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Plus • Flat star Adam Kirby on his desire to make it to the top • Deauville delights: European yearling sales begin in style • Markus Klug’s Arc dream with sensational Sea The Moon

appy Birthday to us! Thoroughbred Owner & Breeder magazine turns ten this month. In the first issue, published in September 2004, alongside reader-friendly features on Kieren Fallon and Michael Stoute, Cheveley Park Stud and David Loder, came an article that highlighted a future vision for British horseracing.

At that time, the industry’s bigwigs had been in the process of ratifying a document entitled the ‘Modernisation of British Racing’, a blueprint on which the sport’s finances and prosperity would be built. As the late and much-missed Chris Deuters, then President of the Racehorse Owners Association, explained so succinctly in his Leader column: “In 2006 the Levy Board will close.

“The body that has for over 40 years been responsible for the bulk of racing’s funding is to be replaced by a commercial mechanism between the racing industry and the bookmakers.

“Racing’s product is based on data rights and it is these rights that bookies will pay for from 2006 and beyond.”

It all sounded so simple. Yet, within a matter of months, the plan lay in tatters after a successful legal challenge in the European Court by bookmaker William Hill. Racing would not be allowed to charge for the use of data: the Levy Board, a relic of early 1960s legislation reflecting a time when high street betting shops were a new phenomenon, would have to continue to help fund the sport.

Ten years on and the Levy Board is still in operation. A commercial mechanism has now been established, except it exists between horsemen and racecourses, relating to media rights revenue. The hope for a true business relationship between racing and betting remains unfulfilled. Will it ever happen?

Paul Bittar has had his critics but he has worked harder than any of his predecessors to foster a good working rapport with the bookmaking fraternity and his decision to step down as BHA Chief Executive early next year will come as disappointing news to many in the industry.

The man or woman who takes over the BHA role will, amongst other things, inherit a fixture list that is positively bursting at the seams, the result of the industry’s deep reluctance to cull meetings.

It remains to be seen if the number of horses in training, which has been dropping year on year since 2008, can sustain competitive field sizes for so many races. (In this month’s ROA Leader on page 7, Rachel Hood looks at the benefits of centralised race planning.) My guess would be that we have now reached a tipping point and that the current level of fixtures is unsustainable, particularly with the British breeding industry in such a fragile state, and with so many of our good older staying horses being cherry-picked by overseas buyers.

Of course, the essence of our sport is in the continued production of brilliant racehorses and in Kingman and Australia, who feature in ‘Big Picture’ on pages 16-19, we have two sublime thoroughbreds capable of capturing the public’s imagination.

For Khalid Abdullah’s Juddmonte Farms, surely the benchmark for any breeding operation, to have foaled Frankel and Kingman just a few years apart is remarkable.

Coolmore’s Australia, on the other hand, with his Classicwinning parents, might just be the best-bred horse in training, of this or any other season, and is certainly the most valuable on the planet. The hope and expectation will be that he follows in the hoofprints of his magnificent sire, Galileo, at stud and goes on to produce a host of champions himself.

The temptation to the owner, as with Kingman, must be to retire at the end of this season with the guarantee of massive interest from breeders all around the globe, yet this would represent a huge loss to the sport – how many people travelled to Goodwood or York specifically to catch a glimpse of these wonderful horses? – and it must be hoped that both remain in training as four-year-olds next season.

Certainly the magazine couldn’t wish for two more outstanding horses to follow in its second decade.

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CONTENTS SEPTEMBER 2014

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FEATURES

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ROA Leader Centralised race planning plea

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News New Group 1 sprint

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Changes

Rising star Adam Kirby

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Talking To...

Howard Wright Lack of coverage bad news

Breeders’ Digest Dunaden off to Overbury

Tony Morris The trend of retiring at two

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Big Interview

New trainer Simon Crisford Your news in a nutshell

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Sales Previews Tatts Ireland & Keeneland

INTERNATIONAL SCENE 26

View From Ireland Shane Shortall shines

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Continental Tales Markus Klug’s Arc dream

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Around The Globe Tonalist strikes right note for Christophe Clement

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Kingman and James Doyle were brilliant at Goodwood and Deauville

Sales Circuit Arqana results surge

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The Breeding Business Cover charge for Andrew Hollis

Australia and Kingman rule

TBA Leader Breeders pivotal to Plus 10

COVER STORY The Big Picture

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Caulfield Files Danzig line alive and well

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ROA Forum Loss of turf tracks bad for sport

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Prize Money Table How the racecourses compare

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LEADING THE FIELD IN BLOODSTOCK INSURANCE

TBA Forum Including Foal Show and Seminar reports

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Breeder of the Month Wardall Bloodstock for Mukhadram

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Focus On... Syndicates How to get involved in ownership

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Vet Forum Understanding Atypical Myopathy

AHEAD OF THE FIELD CONTACT US

DATA BOOK 98

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European Pattern Results and analysis

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ROA LEADER

RACHEL HOOD President Racehorse Owners Association

Centralised race planning programme badly needed BHA must tackle racecourses over isolated approach that leads to small fields

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ompilation of the annual fixture list and race programme is the most complicated and potentially divisive task in racing. An annual undertaking that never fails to produce heated debate, criticism and often disappointment, it is, however, the single most vital function of the racing industry’s year.

Requiring the judgment of Solomon to find anything like a satisfactory balance between all the conflicting issues and parties, the early skirmishes of this fraught exercise for 2015 are already taking place with yet further layers of complications now having been added to the process.

Not only is the industry tasked with matching the number of fixtures and the minutia of the race programme with the requirements of the horse population; not only must we address the expectations of racecourses and the betting industry in doing what works best for them; but now we also have to try to accommodate the ambitions of the restored allweather racecourse of Chelmsford City and the requirements of a new artificial venue at Newcastle, which, I am horrified to say, would involve sacrificing their fine turf track. All this at a time when there is acute concern about the proportion of racing that is now on the allweather (Chief Executive Richard Wayman’s column, page 68).

Aware that the overall good of racing is better served if average field sizes of ten runners can be achieved, the objective observer might say we should simply rip up what has gone before and start afresh. In a perfect world, they might argue, we should base the whole fixture list on one gigantic auction so that each fixture slot went to the racecourse that bids the most prize-money.

The problem here is that there has always been a question mark hanging over the ownership of fixtures and the BHA would probably find itself in court if was overly dictatorial as to when a racecourse can put on fixtures. In any event, there would be no sense in meddling with the quality end of the fixture list. The big Saturdays and festival meetings are at racing’s core, even though there is

discontent with the current trend of shunting some of the festival meetings into already over-crowded Saturdays.

The fact that more money is now flowing into racing from media rights than from the Levy Board adds further complications to the fixtures debate. As media rights money is paid directly to the racecourses, the courses naturally want to maximise their income by putting on fixtures, irrespective of other considerations such as whether a nearby track is also racing on the same day.

Disregard for geographical considerations means crowds suffer and horses often have to travel longer distances.

Throw into this mix the desire of some courses to put on more self-funded fixtures (without Levy Board cash) and you can see how the absolute need to cap the number of fixtures from 2014 to 2015 will be difficult to achieve.

With a static horse population, decreasing field sizes are the result of our bloated fixture list, but this could be tackled by establishing a truly centralised race planning programme operating under the auspices of the BHA to replace the largely isolated approach now carried out by racecourses.

With the BHA finally having gained a proper understanding of the horse population in all its complexity, it is crucial that it now creates a race planning matrix that maximises competition and minimises the effects of small fields.

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TBA LEADER

RICHARD LANCASTER Chairman Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association

Plus 10 a direct result of breeder consultation Liaison between British and Irish industries a key factor in new single scheme

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s the voice of British thoroughbred breeders, the TBA board and committee members also have to be keen listeners, not only to what grass-roots colleagues are saying but also to what everyone else in the sport is thinking. Our championing of the new Plus 10 bonus scheme and close monitoring of the proposed BHA restructuring are examples of both positions in practice.

Plus 10, which will amalgamate the British Owners and Breeders Incentive Scheme (BOBIS) and the Racing Post Yearling Bonus Scheme when it is fully operational in 2016, has been created as a result of listening to what commercial vendors, most notably breeders, had to say, namely that there were too many incentive programmes.

In addition, concerns were expressed that BOBIS was alienating the Irish breeding industry, and Plus 10 goes a long way to dealing with this aspect.

You are never going to satisfy everyone, because as far as breeders are concerned – from owner/breeders to commercial operators – we all have our own objectives, which are not always lined up in the same direction, and compromise invariably upsets someone. But the great thing about Plus 10 is that its development shows we can listen and act.

A number of people said we should have a British-only scheme, which did not include the Irish, but in the interest of having just one scheme, we have spoken to Irish breeders and welcome the degree of co-operation they have shown As a result, Plus 10 represents a sensible, workable compromise, which recognises the historic and commercial links between the bloodstock industries of Britain and Ireland, and streamlines the marketplace as far as incentive schemes played out on the racecourse are concerned.

It also sits well with Tattersalls, Goffs and DBS, and provides a clear reflection of the international world in which we operate, showing that Britain and Ireland do have to stand together sometimes.

The one unfortunate aspect of the introduction of Plus 10 was that, despite the best efforts of the TBA, it was not possible to get the scheme launched in time to have specific details about eligible yearlings printed in the Doncaster sales catalogues. Time lines were critical, but due to circumstances outside the control of the TBA and the sales company, they were not met.

Although regrettable, this delay will not do lasting harm, since Plus 10 will evolve over the next 18 months, as it operates alongside BOBIS next year before standing alone in 2016, as the Racing Post Yearling Bonus Scheme is also gradually phased out.

As Plus 10 settles in and starts to pay bonuses of £10,000 or €12,500 to a wide range of worthy winners, the contributions from such as the BHA, the Levy Board and HRI will be a tangible demonstration of the way that the various facets of British and Irish racing can co-operate to best effect.

The TBA looks forward to playing its part in future developments, none of which may be more significant than the restructure of the BHA itself. The more that each section can work together the more likely we are to come up with realistic answers to tricky decisions.

Much of the work has so far been conducted away from the public gaze, but the TBA board and committees are playing their part, and will continue to be involved and contribute to the debate.

The BHA’s position on licensing means that some sectors – trainers and jockeys, for instance – are subject to certain controls that by the very nature of the exercise do not cover those involved in breeding, and this applies throughout the world.

There are some 2,500 small breeders in Britain, and the whole of the sport relies on their participation. We must be watchful of restrictions being placed on them, because if costs go up, they will be driven away in significant numbers. Whatever transpires over the coming months, we will be robust in defence of the breeders’ position.

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NEWS Stories from the racing world

Royal Ascot gets Group 1 three-year-old sprint

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European Pattern changes see race created plus alterations and upgrades to programme

Due Diligence (15) chases home Slade Power in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes, which next year is only open to older horses

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adical changes to the Royal Ascot race programme will be made in 2015, wrapped around the belief that threeyear-old sprinters are inadequately catered for.

Headline news is the creation of a brand new Group 1 sprint for the Classic generation, to be run on the Friday of the Royal meeting. Making way for it, controversially, is the Buckingham Palace Handicap, which has been ditched.

In related changes, the Diamond Jubilee Stakes is to be open only to four-year-olds and up – this year, three-year-old Due Diligence

three-year-old only programme until midsummer, when the Classic generation is considered ready to take on older horses.

“It is no coincidence that when it comes to milers and middle-distance horses, Europe can genuinely lay claim to having the best in the world, but there is a definite lack of top-class European three-year-old sprinters.

“The steps we have taken are bold, some may say radical. But the Committee believes they’re warranted and that they will be of considerable benefit to European horseracing and breeding.”

finished runner-up to Slade Power – while the winners of a Pattern race will no longer be able to contest the Jersey Stakes.

The British Champions Sprint at Ascot in October has been upgraded to Group 1, while there were also changes in France, Germany and Ireland, where the Flying Five on Irish Champions Weekend will become a Group 2.

Brian Kavanagh, Chairman of the European Pattern Committee, explained: “For horses performing at every distance other than sprinting, the European Pattern provides a

The British Horseracing Authority is in the process of recruiting a new Chief Executive following the news that Paul Bittar is to leave British racing’s regulator early in 2015.

The announcement was not completely unexpected as there had been rumours that Bittar would be departing, with suggestions that his relationship with Chairman Steve Harman was not a particularly close one.

That was denied by Bittar, though subsequent to the official press release on the day of the announcement he did underline in a radio interview that the three years he has spent with the BHA is the absolute minimum he would have needed to make a splash.

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He said: “It is not without some sadness I am leaving as I have enjoyed the role and enjoyed the racing but there is some logic to leaving now having discussed with the board the plans we are implementing.

“Three years is the absolute minimum for a CEO as you are only just starting to get into the role. It was a big decision to ponder and a discussion I’ve been having for a number of months.”

Harman remarked: “Paul has been instrumental in building the foundations for racing’s future growth, has established stronger regulation and integrity of the sport and improved its overall health.”

Paul Bittar: sad to go

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British racing and breeding has lost one of its most passionate and popular members with the death of Sir Eric Parker aged 81.

From his Crimbourne Stud in West Sussex, Sir Eric bred a host of good winners including Havana Gold, winner of last year’s Group 1 Prix Jean Prat and now a stallion for Qatar Bloodstock.

His familiar blue, white and red silks were carried by top-class horses under both codes, including Grand National winner Seagram, Whitbread victor Topsham Bay and Indian Lodge, who achieved a Group 1 double in 2000 when successful in the Prix du Moulin and Prix de la Foret.

Sir Eric also enjoyed plenty of success at the big yearling auctions and only last month sold a Dubawi filly out of his mare Coyote for €500,000 at Arqana in Deauville.

Talking to Julian Muscat in the August edition of Thoroughbred Owner & Breeder, Sir Eric summed up his attraction to the sport in which he became so heavily involved.

“I just love the whole business,” he said.

“Going racing as an owner remains the most fun, but sales time certainly has its own fascinations.”

A fixture in the sphere of racing politics for 25 years, Sir Eric spent two decades on the Racehorse Owners Association Council, including three years as President, before stepping down to heartfelt applause at this year’s AGM. A chartered accountant by trade, Sir Eric’s involvement with the ROA came after his retirement in 1993 as Chief Executive of Trafalgar House, the property and

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Sir Eric Parker, 1933-2014

investment company that once owned The Ritz and Cunard. His distinguished business career earned him his knighthood.

Sir Eric had been battling cancer in recent years and faced his illness

with courage and dignity.

He leaves wife Lady Marlene, four children and nine grandchildren.

A full obituary for Sir Eric Parker will appear in the October issue.

Vet Charles Frank remembered Charles Frank, who was veterinary advisor to the Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association for 25 years, passed away at the end of July.

He was 87.

As one of the original authors of the Codes of Practice, he combined a thorough understanding of the industry with integrity and a common sense approach, which made him popular amongst breeders and with his colleagues.

Sam Sheppard, former Chief Executive of the European Breeders’ Fund, was a good friend. He said: “Charles was very well respected at home and abroad and full of THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

common sense – he was straight down the line and very knowledgable.

“We were friends for over 40 years. He will be a big loss and I’ll miss him greatly.”

Frank enjoyed success as a breeder, selling a colt foal by Sovereign Lord for 800gns in 1966. Subsequently named Lord John, he went on to win the Phoenix Stakes and finish a short-head runner-up in the New Stakes (now Norfolk Stakes) at Royal Ascot.

He was also an author, publishing novels under the pen name of David Dawson and writing his autobiography, Reminiscences Of A Travelling Vet.

Charles Frank (right) with good friend Sam Sheppard in Newmarket

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Racing’s news in a nutshell PEOPLE AND BUSINESS Roger Curtis Quits the training ranks aged 65 to open a restaurant in Tenerife; one of his best horses was chaser Mister Ed, winner of the 1993 Midlands National.

Andy Clifton Former Communications Manager at Cheltenham is recruited by Newbury racecourse to a similar role after a year with the Hong Kong Jockey Club.

Princess Haya Decides to step down as President of the International Federation for Equestrian Sports, a position she has occupied since 2006.

Henry Spiller Ex-assistant to Saeed bin Suroor starts training in his own right in Newmarket; the 28-year-old has leased 25 boxes at Saffron House Stables.

Tansy Challis OLBG Mares’ Hurdle Cheltenham Festival contest won six times

by Quevega is upgraded to Group 1 status and will be worth an extra £15,000, taking its value to £100,000.

David Martin Breeder and consignor sells his Gedding Grange Stud in Suffolk, where he bred Salamanca, winner of Newbury’s Watership Down Stud Sales Race.

Jack Garritty Promising apprentice jockey leaves Andrew Balding’s Kingsclere yard to join Richard Fahey in North Yorkshire.

Neil Mackenzie Ross Lingfield’s Clerk of the Course accepts new position with Bahrain’s Rashid Equestrian & Horseracing Club, along with stipendiary steward Marcus Weedon.

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Racing Welfare’s Head of Fundraising will leave the charity after six years in the role.

Jamie Spencer Former champion jockey will retire at the end of the current Flat season to take on a full-time role with the Qatar Racing management team.

Fergal Lynch Jockey has his first ride in Britain for almost six years after the BHA allows the man guilty of race-fixing permission to ride on an Irish licence.

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Phil Cunningham, owner of dual Guineas hero Cockney Rebel, will set up his own private training operation at Albert House stables in Newmarket. Fran Ferris, who was disqualified for five years having been found guilty of stopping horses, has his application for a riding licence rejected by the BHA. Jump jockey Sean Quinlan is handed a suspended prison sentence after pleading guilty to affray following a fight at a pub in Leek, Staffordshire. Charlie Brooks decides to relinquish his training licence with immediate effect due to logistical reasons; he will continue to train point-to-pointers. The Levy Board is searching for two new members to replace Paul Darling and Paul Bolt; the members are government-appointed and independent of racing and betting.

Warwick decides to do away with Flat racing and become a jumps-only racecourse from next year onwards. Tattersalls acquires a majority share in French sales house Osarus, having bought into the business in 2012.

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Tweenhills times AN EYE FOR SUCCESS

SEPTEMBER 2014

Dunaden ready for A new career Melbourne Cup winner Dunaden graced us with his presence recently when stopping off en-route to the stallion boxes at Overbury Stud in Gloucestershire.

After a stellar career on the track it is wonderful to see the eight-year-old gain a berth at Simon Sweeting’s excellent farm. A winner or placed in 29 of his 46

staff PROFILE Rob Carlile Second stud groom

Bred for your role?

Dad has five mares at home in Australia and bred Melbourne Cup runner Diamond Basin and Group One-placed Ranchos Coup. The mares include La Reata who is expecting a first foal by Harbour Watch.

Easy when Dad gives you a job...

Not really. At 13 he put me on a horse truck and sent me four hours up the road to a mate’s farm where I worked for six weeks and got paid with a new pair of boots! But I was hooked.

From there?

I worked at various places and spent four years with Darley, including eight months at Dalham Hall where I met my fiancée, Jo. Eventually we went back to Australia and I worked for Three Bridges Thoroughbreds – while there I led up Black Caviar’s yearling half-brother who made Aus$5m, an Australian record.

Still bugged by travel...

You make a lot of friends, but living out of a suitcase has its downside.

I wanted to plant my feet, and when Jo became pregnant with our daughter, Lilah, we opted to come back to Britain.

I met David at the Easter Sales and he offered me a job at Tweenhills, so I started in May. Do you ride?

I haven’t ridden for years. I wanted to be a jockey but became too heavy – when I played Aussie Rules I was the centre, the diesel engine room who moved very slowly.

races, Dunaden landed three top-grade contests – the Melbourne Cup, Hong Kong Vase and Caulfield Cup – and was in the frame at that level on numerous occasions.

Known as the horse that escalated Qatar’s interest in European racing, Dunaden will always be a favourite of Sheikh Fahad, who will be supporting him with mares in the New Year.

Dunaden with Simon Sweeting (left) and David Redvers

Zoustar’s top book of mares Brilliant sprinter Zoustar has attracted a superb first book of mares to Widden Stud in Australia.

Owned by a partnership that includes Qatar Bloodstock, Zoustar’s book “is shaping up to be one of the strongest any first-season sire could wish for,” says Widden’s Ryan McEvoy.

He added: “He arrived back from Britain in magnificent condition. Credit must go to David Redvers and the team at Tweenhills Farm & Stud who have looked after him superbly.

One-winning daughter Cosmic Endeavour, prodigious Faster Pussycat, who has produced three stakes winners, Group One winner Fine Society, Group Two and Three winner Flying Snitzel, the Group One winner Our Egyptian Raine – a full sister to top-grade victress Egyptian Ra – and Reactive, the best sprinting mare of her generation and likely to throw an exceptionally quick foal by the young stallion.

“Zoustar fits the exact profile of what is needed to become a successful sire in Australia; good looks, Group One-winning speed, temperament and by the country’s hottest young stallion [Northern Meteor].”

Mares to be covered by Zoustar include Crevette, dam of Northern Meteor’s Group

Zoustar – standing at Widden Stud

Harpy a sm art sort for M akfi A comfortable win at Deauville recently was the next step towards a Stakes-race challenge for Makfi’s daughter Harpy.

The two-year-old filly more than pleased trainer Jean-Claude Rouget when adding to an earlier debut success at Maisons-Laffitte, and is now being aimed at the Gr.3 Prix d’Aumale, run over 1,600 metres at Chantilly.

time. Harbour Watch is in his second season at Emirates Park in Australia, where his first foals were born in early August. A filly out of Ragnhild had the honour of being his debutante, followed soon after by a colt out of Strathspey.

Mums keep out!

Harpy, a daughter of the Listed winner Miss Wind, is owned by Qatar Racing Ltd and Al Shaqab Racing, while her sire is owned by Qatar Bloodstock and stands here at Tweenhills Farm & Stud.

Other recent winners in France for Makfi include Cornwallville, who in August recorded his fourth victory this season.

Makfi and his fellow Tweenhills Farm & Stud resident Harbour Watch are now in Australasia covering to southern hemisphere

Some outstanding foals have been born on the stud this year, but as summer rolls on they are being weaned from their mothers.

This simple creep-feeding device allows youngsters in to reach their bowls – they simply walk under the rail – but keeps their mothers out.

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RACEHORSE AND STALLION MOVEMENTS AND RETIREMENTS Verrazano Dual Grade 1 winner on dirt in America is retired to Coolmore’s Ashford Stud in Kentucky.

Pour Moi Coolmore sire, winner of the Derby in 2011, will not shuttle to New Zealand for the upcoming breeding season on veterinary advice.

Carlton House

Gale Force Ten Son of Oasis Dream, last year’s Jersey Stakes victor, will begin his stallion career at the Irish National Stud in County Kildare.

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The Queen’s 2011 Derby third is retired to Darley’s stud in New South Wales, Australia; the son of Street Cry will stand at a fee of A$16,000.

Thistle Bird Daughter of Selkirk, winner of this year’s Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes for the Roger Charlton stable, is retired by her owner/breeder Lady Rothschild.

Brae Hill Winner of the 2012 Lincoln Handicap for owner Marwan Koukash and trainer Richard Fahey is retired aged eight due to injury.

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Three Chimneys Farm shuttler will relocate permanently to Yarradale Stud in West Australia, where his fee will be A$16,000.

Coolmore stallion, sire of Grade 1 winner Havana, is sold to the Japan Race Horse Agency and will stand at East Stud in Hokkaido.

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Popular sprinter for the David Nicholls stable is retired aged 12 after a career that yielded 18 wins from 95 starts and more than £600,000 in prize-money.

High-class miler, a Grade 1 winner as a juvenile, is retired and syndicated at Wilgerbosdrift Stud in South Africa.

HORSE OBITUARIES Grape Tree Road 21 Sir Neil Westbrook 97 Breeder and owner of St Leger hero Bollin Eric, he was Chairman and Managing Director of Central Manchester Holdings Ltd for 45 years.

Ken Pickersgill 80 Worked for Bobby Renton before becoming an integral part of Peter Bailey’s stable, latterly as head groom.

Group 1 winner who sired Beverly D Stakes heroine Gorella and useful chaser Jayo, based at Shade Oak Stud in Shropshire since 2005.

Kid Cassidy 8 Talented two-mile chaser for owner JP McManus, winner of six races including Cheltenham’s 2013 Shloer Chase in which he beat Sire De Grugy.

Rodrigo De Triano 25 Brilliant son of El Gran Senor, winner of the English and Irish Guineas, Juddmonte International and Champion Stakes for Robert Sangster.

Alan Lillingston 79 Champion Hurdle-winning jockey, breeder of Classic winners, leading vendor and top event rider.

Christy Grassick 83 Former jockey and trainer who enjoyed success at the Cheltenham Festival and Royal Ascot as a trainer.

Dick Curran 89 Leading jump jockey of the 1950s, finishing second to Fred Winter in the 1952/53 championship, he trained Longtail to win the 1962 National Hunt Chase.

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Inchila 3 See More Business 24 Top chaser for owner Paul Barber and trainer Paul Nicholls, winner of the 1999 Cheltenham Gold Cup and two runnings of the King George.

Daughter of Dylan Thomas, fourth behind Taghrooda in this year’s Oaks, is put down after suffering an injury in the Ribblesdale Stakes.

Treble Heights 15 Michael Owen-owned runner/broodmare whose best progeny is top-class Flat stayer Brown Panther.

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THE BIG PICTURE

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AUSTRALIA

A REAL PIECE OF WORK He was only ready for a racecourse gallop according to his trainer Aidan O’Brien, which means Australia is a true superstar, such was the manner of his performance in the Juddmonte International at York, beating The Grey Gatsby by two lengths. Joseph O’Brien rode at 8st 12lb, below his normal minimum weight, on Australia, whose next target is likely to be the Irish Champion Stakes Photo George Selwyn

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THE BIG PICTURE

IS KINGMAN INVINCIBLE? They say the best horses can handle all types of ground and Kingman proved the point with scintillating victories in the Sussex Stakes at Goodwood on a quick surface (main image) and the Prix Jacques le Marois at Deauville on testing going (inset). Khalid Abdullah’s colt, who looks unbeatable over a mile, will bow out for the season in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot on Champions Day, October 18, after which a decision will be made on whether he stays in training Photos George Selwyn

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THE MAN YOU CAN’T IGNORE COMMENT

Tony Morris Retiring a horse to stud after his juvenile season isn’t a new phenomenon but what was a fad has now become a trend; will an enhanced three-year-old programme alter attitudes?

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Press Association that he had advised ownerbreeder Dermot McCalmont to scratch The Tetrarch from the Derby. The trouble that had caused his non-appearance in the previous autumn’s Imperial Plate had recurred, and he could not be made fit for further racing.

How would breeders react to The Tetrarch’s early retirement? The received wisdom was that form as a three-year-old was what mattered most for a prospective stallion, and soundness was inevitably highly prized. Evidence of a measure of stamina was also desirable. Here was a horse that had never competed at three, racing only in sprints, and was manifestly unsound.

The devil’s advocate might also point out that the so-called ‘spotted wonder’ had written his own pedigree; at birth he would have been regarded as unfashionably-bred.

Promising start at stud It turned out that breeders gave The Tetrarch the benefit of their doubts, at least for a while, and they were rewarded for it. The horse got top-class runners, and along with outstanding speedsters such as Tetratema and Mumtaz Mahal, there were genuine stayers, including three winners of the St Leger. His problems at

stud were not about getting stock who trained on, stayed and were sound, but simply getting his mates in foal. He was never very fertile, and ultimately completely infertile.

The Tetrarch was exceptional in many ways, not least in carving out a highly successful stud career without having raced beyond adolescence, and until recent years few colts of my time who raced only at two were granted reasonable opportunities as stallions. The exceptions include Whistling Wind, who headed the Irish Free Handicap in 1962, and Double Jump, top weight in England’s Free Handicap two years later; both were sprint-bred and campaigned only in sprints.

Whistling Wind ran only three times, always at the minimum trip, and his best win came in the National Stakes at Sandown. He was an intended runner in the Prix Morny, but split a pastern shortly before that race, was sold to the Irish National Stud for £25,000 and had his first covering season as a four-year-old. Double Jump won his first five races, including the Prix Robert Papin and the Gimcrack Stakes. Expected to trot up in the Middle Park, he burst a blood vessel in the race and was never seen on the racecourse again. He too began at stud as a four-year-old.

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n 1913 The Tetrarch convinced many longtime observers of racing that he was the fastest, most brilliant two-year-old ever known on the Turf. He ran seven times and won seven times; in the Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot his margin of victory was ten lengths, and in the Rous Memorial Stakes at Goodwood it was six. His only close call came in the National Breeders’ Produce Stakes at Kempton Park, where he was left many lengths at the start, but got up to score by a neck, conceding 17lb to the runner-up and 18lb to the third. In no other race did a rival finish within three lengths of him. His Free Handicap mark of 9st 10lb confirmed his outstanding merit.

He raced only at sprint distances, never past six furlongs, but such was his reputation that he was widely considered invincible over any distance, featuring as favourite for both the 2000 Guineas and the Derby throughout the winter.

The only doubt anyone seemed to entertain about him was the fact that he had missed his final engagement at two, in the Imperial Plate at Kempton, after having rapped a foreleg at exercise, with the result that he became slightly lame.

There was no indication that the colt had a longterm soundness problem, though it has to be said that public relations were not high on any trainer’s agenda a century ago, and The Tetrarch’s handler Atty Persse would have been the longest of longshots to issue regular health bulletins on members of his string.

Four days before the Guineas it became known that The Tetrarch would not be leaving Stockbridge for Newmarket, but no reason was given. The public continued to believe in the champion two-year-old and he remained as short as 7-2 for the Derby after the first Classic had been run.

But in mid-May, Persse finally had to come clean, telling the

Zebedee (left) retired early for commercial reasons, unlike The Tetrarch

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Each horse got winners but getting stock of real class proved too much for both. It seemed reasonable to suppose that Whistling Wind and Double Jump had simply been speedy juveniles, more precocious than their contemporaries at that early stage, and would have been unlikely to dominate again at three. Their stud careers did nothing to advertise the practice of providing opportunities for horses who raced only at two.

American inspiration However, around the same time in the States there were two examples of horses who made early exits from racing, but who made lasting impressions on pedigrees. Hail To Reason and Raise A Native each headed the Experimental Free Handicap, the former in 1960, the latter in 1963, but their careers at the track were very different.

Hail To Reason had his first two starts in three-furlong dashes at Santa Anita in January and February, and he did not win until the sixth time of asking, by which time he had switched to New York. He was at his peak between July and September, when he won six out of seven, including the Hopeful Stakes at Saratoga by ten lengths and the World’s Playground Stakes at Atlantic City by four and a half, the latter event representing his swan-song. All in all, he won nine of 18 starts.

Raise A Native, a horse who was all speed, had only four starts, opening with a six-length romp in a three-furlong event at Hialeah at the end of February. His three subsequent efforts came at Aqueduct between May and July, and he won them all, registering two track records and equalling the third. In training for his first start at six furlongs he ruptured his near-fore tendon sheath, and that was that.

Hail To Reason and Raise A Native both started at stud at three, and they were both soon among North America’s leading sires. The former had the Belmont Stakes winner Hail To All and a couple of high-class fillies in Straight Deal and Admiring in his first crop, while the latter had Exclusive Native from his initial season’s coverings. In time, Hail To Reason would earn further fame through Halo and Roberto, Raise A Native through Mr Prospector and Alydar.

While breeders in this part of the world held to the belief that two-yearolds were mere adolescents, not to be trusted as parent stock until they had proved themselves at three or over, it seemed unlikely that there would be comparable cases to those of Hail To Reason and Raise A Native here. But there came an example when Fasliyev failed to remain sound for racing as a three-year-old, and before we realised what a flop he was as a sire, Holy Roman Emperor was diverted from a planned Classic campaign to replace infertile George Washington, and a trend has developed out of a fad.

Dark Angel was taken out of training after a poor effort in the 2007 Dewhurst, and rated only 113 by Timeform. In the following spring he was covering a book of 114 mares. More recently we have witnessed other early exits for commercial reasons, from the likes of Approve and Zebedee in 2010, Lilbourne Lad in 2011, and Sir Prancealot in 2012.

And there came a fashionable excuse for such moves – the dearth of suitable and worthwhile opportunities for three-year-old sprinters, who were too often made to struggle against seasoned older campaigners.

Reference to the programme book indicates that they had a point.

But from next year that excuse should be redundant. The European Pattern Committee has acknowledged the shortcomings in the sprint division, and has made radical changes to the schedule for 2015, instituting a new Group 1 for Royal Ascot and upgrading ten other events, three in England, four in Ireland, two in France and one in Germany.

The enhanced programme sends a clear message to the connections of prominent precocious juvenile colts: come out and compete, and prove that your horse is more than the early-developing adolescent that he’s shown himself to be.

Is it going to produce the desired result? I wouldn’t bet on it.

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HOWARD WRIGHT COMMENT

These are worrying times for the coverage of our sport in the national daily newspapers – someone needs to get on the case and quickly

Less is not more for racing

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overage of horseracing in British newspapers has hit an all-time low for the modern era. So low that if Great British Racing’s media persuaders do not get out there and ‘cosy up’ to the nationals’ sports editors, promotion of the sport will inevitably sink even further.

Britain still has the most extensive media coverage in the world – trade and general newspaper press; national and local; daily, weekly and monthly; print, television and radio; terrestrial and satellite, and the internet; tips, features and comment. But the position of superiority is becoming precarious.

The aftermath of Channel 4’s terrestrial monopoly is one example, although the only surprise is that people who should have known better are apparently surprised by the sharp drop in audience figures compared with the BBC.

“The days of two-

man coverage in The Daily Telegraph are over, broken after 57 years” Those who said that regular viewers would easily adjust to finding another button on the remote control had clearly not paid even cursory attention to the weekly Top 10 tables published in The Sunday Times’ Culture magazine.

Most recently, they would have spotted that the BBC’s biggest non-World Cup audience in June and July was for EastEnders, at around seven million, while Channel 4’s top programme struggled to reach more than two million viewers, only slightly more than Channel 5’s highest figure and about 200,000 more than Sky’s.

Channel 4 Racing never stood a chance of matching the BBC’s viewership, regardless of who was drafted into its new team.

Worse still, though, is the position of national daily newspapers, where the low point was

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reached shortly after Royal Ascot, when JA McGrath was summarily told his services were no longer required by The Daily Telegraph.

So, after at least 70 years, the Hotspur pen-name – proudly upheld by Bill Curling, Peter Scott and McGrath in that time – has disappeared. More significantly, the days of two-man coverage in the Telegraph are over, broken after 57 years since John Oaksey joined as Curling’s assistant.

Yet the Telegraph management’s decision had nothing to do with quality – or maybe even the popularity or otherwise of racing – but everything to do with commercialism, since McGrath was one of six eminent, and possibly among the highest-paid, sports writers who lost their jobs.

As if to emphasise the point, the week after the day of the long knives, the Telegraph paraded the divisive figure of cricketer Kevin Pietersen as its latest celebrity columnist.

Less than a month later came a four-page pull-out on Glorious Goodwood – for which it would be unusual if hefty benefits did not flow from West Sussex to Telegraph Towers – and during which meeting, minus McGrath’s input, there was a two-page spread every day, put together by sole remaining specialist correspondent Marcus Armytage, a ‘colour’ writer not normally associated with racing, and two female diarists who mainly mined the upper echelons of visitors for their inspiration.

No wonder Armytage went on holiday the following week, when the relatively scant and obviously basic editorial coverage that regular readers can expect in the future were laid bare.

However, the Telegraph is not alone in paring back on racing. Signs of contraction have been evident elsewhere, and they are not solely restricted to the omission of cards.

The Evening Standard dropped everything when its new owner jettisoned the cover price; minimal coverage has become a JA McGrath: the last of the Hotspurs

feature of The Independent; The Guardian maintains an excellent two-man team of Greg Wood and Chris Cook, ably backed by Tony Paley, but generally carries less than a handful of racecards and no results, and Tote returns no longer appear in The Times and Telegraph.

The worrying signs are there, every day of the week, regardless of the quality of racing on offer.

GBR’s pursuit of planted features in nonracing pages may be a very worthy objective but its importance pales against the bigger picture – consistent, daily presentation of racing. Without that, we are all sunk.

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VIEW FROM IRELAND

By JESSICA LAMB OF THE RACING POST

Shortall in the big time at Galway The festival does not make a horse’s name, but opportunity knocks for jockeys and trainers

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side from Dermot Weld’s usual impressive winners tally at the Galway festival are two stories about the future.

Galway’s handicap-laden schedule means horses do not tend to take their star quality much further than the summer highlight, but for trainers and jockeys it can be the springboard.

Gary Carroll rode a treble at the meeting in 2009 and in less than 24 hours achieved three wins on three horses he had never ridden for three trainers who had never booked him before. The fact that all these lower class races that apprentices and conditionals get opportunities in are televised on RTE blasts them into an arena where normally they wouldn’t get noticed.

“Then there was the interview with Ted Walsh,” said a delighted Carroll when subsequently reliving his Galway experience.

In that position this year was the conditional Shane Shortall. He watched the racing on Monday and Tuesday from his sofa, sidelined by a suspension, but got an unexpected call up for the Noel Meade-trained Road To Riches in Shane Shortall in action on Road To Riches, and below with the Galway Plate

Thetote.com Galway Plate and, buoyed by that, pulled off a win on Greatness in a handicap hurdle that he still cannot believe.

“I don’t know how Greatness pulled that out of the bag,” he said. “I thought when I made the

mistake at the second last that we were racing for a place. I was pushing and kicking for all I was worth and I was looking at the markers on the right and when we were getting to the 50 yards I said, ‘We have this now’. It was a great feeling to beat the champ AP McCoy. “He is the best jockey that ever lived, in my opinion. He’s just the perfect professional. He’s a gentleman and would make time for anyone.

I don’t think there’s anyone that is as dedicated as him.”

In the previous race, another handicap hurdle, Shortall had finished second on mare Supreme Vic for local trainer Norman Lee, also in the infancy of his career.

“The trip was probably a bit short for her,” he said. “Norman is a real up and coming trainer though and that mare is really improving all the time. She’s tough and genuine.”

So he went into his ride on Road To Riches at the top of his game. Furthermore, the wisdom of Meade and owner Gigginstown House Stud’s Eddie O’Leary meant the 22-yearold was sent out under no pressure.

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Meade said the plan was to make the running but that if it didn’t work out that it was no problem and I was to go with it, and Eddie said the same.

“After the third fence I saw an opportunity to go and make it and I took it. In fairness to the horse he was telling me what to do after that.

He was foot perfect at every fence. I was only making up the weight on the day. Looking back I think I gained half a length at every fence.”

After a jockey wins a television race at Galway, they are weighed in at the podium, then escorted to commentator Ted Walsh and Robert Hall’s platform outside the weigh-room for the post-race analysis.

It is the first time they watch the race back.

Journalists try to grab a word with them and

“Road To Riches was

foot perfect at every fence. I was only making up the weight on the day” walk and talk as they are taken back to the podium for the presentation.

The next race could be off before the rider reaches the showers and by then it’s nearly time to go home and prepare for tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day and the weekend.

So when does it sink in for a rider who is not used to it all?

“When I walked back in [to the weigh-room] someone shook my hand,” Shortall said. “I have absolutely no idea who it was or if I even knew them, but I remember they said, ‘Make sure you take in every bit’. I was trying to but it was going by very quick. I savoured every second I could and I hope I took in enough.”

In the next four days, after getting off his last Galway ride, Pires, who finished second in Sunday’s handicap chase, Shortall was booked by six new trainers, including Charles Byrnes, Philip Fenton and Adrian Maguire -– all highlyrespected judges of riding ability.

It can be presumed that Gigginstown House Stud will also continue to support him, with retained rider Bryan Cooper injured and the jumps season creeping up, but his main source of advice and assistance remains his boss Tony Martin.

He said: “Tony is my mentor in life and racing. I could call him at 12 at night with a problem. I work hard for him and he repays me. It’s down to him that I’m doing so well and I could never be grateful enough for that.”

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Norman Lee did not make the headlines Shortall did at Galway, but he did get himself noticed.

Shortall, who has ridden two winners for the trainer this season, was quick to praise him, unprompted.

He has been privy to the successful methods of Tony Martin and believes Lee is “going places” with his small yard in Kilmacduagh, on the Galway and Clare border.

Quietly, Lee thinks so too. At least, he is willing to keep working hard – and nothing more – until he does.

“I’ve been training for three years,” he said. “We were pre-training and point-topointing and learning every day. We decided to start racing them on the track too. Otherwise we were going to lose many of our horses. I didn’t want that. We’ve no star, just solid horses that we’ll have fun with.

“Our owners are from Limerick and Galway, local people. We try to do our best for them. We point-to-point the horses and would go on with them to the track then.

We’d be charging the same money that we’d charge for a point-to-pointer, which isn’t cheap for the track or expensive for point-to-pointing.”

Supreme Vic, who Shortall rode at Galway, is the one putting him on the map.

She was their first track winner at Ballinrobe in May and was part of a 24hour double for the small team at the end of July when she won at Limerick and Bashful Beauty won at Wexford.

“Our best day really was at Ballinrobe when Supreme Vic won her handicap hurdle,” he said. “It was our first winner and it was a great surprise really. It was her first run of the year and she had come back from a break and improved so much.

“She was a very moderate filly when she was five and six, now she’s a decent filly at eight. She’s 17hh and it has to be top of the ground for her, but I think there are more races to be won with her. The horses are just buzzing right now and hopefully it will continue.

“We’ve had four winners in a couple of months and the phone is ringing and things are starting to happen. You get noticed on the track.”

The form is a surprise but by no means easily achieved as Lee has only one assistant and takes it upon himself to be

Norman Lee: hands-on trainer

responsible for everything. At 36, he has not settled down with a family yet and, while that reduces his own support, it gives him the crucial time he needs to build the operation.

“It’s just me and one girl,” he said. “We ride them out all day long. I like to be involved in everything; I ride in every bit of work. You need to be hands on. It’s 13hour days, but so be it. You’re either in it or not. You might be inside the yard at 11 at night. If you had a family you couldn’t do that.”

His family back in Tubber, County Clare, are no stranger to big success with father Christy training Lesabelle to win the Galway Hurdle in 1973. There were always thoroughbreds around and Lee himself began bringing on youngsters as a hobby, alongside working as a carpenter as soon as he left school.

During those eight years he built the 20 stables he has now and laid a gallop and started relationships with local trainers that help him work and travel horses. That was the groundwork and now he is looking to the future.

“I’m keeping my eyes open all the time and listening to the older trainers,” he said.

“I like the old knowledge and the wisdom of the older trainers.

“Some day we’ll have a real good horse and we’ll be going to places like Cheltenham. That’s a real ambition.”

Lee added: “It’s a tough game but we have to keep at it. You have to keep it going. You’ll have bad days and good days.

There will be days when you think why am I at this craic, but then there are the good days when they win and it brings a tear to your eye. It makes you proud when you’re so hands-on.”

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Trainer now shooting for the moon Markus Klug’s career progress set for overdrive with unbeaten Arc contender

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he leading players in German racing, both equine and human, are quite familiar names these days. Following the exploits of Danedream, Novellist and Pastorius, trainers such as Andreas Wohler are no longer alien to your average British racing fan and the form of the showpiece races on the German calendar is given due respect.

So when Sea The Moon, a member of what is shaping into an exceptional first crop for stallion Sea The Stars, ran away with the Deutsches Derby, it was unsurprising he was inserted near the top of the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe betting, especially once the gregarious winning pilot, Christophe Soumillon, had waxed lyrical in post-race interviews.

Sea The Moon’s pedigree – which includes the Group 1 winners Samum and Schiaparelli – is full of well-known names, while his jockey has one of the highest profiles of any global riding star, up there with the likes of Frankie Dettori, Gary Stevens and Damien Oliver.

Contrastingly, his 38-year-old trainer, Markus Klug, is some way short of being a household name even around the breakfast tables of the great German racing families, the Schiergens and the Hofers. That is because, up until five years ago, Herr Klug had never had more than ten horses under his care and, up until a year ago, he had not been responsible for a single Pattern race triumph.

Sport-Welt, the German equivalent of our Racing Post, trumpeted Klug as not just the shooting star of the German training scene but the brightest shooting star in recent German racing history. Klug began 2011 with only 71 winners to his name from nine years with a licence. Three years on, he goes into the final third of the campaign with a huge lead in the German trainers’ championship and his sights set firmly on the Arc. The current situation could not have been anticipated even a few seasons ago. And, when Klug was born in Transylvania, Romania in June 1976, it must have been a billion-to-one shot.

His German-speaking family took advantage of the weakening of the Iron Curtain to move to Rastatt, a couple of miles east of the Franco-German border, when he was a baby. Despite having no ancestral background in

Sea The Moon thrilled trainer Markus Klug (below) with his Deutsches Derby romp

racing, he rapidly became besotted by our sport, cycling after school to his local course, BadenBaden, whenever it was staging a meeting.

His other childhood sporting fixation, Borussia Monchengladbach FC, remains to this day – an entire room in his house is set aside for team memorabilia and photographs.

He initially made his living as an insurance salesman but in late 2002 passed the exam to become a permit holder and the following year, after three near misses, his first horse, Gordian, won at the fourth time of asking.

In 2005 Klug achieved his ambition of saddling a winner at his home venue of BadenBaden in grand style, visiting the winners’ enclosure once at each of the course’s three annual meetings. Little changed in the following few seasons, his small string supplying a steady stream of victories at a good strike-rate at largely minor venues in France, Switzerland, Austria and Belgium as well as Germany.

But, having in 2009 decided to take the plunge and become a public trainer, he got his big break a year later when Dr Gunter Paul, the Chairman of one of Germany’s leading stud farms, Gestut Rottgen, offered him

the chance to relocate to Rottgen’s palatial 600acre training facility near Cologne airport.

Moving from the shared facilities of Iffezheim to the magnificent solitude of Rottgen took a while to get used to. Yet Klug’s progress is now relentless. He broke into the top ten in the trainers’ table in 2012, landed his first Group race when Hey Little Gorl took last year’s German St Leger, and dominated this term to such an extent that he saddled the favourites for both the Derby and Oaks.

Wunder, his top three-year-old filly, had carried off the Group 3 Prix Chloe in France before she lined up for the Oaks. Badly hampered at a crucial stage, she was fifth.

But Sea The Moon’s startling Derby triumph looks even better now that the distant second, Lucky Lion, has gone on to take the scalp of Frankel’s brother, Noble Mission, in Group 1 company in Munich.

The word ‘klug’ translates from German as ‘clever’ or ‘smart’. It is a smart bet the trainer will be contesting Europe’s top races for years.

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Saturday Derby a work in progress

possibility of moving the Investec Derby start time back to an evening slot might do well to cast their eyes across the North Sea to Sweden.

For the Swedish Jockey Club (SJC) is just raking over the coals of the Swedish Derby, run at Jagersro in Malmo on July 5, which not only featured an evening start for the first time but had been brought forward by five weeks in order to streamline Scandinavia’s Classic race programme.

The move was not greeted with universal acclaim and the attendance suffered a 5% drop compared to the last running on its traditional August Sunday date. But Nicholas Cordrey, the SJC’s Director of Racing, was far from disheartened.

“We were very pleased with the first Saturday evening Derby and it is something that we will continue to work on,” Cordrey said.

“We had live music after racing for the first time – from Alcazar, one of Sweden’s top five pop bands – and we did a lot to promote the day, but there were still plenty of people who were not aware of the date change.

“Everyone who was there was extremely positive, be they owners, punters or sponsors, and the doubters are mostly people who didn’t go racing.

“The race remaining on the first Saturday in July is not certain because there is so much competition on that date. There was harness racing on the Thursday, Friday and Saturday, plus an ATP tennis tournament just down the road along with a showjumping event, and this year we had the added complication of clashing with one of the semi-finals from the football World Cup. “Saturday evening gambling is a relatively new thing here so betting turnover was down, but not by as much as we had budgeted for.

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Epsom racecourse officials pondering the

Duke Derby (right) duels with stablemate Eye In The Sky in the Swedish Derby

Conversely, with Mercedes-Benz as the banner sponsor, we generated record sponsorship income.

“The sponsors want us to continue on a Saturday evening, they see it as something that can be very big. We also want horse owners to come even if they do not have a runner because it is something special, more relaxed than when it was on a Sunday, more of a festival, entertainment evening.”

One area of concern that Cordrey is working on is the lack of widespread live television coverage. “We are not sure that an agreement with one of the smaller sports channels is the way to go; we want to get to new customers and really look after the future

of the event,” he said.

“To set up a link with one of the main channels, in the same way as Epsom has with Channel Four, would also be gold as far as our sponsors are concerned.”

The race itself was a triumph for Norwegian trainer Niels Petersen and his policy of taking his best horses to Dubai to avoid the worst ravages of the Scandinavian winter.

His two representatives, Duke Derby and Eye In The Sky, had both raced at Meydan in March. They finished clear of the other 11 runners with the presciently-named Duke Derby, an Irish-bred son of Duke Of Marmalade, coming out on top by a nose.

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Champions Day to showcase La Zarzuela La Zarzuela racecourse in Madrid is hoping to attract British entries to the two showpiece races of its ‘Spanish Champions Day’ on October 26.

The races concerned are the Gran Premio Memorial Duque de Toledo, an all-aged mile and a half contest, and the Gran Criterium, a one-mile juvenile event.

Entries for both close on September 4.

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The Duque de Toledo, which commemorates the life of King Alfonso XII of Spain, great grandfather of the current king, Felipe VI, has total prize-money of £49,583 and is known locally as the ‘Spanish Arc’, while the Gran Criterium, which is the nation’s top two-year-old race, has £34,000 up for grabs.

“We want to show off our wonderful

racecourse and we have plenty on offer – good prize-money, an amazing atmosphere and excellent food and weather – to ensure that visitors enjoy a fantastic experience,” said Gerardo Torres, La Zarzuela’s Director of Racing. “A capacity crowd of 5,500 is expected and if you want to win one of the top two races, you probably need a horse rated somewhere around 110.”

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AROUND THE GLOBE THE WORLDWIDE RACING SCENE

NORT H A M E R I CA

by Steve Andersen

Sweet victory on dirt for Clement

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f all the stakes races that trainer Christophe Clement has won in his 23-year career, nothing compares to Tonalist’s victory in the Belmont Stakes in June. All through the summer, Clement found Tonalist to be the horse people wanted to talk about.

“I’ve never had so many people congratulate me,” Clement said in early August. “It’s a different level than any other Grade 1.”

Tonalist, a leading candidate for the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Santa Anita on November 1, is the late-developing colt who ended California Chrome’s bid for a sweep of the Triple Crown, and the horse who proved emphatically that Clement, 48, is more than just a trainer of turf runners.

Clement has made a name for himself in the last 15 years as one of America’s leading grass trainers, particularly at racecourses in Florida, Kentucky and New York. Gio Ponti helped to establish Clement’s reputation, giving the Paris native his first Eclipse Award winner.

Gio Ponti was the nation’s top older horse of 2009, and top grass horse in 2009 and 2010. An 11-time stakes winner, Gio Ponti was second in the 2009 Breeders’ Cup Classic to Zenyatta, the same year he won the Grade 1 Arlington Million.

Tonalist gives Christophe Clement (left) his career highlight to date in landing the Belmont Stakes under Joel Rosario

Gio Ponti’s success gave Clement his best year in 2009, when he finished eighth in the nation with $6.8 million in stable earnings.

The personal mark could fall this year. As of early August, Clement’s stable had earned $5.2m, and ranked ninth in the nation with big-prize races still to come this year at

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Saratoga, Belmont Park, Keeneland and Santa Anita that are certain to lure Clement-trained runners.

There could even be a day when Clement sends a stakes runner to Europe, though he thinks that American-trained horses would be best in top-class sprints.

“We could take on the Europeans with a speed horse or a precocious horse,” he said. “I don’t know if we could do it at a mile or a mile and a quarter.”

Clement, who worked for Alec Head in France, Shug McGaughey in New York and Luca Cumani in England before starting on his own, has strong views on medication. In early August he was part of a group of 24 trainers who signed a petition proposing a gradual elimination of raceday medications, getting rid of medications for two-year-olds in 2015, and all runners in 2016.

McGaughey, Roger Attfield, Neil Drysdale,

“People don’t

understand the perception. The perception is worse than the medication” D Wayne Lukas, Richard Mandella, Graham Motion, Bill Mott and Todd Pletcher were some of the prominent names on the list.

“For me it’s been the same line, the less medication the better,” said Clement. “People don’t understand the perception. The perception is worse than the medication. The rest of the world races without medication.”

Clement trains Tonalist for Robert Evans, whose family has decades of involvement in racing. This year, he has won stakes events with the French import Aigue Marine, who races for breeders Haras du Mezeray and Skymarc Farm, and Speaking Of Which, the former Irish-trained horse owned and bred

by Moyglare Stud.

One of the highlights of 2013 was a win in the Grade 1 Del Mar Oaks with Discreet Marq, who races for owner/breeder Patricia Generazio.

The European connections remain strong.

Annecdote, winner of the Group 3 Oak Tree Stakes at Goodwood and the Sandringham Handicap at Royal Ascot in 2013, recently joined the stable.

“We’re having a good year,” said Clement.

“I’ve got a great team of owners. Most are owners/breeders. I’ve been a lucky guy.”

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SOUTH AFRICA by Nicola Hayward

Stellar performances The South African 2013/14 racing season will be remembered for some outstanding performances. Louis The King, a son of Black Minnaloushe, became only the second horse after the great Horse Chestnut to win the Triple Crown. His colours were subsequently lowered in the Daily News 2000 and the Durban July by Legislate.

The diminutive bay filly Beach Beauty displayed some gutsy performances by winning five of eight starts, three of them at Group 1 level, while Yorker, a son of the much-missed Jet Master, won the Grade 1 Summer Cup in November, was runnerup in the J&B Metropolitan Stakes and then won two more Grade 1 races before entering quarantine for the arduous journey to Dubai. Overseas, Variety Club, Vercingetorix, Shea Shea and Sanshaawes kept the South African flag flying with some excellent performances in top company.

This year, for the first time since 1990, a trainer based in the Western Cape has been crowned champion. Justin Snaith did what most experts considered an impossibility given the stringent African Horse Sickness restrictions for most of the season, as well as the geographical isolation of his Cape base in relation to the lucrative racing centres in Gauteng and KwaZulu Natal.

Yet the season was not without its setbacks for the Snaith yard: Jet Explorer fell in the Gold Challenge and broke his nose and jaw in four places, Legislate took a heavy knock while winning the Durban July and then three horses died in an accident in the Karoo when the truck transporting six Snaith horses from Durban back to Cape Town swerved to avoid a Kudu and crashed. Snaith, together with his father Chris and brother Jonathan, has a strong team and together with a base of loyal owners have given Western Cape racing a real lift.

Not to be outdone, Klawervlei Stud has returned the champion breeder crown to the Western Cape for the first time in a decade, beating Summerhill Stud in a tight competition that went right down to the wire. Klawervlei was also top of the breeders’ log of horses running overseas,

Champion jockey S’manga Khumalo

with Beaumont Stud in second place. Jet Master returned to the top of the stallion table by a significant margin from Dynasty and Captain Al. That all three were bred and raced in South Africa is proof once again of the depth and strength of the South African bloodstock industry. Lateral (Singspiel) headed the first-season sires’ table, with Seventh Rock in second place.

S’manga Khumalo won the jockeys’ championship to become the first ever black rider to claim the title. Khumalo, 28, was born in Durban. In 2013, he rode Heavy Metal to victory in the Durban July, so gaining another notable first in his home city in winning the blue riband of South African racing. Despite missing the event this year through injury, he had amassed enough wins (185 from a staggering 1,381 rides) to keep his rivals at bay.

In a season that bade farewell to stud stalwarts Western Winter and Kahal, the bloodstock industry remained sound.

Sales figures were strong and the arrival of an individual of the calibre of Duke Of Marmalade at Drakenstein Stud is testament to the confidence that local breeders have in the future of the thoroughbred industry in South Africa.

It remains to be seen who will be voted Equus Champion for the season, but the racing public has had another year of stellar performances here and around the world.

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AROUND THE GLOBE

AUST R A L I A

by Danny Power

The battle between Australia’s thoroughbred breeders and the powerful coal-mining industry has taken a major swing in favour of the miners.

Not only did the miners win the first round of what shapes as a long and emotional fight for space in the famous Hunter Valley in New South Wales, they struck such a surprising and heavy blow that the breeders are struggling to get off the canvas.

For the most part of this year, the breeding industry, through lobbying and with public support, has felt it was well ahead on points, especially after the Independent Planning Assessment Commission recommended that the planned Drayton South open cut mine should not go ahead because of its threat to the existence of a number of thoroughbred properties, including Coolmore Stud, Jerry’s Plains, and one of Sheikh Mohammed’s farms, Darley Woodlands.

However, in July, in an announcement that stunned the thoroughbred industry, the NSW government’s Department of Planning went against the IPAC recommendation and approved the Drayton South mine, slap bang

“As it is, the massive Drayton mine is already close enough to the farms to cause serious concern”

in the middle of the southern end of the vast Valley.

As it is, the existing massive Drayton mine is already close enough to the farms to cause considerable concern.

In April, David Redvers, Bloodstock Manager for Qatar Racing, flew over the Hunter Valley in search of an Australian farm for Sheikh Fahad Al Thani. He was shocked by how much the coal mines had encroached into the thoroughbred breeding areas and declared his concern that the dust particles produced by these huge open-cut mines would threatened the lung development of foals. He said he would be looking to Victoria

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BRONWEN HEALY

Valley hunted to extinction by coal?

The future of the Hunter Valley breeding industry in NSW is under huge threat

or New Zealand for a ‘down under’ farm.

The government’s decision to approve the Drayton South mine has appalled the Hunter Valley Breeders’ Association. HVBA President Dr Cameron Collins has been scathing in his reply to the shock news.

“It shows a breathtaking lack of understanding of our industry and our business model and an obscure interpretation of IPAC’s recommendation,” he said. “It also displays a total disregard for the health and safety of the families that live on our stud farms – less than 500m from this proposed open cut coal mine.

“It is incomprehensible that a government department can, with the stroke of a pen, dismiss the advice of two independent bodies appointed by the government and signal the death knell of an entire industry in the Hunter Valley, billions of dollars of investment and thousands of jobs for the sake of one mine.”

The Hunter Valley, about two and a half hours drive north of Sydney, has been Australia’s iconic thoroughbred breeding district for 150 years, but in that time it has shared the great wealth of the rich soil with the coal miners.

The area has grown in prominence as an international thoroughbred nursery as some of the world’s leading breeders, including Coolmore and Darley, have taken up large holdings and spent a small fortune on infrastructure and horse flesh.

However, almost hand in hand with the thoroughbred industry, the coal industry also has grown immensely, to the point that the major city of the district, Newcastle, is now the world’s largest coal export hub.

Under Australian rules, farmers cannot refuse miners access to their properties for testing. What happens after that rarely falls in favour of the farmers.

However, there is a fightback. It started in Queensland, where many regions, including the Darling Downs, one of Australia’s agriculture food bowls and also a major thoroughbred breeding region, are under threat from coal seam gas exploration. Gas wells are popping up across Queensland like pimples on a teenager.

If the breeders lose this battle, there is no doubt that the existence of Coolmore and others in that part of the Hunter Valley is under threat and alternatives will need to be found.

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THE BIG INTERVIEW ADAM KIRBY

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TALKER On the racecourse Adam Kirby is focussed on performing to the best of his abilities with little time for pleasantries yet a visit to the 25-year-old’s home finds a different man, happy to talk openly and honestly about life in the saddle Words Julian Muscat • Photos George Selwyn

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ever judge a book by its cover, or in Adam Kirby’s case, by the first couple of chapters. Despite being one of the busiest in the business, little is known about the jockey who has flourished over the last two seasons.

That’s because Kirby prefers to let his riding do the talking.

Catching up with him is an achievement in itself. During the week in question he is commuting daily from his home in Kirtling, near Newmarket, to Glorious Goodwood via evening stints at Sandown and Ffos Las. It is a particularly arduous schedule.

Our photographer, George Selwyn, arranges to meet him before racing at Goodwood and sets up a scene around the sauna. On arrival, however, Kirby is in no mood for it and gives Selwyn short shrift.

Days later, an attempt to locate Kirby’s house reaches a dead end when he is apparently not at home. The only sign of life is the hostile barking of three dogs.

And efforts to raise him on his mobile phone founder on the absence of any signal in the vicinity.

When contact is eventually made, it turns out Kirby’s house is up a narrow alley to the side of an indoor school, which opens up into a row of barns and a secluded house. It’s the sort of set-up

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you’d never stumble across by chance. It suits Kirby well.

Irritated by the delay in tracking him down, he is perfunctory in early conversation. But it isn’t long before the man from a family deeply immersed in greyhound racing proves good value. He speaks honestly and directly. He doesn’t dance around questions many in his profession would be unwilling to contemplate. It is soon clear he is not cut from regular cloth.

As we discuss the strength-sapping nature of the summer riding schedule, Kirby stops in mid-sentence and says: “I wasn’t very good to your photographer at Goodwood the other day, and I’m sorry about that.

“He wanted to take photographs when I was in the sauna and changing into my gear, but I was there to work. I didn’t want anyone around me; I needed to start concentrating on what was going on [in the weighing room]. It makes things difficult, but I shouldn’t have brushed him off. I’ll apologise when I next see him.”

Those words open an interesting window on a man some describe as uncommunicative, even brusque. Yet people of that ilk rarely backtrack to rue how they’d handled themselves in run-ofthe mill circumstances some days earlier.

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Game face on: Adam Kirby prepares for battle at Glorious Goodwood

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ADAM KIRBY

Above: Kirby talks with Godolphin trainer Charlie Appleby, who is increasingly using the jockey’s services Right: celebrating a first Group 1 win on Lethal Force with boss Clive Cox

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His intolerance of distractions ahead of his rides also highlights the modern jockey’s mindset. Kirby, 25, is much the youngest among this season’s leading jockeys. The weighing room’s cavalier era, now long gone, was never even sampled by the man who has won the last two all-weather riding titles.

The new era requires professionalism, dedication and an indefatigable work ethic.

Its extreme demands create pressures unknown to jockeys of yore. It has become a deadly serious business, especially with the intense analysis to which riders are subjected by racecourse stewards and the media.

Such scrutiny is not something Kirby would be willing to accommodate but for the fact it comes with the territory. He still lives at home, which he proudly declares has been very much the making of him.

“I have lived here since I was four years old,” he says. “My lovely mum, Anne, trains more than 50 greyhounds here and there’s not a lot I can’t turn my hand to around the place. There’s my brother, Spencer, who’s a chef, and my sister, Melanie, who cares for the elderly. We are all very close.”

The only family member absent, Kirby’s father Maurice, is much lamented. It remains

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ADAM KIRBY a profound regret to Kirby that Maurice never realised his desire to see his son win his first Group 1 race, courtesy of Lethal Force’s Diamond Jubilee Stakes triumph at Royal Ascot last year.

“Unfortunately he passed away in his sleep not long before,” Kirby relates. “I was obviously thinking about him on that day and all sorts of emotions went through my head.

“I also got a big buzz out of it, because it was very important to me,” he continues.

“For some reason you feel you are incapable of winning a Group 1 race until you do – if that makes any sense. I’d ridden in a few and been placed, but to actually win one is great because you know then that you can mix it with the best.”

An interesting cameo arose on the combination’s next start, when Kirby rode Lethal Force to win the July Cup in course record time. It reinforced Lethal Force’s status as the best sprinter in training, an accolade some were inclined to withhold on the basis that Kirby had somehow stolen the Diamond Jubilee.

Plenty of jockeys would be happy to take the credit but not Kirby, who addressed the issue after the July Cup. “I couldn’t understand why some people were putting him down after Ascot,” he reflects.

“You can never go without the horse. If Lethal Force was still around this season I firmly believe he would have won those races again. He’d have run all over them.”

It was appropriate that Lethal Force came from Clive Cox’s stable, to where Kirby transferred his apprenticeship from Michael Wigham, in Newmarket, more than ten years ago. Each party within this enduring partnership has prospered: Kirby’s deeds in the saddle have matched the progress made

by Cox from stables overlooking the Lambourn valley.

Indeed, Kirby would have broken his Group 1 duck 20 months earlier had he stuck with the Cox-trained Reckless Abandon in the 2012 Middle Park Stakes.

The jockey chose instead to ride Moohaajim for Marco Botti, who has been another rich source of rides.

“I thought my moment had arrived that day,” Kirby recalls with a wry smile. “I hit the front in the final furlong and thought I was going to put the race away, but Reckless was very tough. He came back at me and we got beat a neck. I’d also got beat a neck when Xtension finished third in the [2009] Dewhurst. That’s why you wonder whether that first Group 1 will ever come.”

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Es Que Love wins the Group 2 Lennox Stakes – but at a cost for his jockey

Holding the whip hand Adam Kirby’s momentum ground to a halt in August when he was suspended for 18 days, six of them deferred for two months, after he rode Es Que Love to win the Group 2 Lennox Stakes at Goodwood on July 29. The suspension, for persistent misuse of the whip, ruled him out of the York Ebor meeting.

The offence, for hitting Es Que Love in the wrong place, triggered a clause requiring Kirby to sit before the BHA’s disciplinary panel. It was his fifth whip offence in the last six months.

While disappointed, Kirby acknowledges he must correct a whip action with his left hand (he is righthanded) that can lead to him hitting horses in the wrong place.

“I have been practising a lot and getting help with it,” he says. “I am working on it all the time.

“On Es Que Love, unfortunately it didn’t go through my mind to get my arm further back, so I ended up hitting the horse short of his backside. It wasn’t deliberate in any way, they were only flicks, and the horse was absolutely fine afterwards.”

Kirby’s predicament was compounded by a sore shoulder that required treatment

before he went out to ride that day. “It didn’t help,” he reflects, “but it’s over now, it’s behind me. It does take the gloss off winning a big race. Your adrenaline is up, you’re trying your hardest and you don’t really think about things as much as you would in less important circumstances.

“I feel I’ve been unfortunate with a lot of whip bans,” he continues. “Most of them have been small.

One of them was for giving a horse three gentle backhanders when he was winning easily, but I didn’t know that as I hadn’t looked back and I wanted to teach a babyish horse something.

The totting-up process works against someone like me, who has 1,000 rides a year.”

Kirby is inclined to take whip suspensions to heart, adding: “I get upset about it because I don’t mistreat horses in any way and never have done. But I’ve got to get on top of it, and I will.”

Part of Kirby’s problem is his height. He is unusually tall for a jockey and rides at 9st. That isn’t conducive to a smooth, streamlined riding style, but a more relevant factor is his age. It is easy to forget that the 25-year-old is still learning about important aspects of race-riding.

“I get upset about

the bans because I don’t mistreat horses in any way and never have”

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ADAM KIRBY >> We’d had a chat about it before the race.

“Clive and I have always had a very open relationship,” the jockey continues. “I think it works so well because we both tell each other how it is. I ride everything for him when I can and hopefully I always will.”

Kirby’s talents have drawn wider appreciation in a year when he has ridden for nearly 150 different trainers. He has slipped the straight-jacket often attached to successful jockeys on the all-weather. So much so that he recently forged a new and potentially rewarding alliance, this time with Charlie Appleby’s Moulton Paddocks stable.

“I had one ride for Charlie at the start of last year and had ridden some winners for him by the end,” the jockey relates. “Then, four months ago, he asked me to start riding out for him and it has gone on from there.”

“Horses can’t race at

both ends; you need to get them to chill out.

I’d say I’m a better horseman than rider” The opportunity arose when Appleby’s then-stable jockey, Mickael Barzalona, returned to France. “We’ve had some good days and I’m pleased to be any sort of part of a set-up like that,” Kirby says.

Appleby said at the time he wanted to put up jockeys that would suit each individual horse, rather than have one retained rider.

When Kirby is asked about the particular qualities he brings to the table, he pauses for a while.

“Well, I think I’m reasonably good at getting horses settled and into a rhythm. Horses can’t race at both ends; you have to get them to chill out. I’d say I’m a better horseman than a rider. It’s all about timing it right, doing everything at the right stage. And while I can get horses to relax, I think I’m pretty good at waking one up as well.”

The Appleby/ Kirby axis enjoys a particularly high strike rate (42% at the time of writing) and the highlight to date was French Navy’s victory in the Group 3 Diomed Stakes on Derby day at Epsom.

Mention races like the Derby and Kirby’s face becomes animated.

He has yet to even ride in the blue riband but leaves no doubt about what it Kirby donning the famous silks of Hamdan Al Maktoum – he has ridden for 150 different stables in 2014

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would mean to win it. So much so that he would prefer to achieve that than to become champion jockey.

“It would be brilliant to be champion, but being realistic that’s not going to happen because I’m too heavy,” he says. “But if I could choose, I’d rather win the Derby.

“When you speak to people who know nothing about racing, they have heard of the Derby and the Grand National. To be champion jockey wouldn’t mean as much to the man in the street.”

For Kirby to entertain the prospect is a rare departure from the norm. He says he never even thinks about winning the Derby, he never sets himself targets; he just puts his head down and grafts.

In that respect Kirby has much in common with David Evans, the trainer who has been the most fertile source of winners for him this year. Kirby has been down to Evans’s Welsh stables – “it was quite an eye-opener” – the pair having combined to telling effect during the winter all-weather season.

“David has been great to me,” Kirby says.

“So much about this game is getting on the right horses. You move up the order when jockeys like Ryan Moore and Richard Hughes are not riding. That makes a big difference, and David is right up there among trainers who do well over the winter.”

But the link is more than professional: Kirby has been dating Evans’s daughter, Megan, for two years now. Megan runs a small livery business from the Kirby family home and the jockey is appreciative of the support of a woman whose family, like his own, sets great store by hard work.

Kirby is at a stage in his career when there is much to look forward to. He is firmly grounded, recognising throughout these good times that the pendulum might easily swing the other way, although he hasn’t yet had to rebound from a serious career setback.

He says he was fortunate to have had Kieren Fallon as a neighbour during his formative years. The real benefit, though, is one that Fallon himself lacked in his youth: the presence of a ‘big brother’ who knows from experience all the potential pitfalls awaiting young jockeys with stardust in their eyes.

Indeed, there is something of Fallon’s latter-day demeanour about Kirby: guarded in public, keen to keep those outside his inner circle at arm’s length, yet stimulating company once the ground rules of engagement are established.

By the end, the man whose welcome lacked warmth espouses courtesy. He is far from gregarious; he takes his cue from others and responds accordingly. Show him respect and he will duly return it. In the world of racing, with its many snakes and ladders, that is no bad way to be.

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Going full CIRCLE He started out as an assistant trainer and now, after working as a journalist for the Racing Post and then spending two decades with the Godolphin operation, Simon Crisford is striking out on his own and taking out a training licence

By Tim Richards

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ou have taken the decision to enter the training ranks. Is training something you have always hankered after?

Yes, absolutely. I have always wanted and intended to train. I suppose you could say that I am doing things back to front. Other people seem to go from training to racehorse management or being bloodstock agents, but I have gone from being assistant trainer to racing journalist, bloodstock advisor, administrator and racing manager. I am really pleased to at last have the chance – it’s never too late.

“The most important

Do you see yourself as well-qualified for the job, having worked with Sir Mark Prescott and John Dunlop before managing the all-powerful Godolphin operation?

That is for others to judge. But I feel fortunate to have worked with some fantastic people.

In addition to Sir Mark Prescott and John Dunlop, I have also worked with Saeed bin Suroor, John Gosden, Andre Fabre, David Loder and Mark Johnston. I must have worked with more than 100 trainers over the last 25 years and I have also worked with THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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thing I have learned is that success comes with the best stable management” Simon Crisford with his former boss Sheikh Mohammed and Princess Haya

some of the best vets and farriers in the world, along with jockeys and work riders. The most important thing I have learned is that success comes with the best stable management.

What is the timescale for your plans to set up in part of Clive Brittain’s Carlburg Stables in Newmarket?

We will be looking to move in during late

autumn. Clive and Maureen have been so kind to allow me to rent some boxes and I would like to call the yard Calne Stables, as that is what Clive was known as during his 23 years working for Sir Noel Murless. In a perfect world, we would have our first runners in Dubai this winter. Whatever happens, we will be fully up and running for the 2015 Flat season.

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understand about their horses. Those are the sort of people I would love to train for because, like me, they want to maximise the potential of each horse and they know how important it is to give their horses the time they need.

I think 50 horses is a realistic and manageable number for a first-season trainer.

I know that training is going to be a very tough job and I am prepared for that. I shall relish the challenge.

train and how many?

Winners, ideally! One of the things I enjoyed most working first for Anthony Stroud at Darley and then for Godolphin was following particular families, getting to know them through the generations and getting the best out of them. Having also worked on stallion and private stud farms, I am conscious of how much owner/breeders know and

Did Sheikh Mohammed give you his blessing when you told him you were going to start training? What did you learn from working with him?

Sheikh Mohammed has given me tremendous encouragement and support. In terms of what I have learned from him, I would highlight outstanding horsemanship, always putting the horse first and having patience. He understands racing and loves to win and always told me the secret to success in a racing stable were the three ‘Ps’ – planning, perfection and patience. He would probably say that he also taught me that, like everyone, I can be wrong sometimes.

You are setting up your own business as a trainer. How do you structure the financial side of the operation when you have horses to buy and staff to pay, even before you have runners?

I am making a significant personal investment on the basis that I believe we have all the ingredients in place to be successful. I have prepared a business plan and consulted financial advisors as to how this new project can

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“I think 50 horses is a realistic number for a first-season trainer; it will be tough but I’ll relish the challenge”

best work. However, at the outset much obviously depends on the number of horses I receive. The trainers’ course at the British Racing School has given me invaluable advice on how to run my business.

Your time at Godolphin spanned two decades. Is there one moment, or horse, that stands out?

It was a privilege to work for Godolphin, and to have been involved with more than 200 Group 1 winners is remarkable. It was also wonderful to be centrally involved in what was the first truly international racing stable. Sheikh Mohammed really changed racing with the concept of keeping older horses in training. I absolutely loved being involved with planning campaigns over several seasons for some great horses.

Dubai Millennium was clearly the outstanding horse. If I had to pick one moment, though, it would be Lammtarra winning the Derby first time out in 1995 after no end of problems throughout the winter. At one stage,

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Charles II, Oliver Reed, Bob Marley and Hercule Poirot I relax by… reading history Worst habit is… not admitting I have any Sum yourself up in five words… having fun and working hard

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PROFESSIONAL Racing has taught me… it’s all in the detail Alternative career… historian

Race I’d most like to win… the Derby My racing hero is… Sheikh Mohammed and Sir Peter O’Sullevan

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Best advice I’ve ever had… keep smiling

Lammtarra winning the 1995 Derby first time out after a troubled preparation was

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Crisford with John Dunlop and Snaafi Dancer, who cost $10.2 million in 1983 but never made the track and proved infertile

Sheikh Mohammed was the only person who thought we should persevere and try to get Lammtarra to Epsom. To win such a big race against all the odds made that a very special day.

What do you think was your biggest achievement at Godolphin?

Others may have a view on that, but from my perspective the whole ethos of Godolphin is that it is a team.

For me, Godolphin’s principal achievement was representing Dubai on the world stage to the highest standards and helping to develop it into the sports capital of the Middle East. Also it was fantastic that Godolphin created so many great stallions for Darley.

During all the drama of the Mahmood Al Zarooni doping situation there was a lot of pressure on you. How do you reflect on what happened during that period?

It was a dreadful situation for Sheikh Mohammed, who was so badly let down, and for British racing. I am pleased it is now in the past.

Crisford’s best moment with Godolphin

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Before you started working for Sheikh Mohammed in 1989, you were the Racing Post’s Newmarket correspondent. Does your journalistic background mean you are less sensitive to what is written about you in the media?

Certainly not. But it helps me to understand the media and how it works. I think racing in Britain is so lucky with the coverage it enjoys.

Thanks to the tuition of Howard Wright and

other experienced journalists I can still spot a story a mile away before it happens and I have always found that to be very useful.

Did you always want to work with horses or in racing when you were young?

Yes. What kicked it off was a visit to Plumpton in 1968 when I was six, and also watching Brian Fletcher win the Grand National on Red Alligator in the same year. After that horses and racing were the centre of my universe, although initially I wanted to be a commentator. Later on when John Dunlop and Sir Mark started me off all I wanted to do was train horses and be involved in racing.

Which is your favourite racecourse in the world, and what makes it so special?

Goodwood, both aesthetically and sentimentally. I grew up in the area and used to go racing there from a young age. Glorious Goodwood is exactly that and Godolphin had many successes at the course during my time there. I hope I can have one or two there myself.

Where would you like to be professionally in five years time?

I would be very happy if I were still in business, respected by my peers and doing a good job for a great team of owners and staff.

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BREEDERS’ DIGEST

By EMMA BERRY, Bloodstock Editor

Our extended bloodstock coverage this month includes:

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Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale: MD Roger Casey in profile – pages 48-50 Keeneland September Yearling Sale: The rise of Irish-owned Paramount Sales – pages 52-54 Sales Circuit: European yearling season starts with a bang in Deauville – pages 56-62 The Breeding Business: Andrew Hollis delights in Goodwood Group success – pages 64-65 Caulfield Files: Danehill and Green Desert keep Danzig line thriving in Europe – pages 66-67

Class and durability: what’s not to like?

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t’s still early days for next season’s stallion announcements but already a few early signings have taken place in Britain and Ireland.

The Irish National Stud has recruited Gale Force Ten, a former top lot at the DBS Premier Sale and a son of Stowell Hill’s admirable mare Ronaldsay and Oasis Dream, whose young sons are starting to prove their worth at stud. Darley were quick to strike for top sprinter Slade Power, winner of this year’s Diamond Jubilee Stakes and July Cup, who may yet prove to be a dual-hemisphere prospect if his November raid on Flemington goes to plan.

One whose Australian forays have brought him fame around the racing world, albeit at the opposite end of the distance spectrum, is the wonderful Dunaden. He’s far more than the plodder that his top-flight success over two miles may have some believe (not that any plodder can win the Melbourne Cup these days) as he is also a dual Group 1 winner at a mile and a half in the Caulfield Cup and Hong Kong Vase.

As Tony Morris reflects in his column this month (pages 22-23), retiring a colt to stud at the end of his two-year-old season isn’t solely a modern invention but it is a growing trend. The Tetrarch is probably the most famous example of a top-class stallion not racing beyond two – though he didn’t actually enter stud until he was four – and as Tony highlights, though he was unfashionably bred he had “written his own pedigree”.

The same could probably be said for Dunaden, though he has proved his worth over many seasons. His almost forgotten sire Nicobar covered just 14 mares in France in the year he was conceived and, sent to Arqana’s December Sale as a foal, Dunaden fetched a bid of just €1,500.

Plenty of future champions have been similarly overlooked as youngsters – six-time Group 1 winner Snow Fairy springs to mind, while Euro Charline, winner of the Beverly D Stakes for the Marco Botti stable in August,

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reached only Tatttersalls’ minimum bid of 800gns when passing through its February Sale as a ‘short yearling’. These are the kind of tales that must bring shudders to those currently spending whopping sums at the elite yearling sales.

Though it may no longer be deemed fashionable to hang around in training year after year contesting the world’s top races, hoovering up more than £5 million in prize-money and gaining an army of adoring fans, it is nevertheless fervently hoped, in this quarter at least, that Dunaden will be supported by many more mares than just those owned by Sheikh Fahad, who has specifically located him at Overbury Stud, within hollering distance of Tweenhills, for this very purpose.

Important legacy Dunaden’s legacy reaches far beyond just his achievements on the track, significant though they were. In winning the Melbourne Cup he ensured that a spark of interest became a fullblown flame of passion for horseracing from the

Fueling a dream: Sheikh Fahad leads in Dunaden after his Melbourne Cup win

then-new owner Sheikh Fahad. The impact the sheikh and his family have had on the sport in the short time since then has been immense.

Their influence on its future can only be imagined.

Whether or not Dunaden gets his chance to influence the bloodlines of the future remains to be seen. His paternal grandsire Indian Ridge and great grandsire Ahonoora certainly made their mark, the latter’s descendants remaining the only strand of the Byerley Turk line still active in Europe – yet another reason to hope that he succeeds.

A further factor for consideration is that he becomes the fourth of the last five Melbourne Cup winners to be retired for stallion duties.

Street Cry’s son Shocking is now at Rich Hill Stud in New Zealand, Americain shuttles between Australia’s Swettenham Stud and Calumet Farm in Kentucky, and last year’s winner Fiorente is currently serving his first book of mares at Eliza Park Stud in Victoria.

It is often bemoaned that in Europe we are now emulating Australian breeders’ desire for early speed. It’s true up to a point – and largely dictated by events in the sales ring for those breeding commercially – but the middledistance stallions are there to be used for those with the desire to breed a potentially decent stayer. Yes, the returns may not be so great if selling as a yearling but the prices paid for horses in training who have shown aptitude at a mile and a half and beyond are not to be sniffed at. And even if you don’t sell, the prizemoney to be made from racing a classy and durable middle-distance horse is also encouraging.

It’s not just Dunaden who has amassed an impressive haul – Red Cadeaux has earned more than £4 million, Jakkalberry and Dandino over £1 million, while Mount Athos, Brown Panther and Simenon have each accrued more than £500,000. It will be interesting to see where the entires Dandino and Brown Panther end up for their stud careers. Being by Dansili and Shirocco respectively and both durable and admirable performers, they certainly deserve to be given every chance.

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TATTERSALLS IRELAND SEPTEMBER YEARLING SALE

Fresh faces, REFRESHED MARKET The onset of recession meant Roger Casey and Neil Walsh joined the Tattersalls Ireland team in the worst of times, but both are looking ahead to the best of times this September

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Roger Casey has a bird’s eye view of proceedings in the sales ring, which have improved dramatically in the last few years

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oger Casey remembers driving to work on the first day of the Derby Sale in 2008. He had started with Tattersalls Ireland in his initial role as Finance Director just a couple of months previously: baptism of fire.

The Irish economy was in a downward spiral and Casey knew that it was going to be a tough Derby Sale. Like everyone else, however, he didn’t know just how deep the downturn in the economy was set to run. Then he turned on the radio. It was official. Ireland was in recession.

Brilliant, he thought. First day of the Derby Sale, first day of the recession.

Sure enough, that Derby Sale was difficult.

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The turnover of €10.5 million was down from almost €16m the previous year. The average of €28,479 was down from over €43,000 in 2007, the lowest average figure since the turn of the millennium.

“It was a difficult start all right,” recalls Casey.

“They were difficult times. But we had to get on with it. There wasn’t really much time to take stock and ease your way in.”

His learning curve was steep. With his qualifications in chartered accountancy and his career up to that point in finance, a step into the bloodstock industry was as unlikely as it was sudden. His wife Imelda – who is from

Ratoath, helpfully – spotted an advertisement in The Sunday Times saying that Tattersalls Ireland were looking for a Finance Director, Liam Dunne’s replacement.

Casey enjoyed racing. He is a sports fan and, while the Waterford hurlers occupy pride of place, he has always had a real interest in racing and breeding. Before he joined Tattersalls, he was a member of a syndicate that had a horse in training with Jessica Harrington. Also, he used to come out to the sales at Fairyhouse.

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“Everything is

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personal, it’s the personal approach, even when you have to deliver bad news”

Neil Walsh in the barns at Fairyhouse, which is set to stage its premier Flat auction

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behind you was immense, Casey tells you. Each client was treated as an individual, each case assessed on its individual merits. There is nothing like a recession to concentrate the mind.

“George was brilliant,” Casey says. “He had this way of dealing with people. He was fair

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was the main reason I would come out here, more to listen to David than to see what was going on at the sale. But I always enjoyed the sale, I always enjoyed the buzz.”

It took him a little while to get used to the financial norms of the bloodstock industry. He needed to get his head around the credit model.

Some of his former colleagues still marvel at the arrangements that exist in the bloodstock industry. And he joined in at a time of overproduction and recession – a poor combination regardless of the industry.

“At the end of my first year, we had to let five people go, and that was really awful,” he continues. “We’re a small team here, everyone knows everyone really well, it’s like a big family. But we had to reduce the staff from 28 to 23. That was quite a challenging time, it was very difficult for everybody. But [late Managing Director] George Mernagh was a really great help to me then, as he always was, and [Chairman] Edmond Mahony. They were two great mentors, both with very differing styles, but neither less effective than the other.”

Together they worked through the tough years, piece by piece. Clients were going through tough times as well. The banks had restricted credit and, in many cases, credit from the sales company was vitally important. To have the strength of the Tattersalls organisation

to everyone and he made everybody feel important. He was a special person.”

It was Mernagh who recruited Casey, now the company’s Managing Director, in 2008, and Bloodstock Director Neil Walsh a couple of months afterwards. George’s death in 2011 had reverberations all around the bloodstock industry, but nowhere was it more acutely felt than at Tattersalls Ireland. He was irreplaceable, but his legacy is immense.

“George chose us, we were his picks,” says Roger, “so I always feel a huge responsibility to do things and to conduct ourselves in the manner in which he taught us, just as George himself would have done it. Everything is personal, it’s the personal approach. Even when you have to deliver bad news, or say no, which you have to do often in this business, there is a way to do that. That’s always in the background for me. How would George have done it.”

There have been changes in personnel at Tattersalls in recent years. Philip Myerscough, Martin Mitchell and Michael Hillman have retired, all top bloodstock people, but what Tattersalls has lost in experience, it has gained in youthful exuberance. There is a young board

Coventry Stakes winner The Wow Signal was a €13,000 September Sale purchase

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The September Sale has been lucky for John Manley, who has raced Group winners Dick Turpin, Trumpet Major and Pether’s Moon

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of directors at Tattersalls Ireland. Casey and Walsh are joined at the boardroom table by Simon Kerins, Richard Pugh and Harry Fowler, while, of course, the steady and assured hand on the tiller is that of Chairman Mahony.

“It’s not about the individual members of the board,” says Casey. “It’s about Tattersalls, who have been selling horses since 1766. We’re just carrying on in the Tattersalls way, hopefully conducting ourselves in the right way. Going back to George, there is a correct way to do things, and we are trying to do them that way.”

The Derby Sale hit a nadir in 2009, when the total turnover of €6m was down a remarkable 61% on the aggregate figure just two years earlier, and the average of €19,288 was down 56%.

Because the Derby Sale is a National Hunt sale, clients are generally concentrated in Ireland and Britain. It’s a narrow focus. Because those economies suffered more than most during the global economic downturn, the Derby Sale was hit hard.

The Tattersalls team worked hard, and confidence started to seep back into the economy and to the industry. It has picked up every year since, to the point at which, this year, the aggregate and average figures for the Derby Sale of €14.6m and €43,576 were back up at 2005 levels.

“This year’s Derby Sale was an emphatic success,” says Casey. “It achieved the third highest turnover figure in the 39-year history of the sale. Every third lot made €50,000 or more and 28 lots made six figures.

“There was a serious depth to the market. Yes, the economy is in better shape

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now than it was a few years ago, but the world outside of bloodstock is still in recovery mode. Despite that, there was ferocious demand at the Derby Sale this year.”

Walsh adds: “There was frustration as well.

There were trainers here who just couldn’t buy what they wanted to buy. We knew that it was a really strong catalogue and the buyers were here. It’s a huge compliment to our vendors, who had their horses presented so well. And it means that the people who couldn’t buy at the Derby Sale will hopefully be back here for the August Sale.”

“It’s important to us

that the September Sale continues to improve; it has a very diverse clientele” It has been a similar story with Tattersalls Ireland’s flagship Flat auction, the September Yearling Sale. A low in turnover of €3.9m in 2009 compared with €10.7m in 2006 is gradually being turned around. Last year’s turnover of €6.8m was 42% up on the previous year, while the average figure of €14,653 was an increase of almost 26%.

“It is important to us that the September Sale continues to improve,” says Casey. “It’s a very

different clientele, it’s a very different client base.

There is a greater diversity of purchaser. While our purchasers for the Derby Sale are really from Ireland and Great Britain, and a few from France, we have 14 or 15 countries generally represented among the purchasers at the September Sale. It has a much wider focus.”

This year’s September Sale is being billed as the best ever. That is borne not only out of the quality of the pedigrees but also out of what the team has seen in selecting yearlings for the sale. Last year was the fifth consecutive year of growth in the September Sale, but last year’s catalogue was the largest since 2007. This year it has been restructured to accommodate a third day and graduates of the sale qualify for the €200,000 September Sale Super Auction Sales Stakes on Irish Champions Weekend.

Casey says: “There was great demand from vendors to get into the sale this year, so the decision was taken to add a third day, and to refine the first two days in order to provide a more select offering. The idea is to have a concise, better quality Part 1.

“The vendor side of the equation is stronger than it has ever been. Vendors have been really supportive in sending us their better yearlings.

It is up to us now to make sure that the purchaser side is as strong, to make sure that the British and Irish buyers are here, and that we have the buyers from further afield here.”

There is a sense of assuredness about the message, quiet confidence that they can move forward again.

Casey points out: “We had 57 two-year-old winners up to the end of July this year. The ammunition is there.”

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Paramount soars on

IRISH ROOTS Ex-pats Gabriel Duignan and Pat Costello have built a thriving consigning business in their adopted home of Kentucky

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Gabriel Duignan and Pat Costello outside the Paramount Sales barn at Keeneland where they will offer 188 yearlings in September

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n a pleasant mid-August Saturday, with many American racefans focused on the action a few hundred yards away at Saratoga Racecourse, Pat Costello and Gabriel Duignan stand at the Paramount Sales barn. Against the dark green stables and the aged maple trees that dot the Fasig-Tipton sales grounds, the men are tending to their consignment at Fasig’s Preferred New York-bred Sale. It’s a minor sale, in contrast to the Keeneland September Yearling Sale, where the men will arrive in less than a month with some 180 horses. But you wouldn’t know it by the professionalism

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of the staff, or the sleek, well-cared-for yearlings walking by.

Duignan and Costello are in their element.

Earlier in the morning, they greeted wellheeled owners with a smile and cracked jokes with trainers and bloodstock agents, but it’s quieter now that the first post has come and gone across the street.

Duignan, tall and lanky, has an honest face and exudes an air of calmness; Costello is more animated, and wears a friendly, crooked grin. At first blush, they seem like a slightly odd coupling, but make no mistake: they’ve proven a terrific team over the past 15 years.

Costello and Duignan, along with minority owner Liz Moloney, have built Paramount Sales into one of North America’s leading consignments. They’ve topped sales and been represented by a world-record-priced weanling. They have offered at auction a pair of Belmont Stakes winners, two Breeders’ Cup champions and at least a dozen Grade/Group 1 winners. And they’ve proven astute judges of young horseflesh with weanling-to-yearling pinhooking operation that routinely turns a smart profit.

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KEENELAND SEPTEMBER YEARLING SALE: SEPTEMBER 8-21

No Nay Never looked like a ‘man among boys’ even as a yearling

Crescent Hill Farm, of which he was at the helm for ten years. Duignan was managing Circle O Farm within a year after establishing roots in the US, and later moved on to manage Ironwood Farm in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

As part of the burgeoning Irish community in Kentucky that included respected horsemen like Mike Ryan, Gerry Dilger, James Keogh and Martin O’Dowd, Costello and Duignan became friends, and by the 1990s were operating a weanling-to-yearling pinhooking venture they called The Lads. It was a lucrative endeavor, and helped build their reputations as horsemen with keen eyes

“There’s a constant

stream of American horses winning in Europe; the depth of buyers is strong” for talent. On one memorable afternoon at the 1999 Keeneland September Sale, in the span of an hour and a half, The Lads watched a Gold Fever filly they’d bought privately for $60,000 elicit a bid of $600,000, then saw a Kris S colt they purchased for $100,000 bring $900,000.

“That was a big night,” Duignan says drolly. “We’ve been trying to do it again since.”

The Lads eventually dissolved as the number of partners crept up to an unmanageable 40, but Duignan and Costello still pinhook six to eight weanlings each year.

In 2001, Costello was in his seventh year of running his

own full-service farm, Drumkenny Farm, when an opportunity arose to form a new consigning operation in partnership with Taylor Made Sales and Gaines-Gentry: Paramount Sales.

“It was a time when I had to decide which direction to go – the farm or the sales – and I love the sales so much that I chose that,” said Costello. Duignan was an original Paramount partner, too, but was soon named the president of Castleton Lyons Farm, which he helped to build into a successful stallion operation for owner Tony Ryan, the late founder of Ryanair.

Paramount was an immediate success. At the inaugural, and short-lived, Keeneland October Yearling Sale in 2001, Paramount sold the sale-topping Spanish Empire, later a Grade 3 winner, for $400,000. A year later at Keeneland September, on behalf of the Duignan-led Castleton Lyons, Paramount sold the future Group 2 Railway Stakes winner and Breeders’ Cup Mile runner-up Antonius Pius to Coolmore’s Demi O’Byrne for $1.5 million.

“It was great to see horses you’ve worked with go on to be successful, for both the breeder and the buyer,” said Costello. “And it made it easier for everyone to come back.”

In 2006, Paramount achieved what every consignment hopes to: selling a worldrecord-priced horse. The horse was a Ballymacoll-bred weanling filly by Gone West from their homebred Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf heroine Islington. The buyer was MAB Agency, the price was $2.4m, a new mark for a weanling at the time.

“It was a huge achievement for us,” said Costello. “We hadn’t been in operation for all that long at that point, and to get a filly like that was very exciting. Then to break the record, it was fantastic.”

The transaction was especially sentimental for Moloney, who grew up watching the Ballymacoll foals bound around the paddocks that produced the likes of Troy, Pilsudski, Conduit and Islington herself.

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Duignan and Moloney. For Costello, those roots were recognised earlier this year by the Irish Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association, who honoured him with its ‘Wild Geese’ award. The recently inaugurated award tips a hat to those Irish horsemen and women who make an international impact on racing while maintaining strong ties to Ireland.

“It was very humbling,” said Costello, who grew up as one of 13 children on his family’s farm in County Kilkenny. “I was flabbergasted.

There are a lot of great horsemen who deserve the honour, and any one of them could have gotten the honour. For them to nominate me was something else.”

Costello’s sincerity is revealed by his entourage at the awards, a dozen-strong crew that included six brothers and sisters, as well as his wife Lynne.

Duignan and Moloney have similarly strong ties to home. From County Leitrim, Duignan and his wife Aisling, the Irish-born director of bloodstock for Coolmore’s American division Ashford, could be considered one of racing’s power couples, though both would likely cringe at the designation. Moloney, meanwhile, grew up at the famed Ballymacoll Stud, the daughter of longtime general manager Peter Reynolds.

Those credentials gave Paramount an impressive foundation on which to build.

Paramount Sales was founded in 2001, but its history dates back to the mid-1980s, when Costello and Duignan arrived a year apart in the Bluegrass of Kentucky. Unknown to each other at the time, they followed similar career paths. Costello worked at Jackie Ramos’s Ashleigh Stud and then Rood and Riddle before signing on to manage

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graduating with a degree in accounting from the University of Kentucky, and has success in her DNA. In addition to Reynolds, her mother Wendy’s father was the champion jockey Doug Smith, while Wendy’s uncle was multiple champion National Hunt jockey and trainer Fred Winter.

With Duignan rejoining full-time, Paramount’s roll of honour grew rapidly.

Graduates include the Grade I Belmont Stakes winners Da’ Tara and Union Rags, the Breeders’ Cup winners Forever Together and George Vancouver, and Grade/Group 1 winners like Archarcharch, Bullsbay, Flower Alley, Majesticperfection, Sassy Image and Visionaire. Paramount’s latest Group 1 winner came in the form of the European standout No Nay Never, winner of the Group 1 Prix Morny in 2013 and a $95,000 graduate of the previous year’s Keeneland September Sale.

“He was a lovely colt – I remember him very well,” Costello said of No Nay Never, a son of Scat Daddy. “He was a big, strong horse, and I remember watching him win and the commentator saying that he was a man among boys, and that’s how he was at the sale, too.”

Costello said buyers will find equally exciting prospects at Paramount’s 2014 Keeneland September draft. “We’ve got a great group,” he said. “We have a War Front filly we’re very excited about [Hip 667, a filly from a Bernardini half-sister to Exchange Rate]; she’s one to note. We have a couple of nice Giant’s Causeways. And the Gio Pontis are really coming around nice. I’m excited about selling those. Obviously we have quite a few, selling for Castleton Lyons, and we’re very excited about that sire. They’re all big, strong

Paramount partner Liz Moloney grew up at Ballymacoll Stud in Ireland

horses, and he was an earner of $6 million.

There are a couple of Uncle Mos who are very nice, too. He’s a sire that’s getting very athletic horses.”

Recently, and maybe not so recently, too, there’s been disagreement on how America’s more liberal race-day medication polices have affected the appeal of the American thoroughbred overseas.

In an ever-shrinking thoroughbred world, the debate has the potential to significantly affect the American market. But from Costello’s perspective, when it comes to international performance, the proof is in the pudding. “I think there’s still as big a percentage of American horses winning overseas,” he said.

“Every time you pick up the TDN or Racing Post, there’s always a constant stream of American horses winning in Europe and beyond.”

That, along with strong results at FasigTipton July and Saratoga, has left Costello and Duignan feeling confident heading into September.

“The depth of buyers is as strong as ever, and there are more guys on the upper end now,” said Costello. “There’s demand for horses. Both the previous yearling sales were good, and I don’t see that changing.”

Duignan added: “Supply and demand is in our favour, and buyers are running for bigger purses now.”

Paramount will offer upwards of 500 yearlings in 2014, a huge total that keeps the Paramount team on its toes through to the end of October. Then, of course, the breeding stock sales begin.

From now until late November, then, there will be plenty of 12-hour days, maybe a few tiffs, and, hopefully, a lot of laughs.

“It’s a lot like a family here,” said Moloney, who said working alongside Costello and Duignan was “interesting!” [laughs].

She added: “It’s very Irish, if that makes sense, which is very nice. Everyone’s very fond of home, and it’s nice to work around people with the same background. They’re great guys, and it is like family sometimes.

“The most important thing is that everyone works very hard; everyone holds that work ethic very dear. The sale days are very long, but no one minds too much, and at the end of the year when you’re able to stay on the top ten consignors’ list, it’s worth it what you put into it.”

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International cast gathers as yearlings enter the spotlight Arqana’s August Sale gets the European season off to a strong start in Deauville

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t’s not uncommon for Arqana’s annual highlight to draw an international crowd but even by its own high standards the strength and depth of the global buying bench was the most notable factor of the August Sale in Deauville.

The familiar names of Mandore International and MV Magnier led the list of purchasers but in third place, having staked €2,620,000 on four yearlings (plus another €1.3 million for two bought through Anthony Stroud Bloodstock), was the South African team of Mayfair Speculators, whose representative Derek Brugman was buying with the assistance of Peter Doyle and Anthony Stroud for a group of investors which includes Markus Jooste and Investec Managing Director Bernard Kantor. After each purchase Brugman spoke of the team’s keenness to expand their racing operation in Europe, noting a particular liking of the French system, though at least one filly, a daughter of Galileo out of Lingfield Oaks Trial winner Baraka, will be trained in Newmarket

by William Haggas.

Gains were made across all sectors – the clearance rate of 81% improving from 75% last year and rises of 13% and 9% for turnover and a record average – with the only drop being in the price of the top lot, which this year was €1.2m. That sum was given by Tony Nerses – not a new face at Arqana but one which hadn’t been seen at the sale since 1990 – for a filly from the final crop of Monsun and the prodigious Classicproducing family of this year’s Deutsches Derby winner Sea The Moon. The filly’s dam, Sasuela, is a Dashing Blade half-sister to the full siblings Samum, Schiaparelli and Salve Regina – all three by Monsun and Classic winners in their homeland – while another sibling, Sanwa, is Sea The Moon’s dam.

With so much to recommend her, the Monceaux-consigned filly didn’t need too many more selling points but one came along when her half-brother Seismos won the Geoffrey Freer Stakes at Newbury just 90 minutes before she went through the ring.

A record average of €146,998 was set at Arqana’s blockbuster August Sale

Arqana August Sale Top lots Sex/Breeding

Consignor

Vendor

Price (€)

F Monsun-Sasuela

Monceaux

Tony Nerses

1,200,000

C Invincible Spirit-Prudenzia

Monceaux

Mafair Speculators/P&R Doyle

1,100,000

F Galileo-Dance Secretary

Reboursiere et de Montaigu

Anthony Stroud

1,000,000

F Invincible Spirit-Tonnara

Monceaux

MV Magnier

850,000

C Dansili-Mambo Light

Mezeray

MV Magnier

850,000

F Shamardal-First Fleet

Capucines

John Warren

720,000

F Sea The Stars-Vedela

Monceaux

Mayfair Speculators/P&R Doyle

700,000

F Monsun-Dubai Rose

La Motteraye Consignment

Mayfair Speculators/P&R Doyle

650,000

F Galileo-Naissance Royale

Monceaux

Peter & Ross Doyle

620,000

F Sea The Stars-Ysoldina

Reboursiere et de Montaigu

Pascal Bary

600,000

Five-year tale Year

Offered

Sold

Agg (€)

Avg (€)

Mdn (€)

2014

324

264

39,217 500

146,998

90,000

Top Price (€) 1,200,000

2013

335

251

33,790,000

134,622

80,000

1,500,000

2012

440

289

28,394,000

98,249

65,000

1,200,000

2011

438

328

31,463,000

95,924

65,000

1,700,000

2010

420

284

26,838,000

94,500

70,000

600,000

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The Invincible Spirit colt out of Prudenzia en route to making €1.1 million

Mark Richards arrived in Deauville sporting a beard but left clean-shaven

The top lot, a filly by Monsun from Sea The Moon’s family, will be trained in the UK

Anna Doyle looking stylish on her rounds

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Winners in the Making from the stud noted for its impressive record of producing Gr.1 winners Featuring

Full/half siblings to 4 individual Gr.1 winners A full brother to a Gr.2 winner 2 Sea The Stars colts out of Stakes producing half sisters to Gr.1 winners

TATTERSALLS IRELAND SEPTEMBER YEARLING SALE (23rd-24th September) Lot 16 Grey filly by Dylan Thomas – Remedy (Pivotal) Half-sister to multiple winners King Cobra (4) and Remedial (4), etc.

Dam winner at 2 and 3 and half-sister to 6 winners, incl.

On Call (SW of 7 races).

Lot 76 Bay filly by Whipper – Spy Eye (Tale Of The Cat) Dam won her only start at 2 at Newmarket. Grandam Surya won 5 races, incl. Gr.2 Dahlia H, Gr.3 Royal Heroine S, etc.; dam of winners, incl. Aruna (Gr.1 Spinster S, etc). Ivory Wings, Kittiwake family.

Lot 85 Chesnut colt by Thousand Words – Surf The Web (Ela-Mana-Mou) Half-brother to winners. Dam is half-sister to 7 winners, incl. Mister Fire Eyes (Gr.3). 3rd dam Splashing won Gr.3 Cornwallis S; dam of Gr.1 Middle Park S winner Bassenthwaite.

Lot 257 Bay colt by Turtle Bowl – Ekadzati (Fasliyev) Half-brother to a winner; their dam won at 3; half-sister to Sensible (LR).

Grandam Raisonnable won at 2 and 3, incl. LR Prix Rond de Nuit; 2nd Gr.3 Prix des Reservoirs, etc.

Lot 279 Bay filly by Intense Focus – Flapper (Selkirk) Second foal of a winner of 2 races at 3 years. Great-grandam Pure Grain, won Gr.1 Irish Oaks and Gr.1 Yorkshire Oaks; 3rd Gr.1 Oaks; bred 4 winners and half-sister to 8 winners.

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Lot 97 Bay filly by Raven’s Pass – Vassiana (Anabaa) Half-sister to 6 winners, incl. Girouette (£126,629, won Gr.3 Phoenix Sprint, Curragh and LR Sweet Mimosa S) and Prince d’Alienor (2nd Gr.3 Prix Messidor).

Lot 131 Bay colt by Acclamation – Allannah Abu (Dubawi) 2nd foal: half-brother to Plus Ca Change (2yo with G Lyons); their dam is a Stakes-placed winner of 3 races. Grandam Alexandrine won 4 races; half-sister to Last Second, Alleluia, Alouette (dam of Albanova and Alborada) and to the dam of Yesterday, Quarter Moon, etc.

Lot 133 Bay filly by Exceed and Excel – Alleviate (Indian Ridge) Dam won 4 races, £21,329; half-sister to Allegretto, 6 wins, £494,983, Gr.1 Prix Royal-Oak, etc.; 3rd dam Alruccaba, won at 2 and bred 8 winners; grandam of Gr.1 winners Aussie Rules, Albanova, Alborada, etc.

Lot 146 Bay filly by Oasis Dream – Arty Crafty (Arch) Full-brother to a 2yo winner. Dam won 4 and is full-sister to Gr.1 winner Prince Arch and half-sister to Gr.1 winner Kingsfort.

Lot 236 Bay colt by Soldier of Fortune – Far Across (Common Grounds) Full-brother to Spirit or Soul and half-brother to 4 winners, incl. dual Gr.3 winner and successful sire Arakan. Grandam won and bred 8 winners.

Lot 266 Chesnut filly by Teofilo – Goldthroat (Zafonic) Half-sister to 4 winners and full sister to a winner, incl. Gr.1 winning 2yo Zafisio and Dark Profit (placed at 2, 2014: entered for Gr.1 National S). Dam 2yo winner from Reprocolor family.

Lot 11 Bay filly by Danehill Dancer – Rose of Petra (Golan) Dam won at 2 and 3 years; half-sister to 5 winners, incl. Hyblon (LR) and to the dam of Fiorente (£747,295, incl. Gr.1 Melbourne Cup). 3rd dam Hellenic.

Lot 299 Bay filly by Dark Angel – Kate The Great (Xaar) Half-sister to Eastern Impact (3 wins, incl. Coral Sprint Trophy, at 3, 2014; 3rd LR National S at 2). Their dam Kate The Great won at 2, and is from the top-class family of Deep Impact, Jeremy and Wind in Her Hair.

Lot 56 Bay or Brown colt by Distorted Humor – Stupendous Miss (Dynaformer) Full-brother to Do It All (4 wins, Gr.2 Zabeel Mile) and Tales of Grimm (2 wins; 2nd Gr.3 Darley S; 3rd LR Heron S and 4th Gr.3 Winter Hill S). Their dam was Gr.3 winner of 5 races. Family of Storm Trooper (Gr.1).

Lot 304 Bay colt by Sea The Stars – Kincob (Kingmambo) Half-brother to 2014 winners Arty Campbell and Miss Macnamara and Gemstone, (LR Silken Glider S; 2nd Gr.3 Lodge Park S). Dam half-sister to Gr.1 Irish 2000 Guineas winner Bachelor Duke. Family of Nureyev and Northern Dancer.

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Lot 306 Bay filly by Acclamation – Kithonia (Sadler’s Wells) Dam a winner at 2 and 3; 3rd LR Prix Urban Sea; grandam winning daughter of Whakilyric (Gr.3 Prix du Calvados; dam of 10 winners incl. Gr.1 winners and sires Hernando and Johann Quatz).

Lot 308 Chesnut colt by Makfi – Kournikova (Sportsworld) Half-brother to 5 winners, incl. Pearl of Africa, 5 wins, £114,938, incl. LR Glencairn S, 2014; 3rd Gr.2 Balanchine S, and Slight Advantage (LR winner).

Their dam won 5 races in S Africa, incl. Gr.1 Triple Tiara Fillies Guineas.

Lot 314 Bay filly by Lawman – Lady Slippers (Royal Academy) 2nd foal. Half-sister to a Cape Cross 2yo who made ₏210,000 as a yearling.

Dam was useful 2yo: full-sister to CD Europe (6 wins, incl. Gr.3 Coventry S, Royal Ascot; 2nd Gr.2 Champagne S, and to the dam of Corsica, (Gr.3 Bahrain Trophy; Gr.1-placed).

Lot 331 Chesnut filly by Cape Blanco – Lorena Wood (Woodman) Dam 2yo winner at Goodwood: own-sister to Compton Dragon (5 wins; 2nd LR Heron S). Grandam Vilikaia – Champion European 3yo Sprinter; also 2nd Gr.1 Irish 1,000 Guineas and Gr.1 Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp; dam of 7 winners.

Lot 372 Brown filly by Rock of Gibraltar – Minikin (Montjeu) 1st foal of a winning half-sister to Steeler (£145,596 to date, won Gr.2 Royal Lodge S; 3rd Gr.1 Racing Post Trophy), other stakes-placed winners and the promising 2yo Secret Brief.

Lot 417 Grey colt by Mastercraftsman – Paraphernalia (Dalakhani) 1st foal; dam winner at 3; 3rd LR Garnet S; half-sister to 5 winners, incl. Girouette (Gr.3 Phoenix Sprint, Curragh and LR Sweet Mimosa S) and Prince d’Alienor (2nd Gr.3 Prix Messidor).

TATTERSALLS OCTOBER YEARLING SALE, BOOK 1 (7th-9th October) Lot 158 Bay filly by Cape Cross – Alleluia (Caerleon) Half-sister to 4 winners, incl. Allegretto (6 wins, £494,983, incl. Gr.1 Prix Royal-Oak, Gr.2 Lancashire Oaks and Gr.2 Park Hill S; 3rd Gr.1 Yorkshire Oaks). Dam Gr.3 winner of 6 races; half-sister to Last Second and to the LR winning dam of Albanova and Alborada.

Lot 181Bay colt by Cape Cross – At A Great Rate (Arch) Dam won at 3. Grandam won LR Prix Imprudence and LR Pebbles H; own-sister to Snake Mountain (Triple Gr.-winner of 11 races) and half-sister to Denebola (Champion 2yo Filly in France, Gr.1 Prix Marcel Boussac, etc).

3rd dam Coup de Genie (Champion at 2, Gr.1 Prix Morny and Gr.1 Prix de la Salamandre). Full-sister to Champion Machiavellian.

Lot 231 Chesnut filly by New Approach – Classic Remark (Dr Fong) Half-sister to 2 winners. Dam Classic Remark won LR Hoppings S. Grandam Claxon won 5 races, incl. Gr.2 Premio Lydia Tesio; Stakes producer.

3rd dam won Gr.3 Fred Darling S. Lot 286 Chesnut colt by Sea The Stars – Fair Sailing (Docksider) Half-brother to 2014 2yo winner Montalcino and Windfast (winner at 2; 3rd LR King Charles II S, and 4th Gr.3 Jersey S, Royal Ascot, 2014). Dam half sister to White Muzzle (£701,227, Gr.1 Italian Derby; a leading sire in Japan), Fair Question (Gr.2) and Elfaslah (SW and dam of Almutawakel, Gr.1 x 2).

Grandam Fair of The Furze, won Gr.2 Tattersalls Rogers Gold Cup. Lot 463 Bay filly by Arch – Princess Kris (Kris) Full-sister to Prince Arch (6 wins, £334,084, Gr.1 Gulfstream Park Breeders’ Cup; sire) and half-sister to Kingsfort (Gr.1 National S; sire).

Their dam won and is half-sister to 8 winners, incl. Intimate Guest.

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that she will be trained in England for Kuwaiti owners Saleh Al Homaizi and Imad Al Sagar. “We haven’t yet decided who will train her but once her racing days are over she will make a lovely addition to our broodmare band at Blue Diamond Stud.�

Another new name was that of Australian Michael Wallace, who signed for just one yearling on behalf of the China Horse Club but spent â‚Ź560,000 on the daughter of Galileo out of Beverly D Stakes winner Royal Highness who will be trained for the club in France.

Wallace was joined by American agent Justin Casse who, after being outbid on several yearlings during the strong opening session, managed to sign for fillies by Dansili and Kendargent who are now on their way to Florida to be broken in.

Agent Patrick Barbe had new Japanese clients with him at the sale.

While not wishing to name them, he confirmed that their three purchases totaling just over ₏1m – which included a High Chapparal half-brother to 1,000 Guineas winner Miss France at ₏280,000 – would be exported to race in Japan.

Readers of this magazine had the inside track on the rise of Ecurie des Monceaux in the August edition and the operation’s ascendance continued through the August Sale, which it has now topped for three years in succession. In total, Monceaux’s 27 yearlings sold – at an average price of ₏232,222 – raised ₏8,727,000 or just over 22% of the sale’s aggregate.

Arqana Chairman Eric Hoyeau said: “This year the huge number of new faces and the depth of the client base in every price bracket were particularly remarkable and are a testament to the genuine strength of the market at Deauviile. The quality of the horses on offer and the recurring success of graduates of the sale as well as the well-known attractions of Deauville create an unbeatable package for buyers hailing from all over the world. And of course, the excellence of the French racing system, of our infrastructures and of French industry professionals attracts an increasing number of foreign owners with the ambition of developing a high class racing operation.�

Tattersalls Ireland August Sale Extended into a third day to accommodate a much larger catalogue, this sale of jumping stores with a new horses-in-training section produced some bumper figures.

Not that the additional session was needed to generate an upturn in business, for the numbers were ahead at the conclusion of day two.

Given the catalogue increase it was no surprise the final figures showed a rise in turnover, but a 74% jump was notable, and no less pleasing was a clearance rate that went up from 70% to 77% – the average (+24%) and median (+25%) also showed increases.

And while the horses-in-training element contained just 14 lots – when 20 to 30 had been mooted in the spring – the majority were sold to British yards. Encouraging more UK-based buyers to attend this event – which is secondary to Tattersalls Ireland’s premier Derby Sale of store horses in June – was the company’s goal, and flavouring it with some proven performers was an idea worth testing.

It could be said they need not have bothered this year, for buoyant trade at Brightwells’ Cheltenham and DBS’s horses-in-training sales, and sky-high prices at Goffs’ Land Rover and Tattersalls Ireland’s Derby Sale, was likely to drive buyers to the lower-tier autumn sales of stores, and so it proved. However, if they came looking for two-year-old stores – an age group popular at auctions in France and an area in which the sales company would like to expand – they will have been disappointed. Just five turned up, and only two changed hands for trifling sums.

There was also a further drop in the number of four-year-olds on offer – 83 sold compared to 108 in 2013 – an age group that once

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SALES CIRCUIT won the Belmont Stakes – this auction continued the theme of healthy sales results.

Ten years ago visitors had more than 200 horses to view and three days in which to purchase, and it is in part due to smaller quantities and scarcity value that all types of bloodstock sale are enjoying good times. This one, currently a two-day event, catalogued 165 lots (up 13 on 2013), evenly balanced between the sexes, and achieved an 81% clearance rate. Turnover crept up by 4%, the average was more or less static although the median figure dipped 5%.

Fillies were to the fore, taking the top three slots and led by a daughter of War Front, a familiar name at the head of sales sheets.

Wayne Lukas signed for this one on behalf of racehorse owner Willis Horton.

Tapit fillies made a mark by taking the second and third slots, headed by a daughter of champion filly She Be Wild, This second foal of the mare fetched $1,150,000 to a bid from Jason Litt and Alex Solis. Close behind with a valuation of exactly $1,000,000 was a Tapit filly who was sold to Nat Rea’s Regis Farm. She was consigned by John Stuart’s Bluegrass Thoroughbred Services which had the honour of selling last year’s high, a Dynaformer filly who made $1,225,000.

European buyers included Darley’s John Ferguson, who lassooed 11 horses when spending $4,675,000, or 14% of the entire sale’s turnover. These were headed by offspring of Darley sires Bernardini ($800,000) and Medaglio d’Oro ($675,000), but also included three yearlings by Kitten’s Joy, two by Distorted Humor and a $500,000 investment in a first-crop son of Castleton Lyons’ Gio Ponti.

Tatts Ire August Sale Top lots Sex/Breeding

Vendor

G Milan-Bonnie Parker

Parkville Stud

Price (€) 80,000

Buyer

G Presenting-Dusty Too

Simon Tindall from Simmonstown Stud

60,000

John O’Byrne

G Presenting-Coole Eile

Ballincurrig House Stud

58,000

John O’Byrne

Mahon/Nicholls

G Stowaway-Dolphins View

Mount Eaton Stud

58,000

Gerry Griffin

F Network-Natty Twigy

Brown Island Stables

57,000

Kirk/Mullins

G Robin Des Champs-Annilogs Symphony

Ballyorney Farm

56,000

John O’Byrne

Back To Bracka (Rudimentary-Martha’s Glimpse)

Noel Kelly

50,000

Lucinda Russell

G Kapgarde-Kaldona

Busherstown

50,000

Gerry Griffin

G King’s Theatre-Knocktartan

Parkville Stud

50,000

Aiden Murphy

G Authorized-Azalee

Deerfield Stud

42,000

Aiden Murphy

F Let The Lion Roar-Line Grey

Ralahine Stud

42,000

Pegasus Farm

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Agg (€)

Avg (€)

Mdn (€)

Top Price (€)

2014

481

4,752,000

9,879

6,000

80,000

2013

365

2,731,950

7,485

4,800

80,000

2012

327

1,897,400

5,802

3,750

52,000

2011

348

1,706,550

4,904

2,800

44,000

2010

251

1,547,350

6,165

3,500

120,000

dominated the store market, but which has been overtaken by horses aged three.

Geldings dominated, and the leaderboard showed the usual wide disparity in stallion names that is common at a lower-tier auction, but freshman Yeats, a dominant element at the Derby Sale, ducked under the radar on this occasion, his seven-strong team being headed by a €26,000 gelding from Castledillon Stud.

The sale topper was a three-year-old son of

“Fillies were to the fore at Fasig-Tipton, taking the top three slots and led by a daughter of War Front”

Milan who missed his intended slot at the Derby Sale but made €80,000 to a bid from jockey Ryan Mahon on behalf of trainer Paul Nicholls. A close relative of the champion trainer’s useful chaser Woolcombe Follly, he was offered by Martin Doran’s County Wexford-based Parkville Stud.

Seven-year-old gelding Back To Bracka (Rudimentary) headed the horses-in-training section when knocked down to Scottish trainer Lucinda Russell, who voted yes when asked for €50,000 and duly signed the

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buyers’ sheet. Her purchase had a Galway bumper victory and Sligo hurdle win on his CV from five starts for trainer Noel Kelly.

Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Yearling Sale Boosted by another good year on the track – headlined by 2012 graduate Tonalist, who

Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Yearling Sale Top lots Sex/Breeding

Vendor

Price ($)

Buyer

F War Front-Charming

Eaton Sales

1,250,000

Willis Horton

F Tapit-She Be Wild

Bluewater Sales

1,150,000

Solis/Litt

F Tapit-Rote Bluegrass

T’bred Services

1,000,000

Regis Farms

C Bernardini-Tweeter

Gainesway

800,000

John Ferguson

C Unbridled’s Song-Shesabullwinkle

Taylor Made Sales

700,000

Stonestreet/Bolton/Leidel

C Awesome Again-Zambezi Belle

Bluewater Sales

700,000

Stonestreet Stables/G Bolton

C Medaglia d’Oro-Passion Du Coeur

Gainesway

675,000

John Ferguson

C Kitten’s Joy-Artisanal

James Herbener

650,000

Al Shaqab Racing

F Medaglia d’Oro-Weekend Whim

Taylor Made Sales

625,000

Debby Oxley

F Malibu Moon-Trail Magic

Eaton Sales

610,000

D Brennan/Highland Yard

Five-year tale Year

Sold

Agg ($)

Avg ($)

Mdn ($)

Top Price ($)

2014

114

33,284,000

291,965

237,500

1,250,000

2013

108

31,870,000

295,093

250,000

1,225,000

2012

108

32,110,000

297,315

220,000

1,575,000

2011

103

32,892,000

319,340

250,000

1,200,000

2010

118

32,515,000

275,551

240,000

1,200,000

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THE BREEDING BUSINESS

Cover charge delights breeder Andrew Hollis The Norcroft Park Stud owner wasn’t expecting a sprinter but is thrilled nonetheless

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he best-laid plans do not always come to fruition in breeding, but, in the case of the high-class sprinter Take Cover, they can lead to something even better.

The seven-year-old was bred by his owner Andrew Hollis at his Norcroft Park Stud in Nottinghamshire with the intention of being a miler, but instead the son of the middledistance influence Singspiel became the stud’s first homebred Group winner when landing the Group 2 King George Stakes over five furlongs at Glorious Goodwood, having previously scored in the Listed City Walls Stakes at York, also over the minimum trip.

Hollis bred Take Cover out of his homebred Magic Ring mare Enchanted, who had shown her best form at up to seven furlongs, a trip at which she was Listedplaced. When it came to breeding from the speedy Enchanted, Hollis made use of middle-distance stallions, including, of course, Singspiel.

“I bought Tarandot, who is by Singspiel, and she won a Listed race so I have always liked the sire,” he says. “Enchanted had won over seven and I thought Singspiel would bring a bit of stamina to the pedigree. The whole idea was to stretch her to a mile.”

Take Cover did not make his racecourse debut until he was four, but quickly rattled up a hat-trick of victories to prove that he had been worth the wait.

“At two he just wasn’t very mature,” Hollis recalls. “We had his joints x-rayed and his knees hadn’t closed up so we were advised to turn him out in a field for a year.

“Then at three, he was still a bit immature

Take Cover with Andrew Hollis, right, and Andrea Atzeni at Goodwood

– really, his three-year-old season was like his two-year-old. But then when we did run him at four he won three in a row, and his fourth the next season.”

The reason behind the ten-month break between Take Cover’s third and fourth run was simple – the ground.

“At the time we really thought he needed soft,” Hollis explains with a laugh. “We didn’t run him all summer because it was firm and then when it came up heavy at Haydock he

went out and won. I think he’s proven he would go on any ground now.”

Hollis, who divides his time between the stud and his work as a solicitor, has been breeding for around 15 years, welcoming his first foals in 2000.

Norcroft Park Stud is currently home to 12 mares, with Hollis putting six of them in foal each year. Among Enchanted’s paddock mates is the stud’s previous biggest homebred success story Polar Jem, whose eight victories include a hat-trick of Listed contests. The daughter of Polar Falcon is now in foal to Helmet.

Hollis plans all his matings himself. “It’s the most enjoyable part of it for me,” he says.

“I prefer to use second- or third-season sires; if you’re not selling, you don’t have to worry about going to first-season sires.”

Eschewing all logic, given a string of middle-distance matings, Enchanted has produced two winners over no further than her own best trip, including her first foal, the Fantastic Light gelding Arteus, who has won six times over six and seven furlongs. Since foaling Take Cover, Enchanted has produced a colt by Motivator, Master Wizard, who was placed over five furlongs last season.

This year, Hollis decided to buck his trend and Enchanted was covered by Darley’s Australian speedster Sepoy.

“I’ll probably end up with a Red Rum!” he jokes. “But if breeding was straightforward then the big owners would win everything, wouldn’t they?

“It’s 15 years since we had Polar Jem, so I just hope I don’t have to wait 15 years for another one as good as Take Cover!”

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By AMY BENNETT

Sting in the tale of Molecomb triumph Triumph and disaster are regular companions in racing, and so the joy of seeing Cotai Glory win the Group 3 Molecomb Stakes in record time was bittersweet for breeder Julia Scott as his dam sadly died last year.

Scott bred the son of Exceed And Excel at her Glebe Stud in partnership with her brother James Dean and Lady Fiona Trenchard, and sold the January-born colt for 75,000gns during Book 2 of last year’s Tattersalls October sales to Rabbah Bloodstock.

Cotai Glory was the second foal of Continua, an unraced daughter of Elusive Quality and a half-sister to the Middle Park third Huntdown, purchased by Scott for 45,000gns at the Tattersalls December Sale in 2010.

“I had been trying to buy a mare on both Monday and Tuesday and although I thought I had a good bit to spend I hadn’t got near on anything,” Scott recalls. “I happened to see Charles Spiller in the Darley box on Tuesday evening and he asked me if I had looked at Continua. I hadn’t had her on my list as I thought her page was a little bit light but as soon as I saw her I liked her. And she was in foal to Exceed And Excel, who I have always

Continua’s Authorized filly who was oprhaned at the age of two months

been a fan of as we have had some luck with him.”

That first foal was a filly, bought by Rabbah Bloodstock for 56,000gns at the December

Yearling Sale. Named Excel’s Beauty, the filly won twice as a two-year-old last season and was runner-up in the Listed St Hugh’s Stakes behind Wind Fire.

Having returned to Exceed And Excel for Continua’s second mating, which resulted in Cotai Glory, the mare then went to Authorized, producing a filly.

“Sadly Continua died last year,” Scott says.

“She got colic and had to be put down; she was only six. Her foal was orphaned at two months but we got a foster mother for her as a companion. Tattersalls were on the phone straight after the Molecomb but we want to keep the filly to race. Although she is by Authorized she does actually have a look of Excel’s Beauty, they both have that slightly dished face, so you can see the mare in her.”

It is hoped that Continua’s Authorized daughter will eventually retire back to the paddocks at Glebe Stud, but in the meantime Scott, Dean and Lady Trenchard have another mare in partnership – Pretty Primo, a winning half-sister to the Group 1 winner and young sire Wootton Bassett and a full-sister to the stakes-placed Mister Hardy.

Noble Protector flies the flag for Nelson Farm Racing under the name Black Type Partnership states a clear intent, and Noble Protector lived up to the brief when landing her owners the Listed Newsells Park Stakes at Newmarket in July.

The daughter of Haafhd was bred by Richard Tucker at his Nelson Farm Stud in Devon and he retained a share of the four-yearold in the Black Type Partnership, although the filly has now been sold to continue her career for Qatar Racing Ltd. “We decided to keep the filly because we had always liked her, and the Haafhds just weren’t making any value in the ring,” Tucker explains of the decision to retain the filly as a yearling. “We hadn’t got any value for her halfsister by Shamardal the year before, although

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we ended up selling her privately to Germany, where she won a Group 3.”

Tucker bred Noble Protector out of the Alzao mare All Glory, whom he purchased for 12,000gns at the Tattersalls December Sale in 2007.

“She was from a good family, was Group 3placed in France and was in foal to Beat Hollow,” Tucker explains. “Those more moderately covered mares can be value at the sales because people tend not to look at them.”

The resulting Beat Hollow filly, Ventose, showed little in five starts, but All Glory subsequently produced two future stakes winners for Tucker. A covering by Shamardal produced a colt; named All Shamar, he won the Group 3 Preis der Wirtschaf at Dortmund

and is now in training in Hong Kong as Exquisite Champion.

All Glory’s next mating was with Haafhd.

Explaining the mating decision, Tucker says: “Of course he’s a Guineas winner, and we use a lot of sires like him – top-class horses that perhaps haven’t yet got the results you would expect. Fashion isn’t always the way!”

Having produced two stakes winners, All Glory slipped her Kheleyf foal last year and was sadly put down. However, Nelson Farm Stud still welcomed 24 foals this year with around 30 mares covered.

“We’re at 900ft and they live out so we do breed tough durable horses because of where we are,” Tucker says of his stud’s location near Cullompton in Devon.

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CAULFIELD FILES ANDREW CAULFIELD REPORTS ON THE BLOODSTOCK WORLD

A tale of two stallions

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Danehill and Green Desert are responsible for keeping the Danzig line alive in Europe

Green Desert, now 31, whose descendants in the sires’ table include Invincible Spirit, Cape Cross, Oasis Dream and Sea The Stars

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he Danzig male line’s long-term success in Europe essentially amounts to a tale of two stallions, Danehill and Green Desert. One thing they had in common was that both won Haydock’s Sprint Cup after being placed in the 2,000 Guineas, but their stallion careers ran along very different lines.

According to equineline, Danehill’s total output stood at 2,499 foals in the northern and southern hemispheres and between them they helped him achieve three Anglo-Irish sires’ championships and another nine in Australia.

For good measure Danehill also clocked up numerous juvenile sire championships in both hemispheres. He also had the time to spend a breeding season in Japan.

Green Desert, on the other hand, sired ‘only’ 1,238 foals during a very long stallion career spent entirely in Norfolk. No general sires’ championships came Green Desert’s way, his best placings being his third in 1994 and a couple of fourths in 1991 and 1998. However, he accumulated several other titles, including leading first-crop sire in 1990 and leading sire in order of races won in 1993 and 1995.

So which of the two is going to have the longest-lasting impact on the breed in Europe?

I suspect most of the shrewd money would have been on Danehill, and he has indeed left a wonderfully rich legacy which features a champion sire in Danehill Dancer, another highly accomplished sire in Dansili and several champion sires in Australia, including Exceed

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And Excel, Redoute’s Choice and Fastnet Rock.

His influence is now being exerted not only by his sons but also by grandsons and greatgrandsons. The 2014 list of juvenile sires is headed by his son Kodiac and we have also seen the first crop by his grandson Mastercraftsman supply the Prix du Jockey-Club winner The Grey Gatsby and the Derby second Kingston Hill. Then there’s his great-grandson Starspangledbanner, who achieved a remarkable Royal Ascot Group 2 double with two-year-olds from his very small first crop.

Desert blooms Even so, there is little doubt that 2014 has so far belonged largely to the Green Desert clan.

When I reviewed the Green Desert male line in the January 2013 issue I signed off with the thought that “it is going to be interesting to look back in a few years’ time to see how strong this Green Desert line has become.” I didn’t expect to return to the topic so quickly, but take a look at the 2014 stallion table and you’ll agree that a return is thoroughly merited.

At the time of writing, the top 12 stallions on the general sires’ table includes only two representatives of the Danehill male line (Dansili in ninth place and Exceed And Excel in 12th), but there are four members of the rival Green Desert line, with Invincible Spirit second, Sea The Stars fourth, Oasis Dream sixth and Cape Cross 12th.

The comparative newcomer here is Cape

Cross’s magnificent son Sea The Stars, who is enjoying an unforgettable summer with his firstcrop three-year-olds. The 11-length victory of his son Sea The Moon in the Deutsches Derby looked special enough at the time, but then the runner-up Lucky Lion reappeared three weeks later to catch the consistent Noble Mission in the Group 1 Grosser Dallmayr Preis.

Yet the Racing Post handicappers don’t even consider Sea The Moon the best of Sea The Stars’s three-year-olds. That distinction goes to the filly Taghrooda, who appears to have inherited not only a large measure of her sire’s talent but his good looks and his imperturbable temperament. After Taghrooda had followed up her Oaks victory with an even better display in the King George, the odds against Sea The Stars siring the 2014 Arc winner were as low as 5-2.

Then came the news that Sea The Stars had a third Group 1 winner to his credit, with Vazira being promoted to first in the Prix Saint-Alary, after We Are failed her drugs test because of a medical condition.

Two powerful representatives The Green Desert line is also taking a dominant position among the first-crop sires, thanks mainly to Invincible Spirit and Oasis Dream.

Invincible Spirit’s son Zebedee is in the highly unusual situation of being at the head of the table, with the magnificent total of 20 British and Irish winners, even though he was born as recently as 2008. Happily, he doesn’t owe his THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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Spirited finish for Urban Sea The exciting aspect of Invincible Spirit’s success story is that these may be only the early chapters. Urban Sea’s last foal, Sea The Stars’s three-parts-brother Born To Sea, is credited with covering over 130 mares in his first season at Rathasker Stud in 2013. This Irish Derby runner-up is beginning to look a safe bet as a stallion. Not only is Invincible Spirit earning respect as a sire of sires, Urban Sea has other sons ranked first and fourth on 2014’s leading sires’ list.

Another Invincible Spirit stallion whose first crop will race in 2016 is Mayson, who gave the

“The exciting aspect

of Invincible Spirit’s success story is that these may be only the early chapters” Danzig male line yet another victory in the Group 1 July Cup. Mayson had earlier shown useful form as a juvenile, despite having a May 16 birth date, so he too can be expected to develop into a prolific sire of two-year-old winners for Cheveley Park Stud.

Next in line comes the rather luckless Swiss Spirit, who stood his first season in 2014 at Whitsbury Manor Stud. His dam Swiss Lake earned a Timeform rating of 115 and has gone on to produce sprinters rated 119, 117, 110, 110 and 106. Three of them were sired by sons of Green Desert and the mare’s highly consistent record suggests that Swiss Spirit is another with plenty to offer.

And then there’s the mighty Kingman, who has already been recognised as the best son of

Invincible Spirit by a sizeable margin. Invincible Spirit’s 2011 crop also contains another Group 1-winning miler in the French-trained Charm Spirit.

The Molecomb Stakes must have been difficult viewing for admirers of Desert Style’s tough son Paco Boy – and Paco Boy surely has plenty of fans after winning at Group 1 level in three consecutive seasons. Paco Boy’s son Beacon started odds-on for the Molecomb, following a hat-trick of victories, but traffic problems meant that he was still three-quarters of a length behind Cotai Glory at the line. Paco Boy’s time will come.

Bearing in mind that Green Desert was the champion first-crop sire of his year and that Oasis Dream was champion sire of two-yearolds in 2013, there was every chance that Oasis Dream’s freshman sons of 2014 would also make a bold show.

Sure enough Arcano, Approve and Showcasing have each been represented by a Listed winner, with Showcasing attracting plenty of attention by siring 13 winners from his first 34 runners.

It mustn’t be forgotten that Showcasing shares the same dam – the Listed winner Arabesque – as Camacho, who had five juvenile stakes winners in 2013. Although Showcasing’s fee in 2011 was no higher than £5,000, at least eight members of his first crop have been considered good enough to take their chance at Group level. There could easily be another Group contestant in Showing Character, an impressive winner of his first two starts.

All this bodes well for Oasis Dream’s Irish 2,000 Guineas winner Power, who matured quickly enough to win the Group 2 Coventry Stakes.

His first foals will race in 2016, a year after that of Oasis Dream’s German 2,000 Guineas winner Frozen Power. Frozen Power is based at Ballyhane, an establishment with a good record of ‘making’ inexpensive stallions.

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lead simply to quantity as his winners are being ably led by Ivawood. This potentially high-class colt had plenty in hand when he followed up his Group 2 victory in the July Stakes with another in the Richmond Stakes.

One of Zebedee’s attractions – apart from his record of six wins from seven starts – is the fact that his pedigree is free of so many of the major influences. Invincible Spirit’s first three dams were sired by Kris, Artaius and Bounteous, while Zebedee’s first three dams are daughters of Cozzene, Verbatim and Boldnesian. That means there’s no Sadler’s Wells, no Danehill and just the one line of Northern Dancer, via Green Desert’s sire Danzig.

Invincible Spirit also has another son among the leading first-crop sires, namely the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner Vale Of York in seventh place. This inexpensive Darley stallion received a sizeable pay cheque when Haxby chased home the highly talented Tiggy Wiggy in the 24runner Weatherbys Super Sprint. His seventh place doesn’t reflect the three stakes victories of his Italian daughter Fontanelice.

It has been a similar story in Australia, where Invincible Spirit’s 16.2hh son I Am Invincible lived up to his name among the first-crop sires of 2013-14. From a total of 45 runners he sired 15 winners, with a Group 2 winner and a Group 3 winner among his five stakes winners.

Interestingly, the Group 2 winner Brazen Beau is inbred 4 x 3 to Danzig, while the Group 3 winner Vinnie Eagle is inbred 4 x 4, with the second line coming via Danehill. It is well worth pointing out that, like Zebedee, I Am Invincible didn’t have a Group 1 victory on his CV, though he was once runner-up to Takeover Target at that level. He did, though, win a Group 3 over six furlongs as a four-year-old.

This run of success comes after Invincible Spirit’s classic-winning son Lawman had been represented by a trio of Group 1 winners from his first two crops, including winners of the Irish 1,000 Guineas and the St James’s Palace Stakes.

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ROA FORUM The special section for ROA members

Let’s draw line in the sand over fixtures Richard Wayman says too much all-weather racing will undermine the sport in Britain The announcement of the closure of Warwick’s Flat course resulted in a number of members getting in touch to express their disappointment at the loss of another turf track. This news follows within a couple of years of the end of racing at Folkestone and Hereford, while it isn’t that long since Kempton switched all of its Flat racing from turf to Polytrack.

And, of course, there is more to come.

Newcastle is about to sacrifice one of the best racing surfaces in the country for an artificial track and we are still waiting to see if Catterick goes down the same route in the none too distant future, having stated a desire for all-weather racing.

From the racecourses’ perspective, these changes may have commercial merit, however I know I am not alone in having concerns about the longer-term consequences for the sport.

As owners know better than anybody, the attraction of racing in this country is not a financial one. One of the areas where British racing scores highly, though, is in the variety of our racecourses, many of which are located in attractive, rural locations.

Even at some of our smaller turf tracks

where the standard of racing is sometimes nothing to write home about, race meetings can provide a sense of occasion, particularly at those venues with an enthusiastic local following.

In our recent survey of ROA members, the enjoyment of going racing and watching your horse run was identified as being by far the biggest motivation for getting involved in racehorse ownership in the first place.

“The loss of more turf tracks would do little to encourage future racehorse ownership”

The same survey also confirmed that many owners feel that the all-weather tracks, who often race day after day, struggle to create much of an atmosphere and the owners’ raceday experience at these courses tends to rate relatively poorly.

I should say that none of this is meant as a criticism of the management teams at the all-weather tracks. Arena Racing Company has increased the investment in the owners’ offering across their courses and the new owners’ facility overlooking the paddock at

Kempton has rightly received very positive feedback.

However, as the sport wrestles with the issue of how to attract more owners and horses to provide the competitive racing that racegoers and punters understandably want to see, it should be a cause for concern that more and more of our racing is heading away from turf towards artificial surfaces.

Ten years ago, the breakdown of the fixture list was 45% Flat turf, 40% Jump and 15% all-weather. By 2014, Flat turf fixtures had fallen to 40% with the all-weather now responsible for 20% of the fixture list. This is sure to alter again next year, when, as well as the change of surface at Newcastle, Great Leighs will be reborn as Chelmsford City under the ownership of a syndicate headed by bookmaker Fred Done.

The ROA recognises the important contribution of all-weather racing to British racing and also welcomes the increased competition between the artificial tracks for fixtures. However, we strongly urge the BHA to ensure that an appropriate balance between racing on natural and artificial surfaces is maintained in the best interests of our sport.

Quite simply, the loss of more turf tracks, with their fixtures being gladly taken on by all-weather tracks that have an insatiable appetite for more racing, would do little to encourage racehorse ownership in the future.

Ownership guide download The ROA launched the Guide to Racehorse Ownership in July and it was downloaded 300 times in the first month. The guide is an online 60-page handbook targeted at current and potential owners.

ROA member Bob Cant of Cheshire commented: “The guide is very informative and full of advice from the racing industry, different types of ownership, buying a racehorse, the cost of keeping a racehorse, registering as an owner, training and last but best of all the raceday experience for owners!

“It is well laid out and very easy to understand for anybody not familiar with the racing world. I only wish this guide was available when I first ventured into racehorse ownership.”

The guide is freely available for download from the ROA website, racehorseowners.net. Alternatively, you can request a copy from the ROA office by calling 020 7152 0200.

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Weatherbys Bank to back ROA Horseracing Awards until 2015

The Awards are the highlight of racing’s social calendar

The ROA is delighted to announce that Weatherbys Bank will be the headline sponsor of its annual awards evening for the next two years. The Awards, in their 33rd year, are established as one of the most prestigious celebrations in racing’s social calendar.

In addition to banking, the Weatherbys group provides high quality property and bloodstock insurance through Weatherbys Hamilton, as well as an invaluable VAT service

for owners.

Chief Executive Roger Weatherby commented: “We are very pleased to support an event that is a true celebration each year of ROA members and their horses’ achievements.

“Our banking, insurance and VAT services are already well known to many members, and the relationship with the ROA is highly valued by all elements of our business. We

very much look forward to seeing as many members as possible at the Awards.”

Richard Wayman, ROA Chief Executive, said: “We are delighted that Weatherbys Bank will be headline sponsor of our annual Awards in 2014 and 2015, following Weatherbys’ long-standing association with the event.

“The evening is always a great celebration of British racing and a wonderful social occasion for our members. From what we have seen already this year, the Awards themselves are sure to be hotly contested.”

This year’s ROA/Weatherbys Bank Horseracing Awards will be held on Thursday, December 4 at the InterContinental London Park Lane. Members will be invited to vote for the Awards later in the year.

Tickets are priced at £175 per person, which includes a champagne reception, threecourse dinner and half a bottle of wine. Tables of ten are available at the discounted rate of £1,550. Tickets can be booked online at racehorseowners.net or by calling the ROA office on 020 7152 0200.

Free premier enclosure admission with ROA/JCR scheme The ROA/JCR racecourse admission scheme continues to offer free premier enclosure badges to ROA members who do not currently qualify for the ROA Racecourse Badge Scheme for Owners.

The scheme is open to ROA members who own up to 50% of a horse in training, either in a joint-ownership or as a non-nominated partner within a racing partnership.

Each member can claim two badges at up to 30 participating fixtures. The pilot scheme runs until the end of this year, and all 15 Jockey Club racecourses are taking part.

Free badges must be booked in advance through the JCR ticketing system by quoting a qualifying code. The code is available in the members’ area of the ROA website, or on request from the ROA

Sandown Park’s meetings on September 12 and 17 are included in the initiative

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office. Badges are posted out if booked seven days in advance, or made available for collection on the day from the general ticket collection point if booked within a week of the fixture.

The 26 participating fixtures in September are listed on the right. A full list to the end of the year can be found in the members’ area of the ROA website.

September dates

Racecourse

Monday 1 Thursday 4 Friday 5 Wednesday 10 Thursday 11 Friday 12 Wednesday 17 Saturday 20 Tuesday 23 Thursday 25 Friday 26 Saturday 27 Sunday 28

Huntingdon (J) Haydock Park (F) Haydock Park (F) Carlisle (F) Epsom Downs (F) Sandown Park (F) Sandown Park (F) Newmarket (F) Nottingham (F) Kempton Park (F) Haydock Park (F) Haydock Park (F) Epsom Downs (F)

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The use of cheque books for Weatherbys’ racing clients was raised as a topic at the regional meeting at Hamilton Park in July.

David Hart, Banking Manager of Weatherbys Bank, explained: “It has become necessary to separate racing transactions (e.g. entry fees, BHA registrations) from certain traditional banking transactions.

“We have contacted our racing clients who use cheque books to advise that we were looking to phase out cheque books on racing accounts.

“Racing clients can make payments from their Weatherbys accounts via our online, mobile and telephone banking services, and via direct debits and standing orders. Our training fees mandate service also enables racing clients to authorise us to make payments to their trainer without the need to write a cheque every month.”

Owners who have any concerns about how this may affect them can contact David Hart or Caroline Marray at Weatherbys Bank on 01933 304777.

LESLIE HURLEY

Weatherbys cheque books

Stephen Lambert, Stratford’s Clerk of the Course and Managing Director, receives the Gold Standard Award from ROA Council member Paul Duffy (centre)

Superb Stratford receives the ROA’s Gold Standard Award Gold Standard status rewards Stratford for a number of improvements for owners in recent years. Owners now receive a minimum of six badges per runner, and a wide choice of complimentary and discounted food offerings.

There is also a new owners’ and trainers’ bar area with increased staffing, and all fixtures at the summer jumps course are now included under the ROA Racecourse Badge Scheme for Owners.

Stratford-on-Avon has joined the ROA’s elite group of Gold Standard courses for offering an exceptional raceday experience to owners.

As the sun beat down for Ladies’ Day on Sunday, July 20, Stephen Lambert, Stratford’s Clerk of the Course and Managing Director, was presented with a plaque by Paul Duffy, ROA Council member and Raceday Committee liaison to Stratford.

ROA member discount on new Witheford biography If Horses Could Talk charts the life story of Gary Witheford, one of the country’s leading horse whisperers. The book details trials and tribulations of his life and the discovery of his quite extraordinary empathy with horses.

Witheford’s training methods are based on the observation of horses in the wild. He is renowned at solving behavioural issues and equine traits, with a philosophy that there is always a possibility of change and the chance of a better life for both horse and owner.

Co-writer Brough Scott said: “Anyone who has ever had anything to do with a horse will be mesmerised by Gary’s story.”

If Horses Could Talk will be published by Racing Post Books on September 26. ROA members can purchase the book from the Racing Post Shop for £14 – a 30% discount on the RRP – by using the voucher code ROA14 at www.racingpost.com/shop or over the phone on 01933 304858 (9am-5pm weekdays).

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Authority’s new website The BHA launched their rebranded website on Thursday, July 24. The ‘owners’ page’ can be found under ‘race info’, and carries a list of the top five in the Flat and jumps owners’ championships. Clicking through to ‘ownership resources’ provides further useful information. This includes searchable lists of claimed horses – including who they were claimed by – and of all horses subject to non-racing agreements.

The revamped racing colours tool allows you to design, check for availability and register a set of silks in the official colours and patterns. Finally, you can check for the availability of horse names, to see if your inspiration was unique.

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Don’t miss Kingman on Champions Day Champion miler Kingman will race at Ascot on October 18

GEORGE SELWYN

The ROA is offering members an exclusive hospitality package for QIPCO British Champions Day on Saturday, October 18. Champions Day is the richest raceday in British racing, with £3.75 million in prize-money on offer, and features the final five races in the QIPCO British Champions Series.

The headline act on a magnificent card will undoubtedly be Kingman, Khalid Abdullah’s exceptional miler trained by John Gosden, who is set to sign off for the season in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes.

ROA members have the chance to witness the QEII, Champion Stakes and other QIPCO championship races from a private hospitality box with balcony views of the racecourse on the third floor of the Ascot Grandstand.

The quality of the racing will be matched by a fine dining experience. Morning coffee and biscuits will precede a three-course silver-service lunch accompanied by complimentary house wines, beer and soft drinks, followed by a sumptuous afternoon tea.

The ROA’s hospitality package is available exclusively to members at a cost of £325 per person. Over half the places have already been sold and the remainder will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis.

For further details, please see the flier enclosed with this edition of the magazine, which includes a booking form. Alternatively, you can book tickets online at racehorseowners.net or by calling the ROA office on 020 7152 0200.

Newmarket trainers open their doors Following on from successful events for the last two years, racing’s headquarters will throw open its doors to the public on the morning of Sunday, September 21.

Early-morning visitors will be able to view horses exercising on Warren Hill and a host of trainers will open their yards. The ROA will be represented on the day in Luca Cumani’s Bedford House Stables so please come over and say hello.

Action moves to the Rowley Mile racecourse in the afternoon, where famous faces will be taking part in riding competitions and five-a-side football matches. Other attractions opening their THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

The ROA will have a stall at Luca Cumani’s Bedford House Stables

doors include The Jockey Club Rooms, Tattersalls, the National Horseracing Museum, the National Stud, Newmarket and Rossdales Equine Hospitals, and the British Racing School.

Bus transport between the venues is provided. Admission is £15, with proceeds supporting racing charities, while children aged 12 and under go free. For further details see www.newmarketopenday.co.uk

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BEHIND-THE-SCENES: VISIT TO GREATWOOD The ROA organised its first visit to the Greatwood Charity in Marlborough, Wiltshire, on July 22. Over 40 ROA members and their guests were welcomed by glorious sunshine and the Greatwood team, led by Managing Director and founder Helen Yeadon.

Greatwood is one of four centres to receive funding from RoR to support their retraining and rehoming programme. After a period of rest and rehabilitation, the horses are given the chance to show their natural aptitude and potential by building up from the basics.

ROA guests were treated to demonstrations of horses at each stage, from Robbie Neville long reining Ouzbeck, to Lisa Trott lunging Tobago, and beyond to Lizzie Brown, a member of the New Zealand high performance eventing squad, jumping Johnny Royal, who is rising through the eventing ranks.

Once retrained, Greatwood look to loan out horses to a permanent home, while retaining ownership and conducting home visits to safeguard the horse’s welfare. A recent case is that of Esther Rose, an unraced 2005 bay mare. Esther was found underweight in a grassless field in January, vulnerable to the winter elements. Back to good health and suitable for a career in eventing, she is now ready for rehoming. Fred and Rowena Cook of Equine Management and Training have recently been appointed as retraining consultants to help with this process, and Greatwood are “extremely grateful for their invaluable generosity”.

MATTHEW WEBB

R O A O F F I C I A L C H A R I T Y PA R T N E R

Lizzie Brown trots fledgling eventer Johnny Royal in front of ROA members

However, retraining and rehoming is only part of the story. It is Greatwood’s policy never to turn down a welfare case, operating as a sanctuary for horses not suitable for rehoming due to old age, injury or temperament. ROA members met one such quirky case – the enigmatic Deano’s Beeno, formerly trained by Martin Pipe, who ended Baracouda’s run of ten consecutive wins with victory in the 2002 Long Walk Hurdle but who is now enjoying retirement at Greatwood.

Sanctuary horses with a suitable temperament are given a new focus as part of Greatwood’s Horse Power project. ROA members heard how this unique project, founded in 2006, has helped over 3,000 young people with special educational needs.

The programmes use ex-racehorses to develop empathy and social skills in providing alternative, non-conventional education to children and young adults with special educational needs. Courses run alongside National Curriculum and are designed to empower children to feel positive about themselves and their contributions.

For older students, courses focus on employability, aiming to tackle the growing statistic of young people not in employment, education or training. The Horse Power project partners vulnerable young people with retired racehorses, merging two potential downward spirals into a cycle of mutual benefit.

Diary dates and reminders SEPTEMBER 17

OCTOBER 10

NOVEMBER 6

Owners Jackpot day

Regional Meeting and Owners Jackpot day

Regional Meeting and Owners Jackpot day

The jackpot goes back over the jumps at Newton Abbot.

Fakenham hosts, with another £10,000 jackpot up for grabs.

SEPTEMBER 18

OCTOBER 18

DECEMBER 4

Visit to Banstead Manor Stud Sold out trip to Frankel’s home.

ROA facility on QIPCO British Champions Day

ROA/Weatherbys Bank Horseracing Awards

SEPTEMBER 21

Enjoy panoramic views from the richest day in British racing, featuring four Group 1 races, from a private box on the third floor of the Ascot Grandstand. See story page 71.

Dine at the InterContinental Hotel in London and find out who topped the polls of ROA members. See page 69 for more information.

A £10,000 bonus fund will be shared among ROA members with winners on Wednesday’s card at Beverley.

Newmarket Open Day See details on page 71.

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

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Six share in Jackpot joy at Hamilton As temperatures soared, a cool £10,000 was shared between ROA members at Hamilton Park on July 17. Each eligible winning owner secured a bonus of £1,667 on top of their prize-money as part of the ROA Owners Jackpot, run in association with the Racing Post.

In the second race on a competitive card, Fast Finian battled on to victory by a neck in the ROA Owners Jackpot Claiming Stakes.

The result gave owner Martyn Elvin his first winner for two years and he cut a delighted figure as his share of the £10,000 jackpot provided “a great boost to the winnings”.

Stuart Morrison found himself in the winner’s enclosure thanks to the success of Incurs Four Faults. Mr Morrison has been an ROA member since 1992 and keeps a keen

ROA Council members Steven Astaire (left) and Alan Guthrie (right) present a cheque to Owners Jackpot winner Stuart Morrison and his wife Christine

eye out for the Owners Jackpot. “I was on the phone to the trainer last week to ensure he entered the horse at this meeting,” he said.

“Even if he only wins the minimum £1,500 bonus, that’s still a month’s training fees in Scotland.”

Overall, six of the seven races on the card were won by ROA members. Anne and Jonathan Spensley’s Another Lincolnday came from well off the pace to snatch victory in the fourth race, and Her Red Devil stayed on stoutly to keep her head in front for Dr Marwan Koukash in the finale.

Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum scooped two shares of the jackpot thanks to the efforts of Enlace and Snow Squall, trained by Mark Johnston.

The Jackpot moves to Yorkshire for Beverley’s fixture on Wednesday, September 17, before combining with an ROA regional meeting at Newton Abbot on Friday, October 10.

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MAGICAL MOMENTS

GEORGE SELWYN

Joe Fanning tracks the leaders on Sennockian Star (pink silks) at Glorious Goodwood before striking for home, providing another big handicap win for joint owner Alan Burke, pictured below (right) with his star and family at Ascot

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with ROA member Alan Burke

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ecisions made over a boozy lunch would not normally end well, but when Alan Burke went back to the office after one such occasion and picked up the phone to some racehorse trainers it was the start of a still-enjoyable and successful venture.

“I followed racing on TV from an early age, but never envisaged owning a horse,” he says. “My stag night was at Lingfield races, and then following a somewhat boozy lunch a few years ago I made a few calls to some trainers.

“The lunch was in The Vine restaurant with a business associate, Colin. We talked about the idea and a few bottles later decided to buy.

“I went back to the office and rang a few trainers. Hence our partnership name The Vine Accord, and as I live in Sevenoaks and he is from Sevenoaks, we are Sennockians.”

Sennockian Star lived up to his name at Glorious Goodwood this summer by winning the first race of the meeting at 14-1, the ten-furlong handicap in which Mark Johnston saddled the first, third and fourth.

Sennockian Star, who at the time of writing has won eight times and been placed on ten occasions for prize-money in excess of £150,000, was preceded by two others.

Burke continues: “I rang a few trainers, checking on costs, how it worked, what it included, and Mark rang me back from the USA, where he was at the sales. He impressed me by talking straight, and he doesn’t earn on the purchase – he buys with his own money, and it’s all-inclusive costs.

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“The first time I saw

Sennockian Star win, at Epsom this year, must be my magical moment so far” “We already knew of his track record and therefore he was the obvious choice for us.

And we’ve not been disappointed.

“Having chosen Mark as trainer, our horses are purchases he made and we took on.

Sennockian Storm cost a lot but was sent back to the USA after a couple of years, but with Sennockian Star and Licence To Till we have been very lucky.

“We recently sold Licence, having had a great run with him [nine wins and 18 places], and are now left with Sennockian Star. We’ve been offered a tempting large sum for him but he will probably be our sole interest next season, unless something catches our eye in the sales.”

While keen to stress it is his trainer who makes the plans, Burke said that with Sennockian Star upped 5lb to a mark of 106 following his recent Goodwood triumph, handicaps would be more difficult for the Rock Of Gibraltar gelding and that his pride and joy might have better options in Europe, with the Dubai Carnival at Meydan a longerterm option.

Business commitments aside – Burke owns a meat importing company, Universal Meats (UK) Ltd – he will perhaps have a more difficult choice about whether to attend glamour racing venues overseas than you might think.

“For one reason or another I have not been there for a lot of his wins,” he explains. “I was on holiday so unfortunately missed Goodwood.

“Indeed, having won many races without me managing to be there, the first time I saw Sennockian Star win, at Epsom this year [in the City And Suburban Handicap], must be my magical moment so far as I was beginning to think it was destined not to happen!”

If it can happen once, it can happen again, so seeing his Star shine is hopefully something this Sennockian can continue to look forward to.

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

Figures for period August 1, 2013 to July 31, 2014

Ownership

Avg racecourse spend per fixture (£)

Avg HBLB spend per fixture (£)

Avg owner spend per fixture (£)

Avg prizemoney per fixture (£)

Total no. of fixtures

Total prize-money (£)

Avg racecourse spend per fixture 2012-13 (£)

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

340,546 177,554 95,651 87,717 86,776 75,001 71,828 51,891 49,476 46,000 33,187 32,656 31,457 29,593 29,500 27,515 22,642 22,617 20,460 20,186 20,117 19,632 18,525 18,401 17,388 17,143 16,269 16,261 15,969 15,527 15,260 14,577 11,255 10,817 10,788 39,034

146,186 88,950 76,412 86,551 101,736 50,058 45,458 64,549 62,333 50,073 30,630 28,914 28,441 29,438 35,066 24,668 24,955 12,391 18,122 18,482 20,089 23,098 22,437 20,746 19,479 24,259 17,352 29,550 20,295 17,808 18,897 16,196 19,145 17,670 15,679 33,813

201,045 86,346 27,527 82,830 100,347 9,875 38,716 28,151 22,477 16,701 9,611 5,543 4,733 4,962 3,784 4,303 5,498 3,211 3,690 4,114 3,136 3,454 4,846 4,826 2,776 5,542 3,938 6,960 14,129 2,521 3,393 2,969 2,017 2,442 2,769 16,980

687,777 353,144 199,802 257,229 288,858 135,267 156,596 144,592 134,286 112,988 73,428 67,113 64,631 63,992 68,350 56,486 53,429 38,220 42,395 42,935 43,605 46,185 46,192 43,973 39,703 47,161 37,558 53,359 50,393 35,856 37,750 34,242 32,417 30,929 29,951 89,952

18 17 20 38 12 15 24 17 16 23 17 17 16 15 15 94 15 8 83 13 19 18 26 20 17 23 8 17 15 100 25 20 54 21 14 890

12,379,981 6,003,450 3,996,048 9,774,696 3,466,300 2,029,000 3,758,296 2,458,061 2,148,582 2,647,146 1,248,284 1,140,923 1,034,093 959,876 1,025,249 5,293,501 801,439 286,647 3,518,804 558,151 828,500 831,325 1,200,995 879,459 674,950 1,084,699 300,465 907,100 755,900 3,585,589 943,742 684,831 1,750,498 649,501 419,308 80,025,388

362,601 157,130 95,833 89,810 124,245 77,281 55,216 46,578 53,117 37,505 24,162 32,507 25,735 24,137 25,214 12,941 20,682 23,307 18,117 19,731 16,343 18,072 20,621 17,720 14,784 14,954 16,508 27,688 14,972 10,982 12,598 17,005 9,187 9,954 10,897 36,032

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

211,204 201,036 103,163 101,655 88,098 53,982 47,222 34,902 28,958 27,188 26,448 26,282 25,605 24,528 23,609 23,509 23,093 22,789 22,398 21,859 21,641 21,467 20,104 17,959 16,868 16,268 15,554 15,304 15,041 14,793 14,567 13,952 13,805 13,651 12,895 12,675 11,747 11,317 9,990 9,946 31,757

154,953 131,106 78,580 86,381 75,226 59,379 68,498 43,744 27,386 31,609 15,013 23,621 28,654 24,870 23,779 32,888 43,762 33,503 25,426 34,379 20,172 19,291 30,063 39,825 20,999 23,799 26,703 30,606 25,503 22,432 21,596 25,103 21,240 17,405 19,456 17,987 26,216 26,753 16,069 21,487 34,419

68,700 56,656 17,396 16,745 16,030 9,628 16,025 12,425 7,121 5,142 3,970 2,070 4,577 4,407 0 4,662 6,613 3,214 4,538 4,298 3,990 3,908 4,466 5,750 0 3,451 2,484 4,026 3,685 3,185 3,295 4,752 2,026 2,380 3,367 2,811 4,080 3,799 2,915 2,654 7,281

434,857 388,797 201,139 206,031 180,519 123,258 131,745 92,182 63,466 63,939 45,431 51,972 59,536 54,210 47,388 61,060 73,469 60,590 52,362 61,236 45,804 44,814 55,100 63,534 37,867 43,519 44,742 50,151 44,229 40,410 39,458 43,807 37,071 33,457 35,717 33,473 42,073 41,869 28,975 34,087 73,633

8 16 7 8 9 13 11 9 14 16 7 15 10 18 19 14 10 12 21 10 16 19 15 10 10 17 10 13 14 19 14 23 5 14 21 20 10 13 16 18 543

3,478,857 6,220,754 1,407,973 1,648,249 1,547,310 1,602,352 1,449,191 829,639 888,520 1,023,021 318,014 779,582 595,358 975,784 900,379 854,835 734,685 727,084 1,099,600 612,358 732,859 851,466 826,503 635,343 378,669 718,061 447,415 651,964 619,206 767,798 552,414 1,007,564 195,948 468,400 750,064 669,464 420,732 544,300 463,600 613,571 40,008,884

235,377 236,956 68,189 109,586 87,068 44,662 42,259 32,818 26,551 21,121 23,257 26,214 21,429 23,488 21,248 18,485 13,969 19,845 19,308 24,399 9,412 18,319 14,605 27,256 18,469 18,385 5,470 16,779 13,196 13,319 9,808 12,410 9,543 13,166 11,824 12,940 9,682 18,722 8,945 7,654 31,019

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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.

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Filly triumphs at the TBA National Hunt Foal Show Malinas is the sire in the spotlight again as the ‘stars of tomorrow’ shine at Bangor Words and photos Emma Berry

F

ollowing on from a successful inauguration in 2013, the TBA ‘Stars of Tomorrow’ National Hunt Foal Show returned to Bangor racecourse in late July.

The names at the top of the championship roll of honour were familiar ones – just as 12 months previously it was a foal by Malinas presented by Yorton Farm who topped proceedings – but this time the champion’s rosette went to a filly. The striking daughter of the unraced King’s Theatre mare Madam Jolie was foaled at Yorton but bred by Yorkshirebased Pauline Cowey, who keeps three National Hunt mares at her home near Whitby.

While Cowey was pleased and surprised initially to have won her class for older fillies, her look changed to one of pure amazement when her foal was judged to be top of all the 49 on show from 62 original entries across four categories.

“I’d have been pleased just to have been placed and I couldn’t believe it when she won her class,” she said. “This is outstanding for a small breeder, I’m just absolutely delighted. I’m hoping I’ll be able to keep her to race.”

Having previously produced two colts – a two-year-old by Definite Article and a yearling

by Malinas – Madam Jolie is now in foal to Malinas’s fellow Yorton stallion Universal.

Runner-up in the class for fillies born on or before April 14 was one of two foals at the show

by Oscar. The daughter of seven-time winner Histoire Des Moeurs (Kaldounevees) was shown

by Goldford Stud, which ended up with three representatives in the eight-foal final.

The eventual reserve champion was the winner of the morning’s older colts’ class and for regulars at the Doncaster sales ring, the breeder – and leader – of the Scorpion colt was the familiar face of auctioneer George Stanners. Out of the French-bred Bling Noir (Moscow Society), the colt was judged top of his division ahead of David Sherlock’s runner-up, a son of Malinas out of Absolve (Diesis).

With no racing taking place at Bangor in the evening, as in the previous year, there was time for a decent lunch break, with a buffet kindly sponsored by the British European Breeders’

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Madam Jolie and her champion Malinas filly foal with, from left, Lucy Dawson, winning breeder Pauline Cowey, Teresa Futter, Louise Kemble and Lester Futter

Fund held for around 220 competitors and guests before the younger foals were shown in the afternoon session.

Competition remained fierce, with the young colts’ title going to a son of the increasingly popular Shirocco out of Gaye Sophie (Environment Friend), a half-sister to the Grade 3-winning chaser Simon owned by Robin and Scarlett Knipe of Cobhall Court Stud.

His understudy was Goldford Stud’s colt by Malinas out of Valleyofthedolls (King’s Theatre), whose yearling filly by Shirocco was a class winner at last year’s show. Goldford’s Richard and Sally Aston, whose home had been the venue for a lively eve-of-show barbecue, went one better in the younger fillies’ class which they took with another homebred, a Martaline filly out of Message Personnel (Mansonnien).

A daughter of Overbury Stud’s young Monsun stallion Schiaparelli also made the final when judged to be runner-up in the class.

Shown by her owner Steven Wallace, the Aprilborn filly is out of Lac Marmot (Marju), who has already earned her stripes as a National Hunt broodmare as the dam of the multiple-winning

black-type hurdler My Petra and the Grade 2placed eight-time winner Midnight Appeal.

The judges were well selected to represent a geographical spread with AQPS western region President Yann Poirier making the trip from France, along with Kevin Ross from Northern Ireland, Bryan Murphy from Ireland, trainers Rebecca Curtis and Lucinda Russell from Wales and Scotland, and former TBA board member Lady Emma Balding representing England.

Poirier, who organises the AQPS foal show at Le Lion d’Angers in September, was impressed with his first visit to the TBA equivalent. He said: “Actually, I’m a bit afraid for my own show because the horses here all looked really good and were very well handled.

“There was a really high standard of presentation and the foals were pretty correct with four or five real stand-outs. It was very difficult to decide on a champion.”

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owners on the day. A greater number of trainers also appeared ringside this year, including Paul Webber, Alan King, Will Kinsey and Malcolm Jefferson, signalling increasing interest in the TBA National Hunt Committee initiative which is now an annual fixture.

TBA Chief Executive Louise Kemble said: “It was wonderful to see such an impressive turnout and the show so well supported by all exhibitors. We’d like to reiterate how grateful we are to everyone who helped make this yet another successful event for the National Hunt world and we look forward to seeing it grow again next year.”

Footage of all foals at the show is available on www.france-sire.com in the ‘Ventes & Concours’ section.

Left column from top: Steven Wallace’s Schiaparelli filly and Lac Marmot; Malcolm Jefferson and Peter Scudamore; Whitley Stud’s New Destiny and her Martaline colt; Sally Aston with her winning Martaline filly.

Middle column: Lady Emma Balding, Lucinda Russell and Kevin Ross; Pauline Cowey is all smiles; NH breeders of the future; Simon and Miranda Willes with Paul Webber; Sarah Taylor; Rebecca Curtis, Yann Poirier and Bryan Murphy; the Mickley Stud team.

Right column: the show champion; George Stanners and his Scorpion colt; Cobhall Court Stud’s Gaye Sophie and her Shirocco colt; Posh Pearl and her Fair Mix colt presented

by Shade Oak Stud

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Bumper attendance for TBA seminar Lively debate and informative presentations make for an enjoyable TBA annual gathering

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packed audience filled Tattersalls in July when the TBA’s annual seminar, this year entitled ‘Raising a champion: from conception to sales ring’, lived up to its billing and took delegates on a whistle-stop tour of the young horse’s life, offering advice and relaying the results of recent research to the breeders on hand.

Four years on from his last talk at the seminar, John Lynam came bearing much better news, that being some positive statistics from recent sales, and advice on maintaining commercial viability.

Figures put together by Lynam, a bloodstock economist, showed the aggregate of 109,006,800gns from the Tattersalls Book 1, 2 and 3 yearling sales in 2013 showed a rise of 42% on 2009. However, further analysis showed that those at the top of the market – selling for more than 100,000gns – accounted for 92% of the increase.

“The message is simple,” said Lynam. “Unless you operate at the top of the market, you should still be quite conservative about your bloodstock operation going forward.”

In 2010 he warned about the industry’s reliance on the Maktoum family, but noted the significant emergence of the Al Thani family as a spending force, increasing competition at the top and accounting for 12% of the Tattersalls October Sale aggregate.

He also gave advice on profitable stallion selection.

“The route to profitability is to assess your mares realistically, because buyers will be ruthless when assessing your stock,” he said.

“Pedigree places a limit on the price buyers are prepared to pay for fillies, and breeders who send a modestly-bred mare to an expensive stallion are likely to lose money if they get a filly.”

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JOHN LYNAM: Breeding for the future market – threats and opportunities

Yet another packed house at Tattersalls for the popular annual event

PAUL OVERTON, H R Overton Ltd: Keeping your pasture in optimum condition Grassland management consultant Paul Overton gave a detailed talk on assessing and maintaining stud paddocks, including good news for those who suffered in the heavy rain over the winter.

“It’s okay to use and abuse paddocks,” said Overton. “There’s a high casualty level with grass – drought and poaching are going to happen sometimes, you have to be realistic about that. The importance is having a rest and repair strategy in place.”

Offering the mantra “seed, feed and weed”, Overton stressed the importance of landowners analysing their paddocks using the simple square metre test.

“When I walk into a paddock, the first thing I look at is the grass levels,” he said. “Take a look at a square metre area and be honest with what you see – how much grass do you have, what is the content and make-up, are there any bare areas?”

Maintenance recommended by him included topping, tipping, harrowing and slitting.

“Some people are anti-topping, some people are pro,” said Overton. “But the most important thing is maintaining a consistent grass height.”

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PROFESSOR JACQUI MATTHEWS, Moredun Research Institute: Effective parasite control John Lynam: ‘Assess mares realistically’

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Professor Jacqui Matthews was awarded bonus points for generating laughs from the audience on the topic of worms, but her

entertaining talk conveyed the concerning message that some products are now not sustainable in reducing the burden of certain worms in horses.

“The biggest problem is the prevalence, pathogenicity and drug resistance of small strongyles,” said Matthews. “Most horses have subclinical infections and show clinical signs only when the burden is high. There are no new products in the pipeline so we need to think about how we’re going to control worms on an evidence basis.”

Alongside promoting a targeted worming regime – using a faecal egg count to ensure the use of appropriate wormers – she advocated both regular pasture clearing and rotational group grazing with a rest in between.

“Maybe hold a rock festival every third year,” she joked.

EMILY HAGGETT, Rossdales Veterinary Surgeons: Lawsonia and other problems affecting foals and weanlings Rhodococcous equi, and more recently Lawsonia intracellularis, can cause huge losses to individual breeders and the industry. Local vet Emily Haggett gave a detailed talk informing breeders of the clinical signs to be aware of, while also updating on the equally important topic of prevention.

“With Rhodococcus equi, the signs can be from a healthy foal to severe pneumonia,” said Haggett. “The bacteria penetrates the cells, which allows the formation of absesses and makes it difficult to access and kill it.

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“Symptoms include polysynovitis, distended joints and uveitis. Abscesses can also form in the lungs and gastrointestinal tract, so ultrasound can be used to screen horses.

“The bacteria is everywhere, in soil, faeces, dust, bedding, so it’s important to look for ‘hot spots’ – reduce dust contamination where possible and avoid overcrowding in yearling barns.”

Haggett then moved on to Lawsonia, a disease that causes inflammation of the intestine reducing the uptake of nutrients – which can have a devastating effect on the growing foal.

“The first sign may be a foal simply not doing as well as they should, leading to a fever, depression, oedema of the throat, legs and belly, diarrhoea or colic,” said Haggett. “It mainly affects foals around weaning. After 11 months they appear largely immune.”

The use of oxytetracycline and doxycycline are the current treatments, while prevention includes immediate isolation of infected youngsters and preventing contamination of food and water by wildlife faeces. Haggett also reported on the results of studies into a Lawsonia vaccine, but her take-home message was: “Early recognition and prevention is the key to success”.

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HUW NEAL, Newmarket Equine Hospital: Latest veterinary advancements in getting your mare in foal Equine fertility specialist Huw Neal gave an insight into the reproductive technique that had enabled Watership Down Stud mare Darara to produce Group 1 winners Dar Re Mi and Rewilding after four barren years.

“We spend a lot of time examining the mare’s uterus and a lot of time examining the ovary, but for many years we’ve forgotten the link between them, the oviduct, which connects the two,” said Neal.

Through pioneering research, vets discovered a mare’s reproductive viability could be compromised by a build up of protein deposited in the oviduct from repeated ovulations, but that laproscopic application of a prostaglandin E compound could trigger contractions in the oviduct to help clear the passage. In a study of 15 mares, aged from ten to 21 who were barren for between one and four years, nine conceived after one mating following the treatment, four conceived on the second mating and one on the third mating.

Lady Carolyn Warren of Highclere Stud

incidence of early pregnancy loss, which is focusing on Newmarket in 2013 and 2014, and a lab-based study into chromosomal abnormalities associated with EPL,” she said.

“The clinical data from the 967 mares studied show the loss rate between 15 and 62 days is 6.5%, and 1.8% between days 43 and 65.”

The study showed both mare and stallion age had an effect on the incidence of EPL, but that manual reduction of twins and ovulatory drugs did not – in fact, the study is looking into whether the latter may have a positive effect.

The second part of the study involved collecting the foetus from a number of early pregnancy losses – 17 in 2013 and 14 in 2014 – to analyse the genetic material. Although still a work in progress, Dr de Mestre reported promising results in the collection, preservation and culturing of genetic material needed for more in-depth analysis.

POLLY BONNOR, Saracen Horse Feeds: Managing growth and nutrition to produce a sound, athletic horse Polly Bonnor, a well-known nutritionist among many of the delegates, gave an in-depth talk on the nutrition of both the mare and foal from conception to weaning, tackling some of the problems in the growing youngster.

“The main difficulty is that maturity comes

after we’re expecting them to be competitive, and that brings with it its own set of problems,” said Bonnor. “To minimise issues, we’re looking for optimal body growth rate that results in desirable body size at a specific age with the fewest issues.

“Timing is everything, and regular visual assessment is really important.”

In addition to imparting practical advice and research into optimal nutrition at the various stages, Bonnor introduced breeders to GroTrack, growth-monitoring software that allows breeders to both monitor their own horse’s growth and compare it to others around the world.

LADY CAROLYN WARREN: Sales preparation The day came to a close with a talk by Highclere’s Lady Carolyn Warren, who shared some of the secrets that have helped the stud regularly top the leading consignor list at Tattersalls Book 1.

“Condition is key,” said Lady Warren. “At the point of the sale they have to look the part, so don’t commit to a specific sale too soon.

“Fitness is also required at the sales – a popular horse may be shown up to 70 times a day – so design a work plan. We use the horse walker, hand walking and lunging, but you must constantly remember how young these horses are – little and often is better than one long session.”

Other nuggets of wisdom included using an anti-cribbing gel in horses’ manes and tails to prevent chewing; the right handler; the right headgear; and plenty of showing practice.

But she said the main aim behind their modus operandi was selling a racehorse.

“We and our customers are trying to breed a racehorse, and no yearling preparation should interfere with that,” said Lady Warren.

“Ultimately, we’re judged on producing good racehorses.”

Dr Mandi de Mestre gave delegates an update on her TBA and Levy Board-funded research into the causes of early pregnancy loss.

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DR MANDI DE MESTRE, Royal Veterinary College: Early pregnancy failure in the mare

Catching up with fellow breeders and delegates during the lunch break

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Behind the scenes at the TBA With a membership in excess of 2,000 and six people in the Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association office, the small team sails a big ship on a daily basis. We wanted to give you the chance to put a face to a name and tell you a bit more about the people you email or speak to at the TBA. This month we are focussing on our newest team member, SARA ROSE. Sara is the first BHA graduate placement for the TBA; we are delighted to welcome her into the team as part of our ongoing commitment to help young breeders within the industry.

In a nutshell, what do you do for the TBA? I am placed with the TBA for five months under the BHA’s 2014 Graduate Development Programme so I have been here for only a few weeks. My main role while I’m here is to help coordinate the Next Generation Club’s ‘Careers Course’ which will be held in November. I will be working closely with the NGC committee, along with Caroline Turnbull and Carrie Cherry, on this project. I have been involved in recent events, such as the Annual Seminar and the NH Foal Show, which were great introductions to working at the TBA and allowed me to meet many of the members we represent. I am also involved in the day-to-day running of the TBA. If your colleagues were writing your biography what would the title be?

The Paddy! There’s always one isn’t there?

What did you do before you joined the TBA? I have just finished a four-year degree at University College Dublin and was lucky enough to gain a place on the BHA Graduate Development Programme, which I started at the end of June with a two-week course at the British Racing School. I then started my placement at the TBA in mid-July.

Talk us through a typical week for Sara?

I’ve been here for only a short while and no week has been the same so far! I have started at a busy time of year for the TBA so I have been involved with a bit of everything, such as the Annual Seminar, the NH Foal Show, a Social Media Skills Course, along with all the day-today jobs that keep the TBA show on the road.

The variety is great and I’ve learned a huge amount in the short time I’ve been here.

What do you love about working for the TBA? The team at the TBA are really fantastic to work with and it is a great environment for me to learn in. I’ve enjoyed helping with the events so far as I got to meet members and get to know them. The highlight for me so far was going to the National Hunt Foal Show at Bangor-on-Dee racecourse. It was brilliant to see some great mares now in their stud career and hopefully some of the stars of the future too.

If you could swap places with any other person for a week, famous or not famous, living or dead, real or fictional, with whom would it be and why?

Not exactly a person but my labrador Lola has the best life, she is completely bonkers and always happy, along with being treated like royalty despite her frequent bad behaviour. The simple life!

What is your favourite racecourse?

I am passionate about National Hunt racing so for me it has to be Cheltenham. The quality of racing is fantastic and you don’t get that same buzz anywhere else. Of course, the British/Irish rivalry always adds to the occasion! I’m counting down the days to the Festival already. I also need to mention my local track in Ireland, Gowran Park. It is a beautiful track and has some great jump meetings.

When you were younger, what did you want to be when you grew up?

I grew up on a farm so naturally I went through

the wanting to be a vet stage, however I quickly realised I wasn’t smart enough for that.

Unusually, I went through quite a lengthy stage of wanting to be a farmer and actually ended up doing a Bachelor of Agricultural Science in UCD. I did specialise on the equine side of things though and I think I always knew it was inevitable I’d end up doing something related to horses. Although I’m still not really sure what I want to be when I ‘grow up’.

If you could change one thing about yourself what would it be?

Definitely height! I am only 5’2” and somehow manage to be a target for ridicule in any situation.

What are you looking forward to doing with the TBA this year?

My main project for my time at the TBA is the first NGC ‘Careers Course’, which takes place in November. I think anything designed to help get young people started in the industry is fantastic and I’m really excited to be part of it. I’m really looking forward to it and hoping I do a good job.

No pressure!

Walk Burghley cross-country course with Tina Cook Only a few days after the conclusion of the World Equestrian Games, our TBA ambassador could be joining us at Burghley, hopefully with another medal.

After the success of the Badminton Course Walk, we are delighted to invite you all to the Land Rover Burghley Horse

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Trials to walk the famous big galloping track with Tina Cook.

This is a unique opportunity to see the world renowned course through the eyes of an Olympian, helping you to gain exclusive knowledge into how the huge fences and tricky combinations will be

ridden. To register for the course walk email Lucinda.hird@thetba.co.uk or call 01638 661321.

Please note, a place on the course does not cover your entrance ticket to Burghley Horse Trials; these should be purchased from Burghley directly.

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Breeders’ Prizes for TBA members Name

Horse

Sire

Dam

Lady Whent

Prize (£) 9,400

Goldcrest

Assertive

Level Pegging

Date

Course

03/07/2014

Newbury

Mrs R. Wilson

1,800

Strath Burn

Equiano

Irish Light

03/07/2014

Newbury

Nawara Stud Co Ltd

1,800

Damascene

Oasis Dream

Acts Of Grace

03/07/2014

Yarmouth

Mr Gary Woodward

5,400

No One Knows

Pastoral Pursuits

Toffee Vodka

04/07/2014

Haydock Park

Qatar Bloodstock Ltd

1,800

Mary Mcphee

Makfi

Aunty Mary

04/07/2014

Warwick

Mr Paul Dean

5,400

Sir Guy Porteous

Shamardal

Ermine And Velvet

05/07/2014

Carlisle

Mr Mohamed Saeed Al Shahi

5,400

War Spirit

Exceed And Excel

Alybgood

05/07/2014

Haydock Park

Bearstone Stud

1,800

Divine Law

Major Cadeaux

Yanomami

05/07/2014

Haydock Park

Cheveley Park Stud

5,400

Royal Seal

Dansili

Queen's Best

05/07/2014

Sandown Park

James Ortega Bloodstock

1,800

Regal Magic

05/07/2014

Sandown Park

5,400

Raise Your Gaze A Rosalie Bonheur

Mastercraftsman

Mrs J. F. Maitland-Jones

Siyouni

Crozon

07/07/2014

Ripon

Cheveley Park Stud

1,800

Telmeyd

Dutch Art

Blithe

07/07/2014

Ripon

Shadwell Estate Co

1,800

Abaq

Oasis Dream

Indian Ink

09/07/2014

Kempton Park

Middleham Park Racing XIX

5,400

Lexington Abbey

Sleeping Indian

Silvereine

10/07/2014

Nottingham

Mr Hamdan Al Maktoum

5,400

Markaz

Dark Angel

Folga

11/07/2014

Ascot

Mr Peter Ridgers

5,400

Louie De Palma

Pastoral Pursuits

Tahirah

11/07/2014

Ascot

The Lavington Stud

3,000

Accipiter

Showcasing

Mexican Hawk

11/07/2014

Chepstow

Jeremy Green And Sons

1,800

Showing Character

Showcasing

Lalectra

11/07/2014

Chester

Mr George Materna

5,400

Deeds Not Words

Royal Applause

Wars

11/07/2014

Newmarket

Middleham Park Racing C

5,400

Lexington Times

Paco Boy A

Fuaigh Mor

11/07/2014

Newmarket

Bumble Bloodstock & Mr C. Liesack

1,800

Maljaa

Paco Boy

Kerry's Dream

11/07/2014

York

Middleham Park Racing LXXXVIII

1,800

Ventura Shadow

Equiano

Stavinsky's Gal

11/07/2014

York Ascot

Miss Emily Asprey & Christopher Wright

5,400

Savoy Showgirl

Kyllachy

The Strand

12/07/2014

Newsells Park Stud

1,800

Battersea

Galileo

Gino's Spirits

12/07/2014

Ascot

Mr Mubarak Al Naemi

5,400

Al Ghuwariyah

Acclamation

Church Melody

12/07/2014

Chester

Kingsclere Stud

1,800

Spectator

Passing Glance

Averami

12/07/2014

Chester

Laundry Cottage Stud Farm

1,800

Kibaar

Pastoral Pursuits

Ashes

12/07/2014

York

Newsells Park Stud Limited & Equity Bloodstock

1,800

Penhill

Mount Nelson

Serrenia

15/07/2014

Thirsk

Laundry Cottage Stud Farm

1,800

L'addition

Exceed And Excel

La Adelita

16/07/2014

Lingfield Park

The Rt Hon Lord Rothschild

5,400

High Church

High Chaparral

Tamso

16/07/2014

Sandown Park

Al Shaqab Racing

9,000

Christopher & Annabelle Mason

900

Osaila

Danehill Dancer

Mennetou

17/07/2014

Doncaster

Surewecan

Royal Applause

Edge Of Light

17/07/2014

Doncaster

Shadwell Estate Company Limited

1,800

Nafaqa

Sir Percy

Maghya

18/07/2014

Newbury

W. and R. Barnett Ltd

3,000

Cay Dancer

Danehill Dancer

White Cay

18/07/2014

Newbury Newmarket

Ed Dunlop

1,800

Arethusa

Rip Van Winkle

Acquifer

19/07/2014

Newsells Park Stud Limited & Equity Bloodstock

1,800

Penhill

Mount Nelson

Serrenia

19/07/2014

Ripon

Miss Anthea Gibson Fleming

3,000

Sleeper

Rail Link

Guermantes

21/07/2014

Windsor

Cheveley Park Stud Ltd

5,400

Provenance

Galileo

Echelon

23/07/2014

Sandown Park

900

Zeb Un Nisa

Iffraaj

Tullynally

24/07/2014

Bath Sandown Park

Hascombe And Valiant Studs The Queen

5,400

Purple Spectrum

Verglas

Rainbow's Edge

24/07/2014

Jon And Julia Aisbitt

9,000

Malabar

Raven's Pass

Whirly Bird

25/07/2014

Ascot

Mrs R. F. Johnson Houghton

1,800

Prize Exhibit

Showcasing

Roodeye

25/07/2014

Lingfield Park

Mrs Sheila Oakes

1,800

Vimy Ridge

American Post

Mrs Sheila Oakes

25/07/2014

Thirsk

Mr R. J. Cornelius

1,800

Mr Mclaren

Royal Applause

Mamma Morton

25/07/2014

Thirsk

Bond Thoroughbred Corporation

1,800

Meadway

Captain Gerrard

Tibesti

25/07/2014

York

Mr B. Haggas

5,400

Mange All

Zamindar

Blancmange

26/07/2014

Ascot

Ed Dunlop Racing Ltd

1,800

Trip To Paris

Champs Elysees

La Grande Zoa

26/07/2014

Ascot

London Thoroughbred Services Ltd

1,800

Zaraee

Dubawi

Camaret

26/07/2014

Newcastle

Mr Raymond Miquel

5,400

Fast Track

Rail Link

Silca Boo

26/07/2014

Newmarket

John Guest Racing

5,400

Bossy Guest

Medicean

Ros The Boss

26/07/2014

Newmarket

Shadwell Estate Co

1,800

Munaaser

New Approach

Safwa

26/07/2014

Newmarket

W. and R. Barnett Ltd

1,800

Late Shipment

Authorized

Time Over

26/07/2014

Newmarket

Mrs James Wigan

1,800

Plymouth Sound

Fastnet Rock

Shardette

26/07/2014

Salisbury

Bearstone Stud

1,800

Valley Of Fire

Firebreak

Charlie Girl

26/07/2014

York

Kincorth Investments Inc

1,800

Growl

Oasis Dream

Desert Tigress

27/07/2014

Ascot

Mrs R. D. Peacock

1,800

Redkirk

Notnowcato

Flag

27/07/2014

Ascot

Cheveley Park Stud

9,000

Solar Magic

Pivotal

Moon Goddess

27/07/2014

Ascot

Newsells Park Stud

1,800

Dark Reckoning

Equiano (Fr)

Impressible

27/07/2014

Pontefract

Laundry Cottage Stud Farm

1,800

Horsforth

Kyllachy

Lady Mcbeth

29/07/2014

Beverley

Mrs Fitri Hay

5,400

Misleading

Footstepsinthesand

Danny's Choice

29/07/2014

Goodwood

Boyce Bloodstock & Mrs C. E. Percival

1,800

Stroll Patrol

Mount Nelson

Maid For Winning

30/07/2014

Leicester

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TBA diary dates SATURDAY, AUGUST 30 Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association Atalanta Stakes at Sandown Park

TBA Annual Stud Staff Award: Runner-up is Diane Best

TBA members can gain free entry on production of their membership card.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 DBS Sales event With Tina Cook and her brother, Nick Gifford. Enjoy the morning viewing horses alongside the professionals and gain a unique insight into what they look for when buying or spotting a star of the future.

SEPTEMBER 4 or 5 Burghley Horse Trials An exclusive TBA course walk with Tina Cook. Date to be announced on TBA website.

Diane receives her award from Louise Kemble at the National Hunt Foal Show

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 Northern Regional Day Visit to David O’Meara’s Arthington barn Stables, Nawton, York. Followed by a trip to Lady Cecil’s Cliff Stud, Helmsley.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 Wales & West Midlands Regional Day A visit to David Loder’s Newton Farm, Bishop’s Castle, followed by a tour of David Futter’s Yorton Farm Stud, Welshpool, home to stallions Great Pretender, Librettist, Malinas, Norse Dancer, Sulamani and Universal.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 Eastern Regional Day William Haggas’s Somerville Lodge yard, followed by Newsells Park Stud.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 TBA Prestige EBF Handicap At Newmarket.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22 TBA EBF Handicap Stakes At Newmarket.

NEW MEMBERS J M Bates, Warwickshire; Mrs P Bonnor, Berkshire; A G Craig, Surrey; Mrs M Franklin, County Durham; Mrs J Gawthorpe, Kent; Miss K Hills, Surrey; Skymarc Farm Inc, East Sussex; Ms R Jones, Shropshire; Ropsley Bloodstock LLP, Lincolnshire; Petra Bloodstock Agency, East Sussex; D W Porter-Mackrell, Hertfordshire; Mr I Ross, Cheshire; A J Thompson, Suffolk; Mrs R Tilston, Shropshire.

18–35 MEMBERS Eleanor Boden, Cumbria; Filippo Guido Conti, Suffolk; Christopher Lock, Berkshire; Oliver Nash, Hampshire.

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Each year the TBA presents an Annual Stud Staff Award, generously sponsored by New England stud, and for 2014 the sponsorship has been extended to provide a runner-up award of £500, which has been given to Diane Best of Cobhall Court Stud.

Diane was nominated for the award by employers Robin and Scarlett Knipe, who describe her as the lynchpin of the stud for 17 years. A completely dedicated and reliable employee, Diane’s expertise in treating ailments and illnesses in mares and foals is second to none, and her skilful handling and preparation of foals has

Social Media Skills Course The National Stud was the venue for the Social Media Skills Course sponsored by the TBA on Wednesday, July 30. This one-day course was presented by Abigail Sawyer, Group Digital Manager at the Jockey Club. It was aimed at individuals in the thoroughbred industry with an interest in furthering their social media skills from a personal or professional point of view.

The course covered everything from the very basics of the common social media sites to more complex sites and how to make social media work for you. It was enjoyed by all.

The next TBA-sponsored course at the National Stud will be on Tuesday, September 23, a one-day course on ‘The Foal – from weaning to sales’. Further information from Stanstead House.

resulted in many notable achievements at the sales for Cobhall Court over the years.

Her all-round stud management skills mean that the stud can be left in her capable hands, and the Knipes are delighted that Diane has been publicly recognised for the contribution she has made over the years to the success of Cobhall Court.

Diane was presented with her award at the TBA NH Foal Show at Bangor-on-Dee, where she led up the winner of Class 3 (colt foal born on or after April 15, 2014), who is out of Gaye Sophie by Shirocco.

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With a series of events including the Annual Awards Dinner, the AGM, the Seminar and the NH Foal Show, July has been a very busy month for the TBA and it’s meant we have had a chance to see around 600 members over a four-week period and we’ve enjoyed catching up with you all.

To ensure you aren’t missing any news or correspondence from us can we ask you all to double check we have your email address and/or the correct postal address. To amend any details please email Carrie.Cherry@thetba.co.uk.

Another way to make sure you are keeping up to date with our news is to follow us on Twitter.

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TBA Flat sponsorship gets under way

Annual TBA Stud Farming Course The TBA’s annual flagship course takes place at the British Racing School from Tuesday, December 9 to Thursday, December 11, 2014. 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. A dinner, external visits and opportunities to meet and exchange views with peers and colleagues add to this unique educational experience.

Further information will be available in the October issue of TOB, or contact Christine Standley on 01638 661321 or email Christine.standley@thetba.co.uk.

As part of an overall mandate to ensure that fillies and mares have race opportunities that act as influential stepping stones in their careers, we are delighted to once again be investing in a series of fillies-only handicaps across a range of distances, providing more occasions to identify race mares with ability. The first race was run at Newbury on July 18 and the second took place at Hamilton Park, where Robert Robinson (left) kindly presented the trophy to the winning connections of Jamesbo's Girl

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Watch and share our new promotional video

Next month at the DBS September Sales we will be hosting a unique event with Tina Cook and her brother, Nick Gifford. As professionals in two quite different thoroughbred worlds but that also overlap, they will be sharing with our members exclusive insight into what they look for when viewing horses to buy or spotting future stars. The event will begin in the morning and a number of horses will be viewed before members enjoy lunch. This will take place on Wednesday, September 3 at Doncaster Bloodstock Sales. For more information or to register for a place, please contact Lucinda.hird@thetba.co.uk. Please note, there will be a limited number of places available and these will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.

For a whistle-stop tour of the TBA, showing what we do, how we can help and the advantages of being a member, we are delighted to share with you a new, short video

that we have had produced. The beautifully shot piece summaries what it is like to be part of the TBA and highlights some of the benefits all members can enjoy. We’d like to extend

our thanks to all at Newsells Park, Robins Farm Racing and Normandie Stud for their kind help with our filming.

To watch the film please visit our website.

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Mukhadram’s useful half-sister Woodland Aria, who was third in the Musidora Stakes – she actually failed to find a buyer as a foal and was submitted as a yearling from Whitsbury Manor Stud.

This quintet aggregated a substantial 578,000gns, of which 240,000gns was paid by John Ferguson for Magic Tree’s Sea The Stars colt foal at the last December Sale. Currently she has a filly foal by Oasis Dream.

Andrew Wardall’s Alvediston Stud is near Salisbury, no distance from Whitsbury Manor Stud, and Paul Thorman used to be stud groom there.

It is also close to Woodminton Farm, where the late Helen Kennard bred champion sprinter Cadeaux Genereux, who spent his stallion career at Whitsbury.

The original owner of Alvediston Stud, a Mrs Beckingham, took the name with her when she decided to sell the property in 1966 and board her stock at the Sellars’ Lanhill Stud near Chippenham in Wiltshire. This lady had founded Alvediston with the acquisition of Oaks heroine Why Hurry, acquired from the J V Rank dispersal in July 1952.

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What sets Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum’s Oaks heroine Taghrooda and his Eclipse winner Mukhadram apart is that the filly (to whom the five-yearold entire finished third in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes) was homebred at Shadwell.

Step forward Mukhadram’s breeder Wardall Bloodstock, aka Andrew Wardall, of Alvediston Stud in Wiltshire. Shadwell bought the son of Shamardal as a foal for 190,000gns at Tattersalls’ 2009 December Sale when consigned through Paul Thorman’s Trickledown Stud.

That year Mukhadram’s grandam Moyesii was voted the TBA’s Broodmare of the Year, in recognition of her two sons Mastery, the St Leger and Derby Italiano winner, and dual Group victor Kirklees.

Moyesii is out of Cherokee Rose (Sprint Cup, Prix Maurice de Gheest), one of Sheikh Mohammed’s earliest Group 1 winners, and her dam Celtic Assembly was acquired by Darley as a yearling for $175,000 in 1982. As for Mukhadram’s dam Magic Tree, she was culled for just 2,800gns as a three-year-old at Doncaster in January 2005.

With a single juvenile appearance to her credit when trained by Mick Channon, Magic Tree’s next owner was Alan Kent, who then sold the filly privately to his friend Andrew Wardall.

Magic Tree’s first five offspring have all been consigned to Tattersalls by Trickledown Stud either as foals or yearlings and they include

The Cheveley Park stallions had been making a bigger impression at the top level than the Thompsons’ own mares this season – that is until Integral came to the rescue.

This four-year-old daughter of Dalakhani won the Falmouth Stakes (how satisfactory that the race reverted to its original name, commemorating one of the leading owner/breeders of the Victorian era) to augment her Royal Ascot victory in the Duke of Cambridge Stakes (previously the Windsor Forest Stakes).

Integral was emulating both her homebred dam Echelon (Matron Stakes) and grandam Exclusive (Coronation Stakes) in landing a Group 1 prize. Exclusive also had a Cheveley-bred heritage handicap winner in July with De Rigueur (Old Newton Cup).

The family owes its origin at the Thompsons’ stud to the next dam Exclusive Order. A multiple Group winner in France, she cost $825,000 in 1987 and is also responsible for 2,000 Guineas hero Entrepreneur.

Provenance, Integral’s retained three-year-old half-sister, also scored in July. They are two of Echelon’s first four produce all trained by Cheveley Park Director Sir Michael Stoute, the most recent being the Shamardal juvenile filly Entity.

Meanwhile, Echelon has a yearling colt by Medicean heading to Tattersalls’ October Sale and she is in foal to Integral’s sire Dalakhani, as is Provenance’s own-sister Elysian, who has a colt foal by Dutch Art.

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New signings for NGC Matt Prior and Vanessa Ryle join the committee

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he Next Generation Club was founded in 2009, so with a maximum tenure for committee members of three years, naturally there is a whole range of new faces at the helm compared to its early days.

Last month we said goodbye to two longstanding – and outstanding – committee members in Ali Rea and Hetty Keyes. Ali, as Group Digital Manager and former Head of

European Marketing for Darley, proved invaluable when it came to getting the NGC message out to the industry and advertising events. Many of you may recognise Hetty from our annual trip to Tattersalls, or one of the many events she hosted throughout her time on the committee, including this year’s 2,000 Guineas picnic.

Both have been an invaluable part of the ATR assistant producer Vanessa Ryle

Matt Prior, right, leading the recent NGC visit to John Quinn’s yard in Malton

VANESSA RYLE, 24, assistant producer at ATR MATT PRIOR, 29, bloodstock executive and auctioneer at Tattersalls

team during their time, and the committee would like to thank them for all their hard work over the years.

Ali and Hetty may have left some big shoes to fill, but their replacements look more than up to task and they are Matt Prior and Vanessa Ryle.

Matt is also part of the Tattersalls team, while Vanessa is an assistant producer at At The Races.

To get to know them a bit better, we quizzed them on their career, favourite racing memories and thoughts for the future of the sport...

insight into many different areas. This helps you establish what career path you might want to go down and where your strengths and weaknesses lie.

What was your first job in racing?

Flat or jumps?

MATT PRIOR: I was a sales assistant at Hugo Lascelles Bloodstock VANESSA RYLE: I did various pieces of freelance work when I was still establishing which area of the racing world I wanted to work in. The first of these was two weeks with Voute Sales at Tattersalls Book 1 and 2. I loved every minute of it, learnt a lot and met some wonderful people.

MP: Flat VR: Jumps

If you were in charge of racing for the day, what changes would you make?

Best race you’re seen?

MP: Racing needs to continually work to be accessible to the general public. A day at the races needs to be as affordable and fun as possible, in order to encourage families and the younger generation to regularly attend.

VR:: I’d give the fixture list a shake up. A little less racing, fewer big meetings clashing, and a few more opportunities for certain types of horses. I understand that the organising of the fixture list must be an incredibly difficult job and you’re never going to be able to keep everyone happy, but I do feel there are areas that could be improved.

What has been the best moment in your current role?

MP: Completing my first session as an auctioneer at the Tattersalls February Sale this year.

VR: Interviewing Ralph Beckett a few days before the Oaks last year. It was the first proper interview I had ever done and it felt like a big step in the right direction on my career path.

MP: It’s Tricky winning the American Oaks at Saratoga in 2011, while working for her trainer Kiaran McLaughlin during the Darley Flying Start. She was incredibly tough and game that day, holding off the likes of Plum Pretty and Royal Delta.

VR: On the Flat, the 2009 Arc de Triomphe.

The sheer class Sea The Stars showed in winning just blows me away every time.

Over the jumps it would be Kauto Star’s 2011 Betfair Chase. He is my all-time favourite and the way he pinged round those fences that day and romped to victory at the age of 11 was a joy.

What is your earliest racing memory?

What advice would you give to young people wishing to pursue a career in racing or bloodstock?

MP: Rock Of Gibraltar’s 2,000 Guineas, which I was mainly watching because he was partly owned by Sir Alex Ferguson at the time.

VR: When I was younger my parents took me to Wetherby a good few times – I remember being very cold there!

MP: Ask lots of questions and be prepared to put in the hours.

VR: Get as much work experience as you can. I spent a lot of time doing weeks of unpaid work experience at varying companies, and as a result I gained different

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Syndicates

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If sole racehorse ownership is too expensive or daunting for you, then there is a more economical alternative to attaining your dream of standing in the winner’s enclosure. A syndicate (or partnership) divides the cost of a horse between two (UK minimum, five in Ireland) to 24 (Irish maximum, 20 in Britain) shareholders, making it an affordable first step onto the ownership ladder.

With training fees averaging £20,000 per year per horse, sharing the costs makes plenty of sense.

In Britain, 60% of horses currently in training are owned by syndicates or partnerships, according to the Racehorse Owners Association (ROA), writes Lissa Oliver One of the greatest benefits to syndicate and partnership ownership is the social aspect and the opportunity to mix with other horseracing enthusiasts, enjoy a day at the races with likeminded people and to participate in stable visits and other racing-related events as part of a friendly group.

Obviously, sharing costs and decisions can also have the potential to lead to disagreement and often, in such a situation, it’s the trainer left holding the horse, not to mention the bills. So setting up a syndicate, or joining a syndicate, must be done with care and attention to detail, but the rewards can be fantastic.

Getting started Every owner, trainer and jockey must open a Weatherbys (UK), HRI (Ireland) or FranceGalop (France) account. A minimum deposit will be required, usually £500, together with the completion of the necessary application forms. The application process is little different to that of a sole owner, but the names and addresses of all partners are an

additional requirement.

The British Horseracing Authority (BHA), ROA, Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) and France-Galop all supply simple guides to ownership, in printed and downloadable formats.

Setting up A partnership or syndicate in Britain can be formed of two to 20 people, but at least two must be registered owners. They will be responsible for the set-up and administration of the racing partnership or syndicate.

Although the other partners don’t need to be registered as owners, their names, addresses and details will have to be supplied to the BHA, as well as any other future changes to partners. They will be subject to checks by the BHA as with all ownership applications.

In Ireland, five to 20 members can form a syndicate, one of whom must be a registered owner and act as the agent for the syndicate.

The agent should be nominated by the syndicate members and all correspondence with HRI must be carried out by the Agent.

Responsibility The nominated partners, registered as owners, are regarded under the Rules of Racing as joint owners and are therefore jointly liable for any monies due under the Rules of Racing. To help those setting up a syndicate, or wishing to join a reputable one, the Racing Syndicates & Clubs Association (www.rsaca.com) promotes good business practices and its members agree to operate fair terms and conditions.

The ROA recommends that members of a partnership or syndicate sign a partnership agreement, clearly detailing costs, factional interests, length of partnership, liability, management and communication. The ROA can provide help and guidance, as well as direct nominated partners to specialised solicitors who can draw up suitable documents.

In short, if you are simply joining a syndicate your responsibilities will be as set out in the partnership agreement, but if you are a nominated partner or acting agent, you

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bear the same responsibilities as an owner and are fully answerable to the BHA, HRI, etc, and you are responsible for all costs and any deficit.

Important points Whether joining or forming a syndicate, bear in mind some common points. Who will be the registered agent and how has this decision been reached? What will be the registered name of the partnership and, again, will this be voted on by all partners?

What is the length of the partnership to be – a fixed period or for the career of the horse?

Is there a specific criteria for membership and a fixed number of shares available? Has a vetting process been put in place and has consideration been given to any nonpayment issues? If a partner drops out, how will the costs then be divided and how will any dividends, should there be any, be paid out?

Also, is membership fixed at a specific number of shares or can shares be further sub-divided? Can shares within the syndicate be transferred and how would this be put into effect? If a partner wishes to resign, can they offer their shares to another party and is this their own decision or a process to be decided by all partners?

The role of the agent should be clearly defined, with consideration given to what happens if the agent wishes to stand down or defaults on payments. Consider also the convening of meetings, the notice period and who attends. Are decisions democratic and decided by majority vote or Agent? Do larger shareholders have increased votes?

Payment is a crucial factor and it is advisable to have funds in advance. Are fees to be paid weekly or monthly and in advance or in arrears? Should there be full transparency of accounts to all partners? Are provisions included for additional costs such as veterinary fees and non-payment of accounts?

Welfare of the horse is all-important, so ensure a detailed dissolution of the syndicate is drawn up, to include the horse’s retirement or sale. Decide upon agreements on the sale of the horse and whether it should be a joint decision.

Because personal details are being kept and supplied, it is also vital to ensure compliance with the Data Protection Act. These are not only areas of concern to Acting agents, but should be considered by those joining, to avoid any misunderstanding or unpleasantness if things don’t quite go to plan. A partnership is formed purely for pleasure, so a little groundwork in advance to ensure that fun, rather than headaches, will be had is well worth the effort.

Racing Clubs An alternative to a partnership or syndicate is a racing club. There is no maximum limit to the number of members that can be in a club,

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but as with a partnership, in Britain an acting agent must be a registered owner. In Ireland, a minimum of two and maximum of four trustees must be registered as owners to carry out the administration responsibilities of the Club, although only one Trustee will need to apply for racing colours and complete an Authority to Act. The main difference, and an important one, between a club and a syndicate/partnership is that members do not actually own a share of the horse. It is the organisation rather than individual members who will profit from any post-racing benefits, such as stud duties, depending on the club’s terms and conditions. The joining fee typically includes involvement in one or more horses running in the club’s colours, a share of the prize money, free or reduced-rate badges for the races when the club has a horse entered and visits to the yards where the club’s horses are trained, which is a cost-effective way to get involved in the sport and to mix with other enthusiasts. Bear in mind as a member you are part of a club, not an owner or shareholder.

“Payment is a crucial factor and it is advisable to have your funds ready in advance”

The trustees of a racing club will be required to submit to the BHA/HRI a copy of the rules and constitution of the club, including a dissolution clause; an up-to-date list of club members with their addresses, which must be updated with any changes as they occur; name and address of club bankers and solicitors; names of trustees of the club; date of foundation of the club; and details of any past and present officers.

Branded syndicate or informal group of friends?

If joining a syndicate, consideration should be given to the type of syndicate most suited to your needs. You may have the option to join a group of friends or colleagues who have formed a syndicate and, if so, are you confident the syndicate will be well-run and well-managed? What level of communication and involvement do you expect to have and what, in reality, is being offered?

There are several recognised companies who have specialised in forming syndicates for a number of years and, where informal syndicates would have to bear the cost of any sudden vet bills or unexpected costs, by

investing through an established company those risks are reduced. A list of many of these experienced and reputable syndication companies can be found at www.rsaca.com.

As these established syndicates are run as a business and are operated as companies, the membership fee includes management and administration costs, which can make them more expensive, but when it comes down to financial accounts and any deficit, it’s the company’s loss, not the syndicate members’ loss. While racecourses usually supply six to eight owner badges on the day, a syndication company may provide free owner badges to all its shareholders and their partners. Past success may mean that such companies have a higher standard of horse on offer and many run two horses for each syndicate, to broaden the chances of success and lessen the likelihood of never having a runner due to injury.

Forming your own syndicate You may be a breeder with an unsold horse you’re anxious to see reach the track, or you’ve spotted the perfect horse at the sales and now need to share costs. Setting up an informal partnership, as we have already seen, is a fairly simple process with plenty of help and guidance available from the relevant governing bodies.

You may approach friends and colleagues, or advertise shares in a horseracing publication or online. Providing you are willing to commit to the time and effort required to keep all partners updated and informed and that all partners are made clear of the risks involved in racehorse ownership, an informal syndicate is an ideal way to share the fun of a racehorse. As the acting agent, you ultimately bear all responsibility.

Communication is the key and most informal syndicates seem to work best with eight or less shareholders.

Starting up a syndicate as a business While some might struggle with the administrative aspect and keeping partners in the loop, others excel at this and forming a specialised company could be an option. It is certainly an option preferred by many trainers, as it takes the risk out of training a horse owned by a group of owners who may not be well known to the trainer.

A syndication company is a business just like any other registered business. The company will purchase a yearling and then sell shares in that yearling. The initial purchase is the risk factor, but the cost of shares will cover all costs as well as an administration and management fee. The company also takes a percentage of the profits, if any. If at the end of its career the horse is sold, the company also takes a commission.

This is an attractive proposition for a

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S Y N D I C AT E S syndicate manager, who will be drawing a fee regardless of the profitability of the syndicate and success of the horse. It is also an attraction to those wishing to get involved with a syndicate as a partner, without the risks of unexpected costs. They have the peace of mind of joining an established and wellregarded syndicate with a history of good management practices.

Whichever option you take, there is only one guarantee when it comes to investing in a racehorse – the thrill of a day at the races as an owner, although even that isn’t guaranteed, due to the frailty of the thoroughbred! Whether you make it to the winner’s enclosure, parade ring, or simply a box visit to your horse at its yard, you will find that nothing quite compares to being involved with a thoroughbred athlete.

The list of famous names who have excelled for syndicates include such horses as Epsom Derby hero Motivator, Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Imperial Commander and the filly who did so much for racing clubs, Soviet Song. Maybe the next superstar could be yours?

SYNDICATES Chasing Gold

Chasing Gold, established nearly ten years ago by Tom Chadney, is an exclusive syndicate offering successful jumps racehorse ownership at an amazingly affordable price.

This syndicate’s unique selling point is that members buy into ownership of all nine horses in its stable, ensuring plenty of raceday owner badges for fixtures throughout the season. Horses are with six top trainers, including Donald McCain and Colin Tizzard, located across the UK, offering members plenty of action and a variety of racecourses to attend nationwide.

Over the last two seasons, Chasing Gold celebrated 14 wins and amassed £170,000 in prize-money, which was shared equally between syndicate members. Of their nine horses, seven are winners, including homebred multiple winner Jumps Road, with two exciting youngsters set to make their debuts.

Members enjoy many racedays in the paddock, sipping champagne after a win, visiting stables, owners’ lunches – plus plenty of updates so they know exactly what is happening with each horse.

Chasing Gold offers outstanding racecourse fun at a truly remarkable price!

There are only a handful of places available but if you act quickly you can join now for the low price of £3,250 each year.

Contact Tom Chadney 07831 786090 or email tchadney@racinggold.co.uk for more information.

Hoofbeats Racing Partnerships Hoofbeats prides itself on realising the dream of racehorse ownership with quality-bred racehorses at a fraction of outright ownership.

Regardless of how many shares owners are owners, enjoying 24/7 video coverage of

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Hoofbeats enjoys an enviable association with Gazely Stud and access to quality-bred yearlings. Each year, members are welcome to view their new racehorses at the Yearling Parade Day, ready for the following season.

Value for money, hassle-free ownership is offered, with no hidden costs, and each partnership is registered through Weatherbys. On racedays, members are looked after by a liaison officer and have full owners access. Working with top trainers throughout the UK, including Scott Dixon and Nick Littmoden, shares in partnership and free-lease syndicates for both flat and National Hunt racehorses are available, with budgets to suit every pocket.

Contact Hoofbeats Racing Partnerships on 0345 257777 or info@hoofbeats.co.uk

Kennet Valley Thoroughbreds (KVT) KVT has dominated racehorse syndication for over 25 years, recently undergoing restructuring by TBA board member Sam Hoskins and Piers Winkworth. While this dynamic duo have injected a youthful verve, founder Nick Robinson remains chairman and KVT retains an enviably loyal customer base and continues to offer shares in hugely successful racehorses.

The Andrew Balding-trained Tullius, winner of the Group 2 Bet365 Mile at Sandown and runner-up in the Group 1 Lockinge Stakes, is their current star, bought for 20,000 gns and amassing over £250,000 in winnings to date.

Ralph Beckett, Richard Hannon, Charlie Hills and Olly Stevens complete their team of top trainers.

With an emphasis on fun and friendship and the personal touch, there is a great camaraderie among the partners who enjoy KVT hosted racedays, where champagne is served, win or lose. The thrill of racehorse ownership is offered at an affordable cost and partners receive regular updates and newsletters, with Open days and lunches hosted in the Spring.

Contact Sam Hoskins on 0203 542 1620 or 07791 746119, email sam@kvtracing.com @kvtracing @hottotrotracing

Be Lucky Racing If you’re tired of running for poor prize-money then consider having a horse in training with Be Lucky Racing, who are actively recruiting new owners to take advantage of some of the attractive prize-money offered in Europe.

Anthony Middleton has this spring/summer targeted two valuable races in Auteuil and St Moritz (with assistance from close friend and

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leading German trainer Christian von der Recke), winning both races (added values approximately 140k) with inexpensive horses aimed specifically at these races.

Middleton says: “In today’s competitive racing environment we must do the best for our owners in terms of prize-money and indeed giving the owners a very special social occasion, we are already planning our raiding parties for the winter months and giving our owners something to look forward to. It’s a great help to have on board Milton Harris who trained successfully but just as importantly knows the entry book inside out and is able to assist and advise on potential targets for specific horses.

“We are also keen to support British racing to the full but need to keep our minds completely open on all options for our horses and owners, a prime example is the recent success of Café Au Lait, as featured in Thoroughbred Owner & Breeder recently.

“He is a lovely young horse who is better than your average horse but in reality had been beaten in 5k races at places such as Cartmel and Sedgefield, yet Anthony and Milton found a £40,000 race at Auteuil that suited his profile and gave him a massive payday and the owners a wonderful weekend in Paris!” What’s not to like?

Please call 07879 634308 to arrange a noobligation morning on the gallops or email info@miltonharris.com

Princes de Condé Racing Club The über-team behind this exciting new French venture relies on the expertise of highly regarded bloodstock agent Hubert Barbe who will manage the club. Barbe is well known for purchasing talented NH horses, with no less than 15 Cheltenham Festival winners to his name, and has also been involved with a lot of success stories on the Flat, the most famous of them being Makfi, winner of the 2,000 Guineas and Prix Jacques le Marois.

The syndicate aims at offering racing pleasure and hospitality in France. It offers a very simple and clear incentive for the members: one single all-inclusive subscription at the beginning of the syndicate (£14,000 per share, 30 shares in total). This covers the purchase of the yearlings in Deauville sales, and 100% of the expenses of the syndicate for the duration. The net owner prize-money and sales’ proceeds will be paid to shareholders – French racing has great prizemoney for young horses.

The club will run an informative website and organise French racing owner cards and full range of racing social events, provided by a professional event agency.

Contact Hubert Barbe + 33 616 010 549 or email hb@horseracingadvisory.com

Thurloe Thoroughbreds Established nearly 20 years ago by James Stafford and brother-in-law Oliver Pawle, Thurloe remains a family affair with a loyal membership and a stable of over 20 horses (including three in France) competing at the highest level on the flat and over jumps. Their record speaks for itself.

After buying a really decent horse – Champion sprinter Kyllachy; dual Tote Gold Trophy winner Geos; Wokingham winner Baltic King and top-class fillies Nanoushka, Ruby Rocket, Gracefully and Waterway Run are amongst their stars – the emphasis is on making racing fun and Thurloe seeks to provide entertainment on and off the racecourse for their members.

James’ wife, Nicky, ensures events are year round and top notch, from a dinner at the Jockey Club Rooms and picnics at Royal Ascot and Glorious Goodwood, to cricket, shooting and golf days with an end of year party at the Hurlingham Club!

Contact James Stafford on 01672 871776 or 07967 555212 email: racing.thurloe@btopenworld.com www.thurloethoroughbreds.com

Foxtrot Racing In 2007 Dan Abraham was headhunted by a Premier League football team who wanted to recruit a forward thinking coach. Seven years on and Dan is running one of the best-known syndicates in the country.

“While I was coaching I joined a racing syndicate,” explains Dan, who admits he “got the bug” and horseracing took over from football as his main passion.

“Football and racing are similar,” continues Dan. “It is about creating the best opportunity for maximum performance and the sports can learn a lot from each other.”

Dan took a part-time coaching role and established Foxtrot Racing. He saw an opportunity for syndicates that focus on smaller yards with outstanding service. He introduced more membership benefits such as post-race video interviews with jockeys for those members who couldn't make a race.

Foxtrot Racing has built relationships with very talented smaller trainers, including Royal Ascot and Grand National winning trainers, Olly Stevens and Dr Richard Newland.With all his syndicates selling out quickly, Dan plans to launch more next year.

Contact Dan Abraham on 07880 565751 or dan@foxtrotracing.com

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VET FORUM: THE EXPERT VIEW

By DEIDRE CARSON, BVSc, MRCVS

Understanding Atypical Myopathy Though low in incidence, the seasonal condition has a high mortality rate

Once a horse is lying down, the chance of recovery is poor even with specialist care

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n the last few years we have seen an increasing number of cases of a serious, life threatening condition known as Atypical Myopathy or Atypical Myoglobinurea (AM) in horses in the UK and parts of Europe. It is a seasonal condition, with the vast majority of cases seen in autumn and, to a lesser extent, spring. It was first reported in 1942 but the incidence had been fairly sporadic and probably not well reported until recent years, when the number of reported cases has grown significantly. In response to this increase in cases, a specialist group was established at the University of Liege to collate and investigate details of as many cases as possible. In the autumn of 2013, over 400 cases were reported to this group from various European countries, more than 50 of them from the UK. While this is not a huge number of cases in the overall scheme of things, this condition is of importance because it has a very high mortality rate, with more than 70% of affected horses dying or requiring euthanasia even with intensive veterinary treatment.

One or several horses of any age or gender may be affected at a single location. They are characteristically living out and not being exercised regularly, if at all. Affected horses may appear stiff or reluctant to move or can look as thought they are setfast, but without having done any exercise! There will be muscle weakness and tremors may be obvious. Some horses are found recumbent and may be unable

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to stand, even with assistance. They may appear bright initially but soon become dull and disinterested in their surroundings. Most will show signs of pain and some cases can be confused with horses with colic or laminitis.

Even recumbent horses might appear keen to eat, but many lose their appetite completely.

If the horse is seen to urinate, the urine will be dark brown due to the myoglobin released by the breakdown of muscle tissue. Severely affected horses will be recumbent, totally unable to move and will have difficulty breathing as the respiratory muscles become affected. Gut function may also be affected. Death can occur as a result of failure of the respiratory muscles or due to organ failure from systemic electrolyte imbalances and other related complications.

Diagnosis is based on clinical signs and the presence of dark urine, if some can be visualised or collected. The best diagnostic test is to measure the levels of the muscle enzymes, CK and AST in a blood sample. These will be markedly elevated even though the animal will not have done any strenuous exercise.

At Rossdales Equine Hospital we have seen cases with a CK level of over 600,000iu/l (when a normal horse has a value of less than 250iu/l).

For comparison, a horse with set fast (azoturia) might have a CK of 3,000 to 30,000 and be in significant discomfort. If there is any suspicion that your horse might be affected by this condition and a blood test result cannot be obtained very quickly, it may be worth asking

your vet to try to collect a urine sample using a catheter so that it can be inspected immediately.

Treatment must be instigated as a matter of urgency if the affected horse is to have any chance of survival. However, treatment can be only supportive and symptomatic as there is no miracle ‘cure’. Intravenous fluids and electrolytes must be given to correct imbalances and ‘flush’ out the toxins released by the damaged muscles. Good nursing is essential and should include keeping the horse warm (rugs, bandages, shelter, etc) and offering appetising feed and water. Pain relief is needed in the form of non steroidal anti-inflammatory medicines and/or opiates.

Even if caught early and the horse is still standing and eating, the outlook is, at best, only poor to fair. Once an affected horse is recumbent, the prognosis is considered very poor. More information about prognosis can be gleaned from looking at the horse’s systemic acid-base and electrolyte status, but this needs ready access to laboratory facilities. Due to the intensive nature of treatment and monitoring of these cases, it is definitely worth considering referral to a specialist centre or veterinary hospital where everything needed is at hand.

Finding the cause When the number of reported cases started to increase, there was a huge amount of speculation about the possible cause of this rather devastating condition. It was strongly believed that some sort of toxin had to be involved, but the difficulty came in trying to find the source and mechanism of action. There were several factors common to virtually all of the pastures where cases had occurred: • The animals were grazing on sparse or overgrazed pasture.

• There was an accumulation of dead leaves, dead wood and overhanging branches. either in or adjacent to the affected pasture • There was little or no supplementary feed or hay provided.

At around the same time as we were experiencing the dramatic increase in cases here, in the USA they were also seeing a rapidly increasing number of cases of a very similar condition known as Seasonal Pasture Myopathy (SPM). Workers in Minnesota had discovered that the symptoms were caused by damage to the processes involved in energy generation by THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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Sycamore seeds should be cleared from paddocks where horses are grazing

body stores of fat and other tissues to provide energy because they are not getting enough to eat. This means they are more likely to eat the seeds and also that the toxin is more likely to cause damage to the muscle cells.

Prevention is always better than cure

Horse owners are advised to cut over-hanging branches of sycamore trees

muscle cells. After extensive work and a great deal of collaboration, it has been confirmed that the symptoms seen in horses affected by both AM and SPM are caused by the toxin hypoglycin A. This toxin blocks one of the processes needed to utilise fat stores for energy.

In the UK, this toxin is found in the seeds of various Acer trees, including the Sycamore or European Sycamore Maple (Acer pseudoplatanus), and in the USA in the seeds of the Box Elder (Acer negundo) amongst others. On virtually all of the affected properties in Europe, there were Sycamore trees on or bordering the affected pastures. The common Field Maple (Acer Campestre) does not appear to be implicated in this disease.

What else do we know?

The characteristic ‘winged’ seeds of the Sycamore are known as ‘helicopters’ because of the way they spin as they fall. They can contain

highly variable levels of toxin and this might explain, in part, why some horses and some premises are affected while others are not.

The amount of toxin can vary between seeds on a single tree as well as between trees on the same property. Other factors might include the number of seeds produced by a tree or trees, their dispersal by the weather and how many are ingested. Horses might only start to eat the seeds when there has been a depletion of other palatable forage as a result of overgrazing, drought or cold. Speculative estimates suggest that eating anywhere from 165 to 8,000 seeds may cause the disease. The seedlings are also toxic and this explains the second peak in the number of cases we have seen in the spring.

Cases are more likely to occur in animals that are not receiving supplementary feed as the quality and quantity of their grazing falls off in the autumn. In these animals there is a negative energy balance, i.e. they are having to use their

There are a few steps which are recommended to try to prevent any occurrence or reoccurrence of this condition on a premises: • Over-hanging branches of Sycamore trees should be cut back or fenced off from paddocks.

• It is important to check paddocks for seeds which may have blown in from adjoining properties, tree belts or paddocks.

• Sycamore seeds should be vacuumed or swept/raked up throughout the time that they are falling from the trees.

• Horses should not be allowed to graze Sycamore seedlings. These should be mown short to avoid horses ingesting the leaves.

• Wherever there are Sycamore trees in or surrounding the paddocks, horses in those paddocks should ideally be allowed to graze for only a limited part of the day and additional forage should be fed.

• Reduce stock density to avoid overgrazing.

This is not a very common condition and good management practices can be used to ensure that your horses do not become affected by it.

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Racing Welfare to benefit from Malton Open Day Twenty racing yards around Malton will be welcoming the public during the Betfair Malton Stables Open Day on August 31.

This provides a great opportunity to visit different yards, meet the horses, jockeys and trainers, and watch some brilliant demonstrations. Participating stables will be open from 9am to 1pm.

Events will include an interactive area for youngsters to learn about horseracing, and a celebrity quiz. Other charities to benefit will be Yorkshire Air Ambulance, Malton Hospital and Jack Berry House.

For more information on the day see www.maltonstablesopenday.co.uk

Epsom trip for retired staff Thanks in part to a race night held at Lambourn Sports Club, Racing Welfare will be arranging for 60 retired racing staff to visit Epsom races on September 11 this year. This will be followed up later in the year by a Christmas lunch in the Lambourn area for over 90 retired staff.

The race night was supported by local businesses and families with racing connections, as well as a number of loyal volunteers who sold tickets, helped with catering, compèred the evening and ran the raffle. More than 80 people enjoyed the event, which raised £929.52.

The new face of pastoral care in the racing industry He’s not looking to re-invent the wheel but Simon Bailey is determined to build upon the good work of Graham Locking Following the recent departure of Reverend Graham Locking, the first ever Chaplain to Racing, Pastor Simon Bailey has just been appointed to continue his work.

Simon took up his post on August 1 and will be working alongside Racing Welfare to address the needs of stud, stable and support staff.

Simon has a wealth of experience in youth work as well as ten years in church leadership.

He studied at St. John’s College, Nottingham, where he is continuing his professional development. His most recent position was with the Evangelical Church of Kilburn.

Simon and his wife Lesley have two daughters – Sarah, 16, and Laura, 13. He is a keen sports enthusiast and always happy to don his whites – although he confesses he

hasn’t achieved the same cricketing heights as his brother, who has played for England and is now a first class umpire. While not having a vast experience of the industry, he has always enjoyed racing and is looking forward to his increased involvement.

“It’s fantastic that racing has recognised the need for holistic support of its staff” Simon plans to spend the initial weeks gaining an understanding of the role as it has developed under Graham’s tenure. “I am really excited by this opportunity,” he said. “It’s fantastic that racing has recognised the need for holistic support of its staff and I am looking

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Golf championship proves big hit The Newmarket office has organised two summer outings for retired staff to visit racecourses. Around 50 beneficiaries attended each trip, the first on July 1 to Southend and the second on July 24 to Great Yarmouth, where they enjoyed both the racing and the sunshine, as can be seen in the photo above.

The Newmarket office is planning a further outing to Peterborough for greyhound racing.

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Betty’s bowls tournament Betty McNeil, a longstanding and hard working volunteer working for Racing Welfare in Scotland, has just organised her third annual Crown Green Bowls Tournament to raise funds for our charitable activities.

The tournament was hosted by Castlehill Bowling Club in Carluke, where trainer Keith Dalgleish is also based. A total of 11 teams of three players competed for the Racing Welfare trophy while Betty, her family

and her friends organised a tombola, raffle and other fundraising activities. In the evening the Bowls Club hosted live music and another raffle, for which Dalgleish kindly donated race badges. In total £600 was raised.

Our Northern Office Welfare Officer, Paul Lodge, has played in two of the annual tournaments and this year was part of the winning team along with Stephen McFarlane and Ryan Davies.

Best Turned Out Series 2014

Simon Bailey is new Racing Chaplain forward to working with the team at Racing Welfare to make sure that we continue to have a comprehensive resource for this purpose.”

The revised title for Simon’s job is ‘National Chaplain to Horseracing’ and it is his intention to build a pastoral care team covering all of the regions served by Racing Welfare, utilising the services of professionals already working in those areas.

“I don’t want to re-invent the wheel,” added Simon, “but I am really looking forward to being able to build upon Graham’s work and develop some of the opportunities he created.”

Simon can be contacted at bailey_simon3@sky.com or through the Racing Welfare Office on 01638 560763.

After successful days at Silvermere, Surrey and The Links, Newmarket, earlier in the year, the third leg of the National Stable & Stud Staff Golf Championship at Waterstock in Oxford was enjoyed by 19 players over a tricky but picturesque course.

Although competitive, the day is informal and the main aim is to have a good day of fun golf while supporting Racing Welfare. The final will be on September 4 at Kilworth Springs, Leicester.

If you would like to participate or receive more information, contact Robert McKellar on W 07713 347772.

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Worcester’s evening meeting on July 29 was the venue for the latest round of the Racing Welfare/EDPS Racing ‘Best Turned Out’ series.

Congratulations to Natalie Lloyd-Beavis, who is the trainer as well as groom for Evergreen Forest. Second and third places went to Elizabeth Bush (Don Cantillon) and Laura Wilson (Brian Ellison) respectively.

For full results and current league table, see www.racingwelfare.co.uk/Newsroom/ Best-Turned-Out-Series

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Dave Yates is cycling to success for charity Following Lesley Graham’s successful 1,400km cycle ride across France in July, David Yates triumphantly made it to John O’Groats having left Lands’ End 11 days earlier, on August 2.

David is a racing journalist and says that, having earned his living from horseracing for nearly a quarter of a century, he appreciates the vital role played by the

unsung heroes who work behind the scenes.

He therefore decided to use his cycle ride to raise money for Racing Welfare – the charity that supports them.

At the same time, a team comprising Mike Filby, Dave Goodwin, Bruce Smart and Chris Thornton were preparing for the London Ride 100. Again, all in aid of the charity.

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DATA BOOK STAKES RESULTS

European Pattern 158 CORAL ECLIPSE STAKES G1 SANDOWN PARK. Jul 5. 3yo+. 10f.

1. MUKHADRAM (GB) 5 9-7 £255,195 b h by Shamardal - Magic Tree (Timber Country) O-Mr Hamdan Al Maktoum B-Wardall Bloodstock Ltd TR-William Haggas 2. Trading Leather (IRE) 4 9-7 £96,750 b c by Teofilo - Night Visit (Sinndar) O-Godolphin B-J. S. Bolger TR-J. S. Bolger 3. Somewhat (USA) 3 8-10 £48,420 b c by Dynaformer - Sometime (Royal Academy) O-Sheikh Majid Bin Mohammed Al Maktoum B-B. P. Walden Jr, P. W. Madden & G. McDonald TRMark Johnston Margins 2, 0.75. Time 2:04.40. Going Good to Firm.

Age 3-5

Starts 14

Wins 5

Places Earned 7 £1,906,077

Sire: SHAMARDAL. Sire of 65 Stakes winners. In 2014 - DUNBOYNE EXPRESS Polish Precedent G1, MUKHADRAM Timber Country G1, EXCELLENT RESULT Sadler’s Wells G2, FINTRY Indian Ridge G2, GHIBELLINES Elusive Quality G2, SOMMERABEND Monsun G2, AMARON Bertolini G3, FRENCH NAVY Woodman G3, IHTIMAL Dubai Destination G3, SHARESTAN Ashkalani G3.

1st Dam: Magic Tree by Timber Country. ran once at 2.

Dam of 3 winners: 2008: ENTIHAA (g Tiger Hill) Winner at 4.

2009: MUKHADRAM (c Shamardal) 5 wins at 3 to 5, Coral Eclipse S G1, Sky Bet York S G2, CantorFitzgerald Brigadier Gerard S G3, 2nd Prince of Wales’s S G1, Emirates Airline Dubai World Cup G1, 3rd Coral Eclipse S G1.

2010: Woodland Aria (f Singspiel) 2 wins at 3, 3rd Tattersalls Musidora S G3.

2011: Age of Discovery (c Nayef) unraced to date.

2013: (c Sea The Stars) 2014: (f Oasis Dream) 2nd Dam: MOYESII by Diesis. 1 win at 3 in France.

Dam of KIRKLEES (g Jade Robbery: Gran Criterium G1), MASTERY (c Sulamani: Ladbrokes St Leger S G1, Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Vase G1, 3rd Juddmonte Grand Prix de Paris G1). Grandam of MAGIC ARTIST. Broodmare Sire: TIMBER COUNTRY. Sire of the dams of 11 Stakes winners. In 2014 - COPANO RICKEY Gold Allure G1, MUKHADRAM Shamardal G1, SWEET IDEA Snitzel G2, LAST IMPACT Deep Impact G3, PRAY AND REAL Durandal G3, THE INVENTOR Danasinga G3.

MUKHADRAM b h 2009 Storm Cat Giant’s Causeway Mariah’s Storm SHAMARDAL b 02 Machiavellian Helsinki Helen Street Woodman Timber Country Fall Aspen MAGIC TREE ch 02 Diesis Moyesii Cherokee Rose

Storm Bird Terlingua Rahy Immense Mr Prospector Coup de Folie Troy Waterway Mr Prospector Playmate Pretense Change Water Sharpen Up Doubly Sure Dancing Brave Celtic Assembly

The result of the Coral-Eclipse may have been somewhat unexpected, with victory going to the 14-1 shot Mukhadram, but few would begrudge this game son of Shamardal his first Gr1 success. He had appeared to have the 2013 Prince of Wales’s Stakes in his pocket until Al Kazeem caught him close home.

Mukhadram has the distinction of having a dam bred in the United Arab Emirates, namely the Timber Country mare Magic Tree. After being unplaced on her only start at two, Magic Tree was sold by Darley for only 2,800gns at Doncaster. Perhaps she sold so cheaply partly because

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would-be buyers were unaware of Timber Country’s achievements. With Woodman as his sire and that exceptional broodmare Fall Aspen as his dam, Timber Country was bred along similar lines to the great Dubai Millennium. Timber Country was also very talented, as he proved with his wins in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile and Preakness Stakes. He arrived in the UAE via Japan.

Magic Tree’s relations wasted no time in boosting her value. Kirklees, her half-brother by Jade Robbery, won the Gr1 Gran Criterium in 2006 before developing into a very smart middle-distance performer. Mastery, her half-brother by Sulamani, did even better, winning the St Leger in 2009 and the Hong Kong Vase in 2010.

Mukhadram’s second dam Moyesii was only a fairly useful winner over 9.2 furlongs in the French Provinces.

However, she was retained by Darley, no doubt because she is a daughter of Cherokee Rose, winner of the Prix Maurice de Gheest and Sprint Cup for Sheikh Mohammed in 1995. Although Cherokee Rose was fast enough to finish second in the Prix de l’Abbaye, she just about stayed a mile and her best winner, the Irish River colt Bowman, was third in the French 2,000 Guineas.

Mukhadram’s fifth dam, Welsh Garden, was a champion two-year-old filly in Ireland in 1975, even though her opportunities were severely limited by her aversion to starting stalls. Welsh Garden also did very well as a broodmare, her best winner being the high-class French stayer Molesnes. Welsh Garden also produced a couple of fairly useful fillies by Secretariat, one being Cherokee Rose’s dam Celtic Assembly, who won over 10.6 furlongs. Celtic Assembly is also the dam of Volksraad, one of the dominant stallions in New Zealand breeding in recent decades.

159 IDEE DEUTSCHES DERBY G1 HAMBURG. Jul 6. 3yoc&f. 2400m.

1. SEA THE MOON (GER) 9-2 £325,000 b c by Sea The Stars - Sanwa (Monsun) O-Gestut Gorlsdorf B-Gestut Gorlsdorf TR-Markus Klug 2. Lucky Lion (GB) 9-2 £108,333 b c by High Chaparral - Lips Arrow (Big Shuffle) O-Gestut Winterhauch B-Stall Parthenaue TR-Andreas Lowe 3. Open Your Heart (GER) 9-2 £65,000 b c by Samum - Dramraire Mist (Darshaan) O-Gestut Karlshof B-Gestut Karlshof TR-R Dzubasz Margins 11, 2.5. Time 2:29.86. Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 4

Wins 4

Places 0

Earned £387,439

Sire: SEA THE STARS. Sire of 8 Stakes winners. In 2014 - SEA THE MOON Monsun G1, TAGHROODA Sadler’s Wells G1, VAZIRA Zafonic G1, AFTERNOON SUNLIGHT Kris G3, ANIPA In The Wings LR, SIVOLIERE Kingmambo LR, ZARSHANA Kahyasi LR. 1st Dam: Sanwa by Monsun. unraced. Own sister to SALVE REGINA, SCHIAPARELLI and SAMUM. Dam of 2 winners: 2009: Sansiwa (f Dansili) 2 wins at 3 and 4 in France, 2nd Dallmayr Coupe Lukull LR. 2010: (c Teofilo). Died as a yearling.

2011: SEA THE MOON (c Sea The Stars) Sold

2013:

230,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 4 wins at 2 and 3 in Germany, IDEE Deutsches Derby G1, Oppenheim Union-Rennen G2, Fruhjahrs-Preis des Bankhauses Metzler G3.

Sea The Sun (f Sea The Stars)

2nd Dam: Sacarina by Old Vic. unraced. Dam of SCHIAPARELLI (c Monsun: G. P. del Jockey Club e Coppa d’Oro G1 (twice), BMW Deutsches Derby G1, Deutschlandpreis G1, Preis von Europa G1, 2nd Prix Royal-Oak G1, P. Freunde und Forderer Deutschlandpreis G1, 3rd Irish Field Irish St Leger G1), SAMUM (c Monsun: BMW Deutsches Derby G1, Mercedes-Benz Grosser Preis von Baden G1, 3rd WGZ Bank-Deutschlandpreis G1), SALVE REGINA (f Monsun: Ostermann - Diana Deutsches Stuten Derby G1, 2nd Credit Suisse Private Banking Pokal G1, BMW Deutsches Derby G1, Grosser Preis von Baden G1, Deutsche Post Euro Express Europa Preis G1), SEVENTH SKY (g King’s Best: Aktion Sonnenstrahl Derby Trial LR). Grandam of SEISMOS, SORTILEGE, SALVE GERMANIA, SAMBA BRAZIL, Mutashaded, Soberania, Salve Hibernia.

Broodmare Sire: MONSUN. Sire of the dams of 35 Stakes winners. In 2014 - SEA THE MOON Sea The Stars G1, SIRIUS Dashing Blade G1, FREE PORT LUX Oasis Dream G2, SOMMERABEND Shamardal G2, JAMR Singspiel G3.

SEA THE MOON b c 2011 Green Desert Cape Cross Park Appeal SEA THE STARS b 06 Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta Konigsstuhl Monsun Mosella SANWA ch 04 Old Vic Sacarina Brave Lass

Danzig Foreign Courier Ahonoora Balidaress Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Lombard Anatevka Dschingis Khan Konigskronung Surumu Monasia Sadler’s Wells Cockade Ridan Bravour II

Having already been represented by the Oaks winner Taghrooda, the brilliant Sea The Stars consolidated his excellent start as a stallion by coming up with a second first-crop Classic winner in the Deutsches Derby. This was the unbeaten Sea The Moon, who won in such dominant style that he immediately became a leading fancy for the Arc. The bottom half of Sea The Moon’s pedigree represents some of the finest German bloodlines. His broodmare sire is Monsun, arguably the most important German stallion of recent decades. Although Monsun was beaten into second place behind Lando in the Deutsches Derby, he made amends by topping the German sires’ list on four occasions, siring three Deutsches Derby winners in the process. Sea The Moon is also the third consecutive Deutsches Derby winner produced by daughters of Monsun.

Sea The Moon is connected to two of Monsun’s Derby winners – the 2000 scorer Samum and the 2006 winner Schiaparelli – as his dam Sanwa is a sister to both of these Classic winners. Sanwa also has another Classic-winning sibling in Salve Regina, who was runner-up in the Deutsches Derby before winning the Preis der Diana in 2002.

Stamina is clearly no problem for Sea The Moon, whose famous second dam, Sacarina, was by Old Vic. This formidable galloper, who trounced the opposition in both the Prix du Jockey-

Club and Irish Derby, sired the Grand National winners Comply Or Die and Don’t Push It. This hasn’t stopped three of Sacarina’s broodmare daughters producing a Gr1 winner.

Sea The Moon’s third dam, the Ridan mare Brave Lass, won four of her five starts at two to earn a Timeform rating of 114. Brave Lass had German Classic connections, as her dam Bravour, Germany’s best two-year-old filly of 1965, won the 1,000 Guineas and was third in her country’s Oaks, a race once won by her half-sister Brisanz.

160 QIPCO FALMOUTH STAKES G1 NEWMARKET. Jul 11. 3yo+f. 8f.

1. INTEGRAL (GB) 4 9-7 £113,420 b f by Dalakhani - Echelon (Danehill) O-Cheveley Park Stud B-Cheveley Park Stud Ltd TR-Sir Michael Stoute 2. Rizeena (IRE) 3 8-12 £43,000 b f by Iffraaj - Serena’s Storm (Statue of Liberty) O-Sheikh Rashid Dalmook Al Maktoum B-Roundhill Stud TR-Clive Brittain 3. Peace Burg (FR) 4 9-7 £21,520 b/br f by Sageburg - Peace Talk (Sadler’s Wells) O-Mrs Paul Shanahan/M V Magnier B-Ecurie D TR-Aidan O’Brien Margins 2, 0.75. Time 1:41.90. Going Soft.

Age 3-4

Starts 9

Wins 5

Places 3

Earned £328,286

Sire: DALAKHANI. Sire of 39 Stakes winners. In 2014 INTEGRAL Danehill G1, TERRUBI Diesis G2, GUARDINI Dynaformer G3, SILK SARI Rainbow Quest LR. 1st Dam: ECHELON by Danehill. Champion older mare in Ireland in 2007. 9 wins at 2 to 5, Coolmore Fusaichi Pegasus Matron S G1, 3rd Kingdom of Bahrain Sun Chariot S G1. Dam of 3 winners: 2009: ELYSIAN (f Galileo) Winner at 4.

Broodmare.

2010: INTEGRAL (f Dalakhani). 5 wins at 3 and 4, Qipco Falmouth S G1, Duke of Cambridge S G2, TBA Atalanta S G3, The Coral Distaff LR, 2nd Kingdom of Bahrain Sun Chariot S G1, Qatar Bloodstock Dahlia S G3.

2011: PROVENANCE (f Galileo) Winner at 3.

2012: Entity (f Shamardal) unraced to date.

2013: (c Medicean) 2nd Dam: EXCLUSIVE by Polar Falcon. 2 wins at 2 and 3 Coronation S G1, 3rd Fillies’ Mile S G1, Sagitta 1000 Guineas G1. Dam of ECHELON (f Danehill, see above), CHIC (f Machiavellian: Totesport Celebration Mile G2 (twice), 2nd Kingdom of Bahrain Sun Chariot S G1, Coolmore Fusaichi Pegasus Matron S G1) Broodmare Sire: DANEHILL. Sire of the dams of 263 Stakes winners. In 2014 - COSMIC ENDEAVOUR Northern Meteor G1, DICK WHITTINGTON Rip Van Winkle G1, FENOMENO Stay Gold G1, INTEGRAL Dalakhani G1, MISS MOSSMAN Mossman G1, NOBLE MISSION Galileo G1.

The Dalakhani/Danehill cross has produced: DUNCAN G1, INTEGRAL G1, SHEMIYLA G3, Sano di Pietro LR.

INTEGRAL b f 2010 Shirley Heights Darshaan Delsy DALAKHANI gr 00 Miswaki Daltawa Damana Danzig Danehill Razyana ECHELON b 02 Polar Falcon Exclusive Exclusive Order

Mill Reef Hardiemma Abdos Kelty Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Crystal Palace Denia Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Nureyev Marie d’Argonne Exclusive Native Bonavista

As a highly accomplished son of Darshaan, Dalakhani became a prime

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contender for Sadler’s Wells’s broodmare daughters when he retired to Gilltown Stud. Expectations rose even higher when Dalakhani’s first crop produced four Group winners with dams by the 14-time champion sire, including Conduit (St Leger, King George and Breeders’ Cup Turf) and Chinese White (Gr1 Pretty Polly Stakes).

Consequently 113 of Dalakhani’s 630 foals of racing age – some 18% – are bred this way. As often happens when an apparent nick starts well, its success becomes diluted as breeders jump on the bandwagon. The only subsequent Group winner from the Dalakhani-Sadler’s Wells partnership has been Reliable Man, winner of the 2011 Prix du Jockey-Club, and its percentage of stakes winners now stands no higher than Dalakhani’s overall figure of 6%.

This figure doesn’t compare with the 11% stakes winners that Dalakhani has achieved with daughters of Danehill. This partnership’s three stakes winners – all successful at Group level – come from 28 foals. One of the three, Duncan, won the Irish St Leger in 2011 and now Integral has become the cross’s second Gr1 winner thanks to her win in the Falmouth Stakes.

Integral has now won five of her six races over a mile, so appears to take more after her dam Echelon than Dalakhani. This is no surprise, as Echelon was also a Gr1 winner over a mile, and so was Integral’s second dam, the Coronation Stakes winner Exclusive.

Integral’s third dam Exclusive Order achieved the impressive total of five stakes winners, others being Entrepreneur, winner of the 1997 2,000 Guineas, and Dance A Dream, runner-up in the 1995 Oaks.

Exclusive Order’s grand-daughters have carried on her good work, Echelon being the third to produce a Gr1 winner, following Virtuous (dam of Virtual) and Groom Order (dam of Beckett).

161 DARLEY JULY CUP G1 NEWMARKET. Jul 12. 3yo+. 6f.

1. SLADE POWER (IRE) 5 9-6 £289,221 b h by Dutch Art - Girl Power (Key of Luck) O-Mrs S. Power B-Mrs S. Power TR-Edward Lynam 2. Tropics (USA) 6 9-6 £109,650 ch g by Speightstown - Taj Aire (Taj Alriyadh) O-Mr Dean Ivory B-D. Konecny, S. Branch & A. Branch TR-Dean Ivory 3. Gregorian (IRE) 5 9-6 £54,876 gr h by Clodovil - Three Days In May (Cadeaux Genereux) O-H. R. H. Princess Haya of Jordan B-Rathasker Stud TR-John Gosden Margins 1.5, Short Head. Time 1:12.40.

Going Good to Soft.

Age 2-5

Starts 19

Wins 10

Places Earned 5 £1,067,761

Sire: DUTCH ART. Sire of 13 Stakes winners. In 2014 GARSWOOD Kyllachy G1, SLADE POWER Key of Luck G1, AHERN First Trump LR. 1st Dam: GIRL POWER by Key of Luck. Winner at 3.

Own sister to Key Rose. Dam of 2 winners: 2009: SLADE POWER (c Dutch Art) Sold 4,761gns yearling at DNPRM. 10 wins at 2 to 5, 2014,

2010: 2012:

Diamond Jubilee S G1, Darley July Cup G1, Qipco British Champions Sprint S G2, Weatherbys Ireland Greenlands S G3, Paypal Phoenix Sprint S G3, Woodies D.I.Y. Sapphire S G3, Blue Square Sandy Lane S LR, Belgrave S LR, 2nd Betfred Sprint Cup G1, 3rd Darley July Cup G1, Weatherbys Ireland Greenlands S G3.

COOL POWER (f Verglas) Winner at 3.

Strait Power (f Rock of Gibraltar) unraced to date.

CHAUCER G2, ALESSANDRO VOLTA G3, Regina Mundi LR.

GALLANTE b c 2011 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge MONTJEU b 96 Top Ville Floripedes Toute Cy

2nd Dam: Rumuz by Marju. Dam of Key Rose (f Key of Luck: 3rd Flame of Tara EBF S LR)

Mr Prospector Machiavellian

Broodmare Sire: KEY OF LUCK. Sire of the dams of 8 Stakes winners.

Coup de Folie CRAZY VOLUME br 04 Green Desert Desert Ease Easy To Copy

SLADE POWER b h 2009 Mr Prospector Coup de Folie Storm Bird Mystic Goddess Rose Goddess Rainbow Quest Spectrum River Dancer Palacegate EpisodeDrumalis Pasadena Lady Danzig Chief’s Crown Six Crowns Gay Mecene Balbonella Bamieres Last Tycoon Marju Flame of Tara Advocator Balqis Bold But Baffled Machiavellian

Medicean DUTCH ART ch 04 Halland Park Lass

Key of Luck GIRL POWER b 04 Rumuz

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162 JUDDMONTE GRAND PRIX DE PARIS G1 LONGCHAMP. Jul 13. 3yoc&f. 2400m.

1. GALLANTE (IRE) 9-2 £285,700 b c by Montjeu - Crazy Volume (Machiavellian) O-Mr D. Smith, Mrs J. Magnier, Mr M. Tabor B-Lynch Bages Ltd & Camas Park Stud TR-A. Fabre 2. Prince Gibraltar (FR) 9-2 £114,300 ch c by Rock of Gibraltar - Princess Sofia (Pennekamp) O-Mr J. F. Gribomont B-Jean-Francois Gribomont TR-Jean Claude Rouget 3. Teletext (USA) 9-2 £57,150 b c by Empire Maker - Conference Call (Anabaa) O-Mr K. Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms Inc TR-P. Bary Margins Short Neck, 2.5. Time 2:41.76. Going Soft.

Age 2-3

Starts 5

Wins 3

Places 2

Earned £330,998

Sire: MONTJEU. Sire of 129 Stakes winners. In 2014 BRACELET Green Desert G1, GALLANTE Machiavellian G1, LEADING LIGHT Gone West G1, OFFER Darshaan G1, MONTCLAIR Platini G3, GUAJARA Big Shuffle LR, MOUNT ATHOS Slip Anchor LR, TRADE COMMISSIONER Spinning World LR. 1st Dam: CRAZY VOLUME by Machiavellian. Winner at 3 in USA. Dam of 3 winners: 2009: ASHVIN (c Giant’s Causeway) 3 wins.

2010: Plinth (g Montjeu) 3 wins, 2nd AES Champion 4yo Hurdle G1, 3rd Gala Retail Spring Juvenile Hurdle G1.

2011: GALLANTE (c Montjeu) 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Juddmonte Grand Prix de Paris G1, 3rd Prix Hocquart G2, Prix Noailles G3.

2012: King of Aragon (c Montjeu) unraced to date.

2013: (c Fastnet Rock) 2nd Dam: DESERT EASE by Green Desert. 1 win at 2 Go And Go Round Tower S LR. Dam of Endless Expanse (f Red Ransom: 2nd Orchid S G3), Unique Pose (f Sadler’s Wells: 2nd Kerry Group EBF Noblesse S G3), Easy Sunshine (f Sadler’s Wells: 3rd C L Weld Park S G3) Broodmare Sire: MACHIAVELLIAN. Sire of the dams of 100 Stakes winners. In 2014 - GALLANTE Montjeu G1, VERXINA Deep Impact G1, GIRL IN FLIGHT Commands G3, CURIA REGIS Exceed And Excel LR, NIGHT TRIP Trippi LR, NORTHERN RIVER Agnes Tachyon LR, RENFORCER Symboli Kris S LR, SHAMAL WIND Dubawi LR. The Montjeu/Machiavellian cross has produced: GALLANTE G1, Drumbeat G1, GEOFFREY

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Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special High Top Sega Ville Tennyson Adele Toumignon Raise A Native Gold Digger Halo Raise The Standard Danzig Foreign Courier Affirmed Talking Picture

In the space of six days, the muchmissed Montjeu added two more major winners to his long list, with Gallante providing him with his third victory in the Grand Prix de Paris and Bracelet his second in the Irish Oaks.

These two, along with their fellow Group winner Geoffrey Chaucer, come from a 2011 crop numbering only around 74.

Of course the mile-and-a-half Grand Prix de Paris replaced the Prix du Jockey-Club as France’s main mile-and-a-half test for three-yearolds, which Montjeu won in 1999. In addition to his three Grand Prix winners, Montjeu sired four winners of the Derby, three of the St Leger, three of the Irish Derby and two of the AJC Australian Derby – a tally which confirms his status as an exceptionally effective sire of middledistance stayers. His progeny have also won the St Leger equivalents in Ireland and France, plus two editions of the Gold Cup and one of the Melbourne Cup. Gallante is out of Crazy Volume, an American sprint winner by Mr Prospector’s son Machiavellian. This means that Montjeu has now sired Gr1 winners in Europe or Australia from mares by five different sons of Mr Prospector. Their six Gr1 winners have landed a 2,000 Guineas, two Derbys, an Irish Derby, a St Leger and now a Grand Prix de Paris.

Montjeu has three Group winners among his 25 foals out of mares by Machiavellian, which equates to 12%, and another of the 25 has produced the 2014 Prix Jean Prat winner Charm Spirit, so this is a rewarding combination. Coincidentally, it is Bracelet’s broodmare sire, Green Desert, who sired Gallante’s second dam, the two-year-old six-furlong Listed winner Desert Ease.

This is a famous family developed

by Moyglare Stud. Gallante’s fourth dam, the 1973 champion American two-year-old filly Talking Picture, was also second dam of the high-class miler Dress To Thrill.

163 PRIX JEAN PRAT G1 CHANTILLY. Jul 14. 3yoc&f. 1600m.

1. CHARM SPIRIT (IRE) 9-2 £190,467 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. Shifting Power (GB) 9-2 £76,200

ch c by Compton Place - Profit Alert (Alzao) O-Ms Elaine Chivers & Potensis Ltd B-John and Susan Davis TR-Richard Hannon 3. La Hoguette (FR) 8-13 £38,100 b f by Le Havre - Isanous (Zamindar) O-Mr G. Augustin-Normand B-Franklin Finance S A TR-Jean Claude Rouget Margins 0, 0. Time 1:41.10. Going Soft.

Age 2-3

Starts 7

Wins 4

Places 2

Earned £319,485

Sire: INVINCIBLE SPIRIT. Sire of 77 Stakes winners. In 2014 - CHARM SPIRIT Montjeu G1, KINGMAN Zamindar G1, SPEAKING OF WHICH Mr Prospector G2, RUSSIAN SOUL Indian Ridge G3, APACHE SPIRIT Sadler’s Wells LR, ARMY BULLETIN Sunday Silence LR, BEACH BELLE High Chaparral LR, I’M YOURS Robellino LR, SIGNS OF BLESSING Seeking The Gold 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. 4 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix Jean Prat G1, Prix Paul de Moussac G3, Prix Djebel G3, 3rd Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere Grand Criterium G1.

2012: (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

The American-bred broodmare Somfas enjoyed considerable success, producing the Group winners Snaadee, Russian Bond and Cristofori and the Group-placed Listed winner Crossover, plus the dam of the German Gr1 winner Ransom o’War. Even so, Somfas’s impressive achievements fell short of those of her champion half-sister Fanfreluche.

This daughter of Northern Dancer was responsible for such as L’Enjoleur, Medaille d’Or, La Voyageuse, D’Accord and Grand Luxe, and her famous descendants include such talented performers as Holy Roman Emperor, the champion British juvenile filly Bint Allayl, Kheleyf and top Australian colts Flying Spur and Encosta De Lago.

With a background like this, it was hardly surprising that Somfas’s daughter Machaera sold for 140,000gns as a two-year-old, even though this daughter of Machiavellian had never raced. Machaera proved

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European Pattern generally disappointing, producing only one black-type performer.

However, her Montjeu filly L’Enjoleuse won both of her starts as a threeyear-old, at around a mile and a quarter, and she has now proved herself a worthy member of a distinguished family by producing the smart Charm Spirit as her third foal.

Having shown his potential with a third in the Gr1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere at two, Charm Spirit has won three of his four starts as a three-year-old, his only defeat being his fifth place in the 2,000 Guineas.

He reversed form with the 2,000 Guineas fourth Shifting Power to land the Gr1 Prix Jean Prat.

Coincidentally, Charm Spirit’s Jean Prat win came just a day after the Grand Prix de Paris had fallen to Gallante, a colt bred to the same Montjeu-Machiavellian cross as Charm Spirit’s dam Machaera.

With his three Group victories this year, Charm Spirit is providing very able support to Kingman, these two Gr1 winners leading a 2011 crop by Invincible Spirit which has produced eight stakes winners, plus another seven placed at Group level.

Saint-Cloud G1), URBAN OCEAN (c Bering: Gallinule S G3), ALL TOO BEAUTIFUL (f Sadler’s Wells: Totepool Middleton S G3, 2nd Vodafone Oaks S G1), BORN TO SEA (c Invincible Spirit: Irish Field Blenheim S LR, 2nd Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby G1), MELIKAH (f Lammtarra: R L Davison Pretty Polly S LR, 2nd Kildangan Stud Irish Oaks G1, 3rd Vodafone Oaks S G1), Cherry Hinton (f Green Desert, see above).

Grandam of MASTERSTROKE, WONDER OF WONDERS, Sparrow. Third dam of VANCOUVERITE, KHAWLAH.

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When the Arc winner Urban Sea died at the age of 20, after producing the future Irish Derby second Born To Sea, she left a legacy of 11 foals which have collectively made an enormous contribution to the thoroughbred. As many as eight of her 11 foals became stakes winners, with her brilliant sons Galileo and Sea The Stars leading a team of four Gr1 winners.

Only four of Urban Sea’s foals were fillies but three of them have already made their mark as broodmares, and the fourth – the American Gr1 winner My Typhoon – has youngsters by Bernardini and Tapit. We have seen stakes-winning daughters of Urban Sea represented by the Arc third Masterstroke and the Oaks second Wonder Of Wonders, but it is her only non-winning daughter, the Green Desert filly Cherry Hinton, who has made the biggest impact so far.

Describing Cherry Hinton as a nonwinner is true but slightly misleading.

In a five-race career, she was good enough to be Group-placed and to finish fifth in the Oaks. Cherry Hinton began her broodmare career with three foals by Montjeu, a stallion with the reputation of siring far more good colts than good fillies. However Cherry Hinton’s foals have bucked the trend, as the only colt has yet to race whereas both fillies have enjoyed Group success.

The first filly, Wading, was winter favourite for the 2012 Oaks following her victory in the Rockfel Stakes, but was unable to race at three (her first foal is a 2014 filly by War Front).

Wading would have made a formidable three-year-old judging by the efforts of her younger sister Bracelet, who provided Montjeu with his second successive victory in the

CURRAGH. Jul 19. 3yof. 12f.

1. BRACELET (IRE) 9-0 £193,333 b f by Montjeu - Cherry Hinton (Green Desert) O-Mr M. Tabor, D. Smith & Mrs John Magnier B-Roncon & Chelston TR-Aidan O’Brien 2. Tapestry (IRE) 9-0 £63,333 b f by Galileo - Rumplestiltskin (Danehill) O-Mrs Magnier/Tabor/Smith/Flaxman Stables B-Orpendale & The Niarchos Family TR-Aidan O’Brien 3. Volume (GB) 9-0 £30,000 b f by Mount Nelson - Victoire Finale (Peintre Celebre) O-Mr S. Stuckey B-Mr S. A. Stuckey TR-Luca Cumani Margins Neck, Neck. Time 2:33.68. Going Good to Firm.

Age 2-3

Starts 6

Wins 4

Places 0

Earned £333,424

Sire: MONTJEU. Sire of 129 Stakes winners. In 2014 BRACELET Green Desert G1, GALLANTE Machiavellian G1, LEADING LIGHT Gone West G1, OFFER Darshaan G1, MONTCLAIR Platini G3, GUAJARA Big Shuffle LR, MOUNT ATHOS Slip Anchor LR, TRADE COMMISSIONER Spinning World LR. 1st Dam: Cherry Hinton by Green Desert. 2nd Blue Wind S G3. Dam of 2 winners: 2009: WADING (f Montjeu) 2 wins at 2, Vision.ae Rockfel S G2.

2010: Lake Michigan (c Montjeu) unraced.

2011: BRACELET (f Montjeu) 3 wins at 2 and 3, Darley Irish Oaks G1, Ribblesdale S G2, Leopardstown 1000 Guineas Trial S G3.

2012: Simply A Star (f Giant’s Causeway) 2nd Excelebration Tipperary S LR. 2013: (c Fastnet Rock) 2nd Dam: URBAN SEA by Miswaki. Champion older mare in Europe in 1993. 8 wins at 2 to 5 in France CIGA Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe G1, 3rd Prix Ganay G1, Prix Vermeille Escada G1. Dam of MY TYPHOON (f Giant’s Causeway: Diana S G1, 3rd Garden City Breeders’ Cup S G1), SEA THE STARS (c Cape Cross: Juddmonte International S G1, Investec Derby S G1, Coral Eclipse S G1, Tatts Millions Irish Champion S G1, stanjames.com 2000 Guineas G1, Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe G1), GALILEO (c Sadler’s Wells: Vodafone Derby S G1, Budweiser Irish Derby G1, King George VI & Queen Elizabeth S G1, 2nd Ireland The Food Island Champion S G1), BLACK SAM BELLAMY (c Sadler’s Wells: Tattersalls Gold Cup G1, Gran Premio del Jockey Club G1, 2nd Grosser Bugatti Preis G1, 3rd Vodafone Coronation Cup G1, Criterium de

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Broodmare Sire: GREEN DESERT. Sire of the dams of 107 Stakes winners. In 2014 - BRACELET Montjeu G1, LUCKY NINE Dubawi G1, HEART OFTHE DESERT Show A Heart LR, IMPERIATOR Footstepsinthesand LR, SIWA LADY Gonski LR. The Montjeu/Green Desert cross has produced: BRACELET G1, WADING G2.

BRACELET b f 2011 Sadler’s Wells

Northern Dancer Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special High Top Top Ville Sega Ville Tennyson Toute Cy Adele Toumignon Northern Dancer Danzig Pas de Nom Sir Ivor Foreign Courier Courtly Dee Mr Prospector Miswaki Hopespringseternal Lombard Allegretta Anatevka Fairy Bridge

MONTJEU b 96 Floripedes

Green Desert CHERRY HINTON b 04 Urban Sea

Irish Oaks. Bracelet had earlier taken the Gr2 Ribblesdale Stakes, and her record now stands at four wins from six starts. What must Bracelet be worth now?

165 KING GEORGE VI & QUEEN ELIZABETH STAKES G1 ASCOT. Jul 26. 3yo+. 12f.

1. TAGHROODA (GB) 3 8-6 £603,962 b f by Sea The Stars - Ezima (Sadler’s Wells) O-Mr Hamdan Al Maktoum B-Shadwell Estate Co Ltd TR-John Gosden 2. Telescope (IRE) 4 9-7 £228,975 b c by Galileo - Velouette (Darshaan) O-Highclere Thoroughbred Racing -Wavertree B-Barronstown Stud TR-Sir Michael Stoute 3. Mukhadram (GB) 5 9-7 £114,594 b h by Shamardal - Magic Tree (Timber Country) O-Mr Hamdan Al Maktoum B-Wardall Bloodstock Ltd TR-William Haggas Margins 3, Short Head. Time 2:28.10. Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 4

Wins 4

Places 0

Earned £928,902

Sire: SEA THE STARS. Sire of 8 Stakes winners. In 2014 - SEA THE MOON Monsun G1, TAGHROODA Sadler’s Wells G1, VAZIRA Zafonic G1, AFTERNOON SUNLIGHT Kris G3, ANIPA In The Wings LR, SIVOLIERE Kingmambo LR, ZARSHANA Kahyasi LR. 1st Dam: EZIMA by Sadler’s Wells. 4 wins at 3 and 4, S & R McGrath Memorial Saval Beg S LR, Trigo S LR, Rathbarry Stud’s Barathea Finale S LR, 2nd Bet 365 Lancashire Oaks G2. Dam of 1 winner: 2010: (c Tamayuz) 2011: TAGHROODA (f Sea The Stars) 4 wins at 2 and 3, King George VI & Queen Elizabeth S G1, Investec Henry Cecil Mem. Oaks S G1, Tweenhills Pretty Polly S LR. 2012: Maktaba (f Dansili) unraced to date.

2013: Taqaareed (f Sea The Stars) 2014: (f Raven’s Pass)

Margins 0.5, 3. Time 2:07.52. Going Soft.

Age 2-3

Starts 7

Wins 4

Places 2

Earned £317,215

Sire: HIGH CHAPARRAL. Sire of 61 Stakes winners. In 2014 - DUNDEEL Zabeel G1, LUCKY LION Big Shuffle G1, TORONADO Grand Slam G1, SHOW THE WORLD Zabeel G2, WESTERN HYMN Cape Cross G2, CONTRIBUTER Exit To Nowhere LR, FRINE Cardoun LR, HIGH JINX Surumu LR, KINGDOMS O’Reilly LR, MADAM VICTORIA Personal Escort LR, SWEET AS BRO Success Express LR. 1st Dam: LIPS ARROW by Big Shuffle. 3 wins at 2 and 3 in Germany, Dallmayr Prodomo Trophy G. Sprint Preis LR, Grosser Preis des Autoring Hannover LR, 2nd Premio Carlo Chiesa G3, Lotto Hamburg Trophy G3.

Dam of 1 winner: 2011: LUCKY LION (c High Chaparral) Sold 63,492gns yearling at BBAGS. 3 wins at 3 in Germany, Grosser Dallmayr Bayerisches Zuchtrennen G1, Mehl-Mulhens Rennen (2000 Guineas) G2, G.P.Krefelder Rennclub Dr Busch Memorial G3, 2nd IDEE Deutsches Derby G1.

2013: (c Mamool) 2014: (c Mamool) 2nd Dam: Lips Plane by Ashkalani. 1 win at 2 in Italy, 2nd P.Repubbliche Marinare-Trofeo Tattersall LR, 3rd Premio Dormello G3. Dam of LIPS POISON (f Mamool: Freunde/Forderer German 1000 Guineas G2), LIPS ARROW (f Big Shuffle, see above) Broodmare Sire: BIG SHUFFLE. Sire of the dams of 29 Stakes winners. In 2014 - LUCKY LION High Chaparral G1, ROSA GIGANTEA Fuji Kiseki G2, STARSTRUCK Galileo G3, AL QUINTANA Sholokhov LR, DARIA Rock of Gibraltar LR, GUAJARA Montjeu LR. The High Chaparral/Big Shuffle cross has produced: LUCKY LION G1, TAI CHI G1.

LUCKY LION b c 2011 2nd Dam: Ezilla by Darshaan. unraced. Own sister to EBAZIYA. Dam of EZIMA (f Sadler’s Wells, see above), Ezalli (f Cape Cross: 2nd Dubai Duty Free Celebration S LR). Grandam of Meadow Creek.

Broodmare Sire: SADLER’S WELLS. Sire of the dams of 341 Stakes winners. In 2014 - MINORETTE Smart Strike G1, TAGHROODA Sea The Stars G1, THE FUGUE Dansili G1, EXCELLENT RESULT Shamardal G2, ANJAZ Street Cry G3, CURSORY GLANCE Distorted Humor G3, RICH TAPESTRY Holy Roman Emperor G3.

Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge HIGH CHAPARRAL b 99 Darshaan Kasora Kozana Super Concorde Big Shuffle Raise Your Skirts LIPS ARROW b 05 Ashkalani Lips Plane Royal House

TAGHROODA b f 2011 Green Desert Cape Cross Park Appeal SEA THE STARS b 06 Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge EZIMA b 04 Darshaan Ezilla Ezana

Danzig Foreign Courier Ahonoora Balidaress Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Lombard Anatevka Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Shirley Heights Delsy Ela-Mana-Mou Evisa

See race 57 in the July issue

166 GROSSER DALLMAYR BAYERISCHES ZUCHTRENNEN G1 MUNICH. Jul 27. 3yo+. 2000m.

1. LUCKY LION (GB) 3 8-10 £83,333 b c by High Chaparral - Lips Arrow (Big Shuffle) O-Gestut Winterhauch B-Stall Parthenaue TR-Andreas Lowe 2. Noble Mission (GB) 5 9-6 £25,000 b h by Galileo - Kind (Danehill) O-Mr K. Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms Ltd TR-Lady Cecil 3. Calyxa (GB) 4 9-3 £12,500 b f by Pivotal - Chantra (Lando) O-Gestut Haus Ittlingen B-Gestut Haus Ittlingen TR-Ferdinand J Leve

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Shirley Heights Delsy Kris Koblenza Bold Reasoning Prime Abord Elevation Strings Attached Soviet Star Ashtarka Royal Academy Reine Caroline

On July 27, 2008, Big Shuffle’s daughter Lips Arrow put up one of her best efforts when she landed Munich’s Dallmayr Prodomo Trophy Grosser Sprint Preis, a Listed race on the undercard to the Gr1 Grosser Dallmayr Preis.

Exactly six years later, Lips Arrow’s son Lucky Lion also made the journey to Munich, but his target was the main event, also known as the Bayerisches Zuchtrennen. Victory was expected to go to Frankel’s brother Noble Mission, but he had to concede 10lb to the younger horse and he was caught by Lucky Lion in the closing stages.

Lips Arrow’s speed had proved very useful to Lucky Lion, helping the son of High Chaparral to win the German 2,000 Guineas equivalent, the Gr2 Mehl Mulhens-Rennen. He then attempted to add the Deutsches Derby to his Classic tally and came out best of the main pack.

Unfortunately his main rival, Sea The Moon, had crossed to the stands’ side and romped home 11 lengths clear.

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Caulfield on Bracelet: “She provided Montjeu with his second successive victory in the Irish Oaks, having earlier taken the Ribblesdale Stakes. What must she be worth now?”

Time will tell whether that margin is an accurate reflection of the two colts’ merit. If it is, Sea The Moon must be a monster, but the possibility exists that the ground was much faster under the stands’ rail.

It is also possible that a mile and a quarter is a better distance for Lucky Lion, who tends to take a keen hold.

His dam Lips Arrow raced exclusively over six and seven furlongs, while her half-sister Lips Poison was fast enough to win the German 1,000 Guineas, despite being by the stamina-packed Mamool.

Lucky Lion’s broodmare sire Big Shuffle also excelled at less than a mile, and Lucky Lion’s second dam, the useful Italian two-year-old Lips Plane, was by the top miler Ashkalani.

Lips Plane was also a half-sister to the smart seven-furlong performer Beacon Lodge and to Sugarhoneybaby, a seven-furlong Listed winner.

167 QIPCO SUSSEX STAKES G1 GOODWOOD. Jul 30. 3yo+. 8f.

1. KINGMAN (GB) 3 9-0 £170,130 b c by Invincible Spirit - Zenda (Zamindar) O-Mr K. Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms Ltd TR-John Gosden 2. Toronado (IRE) 4 9-8 £64,500 b c by High Chaparral - Wana Doo (Grand Slam) O-Al Shaqab Racing B-Mr P. Nataf TR-Richard Hannon 3. Darwin (USA) 4 9-8 £32,280 b c by Big Brown - Cool Ghoul (Silver Ghost) O-Mr D. Smith, Mrs J. Magnier, Mr M. Tabor B-L. Robbins & T. Hansen TR-Aidan O’Brien Margins 1, Head. Time 1:41.70. Going Good to Firm.

Age 2-3

Starts 7

Wins 6

Places 1

Earned £685,134

Sire: INVINCIBLE SPIRIT. Sire of 77 Stakes winners. In 2014 - CHARM SPIRIT Montjeu G1, KINGMAN Zamindar G1, SPEAKING OF WHICH Mr Prospector G2, RUSSIAN SOUL Indian Ridge G3, APACHE SPIRIT Sadler’s Wells LR, ARMY BULLETIN Sunday Silence LR, BEACH BELLE High Chaparral LR, I’M YOURS Robellino LR, SIGNS OF BLESSING Seeking The Gold LR, THAT IS THE SPIRIT Acatenango LR. 1st Dam: ZENDA by Zamindar. 3 wins at 3 and 4 at home, France, USA, Gainsborough Poule d’Essai des Pouliches G1, 2nd Coronation S G1, Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup S G1. Dam of 3 winners: 2005: Nile Cruise (c Danzig) 2006: Rio Carnival (f Storm Cat) ran twice.

Broodmare.

2007: Hentzau (g Empire Maker) ran twice in N.H. Flat Races.

2008: Pleasantry (f Johannesburg) unraced.

Broodmare.

2009: PANZANELLA (f Dansili) Winner at 3.

Broodmare.

2010: REMOTE (c Dansili) 3 wins at 3, Tercentenary S G3.

2011: KINGMAN (c Invincible Spirit) 6 wins at 2 and 3, Tattersalls Irish 2000 Guineas G1, St James’s Palace S G1, Qipco Sussex S G1, AON Greenham S G3, Betfred Mobile Solario S G3, 2nd Qipco 2000 Guineas G1.

2012: Multilingual (f Dansili) unraced to date.

2014: (f Bated Breath)

KINGMAN b c 2011 Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier INVINCIBLE SPIRIT b 97 Kris Rafha Eljazzi Gone West Zamindar Zaizafon ZENDA b 99 Dancing Brave Hope Bahamian

See race 51 in the July issue

168 MARKEL INSURANCE NASSAU STAKES G1 GOODWOOD. Aug 2. 3yo+f. 10f.

1. SULTANINA (GB) 4 9-7 £113,420 ch f by New Approach - Soft Centre (Zafonic) O-Normandie Stud Ltd B-Normandie Stud Ltd TR-John Gosden 2. Narniyn (IRE) 4 9-7 £43,000 b f by Dubawi - Narmina (Alhaarth) O-H.H. Aga Khan B-His Highness The Aga Khan’s Studs S.C. TR-A. de Royer Dupre 3. Venus de Milo (IRE) 4 9-7 £21,520 br f by Duke of Marmalade - Inchmahome (Galileo) O-Mrs John Magnier,Mr M.Tabor & Mr D.Smith B-Tullpark Ltd TR-Aidan O’Brien Margins 1.5, 3. Time 2:06.50. Going Good to Firm.

Age 4

Starts 4

Wins 3

Broodmare Sire: ZAMINDAR. Sire of the dams of 5 Stakes winners. In 2014 - KINGMAN Invincible Spirit G1, LA HOGUETTE Le Havre LR.

Places 1

Earned £172,377

Sire: NEW APPROACH. Sire of 14 Stakes winners. In 2014 - MAY’S DREAM Archway G1, SULTANINA Zafonic G1, GAMBLIN’ GURU Fusaichi Pegasus G3, MAJESTIC JASMINE Street Cry LR. 1st Dam: SOFT CENTRE by Zafonic. 2 wins at 2 and 3, 32red.com Lupe S LR. Dam of 1 winner: 2008: Puff Pastry (f Pivotal) unraced.

2010: SULTANINA (f New Approach) 3 wins at 4, Markel Insurance Nassau S G1, Pinnacle S G3, 2nd Bet 365 Lancashire Oaks G2.

2011: Praline (f Pivotal) unraced to date.

2012: Tutti Frutti (f Teofilo) unraced to date.

2014: Coconut Creme (f Cape Cross) 2nd Dam: FOODBROKER FANCY by Halling. 3 wins at 2 and 3 Victor Chandler Lupe S LR, Dubai Duty Free John Musker S LR, 2nd Peugeot Sun Chariot S G2.

Dam of DALVINA (f Grand Lodge: Long Island H G3, 3rd Irish National Stud Blandford S G2, Ribblesdale S G2, La Prevoyante H G2), SOFT CENTRE (f Zafonic, see above), Pretzel (c New Approach: 2nd Hastngs Direct Sir Henry Cecil S LR). Grandam of Pancar.

Broodmare Sire: ZAFONIC. Sire of the dams of 57 Stakes winners. In 2014 - SULTANINA New Approach G1, VAZIRA Sea The Stars G1, MURAAQABA Dubawi G3, DANDIFIED Rebuttal LR, KRAMULKIE Aussie Rules LR, MACHUCAMBO Anabaa Blue LR, MUTEELA Dansili LR.

SULTANINA ch f 2010 Sadler’s Wells Galileo Urban Sea NEW APPROACH ch 05 Ahonoora Park Express Matcher Gone West Zafonic Zaizafon SOFT CENTRE ch 03

2nd Dam: Hope by Dancing Brave. ran on the flat in France at 3. Own sister to WEMYSS BIGHT. Dam of OASIS DREAM (c Green Desert: Darley July Cup G1, Shadwell Stud Middle Park S G1, Victor Chandler Nunthorpe S G1, 2nd Stanley Leisure Sprint Cup G1), ZENDA (f Zamindar, see above), HOPEFUL LIGHT (g Warning: Unicoin Homes Joel S LR, Sovereign S LR)

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Sir Ivor Courtly Dee Sharpen Up Doubly Sure Artaius Border Bounty Mr Prospector Secrettame The Minstrel Mofida Lyphard Navajo Princess Mill Reef Sorbus

Halling Foodbroker Fancy Red Rita

Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Miswaki Allegretta Lorenzaccio Helen Nichols Match II Lachine Mr Prospector Secrettame The Minstrel Mofida Diesis Dance Machine Kefaah Katie Roche

It was a case of horses for courses when Sultanina stayed on strongly to defeat French raider Narniyn in Goodwood’s Nassau Stakes. The filly’s dam Soft Centre had also gained her most important success at

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the West Sussex track, when she dead-heated in the Lupe Stakes, a race which also supplied Sultanina’s second dam, Foodbroker Fancy, with one of her Listed victories. Although Foodbroker Fancy was suited by a mile and a quarter, she was also fast enough to finish second in the Gr2 Sun Chariot Stakes over a mile.

Foodbroker Fancy also produced the very useful middle-distance filly Dalvina.

Sultanina’s Gr1 victory was a fitting reward for the patience shown by her breeder, Philippa Cooper of Normandie Stud. Unraced both at two and three, the daughter of New Approach now boasts a record of three wins from four starts, including a pair of Group successes. Sultanina’s Nassau win also makes her the third Gr1 winner from New Approach’s first crop, following the Classic winners Dawn Approach and Talent. It is possible that total would have stood at four but for the fatal accident suffered by previously unbeaten Newfangled in the 2012 Lowther Stakes. Newfangled, like Sultanina, was trained by John Gosden.

Sultanina is the seventh Gr1 winner produced by a daughter of Zafonic, another being the Sea The Stars filly Vazira, who was awarded the 2014 Prix Saint-Alary on the disqualification of We Are. Sultanina’s third dam Red Rita – a 2,000gns yearling purchase in Ireland – once held the unwanted distinction of being one of the most accomplished maidens in training.

Although runner-up in the Gr3 Cherry Hinton Stakes on her second start and Gr3 Princess Margaret Stakes on her third, Red Rita didn’t win until she was four, when she tackled a median auction maiden race at Folkestone on her 13th appearance.

169 PRIX ROTHSCHILD G1 DEAUVILLE. Aug 3. 3yo+f. 1600m.

1. ESOTERIQUE (IRE) 4 9-2 £142,850 b f by Danehill Dancer - Dievotchka (Dancing Brave) O-Baron Edouard de Rothschild B-Societe Civile de L’Ecurie de Meautry TR-A. Fabre 2. Miss France (IRE) 3 8-9 £57,150 b f by Dansili - Miss Tahiti (Tirol) O-Ballymore Thoroughbred Ltd B-Dayton Investments Ltd TR-A. Fabre 3. Integral (GB) 4 9-2 £28,575 b f by Dalakhani - Echelon (Danehill) O-Cheveley Park Stud B-Cheveley Park Stud Ltd TR-Sir Michael Stoute Margins 0.75, 1.75. Time 1:37.86. Going Soft.

Age 3-4

Starts 9

Wins 4

Places 3

Earned £317,029

Sire: DANEHILL DANCER. Sire of 160 Stakes winners.

In 2014 - ESOTERIQUE Dancing Brave G1, STEPS IN TIME O’Reilly G1, MEDEA Giant’s Causeway G3, OSAILA Entrepreneur G3, ACROSTAR Iglesia LR. 1st Dam: Dievotchka by Dancing Brave. unraced. Dam of 10 winners: 1995: RUSSIAN HOPE (c Rock Hopper). 11 wins at 2 to 6 in France, Kingdom of Saudi Ara, Grand Prix de Deauville G2.

1996: RUSSIAN SHIFT (g Night Shift) 9 wins in France.

1997: RUSSIAN TYCOON (c Last Tycoon) 2 wins at 3 in France.

1999: DIEVOTCHKINA (f Bluebird) 2 wins at 3 in France. Broodmare.

2000: RUSSIAN HILL (f Indian Ridge) 2 wins at 3

2001: 2002: 2004: 2005: 2007: 2008: 2010:

2011:

and 5 in France, Grand Prix de Compiegne LR, 2nd Prix de Royallieu Hotel du Golf Barriere G2, Prix Corrida G2. Dam of RUSSIAN SOUL (g Invincible Spirit: 6 wins at 4 to 6 at home, UAE, Newbridge Renaissance S G3, Ford Mustang Shelby Al Shindagha Sprint G3) Russian Love (f Machiavellian). Broodmare.

ARCHANGE D’OR (c Danehill) 4 wins at 3 in France, P.Eugene Adam (G.P.de MaisonsLaffitte) G2. Sire.

RUSSIAN DESERT (c Desert Prince) 3 wins at 2, 3 and 5 in France, Prix Matchem LR, 3rd P.Eugene Adam (G.P.de Maisons-Laffitte) G2.

RUSSIAN CROSS (c Cape Cross) 4 wins at 2, 3 and 5 in France, Prix Guillaume d’Ornano G2.

RUSSIAN SYMBOL (f Danehill Dancer) Winner at 3 in France. Broodmare.

Something Strange (f Holy Roman Emperor) ran on the flat in France. Broodmare.

ESOTERIQUE (f Danehill Dancer). 4 wins at 3 and 4 at home, France, Prix Rothschild G1, Qatar Bloodstock Dahlia S G3, Prix Vanteaux G3, 2nd Poule d’Essai des Pouliches G1.

Histrionique (c Lawman)

2nd Dam: High And Dry by High Line. 1 win at 2, 3rd Waterford Candelabra S G3. Grandam of COOL CREEK, CATHY’S STAR, Encanto Park, Yo Claudio, Chilldown. Third dam of MILES RULES, KODI BEAR, ITALIAN BOY, P TOWN JOHN, S’Il Vous Plait. Fourth dam of RIVERTIME, STORM OF WIND. Broodmare Sire: DANCING BRAVE. Sire of the dams of 71 Stakes winners. In 2014 - ESOTERIQUE Danehill Dancer G1, RAVE Oratorio LR, RED ARION Agnes Tachyon LR.

ESOTERIQUE b f 2010 Danzig Danehill Razyana DANEHILL DANCER b 93 Sharpen Up Mira Adonde Lettre d’Amour Lyphard Dancing Brave Navajo Princess DIEVOTCHKA b 89 High Line High And Dry Photo Flash

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Atan Rocchetta Caro Lianga Northern Dancer Goofed Drone Olmec High Hat Time Call Match II Picture Light

In the year that Danehill Dancer was pensioned at the age of 21, the former champion sire has been well represented by his daughters. Thanks to Esoterique, Medea, Osaila and Steps In Time, he has enjoyed Group success in France, the US, Britain and Australia. In fact, Esoterique has enjoyed 2014 Group success in both Britain and France, and few would begrudge her a first Gr1 victory in the Prix Rothschild, as she’d had victory snatched from her in the final strides of the 2013 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches.

Esoterique was foaled when her dam Dievotchka was a veteran of 21.

It is easy to see why the mare’s owner, Baron Edouard de Rothschild, would be eager to get more foals out of this accomplished broodmare.

Although this daughter of the great Dancing Brave never raced, she had already been represented by five stakes winners, each of them sired by a different stallion. Three of her colts – Russian Hope, Archange d’Or and Russian Cross – won at Gr2 level over middle distances in France.

Dievotchka went on to produce her 13th and final foal as a 22-year-old.

The fact that Archange d’Or was by

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European Pattern Danehill was an obvious pointer to his son Danehill Dancer following Danehill’s death in 2003. Dievotchka’s first foal by Danehill Dancer, the filly Russian Symbol, won only a little middle-distance race in the French Provinces, but Esoterique is much nearer in ability to Archange d’Or – highlighting once again that if a mating is worth doing once, it should be worth doing twice.

Esoterique’s female line was developed with considerable success by the late Jim Joel. Her third dam, Photo Flash, was second in the 1,000 Guineas, while her fourth dam Picture Light was third in the same Classic, which was won in 1944 by Esoterique’s sixth dam Picture Play.

170 HENKEL PREIS DER DIANA STUTEN DERBY G1 DUSSELDORF. Aug 3. 3yof. 2200m.

1. FEODORA (GER) 9-2 £250,000 ch f by Lord of England - Forever Nice (Greinton) O-Gestut Etzean B-Gestut Etzean TR-A Wohler 2. Diamond Dove (GER) 9-2 £83,333 b f by Dr Fong - Dyveke (Lando) O-Gestut Wiesengrund B-Meadow Land Stud TR-Andreas Lowe 3. Longina (GER) 9-2 £41,667 ch f by Monsun - Love Academy (Medicean) O-Gestut Ittlingen B-Gestut Hof Ittlingen TR-P Schiergen Margins 2.5, 3. Time 2:15.35. Going Good to Soft.

Age Starts Wins Places Earned 2-3 7 1 3 £277,683

Elegant Air

Sire: LORD OF ENGLAND. Sire of 6 Stakes winners.

Dashing Blade Sharp Castan

1st Dam: FOREVER NICE by Greinton. 5 wins at 2 to 4 in Germany. Dam of 7 winners: 2000: FOREVER FREE (g Platini) 6 wins, Preis von Schlenderhan LR. 2001: Fast Breeder (c Dashing Blade) unraced.

2003: (c Tertullian) 2004: FORTHE MILLIONKISS (c Dashing Blade) 7 wins at 2 to 6 in France, Germany, Grosser Preise der Sparkasse Hannover G2.

2005: FASTGOLDENGOSCHI (f Monos) 2 wins at 3 in Italy. Broodmare.

2006: Forever Nadine (f Kornado) Winner at 3 in Germany, 3rd Mulheimer EBF Ladies Cup LR. Broodmare.

2007: Festival (f Dashing Blade) 2008: FORTEZZO (g Lord of England) 6 wins at 3 and 4 in France, Germany.

2010: Forever Beauty (f Dashing Blade) Winner at 2 in Germany, 2nd GP von E. & V. Commercial Weidenspescher LR. 2011: FEODORA (f Lord of England) Sold 15,873gns yearling at BBAGS. 1 win at 3 in Germany, Henkel Preis der Diana - Stuten Derby G1, 2nd Mehl Mulhens Stiftung der Winterkonigin G3, Sauren Dachfonds Winterkonigin Trial LR. 2012: Forever Lord (c Lord of England) unraced to date.

2nd Dam: FOX FOR GOLD by Glint of Gold. 1 win at 2 in West Germany. Dam of FRIEDHELMO (g Dashing Blade: P. der MM Management 3yo Fruhjahrszucht LR) Broodmare Sire: GREINTON. Sire of the dams of 23 Stakes winners.

FEODORA ch f 2011

LORD OF ENGLAND ch 03 Los Santos Loveria Liranga Green Dancer Greinton Crystal Queen FOREVER NICE ch 94 Glint of Gold Fox For Gold Little Bittern

Shirley Heights Elegant Tern Sharpen Up Sultry One Caracol Loanda Literat Love In Nijinsky Green Valley High Top Crystal Drop Mill Reef Crown Treasure Riva Ridge Spray

Although the Preis der Diana was worth a very enviable £250,000 to the winner, there wasn’t a single foreign challenger.

Even so, victory was expected to go to a filly with international form, namely the unbeaten Wunder, winner of the Gr3 Prix Chloe at Chantilly.

Unfortunately Wunder lost all chance when hampered with 300 metres left to race. Soon afterwards the other leading fancy, the front-running Longina, also started to struggle and it was left to the unconsidered Feodora to win decisively from Diamond Dove.

Although Feodora was winning for the first time in seven outings, she had some respectable form, such as her runner-up to Diamond Dove in a Gr3 at two and her second to Wunder on her reappearance. However, she

had subsequently finished towards the rear in the German 1,000 Guineas and the French Oaks.

The Gestut Etzean homebred is by Lord Of England, a son of the very successful Dashing Blade. He raced in Italy at two before switching his attentions to his homeland, where his finest performance was his victory over the Prix d’Ispahan winner Laverock in the Gr1 Bayerisches Zuchtrennen.

Like most German stallions, Lord Of England has not enjoyed the benefit of large crops, but Feodora is his fifth Group winner from 139 foals in his first four crops.

The filly’s dam Forever Nice, a winner of five of her 20 starts, could hardly be described as fashionably bred, in that both her sire Greinton and broodmare sire Glint Of Gold proved generally disappointing as stallions.

However, she comes from an American female line which has produced the likes of Miswaki and Tobougg and she is doing well as a broodmare. Another of her winners is Feodora’s close relative Forthe Millionkiss, a Dashing Blade filly who was a Gr2 winner over a mile in Germany, as well as landing Listed races in France.

Group 2 and 3 Results Date 05/07 05/07 05/07 06/07 06/07 08/07 10/07 10/07 10/07 11/07 11/07 12/07 12/07 13/07 13/07 19/07 19/07 19/07 20/07 20/07 20/07 20/07 23/07 24/07 24/07 26/07 26/07 29/07 29/07 30/07 30/07 31/07 31/07 31/07 31/07 01/08 01/08 01/08 01/08 03/08 05/08 07/08 09/08 09/08 09/08 10/08

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Grade G2 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G2 G2 G3 G2 G3 G2 G2 G2 G2 G3 G3 G3 G2 G2 G2 G3 G3 G3 G3 G2 G3 G2 G3 G2 G3 G2 G2 G3 G3 G2 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3

Race (course) Bet 365 Lancashire Oaks (Haydock Park) Prix de la Porte Maillot (Longchamp) The Coral Charge Sprint Stakes (Sandown Park) Almased Cup Hamburg Trophy (Hamburg) Prix Messidor (Maisons-Laffitte) G. P. von Lotto Hamburg Stuten Preis (Hamburg) Boylesports Princess of Wales’s Stakes (Newmarket) Portland Place Properties July Stakes (Newmarket) Bahrain Trophy (Newmarket) Qipco Duchess Of Cambridge Stakes (Newmarket) Totepol Summer Stakes (York) F.Cowley MBE Memorial Summer Mile Stakes (Ascot) 666bet Superlative Stakes (Newmarket) G.P.der VGH Versicherungen Meilen Trophy (Hannover) Prix Maurice de Nieuil (Longchamp) Jebel Ali Anglesey Stakes (Curragh) M Murphy Home Furnishing Minstrel Stakes (Curragh) Al Basti Equiworld Hackwood Stakes (Newbury) Kilboy Estate Stakes (Curragh) P.Eugene Adam (G.P.de Maisons-Laffitte) (Maisons-Laffitte) Prix Robert Papin (Maisons-Laffitte) The Defence Forces Cup Meld Stakes (Curragh) Grand Prix de Vichy (Vichy) Japanese Racing Authority Tyros Stakes (Leopardstown) Turkey Jockey Club Silver Flash Stakes (Leopardstown) Sky Bet York Stakes (York) Juddmonte Princess Margaret Stakes (Ascot) bet365 Lennox Stakes (Goodwood) bet365 Molecomb Stakes (Goodwood) Veuve Clicquot Vintage Stakes (Goodwood) Neptune Investment Gordon Stakes (Goodwood) Artemis Goodwood Cup (Goodwood) Qatar Bloodstock Richmond Stakes (Goodwood) Prix de Psyche (Deauville) Sterling Insurance Lillie Langtry Stakes (Goodwood) Betfred King George Stakes (Goodwood) Bonhams Thoroughbred Stakes (Goodwood) Coutts Glorious Stakes (Goodwood) L’Ormarins Queens Plate Oak Tree Stakes (Goodwood) Prix de Cabourg Jockey Club de Turquie (Deauville) Irish Stall.Farms EBF Give Thanks Stakes (Cork) Ballyroan Stakes (Leopardstown) OSAF Prix de Reux (Deauville) Betfred Rose of Lancaster Stakes (Haydock Park) germantb.com Sweet Solera Stakes (Newmarket) Phoenix Sprint Stakes (Curragh)

Dist 12f 7f 5f 10f 8f 9f 12f 6f 13f 6f 6f 8f 7f 8f 14f 6f 7f 6f 9f 10f 5.5f 10f 10f 7f 7f 10f 6f 7f 5f 7f 12f 16f 6f 10f 14f 5f 8f 12f 7f 6f 12f 12f 12.5f 10.5f 7f 6f

Horse Pomology (USA) Sommerabend (GB) Extortionist (IRE) Bermuda Reef (IRE) Graphic (IRE) Papagena Star (IRE) Cavalryman (GB) Ivawood (IRE) Hartnell (GB) Arabian Queen (IRE) Ladies Are Forever (GB) Guest of Honour (IRE) Estidhkaar (IRE) Red Dubawi (IRE) Terrubi (IRE) Dick Whittington (IRE) Ansgar (IRE) Music Master (GB) Mango Diva (GB) Western Hymn (GB) Kool Kompany (IRE) Parish Hall (IRE) Hippy (FR) Gleneagles (IRE) Jack Naylor (GB) Sheikhzayedroad (GB) Osaila (IRE) Es Que Love (IRE) Cotai Glory (GB) Highland Reel (IRE) Snow Sky (GB) Cavalryman (GB) Ivawood (IRE) Be My Gal (GB) Missunited (IRE) Take Cover (GB) Wannabe Yours (IRE) Pether’s Moon (IRE) J Wonder (USA) Ervedya (FR) Edelmira (IRE) Eye of The Storm (IRE) Gatewood (GB) Amralah (IRE) Muraaqaba (GB) Scream Blue Murder (IRE)

Age 4 7 3 4 5 3 8 2 3 2 6 5 2 6 4 2 6 4 4 3 2 5 6 2 2 5 2 5 2 2 3 8 2 3 7 7 3 4 3 2 3 4 6 4 2 4

Sex F H C C G F H C C F M H C H C C G C F C C H M C F G F H C C C H C F M G C C F F F C H C F F

Sire Arch Shamardal Dandy Man Oasis Dream Excellent Art Amadeus Wolf Halling Zebedee Authorized Dubawi Monsieur Bond Cape Cross Dark Angel Dubawi Dalakhani Rip Van Winkle Celtic Swing Piccolo Holy Roman Emperor High Chaparral Jeremy Teofilo Muhtathir Galileo Champs Elysees Dubawi Danehill Dancer Clodovil Exceed And Excel Galileo Nayef Halling Zebedee Galileo Golan Singspiel Dubawi Dylan Thomas Footstepsinthesand Siyouni Peintre Celebre Galileo Galileo Teofilo Dubawi Oratorio

Dam Sharp Apple Sommernacht Dream Date Borgia Follow My Lead Penelope Star Silversword Keenes Royale Debonnaire Barshiba Forever Bond Risera Danetime Out Maredsous Altruiste Sahara Sky Jemmy’s Girl Twilight Mistress Mango Mischief Blue Rhapsody Absolutely Cool Halla Siamsa Peace And Love You’resothrilling Fashionable Royal Secrets Mennetou Es Que Continua Hveger Winter Silence Silversword Keenes Royale Longing To Dance Lets Clic Together Enchanted Wannabe Posh Softly Tread Canterbury Lace Elva Elbasana Mohican Princess Felicity Sharp Mode Nufoos Holly Blue

Broodmare Sire Diesis Monsun Oasis Dream Acatenango Night Shift Acatenango Highest Honor Red Ransom Anabaa Barathea Danetime Royal Academy Danetime Homme de Loi Diesis Danehill Pennekamp Bin Ajwaad Desert King Cape Cross Indian Ridge Montjeu Highest Honor Storm Cat Nashwan Highest Honor Entrepreneur Inchinor Elusive Quality Danehill Dansili Highest Honor Red Ransom Danehill Dancer Don’t Forget Me Magic Ring Grand Lodge Tirol Danehill King’s Best Indian Ridge Shirley Heights Selkirk Diesis Zafonic Bluebird

Index 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219

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Leading sires 2014 by percentage of stakes winners to runners Name

YOF

Galileo Sea The Stars Champs Elysees Dubawi Monsun Le Havre Duke Of Marmalade Shamardal Oasis Dream Selkirk Montjeu Mount Nelson Pivotal Cape Cross Clodovil Teofilo Iffraaj Nayef Dansili Win River Win High Chaparral Authorized Sri Pekan Aussie Rules Invincible Spirit Dalakhani Refuse To Bend Mastercraftsman Dylan Thomas

1998 2006 2003 2002 1990 2006 2004 2002 2000 1988 1996 2004 1993 1994 2000 2004 2001 1998 1996 1999 1999 2004 1992 2003 1997 2000 2000 2006 2003 Holy Roman Emperor 2004 Stormy River 2003 Okawango 1998 Unaccounted For 1991 Kodiac 2001 Peintre Celebre 1994 Victory Gallop 1995 Jeremy 2003 Footstepsinthesand 2002 Singspiel 1992 Bahamian Bounty 1994 Shirocco 2001 Rock Of Gibraltar 1999 Muhtathir 1995 Verglas 1994 New Approach 2005 Kyllachy 1998 Acclamation 1999 Zamindar 1994 Manduro 2002 Hurricane Run 2002 Dutch Art 2004

Sire

Rnrs

Wnrs

%WR

Sadler's Wells Cape Cross Danehill Dubai Millennium Königsstuhl Noverre Danehill Giant's Causeway Green Desert Sharpen Up Sadler's Wells Rock Of Gibraltar Polar Falcon Green Desert Danehill Galileo Zafonic Gulch Danehill Virginia Rapids Sadler's Wells Montjeu Red Ransom Danehill Green Desert Darshaan Sadler's Wells Danehill Dancer Danehill Danehill Verglas Kingmambo Private Account Danehill Nureyev Cryptoclearance Danehill Dancer Giant's Causeway In the Wings Cadeaux Genereux Monsun Danehill Elmaamul Highest Honor Galileo Pivotal Royal Applause Gone West Monsun Montjeu Medicean

227 74 64 156 75 74 136 195 200 64 135 90 171 198 128 183 158 133 163 59 179 151 62 126 258 133 106 109 149 194 80 81 83 166 85 87 87 218 90 139 146 208 108 218 109 165 223 116 118 120 142

95 40 24 76 31 28 40 92 94 29 46 37 68 70 56 63 66 52 64 28 69 45 25 55 100 48 48 38 57 93 29 36 41 74 28 44 28 88 28 43 52 66 43 88 45 63 83 42 30 39 52

41.85 54.05 37.50 48.72 41.33 37.84 29.41 47.18 47.00 45.31 34.07 41.11 39.77 35.35 43.75 34.43 41.77 39.10 39.26 47.46 38.55 29.80 40.32 43.65 38.76 36.09 45.28 34.86 38.26 47.94 36.25 44.44 49.40 44.58 32.94 50.57 32.18 40.37 31.11 30.94 35.62 31.73 39.81 40.37 41.28 38.18 37.22 36.21 25.42 32.50 36.62

Races

AWD

Earnings (£)

SH

122 56 29 110 47 43 56 148 128 45 74 47 97 98 85 89 95 68 84 53 101 56 43 69 146 61 78 49 79 124 39 60 84 98 34 76 43 130 44 63 76 81 59 139 65 80 110 57 37 53 75

10.8 9.8 9.9 9 11 9.2 9.8 7.9 7.6 9.2 12.3 8.8 8.4 9.5 7.3 9.9 7.7 9.5 9.3 8.6 10.4 10.9 8.3 8.6 7.2 11.1 8.5 9.1 9.3 8.3 10.1 7.8 8.4 6.6 9.5 8.3 8.7 7.8 10 7 10.2 9.5 9.6 8.4 9.6 6.4 6.9 8.6 9.9 11.4 7.1

5,190,664 2,391,253 567,002 1,950,169 827,682 1,450,010 847,501 2,272,339 1,921,399 495,671 1,692,873 647,056 1,246,345 1,398,046 1,121,691 1,720,214 1,174,590 811,251 1,692,789 1,409,360 1,607,542 979,631 1,038,189 741,188 2,580,275 951,444 523,585 1,753,833 1,377,753 1,332,605 581,271 1,191,945 1,386,970 932,859 471,445 1,175,329 556,573 1,380,135 508,577 503,345 812,446 1,396,937 808,851 1,256,449 986,356 973,222 1,129,589 622,299 623,421 966,223 1,738,661

44 14 6 25 10 7 15 17 19 5 12 7 11 14 7 13 8 9 13 2 11 11 3 8 18 5 6 7 7 11 3 4 3 8 5 2 3 7 9 6 6 9 6 7 14 6 13 3 3 9 10

%

19.38 18.92 9.38 16.03 13.33 9.46 11.03 8.72 9.5 7.81 8.89 7.78 6.43 7.07 5.47 7.1 5.06 6.77 7.98 3.39 6.15 7.28 4.84 6.35 6.98 3.76 5.66 6.42 4.7 5.67 3.75 4.94 3.61 4.82 5.88 2.3 3.45 3.21 10 4.32 4.11 4.33 5.56 3.21 12.84 3.64 5.83 2.59 2.54 7.5 7.04

SW

%

26 7 5 11 5 4 7 10 10 3 6 4 7 8 5 7 6 5 6 2 6 5 2 4 8 4 3 3 4 5 2 2 2 4 2 2 2 5 2 3 3 4 2 4 2 3 4 2 2 2 2

11.45 9.46 7.81 7.05 6.67 5.41 5.15 5.13 5.00 4.69 4.44 4.44 4.09 4.04 3.91 3.83 3.80 3.76 3.68 3.39 3.35 3.31 3.23 3.17 3.10 3.01 2.83 2.75 2.68 2.58 2.50 2.47 2.41 2.41 2.35 2.30 2.30 2.29 2.22 2.16 2.05 1.92 1.85 1.83 1.83 1.82 1.79 1.72 1.69 1.67 1.41

Dubawi record even better than it looks The top four have all increased their percentage of stakes winners to runners, no mean achievement given that between them they had another 43 on the track in July. Galileo has more stakes horses and winners than Sea The Stars, Champs Elysees and Dubawi put together, though he has had a lot more runners.

The best progress came from Dubawi, whose five stakes winners pushed him into second. His record is all the more creditable when one considers that three of his four Group 1 scorers – Lucky Nine, Prince Bishop and Tiger Tees – have triumphed outside Europe. Night Of Thunder has flown the flag here.

Lightly-raced Prix du Jockey Club winner Le Havre has only two crops racing but he has jumped from 11th to sixth and his success is a revelation. Dual Classic winner Avenir Certain is a superb advert but La Hoguette has been Group 1 placed so it will be intriguing to watch the sire’s progress.

Leading sires of two-year-olds 2014 by earnings Name

Kodiac *Zebedee *Rip Van Winkle *Fast Company Invincible Spirit *Showcasing Galileo Clodovil Lion Heart *Siyouni Jeremy Dark Angel Divine Light

YOF

2001 2008 2006 2005 1997 2007 1998 2000 2001 2007 2003 2005 1995 *Starspangledbanner 2006 Kaneko 2001 Acclamation 1999 Kendargent 2003 Iffraaj 2001 *Vale Of York 2007 Dehere 1991 Exceed And Excel 2000 *Makfi 2007 Bosporus 1995 Shamardal 2002 Dubawi 2002 Pastoral Pursuits 2001 Aussie Rules 2003 *Lope de Vega 2007 *Arcano 2007 Hold That Tiger 2000 Oasis Dream 2000 *Pressing 2003 *Equiano 2005 *Paco Boy 2005 Elusive City 2000 *Approve 2008 Luxor 2000 Bushranger 2006 Intense Focus 2006 Scarface 2003 Excellent Art 2004 Blu Air Force 1997 Footstepsinthesand 2002 Palace Episode 2003 Mountain Cat 1990 Diamond Green 2001 Azamour 2001 Dutch Art 2004 Cockney Rebel 2004

Sire

Rnrs

Wnrs

Danehill Invincible Spirit Galileo Danehill Dancer Green Desert Oasis Dream Sadler's Wells Danehill Tale Of The Cat Pivotal Danehill Dancer Acclamation Sunday Silence Choisir Pivotal Royal Applause Kendor Zafonic Invincible Spirit Deputy Minister Danehill Dubawi Night Shift Giant's Causeway Dubai Millennium Bahamian Bounty Danehill Shamardal Oasis Dream Storm Cat Green Desert Soviet Star Acclamation Desert Style Elusive Quality Oasis Dream Distant Relative Danetime Giant's Causeway Montjeu Pivotal Sri Pekan Giant's Causeway Machiavellian Storm Cat Green Desert Night Shift Medicean Val Royal

67 68 23 51 35 37 27 20 23 23 12 46 8 14 14 55 8 42 33 8 38 24 22 23 23 31 28 29 32 11 21 15 41 34 21 41 8 39 20 10 31 16 25 6 13 15 22 28 17

29 23 8 17 15 14 11 8 9 10 2 13 6 5 7 13 3 16 9 3 13 8 9 8 5 13 10 11 8 6 9 5 9 8 3 11 1 7 11 4 6 8 8 3 6 6 8 6 7

%WR

43.28 33.82 34.78 33.33 42.86 37.84 40.74 40.00 39.13 43.48 16.67 28.26 75.00 35.71 50.00 23.64 37.50 38.10 27.27 37.50 34.21 33.33 40.91 34.78 21.74 41.94 35.71 37.93 25.00 54.55 42.86 33.33 21.95 23.53 14.29 26.83 12.50 17.95 55.00 40.00 19.35 50.00 32.00 50.00 46.15 40.00 36.36 21.43 41.18

Races

AWD

Earnings (£)

Top horse

Earned (£)

40 29 10 24 18 21 13 12 14 12 6 15 13 7 10 18 8 16 12 8 17 12 11 10 8 17 12 11 10 6 9 9 10 10 3 12 3 9 13 6 7 14 10 6 7 7 9 6 8

5.5 5.5 6.5 5.9 6.1 5.5 7.0 6.0 6.0 5.7 5.4 6.0 5.8 5.4 5.4 5.5 5.7 6.2 5.7 5.7 5.5 6.2 5.7 6.3 6.2 5.8 6.4 5.9 6.3 5.6 6.1 5.6 5.4 5.9 5.5 5.7 6.1 6.4 5.5 6.0 6.2 5.7 6.2 5.6 5.8 6.7 6.7 5.7 5.7

510,408 261,041 243,132 234,925 231,582 217,740 217,202 214,444 207,580 198,232 194,371 169,934 168,220 164,839 161,964 160,013 158,884 153,526 149,990 139,012 138,947 127,766 127,491 124,966 124,151 124,124 119,235 118,020 111,048 110,508 109,011 108,234 107,066 106,853 106,499 103,769 100,483 98,637 98,239 92,437 90,190 89,999 89,228 88,448 86,907 85,956 84,741 83,529 81,427

Tiggy Wiggy Ivawood Dick Whittington Baitha Alga Beach Belle Cappella Sansevero Highland Reel Berkarar Lion Wind Ervedya Kool Kompany Estidhkaar Lavin The Wow Signal White Iron Justice Good Goken Jungle Cat Haxby Santino Cotai Glory Cornwallville Bubona Toscanini Arabian Queen Louie de Palma Light in Paris Ride Like the Wind Misterious Boy Super Eria Aktabantay Fontkizi Strath Burn Beacon City Money Accepted Dedemsah Siir Gibi Intense Style Tatvan Incisi Kindly Dismiss Arrivederci Bwana Join Up Kejo Baba Mindsomer Mind Of Madness Dutch Connection Cock Of Ohe North

178,443 94,617 147,818 76,778 45,305 85,894 55,528 84,335 47,989 49,590 181,772 50,404 57,165 72,257 35,347 22,281 70,572 42,580 58,725 54,087 37,236 50,598 22,601 32,807 49,624 27,551 25,406 16,288 18,116 21,405 26,557 27,645 27,618 30,070 29,436 31,084 84,900 20,827 14,569 30,087 34,324 21,484 14,519 34,171 14,772 21,416 26,849 15,247 20,667

Imminent sales races likely to alter picture Tiggy Wiggy’s runaway victory in the Super Sprint has given Kodiac a respectable cushion in earnings to match his numerical advantage but things may well change with all the sales races that are coming up.

The first-season sires’ title looks highly likely to go Zebedee’s way as he had another exceptional month with no fewer than nine new winners to give him a total of 23. That puts him six clear of Fast Company – they were level a month ago – with Showcasing (14), Approve and Lope de Vega (11 each) next in line.

Rip Van Winkle has had fewer than half the number of runners boasted by Zebedee and Fast Company but he is shaping with promise, his eight scorers from 23 including Anglesey Stakes and Phoenix Stakes winner Dick Whittington. His two stakes winners make him joint-top with Siyouni and Starspangledbanner among the freshmen in that category.

Statistics to August 13; *denotes first-season sire

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adio 5 Live is my alarm.

On Sundays it wakes me at 5.30 and I’m into the shower and out of the house by six, armed with my thermos mug of tea, to do Good Morning Sunday on Radio 2. Other days I’m up anything between six and eight, but if I’m not working I do love a lie-in and I can still be in bed as late as nine.

Archie, our nine-year-old Tibetan Terrier, sleeps in our bedroom and whenever I have time I take him for a walk for an hour in the morning and 40 minutes in the evening. I need the exercise as well. Itty, our very, very old cat, sleeps downstairs.

Breakfast is usually a small bottle of Activia yogurt and two Marmite rice cakes, which are delicious.

In addition to Channel 4 Racing and Good Morning Sunday, I do Ramblings, cover Wimbledon, Badminton, Burghley, the Open Golf and Ryder Cup, the World Equestrian Games in France and the Commonwealth Games.

I have also done the new science series for the BBC called Operation Wild, which took me to China, Borneo, Cameroon, Japan and South Africa. I’m really excited about the programme and if I was re-commissioned I’d do it again in a heartbeat. I love covering eventing most of all, though nothing will ever top London 2012.

But this year is stupidly busy with the publication of my new book, Walking Home: My Family and Other Rambles, and there will come a point without a shadow of doubt when I decide to rein back.

Not that I can’t do everything; I can. And I can work seven days a week.

My brain needs to be stimulated and I need to do things that push me. I got a real adrenalin rush at Wimbledon this year because I was commentating, which

CLARE BALDING describes this year as “stupidly busy” with her TV work, radio show and science programme plus new book set for publication. And she walks the dog twice every day... makes my mind work in a completely different way than when I am presenting and takes me way out of my comfort zone.

The scope for making a balls-up is enormous when you’re thinking so quickly. I did the Dimitrov v Djokovic match, which was amazing.

And there’s me, who’d barely played tennis to school level, with Goran Ivanisevic and Martina Navratilova, the summarisers, sitting either side of me.

Racing is a very, very hard sport to keep up with if you’re not doing it full-time and I’d be the first to admit I suffer with that. I had a lot of catching up before the York Ebor meeting because I’d been busy covering golf and the Commonwealth Games. I always download the Racing

Post the night before to give myself time to read it.

Alice, my partner, does a lot of training people to make presentations and how to pitch in board meetings. She will tell me if my delivery is too fast, pulls me up and corrects me... oh, yes, don’t worry about that! Seriously though, she’s a big help.

Lunch can be just a packet of liquorice allsorts, as it was on July Cup day at Newmarket; it’s always difficult when you’re working through lunch.

If I’m cooking myself I’d have chicken, avocado and bacon salad, or just salad in summer and soup in winter. I don’t do much cooking, nor does Alice. Luckily, Waitrose means we don’t really have to these days!

I am fascinated by faith and

I love talking to people about it on my Sunday morning programme, whether they are Muslim, Hindu, Christian or pagan. I am really interested by our need to have faiths. I am not a churchgoer, though Alice and I have been invited to have dinner with the Archbishop of Canterbury this autumn, which should be fun.

I am pretty good at making sure I have time to think and that’s what walking provides – it is very important to me. If I’m not able to walk in the morning and evening I can get quite tense about things.

Walking unwinds me and is the structure for my new book. I believe that walking could solve an awful lot of the world’s problems; more people walking together, walking to work. It’s good for the brain, good for the body, particularly in this country.

Not much stresses me out and that’s why I’ve been able to take on my workload and not fall apart from it. Fingers crossed, I seem to be fine after suffering thyroid cancer five years ago. I have regular blood tests and the medics are happy with my levels of thyroxine.

Alice and I switch off by going out to lunch or maybe having a round of golf together. We actually played Wentworth this summer; Alice is very good, much, much better than I am.

We have our evening meal at about eight; who ever hasn’t been working will cook.

I love a nice roast chicken, beef or lamb. I go to bed between 11 and 11.30 and am asleep in two seconds flat unless something is bothering me, which is very rare these days.

Interview by Tim Richards Clare Balding’s Walking Home: My Family and Other Rambles is out on September 11 (Penguin Viking, £20)

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