Thoroughbred Owner & Breeder July 2011

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£4.95 | July 2011 | Issue 83

Incorporating

Queally good Unique analysis of Frankel’s Royal Ascot performance

by James Willoughby

Plus • Hughie Morrison talks privileges and prime ministers • New ROA President Rachel Hood on racing’s plight • Pour Moi and Mickael Barzalona in Derby drama www.ownerbreeder.co.uk

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Queally good Unique analysis of Frankel’s Royal Ascot performance

by James Willoughby

Plus • Hughie Morrison talks privileges and prime ministers • New ROA President Rachel Hood on racing’s plight • Pour Moi and Mickael Barzalona in Derby drama www.ownerbreeder.co.uk

Cover: Frankel at Royal Ascot Photo: George Selwyn

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Barzalona’s bravura the sign of a special talent I

t’s a fair bet Mickael Barzalona didn’t read my column in this magazine 12 months ago. For a start, he knows very little English, but had he taken the time to peruse Owner & Breeder following the 2010 Derby he might have come across the following observation about the victorious jockey, Ryan Moore.

“Moore is not a man who shows much emotion, in or out of the saddle,” I commented after Workforce’s brilliant display. “He refuses to indulge in whipwaving, finger-pointing or exuberant celebration when a big winner comes his way.”

Even if Monsieur Barzalona had seen those words, it’s unlikely he would have taken much notice, judging by his incredible Derby ride on Pour Moi, when the teenager decided that winning the race was so good he didn’t want to wait until it was over before he started celebrating.

Watching the event live I thought he had misjudged the wining post in what could have been the mother of all sporting cock-ups. Yet up until the last few yards he appeared to have produced a ride of utter brilliance aboard a horse placed stone last approaching the home straight.

As it turned out, he secured victory by a head, later claiming that he knew he would win. So was it supreme confidence in his own ability, and that of the horse beneath him, that gained the day, luck, or a bit of both?

If it’s the former – and the fact that none other than Andre Fabre has seen fit to put his faith in the 19-yearold would suggest this is the case – we could well be witnessing the embryonic career of one of the finest talents ever to throw his leg over a thoroughbred.

However you view this year’s Derby-winning ride, it’s sure to be talked about for years to come. George Selwyn’s fabulous image on page 45 captures Barzalona looking the wrong way as Colm

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O’Donoghue asks eventual runner-up Treasure Beach for maximum effort in the drive for the line.

What would happen if Pour Moi met Frankel is anyone’s guess. Any meeting between the two would almost certainly have to take place over ten furlongs, and while the latter is yet to race beyond a mile, James Willoughby, in his exclusive column for this magazine (page 23), feels a step up in trip is exactly what Khalid Abdullah’s unbeaten colt needs.

Tom Queally was widely criticised for his ride aboard Frankel in the St James’s Palace Stakes but Willoughby, using his own analysis based on sectional timing and stride-pattern, suggests we should not be blaming the man on top for the narrow winning margin, as most did.

If Frankel’s performance in victory was a let-down to some, So You Think’s second place behind Rewilding in the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes was a huge disappointment in view of the massive hype surrounding him.

He may still prove to be the superstar we have been led to believe he is but the proof of the pudding, in this instance, is on the racecourse and at present the imposing son of High Chaparral has to prove he can dominate our racing scene as he did down under.

So You Think still has time on his side to prove his star quality, however further defeats would weaken not only his reputation but also the idea that Australian racing at the top level is superior to that in Britain and Ireland, a view expressed by certain racing figures.

Also in this issue, Rachel Hood gives her first interview since taking over the ROA Presidency (The Big Interview, pages 34-37), Hughie Morrison, in double-winning form at Royal Ascot, talks to Alan Lee about his aristocratic background and decision to embark on a training career (pages 38-42) while Emma Berry experiences the Grand National, Swedish style (pages 46-47).

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witnessing one of the finest talents ever to throw his leg over a thoroughbred

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CONTENTS JULY 2011

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NEWS & VIEWS

FEATURES

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ROA Leader It’s time to cut the fixture list

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News Our new website is here!

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Trainer exclusive

The Big Picture Royal Ascot in focus

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NEW! Foundation Mares Ballymacoll Stud’s Country House

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Epsom Review

New ROA President Rachel Hood

Tony Morris

Swedish Grand National Scandinavian style!

The Big Interview 49

Changes Racing’s news in a nutshell

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Hughie Morrison

Derby and Oaks winners

TBA Leader Achievements should be lauded

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Bloodstock section Comment and analysis

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Flashback Chief Singer’s July Cup

Trainers and knighthoods

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COVER STORY James Willoughby Frankel didn’t tire at Royal Ascot but he needs stepping up in trip

INTERNATIONAL SCENE 27

View From Ireland Paul Townend is top dog

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Continental Tales Italian industry in crisis

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Going Global Chaparral rides high down under

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Victoire! Mickael Barzalona celebrates winning the Derby on Pour Moi (pages 44-45)

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ROA LEADER

RACHEL HOOD President Racehorse Owners Association

Racing’s plight requires instant radical changes Sport needs a leaner, fitter fixture list, but do our leaders have the nous?

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y delight at taking over the role of ROA President cannot mask the growing apprehension I feel for the future of British horseracing. A combination of losing the Tote – despite assurances given by the BHA – and, even worse, watching the levy figures slide from the mediocre to the disastrous, illustrates well enough how the time for radical thinking is upon us. I sincerely hope racing’s leadership has got the stomach to initiate the changes that must be made.

Throughout the ten years I have sat on the ROA Council, I have listened to arguments that support one of the underlying themes of the levy system. They are based on bookmakers needing so many fixtures on certain days of the week to maximise betting on horseracing – the so-called levy criteria.

It is a system that is so ingrained in racing’s structure that when it stops working – as it clearly has – nobody can bring themselves to change it.

Its collapse is reflected in figures for the coming years that suggest levy yield will be about half of what it was five years ago when the annual levy could be relied on to produce £90-£110 million.

So why do we cling to the hope that a bloated fixture list will result in lots of money for racing when the facts show the inexorable rise in fixtures has actually coincided with a catastrophic decline in the levy?

It is surely time to get tough with bookmakers and racecourses which, together, have insisted on perpetuating this ludicrous situation. Otherwise, the one aspect of this industry in which we continue to take pride – our top races and festival meetings – will deteriorate as superior overseas prize-money attracts an increasing number of owners to race abroad.

This whole subject is, of course, interwoven with racecourse media rights. As bookmakers have rightly been forced to pay a commercial rate to have pictures in their betting shops, they have used every ruse

imaginable to diminish what they pay in levy. For us, there are two major problems with this. One is that the rate of increase in media rights income is not matching that of the decrease in the levy. The other is that there is no compulsion on racecourses to pay a proportion of their media rights money into prize -money.

Our situation demands immediate and radical solutions. It demands that the so-called fixture criteria is discontinued. It demands we devise a fixture list that is based primarily on the best the sport has to offer, that the levy is spent almost entirely on sustaining these fixtures and that fixtures which cater for mediocre horses should either be self-financing or not exist.

In this way we will test the bookmakers’ position on when and how many fixtures they require. If they want more fixtures, they will pay for them through a direct commercial relationship with the racecourses and horsemen over and above what they pay in media rights. If fixtures fail to attract this support and can’t make ends meet through other income, then why do they exist at all?

A system such as this, where the order of things is dictated by rampant market forces, would of course have its casualties, but it would leave British racing leaner and fitter, more able to structure itself in a way where, in marketing and public perception terms, we could really make much more of British Racing plc.

This is not to say that, if there are horses to run and racecourses that want to put on fixtures, they should not be allowed to do so. A so-called third tier of racing should be introduced with a much more relaxed attitude as to when fixtures are put on.

If we are to react to the plight of our situation, racing’s leaders must create a new framework based entirely on class and meritocracy. This, I believe, would put a brake on the deterioration that is unfolding before our eyes.

• The Big Interview with Rachel Hood, pages 34-37

“Why do we cling to the hope that a bloated fixture list will result in lots of money for racing?

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TBA LEADER

KIRSTEN RAUSING Chairman Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association

The pageantry of Ascot gives us cause for pride Large British-based breeders vital to success of major racing festivals

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e have witnessed a superb first half of the Flat season, with Epsom and Royal Ascot delivering a mouth-watering array of the finest bloodstock in the world, competing to win some of the most prestigious races in the international calendar.

How different these festivals would be without the support of the large owner/breeders. Thankfully, they continue to stand some of their best stallions in this country and we recognise the value of this, not only to the breeding industry but to all those that enjoy our sport.

This year’s round of domestic yearling sales is likely to see an anticipated 10% reduction in the number of yearlings catalogued. Witness the contrast with racecourse attendance on the first day of the royal meeting, which increased by 10% on last year.

Breeders’ costs of production are undoubtedly due to rise again this year. The economic and environmental volatility of farming is another factor in the profitability of breeding, and the thoroughbred is no exception.

The disastrous weather patterns have left paddocks in the South East and East Anglia woefully short of grass and this year’s hay crop will also suffer as a result. Grain merchants are already signalling a poor global harvest, with costs likely to rocket, particularly if the futures market continues to make massive profits on the price of raw foodstuffs.

This is one of the prime reasons why the TBA must ensure that the Single Farm Payments Scheme is retained for grazing land, and that breeders remain entitled to receive these increasingly valuable and essential rewards, for maintaining Britain’s countryside for future generations.

Unfortunately, the timing of the TBA Annual General Meeting on June 28 and the deadlines for this issue of the magazine provided no opportunity for me to reflect on members’ questions, but through this column I want to take the opportunity to highlight the TBA’s key achievements during the past 12 months: The lifting of the Indian trade restrictions was

definitely the greatest achievement, resulting in an additional £1.4 million of sales at Tattersalls 2010. British Bloodstock Marketing and Tattersalls will again be visiting India this year, whilst a number of high-profile breeders attended the well supported BBM-organised Cartier Royal Ascot reception.

The TBA successfully challenged HMRC’s proposed import duty on USA-imported stock – saving £5m in annual spend for owners. I am delighted that Peter Mendham’s co-option to the TBA board will ensure members’ interests are protected in this area.

The TBA Bloodstock Taxation Group oversaw a review and rewrite of the Bloodstock Taxation Guide for the racing and breeding industry.

This is a vital reference aid for the industry, and I wish to record my grateful thanks to our team of professionals for their combined knowledge and skills in tackling this not inconsiderable task.

The TBA will be providing £100,000 in additional veterinary research funding over the next three years. Despite reductions in sales levy receipts, careful budgeting and cost-cutting has enabled us to extend our charitable contributions.

The TBA website www.thetba.co.uk has recently been re-launched featuring a members’ only access area. In the short-time since the launch we have already seen an increase in membership, as visitors to the site wish to gain access to the valuable new information now restricted to TBA members.

I believe we should be proud of these achievements, particularly as the TBA is also fully engaged in the wider issues facing the racing and breeding industry.

As I stressed in my AGM speech, we will continue to remain closely involved in the reorganisation of British racing, with our priority being to protect the quality aspect of the race programme, supporting the production and testing of quality thoroughbreds, which conveniently brings me back to the success of the Royal Ascot meeting, the flagship of British racing.

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DEFRA: Dourine outbreak confirmed in Italy The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has confirmed an outbreak of Dourine in horses in two regions of Italy.

A protozoal venereal disease which affects horses and donkeys and is invariably fatal, Dourine was eradicated in Western Europe and North America after the First World War, with the most recent report of a European case being in Russia.

The infected horses were in Sicily and an area north of Naples but the source of the current outbreak, which was first reported on May 27, has not yet been confirmed.

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The DEFRA website states: “At present, this is considered to be an emerging situation.

While the source of infection in Italy is not known, there is legislation to prevent the trade in equidae from an infected region.

There are no legislative requirements for horses destined for EU trade to be pre-export tested for Dourine.

“On this basis, and taking into account the current level of trade from Italy, the risk of introduction of Dourine into the UK is now higher than negligible and may be considered “very low” (very rare but cannot be excluded occur) or “low” (rare but does occur).”

DEFRA recommends that any horses being imported from Italy should be isolated on arrival and subjected to a blood test.

Symptoms can include paralysis, fever, swelling of the skin and genitalia, emaciation and neurological signs. There is currently no vaccine available.

Louise Kemble, Chief Executive of the TBA, said: “Whilst there is a low risk of introduction of Dourine into the UK, it is essential that breeders are aware of this outbreak. The TBA’s veterinary committee will be monitoring the situation and will post any updates on our website.”

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This year’s Ebor meeting will see prize-money of £2.75 million in total

York makes cash commitment The Ebor meeting at York, which runs from Wednesday, August 17 to Saturday, August 20, will carry prize-money of £2.75 million over the 25-race programme.

Purses for the six Group 1 and Group 2 races have been maintained and all the races at the festival meet or exceed the Horsemen’s

Tariff. The course has complied with tariff levels for all races so far in 2011.

Highlights of the week include the opening day’s Group 1 Juddmonte International Stakes, worth £700,000, and the £210,000 Totesport Ebor, Europe’s richest handicap, on the final day.

Alan Morcombe, Chief Executive of the Horsemen’s Group, said: “York has already shown its commitment towards meeting the Horsemen’s Tariff at its regular fixtures, which should be commended.

“We would encourage other racecourses to follow York’s example regarding the tariffs.”

RoR takes heart from great response to awards

Bonny Grove: RoR Heart Throb entry

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Following a tremendous response to the inaugural Retraining of Racehorses (RoR) Heart Awards, the short-lists for the four categories have recently been announced with the final judging set to take place in July.

Around 400 entries were received from owners of former racehorses now engaged in alternative careers from sport horses to companions. The four award categories are entitled RoR Heart Stopper (for a horse who has overcome adversity), RoR Healthy Heart (best all-rounder), RoR Biggest Heart (best temperament), and RoR Heart Throb (best looking).

RoR’s Director of Operations Di Arbuthnot, who sat on the judging panel along with British Eventing selector Nick Turner and Fakenham racecourse’s Chief Executive and

RoR trustee David Hunter, said: “The panel really enjoyed reading all the nominations from across the UK. It’s undoubtedly been an extremely difficult and almost impossible task to decide on a final short-list, there were so many deserving entries.”

Racing fan and novelist Jilly Cooper, an entertaining after-lunch speaker at the recent ROA AGM and lunch in London, has been called up to judge the overall winners and present the awards at the end of July.

She said: “I am a great supporter of the work of the RoR and the Heart Awards are a great opportunity to hear some real-life heart-warming stories, and to reward the obvious passion and commitment that owners have with their ex-racehorses. I am delighted to be involved.”

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Fred Done’s bookmaking firm triumphs in battle for the Tote with a winning bid of £265 million; Joe Scanlon is appointed Director of Racing Amateur rider makes progress after suffering serious injuries in fall at Fakenham in May Faces corruption charges along with Jimmy Quinn, Paul Doe, Kirsty Milczarek and Paul Fitzsimons; the BHA inquiry is scheduled for October Trainer who swapped Newmarket for California enjoys first top level success with Dubawi Heights in the Gamely Stakes at Hollywood Park Increases its contribution to prize-money by £500,000 in 2011 Trainer faces BHA charges after Heather Royal’s failed drugs test at Huntingdon in February Gold Cup-winning jockey marries Bella Ballin in Lambourn 24-year-old conditional jockey is sacked by trainer Howard Johnson after going absent from work Windsor’s Clerk of the Course moves to Newmarket as its Head of Operations Nine-time champion trainer is awarded a knighthood in the Queen’s birthday honours list; Jeremy Richardson, former CEO of the IJF, is awarded an OBE Sports betting arm of the IG group ceases trading with the loss of up to 55 jobs 68-year-old relinquishes training licence for health reasons; he trained talented two-mile hurdler Ekbalco and sprinter Beckermet Ireland’s only all-weather track will now race throughout the winter with around 12 extra fixtures Owner of Double Trigger pulls out of the sport in Britain due to declining levels of prize-money Becomes stable jockey to Nick Williams, replacing Daryl Jacob, who has moved to become second jockey to Paul Nicholls Former head lad to Richard Hannon to set up training operation in Newmarket on Hamilton Road Produced savings of £2.2 million in 2010, with a further drop in expenditure of £1.22m forecast for this year Calls time on riding career aged 28 after struggling for rides; he won the 2007 Lanzarote Hurdle on Verasi Brilliant chaser, winner of the King George and Gold Cup in 2010/11, awarded BHA rating of 182 by Phil Smith in Anglo-Irish Jumps Classifications Long-standing owner puts stables in Compton, Berkshire, on the market for £4m and sells majority of racing string Stable jockey to Andy Turnell and regular rider for Paul Nicholls breaks right leg in fall at Fakenham; Paul Mulrennan breaks right leg in Musselburgh fall Adds extra race – the 15th – to the event from this year, a dirt sprint for two-year-olds Named President and Chief Executive of Breeders’ Cup Ltd; he will assume the role on July 18

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High-class daughter of Montjeu is retired following third-place effort in the Coronation Cup; she is in foal to Oasis Dream Consistent sprint handicapper, the winner of six races for the Michael Bell stable, is sold to Hong Kong Veteran handicapper is retired aged 12 after career that yielded 14 wins from 95 starts Group 1 winner will stand for a 50-share syndicate at Eliza Park Stud, Victoria, when his racing career comes to an end later this year High-class son of Rahy, placed in Group 1 company in Australia, joins Godolphin trainer Saeed bin Suroor in Newmarket Winner of the Norfolk Stakes and July Stakes in 2007 returns to training with Mick Channon, having stood at Norman Court Stud since 2010 Grade 1 Ashland Stakes winner is sold to Japan breeder and has reportedly been bred to Henrythenavigator Australian sprinter is retired after being a late withdrawal from the Golden Jubilee; the Group 3 winner will stand at Yarraman Park Stud in New South Wales Grade 1 winner is purchased by a partnership headed by WinStar Farm and will stand at the Kentucky stud after his racing career has finished Group 2 winning-son of Medicean is joining Summerhill Stud in South Africa Breeders’ Cup Ladies Classic winner is retired to the paddocks after breaking her withers just before the Ogden Phipps Handicap

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Canford motors The royal meeting kicked off with a fascinating clash between heavyweights Goldikova and Canford Cliffs in the Queen Anne Stakes. The colt prevailed on this occasion, by a length, with Olivier Peslier putting up 2lb overweight on the gallant mare Photos George Selwyn

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Ex-Australian star So You Think and Ryan Moore are chased down by Rewilding under a power-packed Frankie Dettori drive in the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes.

Godolphin’s four-year-old, trained by Mahmood Al Zarooni, scored by a neck.

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Main image: Jamie Spencer shows his appreciation after Fame And Glory gives him a first success in the Gold Cup. Left to right: Michael Owen, Richard Kingscote and Tom Dascombe enjoy Brown Panther’s King George V Stakes win; Nadege Ouakli and Micheline Vidal are overjoyed as Immortal Verse heads a French 1-2 in the Coronation Stakes; the connections of Sagramor celebrate landing the Britannia; James Fanshawe chats to the Queen after Society Rock ‘s success in the final day highlight, the Golden Jubilee Stakes

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THE MAN YOU CAN’T IGNORE COMMENT

Tony Morris Henry Cecil’s knighthood was richly deserved, but it is interesting to speculate on other trainers it may have been bestowed on had their monarch also been disposed to racing

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early half a century ago Prime Minister Harold Wilson remarked that a week was a long time in politics. In 2011 we discovered that a week could also be a long time in racing.

On the first Saturday in June there was widespread disappointment when the wellbacked favourite Carlton House failed to provide the Queen with that elusive first win in the Derby, but only seven days later we woke up to the splendid news that nine-time champion trainer Henry Cecil featured in Her Majesty’s birthday honours list with the award of a knighthood.

The cynical notion that ‘nice guys win nothing’ was never so obviously refuted as in the case of the honour bestowed to universal delight on a fellow whose essential humanity is as admirable as his supreme gifts as a conditioner of thoroughbreds.

Cecil becomes the third titled member of the Newmarket training fraternity, but whereas Sir Mark Prescott inherited a baronetcy and Sir Michael Stoute was elevated for his contribution to the tourism industry in Barbados, the new knight is on his own for being recognised for his services to horseracing. Remarkably, the two most recently honoured for their distinction as trainers before Cecil were, in 1977, Sir Noel Murless, his former father-in-law and predecessor at Warren Place, and, in 1968, his stepfather Sir Cecil Boyd-Rochfort, whose Freemason Lodge stable he took over when launching his career in 1969. The first training knight was Sir Jack Jarvis, honoured in 1967, Sir Gordon Richards having acquired his title when still a jockey in 1953.

Frankel’s triumph in this year’s 2,000 Guineas was Cecil’s 25th Classic winner.

That tally includes four in the Derby and no fewer than eight in the Oaks. Murless’s score, between Queenpot’s 1,000 Guineas in 1948 and Mysterious’s Oaks in 1973 was 19. He won Derbys with Crepello, St Paddy and Royal Palace in a career highlighted additionally by the likes of crack sprinter

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Abernant and another wonderful grey in dual Classic heroine Petite Etoile. Having started in a small way in the 1930s at Hambleton, Murless took over from Fred Darling at Beckhampton in 1948 and promptly became champion trainer. He won seven more titles after moving to Newmarket, where he was regarded with something akin to reverence.

Boyd-Rochfort waited a long time for his only Derby win, with Parthia in 1959, but he had previously saddled Guineas winners in the Royal colours in Hypericum and Pall Mall, and for decades was recognised as the

“Any notable achievement in sport may earn due acknowledgement, but knighthoods are rare” nation’s top trainer of stayers. Six of his 13 Classic successes came in the St Leger and he had an outstanding record in Cup races. He saddled Meld for her fillies’ Triple Crown wins in 1955, a year after the Ascot triumph that probably gave him more satisfaction than any other – that of the Queen’s Aureole in the race named in honour of her parents.

Elusive Oaks Jarvis won only nine Classics and did not even have a full set, missing out on the Oaks.

Ironically, when he died at the end of 1968, his successor, Doug Smith, took charge of a filly – Sleeping Partner – who would win that race in the colours of Lord Rosebery, his chief patron for nigh on half a century. Three times champion trainer, Jarvis always spoke in

glowing terms of Rosebery’s Blue Peter, the best horse he ever handled and deprived of a possible Triple Crown by the cancellation of the St Leger following the outbreak of war.

From a family steeped in training, Jarvis began in racing as a tiny apprentice, notching his first big win in the 1903 Cambridgeshire on Hackler’s Pride, who carried 6st 10lb. It was hard to imagine the tall, upstanding gent he became as a teenage lightweight, but that was not the only way he changed. When I first went racing senior colleagues warned me about a formidable, short-tempered man who did not suffer fools, but I found him in mellow mood one afternoon on the July course, when he suffered my presence willingly enough for the best part of an hour and a half, while he reminisced about a career that had lasted for well over 60 years.

I suspect that it is no coincidence that the gongs for Jarvis, Boyd-Rochfort, Murless and Cecil have all come in the reign of our present Queen, whose knowledge of and passion for racing have been on a different level from most of those who occupied the throne before her. The sport had a far higher profile before her accession, in that it connected more readily with the man in the street, but then a lifetime’s significant contribution to the racing industry was never something deemed worthy of recognition in the honours list. Nearly three centuries of Royal patronage confirmed that racing was the sport of kings, but kings were not disposed to raise the status of the professionals who earned distinction in it.

Times have changed and any notable achievement in sport may now earn due acknowledgement, but knighthoods remain rare. The first sign of change came towards the end of George VI’s reign, when Don Bradman became a knight a few months after his retirement from cricket, but the second Elizabethan era had scarcely begun when the no less worthy Jack Hobbs – 19 years after his last game – was similarly rewarded and a precedent was set with a knighthood for a THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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still-active sportsman. Sir Gordon Richards promptly won his only Derby on Pinza, beating Her Majesty’s Aureole into second place.

There can be no doubt that if Cecil’s 40-plus years of distinction as a trainer had come in the first half of the 20th century he would not have been knighted. And that prompts me to wonder which of his predecessors in the profession, if they had thrived in our more enlightened era, might have acquired a title.

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Darling, Butters and Taylor The three who stand out are Fred Darling, Frank Butters and Alec Taylor, who between them won 24 trainers’ titles and 55 Classics.

The most prolific was Taylor, who was champion 12 times between 1907 and 1925, seven times consecutively, and whose 21 Classic triumphs included the wartime Triple Crown winners Gay Crusader and Gainsborough, and who trained one better than them in their sire, Bayardo.

Butters was associated with many of the successes by runners in the Aga Khan’s colours, notably 1935 Triple Crown hero Bahram. Eight times champion, with 15 Classic victories, he went out at the top, heading the list for the last time in his final season with a licence, 1949.

No less worthy was Darling, a five-time champion whose 19 Classic victories included four in the colours of King George VI in 1942 – Big Game in the 2,000 Guineas and Sun Chariot in the fillies’ Triple Crown. Not content with equalling the long-standing record of seven Derby triumphs between Captain Cuttle in 1922 and Owen Tudor in 1941, in retirement he became the breeder of Pinza.

Among the top trainers of the 19th century, there might have been accolades for John Porter, who won 23 Classics and saddled three Triple Crown winners in the incomparable Ormonde (1886), Common (1891) and Flying Fox (1899). Similarly prolific was Mat Dawson, whose charges won 28 Classics, none of them, he reckoned, of the calibre of his ‘one real smasher’, the unbeaten St Simon, who won the Gold Cup by 20 lengths as a three-year-old.

But if they were worthy of knighthoods, perhaps only a peerage would have been appropriate for John Scott, who dominated racing in the reigns of George IV, William IV and Victoria. His record of 40 Classic wins, including 16 in the St Leger, has never been approached and will surely stand for all time.

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JAMES WILLOUGHBY COMMENT

Stride-pattern analysis lends credence to Tom Queally’s belief that his mount idled in front – as opposed to being tired – in the St James’s Palace Stakes

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Hands up if you rode a bad race... except he didn’t, according to our columnist

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he array of technical information which Frankel produced in the St James’s Palace Stakes suggested a different conclusion to that generally drawn. Take a deep breath: it gives weight to the post-race testimony of his jockey Tom Queally which was cynically dismissed.

Frankel’s amazing burst in the middle of the Royal Ascot Group 1, together with the subsequent close finish, led many to conclude that Queally had forced his mount to the point of exhaustion too soon in the race. Some even said that Frankel ran like a seven-furlong horse.

I think neither of these things is true.

Coming into the race, the concern was that the 2,000 Guineas winner would pull hard, but he actually settled very well in the first two furlongs.

Queally’s decision to extricate him from a position on the rails soon after this point looked a reasonable tactical ploy. But then the rider started pumping his hands and asking Frankel to accelerate – usually a reckless ploy on the uphill stretch of the Old Mile running out of Swinley Bottom.

Put to his best stride, Frankel unleashed the kind of breathtaking speed which makes him such a force: after a tepid first quarter-mile of 26.6sec, he ran the next three furlongs, on the incline, in a staggering 34.3sec, getting away from the pack with a fourth furlong touching 11sec. And the ground was less than firm, too.

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by Queally. His second quarter there was 22sec flat, smashing up the Classic field but leading to subsequent fractions of 24sec and 26.3sec which first suggested that he was tiring, despite the six-length win.

But the course for the St James’s Palace Stakes is much stiffer than that for the 2,000 Guineas – on average, it takes a horse 4.5sec longer to cover the same distance at Ascot than Newmarket. So this time any similar deceleration would be potentially more dangerous.

“After a tepid first

quarter-mile the next three furlongs were staggering” Frankel ran the final three furlongs at Ascot in 38.3sec, or 4sec slower than the previous three; he finished with a final furlong of nearly 14sec. Coupled with the visual impression of the pack closing him down, it seemed to add up to the horse tiring badly. Not only this, but some even added another layer of interpretation, asserting that Queally had panicked at the thought of his mount getting boxed in.

That Queally said Frankel was idling was breezily dismissed. He was clearly trying to exonerate himself, the world-weary said.

While the sectional times prove conclusively that Frankel ran much faster in the middle part of the race than at the end, they do not prove why. There is no doubt his expansive burst would have been costly, but another technical measure – stride-pattern analysis – lends support to what Queally said.

Frankel took 30 strides to cover the penultimate furlong in 13.1sec, after which he held a four-length cushion over nearest pursuer Excelebration. But, though he could muster a final furlong of only 13.8sec, allowing the strong-finishing Zoffany to close to threequarters of a length, he again used 30 strides.

In other words, Frankel’s average stride frequency was reducing, from 137 strides per minute to 130, but his average stride length was not: 22 feet per stride from the two-pole to the furlong-marker and the same home. (These measurements are subject to a tolerance imposed by the limitations of the human eye.)

A tired horse usually shortens its stride. This is some function of reduced muscle efficiency, though it is also linked to respiration: like many four-legged mammals, it takes exactly one breath per stride. So shorter strides, or more strides per second, provide more oxygen.

As Frankel galloped up the straight, his average stride-length in each of the last two furlongs was constant and his stride frequency was actually decreasing. This isn’t the usual pattern with tired horses, but it may be some evidence that he was doing exactly what his jockey said he was doing: resisting the instruction to keep going – idling, in other words.

This is important not just for academic purposes or for interest. Frankel is bred to stay at least a mile and a quarter. And I think the evidence suggests he will do exactly that. I think his stride-pattern tells you he was tiring no more than could be reasonably expected and that he just shut it down in the straight, perhaps losing concentration, perhaps intimidated by the gaudy surroundings, perhaps a little wilfully too.

This is one of the most exciting horses of the last 20 years. If he were mine, he would go for his owner’s Juddmonte International at York over a mile and a quarter. This time, however, I would make sure he gets a lead.

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NEW SERIES: THE FOUNDATION MARES

By JEREMY EARLY

COUNTRY HOUSE dentifying a superior foundation mare is as much a matter of luck as skill. Millions of pounds – and dollars – have been spent by owner/breeders in the modern era in pursuit of creating enduring families capable of winning the best races.

Sadly for those signing the cheques, but predictably for anyone with a knowledge of the history of bloodstock, only a minute number of those purchases have achieved the objective.

Perhaps one crucial consideration is that, as a rule, brilliant families do not just develop overnight, and do not necessarily develop from sources with apparently the greatest potential.

In uncovering the route to Shangri-La, then allowing a breeder to stride along it, luck invariably requires the backing of effort, perseverance, study, knowledge and judgement.

Ballymacoll Stud, with a record second to none of producing top-flight runners in the last half-century from a broodmare band averaging only 30 or so, is an object lesson in how to get it right. The success is largely down to two mares foaled in the 1950s, Sunny Gulf and Country House.

Country House has slightly the better record of this splendid pair, with her descendants including 12 of the 23 currently active broodmares at Ballymacoll and 11 Group 1 scorers. No apologies, therefore, for turning the microscope on her.

Country House’s grandam Coventry Belle (Hyperion-Carpet Slipper) came into the stud as a foal in 1938, when the future Lord Rothermere disposed of most of his bloodstock.

At 2,300gns, her purchase was inspired.

Admittedly, in winning one race Coventry Belle did nothing like so well on the track as Carpet Slipper’s 1937 foal Godiva, winner of the 1,000 Guineas and Oaks, or her 1939 foal, Irish triple Crown hero Windsor Slipper. But unlike them her influence has endured. Godiva had no opportunity in that regards as she died at three.

Initially Coventry Belle did not do much for Ballymacoll’s owners, including the Hon. Dorothy Paget once she had bought the stud in 1946. Winners were few and far between, and one of her daughters, Miss Coventry by stamina influence Mieuxce, died young after producing just three foals.

The last of the trio, foaled in 1955, was Country House. Though by another stamina influence in Vieux Manoir, she was not devoid of speed, landing three small races at up to seven furlongs, and she soon set the ball

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rolling as a broodmare for Ballymacoll’s new owners Michael Sobell and Sir Arnold (later Lord) Weinstock.

Mated mainly with stallions who had shown pace on the racecourse, she produced seven winners, four of them by Pall Mall including the physically unimposing Reform, who triumphed in the St James’s Palace, Sussex Stakes, Queen Elizabeth II Stakes and Champion Stakes at three in 1967.

Club House was another stakes winner for Country House but her reputation and continuing influence are based on two of her daughters, Reform’s sister Knighton House and Queen’s Castle (by Sovereign Path). Both won and Knighton House was smart, winning the

“One crucial consideration is that, as a rule, brilliant families do not develop overnight” Prix de la Calonne and running second in the Coronation Stakes. In the event, the jackpot was a long time coming after Reform, since there were no further Group 1 winners from this family until 1990.

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Lord Weinstock bought Ballymacoll Stud with his father-in-law in 1960

In fact, in Ballymacoll’s private stud book for 1985 only four of the 44 mares listed came from the Country House family. Proof of the value of perseverance, a quality that’s increasingly hard to find in an era where instant results seem often to be expected and even required.

On the plus side, there were some wellabove-average winners in the intervening period. Queen’s Castle produced Edinburgh (Prix des Reservoirs) and Knighton House foaled River Knight (Prix La Rochette), Open Day (King Edward VII Stakes) and the filly Sea Venture, who was in the frame in a Group 3.

Edinburgh was by a stamina influence in Charlottown, Sea Venture was by a stamina influence in Diatome, as was the latter’s daughter Grecian Sea in Homeric, but all three had pace, continuing the trait that started with Country House.

Another less-able daughter of Queen’s Castle, City Fortress, by Ballymacoll’s first Derby winner Troy, surpassed herself by foaling dual Eddie Read Handicap winner and Breeders’ Cup Mile runner-up Fastness, plus Hong Kong Vase victor Oriental Express (originally named Desert Boy).

But it was Edinburgh and Grecian Sea who proved pivotal. The former produced two good fillies in Sought Out, an out-and-out stayer successful in the Prix Kergorlay and Prix du Cadran as a four-year-old, and Scots Lass.

Scots Lass foaled Bonny Scot (Great Voltigeur Stakes, third in St Leger) and the filly Highland Gift, who went on to foal Golan, winner of the 2,000 Guineas and King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes. Golan’s brother Tartan Bearer ran second in three Group 1s, including the Derby and King George.

Sought Out did pretty well too, getting 2004 Derby hero North Light plus smart dyed-in-thewool stayer Cover Up. Danehill provided necessary pace for North Light in this staminaladen family but Cover Up is by Machiavellian, hardly a strong influence for staying.

Another daughter of Edinburgh’s, Greektown, was a Listed winner in France and completed a notable Group 1 treble for Edinburgh’s descendants when Gamut notched the 2004 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud.

Grecian Sea has been just as important as Edinburgh. Her 1987 filly foal Hellenic (by Darshaan) was one of the best of her age and sex, landing the Yorkshire Oaks and finishing second in the St Leger.

As a broodmare she was simply outstanding,

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Ballymacoll-bred Group 1 winners descended from Country House Foaled

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Yorkshire Oaks

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Fastness

Eddie Read Handicap (twice)

c 1993

Desert Boy/ Oriental Express

Hong Kong Vase

c 1995

Greek Dance

Grosser Dallmayr-Preis

c 1998

Golan

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f 1999

Islington

Nassau, Yorkshire Oaks (twice), Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf

c 1999

Gamut

Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud

c 2001

North Light

Derby

c 2002

Mountain High

Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud

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not just in being prolific with 16 foals mostly – and understandably – by sires from the Northern Dancer line, but in getting three scorers at the highest level. First came Greek Dance (by Sadler’s Wells), successful in the Grosser Dallmayr-Preis. Then came Islington (also by Sadler’s Wells), an exceptional distaffer whose tally included the Nassau Stakes, Yorkshire Oaks twice and Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf. Finally, Mountain High (by Danehill) was on the mark in the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud.

The period 1990 to date undoubtedly has pushed Country House into the pantheon of great foundation mares. With three daughters of Hellenic and two daughters of Scots Lass still on the premises, plus other mares with Country House in the bottom line of the pedigree, the story surely has more chapters to be written.

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VIEW FROM IRELAND

By LEO POWELL, MANAGING EDITOR OF THE IRISH FIELD

Townend triumphs in jockeys’ race Young rider joins familiar names JP McManus and Willie Mullins in claiming Irish title

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here was an unusually late end to the National Hunt season in Ireland with the running of the Punchestown Festival in May this year. The presentation of the trophies to the category winners on the last day of the season was made by the new Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Enda Kenny.

Leading owner JP McManus last year suffered a rare reversal when Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary and his Gigginstown Stud came out on top. This time McManus posted a winning margin of more than €100,000 when 50 horses carrying his colours visited the winner’s enclosure 75 times, netting prize-money of €1,414,121.

Gigginstown House Stud’s silks triumphed in 70 races, carried by 44 different horses.

The scale of these achievements can be measured against the fact that the most successful owners after that, with a dozen wins each, were Alan Potts and Barry Connell.

The champion trainer title is based on money won and the dominance of the Willie Mullins stable was awesome. No less than 75 of his charges were successful 106 times and they garnered €2,412,247 on the way. His nearest rival Noel Meade was the only other handler to pass the €1 million mark.

The leading trainer title, not unsurprisingly, also went to Mullins and this is based on races won. In his category his nearest challenger was Gordon Elliott and he is making quite a mark for himself. He saddled 62 winners and his runners are also well known in Britain as he is a regular visitor there, being especially fond of Perth in Scotland.

Though he sat out the last days of the season due to injury, a new name is engraved on the leading rider trophy, that of Cork-born Paul Townend. He benefited from the long time spent on the sidelines, also due to serious injury,

State visit a major success One of the largest media circuses followed the recent visit by the Queen to Ireland, the first by a ruling British monarch in a century. The sense of joy and delight that was engendered by Her Majesty during the time she spent in Ireland was palpable throughout.

A study of the pictures taken throughout her stay in Ireland will show clearly that she was never happier than when indulging in her love of the thoroughbred. A visit to the Irish National Stud was one of the centrepieces of her State visit, though she also took time out of her schedule to fit in tours of Gilltown and Coolmore in a private capacity.

The Queen enjoyed her stud trip

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Of course, though it was missed in some quarters, the Queen has patronised stallions at all three establishments in recent years and this was a special opportunity to see the sires in the flesh. The Irish National Stud Chief Executive John Osborne accompanied the Queen throughout her visit to the farm at Tully in Kildare, accompanied by the stud’s Chairman and leading owner/breeder Chryss O’Reilly.

A broad spectrum of Ireland and its equine connections and success was presented to the Queen during her all too brief stop at the Irish National Stud. While inspecting a number of stallions may well have been her own personal highlight, she also met representatives from the Army Equitation School, the Racing Academy and Centre of Education (with their most famous graduate Johnny Murtagh), Irish Master Farriers, the Irish National Stud management course (including Harry Eustace, son of Newmarket trainer James), connections of Arkle, the Irish trainers successful at Cheltenham 2011 and sculptor Anthony Scott.

The latter completed a wonderful piece that the Queen unveiled, and the work, entitled Sea Of Stars, was an inspired choice and will remain on public view at the stud to commemorate the visit.

of Ruby Walsh and he booted home 80 winners during the season. This was four more than Davy Russell, while the trio of Paul Carberry, Andrew McNamara and Barry Geraghty all rode 50 or more winners.

The best conditional rider was Bryan Cooper, son of trainer Tom, while Patrick Mullins – the only child of Willie and Jackie – was seven clear of his nearest rival, Nina Carberry, in the race for the amateur rider’s crown.

A few weeks later the Turf Club honoured all the winners at their awards night in Adare’s Dunraven Arms Hotel. Additional awards were presented to Nina Carberry (leading lady rider), Wilson Dennison (point-to-point), Eddie Ryan from the Henry de Bromhead yard (stable employee), Helen Walsh, matriarch of one of Ireland’s leading racing families (Special Award) and recently retired senior racecourse inspector Joe Collins (Distinguished Service Award).

In Brief The whole of the Irish racing and breeding industries are being urged to join in a major initiative called ‘Jog for Jockeys’ on Sunday, August 21 to raise funds for the Irish Injured Jockeys Fund. Michael Kinane, Ruby Walsh and Tracy Piggott have pledged their support already.

The day will entail runners, joggers and walkers being asked to go to one of five centres – Leopardstown, Cork, Galway, Down Royal and Naas racecourses – and enjoy a day of fun with hopefully thousands of others. The cost to compete is €25 and this must be done in advance on www.jogforjockeys.ie A new five-year deal between the Association of Irish Racecourses and Satellite Information Systems has been signed, although it does not commence until 2014. It is believed the negotiations were prompted by a move from TurfTV to negotiate an alternative deal.

Last year was described by bookmakers Paddy Power as a record one and the early indications are that the current financial year could be even better. In the first third of 2011 their online betting revenue has grown by more than 30%.

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Problems mount for Italian industry Several of the 17 tracks are in trouble, with funding and betting turnover down

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The Rome track is in financial strife

The major victim will be the €20m which in the past has allowed Italian breeders access to international bloodlines via the heavily

Caruso reputation enhanced

Worthadd (left) gave Canford Cliffs a race

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educed prize-money may be causing serious upheavals in British and Irish racing but at least we have not experienced the extreme fluctuations suffered by our Italian counterparts during the past decade.

In 2002, Italian prize-money, including breeders’ prizes, totalled €81 million. Since then it has fluctuated wildly (only once has the direction of change been the same in successive years) but the overall slope of the graph has been radically downwards.

Prize-money for 2010 was just €57m and, although prizes for the first half of the current year mirror those of 2010, that is only because everything has been put on hold while Francesco Ruffo, the new General Secretary of UNIRE (the Italian Levy Board), finds his feet and decides how best to carry out budget cuts.

Ruffo is facing two major problems – the government’s contribution to racing and trotting may be cut from €150m to €130m, and betting turnover is continuing to decline and is down a further 10% on the disappointing 2010 figure.

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By JAMES CRISPE, INTERNATIONAL RACING BUREAU

Veteran Milan handler Vittorio Caruso rarely sends horses to Britain but when he does they are worthy of the utmost respect.

His first raid was back in 1993, when Misil was beaten just a short head in the CoralEclipse by the subsequent King George winner Opera House.

Not for a dozen years did Caruso feel that he had the right material to merit a second raid.

When he did, the Eclipse was again the target and Altieri enhanced the trainer’s reputation with a fine third place behind Oratorio and Motivator.

Now he has saddled Worthadd to be the only member of the 2011 Lockinge Stakes field to make a race of it with the brilliant Canford Cliffs.

All three of his runners have comfortably outrun their starting price, which in each case was more than 20-1.

The judgement of Caruso – who recently won the Group 1 Gran Premio Di Milano back home with Voila Ici – about which of his charges are worthy of the long return journey to Britain has been impeccable.

subsidised purchase of stallion nominations and broodmares.

But further cuts will be necessary and, although a reduction in the number of races is the obvious long-term solution (the Italianbred foal crop of 2012 is set to show a 20% decrease on recent annual totals), a prizemoney drop of 10% or more for the second half of this year may be needed to balance the books in the short term.

Many of the nation’s 17 racecourses are in trouble. San Siro in Milan is helped by the fact that it owns the land itself and that its 90-year-old buildings are preserved by their ‘listed’ status.

But the Capannelle in Rome is in very deep water and has gone into what is best translated as ‘receivership’ as it seeks to agree to pay only a percentage of its debts to its major creditors.

The course is owned by the City of Rome and if racing is to survive, the rent charged by the municipality needs to be reduced dramatically.

Florence racecourse is also in peril – the trotting track there has been closed and plans to resite it within the current Flat course are proving highly problematic.

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Pris pain Tertullus, who on May 31 landed the Group 3 Stockholms Stora Pris at Taby for the second successive year, has been a busy boy of late as he took up stud duties in the spring and managed to get four mares in foal.

His Norwegian trainer, Rune Haugen, had a second reason to celebrate as he recently took delivery of a two-year-old colt, the first Coolmore-owned horse to be trained in Scandinavia.

The Stora Pris card, however, was marred by incidents in its three feature races that resulted in a quartet of horses hitting the deck. The worst came in the big race itself when Eddie Ahern switched second-placed Sir Lando to the inside in the closing stages. It resulted in Touch Of Hawk and Moe Green falling and meant Fredrik Johansson had to take such violent avoiding action on Aces Star that he dislocated his shoulder. Ahern was lucky to escape with a seven-day ban.

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Prime Equestrian’s silks are carried on three continents

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Prime becoming more prominent

The Arqana Saint-Cloud Breeze-up Sale on May 14 underlined the emergence of a relatively new player on the global bloodstock scene. For Prime Equestrian was comfortably the leading buyer, signing for a whopping 26 lots at a cost of €1.618 million (almost £1.4 million).

Prime Equestrian shuns publicity but its General Manager is Didier Reed, a 57-year-old business graduate who lives at Fontainebleau, near Paris. Reed refers to Prime as ‘a Europeanbased racing consortium’ and prefers to avoid revealing names of the company’s 70 other managers, although he does admit that the senior management is British.

He also confirms that, as befits an outfit whose horses are sponsored by the luxury holiday and property company, Dhevatara, Prime is involved in the construction, property development and boutique hotel sector, and has its head office in Dubai.

“We have no racing manager as such,” Reed revealed, “but we do have a breeding manager, the former jockey and trainer Peter Supple, who is based at the Haras du Mont Dit Mont near Deauville, where we keep our 18 broodmares.

“We are a group of friends who have known each other for many years. We weren’t born into this activity but we really enjoy the sport and love to entertain our staff and clients at racecourses.”

Prime Equestrian was formed in 2006 and initially had horses in Britain, mainly with Bryan

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Smart, and Dubai. But in 2009 it moved its European arm to France (“because the racing system there is sustainable,” Reed explained), where they currently have 35 horses in training, largely with Xavier Nakkachdji and Xavier Thomas Demaulte.

In Dubai its horses are with Stephane Chevalier and it has recently become involved in America, where its dozen charges are split between Mike Maker, Christophe Clement and Mike Stidham.

“We often prefer to choose young, hungry trainers who have the momentum to get to the top and share our desire for success,” Reed said.

Although much of its business is conducted at Arqana, Prime has also been active in the sales ring at Keeneland and Reed stresses that it has no strict buying policy.

“In the past we have bought yearlings, breezeups, horses in training and out of claimers, and we recently had our first homebred winner, Ashes To Glory, at Mont-de-Marsan,” he said.

Horses to look out for in the coming months sporting the dark blue, lime green and white Prime Equestrian silks include three-year-old fillies Malicia, an unbeaten daughter of Tapit, and Putyball, who has just recovered from pneumonia; the three-year-old colt Sunday Nectar; and older horse Win For Sure, who was recruited from Andreas Wohler at the end of last year and did well at the Carnival in Dubai, being twice placed in Maktoum Challenge rounds.

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Danedream believers cheered up

The season may be only halfway but Lomitas filly Danedream has already done enough to suggest she is the bargain buy of the campaign.

Trained by Peter Schiergen, she was purchased by Gestut Burg Eberstein for €9,000 at the BBAG spring sale at Baden-Baden just over a year ago.

She was soon winning in the French provinces and a couple of months later was cruelly denied a prize ten times greater than her purchase price when she lost a Deauville Listed race in the stewards’ room. By the end of her twoyear-old career she had posted highly respectable efforts in the year’s most prestigious races for juvenile fillies in both France and Germany.

This term she has reaffirmed her love of foreign travel, visiting Italy three times and covering over 3,000 miles. On the second visit she was subjected to a hard race when staying on to take third behind Crackerjack King in the Italian Derby in Rome.

Three weeks later she was back, in Milan, where she ran away with the Oaks by six and a half lengths.

Even without the £38,000 cost of her Deauville disqualification, her prize-money haul stands at almost £390,000.

Peter Schiergen: trains bargain buy

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THE LEADING SIRE BY BLACKYPE (13) AND GROUP (9) WINNERS WORLDWIDE IN 2011

DANSILI Aviate

Won

Churchill Distaff Turf Mile Stakes Gr.2

3rd

Honey Fox Stakes Gr.3

Delegator

Won

Duke of York Stakes Gr.2

Dandino

Won

Jockey Club Stakes Gr.2

Epic Love

Won

Prix Vanteaux Gr.3

2nd

Prix Saint-Alary Gr.1

Bewitched

Won

Ballycorus Stakes Gr.3

Emulous

Won

Equestrian Stakes Gr.3

Famous Name

Won

Amethyst Stakes Gr.3

3rd

Tattersalls Gold Cup Gr.1

Surfrider

Won

Prix Djebel Gr.3

Testosterone

Won

Prix de Royaumont Gr.3

Bated Breath

Won

Leisure Stakes L.

Laughing

Won

Nijinsky Stakes L.

Dream Peace

Won

Prix Volterra L.

Ferdoos

Won

Pinnacle Stakes L.

2nd

St James’s Palace Stakes Gr.1

2nd

Ballycorus Stakes Gr.3

Dansili Dancer

2nd

Lingfield Winter Derby Gr.3

Yaseer

3rd

Craven Stakes Gr.3

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GOING GLOBAL

By MICHELE MACDONALD

High down under

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he rise of High Chaparral as one of the leading young sires in Australasia cannot be explained, even by officials with Coolmore. With only his third crop racing in the southern hemisphere, High Chaparral reigned as the leading sire by progeny earnings when statistics from Australia and New Zealand were combined up to early June, with the season set to end on July 31.

Just as remarkably, the 12-year-old son of Sadler’s Wells stood as the second leading sire in Australia alone, even though he was represented by only 50 runners in that nation, an astounding 167 fewer than Darley’s leader Lonhro, with the earnings margin separating them less than £52,125. High Chaparral has found brilliant success where some of his other more celebrated stablemates – including Galileo and Giant’s Causeway, who both shuttled to Australia for several seasons but made little impact there – have not.

“It’s probably just an idiosyncrasy of nature,” said Coolmore Australia General Manager Michael Kirwan. “It’s been quite amazing, really.

A lot of people here are justifiably excited about him. We couldn’t have asked for any more. It’s almost unprecedented what he’s been able to achieve, particularly in an environment that is

so speed-oriented.”

Much of the credit for High Chaparral’s performance must be given to the Schick family’s Windsor Park Stud in New Zealand, an established partner in launching southern hemisphere careers for Coolmore stallions. Windsor Park stood High Chaparral until the 2010 season, when his ascending status propelled by a trio of three-year-old Group 1 winners from his first crop led Coolmore to stand him at its Australian base in the Hunter Valley.

More than 220 mares were bred to High Chaparral in Australia last year and although the 2011 book might be smaller, the quality will be no less, it is anticipated.

Kirwan said: “He covered an amazing book of mares last year. The quality was mindboggling and he’d certainly be looking at the same this year. Demand for his progeny has been insatiable (his third New Zealand yearling crop has averaged just shy of £130,313 this year). It’s certainly an exciting time for him.”

In the shape of So You Think, High Chaparral may already have sired a horse better than himself, Kirwan said. Since High Chaparral is an English and Irish Derby winner and dual

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It’s not simple to explain, but High Chaparral is doing brilliantly for Coolmore in Australia

High Chaparral: “exciting time for him”

Breeders’ Cup Turf winner, that is no mean feat.

High Chaparral has sired five Group 1 winners, with each having earned more than $1 million; together, they had banked $13,405,656 (£8,165,358) even before So You Think’s second place at Royal Ascot. One element that seems to work with High Chaparral is a cross also bearing the blood of Northern Dancer. A majority of his stakes winners, including So You Think, have been inbred, typically on a 3 x 4 or so basis, to Northern Dancer.

High Chaparral’s fee in Australia this year will be A$99,000 (£64,505), including taxes, which compares to a fee of €25,000 that he stood for in Ireland.

Just when it appeared that Galileo could not do any better as a sire, with the likes of Frankel, Misty For Me and Golden Lilac running this year, along comes a daughter who not only has accomplished what has never been done before but is aiming for even more.

Igugu (which means ‘jewel’ in Zulu) ran off with South Africa’s Triple Tiara for three-yearold fillies for the first time in history, trouncing her competition by a combined 20 lengths in the South African Fillies Classic, South African Oaks and Gauteng Guineas.

The world appears to wait for Igugu, who added to those laurels with an easy win in the Group 1 Woolavington at Greyville on June 4 and now is pointed to South Africa’s most famous race, the Durban July championship.

“We still have not got to the bottom of her as yet,” trainer Mike de Kock proclaimed after

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Igugu’s most recent win, while rider Anthony Delpech added: “I don’t think I will ride a filly as good as this in my career.”

Igugu is yet another star to represent the powerful team of de Kock and co-owner Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa al Maktoum of Dubai. The bay filly, who stems from the female family of the Aga Khan’s champion Zarkava, is the epitome of a dramatic racing success story in the international world.

Bred by Kia Ora Stud in Australia, Igugu was sold for about £25,323 as a yearling and was sent to South Africa. Owners Andre and Joyce MacDonald scooped her up as a juvenile for about £90,330 from the Summerhill Stud consignment at the Emperors Palace Ready to Run sale. Summerhill retained an interest but later sold to Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa.

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Igugu the latest de Kock jewel

Mike de Kock: there’s more to come

taken so successfully in the past, Igugu can be expected to compete in the 2012 Dubai Carnival and then perhaps in Europe. During the 2011 Carnival, they raced a pair of Galileo fillies that Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa had bred in Australia: South African champion juvenile Mahbooba and Reem; the former won the UAE 1,000 Guineas and was third in the $2m UAE Derby, and the latter defeated the males in the Al Bastikiya.

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A stallion who began his stud career with only moderate regard stands to be the sire of Japan’s next Triple Crown winner if Orfevre can sustain what so far has been a brilliant run through the island nation’s Classic races.

The chestnut colt produced magic in his dominating victories in the Satsuki Sho (Japanese 2,000 Guineas) on April 24 and the Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby) on May 29.

With Orfevre being the second brilliant performer in about six months for the sire Stay Gold – following on the heels of Nakayama Festa, who pushed Workforce down the Longchamp straight to the post in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe – breeders are certainly taking note.

Campaigned by the Shadai Race Horse syndicate, Stay Gold did not deliver a major prize to his owners until he was seven, when he rushed to the wire to defeat Godolphin’s Fantastic Light and international Group 1 winner Silvano in the 2001 Dubai Sheema Classic. Later that year, Stay Gold travelled to Sha Tin to win the Hong Kong Vase.

Nonetheless, the late-blooming son of Sunday Silence with a predominantly European female family (his dam, Golden Sash, was by French Group 1 winner Dictus and his third dam, Royal Sash, was Britishbred through at least 26 generations of her female line, dating back to the White Turk Mare of the late 1600s) was not highly prized for stud.

With so many more brilliant sons of Sunday Silence available, the durable Stay Gold, a veteran of 50 starts, has rotated between Breeders Stallion Station and Big Red Farm on the island of Hokkaido.

Receiving fewer mares and undoubtedly mares of less prestige than some of the more high-profile sons of Sunday Silence, Stay Gold has nevertheless been able to sire runners who have left an impact. From his second crop came Dream Journey, who was Japanese champion juvenile in 2006 and champion older male in 2009 and who, like his sire, earned more than £5,184,000.

Nakayama Festa earned honours as Japan’s champion older horse of 2010 and was also highweighted in France.

Meanwhile, Orfevre has become only the 22nd colt in 78 years to sweep the first two jewels of the Triple Crown and will bid in the October 23 Kikuka Sho (Japanese St Leger) to become the seventh winner of all three Classics. He is a brother to Dream Journey and the duo have an unnamed yearling brother.

They are inbred 4 x 3 to Northern Taste, the son of Northern Dancer who dominated the Japanese sire standings until Sunday Silence took over for 13 consecutive years.

Up to early June, Stay Gold ranked third among all Japanese sires with progeny earnings of more than £8.3 million, even though he had from 34 to 96 fewer starters than each of the other sires in the top six.

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Orfevre flies Stay Gold flag Sheikh Mohammed paid a rare visit

Sheikh pleased with Japan job With his breeding and racing venture in Japan showing signs of rewarding his commitment, Sheikh Mohammed marked just his second visit to Tokyo racecourse in 28 years when he attended the Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby) on May 29.

Although his Debonair, by the late leading Japanese sire Agnes Tachyon out of a sister to his Dubai World Cup winner Moon Ballad, was unplaced, his team celebrated three wins and two placings from its six Japanese-bred runners over the weekend. Accompanied by advisors John Ferguson and Oliver Tait, Sheikh Mohammed praised staff at Darley Japan, saying, “I think they’ve done a very good job. We are satisfied and I am very happy.”

All three of the Japan Racing Association winners over the Derby weekend competed in the silks of Sheikh Mohammed’s wife, Princess Haya, and each was a homebred for Darley Japan. Alberti, a three-year-old colt by Medicean, won a seven-furlong maiden, while Funfair, a three-year-old filly

by Darley Japan stallion Alkaased, captured a nine-furlong turf event. The previous day at Niigata, Spring Season, a son of Brian’s Time out of Dubai Millennium mare Spring Rain, also won over nine furlongs, on dirt.

“Unfortunately, Sheikh Mohammed did not make it up to Hokkaido this time to see the Darley Japan operation, but the trip was deemed very successful,” said Shane Horan, Director of Stallion Operations. Darley Japan stood nine stallions in 2011, including Japanese Horse of the Year Admire Moon, Tokyo Yushun winner Deep Sky and leading Australian-based sire Commands.

The JRA reported Sheikh Mohammed owns 19 horses in competition following the landmark approval of the Dubai ruler’s foreign-based owner’s licence in 2009.

Orfevre will bid to become only the seventh winner of the Japanese Triple Crown

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THE BIG INTERVIEW RACHEL HOOD

Driven to SUCCEED The new President of the Racehorse Owners Association takes over at a time when the sport is hurting from a succession of setbacks. Rachel Hood is determined to help fix it

By Tim Richards • Photos George Selwyn and Trevor Jones

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ou have recently been appointed President of the ROA. What are the organisation’s immediate priorities and long-term objectives?

We need to arrest the decline of British racing by putting in place a proper funding mechanism that is underpinned by new legislation, either to replace or modernise the current levy system. The last time racing endeavoured to put its house in order, the bookmakers went to the European court and helped to destroy what we were trying to do for the benefit of the racing industry. This I find bizarre, because a healthy racing industry will benefit the bookmakers as well.

There are 16 Gold Standard Award holders. What does this say about how owners are looked after by racecourses in Britain generally?

In a climate of declining foal crops and with less and less prize-money, any owner who is prepared to pay to have horses in training and thus help to finance racing becomes an increasingly important and valued commodity in the sport.

In the past, owners have been taken for granted, but, now, thanks largely to the Gold Standard Award, there is a better dialogue between the racecourses and the Racehorse Owners Association. It is a hugely important exercise that will become even more relevant if the Horsemen’s Tariff becomes part of the qualifying criteria.

The debate over prize-money has dominated racing in recent times –

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what is the way forward in your opinion?

I think new legislation is fundamental and it is encouraging that the government has just begun a pre-consultation exercise as a forerunner for this to go through the usual parliamentary process.

Anybody who looks at our racing compared to racing in other countries knows that British racing has been massively underfunded for years. We need to get our finances in order and the only way we can do it is through new legislation.

So we are hoping the government is going to live up to its promise. Racing employs, directly

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owners are an increasingly valued commodity” and indirectly, around 100,000 people and its importance needs no emphasising here. Also, the fact that the enormous foreign investment in British racing and breeding is of great benefit to the economy, coupled with the export of British bloodstock.

In my view racing also has a very important part to play socially. With the ever-expanding urbanisation of the country, there is an increasing need for people to experience rural life and a unique spectator sport. The horse and racing are an uplifting and integral part of that.

If we’re not careful we will follow the example of what is happening in America, where racing is in terminal decline. The way to arrest such an alarming prospect is to have a properly funded industry, with legislation on the statute book that will stop money disappearing offshore and out of racing altogether.

There are a number of extremely bright young MPs in the Houses of Parliament who understand the impact of racing and that a healthy racing industry provides employment, as well as a fascinating activity for the public, and, not least, revenue for the Exchequer.

We are not going to the government asking for a subsidy. We are telling them that we have tried, but failed, because the betting industry has continually blocked our efforts. We are saying that, if they fulfil the promises on which they were elected, there will be financial benefits for them as well as for racing.

We must also remember that, without the extraordinary long-term support from the Maktoum family and Prince Khalid Abdullah, British Flat racing would now be bankrupt.

Your husband, John Gosden, is a noted supporter of the Horsemen’s Tariff. Has it been as successful as you would have hoped?

It has been very successful on the Flat where 85% of all races since the beginning of April have met or exceeded tariff. There is still some work left to do on the jumps side. As the levy contributions to prize-money continue to decline, the tariff will become even more crucial.

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Is the horseracing industry too betting-orientated in your view?

Yes. You have only to go to the Derby to see that racing is much more than just betting; it is theatre, a fabulous day out, there is a whole dimension to it without the betting. The whole scene can be aesthetically beautiful and full of excitement. Without the owner and the racegoer there is no racing, and I regret deeply that we do not have a Tote monopoly in this country, which powers the successful racing models of the Far East and France.

Do you have any reservations about Betfred’s recent purchase of the Tote?

I have enormous concerns. If I had been told 18 months ago that the Tote would be sold to a bookmaker, I wouldn’t have believed it. I have always been of the view that the last government should not have passed legislation which enabled them to sell the Tote. It should have been kept within racing.

I think the government could have created a climate to have allowed racing to strengthen and embolden the Tote business and develop an international pool. Instead, they have hidden behind state aid legislation which I believe could have been circumvented.

Leaving the Tote in limbo for so long undermined the business and staff confidence.

What is the current situation with your campaign to defeat the Hatchfield Farm development?

It is not my campaign; it’s a campaign that has been supported by every single organisation in racing, the BHA, owners, trainers, breeders, jockeys and stable staff.

They have all signed up to stop the Hatchfield Farm development.

But I’m afraid the situation is very grave, even though Lord Derby’s application was unanimously turned down by the District Council and we

were successful in the Judicial Review at the High Court.

Lord Derby has now initiated a four-week appeal at the expense of racing, breeding and the people of Newmarket, starting on July 12. It is expected to cost the various people and organisations opposing his scheme something in the region of £1 million. It is part of his appeal against the unanimous decision to turn down his plans.

How much does your experience as a successful attorney in America help you in your role as Chair of the Save Historic Newmarket Action Group?

It is always helpful to have had the experience and benefit of legal training. After practising as a barrister in England we went to America and that’s where I became an American lawyer. In total I have been a lawyer for over 25 years.

Even so, I have to say we all sincerely wish we weren’t being forced to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds and countless hours of time on all this.

Why should Newmarket be exempt from its responsibilities to the provision of more affordable housing, which is so lacking in Britain?

It is not about affordable housing; that is just an excuse. It’s about greed and somebody wanting to make money out of a green field site he inherited from his uncle, while, platitudinously, saying he wouldn’t do anything to harm Newmarket.

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programme has been exaggerated, but the Horsemen’s Group is alive to this concern and is closely monitoring the situation. We, of all people, want to see a programme that properly caters for the horse population, especially higher quality horses just below Group class.

It would appear that Arena Leisure, with its seven racecourses, is more interested in its bank debt than prize-money. The other day we sent a horse I half-own to Lingfield but withdrew it because the race, which was originally at tariff level, had been divided and fell below tariff. Arena refused to put in the extra £500 to bring it back to tariff level. I’m pleased to say we then ran the horse in a tariff-compliant race at Newbury the next week, which he won.

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them. Road traffic is already at unacceptable levels. To create an industrial development and further housing will inevitably add to the problems of an already over-congested town, leading to more accidents, further restricting mobility and urbanising Newmarket when it should be a rural market town environment.

You were recently voted on to the Forest Heath District Council as well as the Newmarket Town Council. It is the first time for 30 years that racing has been represented on either group. What has driven you to become a councillor?

It all started with Forest Heath District Council allowing blocks of ultra-modern flats – oddly called Meridian ‘Gardens’ – to be built in the Bury Road Conversation Area, having turned down an application to build stables on the same site. We all suddenly realised that nobody was minding the shop.

We found the District Council completely unresponsive and we were all heartbroken to see our Conservation Area being vandalised right under our noses. It became apparent that the racing and breeding industries were not represented on either council and it seemed that the only way forward was for some of us to be involved.

John Berry and Jacko Fanshawe are on the Town Council, and I’ve been elected to Chair the Development and Planning Committee of the Town Council, and am in several roles on the District Council. Quite simply, I did not want Newmarket to be ruined on my watch.

Do you have ambitions to run for Parliament?

I never had ambitions to be an MP, but when Newmarket suddenly found itself without an MP, we felt we couldn’t stand

Arctic Cosmos wins the 2010 St Leger – owned by Rachel Hood and Robin Geffen,

idly by and that we had to be part of the process. We didn’t want an MP who knew nothing about Newmarket or racing and breeding.

We knew we had to stand up for a number of racing issues and people asked me to stand so my name was put forward. Actually, I was recently re-selected as a prospective parliamentary candidate. However, I must stress that we have ended up with a first class MP in Matthew Hancock, who is standing up for racing and breeding and is against the development at Hatchfield

Farm. He is firmly behind the racing industry and we are firmly behind him in Newmarket.

How much do you think Racing For Change is benefiting the sport? How do you view Champions’ Day? I think Racing For Change has had some good ideas. I am a supporter of the new Champions’ Day, though I am the first to accept that it is not in a perfect form just yet. We need to focus on the better horses throughout the season and to promote British racing all the year round; we do need a narrative that builds through to a powerful finale.

Jumping has that with Cheltenham and the Grand National. Flat racing needs the same focus. We needed to do something and I am delighted that British Champions’ Day has taken this on, and I have no doubt it will be improved as it progresses.

Tradition is absolutely fine but we also need to appeal to a young audience. We need people to understand why we are fixated on this wonderful sport and we want to welcome people in.

The QIPCO sponsorship of the British Champions’ Series is a very positive move and it is important we go out of our way to make the Qatar royal family feel appreciated for what they are doing.

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THE BIG INTERVIEW pertinent to recall the article John did for this magazine in October 2009 when he warned that racing’s finances were about to go into freefall. It gives me no pleasure to say this but his warnings were apparently ignored by the BHA, which failed to see the problem coming.

And now we are faced with the horrific scenario of the levy’s contributions to prizemoney in 2012 actually being smaller than the

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recall the article John did for this magazine in October 2009” cost of running racing. That is the downside.

But the Horsemen’s Group, which represents owners, breeders, trainers, jockeys and stable staff, is a very important organisation that provides a much brighter outlook. If racing’s plans come to fruition, the Horsemen’s Group will deal directly with racecourses on a commercial basis. This system would be to the advantage of those courses and groups which are prepared to put appropriate amounts of money into prize-money. he is trained by Rachel’s husband John Gosden, pictured below with the trophy

As a mother of four, how do you juggle your life with so many responsibilities?

Our youngest is 16, so I think life’s moved on.

How involved do you get in your husband’s training operation?

I don’t believe people send horses to John to train in order to have me interfering with them.

We own the business together but my role is the paperwork side. John does absolutely everything to do with the horses and training, and I enjoy being one of his owners.

Describe the thrill of owning the winner of Britain’s oldest Classic, the St Leger with Arctic Cosmos, trained by your husband...

It’s been indescribable from all perspectives. I know of only one other English trainer who has produced a Classic winner for his wife – Sir Noel Murless in 1968 saddled Caergwrle to win the 1,000 Guineas for his wife, Gwen.

John and Tom Goff, of Blandford Bloodstock, bought Arctic Cosmos together at Tattersalls for 47,000 guineas. I now have a most delightful partner in Robin Geffen. It has been the most fabulous family experience; John is very popular indeed with his wife!

You are also involved on the breeding side, winning two Listed races with Gertrude Bell. How did you start and

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how many broodmares do you have?

Gertrude Bell is our first homebred and we have three broodmares. We’ve been very lucky with Gertrude Bell, who has given me enormous fulfilment as an owner. Of course, the breeding side provides an added dimension that is very different and completely absorbing. You have to be disciplined, though, because breeding is expensive.

Are there any other horses we should be looking out for this year?

Carry on looking out for Gertrude Bell. We do have some promising two-year-olds and Arctic Cosmos, who was injured at the end of last year, is very well. We’re hoping to race him later this summer.

Did you have an interest in racing before you met John, when you were students at Cambridge University?

Although I had a pony and rode as a child and I briefly played some very low goal polo, courtesy of Madeleine Lloyd-Webber and Lucinda Freedman, I actually grew up in a household where the television was turned off the moment racing came on!

Has the sport changed for the better since your first involvement?

In some ways it has changed for the better, but there’s still a long way to go. I think it is

Did your time in America, when John was training in California, influence your views on British racing?

Yes it did, because it enabled me to see their equivalent of the Horsemen’s Group in operation. No racecourse could race until it had signed a satisfactory prize-money agreement.

The Horsemen’s Group was borne out of what John and I experienced in America, together with some very good ideas put together largely by ROA Chief Executive Michael Harris and Rupert Arnold of the National Trainers’ Federation.

Is British racing still the best in the world?

Our jump racing is definitely the best in the world. As far as Flat racing is concerned, I think the festival meetings are amongst the best in the world but, when you go lower down, you find an awful lot of very moderate racing, with horses that would be ineligible to run in many other major racing countries.

I appreciate that we need to provide opportunities for all owners but we do need to create a much more aspirational system. I am not sure who benefits from such a glut of bad racing. We are continually being told it is for the benefit of the bookmakers and therefore the levy. But, sadly, with our current experience of the levy dropping catastrophically, I find it impossible to see where these benefits are for racing.

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Noble ABILITY Hughie Morrison is doing what he always wanted to do and, while content to remain out of racing politics for now, the trainer has plenty to say about his profession and his sport Words Alan Lee • Photos George Selwyn

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ut in the yard, identified from milling third lot by salty hair and neat spectacles framing quizzical eyes, he moved with long purposeful strides, as if stalking on a favourite Scottish hillside.

Now, looking out as rain falls gently on his tranquil Berkshire lawns, he clutches a ‘William and Catherine’ mug from a wedding he attended recently.

Without even examining his family tree, there is a sense of breeding imprinted on Hughie Morrison. Not haughty, far from condescending and patently talented enough to have garnered winners at Royal Ascot and Cheltenham, he is nevertheless different from most in the training ranks. But then you listen to him talk, first about himself and then, more ardently, about the sport he has embraced, and you appreciate other virtues.

“I’ve obviously been privileged but I always wanted to train horses and I’m in it to promote racing, not just H Morrison,” he declares. “I want to look after people who share my passion for the sport. I’m accused of having too many

strong opinions but I grew up with this sport, I love the industry and I want it to succeed.”

Right now, as is clear to all, the road to success is blocked by a succession of accidents and obstructions. The leadership of racing is increasingly opaque. Would Morrison, 50 years old, with friends and allies in high places and diverse experiences in corporate life as well as at the coal face of racing, consider a political post in the industry?

“The trouble with

racing is it’s all done by committee – and that doesn’t work” “I’d like to,” he says immediately. “But I would do it my way and that would roll over a lot of people. The trouble with racing is that it’s all done by committee – and that doesn’t work. I’ve never put myself forward because I don’t want to sit on committees.

Mark Johnston is doing it now and Mark and I agree on a lot of things, but the system is not for me.”

He does not rule it out, though. Meantime, Morrison’s considerable energies are devoted to the 80 horses at Summerdown Stables, the

yard he bought from Simon Sherwood in 1996 after deciding, somewhat circuitously, that this was the life for him. “I was always craving an involvement in racing; I just felt one was expected to do something more...proper,” he observes wryly.

It was not such a surprise. His father, the second Lord Margadale, bred three Classic winners and, when free from the duties of supervising family estates in Wiltshire and Scotland, seemed to spend much of his time racing. “Dad stewarded at Royal Ascot, Newmarket, Newbury, Salisbury and Bath,” Morrison recalls. “So I was always racing. I remember going to Newbury aged six and just being let loose.

“I had a wonderful childhood. If I wasn’t at Fonthill, I was on the west coast of Scotland.

The family owns a third of the island of Islay and we disappeared there for six months each year. It was first bought in 1851, by my great-great grandfather, as an investment. It’s been precisely the opposite, a huge financial drain, but we still manage it now through love of the place. It’s a vibrant island, with a lot of tourism, and we have 70 tenants.”

The idyllic childhood ended at Eton. “I only just scraped in and there was a real pressure to achieve,” says Morrison. “My son, Geordie, later went there and complained at how hard he was made to work, but I think they have it easy now. In my time, if you were failing academically, you were out.”

Even then, racing found its way onto the Morrison curriculum. He says: “I got into

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The master of Summerdown Stables at work: Morrison has 80 horses at his East Ilsley yard, also home to 16-year-old Kylkenny

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trouble for going to Windsor races on a Monday evening – we used to cycle down the river. I couldn’t see the problem and went to the headmaster thinking I held the moral high ground. He partly saw my point, punished me anyway, but said I was free to go whenever I liked.”

The uninitiated may wonder, as I did, why

young Hughie did not settle for the life of a supported English gentleman, a modern-day Bertie Wooster? “As the younger son, it was never on the agenda for me to take over the family estates,” he points out. “My brother, Alastair, does that. I had to go out and find my way – and there were advantages in being able to do my own thing.”

He was a free spirit, too, as he showed more than once at family gatherings. He says: “Being a political family, we had several prime ministers stay with us in Scotland – Harold Macmillan, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher all came. I was 18, still too young to know my place, when I had a big argument at dinner with Mrs Thatcher. I was saying

Special jumpers who kickstarted career more recently defined by Flat Flat racing is, and always was, the dominant part of Hughie Morrison’s business, yet the irony is that he was established on the training map by jumps horses. Specifically, it was the 2002 Cheltenham Festival which alerted people to his skills, Frenchman’s Creek winning the William Hill Chase with insolent ease and Marble Arch finishing second in the Champion Hurdle.

“We still keep half a dozen jumpers around and it amuses me that people feel there is any mystery to training them,” he says. “You just go slower for further. But those two horses were very special, because Mary bred Marble

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Arch and I bred Frenchman’s Creek.”

There is an evocative picture in Morrison’s dining room of Paul Carberry returning triumphant to the Cheltenham winner’s enclosure after his three-length win. “That day, he could have beaten anything – he just hacked round,” recalls the trainer. “It was great to watch but I was slightly incredulous.

Then he nearly fell at the last. I still have nightmares about that.

“I’d bred him out of a point-to-pointer I had bought, with my father’s assistance, years earlier. But Mary brought Marble Arch into our lives and we had no hopes of him at first

– he couldn’t even win a bumper, yet 18 months later he was nearly winning the Champion Hurdle.

“Mary also bred the full-brother, Tom Paddington, who gave me one of my greatest thrills. He’d looked like being a very good horse when he broke down over hurdles. I felt at the time he should have been put down but he spent two years in a field and another 18 months being nursed back through training, before he won first time out at Newbury. You can’t buy that sort of pleasure.”

Morrison has latterly been known for sprinters and stayers – two July Cup

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that we should get rid of the House of Lords and have the equivalent of a Senate. Mrs Thatcher, of course, knew she would never get so much done if she had a strong second house.” A little like the Chairman of the BHA keeping the racecourses in their place?

Morrison progressed to a business studies degree. “It taught me to read accounts and gave

me valuable experience,” he says. “I had a year out, sponsored by a company that had a jeans outlet in Fulham. One summer, everyone disappeared and I virtually ran it. I stayed with that company after college, travelling around as a corporate analyst, then I worked for myself for a while. Finally, I got involved in a company in Manchester that produced lowenergy lighting. The theory was good, the timing dreadful. The company died and I came home and made up my mind it was time for what I’d always really wanted to do.”

He had always had point-to-pointers, which he rode with modest success but enormous enthusiasm. He had also spent a school holiday with Toby Balding, whose late wife, Caro, was his mother’s sister, and even owned a horse or two with his brother. Now, with the corporate doors closing, he wanted to take racing seriously.

“Maybe I’d got to the point where there weren’t many other options,” he recalls. “I knew I would not make a very good employee. I spent two years working for Paul Cole. I wasn’t paid, I just wanted to learn – but you only really learn when you’re training. When the chance came, I was living in Lambourn and simply swapped houses with Simon and Lucy Sherwood.

“I might have been lucky enough to have the finance to do it myself but we started with only eight horses and it was financially negative for the first three or four years. It got to the point of wondering if I could survive.”

Divorce was an added complication and Morrison suffered some tricky years. His second wife has helped greatly in the progress of the yard. Directly descended from William Wordsworth, Mary is also a natural horsewoman. Morrison says: “Flat racing can be very blinkered in certain respects. Mary evented and brings a different eye to it. She spotted Pastoral Pursuits and Pisco Sour.

“Just as important, she encouraged me to

keep going. I probably don’t know what ‘tough’ is, do I? But I do need to work, let’s be straight on that. We don’t have an extravagant lifestyle but I do want to maintain it and, in this present economic environment, if you have one bad season, you’re dead.”

This leads him back onto political territory and demonstrates his air of conviction and frustration on racing’s inadequacies. “British

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racing has been damaging, to the ground and breed” racing is too good to collapse but if we don’t support the top level, we might as well give up,” he begins.

“Racing got far too big. We were drawn in by the betting industry, got too close to them.

The result was more and more racing, and it has been damaging. It’s destroyed the ground at many tracks and the breed has been weakened – there are too many bad or unsound horses around. Given a blank sheet of paper, I would cut the fixture list by 25% but racecourses, with their managing directors and their marketing executives, have a different aspiration.”

He fires off a few more random thoughts – the “lost opportunity” of the Tote sale, the BHA “losing its teeth”, the potential to offer all top racing to Sky – and once more I am struck by the force of a personality that longs to heal the patient.

For now, though, his concerns are in East Ilsley, where his numbers, like so many other

sprinters and stayers winners, Pastoral Pursuits and Sakhee’s Secret, along with the valiant Alcazar, who won a Group 1 marathon in France at the age of ten.

Perhaps the most moving day of all, though, was his first of six Royal Ascot winners, Waverley, in the 2003 Duke of Edinburgh Stakes. Morrison explains: “He belonged to my father, who had died only two months earlier. It was a very emotional time for all the family.”

And one that would have made the late Lord Margadale particularly proud of the Hon Hughie Morrison.

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Frenchman’s Creek and Paul Carberry won the William Hill Chase for Morrison

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Morrison enjoyed two winners at Royal Ascot this year with Sagramor (above left, with groom Billy Davis) and Pisco Sour

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yards, are down – but the winners are still flowing satisfactorily. There are two yards here, the second built in 2003 to the same traditional designs as the original. Staring out from the top of it is the 16-year-old head of Kylkenny, who retired in 2008 after his 17th course win, for 12 different jockeys, on the all-weather at Southwell.

There are superior horses in the yard, including Sagramor and Pisco Sour, who scored within an hour of each other at Royal

Ascot in June. But Morrison, who takes pride in finding homes for all his retired horses, still has a special place here for this one.

“He almost garrotted himself on a gatepost last year but he’s still out with the string every day and he is terrific with the young ones, especially in their stalls training,” he says proudly.

Kylkenny operated at the shop-floor of racing, something his impeccably bred trainer is quite content to do.

“I’ve never seen myself as aristocratic,” he says. “I’ve had privileges, and it’s always easier to approach someone if you know them, but it does have disadvantages, too.”

With his half-century up, and 15 years into a belated training career, he assesses the future realistically. “I love what I do but there are always other challenges. We’re only here for so long. It would be fun to do something else.” Maybe racing politics could lure him, after all?

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EPSOM REVIEW

Unforgettable This year’s Epsom Classics will be remembered for two very different rides which displayed the benefit of experience and the exuberance of youth

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Murtagh, whose career has seen highs and lows aplenty, looked set for an uncertain future after he resigned his position as number one rider at Ballydoyle, yet he remains a ‘go-to’ jockey in the big races.

With three Derby triumphs to his name, few can match Murtagh’s experience and success rate on Epsom’s undulating track. He was, however, enjoying his first Oaks victory, likewise trainer William Haggas, who sent out Shaamit to land the 1996 Derby.

Brothers Martin and Lee Taylor who own

the winner, bought for €200,000 as a yearling at Goffs, are London lawyers and lifelong racing enthusiasts who had never previously had a Classic runner.

Cheshire Oaks heroine Wonder Of Wonders was the only rival to pose any serious challenge to Dancing Rain in the dash for home but she was kept at bay by threequarters of a length, with Izzi Top allowed to claim third after Frankie Dettori dropped his hands aboard 1,000 Guineas winner Blue Bunting.

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n a slowly-run race the best place to be is in front, so they say. Johnny Murtagh may have been granted a soft lead in the Oaks but the canny Irishman produced a riding master-class aboard Dancing Rain for an allthe-way win in the fillies’ Classic.

Taking Dancing Rain to the front as soon as the stalls opened, Murtagh dictated events, setting a steady early pace, winding up the pace turning for home and then quickening in the straight. It was a textbook front-running ride, brilliantly executed.

You can’t catch me: Johnny Murtagh produces a superb front-running exhibition on Dancing Rain in the Oaks

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Cheeky: Mickael Barzalona celebrates winning the Derby on Pour Moi well before the finish line

If Johnny Murtagh’s Oaks tactics were masterful, Mickael Barzalona’s performance, and that of his mount Pour Moi in the Derby, had to be seen to be believed.

The 19-year-old novice had apparently produced the perfect Epsom ride, settling his mount at the back of the 13-runner field, producing him with a beautifully-timed challenge down the outside of the field to pass all his rivals and hit the front just yards from the line.

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down, with his closest pursuers still being asked for maximum effort.

The phrase ‘exuberance of youth’ is often heard but how else can you explain the actions of the teenager in the world’s biggest horserace?

Barzalona later explained – via an interpreter – that he knew he would win.

Replays of the race still leave the viewer stunned by his antics. Either way, the 2011 Derby won’t be one we forget in a hurry.

For Andre Fabre, champion trainer in France on 22 occasions, it was a first Derby success after 30 years of trying, a period littered with disappointments and beaten favourites.

Where the likes of Eddery, Jarnet, Peslier, Soumillon and Dettori had come up short, Barzalona triumphed to end France’s 35year wait for the blue riband following Empery in 1976.

Treasure Beach, like the winner owned by the Coolmore trio of Sue Magnier, Michael Tabor and Derrick Smith, ran the race of his life to finish second for the Aidan O’Brien stable, looking the likely victor until headed close home.

The Queen’s Carlton House produced a fine effort in third under Ryan Moore, staying on well after a slightly troubled passage though ultimately unable to match the winner’s finishing kick.

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SWEDISH GRAND NATIONAL

Passion of the HEARTLAND Sweden’s Grand National celebrated its 40th anniversary this year and, while the country’s biggest jump meeting is undergoing modernisation, it retains a unique charm Words Emma Berry • Photos SG/Stefan Olsson and Emma Berry

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ore than a century has passed since the first horse races – contests organised by the nearby military academy to test their soldiers’ horsemanship – were run at Stromsholm.

In 1971, the Swedish amateur riders’ club decided to raise the stakes by writing to Mirabel Topham, then doyenne of Aintree, to ask if they could apply the name ‘Grand National’ to a 2m5f steeplechase on the country’s biggest day of jump racing, held annually in the national park alongside Stromsholm Castle.

Mrs Topham’s positive response included the donation of a large silver trophy to be awarded to the winner. Quite what she would have made of the current tradition of filling the prize with champagne to be passed among the thirsty hordes at the post-racing party is anyone’s guess, but the Swedes are proud of this custom and nobody present is allowed to refuse a swig.

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of the Svenskt Grand National: amateur rider Chris Collins won the second and third runnings, and Andy Turnell, Rupert Wakley, David Dunsdon and Mattie Batchelor have all added to the run of successful British jockeys.

Stan Mellor and Arthur Stephenson have each trained the winner of the race, but the most recent UK trainer to have claimed the Topham Trophy is Michael Scudamore. His son Peter, a regular visitor to Scandinavia in his riding days, and partner Lucinda Russell have brought Ormello to Sweden for the second time, hoping to emulate Scudamore senior’s feat.

That ‘Scu’ and his former weighing-room colleague John Francome are in town for the big event has caused great excitement among the local racing fraternity. Bjorn Zachrison, former champion amateur jockey and the ‘father’ of the Svenskt Grand National, refers to the guests of honour in his welcome speech as “two icons of British jump racing”. He is equally welcoming to

Cheltenham’s Managing Director Edward Gillespie, who receives a standing ovation merely for turning up at dinner. Gillespie is in Sweden as an ambassador of the newlylaunched Crystal Cup to see if the Stromsholm race may qualify for the cross-country challenge series, the final of which is run at Cheltenham’s December meeting.

Thirty-degree heat in the week building up to the race has not helped the army of volunteers who have been hard at work laying plastic rails around the entire course and ensuring that the 4,000 racegoers will be well catered for in what is essentially a field.

A course walk for connections and officials takes place in sweltering heat on the afternoon before the race. Though the tight left-handed track is well maintained and is only used for one day each year, there’s no denying the fact that the going is on the concrete side of firm.

Russell, Scudamore and the enthusiastic bunch of owners of the sole British challenger Ormello opt to soothe their concerns with a gin and tonic back at their commandeered villa on a former military stud farm overlooking the castle. If quiet prayers were muttered, the god of steeplechasing answered them almost at once, with a prolonged deluge overnight giving way to a cooler day for racing and near-perfect going.

The relief is palpable but, while The Ormello Way syndicate is here to avenge the nine-yearold’s second-place finish in 2009, having fun is very much the emphasis of their weekend.

“I’m always on the lookout for this sort of horse,” says Christopher Leigh, who selected Ormello and is a member of the syndicate. “We really enjoy going around Europe taking part in the cross-country races and the team here has been so lovely and hospitable.”

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the Topham Trophy leave for Scotland is Dennis Persson, the only trainer in Sweden to focus solely on jumpers, and whose yard is adjacent to the course. His passion for the race is unswerving and he has won it twice – in 2008 and 2010 – with the Danish-bred Lights Out, who represented Persson in the Glenfarclas Cross-Country Chase at Cheltenham in 2009.

The Swedish authorities need look no further for the ideal representative to enhance the profile of the country’s racing scene.

“The Grand National means everything to me,” says Persson, whose perfect English carries a distinct Irish twang – a legacy of time spent working for Willie Mullins. “I could see it going downhill so we asked Svensk Galopp to become involved for the first time this year as the amateur riders’ club was too small.”

Persson is one of a 35-strong voluntary committee for the Grand National meeting, alongside his brother Johan, the clerk of the course.

Their late father Tore and brother Dicke, a former champion amateur jockey, are commemorated by a novices’ chase named in their honour on National day.

Persson adds: “This area is renowned for horses – we like to think of it as our Newmarket. The meeting is becoming more professional with Svensk Galopp’s involvement, but it retains its amateur charm.”

The most charming aspect of the day for a spectator who spent the previous weekend at Epsom and will fly back just in time for the start of Royal Ascot, is the pervading air of ‘anything goes’. There’s a VIP area, laid on for foreign visitors and Sweden’s answer to Michael Owen, but it’ s not enclosed and is only found after negotiating a slalom course of picnic blankets and dogs in shopping baskets.

While the Grand National is the feature of the nine-race card, there is a contest to suit almost every taste: pony racing, Arab racing, hurdlers, chasers and the gentleman amateurs of the Fegentri series all have their turn in the spotlight.

“This day is proof of the wonderful passion and eccentricity of jump racing,” says Edward Gillespie, while staking a few kronor on his new favourite jockey Fanny Olsson, who rewards his enthusiasm with victory in the lady riders’ race.

“This is real horse country and everyone knows what they are looking at. There’s no need for sideshows, the focus is very much on the racing and to think that this is all put up for one day is staggering. The track is in good condition and, though jump racing is not that big in Sweden, they are working hard with neighbouring countries to improve their profile.”

By the time the big race is run, the Svenskt Champion Hurdle has already fallen into German hands, the Elfie Schnakenberg-trained Nuevo Leon having won under Czech jockey Vlastislav Korytar, who looks suitably puzzled to be handed a copy of John Francome’s latest book as part of his prize. Presumably Storm Rider has not yet been translated into Czech.

Schnakenberg is not leaving anything to chance in her attempt to wrestle the Topham Trophy from the locals and has loaded her lorry with three challengers for the National, including the 2009 winner Gluckstag, who is to be partnered by France’s Fegentri representative, Edouard Montfort. The successful trainer is a defiant non-speaker of Swedish and English but she does manage a mumbled “bon chance” as the aristocratic-looking Montfort is legged-up.

As it transpires, luck is not required. The 11-year-old flies home to claim his second National from stablemate Alanco. Ormello finishes a close-up fourth and before the final race of the day has been run his owners are already discussing buying another horse with which to return next year.

“It is proof of the

Cheltenham’s Edward Gillespie with Bjorn Zachrison, who organised the first Svenskt Grand National in 1971

Lucinda Russell and Peter Scudamore, with owner Andrew Miller (centre), prepare to saddle Ormello

wonderful passion and eccentricity of jump racing”

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Stromsholm trainer Dennis Persson (centre) prior to the race run in memory of his father and brother

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BREEDERS’ DIGEST

By EMMA BERRY, Bloodstock Editor

Our coverage this month includes:

• Sales Circuit: reports and analysis As the curtain falls on the breeze-ups, the store sales are in full swing – pages 50-51

he first time I saw Montjeu in the flesh was in the paddock before the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe in 1999. Any stallion master will tell you that to make it at stud a horse needs the magic trinity of pedigree, performance and looks – occasionally two out of three ain’t bad – but Montjeu had each of those in abundance. He also had swagger.

Experienced paddock watchers might quail to see a horse reluctant to enter the parade ring, as Montjeu was the next time we were on the same racecourse, at Ascot for the King George. To me this just added to his mystique. He was brilliant, he knew it, and he’d enter the paddock when he was good and ready (and, unusually, with his work rider on board).

Watching a member of his first crop, Hurricane Run, win the Irish Derby and the Arc six years later was delicious déjà vu: his father’s son in every way, right down to the single off-hind sock. But by that stage another son, Motivator, had already won the Derby.

Montjeu’s stud career was off to a perfect start.

There are few studs where a stallion such as he could be eclipsed but Coolmore has had a ready supply of high-achieving, well-bred sons of Sadler’s Wells and Danehill to fill the ranks, and the year after Montjeu retired, he was followed to Fethard by none other than Galileo.

As Andrew Caulfield highlights in this month’s Caulfield Files (pages 74-75) Galileo has outshone Montjeu at stud. Let’s face it, he’s outshone everyone, but he has also had significantly greater opportunity to do so in recent years.

But six years after Motivator triumphed at Epsom, Montjeu has now sired his third Derby winner, Pour Moi, and is also responsible for a trio of Irish Derby-winners, with Fame And Glory and Frozen Fire having added to Hurricane Run’s success. Fame And Glory is even being talked about as a potential multiple Ascot Gold Cup winner to follow in the footsteps of the great Yeats, who is bred on the

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same Sadler’s Wells-Top Ville cross as Montjeu.

Even more mouth-watering is the prospect of the Ascot Gold Cup winner being aimed once more at the Arc, where he could well meet Pour Moi, who is being given a summer break by Andre Fabre with an autumn campaign in mind.

The Derby winner’s path from last to first at Epsom added extra spice to a race which certainly wasn’t lacking in drama right up to the off. From Carlton House’s injury scare to Kieren Fallon’s dalliance in the High Court, the great race had us in its thrall and held us there way past the finish line, courtesy of the flamboyant antics of Mickael Barzalona.

The great Derby fraud The Derby may not capture the attention of the wider public in the way it once did, or in the way Royal Ascot continues to do, but for those who love the race and its rich history, a recommended addition to any racing library is the recently published In Search of Running Rein: The Amazing Fraud of the 1844 Derby.

The tale has been painstakingly researched by author Tony Byles, whose daughter Georgina stumbled across a box of case notes and letters relating to the famous scandal of the Derby-winning ringer when working for Newmarket Racecourses. The winner’s true identity was Maccabeus, a four-year-old, owned, like the real Running Rein, by the

scheming Abraham Levi Goodman.

The detailed account of the long-held plot – or plots, for Maccabeus was not the only fouryear-old in the race and another leading fancy, Ratan, was believed to have been nobbled – to deceive is not the only joy of the book. The inclusion of an exchange of letters, many published in the sporting paper Bell’s Life, between the key characters involved in the fraud is invaluable in bringing the story to life.

That the bit-part player Francis Ignatius Coyle, who helped to abduct ‘Running Rein’ from his trainer’s yard before the trial began, is described as “probably the most unutterable of all unutterable scoundrels ever to have disgraced the Turf” speaks volumes for his low morals.

In the mid-19th century it would appear that he had stiff competition for this title and many of his opponents are present within Byles’s wonderfully reconstructed account of the sinister backdrop to a season described in the Sporting Magazine as “one of the most brilliant Racing Seasons ever known in the memory of man”.

In many quarters, the same is being said of the 2011 Flat season. Good job such skulduggery has long since been stamped out.

• In Search of Running Rein: The Amazing Fraud of the 1844 Derby, by Tony Byles, is published by Apex Publishing Ltd, £12.99

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SALES CIRCUIT

By EDWARD PROSSER

Streamlined look to store market Greatly reduced numbers help average and median but turnover also improves slightly

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attersalls Ireland’s Derby Sale was getting underway as we went to press and there will be some very gloomy National Hunt breeders if there has not been a handful of headline-grabbing prices at Fairyhouse.

There were no six-figure transactions at either of the preceding store sales at Doncaster and Goffs, which between them had 568 lots offered, nearly half the 2007 equivalent figure of 1,069.

The smaller numbers will have been a contributor to better averages and medians at both venues but Goffs managed a small rise in turnover as well, while most present felt that there was more of a buzz at the two sales than last year.

It is now well chronicled that the store market is much reduced from its heyday but it still enjoys top-end support from the likes of Michael O’Leary and -– in part owing to point-to-point buyers – saw a more solid middle market this year.

Doncaster’s Spring Sale, for so long Britain’s flagship National Hunt auction, has had to evolve rapidly in this changing marketplace.

The pre-sale store show, a major event for years for many in the National Hunt world, is now firmly in the past and this once five-day extravaganza was streamlined to three in 2011.

It was no surprise that the horses-intraining section had been hit by the earlier growing band of boutique form sales and Brightwells’ Cheltenham events have clearly had an impact on Doncaster.

Indeed, while there were 13 six-figure lots in one evening at Cheltenham’s April Sale, only two changed hands for £100,000 or more at Doncaster in May over three days.

Doncaster Bloodstock Sales and parent company Goffs have already made a dent in the select form horse market and the firms will be looking to eat more into the lead taken

by Brightwells in that sector.

DBS, based in Hawick in the Scottish Borders for nearly 50 years, has just opened an office in Lambourn to offer more of a southern presence.

But with the main store sales and a great Royal Ascot all over, yearlings for the early events at Deauville and Doncaster are being prepped and there will be every hope that the market is gradually on the rise again.

This Shirocco half-brother to Arcalis made 35,000gns as a foal and £80,000 at three

Doncaster Spring Horses-In-Training Sale Top lots Name/Age/Sex/Sire

Vendor

Alaivan (5 g Kalanisi)

Killeens Stables

Price (£) 150,000

Buyer Enda Bolger

Roberto Goldback (9 g Bob Back)

Cobajay Stables

140,000

Dessie Hughes

Pere Blanc (6 g King’s Theatre)

Uplands Stables

100,000

Anthony Stroud BS

Make A Track (5 g Hernando)

Uplands Stables

85,000

Ballinaskeagh BS

Five-year tale Year

Catalogued

Offered

Sold

Agg (£)

Avg (£)

Mdn (£)

2011

472

371

291

3,861,300

13,269

8,000

2010

513

351

238

3,951,500

16,449

7,900

2009

495

362

271

3,882,850

14,327

7,000

2008

775

485

382

6,141,225

16,076

7,500

2007

760

522

402

6,029,418

14,998

6,300

Doncaster Spring Stores Sale Top lots Age/Sex/Breeding

Vendor

3 g Shirocco-Aristocratique (Cadeaux Genereux)

Goldford Stud (Agent)

Price (£)

3 g King’s Theatre-Cherry Falls (Ali-Royal) Brown

Island Stables

75,000

Fennor Bloodstock

3 f Presenting- Daprika (Epervier Bleu)

Goldford Stud (Agent)

65,000

Highflyer Bloodstock

3 g King’s Theatre-Temptation (Lando)

Goldford Stud (Agent)

65,000

Highflyer Bloodstock

80,000

Buyer Harold Kirk/Wiliie Mullins

Five-year tale Year

Offered

Sold

Clearance (%)

Agg (£)

Avg (£)

Mdn (£)

2011

178

125

70.2

1,764,000

15,092

11,000

2010

273

194

71.0

2,540,950

13,097

8,700

2009

249

171

68.7

2,469,000

14,438

10,000

2008

286

207

72.4

3,745,650

18,094

14,000

2007

232

191

82.3

3,773,778

19,758

15,750

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Doncaster Spring Sales Alaivan, part of owner Thomas Barr’s reduction of his jumping string, managed to top DBS’s Spring Sale with a price of £150,000, the lowest sum paid to head this auction since 1999.

J P McManus has rarely made his mark at this horses-in-training sale since spending 530,000gns on Garde Champetre in 2004 but he dispatched that cross-country star’s trainer Enda Bolger to Doncaster to find some new recruits this year, including Alavain.

The five-year-old is expected to return to Edward O’Grady, one of McManus’s longeststanding trainers, while likewise the pick of the Million In Mind dispersal, the £70,000 mare Nadiya De La Vega, is likely to go back to Nicky Henderson to race for McManus.

The Million In Mind team for next season also gained a new recruit in Torphichen, who was bought from the Barr dispersal for £34,000 and has joined Alan King.

With Roberto Goldback (£140,000) bought back by Dessie Hughes for owner Seamus Dunne, a top flat agent who originally cut his teeth in the jumping world, Anthony Stroud, was the only other to spend six figures when paying £100,000 for Pere Blanc, part of a dispersal by owner George Ward.

Champion US jumps owner Irv Naylor, buying through his Irish-born and Marylandbased trainer Tom Foley, paid £75,000 for Alfa Beat as a Grand National prospect and he has joined John Hanlon All but one of the 12 stores to make £30,000 or more was a three-year-old on a day when Goldford Stud, supplying three of the top four lots, led the way for vendors and Highflyer Bloodstock dominated the buyers’ list with 16 purchases.

A Shirocco half-brother to Arcalis, bought for 35,000gns as a foal at Tattersalls’ December Sale by Ben Case for Lady Jane Grosvenor, was the top store when making £80,000 to join Willie Mullins.

Goffs Land Rover Sale Top lots Age/Sex/Breeding

Vendor

3g Flemensfirth-Suspicious Minds (Anabaa)

Springhill Stud

78,000

Lynn Lodge Stud

3g Flemensfirth-Loch Lomond (Dry Dock)

Galbertstown Stud

60,000

G H Bloodstock

3g Oscar-Fair Present (Presenting)

Castledillon Stud (Agent)

57,000

Margaret O’Toole

3g Oscar-My Native (Be My Native)

Oak Tree Farm

54,000

Highflyer Bloodstock

Buyer

Five-year tale Year

Offered

Sold

Clearance (%)

2011

390

283

72.6

3,970,400

14,038

2010

464

312

67.2

3,724,600

11,938

2009

460

295

64.1

3,494,400

11,845

2008

690

451

65.4

7,064,700

15,665

2007

837

578

69.0

10,097,100

17,469

Agg (€)

Avg (€)

Goresbridge Breeze-up Sale Top lots Sex/Breeding

Vendor

c Noble Causeway-Lusi Pond (Elusive Quality)

Powerstown Stud

130,000

c Royal Applause-Tychy (Suave Dancer)

Torard House Stud

90,000

Gary Moore Racing

c Sleeping Indian-Harryana (Efisio)

Grove Stud

63,000

John Hanlon

c Jeremy-Luggala (Kahyasi)

Horse Park Stud

57,000

Ross Manhall

Price (€)

Buyer BBA Ireland

Four-year tale Year

Catalogued

Offered

Sold

Clearance (%)

Agg (€)

Avg (€)

2011

148

127

116

91.3

1,593,650

13,700

2010

136

124

115

92.7

1,129,800

9,824

2009

107

94

78

82.9

689,700

8,842

2008

124

109

87

79.8

940,400

10,809

Baden-Baden Breeze-up Sale Top lots Sex/Breeding

Vendor

Price (€)

Buyer

c Refuse To Bend- Rice Mother (Indian Ridge)

Huggan BS

28,000

Franceschini Bloodstock

c Sholokhov- Milana (Mark Of Esteem)

Gestut Etzean

26,000

PB Bloostock Service

f Verglas- Sans Escale (Diesis)

Dr S & S Oschmann

22,000

Werner Glanz

f Konigstiger- Wurfspiel (Lomitas)

Stiftung Gestut Fahrhof

20,000

Andi Wyss

Goffs Land Rover Sale

Goresbridge Breeze-up Sale

Goffs’ two-day Land Rover Sale gave some encouragement to vendors as the average, median and clearance all showed advances on last year with turnover also rising, despite a smaller catalogue.

Michael O’Leary’s brother Eddie signed for the top lot, a €78,000 Flemensfirth gelding, while the same sire was responsible for the second dearest offering, a three-year-old knocked down to agent Gerry Hogan for €60,000.

The days of a strong marker for four-year-olds is all but over and all of the top 10 lots came from the younger generation at Goffs and all were geldings.

Boosted by the exploits of the likes of Barefoot Lady and Music Show, Goresbridge’s breeze-up in late May continues to grow as one of the stronger second-tier two-year-old auctions.

There was an impressive clearance rate of 91% this year as turnover increased by 41% to nearly €1.6 million.

A battle between Michael Donohoe of BBA Ireland and Barefoot Lady’s owner Norman Steel saw a Noble Causeway colt sell for €130,000 to top trading when appearing from Tom Whitehead’s Powerstown Stud.

The American-bred, who cost just $4,000 as a yearling at Keeneland, is likely to race in Chinese ownership from Mick Halford’s

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Curragh stable after Donohoe, whose brother Martin runs Goresbridge sales, had the final say.

Baden-Baden Breeze-up Sale Suffolk-based duo Colin and Sam Huggan consigned the sale-topper at Baden-Baden’s breeze-up in the shape of a Refuse To Bend colt, who made €28,000 having been unsold at Tattersalls in October.

But it was a challenging marketplace that only saw around half of those offered as sold (BBAG figures include vendor buy-backs as sold).

Among those who failed to change hands was another Huggan offering, an Oasis Dream filly who was unsold at €75,000.

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ROA FORUM The special section for ROA members

Tote verdict leaves bad taste in the mouth Michael Harris laments UK racing’s loss of the exclusive pool betting licence to a bookmaker During my 12 years working for the ROA, no issue has been so heavily debated than that of privatisation of the Tote. The fact that it has ended with the bookmaker Betfred being successful over the SIP consortium in a final two-horse race is scant reward for the hundreds of hours that the ROA Council and its Executive Committee must have spent during the last decade contemplating the future of the Tote.

It is not so much that a commercial bookmaker has benefited from acquiring the 517 Tote betting shops to go with Betfred’s existing estate of 860 shops. That was always going to make Fred Done favourite as he clearly

had most to gain from the synergies a Tote purchase would offer. No, what really rankles with the ROA is that a bookmaker has acquired the seven-year exclusive pool betting licence.

The pool betting licence was surely ours by right.

It was British racing’s heritage which would, over time, come to the aid of our increasingly woeful finances as its overseas betting dimension was properly exploited.

But now this avenue has been closed off to us, probably forever, we are left to ponder the only positive part of the outcome to the Tote sale – what will happen to the £90 million that the government has pledged to racing? In truth, this sum is much higher than was expected – due, reportedly, to a last-minute intervention by the Chancellor.

So the real question now is what strings are attached to this money? The curse of state aid

Musselburgh awarded Gold

Steven Astaire presents the Gold Standard Award to Bill Farnsworth (right)

Musselburgh became the third Scottish track to receive the coveted Gold Standard Award, with a formal presentation during racing on May 20. ROA Council members Steven Astaire and Alan Guthrie were on hand to make the presentation to general manager Bill Farnsworth and representatives of his team.

Alan Guthrie, the member for Scotland on the ROA Council, said: “The Gold Standard Award for Musselburgh further reflects the very strong relationship between Scottish racing and racehorse owners north of the border.

“Musselburgh’s general manager Bill

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Farnsworth plays a pivotal role in Scottish racing and has made sterling efforts to take forward his own racecourse as well as the sport in general in Scotland. This award is well merited.”

Steven Astaire, ROA Council member and Gold Standard Committee member, said: “We are very pleased to present the Gold Standard to Musselburgh. It is well deserved and is a fitting testament to the high-quality raceday experience offered to owners. Musselburgh’s prize-money performance and new stabling are particularly commendable.”

legislation pervades every nook and cranny of the Tote sale story, and it will no doubt also affect this contribution to racing. The thought that we might be able to bring back the £90m from the Treasury in £50 notes in carrier bags might be a trifle fanciful but it would be nice to think that, as a small consolation for losing the Tote, racing will actually get its hands on this money without strings being attached.

However, the smart money says it will only be allowed to trickle in over a number of years and be tied up with all manner of conditionality that restricts what it can be spent on. Although charitable donations might be the only way to circumvent state aid, it is not how racing would choose to absorb this funding.

But then there has been precious little about the whole Tote privatisation process that has met with racing’s wishes.

Win a trip to Longchamp The ROA’s website continues to be an important source of news, as well as special offers and competitions. The latest competition is for a number of day trip packages to the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe on October 2, which needs no introduction as one of the stellar days in the international calendar, with seven Group 1 races.

The prizes offer the winner and a guest the chance to enjoy the superb organisation and expertise of long-established specialist operator Horse Racing Abroad, with Eurostar travel, coach transfers and use of their private hospitality grandstand at Longchamp.

The competition will offer 12 pairs of places in all, with four on offer in July.

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Enjoy the international competition at Ascot on Saturday, August 6

Free entry and hospitality at Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup The Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup takes place for the 11th time at Ascot this year on Saturday, August 6 and continues to offer tremendous value to owners.

It is free to enter and run in the six races and runners are guaranteed to land a minimum of £369 in prize-money even if they finish last.

Every horse also qualifies for number cloth sponsorship: £50 for each of the four televised races and £25 for the two non-televised races.

There is a total of £180,000 in prize-money on offer across the six races, so £30,000 per race, with a first prize of £14,769. With two races for horses rated 76-95 and the other four

for horses rated 81-100, there aren’t many races of this class which are as valuable. Each race is restricted to ten runners.

Owners and trainers with runners can enjoy free hospitality in the Ascot Pavilion. A high class buffet lunch, afternoon tea and a free bar all day await (four places per owner and six for partnerships).

There are two reserve places in each race which can be brought in if there’s a non-runner up to 45 minutes before the race. If reserves don’t get a run, there is a travel allowance of £500 and the owners of the reserves get to enjoy the free hospitality too.

Owners have a world-class jockey drawn to ride their horse, representing either Great Britain, Ireland, Europe or the Rest of the World.

Three jockeys ride for each team, with each receiving five rides and sitting out one race.

The one thing that owners give up on this day is their silks. Horses run in team colours to help bring the event alive for the crowd and TV audience. Owners can retain their sponsor’s logo on their silks on the day by request.

With a crowd of 30,000 now the norm, generating a fantastic atmosphere, live coverage on Channel 4 of four of the races and a great 80s concert to follow the racing, there are many reasons to consider entering a runner.

Entries close at the five-day stage on Monday, August 1.

Races on the day 5 furlong handicap (86-105) 3yo and up £30,000 1½ mile handicap (76-95) 3yo only

£30,000

1 mile handicap (81-100)

4yo and up £30,000

2 mile handicap (81-100)

4yo and up £30,000

1½ mile handicap (76-95) 4yo and up £30,000 6 furlong handicap (81-100) 3yo only

£30,000

Students reinvent racing silks in RFC initiative Racing For Change recently announced the winner of their innovative collaboration with students from the prestigious Central St Martins College of Art and Design in London.

The project involved graphic design students submitting designs to ‘reinvent racing silks’, as a module within their course of study. The

winning 12 designs are to be used for a special race at Ascot on Saturday, July 9, where permission has been granted for the runners to carry the unique colours.

The students tackled the project without preconceived ideas of pattern regulations, and little prior experience of racing, but were

Competition winner Henry Griffin discusses the designs with Sir Peter O’Sullevan

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mindful of the need for clarity of the designs for owners, commentators and racegoers.

Following a fact-finding visit to Sandown Park, the designs the group produced reflected an eclectic range of concepts and influences, from pop-art to classical, including superhero characters, British flowers and equestrian art.

From an initial entry of 37, 13 students went through to the second stage, refining and reworking their designs following comments and suggestions from the judging panel.

The final designs were then displayed at a special exhibition at Central St Martins on May 18, attended by Sir Peter O’Sullevan, and the winner was announced as 21-year-old Henry Griffin, whose designs drew their influence from fruit machine symbols. Henry won a prize of £2,000 and will see his silks brought to life by colours manufacturer Allertons.

All of the designs will be displayed at an exhibition at Ascot on July 9, allowing owners and racegoers the chance to view all of the ideas and select their own favourite.

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In Brief Go racing in Yorkshire!

The Yorkshire Racing Summer Festival takes place from July 16-24. In its fourth year, the festival showcases racing in the county, with live music, entertainment, competitions and stable visits.

Racegoers who pre-book tickets via the Welcome to Yorkshire website (www.yorkshire.com/goracing) can register for a stable visit to some of the region’s leading racing yards during the week – Richard Fahey’s Malton stables, Ann Duffield’s Sun Hill Farm Stables at Constable Burton near Leyburn and the satellite yard of David Nicholls near Retford. Each stable visit is free of charge, but a donation of £5 is requested which will go towards The House That Jack Built charity.

All pre-bookings will be entered into a prize draw to win free VIP upgrade to the racecourse concerned. At all meetings accompanied under-18s (under 16 in some cases) are admitted free of charge into all enclosures.

Guide to British Racecourses The RCA’s Owners’ Guide to British Racecourses has been updated for 2011 and features all 60 racecourses in the UK. The resource enables owners to view each racecourse’s policies and information relating to owners’ facilities, badge allocation allowance and transport tips when they have a runner.

The guide can be viewed on the ROA website at www.racehorseowners.net in the Resources section.

The ROA welcomes feedback from members relating to racecourse facilities, so please do not hesitate to get in touch (info@roa.co.uk) should you have any views you wish to share.

ROA MEMBER IN FOCUS:

Les Tomlin

Epsom and Royal Ascot dominated the racing scene last month, but one set of colours not there were those of Les Tomlin.

Not for their lack of familiarity – his five horses in training carry his blue, green and white silks regularly – more the fact that Kempton, Lingfield and Wolverhampton are his haunts.

Have a look at Tomlin’s stats on racingpost.com, and the likes of Epsom, Ascot and Newmarket are absent.

But that suits Tomlin just fine, as he prefers the “polite, friendlier feel of my end of the market”.

It’s the pleasure, not the prize-money, he gets from owning racehorses – which he has done since 1983 – that matters most to Tomlin, along with the individual treatment he receives from being a “bigger fish in a small pond” with trainer Paul Burgoyne.

Tomlin’s initial foray into ownership was rather start-stop, as after Welsh Spy became his first winner in the summer of 1984 – “that was the start of it and I’ve been hooked ever since” – he subsequently took a break to concentrate on a riding school business.

His next bite of the hook in the early 1990s was to lead to something more permanent, culminating in this being his most successful year to date.

At the time of writing, Tomlin has enjoyed seven winners from 30 runners in 2011, at a strike-rate of 23 per cent, with West Leake his winningmost horse, with seven wins.

“I laugh when I read something in the paper like ‘bought cheaply for £20,000’ – I got West Leake for £800,” he says.

“Paul has done me proud, with 15 winners

in four years; that is a good return. Paul is totally dedicated, knows his job, and his horses are always in rude health.”

Now retired, Tomlin is one of many in racing with a music industry background. “A lot of music business people are into horses,” he points out. “I ran a company whose big artist was Elton John. I got to know him very well and I went to tennis evenings down at his place in Weybridge.

“Chris Wright, of course, is another; he owns Stratford Place Stud and has been into racing for years.”

Tomlin admits to “being lucky I can own horses for pleasure, as not everyone is in that situation, and it’s a tough old game at the moment.”

He continues: “Times are tough and the number of owners has fallen. A race I won a few weeks ago was worth £2,400 last year but only £1,500 this time.

“Mind you, that’s not to say I am a fan of the tariff – if a trainer told me he wasn’t running one of mine in a race which was below tariff, I’d take it away from him.

“I would say, though, that when you look at some Group 1s with hundreds of thousands in prize-money but only a few runners, you’d ask, ‘Is there too much prize-money at the top of the sport?’

“There’s plenty of money for the big boys but it’s spread thinly at the lower end – yet it’s the smaller trainers and owners that keep the show on the road.”

In addition to flagbearer West Leake, the horses keeping Tomlin’s show on the road are Teen Ager, Sir Loin, Metropolitan Chief and Igotim.

Owner-sponsorship scheme Applications are invited for the ROA/Totesport ownership scheme starting on July 1. The scheme, which runs for 12 months, enables members to register for and reclaim VAT on their ownership costs.

For further details call Keely Brewer on 020 7152 0200 or email kbrewer@roa.co.uk

ROA social events LINGFIELD PARK

The ROA website events section now features a gallery of photographs of past ROA social events. Click on Events and Past Events to view.

West Leake carries Les Tomlin’s colours to victory at Lingfield in May

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Yearling Bonus extended for 2011 The Racing Post Yearling Bonus scheme, which has created more than £5.4 million in prizemoney in its first two seasons, has been extended to include yearlings sold in 2011.

Bonuses worth £10,000 each will be paid to the connections of 540 horses by the end of year two of the scheme, drawing widespread praise. “This is a brilliantly conceived scheme that has done nothing but good for racehorse ownership,” said trainer John Gosden.

The 2011 scheme has been restructured so that vendors of yearlings will pay 20% less to ensure eligibility compared to the first two years: an initial payment of £200 will be made this July, with another £200 due from the sales proceeds of each yearling. To ensure eligibility for the bonus, owners of each horse will have to pay £350, instead of £250. The scheme is sponsored for the third year running by the Racing Post.

John Gosden: supports the initiative

“The Racing Post was quick to recognise the scheme’s importance and we welcome its continued and enthusiastic support,” said bonus scheme Chairman John Osborne, who also praised the input of UK and Irish sales companies Tattersalls, Goffs, Tattersalls Ireland, Doncaster, Goresbridge and Brightwells.

He added: “When we started, the scheme’s aim was to encourage investment in yearlings while the business was at a low ebb. It has proven to be a great success and has become an important part of the fabric of the racing programme. The bonus races are of a very high standard and the winning connections are very likely to reinvest the bonus in another prospect.”

The new scheme structure will be reviewed in 12 months time. “Many would argue that the success of the scheme dictates that it should be retained almost indefinitely,” Osborne said.

“However, as the number of yearlings produced has fallen dramatically and the overall economic climate improves, it may be opportune to re-examine the scheme’s objectives.

“The Racing Post Yearling Bonus scheme relies absolutely on the support of vendors and I hope that they will continue to support it in 2011 as strongly as they have so far. We have adjusted the terms to help the vendors and we have convincing evidence from the buying side of the value of the scheme.”

See www.yearlingbonus.com for further info.

DID YOU KNOW? Weatherbys Messaging Service Owners can sign up to a messaging service, provided by Weatherbys, to receive information on their horses direct to their mobile phones or by email. Messages cost from just 25p, inclusive of VAT. Subscribers can tailor the type of information they receive from a menu of options, enabling owners to be notified when an entry is made for a horse in their ownership/part ownership, when a confirmation is made (for an early closing race), when their horse stays in/comes out at a forfeit stage, when a declaration is made to run, when a handicap rating changes, or when the going changes at a relevant meeting.

Where an owner has a horse engaged at a meeting that is abandoned, the service gives a notification free of charge.

Trial subscriptions start from as little as £17.50, but messages can be purchased in batches of 50, 100, 200 or 500. The larger the batch, the cheaper the price per message.

For more information, ring Weatherbys helpline on 01933 303083. Racehorse owners can download an application form at www.weatherbys.co.uk/ messaging_service

Diary dates and reminders JULY 26-30 Glorious Goodwood Book your badges for the Richmond Enclosure through the ROA office for this summer highlight. The Richmond Enclosure is otherwise restricted to owners and trainers with runners on the day, and the racecourse’s annual members. Closing date for badge orders is Monday, July 18.

NOVEMBER 12 Paddy Power Gold Cup day NEIL RANDON

Enjoy the ROA’s exclusive marquee for members and guests at Cheltenham for the Saturday of The Open meeting.

Lisa Hancock, Chief Executive of the Injured Jockeys Fund, receives a cheque for £15,323 from ROA Chief Executive Michael Harris from the 2010 ROA Awards fundraising. The amount raised from owners’ colours in the souvenir brochure was for the IJF project, The House That Jack Built, to construct an Oaksey House in the north.

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

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Racecourse League Table Ptn Racecourse

Racecourse ownership

Exec + Sponsors (£)

1 Cheltenham JCR 3,251,589 2 Aintree JCR 1,766,177 3 Fakenham I 173,047 4 York I 2,503,467 5 Ascot I 4,332,455 6 Chester I 630,812 7 Wincanton JCR 343,361 8 Haydock Park JCR 1,301,404 9 Musselburgh I 481,641 10 Epsom Downs JCR 1,292,302 11 Ffos Las North 448,820 12 Ripon I 335,036 13 Goodwood I 1,424,401 14 Taunton I 209,098 15 Hereford North 155,791 16 Ayr I 667,725 17 Beverley I 305,495 18 Hamilton Park I 264,100 19 Thirsk I 233,966 20 Newton Abbot I 247,286 21 Wetherby I 209,888 22 Sandown Park JCR 1,017,027 23 Doncaster Arena 1,388,177 24 Bangor-on-Dee I 185,512 25 Cartmel I 81,817 26 Chepstow North 291,993 27 Newbury I 1,212,343 28 Bath North 186,794 29 Leicester I 328,383 30 Newmarket JCR 2,999,772 31 Salisbury I 280,398 32 Sedgefield North 148,571 33 Perth I 148,777 34 Pontefract I 263,338 35 Stratford-on-Avon I 232,730 36 Kelso I 129,684 37 Windsor Arena 302,625 38 Market Rasen JCR 233,192 39 Kempton Park JCR 1,066,661 40 Nottingham JCR 200,921 41 Brighton North 152,761 42 Yarmouth North 183,189 43 Warwick JCR 233,734 44 Newcastle North 322,129 45 Folkestone Arena 143,805 46 Exeter JCR 168,242 47 Carlisle JCR 180,888 48 Ludlow I 96,543 49 Plumpton I 106,296 50 Lingfield Park Arena 666,339 51 Huntingdon JCR 113,235 52 Catterick Bridge I 141,305 53 Wolverhampton Arena 524,029 54 Southwell Arena 325,082 55 Fontwell Park North 111,087 56 Redcar I 158,954 57 Uttoxeter North 130,114 58 Hexham I 63,100 59 Worcester Arena 73,635 60 Towcester I 57,411 Total 35,228,448

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% of Total

Levy Board (£)

59.3 1,414,572 57.4 854,392 51.2 163,260 49.1 1,320,382 48.7 2,474,895 44.9 635,650 44.4 360,020 43.7 1,228,526 42.5 531,812 42.3 893,920 42.0 518,030 40.6 365,521 40.4 1,566,634 40.1 278,135 39.6 180,062 39.2 769,544 38.9 393,180 38.1 363,400 37.9 274,720 36.4 427,200 35.5 327,616 35.4 1,422,820 35.1 1,488,858 34.3 320,813 34.1 135,490 33.9 460,310 33.9 1,735,922 33.3 313,332 33.0 525,527 33.0 2,828,403 32.7 452,822 31.8 277,650 31.0 301,350 30.8 503,950 30.7 457,725 30.5 258,238 30.0 576,510 28.7 502,700 28.5 2,187,375 28.5 357,600 27.1 355,880 26.6 408,302 26.3 536,308 25.9 738,610 25.4 371,121 24.7 433,172 24.6 473,386 24.3 264,750 24.1 300,918 24.0 1,778,768 23.6 312,082 23.5 390,270 22.2 1,525,765 19.8 1,175,245 19.4 406,568 18.7 390,759 18.7 468,940 15.6 296,990 13.7 367,713 12.9 344,842 37.5 41,789,255

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Owners (£)

% of Total

25.8 816,706 27.8 456,715 48.3 0 25.9 1,253,784 27.8 2,043,335 45.3 87,608 46.5 64,700 41.3 398,016 47.0 102,075 29.3 852,125 48.5 97,096 44.3 97,598 44.4 512,330 53.4 33,734 45.8 49,196 45.1 241,731 50.0 60,385 52.4 55,566 44.5 67,154 62.9 5,180 55.5 48,540 49.5 400,634 37.6 1,004,808 59.3 29,071 56.4 22,907 53.5 100,764 48.6 517,440 55.8 50,906 52.7 100,534 31.1 3,124,498 52.7 73,804 59.5 40,494 62.8 26,730 59.0 50,100 60.3 64,036 60.7 32,051 57.1 99,238 61.8 71,852 58.4 348,516 50.7 88,829 63.1 49,434 59.4 73,986 60.3 101,443 59.3 154,118 65.6 48,603 63.7 67,566 64.4 69,999 66.6 36,031 68.1 32,350 64.0 227,055 64.9 49,403 64.9 49,357 64.5 201,031 71.6 110,967 70.9 54,286 45.9 276,341 67.5 83,563 73.4 35,972 68.4 62,352 77.3 37,697 44.4 15,412,340

14.9 14.8 0 24.6 23.0 6.2 8.4 13.4 9.0 27.9 9.1 11.8 14.5 6.5 12.5 14.2 7.7 8.0 10.9 0.8 8.2 13.9 25.4 5.4 9.5 11.7 14.5 9.1 10.1 34.4 8.6 8.7 5.6 5.9 8.4 7.5 9.8 8.8 9.3 12.6 8.8 10.8 11.4 12.4 8.6 9.9 9.5 9.1 7.3 8.2 10.3 8.2 8.5 6.8 9.5 32.5 12.0 8.9 11.6 8.5 16.4

Total (£)

Total 2009-10 % total Up/ (£) 2009-10 down

5,482,868 5,722,574 3,077,284 3,155,582 338,307 371,700 5,098,633 4,936,775 8,898,185 9,505,259 1,404,570 1,604,925 773,581 762,855 2,977,046 3,591,238 1,132,028 1,095,977 3,053,347 2,967,220 1,068,946 891,823 825,155 903,002 3,526,865 3,677,057 520,967 475,306 393,499 442,499 1,705,000 2,010,385 785,660 842,691 694,066 790,234 616,840 813,750 679,666 642,653 590,544 691,275 2,874,481 3,551,939 3,959,393 4,397,353 540,796 758,925 240,214 181,700 860,167 1,213,252 3,573,705 4,040,344 561,581 694,836 996,344 1,276,419 9,081,173 10,443,022 858,524 982,110 466,715 494,937 479,857 587,360 854,388 994,291 758,491 915,965 425,773 644,497 1,009,873 1,222,430 813,744 969,631 3,744,195 4,861,927 705,350 820,950 563,675 663,917 687,777 754,143 889,485 973,588 1,244,607 1,477,330 565,529 665,560 679,980 736,652 735,273 821,815 397,324 663,710 441,564 577,365 2,778,412 3,915,427 480,720 738,741 601,132 843,777 2,365,675 3,347,878 1,641,944 2,523,586 573,741 815,999 850,554 800,600 694,817 1,011,246 404,562 516,023 537,600 604,924 445,950 558,766 94,028,136 107,957,715

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PLEASE NOTE: Last month’s table contained incorrect information. We would like to apologise to all the racecourses concerned.

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

Figures relate to prizemoney for the 12-month period June 1, 2010 to May 31, 2011

EXPLANATION This table sets out the three main contributors to prizemoney with percentages of the total: 1 Racecourses’ executive and sponsorship; 2 Levy Board; 3 Owners.

A small additional contribution is also made by the Divided Race Fund and the BHA Development Fund.

The order is taken from the percentage in the second column of figures. This shows how much each course has contributed to prize-money, expressed as a percentage of their overall prize-money. The arrows at the end of each line are based on a comparison between the percentages for the two rolling year periods.

If a racecourse has improved its position by this criteria it receives a green ‘up’ arrow. If the year-on-year percentage has decreased it receives a red ‘down’ arrow.

Note: All of the figures are produced on an ‘as originally programmed’ basis, i.e. where any transferred fixtures were originally programmed rather than where the fixtures have actually taken place. However, any transferred BHA ‘National’ fixtures and ‘Regional’ fixtures are attributed to the courses where the fixtures have actually taken place.

ABANDONMENTS: These occasionally distort performances relating to a track’s fixtures. The year-onyear percentage comparison on which this table is based can place tracks in a worse light than they deserve.

OWNERSHIP KEY JCR Jockey Club Racecourses

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THE NEXT GENERATION

By GINA BRYCE

Be there...

The Filly Factor

JULY 9 July Cup, Newmarket The high point of Newmarket’s summer racing programme and an excellent chance to see a new sprint superstar crowned at Flat racing’s HQ.

JULY 26-30 Glorious Goodwood British summertime at its best. First-class racing set against a backdrop of garden party glory.

JULY 27 Young Bloodstock Networking Evening

The judging panel for RFC’s initiative to encourage potential female race callers

The White Hart Pub, Newmarket.

The fifth meeting of this newly formed Newmarket Club designed to encourage interaction between like-minded racing and breeding enthusiasts. For more details on the club and forthcoming meetings contact Toby Stewart toby_stewart@hotmail.co.uk.

ith Zenyatta crowned Horse of the Year in North America and Goldikova picking up more plaudits on this side of the Atlantic than the combined forces of the colt’s division, 2010 was undoubtedly the year of the filly. Fast forward one year and it’s the females of a different species that are keeping pace.

Outside racing it’s Kate not William who makes the front pages, Adele not Robbie Williams who manages to break the US and within racing women have rarely been so omnipresent both in the saddle, amongst the training ranks and in the media spotlight.

AUGUST 17-20 York Ebor Meeting The ‘Royal Ascot of the north’ and a brilliant festival of fun, fashion and superb racing at one of the best tracks in the country.

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Talking Point...

Adrian O’Brien, Plantation Stud

“A tricky question and one that could prompt a different answer as each week passes, particularly at this time of year. Steering clear of the stallions that were almost expected to be prolific producers of precocious two-year-olds, I have been impressed with Teofilo.

“Possessing an enviable winner-to-runner ratio and already with a stakes winner to his name, he is off to a flyer. Recent maiden winner Mezmaar looks like he could be another to gain black-type in due course. He is from a progressive family well known to us at Plantation through resident broodmare Rose Briar.

“Teofilo’s own lineage, a product of the allconquering Galileo-Danehill cross, suggests that his progeny will certainly improve with time. Despite only a handful of runners so far,

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So why not a female commentator to complete the full suite of triumphs for the girls?

Step in Racing For Change, who came up with the idea to launch a countrywide search for Britain’s first.

From 50 applicants, eight semi finalists pitted their skills in front of a live audience at Bath and Doncaster racecourses, and on Sunday, July 24 the winners of each semi-final, Rachel Casey and Hayley Moore, will go on to commentate on a live event at Ascot racecourse, breaking new ground over the male-dominated airwaves and potentially earning themselves a place on the commentary training course.

Which first-season sire has impressed you most so far?

Dylan Thomas and Lawman are others that I expect to make an impact later in the year.”

Nancy Sexton, Racing Post

“Dutch Art sits behind Dark Angel in terms of winners but is already the sire of two stakes performers, Miss Work Of Art and Robert Le Diable, and several others, such as Caspar Netscher and dual Italian winner Art Of Dreams, look above average.

Although Dutch Art didn’t win after his juvenile year, he was Classic-placed at three, so you’d think they’d go on.

“The popularity of Lawman’s first yearlings looks well founded: over half his runners at the time of writing have won, including Sans Loi, an easy debut winner at Nottingham.

Lawman didn’t debut until November of his two-year-old year, so his start is particularly

encouraging. It’s hard not to be taken with Teofilo, another popular stallion who should gain momentum as the season goes on. He couldn’t have a better supporter in Jim Bolger – he has 24 of his two-year-olds – and in Listed winner Teolane, Bolger has bred and trains a potentially top-class filly.”

Alastair Donald, Sackville Donald

“Obviously Dark Angel and Dutch Art have had a great start, knocking out early two-year-old types, and both look like making very commercial stallions, but in terms of quality Teofilo has produced two exciting animals from just a few runners and is a sire you feel will do even better when he produces three-year-olds.

“Lawman has had a couple of decent twoyear-olds already and will be one to follow when the seven-furlong and mile races start.”

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www.the-ngc.co.uk With contestants from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, the coverage generated has been good, something Rod Street, spokesperson for lovetheraces.com, hopes will have a really positive effect.

He said: “Horseracing is a sport that really does offer something for everyone and appeals to both men and women. We’re today seeing increasing numbers of female trainers and jockeys competing at the top of their profession, so why not from the top of the grandstand in the commentator’s box?”

The word ‘dedication’ does not even begin to sum up the attitude of one semi-finalist, who delivered her commentary at Bath before catching a helicopter back to Wales in order to get married! Aly Rowell is no stranger to a challenge, having represented Britain in the Modern Pentathlon, sailed across the Atlantic and competed at the Horse of the Year Show.

The Welsh broadcast journalist said: “I had a

Competition entrant Sophie Monkman, who works at York, and Lee McKenzie

good chat with my fiancé and he thought that I should just go for it – he’s really into sport, so he’s being very supportive. My mother, however, was not very happy.”

Bath’s Clerk of the Course Katie Stephens had to step in for an absent race-caller at Exeter racecourse a few years ago and that experience has clearly not put her off as she mounted a challenge to the determined bride, as did Sophia Upton (née Mitchell), who was Britain’s only professional female jump jockey in the 1990s. A successful stint in the saddle resulted in her riding 59 winners and picking up two prestigious Lester awards, feats she has always hoped could help her deliver the goods in the commentary box.

Karen Thacker was equally keen to prove her mettle and, as the only semi-finalist without a racing background, it was Karen’s unending enthusiasm for the sport that led her to the commentary box.

The other semi-finalists were At The Races pundit and amateur jockey Emily Jones, and radio broadcaster Laura McGimpsey.

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Q&A ROSS MARSHALL, technology company MD, Director of Your Golf Travel, racehorse owner, pinhooker and racing enthusiast You run a travel technology company but have become involved in racing in various capacities. Tell us how you were first encouraged to become involved in the industry...

I became interested in racing from a young age as my school backed onto the Epsom Downs in Surrey. We used to see thoroughbreds the whole time and I was a regular with my chums up at the races on school nights.

Since then it has always been a dream to have a runner with a live chance in the Derby.

I didn’t get directly involved with ownership until university, when my housemate’s father’s horse won seven times over three seasons.

Which area of the industry have you become most interested in?

I am mainly interested in ownership, finding better horses and racing them on their merits to win. The breeding and bloodstock side of the industry is intriguing to me and something that I have learnt a lot about over the last few years with some success. I also still believe there is great opportunity to make money pinhooking foals and yearlings.

It is essential to have a good understanding about what sires are fashionable, to get in at the right level and take a view on succession, as well as purchasing athletic horses.

You have been involved in putting together syndicates for horses in training, too. Anything to look forward to this year?

Myself and friends have a few nice late twoyear-olds syndicated under Palatinate Thoroughbred Racing, but it is too early to say how good they are as they haven’t raced. At this point we are just dreaming about them developing into nice horses from what you see in their work on the gallops.

Do you use agents at the sales or do you like to get involved in the buying process? What kind of horses do you look for?

I do like to get involved but I always go in with, and take advice from, experienced horsemen. There is so much to learn about

equine anatomy and you need to be around horses every day to increase your understanding. I generally now focus on buying unraced horses, including early twoyear-olds and well-bred backward types.

I am off to buy our first proper jumps horse this year at the Saint-Cloud sale in July.

Do you find that racehorse ownership is still attractive to young people, despite a lack of financial incentive?

I definitely think so. There is no denying racing is a very expensive hobby to get involved in and it takes time and money to really learn about the industry, but for me it is great entertainment, fun and something I am passionate about.

It certainly helped that I bought Cambridgeshire winner Credit Swap for £7,000. He won six times for Michael Wigham, including a Grade 1 track hat-trick!

At the same time I have bought a few expensive donkeys as well. That is just part and parcel of the racing game!

The key for me is to buy horses on the advice of people that are trustworthy and knowledgeable, to try to be as commercial as possible and have plenty of fun. Prize-money in the UK is terrible so I always say to any newcomers getting into the sport with me, start small, immediately write off that money, hope for some luck and do it for the fun and enjoyment of it.

You also run yourgolftravel.com and have plans for a similar idea in racing.

Tell us about that...

Yourgolftravel.com is Europe’s largest golf holiday company; our sister company Racingbreaks.com will go live later in the year.

Our aim is to work with courses in the UK and Ireland to drive higher attendances and encourage people to stay locally, in resorts and hotels, whilst combining breaks with other leisure activities. Racingbreaks.com’s brand FairwaytoFurlong has already run golf and official racing preview events this year at the Cheltenham Festival and Royal Ascot to raise money for Cancer Research and the Injured Jockeys’ Fund.

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Lancaster and Wright join TBA board After a closely fought election, Richard Lancaster and Chris Wright have been elected as the two new members of the TBA board and will take up their seats with effect from the AGM on June 28.

Director of Shadwell Estate Company Limited, Richard Lancaster, has twice before served on the TBA board; firstly as a co-opted member from 1997 to 2002 and then more recently from 2003 as an elected member, with four years as Vice-Chairman from 2006 to 2010. He is presently Chairman of the TBA Veterinary Committee.

“I am delighted to have been elected again to serve on the board,” said Lancaster. “There are many challenges ahead, including the matter of realistic levels of prize-money and ensuring that our industry is protected against the increasing threat of disease. I look forward to taking part in trying to ensure that as an industry we are prepared for the challenges that confront us.”

Chris Wright has been a racehorse owner for over 30 years and founded the Stratford Place Stud in 1973. Apart from his career in

Diary dates and reminders MONDAY, JULY 4 Yorkshire Regional Day Mark Johnston’s Kingsley House Stables.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 13 Open Regional Day Weatherbys Ltd., Northamptonshire.

Whilst July 13 is exclusively for TBA members, Weatherbys are also holding an Open Day on Tuesday, October 18. Please contact Weatherbys directly if you wish to attend on October 18.

THURSDAY, JULY 14 Scotland Regional Day The Duke of Roxburghe’s Floors Stud, Kelso, followed by lunch and a tour of the castle and gardens.

SATURDAY, JULY 30 Next Generation Club Racing and breeding day at Newmarket.

Details from Lesley O’Shea, Stanstead House.

TBA NEW MEMBERS A R Buxton Esq, London.

T W Johnson Esq, Cheshire.

D Smith Esq, Hertfordshire.

Mrs M Varmen, Cheshire.

M Kurt Esq, Turkey

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entertainment, he has also been involved in professional rugby and football as an owner.

Following the sale of Chrysalis, Wright now has the time available and is enthusiastic to devote this to the industry.

He said: “I am both delighted and a little overawed that the membership of the TBA have chosen to elect me to the board. Whilst this is no doubt an honour, it also comes with a great deal of responsibility and commitment to playing an active part in helping to determine the future of thoroughbred breeding in the UK and its impact on the racing industry in general.

“I have been a breeder for close to 30 years, during which time I have had my share of success and disappointment, and I hope I am capable of putting a little something back into the industry and sport that has given me so much pleasure over the years. The future is clearly challenging, particularly in the UK market. There will be many challenges ahead and I hope that I can, in some small way, help face these challenges.”

The TBA has also co-opted Peter Mendham to its board, for a four-year term with effect from June 28. Mendham is currently Chairman of the TBA Taxation Group and is a well respected adviser to several large racing and breeding operations. At a time when the bloodstock industry faces a number of challenges, not least to protect its financial status, the TBA hopes this appointment will ensure that the association is well placed to respond to these challenges.

Commenting on the appointments, TBA Chief Executive, Louise Kemble, said: “The election for the two seats on the board attracted considerable support from the membership and we look forward to working with Richard and Chris.”

Turning to the recent co-option appointments, she added: “Peter Mendham’s co-option brings with it invaluable knowledge and he, together with Julian Richmond-Watson, will strengthen the TBA’s board at a time when the industry is undergoing restructure.”

Duty charges dropped for non-EU imports In our April issue it was reported that HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) had decided to impose a 11.5% duty charge on importations of foals and yearlings coming to the UK from outside the EU. Following TBA representation, this charge has now been dropped.

Peter Mendham, TBA Bloodstock Taxation Group Chairman, says: “We are pleased to report that HMRC has now accepted the TBA’s representations to the effect that the decision to charge import duty had no basis in law and they have therefore agreed to withdraw the duty demands issued to importers.”

This decision confirms that the only requirements for duty-free importation are that the horse should be capable of being used for breeding and that it is registered in an authorised stud book.

Although the original decision always seemed perverse it is comforting to see that the industry’s concerted effort to challenge the ruling has had the desired effect without the need to resort to the courts. This was an issue

that affected the whole industry and in these difficult times it was a battle that we could not afford to lose. The TBA Taxation Group worked together with leading breeders and shipping companies to put forward our case, and we are grateful for their support.

The successful outcome of this campaign, led by the TBA, has saved the British racing and breeding industry in excess of some £5 million a year in unwarranted duty on imported youngstock.

Importantly, it has also avoided the potential scenario whereby youngstock destined for the UK could be imported via other European countries, where no duty is levied, which over time could have had a negative impact on income for British stud farms and, consequently, have jeopardised employment numbers in our industry.

The TBA was also conscious that any import duty applied by HMRC had the potential for a similar reaction by the USA authorities, which would have jeopardised the USA market, which is so vital to our horses in training sales.

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A trip to London to watch the King’s Troop perform the Birthday Salute for HM The Queen proved hugely popular with members

TBA regional days in full swing Central The 20 places allowed for the visit to the King’s Troop for HM The Queen’s Birthday Royal Salute were keenly sought by members, who enjoyed a wonderful day. This was the last time it would be performed from the troop’s St John’s Wood base and the day included watching the parade of guns and horses assemble, and being in Green Park for the actual salute at midday.

Members enjoyed an excellent lunch in the Sergeants’ Mess and during the afternoon toured the stables and museum. Our thanks to Regional Chairman Derek Christopher for organizing such a special day.

Officers’ Mess, kindly hosted by the Commanding Officer, Colonel Douglas McDonald, and the tour continued with a visit to the veterinary hospital, followed by a very informative demonstration by members of the dog school, on how the search dogs are trained.

Members found it a most informative and interesting day, seeing first-hand how our armed forces, including the Life Guards, the Royal Horse Guards, the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery, the Royal Army Veterinary Corps and the RAF, prepare the animals used in service.

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On Monday, May 23, a party of 17 enjoyed another Derek Christopher-organised trip, this time to the Defence Animal Centre at Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. The centre is for members of the armed forces involved in training animals for military needs.

The visit began with a briefing from the Officer in Charge of the Army School of Equitation, Captain Richard Chambers of the Life Guards. Members then saw the Advanced Course of the mounted regiments in the riding school, followed by a visit to the Army School of Farriery in the forge.

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South West A well supported meeting at Richard Barber’s Seaborough Manor Farm in Dorset saw 40 members enjoy a morning in the finest Dorset countryside. Seaborough Manor is a licensed training centre which operates as both a satellite National Hunt yard for Paul Nicholls, as well as an impressive training centre for point-topointers. Trainer Harry Fry, assisted by Head Girl Ciara O’Connor, showed members around the 20-box main yard, where 12 horses remained in training to take in some summer jumping engagements, including Violin Davis, Opening Batsman and Tregaro.

Across the property 28 young and established point-to-pointers were still on the go, with the West season not ending until June 18. There was a variety in the choice of sire with British, Irish, French and German-based stallions represented, but the type of horse favoured by Richard Barber was clear: strong, square and correct types.

Richard revealed that he still likes to support the store market, where he is enjoying increasing value for money! Owners include a number of long-standing supporters and friends who enjoy their point-to-point racing, whilst a number of the younger pointers would ultimately be destined for another career path.

Harry explained that the five-and-a-half furlong uphill gallop adjacent to the Little Windsor Point-to-Point course and with a Polytrack surface, coped well with the climatic conditions and was used by some 100 horses a day, with a number of smaller operators taking advantage of the facility. We were assured the gallop was an easier gradient to that at Ditcheat.

On a work day horses will do three gallops, followed by a leisurely 15-minute walk back to the yard.

The party then made its way to the impressive indoor school of Antonia Coles,

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where William Biddick and Martin Cooney schooled Vrai Vert, Mustangsallyrally, Cappoquin and Trueflyingcolours over two reversible hurdles. Whilst members enjoyed a close up of the action, Harry explained that the horses will do ten to 15 circuits each way over the hurdles, which in the closed environment helped to fine tune them before they transferred to jumping outside.

Our host Richard Barber and his wife Viv were on hand to answer a range of questions throughout the morning, and kindly joined members for a hearty lunch at nearby Wynyards Gap Inn. Our thanks go to Michael Falkiner and Diana du Feu for organising a most enjoyable day.

West Midlands The West Midlands Regional day provided a full programme for 46 members, who travelled first to Donald McCain’s Bank House Stables near Malpas in Cheshire.

The recent unseasonably hot and sunny weather gave way to strong wind and rain that blew horizontally at times, but the group was given a warm welcome by Ginger, Beryl and Donald McCain.

A short (but blowy) walk to the top of the gallops provided the opportunity to see third lot battle their way up the hill twice against the wind. A walk around the yard followed, with the opportunity to fire questions at Donald and Ginger, who were extremely generous with their time.

All the horses looked remarkably fit yet relaxed despite the weather, and the facilities at Bankhouse are extensive, with 200 acres of land allowing plenty of gallop space and well-sheltered paddocks for turnout.

Following an excellent lunch at the local Cholmondeley Arms, members moved on to Richard Kent’s Mickley Stud, where the sun came out and members were greeted with Pimm’s to sip as they viewed a parade of the resident stallions, plus a number of mares and foals.

Catering for both the Flat and jumps market means that the stud is still incredibly busy, but its 500-plus acres of prime grazing land, with large paddocks and more grass than has been seen on the east side of the country for a long while, allows for large numbers of mares and followers, without the danger of overstocking.

Vet John Newcombe was on hand to provide a scanning demonstration and, after a very welcome afternoon tea, members went on their way having had an enjoyable and educational day.

We are very grateful to Donald McCain and Richard Kent for allowing members to interrupt their working day and for their generous hospitality, and to Hazel West for organizing such a successful day.

Richard Kent shows off Mickley Stud’s young stallion Captain Gerrard to members

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MAY 2011

Newsells Park Stud

Gitano Hernando (centre) has won on three continents

At this time of year, racing becomes increasingly competitive and from a surfeit of worthy candidates for the May Breeder of the Month award a majority decision found in favour of Newsells Park Stud.

The principal flag-bearer for this Hertfordshire establishment, which is managed by Julian Dollar, was Gitano Hernando, who gained a second victory at the top level, adding the Singapores Airlines International Cup at Kranji to the 2009 Goodwood Stakes at Santa Anita.

On the home front came the Listed winners St Moritz and Miss Work Of Art at York, and Masked Marvel at Goodwood. Masked Marvel duly lined up in the Derby, where he joined his erstwhile stud companion Ocean War (winner of a Newmarket Listed race in April).

In 1959, Newsells Park won the Blue Riband with homebred Parthia, owned by Sir Humphrey de Trafford (father of Cath Walwyn). The late Klaus Jacobs, whose family own the celebrated Gestut Fahrhof in Germany, purchased the property in 2000. The then manager was Robert Acton and he assembled the nucleus of mares that is now bearing fruit.

In June 2010, the stud won this monthly award by virtue of a Royal Ascot double with Rite Of Passage (Gold Cup) and Strawberrydaiquiri (Windsor Forest Stakes). Another significant winner that week was Equiano (King’s Stand Stakes), who now stands alongside Mount Nelson at this flourishing stud, which will receive six sacks of Blue Chip Pro, to help prepare youngstock for the sales, and some Blue Chip clothing.

operation in south-west France, where Tin Horse is trained by Didier Guillemin at Mont de Marsan.

Her runners here have done much to promote French-bred jumpers, two stars being The Fellow, hero of the 1994 Cheltenham Gold Cup as well as two successive King George VI Chases, the Kempton Boxing Day highlight that she won again with First Gold in 2000.

These two horses were both based in France with Francois Doumen, but the Marquesa also owned the Jimmy Fitzgerald-trained Cesarewitch winner Trainglot and King’s Stand Stakes winner Chineur, trained by her godson Mikel Delzangles.

Childwick Bury changed hands in 1993 and manager Martin Grassick (younger brother of Christy) has been there from the outset. He fulfils a unique role determined by the generous French breeders’ premiums.

“We send the mares with foals at foot over to France in August. In December the mares come back and then the yearlings return here in June to be broken in,” he explained.

Joyeuse Entrée, the dam of Tin Horse, is one of 30 resident mares, along with her three half-sisters, Seldom Found, Hold The Thought and Becomes You. With a filly foal at foot by Sakhee and back in foal to the same sire, she also has a two-year-old colt Eaglestone and a yearling filly Deux Saisons, both greys by Chineur.

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Breeders’ Prizes Flat HBLB Breeders’ Prizes worth £700 or more Breeder

Mildmay Bloodstock Ltd

Prize (£)

6,500

Based on date money was paid

Horse

Sire

Dam

Perfect Tribute

Dubawi

Perfect Spirit

Date

Course

27/04/11

Ascot

07/05/11

Lingfield Park

Elite Racing Club

4,500

Dandino

Dansili

Generous Diana

30/04/11

Newmarket

G B Russell

4,500

Sole Power

Kyllachy

Demerger

21/05/11

Haydock Park

Mr & Mrs G Middlebrook

3,500

Dordogne

Singspiel

Riberac

07/05/11

Lingfield Park

Newsells Park Stud Limited

3,300

Miss Work Of Art

Dutch Art

Lacework

27/04/11

Ascot

Kingsclere Stud

3,000

13/05/11

York

Creme Anglaise

Motivator

Reading Habit

06/05/11

Ascot

Side Glance

Passing Glance

Averami

27/04/11

Ascot

09/05/11

Windsor

G Strawbridge

1,600

Night Carnation

Sleeping Indian

Rimba

12/05/11

York

Mrs A D Bourne

1,550

Seal Rock

Ishiguru

Satin Doll

30/04/11

Newmarket

13/05/11

Newmarket

11/05/11

York

21/05/11

York

Overbury Stallions Ltd & D Boocock

1,550

Common Touch

Compton Place

Flying Finish (Fr)

Miss S J Leigh & Mr R S Leigh

1,500

Seta

Pivotal

Bombazine

30/04/11

Goodwood

Elms Stud Co Ltd

1,500

Dorcas Lane

Norse Dancer

Waqood

01/05/11

Newmarket

Mrs A F Tullie

1,500

Shoshoni Wind

Sleeping Indian

Cadeau Speciale

01/05/11

Hamilton Park

Meon Valley Stud

1,500

Izzi Top

Pivotal

Zee Zee Top

13/05/11

Newbury

Owen Promotions Ltd

1,500

Brown Panther

Shirocco

Treble Heights

04/05/11

Chester

21/05/11

Haydock Park

Cheveley Park Stud Ltd

1,450

Merchant Of Medici

Medicean

Regal Rose

02/05/11

Kempton Park

Dimension

Medicean

Palatial

02/05/11

Kempton Park

Whitsbury Manor Stud & Pigeon House Stud

800

Pastoral Player

Pastoral Pursuits

Copy-Cat

01/05/11

Newmarket

Bond Thoroughbred Corporation

800

Hoof It

Monsieur Bond

Forever Bond

13/05/11

York

Mr & Mrs D J Deer

800

Al Kazeem

Dubawi

Kazeem

14/05/11

Newbury

J L Dunlop

800

Harlestone Times

Olden Times

Harlestone Lady

21/05/11

Goodwood

G T Lucas

750

Trade Storm

Trade Fair

Frisson

30/04/11

Doncaster

Phil Jen Racing

750

Chilworth Lad

Diktat

Dowhatjen

01/05/11

Salisbury

G E Amey

750

Cockney Fire

Cockney Rebel

Camp Fire

01/05/11

Salisbury

& Trinity Gate Bloodstock

750

Guru Girl

Ishiguru

Startori

06/05/11

Ascot

M E Wates

750

Neebras

Oasis Dream

Crossmolina

14/05/11

Newmarket

Floors Farming & Christopher J Heath

700

Adaria

Sleeping Indian

Isle Of Flame

29/04/11

Doncaster

Redmyre Bloodstock

See the table of breeders' prizes effective as from January 1 on the TBA website, www.thetba.co.uk

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Feeding the foal and weanling Deciding what to feed the foal or weanling is an important decision as nutrition is most influential from the age of three to nine months. One the key issues facing breeders is DOD (developmental orthopaedic disease) which can result from genetic problems, traumas and incorrect feeding. DOD is a term used to cover a range of bone related problems from physitis to limb deformities to cartilage problems.

Good feeding becomes particularly important from three months on when the mares milk quality starts to drop and the foal becomes more reliant on grazing and hard feeds. The foal can efficiently start digesting cereals prior to three months and creep feeding can start from as early as three weeks. The benefit of creep feeding is less stress at the time of weaning and hopefully less disturbance to the growth of the foal. Weaning often causes a temporary drop in weight at a time when development is critical. Having your foal accustomed to concentrate feeds and eating from a bucket /feeder will help.

Traditionally we think of protein, calcium and phosphorus when we think of good nutrients for strong bones. However there are a whole range of nutrients involved and having the balance of all of

these is the key to success. For example , iodine is involved in thyroid function, which helps regulate growth rates. Vitamin A is important for osteoclasts, which are cells that form the bone. Too little vitamin A and your weanling will not reach his true height potential. Zinc and manganese are needed for good cartilage formation.

Copper is essential for the cross links that provide strength in the bone. All of these elements are the building block of the foal and weanling and most effective in the first 9 months.

The second element of nutrition that effects development is the question of how much to feed. Overfeeding or pushing the foal or weanling can cause DOD as the joints are not able to adapt quickly enough to the sudden increase in bodyweight. Also variations in growth due to times of stress eg weaning or seasonal variations, eg fresh new grass, can lead to DOD. The ideal situation is for a steady growth of the foal which is in itself an art to achieve.

Whilst every foal is an individual and weight will be effected by type, the following averages will help as a guide.

The average birth weight is 55kg. Within the first 90 days the foal will gain around 110kg. In the next 90 days a further 70kg will be gained. Following this the third set of 90 days will see a 60kg increase and the fourth set of 90 days a final 45kg increase.

Traditional stud cubes and mixes are an easy way to feed youngstock and provide all the nutrients required. However they do not suit all types or situations, especially weanlings that are running heavier or where the grazing is providing a high level of calories and protein. In these cases balancers are ideal. Balancers provide all the nutrients needed in a much more concentrated form so have smaller feeding volumes and fewer “calories”. Balancers can be used to top up or replace part of an existing diet or can be fed as the sole feed making them very flexible. In a case of DOD it is recommended to feed a reduced energy (calorie) diet, for example a balancer with plently of forage. For further advice on balancing a diet or feeding weanlings with DOD please contact one of our nutritional team on +353 (0)599 775 800 or visit our website www.redmills.com

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EQUINE HEALTH FORUM Protect horses from Equine Herpes Virus urges Pfizer Pfizer Animal Health is urging horse owners, yard managers and trainers to understand more about keeping their horses protected from the effects of Equine Herpes Virus (EHV), a contagious viral infection that can damage health, cause abortion and significantly impact performance. To this end Pfizer has launched an awareness campaign to help horse owners learn more about the severity of EHV and the best ways to prevent the disease.

1 EHV is carried by most horses in the UK. It can cause respiratory disease, an associated loss of performance and can put a horse out of work for a number of weeks while it recovers from the infection.

EHV is also the most commonly diagnosed cause of infectious abortion. More rarely it can affect the nervous system, resulting in paralysis, collapse and a very poor prognosis. Once a horse is infected it can harbour the virus throughout its life and potentially shed the disease to other animals without showing any outward signs.

Re-activation of EHV and shedding from infected horses

tends to happen when they are stressed – typically moving yards or when they are in hard work. Even without showing any obvious clinical signs EHV can affect the athletic performance of the horse by putting a strain on its immune system.

The disease is transmitted from horse to horse through the respiratory tract, by inhalation of the viral particles shed by infected horses. Symptoms, if there are any, may include a rise in body temperature, nasal discharge and a dry cough in younger horses. The horse may also show signs of depression and lethargy.

Good yard management, such as avoiding overcrowding and reducing the potential stresses that may set off re-activation, is essential to prevent the spread of EHV, but this isn’t the whole answer.

Vaccination can also play a pivotal role. Vaccinating every horse will help minimise the severity of the disease itself and, importantly, will also help to reduce the amount of infective virus that is shed to other incontact horses.

Ben Gaskell, Pfizer’s equine veterinary advisor said: “It pays to be vigilant and address the problem of EHV before it becomes a significant health issue for your horse. The best approach is to discuss the issue with your vet who will be able to provide advice on suitable yard management and a vaccination programme.”

For further information ask your vet for a copy of Pfizer’s new information booklet Preventing Equine Herpes Virus, or contact Pfizer Animal Health, Walton Oaks, Tadworth, Surrey KT20 7NS

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VET FORUM: THE EXPERT VIEW

By JAMES TATE BVMS MRCVS

Equine Herpesvirus EHV is an important disease, chiefly as virtually every adult horse in the UK has come into contact with it. Vaccinations reduce risk, but good management is key to control that same horse. Typically, horses develop enough of an immune response following infection to become resistant to EHV for the next three to four months, but following this period they will again become susceptible to infection.

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It is extremely important to try to prevent EHV infection in pregnant mares because it is a significant cause of abortion and death of newborn foals

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irtually every adult horse in the UK has come into contact with at least one type of Equine Herpesvirus and it also has the ability to lie dormant for months or years before reactivating if the horse is stressed. As a result, reducing the incidence and effects of this virus is difficult and relies on good management practices combined with vaccination.

Equine Herpesvirus (EHV) is widespread throughout the world and the United Kingdom is no exception. There are many types of EHV but the ones that affect the domestic horse are types one to five. EHV-1 and EHV-4 cause the most problems often in the form of respiratory infections and, in fact, most foals and yearlings develop a ‘snotty’ nose due to EHV at some point in their lives and hence it can be viewed as a normal part of growing up. Both EHV-1 and EHV-4 can cause abortion and neonatal death and EHV1 can also cause neurological disease.

EHV-2 and EHV-5 are found in most horses and rarely cause significant problems, although there have been reports of respiratory disease and poor performance due

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As mentioned above, EHV-1 and EHV-4 commonly cause respiratory problems but the signs are essentially the same as for any respiratory virus – a high temperature, nasal and ocular discharge, enlarged glands, coughing and endoscopic evidence of inflammation, for example, excessive mucus.

Training yards suffer from poor performance and are shut down every season for signs exactly like these and as a result, there are those who believe that all racehorses should take advantage of the commercially available vaccines which are designed to reduce the risk of infection.

EHV-1 and EHV-4 can also cause reproductive and neurological problems.

to these two viruses. EHV-3 can cause a venereal disease called Equine Coital Exanthema, which is usually seen as a relatively mild condition that rarely requires treatment but can be disruptive to a stallion’s covering schedule.

How is the disease spread?

EHV is readily spread by inhalation or ingestion of the virus via nasal/ocular discharge, saliva or aborted foetal material.

Furthermore, given that the virus can survive in the environment for several weeks and that horses which are infected with EHV become carriers of the disease and so can pass it on to others, it is not surprising that nearly all adult horses test positive for exposure to EHV-1 and/or EHV-4.

In addition, like other herpesviruses such as the viruses that cause human ‘cold sores’ and ‘shingles’, EHV has the ability to become dormant and establish a state called ‘latency’.

This means that if a previously infected horse which appears to be completely healthy is stressed, then the virus can reactivate, multiply and again cause clinical illness in

The respiratory signs of EHV-1 or EHV-4 are essentially the same as for any respiratory virus – a high temperature, nasal and ocular discharge, enlarged glands and coughing

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samples must be sent to a specialist laboratory, for example, the Animal Health Trust or Beaufort Cottage Laboratories in Newmarket.

Laboratory confirmation of the diagnosis of reproductive EHV disease is carried out much more commonly and is actively encouraged by the HBLB Codes of Practice, veterinary surgeons and the major stud farm associations. Samples are sent off for laboratory analysis and in fact, the TBA is so keen that every aborted foetus and dead newborn foal is screened for the presence of EHV at recognised laboratories that they give a £100 subsidy towards the costs of such screening providing that they receive a copy of the post-mortem report from the recognised laboratory involved.

Good management is key

Localised outbreaks of neurological disease caused by EHV-1 occur in Europe every year and affected horses generally show weakness, incoordination and paralysis

Outbreaks of abortions during late pregnancy and weak foals that die within a few days of birth as a result of EHV infection not only affect the individual mares and foals involved but are also very costly to deal with, as they disrupt the stud’s entire breeding programme.

Neurological disease caused by EHV-1 is less common but localised outbreaks do occur in Europe every year and there is currently a significant outbreak in the western states of the USA. Affected horses generally show weakness, incoordination or paralysis, as well as other more specific signs such as urinary incontinence.

Diagnosis Laboratory confirmation of respiratory disease caused by EHV infection is usually carried out only if a yard problem is being investigated because the diagnosis does not alter the treatment of an individual horse but might change the management of a yard, particularly with regard to EHV-1,4 vaccination policy. If confirmation of EHV infection is required then

Vaccination is a vital part of disease prevention although it should never be seen as a substitute for good management. As EHV-1 and EHV-4 are the most important, it makes sense that they are most commonly vaccinated against. As horses are immune to EHV for only a short period of time after suffering from the disease, then it is not surprising that there are no vaccines currently available that provide complete protection against EHV but they can significantly help to reduce the spread of the virus. Racehorses should initially receive injections four to six weeks apart and then every six months, whilst breeding mares should receive bi-annual boosters in January and July in addition to the vaccinations at five, seven and nine months of pregnancy. There

HBLB Codes of Practice and the importance of reporting cases The HBLB ‘Codes of Practice’ set out the minimum recommended requirements with regard to the prevention and control of the most important infectious diseases. They cover diseases that are notifiable by law, for example, CEM, EVA and EIA, but they also provide recommendations with regard to other important infectious diseases such as EHV. EHV can be difficult to control because it is so common and does not always cause any outward signs. Therefore, whilst it is not mandatory to report confirmed cases of EHV, it is important to notify the TBA so that it can alert its members to the risk of infection.

It is vital that the public has confidence that all cases of important infectious diseases are reported and that stud farms, in particular, are transparent with regard to their response to a disease outbreak.

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are currently two licensed vaccines available for EHV-1 and EHV-4 but, interestingly, only one of these vaccines is licensed for use in pregnant mares to reduce the risk of abortion and neonatal death.

However, it must be remembered that whilst vaccination is extremely important, it is not an impermeable barrier and the environment in which horses are housed should also be considered. For example, an abortion in an American barn due to EHV-1 presents a huge challenge to the other mares in the barn that could easily overcome the immunity they have gained from vaccination. Mares should be kept in small groups with other healthy mares at a similar stage of pregnancy and mares in the final stages of pregnancy should ideally be isolated â&#x20AC;&#x201C; not stabled in a large American barn where infections are all too readily passed from horse to horse.

Try to prevent, not cure Prevention is better than cure and the importance of good management and high

standards of hygiene and husbandry in infectious disease prevention should never be underestimated.

Sensible biosecurity measures should be designed to reduce the risk of infection, most of which are common sense, for example, keeping horses in sensible groups/batches whilst trying to avoid the stresses associated with moving and re-mixing groups too often.

In a stud scenario, this means that pregnant mares should have contact only with other mares that have close foaling dates and they should be managed separately from foals, yearlings, horses that are out of training and barren mares. In a racing yard, this means that young horses such as yearlings or two year-olds should be separated from older horses.

Isolation units are also very useful in the prevention of infectious diseases because they enable high risk horses, for example, new arrivals, to be isolated from the rest of the horses for a sensible period of time or until tests prove that they are free from disease. Large studs and training yards should consider having separate

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In summary, EHV is a very important disease which virtually every adult horse in the UK has come into contact with. It is everywhere in background levels and many adult horses are symptomless carriers that can become latently infected and hence infectious to others. The HBLB Codes of Practice set out the minimum recommended requirements with regard to the prevention and control of EHV and it is important to notify the TBA in the case of an outbreak so that it can alert its members to the risk of infection.

As with all diseases, prevention is better than cure. Although vaccination plays a vital part in reducing the risk of EHV infection, the importance of good management and high standards of hygiene and husbandry should never be underestimated.

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Wood Farm Stud Wood Farm Stud, situated in the heart of the North Shropshire countryside, is a truly rare opportunity to acquire a magnificent equestrian property and/or farm. The property, easily accessible to host of major routes (M54 8 miles – A41 3 miles), is accessed off a quiet country lane via three separate entrances. Wood Farm was originally an arable farm, and has been farmed by the current vendor’s family for the past 60 years.

Wood Farm Stud has been one of the top National Hunt Studs in the UK over the last few decades, standing a host of leading Stallions including Lucarno, Bollin Eric, Erhaab, Classic Cliché, Sir Harry Lewis, Silver Patriach et al.

Whilst the premises are ideal for the current use it should be noted that there is tremendous scope for a range of alternative equestrian uses or indeed farming once again.

The five-bedroomed, three-bathroom detached Farmhouse offers spacious accommodation for modern day living with a range of delightful period features having grand Entrance Hall, Kitchen, Lounge, Living Room, Reading Room, Office, Dining Room, Utility, Cloakroom, BBQ Room/Pantry, Cellar, Second Floor Storage (scope for further beds). There is an obvious option for a one-bedroom Annex conversion. Fabulous mature gardens lie to the front and side of the farmhouse.

Equestrian facilities include up to 60 boxes over numerous Stable Yards. A range of traditional outbuildings, two American Barns (one being ideal for conversion to an Indoor School) Hay Barn/Lofts, Horse Walker, Sand School, Tack/ Feed Room, Staff Canteen, Vets Box, excellent vehicular access, parking & circulation, Loading Ramp, Garage, Mobile Home.

The property in all stands in about 119 acres (47.9 Ha) with an extensive range of flat, Post and Rail fenced grass paddocks. n For further information please refer to page 65

Wallhouse Stud Lot 1 guide price: £1,150,000 l Lot 2 guide price: £50,000 Comprising a three bedroom bungalow and 20 boxes with 21.95 acres of paddocks Wallhouse Stud is very well located at Cheveley, just a short distance from

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Newmarket. The property is available as a whole at a guide price of £1.2m or in two lots.

Gemma Burtt of Bidwells is handling the sale.

“Wallhouse Stud is ideal for someone looking to buy a smaller stud close to Newmarket – Wallhouse Stud is only two miles from Newmarket and Tattersalls. The land is on good, fertile soil and is divided into 12 paddocks with walkways and very well fenced with V mesh fencing.

“The stud is currently let to Castlebridge Consignment East for further 3 years and a sale will be subject to their tenancy. The stud offers an ideal UK unit for foreign operators needing a base close to Newmarket but may also be of interest to the smaller, more private operators as well as lifestyle buyers looking for a landed property.”

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CAULFIELD FILES ANDREW CAULFIELD REPORTS ON THE BLOODSTOCK WORLD

Excelling at Epsom Montjeu has already outstripped his sire, Sadler’s Wells, with three Derby winners to his name in seven years

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ess than six weeks after the death of Sadler’s Wells, Epsom’s trio of Group 1 races over a mile and a half provided yet another reminder of his enormous legacy.

The Coronation Cup saw a rejuvenated St Nicholas Abbey become his sixth grandson to succeed in a race which also fell to no fewer than six of Sadler’s Wells’s sons. That’s 12 winners in the 22 years since Sadler’s Wells was represented by his first four-year-olds.

Then, in the Oaks, it briefly looked as though the magnificently-bred Wonder Of Wonders was about to become the first Oaks winner out of a Sadler’s Wells mare. She ultimately failed to overtake Dancing Rain but Sadler’s Wells was directly responsible for five winners and six seconds in the Oaks and he once recorded a one-two-three in the fillies’ Classic.

The following day saw one grandson, Treasure Beach, overhauled in the last strides by another, Pour Moi, in the Derby. Pour Moi’s victory means that seven of the last 11 Derby winners were sired either by Sadler’s Wells or were produced by one of his sons or daughters.

Although directly responsible for ‘only’ two winners of the Derby, these two – Galileo and High Chaparral – were both above average winners of the race. What’s more, Sadler’s Wells also had seven sons who finished second, while another seven colts who finished second were either sired by one of his sons or produced by one of his daughters. Only five times in the 23 years in which Sadler’s Wells has had three-year-

olds has one of his descendants failed to finish first or second in the Derby, as the table opposite shows.

Thanks to Galileo’s phenomenal sequence of victories in Europe’s 2011 Guineas races, he has tended to grab all the headlines, but Montjeu has also proved a remarkable source of Classic performers. Thanks to Motivator, Authorized and Pour Moi, he has supplied three of the last seven Derby winners, with another two of his sons finishing second. His sons Scorpion, Fame And Glory and St Nicholas Abbey have won three of the last five Coronation Cups.

In comparing the two sons of Sadler’s Wells, it is important to remember that Montjeu is no longer as prolific as Galileo. Whereas Treasure Beach, Frankel, Roderic O’Connor, Seville, Misty For Me, Golden Lilac, Together and Galikova come from a crop of 161, Pour Moi is one of only 78 foals in Montjeu’s 2008 crop, which also includes Recital.

And whereas Cape Blanco, Lily Of The Valley, At First Sight, Midas Touch, Gile Na Greine, etc., come from Galileo’s 2007 crop of 158, St Nicholas Abbey and his fellow Group 1 winners Jan Vermeer and Joshua Tree come from a crop of 109. The Group 2 winner Maria Royal is another member of Montjeu’s crop.

This imbalance continues with their 2009 crops, with Montjeu’s 76 foals being only 42% of Galileo’s 182. Rough figures for 2010 are more than 140 foals for Galileo, compared to 68 for the two-year-older Montjeu, who reportedly

covered 118 mares in 2010, compared to Galileo’s 177.

One area in which Montjeu is undoubtedly outshone by Galileo is his record as a sire of fillies. Although Montjeu has more than 30 black-type daughters in the northern hemisphere, including 17 stakes winners, only one of them – Montare – has scored at the highest level. Six – Montare, Maria Royal, Miss Keller, Mont Etoile, Clowance and Albisola – have become Group winners.

Galileo has six Group 1-winning daughters and another 13 Group winners among his 34 stakes-winning daughters. Galileo’s broodmare daughters have also made the faster start, with the Group winners Saamidd and Alexander Pope among their early runners.

The next step for the duo is to establish themselves as sires of sires. Interestingly, we may see their names linked in the future, as Parish Hall, the first winner by Galileo’s unbeaten son Teofilo, is out of a Montjeu mare (and is therefore inbred 3 x 3 to Sadler’s Wells).

The stallion careers of Montjeu’s sons are generally more advanced. Motivator’s career hasn’t been without its problems, but his first crop, numbering only 63 foals, includes a Group 2 winner and four Group-placed horses.

Hurricane Run underlined his potential when his son Memphis Tennessee belied odds of 201 by leading for a long way in the Derby, before finishing fourth, beaten less than two lengths.

Hurricane Run’s daughters Don’t Hurry Me and Ballybacka Lady have already won at Group level and I will be surprised if there aren’t more Group winners to come from this initial crop.

Authorized will no doubt be clocking up winners from his first crop by the autumn, while it will be interesting to see the first sales yearlings

by Papal Bull, who gave Duke Of Marmalade such a good fight in the 2008 King George.

Montjeu’s Derby-winning trio from left: Motivator in 2005, Authorized in 2007 and Pour Moi give their jockeys cause to celebrate

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Sadler’s Wells’s influence on Epsom’s Group 1 races DERBY

OAKS

CORONATION CUP

2nd BLUE STAG, by Sadler’s Wells

1st SALSABIL, by Sadler’s Wells

1st IN THE WINGS, by Sadler’s Wells

1989 1990 1991 1992

1st SADDLERS’ HALL, by Sadler’s Wells

1993

1st INTREPIDITY, by Sadler’s Wells 2nd ROYAL BALLERINA, by Sadler’s Wells

1st OPERA HOUSE, by Sadler’s Wells

1994

2nd KING’S THEATRE, by Sadler’s Wells

1995

2nd TAMURE, by Sadler’s Wells

1996

2nd DUSHYANTOR, by Sadler’s Wells

2nd SINGSPIEL, by In The Wings

1997

2nd SILVER PATRIARCH, by Saddlers’ Hall

1st SINGSPIEL, by In The Wings 2nd DUSHYANTOR, by Sadler’s Wells

1998

2nd CITY HONOURS, out of a Sadler’s Wells mare

1st SILVER PATRIARCH, by Saddlers’ Hall 3rd EBADIYLA, by Sadler’s Wells

1999

2nd DALIAPOUR, by Sadler’s Wells

3rd DREAM WELL, by Sadler’s Wells

2000

2nd SAKHEE, out of a Sadler’s Wells mare 3rd BEAT HOLLOW, by Sadler’s Wells

1st DALIAPOUR, by Sadler’s Wells

2001

1st GALILEO, by Sadler’s Wells 3rd TOBOUGG, by Barathea

2002

1st HIGH CHAPARRAL, by Sadler’s Wells

2nd QUARTER MOON, by Sadler’s Wells

3rd ZINDABAD, out of a Sadler’s Wells mare

2003

2nd THE GREAT GATSBY, by Sadler’s Wells

2nd YESTERDAY, by Sadler’s Wells

3rd BLACK SAM BELLAMY, by Sadler’s Wells

2004

3rd LET THE LION ROAR, by Sadler’s Wells

2nd ALL TOO BEAUTIFUL, by Sadler’s Wells

2005

1st MOTIVATOR, by Montjeu 2nd WALK IN THE PARK, by Montjeu

2006

2nd DRAGON DANCER, by Sadler’s Wells

1st ALEXANDROVA, by Sadler’s Wells

2007

1st AUTHORIZED, by Montjeu 3rd AQALEEM, out of a Sadler’s Wells mare

2nd PEEPING FAWN, out of a Sadler’s Wells mare 3rd ALL MY LOVING, by Sadler’s Wells

2008

1st NEW APPROACH, by Galileo

2009

2nd FAME AND GLORY, by Montjeu 3rd MASTEROFTHEHORSE, by Sadler’s Wells

3rd HIGH HEELED, by High Chaparral

1st ASK, by Sadler’s Wells 2nd YOUMZAIN, out of a Sadler’s Wells mare

2010

1st WORKFORCE, out of a Sadler’s Wells mare 2nd AT FIRST SIGHT, by Galileo

2nd MEEZNAH, out of a Sadler’s Wells mare

1st FAME AND GLORY, by Montjeu 3rd HIGH HEELED, by High Chaparral

2011

1st POUR MOI, by Montjeu 2nd TREASURE BEACH, by Galileo

2nd WONDER OF WONDERS, out of a Sadler’s Wells mare

1st ST NICHOLAS ABBEY, by Montjeu

1st MOONSHELL, by Sadler’s Wells 2nd DANCE A DREAM, by Sadler’s Wells

1st IMAGINE, by Sadler’s Wells 2nd FLIGHT OF FANCY, by Sadler’s Wells 3rd RELISH THE THOUGHT, by Sadler’s Wells

2nd WELLBEING, by Sadler’s Wells

2nd DOYEN, by Sadler’s Wells 1st YEATS, by Sadler’s Wells 3rd REEFSCAPE, out of a Sadler’s Wells mare 1st SCORPION, by Montjeu 2nd SEPTIMUS, by Sadler’s Wells 1st SOLDIER OF FORTUNE, by Galileo 2nd YOUMZAIN, out of a Sadler’s Wells mare 3rd MACARTHUR, by Montjeu

Statistics show popular cross can be overstated Twenty-seven years after Darshaan had a length and a half to spare over Sadler’s Wells in the Prix du Jockey-Club, the names of these two remarkable stallions remain inextricably linked.

We were reminded of this during the first weekend in June. The two colts who fought out the Derby have pedigrees featuring these old rivals. Pour Moi is by a son of Sadler’s Wells out of a daughter of Darshaan, whereas Treasure Beach is by another son of Sadler’s Wells, out of a mare by Darshaan’s son Mark Of Esteem.

The following day’s Prix du Jockey-Club fell to Reliable Man, who is by Darshaan’s JockeyClub-winning son Dalakhani out of a mare by Sadler’s Wells. Dalakhani has 52 foals aged three or over out of Sadler’s Wells mares, plus a sizeable number of 2011 two-year-olds. The popularity of this cross was established when five of its representatives from Dalakhani’s first crop became stakes winners, including Conduit.

In South Africa, Galileo’s Australian-bred THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

daughter Igugu landed her second Grade 1 victory. She has a second dam by Darshaan.

Two weeks earlier the potency of this cross was evident again when Wavering took the Prix Saint-Alary. Wavering’s sire Refuse To Bend – one of three 2,000 Guineas winners by Sadler’s Wells – has four Group winners to his credit and three of them are out of daughters of Darshaan. One of the others, Sarafina, won the 2010 Saint-Alary, plus the Prix de Diane.

Of course the basis of this hugely popular cross was principally the considerable success that Sadler’s Wells enjoyed with daughters of Darshaan (and to a lesser extent to Darshaan’s record of 13% stakes winners among his foals out of Sadler’s Wells mares).

High Chaparral, Islington, Milan, Quarter Moon, Septimus, Yesterday, Greek Dance and Ebadiyla provided the nick with eight Group 1 winners. Such was the nick’s reputation that Sadler’s Wells or his sons virtually became

the default setting for Darshaan mares.

The latest figures show that Darshaan’s daughters have 169 foals of racing age by Sadler’s Wells. Then there are 91 by Galileo, 81 by Barathea, 54 by Montjeu, 37 by Refuse To Bend, 21 by Entrepreneur and 14 by King’s Theatre.

Altogether, Darshaan mares have 400 foals by 37 sons of Sadler’s Wells. It is worth pointing out that so far 28 of the 400 have become stakes winners, which is 7% – a far cry from Sadler’s Wells’s own figure of 17%. The sons’ figure is little better than the overall figure of 6% stakes winners achieved by Darshaan’s daughters.

With 569 of these mares’ 2,530 foals being by Sadler’s Wells or his sons, this equates to 22.5% of their total output. They have 30 Group 1 winners, of which eight (26.7%) are by Sadler’s Wells and five (16.7%) are by his sons.

Could it be that – apart from fashion – sons of Sadler’s Wells actually have no stronger claim to Darshaan mares than other top stallions?

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DATA BOOK STAKES RESULTS

European Pattern 42 FRUEHJAHRS-PREIS DES BANKHAUSES METZLER G3 FRANKFURT. May 1. 3yo. 2000m.

1. EARL OF TINSDAL (GER) 9-2 £27,586 b c by Black Sam Bellamy - Earthly Paradise (Dashing Blade) O-Sunrace Stables B-H Gutschow TR-A Wohler 2. Saltas (GER) 9-2 £9,483 b c by Lomitas - Salde (Alkalde) O-Gestut Ittlingen B-Wittekindshof TR-P Schiergen 3. Mawingo (GER) 9-2 £4,741 b c by Tertullian - Montfleur (Sadler’s Wells) O/B-Gestut Schlenderhan TR-J Hirchberger Margins 0.5, 1.5. Time 2:08.41. Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 3

Wins 3

Places 0

Earned £52,365

2005: (c Numerous) 2007: RAJSAMAN (c Linamix) Sold 370,838gns 3yo at ARARC. 5 wins at 2 to 4 in France, Prix du Muguet G2, Prix de Fontainebleau G3, Prix Perth G3, G.P. CIC Banque Privee Criterium de Lyon LR, 3rd Prix du Prince d’Orange G3.

2008: Radiyya (f Sinndar) 2nd Dam: GRAPHITE by Mr Prospector. 1 win at 3.

Own sister to CUDDLES. Third dam of WHOBEGOTYOU. Broodmare Sire: LAMMTARRA. Sire of the dams of 5 Stakes winners. In 2011 - HIRUNO D’AMOUR Manhattan Cafe G1, RAJSAMAN Linamix G2.

RAJSAMAN gr c 2007 Bellypha Mendez

Sire: BLACK SAM BELLAMY. Sire of 7 SWs. In 2011 - EARL OF TINSDAL Dashing Blade G3.

1st Dam: EARTHLY PARADISE by Dashing Blade.

Winner at 3. Dam of 3 winners: 2004: EARLSALSA (c Kingsalsa) 8 wins, G P der Nurnberger Versicherungsgruppe LR. 2005: EARL OF WINDS (c Samum) 6 wins 3-6.

2006: Easy Tiger (c Tiger Hill) 2007: Ella Ransom (f Ransom O’War) 2008: EARL OF TINSDAL (c Black Sam Bellamy) Sold 5,085gns yearling. 3 wins, Fruhjahrspreis des Bankhauses Metzler G3.

2009: Emily of Tinsdal (f Librettist) unraced to date.

2nd Dam: EMY COASTING by El Gran Senor. 2 wins at 4. Dam of Early Wings (g Winged Love: 2nd Junioren Preis LR, 3rd Oppenheim Pramerica Winterfavoriten G3), Empire Storm (c Storming Home: 2nd Belmondo-Preis G3), Easy Way (c Dashing Blade: 2nd Maurice Lacroix-Trophy G2).

Broodmare Sire: DASHING BLADE. Sire of the dams of 27 SWs. In 2011 - EARL OF TINSDAL Black Sam Bellamy G3, NOBLE PRINCE Montjeu LR. The Black Sam Bellamy/Dashing Blade cross has produced: EARL OF TINSDAL G3, SAPHIR G3.

EARL OF TINSDAL b c 2008 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge BLACK SAM BELLAMY b 99 Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta Elegant Air Dashing Blade Sharp Castan EARTHLY PARADISE b 98 El Gran Senor Emy Coasting Coast Patrol

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Lombard Anatevka Shirley Heights Elegant Tern Sharpen Up Sultry One Northern Dancer Sex Appeal Cornish Prince Empress of Canada

43 PRIX DU MUGUET G2

Miss Carina LINAMIX gr 87 Breton Lunadix Lutine Nijinsky Lammtarra Snow Bride ROSE QUARTZ b 97 Mr Prospector Graphite Stellarette

Lyphard Belga Caro Miss Pia Relko La Melba Alcide Mona Northern Dancer Flaming Page Blushing Groom Awaasif Raise A Native Gold Digger Tentam Square Angel

44 DAHLIA S G3

Wins 4

Places 1

46 PRIX ALLEZ FRANCE G3 CHANTILLY. May 2. 4yo+f&m. 2000m.

1. ANNOUNCE (GB) 4 9-0 £34,483 ch f by Selkirk - Hachita (Gone West) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-A Fabre 2. Shamanova (IRE) 4 8-9 £13,793 b f by Danehill Dancer - Shamadara (Kahyasi) O-HH The Aga Khan B-HH The Aga Khan’s Studs SC TR-A de Royer-Dupre 3. Rock My Soul (IRE) 5 8-7 £10,345 b m by Clodovil - Rondinay (Cadeaux Genereux) O-Mme Andre Fabre B-G Kredel TR-A Fabre Margins 1, short neck. Time 2:00.50. Going Good.

Earned £47,870

Sire: NOVERRE. Sire of 15 Stakes winners. In 2011 - I’M A DREAMER Sadler’s Wells G3.

1st Dam: Summer Dreams by Sadler’s Wells. Dam of 2 winners: 2003: Russian Dream (g Xaar) 2004: MOUDEZ (c Xaar) 4 wins at 2, 3 and 6 at home, USA, Forerunner S LR, 3rd Les Club Autumn S G3.

2005: Sunset Resort (g King’s Best) 2007: I’M A DREAMER (f Noverre) Sold 21,000gns foal, 40,000gns yearling. 4 wins at 3 and 4, Dahlia S G3, 3rd Rosemary H LR. 2008: Height of Summer (f Alhaarth) unraced to date.

Starts 5

Wins 4

Places 0

SAINT-CLOUD. May 1. 4yo+. 1600m.

Age 2-4

Starts 14

Wins 5

Places 4

Earned £281,467

2nd Dam: Marie de Beaujeu by Kenmare. 2 wins at 2 in France, 2nd Prix des Reves d’Or LR, Prix Imprudence LR. Dam of ALL MY DREAMS (c Assert: BMW Deutsches Derby G1). Grandam of Toamasina, Lady Weasley.

1st Dam: ROSE QUARTZ by Lammtarra. Winner at 3. Dam of 3 winners: 2002: ROSAWA (f Linamix) 4 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix de la Calonne LR, Prix de Liancourt LR. Dam of ROSANARA (f Sinndar: 2 wins at 2 in France, Prix Marcel Boussac G1, 2nd Prix de Diane G1, 3rd Criterium International G1), Rosanabad (c Selkirk: 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, 2nd Prix de Fontainebleau G3) 2004: ROSAMIXA (f Linamix) Winner at 2 in France.

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Starts 3

Wins 2

Places 0

1st Dam: Ebaza by Sinndar. ran 3 times at 3. Dam of 2 winners: 2007: EMRANI (g Rahy) 3 wins at 3.

2008: EMIYNA (f Maria’s Mon) 2 wins at 3, Starspangledbanner EBF Athasi S G3.

2009: (c Lemon Drop Kid) 2nd Dam: EBAZIYA by Darshaan. 4 wins at 2 and 3 Trigo S LR, Ballysax S LR, Oyster S LR, 2nd Killavullan S G3, 3rd Blandford S G2. Dam of ENZELI (c Kahyasi: Ascot Gold Cup G1), EBADIYLA (f Sadler’s Wells: Irish Oaks G1, Prix Royal Oak G1), EDABIYA (f Rainbow Quest: Moyglare Stud S G1, 3rd Meon Valley Stud Fillies’ Mile S G1), Eytarna (f Dubai Destination: 3rd Finale S LR), Elasouna (f Rainbow Quest: 3rd Noblesse S LR. Grandam of EYSHAL. Broodmare Sire: SINNDAR. Sire of the dams of 3 Stakes winners. In 2011 - EMIYNA Maria’s Mon G3, GENIUS BEAST Kingmambo G3.

EMIYNA b f 2008

I’M A DREAMER b f 2007 Red God Runaway Bride Halo Glorious Song Ballade NOVERRE b 98 Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Danseur Fabuleux Le Fabuleux Fabuleux Jane Native Partner Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Sadler’s Wells Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special SUMMER DREAMS b 97 Kalamoun Kenmare Belle of Ireland Marie de Beaujeu Balidar Marie de Bethisy Froidestrees

Earned £104,836

Wavering Monarch Uncommitted Caro Carlotta Maria Water Malone Grand Lodge

1st Dam: HACHITA by Gone West. 2 wins at 2 and 3. Dam of 1 winner: 2007: ANNOUNCE (f Selkirk) 4 wins at 3 and 4 in France, Prix Allez France G3, Prix MinerveShadwell G3, Prix de Thiberville LR. 2008: (c Azamour) 2009: (c Rail Link) 2010: (c Rail Link) 2nd Dam: CHOICE SPIRIT by Danzig. 2 wins at 3 in France Prix de la Calonne LR. Broodmare Sire: GONE WEST. Sire of the dams of 72 Stakes winners. In 2011 - BRILLIANT SPEED Dynaformer G1, TRAVELIN MAN Trippi G2, ANNOUNCE Selkirk G3, LA VERITA Unbridled’s Song LR, PAUSANIAS Kyllachy LR, QUE FENOMENO Northern Afleet LR. The Selkirk/Gone West cross has produced: PIPEDREAMER G1, ANNOUNCE G3, Consul General G3.

ANNOUNCE ch f 2007 Native Dancer Mixed Marriage Rockefella Chambiges Yellow God Novara Be Friendly No Court Raise A Native Gold Digger Secretariat Tamerett Northern Dancer Pas de Nom The Minstrel Mofida

Atan Rocchetta SELKIRK ch 88 Nebbiolo Annie Edge Friendly Court

Gone West Secrettame HACHITA ch 2002 Danzig Choice Spirit Zaizafon

47 ATHASI S G3

Rahy

CURRAGH. May 2. 3yo+f&m. 7f.

1. EMIYNA (USA) 3 8-11 £40,625 b f by Maria’s Mon - Ebaza (Sinndar) O-HH The Aga Khan B-HH The Aga Khan’s Studs SC TR-John M Oxx 2. Lolly For Dolly (IRE) 4 9-12 £11,875 b f by Oratorio - Heart Stopping (Chester House) O-David Keoghan B-J Jamgotchian TR-T Stack 3. Seeharn (IRE) 3 8-11 £5,625 b f by Pivotal - Nebraas (Green Desert) O-Norman Ormiston B-Irish National Stud TR-K Prendergast

Earned £46,573

Sire: MARIA’S MON. Sire of 39 Stakes winners. In 2011 - AWESOME MARIA Awesome Again G3, EMIYNA Sinndar G3, EXHI Polish Numbers G3, EXPANSION Barathea G3.

Sire: SELKIRK. Sire of 84 Stakes winners. In 2011 ANNOUNCE Gone West G3, GLASWEGIAN Lear Fan G3, SHAMALI Lycius LR.

Mr Prospector

Broodmare Sire: SADLER’S WELLS. Sire of the dams of 250 Stakes winners. In 2011 - STAND TO GAIN Hawk Wing G1, FEARS NOTHING Faltaat G2, BANKABLE Medicean G3, CASTLETHORPE Not A Single Doubt G3, COSMO MEADOW King’s Best G3, I’M A DREAMER Noverre G3.

Blushing Groom

Sire: LINAMIX. Sire of 82 Stakes winners. In 2011 RAJSAMAN Lammtarra G2, CELTIX Woodman LR.

Age 2-3

MARIA’S MON gr/ro 93

Sharpen Up

1. RAJSAMAN (FR) 4 8-11 £63,879 gr c by Linamix - Rose Quartz (Lammtarra) O-Nasser Alromaith B-HH Aga Khan TR-F Head 2. Byword (GB) 5 9-4 £24,655 ch h by Peintre Celebre - Binche (Woodman) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-A Fabre 3. Sehrezad (IRE) 6 9-1 £11,767 b h by Titus Livius - Trebles (Kenmare) O-Stall Phillip B-Acorn Stud TR-Andreas Lowe Margins 1, short neck. Time 1:38.30. Going Good.

Margins Short head, 4. Time 1:25.64 (slow 2.14).

Going Good to firm.

Majestic Light

NEWMARKET. May 1. 4yo+f&m. 9f.

Starts 6

CURRAGH. May 2. 4yo+. 10f.

1. SO YOU THINK (NZ) 5 9-6 £40,625 b h by High Chaparral - Triassic (Tights) O-Smith, Magnier, Tabor, Dato Tan,T Yahaya B-MJ Moran, Piper Farm Ltd TR-AP O’Brien 2. Bob Le Beau (IRE) 4 9-1 £11,875 br g by Big Bad Bob - Shine Silently (Bering) O/B-Anamoine Ltd TR-Mrs John Harrington 3. Mid Mon Lady (IRE) 6 8-12 £5,625 br m by Danetime - Shining Desert (Green Desert) O-Mad In The Head Syndicate B-Patrick Cassidy TR-H Rogers Margins 10, 2. Time 2:12.84 (slow 7.84).

Going Good to firm. See race 81

Age 3-4

1. I’M A DREAMER (IRE) 4 8-12 £28,385 b f by Noverre - Summer Dreams (Sadler’s Wells) O-St Albans Bloodstock LLP B-Sean Murphy TR-DM Simcock 2. Sea of Heartbreak (IRE) 4 8-12 £10,760 b f by Rock of Gibraltar - Top Forty (Rainbow Quest) O/B-DG Hardisty Bloodstock TR-R Charlton 3. Chachamaidee (IRE) 4 8-12 £5,385 b f Footstepsinthesand - Canterbury Lace (Danehill) O-RAH Evans B-Cheval Court Stud TR-HRA Cecil Margins 4.5, 2.5. Time 1:52.78 (slow 4.68).

Going Good to firm.

Age 3-4

45 MOORESBRIDGE S G3

Sinndar Sinntara EBAZA b 2002 Darshaan Ebaziya Ezana

Majestic Prince Irradiate Buckpasser Lady Be Good Fortino II Chambord Naskra Gray Matter Chief’s Crown La Papagena Lashkari Sidama Shirley Heights Delsy Ela-Mana-Mou Evisa

48 HUXLEY S G3 CHESTER. May 5. 4yo+. 10f 75yds.

1. AWAIT THE DAWN (USA) 4 9-3 £28,385 b c by Giant’s Causeway - Valentine Band (Dixieland Band) O-M Tabor, Mrs J Magnier B-Juddmonte Farms TR-AP O’Brien 2. Distant Memories (IRE) 5 9-0 £10,760 b g by Falbrav - Amathia (Darshaan) O-Mrs Fitri Hay B-Kildaragh Stud TR-Tom Tate 3. Forte Dei Marmi (GB) 5 9-0 £5,385 b g by Selkirk - Frangy (Sadler’s Wells) O-Gary A Tanaka B-Fittocks Stud TR-LM Cumani Margins 4.5, 0.5. Time 2:08.54 (fast 0.46).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-4

Starts 5

Wins 4

Places 0

Earned £83,372

Sire: GIANT’S CAUSEWAY. Sire of 85 Stakes winners. In 2011 - GIANT OAK Crafty Prospector G1, SHOWCAUSE Lord Ballina G2, AWAIT THE DAWN Dixieland Band G3, WORTH REPEATING A P Indy G3, ILLUMIERE Fasliyev LR. 1st Dam: Valentine Band by Dixieland Band. Winner at 3, 2nd Convergent Networks Middleton S LR. Dam of 3 winners: 2003: Dream Vision (f Distant View) unraced.

2004: Card Shop (f Chester House). Broodmare.

2005: PUTNEY BRIDGE (g Mizzen Mast) 5 wins at 2, 4 and 5 in France, Kingdom of Saudi Ara, Prix Jacques Laffitte LR, 2nd La Coupe de Maisons-Laffitte G3, 3rd Criterium de SaintCloud G1.

2006: SPRUCE (g Maria’s Mon) 4 wins at 4.

2007: AWAIT THE DAWN (c Giant’s Causeway) 4 wins at 2 to 4, Huxley S G3, Kilternan S G3.

2008: Searing Heat (c Empire Maker) unraced.

2009: Vastly (c Mizzen Mast) unraced to date.

2010: (c Arch) 2nd Dam: Shirley Valentine by Shirley Heights. 1 win at 3, 3rd Galtres S LR. Own sister to Deploy.

Dam of MEMORISE (c Lyphard: Waterford Crystal

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World Sports Cup G3, 3rd Geoffrey Freer S G2), MULTIPLEX (c Danehill: Prix La Rochette G3), Sparkling Water (g Woodman: 2nd Chester Vase G3), Fully Invested (f Irish River: 3rd Harrison Trial S LR), Valentine Band (f Dixieland Band, see above).

Broodmare Sire: DIXIELAND BAND. Sire of the dams of 114 Stakes winners. In 2011 - AGGIE ENGINEER E Dubai G2, AWAIT THE DAWN Giant’s Causeway G3, FUMINO IMAGINE Manhattan Cafe G3, S S STONE Birdstone G3, TOOCLEVERFORWORDS Arch G. Giant’s Causeway/Dixieland Band cross has produced: FIRST SAMURAI G1, AWAIT THE DAWN G3.

AWAIT THE DAWN b c 2007 Northern Dancer South Ocean Secretariat Terlingua Crimson Saint GIANT’S CAUSEWAY ch 97 Blushing Groom Rahy Glorious Song Mariah’s Storm Roberto Immense Imsodear Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Dixieland Band Delta Judge Mississippi Mud Sand Buggy VALENTINE BAND b 97 Mill Reef Shirley Heights Hardiemma Shirley Valentine Roberto Slightly Dangerous Where You Lead Storm Bird

Storm Cat

49 CHESTER VASE G3 CHESTER. May 5. 3yo. 12f 66yds.

1. TREASURE BEACH (GB) 8-12 £28,385 b c by Galileo - Honorine (Mark of Esteem) O-D Smith, Mrs J Magnier, M Tabor B-Ashley House Stud TR-AP O’Brien 2. Nathaniel (IRE) 8-12 £10,760 b c by Galileo - Magnificient Style (Silver Hawk) O-Lady Rothschild B-Kincorth Investments Inc TR-JHM Gosden 3. Slumber (GB) 8-12 £5,385 b c by Cacique - Sound Asleep (Woodman) O-K Abdullah B-Millsec Ltd TR-BW Hills Margins Head, 3. Time 2:39.10 (slow 4.30).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-3

Starts 6

Wins 3

Places 3

50 PRIX D’HEDOUVILLE G3 LONGCHAMP. May 5. 4yo+. 2400m.

1. IVORY LAND (FR) 4 8-11 £34,483 ch c by Lando - Ivory Coast (Peintre Celebre) O-Eduardo Fierro B-Z Hakam TR-A de Royer-Dupre 2. Zack Hall (FR) 4 8-9 £13,793 b c by Muhtathir - Halawa (Dancing Brave) O-M Offenstadt B-Z Hakam TR-M Delzangles 3. Watar (IRE) 6 8-11 £10,345 b h by Marju - Ombrie (Zafonic) O-Hamdan Al Maktoum B-Haras du Mezeray TR-F Head Margins 0.75, 0.75. Time 2:36.70. Going Good.

Age 2-4

Starts 13

Wins 6

Places 4

Sire: LANDO. Sire of 26 Stakes winners. In 2011 IVORY LAND Peintre Celebre G3.

1st Dam: Ivory Coast by Peintre Celebre. unraced.

Dam of 3 winners: 2005: SHEPTON MALLET (f Ocean of Wisdom) 4 wins at 3 and 4 in France.

2006: MOUMINA (f Lando) Winner at 3 in France.

2007: IVORY LAND (c Lando) Sold 18,018gns foal at ARDEC. 6 wins at 2 to 4 in France, Prix d’Hedouville G3, Gd. Criterium de Bordeaux LR, G P de Clairefontaine LR, Prix Lord Seymour LR, 2nd Qatar Prix Chaudenay G2, 3rd Prix Noailles G2, Prix Hocquart G2.

2008: Ivory Pearl (f Muhtathir) unraced to date.

2009: Cote d’Ebene (f Muhtathir) unraced to date.

2010: (f Desert Style)

Broodmare Sire: PEINTRE CELEBRE. Sire of the dams of 13 Stakes winners. In 2011 - CAMBINA Hawk Wing G2, IVORY LAND Lando G3.

IVORY LAND ch c 2007 Surumu Acatenango Aggravate LANDO b 90 Sharpman

Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 88 SWs. In 2011 - FRANKEL Danehill G1, IGUGU Intikhab G1, JOHANN ZOFFANY Royal Academy G2, GOLDEN LILAC Danehill G3, TREASURE BEACH Mark of Esteem G3.

Laurea Licata Nureyev Peintre Celebre

2nd Dam: BLUE WATER by Bering. 5 wins, Prix des Tourelles LR, 3rd Prix de Flore G3. Dam of INDIAN CREEK (c Indian Ridge: Hardwicke S G2, 2nd Prince of Wales’s S G1, 3rd Champion S G1 (twice)), Desert Dew (c Indian Ridge: 2nd Dee S G3) Broodmare Sire: MARK OF ESTEEM. Sire of the dams of 10 Stakes winners. In 2011 - TREASURE BEACH Galileo G3.

The Galileo/Mark of Esteem cross has produced: KITE WOOD G1, MIKHAIL GLINKA G1, TREASURE BEACH G2.

TREASURE BEACH b c 2008 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge GALILEO b 98 Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta Darshaan Mark of Esteem Homage HONORINE b 2000 Bering Blue Water Shining Water

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Lombard Anatevka Shirley Heights Delsy Ajdal Home Love Arctic Tern Beaune Riverman Radiance

2nd Dam: Music And Dance by Northern Dancer. 2 wins at 3, 2nd Philips Electronics Extended H LR. Grandam of Musical Score, Galleon Beach. Third dam of Pivotal Flame.

Broodmare Sire: RAINBOW QUEST. Sire of the dams of 125 SWs. In 2011 - GLEN’S DIAMOND Intikhab G3, SPIRIT QUARTZ Invincible Spirit G3.

The Intikhab/Rainbow Quest cross has produced: GLEN’S DIAMOND G3, WITHOUT A PRAYER G3.

GLEN’S DIAMOND b g 2008 Hail To Reason Bramalea Red Ransom Damascus Arabia Christmas Wind INTIKHAB b 94 Mr Prospector Crafty Prospector Real Crafty Lady Crafty Example Danzig Zienelle Past Example Red God Blushing Groom Runaway Bride Rainbow Quest Herbager I Will Follow Where You Lead POSTA VECCHIA b 96 Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Music And Dance Nashua Producer Marion Roberto

2001: Red Tune (g Green Tune) 3 wins at 3, 6 and 7 in France, 2nd Prix de Guiche G3.

2002: GOLD SOUND (g Green Tune) 11 wins, Prix de Guiche G3, 2nd Prix Noailles G2.

2004: NEARTICA (f Sadler’s Wells) Winner at 3.

2005: GOLDIKOVA (f Anabaa) Champion older mare in Europe in 2009 and 2010. 15 wins at 2 to 5, 2010 at home, France, USA, Falmouth S G1, Queen Anne S G1, Prix Rothschild G1 (3 times), Prix de la Foret G1, Prix d’Ispahan G1, Prix du Moulin de Longchamp G1, Prix Jacques Le Marois G1, Breeders’ Cup Mile G1 (3 times), 2nd Poule d’Essai des Pouliches G1, Prix Jacques Le Marois G1, 3rd Prix de Diane G1, Prix de la Foret G1.

2006: Born Again (f Cape Cross) 2007: OCEAN SEVEN (c Green Tune) Winner at 2.

2008: GALIKOVA (f Galileo) 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix Cleopatre G3.

2010: Anodin (c Anabaa) 2nd Dam: RIVIERE D’OR by Lyphard. 4 wins at 2 and 3 in France Prix Saint-Alary G1, 2nd Prix Marcel Boussac G1, Prix de Diane G1. Dam of GOLD SPLASH (f Blushing Groom: Coronation S G1, Prix Marcel Boussac G1, 3rd Dubai Poule d’Essai des Pouliches G1). Grandam of ROYAL GOD. Broodmare Sire: BLUSHING GROOM. Sire of the dams of 144 Stakes winners. In 2011 - GALIKOVA Galileo G3, CERES HUNT Coronado’s Quest LR. GALIKOVA b f 2008 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge GALILEO b 98 Miswaki

2nd Dam: Land of Ivory by The Minstrel. 3 wins, 2nd Ben Marshall S LR, 3rd Premio Allevamento LR, 4th Prix Cleopatre G3. Dam of HEART OF DARKNESS (c Glint of Gold: National S G1). Grandam of SUPER MOTIVA, Akua’ba.

Earned £76,092

1st Dam: HONORINE by Mark of Esteem. 3 wins at 3 and 4. Dam of 1 winner: 2006: Early Morning Rain (f Rock of Gibraltar) ran twice.

2008: TREASURE BEACH (c Galileo) Sold 180,000gns foal. 3 wins at 2 and 3, MBNA Chester Vase G3, 3rd Royal Lodge S G2.

2009: (c Singspiel)

Earned £178,858

2005: Full Dream (f Danehill Dancer) unplaced.

2006: Miss Popi (f One Cool Cat) 2007: Danza Vecchia (f Westerner) unraced.

2008: GLEN’S DIAMOND (g Intikhab) Sold 9,708gns yearling at AROCT, 26,970gns 2yo at ARMAY. 4 wins at 2 and 3, Dee S G3.

2009: (c Librettist) 2010: (f Traditionally)

Peinture Bleue IVORY COAST b 2001 The Minstrel Land of Ivory Ivory Wand

Literat Surama Aggressor Raven Locks Sharpen Up Miss Manon Dschingis Khan Liberty Northern Dancer Special Alydar Petroleuse Northern Dancer Fleur Sir Ivor Natashka

51 DEE S G3 CHESTER. May 6. 3yo. 10f 75yds.

1. GLEN’S DIAMOND (GB) 8-12 £28,385 b g by Intikhab - Posta Vecchia (Rainbow Quest) O-S & G Clayton B-Doverlane Finance Ltd TR-Richard Fahey 2. Maqaraat (IRE) 8-12 £10,760 gr c by Dalakhani - Raghida (Nordico) O-Hamdan Al Maktoum B-James F Hanly TR-BW Hills 3. Tinkertown (IRE) 8-12 £5,385 gr c by Verglas - Kelly Nicole (Rainbow Quest) O-Mrs Fitri Hay B-Corrin Stud TR-PFI Cole Margins 2.25, nose. Time 2:11.24 (slow 2.24).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-3

Starts 5

Wins 4

Places 1

Earned £55,791

Sire: INTIKHAB. Sire of 20 Stakes winners. In 2011 - GLEN’S DIAMOND Rainbow Quest G3.

1st Dam: Posta Vecchia by Rainbow Quest. ran once at 2. Dam of 3 winners: 2000: TOP TENOR (g Sadler’s Wells) 2 wins.

2001: Pergolacha (f Sadler’s Wells). died at 2 years.

2002: Opportunity (f Sadler’s Wells) unraced.

2003: Saturnia (f Grand Lodge). Broodmare.

2004: MESHUGAH (c Grand Lodge) 5 wins 2 to 5.

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52 ORMONDE S G3

Urban Sea Allegretta

CHESTER. May 6. 4yo+. 13f 89yds.

1. ST NICHOLAS ABBEY (IRE) 4 9-0 £36,901 b c by Montjeu - Leaping Water (Sure Blade) O-D Smith, Mrs J Magnier, M Tabor B-Barton Bloodstock, Villiers Syndicate TR-AP O’Brien 2. Allied Powers (IRE) 6 9-0 £13,988 b h by Invincible Spirit - Always Friendly (High Line) O-David Fish, Edward Ware B-Saad Bin Mishrif TR-MLW Bell 3. Harris Tweed (GB) 4 9-0 £7,001 b g by Hernando - Frog (Akarad) O-B Haggas B-JB Haggas TR-WJ Haggas Margins 9, 1.5. Time 2:52.27 (slow 1.77).

Going Good to firm. See race 99

53 PRIX CLEOPATRE G3 SAINT-CLOUD. May 7. 3yof. 2100m.

1. GALIKOVA (FR) 8-9 £34,483 b f by Galileo - Born Gold (Blushing Groom) O/B-Wertheimer et Frere TR-F Head 2. Adventure Seeker (FR) 8-9 £13,793 ch f by Bering - American Adventure (Miswaki) O-Ecurie Wildenstein B-Dayton Investments Ltd TR-A de Royer-Dupre 3. Wavering (IRE) 8-9 £10,345 b f by Refuse To Bend - Summertime Legacy (Darshaan) O-Godolphin SNC B-Darley TR-A Fabre Margins 3, 2. Time 2:08.00. Going Good to soft.

Age 2-3

Starts 4

Wins 3

Places 0

Earned £67,350

Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 89 Stakes winners. In 2011 FRANKEL Danehill G1, IGUGU Intikhab G1, JOHANN ZOFFANY Royal Academy G2, GALIKOVA Blushing Groom G3, GOLDEN LILAC Danehill G3, TREASURE BEACH Mark of Esteem G3.

1st Dam: BORN GOLD by Blushing Groom. Winner at 4 in France. Own sister to GOLD SPLASH. Dam of 11 winners: 1996: GLAMADOUR (f Sanglamore) Winner at 3.

1997: GOLD ROUND (f Caerleon) 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix Cleopatre G3. Dam of GOLDWAKI (Prix du Lys G3), SPECTACULAIRE (Prix Right Royal LR).

1998: Born Something (f Caerleon) 4 wins at 2, 4 and 5 in France, USA, 2nd West Virginia Senate President’s Cup S LR, 3rd Prix de la Grotte G3. Broodmare.

1999: DEMONIOUS (g Dr Devious) 7 wins at 4 to 8.

2000: SUPERFONIC (f Zafonic) Winner at 3.

Red God Blushing Groom Runaway Bride BORN GOLD ch 91 Lyphard Riviere d’Or Gold River

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Lombard Anatevka Nasrullah Spring Run Wild Risk Aimee Northern Dancer Goofed Riverman Glaneuse

54 DERBY TRIAL S G3 LINGFIELD PARK. May 7. 3yoc&g. 11f 106yds.

1. DORDOGNE (IRE) 8-12 £34,062 bbr c by Singspiel - Riberac (Efisio) O-Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Al Maktoum B-Mr & Mrs G Middlebrook TR-M Johnston 2. Hurricane Higgins (IRE) 8-12 £12,912 br c by Hurricane Run - Mare Aux Fees (Kenmare) O-AD Spence B-Paul Nataf TR-M Johnston 3. Measuring Time (GB) 8-12 £6,462 b c by Dubai Destination - Inchberry (Barathea) O/B-Woodcote Stud Ltd TR-R Hannon Margins 0.5, 6. Time 2:29.50 (slow 2.50).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-3

Starts 5

Wins 3

Places 1

Earned £56,932

Sire: SINGSPIEL. Sire of 82 SWs. In 2011 - CIMA DE PLUIE Cozzene G3, DORDOGNE Efisio G3.

1st Dam: RIBERAC by Efisio. 10 wins, Rosemary Rated H LR, Ben Marshall S LR, Valiant S LR, 3rd Sun Chariot S G2. Dam of 4 winners: 2003: EMILION (f Fantastic Light) Winner at 3.

2004: Montrachet (f Singspiel) 5 wins, 3rd Weidenpescher Stutenpreis LR. 2005: Elysee (f Fantastic Light) unraced. Broodmare.

2006: COTILLION (g Sadler’s Wells) Winner at 4.

2007: Epernay (f Tiger Hill) ran a few times.

2008: DORDOGNE (c Singspiel) Sold 27,000gns yearling at TAOC2. 3 wins at 2 and 3, Derby Trial S G3, Feilden S LR. 2009: (c Teofilo) 2nd Dam: CIBOURE by Norwick. 3 wins at 2 and 3.

Dam of RIBERAC (f Efisio, see above) Broodmare Sire: EFISIO. Sire of the dams of 22 Stakes winners. In 2011 - AL REP Trade Fair G3, DORDOGNE Singspiel G3, RIMTH Oasis Dream G3.

Singspiel/Efisio cross has produced: SINGHALESE G1, DORDOGNE G3, Kid Edward G2.

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DATA BOOK STAKES RESULTS

European Pattern DORDOGNE b/br c 2008

Margins 6, 0.75. Time 2:28.10. Going Good.

Sadler’s Wells In The Wings High Hawk SINGSPIEL b 92 Halo Glorious Song Ballade Formidable Efisio Eldoret RIBERAC b 96 Norwick Ciboure Brandon Creek

Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Shirley Heights Sunbittern Hail To Reason Cosmah Herbager Miss Swapsco Forli Native Partner High Top Bamburi Far North Shay Sheery Be My Guest La Creperie

55 CHARTWELL S G3 LINGFIELD PARK. May 7. 3yo+f&m. 7f.

1. PERFECT TRIBUTE (GB) 3 8-5 £28,385 b f by Dubawi - Perfect Spirit (Invincible Spirit) O-Mildmay Racing, DH Caslon B-Mildmay Bloodstock TR-CG Cox 2. Flambeau (GB) 4 9-3 £10,760 b f by Oasis Dream - Flavian (Catrail) O-Major MG Wyatt B-Dunchurch Lodge Stud TR-H Candy 3. Pyrrha (GB) 5 9-3 £5,385 b m by Pyrus - Demeter (Diesis) O-Lady Juliet Tadgell B-Hong Kong Breeders Club TR-CF Wall Margins 1.75, 1.75. Time 1:20.05 (fast 0.95).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-3

Starts 6

Wins 3

Places 1

Earned £54,451

Sire: DUBAWI. Sire of 27 Stakes winners. In 2011 MONTEROSSO Barathea G2, DUBAWI HEIGHTS Suave Dancer G3, PERFECT TRIBUTE Invincible Spirit G3, DUBAWI GOLD Green Desert LR, LUCK OR DESIGN Green Desert LR, NOVA STEP Nureyev LR, SURREY STAR Fantastic Light LR. 1st Dam: Perfect Spirit by Invincible Spirit. unraced.

Dam of 1 winner: 2008: PERFECT TRIBUTE (f Dubawi) 3 wins at 2 and 3, Totesport Chartwell S G3, Cleanevent Pavilion S LR, 3rd Princess Margaret Abu Dhabi S G3.

2009: Perfect Delight (f Dubai Destination) unraced.

2010: Perfect Legacy (c Kyllachy) 2nd Dam: Ballet Society by Sadler’s Wells. ran once at 3. Own sister to SYNERGETIC. Dam of SWIFT TANGO (g Desert Prince: Blue Square Chester Rated S LR), FIRST ROW (g Daylami: 3rd MBNA Europe Bank Chester Vase G3).

Broodmare Sire: INVINCIBLE SPIRIT. Sire of the dams of 1 Stakes winners. In 2011 - PERFECT TRIBUTE Dubawi G3.

PERFECT TRIBUTE b f 2008 Mr Prospector Con Game Dubai Millennium Shareef Dancer Colorado Dancer Fall Aspen DUBAWI b 2002 Shirley Heights Deploy Slightly Dangerous Zomaradah Dancing Brave Jawaher High Tern Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier Invincible Spirit Kris Rafha Eljazzi PERFECT SPIRIT b 2004 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge Ballet Society Raise A Cup Gwydion Papamiento Seeking The Gold

56 PREMIO CARLO D’ALESSIO G3

Age 3-5

Starts 14

Wins 7

Places 2

Sire: STORMING HOME. Sire of 6 Stakes winners.

In 2011 - JAKKALBERRY Barathea G3.

1st Dam: CLABA DI SAN JORE by Barathea. Winner at 3 in Italy. Dam of 5 winners: 2004: AWELMARDUK (c Almutawakel) 5 wins, Derby Italiano G1.

2005: BOIS JOLI (f Orpen) 2 wins. Broodmare.

2006: JAKKALBERRY (c Storming Home) 7 wins, Gran Premio di Milano G1, Premio Ambrosiano G3, Premio Carlo d’Alessio G3, 3rd Derby Italiano G2.

2007: KIDNAPPING (c Intikhab) 4 wins, Premio Emanuele Filiberto LR, Premio Merano LR, Gran Premio d’Italia LR, 3rd Qatar Prix Niel G2.

2008: CRACKERJACK KING (c Shamardal) 3 wins at 2 and 3 in Italy, Derby Italiano G2.

2009: (f Dalakhani) 2010: (f Cape Cross) 2nd Dam: Claw by Law Society. 7 wins at 2 to 4 in Italy, 2nd Premio Giovanni Falck LR, Premio delle Aste LR. Dam of CLASEM DI SAN JORE (c Second Empire: Premio Merano LR).

Broodmare Sire: BARATHEA. Sire of the dams of 42 Stakes winners. In 2011 - CRACKERJACK KING Shamardal G2, MONTEROSSO Dubawi G2, EXPANSION Maria’s Mon G3, JAKKALBERRY Storming Home G3, KITTENS Redoute’s Choice G3, SAINT ENCOSTA Encosta de Lago G3.

JAKKALBERRY b h 2006 Mr Prospector Machiavellian Coup de Folie STORMING HOME b 98 Shareef Dancer Try To Catch Me It’s In The Air Sadler’s Wells Barathea Brocade CLABA DI SAN JORE gr 99 Law Society Claw Crodas

SAINT-CLOUD. May 7. 3yoc&f. 2000m.

1. POUR MOI (IRE) 9-2 £63,879 b c by Montjeu - Gwynn (Darshaan) O-Mrs J Magnier, D Smith, M Tabor B-Lynch Bages Ltd TR-A Fabre 2. Bubble Chic (FR) 9-2 £24,655 b c by Chichicastenango - Bubble Back (Grand Lodge) O-F Tabone, G Botti B-Z Hakam TR-G Botti 3. Vadamar (FR) 9-2 £11,767 b c by Dalakhani - Vadawina (Unfuwain) O-HH The Aga Khan B-HH The Aga Khan’s Studs SC TR-A de Royer-Dupre Margins 1.5, 1. Time 2:03.02. Going Good to soft.

See race 100 for Pour Moi’s pedigree

59 PREMIO TUDINI G3 ROME. May 7. 3yo+. 1200m.

1. SPIRIT QUARTZ (IRE) 3 8-6 £34,482 b c by Invincible Spirit - Crystal Gaze (Rainbow Quest) O-Devis Grilli B-Ballygallon Stud TR-Devis Grilli 2. Dagda Mor (ITY) 4 9-1 £15,172 b c by Martino Alonso - Bagnolese (Cape Cross) O-Effevi B-Razza Del Velino TR-S Botti 3. Charming Woman (IRE) 4 8-11 £8,275 b f by Invincible Spirit - Sospel (Kendor) O-Scuderia Incolinx B-Societa Allevamento Razza Latina SRL TR-V Caruso Margins Head, 2. Time 1:08.10. Going Good.

Age 3

Starts 4

Wins 3

Places 0

Earned £18,533

Sire: INVINCIBLE SPIRIT. Sire of 44 Stakes winners. In 2011 - MOONLIGHT CLOUD Spectrum G3, SPIRIT QUARTZ Rainbow Quest G3.

1st Dam: Crystal Gaze by Rainbow Quest. unraced.

Dam of 3 winners: 2006: MADISON PARK (c Montjeu) Winner in Spain.

2007: CONTRARY (f Mark of Esteem) Winner at 2 in France.

2008: SPIRIT QUARTZ (c Invincible Spirit) Sold 105,000gns 2yo, 5,238gns 2yo at DNNOV. 3 wins at 3 in Italy, Premio Tudini G3.

2009: (c Dylan Thomas)

Age 2-3

Starts 4

Wins 3

Places 1

1st Dam: Dibenoise by Kendor. unraced. Dam of 6 winners: 1998: Dawn Dane (f Danehill). Dam of Dawn Dew (3rd Walther J Jacobs Stutenpreis G3).

2000: TERENEZ (g Desert King) 4 wins over jumps in France.

2001: Pavlovna (f Singspiel) ran on the flat in France.

Broodmare.

2002: CORRE CAMINOS (g Montjeu) 3 wins at 3 and 4 in France, Prix Ganay-Grand Prix Air Mauritius G1.

2003: RACINGER (c Spectrum) 5 wins at 2 to 6 in France, Prix du Muguet G2.

2005: ECUME DU JOUR (f Hawk Wing) Winner at 3 in France. Broodmare.

2006: GLAMSTAR (c Numerous) 3 wins 2-3 in France.

2008: RECITAL (c Montjeu) Sold 693,481gns yearling at ARAUG. 3 wins, Criterium de SaintCloud G1, Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial S G2, 3rd Ballysax S G3.

2010: (f Montjeu) 2nd Dam: BOREALE by Bellypha. 4 wins at 2 and 3 in France Prix des Reservoirs G3, 2nd Poule d’Essai des Pouliches G1. Dam of RIVER OF LIGHT (c Irish River: Turf Paradise Breeders Cup H LR, 2nd Prix Messidor G3, Prix Quincey G3), Si Je N’Avais Plus (f Kaldoun: 2nd Prix Finlande LR)..

Broodmare Sire: KENDOR. Sire of the dams of 39 Stakes winners. In 2011 - RECITAL Montjeu G2, NATIVE KHAN Azamour G3.

The Montjeu/Kendor cross has produced: CORRE CAMINOS G1, RECITAL G1.

RECITAL b c 2008 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge

2nd Dam: Jumilla by El Gran Senor. 1 win at 2, 2nd John Musker S LR. Own sister to WINTER QUARTERS. Dam of JONQUIL (c Machiavellian: Jebel Ali Mile LR). Grandam of AMADEUS.

Age 2-3

Starts 4

Wins 4

Places 0

Earned £356,442

Sire: SHAMARDAL. Sire of 28 Stakes winners. In 2011 - CRACKERJACK KING Barathea G2, DUNBOYNE EXPRESS Polish Precedent G3.

CRACKERJACK KING gr c 2008 Storm Cat Mariah’s Storm SHAMARDAL b 2002 Machiavellian Helsinki Helen Street Sadler’s Wells Barathea Brocade CLABA DI SAN JORE gr 99 Law Society Claw Crodas

Storm Bird Terlingua Rahy Immense Mr Prospector Coup de Folie Troy Waterway Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Habitat Canton Silk Alleged Bold Bikini Shirley Heights Croda Alta

Broodmare Sire: RAINBOW QUEST. Sire of the dams of 125 SWs. In 2011 - GLEN’S DIAMOND Intikhab G3, SPIRIT QUARTZ Invincible Spirit G3.

MONTJEU b 96 Top Ville Floripedes Toute Cy

Kendor Belle Mecene DIBENOISE gr 93 Bellypha Boreale

The Invincible Spirit/Rainbow Quest cross has produced: SPIRIT QUARTZ G3, Zabarajad LR.

Princesse Tora

SPIRIT QUARTZ b c 2008 Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Sir Ivor Foreign Courier Courtly Dee INVINCIBLE SPIRIT b 97 Sharpen Up Kris Doubly Sure Rafha Artaius Eljazzi Border Bounty Red God Blushing Groom Runaway Bride Rainbow Quest Herbager I Will Follow Where You Lead CRYSTAL GAZE ch 2001 Northern Dancer El Gran Senor Sex Appeal Jumilla Mill Reef Refill Regal Twin

Earned £189,746

Sire: MONTJEU. Sire of 98 Stakes winners. In 2011 POUR MOI Darshaan G2, RECITAL Kendor G2, ASKAR TAU Acatenango G3, GOLDEN PARACHUTE Volksraad G3, ST NICHOLAS ABBEY Sure Blade G3.

Kenmare

ROME. May 7. 3yoc&f. 2200m.

1. CRACKERJACK KING (IRE) 9-2 £318,965 gr c by Shamardal - Claba di San Jore (Barathea) O-Effevi B-Azienda Agricola Al Deni TR-S Botti 2. Cazals (IRE) 9-2 £140,344 gr c by Aussie Rules - Secrete Marina (Mujadil) O-Allevamento dei Sette B-Giovanni Faldutto TR-B Grizzetti 3. Danedream (GER) 9-2 £76,551 b f by Lomitas - Danedrop (Danehill) O-Gestut Burg Eberstein B-Gestut Brummerhof TR-P Schiergen Margins 2, 2.5. Time 2:15.80. Going Good.

ROME. May 7. 4yo+. 2400m.

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Raise A Native Gold Digger Halo Raise The Standard Northern Dancer Sweet Alliance Mr Prospector A Wind Is Rising Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Habitat Canton Silk Alleged Bold Bikini Shirley Heights Croda Alta

57 DERBY ITALIANO G2

Giant’s Causeway

1. JAKKALBERRY (IRE) 5 8-9 £34,482 b h by Storming Home - Claba di San Jore (Barathea) O-Effevi B-Azienda Agricola Allev Deni TR-E Botti 2. Lord Chaparral (IRE) 4 8-9 £15,172 b c by High Chaparral - Freccia d’Oro (Acatenango) O-Scuderia Framanti B-Faumar TR-R Brogi 3. Frankenstein (GB) 4 8-11 £8,275 b c by Dubawi - Lifting (Nordance) O-Freedom Holding B-Azienda Agricola Rosati Colarieti TR-B Grizzetti

Earned £278,055

Margins 1.5, 1.5. Time 2:04.09 (slow 1.09).

Going Good.

58 PRIX GREFFULHE G2

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special High Top Sega Ville Tennyson Adele Toumignon Kalamoun Belle of Ireland Gay Mecene Djaka Belle Lyphard Belga Prince Taj Torbella III

61 DERRINSTOWN STUD 1000 GUINEAS TRIAL G3

Danzig

Green Desert

60 DERRINSTOWN STUD DERBY TRIAL S G2

LEOPARDSTOWN. May 8. 3yof. 8f.

1. BALLYBACKA LADY (IRE) 9-0 £35,022 b f by Hurricane Run - Southern Queen (Anabaa) O-Mrs P Corcoran B-Sean O’Keeffe TR-PA Fahy 2. Sapphire Pendant (IRE) 9-0 £10,237 b f by Danehill Dancer - Butterfly Blue (Sadler’s Wells) O-Michael Tabor B-Barronstown Stud TR-David Wachman 3. Dance Secretary (IRE) 9-0 £4,849 ch f by Danehill Dancer - Ball Chairman (Secretariat) O/B-Charles E Fipke TR-John M Oxx Margins 1.75, 0.75. Time 1:39.76 (slow 1.26).

Going Good.

LEOPARDSTOWN. May 8. 3yo. 10f.

1. RECITAL (FR) 9-4 £53,233 b c by Montjeu - Dibenoise (Kendor) O-Mrs John Magnier B-Mme Renee Geffroy, Caragh Bloodstock TR-AP O’Brien 2. Memphis Tennessee (IRE) 9-1 £15,560 b c by Hurricane Run - Hit The Sky (Cozzene) O-Mrs J Magnier, M Tabor, D Smith B-Kilfrush Stud TR-AP O’Brien 3. Regent Street (IRE) 9-1 £7,371 ch c by Galileo - Hanami (Hernando) O-Michael Tabor B-GB Bldstk Ltd TR-AP O’Brien

Age 2-3

Starts 7

Wins 2

Places 2

Earned £49,293

Sire: HURRICANE RUN. Sire of 2 Stakes winners. In 2011 - BALLYBACKA LADY Anabaa G3, DON’T HURRY ME Bering G3.

1st Dam: Southern Queen by Anabaa. 2 wins at 2 in France, 2nd Prix Zeddaan LR. Dam of 2 winners: 2006: SCOTTISH AFFAIR (g Selkirk) Winner at 3.

2007: Louisiana Gift (g Cadeaux Genereux)

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Caulfield on Golden Lilac: “Her victory in the Pouliches provided the second of three 2011 Guineas victories for three-year-olds sired by Galileo from Danehill mares” (page 81)

2008: BALLYBACKA LADY (f Hurricane Run) Sold 26,610gns foal at GONO1, 16,642gns yearling at GOOY1. 2 wins at 2 and 3, Derrinstown Stud 1000 Guineas Trial G3.

2009: Opera Flute (c Amadeus Wolf) unraced to date.

2010: (f Whipper) 2nd Dam: Due South by Darshaan. 1 win at 2, 3rd Cheshire Oaks LR, Stardom S LR. Dam of Southern Queen (f Anabaa, see above).

Broodmare Sire: ANABAA. Sire of the dams of 18 Stakes winners. In 2011 - BUFFERING Mossman G2, BALLYBACKA LADY Hurricane Run G3, BOOKLET Tale of The Cat LR.

Sadler’s Wells Montjeu Floripedes HURRICANE RUN b 02 Surumu Hold On Hone Danzig Anabaa Balbonella SOUTHERN QUEEN b 01 Darshaan Due South Island Wedding

Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Top Ville Toute Cy Literat Surama Sharpen Up Lucy Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Gay Mecene Bamieres Shirley Heights Delsy Blushing Groom South Sea Dancer

62 AMETHYST S G3 LEOPARDSTOWN. May 8. 3yo+. 8f.

1. FAMOUS NAME (GB) 6 9-12 £32,220 b h by Dansili - Fame At Last (Quest For Fame) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-DK Weld 2. Across The Rhine (USA) 5 9-9 £9,418 ch g by Cuvee - Seductive Smile (Silver Hawk) O-Thistle Bloodstock Ltd B-Dr & Mrs JK Griggs TR-Tracey Collins 3. Fighting Brave (USA) 4 9-9 £4,461 bbr c by Storm Cat - Get Lucky (Mr Prospector) O-K MacLennan B-BP Walden, PJ Steinberg, Racehorse Management LLC TR-David Wachman Margins 7, neck. Time 1:38.92 (slow 0.42).

Going Good.

Age 2-6

Starts 23

Wins 12

COLOGNE. May 8. 4yo+. 2400m.

1. SCALO (GB) 4 9-6 £34,483 b c by Lando - Sky Dancing (Exit To Nowhere) O-Gestut Ittlingen B-Gestut Ittlingen TR-A Wohler 2. Sir Lando (GB) 4 9-0 £13,362 b c by Lando - Burqa (Nashwan) O-Stall Perlen B-Stowell Hill Ltd TR-Wido Neuroth 3. Val Mondo (GER) 4 9-0 £5,603 b c by Lando - Valleria (Big Shuffle) O-Stall Dipoli B-Gestut Auenquelle TR-U Ostmann Margins 0.75, 2. Time 2:29.22. Going Good.

Age 2-4

BALLYBACKA LADY b f 2008

Places 8

Starts 8

Wins 6

Places 0

Danehill Razyana DANSILI b 96 Kahyasi Hasili Kerali Rainbow Quest Quest For Fame Aryenne FAME AT LAST b 97 Majestic Light Ranales Katsura

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Ile de Bourbon Kadissya High Line Sookera Blushing Groom I Will Follow Green Dancer Americaine Majestic Prince Irradiate Northern Dancer Noble Fancy

Northern Dancer Danzig Pas de Nom Seattle Slew Country Belle Balbonella Green Dancer

2nd Dam: Saquiace by Sagace. 4 wins at 3 and 4 in France, 2nd Grand Prix de Villeurbanne LR. Dam of SKY DANCING, Starla (f Lando: 3rd Bremer Stuten Meile LR). Grandam of WHAT’S UP PUSSYCAT. Broodmare Sire: EXIT TO NOWHERE. Sire of the dams of 25 SWs. In 2011 - SCALO Lando G2.

Surumu Acatenango Aggravate Sharpman Laurea Licata Irish River Coup de Folie SKY DANCING b 97 Sagace Saquiace Laquiola

Literat Surama Aggressor Raven Locks Sharpen Up Miss Manon Dschingis Khan Liberty Riverman Irish Star Halo Raise The Standard Luthier Seneca Lyphard Kalila

64 PRIX DE GUICHE G3 CHANTILLY. May 9. 3yoc. 1800m.

1. ABSOLUTLY YES (FR) 9-2 £34,483 b c by Country Reel - Semenova (Green Tune) O-Paul Sebag B-Mme C Niederhauser Dietric TR-Y-M Porzier 2. Nobel Winner (FR) 9-2 £13,793 b c by Grand Slam - Banyu Dewi (Poliglote) O-Salah Mosbah El Mabruk B-Snig Elevage TR-J-M Beguigne 3. Ch’tio Bilote (FR) 9-2 £10,345 b c by Ultimately Lucky - Neicha (Neverneyev) O-Valere Van Elven B-G Lanusse TR-J-P Gallorini Margins 1, 0.75. Time 1:49.10. Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 5

Green Tune Soundings SEMENOVA b 99 Baillamont Yale Yeovil

Wins 2

Places 2

Earned £55,744

YORK. May 11. 3yof. 10f 88yds.

1. JOVIALITY (GB) 8-12 £36,901 b f by Cape Cross - Night Frolic (Night Shift) O-HRH Princess Haya Of Jordan B-Highclere Stud, Floors Farming TR-JHM Gosden 2. Barefoot Lady (IRE) 8-12 £13,988 b f by Footstepsinthesand - Lady Angharad (Tenby) O-Mrs H Steel B-Arbawny Ventures 2000 TR-Richard Fahey 3. Whey Sauce (JPN) 8-12 £7,001 gr f by Kurofune - Histoire (Sunday Silence) O-A Black B-Shadai Inc TR-PW Chapple-Hyam Margins Head, 9. Time 2:10.60 (slow 3.30).

Going Good.

Starts 3

1st Dam: Semenova by Green Tune. 2 wins at 4 in France, 3rd Prix de Thiberville LR. Dam of 3 winners: 2005: AORNOS (c Dashing Blade) 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix Delahante LR. 2006: OBATALA (c Numerous) 4 wins at 3 and 4 in France, Spain.

2007: Slavenska (f Vettori)

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Wins 1

Places 2

Earned £39,673

Sire: CAPE CROSS. Sire of 67 Stakes winners. In 2011 - KHAWLAH Selkirk G2, JOVIALITY Night Shift G3, BEZIQUE Peintre Celebre LR. 1st Dam: NIGHT FROLIC by Night Shift. Winner at 3. Dam of 3 winners: 2006: BURNS NIGHT (g Selkirk) 2 wins at 3 and 4.

2007: CHICITA BANANA (f Danehill Dancer) 1 win at 2.

2008: JOVIALITY (f Cape Cross) Sold 200,000gns yearling. 1 win at 3, Musidora S G3.

2009: Bonfire (c Manduro) unraced to date.

2010: (c Duke of Marmalade) 2nd Dam: MISS D’OUILLY by Bikala. 2 wins, Prix Melisande LR. Dam of MISS CAERLEONA (f Caerleon: Cardinal S G3), Mister Shoot (c Shining Steel: 3rd Grand Prix du Nord LR), Mr Academy (c Royal Academy: 2nd Prix du Carrousel LR), Demisemiquaver (f Singspiel: 2nd Possibly Perfect S), Tincture (f Dr Fong: 3rd Cheshire Oaks LR). Grandam of MISS CORONADO, KAREN’S CAPER, MOONLIGHT RED. Broodmare Sire: NIGHT SHIFT. Sire of the dams of 78 Stakes winners. In 2011 - PARABLES Lonhro G2, SKYSURFERS E Dubai G2, BEADED Lonhro G3, JOVIALITY Cape Cross G3.

The Cape Cross/Night Shift cross has produced: JOVIALITY G3, Artist’s Muse LR. JOVIALITY b f 2008 Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Sir Ivor Foreign Courier Courtly Dee Lorenzaccio Ahonoora Helen Nichols Balidar Balidaress Innocence Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Chop Chop Ciboulette Windy Answer Kalamoun Bikala Irish Bird Satingo Miss Satin Miss Skyscraper Danzig Green Desert CAPE CROSS b/br 94

Sire: COUNTRY REEL. Sire of 3 Stakes winners. In 2011 - ABSOLUTLY YES Green Tune G3.

Nearctic Natalma Admiral’s Voyage Petitioner Bold Reasoning My Charmer Gay Mecene Bamieres Nijinsky Green Valley Mr Prospector Ocean’s Answer Blushing Groom Lodeve Sir Gaylord Sunda

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Age 2-3

SCALO b c 2007

Exit To Nowhere

Danzig

ABSOLUTLY YES b c 2008

Earned £250,122

1st Dam: SKY DANCING by Exit To Nowhere. 5 wins at 2 and 4 in Germany, Italy, Premio Buontalenta LR. Dam of 5 winners: 2003: SEXY LADY (f Danehill Dancer) 4 wins, Germany, Prix Chloe G3. Broodmare.

2004: Sky Express (c Lando) unraced.

2005: Scolari (c Monsun) 5 wins, 2nd Grosser Preis der Dortmunder Wirtschaft G3, Preis der Sparkassen Finanzgruppe G3.

2006: SKYLOR (c Sakhee) 3 wins at 4 in Germany.

2007: SCALO (c Lando) Champion 3yr old colt in Germany in 2010. 6 wins, Preis von Europa G1, Prix Guillaume d’Ornano G2, Gerling Preis G2, Fruhjahrspreis des Bankhauses Metzler G3, Bavarian Classic G3.

2008: STROMBERG (c Medicean) Winner at 3.

2009: (f Lomitas) 2010: (c Dalakhani)

Sire: DANSILI. Sire of 49 Stakes winners. In 2011 AVIATE Irish River G2, DANDINO Generous G2, EPIC LOVE Diesis G3, FAMOUS NAME Quest For Fame G3, SURFRIDER Rahy G3.

FAMOUS NAME b h 2005

Broodmare Sire: GREEN TUNE. Sire of the dams of 12 Stakes winners. In 2011 - ABSOLUTLY YES Country Reel G3, BAAN RIM PA Dyhim Diamond LR, LAMBRO Milan LR.

COUNTRY REEL b/br 00

LANDO b 90

Broodmare Sire: QUEST FOR FAME. Sire of the dams of 28 SWs. In 2011 - FAMOUS NAME Dansili G3, TRIPLE ELEGANCE Mossman G3.

2nd Dam: YALE by Baillamont. 1 win at 3 in France.

Dam of Semenova (f Green Tune, see above)

Sire: LANDO. Sire of 26 Stakes winners. In 2011 SCALO Exit To Nowhere G2, IVORY LAND Peintre Celebre G3.

Earned £823,073

1st Dam: FAME AT LAST by Quest For Fame. Winner at 2. Dam of 6 winners: 2002: ANCHOR DATE (c Zafonic) Winner at 3.

2003: FINAL ESTEEM (g Lomitas) Winner at 3.

2004: EVERLASTING FAME (c Zamindar) Winner at 3 in France.

2005: FAMOUS NAME (c Dansili) 12 wins, Jockey Meld S G3, Desmond S G3, Leopardstown 2000 Guineas Trial G3, Keeneland International S G3, Amethyst S G3 (twice), 2nd Tattersalls Gold Cup G1, Prix du Jockey Club G1, Prix du Moulin G1, Killavullan S G3, Mooresbridge S G3, Kilternan S G3, 3rd Prix Dollar G2, Prix Daniel Wildenstein G2.

2007: PHOTO OPPORTUNITY (c Zamindar) 1 win at 3.

2008: ZAMINAST (f Zamindar) Winner at 2.

2010: (f Dansili)

2008: ABSOLUTLY YES (c Country Reel) Sold 26,814gns yearling at AROCT. 2 wins at 3 in France, Prix de Guiche G3.

2010: (c Desert Style)

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Park Appeal

Night Shift NIGHT FROLIC b 2001 Miss d’Ouilly

66 BLUE WIND S G3 NAAS. May 11. 3yo+f&m. 10f.

1. BANIMPIRE (IRE) 3 8-12 £43,427 br f by Holy Roman Emperor - My Renee (Kris S) O-Mrs JS Bolger B-Kilcarn Stud TR-JS Bolger 2. Spin (IRE) 3 8-9 £12,694 ch f by Galileo - Pieds de Plume (Seattle Slew) O-Mrs John Magnier B-Smythson TR-AP O’Brien 3. Mid Mon Lady (IRE) 6 9-9 £6,013 br m by Danetime - Shining Desert (Green Desert) O-Mad In The Head Syndicate B-Patrick Cassidy TR-H Rogers Margins 0.75, 0.75.. Going Good to firm.

Age 2-3

Starts 8

Wins 4

Places 2

Earned £129,362

Sire: HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR. Sire of 4 Stakes winners.

In 2011 - BANIMPIRE Kris S G3, SANDSLASH Lycius G3, IMPERIAL ROME Revoque LR. 1st Dam: MY RENEE by Kris S. 3 wins at 3 and 4, EBF Harvest S LR, Irish Stallion Farms EBF Give Thanks S LR, 2nd Princess Royal John Doyle S G3.

Dam of 2 winners: 2006: Aunt Dottie (f Rahy) unraced. Broodmare.

2007: DREAM ON BUDDY (f Oasis Dream) 2 wins at 3.

2008: BANIMPIRE (f Holy Roman Emperor) Sold 48,080gns yearling at GOOY1. 4 wins at 2 and 3, P W McGrath Memorial Ballysax S G3, Irish StallionFarms EBF Blue Wind S G3, ISF Victor McCalmont EBF S LR, 3rd Lodge Park EBF Park Express S G3.

2010: (c Holy Roman Emperor) 2nd Dam: Mayenne by Nureyev. unraced. Dam of MY RENEE (f Kris S, see above) Broodmare Sire: KRIS S. Sire of the dams of 65 Stakes winners. In 2011 - BANIMPIRE Holy Roman Emperor G3, MANICERO Mass Media LR, ROMACACA Running Stag LR, TATO ZETA Thunder Gulch LR, TIDARA ANGEL Oratorio LR. BANIMPIRE br f 2008 Danzig Danehill Razyana HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR b 04 Secretariat L’On Vite Fanfreluche Roberto Kris S Sharp Queen MY RENEE b/br 00 Nureyev Mayenne Detroit

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Bold Ruler Somethingroyal Northern Dancer Ciboulette Hail To Reason Bramalea Princequillo Bridgework Northern Dancer Special Riverman Derna II

67 DUKE OF YORK S G2 YORK. May 11. 3yo+. 6f.

1. DELEGATOR (GB) 5 9-7 £56,770 b h by Dansili - Indian Love Bird (Efisio) O-Godolphin B-Mrs P Good TR-Saeed bin Suroor 2. Regal Parade (GB) 7 9-7 £21,520 ch g by Pivotal - Model Queen (Kingmambo) O-Dab Hand Racing B-Highclere Stud, Harry Herbert TR-D Nicholls 3. Tiddliwinks (GB) 5 9-7 £10,770 b g by Piccolo - Card Games (First Trump) O-Guy Reed B-Guy Reed TR-KA Ryan Margins 0.5, 0.5. Time 1:10.18 (fast 0.32).

Going Good.

Age 2-5

Starts 13

Wins 4

Places 5

Earned £347,388

Sire: DANSILI. Sire of 49 SWs. In 2011 - AVIATE Irish River G2, DANDINO Generous G2, DELEGATOR Efisio G2, EPIC LOVE Diesis G3, FAMOUS NAME Quest For Fame G3, SURFRIDER Rahy G3.

1st Dam: Indian Love Bird by Efisio. unraced. Own sister to TOMBA. Dam of 1 winner: 2004: Love On The Rocks (c Hernando) 2005: Ecusson (f Singspiel) ran twice.

2006: DELEGATOR (c Dansili) 4 wins, Duke of York G2, Craven S G3, Dubai Duty Free Cup LR,

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DATA BOOK STAKES RESULTS

European Pattern 2nd St James’s Palace S G1, 2000 Guineas G1, 3rd Queen Elizabeth II S G1.

2007: Loveable (f Oasis Dream) unraced.

2008: (c Haafhd) 2010: (c Exceed And Excel)

MIDDAY b m 2006 Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier OASIS DREAM b 2000 Dancing Brave

2nd Dam: Indian Love Song by Be My Guest. Dam of TOMBA (c Efisio: Prix de la Foret G1), HOLDING COURT (c Hernando: Prix du Jockey Club G1).

Grandam of ORDNANCE ROW.

Hope Bahamian Mr Prospector Kingmambo

Broodmare Sire: EFISIO. Sire of the dams of 22 SWs. 2011 - DELEGATOR Dansili G2, AL REP Trade Fair G3, DORDOGNE Singspiel G3, RIMTH Oasis Dream G3.

Miesque MIDSUMMER ch 2000 Roberto Modena Mofida

The Dansili/Efisio cross has produced: DELEGATOR G1, ILLUSTRIOUS BLUE G2.

69 DANTE S G2

DELEGATOR b h 2006 Danzig Danehill Razyana DANSILI b 96 Kahyasi Hasili Kerali Formidable Efisio Eldoret INDIAN LOVE BIRD b 99 Be My Guest Indian Love Song Indian Bird

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Ile de Bourbon Kadissya High Line Sookera Forli Native Partner High Top Bamburi Northern Dancer What A Treat Relko Maina

68 MIDDLETON S G2 YORK. May 12. 4yo+f&m. 10f 88yds.

1. MIDDAY (GB) 5 9-3 £56,770 b m by Oasis Dream - Midsummer (Kingmambo) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-HRA Cecil 2. Sajjhaa (GB) 4 8-12 £21,520 b f by King’s Best - Anaamil (Darshaan) O-Godolphin B-Darley TR-Saeed bin Suroor 3. Timepiece (GB) 4 8-12 £10,770 b f by Zamindar - Clepsydra (Sadler’s Wells) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-HRA Cecil Margins 2, 4. Time 2:10.05 (slow 2.75).

Going Good.

Age 2-5

Starts 17

Wins 8

Places Earned 8 £1,827,354

Sire: OASIS DREAM. Sire of 40 Stakes winners. In 2011 - MIDDAY Kingmambo G2, RIMTH Efisio G3, ANNE OF KIEV Mark of Esteem LR, FLAMBEAU Catrail LR, PEACE OF OASIS Zafonic LR. 1st Dam: Midsummer by Kingmambo. Winner at 3, 2nd Bet Attheraces Oaks Trial LR. Dam of 1 winner: 2005: Spring Season (f Dansili) ran once. Broodmare.

2006: MIDDAY (f Oasis Dream) Champion older mare in England in 2010. 8 wins at 2 to 5, 2011 at home, France, USA, Blue Square Nassau S G1 (twice), Darley Yorkshire Oaks G1, Qatar Prix Vermeille G1, Emirates Airlines Breeders’ Cup F&M Turf G1, totesport.com Middleton S G2, totesportcasino.com Lingfield Oaks Trial LR, 2nd Investec Oaks S G1, Emirates Airlines Breeders’ Cup F&M Turf G1, totesport.com Middleton S G2, 3rd Darley Irish Oaks G1, Qatar Petroleum Prix de l’Opera G1.

2008: Midsummer Sun (c Monsun) winner at 3.

2009: Morphius (f Oasis Dream) unraced to date.

2010: (f Pivotal) 2nd Dam: Modena by Roberto. unraced. Dam of ELMAAMUL (c Diesis: Coral Eclipse S G1, Phoenix Champion S G1, 2nd Juddmonte International S G1, 3rd Ever Ready Derby S G1), REAMS OF VERSE (f Nureyev: Fillies’ Mile S G1, Vodafone Oaks S G1), MANIFEST (c Rainbow Quest: Emirates Airline Yorkshire Cup G2), MODERN DAY (c Dayjur: King’s Cup H G3, 3rd Drill Hall S G2), MODERNISE (c Known Fact: Ascot H G3), HIGH WALDEN (f El Gran Senor: Matiara S LR, 2nd Santa Ana H G2), MODESTA (f Sadler’s Wells: Toteexacta Lady Godiva Fillies’ S LR), NOVELLARA (f Sadler’s Wells: Unicoin Homes Noel Murless S LR), Midsummer (f Kingmambo, see above). Grandam of CONFRONT, MANY VOLUMES, CHASING STARS, Eagle Poise, Risk Taker, Ithaca, NEARBY. Third dam of ZACINTO.

70 YORKSHIRE CUP G2 YORK. May 13. 4yo+. 14f.

1. DUNCAN (GB) 6 9-2 £79,478 b g by Dalakhani - Dolores (Danehill) O/B-Normandie Stud TR-JHM Gosden 2. Blue Bajan (IRE) 9 8-13 £30,128 b g by Montjeu - Gentle Thoughts (Darshaan) O/B-Dr John Hollowood TR-David O’Meara 3. Manighar (FR) 5 8-13 £15,078 gr g by Linamix - Mintly Fresh (Rubiano) O-OTI Racing, The Hon Earle Mack B-Haras De Son Altesse L’Aga Khan Scea TR-LM Cumani Margins 0.5, 0.5. Time 2:58.33 (slow 0.83).

Going Good to firm.

Age 3-6

Starts 16

Wins 5

Places 7

Earned £265,048

2007: CANFORD CLIFFS (c Tagula) Sold 29,600gns foal, 47,619gns yearling. 6 wins, Irish 2000 Guineas G1, Lockinge S G1, St James’s Palace S G1, Sussex S G1, Coventry S G2, 2nd Greenham S G3, 3rd 2000 Guineas G1, Prix Morny G1.

2009: Mayo Lad (c Holy Roman Emperor) unraced.

2010: (c Excellent Art) 2nd Dam: Drei by Lyphard. Dam of PINA COLADA (f Sabrehill: Chandler H, 2nd San Clemente H G2).

Broodmare Sire: MARJU. Sire of the dams of 17 Stakes winners. In 2011 - CANFORD CLIFFS Tagula G1, MARCELLINA Deep Impact G1.

CANFORD CLIFFS b c 2007 Stop The Music Taufan

YORK. May 12. 3yo. 10f 88yds.

Stolen Date

1. CARLTON HOUSE (USA) 9-0 £85,155 b c by Street Cry - Talented (Bustino) O-The Queen B-Darley TR-Sir Michael Stoute 2. Seville (GER) 9-0 £32,280 b c by Galileo - Silverskaya (Silver Hawk) O-M Tabor, D Smith, Mrs J Magnier B-Tattersalls Ltd TR-AP O’Brien 3. Pisco Sour (USA) 9-0 £16,155 bbr c by Lemon Drop Kid - Lynnwood Chase (Horse Chestnut) O-Michael Kerr-Dineen B-Hascombe Stud TR-H Morrison Margins 1.5, 2.5. Time 2:13.49 (slow 6.19).

Going Good.

1st Dam: DOLORES by Danehill. Winner at 3, Conqueror S LR, 2nd Sun Chariot S G2, 3rd Coronation S G1. Dam of 3 winners: 2004: SAMUEL (g Sakhee) 2 wins, Doncaster Cup G2.

2005: DUNCAN (g Dalakhani) Sold 100,000gns yearling. 5 wins, Yorkshire Cup G2, Prix Foy G2, Buckhounds S LR, 2nd Hardwicke S G2, Buckhounds S LR, 3rd Rose of Lancaster S G3.

2006: Howard (c Haafhd) 2007: Deirdre (f Dubawi) Winner at 2, 3rd Height of Fashion S LR.

Age 2-3

2nd Dam: AGNUS by In The Wings. 2 win in Belgium. Dam of DOLORES (f Danehill, see above).

Starts 3

Wins 2

Places 1

Earned £90,713

Sire: STREET CRY. Sire of 44 Stakes winners. In 2011 SHOCKING Danehill G1, CARLTON HOUSE Bustino G2, WHOBEGOTYOU Carnegie G2, HOLLYWOODBOULEVARD Filante G3, SPLASH POINT Danehill G3, RIVER’S LANE Made of Gold LR, SEA LORD Dream Well LR, STREET VALUE Marwina LR. 1st Dam: TALENTED by Bustino. 3 wins at 3 and 4 at home, UAE, Sun Chariot S G2. Dam of 5 winners: 1996: Genesis (f Rainbow Quest). Broodmare.

1997: Talena (f Zafonic). Broodmare.

1998: Talent Quest (f Rainbow Quest) unraced.

Broodmare.

1999: ZAEEMA (f Zafonic) Winner at 2. Dam of FLORISTRY (f Fasliyev: 3 wins at 2, Coral Trophy Doncaster S LR) 2000: SECRET PRIDE (f Green Desert) Winner at 2.

Broodmare.

2001: All Blue (g Green Desert) 2004: FRISTON FOREST (g Barathea) 7 wins at 2 to 5 in France, UAE, Derby du Midi-Barriere de Bordeaux LR, Derby du Languedoc LR, Prix Scaramouche LR, 3rd Prix La Force G3.

2005: FLAWED GENIUS (g Fasliyev) 3 wins at 2 and 4.

2007: Street Skill (g Street Cry) unraced.

2008: CARLTON HOUSE (c Street Cry) 2 wins at 2 and 3, Totesport Dante S G2.

2nd Dam: Triple Reef by Mill Reef. unraced. Dam of TALENTED (f Bustino, see above), Triple Joy (f Most Welcome: 2nd Abernant S LR), Reef Diver (g Pursuit of Love: 2nd Gallagher Group Churchill S LR).

Grandam of WAVY RUN, PRESTO SHINKO, THREE POINTS, TRINITY JOY, Asaawir, Triple Dash. Third dam of DOLORES, Ti Adora. Fourth dam of DUNCAN, SAMUEL, Deirdre.

Broodmare Sire: BUSTINO. Sire of the dams of 62 Stakes winners. In 2011 - CARLTON HOUSE Street Cry G2.

CARLTON HOUSE b c 2008 Mr Prospector Machiavellian Coup de Folie STREET CRY b/br 98 Troy Helen Street Waterway Busted Bustino Ship Yard TALENTED b 90

Broodmare Sire: KINGMAMBO. Sire of the dams of 42 Stakes winners. In 2011 - MIDDAY Oasis Dream G2, ELZAAM Redoute’s Choice LR.

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Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Sir Ivor Courtly Dee Lyphard Navajo Princess Mill Reef Sorbus Raise A Native Gold Digger Nureyev Pasadoble Hail To Reason Bramalea Right Tack Wold Lass

Mill Reef Triple Reef Triple First

Raise A Native Gold Digger Halo Raise The Standard Petingo La Milo Riverman Boulevard Crepello Sans Le Sou Doutelle Paving Stone Never Bend Milan Mill High Top Field Mouse

Sire: DALAKHANI. Sire of 22 SWs. In 2011 DUNCAN Danehill G2, BARAAN Grindstone G3.

Broodmare Sire: DANEHILL. Sire of the dams of 160 SWs. In 2011 - ALOHA Encosta de Lago G1, DREAMAWAY More Than Ready G1, FRANKEL Galileo G1, SEPOY Elusive Quality G1, SHOCKING Street Cry G1, DUNCAN Dalakhani G2, ELITE FALLS More Than Ready G2, DO YOU THINK Starcraft G3, GOLDEN LILAC Galileo G3, NEEDS FURTHER Encosta de Lago G3, ONE LAST DANCE Encosta de Lago G3, PRECIOUS LORRAINE Encosta de Lago G3, SPLASH POINT Street Cry G3.

The Dalakhani/Danehill cross has produced: DUNCAN G2, SHEMIYLA G3.

DUNCAN b g 2005 Shirley Heights Darshaan Delsy DALAKHANI gr 2000 Miswaki Daltawa Damana Danzig Danehill Razyana DOLORES b 99 In The Wings Agnus Wavy Reef

Mill Reef Hardiemma Abdos Kelty Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Crystal Palace Denia Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Sadler’s Wells High Hawk Kris Triple Reef

71 LOCKINGE S G1 NEWBURY. May 14. 4yo+. 8f.

1. CANFORD CLIFFS (IRE) 4 9-0 £99,348 b c by Tagula - Mrs Marsh (Marju) O-The Heffer Syndicate, M Tabor, D Smith B-S And S Hubbard Rodwell TR-R Hannon 2. Worthadd (IRE) 4 9-0 £37,660 b c by Dubawi - Wigman (Rahy) O-Scuderia Incolinx B-Compagnia Generale SRL TR-V Caruso 3. Premio Loco (USA) 7 9-0 £18,848 ch g by Prized - Crazee Mental (Magic Ring) O-B Westley B-Kidder, Cole, Griggs TR-CF Wall Margins 1.25, 2.75. Time 1:36.52 (slow 0.92).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-4

Starts 9

Wins 6

Places 3

Earned £745,299

Sire: TAGULA. Sire of 14 Stakes winners. In 2011 CANFORD CLIFFS Marju G1.

1st Dam: Mrs Marsh by Marju. unraced.

Dam of 2 winners: 2005: ZEERAN (c Barathea) 6 wins 4-6 in Sweden.

TAGULA b 93 Standaan Twin Island Jolly Widow Last Tycoon Marju Flame of Tara MRS MARSH b 2001 Lyphard Drei Triple Tipple

Hail To Reason Bebopper Sadair Stolen Hour Zeddaan Castania Busted Veuve Joyeuse Try My Best Mill Princess Artaius Welsh Flame Northern Dancer Goofed Raise A Cup Ameridouble

Coolmore will be Canford Cliffs’s destination when this multiple Gr1 winner’s racing career comes to an end. The colt’s appeal to this exceptional stallion operation must primarily be his excellent racing record, which features outstanding performances at the ages of two, three and four. The son of Tagula has this year won the Lockinge Stakes and Queen Anne.

Although Canford Cliffs’s pedigree isn’t fashionable, Coolmore probably liked the fact that he has comparatively little Northern Dancer blood by today’s standards. The legendary Windfields Farm stallion doesn’t appear in Tagula’s pedigree and neither of the two lines in the bottom half of Canford Cliffs’s pedigree will appear in the first four generations of his progeny.

Tagula was recruited to Rathbarry in 1997, a year after the death of his sire Taufan at the same establishment.

Tagula made a fast start, securing the first-crop sire championship, and has since been represented by the likes of Tax Free, King Orchisios, Beaver Patrol and Pentecost. However, Tagula was still without a Gr1 success as a sire until Canford Cliffs triumphed in the Irish 2,000 Guineas – in much the same way that Taufan was still awaiting his first Gr1 winner, at the age of 18, when Tagula landed the 1995 Prix Morny.

Canford Cliffs – a £50,000 yearling purchase at Doncaster – also ranks as the first Gr1 winner out of a mare by the St James’s Palace Stakes winner Marju. He has since been followed by Marcellina (2011 Japanese 1,000 Guineas). Another out of a Marju mare is the emerging sire Big Bad Bob. Canford Cliffs’s dam Mrs Marsh, a half-sister to the very useful Pina Colada, was unraced but his third dam, Triple Tipple, enjoyed substantial success in California after showing smart form for Luca Cumani at up to a mile and a quarter in Europe.

THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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Caulfield on Tin Horse: “His sire, Sakhee, has proved surprisingly effective at siring animals capable of shining at shorter distances than he did – he has the speed to shine at a mile”

72 PRIX DE SAINT-GEORGES G3 LONGCHAMP. May 15. 3yo+. 1000m.

1. INXILE (IRE) 6 9-0 £34,483 b g by Fayruz - Grandel (Owington) O-Mrs Jackie Love, D Nicholls B-Denis And Mrs Teresa Bergin TR-D Nicholls 2. Captain Dunne (IRE) 6 9-0 £13,793 b g by Captain Rio - Queen Bodicea (Revoque) O-Middleham Park Racing XV & Partners B-Ballybrennan Stud Ltd TR-TD Easterby 3. Split Trois (FR) 3 8-8 £10,345 b f by Dubawi - Auenpearl (Zafonic) O-Christian Henry De Villeneuve B-Nicholas J Hughes TR-Y de Nicolay Margins Nose, short head. Time 0.55.92.

Going Good.

Age 2-6

Starts 29

Wins 8

Places 11

Earned £274,697

Sire: FAYRUZ. Sire of 12 Stakes winners. In 2011 INXILE Owington G3.

1st Dam: Grandel by Owington. unraced. Dam of 4 winners: 2002: TAX FREE (g Tagula) 14 wins, Prix du GrosChene G2.

2004: Gutter Press (f Raise A Grand) ran twice.

2005: INXILE (g Fayruz) Sold 20,262gns foal, 80,000gns yearling. 8 wins, Prix de SaintGeorges G3, Cammidge Trophy LR, Cork S LR, Woodlands S LR (twice), Naas Sprint S LR, Prix du Cercle LR, 2nd Prix de Meautry G3, Scurry S LR, 3rd King George S G3, Free Sapphire S G3, Prix de Saint-Georges G3.

2006: GREEN BERET (g Fayruz) 4 wins.

2007: XILERATOR (g Arakan) Winner at 3.

2009: (f Excellent Art) 2010: (f Tagula) 2nd Dam: Fernlea by Sir Ivor. 2nd Topaz Sprint S LR. Own sister to Strover.

Broodmare Sire: OWINGTON. Sire of the dams of 3 Stakes winners. In 2011 - INXILE Fayruz G3.

INXILE b g 2005 Tudor Minstrel Agin The Law Vilmorin Intent Under Canvas Skymaster Be Friendly Lady Sliptic Bleep-Bleep Lady Jester Witcracker Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier High Top Old Domesday Book Broken Record Sir Gaylord Sir Ivor Attica Pampapaul Pampas Ribotingo Sing Sing

Song FAYRUZ b 83 Friendly Jester

Owington GRANDEL b 97 Fernlea

73 PRIX HOCQUART G2 LONGCHAMP. May 15. 3yo. 2200m.

1. PRAIRIE STAR (FR) 9-2 £63,879 b c by Peintre Celebre - Prairie Runner (Arazi) O-Ecurie Wildenstein B-Dayton Investments Ltd TR-E Lellouche 2. Grand Vent (IRE) 9-2 £24,655 b c by Shirocco - Housa Dancer (Fabulous Dancer) O-Godolphin SNC B-Darley TR-A Fabre 3. Genius Beast (USA) 9-2 £11,767 b c by Kingmambo - Shawanda (Sinndar) O-Godolphin B-Darley TR-Mahmood Al Zarooni Margins Nose, 1.5. Time 2:17.27. Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 7

Wins 4

Places 3

Earned £170,039

Sire: PEINTRE CELEBRE. Sire of 53 Stakes winners. In 2011 - PRAIRIE STAR Arazi G2, FARSANTE CELEBRE Roy G3.

1st Dam: PRAIRIE RUNNER by Arazi. 2 wins at 3 in France, Prix Minerve G3. Dam of 6 winners: 2001: Prairie Flower (f Zieten) 2 wins, 2nd Prix Michel Houyvet LR. Broodmare.

2002: Peredovoi (c Fasliyev) unraced.

2003: Popova (f Kahyasi) 4 wins, 2nd Prix Andre Michel Hurdle G3.

2004: PRAIRIE SPIRIT (g Grape Tree Road) 7 wins.

2005: PLUIE D’OR (f Bering) Winner at 4 in France.

2006: PEINTRE ABSTRAIT (c Peintre Celebre) Winner over jumps at 4 in Czech Republic.

2008: PRAIRIE STAR (c Peintre Celebre) 4 wins, Prix Hocquart G2, Prix de Conde G3, 2nd Prix La Force G3, 3rd Criterium de Saint-Cloud G1.

2009: Premiere Danseuse (f Gold Away) unraced.

2010: Pacific Rim (f Singspiel) 2nd Dam: PAIX BLANCHE by Fabulous Dancer. 2 wins, Prix Finlande LR, 2nd Prix Cleopatre G3. Dam of PRAIRIE RUNNER, POUSSIN (c Alzao: Prix Le Fabuleux LR, 2nd Prix d’Ispahan G1).

Broodmare Sire: ARAZI. Sire of the dams of 24 Stakes winners. In 2011 - PRAIRIE STAR Peintre Celebre G2, UNZIP ME City Zip G3.

The Peintre Celebre/Arazi cross has produced: PRAIRIE STAR G1, KAREEMAH LR. PRAIRIE STAR b c 2008 Nearctic Natalma Forli Special Thong PEINTRE CELEBRE ch 94 Raise A Native Alydar Sweet Tooth Peinture Bleue Habitat Petroleuse Plencia Red God Blushing Groom Runaway Bride Arazi Northern Dancer Danseur Fabuleux Fabuleux Jane PRAIRIE RUNNER b 96 Northern Dancer Fabulous Dancer Last of The Line Paix Blanche Rheffic Alma Ata Autorin Northern Dancer

Nureyev

74 POULE D’ESSAI DES POULICHES G1 LONGCHAMP. May 15. 3yof. 1600m.

1. GOLDEN LILAC (IRE) 9-0 £221,664 b f by Galileo - Grey Lilas (Danehill) O/B-Gestut Ammerland TR-A Fabre 2. Glorious Sight (IRE) 9-0 £88,681 b f by Singspiel - Zelding (Warning) O-RC Strauss B-Kilfrush Stud TR-R Collet 3. Wild Wind (GER) 9-0 £44,341 b f by Danehill Dancer - Woman Secret (Sadler’s Wells) O-Mrs John Magnier B-Ecurie Des Monceaux TR-AP O’Brien Margins 3, 0.5. Time 1:39.31. Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 4

Wins 4

Places 0

Earned £281,810

Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 89 Stakes winners. In 2011 FRANKEL Danehill G1, GOLDEN LILAC Danehill G1, IGUGU Intikhab G1, JOHANN ZOFFANY Royal Academy G2, GALIKOVA Blushing Groom G3, TREASURE BEACH Mark of Esteem G3.

1st Dam: GREY LILAS by Danehill. 4 wins, Prix du Moulin de Longchamp G1, 2nd Poule d’Essai des Pouliches G1, Prix de l’Opera G1, 3rd Prix de Diane G1. Dam of 2 winners: 2007: GREY LILY (f Boreal) Winner at 3 in France.

2008: GOLDEN LILAC (f Galileo) 4 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Poule d’Essai des Pouliches G1, Prix de la Grotte G3.

2009: (c Hurricane Run) 2nd Dam: KENMIST by Kenmare. 2 wins at 3, Rosemary Rated H LR, 3rd Premio Bagutta G3. Dam of GREY LILAS, KANDAHAR RUN (c Rock of Gibraltar: Newmarket S LR), Stendhal (c Polish Precedent: 2nd Prix Altipan LR), Chambord (c Green Desert: 2nd Prix Jacques de Bremond LR)

GOLDEN LILAC b f 2008 Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special Mr Prospector Miswaki Hopespringseternal Lombard Allegretta Anatevka Northern Dancer Danzig Pas de Nom His Majesty Razyana Spring Adieu Kalamoun Kenmare Belle of Ireland Simply Great Mistral’s Collette Kitty’s Sister Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells GALILEO b 98 Urban Sea

Danehill GREY LILAS gr 2001 Kenmist

A year after Gestut Ammerland had landed the Poule d’Essai des Poulains (and the Prix du Jockey-Club) with the homebred Lope de Vega, it completed a magnificent double when another homebred, Golden Lilac, won the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches. This provided the second of three 2011 Guineas victories for three-year-olds sired by Galileo from Danehill mares.

Galileo didn’t owe this extraordinary sequence to any old Danehill mares.

Frankel’s dam Kind was a Listed winner with a Timeform rating of 112, while Roderic O’Connor’s dam Secret Garden, another Listed winner, was rated 106. Golden Lilac’s dam Grey Lilas was even more accomplished.

After running second in the Pouliches, she confirmed her standing among the best three-year-old fillies of 2004 by taking the Prix du Moulin. Grey Lilas also proved she stayed ten furlongs by winning the Gr3 Prix de la Nonette and finishing third in the Prix de Diane and second in the Prix de l’Opera.

Grey Lilas’s three-parts-brother Kandahar Run – by Danehill’s son Rock of Gibraltar – showed smart form at up to a mile and a quarter and their dam, the Listed winner Kenmist, also won at up to a mile and a quarter, while showing her best form over a mile. Golden Lilac’s third dam Mistral’s Collette was a useful Irish two-yearold who later enjoyed stakes success at up to a mile and a quarter in Italy.

General Cloney, a brother to Mistral’s Collette, did well at up to a mile and three-quarters. It was therefore a pretty safe bet that the unbeaten Golden Lilac was going to prove suited by a mile and a quarter – as she showed by following up in the French Oaks – even though her dam is by Danehill, a sprinter miler, and her second dam is by Kenmare, winner of the Prix Jacques le Marois.

75 POULE D’ESSAI DES POULAINS G1 LONGCHAMP. May 15. 3yoc. 1600m.

Broodmare Sire: DANEHILL. Sire of the dams of 161 SWs. In 2011 - ALOHA Encosta de Lago G1, DREAMAWAY More Than Ready G1, FRANKEL Galileo G1, GOLDEN LILAC Galileo G1, SEPOY Elusive Quality G1, SHOCKING Street Cry G1, DUNCAN Dalakhani G2, ELITE FALLS More Than Ready G2, DO YOU THINK Starcraft G3, NEEDS FURTHER Encosta de Lago G3, ONE LAST DANCE Encosta de Lago G3, PRECIOUS LORRAINE Encosta de Lago G3, SPLASH POINT Street Cry G3, WINTER BURST Western Winter G3.

The Galileo/Danehill cross has produced: BANC DE FORTUNE G1, CIMA DE TRIOMPHE G1, CUIS GHAIRE G1, FRANKEL G1, GOLDEN LILAC G1, RODERIC O’CONNOR G1, TEOFILO G1.

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1. TIN HORSE (IRE) 9-2 £221,664 gr c by Sakhee - Joyeuse Entree (Kendor) O-Marquise de Moratalla B-Marquise de Moratalla TR-D Guillemin 2. Havane Smoker (GB) 9-2 £88,681 ch c by Dubawi - Ballet Ballon (Rahy) O-Daniel-Yves Treves B-Meon Valley Stud TR-J-C Rouget 3. Venomous (GB) 9-2 £44,341 b c by Red Ransom - Snake Dancer (Golden Snake) O-Mrs MO Bryant B-St Clare Hall Stud TR-T Clout Margins 2, head. Time 1:36.33. Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 7

Wins 3

Places 3

Earned £385,608

Sire: SAKHEE. Sire of 8 Stakes winners. In 2011 PRESVIS Never So Bold G1.

1st Dam: JOYEUSE ENTREE by Kendor. 4 wins, Prix d’Aumale G3. Dam of 5 winners: 1999: Nada Es Amor (f Zafonic). Dam of Parcelle Perdue (3rd Grand Criterium de Bordeaux LR).

2000: Fancy Intense (f Peintre Celebre) unplaced.

2001: SWING VOTER (g Machiavellian) 7 wins 3-6.

2002: SELDOM FOUND (f Unfuwain) Winner at 3.

2003: Hold The Thought (f Galileo) Broodmare.

2004: Nuit Et Brouillard (f Singspiel) unraced.

2006: BECOMES YOU (f Lomitas) 2 wins at 2, Criterium de l’Ouest LR, 3rd Prix de Conde G3.

2007: REPRESENTERA (f Lomitas) Winner at 4.

2008: TIN HORSE (c Sakhee) 3 wins at 2 and 3, Poule d’Essai des Poulains G1, 2nd Prix JeanLuc Lagardere G1, Prix Morny G1, 3rd Prix de Fontainebleau G3.

2009: Eaglestone (c Chineur) unraced to date.

2010: Deux Saisons (f Chineur) 2nd Dam: CAPE OF GOOD HOPE by Crystal Glitters. 4 wins. Dam of JOYEUSE ENTREE. Broodmare Sire: KENDOR. Sire of the dams of 41 Stakes winners. In 2011 - TIN HORSE Sakhee G1, RECITAL Montjeu G2, NATIVE KHAN Azamour G3.

The Sakhee/Kendor cross has produced: TIN HORSE G1, Quartz Jem LR. TIN HORSE gr c 2008 Riverman Bahri Wasnah SAKHEE b 97 Sadler’s Wells Thawakib Tobira Celeste Kenmare Kendor Belle Mecene JOYEUSE ENTREE gr 94 Crystal Glitters Cape of Good Hope Lady Eglantine

Never Bend River Lady Nijinsky Highest Trump Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Ribot Heavenly Body Kalamoun Belle of Ireland Gay Mecene Djaka Belle Blushing Groom Tales To Tell Lightning Never Go Back

Of the stallions who covered their first mares in 2003, Rock Of Gibraltar had 635 northern hemisphere foals of racing age to the end of 2010, whereas Invincible Spirit had 549, Kyllachy 498 and Tobougg 537.

Clearly Sakhee, with a total of only 268, had not enjoyed similar popularity, even though he had been the highest rated of them on the track (he had an official rating of 133, compared to Rock Of Gibraltar’s 128, Tobougg’s 120 and Kyllachy’s 119).

Perhaps the explanation is partly that this winner of the Juddmonte International and Arc was the stoutest stayer of the four.

However, Sakhee is by a top miler in Bahri and he has proved surprisingly effective at siring animals capable of shining at shorter distances. Indeed, his first crop produced the champion three-year-old sprinter Sakhee’s Secret, the Gr3 sixfurlong winner Royal Rock and the leading international performer Presvis, whose wins include the ninefurlong Dubai Duty Free in 2011.

Now he is being very ably represented by Tin Horse, another with the speed to shine at up to a mile.

Officially rated 115 at two, when he was second in both the Prix Morny and Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere, Tin Horse finally scored at Gr1 level when he quickened two lengths clear in the Poule d’Essai des Poulains – a race also won by his broodmare sire Kendor in 1989. Although Kendor

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European Pattern sired the Gr1 winners Literato, Keltos and Charge d’Affaires, his greatest contribution to the breed is coming through his daughters. Their other Gr1 winners include Recital, Corre Caminos, Marchand d’Or, Never On A Sunday and Le Miracle.

Tin Horse’s dam, the Prix d’Aumale winner Joyeuse Entrée, recorded four wins from five juvenile starts. Her best previous winner, Becomes You, was also a stakes-winning juvenile.

76 PREMIO PRESIDENTE DELLA REPUBBLICA G1 ROME. May 15. 4yo+. 2000m.

1. ESTEJO (GER) 7 9-2 £116,379 b h by Johan Cruyff - Este (The Noble Player) O-G Martone B-Gestut Schallern TR-R Rohne 2. Voila Ici (IRE) 6 9-2 £51,206 gr h by Daylami - Far Hope (Barathea) O-Incolinx B-Finanza Locale Consulting TR-V Caruso 3. Quiza Quiza Quiza (GB) 5 8-13 £27,931 b m by Golden Snake - Quiz Chow (Pelder) O/B-Riccardo Cantoni TR-L Riccardi Margins 1.5, neck. Time 2:00.60. Going Soft.

Age 3-7

Starts 28

Wins 10

Places 9

Earned £375,677

Sire: JOHAN CRUYFF. Sire of 3 Stakes winners. In 2011 - ESTEJO The Noble Player G1.

1st Dam: Este by The Noble Player. 2 wins, 2nd Preis der Winterkonigin LR, Berberis Rennen LR, Schwarzgold Rennen LR. Dam of 6 winners: 1993: Esmonda (f Mondrian) unplaced.

1994: ERCOLE D’ESTE (c Mondrian) 2 wins 3-5.

1995: ESTON (c Law Society) 6 wins in Germany.

1997: ESTENSTERN (c Sternkoenig) 8 wins 4-7.

1998: ESTENORA (f Highest Honor) 3 wins at 4.

2000: Estor (c Highest Honor) unplaced.

2002: ESTEMONA (f Oxalagu) 3 wins at 2 and 3.

2003: Edicea (f Medicean) unraced. Broodmare.

2004: ESTEJO (c Johan Cruyff) 10 wins, Premio Presidente della Repubblica G1, Premio Roma G1, Premio del Piazzale LR, Gran Premio d’Italia LR, 2nd Premio Ambrosiano G3 (twice), Premio UNIRE LR, 3rd Premio Roma G1.

2005: Evita (f Samum) unplaced.

2nd Dam: Ermione by Surumu. 2 wins, 2nd JacobsKaffee-Rennen LR, Preis der Stadt Berlin LR, 4th Preis Der Diana G2. Dam of ERMINIUS (c Highest Honor: Grosser Kaufhof Preis G2), ERMBOLD (c Never So Bold: Behr Memorial LR).

Broodmare Sire: THE NOBLE PLAYER. Sire of the dams of 4 SWs. In 2011 - ESTEJO Johan Cruyff G1.

ESTEJO b h 2004 Danzig Danehill Razyana JOHAN CRUYFF b 94 Ogygian Teslemi Martha Queen The Minstrel The Noble Player Noble Mark ESTE ch 88 Surumu Ermione Envira

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Damascus Gonfalon Nijinsky Rosetta Stone Northern Dancer Fleur On Your Mark Noble Joan Literat Surama Yoggi Elektra

Estejo carries the (GER) suffix after his name but he has done most of his racing in Italy, where he won the Gran Premio d’Italia at three, the Gr1 Premio Roma at five and the Gr1 Premio Presidente della Repubblica at seven. This durable grandson of Danehill has also competed in Germany, Hong Kong, England, France and Turkey.

His sire Johan Cruyff was also a globetrotter. One of the first to

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demonstrate that Danehill could sire good middle-distance performers, Johann Cruyff won the Beresford Stakes over a mile at two and the Gallinule Stakes over a mile and a quarter at three, when he was also fourth in the Irish Derby. The colt was then sold to Hong Kong, where he won the Derby at four and was placed in several other important events.

Johan Cruyff moved on to Eliza Park Stud in Australia, where he died during his fourth season in 2003. He had shuttled to Germany for the 2003 northern hemisphere season and his German crop included Scoubidou, a Group-winning juvenile in Italy, and Estejo.

Estejo comes from a first-rate German family. His fourth dam Elektra produced the Preis von Europa winner Ebano and is also the second dam of Elle Danzig, winner of the Premio Roma in 1999 and 2000, after winning Germany’s 1,000 Guineas and Oaks in 1998.

77 TRI EQUESTRIAN S G3 CURRAGH. May 21. 4yo+f&m. 8f.

1. EMULOUS (GB) 4 9-3 £33,621 b f by Dansili - Aspiring Diva (Distant View) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-DK Weld 2. Lolly For Dolly (IRE) 4 9-3 £9,828 b f by Oratorio - Heart Stopping (Chester House) O-D Keoghan B-J Jamgotchian TR-T Stack 3. Kinky Afro (IRE) 4 9-0 £4,655 b f by Modigliani - Feet of Flame (Theatrical) O-Phil Cunningham B-S Couldrige TR-JS Moore Margins 1.75, 3. Time 1:38.95 (slow 1.95).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-4

Starts 7

Wins 3

Places 3

Earned £100,252

78 TEMPLE S G2 HAYDOCK PARK. May 21. 3yo+. 5f.

1. SOLE POWER (GB) 4 9-4 £45,416 b g by Kyllachy - Demerger (Distant View) O-Mrs S Power B-G Russell TR-Edward Lynam 2. Kingsgate Native (IRE) 6 9-4 £17,216 b g by Mujadil - Native Force (Indian Ridge) O-Cheveley Park Stud B-Peter McCutcheon TR-Sir Michael Stoute 3. Prohibit (GB) 6 9-4 £8,616 b g by Oasis Dream - Well Warned (Warning) O-Dasmal, Rix, Barr, Morley, Mrs Penney B-Juddmonte Farms TR-RMH Cowell Margins 0.75, 0.5. Time 0:57.67 (fast 1.33).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-4

Starts 15

The Dansili/Distant View cross has produced: ZACINTO G1, EMULOUS G3, DARING DIVA LR. EMULOUS b f 2007 Danzig Danehill Razyana DANSILI b 96 Kahyasi Hasili Kerali Mr Prospector Distant View Seven Springs ASPIRING DIVA b 98 His Majesty Queen of Song Song Sparrow

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Ile de Bourbon Kadissya High Line Sookera Raise A Native Gold Digger Irish River La Trinite Ribot Flower Bowl Tudor Minstrel Swoon’s Tune

2nd Dam: CROWN CREST by Mill Reef. 1 win at 3.

Own sister to DIAMOND SHOAL, GLINT OF GOLD and Emerald Reef. Dam of FLORAL PEGASUS (c Fusaichi Pegasus: Chinese Club Challenge Cup LR, Mercedes Benz Hong Kong Classic Mile LR, The Mercedes Benz Hong Kong Derby Trial LR), Evacuate (c Giant’s Causeway: 3rd City Pacific Finance Red Anchor S G3) Broodmare Sire: ROYAL ACADEMY. Sire of the dams of 89 SWs. In 2011 - THE PARTY STAND Thorn Park G1, HEART OF DREAMS Show A Heart G2, JOHANN ZOFFANY Galileo G2, VOO LIVRE Northern Afleet G2, HITCHENS Acclamation G3, UNO AMORE MIO Signal Tap G3, ASLANA Rock of Gibraltar LR, BEACON LODGE Clodovil LR, JERSEY LILY Catbird LR, OCEAN WAR Dalakhani LR, TINAMOU Quest For Fame LR, KEMPES Intikhab LR. HITCHENS b g 2005 Waajib Royal Applause Flying Melody ACCLAMATION b 99 Ahonoora Princess Athena Shopping Wise Nijinsky

2nd Dam: MERIDA by Warning. 2 wins at 3 and 4 in France, USA. Grandam of PENCIL HILL.

Royal Academy Crimson Saint ROYAL FIZZ ch 94 Mill Reef

Broodmare Sire: DISTANT VIEW. Sire of the dams of 12 Stakes winners. In 2011 - SOLE POWER Kyllachy G2, EMULOUS Dansili G3.

Crown Crest Crown Treasure

Try My Best Coryana Auction Ring Whispering Star Lorenzaccio Helen Nichols Floribunda Sea Melody Northern Dancer Flaming Page Crimson Satan Bolero Rose Never Bend Milan Mill Graustark Treasure Chest

SOLE POWER b g 2007 Nureyev Marie d’Argonne Cozzene Fearless Revival Stufida Sing Sing Song Intent Crooner Moonlight Serenade March Moonlight Raise A Native Mr Prospector Gold Digger Irish River Seven Springs La Trinite Known Fact Warning Slightly Dangerous Laser Light Metair Treatisan

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KYLLACHY b 98

Broodmare Sire: DISTANT VIEW. Sire of the dams of 12 Stakes winners. In 2011 - SOLE POWER Kyllachy G2, EMULOUS Dansili G3.

Earned £248,793

1st Dam: Demerger by Distant View. unraced. Dam of 2 winners: 2002: Cornus (g Inchinor) 15 wins to 2010, 2nd Cornwallis S G3.

2003: Be My Charm (f Polish Precedent). Broodmare.

2007: SOLE POWER (g Kyllachy) Sold 30,476gns yearling at DNSLY. Champion 3yr old sprinter in Europe in 2010. 4 wins at 2 to 4, Coolmore Nunthorpe S G1, betfred.com Temple S G2, 2nd Grangecon Stud S LR, 3rd Pearl Bloodstock Palace House S G3.

2008: (f Royal Applause) 2009: Sotka (f Dutch Art) 2011: (c Mastercraftsman)

Sire: DANSILI. See race 67.

2nd Dam: QUEEN OF SONG by His Majesty. 14 wins, Shuvee H G2, 3rd Apple Blossom H G1. Own sister to CORMORANT. Dam of LADYAGO (f Northern Dancer: Audubon Oaks), Private Song (c Private Account: 3rd San Bernardino H G2), Easy Song (c Easy Goer: 3rd San Marino H LR), Wise Words (c Seattle Slew: 2nd CHBPA Inc. S LR). Third dam of SPRING MEADOW, CHESTNUT LADY.

Places 6

Sire: KYLLACHY. Sire of 13 Stakes winners. In 2011 - SOLE POWER Distant View G2, ALGOL In The Wings LR, PAUSANIAS Gone West LR.

Pivotal

1st Dam: Aspiring Diva by Distant View. 2 wins 2-3 in France, 3rd Prix Herod LR. Dam of 4 winners: 2003: DARING DIVA (f Dansili) 2 wins at 2 in France, Criterium de Vitesse LR. 2004: LUCIO BELLO (c Desert Prince) 1 win in Greece.

2005: STRIKING SPIRIT (g Oasis Dream) 3 wins 2-4.

2007: EMULOUS (f Dansili) 3 wins, Concorde S G3, TRI Equestrian S G3, Garnet S LR, 2nd Kilboy Estate S LR, 3rd Desmond S G3.

2009: Radio Call (c Rail Link) unraced to date.

Wins 4

2002: Grand Marque (c Grand Lodge) 3 wins, 2nd Stonehenge S LR. 2004: Haamesh (g Noverre) ran a few times.

2005: HITCHENS (g Acclamation) Sold 18,390gns yearling, 42,470gns 2yo, 40,000gns 3yo. 6 wins, Greenlands S G3, Golden Rose S LR, 2nd Wentworth S LR, Mercury S LR. 2006: Jinjja Bear (g Exceed And Excel) unraced.

2007: EFFERVESCE (f Galileo) Winner at 3.

2008: Refugee (f Montjeu) unraced to date.

2009: Flying Doha (c Danehill Dancer) unraced to date.

Pretty Poppy

Distant View DEMERGER b 97 Merida

79 GREENLANDS S G3

Starts 34

Wins 6

1. RODERIC O’CONNOR (IRE) 9-0 £162,500 b c by Galileo - Secret Garden (Danehill) O-Mrs John Magnier B-Swettenham Stud TR-AP O’Brien 2. Dubawi Gold (GB) 9-0 £53,233 b c by Dubawi - Savannah Belle (Green Desert) O-Andrew Tinkler B-AH Bennett TR-R Hannon 3. Oracle (IRE) 9-0 £25,216 b c by Danehill Dancer - Zibilene (Rainbow Quest) O-D Smith, Mrs J Magnier, M Tabor B-Barouche Stud Ireland Ltd TR-AP O’Brien Margins 0.75, 0.5. Time 1:37.88 (slow 0.88).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-3

CURRAGH. May 21. 3yo+. 6f.

1. HITCHENS (IRE) 6 9-9 £35,022 b g by Acclamation - Royal Fizz (Royal Academy) O-Laurence O’Kane, Paul Murphy B-Curragh Bloodstock Agency Ltd TR-David Barron 2. Tiddliwinks (GB) 5 9-9 £10,237 b g by Piccolo - Card Games (First Trump) O-Guy Reed B-Guy Reed TR-KA Ryan 3. Santo Padre (IRE) 7 9-9 £4,849 b g by Elnadim - Tshusick (Dancing Brave) O-Victor Partnership B-Victor Stud Bloodstock, Brendan Cummins TR-David Marnane Margins 1.25, 1.5. Time 1:11.44 (slow 0.44).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-6

CURRAGH. May 21. 3yoc&f. 8f.

Places 10

Earned £330,571

Sire: ACCLAMATION. Sire of 8 Stakes winners. In 2011 - HITCHENS Royal Academy G3, MONTECCHIO Linamix LR. 1st Dam: ROYAL FIZZ by Royal Academy. Winner at 2 in France. Dam of 4 winners: 1999: ROYAL BRIEF (f Brief Truce) 4 wins at 3 and 4 in Belgium.

2000: Crown Fizz (c Anabaa) unraced.

2001: Sparkling Fizz (f Vettori) unraced. Broodmare.

Starts 5

Wins 2

Places 2

Earned £207,668

Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 89 SWs. In 2011 - FRANKEL Danehill G1, GOLDEN LILAC Danehill G1, IGUGU Intikhab G1, MISTY FOR ME Storm Cat G1, RODERIC O’CONNOR Danehill G1, JOHANN ZOFFANY Royal Academy G2, GALIKOVA Blushing Groom G3, TREASURE BEACH Mark of Esteem G3.

1st Dam: SECRET GARDEN by Danehill. 4 wins at 3 and 4 at home, USA, Miles and Morrison October S LR. Dam of 4 winners: 2005: COVERT ACTION (c Grand Slam) 4 wins 4-5.

2006: Weatherstaff (g Elusive Quality) Winner at 2, 3rd Sirenia S G3.

2007: BURNETT (c Dynaformer) Winner at 2.

2008: RODERIC O’CONNOR (c Galileo) 3 wins, Irish 2000 Guineas G1, Criterium International G1, 2nd Dewhurst S G1.

2009: (c Galileo) 2010: (f Galileo) 2nd Dam: CHALAMONT by Kris. 2 wins at 2. Dam of SECRET GARDEN, Lady Aquitaine (f El Prado: 3rd Sirenia S G3). Grandam of WICKWING. Broodmare Sire: DANEHILL. Sire of the dams of 161 Stakes winners. In 2011 - ALOHA Encosta de

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Caulfield on So You Think: “He is the star of High Chaparral’s antipodean progeny; his first 13 dams were bred in New Zealand or Australia, his 14th being the British import Juliet”

Lago G1, DREAMAWAY More Than Ready G1, FRANKEL Galileo G1, GOLDEN LILAC Galileo G1, RODERIC O’CONNOR Galileo G1, SEPOY Elusive Quality G1, SHOCKING Street Cry G1, DUNCAN Dalakhani G2, ELITE FALLS More Than Ready G2, DO YOU THINK Starcraft G3, NEEDS FURTHER Encosta de Lago G3, ONE LAST DANCE Encosta de Lago G3, PRECIOUS LORRAINE Encosta de Lago G3, SPLASH POINT Street Cry G3, WINTER BURST Western Winter G3.

The Galileo/Danehill cross has produced: BANC DE FORTUNE G1, CIMA DE TRIOMPHE G1, CUIS GHAIRE G1, FRANKEL G1, GOLDEN LILAC G1, RODERIC O’CONNOR G1, TEOFILO G1.

RODERIC O’CONNOR b c 2008 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge GALILEO b 98 Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta Danzig Danehill Razyana SECRET GARDEN b 99 Kris Chalamont Durtal

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Lombard Anatevka Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Sharpen Up Doubly Sure Lyphard Derna II

Perhaps because of his considerable impact on Europe’s Derby and Oaks races, there was a tendency to forget that Sadler’s Wells – himself a winner of the Irish 2,000 Guineas – also exerted a strong influence on the Guineas races. In England he was represented by three winners of the colts’ race and one of the fillies’. And in Ireland he had two winners of the 2,000 Guineas and three of the 1,000 Guineas.

Consequently we shouldn’t be too amazed that his brilliant son Galileo has supplied the winners of four of 2011’s Guineas races, even though he too had originally been considered more of an influence for middledistance brilliance. Roderic O’Connor returned to form at the Curragh to provide the third of the four Guineas wins – and the third for the Galileo/Danehill cross.

Thanks to his win in the Criterium International, Roderic O’Connor also ranks alongside Teofilo and Frankel as one of Galileo’s three Gr1 juvenile winners out of mares by the sprintermiler Danehill.

The bottom half of his pedigree helps explain his speed and precocity.

Roderic O’Connor comes from a family which carried the Sangster colours with distinction. His third dam, Durtal, was a quick-maturing filly who won the 1976 Cheveley Park Stakes.

Durtal went on to finish second in the French 1,000 Guineas.

Durtal became the dam of Gildoran, twice a winner of the Ascot Gold Cup over two and a half miles, but Roderic O’Connor’s second dam, the Kris mare Chalamont, was a hard-puller who won twice over six furlongs at two.

Sent to Danehill, who sired the Coronation Stakes winner Kissing Cousin from another Kris mare, Chalamont produced Roderic O’Connor’s dam Secret Garden. A winner of a seven-furlong Listed race at Ascot, Secret Garden later won a stakes race over 8.5 furlongs in the USA.

81 TATTERSALLS GOLD CUP G1 CURRAGH. May 22. 4yo+. 10f 110yds.

1. SO YOU THINK (NZ) 5 9-1 £112,241 b h by High Chaparral - Triassic (Tights) O-Smith, Magnier, Tabor, Dato Tan,T Yahaya B-MJ Moran, Piper Farm Ltd TR-AP OíBrien 2. Campanologist (USA) 6 9-1 £34,397 b h by Kingmambo - Ring of Music (Sadler’s Wells) O-Godolphin B-Darley TR-Saeed bin Suroor 3. Famous Name (GB) 6 9-1 £16,293 b h by Dansili - Fame At Last (Quest For Fame) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-DK Weld Margins 4.5, 2.5. Time 2:14.08 (slow 2.58).

Going Good.

Age 2-5

Starts 13

Wins 9

Places Earned 3 £3,042,264

Sire: HIGH CHAPARRAL. Sire of 26 Stakes winners.

In 2011 - SO YOU THINK Tights G1, HIDDEN ASSET Zabeel G2, WIGMORE HALL Theatrical G2, BRANDERBURGO Red Ransom LR. 1st Dam: TRIASSIC by Tights. 3 wins in New Zealand, Cambridge Stud Sir Tristram Classic (f) G2.

Dam of 7 winners: 1996: TYCOON JACK (g Last Tycoon) 3 wins in New Zealand.

1998: CIRCUS DANCE (f Carnegie) 2 wins at 5 in New Zealand.

2000: HIP HIP HOORAY (g Tale of The Cat) 6 wins in Australia, Hong Kong.

2001: (c Carnegie). Died as a foal.

2002: (f Almutawakel). Dead.

2003: TRIGONOMETRY (c Galileo) 2 wins in Australia.

2004: PRIDE’N’PREJUDICE (f Universal Prince) 4 wins in Australia.

2005: LA SOUVENIR (f Nuclear Freeze) Winner in New Zealand. Broodmare.

2006: SO YOU THINK (c High Chaparral) Champion 3yr old colt in Australia in 2009-2010. 9 wins at 2 to 5, Tattersalls Gold Cup G1, Longines LKS Mackinnon S G1, Rokk Ebony Underwood S G1, Tattersall’s WS Cox Plate G1 (twice), Yalumba Caulfield S G1, Z Bloodstock Memsie S G2, High Chaparral EBF Mooresbridge S G3, Gloaming S G3, 2nd Emirates Cantala S G1, Jim Beam Ming Dynasty Quality H LR, 3rd Emirates Melbourne Cup G1.

2008: Now You Know (c Elusive City) in training.

2010: (c High Chaparral) 2nd Dam: Astral Row by Long Row. 6 wins in New Zealand, 2nd Evergreen S LR, Otago Mannequin S LR, Waitaki S LR, Geraldine Challenge S LR. Dam of TRIASSIC (f Tights, see above) Broodmare Sire: TIGHTS. Sire of the dams of 19 Stakes winners. In 2011 - SO YOU THINK High Chaparral G1.

SO YOU THINK b h 2006 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge HIGH CHAPARRAL b 99 Darshaan Kasora Kozana Nijinsky Tights Dancealot TRIASSIC b 90 Long Row Astral Row Pak Bun Bay

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Shirley Heights Delsy Kris Koblenza Northern Dancer Flaming Page Round Table Music Please Linacre Front Row Matinee Idol Philipolo

The list of stallion fees for the 2011 Australian season shows High Chaparral in joint-fifth place, at a fee of AUS$99,000 (roughly £65,000).

This compares to a fee of ‘only’ €25,000 in Ireland, where his fee has been as low as €10,000 in 2009.

The fact that High Chaparral is much higher up the pecking order in Australia reflects the tremendous success enjoyed by runners he sired during his seasons in New Zealand.

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They include four Gr1-winning sons in Shoot Out (AJC Australian Derby), Monaco Consul (Victoria Derby) and Descarado (Caulfield Cup) but the undoubted star among his antipodean progeny is So You Think. The World Thoroughbred Rankings for 2010 showed So You Think in joint-fifth place alongside Rip Van Winkle on a figure of 126. He had earned the reputation as the best horse to have raced in Australia in recent years with a tally of five Gr1 wins, including two in the Cox Plate.

So You Think has looked equally formidable on his two appearances in Ireland, winning by ten lengths in the Gr3 Mooresbridge Stakes and by four and a half in the Tattersalls Gold Cup. So You Think’s first 13 dams were bred either in New Zealand or Australia, his 14th dam being Juliet, an import from Britain born in 1851.

As usual, there are far more imported bloodlines among the stallions responsible for these mares. So You Think’s dam, the ten-furlong Gr2 winner Triassic, is by Tights. This versatile son of Nijinsky won three Graded stakes at up to nine furlongs at three in California.

So You Think’s second dam, the stakes-placed Astral Row, is by Long Row, whose parents, Linacre and Front Row, were respectively successful in Ireland’s 2,000 Guineas and 1,000 Guineas. Long Row won the Horris Hill Stakes at two and later showed smart form over a mile.

82 IRISH 1,000 GUINEAS G1 CURRAGH. May 22. 3yof. 8f.

1. MISTY FOR ME (IRE) 9-0 £162,500 b f by Galileo - Butterfly Cove (Storm Cat) O-Michael Tabor B-March Thoroughbreds TR-AP O’Brien 2. Together (IRE) 9-0 £53,233 b f by Galileo - Shadow Song (Pennekamp) O-Derrick Smith B-Lynch Bages Ltd TR-AP O’Brien 3. Laughing Lashes (USA) 9-0 £25,216 grro f by Mr Greeley - Adventure (Unbridled’s Song) O-Mrs J Maxwell Moran B-Runnymede Farm, Robert P Levy TR-Mrs John Harrington Margins 0.75, 1. Time 1:35.90 (fast 1.10).

Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 6

Wins 3

Places 1

Earned £299,818

Sire: GALILEO. See race 80.

1st Dam: Butterfly Cove by Storm Cat. unraced. Own sister to KAMARINSKAYA. Dam of 2 winners: 2005: Showcall (f Kingmambo) ran once.

2006: Pedasus (g Fusaichi Pegasus) 2007: COME TOUCH THE SUN (f Fusaichi Pegasus) Winner at 3 in USA. 2008: MISTY FOR ME (f Galileo) Champion 2yr old filly in Ireland and France in 2010. 3 wins, Irish 1000 Guineas G1, Moyglare Stud S G1, Prix Marcel Boussac G1, 2nd Debutante S G2.

2009: Twirl (f Galileo) unraced to date.

2010: (f Galileo) 2nd Dam: Mr P’s Princess by Mr Prospector. unraced.

Dam of FASLIYEV (c Nureyev: Phoenix S G1, Prix Morny G1), KAMARINSKAYA (f Storm Cat: 1000 Guineas Trial S G3), Maderno (g Nureyev: 3rd Greenham S G3) Broodmare Sire: STORM CAT. Sire of the dams of 105 SWs. In 2011 - DIALED IN Mineshaft G1, MISTY FOR ME Galileo G1, DERBAAS Seeking The Gold G2, DENOMINATION Smart Strike G3, KEERTANA Johar G3.

MISTY FOR ME b f 2008 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge GALILEO b 98 Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta Storm Bird Storm Cat Terlingua BUTTERFLY COVE b/br 01 Mr Prospector Mr P’s Princess Anne Campbell

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Lombard Anatevka Northern Dancer South Ocean Secretariat Crimson Saint Raise A Native Gold Digger Never Bend Repercussion

Before breeders swamp Galileo with Danehill mares, it is worth reminding everyone that the champion sire’s Gr1 winners have a wide variety of broodmare sires. Among them are Machiavellian, Indian Ridge, Presidium, Stravinsky, Pennekamp, Ahonoora, Storm Cat, Anabaa and Diesis, all of whom reinforce the theory that Galileo benefits from a mare whose background includes speed or top juvenile ability. However, there are also Gr1 winners out of daughters of Caerleon, Shirley Heights, Darshaan and Erins Isle.

Storm Cat, who was America’s champion sire of two-year-olds on numerous occasions, appears on the list thanks to Misty For Me. This filly established herself as one of Galileo’s most precocious daughters with her victory in the Moyglare Stud Stakes and has since added the Prix Marcel Boussac and Irish 1,000 Guineas.

Her stamina ran out in the Oaks, which isn’t surprising. Misty For Me’s dam, the unraced Butterfly Cove, is out of Mr P’s Princess, which makes her a half-sister to Fasliyev, the outstanding two-year-old of 1999.

Butterfly Cove’s sister Kamarinskaya won the Gr3 Leopardstown 1,000 Guineas Trial before being sold for $2.2 million as a three-year-old.

Misty For Me’s third dam Anne Campbell was once honoured with the title of Kentucky Broodmare of the Year. Two of her sons raced with distinction in America’s Triple Crown events. Her second foal, the triple Gr1 winner Desert Wine, finished second in the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness. And Menifee matched these feats 16 years later before winning the Gr1 Haskell Invitational.

He was by Storm Cat’s son Harlan.

Anne Campbell’s third stakes winner was her Nureyev filly Arsaan, a Listed winner over a mile. Anne Campbell also figures as the third dam of Les Arcs, winner of the Golden Jubilee Stakes and July Cup. 83 SCHWARZGOLD-RENNEN G3 COLOGNE. May 22. 3yof. 1600m.

1. DJUMAMA (IRE) 9-2 £32,759 b f by Aussie Rules - Western Sky (Barathea) O-Stall Phillip B-Colin Kennedy TR-Andreas Lowe 2. Dalarna (GER) 9-2 £10,776 b f by Dashing Blade - Daily Mail (Konigsstuhl) O-Stall Carpe Diem B-Frau Brigitta & Bernhard Matusche TR-W Hickst 3. Reine Vite (GER) 9-2 £5,603 f by Big Shuffle - Reine Galante (Danehill) O-Stall Heideroslein B-Gestut Auenquelle TR-U Ostmann

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DATA BOOK STAKES RESULTS

European Pattern Margins Neck, 2.5. Time 1:39.20. Going Soft.

Age 2-3

Starts 3

Wins 3

Places 0

EXCELEBRATION b c 2008 Danzig

Earned £88,511

Danehill Razyana EXCEED AND EXCEL b 00 Lomond

Sire: AUSSIE RULES. Sire of 6 Stakes winners. In 2011 - DJUMAMA Barathea G3, CAZALS Mujadil LR, STAROS Anshan LR.

Patrona Gladiolus Ahonoora

1st Dam: Western Sky by Barathea. Own sister to BARATHEA GUEST. Dam of 2 winners: 2007: NO SALE (c Namid) 3 wins 3-4 in Cyprus.

2008: DJUMAMA (f Aussie Rules) Sold 5,000gns foal at TADEF, 22,000gns yearling at TADEY. Champion 2yr old filly in Germany in 2010. 3 wins at 2 and 3 in Germany, Preis der Winterkonigin G3, Schwarzgold Rennen G3.

2010: (c Dark Angel) 2nd Dam: Western Heights by Shirley Heights. unraced. Dam of BARATHEA GUEST (c Barathea: Greenham S G3, 2nd Grand Criterium G1, 3rd 2000 Guineas G1, Premio Vittorio di Capua G1) Broodmare Sire: BARATHEA. Sire of the dams of 42 Stakes winners. In 2011 - CRACKERJACK KING Shamardal G2, MONTEROSSO Dubawi G2, DJUMAMA Aussie Rules G3, EXPANSION Maria’s Mon G3, JAKKALBERRY Storming Home G3, KITTENS Redoute’s Choice G3, SAINT ENCOSTA Encosta de Lago G3.

DJUMAMA b f 2008 Danzig Danehill Razyana AUSSIE RULES gr/ro 03 Alzao Last Second Alruccaba Sadler’s Wells Barathea Brocade WESTERN SKY ch 03 Shirley Heights Western Heights Western Star

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Lyphard Lady Rebecca Crystal Palace Allara Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Habitat Canton Silk Mill Reef Hardiemma Alcide Western Air

84 MEHL-MUELHENS-RENNEN G2 COLOGNE. May 22. 3yoc&f. 1600m.

1. EXCELEBRATION (IRE) 9-2 £86,207 b c by Exceed And Excel - Sun Shower (Indian Ridge) O-Giuliano Manfredini B-Owenstown Stud TR-M Botti 2. Gereon (GER) 9-2 £25,862 b c by Next Desert - Golden Time (Surumu) O-C Zschache B-Gestut Ebbesloh TR-C Zschache 3. Acadius (GER) 9-2 £11,207 ch c by Lord of England - Amouage (Tiger Hill) O-Stall Lucky Owner B-Stall Pontresina TR-J-P Carvalho Margins 7, 0.5. Time 1:36.20. Going Soft.

Indian Ridge Hillbrow SUN SHOWER br 01 Warning Miss Kemble Sarah Siddons

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Northern Dancer My Charmer Watch Your Step Back Britches Lorenzaccio Helen Nichols Swing Easy Golden City Known Fact Slightly Dangerous Le Levanstell Mariel

85 PRIX SAINT-ALARY G1 LONGCHAMP. May 22. 3yof. 2000m.

1. WAVERING (IRE) 9-0 £123,147 b f by Refuse To Bend - Summertime Legacy (Darshaan) O-Godolphin SNC B-Darley TR-A Fabre 2. Epic Love (IRE) 9-0 £49,267 b f by Dansili - Leopard Hunt (Diesis) O-James Richard Treptow B-Round Hill Stud TR-P Bary 3. Nonsuch Way (IRE) 9-0 £24,634 gr f by Verglas - Lucky Lune (Priolo) O-Gerard Augustin-Normand B-Ecurie Skymarc Farm TR-F Vermeulen Margins Short neck, neck. Time 2:05.80.

Going Good.

Age 3

Starts 4

Wins 2

Places 1

Earned £148,147

Sire: REFUSE TO BEND. Sire of 12 SWs. In 2011 WAVERING Darshaan G1, SARAFINA Darshaan G2, RIGHT OF REFUSAL Quest For Fame LR. 1st Dam: SUMMERTIME LEGACY by Darshaan. 2 wins at 2 in France, Prix des Reservoirs G3, 3rd Prix Saint-Alary G1. Dam of 3 winners: 2004: Hurricane Irene (f Green Desert) unraced.

2005: Lavender And Lace (f Barathea) ran.

2006: Mister Green (g Green Desert) 4 wins at 2, 4 and 5, 3rd Winter Derby Trial S LR. 2007: ATLANTIC TIGER (g Tiger Hill) 2 wins at 3.

2008: WAVERING (f Refuse To Bend) 2 win, Prix Saint-Alary G1, 3rd Prix Cleopatre G3.

2009: Mandaean (c Manduro) unraced to date.

2010: (c Manduro) 2nd Dam: ZAWAAHY by El Gran Senor. 1 win at 3.

Dam of SUMMERTIME LEGACY. Broodmare Sire: DARSHAAN. See race 100.

The Refuse To Bend/Darshaan cross has produced: SARAFINA G1, WAVERING G1, GRACE O’MALLEY G3, ALAIYMA LR.

Manor Stud, the 2003 2,000 Guineas winner spent his first four seasons at a fee of €20,000 at Kildangan Stud.

Sarafina comes from his second crop and Wavering from his third.

As a son of Sadler’s Wells, Refuse To Bend was an obvious contender for mares by Darshaan. Daughters of this outstanding broodmare sire flourished with Sadler’s Wells, producing the Gr1 winners High Chaparral, Islington, Milan, Quarter Moon, Septimus, Yesterday, Greek Dance and Ebadiyla, and there are also Gr1 winners by his sons Entrepreneur (the fast filly Damson), Galileo and now Montjeu (the Derby-winning Pour Moi).

Although Barathea didn’t sire a Gr1 winner, he had a fine record with Darshaan’s daughters, siring eight stakes winners. Inevitably, plenty of Darshaan mares were sent to Refuse To Bend and the partnership has 33 foals aged three or over. These 33 include three of Refuse To Bend’s four Group winners, the third being the dual Gr3 winner Grace O’Malley, and there is also a Listed winner – Alaiyma – among them. Incidentally, all four Group winners are fillies.

Wavering’s dam Summertime Legacy was third in the 2002 Prix Saint-Alary, having won the Gr3 Prix des Reservoirs at two. Her second dam, Zawaahy, was a three-partssister – by El Gran Senor – to the Derby winner Golden Fleece and this is also the family of high-class miler and sire Be My Guest.

86 PRIX D’ISPAHAN G1 LONGCHAMP. May 22. 4yo+. 1850m.

1. GOLDIKOVA (IRE) 6 8-13 £123,147 b m by Anabaa - Born Gold (Blushing Groom) O/B-Wertheimer et Frere TR-F Head 2. Cirrus des Aigles (FR) 5 9-2 £49,267 b g by Even Top - Taille de Guepe (Septieme Ciel) O-JCA Dupouy B-Y Lelimouzin, B Deschamps TR-Mme C Barande-Barbe 3. Rajsaman (FR) 4 9-2 £24,634 gr c by Linamix - Rose Quartz (Lammtarra) O-Saeed Nasser Al Romaithi B-Haras De Son Altesse L’Aga Khan Scea TR-F Head Margins Neck, 0.75. Time 1:51.00. Going Good.

WAVERING b f 2008 Age 2-3

Starts 5

Wins 3

Places 2

Earned £108,241

Sire: EXCEED AND EXCEL. Sire of 34 Stakes winners. In 2011 - HELMET Singspiel G1, EXCELEBRATION Indian Ridge G2, NIDEEB In The Wings G3, ANEVAY Hennessy LR, CANALI Barathea LR, CHINCHILLA Eternity Range LR, REBEL CALL Encosta de Lago LR, SPIN CYCLE Spinning World LR, WAVEBAND Wolfhound LR.

Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge REFUSE TO BEND b 00 Gulch Market Slide Grenzen Shirley Heights Darshaan Delsy SUMMERTIME LEGACY b 99

1st Dam: Sun Shower by Indian Ridge. Dam of 2 winners: 2006: MULL OF KILLOUGH (g Mull of Kintyre) 3 wins at 3.

2007: Tashzara (f Intikhab) 2008: EXCELEBRATION (c Exceed And Excel) Sold 10,503gns foal at GONO1, 19,047gns yearling at DNSLY. 3 wins at 2 and 3 at home, Germany, Mehl-Mulhens Rennen G2, 2nd Greenham S G3.

Broodmare Sire: INDIAN RIDGE. Sire of the dams of 45 Stakes winners. In 2011 - EXCELEBRATION Exceed And Excel G2, INDIAN DAYS Daylami G3, ERADICATE Montjeu LR, MISTER SNOWBALL Ballingarry LR. The Exceed And Excel/Indian Ridge cross has produced: EXCELEBRATION G2, Lukrecia G3.

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El Gran Senor Zawaahy Exotic Treat

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Mr Prospector Jameela Grenfall My Poly Mill Reef Hardiemma Abdos Kelty Northern Dancer Sex Appeal Vaguely Noble Rare Treat

For a stallion whose fee has fallen to £4,500, Refuse To Bend achieved a remarkable feat in coming up with the winner of the Gr1 Prix Saint-Alary for a second successive year. His first winner, Sarafina, developed into a champion at three and the future also looks bright for his latest winner of the Saint-Alary, Wavering, who looks likely to be suited by a mile and a half.

Although Refuse To Bend is now inexpensively priced at Whitsbury

Age 2-6

Starts 22

Wins 16

Places Earned 5 £3,859,025

Sire: ANABAA. Sire of 82 Stakes winners. In 2011 ANABANDANA Nureyev G1, GOLDIKOVA Blushing Groom G1, AVENUE Kenmare G3.

1st Dam: BORN GOLD by Blushing Groom. Winner at 4 in France. Own sister to GOLD SPLASH. Dam of 11 winners: 1996: GLAMADOUR (f Sanglamore) Winner at 3.

1997: GOLD ROUND (f Caerleon) 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix Cleopatre G3. Dam of GOLDWAKI (Prix du Lys G3), SPECTACULAIRE (Prix Right Royal LR).

1998: Born Something (f Caerleon) 4 wins at 2, 4 and 5 in France, USA, 2nd West Virginia Senate President’s Cup S LR, 3rd Prix de la Grotte G3. Broodmare.

1999: DEMONIOUS (g Dr Devious) 7 wins at 4 to 8.

2000: SUPERFONIC (f Zafonic) Winner at 3.

2001: Red Tune (g Green Tune) 3 wins at 3, 6 and 7 in France, 2nd Prix de Guiche G3.

2002: GOLD SOUND (g Green Tune) 11 wins, Prix de Guiche G3, 2nd Prix Noailles G2.

2004: NEARTICA (f Sadler’s Wells) Winner at 3.

2005: GOLDIKOVA (f Anabaa) Champion older mare in Europe in 2009 and 2010. 15 wins at 2 to 5, 2010 at home, France, USA, Falmouth S G1, Queen Anne S G1, Prix Rothschild G1 (3

times), Prix de la Foret G1, Prix d’Ispahan G1, Prix du Moulin de Longchamp G1, Prix Jacques Le Marois G1, Breeders’ Cup Mile G1 (3 times), 2nd Poule d’Essai des Pouliches G1, Prix Jacques Le Marois G1, 3rd Prix de Diane G1, Prix de la Foret G1.

2006: Born Again (f Cape Cross) 2007: OCEAN SEVEN (c Green Tune) Winner at 2.

2008: GALIKOVA (f Galileo) 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix Cleopatre G3.

2010: Anodin (c Anabaa) 2nd Dam: RIVIERE D’OR by Lyphard. 4 wins at 2 and 3 in France Prix Saint-Alary G1, 2nd Prix Marcel Boussac G1, Prix de Diane G1. Dam of GOLD SPLASH (f Blushing Groom: Coronation S G1, Prix Marcel Boussac G1, 3rd Dubai Poule d’Essai des Pouliches G1). Grandam of ROYAL GOD. Broodmare Sire: BLUSHING GROOM. Sire of the dams of 144 Stakes winners. In 2011 - GALIKOVA Galileo G3, CERES HUNT Coronado’s Quest LR. GOLDIKOVA b m 2005 Northern Dancer Danzig Pas de Nom ANABAA b 92 Gay Mecene Balbonella Bamieres Red God Blushing Groom Runaway Bride BORN GOLD ch 91 Lyphard Riviere d’Or Gold River

Nearctic Natalma Admiral’s Voyage Petitioner Vaguely Noble Gay Missile Riverman Bergamasque Nasrullah Spring Run Wild Risk Aimee Northern Dancer Goofed Riverman Glaneuse

In recording a second successive narrow victory in the Prix d’Ispahan, Goldikova took her tally of Gr1 victories to 13 – a figure matched only

by America’s Zenyatta and the New Zealand-bred Sunline among the world’s most prolific distaff performers.

Her total has been bettered only by the legendary American geldings John Henry (16 wins at the highest level) and Forego (14), and the Aussie superstar Kingston Town (14). The daughter of Anabaa is now two Gr1 wins ahead of Dahlia and Serena’s Song and three ahead of Miesque, the mare to whom she has routinely been compared, because she was ridden by Freddie Head, the trainer of Goldikova.

Goldikova’s dam Born Gold wasn’t nearly as talented as her sister Gold Splash, who was good enough to win the Prix Marcel Boussac and the Coronation Stakes. Born Gold, on the other hand, had to travel to Jallais in the French Provinces to get her head in front, but that hasn’t stopped her outshining her older sister as a broodmare.

Goldikova is one of four Group winners out of Born Gold and there is a good chance that the youngest of the four – Galileo’s Prix Cleopatre winner Galikova – will also develop into a Gr1 winner.

Goldikova is inbred 3 x 4 to Northern Dancer through Danzig and Lyphard. Her third dam Gold River produced only four foals, but left a legacy worthy of a winner of the Prix Royal-Oak, Prix du Cadran and the Arc. Three of Gold River’s foals became stakes winners, and two of them – Riviere d’Or and Goldneyev – finished second in a French Classic.

Riviere d’Or took second in the Prix de Diane, having earlier won the Prix Saint-Alary.

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Caulfield on Wavering: “She is Refuse To Bend’s second successive winner of the Prix SaintAlary, after champion Sarafina, a remarkable feat for a stallion whose fee has fallen to £4,500”

87 PRIX VICOMTESSE VIGIER G2 LONGCHAMP. May 22. 4yo+. 3100m.

1. BRIGANTIN (USA) 4 8-11 £63,879 ch c by Cozzene - Banyu Dewi (Poliglote) O-Team Valor B-Team Valor, Mme A Fabre, Denali Stud And Partners TR-A Fabre 2. Dunaden (FR) 5 8-11 £24,655 b h by Nicobar - La Marlia (Kaldounevees) O-Pearl Bloodstock Ltd B-Count Edouard Decazes TR-M Delzangles 3. Marinous (FR) 5 9-0 £11,767 bl h by Numerous - Marende (Panoramic) O-Saeed Nasser Al Romaithi B-David, Julien And Virginie Elias de Proenca TR-F Head Margins Short head, 2. Time 3:31.60. Going Good.

Age 2-4

Starts 12

Wins 4

Places 4

2nd Dam: MACKIE by Summer Squall. 3 wins, Busher H G3, 3rd Ashland S G1. Dam of MR MELLON (c Red Ransom: Arlington Classic S G2), SEEKING THE BEST (c Seeking The Gold: Chunichi Sports Hai Musashino S G3), Danebury Hill (c Danehill: 3rd Solario S G3), Beaucette (f Mr Prospector: 2nd Golden Poppy H). Grandam of KRISTALI. Broodmare Sire: SADLER’S WELLS. Sire of the dams of 252 SWs. In 2011 - STAND TO GAIN Hawk Wing G1, FEARS NOTHING Faltaat G2, BANKABLE Medicean G3, CASTLETHORPE Not A Single Doubt G3, COSMO MEADOW King’s Best G3, I’M A DREAMER Noverre G3, MAWINGO Tertullian G3.

Miswaki TERTULLIAN b 95

Sire: COZZENE. Sire of 68 Stakes winners. In 2011 - BRIGANTIN Poliglote G2.

1st Dam: BANYU DEWI by Poliglote. 3 wins, Kronimus Rennen LR, 2nd Preis der Winterkonigin G3, 3rd Long Island H G2. Dam of 3 winners: 2006: BANERJI (c Gulch) 2 wins 2-3 in France.

2007: BRIGANTIN (c Cozzene) 4 wins, Prix Vicomtesse Vigier G2, Prix de Lutece G3, 2nd Derby du Midi LR, Coupe des Trois Ans LR. 2008: Nobel Winner (c Grand Slam) Winner at 2 in France, 2nd Prix de Guiche G3.

2010: (f Azamour) 2nd Dam: Bennetta by Top Ville. unraced. Dam of BANYUMANIK (c Perugino: Grosser Preis der Dortmunder Wirtschaft G3 (twice), Jaguar-Meile G3), BELLA AMICA (f Black Sam Bellamy: Premio Paolo Mezzanotte LR), Borobudur (g Mister Rock’s: 3rd Badener Steher Cup LR, Mulheim Stehercup LR).

Grandam of BALI’S GUEST, BEIRAMAR, Bolivia.

Broodmare Sire: POLIGLOTE. Sire of the dams of 5 SWs. In 2011 - BRIGANTIN Cozzene G2, MAD SPEED Mad Champ G2, CATCH THE MAD Catcher In The Rye G3.

BRIGANTIN ch c 2007 Fortino II Caro Chambord COZZENE gr 80 Prince John Ride The Trails Wildwook Sadler’s Wells Poliglote Alexandrie BANYU DEWI b 99 Top Ville Bennetta Indigene

Grey Sovereign Ranavalo III Chamossaire Life Hill Princequillo Not Afraid Sir Gaylord Blue Canoe Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Val de L’Orne Apachee High Top Sega Ville Hard To Beat Indienne

88 BAVARIAN CLASSIC G3 MUNICH. May 22. 3yo. 2000m.

1. MAWINGO (GER) 9-2 £27,586 b c by Tertullian - Montfleur (Sadler’s Wells) O/B-Gestut Schlenderhan TR-J Hirchberger 2. Arrigo (GER) 9-2 £9,483 b c by Shirocco - Aiyana (Last Tycoon) O/B-Gestut Schlenderhan TR-J Hirchberger 3. Silvaner (GER) 9-2 £4,741 b c by Lomitas - Suisun (Monsun) O-Frau M Herbert B-Stiftung Gestut Fahrhof TR-P Schiergen Margins Nose, 3. Time 2:07.18. Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 5

Wins 2

Places 3

Earned £36,948

Sire: TERTULLIAN. Sire of 12 Stakes winners. In 2011 - ILLO Konigsstuhl G3, MAWINGO Sadler’s Wells G3, RUSSIAN TANGO Laroche LR. 1st Dam: Montfleur by Sadler’s Wells. ran twice at 3.

Dam of 2 winners: 2007: MOUNTAIN ROSE (f Tiger Hill) Winner at 3.

2008: MAWINGO (c Tertullian) 2 wins at 3 in Germany, Bavarian Classic G3, 3rd Fruhjahrspreis des Bankhauses Metzler G3.

2009: Mystique (f Monsun) unraced to date.

2010: Magali (f Monsun)

Turbaine

Sadler’s Wells MONTFLEUR b 2002 Mackie

Raise A Native Mr Prospector Gold Digger Buckpasser Hopespringseternal Rose Bower Sharpen Up Trempolino Trephine Lombard Allegretta Anatevka Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special Storm Bird Summer Squall Weekend Surprise Graustark Glowing Tribute Admiring

89 GALLINULE S G3 CURRAGH. May 22. 3yo. 10f.

1. ALEXANDER POPE (IRE) 9-1 £29,418 b c by Danehill Dancer - Starship (Galileo) O-Derrick Smith B-T Hirschfeld TR-AP O’Brien 2. Moriarty (IRE) 9-1 £8,599 b c by Clodovil - Justice System (Criminal Type) O-Michael Pescod, Justin Dowley B-Rathasker Stud TR-R Hannon 3. Smartcity (USA) 9-1 £4,073 ch c by Smarty Jones - Gossamer (Seattle Slew) O-Peter Thomas B-Airlie Stud TR-Andrew Oliver Margins 1.75, head. Time 2:08.46 (slow 3.46).

Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 6

SAINT-CLOUD. May 23. 4yo+f&m. 2100m.

1. SARAFINA (FR) 4 9-2 £63,879 b f by Refuse To Bend - Sanariya (Darshaan) O/B-HH The Aga Khan TR-A de Royer-Dupre 2. Announce (GB) 4 8-11 £24,655 ch f by Selkirk - Hachita (Gone West) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-A Fabre 3. One Clever Cat (IRE) 5 8-9 £11,767 b m by One Cool Cat - Burn Baby Burn (King’s Theatre) O-P Hendrickx B-G Mulligan TR-T Clout Margins 2, 1.5. Time 2:10.50. Going Good to soft.

Age 3-4

MAWINGO b c 2008

Earned £153,605

90 PRIX CORRIDA G2

Wins 2

Places 3

Starts 7

Wins 4

Places Earned 3 £1,104,571

Sire: REFUSE TO BEND. Sire of 12 SWs. In 2011 WAVERING Darshaan G1, SARAFINA Darshaan G2.

1st Dam: Sanariya by Darshaan. Dam of 6 winners: 2001: SANADA (f Priolo) Winner at 3 in France.

2002: SANAGORA (f Mujadil) 2 wins at 3 in France.

2003: SANAYA (f Barathea) 4 wins, Prix Casimir Delamarre LR, Cape Verdi S LR, 2nd Prix SaintAlary G1.

2005: Sanjida (f Polish Precedent) Winner at 2, 2nd Prix Charles Laffitte LR, Prix Volterra LR, Prix Occitanie LR, 3rd Prix Cleopatre G3, Prix de Conde G3, Prix Penelope G3.

2006: Sanabyra (f Kahyasi) unraced.

2007: SARAFINA (f Refuse To Bend). 4 wins, Prix de Diane G1, Prix Saint-Alary G1, Prix Corrida G2, 2nd Prix Ganay G1, 3rd Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe G1, Prix Vermeille G1.

2008: SANDAGIYR (c Dr Fong) 2 wins at 3 in France, Prix de Pontarme LR.

Broodmare Sire: GALILEO. Sire of the dams of 3 Stakes winners. In 2011 - ALEXANDER POPE Danehill Dancer G3, SINGLE SPICE Not A Single Doubt LR. ALEXANDER POPE b c 2008 Northern Dancer Danzig Pas de Nom Danehill His Majesty Razyana Spring Adieu DANEHILL DANCER b 93 Atan Sharpen Up Rocchetta Mira Adonde Caro Lettre d’Amour Lianga Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge Galileo Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta STARSHIP b 2003 Secretariat General Assembly Exclusive Dancer Council Rock Green Dancer Dancing Rocks Croda Rossa

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The King’s Best/Sadler’s Wells cross has produced: BEST ALIBI G1, CREACHADOIR G1, RUNAWAY G1, WORKFORCE G1, COSMO MEADOW G2.

WORKFORCE b c 2007 Raise A Native Gold Digger Nureyev Miesque Pasadoble Agio Lombard Promised Lady Espresso Anatevka Almyra Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special Hoist The Flag Alleged Princess Pout Star Appeal Media Luna Sounion Mr Prospector Kingmambo KING’S BEST b 97 Allegretta

Sadler’s Wells SOVIET MOON b 2001

The Refuse To Bend/Darshaan cross has produced: SARAFINA G1, WAVERING G1, GRACE O’MALLEY G3, ALAIYMA LR.

Eva Luna

SARAFINA b f 2007 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells REFUSE TO BEND b 00 Gulch Market Slide Grenzen Shirley Heights Darshaan Delsy SANARIYA b/br 96

2nd Dam: Council Rock by General Assembly. Dam of SUPERSTAR LEO (f College Chapel: Polypipe Flying Childers S G2, 2nd Independent Heinz 57 Phoenix S G1, Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp G1).

Grandam of ENTICING, December Draw.

Broodmare Sire: SADLER’S WELLS. Sire of the dams of 252 Stakes winners. In 2011 - STAND TO GAIN Hawk Wing G1, FEARS NOTHING Faltaat G2, BANKABLE Medicean G3, CASTLETHORPE Not A Single Doubt G3, COSMO MEADOW King’s Best G3, I’M A DREAMER Noverre G3, MAWINGO Tertullian G3, WORKFORCE King’s Best G3.

Broodmare Sire: DARSHAAN. See race 100

Fairy Bridge

1st Dam: STARSHIP by Galileo. 3 wins at 2 and 3.

Dam of 1 winner: 2008: ALEXANDER POPE (c Danehill Dancer) Sold 100,000gns foal at TADEF. 2 wins at 2, Airlie Stud Gallinule S G3, 3rd Dylan Thomas EBF Tetrarch S LR. 2009: Pickled Pelican (c Dylan Thomas) 2010: (c Duke of Marmalade)

2nd Dam: EVA LUNA by Alleged. 4 wins at 4 and 5 Park Hill S G3. Own sister to Petralona. Dam of BRIAN BORU (c Sadler’s Wells: Seabiscuit St Leger S G1, Racing Post Trophy G1, 2nd Irish Field Irish St Leger G1, 3rd Pattison Canadian International S G1 (twice)), MOON SEARCH (f Rainbow Quest: Prix de Royallieu Hotel du Golf Barriere G2), KITTY O’SHEA (f Sadler’s Wells: EBF Park Express S LR), Kushnarenkovo (f Sadler’s Wells: 2nd Kerry Group EBF Noblesse S G3). Grandam of Kissable, Kingdom of Munster, Cinders And Ashes.

2nd Dam: Sanamia by Top Ville. 1 win at 3, 3rd Challenge Race LR.

Earned £52,553

Sire: DANEHILL DANCER. Sire of 126 Stakes winners. In 2011 - ATOMIC FORCE Luskin Star G1, PLANTEUR Giant’s Causeway G1, ALEXANDER POPE Galileo G3, JUSTAROUNDMIDNIGHT Machiavellian G3, BEATRICE AURORE Rainbow Quest LR, UNACCOMPANIED Sadler’s Wells LR, WESTPHALIA Lyphard LR.

2006: EXTREME IMPACT (g Rock of Gibraltar) 2 wins over hurdles at 4 and 5.

2007: WORKFORCE (c King’s Best) 4 wins, Derby S G1, Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe G1, Brigadier Gerard S G3, 2nd Dante S G2.

2008: Spectacle (f Dalakhani) 2009: Moonship (c Halling) unraced to date.

Top Ville Sanamia Santalina

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Mr Prospector Jameela Grenfall My Poly Mill Reef Hardiemma Abdos Kelty High Top Sega Ville Relko Sursum Corda

91 BRIGADIER GERARD S G3

92 HENRY II S G2 SANDOWN PARK. May 26. 4yo+. 16f 78yds.

1. BLUE BAJAN (IRE) 9 9-2 £45,416 b g by Montjeu - Gentle Thoughts (Darshaan) O/B-Dr John Hollowood TR-David O’Meara 2. Montaff (GB) 5 9-2 £17,216 b g by Montjeu - Meshhed (Gulch) O-Barry Walters Catering B-Barry Walters TR-MR Channon 3. Holberg (UAE) 5 9-2 £8,616 b h by Halling - Sweet Willa (Assert) O-Godolphin B-Darley TR-Saeed bin Suroor Margins 2.5, 0.5. Time 3:41.33 (slow 7.33).

Going Good to soft.

Age 2-9

Starts 56

Wins 12

Places 21

Earned £354,186

SANDOWN PARK. May 26. 4yo+. 10f 7yds.

1. WORKFORCE (GB) 4 9-7 £28,385 b c by King’s Best - Soviet Moon (Sadler’s Wells) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-Sir Michael Stoute 2. Poet (GB) 6 9-0 £10,760 b h by Pivotal - Hyabella (Shirley Heights) O-HE Sheikh Sultan Bin Khalifa Al Nahyan B-Meon Valley Stud TR-CG Cox 3. Jan Vermeer (IRE) 4 9-0 £5,385 b c by Montjeu - Shadow Song (Pennekamp) O-M Tabor, D Smith, Mrs J Magnier B-Shadow Song Syndicate TR-AP O’Brien Margins 1, 11. Time 2:09.97 (slow 2.97).

Going Good to soft.

Age 2-4

Starts 6

Wins 4

Places Earned 1 £2,885,286

Sire: KING’S BEST. Sire of 39 Stakes winners. In 2011 - COSMO MEADOW Sadler’s Wells G3, WORKFORCE Sadler’s Wells G3.

1st Dam: Soviet Moon by Sadler’s Wells. unraced.

Own sister to BRIAN BORU, KITTY O’SHEA and Kushnarenkovo. Dam of 3 winners: 2005: ROCKET LAUNCH (c Oasis Dream) 4 wins at 3 to 5 in Greece.

Sire: MONTJEU. Sire of 99 Stakes winners. In 2011 BLUE BAJAN Darshaan G2, POUR MOI Darshaan G2, RECITAL Kendor G2, ASKAR TAU Acatenango G3, GOLDEN PARACHUTE Volksraad G3, ST NICHOLAS ABBEY Sure Blade G3, FAME AND GLORY Shirley Heights LR, MASKED MARVEL Mark of Esteem LR, MONTAHLIA Zabeel LR, MR TIPSY Casual Lies LR, BUDAPEST Doyoun LR, ERADICATE Indian Ridge LR, HURRICANE FLY Kenmare LR, NOBLE PRINCE Dashing Blade LR. 1st Dam: Gentle Thoughts by Darshaan. Own sister to FIRECREST. Dam of 5 winners: 2000: Sadler’s Pride (g Sadler’s Wells) 2002: BLUE BAJAN (g Montjeu) 12 wins, Henry II S G2, 2nd Yorkshire Cup G2 (twice), Huxley S G3, Churchill S LR, Winter Derby Trial S LR, 3rd Gala S LR, Swinton H Hurdle G3, 3rd Fighting Fifth Hurdle G1, Christmas Hurdle G1.

2003: PICACHO (f Sinndar) 4 wins. Broodmare.

2004: NAUGHTY THOUGHTS (f Grand Lodge) 4 wins at 4.

2005: BLACK OR RED (g Cape Cross) 2 wins at 4.

2006: AINE’S DELIGHT (f King’s Best) 5 wins.

2009: (c Kayf Tara) 2nd Dam: TREFOIL by Blakeney. 3 wins at 3 and 4

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DATA BOOK STAKES RESULTS

European Pattern in France. Dam of FIRECREST (f Darshaan: Galtres S LR). Grandam of NOBLE OPINION. Third dam of SET ALIGHT.

94 PREMIO CARLO VITTADINI G2 MILAN. May 29. 3yo+. 1600m.

Broodmare Sire: DARSHAAN. Sire of the dams of 165 SWs. In 2011 - WAVERING Refuse To Bend G1, BLUE BAJAN Montjeu G2, POUR MOI Montjeu G2, SARAFINA Refuse To Bend G2, CLAREMONT Sadler’s Wells LR, DREAM PEACE Dansili LR, GENKI Shinko Forest LR, SANDAGIYR Dr Fong LR, SIR EAGLES Diamond Green LR, PRINCETON PLAINS Tagula LR. The Montjeu/Darshaan cross has produced: HONOLULU G1, BLUE BAJAN G2, POUR MOI G2, LION SANDS G3.

BLUE BAJAN b g 2002 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge MONTJEU b 96 Top Ville Floripedes Toute Cy Shirley Heights Darshaan Delsy GENTLE THOUGHTS b 95 Blakeney Trefoil First Bloom

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special High Top Sega Ville Tennyson Adele Toumignon Mill Reef Hardiemma Abdos Kelty Hethersett Windmill Girl Primera Flower Dance

93 JOHN OF GAUNT S G3 HAYDOCK PARK. May 28. 4yo+. 7f.

1. THE CHEKA (IRE) 5 9-0 £28,385 b g by Xaar - Veiled Beauty (Royal Academy) O-Anthony Pye-Jeary, Mel Smith B-James Robert Mitchell TR-Eve Johnson Houghton 2. Regal Parade (GB) 7 9-0 £10,760 ch g by Pivotal - Model Queen (Kingmambo) O-Dab Hand Racing B-Highclere Stud, Harry Herbert TR-D Nicholls 3. Doncaster Rover (USA) 5 9-0 £5,385 b h by War Chant - Rebridled Dreams (Unbridled’s Song) O-P Holling, I Raeburn, S Halsall, S Bolland B-Coffeepot Stable TR-David Brown Margins 1.25, short head. Time 1:29.37 (slow 4.07).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-5

Starts 13

Wins 3

Places 6

Earned £97,550

1. WORTHADD (IRE) 4 9-7 £60,344 b c by Dubawi - Wigman (Rahy) O-Incolinx B-Compagnia Generale TR-V Caruso 2. Vanjura (GER) 4 9-4 £26,551 ch f by Areion - Venia Legendi (Zinaad) O-M Barth B-J-C Haimet, J-P Liberge TR-R Dzubasz 3. Rockhorse (IRE) 6 9-5 £14,482 ch g by Rock of Gibraltar - Maelalong (Maelstrom Lake) O-Aldo & Carlo Borsani B-Camma Sas TR-B Grizzetti Margins 3, short neck. Time 1:36.80. Going Good.

Age 2-4

Starts 11

Broodmare Sire: ROYAL ACADEMY. Sire of the dams of 90 SWs. In 2011 - THE PARTY STAND Thorn Park G1, HEART OF DREAMS Show A Heart G2, JOHANN ZOFFANY Galileo G2, VOO LIVRE Northern Afleet G2, HITCHENS Acclamation G3, THE CHEKA Xaar G3, UNO AMORE MIO Signal Tap G3.

THE CHEKA b g 2006 Mr Prospector Secrettame The Minstrel Zaizafon Mofida Sir Gaylord Sir Ivor Attica Traffic Judge Best In Show Stolen Hour Northern Dancer Nijinsky Flaming Page Crimson Satan Crimson Saint Bolero Rose Red God Blushing Groom Runaway Bride Right Tack Mofida Wold Lass Gone West Zafonic XAAR b 95 Monroe

Royal Academy VEILED BEAUTY b 2000 Model Bride

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Earned £562,109

1st Dam: WIGMAN by Rahy. 3 wins at 3 and 4 in Italy. Dam of 1 winner: 2006: (c Xaar) 2007: WORTHADD (c Dubawi) 8 wins, Derby Italiano G2, Premio Carlo Vittadini G2, Premio Ribot G2, Premio Parioli G3, Premio Gardone LR, 2nd Lockinge S G1, 3rd Premio Vittorio di Capua G1.

2009: Wognan (c One Cool Cat) 2nd Dam: URJWAN by Seattle Slew. 1 win at 3. Dam of HISTORIC (g Sadler’s Wells: Prestige Novices’ Hurdle G2, Long Distance Hurdle G1. Grandam of DAI JIN. Broodmare Sire: RAHY. Sire of the dams of 81 Stakes winners. In 2011 - WORTHADD Dubawi G2, DOUBLES PARTNER Rock Hard Ten G3, RAHY’S ATTORNEY Crown Attorney G3, SCHRAMSBERG Storm Cat G3, SURFRIDER Dansili G.

Mr Prospector Con Game Shareef Dancer Colorado Dancer Fall Aspen Shirley Heights Deploy Slightly Dangerous Dancing Brave Jawaher High Tern Red God Blushing Groom Runaway Bride Halo Glorious Song Ballade Bold Reasoning Seattle Slew My Charmer Northern Dancer White Star Line Fast Line

Lomitas/Danehill cross has produced: DANEDREAM G2, Rosa di Brema G1, Gweebarra G3.

DANEDREAM b f 2008 Nijinsky Niniski Virginia Hills LOMITAS ch 88 Surumu La Colorada La Dorada Danzig Danehill Razyana DANEDROP b 99 High Top Rose Bonbon Lady Berry

Northern Dancer Flaming Page Tom Rolfe Ridin’ Easy Literat Surama Kronzeuge Love In Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Derring-Do Camenae Violon d’Ingres Moss Rose II

96 OLEANDER-RENNEN G3

Seeking The Gold

DUBAWI b 2002 Zomaradah

WIGMAN b 2000 Urjwan

BADEN-BADEN. May 29. 4yo+. 3200m.

1. TRES ROCK DANON (FR) 5 9-2 £27,586 b h by Rock of Gibraltar - Tres Ravi (Monsun) O-Stall DíAngelo B-Haras De Chevotel, Morton Bloodstock TR-W Hickst 2. Earlsalsa (GER) 7 9-0 £9,483 b h by Kingsalsa - Earthly Paradise (Dashing Blade) O-Blankenese B-H Gutschow TR-C Von Der Recke 3. Flamingo Fantasy (GER) 6 8-11 £4,741 ch h Fantastic Light - Flamingo Road (Acatenango) O/B-Gestut Park Wiedingen TR-S Smrczek Margins Head, 0.75. Time 3:27.25. Going Good.

Age 3-5

95 OAKS D’ITALIA G2

Danzig Danehill Razyana ROCK OF GIBRALTAR b 99 Be My Guest Offshore Boom Push A Button Konigsstuhl Monsun Mosella

Broodmare Sire: DANEHILL. Sire of the dams of 164 SWs. In 2011 - ALOHA Encosta de Lago G1, DREAMAWAY More Than Ready G1, FRANKEL Galileo G1, GOLDEN LILAC Galileo G1, RODERIC O’CONNOR Galileo G1, SEPOY Elusive Quality G1, SHOCKING Street Cry G1, DANEDREAM Lomitas G2, DUNCAN Dalakhani G2, ELITE FALLS More Than Ready G2, DO YOU THINK Starcraft G3, FALINO Fusaichi Pegasus G3, NEEDS FURTHER Encosta de Lago G3, ONE LAST DANCE Encosta de Lago G3, PRECIOUS LORRAINE Encosta de Lago G3, SPLASH POINT Street Cry G3, WINTER BURST Western Winter G3, AGISTER Mossman LR, BENFICA Lonhro LR, EMMROOZ Red Ransom LR, IRONSTEIN Zabeel LR, LUDKA Singspiel LR, MR BIG Elusive Quality LR, OLDER THAN TIME Don Eduardo LR, PINWHEEL Lonhro LR, REEM Galileo LR.

WORTHADD b c 2007 Dubai Millennium

TRES ROCK DANON b h 2006

2nd Dam: Rose Bonbon by High Top. 1 win at 3 in France, 2nd Prix de Thiberville LR. Grandam of ROSEANNA, Saratoga Black. Third dam of Malinche.

The Dubawi/Rahy cross has produced: WORTHADD G1, Havane Smoker G1.

Rahy

2nd Dam: Model Bride by Blushing Groom. unraced.

Dam of ARABRIDE (f Unfuwain: Prix de la Calonne LR). Grandam of REGAL PARADE.

Places 3

Sire: DUBAWI. Sire of 27 Stakes winners. In 2011 MONTEROSSO Barathea G2, WORTHADD Rahy G2, DUBAWI HEIGHTS Suave Dancer G3, PERFECT TRIBUTE Invincible Spirit G3.

Sire: XAAR. Sire of 29 SWs. In 2011 - XTENSION Grand Lodge G1, THE CHEKA Royal Academy G3.

1st Dam: Veiled Beauty by Royal Academy. ran on the flat in France at 3. Dam of 3 winners: 2005: VETTORENJOY (g Vettori) Winner at 3.

2006: THE CHEKA (g Xaar) Sold 62,000gns foal, 58,000gns yearling. 3 wins, John of Gaunt S G3, 2nd Gladness S G3, Solario S G3, 3rd Bet365 Mile G2.

2007: (f Noverre) 2008: AZLAA (f Dubawi) Winner at 2.

2009: (f Byron)

Wins 8

2008: DANEDREAM (f Lomitas) Sold 7,585gns 2yo.

2 wins, Oaks d’Italia G2, 3rd Derby Italiano G2, Preis der Winterkonigin G3, Criterium du FEE LR, Oppenheim-Rennen LR. 2009: (c Soldier Hollow)

Starts 12

Wins 6

Places 3

Earned £122,764

TRES RAVI br 97 Gay Fandango Tres Magnifique Toscadora

97 BALLYCORUS S G3 LEOPARDSTOWN. May 29. 3yo+. 7f.

1. BEWITCHED (IRE) 4 9-9 £32,220 gr f by Dansili - Abbatiale (Kaldoun) O-Mrs John Magnier B-JC Coude TR-C O’Brien 2. Zoffany (IRE) 3 9-3 £9,418 b c by Dansili - Tyranny (Machiavellian) O-M Tabor, D Smith, Mrs J Magnier B-Epona Bloodstock Ltd TR-AP O’Brien 3. Glor Na Mara (IRE) 3 8-12 £4,461 b c by Leroidesanimaux - Sister Angelina (Saint Ballado) O-Mrs JS Bolger B/TR-JS Bolger Margins 1.25, short head. Time 1:30.55 (slow 5.25).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-4

Starts 15

MILAN. May 29. 3yof. 2200m.

Age 2-3

Starts 8

Wins 2

Places 5

Earned £284,870

Sire: LOMITAS. Sire of 51 Stakes winners. In 2011 DANEDREAM Danehill G2, LOCAL HERO Cagliostro LR, SALESIN Ride The Rails LR. 1st Dam: Danedrop by Danehill. unraced. Dam of 3 winners: 2003: (f King Charlemagne) 2004: VALDAN (g Val Royal) 4 wins at 2, 4 and 5.

2005: Accused (g Xaar) 2006: Danestorm (c Soviet Star) unraced.

2007: DANESTAR (f Medicean) Winner in Hungary.

Sire: ROCK OF GIBRALTAR. Sire of 64 SWs. In 2011 - EISHIN OSMAN Luhuk G2, TRES ROCK DANON Monsun G3.

1st Dam: Tres Ravi by Monsun. Winner at 3, 2nd Prix de la Nonette G3. Dam of 4 winners: 2002: Tres Preneur (c Entrepreneur) unraced.

2003: TRES BRAVE (c Fasliyev) Winner at 2.

2004: TRES FINE (f Kutub) Winner at 3 in France.

2005: Tres Rapide (f Anabaa Blue) 2 wins, 2nd Prix de Royallieu G2, Grosser Preis der Badischen Unternehmen G2.

2006: TRES ROCK DANON (c Rock of Gibraltar) 6 wins, Grosser Ehrmann Steher Cup G3 (twice), Rossmann Rennen G3, Silbernes Band der Ruhr LR, 2nd Prix Denisy LR. 2007: Tres American Girl (f American Post) 2008: Tres Americanqueen (f American Post) 2009: Tres Dance (f Sinndar) unraced to date.

2nd Dam: Tres Magnifique by Gay Fandango. 1 win at 2, 2nd Ludwig Goebels-Erinnerungsrennen G3, 3rd ARAG Schwarzgold-Rennen G2. Dam of TRES HEUREUX (c Konigsstuhl: G P von Dusseldorf Stadt Sparkasse G2).

Broodmare Sire: MONSUN. BM sire of 9 SWs. In 2011 - TRES ROCK DANON Rock of Gibraltar G3.

Wins 7

Places 3

Earned £191,087

Sire: DANSILI. Sire of 52 SWs. In 2011 - AVIATE Irish River G2, DANDINO Generous G2, DELEGATOR Efisio G2, BEWITCHED Kaldoun G3, EMULOUS Distant View G3, EPIC LOVE Diesis G3, FAMOUS NAME Quest For Fame G3, SURFRIDER Rahy G3.

1st Dam: ABBATIALE by Kaldoun. 3 wins, Prix Penelope G3, 2nd Prix de Diane G1. Own sister to AUBERGADE. Dam of 5 winners: 2000: Atmosphere (f Barathea) Broodmare.

2001: APOSTROPHE (f Barathea) Winner at 4.

2002: ARLINGTON (c Desert Prince) Winner at 3.

2003: AVORIAZ (g Desert Prince) Winner at 4.

2006: PETER TCHAIKOVSKY (g Dansili) 2 wins 2-3.

2007: BEWITCHED (f Dansili) Sold 112,044gns yearling. 7 win, Ballycorus S G3, Bengough S G3, Renaissance S G3, Sandy Lane S LR, Sweet Mimosa S LR, 3rd Phoenix Sprint S G3, Land O’Burns S LR. 2008: Armoirie (f Azamour) in training.

2009: Attachante (f Teofilo) unraced to date.

2nd Dam: Anna Edes by Fabulous Dancer. Dam of AUBERGADE (f Kaldoun: Prix Rose de Mai LR).

Broodmare Sire: KALDOUN. Sire of the dams of 42 Stakes winners. In 2011 - BEWITCHED Dansili G3.

BEWITCHED gr f 2007 Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Razyana Spring Adieu Ile de Bourbon Kahyasi Kadissya High Line Kerali Sookera Fortino II Caro Chambord Le Haar Katana Embellie Northern Dancer Fabulous Dancer Last of The Line Jim French Abbey Almyre Danzig Danehill

1. DANEDREAM (GER) 8-11 £172,413 b f by Lomitas - Danedrop (Danehill) O-Gestut Burg Eberstein B-Gestut Brummerhof TR-P Schiergen 2. Good Karma (ITY) 8-11 £75,862 b f by Tobougg - Greedy Slewpy (Slewpy) O-Dioscuri Srl B-Deni Srl TR-S Botti 3. Oeuvre d’Art (IRE) 8-11 £41,379 b f by Marju - Midefix (Night Shift) O-Allevamento La Nuova Sbarra B-Soc Finanza Locale Consulting SRL TR-B Grizzetti Margins 6.5, head. Time 2:15.20. Going Good.

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Northern Dancer What A Treat Bold Lad River Lady Dschingis Khan Konigskronung Surumu Monasia Forli Gay Violin Orsini Tosca Bella

DANSILI b 96 Hasili

Kaldoun ABBATIALE gr 95 Anna Edes

98 OAKS S G1 EPSOM DOWNS. June 3. 3yof. 12f 10yds.

1. DANCING RAIN (IRE) 9-0 £184,503 ch f by Danehill Dancer - Rain Flower (Indian Ridge) O-MJ Taylor, LA Taylor B-Swettenham Stud TR-WJ Haggas 2. Wonder of Wonders (USA) 9-0 £69,940 b f by Kingmambo - All Too Beautiful (Sadler’s Wells) O-M Tabor B-Liberty Bloodstock TR-AP O’Brien 3. Izzi Top (GB) 9-0 £35,003 b f by Pivotal - Zee Zee Top (Zafonic) O-Helena Springfield Ltd B-Meon Valley Stud TR-JHM Gosden

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Caulfield on Pour Moi: “It is only to be expected that the latest Derby winner is inbred 3 x 4 to Northern Dancer, as the great stallion has exerted such a huge influence on the race”

Margins 0.75, 4. Time 2:41.73 (slow 6.43).

Going Good.

Age Starts Wins Places Earned 2-3 4 2 2 £196,342 Sire: DANEHILL DANCER. Sire of 127 SWs. In 2011 - ATOMIC FORCE Luskin Star G1, DANCING RAIN Indian Ridge G1, PLANTEUR Giant’s Causeway G1, ALEXANDER POPE Galileo G3, JUSTAROUNDMIDNIGHT Machiavellian G3.

1st Dam: Rain Flower by Indian Ridge. unraced. Dam of 5 winners: 2002: SUMORA (f Danehill) 2 wins, St Hugh’s S LR. Dam of MAYBE, 2 wins, Chesham Stakes LR. 2003: Double Rainbow (g Sadler’s Wells) ran once.

2004: FLEETING SHADOW (c Danehill) Winner at 2.

2005: MIKHAIL FOKINE (c Sadler’s Wells) 2 wins.

2006: CAPTAIN DANCER (g Danehill Dancer) 2 wins at 2 and 4.

2007: (c Sadler’s Wells) 2008: DANCING RAIN (f Danehill Dancer) Sold 184,927gns yearling. 2 wins at 3, Oaks S G1, 2nd Swettenham Stud Fillies’ Trial S LR. 2009: (c Danehill Dancer) 2010: (c Danehill Dancer) 2nd Dam: Rose of Jericho by Alleged. unraced. Dam of DR DEVIOUS (c Ahonoora: Derby S G1, Three Chimneys Dewhurst S G1, Irish Champion S G1, 2nd Irish Derby G1), ARCHWAY (c Thatching: Greenlands S G3, 3rd King’s Stand S G2), ROYAL COURT (c Sadler’s Wells: Ormonde S G3, 3rd Great Voltigeur S G2), SHINKO KING (c Fairy King: Takamatsunomiya Hai LR, Fuji S LR, 3rd Hong Kong International Bowl G2), Hill Country (c Danehill: 2nd Troy S LR, Autumn S LR, 3rd Royal Lodge S G2). Grandam of SUZUKA PHOENIX. Third dam of AWESOME PLANET. Broodmare Sire: INDIAN RIDGE. Sire of the dams of 46 Stakes winners. In 2011 - DANCING RAIN Danehill Dancer G1, EXCELEBRATION Exceed And Excel G2, INDIAN DAYS Daylami G3.

The Danehill Dancer/Indian Ridge cross has produced: DANCING RAIN G1, MEDICINE PATH G1, A Mind of Her Own G3, Ooh Aah Camara LR.

Guineas winners. However, Danehill Dancer occasionally comes up with good middle-distance performers, such as Planteur, Ave, Anna Pavlova, Contredanse, Rebel Soldier, Grand Ducal, Ice Queen and Wajir. The broodmare sires of these exceptions include In The Wings, Giant’s Causeway, Caerleon, Nashwan and Shirley Heights – very different types from Indian Ridge. However, Indian Ridge was a grandson of Lorenzaccio, a high-class middle-distance horse.

This helped him follow the example of his sire by siring the occasional middle-distance stayer, such as Relaxed Gesture, Patkai, Definite Article, Imperial Stride, Indian Creek, High Pitched and Monturani.

Rain Flower never raced, but she was a three-parts-sister to Ahonoora’s son Dr Devious, winner of the Derby.

Their dam, Rose Of Jericho, was by Alleged, the dual Arc winner who is the likeliest source of Dancing Rain’s stamina. Rose Of Jericho was an exceptional broodmare, her other talented sons being Archway, Royal Court and Shinko King.

This female line is truly illustrious, as Dancing Rain’s third dam Rose Red was a half-sister by Northern Dancer to Critique and to the successful broodmare Cambretta (second dam of Markofdistinction). The next dam, Cambrienne, sold for a record price as a yearling, her attraction being that she was a daughter of the Dewhurst Stakes winner Torbella.

DANCING RAIN ch f 2008 Danzig Danehill Razyana DANEHILL DANCER b 93 Sharpen Up Mira Adonde Lettre d’Amour Ahonoora Indian Ridge Hillbrow RAIN FLOWER ch 97 Alleged Rose of Jericho Rose Red

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Atan Rocchetta Caro Lianga Lorenzaccio Helen Nichols Swing Easy Golden City Hoist The Flag Princess Pout Northern Dancer Cambrienne

What can you expect when a daughter of top sprinter Indian Ridge is mated to a son of leading sprinter-miler Danehill? The first five Group winners bred to this pattern were Nahoodh (a dual Gr1 winner over a mile by Clodovil), Excelebration (winner of the German 2,000 Guineas by Exceed And Excel), Diamond Diva (a Gr2 winner over a mile by Dansili), Theann (a six-furlong Gr3 winner by Rock Of Gibraltar) and Le Cadre Noir (a Gr3 five-furlong winner by Danetime).

When Rain Flower, another Indian Ridge mare, visited Danehill the result was Sumora, a filly who earned a Timeform rating of 109 over five furlongs and is the dam of Chesham Stakes winner Maybe, by Galileo. So how come Rain Flower’s Danehill Dancer filly Dancing Rain had enough stamina to win the Oaks?

Danehill Dancer never won beyond seven furlongs and his previous Classic winners – Speciosa, Mastercraftsman and Again – were

99 CORONATION CUP G1 EPSOM DOWNS. June 3. 4yo+. 12f 10yds.

1. ST NICHOLAS ABBEY (IRE) 4 9-0 £141,925 b c by Montjeu - Leaping Water (Sure Blade) O-D Smith, Mrs J Magnier, M Tabor B-Barton Bloodstock, Villiers Syndicate TR-AP O’Brien 2. Midday (GB) 5 8-11 £53,800 b m by Oasis Dream - Midsummer (Kingmambo) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-HRA Cecil 3. Clowance (GB) 6 8-11 £26,925 b m by Montjeu - Freni (Sternkoenig) O-Seasons Holidays B-B Hurley TR-R Charlton Margins 1, 2. Time 2:37.18 (slow 1.88).

Going Good.

Age 2-4

Starts 7

Wins 5

Places 1

Earned £385,182

Sire: MONTJEU. Sire of 100 SWs. In 2011 - POUR MOI Darshaan G1, ST NICHOLAS ABBEY Sure Blade G1, BLUE BAJAN Darshaan G2, RECITAL Kendor G2, ASKAR TAU Acatenango G3, GOLDEN PARACHUTE Volksraad G3.

1st Dam: Leaping Water by Sure Blade. unraced.

Dam of 4 winners: 1995: MEKLAND (c Pips Pride). 2 wins at 2 and 3.

1996: (f Pips Pride). died.

1997: Daylily (f Pips Pride) Broodmare.

1998: GRAMMARIAN (g Definite Article) 4 wins at 3 and 4 in USA, San Gabriel H G2, Sunset H G2, 2nd Hollywood Turf Cup S G1.

1999: Way Out of Bounds (f Boundary) unraced.

2000: (c King of Kings). died.

2001: Esher (f King of Kings) unraced.

2004: Highwater Dancer (f Sadler’s Wells) unraced.

2005: (f Sadler’s Wells). died as a foal.

2006: CASCATA (f Montjeu) Winner at 2.

2007: ST NICHOLAS ABBEY (c Montjeu) Sold 200,000gns yearling. Champion 2yr old in Europe in 2009. 5 wins at 2 and 4, Coronation Cup G1, Racing Post Trophy G1, Beresford S G2, Ormonde S G3, 3rd Alleged S LR.

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2nd Dam: FLAMENCO WAVE by Desert Wine. 2 wins at 2 Moyglare Stud S G1. Dam of BALLINGARRY (c Sadler’s Wells: Criterium de SaintCloud G1, Canadian International S G1, 2nd Derby Italiano G1, 3rd Irish Derby G1, Irish St Leger G1), STARBOROUGH (c Soviet Star: St James’s Palace S G1, Prix Jean Prat G1, 2nd Sussex S G1), ARISTOTLE (c Sadler’s Wells: Racing Post Trophy G1), SPANISH FALLS (f Belmez: Prix de Royaumont G3, 3rd Prix de Malleret G2), FATHER SKY (g Dancing Brave: St Modwen Classic Novices’ Hurdle LR). Grandam of ANNABELLE’S CHARM, Purple Sage.

Broodmare Sire: SURE BLADE. Sire of the dams of 13 SWs. In 2011 - ST NICHOLAS ABBEY Montjeu G1.

ST NICHOLAS ABBEY b c 2007 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge MONTJEU b 96 Top Ville Floripedes Toute Cy Kris Sure Blade Double Lock LEAPING WATER ch 90 Desert Wine Flamenco Wave Armada Way

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special High Top Sega Ville Tennyson Adele Toumignon Sharpen Up Doubly Sure Home Guard St Padina Damascus Anne Campbell Sadair Hurry Call

Sadler’s Wells exerted an enormous influence on the Coronation Cup, landing the prize with In The Wings, Saddlers’ Hall, Opera House, Daliapour, Yeats and Ask. Now his stallion sons are keeping up the good work, supplying four of the last five winners. Montjeu is responsible for three of the four, now that St Nicholas Abbey has worn down Midday to follow in the footsteps of Scorpion and Fame And Glory.

St Nicholas Abbey’s victory, following his wide-margin success in the Ormonde Stakes, has restored a reputation which took a severe knock when he disappointed as hot favourite for the 2010 2,000 Guineas.

St Nicholas Abbey ranks alongside Jan Vermeer and Joshua Tree as one of three Gr1 winners from Montjeu’s 2007 crop. This crop was sired at a substantially increased fee following the Classic-winning exploits of Motivator and Hurricane Run. Motivator and Hurricane Run both had Sharpen Up mares as their second dams, while the Derby second Walk In The Park had a second dam

by Sharpen Up’s son Kris. It therefore made sense to send St Nicholas Abbey’s dam Leaping Water to Montjeu. Not only is she by Kris’s son Sure Blade but she is also out of Flamenco Wave, a mare whose matings with Sadler’s Wells produced Group 1 winners Aristotle and Ballingarry. Flamenco Wave also produced the St James’s Palace Stakes winner Starborough.

Flamenco Wave won the Moyglare Stud Stakes. She was covered by the top-class miler Sure Blade, who failed as a stallion and consequently Leaping Water sold for only 3,200gns as an unraced three-year-old. Flamenco Wave herself was sold for only 45,000gns as a nine-year-old, shortly before her string of Group winners sent her reputation soaring. Leaping Water also did well, producing the American Gr2 winner Grammarian.

100 DERBY S G1 EPSOM DOWNS. June 4. 3yo. 12f 10yds.

1. POUR MOI (IRE) 9-0 £709,625 b c by Montjeu - Gwynn (Darshaan) O-Mrs J Magnier, M Tabor, D Smith B-Lynch Bages Ltd TR-A Fabre 2. Treasure Beach (GB) 9-0 £269,000 b c by Galileo - Honorine (Mark of Esteem) O-D Smith, Mrs J Magnier, M Tabor B-Ashley House Stud TR-AP O’Brien 3. Carlton House (USA) 9-0 £134,625 b c by Street Cry - Talented (Bustino) O-The Queen B-Darley TR-Sir Michael Stoute Margins Head, 0.75. Time 2:34.54 (fast 0.76).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-3

Starts 5

Wins 3

Places 1

Earned £798,893

Sire: MONTJEU. See race 99.

1st Dam: Gwynn by Darshaan. unraced. Dam of 3 winners: 2004: May Kiersey (f Sadler’s Wells) unraced.

2005: GAGNOA (f Sadler’s Wells) 3 wins, Prix des Reservoirs G3, Prix Penelope G3, 2nd Prix de Diane G1, Prix Saint-Alary G1, 3rd Irish Oaks G1.

2006: RENDEZVOUS (c Sadler’s Wells) 3 wins 2-5 in France and Hungary.

2008: POUR MOI (c Montjeu) 3 wins, Derby S G1, Prix Greffulhe G2, 3rd Prix La Force G3.

2009: Kissed (f Galileo) unraced to date.

2010: (f Galileo) 2nd Dam: VICTORESS by Conquistador Cielo. 1 win at 3. Grandam of FELICIA, ATLANTIC WAVES. Broodmare Sire: DARSHAAN. Sire of the dams of 165 Stakes winners. In 2011 - POUR MOI Montjeu G1, WAVERING Refuse To Bend G1, BLUE BAJAN Montjeu G2, SARAFINA Refuse To Bend G2.

The Montjeu/Darshaan cross has produced: HONOLULU G1, POUR MOI G1, BLUE BAJAN G2, LION SANDS G3, AYAM ZAMAN LR. POUR MOI b c 2008 Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special High Top Top Ville Sega Ville Tennyson Toute Cy Adele Toumignon Mill Reef Shirley Heights Hardiemma Abdos Delsy Kelty Mr Prospector Conquistador Cielo K D Princess Northern Dancer Royal Statute Queen’s Statute Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells MONTJEU b 96 Floripedes

Darshaan GWYNN b 97 Victoress

Northern Dancer exerted such a huge influence on the Derby that it is only to be expected that the latest winner, Pour Moi, is inbred 3 x 4 to the great Windfields Farm stallion – as is Authorized, another of Montjeu’s three Derby winners (Frozen Fire, one of Montjeu’s three Irish Derby winners, is inbred 3 x 3).

The second line of Northern Dancer in Pour Moi’s pedigree comes via his third dam, the highly accomplished broodmare Royal Statute. Bred by Windfields supremo EP Taylor, Royal Statute first made a name for herself in Britain in 1976, when her first foal, Konafa, finished second in the 1,000 Guineas. The next daughter of Royal Statute to arrive in Britain was her 1979 filly by Windfields’ Derby winner Snow Knight. By this time Royal Statute’s Buckpasser colt Akureyri was already showing smart form and it cost Sheikh Mohammed $325,000 to acquire the Snow Knight yearling.

Named Awaasif, she proved an

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European Pattern excellent three-year-old, winning the Yorkshire Oaks in addition to finishing fourth in the Oaks and a close third in the Arc. She was also fourth in the 1983 King George.

Royal Lorna, the next daughter of Royal Statute to race in Europe, earned a Timeform rating of 110.

Inevitably, Royal Statute’s subsequent daughters were much in demand.

Sheikh Hamdan paid $900,000 for her Spectacular Bid filly Zumurrudah, who won a mile maiden, and Darley paid $1,100,000 for her Conquistador Cielo filly Victoress.

Victoress won over 11 furlongs in the French Provinces but her pedigree ensured she received every chance as a broodmare. However, she was sent to the sales as a 12-year-old, carrying a foal by Darshaan. She cost Barronstown Stud only 37,000gns but the Darshaan foal she was carrying – Pour Moi’s dam Gwynn – was sold for 250,000gns as a yearling.

Although Victoress produced only two winners, three of her daughters have produced stakes winners and at least one Group winner. The most famous of them are Awaasif, who ranks as the dam of Snow Bride and second dam of Lammtarra and Konafa. This daughter of Damascus produced three Group winners and one of those Group winners was Korveya, the Riverman mare who sold for $7 million after producing the Classic winners Hector Protector, Shanghai and Bosra Sham.

101 PRIX DU JOCKEY CLUB G1 CHANTILLY. June 5. 3yoc&f. 2100m.

1. RELIABLE MAN (GB) 9-2 £738,879 gr c by Dalakhani - On Fair Stage (Sadler’s Wells) O-Pride Racing Club B-NP Bloodstock Ltd TR-A de Royer-Dupre 2. Bubble Chic (FR) 9-2 £295,603 b c Chichicastenango - Bubble Back (Grand Lodge) O-F Tabone, G Botti B-Z Hakam TR-G Botti 3. Baraan (FR) 9-2 £147,802 gr c by Dalakhani - Brusca (Grindstone) O-HH The Aga Khan B-Haras De Son Altesse L’Aga Khan Scea TR-J-C Rouget Margins 0.75, 2. Time 2:07.70. Going Soft.

Age 3

Starts 3

Wins 3

Places 0

Earned £763,879

Sire: DALAKHANI. Sire of 23 Stakes winners. In 2011 - RELIABLE MAN Sadler’s Wells G1, DUNCAN Danehill G2, BARAAN Grindstone G3.

1st Dam: ON FAIR STAGE by Sadler’s Wells. 2 wins, Ruby S LR. Dam of 5 winners: 1998: Opera Rouge (c Darshaan) 1999: POWER OF LOVE (f Zafonic) Winner at 3.

2001: Armfelt (c Darshaan) unraced.

2002: GALE FORCE (c Sinndar) 2 wins, Coupe des Trois Ans LR. 2003: FRENCH OPERA (g Bering) 8 wins, 2nd Game Spirit Chase G2, Future Champion Chase G2.

2005: King’s Charm (c King’s Best) 2006: IMPOSING (c Danehill Dancer) 3 wins.

2007: Salinia (f Rainbow Quest) unplaced.

2008: RELIABLE MAN (c Dalakhani) 3 wins at 3 in France, Prix du Jockey Club G1.

2009: Oh Lady Be Good (f Oasis Dream) unraced.

2nd Dam: FAIR SALINIA by Petingo. 4 wins, Irish Oaks G1, Oaks S G1, Yorkshire Oaks G1, 2nd Cheveley Park S G1, 1000 Guineas S G1. Dam of PERFECT VINTAGE (g Shirley Heights: Prix Quincey G3), PERFECT CIRCLE (f Caerleon: Reference Point Sceptre S LR, 2nd Musidora S G3, Nell Gwyn S G3).

Grandam of DAIWA MEMPHIS.

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Broodmare Sire: SADLER’S WELLS. Sire of the dams of 255 Stakes winners. In 2011 - RELIABLE MAN Dalakhani G1, STAND TO GAIN Hawk Wing G1, FEARS NOTHING Faltaat G2, IMMORTAL VERSE Pivotal G2.

The Dalakhani/Sadler’s Wells cross has produced: CHINESE WHITE G1, CONDUIT G1, RELIABLE MAN G1, DEEM G3, SHREYAS G3, YAHRAB G3.

RELIABLE MAN gr c 2008 Mill Reef Hardiemma Abdos Delsy Kelty Mr Prospector Miswaki Hopespringseternal Crystal Palace Damana Denia Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special Petition Petingo Alcazar Chateaugay Fair Arabella Locust Time Shirley Heights Darshaan DALAKHANI gr 2000 Daltawa

Sadler’s Wells ON FAIR STAGE b 93 Fair Salinia

A day after the Epsom Derby fell to a representative of the Sadler’s WellsDarshaan cross, the reverse cross provided the winner of the Prix du Jockey Club, thanks to Dalakhani’s unbeaten son Reliable Man. The British bookmakers were apparently much more impressed with Pour Moi as an Arc contender than by Reliable Man, with Pour Moi on offer at 4-1 or 5-1 and Reliable Man at 121 or 14-1. However, there is good reason for thinking that Reliable Man has further improvement in him, especially when he tackles a mile and a half. Dalakhani and his sire Darshaan both won the Prix du Jockey Club in its days over a mile and a half, with Dalakhani going on to defeat the likes of High Chaparral and Doyen in the Arc. Both of Dalakhani’s previous Classic winners stayed well, with his King George winner Conduit taking the St Leger and Moonstone the Irish Oaks after finishing second in the Epsom version.

Reliable Man’s second dam Fair Salinia also contested the Oaks and Irish Oaks, and was credited with victory in both, although she crossed the line in second place at the Curragh. Fair Salinia was also runnerup in the 1,000 Guineas but was ideally suited by a mile and a half, as she demonstrated again with her victory in the Yorkshire Oaks.

Reliable Man’s dam On Fair Stage also won over a mile and a half, but later showed she wasn’t devoid of speed, finishing strongly in soft ground to win the Ruby Stakes over a mile.

On Fair Stage’s sire Sadler’s Wells also figures as the broodmare sire of five of Dalakhani’s other stakes winners, headed by Conduit, Chinese White and the Gr3 winners Deem and Shreyas. Reliable Man’s fourth dam Locust Time, a grand-daughter of the celebrated broodmare Judy O’Grady, bred Faraway Son, who was good enough to win the Prix de la Foret and Prix du Moulin, while another son, Liloy, won the Gr2 Prix d’Harcourt.

Their half-sister Lodeve produced Baillamont, while another of Locust Time’s daughters became the second dam of Lyphard’s Wish.

BIG ZEB b g 2001

198 CHAMPION NOVICE HURDLE G1

Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells

PUNCHESTOWN. May 3. 16f. Good to Yielding.

1. SHOT FROM THE HIP (GER) 7 b g Monsun - Sopran Biro (Roi Danzig) O-John P McManus B-E Bec De La MA Paulo Cavagnola TR-EJ O’Grady 2. Hidden Universe (IRE) 5 gr g Linamix - Hint of Humour (Woodman) 3. Far Away So Close (IRE) 6 b g Norwich - Ballyknock Lass (Electric) Age 5-7

Starts 9

Wins 4

Places 3

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

Earned £71,992

Si Si

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

SHOT FROM THE HIP b g 2004 Dschingis Khan Konigsstuhl Konigskronung MONSUN br 90 Surumu Mosella Monasia Danzig Roi Danzig Gdynia SOPRAN BIRO b 93 Alleged Bird Point Bay Street

Tamerlane Donna Diana Tiepoletto Kronung Literat Surama Authi Monacensia Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Sir Ivor Classicist Hoist The Flag Princess Pout Grundy Gliding

The gamble of paying €235,000 for an unbroken Monsun three-year-old at the 2007 Derby Sale is beginning to pay off. Named Shot From The Hip, the gelding made a bright start with bumper victories on his first two starts but heavy defeats in two Gr1 bumpers raised questions about his potential.

Fortunately those defeats proved to be just temporary setbacks and Shot From The Hip became a Gr1 winner on his ninth start, in Punchestown’s Champion Novice Hurdle.

Although Monsun’s stallion sons are proving popular with National Hunt breeders, Monsun hasn’t a long list of important jumping offspring in Britain or Ireland. Foreman, winner of the Maghull Novices’ Chase, is his only other Gr1 winner.

Shot From The Hip’s dam Sopran Biro enjoyed considerable success on the Flat and over jumps in Italy, principally over fences, and she also won over hurdles at Cagnes-sur-Mer. Sopran Biro’s pedigree isn’t that of a jumper.

By Roi Danzig, winner of the Gr2 Dwyer Stakes, she comes from the Pelting family with which the Wigan family did so well. Shot From The Hip’s third dam is Bay Street, winner of the Gr3 Princess Elizabeth Stakes at Epsom. Bay Street produced the Group winners Daarik and Bex, plus three other stakes winners, and Shot From The Hip’s second dam, Bird Point, was a sister to one of them, Law Court.

199 CHAMPION CHASE G1 PUNCHESTOWN. May 3. 16f. Good to Yielding.

1. BIG ZEB (IRE) 10 b g Oscar - Our Siveen (Deep Run) O-PJ Redmond B-L Buttimer TR-Colm A Murphy 2. Sizing Europe (IRE) 9 b g Pistolet Bleu - Jennie Dun (Mandalus) 3. Captain Cee Bee (IRE) 10 b g Germany - Elea Victoria (Sharp Victor) Age Starts Wins Places 5-10 26 11 11 See race 68 in the February issue

Earned £677,239

200 CHAMPION NOVICE CHASE G1 PUNCHESTOWN. May 3. 25f. Good to Yielding.

1. QUITO DE LA ROQUE (FR) 7 b g Saint des Saints - Moody Cloud (Cyborg) O-Gigginstown House Stud B-R Mongin TR-Colm A Murphy 2. Western Charmer (IRE) 9 b/br g Good Thyne - Tulladante (Phardante) 3. Head of The Posse (IRE) 8 b g Supreme Leader - Aussieannie (Arapahos) Age 5-7

Starts 12

Wins 8

Places 4

Earned £200,138

QUITO DE LA ROQUE b g 2004 Green Dancer Cadoudal Come To Sea SAINT DES SAINTS b 98 Pharly Chamisene Tuneria Arctic Tern Cyborg Cadair MOODY CLOUD ch 90 In The Mood Chattannooga Choo Folie Furieuse

Nijinsky Green Valley Sea Hawk II Camarilla Lyphard Comely Tanerko Torrefranca Sea Bird II Bubbling Beauty Sadair Blarney Castle Yelapa Tres Snobe Reddy Boy Cetra

March 20 provided a telling reminder of Saint des Saints’s ability as a stallion, as he supplied three winners and a second at Auteuil, including the Gr3 hurdle winner Monpilou. We have also had a couple more reminders since then, thanks to his seven-yearold son Quito de la Roque. This gelding was scoring his fourth consecutive Graded success – and his sixth win in his last seven starts – when he easily landed Punchestown’s Champion Novice Chase.

Saint des Saints built a record of seven victories, four seconds and a third from 13 completed starts.

Although he was a winner over hurdles and fences at three, it was as a four-year-old that he developed into a four-time Graded winner at up to nearly two and a half miles over hurdles. This fine record goes hand in hand with a classy pedigree. Saint des Saints is by the many-times champion jumping sire Cadoudal and his dam Chamisen was a Gr2 Flat winner from the distinguished Torbella family.

Saint des Saints wasted little time in establishing his potential as a stallion, ranking among the top ten jumping sires in France in both 2008 and 2009. He has no more than 316 foals in his first seven crops and that total includes 38 (largely untried) three-year-olds, 80 two-year-olds and 54 yearlings. In other words, his total of six Graded winners (Quito de la Roque, Saint Macaire, Santa Bamba, Monpilou, Quel Esprit and Me Voici)

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Caulfield on Shot From The Hip: “The gamble of paying €235,000 for an unbroken Monsun three-year-old at the Derby Sale is beginning to pay off – he is now a Grade 1 winner”

and four Listed winners come from a total of fewer than 150 foals.

Quito de la Roque’s dam Moody Cloud, a winner three times at around two miles over jumps, is also the dam of the very smart staying hurdler Kazal (by Villez). Moody Cloud is by the successful jumps stallion Cyborg, who won eight of his 12 starts over jumps as a four-year-old in 1986.

201 PUNCHESTOWN GOLD CUP G1

Life and the talented Grey Guy. Although the second dam Rosy Moon was a half-sister to four stakes winners on the Flat, this family has also produced some fine jumpers.

Rosy Moon’s half-sister Burelia was the second dam of Balasani and another half-sister, Barack, was the second dam of the Grand National runner-up Encore Un Peu. 202 CHAMPION INH FLAT RACE G1

PUNCHESTOWN. May 4. 25f. Good.

PUNCHESTOWN. May 4. 16f. Good.

1. FOLLOW THE PLAN (IRE) 8 b g Accordion - Royal Rosy (Dominion Royale) O-Redgap Partnership B-P Sheehan TR-Oliver McKiernan 2. Vic Venturi (IRE) 11 ch g Old Vic - Carmen Lady (Torus) 3. Rare Bob (IRE) 9 b/br g Bob Back - Cut Ahead (Kalaglow)

1. LOVETHEHIGHERLAW (IRE) 5 ch g Presenting - Markiza (Broken Hearted) O-Gigginstown House Stud B-K Parkhill TR-WP Mullins 2. Waaheb (USA) 4 b/br g Elusive Quality - Nafisah (Lahib) 3. Jenari (IRE) 4 b g Milan - La Noire (Phardante)

Age 4-8

Age 4-5

Starts 26

Wins 7

Places 5

Earned £220,273

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

Starts 4

With both the English raiders, Kauto Star and Nacarat, and the principal Irish hope, Kempes, all running way below their best, the Punchestown Guinness Gold Cup became a rich opportunity for some of the Irishtrained outsiders. The 20-1 Roberto Goldback was a length clear when he came down at the last, leaving Follow The Plan to record the second Gr1 success of his career, at odds of 20-1.

Follow The Plan’s odds reflected the fact that he had previously won only five of his 24 starts under rules (plus his only start in a point-to-point).

However, he is a smart performer, as he had reminded us with a narrow victory over Roberto Goldback in the Gr2 Kinloch Brae Chase earlier in 2011.

Follow The Plan is by the unraced Accordion, an accomplished stallion son of Sadler’s Wells. Accordion’s last foals were born in 2007. His other leading representatives over fences include Albertas Run, Flagship Uberalles, Accordion Etoile, Billyvoddan, Darkness, Weird Al, Blazing Tempo, The Tother One, An Accordion, Battlecry, His Song and Finger Onthe Pulse. He also sired some very smart hurdlers, Dato Star, Feathard Lady and Get Me Out Of Here being prime examples.

Follow The Plan’s dam Royal Rosy won six times at up to 22 furlongs over hurdles and fences, and is a halfsister to another talented hurdler/chaser in Rouyan. Her halfsister Rasmara has also done well as a National Hunt broodmare, notably producing the very useful Colourful

Places 1

Busted Mtoto Amazer PRESENTING br 92 Persian Bold D’Azy Belle Viking Dara Monarch Broken Hearted Smash MARKIZA ch 2002 High Line High Board Matchboard

Earned £49,056

Crepello Sans Le Sou Mincio Alzara Bold Lad Relkarunner Riverman Vallarta Realm Sardara Busted Ash Lawn High Hat Time Call Straight Deal Royal Alliance

204 RYANAIR NOVICE CHASE G1

PUNCHESTOWN. May 5. 24f. Good.

PUNCHESTOWN. May 5. 16f. Good to Yielding.

1. QUEVEGA (FR) 7 b m Robin des Champs - Vega IV (Cap Martin) O-Hammer & Trowel Syndicate B-P Rives TR-WP Mullins 2. Mourad (IRE) 6 ch g Sinndar - Mouramara (Kahyasi) 3. Carlito Brigante (IRE) 5 b g Haafhd - Desert Magic (Green Desert)

1. CAPTAIN CHRIS (IRE) 7 b g King’s Theatre - Function Dream (Strong Gale) O-Mrs D Whateley B-Mrs N Walsh TR-P Hobbs 2. Realt Dubh (IRE) 7 b g Beneficial - Suez Canal (Exit To Nowhere) 3. Saludos (IRE) 7 b g Bob Back - Katie’s Cracker (Rambo Dancer)

Age 3-7

There is still money to be made breeding jumpers, as Ken Parkhill of Castletown Quarry Stud in County Meath has discovered with his broodmare Markiza. The mare’s second and third foals, both sons of the champion sire Presenting, sold as three-year-olds at the Derby Sale, with her 2007 gelding going for €115,000 and her 2008 gelding for €250,000.

By the time the younger brother came under the hammer, the elder brother, named Lovethehigherlaw, had made a winning debut in a point to point. He has now graduated to bumpers, winning two out of three, with his latest victory being a very game defeat of Waaheb in Champion INH Flat Race at Punchestown.

Markiza never raced and she isn’t by the most fashionable of sires in Broken Hearted, best known as the sire of Pizarro, who collected Gr1 victories in a bumper and over fences, and of Numbersixvalverde, winner of the Grand National and Irish Grand National.

Lovethehigherlaw’s main attractions, from a pedigree viewpoint, were surely his sire and his female line. His second dam, the unraced High Board, had found fame as the dam of the Champion Hurdle winners Morley Street and Granville Again.

Markiza is also a half-sister to Deep Line, dam of the Gr1 Ascot Chase winner Hand Inn Hand.

High Board had an ideal pedigree for a National Hunt broodmare. Her sire, the redoubtable stayer High Line, sired numerous successful jumpers, with Bobsline, Heighlin, High Knowl,

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Garde Champetre. Robin des Champs has been ably represented in France by such as the French Champion Hurdle winner Oeil du Maitre, Flower des Champs, Professeur, Robin de Sherwood, En La Cruz, Success River, Tyko, Juntico, Cocq Corricco, Chercheur d’Or, Top Secret and Original. Quevega’s dam Vega IV won six steeplechases at up to two and three-quarter miles and is the dam of three other winners.

203 WORLD SERIES HURDLE G1

LOVETHEHIGHERLAW ch g 2006

Northern Dancer

Sadler’s Wells

Wins 3

Muse, Olympian, Barrow Line and High Plains among them. High Board’s dam, the smart chaser Matchboard, raced until she was 11.

Matchboard was a three-parts-sister to the remarkable Royal Bond, who once started second favourite for the Cheltenham Gold Cup. Fourth dam Royal Alliance was a half-sister to Stroll On, who became the third dam of the outstanding chaser One Man.

Starts 18

Wins 11

Places 5

Earned £420,628

QUEVEGA b m 2004

Age Starts Wins Places 6-7 11 6 4 See race 162 in the May issue

Earned £171,263

CAPTAIN CHRIS b g 2004 Mill Reef

Garde Royale Royal Way ROBIN DES CHAMPS b 97 Iron Duke Relayeuse Reliorneuse Carmarthen Cap Martin Grande Hetaire VEGA IV ch 87 Signani Negrilla Escarbille II

Never Bend Milan Mill Sicambre Right Away Sicambre Insulaire El Relicario Ordonneuse Devon Kuwait O’Grady Haiti Shikani La Signorina Or de Chine Venus

A triple winner in middle-distance races for non-thoroughbreds in France before being transferred to Ireland, Quevega has proved a wonderful addition to Willie Mullins’s stable. She has now won eight of her 12 starts over hurdles, including consecutive editions of the Gr1 World Series Hurdle over three miles and three editions of the Gr2 David Nicholson Mares’ Hurdle. Of her four defeats, two came on ventures to Auteuil.

Quevega’s sire Robin des Champs has followed her from France to Ireland, where he is based at the Cashman family’s Glenview Stud. He is reported to have covered 144 mares in his first year, in 2009, with 87 mares in his second. He has other capable ambassadors in Quinz, winner of the Gr3 Racing Post Chase in 2011, and Escort’men, a Gr2 hurdles winner at Kempton. The Frenchtrained Original also travelled to England to take the Gr2 Wayward Lad Novices’ Chase in 2008.

Robin des Champs finished second among France’s leading jumping sires in 2008, at the comparatively tender age of 11, and has since finished fifth in 2009 and ninth in 2010. Robin des Champs raced as a three-year-old, winning the first four of his five starts over hurdles by a total of nearly 20 lengths, when trained by Guillaume Macaire.

A grandson of Mill Reef, Robin des Champs is by Garde Royale, whose name is well known in Ireland, thanks to the exploits of such as Nicanor and

Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge KING’S THEATRE b 91 Princely Native Regal Beauty Dennis Belle Lord Gayle Strong Gale Sterntau FUNCTION DREAM b 92 Pollerton Rare Dream Dream House

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Raise A Native Charlo Crafty Admiral Evasion Sir Gaylord Sticky Case Tamerlane Sterna Rarity Nilie Varano Hill Dancer

205 CHAMPION HURDLE G1 PUNCHESTOWN. May 6. 16f. Good.

1. HURRICANE FLY (IRE) 7 b g Montjeu - Scandisk (Kenmare) O-Creighton & Boyd B-Agricola Del Parco TR-WP Mullins 2. Thousand Stars (FR) 7 gr g Grey Risk - Livaniana (Saint Estephe) 3. Binocular (FR) 7 b g Enrique - Bleu Ciel Et Blanc (Pistolet Bleu) Age Starts Wins Places 2-7 23 13 6 See race 58 in the February issue

Earned £821,329

HURRICANE FLY b g 2004 Northern Dancer 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

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

206 CHAMPION NOVICE HURDLE G1 PUNCHESTOWN. May 6. 20f. Good.

1. SPIRIT OF ADJISA (IRE) 7 br g Invincible Spirit - Adjisa (Doyoun) O-Darr, Johnson, Weston & Whitaker B-CJ Haughey J. Flynn, E Mulhern TR-Tim Vaughan 2. Prima Vista (GB) 6 b g Singspiel - Papering (Shaadi) 3. First Lieutenant (IRE) 6 ch g Presenting - Fourstargale (Fourstars Allstar) Age 2-7

Starts 34

Wins 8

Places 15

Earned £79,097

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National Hunt Grade Ones SPIRIT OF ADJISA br g 2004 Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier INVINCIBLE SPIRIT b 97 Kris Rafha Eljazzi Mill Reef Doyoun Dumka ADJISA b/br 95 Top Ville Adjriyna Adjarida

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Sir Ivor Courtly Dee Sharpen Up Doubly Sure Artaius Border Bounty Never Bend Milan Mill Kashmir II Faizebad High Top Sega Ville Red God Aimee

Invincible Spirit notched a Gr1 winner in the jumping sector when Spirit Of Adjisa won the Champion Novice Hurdle over two and a half miles. This was the third win over hurdles and he had previously won five times on the Flat, showing only fair form.

Thanks to being out of the Prix de Diane winner Rafha, Invincible Spirit is capable of stayers, but Spirit Of Adjisa probably also owes his stamina to his dam, an unraced daughter of 2,000 Guineas winner and Derby third

Doyoun, who sired Adaiyka, a very useful winner at up to ten furlongs, from this family. Adjisa’s best previous representative was Princess Nala, an In The Wings filly who was a Listed winner over 12 furlongs in Ireland.

Adjisa is herself a half-sister to Adjareli, runner-up in the Irish 2,000 Guineas, and to the good broodmare Adjalisa, whose stakes winners included the Sadler’s Wells filly Front House, a Gr2 winner in South Africa and Dubai.

207 CHAMPION 4YO HURDLE G1 PUNCHESTOWN. May 7. 16f. Good.

1. GRANDOUET (FR) 4 b/br g Al Namix - Virginia River (Indian River) O-Mr S Munir B-Mr D Le Baron TR-Nicky Henderson 2. Kumbeshwar (GB) 4 b g Doyen - Camp Fire (Lahib) 3. Twinlight (FR) 4 b g Muhtathir - Fairlight (Big Shuffle) Age 3-4

Starts 9

Wins 3

Places 4

Earned £57,156

GRANDOUET b/br g 2007 Mendez Linamix Lunadix AL NAMIX gr 97 Lead On Time Dirigeante Daytona Cadoudal Indian River The Fun VIRGINIA RIVER ch 2003 Le Nain Jaune Sweet Jaune Sweet As Moss

Bellypha Miss Carina Breton Lutine Nureyev Alathea Barbare Dourdan Green Dancer Come To Sea Funny Hobby The Lark Pharly Lady Berry Tip Moss Sweet Virginia

Grandouet’s easy victory over Kumbeshwar in the AES Champion 4yo Hurdle at Punchestown provided the French-bred four-year-old with ample compensation for his misfortune of being brought down, when still in with every chance, at the second last in a similar race at Aintree.

He had earlier finished a creditable third to Zarkandar in the Triumph Hurdle. The son of Al Namix arrived in England as an impressive winner of

the last of his three starts at Enghien.

Grandouet’s sire isn’t a familiar name. Al Namix won three Listed races at up to 1,900 metres in a career which extended to 47 starts in six years on the track. His first crop, born in 2006, produced Solix, a Gr3 winner over hurdles in France, and the jumping Listed winners Sable des Dunes and Saphina de Kerser. He has quite a sizeable 2010 crop, so we may well be hearing more of him in the French jumping arena in years to come.

Grandouet’s broodmare sire Indian River was a good jumping son of the influential Cadoudal. Best known as the sire of Madison du Berlais, Indian River won six times over jumps, including a Gr3 chase. Grandouet’s dam Virginia River is an unraced halfsister to several winners, including Viking Blond, runner-up in a Listed hurdle race at Cheltenham in 2010, and Art Virginia, a winning chaser in Britain.

National Hunt Graded races Date 07/04 07/04 08/04 08/04 08/04 09/04 09/04 09/04 13/04 16/04 16/04 16/04 23/04 23/04 24/04 24/04 24/04 25/04 25/04 25/04 25/04 26/04 26/04 26/04 26/04 03/05 04/05 04/05 06/05 07/05 07/05 07/05 07/05 15/05

Grade G2 G3 G2 G2 G3 G2 G3 G2 G2 G3 G2 G2 G3 G2 GrC GrB G2 G2 GrA GrB G2 G2 GrA G3 GrB GrC GrA G2 GrA G3 G3 GrB GrB GrB

Race (course) Manifesto Novices' Chase (Aintree) Red Rum H Chase (Aintree) Mildmay Novices' Chase (Aintree) Top Novices' Hurdle (Aintree) John Smith's smithythehorse.com H Hurdle (Aintree) Champion Open NH Flat Race (Aintree) Grand National H Chase (Aintree) Mersey Novices' Hurdle (Aintree) Silver Trophy H Chase (Cheltenham) Scottish Grand National H Chase (Ayr) Scottish Champion Hurdle (Ayr) Future Champion Novices' Chase (Ayr) Bet365 Gold Cup H Chase (Sandown Park) Celebration Chase (Sandown Park) Friday Evening Racing at Cork H Hurdle (Cork) INH Stallion Owners EBF Novice H Hurdle (Fairyhouse) Irish Stallion Farms EBF Mares' Novice Hurdle (Fairyhouse) Keelings Irish Strawberry Hurdle (Fairyhouse) Irish Grand National H Chase (Fairyhouse) Most Stylish Lady Novice H Chase (Fairyhouse) Rathbarry & Glenview Studs Novice Hurdle (Fairyhouse) Coolmore NH Sires Novice Hurdle (Fairyhouse) Dan Moore Memorial H Chase (Fairyhouse) Weatherbys Ireland GSB Hurdle (Fairyhouse) www.thetote.com H Hurdle (Fairyhouse) The 3 H Hurdle (Punchestown) Guinness H Chase (Punchestown) Irish Daily Mirror Novice Hurdle (Punchestown) Mick the Tent Memorial Novice H Chase (Punchestown) Swinton H Hurdle (Haydock Park) Irish TBA EBF Fund Mares Hurdle (Punchestown) Pat Taaffe H Chase (Punchestown) www.thetote.com H Hurdle (Punchestown) ladbrokes.com H Hurdle (Killarney)

Dist 20f 16f 25f 16.5f 24.5f 17f 36f 20f 21f 36f 16f 20f 29.5f 16f 19f 24f 20f 20f 29f 17f 16f 20f 17f 16f 16f 16f 20f 24f 21f 16f 18f 25f 20f 17f

Horse Wishfull Thinking (GB) Silk Drum (IRE) Quito De La Roque (FR) Topolski (IRE) Battle Group (GB) Steps To Freedom (IRE) Ballabriggs (IRE) Spirit Son (FR) Poquelin (FR) Beshabar (IRE) Sanctuaire (FR) Gilbarry (IRE) Poker De Sivola (FR) French Opera (GB) Salesin (GB) Baracas (FR) Knockfierna (IRE) Voler La Vedette (IRE) Organisedconfusion (IRE) Un Hinged (IRE) Prima Vista (GB) Lambro (IRE) Idarah (USA) Twinlight (FR) Jack Cool (IRE) Johnny McGeeney (IRE) Scotsirish (IRE) Askanna (IRE) Wishfull Thinking (GB) Eradicate (IRE) Shop Dj (IRE) Shakalakaboomboom (IRE) Truckers Delight (IRE) Princeton Plains (IRE)

Age 8 6 7 5 6 5 10 5 8 9 5 6 8 8 8 6 6 7 6 11 6 6 8 4 5 6 10 6 8 7 6 7 10 5

Sex G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G M G G G G G G G G G M G G M G G G

Sire Alflora Intikhab Saint Des Saints Peintre Celebre Beat Hollow Statue Of Liberty Presenting Poliglote Lahint Flemensfirth Kendor Bahri Discover D'Auteuil Bering Lomitas Miesque's Son Flemensfirth King's Theatre Laveron Danetime Singspiel Milan Aljabr Muhtathir One Cool Cat Lahib Zaffaran Old Vic Alflora Montjeu Dushyantor Anshan Darazari Tagula

Dam Poussetiere Deux Aneydia Moody Cloud Witching Hour Cantanta Dhakhirah Papoose Kirzinnia Babolna In Our Intrest Biblique Starry Night Legal Union On Fair Stage Elisita Sara Baras Garden Town Steel Grey Lady Histologie Classic Silk Papering Beautiful Tune Fatina Fairlight Rachrush Pulcheria Serjitak All The Roses Poussetiere Deux Coyote Shoplifter Tia Maria Windmill Star Lightstorm

Broodmare Sire Garde Royale Kenmare Cyborg Alzao Top Ville Sadler's Wells Little Bighorn Zino Tropular Buckskin Saint Cyrien Sheikh Albadou Law Society Sadler's Wells Ride The Rails Turtle Island Un Desperado Roselier Quart De Vin Classic Secret Shaadi Green Tune Nashwan Big Shuffle Sadler's Wells Old Vic Saher Roselier Garde Royale Indian Ridge Presenting SupremeLeader Orchestra Darshaan

Index 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241

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DATA BOOK EXCLUSIVE EUROPEAN STALLION STATS

Leading Flat sires 2011 by earnings Name

Galileo Montjeu Dalakhani Danehill Dancer Dansili Dubawi Oasis Dream Shamardal Verglas Invincible Spirit High Chaparral Refuse To Bend Kingsalsa Slickly Singspiel Pivotal Hawk Wing Cape Cross Muhtathir Oratorio Azamour Hurricane Run Rock Of Gibraltar Sakhee Elusive City Aussie Rules Exceed And Excel Chichicastenango Holy Roman Emperor Diktat Lomitas King’s Best One Cool Cat Footstepsinthesand Kyllachy Anabaa Blue Anabaa Selkirk Tiger Hill Dubai Destination Blu Air Force High Yield Monsun Fasliyev Medicean Sinndar Lando Whipper Acclamation Peintre Celebre Barathea Dynaformer Panis Choisir Street Cry Red Ransom Gold Away Green Tune Dr Fong Shirocco Kheleyf Sagacity Numerous Indian Rocket Beat Hollow Orpen Big Shuffle Captain Rio Dr Devious Motivator Iffraaj Compton Place Fantastic Light Doyen Enrique Martino Alonso Kingmambo Intikhab Tertullian Tobougg Royal Applause Highest Honor Pastoral Pursuits Alhaarth Noverre Xaar Mujahid Marchand de Sable Giant’s Causeway Green Desert Marju

YOF

1998 1996 2000 1993 1996 2002 2000 2002 1994 1997 1999 2000 1996 1996 1992 1993 1999 1994 1995 2002 2001 2002 1999 1997 2000 2003 2000 1998 2004 1995 1988 1997 2001 2002 1998 1998 1992 1988 1995 1999 1997 1997 1990 1997 1997 1997 1990 2001 1999 1994 1990 1985 1998 1999 1998 1987 1995 1991 1995 2001 2001 1998 1991 1994 1997 1996 1984 1999 1989 2002 2001 1994 1996 2000 1996 1994 1990 1994 1995 1998 1993 1983 2001 1993 1998 1995 1996 1990 1997 1983 1988

Sire

Rnrs

Wnrs

%WR

Races

AWD

Earnings (£)

SH

%

SW

%

Sadler’s Wells Sadler’s Wells Darshaan Danehill Danehill Dubai Millennium Green Desert Giant’s Causeway Highest Honor Green Desert Sadler’s Wells Sadler’s Wells Kingmambo Linamix In The Wings Polar Falcon Woodman Green Desert Elmaamul Danehill Night Shift Montjeu Danehill Bahri Elusive Quality Danehill Danehill Smadoun Danehill Warning Niniski Kingmambo Storm Cat Giant’s Causeway Pivotal Anabaa Danzig Sharpen Up Danehill Kingmambo Sri Pekan Storm Cat Konigsstuhl Nureyev Machiavellian Grand Lodge Acatenango Miesque’s Son Royal Applause Nureyev Sadler’s Wells Roberto Miswaki Danehill Dancer Machiavellian Roberto Goldneyev Green Dancer Kris S Monsun Green Desert Highest Honor Mr Prospector Indian Ridge Sadler’s Wells Lure Super Concorde Pivotal Ahonoora Montjeu Zafonic Indian Ridge Rahy Sadler’s Wells Barathea Marju Mr Prospector Red Ransom Miswaki Barathea Waajib Kenmare Bahamian Bounty Unfuwain Rahy Zafonic Danzig Theatrical Storm Cat Danzig Last Tycoon

152 115 78 145 143 105 146 86 160 176 112 116 104 84 79 127 135 124 84 135 50 69 106 56 102 55 129 48 87 111 59 117 125 89 133 68 59 78 118 122 86 62 71 99 128 69 89 78 122 72 87 31 61 94 41 89 58 90 87 65 114 67 69 52 85 90 100 120 72 71 65 106 67 60 72 49 25 82 54 92 129 41 38 64 96 74 62 58 49 67 66

47 32 17 41 42 32 44 29 50 45 31 37 29 25 21 34 36 33 25 36 22 28 32 23 25 21 38 10 22 25 20 29 32 22 43 20 17 27 24 34 35 20 24 31 29 19 22 22 37 22 19 6 12 32 10 15 14 19 23 16 30 17 15 14 30 26 21 27 25 22 15 27 19 17 18 20 6 23 17 22 36 13 8 18 24 17 22 9 18 20 19

30.9 27.8 21.8 28.3 29.4 30.5 30.1 33.7 31.3 25.6 27.7 31.9 27.9 29.8 26.6 26.8 26.7 26.6 29.8 26.7 44.0 40.6 30.2 41.1 24.5 38.2 29.5 20.8 25.3 22.5 33.9 24.8 25.6 24.7 32.3 29.4 28.8 34.6 20.3 27.9 40.7 32.3 33.8 31.3 22.7 27.5 24.7 28.2 30.3 30.6 21.8 19.4 19.7 34.0 24.4 16.9 24.1 21.1 26.4 24.6 26.3 25.4 21.7 26.9 35.3 28.9 21.0 22.5 34.7 31.0 23.1 25.5 28.4 28.3 25.0 40.8 24.0 28.1 31.5 23.9 27.9 31.7 21.1 28.1 25.0 23.0 35.5 15.5 36.7 29.9 28.8

55 41 25 54 59 42 58 36 63 58 39 48 34 33 28 44 52 40 32 43 26 30 40 24 38 24 49 12 35 34 25 32 50 35 61 26 23 30 28 41 47 27 28 44 39 28 24 31 48 26 26 6 16 45 10 15 16 19 34 20 45 22 17 19 39 33 25 34 36 25 21 33 29 21 20 29 7 32 21 28 45 20 9 24 36 22 31 11 21 27 22

10.8 11.7 10.1 9.0 9.6 8.6 7.4 8.6 8.5 7.4 10.3 9.0 8.9 10.0 10.7 8.1 9.5 9.1 9.3 8.6 9.9 10.0 9.2 9.1 7.3 8.9 6.5 9.6 8.1 8.5 10.7 9.4 7.8 7.7 6.4 9.6 9.3 8.9 10.2 9.6 7.1 9.5 10.8 7.5 9.2 11.5 9.8 8.9 6.9 10.6 9.7 10.1 8.2 6.9 9.5 8.8 10.2 10.5 10.5 9.9 6.4 10.0 10.6 7.2 10.1 7.5 8.1 7.5 8.8 10.4 7.3 6.8 9.3 9.7 10.1 8.0 10.6 8.2 8.7 9.0 7.6 10.8 7.9 10.5 8.1 8.2 8.4 9.6 9.7 7.6 8.4

1,798,945 1,686,606 1,315,628 981,910 937,785 934,785 795,564 782,978 708,535 698,483 628,550 607,438 573,420 555,575 542,005 537,329 490,375 489,891 481,395 479,810 476,518 472,071 471,703 466,554 464,248 459,771 449,689 448,836 447,581 440,261 433,645 424,867 418,980 414,950 403,033 399,643 393,564 388,853 377,335 372,840 367,458 361,152 360,631 355,709 350,574 350,524 349,462 347,372 344,567 335,054 329,311 323,802 323,464 318,895 315,172 313,790 312,204 309,772 308,008 306,809 303,156 302,068 301,899 301,680 299,307 296,805 291,658 283,098 278,929 272,513 270,637 264,987 262,180 259,001 258,103 257,138 256,070 251,710 250,595 249,661 249,133 248,144 244,743 243,601 243,087 241,042 238,719 237,241 233,443 232,219 230,751

16 15 7 14 18 11 13 8 3 10 5 2 3 4 6 7 2 9 2 1 5 6 6 3 4 6 7 1 4 5 4 2 2 4 4 1 1 9 6 2 2 1 9 2 3 3 5 6 3 3 2 5 0 1 1 6 1 0 3 3 2 0 4 2 1 1 7 3 1 2 2 1 2 7 0 3 4 2 4 2 1 0 2 1 2 1 2 3 4 2 3

10.5 13.0 9.0 9.7 12.6 10.5 8.9 9.3 1.9 5.7 4.5 1.7 2.9 4.8 7.6 5.5 1.5 7.3 2.4 0.7 10.0 8.7 5.7 5.4 3.9 10.9 5.4 2.1 4.6 4.5 6.8 1.7 1.6 4.5 3.0 1.5 1.7 11.5 5.1 1.6 2.3 1.6 12.7 2.0 2.3 4.4 5.6 7.7 2.5 4.2 2.3 16.1 0.0 1.1 2.4 6.7 1.7 0.0 3.5 4.6 1.8 0.0 5.8 3.9 1.2 1.1 7.0 2.5 1.4 2.8 3.1 0.9 3.0 11.7 0.0 6.1 16.0 2.4 7.4 2.2 0.8 0.0 5.3 1.6 2.1 1.4 3.2 5.2 8.2 3.0 4.6

6 8 5 5 11 5 6 4 0 3 3 2 1 2 4 3 1 2 0 1 4 2 4 2 3 3 5 0 3 1 1 1 1 1 3 0 1 3 2 0 0 0 4 2 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 2 0 1 2 1 3 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 0 0

4.0 7.0 6.4 3.5 7.7 4.8 4.1 4.7 0.0 1.7 2.7 1.7 1.0 2.4 5.1 2.4 0.7 1.6 0.0 0.7 8.0 2.9 3.8 3.6 2.9 5.5 3.9 0.0 3.5 0.9 1.7 0.9 0.8 1.1 2.3 0.0 1.7 3.9 1.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.6 2.0 0.8 1.5 2.3 1.3 0.8 2.8 1.2 3.2 0.0 1.1 2.4 1.1 0.0 0.0 1.2 1.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.0 0.8 1.4 0.0 1.5 0.0 1.5 3.3 0.0 2.0 8.0 1.2 5.6 1.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.6 1.0 1.4 0.0 0.0 4.1 0.0 0.0

Oaks and Danehill Dancer hard done by The Derby and Prix du Jockey Club predictably had an impact on the table – Pour Moi earned £710,000 for Montjeu, while Dalakhani’s son Reliable Man picked up £738,000 at Chantilly.

In fact, if Treasure Beach had not finished so close up at Epsom, Galileo would now be behind Montjeu.

Perhaps surprisingly, he is behind in number of stakes winners, six against eight, and neither can match Dansili’s tally of 11.

As a comment on race values, Dancing Rain picked up £184,000 in the Oaks, which doesn’t place her top among Danehill Dancer’s progeny. Blue Bunting earned nearly £30,000 more for landing the Guineas, a hint that the Oaks is being hard done by.

Dalakhani, only 11 and standing at Gilltown, doesn’t cover vast books of mares and is essentially a middledistance sire, but he has a lot in his favour. For a start he gets some rattling good runners, with Reliable Man boosting a list led by Conduit and also including Chinese White, Duncan and Moonstone.

Equally significant, he is by Darshaan, thus providing an opportunity for breeders to go for the Sadler’s Wells-Darshaan nick in reverse.

Of Dalakhani’s best runners, the dams of Conduit, Reliable Man and Chinese White are all by Sadler’s Wells.

Statistics to June 5

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Global Stakes Results Date Grade Argentina 29/05 G1 29/05 G1 25/05 G1 01/05 G1 01/05 G1 01/05 G1 01/05 G1 01/05 G1 01/05 G1 04/06 G2 27/05 G2 22/05 G2 08/05 G2 03/05 G2 05/06 G3 02/06 G3 01/06 G3 26/05 G3 21/05 G3 15/05 G3 14/05 G3 07/05 G3

Race

Dist

Horse

Gran Premio Gran Criterium Gran Premio de Potrancas (1000 Guineas) Gran Premio 25 de Mayo Gran Premio Montevideo G P Republica Argentina-Copa Min.Turismo G P de las Americas-OSAF E Blousson Gran Premio Jorge de Atucha Gran Premio Ciudad de Buenos Aires G. P. Criadores-Copa Cincuentenario Clasico Forli Clasico Particula Clasico 25 de Mayo de 1810 Clasico Pedro Goenaga Clasico Raul Aristegui C. Antonio Cane-Copa Asoc.Bon Per.Turf Clasico Andres S Torres Clasico Santiago Lawrie Clasico Joaquin V Maqueda Clasico Velocidad Clasico Southern Halo Clasico Circulo Propietarios Caballeriza Clasico General Las Heras

8.0f 8.0f 12.0f 7.5f 10.0f 8.0f 7.5f 5.0f 10.0f 9.0f 11.0f 8.0f 7.0f 7.0f 10.5f 7.5f 5.0f 7.0f 5.0f 7.0f 8.0f 7.0f

Escape Of Glory (ARG) Una Cabeza (ARG) Vitaminado (ARG) Mighty Hunter (ARG) Star Runner (ARG) Inter Optimist (ARG) Gamuza Fina (ARG) Sembra Fe (ARG) Malpensa (ARG) Immaculate (ARG) Sublimacion (ARG) Cafrune (ARG) Criollo Tenaz (ARG) Life For Sale (ARG) Aristocity (ARG) Carmelinda (ARG) Hidebound (ARG) Habsburga (ARG) Enjoy Dubai (ARG) Hunky (ARG) Catch The Mad (ARG) Watch Her (ARG)

Escape Of Glory, twice a winner over 6f in April, led with a quarter of a mile to run and had no trouble holding Key Decision by two lengths. His time was more than a second faster than that of Una Cabeza, who came with a strong run on the outside to head the favourite Come Into and ran on to beat her by two and a half lengths. Come Into had won the GP Eliseo Ramirez, over 7f on April 1, beating the dead-heaters Una Cabeza and La Laguna Azul (fourth this time) by three-quarters of a length.

Jorge Ricardo, who rode Come Into that day, switched to Una Cabeza here.

Vitaminado was able to overcome a wide draw to seize an immediate lead.

Astral Thunder (by Thunder Gulch), another three-year-old with a patchy record, pressed him throughout and they were five lengths ahead at halfway.

Vitaminado quickened three lengths clear in the straight but dried up in the final 100 yards and lasted home by a Australia 04/06 28/05 21/05 14/05 08/05 08/05 04/06 04/06 04/06 04/06 21/05 07/05 28/05 28/05 28/05 21/05 21/05 21/05 21/05 21/05 14/05 14/05 08/05 07/05

G1 G1 G1 G1 G1 G1 G1 G1 G1 G2 G2 G2 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3

Treasury Casino Queensland Oaks Carlton Mid Doomben 10,000 Stakes Kirks Doomben Cup Bundaberg Distilling BTC Cup Distinctive Homes Goodwood Handicap Betfair South Australian Derby Al Basti Eagle Farm Cup Patinack Farm Dane Ripper Stakes Albion Jeep QTC Cup Al Basti Sires' Produce Stakes Bollinger Champagne Classic Lend a Lease A D Hollindale Stakes Mullins Grand Prix Stakes D'Orsogna Roma Cup Channel 7 Premier's Cup Triple M Btc Fred Best Classic Hidden Dragon Doomben Roses Stakes Glenlogan Park Moreton Stakes Carlton Mid Lord Mayor's Cup Darley Brisbane Race Club Sprint Mitty's Rough Habit Plate Landfill Chairman's Handicap Schweppes R A Lee Stakes Contour Gold Coast Guineas

Black Caviar made it 13 straight wins (and six straight Group 1 triumphs) on her Queensland debut in the BTC Cup, justifying the faith of a huge crowd who had come to pay homage. Connections then decided to call a halt for the season with the unbeaten filly and later promised that Royal Ascot 2012 is firmly on her agenda.

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short neck. Es Richard was five lengths back in third. Vitaminado, who was scoring for the fourth time in ten tries, had won a Listed event over nine furlongs of the San Isidro course on April 20. His form had dipped after his third in the GP Jockey-Club in October.

The runner-up Astral Thunder had scored only once in 11 races but this was his third consecutive second.

In the Montevideo, Cartier Gold (Orpen), a Group 1 second on turf, started favourite to go one better in his debut on dirt. He took it up over two furlongs from home but was no match for Mighty Hunter, who challenged well wide of him and was ridden out to beat him two and a half lengths. Mighty Hunter was a Group 3 winner over course and distance but Cartier Gold can be forgiven his defeat on a sloppy track. He finished nine lengths clear of the third, Buen Verso, who had broken out of his stall before the race.

12.0f 6.5f 10.0f 6.0f 6.0f 12.5f 11.0f 7.0f 6.5f 7.0f 6.0f 9.0f 11.0f 6.0f 11.0f 6.5f 10.0f 6.5f 8.0f 6.5f 10.0f 10.0f 8.0f 6.0f

Scarlett Lady (NZ) Beaded (AUS) Scenic Shot (AUS) Black Caviar (AUS) Lone Rock (AUS) Shadows In The Sun (AUS) Glass Harmonium (IRE) Hurtle Myrtle (AUS) Varenna Miss (AUS) Hot Snitzel (AUS) Free Wheeling (AUS) Kingdom of Fife (GB) Turnitup (AUS) Grand Nirvana (AUS) Shuffle The Cash (AUS) Falino (AUS) Scarlett Lady (NZ) Kanzan (AUS) Firebolt (NZ) Woorim (AUS) Fillydelphia (AUS) Humma (AUS) Budriguez (AUS) Military Rose (AUS)

In her absence, Hay List, runner-up in three of those top level wins, was expected to make hay in the Doomben 10,000. But a minor injury provoked his absence and allowed Beaded, who is ‘tiny’ according to her Sydney trainer Peter Snowden, to rally back past Love Conquers All in a thrilling finish.

Scenic Shot is based in West

Age

Sex

3 3 4 3 4 7 3 4 5 5 5 5 3 3 7 3 4 6 3 4 4 4

C F C C C H F F M H M H C F H F F M C C F F

Sire

Dam

Broodmare Sire

Lode (USA) Leroidesanimaux (BRZ) Not For Sale (ARG) Mutakddim (USA) Southern Halo (USA) Incurable Optimist (USA) Equal Stripes (ARG) Manipulator (USA) Orpen (USA) Hennessy (USA) Orpen (USA) Colonial Affair (USA) Equal Stripes (ARG) Not For Sale (ARG) City West (ARG) Editor's Note (USA) Grand Slam (USA) Halo Sunshine (USA) Seeker's Reward (CAN) Orpen (USA) Catcher In The Rye (IRE) Mutakddim (USA)

Escarlatte (ARG) Potra Fabulous (ARG) Visa Bay (ARG) Southern Melodie (USA) Star Brown (ARG) Es Interprete (ARG) Gamuza Fitz (ARG) Siembra Pasion (ARG) Marsella (ARG) Lady Irene (BRZ) Suite De Lujo (ARG) Ipacarai (ARG) Cosabela (ARG) Doubt Fire (BRZ) La Aristocrata (ARG) Consejala (ARG) Hidden Dreams (GB) Headdress (ARG) Enjoying (ARG) Hufeisen Baby (USA) Crazy Wells (ARG) Wally (ARG)

Sonus (IRE) Potrillon (ARG) Lode (USA) Southern Halo (USA) Luhuk (USA) Interprete (ARG) Fitzcarraldo (ARG) El Sembrador (ARG) Southern Halo (USA) St Chad Fitzcarraldo (ARG) Interprete (ARG) Acceptable (USA) Ski Champ (USA) Equalize (USA) Candy Stripes (USA) Soviet Star (USA) Slewsville (USA) Candy Stripes (USA) Turkoman (USA) Poliglote (GB) Southern Halo (USA)

Star Runner, who started favourite, was winning his first Group 1 at the sixth attempt. Second in both the Polla de Potrillos (2,000 Guineas) and GP Nacional (Derby), he took over from Mad Speed entering the straight and went clear to triumph by two and a half lengths. Aristocity came from some way back to deprive Mad Speed of second.

Inter Optimist was out of action for 16 months to last November and this was his first win in six outings since his return. AP Candy had beaten him by one and a half lengths in the Clasico Benito Villanueva on April 4 and, though meeting on 3lb worse terms, the lightlyraced three-year-old was odds-on for a repeat. However, he succumbed by that same margin. Inter Optimist has an interesting record. His first six wins were all on turf but his remaining three have all been on dirt.

Gamuza Fina, successful on her debut in March, followed up in 4 6 9 5 4 4 5 5 5 3 3 6 4 6 7 4 4 5 6 6 4 8 5 4

F M G M F G H M M G C G C G G C F M G G F G G F

Savabeel (AUS) Lonhro (AUS) Scenic Bel Esprit (AUS) Fastnet Rock (AUS) Dane Shadow (AUS) Verglas (IRE) Dane Shadow (AUS) Redoute's Choice (AUS) Snitzel (AUS) Ad Valorem (USA) Kingmambo (USA) Dane Shadow (AUS) Scenic Dash For Cash (AUS) Fusaichi Pegasus (USA) Savabeel (AUS) Commands (AUS) Stravinsky (USA) Show A Heart (AUS) Bianconi (USA) Iglesia (AUS) Al Maher (AUS) General Nediym (AUS)

tremendous style. Quickly overcoming interference at the start and wide all round the turn, she made smooth progress once in the straight and was ridden out for a four-length victory. She was a first Group 1 winner for her rider Mario Fernandez. Andrea Marinhas, who rode La Extrovertida to claim second, had passed that milestone in November 2009.

She always had Sembra Fe close up and sent her past Setembrino in the final furlong to beat that front-running 100-1 shot by two and a half lengths.

Haras El Tala, breeder of Sembra Fe, is home to both her sire and damsire El Sembrador.

Malpensa is in the form of her life.

She was beaten a head by Foggy Stripes in the GP Criadores-Copa Cincuentenario last year but trounced that rival by nine lengths this time. It was her third Group 1 victory in her last four appearances.

On Call (NZ) Subtle (AUS) Sweepshot (AUS) Helsinge (AUS) Pride of Pine (AUS) Best Out West (AUS) Spring Symphony (IRE) Ravenswood (AUS) Mica's Pride (AUS) Flames of Paris (USA) Miss Carefree (AUS) Fairy Godmother (GB) No Finding (AUS) Paradise Park (AUS) Final Shuffle (AUS) Danamala (GB) On Call (NZ) Cherry Lodge (AUS) Woodsong (AUS) Wabble (AUS) Edel Vanessa (AUS) Blue Lady (AUS) Deni (AUS) Bella Maddelena (AUS)

Australia but, now aged eight, won the Doomben Cup for the second time in three years, beating the former Sir Michael Stoute stablemates Kingdom Of Fife and Glass Harmonium in a tight finish. This was an emotional success for 45-year-old pilot Shane Scriven, who was allowed to ride pending an appeal to the five-month ban he

Ironclad (NZ) Night Shift (USA) Dr Grace (NZ) Desert Sun (GB) Lion Cavern (USA) Best Western (AUS) Darshaan Woodman (USA) Bite The Bullet (USA) Blushing Groom (FR) Last Tycoon Fairy King (USA) Hula Chief (NZ) Bletchley Park (IRE) Forest Glow (USA) Danehill (USA) Ironclad (NZ) Grand Lodge (USA) Woodman (USA) Canadian Silver (CAN) Encosta de Lago (AUS) Western Symphony (USA) St Covet (AUS) Flying Spur (AUS)

collected for ‘borrowing’ a rival jockey’s whip in a minor race in April.

New Zealand racing has two new stars in the shape of the Queensland Oaks winner Scarlett Lady and her 19-year-old jockey James McDonald.

In South Australia, trainer Anthony Cummings finally got Shadows In The Sun away from the soft ground that

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G1 G1 G1 G1 G1 G1 G2 G2 G2 G3 G3

responded with a 20-1 Derby surprise.

Lone Rock was a even longer-

Grande Premio Juliano Martins G. P. Sao Paulo-Shopping Cidade Jardim Grande Premio Presidente da Republica Asoc.Brasil dos Criadores Cavalo Corrida Org.Sulamericana Fomento P.S. de Corrida Grande Premio Joao Cecilio Ferraz G.P. Presidente Roberto Alves de Almeida Grande Premio Conde de Herzberg G. P. Francisco Villela de Paula Machado Grande Premio Antonio Carlos Amorim Grande Premio Presidente Julio Mesquita

Estanislau Petrochinski, who trained Xin Xu Lin to beat a big field in the GP Juliano Martins last year, followed up with Veraneio. A narrow winner of a maiden five weeks earlier, Veraneio caught the favourite Iaquinta close home to score by three-quarters of a length.

Iaquinta’s sire Romarin went one better in the next race when Equitana held off the Argentine-bred favourite Salute by a neck.

Timeo, tenth behind Sal Grosso in

8.0f 12.0f 8.0f 5.0f 10.0f 7.5f 8.0f 7.5f 7.5f 7.0f 5.0f

Veraneio (BRZ) Timeo (BRZ) Equitana (BRZ) Desejado Thunder (BRZ) Grand I Ask (BRZ) Alta Vista (BRZ) Licordoce (BRZ) Joe Diesel (BRZ) Pro Memoria (BRZ) Desejada Duda (BRZ) Cha Ingles (BRZ)

last year’s GP Sao Paulo, got up in the final 50 yards to beat the three-year-old Jeca by half a length. Sal Grosso, sent off favourite for a repeat, made late progress to take third. It was a third Group 1 success for Timeo and a third in this race for his trainer Dulcino Guignoni.

Desejado Thunder, the best sprinter in Brazil, made it 11 wins in 13 races with an easy defeat of Quasi Moda and Union Lake. He had beaten the same two horses in a Group 3 at

priced scorer in the Goodwood Cup under Clare Lindop, the 30-1 rag 3 5 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 4 4

C H F C F F F C F F C

Signal Tap (USA) First American (USA) Romarin (BRZ) Durban Thunder (BRZ) Yagli (USA) Amigoni (IRE) Red Runner (USA) Christine's Outlaw (USA) Dubai Dust (USA) Gilded Time (USA) Put It Back (USA)

proving too strong for one of Black Caviar’s regular pursuers, Crystal Lily.

Personal Ensign (ARG) In The Sand (USA) Uaiasol (BRZ) Glorious Magee (BRZ) Ola I Ask (BRZ) Bella Cy (BRZ) Cat Melody (BRZ) Darter (BRZ) Dear Rafaela (BRZ) Duda Desejada (BRZ) Hortencia (BRZ)

Gavea on April 17. Indeed, this was a 12-3 for invaders from Rio. Desejado Thunder was the only winning favourite in the weekend’s five Group 1 events at Cidade Jardim. Sal Grosso ran third and the other three, including Parapatibum in the fillies’ and mares’ contest, all found one too good.

Grand I Ask beat last August’s GP Barao de Piracicaba (Sao Paulo 1,000 Guineas) winner by half a length.

The Danehill horse Amigoni, one of the lesser lights in Aidan O’Brien’s

Fitzcarraldo (ARG) Atticus (USA) Choctaw Ridge (USA) Spend A Buck (USA) Grimaldi (BRZ) Belo Colony (BRZ) Burooj (GB) Afleet (CAN) Ramirito (BRZ) Punk (ARG) Midnight Tiger (USA)

stable in 2005, when he won the Anglesey Stakes and ran second to George Washington in the National Stakes, has made a promising start at stud. His daughter Alta Vista made all to remain unbeaten after four starts.

She won by only a head but always appeared to be holding the late run of the second Glowing Spirit. Amilton Aquino Farias trains at Curitiba in Parana state but he knew what he had and all Alta Vista’s runs have been at Cidade Jardim.

Canada 04/06 29/05 28/05 14/05 08/05 23/04

G2 G2 G3 G3 G3 G3

Nassau Stakes Connaught Cup Stakes Eclipse Stakes Hendrie Stakes Vigil Stakes Whimsical Stakes

8.0f 7.0f 8.5f 6.5f 7.0f 6.0f

Bay To Bay (USA) Stormy Lord (CAN) Fifty Proof (CAN) Embur's Song (CAN) Stunning Stag (CAN) Wildcat Marie (USA)

4 4 5 4 7 4

F G G F H F

Sligo Bay (IRE) Stormy Atlantic (USA) Whiskey Wisdom (CAN) Unbridled's Song (USA) Running Stag (USA) Wildcat Heir (USA)

Bala (CAN) Lady Auchamore (CAN) Phi Beta (USA) Embur Sunshine (CAN) Midday Fun (USA) Miss Rachel Marie (USA)

With Approval (CAN) Meadowlake (USA) Horatius (USA) Bold Ruckus (USA) The Prime Minister (USA) Wild Rush (USA)

Chile 01/05 30/04 23/05 27/04 01/04 03/06 28/05 27/05 21/05 06/05 29/04 09/04 02/04

G1 G1 G2 G2 G2 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3

C. Club Hipico de Santiago Fallabella Gran Premio Hipodromo Chile - Movistar Premio Carlos Campino Premio El Estreno Nicanor Senoret P. Otono-Pedro Garcia de la Huerta Matte Premio Alvaro Covarrubias Premio Victor Matetic Fernandez Premio Julio Subercaseaux Browne Premio Jose Saavedra Baeza Premio Cotejo de Potrillos Premio Cotejo de Potrancas P. A Breque Espinosa y A Breque Venegas Premio Juan Cavieres Mella

10.0f 11.0f 9.0f 6.5f 10.0f 8.0f 7.5f 8.0f 7.5f 6.5f 6.5f 6.5f 6.5f

Sin Respeto (CHI) Ascot Prince (CHI) Indy May (CHI) Puerto Botany (CHI) Mister Storm (CHI) Omayad (CHI) Jantho (CHI) Puerta De Cristal (CHI) Amani (CHI) Omayad (CHI) Hasta Nunca (CHI) Gran Gallego (CHI) Amani (CHI)

4 4 5 3 5 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3

G C M G G C C F F C F C F

Caesarion (IRE) Sir Cat (USA) Indy Dancer (USA) Merchant of Venice (USA) Stormy Atlantic (USA) The Mighty Tiger (USA) Sir Halory (USA) Ocean Terrace (USA) Morning Raider (IRE) The Mighty Tiger (USA) Star Dabbler (USA) Tumblebrutus (USA) Morning Raider (IRE)

Simbaville (CHI) Wolfie (CHI) Plaza De Mayo (CHI) Chateauneuf de Pape (CHI) Miss Fort Knox (USA) Wilhelmina (CHI) Matahara (CHI) Las Tacas (CHI) Just Fine (CHI) Wilhelmina (CHI) Hawaiian Dancer (CHI) Mitsha (CHI) Just Fine (CHI)

Barkerville (USA) Hussonet (USA) More Royal (USA) Hussonet (USA) Quiet American (USA) Wagon Master (FR) Squire Jones (USA) Hussonet (USA) Doneraile Court (USA) Wagon Master (FR) Hussonet (USA) Malek (CHI) Doneraile Court (USA)

Gonzalo Ulloa quickly sent Sin Respeto to the front. He stole a clear lead early in the straight and left his 14 rivals to fight for second. Sin Respeto Hong Kong G1 01/05

Audemars Piguet Queen Elizabeth II Cup

The Hong Kong Classic crop looks a strong one and the Derby winner, Japan 05/06 29/05 22/05 15/05 08/05 28/05 28/05 22/05 14/05 07/05 04/06 08/05

G1 G1 G1 G1 G1 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G3 G3

Yasuda Kinen Tokyo Yushun (Derby) Yushun Himba (Oaks) Victoria Mile NHK Mile Cup Kinko Sho Meguro Kinen Tokai TV Hai Tokai Stakes Keio Hai Spring Cup Kyoto Shimbun Hai Unicorn Stakes Niigata Daishoten

Sheikh Mohammed visited a Japanese racecourse for the first time in 28 years, only to be pelted with rain as a typhoon approached and be left disappointed as Frankie Dettori sported his colours into 12th place aboard Debonair in the Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby). He did at least see a fine victory, as Orfevre

won by three and a quarter lengths from Mi Buen Amigo, who got the best of a four-horse photo by inches. The winner’s sire is a son of Danehill who 10.0f

Ambitious Dragon (NZ)

Ambitious Dragon, put the older horses in their place when becoming 8.0f 12.0f 12.0f 8.0f 8.0f 10.0f 12.5f 9.5f 7.0f 11.0f 8.0f 10.0f

Real Impact (JPN) Orfevre (JPN) Erin Court (JPN) Apapane (JPN) Grand Prix Boss (JPN) Rulership (JPN) King Top Gun (JPN) Wonder Acute (JPN) Strong Return (JPN) Cresco Grand (JPN) I Am Actress (JPN) Sacred Valley (JPN)

followed up his 2,000 Guineas win with a near two-length defeat of Win Variation, the pair pulling clear.

Marcellina, winner of the first leg of the fillies Triple Crown, proved unable to emulate Orfevre, as she managed only fourth behind Erin Court in the Yushun Himba (Oaks). Erin Court is out of Erin

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won a weak Group 3 in France.

Ascot Prince tracked the leaders throughout and went clean away in the final furlong to score by seven lengths 5

H

Pins (AUS)

Golden Gamble (NZ)

the first horse in six years to manage to follow up in the Audemars Piguet QEII 3 3 3 4 3 4 8 5 5 3 3 5

C C F F C C H H H C F H

Deep Impact (JPN) Stay Gold (JPN) Durandal (JPN) King Kamehameha (JPN) Sakura Bakushin O (JPN) King Kamehameha (JPN) Mayano Top Gun (JPN) Charismatic (USA) Symboli Kris S (USA) Tanino Gimlet (JPN) Agnes Tachyon (JPN) Tanino Gimlet (JPN)

from Tomby. Importador finished a poor third but was disqualified after failing a dope test. It was Ascot Prince’s seventh win in 13 races.

Cup. A high class overseas raiding party was comfortably repelled.

Tokio Reality (USA) Oriental Art (JPN) Erin Bird (FR) Salty Bid (USA) Rosy Mist (JPN) Air Groove (JPN) Glittering Flower (JPN) Wonder Heritage (USA) Caught Out (USA) Manhattan Fizz (JPN) I Am The Winner (USA) Holy Brown (JPN)

Bird, who won the 1994 Prix de l’Opera for Peter Chapple-Hyam, only to fall foul of the stewards and be demoted to fifth.

A clash between the 2010 and 2009 Yushun Himba winners, Apapane and Buena Vista, in the Victoria Mile lived up to expectations with Apapane prevailing by a neck.

Oregon (USA)

Meadowlake (USA) Mejiro McQueen (JPN) Bluebird (USA) Salt Lake (USA) Sunday Silence (USA) Tony Bin Maruzensky (JPN) Pleasant Tap (USA) Smart Strike (CAN) Sunday Silence (USA) Danzig Connection (USA) Fuji Kiseki (JPN)

But Apapane flopped in the Yasuda Kinen, finishing sixth behind Real Impact, the only three-year-old in a field of 18. This result paid a compliment to Grand Prix Boss, last year’s champion juvenile who beat Real Impact two and a quarter lengths into third in the NHK Mile Cup.

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Date Grade Race New Zealand G3 07/05 Platinum Homes Rotorua Cup

Dist

Horse

11.0f

Norway 17/05

G3

Walter Nilsens Minnelop

Peru 04/06

G3

Singapore G1 22/05 G1 22/05

Age

Sex

Indikator (NZ)

8

12.0f

Bank of Burden (USA)

Clasico Luis Olaechea Dubois

7.0f

Singapore Airlines International Cup Kris Flyer International Sprint

10.0f 6.0f

Gitano Hernando, who was a modest eighth in the QEII Cup in Hong Kong on his first start since leaving Marco Botti for his new South African trainer South Africa G1 04/06 G1 04/06 G1 28/05 G1 28/05 G1 28/05 G1 28/05 G1 30/04 G1 30/04 G1 30/04 G2 20/05 G2 20/05 G2 13/05 G2 13/05 G2 05/05 G2 05/05 G2 03/05 G2 30/04 G2 30/04 G2 30/04 G2 30/04 G2 30/04 G2 30/04 G3 05/06 G3 04/06 G3 29/05 G3 15/05 G3 07/05 G3 07/05

Sweden 31/05

G3

United States G1 30/05 G1 30/05 G1 21/05 G1 07/05 G1 07/05 G1 07/05 G1 06/05 G2 04/06 G2 04/06 G2 30/05 G2 28/05 G2 28/05 G2 21/05 G2 21/05 G2 21/05 G2 20/05 G2 14/05 G2 14/05 G2 07/05 G2 07/05 G2 07/05 G2 06/05

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Broodmare Sire

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Sandtrap (USA)

Lady Daintree (NZ)

Sir Tristram

4

C

Hawk Wing (USA)

Wewantitall (GB)

Pivotal (GB)

Mr Dany (CHI)

3

C

Powerscourt (GB)

As Told (USA)

A P Indy (USA)

Gitano Hernando (GB) Rocket Man (AUS)

5 6

H G

Hernando (FR) Viscount (AUS)

Gino's Spirits (GB) Macrosa (NZ)

Perugino (USA) McGinty (NZ)

Herman Brown, responded to a strong ride from Glyn Schofield to lift the International Cup. Wigmore Hall and Presvis, the two British raiders, had little

Daily News 2000 Woolavington 2000 Tsogo Sun Maverick Gold Medallion Golden Horse Casino Sprint Allan Robertson Fillies Championship South African Fillies & Mares Sprint Computaform Sprint Samsung Business South African Derby President's Champions Challenge Betting World 1900 Betting World 1900 KRA Guineas KRA Fillies Guineas Umkhomazi Stakes The Debutante Stakes Drill Hall Stakes The South African Nursery The South African Fillies Nursery South African Oaks Gerald Rosenberg Fillies & Mares Stakes Camellia Stakes Gold Bowl Betting World Langerman Handicap Lonsdale Stirrup Cup Tekkie Town Winter Classic Recall Security East Cape Derby Betting World Cape of Good Hope Nursery Betting World Kenilworth Fillies Nursery

Two special fillies dominated the month in South Africa. The Mike de Kocktrained Igugu landed a 1 million rand (about £90,000) bonus when becoming the first horse to win the Triple Tiara by landing the SA Oaks in facile fashion. She was again peerless in the Woolavington 2000 to confirm her position at the head of the ante-post market for the country’s top race, the Vodacom July, run at Greyville on July 2.

Val de Ra, a daughter of Clive Brittain’s 2004 Prix de l’Abbaye winner

Sire

10.0f 10.0f 6.0f 6.0f 6.0f 6.0f 5.0f 12.0f 10.0f 9.5f 9.5f 8.0f 8.0f 6.0f 6.0f 7.0f 5.5f 5.5f 12.0f 10.0f 5.5f 16.0f 7.5f 12.0f 9.0f 12.0f 6.0f 6.0f

The Apache (SAF) Igugu (AUS) Delago Deluxe (AUS) Shea Shea (SAF) Princess Victoria (SAF) Val de Ra (SAF) Val de Ra (SAF) Seal (SAF) Happy Landing (SAF) Golden Chariot (SAF) Safwan (AUS) Solo Traveller (SAF) Beach Beauty (SAF) Silver Age (SAF) Tempted (SAF) Past Master (SAF) Delago Deluxe (AUS) Hidden Beauty (SAF) Igugu (AUS) Fisani (SAF) Give Me Five (SAF) Herod The Great (SAF) Variety Club (SAF) Vertical Takeoff (SAF) Chesalon (SAF) Vengence (SAF) Depardieu (SAF) Trinity House (SAF)

Var, also took two big prizes, beating hot favourite What A Winter in the Computaform Sprint and then avenging the only defeat of her career by taking the 2011 edition of the SA Fillies Sprint.

Shea Shea was over a length behind What A Winter when third in the Computaform but, renewing rivalry largely on the insistence of jockey Anthony Delpech, beat the same opponent into sixth when winning the Golden Horse Casino Sprint.

The SA Derby went the way of Seal,

chance once they were held up at the back off a slow pace.

Local hero Rocket Man finally lifted the top Singapore sprint, the KrisFlyer, 4 4 3 4 3 5 5 4 5 7 5 4 4 3 3 5 3 3 4 5 5 7 3 6 4 4 3 3

C F C C F M M G G H G C F C F H C F F M M G C H G G C F

Mogok (USA) Galileo (IRE) Encosta de Lago (AUS) National Emblem (SAF) Victory Moon (SAF) Var (USA) Var (USA) Silvano (GER) Al Mufti (USA) Caesour (USA) Encosta de Lago (AUS) Western Winter (USA) Dynasty (SAF) Requiem (AUS) Jallad (USA) Jet Master (SAF) Encosta de Lago (AUS) Victory Moon (SAF) Galileo (IRE) Kahal (GB) Goldkeeper (USA) Tara's Halls (SAF) Var (USA) Jet Master (SAF) Fort Wood (USA) Black Sam Bellamy (IRE) Dupont (GB) Captain Al (SAF)

after finishing second for each of the two previous years. The Dubai Golden Shaheen winner now heads to Newmarket to contest the July Cup.

Apache Rose (SAF) Zarinia (IRE) Succeeding (AUS) Yankee Clipper (SAF) Platinum Princess (SAF) Minelli (SAF) Minelli (SAF) Prestine Performer (SAF) Landing Liza (SAF) Golden Apple (SAF) Showella (NZ) Strawberry Lane (SAF) Sun Coast (SAF) Russian Belle (SAF) Tempter (ARG) Early Thaw (SAF) Succeeding (AUS) Hidcote Blue (SAF) Zarinia (IRE) Gypsey Spirit (SAF) Dance Celebre (SAF) Waltzing Wallaby (AUS) La Massine (SAF) Sweetveldt (SAF) Sarabande (SAF) Vijanti (GB) Diva (SAF) National Vixen (SAF)

who was backed in to 10-1 from double those odds and duly gave trainer Gavin van Zyl a first Grade 1 win by two and a quarter lengths.

English Garden, who dead-heated for second with Galileo’s Destiny in the Derby, looked set for victory in the Daily News 2000 four weeks later, only to be mown down in the last strides by another van Zyl inmate, 16-1 outsider The Apache.

The Champions Challenge witnessed an even bigger shock, the

Dolpour Intikhab (USA) Flying Spur (AUS) Jallad (USA) Rakeen (USA) Elliodor (FR) Elliodor (FR) Rambo Dancer (CAN) Badger Land (USA) Northern Guest (USA) Lord Ballina (AUS) Jallad (USA) Capture Him (USA) Krusenstern (USA) Southern Halo (USA) Western Winter (USA) Flying Spur (AUS) National Assembly (CAN) Intikhab (USA) Coastal (USA) Jallad (USA) Kenmare (FR) Secret Prospector (USA) Al Mufti (USA) Goldmark (SAF) Rainbow Quest (USA) Trigger Finger (USA) National Assembly (CAN)

55-1 no-hoper Happy Landing coming home in front of three de Kock representatives – Captain’s Wild, Flirtation and Rudra.

In the two-year-old division, the Victory Moon filly Princess Victoria raised a few eyebrows with a brilliant three-length score in the Allan Robertson Championship, while the Encosta de Lago colt Delago Deluxe maintained his unbeaten record with an easy front-running success in the Tsogo Sun Maverick Medallion.

JR Forvaltning Stockholms Stora Pris

9.5f

Tertullus (FR)

8

H

Monsun (GER)

Tryphosa (IRE)

Be My Guest (USA)

Metropolitan Handicap Gamely Stakes Preakness Stakes Kentucky Derby Woodford Reserve Turf Classic Stakes Humana Distaff Stakes Kentucky Oaks Californian Stakes Vagrancy Handicap Sands Point Stakes American Handicap Sheepshead Bay Stakes Dixie Stakes Shuvee Handicap Milady Handicap Black-Eyed Susan Stakes Peter Pan Stakes Jim Murray Handicap Churchill Downs Stakes Mervyn Leroy Handicap Churchill Distaff Turf Mile Stakes American Turf Stakes

8.0f 9.0f 9.5f 10.0f 9.0f 7.0f 9.0f 9.0f 6.5f 8.5f 8.0f 11.0f 9.0f 8.0f 8.5f 9.0f 9.0f 12.0f 7.0f 8.5f 8.0f 8.5f

Tizway (USA) Dubawi Heights (GB) Shackleford (USA) Animal Kingdom (USA) Get Stormy (USA) Sassy Image (USA) Plum Pretty (USA) Twirling Candy (USA) Hilda's Passion (USA) Winter Memories (USA) Ryehill Dreamer (IRE) Hibaayeb (GB) Paddy O'Prado (USA) Awesome Maria (USA) Ultra Blend (USA) Royal Delta (USA) Alternation (USA) Acclamation (USA) Aikenite (USA) Crown of Thorns (USA) Aviate (GB) Banned (USA)

6 4 3 3 5 4 3 4 4 3 5 4 4 4 5 3 3 5 4 6 4 3

H F C C H F F C F F H F C F M F C H C H F C

Tiznow (USA) Dubawi (IRE) Forestry (USA) Leroidesanimaux (BRZ) Stormy Atlantic (USA) Broken Vow (USA) Medaglia d'Oro (USA) Candy Ride (ARG) Canadian Frontier (USA) El Prado (IRE) Catcher In The Rye (IRE) Singspiel (IRE) El Prado (IRE) Maria's Mon (USA) Richly Blended (USA) Empire Maker (USA) Distorted Humor (USA) Unusual Heat (USA) Yes It's True (USA) Repent (USA) Dansili (GB) Kitten's Joy (USA)

Bethany (USA) Rosie's Posy (IRE) Oatsee (USA) Dalicia (GER) Foolish Gal (USA) Ideal Image (USA) Liszy (USA) House of Danzing (USA) Executricker (USA) Memories of Silver (USA) No Way (IRE) Lady Zonda (GB) Fun House (USA) Discreetly Awesome (USA) Ankha (USA) Delta Princess (USA) Alternate (USA) Winning In Style (USA) Silverlado (USA) Crowning Touch (USA) Emplane (USA) Cardinalli (USA)

Dayjur (USA) Suave Dancer (USA) Unbridled (USA) Acatenango (GER) Kiri's Clown (USA) Hennessy (USA) A P Indy (USA) Chester House (USA) El Prado (IRE) Silver Hawk (USA) Rainbows For Life (CAN) Lion Cavern (USA) Prized (USA) Awesome Again (CAN) Desert Classic (USA) A P Indy (USA) Seattle Slew (USA) Silveyville (USA) Saint Ballado (CAN) Thunder Gulch (USA) Irish River (FR) Capote (USA)

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DATA BOOK EXCLUSIVE EUROPEAN STALLION STATS

Date Grade Race United States (cont) G2 06/05 La Troienne Stakes G3 04/06 Ohio Derby G3 04/06 Aristides Stakes G3 04/06 Dogwood Stakes G3 30/05 Los Angeles Handicap G3 30/05 Berkeley Stakes G3 30/05 Winning Colors Stakes G3 30/05 Violet Stakes G3 30/05 Ouija Board Distaff Stakes G3 30/05 Lone Star Park Handicap G3 28/05 Louisville Handicap G3 28/05 Arlington Matron Stakes G3 21/05 William Donald Schaefer Stakes G3 21/05 Maryland Sprint Handicap G3 21/05 Railbird Stakes G3 21/05 Gallorette Handicap G3 21/05 Allaire du Pont Distaff Stakes G3 21/05 Hanshin Cup Handicap G3 15/05 Lazaro Barrera Memorial Stakes G3 07/05 Twin Spires Turf Sprint Stakes G3 07/05 Fort Marcy Stakes G3 07/05 Senorita Stakes G3 07/05 Beaugay Stakes G3 06/05 Alysheba Stakes G3 06/05 Eight Belles Stakes

So much of the build-up to the Kentucky Derby was dominated by the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner, Uncle Mo, and it was only 36 hours before the race that the long-running saga of his possible recovery from an infection came to its conclusion with his withdrawal. The race still seemed to throw up a decent winner in the shape of Team Valor’s blinkered homebred son of the Brazilian stallion, Leroisdesanimaux, Animal Kingdom.

Trained by the British-born Graham Motion – son of the former Tattersalls

Dist

Horse

8.5f 8.5f 6.0f 8.0f 6.0f 8.5f 6.0f 8.5f 8.0f 8.5f 12.0f 9.0f 8.5f 6.0f 7.0f 8.5f 8.5f 8.0f 7.0f 5.0f 8.5f 8.0f 8.5f 8.5f 7.0f

Blind Luck (USA) Caleb's Posse (USA) Noble's Promise (USA) Salty Strike (USA) Camp Victory (USA) Uh Oh Bango (USA) Sassy Image (USA) Denomination (USA) Wasted Tears (USA) Awesome Gem (USA) Keertana (USA) Pachattack (USA) Apart (USA) Ventana (USA) May Day Rose (USA) No Explaining (IRE) Super Espresso (USA) Workin For Hops (USA) Bench Points (USA) Regally Ready (USA) Straight Story (USA) Star Billing (USA) Daveron (GER) First Dude (USA) Victoria's Wildcat (USA)

US representative Michael Motion – Animal Kingdom had the benefit of just three previous starts but still managed to overhaul the front-running Shackleford inside the final furlong.

He went on to hit the wire almost three lengths clear of Nehro, with Irish raider Master Of Hounds staying on well late to grab fifth.

Shackleford took revenge in the Preakness Stakes, where he got first run and held off the Derby hero, who had been held up last but one in a field of 14, by a diminishing half a length.

Age

Sex

4 3 4 3 4 4 4 5 6 8 5 5 4 5 3 4 4 4 3 4 5 3 6 4 3

F C C F C C F M M G M M C H F F F G G C H F M C F

Sire

Dam

Broodmare Sire

Pollard's Vision (USA) Posse (USA) Cuvee (USA) Smart Strike (CAN) Forest Camp (USA) Top Hit (USA) Broken Vow (USA) Smart Strike (CAN) Najran (USA) Awesome Again (CAN) Johar (USA) Pulpit (USA) Flatter (USA) Toccet (USA) Rockport Harbor (USA) Azamour (IRE) Medaglia d'Oro (USA) City Zip (USA) Benchmark (USA) More Than Ready (USA) Giant's Causeway (USA) Dynaformer (USA) Black Sam Bellamy (IRE) Stephen Got Even (USA) Bellamy Road (USA)

Lucky One (USA) Abbey's Missy (USA) The Devil's Trick (USA) Lake Huron (USA) Victory Trick (CAN) French Debutante (USA) Ideal Image (USA) Dreamlike (USA) Wishes And Roses (USA) Piano (USA) Motokiks (USA) El Laoob (USA) Detach (USA) Full Figure (USA) May Day Bluff (USA) Claustra (FR) Amizette (USA) Citi Pearl (USA) Mo Chuisle (USA) Kivi (USA) Eventail (USA) Topliner (USA) Darwinia (GER) Run Sarah Run (USA) Flaming Mirage (USA)

Best of Luck (USA) Slewacide (USA) Clever Trick (USA) Salt Lake (USA) Clever Trick (USA) French Deputy (USA) Hennessy (USA) Storm Cat (USA) Greinton Pentelicus (USA) Storm Cat (USA) Red Ransom (USA) Unbridled (USA) Polish Numbers (USA) Pine Bluff (USA) Green Desert (USA) Forty Niner (USA) Citidancer (USA) Free House (USA) King of Kings (IRE) Lear Fan (USA) Thunder Gulch (USA) Acatenango (GER) Smart Strike (CAN) Woodman (USA)

The Kentucky Oaks went to Bob Baffert’s Plum Pretty, who denied top female jockey Rosie Napravnik’s mount, St John’s River, to score by a neck under Martin Garcia.

Robby Albarado, who lost the mount on Animal Kingdom to Uncle Mo’s partner John Velazquez at the very last moment, gained a little compensation on Churchill Downs course specialist Sassy Image in the Humana Distaff.

The other major support race on the Derby card, the Turf Classic, saw Get Stormy make it Grade 1 wins in two

consecutive starts after he was allowed a soft lead.

Tizway improved two places on his 2010 performance to land the Met Mile.

Two ex-British fillies won important events on either side of the continent.

Dubawi Heights, Group 2-placed but winless in six English starts as a twoyear-old, gave former Newmaket trainer Simon Callaghan a first top-level triumph in the Gamely Stakes, while the 2009 Fillies’ Mile and 2010 Ribblesdale Stakes winner Hibaayeb landed the Sheepshead Bay Stakes.

Leading global sires by stakes winners Horse

Born

Sire

Stands/Stood

Encosta de Lago (AUS) Galileo (IRE) Redoute’s Choice (AUS) Dansili (GB) Montjeu (IRE) Distorted Humor (USA) More Than Ready (USA) Exceed And Excel (AUS) Giant’s Causeway (USA) Dubawi (IRE) Lonhro (AUS) Danehill Dancer (IRE) Captain Al (SAF) Tapit (USA) Northern Afleet (USA) Street Cry (IRE) Harlan’s Holiday (USA) King Kamehameha (JPN) Wild Event (USA) Rock Of Gibraltar (IRE)

1993 1998 1996 1996 1996 1993 1997 2000 1997 2002 1998 1993 1996 2001 1993 1998 1999 2001 1993 1999

Fairy King (USA) Sadler’s Wells (USA) Danehill (USA) Danehill (USA) Sadler’s Wells (USA) Forty Niner (USA) Southern Halo (USA) Danehill (USA) Storm Cat (USA) Dubai Millennium (GB) Octagonal (NZ) Danehill (USA) Al Mufti (USA) Pulpit (USA) Afleet (CAN) Machiavellian (USA) Harlan (USA) Kingmambo (USA) Wild Again (USA) Danehill (USA)

AUS IRE IRE AUS AUS UK IRE NZ USA AUS USA AUS AUS IRE USA AUS UK AUS AUS IRE AUS SAF USA USA USA AUS USA JPN USA BRZ IRE AUS JPN

BTH BTW GH GW 27 30 22 20 22 23 25 19 22 17 17 27 15 17 9 19 13 18 10 18

14 13 12 12 11 11 11 11 10 10 10 10 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8

15 20 16 12 15 9 13 8 12 10 8 13 8 7 3 9 5 11 7 7

9 8 8 9 6 3 4 3 5 4 3 5 3 4 3 5 3 5 5 2

BTH = black type horses; BTW = black type winners; GH = Group horses; GW = Group winners

Encosta de Lago, who had a Group 1 winner in South Africa through Delago Deluxe, is still at the head of affairs, having added two more Black Type Winners, but he is surely there only on borrowed time.

With the European season in full swing Galileo has surged forward, notching 11 more Black Type Horses and five BTWs. There is a surfeit of stakes races, a fair number of which provide distinctly false prestige to the winners, let alone the placed horses, but that’s not an accusation which can be levelled at Galileo or his offspring.

Frankel, Golden Lilac, Misty For Me and Roderic O’Connor have all won

Classics over a mile for him, and in South Africa the sensational filly Igugu continues to carry all before her. She won the Woolavington Classic and South African Oaks.

It is odds on that once again Galileo will triumph in this particular title race but there are other European sires making headway. Dansili and Montjeu were not even on the table last month but now they are lying handily in fourth and fifth, with 12 and 11 BTWs. Without wishing to labour the point, all the first five in the list are descended from Northern Dancer and overall, Danehill’s influence is by far the greatest of any recent sire.

Leading sires of two-year-olds 2011 by earnings Name

*Dark Angel Kheleyf Exceed And Excel *Dutch Art *Red Clubs Holy Roman Emperor Kyllachy Oasis Dream Blu Air Force Indian Rocket Footstepsinthesand Choisir Acclamation

YOF

2005 2001 2000 2004 2003 2004 1998 2000 1997 1994 2002 1999 1999

Sire

Rnrs

Wnrs

%WR

Races

AWD

Earnings (£)

Acclamation Green Desert Danehill Medicean Red Ransom Danehill Pivotal Green Desert Sri Pekan Indian Ridge Giant’s Causeway Danehill Dancer Royal Applause

30 30 27 22 31 37 16 10 20 11 14 22 25

9 8 8 7 7 6 7 4 5 4 4 6 10

30.0 26.7 29.6 31.8 22.6 16.2 43.8 40.0 25.0 36.4 28.6 27.3 40.0

13 12 12 11 10 6 8 5 6 5 5 7 10

5.1 5.5 5.2 5.1 5.5 5.5 5.2 5.4 5.3 5.4 5.1 5.5 5.2

109,616 94,092 88,596 84,240 80,606 70,224 63,166 61,947 59,167 57,025 52,883 52,512 51,943

Statistics to June 5; first-season sire*

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Top horse

Lily’s Angel Bay Shore Fulbright Miss Work Of Art Vedelago Ishvana Noble Hachy Power Blu Air Bally Chope Star Skadar Lake Strategic Game Lo Zoccolo Duro

Earned (£)

18,419 31,164 19,731 27,926 34,913 11,009 32,757 37,009 21,430 18,276 16,207 20,689 9,188

Dark Angel maintains his lead in earnings and numerically among the freshmen thanks to three more winners.

Two others have launched a charge though, with Dutch Art adding four to his tally and Red Clubs five. Both were best at short distances and showed good form at two, as well as later.

However, even their achievements pale by comparison with Dark Angel’s sire Acclamation, who managed an additional eight winners.

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FLASHBACK

July 12, 1984 Chief Singer and Ray Cochrane are led into the winner’s enclosure by Bill Brindle after landing the July Cup

GEORGE SELWYN

C

hief Singer was the 10,000guinea yearling who became a champion racehorse.

Owned by Jeff Smith and trained by the late Ron Sheather, the son of Ballad Rock won the 1983 Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot on his debut.

At three, the strapping colt chased home El Gran Senor in the 2,000 Guineas before going on to capture the St James’s Palace Stakes – by eight lengths no less – and the Sussex Stakes.

In between those races Chief Singer proved his brilliance by dropping back to six furlongs and beating the specialist sprinters in the July Cup.

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Smith says: “We were utterly confident he’d win the Coventry despite his odds; I backed him at 25-1!

As a two-year-old he would give weight and a beating to 100-rated handicappers on the gallops.

“He came from the back in the July Cup but I remember Ray [Cochrane] telling me afterwards that the gaps always appear for the good ones – he won easily in the end from Never So Bold, successful the following year.”

Smith’s silks have been carried by a number of top performers over the years but he looks back fondly on the big black horse whose talent far exceeded his modest price-tag.

“Chief Singer was the first really good horse I owned,” he says.

“Together with Lochsong, who I bred, and Persian Punch, they are the best three I’ve had, although I wouldn’t want to choose between them.

“He was a huge horse – at two he was nearly 17 hands. Luckily he didn’t grow an inch after that! But he was a very special horse with natural ability.”

Smith adds: “Chief Singer was trained by a very knowledgeable man in Ron Sheather, later my racing manager. He was probably the most down-to-earth and trustworthy person I’ve ever known and I miss him enormously.”

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Blue-chip. Blue Riband. Blue-blooded.

In horseracing, success comes in every colour.

But is defined by just one.

SHAMARDAL

Five juvenile Group winners in 2010.

You have to go back to Danehill in his prime to find a stallion who sired more.

Darley