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February 2009 Issue 54

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The official publication of the ROA and the TBA

Recognising the industry

THE TBA Tweenhills Stud’s Roisin Close AWARDS receives reward for her endeavour at breeding’s annual prize-giving

2008

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Irish Champion S.-Gr.1, from Duke of Marmalade

‘King George’-Gr.1, by 4 lengths

Irish Champion S.-Gr.1, from Ouija Board

Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe-Gr.1, from Youmzain

Prix Ganay-Gr.1, in record time

Irish Derby-Gr.1, by 3½ lengths

2009 STALLIONS • AD VALOREM • ANTONIUS PIUS • AUSSIE RULES • CATCHER IN THE RYE • CHOISIR • DANEHILL DANCER • DUKE OF MARMALADE • DYLAN THOMAS • • EXCELLENT ART • FOOTSTEPSINTHESAND • GALILEO • HIGH CHAPARRAL • HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR • HURRICANE RUN • IVAN DENISOVICH • • MONTJEU • ONE COOL CAT • ORATORIO • PEINTRE CELEBRE • ROCK OF GIBRALTAR • STRATEGIC PRINCE •

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THE LEADING 1ST CROP COVERING SIRE AT THE 2008 EUROPEAN BROODMARE SALES

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1 2 3 4

DYLAN THOMAS Authorized Teofilo Manduro

NO. SOLD AVERAGE (€) TOP MARE (GNS)

11 5 8 11

191,850 86,621 74,616 69,913

420,000 140,000 110,000 160,000

SOURCE: TDN INSTA-TISTICS, 9TH DEC.

For the third consecutive year, in 2008 Coolmore retired two top-of-the-crop prospects, both to Ireland: Dylan Thomas, one of the soundest, therefore ‘virtuous,’ top-class horses of recent times; and Excellent Art, a top three-year-old miler in 2007... Coolmore is standing a top-of-thecrop son of Danehill in every one of these four sire crops: Oratorio, Holy Roman Emperor, Dylan Thomas and Duke of Marmalade. With Danehill Dancer and Rock of Gibraltar already carrying the flag for him, it would be no surprise if one of the four, at least, becomes to Danehill what Montjeu and Galileo became to Sadler’s Wells - a world-class sire son.

There’s an awful lot of bleating among breeders and breeding journalists about how the old-fashioned virtues of soundness, honesty, and durability need to be reinforced in contemporary pedigrees. Fine: breed to Dylan Thomas. … Dylan Thomas proved himself over and over again to be a tip-top performer who possessed all these virtues, in spades, that we hear so much about. He was equally effective at 10 or 12 furlongs... Timeform rated him 132 in Racehorses of 2007. I defy any pundit to explain to me how this is not exactly the sort of horse they are all telling us breeders should use in order to restore the great virtues to the breed. I agree with them, too, and here’s the horse. And remember, Galileo and Montjeu both once stood for €35,000, too.

TDN, 7th Jan 2009

A world champion & 6-time Gr.1 winner by Danehill

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

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INTRODUCTION

Pacemaker deal will advance magazine

TBA award winner Roisin Close at work at Tweenhills Stud in Gloucestershire. Photo

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hopeful mix. Everyone involved wants to develop new, exciting features. Work is already underway on this and we look forward to unveiling fresh aspects of Thoroughbred Owner & Breeder next month and beyond.

Plans for the new title will be further outlined in the March issue by Michael Harris, its Chief Executive. We look forward to welcoming ROA and TBA members and Pacemaker readers into a venture bursting with potential.

It is, of course, essential that we continue to fly the flag vigorously for the ROA and TBA, the magazine’s owners.

This is reflected in the 12 pages we have devoted in this issue to the TBA Awards, which recognise the achievements of all levels of the bloodstock industry, from the high-flying operations of Cheveley Park and Juddmonte, to the lesser but high-achieving names such as Borderlescott’s breeder James Clark and Tweenhills Stud’s Roisin Close.

That quartet offers an important reminder for the magazine: namely, that while it is important to keep attracting the ‘big names’ to our features pages, there are plenty of people operating at lower levels with stories to tell and views of note. This is especially so in the breeding sector, and one of the aims of the new title will be to increase our focus on studs.

It remains important, too, to tackle big issues. None are as important right now as equine welfare and for this reason we have interviewed the BHA’s head vet, Tim Morris, about coping with the recession.

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It is essential that we continue to fly the flag for the ROA and TBA

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Richard Griffiths Editor

THIS is the last issue of this magazine in its current guise. From next month it will be known as Thoroughbred Owner & Breeder Incorporating Pacemaker, following the deal which saw the Racehorse Owners Association and Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association buy Pacemaker over the Christmas period.

In announcing the purchase at her association’s AGM, TBA Chairman Kirsten Rausing spoke of the “increasing logic” in concluding the deal at a time of economic uncertainty.

“With the climate as it is, there is no longer room in this market for two publications of a similar type,” she said.

“It is our belief that one strong racing and bloodstock magazine, published by two responsible racing bodies, will have a long-term future. I stress ‘long-term’ because publishing a specialist magazine during the next year or two is clearly going to be tough, and the support of the bloodstock industry will be crucial to our making this work.”

Meanwhile, Michael Harris, the Chief Executive of the Racehorse Owners Association, and the man who brokered the deal to acquire Pacemaker, spoke of the opportunity to give both ROA and TBA members “an ever better magazine.”

This is a key point. For all the commercial advantages of combining both titles, there is also the opportunity to advance editorially.

Cynics might think there is a temptation to ‘go easy’ now that our direct and tangible rival is off the market.

Rest assured, complacency is not an option.

We have no intention, from next month onwards, just to throw various aspects of the two magazines into one

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Recognising the industry

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2008

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CONTENTS | FEBRUARY 2009 24

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46 52

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FEATURES

News Focus Special report from the TBA AGM

22

Talking to…

Huntingdon’s Sophie Hodgkinson

10

Changes Your must-read news catch-up

24

The Big Interview Tim Morris of the BHA

13

ROA Leader Sir Philip Otton’s levy recommendations

30

TBA Awards 12 pages of success and stories

15

TBA Leader Modernising the TBA’s legal structure

46

Paul Barber Pictured above at his cheese factory

17

Lysaght’s People Oh no! A song for Breedsbreeze

52

Ffos Las A dream realised – and on time!

18

Going Global Japan’s watershed year

96

Your Say David Brocklehurst of Charlock Stud

FORUM 56

ROA News The rising costs of ownership

65

Racecourse Prize-money Table How Britain’s 60 tracks measure up

66

Owner of the Month Jim Lewis, for Breedsbreeze

67

Owners in the News Peter and Fiona Shaw

PHOTOS: BRIAN ARMSTRONG/MALCOLM COUZENS/STEVEN CARGILL/MATTHEW PHILLIPS/GEORGE SELWYN

NEWS AND VIEWS 6

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LEADING THE FIELD IN BLOODSTOCK INSURANCE

68

TBA News South East region profiled

71

Breeders’ Prizes Your latest Flat and jumps winners

72

Breeder of the Month The late Jean Wood, for Diamond Harry

AHEAD OF

73

Breeders in the News John and Cherry Steele

THE FIELD

74

Vets Forum The ongoing challenge of colic

76

Caulfield Files Lear Fan’s legacy

78

Stakes Results National Hunt and US Grade 1s

85

Stallion Stats The Flat year wrapped up

89

British/Irish-breds Your victories abroad

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NEWS FOCUS Edward Rosenthal’s special report from the TBA AGM

Opportunity knocks despite recession Decline in thoroughbred values, though unwelcome, means breeders can upgrade their broodmare bands BA Chairman Kirsten Rausing had plenty of words of encouragement for members at the organisation’s 92nd AGM, despite the global economic downturn having severely impacted on breeders at last year’s thoroughbred auctions.

Referring to her January 2008 Chairman-elect address to TBA members, in which she spoke of the dangers of overproduction and the necessity for breeders to be realistic in their outlook, Rausing admitted that subsequent events had made things even tougher for the industry.

However, whilst acknowledging that many breeding operations will have to face a “severe correction”, she advised others to view the current climate as an “opportunity to upgrade their stock” and take advantage of the drop in bloodstock values, which her predecessor, Philip Freedman, has estimated at around 33% during 2008.

Rausing said: “Nobody was prepared for the world to be turned on its head by the collapse of household names and institutions, resulting in what is

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The recession could offer breeders the chance to upgrade

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predicted to be the deepest recession in England for 70 years.

“I am not going to urge British breeders to cull all their mares and I am not going to paint a scenario whereby this great industry is lost for future generations, but I am going to urge breeders to take a careful look at their business and remind racing authorities that the health of this industry is crucial to the sport of horseracing.

“Whilst a severe correction will be necessary for some, others should not overlook the opportunities this recession can provide in terms of upgrading their stock and to share the advice of a wise older statesman, ‘in uncertain times keep your savings in a commodity that you know and understand’.

“The TBA is the one body that has the interests of the horse at its heart and for that reason alone we must continue to encourage British breeders to do what they do best, but be mindful of the need to take a careful look at the quality of their mares.”

TBA Awards coverage, pages 30-45

NEWS FOCUS

A sister to top sprinter Corrybrough was secured via the Free Lease Exchange

TBA lobby to overturn Indian ban on import of UK horses

Lease Exchange proves popular Breeders and owners alike have embraced the Free Lease Exchange, a recent joint initiative between the ROA and TBA to attract owners for unsold yearlings from last year’s sales.

With overproduction uppermost in breeders’ minds, Kirsten Rausing said the collaboration was evidence of the “excellent relationship” between the two racing bodies.

Over 30 two-year-olds have been signed up to the Exchange, including progeny of Kyllachy, Haafhd and Exceed And Excel, while over 60 owners have made enquiries.

One of the first horses secured via the

Free Lease Exchange is a full sister to Henry Candy’s high-class sprinter Corrybrough, bred by Sheila and Derrick Oakes in North Yorkshire.

By Kyllachy out of Calamanco, the filly has recently joined Malton trainer Richard Fahey.

Derrick Oakes said: “I think the Free Lease Exchange is an excellent idea.

Our filly did not make her reserve at Tattersalls so we bought her back in.

“Breeding is our game, so to have the racing side paid for, whilst retaining the filly for her broodmare career, is a great help to us.”

Justin Wadham’s advice, pages 61-62

Funding boost as Brightwells agrees to collect sales levy Brightwells, the auctioneer that runs thoroughbred sales at Ascot and Cheltenham, will join Tattersalls and Doncaster Bloodstock Sales in collecting a TBA sales levy this year.

The 0.75% deduction is made from the sales proceeds of each and every lot payable to British vendors, unless those vendors specifically instruct the sales company not to do so.

All collected sales levy is then passed on to the TBA to fund areas such as veterinary research and promotion of British bloodstock.

Kirsten Rausing said: “We were delighted to be able to persuade

Kirsten Rausing assured TBA members that everything possible is being done to lift the Indian Government’s ban on the importation of breeding stock from Britain.

The ban, which does not apply to Ireland, was imposed in 1998 because of fears over Contagious Equine Metritis (CEM), a sexually transmitted bacterial disease.

Although no thoroughbred in Britain has tested positive for CEM in a decade, it has been detected in non-thoroughbreds over the same period, predominantly in animals that are passing through the UK en route to other destinations.

Rausing said: “The association has continued to immerse itself in lobbying for the lifting of the Indian Government’s ban on the importation of breeding stock from Britain.

“Several high-level meetings took place with Indian officials and we remain hopeful that the effort spent on this important subject will lead to a lifting of the ban, which will have an extremely beneficial effect on the demand for breeding stock sold in Britain.”

Indian breeders have historically supported the Tattersalls breeding stock sales, spending over £1 million in 1995, providing a valuable middle to lower market for their British counterparts.

It is believed the ban has cost the British breeding industry in excess of £10m since its introduction.

A number of former British-trained horses now stand at stud in India, including Placerville, Alnasr Alwasheek and Diffident, all at Poonawalla Stud.

Effective strangles vaccine ,on the horizon, says expert

Brightwells to join Tattersalls and DBS in collecting sales levy on behalf of the TBA with effect from 2009 sales, and for the first time we will have the identities of those vendors who have paid the levy.

“This will help to support the TBA’s funding, as the effects of the downturn are seen in the TBA’s accounts, and to address the need to identify and hold discussions with some breeders who have previously not contributed.

“These actions are vital if we are to expand on the many steps we have taken forward in support of the breeding industry.”

The fight to produce a universal vaccine to fight against strangles is making “really good progress”, according to Dr Andrew Waller of the Animal Health Trust.

Waller, speaking at the TBA AGM, said the contagious equine disease “remains highly prevalent in the UK horse population”. He is currently involved in a research project, part-funded by the TBA. It is hoped that the new vaccine will be cheap to manufacture, with immunity to re-infection for around five years.

A new blood test has also been developed to identify carriers of strangles.

“It will be a really useful tool for controlling the spread of the disease in future,” said Waller.

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NEWS FOCUS

Record prize-money in 2008 Total prize-money in Britain in 2008 was a record £106 million, showing a year-on-year increase of £7.6m.

Each of the sources of prize-money showed an annual improvement on the previous year, with the owners’ contribution reflecting the biggest percentage increase. This was boosted by runners in 2008 increasing to 98,004 from 93,719 in 2007.

The 2008 figures would have been even better but for the loss of York’s Ebor meeting. Total prize-money for the three days of York would have been £2.5m, of which York’s executive and sponsorship contributions would have amounted to £1.3m.

This high-profile abandonment also deflated the overall racecourse executive and sponsorship figure for 2008, which showed a £700,000 increase on 2007.

ROA Chief Executive Michael Harris said: “It has to be said that 2008 was a good year on the prize-money front, boosted by additional levy support from July and a £3.8 million increase in owners’ contributions.

“Obviously, the loss of York due to the weather was a huge disappointment to the industry but there are some bright spots within the figures, such as Northern Racing’s increased contribution to prize-money in 2008.

“The Horsemen’s Group now has a prize-money agreement with virtually every racecourse and we will soon be in touch with a number of courses about their figures.”

Full comparative tables will be published in next month’s issue See page 65 for the final Racecourse Prize-money League Table for 2008

Prize-money 2008 v 2007

2007 £m

2008 £m

Increase £m

Increase %

Levy Board

53.4

56.1

2.7

5.0

Racecourses (Executive & Sponsorship)

29.6

30.3

0.7

2.3

Owners

13.1

16.9

3.8

29.0

BHA

1.5

1.8

0.3

20.0

Divided Race Fund

0.8

0.9

0.1

12.5

Total

98.4

106.0

7.6

7.7

The dream has turned sour for John Holmes

Leighs loses licence The future of Great Leighs racecourse is uncertain after the Essex track went into administration, having been denied the right to continue to hold race meetings.

Britain’s newest racecourse, which was beset by numerous delays before finally opening last April, had been operating under temporary licences, the latest of which expired on January 15.

Great Leighs boss John Holmes applied to extend the licence until the end of January, however the BHA refused.

A statement on the track’s website said that administrators Deloitte will “investigate the opportunity of a sale” while trying to secure a racing licence.

Kempton is one of the courses to benefit from transferred meetings while Great Leighs remains without a licence.

New Approach crowned world champion on turf New Approach has been rated the champion turf horse on the planet in the 2008 World Thoroughbred Rankings.

Princess Haya’s Derby and Champion Stakes victor shares a mark of 130 with Curlin, the top dirt performer, whose victories last year included the Dubai World Cup. Raven’s Pass, who had Curlin back in fourth when lifting the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Santa Anita in October, has a rating of 129 on an artificial surface (best three-year-old) but is 2lb lower on turf (champion over a mile).

The Aga Khan’s brilliant Zarkava, unbeaten in her seven-race career, is the world’s top female on a mark of 128, having signed off with a stunning two-length triumph in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.

Zenyatta (125), another yet to taste defeat, is the top older distaffer, having made it nine wins from as many starts in the Breeders’ Cup Ladies Classic.

Sue Magnier’s Duke Of Marmalade (127), who racked up a Group 1 fivetimer in 2008, came out on top in the turf older horse category. Yeats and Septimus, on 122, enjoy the top stayer accolade with St Leger winner Conduit, who received a higher mark (125) after winning the Breeders’ Cup Turf.

The world’s champion sprinter title is shared by Hong Kong’s Sacred Kingdom and Midnight Lute, who became the first horse ever to win backto-back renewals of the Breeders’ Cup Sprint. Their mark of 123 leaves them 2lb ahead of Marchand D’Or, the top sprinter in Europe, who in turn is 1lb clear of Hungarian superstar Overdose.

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Tweenhills Times February 2009

Tweenhills Farm & Stud Tweenhills Racing David Redvers Bloodstock

STUD GROOM ROISIN CLOSE WINS TBA AWARD 2009 got off to a great start for Tweenhills, with the stud winning two TBA Awards at their annual event in January. Tweenhills’ stud groom, Roisin Close, received huge applause as the deserving winner of the TBA Annual Stud Staff Award, sponsored

by New England Stud.

Roisin has been with the stud for 10 years, during which time it has expanded significantly. She started out looking after Tweenhills’ stallions and helping with sales preparation but was soon appointed stud groom.

Stud manager, David Redvers was equally delighted for her, adding: “Roisin thoroughly deserves this recognition having made a huge contribution to the stud’s growth and success. She eats, breathes and sleeps the job and is a vital cog in the operation.�

TBA AWARD FOR LUCKY STORY too Lucky Story received the second TBA Award for Tweenhills, winning the Tattersalls Silver Salver as the leading British-based first season Flat sire in 2008.

He achieved six individual winners of 10 races and total prize money of ÂŁ165,419.

His best performer was Art Connoisseur, successful in the Gr.2 Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot and runner-up in the Gr.1 Phoenix Stakes. Lucky Story stands at Tweenhills on behalf of Darley.

David Redvers said: “I’m thrilled because it is a hard job competing with higher profile, more expensive stallions so it is great for a small value horse to come through.�

Lucky Story went one better than another Tweenhills’ sire, Ishiguru, who was runner up for this award in 2006 after Hellvelyn also won the Coventry Stakes and was second in the Phoenix Stakes.

Lucky Story is filling up fast – call Hannah to book a nomination.

Roisin Close wins the TBA Annual Stud Staff Award

TWEENHILLS TO PLUNDER FRENCH PRIZEs A Tweenhills Racing 2009 Syndicate has been put together with a view to exploiting both the weak market and the remarkable opportunities for prize-money in France.

Tweenhills Racing XV comprises of three two-year-old fillies including one to be trained in France. For more details contact the office or visit www.tweenhillsracing.co.uk

ISHIGURU’S INTERNATIONAL SUCCESS Ishiguru returned home recently from the Southern Hemisphere flushed with International success. In addition to Natural Flame, a recent valuable winner in Hong Kong, he also had success at the prestigious Hong Kong International Sale where a NZ bred two-year-old realised HK$2,000,000 (£177,000).

FROST FAILS TO STOP TWO-LEGGED RACE The Hayes Golden Button Challenge was scuppered by heavy frost on New Year’s Eve, but the Ledbury Hunt turned the event into a three mile human cross-country race. BBC Top Gear’s Richard Hammond started proceedings and subsequently sportingly ran in the race despite being attired in leather boots, jeans and fleece top.

Spot both the well known flat jockey and racing journalist in the photo below. Visit www.goldenbutton.co.uk for more details of this race and the re-run of the four-legged race.

In America his success continued with Ferneley who finished 2nd in the Gr.2 San Gabriel Handicap at Santa Anita for trainer Ben Cecil.

His dam Amber Tide returns to Ishiguru this season.

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Racing Post starts campaign after the broadcaster announces plans to reduce its racing coverage to a maximum 14 days in 2010 Conditional jump jockey, 23, decides to quit racing and will train to become an addiction counsellor Resigns from his post as chairman of Timeform after nearly 35 years with the Halifax-based operation Reduces fee for foals registered online Prize-money for 2009 meeting increased by £450,000; all seven Group 1 events rise in value by at least £50,000 Main contractor building Dubai racecourse, due to open in time for the 2010 World Cup, is sacked after falling behind schedule (see page 20) Former TBA chairman is awarded an OBE in the New Year’s Honours List, while the Queen’s Ascot representative, the Duke of Devonshire, is knighted 25-year-old becomes the first female jockey to ride 100 winners in a calendar year in Britain Former Curragh-based trainer signs five-year lease on Erik Penser’s Churn Stables in Oxfordshire, previously occupied by Gerard Butler Betting exchange bucks economic trend by revealing 29% rise in revenue in year up to April 30, 2008 Relinquishes trainer’s licence and returns to farming in Cambridgeshire; Somerset-based Aaron Bateman, 30, also quits training, blaming financial situation Aintree marathon rises in value by £100,000 to a record £900,000 32-year-old leaves the Curragh to take charge of Rob Lloyd’s state-of-the-art training establishment in Cheshire Three teenagers sentenced to 12 months in a young offenders institution for robbing and racially assaulting a jockey and groom from India Can continue to work in racing while serving 30-month ban, but cannot be head groom for Roger Curtis, who has taken over his horses Towcester racecourse chief executive joins Ladbrokes as corporate development director Joins accountants James Cowper as bloodstock consultant David and Simon Reuben up their stake in the racecourse group to 20.53% Controversial Naunton trainer calls time on 40-year career, blaming the tough economic climate Halts long-running investigations into suspicious betting patterns involving Sobers and Aleemdar, with no disciplinary action taken in either case Former trainer, owner and renowned gambler puts his Cleveland House Stables in Newmarket and horses up for sale, citing poor prize-money

Racehorse and stallion – movements and retirements Natagora Doyen (pictured) Hawk Wing Tendulkar Reel Buddy Sweet Kiln Numbersixvalverde Librettist Marienbard Soapy Danger

Last year’s 1,000 Guineas winner is retired to stud after being bought by Sheikh Hamdan from Stefan Friborg for an undisclosed sum Gestut Auenquelle in Germany acquires nine-year-old son of Sadler’s Wells, winner of the 2004 King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes, from Darley Former Coolmore sire, a triple Group 1 winner, sold to stand at stud in Korea Group 1-placed ten-year-old son of Spinning World moves to Malpas Stud in Cheshire from Hyde Park Stud in Ireland; his fee is £2,500 11-year-old stallion sold to Greece; the son of Mr Greeley recorded his biggest success in the 2003 Sussex Stakes Talented mare, winner of ten races for the Bowe family, including two Grade 2s, is retired to the paddocks 2006 Grand National winner retired after recurrence of leg injury; he also won the Irish Grand National for owner Bernard Carroll and trainer Martin Brassil Dual Group 1 winner to stand at Haras du Logis in France at a fee of €7,000; the son of Danzig was originally due to stand 2009 at Dalham Hall 2002 Arc winner moves to Kilbarry Stud in County Waterford; the 12-year-old son of Caerleon has spent the last six seasons in Japan Son of Danzig, a Group 2 scorer, retired to Ballyash Stud in County Down, where his fee is £1,500

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Acclaimed US racing journalist who spent half a century in the industry, writing mainly for the Daily Racing Form Owner-breeder with former trainer Toby Balding and Jonathan Geake who bred Richmond Stakes winner Nomination Millionaire landowner and fine art enthusiast who owned useful chasers Strath Royal and Speaker Weatherill, both trained by Owen Brennan Legendary French trainer responsible for 1976 Derby hero Empery and brilliant filly Dahlia, dual winner of the King George at Ascot Promising young jockey, based with trainer Alison Thorpe, who was known as ‘Spencer’ because of his idol Jamie Spencer Bloodstock agent who bought many top-class winners, including Bachir, San Sebastian and Dimitrova Only Australian to be champion jockey in Ireland in 1960; he rode mainly for Vincent O’Brien and Paddy Prendergast Former President of the British Equine Veterinary Association and long-time head of the DBS veterinary panel Known as ‘The Breener’, the priest and racehorses owner was one of the most popular figures in Irish racing circles

Son of Distinctly North, owned by Christine Stevenson, whose seven wins included the Group 1 Premio Presidente Della Repubblica in 1998 Tough mare who landed the Wokingham Handicap and Stewards’ Cup in 1977 Highclere Thoroughbred Racing’s 1,000 Guineas hope is put down after contracting leukaemia

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BEARSTONE STUD - STALLIONS FOR 2009

Indesatchel

Bay 2002, 16.0 h.h.

by Danehill Dancer - Floria

CLASSIC-PLACED DUAL GROUP WINNER FROM THE DANEHILL SIRE LINE - BY THE LEADING SIRE OF 2YO’S IN EUROPE Rated 120 at 3 - the equal of 2000 Guineas winner FOOTSTEPSINTHESAND Dual Group winner, narrowly beaten in the French 2000 Guineas Group 1 First foals sold for 30,000gns, 17,000gns, 16,000gns, etc

Stunning first crop foals can be viewed at www.bearstonestud.co.uk

Bearstone Stud

“very smart performer, acts on any ground”

Timeform 120 Fee for 2009: £3,000 October 1st SLF

Firebreak

Bay 1999, 15.3 h.h.

by Charnwood Forest - Breakaway

GROUP 1 WINNER OF OVER £1,500,000, FROM THE WARNING SIRE LINE OF GR.1 STALLIONS PICCOLO AND AVERTI and higher rated than both Group 1 winner and Group 2 winning 2 year old (Mill Reef Stakes) Group winner every year he raced from 2 - 5 years First yearlings sold for 42,000gns, 32,000gns, 28,000gns,.....

A DARLEY STALLION STANDING AT BEARSTONE STUD “Game and consistent” “Effective at 6f to 1m; acts on dirt, firm and soft going” Timeform 125

Fee for 2009: £3,000 October 1st SLF

Mind Games

Bay 1992, 16.0 h.h.

by Puissance - Aryaf

CHAMPION 3YO SPRINTER IN ENGLAND, ROYAL ASCOT GROUP WINNER - ROYAL ASCOT GROUP SIRE Sire of the winners of over £2,500,000 Recent yearlings sold for 120,000gns, 60,000gns, 52,000gns, etc His 2yo son ALL ABOUT YOU, the 120,000gns yearling bred by Ballylinch Stud, won his 2008 backend maiden for Roger Charlton and Mountgrange Stud and looks an exciting prospect for this season

Mind Games returns to Bearstone for 2009 “a trail-blazing, five furlong speed merchant”

Timeform 121

THE SOURCE OF SPEED

Fee for 2009: £1,500 October 1st Contact: Terry or Margaret Holdcroft or Mark Pennell, Bearstone Stud, Market Drayton, Shropshire TF9 4HF Tel: 01630 647197 (office) 01270 812345 (home) Mob: 079749 48755 e-mail: enquiries@bearstonestud.co.uk website: www.bearstonestud.co.uk or Martin Percival, percival.ma@btinternet.com Tel: 01284 735322 Mob: 07810 812 55

ROA LEADER

Levy modernisation must be key objective Racing and bookmakers should push on with widespread reforms following Sir Philip Otton’s recommendations

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ir Philip Otton has never been far from the thoughts of those on all sides of racing and betting’s political spectrum in recent months. As an expert arbiter, Sir Philip played a major part in avoiding Government determination of the last levy scheme and has since produced a wrap-up document (‘Otton III’) that was recently posted on the Levy Board website, along with his two earlier papers.

It is hardly surprising that racing and betting have each drawn positive conclusions from Sir Philip’s deliberations but, even allowing for a natural bias on our side of the fence, it is encouraging that Sir Philip has dismissed the notion of offsetting the costs of TurfTV, he has accepted that FOBTs and other bookmaker income should be taken into account when settling the levy, and that levy on overseas racing in UK betting shops should be put back on the table.

Of these, we see the reinstatement of levy on overseas racing as racing’s most obvious target. The Levy Act, in stating levy has to be paid on horseracing bets, is unambiguous. Racing lost this when, in 2004, the basis of funding British racing was to be switched from a levy system based on statute to a commercial system based on the sale of database rights.

When the new scheme was rejected by the European Court and the levy was reinstated, there can be no reason why bets taken on foreign racing should not also have been reinstated. By Sir Philip’s calculations, this represents an annual sum of £13.3 million and seems to be a natural first target, being less complicated and open to different interpretations than other issues on the table.

But, while racing must continue to keep pushing on these important points, it is the completion of a proper modernisation process that should represent the real goal for all sides. Racing would agree overwhelmingly with Sir Philip when he says there are “inherent procedural weaknesses” in the present method.

The levy system cries out for simplification. Even though it is ultimately based on statute, there is no reason why it cannot function on the basis of one party selling and the other buying.

At the first stage of this process, it is for racing to construct a fixture list and race programme that balances the needs of racecourses, owners and the betting industry. It is for racing to attach a price to this and submit it to the bookmakers.

At this stage both sides enter detailed negotiations. These involve bookmakers giving racing a list of items they need to maximise their horseracing profits, and racing then attaching a price to each of these items.

Within this process, it is the detail that would become complex, but the concept is no different from any other commercial situation. It requires much improved communication and information sharing between bookmakers and racing.

Getting to grips with this detail will not be easy. The needs of the racecourses to maximise attendances and the needs of the bookmakers to maximise off-course betting turnover often collide, but at the end of it all racing needs to maximise its overall profit – not just that based on the levy – and this will inevitably mean not giving bookmakers all they want.

A sixth fixture on a Saturday might be virtually useless in terms of betting shop turnover but it could be extremely important to a particular racecourse. A card made up of moderate handicaps might be unattractive to a racecourse but just what the bookmaker is looking for.

These are but two examples that relate to the labyrinth that is the fixture list and race programme.

Sir Phillip may not have found all the answers but we believe he has succeeded in altering the terms of the debate.

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Reinstatement of levy on overseas racing is the natural first target

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Paul Dixon President Racehorse Owners Association

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"He reminds me of Presenting"

"Lucarno reminds me so much of Presenting who I also trained. They were both very good looking, sound athletes who were high-class racehorses. I will be following Lucarno's stud career with great interest" John Gosden

LUCARNO BAY, 2004, 16.3 (1.70M)

By Dynaformer ex Vignette (Diesis)

Classic-Winning Champion 3YO Stayer in Europe Winner of 5 races & £573,675 inc. Gr.1 St. Leger Stakes at Doncaster and Gr.2 Princess of Wales Stakes at Newmarket in 2008.

By one of the World’s Top Sires DYNAFORMER, sire of 86 Stakes winners (more than his sire Roberto) inc. the unbeaten top 2YO Filly of 2008 RAINBOW VIEW & 2006 Kentucky Derby hero BARBARO. LUCARNO’s female family is stacked with BLACK TYPE speed performers.

Fee 2009: £2,000 (October 1st)

WOOD FARM STUD Ellerdine, nr. Telford, Shropshire. Contact: BILL BROMLEY Tel: 01952 541243 Fax: 01952 541242 or Anthony Bromley at HIGHFLYER BLOODSTOCK Tel: 01638 663436 Fax: 01638 662570, Email: anthony@highflyerbloodstock.com

TBA LEADER

Why we need to make changes to the TBA Review aimed at achieving enhanced charity structure, suitable to meeting the challenges of the 21st century

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uring my address at the TBA Annual General Meeting on January 6 I referred to the recent assessment of activities within the TBA which, coupled with changes in the law, have prompted the need to modernise the TBA legal structure.

I introduced Janet Turner QC, from the association’s legal advisers, Taylor Vinters, to explain the proposed restructure and to outline the process up to an EGM in 2009 for the membership to vote upon these changes.

This column provides an opportunity to reiterate these intentions to a wider audience, ensuring adequate provision for debate. Our hope is that this will, in turn, enable members to feel comfortable with the restructuring proposals and give their support to them.

In essence, the TBA’s current legal identity is that of an unincorporated association. This brings with it many risks for its trustees, and even for members of the association, in terms of exposure to personal legal liability.

In its simplest form it is proposed that the current structure be divided into two companies. The first (new TBA) will be a charitable company limited by guarantee, which will continue to pursue the TBA’s primary charitable activities. The second (limited by shares) will be a wholly owned offshoot of the charity and will carry out non-charitable trading activities, including fundraising and marketing.

The association will then benefit from an optimum governance structure, designed to ensure that its future operations fulfil its charitable purposes, manage its legal risks and achieve legal compliance. The new regime will also assist with the future recruitment of trustees and enable clarity of roles and responsibilities within the various activities undertaken by the TBA. The revised objects of the charitable company will continue to be focused on the promotion and advancement of the

welfare of thoroughbred horses, and of education relating to all aspects of these animals, including their breeding and racing, for the public benefit.

New TBA will be governed by a board of directors, which will ideally be comprised of, at the very most, 12 directors, either elected or appointed by the board. The inaugural board members will be drawn from the current TBA Council members, comprising elected, co-opted and ex-officio members.

The board will draw upon the views of its subcommittees and consultative advisory committees to guide and inform future strategy and policy. Implementation of new TBA’s work will continue to be facilitated by its employees, comprising the Chief Executive and staff based at Stanstead House.

In conclusion, therefore, I would like to reassure members that the Council’s priority throughout this exercise is to conduct a totally transparent review, with the aim of achieving an enhanced charity structure, which is suitable to meet the challenges of the 21st century, but which also maintains the valuable ongoing participation of the TBA’s members.

With members’ support, an EGM will take place later this year and all members will, as promised at the AGM, receive a further detailed proposal to accompany notice of this meeting.

If there are any aspects of these proposals that cause concern, please do not hesitate to contact me, or any of the TBA Council members, or our Chief Executive.

We want to ensure that all our members are happy with these proposals. As explained by our adviser at the AGM, there are no disadvantages to these changes, merely advantages for everyone.

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The TBA’s current legal identity brings with it many risks

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Kirsten Rausing Chairman Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association

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In Leading company...

LEADING SIRES IN EUROPE IN 2008 In Order of Prize Money

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GALILEO MONTJEU DANEHILL DANCER ZAMINDAR PIVOTAL SADLER’S WELLS CAPE CROSS DANSILI DANEHILL ANABAA INVINCIBLE SPIRIT VERGLAS KINGMAMBO

5,424,628 3,851,081 3,262,287 3,166,141 3,018,417 2,716,457 2,333,255 2,031,181 2,001,005 1,986,385 1,954,148 1,769,470 1,763,507

Private Private Private £15,000 £65,000 Retired ¼35,000 £65,000 Deceased ¼30,000 ¼50,000 ¼10,000 $250,000

Statistics by Hyperion Promotions Ltd. Results received to 07/01/2009

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A Top 5 sire in France for past 2 years 24 individual winners from first Irish crop 2yo’s in 2008, inc 4 Group horses SILVER FROST (dual Gr.3 winner & Gr.1-pl), Alhaban (Gr.2-pl), Driving Snow (Gr.3-pl), Vilasol (Gr.3-pl)

Foals sold for up to €115,000 in 2008

Irish National Stud John Clarke or Julie Lynch, tel +353 (0)45 521251 email jlynch@irish-national-stud.ie, www.irish-national-stud.ie AMADEUS WOLF

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LYSAGHT’S PEOPLE

Trainers worse than NHS

Lysaght’s People

An owner and friend of mine has had a stroke, and doctors have told him to prepare for a lengthy period of recuperation. He’s taken the news surprisingly well. “It’s being an owner for 30 years that’s helped,” he explained. “I’ve never met a trainer who hasn’t pleaded with me to, ‘Give it time’, which usually means a year.

“Compared to that, a few quiet months shouldn’t be too hard to bear, and the NHS doesn’t bombard you with bills every two minutes!”

The man from the Beeb brings us all the patter from the racecourse Cornelius Lysaght Racing correspondent of BBC Radio

Breeze breeds a new song The ascendant big-race hopes of up-and-coming chaser Breedsbreeze open up a conundrum for his owner Jim Lewis (right): what song will be accompanying the impressive bay into winners’ enclosures in future?

After Cheltenham Gold Cup successes with Best Mate, Lewis used to warble a very individual rendition of the horse’s name to the tune of Amazing Grace. It was all too much for winning trainer Henrietta Knight, who once famously muttered, “Oh no, not that f*****g song again.”

Lewis now plans to emulate no less than Maurice Chevalier with the help of

Selective English

the song Louise from his movie Innocents Of Paris.

“Every little breeze seems to whisper Louise (Breedsbreeze),” it goes.

“Birds in the trees seem to twitter Louise (Breedsbreeze).”

The bad news for racegoers is that five more verses follow.

A case of mistaken identity Surely everyone knows Kim Bailey, the only trainer alive and working to have won jump racing’s holy trinity, the Grand National, the Champion Hurdle and the Cheltenham Gold Cup? Well, not quite everybody, it would seem.

Nicky Henderson casts an admiring look at Mr Frisk.

Just kidding!

When an eager autograph hunter approached at Cheltenham’s New Year’s Day fixture, the everaccommodating Bailey looked forward to a chat about 1990 Aintree hero Mr Frisk, perhaps, or the manner, maybe, in which Alderbrook and Master Oats took the 1995 Festival by storm. Wrong.

Imagine his dismay when a pad and pen were thrust forward with the words: “Would you mind signing this, Mr Henderson?”

Bailey’s response was the very epitome of politeness, though if the autograph hunter was unclear about any intricate details of the three races mentioned, he is not now.

Farewell then to Spanish-born jockey Oscar Urbina, who’s left the UK to ply his trade back home. Oscar Ortiz de Urbina y Valverde, to give the 36-yearold his full name (it was abbreviated early on, though some fellow jockeys preferred ‘Ribena’), became something of an honorary Brit during his 15 seasons at Newmarket.

But it was not always thus. In the early days, one particular category of racing folk believed that his grasp of English was unpolished. To explain: circa 1999, when Urbina’s career started to thrive, a trainer suggested to a journalist friend that the Spaniard might be a good subject for a profile.

“But you told me Oscar isn’t very good at the lingo,” said the journo.

“Oh, he’s fine – outside of the stewards’ room,” the trainer replied.

We don’t like Mondays The sauna at Wolverhampton should have been deserted after snow forced the January 5 fixture to be abandoned.

But no. One jockey, oblivious to any threat (and, after all, they are called allweather tracks) arrived early to shed a few unwanted pounds. His face, already a distinctive shade of red from the heat, soon resembled a decent claret when informed the meeting was off. An official asked if he hadn’t noticed there were no cars outside.

“No,” he replied. “That’s normal for Wolverhampton on a Monday.”

Lord not done with The success of owner-breeder John Oaksey’s splendid Carruthers has raised the roof several times already and word has it that the fun will be extended into the future by his promising half-brother by Alflora, named Cuckoo Pen, and also running for ‘The Noble Lord’.

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GOING GLOBAL

Words: Michele MacDonald The 2008 Japan Derby winner Deep Sky, a grandson of the legendary Sunday Silence

New era beckons for Japan 2009 to be a watershed year for the racing and breeding industries, with the first overseas licence applications set to be processed by authorities hile 2009 might be the year of the ox in Japan, in terms of racing and breeding it is shaping up to be best remembered as the year of great change.

Following commitments to open up Japanese racing to international participants and assure its Part I status in cataloguing terms, the Japan Racing Association is preparing to take licence applications from foreign-based owners as early as this spring.

This seismic policy shift has drawn attention globally, even netting a feature report from Bloomberg business news, which quoted JRA official Hiroshi Ito as indicating officials are hoping to revive the sport after a decade of declines in gambling revenue.

“Japanese racing has developed to the point where it can withstand overseas competition,” said Ito. “It’s a big change but a necessary one to ensure racing’s long-term health.”

Simon Marsh, General Manager of Watership Down Stud, told Bloomberg that, in addition to breeding mares in

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Japan, the stud might want to become more involved. He said: “It’s a very good market. I see no reason why one day we wouldn’t want to race there.”

JRA officials would not disclose rules that will apply to foreign owners, except to indicate that they will be required to meet the same stringent income thresholds applicable to Japanese owners. A guidebook to the rules will be published in March and the first registrations will be handled in November. Keisuke Ozaku, a spokesman with the JRA in its New York office, indicated in early January that the JRA has already received inquiries from Americans.

In addition to the radical change in policy, Japan is entering a new era in breeding. The end of 2008 marked the first time in 13 years that a stallion

“Japanese racing has developed to the point where it can withstand overseas competition” – Hiroshi Ito, JRA official

GOING GLOBAL

Statistics paint poor picture for US racing Worrying declines in wagering and prize-money, and Breeders’ Cup Ltd planned cut angers breeders Financial indicators and news regarding the health of North American racing held troublesome dark clouds as 2008 ended.

Overall wagering on racing declined by 7.16% from 2007, dropping to $13.67 billion, the lowest level since 1998 and the steepest decline reported in a period of more than a dozen years that featured mostly growth, reaching a $15.18b peak in 2003. Prize-money also decreased, from approximately $1.18b to $1.16b.

“The new year brings renewed hope, but also the sobering reality that any economic recovery will likely be a slow process,” said Alex Waldrop (pictured), President of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association.

Just prior to the release of the statistics, a large wave of unrest cut through the ranks of breeders when Breeders’ Cup Ltd announced it was shelving its annual $5 million supplemental stakes programme that provides extra funds for Breeders’

other than Sunday Silence topped the general sire list.

With the remarkable progenitor’s death in 2002, it was only a matter of time until Sunday Silence was replaced at the top of the list, and the fact that he held on as long as he did is testament to his supremacy in Japan.

Still, one more indication is the fact that four of his sons, including leader Agnes Tachyon, second-ranked Fuji Kiseki and third-ranked Dance In The Dark, were among Japan’s top ten sires for 2008, while Sunday Silence himself was seventh.

Agnes Tachyon’s progeny, led by Japanese Derby winner Deep Sky, earned a total of £19,193,469 in 2008, nearly £6 million more than the amount earned by Fuji Kiseki’s offspring.

Two-time Japanese Horse of the Year Symboli Kris S is looming as a potentially significant sire. With only two crops racing in 2008, his progeny earnings of £8,804,091 placed him 11th on the general sire list, by far the highest of his sire class.

French Deputy and his champion son Kurofune, both American-breds like Symboli Kris S, are also making an impact, with French Deputy ranking ninth and Kurofune enjoying his best year ever at fifth on the list.

Cup-nominated runners who perform well in stakes races around North America. The backlash, including respected commercial breeder Rob Whiteley’s comments that the decision showed “the inmates are running the asylum,” was such that Breeders’ Cup quickly reversed the decision.

One Breeders’ Cup executive indicated that the initial decision, billed as designed to conserve funds after Breeders’ Cup’s reserves declined by more than $10m in stock market values, was just to test how valued the stakes programme is among participants. But the initial decision was particularly vexing to many because it was announced only after nominators had paid their fees for 2008 foals.

The long-term results from the brouhaha may not be the kind Breeders’ Cup wants or needs. Some breeders who produce large numbers of horses and who have supported the Breeders’ Cup with nomination fees of foals and stallions

indicated they will no longer be so willing to nominate large numbers of horses.

Among those is Whiteley, who said he would discontinue nominating his more than 160 foals annually until “present Breeders’ Cup management is gone.”

Eclipse Award-winning owner Ken Ramsey, a major breeder for his own stable and for the commercial market, said: “I’d think anybody on the board of directors of Breeders’ Cup would see this is like killing the goose that laid the golden egg.”

Ramsey might nominate only 10% of his 2009 foal crop.

China “test run” could lead to more regular fixtures After what was described as a “test run” of horseracing at Wuhan’s Orient Lucky City Racecourse in late November, mainland China seems to be preparing for the possibility of regular race meetings, although there is still doubt over what kind of betting will be allowed.

However, with Government officials offering projections of revenue if wagering is legalised, it seems that the sport and associated gambling might be sanctioned because of the money that can be raised.

Racing in China would open up the world’s largest potential market, as breeders globally are keen to find new buyers for their oversupply of horses.

Qin Zunwen of the Hubei provincial academy of social sciences was quoted in Chinese newspapers as saying racing could create three million jobs if a national betting network was created. Annual turnover could hit £9.7 billion and yield £4b in tax revenue. There would be other benefits as well.

“A legal channel to bet on horseracing could eliminate illegal online gambling,” said Zunwen. Wagering revenue, once winners were paid, would support the racing industry and public welfare initiatives.

Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province,

was the centre of Chinese horseracing in the early 1900s after the establishment of a racecourse there by the British, although the sport was banned when the People’s Republic was formed in 1949.

Wuhan officials began preparing for the return of racing in 2005 and received permission a year ago from the Chinese Government to offer lottery-style betting.

During the test run on November 19, fans were allowed free bets on two of the four races and winners were rewarded with 20 lottery scratch tickets. The four races offering £11,700 in prize-money were run on a dirt track.

Wang Shenshun, Deputy Head of Wuhan Sports Administration in China, said: “If approved, horseracing can be upgraded to regular events once or twice a week.

“The commercialised experiment will allow individuals and organisations to join a race club and buy shares in the horses.

All prizes come from the sale of naming rights to the meets and horses.”

Orient Lucky City’s facilities were described by some Chinese officials as just as good as those in Hong Kong, and include 30,000 outdoor seats and 4,500 indoor seats, plus stabling for 2,000 horses.

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GOING GLOBAL

Dubai project hits turbulent patch $1.3 billion Meydan development on course to host 2010 World Cup say organisers – despite contract cancellations Doubts about progress on what has been billed as the world’s most lavish racing palace, the $1.3 billion Meydan in Dubai, billowed in the desert after contracts with the two major companies handling construction were cancelled.

Meydan officials blamed a work delay for axing Malaysia’s WCT Bhd and local firm Arabtec Construction, which is building the Burj Dubai, the world’s largest tower.

Shares in those firms plunged in Kuala Lumpur and Dubai following the decision, with WCT indicating that it was reviewing options, after what it considered a “breach of contract.”

WCT alleged that it had not been paid for $143 million of completed work.

Dubai Racing Club Chief Executive Frank Gabriel, who has been highly involved with Meydan plans, said he could not comment on the situation and how/or if it might affect racing.

Meydan is supposed to be ready for next year’s Dubai World Cup, when the

prize-money for the world’s richest race is to be raised from $6m to $10m.

Gabriel referred questions to Saeed H Al-Tayer, who serves as Chairman of Government-owned Meydan and as Vice-Chairman of the Emirates Racing Authority, but Al-Tayer did not respond to calls.

In an interview with Arabian Business, Al-Tayer tried to allay concerns while indicating no decisions had been immediately made about how work would continue.

“We are geared up to deliver the

“We are geared up to deliver the project to host the 2010 Dubai World Cup” – Saeed H Al-Tayer, Chairman of Meydan (artist impression below]

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project as announced to host the Dubai World Cup in 2010,” said Al-Tayer.

He added: “It has always been our philosophy to have various companies on the ground who can take over the responsibilities, plus we have other people waiting in the wings; we just want to go through formalities for the time being.”

Meydan’s grandstand will hold up to 60,000 spectators and the unique facility has been designed to include a luxury hotel, more than ten restaurants and an IMAX theatre.

Dubai Racing Club Chief Executive Frank Gabriel

BERTOLINI £4,000 Oct 1st Special live foal The chance to breed an auction horse who becomes a winner and who could go on to great things.

Leader in his field

PRECOCITY: No stallion who has ever stood in Britain has sired more two-year-old winners from four crops than Bertolini.

DURABILITY: He’s also sired more winners on the all-weather in the last two years than any other stallion, ahead of both Dansili and Cape Cross.

SIRE POWER: Sired star performers out of mares by Clantime, First Trump, Midyan, Paris House, Superlative and a G1 winner out of a 15-year-old Lyphard’s Special mare.

GOOD LOOKS: 2008 yearlings included colts that sold for £142,000 and £85,000, plus a £74,000 filly.

WORLD CLASS: Has two of the top four three-year-old fillies in New Zealand, including recent 10f G2 winner Puttanesca.

A GREAT FUTURE: 112 juveniles in 2009, including half-sisters to Cockney Rebel, La Vie Dei Colori, Jilbab, Fast Company and Seazun.

Overbury Stud Bertolini Kayf Tara Proclamation Zafeen To discuss your mares, arrange to see the stallions or book nominations, please call

Simon Sweeting on +44 (0)7796 174926 or +44 (0)1386 725552 www.ovstud.co.uk

Talking to…

Sophie Hodgkinson Britain’s youngest racecourse Managing Director discusses her vision for Huntingdon, the Mascot Grand National and her future ambitions

By Tim Richards By your own admission it is “slightly bizarre” that you have gone from a biology degree at Leeds University to being a racecourse manager. What attracted you to the Huntingdon job?

I was always interested in horses. I went to Pony Club, did one-day eventing and went racing quite a lot. Then one day, as a result of various conversations, I heard of a friend of a friend who worked at a racecourse. This fascinated me and I managed a day at Sedgefield, where the friend of a friend turned out to be Amy Starkey, my predecessor at Huntingdon.

I spent the day shadowing her and from that moment knew that racecourse work was peopleorientated and challenging. It was an industry I wanted to get into. I got a place on the BHB (as it was then) Graduate Programme and was given a placement at the Racecourse Association, before becoming Commercial Executive at

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Huntingdon; then Commercial Manager and Managing Director last year.

Was there ever another profession in your sights?

Veterinary, until racing won me over.

Are there advantages to being Britain’s youngest racecourse manager, at 27?

I feel privileged to have my title. But very high expectations come with it. Being so young, people do expect a lot of you. I am very conscious of doing the job well and achieving.

Have you ever felt you haven’t been taken seriously at work because of your age?

No; the opposite really. Huntingdon racecourse seems to be a great place for young people to get a step up into the industry. You earn the respect through what you do and age hasn’t

TALKING TO...

affected that. A number of people have used Huntingdon as a successful launch pad. I hope I can follow in their footsteps.

How have you been accepted in what is a traditional and predominantly male dominated sport?

Personally, I don’t think racing is dominated that much by men; after all, there are plenty of women trainers that have done exceptionally well. Certainly, racecourse management provides the perfect environment for the female touch, showing the importance of customer care. A number of women in this field have done exceptionally well, namely Lisa Hancock, Morag Gray and Amy Starkey, who is now at Kempton.

We are slowly gathering in numbers!

How do you cope with managing a multimillion pound grandstand development?

We hope to have the new grandstand completed by the autumn at a cost of just under £3 million.

There will be a new weighing room and facilities for the jockeys, including a fully equipped first aid room. Four new corporate hospitality boxes will also be available for conferences on nonracedays. Owners, trainers and members will be well catered for, and there will also be new viewing steppings for 500. I am certainly finding out a lot about construction and one thing I’ve learnt is never be scared to ask questions if you’re unsure. At times it can become very technical.

How do you cope with your workload?

The key is to have good time management and it is essential to prioritise the work. I am lucky to have a great team around me and it is vital to make sure that every job is completed in the time allotted.

Are you happy with the Peterborough Chase’s place in the calendar in early December, as a midweek rather than Saturday fixture?

This year we moved to the Thursday in December, but we will be looking at the possibility of going back to midweek in November. Reverting to a weekday has meant we don’t have Saturday competition from Ascot and Haydock, and it works exceptionally well.

On Saturdays the race has lacked both a competitive field and the top jockeys because they are on duty elsewhere. We aim to rebuild the Peterborough to where it was and are in discussion with sponsors and race planning.

What purpose does the Mascot Grand National serve?

It’s not for racing aficionados, but it’s great for the racecourse, giving us a national profile. Its Sunday fixture is very much a family day and full of entertainment. We receive coverage nationwide and it adds something extra to the day. It is unique and last year’s tenth running

attracted 80 contestants from all over the country. They run the final furlong of the track and jump a number of small hurdles. We are in discussions with the sponsors John Smith’s as to how we can tweak it; our aim is to enter the Guinness Book of World Records by having 116 mascots in one place.

How would you make racing more attractive, in particular for the young?

The first step in 2009 is to raise the age of free racecourse entry from 16 to 18. We want to create a Kids’ Club which we would use to educate the young; let them meet the jockeys, try on the silks, see how small the saddle is and inspect the fences. So when they are here it is not just a case of playing on the bouncy castle, they would have an understanding of what is happening.

We must make racing more customer friendly and not so frightening for people who come for the first time. Also, I think that we need bookmakers to help explain the basics of betting. Racing is so much more exciting when you know what you’re looking at.

Would you agree that, compared to other sporting arenas, racecourses in Britain have a problem in attracting an ethnically diverse crowd?

FINGERS ON THE BUZZERS What’s your weakness?

Being unable to switch off Which four guests would you invite to dinner?

JP McManus, Alan Sugar, The Queen and Sir Mark Prescott What keeps you awake at night?

Wondering how to attract more people to racing What is the most dangerous thing you’ve ever done?

Bungee jumping in New Zealand Who is your hero?

Frankie Dettori What excites you?

The thunder of hooves in the home straight at Huntingdon

We are a leisure venue and we must provide entertainment to make people want to come and return again, whatever their background. It is up to racing to market itself to a wider audience, to attract new people, whatever their colour or creed, through new initiatives.

In these credit crunch times, does a day at the races offer families value for money?

At Huntingdon it is £15 per adult to get into the main enclosure, and family members under 18 gain free admittance. Compared with other sports, where very few 18-year-olds and under get in for nothing, it is good value.

How would you raise the overall profile of the sport?

By promoting the top jockeys. They are the key figures along with the big trainers, like football, and to a lesser extent rugby, where the players and managers have such a high profile. We must communicate with the public, tell them racing is not scary, but a great day out.

How would you describe your management style?

I hope I am direct, effective and very approachable.

Where do you see yourself in ten years?

Hopefully, I will have made Huntingdon one of the leading small tracks in the country, and I will be at a larger jumps course. Heading up Cheltenham would be a dream, but I am sure Edward Gillespie will still be going strong!

FAVOURITES TV show Top Gear Night out Good meal, good wine and good company Holiday destination Bermuda Sport Rugby Union, for the sport, not the men in shorts Meal cooked by you Sunday roast with all the trimmings

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THE BIG INTERVIEW

When it comes to addressing the welfare issues that will arise as a result of the recession, racing daren’t wait until the horse has bolted…

So we talked to Tim Morris, the BHA’s Director of Equine Science and Welfare, to establish the challenges that await Words Richard Griffiths | Photos Steven Cargill

One of the most striking things about last year’s difficulties at the sales were the anecdotes that arose of yearlings/foals being left abandoned at sales grounds after they failed to find a buyer. How much of a problem can we gauge this as?

TM: We need to find out if there is an actual

problem. There are a whole load of anecdotes; so far we haven’t been able to substantiate any of them.

I think it is very difficult to completely deny ownership of a thoroughbred. Genetic finger printing will catch up with you. I don’t know how widely known this is but we really have three tiers of identification: the oldest one is the good old-fashioned passport. Then you have a microchip, which is also very reliable. And we also take a blood sample. So it’s not beyond the realms of forensic possibility to find out where a foal came from. Add to that, when they turn up at a sale there has to be some form of identification of a horse.

But this (the anecdotes) raises a key point: if we are going to manage this situation – the actual or perceived effect of the recession on racing – we are going to have to have good monitoring information.

And so for about the last seven months, the BHA has been working with Weatherbys to try to understand the numbers going into racing, travelling through racing and coming out of racing. This is quite a difficult thing to do because racing is such a dynamic event.

One of the drivers has been the incident in Buckinghamshire at Spindles Farm (when 111 horses were rescued from a farm owned by a meat trader near Amersham as part of a major cruelty investigation). That prompted allegations from campaigning animal rights groups that thousands of horses were being slaughtered out of racing. In fact, we very quickly found out that the number of horses coming directly out of racing going for meat was about 100 horses a year.

But it was still a wake-up call to us that we needed to have good figures, good monitoring of the movement of thoroughbreds, good monitoring of what’s happening at the sales and at the abattoirs.

We will be rolling out our plans in the near future. I would rather not go into details at this point for the very simple reason that we are going to be working with a whole load of partners. It’s not just about horses in racing, it’s about horses before racing and after racing. I don’t think it is ever a good idea to shout about something before it is ready, but we have very definite activities underway at the moment, working with a wide range of partners.

All within racing and bloodstock?

It’s broader than that. Our plans won’t just involve people in racing, because the horse world is more diverse than that and there are people with expertise beyond racing who have been looking after horse welfare for years.

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Are you able to give us a timescale on these plans?

We hope to have something substantive to say in February. We are really focusing on making sure that racing has good quality advice available, that racing is monitoring what is going on in the broadest sense of the word.

I will give you an example of a partner. We would want everyone to be aware as to how they can join up with the owners (ROA) and breeders (TBA) leasing scheme. We want there to be a really easy way for anyone wanting to find out about it to do, in one stop, so to speak.

There are a whole load of initiatives that we can highlight and pass on and we want to make sure that it is really easy to find out about initiatives such as this.

So you are encouraged by the leasing scheme?

I think it is exactly the kind of innovative idea that we need to have in this current climate.

We have recently seen changes to the Animal Welfare Act (full details at www.defra.gov.uk/animalh/welfare/act/ index.htm). How will this affect racehorse owners and breeders?

Tim Morris: “Racing must understand that the animal cruelty laws have changed”

The new Animal Welfare Act was implemented in 2007. One of the roles I have undertaken over the last year is making sure that racing understands that the law has changed and it is absolutely fundamental to understand how that law has changed. The old law was about animal cruelty. The new act has a section which covers duty of care, such as adequate food, adequate veterinary care and freedom of injury. This means unnecessary suffering that is not part of the job: for example, sending a police horse into a crowd

“The ROA/TBA leasing scheme is exactly the kind of innovation we need” isn’t cruelty because it is there for a reason.

We intend to make sure that people understand their obligations in this respect. The framework for this act talks specifically about horse ownership and that you should take it on only if you are capable of meeting the requirements of the horse, that you can do it for the long term, and you have the resources to do it.

This act has come into force at a time when the economies of breeding could get really bad for people and, as a result, their actions could be more desperare than during healthy economic times...

Yes. We now have a very clear framework that sets out not only to avoid cruelty and take sanctions but to ensure that there is adequate care, and that people meet their responsibilities.

In fairness to breeders, we should reiterate you have no proof of the anecdotes – global anecdotes – of horses being left behind at the sales...

What I would say is that we haven’t gone out looking for them: we don’t regulate bloodstock.

However, we know that we need to be able to respond authoritatively to anecdotes and we are taking steps to ensure that we do.

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THE BIG INTERVIEW

According to Morris, action against anyone showing cruelty to racehorses will be taken by the RSPCA, not the BHA

“Most people are not wantonly cruel. Their actions are often to do with circumstance and ignorance” As you made clear earlier, if a sales company did report a specific incident, there are various ways of identifying a horse. But are you in a position to take action against anyone prepared to resort to such an extreme measure? After all, the BHA has recently been involved with the tightening up of the Bloodstock Code Of Conduct?

If there was an extreme case, anyone could be, in the old parlance, warned off anything to do with racing. But generally no, that really is not the BHA’s responsibility; it would come under the animal welfare legislation we have just been talking about, which is implemented by the police, local authorities and independent bodies such as the RSPCA. The general arrangement is that with animal welfare prosecutions the police will pass them on to the RSPCA. We are in close dialogue with the RSPCA, the police and local authorities on animal welfare, and that is to ensure that they know that we tightly regulate those licensed by us.

We don’t want anyone having a problem with their horse or their business facing the prospect of multiple people ‘coming down’ on them.

Most people are not wantonly cruel, it’s to do with circumstance and ignorance. It may be that

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we can help them as the regulator: give us the first chance to deal with a situation. If it is severe we would then perhaps pass it on to the police or a prosecuting authority.

So if someone is found to be neglectful of a thoroughbred, it is not necessarily a case of action by the BHA – the consequences are much greater than that?

I would be even firmer than that. If there is active neglect of an animal we would be very aware that the interests of racing are not served by us appearing to cover something up and we would work carefully with other partners to make sure there was an appropriate and proportionate response.

And you would urge any association or organisation within racing to be responsible and not try to cover up ‘bad news’ stories?

Absolutely. That’s not to say we are going to turn into some sort of police force; we will work with racing’s participants, but people have responsibilities and obligations. And part of our obligation is to make sure that racing is seen to effectively police itself.

Defra (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) is happy for us to do our job, because at the moment they think we are being competent and effective. They are not in the same position with greyhounds and that is why the eye of scrutiny from Government is on greyhounds. (Defra has set up a Greyhound Welfare Working Group to examine the issue of greyhound welfare.)

It is hard to think of a more brutal image of an assessment than photos of greyhound carcasses being shovelled en masse into a pit (as was reported in 2006 by The Sunday Times, which detailed how one County Durham man buried at least 10,000 greyhounds using a mechanical digger)...

Whether that was legal or not, that was disastrous for the reputation of the sport. And for us, we have got to realise that there are ways that difficult issues like that can be dealt with.

Euthanasia is a perfectly viable option and may have to be used more. However, it needs to be done legally, professionally. Euthanasia with horses may go up (in response to the economic difficulties) but if that is the responsible thing to do, we need to make sure that it is done well and it is done within the law, and that people have clear advice on what their options are.

This is a very important point because the economic downturn has coincided with an overproduction peak. There’s nothing to be gained from mare owners breeding older, infirm or underachieving mares and a lot won’t be able to keep them on the farm as family pets, so euthanasia becomes a real issue. Are you saying it is a legitimate thing to do?

If a horse, for whatever reason, doesn’t have a future, that should be one of the options, though we understand that it is a very, very difficult option for a horse’s owner. It is not a pleasant message but it is responsible animal welfare.

Each case has to be looked at on its merits. For a breeder, it really depends what their rescources are: do they have the money or the land to weather the storm? Can they can find another use outside racing? You have got to remember that over the last seven years there has been a revolution in the way we have looked at racehorses as potential candidates for re-training. We now have a whole range of options that these well-trained, well-cared for horses can go to and we shouldn’t underestimate that.

We are talking about 7,500 horses approximately coming out of racing each year and about 3,500 to 4,000 not going to breeding, export, racing elsewhere, or other disciplines such as point-topointing. Of those, we feel that many of them can go on to productive future careers. This is an area where Retraining of Racehorses is working very, very actively. They would be one of those organisations that we would promote for advice.

And if any individual in racing or organisations such as the sales companies do hear of cases of neglect, should they contact the BHA?

From racing’s point of view, I think they can make sure they keep talking to us. I started by talking about the need for monitoring. Good information is what we need, so everyone should keep the roots of communication open.

We would certainly undertake to keep the information confidential, for the good of racing, which in turn should be good for everyone.

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Juddmonte Farms wins this award for the leading British-based breeder, relative to earnings in Britain and Ireland, for a fifth time in nine years.

The operation owned by Prince Khalid Abdullah (left) was one of four to breach the £1 million mark in 2008, followed very closely by last year’s winner Cheveley Park, with Darley and Shadwell in pursuit.

Two of Juddmonte’s top contributors were the Group 1-winning fillies African Rose and Promising Lead, the produce of homebred stallions Observatory and Danehill respectively.

Juddmonte Farms’ Arrive has emulated her full-sister Hasili, who took the Broodmare of the Year award in 2006.

Last season Arrive was responsible for Promising Lead, winner of the Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes and Group 3 Middleton Stakes, and Visit, winner of the Group 3 Oak Tree Stakes and third in the Group 1 Sun Chariot Stakes. The fillies are by homebred stallions in Danehill and Oasis Dream respectively.

Both trophies were received by Juddmonte Farms’ General Manager Philip Mitchell (above).

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BBA Silver Cigar Box Pivotal This is the third time that Pivotal (left) has won the award for seasonal earnings in Britain and Ireland by a British-based stallion, which was also won by his sire, Polar Falcon, in 2002.

Along with Coolmore’s Galileo, Danehill Dancer and Montjeu, Piovotal was one of only four stallions whose progeny earnings exceeded £2 million last season, and he symbolises the enormous contribution that David and Patricia Thompson (below) have made to British bloodstock.

Barleythorpe Cup Pivotal Deja-vu! This is the fourth time that Pivotal has won this prize for individual winners.

As ever, the opposition was formidable. Pivotal defeated his stud companion Kyllachy by 70 winners to 60, with four more stallions – Oasis Dream, Royal Applause, Bahamian Bounty and Bertolini – all recording figures in the high 50s.

A great sire of fillies, Pivotal’s Pattern winners included triple Group 1 winner Halfway To Heaven, as well as Heaven Sent, Infallible and Enticing.

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Tattersalls’ Silver Salver Lucky Story David Redvers of Tweenhills Farm & Stud has not taken this first season sire award home to Gloucestershire out of turn. In 2006 Ishiguru finished runner-up to Kyllachy and now his stud companion, Lucky Story, has gone one better.

It is a remarkable coincidence that both stallions owe their success to a juvenile who won the Coventry Stakes and was runner-up in the Phoenix Stakes; the former with Hellvelyn and the latter with Art Connoisseur.

Dalham Hall resident Exceed And Excel finished in front of Lucky Story, but his first crop runners were conceived at Kildangan Stud in Ireland. The Silver Salver was collected by Tweenhills staff Hannah Wall and Verity Look (below right, with TBA President Michael Goodbody).

TBA Annual Stud Staff Award (sponsored by New England Stud) Roisin Close Ten years ago Roisin Close arrived at Tweenhills to look after the stallions and help with sales preparation. Such is her dedication that when the then stud groom left a year later to start his own business, David Redvers had no hesitation in promoting Roisin (below left) to fill his place.

Redvers said: “Roisin thoroughly deserves this recognition. She came originally to do the stallions and has continued to progress and take control. She eats, breathes and sleeps the job, and is a vital cog in the operation.”

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TBA Silver Rose Bowl Lawn Stud A change of name brought a change of fortune. Julian Richmond-Watson’s father bred horses at their Northamptonshire home as Wakefield Lodge Stud, but now the Jockey Club Senior Steward (pictured left, with his wife Sarah) operates as Lawn Stud.

Last year, homebred Look Here scaled unprecedented heights in the Oaks after finishing runner-up in the Lingfield Oaks Trial, a race her relative, Kayah, had won the previous year. Look Here also finished third in the St Leger.

Look Here, the last surviving offspring of her deceased dam Last Look, remains in training, while her half-sister Look So, who also scored in 2008, is now one of a handful of broodmares at Lawn Stud, alongside Kayah. Look So visits Look Here’s sire, Hernando, this spring.

TBA Silver Salver Ann Jenkins Sadly, this is a posthumous award as Ann Jenkins, a very popular and hands-on member of the breeding fraternity, died in October.

Formerly manager to Peter and Elizabeth Longton of Heatherwold Stud, near Newbury, breeders of the Arc winner Saumarez, she was responsible for an outstanding three-year-old filly of the same ilk in the Irish-trained Lush Lashes, successful in the Coronation Stakes, Yorkshire Oaks and Matron Stakes. Lush Lashes was reared on Ann Jenkins’s behalf at Sussex Stud by Paul and Judy Buckfield. The Silver Salver, a special merit award, was received by Ann’s nephew Patrick Chamings (right).

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Langham Cup (Small Breeder Of The Year) James Clark Not too many Group 1 winners are produced from a mare costing £500, but that has been the singular good fortune of James Clark from Holsworthy in Devon.

He is the breeder of Borderlescott, hero of the rescheduled Nunthorpe Stakes staged on the Newmarket July Course, and subsequently third to European champion sprinter Marchant D’Or in the infamous re-run of the Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp.

“I am very proud to have been awarded the Small Breeder of the Year award,” said Clark.

“Who would have believed, when I bought his dam Jeewan for 500gns, that such a fairytale would unwind?”

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Horse & Hound Cup Alflora The Shropshire connection dominated the principals involved with the Horse & Hound Cup, for the British-based stallion with the most individual chase winners.

Alflora (left, with Peter Hockenhull), who stands at Shade Oak Stud, won for a fifth straight time, but by the narrowest of margins. With ten winners of 17 chases led by Hobbs Hill, he just beat Sir Harry Lewis and Classic Cliche. The award was received by Emma Hockenhull (above).

Queen Mother’s Silver Salver Robert Chugg No leading auction of store horses would be complete without a contribution from Robert Chugg’s Little Lodge Farm, near Droitwich, and top price for the sale would be nothing new – very probably he or she would a descendant of his distinguished foundation mare Laurello, purchased as a yearling 30 years ago.

From a farming background, Robert (right) has been one of the stalwarts of National Hunt breeding in the UK, a natural progression from the time that he was one of the country’s leading amateur riders. A few of the older generation will recall his successful association with top hunter chaser Bright Willow, on whom he won the Liverpool Fox Hunters’.

Robert is in his fourth and final year as an elected member of the TBA’s National Hunt Committee.

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Dudgeon Cup Carole’s Crusader As the dam of three individual bumper winners, Carole’s Crusader won the Dudgeon Cup. Owned by Paul Murphy of Wychnor Park Stud, near Burton on Trent in Staffordshire, she is the dam of exciting novice Mad Max,

Carole’s Legacy and Jayne’s Crusader.

Successful five times over fences and twice over hurdles, Carole’s Crusader was bred at Fawley Stud, near Wantage, where her sire Faustus stood – the stud was then owned by John Deer.

The mare was trained just down the road

by David Gandolfo for Carol Skipworth, to whom she owes her name.

Paul is pictured above with the Dudgeon Cup, with his daughters Emma (left) and Amy.

Whitbread Silver Salver Overbury Overbury, who stands at Richard Kent’s Mickley Stud, replaced Sir Harry Lewis as leading British jumps sire on earnings, who in turn took over from Alflora. All three stallions have earned their reputations while based in Shropshire.

Now 18, Overbury was represented by 32 winners of 43 races, worth £385,492, headed by Ballyfitz and Simon.

Richard Kent (left) said: “It is a great honour and it is our first time winning such an award, so it is very exciting for the stud.

“Overbury is a very versatile stallion and sired the 2006 Irish 1,000 Guineas runner-up Ardbrae Lady. This year he had a five-furlong two-year-old winner, as well as a three-mile chase winner, and it is nice to see him getting recognised.”

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Dominion Bronze Alan Yuill Walker The Dominion Bronze Award was established in 1990 to recognise the individuals who have made a major contribution to the bloodstock world while working away behind the scenes.

This year’s recipient is one of the most knowledgeable and respected bloodstock journalists in the industry, Alan Yuill Walker (below).

Having attended the Royal Agricultural College, he had a crack – somewhat unsuccessfully – at riding in point-to-points, before a stint at Hadrian Stud in Newmarket, owned by Sir David Wills.

It was during his next posting at the British Bloodstock Agency that he

developed his fascination with thoroughbred pedigrees, working under the tutelage of Captain Kazimierz Bobinski, a former Polish cavalry officer.

After a spell with the London Bloodstock Agency, Alan started writing for Horse & Hound magazine in the mid-1960s, then edited by Walter Case. It was an association that lasted for almost 40 years.

He has contributed to a number of other leading bloodstock publications over the years, including The British Racehorse (later The European Racehorse), Stud & Stable, The Bloodstock Breeders Review, and Pacemaker, and has also worked for The Sunday Times.

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As a longstanding TBA member and regional representative, he was a natural choice to write for Thoroughbred Breeder, and is still involved with that magazine’s successor, Thoroughbred Owner & Breeder, penning the popular Breeder of the Month column.

A successful author, his books have included Thoroughbred Studs of Great Britain, Grey Magic: The Enigma of the Grey Thoroughbred, and a biography of Hampshire trainer Bill Wightman.

Married to Valerie with two daughters, he modestly explains his longevity in the business as “just having stuck to the same old thing over the years”.

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Andrew Devonshire Bronze Robert Percival Robert Percival, a TBA stalwart, lives at Old in Northamptonshire in the house at Red Hill Farm where he was born. This is on the east side of the village, where the land is ironstone, and on the west side is his Glen Andred Stud, which comprises much heavier ‘winter wheat’ ground. Glen Andred is named after his wife’s family home at Groombridge, near Tunbridge Wells.

Robert’s father was essentially a horse dealer. “I always consider that my father was my greatest friend, but whereas his involvement with horses lay in hunting and hunters, I was always more interested in racing,” he said. “From my school days all I ever thought about was horses’ pedigrees and the form book.”

Leaving school at 15, Robert helped his father on the farm with the horses and the cattle, and there were plenty of opportunities to hunt with the Pytchley; indeed, that is how he met his wife Sue. Having decided to concentrate on bloodstock rather than buy more land and expand the farming side, Robert and Sue (pictured above) founded Glen Andred Stud in 1964 and they started off by pinhooking foals.

Gradually they built up their own broodmare band, their original foundation mare, Rennet, producing the Haydock Park Sprint Cup hero Runnett. At one time she and her descendants constituted virtually half the broodmare band. However, the best horse they bred was Millkom.

Runnett was by Mummy’s Pet and Millkom’s maternal grandsire was by his son, Mummy’s Game. These two sires are of more than passing significance.

Robert was one of three personalities who helped to establish Barleythorpe, in Oakham, Leicestershire, as the UK’s the most successful commercial stallion stud.

He was assisted by David Gibson, who owned the property and belonged to a long line of distinguished vets in the vicinity, and Tom Warner of Red House Stud at Exning.

This triumvirate owned a sufficient number of mares to ensure any new Barleythorpe stallion was fully booked in his initial seasons, a key factor in their extraordinary success. During the 1970s and 1980s Barleythorpe was home to a string of sprint stallions such as Mummy’s Pet and Petong.

Many friends and colleagues have helped Robert over the years. They include two

veterinary surgeons, David Gibson’s father George, and Fred Byrne; Kemp Stokes, a renowned stockman; and John Kent of Ballyhampshire Stud in County Cork.

A couple of lady breeders deserve credit too. Sheila Evans first brought Runnett’s dam, Rennet, to Glen Andred, as she was proving difficult to get in foal. Susan Rhodes arrived to help on the stud, bringing her own horse, Lucky Kim. When Susan gave up hunting, Robert suggested that she bred from the mare, who duly produced Group winner Melbury Lad. “He was always jumping out of his paddock,” recalled Robert, “and once he landed up miles away after running round Pitsford reservoir.”

The father of twins, Alison and Rosemary, Robert has imparted plenty of his knowledge to others, as many former veterinary students from Bristol and Dublin, who came to learn the ropes at Glen Andred, could testify.

One piece of advice has stuck firmly in his mind. He said: “My headmaster once told me, ‘If you buy something for three pence, sell it for four pence on the way home, as you will have incurred no expenses.’”

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King of the hill: Paul Barber overlooks the village of Ditcheat

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PAUL BARBER

Grass roots

Paul Barber started out with one horse and might end up with that after “creeping out” of racing– though not just yet Words Julian Muscat Photos George Selwyn

hat if? The most redundant of questions can be the most tantalising when considering a sequence of events. It is certainly true in respect of Paul Barber. If John Thorne had not died doing what he loved, there would be no Manor Farm Stables in the Somerset hamlet of Ditcheat. In which case there would have been no yard for Paul Nicholls when he started training in 1991.

And if Nicholls had started elsewhere, he would not have trained for Barber. In which case Denman would never have raced for the owner/trainer alliance that has carried jumps racing into the national sporting conscience.

Barber himself makes no bones about it. “It was John who got me excited about racing,” he reflects. “But for him, none of this would have happened. I never expected to see a champion trainer here in the village. It’s a miracle, really.”

Ditcheat is where the Barber family has dwelt since the 1830s. They farm 2,000 acres of local land, augmented by another 1,000 acres in neighbouring Dorset. High on the hill that overlooks Nicholls’s stable, and Barber’s adjacent residence, is where Artifice was laid to rest.

Artifice was trained for Barber by Thorne,

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who also owned one-third of the horse that would transform Barber’s ambitions.

“I had a horse called Spats with John who was killed when coming to win the SunAlliance Hurdle at Cheltenham in 1975,” recalls Barber.

“We bought Artifice with the insurance money.

He won several big races before he, too, was killed.”

But that wasn’t the end of it. Thorne himself died after a point-to-point fall in 1982, 11 months after he had ridden Spartan Missile to chase home Aldaniti in the Grand National.

You’d have thought this tide of human and equine destruction might have soured Barber permanently. “For one reason and another, it didn’t,” he responds. “Lots of things happened at that time, but I kept persevering.”

One thing he knew for certain is that Thorne would have sorely lamented any withdrawal from Barber. Indeed, the tragedy offers an insight into Barber himself. It tells of a man deeply immersed in country pursuits and the havoc they can reap on those whose lives would otherwise be rendered meaningless. To him, purgatory is the pinstripe suit destined for his daily dose of the City.

Owning jumps horses is an extension of this.

It is old-fashioned sport for men of oldfashioned values – and to hell with the modern

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PAUL BARBER

world. Barber is the more engaging for it, his eyes brightening with tales of regular forays to Ireland to buy his beloved store horses.

Here again, he swims a little against the tide.

French-breds are rampant, as evidenced by the exploits of Kauto Star, Master Minded, Binocular, et al. Yet for all his desire to compete with the best, Barber will not abandon his roots.

“I’ve had some good French-breds,” he says, “but I’ve spent most of my life going around Ireland finding out how not to get it wrong. I love buying horses myself. I know absolutely nobody in France and I’ll be damned if I’m going to spend another 20 years finding out how not to do it all over again.”

Denman equals £82,000

Besides, there’s not much wrong with a horse like Denman, the galloping behemoth who did for Kauto Star in the Gold Cup. It was a striking first date.

“As soon as I saw him I couldn’t help but buy him,” recalls Barber. “I didn’t expect him to win a Gold Cup, of course, but he’s the type of horse I love: big, strong and with some character.”

At this point Barber digresses to the tabloid desire to put a price on anything that enters the public domain. “I’ve seen it written as anything from £55,000 to £200,000,” he says.

“Crazy. All they had to do was ask me. I’ll tell you now: we paid £82,000. At the time, Tom O’Mahony, who looks out for me in Ireland, thought I’d have to pay €200,000 and I said, ‘No I won’t. I won’t pay that for any horse’.”

The detail seems innocuous, yet it raises Barber’s ire. That’s because he bridles at making the same mistake twice. Horses, he believes, now trade for silly money; sums he will no longer pay after a rush of blood following See More Business’s Gold Cup triumph in 1999.

“Back then I bought a couple of horses which to my mind cost me too much money,” he says, “so you back off. Then, when Denman wins another Gold Cup, you think that everything is shining on you – until you go out and buy another. One thing all my horses have in common is that they are bloody expensive.”

Where most would surf the wave, Barber inclines the other way. There is a limit to his patronage and it is fast approaching.

“Since Paul [Nicholls] came here he has got bigger and better horses,” he explains. “I have been inclined to go along and buy more. I’ve got ten with him and seven more point-topointers, all in partnership.

“That’s more than I’ve ever had and I’m 66 now. If I’m lucky enough to be alive in five years time I’ll probably go back to having a few pointto-pointers. I shall quietly creep out of it.”

He hesitates, before adding: “Well, I suppose I’ll have one in training – something to look at, seeing as I live 30 yards from the stable.”

That solitary horse is likely to be a point-topoint winner bought as a youngster, but not an unraced store. Years of trying to snare the best unbroken talent at auctions makes him wince.

“I gave that up a while ago,” he says. “I never got a good one out of it. Big fat things, they are.

You wait ages, you break them in and they can’t gallop out of sight. Waste of time and money.”

If fools and their money are easily parted, Barber seems destined to be forever affluent.

The man who was born on the kitchen table of the family farmhouse built 450 years ago, and shaded by a giant oak of the same age, will pass it on with no regrets and many happy memories.

It has been a life of prosperity, to be sure, but one that wasn’t handed to him on a silver platter. On leaving school, Barber spent 15 years out on the farm, milking cows and learning lessons he would never forget as the family

“When I first started we made two tonnes of milk a day.

Now we make 45 tonnes of cheese a day” The boss, alongside Jan Broomfield, with the company’s signature cheese, Barber 1833

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A couple of Paul Nicholls’s string pass by Barber’s abode, and below he chats to reporter Julian Muscat

business went from strength to strength.

“When I first started we had 150 cows and made two tonnes of milk a day,” he recalls.

“Now we milk 2,000 cows, employ 180 people and make 45 tonnes of cheese a day.”

And not just any old cheese. The company’s signature is Barber 1833, which fell out of many a Fortnum & Mason hamper over Christmas.

Strange to relate, but Barber is actually allergic to the stuff.

It served him well that the first horse he owned cost him £450 – “an awful lot of money in those days, which I had to pay in instalments” – and that he waited five years for his first winner, Crazy Slave, in 1963.

One thing Barber would never countenance is betting. “A long time ago I had £100 ante-post on Artifice to win the Schweppes at 33-1,” he says, his face contorting at the memory. “He started 7-2 favourite and when he finished out with the washing I felt ill. I really hated losing that £100. Betting’s just not for me.”

All of which makes his alliance with Harry

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PAUL BARBER

Findlay that much harder to fathom. The pair have around 15 horses in partnership, Denman among them, yet while Barber cares for the pennies, Findlay spends like there is no tomorrow.

The two are often described as the odd couple, understandably so. One invariably tweed-clad, the other looking as though he has just emerged from an all-night stint in a downmarket casino. They make perfect caricatures of themselves, yet there is much admiration of Findlay from Barber’s quarter, some of it of a paternal hue.

Findlay a ‘one off’

“He’s mad as a hatter,” says Barber. “No-one will ever change him. I actually quite enjoy hearing what he’s up to, going up and down with his betting. He can’t stand bookmakers because he says they never pay, but Betfair has changed all that.”

It’s a precarious existence Barber admits he will never understand, saying: “That’s Harry for you. He’s a one-off.”

Nevertheless, Findlay’s roller-coaster betting exploits raises a concern. Should he ever go belly-up, might he have to sell his half-share in Denman?

“That would never happen,” says Barber.

“He’d always have something stuck around the corner to make certain he never had to do that.”

Turn back the clock five years and it is unlikely Barber would have imagined even crossing Findlay’s path, never mind owning most of his horses in partnership with him. Yet the essence of jumps racing is that you never truly know what to expect.

“I have never owned a Flat horse,” says Barber, “and I could never see any circumstances in which I would. You go Flat racing to see what you can get out of it, whereas

you go National Hunt racing to see how little you can lose. There is a mighty difference between the two. I have said that many times before.”

Another thing he has said many times before, but which he dismisses as old hat, was his ambition to milk 1,000 cows and own a Cheltenham Gold Cup winner. See More Business duly completed the latter wish.

However, Barber has since doubled up with Findlay-like audacity. He now milks 2,000 cows and has a second Gold Cup. In that respect he owes plenty to the enthusiasm and dedication of Thorne, who would realise only one of his two sporting ambitions. “I would like to ride in the Grand National and swim across the Channel,” Thorne once said, “but I am too fat for the former and too thin for the latter.”

Having defied the weight issue aboard Spartan Missile, who’s to say Thorne might not one day have made the crossing but for fate’s cruel intervention? Even in his mid-50s.

What was evident about Thorne is equally true of Barber: good horses keep the mind young. It remains to be seen whether Barber will enact his plan to slip quietly out of ownership in future.

It seems as certain as certain can be that he is properly addicted. Long may he remain in thrall to the racehorse.

“I have never owned a Flat horse and can’t see a circumstance in which I would” Denman is one of around 15 horses Barber owns in partnership with punter Harry Findlay

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Ready to rumble

Dai Walters and his team are set to deliver Britain’s 61st racecourse, Ffos Las, in June – and on time!

Words Alan Lee Photos Huw Evans Agency

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FFOS LAS

The man behind Ffos Las: Dai Walters

n this sporting parish of closely guarded secrets, none has been better kept than Ffos Las. Ask anyone in racing, from the foremost trainers to the most avid and anorakish of followers, and you are likely to be greeted by innocence. Few know precisely where it is, fewer still have visited. Yet in less than five months it will be the newest British racecourse, the next big thing.

It was never like this for Great Leighs, where every slip and stumble of a tortured birth was the subject of newspaper acreage and bar-room gossip. And, while the creators of the latest venue will tell you they have been happy to remain under the radar, the uncomfortable truth of such indifference is that, unlike its Home Counties predecessor, Ffos Las is perceived as being so very far away.

This casual perception – out of sight, out of mind – will be high on the priority list in coming weeks as Ffos Las educates and informs. When the process is over, when invited racing professionals have had the tour and the talk, the community should be fully cognisant of an imminent revelation in its midst. Make no mistake, this place will work. For those who know nothing of Britain’s 61st racecourse, here are a few salient facts:

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There is no such place as Ffos Las. The track is in the

village of Trimsaran, near Llanelli It will stage Flat and jumps racing, year round The first new turf track in more than 70 years is a mile

and a half round and 60 metres wide Though deep into south Wales, it can be reached in less

than two and a half hours from Lambourn It will be ready on time

Given the most recent experience of such projects, and the scepticism it has spawned, it is the last point that should engage attention first.

Great Leighs, and its owner John Holmes, suffered the agonies of legislative prevarication, enforced changes in layout and dwindling funds. The industry lost patience with it and, as we went to press, it has had the further ignominy of having its licence withdrawn after entering administration. Ffos Las, conversely, has had a clear run for two reasons. Its site, below the Pembrey mountains, was a disused open-cast mine, free of roads and other modern obstructions, and it has been built by one of the foremost civil engineering companies in Britain – whose chairman also happens to be the owner of the racecourse.

Just as Holmes is forever identified with Great Leighs, for better and worse, so Dai Walters will be the human

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flagbearer for Ffos Las. What it means to him cannot be overstated, for this is a man who has spent his entire life in Wales and risen from humble beginnings to embrace every element of the country’s sporting heritage.

Now, his company employs 600 people, still mines a million tonnes of coal a year and is responsible for such road projects as the A34 underpass at Newbury, the M25 widening and the A43 Silverstone bypass. Walters finds time between rugby, golf and shooting to indulge his late-flowering passion for jumps racing with such horses as Serabad, Special Vintage and the fairytale of this winter, Snoopy Loopy.

He has the reputation of a hard taskmaster, both as a boss and a racing owner, yet a fleeting vignette as he drove me to Ffos Las recently told a variation on the theme. Walters had been relating how he was first enticed into racing, ten years ago, by some Irish workers he had taken into the company. “I used to go to the pub with them every Wednesday and they talked me into buying a horse,” he recalls. “I’d had no interest up to then but if I go into something, I want to do it well. We went to Fairyhouse Sales with a budget of £40,000 and I fancied a horse so much I paid £60,000. We called him Celtic Major and he won several races.”

Energy and dedication

Barely had he completed the story when his mobile phone rang and a genial conversation ensued. “One of those Irish lads,” he explains.

“He still works for me.” And then, with a pause and a slow smile: “I can’t be too bad, can I?” What Walters has in transparent abundance is energy and dedication. Having started life as a teaboy, he does not lack for humility, but he demands the same standards in others that he exhibits himself. Impatience and intolerance may never be far away. He has employed and dismissed various trainers including, most recently, the young Welsh meteor Tim Vaughan, whose appointment at Walters’s private stables near Cardiff was dissolved in a matter of weeks.

“It was taking too long for him to get to me every morning,” he explains. “It didn’t work but I have great respect for Tim. It was just the wrong time.” The principal horses have now 54 THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER FEBRUARY 2009

been dispersed to Peter Bowen and Nigel Twiston-Davies, while Andrew Boxall has quietly been installed in charge of the 30-box yard, with its private gallop and spa.

Walters usually takes his helicopter to Ffos Las but on this foggy December day we took his four-wheel drive and he managed to get lost around Llanelli. It brought talk of the brown tourist signs that will soon point the way to the course from the M4. Like certain racecourse announcements, they will be given in Welsh and English, a mark of sensitivity to the location.

“My mother used to speak to me in Welsh,” says Walters. “But I’d always answer in English.”

He is not the first to try to give the Welsh a racecourse of their own (as opposed to the almost English venue at Chepstow) and says: “They’ve been on about it for many years but nobody has got on and done it. I put my head on the block and said, ‘I’m doing this’. I’m very determined. We’ve put a lot of money and resources in and, if it’s the last thing I do in life, this is going to be finished, and finished right.”

The financial downturn has not been kind to Walters but it could have been far crueller. “To be honest, if we were trying to start now, I don’t think it would go ahead,” he admits.

“We sold a tract of 20 acres to Persimmons for housing and that helped defray costs. We would not have been able to make that sale now. But if the boom days hadn’t stopped, we’d have sold a lot more land and covered our outlay. We have to view the project as long-term gain. I’m just determined that it’s going to be one of the top tracks in Britain.”

The portents are good. Despite discouraging weather – not a single week without rain and 50 working hours lost to downpours in the high summer of August – everything is on schedule for completion in late March, barring the twotier grandstand (a permanent structure encouraged by the Levy Board) a month later.

“If it’s the last thing I do in life, this is going to be finished, and finished right”

FFOS LAS

“That gives us a decent cushion before our first meeting in June,” observes Walters with satisfaction. Access roads and bridges are all in place, car parks are taking shape, along with the completed frames of a weighing-room complex with owners’ facilities attached, a 120-box stable block and a stable staff hostel built to hotel spec.

Nothing is being treated with more reverence than the track itself. Early thoughts of an additional all-weather surface have been shelved and efforts concentrated on turf. The grass cover is good already and a walk round grants proper appreciation of the slow sweep of the bends and the long, wide straights.

Walters says: “The last turf track was built so long ago and they didn’t have the lasers and the science we’ve been able to use. We’ve used the same technology as to build a motorway, so the cambers and gradients are all perfect.”

Mark Kershaw, whose vast experience of racecourse management is being deployed by Walters, says: “It’s a track designed to attract top-quality horses, and it’s deserving of that.”

Wales has never been more ready for such a venue. With each passing year, the influence of its incumbent trainers has grown more potent.

Now, Bowen and Evan Williams are staples in the top ten of the jumps list, with Vaughan, Alison Thorpe and Keith Goldsworthy all thriving, while David Evans is a constantly underrated producer of Flat winners.

Williams spoke for them all when he says: “I can’t wait for Ffos Las to open, so that it drags people past our doorstep and shows them we’re not out in the wilds after all.”

Ffos Las will also play well with Irish trainers, being scarcely an hour from the Pembroke ferry terminal. It is, though, its impact on a previously depressed area that gives Walters most pleasure.

“When the mines closed, there was nothing left here,” he says. “Gradually, tourism has grown and this will be a great boost to the community. The pubs, restaurants and hotels are seeing the benefit already.

“We’ve had a lot of support from the local councils and I can only give them praise. This is a big thing in this part of the world.”

Soon, the rest of racing may regard it as pretty big, too.

OWNERS AGENDA

Scenes from Ffos Las, including an artist’s impression of the greeting that awaits owners and racegoers

As a prominent owner, Dai Walters is unlikely to ignore the interests of his constituency when Ffos Las opens.

He is intent on providing all visiting owners with a proper welcome.

Moreover, he is adamant they will be racing for good prize-money.

Doubt on the latter point was inevitable following the appointment of Northern Racing in a management capacity. Northern do many things well but the company has a well-founded reputation for low prize-money levels at its tracks. Ffos Las, according to Walters, will be an exception.

“Northern are here for their experience in track and raceday management, which is not our business,” he says. “It’s true their prizemoney elsewhere has been bad, but I have Mark Kershaw as a director and I’ll be advised by him as to race planning.

I’m determined we’ll have good quality racing here and all the suppliers of my company have said they will sponsor a race – they had no alternative!”

Standard jumps fixtures will have at least £50,000 prize-money, with Flat meetings higher. Early highlights will be a £50,000 three-mile chase on August 28, the official opening of the track. The launch meeting, on June 18, coincides with the Ascot Gold Cup and a Ladies’ Day theme is planned.

Hospitality areas are sold out.

A catering contract is being finalised and the theme will be Welsh. “I also want all owners and trainers to be welcomed with more than just a cup of coffee,” says Walters. “We’ll offer them a Welsh bowl of soup and proper, home-made sandwiches. I know that this sort of thing is very important.”

The eight racedays allotted in 2009 will rise to 16 next year, but Kershaw and racecourse manager Jon Williams believe there is capacity to increase again, to a maximum of 28 in future.

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FORUM The special section for ROA and TBA members

Rising costs of ownership In-depth survey reveals British owners continue to languish near the bottom of the international league in terms of cost recovery A SURVEY of more than 1,000 ROA members has thrown up new figures about the costs of keeping a horse in training.

Figures relating to 2007 reveal that keeping a Flat horse in training is more expensive than a jumps horse, even though the ‘cost per run’ is similar under both codes.

Unsurprisingly, the average cost recovery for British owners, expressing returns over costs as a percentage, shows a deterioration in 2007 to 21%. This means Britain’s standing has further eroded in comparison with other major racing countries, according to the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities.

There are three factors which influence the reduction in owners’ cost recovery. These TOTAL COSTS IN 2007 i.e. Training, Transport, Vets, Farriers, Weatherbys/BHA, Pre-/Out of Training, etc

are: general increases in training costs, a reduction in prize-money of 4.5% year-onyear, and a 2% increase in the number of individual horses running for prize-money.

These figures do not, of course, take into account the capital cost of purchasing or breeding a horse, but relate specifically to training and ancillary costs.

The survey was sent out to 1,031 ROA members in October 2008 and asked members to record the monthly costs of keeping a horse in training during 2007.

The responses allowed us to case study 162 horses, 86 of which were Flat, and 76 National Hunt (including a few dual purpose horses).

It has produced a breakdown of costs

REGIONAL VARIATIONS IN TRAINING COSTS (£)

AVERAGE

Flat Jumps Codes combined

£18,489 £16,426 £17,521

Note: costs exclude VAT, insurance and any share of prize-money paid to jockey, trainer and stable staff, and need upward adjustment for inflation for 2008

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Newmarket Lambourn area Rest of South West Yorkshire Rest of North /Scotland

FLAT

JUMPS

CODES COMBINED

18,123 16,699 12,595 10,193 13,003 10,159

– 14,662 10,578 12,803 11,362 9,426

18,123 15,630 12,002 12,132 12,378 9,915

ROA FORUM

showing the various aspects of expenditure, and how these compare on average between keeping a Flat and jumps horse in training.

There are also significant variations on costs according to where an owner keeps a horse in training. For example, a Flat horse costs £18,123 to keep in training at Newmarket, but an average of £10,159 in Scotland and northern England, bar Yorkshire, where the cost of a Flat horse in training is £13,003.

Keeping a jumps horse in training also turns out cheaper looking at regional costs, reaching an average of £14,662 in Lambourn, compared to £16,699 for a Flat horse in the region.

Michael Harris, ROA Chief Executive, said: “We were encouraged by the positive response to this survey.

Our members were required to provide detailed financial breakdowns of their expenditure in 2007 and each has gone to some considerable trouble to provide this information.

“This is, therefore, real data and will be a useful tool in the ROA’s future discussions on prize-money levels.

“Sadly, it is no surprise that the British owner continues to languish at the bottom of the international league table in terms of cost recovery.”

BREAKDOWN OF COSTS (AVERAGES) PER HORSE X EXPENSE CATEGORY FLAT (£)

JUMPS (£)

Training fees Gallops Farrier Supplements/wormer Clipping Racing expenses Transport Vet/Physio/Dentist Race entries Jockeys Registration fees Admin (Weatherbys/BHA) Other costs Out of/Pre-training Total Less, appearance money

12,037 408 570 170 7 413 1,122 856 1,303 643 86 66 94 738 18,513 -24

10,881 272 453 155 23 275 1,070 914 981 702 71 70 122 570 16,559 -133

TOTAL

18,489

16,426

Notes 1. Training fees have been adjusted to compensate for items charged out separately 2. Where ‘all in’ daily rate charged, this will appear under training fees 3. 20% of horses were charged ‘all in’ rate Survey and analysis conducted by Ian Murray

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VITA ROSA

The first and only son of super-sire SUNDAY SILENCE to stand in the UK SUNDAY SILENCE, Race Career US Champion 3yo • 9 wins & 5 times 2nd from 14 starts at 2 & 3 with earnings of almost $5 million, incl 6 Group 1 wins: Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, Breeders' Cup Classic, Super Derby, Santa Anita Derby and Californian Stakes • 1st or 2nd in 11 Group 1 starts

SUNDAY SILENCE, Stud Career Champion Sire 13 times in Japan • Sire of 169 Stakes Winners • Progeny earnings of approx. $750 million • Sire of 25 Champions incl. DEEP IMPACT (Triple Crown winner), ZENNO ROB ROY (twice Champion in Japan), DANCE PARTNER (twice Champion in Japan), HAT TRICK (Champion Miler in Japan, at stud in the USA), DANCE IN THE DARK (Champion 3yo), STILL IN LOVE (Champion 3yo filly), etc

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Festival marquee ROA members can book badges for the ROA marquee for members and guests at the Cheltenham Festival.

The marquee is a popular base, with unreserved seating, overhead TV screens, Tote betting facilities, a cash bar, and hot and cold food available to purchase. The facility is always a sellout, so please book your badges early.

Prices are held at 2008 levels for members and their guests, who pay £27 a day, or £80 for four days. Guest badges are £38 per day, or £125 for four days. Visit www.racehorseowners.net or contact the ROA office on 020 7408 0903.

Punchestown free Punchestown racecourse is offering all ROA members complimentary tickets to the opening day of the 2009 Irish National Hunt Festival, which runs from Tuesday, April 28 to Saturday, May 2 and features 11 Grade 1 events.

To qualify for the offer, an ROA member has to purchase tickets for any of the other four days of the meeting and receives the equivalent tickets for the opening day free of charge.

To book tickets call Shona Dreapear on 00 353 45 897704 or email festival@punchestown.com.

Payment can be made by credit card or euro bank draft. When ordering, please quote ROA and your membership number to validate the booking. For further details visit www.punchestown.com

In brief: Discount on BHA fees Details of the ROA members’ discount scheme, showing savings on this year’s fees, are listed on the ROA website (www.racehorseowners.net) and are available by request from the ROA office.

ROA members receive a 20% discount on most BHA fees.

VAT and partnerships Racing partnerships which are registered for VAT are now permitted to backdate claims for VAT on the purchase price of their horse(s) up to six months previously. Full details of the various expenditure heads which may be reclaimed are listed on the BHA website at www.britishhorseracing.com in the Owning & Breeding section, under Information Packs.

COUNCIL AGENDA The December Council meeting,

by Chief Executive Michael Harris The Council began with a discussion on the 48th Levy Scheme (2009/10) and the modernisation of the levy. The third and final report of Sir Philip Otton was very much on the agenda but had not, at that point, been made available to the Council. The fact that Sir Philip had not, apparently, come down strongly in favour of a reinstatement of levy on overseas racing was a big disappointment. This alone would have netted an additional £13m a year for racing and there seemed no justification for this situation to continue. (Prior to the collapse of a new funding mechanism in 2004, levy was charged on overseas racing shown in British betting shops). Instead, Sir Philip had recommended a negotiated settlement which would, the Council believed, probably leave us with the status quo.

A range of other levy-related topics were discussed against the background of Sir Philip’s recommendations. There was a general feeling that most of the key issues (FOBTs, virtual racing, TurfTV) were unlikely to be greatly advanced by his third paper. It did appear, however, that progress to modernise the levy system was being made thanks to the involvement of Sir Philip, even though it seemed likely that any arbitration to settle the levy going forward would be nonbinding, rather than binding.

The Council remained acutely aware of the effect the recession was likely to have on racing, but took some comfort from the fact that betting had, in the past, suffered less than other areas in such times.

Racing’s constitution was discussed and, in particular, the agreement underpinning the separation between the BHA’s governance and regulatory role, and the commercial function of REL (Racing Enterprises Limited). Much of this debate, over many months, revolved around racing’s database, but the Council heard that good progress was now being made.

On jockeys’ riding fees, the Council were informed that the Professional Jockeys’ Association had rejected the ROA’s aboveinflation offer for a three-year deal and preferred to accept an inflationary increase for one year, on the basis that the PJA wanted more time to look at the jockeys’ current package.

The Council were disappointed to hear there seemed little chance of racing being given a representative on the Tote Board, or even a board member with a special interest in racing. It appeared the new Tote Chairman was against this and DCMS were likely to concur with his wishes.

The issue of parade ring safety was raised. There was a strong view voiced by some members that the practice of horses parading clockwise was fundamentally dangerous. However, it was recognised that, to change to anti-clockwise, would, for most racecourses, be very expensive. The issue would, however, be taken to the Horsemen’s Group for further debate.

The Council heard that more research was being undertaken on wind operations before the BHA came to a decision as to whether it should be mandatory for this information to become public knowledge.

The conversation turned to the laying of other owners’ horses in the same training yard. The Council agreed this was a grey area that needed clarification. Whilst it was strictly against the Rules of Racing for owners to lay their own horses, the Code of Practice advises owners to refrain from laying other horses in the yard where their horse is trained.

A range of race planning matters were discussed, before the Council moved on to the business of the ROA. A new item within this area related to an initiative called the Free Lease Exchange, which acted as a sort of dating agency that would match those breeders who were prepared to offer a two-year-old on an annual free lease, with owners who were prepared to pay keep and training costs for that period. This would run in collaboration with the TBA and would be set up on the ROA and TBA websites.

Other discussions included the completion of a recent comprehensive training fee survey (see pages 56/57) and the fact that the association’s magazine, Thoroughbred Owner & Breeder (published jointly by the ROA and TBA), was about to finalise a deal for the acquisition of Pacemaker. This was the culmination of many months of negotiation.

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A Guide To Leasing How you can get the most out of the wellreceived ROA/TBA Free Lease Exchange

n the current economic climate, the joint initiative taken by the ROA and the TBA, aimed at putting potential lessors (breeders) and lessees (individual owners, partners or syndicates) of racehorses in touch with each other is clearly timely.

It is, perhaps, also timely to advise that a lease is something that requires careful consideration and discussion; to agree one by the shake of a hand or on the back of an envelope is a high-risk strategy.

For example, it is very easy for two parties to agree that the lease is to be for, say, two racing seasons, but should there be an option for renewal? What happens if the horse is injured during (and possibly early in) the term? Does the lessee carry on paying all costs right up to the end of the lease, or is there a provision for returning the horse to its breeder?

What happens if the trainer thinks that the horse is not worth persevering with? What happens if the lessee finds him or herself in financial difficulties and is unable to continue meeting his obligations as an owner?

On costs and prize-money, the starting point in most leases is that the lessee pays all expenses and receives all prize-money. There are, of course, variations on this theme. Sometimes, when prize-money has reached a certain level (for instance when it exceeds the overall costs which the owner has incurred), the lessor (breeder) stands to receive some, or possibly all, of the surplus prize-money. In some cases, the

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prize-money might be divided on a straightforward split – whether this is on a 50/50 or some other basis is, in turn, a matter for agreement.

Insurance arrangements

It is vital, obviously, that the parties agree on what the insurance arrangements are. In mortality terms, the lessee does not have an insurable interest as he/she does not own the capital value of the assets.

On the other hand, it is common for the lessor to require the lessee to meet the costs of insuring for mortality, with the proceeds of any claim being paid to the lessor. For these purposes, an initial value obviously has to be agreed. If the value of the animal comes down, then it would be pointless for the lessee to continue paying premiums to the extent that they correspond to an unsustainable value.

If the value goes up, does the lessee (owner) have to incur higher insurance costs, or does the lessor (breeder) have to take out additional cover, if he wants, for any increased value of cover?

What about veterinary costs and the associated insurance implications? It would be typical for a lessee to be required to pay all routine veterinary expenses, but what happens if, during the term of the lease, the horse has to undergo colic surgery?

Who pays for this? If it is the lessee, it might be wise, or indeed it might be an actual

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“It is vital that all parties involved – the trainer, lessor and lessee – have appropriate third party insurance cover to a sufficient level” stipulation of the lease, that the lessee takes out emergency veterinary costs insurance so as to fund surgery costs.

What about third party liability cover? The Animals Act imposes liability, akin to strict liability, on the owners of horses whether or not they are the custodians. Is the lessor or the lessee the actual owner from the point of view of the Animals Act? This is a moot point and it is vital that the trainer, lessor and lessee all have appropriate third party insurance cover.

Is the arrangement one where the lessor/breeder hands over the supervision and management of the horse’s racing career for the duration of the lease to the lessee/owner? Or is it an arrangement where the breeder still retains a degree of control?

Who should choose the trainer? What happens if one party wants to change trainer? The lessor may wish to retain some control over the races the horse runs in and it would certainly be normal for a lessor to prohibit the horse from being entered into a claimer or seller without his or her consent. (The mere entry of a horse in a claimer or seller might be inconsistent with the insured value of the horse.)

Right to sell

When leasing a horse, a breeder may wish to retain some control over where it runs

An issue which leases should cover is that of whether the breeder has a right to sell during the term and whether the owner has a right to buy the horse from the lessor (and in either case in what circumstances and on what terms).

The breeder may wish to stipulate, for instance, that if he receives an offer (or an offer in excess of a certain figure) during the lease which he wants to accept, then he should have

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the right to accept it, subject, perhaps, to giving the owners leasing the horse an opportunity to match any offer.

Additionally, if the horse is sold mid-term should a certain percentage of the price offered go to the lessee on the basis that that percentage will be compensation for the early termination of the lease? Should the lessee have some option to buy the horse during or within a certain period after the expiry of the lease at a price determined by some formula – for instance 80% of independently appraised value? Alternatively, should the lessee have a pre-emptive right of purchase (i.e. a right of first refusal)?

The lease ought to specify who is responsible for registrations with Weatherbys or the BHA and other relevant bodies. Obviously, the lessee has to be a registered owner and has to have registered colours, but there is also a requirement for the lease itself to be registered with Weatherbys, and the lease should impose the obligation to register on one or other of the parties.

Right to sub-let

A person who leases something from someone will normally have a right to sub-let the leased item to someone else and also the right to assign the benefit of his lease to someone else. It would be typical for a lessor not to want a lessee to have a right to sub-let or to assign. If this is the position, then there should be a suitable prohibition in the lease.

In contracts, it is typical not only to specify what constitutes a breach of the contract but also to specify what are the consequences of and remedies for a breach. It does not always clarify matters to state that a given act or failure to act constitutes a breach of contract. It is more helpful to say that if the lessee does or fails to do one thing, then the horse will have to be returned to the lessor and/or a certain sum of money will have to be paid to the lessor.

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In order of racecourses’ percentage contributions to overall prize-money

RACECOURSE LEAGUE TABLE Ptn Racecourse

Racecourse ownership

Exec + Sponsors (£)

% of Total

Levy Board (£)

1 Cheltenham JCR 2 Aintree JCR 3 Ascot I 4 Epsom Downs JCR 5 Hamilton Park I 6 Goodwood I 7 Chester I 8 York I 9 Sandown Park JCR 10 Doncaster Arena 11 Thirsk I 12 Newmarket JCR 13 Bath North 14 Haydock Park JCR 15 Ripon I 16 Newbury I 17 Newcastle North 18 Windsor Arena 19 Ayr I 20 Yarmouth North 21 Hexham I 22 Salisbury I 23 Carlisle JCR 24 Stratford-on-Avon I 25 Pontefract I 26 Musselburgh I 27 Warwick JCR 28 Fakenham I 29 Great Leighs I 30 Wetherby I 31 Beverley I 32 Lingfield Park Arena 33 Wincanton JCR 34 Chepstow North 35 Leicester I 36 Market Rasen JCR 37 Redcar I 38 Cartmel I 39 Kempton Park JCR 40 Huntingdon JCR 41 Bangor-on-Dee I 42 Brighton North 43 Perth I 44 Fontwell Park North 45 Nottingham JCR 46 Ludlow I 47 Taunton I 48 Uttoxeter North 49 Exeter JCR 50 Folkestone Arena 51 Catterick Bridge I 52 Kelso I 53 Towcester I 54 Newton Abbot I 55 Plumpton I 56 Southwell Arena 57 Sedgefield North 58 Hereford North 59 Worcester Arena 60 WolverhamptonArena Total

2,811,654 1,648,337 4,777,323 1,160,120 319,179 1,470,947 573,270 757,003 1,311,685 1,558,750 204,567 3,433,466 206,382 922,274 237,655 1,188,976 363,647 307,810 554,930 199,823 88,069 250,325 182,147 219,724 207,335 290,596 239,251 76,584 450,421 203,538 174,967 706,607 205,395 210,689 228,421 153,110 144,246 33,314 755,306 138,123 102,706 88,746 102,216 124,033 101,950 94,154 71,423 127,807 127,379 93,797 83,166 65,454 39,370 40,524 34,880 107,731 27,602 16,655 12,412 -50,416 30,377,552

50.5 50.4 47.0 39.1 38.7 38.4 37.9 37.9 34.2 33.7 32.4 30.7 30.4 30.0 30.0 27.9 27.9 27.3 27.2 26.5 26.4 26.1 25.8 25.4 23.9 23.6 23.2 22.3 22.3 21.4 20.6 19.8 18.4 18.3 17.4 17.2 16.5 16.4 16.4 16.2 15.6 15.6 15.1 14.7 14.7 14.2 13.1 13.1 12.8 11.8 11.3 11.0 7.6 6.7 6.5 5.4 5.0 3.9 2.0 -1.8 28.7

1,788,550 1,180,520 2,905,640 736,780 409,890 1,740,060 784,840 870,350 1,940,165 1,938,330 339,200 3,361,990 392,890 1,679,840 481,920 2,302,920 760,170 652,090 1,157,087 440,380 215,190 544,150 441,200 570,110 564,690 820,250 646,410 267,400 1,366,000 638,630 573,660 2,413,410 779,250 788,635 913,093 652,255 463,460 152,355 3,212,580 596,160 508,530 424,110 537,990 629,350 442,210 517,220 418,270 714,780 695,540 592,700 575,710 486,100 429,215 545,970 469,910 1,702,980 446,980 356,340 530,270 2,552,590 56,059,265

% of Total

Owners (£)

% of Total

Total 2007/8 (£)

Total 2006/7 (£)

% total Up/ 2006/7 down

32.1 893,909 16.1 5,564,113 36.1 414,741 12.7 3,273,598 28.6 2,359,871 23.2 10,170,334 24.8 1,040,762 35.1 2,965,662 49.8 56,675 6.9 823,744 45.4 535,903 14.0 3,832,910 51.9 86,830 5.8 1,510,940 43.6 340,472 17.1 1,995,325 50.6 517,729 13.5 3,835,579 41.8 990,035 21.4 4,632,115 53.7 66,183 10.5 632,050 30.1 4,127,283 36.9 11,182,239 57.9 66,167 9.8 678,639 54.7 376,506 12.3 3,073,370 60.8 43,291 5.5 792,366 54.1 566,715 13.3 4,257,111 58.4 151,215 11.6 1,302,032 57.8 123,777 11.0 1,127,677 56.8 295,487 14.5 2,037,504 58.4 84,779 11.2 753,942 64.6 29,841 9.0 333,100 56.8 83,343 8.7 957,818 62.5 67,553 9.6 705,900 65.9 68,290 7.9 865,124 65.2 57,139 6.6 866,664 66.7 87,579 7.1 1,228,925 62.7 120,473 11.7 1,031,634 77.7 0 0 343,984 67.5 136,662 6.8 2,023,583 67.0 86,720 9.1 952,888 67.6 65,488 7.7 849,115 67.6 309,858 8.7 3,572,044 69.6 103,169 9.2 1,119,314 68.5 121,336 10.5 1,151,660 69.7 103,888 7.9 1,310,902 73.3 81,935 9.2 889,800 52.9 235,044 26.8 876,300 74.9 17,714 8.7 203,383 69.7 446,016 9.7 4,608,679 69.8 101,363 11.9 853,646 77.4 44,514 6.8 657,250 74.5 56,169 9.9 569,025 79.4 30,694 4.5 677,900 74.6 81,825 9.7 843,708 63.9 93,267 13.5 691,927 77.8 48,310 7.3 664,684 77.0 35,890 6.6 543,283 73.3 127,663 13.1 975,250 70.1 110,217 11.1 992,136 74.4 84,395 10.6 796,642 78.3 51,466 7.0 734,842 81.8 34,360 5.8 594,414 82.6 43,915 8.5 519,500 90.3 4,972 0.8 604,666 87.2 31,890 5.9 538,680 85.8 140,839 7.1 1,985,700 81.0 58,914 10.7 551,496 83.1 48,143 11.2 428,888 84.7 75,932 12.1 626,214 90.6 244,025 8.7 2,818,599 52.9 16,909,141 16 106,000,514

5,612,716 2,815,616 9,085,517 3,026,583 797,561 3,452,474 1,366,447 4,290,913 3,567,947 3,577,410 720,250 7,785,901 645,705 3,205,268 736,371 3,500,909 1,507,843 1,083,000 1,880,655 687,378 520,300 824,813 673,223 775,500 1,007,359 1,157,952 1,011,860 376,200 0 967,946 929,879 4,184,815 1,074,820 1,008,385 1,234,189 951,714 906,350 199,550 3,717,853 627,077 670,100 524,932 651,500 727,633 660,985 662,145 516,858 1,140,850 761,768 869,243 896,680 757,097 618,836 594,165 611,590 1,857,550 538,150 474,150 342,289 3,054,300 98,427,068

55.6 60.4 51.5 45.4 19.6 40.0 37.8 45.1 41.0 35.3 27.8 38.0 14.5 32.9 27.2 29.0 29.2 24.5 23.8 11.3 13.4 23.2 16.4 17.8 24.8 20.8 11.1 14.0 0 N/A 14.5 21.4 17.3 19.8 12.3 14.2 14.4 5.7 9.8 24.4 8.5 15.2 3.3 12.3 10.2 11.7 14.3 9.8 7.0 12.3 21.8 9.3 17.9 2.4 5.1 2.7 3.6 1.8 2.9 -1.8 5.8 30.1

Figures relate to prize-money for the 12-month period January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2008

EXPLANATION OF TABLE This table sets out the three main contributors to prize-money 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 racecourse 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. Please note, however, that the rearranged York August meeting races are shown against host courses.

RACECOURSE OWNERSHIP KEY JCR Jockey Club Racecourses

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Owner of the Month Jim Lewis and Ruby Walsh: plenty to smile about

Jim Lewis Famous colours enjoy another high profile success as Breedsbreeze takes step up in class in his stride to maintain unbeaten chase record at Kempton The man they call ‘Lucky Jim’ is at it again.

Jim Lewis, the triple Gold Cup-winning owner with the imperious Best Mate, has unearthed another potential star in the shape of Breedsbreeze, the emphatic

winner of the Grade 1 Feltham Novices’ Chase at Kempton on Boxing Day. It was Breedsbreeze, a graduate from the Irish point-to-point circuit, who gave Lewis his first top level success since the last of Best

Mate’s Blue Riband victories in 2004, when he won the Tolworth Hurdle at Sandown last year.

Having taken his account to three from three over fences, the exciting seven-year-old, part-owned

by Lewis’s South African friends Markus Jooste and Malcolm King, is being primed for more demanding assignments, although his

owner refuses to get carried away at this stage.

“Breedsbreeze has already exceeded our initial expectations – when we bought him as a raw fouryear-old from Liam Burke we really didn’t know what we had,” said Lewis, 74, an owner since the 1970s who grew up in Ward End, Birmingham, close to the now defunct Bromford Bridge racecourse.

“I’ve been amazed by what he’s achieved already and of course it’s very exciting to have another high-class horse. We don’t know how good he is yet but he seemed to stay the three miles very well at Kempton and showed acceleration at the end of the race.

“Paul Nicholls has done a great job with the horse and feels he could be better going right-handed on a flat track – not exactly Cheltenham material – but we’ll take each day as it comes. He’s a young horse and is learning about the game all the time.”

Aside from the brilliant Best Mate, Lewis has enjoyed terrific success over the years with the likes of Nakir, Impek and Edredon Bleu.

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Owners in the News Peter and Fiona Shaw Husband and wife team make 400-mile round trip pay dividends as their nine-year-old homebred takes the spoils at Leicester

Breedsbreeze puts in another fine leap en route to Grade 1 glory at Kempton

Without ever owning a huge string of horses – “I think I had 12 in training a few seasons ago” – the man who made his wealth in the furniture business has captured many of jump racing’s top prizes.

Yet a dreadful spell at the end of 2005 saw Lewis lose his wife, Valerie, and champion racehorse within the space of five weeks. He took a step back from racing, thinking that, perhaps, it was time for someone else to enjoy the limelight.

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New dawn

“I’ve been incredibly lucky in life, not just in racing,” said Lewis. “You look back and think of what has been and reflect that it could be time to hand over to some of the new guys.

“Watching the likes of Clive Smith, Andy Stewart, David Johnson and Harry Findlay enjoying their successes is fantastic. You know exactly what they are feeling because you’ve been there yourself.

“But then you get these young, exciting horses like

Breedsbreeze and my promising hurdler Mahonia, and it gives you a reason to get up every morning!

“Racing has been a huge part of my life for so long and I don’t think I’ll ever lose my enthusiasm.”

For Lewis, whose claret and blue racing silks replicate his beloved Aston Villa’s 1957 FA Cup-winning jersey, it is a new chapter in his life, one which does not feature Best Mate’s trainer Henrietta Knight, their association having come to an end for now.

As well as enjoying his horses, he takes pride in the Best Mate trademark, set up after his third Gold Cup victory, which has helped to raise money for two charities, St Richard’s Hospice in Worcester and Gentlemen’s Night Out, which supports short-life children.

He said: “We’ve granted around 40 licences, including for fine art and jewellery, that enables use of the Best Mate name. It’s a wonderful way of using Best Mate’s legacy to raise money for worthwhile causes.”

Busy Isit’s chase triumph at Leicester in December provided a fantastic result for Peter and Fiona Shaw.

Owned and bred by Peter Shaw, a former point-to-point rider, Busy Isit is trained by his wife, Fiona, who was celebrating a winner with her very first runner under Rules, having only recently taken out a permit in order to train the nine-year-old.

Fiona Shaw said: “I bought Busy Isit’s dam, Eatons, as a four-year-old from the Ascot Sales and gave her to Peter for his 30th birthday.

“She didn’t really have the stamina required over jumps, so we decided to breed from her. We sent her to Busy Flight, who stayed very well on the Flat, and at the time was standing in Dorset.

“Busy Isit is the first foal of Eatons to make the track. We sold her second foal by Commanche Run, named Chesil Beach Boy, who was second on his debut last year, but we also have her two fillies that will hopefully race for us one day, an enormous threeyear-old by Pasternak and a divine yearling by Loup Sauvage.”

Shaw has trained around 20 point-to-point winners and Busy Isit started off life in that sphere, scoring at Barbury Castle, before being sent to local trainer John Coombe, for whom he landed an Exeter bumper first time out.

He was then moved to the powerful Somerset stable of Philip Hobbs, winning two more races.

Since last May, however, he has been in the care of the Shaws at their 600-acre Dorchester farm, where the horses are fitted in around the day job of farming beef, arable and free range chickens.

“It was Philip Hobbs who gave us the confidence to take out a licence and train ourselves,” she said. “Busy Isit didn’t thrive in a big yard and liked his home comforts!

“The fact that we bred, own and now train him makes his win even better, because we’re very hands on, so to take him back with us after the race is what it’s all about for us.

“We took it in turns to drive the horsebox up to Leicester as it’s a fair way from Dorset, although it certainly seemed like a lot shorter journey on the way home!”

Busy Isit, with Richard Johnson and Peter and Fiona Shaw at Leicester

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ALL THE NEWS AND EVENTS FOR TBA MEMBERS

The regional days in 2008 included a trip to watch Gary Moore’s horses exercise

TBA Region Profile The South East Encompassing Kent, Surrey, Sussex and Hampshire Chairman

John Needham has recently taken over as Chairman from Joan Langmead.

John is a well known bloodstock agent who also specialises in bloodstock insurance. In his time John has been a keen amateur rider, racehorse owner and, for many years now, a mare owner. He spends much of his year attending bloodstock sales in the UK, Europe and North America.

Regional representatives

Joan Langmead is a small breeder in West Sussex, keeping her broodmares at her own Stoughton Stud. Felicity Veasey is a stalwart of local breeders in Sussex and is famous for the exploits of The Whistling Teal. Tony Hirschfeld, also an ROA Council member, is a keen and very successful ownerbreeder, and David Bowe, the young manager of Jeff Smith’s Littleton Stud,

has joined the team this year, giving extra coverage to Hampshire, which was included in this region in 2008.

Regional events

The regional days in the South East are always well supported and recent events have included trips to the Equine Veterinary Hospital in Arundel, visits to Normandie, Hesmonds and Lavington Studs, and horses viewed at exercise at the stables of John Dunlop, William Knight, Gary Moore and John Best.

On June 25, TBA members will have the chance to visit Whitsbury Manor in Hampshire, combining a morning tour of Ralph Beckett’s stables and in the afternoon the stud.

Regional Chairman’s priorities

“Apart from encouraging new breeders to join, I’m keen for existing members

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to gain further from contacts within the region. I am at most sales and the regional representatives are available to give their advice on breeding matters by telephone or in person. The regional days are an ideal occasion to meet and exchange ideas in this challenging environment” – John Needham Contacts

The regional representatives are available to help, assist and advise members on any subject covered by the TBA. Members are encouraged to contact them if they have any ideas, problems or complaints.

John Needham, Elmhurst Bloodstock, Win Stream Cottage, Lamberhurst, Kent TN3 8BH. Tel: 01892 891145 Joan Langmead, Stoughton Stud, Stoughton, Chichester, West Sussex PO18 9JL. Tel: 02392 631570 Felicity Veasey, Cinder Farm Stud, North Chailey, Lewes, East Sussex BN8 4HR. Tel: 01825 722613 Tony Hirschfeld, Cheval Court Stud, The High Road, Chipstead, Surrey CR5 3SD. Tel: 01737 557355 David Bowe, Littleton Stud, Littleton, Winchester, Hampshire SO22 6QX. Tel: 01962 880210

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Workplace review: volunteers needed The BHA Welfare and Training Group, on which the TBA is represented, has recently agreed to fund a review of the injuries that occur in the racing workplace (studs and trainers’ yards) and we need volunteers to assist in this important project.

The objective is to collate reliable data on the types of injuries and their causes, so that best practice can be developed for employers and staff to reduce injuries.

The project will be undertaken by Mike Philby, Professor and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Health at Birmingham City University. Professor Philby has a long association with racing welfare and has enormous experience in projects of this sort.

The project requires Professor Philby (or a research assistant) to visit studs and to have access to workplace accident records for the last two years. This visit will be at the convenience of the stud and the person who visits will need to discuss the information with the member of staff who is responsible for these records. The whole process should take less than an hour.

All the information gathered will be anonymous, so that no individual establishment can be identified.

The TBA is supporting this study as the information provided could assist with accident reduction in the workplace and all of the benefits that go with this, including a safer workplace and reduced absence rates at work.

We therefore encourage employers to support this project and ask that any stud interested in participating contact Caroline Turnbull at Stanstead House.

Alborada Trust to fund professorship James Wood has been named as Alborada Professor of Equine and Farm Animal Science at the University of Cambridge.

The new position will be funded by the Alborada Trust, a charity which aids veterinary causes in the UK and Ireland, and is primarily devoted to animal welfare.

It was set up by TBA Chairman Kirsten Rausing in 2001 in the name of her highclass mare, who landed back-to-back runnings of the Champion Stakes.

Wood, who spent over a decade with the Animal Health Trust in Newmarket, will lead the university’s Department of Veterinary Medicine and is currently developing its research strategy.

Stud Staff Award January 2009 Bob Woods of Rabbah Bloodstock Ltd The winner of the January 2009 TBA Stud Staff Award is Bob Woods (pictured), who has worked as a stallion man at Aston Upthorpe Stud for 25 years.

During his time there, Bob was responsible for Touching Wood, winner of the 1982 St Leger, when he retired to stud, and he accompanied him to New Zealand when the horse was exported.

Bob has also looked after Mtoto since he began his career at stud in 1988, and has continued to care for him since he retired.

He is also responsible for the retired Zilzal and the stud’s teaser stallion Layal, who at 29 is still covering foster mares.

The longevity and excellent condition of all three horses is testimony to Bob’s fine management and handling of stallions.

DATES, REMINDERS AND NEW MEMBERS TBA regional representatives and co-ordinator Hazel West have put together another exciting provisional programme of regional days for 2009.

2009 Regional Dates Central Region – Tuesday, February 10 The Defence Animal Centre Army School of Equitation, Melton Mowbray

lunch and speakers South East – Thursday, June 25 Whitsbury Manor Racing Stables and Whitsbury Manor Stud East Anglia – Tuesday, July 14 Godolphin stables and the new Newmarket Equine Hospital West Midland – Thursday, July 23 George Baker’s Far Westfields Farm and Upton Viva Stud

South West – Monday, March 30 David Pipe’s Pond House stables Yorkshire – Thursday, May 7 Ferdy Murphy’s Wynbury stables and tour of Theakston Brewery Scotland – Wednesday, May 20 The Royal Dick Veterinary School The North – Thursday, May 21 Seminar and racing at Haydock Park Wales – Thursday, May 28 A tour of the new Ffos Las racecourse,

The West – to be confirmed TBA New Members Please contact Stanstead House on 01638 661321 if you have any queries.

HOME: Ms R Downey, Shropshire. Mr B Hargreaves, Dorset. Ms J Wilson, Gloucestershire. Mr K Kahn, West Midlands. Mr P Danby, Lancashire. Mrs J Pighills, North Yorkshire. Mr M Salaman, Wiltshire.

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Pillerton Stud Red House Stud P J Mercer Mrs G Currie G R M Hudson G W Giddings Mrs H R Dunn Mrs P Sly R A Hughes Queen Elizabeth Mrs P Conway-Garrett J B Haggas Fittocks Stud Minster Enterprises Ltd Worksop Manor Stud Mrs L M Northover G L Edwards The Lavington Stud Mr A Merritt Theobalds Stud D W Barker A Turner Wood Farm Stud Executors of the Late Neil A Allen W Smith J P L Reynolds Lt-Col and Mrs R Bromley Gardner Darley Mr & Mrs R D Chugg Executors of the Late A Yearley Newsells Park Stud Limited R G Pervical & R Kent Bolton Grange Mrs M A Hall R F Broad J and T Shally K Bishop Hesmonds Stud Ltd Cheveley Park Stud Limited

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Dam Fiddling The Facts Kinlet Vision Elaine Tully Carole’s Crusader Carole’s Crusader Moheli Friendly Lady Lac Marmot Competa Fancier Bit

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Legacy of staunch National Hunt supporter and breeder lives on in the shape of tremendously exciting novice hurdler Diamond Harry s so many outstanding British-bred hurdlers are not bred with jumping in mind (think Inglis Driver, Sublimity and Katchit), it is refreshing to come across Diamond Harry, favourite at the time of writing for the Ballymore Properties Novices’ Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival.

The unbeaten Sir Harry Lewis gelding gained his fifth victory when winning the Grade 1 Challow Hurdle at Newbury, following Grade 2 success at Cheltenham in November and a hurdles debut at Uttoxeter in October. In each of the two previous seasons he had won the same valuable bumper at Newbury’s March fixture, having been given ample opportunity to grow into his big frame.

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Diamond Harry’s impressive victory in the Challow Hurdle has earned the late Jean Wood the December Breeder of the Month award. “It is just sad that she is not here to enjoy it all,” said Robert Chugg of Little Lodge Farm, the recent recipient of the HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother’s Silver Salver for his outstanding contribution to NH racing and breeding, and who receives a year’s free nutritional consultancy and 20 sacks of stud feed balancer from TopSpec.

Jean Wood’s brother is John Sumner from Marston St Lawrence in Oxfordshire, and, like him, she enjoyed a rewarding association with Tim Forster and his successor Henry Daly.

Her ‘green, yellow sleeves,

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Breeders in the News pale blue cap’ colours, were carried by two Cheltenham Festival winners, Maamur (1996 National Hunt Chase) and Palarshan (2003 Grand Annual Chase).

John and Jean’s father, Hugh Sumner, was a great man for hunters and show-horses, and his daughter excelled in the show-ring too, invariably riding side-saddle.

Two stars were Princes Grace and Urney Road, both champions at the Royal Dublin Society Show during the 1960s. Later she would become district commissioner of her local branch of the Pony Club.

She also bred horses at her home, Brockencote House, and was still involved when she died in January 2006.

That year, Swift Conveyance, the dam of Diamond Harry, was sold at Doncaster, as were no fewer than five of her offspring – Diamond Harry, then an unraced three-year-old, was consigned from Little Lodge Farm to the spring sales, where his trainer, Nick Williams, secured him for just 11,000gns.

Groom Jennie Congdon with her Challow Hurdle hero

“I took him to Doncaster on Mrs Wood’s behalf,” recalled Chugg. “To be honest, he needed another 12 months to look like a racehorse. He was seriously backward, tall and narrow, and you could see neither the engine nor the gearbox.

“He was also quite excitable. I think it is very fortunate that he went to a comparatively small trainer, where he has obviously been given plenty of TLC.” Originally, Chugg had bought Swift Conveyance at Doncaster in June 1997 with a three-month-old colt foal at foot for 8,400gns from Tom Kemp. She was successful over hurdles at Stratford and Southwell as a four-year-old.

“As a winning daughter of Strong Gale from the family of Drumlargan, she should have had plenty going for her,” continued Chugg. “After she had a couple of foals for me, I sold her privately to Mrs Wood.

“But until Diamond Harry came along you would have to say her progeny were allergic to the winning post!”

In fact, none of Swift Conveyance’s other produce have won and the only other notable winner to enhance the catalogue page since the 1983 Whitbread Gold Cup winner Drumlargan is It’s A Snip, hero of the infamous Velka Pardubicka in the Czech Republic, trained and ridden by Charlie Mann.

John and Cherry Steele West Yorkshire breeders salute their sole broodmare and savour European triumphs years, she has bred Charlie George, a three-time winner over fences trained

by Peter Monteith, and Ubi Ace, by First Trump, who won second time out on the Flat at Beverley.

He is with Tim Walford, who I think is looking forward to Blue Cape may not be a name sending him over hurdles.” familiar to British racing fans, It was through the National but his success at Spain’s Don Hermanas racecourse in 2008, Stud that the Steeles became involved in breeding, having in which he broke the course become members of a breeders record for a mile on grass, provided his breeders John and club that provided shares in mares that were then put in foal, Cherry Steele (pictured) with with the hope of selling the yet another winner from their progeny for profit. sole broodmare.

Although they didn’t make Trained by Peter Haley, the first Englishman to be granted a any money from the venture, that “whetted the appetite” and Spanish licence, Blue Cape is after joining the Middleham Park

by Compton Admiral out of Racing syndicate the couple Faithful Beauty, a daughter of took the plunge and invested in Last Tycoon, who was bought Faithful Beauty. privately on behalf of the Steele said: “We never Steeles by Andrew Spalding of thought we would be able to go Hedgeholme Stud in 2000.

Now aged 15 and a resident into this business. Although it is at Peter Balding’s Throckmorton expensive, we enjoy it.

“It’s great fun to travel out to Court Stud in Worcestershire, Spain to watch Blue Cape and she has produced seven his brother Trafalgar House, runners who have made the who has won six times to date. racetrack, and all have won at “The quality of racing is least once. improving all the time and there “It’s an incredible feeling to are a lot of ex-pats who own see a horse you have bred win horses out there.

– like watching your child on “Faithful Beauty has also bred school sports day!” said John Steele, a former chartered town winners in Italy and Greece.

She is now in foal to planner from Gilstead, north of Avonbridge and we have her Bradford, who bought Faithful two-year-old Zafeen filly called Beauty after he retired from Jozafeen in training with Robin local Government.

Bastiman.

“We have only the one “Any money that Jozafeen broodmare, although it is run as a commercial operation. Faithful earns will be ploughed back into racing and it would be Beauty is absolutely fabulous and to produce seven individual wonderful if she could eventually succeed her mother winners is a great feat. as a broodmare.”

“Despite a couple of barren

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Edited by James Tate BVMS MRCVS

Colic An ongoing challenge The word strikes fear into horsemen’s hearts worldwide, as it conjures up images of horses rolling around in agony before requiring deathdefying surgery. Knowledge is vital as colic is the most common cause of death in horses olic is not actually a single condition.

The term simply refers to a group of clinical signs exhibited by horses with abdominal pain. It is most commonly associated with intestinal disorders but can be caused by abdominal pain of any origin.

In 2001, Hillyer et al reported on a large study carried out on approximately 8,000 horses to guage how often colic occurred in racing stables in Britain. Results showed a colic incidence of just under one in ten horses per year. Similar rates were found in both jump and Flat yards, although Flat horses were more likely to have one episode of colic, whereas jumpers often had multiple episodes.

Overall, 29% of colic cases resolved without treatment, 63% recovered following medical treatment, 2% recovered but only after surgery, and 6% died. Like much colic research, this study found a seasonal pattern, with spring and autumn being the most common times of year for colic to occur.

The list of conditions that cause colic is nearly endless but includes a twisted gut, impactions, entrapments, colitis, infection, tumours, gastric ulceration and even swimming. A horse with colic appears restless, dull, dejected, often sweating and not eating. It shows all the signs

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In pain: a horse with colic rolling in the stable

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that might be expected given that it essentially has severe ‘bellyache’ – looking at its flank, pawing the ground, stretching, lying down and rolling. The problem with colic is any source of abdominal pain can cause these signs and it is often difficult to diagnose which section of gut is causing the problem, and the severity of the case. Excess fluid, food or gas in a specific gut location, intestinal spasm, displacement of a piece of gut or a twisted loop of gut can all cause the signs of colic. Some cases pass quickly and may be related to the fact that horses struggle to expel trapped gas and are unable to vomit. However, others can be fatal if surgery is not performed immediately. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to predict whether a horse with ‘mild colic’ will self-resolve or is showing the first signs of a life-threatening condition.

It is therefore crucial that owners contact their veterinary surgeon early if they have a case of colic, as more than one visit may be necessary to monitor signs and determine severity.

When a horse is showing signs of colic it is essential to consider its history. For example, if a horse has just been exercised, it may not have colic but a condition known as ‘setfast’ or ‘tying up’. In addition, it is essential to know if the horse has eaten up, passed droppings or is on medication. The horse’s previous history of colic and response to treatment is also highly relevant, as certain horses are more prone to certain types of colic. It is also important to consider other possible reasons for colic. For example, colic in a pregnant mare is usually caused by a pregnancyrelated condition such as a twisted womb.

Gut sounds, not instinct

When a veterinary surgeon examines a horse with colic it is essential to check the vital signs – heart/pulse rate, respiratory rate, temperature and the mucous membranes. Listening to a horse’s gut sounds with a stethoscope also gives valuable information – they are usually decreased in colic cases, except spasmodic or swimming colics. The approximate region of the problem is often identifiable; for example, an area of decreased gut movement or gas formation. More information can then be gained by performing a rectal examination, feeling for distended, displaced, or painful pieces of gut. However, it is only possible to palpate (touch or feel) approximately one third of the abdomen and as a result surgeons have to reach for other diagnostic tools, such as a nasogastric tube, to examine the contents of the horse’s stomach, abdominocentesis (using a needle to test for fluid in the horse’s abdomen) and, less commonly, blood tests or imaging techniques.

Colic is by definition a painful condition and therefore the aim of the initial treatment is to reduce pain. In many cases, this is all that is required. However, it is essential not to mask a serious problem and many veterinary surgeons have a general rule a horse should not receive painkillers twice without either a firm diagnosis

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quantities of water may play a part.

The horse can be considered to be poorly designed in many ways and its gastrointestinal system is no exception. The pelvic flexure refers to a sharp U-bend of the horse’s colon at the point of the smallest calibre, just as the food is beginning to become more solid due to water reabsorption. The result of this ridiculous design point is that horses commonly get impactions of solid food material in this location.

Diagnosis of pelvic flexure impaction colic is usually straightforward, as the impaction is readily palpable via a rectal examination. Pelvic flexure impactions are often caused by a change in diet, exercise or management, as the equine gut seems to be particularly sensitive to change.

Treatment involves pain relief and stomach tubing salt in order to draw water into the gut and soften the impacted food, as well as using some sort of lubrication (usually liquid paraffin) to help the impacted food material pass through the flexure more easily. The prognosis for affected horses is excellent but it can take several days to completely clear the blockage.

Cases requiring surgery

or being at a hospital where the horse can undergo colic surgery, should it be deemed necessary. If a horse has a twisted gut, for example, the sooner surgery happens, the better.

The longer it is delayed, the less chance the horse has of survival. Other treatments commonly used in horses with colic are aimed at supporting the patient through the episode and therefore include sedatives, fluids and electrolytes.

However, there are more specific treatments for specific types of colic – antispasmodics, such as Buscopan® for spasmodic colics, and lubricants such as liquid paraffin for impactions.

Common forms of colic

As colic can be caused by any problem in the abdomen that gives the horse pain, it is not surprising there are several types of colic.

However, some are more common than others.

‘Spasmodic’ colic, while possibly over-diagnosed, is one of the most common and easiest to treat.

Essentially, it is diagnosed when a horse has an episode of colic and on examination it has obviously increased gut sounds prior to receiving an antispasmodic injection, which then cures it.

The cause is unknown, although worms have been suggested as a factor. The only other common type of colic that leads to increased gut sounds is a swimming colic. Horses start to colic a few minutes after swimming. Treatment consists of letting the colic pass with or without painkillers, depending on the severity of the episode. The specific cause is unknown, although it has been suggested that ingestion of significant

Top: Our correspondent James Tate listening to a horse’s guts Above: colic surgery being performed

The conditions listed are the most common types; however, regrettably there are several more serious colics which require surgery. One is left dorsal displacement of the left colon, also known as ‘nephrosplenic entrapment’. The horse’s colon becomes hooked over the ligament between the kidney and the spleen.

Sometimes the piece of gut can become unhooked with exercise and rolling, but often surgery is necessary to correct the entrapment.

A type of colic which always requires surgery as fast as possible is a twisted gut. This is a very severe colic. The twisted piece of gut loses its blood supply, dies and releases toxins that essentially ‘poison’ the horse, and thus the surgeon faces a race against time.

The prevention and treatment of colic has improved dramatically over the last four decades. Owners, trainers and breeders have been educated with regard to the importance of avoiding dietary change, having good worming and dental regimes, and feeding ‘little and often’ rather than large amounts all at once. Indeed, the importance of such factors was highlighted

by Hillyer et al’s study, which showed that the larger the premises, the smaller the risk of colic.

In other words, good management plays a significant role in preventing colic. With regard to treatment, the sharing of ideas through symposiums and journals has greatly aided our understanding of this complex subject, and the improvements made in anaesthesia and surgical techniques has dramatically improved success rates of colic surgery. However, despite these advances, the diagnosis of a serious colic at an early enough stage to make a difference remains a challenge to surgeons.

Colic remains the number one cause of death in horses and so we must continue to battle it.

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The latest developments in the bloodstock world

How Lear became a king Broodmare daughters look likely to ensure Lear Fan’s name lives on, with Johar, Kitten’s Joy and Azamour among progeny e have all heard such sweeping comments as “the three-year-olds are no good this year” or “we’ve got a vintage bunch of older horses”. But how is it that one generation can seemingly have an abundance of star performers, while the next is comparatively lacklustre?

Perhaps climatic conditions play an important role, affecting such things as grass growth, but these are impossible for a layman to quantify. One thing’s for sure: if climate is important, we should be studying the weather conditions in the early 1980s, especially in America’s breeding regions, as the foal crop of 1981 was truly exceptional.

According to the International Classifications, the best three-year-olds of 1984 were El Gran Senor (138), Chief Singer (132), Darshaan (131), Sadler’s

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Lear Fan wasn’t a perfect physical specimen, but that didn’t hinder him on the racecourse or at stud

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Wells (130), Lear Fan (128), Seattle Song (128), Rainbow Quest (127) and Northern Trick (127). Among the next few on the rankings were Palace Music, later to sire the American superstar Cigar, and Mendez, who found fame via his very successful son Linamix.

I was reminded of this influential year group by the recent achievements of Lear Fan, the Gainesway Farm stalwart who died in retirement at the age of 27 last summer. His gelded son Good Ba Ba took the Group 1 Hong Kong Mile in December for a second time, to boost his earnings to nearly £2.3 million.

Then, a week later, Lear Fan’s daughter Vacare rounded off her successful career with victory in the Group 2 Dahlia Handicap at Hollywood Park (and this $2.8m purchase in 2006 will reportedly now be crossing

the Atlantic to visit Pivotal).

Lear Fan cost only $64,000 as a yearling in 1982, perhaps reflecting the fact that he wasn’t a perfect physical specimen. His pasterns were markedly upright, he was almost back at the knee and his hocks were out behind him.

However, his pedigree suggested that he was well worth a gamble at that sort of price. His sire, the Derbywinning Roberto, had already been represented by a string of smart performers in Europe, such as Sookera, Robellino, Critique, Silver Hawk, Touching Wood, Real Shadai and Slightly Dangerous. Lear Fan’s purchasers weren’t to know it but Bel Sheba, a sister to the colt’s dam Wac, was soon to produce the American champion Alysheba.

Lear Fan also looked a champion in the making as soon as he set foot on a

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racecourse. His debut was spectacular enough, when he came home eight lengths clear in a 20-runner maiden at Newmarket, but he bettered that effort when returned to Newmarket later in August. As Timeform put it, he galloped his rivals silly before being eased right down to win by a longlooking eight lengths.

His rider was again able to ease Lear Fan before the finish when he rounded off his first season with a threelength victory in Doncaster’s Champagne Stakes.

Timeform rated him 130.

The Craven Stakes saw the long-striding Lear Fan maintain his unbeaten record, at the expense of Rainbow Quest. Although he appeared to have his limitations exposed when third to El Gran Senor and Chief Singer in a vintage 2,000 Guineas, he was back to his imperious best in the Prix Jacques le Marois, which he took by four lengths. Unfortunately, the soft ground seemed to be against Lear Fan when he was unexpectedly beaten by Mendez in the Prix du Moulin and he was never at ease around the tight bends when sent to Hollywood Park for the Breeders’ Cup Mile.

Lear legacy lives on

Lear Fan was then retired to Gainesway and remained there for the rest of his life.

Although he sired the impressive total of 80 stakes winners – some 9% of his output – it is possible that he might have done even better had he been based in Europe. The problem was that he made his name almost entirely as a sire of turf performers, something which wouldn’t have endeared him to many of today’s American breeders, and he was available for as little as $20,000 and $15,000 in his last few seasons. He had some staunch admirers, though,

Lear Fan’s son Good Ba Ba won his second Hong Kong Mile in December

including the Wildensteins and Khalid Abdullah.

Good Ba Ba and Vacare rank among the 11 Group 1 winners sired by Lear Fan, as do Ryafan and Windsharp (two champion American grass mares), Sikeston, Loup Solitaire (Grand Criterium), Tiraaz (Prix Royal-Oak), Sarafan, Labeeb, Dublino, Glaieul (Criterium de SaintCloud) and Lear’s Princess (whose win in the 2007 Gazelle Handicap made her arguably his best winner on dirt).

He also sired some very good jumpers, including Vaporetto in France and Campanile in the USA. One area where Lear Fan failed was in not leaving a stallion son as good as himself, but his broodmare daughters look likely to ensure his name lives on.

Among their best progeny are the young stallions Johar (Breeders’ Cup Turf), Kitten’s Joy and Azamour.

Perhaps Azamour’s promising half-brother Arazan, who followed his maiden success at the Curragh with a third to Mastercraftsman and Shaweel in the National Stakes, will be the next Group 1 winner out of a Lear Fan mare.

Jump sires to the fore at National Studs The National Studs in Britain and Ireland have both flirted in the past with standing National Hunt stallions in various parts of their respective nations, but for some reason the idea has never really caught on.

This is surprising in view of the considerable success the concept has enjoyed at France’s Haras Nationaux.

The latest reminder of that stud’s impact came via the impressive young Irish hurdler Mikael d’Haguenet, whose sire, the German Derby winner Lavirco, was added to the team in 2003.

He represents another example of the powerful influence that the French National Studs have recently exerted on the production of jumpers, especially in the AQPS (non-thoroughbred) sector, through such stallions as Video Rock, Garde Royale, Dom Alco, Grand Tresor, Useful, Nononito, Saint Preuil, Assessor, Lute Antique and Kadalko.

It makes an interesting exercise to look down the list of thoroughbred stallions who are currently standing at the various National Studs, partly because we can expect to see Britishtrained winners by some of them in the future.

Today’s stallions at the various National Studs Assessor (Cadran, Royal-Oak, sire of My Way de Solzen) Cut Quartz, dual Gr2 winner Daramsar, Gr2 winner by Rainbow Quest out of a French Oaks and Prix Vermeille winner Day Flight, triple Gr3 winner by Sadler’s Wells Fragrant Mix, Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud winner by Linamix Khalkevi, Kahyasi horse who took Gr1 Grand Prix de Paris Lavirco, German Derby winner bred on same cross as Monsun Policy Maker, multiple Gr2 winner by Sadler’s Wells Ragmar, winner of the Prix du Jockey-Club Shaanmer, Group-winning son of Darshaan Special Kaldoun, twice winner of the Prix Daniel Wildenstein Subotica, winner of the Arc Valanour, winner of Prix Ganay Vendangeur, Gr2-winning son of Galileo, from the family of the top French jumper Video Tape Voix du Nord, winner of the Gr1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud and Gr1 Prix Lupin Axxos, a Gr2-winning Monsun colt, Boris De Deauville, a triple Group winner, and Kaldounevees, sire of Gr1 winners Ange Gabriel and Terre A Terre, are three of the latest additions to the roster

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The 1985 Irish Derby winner Law Society was retired from stud duties after the 2008 season, at the age of 26, leaving a legacy which included Gr1 winners on the Flat in France (Homme de Loi), Italy (Right Win and Court Of Honour), the USA (Approach The Bench), Germany (Anzillero) and South Africa (Chief Advocate). Law Society is also being very ably represented at the top level over hurdles by his son Catch Me. Although the Germanbred gelding could finish only sixth in the 2008 Champion Hurdle, Catch Me has returned better than ever at the start of the 2008/9 season, winning three Graded races, including the Gr1 Hatton’s Grace Hurdle and Leopardstown’s Gr2 Christmas Hurdle four weeks later.

A useful performer at up to 14 furlongs on the Flat in Germany and Ireland, Catch Me has a good German pedigree. His third dam, the Windwurf mare Casadei, was good enough to finish second in the 1983 German Oaks and was a sister to a very useful performer in Czardas. Casadei was also a halfsister to the 1992 German Derby third Carlton and the 1985 German Derby fourth Cassis.

Catch Me’s dam Calcida gained most of her five victories at around a mile. Her three-parts-brother Come And Win was runner-up in the Gr1 Gran Corsa di Siepi di Milano Hurdle.

Although Trafford Lad was good enough to win the Gr1 Barry & Sandra Kelly Memorial Novice Hurdle and to finish third in Gr1 novice hurdles at the Cheltenham and Punchestown Festivals, his connections decided not to persevere with him over hurdles.

Perhaps the fact that he was already six years old in 2008 prompted the decision to put him straight over fences, and he immediately rewarded his connections with three consecutive Graded victories, notably taking the Gr1 Drinmore Novice Chase.

The fact that Trafford Lad had earned more than £170,000 by the end of 2008 must cause a few red faces, as he attracted little interest when Blakeley Stud offered the gelded son of Tragic Role at the 2006 Derby Sale. He was led out unsold at €10,500. Perhaps the lack of interest in Trafford Lad stemmed from his comparatively little-known sire. However, he isn’t the first Gr1 winner by Tragic Role, whose son Shadow Leader impressively won the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle in 1997. Tragic Role, a wellconnected son of Nureyev, looked as though he might justify his 525,000gns yearling price when he won over 12 furlongs at Longchamp on his debut, but that proved his only race.

Trafford Lad is from an excellent jumping family. His dam Another Shuil won a point-to-point and is a half-sister to the very useful chaser Rawhide and smart hurdler Shuil Ar Aghaidh (Stayers’ Hurdle).

Their dam Shuil Eile was a sister to Why Forget, runner-up in the 1984 Scottish National, and the next dam Shuil Dubh was half-sister to Shuil Le Dia, dam of the Welsh National winner Jocks Cross, and Shuil Agragh, dam of the Scottish Grand National winner Baronet. This is also the family of Liss A Paoraigh.

6 DRINMORE NOVICE CHASE G1

7 FIGHTING FIFTH HURDLE G1

FAIRYHOUSE. November 30. 20f. Soft.

WETHERBY. December 6. 16f 110yds. Soft.

1. TRAFFORD LAD 6 b g Tragic Role - Another Shuil (Duky) O-Butler Family Syndicate B-R and Mrs S Edwards TR-E Sheehy 2. Forpadydeplasterer 6 b g Moscow Society - Run Artiste (Deep Run) 3. Rare Bob 6 b/br g Bob Back (USA) - Cut Ahead (Kalaglow)

1. PUNJABI 5 b g Komaite - Competa (Hernando) O-Raymond Tooth B-Capt JH Wilson TR-NJ Henderson 2. Sublimity (FR) 8 b g Selkirk - Fig Tree Drive (Miswaki) 3. Blue Bajan 6 b g Montjeu - Gentle Thoughts (Darshaan)

Age 5-6

Age 2-5

4 ROYAL BOND NOVICE HURDLE G1

Hoist The Flag Alleged Princess Pout

FAIRYHOUSE. November 30. 16f. Soft.

1. HURRICANE FLY 4 b g Montjeu - Scandisk (Kenmare) O-George Creighton B-Agricola Del Parco TR-WP Mullins 2. Donnas Palm 4 gr g Great Palm - Donna’s Tarquin (Husyan) 3. Cousin Vinny 5 b g Bob Back - Trixskin (Buckskin) Age 2-4

Starts 14

Wins 5

Places 5

Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge MONTJEU b 96 Top Ville Floripedes Toute Cy Kalamoun Kenmare Belle of Ireland SCANDISK b 95 Lord Gayle Yankee Lady Ceol An Oir

Boldnesian Bold Bikini Ran-Tan Dschingis Khan Konigsstuhl Konigskronung CALCIDA b 96 Frontal Casella

Earned £169,210

HURRICANE FLY b g 2004 Northern Dancer

LAW SOCIETY b/br 82

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special High Top Sega Ville Tennyson Adele Toumignon Zeddaan Khairunissa Milesian Belle of The Ball Sir Gaylord Sticky Case Vimy Pal An Oir

It was hardly surprising that Montjeu’s St Leger winner Scorpion attracted more than 200 mares in his first season as a member of Coolmore’s National Hunt stallion team. The breeders who used him will be encouraged by the fact that other sons of Montjeu are proving very adept hurdlers. Won In The Dark has won a pair of Gr1 races and Blue Bajan has twice been third in Gr1 company. Potentially even better than these two is Hurricane Fly, who was a Listed winner over a mile on the Flat in France.

Hurricane Fly’s speed was much in evidence when he sprinted clear on the run-in to take the Future Champion Novice Hurdle (see race 18) by ten lengths – his second Gr1 success in the space of four weeks and his fourth victory in five starts over hurdles. Hurricane Fly’s second dam, Yankee Lady, shared the same sire, Lord Gayle, as several successful jumps stallions, such as Strong Gayle, Lord Americo and Callernish. Yankee Lady’s brother Yankee Gold, twice a winner of the Gr2 Ballymoss Stakes, also sired the smart jumpers Charcoal Wally and Sheer Gold, during a brief innings as a stallion. Yankee Lady was also a sister to Lady Singer, winner of the Curragh’s Pretty Polly Stakes.

Hurricane Run’s dam Scandisk won over seven furlongs at two in Italy.

Casadei

Starts 10

Wins 6

Tom Rolfe Wavy Navy Prince John Determined Lady Bold Ruler Alanesian Summer Tan Mehrabi Tamerlane Donna Diana Tiepoletto Kronung Le Haar Favreale Windwurf Czenia

Places 3

Earned £156,909

TRAFFORD LAD b g 2002 5 HATTON’S GRACE HURDLE G1 FAIRYHOUSE. November 30. 20f. Soft.

1. CATCH ME 6 b g Law Society - Calcida (Konigsstuhl) O-JP O’Shea B-Gestut Erlenhof TR-EJ O’Grady 2. Brave Inca 10 b g Good Thyne - Wigwam Mam (Commanche Run) 3. Hardy Eustace 11 b g Archway - Sterna Star (Corvaro (USA)) Starts 24

Wins 9

Places 7

Earned £191,613

TRAGIC ROLE b/br 86 Don’t Sulk

Duky ANOTHER SHUIL ch 88 Shuil Eile

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Wins 10

Places 8

Earned £330,961

PUNJABI b g 2003

Northern Dancer

Nureyev

Age 3-6

Nearctic Natalma Forli Special Thong Ribot Graustark Flower Bowl Tom Fool Dinner Partner Bluehaze Djeddah Midsummer Night II Night Sound Parthia Frondia French Fern Pampered King Deep Run Trial By Fire Black Tarquin Shuil Dubh Shuil Shee

Starts 26

Northern Dancer Nureyev Special KOMAITE b 83 Mount Marcy Brown Berry Brown Baby Niniski Hernando Whakilyric COMPETA b 99 Indian Ridge Mo Chos Chle Liebside Lass

Nearctic Natalma Forli Thong Mahmoud Maud Muller Phalanx Crawfish Nijinsky Virginia Hills Miswaki Lyrism Ahonoora Hillbrow Be My Guest Vals Girl

Punjabi has proved a bargain at the 42,000gns he cost Highflyer Bloodstock at Tattersalls’ 2006 Autumn Sales. He is a son of Komaite, whose Flat stock have an average winning distance of around seven furlongs, the distance of Komaite’s only victory. Punjabi’s sister, Kompete, was a five-furlong winner at two, so it is hardly surprising that Punjabi has been kept to around the minimum distance over hurdles. However, his victory over a mile and a half in 2008 raises the possibility that he might eventually stay two and a half miles over hurdles.

There is plenty of stamina in the bottom half of his pedigree. His dam Competa is an unraced daughter of Hernando. Competa is bred along similar lines to Calcavecchia, a German Derby second by Hernando’s sire Niniski, while Niniski also sired Petoski from this female line.

8 TINGLE CREEK CHASE G1 SANDOWN PARK. Dec 6. 16f. Good to Soft.

1. MASTER MINDED (FR) 5 b g Nikos - Haute Tension (Garde Royale) O-Clive D Smith B-Mrs MC Gabeur TR-PF Nicholls 2. Tidal Bay 7 b g Flemensfirth - June’s Bride (Le Moss) 3. Takeroc (FR) 5 gr g Take Risks - Rochambelle (Truculent (USA)) Age 3-5

Starts 14

Wins 7

Places 3

Earned £474,336

MASTER MINDED b g 2003 Nearctic Nonoalco Seximee NIKOS b/br 81 Sovereign Path No No Nanette Nuclea Mill Reef Garde Royale Royal Way HAUTE TENSION b 94 The Scoundrel La Vedrelle La Vela II

Nearco Lady Angela Hasty Road Jambo Grey Sovereign Mountain Path Orsini Nixe Never Bend Milan Mill Sicambre Right Away Toulouse Lautrec Malekeh Vieux Manoir Passion

Master Minded represents another triumph for Nikos, whose last foals were born in 2005. Unusually for a good sire of jumpers, the very smart Nikos was most effective over seven furlongs and a mile. Although Nikos sired the Prix du Cadran winner Nononito, he has proved more effective as a sire of jumpers.

His representatives in Britain include Cenkos (twice a winner of the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Celebration Chase), Nakir (Arkle Challenge Trophy Chase at Cheltenham), Encore Un Peu (runner-up in the 1996 National), Eric’s Charm (second in the Betfred Gold Cup) and Fataliste (Seagram Top Novices’ Hurdle).

Master Minded’s dam Haute Tension won a two-mile hurdle at Pau on the second of her two starts.

She is by the classically-bred Garde Royale, who sired the Prix de Diane winner Carling, as well as

Caulfield on Trafford Lad: “His dam Another Shuil won a point-to-point and is a half-sister to the very useful chaser Rawhide and the smart hurdler Shuil Ar Aghaidh” enjoying plenty of success in the jumping sector via such as Royal Auclair, Iris Royal, Royal Rosa, Garde Champetre and Nicanor.

Haute Tension’s first four foals – all very useful winners – include Master Minded’s brother Positive Thinking, who was second at Gr3 level over fences, and the Smadoun gelding Good Spirit, a winner over hurdles and fences, and runner-up in the Gr2 Pendil Novices’ Chase.

9 JOHN DURKAN MEMORIAL PUNCHESTOWN CHASE G1 PUNCHESTOWN. December 9. 20f. Heavy.

1. NOLAND 7 b g Exit To Nowhere - Molakai (Nureyev) O-J Hales B-The Niarchos Family TR-PF Nicholls 2. The Listener 9 gr g Roselier - Park Breeze (Strong Gale) 3. War of Attrition 9 br g Presenting - Una Juna (Good Thyne) Age 4-7

Starts 13

Wins 9

Places 3

Earned £223,996

NOLAND b g 2001 Never Bend River Lady Irish River Klairon Irish Star Botany Bay EXIT TO NOWHERE b 88 Hail To Reason Halo Cosmah Coup de Folie Hoist The Flag Raise The Standard Natalma Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Nureyev Forli Special Thong MOLAKAI b 95 Hoist The Flag Alleged Princess Pout Yemanja Riverman Korveya Konafa Riverman

Noland was conceived in 2000, when his sire, the high-class miler Exit To Nowhere, was based at the French stud of his breeders, the Niarchos Family. Exit To Nowhere was then switched to the National Hunt sector, at Scarvagh House Stud in Northern Ireland, but the half-brother to Machiavellian has now joined the Coolmore team for 2009. He has also been represented by the Scottish Champion Hurdle winner Milligan and the smart chasers Exit Swinger and Exit To Wave, as well as by several Flat Group winners, headed by the Gr1 winner Shaka and the French Derby second Nowhere To Exit.

Noland’s third dam Korveya sold for $7,000,000 in 1998, having achieved the extraordinary feat of producing the Classic winners Shanghai, Hector Protector and Bosra Sham. Another of Korveya’s foals, Gioconda, produced the Gr1 winner Ciro.

MIKAEL D’HAGUENET b g 2004 Dschingis Khan Konigsstuhl Konigskronung LAVIRCO b 93 Surumu La Virginia La Dorada Luthier Dark Stone Divine Etoile FLEUR D’HAGUENET b 95 Olmeto Fleur De See Petite Prune

Although he failed to win in four starts over jumps in his native France, Mikael d’Haguenet proved much more formidable in his first two races in Ireland. He had more than four lengths to spare at the end of a 27-runner maiden hurdle and then took the Gr1 Barry & Sandra Kelly Memorial Novice Hurdle by seven lengths, at the chief expense of the long odds-on Pandorama.

Mikael d’Haguenet’s sire Lavirco has been a popular member of the French National Stud’s extensive stallion team for several years but he was bred and raced in Germany, where he won the 1996 Derby.

Lavirco’s dam La Virginia, a sister to the dam of the top-class Lomitas, also produced Lavirco’s accomplished brother Laveron. The winner of the German St Leger was switched to hurdling and did so well that his victories included the 2002 French Champion Hurdle and the Prix La Barka.

Fleur d’Haguenet, the dam of Mikael d’Haguenet, raced 13 times without managing to finish any closer than third. Dark Stone, the sire of Fleur d’Haguenet, won a small steeplechase at Fontainebleau, the scene also of the hurdles victory

by Fleur d’Haguenet’s dam Fleur de Sees. Another mating between Dark Stone and Fleur de Sees resulted in Barzy d’Haguenet, a Listed winner over a mile.

11 LONG WALK HURDLE G1 ASCOT. December 20. 25f. Good to Soft.

1. PUNCHESTOWNS (FR) 5 ch g Morespeed - History (Alesso) O-Mrs Judy Wilson B-Gerard Ferte TR-NJ Henderson 2. Duc de Regniere (FR) 6 b g Rajpoute - Gladys De Richerie (Le Pontet) 3. Mobaasher (USA) 5 ch g Rahy - Balistroika (Nijinsky) Age 3-5

Starts 12

Wins 6

Lyphard Pharly

NAVAN. December 14. 20f. Heavy.

Comely

1. MIKAEL D’HAGUENET (FR) 4 b g Lavirco - Fleur d’Haguenet (Dark Stone) O-Mrs S Ricci B-Mme M Lelong TR-WP Mullins 2. Pandorama 5 b g Flemensfirth - Gretchen’s Castle (Carlingford Castle) 3. Aura About You 5 b/br m Supreme Leader - Windswept Lady (Strong Gale) Starts 4

Wins 2

Places 1

Places 5

Earned £96,648

PUNCHESTOWNS ch g 2003

10 BARRY AND SANDRA KELLY MEMORIAL NOVICE HURDLE G1

Age 3-4

Tamerlane Donna Diana Tiepoletto Kronung Literat Surama Kronzeuge Love In Klairon Flute Enchantee Nijinsky Directoire Val de Loir Vivara Gorfou Worgine

Earned £61,556

MORESPEED ch 82 Canisbay Sierra Morena Saigon Alleged Alesso Leandra HISTORY b 95 Altayan Clair Deux Lune Lili Dancer

Northern Dancer Goofed Boran Princesse Commene Doutelle Stroma Mossborough Savona II Hoist The Flag Princess Pout Luthier Ady Endre Posse Aleema Evainqueur Keen Dancer

Although he won only two of his seven starts on the Flat in his native France (all confined to nonthoroughbreds), Punchestowns has built an impressive record of four wins from five starts over hurdles since being transferred to Britain.

His sire Morespeed is a good example of the type of stallion which has contributed so much to France’s jumping sector. Good enough to win a Listed race, and to be placed at Gr2 level on the Flat, the well-bred Morespeed then switched to hurdling with success, winning three consecutive races, including two at Auteuil.

The half-brother to the Breeders’ Cup Turf second Sierra Roberta covered a mixture of thoroughbred and AQPS mares, and showed what he was capable of by siring the dual French Champion Hurdle winner Le Sauvignon.

Punchestowns is the first foal of the lightly-raced History, a selle français mare. British racegoers will recognise her sire, the French St Leger second Alesso, as the son of Alleged sired that redoubtable long-distance hurdler Baracouda.

The next dam, another lightly-raced maiden called Clair Deux Lune, was

by Altayan, a high-class mile and a half winner bred by the Aga Khan.

Her half-sister Rasmara produced the very useful Colourful Life.

Although the second dam Rosy Moon was a half-sister to four stakes winners on the Flat, the family has also produced some fine jumpers. Rosy Moon’s half-sister Burelia was the second dam of Balasani (Stayers’ Hurdle) and another half-sister, Barack, was the second dam of the Grand National second Encore Un Peu. 13 DURKAN NEW HOMES JUVENILE HURDLE G1 LEOPARDSTOWN. December 26. 16f. Soft.

1. LETHAL WEAPON 3 ch g Hawk Wing - Lady Windley (Baillamont) O-John P McManus B-Deerforest Stud TR-C Roche 2. Tharawaat 3 b g Alhaarth - Sevi’s Choice (Sir Ivor) 3. King of Queens 3 b g Dalakhani - Caerlina (Caerleon) Age 2-3

Starts 10

HAWK WING b 99 La Lorgnette

Baillamont

Northern Trick

Age 4-5

Starts 14

Wins 5

Places 2

Earned £86,388

FOLLOW THE PLAN b g 2003 Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special ACCORDION b 86 Bold Ruler Successor Misty Morn Sound of Success Tudor Minstrel Belle Musique Bellesoeur Derring-Do Dominion Picture Palace Dominion Royale Sharpen Up Bahamas Princess Coal Face ROYAL ROSY b 91 Precipitation Sheshoon Noorani Rosy Moon Tanerko Bonny Mary II Hogmanay Northern Dancer

Sadler’s Wells

Follow The Plan is yet another good chaser sired by Accordion, whose last foals were born in 2007.

Albertas Run, Cornish Sett, Holly Tree, Finger Onthe Pulse, According To Pete and Window Of Hope are just some of the other good chasers currently representing the unraced son of Sadler’s Wells, who had previously supplied chasers of the quality of Flagship Uberalles, Accordion Etoile and Billyvoddan.

Follow The Plan’s dam Royal Rosy won six times at up to 22 furlongs over hurdles and fences, and is a half-sister to another talented hurdler/chaser in Rouyan.

Earned £72,436

Raise A Native Gold Digger Buckpasser Playmate Intriguing Val de Loir Val de L’Orne Aglae Nijinsky The Temptress La Sevillana Red God Blushing Groom Runaway Bride Shoemaker Lodeve Locust Time Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Prince John Trick Chick Fast Line Mr Prospector

Woodman

12 DURKAN NEW HOMES NOVICE CHASE G1

1. FOLLOW THE PLAN 5 b g Accordion - Royal Rosy (Dominion Royale) O-Cavan Developments Bloodstock B-Patrick Sheehan TR-Oliver McKiernan 2. Tatenen (FR) 4 b g Lost World - Tamaziya (Law Society) 3. Cooldine 6 b g Beneficial - Shean Alainn (Le Moss)

Places 0

LETHAL WEAPON ch g 2005

LADY WINDLEY ch 90

LEOPARDSTOWN. December 26. 17f. Soft.

Wins 5

Although the first runners by the enigmatic Hawk Wing disappointed to the extent that the stallion was sold to India, and then on to Korea, the winner of the National Stakes, Eclipse Stakes and Lockinge Stakes has come up with the occasional smart performer.

For example, Stubbs Art was third in both the English and Irish 2,000 Guineas, and The Bogberry defeated Famous Name to take the Gr3 Kilternan Stakes at Leopardstown. Hawk Wing has also made an eye-catching start as a sire of hurdlers, thanks to his son Lethal Weapon. It is easy to see why a son of Woodman was chosen as a mate for Lethal Weapon’s dam Lady Windley.

Her half-sister Lingerie twice visited another of Woodman’s sons, Hector Protector, to produce the very smart middle-distance performers Shiva and Limnos.

Lingerie later visited Kingmambo, another member of the Mr Prospector male line, to produce the 2007 Epsom Oaks winner Light Shift.

Lethal Weapon is bred well enough to have been a Gr1 winner on the Flat. His second dam is Northern Dancer’s excellent middle-distance daughter Northern Trick, who finished a fine second in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe after winning the Prix de Diane and Prix Vermeille.

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DATA BOOK National Hunt Grade Ones 14 FELTHAM NOVICES’ CHASE G1 KEMPTON PARK. December 26. 24f. Good.

1. BREEDSBREEZE 6 b g Fresh Breeze - Godfreys Cross (Fine Blade) O-Jim Lewis, Markus Jooste, Malcolm King B-Mrs Helen Walsh TR-PF Nicholls 2. Massini’s Maguire 7 b g Dr Massini - Molly Maguire (Supreme Leader) 3. Hold Em 6 b g Moscow Society - One To Two (Astronef) Age 4-6

Starts 11

Wins 6

Places 4

Earned £116,929

BREEDSBREEZE b g 2002 Utrillo II Hawaii Ethane FRESH BREEZE b 82 First Landing Good Landing Best Side Fortino II Fine Blade Cursorial GODFREYS CROSS ch 88 Buckskin Serpentine Artiste Cora Swan

Toulouse Lautrec Urbinella Mehrali Ethyl Turn-To Hildene Better Self Belle of Troy Grey Sovereign Ranavalo III Crepello None Nicer Yelapa Bete A Bon Dieu Tarqogan Artist’s Belle

Breedsbreeze has already outperformed his pedigree, which contributed to his fetching no more than €8,200 as a three-year-old.

His sire Fresh Breeze gained his solitary success in a mile maiden at Yarmouth. However, Fresh Breeze shared the same sire, Hawaii, as the Derby-winning Henbit and the Derby second Hawaiian Sound, and was given his chance at stud.

Breedsbreeze is his first stakes winner, his best previous efforts probably being the fair chasers Burwood Breeze and Irish Breeze.

Breedsbreeze’s dam Godfreys Cross won an Irish point-to-point and the next dam, the unraced Buckskin mare Serpentine Artiste, was a halfsister to River Cora, who ran creditably in such races as the Kerry National and Galway Plate. His fourth dam, the very useful hurdler Artist’s Belle, was a sister to the very useful hurdler/chaser Belle Artiste.

The career of Harchibald’s sire Perugino wasn’t helped by constant changes in location. Even so, he has sired the champion Australian sprinter Testa Rossa, the dual Australian Gr1 winner Sudurka, the German Oaks winner Next Gina, the good sprinter The Tatling and the 2008 Arc third It’s Gino.

As Testa Rossa and The Tatling have shown, Perugino was capable of siring very fast performers, but Harchibald didn’t possess that sort of speed. He had won three times from ten to 12.5 furlongs in France by the time he was sold for €90,000 at Goffs’ 2002 Arc Sale.

Perugino seemed an unlikely type to sire a top-class jumper. He stands only 15.3 hands and raced only once. However, he is a three-partsbrother to the great Sadler’s Wells, sire of Istabraq. Perugino also sired the occasional talented hurdler, another being Kawagino, fifth in the 2007 Champion Hurdle.

Although the Champion Chase has been mentioned as a possible target, it is possible that Big Zeb will eventually stay three miles. His sire Oscar, a stoutly-bred son of Sadler’s Wells, is responsible for high-class stayers Refinement, Black Jack Ketchum, Offshore Account and Casey Jones.

Big Zeb’s dam Our Siveen, a daughter of the phenomenal National Hunt stallion Deep Run, won at up to two and a half miles over hurdles. Deep Run also sired the dam of Oscar Park, a useful hurdler/chaser by Oscar who stays beyond three miles.

Big Zeb’s second dam Clontinty Queen was by Laurence O, an excellent long-distance performer who numbered the two-mile-sixfurlong Queen Alexandra Stakes among his victories. Laurence O was a half-brother to the dam of those exceptional long distance horses Levmoss and Le Moss.

16 KING GEORGE VI CHASE G1

18 FUTURE CHAMPIONS NOVICE HURDLE G1

KEMPTON PARK. December 26. 24f. Good.

LEOPARDSTOWN. Dec 27. 16f. Yielding to Soft.

1. KAUTO STAR (FR) 8 b g Village Star - Kauto Relka (Port Etienne) O-Mr C Smith B-Mme H Aubert TR-PF Nicholls 2. Albertas Run 7 b g Accordion - Holly Grove Lass (Le Moss) 3. Voy Por Ustedes (FR) 7 b g Villez - Nuit d’Ecajeul (Matahawk)

1. HURRICANE FLY 4 b g Montjeu - Scandisk (Kenmare) O-G Creighton B-Agricola Del Parco TR-WP Mullins 2. Go Native 5 br g Double Eclipse - Native Idea (Be My Native) 3. Zarinava 4 gr f Daylami - Zariliya (Darshaan)

Age Starts Wins Places Earned 3-8 30 17 9 £1,515,178 See race 1 in the January issue for analysis

Age Starts Wins Places 2-4 15 6 5 See race 4 in this issue for analysis

KAUTO STAR b g 2000

HURRICANE FLY b g 2004

Mill Reef Moulin High Fidelyty VILLAGE STAR ch 83 Reliance II Glitter Glistening Mill Reef Port Etienne Sierra Morena KAUTO RELKA b 93 Kautokeino Kautorette Verdurette

Never Bend Milan Mill Hautain Paladrina Tantieme Relance III Aureole Causerie Never Bend Milan Mill Canisbay Saigon Relko Cranberry Lionel Tyrolina

Sadler’s Wells MONTJEU b 96 Floripedes

Kenmare SCANDISK b 95 Yankee Lady

Earned £207,445

LEOPARDSTOWN. Dec 27. 17f. Yielding to Soft.

LEOPARDSTOWN. Dec 28. 24f. Yielding to Soft.

1. HARCHIBALD (FR) 9 b g Perugino - Dame d’Harvard (Quest For Fame) O-Mr DP Sharkey B-Ecurie Jean-Louis Bouchard TR-N Meade 2. Snap Tie 6 b g Pistolet Bleu - Aries Girl (Valiyar) 3. Blue Bajan 6 b g Montjeu - Gentle Thoughts (Darshaan)

1. BIG ZEB 7 b g Oscar - Our Siveen (Deep Run) O-Patrick Joseph Redmond B-L Buttimer TR-Colm A Murphy 2. Watson Lake 10 b g Be My Native - Magneeto (Brush Aside) 3. Thyne Again 7 ch g Good Thyne - Fine Affair (Fine Blade)

1. EXOTIC DANCER (FR) 8 b g Turgeon - Northine (Northern Treat) O-Sir Robert Ogden B-Gaetan Gilles, Ecurie Jules Ouaki TR-Jonjo O’Neill 2. War Of Attrition 9 br g Presenting - Una Juna (Good Thyne) 3. Cane Brake 9 b g Sadler’s Wells - Be My Hope (Be My Native)

Age 3-9

Age 5-7

Age 3-8

HARCHIBALD b g 1999 Northern Dancer Danzig Pas de Nom PERUGINO br 91 Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special Rainbow Quest Quest For Fame Aryenne DAME D’HARVARD gr 94 Riva Ridge Bridge Table Grey Table

Starts 13

Wins 4

Places 7

Earned £151,108

Wins 8

Places 14

Earned £730,067

EXOTIC DANCER b g 2000

BIG ZEB b g 2001 Nearctic Natalma Admiral’s Voyage Petitioner Hail To Reason Lalun Forli Thong Blushing Groom I Will Follow Green Dancer Americaine First Landing Iberia Grey Sovereign Good Table

Starts 27

Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge OSCAR b 94 Reliance II Snow Day Vindaria Pampered King Deep Run Trial By Fire OUR SIVEEN ch 83 Laurence O Clontinty Queen Si Si

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Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Tantieme Relance III Roi Dagobert Heavenly Body Prince Chevalier Netherton Maid Court Martial Mitrailleuse Saint Crespin III Feevagh Sica Boy Rififi

Grey Sovereign Ranavalo III Chamossaire Chambord Life Hill Round Table Targowice Matriarch Ribero Beronaire No Luck Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Vaguely Noble Exotic Treat Rare Treat Silnet Philemon Petite Main Herbager Hermouke Fast Mouke Fortino II

Caro TURGEON gr 86 Reiko

Northern Treat NORTHINE ch 85 Lepine

Starts 16

Wins 5

Places 7

Earned £99,917

CASEY JONES b g 2001 Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge

KEMPTON PARK. December 26. 16f. Good.

Earned £550,299

Age 5-7

OSCAR b 94

Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special High Top Top Ville Sega Ville Tennyson Toute Cy Adele Toumignon Zeddaan Kalamoun Khairunissa Milesian Belle of Ireland Belle of The Ball Sir Gaylord Lord Gayle Sticky Case Vimy Ceol An Oir Pal An Oir

19 LEXUS STEEPLECHASE G1

Places 21

1. CASEY JONES 7 b g Oscar - Arborfield Brook (Over The River) O-Gillian Burke B-John Webb TR-N Meade 2. Trafford Lad 6 b g Tragic Role - Another Shuil (Duky) 3. Siegemaster 7 b g Lord Americo - Shabra Princess (Buckskin)

Sadler’s Wells

17 PADDY POWER DIAL-A-BET CHASE G1

Wins 14

20 KNIGHT FRANK NOVICE CHASE G1 LEOPARDSTOWN. Dec 28. 24f. Yielding to Soft.

15 CHRISTMAS HURDLE G1

Starts 43

Exotic Dancer stays well, as one might expect of a son of Turgeon.

The durable Caro horse enjoyed his best season as a five-year-old, when he numbered the Irish St Leger and Prix Royal-Oak among his victories, and he travelled to England to finish third in the Ascot Gold Cup at the ages of six and seven.

Turgeon has also sired the smart English chasers Turko and Turgeonev, while his best winners in France include Turbo Jet, Turbotiere and the Flat filly Marie de Bayeux.

Northine, the dam of Exotic Dancer, won over hurdles at Auteuil and has produced two other good winners in Pasquane and Don Lauresse, both of whom are by Dom Pasquini and are Listed winners at Auteuil.

Reliance II Snow Day Vindaria Luthier Over The River Medenine ARBORFIELD BROOK ch 86 Skymaster Prime Mistress Primed

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Tantieme Relance III Roi Dagobert Heavenly Body Klairon Flute Enchantee Prudent II Ma Congaie Golden Cloud Discipliner Primera Media

Roughly 50 years ago, Sir Humphrey de Trafford enjoyed a spectacular couple of years with his homebred colts. In 1958 he won the St Leger with Alcide and the following year he took the Derby with Parthia. Parthia’s dam, Lightning, was out of Alcide’s dam Chenille, these mares being members of the famous Aloe family.

Thanks exclusively to Lightning’s daughter Electric Flash, this branch of the family has gone on to produce such standouts as Salsabil, Northern Spur, Marju and Second Empire. Parthia’s sister Media failed to add significantly to the family fortunes, but she ranks as the fourth dam of Casey Jones, an Oscar gelding who sprang a 25-1 surprise when he caught Trafford Lad close home in the Knight Frank Novice Chase.

Casey Jones is well suited by a stiff test of stamina. His dam Arborfield Brook is an unraced daughter of Over The River, one of the few stallions to sire two winners of the Cheltenham Gold Cup

Caulfield on Laragh: “A simple explanation for her talent is the first six generations of her pedigree featuring three lines to Mr Prospector, Nijinsky and Northern Dancer” (Cool Ground and Cool Dawn).

Over The River was a powerful influence for stamina, siring such as Strong Flow (Hennessy Gold Cup), Into The Red (Eider Chase), Zeta’s Lad (Racing Post Chase), Harwell Lad (Whitbread Gold Cup), Bob Treacy (Thyestes Chase) and Sullane River (Leopardstown Chase). Casey Jones’s second dam, Prime Mistress, won five times over hurdles and fences.

North American Grade Ones 485 MATRIARCH S G1 HOLLYWOOD PARK. Nov 30. 8f. Firm (turf).

21 DECEMBER FESTIVAL HURDLE G1

1. COCOA BEACH (CHI) 4 bbr f Doneraile Court - Visionera (Edgy Diplomat) O-Godolphin B-Haras La Obra TR-S bin Suroor 2. Precious Kitten (USA) 5 bbr m Catienus - Kittens First (Lear Fan) 3. Visit (GB) 3 bbr f Oasis Dream - Arrive (Kahyasi) See race 398 in the November issue for analysis

LEOPARDSTOWN. December 29. 16f. Yielding.

COCOA BEACH (CHI) bbr f 2004

1. SUBLIMITY (FR) 8 b g Selkirk - Fig Tree Drive (Miswaki) O-W Hennessy B-Stratford Place, Watership Down Stud TR-RA Hennessy 2. Won In The Dark 4 b g Montjeu - Meseta (Lion Cavern) 3. Brave Inca 10 b g Good Thyne - Wigwam Mam (Commanche Run)

Bold Reasoning Seattle Slew My Charmer DONERAILE COURT bbr 96 Stop The Music Sophisticated Girl Close Control Deputy Minister Edgy Diplomat

Age 3-8

Starts 25

Wins 8

Places 12

Earned £417,178

SUBLIMITY b g 2000 Sharpen Up SELKIRK ch 88 Annie Edge

Miswaki FIG TREE DRIVE b 94 Rose O’Riley

Native Dancer Atan Mixed Marriage Rockefella Rocchetta Chambiges Yellow God Nebbiolo Novara Be Friendly Friendly Court No Court Raise A Native Mr Prospector Gold Digger Buckpasser Hopespringseternal Rose Bower Northern Dancer Nijinsky Flaming Page Round Table Rosetta Stone Rose Coral

At around 16.3 hands, Selkirk, the sire of Sublimity, has the size preferred in the jumping world and a few of his sons have enjoyed successful second careers over jumps, prime examples being Sublimity, Whispered Secret, Blythe Knight and Pasco.

Sublimity showed plenty of talent on the Flat. A 210,000gns yearling, he became a Listed winner over a mile in 2004, when Timeform rated him 114, yet his price fell to 32,000gns when he appeared at the 2004 Horses In Training sales. He duly gained another Listed victory for his new owners, this time over a mile and a quarter.

Sublimity is a half-brother to Marbush, a very useful miler in the UAE. They come from a top-class American family, his second dam, Rose O’Riley, being a sister to top winners De La Rose and Upper Nile. More to the point, his third dam Rosetta Stone was a sister to Around The Roses, dam of Sea Pigeon.

Excitable Gal VISIONERA b 98 Roy Spray Memsahib

Boldnesian Reason To Earn Poker Fair Charmer Hail To Reason Bebopper Dunce Self Control Vice Regent Mint Copy Secretariat Magazine Fappiano Adlibber Musketeer Kamasutra

yearlings averaged only $64,257, off a fee of $50,000, but Court Vision made $180,000 and was seen in an even better light at Fasig-Tipton Florida’s select twoyear-olds in training sale, where he made $350,000.

Even so, Court Vision’s reception in the sale ring was in sharp contrast to the welcome that had awaited his older brother Kipling, who topped the 1997 Saratoga Yearling Sale at $1,400,000. Kipling was a disappointment on the track but later redeemed himself by siring Kip Deville, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Mile.

The versatile Court Vision has now won a Gr2 on dirt and a Gr1 on turf. His dam Weekend Storm is an unraced sister to Summer Squall, a winner of the Preakness Stakes, and she is also a half-sister to A P Indy.

What’s more, with Storm Bird as her sire and a Secretariat mare as her dam, Weekend Storm was bred similarly to Storm Cat.

486 HOLLYWOOD DERBY G1 HOLLYWOOD PARK. Nov 30. 10f. Firm (turf).

1. COURT VISION (USA) 3 bbr c Gulch - Weekend Storm (Storm Bird) O-IEAH Stables, WinStar Farm B-WS Farish, Kilroy Thoroughbred Partnership TR-William I Mott 2. Cowboy Cal (USA) 3 bbr c Giants Causeway - Texas Tammy (Seeking The Gold) 3. Midships (USA) 3 grro c Mizzen Mast - Interim (Sadlers Wells) COURT VISION (USA) bbr c 2005 Native Dancer Raise You Nashua Gold Digger Sequence GULCH b 84 Rasper II Rambunctious Danae Jameela Seven Corners Asbury Mary Snow Flyer Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Storm Bird New Providence South Ocean Shining Sun WEEKEND STORM b 92 Bold Ruler Secretariat Somethingroyal Weekend Surprise Buckpasser Lassie Dear Gay Missile Raise A Native

487 HOLLYWOOD TURF CUP S G1 HOLLYWOOD PARK. Dec 6. 12f. Firm (turf).

1. CHAMPS ELYSEES (GB) 5 b h Danehill - Hasili (Kahyasi) O/B-Juddmonte Farms TR-Robert J Frankel 2. Obrigado (FR) 5 b g Enrique - Banakill (Funambule) 3. Church Service (USA) 5 b g Pulpit - To Be Approved (With Approval) See race 394 in the November issue for analysis CHAMPS ELYSEES (GB) b h 2003

Mr Prospector

Northern Dancer Danzig Pas de Nom DANEHILL b 86 His Majesty Razyana Spring Adieu Ile de Bourbon Kahyasi Kadissya HASILI b 91 High Line Kerali Sookera

Back in 1991, Gulch covered Storm Bird’s daughter Line Of Thunder to produce the champion threeyear-old colt Thunder Gulch.

Inevitably, Thunder Gulch’s exploits brought daughters of Storm Bird flocking to Gulch’s gate, to the extent that Storm Bird is now the commonest broodmare sire among Gulch’s foals, with a total of 56. This popular nick has maintained momentum with further stakes successes from Fast Decision, Listen Here and now Court Vision, who became a Gr1 winner in the Hollywood Derby.

Another stakes winner from this cross is Court Vision’s brother Garcia Marquez, who won important races over ten and 12 furlongs in Hong Kong.

When Court Vision came on the market as a yearling, the elderly Gulch had been having a couple of comparatively quiet years.

Consequently, Gulch’s 2006

Nearctic Natalma Admirals Voyage Petitioner Ribot Flower Bowl Buckpasser Natalma Nijinsky Roseliere Blushing Groom Kalkeen High Hat Time Call Roberto Irule

Rather unexpectedly, the title of leading first-crop sire in North America was won very comfortably

by Tapit, a son of Pulpit who started out at $15,000 at Gainesway Farm.

An interesting aspect of Tapit’s story is that he is a grey whose third dam, Moon Glitter, was a sister to Relaunch, another grey stallion who enjoyed a lot of success. Tapit inherited his grey colour through his first four dams, his fourth dam Foggy Note being a grand-daughter of Mahmoud, one of the few greys to win the Derby.

Tapit was catapulted to the top of the freshmen sires’ table through the Gr1-winning exploits of two grey daughters, namely the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies winner Stardom Bound and the Hollywood Starlet Stakes winner Laragh.

Coincidentally, both these excellent fillies are out of grey mares whose colour is a pointer to the fact that their pedigrees contain several lines either to Mahmoud, his second dam Mumtaz Mahal, or to her sire The Tetrarch – these being three of the most famous grey racehorses in the history of British racing.

Laragh’s dam, the unraced Rose Of Summer, is by El Prado, a stallion who is inbred 5 x 5 x 4 to Mahmoud.

Then there’s Laragh’s second dam Cherokee Crossing, whose sire Cherokee Colony has four lines of Mahmoud in the first six generations of his pedigree.

There is also a simpler explanation for Laragh’s talent, as the first six generations of her pedigree feature three lines to Mr Prospector (4 x 5 x 5), three to Nijinsky (6 x 4 x 5) and three to Northern Dancer (5 x 4 x 6).

So her first six generations include three lines to three of the greatest stallions of modern times – stallions who collectively sired 18% stakes winners to foals.

488 HOLLYWOOD STARLET S G1 489 HOLLYWOOD FUTURITY G1 HOLLYWOOD PARK. Dec 13. 8f 110yds. Fast.

1. LARAGH (USA) 2 grro f Tapit - Rose of Summer (El Prado) O-IEAH Stables, Gary Tolchin, Pegasus Holding Group Stables B-Mike Ryan TR-John P Terranova 2. Wynning Ride (CAN) 2 ch f Candy Ride - Wynyard (Mr Greeley) 3. Toro Bonito (USA) 2 bbr f El Corredor - Blushing Bull (In Excess)

HOLLYWOOD PARK. Dec 20. 8f 110yds. Fast.

LARAGH (USA) grro f 2006

PIONEEROF THE NILE (USA) bbr c 2006

Seattle Slew Weekend Surprise Pulpit Mr Prospector Preach Narrate TAPIT grro 2001 Fappiano Unbridled Gana Facil Tap Your Heels Nijinsky Ruby Slippers Moon Glitter Northern Dancer Sadlers Wells Fairy Bridge El Prado Sir Ivor Lady Capulet Cap And Bells ROSE OF SUMMER gr 2001 Pleasant Colony Cherokee Colony Cherokee Phoenix Cherokee Crossing Conquistador Cielo Sky Meadows Prides Crossing

Mr Prospector Killaloe Le Fabuleux Gana Facil Charedi EMPIRE MAKER bbr 2000 Northern Dancer El Gran Senor Sex Appeal Toussaud In Reality Image of Reality Edees Image Brigadier Gerard General Mercuriale Lord At War Con Brio Luna de Miel Good Will STAR OF GOSHEN b 94 Bold Ruler Key To The Kingdom Key Bridge Castle Eight Kanumera Her Native Little Blessing

A P Indy

1. PIONEEROF THE NILE (USA) 2 bbr c Empire Maker - Star of Goshen (Lord At War) O-Zayat Stables LLC B-Zayat Stables LLC TR-Bob Baffert 2. I Want Revenge (USA) 2 bbr c Stephen Got Even - Meguial (Roy) 3. Chocolate Candy (USA) 2 b c Candy Ride - Crownette (Seattle Slew)

Fappiano

Unbridled

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DATA BOOK North American Grade Ones Lord At War, the Argentine stallion featured in December’s Caulfield Files, was back in the news after the valuable Cashcall Futurity, as the broodmare sire of the winner, Pioneerof The Nile.

Star Of Goshen, the dam of Pioneerof The Nile, looked to have an outstanding future early in her career. Unraced at two, she coasted home ten lengths clear in a Santa Anita maiden before taking an allowance by six lengths.

These impressive displays made her connections consider running her in the Kentucky Oaks, but Star Of Goshen lined up instead for the La Troienne Stakes over seven furlongs on the day before the Oaks. Her performance left everyone wondering what might have happened had she gone for the Gr1 race, as she won by 11 lengths from the future Gr1 winner Pearl City.

Then it all went wrong. Star Of Goshen could finish only second at odds of 1-20 in the Edgewood Stakes and she then had to be eased before the finish of the Hollywood Oaks. Star Of Goshen underwent surgery for a displaced palate but never raced again.

Star Of Goshen was conceived at a time when Lord At War’s fee was $7,500 and neither of her first two dams earned black type. Her pedigree couldn’t be described as fashionable, but her dam Castle

Index

Index to winners and placed horses in European Pattern races and North American and UAE Grade 1s (wins in bold face) Aahaykid 446 Abbadjinn 96 203 266 329 Abbashiva 226 Abbeyside 260 Abraham Lincoln 107 Achill Island 73 Adlerflug 184 227 309 Adored 90 African Rose 267 344 African Skies 231 Again 276 304 Age of Chivalry 141 188 Ahla Wasahl 207 Aiboa 474 Ajhar 372 Akiem 150 279 Al Qasi 216 272 350 Alarazi 67 281 Albertus Maximus 400 466 Albisola 137 295 453 Alessandro Volta 76 Alexandros 142 Alhaban 182 All The Aces 71 Allegretto 339 451 Alnadana 337 Alpine Rose 270 Alwajeeha 455 Americain 332 Amerigo 166 Amour Propre 430 Ana Americana 291 Anabaa’s Creation 426 Anak Nakal 132

Eight also produced Powis Castle, winner of the Gr2 Malibu Stakes.

Star Of Goshen has had every chance as a broodmare. Now she has finally fulfilled her potential by producing Pioneerof The Nile to Empire Maker. The Belmont Stakes winner has sired three two-year-old Graded winners from his first two crops, the others being Country Star (Gr1 Alcibiades Stakes and Gr1 Hollywood Starlet Stakes) and Mushka (Gr2 Demoiselle Stakes).

490 MALIBU S G1 SANTA ANITA. December 26. 7f. Fast.

1. BOB BLACK JACK (USA) 3 bbr c Stormy Jack - Molly’s Prospector (Native Prospector) O-Jeff Harmon, Tim Kasparoff B-Gary Howard, Marlene Howard, Bruce Dunmore TR-James M Kasparoff 2. Into Mischief (USA) 3 b c Harlans Holiday - Leslies Lady (Tricky Creek) 3. Georgie Boy (USA) 3 bbr g Tribal Rule - Ippodamia (Peterhof) BOB BLACK JACK (USA) bbr c 2005 Relaunch Skywalker Bold Captive Bertrando Buffalo Lark Gentle Hands Three Red Bells STORMY JACK b 97 Steel Heart Steelinctive Distinctiveness Tiny Kristin Pirates Bounty Pirates Serenade Lyrical Approach Raise A Native Mr Prospector Gold Digger Native Prospector Carlemont French Blossom Nalo MOLLY’S PROSPECTOR b 94 Northern Dancer Dance Spell Obeah Spell Victory Victoria Park Miss Nanith Nangela

Ancien Regime 201 Anglezarke 342 Anjella 478 Anna Pavlova 177 202 Antiquities 47 Apollo Star 432 Appalachian Trail 117 April Pride 286 Aqlaam 159 Arabian Gleam 350 Arazan 290 355 Arcadia’s Angle 145 Archipenko 11 215 315 Ariege 14 392 Arkadina 263 Art Connoisseur 154 234 Art Princess 207 Arthur’s Girl 164 Article Rare 359 444 Artiste Royal 12 63 131 Ashantee 200 298 Ashram 416 Asiatic Boy 8 Ask 36 Aspectus 5 Aspen Darlin 361 380 437 Assertive 91 344 Astronomer Royal 107 Athanor 144 300 Avanti Polonia 268 Awesome I Am 395 Axxos 37 Backseat Rhythm 392 455 Bahia Breeze 264 Baila Me 151 262 377 Balius 5 Balkan Knight 116 343 Balladeuse 135 421 Balthazaar’s Gift 224 Bankable 285 351 417 434 Bannaby 358 381 Barcola 190 Baroness Thatcher 62

Barshiba 50 215 Basaltico 378 Be Smart 409 Beach Bunny 152 345 Beaver Patrol 272 306 Beckermet 91 179 Becomes You 442 Becrux 483 Bel Air Sizzle 318 Believe In Hope 407 Believe Me 45 114 268 Belle Allure 43 Belle Et Celebre 99 Belliflore 118 267 Benbaun 181 Benny The Bull 10 Better Talk Now 250 317 Beyond Our Reach 304 Big Booster 464 Big Brown 16 64 125 311 Big Timer 117 Black Mamba 312 402 Black Mambazo 85 481 Black Seventeen 404 Blue Bresil 18 69 Blue Monday 360 445 Blythe Knight 142 178 275 Bob Black Jack 55 490 Bobs Surprise 30 Bonnie Charlie 240 433 446 Borderlescott 108 282 385 Boris de Deauville 19 148 228 274 Bribon 484 Brisant 104 Briseida 134 Brownie Points 57 Bsharpsonata 56 491 Buccellati 445 Bufera 444 Burnwynd Boy 179 Bushranger 218 234 294 379 Bustin Stones 58

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The Malibu Stakes provided a success for the local breeding industry, with victory going to Bob Black Jack, whose sire Stormy Jack will stand the 2009 season at $2,500 at Coalinga, California.

Stormy Jack earned nearly $600,000 during a career spent largely in stakes restricted to California-breds. Most of his success came in sprints on dirt but Bob Black Jack has been thriving on all-weather tracks and his Malibu victory pushed his earnings up to $594,925 – excellent going for a $4,500 purchase.

Bob Black Jack’s dam, the minor winner Molly’s Prospector, is a halfsister to three stakes winners.

Molly’s Prospector is a sister to the good broodmare Susan Powter, dam of the successful Californian racemare Miss Lawless and the sprinter Joey Franco, winner of the Gr1 Triple Bend Breeders’ Cup Invitational Handicap.

Speed seems to be the family’s main asset, as it also produced the Gr1 Vosburgh Stakes winner Taste Of Paradise, who shares the same third dam, Miss Nanith, as Bob Black Jack and Joey Franco.

Bob Black Jack’s speed was evident when he won the Sunshine Millions Dash, but he stayed nine furlongs well enough to finish a close second in the Santa Anita Derby.

Bob Black Jack’s fourth dam is

By The Light 199 Callwood Dancer 411 Calvados Blues 364 Campanologist 76 168 233 Canwinn 364 Caparroso 204 Cape Amber 92 Capt Chaos 66 Captain Gerrard 52 Captain’s Lover 337 Carriage Trail 454 Carribean Sunset 21 78 110 167 275 Carte Diamond 74 Cartimandua 141 Casual Conquest 79 122 183 Cat Junior 436 Caudillo 104 222 Centennial 39 293 356 420 Central Station 111 Cesare 215 Championship Point 72 Champs Elysees 13 394 413 487 Changing Skies 259 Chantilly Tiffany 449 Chantra 175 Charlie Farnsbarns 434 Cheyenne Star 106 188 247 Chinchon 236 367 Chintz 223 375 Chocolate Candy 489 Chopastair 225 426 Church Service 464 487 Cicerole 143 Ciel Rouge 444 Cima de Triomphe 83 City Leader 236 292 Cityscape 371 Claire Et Bleu 45 Classic Blade 209 Clearly Foxy 195 Coal Play 311

Coast Guard 55 Coastal Path 41 101 163 296 Cocoa Beach 398 460 485 Collegiate 326 Colonel John 55 320 Comic Strip 9 Commentator 127 254 Communique 313 397 Conduit 168 239 346 465 Conference Call 24 Connie Mac 158 Conquest 429 Contat 180 266 Control Zone 416 Cool Coal Man 311 Copper State 255 391 Copperbeech 386 Coronet Of A Baron 390 467 Corrybrough 224 Cost of Freedom 401 Cottonmouth 114 Counterclaim 153 Court Canibal 18 425 Court Vision 54 486 Cowboy Cal 60 486 Creachadoir 97 Cribnote 389 414 Cristal Island 305 Crossharbour 148 274 443 Crowded House 447 Crystal Capella 435 Cuis Ghaire 140 169 229 Curlin 8 190 250 325 405 Da’ Tara 132 Dalghar 473 Dancing Abbie 153 Dancing Forever 3 130 465 Dandy Man 244 Danehill Destiny 361 Danidh Dubai 169 Dar Re Mi 92 185 270 284 357 421 Darjina 11 101 156 261 310

Nangela, ancestress of such as Swain and Fantastic Light.

491 LA BREA S G1 SANTA ANITA. December 27. 7f. Fast.

1. INDIAN BLESSING (USA) 3 bbr f Indian Charlie - Shameful (Flying Chevron) O-Hal & Patti Earnhardt B-Hal & Patti Earnhardt TR-Bob Baffert 2. Ginger Pop (USA) 3 ch f El Prado - French Madam (Rahy) 3. Bsharpsonata (USA) 3 b f Pulpit - Apasionata Sonata (Affirmed) See race 199 in the August issue for analysis INDIAN BLESSING (USA) bbr f 2005 Siberian Express In Excess Kantado INDIAN CHARLIE b 95 Leo Castelli Soviet Sojourn Political Parfait Carson City Flying Chevron Fly Me First SHAMEFUL b 99 Matchlite Ladys Legacy

383 Dark Islander 96 Dawn After Dawn 15 Dawn Dew 298 Daytona 126 Deauville Vision 6 275 Democrate 69 Denis of Cork 64 132 Denomination 359 Derbaas 416 Derison 82 Desert Code 469 Desert Key 321 Desert Lord 108 181 Devotee 409 Diabolical 373 469 Diamond Diva 128 Dickens 44 Diglett 173 Dimenticata 188 Distinction 46 Diva Cattiva 173 Divine Park 127 Docksil 40 Doctor Dino 9 139 186 302 Doctor Fremantle 71 Donativum 467 Donegal 239 273 Double Trouble 2 15 Dream Day 31 Dream Eater 159 Dream Empress 409 458 Dream Rush 251 Dreamtheimpossible 368 Drumbeat 480 Drumfire 351 Duellant 331 Duke of Marmalade 42 112 161 232 288 Dunelight 238 Dunkerque 472 Dwilano 20 Dynaforce 256 397

Wavering Lady

Caro Indian Call Saulingo VI Sovereign Dancer Suspicious Native Diplomat Way Peach Butter Mr Prospector Blushing Promise Herbager Flying Fable Clever Trick Light Up My Life Wavering Monarch Pias Lady

Eagle Mountain 417 465 Eastern Romance 40 141 Egerton 109 184 Eight Belles 64 Einstein 3 59 63 190 Eldest 33 Elite Squadron 198 Elnawin 334 Elusive Wave 291 386 Emily Blake 68 Enforce 143 Enticing 52 244 Entre Deux Eaux 474 Enzio 441 Equiano 136 157 Equitable 197 Eradicate 274 Estejo 476 Eustachione 33 138 Evasive 446 Ever A Friend 12 126 Excelerate 77 Excellerator 231 Executive Fleet 58 Express Wish 306 Ezima 202 Fabulous Strike 404 Fair Breeze 45 114 237 297 366 Fairy Efisio 102 Falco 80 Fame And Glory 480 Famous Name 17 119 336 423 Fantasia 286 368 Farrel 174 477 Fatal Bullet 462 Feared In Flight 39 Feels All Right 480 Ferneley 77 Ferocious Fires 324 Festivale 27 Final Fling 14

Caulfield on Bob Black Jack: “His victory in the Grade 1 Malibu Stakes was one for the local breeding industry, as his sire, Stormy Jack, stands at $2,500 in California” Finalmente 116 Finjaan 240 440 Finsceal Beo 112 156 First Defence 324 Firth of Fifth 214 Fiulin 438 Flaming Slew 252 Flashing Colour 187 Fleeting Spirit 108 157 Flying Clarets 93 Folk Opera 245 297 411 Folle Allure 479 Forever Together 129 256 408 459 Formal Decree 483 Forthe Millionkiss 226 269 376 Four Winds 428 Freemusic 103 Frost Giant 194 Frozen Fire 94 183 Fuisse 427 Full of Gold 18 367 Gagnoa 22 99 123 219 Galactic Star 51 248 Gallagher 246 294 362 Game Face 133 Garnica 118 Gemswick Park 412 Geordieland 95 163 Georgebernardshaw 216 280 Georgie Boy 490 Gesture 85 475 Getaway 51 302 Gimmy 84 149 Ginger Punch 57 191 255 319 398 Ginger Pop 491 Globus 441 Gluteus Maximus 452 Go Between 13 193 322 Goathemala 151 298 431 Golden Doc A 1 14 Golden Titus 37 Golden Velvet 191 Goldikova 81 123 206 261 310 463 Goose Bay 153 Gottcha Gold 124 Grand Couturier 317 406 Grand Ducal 290 Grasshopper 254 Gravitation 166 245 Great Hawk 4 Great War Eagle 66 147 Grecian Dancer 106 160 Greeley’s Conquest 324 Gris de Gris 7 48 138 470 Halfway To Heaven 21 81 110 249 249 307 383 Hallie’s Comet 375 Hamsa 395 Hapsburg 228 297 Haradasun 156 Hard Rock City 424 Harlem Rocker 484 Harvest Queen 50 Hasanka 263 Hattan 4 36 335 Heart Shaped 456 Heatseeker 13 Heaven Sent 50 160 208 Hebridean 17 34 111 239 Hello Morning 25 Henrythenavigator 49 105 155 241 369 468 High Maintenance 358 High Rock 23 Hobby 164 Hoh Mike 201 Hold Me Love Me 339 Holocene 300 Honolulu 343 Huntdown 379 Hyperbaric 126 483 Hystericalady 62 399 I Can See 312 I Want Revenge 489 Icabad Crane 125

Ice Queen 152 219 Ideal World 356 Idiot Proof 10 Idolino 146 Il Divo 146 Il Warrd 159 Illustrious Blue 335 I’m So Lucky 321 In Chambers 89 174 In Summation 257 401 Incanto Dream 70 222 381 Indescribable 255 Indian Blessing 133 199 258 457 491 Indian Daffodil 174 426 Indian Way 199 Indiana Gal 78 Infallible 27 167 208 Infamous Angel 287 Intangaroo 62 323 Intense Focus 154 182 387 440 Interpatation 317 406 Into Mischief 490 Intrepid Jack 224 Inxile 301 It’s Gino 109 184 227 309 388 Jardin 326 Jargelle 240 Jay Peg 11 Jobe 283 Jukebox Jury 338 371 447 Jumbajukiba 26 216 353 424 Jungle Prince 257 Just Rushing 393 Kamado 218 Kamsin 65 205 279 309 Kasbah Bliss 358 Katiyra 78 121 345 384 Kentucky Bear 60 Kenz 204 Key To Pleasure 449 King Jock 138 King of Dixie 178 King of Rome 76 230 281 377 King of Sydney 442 King’s Apostle 373 Kingsgate Native 171 282 Kip Deville 59 463 Kirklees 434 Kite Wood 428 Kocab 228 Kodiak Kowboy 404 Konig Concorde 86 269 Konig Turf 7 Kylayne 27 75 Kyniska 280 La Boum 114 479 Laa Rayb 271 300 376 436 Lady Deauville 31 482 Lady Gloria 143 351 Lady Grace 212 Lady Marian 200 262 295 384 Lady of Venice 129 Lahaleeb 340 375 437 Lancetto 65 Langs Lash 158 287 Laragh 456 488 Lava Man 131 Lemon Drop Mom 319 398 Leo’s Starlet 47 185 Lessing 24 Lethal Heat 318 Liang Kay 35 86 150 331 Light Green 352 453 Lindner 366 Linngari 237 439 Lion Sands 248 Lisvale 111 Little Belle 56 61 252 316 Little Fighter 150 Look Busy 303 Look Here 121 346 Lord Admiral 77 230 Lord Hill 328 432 482 Lord Shanakill 154 242 294 362 440 Lord Snowdon 127

Loup Breton 19 101 422 Love Academy 87 Love Intrigue 40 Love of Dubai 102 134 Love To Dance 345 Lovelace 330 Lovely Isle 1 Lucarno 210 Lui Rei 173 235 473 Luminous Eyes 223 Lush Lashes 92 167 249 249 284 307 384 Macarthur 74 120 170 Macho Again 125 Mad About You 110 177 Mad Rush 296 Madame Trop Vite 342 Madda’s Force 260 Magadan 221 Magical Fantasy 318 Major Cadeaux 26 38 117 241 278 350 Mambo In Seattle 320 Mambo Light 333 Mani Bhavan 326 Mantoro 478 Maoineach 305 Maraahel 72 115 170 Maram 456 Marchand d’Or 136 213 267 385 Mariol 203 211 301 Marjalina 6 Mark of An Angel 223 Marquesa 140 Marsh Side 413 Mast Track 193 322 Masta Plasta 244 303 Master Noverre 283 Mastercraftsman 182 234 355 Masterofthehorse 374 Mauralakana 313 397 Mayweather 89 Merchant Marine 405 Metropolitan Man 38 Michita 164 284 Midnight Lute 462 Midshipman 390 407 461 Midships 486 Milanais 338 387 Mimetico 114 Minor Vamp 265 Miracle Seeker 245 Miraculous Miss 251 323 Misdaqeya 265 Mistical Plan 191 251 Model 454 Modern Look 137 Moiqen 17 34 79 Monba 60 Montalegre 84 Montmartre 162 221 Monzante 131 253 Mood Music 82 Moonlife 419 Moonstone 121 219 Mooretown Lady 106 Moorhouse Lad 363 385 Mores Wells 67 176 277 308 Mount Nelson 144 189 315 Mourayan 374 Mourilyan 335 Mousse Au Chocolat 137 Mr Medici 66 336 Mrs Kipling 430 Ms Margaret H 258 Muhannak 464 Multidimensional 170 264 360 Munnings 389 414 Murcielago 25 Music Note 192 252 316 395 460 Mustameet 217 230 Muthabara 31 My Central 114 My Princess Jess 455 Mystical Lady 353 Mythical Border 342 Naaqoos 387

Nahoodh 208 307 Nashmiah 419 Nashoba’s Key 15 Natagora 53 119 261 278 382 National Colour 282 Naval Officer 364 442 Never On Sunday 365 Never Retreat 192 New Approach 49 105 122 288 308 439 New Zealand 348 Next Vision 441 No Pardon 65 Noble Prince 70 222 Nolas Lolly 187 Not Just Swing 70 139 Obrigado 487 On Our Way 371 Once More Dubai 476 Only Answer 82 211 354 Ordnance Row 271 417 Oriental Tiger 20 44 Orion Star 41 101 381 Orizaba 242 Oro Blanco 396 Ostland 205 Oui Say Oui 276 Our Faye 212 Out of Control 63 130 403 Overdose 203 329 481 Paco Boy 30 238 272 310 382 Palacio de Amor 327 396 Pallodio 367 Pampas Cat 71 Papal Bull 210 232 279 Papetti 83 Passage of Time 249 249 Passified 312 Past the Point 325 Patkai 166 Patrician’s Glory 299 Pays To Dream 130 Peace Royale 87 187 330 Peligroso 478 Penny’s Gift 169 287 Peppertree Lane 46 176 425 Percolator 204 235 Perihelion 339 Permesso 83 476 Persistently 412 Petara Bay 210 Philatelist 36 Phoenix Tower 28 97 161 189 288 Pioneerof the Nile 415 489 Pipedreamer 28 115 161 189 233 Plan 217 314 Playfellow 347 Please Sing 207 Ponte Tresa 41 101 296 Poseidon Adventure 44 109 302 377 443 Precious Boy 35 86 376 Precious Kitten 128 408 485 Prema 450 Premium Wine 58 Presious Passion 197 Pressing 103 237 477 Prima Luce 68 353 Prime Defender 201 Prince Flori 328 418 482 Prince Shaun 147 Prince Siegfried 471 Profound Beauty 90 152 277 Project Dane 477 Prolific 165 209 246 Promising Lead 93 177 Proportional 386 Prospect Wells 88 221 Proud Spell 56 61 192 316 Proviso 43 99 206 259 Psalm 424 Pure Clan 61 195 392 Purple Moon 443 Pursuit of Glory 380 Pyro 320

Queen America 291 Queen of Naples 202 Quijano 149 227 394 Racer Forever 178 Racinger 225 470 Radhakunda 113 Ragiam 113 Rahy’s Attorney 393 Rainbow Dancing 479 Rainbow View 265 340 368 Rare Ransom 276 Raven’s Pass 29 155 220 241 285 369 468 Rayeni 452 Ready’s Echo 132 Rebellion 466 Red Alert Day 30 Red Giant 403 Red Moloney 348 Red Rock Canyon 112 Red Rocks 250 Redolent 172 271 331 Regime 67 217 Remarque 475 Reve de Soleil 246 Rio de La Plata 80 220 Rip Van Winkle 229 Ripple 88 Rising Moon 194 River Proud 80 292 Rob Roy 38 Rock Harmonie 354 Rock Moss 349 Rock of Rochelle 349 449 Rockmaster 84 Rosa Del Dubai 113 Rosabee 231 Rose Diamond 286 Rosenreihe 87 134 262 Rosinka 454 Royal And Regal 32 95 116 343 Russian Cross 292 365 Rutherienne 128 256 408 Ryehill Dreamer 290 Sabana Perdida 75 160 369 Saddex 42 103 Sagara 243 438 Sageburg 42 101 423 Sakhee’s Secret 52 Salsalavie 23 Salve Germania 431 Samuel 95 San Sicharia 212 Sanjida 22 47 Santa Teresita 399 Santiago 98 180 Saoirse Abu 21 53 Saphira’s Fire 435 Satan’s Circus 195 Savethisdanceforme 6 Saxford 433 Sayif 209 242 362 379 Schiaparelli 352 Schutzenjunker 35 448 Scintillo 293 Sea The Stars 374 Sealy Hill 411 459 Seaside Retreat 394 Sehrezad 180 226 330 Sell Out 445 Selmis 37 Senlis 33 145 Senor Benny 349 Senor Mirasol 235 Septimus 176 348 Serienhoehe 333 Serious Attitude 380 Shabiba 247 Shakis 410 Shaweel 214 283 355 Shemima 270 332 420 She’s Our Mark 68 370 Shimah 304 Shinko’s Best 266 Shipmaster 46 Shrek 172 Shreyas 370 Shyrl 158

Silver Frost 260 427 471 Silver Pivotal 4 Silver Shoon 305 Silver Swallow 196 Sir Gerry 136 171 373 429 Sir Whimsey 124 Sixties Icon 51 248 273 372 Skanky Biscuit 447 Sky Diva 412 458 Smokey Oakey 115 Smooth Air 16 Smooth Operator 433 473 Snaefell 107 280 Sneak Preview 361 Snoqualmie Girl 340 Snow Key 175 Soft Morning 370 Solar Flare 194 Soldier of Fortune 120 186 Somethinaboutlaura 2 Sommertag 448 Soneva 359 Soul City 338 Souter’s Sister 419 437 South Central 165 Spacious 53 Spanish Moon 264 360 Spice Route 72 413 Spin Cycle 165 Spirit One 5 19 148 315 Spirito Del Vento 7 48 144 225 337 423 Splash Mountain 151 Square Eddie 334 415 461 Sri Putra 299 Stage Luck 391 Star Crowned 10 Stardom Bound 327 396 458 Starlish 69 Starlit Sands 329 Stefer 474 Stella di Quattro 431 Stern Opinion 211 354 Stimulation 238 436 Storm Military 253 Storm Mountain 378 Storm Treasure 469 Stotsfold 289 Stream of Gold 3 Street Boss 198 257 401 462 Street Hero 390 407 461 Strike a Deal 197 Stubbs Art 49 105 Student Council 124 193 254 Sub Rose 135 Sugar Ray 372 Sugar Swirl 323 Summer Patriot 406 Summit Surge 147 Sun Classique 9 Supaseus 233 Supersonic Dave 74 Sweet Hope 258 Sworn Pro 450 Taameer 428 Tajaaweed 73 Takeover Target 157 Takhir 333 Tale of Ekati 54 484 Tamayuz 25 220 278 Tariq 97 Tartan Bearer 94 122 183 Tasha’s Miracle 1 Tax Free 181 Tempelstern 32 273 Terrain 415 The Bogberry 29 336 422 The Cheka 299 Third Set 285 Thorn Song 59 410 Thunderous Mood 341 Tiago 400 468 Tiffany Diamond 90 Titus Shadow 85 481 Tiza 96 118 301 472 Tizdejavu 314 Tomcito 16 Toms Laughter 363 Top Lock 168 205 293

Top Toss 22 206 259 Topclas 427 Toque de Queda 313 Toro Bonito 488 Tough Tiz’s Sis 2 196 391 Traffic Guard 28 289 308 Transduction Gold 403 Treasure 341 Treat Gently 135 185 295 357 Tres Rapide 421 453 Trincot 89 365 422 Triple Aspect 341 Trois Rois 88 Tropic Storm 198 Tungsten Strike 243 Turfrose 48 268 Twice Over 29 94 155 236 439 Two Step Salsa 466 Umirage 200 Unbridled Belle 319 Undaunted Affair 140 Under The Rainbow 93 Unnefer 73 289 Unsung Heroine 263 346 435 Unwritten Rule 34 Us Ranger 26 213 382 Utmost Respect 179 344 472 Vacare 402 Valdino 425 Vattene 102 Ventura 129 393 457 Veracity 438 451 Verba 75 Vertigineux 175 470 Vilasol 229 Vineyard Haven 389 414 Vision d’Etat 119 356 Visionaire 321 Visit 247 383 485 Vitruvian Man 452 Voila Ici 149 378 Waffle 430 Wait a While 402 459 Wait And See 43 Waky Love 98 269 Waldvogel 104 Walzertraum 146 418 Wanderin Boy 325 405 War Artist 91 171 213 War Monger 12 410 War Pass 54 Washington Irving 79 277 Watar 23 162 332 420 Weald Park 214 Weatherstaff 334 Well Armed 8 322 400 Welsh Emperor 306 Westphalia 218 347 467 Whatsthescript 253 463 Whistledownwind 39 White Lightning 20 448 White Snow 475 Wi Dud 303 363 Wiesenpfad 98 172 328 432 Wildfahrte 450 Will O Way 327 Winchester 314 Wynning Ride 488 Yeats 163 243 451 Yorktown 145 Youmzain 120 186 232 388 Young Pretender 142 Zacinto 347 Zack Dream 162 Zafisio 471 Zaftig 133 457 Zaham 32 Zambezi Sun 139 352 Zarkava 24 81 123 357 388 Zaungast 366 418 Zenyatta 57 196 399 460 Zidane 179 429 Zulu Chief 281

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Group winning son of DANEHILL from the family of WARNING and RAINBOW QUEST. Full in 2008 with 98 mares and a fertility of 94%. 1st foals 2009.

OVERBURY

High Class Dual Purpose Sire.

Dual Group 1 winning son of IN THE WINGS. 65% winners to runners.

2009 Fee: ÂŁ4,000 Oct 1st

Sire of BALLYFITZ, 3 time Cheltenham winner in 2008.

2009 Fee: ÂŁ1,500 Oct 1st

Winner in 2009 of the Whitbread Silver Salver award for leading British NH Sire.

BEAT ALL

NEEDWOOD BLADE Dual Group winning son of champion sire PIVOTAL. His first 2-yr-old’s in 2008 had 9 win and 23 places.

Yearlings fetched up to ÂŁ55,000 in 2008.

2009 Fee: ÂŁ3,000 Oct 1st

2009 Fee: ÂŁ3,000 Oct 1st

High potential Dual purpose sire

by DYNAFORMER. 50% winners to runners on the Flat in 2008.

NH horses in training with Paul Nicholls and Alan King as well as the promising hurdler STAR BEAT with Keith Reveley.

2009 Fee: ÂŁ2,000 Oct 1st Concessions for quality mares 1/2 price filly return.

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DATA BOOK Leading sires

Comments: Jeremy Early

Wins

AWD

Earnings (£)

Top horse

Earned (£)

Runners key to Presenting prize

68 46 31 61 38 44 42 32 32 13 31 21 32 25 11 17 19 2 5 19 10 11 9 11 21 17 16 17 16 7 13 2 16 14 7 8 2 12 5 12

20.3 19.8 19.2 20.1 19.5 20.5 19.8 18.8 18.3 17.9 19.3 17.9 20.6 21.1 17.4 18.7 20.5 24.0 22.8 20.0 21.8 20.8 23.1 19.9 19.0 19.9 19.9 19.7 18.3 17.9 19.1 22.8 18.7 17.0 19.0 22.9 16.3 19.8 20.2 19.5

821,098 729,599 699,371 654,148 619,472 475,266 450,851 310,651 293,413 289,144 267,985 249,061 239,909 238,166 230,354 222,347 216,440 197,595 194,447 187,754 185,405 185,278 181,512 178,794 175,844 174,846 174,276 171,826 169,251 166,853 165,229 158,961 154,139 151,129 148,969 147,370 146,270 144,747 139,471 134,404

War Of Attrition Imperial Commander Snoopy Loopy Casey Jones According To Pete Megans Joy Barbers Shop Dashing George Katies Tuitor Sentry Duty Tramp Stamp Keys Pride Ballyfitz Powerstation Hurricane Fly Irish Legend Snap Tie Kauto Star Oslot Made In Taipan State Of Play Knowhere Dear Villez Glenfinn Captain Emotional Article My Petra Alpha Ridge Scotsirish Hold Em Chomba Womba Skip Two Exotic Dancer Laura’s Light Sublimity Always Waining Notre Pere Binocular Master Medic Master Minded Classic Fiddle

61,915 88,587 238,022 57,121 84,320 36,243 55,157 30,766 49,241 134,063 26,504 38,813 32,691 33,509 81,250 31,911 43,420 197,596 110,199 39,309 55,021 39,907 64,139 42,706 22,479 59,710 54,375 31,518 30,683 111,956 32,921 130,643 17,465 60,600 37,201 106,017 145,330 32,979 100,236 31,310

Presenting’s presence at the top of the table comes as no surprise judging by the success he has enjoyed in recent seasons and his numerical edge – with 254 runners he is 47 clear of Oscar and over 100 ahead of the second and third, Flemensfirth and Old Vic. Presenting’s principal earner, War Of Attrition, has notched just shy of £62,000, hardly a mammoth figure and less than 10% of the sire’s overall tally.

This statistic also applies to Oscar, Supreme Leader and Beneficial. By comparison, Snoopy Loopy has contributed over 33% of Old Vic’s total.

The fees of the top sires in 2008 were: Presenting €9,000, Flemensfirth €10,000 and Oscar €8,000. This confirms that in the good times there has been money to be made out of jump stallions, especially when they cover 200-plus mares a year. By comparison, Kayf Tara stood at a bargain £2,500.

Leading NH sires 2008-09 by earnings Name

Presenting Flemensfirth Old Vic Oscar Accordion Supreme Leader Saddlers’ Hall Beneficial Kayf Tara Kahyasi King’s Theatre Bob Back Overbury Anshan Montjeu Sadler’s Wells Pistolet Bleu Village Star Passing Sale Taipan Hernando Lord Americo Villez Alderbrook Definite Article Midnight Legend Glacial Storm Zaffaran Moscow Society Fourstars Allstar Norwich Turgeon Turtle Island Selkirk Unfuwain Kadalko Enrique Dr Massini Nikos Classic Cliche

YOF

1992 1992 1986 1994 1986 1982 1988 1990 1994 1985 1991 1981 1991 1987 1996 1981 1988 1983 1987 1992 1990 1984 1992 1989 1992 1991 1985 1985 1985 1988 1987 1986 1991 1988 1985 1988 1996 1993 1981 1992

Sire

Rnrs

Wnrs

%WR

Mtoto Alleged Sadler’s Wells Sadler’s Wells Sadler’s Wells Bustino Sadler’s Wells Top Ville Sadler’s Wells Ile de Bourbon Sadler’s Wells Roberto Caerleon Persian Bold Sadler’s Wells Northern Dancer Top Ville Moulin No Pass No Sale Last Tycoon Niniski Lord Gayle Lyphard’s Wish Ardross Indian Ridge Night Shift Arctic Tern Assert Nijinsky Compliance Top Ville Caro Fairy King Sharpen Up Northern Dancer Cadoudal Barathea Sadler’s Wells Nonoalco Salse

254 138 131 207 119 177 189 138 97 38 88 117 92 128 51 80 71 1 10 62 34 96 17 65 64 32 56 70 75 54 60 14 83 30 18 11 3 71 22 70

51 36 19 46 28 34 36 24 24 10 21 19 24 18 10 16 14 1 4 14 10 10 7 9 17 11 11 14 12 5 12 2 12 10 6 5 1 10 3 10

20.1 26.1 14.5 22.2 23.5 19.2 19.1 17.4 24.7 26.3 23.9 16.2 26.1 14.1 19.6 20.0 19.7 100.0 40.0 22.6 29.4 10.4 41.2 13.9 26.6 34.4 19.6 20.0 16.0 9.3 20.0 14.3 14.5 33.3 33.3 45.5 33.3 14.1 13.6 14.3

Statistics up to January 4

Sire

Rnrs

Wnrs

%WR

Races

AWD

Earnings (£)

Top horse

Earned (£)

Oasis Dream a record breaker

Danehill Elusive Quality Woodman Green Desert Sadler's Wells Green Desert Sadler's Wells Green Desert Young Generation Danehill Danehill Pivotal Storm Cat Highest Honor Waajib Danzig Blushing Groom Danehill Indian Ridge Sadler's Wells Danehill Dancer Storm Cat Nureyev Cadeaux Genereux Roberto Super Concorde Barathea Danzig Rahy Hennessy Red Ransom Sadler's Wells Indian Ridge Royal Applause Kenmare Sadler's Wells Pivotal Roberto Northern Dancer Danzig

68 49 68 75 46 68 60 69 8 67 33 72 43 64 70 9 6 59 56 55 47 75 61 55 51 28 54 37 49 42 37 30 26 49 23 44 71 13 39 25

29 16 13 27 22 30 19 38 1 23 12 25 12 25 23 5 2 20 15 16 14 26 22 25 19 10 13 9 23 13 14 14 8 16 6 9 26 6 9 8

42.7 32.7 19.1 36.0 47.8 44.1 31.7 55.1 12.5 34.3 36.4 34.7 27.9 39.1 32.9 55.6 33.3 33.9 26.8 29.1 29.8 34.7 36.1 45.5 37.3 35.7 24.1 24.3 46.9 31.0 37.8 46.7 30.8 32.7 26.1 20.5 36.6 46.2 23.1 32.0

40 23 16 40 26 44 23 44 2 29 25 32 14 36 29 12 3 23 17 24 18 40 29 32 24 12 20 11 31 16 20 15 13 22 13 11 37 9 10 13

6.7 6.2 7.4 5.9 7.5 6.0 7.9 6.7 6.5 5.6 6.0 5.9 7.4 6.8 6.3 6.2 7.7 7.3 5.9 6.8 6.2 5.9 6.5 5.7 7.3 7.0 6.0 7.0 6.8 6.4 7.1 7.1 5.5 5.5 6.4 7.9 6.2 7.7 7.3 7.0

1,570,755 1,096,065 951,946 794,051 640,244 617,300 614,848 608,066 559,323 558,171 539,091 511,308 485,255 443,635 441,106 364,313 357,166 356,226 356,010 346,960 317,997 317,551 314,503 303,203 293,391 292,773 292,408 288,350 288,319 274,131 260,274 243,573 241,691 232,718 228,327 227,867 225,058 222,792 218,738 213,345

Tiger Eye Soul City Minor Vamp Baileys Cacao Gan Amhras Jargelle Jukebox Jury Naaqoos Donativum Vitoria Bushranger Awinnersgame Intense Focus Silver Frost Finjaan Elnawin Crowded House Shaweel Total Gallery Favourite Girl Choose Me Diglett Pride Dancer Gallagher Copperbeech Smooth Operator Penny's Gift Arazan Langs Lash Princess Roseburg Bonnie Charlie Proportional Matwan Anglezarke Doriana The Miniver Rose Golden Destiny Rainbow View Fantasia Little Dreams

433,738 799,450 746,508 232,618 217,502 89,620 148,341 175,000 547,038 184,295 337,626 169,015 334,357 91,673 79,393 193,276 349,404 114,322 129,276 67,200 120,537 37,591 41,029 108,485 45,801 125,331 192,314 75,294 59,747 41,103 110,391 138,324 50,110 40,681 74,375 85,032 31,207 192,522 83,978 61,875

Danehill Dancer had no difficulty landing this title, having an advantage of almost £500,000, but the numerical award goes to the remarkable Oasis Dream. With 38 winners from 69 runners, the Banstead Manor stallion set a new world record, and among sires with 30 or more runners his average of 55% winners puts him some way clear of the rest, headed by Galileo (48%) and Beat Hollow and Noverre (both 47%).

Congratulations also to Kheleyf, who was top firstseason sire in numbers ahead of the ante-post favourite One Cool Cat, and to Elusive City, who won the title on earnings thanks mainly to Soul City’s big sales race win at the Curragh.

One Cool Cat had the jointtop highest number of runners among all sires, his 75 matching that of Invincible Spirit. Captain Rio, Kyllachy and Royal Applause were also in the 70s.

Leading 2yo sires in Europe 2008 by earnings Name

Danehill Dancer *Elusive City Hawk Wing Invincible Spirit Galileo *Kheleyf Montjeu Oasis Dream Cadeaux Genereux *Exceed And Excel Danetime Kyllachy Giant's Causeway Verglas Royal Applause Elnadim Rainbow Quest Dansili Namid *Refuse To Bend Choisir *One Cool Cat Fasliyev Bahamian Bounty Red Ransom Big Shuffle Tobougg Anabaa Noverre Johannesburg Intikhab Beat Hollow Indian Rocket Acclamation Kendor High Chaparral Captain Rio Dynaformer Sadler's Wells *Della Francesca

YOF

1993 2000 1999 1997 1998 2001 1996 2000 1985 2000 1994 1998 1997 1994 1993 1994 1981 1996 1996 2000 1999 2001 1997 1994 1987 1984 1998 1992 1998 1999 1994 1997 1994 1999 1986 1999 1999 1985 1981 1999

(*first-season sires)

Statistics up to December 31

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(CAPE CROSS – ANNOUNCING PEACE (DANEHILL)). (Bay 2002 (16.1hh)).

Dual Stakes Winner. Fee for 2009: ÂŁ1,000 1st October. Limited number of FREE for breeders sending mares to BARYSHNIKOV or SEPTIEME CIEL.

BARYSHNIKOV SEPTIEME CIEL

(Kenmare – Lady Giselle (Nureyev)). (Grey 1991 (16.1hh)).

Group 1 Winner producing Group Winners. 55% winners/runners lifetime. Fee for 2009: ÂŁ1,750 1st October. Concessions for approved mares.

(Seattle Slew – Maximova (Green Dancer)). (Bay 1987 (16.1hh)).

Group 1 Winner producing Group Winners on the flat and over jumps.

63% winners/runners lifetime. Successful Broodmare Sire of Group 1 winners. Fee for 2009: ÂŁ1,950 1st October. Concessions for approved mares.

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DATA BOOK Leading sires

SH

%SH

SW

%SW

Happily, speed is not everything

New Approach 1,634,746 33 Frozen Fire 652,133 35 Tiger Eye 433,738 31 Zarkava 2,340,221 7 Halfway To Heaven 573,066 24 Yeats 332,923 28 Sabana Perdida 141,930 19 Duke Of Marmalade 1,100,166 10 Baileys Cacao 232,618 18 Famous Name 333,581 15 Goldikova 441,978 16 Henrythenavigator 782,203 11 Mount Nelson 300,004 17 Silver Frost 91,673 8 Minor Vamp 746,508 8 Conduit 406,640 12 Bushranger 337,626 7 Casual Conquest 423,741 8 Donativum 547,038 9 Naaqoos 175,000 17 Dar Re Mi 172,041 17 Creachadoir 113,540 13 Katiyra 163,828 16 Youmzain 974,997 2 Tamayuz 463,924 9 War Artist 151,300 8 Lovelace 124,211 9 Lady Deauville 139,369 8 Marchand d’Or 496,701 1 Smooth Operator 125,331 16 Awinnersgame 169,015 7 Vision d’Etat 801,544 2 Indian Days 92,085 9 Soul City 799,450 6 Tartan Bearer 493,401 6 Pipedreamer 174,879 11 Elnawin 193,276 10 Top Toss 73,162 6 Lady Gloria 83,455 5 Watar 127,022 10

17.2 16.5 12.8 10.0 12.1 15.1 8.0 17.2 9.9 8.5 9.8 15.7 10.4 3.8 4.8 14.8 4.6 7.3 8.2 11.3 11.6 5.8 13.2 2.8 10.0 4.3 4.2 3.9 1.0 10.4 4.0 4.4 6.0 12.2 4.8 8.7 11.2 4.9 2.3 7.2

17 18 18 3 17 15 12 6 10 9 8 5 8 1 1 7 6 5 3 5 6 6 9 2 3 6 5 3 1 7 3 1 2 2 2 6 5 3 2 4

8.9 8.5 7.4 4.3 8.6 8.1 5.0 10.3 5.5 5.1 4.9 7.1 4.9 0.5 0.6 8.6 4.0 4.6 2.7 3.3 4.1 2.7 7.4 2.8 3.3 3.2 2.4 1.5 1.0 4.6 1.7 2.2 1.3 4.1 1.6 4.7 5.6 2.4 0.9 2.9

Galileo’s championship was in the bag well before the end of the season but there are still some interesting elements to be noted in the table.

The fact that the average winning distance of progeny by Galileo and Montjeu was more than 11 furlongs is encouraging for anyone who is disillusioned with the speed obsession that increasingly dominates American racing and breeding.

In 2008 only 12 Grade 1 events on dirt in the States were contested over at least ten furlongs and only one of those was at a mile and a half. In contrast, 17 races open to three-year-olds or older horses were over six or seven furlongs.

Close behind the leaders are three sires who are much more an influence for pace – Danehill Dancer, Zamindar and Pivotal.

That’s splendid, as it confirms the variety which has always been a strength of European bloodstock and racing.

Leading sires in Europe 2008 by earnings Name

Galileo Montjeu Danehill Dancer Zamindar Pivotal Sadler’s Wells Cape Cross Danehill Invincible Spirit Dansili Anabaa Kingmambo Rock Of Gibraltar Verglas Hawk Wing Dalakhani Danetime Hernando Cadeaux Genereux Oasis Dream Singspiel King’s Best Peintre Celebre Sinndar Nayef Orpen Royal Applause Fasliyev Marchand de Sable Big Shuffle Kyllachy Chichicastenango Daylami Elusive City Spectrum Selkirk Elnadim Linamix Diktat Marju

YOF

Sire

1998 1996 1993 1994 1993 1981 1994 1986 1997 1996 1992 1990 1999 1994 1999 2000 1994 1990 1985 2000 1992 1997 1994 1997 1998 1996 1993 1997 1990 1984 1998 1998 1994 2000 1992 1988 1994 1987 1995 1988

Sadler’s Wells Sadler’s Wells Danehill Gone West Polar Falcon Northern Dancer Green Desert Danzig Green Desert Danehill Danzig Mr Prospector Danehill Highest Honor Woodman Darshaan Danehill Niniski Young Generation Green Desert In The Wings Kingmambo Nureyev Grand Lodge Gulch Lure Waajib Nureyev Theatrical Super Concorde Pivotal Smadoun Doyoun Elusive Quality Rainbow Quest Sharpen Up Danzig Mendez Warning Last Tycoon

Rnrs

Wnrs

%WR

Races

AWD

192 212 243 70 198 186 238 58 182 177 163 70 163 212 166 81 151 109 110 150 146 224 121 72 90 186 213 207 105 154 176 46 151 49 126 127 89 123 221 139

90 84 105 22 102 62 102 20 80 79 57 34 63 82 49 40 69 51 44 75 68 81 55 28 36 78 80 78 45 67 68 16 70 16 43 37 38 54 78 49

46.9 39.6 43.2 31.4 51.5 33.3 42.9 34.5 44.0 44.6 35.0 48.6 38.7 38.7 29.5 49.4 45.7 46.8 40.0 50.0 46.6 36.2 45.5 38.9 40.0 41.9 37.6 37.7 42.9 43.5 38.6 34.8 46.4 32.7 34.1 29.1 42.7 43.9 35.3 35.3

133 122 150 40 167 80 160 45 127 112 85 58 87 120 68 52 144 74 82 99 112 110 73 39 51 138 131 113 58 110 111 27 102 23 64 52 69 79 115 76

11.1 11.5 8.0 8.6 7.7 11.5 8.8 9.7 7.2 9.6 9.2 9.3 8.8 9.3 9.5 11.1 7.2 11.3 7.7 7.5 10.7 8.7 10.2 11.5 10.2 7.8 7.7 7.4 9.2 7.6 6.3 10.4 11.0 0.0 8.8 9.6 7.1 10.9 8.0 9.5

Earnings (£) Top horse

5,394,935 3,742,102 3,202,263 3,152,715 3,024,726 2,663,528 2,055,483 1,913,170 1,885,506 1,853,768 1,817,860 1,730,772 1,638,611 1,632,728 1,585,822 1,546,291 1,516,037 1,504,890 1,418,014 1,406,226 1,387,532 1,370,488 1,356,089 1,309,689 1,298,730 1,280,578 1,279,595 1,261,806 1,256,473 1,199,953 1,188,116 1,180,437 1,108,977 1,096,065 1,076,595 1,030,567 1,023,842 1,020,127 1,003,377 1,001,567

Earned (£)

Statistics up to December 31

Leading sires in Europe 2008 Name

Danehill Galileo Dalakhani Pivotal Montjeu Sadler’s Wells Monsun Peintre Celebre Danehill Dancer Rainbow Quest Kingmambo One Cool Cat Observatory Mujadil Acatenango Samum Elusive Quality Slickly Areion Elnadim Invincible Spirit Tiger Hill Dansili Cape Cross Indian Ridge Anabaa Rock Of Gibraltar In The Wings High Chaparral Selkirk Bahri Dashing Blade Lomitas Hernando Big Shuffle Exceed And Excel Kheleyf Efisio Sakhee Zamindar

YOF

1986 1998 2000 1993 1996 1981 1990 1994 1993 1981 1990 2001 1997 1988 1982 1997 1993 1996 1995 1994 1997 1995 1996 1994 1985 1992 1999 1986 1999 1988 1992 1987 1988 1990 1984 2000 2001 1982 1997 1994

Sire

Danzig Sadler’s Wells Darshaan Polar Falcon Sadler’s Wells Northern Dancer Konigsstuhl Nureyev Danehill Blushing Groom Mr Prospector Storm Cat Distant View Storm Bird Surumu Monsun Gone West Linamix Big Shuffle Danzig Green Desert Danehill Danehill Green Desert Ahonoora Danzig Danehill Sadler’s Wells Sadler’s Wells Sharpen Up Riverman Elegant Air Niniski Niniski Super Concorde Danehill Green Desert Formidable Bahri Gone West

Rnrs

Wnrs

%WR

Races

AWD

58 192 81 198 212 186 89 121 243 68 70 75 78 80 50 50 69 87 53 89 182 94 177 238 122 163 163 82 104 127 64 128 130 109 154 67 68 69 69 70

20 90 40 102 84 62 40 55 105 26 34 26 37 32 17 22 29 31 27 38 80 35 79 102 46 57 63 25 36 37 18 55 58 51 67 23 30 36 29 22

34.5 46.9 49.4 51.5 39.6 33.3 44.9 45.5 43.2 38.2 48.6 34.7 47.4 40.0 34.0 44.0 42.0 35.6 50.9 42.7 44.0 37.2 44.6 42.9 37.7 35.0 38.7 30.5 34.6 29.1 28.1 43.0 44.6 46.8 43.5 34.3 44.1 52.2 42.0 31.4

45 133 52 167 122 80 58 73 150 36 58 40 60 49 21 42 41 58 48 69 127 54 112 160 67 85 87 40 50 52 29 82 90 74 110 29 44 54 42 40

9.7 11.1 11.1 7.7 11.5 11.5 10.9 10.2 8.0 10.9 9.3 0 8.6 7.3 11.8 10.6 8.2 9.5 7.4 7.1 7.2 9.8 9.6 8.8 8.3 9.2 8.8 11.6 10.2 9.6 7.9 8.4 10.4 11.3 7.6 0 0 7.7 9.2 8.6

Earned (£)

SH

%SH

SW

%SW

Peintre Celebre a value option

Duke Of Marmalade 1,100,166 New Approach 1,634,746 Conduit 406,640 Halfway To Heaven 573,066 Frozen Fire 652,133 Yeats 332,923 Getaway 148,708 Katiyra 163,828 Tiger Eye 433,738 Crowded House 349,404 Henrythenavigator 782,203 Diglett 37,591 Twice Over 331,110 Kingsgate Native 241,418 Quijano 115,735 Kamsin 447,794 Raven’s Pass 425,123 Gris de Gris 130,554 Globus 64,706 Elnawin 193,276 Baileys Cacao 232,618 Oriental Tiger 52,941 Famous Name 333,581 Sabana Perdida 141,930 Mad About You 127,445 Goldikova 441,978 Mount Nelson 300,004 Adlerflug 118,382 Unsung Heroine 186,148 Pipedreamer 174,879 Gesture 67,867 Forthe Millionkiss 72,426 Gimmy 81,765 Casual Conquest 423,741 Smooth Operator 125,331 Vitoria 184,295 Jargelle 89,620 Zafisio 139,806 Permesso 186,637 Zarkava 2,340,221

10 33 12 24 35 28 12 16 31 8 11 7 5 9 5 4 10 6 5 10 18 10 15 19 7 16 17 4 9 11 5 12 11 8 16 6 7 3 7 7

17.2 17.2 14.8 12.1 16.5 15.1 13.5 13.2 12.8 11.8 15.7 9.3 6.4 11.3 10.0 8.0 14.5 6.9 9.4 11.2 9.9 10.6 8.5 8.0 5.7 9.8 10.4 4.9 8.7 8.7 7.8 9.4 8.5 7.3 10.4 9.0 10.3 4.4 10.1 10.0

6 17 7 17 18 15 7 9 18 5 5 5 5 5 3 3 4 5 3 5 10 5 9 12 6 8 8 4 5 6 3 6 6 5 7 3 3 3 3 3

10.3 8.9 8.6 8.6 8.5 8.1 7.9 7.4 7.4 7.4 7.1 6.7 6.4 6.3 6.0 6.0 5.8 5.8 5.7 5.6 5.5 5.3 5.1 5.0 4.9 4.9 4.9 4.9 4.8 4.7 4.7 4.7 4.6 4.6 4.6 4.5 4.4 4.4 4.4 4.3

The prize for number of stakes winners goes jointly to Montjeu and Danehill Dancer, their score of 18 putting them just ahead of Galileo and Pivotal.

Predictably, those sires are all in the top ten on percentages (and in percentage of stakes horses), but interestingly two who reached double figures in this department, Cape Cross (12) and Invincible Spirit (ten), are not in the top 20.

This is an index of the number of runners each has had, since both make the top ten there, and on 238 Cape Cross is only five behind Danehill Dancer.

Those looking for value among the leading sires could do worse than consider Peintre Celebre, yet another of the Coolmore brigade. His 2009 fee of €20,000 is a fraction of most of those above him, yet with 7.4% stakes winners – he had had just over 6% in 2007 – his record speaks for itself.

by percentage of stakes winners to runners (50+) Earnings (£) Top horse

1,913,170 5,394,935 1,546,291 3,024,726 3,742,102 2,663,528 710,826 1,356,089 3,202,263 794,199 1,730,772 317,551 919,726 864,176 352,786 790,306 875,013 997,246 431,205 1,023,842 1,885,506 516,233 1,853,768 2,055,483 925,304 1,817,860 1,638,611 643,178 1,000,101 1,030,567 341,192 589,447 855,919 1,504,890 1,199,953 558,171 617,300 508,301 746,277 3,152,715

Statistics up to December 31

FEBRUARY 2009 THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER 87

2ZQHU%UHHGHU $G SDJHV 2ZQHU%UHHGHU $G SDJHV 3DJH

TENDULKAR (USA) BAY THOROUGHBRED 1999. 15.3HH THREE-GENERATION PEDIGREE Spinning World (USA) b 1993 8.9f Tendulkar (USA) b h 1999

Nureyev (USA) ch 1977 8.1f , RPR125 Imperfect Circle (USA) b 1988 Alleged (USA) 1974 11.6f

Romanette (USA) Laughing Bridge (USA) RACE RECORD Won 1 race, value ÂŁ38,281 at 2yrs over 5f.

Placed second in Weatherbys Ireland Greenland Stakes, Curragh Gr.3 and third in Darley Dewhurst Stakes Newmarket Gr.1.

He was purchased for 200,000gns from Keenland as a yearling by D O'Byrne for Mrs J Magnier and Mr M Tabor.

STUD RECORD Retired to stud in 2003 and sire of winners of 36 races and ÂŁ297,671 on the flat and NH. Including: SMOKEY OAKEY (IRE) Betfair Brigadier Gerard Stakes Gr.3, and nominated for the Best Handicapper at the 2008 ROA Awards, KAPOULAKI, DINAKOS, DRUNKEN SAILOR, MYFRENCHCONNECTION, SALLY'S BANKER, STYLISH SOFI, SUNSETTEN, SAD TIMES, LIVELY IMAGINATION, TENDUCAT, TENDULKARINA, GUEMBRI, etc.

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Orientor Orientor Bay 1998 Inchinor

Orient (Bay Express)

Tough son of the influential Inchinor From the outstandingly fast Ahonoora family Retired sound at the age of 10 Sire: INCHINOR Won Gr.3 Greenham Stakes, Gr.3 Hungerford Stakes, Gr.3 Criterion Stakes, 2nd Gr.1 Dewhurst Stakes: sire of 26 Stakes winners, incl. ORIENTOR, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE (Gr.1), NOTNOWCATO (Gr.1), (GR.1), SUMMONER (Gr.1), LATICE (Gr.1), ON THE ACORN (Gr.2), GOLDEN SILCA (Gr.2), BANNISTER (Gr.2), SATCHEM (Gr.3), UMISTIM (Gr.3, sire), YASOODD (Gr.3), IN CLOVER (Gr.3), ROYAL COPENHAGEN (Gr.3), FELICITY (Gr.3), SESMEN (Gr.3), etc.

Dam: ORIENT Track record holder at Ascot: won 3 races, 2nd Gr.3 Greenlands Stakes, 3rd Gr.1 LR Scarbrough Stakes: dam of 6 winners, incl.

ORIENTOR multiple Group winner: see left).

YEAST (ÂŁ139,000, incl. LR Joel Stakes, 2nd LR Doncaster Mile).

ARCADE dam of: MONTECASTILLO (ÂŁ120,000, incl Gr.3 Concorde Stakes) KALAMUNDA (2nd LR Garnet Stakes, 3rd LR Knockaire Stakes) FAIRY SONG (2nd LR Blenheim Stakes)

WON 5 RACES AND OVER ÂŁ318,000 Won Gr.3 Champagne Stakes, 5f, Sandown Park, beating THE TATLING, RINGMORE DOWN, THE KIDDYKID, Won Gr.3 Chipchase Stakes, 6f, Newcastle, beating COUNTRY REEL, NAYYIR Won Shergar Sprint, 6f, Ascot, beating HK Gr.1 winner FIREBOLT Contested no less than 47 stakes races and 79 career starts TIMEFORM RATED: 117

“

He is a smart, resilient racehorse, who retired sound after a long and successful career. I look forward to training his progeny, with the same toughness and brilliant temperment.

JIM GOLDIE, TRAINER

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88 THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER FEBRUARY 2009

The immediate family of: SON PARDO (Gr.2 Richmond Stakes, sire), ATRAF (Gr.3 Cork and Orrery Stakes, Gr.3 Jaipur Stakes, successful sire), COLONIAL GIRL (Gr.1), LORD SHIRLDOR (Gr.1), DOG ROSE (Gr.2),

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British and Irish-bred winners overseas Breeder

Winner

Sire

Age/sex Dam

Ctry

Abe, M Al Sulaim, Mohammed Aram, M V S and Mrs Aram, M V S and Mrs Aston House Stud Baldwin, John Baldwin, John Ballyhane Stud Ballyprior Stud Bambrick, M Barton Stud Partnership & New England Stud Baugh, P Bendis Partnership Benson, B L Blackdown Stud Boland, R Bolger, F Boudengen, P Bowdren, J Bowdren, J Boyce Bloodstock Brick Kiln Farming Brimpton Bloodstock Brinkley Stud S A S Brinkley Stud S A S Brinkley Stud S A S Brook Stud Bloodstock Ltd Brownstown Stud Brownstown Stud Partnership Burrell, Mrs M Burton Agnes Stud Co Ltd Burton Agnes Stud Co Ltd Burton Agnes Stud Co Ltd Burton Agnes Stud Co Ltd Burton Agnes Stud Co Ltd Burton Agnes Stud Co Ltd Burton Agnes Stud Co Ltd Byrne, David F Byrne, David F Campbell-Andenaes, Mrs M Castle, C Castlemartin Stud & Skymarc Farm Castleton Group Chandris, Mrs J Chandris, Mrs J Chandris, Mrs J Chaplin, Miss J Cheveley Park Stud Ltd Cheveley Park Stud Ltd Cheveley Park Stud Ltd Cheveley Park Stud Ltd Cheveley Park Stud Ltd Cheveley Park Stud Ltd Chevington Stud Chippenham Lodge Stud Ltd Clark Industrial Services Partnership Clark Industrial Services Partnership Clark Industrial Services Partnership Cliveden Stud Ltd Cliveden Stud Ltd Cliveden Stud Ltd Cliveden Stud Ltd Cloneen Stud Clovelly Farms Colbinstown Lodge Stud Colbinstown Lodge Stud Corvette Paddocks Ltd Cox & Peter Jones, Tim Crangle, B J and Mrs Crone Stud Farms Ltd Cullen, K and Mrs Cullen, R Cullen, R Curtis, S J Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley

Hishi Windsor Thiraikos Oinos Sky Crusader Sky Crusader Mezzo Mister Kritikos Mister Kritikos Polar Flow Colonial Cross Johannes Mozart Algorithmos Simons Wood Rubirosa Quick Foot Varya Passi di Danza Hill Of Holly Antarige Intensify Intensify Veradero Major Willy Vegas Boys Timtaya Timtaya Timtaya Dehradoun Without A Prayer Amadeus Mozart Dream Bee Casemate Casemate Casemate Casemate Casemate Casemate Casemate Indos Indos Sikelos Gifted Lass Rainbow Crossing Killoscully Live Concert Pactolos Way Rainbow Way Officer Rocket Heavenward Arbitrage Heavenward Arbitrage Heavenward Neon Almaguer Walkonthewildside Kalzak Kalzak Kalzak Flashmans Papers Flashmans Papers Funny Bone Funny Bone Cottonmouth High In The Sky (USA) Flavius Flavius Syllabus Ashover Lane Gipsy Hall Zeliko Nevas Ballyhooligan Ballyhooligan Lu's Woman Country Dance Dahteer Dark Dawn Maslaha Cape Malea Country Dance Beaujeu Bashful Bride Pentland Firth Maslaha Al Ruwah Tolerance Jeddeym

Singspiel Celtic Swing Mujahid (USA) Mujahid (USA) Singspiel Strategic Choice (USA) Strategic Choice (USA) Iron Mask (USA) Cape Cross Spinning World (USA) Pursuit Of Love Up And At 'em Acclamation Wizard King Diktat Bertolini (USA) Rock Of Gibraltar Fasliyev (USA) Fasliyev (USA) Fasliyev (USA) Best Of The Bests Xaar Royal Applause Lomitas Lomitas Lomitas Primo Valentino Intikhab (USA) Mozart Oasis Dream Efisio Efisio Efisio Efisio Efisio Efisio Efisio Almutawakel Almutawakel King Of Kings Bold Edge Cape Cross Barathea Singspiel Docksider (USA) High Chaparral Officer (USA) Pivotal Kyllachy Pivotal Kyllachy Pivotal Fantastic Light (USA) Spectrum Giant's Causeway (USA) Kalanisi Kalanisi Kalanisi Exceed And Excel (AUS) Exceed And Excel (AUS) Pivotal Pivotal Noverre (USA) Silver Hawk (USA) Montjeu Montjeu Sillery (USA) Muhtarram (USA) Halling (USA) Fruits Of Love (USA) Choisir (AUS) Imperial Ballet Imperial Ballet Lujain (USA) Machiavellian (USA) Bachir Sunday Silence (USA) Selkirk (USA) Cape Cross Machiavellian (USA) Singspiel Holy Bull (USA) Green Desert (USA) Selkirk (USA) Elusive Quality (USA) Noverre (USA) Hernando (FR)

4c 3c 6g 6g 5m 5g 5g 3g 4g 2c 5h 7g 3g 5g 4f 3f 4c 2f 4f 4f 4c 3c 5g 3f 3f 3f 5g 3c 5h 3f 6g 6g 6g 6g 6g 6g 6g 3c 3c 6h 6m 3f 4g 4c 5g 3f 4c 4c 4f 4c 4f 4c 4f 6g 6h 5m 5m 5m 2c 2c 5m 5m 4f 4c 4c 4c 7h 5g 6h 5h 3c 5g 5g 3f 5h 6g 5h 3f 3f 5h 3c 2f 4c 3f 4g 4g 3g

Jpn Gr Fr Fr Qtr Cyp Cyp Gr Gr Ity Cyp Swe Spa Gr Qtr Ity Qtr Fr Gr Gr Ity Qtr Qtr Nor Nor Nor Fr Fr Sin Gr Qtr Qtr Qtr Qtr Qtr Qtr Qtr Gr Gr Gr Nor Fr Gr Jpn Gr Gr Usa Gr Gr Gr Gr Gr Qtr Fr Hk Cyp Cyp Cyp Usa Usa Gr Gr Ity Ity Qtr Qtr Hk Gr Nor Gr Gr Qtr Qtr Gr Jpn Uae Jpn Qtr Gr Jpn Gr Gr Uae Qtr Gr Gr Gr

Hishi Lover (USA) Glen Of Imaal Red Cloud Red Cloud Real Time Halimah Halimah Monash Lady Maytpleasethecourt Nicolitta Cominna Roleover Mania Bendis (GER) Impy Fox Regent's Folly Vampire Queen Marionnaud Indian Beauty Rose Society Rose Society Showcase Dame Blanche Brief Glimpse Trombe (FR) Trombe (FR) Trombe (FR) Pondicherry (USA) Prayer Lindesberg Chief Bee Flying Carpet Flying Carpet Flying Carpet Flying Carpet Flying Carpet Flying Carpet Flying Carpet Crystal Land Crystal Land La Genereuse Meeson Times Rainbows For All Armilina (FR) Dance Lively (USA) Arietta's Way Dance Lively (USA) Ocean View (USA) Heavenly Ray (USA) Truce Heavenly Ray (USA) Truce Heavenly Ray (USA) River Saint (USA) Cerita Wannabe Grand Zakuska Zakuska Zakuska Franglais (GER) Franglais (GER) Laughing Girl (USA) Laughing Girl (USA) Nafzira Flora Danica (USA) Stitching Stitching Corvalent Ashover Amber Gipsy Moth Fantastic Charm (USA) Dievotchkina Cancan Madame (USA) Cancan Madame (USA) Business Woman Gold's Dance (FR) Reematna Ejlaal Mingora (USA) Arduine Gold's Dance (FR) Baya (USA) Satin Finish Shbakni (USA) Mingora (USA) Ashbilya (USA) Good Mood (USA) Bahirah

Date

27/12/08 23/11/08 24/12/08 10/12/08 21/2/08 23/7/08 11/7/08 24/10/08 5/11/08 22/12/08 9/1/08 19/10/08 28/12/08 24/10/08 19/11/08 17/12/08 8/5/08 18/12/08 1/12/08 3/11/08 18/12/08 13/11/08 1/5/08 4/12/08 27/11/08 20/11/08 20/12/08 11/12/08 26/12/08 29/11/08 27/11/08 6/11/08 8/5/08 26/4/08 27/3/08 28/2/08 21/2/08 11/12/08 10/11/08 7/12/08 4/12/08 10/12/08 28/10/08 14/12/08 28/10/08 24/10/08 27/12/08 8/12/08 1/12/08 7/11/08 3/11/08 28/10/08 10/4/08 11/12/08 17/12/08 28/10/08 19/10/08 1/6/08 27/12/08 4/12/08 10/11/08 3/11/08 14/12/08 4/12/08 15/5/08 17/4/08 28/12/08 5/12/08 27/11/08 24/10/08 7/11/08 18/12/08 30/10/08 23/11/08 29/12/08 26/12/08 23/12/08 17/12/08 11/12/08 9/12/08 8/12/08 5/12/08 4/12/08 4/12/08 3/12/08 26/11/08 22/10/08

Racecourse

Distance

Prize-money (£)

Hanshin Athens Deauville Deauville Al Rayyan Nicosia Nicosia Athens Athens Naples Nicosia Taby Seville Athens Al Rayyan Grosseto Al Rayyan Deauville Athens Athens Varese Al Rayyan Al Rayyan Ovrevoll Ovrevoll Ovrevoll Deauville Deauville Kranji Athens Al Rayyan Al Rayyan Al Rayyan Al Rayyan Al Rayyan Al Rayyan Al Rayyan Athens Athens Athens Ovrevoll Deauville Athens Hanshin Athens Athens Turf Paradise Athens Athens Athens Athens Athens Al Rayyan Deauville Happy Valley Nicosia Nicosia Nicosia Santa Anita Hollywood Park Athens Athens Pisa Grosseto Al Rayyan Al Rayyan Sha Tin Athens Ovrevoll Athens Athens Al Rayyan Al Rayyan Athens Ohi Nad Al Sheba Sonoda Al Rayyan Athens Funabashi Athens Athens Nad Al Sheba Al Rayyan Athens Athens Athens

1m1f 7f 7f110y 1m1f110y 1m1f55y 5f 7f110y 6f 6f 1m2f 6f 1m 1m 7f 7f 1m165y 7f 7f110y 7f 6f 7f110y 1m 5f 1m 1m 1m165y 6f110y 1m1f110y 6f 6f 1m1f55y 1m1f55y 1m4f 1m1f55y 1m3f 1m4f 1m 7f 7f 7f 5f110y 1m1f110y 7f 1m 7f 7f 6f 1m 7f 7f 7f 7f 1m 1m1f110y 1m55y 1m2f110y 6f 7f110y 1m 6f 6f 7f 1m3f 1m4f 6f 7f 1m55y 7f 1m3f110y 1m 7f 6f 7f 5f 6f 1m1f 7f 1m 6f 7f110y 5f 6f 1m2f 7f 6f 7f 7f

£33,276 £7,837 £5,147 £5,882 £3,145 £2,049 £2,049 £6,978 £4,294 £4,375 £2,049 £2,253 £3,676 £3,489 £3,145 £2,389 £3,145 £6,985 £4,294 £4,831 £2,500 £3,145 £3,145 £2,765 £1,843 £2,074 £6,618 £19,118 (L) £17,725 £6,978 £3,145 £3,145 £11,793 £3,145 £39,310 £78,621 £3,145 £7,515 £6,280 £4,133 £2,488 £20,221 (L) £5,904 £47,216 £4,026 £5,233 £14,487 £11,540 £8,406 £6,441 £9,340 £5,368 £7,862 £5,882 £31,218 £2,260 £2,260 £2,049 £23,050 (L) £11,457 £4,026 £4,026 £12,500 (L) £2,500 £3,145 £3,145 £51,418 £3,489 £2,488 £6,065 £7,837 £3,931 £3,145 £6,978 £5,846 £3,611 £2,248 £3,145 £6,978 £4,497 £6,978 £6,978 £4,103 £3,931 £4,831 £5,368 £7,515

FEBRUARY 2009 THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER 89

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I WAS FRAMED ★ TB - Thoroughbred ★ Brown Frame Overo - 2002 ★ Height: 168cms approx. ★ Bone: 21.5cms ★ Stud Fee for 2009: £1500 + vat nffr ★ Fully Registered with Weatherby's Studbook, following Approval by the International Stud Book Committee in 2006. ★ Registered with The Jockey Club (U.S.A.). ★ EBF nominated ★ The First Coloured TB. Stallion EVER registered with Weatherby's. ‘It was the first time we'd ever seen anything like this’, admitted Weatherby's Stud Book Director Andrea Mercer. ‘I Was Framed's parentage has been verified and fully qualifies.’

2007 Filly out of SUPA SU

2007 Colt out of winning Mare FACSIMILE

2008 Filly out of ANGELIC DANCER

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Transport available for walk in mares to other studs.

Normandy grass, wooden post and rail fencing, internal boxes.

CCTV, 24 hour supervision.

(16 miles from Newmarket)

Boarding spaces available Foaling/walking in to Newmarket stallions Sales preparation

Normandy, France

English and French spoken.

Reasonable rates.

Easy access to autoroutes A28 and A88, Deauville and Caen.

Tel: 01440 730396

Contact Jane@Dorrells.com +33 (0)2 33 12 64 57 or +33 (0)6 79 27 63 02

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Mares taken for foaling.

Good clean grazing, post & rail paddocks.

Indoor turnout if necessary.

Reasonable rates.

Tel. Michael Young 01296 770218 or mobile 07964 198162 (Bucks/Oxon border).

The data published in this section is restricted to breeders based in Great Britain or Ireland, as determined by the address used when the foal was first registered. Some foreign-based breeders may be included if the mare was boarded in Great Britain or Ireland and is registered as being ‘care of’ a domestic breeder. Performance data covers results processed by Weatherbys during December

Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Davis, John and Susan Deepwood Farm Stud Deerfield Farm Deerfield Farm Devaney, Mrs C Devaney, Mrs C Devaney, Mrs C Devin, Henry Devin, Henry Donlon, B Donoghue, V Doyle, J Doyle, P Drumhass Stud Duffy, M Duffy, M Dunchurch Lodge Stud Co East Burrow Farm East Burrow Farm Eclipse Thoroughbreds Ireland Ltd Ecurie De Meautray, Skymarc Farm & Castlemartin Stud English, Mr R G Enniskillen College of Agriculture Ervine, W M Ervine, W M Eurostrait Ltd Fahy, M & M Fair, I D Fares Stables Ltd Farish, W S Farmers Hill Stud Farrell, C M Finegan, Mrs Jill Fisher, N D Fitzgerald & Johnny Fitgerald, David Foley, J Forenaghts Stud & Dermot Cantillon Gainsborough Stud Management Ltd Gainsborough Stud Management Ltd Gainsborough Stud Management Ltd Gainsborough Stud Management Ltd Gainsborough Stud Management Ltd Gainsborough Stud Management Ltd Gainsborough Stud Management Ltd Gainsborough Stud Management Ltd Gainsborough Stud Management Ltd Gainsborough Stud Management Ltd Gainsborough Stud Management Ltd Gainsborough Stud Management Ltd Gainsborough Stud Management Ltd Galadari Sons Stud Company Limited Garvey, Pat Gee, B Genesis Green Stud Ltd Gleadhill House Stud Ltd Goldford Stud Goldford Stud Graiguelin Stud Graiguelin Stud Graiguelin Stud Green & Sons, J Grundy Bloodstock Ltd Hackett, Mrs Monica Halifax, The Countess of Hammarsfield Bloodstock & Stuart Mullion Hanly, Mrs S Hardiman, J P Hardisty Bloodstock, D G Headon, Mrs B A Heathcote, R and Mrs Heathcote, R and Mrs Hickey, R High Bramley Grange Stud Ltd His Highness the Aga Khan's Studs SC His Highness the Aga Khan's Studs SC His Highness the Aga Khan's Studs SC Hitchins, J C, J R & S R Holborn Trust Co Holdcroft & Mrs M Forsyth, Mrs M Hollowood, C Horse Breeding Company Hue Williams, Mrs C J Hyde Park Stud

Theiki Katefiani Bin Majd Sharp Hawk Salt Man Leicester Square Bling Seradim Singolar Tenzone Desert Master Wymering File Wymering File Wymering File Kachgai Kachgai Celeritas Dinakos Elven King Greek Paranoya Art Advisor Sir Zacharias Sir Zacharias Woodrush Megas Sotiris Megas Sotiris Gran Feudo Alpine Snow Speedy Kab Rita Jet'aime Pocket Money (HK) Consavvia Zavone Fine Island Craggy Cat Cote d'Ivoire Emirates Line (USA) Whips And Scorns Rafailia Terz Locker Lank Sir Anthony Brave Arrow Vettori de Sica Hill Invader Too Risky Alevagio Spirit World Vangelis Too Risky Hill Invader Alevagio Alevagio Alevagio Alevagio Alevagio Alevagio Ragad Efratis Neoptolemos Super Flight Panmari Better Believe Better Believe Naked Ambition Naked Ambition Naked Ambition Adabi Beat The Odds Golden Arrow Hadrian Florian Albert Leisure Time Learhos I Am The Best Noplacelikehome Miss Miss Miss Miss Dirty Mind Mandobi Adaikali Eyshal Velkhar Tangarita Icemancometh Reel Gift Little Messi Betcherev Mikri Isavella Dispol Duke

Green Desert (USA) Mtoto Singspiel Mtoto Gone West (USA) Mark Of Esteem Elnadim (USA) Singspiel Green Desert (USA) Medecis Medecis Medecis Kaldounevees (FR) Kaldounevees (FR) Titus Livius (FR) Tendulkar (USA) Mujadil (USA) Captain Rio Noverre (USA) Indian Danehill Indian Danehill Groom Dancer (USA) Gorse Gorse Barathea Verglas Intikhab (USA) Orpen (USA) Namid Trans Island Zafonic (USA) Tagula Statue Of Liberty (USA) Emperor Jones (USA) Kingmambo (USA) Danetime Fayruz Indian Lodge Josr Algarhoud Danehill Dancer Catcher In The Rye Elusive City (USA) Danehill (USA) Fasliyev (USA) Anabaa (USA) Anabaa (USA) Green Desert (USA) Fasliyev (USA) Danehill (USA) Anabaa (USA) Anabaa (USA) Anabaa (USA) Anabaa (USA) Anabaa (USA) Anabaa (USA) Alhaarth Spinning World (USA) Dilshaan Exceed And Excel (AUS) Lear Spear (USA) Bertolini (USA) Bertolini (USA) Royal Applause Royal Applause Royal Applause Soviet Star (USA) Beat Hollow Danehill (USA) King's Best (USA) Averti Imperial Ballet Titus Livius (FR) King's Best (USA) Distant Music (USA) Groom Dancer (USA) Groom Dancer (USA) Second Empire Mark Of Esteem Green Desert (USA) Green Desert (USA) King's Best (USA) Tagula Marju Reel Buddy (USA) Shinko Forest Barathea Josr Algarhoud Tendulkar (USA)

3f 4g 5m 5h 7h 5g 2f 4f 5g 3f 3f 3f 5g 5g 5g 3c 4c 3f 3c 4c 4c 4f 4c 4c 5h 2f 4f 4f 6g 2f 5h 2f 3c 9g 5h 4f 4f 5h 5h 6h 3f 2c 4c 3f 3c 3c 5g 3f 4c 3c 3c 3c 3c 3c 3c 5h 5h 2c 2c 4f 3f 3f 4g 4g 4g 4g 4c 5h 6h 3c 5g 4c 2c 5g 4f 4f 4c 7h 7h 4c 4g 5m 3g 3f 2f 4g 5m 3g

Queen's Gallery (USA) Felona Lady Kestrel (USA) Romaneh Stage Manner Show Off Seren Devious Star Ridge (USA) Khambani Ensenada Ensenada Ensenada Toujours Juste (FR) Toujours Juste (FR) Shahroza (USA) Devious Daughter Little Pixie (USA) Pretty Precedent Monarchy Special Park (USA) Special Park (USA) Woodcrest Suile Mor Suile Mor Vanille Altruiste (USA) Flame And Shadow Sunset Park Duck Over Fool's Penny Irish Teen (USA) Fine Project Trexana Miss Ivory Coast (USA) Style Setter (USA) Cayman Sound Red Keane Palio Flyer Lady Mabel Brief Fairy Tarayib Tarziyana (USA) Youm Jadeed Muwasim (USA) Yaya (USA) Devil's Imp Ya Tarra Muwasim (USA) Youm Jadeed Yaya (USA) Yaya (USA) Yaya (USA) Yaya (USA) Yaya (USA) Yaya (USA) Waafiah High Tiara (FR) White Sands Strings Kriskeva The In-Laws The In-Laws Model Bride (USA) Model Bride (USA) Model Bride (USA) Clincher Club Biodotis Cheal Rose Wanton Chandni Sweet As A Nut Hoyland Common Needles And Pins Far From Home Mistral's Dancer Mistral's Dancer Stradbally Dancer Miss Queen (USA) Adaiyka Ebadiyla Vearia Santa Isobel Irina Its Another Gift Susan's Dowry Clare Bridge (USA) Cajole Aligusta

Gr Cyp Qtr Qtr Qtr Qtr Fr Ity Gr Cyp Cyp Cyp Fr Fr Ity Gr Cyp Gr Qtr Gr Gr Gr Gr Gr Spa Fr Gr Ity Hk Cyp Mac Ity Hk Fr Uae Fr Gr Gr Ity Hk Cyp Swe Gr Gr Cyp Gr Gr Gr Gr Cyp Cyp Cyp Cyp Cyp Cyp Uae Gr Gr Gny Cyp Gr Gr Qtr Qtr Qtr Qtr Ity Uae Sin Gr Mac Gr Uae Qtr Cyp Cyp Cyp Uae Hk Hk Qtr Qtr Usa Gr Spa Fr Gr Cyp

22/10/08 11/6/08 26/4/08 6/3/08 14/2/08 19/11/08 4/12/08 27/12/08 12/12/08 22/11/08 24/9/08 8/3/08 18/12/08 10/12/08 4/12/08 3/12/08 25/7/08 19/12/08 14/2/08 23/11/08 28/10/08 10/11/08 7/12/08 7/11/08 21/12/08 4/12/08 15/12/08 13/12/08 14/12/08 16/11/08 5/12/08 16/12/08 26/11/08 7/12/08 4/12/08 20/12/08 25/11/08 7/11/08 7/12/08 10/12/08 21/9/08 14/12/08 15/12/08 8/12/08 23/11/08 5/11/08 5/11/08 28/10/08 22/10/08 5/9/08 1/8/08 27/6/08 18/5/08 27/1/08 9/1/08 18/12/08 10/11/08 1/12/08 28/12/08 24/9/08 22/12/08 31/10/08 26/3/08 27/2/08 2/2/08 26/4/08 17/12/08 18/12/08 21/12/08 3/11/08 26/12/08 17/12/08 26/12/08 3/4/08 3/12/08 23/11/08 1/6/08 5/12/08 17/12/08 10/12/08 5/4/08 8/5/08 13/12/08 22/10/08 14/12/08 4/12/08 7/11/08 23/3/08

Athens Nicosia Al Rayyan Al Rayyan Al Rayyan Al Rayyan Deauville Naples Athens Nicosia Nicosia Nicosia Deauville Deauville Grosseto Athens Nicosia Athens Al Rayyan Athens Athens Athens Athens Athens Seville Deauville Athens Livorno Sha Tin Nicosia Taipa Siracusa Happy Valley Toulouse Nad Al Sheba Deauville Athens Athens Siracusa Happy Valley Nicosia Taby Athens Athens Nicosia Athens Athens Athens Athens Nicosia Nicosia Nicosia Nicosia Nicosia Nicosia Nad Al Sheba Athens Athens Dortmund Nicosia Athens Athens Al Rayyan Al Rayyan Al Rayyan Al Rayyan Grosseto Nad Al Sheba Kranji Athens Taipa Athens Nad Al Sheba Al Rayyan Nicosia Nicosia Nicosia Jebel Ali Happy Valley Happy Valley Al Rayyan Al Rayyan Hollywood Park Athens Seville Deauville Athens Nicosia

5f 1m 1m 1m 6f 6f 7f110y 1m2f 7f 1m3f55y 5f 7f110y 1m1f110y 7f110y 1m165y 7f 7f110y 6f 1m 6f 5f 6f 7f 6f 1m1f 1m1f110y 6f 7f110y 7f 6f 5f55y 1m 6f 1m 1m1f 6f110y 6f 7f 7f 1m1f 1m 6f 1m1f 6f 1m3f55y 6f 7f 6f 1m 6f 5f 6f 1m 6f 5f 7f 1m 6f 1m1f 5f 6f 6f 7f 6f 5f 1m 1m3f 1m 1m 5f 6f110y 6f 7f 6f 1m 7f110y 1m 1m 5f 1m1f 1m 6f 1m 5f 6f110y 1m4f 1m 6f

£6,978 £3,055 £7,862 £3,145 £3,145 £3,145 £12,500 £1,562 £5,260 £14,127 £2,819 £3,539 £6,985 £6,985 £1,752 £7,515 £3,055 £6,978 £3,145 £4,831 £4,294 £4,294 £4,294 £4,831 £4,044 £6,985 £3,865 £2,812 £64,272 £3,231 £14,439 £2,812 £42,236 £5,882 £4,924 £5,882 £4,294 £4,734 £1,875 £29,841 £3,151 £2,331 £8,937 £6,763 £21,312 £7,515 £7,005 £6,978 £6,173 £2,819 £2,819 £3,539 £12,628 £3,539 £3,539 £3,611 £10,386 £6,978 £2,206 £2,875 £9,340 £7,053 £15,724 £7,862 £3,145 £3,145 £1,875 £9,028 £3,665 £6,978 £5,567 £4,294 £9,028 £3,145 £3,055 £3,055 £3,055 £9,849 £51,418 £51,418 £3,145 £3,145 £11,156 £7,515 £29,412 £6,985 £8,588 £3,539

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New to

LARKINGLASS HELISSIO [FR]

for 2009

Fairy King [USA] x Helice [USA] [Slewby]

Champion 3 year old in Europe 1996 Winner of 5 Group 1 races including The Arc de Triomphe and 3 Group 2 races TFR 136 Sire of progeny with earnings in excess of £20 million Stud Fee: £2500 October 1st

PASTERNAK [GB] Soviet Star [USA] x Princess Pati [Top Ville]

Winner of 4 consecutive races including The Tote Cambridgeshire and the John Smith's Magnet Cup Sire of quality National Hunt winners Both horses retired after racing over several seasons sound in wind and limb Stud Fee £1200 [October 1st] Apply: Liz Harrington. Larkinglass Farm, Motcombe, Shaftesbury, Dorset, SP7 9HY Tel 01747 854666 or Mobile 07876023355 email liz@larkinglass.com

DATA BOOK

British and Irish-bred winners overseas Hyde Park Stud Hyde Park Stud & S M Hillen Ltd Hyslop, E W Iceton, D G Irish National Stud J C S Wilson Bloodstock & Mrs E M Burke J C S Wilson Bloodstock & Mrs E M Burke J C S Wilson Bloodstock & Mrs E M Burke Jackson, P V and Mrs J P Jackson, P V and Mrs J P Jones, Mr D H L Juddmonte Farms Ltd Juddmonte Farms Ltd Juddmonte Farms Ltd Keane, S Keatly Overseas Ltd Kennedy, Patrick Kiely, T Kilfrush Stud Knockainey Stud Lanigan, Martin Lanigan, Martin Lanigan, Martin Latina, Mr G Lazy T Ranch, W Lewis Caterers Lewis, R W K Lewis, R W K Liberty Road Stables Lock, T R Lock, T R Lodge Park Stud Lodge Park Stud Lofts Hall Stud London Thoroughbred Services Ltd Longdon Stud Ltd Longdon Stud Ltd Longdon Stud Ltd Lynch Bages Ltd & Samac Ltd Lyons, A Macnair, R Magliari, Dr Francesco Mallon, J Martin, A J McCarthy, P C McCarthy, P C McCarthy, P C McCarthy, P C McCarthy, P C McCarthy, P C McCarthy, P C McCarthy, P C McDonnell, D McEnery, Mrs P McLoughney, John Martin McMullan, S Meon Valley Stud Merry & Khalid Al-Mudhaf, Hugo Mesnil, Mount Coote, New England Stud Middlebrook, Mr & Mrs G Millett, M V Millett, M V Millsec Limited Millsec Limited Millsec Limited Monaghan, J J Morrin, Gerald Moszkowicz, Mr & Mrs H Mountarmstrong Stud Mulcahy, James Murfitt, C J Murfitt, C J Myerscough & Charles O'Brien, Philip and Mrs Jane Needham, S and Mrs Pat New England Stud Farm Ltd New England Stud Farm Ltd Newsells Park Stud Newsells Park Stud Newsells Park Stud Limited Noonan, Denis Norton Grove Stud Ltd Oak Lodge Bloodstock O'Connor, J O'Connor, O Okeke, H Old Mill Stud & Partners Owen, Mrs H

Dispol Duke Kentucky Ray Vasilakis Stef Blackberry Boy Captain Esteem Captain Esteem Captain Esteem What A Caper Rose Of Alabama Dream Emperor Natural Leader Champs Elysees Rocket Launch Firm Jevel Son Of A Dancer Concealment Theonoi La Madonetta Venetian Rhapsody Prokommenos Prokommenos Prokommenos Salar des Bains (ITY) Classa Foe Ever Orpenta Meiner Kluger Don Ignatios Fidelito Giverny Spring Giverny Spring Gold Horizons Dolomite Protos Eagle Mountain Zimiaris Zimiaris Zimiaris Sal Tessio Voras Amel Red Kimi Patalavaka Makiba Bigbrownhorse Bigbrownhorse Bigbrownhorse Bigbrownhorse Bigbrownhorse Bigbrownhorse Bigbrownhorse Bigbrownhorse London Express Cyprus Story Carimo Desert Sprinter Tahdeed Splendid Marju Dome Rock Sundrive Inzone Inzone Zaminar Arktos Arktos Touch Of Denmark Namid Grey Not Secret Varese Ratatoulis Lord Fauntleroy Lord Fauntleroy Tapio Amfitryon Fronto Fronto Noisy Silence Wraith Masettos Fun Myboycharlie Mister Maskoulas Alavana Miss Singhsix Zanoobow Tanagra Regal Veil Chinsola

Tendulkar (USA) 3g Noverre (USA) 2c Hernando (FR) 5h Traditionally (USA) 3f Desert Prince 4c Mark Of Esteem 3g Mark Of Esteem 3g Mark Of Esteem 3g Cape Cross 4c Bahamian Bounty 6m King Charlemagne (USA) 3 c Dansili 3c Danehill (USA) 5h Oasis Dream 3c Almutawakel 3f Soviet Star (USA) 3c Iron Mask (USA) 3f City On A Hill (USA) 2f Night Shift (USA) 3f Galileo 3f Soviet Star (USA) 6h Soviet Star (USA) 6h Soviet Star (USA) 6h Monashee Mountain (USA) 5 h Marju 7g Orpen (USA) 3f Montjeu 4c King Charlemagne (USA) 5 h Rock Of Gibraltar 2c Lujain (USA) 5m Lujain (USA) 5m Grand Lodge (USA) 5g Rock Of Gibraltar 4c Groom Dancer (USA) 5h Rock Of Gibraltar 4c Polar Prince 6g Polar Prince 6g Polar Prince 6g Montjeu 2c Marju 3c Woodborough (USA) 6m Denon (USA) 2c Trans Island 3c Montjeu 4c Shinko Forest 4g Shinko Forest 4g Shinko Forest 4g Shinko Forest 4g Shinko Forest 4g Shinko Forest 4g Shinko Forest 4g Shinko Forest 4g King Charlemagne (USA) 5 h Raise A Grand 3f Fasliyev (USA) 4c Desert Sun 4c Green Desert (USA) 4c Marju 4f Domedriver 3c Dr Fong (USA) 4f Fayruz 3f Fayruz 3f Zamindar (USA) 3c Dr Fong (USA) 5m Dr Fong (USA) 5m Touch Of The Blues (FR) 3 c Namid 6h Largesse 4c Invincible Spirit 2c King Charlemagne (USA) 2 c Zaha (CAN) 3c Zaha (CAN) 3c Forest Wildcat (USA) 7h Bertolini (USA) 3c Royal Applause 4c Royal Applause 4c Giant's Causeway (USA) 4 c Maria's Mon (USA) 4c Dr Fong (USA) 3g Danetime 3c Timeless Times (USA) 3g Kyllachy 4f Singspiel 3f Marchand de Sable (USA) 2 c Choisir (AUS) 2f Royal Applause 3f Inchinor 7h

Aligusta Siwaayib Vanessa Bell Zuccini Business Summer Crush (USA) Daring Destiny Daring Destiny Daring Destiny Sheer Gold (USA) Cutting Glance (USA) Tinsel Flamenco Red Hasili Soviet Moon Optimal Quest Shantalla Peak Akatib Luisa di Camerata Venize Paldouna Donore Pride Donore Pride Donore Pride Lady Dilva (FR) Bank On Her (USA) Silk Daisy Breakfast Bay Solar Flare Lady Wells Matisse Matisse Dazzling Park Park Charger Persian Cat Masskana Miss Sarajane Miss Sarajane Miss Sarajane Looking For Gold (USA) Super Trouper (FR) Rouge Etoile Happy Flight Margin Call Lucy In The Sky Style Parade (USA) Style Parade (USA) Style Parade (USA) Style Parade (USA) Style Parade (USA) Style Parade (USA) Style Parade (USA) Style Parade (USA) Robin Champagne Girl Barnabas (ITY) Betelgeuse Turn Of A Century Splendida Idea My American Beauty Wood Sorrel Royal Interlude Royal Interlude Achieve Least Said (USA) Least Said (USA) Chased By The Sun Thistle Hill Not A Word Alexander Ridge Whirl Elegant Gracie Elegant Gracie Lyric Urban Dancer Song Of Hope Song Of Hope Golightly (USA) Really Polish (USA) Macina Dulceata Royal Comedian Grey Galava Whatamiss (USA) Tutu Anita's Contessa Shararah Skerray

Cyp Ity Gr Gr Spa Qtr Qtr Qtr Spa Gr Mal Fr Usa Gr Gr Swe Gr Gr Fr Fr Cyp Gr Cyp Fr Hk Gr Jpn Gr Gr Qtr Qtr Qtr Qtr Gr Hk Cyp Cyp Cyp Swe Gr Gr Ity Nor Gr Cyp Cyp Cyp Cyp Cyp Cyp Cyp Cyp Hk Cyp Fr Gr Gr Fr Gr Gr Gr Gr Gr Cyp Cyp Cyp Ity Nor Ity Gr Cyp Cyp Usa Gr Gr Gr Uae Gr Gr Usa Cyp Gr Usa Fr Gr Qtr Hk

13/2/08 26/12/08 11/12/08 26/11/08 28/12/08 1/5/08 13/3/08 2/2/08 21/12/08 25/11/08 28/12/08 24/12/08 6/12/08 1/12/08 5/11/08 7/12/08 8/12/08 31/10/08 26/12/08 24/12/08 23/7/08 20/6/08 18/5/08 20/12/08 26/11/08 26/11/08 27/12/08 22/10/08 10/11/08 20/3/08 13/3/08 17/4/08 28/2/08 23/11/08 14/12/08 19/10/08 17/9/08 30/1/08 7/12/08 12/11/08 15/12/08 28/12/08 27/11/08 31/10/08 9/11/08 3/10/08 18/6/08 21/5/08 4/5/08 1/4/08 16/3/08 5/3/08 10/12/08 3/12/08 19/12/08 7/11/08 12/11/08 18/12/08 7/12/08 22/12/08 5/12/08 5/11/08 15/12/08 5/12/08 6/6/08 7/5/08 14/12/08 20/11/08 14/12/08 25/11/08 25/7/08 13/4/08 21/12/08 23/11/08 1/12/08 5/11/08 19/12/08 26/11/08 22/12/08 5/12/08 18/6/08 22/10/08 19/12/08 7/12/08 12/12/08 27/11/08 28/12/08

Nicosia Siracusa Athens Athens Seville Al Rayyan Al Rayyan Al Rayyan Seville Athens Penang Deauville Hollywood Park Athens Athens Taby Athens Athens Deauville Deauville Nicosia Athens Nicosia Deauville Happy Valley Athens Chukyo Athens Athens Al Rayyan Al Rayyan Al Rayyan Al Rayyan Athens Sha Tin Nicosia Nicosia Nicosia Taby Athens Athens Livorno Ovrevoll Athens Nicosia Nicosia Nicosia Nicosia Nicosia Nicosia Nicosia Nicosia Happy Valley Nicosia Pau Athens Athens Deauville Athens Athens Athens Athens Athens Nicosia Nicosia Nicosia Siracusa Ovrevoll Pisa Athens Nicosia Nicosia Turf Paradise Athens Athens Athens Jebel Ali Athens Athens Fair Grounds Nicosia Athens Hollywood Park Toulouse Athens Al Rayyan Sha Tin

5f £3,151 1m110y £6,875 7f £4,026 5f £7,515 1m3f £7,353 7f £3,145 1m2f £3,145 1m £3,145 1m £7,353 7f £3,489 6f £9,098 1m4f £6,985 1m4f £75,377 (Gr1) 7f £6,978 7f £6,978 1m £1,942 7f £9,340 5f £6,280 6f110y £5,882 1m4f £6,985 1m2f110y £2,819 1m2f110y £2,819 1m2f110y £2,260 1m4f £5,147 5f £22,954 7f £6,978 1m1f £32,827 7f £4,026 5f £5,582 1m £3,145 7f £7,862 6f £3,145 6f £7,862 6f £3,489 1m2f £734,536(Gr1) 6f £2,260 5f £2,260 6f £2,049 1m £2,331 5f £7,515 7f £3,489 1m1f165y £3,750 5f110y £2,765 7f £4,831 7f110y £2,819 1m £2,819 1m2f110y £11,599 7f110y £3,055 6f £3,055 7f110y £3,055 7f110y £3,055 7f110y £2,875 1m3f £31,218 7f110y £3,151 1m1f110y £7,353 6f £4,831 7f £5,904 1m4f £5,882 6f £7,515 5f £4,294 6f £7,837 6f £6,763 6f £6,978 6f £2,049 6f £2,049 7f110y £3,151 6f £2,812 2f2y £2,765 7f110y £12,500 (L) 5f £6,978 5f £3,539 1m £3,151 6f £1,658 1m1f £19,324 7f £8,857 7f £5,368 1m £4,924 6f £4,294 7f £6,978 1m £14,472 1m £3,151 6f £5,368 1m £12,965 1m £5,515 5f £4,536 1m £3,145 1m1f £17,813

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Animal Health Trust Equine Centre

The Animal Health Trust is an internationally renowned charity that fights disease and injury in horses, dogs and cats. The AHT makes a huge contribution to the equine sport and racehorse industries through its orthopaedic research and clinical services.

Through this, the AHT has revolutionised the understanding of foot pain and injury in the sport horse, as well as improving understanding of injury and risk factors for injury in both racehorses and sports horses.

The AHT is also the world leader in the understanding and application of advanced equine imaging and is the only institute in the world with both high-field and standing Magnetic Resonance Imaging for clinical use. The AHT has made a great difference to the equine world as a whole, with new Iridium wire treatment for equine sarcoids and the recent development of a blood screening test for Strangles.

As an independent charity, we receive no government funding so are reliant on the generosity of people like you to keep us at the forefront of veterinary excellence.

There are many ways you can help us: - Become a friend of the AHT - Make a donation - Join our exclusive Fellowship scheme - Buy some AHT merchandise from our online shop - Leave us a gift in your Will For more information about the Animal Health Trust and the work we do, to visit our online shop or to make a donation, please visit our website:

www.aht.org.uk Alternatively, you can contact our Fundraising Team by calling +44 (0) 1638 555 648 or emailing fundraising@aht.org.uk Registered charity number: 209642

DATA BOOK

British and Irish-bred winners overseas Paget Bloodstock Park Place International Ltd Parry & Mr P Steele-Mortimer, Mrs M L Peacock, Mrs R D Pearson, Mrs D N B Penfold Bloodstock Phelan, D Phelan, D Phelan, D Phelan, D Phelan, D Purcell, Mrs Eileen Purdie, Mrs J E Queen, The RE Sangster & Mrs S Magnier, Exors Ralphs, Miss S N Rathbarry Stud Rathbarry Stud Rathmuck Stud Reardon, W Redmyre Bloodstock & S Hillen Redmyre Bloodstock & Stuart McPhee Redpender Stud Ltd Robinson, R A G Rothschild, The Rt Hon Lord Ryan, P Sainty & J Bobkiewicz, Mrs G Savill, P D Shadwell Estate Company Limited Shadwell Estate Company Limited Shadwell Estate Company Limited Shadwell Estate Company Limited Shadwell Estate Company Limited Shadwell Estate Company Limited Shadwell Estate Company Limited Shadwell Estate Company Limited Shadwell Estate Company Limited Sheridan, M Shirley, Exors of the Late D Shirley, Exors of the Late D Shropshire, G S Side Hill Stud Skymarc Farm Inc Skymarc Farm Inc Smith, A J Snig Elevage St Clare Hall Stud Stack, Mrs T Staughton & Mrs O Staughton, Miss J Stefania Giurelli Stetchworth Park Stud Ltd Stewart, T Stilvi Compania Financiera SA Stratford Place Stud Strong, Miss K Swan, D Sweet Retreat Syndicate Swettenham Stud & Ben Sangster T W Bloodstock Ltd Tally-Ho Stud Taylor, Mrs M Thompson, Major K R Thompson, Major K R Thompson, Miss S Tooth, R C Tooth, R C Tooth, R C Tooth, R C Tooth, R C Tooth, R C Tooth, R C Umm Qarn Management Co Ltd Umm Qarn Management Co Ltd Usk Valley Stud Vestey, T R G W Lazy T Ltd Wall, Ms H Walsh, Kevin Walsh, Mrs Maureen Barbara Wertheimer & Frere Whitsbury Manor Stud Whitsbury Manor Stud Wilson, C and Mrs Wood Farm Stud Ltd Wood Hall Stud Limited Young, A W Zubieta Ltd

Smart Call Seasoned Ekhtiaar Anderson Lady Disdain Barajur Aysgarth Flyer Aysgarth Flyer Aysgarth Flyer Aysgarth Flyer Aysgarth Flyer El Gallo Manuelita Step Softly Alexander Nepotism Grantley Adams Satisfaction Life Arminius Romanus Kimshasa Indian Nights Okikoki Bella de Zio Mac Sharp Jellicoe Folie Med Bear Bottom Pyrovolo Morghim Arqaam Jaaeyza Fanaaneh Aqmaar Elmustanser Feraa Musheed Musheed Spartaco Age Compton Fields Compton Fields Giorgos Rampallion Epiousios Artos Epiousios Artos Gorillakos Spahi (FR) Ramaad Bashfulness Newby Cyclone Club Virtuous Vanity King Marju Salma Gimme Some Lovin Melania Adlona's Swing Last Hero Grand Archer Alo Pura Kritikos Paps Tremar Boule d'Or Boule d'Or Cocody Clapham Clapham Clapham Clapham Clapham Clapham Clapham Al Basmah Al Basmah Spice Route Bertha Zayyir Loch Tay Spartaco Siculo Lefteris Etranger Volgas Secret Place Diamont Dal Wild Cry Le Riche Kerameikos Don Gonzalo

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FEBRUARY 2009 THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER 95

YOUR SAY

Is now the time for owners to rest mares?

Or should they dare hope the market will have revived by 2011? There’s no easy answer to that dilemma

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96 THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER FEBRUARY 2009

Headlines by various studs in their advertisements of “nomination fees cut by 25%”, “concessions available”, “with terms” and “limited to 85 mares” are a welcome sign that studs recognise and are receptive to thoroughbred breeders’ plight. Wouldn’t it be nice to see “fees payable when foals stand, nurse & win!”

On the demand side, racing must grow its owner base and encourage greater spending by existing owners seeking the aspirational lifestyle and sense of privilege that racehorse ownership promotes and bestows, which candidly means more than the provision of a free hot drink that some racecourses seem to think is sufficient (ROA Gold Standard Award racecourses aside).

As with the economy, the breeding industry needs its own fiscal stimulus. This could be provided by the larger studs offering further prize-money to the owners of their sires’ winning progeny in median auction races, which as David Redvers of Tweenhills Stud has recently suggested, there should be more of, but with less prize-money than the current limited showcase races.

Success would thereby be rewarded based on racecourse performance being totally aligned with breeders’ objectives, because, however welcome, it is unreasonable to expect Sheikh Mohammed to continue to support the sales in the manner he has to date.

When will stability return? In financial terms, when the Government reduces the coupon rate of 12% they are effectively charging the banks on the £37 billion of taxpayers’ money to recapitalise and enable them to start behaving like banks again, instead of being solely concerned with rebuilding their balance sheets.

For the thoroughbred breeder, perhaps normality will return in 2011, but there again, this is when higher rates of income tax take effect – hence the dilemma of whether to cover or not in 2009.

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Clearance rates at last year’s foal and yearling sales were dire

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David Brocklehurst Charlock Stud owner

o cover or not to cover? That is the question on the minds of most thoroughbred breeders; whether it is better to rest mares or cover them in the hope the yearling market will have recovered by 2011 – a big ask in the current economic climate.

Despite encouraging signs of the levy being agreed without the need for Government determination, prize-money, being that great reducer of costs for owners, is unlikely to increase to a level beyond which it will mitigate against the effects of the forthcoming proposed income tax rises.

Given the squeeze on bookmakers’ profits from the introduction of tax on FOBTs and racing’s failure to engage with the younger generation of punters, it is doubtful whether much reliance can be placed upon the levy to increase future prize-money, and company sponsorship is unlikely to come to the rescue.

In other words, sustained future demand for the thoroughbred breeders’ product is not readily apparent.

Clearance rates at last year’s foal and yearling sales had rarely been so dire, and very few yearlings managed to cover their nomination fees and keep costs, as well as return a reasonable margin of profit.

Indeed, the picture is even bleaker when the statistics are based on horses offered and median prices achieved, as opposed to horses sold and average prices attained.

Of course, this is partly explained by the market reacting and adjusting to overproduction, but nevertheless how can the current lot of thoroughbred breeders be improved?

To begin with, breeders will need to be more selective about the mares they breed from. Only those with pedigrees having a good sprinkling of black type should be selected. Good conformation, as always, is of paramount importance and the mare’s racecourse ability will become an added but necessary bonus.

Above all else, breeders must become even more circumspect to ensure covering costs are economically viable.

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