example of his belief that stallions benefit from a change of location and subsequent new pool of mares.

Yorton Farm Stud’s move to Leighton has provided more space for the business to grow and was made possible as a result of collaboration with owners James and Jean Potter, and support from the Welsh Assembly, to ensure that this historic Victorian Model Farm, built in 1845, has a sustainable vision for the future, built around a thriving commercial stud farm and utilising the historic buildings to their best effect.

Originally comprising 4,000 acres, with 40 acres of buildings, the farm, complete with its own fire station, church and village hall, all powered by water, must have been an impressive sight. Now somewhat reduced in size, with its 300 acres it is still awe inspiring and unique, and will probably prove to be just as industrious with some 80 to 100 mares foaled a year and a great deal of support from British breeders. Our hosts were their usual hospitable selves and shortly after downing our last cup of tea, the wine glasses appeared. It’s safe to say that those who stayed on probably enjoyed another late night with the Futters!

Nominations now being taken for the 2015 Godolphin Stud and Stable Staff Awards Nominations have opened for the 11th annual Godolphin Stud and Stable Staff Awards, with £120,000 in prize-money to be awarded to some of the most dedicated staff in the industry, and their respective yards. TBA members have received nomination forms in their recent mailing, and nominations can be made by anyone within the industry. This means trainers, owners, managers or colleagues can all show their appreciation for the hard work of stud and stable staff.

The Awards, sponsored by Godolphin and run by the British Horseracing Authority in association with the Racing Post, are divided into the following categories; Leadership Award, Rider/Groom Award, Stud Staff Award, Dedication to Racing Award, David Nicholson Newcomer Award and the Administration Staff Award.

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Stud staff qualify for all apart from the Rider/Groom category.

The winner of each of the first four categories will receive a prize of £5,000, with an additional £5,000 being awarded to the winner’s yard or stud. Two runners-up in each of these categories will win £2,000 each, with the same amount going to their yard or stud. The winner of the David Nicholson Newcomer Award will receive £2,000, with the same amount going to their yard or stud, while two runners-up will receive £1,000 each, with the same amount for their yard. The winner of the Administration Staff Award will win £5,000, with £5,000 to their yard or stud.

There are no runner-up prizes for the Administration Staff Award. Every nominee will receive a signed certificate in recognition of their 2015 nomination.

The Awards will also recognise an Employee of the Year, who will be selected from the winners of the first four categories.

That winner will receive an additional prize of £15,000, with the same amount going to their yard or stud.

Nominations close on Friday, December 12 and can also be completed and submitted online at: https://britishhorseracing.wufoo.eu/forms/ the-godolphin-stud-and-stable-staffawards-2015/ Alternatively, you can email awards@britishhorseracing.com or simply text AWARDS to 07584 171551 and a member of the team will arrange for a form to be sent out. Nomination forms are also available for download at www.britishhorseracing.com/stablestaff and via www.racingpost.com

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Feeling the Force in the north

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4

Introduction to Broodmare Ownership This will include buying the broodmare, insurance, registration and other administrative procedures, and practical preparation for the stud season.

TBA members £45/Non-members £90 per forum. This includes a buffet lunch and information pack.

To book or find out more contact Lisa Cowdrey at the National Stud on 01638 673930/email lisa.cowdrey@nationalstud.co.uk

NOVEMBER 6-7

NGC Careers Course The Next Generation Club inaugural Careers Course, Tattersalls, Newmarket.

The course is aimed at young people who are seeking employment in the breeding industry, or those who are already working in the industry and looking to explore new options.

There will be more than 15 speakers over the two days including: Ed Walker (trainer), Matt Coleman (bloodstock agent) and Brian O’Rourke (The National Stud). The two days will also include visits to Cheveley Park Stud, Dalham Hall Stud, Newmarket Equine Hospital and Hamilton Hill (Darley pre-training).

To attend both days of the course the cost is £50, and £30 to attend one day. To book visit www.nextgenerationclub.com or phone Sara on 01638 661321.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14 TBA NH Stallion Parade

The annual parade will be held at 11am on Countryside Day at Cheltenham Racecourse. TBA Members can gain free entry to Cheltenham on the day by producing their TBA membership card at the Owners and Trainers Desks at the North or Hall of Fame entrances only.

DECEMBER 9-11

Annual TBA Stud Farming Course, Newmarket The course is aimed at those with some experience of breeding or working on stud farms and provides an intensive three days of presentations covering conception to care of the yearling delivered by leading veterinary and industry experts. Contact Christine Standley on 01638 661321 or email Christine.standley@thetba.co.uk

Codes of Practice 2015 The Codes are reviewed on an annual basis in consultation with the relevant authorities in France, Germany, Ireland and Italy, with booklets subsequently updated and produced. These will be sent to all TBA members in coming months.

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David O’Meara’s Haydock Sprint Cup star G Force

A glorious Indian summer day set the scene for the Northern regional meeting at David O’Meara’s Arthington Barn Stables and Lady Jane Cecil’s Cliff Stud. The day attracted a full turnout and members enjoyed the buzz in the yard following David’s first Group 1 winner G Force, victorious in the Haydock Park Sprint Cup four days earlier.

Arthington Barn Stables now has 100 boxes and as many inhabitants, who are trained on a five-furlong circular all-weather gallop, with a further two-furlong chute.

Inside the gallop are a number of small paddocks accommodating happy horses and a few sheep. David explained that their regime was one canter daily, followed by a spell on the horse-walker and some time out, whilst up to 14 horses a day also took in an ice cold spa session as routine.

All the horses were trained on the same regime, with those who needed a little more work either doing a second canter at home or, if faster work was required, there was the option to take a trip down the road to local gallops in Appleton le Street.

A simple regime was clearly working, with a successful strike-rate and contented horses.

Our arrival at 10am enabled members to watch two later lots, whilst stable stars Custom Cut, Louis The Pious and Penitent grazed nearby. Also out for a pick of grass was Philip Bamford’s Watchable, whose forthcoming race plans were the cause of much discussion. Members were almost unanimous in their view that Watchable should take in the Ayr Gold Cup on September 20. However, trainer and owner

decided to make an entry for a race at the Curragh on September 14, which he duly won.

After lunch at the Pheasant in Harome, we took the short drive to Cliff Stud, situated just outside the picturesque village of Helmsley.

Cliff Stud has been closely linked with the Cecil family for a number of years and still boasts a number of high quality broodmares trained by the late Sir Henry Cecil. This small band of top quality mares were enjoying a fantastic pick of grass, which Stud Manager Guy Stephenson had prepared especially for his soon to be weaned foals.

The stud boasts sizeable paddocks, surrounded by huge hedges, reinforced with post and rails. Guy explained that a regime of topping and grazing by sheep and cattle, with occasional doses of liquid seaweed, kept the paddocks in good order. Youngstock and a few National Hunt stores were also enjoying the sunshine, whilst a number of smaller paddocks had recently been added to accommodate horses from local trainers who ‘spelled’ at the stud, as well as several Doncaster sales yearlings taking a few weeks out en-route to their trainers.

A more tranquil scene would have been hard to find, yet Guy’s contacts would ensure that the numbers would grow as the sales season progressed.

Questions flowed thick and fast and our host was happy to advise, inform and entertain. Another excellent day, and thanks go to our two hosts and Philip Bamford and Andrew Spalding for masterminding the occasion.

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Visit to William Haggas and Newsells Park Stud The early morning may have started out a bit gloomy, but the fog soon cleared to enable TBA members to enjoy the long-awaited Eastern Regional Day for 2014.

Having assembled at the Rowley Mile, guests were transported to Warren Hill in order to watch some horses exercise under the watchful eye of their trainer William Haggas.

Members then returned to Somerville Lodge and were treated to a parade of some of the residents, including the recent Portland Handicap winner Muthmir (Invincible Spirit ex Fairy Of The Night), Kilcarn Stud’s homebred My Spirit (Invincible Spirit ex My Renee) and Willow Creek (Iffraaj ex Camp Riverside), who was bred by TBA Regional Representative Fiona Denniff. Guests were then shown the stable star Mukhadram (Shamardal ex Magic Tree), who won the Coral-Eclipse back in July and has recently been retired to Shadwell Stud.

Following the parade, Mr Haggas took the members on a guided tour of his wonderful facilities including a fascinating insight into the use of the treadmill, which is tailored to each individual horse.

and Teofilo, and fillies by Sea The Stars and Giant’s Causeway, along with a bay filly by Galileo out of Date With Destiny, who is the only living progeny of the ill-fated George Washington.

Facilities at Newsells include several horsewalkers, along with a new 12-horse oval walker, acres of beautiful grass, its own composting site and a great team of awardwinning staff. Stallion Manager David Porter-Mackrell was the recipient of the TBA’s Stud Staff Award for July, and Yearling Manager Gerry Meehan took home the much coveted Stud Staff Award at this year’s Godolphin Awards.

No visit to Newsells Park would be complete without a trip to the stallion yard, which is home to Nathaniel, Mount Nelson and Equiano. With the latter two currently in the southern hemisphere, Nathaniel took pride of place and looked outstanding. The day ended with refreshments, kindly provided by Newsells Park.

The TBA would like to thank all the hosts and their staff who gave up their time in order for members to enjoy such a lovely day.

Galileo yearling ex Date With Destiny

A very generous buffet lunch was served at the King William IV at Heydon before the group headed to Newsells Park Stud, where we were hosted by General Manager Julian Dollar. The estate near Royston is a most impressive place, with beautiful parkland and paddocks along with state-of-the-art facilities.

The TBA members were shown some foals before a parade of a group of the yearlings which are heading to Newmarket for the Tattersall October Sale. Those on display included sons of Montjeu, Cacique, Pivotal

Employment matters: national minimum wage rises Data Protection, Recruitment Issues, Dismissal, and Retirement and Age Discrimination Legislation have also been updated. Please contact Caroline Turnbull for further information: caroline.turnbull@thetba.co.uk.

The main National Minimum Wage rate for adult workers rose from £6.31 to £6.50 per hour on October 1, 2014.

More details on this and other news is available to members in our latest Quarterly Employment Law Newsletter, which can be obtained from Stanstead House and covers the following topics: • New National Minimum Wage rates and the NMW and Apprentices • Maternity issues – pre-natal appointments • Employing reservists • Shared parental leave and pay • Dress codes at work • Disability discrimination • Whistleblowing Fact sheets on Young People at Work, Maternity Rights and Shared Parental Leave,

Fresh from her silver medal success on her homebred at the World Equestrian Games, TBA Ambassador Tina Cook hosted a very popular course walk at Burghley Horse Trials last month.

Members enjoyed the unique insight into how to ride the famous big galloping track.

Workplace pensions Our recent mailing to members included an information leaflet on changes to workplace pensions that are now beginning to affect all employers who employ one or more members of staff. If you haven’t already started planning for them then you will need to start soon – contact Caroline Turnbull at Stanstead House for more copies of the leaflet.

You can also visit The Pensions Regulator website via the link here... http://www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk

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TBA and National Stud link up for foal course The TBA and the National Stud recently teamed up to offer a one-day course entitled ‘The Foal: From Weaning to the Sales’.

Sponsored by the TBA, the course took place at the Joan Westbrook Theatre and attracted 50 delegates travelling from as far afield as Somerset and Wales. The morning kicked off with a detailed look at foal nutrition from Louise Jones of TopSpec.

This informative presentation gave breeders plenty to consider, covering pregnant mare nutrition and following right through to bringing a new foal home from the sales.

Simon Curtis was next to the stage to share his wealth of experience in farriery, highlighting the importance of introducing routine farrier visits from one month of age.

Using an impressive variety of photos and videos, he illustrated the importance for corrective farriery early on and the dramatic positive impact it can have when used correctly.

Lunch afforded an opportunity to network in the sunshine at Westbrook House, after which NEH Veterinarian Jennie Henderson reminded breeders of the importance of a good vaccination strategy, in particular to ensure maternal antibodies are passed to the foal. She discussed many of the common infections the thoroughbred

foal faces and how best to prevent, and if necessary, manage them.

Joe Grimwade spoke of the importance of a good weaning strategy and the different options available. He also highlighted the importance of creep-feeding to ensure foals continue to grow at an optimum rate, and emphasised the importance of care of the mare post-weaning to avoid incidences of mastitis.

He was followed by Charlie Oakshott, who generously shared his experience of many years to offer an informative presentation on the preparation of foals for sales.

Final speaker Hetty Keyes of Tattersalls explained the process of entering foals into sales and the documentation involved, which can be confusing for breeders.

The course was well received by delegates, who enjoyed the chance to learn from knowledgeable speakers in a relaxed atmosphere. It is part of a series sponsored by the TBA, the next of which will be ‘An Introduction to Broodmare Management’, which takes place at the National Stud on Tuesday, November 4.

For further information please contact Lisa Cowdrey on 01638 675930 or email lisa.cowdrey@nationalstud.co.uk

Foal management in the spotlight

Register now for the TBA Stud Farming Course

Vice-Chairman of the TBA Julian Richmond-Watson (left) and Amy Bennett make the presentation to John Gosden, the trainer of Rewaaya, winner of the TBA-sponsored EBF Stallion Fillies’ Handicap at Newmarket on September 20

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There is still time to register for this year’s TBA Stud Farming Course, which takes place at the British Racing School and runs from December 9 to 11.

The course covers a multitude of stud management topics, from conception of the potential racehorse through to the management of limb deformities to ensure soundness, and taking in transport, infectious disease, nutrition and pedigrees along the way. Delegates will get to know each other over dinner on the first evening and as a break from the lecture theatre will visit Newmarket Equine Hospital and Darley’s pre-training yard at Hamilton Hill, as well as having an early-morning tour of the British Racing School.

The course fee for 2014 is £395 for TBA members, or £495 for non-members.

Closing date for applications is November 7.

For more information contact Christine Standley at Stanstead House on 01638 661321 or email Christine@thetba.co.uk

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Another female family linked with Woodcote Stud stems from Inchmurrin’s daughter Inchyre, who is the grandam of the stud’s illfated Inchila. A most unlucky fourth in the Oaks, she then suffered a fatal injury in the Ribblesdale Stakes, so Kingston Hill’s Doncaster triumph made up for a very frustrating Classic experience at Woodcote’s local course.

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Previously, the last grey to win the St Leger was another British-bred, Silver Patriarch, in 1997. Like Kingston Hill he started favourite on Town Moor after finishing runner-up in the Derby – remarkably the Irish stallion Master Robert (1811) provides a common link for all these grey thoroughbreds.

Kingston Hill was bred by Ridgecourt Stud, the breeding alias of Albert Perry, which takes its name from his Epsom home. He has enjoyed a long and successful association with Woodcote Stud, managed by Barry Reilly, who consigned the colt to Tattersalls’ October Sale (Book 2), where he was bought for 70,000gns through Charlie Gordon-Watson.

Perry first became involved with this female family when local trainer Dermot Whelan, then partners in Lavandou Stud, acquired Kingston Hill’s fourth dam Elvina as a yearling at the 1980 December Sales for 22,000gns – one of Perry’s early homebreds was that top staying handicapper Tug Of War, whom Whelan saddled to win the 1978 Goodwood Cup. In due course Elvina became the grandam of 1991

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On the prowl as far afield as Australia’s Melbourne Cup, Brown Panther’s endeavours were finally rewarded at Group 1 level with a convincing kill at the Curragh in the Irish St Leger on Irish Champions Weekend. Next home were Leading Light and Encke, winners of the previous two renewals of the St Leger proper.

Until then Brown Panther’s most important success had been in the 2013 Goodwood Cup, but the six-year-old entire seems better than ever this season, winning the Ormonde Stakes and Henry II Stakes in the spring.

Bred by Owen Promotions, the breeding alias of former England striker Michael Owen and part-owned with his business colleague Andrew Black, Brown Panther was amongst the initial batch of horses to be installed at Owen’s Manor House Stables in Malpas when Tom Dascombe moved from Lambourn to Cheshire for the 2010 season.

The flagship horse of the stable, he had been retained for just £1,500 as a yearling at the Ascot December Sale in 2009. That figure is in sharp contrast to the 135,000gns that his dam Treble Heights cost as a yearling at the Tattersalls October Sales in 2000 when consigned by her breeder Michael Page of Gaskyns Stud, near Horsham.

Owen named Treble Heights in the wake of Liverpool’s success in the UEFA Cup, FA Cup and League Cup in 2000/2001. Trained by John Gosden, she won the Listed Aphrodite Stakes at Newmarket and was runner-up in the Prix de Pomone and Park Hill Stakes. Ironically it was Gosden’s Masked Marvel to whom Brown Panther finished runner-up in the 2011 St Leger.

Treble Heights, who spent the duration of her stud career with Richard Kent at Mickley Stud, had to be put down in the summer, when carrying to Nathaniel, without leaving behind any female offspring. Her final progeny is Cocker, a two-year-old own-brother to Brown Panther in training with Dascombe.

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Young masters at the consigning game Behind the scenes with Baroda & Colbinstown Studs

David Cox and Dave Myerscough, friends and partners as both buyers and vendors

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avid Cox is waiting for a flight from Cambridge to Dublin, one of the last of its kind before the service stops and Stansted will be the airport of choice for those who are Newmarket-bound.

It may be inconvenient, but judging by the past fortnight, the extra mileage will be worth future visits. The Baroda and Colbinstown Studs consignment, run by David and his neighbour Dave Myerscough, has just wrapped up another highly successful renewal of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, enjoying several notable pinhooks and a homebred Mastercraftsman filly sold for 210,000gns.

The consigment, which was only launched in 2011, has offered 70 yearlings this season, up from a dozen during its debut – and made the top ten consignor list at Tattersalls Book 2 and the DBS Premier Sale, as well as coming close when 11th at the Goffs Orby Sale.

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Graduates of the draft, which is a mix of homebreds, pinhooks and clients’ yearlings, include Group 3 winner Glass Office and the Group 3-placed Starbright, who finished fifth in a 13-runner renewal of the Moyglare Stud Stakes – both were sourced during the consignment’s first year. The Baroda and Colbinstown name will also be seen at the Goffs and Tattersalls breeding stock sales, their drafts headed by the five-year-old mare Maid To Master, a sister to Mastercraftsman who will be offered in foal to War Front.

However, while the duo may make the job look easy, a briefing by Cox on what a day at the sale entails reveals it’s anything but.

“We start about 5am, checking all the horses, getting them fed and exercising those who need it,” he says. “Then the staff go for breakfast, and get cleaned up ready for showing to start about 8 o’clock.

“Once a yearling is ready to go in the ring

you organise the reserve – you have a price in your head, and you’ll discuss with clients what they want for the yearling and at what price they’d be happy to keep the horse and race it. You’ll often have an idea of who’s interested in the horse because you know who has been to see them or had them vetted, but you just have to set your price and hope there are two people who take each other on.

“Sales days go very quickly when you’ve nice horses and you’re busy, but it can be a very long day if you don’t have the right ammunition.

“Showing stops about 5pm, but the lads might have to stay if they’re selling later in the evening, so they’re long days. It’s hard on the staff, but it’s also hard on the horses – you need fit horses and good staff.

“A lot of the team we had for Tattersalls are constantly working the sales – we had two Australians who did the sales season at home, and two who have worked for us for a long time, Mick and James, worked a season down there this year too. Having good sales staff makes life a lot easier.”

However, if consigning sounds tough, so too is a day in the life of a buyer, which is what Cox and Myerscough will now become as they look to replenish their stocks at the foal sales.

“Before the sale we cut down the numbers by the pedigrees we want to look at,” says Cox. “Then at the sales we usually meet at about 7.30am for a coffee as it’s not usually light until about 8am, then we get out looking at the foals.

“We’ll meet up and chat throughout the day to compare how we’re getting on and see if there were any we particularly liked. If Dave saw a good horse I might pop down and see it, the same with [bloodstock agent] Mick Flanagan who also works with us. We’ll all compare notes, and we’ll arrange for a vet to take a look at the foals we’re interested in.

“Then the bidding war starts in the ring!

The pinhookers in Ireland are very good at their jobs, and we find that you often meet the same guys on a foal – then it just depends on who has the most money, or who values individual the most.”

Once the hammer comes down, any foals who go the way of Cox and Myerscough are then shipped to the pair’s studs, Baroda Stud and Colbinstown Stud respectively. Cox – a former captain of the County Carlow rugby club – took over the running of Baroda Stud and its subsidiary Rosetown Stud in 2008.

Between the three studs, the pair have around 500 acres on which to prepare their draft.

It’s a job that won’t begin for some time yet – many foals haven’t even been bought yet – but it’s also one at which, in a short space of time, the ambitious team has has already proven its skills.

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VET FORUM: THE EXPERT VIEW

By ROB PILSWORTH, MA VETMB BSc (HONS) CERTVR MRCVS

X-ray vision is required Can radiographs of young horses at auction predict future success?

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uying a foal or a yearling can’t really be described as an investment. Owners buy thoroughbreds because they love racing, and because they dream that what they are buying may one day prove to be a champion, rather than in any expectation of making a financial return. The figures however make quite grim reading. In a large study in the United States, 20% of 1,000 premium yearlings sold at auction hadn’t raced by the end of their three-year-old careers, and in a similar large Australian study, following nearly 2,000 yearlings purchased through auction through their careers, 40% of them had earned no prizemoney at all at two and three.

With the odds stacked against the owner so heavily from the start, there is a clear incentive to minimise the risk that the object of one’s dreams is not going to make it to the racecourse.

Requesting a pre-purchase ‘vetting’ will enable major abnormalities and severe conformational defects to be pointed out. Increasingly, however, especially with the higher- priced young stock in the premium sales, purchasers want the ability to look inside those all-important joints too, and make sure there are no injuries or congenital abnormalities present which will ‘mark the card’ of the horse from the outset.

Sales radiographs have in the space of around 15 years gone from a relative rarity to being almost the ‘norm’, so how useful are they and has their addition to the standard examination of a yearling for sale been of benefit to the industry or not?

How does it work?

When survey radiography first became part of the veterinary examination it was often carried out on behalf of a potential purchaser. However, a full set of radiographs is an expensive undertaking, costing approximately £400 to £500, and for somebody looking to buy only one yearling, but perhaps interested in 10 or 15, this becomes a prohibitively expensive undertaking.

Coupled to this, vendors became increasingly unhappy to have their yearlings taken out of the box for long periods of time once at the sales to allow the x-rays to be taken. All of this is time lost for potential buyers to view the animal.

These and other reasons led sales companies such as Keeneland in the US to introduce the system of an X-ray Repository. This allows vendors to arrive at the sales with a full set of radiographs taken away from the ‘hurly burly’

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Figure 1: Supracondylar lysis. This ‘scalloping’ of the contour of the distal canon (arrows) reflects distension of the joint in the past, and is linked to reduced race-success further down the line

Figure 2: Genuine sesamoiditis, involving very abnormal ‘shadows’ and bony growths (arrow) on the sesamoids of the front fetlocks, and linked to reduced race success

of the sales ring and lodged with the sales company for examination by vets who may wish to view them. Different sales companies stipulate that the radiographs should be taken within various time periods prior to the sale.

Tattersalls at Newmarket for instance require that yearling X-rays be taken within 21 days of the sale but radiographs for horses in training have to be obtained within 14 days of the sale.

The Keeneland repository is the ‘gold standard’ in terms of facilities – quiet, well organised, air conditioned, and very well equipped. It has been emulated by Tattersalls, with similar superb facilities, but sadly other auction companies in Europe are lagging behind in provision of suitable, or in some cases, any, facilities for x-ray viewing.

There is no compulsion in the UK for vendors to supply a set of radiographs, and this often depends on the potential purchase price that they are hoping to achieve for the yearling.

Yearlings in the select sale almost all arrive with a set of radiographs, whereas only some in the later parts of the December Sales will have them.

X-rays have become an important part of the ‘pinhookers’ armoury. Those seeking to buy foals to present in the yearling sales, or yearlings to come back as ‘breeze-up’ horses, don’t want to be left with their purchases. A set of prepurchase x-rays helps to avoid the potential nightmare scenario of buying an animal with a significant defect that only becomes apparent on

x rays taken when the horse is offered for resale.

Some large consignors are also screening yearlings in March so that surgical correction of minor faults, which may devalue the stock, can be carried out in good time for the sales.

In the UK, some of the bigger, more powerful, consignors have unfortunately turned their backs on this organised repository system, wanting to keep tighter control of the radiographs themselves down with their horses, so that they know exactly who is looking at them and for whom. The excellent repository at Tattersalls is therefore now under-used, even though access to the radiographs in it is tightly controlled, and vendors are notified by text message whenever the radiographs are examined, telling them who is looking at them, and for which client.

Tattersalls risks returning to the disorganised chaos of x-rays being viewed in less than ideal conditions or borrowed from vendors and read elsewhere. This leads to great frustration for vets chasing radiographs under the time pressures often involved during a sale. Tattersalls to their credit are making significant further investment in the computer and information technology side of their repository to make it far more ‘user friendly’ for both vendors and the vets, in the hope of attracting back these consignors.

Other sales companies in Europe, such as Goffs in Ireland, have no repository at all, and provide only the barest essentials for visiting vets to view radiographs.

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major consignors this stacks up as a significant expense.

Do radiographs help predict future success?

Figure 3: Chip fragments present in the front fetlocks (arrow) signalled reduced race success at two

Figure 4: Marked irregularity in the front of the radial carpal bone (arrow), one of the small bones that make up the knee, was the 4th main sign in the Kane study linked to much lower performance on the track

Has the system worked?

By and large most in the industry would think that the current system when it works as at Keeneland, is definitely an advance on the ‘free for all’ that took place previously. It avoids yearlings being removed from their boxes for radiography during the sales, avoiding ‘blocks’ to viewing by potential purchasers. One of the more intangible benefits is probably the preemptive elimination from the sales of horses with obvious and major orthopaedic defects that would show clearly on x-ray. Vendors know that these are going to be detected and the horses may therefore not be entered for sale, so the chance of anyone buying a horse with a significant orthopaedic defect has been reduced even if the potential purchaser doesn’t have the radiographs examined by a vet.

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There have been two very large-scale investigations over the significance of radiographic changes in yearlings’ joints and whether or not they impact on future racing performance. The first, headed by Albert Kane, a researcher at Colorado State University, looked at yearling radiographs from well over 1,000 yearlings presented for sale in the United States of America and assessed the impact of radiographic changes observed on their subsequent performance at 2 and 3. This study debunked a lot of myths over the significance of fairly common findings. These include changes such as flattening on the back surface of the condyle of the distal cannon bone, which was seen in approximately 40% of yearlings.

Similarly, two or more irregular vascular channels, the ‘holes’ in the bone where blood vessels run in the sesamoid bones, which were present in nearly 80% of yearlings and had previously sometimes been classed as ‘sesamoiditis’, were shown to have no impact at all on future race performance. ‘Spurs’ and bone ‘spikes’ in the hock similarly proved to be benign in their impact on racing but were relatively common, almost 20% of yearlings having these.

Four main lesions were found which did have an impact on future racing performance and these were: • Moderate or extreme supracondylar lysis, a change in contour and shape of the canon bone just above the fetlocks, which is usually indicative of the fact the joint has been distended with fluid in the past for quite some time ( figure 1).

• Irregular ‘spurring’ and abnormal bone growths on the sesamoid bones of the front fetlock ( figure 2).

• Fragmentation of the top of the pastern in the front fetlock joint ( figure 3).

• Degenerative changes on the front of the small bones which make up the knee (figure 4).

Interestingly, some lesions which most vets would regard as potentially very serious, such as a bone cyst in the stifle, were not flagged up as significant but when one looks more closely at the study this was because there were no cases of this disease in the series. With over a thousand horses in the study, this shows the potential deterrent effect that sales radiographs have had on submission of yearlings with major problems for sale. Horses with bone cysts in the stifle simply weren’t sent to the sale.

A second very large study was carried out in Australia and reported in 2009. This study, headed up by Melissa Jackson of the University of Melbourne Faculty of Veterinary Science,

Radiographic changes, medication issues and race success: can international studies be compared?

An important point has to be made about these findings. These studies have taken place in two very different countries, the USA and Australia, which race under very different circumstances, both in terms of medication control and track surfaces. It’s not surprising therefore that they found differing impact of lesions present in yearlings on subsequent race performance.

The tolerant attitude of North American racing jurisdictions to chronic medication with drugs such as phenylbutazone and intra-articular medication with corticosteroids close to race time means that many lesions which would reduce the ‘raceability’ of a two-year-old racing under a drug-free regime just won’t have the same impact. Similarly, American horses almost universally race on dirt, particularly now that the Californian tracks have all reverted to this surface. Australian racing takes place predominantly on grass with a minority of races on synthetic surface and in the UK the position would be similar. It’s therefore not surprising that lesions had different outcomes in the two studies.

By far the most important consideration though is that some very significant radiographic lesions were simply not present in sufficient numbers in either series for the researchers to make clear statistical associations with lack of race performance. The North American finding that supracondylar lysis had an impact on race performance was not replicated in the Australian study purely because of lack of numbers. This would also be true in the UK, where the lesion, which is usually the result of long term inflammation and fluid distension of the joint, is rarely encountered in the yearling. So no conclusions could be drawn over its impact on race performance, purely as consequence of lack of numbers. This doesn’t mean that it has no impact. It just means that the researchers were not able to prove one because of the low statistical power when few cases are encountered. So for all of the reasons above, we do need to be careful extrapolating from these large international research projects to our own individual decisions on whether or not to ignore a radiographic lesion at the sales here in the UK.

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Figure 5: A stifle bone cyst (arrow).

None of these were seen in the USA study, so no conclusions drawn, but the Australian study showed a clear negative impact of this lesion on race success

included double the number of horses examined in the American study and followed well over 2,000 horses through their racing careers, correlating race performance with changes seen on X-ray at time of sale.

Just as in the American study, an astounding 20% of these horses never saw the racetrack in any way at 2 or 3, but the remainder did race at least once and provided the statistics. The Australian study similarly found a group of lesions which significantly impacted on race performance, but interestingly the lesions were not the same as those uncovered in the American study. Bone cysts in the medial condyle of the distal femur of the stifle were presented for sale here, and were definitely associated with a decreased chance of starting a race at two and three (figure 5), supporting our previous concerns.

Whilst irregularities and bone spikes on the borders of the sesamoid bones were associated with a decreased chance of starting a race just as in the North American study, they also found that a prior sesamoid fracture in a front limb had a similar impact. Stifle osteochondrosis lesions

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Figure 6: Stifle OCD (arrow). Here the cartilage of the joint surface is missing (arrow). This showed an effect on level of success. The horses ran, but less well than the average

(OCD), where the cartilage of the joint surface fails to develop properly (figure 6), had an impact on performance rather than on ability to race. In other words the horses ran, but less well than their contemporaries.

OCD lesions in front joint surface of the hind fetlock greater than 10 mm in length had a major impact on not only the time to the first start but also the likelihood of starting at all or the number of races horses with this lesion were able to make. This lesion was not flagged up as significant in the Kane study.

Just as with the North American study, however, a large number of lesions, which had often previously been interpreted as of significance, were shown to have no impact on future racing. These included increased number of vascular canals in the sesamoid bones, previous hind limb sesamoid fracture (which was actually linked to increased prize money per start!), bone cysts in the ulnar carpal bone, sagittal ridge OCD defects in the front fetlocks, fragments off the back of the pastern in the hind fetlock (figure 7) and ‘spurring’ in the hock joints. None of these findings was shown to have any impact on future ‘raceability’.

Figure 7: A large plantar fragment in the hind fetlock (arrow). Both the USA and Australian study showed these sometimes dramatic lesions had no impact on race success. This is one of the values of this type of scientific study, as previously horses with these lesions, in common with several others shown to have no adverse effects, were often ‘failed’ at pre-purchase in the past. (This individual horse ran at two and three with no problems)

The Future Like them or loathe them, sales radiographs are now here to stay. On the plus side, these two large studies have given vets the confidence to ignore many lesions which have now been shown to have no impact at all on racing, so less horses are damned by their radiographs than before. The awareness of what are truly significant lesions, and their absence on the radiographs, also gives purchasers the confidence that the horses they bid on are up to the task. It is to be hoped that the other auction companies will gradually move towards a system which acknowledges this, and that they insist that vendors cooperate with an organised, properly equipped and staffed facility like the ones in Keeneland and at Tattersalls in Newmarket, so that the best possible use can be made of these radiographs.

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DATA BOOK STAKES RESULTS

European Pattern 226 BETFRED SPRINT CUP G1 HAYDOCK PARK. Sep 6. 3yo+. 6f.

1. G FORCE (IRE) 3 9-1 £154,818 b c by Tamayuz - Flanders (Common Grounds) O-Middleham Park Racing XVIII & Partner B-Kildaragh Stud & Twelve Oaks Stud Est TR-David O’Meara 2. Gordon Lord Byron (IRE) 6 9-3 £58,695 b g by Byron - Boa Estrela (Intikhab) O-Dr Cyrus Poonawalla/Morgan J Cahalan B-R. H. Alder TR-T. Hogan 3. Music Master (GB) 4 9-3 £29,375 b c by Piccolo - Twilight Mistress (Bin Ajwaad) O-Mr Godfrey Wilson B-Mrs C. R. D. Wilson TR-Henry Candy Margins 0.75, 1.5. Time 1:12.90. Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 8

Wins 3

Places 3

Earned £190,406

Sire: TAMAYUZ. Sire of 8 Stakes winners.

In 2014 - G FORCE Common Grounds G1, THAWAANY Desert King G3, ROYAL SPRING Pivotal LR. 1st Dam: FLANDERS by Common Grounds. 6 wins at 2 to 4, Scarbrough S LR, 2nd King’s Stand S G2.

Dam of 9 winners: 2002: LOUVAIN (f Sinndar) 4 wins at 2 and 3 in France, USA, Miesque S G3. Dam of FLOTILLA (f Mizzen Mast: 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, USA, Poule d’Essai des Pouliches G1, Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf G1), LOUVAKHOVA (f Maria’s Mon: 3 wins at 3 and 4 in France, USA, Frances A Genter S) 2003: FARBENSPIEL (f Desert Prince) Winner at 3 in Germany. Broodmare.

2004: MY LOVE THOMAS (f Cadeaux Genereux) Winner at 2. Broodmare.

2005: WALLONIA (f Barathea) Winner at 3.

Broodmare.

2006: LAGOON (f Montjeu) Winner at 3.

2007: Desert Poppy (f Oasis Dream) 4 wins at 2 to 4, 2nd Betfred Starlit S LR, 3rd John Guest Bengough S G3.

2008: LAAJOOJ (g Azamour) 4 wins at 3 to 5 at home, UAE, Novae Bloodstock Ins. Fairway S LR. 2009: HAVIN’ A GOOD TIME (f Jeremy) 3 wins at 3. Broodmare.

2011: G FORCE (c Tamayuz) Sold 70,000gns yearling at TADEY. 3 wins at 3, Betfred Sprint Cup G1, 2nd John Smith’s City Walls S LR, 3rd Betfred Scurry S LR. 2012: Rio Ronaldo (g Footstepsinthesand) 2013: (f Dream Ahead) 2nd Dam: FAMILY AT WAR by Explodent. 1 win at 2.

Dam of FLANDERS (f Common Grounds, see above), ASCOT FAMILY (f Desert Style: Prix des Jouvenceaux et des Jouvencelles LR). Grandam of LETHAL FORCE, FAMILY ONE, Modern Family.

Broodmare Sire: COMMON GROUNDS. Sire of the dams of 39 Stakes winners.

In 2014 - EURO CHARLINE Myboycharlie G1, G FORCE Tamayuz G1, GRAND TITO Candy Ride G3.

At War. This Florida-bred mare cost only $32,000 as a yearling and had only one opponent when she gained her only success, in a five-furlong maiden race at Pontefract at two.

Despite this seemingly unexceptional background, Family At War has founded an exceptional family, with help from her broodmare daughters Land Army (dam of the top sprinter Lethal Force), Ascot Family (dam of the Prix Robert Papin winner Family One) and Flanders.

It has been Flanders, a speedy daughter of Common Grounds, who has made the biggest impact so far.

Flanders’s racing career featured a victory in the Weatherbys Super Sprint at two and a short-head second in the King’s Stand Stakes. Flanders has gone on to produce nine winners from ten runners, with several of them being well above average. She got off to a great start with her Sinndar filly Louvain, a Gr3 winner on turf in the USA at two who has notably become the dam of Flotilla, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf and Poule d’Essai des Pouliches. Now Flanders has her own Gr1 winner in G Force, who is the third Gr1-winning descendant of Family At War in the space of three seasons.

G Force also represents a triumph for his young sire Tamayuz. When Tamayuz retired to his breeder’s Derrinstown Stud, he didn’t find it easy to win the support of Irish breeders. This reflected the fact that the highlights of his career – Gr1 victories in the Prix Jean Prat and Prix Jacques le Marois – were gained in France. On his only venture to Britain he faded to finish a modest fourth in Raven’s Pass’s Queen Elizabeth II Stakes. Consequently Tamayuz’s first four crops number 63, 62, 25 and 33 foals, but he has shown that he merits much more support. His first crop contained the Group-winning sprinters Sir Prancealot and Thawaany, plus a Gr3 winner in Japan, and G Force comes from the second, which also contains the Group-winning Brown Sugar. Even that very small third crop has already produced two Group-placed juveniles.

G FORCE b c 2011 Nayef TAMAYUZ ch 05 Al Ishq

Common Grounds FLANDERS b 96 Family At War

Mr Prospector Gulch Jameela Height of Fashion Bustino Highclere Northern Dancer Nureyev Special Riverman Allez Les Trois Allegretta Sharpen Up Kris Doubly Sure Lyphard Sweetly Sweet And Lovely II Nearctic Explodent Venomous Sometimes Perfect Bold Bidder Miss Ribot

Despite having been a 25,000gns cast-off by Qatar Racing as a onceraced two-year-old, G Force has never stopped improving, to the extent that he triumphed in the Betfred Sprint Cup. This victory added another chapter to the increasingly colourful story of Explodent’s daughter Family

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227 LONGINES GROSSER PREIS VON BADEN G1 BADEN-BADEN. Sep 7. 3yo+. 2400m.

1. IVANHOWE (GER) 4 9-6 £125,000 b c by Soldier Hollow - Indigo Girl (Sternkoenig) O-Gestut Schlenderhan B-Gestut Schlenderhan TR-Jean-Pierre Carvalho 2. Sea The Moon (GER) 3 8-12 £50,000 b c by Sea The Stars - Sanwa (Monsun) O-Gestut Gorlsdorf B-Gestut Gorlsdorf TR-Markus Klug 3. Night Wish (GER) 4 9-6 £20,833 b c by Sholokhov - Night Woman (Monsun) O-Stall Salzburg B-Gestut Etzean TR-W Figge Margins 3, 2. Time 2:36.30. Going Good.

Age 2-4

Starts 8

Wins 4

Places 1

Earned £195,918

Sire: SOLDIER HOLLOW. Sire of 12 Stakes winners. In 2014 - IVANHOWE Sternkoenig G1, MANINGREY Surumu LR, WEICHSEL Konigsstuhl LR. 1st Dam: Indigo Girl by Sternkoenig. Winner at 3 in Germany, 3rd pferdewetten.de Preis der Diana (Oaks) G1. Dam of 2 winners:

2007: 2008: 2009: 2010:

2012: 2013:

Ignacia (f Monsun) unraced.

IRVING (g Singspiel) 8 wins, Sky Bet Dovecote Novices’ Hurdle G2, Mitie Kennel Gate Novices’ Hurdle G2.

Indigolith (c Motivator) IVANHOWE (c Soldier Hollow) 4 wins at 3 and 4 in Germany, Longines Grosser Preis von Baden G1, Gerling Preis G2, Oppenheim Union-Rennen G2.

Indigo Eagle (c Adlerflug) unraced to date.

Indirocco (c Shirocco)

2nd Dam: INDIAN JEWEL by Local Suitor. 2 wins at 2 and 3 in Germany. Dam of IRULAN (g Monsun: Jean Harzheim Rennen LR), INDIAN BREEZE (f Monsun: P. Baden-Badener Hotellerie & Gastronmie LR), Iolith (g Monsun: 2nd G.P. der Landeshauptstadt Dusseldorf G3), Indigo Girl (f Sternkoenig, see above). Grandam of Ice Cool, Stormfly.

Broodmare Sire: STERNKOENIG. Sire of the dams of 9 Stakes winners.

The Soldier Hollow/Sternkoenig cross has produced: IVANHOWE G1, Kassiano G1.

IVANHOWE b c 2010 Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Shirley Heights High Hawk Sunbittern SOLDIER HOLLOW b 00 Common Grounds Kris Sweetly Island Race Caerleon Lake Isle Inisfree Kalamoun Kalaglow Rossitor Sternkoenig Wauthi Sternwappen Sternwacht INDIGO GIRL ch 02 Blushing Groom Local Suitor Home Love Indian Jewel Gulf Pearl Indian Pearl Indra Sadler’s Wells

In The Wings

The Grosser Preis von Baden was expected to provide Sea The Moon with another easy victory, even though the colt had been rested following his wide-margin victory in the Deutsches Derby. However, the three-year-old couldn’t hold off the year-older Ivanhowe, a Gestut Schlenderhan homebred who had been injured when favourite for the 2013 Deutsches Derby.

Already a winner of two prestigious Gr2 events – the Union-Rennen at three and the Gerling-Preis at four – Ivanhowe is proving another fine advertisement for the champion German ten-furlong horse Soldier Hollow. In common with some other good German stallions, this son of In The Wings has been siring much smaller crops than is the norm in Britain and Ireland. Although his initial crop numbered 51 foals, his other crops of racing age contain only 26, 20 and 17 foals. Ivanhowe comes from the 26-strong second crop, which means that Soldier Hollow has sired a major winner in each of his first two crops, as his first crop was headed by Pastorius, winner of the Deutsches Derby and Prix Ganay.

Altogether there are four Group winners among the 77 foals in those first two crops.

Ivanhowe comes from a family which traces back to Yonne, the 1939 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches winner who was one of the many French horses taken to Germany after the fall of France in 1940.

Ivanhowe’s fourth dam, the Birkhahn mare Indra, won the 1965 Preis der Diana for Schlenderhan.

Indra’s similarly-named sister Indira was the dam of Idrissa, a Tamerlane filly who took the 1975 Preis der Diana for Schlenderhan. Ivanhowe’s third dam Indian Pearl also contested the Preis der Diana and failed by only a neck to win the 1978 edition. His dam Indigo Girl also attempted to take the Diana and finished third to Iota, a filly from the Indira branch of the family.

276 LADBROKES ST LEGER STAKES G1 DONCASTER. Sep 13. 3yoc&f. 14f 110yds.

1. KINGSTON HILL (GB) 9-1 £368,615 gr/ro c by Mastercraftsman - Audacieuse (Rainbow Quest) O-Mr Paul Smith B-Ridgecourt Stud TR-Roger Varian 2. Romsdal (GB) 9-1 £139,750 ch c by Halling - Pure Song (Singspiel) O-H. R. H. Princess Haya of Jordan B-W. and R. Barnett Ltd TR-John Gosden 3. Snow Sky (GB) 9-1 £69,940 b c by Nayef - Winter Silence (Dansili) O-Mr K. Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms Ltd TR-Sir Michael Stoute Margins 1.25, 2. Time 3:05.40.

Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 8

Wins 4

Places Earned 3 £1,104,278

Sire: MASTERCRAFTSMAN. Sire of 8 Stakes winners.

In 2014 - KINGSTON HILL Rainbow Quest G1, THE GREY GATSBY Entrepreneur G1, MASTER CARPENTER In The Wings G3, VAGUE NOUVELLE Mr Greeley G3.

1st Dam: AUDACIEUSE by Rainbow Quest. 3 wins at 3 in France, Prix de Flore G3. Dam of 2 winners: 2004: Ile Deserte (f Green Desert) unraced.

Dam of St Barths (c Cadeaux Genereux: Winner at 2, 3rd Coventry S G2) 2005: RAMONA CHASE (g High Chaparral) 4 wins at 2 to 7.

2007: Wolumla (f Royal Applause) ran on the flat in France. Broodmare.

2008: Millevini (f Hawk Wing) 2011: KINGSTON HILL (c Mastercraftsman) Sold 70,000gns yearling at TAOC2.

4 wins at 2 and 3, Ladbrokes St Leger S G1, Racing Post Trophy G1, Autumn S G3, 2nd Investec Derby S G1.

2nd Dam: SARAH GEORGINA by Persian Bold. 1 win at 2, (retired due to an accident). Dam of AUDACIEUSE (f Rainbow Quest, see above), WAITER’S DREAM (c Oasis Dream: Sportingbet.com Acomb S G3, 3rd Neptune Investment Champagne S G2), LORD JIM (g Kahyasi: Challenge Race LR, 3rd Betty Barclay Oleander-Rennen G3, Bristol Novices’ Hurdle G2). Grandam of Strike One, Reduit.

Third dam of Cavaliere, CAPTAIN CONAN. Broodmare Sire: RAINBOW QUEST. Sire of the dams of 164 Stakes winners.

In 2014 - KINGSTON HILL Mastercraftsman G1, RIPOSTE Dansili G2, SILK SARI Dalakhani G2, ROBIN HOODS BAY Motivator G3, ALY GIRL Victory Gallop LR, BELLE D’OR Medaglia d’Oro LR, NAVAJO CHIEF King’s Best LR, PALACE Fastnet Rock LR, QUIZ MISTRESS Doyen LR.

KINGSTON HILL gr/ro c 2011 Danehill Danehill Dancer Mira Adonde MASTERCRAFTSMAN gr/ro 06 Black Tie Affair Starlight Dreams Reves Celestes Blushing Groom Rainbow Quest I Will Follow AUDACIEUSE b 97 Persian Bold Sarah Georgina Dance By Night

Danzig Razyana Sharpen Up Lettre d’Amour Miswaki Hat Tab Girl Lyphard Tobira Celeste Red God Runaway Bride Herbager Where You Lead Bold Lad Relkarunner Northfields Elvina

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Caulfield on Fiesolana: “She has solid claims to being the best of Aussie Rules’s progeny, which also includes the speedy Dinkum Diamond and the very useful German filly Djumana”

The sires’ championship for 2014 may have developed into a one-horse race, with Galileo having earned at least three times as much as most of his nearest rivals by mid-September, but his stud companion Mastercraftsman enjoyed a magnificent time on September 13, with Kingston Hill winning the St Leger before The Grey Gatsby proved just too strong for Australia in the Irish Champion Stakes. The end result was that the eight-year-old son of Danehill Dancer moved up to fourth place on the leading sires’ list.

Kingston Hill had had more than three lengths to spare over Romsdal when the pair finished second and third behind Australia in the Derby, and these two filled first and second places in the St Leger, with Romsdal reducing Kingston Hill’s advantage to just over a length. Kingston Hill has never shown any lack of stamina: his two-year-old Group victories in the Autumn Stakes and Racing Post Trophy had been gained over a mile and he wasn’t fast enough to land a blow in the 2,000 Guineas. Although he was running on well at the end of the Derby, would the St Leger distance suit a son of Mastercraftsman, who did most of his racing at around a mile, even though he stayed an extended mile and a quarter?

The answer was “yes”, perhaps as Kingston Hill’s broodmare sire is Rainbow Quest, sire of the St Leger winners Nedawi and Millenary. It is also worth remembering there is stamina in Mastercraftsman’s female line. Mastercraftsman’s third dam Tobira Celeste produced the St Leger second Celestial Storm, as well as Thawakib, a Ribblesdale winner who became the dam of Arc hero Sakhee.

Kingston Hill’s dam Audacieuse won over a mile in the May of her three-year-old season but later proved better suited by distances around a mile and a quarter, winning the Listed Prix de Liancourt and the Gr3 Prix de Flore. Kingston Hill’s second dam Sarah Georgina was a six-furlong two-year-old winner by the speedy Persian Bold, while the next dam, Dance By Night, did her winning over seven furlongs at two.

Dance By Night also produced Danseuse du Soir, a first-rate performer at up to a mile who numbered the Prix Robert Papin, Poule d’Essai des Poulains and Prix de la Foret among her successes.

277 COOLMORE FASTNET ROCK MATRON STAKES G1 LEOPARDSTOWN. Sep 13. 3yo+f. 8f.

1. FIESOLANA (IRE) 5 9-5 £150,000 b m by Aussie Rules - Tidal Reach (Kris S) O-Flaxman Stables Ireland Ltd B-R. De Vere Hunt TR-W. McCreery 2. Rizeena (IRE) 3 9-0 £47,500 b f by Iffraaj - Serena’s Storm (Statue of Liberty) O-Sheikh Rashid Dalmook Al Maktoum B-Roundhill Stud TR-Clive Brittain 3. Tobann (IRE) 4 9-5 £22,500 b f by Teofilo - Precipitous (Indian Ridge) O-Mrs J. S. Bolger B-J. S. Bolger TR-J. S. Bolger Margins 0.5, 0.75. Time 1:38.16.

Going Good to Firm.

Age 2-5

Starts 22

Wins 9

Places 7

Earned £422,870

Sire: AUSSIE RULES. Sire of 18 Stakes winners.

In 2014 - FIESOLANA Kris S G1, AUSSI CELEBRE Peintre Celebre LR, BERTINORO Galileo LR, DINKUM DIAMOND Lomitas LR, KRAMULKIE Zafonic LR. 1st Dam: TIDAL REACH by Kris S. Winner at 2.

Dam of 9 winners: 1997: STEP AHEAD (f Shalford) Winner at 2.

Broodmare.

1998: INNIT (f Distinctly North). 6 wins at 2 and 3 at home, France, Italy, USA, Honeymoon Breeders’ Cup Inv. H G2. Grandam of Say A Hail Mary (f Run Away And Hide: winner to 2014 in USA, 2nd Bob Bryant S) 1999: Bengali Lancer (c Perugino) unraced.

2001: ARFINNIT (g College Chapel) 8 wins.

2002: TIDAL FURY (g Night Shift) 9 wins, P.Cambaceres Grand Course de 3yo Hurdle G1.

2003: MISS LATINA (f Mozart) Winner at 4.

Broodmare.

2004: STONEACRE GARETH (g Grand Lodge) 3 wins at 2 and 7.

2005: CEKA DANCER (f Danehill Dancer) Winner at 3. Broodmare.

2006: Rockinit (f Rock of Gibraltar). Broodmare.

2007: TIDARA ANGEL (f Oratorio) 7 wins, Prix Alain du Breil d’Ete 4yo Hurdle G1.

2009: FIESOLANA (f Aussie Rules) 8 wins at 2 to 4 at home, France, Italy, Coolmore Fastnet Rock Matron S G1, Dubai Challenge S G2, Ballyogan S G3, Irish Stall. Farms EBF Brownstown S G3, Coolmore Stud Fairy Bridge S G3, 2nd Lanwades Stud Ridgewood Pearl S G3, 3rd LARC - Prix Maurice de Gheest G1.

2nd Dam: DAVIE LADY by Bold And Brave. 2 wins at 2 in USA. Dam of DAVIE’S LAMB (f Unpredictable: San Jose H LR, Tizna H LR, Pink Pigeon S LR, Buena Vista S LR, 2nd Golden Poppy H G3, 3rd Palomar H G2). Grandam of Spy Hill, Caleb Pond. Third dam of Amir Khan, Salure, Davie’s Story.

Broodmare Sire: KRIS S. Sire of the dams of 82 Stakes winners. In 2014 - BIG MACHER Beau Genius G1, FIESOLANA Aussie Rules G1, KAIGUN Northern Afleet G2, KARIBU GARDENS Flower Alley G2, TATO ZETA Thunder Gulch LR, WAR AFFAIR O’Reilly LR.

FIESOLANA b m 2009 Danzig Danehill Razyana AUSSIE RULES gr/ro 03 Alzao Last Second Alruccaba Roberto Kris S Sharp Queen TIDAL REACH b 92 Bold And Brave Davie Lady Basie Blues

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Lyphard Lady Rebecca Crystal Palace Allara Hail To Reason Bramalea Princequillo Bridgework Bold Ruler Bases Full Blue Prince Family Pride

The remarkable transformation of Aussie Rules’s daughter Fiesolana continues. The early exploits of this ex-Italian filly saw her price rise from €35,000 as a two-year-old to 960,000gns as a four-year-old, when she was acquired by the Niarchos family. Her price as a four-year-old reflected her victory in the Gr2 Challenge Stakes.

Now this tough mare has attained the status of Gr1 winner, thanks to her defeat of Rizeena in the Matron Stakes.

Fiesolana has solid claims to being the best of Aussie Rules’s progeny, which also includes the speedy Dinkum Diamond and the very useful German filly Djumana. Aussie Rules

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began his stallion career as a member of the Coolmore stallion team, having earned his place with victories in the Poule d’Essai des Poulains in France and the Shadwell Turf Mile in the US. However, his fee quickly fell from €15,000 to €6,000 and he moved to Lanwades Stud after five years.

Part of his attraction to Lanwades is that he comes from the stud’s exceptional Alruccaba family.

Predictably, the bottom half of Fiesolana’s pedigree could not be described as especially fashionable, but it does have the considerable attraction of not containing any of the ubiquitous stallions which are hard to avoid.

Her first three dams are by Kris S, Bold And Brave and Blue Prince. Although her dam Tidal Reach was bred in the US, she raced in Britain, winning a mile maiden as a two-year-old after being bought for $17,000 as a yearling.

Tidal Reach’s best winner prior to Fiesolana was Innit, a tough and precocious Distinctly North filly who landed the Gr3 Premio Dormello over a mile in Italy for Mick Channon before being sent to America, where she did even better, winning the Gr2 Honeymoon Invitational Handicap over ten furlongs.

Tidal Reach was herself a halfsister to the very useful American filly Davie’s Lamb.

278 QIPCO IRISH CHAMPION STAKES G1 LEOPARDSTOWN. Sep 13. 3yo+. 10f.

1. THE GREY GATSBY (IRE) 3 9-0 £483,333 gr c by Mastercraftsman - Marie Vison (Entrepreneur) O-Mr F. Gillespie B-M. Parrish TR-Kevin Ryan 2. Australia (GB) 3 9-0 £158,333 ch c by Galileo - Ouija Board (Cape Cross) O-D Smith/Mrs J Magnier/M Tabor/T Ah Khing B-Stanley Estate & Stud Co TR-Aidan O’Brien 3. Trading Leather (IRE) 4 9-7 £75,000 b c by Teofilo - Night Visit (Sinndar) O-Godolphin B-J. S. Bolger TR-J. S. Bolger Margins Neck, 4.5. Time 2:03.18.

Going Good to Firm.

Age 2-3

Starts 11

Wins 4

Places Earned 4 £1,508,140

Sire: MASTERCRAFTSMAN. Sire of 8 Stakes winners.

In 2014 - KINGSTON HILL Rainbow Quest G1, THE GREY GATSBY Entrepreneur G1, MASTER CARPENTER In The Wings G3, VAGUE NOUVELLE Mr Greeley G3.

1st Dam: Marie Vison by Entrepreneur. Winner at 3 in France, 2nd Prix Solitude LR. Dam of 2 winners: 2006: DREAM LAND (c Oasis Dream) 11 wins at 3 to 6 in France.

2007: Chuck (g Oasis Dream) ran on the flat in France.

2009: Kanel (f Zamindar) 2010: Alanlad (c Hannouma). ran on the flat in France, Died at 3 years.

2011: THE GREY GATSBY (c Mastercraftsman) Sold 19,047gns yearling at AROCT. 3 wins at 2 and 3 at home, France, QIPCO Irish Champion S G1, Prix du Jockey Club G1, Betfred Dante S G2, 2nd Juddmonte International S G1, At the Races Champagne S G2, Pinsent Masons LLP Acomb S G3, Novae Bloodstock Insurance Craven S G3.

2012: Marie Rock (f Fastnet Rock) unraced to date.

2013: (c Mastercraftsman) 2nd Dam: METISSE by Kingmambo. 2 wins at 3 in France. Dam of Saint Thomas (c Dansili: 3rd Prix Daphnis G3), Steady As A Rock (c Rock of Gibraltar: 3rd Premio Natale di Roma LR), Marie Vison (f Entrepreneur, see above). Grandam of Deire Na Sli.

Broodmare Sire: ENTREPRENEUR. Sire of the dams of 20 Stakes winners. In 2014 - THE GREY GATSBY Mastercraftsman G1, MY SABEEL Savabeel G3, OSAILA Danehill Dancer G3, SPREADEAGLE Burden of Proof LR.

THE GREY GATSBY gr c 2011 Danehill Danehill Dancer Mira Adonde MASTERCRAFTSMAN gr/ro 06 Black Tie Affair Starlight Dreams Reves Celestes Sadler’s Wells Entrepreneur Exclusive Order MARIE VISON ch 01 Kingmambo Metisse Maximova

Danzig Razyana Sharpen Up Lettre d’Amour Miswaki Hat Tab Girl Lyphard Tobira Celeste Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Exclusive Native Bonavista Mr Prospector Miesque Green Dancer Baracala

See race 56 in the July issue 279 GOFFS VINCENT O’BRIEN NATIONAL STAKES G1 CURRAGH. Sep 14. 2yoc&f. 7f.

1. GLENEAGLES (IRE) 9-3 £145,000 b c by Galileo - You’resothrilling (Storm Cat) O-Mr M. Tabor, D. Smith & Mrs John Magnier B-You’resothrilling Syndicate TR-Aidan O’Brien 2. Toscanini (IRE) 9-3 £47,500 b c by Shamardal - Tuzla (Panoramic) O-Godolphin B-Darley TR-M. Halford 3. Dutch Connection (GB) 9-3 £22,500 ch c by Dutch Art - Endless Love (Dubai Destination) O-Mrs Susan Roy B-Mrs S. M. Roy TR-Charles Hills Margins 1.5, 1. Time 1:25.29. Going Good to Firm.

Age 2

Starts 6

Wins 4

Places 2

Earned £271,771

Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 184 Stakes winners.

In 2014 - ADELAIDE Elnadim G1, AUSTRALIA Cape Cross G1, FOUND Intikhab G1, GLENEAGLES Storm Cat G1, MARVELLOUS Storm Cat G1, NOBLE MISSION Danehill G1, TAPESTRY Danehill G1, GLOBAL VIEW Storm Cat G2, GOSPEL CHOIR Pivotal G2, HIGHLAND REEL Danehill G2, RULER OF THE WORLD Kingmambo G2, SPIRITJIM Anabaa G2, TELESCOPE Darshaan G2.

1st Dam: YOU’RESOTHRILLING by Storm Cat. 2 wins at 2, Irish Thoroughbred Cherry Hinton S G2. Own sister to GIANT’S CAUSEWAY, Tumblebrutus, Tiger Dance and Freud. Dam of 2 winners: 2011: MARVELLOUS (f Galileo) 2 wins at 2 and 3, Etihad Airways Irish 1000 Guineas G1.

2012: GLENEAGLES (c Galileo) 4 wins at 2, Goffs Vincent O’Brien National S G1, Galileo EBF Futurity S G2, Japanese Racing Authority Tyros S G3.

2013: (f Galileo) 2nd Dam: MARIAH’S STORM by Rahy. 10 wins at 2 to 4 in USA Arlington Washington Lassie S G2, Budweiser Turfway Park Breeders’ Cup H G2, 3rd Spinster S G1. Dam of GIANT’S CAUSEWAY (c Storm Cat: Juddmonte International S G1, Coral Eclipse S G1, Esat Digifone Champion S G1, St James’s Palace S G1, Champagne Lanson Sussex S G1, Prix de la Salamandre G1, 2nd Entenmann’s Irish 2000 Guineas G1, Queen Elizabeth II S G1, Sagitta 2000 Guineas G1, Breeders’ Cup Classic G1), YOU’RESOTHRILLING (f Storm Cat, see above), Hanky Panky (f Galileo: 3rd Ballyogan S G3), Freud (c Storm Cat: 3rd Cork and Orrery S G2), Tumblebrutus (c Storm Cat: 2nd Galileo EBF Futurity G2), Tiger Dance (c Storm Cat: 3rd Emirates Airline Minstrel S G3), Roar of The Tiger (c Storm Cat: 3rd Governor’s H LR) Broodmare Sire: STORM CAT. Sire of the dams of 164 Stakes winners. In 2014 - CLOSE HATCHES First Defence G1, GLENEAGLES Galileo G1, MARVELLOUS Galileo G1, SHARED BELIEF Candy Ride G1, TRUST IN A GUST Keep The Faith G1.

The Galileo/Storm Cat cross has produced: GLENEAGLES G1, MARVELLOUS G1, MISTY FOR ME G1, GLOBAL VIEW G2, TWIRL G3.

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DATA BOOK STAKES RESULTS

European Pattern GLENEAGLES b c 2012 Northern Dancer Nearctic Natalma Sadler’s Wells Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special GALILEO b 98 Mr Prospector Miswaki Hopespringseternal Urban Sea Lombard Allegretta Anatevka Northern Dancer Storm Bird South Ocean Storm Cat Secretariat Terlingua Crimson Saint YOU’RESOTHRILLING br 05 Blushing Groom Rahy Glorious Song Mariah’s Storm Roberto Immense Imsodear

On June 6, the Coolmore camp must have been a little disappointed when the royally-bred newcomer Gleneagles finished only fourth when favourite for a Leopardstown maiden.

After all, the son of Galileo is a brother to Marvellous, who earlier in the day had started favourite for the Oaks on the strength of her impressive victory on soft ground in the Irish 1,000 Guineas. However, the experience did Gleneagles a power of good and he has been first home in all five of his subsequent starts, including three Group races, of which the Vincent O’Brien National Stakes is the most important.

The interesting question now is how far Gleneagles will stay as a three-year-old. His sister Marvellous has yet to prove that she stays a mile and a half, having disappointed in both the Oaks and Irish Oaks, though the faster ground may have contributed to her defeats. However, the possibility exists that a mile and a quarter could prove the limit of Gleneagles’s stamina, as his dam You’resothrilling showed more speed than stamina.

You’resothrilling matured quickly, notably winning the Gr2 Cherry Hinton Stakes, and she also showed smart form over a mile during a short second season. She is the second daughter of Storm Cat to have enjoyed Gr1 success with Galileo, who previously sired that fine filly Misty For Me from Butterfly Cove.

Although Misty For Me won the Pretty Polly Stakes over a mile and a quarter and finished a good third in the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf over a furlong further, she managed only fifth place in the Oaks on her only attempt at a mile and a half.

It isn’t impossible though that Gleneagles will stay the Derby distance. Galileo has sired mile-anda-half performers from fast mares and You’resothrilling is a sister to Giant’s Causeway, who stayed a mile and a quarter very well. Gleneagles’s second dam Mariah’s Storm was bought by John Magnier for $2,600,000 at Keeneland’s 1996 November Sale.

This daughter of Rahy built an impressive record of ten wins from 16 starts, despite suffering a fracture to her near-fore cannon bone at two.

Nine furlongs was her most rewarding distance. The next dam, the Gr3 turf winner Immense, enjoyed excellent results with sons of Blushing Groom, another example being her very smart

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280 MOYGLARE STUD STAKES G1 CURRAGH. Sep 14. 2yof. 7f.

1. CURSORY GLANCE (USA) 9-0 £145,000 b f by Distorted Humor - Time Control (Sadler’s Wells) O-Merry Fox Stud Limited B-Merry Fox Stud Limited TR-Roger Varian 2. Lucida (IRE) 9-0 £47,500 b f by Shamardal - Lura (Street Cry) O-Godolphin B-Darley TR-J. S. Bolger 3. Found (IRE) 9-0 £22,500 b f by Galileo - Red Evie (Intikhab) O-Mr M. Tabor B-Roncon, Wynatt & Chelston TR-Aidan O’Brien Margins Neck, 0.5. Time 1:24.80.

Going Good to Firm.

Age 2

Starts 4

Wins 3

Places 1

Earned £219,858

Sire: DISTORTED HUMOR. Sire of 86 Stakes winners. In 2014 - CURSORY GLANCE Sadler’s Wells G1, FIRE WITH FIRE Capote G2, ABRAHAM El Prado LR, INTERPRET Interprete LR, NAWWAAR Rahy LR, WIND FIRE A P Indy LR. 1st Dam: TIME CONTROL by Sadler’s Wells. Winner at 3. Own sister to TIME ON. Dam of 1 winner: 2010: Severiano (g Danehill Dancer) 2011: Willow View (f Lemon Drop Kid) unraced to date.

2012: CURSORY GLANCE (f Distorted Humor) 3 wins at 2, Moyglare Stud S G1, Albany S G3, 2nd Pinsent Masons Lowther S G2.

2013: (f Distorted Humor) 2014: (f War Front) 2nd Dam: TIME AWAY by Darshaan. 2 wins at 2 and 3 Tattersalls Musidora S G3, 3rd Vodafone Nassau S G1, Prix de Diane Hermes G1. Dam of TIME ON (f Sadler’s Wells: Prix de Malleret G2) Broodmare Sire: SADLER’S WELLS. Sire of the dams of 344 Stakes winners. In 2014 - BALTIC BARONESS Shamardal G1, CURSORY GLANCE Distorted Humor G1, MINORETTE Smart Strike G1, RICH TAPESTRY Holy Roman Emperor G1, TAGHROODA Sea The Stars G1, THE FUGUE Dansili G1.

The Distorted Humor/Sadler’s Wells cross has produced: AESOP’S FABLES G1, CURSORY GLANCE G1, PATHFORK G1.

CURSORY GLANCE b f 2012 Raise A Native Gold Digger Tom Rolfe File Continue DISTORTED HUMOR ch 93 Northern Dancer Danzig Pas de Nom Danzig’s Beauty Sweetest Chant Mr Leader Gay Sonnet Northern Dancer Nearctic Natalma Sadler’s Wells Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special TIME CONTROL b 05 Shirley Heights Darshaan Delsy Time Away Polish Precedent Not Before Time Time Charter Mr Prospector

Forty Niner

A lot of today’s American stallions find it hard to make a name for themselves in Europe (often because they simply don’t have sufficient runners), but one notable exception has been Distorted Humor. This grandson of Mr Prospector now has seven European Group winners to his credit and he owes much of his success to his affinity with mares with Sadler’s Wells blood. When his daughter Cursory Glance landed the Moyglare Stud Stakes she became Distorted Humor’s third European Gr1 winner out of a Sadler’s Wells mare, following Pathfork (National Stakes) and Aesop’s Fable (Prix Jean Prat).

These three are among nine winners from the first 11 starters sired by Distorted Humor from daughters of Coolmore’s perennial champion sire.

What’s more, the WinStar stallion has a first-rate record with mares with Sadler’s Wells’s name elsewhere in their pedigree. For example, Flower Alley (sire of the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner I’ll Have Another) has a second dam by Sadler’s Wells.

Also, Distorted Humor’s first three runners out of mares by Sadler’s Wells’s son El Prado were all stakes winners, including the Gr1 winner Bit Of Whimsy.

Cursory Glance’s exploits, which stand at only one defeat from four starts, represent ample reward for the boldness of her owner/breeder, Craig Bennett’s Merry Fox Stud, which paid 1,200,000gns for the filly’s dam, Time Control, as a yearling. Although Time Control won only a ten-furlong maiden race, she had the attraction of being a sister to Time On, winner of the Gr2 Prix de Malleret, and of being a product of the famously productive Sadler’s Wells-Darshaan partnership.

The Darshaan mare was Time Away, winner of the Gr3 Musidora Stakes. Even better was Cursory Glance’s fourth dam, the brilliant racemare Time Charter, who numbered the Oaks, King George, Champion Stakes and the Coronation Cup among her wins.

281 PALMERSTOWN HOUSE ESTATE IRISH ST LEGER G1 CURRAGH. Sep 14. 3yo+. 14f.

1. BROWN PANTHER (GB) 6 9-11 £145,000 b h by Shirocco - Treble Heights (Unfuwain) O-Mr A. Black & Owen Promotions Limited B-Owen Promotions Ltd TR-Tom Dascombe 2. Leading Light (IRE) 4 9-11 £47,500 b c by Montjeu - Dance Parade (Gone West) O-Mr D. Smith, Mrs J. Magnier, Mr M. Tabor B-Lynch-Bages Ltd TR-Aidan O’Brien 3. Encke (USA) 5 9-11 £22,500 b h by Kingmambo - Shawanda (Sinndar) O-Godolphin B-Darley TR-Charlie Appleby Margins 6.5, Head. Time 2:57.15.

Going Good to Firm.

Age 2-6

Starts 24

Wins 10

Places 9

Earned £697,560

Sire: SHIROCCO. Sire of 23 Stakes winners.

In 2014 - BROWN PANTHER Unfuwain G1, CALENDULA Lode G1, CHAMEUR Hernando LR, KESHIRO Danehill LR, LEME NORTE Aksar LR. 1st Dam: TREBLE HEIGHTS by Unfuwain. 2 wins at 3 and 4, Food Brokers Aphrodite S LR, 2nd Prix de Pomone G2. Dam of 4 winners: 2005: HOLOKO HEIGHTS (g Pivotal) 6 wins.

2006: PADDY PARTRIDGE (g Pivotal) 3 wins over hurdles.

2007: Hot Head (g Selkirk) ran twice in N.H. Flat Races and ran once over hurdles.

2008: BROWN PANTHER (c Shirocco) Sold 1,428gns yearling at ASDEC. 10 wins at 2 to 6, 2014, Palmerstown House Estate Irish St Leger G1, Artemis Goodwood Cup G2, Cantor Fitzgerald Henry II S G3, Boodles Diamond Ormonde S G3, Totepool Pontefract Castle S LR (twice), 2nd Ladbrokes St Leger S G1, Prix Maurice de Nieuil G2, CGA Geoffrey Freer S G3 (twice), 3rd Gain Horse Feeds Irish St Leger G1, Artemis Goodwood Cup G2.

2009: THIRD HALF (g Haafhd) 5 wins.

2010: Bomber Thorn (g Manduro) 2012: Cocker (c Shirocco) unraced to date.

2nd Dam: Height of Passion by Shirley Heights. ran 3 times at 2 and 3. Dam of TREBLE HEIGHTS (f Unfuwain, see above), Warm Feeling (c Kalaglow: 2nd Lanes End John Porter EBF S G3, Ormonde EBF S G3, 3rd Ascot Gold Cup G1), Tron (c Chief Singer: 3rd Alexander Rennen-Valentin Seibert Mem LR, Jean Harzheim Rennen LR), Rainbow Heights (c Rainbow Quest: 3rd Dee S LR), Precede (g Polish Precedent: 2nd Bellway Homes Stardom S LR, 2nd Gran Criterium G1, 3rd Derby Italiano G1) Broodmare Sire: UNFUWAIN. Sire of the dams of 40 Stakes winners. In 2014 - BROWN PANTHER Shirocco G1, BRENDAN BRACKAN Big Bad Bob LR, OCEAN TEMPEST Act One LR. The Shirocco/Unfuwain cross has produced: BROWN PANTHER G1, Shirocco Star G1.

BROWN PANTHER b h 2008 Dschingis Khan Konigskronung Surumu Mosella Monasia SHIROCCO b 01 Northern Dancer The Minstrel Fleur So Sedulous Tap On Wood Sedulous Pendulina Northern Dancer Nearctic Natalma Unfuwain Height of Fashion Bustino Highclere TREBLE HEIGHTS b 99 Mill Reef Shirley Heights Hardiemma Height of Passion Fidalgo Maladie d’Amour Marie d’Ecosse Konigsstuhl

Monsun

Three generations of Doncaster St Leger contestants lined up for the all-aged Irish St Leger, with the 2013 winner Leading Light starting odds-on to account for the 2012 winner Encke and the 2011 runner-up Brown Panther, who was still seeking his first Gr1 success at the age of six.

Surprisingly, it was Brown Panther who proved much the best, scoring by more than six lengths.

Brown Panther’s victory ended an unexpectedly long wait for Shirocco’s first northern hemisphere Gr1 victory on the Flat. Of course Shirocco had previously enjoyed top-level success over hurdles with Annie Power and Lac Fontana and there are bound to be plenty more to come, following his move from the Darley team to Glenview Stud. On the Flat, though, it had been a tale of so near and yet so far, with the likes not only of Brown Panther but also the Oaks and Irish Oaks second Shirocco Star and the Prix Royal-Oak runner-up Wild Coco.

Brown Panther’s victory represents a considerable achievement for his owner/breeder Michael Owen, but there was also a bittersweet element to his win, as it came not long after his dam Treble Heights had died at the age of 15. It is easy to understand why Brown Panther stays well. Treble Heights gained her best win in the Aphrodite Stakes over a mile and a half at four, having earlier finished runner-up in the Park Hill Stakes.

The next dam, Height Of Passion, was by the stamina-packed Shirley Heights and one of her five blacktype performers was Warm Feeling, third in the 1991 Gold Cup. Brown Panther’s third dam Maladie d’Amour was a stoutly-bred daughter of Irish Derby winner Fidalgo, but the best previous winner from this female line was the Cheveley Park Stakes winner Pasty, by the very fast Raffingora.

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282 QATAR PRIX VERMEILLE G1 LONGCHAMP. Sep 14. 3yo+f. 2400m.

1. BALTIC BARONESS (GER) 4 9-3 £166,658 bl f by Shamardal - Born Wild (Sadler’s Wells) O-Gestut Ammerland B-Gestut Ammerland TR-A. Fabre 2. Pomology (USA) 4 9-3 £66,675 b/br f by Arch - Sharp Apple (Diesis) O-H. R. H. Princess Haya of Jordan B-Dr John A. Chandler TR-John Gosden 3. Dolniya (FR) 3 8-9 £33,338 b f by Azamour - Daltama (Indian Ridge) O-H.H. Aga Khan B-S A Aga Khan TR-A. de Royer Dupre Margins Short Head, 1.25. Time 2:28.22.

Going Good.

Age 2-4

Starts 12

Wins 5

Places 4

Earned £302,220

Sire: SHAMARDAL. Sire of 67 Stakes winners. In 2014 - BALTIC BARONESS Sadler’s Wells G1, DUNBOYNE EXPRESS Polish Precedent G1, MUKHADRAM Timber Country G1, BOW CREEK Most Welcome G2, EXCELLENT RESULT Sadler’s Wells G2, FINTRY Indian Ridge G2, GHIBELLINES Elusive Quality G2, LUCIDA Street Cry G2, SOMMERABEND Monsun G2, AMARON Bertolini G3, FRENCH NAVY Woodman G3, IHTIMAL Dubai Destination G3, LIGHTNING MOON Peintre Celebre G3, SHARESTAN Ashkalani G3.

1st Dam: BORN WILD by Sadler’s Wells. Winner at 3.

Dam of 2 winners: 2008: (c Dubawi) 2009: BALTIC ROCK (c Rock of Gibraltar) 2 wins at 3 in Germany, Preis SWB Derby Trial LR. 2010: BALTIC BARONESS (f Shamardal) 5 wins at 2 to 4 in France, Qatar Prix Vermeille G1, Prix Cleopatre G3, G.P. de Compiegne Etapi du Defi du Galop LR, P.de la Pepiniere-Fonds Europeen Elevage LR, 2nd Prix Penelope G3.

2011: Baltic Storm (c Kandahar Run) 3rd Preis SWB Derby Trial LR. 2012: Baltic Comtesse (f Lope de Vega) in training.

2013: (f King’s Best) 2014: (f Lope de Vega) 2nd Dam: BORGIA by Acatenango. Champion 3yr old filly in Germany and France in 1997. 6 wins at 3 and 5 in Germany, Hong Kong BMW Deutsches Derby G1, Mercedes-Benz Grosser Preis von Baden G1, 2nd Breeders’ Cup Turf G1, 3rd Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe G1. Dam of BERMUDA REEF (c Oasis Dream: Almased Cup Hamburg Trophy G3) Broodmare Sire: SADLER’S WELLS. Sire of the dams of 344 Stakes winners. In 2014 - BALTIC BARONESS Shamardal G1, CURSORY GLANCE Distorted Humor G1, MINORETTE Smart Strike G1, RICH TAPESTRY Holy Roman Emperor G1, TAGHROODA Sea The Stars G1, THE FUGUE Dansili G1.

The Shamardal/Sadler’s Wells cross has produced: BALTIC BARONESS G1, AKUA’DA G2, EXCELLENT RESULT G2.

BALTIC BARONESS bl f 2010 Storm Cat Giant’s Causeway Mariah’s Storm SHAMARDAL b 02 Machiavellian Helsinki Helen Street Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge BORN WILD b 03 Acatenango Borgia Britannia

Storm Bird Terlingua Rahy Immense Mr Prospector Coup de Folie Troy Waterway Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Surumu Aggravate Tarim Bonna

The 2014 season keeps getting better and better for Kildangan Stud’s Shamardal. The 12-year-old son of Giant’s Causeway is soon poised to reap the rewards of his progeny’s early exploits, which led to his fee rising to €50,000 from 2011

onwards. That means his current crop of two-year-olds are from his first €50,000 crop, but the individuals which have helped him take third place behind Galileo and Invincible Spirit among Europe’s leading sires are mainly from his earlier crops.

Sommerabend, a triple Group winner in France in 2014, is from his first crop (sired at €40,000); Sharestan, a Gr3 winner, is from his second (sired at €40,000); Mukhadram, his winner of the Eclipse Stakes, and the Gr3 winner Amaron are from his third (£25,000); his three-year-old Gr2 winners Bow Creek and Fintry are from his fifth (€20,000); and Baltic Baroness, who sprang a 22-1 surprise in the Gr1 Prix Vermeille, is from his fourth crop (also sired at €20,000). There have also been major successes for Shamardal’s progeny in Hong Kong, Singapore and the UAE. Baltic Baroness has now won three successive stakes races for her owner/breeders, Gestut Ammerland, having taken the Gr3 Prix Cleopatre as a three-year-old. She must now be a very valuable broodmare prospect, as she comes from a family which has done sterling work for Ammerland.

Her dam, the Sadler’s Wells mare Born Wild, was only a mile-and-threequarters winner at Yarmouth but she was out of Borgia, a filly of international repute who triumphed over the colts in the 1997 Deutsches Derby. She was later runner-up in the Breeders’ Cup Turf and won the Hong Kong Vase. Borgia’s Derby win came four years before her half-brother Boreal completed a tremendous Deutsches Derby double for the family. Borgia’s four-year-old Oasis Dream colt Bermuda Reef is a Gr3 winner in 2014.

Britannia, the dam of Borgia and Boreal, had also been a very good racemare, good enough to finish ninth, little more than five lengths behind Carroll House, in the 1989 Arc. Britannia was also second in the German Oaks and went on to win the Deutscher Stutenpreis, the Deutsches St Leger (by eight lengths) and the two-mile Oleander-Rennen.

Britannia’s dam, Bonna, was by Salvo, a top-class middle-distance stayer who was runner-up in the Arc. Bonna also bred Buenos, a Gr2 11-furlong winner.

283 QATAR PRIX DU MOULIN DE LONGCHAMP G1 LONGCHAMP. Sep 14. 3yo+c&f. 1600m.

1. CHARM SPIRIT (IRE) 3 8-12 £214,275 b c by Invincible Spirit - L’Enjoleuse (Montjeu) O-H.H. Sheikh Abdulla bin Khalifa Al Thani B-Ecurie Des Monceaux TR-F. Head 2. Toronado (IRE) 4 9-2 £85,725 b c by High Chaparral - Wana Doo (Grand Slam) O-Al Shaqab Racing B-Mr P. Nataf TR-Richard Hannon 3. Night of Thunder (IRE) 3 8-12 £42,863 ch c by Dubawi - Forest Storm (Galileo) O-Mr Saeed Manana B-F. Dunne TR-Richard Hannon Margins Head, Neck. Time 1:35.90. Going Good.

Age Starts Wins Places Earned 2-3 8 5 2 £533,760 Sire: INVINCIBLE SPIRIT. Sire of 80 Stakes winners.

In 2014 - CHARM SPIRIT Montjeu G1, KINGMAN

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Zamindar G1, SPEAKING OF WHICH Mr Prospector G2, CITRON SPIRIT Lemon Drop Kid G3, HIGH CELEBRITY Storm Cat G3, LOCAL TIME Medicean G3, RUSSIAN SOUL Indian Ridge G3, SIGNS OF BLESSING Seeking The Gold G3, APACHE SPIRIT Sadler’s Wells LR, ARMY BULLETIN Sunday Silence LR, BEACH BELLE High Chaparral LR, I’M YOURS Robellino LR, THAT IS THE SPIRIT Acatenango LR. 1st Dam: L’ENJOLEUSE by Montjeu. 2 wins at 3 in France. Dam of 1 winner: 2008: L’Ensorceleuse (f Oasis Dream) unraced.

Broodmare.

2010: (f Holy Roman Emperor) 2011: CHARM SPIRIT (c Invincible Spirit) Sold 111,111gns yearling at AROCT. 5 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Qatar Prix du Moulin de Longchamp G1, Prix Jean Prat G1, Prix Paul de Moussac G3, Prix Djebel G3, 3rd Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere Grand Criterium G1.

2012: Reem (f Lawman) 2013: (f Kendargent) 2014: (c Myboycharlie) 2nd Dam: Machaera by Machiavellian. unraced. Dam of Megec Blis (f Soviet Star: 3rd Irish Stallion Farms EBF Athasi S G3), Squadron (g Sakhee: 3rd Wragge & Co. Juv.Finesse Novices’ Hurdle G2) Broodmare Sire: MONTJEU. Sire of the dams of 18 Stakes winners. In 2014 - CHARM SPIRIT Invincible Spirit G1, LUCIA VALENTINA Savabeel G1, OBVIOUSLY Choisir G1, MOOZOON Perfectly Ready G3, PARISH HALL Teofilo G3.

CHARM SPIRIT b c 2011 Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier INVINCIBLE SPIRIT b 97 Kris Rafha Eljazzi Sadler’s Wells Montjeu Floripedes L’ENJOLEUSE b 02 Machiavellian Machaera Somfas

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Sir Ivor Courtly Dee Sharpen Up Doubly Sure Artaius Border Bounty Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Top Ville Toute Cy Mr Prospector Coup de Folie What A Pleasure Ciboulette

See race 163 in the September issue 284 CONNOLLY’S RED MILLS CHEVELEY PARK STAKE G1 NEWMARKET. Sep 27. 2yof. 6f.

1. TIGGY WIGGY (IRE) 9-0 £117,673 b f by Kodiac - Kheleyf’s Silver (Kheleyf) O-Potensis Ltd C Giles & Merriebelle B-CBS Bloodstock TR-Richard Hannon 2. Anthem Alexander (IRE) 9-0 £44,613 ch f by Starspangledbanner - Lady Alexander (Night Shift) O-Mr Noel O’Callaghan B-Mountarmstrong Stud TR-Edward Lynam 3. High Celebrity (FR) 9-0 £22,327 b f by Invincible Spirit - High Surf (Storm Cat) O-Ecurie Victoria Dreams B-J P H Dubois TR-A. Fabre Margins 0.75, 1.25. Time 1:11.40.

Going Good to Firm.

Age 2

Starts 8

Wins 6

Places 2

Earned £381,181

Sire: KODIAC. Sire of 12 Stakes winners.

In 2014 - TIGGY WIGGY Kheleyf G1, COULSTY In The Wings G3, JAMESIE Night Shift G3, KODI BEAR Mujtahid LR, PATIENCE ALEXANDER Sadler’s Wells LR. 1st Dam: KHELEYF’S SILVER by Kheleyf. Winner at 2.

Dam of 2 winners: 2011: IFTAAR (g Bushranger) Winner at 3.

2012: TIGGY WIGGY (f Kodiac) Sold 39,047gns yearling at DNPRM. 6 wins at 2, Connolly’s Red Mills Cheveley Park S G1, Pinsent Masons Lowther S G2, Cantor Fitzgerald National S LR, 2nd Queen Mary S G2, Langleys Solicitors EBF Marygate S LR. 2013: (c Big Bad Bob) 2nd Dam: Silver Arrow by Shadeed. Dam of MASTA PLASTA (g Mujadil: Norfolk S G3) Broodmare Sire: KHELEYF. Sire of the dams of 2

Stakes winners. In 2014 - TIGGY WIGGY Kodiac G1, TERRE BRUNE Dutch Art LR.

TIGGY WIGGY b f 2012 Danzig Danehill Razyana KODIAC b 01 Kris Rafha Eljazzi Green Desert Kheleyf Society Lady KHELEYF’S SILVER b 06 Shadeed Silver Arrow Aneesati

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Sharpen Up Doubly Sure Artaius Border Bounty Danzig Foreign Courier Mr Prospector La Voyageuse Nijinsky Continual Kris Dabaweyaa

Invincible Spirit has enjoyed a stellar 2014, thanks largely to Kingman and Charm Spirit, and he appeared to have another potential Gr1 winner when his French daughter High Celebrity started second favourite for the Cheveley Park Stakes. High Celebrity ran well but not well enough to spoil the day for Invincible Spirit’s three-parts-brother Kodiac, who was responsible not only for the all-theway winner Tiggy Wiggy but also for Terror, a fine fourth on only her second start.

Kodiac appears to have developed into another Danetime for Tally-Ho Stud. Danetime, like Kodiac, was by Danehill and both failed to win at stakes level, but Danetime proved very effective as a stallion, notably siring the Prix Morny winners Bushranger and Myboycharlie.

Although Kodiac had enjoyed plenty of success at Listed level with members of his first four crops – all sired at fees of €5,000 or less – he hadn’t been represented by a Group winner prior to 2014. Now he has three to his credit, thanks to the Gr3-winning sprinters Coulsty and Jamesie and the very speedy Tiggy Wiggy.

An interesting aspect of Tiggy Wiggy’s pedigree is that she is inbred 3 x 4 to Danzig and 4 x 4 to the outstanding miler Kris. The Danzig inbreeding comes via his highly successful sons Danehill (sire of Kodiac) and Green Desert (sire of Tiggy Wiggy’s speedy broodmare sire Kheleyf). Green Desert, of course, also sired Kodiac’s sibling Invincible Spirit, whose Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner Vale Of York has Kris and his brother Diesis in the third generation of his pedigree.

Tiggy Wiggy’s dam Kheleyf’s Silver was bought for €230,000 as a yearling in 2007, having cost 58,000gns as a foal. Although she won a five-furlong maiden at Windsor on her fourth start as a two-year-old, Kheleyf’s Silver didn’t race in 2009 and became part of Darley’s draft at Tattersalls’ 2010 February Sale, where her price plunged to 15,000gns.

Kheleyf’s Silver’s half-brother Masta Plasta had – like Tiggy Wiggy – been a Royal Ascot two-year-old.

He won the Gr3 Norfolk Stakes and later developed into a smart sprint

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European Pattern handicapper, with a peak Timeform rating of 117 at five years.

Tiggy Wiggy and Masta Plasta are by no means the first notable performers from this female line. Her fourth dam Dabaweyaa was second in the 1988 1,000 Guineas, before producing six black-type performers.

285 PREIS VON EUROPA G1 COLOGNE. Sep 28. 3yo+. 2400m.

1. EMPOLI (GER) 4 9-6 £83,333 ch c by Halling - Estefania (Acatenango) O-Valentin Bukhtoyarov/Eugeny Kappushev B-Gestut Ebbesloh TR-P. Schiergen 2. Earl of Tinsdal (GER) 6 9-6 £25,000 b h by Black Sam Bellamy - Earthly Paradise (Dashing Blade) O-Sunrace Stables B-H. Gutschow TR-A. Wohler 3. Night Wish (GER) 4 9-6 £12,500 b c by Sholokhov - Night Woman (Monsun) O-Stall Salzburg B-Gestut Etzean TR-W Figge Margins 0.5, 1.5. Time 2:30.24.

Going Good to Soft.

Age 3-4

Starts 14

Wins 2

Places 9

Earned £348,389

Sire: HALLING. Sire of 59 Stakes winners. In 2014 EMPOLI Acatenango G1, CAVALRYMAN Highest Honor G2, CERTERACH Danehill G2, ENTREE Gone West LR. 1st Dam: Estefania by Acatenango. 2 wins at 2 and 3 in Germany, 3rd Vortstandpreis Kolner Renn-Vereins Preis LR. Dam of 5 winners: 2007: ERLIAN (c Dashing Blade) 5 wins at 4 to 7, 2014 in Germany.

2008: Eigelstein (c Dubawi) 6 wins to 2014 in Australia, Germany, 3rd Premio Conte Felice Scheibler LR, BWIN Sachsen Preis LR. 2009: ENIDE (f Shamardal) 2 wins at 3 and 4 in France, Germany.

2010: EMPOLI (c Halling) 2 wins at 3 and 4 in Germany, Preis von Europa G1, 2nd Grosser Preis von Bayern G1, Oppenheim UnionRennen G2, District One Dubai Millennium S LR. 2011: Eyasi (c Areion) 2012: EBELTOFT (c Lawman) Winner at 2 in Germany.

2013: Escadron (c High Chaparral) 2014: (c Jukebox Jury)

2nd Dam: EIREHILL by Danehill. 2 wins at 3 and 4 in Germany. Dam of EMPORIO (c Kaldounevees: Prix Turenne LR), Estefania (f Acatenango, see above), Eroica (f Highest Honor: 2nd Stutenpreis Renault Nissan Deutschland LR). Grandam of PUNTA STELLA, Tepmokea.

Broodmare Sire: ACATENANGO. Sire of the dams of 56 Stakes winners. In 2014 - EMPOLI Halling G1, WORLD ACE Deep Impact G2, BERMUDA REEF Oasis Dream G3, FLAMINGO STAR Areion G3, PAPAGENA STAR Amadeus Wolf G3.

EMPOLI ch c 2010 Sharpen Up Diesis Doubly Sure HALLING ch 91 Green Dancer Dance Machine Never A Lady Surumu Acatenango Aggravate ESTEFANIA b 01 Danehill Eirehill Elegie

Atan Rocchetta Reliance II Soft Angels Nijinsky Green Valley Pontifex Camogie Literat Surama Aggressor Raven Locks Danzig Razyana Teotepec Elektra

Empoli’s form figures didn’t inspire much confidence this son of Halling could win the Gr1 Preis von Europa.

The four-year-old had managed only one win from 13 previous starts but this was partly a reflection of the company he had been keeping. He had tackled Gr1 company not only in Germany but also in the UAE, Britain and France, once finishing a close second to Meandre in the 2013 Preis von Europa, only to be demoted.

Empoli’s sire Halling was a dependable stallion but he found it much easier to hit the Gr2 target, rather than the Gr1 bullseye. No fewer than 14 of his progeny became Gr2 winners, but Empoli is only his third winner at the top level, following the very durable Grand Prix de Paris winner Cavalryman and the Prix Ganay winner Cutlass Bay. Empoli’s female line has been the

source of numerous good winners with names beginning with E. His fourth dam Elektra also produced a Preis von Europa winner, in the form of the 1977 scorer Ebano. Elektra – herself a sister to Elviro, winner of the 1968 Deutsches Derby – is also the second dam of Elle Danzig, a dual winner of the Premio Roma after winning Germany’s 1,000 Guineas and Oaks in 1998. Enora (2010 Preis der Diana) and Estejo (2011 Premio Presidente della Repubblica) are other Gr1 winners descending from Elektra.

286 PREMIO VITTORIO DI CAPUA G1 MILAN. Sep 28. 3yo+. 1600m.

1. PRIORE PHILIP (ITY) 3 8-12 b c by Dane Friendly - Lan Force (Blu Air Force) O-Scuderia Ste Ma B-Azienda Agricola Luciani Loreto TR-Stefano Botti 2. Verdetto Finale (GB) 4 9-2 b c by Nayef - Love Roi (Roi Danzig) O-Incolinx B-Azienda Agricola Rosati Colarieti TR-R Biondi 3. Calyxa (GB) 4 8-13 b f by Pivotal - Chantra (Lando) O-Gestut Haus Ittlingen B-Gestut Haus Ittlingen TR-Ferdinand J Leve Margins 1.75, 2. Going Soft.

Age 2-3

Starts 12

Wins 10

Places 2

Earned £298,403

Sire: DANE FRIENDLY. Sire of 4 Stakes winners.

1st Dam: Lan Force by Blu Air Force. 2 wins at 2 and 3 in Italy, 2nd Premio Divino Amore-Tattersalls LR. Own sister to AMALDI. Dam of 1 winner: 2011: PRIORE PHILIP (c Dane Friendly) 10 wins at 2 and 3 in Italy, Premio Gran Criterium G1, Premio Vittorio di Capua G1, Premio Carlo Vittadini G2, Premio Rumon LR, 2nd Premio Parioli - Sisal Matchpoint G3.

2012: For Lance (f Shaweel) 2013: Lingering Look (c Shaweel) 2014: (c Dark Angel) 2nd Dam: LAN FEI by Love The Groom. 3 wins at 3 in Italy. Dam of AMALDI (c Blu Air Force: Premio Divino Amore LR), Lan Force (f Blu Air Force, see above) Broodmare Sire: BLU AIR FORCE. Sire of the dams of 1 Stakes winner.

PRIORE PHILIP b c 2011 Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu High Hat High Line Time Call Mr Prospector Wise Speculation Wisdom Red Ransom Sri Pekan Lady Godolphin The Minstrel Carillon Miss Sex Appeal Love The Groom Blushing Groom Nell’s Briquette Baby Turk Lazarska Laura Piranesi Danzig

Danehill

Razyana DANE FRIENDLY b 96 Always Friendly

Blu Air Force LAN FORCE b 06 Lan Fei

The quality of some of Italy’s Group races has been questionable during the problems afflicting the country’s racing industry. Some have virtually become domestic affairs but the 2014 Premio Vittorio di Capua was an exception. Among the 12 contenders were two French fillies, including L’Amour De Ma Vie, a much-travelled Gr2 winner, and three from Germany, all Group winners. Consequently it was a little surprising the first two were Italian-trained runners, with victory going to three-year-old Priore Philip. Perhaps I shouldn’t have been so surprised, as this son of Dane Friendly was winning for the tenth time in 12 starts. He had also enjoyed Gr1 success at two, when he landed the Gran Criterium.

Not only is Priore Philip trained in Italy but he was also bred there from parents which raced in Italy. His sire Dane Friendly won the Gr2 Premio Ribot over a mile on very soft ground as a four-year-old, having earlier shown nothing in Britain.

Priore Philip’s dam Lan Force was placed in two Listed races at two and is a sister to a juvenile Listed winner.

Their sire, Blu Air Force, raced in four countries on two continents and won in three of them, notably taking the Gr3 Prix du Palais-Royal.

Group 2 and 3 Results Date 09/09 09/09 11/09 11/09 12/09 12/09 12/09 13/09 13/09 13/09 13/09 13/09 14/09 14/09 14/09 14/09 14/09 14/09 14/09 19/09 20/09 20/09 20/09 20/09 20/09 20/09 21/09 21/09 21/09 25/09 26/09 26/09 27/09 28/09 28/09 28/09

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Grade G3 G3 G2 G3 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G3 G3 G2 G2 G2 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G2 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G2 G3 G3 G3 G2 G2 G2 G2 G3 G3

Race (course) Prix d’Arenberg (Chantilly) Prix d’Aumale (Chantilly) DFS Park Hill Stakes (Doncaster) Japan Racing Association Sceptre Stakes (Doncaster) Doncaster Cup (Doncaster) John Smith’s May Hill Stakes (Doncaster) Polypipe Flying Childers Stakes (Doncaster) At the Races Champagne Stakes (Doncaster) OLBG Park Stakes (Doncaster) Clipper Boomerang Mile (Leopardstown) John Deere Juvenile Turf Stakes (Leopardstown) KPMG Enterprise Stakes (Leopardstown) Moyglare ‘Jewels’ Blandford Stakes (Curragh) Qatar Prix Foy (Longchamp) Qatar Prix Niel (Longchamp) Derrinstown Stud Flying Five Stakes (Curragh) Qatar Prix Gladiateur (Longchamp) Qatar Prix du Petit Couvert (Longchamp) Bayerische Hausbau Grosse Europa Meile (Munich) La Coupe de Maisons-Laffitte (Maisons-Laffitte) Dubai Duty Free Mill Reef Stakes (Newbury) William Hill Firth of Clyde Stakes (Ayr) Prix des Chenes (Longchamp) Prix du Prince d’Orange (Longchamp) Dubai Duty Free Legacy Cup Arc Trial (Newbury) Dubai International Airport World Trophy (Newbury) Premio Federico Tesio (Milan) Grosser Preis Von DSW21 St Leger (Dortmund) D. C. Lavarack & Lanwades Stud Stakes (Gowran Park) Somerville Tattersall Stakes (Newmarket) Shadwell Joel Stakes (Newmarket) Shadwell Rockfel Stakes (Newmarket) Juddmonte Royal Lodge Stakes (Newmarket) Juddmonte Beresford Stakes (Curragh) C L & M F Weld Park Stakes (Curragh) Premio Sergio Cumani (Milan)

Dist 5.5f 8f 14.5f 7f 18f 8f 5f 7f 7f 8f 8f 10f 10f 12f 12f 5f 15.5f 5f 8f 10f 6f 6f 8f 10f 11f 5f 11f 14f 9f 7f 8f 7f 8f 8f 7f 8f

Horse High Celebrity (FR) Shahah (GB) Silk Sari (GB) Kiyoshi (GB) Estimate (IRE) Agnes Stewart (IRE) Beacon (GB) Estidhkaar (IRE) Ansgar (IRE) Bow Creek (IRE) John F Kennedy (IRE) Free Eagle (IRE) Tarfasha (IRE) Ruler of The World (IRE) Ectot (GB) Stepper Point (GB) Bathyrhon (GER) Mirza (GB) Nordico (GER) Fractional (IRE) Toocoolforschool (IRE) Dark Reckoning (GB) Evasive’s First (FR) Free Port Lux (GB) Hillstar (GB) Mecca’s Angel (IRE) Dylan Mouth (IRE) Kaldera (GER) Brooch (USA) Maftool (USA) Custom Cut (IRE) Lucida (IRE) Elm Park (GB) Ol’ Man River (IRE) Qualify (IRE) Ming Zhi Cosmos (FR)

Age 2 2 4 3 5 2 2 2 6 3 2 3 3 4 3 5 4 7 3 5 2 2 2 3 4 3 3 3 3 2 5 2 2 2 2 3

Sex F F F F M F C C G C C C F C C G C G C G G F C C C F C F F C G F C C F F

Sire Invincible Spirit Motivator Dalakhani Dubawi Monsun Lawman Paco Boy Dark Angel Celtic Swing Shamardal Galileo High Chaparral Teofilo Galileo Hurricane Run Kyllachy Monsun Oasis Dream Medicean Manduro Showcasing Equiano Evasive Oasis Dream Danehill Dancer Dark Angel Dylan Thomas Sinndar Empire Maker Hard Spun Notnowcato Shamardal Phoenix Reach Montjeu Fastnet Rock Duke of Marmalade

Dam High Surf Elegant Beauty So Silk Mocca Ebaziya Anice Stellato Key Light Danetime Out Jemmy’s Girl Beneventa Rumplestiltskin Polished Gem Grecian Bride Love Me True Tonnara Sacre Coeur Be My Lady Millyant Norwegian Pride Sharp Point Spring Surprise Impressible Zalia Royal Highness Crystal Star Folga Cottonmouth Konigstochter Daring Diva With Intention Polished Gem Lura Lady Brora Finsceal Beo Perihelion The Wise Lady

Broodmare Sire Storm Cat Olden Times Rainbow Quest Sri Pekan Darshaan Dalakhani Acclamation Danetime Pennekamp Most Welcome Danehill Danehill Groom Dancer Kingmambo Linamix Compton Place Be My Guest Primo Dominie Diktat Royal Academy Hector Protector Oasis Dream Oasis Dream Monsun Mark Of Esteem Atraf Noverre Dai Jin Dansili Mr Greeley Danehill Street Cry Dashing Blade Mr Greeley Galileo Ganges

Index 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330

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Leading sires 2014 by percentage of stakes winners to runners Name

YOF

1998 2006 2002 1990 2006 2002 2000 2003 1988 1996 1996 2004 2002 2004 1997 2000 2002 2001 1998 2004 1999 1993 2000 2004 1995 2000 2003 2005 2003 1992 1999 2002 1994 1994 1990 2003 1999 2006 1992 2001 2003 1999 Holy Roman Emperor 2004 Kodiac 2001 Bahamian Bounty 1994 Refuse To Bend 2000 Muhtathir 1995 Footstepsinthesand 2002 Dutch Art 2004 Danehill Dancer 1993 Stormy River 2003 Sinndar 1997 Oratorio 2002 Verglas 1994 Okawango 1998 Galileo Sea The Stars Dubawi Monsun Le Havre Motivator Oasis Dream Champs Elysees Selkirk Montjeu Dansili Duke Of Marmalade Shamardal Teofilo Invincible Spirit Dalakhani Manduro Iffraaj Nayef Mount Nelson High Chaparral Pivotal Clodovil Authorized Areion Monsieur Bond Aussie Rules Tamayuz Sir Percy Singspiel Choisir Hurricane Run Cape Cross Zamindar Bin Ajwaad Jeremy Win River Win Mastercraftsman Sri Pekan Azamour Dylan Thomas Acclamation

Sire

Sadler's Wells Cape Cross Dubai Millennium Königsstuhl Noverre Montjeu Green Desert Danehill Sharpen Up Sadler's Wells Danehill Danehill Giant's Causeway Galileo Green Desert Darshaan Monsun Zafonic Gulch Rock Of Gibraltar Sadler's Wells Polar Falcon Danehill Montjeu Big Shuffle Danehill Dancer Danehill Nayef Mark Of Esteem In the Wings Danehill Dancer Montjeu Green Desert Gone West Rainbow Quest Danehill Dancer Virginia Rapids Danehill Dancer Red Ransom Night Shift Danehill Royal Applause Danehill Danehill Cadeaux Genereux Sadler's Wells Elmaamul Giant's Causeway Medicean Danehill Verglas Grand Lodge Danehill Highest Honor Kingmambo

Rnrs

267 91 188 82 83 87 230 77 70 161 180 164 223 212 288 145 128 180 155 104 213 186 135 162 109 83 143 86 119 92 63 127 225 132 66 99 68 140 70 140 178 250 215 183 151 115 118 239 160 161 83 87 226 227 92

Wnrs

127 49 100 41 34 28 115 29 35 61 86 64 111 81 124 59 43 81 71 45 84 85 66 60 48 20 69 44 40 36 25 50 92 52 21 33 31 51 32 56 73 108 102 90 54 54 51 106 72 64 37 32 96 107 44

%WR

47.57 53.85 53.19 50.00 40.96 32.18 50.00 37.66 50.00 37.89 47.78 39.02 49.78 38.21 43.06 40.69 33.59 45.00 45.81 43.27 39.44 45.70 48.89 37.04 44.04 24.10 48.25 51.16 33.61 39.13 39.68 39.37 40.89 39.39 31.82 33.33 45.59 36.43 45.71 40.00 41.01 43.20 47.44 49.18 35.76 46.96 43.22 44.35 45.00 39.75 44.58 36.78 42.48 47.14 47.83

Races

177 73 151 61 61 45 174 37 57 100 125 95 195 121 192 83 57 129 101 60 136 134 112 84 67 34 98 66 55 62 37 69 132 77 39 52 76 66 55 74 114 159 146 127 88 98 78 165 112 95 60 52 156 180 79

AWD

10.8 9.9 9.1 11.3 9.4 11.2 7.5 9.7 9.3 12.0 9.3 9.7 7.9 10.0 7.3 10.9 9.8 7.7 9.4 9.1 10.5 8.3 7.2 10.8 7.7 6.4 8.6 8.9 9.7 10.0 7.5 11.4 9.5 8.5 8.6 8.8 8.5 9.2 8.1 9.1 9.3 7.0 8.3 6.7 6.8 8.5 9.9 7.9 7.1 9.1 9.8 11.4 9.0 8.7 7.8

Earnings (£)

7,367,841 3,279,306 2,866,096 1,159,441 1,887,720 3,122,296 2,610,191 700,398 676,146 2,213,694 3,421,267 1,274,403 3,618,363 2,515,208 3,919,196 1,399,488 1,137,836 1,610,212 1,278,839 768,293 2,425,731 1,719,628 1,422,644 1,298,128 596,473 918,661 1,089,380 901,788 740,659 890,385 835,378 1,290,392 2,065,414 874,028 806,724 660,695 1,746,481 3,226,152 1,393,347 969,132 1,904,112 1,934,381 1,731,208 1,482,141 847,379 647,778 1,038,983 1,721,245 2,216,299 1,571,295 819,208 812,256 1,405,619 1,630,761 1,453,327

SH

54 17 29 10 8 11 27 7 6 18 18 17 4 21 28 9 6 11 10 9 14 14 11 15 10 5 9 8 9 10 3 12 20 6 4 4 2 11 5 7 9 6 13 9 7 6 7 10 16 12 4 6 16 9 4

%

20.22 18.68 15.43 12.2 9.64 12.64 11.74 9.09 8.57 11.18 10.0 10.37 10.76 9.91 9.72 6.21 4.69 6.11 6.45 8.65 6.57 7.53 8.15 9.26 9.17 6.02 6.29 9.30 7.56 10.87 4.76 9.45 8.89 4.55 6.06 4.04 2.94 7.86 7.14 5.00 5.06 6.40 6.05 4.92 4.64 5.22 5.93 4.18 10.0 7.45 4.82 6.90 7.08 3.96 4.35

SW

34 10 19 7 6 6 15 5 4 9 10 9 12 9 12 6 5 7 6 4 8 7 5 6 4 3 5 3 4 3 2 4 7 4 2 3 2 4 2 4 5 7 6 5 4 3 3 6 4 4 2 2 5 5 2

%

12.73 10.99 10.11 8.54 7.23 6.90 6.52 6.49 5.71 5.59 5.56 5.49 5.38 4.25 4.17 4.14 3.91 3.89 3.87 3.85 3.76 3.76 3.70 3.70 3.67 3.61 3.50 3.49 3.36 3.26 3.17 3.15 3.11 3.03 3.03 3.03 2.94 2.86 2.86 2.86 2.81 2.80 2.79 2.73 2.65 2.61 2.54 2.51 2.50 2.48 2.41 2.30 2.21 2.20 2.17

Dubawi percentage is badge of quality With another seven stakes horses, Galileo duly passed the 50 mark, and with five more stakes winners his percentage there rose marginally too.

The same comment applies to Sea The Stars, and Dubawi maintained his momentum with five new stakes winners helping take his percentage from 8.19 to 10.11. Passing the 10% mark in the modern era when sires have so many runners is a real badge of quality and Dubawi had another top level scorer in Sheikhzayedroad.

Two more of the leaders made significant progress. Monsun’s percentage rose to 8.54 from 6.41.

His two new stakes winners were led

by Estimate in the Doncaster Cup. Treve’s second Arc triumph did Motivator’s cause the power of good but she was not the only icing on the cake. He was also responsible for Listed winners Pallasator (Jockey Club Rose Bowl) and Sky Hunter (Doonside Cup), and his ratio of stakes winners jumped from 3.7% to 6.9%.

In terms of bare numbers, Galileo (54) leads in stakes horses from Dubawi (29), Invincible Spirit (28), Oasis Dream (27), Shamardal (24) and Teofilo (21). In stakes winners he is on 34, ahead of Dubawi (19), Oasis Dream (15), Invincible Spirit and Shamardal (both 12).

Leading sires of two-year-olds 2014 by earnings Name

YOF

2001 1998 2002 1997 2001 2007 2007 1999 *Starspangledbanner 2006 Dark Angel 2005 Oasis Dream 2000 Monsieur Bond 2000 *Zebedee 2008 Iffraaj 2001 *Lope de Vega 2007 *Rip Van Winkle 2006 *Equiano 2005 *Fast Company 2005 *Paco Boy 2005 Exceed And Excel 2000 Kaneko 2001 Clodovil 2000 Danehill Dancer 1993 Dutch Art 2004 Teofilo 2004 *Arcano 2007 Bosporus 1995 Luxor 2000 Intense Focus 2006 Divine Light 1995 Kodiac Galileo Shamardal Invincible Spirit Lion Heart *Siyouni *Showcasing Acclamation

Sire

Danehill Sadler's Wells Giant's Causeway Green Desert Tale Of The Cat Pivotal Oasis Dream Royal Applause Choisir Acclamation Green Desert Danehill Dancer Invincible Spirit Zafonic Shamardal Galileo Acclamation Danehill Dancer Desert Style Danehill Pivotal Danehill Danehill Medicean Galileo Oasis Dream Night Shift Distant Relative Giant's Causeway Sunday Silence

Rnrs

83 52 41 57 35 35 49 75 22 59 45 44 81 61 46 46 53 63 53 54 28 24 25 46 41 48 31 23 32 14

Wnrs

38 23 16 21 13 15 24 21 7 24 19 6 28 24 18 14 14 24 21 20 10 13 6 14 10 13 12 3 13 6

%WR

45.78 44.23 39.02 36.84 37.14 42.86 48.98 28.00 31.82 40.68 42.22 13.64 34.57 39.34 39.13 30.43 26.42 38.10 39.62 37.04 35.71 54.17 24.00 30.43 24.39 27.08 38.71 13.04 40.63 42.86

Races

56 31 23 32 26 23 37 29 11 32 25 12 40 30 24 19 17 36 27 25 17 20 8 18 11 19 20 6 19 16

AWD

5.7 7.6 6.5 6.4 6.3 6.0 5.6 5.7 5.9 6.6 6.7 5.7 5.9 6.5 6.4 6.7 5.7 6.2 6.3 5.7 5.8 6.2 6.6 6.1 7.4 6.5 6.0 6.2 5.7 5.9

Earnings (£)

875,061 791,910 724,709 566,635 487,017 472,844 449,603 443,076 421,832 410,810 398,656 395,524 388,766 354,953 354,949 335,826 329,006 315,113 310,376 308,690 306,341 286,886 275,942 258,063 253,234 252,791 251,542 248,838 236,443 234,557

Top horse

Tiggy Wiggy Gleneagles Secret Brief Territories Lion Wind Ervedya Cappella Sansevero Mubtaghaa The Wow Signal Estidhkaar Muhaarar Bond's Girl Ivawood Jungle Cat Hero Look Dick Whittington Lacing Baitha Alga Beacon Heartbreak Hero Special Sword Berkarar Osaila Dutch Connection Outlaw Country Kasb Bade Hanim Dedemsah Midterm Break Lavin

Earned (£)

381,181 259,327 348,852 88,639 95,359 135,300 116,757 177,911 232,068 92,937 127,844 312,515 94,617 87,598 90,964 147,818 127,475 77,791 72,467 122,607 56,340 84,335 210,650 82,128 120,839 42,403 45,049 182,427 92,086 73,622

Lagardere lament Kodiac had five new winners but it was reliable Tiggy Wiggy’s victory in the Cheveley Park Stakes that helped keep him on top from Galileo. The latter’s progeny earned not far short of £500,000, with Gleneagles the star. His demotion from first in the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere temporarily scuppered the chances of there being a new leader.

With another two added, Zebedee does not look quite so secure numerically as he did. Showcasing and Fast Company are both on 24 after respectively notching another five and three winners. Two freshmen are on 21, Paco Boy and Approve.

The former surpassed himself with nine new scorers and has had seven stakes horses.

*First-season sire, statistics to October 14

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M

y early morning alarm depends on the time of year. In winter, when racing starts early, I might need to be on the road by 5.30. So I’m up at five, grab a cup of tea and jump in the van. In summer I might be night racing and so don’t have to get out of bed until about eight o’clock.

Mine is the only firm of valets that does both codes; among my jump jockeys are AP, Richard Johnson, Sam Twiston-Davies, Nick Schofield and Daryl Jacob; on the Flat, Frankie Dettori, Jamie Spencer, Adam Kirby and Joseph O’Brien are on my list. The business has grown quite a lot since I bought it from John Buckingham [winner of the 1967 Grand National on 1001 Foinavon] 12 years ago.

Breakfast is usually Costa coffee and a croissant in a garage on the way to the races, followed by a couple of cigarettes.

The aim is to arrive at the course four hours before the first race with all the saddles, breeches, back pads etc.

That’s our quiet time before the jockeys arrive when we clean the tack, check the non-runners and hang all the gear on the relevant pegs for each jockey.

Half past ten is a crucial time when we get the runners for the next two days, with the 24-hour declarations for the jumpers and the Flat declared for the day after. That’s when I do all the planning for where the gear has to go the next day and who travels to which meeting and in which van. I have five people working for me, and four vans.

For lunch I snatch a sandwich in the jockeys’ room, where the food is usually very good.

In the first two years after hanging up my saddle, I missed having something that made the blood race

There is simply no need for ex-jockey CHRIS MAUDE to miss the buzz of the weighing room – as a full-time valet he continues to live and breathe the game.

He won’t miss the Mongol Derby, mind! through my veins and often felt like following the jocks out into the action.

But now here I am, still in the weighing room, enjoying the craic, having fun and wishing the boys good luck.

Though, on reflection, I’m not quite sure how I ever did it. Eventually you grow out of that desire to race, particularly when you’re sitting down to a full breakfast or having a couple of pints.

I was 9st 10lb when I retired from riding and shot straight up to 12st 4lb. Now I’m normally about 11st 7lb, though when I came back from riding in the Mongol Derby in August I was 10st

7lb after surviving eight days on sour Yak’s milk and lumps of goat fat.

The time we leave the racecourse depends entirely on the weather. If it has been dry it takes about an hour to clean all the gear, pack it into the relevant bags and hopefully into the right vans for the next day. If it’s been a filthy, muddy day it could take us two hours to get cleaned up. We soap all the leather and clean all the boots on arrival at the next meeting.

The Mongol Derby, over 620 miles and eight days on semi-wild ponies, is the toughest thing I’ve ever done and I don’t think I’ll be

sitting on another horse for some time.

I finished joint second with Jamie Peel, an international polo player, and Robert Skinner, a Royal Marine. The best moment was cracking open a bottle of gin after crossing the line; the worst was leading a stubborn pony, who kept refusing to budge, through 19km of mountainous country.

Jump racing is a way of life and Flat racing a proper business. I tell you, after leaning over the rail at Epsom and watching them come down the hill in the Dash, I’d rather ride in a 20runner hurdle at Wincanton than an Epsom sprint. Don’t forget when these Flat boys fall they’re 8st 7lb sopping wet and it’s like a child hitting the ground. Of course, you’re more likely to have a fall jumping, but when they take a tumble at full speed on the Flat they’re less likely to get up.

My holiday is ski-ing with a bunch of retired jump jockeys like Simon McNeill, Ian Lawrence, Anthony Tory and Brian Clifford. And with four children aged between 17 and six there’s plenty of pony riding to supervise and rugby and ballet to watch. I’ll try and steal a day’s hunting with the North Cotswold and love watching rugby on TV. Occasionally I might even make it to Gloucester Rugby Club to see some live action.

For my evening meal I’ll cook something easy like pasta with a huge salad and a large glass of wine. I fall into bed between half nine and ten, though after night racing it’s around midnight.

On the whole I’m a good sleeper and have some really cool dreams.

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