Thoroughbred Owner & Breeder August 2011

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Thoroughbred Owner & Breeder inc Pacemaker August 2011

£4.95 | August 2011 | Issue 84

Incorporating

She did it!

Hayley Turner wins her first Group 1 on Dream Ahead

Plus • Rod Collet talks fillies, fall-outs and famous fathers • TBA Awards: British breeding’s big night out • European yearling sales kick off in Deauville www.ownerbreeder.co.uk

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LEADING SIRES IN GB & IRE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

GALILEO MONTJEU Oasis Dream Dansili DANEHILL DANCER HIGH CHAPARRAL HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR Cape Cross Invincible Spirit Pivotal

£2,848,817 £1,700,884 £985,941 £933,159 £903,966 £748,127 £710,909 £634,536 £591,172 £572,396

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HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR

£263,312

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STALLIONS FOR 2011 • ALFRED NOBEL • AUSSIE RULES • CHOISIR • DANEHILL DANCER • DUKE OF MARMALADE • DYLAN THOMAS • EXCELLENT ART • FASTNET ROCK • FOOTSTEPSINTHESAND • • GALILEO • HIGH CHAPARRAL • HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR • HURRICANE RUN • MASTERCRAFTSMAN • MONTJEU • ORATORIO • PEINTRE CELEBRE • RIP VAN WINKLE • • ROCK OF GIBRALTAR • STARSPANGLEDBANNER • STRATEGIC PRINCE • THEWAYYOUARE• YEATS •

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Frankel (GALILEO), 2000 Guineas-Gr.1

Pour Moi (MONTJEU), Epsom Derby-Gr.1

Dancing Rain (DANEHILL DANCER], Epsom Oaks-Gr.1

Banimpire (HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR), Ribblesdale Stakes-Gr.2

So You Think (HIGH CHAPARRAL), Eclipse Stakes-Gr.1

Contact: Coolmore Stud, Fethard, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. Tel: 353-52-6131298. Fax: 353-52-6131382.

Christy Grassick, David O’Loughlin, Eddie Fitzpatrick, Tim Corballis, Maurice Moloney, Gerry Aherne or Mathieu Legars.

Tom Gaffney, David Magnier, Joe Hernon or Cathal Murphy: 353-25-31966/31689. Kevin Buckley (UK Rep.) 44-7827-795156.

E-mail: sales@coolmore.ie Web site: www.coolmore.com

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DAM GOOD SALE

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Memorable trade in 2010 Mares: “The overall feature was the strength of demand for quality bloodstock from buyers around the world.”

(Carl Evans - EBN) “Trade at the mares sale was incredible.”

(Racing Post) “Tattersalls work very hard in attracting international buyers and they did a fantastic job - plenty of horses were being sold to countries such as America, Japan, India, Australia, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Libya.

(Ted Voute - Racing Post)

Foals: The highest price foal sold in Europe & USA, as well as 46 of the top 60 sold in GB/IRE were sold at the 2010 Tattersalls December Foal Sale.

Entries Treasure Beach (ex HONORINE purchased for 50,000 gns) Irish Derby Gr.1

2011 Tattersalls December Sale November 21 – December 2 Entries Close:

Animal Kingdom (ex DALICIA purchased for 230,000 gns) Kentucky Derby Gr.1

Foals August 26 Mares August 31 enter online at www.tattersalls.com

Tel: +44 1638 665931, sales@tattersalls.com

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£4.95 | August 2011 | Issue 84

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She did it!

Hayley Turner wins her first Group 1 on Dream Ahead

Plus • Rod Collet talks fillies, fall-outs and famous fathers • TBA Awards: British breeding’s big night out • European yearling sales kick off in Deauville www.ownerbreeder.co.uk

Cover: Hayley Turner and Dream Ahead Photo: Racingfotos.com

EDWARD ROSENTHAL

Heads should turn after Hayley’s July Cup win

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n how many sports do men and women compete against each other on an equal footing? You can stop thinking now, because frankly, there aren’t many. And I’m not counting darts, poker, shooting, fishing or mixed doubles tennis.

Dream Ahead’s victory under Hayley Turner in the July Cup was not only a pivotal moment for racing – the first outright Group 1 win for a female jockey in Britain, and Turner’s first at the top level – but for all sports in this country.

Horseracing stands pretty much alone, other equestrian pursuits aside, in providing a platform for men and women to take each other on at an elite level.

The global exploits of Julie Krone and Emma-Jayne Wilson bear testament to this. And it’s something we should be proud of and promote unashamedly.

Of course, Hayley Turner is first and foremost a jockey, not a woman jockey. But to pretend her gender was of little or no significance to her recent triumph, or for that matter to British sport, would have been disingenuous. For that reason I had no hesitation in putting her on this month’s cover and The Big Picture (pages 14-15).

Trainer David Simcock claimed the result “was all about Dream Ahead”. From his position this is undoubtedly the case. But what would the public have made of a female racing driver who got the better of Lewis Hamilton at Silverstone, or a female golfer who went toe-to-toe with Lee Westwood at St Andrews? You can’t help but feel that these people would, if they existed, be household names, promoted off the boards and revered widely.

Racing has a fantastic asset, not only in Hayley Turner, but, perhaps more importantly, in its capacity to let men and women battle it out for supremacy on the racecourse. The likes of Cathy Gannon, Kirsty Milczarek and Amy Ryan add substance to the view that our sport should be a role model for others.

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Having women-only race meetings is all well and good – a gimmick to increase the coffers, surely, and who can blame racecourses given these economically challenging times – but do we really need these events to say ‘look at us: we have female jockeys’?

There is an argument to say the best promotion of British racing in this regard is any ‘normal’ meeting where both sexes are competing on the same card.

Unlike Hayley Turner, David O’Meara (Talking To, pages 33-35) never achieved a top level success in his riding career. He spent a decade as a journeyman jump jockey before deciding that chasing around the country for low prize-money was not worth the effort.

However, his stunning start to training – over 50 winners and a Group 2 within 12 months – suggests we’ll be hearing a lot more about O’Meara, who has been providing champion jockey candidate Silvestre de Sousa with plenty of opportunities.

Another handler making a name for himself is Rod Collet, who didn’t have to look far for inspiration when it came to choosing a career – his father, Robert, has been collecting big races for the past 30 years, via the likes of Last Tycoon, Whipper and most recently Immortal Verse, who triumphed over his son’s Nova Hawk in the Coronation Stakes.

But if you thought the young Collet had it easy growing up, think again. “Between 14 and 17 I travelled with a lot of his horses to Italy and Germany. It was good experience, but for sure he kicked my arse a lot,” he tells Julian Muscat (pages 38-42).

“In some ways it was good for me to have the name of Collet in France. In others, it was quite complicated.

People think of you as your father’s son.”

British breeding took centre stage at the recent TBA Awards in Newmarket – coverage of the winners plus the TBA AGM and seminar can be found on pages 46-50 – while ROA AGM matters are detailed on pages 64-67.

“Racing has a

fantastic asset in its capacity to let men and women battle it out for supremacy

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CONTENTS AUGUST 2011

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NEWS & VIEWS

FEATURES

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ROA Leader Betting right the way forward

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Concern over falling foal crop

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News Arthur Budgett obituary

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Talking To...

David O’Meara, jump jockeyturned-trainer of the moment

Changes Essential round-up

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Tony Morris

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James Willoughby Spencer and O’Brien in tandem

INTERNATIONAL SCENE 23

View From Ireland New racecourse plans

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Continental Tales Dingle View repaying price-tag

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Going Global Lonhro success for Darley

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Rod Collet French handler talks about following his famous father

Grand Prix de Paris profiled

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TBA Awards and AGM Winners and reports from Newmarket

Henrietta, Duchess of Bedford was a winner at the TBA Awards (p.46)

Sales Special Anna and Etienne Drion in focus plus previews of the Arqana and Doncaster sales

Foundation Mares Alruccaba

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Breeders’ Digest Sires play the numbers game

The Big Picture Hayley Turner guides Dream Ahead to victory in the July Cup

TBA Leader

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Sales Circuit In Europe, Japan and the US

104 Flashback Magnificent Miesque

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ROA Forum New Council members elected

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ROA LEADER

RACHEL HOOD President Racehorse Owners Association

Horserace betting right a worthwhile favourite Levy replacement would see every bet on British racing generate revenue

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atthew Hancock is proving to be a very good friend to horseracing. He is one of a growing number of MPs who are increasingly supportive of racing’s cause.

It was only last year that Hancock became MP for the constituent of West Suffolk yet he has already won much admiration from the racing fraternity. Favourable early impressions were enhanced by his well-attended and stimulating Commons debate on the levy in January, while his recent adjournment debate showed that his actions may prove even more effective than his words.

It was following the most recent debate that his colleague, John Penrose, announced the government’s intention to introduce legislation that required those overseas betting operators who take bets from British-based punters to hold a Gambling Commission licence. It is an initiative that may well prove to be the first building block of the legislative process that we hope will lead to a funding system based on a horseracing betting right to replace the levy.

Although the proposal may be driven by concerns for consumer protection, the new legislation will surely lead to a situation where overseas-based bookmakers must pay the same level of tax and levy as home-based bookmakers when taking bets from British punters.

A horseracing betting right would, of course, require primary legislation with all that entails. It would also have to stand up to parliamentary scrutiny as the powerful bookmaker lobby got to work in creating numerous barriers before the new legislation found its way onto the statute book. The fact that bookmakers are proposing that payments to racecourses for media rights and payments under a legislative system should be lumped together is enough to raise warnings of what’s to come.

We can, however, move forward in stages. First, we need the Gambling Commission licence to require offshore bookmakers to pay tax and levy as well as

providing consumer protection. This would quickly translate into money coming back to British racing.

But it is not just the fact that offshore bookmakers are not paying tax and levy. Even more significant is the competitive edge that this has given them. If your costs are much lower than those of your rivals, then you can, of course, offer your customers much better value.

Such is the escalation of ‘offshoring’ within the betting industry in recent years that it has got to the stage where all major bookmakers have been virtually forced to move offshore with the online part of their businesses because of the advantage held by those rivals already there.

The consequence of this has been a general driving down of betting margins – great for the punter, perhaps, but a disaster for British racing whose income is of course set on the basis of a percentage of gross profits. Add this to the exponential growth of betting exchanges and it is clear why the gross profits system – while quite possibly attractive when first implemented 11 years ago – has in recent years driven down income for British racing in line with plummeting margins.

The establishment of a horseracing betting right to replace the levy would mean that every time a bet is placed on British horseracing there will be a legal obligation for the purveyor of that bet to pay a form of royalty charge to racing.

The attraction of such a scheme is that, not only would it at once create the desired level playing field between both onshore and offshore bookmakers, but it would also create a completely different perspective on the current dispute relating to exchange users acting as quasi bookmakers without paying tax and levy.

Of course, there can be no disguising the fact that, within this apparently simple concept, there lies myriad complexities and legal ramifications. But, right now, we should rejoice in the fact that the first step along this difficult road has been taken. And for that we particularly have Matthew Hancock to thank.

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TBA LEADER

KIRSTEN RAUSING Chairman Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association

Headline-making AGM raised production issue Research into falling foal crops continues as fixture list worries are aired

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he TBA Annual General Meeting generated a lot of thought-provoking information, as a result of Paul Greeves’s presentation on thoroughbred production in Great Britain and Ireland. On most people’s minds was the issue of whether there will be sufficient stock to meet the future fixture list demands.

Further research will be conducted into these raw statistics, but we now know that 41% of the British foal crop enters training in Great Britain as two-year-olds.

When the combined British and Irish foal crops are examined this figure drops considerably, to reflect the larger percentage of NH production in Ireland.

I fully accept that jump racing, which is so reliant numerically on French and Irish production, will not feel the effects of reduction for some time, as age is a lesser factor in the population of horses in training.

Irish NH foal production has declined in a dramatic fashion, yet they will still have a large requirement for their domestic production and the difference cannot be met from the current small number of British NH breeders, which accounts for 13% of total foal production in Britain (583 foals in 2010). Therefore, similar problems will emerge but over a longer time and support measures must be maintained.

Now more than ever the valuable self-help schemes funded by breeders provide an essential boost to prizemoney. However, contributions from breeders and vendors to the Racing Post Yearling Bonus Scheme, as well as stallion contributions via the BEBF, all eat away at the industry’s bottom line and, whilst these remain necessary if we are to stimulate the bloodstock market, I too support those who have expressed concerns that there is a danger that the RPYBS will follow the BEBF contributions and will soon be taken for granted by the racing industry.

Tattersalls’ July Sale’s results posted welcome overall increases and underlined the importance of the export

market for horses in training. The results from the breeding stock offered on the first day gave no great cause for optimism and would certainly suggest that an upturn in demand for breeding stock is still some way off.

Maintaining our export market, then, is a priority and something that Tattersalls are very conscious of.

British Bloodstock Marketing (BBM) also has a role to play here and for this reason it is no secret that the BBM committee focuses the majority of its efforts in this sector.

I am concerned, however, that the uncertainty regarding funding beyond 2011 could undermine its sterling work.

The British Horseracing Authority (BHA) and Racecourse Enterprises Ltd (REL) have been asked to provide funding for BBM in 2012 and, whilst they naturally want to see the bloodstock industry make the majority contribution, it is important that the wider industry recognises that a vibrant export market provides benefits for racing way beyond just breeders.

The increase in attendance on the first day of the July Cup fixture was not matched again through the three days. The weather may have been a factor, but I suspect that there was nothing wrong with the old format and that racegoers look forward and plan for the opportunity to take a day’s holiday, or possibly two, to go racing.

Was the July Cup move to a Saturday really necessary?

Will the opportunity to offer bets to Far Eastern markets bring added value, which is undoubtedly badly needed, to British racing? The racing press certainly enjoyed the opportunity to debate this matter.

Perhaps a less obvious point has been overlooked: sales consignors registered that a longer week, culminating with racing on Saturday, had resulted in a distinct decline in the number of potential purchasers from overseas looking at lots selling on the first day of the July Sale (Wednesday). Perhaps this factor, too, can be added to the debate regarding the Saturday fixture before the 2012 July meeting.

“We now know that

41% of the British foal crop enters training in Great Britain as two-year-olds

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NEWS Stories from the racing world

Equinome increases genetic testing range Ability indicator added to test for optimum distance Dublin-based Equinome has launched a new test that it claims can genetically identify horses with the greatest potential for racecourse success.

Equinome’s founder, Dr Emmeline Hill, spoke at the TBA’s seminar last year after launching a gene test that is said to determine a horse’s optimum racing distance.

The new test, researched by Dr Hill and her team at University College Dublin, examines panels of DNA variants that have been identified as being critical to racing performance.

“It is well-established that there are different metabolic and physiological requirements for short-duration, high-

intensity sprint type exercise and longerduration, more moderate intensity exercise,” said Dr Hill, who set up Equinome in partnership with trainer Jim Bolger in 2009.

“We have determined that, similarly, the genetic requirements differ for contrasting types of exercise and therefore different sets of genes will contribute to elite performance in each type of thoroughbred.

A one test fits all approach doesn’t seem to be appropriate.”

The company, which also has a laboratory at Bolger’s County Carlow stable, has attracted clients from as far afield as Australia, Singapore, USA, New Zealand and Russia following the launch of its speed gene test last year.

Equinome Chairman, Dr Emmeline Hill

Guineas Breeze-up returns to Newmarket in 2012 A new breeze-up sale held by Tattersalls Ireland in April has been abandoned after just one year and in its place the Guineas auction held by the firm’s Newmarket parent company is set to be revived in May 2012.

Just 35 lots sold for a total of €294,100 this year at the Irish sale at Fairyhouse, which received scant support from some of the major consignors.

Tattersalls’ Guineas Breeze-up, first held in 2007, was abandoned last year after many vendors felt there was not room for that and the company’s longstanding flagship Craven sale in a retracting market. The Guineas sale never had a clearance rate above 64% in four renewals.

The 2012 sale, to be staged on Friday, May 4 ahead of Newmarket’s Classic weekend, is to feature only around 100 two-year-olds with a new section for approximately150 horses in training.

In a press release, Edmond Mahony, who chairs both divisions of Tattersalls, explained: “While the Craven Breeze-up produced increased turnover on the 2010 sale, the Tattersalls Ireland Breeze-up

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Edmond Mahony: “Tattersalls Ireland Breeze-up did not replicate the appeal”

did not manage to replicate the appeal of the sale it was replacing and feedback from our vendors indicates that they would like to see the Guineas week fixture at headquarters rather

than at Tattersalls Ireland.”

Meanwhile, Brightwells’ new breeze-up – held for a first time a week after Newmarket’s Guineas weekend at Ascot racecourse in May – is set to take place again in 2012.

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Arthur Budgett 1916-2011 Breeder, owner and trainer of the Derby-winning half-brothers Blakeney and Morston Those among the crowd at Epsom on Derby Day 2009 unfamiliar with the sight of the Guest of Honour (which would have been most of the spectators) might have guessed from the old man’s understated dignity that he was a man of achievement. Had they observed the respect, even deference, which the jockeys showed on being introduced to him, they would have deduced that Arthur Budgett was one of racing’s greats.

Born on May 26, 1916, Arthur Budgett, who died peacefully in his sleep on June 21, aged 95, is most obviously remembered for having bred, owned and trained two winners of the Derby. Over and above that colossal achievement, though, he was a man of decency whose life did much to ennoble the training profession, of which he was a master.

Having ridden in point-to-points and started training before the war (during which he served in the Indian Cavalry, reaching the rank of major), Arthur Budgett resumed his training career in 1947. He soon made an impression, sending out Commissar, whom he owned in partnership with his brother Alan, to win the 1948 Lincoln Handicap.

Two years later, Budgett recorded his first victory in what is now a Pattern race by saddling Holmbush (ridden by a 14-year-old apprentice named Lester Piggott) to win the Jockey Club Cup. Moving to Whatcombe in 1951, Budgett continued to consolidate his reputation both as a master of preparing his charges for big handicaps and as a trainer who could win top-class sprints as easily as Cup races.

In 1964 Budgett saddled Windmill Girl to win the Ribblesdale Stakes at Royal Ascot after finishing second to Homeward Bound in the Oaks. In time, she played an even greater part in her owner/trainer’s life by breeding his two Derby winners, Blakeney and Morston, victorious in 1969 and 1973 respectively.

Windmill Girl’s first season at stud saw her mated with Hethersett, a union which yielded the well-named Blakeney. When Blakeney went into the 1969 Derby as a leading contender, Budgett’s sense of honour shone through: even though one of Britain’s leading jockeys, Geoff Lewis, was keen to take the ride, Budgett (who, in addition to having bred the colt, owned him in partnership with Diana Carnegie and Horace Renshaw) honoured a THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

Arthur Budgett with the unbeaten Morston, whose only two starts included the Derby

pledge which he had made to the 21-year-old Ernie Johnson. Budgett’s loyalty was rewarded when Blakeney came home in front, while his old-school values were again in evidence the following year when Blakeney lined up for Ascot’s Gold Cup (in which he finished second). Blakeney remains the most recent Derby winner to have contested the Gold Cup. While Blakeney enjoyed an extensive racing career, Morston’s record was very brief: he ran only twice, for wins in a maiden race and the Derby. While the fact that Morston was able to win the Derby on his second start speaks volumes for the horse’s ability, it speaks equally eloquently about the skill of his trainer. Sadly, Budgett was unable to capitalise further on his colt’s talent: Morston sustained a career-ending tendon injury later that summer.

Blakeney and Morston did well at stud, as did other Budgett trainees Hook Money, Derring-Do, Huntercombe and Dominion.

Budgett was also adept at nurturing budding jockeys, over and above the help he gave youngsters such as Lester Piggott and Ernie

Johnson: his apprentices included Geoff Baxter, as well as David Richardson and Kevin Woodburn, both of whom had very successful careers in Germany.

Budgett retired from training at the end of 1975 at the age of 59, but he remained closely involved with his Kirtlington Stud, which is run by his son Chris. Having been champion trainer in 1969, he continued to win big races right up to his retirement, landing two of his biggest prizes (the 1971 Gold Cup at Ascot, awarded to Random Shot on the disqualification of Rock Roi, and the 1974 Jockey Club Cup, won by Petty Officer) and several major handicaps during his final seasons, as well as Morston’s Derby in 1973.

The respect which he had earned during his training career was shown by his election to the Jockey Club in 1977.

Arthur Budgett enjoyed a long and successful life, which he lived guided by standards of honour and decency, which all too often nowadays seem to belong to a bygone age. He is survived by his widow Patricia (generally known as Bay), his sons James and Chris, and his five grandchildren.

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Changes – R a c i n g ’ s n e w s i n a n u t s h e l l PEOPLE AND BUSINESS Hayley Turner Andrew Black Nathan Sweeney Mark Pitman Trevor Beaumont Paul Mulrennan Betfair David Yu Penny Boys Kieren Fallon Alan Potts Keith Bradley Lord Sharman Galway Rod Street Wood Farm Stud Ruby Walsh

Enjoys her first Group 1 win aboard Dream Ahead in the July Cup Betfair co-founder appoints Paul Coombe to manage his stud at Chasemore Farm in Surrey Conditional jockey breaks left leg after a fall at Newton Abbot Former trainer is no longer racing manager to owner Malcolm Denmark after a 13-year association Tote Chief Executive to take on same role with Betfred Group following the takeover of the Tote Jockey to miss remainder of the Flat season after breaking his leg at Musselburgh in June Increases premium charge to 60% for big-hitting customers whose lifetime net profits exceed £250,000 Betfair’s Chief Executive will step down in October 2012 after six years in the role; Chief Operating Officer Stephen Morana is a possible successor Stands down as Deputy Chairman of the Levy Board; she will not be replaced in that role, which has been deemed unnecessary Escapes a driving ban after claiming disqualification would cause him exceptional hardship following a speeding incident Owner pays record price for a NH store horse when spending €340,000 on a three-year-old Presenting gelding at the Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale Agent who helped Seb Sanders win the jockeys’ title in 2007 quits in order to return to full-time education at the University of East Anglia Replaces the late Lord McIntosh in the role of President of GamCare Secures the backing of Ladbrokes for the Saturday of its festival meeting Replaces Karl Oliver as Chief Executive of British Champions’ Series Shropshire operation run by Bill Bromley set to close, with new homes sought for stallions Erhaab, Bollin Eric and Lucarno Top jockey suffers another injury, to his neck, ruling him out of the Galway festival – he hopes to return in September

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Group 1-winning son of Alhaarth will stand at Mickley Stud in Shropshire in 2012, having previously been based at the National Stud Clive Smith-owned chaser moves from Paul Nicholls to Arthur Moore in Ireland along with River D’Or Frank Berry spends 175,000gns on hurdling prospect at Tattersalls’ July Sale Four-year-old son of Montjeu, winner of the Grade 1 Canadian International for Aidan O’Brien, moves to Marco Botti’s Newmarket stable Highclere Thoroughbred Racing purchases Aga Khan-bred son of Dubai Destination for €200,000 and sends to Paul Nicholls to go jumping Runner-up in the Group 3 Tercentenary Stakes at Royal Ascot joins Godolphin from Luca Cumani Gallinule Stakes fourth for trainer Paul Deegan is sold to continue racing career in Hong Kong Seven-year-old son of Stay Gold, a leading performer in Japan, is retired to the Shadai Stallion Station in Hokkaido Grade 1-winning son of El Prado will stand first season at Spendthrift Farm in Kentucky Shadai Stallion Station recruits high-class son of Mineshaft, Grade 1-placed in Japan and a Grade 2 winner in America, to its roster Jersey Stakes runner-up is sold privately out of Henry Candy’s stable to race in Hong Kong Gelding who caused an upset in the 2010 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile is retired through injury Nine-year-old son of Marju – who started life in Britain under the name Comic Strip – is retired D Wayne Lukas-trained Grade 1 winner is retired after fracturing his off-fore sesamoid Noel Martin-owned filly who was disqualified after ‘winning’ last year’s 1,000 Guineas, is moved to Ian Williams from Henry Cecil Juvenile named after her heptathlete part-owner suffers probable career-ending injury after colliding with a car in Newmarket

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THE BIG PICTURE

Turner’s prize Dream Ahead, owned by Khalifa Dasmal (below), gives Hayley Turner her first Group 1 with a half-length defeat of Bated Breath in the July Cup

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THE MAN YOU CAN’T IGNORE COMMENT

Tony Morris The Grand Prix de Paris has a fabulously rich history and may again become the defining Derby in Europe, as it used to be – the trip is now right but prize-money needs boosting

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or well over a century the Grand Prix de Paris was recognised as one of the most important races in Europe and for much of that time it was emphatically the most important race in France. It was founded in 1863, 27 years after the first running of the Prix du Jockey-Club, but it instantly eclipsed the French counterpart of our Derby by virtue of the facts that it offered more prize-money and encouraged international competition.

The very first running was won by an English-trained colt, The Ranger, and plenty of others were to follow suit in the next quartercentury, including the Triple Crown hero Gladiateur, other Derby winners in Cremorne and Kisber, and such other notable horses as Robert The Devil, Foxhall, Paradox and Minting. The race was a prime target for the best three-year-olds on each side of the Channel and nobody thought it was odd to stage a contest for the Classic generation over 15 furlongs in midsummer. After all, horses were supposed to be able to run equally well over a variety of distances.

Reputations made The Prix du Jockey-Club could never match the prestige of Epsom’s Derby and, although it was regularly won by a good colt, that was not the place where reputations were earned. It was really not much more than a trial for the Grand Prix, which was the day when Parisians flocked to Longchamp in their thousands to witness the coronation of a true champion. Success in the Jockey-Club was all well and fine, but if its winner did not then go on to triumph additionally in the Grand Prix, he was not going to be feted as a real star.

If you should think I am spouting ancient history, just 19th century stuff, think again; the Grand Prix de Paris retained its status well into the last quarter of the 20th century. Yes, I am aware that the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe has been going since 1920, but it did not arrive on the scene as a fabulously valuable event. In its inaugural year it was won by the Newmarkettrained Comrade, who had also won the Grand

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Prix. His Arc victory was worth little more than half what he had earned from his earlier Longchamp success.

It was not until 1949 that the Arc’s purse was boosted above the level of that for the Grand Prix and it was a few years after that before it was widely perceived as the season’s climactic championship decider. Of course, it had been in the Grand Prix de Paris that Nearco had confirmed his brilliance on the international stage, a victory that prompted his purchase for stud in England, where he proved to be the most significant horse imported to this country

“The Prix du JockeyClub was not much more than a trial for the Grand Prix; only real stars won that” since the Godolphin Arabian.

The Grand Prix was still going strong when I came into the game and although it had recently become less valuable than the Prix du JockeyClub, there was not much in it when Rheffic became the last to win both races in their original formats in 1971. He netted Fr1,203,050 from his Chantilly victory and Fr1,063,600 from his follow-up win at Longchamp.

It could hardly be said that the Grand Prix was deteriorating when it was won by the likes of Sagaro in 1974, Exceller two years later and Glint Of Gold in 1981, but the Jockey-Club finally became international in 1982 when Assert became its first winner trained outside France, and Caerleon scored in the same Sangster colours in the following year. We had

arrived in a new era, with the tail of the breeding industry wagging the dog of the sport of horseracing, and a 15-furlong event for threeyear-olds in midsummer suddenly seemed to have become irrelevant.

Whether it actually made much more sense to reduce the distance to ten furlongs, while still staging it three weeks after the Prix du JockeyClub, was a moot point, but that was the situation we were presented with in 1987 and that is how things stood until 2005. Saumarez won the Grand Prix en route to an Arc victory in 1990 and the outstanding Peintre Celebre notched the splendid treble of Jockey-Club, Grand Prix and Arc in 1997. Bago was another to progress from a Grand Prix win to success in the Arc de Triomphe in 2004.

No sooner had Bago won his Arc than we learned of the French proposal to reduce the distance of the Prix du Jockey-Club to ten and a half furlongs in 2005. The idea was roundly condemned by many French professionals, with 70% of trainers and 80% of bloodstock agents opposing it. Among breeders, the Wertheimers, the Niarchos family and the Aga Khan all voiced their disapproval, and their protests were echoed by many outside France, including yours truly, who warned that the plan would have a serious impact on such races as the Eclipse and the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes, discouraging summer competition between three-year-olds and their elders – a fear that has, of course, been duly realised.

All the protests were to no avail. The European Pattern Committee caved in and approved the plan, so, like it or not, as from 2005, the Prix du Jockey-Club was no longer what it had been for the previous 169 years, namely, France’s counterpart to our Derby. In Europe a Derby was always defined, in part, by its distance of a mile and a half, and this break with tradition deprived the Prix du Jockey-Club of its status as a Derby.

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lasted well over a century as a 15-furlong contest, its second incarnation at ten furlongs became history after just 18 renewals. In future it was to be run over a mile and a half, and instead of its traditional slot on the last Sunday in June, it would switch to July 14 and become the feature event on a Longchamp evening card.

Here was a move in the right direction. The French could have a Derby after all, just one with a different name – the name identified with the race that for so long carried the most prestige of any in France and was recognised internationally as exemplifying competition at the very highest level. Moreover, the new date was one that could be exploited in more ways than one.

There could hardly be a more appropriate date in the calendar than Bastille Day, the national holiday commemorating the most historic event in the establishment of the republic, to resurrect the Grand Prix de Paris and return it to the level of popularity it had enjoyed when it attracted huge crowds and ranked as the richest race in Europe.

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The Grand Prix was now scheduled at a time that would suit colts who had contested the Prix du Jockey-Club, the Derby and the Irish Derby, and that was why I argued that, if they went about it the right way, the French could not only have a Derby again, they could have the definitive European Derby, the one which established the pecking order among the continent’s leading threeyear-old colts.

Needless to say, they have not got it right yet. But they still might.

The field for this year’s Grand Prix included the first and second from the Prix du Jockey-Club and the first two from the Irish Derby, one of whom had been second at Epsom. They were there because mid-July suited their schedules and the distance of the race was right – and despite the fact that the prize-money was not what it should have been.

What a race the Grand Prix might be if the French promoted it as the definitive European Derby and rewarded its winner appropriately.

The Prix du Jockey-Club should now be what it always was, a trial for the Grand Prix, and the purses should be distributed accordingly.

If those simple readjustments were to be made, Longchamp on Bastille Day might even attract a crowd of Arc day proportions.

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JAMES WILLOUGHBY COMMENT

Jamie Spencer was stable jockey to Aidan O’Brien for just one year, but their relationship is back on track and benefiting from the rider’s ripened talent

hen the eddies of human interaction sweep the affairs of man into public consciousness, we always find ourselves gripped. But the conservative atmosphere of racing rarely allows such interaction to surface. Of course, the appetite for salacious interest in the baser aspects of human dealings has been used and abused by the tabloid press, reaching a nadir with the recent closure of the News of the World. But this represents an extreme which should not deny reasonable interest in the psychology of interaction.

Take the trainer-jockey relationship between Aidan O’Brien and Jamie Spencer.

Due to various factors – only some of which were apparent – the two were linked professionally for only a brief time. Spencer’s tenure as stable jockey at Ballydoyle lasted only the 2004 season, after which he resigned to return to riding in Britain.

Spencer was champion jockey in Ireland when with O’Brien. But that was a pyrrhic victory in a season which was pretty much a disaster otherwise. The truth is that O’Brien had few horses of genuine top-class merit, but the nature of recollection is that rides in which Spencer made mistakes or was the victim of bad luck are most vivid for many.

Chief among these were two rides at the Breeders’ Cup at Lone Star Park that October: on Powerscourt in the Turf – a mistimed effort off an already strong gallop – and Antonius Pius earlier in the Mile, a perfectly sound ride on the runner-up which was sabotaged only by his recalcitrant partner.

Both the abbreviated nature of Spencer’s pairing with O’Brien and its lack of consummation with the production of champion horses so much associated with the yard, left questions about Spencer’s nerve in a high-pressure situation (this is richly ironic since nobody who has watched racing for more than five minutes would associate the same fallibility with his style of riding).

The pair spoke little in public of their split.

But their feelings became more apparent seven years after the event, when Spencer steered home Fame And Glory for O’Brien in this year’s Gold Cup at Royal Ascot. “I can be a bit intense sometimes and I didn’t blame him for running away from me,” said the trainer. “We are getting along a lot better now,” said the jockey.

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Spencer sporting the silks of Jim Hay, now an owner with the O’Brien stable

The force bringing O’Brien and Spencer back together is his contract to ride for Fame And Glory’s majority owner Dr Jim Hay, a rising force in the bloodstock world with the spending power to sate his ambition. But it’s worth remembering Spencer did partner the 2007 St James’s Palace Stakes winner Excellent Art for O’Brien after their split.

“Anyone who calls on Spencer for Group 1s now is getting the complete package”

Nevertheless, a division between them was clearly drawn, which required a great ride in the Ascot feature and a public display of mutual contrition to resolve. But the story of their relationship does not end there.

If Spencer’s ride on Fame And Glory was good, his display on Cape Blanco, partowned by Hay, in the Grade 1 Man o’War Stakes at Belmont in July fully merits the description ‘magnificent’. The adjective is particularly apposite not because of the way Spencer positioned his mount close to a moderate pace and gained first run – though this was praiseworthy in itself – but for a

more subtle and compelling reason, one which may be a function of human entanglement following the theme of this piece. While it is fair to observe that Spencer was free with the whip on Cape Blanco, that was just one, admittedly regrettable, part of a corporeal will to win arguably redolent of a newly rediscovered ambition for the big time.

In a subsequent interview, Spencer was keen to attest to his foremost commitment to Hay, no doubt anticipating the theme of the interview may be to examine his fresh association with O’Brien instead.

There can be no doubt of the validity of Spencer’s assertion, not least because he went on to enthuse over Hay’s potential to establish himself among Flat racing’s ownership elite.

But, whether Spencer was prepared to admit it either to us or himself, there seemed more still to his tour de force on Cape Blanco.

O’Brien has Ryan Moore to call on, as well as long-standing Ballydoyle riders like Seamie Heffernan and Colm O’Donoghue. Of the former, Spencer himself generously described the Eclipse-winning ride on So You Think in glowing terms. So, it is not that Spencer has reason to be disingenuous over his commitment to Hay or angling for rides on Ballydoyle inmates outside his retainer’s interests. Instead, I believe that we are seeing a rider who has recovered tremendous determination to colour in the outline he first described as a 17-year-old apprentice on Tarascon in the 1998 Irish 1,000 Guineas – the prodigy who was praised to the skies and, in effect, set up to fail directly as a result. And proving that to O’Brien, the trainer from whom he “ran away”, is fundamental.

Spencer may well be proved right that Hay is the only conduit he needs for a return to the big time. But I doubt that is the only way events could play out. Anyone who calls on his services for Group 1s now is getting the complete package as a rider: one who, according to circumstances, can be strong or subtle, patient or direct. And that’s just not a combination commonly expressed.

I can only wonder how events will throw Spencer and O’Brien together but cannot resist thinking about the potential for it to happen. Because there is something unresolved between them professionally, which may just inspire magic on the track.

And that’s what brings sport to life.

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THE FOUNDATION MARES

By JEREMY EARLY

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The Aga Khan Studs’ slogan ‘Success Breeds Success’ is exemplified in the case of the Lanwades and Airlie Stud matriarch, a descendant of Mumtaz Mahal

Alruccaba, who died at the age of 19, crucially produced 11 fillies from 13 offspring

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xcellence automatically tends to become diluted as the years pass in any superior equine family, but new foundation mares tracing to magnificent matriarchs of decades ago can and do turn up. One of the best examples in the modern era is Alruccaba, who has Mumtaz Mahal – a mare to be dealt with later in this series – as her sixth dam.

Genetically, that distance means Mumtaz Mahal’s influence on Alruccaba is minuscule in percentage terms, but such mathematical niceties are unlikely to worry TBA Chairman and Lanwades Stud owner Kirsten Rausing, who bought Alruccaba with her friend Sonia Rogers of Airlie Stud for 19,000gns in 1985.

Alruccaba has had a phenomenal influence on the sport and on bloodstock, featuring in the bottom line of six Group 1 winners foaled between 1995 and 2003.

Rausing’s interest in breaking into the Mumtaz Mahal family had been with her since her teens, when in 1967 she was involved in purchasing an out-of-training filly named Ayesha, who foaled a stakes-placed filly Ayah, the second highest-rated juvenile filly in the Irish two-year-old ratings of 1975.

By 1985, Ayesha was a distant memory, with no major success having come from buying her, but the enthusiasm remained and the appearance of two-year-old Alruccaba at the December Sales spurred Rausing on.

She was convinced that Alruccaba, who had

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won at Brighton for Sir Michael Stoute but was no longer able to race, “would be one of the highest-priced lots of the entire sale, such was her appeal”. In the event, the appeal was limited to just two and she obtained the filly with Sonia Rogers for only 1,000gns more than the reserve.

This was slightly surprising given that there were two recent big-race winners from the immediate family, in the shape of 1978 Poule

“The potential bargain took very little time becoming a tremendous bargain” d’Essai Poulains victor Nishapour and high-class turf horse Nassipour, who had landed the Rothmans International only a month or so before the sale. Both were out of Alama, a halfsister to Alruccaba’s dam Allara. Nishapour stood at Lanwades from 1987.

The potential bargain took very little time becoming a tremendous bargain. One of the crucial credentials for a foundation mare is the ability to produce fillies and Alruccaba did that in no uncertain manner, foaling 11 fillies and

two colts. All of these had Rausing and Rogers as the named breeders and the mare alternated between Lanwades and Airlie until her death in 2002, spending two years at each stud each time.

There was a wide variety in stamina among the stallions responsible for Alruccaba’s progeny, since they included Green Desert (two), Alzao, Selkirk, Caerleon, Darshaan (three) and Niniski (two) – Selkirk and Niniski were both based at Lanwades.

Eight of the foals won, with four successful in stakes races. One of those, Last Second (by Alzao), was sold for Ir£120,000 as a yearling in 1994. Other Alruccaba offspring sold at that age included Jude (by Darshaan) for Ir£150,000, Requesting (by Rainbow Quest) for 360,000gns and Masnood (by Selkirk) for €350,000.

Last Second was very smart, notching two races that now hold Group 1 status, the Nassau Stakes and Sun Chariot Stakes, and being beaten only a neck in the Coronation Stakes.

She made a big mark at stud through her colt Aussie Rules (Poule d’Essai des Poulains, Shadwell Turf Mile) and filly Approach (Ballymacoll Stud Stakes). Approach is the dam of Midas Touch, winner of the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial and runner-up in the 2010 Irish Derby.

With Jude, of whom more later, also proving a big hit at stud for other breeders, and Arrikala (by Darshaan), who won the Curragh Cup and ran third in the Irish Oaks, doing little in the paddocks it was down to Alouette and Alleluia to keep the flag flying for the Lanwades-Airlie combination. Alleluia (by Caerleon) was the better runner, showing plenty of staying power and grit to land the Doncaster Cup. She was also the most prolific winner Alruccaba produced, hitting the target in five other races.

Her daughter Allegretto, sold for 415,000gns as a yearling in 2004, proved even better and equally well endowed with stamina, winning the Prix Royal-Oak, Lancashire Oaks, Park Hill Stakes, Henry II Stakes and Goodwood Cup. Alouette (by Darshaan) was bought by Rausing for 21,000gns as a yearling at Tattersalls to dissolve the Airlie-Lanwades partnership. The story of Lanwades would have been rather different had Alouette been bought to go elsewhere. She was a smart filly, running third in the Moyglare Stud Stakes on her debut and landing the Listed Oyster Stakes over a mile and a half on her penultimate start.

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winners from 11 foals including three in stakes, all from Northern Dancer line stallions. To Sadler’s Wells she produced Alma Mater, a Listed scorer in France, and to Alzao, who had already done a great job for the mare’s owners in getting Last Second, she foaled Alborada and Albanova.

Both raced in Rausing’s colours and were trained by Sir Mark Prescott.

Alborada landed the Champion Stakes twice, the Nassau Stakes and the Pretty Polly Stakes, and was official world champion distaffer in 1998.

Albanova developed into a star turn in Germany, winning the RheinlandPokal, Deutschlandpreis and Preis von Europa, which led to her being named German Horse of the Year in 2004.

So far neither mare has hit the heights at stud, though Alborada is dam of a Listed winner. However, another daughter of Alouette’s, Alakananda, foaled narrow Derby runner-up Dragon Dancer.

The Alruccaba mares have been a goldmine at the sales too. Alouette had three yearlings sell for around £1m in total, Alleluia’s five sent to auction fetched 2.3m gns, and Albanova had a yearling fetch ₏2.4m in 2007, a year after Alakananda had one sell for ₏2m.

Last, but not least, the one that got away. Jude. After being sold for 92,000gns as a three-year-old to Premier Bloodstock, a John Magnier and Richard Henry partnership, she was mated intensively with Sadler’s Wells, having ten foals by him before moving on to Galileo in 2008.

The results have been spectacular: Quarter Moon won the Moyglare Stud Stakes and ran second in three Classics, and Yesterday took the Irish 1,000 Guineas and finished runner-up in the Oaks. Additionally, Jude has produced the Classic-placed All My Loving, and other daughters Because and Song have sold for $2.8m and 1.7m gns respectively.

In short, wherever one looks, Alruccaba’s name tends to turn up with quality the watchword. Not a bad result for a price tag of just 19,000gns.

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VIEW FROM IRELAND

By LEO POWELL, MANAGING EDITOR OF THE IRISH FIELD

Industry under pressure

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14% fall in the number of horses in training – from 9,597 to 8,217 – for the first six months of the year brought more frowns to the foreheads of industry chiefs last month. This, along with other key indicators, led to Horse Racing Ireland’s Chief Executive Brian Kavanagh describing the industry as “under very serious pressure”.

Prize-money falls are outstripping the slight dip in races run, while sponsors are also showing a reluctance to contribute in the same amounts as before. The migration of betting offcourse and off-shore continues, at a cost of a

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Attendances and bloodstock sales provide hope in 2011

Jumping is proving more alluring than the Flat, as Punchestown’s crowds indicated

10% fall in takings on-course. Tote betting has shown a growth, thanks in part to the inflow of bets from overseas.

One bright area of growth for the first part of the year was in bloodstock sales, with returns growing by more than €4.5 million to €20m, an increase of 30%. This is a welcome sign of some stimulation of the market, though we are still a long way from the heady days of trading.

Another figure to bring some relief to the faces of racing’s mandarins was the slight increase in attendances at the races. Again, this is only stopping what had been a downward spiral and there is still a major job to be done, especially on the Flat. Jumps racing is proving to be a stronger magnet, as evidenced by the growth in numbers at Punchestown against the disappointing Irish Derby meeting crowd.

Is Tipperary complex pie in the sky?

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A new all-weather, floodlit racetrack for Ireland, along with a turf track to accommodate National Hunt fixtures. Could this be about to happen? In these straitened times it is barely conceivable that a new track could be to the fore of people’s minds.

The Tipperary venue has been granted planning permission and this development is set to feature far more than just a state-of-theart racecourse. The plan would also include a greyhound track, equestrian centre, a five-star hotel with up to 500 bedrooms, a golf course, a casino and, wait for it, a replica of the White

House in Washington! The entire cost is estimated to be about €460 million and would be based on an 800-acre site in Tipperary.

However, much of the media attention in Ireland has focused on the probability of a new racecourse and a licence being granted to operate a casino, illegal under current legislation. Many believe that without the licence, the entire project will not go ahead.

At present, the Minister for Justice in Ireland is considering proposals for regulating the whole gambling industry, while the Department of Finance will also take a keen

interest in what happens. Indications that the betting levy would increase from 1% to twice that amount would, reading between the lines of statements being made, seemingly be on hold.

Worse still for the administrators of racing, there seems to be an unwillingness to ringfence the money collected from the betting levy for racing. In this case, it would not allow Horse Racing Ireland to plan for the future with any degree of certainty. In its place there is an annual negotiation process to be endured before racing learns what allocation of funds has been made.

However, it is true to say that all sides are pretty tight-lipped about any negotiations and the industry waits anxiously for some white smoke to emerge and set the sector on a firm footing for the future. It is certainly a nervous time for all involved.

The message constantly being hammered home to the Irish government is that many jobs are on the line, with many already lost.

This haemorrhaging must be stopped or these lost jobs will put an extra strain on the Exchequer by way of welfare payments to thousands joining the dole queue.

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In Brief

Future leaders graduate saying: “I have to thank Kirsten Rausing, who offered the one-year scholarship that enabled me to come here.”

At The Races presenter and former Darley Flying Start graduate Gina Bryce compered the awards evening at Kildangan Stud, when the 11 graduates from the Sheikh Mohammed-inspired course finished their two-year internship.

With an impressive 88% result and the highest overall grade, New Zealander Victoria Leonard topped the class of 2011 and she now heads to Australia to start a new role with John Messara’s Arrowfield Stud.

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Many future leaders of the racing and breeding industries were surely among the 33 men and women who graduated from both the Darley Flying Start programme and the Irish National Stud Thoroughbred Breeding course in early July.

Among the graduates of the latter course was Harry Eustace, son of Newmarket trainer James. Here, 11 countries were represented by students, the most interesting being the first Norwegian student on the course. She is Jannicke Sjuls Thoresen and she crowned her achievement by winning the coveted gold medal. She was quick to credit her mentor,

Nina Carberry is getting married

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Breeding and racing analyst John Lynam is forecasting more British trainers and owners will be visiting Ireland during the winter months. Why? Well, Dundalk’s all-weather racetrack will stage no fewer than 19 meetings between the start of November and the end of March 2012, and the attractive race values will provide a lot of opportunities, he believes, for moderate runners to win worthwhile prize funds. The winter programme will see 133 races run, averaging more than €9,500.

The programme will also have something for every type of horse, with much to lure horses rated between 47 and 65. Nearly 60% of the races are handicaps, while the rest is made up of 31 maidens, 17 conditions races – one being a Listed race – and seven claimers.

There has also been a significant change to the way claimers will operate, with fixed claiming

Two of Ireland’s great racing dynasties are soon to be joined in wedlock. Ted Walsh, a racing columnist and son of the Grand National-winning trainer of the same name, is set to marry Nina Carberry, daughter of Tommy, who also won the great Aintree race as a trainer.

Mark Johnston: successful British visitor

prices rather than the current system of the highest claim being successful.

Kevin Ryan and Mark Johnston have already enjoyed success at Dundalk, but it is expected that they will find more of their fellow trainers taking the boat to Ireland this winter.

A couple of years ago the Curragh instigated a system of honouring people from different areas of racing and breeding by naming races on one special day in their honour. On the day before this year’s Darley Irish Oaks five such people were honoured and all were nominated by their various sectors.

Owner Tom Gillson and breeder Sonia Rogers of Airlie Stud were joined by former trainer Liam Browne, former jockey Tommy Carmody and stable staff member Joe Lynch and all had races named after them.

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Where was John Magnier when So You Think eclipsed Derby winner Workforce at Sandown?

He was noticeably absent, many no doubt assuming that he was either at home at Coolmore or enjoying some time out in sunnier climes.

Well, you would be wrong on both counts.

Instead, the master of the internationally renowned Coolmore organisation was snapped studying the card for the pony racing at Ballingarry in County Limerick. The Tiny Tots Race on the card was divided according to age.

The race for riders up to seven resulted in a dead-heat between Sophie Lee, riding Slippers, and Max Wachman, riding Jack.

Max is the son of David Wachman and his wife Katie, and therefore a grandson of John Magnier. In the same way that Sadler’s Wells established an incredible legacy for the thoroughbred breed while on the Coolmore roster, it looks as though the Magnier human legacy is equally well established now also.

David Wachman has enjoyed success as a trainer with the likes of Again, Bushranger, Damson, Fracas, Luas Line and Indesatchel.

While he may not have had occasion to be on the podium at Royal Ascot this year, young Max joined in for the photograph following Await The Dawn’s success in the Hardwicke Stakes.

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never won, for Mr Sjonuld,” Olsen said, “so when he suggested that he would like to win some of the big races I told him that he would need a big budget.

“I don’t think we would have been able to afford Dingle View, apart from the fact that she was small and had been through a hard juvenile season. But I figured that any horse able to win a Pattern race in Ireland should be up to winning nice races over here.

“She is now starting to build up her body and, though I doubt we will go back to England as I reckon it is the hardest place in the world to get a win, we may try her in France or Germany before the end of the season.”

With son Rasmus, a former jockey, now acting as the yard’s farrier, and daughter Lea, who has spent time with both Willie Mullins and Richard

Gibson, its stable amateur rider, Olsen’s is very much a family operation. And, with both Dingle View and another useful sprinter, the one-time John Gosden inmate Master Chef, it should be making an impact outside Denmark in the coming months.

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Havlin reputation boosted by Fabrino Rab Havlin (pictured) may have to defer to William Buick when it comes to getting the plum mounts for John Gosden, but he is building a reputation as the man to follow in Switzerland, where he rides an exciting prospect in the shape of Fabrino.

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ingle View, the Mujadil filly who was trained in Wales by David Evans and landed an Irish Group 3 last year, is now housed in the Bent Olsen barn at Klampenborg racecourse in Copenhagen and is beginning to live up to her expensive price tag.

A graduate of Tom and Paul Monaghan’s The Cottage Stud in Hodgestown, County Kildare, that has over the years produced the likes of Ezzoud and Miss Boniface, Dingle View was progressive last term, moving through the handicap ranks before outbattling Glor Na Mara in the Round Tower Stakes at the Curragh.

Bought by Malmo businessman Lasse Sjonuld for 80,000gns at Tattersalls in February, she made a triumphant Scandinavian debut with an easy four-length victory at Klampenborg on May 7, only to blot her copybook when trailing home last of five when odds-on at Jagersro three weeks later.

But that defeat was readily explained as it was her dirt debut and she failed to handle the track which, according to Olsen, was riding “loose”.

Returned to turf, she readily disposed of her 12 rivals to land the Norwegian 1,000 Guineas at Ovrevoll on June 23.

Despite that victory, Olsen, who has been champion trainer in Denmark three times in the last four years, feels that sprinting will be her game.

“I trained a horse called Volo Cat, who was always placed (nine times in stakes races) but

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under his belt, including the 2003 Lancashire Oaks on Place Rouge, Havlin is Scottish-born but based in Newmarket. From there he has been making regular visits to the land of the cuckoo clock since his agent, Ian Wardle, received a phone call from top Swiss trainer Miroslav Weiss almost ten years ago.

“My first two rides for Miro were winners and I was leading rider on my first visit to the ‘White Turf’ Festival at St Moritz and it has just gone on from there,” Havlin recalled.

“In the early days there wasn’t much racing in Britain on Sundays so I could go over all the time, but it’s not so easy now. My biggest achievement was on Swiss Derby Day at Frauenfeld in 2006 when I rode the first four

winners, including the big race [on Majofils].”

Bred by Airlie Stud out of Trullitti, and thus from the same family as White Muzzle and Almutawakel, Fabrino was bought at Tattersalls Ireland’s September Yearling Sale for €8,000. Havlin sat on him for the first time in the Swiss Derby Trial, the Frühjahrspreis, on May 29, when he finished second behind another Weiss trainee, Oratorio Latino. Three weeks later and over an extra quarter mile, the Derby was a different story. Dropped out last, Fabrino sliced through the field to land the £33,013 first prize easily by two and a half lengths, with Oratorio Latino only fifth.

“I will be disappointed if he is not at least up to winning a Group 3,” said Havlin.

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There were plenty of long faces in evidence after the 142nd running of the German Derby at Hamburg on July 3, not least from uber-celebrity footballer Michael Owen, after his Royal Ascot hero Brown Panther had finished only fifth when hot favourite.

Sober analysis suggests that Brown Panther still performed with great credit. He would have held on for third had the winning post been moved back by just a goal’s width and the ground (which was scandalously given as ‘good’ on the official German racing website but rode properly ‘soft’) may have been a little too testing for his taste.

Remember, Brown Panther’s Ascot triumph came off a mark of only 91 and even his subsequent rating of 106 gave him around 10lb to find compared with an average German Derby winner.

All of which should not detract from the winner, the Dubawi colt, Waldpark. He

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remains unbeaten after three starts and appears to be surprising even his trainer, Andreas Wohler, who talked of having four Derby prospects at the beginning of the season but did not name him as one of them.

Waldpark is a third Derby winner, but a first since 1965, for owner/breeders Gestut Ravensberg, which is situated at Gütersloh, near Bielefeld, and run by Johann Henrich Delius, cousin of Germany’s best-known racing journalist Daniel Delius.

Ravensberg is one of the country’s most distinguished studs, dating back over 100 years, but its broodmare band now numbers just three, all of which can be traced back to foundation mare Waldrun, dam of the 1958 Derby winner Wilderer.

The family got another boost five days after the Classic when Masked Marvel, a grandson of Waldpark’s dam, Wurftaube, won the Bahrain Trophy at Newmarket.

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June was a good month for British breeders in Spain as the Derby victory of Ayanz, bred in Newmarket by Julia Scott’s Glebe Stud, was soon followed by the Gran Premio Ciudad de Madrid win of Entre Copas, a British-bred son of Sakhee.

Ayanz, who was an unlucky third in the Spanish 2,000 Guineas, was a 25,000gns yearling purchase by Tiger Hill out of the Shareef Dancer mare Got To Go. He is a first Derby winner for Scott, although she has enjoyed notable success with the recent Eclipse Stakes third Sri Putra.

He is a half-brother to the 2009 Victoria Cup winner Swift Gift, who is now acting as lead horse to last year’s Oaks heroine Snow Fairy, and Got To Go currently has a Sir Percy foal.

It was a case of fourth time lucky for Entre Copas, who has contested the Ciudad de Madrid in each of the previous three campaigns, finishing third in 2009 and second in 2010. At the age of seven, he became both the oldest ever winner of the race and the first horse to win the two richest races in Spain, having in February won the Mijas Cup. GEORGE SELWYN

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Further to the Eddie Ahern story in last month’s column, which suggested that the dual Royal Ascot-winning jockey had got away lightly for his role in a Taby Group 3 contest on May 31 which saw two horses brought down, the Swedish authorities took the unusual move of appealing the decision of its own racecourse stewards.

Convening five weeks after the race took place, the appeal hearing found that the rules did not allow for Ahern’s mount, secondplaced Sir Lando, to be disqualified. But it did slap an extra 14 days on top of his original suspension and fined him the equivalent of his percentage of the runnerup’s prize.

“We want to put a stop to this kind of careless riding and this decision sends out a crystal clear message,” said Gunnar Werner, Chief Executive of Swedish Racing.

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By MICHELE MACDONALD

Success of Lonhro rewards sheikh’s investment Eleven-time Group 1 winner claims honours from Redoute’s Choice in Australia’s sire championship

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heikh Mohammed’s reported £210 million investment in Australia through the 2008 purchase of the 9,000-acre Woodlands Stud and approximately 1,000 horses from Bob Ingham is yielding the sort of dividends that were envisioned when the acquisition was made.

As the 2010/11 Australian racing season neared its end on July 31, Lonhro stood atop all sires in that nation by a wide margin, poised to claim a first sire title for Sheikh Mohammed’s Darley Australia. Lonhro also led previous leading sire Redoute’s Choice in statistics encompassing both Australia and New Zealand with total progeny earnings of about £5.5m.

Another stallion that was part of the Woodlands purchase, Commands, ranked a strong fourth on the leading sire list for the two nations combined.

In addition to those general sire list stars, another Darley stallion, American-based Elusive Quality, led all Australian and New Zealand sires of juveniles with progeny earnings of approximately £2,014,150, largely due to his Golden Slipper-winning son Sepoy. Elusive Quality was one of three additional Darley stallions, along with American shuttler Street Cry and Dalham Hall reverse shuttler Exceed

And Excel, to rank in the top 20 sires in Australia and New Zealand combined.

The ascendance of Lonhro, who retired with a record fee for an Australian debut sire of approximately £27,362 and whose first crop raced as juveniles in 2007, was essential to the overall success of Darley’s investment. Henry Plumptre, Managing Director of Darley Australia, noted that almost 40% of the mares in the Woodlands deal were linked to Lonhro.

“Thus it almost became a pivotal part of the deal, whether the horse would be successful or not,” Plumptre said. “It’s a very meaningful achievement for Sheikh Mohammed; we based our central hope or expectation that Lonhro could be a leading stallion in 2013 or 2014, but he’s done it even sooner.”

For Darley, Lonhro sired nine individual stakes winners over the past season, Plumptre said, and the stallion has made his way to the top of the sire list by consistently upgrading his mares and getting many good runners, rather than by having a few major earners.

Lonhro’s book is limited to 140 mares and, in the coming season, Darley plans to send him 43 of its own. The solidly built, 16.1hh stallion now commands a fee of A$77,000 (about £51,530) and Plumptre said he may be sent to

Lonhro: gave Darley Australia first title

stand northern hemisphere time at Darley Japan, if Sheikh Mohammed desires him to cover his own mares there.

A son of Australian Horse of the Year Octagonal out of the Group 1-placed Group 3 winner Shadea, Lonhro has a quintessentially international pedigree. Bred by Woodlands, he combines French, English, American and Irish blood on his sire’s side, going back to his greatgreat grandsire Sir Ivor, while his dam is by Straight Strike, a son of Mr Prospector. Lonhro’s tail female line is all New Zealand breeding back 12 generations to the 1880s and the British-bred mare Locket.

Lonhro won 26 of 35 starts, 24 of which were Group events and 11 of which were Group 1s.

Fravel is new Breeders’ Cup CEO While directors of Breeders’ Cup Ltd were still pondering host sites for the $26 million racing event in 2012, they tapped Del Mar Thoroughbred Club President Craig Fravel as the new CEO of the organisation. Fravel will take over from Greg Avioli, who was hired to oversee Frank Stronach’s racetrack operations.

Viewed within the US racing community as an influential, albeit mostly behind-the-scenes leader, Fravel was recruited ahead of at least five other candidates, it is thought. Among the others were believed to be Hong Kong Jockey Club Executive Director of Racing Bill Nader, former ESPN programming executive Len DeLuca and Turfway Park chief Bob Elliston.

Fravel, a lawyer who has spent his entire career in racing with Del Mar after joining that California track in 1990 as general counsel,

said he was honoured by his selection.

“This business begins and ends with the horses and it is the charge of the Breeders’ Cup to make sure that our passion for breeding and racing is shared by the public,” he declared.

Either Belmont Park, Churchill Downs or Santa Anita will host the 2012 Breeders’ Cup. Churchill will host its second consecutive Cup in November, while Santa Anita, host for 2008 and 2009 on an all-weather surface that yielded record wins for European-based horses, announced in June it was revamping its new dirt track.

Installed late last year to replace the allweather surface, the dirt surface proved hard and fast – and caused a higher number of injuries in racing and training.

Before Fravel was selected to lead Breeders’

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Cup, directors opted to make a significant shift in the event, taking $500,000 away from the $2m purse of the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Sprint in order to create a new race worth that amount, the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Sprint.

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GOING GLOBAL

While the current general perception is that European-based stallions have sprinted ahead of their counterparts in the United States – and certainly this has been a vintage year for the likes of Galileo, Dubawi and others – statistics show that American sires are holding sway according to progeny earnings in the northern hemisphere.

Of all stallions worldwide except Japan, where global-high purses skew comparisons, 34 of the top 50 sires by earnings up to July 1 – or 68% – stood in the US, according to global data compiled by the American Jockey Club and reported in US dollars. In comparison, only 11, or 22%, stood in Europe (excluding Rock Of Gibraltar, who stood a season in Japan and thus has earnings boosted by a Japanese crop).

Looking at only the top ten, six are based in Europe and four in America.

Some of the American advantage in the overall list can be attributed to differences in prize-money between Europe and America, the latter of which continues to lead the world by horses bred and number of races. The statistics also include earnings amassed by stallions’ progeny in Asia and Dubai, as well as Europe and North America.

With his domination of the European Classic races, courtesy of Frankel, Roderic O’Connor, Treasure Beach, Misty For Me and Golden Lilac, Coolmore’s Galileo leads the pack by some distance. His offspring have earned a huge $8,365,627 with half of 2011 remaining.

Second, although more than $3 million behind Galileo, is another Coolmore resident, Danehill Dancer, while the young Americanbased stallion Tapit, a son of Pulpit whose first crop are just five, follows very closely (see Caulfield Files, pages 86-87).

After Tapit are the Coolmore duo, Irish-based

Montjeu who spent four seasons in New Zealand, and Kentucky-based Giant’s Causeway, who has shuttled to Australia and Argentina.

Tiger Hill (currently leased to Germany’s Gestut Fahrhof) and Dubawi rank next, with Sheikh Hamdan’s Sakhee just behind them. Of the rest of the top 20 sires, three stand in Europe while eight are in America.

King Kamehameha, the ten-year-old son of Kingmambo who led Japanese sires last year and consequently topped the world in progeny earnings, is running away with those titles again this year. His progeny have amassed $25,052,449 so far in 2011.

Five sons of Sunday Silence are chasing King Kamehameha in the standings: Manhattan Café, Neo Universe, Fuji Kiseki, Stay Gold and the late Agnes Tachyon.

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European sires on top but US holding ground

Giant’s Causeway is Coolmore’s best performer in the United States

Leading Sires/International Earnings Rank

Sire

Country based

Progeny earnings ($)

1

GALILEO

Ireland

8,365,627

2

DANEHILL DANCER

Ireland

5,140,615

3

TAPIT

United States

5,114,822

4

MONTJEU

Ireland

5,028,440

5

GIANT’S CAUSEWAY

United States

4,886,212

6

TIGER HILL

Germany

4,536,511

7

DUBAWI

England

4,286,674

8

SAKHEE

England

4,204,435

9

UNBRIDLED’S SONG

United States

4,127,743

10

MEDAGLIA D’ORO

United States

4,007,527

* Racing results in Europe, North America, Asia and Dubai up to July 1; excludes Japanese-based sires, including Rock Of Gibraltar, who stood in Japan for one season

China inches closer to a resumption of racing in Wuhan The possibility of horseracing restarting in China inched forward in June when the world’s most populous nation eased a 60-year prohibition on the sport initiated by Communist authorities.

Weekly races will be permitted in Wuhan, a city of about ten million people in the central region of China, although no betting will be allowed. Racing will be televised and more than 200 owners signed up to participate, according to a China Daily newspaper report in early July.

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Racing fans will be given “small prizes” if they correctly select race winners, according to Liu Hongging, a spokesperson for the Orient Lucky City racecourse in Wuhan, which was home to three racecourses before the 1949 ban.

Early plans call for four to six races to be run weekly, with ten to 12 horses per race. Orient Lucky City, which is part of a larger complex including an equitation school, amusement park, shopping mall, housing and offices, features all-weather and turf tracks.

Wuhan racing will be administered by the provincial government of Hubei and run by the Orient Lucky Horse Group Corp., which is based in Hong Kong but which has subsidiaries in mainland China as well as in the UK and US. China is the last great frontier for the expansion of racing, and a huge future demand for bloodstock is envisioned by many within the industry. Australian breeders in particular have been courting the Chinese and have been leading exporters of thoroughbreds to China.

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LARAGH shown winning the Edgewood S. at Churchill in wire-to-wire fashion

Dirt, Turf, Male, Female...TAPITs do it ALL Top TAPIT Turf Winners: TAPITSFLY-’09 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf; DIVA ASH-2011 Edgewood S.-G3 Turf, LARAGH Jessamine S.-Keeneland Turf 2011 GSW TAPIT MALES: TRAPPE SHOT-G2, NEW G3 wnr. HEADACHE, TESTA MATTA-G3, & TAPIZAR-G3 2011 GSW TAPIT FEMALES: ZAZU-G1 & JOYFUL VICTORY-G2

Look for yearlings by TAPIT selling this year

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TALKING TO...

DAVID O’MEARA

Rookie trainer’s JUMP START David O’Meara turned to property development after his riding career finished but he is quickly building a reputation as one of the most talented young handlers in the country

By Tim Richards • Photos George Selwyn

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welve months into your training career and you’ve saddled over 50 winners, bagged a Group 2 and have over 60 horses. Can you quite believe the start you’ve made?

No, I would never have expected things to have gone as well; I’ve been really lucky to have stumbled across a horse like Blue Bajan.

Everything seems to have snowballed and that’s down to people like Roger Fell, the Huddersfield businessman who set up the

yard, and Liam Bailey, my head man. Together with the team they have kept the wheels welloiled. I joined the yard in October 2009 and took over the licence from James Hetherton in June 2010 with about 15 horses.

Was training something you always wanted to do after riding?

Riding and being a jockey was all I ever wanted to do when I was growing up. Then, having worked in several successful yards, I was

always interested in how they operated. The core routine is quite similar in most stables, but I always used to take notice of how things were done. Training was the natural progression from riding. In 2009 I kept bumping into an owner and builder friend of mine called Dave Lumley, who kept telling me to go and see Roger Fell, who was looking for someone to train for him at Nawton, near Helmsley. Dave and his wife Lynne put my name forward and for that I shall always be grateful.

David O’Meara has had plenty to smile about in his brief training career

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TALKING TO... >> Having made your name in the jumping world, are you happy to train mostly Flat horses or will you increase your National Hunt string?

When I got the job there were mostly Flat horses here and we just carried on. We’ve had some jump winners and have some dualpurpose horses. Commercially, the Flat seems more viable; horses don’t take so much time to get ready, giving owners more opportunities of a day out and, if they’re lucky, a quicker return.

Is “Get Your Heart Racing”, a muchused slogan on your website, the

CLOSE UP AND...

PERSONAL My favourite film is... The Shawshank Redemption The most challenging thing I’ve done is... making the decision to stop riding My weakness is... chocolate I am annoyed by... people who stand too close when talking to me Four guests for dinner... Peter Kay, Muhammed Ali, Martin Pipe & Rihanna

CLOSE UP AND...

PROFESSIONAL Racing has taught me... not to believe the hype I feel the pressure when... I’m watching Smarty Socks coming out of the starting stalls – he always misses the break The hardest part of training is... trying to find enough time for everybody I handle defeat by... taking the positive; you often learn more in defeat I’d most like to train the winner of... the Champion Hurdle

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stable motto, similar to Mark Johnston’s “Always Trying”?

Some of the girls in the yard have it printed on their t-shirts. It is a slogan we may well develop. After all, this business does get our hearts racing, doesn’t it?

Did your parents, in Fermoy, County Cork, help you on your way into racing?

They are both huge racing enthusiasts and have supported me all the way. My dad is an estate agent and property developer, but is also clerk of the scales at Avondhu point-to-point in Fermoy. My mum is a physiotherapist, who has become an equine physiotherapist and is secretary of the Avondhu point-to-point. Dad has bought and sold store horses for years and when I had ponies as a child he encouraged me and took me everywhere pony racing.

You went into the property market when you finished riding. Why did you decide to train when racing’s finances are in such a parlous state?

Dad has bought run down properties and done them up and he always said to me it pays to buy a house, do it up and sell it on. I am quite practical and can plumb in a bathroom, put in a kitchen and I still have some property. But I always wanted to have a go at training and did the necessary courses when I finished riding.

How do you view the prospect of sending out horses to race for £2,000 when costs are rising? Do you agree with the Horsemen’s Tariff and can you be expected to adhere to it?

Prize-money does need to be increased and the Horsemen’s Tariff is doing a good job in trying to remedy the situation. By the same token, horses do need to run and owners like to win, even if it’s a seller at Redcar.

Poor prize-money was one of the main reasons I stopped riding and started to buy and sell houses. I could make more money buying and selling one house in a year than I could driving all over the country looking for rides.

It was better for me to have five rides and no winners at a meeting, rather than go somewhere else for one winner. That’s prizemoney for you and the problem is deep rooted; it’s all about having a Tote monopoly with betting machines in shops all over the country, like they do in France and Hong Kong.

Syndication is a popular way of entry into ownership. Is this your focus?

How do you attract owners?

Syndication is a part of our operation, but we haven’t specifically focused on it. But it can be great fun, bringing a number of people together to enjoy a good day out. We have plenty of private individuals who own horses here. We haven’t made a concerted effort to go

out there and find new owners, they have come to us as a result of any number of factors, first of all winners, or us having a good strikerate, or a winner at a high-profile Saturday meeting. Interest is also coming through our new website, www.davidomeara.co.uk, put together by Ian White, one of our owners.

Has the rejuvenation of the nine-yearold Blue Bajan and his victory in Sandown’s Henry II Stakes attracted more owners, horses and interest?

Yes, I think so. His Sandown win in May has certainly elevated our profile and people have shown interest in us since then. For that I am mighty grateful to his owner Dr John Hollowood for sending Blue Bajan here.

Multiple winner Powerful Presence, bought for £800, is an advert for your ability to spot a bargain. Do you have a specific policy at the sales, and who advises you?

We look for value and buy quite a lot of second-hand horses out of other yards. We don’t have a huge budget and don’t want to be left with expensive horses that are no good; that could kill us. I don’t think I’ve had an individual order for a horse; we buy and then try and find an owner, though recently the odd person has started to approach me and said if I find something suitable to let them know.

We saw Powerful Presence at Doncaster Sales, a nice big horse who didn’t appear to have anything wrong with him, but had been a very expensive yearling. He was very athletic, walked well, so I started bidding and got him for £800. His first six races for us yielded four wins and two seconds. I don’t use an agent and Roger Fell and I buy most of the horses between us, though Kevin Everitt bought the Newcastle winner Kool Henry.

Would you like to compete with the big owners and trainers at the sales as well as on the racecourse? Would you feel comfortable spending £250,000 on one horse?

Absolutely. You go there and see horses you like but they go for five times as much as you can afford, or even more. So the time comes when you have to stop bidding. I’d be comfortable spending £250,000 on one, as long as I had an order for it.

Do you find you are always trying to get inside the minds of your horses?

Yes, we do, even to the extent of moving a horse from one box to another. Anything to keep them calm, happy and stress-free. We usually turn them out for a few hours after they have worked.

Would you have any plans to get more young people involved, such as

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David O’Meara completed in all five rides over the National fences, including here on 2000 Fox Hunters winner Bells Life (right)

stable visits for schools or holiday jobs for students in the yard?

Russ Garritty’s son Jack, who is 15, has been coming here for a year. He rides out and gets stuck in on Saturdays and in school holidays.

He’s very good and could be a champion apprentice in the making. Jack is very good at all sports and I am told his younger brother Billy, who’s 11 and equally good, is also going to be sent to me. It’s important to encourage the young. I was very well looked after at that stage of my life and was often allowed to follow the string on my pony, which was a great thrill.

Does your wife Sarah have a hands-on role in your operation?

Sarah has a full-time job herself as a fitness instructor and is busy with that. But she loves her racing and she comes to the races when she can. She gets people fit and I get horses fit.

You’ve worked for Jim Bolger, Michael Hourigan, Philip Hobbs and Peter and Tim Easterby. What did you learn from such respected figures?

I went to Jim Bolger when I was at school and rode out for him, and when I was at university I was with Michael Hourigan and rode a lot of point-to-point winners for him. Michael taught me about race-riding while I was studying for an Equine Science degree at Limerick University. I took a gap year and rode track work at Keeneland and Churchill Downs, and from there I joined Philip Hobbs, then Peter and Tim Easterby.

When I retired from riding I went to Kevin Ryan’s for a few months. Kevin was training loads of winners and I wanted to experience something different.

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denominator among all these successful trainers is keeping things very simple and getting their horses very fit. Simplicity and routine were the hallmarks of all those yards.

Give us a couple of horses to follow for the second part of the season...

Desert Romance, a mile or mile and a quarter handicapper, and the former Henry Ceciltrained Spiekeroog, who hadn’t been out for two years when running really well for us in his comeback race. Blue Bajan is likely to be back for the Doncaster Cup.

“If I could choose any job in the world, this would be it. It’s not a job, it’s a love”

Silvestre De Sousa has ridden a lot of winners for the yard. What are his qualities and is he champion material?

He is incredibly strong, horses run for him; he is rarely in the wrong place in a race and makes few mistakes. Of course he’s championship material because he is right in the thick of the race with Paul Hanagan and Ryan Moore. He’s also a thoroughly nice guy; people like him.

How do you divide the rides between Silvestre and Danny Tudhope, who rode Blue Bajan to win his Group 2?

Silvestre goes back quite a long way with Roger Fell and was involved in the yard before I was.

Last year, after he returned from India, we started to put him up on everything and he rode a lot of winners. Danny is a good friend of Silvestre’s and when he was struggling a bit with a knee problem Silvestre asked him to come and ride out for us. We said come and help us out and we’ll help you.

Silvestre is now in demand a lot with Mark Johnston and Danny rides out every day here with Sean Levey. So if at all possible we try not to look outside the yard for jockeys.

You completed on all five rides over the Grand National fences and rode high class chasers like Turgeonev and Mister McGoldrick. Do you miss the thrill of riding over jumps or is the feeling of training a winner better?

Training a winner is more satisfying than riding a winner, but I do miss riding good chasers like Turgeonev and Mister McGoldrick. So much more work goes into training, while as a jockey you just turn up, ride them and go home.

Turgeonev was very special to me and there’s nothing like riding a horse like him round Haydock or Wetherby. While I was riding it was brilliant, but the time comes when you’ve got to do something different. I certainly don’t miss trudging to some of those smaller jump tracks for bad rides.

What would you like to achieve in racing?

Simply carry on doing what I am doing – trying to train winners. If I was told to choose any job in the world, this is it. It’s not a job, it’s a love.

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Published here is the consolidated Provisional List of the stallions named in the lists sent to the Co-Ordinating Committee by the British, Irish, French and German Trustees in accordance with the Co-Ordinating Agreement.

Full eligibility of each stallion’s progeny, CONCEIVED IN 2011 IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE, (the foal crop of 2012), for benefits under the terms and conditions of the European Breeders’ Fund, is DEPENDENT UPON RECEIPT OF THE BALANCE OF THE DUE CONTRIBUTION BY 15TH DECEMBER 2011. Late stallion entries for the European Breeders’ Fund will be included in the Final List, provided the full contribution is received by 15th December 2011.

A

B

ACAMBARO (GER)

BAHAMIAN BOUNTY (GB)

ADELPHOS (FR)

BALKO (FR)

ACCLAMATION (GB) ADIEU (GER)

ADLERFLUG (GER)

AGNES KAMIKAZE (JPN)

AIR CHIEF MARSHAL (IRE) AIR EMINEN (IRE)

AIRMAIL SPECIAL (IRE) ALEXANDROS (GB) ALFLORA (IRE)

ALFRED NOBEL (IRE) ALHAARTH (IRE)

ALKAADHEM (GB)

ALL MY DREAMS (IRE) AMADEUS WOLF (GB)

AMERICAN POST (GB) ANABAA BLUE (GB)

BAHRI (USA)

BALLINGARRY (IRE) BALTIC KING (GB) BEAT ALL (USA)

BEAT HOLLOW (GB) BENEFICIAL (GB)

BERNEBEAU (FR) BERTOLINI (USA)

BIENAMADO (USA)

BIG BAD BOB (IRE)

BLACK SAM BELLAMY (IRE) BLUE BRESIL (FR)

BLUE CANARI (FR) BOLLIN ERIC (GB) BORN KING (JPN)

BRAVE MANSONNIEN (FR)

CLOUDINGS (IRE)

DR FONG (USA)

COCKNEY REBEL (IRE)

DUBAI DESTINATION (USA)

GALILEO (IRE)

JEREMY (USA)

DUKE OF MARMALADE (IRE)

GENEROUS (IRE)

JOSR ALGARHOUD (IRE)

COASTAL PATH (GB) COLOSSUS (IRE)

COMPTON ADMIRAL (GB) COMPTON PLACE (GB) CONTAT (GER)

CORONER (IRE)

CORRI PIANO (FR)

COUNTRY REEL (USA)

CLODOVIL (IRE)

DUBAWI (IRE)

DUNKERQUE (FR) DUTCH ART (GB)

DYLAN THOMAS (IRE)

E

COURT CAVE (IRE)

EARLY MARCH (GB)

CREACHADOIR (IRE)

ELASOS (FR)

CRAIGSTEEL (GB) CRILLON (FR)

CROCO ROUGE (IRE)

CROSSHARBOUR (GB) CROSSPEACE (IRE)

CURTAIN TIME (IRE)

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DAGGERS DRAWN (USA) BRIAN BORU (GB) AND BEYOND (IRE) DAI JIN (GB) BUCK'S BOUM (FR) DALAKHANI (IRE) ANZILLERO (GER) BUSHRANGER (IRE) DANDY MAN (IRE) APPROVE (IRE) BYZANTIUM (FR) DANEHILL DANCER (IRE) AQLAAM (GB) C DANO-MAST (GB) ARABIAN GLEAM (GB) DANSANT (GB) CALIFET (FR) ARAKAN (USA) DANSILI (GB) CALL ME BIG (GER) ARC ROYAL (GER) DARAMSAR (FR) CAMACHO (GB) ARCADIO (GER) DARK ANGEL (IRE) CANYON CREEK (IRE) ARCANO (IRE) DARNAY (GB) CAPE CROSS (IRE) ARCHANGE D'OR (IRE) DARO SOPRAN (GER) CAPTAIN GERRARD (IRE) ARCHIPENKO (USA) DARSI (FR) CAPTAIN MARVELOUS (IRE) AREION (GER) DASHING BLADE (GB) CAPTAIN RIO (GB) ARISTOTLE (IRE) DAVIDOFF (GER) CARDOUN (FR) DAY FLIGHT (GB) ARNAQUER (USA) CARLO BANK (IRE) DAYLAMI (IRE) ART CONNOISSEUR (IRE) CARLOTAMIX (FR) DEFINITE ARTICLE (GB) ARTISTE ROYAL (IRE) C'EST UN ANGE (FR) DENON (USA) ASHKALANI (IRE) CHAMPS ELYSEES (GB) DENOUNCE (GB) ASK (GB) CHARGE D'AFFAIRES (GB) DESERT PRINCE (IRE) ASSERTIVE (GB) CHICHI CREASY (FR) DIAMOND GREEN (FR) ASSESSOR (IRE) CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT (USA) DILSHAAN (GB) ASTRONOMER ROYAL (USA) CHINEUR (FR) DISTANT MUSIC (USA) AUSSIE RULES (USA) CIMA DE TRIOMPHE (IRE) DOCKSIDER (USA) AUTHORIZED (IRE) CITY HONOURS (USA) DOMEDRIVER (IRE) AVONBRIDGE (GB) CLASSIC LAW (GB) DOUBLE ECLIPSE (IRE) AXXOS (GER) CLETY (FR) DOUBLE TRIGGER (IRE) AZAMOUR (IRE)

DREAM WELL (FR)

DOYEN (IRE)

ECHO OF LIGHT (GB) ELECTRIC BEAT (GB) ELNADIM (USA)

ELUSIVE CITY (USA) ENRIQUE (GB) EPALO (GER)

EQUIANO (FR)

EREWHON (USA) ERHAAB (USA) EVASIVE (GB)

EXCEED AND EXCEL (AUS) EXCELLENT ART (GB)

EXIT TO NOWHERE (USA)

F FAIR MIX (IRE)

FAIRLY RANSOM (USA) FALCO (USA)

FAST COMPANY (IRE)

FASTNET ROCK (AUS) FELICIANO (SWI) FERRULE (IRE)

FINE GRAIN (JPN)

G GAMUT (IRE)

GENTLEWAVE (IRE) GETAWAY (GER)

GLADIATORUS (USA) GOLAN (IRE)

GOLD AWAY (IRE) GOLD WELL (GB)

GOLDEN LARIAT (USA)

GOLDEN TORNADO (IRE) GOLDMARK (USA) GOODRICKE (GB)

GREAT JOURNEY (JPN) GRIS DE GRIS (IRE)

H HAAFHD (GB)

HAATEF (USA)

HALLING (USA)

HAMOND (GER)

HELIOSTATIC (IRE) HELLVELYN (GB) HERNANDO (FR)

HIGH CHAPARRAL (IRE) HIGH-RISE (IRE)

HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR (IRE) HONOLULU (IRE)

HONOURS LIST (IRE)

HURRICANE RUN (IRE)

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FIREBREAK (GB)

IFFRAAJ (GB)

FLEETWOOD (IRE)

INDESATCHEL (IRE)

FLECHAZO (FR)

FLEMENSFIRTH (USA)

FOOTSTEPSINTHESAND (GB) FORESTIER (FR) FRACAS (IRE)

FRAGRANT MIX (IRE)

FRANKLINS GARDENS (GB) FRUITS OF LOVE (USA) FUISSE (FR)

FULL OF GOLD (FR)

IKTIBAS (GB)

INDIAN DAFFODIL (IRE) INDIAN DANEHILL (IRE) INDIAN HAVEN (GB) INTENDANT (GER)

INTENSE FOCUS (USA) INTIKHAB (USA)

INVINCIBLE SPIRIT (IRE) IRISH WELLS (FR) IT'S GINO (GER)

J JOHANN QUATZ (FR)

K KALANISI (IRE)

KALATOS (GER)

KALLISTO (GER) KAMSIN (GER)

KANDAHAR RUN (GB) KAYF TARA (GB)

KENDARGENT (FR)

KENTUCKY DYNAMITE (USA) KEY OF LUCK (IRE) KHALKEVI (IRE)

KHELEYF (USA)

KIER PARK (IRE)

KING CHARLEMAGNE (USA) KING CHEETAH (USA) KING'S BEST (USA)

KING'S THEATRE (IRE) KINGSALSA (USA) KIRKWALL (GB) KODIAC (GB)

KOENIGSTIGER (GER)

KONIG SHUFFLE (GER) KORNADO (GB) KUTUB (IRE)

KYLLACHY (GB)

L LAHIB (USA)

LANDO (GER) LAURO (GER)

LAVERON (GB) LAWMAN (FR)

LAYMAN (USA)

LE BALAFRE (FR)

LE CADRE NOIR (IRE) LE FOU (IRE)

LE HAVRE (IRE)

LE TRITON (USA) LECROIX (GER)

LEGOLAS (JPN)

LEND A HAND (GB)

LET THE LION ROAR (GB)

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LIBRETTIST (USA) LIMNOS (JPN)

LINDA'S LAD (GB) LINNGARI (IRE) LIQUIDO (GER) LITERATO (FR) LIZIO (GB)

LOCHBUIE (IRE)

LOPE DE VEGA (IRE)

LORD OF ENGLAND (GER) LORD SHANAKILL (USA) LOUP SOLITAIRE (USA) LOUVETEAU (USA) LUCARNO (USA)

M MAGADINO (FR) MAHLER (GB) MAJESTIC MISSILE (IRE) MAJOR CADEAUX (GB) MAKFI (GB) MAMOOL (IRE) MANDURO (GER) MARIENBARD (IRE) MARJU (IRE) MARTALINE (GB) MARTILLO (GER) MASTERCRAFTSMAN (IRE) MATRIX (GER) MAWATHEEQ (USA) MEDECIS (GB) MEDICEAN (GB) MESHAHEER (USA) MIDNIGHT LEGEND (GB) MIDSHIPS (USA) MIESQUE'S SON (USA) MILAN (GB) MILLENARY (GB) MILLENNIUM BIO (JPN) MILLKOM (GB) MINGUN (USA) MINLEY (GER) MISTER FOTIS (USA) MISTER SACHA (FR) MISU BOND (IRE) MONSIEUR BOND (IRE) MONSIEUR PAUL (FR) MONSUN (GER) MONTJEU (IRE) MONTMARTRE (FR) MOROZOV (USA) MOSS VALE (IRE) MOTIVATOR (GB) MOUNT NELSON (GB)

MOUNTAIN HIGH (IRE) MR COMBUSTIBLE (IRE) MR DINOS (IRE) MR SIDNEY (USA) MR VEGAS (IRE) MUHTATHIR (GB) MUJAHID (USA) MULLIONMILEANHOUR (IRE) MULTIPLEX (GB) MUSTAMEET (USA) MUTAMARKIZ (IRE) MY MAN (FR) MY RISK (FR) MYBOYCHARLIE (IRE)

N NAAQOOS (GB) NAYEF (USA) NEAR HONOR (GER) NETWORK (GER) NEW APPROACH (IRE) NICARON (GER) NICKNAME (FR) NIGHT TANGO (GER) NOBLE SANG (GER) NOMADIC WAY (USA) NOMBRE PREMIER (GB) NOROIT (GER) NORSE DANCER (IRE) NOTNOWCATO (GB)

O OASIS DREAM (GB) OBSERVATORY (USA) OLDEN TIMES (GB) ORATORIO (IRE) ORIENTOR (GB) ORPEN (USA) OSCAR (IRE) OVERBURY (IRE)

P PACO BOY (IRE) PALACE EPISODE (USA) PALAMOSS (IRE) PANIS (USA) PAOLINI (GER) PAPAL BULL (GB) PARISIS (FR) PASSING GLANCE (GB) PASSING SALE (FR) PASTERNAK (GB) PASTORAL PURSUITS (GB) PEINTRE CELEBRE (USA) PEPPERSHOT (GER) PERSIAN RULER (GB) PHILANTHROP (FR)

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PHOENIX REACH (IRE) PICCOLO (GB) PIERRE (GB) PIVOTAL (GB) POLICY MAKER (IRE) POLIGLOTE (GB) POMELLATO (GER) PORTRAIT GALLERY (IRE) POUNCED (USA) PRESENTING (GB) PRIMARY (USA) PRINCE FLORI (GER) PROCLAMATION (IRE) PROTEKTOR (GER) PYRAMUS (USA)

R RACINGER (FR) RAGMAR (FR) RAIL LINK (GB) RAINBOW HIGH (GB) RAMONTI (FR) RASHBAG (GB) RAVEN'S PASS (USA) RECHARGE (IRE) REDBACK (GB) REFUSE TO BEND (IRE) RESPLENDENT CEE (IRE) RESPLENDENT GLORY (IRE) REVOQUE (IRE) RIP VAN WINKLE (IRE) ROBIN DES CHAMPS (FR) ROBIN DES PRES (FR) ROCK OF GIBRALTAR (IRE) ROMAN SADDLE (IRE) ROYAL ANTHEM (USA) ROYAL APPLAUSE (GB) ROYAL DRAGON (USA) RUDIMENTARY (USA) RUGBY (USA)

S SABIANGO (GER) SADDEX (GB) SADDLER MAKER (IRE) SAGACITY (FR) SAGEBURG (IRE) SAINT DES SAINTS (FR) SAKHEE (USA) SAKHEE'S SECRET (GB) SAMRAAN (USA) SAMSON HAPPY (JPN) SAMUM (GER) SANDMASON (GB) SANDWAKI (USA) SANTIAGO (GER) SAYARSHAN (FR)

SCHIAPARELLI (GER) SCORPION (IRE)

SEA THE STARS (IRE)

SECRET SINGER (FR) SELKIRK (USA)

SENDAWAR (IRE)

SEPTEMBER STORM (GER) SEVRES ROSE (IRE) SHAANMER (IRE)

SHAMARDAL (USA) SHANTOU (USA)

SHIROCCO (GER)

SHOLOKHOV (IRE)

SHOWCASING (GB) SHREK (GER)

SIMPLEX (FR)

SIR PERCY (GB)

SKI CHIEF (USA)

SLEEPING INDIAN (GB) SLICKLY (FR)

SOLDIER HOLLOW (GB)

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE (IRE) SOLON (GER)

SORDINO (GER)

SOVIET STAR (USA) SPADOUN (FR)

SPANISH MOON (USA)

SPECIAL KALDOUN (IRE) SPIRIT ONE (FR)

STARSPANGLEDBANNER (AUS) STIMULATION (IRE)

STORMY RIVER (FR) STOWAWAY (GB)

STRATEGIC PRINCE (GB)

STRIKING AMBITION (GB) SUBTLE POWER (IRE) SULAMANI (IRE)

SUPREME SOUND (GB) Stallion

VESPONE (IRE)

T TAGULA (IRE) TAJRAASI (USA) TAMAYUZ (GB) TEOFILIO (IRE) TEOFILO (IRE) TERTULLIAN (USA) THEWAYYOUARE (USA) THOUSAND WORDS (GB) THREE VALLEYS (USA) TIGER GROOM (GB) TIGER HILL (IRE) TIKKANEN (USA) TIPES (GB) TOBOUGG (IRE) TOMORROWS CAT (USA) TOT OU TARD (IRE) TOUCH DOWN (GER) TOUCH OF LAND (FR) TOUCH OF THE BLUES (FR) TOYLSOME (GB) TRANS ISLAND (GB) TREMPOLINO (USA) TURTLE BOWL (IRE)

U UNGARO (GER) URBAN POET (USA) URGENT REQUEST (IRE)

V VALANOUR (IRE) VALE OF YORK (IRE) VANGELIS (USA) VATORI (FR) VENDANGUER (IRE) VERGLAS (IRE) VERTICAL SPEED (FR) VERTIGINEUX (FR)

VICTORY NOTE (USA) VINNIE ROE (IRE) VIRTUAL (GB)

VISION D'ETAT (FR) VITA ROSA (JPN) VITUS (GB)

VOCALISED (USA)

VOIX DU NORD (FR)

W WAKY NAO (GB)

WAR BLADE (GER) WAREED (IRE)

WAY OF LIGHT (USA) WELL CHOSEN (GB) WELSH LION (IRE) WESTERNER (GB)

WHERE OR WHEN (IRE) WHIPPER (USA)

WHITMORE'S CONN (USA) WIESENPFAD (FR)

WINDSOR CASTLE (GB) WINDSOR KNOT (IRE) WINGED LOVE (IRE)

WITNESS BOX (USA) WOLFE TONE (IRE)

Y YEATS (IRE)

YOUMZAIN (IRE)

Z ZAFEEN (FR)

ZAGREB (USA)

ZAMINDAR (USA) ZEBEDEE (GB)

ZILZAL ZAMAAN (USA)

EBF INTERNATIONAL STALLIONS

ARAGORN (IRE) BAGO (FR)

Stands Stallion

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USA

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USA SLIGO BAY (IRE)

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FIRST DEFENCE (USA)

USA QUALITY ROAD (USA)

LEMON DROP KID (USA)

USA WILKO (USA)

KITTEN'S JOY (USA)

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The stallions listed above stood OUTSIDE THE EBF AREA IN 2011.

Full eligibility of each stallion’s progeny, CONCEIVED IN 2011, (the foal crop of 2012), for benefits under the terms and conditions of the European Breeders’ Fund, is DEPENDENT UPON RECEIPT OF THE BALANCE OF THE DUE CONTRIBUTION BY 15TH DECEMBER 2011. Late stallion entries for the European Breeders’ Fund will be included in the Final List, provided the full contribution is received by 15th December 2011.

Further details from the Chief Executive, European Breeders’ Fund.

Telephone: +44 (0) 1638 667960 Facsimile: +44 (0) 1638 667270 Email: info@ebfhorseracing.co.uk Website: www.ebfhorseracing.com

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ROD COLLET

Generation game: Rod Collet pictured with his father Robert, after the latter’s Immortal Verse had beaten Collet jnr’s Nova Hawk in the Coronation Stakes

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In the name of

THE FATHER Robert Collet is not an easy act to follow into training, but Rod Collet is his own man and, thanks to Sahpresa and Nova Hawk, already well known on the international stage Words Julian Muscat • Photos George Selwyn

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od Collet offers a perfect appraisal of his profession. “When you have no good horses it makes you nervous and you start thinking too much,” he says. “Then, when you have a good horse, it makes you even more nervous and you think even more.”

A broad smile softens his features. “That’s a trainer’s life, I suppose. You feel like everybody is watching you.”

Not that Collet seems remotely ruffled on the morning of Sahpresa’s bid for the Falmouth Stakes. Perhaps he is emboldened by the lack of overnight rain, a definite plus for a horse who thrives on fast ground.

Or perhaps he’s just pleased to be back in Newmarket. It was here, in October 2009, that Sahpresa downed Ghanaati over the same Rowley Mile where Ghanaati had landed the 1,000 Guineas five months earlier.

That was Collet’s first Group 1 triumph and he followed it 12 months later when Sahpresa returned to win the Sun Chariot for the second time. On this occasion, however, fortune deserts the six-year-old mare.

Despite her trademark flourish, Sahpresa fails to catch the enterprisingly ridden Timepiece in the Falmouth. Some mutter that Christophe Lemaire is tactically at fault aboard the 13-8 favourite, but Collet, 37, is not among them.

He’d cautioned earlier that the uphill climb to the finish on Newmarket’s July Course might count against Sahpresa. “I think a mile is a bit too far for her,” he says with more than a touch of prophecy. “Both times she has run over seven furlongs at Longchamp she has won brilliantly.”

Opportunities to win Group 1 races are rare for one who trains a string of 30 horses across la Manche at Chantilly, but Collet is not one for histrionics. There will be other days for Sahpresa – as there will for Nova Hawk, whom Collet saddled to finish

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ROD COLLET

Some felt Christophe Lemaire should have won the Falmouth Stakes on Sahpresa (yellow/red/black) but Collet didn’t blame him

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runner-up in the Coronation Stakes three weeks earlier.

As the world knows, Nova Hawk was beaten at Royal Ascot by Immortal Verse, who is trained by Collet’s 63-year-old father, Robert. It was a bitter-sweet moment for Rod, who quipped after the race that trainers who reached 60 should be obliged to retire.

“Perhaps I should have said trainers who were 63,” he muses in reference to the recent protests in France at the extension to retirement age. Then, quick as a flash, he adds: “Maybe that’s why my father brought Immortal Verse to England. You don’t retire here until you are 67, non?”

That Collet is au fait with developments in Britain is hardly surprising. As part of his

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education he worked for John Gosden when the latter moved from California to Newmarket to train for Sheikh Mohammed in 1990.

There followed a stint in the California barn of Jack Van Berg, who trained equine totems in Gate Dancer and Alysheba but who revelled in the accolade that he was leading trainer at Ak-Sar-Ben Racetrack in Omaha, Nebraska, for 19 straight years from 1959.

Van Berg’s string was largely made up of claiming horses, but that didn’t stop him from posting some impressive numbers. In 1976 he set a new record for winners in a season with 496.

“I learnt a lot from both of them,” Collet reflects. “Mr Gosden’s horses had great pedigrees but Mr Van Berg had all kinds of horses. Nobody starts training with top-

priced horses, so I had a very good experience in America.”

Van Berg’s set-up was very much in the mould of Collet’s father, from whose notinconsiderable shadow Rod is now emerging.

In addition to one of the biggest Flat strings in France, which is based in Chantilly itself, Collet père trains a formidable team of jumpers at his palatial property on the fringe of town.

Although still in his teens when he joined Gosden, Collet had already accrued a wealth of knowledge from working for his irrepressible father. “Between 14 and 17 I travelled with a lot of his horses to Italy and Germany,” he recalls. “It was good experience but for sure he kicked my arse a lot.”

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ROD COLLET Collet senior will know that Rod won’t have had it easy. A noted bon viveur, the old man plays as hard as he works – and as hard as he runs his horses.

His is a remarkable success story; the son of a stud manager, he took out a training licence at 25 and landed his first British Classic when Son Of Love won the 1979 St Leger. The defining moment in his career came when Last Tycoon posted a stunning victory in the 1986 Breeders’ Cup Mile.

Collet senior is never short of an opinion.

His sometimes abrasive disposition surfaced when he was interviewed after Immortal Verse won the Coronation Stakes. A personal recollection of him was the way he verbally confronted hundreds of disgruntled PMU employees who disrupted French Guineas day at Longchamp in 2005.

To have such a father is something of a mixed blessing. Collet returned from his foreign postings to work for him in 1993, when he assumed a position of responsibility.

“I was like a head lad but it was hard sometimes,” he reflects.

“Everyone who works for my father learns a lot because he trains all kinds of horses. In some ways it was good for me to have the name of Collet in France. In others, it was quite complicated. People think of you as your father’s son.”

Four years on and Collet decided to take the plunge. His father was a close friend of Francois Boutin, whose death, through cancer in 1995, shook the racing community in France to its core.

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When Boutin’s equine properties eventually came up for sale, father advised son to act. “Both he and I felt the same way,” Collet recalls. “I realised it was important for me to start on my own.”

Boutin had used that particular yard to house Allen Paulsen’s horses, among them the iconic Arazi. “My father helped me to buy it,” Collet recalls, but after that, the paternal hand was withdrawn.

“I managed to win a

race with my father’s horse but it’s not easy to train for a trainer” In his first season Collet trained one horse for Richard Strauss, who owned Last Tycoon and has been a staunch ally of his father for 30 years. Beyond that, he was on his own.

“Actually,” Collet says, “I did train one horse belonging to my father, who has many horses in training. I managed to win a race but it’s not easy to train for a trainer. My father kept telling me which races to run in, saying I was stupid... ufffff! But I guess it was part of the experience.”

Last season brought another experience Collet would happily forget. Having expected to capitalise on Sahpresa’s inaugural Sun Chariot triumph, he was instead halted in his tracks by a debilitating virus.

“Sahpresa ran badly at Royal Ascot in June,” he recalls. “It was happening to a lot of my string at that time and by the end of the season we were down to 22 horses,” he says.

“Eventually we found the problem and cleaned out the stables, but it was tough.”

While the exploits of Sahpresa and Nova Hawk have elevated Collet from anonymity with the British public, he had already crafted great success with his runners outside France.

Collet’s international outlook is exemplified

by Labirinto who, in 2003, completed an arduous schedule of four races in as many months.

Having finished second in the Group 3 Grand Prix de Vichy in July, Labirinto won the Copa de Oro de San Sebastian and the Stockholm Cup before failing by a neck to land the Grade 3 Carleton F. Burke Handicap at Santa Anita.

Sahpresa’s achievements are all the better when you consider she was foaled in the same year as Zarkava and Goldikova. “Those two fillies made me wait patiently for the right opportunities,” Collet says.

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she was very good.” So good, in fact, that Teruya Yoshida bought her from her owner/breeder, Douglas McIntyre, in October last year – after which Sahpresa ran two fine races to finish on the heels of the winner in both Japan and Hong Kong.

While Yoshida hasn’t further patronised the Collet stable as yet, there is irony in the fact that Japan’s biggest owner/breeder has a two-year-old with Collet senior for the first time this season.

It seems that wherever Rod Collet turns, he runs into his father’s shadow. When Sahpresa finished third in the £1.25 million Group 1 Hong Kong Mile in December, his father saddled the runner-up in Royal Bench. But he does not complain.

“It’s true that we used to fight a lot when I worked for him,” Collet reflects, “but we have never been as close as we are now. We have lunch and dinner a lot; we spend some holidays together. One thing I remember especially: all the things he told me would happen have proved to be right.”

It would be inaccurate to describe Collet as a chip off the old block, but the feeling is that he is going places. Immaculately turned out in shades of blue and designer spectacles, he looks more like an affluent banker than a trainer. And he has plainly inherited a helping of his father’s gregariousness.

Whether he can reach the same career summits remains to be seen, but the

portents are promising. Trainers of his status can only get the maximum from the horses they have. Sahpresa has outrun a humble pedigree for earnings of £850,000, while Nova Hawk is worth a hundred times the 18,000gns she cost as a yearling.

“To be successful you have to make a name for yourself,” he says of the future. “I am a lucky trainer: every year I have had at least a Listed or Group 3 horse. Owners of well-bred horses understandably prefer to send them to big trainers, but I hope my results will send the message that I can train good horses.”

It is greatly to his advantage that Collet has time on his side.

Collet: Owners having fun is big part of job If owners are the most important building block, Rod Collet has done well for those who patronised him from the start. Many are still with him, among them Douglas McIntrye, who owned and bred Sahpresa from his band of broodmares before selling her privately to Teruya Yoshida nine months ago.

The biggest entity within the ranks is the alliance of Ahmed Mouknass and Anthony Forde; the latter breeds under the banner of Pandora Stud Llc. Nova Hawk is one of around 85 horses the pair have in training and for whom Francois Rohaut trained disqualified 2010 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches winner Liliside – herself subsequently sold to Katsumi Yoshida.

Mouknass and Forde’s yearling purchases are usually made by Marc-Antoine Berghgracht, whose MAB Agency paid €300,000 on their behalf for the Oasis Dream sales-topper at last year’s Arqana October yearling sale. The partners have 18 horses with Collet, many of them two-year-olds.

Also on the books is Mattieu Offenstadt and his partners – although sadly for Collet, it was to Mikel Delzangles that Offenstadt turned in 2009 when he bought Makfi as a back-end two-year-old in training for 26,000gns.

“All trainers are looking for owners but I am very lucky with the ones I have,” Collet

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Collet’s handling of Nova Hawk will have pleased her owner Ahmed Mouknass

says. “We all have fun; we like to enjoy ourselves. That’s how racing has to be for owners. It’s very important to me that they take pleasure from their horses.”

Another to have supported Collet from the start is Jean-Pierre Mio. In addition to Labirinto (see main feature), Mio enjoyed a fruitful time a decade ago with Honorifique, a winner in Group 3 class at San Siro and in Listed company at Longchamp.

Despite having fewer than 30 horses in training, Collet is quick to recommend that horses unable to win on the Paris tracks are rehoused with trainers in the provinces. “You have to work with your owners,” he says.

“They want to win races and I want to keep the quality of my string as high as I can.”

Collet is philosophical that some are inclined to take a profit. He believes Nova Hawk has more to offer, just as Sahpresa did at the same stage of her career, but recognises he might lose her along the way.

“It’s no problem because we work as a team,” he says. “I hope to prepare Nova Hawk for the Matron Stakes (at Leopardstown on September 3) but she is on the market because that’s the way her owners work. I feel sure there is more improvement in her. She still pulls in her races and is not yet doing the maximum.”

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TBA AWARDS Kindly sponsored by Cheveley Park Stud

In appreciation of

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he famously patriotic red, white and blue silks of Cheveley Park Stud have become a mainstay of any British Flat turf season, while at stud the organisation’s homebred stallion Pivotal has steadily proved himself to be one of the country’s elite sires.

What better place then to start an evening celebrating the very best of British breeding than at the Newmarket home of Pivotal, the Barleythorpe Cup winner for the fifth consecutive year?

TBA award winners and guests gathered at Cheveley Park Stud in Newmarket with its natural ring fence of ancient trees for cocktails, canapés and a close-up look at the five resident stallions. The newest recruit to Cheveley Park’s stallion ranks, the statuesque Virtual, was certainly worth seeing in the flesh. Medicean and his son Dutch Art, who has made such a notable start to his stud career with his first runners this season, were also on parade.

As Kyllachy was shown to the crowd, his father Pivotal became restive behind the scenes, rearing up as he awaited his turn in the spotlight. It was worth the wait, as the strong, rich chesnut still looks tremendous at

Pivotal oozes star quality at the Cheveley Park Stud champagne reception

the age of 18 and recently sired his 19th individual Group 1 winner with Immortal Verse’s Coronation Stakes victory.

From the stud, the evening continued at Tatersalls’ Park Paddocks with a formal dinner and video presentation kindly produced by SIS to mark the awards.

With Pivotal and Cheveley Park having gained the award for the leading British-based

sire by individual Flat winners in 2010, Juddmonte won the BBA Silver Cigar Box for leading British-based sire by prize-money for the second consecutive year, however this year that honour went to Dansili, who follows in the footsteps of Oasis Dream.

The outstanding success of Prince Khalid Abdullah’s Juddmonte Farms continues and, for the seventh time since 2000, the operation

The Devonshire Bronze Henrietta, Duchess of Bedford The Tattersalls December Sale of 2010 was memorable for the sight of Henrietta, Duchess of Bedford leading up the final one of her mares to go through the ring as part of a large-scale dispersal of the Bloomsbury Stud bloodstock.

Her success as a breeder, most notably through the offspring of foundation mare Mrs Moss, was recognised by the presentation of the Devonshire Bronze.

“I was actually amazed. It never even entered my mind that I would receive this.

It was a lovely shock,” said the duchess.

Reflecting on her years of service for the TBA, she added: “Being the TBA representative on the Horseracing Advisory Committee for a long time made me realise that we had to think of the good of the industry as a whole.

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“That’s the problem with racing at the moment, everyone’s just fighting their own

corner – it’s short-term greed.

“There are several things I’m proud of helping to achieve over the years, such as the presence of ambulances on every racecourse – and we fought hard for better accommodation for stable lads.”

The Devonshire Bronze now has pride of place in the racing room at Woburn Abbey and, despite the dispersal, the stables are not completely empty.

“I kept four foals. I couldn’t be without a horse but I’ve got to the age where I don’t really want to continue to run a horse business. Things are so different today than from when I started out in the 1960s.

“Mrs Moss took me on a journey which has been hugely enjoyed. We’re on the sixth generation of her family now and she’s had winners in 12 different countries.”

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took the Queen’s Silver Cup for leading British-based breeder by prize-money.

Juddmonte-bred horses achieved 16 Group 1 wins around the world in 2010, including the most talked-about horse in training, Frankel.

Power bows out Another prize to find its way back to Banstead Manor was the H J Joel Silver Salver for Flat Broodmare of the Year. The prize, awarded to Binche, the dam of Byword and Proviso, was collected by Juddmonte’s long-serving stud groom Jim Power, who retires this month.

Reflecting on more than 40 years in the industry, Power said: “It was an honour to pick up Binche’s award and the wagon keeps rolling on for Juddmonte Farms. Year on year with the mares another new one crops up.

They do the talking for us. Our ultimate aim is to give the trainers healthy horses.”

A talented painter, Power indicated that he hopes to help tutor young people in the bloodstock industry in his retirement, adding: “I won’t be disappearing. I’ve loved my time working in bloodstock and I want to try to give something back.”

The Tattersalls Silver Salver, presented for the leading first-season sire, was given to Indesatchel, who stands at Terry and Margaret Holdcroft’s Bearstone Stud, while Sheikh Mohammed’s Darley operation won the TBA Silver Rose Bowl after being named Flat Breeder of the Year after its representatives won 40 Group races around the world.

The success of Colin and Melba Bryce’s Laundry Cottage Stud, breeder of Prix JeanLuc Lagardere hero Wootton Bassett, was recognised with the TBA Silver Salver Special Merit Award (Flat).

“This is our first award and it has given all the staff a really big lift,” said Melba Bryce.

Anita Ooi, breeder of Harbinger, was awarded the Langham Cup for Small Breeder of the Year, while Sophie Woolf of Rushbrooke Stud received the annual stud

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Tattersalls also played host to the TBA’s Annual General Meeting, at which Paul Greeves, Executive Director of Weatherbys, presented an overview of the decline in size of British and Irish foal crops.

The combined crops have reduced by almost 40% from the peak of 2007 to the present day, with 6,219 fewer foals registered in 2010 from 18,472 in 2007.

“The speed and quantity of the reduction in numbers is unprecedented in modern times,” said Greeves. “The fall has continued this year and has gone down a little more than we anticipated.”

The drop has been greater in Ireland, where 12,633 foals were produced in 2007, compared to 7,588 in 2010. In Britain the figures fell from 5,839 (2007) to 4,665 (2010).

While the number of Flat horses in training has risen slightly during that period – from 14,298 to 15,285 – the knock-on effect of recent smaller foal crops will undoubtedly be “a significant drop in the number of horses in training”.

“The mares are still there – more, perhaps, than the drop in the foal population might suggest,” added Greeves.

“So, while foal numbers are down nearly 40% and the number of two-yearolds going into training in 2012 might drop by more than 20%, the mare population has only declined by 21% and within that the quality factor has increased significantly.”

Results of Greeves’s research will be passed to the BHA. He said: “The racing industry depends on breeders and supporting the breeding industry at this time has to be a priority.

The message is: don’t take the British breeding industry for granted. Support it now and support it as never before.”

Complex political struggle Greeves’s statement echoed concerns aired

by TBA Chairman Kirsten Rausing in her address to members at the AGM. “When I undertook this role, I felt I understood what breeders required from their association,” said Rausing.

“However, I had not taken into account the need for the TBA to actively participate in racing’s complex political struggle, nor

TBA Chairman: “remain guarded”

all the implications for the industry caused by the global economic downturn and, most recently, the challenges posed by the restructuring of British racing.”

She added: “British racing is still facing declining prize-money and increasing overheads, which suggest that until this situation is reversed and the economic climate improves, there is unlikely to be significant growth in our industry in the short-term. At the heart of this issue is, of course, prize-money and control of the race programme. Both these issues impact directly on breeders.

“Maintenance of the black type programme at a competitive level is critical. It is the foundation of our race programme and, in spite of financial pressures, continues to ensure that British racing and breeding maintains its international reputation as amongst the best in the world and we should do all we can to maintain their crucial funding.

“Let me assure you that any final decisions on the restructure of racing will require the endorsement of the BHA stakeholders. This includes the TBA, which recognises the importance of retaining its seat on the BHA Chairman’s Committee, to ensure that the interests of the horse are protected.”

Rausing closed her address by urging members to “remain guarded in our expectations”.

“Addressing the equalisation of supply and demand for racehorses is simply not the complete answer. Until British racing returns to a viable and attractive option for the leisure pound, euro or dollar, it will continue to rely on the investment of the large scale owner/breeders and commercial breeders, whose livelihoods have taken a significant hit.”

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T B A AWA R D S A N D S E M I N A R >> staff award, sponsored by New England Stud.

Gavin Pritchard-Gordon has performed a variety of roles in racing and breeding and he was presented with the Dominion Bronze in recognition of his outstanding contribution.

He said: “I have thoroughly enjoyed my 45 years of involvement in the world of racing and breeding, as a trainer, Executive Director of the TBA and Executive Chairman of British Bloodstock Marketing. I was thrilled when the TBA chose to recognise this.”

Jumping stars honoured With the awards dinner now held in June, this year saw two awards in each National

Hunt category, honouring the achievements of both the 2009/10 and 2010/11 seasons.

The Whitbread Silver Salver (for leading active British-based National Hunt stallion by earnings) has a new home with David and Kathleen Holmes at Pitchall Farm Stud, having been won in 2010/11 by Midnight Legend after Overbury Stud’s Kayf Tara landed a second successive title in 2009/10.

The stallion with the most individual steeplechase winners in the 2009/10 season was Mickley Stud resident Overbury, who was also winning for the second year running.

In 2010/11, the Horse & Hound Cup was presented to Alflora, who stands at Shade

Oak Stud and also gave Midnight Legend a good run for the Whitbread Silver Salver.

The Dudgeon Cup for National Hunt Broodmare of the Year was awarded to Amy and Paul Murphy for Carole’s Crusader – the dam of the ultra-tough Carole’s Legacy and Mad Max – while Charles and Sally LloydBaker’s Herald The Dawn won the 2009/10 award, thanks to the exploits of Planet Of Sound and From Dawn To Dusk.

One of the best-known bloodstock agents in the jumping business, David Minton of Highflyer Bloodstock, received the Queen Mother’s Silver Salver for achievements in National Hunt racing.

Back to basics at the annual seminar

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rom a more political agenda in 2010, this year’s TBA seminar returned to the grass roots of the breeding industry.

Sponsored by Saracen Horse Feeds, the seminar was attended by more than 120 delegates and featured a wide range of topics, from nutrition management of breeding stock and young stock to worm resistance.

Dr Joe Pagan of Kentucky Equine Research (KER) gave two absorbing presentations, firstly on the feeding of mares for maximum reproductive efficiency and the influence of the month of birth on a foal’s condition and body weight. In the afternoon session, he looked at how growth rate can affect soundness in an adult horse.

“Mares should be fed differently during early pregnancy, late pregnancy and lactation,” said Dr Pagan, who added that it was important for breeders to remember not to overfeed during early pregnancy or to underfeed during lactation.

Referring to a Kentucky study that followed 4,000 thoroughbred mares and their foals over a ten-year period, Dr Pagan said that foals born in January, February and March had lower body weights in the first month of their lives than those born in March, April and May until three months of age.

“Foals born in winter grew slower during the first two months, but compensated by growing faster later in lactation so that by five months of age there was no significant difference in body weights in the groups.”

He warned, however, that his rapid weight gain in spring for winter foals may have “detrimental consequences on skeletal soundness”.

“Other studies conducted at KER suggest that foals born in early to mid-spring (March and April) have the fewest number of developmental orthopaedic problems.”

Moving on to slightly older horses, Dr Pagan presented research conducted into weights of yearlings and how they fared at Keeneland’s September Yearling Sale.

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Asking “Does size matter”, he showed that the average height and weight of yearlings offered declined gradually with the graded books at the marathon auction.

Unsurprisingly, bigger horses sold above the sale’s median, whereas smaller yearling sold for less or not at all.

“The answer here is yes, size matters big time when it comes to the money they bring at sale,” he said.

This was countered, however, with evidence that, of the foals studied there was a higher incidence of osteochondritis (OCD) in the hocks of the heavier foals.

“The key is the balance of risk and reward,” said Dr Pagan. “When it comes to size, there is an increased risk of skeletal disease but there is also an increase in sales price and taller foals or yearlings have a better chance of becoming stakes winners.”

Another of the KER team in action at the seminar was Dr Bryan Waldridge, who looked at foaling complications in mares and the symptoms and treatment of Lawsonia and Rhodococcus in young foals.

The worms have turned Professor Jacqui Matthews is a parasitologist at the Moredum Research Institute which has been the recipient of a TBA/HBLB research grant to study the growing resistance to traditional wormers in horses.

“Control is becoming increasingly difficult as some of the roundworm species have the ability have the ability to become resistant to the drugs (anthelmintics) developed for use against them. As no new drug types are appearing on the horizon, it is important that the efficacy of the products currently available is retained for as long as possible,” she said.

Professor Matthews’s research into the levels of infestation in UK thoroughbreds covered 1,400 animals on 23 different studs.

“Of those we studied, 40% of the mares, 80 to 90% of yearlings, just over 40% of foals and 10% of stallions carried

Equine nutrition expert Dr Joe Pagan

strongyles (worms). Roundworms are not distributed evenly within a group of horses: a reasonable rule of thumb being that, within any given group, only around 20% of the horses will harbour 80% of the parasite burden.

“Such over-dispersed distributions in worm burdens allow targeted treatment strategies, meaning that infection levels can be controlled without exposing the entire intra-host parasite population to frequent anthelmintic treatments.”

Continuing the veterinary theme, Newmarket Equine Hospital’s James Crowhurst gave delegates an update on infectious diseases, including the recent outbreak of the Dourine virus in Italy, while Andrew McGladdery of Rossdales & Partners, looked at early pregnancy failure in mares.

“This is one of the most important aspects of fertility we are faced with today and it is an area which requires much further research,” said McGladdery. “Early pregnancy failure remains a significant cause of economic loss to the thoroughbred breeding industry.”

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TBA AWARDS Kindly sponsored by Cheveley Park Stud

Roll of Honour The Queen’s Silver Cup For the leading British-based Flat breeder by prize-money won in the British Isles from mares normally resident in Great Britain: JUDDMONTE FARMS

Dedication

BBA Silver Cigar Box For the leading British-based stallion by Flat earnings in Great Britain and Ireland: DANSILI (Juddmonte Farms)

Barleythorpe Cup For the leading British-based stallion by individual Flat winners in Great Britain and Ireland: PIVOTAL (Cheveley Park Stud)

Tattersalls’ Silver Salver For the leading British-based first-season sire (Flat): INDESATCHEL (Bearstone Stud)

H J Joel Silver Salver For Flat Broodmare of the Year: BINCHE (Juddmonte Farms)

TBA Silver Rose Bowl TBA Flat Breeder of the Year : DARLEY

TBA Silver Salver Special Merit (Flat) award: LAUNDRY COTTAGE STUD FARM (Colin and Melba Bryce, breeders of Wootton Bassett)

Langham Cup Small Breeder of the Year (Flat) award: MRS ANITA OOI (breeder of Harbinger)

Michael Goodbody presents Juddmonte’s Philip Mitchell with the Queen’s Silver Cup

TBA Annual Stud Staff Award Sponsored by New England Stud SOPHIE WOOLF (Rushbrooke Stud)

Whitbread Silver Salver For the leading active British-based NH stallion by earnings: 2009/10 KAYF TARA (Overbury Stud) 2010/11 MIDNIGHT LEGEND (Pitchall Farm)

Horse & Hound Cup For the leading active British-based National Hunt stallion for number of individual chase winners: 2009/10 OVERBURY (Mickley Stud) 2010/11 ALFLORA (Shade Oak Stud)

Dudgeon Cup NH Broodmare of the Year: 2009/10 HERALD THE DAWN (Charles and Sally Lloyd-Baker) 2010/11 CAROLE’S CRUSADER (Paul Murphy)

Chris Richardson receives Pivotal’s Barleythorpe Cup

Liam O’Rourke collects Darley’s Silver Rose Bowl

Sally Lloyd-Baker, owner of Herald The Dawn

The Queen Mother’s Silver Salver NH Achievement Award: DAVID MINTON

Dominion Bronze Behind-the-scenes contribution to the industry: GAVIN PRITCHARD-GORDON

Devonshire Bronze Outstanding contribution to the industry: HENRIETTA, DUCHESS OF BEDFORD

Paul Murphy and daughter Amy received the Dudgeon Cup for Carole’s Crusader

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Jean and Jim Power with Beth Sharkey of Lycetts

Melba Bryce of Laundry Cottage Stud

Shade Oak Stud owner Peter Hockenhull

Harry Herbert receives Anita Ooi’s award Young Cheveley Park stallion Virtual impressed onlookers

Richard Chugg and Anna Bates

David Minton was honoured for his work in the National Hunt field

Sue Montgomery presents the Horse & Hound Cup to Mickley’s Richard Kent

Paul Lee, Alan Morcombe and Paul Dixon

Stud Staff annual award winner Sophie Woolf

Kathleen and David Holmes of Pitchall Farm

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HARAS DE FRESNAY-LE-BUFFARD YEARLING CONSIGNMENT AT THE 2011 AUGUST ARQANA SALES Monday, August 22nd

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Hip 37 bc. Galileo ex Foutain of Peace (Kris S) FOUTAIN OF PEACE, half sister to DENEBOLA (Prix Marcel Boussac Gr.I etc), GLIA (Prix Imprudence L., 3rd Prix Morny Gr.I etc) and to Moonlight’s Box, dam of BAGO (Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe Gr.I etc).

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Hip 100 bc. Galileo ex Monevassia (Mr Prospector) MONEVASSIA, own sister to KINGMAMBO, dam of RUMPLESTILTSKIN (Moyglare Stud St. Gr.I, Prix Marcel Boussac Gr.I etc), Granddam of Wild Wind (winner, 3rd Poule d’Essai des Pouliches Gr.I in 2011 etc)

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Hip 343 bc. Johannesburg ex Moonavvara (Sadler’s Wells) Own brother to MOON PEARL, winner for his first start at Ascot this year

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By EMMA BERRY, Bloodstock Editor

Our coverage this month includes:

• Sales previews: European yearling sales Gearing up for Arqana’s August Sale and the DBS Premier Yearling Sale – pages 55-59

• Sales Circuit: reports and analysis Strong finish to the store sales; yearlings come under the hammer in Japan and America – pages 60-62

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his column has touched on the vast difference in opportunities for two-yearolds in Britain compared to Australia before but, with the Australian season having only days left to run at the time of writing, it’s worth noting that the first-season sires’ championship is about to be won by a horse who has to date had only five individual winners and no stakes winners.

Written Tycoon, a grandson of Last Tycoon who stands at Eliza Park in Victoria, heads what may turn out to be a substandard bunch of freshmen. His five winners, however, come from only 11 runners, and they top the list by prize-money, aided by the Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes-placed Masthead and Listed runner-up Written Consent.

Shadowing him in the table is Ad Valorem, a Darley sire in the southern hemisphere following the sale of the Woodlands empire to Sheikh Mohammed, and absent from Coolmore’s Irish roster in 2011 after staying put down under. Ad Valorem has had two stakes winners in Australia – the Group winners Uate and Free Wheeling – which is half the total number of stakes winners sired by the first-season sires en masse.

Numerically, however, honours were tied between the Queensland-based All Bar One and another Darley sire, Nadeem, with eight apiece. In the British and Irish tables at only halfway through the current season, that tally has already been beaten by some way, with Dark Angel, Red Clubs and Duch Art already into double figures.

In fact, the number is low even by Australian standards, with previous first-season champions such as Encosta De Lago (2001), More Than Ready (2005) and Exceed And Excel (2008) having done considerably better, with 14, 16 and 13 winners respectively.

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rare example of a ‘reverse shuttler’ doing consistently well in Europe and, like his sire Danehill, very much holds his own in both hemispheres. Along with Acclamation, he is one of only two stallions to have sired more juvenile winners in Britain and Ireland this year than the precocious newcomer Dark Angel.

The top two by prize-money in the twoyear-old sires’ table are both horses who raced only as two-year-olds themselves – the aforementioned Dark Angel and Holy Roman Emperor, whose premature retirement was more by circumstance than by design. While it must be hoped wholeheartedly that colts being retired at two does not become the norm, there’s no denying that neither has struggled for patronage at stud, and the same can be said for Approve and Zebedee, both of whom retired last year after just one season’s racing and will almost certainly have covered three-figure books of mares in 2011.

Strike rate a good barometer For studs taking a chance on a new stallion, this is now almost a pre-requisite for a young

Sprinter Society Rock provided a reminder of Rock Of Gibraltar’s talents

sire to make any kind of mark when his first runners hit the track. It’s always worth studying the tables a little more closely though, as they regularly throw up examples of stallions with impressive winners-to-runners ratios, their fewer representatives exceeding all expectations.

Big Bad Bob was a notable recent example and, just now, Hard Spun is the most impressive of the freshmen in this regard, not, of course, because he covered so few mares, but because he stands in Kentucky and has had relatively few British runners. But of the six he has had run in this country, four have won, and they include the Group 2 Superlative Stakes winner Red Duke.

Cacique, whose small first crop are now three, is another example, again for a reason other than lack of patronage, with his poor fertility signalling a short-lived stud career which garnered only 33 foals. That looks to be a great shame: eight of his 14 runners have won, notably Prix Jean Prat winner Mutual Trust and the Group 3-placed Slumber. Others worth keeping an eye on are the dual winners Dominant and Census, both of whom race in the Highclere colours.

Monsieur Bond had a banner year in 2010, siring the Prix de l’Abbaye winner Gilt Edge Girl, and he continues to thrive this season with a 38% strike rate, a figure matched by Rock Of Gibraltar, who had two Group winners at Royal Ascot, but who is always in danger of being overlooked among Coolmore’s stallion riches.

With the European yearling sales kicking off this month, agents’ minds are undoubtedly already focused on predicting which stallions’ stock will take up the baton next season. In Deauville, the first yearlings by Astronomer Royal, Duke Of Marmalade, Falco, Hannouma, Henrythenavigator, Linda’s Lad, Linngari, Literato, Mount Nelson, New Approach, Raven’s Pass, Street Boss and Tamayuz will be put to the market. The guessing game will begin all over again.

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Anna and Etienne Drion’s Coulonces Consignment has quickly become a potent force on the French sales circuit, with a distinctly international client base Words Emma Berry

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nna Drion runs the risk of running out of dreams to fulfil. When she arrived in France from Sweden with her parents in 2004, the ambition of the small breeders was to sell a horse for €100,000.

That dream was achieved in their first year of consigning, when they sent just two yearlings to the 2006 August Sale at Deauville and they sold the subsequent Group 3-placed Kay Es Jay for exactly that sum.

“Then our dream was to produce a Group 1 winner within ten years,” says Anna. “ We sold four yearlings the second year and one of them was Le Havre.”

The son of Noverre, of course, went on to win the Prix du Jockey-Club and the Coulonces Consignment, which Anna now runs with her husband Etienne, has gone from strength to strength. As a couple, the Drions have pedigrees as international as their rapidly growing client base.

“I have French parents but I was born and raised in Ireland,” says Etienne, whose late father Ghislain was stud manager for the Aga

The Drions’ Haras du Grand Chene

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United nations: Anna and Etienne Drion boast Swedish, Irish and French influences

Khan. His brother François owns Taroka Stud in County Kildare.

“I spent seven years in America, working for Coolmore, Christophe Clement, Vinery and Emmanuel de Seroux in Kentucky, New York and Florida, and then went on to Japan.

I suppose in this business it’s very important to have contacts all over the world.”

While Anna’s parents, Jan and Maja Sundstrom (who breed horses under the name Team Hogdala) have continued to run Haras de Coulonces as a private farm, Anna now lives with Etienne at Haras du Grand Chene, an old Normandy sheep farm which he converted to a thoroughbred stud three years ago.

“We weren’t originally going to be a commercial farm, we were going to stay private but then someone asked if we could consign a yearling and we thought, ‘Why not, that would be fun’ and from there on I decided I wanted to do that more and more,” says Anna.

While the Coulonces Consignment has quickly made a name for itself on the French sales circuit, with its August draft having averaged in excess of €100,000 in the last two years, the Drions have no desire to become too large.

Last year’s consignment consisted of 17 yearlings, including an Acclamation halfsister to Le Havre, who sold for €225,000.

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This year, they have 21 yearlings catalogued for Arqana’s August Sale.

“When we married we wanted to keep the name Coulonces Consignment, it was important for Anna,” says Etienne. “Around 20 is an ideal number for us to consign. We don’t want to get too big. We need to be able to treat the horses as individuals. It’s really important that they get a good start.”

Among this year’s draft they will consign yearlings for clients from Sweden, Germany, Italy, France, Ireland and England, including a Peintre Celebre filly for Colin and Melba Bryce of Laundry Cottage Stud.

“Our biggest clients are still my parents,” says Anna. “But we will also be consigning for Haras de Bourcheville and Bernard Ferrand, for whom we sold the most expensive Dylan Thomas yearling in France last year. He is now called Narcissist and is in training with Luca Cumani. His full-sister is in the August Sale.

“Language is of course so important. We have many clients outside France and we can communicate with them well.”

That communication starts well in advance of the yearling preparation, with the couple keen to be involved from when their regular clients are deciding on stallion nominations.

Anna adds: “We love to discuss such things with the breeders. It’s very important to us to know the yearlings that are coming to us to be consigned. We know how they were raised, how they’ve been fed. Of course we get to know them well during the two months of prep but two months isn’t always enough.

“If a trainer says to us, ‘Will this horse suit me?’,we like to be able to say yes or no.”

Along with handling, walking and lungeing yearlings, nutrition also plays a vital part in a horse’s sales preparation.

“We get a lot of help from Polly Bonnor of Saracen,” Anna continues. “She comes over to see us quite a bit and she’s really important to our team. We look at what each horse needs – if one needs magnesium then he will get magnesium.”

With up to 30 mares on the farm, “a handful” of which are their own, plus new baby Lillie and Anna’s ten-year-old daughter Moa, there’s plenty to occupy the Drions’ hands and minds.

Anna says: “It would be easy to become a victim of your own success. We have new land with no diseases but we don’t want to take in too many extra horses, we need to keep it under control and it’s working out well.”

With her broad smile, she adds: “We can still have a bit of a life,” before divulging that she and Etienne are ‘on holiday’ at the Tattersalls July Sale. For dedicated horse people such as they, a few days away from their own animals probably does feel like a holiday, even if it is in Newmarket.

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And from Deauville to Doncaster...

Edward Prosser meets the regulars on the sales grounds to glean commercial and, more importantly, culinary advice NICOLAS DE CHAMBURE Haras d’Etreham What has been your best moment selling at Deauville?

The sale of a Lammtarra filly out of Urban Sea (subsequently named Melikah) for 10 million francs in 1998. We had sold Urban Sea as a yearling and then boarded her on the farm for a few years before she went to Ireland.

Is there a yearling you’d pick out this year?

We have a homebred filly out of En Public by Raven’s Pass. She’s a beautiful filly from a family we have had for four or five generations.

What’s your favourite restaurant in Deauville?

Chez Hervé. It is very typical food for the area and it is run by a gang that know the horseracing game. There are always good people there.

Who are the sires to look out for this year?

I think Lawman can improve and our own Stormy River has made a good start. They are two to follow.

Are you in favour of the later date?

It’s a good idea. It gives the horses a bit more time in the paddock and a bit of extra spring grass, so it’s good for everyone.

CHARLIE GORDON-WATSON Agent What do you like about buying at Deauville?

I like it as a place to see horses and like the challenge of working out why certain yearlings are there. For instance, sometimes people will put in late foals trying to fool you that they will grow. The secret is to get all your work done before everyone else arrives because once the place gets crowded and busy, it is not so easy to work. I might not manage to do it this time but last year I saw a lot of horses on the farms the week before the sale.

What have been your best moments buying there?

It’s probably my most successful sale. I’ve never bought huge numbers at Deauville but have purchased the likes of King’s Best, Queen’s Logic and Silver Frost. As a buyer

you either like a particular sale or you don’t and it’s one I really like.

What do you think of the later date?

I think the yearlings are always more difficult to judge there because it is that much earlier than any other sale, but a week won’t make any difference.

What’s your favourite place to eat?

Chez Hervé. I like the food, atmosphere, place and Hervé himself.

Do any Deauville moments stand out away from the sales?

I got stopped by the police doing 120mph six or seven years ago, when I got my mph and kmh mixed up, and I got escorted for 25 minutes to the police station. I was fined €1,000 in cash on the spot and had to go back to Deauville to buy another horse to pay the fine!

JOHN O’CONNOR Ballylinch Stud What do you like about selling at Deauville?

We’ve been selling there for quite a long time and have been leading vendor by average on a few occasions. I used to work close to Deauville and have a few French clients. We have also ended up standing some stallions that are well-known in France, from Soviet Star through to Whipper, Lawman and now Lope De Vega.

What type of horse do you send there?

As well as having a compatible pedigree, you need a yearling that is very mature as the sale comes quite early. Fillies need to have a top international pedigree and you need to have a well-above average individual if you’re coming from outside France to compete with the horses eligible for premiums.

Has there been a standout moment?

One was when we sold a Linamix filly for €620,000 in 2007. She was subsequently named Pill and looked hugely promising before she was galloped on in the Prix Marcel Boussac. It went very close to the perfect situation, whereby you sell for a lot of money and the horse turns out to be very good. We

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also sold a half-sister to Pill for €650,000 three years ago and last year sold a Galileo for €420,000 who is now a promising two-year-old called Smoky Hill.

What are you offering this year?

We’ve got strong pedigrees and good individuals and I think an interesting draft for people to look at.

And away from the sales?

Santa Lucia is my favourite restaurant – good food and good fun. Arqana throw a good party in the Villa Strasburger and Centaur Insurance and Andreas Putsch often hold an enjoyable party in a beach restaurant.

Are you in favour of the later date?

There are lots of different factors involved and I would prefer to assess that once the sale is over.

PETER KAVANAGH Kildaragh Stud How long have you been selling at Deauville and what do you like about consigning there?

Since the early 1980s. It is a magical location

with numerous attractive distractions!

What has been your best moment as a vendor?

Topping the sale in consecutive years.

Who will be the fashionable sires at Deauville this year?

Galileo is top of the tree and a true classic sire, while Dubawi continues to add to his Group 1 score and Oasis Dream can be relied on to supply speed and class.

What’s your favourite place to eat in Deauville?

Either Le Guingette or Le Central in Trouville, but you are spoilt for choice really.

Which is the best party of the week?

The Aga Khan’s has been exceptional.

Are there any funny moments that stand out?

I remember one enthusiastic vendor driving down the pedestrian promenade for a midnight dip in the sea. He was seen negotiating a series of steps and scattering numerous deck chairs in the wake of his hire car!

Are you in favour of the later date this year?

It should prove beneficial for the yearlings and fits well into the racing and sales schedule.

IN A NUTSHELL Arqana August Yearling Sale, Deauville, August 22-25 • Lot 127, from Haras des Capucines, will attract plenty of attention, especially across the Atlantic. He is the last foal sired by Kingmambo and, indeed the only one born in 2010. The 15 catalogued yearlings by Anabaa represent the final crop of the late stalwart of the French stallion ranks.

• Irish and British vendors are seemingly keener than ever to sell at Deauville. So much so that just 39 of the 226 lots (17%) catalogued on the sale’s select first two days are French-bred. But yearlings eligible for French-bred premiums dominate the sale’s final two days.

• Coolmore’s Danehill Dancer leads the way numerically for stallions, with 18 lots catalogued. Of the newcomers, Duke Of Marmalade has 11 yearlings on offer, one more than Astronomer Royal.

• Among the many Irish vendors is a new combined venture between two

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successful father and son teams. Michael Fitzpatrick and his father Eamon at Kilminfoyle House Stud are selling jointly with Tony and Roger O’Callaghan of Tally-Ho Stud.

• After two years of building work, some smart new facilities are set to be unveiled on the new sales pavilion. A redesigned sale ring, terrace restaurant, a revamped parade ring and panoramic lounge are among the new offerings.

• Appropriately, the first New Approach yearling to be offered in Europe this year is from the 2008 Derby hero’s breeder, the Burns family’s Lodge Park Stud. They offer a colt from Halling’s family. Lodge Park has at least one New Approach in each of the major yearling sales.

• Haras d’Etreham, now run by Nicolas de Chambure, has the biggest draft of 44, one more than Eric Puerari and Michel Zerolo’s Haras des Capucines.

ROBERT PERCIVAL Glen Andred Stud When did you start selling at Doncaster?

I think the St Leger Sale had been going for two years when we first sold in the 1960s. My wife Sue and I were oddities because we were in our 20s and everyone was much older. Sadly we don’t have any suitable yearlings for Doncaster this year.

What have been the big changes?

They wanted sprinter-bred colts even then. Horses were sold as they stood except for having a wind warrant; there was no scoping or anything. The trainers bought their own horses, there weren’t many agents, and a lot of the yearlings in those times had been out of the field for a week and there were no professional consignors. The odd livery yard sold for clients but it was mainly breeders offering their own horses. I was actually about the first pinhooker in the late 1960s and Timmy Hyde followed on.

The business didn’t seem quite so serious in those days.

What have been the highlights?

We’ve sold many good horses at Doncaster, and I think were leading vendor there 12 times, but one memorable moment was when we sold a colt from the penultimate crop of Grey Sovereign for 42,000gns in 1973. It was a huge amount of money then and remained the dearest yearling sold outside Tattersalls for some time.

Was there one that got away?

I offered Petong as a yearling but he didn’t sell, despite not having a big reserve. He was from the first crop of Mansingh, who we were standing and I was trying to promote.

Do you have a favourite restaurant or hotel?

The old Punch’s Hotel was very good with an excellent restaurant and it was a very fun place. When Sue and I were getting up to feed the yearlings it was common for other people to be going to bed. It was a job to get in there and even more of a job to get out!

JOE FOLEY Ballyhane Stud How long have you been going to Doncaster?

The first horse I ever sold anywhere was an Aragorn colt I took to Doncaster when I was 17 and I’ve sold

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there ever since. I think the type of horses we produce and the progeny of quite a few of the mares that I own pertain to the market in Doncaster.

This year?

We’ve a strong bunch including a very nice Shamardal filly and a couple of good examples by Captain Marvelous.

Your best Doncaster moment?

We still hold the record for the dearest horse sold there, a 275,000gns Invincible Spirit filly in 2006.

Favourite restaurant/hotel?

I tend to eat quite a lot before I go to Doncaster so that I’m not too hungry!

There is a Thai restaurant I sometimes chance when the hunger gets too bad. I have been staying in the Earl Of Doncaster for many years and the purple and black carpet there has gradually grown on me.

Who will be the hot sires?

I think the Dutch Arts will be popular.

Do you like the later sale date?

I would actually prefer all yearlings to be sold in November and to let them develop on the late spring and summer grass, and not bring them in as early as we currently do. They miss an important growing time of the year by being stuck in their stable.

PETER DOYLE Agent How long have you been buying at the sale?

I started going with my father Jack when he was buying for Ryan Price in the 1970s and they got the champion sprinter Sandford Lad there. I began working with Richard Hannon nearly 25 years ago, when I went to Doncaster with an owner of his. It has always been a good sale for producing racehorses that last; what they lack in pedigree they make up for as individuals.

What has been your best moment there?

Buying Canford Cliffs. I had always liked his sire Tagula and had been underbidder on him as a yearling. Canford Cliffs was selling late in the day and we’d really already bought our share of yearlings. We were sat outside having a drink, then went in to watch him go through as we’d spotted him a couple of days before the sale. There was a real protracted duel for him and when someone bid £48,000 we started walking off down the stairs. Ross [Doyle] shouted to

Richard, ‘How about one more bid for luck?’ Richard said okay and we got the horse for £50,000.

Where do you eat and stay?

It’s not the culinary capital of the world but Carlo’s, the Italian restaurant, is always good. The old Punch’s Hotel was where we all stayed years ago and I’ve tried them all since. We now stay at the Mount Pleasant, which is good.

Who will be the hot sires this year?

I’ve always liked Acclamation, we got seven by him last year, and he’s having a great year.

I think Strategic Prince is just getting going, his first two-year-olds will be at their best from now on and we got a nice one called Redact for Richard, who has won two of his three races.

BRENDAN HOLLAND Grove Stud What has been your best moment at Doncaster?

I started off selling at Doncaster and the first time I got 100,000gns for a horse was there. It’s always a strong trade and the most consistent sale ever.

I’ve got a lot of time for Yorkshire after my time working for Mark Johnston.

Who are the potential stars in your draft this year?

I’ve got a good team but I’m keen on three colts by Acclamation, Bahamian Bounty and Haatef Do you have a favourite restaurant in Doncaster?

If there is one, then I am still looking to find it!

Who will be the hot stallions this years?

Acclamation, Exceed And Excel and Dark Angel?

Any funny incidents?

The very first horse I sold, I got caught out and ended up buying it back myself.

Michael White called out my name as the buyer, even though I was selling. I obviously thought that things could only get better after that!

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IN A NUTSHELL DBS Premier Yearling Sale, Doncaster, August 31 to September 1 • Numbers have risen slightly from 465 in 2010 to 488 this year.

• Nick Forman Hardy’s Car Colston Hall Stud, usually more associated with selling at Newmarket, has two lots catalogued – a Kheleyf filly and a son of Exchange Rate.

Sakhee’s Secret, with 14 catalogued.

• There were three £120,000 saletoppers in 2010 and there is a sibling to only one of them – a Kheleyf halfbrother to Wootton Bassett consigned from Furnace Mill Stud for Colin and Melba Bryce’s Laundry Cottage Stud.

• Whatever her price, an Ishiguru filly consigned from Tweenhills Farm and Stud is likely to attract more coverage than any other yearling catalogue. She is better known as ‘Born To Run’, subject of the Racing Post’s long-running bloodstock series.

• Cheveley Park Stud’s Kyllachy (above), with 22 offerings, is the best-represented sire, two ahead of Royal Applause.

• There is not the same plethora of first-season sires with yearlings on offer in 2011 as 12 months ago.

The best represented freshman at Doncaster is July Cup winner

• Paddy Twomey’s Hawthorn Villa Stud offers a Refuse To Bend half-brother to Doncaster Premier Yearling Sale recordholder Tatbeeq, who made 275,000gns in 2006.

• Paul and Sara Thorman of Trickledown Stud will be the week’s busiest vendors, with 22 lots catalogued.

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SALES CIRCUIT

By EDWARD PROSSER AND CARL EVANS

Revival of fortunes

Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale Top lots Age/Sex/Breeding

Vendor

Price (€) Buyer

3g Presenting-Hollygrove Cezanne (King’s Ride)

Gatterstown Stud

340,000 Alan Potts

3g King’s Theatre-Famous Lady (Presenting)

Denis Cleary/Pallas Stud

175,000 Fogg & Barber

Both the later store horse auctions and early yearling sales in America and Japan give cause for optimism

3g King’s Theatre-Sno-cat Lady (Executive Perk)

Thomas Coleman/Quanstown Stud

160,000 Alan Potts

3g King’s Theatre-Sejour (Bob Back)

Mount Eaton Stud

145,000 Margaret O’Toole

3g Presenting-Omyn Supreme (Supreme Leader)

Hallstown Stables

140,000 Aiden Murphy

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n these pages a month ago we forecast some eye-catching prices at Tattersalls Ireland’s Derby Sale and it did not disappoint, with a top price of €340,000, the highest ever realised by a male store. While the lesser store sales struggle to recapture their former glory, the Derby Sale turnover has risen by nearly €5 million from its nadir in 2009.

There were similarly positive signals at the top end of Arqana’s July Sale in Saint-Cloud, with several expensive purchases heading to Britain and Ireland for the new jumping season, while eyebrows were raised by the prices made for an ordinary catalogue at Tattersalls’ July Sale in Newmarket.

Farther afield, the yearling sales started in Japan and America and early indications were encouraging. The JRHA sale of yearlings and foals saw a tremendously buoyant market, with turnover up by 41% on last year’s figure, while at the Fasig-Tipton July Yearling Sale in Kentucky, condensed to one session from two last year, trade was solid, if not spectacular.

Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale There may have been several hundred stallions covering jumping mares in Britain and Ireland in 2011 but it was just two of those who seemed to preoccupy buyers at Tattersalls Ireland’s Derby Sale in June.

The progeny of King’s Theatre, who died just before the sale, and Presenting each accounted for four of the top ten lots, with just the unexposed Coolmore duo Milan and Westerner breaking their stranglehold with one offering apiece.

Presenting was sire of the top lot, a €340,000 three-year-old who landed a colossal profit when becoming the dearest male store ever sold. The gelding had been bought for just €30,000 as a yearling by Irish showjumping legend Tommy Wade and was sold from his County Tipperary-based

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3g Milan-Open Cry (Montelimar)

Liss House

140,000 Pat Betts

3g King’s Theatre-Donna’s Princess (Supreme Leader)

Ashwood Stud

135,000 M V Magnier

3g Westerner-Fortune’s Girl (Ardross)

Goldford Stud (Agent)

135,000 Highflyer Bloodstock

3g Presenting-Glen Empress (Lancastrian)

Galbertstown Stud

130,000 Desmond Hughes

3g Presenting- Sweet Liss (Saddlers’ Hall)

Hawthorn Villa Stud

125,000 M V Magnier

Ten-year tale Year

Agg (€)

Avg (€)

Clearance (%)

2011

10,455,000

31,586

76

2010

7,489,250

26,940

67

2009

5,498,700

23,201

63

2008

8,919,000

33,913

68

2007

15,754,500

43,163

75

2006

15,102,000

44,029

81

2005

11,192,500

37,061

72

2004

12,893,500

37,050

82

2003

9,837,100

30,550

79

2002

11,312,926

32,696

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The five most expensive stores (all sold at Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale) Name/Breeding

Price (€)

Year

Buyer

Corbetstown Queen

350,000

2006

Michael Daly

3g Presenting-Hollygrove Cezanne

340,000

2011

Alan Potts

Empire Of Dirt

325,000

2010

Gigginstown House Stud

Mobile Sizer

320,000

2010

Alan Potts

Lord Ragnar

305,000

2007

Richard Kelvin Hughes

Arqana July Sale Saint-Cloud Top lots Name/Age/Sex/Sire

Vendor

Ranjaan (3c Dubai Destination)

Aga Khan Studs

Price (€) 200,000

Buyer Highflyer Bloodstock

Gevrey Chambertin (3c Dom Alco)

E Clayeux

150,000

HB Bloodstock

Darroun, (3c Dalakhani)

Aga Khan Studs

140,000

Willie Mullins

Utopian (3g Kapgarde)

E Clayeux

120,000

Nick Gifford

Kazlian (3c Sinndar)

Aga Khan Studs

120,000

T J Bloodstock

Mentalist (3c Westerner)

Elie Lellouche

110,000

Guy Petit

War Singer (4c War Chant)

J-C Rouget

100,000

HB Bloodstock

Jumpstyle Davis (2c Saint Des Saints)

Haras de Grandcamp

78,000

J Bertran de Balanda

Unveiled (3f Galileo)

N Clement

65,000

Abeth Mussat

Parigino, (3c Panis)

F Chappet

62,000

Nick Gifford

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Gatterstown Stud.

Alan Potts, who paid €320,000 for the as yet unraced Mobile Sizer at the 2010 sale, bought the top lot.

It is likely that several of the dearer offerings will race for Michael O’Leary, Sue Magnier or J P McManus but there were some noticeably strong British buyers in action.

Ian Fogg, who told The Irish Field that “a year ago I couldn’t even spell the word horse” has been taken by the racing bug since moving to the village of Ditcheat, the base of Paul Nicholls, a year ago.

With Nicholls’s landlord Paul Barber, Fogg paid €175,000 for a King’s Theatre gelding, while Pat Betts, a long-standing owner with Josh and Nick Gifford, spent €140,000 on a Milan three-year-old.

Of the 60 lots to make €50,000 or more, only three were fillies and just five were four-year-olds.

Highclere Thoroughbred Racing’s National Hunt side stepped up a gear at the Arqana July Sale with the €200,000 purchase of three-year-old Ranjaan, who has joined Paul Nicholls and is being syndicated in a 30-share partnership.

Anthony Bromley and David Powell of Highflyer Bloodstock signed for the Dubai Destination colt at a sale where Anglo-Irish interest was strong. Willie Mullins paid €140,000 for another Aga Khan offering, Darroun, while Nick Gifford was another recipient of a six-figure purchase, Utopian, who realised €120,000.

Gevrey Chambertin, who made €150,000, is set to join his full-brother Grand Crus at David Pipe’s stable and was bought by the star hurdler’s owners Roger Stanley and Yvonne Reynolds. Also likely to head to Pipe’s Somerset stable are War Singer (€100,000) and Kazlian (€120,000).

Tattersalls July Sale To most eyes, Tattersalls’ July Sale catalogue this year was distinctly ordinary but the international crowds flocked to Newmarket seemingly intent on snapping up the best horses that did turn up.

The longest distance travellers included Tim Stakemire who, acting for Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Maktoum, was shopping for mares to head to Australia, while Guy Mulcaster was looking for horses in training to join Chris Waller in Sydney.

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Cape Cross four-year-old Top Spin topped the July Sale when bought for J P McManus

breeding operation in Russia, paid 80,000gns for the filly One Day In Spain under the Stud Farm 711 banner, but it was a jumping prospect who headed the way, John Murphy’s homebred Top Spin. J P McManus’s racing

manager Frank Berry paid 175,000gns for the Cape Cross colt.

The sale traditionally features an impressive clearance rate and 87% of those offered found new homes.

Tattersalls July Sale Top lots Name/Age/Sex/Sire

Vendor

Top Spin (4c Cape Cross)

Highfort Stud

Price (gns) 175,000

Buyer

Eclaircie (7m Thunder Gulch)

Hillwood Stud

85,000

Rabbah Bloodstock

Casual Glimpse (3c Compton Place)

Sir Robert Ogden

83,000

Mohammed Alattiyah

Trishuli (4f Indian Ridge)

New England Stud

80,000

BBA Ireland

One Day In Spain (3f Red Ransom)

Darley/Trillium Place Stables

80,000

Stud Farm 711

Above All (3g Nayef)

Hadi Al Tajir/Shadwell Stud

75,000

Chris Waller

Amallna (3f Green Desert)

Darley

70,000

David Redvers BS

Redskin Dancer (3f Namid)

Currabeg Stables

70,000

Boyce Bloodstock

Snowflake Dancer (2c Dylan Thomas)

Glebe House Stables

70,000

Willie Musson Racing

Dazzledar (3f Zamindar)

Juddmonte Farms

68,000

Tim Stakemire

Frank Berry

Five-year tale Year

Agg (gns)

Avg (gns)

Med (gns)

Clearance (%)

2011

5,910,800

12,934

7,000

87

2010

5,835,000

12,284

6,000

80

2009

5,546,700

12,664

6,500

87

2008

7,515,200

14,823

7,900

81

2007

10,951,300

18,468

11,000

87

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SALES CIRCUIT King Kamehameha, claimed the sale’s secondhighest price, a half-brother to top racehorse and Darley stallion Admire Moon from the family of Katies (Nonoalco), who won the Irish 1,000 Guineas in Terry Ramsden’s colours.

Racehorse owner Takaya Shimakawa bought him for ¥260,000,000 (£2m) and in a catalogue laced with European influence a strong son of the Brian Meehan-trained Cheveley Park Stakes winner Donna Blini reaped ¥80,000,000 (£615,384) to a bid from Riki Takahashi.

Donna Blini was bought by Katsumi Yoshida for 500,000gns at Tattersalls’ December Sale in 2006.

An American link created the second highestpriced foal, by Deep Impact out of the Grade 2 Monmouth Breeders’ Cup Oaks winner Magic Storm (Storm Cat). He made ¥130,000,000 (£1,000,000) when bought by owner Hajime Satomi.

This daughter of Deep Impact out of Air Groove sold for a record ¥360,000,000

Fasig-Tipton July Sale

Japan’s racing and breeding industry threw off the cloak of austerity and created record figures at its major yearling and foal auction.

Headlining the two-day Select Sale, held in July at Northern Horse Park on the island of Hokkaido, was a record-breaking ¥360,000,000 (£2.77m) yearling daughter of Deep Impact, the revered son of Sunday Silence who brought planeloads of Japanese racing fans to Paris for the 2006 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.

His defeat is being expunged from the memory by top-grade success for his first-crop threeyear-olds and buyers simply could not get enough of his stock.

Tokyo bloodstock agent Nobutaka Tada, a frequent visitor to Europe and set to be at Tattersalls’ Book 1 yearling sale, bought the Deep Impact yearling. He was foaled by Air Groove (Tony Bin), runner-up in the Japanese Oaks and two Japan Cups, and now responsible for eight winners, headed by the dual Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Cup heroine Admire Groove.

Tada, buying for an undisclosed pair of new Japanese clients, also bought them the sale’s ¥250,000,000 (£1.9m) top foal, who, like the yearling, was consigned by Katsumi Yoshida’s Northern Farm. The Deep Impact connection in this case was as half-brother to the youngster, for they were both foaled by Wind In Her Hair, who won the Group 1 Aral-Pokal for trainer John Hills and was second to Balanchine in the 1994 Oaks before selling privately to her current owner.

The foal’s sire was Japanese Derby winner Neo Universe, responsible for this year’s Dubai World Cup winner Victoire Pisa, one of three Japanese possibles for October’s Arc. Overall figures for the event surprised industry monitors, for the clearance rate achieved 79%, the average rose 23.8% to

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JRHA Select Sale

Nobutaka Tada is planning a UK visit

¥25,620,000 (£197,000), while turnover shot up to ¥9,173,200,000 (£70,563,000), a climb of 41.2%. This followed four years of falls at the sale and came off the back of March’s catastrophic earthquake and tsunami that claimed 23,000 lives and damaged a nuclear power plant that remains unstable.

A period of mourning followed, but the brake had to be eased at some point and by releasing some very choice horses to the market the Yoshida brothers – Katsumi and Teruya – seemed to be saying, ‘It’s time we moved on’.

Tada alluded to this when saying of the Deep Impact yearling: “It is rare to have an opportunity to buy such a special filly, with both physical perfection and a great pedigree.”

Japan’s champion sire, the Kingmambo horse

A one-day pipe-opener for the American yearling season was held at Fasig-Tipton on July 12, with 191 of the 261 yearlings offered at the select sale selling for a total of $13,349,000.

While the average fell by almost 8% to $69,890, the median of $60,000 was a 20% improvement on last year’s figure, when the sale was held over two sessions.

Winstar Farm’s Harlan’s Holiday was responsible for two of the top five lots, including the sales-topper, a colt out of the stakes-placed Include mare Acrosstheborder. John Moynihan, acting on behalf of the late Jess Jackson’s Stonestreet Stable, in partnership with George Bolton, signed the ticket at $310,000.

Moynihan also acquired the second most expensive filly of the sale on Stonestreet’s behalf when going to $220,000 for a daughter of Dehere out of the unraced Maria’s Mon horse Marialua from the family of Prix de Diane winner Confidential Lady.

Tapit, currently riding high on the US sires’ list, had the top-priced female of the day, when the Gainesway-consigned chestnut filly out of Easily went the way of Winchell Thoroughbreds for $300,000.

Forty-one of the lots to change hands sold for $100,000 or more, including one private sale.

Fasig-Tipton July Sale Top lots Sex/Sire/Dam

Vendor

c Harlan’s Holiday ex Acrosstheborder

Crossroads Sales Agency

Price ($) 310,000

Stonestreet & George Bolton

Buyer

f Tapit ex Easily

Gainesway Agent

300,000

Winchell Thbrds, D. Fiske, Agt

c Lemon Drop Kid ex Wow Me Free

Warrendale Sales Agent

230,000

Iv Ben Glass, Agent

c Harlan’s Holiday ex Shiny Band

Gainesway Agent

225,000

Eqb Inc, Agent

f Dehere ex Marialua

Dapple Stud Agent for 220,000 Twin Hopes Farm and Helen T Andrews

Stonestreet Stables Llc

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BBAG September Sale with a high black type rate

This year’s BBAG Yearling Sale will take place on Friday, 2nd September, prior to the BadenBaden summer meeting’s highlight, the Gr.1 Grosser Preis von Baden. In a year of continued success of German breeding, with the Group-winning Acatenango mare Dalicia, dam of the Gr.1 Kentucky Derby hero Animal Kingdom, having been sold to Team Valor at Baden-Baden.

This year’s top sales graduates are currently headed by the Gr.2 Oaks d'Italia winner and Gr.2 Derby Italiano third Danedream (Lomitas), Gr.2 German 1,000 Guineas winner Lips Poison, Alianthus who won four Group races in 2011 over 1mile in a row, and the Gr.1 Deutsches Derby second and third, Earl Of Tinsdal and Saltas.

Thirty-six siblings to Group winners are on offer including siblings to Gr.1 winners Fraulein, Meridiana, Night Magic, Querari, Rosenreihe and Well Made. There are 143 (55%) yearlings out of black-type mares or siblings to black-type horses.

All the leading domestic consignors are represented among the 260 catalogued yearlings, as well as some from abroad. There are youngsters on offer by leading European sires Galileo, Montjeu, Dansili, Oasis Dream, Dubawi and High Chaparral; leading national sires such as Big Shuffle, Tertullian, Areion, Sholokhov, Lomitas, Mamool, Lando and Monsun, as well as young stallions including Amadeus Wolf, Authorized, Lawman, Manduro, Mount Nelson, New Approach, Rail Link, Sir Percy, Teofilo and Three Valleys.

The leading offer could be Gestut Etzean's lot number 178, a Sholokhov colt out of the Monsun mare Night Woman and thus an own brother to the Group I and Classic scoring champion Night Magic. Gestut Karlhof's lot 62 as a filly from the first crop of the Epsom Derby hero New Approach and a half-sister to the multiple Group winning leading miler Alianthus.

Gestut Wittekindshof’s consignment includes a Galileo colt out of the Gr.II winning mare Nordtanzerin as well as a High Chaparral colt (Lot 49) out of the multiple Group and Stakes producing Alkalde mare Salde whose latest top performer is the German Derby third Saltas.

Gestut Fahrhof offers a Sir Percy colt (lot 140) out of a Stakes producing half-sister to the dam of this year's German Derby hero Waldpark and an Oasis Dream full sister to Gr.I winner Querari. Gestut Ebbesloh is offering a Montjeu filly (lot 70) bred from the Group II Prix de Pomone winning Polish Precedent mare Avanti Polonia.

Gestut Gorlsdorf, which will offer all their yearlings with BBAG this year, has an Authorized colt from the family of Dubai Millennium in their draft as well as a brother to US Grade I winner Fraulein. Gestut Westerberg will consign a full sister to Godolphin’s Antara and also a Teofilo colt which is the first product out of Prix Robert Papin, Gr.II winner Boccassini.

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ROA FORUM: ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING The special section for ROA members

‘We must focus on the best of our sport’ Rachel Hood used her inaugural address as ROA President to call for the introduction of a three-tiered fixture structure in British racing

T

he ROA AGM on June 23 saw new President Rachel Hood call for immediate action to be taken to deal with the massive drop in levy funding of prize-money, proposing the creation of a three-tiered fixture system.

Hood presented figures which showed the problems created by a fixture list which had grown 25% over ten years, when the levy’s budgeted contribution to prize-money had fallen sharply over the same period, and was projected to be only £34 million in 2011 and even worse in 2012.

She argued it was essential for overseasbased betting operators to pay levy on bets taken on British racing and that there should be a level playing field between traditional bookmakers and the betting exchanges.

“This system would

protect and enhance the unique heritage of our racing” While the structure of jump racing was described as needing “fine tuning”, the Flat required more effective measures.

Hood said: “We must take matters into our own hands in dealing with problems that are getting worse by the day.”

Owners were being badly affected because new media rights being paid by bookmakers to racecourses were not matching the decline in the levy, and racecourses were not obliged to pay a proportion of their new income into prize-money.

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The new team: President Rachel Hood and Vice-President Tony Hirschfeld

The new strategy would see fixtures which cater for moderate horses being directly financed by the betting industry.

Under her plan, ‘premier’ and ‘middle’ tier fixtures would have to comply with the prize-money tariffs of the Horsemen’s Group, as well as with race planning requirements.

There would be contractual agreements between the racecourses, which would bid for fixtures, and the horsemen.

The proposed ‘third’ tier fixtures would be free from levy support, scheduled on days

and times of choice to suit racecourses and be free of prize-money stipulations.

She concluded: “Such a system would not only protect the unique heritage of British racing, it would enhance it.

“It would preserve the basic structure of the fixture list and allow important punctuation points – the festival meetings – within the racing year to be built upon. It would create a perfect climate for the QIPCO-sponsored British Champions’ Series to flourish.”

How would the third tier work?

Third tier fixtures, while bound by the rules of racing, would be funded not through the Levy Board but by a direct commercial relationship between racecourses and bookmakers. The everdiminishing levy yield, which in 2011 is forecast to contribute its smallest amount to prize-money for a decade, would finance premier and middle tier fixtures.

In the third tier, racecourses would be

able to maximise their attendances by putting on fixtures on any days they wanted. There would be no restrictions on programming and no minimum prizemoney levels.

Rachel Hood said: “If racecourses can attract runners, media rights payments and levels of attendance that make these fixtures a worthwhile commercial exercise, then it must be allowed to happen.”

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www.racehorseowners.net CRUNCHING THE NUMBERS Fixtures and media rights payments increase while levy income declines

Dixon expresses regret in outgoing speech

Paul and Yvette Dixon receive gifts from Rachel Hood

Fixtures have been maintained at around 1,500 while the levy’s contribution to prize-money diminishes

The levy yield has dropped every year since 2007/08 while media rights payments continue to increase

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Paul Dixon bowed out after his four-year Presidency of the ROA by telling the assembled audience how much he would have liked to have finished his term on a high.

“Sadly, I cannot do this,” Dixon said. “Recent events with the sale of the Tote and what is currently happening with the state of the levy cannot give any of us reason for satisfaction.

“I still find it is barely credible that the exclusive pool betting licence in this country is about to become the property of a bookmaker. And it is almost as painful to know that the government has precipitated this outcome. It is one thing for the government to have forced the sale of the Tote’s betting shops, but the exclusive rights to pool betting! Words fail me.

“No doubt the government will claim that the £90 million racing is due to receive is fair payment for losing one of its crown jewels. I don’t agree, especially as this money will be drip-fed over a number of years with conditions attached as to what it can be spent on.

“In my book the government owes British racing a massive good turn for the harm it has done in selling the pool betting right to a bookmaker. And if they are going to save this great sport and industry of ours from a complete meltdown, they now have to act quickly to ensure new legislation is passed either to modernise the levy or to replace it.

“But it has not all been doom and gloom. The development of the Horsemen’s Group, as the representative body of owners, trainers, breeders, jockeys and stable staff, has really started to show its strength. The Horsemen’s Tariff has been one of the best innovations within the industry for a long time, responsible for adding nearly £7 million to prize-money.

“At the same time, the Horsemen’s Group’s will be playing an increasing role in the area of fixtures and race planning through a new committee that has recently been set up. It is for these reasons that I am as enthusiastic as ever to remain involved in racing politics in my capacity of Horsemen’s Group Chairman.”

He added: “It has been a pleasure to work with many gifted and dedicated Council members and with the ROA executive, particularly the Chief Executive Michael Harris. It might be something of a culture shock to be on the ‘back benches’ at future Council meetings, though I can promise you I will never be far from any ROA debate involving racing politics.”

• AGM speeches are available in full at www.racehorseowners.net

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Friends reunited After the serious business of the AGM, members, their guests and industry figures were offered the chance to unwind at a champagne reception generously sponsored by Markel Photos Dan Abraham

Camilla Baker and Beth Sharkey

Steve Donoughue, Michael Harris and John Fleming

Ian Balding, Toby Balding and Gordon Summers

James Underwood and Paul Struthers

Alan Delmonte and Greg Wood

Josh Apiafi and Bruce Millington

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John Gosden, Sir Peter O'Sullevan and Robert Waley-Cohen

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Lady Burnham and Julian Richmond-Watson

Sir Eric Parker and Ruth Quinn

Mark Crossman, Nick Robinson and Kay Russell

Scott Bowers and Rupert Arnold

Michael Broke and Julian Muscat

Peter Cundell and Keely Brewer

Yvette Dixon, Jilly Cooper and Stephanie Hirschfeld

David Thorpe and Charlie Methven

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New faces join the ROA Council after elections

Will Duff Gordon (left) has been elected to the ROA Council, along with Paul Duffy, Sheila Bailey and Alan Pickering

youngest member of the Council. He has owned horses for 13 years and now has horses with Hugo Palmer.

Sheila Bailey, a charity professional, has been an owner in partnerships for seven years, most recently with trainer Gary Moore. Paul Duffy has been an owner for 12 years and runs the

Industry-wide survey results Rod Fabricius, flanked by wife Debbie (left) and Antonia Deuters

Deuters award After three decades spent as General Manager at Goodwood racecourse, Rod Fabricius was named as the fourth recipient of the Chris Deuters Award in recognition of his services to the sport.

Fabricius, who said he was “deeply humbled” by the accolade, follows previous winners Sir Eric Parker, Jack Berry and Sir Peter O’Sullevan.

The award is named in honour of the former ROA President and Levy Board Deputy Chairman and was presented by Deuters’s widow, Antonia, at the ROA AGM in June.

She said: “Chris and I loved Goodwood and spent the whole of the Glorious week there as a holiday, so I know at first hand how much Rod has done for the course.”

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Racing For Change has unveiled the findings of its industry-wide online survey, representing the views of over 3,800 racing constituents; owners, trainers, breeders, stable staff, racecourse employees, punters and industry professionals.

The survey looked at a number of areas including racecourse attendance and facilities, betting behaviour, TV viewing behaviour and opinions on RFC initiatives.

There was common consensus that RFC’s top

partnership of Hennessy Gold Cup winner Diamond Harry.

Alan Pickering was successful in his fifth attempt to be elected, having narrowly missed out before. He has been an owner for 25 years and has four horses in training with Nicky Vaughan.

three priorities over the next two years should be improving the customer experience on racedays, promoting the sport to new audiences, and increasing the presence of racing in the media.

In terms of owners, 1,314 took part and the majority of those who responded rated their love of the sport and horses as a prime reason for investment. Betting was not a major factor for nearly six out of ten owners surveyed, but receiving a financial return was important to around half of those polled.

The results of a second piece of research, through a similar survey of the wider public, will be published later in the summer.

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The ROA Council elections saw Steven Astaire, Jeremy Gompertz and Stephen Smith re-elected for a further four-year term. They will be joined on the 19-strong Council by Sheila Bailey, Will Duff Gordon, Paul Duffy and Alan Pickering CBE, who were all newly elected to Council.

Will Duff Gordon – at 33 – becomes the

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ROA MEMBER IN FOCUS:

Frank Lowe

There is nothing unusual about a David Nicholls-trained sprinter winning, but in the case of Ralphy Boy there was a notable first.

For when the juvenile scored on his debut at Catterick in June, it was a first winner for owner Frank Lowe, who for good measure bred the colt.

“I’ve been an owner for the past ten years, but never had a winner until Ralphy Boy,” says Lowe, whose horse followed up at Haydock.

“I started off on the Flat with James Given and I’ve had a couple of jumpers who have come second and third, but never first, so it’s been superb with Ralphy Boy. Last time we beat Michael Owen’s horse.

“I got into racing through going to Haydock as a lad, from about the age of 15. I really enjoyed racing; it is a great day out and it’s good for promotion too – I have taken a few boxes at Carlisle over the past few years.

Basically, racing has been in my blood from an early age.”

Lowe, who lives six miles from Carlisle and has two companies, Albion Ltd, which supplies men’s clothing, and Magnus Homes, a building firm, adds: “I am more of a Flat man. I used to watch Be Friendly, but also Persian War a couple of times and so I’m a little bit torn between the two, but overall I prefer the Flat.”

Explaining how he came to breed as well as own a winner, Lowe continues: “I bought the mare Silcasue at Tattersalls in the foal sales, but was a bit naive at the time. I took some advice but it was the wrong advice and there was something wrong with her rear leg, so she couldn’t race.

“We’ve therefore waited for her to be a

broodmare, and in addition to Ralphy Boy we have a yearling filly by Rock Of Gibraltar and a filly foal by Tiger Hill.

“We’ve particularly high hopes for the Rock Of Gibraltar – she’s looking the part and moves well, so fingers crossed she’ll be good.

“In the meantime, I do think Ralphy Boy will continue to progress and will eventually get a mile. But I leave race planning and training to Dandy.”

That said, Lowe does have a firm view on the type of races, and tracks, he thinks his colt should be involved with.

He says: “I do take an interest in racing politics, and I think Mark Johnston has a lot of good ideas. I personally don’t want to run in a race if it’s below tariff, and I’d also say that some racecourses are disappointing when it comes to facilities for owners and trainers. I prefer to run at tracks that offer good facilities.”

‘Why David Nicholls?’ is a question hardly worth putting to an owner/breeder with a sprinter on their hands, but Lowe adds: “It was very hard to choose a trainer. I spent a long time looking at statistics on the Racing Post website.

“But Ralphy Boy is by Acclamation and as I thought his distance was going to be five furlongs to eight furlongs – maybe nine at a push – Dandy is one of the top guys in the business with sprinters, so I chose him.”

‘Why Ralphy Boy?’ is, however, a question only Lowe can answer. He explains: “My eldest son is called Ralph, so the colt is named after him. The next one will be named Vicky something after my daughter, and my youngest son is Jonathan. My wife Susan shares my interest in racing, so it’s a family affair.”

Owner weighs up champagne win

ROA member Evan Sutherland at his weigh-in on Friday, July 8 at Newmarket’s July Festival. Mr Sutherland was the winner of the ROA members’ competition, run in partnership with Piper-Heidsieck, whereby any ROA member who joined The Racing Lottery, Racing Welfare’s major fundraising initiative, during the months of April, May and June was automatically entered into a draw to win their own weight in champagne

Diary dates and reminders NOVEMBER 12 Paddy Power Gold Cup day Enjoy the ROA’s exclusive marquee for members and guests at Cheltenham for the Saturday of The Open meeting.

DECEMBER 1 ROA/sportingbet.com Horseracing Awards evening Celebrating the horses and owners of the year, as voted for by members. The black tie awards, dinner and dance is held at the London Hilton, Park Lane.

Frank Lowe receives his prize after Ralphy Boy’s success at Haydock in June

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Gary French, Glen Clayton, Robert Kemp, Margaret Kemp and Michelle French enjoy the hospitality in the ROA chalet

Markus Graff, Deirdre Johnston, Mark Johnston and Irene Graff on the balcony area which overlooks the track

Royal Ascot facility proves big success The ROA’s special hospitality chalet on all five days of Royal Ascot proved to be very popular, with excellent feedback given by the members and guests who attended.

The facility, with a capacity of 50 people each day, provided stylish and comfortable

surroundings in which to enjoy the day’s racing, with a champagne reception, four-course sit-down lunch and afternoon tea. The ROA chalet proved to be a lucky base for some, as it hosted the owners of two winners at the meeting, much to the delight

of the assembled guests who joined in the celebrations.

It is hoped that we will be able to repeat the chalet offer at next year’s royal meeting.

A full gallery of pictures can be viewed on www.racehorseowners.net/Events

DID YOU KNOW? What happens when a race divides When the entries are first published, any race which could possibly divide will be shown as “may divide”. If, however, more races are able to divide than can be accommodated within the overall maximum of seven or eight races, BHA will issue an order of preference.

At the declaration stage, a field of 20 is required for division even if the safety figure is below 20. Weatherbys will liaise with the clerk of the course over the running time of any divisions but BHA will confirm the running order only once they have checked for possible clashes with other meetings.

In order to divide a race, a process is carried out by Weatherbys, splitting the declared runners into two races,

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distributing evenly horses in the same ownership or training, and splitting winners equally between the two divisions in non-handicaps. In handicaps, every attempt is made to achieve an equal distribution of weights (although this is secondary to ensuring equal distribution of owners and trainers).

The prize-money for the second division of a divided race is provided by the Levy Board, through the Divided Races Fund, but the value of each division will be reduced by £500 from the originally published figure.

Tariff values The Horsemen’s Group recommends that when a race divides which offered prize-money at tariff on entry, and then falls below tariff due to the deduction under the rules of racing of £500 for the divided race and the additional race, the racecourse should increase prize-money by £500 in each case, bringing the purses back to tariff levels.

The reasoning behind this clarification reflects the benefit the

racecourse staging the race receives from a significant extra media rights payment and it is from this extra income that the horsemen believe the prizemoney should be restored.

“We debated the divided race conundrum and came to the conclusion that it would be reasonable for the racecourse benefiting from additional media rights income to restore the prize-money back to minimum tariff,” said Alan Morcombe, Chief Executive of the Horsemen’s Group.

“This is the recommendation we are making to horsemen and we hope that the racecourses will respond positively.”

Weatherbys Text Messaging Service Last month we published details of Weatherbys Text Messaging Service.

Unfortunately, some of the pricing and contact information was updated after we went to press. Correct information is available at www.weatherbys.co.uk or by calling Karen Osborne on 01933 440077.

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Racecourse League Table Ptn Racecourse

Racecourse ownership

Exec + Sponsors (£)

1 Cheltenham JCR 3,251,589 2 Aintree JCR 1,763,912 3 Chester I 770,178 4 Fakenham I 173,047 5 Ascot I 4,387,105 6 York I 2,527,204 7 Hereford North 170,112 8 Ffos Las North 498,234 9 Ripon I 369,248 10 Musselburgh I 514,808 11 Wincanton JCR 343,361 12 Haydock Park JCR 1,329,644 13 Hamilton Park I 281,617 14 Beverley I 325,875 15 Epsom Downs JCR 1,235,622 16 Goodwood I 1,459,896 17 Newton Abbot I 264,756 18 Ayr I 706,962 19 Perth I 213,980 20 Taunton I 209,098 21 Bath North 219,246 22 Thirsk I 220,139 23 Cartmel I 91,112 24 Sandown Park JCR 1,110,395 25 Salisbury I 309,402 26 Doncaster Arena 1,457,537 27 Chepstow North 300,987 28 Bangor-on-Dee I 178,118 29 Newbury I 1,250,769 30 Wetherby I 203,752 31 Leicester I 320,996 32 Pontefract I 278,238 33 Newmarket JCR 3,086,297 34 Windsor Arena 320,352 35 Stratford-on-Avon I 233,585 36 Sedgefield North 148,819 37 Brighton North 173,050 38 Nottingham JCR 219,162 39 Market Rasen JCR 246,836 40 Kelso I 129,684 41 Kempton Park JCR 1,136,869 42 Warwick JCR 257,044 43 Newcastle North 337,955 44 Yarmouth North 198,400 45 Worcester Arena 131,125 46 Carlisle JCR 190,630 47 Catterick Bridge I 158,687 48 Folkestone Arena 142,585 49 Uttoxeter North 175,424 50 Lingfield Park Arena 683,622 51 Exeter JCR 168,242 52 Ludlow I 96,543 53 Plumpton I 106,296 54 Hexham I 88,662 55 Huntingdon JCR 113,235 56 Wolverhampton Arena 546,089 57 Redcar I 184,835 58 Fontwell Park North 128,380 59 Southwell Arena 372,516 60 Towcester I 57,411 Total 36,569,268

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% of Total

Levy Board (£)

59.3 1,414,572 57.4 854,392 51.2 595,570 51.2 163,260 50.6 2,256,745 49.8 1,279,482 45.7 152,452 45.5 493,960 45.3 321,041 44.6 530,182 44.4 360,020 44.3 1,222,336 42.7 315,600 42.6 353,680 42.5 865,070 42.5 1,447,814 42.4 355,130 41.2 742,444 40.5 285,010 40.1 278,135 39.8 272,682 39.2 239,682 38.9 121,530 38.6 1,336,690 38.1 381,102 37.1 1,392,988 35.5 441,120 35.4 292,643 34.9 1,712,652 34.9 327,616 34.4 482,007 33.9 456,480 33.7 2,707,383 33.6 515,650 33.2 406,885 33.1 262,430 32.3 309,790 31.3 342,860 31.1 473,040 30.5 258,238 30.4 2,120,875 29.8 491,198 28.9 657,970 28.6 396,592 27.8 272,163 26.9 441,421 26.6 369,090 26.4 349,821 26.0 409,880 25.2 1,706,778 24.7 433,172 24.3 264,750 24.1 300,918 23.9 243,948 23.6 312,082 23.3 1,489,925 23.1 321,200 23.0 376,718 22.6 1,139,705 12.9 344,842 39.4 39,463,411

% of Total

Owners (£)

% of Total

25.8 816,706 27.8 456,980 39.6 88,322 48.3 0 26.0 1,998,070 25.2 1,248,747 40.9 45,485 45.1 97,334 39.4 98,566 45.9 97,986 46.5 64,700 40.8 397,305 47.9 54,249 46.2 59,955 29.8 796,580 42.1 508,755 56.8 5,180 43.3 243,094 54.0 25,750 53.4 33,734 49.5 49,104 42.7 63,419 51.9 21,572 46.4 401,096 46.9 70,313 35.5 1,000,299 52.1 99,060 58.1 27,635 47.7 519,084 56.1 47,726 51.6 92,541 55.6 50,679 29.5 3,253,490 54.1 94,871 57.8 59,021 58.4 38,466 57.9 46,535 49.0 85,387 59.6 68,318 60.7 32,051 56.7 347,308 56.9 98,343 56.3 148,032 57.3 72,785 57.8 52,745 62.2 67,022 61.9 49,055 64.8 45,207 60.7 78,310 63.0 219,662 63.7 67,566 66.6 36,031 68.1 32,350 65.8 31,052 64.9 49,403 63.6 198,111 40.1 268,619 67.4 51,801 69.1 110,673 77.3 37,697 42.5 15,319,937

14.9 14.9 5.9 0 23.1 24.6 12.2 8.9 12.1 8.5 8.4 13.3 8.2 7.8 27.4 14.8 0.8 14.2 4.9 6.5 8.9 11.3 9.2 13.9 8.7 25.5 11.7 5.5 14.5 8.2 9.9 6.2 35.5 10.0 8.4 8.6 8.7 12.2 8.6 7.5 9.3 11.4 12.7 10.5 11.2 9.5 8.2 8.4 11.6 8.1 9.9 9.1 7.3 8.4 10.3 8.5 33.6 9.3 6.7 8.5 16.5

Total (£)

Total 2009-10 % total Up/ (£) 2009-10 down

5,482,868 5,722,574 3,075,284 3,155,582 1,503,570 1,564,925 338,307 371,700 8,666,420 9,408,819 5,076,433 4,939,475 372,499 434,449 1,094,528 913,192 815,855 842,002 1,153,976 1,140,977 773,581 762,855 2,998,385 3,581,038 659,466 766,464 765,010 863,691 2,906,272 3,075,070 3,436,965 3,704,457 625,066 634,503 1,715,500 1,956,035 527,740 633,360 520,967 475,306 550,581 694,736 561,140 771,550 234,214 218,700 2,879,181 3,539,939 812,867 993,245 3,927,374 4,381,872 847,267 1,230,652 503,796 795,925 3,587,305 4,032,844 583,594 723,225 934,444 1,249,619 820,897 944,688 9,170,670 10,423,022 953,873 1,145,820 703,491 905,465 449,715 478,037 534,975 643,717 699,909 817,950 794,194 963,631 425,773 644,497 3,741,595 4,844,277 862,585 972,188 1,168,107 1,458,410 692,577 773,343 470,833 626,758 709,573 790,015 596,532 867,877 539,613 619,675 675,514 990,446 2,711,312 3,915,127 679,980 736,652 397,324 663,710 441,564 577,365 370,662 534,823 480,720 738,741 2,344,075 3,322,778 800,654 815,600 558,699 810,612 1,649,544 2,498,536 445,950 558,766 92,821,359 107,661,308

51.3 49.5 35.9 22.0 43.0 42.5 3.7 17.4 26.1 30.3 11.1 34.9 27.8 23.6 39.5 35.5 10.3 28.5 14.8 10.4 22.9 22.9 18.7 28.6 24.4 25.0 19.8 16.2 24.6 22.4 19.1 20.1 30.6 21.8 20.8 7.4 10.6 14.3 11.7 20.3 9.8 12.4 21.4 16.8 0.9 18.2 12.7 8.5 8.7 15.0 14.0 18.4 4.3 10.6 10.0 2.0 11.5 10.2 2.3 7.4 26.6

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In order of racecourses’ percentage contributions to overall prize-money.

Figures relate to prizemoney for the 12-month period July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2011

EXPLANATION This table sets out the three main contributors to prizemoney with percentages of the total: 1 Racecourses’ executive and sponsorship; 2 Levy Board; 3 Owners.

A small additional contribution is also made by the Divided Race Fund and the BHA Development Fund.

The order is taken from the percentage in the second column of figures. This shows how much each course has contributed to prize-money, expressed as a percentage of their overall prize-money. The arrows at the end of each line are based on a comparison between the percentages for the two rolling year periods.

If a racecourse has improved its position by this criteria it receives a green ‘up’ arrow. If the year-on-year percentage has decreased it receives a red ‘down’ arrow.

Note: All of the figures are produced on an ‘as originally programmed’ basis, i.e. where any transferred fixtures were originally programmed rather than where the fixtures have actually taken place. However, any transferred BHA ‘National’ fixtures and ‘Regional’ fixtures are attributed to the courses where the fixtures have actually taken place.

ABANDONMENTS: These occasionally distort performances relating to a track’s fixtures. The year-onyear percentage comparison on which this table is based can place tracks in a worse light than they deserve.

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The victory of Timepiece also added to the brilliant record that Zamindar has with fillies. She was his fifth individual Group 1 winner, joining the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe heroine Zarkava and Classic winners Zenda, Darjina and Coquerelle. Timepiece also hails from an excellent Juddmonte family, being out the winning Sadler’s Wells mare Clepsydra and is a half-sister to the Group 1-winning filly Passage Of Time, from the family of Twice Over.

Dubawi has enjoyed a successful month in both hemispheres, registering his sixth Group 1 winner when Waldpark landed the Group 1 Deutsches Derby, comfortably defeating a classy field including the Royal Ascot scorer Brown Panther.

Timepiece becomes a fifth Group 1 winner for her sire Zamindar

With the 2011 Flat season now in full flow, Newmarket’s July Festival provided a mid-season highlight.

British-breds enjoyed a total of 12 individual winners including five Pattern race winners, the highlight being Timepiece’s victory in the Group 1 Falmouth Stakes over 1m.

For the daughter of Zamindar, it was her second start at Group 1 level, and her first Group victory, adding to her four Listed wins, and continues an outstanding season for Prince Khalid Abdullah’s Juddmonte operation.

Always prominent throughout the race, she kept on gamely to defy her big odds of 16-1 to defeat the short priced favourite Sahpresa.

Waldpark is out of the German St Leger winner Wurftaube, and is a half-sister to the dam of Waldmark, who herself is the dam of Masked Marvel. Masked Marvel is now St Leger-bound after victory in the Group 3 Bahrain Trophy at the July meeting, following up his Listed victory earlier in the season.

Dubawi: now sire of six Group 1 winners worldwide

Dubawi, now the sire of 29 stakes winners worldwide, was also responsible for the filly Happy Archer who landed the Group 1 Garden Province Stakes at Greyville in South Africa. This was her second victory at the highest level after she also won the Group 1 Thekwini Fillies Stakes as a juvenile last July.

in the spotlight COMPTON PLACE )4 )3 YEARS SINCE #OMPTON 0LACE TRIUMPHED IN THE 'ROUP *ULY #UP AT BUT THE RECENT WINS OF $EACON "LUES SHOW THAT THE VETERAN SIRE IS STILL VERY MUCH AN INm UENCE ON THE SPRINTING RANKS The four-year-old Deacon Blues has shown marked improvement this season. After a promising second at Ascot on his seasonal debut in May, he put up a huge performance at Royal Ascot to land the Wokingham Handicap by a neck, and a month later he made his first start in Group company a winning one in the Group 3 Shadwell Stakes (registered as the Hackwood Stakes) at Newbury, scoring by over two lengths from the Group 1-winning Markab.

Compton Place, a son of Indian Ridge, was also a high-class performer at two in the hands of James Toller, placing in the Group 2 Gimcrack and Flying Childers Stakes. He has spent his whole stud career at Whitsbury Manor Stud in Hampshire where he has carved out a reputation as a good source of smart sprinting types.

His success with the Group 1 sprinter Borderlescott has kept him in the headlines in recent years, but prior to that he enjoyed Group race success with performers such as the smart juveniles Godfrey Street, Hunter Street and Prolific, as well as numerous other smart performers including the tough and talented mare Angus Newz, winner of 14 of her 88 starts.

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It is the toughness and durability of Compton Place’s progeny that Compton Place Whitsbury Manor Stud director Ed Harper believes is one of the keys to his success. “One of his most interesting stats is the high average number of runs his progeny have per season,� Harper explains. “Over four seasons, his progeny averaged more than 13 starts per runner, which I believe is better than any other stallion in Europe. Several of his progeny have run over 100 times. Trainers love them, whether they are rated 70 or over 100, because they are just so tough.�

In recent weeks, Compton Place has been represented by several promising juveniles, including Lady Gorgeous, Compton, and Minal hinting at more stakes success to come.

At 17, Compton Place’s popularity with breeders shows no sign of waning; he covered 70 mares this season, achieving a remarkable fertility rate of 92%, having covered 100 last season. “His progeny tend to be very correct and have great temperaments,�

Harper says. “Some breeders come back to him again and again; he’s a solid choice for a younger mare to get her off the mark with a winner.�

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THE NEXT GENERATION

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Be there...

AUGUST 5 Boyzone at Newmarket Maybe not everyone’s cup of tea but I bet you’ll be swaying along to ‘Love me for a reason’ with the rest of the July course!

AUGUST 17-20 York Ebor Meeting First-class racing set amidst a unique atmosphere you’ll struggle to find anywhere else in the UK.

AUGUST 22-25 Arqana August Sale, Deauville

Noseda the perfect host for NGC visit A lmost as oversubscribed as the Women’s Beach Volleyball Final at the 2012 Olympics, the third Next Generation Club event of the year involved a visit to Jeremy Noseda’s Shalfleet Stables in Newmarket.

Attendees may not have celebrated with quite the same vigour demonstrated by my brother upon receipt of his tickets to bikini-clad heaven but, nevertheless, the opportunity to go behind the scenes at one of the country’s most powerful stables was a unique treat for NGC members.

With just 25 places up for grabs, the lucky attendees assembled at a very sociable 8am before heading into the trotting ring to meet Jeremy and watch as he issued various instructions to his second-lot gallopers, which included the elusive former Wokingham winner Laddies Poker Two. After escaping the close confines of the indoor school unscathed, the group jumped in their cars to see the horses in action on the Polytrack, where Jeremy was happy to answer the

Not just the first yearling sale of the European season but by far the most glamorous. A mojito in the famous Brok Café is a must for any serious Deauville groupie.

SEPTEMBER 7-10 St Leger Festival, Doncaster A raucous four-day festival centred around the final and oldest Classic of the season. A certainty to attract Yorkshire’s finest, both on and off the course.

SEPTEMBER 17 Gold Cup Day, Ayr Enjoy unrivaled hospitality at Ayr for the prestigious Gold Cup, which takes star billing in a feast of competitive racing.

Jeremy Noseda’s large string prepares for action in the indoor ride at Shalfleet Stables

Talking Point...

Do you think the strength of French owner and breeder premiums will have an increasingly detrimental effect on the British racing industry?

Eoghan O’Neill, Former British-based trainer now in France “What you have to remember is that premiums have been in operation in France for decades, but I think it is only now that UK racing is in such poor shape that people are starting to realise and take advantage.

“There is obviously an increased chance of owners getting a return on their investment if they race or breed in France, but if English racing pulled itself together people would probably prefer to keep their horses there.

It is a very different product you are dealing with in France. That being said I have been here only a couple of years, but certainly

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90% of my owners are English and we have gained lots of new ones since relocating that I wouldn’t have had at home.”

same level in terms of quality of stallions at stud and, ultimately, racing is not deeprooted in their culture. What one industry has the other strives for – utopia would be British racing with French premiums.”

Anna Powell, British Bloodstock Marketing

Ludovic Cornuel,

“The French premium system is without a doubt a huge advantage for their industry, however, you have to take the industry as a whole and look at the big picture. Premiums make it look as though the grass is greener but on the other side they still look to British racing as their ultimate goal (Pour Moi and Goldikova are but two recent examples).

“In France, they don’t yet play on the

“The French prize-money and the owner and breeder premiums are without a doubt very attractive for the English owners willing to race horses in continental Europe. They offer a complementary alternative but I do not think that it threatens a racing programme or an industry which capitalises on a unique horseracing culture and tradition.”

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Q&A HEINRICH ANHOLD, CEO of Irish-based Epona Biotech, makers of a breakthrough portable equine blood analyzer NGC members join the trainer on the Limekilns gallop to watch third lot

increasingly in-depth questions from our visiting members.

After covering everything from the prevention of Aspergillus virus to the benefits of one Newmarket gallop over another, the team headed back to the yard where they were very generously provided with the breakfast of champions: champagne and a bacon buttie.

The refreshments were no doubt particularly welcomed by one particular NGC member who had been on the go since 4am to make the long journey down from Manchester to attend the visit.

With batteries fully recharged, the group proceeded to the Limekilns, where they were lucky enough to see some of Jeremy’s leading lights do a faster piece of work. The gallopers included Coventry Stakes runner-up Roman Soldier and Albany Stakes third Illaunglass, in addition to a few nice-looking two-year-old prospects, which promptly entered a couple of notebooks for the future.

The end of the four-hour visit saw Jeremy challenge the group to pick out a stayer and a sprinter from one another back at the yard before a quick glance at Group 1 star Sans Frontieres in the equine spa. Most of the group passed the test and Jeremy appeared impressed with the interest shown by the attendees.

He said: “It was really good to see how enthusiastic and knowledgeable the group were.

They clearly knew their stuff and we very much enjoyed having them round to see how we go about morning stables. It was a lot of fun and I look forward to seeing many of them again in the future.”

The afternoon was spent at the July Course, where committee member Matt Coleman thankfully upheld the increasingly high NGC tipping standards. Not one to shy from the competition set at previous visits, Jeremy provided us with a few subsequent winners later that week.

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Tell us a bit about the product you are developing…

Our product is for vets who want a faster turnaround on their routine blood work.

We’re developing a portable blood analyzer, so rather than having to send blood samples to a lab for analysis, vets can use our products to get instant blood results at the horse’s side.

What implications would this have for the thoroughbred business in particular if successful?

The blood tests that we are developing are related to general health and fitness, so our products will help identify problems earlier and help vets to carry out an instant diagnosis, no waiting around.

Trainers and breeders will find out straight away if something’s wrong and have their vet begin treating their horse then and there, so reducing lay-off for sick horses and helping with diagnosing sick foals.

It will also make pre-race testing much more effective and, like scoping, it can be carried out closer to racing.

Have you had any support or interest yet from leaders in the thoroughbred industry?

Yes, quite a lot. For the past three years we’ve been working with leading veterinarians and equine hospitals; also, some of the larger trainers have their own vets who’ve been a great help to us in identifying which blood parameters are particularly important for thoroughbreds.

Most notably, Dr Roslyn Brandon (Australia) has been a major support to us and

has joined our company as a business development advisor.

What stage of development are you at with the product and when could we expect to see it available in the marketplace?

We now have a slick portable prototype that looks rather ‘James Bond-like’. I like showing it off as it is the result of a lot of hard work!

We hope to have our first products on the market by the end of next year.

How did you first come up with the idea for the company?

My background led me into it. I’ve been involved with horses all my life and then studied science at university, finishing up with a PhD in Biochemistry.

The concept is simple really, it just dawned on me that a gap in the market existed and I came up with technical ideas that could make it possible to fill it.

Tell us a bit about your background and interest in horses…

My parents keep about 100 horses on their farm, so I grew up around horses. As a teenager I competed a lot in showjumping and after finishing school I rode professionally for a while in Europe.

Realising that there were many more talented riders than me, I decided that riding wasn’t the best career for me and headed for university. I still breed some warmbloods for showjumping but most of my time currently goes into Epona, which is my main passion now.

Anhold hopes his blood analyzer will help trainers to detect problems earlier

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Regional days to relish South East South East TBA members enjoyed a fantastic double header meeting organised by John Needham and David Bowe on Wednesday, May 25. The day started with coffee and introductions from the Balding family in the wonderful garden at Park House. Divided into two groups, led by Ian and Anna Lisa Balding, members made their way to the historic gallops to watch third lot, passing the indoor covered ride and pool dedicated to Paul Mellon, and crossing the polo pitch, scene of regular weekly matches.

The highlight of the historic yard tour was undoubtedly the Colours Room. Once an old chapel, it was the scene of Mill Reef’s life saving operation and his three months recovery, before being restored to its current glory with colours filling one side of the room, numerous winners sheets hanging from the rafters, photographs from days gone by, as well as space for present day racing tack.

Diary dates and reminders JULY 30 Next Generation Club Racing and Breeding Day at Newmarket.

Details from Lesley O’Shea, Stanstead House

After lunch, Jeff Smith kindly opened his doors at Littleton Stud, some 20 miles south of Kingsclere. The stud looked superb on a sunny late May afternoon.

Manager David Bowe introduced resident stallion Norse Dancer, whose four wins and ten Group 1 places are testament to his toughness and temperament. He has made an impressive start from small crop numbers, with five winners from ten runners to date, including a Listed winner.

His foals found many admirers as members walked round the paddocks, which included famous names from the past; Lochsong, Blue Siren and Optaria. Few Littleton offspring find their way to the sales and in this day and age it is heart-warming to see generations of families raised, grazed and nurtured in such a professional yet unassuming manner by staff who clearly know their business. Thanks to our hosts for a memorable day.

The West Gloucestershire is quite well endowed with studs and on the western edge of the Cotswolds at Leighterton, near Tetbury, Dominic Burke, an international insurance broker, and his wife Valda have recently added to their number.

Experience counts in all walks of life and pristine Whitley Stud is a testimony to the expertise of James Delahooke, who planned the

Whitley Stud manager David Fitch-Peyton oversees the parade of mares and foals

transformation of a remote farmhouse and 100 adjoining acres into a truly magnificent establishment.

Addressing a full house of TBA members on its West Regional Day on May 31, James explained that Park Wood Farm had one attribute that he valued above all other. He said: “It was all fresh ground, the most vital single

JULY 30-31 The TBA girls walk for Cancer Research This year we shall be taking part in an overnight team relay event at Ickworth Park.

If you would like to support this very worthwhile cause by sponsoring us, a sponsorship form can be obtained from Stanstead House or via our website.

NOVEMBER 11 TBA NH Stallion Parade, Cheltenham Another chance to see the old favourites and rising stars of Britain’s jump stallion ranks.

DECEMBER 6-8 The TBA Stud Farming Course Further details of this informative three-day course will be available nearer the time.

NEW TBA MEMBERS Mrs S J Baigent, Hampshire.

Mr & Mrs A Black, Surrey.

Mrs K Casini, Wiltshire.

D Penman Esq, Derbyshire.

Mrs E Scrase, West Sussex.

TBA members enjoyed a day at John Deer’s Oakgrove Stud in Monmouthshire

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ingredient when it comes to rearing horses.”

A conducted tour round the stud, after a sumptuous lunch, provided an opportunity to see the overall layout and all the facilities that one might expect from a top class stud, including two separate American mare and yearling barns, together with some of the ten strong broodmare band and their followers.

Dominic and Valda are just as interested in jumping as the Flat and the first good horse they bred was Champion Hurdler winner Katchit, albeit he arrived before Whitley became operational in August 2004. However, his homebred half-sister Miracle Seeker won the 2008 Lingfield Oaks Trial. The Burkes also bred 2009 Albany Stakes winner Habaayib.

The day-to-day running of Whitley is the responsibility of manager David Fitch-Peyton.

“As we are right in the middle of the Beaufort country, it was essential to have a hunting man,” said James, who likes to graze his paddocks with cattle in the summer and sheep in the winter.

Ten minutes down the road from Whitley is Highgrove, whose magical gardens provided another feast for the eye that evening. Not too many gardening enthusiasts present would have appreciated that the Prince of Wales and his wife had a homebred winner (Carousel) at Thirsk just eight days after his son’s wedding!

Wales Twenty-five TBA members made their way to Oakgrove Stud, which is situated opposite Chepstow racecourse in the picturesque THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

countryside of Monmouthshire and owned by John Deer, breeder of the two top-class stallions Averti and Avonbridge. Members were first welcomed by Mr Deer and his staff in the beautiful garden, featuring many handsome mature trees, and were then treated to a parade of quality mares, foals and yearlings resident on the stud. These included Flag Day (Pivotal ex Blue Duster), who is now in foal to Makfi, and the Sadler’s Wells mare Maganda, ex Minnie Habit, with a foal at foot by Oasis Dream and now in foal to Dansili. Also on show were several mares sired by the exceptional Averti before his untimely death, including Fuschia, dam of ‘The People’s Horse’ Tweet Lady, in training with Rod Millman and who has her own website and can be followed on Twitter!

Yearlings on parade were mainly destined for Tattersalls Book 1 or 2 and included colts by Green Desert, Royal Applause and Sakhee, and fillies by Green Desert and Pivotal – they all looked and behaved extremely well.

Also on parade and clearly enjoying a happy retirement at Oakgrove were Prix de l’Abbaye winner Patavellian and companion Avening; the former is still regularly ridden and, according to manager Tim Lane, is not averse to taking advantage of any unsuspecting, overconfident jockeys!

Members then had the opportunity for a walk round the well laid out and spacious barns, prior to heading for a convivial lunch at the Foresters Oaks pub. Our thanks go to Mr Deer and to his staff for their hospitality, and to Tim Lane for his very entertaining and candid commentary.

Members of the East Anglia region were treated to a typically full and extremely enjoyable day in Newmarket on June 1, beginning with Heath House Stables, where a full coach load of 40 visitors were welcomed by Sir Mark Prescott, Bt. Sir Mark has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the history surrounding Heath House, which dates back to circa 1880, and before members had entered the yard proper they were already enthralled by his stories and anecdotes. Once in the confines of the immaculately maintained yard, the stable’s Royal Ascot entries were paraded, looking remarkably fit and well, yet completely relaxed, despite the close proximity of the Warren and Long Hill training grounds.

A tour of the facilities included the large and well-equipped indoor ride and the adjacent equine swimming pool, together with the somewhat macabre, but proudly displayed, hide of Heath House’s most famous resident, St Simon. The morning was rounded off with a glass of Pimm’s in the immaculate garden of Heath House, where members chatted freely with Sir Mark until it was time to move on to Lanwades Stud for the second half of the programme.

TBA Chairman Kirsten Rausing was on hand to host the afternoon, which commenced with an opportunity to view resident stallions, the proven stalwarts Selkirk and Hernando, and the more recent additions, Sir Percy, whose yearlings had been well supported in the sales ring and whose first runners this year include winners Percy Jackson and Beaumaris, and Archipenko, whose first crop of foals are now on the ground. Before moving from Lanwades to St Simon Stud, members were treated to a parade of four of Lanwades Stud’s leading ladies: dual Champion Stakes heroine Alborada, Miss Rinjani, dam of Group winner St Expedit, and Alakananda – all in foal to Archipenko. The last of the quartet was Group 1 winner Lady Jane Digby, who is in foal to Dubawi.

At St Simon Stud, the visitors saw a mouth-watering array of broodmares with foals at foot. To highlight Lanwades’ policy of using both its own and outside sires, they included Albanova with a filly foal by Sea The Stars and in foal to Oasis Dream; Summer Night with an Oasis Dream filly foal and in foal to Archipenko, and Nadeszhda, in foal to Makfi, with her Archipenko filly.

Our thanks go to both of our hosts, who, by kindly making their own valuable time available to members ensured this was a unique and memorable day.

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Mansfield rewarded for all-round effort

Neil Mansfield: dedicated approach

The July Stud Staff Award has been won by Neil Mansfield of Mildmay Farm and Stud in Whitchurch, Hampshire.

Stud owner Dr Bridget Drew credits Neil with helping to establish this new operation and improving its performance year on year.

His dedication and thorough approach has ensured that all foals have the best possible start in life and that the resident mares achieve a high conception rate.

According to Dr Drew, Neil’s willingness to turn his hand to anything makes him a hugely valuable asset. He is respected by the other staff, setting high standards and encouraging reliability and dependability, enthusiasm and dedication.

Neil also plays a big part in training young staff as they work towards their vocational qualifications and, most importantly, as his employer says: “The team spirit on the yard is quite exceptional; much of which is due to Neil’s influence”.

Rise in TBA subscriptions from August At the recent AGM, members approved the proposal to raise the TBA subscription rate by £5 across all membership bands. This will be effective from August 1, 2011.

The fee has remained the same since 2006, with an increase in 2008 of £10 for domestic members only, to cover the introduction of Third Liability Insurance.

This small increase is an unfortunate necessity owing to rising costs.

Breeders’ Prizes

Flat HBLB Breeders’ Prizes worth £700 or more Breeder

Prize (£)

Based on date money was paid

Horse

Sire

Dam

Date

Course

Watership Down Stud

6,000

Rewilding

Tiger Hill

Darara

15/06/2011

Ascot

W and R Barnett Ltd

3,500

Best Terms

Exceed And Excel

Sharp Terms

15/06/2011

Ascot

O McDowell

3,500

Libranno

Librettist

Annabelle Ja

25/06/2011

Newmarket

Follow The Flag Partnership

3,000

Show Rainbow

Haafhd

Rainbow Sky

28/05/2011

Haydock Park

P Baldwin

1,800

Frederick Engels

Iceman

Colonel’s Daughter

14/06/2011

Ascot

The National Stud Never Say Die Club Ltd

1,500

Folly Bridge

Avonbridge

Jalissa

27/05/2011

Newmarket

Hermes Services Ltd

1,500

Rhythm Of Light

Beat Hollow

Luminda

15/06/2011

Ascot

Card Bloodstock

1,500

Khor Sheed

Dubawi

Princess Manila

23/06/2011

Warwick

G Strawbridge

1,500

Nationalism

Pivotal

Las Flores

25/06/2011

Windsor

Mr & Mrs R F Knipe

1,000

Fulbright

Exceed And Excel

Lindfield Belle

04/06/2011

Epsom Downs

Bloomsbury Stud

800

Chef

Selkirk

Ego

04/06/2011

Doncaster

Littleton Stud

800

Norse Blues

Norse Dancer

Indiana Blues

03/06/2011

Epsom Downs

Mrs J M Russell

800

Barnet Fair

Iceman

Pavement Gates

04/06/2011

Musselburgh

Melksham Craic

800

Sagramor

Pastoral Pursuits

Jasmick

16/06/2011

Ascot

Owen Promotions Ltd

800

Brown Panther

Shirocco

Treble Heights

16/06/2011

Ascot

J Gompertz

800

Mariachi Man

Haafhd

Popocatepetl

18/06/2011

Ayr

Laundry Cottage Stud Farm

800

Leviathan

Dubawi

Gipsy Moth

22/06/2011

Salisbury

Mrs S L Brimble

800

Tominator

Generous

Jucinda

25/06/2011

Newcastle

Card Bloodstock

750

Activate

Motivator

Princess Manila

28/05/2011

Haydock Park

Mr & Mrs R F Knipe

750

Huygens

Zafeen

Lindfield Belle

28/05/2011

Newmarket

Newsells Park Stud Limited

750

Gobama

Dr Fong

Chine

02/06/2011

Hamilton Park

Raffin Bloodstock

750

Poppy Seed

Bold Edge

Opopmil

03/06/2011

Goodwood

Plantation Stud

750

Bea Remembered

Doyen

Leinster Mills

03/06/2011

Doncaster

Mrs M S Teversham

750

Lord Avon

Avonbridge

Lady Filly

11/06/2011

Chester

Dr J A E Hobby

750

Dungannon

Monsieur Bond

May Light

12/06/2011

Doncaster

Cheveley Park Stud Ltd

750

Thirteen Shivers

Iceman

Thirteen Tricks

15/06/2011

Ripon

Kingsclere Stud

750

Constant Contact

Passing Glance

Floriana

01/06/2011

Kempton Park

Cheveley Park Stud Limited

700

Regal Realm

Medicean

Regal Riband

27/05/2011

Newmarket

R J Cornelius

700

Democretes

Cadeaux Genereux

Petite Epaulette

28/05/2011

Newmarket

See the table of breeders' prizes effective as from January 1 on the TBA website, www.thetba.co.uk

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British-bred Treasure Beach (purple/white) wins the Irish Derby

With Fame And Glory (Gold Cup), Frankel (St James’s Palace Stakes), Prohibit (King’s Stand Stakes) and Rewilding (Prince of Wales’s Stakes), there were four British-bred Group 1 winners at Royal Ascot.

Nine times out of ten that quartet would have supplied the Breeder of the Month, but a unanimous decision by the awards’ panel found in favour of Ashley House Stud, outside Axminster in Devon, which was responsible for Treasure Beach, the Irish Derby hero. The operation wins six sacks of Blue Chip Pro, to help prepare youngstock for the sales, and some Blue Chip clothing.

Treasure Beach’s breeder, Brian Hammond said: “To witness such a performance first hand and to be included by the Magniers and everyone in their celebrations was so exciting I can still hardly believe it. When the horse was runner-up at Epsom in the Derby, my wife Jane and I were actually on holiday in Morocco, but we did manage to watch the race on television.”

Honorine, the dam of Treasure Beach, is one of only three mares owned

by Ashley House Stud.

Hammond said: “At 50,000gns, Honorine was the cheapest of three fillies that I bought at the 2004 Tattersalls’ December Sales. I was looking for something off the racetrack rather than a mare; she was very nicely made with a good page and had been very consistent.”

Apart from consulting Michael Youngs over matings, Hammond relies entirely on his own judgement.

“I am completely self-taught,” he explained. “I adopted a fresh approach listening to what people said and reading extensively. Previously I had been involved in racehorse syndicates but was never hands-on. Now I have my stud groom Jo Batten to help me.”

Five years ago he sold his printing business in Exeter, investing all the proceeds in his fledgling stud, a 30-acre former dairy farm. “Two years ago I had seven mares,” he continued, “but with the way things were going I cut back. The stud has to stand alone as a business, so as you can imagine to come up with a horse like Treasure Beach is a big breakthrough.”

Treasure Beach belongs to a readily identifiable family associated with the late Sir Robin McAlpine (Wyck Hall Stud), whose step-daughter Rebecca Philipps inherited the grandam Blue Water as a yearling when he died in 1993. From Blue Water she bred Hardwicke Stakes hero Indian Creek.

At present, Honorine has a yearling colt by Cape Cross and a filly foal

by Authorized; she is now in foal to New Approach.

Godolphin’s Rewilding defeated the New Zealand-bred superstar So You Think in a pulsating finish to the Prince of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot to earn Watership Down Stud the June Special Merit award.

“We are delighted to get recognition in this way,” said the Lloyd Webbers’ manager Simon Marsh. “Rewilding’s dam Darara is one of five mares who have produced four individual Group/Grade 1 winners internationally – an even more distinguished group have bred five such winners.

“The truly extraordinary thing is that she produced Dar Re Mi when she was 22 years of age and Rewilding when she was 24.”

That pair were preceded by Darazari and Diaghilev. The former was bred by the Aga Khan, from whom the Lloyd Webbers purchased the Prix Vermeille winner as an 11-year-old at Goffs in November 1994.

“At that stage Darara had produced one black-type winner in Dariyoun,” Marsh continued, “so it is remarkable how well she has done since then.”

In March, Rewilding emulated Dar Re Mi in winning the Dubai Sheema Classic. Dar Re Mi is now carrying her first foal by Oasis Dream.

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By JAMES TATE BVMS MRCVS

Why Levy Board funding is vital Money from the HBLB has enabled significant veterinary advances to be made over the last 50 years but given British racing’s parlous finances, the contribution is under threat

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ince its advent 50 years ago, the Horserace Betting Levy Board (HBLB) has been a big contributor towards the advancement of equine veterinary science and education – a fact of which many are unaware.

However, this funding is under threat due to the current economic climate. This article aims to provide a timely reminder of its importance.

The HBLB was established in 1961 to collect a statutory levy from the bookmakers’ horseracing profits, which it then distributes for the improvement of thoroughbred horseracing.

This money has enabled the HBLB to support a huge number of equine veterinary surgeons in their education, work and research, resulting in significant veterinary advances.

Many vets are unaware that some of the techniques which they use on a daily basis originated as a result of HBLB funding – for example, the research that enabled vets to advise which heart murmurs are likely to be significant and the research that enabled vets to interpret tracheal washes when screening for respiratory infections in racing yards. There are numerous other excellent examples of the importance of HBLB funding, but perhaps most notable are the HBLB Codes of Practice, which have been

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instrumental in reducing infectious disease outbreaks and Equine Influenza screening, which ensures that our vaccines carry the most current strains of the influenza virus.

However, the future of HBLB funding is under threat. In July 2010, the board announced that it was making significant reductions in all areas of spending, and veterinary expenditure was more than halved.

Funding for the 2010/11 research, training scholarships and Codes of Practice has been retained but almost every other area of activity has been significantly reduced. As a result, there has never been a more appropriate time to highlight the value of this funding, and the Equine Veterinary Journal is currently running a series of review articles in recognition of the major contribution that HBLB research and educational funding has made to the health and welfare of horses.

Musculoskeletal injuries The horse is a unique athlete that is capable of sustaining speeds of 30 to 40 miles per hour over distances of up to four and a half miles. As a result, the equine musculoskeletal system is put under huge stress, not least because when at gallop only one limb bears weight at a time.

Unsurprisingly, this predisposes the horse to suffering musculoskeletal injuries and hence much of the HBLB funding in recent years has been channelled into finding ways of avoiding injury.

The HBLB has funded extensive research into the occurrence and risk factors associated with musculoskeletal injuries by studying horses in training and on the racecourse, as well as undertaking post-mortem studies. Recent work searching for bone markers looks likely to lead to a blood test that will be able to predict when a horse is about to suffer a fracture – an advance that could have a huge impact on lameness diagnosis.

Tendon and ligament injuries have also been a long-standing research focus, going back to the first ever Equine Veterinary Journal supplement in 1983 which contained the ‘Silver Report’ into pinfiring. Research continues to be carried out into the risk factors for tendon injuries, novel diagnostic techniques such as tendon biomarkers that could predict when an injury is about to occur, and the more up-todate treatments such as stem cell therapy.

The thoroughbred racehorse puts its musculoskeletal system under incredible stress and hence it is not surprising that it is susceptible to injury. HBLB-funded research is vital in order to reduce the incidence of injuries

Following the sequencing of the equine genome, many believe that we are currently in a research golden age. The early focus of this new-found information has been used to try to find out more about musculoskeletal injuries.

Extensive genetic research funded by the HBLB and the TBA has found distinct areas of the equine genome that can be linked to an increased risk of catastrophic fracture, tying up and OCD joint problems. As a result, it is hoped that we might soon be able to test horses for susceptibility to these three conditions.

Infectious disease The HBLB have been producing the ‘Codes of Practice’ on equine diseases for over 30 years and this has resulted in a significant reduction in the incidence of infectious disease outbreaks.

The Codes, which are adopted in the UK, Ireland, France, Germany and Italy, are reviewed and updated as necessary and all Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association members should receive an updated copy every year.

They set out the minimum recommended requirements with regard to the prevention and control of the most important infectious diseases. Firstly, they cover the diseases that are

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notifiable by law – Contagious Equine Metritis, Equine Viral Arteritis and Equine Infectious Anaemia. Secondly, they cover two other important infectious diseases, Equine Herpes Virus and Strangles, that are not notifiable by law, but it is strongly recommended that the TBA is informed if a case is suspected.

The second major contribution that HBLB funding makes with regard to infectious disease is its contribution to Equine Influenza (EI) surveillance. Following an extensive outbreak two years earlier, it became mandatory in 1981 that all horses entering UK racecourses must be vaccinated against EI. To some extent this has been very successful as no race meetings have been cancelled as a result of EI ever since.

However, the disease has still not been eradicated from the UK and it continues to cause major problems in other countries, as illustrated by the large outbreaks in Australia and Japan in the last few years.

Controlling EI by vaccination is difficult because it is continually evolving by a mechanism known as antigenic drift, which means that horses that have been vaccinated against a previous strain of influenza virus will lose their immunity to the new strain and vaccines against the original virus will become less effective. As a result, it is absolutely vital that we keep up to date with how EI is changing so that our vaccinations carry the current strains.

HBLB-funded research has been at the forefront of advances in the diagnosis and treatment of tendon injuries for the last 30 years

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It was ground-breaking research funded by the HBLB that helped vets to understand the significance of mucus in the horse’s lungs and taught vets to be able to interpret tracheal washes when searching for respiratory disease in racing yards

HBLB-funded research has enabled vets to learn a great deal about the most common type of worm, the cyathostomin, which is also known as the small strongyle or redworm. The problem with this type of parasite is that no wormer is completely effective against the period in its lifecycle when it ‘hibernates’ within the gut wall. This is a matter of concern, given that there is already increasing resistance to our current wormers.

Fortunately, research funded by the HBLB and TBA is being carried out to combat this problem, and researchers are currently developing a diagnostic test that will reveal the number of cyathostomins. This will enable vets to know whether worming is necessary and which product to use – something that should slow down the rate at which the parasites are becoming resistant to our current treatments in the hope that we might be able to produce a new type of wormer in the interim. At the same time, studies are being performed to find out more about the cyathostomins and we have recently learnt that there are, in fact, more than 50 different species, some of which cause more damage than others. Research is also being carried out into investigating mechanisms of drug resistance to see if there is anything that can be done to combat this problem (see TBA Seminar, page 48).

Respiratory disease

Conclusion

The respiratory system of the racehorse is of paramount importance because the amount of oxygen a horse receives can be a significant limiting factor to success on the racecourse.

Over the last 15 years, our understanding of equine respiratory disease has been greatly advanced by HBLB-funded research. Viruses and bacteria have been analysed, and their genetic sequence established, thus enabling specific genes and gene products to be identified and applied to the development of better diagnostic tests, safer and more effective vaccines, as well as epidemiological tools for tracking infections through horse populations.

HBLB-funded research has also advanced veterinary science with regard to respiratory conditions that affect the lungs of racehorses in training. In fact, it was ground-breaking research funded by the HBLB that helped vets to understand the significance of mucus in the horse’s lungs and taught vets to be able to interpret tracheal washes – information that is now used on an everyday basis in racing yards to search for respiratory disease.

In summary, the HBLB has been funding equine veterinary advances for 50 years, but due to the current economic climate its funding has been reduced and we are now in danger of taking it for granted. This article has listed just a few examples of how this funding has advanced our veterinary knowledge and capabilities. It will be sorely missed if it disappears, as it represents the British horseracing industry’s single most important means of contributing to the health and wellbeing of its central star, the racehorse.

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CAULFIELD FILES ANDREW CAULFIELD REPORTS ON THE BLOODSTOCK WORLD

The steady rise of Tapit A lung infection curbed his racing career but the son of A P Indy is making amends at stud

Tapit’s five Grade 1 winners are all fillies, including Stardom Bound from his first crop

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wenty-five years ago, in 1986, the endof-season Anglo-Irish sires’ list featured four American-based stallions in the top five and as many as six in the top eight. But those were the good old days, when many of the leading Kentucky stallions combined the best North American bloodlines with outstanding ability on Europe’s racecourses.

Those six stallions were Nijinsky, Lyphard, Alleged, Nureyev, The Minstrel and Riverman.

How times have changed. The 2011 table, to early July, showed no American-based stallions in the top 15 and only five in the top 50. Once again, these five have some links to Europe.

Street Cry was conceived in England and foaled in Ireland; Dynaformer is a son of the Derbywinning Roberto; and Giant’s Causeway, Kingmambo and Rahy all raced in Europe.

Surely, though, there must be some American stallions capable of making their mark in Europe, given the chance. Those last three words are all important. Because the drugs issue in American racing, plus the dirt/turf dichotomy, has caused so much suspicion, breeders and buyers are understandably wary of making substantial investments in any American stallion until he has proved himself. The only exceptions to this Catch 22 situation tend to be Darley’s American stallions, with Sheikh Mohammed often being more than happy to give them the chance to showcase their talents on European turf. Consequently Street Cry, Medaglia d’Oro and Bernardini are among the

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few dirt stallions which could now be considered by Europeans.

Street Cry has established his merits in Europe with the Group winners Carlton House, Majestic Roi, Saamidd, Per Incanto and Big Timer, along with the Listed scorers Zaidan, Cry Of Freedom and Brevity. The fact that he has also sired Group 1 winners on turf in Australia, including a Melbourne Cup winner, adds to his credentials as a turf sire. I wouldn’t be surprised if Godolphin’s two-year-old Street Cry filly

“He showed plenty of

promise in winning both his juvenile starts by sizeable margins” Discourse develops into another Group winner, as this strapping filly has plenty of scope.

Medaglia d’Oro looked on the verge of a serious breakthrough in Europe when Passion For Gold and Al Zir showed considerable promise as juveniles in 2009. As he is also responsible for several Graded winners on turf in the USA, including this year’s Just A Game Stakes winner C S Silk, it seems fair to expect the tough grandson of Sadler’s Wells to come up with more good winners in Europe.

Bernardini raced only on dirt and combines two sire lines – A P Indy and Fappiano – which are generally considered to be much more at home on dirt than turf. However, this handsome horse showed last year that he is perfectly capable of siring good European runners, such as Theyskens’ Theory and Biondetti, from mares with Northern Dancer blood.

Coincidentally, top place on the North American sires’ list is currently held by Tapit, another whose pedigree combines A P Indy and Fappiano. Whereas Bernardini is by A P Indy out of a mare by Fappiano’s son Quiet American, Tapit is by A P Indy’s son Pulpit out of a mare by Fappiano’s son Unbridled.

Pulpit’s six-race career was spent entirely on dirt, which probably explains why he has had comparatively few representatives in Britain and Ireland. It is surely significant, though, that more than $12,000,000 of his progeny earnings of $45,000,000 had been earned on turf (to November 2010). His total of Graded stakes winners on turf stands in double figures and includes the Grade 1 winners Rutherienne and Stroll and the Grade 2 scorers Meteore, Wend and Parading. His European runners include Reach For The Moon (third behind Soviet Song and Casual Look in the 2002 Fillies’ Mile), Gerard Butler’s US Grade 3 winner Pachattack, German Group 3 winner Govinda and French Listed winners Blue Exit and Doo Lang.

Tapit wasn’t one of Pulpit’s turf performers.

He showed plenty of promise in winning both his juvenile starts by sizeable margins, including the Grade 3 Laurel Futurity, and he then added to his Triple Crown credentials by landing the Grade 1 Wood Memorial. These efforts earned him third place in the betting for the 2004 Kentucky Derby but he never threatened in finishing ninth.

I was lucky enough to discuss Tapit with his trainer Michael Dickinson at last year’s December Sales. Dickinson feels that rushing Tapit back from illness to contest the Wood Memorial effectively “bottomed” the colt.

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could blow a house down. I was going to wheel him back and work him a mile, but I told owner Ron Winchell and manager David Fiske I’ve got to give him as long as I dare to get him healthy, and give the lungs a chance to heal. It takes 28 days for the lung to get a new lining.”

Exceeding expectation With Tapit needing more Graded stakes earnings to ensure his place in the Kentucky Derby field, his connections felt compelled to send him to the Wood Memorial, even though he wasn’t fully fit.

“What Dickinson feared going into the Wood was that Tapit, being such a generous and competitive horse, would try too hard and give more than what was expected of him,” reported The Blood-Horse.

Dickinson’s expectation was that Tapit would come “late and easy” to take the $75,000 third prize. Instead, Tapit came through to land the $450,000 first prize but he paid the price, disappointing in both his subsequent starts before retiring to Gainesway.

Tapit has been something of a revelation ever since his first runners reached the track in 2008.

Indeed, he ended the year as champion firstcrop sire, even though the opposition included such successful young sires as Medaglia d’Oro, Speightstown, Lion Heart and Candy Ride.

I half expected Tapit to struggle to maintain that level of success, as American breeders had a habit of moving on rapidly to the next wave of new stallions. After all, he had started out at only $15,000 and his fee was reduced to $12,500 in his second and third. However, his first foals proved very popular when they reached the sales in 2006, with 13 selling for an

average of $108,692 and a median of $87,000.

These figures helped prompt considerable demand for Tapit’s services in his third season in 2007 and he covered more than 170 mares.

The foals from those 2007 matings are threeyear-olds this year and this crop is proving every bit as good as its two predecessors. There were six Graded winners among the 94 foals in his first crop, including the Grade 1-winning fillies Stardom Bound, Laragh and Careless Jewel. His smaller second crop, numbering 74, has so far produced three Graded winners, and now Tapit’s third crop, with 120 named foals, already

“Tapit isn’t the first notable stallion produced by his female line”

has five Graded winners, led by Zazu and Tell A Kelly. That’s 14 Graded winners from his first 288 foals – an impressive 5%. There’s also a winner of the Japanese Dirt Derby and a Grade 1 winner in Venezuela. It is worth mentioning that as many as ten of his 14 American Graded winners are fillies, including all five of his Grade 1 winners.

Tapit’s cumulative Average Earnings Index stands at 2.46, even though his mares’ progeny by other stallions have a Comparable Index no higher than 1.68. Only 32% of stallions have an AEI higher than their Comparable Index and few better the figure by as much as .78, as Tapit

has done. There were aspects of his pedigree which always suggested that he could do well.

For a start, he is inbred 3 x 4 to Mr Prospector and 5 x 3 to Nijinsky. As Mr Prospector and Nijinsky appeared together in the pedigrees of so many good performers, duplicating them both was likely to pay dividends.

Also, Tapit isn’t the first notable stallion produced by his female line, as his third dam Moon Glitter was a stakes-winning sister to Relaunch. Relaunch sired the Breeders’ Cup winners Skywalker and One Dreamer, while his son Cee’s Tizzy was responsible for the dual Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Tiznow.

Relaunch’s broodmare daughters also made a considerable impact on the Breeders’ Cup, producing Ghostzapper and Forever Together.

Relaunch put up some of his best efforts on turf and I suspect that Tapit could make his mark in Europe, given the chance. His daughter Tapitsfly won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf before it was graded. His Spanish son As de Trebol was first past the post in the Prix du Palais-Royal in 2009 and his French daughter Malicia is on the verge of Group class. It could pay to watch out for Qatar’s Pearl, a $420,000 yearling now with Ger Lyons. John Ferguson also gave $750,000 in March for a two-year-old filly by Tapit.

Perhaps European connections will be more prepared to invest in animals from Tapit’s higher-priced crops. His fee rose to $35,000 in 2009, then to $50,000 a year later before reaching $80,000 this year. I hope his talents will survive a trip across the Atlantic, as we need some viable alternatives to the Danehill and Sadler’s Wells lines which have become so dominant.

I’m not sure whether it’s fair to describe a stallion as disappointing after he has sired winners of the 1,000 Guineas and Derby, as Mark Of Esteem did. The facts are, though, that the 1996 2,000 Guineas winner spent his last two seasons at stud at £7,000, having started out at £20,000.

However, there is always a chance that a stallion such as Mark Of Esteem will make amends as a broodmare sire, partly because he will have covered numerous mares from excellent female lines during his years at £20,000. And with Mark Of Esteem there was another compelling reason for thinking he would prove very effective in his new role – he is a son of Darshaan.

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plus others in Japan and Hong Kong.

Mark Of Esteem’s progeny had an Average Earnings Index of 1.24, but the equivalent figure for his broodmare daughters stands at a more impressive 1.64.

This is likely to rise higher with the likes of Treasure Beach, Masked Marvel and Crystal Capella among their 2011 representatives.

Crystal Capella shaped like a Group 1 winner-in-waiting when she trounced some very smart males in the Princess of Wales’s Stakes. The daughter of Cape Cross also showed that the Sadler’s Wells male line isn’t the only route to top-flight success for Mark Of Esteem mares. Together with Amadeus Wolf, winner of the Middle Park Stakes, she is by a grandson of Danzig.

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DATA BOOK STAKES RESULTS

European Pattern 102 UVEX-TROPHY G3 BADEN-BADEN. June 2. 3yo+. 1600m.

1. ALIANTHUS (GER) 6 9-6 £27,586 b h by Hernando - Allure (Konigsstuhl) O-Baron G Von Ullmann B-Gestut Karlshof TR-J Hirchberger 2. Sehrezad (IRE) 6 9-6 £9,483 b h by Titus Livius - Trebles (Kenmare) O-Stall Phillip B-Acorn Stud TR-Andreas Lowe 3. Neatico (GER) 4 9-0 £4,741 b c by Medicean - Nicola Bella (Sadler’s Wells) O/B-Gestut Ittlingen TR-P Schiergen Margins 0.75, 1. Time 1:37.51. Going Good.

Age 3-6

Starts 16

Wins 8

Places 6

Earned £203,181

2004: ANASTRA (f Seattle Dancer) 3 wins at 5.

2006: ANTARA (f Platini) Champion 3yo filly in Germany in 2009. 7 wins, Princess Elizabeth S G3 (twice), Preis der Deutschen Einheit G3, G P der Metallbau Burckhardt GMBH LR, 2nd Prix Jean Romanet G1, Premio Lydia Tesio G1, 3rd Nassau S G1, Windsor Forest S G2, Dallmayr Coupe Lukull LR. 2008: Antaro (c Tertullian) unraced to date.

2009: Andolino (c Kallisto) unraced to date.

2010: Andarta (f Platini)

105 BELMONDO-POKAL G3 BADEN-BADEN. June 4. 3yo+. 1200m.

2nd Dam: AUENQUEEN by Big Shuffle. 2 wins in Germany. Dam of Auenteufel (c Lomitas: 3rd Oppenheim Union-Rennen G2)

1. SMOOTH OPERATOR (GER) 5 9-6 £27,586 b g by Big Shuffle - Salzgitter (Salse) O-Stall Jenny B-Mario Hofer TR-Mario Hofer 2. Clairvoyance (IRE) 4 9-3 £9,483 b f by Shamardal - Crystal View (Imperial Ballet) O-Sheikh Mohammed B-Old Carhue Stud TR-H-A Pantall 3. Ferro Sensation (GER) 5 9-6 £4,741 b h by Paolini - Fit To Ski (Niniski) O/B-Cornelis Derks Van De Ven TR-J Pubben Margins 3, neck. Time 1:07.72. Going Good.

Broodmare Sire: GENERAL ASSEMBLY. Sire of the dams of 42 SWs. In 2011 - ANTARA Platini G3.

Age 2-5

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Sire: BIG SHUFFLE. Sire of 68 Stakes winners. In 2011 - SMOOTH OPERATOR Salse G3, KONIG CONCORDE Ile de Bourbon LR.

Starts 20

Wins 5

Places 8

2007: Fils d’Albert (c Albert the Great) unraced.

2008: Pleasant Albert (c Albert the Great) unraced to date.

2010: (c Country Be Gold) 2nd Dam: DUBIOUSLY by Jolie Jo. 2 wins in USA Proud Sister S. Dam of FIVE POINTER (c Fly So Free: Hanshin Shogai Spring Steeplechase LR) Broodmare Sire: PLEASANT TAP. Sire of the dams of 18 Stakes winners. In 2011 - WONDER ACUTE Charismatic G2, SAHPRESA Sahm G3, CITIZEN BAGS Proud Citizen LR. SAHPRESA b m 2005 Mr Prospector SAHM b/br 94

Sire: HERNANDO. Sire of 48 SWs. In 2011 GITANO HERNANDO Perugino G1, ALIANTHUS Konigsstuhl G3.

1st Dam: Allure by Konigsstuhl. Winner at 3, 3rd Grosser Stutenpreis der Dreijahrigen LR. Dam of 4 winners: 2001: Apokalypse (f Lomitas) 3 wins 2-5, 3rd Preis des Casino Baden-Baden LR. 2002: A BEAUTIFUL MIND (f Winged Love) 2 wins at 2 and 3. Dam of Alkhana (3rd G P Mercedes-Benz Niederlassung G3).

2005: ALIANTHUS (c Hernando) Sold 78,817gns yearling at BBAGS. 8 wins 3-6, Grosser Europa Meile G2, UVEX-Trophy Rennen G3, F Gunther von Gaertner Gedachtnisrennen G3, G P der Landeshauptstadt Dusseldorf G3, G P des Volkswagen Zentrum Nordrhein G3, European Breeders Fund Meile LR, 2nd Prix Perth G3, Preis Freunde/Forderer Reiter Rennvereins G3, Preis des Casino BadenBaden LR, Excelsior Hotel Ernst-Meile LR, 3rd Grosser Preis der Mehl Mulhens Stiftung G2.

2006: AMAZING TIGER (c Tiger Hill) 7 wins.

2008: Anabasis (f High Chaparral) in training.

2009: Alto Papavero (c Shamardal) unraced to date.

2010: American Peony (f New Approach) 2nd Dam: Adjani by Surumu. Dam of Acamani (g Winged Love: 2nd Grosser Radeberger Pilsner Preis LR, 3rd Deutsches Derby G1, Allure (see above).

Broodmare Sire: KONIGSSTUHL. Sire of the dams of 53 Stakes winners. In 2011 - ALIANTHUS Hernando G3, ILLO Tertullian G3.

ALIANTHUS b h 2005 Nijinsky Niniski Virginia Hills HERNANDO b 90 Miswaki Whakilyric Lyrism Dschingis Khan Konigsstuhl Konigskronung ALLURE b 96 Surumu Adjani Annaberta

Northern Dancer Flaming Page Tom Rolfe Ridin’ Easy Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Lyphard Pass A Glance Tamerlane Donna Diana Tiepoletto Kronung Literat Surama Alpenkonig Anna Charlotta

103 PRINCESS ELIZABETH S G3 EPSOM DOWNS. June 3. 3yo+f&m. 8f 114yds.

1. ANTARA (GER) 5 9-6 £28,385 b m by Platini - Auenpracht (General Assembly) O-Godolphin B-T Gehrig TR-Saeed bin Suroor 2. First City (GB) 5 9-6 £10,760 b m by Diktat - City Maiden (Carson City) O-Saeed Misleh B-Darley TR-DM Simcock 3. Clinical (GB) 3 8-8 £5,385 gr f by Motivator - Doctor’s Glory (Elmaamul) O/B-Cheveley Park Stud TR-Sir Mark Prescott Margins 0.75, 2.5. Time 1:43.72 (slow 1.52).

Going Good.

Age 2-5

Starts 15

Wins 7

Places 7

Birkhahn Literat Lis Surumu Reliance II Surama Suncourt PLATINI ch 89 Red God Stanford Sweet Almond Prairie Darling Northfields Prairie Belle Prairie Beauty Bold Ruler Secretariat Somethingroyal General Assembly Native Dancer Exclusive Dancer Exclusive AUENPRACHT bl 98 Super Concorde Big Shuffle Raise Your Skirts Auenqueen Windwurf Auenquelle Anserma

104 DIOMED S G3 EPSOM DOWNS. June 4. 3yo+. 8f 114yds.

1. FANUNALTER (GB) 5 9-4 £28,385 b g by Falbrav - Step Danzer (Desert Prince) O-Scuderia Rencati Srl B-Azienda Agricola Francesca TR-M Botti 2. St Moritz (IRE) 5 9-4 £10,760 b g by Medicean - Statua (Statoblest) O-Billy Hughes B-Newsells Park Stud TR-D Nicholls 3. Rio de La Plata (USA) 6 9-11 £5,385 ch h by Rahy - Express Way (Ahmad) O-Godolphin B-Jose de Camargo, Robert N Clay et al TR-Saeed bin Suroor Margins 0.5, 1. Time 1:45.12. Going Good to firm.

Age 3-5

Starts 17

88

Earned £131,130

1st Dam: STEP DANZER by Desert Prince. 3 wins at 2 and 3, Premio Giuseppe Valiani LR, 2nd Oaks d’Italia G1. Dam of 3 winners: 2006: FANUNALTER (g Falbrav) 4 wins at 3 to 5, Diomed S G3, Doncaster Mile S LR, Hyde S LR, 3rd Zabeel Mile G2.

2007: Famusa (f Medicean) 6 wins at 2 to 4 in Italy, 2nd Premio Andred LR. 2008: FUGNINA (f Hurricane Run) 1 win at 3 in Italy.

2009: Fularmada (f Manduro) unraced to date.

2011: (c Oratorio) 2nd Dam: SALSA SOUND by Law Society. 8 wins 24, Premio Avvocato Carlo Marangoni LR (twice). Dam of BAILA SALSA (f Barathea: Premio Carlo Chiesa G3), STEP DANZER (f Desert Prince, see above) Broodmare Sire: DESERT PRINCE. Sire of the dams of 7 SWs. In 2011 - FANUNALTER Falbrav G3.

FANUNALTER b g 2006 Fairy King FALBRAV b 98 Gift of The Night

Desert Prince

1st Dam: AUENPRACHT by General Assembly. 2 wins at 2 and 3 in Germany. Dam of 2 winners:

Places 8

Sire: FALBRAV. Sire of 10 Stakes winners. In 2011 DANCE FANTASIA Sunday Silence G3, FANUNALTER Desert Prince G3.

Earned £298,740

Sire: PLATINI. Sire of 31 SWs. In 2011 - ANTARA General Assembly G3.

Wins 4

STEP DANZER b 2001 Salsa Sound

Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special Seattle Slew Slewpy Rare Bouquet Lithiot Little Nana Nenana Road Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier Bustino Flying Fairy Fairy Footsteps Alleged Law Society Bold Bikini Caerleon Stua Darine

1st Dam: SALZGITTER by Salse. 4 wins at 4 and 5 in Germany. Dam of 3 winners: 2004: SUGAR BABY LOVE (f Second Empire) 4 wins 2-5, Oppenheim-Rennen LR, 2nd Maurice Lacroix-Trophy G2.

2005: SOMETHING STUPID (g Big Shuffle) 1 win at 2, Rudolf-August-Oetker Gedachtnisrennen LR. 2006: SMOOTH OPERATOR (g Big Shuffle) 5 wins 2-5, Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte G2, Prix de la Porte Maillot G3, Prix Eclipse G3, Belmondo Pokal G3, Kronimus Rennen LR, 2nd Goldene Peitsche G2, G P der Jungheinrich Gabelstapler G3, Silberne Peitsche G3, 3rd Grosser Preis der VGH-Versicherungen LR. 2007: Shadow On The Wall (c Next Desert) unraced.

2008: Sensa Ma Donna (f Lord of England) unraced.

2009: Sing Hallelujah (f Big Shuffle) unraced to date.

2010: Spirit In The Sky (c Samum) Broodmare Sire: SALSE. Sire of the dams of 16 SWs. In 2011 - SMOOTH OPERATOR Big Shuffle G3.

The Big Shuffle/Salse cross has produced: SMOOTH OPERATOR G2, SOMETHING STUPID LR.

Salsabil

Pleasant Tap SORPRESA b/br 96 Dubiously

107 PRIX DE SANDRINGHAM G2 CHANTILLY. June 5. 3yof. 1600m.

1. IMMORTAL VERSE (IRE) 8-11 £63,879 b f by Pivotal - Side of Paradise (Sadler’s Wells) O-RC Strauss B-Kilfrush Stud TR-R Collet 2. Mixed Intention (IRE) 8-11 £24,655 b f by Elusive City - Chiosina (Danehill Dancer) O-Gerard Augustin-Normand B-Oghill House Stud TR-F Vermeulen 3. Peinture Abstraite (GB) 8-11 £11,767 b f by Holy Roman Emperor - Peinture Bleue (Alydar) O-Ecurie Wildenstein B-Dayton Investments Ltd TR-A de Royer-Dupre Margins 0.5, 2.5. Time 1:39.20. Going Soft.

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SMOOTH OPERATOR b g 2006 Boldnesian Reason To Earn Primera Prime Abord Homeward Bound BIG SHUFFLE b 84 Raise A Native Elevation White Peak Raise Your Skirts Tudor Minstrel Strings Attached Timalin Northern Dancer Topsider Drumtop Salse Prince John Carnival Princess Carnival Queen SALZGITTER b 97 Blushing Groom Rainbow Quest I Will Follow Anna of Brunswick Prince Ippi Anna Paola Antwerpen

Native Dancer Raise You Nashua Gold Digger Sequence Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge Artaius Flame of Tara Welsh Flame His Majesty Pleasant Colony Sun Colony Stage Door Johnny Never Knock Never Hula Round Table Jolie Jo Jolie Deja Olden Times Skeptic Lady Mysterious Lady Raise A Native

Earned £245,340

108 GRAND PRIX DE CHANTILLY G2

Bold Reasoning

Super Concorde

106 PRIX DU PALAIS-ROYAL G3 LONGCHAMP. June 4. 3yo+. 1400m.

1. SAHPRESA (USA) 6 9-6 £34,483 b m by Sahm - Sorpresa (Pleasant Tap) O-Teruya Yoshida B-DO McIntyre TR-Rod Collet 2. Moonlight Cloud (GB) 3 8-6 £13,793 b f by Invincible Spirit - Ventura (Spectrum) O/B-George Strawbridge TR-F Head 3. Evaporation (FR) 4 9-0 £10,345 b f by Red Ransom - Polygreen (Green Tune) O/B-Wertheimer et Frere TR-C Laffon-Parias Margins 1.5, 1. Time 1:19.20. Going Good.

Age 3-6

Starts 14

Wins 7

Places 6

Earned £587,154

Sire: SAHM. Sire of 9 Stakes winners. In 2011 SAHPRESA Pleasant Tap G3.

1st Dam: SORPRESA by Pleasant Tap. 3 wins in USA. Dam of 3 winners: 2002: MONFILS MONFILS (g Sahm) 6 wins.

2003: MIOFILIO MIOFILIO (g Dayjur) 3 wins.

2005: SAHPRESA (f Sahm) 7 wins, 3-6, Sun Chariot S G1 (twice), Prix du Palais Royal G3, Prix du Pin G3, Prix Coronation LR, Prix Montretout LR, 2nd Prix du Chemin de Fer du Nord G3, Prix Quincey, 3rd Mile Championship G1, Hong Kong Mile G1.

CHANTILLY. June 5. 4yo+. 2400m.

1. SILVER POND (FR) 4 8-11 £63,879 gr c by Act One - Silver Fame (Quest For Fame) O/B-Haras Du Quesnay TR-C Laffon-Parias 2. Behkabad (FR) 4 9-4 £24,655 bbr c by Cape Cross - Behkara (Kris) O-HH The Aga Khan B-HH The Aga Khan’s Studs SC TR-J-C Rouget 3. Allied Powers (IRE) 6 8-11 £11,767 b h by Invincible Spirit - Always Friendly (High Line) O/B-Saad Bin Mishrif TR-MLW Bell Margins Head, 4. Time 2:29.60. Going Soft.

Age 3-4

Starts 7

Wins 4

Places 2

Earned £173,307

Sire: ACT ONE. Sire of 7 Stakes winners. In 2011 SILVER POND Quest For Fame G2.

1st Dam: SILVER FAME by Quest For Fame. Winner at 3 in France. Dam of 3 winners: 2003: SILVER POINT (g Commands) 8 wins at 3 to 6 in France, Grand Prix de la Riviera Cote d’Azur LR. 2004: STATIA (f Anabaa) Winner at 3 in France.

Broodmare.

2005: Savoya (f Anabaa) unraced. Broodmare.

2007: SILVER POND (c Act One) 4 wins at 3 and 4 in France, Grand Prix de Chantilly G2, Prix Hocquart G2, 3rd Prix Exbury G3.

2008: Societe (f Panis) in training.

2009: Smyrnes (f Anabaa) unraced to date.

2nd Dam: SILVERQUEEN by Alydar. 1 win at 3 in France. Dam of SILVA (f Anabaa: Prix Zeddaan LR, Prix Sigy LR), Sylvestre (c Anabaa: 2nd Prix Thomas Bryon G3). Grandam of SAVOIE, Silverlord.

Broodmare Sire: QUEST FOR FAME. Sire of the dams of 30 Stakes winners. In 2011 - SILVER POND Act One G2, FAMOUS NAME Dansili G3, TRIPLE ELEGANCE Mossman G3, ALINGA Rock of Gibraltar LR, RIGHT OF REFUSAL Refuse To Bend LR, TORIO’S QUEST Oratorio LR.

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SILVER POND gr c 2007 Sadler’s Wells In The Wings High Hawk ACT ONE gr 99 Baillamont Summer Sonnet Noesis Rainbow Quest Quest For Fame Aryenne SILVER FAME b 98 Alydar Silverqueen Silvermine

Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Shirley Heights Sunbittern Blushing Groom Lodeve Persepolis Proskona Blushing Groom I Will Follow Green Dancer Americaine Raise A Native Sweet Tooth Bellypha Sevres

109 PRIX DE ROYAUMONT G3

111 PRIX DU GROS-CHENE G2 CHANTILLY. June 5. 3yo+. 1000m.

1. WIZZ KID (IRE) 3 8-6 £63,879 b f by Whipper - Lidanski (Soviet Star) O-Maeve Mahony B-Ballylinch Stud TR-R Collet 2. Prohibit (GB) 6 9-2 £24,655 b g by Oasis Dream - Well Warned (Warning) O-Dasmal, Rix, Barr, Morley, Penney B-Juddmonte Farms TR-RMH Cowell 3. Inxile (IRE) 6 9-2 £11,767 b g by Fayruz - Grandel (Owington) O-D Nicholls, Mrs J Love B-Denis And Mrs Teresa Bergin TR-D Nicholls Margins Head, short head. Time 0:58.40.

Going Soft.

Age 2-3

CHANTILLY. June 5. 3yof. 2400m.

1. TESTOSTERONE (IRE) 9-0 £34,483 br f by Dansili - Epopee (Sadler’s Wells) O-Ecurie La Boetie B-SCEA De La Poterie TR-P Bary 2. Chegei Has (FR) 9-0 £13,793 b f by Kahyasi - Nasou (Kaldounevees) O-Hamel Stud B-Hamel Stud TR-J-P Gallorini 3. Campanillas (IRE) 9-0 £10,345 b f by Montjeu - West Brooklyn (Gone West) O-Darpat SL Stables B-Paget Bloodstock TR-C Laffon-Parias Margins 3, 2. Time 2:31.20. Going Soft.

See race 151

110 GROSSER PREIS DER BADISCHEN UNTERNEHMEN G2

Starts 5

Wins 2

Places 2

Earned £133,259

Sire: WHIPPER. Sire of 6 Stakes winners. In 2011 WIZZ KID Soviet Star G2.

Broodmare Sire: STORM BIRD. Sire of the dams of 126 Stakes winners. In 2011 - WIN VARIATION Heart’s Cry G2, RADHARCNAFARRAIGE Distorted Humor G3, STAY THIRSTY Bernardini G3.

2nd Dam: LIDANNA by Nicholas. 5 wins at 2, 3 and 5, Ballyogan S G3, Greenlands S G3. Dam of YAA WAYL (g Whipper: City of York S LR), Prince Monalulu (c Intikhab: 2nd Macau Hong Kong Trophy LR), Lidanski (see above).

RADHARCNAFARRAIGE b f 2008

Age 2-5

Starts 17

Wins 6

Places 8

Broodmare Sire: SOVIET STAR. Sire of the dams of 25 Stakes winners. In 2011 - WIZZ KID Whipper G2, HIDEBOUND Grand Slam G3.

WIZZ KID b f 2008 Mr Prospector Miesque’s Son Miesque WHIPPER b 2001 Sadler’s Wells Myth To Reality Millieme

Earned £599,492

Nureyev Soviet Star

Sire: SHOLOKHOV. Sire of 10 Stakes winners. In 2011 - NIGHT MAGIC Monsun G. 1st Dam: Night Woman by Monsun. 4 wins, 2nd Frankfurter der Mehl Mulhens LR. Dam of 4 winners: 2005: Night Prince (c Dashing Blade) 4 wins 3-6 in Germany, 2nd Dallmayr Prodomo Trophy LR. 2006: NIGHT MAGIC (f Sholokhov) 6 wins, Grosser Preis von Baden G1, Preis der Diana G1, Grosser Preis der Hauptstadtregion G2 (twice), G P der Jungheinrich Gabelstapler G3, 2nd Premio Lydia Tesio G1, G Dallmayr Bayerisches Zuchtrennen G1, Preis von Europa G1.

2007: NIGHT FASHION (f Sholokhov) Winner at 3.

2008: Night of Dubai (f Lord of England) Winner at 2 in Germany, 3rd Preis des Union Gestuts LR. 2009: Night Flash (c Oratorio) in training.

2nd Dam: NOVEKA by Kalaglow. 3 wins. Dam of Night Woman (f Monsun, see above) Broodmare Sire: MONSUN. Sire of the dams of 9 Stakes winners. In 2011 - NIGHT MAGIC Sholokhov G2, TRES ROCK DANON Rock of Gibraltar G3.

The Sholokhov/Monsun cross has produced: NIGHT MAGIC G1, ADOLFINA G3.

NIGHT MAGIC b m 2006 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge SHOLOKHOV b 99 Lord Gayle La Meilleure Gradille Konigsstuhl Monsun Mosella NIGHT WOMAN gr 98 Kalaglow Noveka Novelle

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Sir Gaylord Sticky Case Home Guard Gradiva Dschingis Khan Konigskronung Surumu Monasia Kalamoun Rossitor Northfields Nigeria

Veruschka LIDANSKI b 2003 Nicholas Lidanna Shapely Test

Raise A Native Gold Digger Nureyev Pasadoble Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Mill Reef Hardiemma Northern Dancer Special Venture Marie d’Anjou Danzig Lulu Mon Amour Elocutionist Tillie Gray

112 BALLYOGAN S G3 LEOPARDSTOWN. June 9. 3yo+f&m. 6f.

1. RADHARCNAFARRAIGE (IRE) 3 9-1 £32,220 b f by Distorted Humor - Extraterrestral (Storm Bird) O-Ms Grainne Seoige B-JS Bolger TR-JS Bolger 2. Peahen (GB) 3 8-12 £9,418 b f by Ishiguru - Ulysses Daughter (College Chapel) O-D Redvers B-Geoffrey J Harner TR-GM Lyons 3. Knock Stars (IRE) 3 8-12 £4,461 b f by Soviet Star - Knockatotaun (Spectrum) O-TF Brennan B-Holborn Trust Co TR-Patrick Martin Margins Head, neck. Time 1:13.59 (slow 2.09).

Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 9

Wins 3

Places 4

Earned £108,455

Sire: DISTORTED HUMOR. Sire of 69 SWs. In 2011 - ALTERNATION Seattle Slew G2, BRETHREN A P Indy G3, MACHEN More Than Ready G3, RADHARCNAFARRAIGE Storm Bird G3, SLOW PACE Seattle Slew LR, Z HUMOR A P Indy LR. 1st Dam: EXTRATERRESTRAL by Storm Bird.

Winner at 3 in USA. Dam of 8 winners: 1998: Machikane Isaribi (c Gone West) 4 wins, 3rd Keio Hai Sansai S LR. 1999: ALIENATED (f Gone West) 3 wins at 4 in USA, Golden Triangle S. Dam of Alienation (f Rock Hard Ten: Winner at 2 in USA, 2nd Spinaway S G1).

2000: Grass Trueno (c Swain) 2002: EXHAUST NOTE (c A P Indy) 3 wins, Hopeful S LR.

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SELKIS b f 2008 Dschingis Khan Konigsstuhl Konigskronung MONSUN br 90 Surumu Mosella Monasia Chief’s Crown Grand Lodge La Papagena

2nd Dam: VICTORIAN QUEEN by Victoria Park.

Champion older mare in Canada in 1975. 12 wins in Canada Ontario Sire S. (3yo & up fillies), Canadian S LR, 2nd Arlington Matron H G2, Canadian Maturity S G2, Diana H G2, Wonder Where S G2. Dam of JUDGE ANGELUCCI (c Honest Pleasure: Mervyn Leroy H G1, Californian S G1, San Antonio S G1, 2nd Hollywood Gold Cup H G1, 3rd Californian S G1, Breeders’ Cup Classic G1, 4th Santa Anita H G1), PEACE (c Naskra: John Henry H G1), WAR (c Majestic Light: Blue Grass S G1). Grandam of GRADUATED, SPEIRBHEAN. Third dam of TEOFILO.

1st Dam: Lidanski by Soviet Star. Winner at 4, 2nd Sweet Mimosa S LR. Dam of 1 winner: 2008: WIZZ KID (f Whipper) 2 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix du Gros-Chene G2, Prix Yacowlef LR, 2nd Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte G2.

2009: Mustaheel (c Lawman) unraced to date.

2010: (c Marju)

BADEN-BADEN. June 5. 4yo+. 2200m.

1. NIGHT MAGIC (GER) 5 9-3 £34,483 b m by Sholokhov - Night Woman (Monsun) O-Stall Salzburg B-Gestut Etzean TR-W Figge 2. Russian Tango (GER) 4 9-0 £13,362 ch c by Tertullian - Russian Samba (Laroche) O-Rennstall Darboven B-Gestut Idee TR-A Wohler 3. Durban Thunder (GER) 4 9-0 £5,603 ch c by Samum - Donna Alicia (Highland Chieftain) O-Stall Tinsdal B-Frau M Sohl TR-T Mundry Margins Neck, 1.5. Time 2:19.19. Going Good.

2003: Fidrych (c Grand Slam) 3 wins at 2 and 3 in USA, 2nd Mountain Valley S. 2004: Allwise (f Mr Greeley) 3 wins at 2 to 4 in Japan, 3rd Kanto Oaks LR. 2005: EMBELLISH (f Mineshaft) Winner at 3.

2006: BLAS CEOIL (f Mr Greeley) 2 wins at 2.

2007: Purple Land (g Tiznow) 2008: RADHARCNAFARRAIGE (f Distorted Humor) 3 wins at 2 and 3, Ballyogan S G3, Coolmore Stud Sprint S G3.

The Distorted Humor/Storm Bird cross has produced: COMMENTATOR G1, RADHARCNAFARRAIGE G3.

HOPPEGARTEN. June 12. 3yof. 2000m.

1. SELKIS (GER) 9-2 £34,483 b f by Monsun - Schwarzach (Grand Lodge) O/B-Gestut Schlenderhan TR-J Hirschberger 2. Julie’s Love (GB) 9-2 £13,362 ch f by Ad Valorem - Skimmia (Mark of Esteem) O-Stall Cohiba-Bar B-TE Pocock TR-Manfred Hofer 3. Night of Dubai (IRE) 9-2 £5,603 b f by Lord of England - Night Woman (Monsun) O/B-Gestut Etzean TR-Mario Hofer Margins Nose, 1. Time 2:05.00. Going Good.

Wins 1

Places 0

Sankt Johanna

114 NOBLESSE S G3 CORK. June 12. 3yo+f&m. 12f.

1. BANIMPIRE (IRE) 3 8-12 £46,228 br f by Holy Roman Emperor - My Renee (Kris S) O-Mrs JS Bolger B-Kilcarn Stud TR-JS Bolger 2. Sense of Purpose (IRE) 4 9-9 £13,513 ch f by Galileo - Super Gift (Darshaan) O/B-Moyglare Stud Farm TR-DK Weld 3. Amazing Beauty (IRE) 3 8-9 £6,401 b f by Galileo - Doula (Gone West) O-Michael Tabor B-Marston Stud, Fleming Thoroughbreds TR-AP O’Brien Margins 3, 1.75. Time 2:37.81 (slow 7.81). Going Good.

115 PRIX DE DIANE G1 CHANTILLY. June 12. 3yof. 2100m.

1. GOLDEN LILAC (IRE) 9-0 £418,698 b f by Galileo - Grey Lilas (Danehill) O/B-Gestut Ammerland TR-A Fabre 2. Galikova (FR) 9-0 £167,509 b f by Galileo - Born Gold (Blushing Groom) O/B-Wertheimer et Frere TR-F Head 3. Glorious Sight (IRE) 9-0 £83,754 b f by Singspiel - Zelding (Warning) O-RC Strauss B-Kilfrush Stud TR-R Collet Margins 1, neck. Time 2:07.90. Going Good to soft.

Age 2-3

113 DIANA-TRIAL G2

Starts 2

Kings Lake Schwarzmeer

See race 131

Raise A Native Mr Prospector Gold Digger Forty Niner Tom Rolfe File Continue DISTORTED HUMOR ch 93 Northern Dancer Danzig Pas de Nom Danzig’s Beauty Mr Leader Sweetest Chant Gay Sonnet Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Storm Bird New Providence South Ocean Shining Sun EXTRATERRESTRAL b/br 93 Chop Chop Victoria Park Victoriana Victorian Queen Stratus Willowfield Willow Lake

Age 2

SCHWARZACH ch 2000

Tamerlane Donna Diana Tiepoletto Kronung Literat Surama Authi Monacensia Danzig Six Crowns Habitat Magic Flute Nijinsky Fish-Bar High Game Semiramis

Earned £2,655

Sire: MONSUN. Sire of 84 Stakes winners. In 2011 SELKIS Grand Lodge G2, LA LUNA DE MIEL Hernando G3, TERTULLUS Be My Guest G3, AIZAVOSKI Alzao LR, MASHOOR Zafonic LR, MONBLUE Bluebird LR, NOT FOR SALE Pivotal LR, RUMH Dashing Blade LR, SHOT FROM THE HIP Roi Danzig LR. 1st Dam: SCHWARZACH by Grand Lodge. Winner at 2 in Germany. Dam of 3 winners: 2005: SHANTI (f Monsun) Winner at 3 in France.

2006: Steuben (g Monsun) Winner at 3 in Germany, 3rd Grand Prix Premiere G3, BadenWurttemberg-Trophy G3.

2008: SELKIS (f Monsun) 1 win at 2 in Germany, Diana Trial G2.

2009: Salzach (c Monsun) unraced to date.

2010: Strike (c Tiger Hill) 2nd Dam: SCHWARZMEER by Kings Lake. 2 wins at 2 and 3 in West Germany Grosser Stutenpreis der Dreijahrigen LR. Own sister to Silent Lake.

Broodmare Sire: GRAND LODGE. Sire of the dams of 27 Stakes winners. In 2011 - XTENSION Xaar G1, SELKIS Monsun G2, KANZAN Commands G3.

The Monsun/Grand Lodge cross has produced: SELKIS G2, Steuben G3.

Starts 5

Wins 5

Places 0

Earned £700,508

Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 90 SWs. In 2011 - FRANKEL Danehill G1, GOLDEN LILAC Danehill G1, IGUGU Intikhab G1, MISTY FOR ME Storm Cat G1, RODERIC O’CONNOR Danehill G1, JOHANN ZOFFANY Royal Academy G2, GALIKOVA Blushing Groom G3, TREASURE BEACH Mark of Esteem G3.

1st Dam: GREY LILAS by Danehill. 4 wins, Prix du Moulin de Longchamp G1, 2nd Poule d’Essai des Pouliches G1, Prix de l’Opera G1, 3rd Prix de Diane G1. Dam of 2 winners: 2007: GREY LILY (f Boreal) Winner at 3 in France.

2008: GOLDEN LILAC (f Galileo) 5 wins 2-3, Poule d’Essai des Pouliches G1, Prix de Diane G1, Prix de la Grotte G3.

2009: (c Hurricane Run) 2nd Dam: KENMIST by Kenmare. 2 wins at 3, Rosemary Rated H LR, 3rd Premio Bagutta G3. Dam of GREY LILAS (see above), KANDAHAR RUN (c Rock of Gibraltar: Newmarket S LR), Stendhal (c Polish Precedent: 2nd Prix Altipan LR), Chambord (c Green Desert: 2nd Prix Jacques de Bremond LR) Broodmare Sire: DANEHILL. Sire of the dams of 165 Stakes winners. In 2011 - ALOHA Encosta de Lago G1, BENFICA Lonhro G1, DREAMAWAY More Than Ready G1, FRANKEL Galileo G1, GOLDEN LILAC Galileo G1, RODERIC O’CONNOR Galileo G1, SEPOY Elusive Quality G1, SHOCKING Street Cry G1, DANEDREAM Lomitas G2, DUNCAN Dalakhani G2, ELITE FALLS More Than Ready G2, DO YOU THINK Starcraft G3, FALINO Fusaichi Pegasus G3, NEEDS FURTHER Encosta de Lago G3, ONE LAST DANCE Encosta de Lago G3, PRECIOUS LORRAINE Encosta de Lago G3, SPLASH POINT Street Cry G3.

The Galileo/Danehill cross has produced: BANC DE FORTUNE G1, CIMA DE TRIOMPHE G1, CUIS GHAIRE G1, FRANKEL G1, GOLDEN LILAC G1, RODERIC O’CONNOR G1, TEOFILO G1, REEM G2, SIDERA G3, MISS GALILEI LR. See race 74 in the July issue

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DATA BOOK STAKES RESULTS

European Pattern GOLDEN LILAC b f 2008 Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special Mr Prospector Miswaki Hopespringseternal Lombard Allegretta Anatevka Northern Dancer Danzig Pas de Nom His Majesty Razyana Spring Adieu Kalamoun Kenmare Belle of Ireland Simply Great Mistral’s Collette Kitty’s Sister Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells GALILEO b 98 Urban Sea

Danehill GREY LILAS gr 2001 Kenmist

DANESKAYA, SILVERSKAYA, MUMTAZ. Third dam of GWENSEB, SIX SENSE. Broodmare Sire: RAINBOW QUEST. Sire of the dams of 130 Stakes winners. In 2011 - GLEN’S DIAMOND Intikhab G3, KREEM Hurricane Run G3, SPIRIT QUARTZ Invincible Spirit G3, VENGENCE Black Sam Bellamy G3.

KREEM b c 2008

Floripedes HURRICANE RUN b 02 Hold On

116 PRIX PAUL DE MOUSSAC G3 Rainbow Quest

CHANTILLY. June 12. 3yoc&g. 1600m.

1. MUTUAL TRUST (GB) 8-11 £34,483 b c by Cacique - Posteritas (Lear Fan) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-A Fabre 2. Ch’tio Bilote (FR) 8-11 £13,793 b c by Ultimately Lucky - Neicha (Neverneyev) O-Valere Van Elven B-G Lanusse TR-J-P Gallorini 3. Blue Soave (FR) 8-11 £10,345 ch c by Soave - Rhapsody In Blue (Bering) O-Mlle K Belluteau, Mme C Gustave B-Mlle Karine Belluteau TR-F Chappet Margins 0.75, 1. Time 1:36.59. Going Good to soft.

See race 161

117 PRIX DU LYS G3 CHANTILLY. June 12. 3yoc&g. 2400m.

1. KREEM (GB) 8-11 £34,483 b c by Hurricane Run - En Public (Rainbow Quest) O-Muteb Bin Abdullah B-F Bianco TR-A Fabre 2. Ibicenco (GER) 8-11 £13,793 c by Shirocco - Iberi (Rainbow Quest) O/B-Gestut Schlenderhan TR-J Hirchberger 3. Beaulieu (IRE) 8-11 £10,345 b c by Motivator - Morning Sun (Law Society) O-Gerard Augustin-Normand B-Haras De La Perelle TR-E Libaud Margins Short head, 1.5. Time 2:28.71.

Going Good to soft.

Age 2-3

Starts 8

Wins 3

Places 4

Earned £90,706

Sire: HURRICANE RUN. Sire of 3 Stakes winners. In 2011 - BALLYBACKA LADY Anabaa G3, DON’T HURRY ME Bering G3, KREEM Rainbow Quest G3.

1st Dam: En Public by Rainbow Quest. foaled in France. Dam of 8 winners: 1996: SARDAUKAR (c Royal Academy) 9 wins, Bet Twice S LR, 2nd American H G2, 3rd Grand Prix de Paris G1, Gulfstream Park Breeders’ Cup H G1.

1997: Alta Badia (f Kris) unraced.

1998: Alta Lena (f Alzao) Winner at 3, 3rd Prix Vanteaux G3.

1999: Cielago (c Anabaa) 4 wins, 2nd Prix Daphnis G3.

2000: KINDJHAL (c Ashkalani) 3 wins 3-5, Prix de la Porte de Madrid LR, 2nd Prix d’Hedouville G3, Queen’s Cup G3, 3rd M V Gold Cup G2.

2002: Acqua Verde (f King’s Best). Dam of Handsome Devil (2nd Prix Greffulhe G2).

2003: STILGAR (g Zafonic) Winner at 3 in France.

2004: EN VITESSE (f Peintre Celebre) Winner at 3 in France. Broodmare.

2005: Public Ransom (f Red Ransom) Unplaced.

2007: ROSTRUM (c Shamardal) 3 wins at 3 and 4, Prix Altipan LR, 2nd Prix Edmond Blanc G3.

2008: KREEM (c Hurricane Run) Sold 480,813gns yearling at ARAUG. 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix du Lys G3, 3rd Prix de Conde G3, Prix Maurice Caillault LR. 2010: (f Raven’s Pass)

Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Top Ville Toute Cy Literat Surumu Surama Sharpen Up Hone Lucy Red God Blushing Groom Runaway Bride Herbager I Will Follow Where You Lead Bold Ruler Tyrant Anadem Le Haar Femina Fast Jane Sadler’s Wells

Montjeu

EN PUBLIC b/br 91 Frenetique

118 PRIX DU CHEMIN DE FER DU NORD G3 CHANTILLY. June 12. 4yo+. 1600m.

1. BYWORD (GB) 5 8-11 £34,483 ch h by Peintre Celebre - Binche (Woodman) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-A Fabre 2. Vagabond Shoes (IRE) 4 8-11 £13,793 ch c by Beat Hollow - Atiza (Singspiel) O-Javier Martinez Salmean B-Almagro De Actividades Comerci TR-Y Durepaire 3. Beacon Lodge (IRE) 6 8-11 £10,345 b h by Clodovil - Royal House (Royal Academy) O-Mr And Mrs P Hargreaves B-Mrs Bill O'Neill TR-CG Cox Margins 0.75, 0.75. Time 1:36.76. Going Good to soft.

Age 3-5

Starts 13

Wins 6

Places 6

Sire: PEINTRE CELEBRE. Sire of 54 Stakes winners. In 2011 - PRAIRIE STAR Arazi G2, BYWORD Woodman G3, FARSANTE CELEBRE Roy G3.

1st Dam: Binche by Woodman. Dam of 2 winners: 2004: Louviere (f Alhaarth) 2005: PROVISO (f Dansili). 9 wins 2-5, Frank E Kilroe Mile H G1, Diana S G1, Just A Game S G1, First Lady S G1, 2nd Fillies’ Mile S G1, Spinster S G1, Santa Monica H G1, 3rd Prix Rothschild G1, Prix Saint-Alary G1.

2006: BYWORD (c Peintre Celebre) Champion older horse in France in 2010. 6 wins 3-5, Prince of Wales’s S G1, Prix du Muguet G2, Prix du Chemin de Fer du Nord G3, 2nd Prix d’Ispahan G1, 3rd Juddmonte International S G1.

2007: Askew (f Beat Hollow) ran twice.

2008: Epinois (f Dansili) unraced to date.

2009: Navarre (c Dansili) unraced to date.

2010: (f Oasis Dream) 2nd Dam: BINARY by Rainbow Quest. 3 wins 3-4, Prix des Tuileries LR, 2nd Prix de Psyche G3. Sister to BEQUEATH. Dam of BINARY FILE (c Nureyev: Marit Sveaas Minnelop G3, 2nd Prix Dollar G2) Broodmare Sire: WOODMAN. Sire of the dams of 146 Stakes winners. In 2011 - ARCHARCHARCH Arch G1, HURTLE MYRTLE Dane Shadow G2, BYWORD Peintre Celebre G3, FIREBOLT Stravinsky G3, VICTORIA’S WILDCAT Bellamy Road G3.

The Peintre Celebre/Woodman cross has produced: BYWORD G1, SUDAN G1, SUPER CELEBRE G1.

BYWORD ch h 2006 Northern Dancer Nureyev Special PEINTRE CELEBRE ch 94

2nd Dam: FRENETIQUE by Tyrant. 4 wins in France Grand H de Deauville LR, Prix de la Pepiniere LR, Prix des Lilas LR. Dam of WILL DANCER (c Green Dancer: Gran Criterium G1, 2nd Premio Emilio Turati G1, Premio Parioli (2000 Guineas) G1, Arlington H G1), DANCING EAGLE (c Bellypha: Premio Umbria G2), WIND SYMBOL (c Caerleon: Sport City S LR, 2nd Louisiana Downs H G3, Jaipur S G3), Boubskaia (f Niniski: 3rd Prix Occitanie LR), Madonna Sprite (f Saint Cyrien: 2nd Criterium de Lyon LR). Grandam of

90

Earned £602,475

Alydar Peinture Bleue Petroleuse Mr Prospector Woodman Playmate BINCHE ch 99 Rainbow Quest Binary Balabina

Nearctic Natalma Forli Thong Raise A Native Sweet Tooth Habitat Plencia Raise A Native Gold Digger Buckpasser Intriguing Blushing Groom I Will Follow Nijinsky Peace

119 GRAND PREMIO DI MILANO G1 MILAN. June 12. 3yo+. 2400m.

1. VOILA ICI (IRE) 6 9-7 £116,379 gr h by Daylami - Far Hope (Barathea) O-Scuderia Incolinx B-Soc Finanza Locale Consulting SRL TR-V Caruso 2. Scalo (GB) 4 9-7 £51,206 b c by Lando - Sky Dancing (Exit To Nowhere) O-Gestut Ittlingen B-Gestut Ittlingen TR-A Wohler 3. Saratoga Black (IRE) 4 9-7 £27,931 br c by Pyrus - Mary Martins (Orpen) O-Lino Scarpellini B-John Neary TR-B Grizzetti Margins Neck, short head. Time 2:34.40.

Going Heavy.

Age 2-6

Starts 24

Wins 13

Places 8

Earned £720,954

Sire: DAYLAMI. Sire of 24 Stakes winners. In 2011 VOILA ICI Barathea G1, INDIAN DAYS Indian Ridge G3, WHISPERING GALLERY Spinning World G3.

1st Dam: FAR HOPE by Barathea. 5 wins at 2 and 3 in Italy, Premio Vittorio Crespi LR. Dam of 1 winner: 2004: Rosh Ha Shana (f Sinndar) Unplaced.

2005: VOILA ICI (c Daylami) Sold 39,408gns yearling at SGSEP. 13 wins 2-6, Gran Premio di Milano G1, Premio Roma G1, Prix Maurice de Nieuil G2, Premio Carlo d’Alessio G3, Premio Federico Tesio G3 (3 times), 2nd Gran Premio di Milano G1, Premio Presidente della Repubblica G1 (twice), Premio Roma G1, 3rd G P del Jockey Club e Coppa d’Oro G1, Gran Premio di Milano G1, Premio Ambrosiano G3.

2006: Harmonieux (c One Cool Cat) unraced.

2007: Egocentrique (c Rock of Gibraltar) 2009: Jusque Ici (c Oratorio) unraced to date.

2nd Dam: FINGER OF LIGHT by Green Desert. 1 win at 2. Dam of FAR HOPE (f Barathea, see above).

Grandam of Rescue Mission.

Broodmare Sire: BARATHEA. Sire of the dams of 42 Stakes winners. In 2011 - VOILA ICI Daylami G1, CRACKERJACK KING Shamardal G2, MONTEROSSO Dubawi G2.

The Daylami/Barathea cross has produced: VOILA ICI G1, MAHAATHEER LR, Rose Diamond G3.

of NH stallion. His change of direction was prompted by the successes of such as Ebaziyan, Zaynar and Ebadiyan. Daylami had been exported to South Africa in 2007 after failing to fulfil the promise he showed by siring Grey Swallow in his first crop. Since then he has been ably represented by such as Indian Days, Whispering Gallery and Voila Ici. Voila Ici’s third dam, Circus Ring, shared the title of champion two-yearold filly in Britain, after taking the Princess Margaret Stakes and Lowther Stakes. Circus Ring produced two very useful daughters in Lady Shipley and Ellie Ardensky, and two other daughters have Gr1-winning descendants. Circus Act is the second dam of the Hong Kong star Viva Pataca, while Rose Of Tralee, an Australian-foaled daughter of Sadler’s Wells, is the dam of the Australian champion Serenade Rose. Voila Ici is the second foal of Far Hope, a precocious Barathea mare who did all her winning at up to seven furlongs.

120 UNION-RENNEN G2 COLOGNE. June 13. 3yo. 2200m.

1. ARRIGO (GER) 9-2 £51,724 b c by Shirocco - Aiyana (Last Tycoon) O/B-Gestut Schlenderhan TR-J Hirschberger 2. Ametrin (IRE) 9-2 £18,103 b c by Tiger Hill - Amarette (Monsun) O/B-Gestut Schlenderhan TR-J Hirchberger 3. Gereon (GER) 9-2 £8,621 b c by Next Desert - Golden Time (Surumu) O-C Zschache B-Gestut Ebbesloh TR-C Zschache Margins Neck, 1.75. Time 2:17.87. Going Good.

Age 3

Starts 3

Wins 2

Places 1

Earned £63,793

Sire: SHIROCCO. Sire of 3 SWs. In 2011 - ARRIGO Last Tycoon G2, GRAND VENT Fabulous Dancer G2.

VOILA ICI gr h 2005 Mill Reef Doyoun Dumka DAYLAMI gr 94 Miswaki Daltawa Damana Sadler’s Wells Barathea Brocade FAR HOPE b 99 Green Desert Finger of Light Circus Ring

Never Bend Milan Mill Kashmir II Faizebad Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Crystal Palace Denia Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Habitat Canton Silk Danzig Foreign Courier High Top Bell Song

With no challengers from Britain and only one from France, the 2011 Gran Premio didn’t look a vintage edition of a race whose past winners include Nearco, Tenerani, Botticelli, Ribot, Prince Royal, Star Appeal, Tony Bin, Falbrav and Lando. However, the field contained three previous Gr1 winners in the previous year’s winner Jakkalberry, the German colt Scalo and the dependable six-year-old Voila Ici. They were to fill three of the first four places, with Voila Ici gamely holding off Scalo by a neck.

Voila Ici takes after his sire Daylami, who was at his most successful as a five-year-old. Voila Ici won the Gr1 Premio Roma at that age, his best win at a younger age being his success in the Gr2 Prix Maurice de Nieuil as a four-year-old.

Daylami is now based at Coolagown Stud in Ireland, in the role

1st Dam: AIYANA by Last Tycoon. 2 wins at 2 and 3 in Germany. Dam of 7 winners: 1998: Anthyllis (f Lycius) Winner at 2, 2nd Premio Carlo Chiesa LR. Dam of ANDORN (Preis des Casino Baden-Baden LR).

1999: APOLYONT (c Midyan) 2 wins 2-4 in Germany.

2001: ALOE (f Lomitas) 2 wins at 3 in Germany.

2004: ADLERFLUG (c In The Wings) 4 wins, Deutsches Derby G1, Deutschland-Preis G1, 2nd Grosser Preis von Baden G1 (twice), 3rd Prix Ganay G1.

2005: ABYDOS (c Monsun) 4 wins 3-5 in Germany.

2006: ATANUA (f Monsun) Winner at 3 in Germany.

2007: Asulayana (f Sulamani) 2008: ARRIGO (c Shirocco) 2 wins, Union-Rennen G2, 2nd Bavarian Classic G3.

2nd Dam: Alya by Lombard. 1 win at 2 in West Germany, 2nd Preis der Diana G2. Own sister to ANNO, ARIONETTE and Allegretta.

Broodmare Sire: LAST TYCOON. Sire of the dams of 136 SWs. In 2011 - TYPHOON TRACY Red Ransom G1, ARRIGO Shirocco G2, CENTENNIAL PARK Thorn Park G2, FREE WHEELING Ad Valorem G2.

ARRIGO b c 2008 Konigsstuhl Monsun Mosella SHIROCCO b 2001 The Minstrel So Sedulous Sedulous Try My Best Last Tycoon Mill Princess AIYANA b 93 Lombard Alya Anatevka

Dschingis Khan Konigskronung Surumu Monasia Northern Dancer Fleur Tap On Wood Pendulina Northern Dancer Sex Appeal Mill Reef Irish Lass II Agio Promised Lady Espresso Almyra

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Caulfield on Prohibit: “Although the King’s Stand Stakes winner no longer carries Khalid Abdullah’s colours, his win helped Juddmonte take the title of leading breeder at Royal Ascot”

2009: Mayo Lad (c Holy Roman Emperor) unraced.

2010: (c Excellent Art)

121 LA COUPE G3 LONGCHAMP. June 13. 4yo+. 2000m.

1. CIRRUS DES AIGLES (FR) 5 9-4 £34,483 b g by Even Top - Taille de Guepe (Septieme Ciel) O-JCA Dupouy B-Y Lelimouzin, B Deschamps TR-Mme C Barande-Barbe 2. Announce (GB) 4 8-13 £13,793 ch f by Selkirk - Hachita (Gone West) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-A Fabre 3. Stacelita (FR) 5 8-8 £10,345 bl m by Monsun - Soignee (Dashing Blade) O-Martin S Schwartz B-J-P H Dubois TR-J-C Rouget Margins 0.75, 2.5. Time 2:07.66. Going Good to soft.

2nd Dam: Drei by Lyphard. Dam of PINA COLADA (f Sabrehill: Chandler H, 2nd San Clemente H G2).

Grandam of Ellmau, Nasri, Laureldean Express.

Broodmare Sire: MARJU. Sire of the dams of 19 Stakes winners. In 2011 - CANFORD CLIFFS Tagula G1, MARCELLINA Deep Impact G1.

See race 71 in the July issue

CANFORD CLIFFS b c 2007 Stop The Music Taufan Stolen Date TAGULA b 93

Age 2-5

Starts 30

Wins 9

Places 20

Standaan

Earned £580,606

Twin Island Jolly Widow

Sire: EVEN TOP. Sire of 1 Stakes winners. In 2011 CIRRUS DES AIGLES Septieme Ciel G3.

Last Tycoon Marju Flame of Tara

1st Dam: Taille de Guepe by Septieme Ciel. unraced.

Dam of 2 winners: 2003: MESNIL DES AIGLES (c Neverneyev) 7 wins at 3 to 7, 2010 in France.

2004: Miss des Aigles (f Alamo Bay). Broodmare.

2005: Vie des Aigles (f Alamo Bay) Unplaced.

2006: CIRRUS DES AIGLES (g Even Top) 9 wins at 3 to 5 in France, Prix Dollar G2, Prix du Conseil de Paris G2, La Coupe G3, Prix du Prince d’Orange G3, Prix de Boulogne LR, Grand Prix du Lion d’Angers LR, 2nd Prix d’Ispahan G1, Prix du Conseil de Paris G2, Prix Exbury G3, Grand Prix de Clairefontaine LR, Prix Matchem LR, Derby du Languedoc LR, Prix Policeman LR, 3rd Prix Ganay G1, Prix Gontaut-Biron G3, Prix Ridgway LR, Prix Pelleas LR. 2008: Kiva des Aigles (f Enrique) in training.

Broodmare Sire: SEPTIEME CIEL. Sire of the dams of 17 Stakes winners. In 2011 - CIRRUS DES AIGLES Even Top G3, THIS ONES FOR PHIL Untuttable LR. CIRRUS DES AIGLES b g 2006 Ahonoora Topanoora Topping Girl EVEN TOP br 93 Niniski Skevena Skhiza Seattle Slew Septieme Ciel Maximova TAILLE DE GUEPE ch 99 Funambule Roots Ruma

Lorenzaccio Helen Nichols Sea Hawk II Round Eye Nijinsky Virginia Hills Targowice Anticlea Bold Reasoning My Charmer Green Dancer Baracala Lyphard Sonoma Rheffic Runnello

122 QUEEN ANNE S G1 ASCOT. June 14. 4yo+. 8f.

1. CANFORD CLIFFS (IRE) 4 9-0 £141,925 b c by Tagula - Mrs Marsh (Marju) O-The Heffer Syndicate, M Tabor, D Smith B-S And S Hubbard Rodwell TR-R Hannon 2. Goldikova (IRE) 6 8-13 £53,800 b m by Anabaa - Born Gold (Blushing Groom) O/B-Wertheimer et Frere TR-F Head 3. Cityscape (GB) 5 9-0 £26,925 ch h by Selkirk - Tantina (Distant View) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-R Charlton Margins 1, 1.75. Time 1:38.38 (fast 0.62).

Going Good.

Age 2-4

Starts 10

Wins 7

Places 3

Earned £887,224

Sire: TAGULA. Sire of 14 Stakes winners. In 2011 CANFORD CLIFFS Marju G1, PRINCETON PLAINS Darshaan LR. 1st Dam: Mrs Marsh by Marju. unraced. Dam of 2 winners: 2005: ZEERAN (c Barathea) 6 wins 4-6 in Sweden.

2007: CANFORD CLIFFS (c Tagula) Sold 29,600gns foal, 47,619gns. 7 wins at 2 to 4, Irish 2000 Guineas G1, Lockinge S G1, Queen Anne S G1, St James’s Palace S G1, Sussex S G1, Coventry S G2, 2nd Greenham S G3, 3rd 2000 Guineas G1, Prix Morny G1.

MRS MARSH b 2001 Lyphard Drei Triple Tipple

Hail To Reason Bebopper Sadair Stolen Hour Zeddaan Castania Busted Veuve Joyeuse Try My Best Mill Princess Artaius Welsh Flame Northern Dancer Goofed Raise A Cup Ameridouble

123 KING’S STAND S G1 ASCOT. June 14. 3yo+. 5f.

1. PROHIBIT (GB) 6 9-4 £170,310 b g by Oasis Dream - Well Warned (Warning) O-Dasmal, Rix, Barr, Morley, Penney B-Juddmonte Farms TR-RMH Cowell 2. Star Witness (AUS) 4 9-4 £64,560 ch c by Starcraft - Leone Chiara (Lion Hunter) O-Widden Stud B-Alma Vale Bloodstock Pty Ltd TR-Danny O’Brien 3. Sweet Sanette (SAF) 6 9-1 £32,310 b m by Jallad - Scented Samantha (National Assembly) O-Chow Hong, Wu Po Kung B-Highlands Farm Stud (Pty) Ltd TR-AT Millard Margins 0.5, 0.5. Time 0:59.50 (fast 0.20).

Going Good.

Age 2-6

Starts 40

Wins 8

Places 16

Earned £432,153

Sire: OASIS DREAM. Sire of 41 SWs. In 2011 PROHIBIT Warning G1, MIDDAY Kingmambo G2, POWER Inchinor G2, RIMTH Efisio G3.

1st Dam: Well Warned by Warning. Winner at 2, 3rd Hillsdown Cherry Hinton S G2. Own sister to OUT OF REACH. Dam of 3 winners: 1999: (c Entrepreneur) 2000: Hazardous (f Night Shift) Broodmare.

2001: Preview (c Green Desert) ran once.

2002: Heat (f King’s Best) unraced. Broodmare.

2003: Precautionary (f Green Desert). Broodmare.

2004: PRIOR WARNING (c Barathea) 5 wins 2-5, Prix Montenica LR, Prix Sigy LR. 2005: PROHIBIT (g Oasis Dream) 8 wins, King’s Stand S G1, 2nd Prix du Gros-Chene G2, 3rd Temple S G2, World Trophy G3, Pavilion S LR. 2006: EMERGENCY (f Dr Fong) 2 wins at 3, Prix Amandine LR, 2nd Prix de Lieurey G3.

2007: Notice Given (c Oasis Dream) 2008: Respondez (f Oasis Dream) unraced to date.

2009: Final Call (f Rail Link) unraced to date.

2nd Dam: WELL BEYOND by Don’t Forget Me. 3 wins 2-3, October S LR. Dam of OUT OF REACH (f Warning: Brown Bess H G3.

Broodmare Sire: WARNING. Sire of the dams of 46 SWs. In 2011 - PROHIBIT Oasis Dream G1.

PROHIBIT b g 2005 Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Sir Ivor Foreign Courier Courtly Dee Lyphard Dancing Brave Navajo Princess Mill Reef Bahamian Sorbus In Reality Known Fact Tamerett Roberto Slightly Dangerous Where You Lead Ahonoora Don’t Forget Me African Doll The Minstrel Mariakova Mofida Danzig Green Desert OASIS DREAM b 2000 Hope

Warning WELL WARNED b 94 Well Beyond

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Oasis Dream could finish only third in the 2003 King’s Stand Stakes, but the 2011 edition provided him with yet another triumph as a stallion, thanks to his first-crop son Prohibit. This first crop has now produced four Gr1 winners, the others being Aqlaam, Tuscan Evening and Lady Jane Digby, and there are nine Group winners among the crop’s very impressive total of 16 stakes winners. Oasis Dream also scored at the Royal meeting with Power in the Gr2 Coventry Stakes.

Although Prohibit no longer carries Khalid Abdullah’s colours, his win helped Juddmonte take the title of leading breeder at Royal Ascot and his pedigree bears the Juddmonte hallmark for several generations. In addition to Oasis Dream, it contains Dancing Brave, Bahamian, Warning, Known Fact and Slightly Dangerous, and his fourth dam is Mofida.

Mofida, a tremendously tough individual who won eight times, became one of Juddmonte’s foundation mares, thanks principally to the efforts of her daughters Zaizafon and Modena. Zaizafon, of course, produced Zafonic and Zamindar, while Modena numbered Reams Of Verse, Elmaamul and Manifest among her Group winners, in addition to producing Midsummer, the dam of Midday. Two other daughters of Mofida, Model Bride and Mariakova, also have Gr1-winning descendants.

Mariakova was a sister to Zaizafon but was bred by Swettenham Stud before Mofida’s sale to Juddmonte.

However, Juddmonte bought Mariakova’s daughter Well Beyond as a yearling and she justified her purchase by producing the talented sisters Well Warned and Out Of Reach to Warning. Well Warned, who was third in the Cherry Hinton Stakes, produced three consecutive stakes winners in Prior Warning, Prohibit and Emergency, the last-named being a very useful performer at up to a mile in France. Emergency was covered successfully by Oasis Dream in 2011.

124 ST JAMES’S PALACE S G1 ASCOT. June 14. 3yoc. 8f.

1. FRANKEL (GB) 9-0 £141,925 b c by Galileo - Kind (Danehill) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-Sir Henry Cecil 2. Zoffany (IRE) 9-0 £53,800 b c by Dansili - Tyranny (Machiavellian) O-M Tabor, D Smith, Mrs J Magnier B-Epona Bloodstock Ltd TR-AP O’Brien 3. Excelebration (IRE) 9-0 £26,925 b c by Exceed And Excel - Sun Shower (Indian Ridge) O-G Manfredini B-Owenstown Stud TR-M Botti Margins 0.75, 1.5. Time 1:39.24 (fast 0.76).

Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 7

Wins 7

Places 0

Earned £635,479

Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 90 SWs. In 2011 - FRANKEL Danehill G1, GOLDEN LILAC Danehill G1, IGUGU Intikhab G1, MISTY FOR ME Storm Cat G1, RODERIC O’CONNOR Danehill G1, JOHANN ZOFFANY Royal Academy G2, GALIKOVA Blushing Groom G3, TREASURE BEACH Mark of Esteem G3.

1st Dam: KIND by Danehill. 6 wins 3-4, Kilvington S LR, Flower of Scotland S LR, 3rd Ballyogan S G3.

Dam of 2 winners:

2007: BULLET TRAIN (c Sadler’s Wells) 2 wins at 2 and 3, Derby Trial S G3.

2008: FRANKEL (c Galileo). 7 wins, Dewhurst S G1, St James’s Palace S G1, 2000 Guineas G1, Royal Lodge S G2, Greenham S G3.

2009: Noble Mission (c Galileo) unraced to date.

2010: (c Oasis Dream) 2nd Dam: RAINBOW LAKE by Rainbow Quest. 3 wins at 3, Lancashire Oaks G3. Dam of POWERSCOURT (c Sadler’s Wells: Tattersalls Gold Cup G1, Arlington Million S G1), KIND (see above) Broodmare Sire: DANEHILL. Sire of the dams of 166 SWs. In 2011 - ALOHA Encosta de Lago G1, BENFICA Lonhro G1, DREAMAWAY More Than Ready G1, FRANKEL Galileo G1, GOLDEN LILAC Galileo G1, RODERIC O’CONNOR Galileo G1, SEPOY Elusive Quality G1, SHOCKING Street Cry G1, DANEDREAM Lomitas G2, DUNCAN Dalakhani G2, ELITE FALLS More Than Ready G2, DO YOU THINK Starcraft G3, FALINO Fusaichi Pegasus G3, NEEDS FURTHER Encosta de Lago G3, ONE LAST DANCE Encosta de Lago G3, PRECIOUS LORRAINE Encosta de Lago G3, SPLASH POINT Street Cry G3, WINTER BURST Western Winter G3.

The Galileo/Danehill cross has produced: BANC DE FORTUNE G1, CIMA DE TRIOMPHE G1, CUIS GHAIRE G1, FRANKEL G1, GOLDEN LILAC G1, RODERIC O’CONNOR G1, TEOFILO G1, REEM G2, SIDERA G3.

See race 37 in the June issue

FRANKEL b c 2008 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge GALILEO b 98 Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta Danzig Danehill Razyana KIND b 2001 Rainbow Quest Rainbow Lake Rockfest

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Lombard Anatevka Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Blushing Groom I Will Follow Stage Door Johnny Rock Garden

125 COVENTRY S G2 ASCOT. June 14. 2yo. 6f.

1. POWER (GB) 9-1 £48,255 b c by Oasis Dream - Frappe (Inchinor) O-M Tabor, D Smith, Mrs J Magnier B-Norelands, Hugo Lascelles TR-AP O’Brien 2. Roman Soldier (IRE) 9-1 £18,292 b c by Holy Roman Emperor - Fermion (Sadler’s Wells) O-Susan Roy B-Fermion Syndicate TR-J Noseda 3. St Barths (GB) 9-1 £9,155 b c by Cadeaux Genereux - Ile Deserte (Green Desert) O-Trelawny II B-Peter & Sally Hunt TR-BJ Meehan Margins Neck, 1.25. Time 1:13.55 (slow 0.15).

Going Good.

Age 2

Starts 3

Wins 3

Places 0

Earned £85,264

Sire: OASIS DREAM. Sire of 41 SWs. In 2011 PROHIBIT Warning G1, MIDDAY Kingmambo G2, POWER Inchinor G2, RIMTH Efisio G3.

1st Dam: FRAPPE by Inchinor. Winner at 2.

Dam of 4 winners: 2001: (c Marju) 2002: THAKAFAAT (f Unfuwain) 3 wins at 2 and 3, Ribblesdale S G2.

2003: QUANTUM (f Alhaarth) Winner at 3.

2004: Wild Gardenia (f Alhaarth) 2005: APPLAUDED (f Royal Applause) Winner at 2.

2006: Arabian Flame (g King’s Best) 2007: Pekan Three (g Sadler’s Wells) 2008: Amjaad (f Dansili) unraced to date.

2009: POWER (c Oasis Dream) 50,000gns yearling.

3 wins at 2, Coventry S G2, Marble Hill S LR. 2010: (f Nayef) 2nd Dam: GLATISANT by Rainbow Quest. 2 wins at 2, Prestige S G3. Dam of FOOTSTEPSINTHESAND (c Giant’s Causeway: 2000 Guineas G1).

Broodmare Sire: INCHINOR. Sire of the dams of 8 Stakes winners. In 2011 - POWER Oasis Dream G2.

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DATA BOOK STAKES RESULTS

European Pattern POWER b c 2009 Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier OASIS DREAM b 2000 Dancing Brave Hope

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Sir Ivor Courtly Dee Lyphard Navajo Princess Mill Reef Sorbus Lorenzaccio Helen Nichols Lomond On Show Blushing Groom I Will Follow Green Dancer Croda Rossa

Age 2-4

Starts 9

Wins 5

Places Earned 3 £2,472,587

Sire: TIGER HILL. Sire of 34 SWs. In 2011 REWILDING Top Ville G1, NAKAAYA Marwina G2.

Sire: ORATORIO. Sire of 12 SWs. In 2011 - LOLLY FOR DOLLY Chester House G2, TORIO’S QUEST Quest For Fame G2, MOURINHO Generous G3.

1st Dam: DARARA by Top Ville. 3 wins at 3, Prix Vermeille G1. Dam of 10 winners: 1988: DARIYOUN (c Shahrastani) 7 wins 3-6, Prix Lord Seymour LR, Prix Scaramouche LR, Gran Premio de Madrid LR, 2nd Prix de Lutece G3, Prix d’Hedouville G3, 3rd Prix du Cadran G1. Sire.

1989: DARDISTAN (c Alleged) 5 wins 3-5 in France.

1990: DARDJINI (g Nijinsky) 7 wins, New Stand H Hurdle G3, 3rd Europe Champion Hurdle G1, Denny Gold Medal Novice Chase G1.

1991: DARARITA (f Halo) Winner at 3 in France. Dam of DARASIM (Goodwood Cup G2, Prix Kergorlay G2, 3rd Ascot Gold Cup G1, Prix du Cadran G1).

1992: Dariyani (c Doyoun) unraced.

1993: DARAZARI (c Sadler’s Wells) 3 wins 3-6, Ranvet S G1, 3rd Chipping Norton S G1. Sire.

1995: Kilimanjaro (c Shirley Heights) Winner at 2, 2nd King Edward VII S G2. Sire.

1996: Rhagaas (c Sadler’s Wells) Winner at 2, 2nd Prix de Lutece G3, 3rd Prix du Jockey Club G1.

1999: DIAGHILEV (g Sadler’s Wells) 4 wins 3-5, Queen Elizabeth II Cup G1.

2004: Evita (f Selkirk) Broodmare.

2005: DAR RE MI (f Singspiel) 6 wins 3-5, Pretty Polly S G1, Yorkshire Oaks G1, Sheema Classic G1, 2nd Yorkshire Oaks G1, Prix Vermeille G1, 3rd Breeders’ Cup Turf G1.

2007: REWILDING (c Tiger Hill) Sold 500,000gns yearling. 5 wins 2-4, Prince of Wales’s S G1, Sheema Classic G1, Great Voltigeur S G2, Cocked Hat S LR, 2nd Prix Noailles G2, 3rd Derby S G1.

1st Dam: Heart Stopping by Chester House. Dam of 1 winner: 2007: LOLLY FOR DOLLY (f Oratorio) Sold 56,000gns foa, 57,000gns yearling. 5 wins at 3 and 4, Windsor Forest S G2, Athasi S G3, Gladness S G3, Park Express S G3, 2nd Athasi S G3, TRI Equestrian S G3.

2008: Eclipseoftheheart (f Shamardal) unraced.

2009: (c Motivator) 2011: (c Champs Elysees)

2nd Dam: Delsy by Abdos. 1 win at 3 in France, 3rd Prix de Pomone G3. Dam of DARSHAAN (c Shirley Heights: Prix du Jockey Club G1), DARARA (see above), DALARA (f Doyoun: Prix de Royallieu G2, 3rd Prix Royal Oak G1), DARAYDAN (g Kahyasi: George Stubbs Rated S LR), DABARA (f Shardari: Prix de Thiberville LR), Dalal (c Labus: 3rd Grand Prix de Vichy G3). Grandam of DALIAPOUR, COURTEOUS, DALAMPOUR, SCRIPTWRITER, HERON ISLAND, DAROMANN, DABTIYA.

Bahamian Ahonoora Inchinor Inchmurrin FRAPPE b 96 Rainbow Quest Glatisant Dancing Rocks

126 WINDSOR FOREST S G2 ASCOT. June 15. 4yo+f&m. 8f.

1. LOLLY FOR DOLLY (IRE) 4 8-12 £56,770 b f by Oratorio - Heart Stopping (Chester House) O-David Keoghan B-J Jamgotchian TR-T Stack 2. Chachamaidee (IRE) 4 8-12 £21,520 b f by Footstepsinthesand - Canterbury Lace (Danehill) O-RAH Evans B-Cheval Court Stud TR-Sir Henry Cecil 3. First City (GB) 5 8-12 £10,770 b m by Diktat - City Maiden (Carson City) O-Saeed Misleh B-Darley TR-DM Simcock Margins 1.5, 1. Time 1:38.72 (fast 0.28).

Going Good.

Age 3-4

Starts 10

Wins 5

Places 3

Earned £213,922

2nd Dam: Clog Dance by Pursuit of Love. 2nd Rockfel S G2. Dam of SHORT DANCE (f Hennessy: Radley S LR, Michael Seely Memorial Fillies’ S LR, 3rd Fred Darling S G3), Yankadi (c Johannesburg: 3rd Somerville Tattersall S G3)

Broodmare Sire: TOP VILLE. Sire of the dams of 86 Stakes winners. In 2011 - REWILDING Tiger Hill G1.

Danzig

Broodmare Sire: CHESTER HOUSE. Sire of the dams of 2 SWs. In 2011 - LOLLY FOR DOLLY Oratorio G2, TWIRLING CANDY Candy Ride G2.

Razyana TIGER HILL b 95 Appiani II The Filly Tigress Silver

LOLLY FOR DOLLY b f 2007 Danzig Danehill Razyana ORATORIO b 2002 Vaguely Noble Mahrah Montage Mr Prospector Chester House Toussaud HEART STOPPING b 2002 Pursuit of Love Clog Dance Discomatic

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Vienna Noble Lassie Alydar Katonka Raise A Native Gold Digger El Gran Senor Image of Reality Groom Dancer Dance Quest Roberto Disconiz

127 PRINCE OF WALES’S S G1 ASCOT. June 15. 4yo+. 10f.

1. REWILDING (GB) 4 9-0 £227,080 b c by Tiger Hill - Darara (Top Ville) O-Godolphin B-Watership Down Stud TR-Mahmood Al Zarooni 2. So You Think (NZ) 5 9-0 £86,080 b h by High Chaparral - Triassic (Tights) O-Smith, Magnier, Tabor, Dato Tan,T Yahaya B-MJ Moran, Piper Farm Ltd TR-AP O’Brien 3. Sri Putra (GB) 5 9-0 £43,080 b h by Oasis Dream - Wendylina (In The Wings) O-HRH Sultan Ahmad Shah B-Glebe Stud And Partners TR-Roger Varian Margins Neck, 6. Time 2:04.24 (fast 1.76).

Going Good.

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High Top Top Ville Sega Ville DARARA b 83 Abdos Delsy Kelty

128 JERSEY S G3 ASCOT. June 15. 3yo. 7f.

1. STRONG SUIT (USA) 9-6 £39,739 ch c by Rahy - Helwa (Silver Hawk) O-Mrs J Wood B-McDowell Farm, Gainsborough Farm et al TR-R Hannon 2. Codemaster (GB) 9-1 £15,064 b c by Choisir - Verbal Intrigue (Dahar) O-Qatar Bloodstock Ltd B-J Byrne And Partners TR-H Candy 3. Western Aristocrat (USA) 9-1 £7,539 bbr c by Mr Greeley - Aristocratic Lady (Kris S) O-Tom Ludt B-Grapestock LLC TR-J Noseda Margins 0.5, neck. Time 1:26.09 (fast 0.61).

Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 6

Wins 3

Places 2

129 QUEEN MARY S G2 ASCOT. June 15. 2yof. 5f.

1. BEST TERMS (GB) 8-12 £42,578 b f by Exceed And Excel - Sharp Terms (Kris) O-R Barnett B-W and R Barnett Ltd TR-R Hannon 2. Shumoos (USA) 8-12 £16,140 ch f by Distorted Humor - Wile Cat (Storm Cat) O-Fawzi Abdulla Nass B-Brushwood Stable TR-BJ Meehan 3. Caledonia Lady (GB) 8-12 £8,078 b f by Firebreak - Granuaile O’Malley (Mark of Esteem) O/B-Isla Cage, Colin Cage TR-Jo Hughes Margins Short head, head. Time 1:00.22 (slow 0.52).

Going Good.

Age 2

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Herbager Angela Rucellai St Chad Templeogue Derring-Do Camenae Charlottesville La Sega Arbar Pretty Lady Venture Marilla

I’m not sure what the odds must be against a mare producing a pair of Gr1 winners in her twenties, but describing Darara as one in a million is probably understating things. The Watership Down broodmare was 22 when she foaled that grand filly Da Re Mi and 24 when she produced Rewilding, winner in 2011 of the Dubai Sheema Classic and Prince of Wales’s Stakes.

Perhaps Darara’s longevity as a broodmare owes something to the fact that she ceased to be a regular breeder in her mid-teens and was barren for four consecutive years.

Darara was acquired for Watership Down as an 11-year-old in 1994. The daughter of Top Ville had earned a Timeform rating of 129 with her easy victory in the Gr1 Prix Vermeille and her good sixth in Dancing Brave’s Arc.

Starts 3

Wins 3

Places 0

1st Dam: Sharp Terms by Kris. unraced. Dam of 4 winners: 2002: Sunsemperchi (f Montjeu) 2 wins 3-4, 2nd Premio Mario Incisa della Rocchetta G3.

2003: Soviet Terms (f Soviet Star) Unplaced.

2005: HEVELIUS (g Polish Precedent) 2 wins.

2006: Brave Dealer (g Falbrav) Unplaced.

2008: MISS CHICANE (f Refuse To Bend) 1 win at 3.

2009: BEST TERMS (f Exceed And Excel) 10,000 gns yearling. 3 wins at 2, Queen Mary S G2.

2nd Dam: By Charter by Shirley Heights. 1 win at 2, 2nd Cheshire Oaks LR. Sister to ZINAAD. Dam of FIRST CHARTER (c Polish Precedent: Lonsdale S G2, 3rd Irish St Leger G1), ANTON CHEKHOV (c Montjeu: Prix Hocquart G2, 3rd Deutsches Derby G1), PRIVATE CHARTER (c Singspiel: Godolphin S LR, 2nd Derby Italiano G1.

Broodmare Sire: KRIS. Sire of the dams of 105 SWs. In 2011 - BEST TERMS Exceed And Excel G2.

BEST TERMS b f 2009 Danzig

Earned £157,521

Danehill Razyana EXCEED AND EXCEL b 00

1st Dam: Helwa by Silver Hawk. unraced. Own sister to SILVER COLOURS. Dam of 3 winners: 2000: WHIMISCAL DAY (f Spinning World) 3 wins 3-4 USA. 2003: B Berry Brandy (f Event of The Year).

2004: Independent Kate (f Bold Anthony) unraced.

2006: NASEEHAH (c Rahy) Winner at 3.

2008: STRONG SUIT (c Rahy) Sold 38,095gns. 3 wins 2-3, Coventry S G2, Jersey S G3, 2nd Middle Park S G1, 3rd Phoenix S G1.

2nd Dam: Team Colors by Mr Prospector. unraced.

Dam of GOD OF CHANCE (c Cozzene: Keio Hai Spring Cup G2), SILVER COLOURS (f Silver Hawk: EBF Montrose Fillies’ S LR), Desaru (g Chief’s Crown: 3rd GTECH Royal Lodge S G2). Grandam of SILVER PIVOTAL, ARISTOCRAT. Broodmare Sire: SILVER HAWK. Sire of the dams of 59 Stakes winners. In 2011 - WINTER MEMORIES El Prado G2, CHANGING SKIES Sadler’s Wells G3, SILVER REUNION Harlan’s Holiday G3, STRONG SUIT Rahy G3.

STRONG SUIT ch c 2008 Red God Blushing Groom Runaway Bride RAHY ch 85 Halo Glorious Song Ballade Roberto Silver Hawk Gris Vitesse HELWA ch 95 Mr Prospector Team Colors Private Colors

Nasrullah Spring Run Wild Risk Aimee Hail To Reason Cosmah Herbager Miss Swapsco Hail To Reason Bramalea Amerigo Matchiche II Raise A Native Gold Digger Private Account Grecian Banner

Earned £49,639

Sire: EXCEED AND EXCEL. Sire of 39 Stakes winners. In 2011 - HELMET Singspiel G1, BEST TERMS Kris G2, EXCELEBRATION Indian Ridge G2, NIDEEB In The Wings G3.

Lomond

Sire: RAHY. Sire of 77 Stakes winners. In 2011 STRONG SUIT Silver Hawk G3.

REWILDING b c 2007 Danehill

Darara also had the attraction of being a half-sister to Darshaan and of being in foal to Darshaan’s sire Shirley Heights.

Although Darara was sold for IR470,000gns, she has proved a tremendous bargain. Kilimanjaro, the colt she was carrying, sold for 500,000gns and he was immediately followed by Rhagaas and Diaghilev, two Sadler’s Wells colts which sold for 500,000gns and 3,400,000gns. The mare now has four Gr1 winners to her credit, as Darazari and Diaghilev respectively scored at the top level in Australia and Hong Kong.

Rewilding’s sire Tiger Hill arrived at Dalham Hall at a fee of £25,000 in 2006. Billed as ‘outperforming all other stallion sons of Danehill,’ he had sired a high percentage of stakes winners in his early crops.

However, he failed to maintain his strike rate, Rewilding being the only Group winner so far from his first two Darley crops.

Patrona Gladiolus Sharpen Up Kris Doubly Sure SHARP TERMS b 96 Shirley Heights

By Charter Time Charter

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Northern Dancer My Charmer Watch Your Step Back Britches Atan Rocchetta Reliance II Soft Angels Mill Reef Hardiemma Saritamer Centrocon

130 NORFOLK S G2 ASCOT. June 16. 2yo. 5f.

1. BAPAK CHINTA (USA) 9-1 £42,578 grro c by Speightstown - Suena Cay (Maria’s Mon) O-TA Rahman B-ET Buckley, S Varney, A O’Donnell TR-KA Ryan 2. Boomerang Bob (IRE) 9-1 £16,140 b c by Aussie Rules - Cozzene’s Pride (Cozzene) O-RJ Tufft B-D Harron, Ederidge Ltd TR-JW Hills 3. Crown Dependency (IRE) 9-1 £8,078 b c by Acclamation - Top Row (Observatory) O-Coriolan Links Partnership III B-Top Row Partnership TR-R Hannon Margins 1, 1.25. Time 1:03.03 (slow 3.33).

Going Good to soft.

Age 2

Starts 2

Wins 2

Places 0

Earned £45,816

Sire: SPEIGHTSTOWN. Sire of 15 Stakes winners.

In 2011 - BAPAK CHINTA Maria’s Mon G2.

1st Dam: Suena Cay by Maria’s Mon. unraced. Dam of 5 winners: 2004: Dreamin O Maria (f Chief Seattle) unraced.

2005: GOOD CITIZEN (f Proud Citizen) 8 wins 2-4 in Jamaica.

2006: ALL SONIC (f Cuvee) Winner at 3 in South Korea.

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Caulfield on Fame And Glory: “He boasts a record of which any horse could be proud.

He has scored at Group 1 level at two, three, four and five, and has won 12 of his 18 starts”

2007: SPANISH ISLAND (c El Corredor) 2 wins at 3.

2008: WARONTHEHOMEFRONT (c War Front) 2 wins at 2 and 3 in Canada.

2009: BAPAK CHINTA (c Speightstown) Sold 43,810gns. 2 wins at 2, Norfolk S G2.

2nd Dam: BALLYNAUGH by Desert Wine. 1 win in USA. Dam of CELTIC MELODY (f Mr Greeley: Humana Distaff H G1) Broodmare Sire: MARIA’S MON. Sire of the dams of 5 Stakes winners. In 2011 - BAPAK CHINTA Speightstown G2, CARACORTADO Cat Dreams LR. BAPAK CHINTA gr/ro c 2009 Gone West SPEIGHTSTOWN ch 98 Silken Cat

Maria’s Mon SUENA CAY gr/ro 2000 Ballynaugh

Raise A Native Mr Prospector Gold Digger Secretariat Secrettame Tamerett Storm Bird Storm Cat Terlingua Chieftain Silken Doll Insilca Majestic Light Wavering Monarch Uncommitted Caro Carlotta Maria Water Malone Damascus Desert Wine Anne Campbell Saltville Fool’s Miss Watch Lucille

131 RIBBLESDALE S G2 ASCOT. June 16. 3yof. 12f.

1. BANIMPIRE (IRE) 8-12 £56,770 br f by Holy Roman Emperor - My Renee (Kris S) O-Mrs JS Bolger B-Kilcarn Stud TR-JS Bolger 2. Field of Miracles (IRE) 8-12 £21,520 b f by Galileo - Landmark (Arch) O-Cheveley Park Stud B-Epona Bloodstock Ltd TR-JHM Gosden 3. Dorcas Lane (GB) 8-12 £10,770 ch f by Norse Dancer - Waqood (Riverman) O-Richard S Keeley B-Elms Stud Co Ltd TR-Mrs L Wadham Margins Short head, 7. Time 2:37.06 (slow 7.06).

Going Good to soft.

Age 2-3

Starts 11

Wins 6

Places 2

Earned £237,963

Sire: HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR. Sire of 4 Stakes winners.

In 2011 - BANIMPIRE Kris S G2, SANDSLASH Lycius G3, IMPERIAL ROME Revoque LR. 1st Dam: MY RENEE by Kris S. 3 wins at 3 and 4, EBF Harvest S LR, Irish Stallion Farms EBF Give Thanks S LR, 2nd Princess Royal John Doyle S G3.

Dam of 2 winners: 2006: Aunt Dottie (f Rahy) unraced. Broodmare.

2007: DREAM ON BUDDY (f Oasis Dream) 2 wins at 3.

2008: BANIMPIRE (f Holy Roman Emperor) Sold 48,080gns yearling. 6 wins 2-3, Ribblesdale S G2, Ballysax S G3, Irish StallionFarms EBF Blue Wind S G3, Kerry Group Noblesse S G3, ISF Victor McCalmont EBF S LR, 3rd Lodge Park EBF Park Express S G3.

2010: (c Holy Roman Emperor)

132 GOLD CUP G1 ASCOT. June 16. 4yo+. 20f.

1. FAME AND GLORY (GB) 5 9-2 £154,698 b h by Montjeu - Gryada (Shirley Heights) O-D Smith, Mrs J Magnier, M Tabor, Mrs Fitri Hay B-Ptarmigan Bloodstock Limited TR-AP O’Brien 2. Opinion Poll (IRE) 5 9-2 £58,642 b h by Halling - Ahead (Shirley Heights) O-Godolphin B-Darley TR-Mahmood Al Zarooni 3. Brigantin (USA) 4 9-0 £29,348 ch c by Cozzene - Banyu Dewi (Poliglote) O-Team Valor B-Team Valor, Mme A Fabre, Denali Stud And Partners TR-A Fabre Margins 3, 4.5. Time 4:37.51 (slow 16.5).

Going Good to soft.

Age 2-5

Starts 18

Wins 12

Sire: MONTJEU. Sire of 100 Stakes winners. In 2011 - FAME AND GLORY Shirley Heights G1, POUR MOI Darshaan G1, ST NICHOLAS ABBEY Sure Blade G1, BLUE BAJAN Darshaan G2, RECITAL Kendor G2, ASKAR TAU Acatenango G3, GOLDEN PARACHUTE Volksraad G3.

1st Dam: Gryada by Shirley Heights. 2 wins at 2, 3rd Premio Dormello G3. Own sister to Golan Heights.

Dam of 8 winners: 1998: Guaranda (f Acatenango) 2 wins at 3, 3rd Upavon S LR. Dam of GRAVITATION (Lillie Langtry S G3).

1999: Grampian (c Selkirk) 4 wins 2-6, 2nd July S LR, Silver Cup H LR. 2001: GRAHAM ISLAND (g Acatenango) 2 wins 3-4.

2002: GRYSKIRK (g Selkirk) Winner at 2.

2003: GAZE (f Galileo) 2 wins at 4 in Germany.

2005: YUMMY MUMMY (f Montjeu) Winner at 3.

2006: FAME AND GLORY (c Montjeu) Sold 190,000gns foal. 12 wins 2-5, Ascot Gold Cup G1, Tattersalls Gold Cup G1, Coronation Cup G1, Irish Derby G1, Criterium de Saint-Cloud G1, Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial S G2, Royal Whip S G2, Mooresbridge S G3, Ballysax S G3, 2nd Derby S G1, Irish Champion S G1.

2007: RAIN FOREST (c Sadler’s Wells) 2 wins at 3.

2010: Grace And Favour (f Montjeu) 2nd Dam: GRIMPOLA by Windwurf. 2 wins, ARAG Schwarzgold-Rennen G2. Sister to GRIMBEAU. Dam of Golan Heights (g Shirley Heights: 2nd July Trophy S LR), Gryada (see above). Grandam of GONBARDA, GLOBAL DREAM, GONFILIA, GONLARGO, GORLOR. Broodmare Sire: SHIRLEY HEIGHTS. Sire of the dams of 177 SWs. In 2011 - FAME AND GLORY Montjeu G1, DONTELLTHEWIFE Volksraad LR. The Montjeu/Shirley Heights cross has produced: ANTON CHEKHOV G1, FAME AND GLORY G1, MONTARE G1, Washington Irving G2, Red Peony G3.

FAME AND GLORY b h 2006 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge MONTJEU b 96 Top Ville

2nd Dam: Mayenne by Nureyev. unraced. Dam of MY RENEE (see above).

Floripedes

Broodmare Sire: KRIS S. Sire of the dams of 65 Stakes winners. In 2011 - BANIMPIRE Holy Roman Emperor G2, KISS MINE Mineshaft LR, MANICERO Mass Media LR, ROMACACA Running Stag LR, TATO ZETA Thunder Gulch LR, TIDARA ANGEL Oratorio LR.

Shirley Heights

BANIMPIRE br f 2008 Danzig Danehill Razyana HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR b 04 Secretariat L’On Vite Fanfreluche Roberto Kris S Sharp Queen MY RENEE b/br 2000 Nureyev Mayenne Detroit

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Bold Ruler Somethingroyal Northern Dancer Ciboulette Hail To Reason Bramalea Princequillo Bridgework Northern Dancer Special Riverman Derna II

Places Earned 3 £2,159,744

had helped him sire two winners of the Doncaster Cup in Honolulu and Askar Tau, plus a high-class staying filly in Montare, winner of the Prix Royal-Oak and fifth in the 2007 Gold Cup after trouble in running. Montare is relevant to Fame And Glory, as they share the same broodmare sire, Shirley Heights.

Sure enough the distance proved no problem for Fame And Glory, who now boasts a record of which any horse could be proud. He has scored at Gr1 level at two, three, four and five, and his win in the Gold Cup came only 13 months after he had run out a seven-length winner of the Tattersalls Gold Cup over little more than half the distance. He has now won 12 of his 18 starts, including six Group races at around a mile and a quarter, so he should certainly not be dismissed as a stayer.

Fame And Glory’s dam Gryada was owned by Lord Howard de Walden’s Plantation Stud, which earlier sent a German mare to Shirley Heights to produce the Derby-winning Slip Anchor. Gryada’s dam Grimpola was another acquisition from Germany, where she had won the 1,000 Guineas and finished third in the German Oaks. Seven of Grimpola’s eight foals were by members of the Mill Reef male line, with a mating to Slip Anchor producing Gonfalon, a three-parts-sister to Gryada. Gonfalon returned to Germany to produce the top filly Gonbarda and two other Group winners in Gonfilia and Gonlargo.

Gryada was carrying Fame And Glory when she sold for 160,000gns as part of the de Walden dispersal in 2005. She returned to the sales in 2006, when she sold for 180,000gns.

Lord Howard de Walden’s widow retained a young grand-daughter of Gryada and this filly – Galileo’s daughter Gravitation – won the Gr3 Lillie Langtry Stakes.

Toute Cy Mill Reef Hardiemma GRYADA b/br 93 Windwurf Grimpola Gondel

ASCOT. June 16. 3yo. 10f.

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special High Top Sega Ville Tennyson Adele Toumignon Never Bend Milan Mill Hardicanute Grand Cross Kaiseradler Wiesenweihe Zank Goldhenne

Nowadays it is usually impossible to say with any certainty whether a horse will stay the two and a half miles of the Gold Cup. However, there seemed to be every reason to be optimistic about the prospects of 2009’s Irish Derby winner Fame And Glory. His sire Montjeu is out of Floripedes, a 15furlong Group winner whose broodmare sire, Tennyson, won the Grand Prix de Paris in the days when it was over 15.5 furlongs.

This stamina in Montjeu’s pedigree

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133 TERCENTENARY S G3 1. PISCO SOUR (USA) 9-0 £39,739 bbr c by Lemon Drop Kid - Lynnwood Chase (Horse Chestnut) O-Michael Kerr-Dineen B-Hascombe Stud TR-H Morrison 2. Alkimos (IRE) 9-0 £15,064 b c by High Chaparral - Bali Breeze (Common Grounds) O-Leonidas Marinopoulos B-C O’Brien, B McGarvey, D Everard TR-LM Cumani 3. Slumber (GB) 9-0 £7,539 b c by Cacique - Sound Asleep (Woodman) O-K Abdullah B-Millsec Ltd TR-BW Hills Margins 1.75, 2. Time 2:11.84 (slow 5.84).

Going Good to soft.

Age 2-3

Starts 8

Wins 3

Places 2

Earned £177,175

Sire: LEMON DROP KID. Sire of 40 Stakes winners.

In 2011 - JUNIPER PASS Coronado’s Quest G2, PISCO SOUR Horse Chestnut G3.

1st Dam: Lynnwood Chase by Horse Chestnut. Dam of 2 winners: 2007: ULTRAVOX (g Lemon Drop Kid) 4 wins over hurdles at 4.

2008: PISCO SOUR (c Lemon Drop Kid) Sold 100,000gns yearling. 3 wins at 2 and 3, Tercentenary S G3, 3rd Dante S G2.

2010: (c Mizzen Mast)

2nd Dam: Lady Ilsley by Trempolino. 2 wins at 2 and 3 in France, 2nd Prix de la Cochere LR. Sister to Najecam. Dam of LORD ADMIRAL (c El Prado: Haafhd Jebel Hatta G2, 3rd Tattersalls Gold Cup G1) Broodmare Sire: HORSE CHESTNUT. Sire of the dams of 3 Stakes winners. In 2011 - SUGGESTIVE BOY Easing Along G1, PISCO SOUR Lemon Drop Kid G3.

PISCO SOUR b/br c 2008 Mr Prospector Kingmambo Miesque LEMON DROP KID b 96 Seattle Slew Charming Lassie Lassie Dear Fort Wood Horse Chestnut London Wall LYNNWOOD CHASE b 02 Trempolino Lady Ilsley Sue Warner

Raise A Native Gold Digger Nureyev Pasadoble Bold Reasoning My Charmer Buckpasser Gay Missile Sadler’s Wells Fall Aspen Col Pickering Nalatale Sharpen Up Trephine Forli Bitty Girl

134 CORONATION S G1 ASCOT. June 17. 3yof. 8f.

1. IMMORTAL VERSE (IRE) 9-0 £141,925 b f by Pivotal - Side of Paradise (Sadler’s Wells) O-RC Strauss B-Kilfrush Stud TR-R Collet 2. Nova Hawk (GB) 9-0 £53,800 br f by Hawk Wing - Reveuse de Jour (Sadler’s Wells) O-A Mouknass B-Ermyn Lodge Stud Limited TR-Rod Collet 3. Barefoot Lady (IRE) 9-0 £26,925 b f by Footstepsinthesand - Lady Angharad (Tenby) O-Mrs H Steel B-Arbawny Ventures 2000 TR-RA Fahey Margins 2.25, 0.5. Time 1:42.75 (slow 2.75).

Going Good to soft.

Age 2-3

Starts 6

Wins 3

Places 2

Earned £237,938

Sire: PIVOTAL. Sire of 88 Stakes winners. In 2011 IMMORTAL VERSE Sadler’s Wells G1, SPRING STYLE Irish River G2, HEADSTRONG Pursuit of Love G3.

1st Dam: SIDE OF PARADISE by Sadler’s Wells. 2 wins, Prix La Camargo LR, 2nd Prix Fille de l’Air G3.

Own sister to FLOWERDRUM. Dam of 3 winners: 2003: Ritzy Baby (f Mozart) unraced.

2005: KEEP DISCOVERING (g Oasis Dream) 4 wins at 2 and 3.

2006: GO LOVELY ROSE (f Pivotal) Winner at 3 in France.

2007: Sugar Paradise (f Cape Cross) 2008: IMMORTAL VERSE (f Pivotal) Sold 425,335gns yearling. 3 wins 2-3, Coronation S G1, Prix de Sandringham G2, 2nd Prix d’Aumale G3.

2nd Dam: MILL PRINCESS by Mill Reef. 1 win at 3 in France. Dam of LAST TYCOON (c Try My Best: King’s Stand S G1, William Hill Sprint Championship G1, Breeders’ Cup Mile G1), ASTRONEF (c Be My Guest: Premio Melton G2), THE PERFECT LIFE (f Try My Best: Prix du Bois G3, 3rd Prix Robert Papin G2), FLOWERDRUM (f Sadler’s Wells: Rose Bowl S LR), Love Boat (c Be My Guest: 4th Prix d’Arenberg G3), Save Me The Waltz (f Kings Lake: 3rd Prix Amandine LR). Grandam of TIE BLACK, VALENTINE WALTZ, SENSE OF STYLE, FANTASTIC LOVE, ZIPPING, RABAH, ZELDING, NIPPING. Third dam of BEAUTY IS TRUTH, BRITT’S BEST, STEELE TANGO, ICE QUEEN. Broodmare Sire: SADLER’S WELLS. Sire of the dams of 256 Stakes winners. In 2011 - IMMORTAL VERSE Pivotal G1, RELIABLE MAN Dalakhani G1, STAND TO GAIN Hawk Wing G1, FEARS NOTHING Faltaat G2, BANKABLE Medicean G3, CASTLETHORPE Not A Single Doubt G3, COSMO MEADOW King’s Best G3, I’M A DREAMER Noverre G3, MAWINGO Tertullian G3, NAMIBIAN Cape Cross G3, TESTOSTERONE Dansili G3, WORKFORCE King’s Best G3.

The Pivotal/Sadler’s Wells cross has produced: EMERALD COMMANDER G1, IMMORTAL VERSE G1, Deep Winter LR, Pipette LR, Fearless Falcon LR.

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European Pattern IMMORTAL VERSE b f 2008 Northern Dancer Special Polar Falcon Jefferson Marie d’Argonne Mohair PIVOTAL ch 93 Caro Cozzene Ride The Trails Fearless Revival Bustino Stufida Zerbinetta Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Sadler’s Wells Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special SIDE OF PARADISE b 98 Never Bend Mill Reef Milan Mill Mill Princess Sayajirao Irish Lass II Scollata Nureyev

The many breeders looking for an ideal mate for their Sadler’s Wells mares were bound to consider Pivotal.

This top stallion has Nureyev in his pedigree and therefore creates 4 x 3 to Northern Dancer and 4 x 4 to Special, in much the same way as Kingmambo did in his highly successful association with Sadler’s Wells mares. Kilfrush Stud had a further incentive for sending Sadler’s Wells’s daughter Side Of Paradise to Pivotal in 2007, as this very useful French performer comes from the same Mill Princess family as Zelding, whose Pivotal filly Beauty Is Truth had won the Gr3 Prix d’Arenberg in 2006.

Side Of Paradise duly produced a filly which – as Immortal Verse – became Pivotal’s first Gr1 winner out of a Sadler’s Wells mare when she stylishly won the Coronation Stakes.

This cross’s 39 foals also include Emerald Commander, a Gr2 winner in Germany, and Nationalism, a very useful miler.

Immortal Verse’s family has served Kilfrush Stud exceptionally well. As a daughter of Mill Princess with a son of Northern Dancer as her sire, Side Of Paradise is a three-parts-sister to the champion sprinter Last Tycoon, the Gr2 sprint winner Astronef and the precocious Gr3 winner The Perfect Life. Another of Mill Princess’s daughters, Save Me The Waltz, produced the French 1,000 Guineas winner Valentine Waltz, while another, Zelda, produced three fast Group winners and yet another, Tender Is Thenight, bred the French 1,000 Guineas winner Tie Black.

Immortal Verse’s third dam Irish Lass II was a sister to Lynchris, winner of the Irish Oaks and Irish St Leger. In addition to producing Irish Ball, winner of the 1971 Irish Derby, Irish Lass produced the outstanding broodmares Mill Princess and Irish Bird. Irish Bird became one of the few mares with three Classic winners to their credit, thanks to Bikala, Assert and Eurobird.

135 QUEEN’S VASE G3 ASCOT. June 17. 3yo. 16f.

1. NAMIBIAN (IRE) 9-1 £34,062 b c by Cape Cross - Disco Volante (Sadler’s Wells) O-Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Al Maktoum B-Hascombe And Valiant Studs TR-M Johnston 2. Solar Sky (GB) 9-1 £12,912 ch c by Galileo - La Sky (Law Society) O/B-Lordship Stud TR-Sir Henry Cecil 3. Eternal Heart (IRE) 9-1 £6,462 b c by Alhaarth - Lady In Pace (Burslem) O/B-Mrs Joan Keaney TR-M Johnston Margins Nk, 7. Time 3:40.97 Going Good to soft.

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Age 2-3

Starts 9

Wins 2

Places 5

Earned £71,774

Sire: CAPE CROSS. Sire of 68 Stakes winners. In 2011 - KHAWLAH Selkirk G2, JOVIALITY Night Shift G3, NAMIBIAN Sadler’s Wells G3.

1st Dam: Disco Volante by Sadler’s Wells. Winner at 3, 2nd Pretty Polly S LR, 2nd Prix Charles Laffitte LR. Dam of 3 winners: 2005: CINERAMA (f Machiavellian) Winner at 3.

2006: MARY GOODNIGHT (f King’s Best) 1 win at 3.

2007: Pantala (f Dubawi) unraced.

2008: NAMIBIAN (c Cape Cross) Sold 60,000gns yearling. 2 wins at 2 and 3, Queen’s Vase G3, 2nd Cocked Hat S LR. 2009: Volant Dancer (c Danehill Dancer) unraced.

2011: (c Oasis Dream) 2nd Dam: DIVINE DANSE by Kris. 5 wins 2-3, Prix du Gros Chene G2, 2nd Prix Morny G1, 3rd Cheveley Park S G1. Dam of Valentino (c Nureyev: 2nd St James’s Palace S G1, 3rd Poule d’Essai des Poulains G1), Eminence (g Machiavellian: 2nd Acomb S LR).

2005: CHANGING SKIES (f Sadler’s Wells) 5 wins 3-6, La Prevoyante H G3, The Very One S G3, 2nd Flower Bowl Invitational S G1.

2007: MONTEREY (g Montjeu) Winner at 3.

2008: NATHANIEL (c Galileo) 2 wins at 3, King Edward VII S G2, 2nd Chester Vase G3.

2009: Great Heavens (f Galileo) unraced to date.

2011: Throne Room (c Oasis Dream) 2nd Dam: MIA KARINA by Icecapade. 1 win at 3 in France. Dam of SIBERIAN SUMMER (c Siberian Express: Charles H Strub S G1).

The Galileo/Silver Hawk cross has produced: NATHANIEL G2, ARISTOCRAT LR, NAMIBIA LR, Seville G1.

NATHANIEL b c 2008 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge GALILEO b 98 Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta Roberto

NAMIBIAN b c 2008 Green Desert CAPE CROSS b/br 94 Park Appeal

Sadler’s Wells DISCO VOLANTE b 99 Divine Danse

Silver Hawk Northern Dancer Danzig Pas de Nom Sir Ivor Foreign Courier Courtly Dee Lorenzaccio Ahonoora Helen Nichols Balidar Balidaress Innocence Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special Sharpen Up Kris Doubly Sure Green Dancer Dance Quest Polyponder

136 KING EDWARD VII S G2 ASCOT. June 17. 3yoc&g. 12f.

1. NATHANIEL (IRE) 8-12 £86,750 b c by Galileo - Magnificient Style (Silver Hawk) O-Lady Rothschild B-Kincorth Investments Inc TR-JHM Gosden 2. Fiorente (IRE) 8-12 £32,885 br c by Monsun - Desert Bloom (Pilsudski) O/B-Ballymacoll Stud TR-Sir Michael Stoute 3. Alexander Pope (IRE) 8-12 £16,458 b c by Danehill Dancer - Starship (Galileo) O-D Smith, Mrs J Magnier, M Tabor B-T Hirschfeld TR-AP O’Brien Margins 5, 2. Time 2:34.48 (slow 4.48).

Going Good to soft.

Age 2-3

Starts 5

Wins 2

Places 3

Earned £103,796

Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 92 Stakes winners. In 2011 FRANKEL Danehill G1, GOLDEN LILAC Danehill G1, IGUGU Intikhab G1, MISTY FOR ME Storm Cat G1, RODERIC O’CONNOR Danehill G1, JOHANN ZOFFANY Royal Academy G2, NATHANIEL Silver Hawk G2, GALIKOVA Blushing Groom G3, TREASURE BEACH Mark of Esteem G3.

1st Dam: MAGNIFICIENT STYLE by Silver Hawk. 2 wins at 3, Musidora S G3. Dam of 9 winners: 1999: STYLELISTICK (f Storm Cat) 4 wins 2-3, Appalachian S LR, Green River S LR, 3rd Regret S G3.

2000: ECHOES IN ETERNITY (f Spinning World) 4 wins 2-4, Park Hill S G2, Sun Chariot S G2.

Dam of WHISPERING GALLERY (DRC Gold Cup G3).

2001: PERCUSSIONIST (g Sadler’s Wells) 11 wins, Yorkshire Cup G2.

2002: PLAYFUL ACT (f Sadler’s Wells). 4 wins at 2 and 3, Fillies’ Mile S G1, 2nd Irish Oaks G1.

Dam of Giants Play (3rd River Eden S LR, 2nd Sheepshead Bay S G2).

2003: DISTINCTIVE LOOK (f Danehill) Winner at 3.

2004: PETARA BAY (g Peintre Celebre) 2 wins 2-3, Feilden S LR, 3rd Princess of Wales’s S G2.

Gris Vitesse MAGNIFICIENT STYLE b 93 Icecapade Mia Karina Basin

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Lombard Anatevka Hail To Reason Bramalea Amerigo Matchiche II Nearctic Shenanigans Tom Rolfe Delta

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Razyana Spring Adieu Northern Dancer Be My Guest What A Treat Bold Lad Push A Button River Lady Red God Blushing Groom Runaway Bride Herbager I Will Follow Where You Lead Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier Mr Prospector Optimistic Lass Loveliest Danzig

Danehill ROCK OF GIBRALTAR b 99 Offshore Boom

Rainbow Quest AILEEN’S GIFT b 98 Joyful

Broodmare Sire: SILVER HAWK. Sire of the dams of 60 SWs. In 2011 - NATHANIEL Galileo G2, WINTER MEMORIES El Prado G2, CHANGING SKIES Sadler’s Wells G3, SILVER REUNION Harlan’s Holiday G3, STRONG SUIT Rahy G3.

Broodmare Sire: SADLER’S WELLS. See race 134.

The Cape Cross/Sadler’s Wells cross has produced: LAAHEB G3, NAMIBIAN G3, MANYRIVERSTOCROSS LR, Cedarberg G2, Caucus G3, Kudamm LR.

SAMITAR b f 2009

138 GOLDEN JUBILEE S G1 ASCOT. June 18. 3yo+. 6f.

1. SOCIETY ROCK (IRE) 4 9-4 £227,080 b c by Rock of Gibraltar - High Society (Key of Luck) O-Simon Gibson B-San Gabriel Investments Inc TR-JR Fanshawe 2. Monsieur Chevalier (IRE) 4 9-4 £86,080 b c by Chevalier - Blue Holly (Blues Traveller) O-Mrs Valerie Hubbard, Ian Higginson B-Tally-Ho Stud TR-R Hannon 3. Star Witness (AUS) 4 9-4 £43,080 ch c by Starcraft - Leone Chiara (Lion Hunter) O-Widden Stud B-Alma Vale Bloodstock Pty Ltd TR-Danny O’Brien Margins 0.5, 1.25. Time 1:17.22 (slow 3.82).

Going Soft.

Age 2-4

Starts 11

Wins 4

Places 3

Earned £507,917

Sire: ROCK OF GIBRALTAR. See race 137.

137 ALBANY S G3 ASCOT. June 17. 2yof. 6f.

1. SAMITAR (GB) 8-12 £34,062 b f by Rock of Gibraltar - Aileen’s Gift (Rainbow Quest) O-Nick & Olga Dhandsa, John & Zoe Webster B-Norman Court Stud TR-MR Channon 2. Inetrobil (IRE) 8-12 £12,912 ch f by Bertolini - Tigava (Machiavellian) O-Highclere Thoroughbred Racing, P Beirne B-P Beirne TR-KA Ryan 3. Illaunglass (IRE) 8-12 £6,462 b f by Red Clubs - Esterlina (Highest Honor) O-George J Kent B-R O’Callaghan, D Veitch TR-J Noseda Margins 0.75, 1.75. Time 1:15.93 (slow 2.53).

Going Good to soft.

Age 2

Starts 2

Wins 1

Places 1

Earned £34,736

Sire: ROCK OF GIBRALTAR. Sire of 65 Stakes winners. In 2011 - SOCIETY ROCK Key of Luck G1, EISHIN OSMAN Luhuk G2, SAMITAR Rainbow Quest G3, TRES ROCK DANON Monsun G3.

1st Dam: Aileen’s Gift by Rainbow Quest. unraced.

Dam of 4 winners: 2002: ENTRUST (c Xaar) 3 wins 3-4 in Greece.

2003: Holy Show (g Bishop of Cashel) ran twice over hurdles.

2005: NIJOOM DUBAI (f Noverre) Winner at 2, Albany S G3. Broodmare.

2006: LA GIFTED (f Fraam) 6 wins at 3.

2008: Gift Dancer (f Imperial Dancer) unraced to date.

2009: SAMITAR (f Rock of Gibraltar) Sold 39,000gns yearling. 1 win at 2, Albany S G3.

2010: (c Sixties Icon) 2nd Dam: JOYFUL by Green Desert. 1 win at 3. Dam of Roker Park (g Choisir: 3rd Bullet Sprint S LR).

Grandam of SHAWEEL. Broodmare Sire: RAINBOW QUEST. Sire of the dams of 131 Stakes winners. In 2011 - GLEN’S DIAMOND Intikhab G3, KREEM Hurricane Run G3, SAMITAR Rock of Gibraltar G3, SPIRIT QUARTZ Invincible Spirit G3, VENGENCE Black Sam Bellamy G3, BEATRICE AURORE Danehill Dancer LR, FERDOOS Dansili LR, ROSTRUM Shamardal LR, SHOW RAINBOW Haafhd LR, ESPLENDIDO Spadoun LR. The Rock of Gibraltar/Rainbow Quest cross has produced: YOUR OLD PAL G2, BRUSCO G3, SAMITAR G3, Sea of Heartbreak G3, Fighter Boy LR.

1st Dam: HIGH SOCIETY by Key of Luck. 3 wins at 2 and 3, Rochestown S LR, La Habra S LR, 2nd Senorita S G3, 3rd Honeymoon Breeders’ Cup H G2.

Dam of 3 winners: 2004: JOHANNESBURG CAT (f Johannesburg) Winner at 2 in Germany.

2007: SOCIETY ROCK (c Rock of Gibraltar) Sold 75,000gns yearling. 4 wins at 2 to 4, Golden Jubilee S G1, Pavilion S LR, 2nd Golden Jubilee S G1, Carnarvon S LR. 2008: MELANDIA (f One Cool Cat) Winner at 3 in Greece.

2009: Byron Blue (c Dylan Thomas) unraced to date.

2010: (c Duke of Marmalade) 2nd Dam: Ela’s Gold by Ela-Mana-Mou. Dam of HIGH SOCIETY (see above).

Broodmare Sire: KEY OF LUCK. Sire of the dams of 5 Stakes winners. In 2011 - SOCIETY ROCK Rock of Gibraltar G1.

SOCIETY ROCK b c 2007 Danzig Danehill Razyana ROCK OF GIBRALTAR b 99 Be My Guest Offshore Boom Push A Button Chief’s Crown Key of Luck Balbonella HIGH SOCIETY b/br 99 Ela-Mana-Mou Ela’s Gold Majestic’s Gold

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Northern Dancer What A Treat Bold Lad River Lady Danzig Six Crowns Gay Mecene Bamieres Pitcairn Rose Bertin Rheingold Majestic

Having been leased to Japan for 2007, Rock Of Gibraltar has no European three-year-olds in 2011, which is bound to make it more difficult to figure highly on the leading sires’ list. However, this outstanding miler is still having a fine year. At the Royal Ascot meeting, where he had won the 2002 St James’s Palace Stakes, Rock Of Gibraltar scored a Group race double, with Samitar taking the Gr3 Albany Stakes and Society Rock the Gr1 Golden Jubilee.

This was comfortably Society Rock’s

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best effort since he had finished second to Starspangledbanner in the previous year’s Jubilee.

Society Rock and Samitar are among a growing number of blacktype performers by Rock Of Gibraltar with two lines of Danzig in their pedigree. Samitar is inbred 3 x 4, as is Society Rock, whose second line comes through his broodmare sire Key Of Luck, a grandson of Danzig. Key Of Luck, a three-parts-brother to the champion sprinter Anabaa, showed a lot of speed at two, when he won the Gr3 Prix d’Arenberg. After being unable to race at three, he didn’t win again until he stepped up to a mile. He moved up the distance scale again after his transfer to the UAE, where he raced on sand. After carrying top weight to a 12-length success in record time over a mile and a quarter, he took the Dubai Duty Free by 20 lengths.

Although his opportunities were initially limited, Key Of Luck sired the Group-placed Listed winners Wrong Key and High Society in his first crop before coming up with the top-class Alamshar and the Group-winning sprinter Miss Emma in his second.

Society Rock is out of High Society, who was Group placed in Ireland before becoming a stakes winner over 6.5 furlongs in the USA, where she was Graded placed over eight and nine furlongs.

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G3), Fully Invested (f Irish River: 3rd A Harrison Trial S LR), Picture Editor (c Dansili: 3rd Cocked Hat S LR).

Broodmare Sire: DIXIELAND BAND. Sire of the dams of 115 SWs. In 2011 - AGGIE ENGINEER E Dubai G2, AWAIT THE DAWN Giant’s Causeway G2, FUMINO IMAGINE Manhattan Cafe G3, S S STONE Birdstone G3, TOOCLEVERFORWORDS Arch G3.

The Giant’s Causeway/Dixieland Band cross: FIRST SAMURAI G1, AWAIT THE DAWN G2.

AWAIT THE DAWN b c 2007 Northern Dancer South Ocean Secretariat Terlingua Crimson Saint GIANT’S CAUSEWAY ch 97 Blushing Groom Rahy Glorious Song Mariah’s Storm Roberto Immense Imsodear Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Dixieland Band Delta Judge Mississippi Mud Sand Buggy VALENTINE BAND b 97 Mill Reef Shirley Heights Hardiemma Shirley Valentine Roberto Slightly Dangerous Where You Lead Storm Bird

Storm Cat

140 PREMIO PRIMI PASSI G3 MILAN. June 19. 2yo. 1200m.

1. VEDELAGO (IRE) 8-11 £34,482 b c by Red Clubs - Queen Shy (Marju) O/B-GTA SRL TR-L Polito 2. Salure (GB) 8-11 £15,172 ch c by Sakhee - Davie’s Lure (Lure) O/B-Scuderia Blueberry TR-B Grizzetti 3. Strategic Game (IRE) 8-11 £8,275 b c by Choisir - Minodora (Marju) O-Effevi B-Signore Alberto Panetta TR-S Botti Margins 2, 1.75. Time 1:10.70. Going Soft.

Age 2

Starts 3

Wins 3

Places 0

Wins 5

Starts 5

Places 0

Earned £145,336

Sire: GIANT’S CAUSEWAY. Sire of 85 Stakes winners. In 2011 - GIANT OAK Crafty Prospector G1, AWAIT THE DAWN Dixieland Band G2, SHOWCAUSE Lord Ballina G2, STRAIGHT STORY Lear Fan G3, WORTH REPEATING A P Indy G3.

1st Dam: Valentine Band by Dixieland Band. Winner at 3, 2nd Convergent Networks Middleton S LR. Dam of 3 winners: 2003: Dream Vision (f Distant View) unraced.

2004: Card Shop (f Chester House). Broodmare.

2005: PUTNEY BRIDGE (g Mizzen Mast) 5 wins at 2-5, Prix Jacques Laffitte LR, 2nd La Coupe de Maisons-Laffitte G3, 3rd Criterium de SaintCloud G1.

2006: SPRUCE (g Maria’s Mon) 4 wins at 4.

2007: AWAIT THE DAWN (c Giant’s Causeway) 5 wins at 2 to 4, Hardwicke S G2, Huxley S G3, Kilternan S G3.

2008: Searing Heat (c Empire Maker) in training.

2009: Vastly (c Mizzen Mast) unraced to date.

2010: (c Arch) 2nd Dam: Shirley Valentine by Shirley Heights. 1 win at 3, 3rd Galtres S LR. Sister to Deploy. Dam of MEMORISE (c Lyphard: Waterford Crystal World Sports Cup G3, 3rd Geoffrey Freer S G2), MULTIPLEX (c Danehill: Prix La Rochette G3), Sparkling Water (g Woodman: 2nd Chester Vase

2nd Dam: SHYOUSHKA by Shy Groom. 2 wins, Ballymacoll Stud S LR. Dam of Toto Le Moko (c Marju: 2nd Premio Ellington G2).

Broodmare Sire: MARJU. Sire of the dams of 19 SWs. In 2011 - CANFORD CLIFFS Tagula G1, MARCELLINA Deep Impact G1, VEDELAGO Red Clubs G3.

VEDELAGO b c 2009 Roberto Red Ransom Arabia RED CLUBS br 2003 First Trump Two Clubs Miss Cindy Last Tycoon Marju Flame of Tara QUEEN SHY b 99 Shy Groom Shyoushka Capsville

Hail To Reason Bramalea Damascus Christmas Wind Primo Dominie Valika Mansingh Iridium Try My Best Mill Princess Artaius Welsh Flame Blushing Groom Apsara Cyane Set A Cap

141 DUSSELDORFER REITER UND RENNVEREINS G2 DUSSELDORF. June 19. 3yof. 1600m.

1. LIPS POISON (GER) 9-2 £60,345 ch f by Mamool - Lips Plane (Ashkalani) O-Stall Lintec B-Stall Parthenaue TR-A Lowe 2. Wolkenburg (GER) 9-2 £24,138 b f by Big Shuffle - Winterthur (Alkalde) O/B-Gestut Ebbesloh TR-P Schiergen 3. Temida (IRE) 9-2 £12,069 b f by Oratorio - Interim Payment (Red Ransom) O-Litex Commerce B- A & G Corry TR-M Mintchev

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Earned £71,735

1st Dam: Lips Plane by Ashkalani. Winner at 2, 2nd Premio Repubbliche Marinare LR, 3rd Premio Dormello G3. Dam of 3 winners: 2004: LADY LIPS (f Zinaad) Winner at 3 in Germany.

2005: LIPS ARROW (f Big Shuffle) 3 wins 2-3, Dallmayr Prodomo Trophy LR, Grosser Preis des Autoring Hannover LR, 2nd Premio Carlo Chiesa G3, Lotto Hamburg Trophy G3.

2006: Lips Motion (f Zinaad) 2007: Lips Affair (c Mamool) unraced.

2008: LIPS POISON (f Mamool) Sold 2,219gns yearling. 1 win at 3 in Germany, German 1000 Guineas G2, 2nd Herbertus LiebrechtGedachtnispreis LR. 2009: Lips Dancer (c Big Shuffle) unraced to date.

2010: (c Elusive City) 2011: (c Oratorio)

Winterkonigin G3, HH Sheikh H.bin Rashid Al Maktoum-Trophy G3, 3rd Diana Trial G2.

2008: LYRIC STREET (c Hurricane Run) Winner at 3.

2009: El Galoppier (c Galileo) unraced to date.

2010: Elle Same (f Samum) 2011: (f New Approach) 2nd Dam: ELEGIE by Teotepec. 3 wins at 3 in Germany. Dam of ELLE DANZIG, El Society (c Law Society: 2nd Herbst-Preis der Dreijahrigen LR), Eurydike (f Anfield: 2nd Preis der Jahrlingsauktion LR). Grandam of EMPORIO. Broodmare Sire: ROI DANZIG. Sire of the dams of 10 SWs. In 2011 - ELLE SHADOW Shamardal G3.

ELLE SHADOW b f 2007 Storm Cat Giant’s Causeway Mariah’s Storm SHAMARDAL b 2002 Machiavellian Helsinki Helen Street Danzig Roi Danzig

2nd Dam: ROYAL HOUSE by Royal Academy. 2 wins 2-3. Dam of BEACON LODGE (c Clodovil: Horris Hill S G3, Prix du Chemin de Fer du Nord G3, 3rd Celebration Mile G2), SUGARHONEYBABY (f Docksider: Knockaire S LR), Royal Island (g Trans Island: 2nd Woodcote S LR) Broodmare Sire: ASHKALANI. Sire of the dams of 12 Stakes winners. In 2011 - ALWAYS A PRINCESS Leroidesanimaux G2, LIPS POISON Mamool G2.

LIPS POISON ch f 2008 Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Shirley Heights High Hawk Sunbittern Mr Prospector Woodman Playmate Far North Reigning Countess Countess Fager Nureyev Soviet Star Veruschka Dalsaan Ashtarka Asharaz Nijinsky Royal Academy Crimson Saint Pharly Reine Caroline Royal Model Sadler’s Wells

In The Wings MAMOOL b 99 Genovefa

Ashkalani LIPS PLANE ch 2000

1st Dam: Queen Shy by Marju. 3 wins, 2nd Premio Buontalenta LR. Dam of 3 winners: 2006: VALORE ASSOLUTO (c One Cool Cat) 5 wins 3-5 in Italy.

2007: Silent Majority (c Refuse To Bend) Unplaced.

2008: QUEEN BYRON (f Byron) 2 wins 2-3 in Italy.

2009: VEDELAGO (c Red Clubs) 3 wins, Premio Primi Passi G3, Premio Alberto Giubilo LR.

Wins 1

Sire: MAMOOL. Sire of 3 Stakes winners. In 2011 LIPS POISON Ashkalani G2.

Sire: RED CLUBS. Sire of 1 Stakes winner in 2011 VEDELAGO Marju G3.

1. AWAIT THE DAWN (USA) 4 9-0 £61,964 b c by Giant’s Causeway - Valentine Band (Dixieland Band) O-M Tabor, Mrs J Magnier B-Juddmonte Farms TR-AP O’Brien 2. Harris Tweed (GB) 4 9-0 £23,489 b g by Hernando - Frog (Akarad) O-B Haggas B-JB Haggas TR-WJ Haggas 3. Drunken Sailor (IRE) 6 9-0 £11,755 b g by Tendulkar - Ronni Pancake (Mujadil) O-Samanda Racing, Tony Bloom B-Cyril Kiernan TR-LM Cumani Margins 3, 2.5. Time 2:38.40 (slow 8.40). Going Soft.

Starts 6

Age 2-3

Earned £69,395

ASCOT. June 18. 4yo+. 12f.

Age 2-4

Margins 1.25, neck. Time 1:41.03. Going Soft.

Royal House

142 GROSSER PREIS DER WIRTSCHAFT G3 DORTMUND. June 23. 3yo+. 2000m.

1. ELLE SHADOW (IRE) 4 9-2 £27,586 b f by Shamardal - Elle Danzig (Roi Danzig) O/B-Gestut Wittekindshof TR-P Schiergen 2. Illo (GER) 5 9-5 £9,483 b h by Tertullian - Iora (Konigsstuhl) O/B-Gestut Schlenderhan TR-J Hirchberger 3. Ovambo Queen (GER) 4 9-2 £4,741 b f by Kalatos - Oxalaguna (Lagunas) O-Dr HH Leimbach B-Gestut Rietberg TR-Dr A Bolte Margins 3.5, 1.5. Time 2:02.65. Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 9

Wins 4

Places 4

Earned £187,191

Sire: SHAMARDAL. Sire of 28 Stakes winners. In 2011 - CRACKERJACK KING Barathea G2, DUNBOYNE EXPRESS Polish Precedent G3, ELLE SHADOW Roi Danzig G3.

1st Dam: ELLE DANZIG by Roi Danzig. Champion 3yo in Germany in 1998, Champion older mare in Germany in 1999 & 2000. 12 wins 3-5, Premio Roma G1 (twice), Grosser Dallmayr-Preis G1, 2nd Premio Presidente della Repubblica G1. Dam of 7 winners: 2002: EL STAR (c Soviet Star) 4 wins 4-5 in Germany.

2003: Elle Galante (f Galileo) 3 wins at 3 in Germany, 3rd Prix Belle de Nuit LR. 2004: EL COMODIN (c Monsun) 4 wins 2-6, Prix Pelleas LR. 2005: ELLE GALA (f Galileo) 3 wins 3-4, NereideRennen LR. 2006: EL DJANGO (c Sadler’s Wells) Winner at 4 in Germany.

2007: ELLE SHADOW (f Shamardal) 4 wins 2-3, Rashit Shaykhutdinov-Cup G3, Belmondo-Preis G3, Grosser Preis der Dortmunder Wirtschaft G3, GP der Sparkasse Mulheim Berberis Rennen LR, 2nd Preis der Diana G1, Preis der

Gdynia ELLE DANZIG b 95 Teotepec Elegie Elektra

Storm Bird Terlingua Rahy Immense Mr Prospector Coup de Folie Troy Waterway Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Sir Ivor Classicist Sea Hawk II Tout Sweet Twenty Orsini Egina

143 INTERNATIONAL S G3 CURRAGH. June 24. 3yo+. 10f.

1. FAMOUS NAME (GB) 6 9-12 £33,642 b h by Dansili - Fame At Last (Quest For Fame) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-DK Weld 2. Jan Vermeer (IRE) 4 9-9 £9,849 b c by Montjeu - Shadow Song (Pennekamp) O-M Tabor B-Shadow Song Syn TR-AP O’Brien 3. Mid Mon Lady (IRE) 6 9-6 £4,677 br m by Danetime - Shining Desert (Green Desert) O-Mad In The Head Syndicate B-Patrick Cassidy TR-H Rogers Margins 6, 9. Time 2:15.40. Going Soft.

Age 2-6

Starts 24

Wins 12

Places 9

Earned £839,366

Sire: DANSILI. Sire of 54 SWs. In 2011 - AVIATE Irish River G2, DANDINO Generous G2, DELEGATOR Efisio G2, TESTOSTERONE Sadler’s Wells G2, BEWITCHED Kaldoun G3, EMULOUS Distant View G3, EPIC LOVE Diesis G3, FAMOUS NAME Quest For Fame G3, SURFRIDER Rahy G3.

1st Dam: FAME AT LAST by Quest For Fame. Winner at 2. Dam of 6 winners: 2002: ANCHOR DATE (c Zafonic) Winner at 3.

2003: FINAL ESTEEM (g Lomitas) Winner at 3.

2004: EVERLASTING FAME (c Zamindar) Winner at 3.

2005: FAMOUS NAME (c Dansili) 12 wins 2-6, Meld S G3, Desmond S G3, Leopardstown 2000 Guineas Trial G3, International S G3 (twice), Amethyst S G3 (twice), 2nd Tattersalls Gold Cup G1, Prix du Jockey Club G1, Prix du Moulin de Longchamp G1, Killavullan S G3, Mooresbridge S G3, Kilternan S G3, 3rd Tattersalls Gold Cup G1, Prix Dollar G2, Prix Daniel Wildenstein G2.

2007: PHOTO OPPORTUNITY (g Zamindar) 1 win at 3.

2008: ZAMINAST (f Zamindar) Winner at 2.

Broodmare Sire: QUEST FOR FAME. Sire of the dams of 30 SWs. In 2011 - SILVER POND Act One G2, TORIO’S QUEST Oratorio G2, FAMOUS NAME Dansili G3, TRIPLE ELEGANCE Mossman G3.

FAMOUS NAME b h 2005 Danzig Danehill Razyana DANSILI b 96 Kahyasi Hasili Kerali Rainbow Quest Quest For Fame Aryenne FAME AT LAST b 97 Majestic Light Ranales Katsura

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Ile de Bourbon Kadissya High Line Sookera Blushing Groom I Will Follow Green Dancer Americaine Majestic Prince Irradiate Northern Dancer Noble Fancy

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DATA BOOK STAKES RESULTS

European Pattern Salee (f Caerleon: 2nd Grangewood Severals S LR).

Grandam of Nubar Lady.

144 BALANCHINE S G3 CURRAGH. June 25. 2yof. 6f.

1. EXPERIENCE (IRE) 9-0 £29,418 b f by Excellent Art - Kloonlara (Green Desert) O-Derrick Smith B-Whisperview Trading Ltd TR-David Wachman 2. Somasach (USA) 9-0 £8,599 b f by Johannesburg - Easy Now (Danzig) O-Mrs JS Bolger B-JS Bolger TR-JS Bolger 3. Naseem Sea (IRE) 9-0 £4,073 b f by Bahri - Laqataat (Alhaarth) O-Jaber Abdullah B-Shadwell Estate Co Ltd TR-PD Deegan Margins 1.75, short head. Time 1:12.36 (slow 1.36).

Going Yielding to soft.

Broodmare Sire: PEINTRE CELEBRE. Sire of the dams of 14 Stakes winners. In 2011 - CAMBINA Hawk Wing G2, IVORY LAND Lando G3, RED CADEAUX Cadeaux Genereux G3.

RED CADEAUX ch g 2006 Balidar Young Generation Brig O’Doon CADEAUX GENEREUX ch 85 Sharpen Up Smarten Up L’Anguissola Nureyev Peintre Celebre

Age 2

Starts 4

Wins 2

Places 1

Earned £40,043

Peinture Bleue ARTISIA ch 2000 Dancing Brave Almaaseh

Sire: EXCELLENT ART. Sire of 1 Stakes winner. In 2011- EXPERIENCE Green Desert G3.

1st Dam: KLOONLARA by Green Desert. 1 win at 3.

Dam of 3 winners: 2004: Charlie Texter (c Imperial Ballet) unraced.

2005: LARA CELEB (f Peintre Celebre) 2 wins at 3.

2006: Gaelic Chief (c Hawk Wing) Unplaced.

2008: TELLOVOI (c Indian Haven) 3 wins at 2 and 3, Premio Tullio Righetti LR. 2009: EXPERIENCE (f Excellent Art) 2 wins at 2, Balanchine S G3.

2nd Dam: Diamond Quest by Rainbow Quest.

Unraced. Dam of 3 winners.

Broodmare Sire: GREEN DESERT. See race 150 EXPERIENCE (IRE) b f 2009 Polar Falcon Pivotal Fearless Revival EXCELLENT ART bbr 04 Seeking The Gold Obsessive Secret Obsession Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier KLOONLARA b 99 Rainbow Quest Diamond Quest Hatton Gardens

Nureyev Marie d’Argonne Cozzene Stufida Mr Prospector Con Game Secretariat Ann Stuart Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Sir Ivor Courtly Dee Blushing Groom I Will Follow Auction Ring Anjuli

145 CURRAGH CUP G3 CURRAGH. June 25. 3yo+. 14f.

1. RED CADEAUX (GB) 5 9-11 £32,328 ch g by Cadeaux Genereux - Artisia (Peintre Celebre) O-RJ Arculli B-Foursome Thoroughbreds TR-EAL Dunlop 2. Zerashan (IRE) 4 9-11 £10,237 b c by Azamour - Zarannda (Last Tycoon) O-Gigginstown House Stud B-HH The Aga Khan’s Studs SC TR-M Halford 3. Admiral Of The Red (IRE) 3 8-10 £4,849 b c by Galileo - My Emma (Marju) O-Michael Tabor B-Matrix Bloodstock TR-AP O’Brien Margins 9, neck. Time 3:05.82 (slow 7.32).

Going Yielding to soft.

Age 3-5

Starts 19

Wins 4

Places 8

Earned £84,667

Sire: CADEAUX GENEREUX. Sire of 68 SWs. In 2011 - RED CADEAUX Peintre Celebre G3, CADEAU FOR MAGGI Shavian LR. 1st Dam: Artisia by Peintre Celebre. Dam of 2 winners: 2005: ARTISTIC LIGHT (f Fantastic Light) 5 wins 4-6 in Norway.

2006: RED CADEAUX (g Cadeaux Genereux) Not sold 40,000gns foal, 55,000gns yearling. 4 wins 3-5, Curragh Cup G3, Braveheart S LR, 2nd Chester H LR. 2007: Mexican Deb (f Red Ransom) ran 3 times.

2008: Artisan (g Medicean) 2009: (f Lucky Story) 2nd Dam: Almaaseh by Dancing Brave. Dam of ALMATY (c Dancing Dissident: Curragh S G3, Molecomb S G3, 3rd King’s Stand S G2),

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Will Somers Violet Bank Shantung Tam O’Shanter Atan Rocchetta Soderini Posh Northern Dancer Special Alydar Petroleuse Lyphard Navajo Princess Blushing Groom Chain Store

146 PRETTY POLLY S G1 CURRAGH. June 25. 3yo+f&m. 10f.

1. MISTY FOR ME (IRE) 3 8-12 £103,448 b f by Galileo - Butterfly Cove (Storm Cat) O-M Tabor, Mrs J Magnier, D Smith B-March Thoroughbreds TR-AP O’Brien 2. Midday (GB) 5 9-10 £32,759 b m by Oasis Dream - Midsummer (Kingmambo) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-Sir Henry Cecil 3. Chrysanthemum (IRE) 3 8-12 £15,517 b f by Danehill Dancer - Well Spoken (Sadler’s Wells) O-M Tabor B-Pegasus Breeding TR-D Wachman Margins 6, 4.5. Time 2:13.37 (slow 8.37).

Going Yielding to soft.

Age 2-3

Starts 8

Wins 4

Places 1

Earned £471,061

Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 92 Stakes winners. In 2011 FRANKEL Danehill G1, GOLDEN LILAC Danehill G1, IGUGU Intikhab G1, MISTY FOR ME Storm Cat G1, RODERIC O’CONNOR Danehill G1, TREASURE BEACH Mark of Esteem G1, JOHANN ZOFFANY Royal Academy G2, NATHANIEL Silver Hawk G2, GALIKOVA Blushing Groom G3.

1st Dam: Butterfly Cove by Storm Cat. unraced. Own sister to KAMARINSKAYA. Dam of 2 winners: 2005: Showcall (f Kingmambo) ran once.

2006: Pedasus (g Fusaichi Pegasus) 2007: COME TOUCH THE SUN (f Fusaichi Pegasus) Winner at 3 in USA. 2008: MISTY FOR ME (f Galileo) Champion 2yo filly in Ireland and France in 2010. 4 wins at 2 and 3, Irish 1000 Guineas G1, Moyglare Stud S G1, Pretty Polly S G1, Prix Marcel Boussac G1, 2nd Debutante S G2.

2009: Twirl (f Galileo) unraced to date.

2010: (f Galileo) 2nd Dam: Mr P’s Princess by Mr Prospector. unraced. Own sister to Excavate. Dam of FASLIYEV (c Nureyev: Phoenix S G1, Prix Morny G1), KAMARINSKAYA (f Storm Cat: 1000 Guineas Trial S G3), Maderno (g Nureyev: 3rd Greenham S G3) Broodmare Sire: STORM CAT. Sire of the dams of 106 SWs. In 2011 - DIALED IN Mineshaft G1, MISTY FOR ME Galileo G1, DERBAAS Seeking The Gold G2, DENOMINATION Smart Strike G3, KEERTANA Johar G3, LITTLE MISS HOLLY Maria’s Mon G3.

147 HAMBURGER MEILE G3 HAMBURG. June 25. 3yo+. 1600m.

1. ALIANTHUS (GER) 6 9-6 £27,586 b h by Hernando - Allure (Konigsstuhl) O-Baron G Von Ullmann B-Gestut Karlshof TR-J Hirschberger 2. Le Big (GER) 7 9-2 £9,483 b g by Big Shuffle - La Luganese (Surumu) O/B-Gestut Wittekindshof TR-U Stoltefuss 3. Sanjii Danon (GER) 5 9-2 £4,741 b h by Big Shuffle - Serpina (Grand Lodge) O-Stall D’Angelo B-Newsells Park Stud TR-W Hickst Margins 2, 2.5. Time 1:34.88. Going Good.

See race 102

148 CRITERION S G3 NEWMARKET. June 25. 3yo+. 7f.

1. LIBRANNO (GB) 3 8-8 £28,385 b c by Librettist - Annabelle Ja (Singspiel) O-McDowell Racing B-O McDowell TR-R Hannon 2. Pausanias (GB) 3 8-8 £10,760 b c by Kyllachy - The Strand (Gone West) O-Sir Alex Ferguson, S Hassiakos B-Granham Farm, P Hearson TR-R Hannon 3. Beacon Lodge (IRE) 6 9-3 £5,385 b h by Clodovil - Royal House (Royal Academy) O-Mr And Mrs P Hargreaves B-Mrs Bill O’Neill TR-CG Cox Margins 1, 0.5. Time 1:23.56 (slow 0.66).

Going Good to soft.

Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Sadler’s Wells Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special GALILEO b 98 Mr Prospector Miswaki Hopespringseternal Urban Sea Lombard Allegretta Anatevka Northern Dancer Storm Bird South Ocean Storm Cat Secretariat Terlingua Crimson Saint BUTTERFLY COVE b/br 01 Raise A Native Mr Prospector Gold Digger Mr P’s Princess Never Bend Anne Campbell Repercussion

Starts 29

Wins 8

Places 12

Age 2-3

Starts 9

Wins 4

Places 3

Earned £136,098

1st Dam: EMMA’S STAR by Darshaan. Winner at 3 in Italy. Dam of 4 winners: 2001: Wordly (f Entrepreneur) unraced.

2003: Bamboo Banks (g Indian Lodge) ran.

2004: GENKI (g Shinko Forest) Sold 55,000gns yearling. 8 wins 3-7, Chipchase S G3, Abernant S LR, 2nd Bengough S G3, 3rd Betfred Sprint Cup G1, Waterford Testimonial LR. 2005: HAZELRIGG (g Namid) 4 wins at 3 and 5.

2006: THE HAPPY HAMMER (g Acclamation) 4 wins 3-5.

2007: Za Za Zoom (f Le Vie Dei Colori) Winner at 2, 2nd Radley S LR. 2008: Highland Colori (g Le Vie Dei Colori) in training.

2010: (c Moss Vale) 2nd Dam: NOTTE CHIARA by Artaius. 4 wins 2-3, Premio Minerva LR, 2nd Premio Virginio Curti Criterium G3.

Broodmare Sire: DARSHAAN. Sire of the dams of 165 SWs. In 2011 - POUR MOI Montjeu G1, SARAFINA Refuse To Bend G1, WAVERING Refuse To Bend G1, BLUE BAJAN Montjeu G2, GLASS HARMONIUM Verglas G2, GENKI Shinko Forest G3.

GENKI ch g 2004 Danzig Foreign Courier SHINKO FOREST b 93 Ahonoora

Sire: LIBRETTIST. Sire of 1 Stakes winner. In 2011 LIBRANNO Singspiel G3.

Park Express

1st Dam: ANNABELLE JA by Singspiel. Winner at 2.

Dam of 1 winner: 2008: LIBRANNO (c Librettist) 26,000gns yearling. 4 wins, July S G2, Richmond S G2, Criterion S G3, 2nd Craven S G3, 3rd Leisure S LR. 2009: Bella Vento (f Shirocco) unraced to date.

2010: (c Tiger Hill)

Darshaan

2nd Dam: ALAMEA by Ela-Mana-Mou. 2 wins 2-3 in Germany. Dam of ALYSHAKEYS (f Sendawar: Polar Cup G3), Sendalam (g Sendawar: 3rd Grand Handicap de Deauville LR, Prix Luthier LR). Grandam of Aurea.

Broodmare Sire: SINGSPIEL. Sire of the dams of 11 Stakes winners. In 2011 - HELMET Exceed And Excel G1, BULLBARS Elusive Quality G3, LIBRANNO Librettist G3.

LIBRANNO b c 2008 Northern Dancer Danzig Pas de Nom LIBRETTIST b 2002 Alleged Mysterial Mysteries In The Wings Singspiel Glorious Song ANNABELLE JA b/br 2003 Ela-Mana-Mou Alamea Adjala

Nearctic Natalma Admiral’s Voyage Petitioner Hoist The Flag Princess Pout Seattle Slew Phydilla Sadler’s Wells High Hawk Halo Ballade Pitcairn Rose Bertin Northfields Adjarida

149 CHIPCHASE S G3 NEWCASTLE. June 25. 3yo+. 6f.

1. GENKI (IRE) 7 9-3 £28,385 ch g by Shinko Forest - Emma’s Star (Darshaan) O-Ms G Khosla B-Rathbarry Stud TR-R Charlton 2. Doncaster Rover (USA) 5 9-3 £10,760 b h by War Chant - Rebridled Dreams (Unbridled’s Song) O-P Holling, I Raeburn, S Halsall, S Bolland B-Coffeepot Stable TR-David Brown 3. Regal Parade (GB) 7 9-3 £5,385 ch g by Pivotal - Model Queen (Kingmambo) O-Dab Hand Racing B-Highclere Stud, Harry Herbert TR-D Nicholls Margins Head, 2. Time 1:13.76 (slow 1.16).

Going Good to soft.

Earned £262,200

Sire: SHINKO FOREST. Sire of 14 Stakes winners.

In 2011 - GENKI Darshaan G3.

Green Desert

See race 82 in the July issue

MISTY FOR ME b f 2008

Age 2-7

Matcher Shirley Heights Delsy EMMA’S STAR b 96 Artaius Notte Chiara Noble Girl

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Sir Ivor Courtly Dee Lorenzaccio Helen Nichols Match II Lachine Mill Reef Hardiemma Abdos Kelty Round Table Stylish Pattern Be Friendly Fervent

150 RAILWAY S G2 CURRAGH. June 26. 2yo. 6f.

1. LILBOURNE LAD (IRE) 9-1 £49,267 b c by Acclamation - Sogno Verde (Green Desert) O-Andrew Russell B-Swordlestown Stud TR-R Hannon 2. Tough As Nails (IRE) 9-1 £15,560 gr c by Dark Angel - Soreze (Gallic League) O-Laurence Mulvany B-Clody Norton, Mrs Con Collins TR-Michael Mulvany 3. French Emperor (IRE) 9-1 £7,371 b c by Holy Roman Emperor - Se La Vie (Highest Honor) O-Old Carhue Stud B-Castletown Bloodstock, Oxford Racing TR-Edward Lynam Margins 0.75, 4.5. Time 1:13.56 (slow 2.56).

Going Good.

Age 2

Starts 4

Wins 3

Places 1

Earned £87,669

Sire: ACCLAMATION. Sire of 9 Stakes winners. In 2011 - LILBOURNE LAD Green Desert G2, HITCHENS Royal Academy G3, MONTECCHIO Linamix LR. 1st Dam: SOGNO VERDE by Green Desert. Winner at 3. Dam of 2 winners: 2007: Bobbyscot (c Alhaarth) Winner at 2, 2nd Gallinule S G3.

2009: LILBOURNE LAD (c Acclamation) 69,347gns, 76,190gns yearling. 3 wins at 2, Railway S G2, Rochestown S LR. 2010: (c Dylan Thomas) 2nd Dam: Gothic Dream by Nashwan. 1 win at 2, 2nd Ribblesdale S G2, 3rd Irish Oaks G1, 2nd BMW Europachampionat G3. Dam of PUGIN (c Darshaan: Silver S LR, Ballycullen S LR, 2nd Irish St Leger G1), CHARTRES (f Danehill: Oyster S LR) Broodmare Sire: GREEN DESERT. Sire of the dams of 80 SWs. In 2011 - LILBOURNE LAD Acclamation G2, NO EXPLAINING Azamour G3, DUBAWI GOLD Dubawi LR, EXPERIENCE Excellent Art G3.

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LILBOURNE LAD b c 2009 Waajib Royal Applause Flying Melody ACCLAMATION b 99 Ahonoora Princess Athena Shopping Wise Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier SOGNO VERDE b 2002 Nashwan Gothic Dream Dark Lomond

Try My Best Coryana Auction Ring Whispering Star Lorenzaccio Helen Nichols Floribunda Sea Melody Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Sir Ivor Courtly Dee Blushing Groom Height of Fashion Lomond Arkadina

151 PRIX DE MALLERET G2 SAINT-CLOUD. June 26. 3yof. 2400m.

1. TESTOSTERONE (IRE) 8-11 £73,707 br f by Dansili - Epopee (Sadler’s Wells) O-Ecurie La Boetie B-SCEA De La Poterie TR-P Bary 2. Campanillas (IRE) 8-11 £28,448 b f by Montjeu - West Brooklyn (Gone West) O-SRL Darpat France B-Paget Bloodstock TR-C Laffon-Parias 3. Shankardeh (IRE) 8-11 £13,578 b f by Azamour - Shalamantika (Nashwan) O-HH The Aga Khan B-HH The Aga Khan’s Studs SC TR-M Delzangles Margins Neck, nose. Time 2:28.60.

Going Good to soft.

Age 3

Starts 5

Wins 3

Places 2

Earned £130,905

Sire: DANSILI. Sire of 54 Stakes winners. In 2011 AVIATE Irish River G2, DANDINO Generous G2, DELEGATOR Efisio G2, TESTOSTERONE Sadler’s Wells G2, BEWITCHED Kaldoun G3, EMULOUS Distant View G3, EPIC LOVE Diesis G3, FAMOUS NAME Quest For Fame G3, SURFRIDER Rahy G3, BATED BREATH Distant View LR, DREAM PEACE Darshaan LR, FERDOOS Rainbow Quest LR, LAUGHING Be My Chief LR. 1st Dam: Epopee by Sadler’s Wells. 4 wins at 3 and 4 in France, 2nd Prix Panacee LR. Own sister to Ecomium. Dam of 1 winner: 2006: Take On Me (c Danehill Dancer) ran on the flat in France and over jumps in France.

2007: Rock de L’Atlas (c Observatory) ran on the flat in France.

2008: TESTOSTERONE (f Dansili) Sold 12,020gns yearling, 12,642gns 2yo. 3 wins at 3 in France, Prix de Malleret G2, Prix De Malleret G2, Prix de Royaumont G3, 3rd Prix de la Seine LR.

152 PREMIO MARIO INCISA G3 MILAN. June 26. 3yof. 2000m.

1. NAVARRA QUEEN (GB) 8-11 £43,103 b f by Singspiel - Navona (Leone) O/B-Gestut Ammerland TR-P Schiergen 2. Don’t Hurry Me (IRE) 9-0 £18,965 ch f by Hurricane Run - Beringold (Bering) O-J-F Gribomont B-G Rollain TR-J-C Rouget 3. Oeuvre d’Art (IRE) 8-11 £10,344 b f by Marju - Midefix (Night Shift) O-Allevamento La Nuova Sbarra B-Soc Finanza Locale Consulting SRL TR-B Grizzetti Margins Neck, 2.5. Time 1:59.20. Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 6

Wins 4

1st Dam: NAVONA by Leone. Winner at 2 in Germany. Dam of 3 winners: 2000: NAVONA GOLD (f Java Gold) Winner at 3 in Germany.

2002: North Wind (c Monsun) Unplaced.

2003: NORDIC THUNDER (c Singspiel) 2 wins 2-3, Prix Le Fabuleux LR, Berberis Rennen LR, 2nd Preis des Winterfavoriten G3.

2005: Northern Passage (f Boreal) unraced.

2006: Nordost (c Boreal) 2007: Nebrasca Trail (c Boreal) unraced.

2008: NAVARRA QUEEN (f Singspiel) 4 wins 2-3, Premio Mario Incisa G3, Premio Alberto Zanoletti di Rozzano LR, Diana-Trial LR, 3rd Grosser Preis des Gestuts Brummerhof LR.

TESTOSTERONE br f 2008 Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Razyana Spring Adieu Ile de Bourbon Kahyasi Kadissya High Line Kerali Sookera Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special Kris Common Grounds Sweetly Foolish Pleasure Idyllic Where You Lead Danzig Danehill DANSILI b 96 Hasili

Sadler’s Wells EPOPEE b 2000 Encens

produced the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches winner Altissima, and her fourth dam Sursum Corda also produced a top winner in Sumayr, who recorded Gr1 victories in the Grand Prix de Paris and Preis von Europa.

Agent Double (Prix Royal-Oak), Air de Cour (Prix du Cadran) and Arcangues (Breeders’ Cup Classic) are other family members.

2nd Dam: Sanamia by Top Ville. 1 win at 3, 3rd Challenge Race LR.

1. LUCAS CRANACH (GER) 4 9-6 £36,207 b c by Mamool - Lots of Love (Java Gold) O-Frau E Muller B-Gestut Graditz TR-S Smrczek 2. Durban Thunder (GER) 5 9-6 £14,224 ch h by Samum - Donna Alicia (Highland Chieftain) O-Stall Tinsdal B-Frau M Sohl TR-T Mundry 3. Sir Lando (GB) 4 9-6 £6,034 b c by Lando - Burqa (Nashwan) O-Stall Perlen B-Stowell Hill Ltd TR-Wido Neuroth Margins 3.5, 4.25. Time 2:29.22. Going Good.

Broodmare Sire: LEONE. Sire of the dams of 2 SWs. In 2011 - NAVARRA QUEEN Singspiel G3.

The Singspiel/Leone cross has produced: NAVARRA QUEEN G3, NORDIC THUNDER G3.

NAVARRA QUEEN b f 2008 Sadler’s Wells In The Wings High Hawk SINGSPIEL b 92 Halo Glorious Song Ballade High Line Leone Locarno Lichine Nigrita Nacre

Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Shirley Heights Sunbittern Hail To Reason Cosmah Herbager Miss Swapsco High Hat Time Call Dubassoff Lovely Lady Lyphard Stylish Genie Gulf Pearl Metrovision

153 GRAND PRIX DE SAINT-CLOUD G1 SAINT-CLOUD. June 26. 4yo+. 2400m.

1. SARAFINA (FR) 4 8-13 £197,034 b f by Refuse To Bend - Sanariya (Darshaan) O/B-HH The Aga Khan TR-A de Royer-Dupre 2. Cirrus des Aigles (FR) 5 9-2 £78,828 b g by Even Top - Taille de Guepe (Septieme Ciel) O-JCA Dupouy B-Y Lelimouzin, B Deschamps TR-Mme C Barande-Barbe 3. Silver Pond (FR) 4 9-2 £39,414 gr c by Act One - Silver Fame (Quest For Fame) O/B-Haras Du Quesnay TR-C Laffon-Parias Margins Neck, 1.5. Time 2:34.40.

Going Good to soft.

Age 3-4

Starts 8

Wins 5

Places Earned 3 £1,301,605

Sire: REFUSE TO BEND. Sire of 12 SWs. In 2011 SARAFINA Darshaan G1, WAVERING Darshaan G1, RIGHT OF REFUSAL Quest For Fame LR. 1st Dam: Sanariya by Darshaan. Dam of 6 winners: 2001: SANADA (f Priolo) Winner at 3.

2002: SANAGORA (f Mujadil) 2 wins at 3 in France.

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154 GROSSER HANSA-PREIS G2 HAMBURG. June 26. 3yo+. 2400m.

Broodmare Sire: DARSHAAN. Sire of the dams of 165 Stakes winners. In 2011 - POUR MOI Montjeu G1, SARAFINA Refuse To Bend G1, WAVERING Refuse To Bend G1, BLUE BAJAN Montjeu G2, GLASS HARMONIUM Verglas G2, GENKI Shinko Forest G3.

The Refuse To Bend/Darshaan cross has produced: SARAFINA G1, WAVERING G1, GRACE O’MALLEY G3, ALAIYMA LR. SARAFINA b f 2007 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge REFUSE TO BEND b 00 Gulch Market Slide Grenzen Shirley Heights

2nd Dam: NIGRITA by Lichine. 3 wins, Suchard Sprint Cup LR. Dam of NICARAGUA (c Acatenango: Preis der Deutschen Bank AG Bremen LR, 3rd Flughafen Frankfurt-Trophy G3), Tulipe Royale (f Java Gold: 3rd Prix Marcel Boussa G1).

NAVONA b 95

The Dansili/Sadler’s Wells cross has produced: PASSAGE OF TIME G1, FATHER TIME G2, TESTOSTERONE G2, Porgy LR.

Earned £82,895

Sire: SINGSPIEL. Sire of 83 SWs. In 2011 HIBAAYEB Lion Cavern G2, CANDY SINGER Candy Stripes G3, CIMA DE PLUIE Cozzene G3, DORDOGNE Efisio G3, NAVARRA QUEEN Leone G3.

2nd Dam: ENCENS by Common Grounds. 1 win at 2 in France. Dam of Epopee, Ecomium (c Sadler’s Wells: 2nd Diamond S LR, James Seymour S LR) Broodmare Sire: SADLER’S WELLS. Sire of the dams of 258 Stakes winners. In 2011 - IMMORTAL VERSE Pivotal G1, RELIABLE MAN Dalakhani G1, STAND TO GAIN Hawk Wing G1, FEARS NOTHING Faltaat G2, GIANTS PLAY Giant’s Causeway G2, TESTOSTERONE Dansili G2, BANKABLE Medicean G3, CASTLETHORPE Not A Single Doubt G3, COSMO MEADOW King’s Best G3, I’M A DREAMER Noverre G3, MAWINGO Tertullian G3, NAMIBIAN Cape Cross G3, WORKFORCE King’s Best G3.

Places 2

2003: SANAYA (f Barathea) 4 wins 2-4, Prix Casimir Delamarre LR, Cape Verdi S LR, 2nd Prix SaintAlary G1.

2005: Sanjida (f Polish Precedent) Winner at 2, 2nd Prix Charles Laffitte LR, Prix Volterra LR, Prix Occitanie LR, 3rd Prix Cleopatre G3, Prix de Conde G3, Prix Penelope G3.

2006: Sanabyra (f Kahyasi) unraced.

2007: SARAFINA (f Refuse To Bend) 5 wins 3-4, Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud G1, Prix de Diane G1, Prix Saint-Alary G1, Prix Corrida G2, 2nd Prix Ganay G1, 3rd Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe G1, Prix Vermeille G1.

2008: SANDAGIYR (c Dr Fong) 2 wins at 3 in France, Prix de Pontarme LR. 2010: (f Anabaa)

Darshaan Delsy SANARIYA b/br 96 Top Ville Sanamia Santalina

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Mr Prospector Jameela Grenfall My Poly Mill Reef Hardiemma Abdos Kelty High Top Sega Ville Relko Sursum Corda

The youngest of Darshaan’s daughters are now nine years old, but this outstanding broodmare sire is still making a major impact. At the end of June the former Aga Khan stallion occupied top place on the Anglo-Irish broodmare sire table and third place on the French list, thanks largely to the Gr1-winning efforts of Pour Moi, Wavering and Sarafina. Predictably all three of these Gr1 winners were sired by sons of Sadler’s Wells, the last two being by the multiple Gr1 winner Refuse To Bend.

The Aga Khan’s studs showed plenty of faith in Refuse To Bend in the early part of his stallion career. The 2003 2,000 Guineas winner stood his first four seasons at a fee of €20,000 but has since left the Darley fold and stood the 2010 season at £5,000 and the 2011 at £4,500. The Aga has been rewarded with two stakes winners in Alaiyma and Sarafina, the latter now a winner of five of her eight starts following her late lunge in the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud.

Refuse To Bend was an obvious choice for Sarafina’s dam, Sanariya.

The daughter of Darshaan had previously done well with Barathea, another son of Sadler’s Wells. Their daughter Sanaya showed distinct promise at two in 2005 and was a half-length second in the 2006 Prix Saint-Alary at around the time of Sarafina’s conception. Sanaya later won Listed races over nine furlongs in France and a mile in Dubai.

Sarafina’s fifth dam Ad Altiora

Age 2-4

Starts 8

Wins 5

Places 2

Earned £89,681

Sire: MAMOOL. Sire of 3 Stakes winners. In 2011 LIPS POISON Ashkalani G2, LUCAS CRANACH Java Gold G2.

1st Dam: LOTS OF LOVE by Java Gold. 4 wins 3-4, Kolner Stuten Meile LR. Dam of 3 winners: 2003: Lucente (f Banyumanik) unraced.

2004: LADY DI (f Samum) 6 wins 3-5.

2005: Lots of Dreams (f Dai Jin) 2006: LORD OF BUDYSIN (c Royal Dragon) 4 wins at 3 and 4 in Italy.

2007: LUCAS CRANACH (c Mamool) 5 wins 3-4, Grosser Preis Von Lotto Hamburg G2, Grand Prix du Nord LR, 2nd Prix Bedel LR. 2009: Lady of Budysin (f Soldier Hollow) unraced.

2010: Love of Budysin (f Distant Music) 2nd Dam: Lost Love by Acatenango. 1 win at 2 in Germany, 2nd Deutscher Herold Stutenpreis G3.

Dam of LOTS OF LOVE (see above), Lost Line (g Linamix: 3rd G P der Stadtsparkasse Dortmund LR) Broodmare Sire: JAVA GOLD. Sire of the dams of 24 SWs. In 2011 - LUCAS CRANACH Mamool G2.

LUCAS CRANACH b c 2007 Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Shirley Heights Sunbittern Mr Prospector Woodman Playmate Far North Reigning Countess Countess Fager Graustark Key To The Mint Key Bridge Nijinsky Javamine Dusky Evening Surumu Acatenango Aggravate Alpenkonig L’Oise Lara Sadler’s Wells

In The Wings

High Hawk

MAMOOL b 99 Genovefa

Java Gold LOTS OF LOVE b 97 Lost Love

155 SAPPHIRE S G3 CURRAGH. June 26. 3yo+. 5f.

1. INVINCIBLE ASH (IRE) 6 9-4 £32,328 b m by Invincible Spirit - Fully Fashioned (Brief Truce) O-PJ Condron B-Mrs Sandra Maye TR-M Halford 2. Hamish McGonagall (GB) 6 9-7 £10,237 b g by Namid - Anatase (Danehill) O-Reality Partnerships I B-JP Coggan, Whitsbury Manor Stud TR-TD Easterby 3. Move In Time (GB) 3 9-1 £4,849 ch c by Monsieur Bond - Tibesti (Machiavellian) O-A Turton, J Blackburn, R Bond B-Bond Thoroughbred Corporation TR-B Smart Margins 1, 1. Time 1:00.13 (slow 0.83).

Going Good.

Age 2-6

Starts 37

Wins 8

Places 12

Earned £305,031

Sire: INVINCIBLE SPIRIT. Sire of 45 Stakes winners. In 2011 - INVINCIBLE ASH Brief Truce G3,

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European Pattern MOONLIGHT CLOUD Spectrum G3, SPIRIT QUARTZ Rainbow Quest G3.

TREASURE BEACH b c 2008 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells

1st Dam: FULLY FASHIONED by Brief Truce. Winner at 3. Dam of 2 winners: 2005: INVINCIBLE ASH (f Invincible Spirit) Sold 29,556gns yearling, 70,000gns 4yo. 8 wins at 3-6, Sapphire S G3, Abergwaun S LR, Mercury S LR, 2nd Mercury S LR, 3rd Naas Sprint S LR. 2006: (c Celtic Swing) 2007: PRINCE OF FASHION (g Desert Prince) Winner at 3.

2009: Rich Again (c Amadeus Wolf) unraced to date.

2nd Dam: INSIDER’S VIEW by Caerleon. 3 wins at 2 and 3. Dam of Just An Illusion (f Shernazar: 3rd Juvenile Hurdle LR). Grandam of Different Opinion.

Broodmare Sire: BRIEF TRUCE. Sire of the dams of 20 Stakes winners. In 2011 - INVINCIBLE ASH Invincible Spirit G3.

INVINCIBLE ASH b m 2005 Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier INVINCIBLE SPIRIT b 97 Kris Rafha Eljazzi Irish River Brief Truce Falafel FULLY FASHIONED ch 99 Caerleon Insider’s View Sweet Mint

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Sir Ivor Courtly Dee Sharpen Up Doubly Sure Artaius Border Bounty Riverman Irish Star Northern Dancer Queen’s Statute Nijinsky Foreseer Meadow Mint Sharp Major

156 IRISH DERBY G1 CURRAGH. June 26. 3yoc&f. 12f.

1. TREASURE BEACH (GB) 9-0 £625,000 b c by Galileo - Honorine (Mark of Esteem) O-D Smith, Mrs J Magnier, M Tabor B-Ashley House Stud TR-AP O’Brien 2. Seville (GER) 9-0 £204,741 b c by Galileo - Silverskaya (Silver Hawk) O-M Tabor, D Smith, Mrs J Magnier B-Tattersalls Ltd TR-AP O’Brien 3. Memphis Tennessee (IRE) 9-0 £96,983 b c by Hurricane Run - Hit The Sky (Cozzene) O-Mrs J Magnier, M Tabor, D Smith B-Kilfrush Stud TR-AP O’Brien Margins 0.75, 1. Time 2:33.26 (slow 1.26).

Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 8

Wins 4

Places 4

Earned £345,092

Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 92 Stakes winners. In 2011 FRANKEL Danehill G1, GOLDEN LILAC Danehill G1, IGUGU Intikhab G1, MISTY FOR ME Storm Cat G1, RODERIC O’CONNOR Danehill G1, TREASURE BEACH Mark of Esteem G1, JOHANN ZOFFANY Royal Academy G2, NATHANIEL Silver Hawk G2, GALIKOVA Blushing Groom G3.

1st Dam: HONORINE by Mark of Esteem. 3 wins at 3 and 4. Dam of 1 winner: 2006: Early Morning Rain (f Rock of Gibraltar) unplaced.

2008: TREASURE BEACH (c Galileo) Sold 180,000gns foal. 4 wins at 2 and 3, Irish Derby G1, Chester Vase G3, 2nd Derby S G1, 3rd Royal Lodge S G2.

2009: Song of Honor (c Singspiel) unraced to date.

2010: (c Cape Cross) 2nd Dam: BLUE WATER by Bering. 5 wins at 3 and 4 in France Prix des Tourelles LR, 3rd Prix de Flore G3. Own sister to Norton Sound. Dam of INDIAN CREEK (c Indian Ridge: Hardwicke S G2, 2nd Prince of Wales’s S G1, 3rd Dubai Champion S G1 (twice)), Desert Dew (c Indian Ridge: 2nd Aktiv Kapital UK Ltd Dee S G3) Broodmare Sire: MARK OF ESTEEM. Sire of the dams of 11 Stakes winners. In 2011 - TREASURE BEACH Galileo G1, ANNE OF KIEV Oasis Dream LR, MASKED MARVEL Montjeu LR. The Galileo/Mark of Esteem cross has produced: KITE WOOD G1, MIKHAIL GLINKA G1, TREASURE BEACH G1.

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Fairy Bridge GALILEO b 98 Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta Darshaan Mark of Esteem Homage HONORINE b 2000 Bering Blue Water Shining Water

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Lombard Anatevka Shirley Heights Delsy Ajdal Home Love Arctic Tern Beaune Riverman Radiance

After surprising many with his domination of Europe’s mile Classics, Galileo landed his third Irish Derby in the space of five years when Treasure Beach got the better of another Galileo colt, Seville. Treasure Beach’s win came less than a month after he had narrowly failed to provide Galileo with his second Epsom Derby victory.

Treasure Beach’s victory added to Galileo’s impressive statistics with daughters of Mark Of Esteem. This combination has had seven runners from nine foals of racing age. Treasure Beach is no less than the third Group winner from the seven, following Kite Wood, a Gr2 winner who finished a good second in the 2009 St Leger, and Mikhail Glinka, winner of the Gr3 Queen’s Vase over two miles.

The incentive for sending Mark Of Esteem mares to Galileo rested largely on the fact that Mark Of Esteem had won the 2,000 Guineas and Queen Elizabeth II Stakes to establish himself as the highest-rated son of Darshaan, and also one of the fastest.

Darshaan’s daughters, of course, have played an unrivaled role in the success of the Sadler’s Wells male line.

Although Galileo has four Group winners out of Darshaan mares, including the high-class long-distance horse Alandi, they come from a sample of 91 foals of racing age.

Maybe it is Mark Of Esteem’s outstanding ability over a mile which is helping his daughters establish a superior record to that of Darshaan mares with Galileo, as Galileo appreciates some speed in his mares.

Mark Of Esteem was forced into retirement after the 2006 season, having sired a Derby winner in Sir Percy, a 1,000 Guineas winner in Ameerat and a top sprinter in Reverence.

Treasure Beach’s dam, Honorine, was a fairly useful handicapper at up to a mile and a quarter but she struggled on her two appearances in Listed race company. Her half-brother Indian Creek stayed well enough to win the Gr2 Hardwicke Stakes over a mile and a half at Royal Ascot, despite being by the sprinter Indian Ridge.

Their dam Blue Water, by Bering, was a very useful middle-distance performer in France and so was Treasure Beach’s fourth dam, Radiance.

Radiance, by the way, was by the Derby and Ascot Gold Cup winner Blakeney, who also cropped up as the broodmare sire of Mark Of Esteem’s Epsom Derby winner Sir Percy.

157 BROWNSTOWN S G3 FAIRYHOUSE. June 29. 3yo+f&m. 7f.

1. EMULOUS (GB) 4 9-12 £43,427 b f by Dansili - Aspiring Diva (Distant View) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-DK Weld 2. Claiomh Solais (IRE) 3 8-12 £12,694 ch f by Galileo - Scribonia (Danehill) O-Mrs JS Bolger B-JS Bolger TR-JS Bolger 3. Rose Bonheur (GB) 3 8-12 £6,013 b f by Danehill Dancer - Red Feather (Marju) O-Lady O’Reilly B-Castlemartin Stud, Skymarc Farm TR-K Prendergast Margins 1, 0.75. Time 1:29.53 (slow 5.23).

Going Good.

Age 2-4

Starts 9

Wins 5

Places 3

Earned £177,300

Sire: DANSILI. Sire of 55 Stakes winners. In 2011 AVIATE Irish River G2, DANDINO Generous G2, DELEGATOR Efisio G2, TESTOSTERONE Sadler’s Wells G2, BEWITCHED Kaldoun G3, EMULOUS Distant View G3, EPIC LOVE Diesis G3, FAMOUS NAME Quest For Fame G3, SURFRIDER Rahy G3.

1st Dam: Aspiring Diva by Distant View. 2 wins 2-3, 3rd Prix Herod LR. Dam of 4 winners: 2003: DARING DIVA (f Dansili) 2 wins at 2 in France, Criterium de Vitesse LR. 2004: LUCIO BELLO (c Desert Prince) Winner at 2 in Greece.

2005: STRIKING SPIRIT (g Oasis Dream) 3 wins at 2 and 4.

2007: EMULOUS (f Dansili) 5 wins 2-4, Brownstown S G3, Concorde S G3, TRI Equestrian S G3, Garnet S LR, 2nd Kilboy Estate S LR, 3rd Desmond S G3.

2009: Radio Call (c Rail Link) unraced to date.

2010: (f Rail Link) 2nd Dam: QUEEN OF SONG by His Majesty. 14 wins at 2 to 5 in USA Shuvee H G2, 3rd Apple Blossom H G1. Own sister to CORMORANT. Dam of LADYAGO (f Northern Dancer: Audubon Oaks), Private Song (c Private Account: 3rd San Bernardino H G2), Easy Song (c Easy Goer: 3rd San Marino H LR), Wise Words (c Seattle Slew: 2nd CHBPA Inc. S LR), Aspiring Diva (f Distant View, see above).

Grandam of Daisyago. Third dam of SPRING MEADOW, CHESTNUT LADY, Hardcore Candy, Sunny Disposition.

Age 2-5

Starts 19

Wins 6

Places 6

Earned £105,434

Sire: BIG SHUFFLE. Sire of 68 Stakes winners. In 2011 - SMOOTH OPERATOR Salse G3, WALERO Lagunas G3.

1st Dam: WATERBOR by Lagunas. 4 wins at 3 to 5 in Germany. Dam of 3 winners: 1998: Wahieda (f Sternkoenig). Dam of WISE MAN (Prix Policeman LR) 1999: (c Sternkoenig). Died as a foal.

2000: WALDKRONE (f Platini) 4 wins 4-5 in Germany.

2001: WASTERNO (c Sternkoenig) Winner at 3.

2002: (f Kallisto). Died as afoal.

2003: Waneska (f Kallisto) unraced.

2005: Wenera (f Big Shuffle) 2006: WALERO (c Big Shuffle) 6 wins 2-4, Preis Besitzervereinigung fur Vollblutzucht G3, Badener Sprint Cup G3, Rungis Express Sprint Cup LR, 2nd Silberne Peitsche G3, Bremer Oster Sprint Cup LR, 3rd Ilse und Heinz Ramm-Erinnerungsrennen LR. 2nd Dam: Waldlilie by Limbo. 3 wins, 2nd Preis der Deutschen Bank AG LR. Broodmare Sire: LAGUNAS. Sire of the dams of 22 Stakes winners. In 2011 - WALERO Big Shuffle G3R. The Big Shuffle/Lagunas cross has produced: PEPPERCORN G2, PEPPERSHOT G2, PEPPERSTORM G2, WALERO G3, LUCAFABIAN LR. WALERO b h 2006 Boldnesian Reason To Earn Primera Prime Abord Homeward Bound Raise A Native Elevation White Peak Tudor Minstrel Strings Attached Timalin Nijinsky Ile de Bourbon Roseliere Literat Liranga Love In Pentathlon Limbo Lady Arc Great Nephew Waldgrenze Waldjagd Bold Reasoning Super Concorde BIG SHUFFLE b 84 Raise Your Skirts

Lagunas WATERBOR b 91 Waldlilie

159 ECLIPSE S G1 SANDOWN PARK. July 2. 3yo+. 10f 7yds.

Broodmare Sire: DISTANT VIEW. Sire of the dams of 14 Stakes winners. In 2011 - SOLE POWER Kyllachy G2, EMULOUS Dansili G3, BATED BREATH Dansili LR, MOONSHINE MULLIN Albert the Great LR. The Dansili/Distant View cross has produced: ZACINTO G1, EMULOUS G3, BATED BREATH LR, DARING DIVA LR. EMULOUS b f 2007 Danzig Danehill Razyana DANSILI b 96 Kahyasi Hasili Kerali Mr Prospector Distant View Seven Springs ASPIRING DIVA b 98 His Majesty Queen of Song Song Sparrow

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Ile de Bourbon Kadissya High Line Sookera Raise A Native Gold Digger Irish River La Trinite Ribot Flower Bowl Tudor Minstrel Swoon’s Tune

158 PREIS DER BESITZERVEREINIGUNG FUER VOLLBLUTZUCHT UND RENNEN G3 HAMBURG. June 29. 3yo+. 200m.

1. WALERO (GER) 5 9-2 £27,586 b h by Big Shuffle - Waterbor (Lagunas) O/B-H Schroer-Dreesmann TR-U Ostmann 2. Calrissian (GER) 7 9-2 £9,483 ch h by Efisio - Centaine (Royal Academy) O-F Reuterskiold, Medhorse B-Count & Countess Von Stauffenberg TR-Frederik Reuterskiold 3. Smooth Operator (GER) 5 9-4 £4,741 b g by Big Shuffle - Salzgitter (Salse) O-Stall Jenny B-Mario Hofer TR-Mario Hofer Margins Sh, sh. Time 1:11.38. Going Good.

1. SO YOU THINK (NZ) 5 9-7 £226,840 b h by High Chaparral - Triassic (Tights) O-Smith, Magnier, Tabor, Dato Tan,T Yahaya B-MJ Moran, Piper Farm Ltd TR-AP O’Brien 2. Workforce (GB) 4 9-7 £86,000 b c by King’s Best - Soviet Moon (Sadler’s Wells) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-Sir Michael Stoute 3. Sri Putra (GB) 5 9-7 £43,040 b h by Oasis Dream - Wendylina (In The Wings) O-HRH Sultan Ahmad Shah B-Glebe Stud And Partners TR-Roger Varian Margins 0.5, 5. Time 2:04.77 (fast 2.23). Going Good.

Age 2-5

Starts 16

Wins 11

Places Earned 4 £3,467,425

Sire: HIGH CHAPARRAL. Sire of 28 Stakes winners.

In 2011 - SO YOU THINK Tights G1, HIDDEN ASSET Zabeel G2, WIGMORE HALL Theatrical G2.

1st Dam: TRIASSIC by Tights. 3 wins in New Zealand, Sir Tristram Classic (f) G2. Dam of 7 winners: 1996: TYCOON JACK (g Last Tycoon) 3 wins in New Zealand.

1998: CIRCUS DANCE (f Carnegie) 2 wins at 5 in New Zealand.

2000: HIP HIP HOORAY (g Tale of The Cat) 6 wins in Australia, Hong Kong.

2001: (c Carnegie). Died as a foal.

2002: (f Almutawakel). Dead.

2003: TRIGONOMETRY (c Galileo) 2 wins in Australia.

2004: PRIDE’N’PREJUDICE (f Universal Prince) 4 wins in Australia.

2005: LA SOUVENIR (f Nuclear Freeze) Winner in New Zealand.

2006: SO YOU THINK (c High Chaparral) Champion 3yo colt in Australia in 2009-2010. 11 wins 2-5, Tattersalls Gold Cup G1, Eclipse S G1, LKS Mackinnon S G1, Underwood S G1, WS

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Caulfield on Waldpark: “His German Derby victory completed a remarkable double for Acatenango as this year’s Kentucky Derby also fell to another grandson of his, Animal Kingdom�

Cox Plate G1 (twice), Caulfield S G1, Memsie S G2, Mooresbridge S G3, Gloaming S G3, 2nd Prince of Wales’s S G1, Cantala S G1, 3rd Melbourne Cup G1.

2008: Now You Know (c Elusive City) in training.

2010: (c High Chaparral)

WALDPARK b c 2008 Dubai Millennium DUBAWI b 2002 Zomaradah

2nd Dam: Astral Row by Long Row. 6 wins in New Zealand, 2nd Evergreen S LR, Otago Mannequin S LR, Waitaki S LR, Geraldine Challenge S LR. Dam of TRIASSIC (f Tights, see above)

Acatenango WURFTAUBE ch 93

Broodmare Sire: TIGHTS. Sire of the dams of 19 SWs. In 2011 - SO YOU THINK High Chaparral G1.

Wurfbahn

See race 81 in the July issue

SO YOU THINK b h 2006 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge HIGH CHAPARRAL b 99 Darshaan Kasora Kozana Nijinsky Tights Dancealot TRIASSIC b 90 Long Row Astral Row Pak Bun Bay

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Shirley Heights Delsy Kris Koblenza Northern Dancer Flaming Page Round Table Music Please Linacre Front Row Matinee Idol Philipolo

160 DEUTSCHES DERBY G1 HAMBURG. July 3. 3yoc&f. 2400m.

1. WALDPARK (GER) 9-2 ÂŁ258,621 c by Dubawi - Wurftaube (Acatenango) O/B-Gestut Ravensberg TR-A Wohler 2. Earl Of Tinsdal (GER) 9-2 ÂŁ86,207 b c by Black Sam Bellamy - Earthly Paradise (Dashing Blade) O-Sunrace Stables B-Hannes K Gutschow TR-A Wohler 3. Saltas (GER) 9-2 ÂŁ51,724 b c by Lomitas - Salde (Alkalde) O-Gestut Ittlingen B-Gestut Wittekindshof TR-P Schiergen Margins 2, 2. Time 2:40.29. Going Heavy.

Age 3

Starts 4

Wins 4

Places 0

Earned ÂŁ276,293

Sire: DUBAWI. Sire of 28 Stakes winners. In 2011 DUBAWI HEIGHTS Suave Dancer G1, HAPPY ARCHER Jeune G1, WALDPARK Acatenango G1, MONTEROSSO Barathea G2, WORTHADD Rahy G2, PERFECT TRIBUTE Invincible Spirit G3.

1st Dam: WURFTAUBE by Acatenango. 7 wins 3-4, Gerling Preis G2, St Leger G2, 2nd Deutschland Preis G1. Dam of 7 winners: 1999: Waldbeere (f Mark of Esteem) unraced. Dam of WIESENPFAD (Badener Meile G3, Hessen Pokal G3, Grosser Preis der Dortmunder Wirtschaft G3, G P der Landeshauptstadt Dusseldorf G3, Preis der Sparkassen Finanzgruppe G3 (twice)).

2000: Waldmark (f Mark of Esteem) Winner at 2, 2nd Falmouth S G2. Dam of MASKED MARVEL (Cocked Hat S LR).

2002: WALDBLUME (f Halling) Winner at 2.

2003: WALDBRAND (c Tiger Hill) 11 wins 3-7.

2004: WALDVOGEL (g Polish Precedent) 4 wins, Derby Trial LR, 2nd Betty Barclay Rennen G3.

2005: WALDSEE (g Xaar) Winner at 4 in Germany.

2006: Waldlauf (c Pentire) unraced.

2007: Waldjagd (f Observatory) Winner at 3 in Germany, 2nd Diana Trial G2.

2008: WALDPARK (c Dubawi) 4 wins at 3 in Germany, Deutsches Derby G1, Iffezheimer Derby-Trial LR. 2nd Dam: WURFBAHN by Frontal. 1 win at 3. Dam of WURFTAUBE (see above), WURFSCHEIBE (f Tiger Hill: Frankfurter der Mehl Mulhens Stiftung G3, Walther J Jacobs Stutenpreis G3, Fahrhofer Stutenpreis G3), Wurfspiel (f Lomitas: 2nd Nereide Rennen LR). Grandam of Wildfahrte.

Broodmare Sire: ACATENANGO. Sire of the dams of 37 Stakes winners. In 2011 - ANIMAL KINGDOM Leroidesanimaux G1, WALDPARK Dubawi G1, ASKAR TAU Montjeu G3, DAVERON Black Sam Bellamy G3

2011: (f Champs Elysees)

Mr Prospector Con Game Shareef Dancer Colorado Dancer Fall Aspen Shirley Heights Deploy Slightly Dangerous Dancing Brave Jawaher High Tern Literat Surumu Surama Aggressor Aggravate Raven Locks Le Haar Frontal Favreale Pitskelly Wolkenpracht Wolke Seeking The Gold

Acatenango achieved a remarkable double when the Deutsches Derby fell to Waldpark, a colt out of one of his daughters. Only two months earlier the Kentucky Derby had fallen to Animal Kingdom, another colt out of a daughter of the excellent German stallion. Acatenango had won the 1985 Deutsches Derby before siring three winners of the same Classic in Lando, Borgia, and Nicaron.

Waldpark’s dam Wurftaube established herself as one of Acatenango’s best daughters as a three-year-old in 1996, when her victories included the Gr2 Gerling Preis and Gr2 Deutsches St Leger to share the title of champion three-yearold filly. Waldpark is Wurftaube’s best effort, but she had previously been ably represented by the Group-placed Listed winner Waldvogel and the very useful Waldmark, runner-up in the Falmouth Stakes in its days as a Gr2 contest. Waldmark’s current threeyear-old is Masked Marvel, a Listed winner at Goodwood prior to finishing eighth in the Derby, and Waldmark’s sister Waldbeere has also started well as a broodmare, producing Wiesenpfad, a six-time Gr3 winner at up to a mile and a quarter.

Waldpark is now unbeaten in four starts. He is a son of Dubawi, the excellent young stallion who now has winners of the 2,000 Guineas, Italian 2,000 Guineas, Italian Derby and German Derby in his first two crops.

161 PRIX JEAN PRAT G1 CHANTILLY. July 3. 3yoc&f. 1600m.

1. MUTUAL TRUST (GB) 9-2 £197,034 b c by Cacique - Posteritas (Lear Fan) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-A Fabre 2. Zoffany (IRE) 9-2 £78,828 b c by Dansili - Tyranny (Machiavellian) O-M Tabor, D Smith, Mrs J Magnier B-Epona Bloodstock Ltd TR-AP O’Brien 3. Strong Suit (USA) 9-2 £39,414 ch c by Rahy - Helwa (Silver Hawk) O-Mrs J Wood B-McDowell Farm, Gainsborough Farm et al TR-R Hannon Margins Head, nose. Time 1:40.45. Going Good.

Age 3

Starts 4

Wins 4

Places 0

Earned ÂŁ256,517

Sire: CACIQUE. Sire of 1 Stakes winner. In 2011 MUTUAL TRUST Lear Fan G1.

1st Dam: POSTERITAS by Lear Fan. 2 wins at 3, Saltwell Signs Virginia Rated S LR. Dam of 2 winners: 2006: Pure Joy (f Zamindar) 2nd Prix Yacowlef LR. 2007: POSTCODE (c Dansili) 2 wins at 4.

2008: MUTUAL TRUST (c Cacique) 4 wins at 3 in France, Prix Jean Prat G1, Prix Paul de Moussac G3.

2009: Postale (f Zamindar) unraced to date.

2010: (c Rail Link)

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2nd Dam: Imroz by Nureyev. 3 wins at 2 and 3, 3rd City of York S LR, 3rd Las Cienegas H G3. Dam of POSTERITAS (f Lear Fan, see above) Broodmare Sire: LEAR FAN. Sire of the dams of 68 Stakes winners. In 2011 - MUTUAL TRUST Cacique G1, COURT OF THE REALM Powerscourt G2, GLASWEGIAN Selkirk G3, STRAIGHT STORY Giant’s Causeway G3, BARACK Pyrus LR, SENZA RETE Barathea LR. MUTUAL TRUST b c 2008 Danzig Danehill Razyana CACIQUE b/br 2001 Kahyasi Hasili Kerali Roberto Lear Fan Wac POSTERITAS b 2001 Nureyev Imroz All At Sea

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Ile de Bourbon Kadissya High Line Sookera Hail To Reason Bramalea Lt Stevens Belthazar Northern Dancer Special Riverman Lost Virtue

The fertility problems which beset Cacique during his first season, which eventually forced his retirement, are beginning to look a serious blow to Juddmonte. Cacique’s small first crop includes Dominant, an impressive winner of the £150,000 Tattersalls Millions 3yo Cup; Slumber, placed in a pair of Gr3s; Census, a good-class stayer; and Mutual Trust, who was winning for the fourth time in as many

starts when he beat Zoffany and Strong Suit in the Gr1 Prix Jean Prat.

Cacique had contested the 2004 Jean Prat, finishing second to future Arc winner Bago, whom Cacique later ran to half a length in the Grand Prix de Paris. Cacique later become a dual Gr1 winner at up to 11 furlongs after being switched to the USA aged five.

He returned to commence stallion duties in 2007 alongside his brother Dansili, who ended 2006 as leading sire in France and 11th in Britain and Ireland. Coincidentally, it was a son of Dansili who filled second place behind Mutual Trust in the Jean Prat.

Mutual Trust’s dam Posteritas had looked a good match for Cacique. His sire, Danehill, had done well with another mare by Posteritas’s sire Lear Fan, siring the smart Danetime, and he had also sired the smart Stronghold from a half-sister to Posteritas’s dam Imroz. Also, another mare from Posteritas’s family had produced Passage Of Time, winner of the 2006 Criterium de Saint-Cloud, to Dansili.

Posteritas was a Listed winner over ten furlongs but her second dam All At Sea was much better, winning the Prix du Moulin after finishing second in the Oaks. All At Sea’s talented half-sister Quandary has served Juddmonte very well, ranking as the second dam of Twice Over, Passage Of Time, Father Time and Timepiece.

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Global Stakes Results Date Grade Argentina 25/06 G1 25/06 G1 25/06 G1 25/06 G1 25/06 G1 25/06 G1 03/07 G2 20/06 G2 19/06 G2 17/06 G2 01/07 G3 18/06 G3 12/06 G3 11/06 G3 07/06 G3

Race

Dist

Horse

G.P.Estrellas Juv.Copa Sr. R.F.M.Lottero GP.Estrellas Classic Copa E.H.C.Cernadas G.P. Estrellas Mile - Copa Bodega Norton Gran Premio Estrellas Sprint G.P. Estrellas Juv-Copa Pedro C.Blaquier G.P. Estrellas Distaff- Hotel Presidente Clasico Miguel Luis Morales Clasico General Belgrano Clasico General Manuel Belgrano Clasico Pippermint Clasico Guillermo Paats Clasico Republica de Panama Clasico Omega Clasico General Lavalle C.Asoc.PropCaballos Carrera Buneos Aires

8.0f 10.0f 8.0f 5.0f 8.0f 10.0f 8.0f 12.5f 6.0f 7.0f 5.0f 5.0f 8.0f 5.0f 7.5f

Suggestive Boy (ARG) Star Runner (ARG) Cafrune (ARG) Evo Emperor (ARG) Gamuza Fina (ARG) Jumbalaya (ARG) Life For Sale (ARG) Mr Nedawi (BRZ) Anjiz Lake (ARG) Curioso Slam (ARG) Salonico (ARG) Tristeza Cat (ARG) La Tremoille (ARG) Enjoy Dubai (ARG) Tan Frivolo (ARG)

Star Runner completed a remarkable double by adding the Estrellas Classic on turf to his victory in the GP Republica Argentina on dirt in May. It was an even more remarkable performance by his trainer Ernesto Romero and rider Jose Ricardo Mendez, who had achieved the same double with Lingote de Oro last year.

Mendez always had the favourite close up and sent him to the front early in the straight. The 43-1 Gran Diogenes, beaten in handicaps on his two most recent appearances but fourth in this race in 2009, stayed on from last of the 11 entering the straight to be beaten Australia 25/06 11/06 11/06 11/06 11/06 11/06 25/06 25/06 25/06 11/06

G1 G1 G1 G1 G2 G2 G3 G3 G3 G3

Sky Racing Tatt's Tiara Winter Stakes Patinack Farm T J Smith Classic Channel Seven Queensland Derby AAMI Stradbroke Handicap Sky Racing Queensland Guineas Australia Special Metals Brisbane Cup Carlton Draught Tattersall's Cup W J Healy Stakes Hyperion Stakes Belmont Sprint

Sheikh Mohammed’s Darley Australia completed an incredible clean sweep of all five of the country’s Group 1 juvenile races when Benfica proved too strong for favourite Hot Snitzel in the TJ Smith Stakes. All five have gone to jockey Kerrin McEvoy and trainer Peter Brazil 26/06 26/06 26/06 26/06 03/07 02/07 25/06 18/06 05/06 03/07 02/07 02/07 26/06 11/06

G1 G1 G1 G1 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3

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G2 G2 G3 G3

7.0f 8.0f 12.0f 7.0f 8.0f 12.0f 11.0f 6.0f 8.0f 7.0f

Highlander Stakes King Edward Stakes Dominion Day Stakes Singspiel Stakes

Yosei (AUS) Benfica (AUS) Shootoff (NZ) Sincero (AUS) Torio's Quest (AUS) Tullamore (NZ) Ironstein (AUS) Pinwheel (AUS) King Kool Kat (AUS) Grand Nirvana (AUS)

Snowden, who reckons Benfica is not in the same league as his dual top level scorers Sepoy and Helmet.

It was not all good news for Darley and Snowden, however, as Beaded, who won them the Doomben 10,000 at the end of May, was touched off in both

Grande Premio Jockey Club Brasieiro G. P. J Adhemar de Almeida Prado G. P. Copa A.B.C.P.C.C.-Matias Machline G. P. Margarida Polak Lara-Taca de Prata Grande Premio Adayr Eiras de Araujo Grande Premio Cordeiro da Graca G P Presidente Jose Cerquinho Assumpcao Grande Premio General Couto de Magalhaes G.P. Presidente Roberto Alves de Almeida GP.Pres.As.Brasil Criad.Prop Cav.Corrida Grande Premio Ministro da Agricultura Grande Premio Luiz Fernando Cirne Lima Grande Premio ABCPCC Velocidade Grande Premio Jose Paulino Nogueira

Sao Paulo has the money but Rio has the horses. Only 22 turned out for the three Group 1s at Cidade Jardim, Sao Paulo, on June 26 and one, Thunder Secret, was allowed in only after connections had been to court.

Thunder Secret, who ran without bets, finished last of nine behind Old Tune.

Old Tune began her racing life at Canada 26/06 25/06 01/07 26/06

one and a half lengths. Star Runner was the fifth winner of this race to be sired by the late Southern Halo.

Gamuza Fina was another to follow up a Group 1 victory on dirt with a triumph on turf. She had to work harder to defeat a completely new set of opponents but remains unbeaten after three outings.

There was an upset in the Juvenile when Suggestive Boy outlasted Escape Of Glory and Rabid In The Rye by two short necks. He had won a Group 1 over seven furlongs in April but finished only fifth of seven to Escape Of Glory in the Gran Criterium on May 29.

8.0f 8.0f 10.0f 8.0f 10.0f 5.0f 8.0f 16.0f 8.0f 8.0f 12.0f 9.0f 5.0f 12.0f

Plenty of Kicks (BRZ) Que Fenomeno (BRZ) Too Friendly (BRZ) Old Tune (BRZ) Mandjula (BRZ) Quasi Moda (BRZ) Heath Row (BRZ) Bom de Luta (BRZ) Licordoce (BRZ) Irmaozinho (BRZ) Aka Rigue (BRZ) Grand I Ask (BRZ) Berlino di Tiger (BRZ) Una Beleza (BRZ)

Gavea, the Rio course, but moved to Sao Paulo before running third to Alta Vista on April 24. She handed Alta Vista her first defeat in five appearances.

Too Friendly tested positive after winning the 2010 GP Matias Machline, the second consecutive Group 1 he’d lost in that fashion. He did retain his Group 1 victory at Gavea on August 1 6.0f 8.0f 10.0f 12.0f

Signature Red (USA) Court Of The Realm (USA) Don Cavallo (USA) Musketier (GER)

Age

Sex

3 4 5 5 3 4 3 7 6 4 3 5 5 3 3

C C H H F F F H H C C M M C C

Sire

Dam

Broodmare Sire

Easing Along (USA) Southern Halo (USA) Colonial Affair (USA) Emperor Jones (USA) Equal Stripes (ARG) Pure Prize (USA) Not For Sale (ARG) Nedawi (GB) Anjiz (USA) Grand Slam (USA) Shuttle Diplomacy (USA) Easing Along (USA) Shuttle Diplomacy (USA) Seeker's Reward (CAN) Seattle Hoofer (USA)

Suffrage (USA) Star Brown (ARG) Ipacarai (ARG) Miss Eva (ARG) Gamuza Fitz (ARG) Just The Same (BRZ) Doubt Fire (BRZ) Cryptic Crucial (USA) Suspicious Morning (USA) Miss Cursi (ARG) Sayal (ARG) Lagrimas De Oro (ARG) La Thibon (ARG) Enjoying (ARG) Tan Fresca (ARG)

Horse Chestnut (SAF) Luhuk (USA) Interprete (ARG) Numerous (USA) Fitzcarraldo (ARG) Gem Master (USA) Ski Champ (USA) Cryptoclearance (USA) Meadowlake (USA) Numerous (USA) Slew Gin Fizz (USA) Contested Bid (USA) Potrillazo (ARG) Candy Stripes (USA) Halo Sunshine (USA)

The third could be the one for the future, however. Rabid In The Rye had won his only previous race on May 7.

Last of 12 into the straight, he produced a storming run down the outside and finished best of all.

Cafrune was running for the 37th time but it was only his fourth race and first win on turf. Nevertheless, the fiveyear-old started favourite in the hands of the leading female rider Andrea Marinhas and scored by one and a half lengths. He is trained at La Plata, the capital of Buenos Aires province, and has gained all but three of his 14 wins there.

4 3 4 4 4 5 6 6 8 6

F C G G G G H H G G

Invincible Spirit (IRE) Lonhro (AUS) Duelled (AUS) Umatilla (NZ) Oratorio (IRE) Savabeel (AUS) Zabeel (NZ) Lonhro (AUS) King Cugat (USA) Scenic

Fuji Fairy (AUS) Hut (AUS) Athenri (NZ) Yours As Always (AUS) Quest For Pleasure (AUS) Trocair (AUS) Gentle Genius (AUS) Quilt (AUS) Affaire En Or (AUS) Paradise Park (AUS)

the Stradbroke Handicap and the Triple Tiara. Sincero gave Steve Farley a first Group 1 triumph in the Stradbroke, while Yosei, who has recovered quickly from a knee operation, was given a brilliant ride in the Triple Tiara by McEvoy’s sister-in-law Michelle Payne, 3 3 5 3 5 4 5 5 3 4 4 4 3 4

C C H F M F H H F C C F C F

Crimson Tide (IRE) Northern Afleet (USA) Signal Tap (USA) Wild Event (USA) Roi Normand (USA) Christine's Outlaw (USA) Dodge (USA) Burooj (GB) Red Runner (USA) Hibernian Rhapsody (IRE) Nedawi (GB) Yagli (USA) Tiger Heart (USA) Signal Tap (USA)

H C C H

Bernstein (USA) Powerscourt (GB) El Prado (IRE) Acatenango (GER)

Fuji Kiseki (JPN) Danehill (USA) Zabeel (NZ) Prego Quest For Fame Flying Spur (AUS) Danehill (USA) Danehill (USA) Dieu d'Or (AUS) Bletchley Park (IRE)

only four months after she suffered a broken neck in a fall at Caulfield.

A week after Scarlett Lady won the Queensland Oaks, her trainer, the New Zealander Graeme Rogerson, doubled up in the Queensland Derby with Shootoff, who held on by a head.

Pleni Turbo (BRZ) Princesa Do Oeste (USA) Jour de France (BRZ) Chanson Pour Julia (BRZ) Sea World (BRZ) Classic Halo (BRZ) Amalfi Nera (BRZ) Lacciarella (BRZ) Cat Melody (BRZ) Eternite (BRZ) Hiper Clara (BRZ) Ola I Ask (BRZ) Rainha da Bateria (BRZ) Just Perfect (BRZ)

but had been seen only once since, winning a minor sprint on March 20.

Making all as usual, he held on to beat improving three-year-old Jeca by a neck.

Que Fenomeno, fifth to Veraneio (like Too Friendly a son of Signal Tap) in the GP Juliano Martins over this same mile on May 15, won a weak contest.

There were 15 runners in Gavea’s 5 4 4 9

Jumbalaya trounced Tattoum and the odds-on Malpensa, who was bidding for a Group 1 hat-trick, by three and a half lengths and four.

Sublimacion, who had beaten Tattoum and Jumbalaya in the Clasico ParticulaG2 on May 27, was seventh of eight.

Evo Emperor, a flop on turf in his first three races but a success on dirt more recently, had never contested a Group race. He beat the favourite Hidebound by two lengths to improve his record to five wins from 11 appearances. More significantly, he has been beaten only once in his last six races

Choctaw Ridge (USA) Gone West (USA) Tokatee (USA) Irish Fighter (USA) Midnight Tiger (USA) Southern Halo (USA) Suspicious Mind (BRZ) Clackson (BRZ) Burooj (GB) Baronius (BRZ) Roi Normand (USA) Grimaldi (BRZ) Torrential (USA) Nugget Point

only juvenile Group 1, three trained by Julio Cesar Sampaio, including the favourite Sending Kisses. That Crimson Tide colt could do no better than ninth but Sampaio was still on the mark with another son of the Sadler’s Wells horse.

Plenty Of Kicks had won a maiden on May 21 and stepped up to give jockey Valdinei Gil his most important success.

Irish And Foxy (USA) Grand Fan (USA) Transcendental (USA) Myth And Reality (GB)

Irish Open (USA) Lear Fan (USA) Mt Livermore (USA) Linamix (FR)

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Chile 26/06 25/06 24/06 22/06 18/06 20/06 11/06

G1 G1 G1 G1 G1 G2 G2

Premio Alberto Vial Infante Clasico Tanteo de Potrillos Classico Arturo Lyon Pena Classico Copa de Plata Premio Tanteo de Potrancas Premio Francisco Baeza Sotomayor Gran Premio de Honor

The season ended with a flurry of juvenile championships. The Hipodromo Chile was first off the mark when Amani extended her unbeaten record to six with an eight and a quarter lengths success. Her next objective is the Clasico Mil Guineas over an extra half-furlong of the same dirt track on August 27. She is from the first crop of an Irish-foaled but American-raced son of Giant’s Causeway.

The colts’ equivalent was weakened Japan 26/06 03/07 03/07 19/06 12/06 12/06

G1 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3

G1 G1 G2 G2 G3 G3 G3

South Africa G1 02/07 G1 02/07 G1 02/07 G1 02/07 G1 13/06 G2 02/07 G2 26/06 G2 26/06 G2 19/06 G2 13/06 G3 02/07 G3 25/06 G3 13/06 G3 12/06

Triple Bend Handicap Shoemaker Mile Stakes United Nations Stakes Mother Goose Stakes Stephen Foster Handicap Ogden Phipps Handicap Vanity Handicap Charles Whittingham Memorial Handicap Woodford Reserve Manhattan Handicap TVG Acorn Stakes Foxwoods Just A Game Stakes

Earnestly (JPN) Frere Jacques (JPN) Curren Chan (JPN) Fumino Imagine (JPN) Dark Shadow (JPN) Dasher Go Go (JPN)

the first three in each of seven previous stakes starts, broke his Group 1 duck in 12.0f 10.0f 5.0f 8.0f 9.0f 7.0f 7.0f

Interoceanico (PER) Patola (ARG) Alado (PER) Golden Rock (PER) Querubin (PER) Mr Dany (CHI) Carla Brunella (PER)

ago, only succumbing by half a length after a final furlong tussle.

The Argentine-bred Patola improved on her fourth last year when dominating 15 rivals. She was clear

Durban Golden Slipper Jonsson Workwear Garden Province Stakes Vodacom Durban July Handicap Zulu Kingdom Golden Horseshoe Rising Sun Gold Challenge Miller Dark Horse Gold Vase Gold Circle Oaks Gold Circle Derby Post Merchants Stakes Rising Sun Tibouchina Stakes Schweppes 2200 Winter Derby Jet Airways Cup Trial Betting World Jubilee Handicap

Igugu is on course to become one of the all-time greats of South African racing. The Mike de Kock-trained daughter of Galileo, who had barely broken sweat in landing the Triple Tiara in Gauteng, broke the weight-carrying record for a three-year-old filly when landing the nation’s biggest race, the Vodacom Durban July, by a length. An overseas campaign now awaits but United States G1 02/07 G1 02/07 G1 02/07 G1 25/06 G1 18/06 G1 18/06 G1 18/06 G1 11/06 G1 11/06 G1 11/06 G1 11/06

11.0f 9.0f 6.0f 10.0f 9.0f 6.0f

Gran Premio Jockey Club del Peru Clasico Pamplona Clasico America Clasico O.S.A.F. Clasico Pedro Garcia Miro Clasico Luis Olaechea Dubois Clasico Augusto Mostajo Barrera

Interoceanico, runner-up in 2009 and an easy winner last year, followed up in the Gran Premio Jockey Club del Peru.

Spicer Boy ran second once again but made him work harder than 12 months

Omayad (CHI) Il Veneziano (CHI) Plaza de Indias (CHI) Stormy Impact (CHI) Amani (CHI) Indy Victory (CHI) Ascot Prince (CHI)

by the withdrawal of Jantho, winner of the two principal lead-up events. Il Veneziano had won and finished second in conditions races. He was still good enough to beat 13 rivals led by three trained by Juan Pablo Baeza.

Haras Sumaya, breeders and owners of Amani, are also responsible for another undefeated odds-on champion in Omayad. Sumaya also stands both their sires. Omayad made rapid progress in the straight on the turf

Takarazuka Kinen Radio Nikkei Sho Hakodate Sprint Stakes Mermaid Stakes Epsom Cup CBC Sho

Earnestly, a consistent performer who had won two Group 2s and finished in Peru 26/06 26/06 26/06 26/06 25/06 04/06 03/06

8.0f 7.5f 8.0f 7.5f 7.5f 10.0f 12.0f

7.0f 8.0f 11.0f 7.0f 8.0f 15.0f 12.0f 12.0f 6.0f 7.0f 11.0f 12.0f 9.0f 9.0f

Princess Victoria (SAF) Happy Archer (AUS) Igugu (AUS) Fighting Warrior (AUS) Dancewiththedevil (SAF) Grey Cossack (SAF) Princess of Light (SAF) Il Saggiatore (AUS) Splash Gold (SAF) Fragrant Al (SAF) Fort Vogue (SAF) Nysean Bolt (SAF) Super Storm (SAF) Candy Singer (ARG)

stringent regulations against an outbreak of African Horse Sickness mean that she must first serve a 90-day quarantine spell in Mauritius. The July had a sad postscript as the 2009 winner, Big City Life, broke a leg having crossed the line in sixth place.

On the undercard, Princess Victoria stamped herself as the champion juvenile filly with an easy 7.0f 8.0f 11.0f 8.5f 9.0f 8.5f 9.0f 10.0f 10.0f 8.0f 8.0f

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Smiling Tiger (USA) Courageous Cat (USA) Teaks North (USA) Buster's Ready (USA) Pool Play (CAN) Awesome Maria (USA) Blind Luck (USA) Acclamation (USA) Mission Approved (USA) It's Tricky (USA) C S Silk (USA)

3 3 3 3 3 5 4

C C F C F M C

The Mighty Tiger (USA) Merchant of Venice (USA) Indy Dancer (USA) Storm Warning (USA) Morning Raider (IRE) Indy Dancer (USA) Sir Cat (USA)

Wilhelmina (CHI) Jaws (CHI) Place Lycees (CHI) Periza (CHI) Just Fine (CHI) Victoria Station (CHI) Wolfie (CHI)

at the Club Hipico de Santiago and swept clear to score by seven and a half lengths. His sire was Group 2 placed at both Goodwood and the Curragh, and is a son of Storm Cat, while his dam is a half-sister to three Chilean Classic winners. The brothers Oscar, Gonzalo and Hernan Ulloa rode the first three.

Plaza de Indias showed great courage in a finish of outsiders on soft going at the Club Hipico. Amor de 6 3 4 5 4 4

H C F M C C

Grass Wonder (USA) Deep Impact (JPN) Kurofune (USA) Manhattan Cafe (JPN) Dance In The Dark (JPN) Sakura Bakushin O (JPN)

6 5 6 7 5 3 3

H M H H H C F

Privately Held (USA) High Yield (USA) Apprentice (USA) Janfranco (USA) Quintillon (USA) Powerscourt (GB) Unbridels King (USA)

F F F G M G F G G F H G G M

Victory Moon (SAF) Dubawi (IRE) Galileo (IRE) Magic Albert (AUS) Modus Vivendi (GB) Fanatic Dane (NZ) Var (USA) Galileo (IRE) Goldkeeper (USA) Captain Al (SAF) Fort Wood (USA) Nysaean (IRE) Rakeen (USA) Singspiel (IRE)

4 5 4 3 6 4 4 5 7 3 5

C H G F H F F H H F M

Hold That Tiger (USA) Storm Cat (USA) Northern Afleet (USA) More Than Ready (USA) Silver Deputy (CAN) Maria's Mon (USA) Pollard's Vision (USA) Unusual Heat (USA) With Approval (CAN) Mineshaft (USA) Medaglia d'Oro (USA)

Fast Gold (USA) Victory Speech (USA) Magnet Cove (USA) Red Attack (USA) Short Selling (USA) A P Indy (USA) Cure The Blues (USA)

faded to finish fourth. Patola is owned by the El Catorce stable of the footballer Claudio Pizarro, who has bought many of his best horses in Argentina.

Platinum Princess (SAF) So Tempted (AUS) Zarinia (IRE) Dark Blue (NZ) Emperor's Dance (SAF) Desert Fields (SAF) Star of Arcole (SAF) Smidgin (AUS) Splash of Water (SAF) Kindling (SAF) Vogue (SAF) Kinski (SAF) Western Roll (SAF) Candy Girl (ARG)

Golden Slipper score, but the pecking order amongst the colts is much more contentious following an unsatisfactory Golden Horseshoe.

Fighting Warrior won narrowly but the gutsy Hamdan Al Maktoum-owned front-running runner-up Mushreq returned bloodied after banging his head in the stalls, while the odds-on favourite, Gimmethegreenlight, missed

Tony Bin Nureyev (USA) Tony Bin Dixieland Band (USA) Private Account (USA) Miswaki (USA)

now finished runner-up four times since her fifth Group 1 triumph last October.

India Brava (USA) Sweet Speech (ARG) Singara (PER) Winter Cherry (PER) Campbell (PER) As Told (USA) Cantencanta (USA)

entering the final furlong and was not hard pressed to hold the late thrust of the Polla de Potrancas winner Almudena by half a length. Kinkina, who was slightly favoured over Almudena, 3 4 4 3 5 5 4 4 4 4 6 4 5 6

Billetera passed her in the final furlong but she fought back to triumph by a short head. She had been disputing matters from the start and would not allow the odds-on Puerta de Cristal the uncontested lead she would have preferred. Puerta de Cristal faded to finish fourth.

Juan Pablo Baeza sent Stormy Impact, yet another grandson of Storm Cat, down to Valparaiso to beat the locals in the Copa de Plata.

Lettre d'Amour (JPN) Halwa Song (USA) Spring Ticket (JPN) Shinko Imagine (USA) Matikanehatusimada (USA) Negano (CAN)

the Takarazuka Kinen with a length and a half defeat of Buena Vista, who has

Wagon Master (FR) Hussonet (USA) Stuka (USA) Sadlers Congress Doneraile Court (USA) Great Regent (CAN) Hussonet (USA)

Rakeen (USA) Jeune (GB) Intikhab (USA) Wallenda (USA) Caesour (USA) Salaadim (USA) Foveros Snippets (AUS) Complete Warrior (USA) Fort Wood (USA) Model Man (SAF) Russian Fox (USA) Western Winter (USA) Candy Stripes (USA)

the break badly and did well to plug on into a close fourth.

Three weeks earlier Dancewithdevil had displayed a dazzling turn of foot to take the Gold Challenge, but her three-race Group 1 winning run came to an end in the Garden Province Stakes as the short Greyville straight contributed to a sixthplace finish behind Happy Archer.

Shandra Smiles (USA) Tranquility Lake (USA) Teaksberry Road (USA) Beatem Buster (USA) Zuri Ridge (USA) Discreetly Awesome (USA) Lucky One (USA) Winning In Style (USA) Fortunate Find (USA) Catboat (USA) Remember The Day (USA)

Cahill Road (USA) Rahy (USA) High Honors (USA) Honour And Glory (USA) Cox's Ridge (USA) Awesome Again (CAN) Best of Luck (USA) Silveyville (USA) Fortunate Prospect (USA) Tale of The Cat (USA) Settlement Day (USA)

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Date Grade Race United States (cont) G1 11/06 Belmont Stakes G2 03/07 Futurity Stakes G2 03/07 Matron Stakes G2 02/07 Dwyer Stakes G2 02/07 Suburban Handicap G2 25/06 Hollywood Oaks G2 25/06 New York Stakes G2 11/06 Woody Stephens Stakes G2 11/06 True North Handicap G2 11/06 Honeymoon Handicap G2 10/06 Brooklyn Handicap G3 03/07 Jersey Shore Stakes G3 03/07 Bed O' Roses Handicap G3 03/07 Chicago Handicap G3 02/07 Bashford Manor Stakes G3 02/07 Salvator Mile Stakes G3 26/06 Beverly Hills Handicap G3 25/06 Iowa Derby G3 25/06 Prairie Meadows Cornhusker Handicap G3 25/06 Debutante Stakes G3 25/06 Iowa Oaks G3 25/06 Boiling Springs Stakes G3 18/06 Jefferson Cup Stakes G3 18/06 Pegasus Stakes G3 18/06 Matt Winn Stakes G3 18/06 Hill Prince Stakes G3 18/06 Regret Stakes G3 18/06 Edward P Evans All Along Stakes G3 12/06 Monmouth Stakes G3 11/06 Affirmed Handicap G3 11/06 Obeah Stakes G3 11/06 Early Times Mint Julep Handicap G3 10/06 Poker Stakes

Hopes were high for a second Irishtrained Belmont Stakes victory, 21 years after Go And Go. But Aidan O’Brien’s Master Of Hounds failed to build on his Kentucky Derby fifth and, ill at ease on the sloppy dirt, beat just two home. The Derby winner, Animal Kingdom, was almost brought down at the start and was virtually tailed off for much of the trip. An amazing move on the final turn got him to within two lengths of the lead before he dropped away again and he was later found to have sustained a season-ending slab fracture to his near fore leg. The $600,000 first prize went to Ruler On Ice, a blinkered-first-time 25-1 outsider whose best previous effort had been a lowly third place in the Sunland Derby in New Mexico.

Dist

Horse

12.0f 6.0f 6.0f 8.5f 9.0f 8.5f 10.0f 7.0f 6.0f 9.0f 12.0f 6.0f 7.0f 7.0f 6.0f 8.0f 10.0f 8.5f 9.0f 6.0f 8.5f 8.5f 8.5f 8.5f 8.5f 8.0f 9.0f 9.0f 9.0f 8.5f 9.0f 8.5f 8.0f

Ruler On Ice (USA) Jack's in the Deck (USA) Millionreasonswhy (USA) Dominus (USA) Flat Out (USA) Zazu (USA) Giants Play (USA) Justin Phillip (USA) Trappe Shot (USA) Sarah's Secret (USA) Birdrun (USA) Flashpoint (USA) Tamarind Hall (USA) Devil By Design (USA) Exfactor (USA) Kensei (USA) Malibu Pier (USA) Prayer For Relief (USA) Headache (USA) Flashy Lassie (USA) Little Miss Holly (USA) Summer Soiree (USA) Banned (USA) Pants On Fire (USA) Scotus (USA) Street Game (USA) Bizzy Caroline (USA) Aruna (USA) Teaks North (USA) Coil (USA) Havre de Grace (USA) My Baby Baby (USA) Courageous Cat (USA)

In the three-year-old fillies’ division, Kiaran McLaughlin’s It’s Tricky handled conditions better than hot favourite Turbulent Descent to take the Acorn Stakes by almost four lengths, but it was the west coast that hosted the highest quality event of the month, Zazu taking her career record over her Kentucky Oaks conqueror Plum Pretty to 3-1 in the Grade 2 Hollywood Oaks.

Hollywood also showcased the talents of arguably America’s best older horse, Blind Luck, who gave 3lb and a half-length beating to Switch in the Vanity Handicap to land her sixth Grade 1.

Another leading older horse is Gio Ponti, but on rain-softened turf he could finish only third in the Manhattan Handicap behind Mission Approved,

Age

Sex

3 2 2 3 5 3 4 3 4 3 5 3 4 5 2 5 4 3 5 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 3 4 6 5

G C F C H F F C C F H C F M C H F C H F F F C C C C F F G C F M H

Sire

Dam

Broodmare Sire

Roman Ruler (USA) Love of Money (USA) Grand Slam (USA) Smart Strike (CAN) Flatter (USA) Tapit (USA) Giant's Causeway (USA) First Samurai (USA) Tapit (USA) Leroidesanimaux (BRZ) Birdstone (USA) Pomeroy (USA) Graeme Hall (USA) Medaglia d'Oro (USA) Exchange Rate (USA) Mr Greeley (USA) Malibu Moon (USA) Jump Start (USA) Tapit (USA) Flashy Bull (USA) Maria's Mon (USA) War Front (USA) Kitten's Joy (USA) Jump Start (USA) Successful Appeal (USA) Street Cry (IRE) Afleet Alex (USA) Mr Greeley (USA) Northern Afleet (USA) Point Given (USA) Saint Liam (USA) Bernstein (USA) Storm Cat (USA)

Champagne Glow (USA) Thracian (USA) In Secure (USA) Cuando (USA) Cresta Lil (USA) Rhumb Line (USA) Playful Act (IRE) Ava Knowsthecode (USA) Shopping (USA) Sarasota (ARG) Run Like Martha (USA) Two Punch Lil (USA) Turner's Hall (CAN) Beauty's Due (USA) Bright Magic (USA) Private Feeling (USA) Blue Moon (FR) Sparklin Lil (USA) Pamric (USA) Lemon Pop Lassie (USA) Common Hope (USA) Mazel Tov (USA) Cardinalli (USA) Cabo de Noche (USA) Devine (USA) Thunder Achiever (USA) Sacre Coeur (USA) Surya (USA) Teaksberry Road (USA) Eversmile (USA) Easter Bunnette (USA) Sarah Darling (USA) Tranquility Lake (USA)

Saratoga Six (USA) Partner's Hero (USA) A P Indy (USA) Lord At War (ARG) Cresta Rider (USA) Mr Greeley (USA) Sadler's Wells (USA) Cryptoclearance (USA) Private Account (USA) Luhuk (USA) Jolie's Halo (USA) Two Punch (USA) Forest Wildcat (USA) Devil His Due (USA) Prized (USA) Belong To Me (USA) Lomitas (GB) Mr Sparkles (USA) Woodman (USA) Lemon Drop Kid (USA) Storm Cat (USA) Mazel Trick (USA) Capote (USA) Cape Town (USA) Seattle Slew (USA) Thunder Puddles (USA) Saint Ballado (CAN) Unbridled (USA) High Honors (USA) Theatrical Carson City (USA) Wavering Monarch (USA) Rahy (USA)

who exactly one year earlier had been bought out of a claimer for $35,000.

Also on the grass, Carlos LaffonParias’s Chinchon came up half a length short of February’s Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap winner Teaks North in his bid for a repeat victory in the United Nations Stakes. His fellow French raider, Stacelita, was the same margin back in third.

The injury-prone Courageous Cat took the Shoemaker Mile and Bill Mott’s five-year-old has the Breeders’ Cup Mile, in which two years ago he got to within half a length of the three-time winner Goldikova as his long-term goal.

Acclamation made the most of an uncontested lead to land the Charles Whittingham Memorial, while the former Sir Michael Stoute charge Giants Play,

who had won nothing more than a maiden and was beaten off a mark of 81 in handicaps in Britain, beat multiple European Pattern scorers Zagora and Hibaayeb when equipped with a net muzzle in the Grade 2 New York Stakes.

Back on traditional dirt, Pool Play was the outsider of 11 runners in the Stephen Foster Handicap but picked them off one by one and got up close home by a neck. The Saeed bin Suroortrained favourite Red Ransom finished stone last having cut out the running.

Todd Pletcher saddled the Stephen Foster second, Mission Impazible, but he landed two top distaff events, the Mother Goose Stakes and the Ogden Phipps Handicap, with Buster’s Ready and Awesome Maria.

Leading global sires by stakes winners Horse

Born

Sire

Stands/Stood

Galileo (IRE) Encosta de Lago (AUS) Dansili (GB) Exceed And Excel (AUS) More Than Ready (USA) Montjeu (IRE) Distorted Humor (USA) Dubawi (IRE) Danehill Dancer (IRE) Redoute’s Choice (AUS) Giant’s Causeway (USA) Street Cry (IRE) Rock Of Gibraltar (IRE) Lonhro (AUS) Wild Event (USA) Grand Slam (USA) Tapit (USA) Monsun (GER) Captain Al (SAF) Northern Afleet (USA)

1998 1993 1996 2000 1997 1996 1993 2002 1993 1996 1997 1998 1999 1998 1993 1995 2001 1990 1996 1993

Sadler’s Wells (USA) Fairy King (USA) Danehill (USA) Danehill (USA) Southern Halo (USA) Sadler’s Wells (USA) Forty Niner (USA) Dubai Millennium (GB) Danehill (USA) Danehill (USA) Storm Cat (USA) Machiavellian (USA) Danehill (USA) Octagonal (NZ) Wild Again (USA) Gone West (USA) Pulpit (USA) Konigsstuhl (GER) Al Mufti (USA) Afleet (CAN)

IRE AUS AUS IRE UK AUS IRE USA AUS IRE NZ USA AUS UK AUS IRE AUS AUS USA AUS USA AUS IRE AUS JPN AUS USA BRZ USA USA GER SAF USA

BTH BTW GH GW 39 28 22 22 26 25 30 22 30 22 23 23 23 18 11 17 23 17 16 11

18 15 14 14 14 13 13 12 12 12 12 12 11 10 9 9 9 9 9 9

27 15 13 10 13 16 14 13 16 17 12 10 9 9 7 10 11 8 9 4

10 9 9 4 5 7 4 6 6 8 6 6 4 5 6 5 6 3 4 4

Galileo’s success has received many plaudits but even by his majestic standards his leap to the top of the international table this year has been phenomenal. In the past month the Coolmore star has notched another nine Black Type Horses and five Black Type Winners, meaning the stallions in pursuit face a daunting task keeping him in sight, let alone catching up.

Still, Dansili, Montjeu and Dubawi have all made headway, and with five additional BTHs the last-named and Rock Of Gibraltar had a fine month.

Two newcomers merit a word.

Speed sire Grand Slam has 17 BTHs and five Group Winners. Based at

Ashford Stud at $15,000, the 16-yearold is a lesser-known member of the Coolmore roster to European breeders but he has a decent record. Grand Slam has sired four Grade 1 winners led by Cajun Beat (Breeders’ Cup Sprint) and this season is responsible for Millionreasonswhy (Grade 2 Matron Stakes) and a Group 2 scorer in Argentina; he stood at Haras Vacacion.

The other new entry is Monsun, the oldest in the list but always a factor even though he has never left Germany and his runners essentially compete in Europe. He has had one Group 2 winner, the filly Selkis, but Fiorente may improve that record.

BTH = black type horses; BTW = black type winners; GH = Group horses; GW = Group winners

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DATA BOOK EXCLUSIVE EUROPEAN STALLION STATS

For overseas winners see www.ownerbreeder.co.uk

Leading sires of two-year-olds 2011 by earnings Name

YOF

Acclamation *Dark Angel Exceed And Excel Blu Air Force Kheleyf *Red Clubs

1999 2005 2000 1997 2001 2003 Holy Roman Emperor 2004 *Dutch Art 2004 Oasis Dream 2000 Oratorio 2002 *Excellent Art 2004 Rock Of Gibraltar 1999 Choisir 1999 Indian Rocket 1994 *Iceman 2002 Footstepsinthesand 2002 Whipper 2001 *Teofilo 2004 Bertolini 1996 Dubai Destination 1999 *Lawman 2004 Kyllachy 1998

Sire

Rnrs

Wnrs

%WR

Races

AWD

Earnings (£)

Royal Applause Acclamation Danehill Sri Pekan Green Desert Red Ransom Danehill Medicean Green Desert Danehill Pivotal Danehill Danehill Dancer Indian Ridge Polar Falcon Giant's Causeway Miesque's Son Galileo Danzig Kingmambo Invincible Spirit Pivotal

40 40 37 24 44 47 56 26 13 26 19 21 26 12 13 20 20 15 24 15 15 24

17 13 11 9 13 10 10 12 5 6 6 6 9 6 2 5 5 5 5 3 5 7

42.5 32.5 29.7 37.5 29.6 21.3 17.9 46.2 38.5 23.1 31.6 28.6 34.6 50.0 15.4 25.0 25.0 33.3 20.8 20.0 33.3 29.2

21 19 16 15 18 15 10 17 7 7 8 6 11 7 4 6 5 6 7 5 6 8

5.7 5.4 5.2 5.9 5.7 5.7 5.9 5.1 5.6 7.3 6.0 6.1 5.5 5.7 5.0 5.1 5.2 6.4 5.5 5.3 6.1 5.2

220,399 179,233 161,486 153,710 152,375 143,408 142,418 138,807 119,591 103,895 98,791 85,815 84,684 82,112 82,105 78,976 78,910 78,789 78,276 73,357 70,520 68,250

Top horse

Earned (£)

Lilbourne Lad Tough As Nails Best Terms Air County Bay Shore Vedelago French Emperor Miss Work Of Art Power Cherry Collect Experience Samitar Strategic Game Chope Star Frederick Engels Skadar Lake Whip Rule Teolane Picante Family One Pestagua Noble Hachy

87,669 33,638 49,639 37,585 38,060 69,395 22,138 27,926 85,263 31,895 38,944 34,736 28,964 21,638 42,774 16,207 17,754 48,453 22,284 63,707 19,310 32,757

Acclamation’s rapid progress reported here last month has continued with interest, since he now heads the list having bagged another seven winners and the earnings to go with them.

His record with juveniles really is exceptional and, as second-placed Dark Angel is by him, the table is something of a benefit for the 12-year-old Rathbarry Stud stallion.

The six stakes events for two-yearolds at Royal Ascot did not have a massive effect on the list. The winners were by six different sires, though Best Terms and Power helped Exceed And Excel and Oasis Dream respectively.

Statistics to July 4; first-season sire*

Leading Flat sires in Europe 2011 by earnings Name

Galileo Montjeu Dalakhani Dansili Dubawi Oasis Dream Danehill Dancer High Chaparral Invincible Spirit Shamardal Refuse To Bend Rock Of Gibraltar Verglas Pivotal Cape Cross Singspiel Tiger Hill Hurricane Run Oratorio

YOF

1998 1996 2000 1996 2002 2000 1993 1999 1997 2002 2000 1999 1994 1993 1994 1992 1995 2002 2002 Holy Roman Emperor 2004 Slickly 1996 Kingsalsa 1996 Exceed And Excel 2000 King’s Best 1997 Hawk Wing 1999 Elusive City 2000 Footstepsinthesand 2002 Monsun 1990 Muhtathir 1995 Lomitas 1988 Acclamation 1999 Sakhee 1997 Medicean 1997 Aussie Rules 2003 Azamour 2001 Chichicastenango 1998 Lando 1990 One Cool Cat 2001 Selkirk 1988 Diktat 1995 Dubai Destination 1999 Blu Air Force 1997 Anabaa 1992 Anabaa Blue 1998 Kyllachy 1998 Whipper 2001 Shirocco 2001 Peintre Celebre 1994 High Yield 1997 Big Shuffle 1984 Beat Hollow 1997 Sinndar 1997 Street Cry 1998 Green Tune 1991 Kheleyf 2001 Fasliyev 1997 Cacique 2001 Choisir 1999 Gold Away 1995 Red Ransom 1987 Panis 1998 Barathea 1990

Sire

Rnrs

Wnrs

%WR

Races

AWD

Earnings (£)

SH

%

SW

%

Sadler’s Wells Sadler’s Wells Darshaan Danehill Dubai Millennium Green Desert Danehill Sadler’s Wells Green Desert Giant’s Causeway Sadler’s Wells Danehill Highest Honor Polar Falcon Green Desert In The Wings Danehill Montjeu Danehill Danehill Linamix Kingmambo Danehill Kingmambo Woodman Elusive Quality Giant’s Causeway Konigsstuhl Elmaamul Niniski Royal Applause Bahri Machiavellian Danehill Night Shift Smadoun Acatenango Storm Cat Sharpen Up Warning Kingmambo Sri Pekan Danzig Anabaa Pivotal Miesque’s Son Monsun Nureyev Storm Cat Super Concorde Sadler’s Wells Grand Lodge Machiavellian Green Dancer Green Desert Nureyev Danehill Danehill Dancer Goldneyev Roberto Miswaki Sadler’s Wells

170 131 89 158 117 162 163 137 207 102 132 123 177 149 149 94 136 79 155 108 91 111 152 133 155 123 101 83 89 66 143 64 142 63 57 63 95 141 91 128 136 92 64 75 149 90 79 74 63 118 91 78 52 95 137 105 14 103 64 98 68 104

55 45 23 51 38 55 54 39 63 35 48 43 53 45 43 23 32 33 51 31 30 33 47 36 39 30 26 32 26 25 48 27 41 26 22 14 25 41 33 27 40 45 20 22 45 28 19 29 26 31 38 23 17 24 38 37 7 38 18 22 17 23

32.4 34.4 25.8 32.3 32.5 34.0 33.1 28.5 30.4 34.3 36.4 35.0 29.9 30.2 28.9 24.5 23.5 41.8 32.9 28.7 33.0 29.7 30.9 27.1 25.2 24.4 25.7 38.6 29.2 37.9 33.6 42.2 28.9 41.3 38.6 22.2 26.3 29.1 36.3 21.1 29.4 48.9 31.3 29.3 30.2 31.1 24.1 39.2 41.3 26.3 41.8 29.5 32.7 25.3 27.7 35.2 50.0 36.9 28.1 22.5 25.0 22.1

70 57 32 75 51 78 73 54 84 46 68 54 79 60 51 33 40 43 64 51 40 42 63 41 59 48 45 39 35 34 63 33 59 33 26 19 30 61 39 40 51 64 27 29 70 42 26 33 35 37 51 34 21 28 57 55 10 56 21 23 22 32

10.8 11.7 10.0 9.6 8.7 7.5 9.1 10.5 7.3 8.5 8.8 8.9 8.4 8.0 9.1 10.9 10.0 10.1 8.8 8.1 10.1 9.2 6.4 9.6 9.6 7.2 7.7 10.9 9.2 10.7 6.9 9.2 8.9 9.2 9.9 9.8 9.7 8.0 8.9 8.5 9.4 7.0 9.2 9.7 6.4 8.8 10.1 10.4 9.6 7.8 10.1 11.6 9.9 10.7 6.4 7.2 9.1 6.9 10.3 8.9 8.1 9.7

3,810,836 2,040,715 1,390,269 1,384,767 1,362,325 1,318,481 1,312,443 1,062,684 1,041,745 955,184 934,822 905,800 888,645 876,488 800,578 784,193 769,776 757,564 750,434 717,210 683,237 678,488 656,391 644,771 634,124 610,611 576,235 569,590 569,301 563,770 561,826 559,580 558,138 556,703 541,546 536,676 529,387 524,298 520,351 517,916 517,388 507,903 505,613 497,920 485,974 481,178 475,540 455,692 454,889 452,664 451,707 444,216 442,956 439,048 433,463 423,464 420,817 420,357 418,626 414,483 413,997 410,528

25 16 8 20 16 15 19 6 14 11 2 10 5 9 11 7 8 7 4 6 4 5 10 4 3 4 5 14 2 5 6 4 6 7 8 1 5 2 12 5 3 3 2 1 4 7 4 3 2 8 5 3 1 3 3 2 2 3 1 7 0 2

14.7 12.2 9.0 12.7 13.7 9.3 11.7 4.4 6.8 10.8 1.5 8.1 2.8 6.0 7.4 7.5 5.9 8.9 2.6 5.6 4.4 4.5 6.6 3.0 1.9 3.3 5.0 16.9 2.3 7.6 4.2 6.3 4.2 11.1 14.0 1.6 5.3 1.4 13.2 3.9 2.2 3.3 3.1 1.3 2.7 7.8 5.1 4.1 3.2 6.8 5.5 3.9 1.9 3.2 2.2 1.9 14.3 2.9 1.6 7.1 0.0 1.9

10 10 5 13 7 7 8 3 4 6 2 7 1 4 3 4 4 4 2 3 2 1 8 2 2 3 2 7 0 1 2 3 2 3 4 0 2 1 4 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 2 3 0 3 2 1 1 1 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 1

5.9 7.6 5.6 8.2 6.0 4.3 4.9 2.2 1.9 5.9 1.5 5.7 0.6 2.7 2.0 4.3 2.9 5.1 1.3 2.8 2.2 0.9 5.3 1.5 1.3 2.4 2.0 8.4 0.0 1.5 1.4 4.7 1.4 4.8 7.0 0.0 2.1 0.7 4.4 0.8 0.7 1.1 1.6 1.3 2.0 1.1 2.5 4.1 0.0 2.5 2.2 1.3 1.9 1.1 0.0 1.9 7.1 1.0 0.0 1.0 0.0 1.0

Galileo could beat 2010 total but he’s not top on all counts It is a comment on Galileo’s dominance that even without Treasure Beach he would still be well clear of the field.

Second-placed Montjeu and thirdplaced Dalakhani put together are some way short of his total.

Having the title race sewn up with over three months of the Pattern season to run, with his earnings more than doubling in July, is remarkable and with all the ammunition at his disposal Galileo must be in with a chance of beating his tally for 2010.

This time last year he had progeny earnings of £2,471,806. His final figure was in excess of £6 million.

Galileo is not top in every respect though. He has had more stakes horses than any of the others, 25, but in stakes winners he is joint-second with Montjeu behind Dansili and in percentage of stakes winners he is equal with Shamardal behind Monsun (8.4%), Dansili (8.2%), Montjeu (7.6%) and Dubawi (6%).

There hasn’t been a great deal of movement elsewhere in the table and perhaps the most interesting sire is High Chaparral, for whom So You Think has been flying the flag with such gusto.

High Chaparral has now had five Group 1 scorers in Australia and New Zealand but just one, Redwood, who has raced entirely in the northern hemisphere. That will surely change and at €25,000 he was far from overpriced this year.

Statistics to July 4

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FLASHBACK

August 14, 1988 Miesque and Freddy Head prove far too good for a high-class field in the Prix Jacques le Marois at Deauville

GEORGE SELWYN

1

2

3

1 Miesque – Freddy Head 2 Warning – Pat Eddery 3 Gabina – Eric Legrix 4 Soviet Star – Cash Asmussen

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G

oldikova may be Freddy Head’s sweetheart now but 25 years ago it was another filly, Miesque, who stole his heart.

The daughter of Nureyev was a world-beater, winning ten Group 1s, including two Breeders’ Cup Miles, the Prix Jacques le Marois twice, and the English and French 1,000 Guineas.

Her second Marois win saw Miesque give 4lb and a length beating to the top-class colt Warning, who had previously slammed Then Again and Most Welcome in the Sussex Stakes.

Head says: “Miesque was a hard ride, as she would pull a lot, and you had to wait with her in a race otherwise she would run herself out.

“But she could change gear in a second – she had brilliant speed.

“I remember we came from a long way back in that race but won easily in the end from Warning.”

Miesque’s brilliance on the track was replicated in the breeding shed, foaling top-class duo East Of The Moon and Kingmambo, who became an influential sire with a host of top level winners.

Following her likely bid for a fourth Breeders’ Cup Mile success at Churchill Downs in November, Goldikova, who broke Miesque’s record for Group/ Grade 1 wins, will almost certainly embark upon her own breeding career.

Head adds: “I’m asked a lot who is the best but I cannot say. Miesque was a brilliant two-year-old, while Goldikova stays a bit better and is easier in a race. She’s a phenomenon.

But of course I don’t ride her!”

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