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June 2008 Issue 46

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Thoroughbred Owner & Breeder June 2008

The official publication of the ROA and the TBA

Curtain Call for Sadler’s Wells Luca Cumani on his burning desire to win the Derby again with a son of the retired perennial champion sire

“Skill is what I enjoy about British racing” Jeremy Naylor

Guineas glory

Innovative trainer aims to spread the gospel about how technology can help

Natagora’s triumph caught on camera, as is a dramatic duel for the 2,000 Guineas

Barry Hills on what still motivates him after 39 years of training

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Siring great first foals Filly ex. MONEVASSIA, dam of Moyglare S.-Gr.1 & Prix Marcel Boussac-Gr.1 winner Rumplestiltskin (by DANEHILL) and a full-sister to Kingmambo.

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Introduction

Divergent views as Derby debate rages

Richard Griffiths Editor

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June 2008 Issue 46

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and the TBA The official publication of the ROA

Curtain Call for Sadler’s Wells desire Luca Cumani on his burning with a son of to win the Derby again n sire the retired perennial champio

Jeremy Naylor

to Innovative trainer aims spread the gospel about how technology can help

Guineas glory

Natagora’s triumph caught on camera, as is a dramatic duel for the 2,000 Guineas

“Skill is what I enjoy about British racing” Barry Hills on what still motivates him after 39 years of training

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“There is absolutely no logic that you can link a race to the genetic transmission a stallion can have on his offspring. A stallion is going to be successful or not whether he’s won the Derby or not, because he’s either going to be prepotent and transmit highly desirable qualities to his offspring or he’s not.

“The fact that he has won the Derby does not change his genetic material, so it’s rubbish to talk about one race being better than another at producing stallions.”

Strong stuff, but it comes with a warning to breeders that a desire for speed may yet corrode the reputation of Derby winners at stud – even though there is hardly a more in-demand stallion right now than 2001 Epsom winner Galileo, a son of now-retired Sadler’s Wells.

“If the Derby stops having a good rate of successful stallions, it’s purely down to the breeders,” states Cumani. “For some strange reason – and this is a key factor – breeders seem to be moving away from mile-and-a-half horses to milers or mile-and-a-quarter horses.

“There is no logic to it, absolutely none. If you look at the last 30 years, successful stallions in Europe have been horses such as Nijinsky, Caerleon, Darshaan, Sadler’s Wells, Rainbow Quest and now Galileo and Montjeu, these are all mile-and-a-half horses.”

The sense of the shock caused by Bolger’s ‘no Epsom’ announcement is neatly summed up by Alan Lee in this month’s Be Our Guest (page 17): “Imagine Sir Alex Ferguson revealing at a pre-season press conference that his target for Manchester United was not, after all, the Champions League but the Carling Cup. Then transfer this unthinkable image to racing and it is not a million miles from the bombshell dropped by Jim Bolger.”

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“It can hardly be said the Derby is a race in crisis”

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The long-running and ongoing attempts to find a successor to Vodafone as sponsor of the Derby have done little to enhance the reputation of the race.

Neither has Jim Bolger’s out-of-the-blue view that he wasn’t that fussed about running New Approach, that he would prefer to win the Irish equivalent, and, besides, he didn’t really think winning the Derby did much for a horse’s career at stud.

The fact that this year’s race will also be run in testing crowd conditions, due to the rebuilding work that is going on at Epsom, could also chip away at the Derby’s prestige.

But for all these issues, it could hardly be said that the Derby is a race in crisis. After all, it is only 12 months ago that Frankie Dettori’s euphoric reaction to finally winning the Classic burst out of the Sunday papers, both front page and back.

And Bolger is most certainly in a minority among trainers in viewing the Derby with such ambivalence. Barry Hills, this month’s Big Interview (pages 32-37), has yet to win it in 39 years as a trainer. “It hasn’t been a lucky race for me,” he tells Julian Muscat. “I’ve had four runners-up but it’s still better to be runner-up than third. Obviously I’d love to win it.”

And then there’s Luca Cumani, bidding for a third victory – all of them coming in a year ending in ‘8’ – with Curtain Call.

“I’ve won it twice but it’s never enough,” he says in an interview with Emma Berry (pages 3843).

Cumani, a high-profile breeder through Fittocks Stud, does not believe the race has a detrimental effect on a potential sire.

“What a race like the Derby does is give a profile to the horse when he goes to stud, in order for him to be patronised by the right breeders with the right mares,” he argues.

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28 Nick Blofeld, Epsom’s new managing director

Trainer Jeremy Naylor discusses his scientific approach to the job

NEWS AND VIEWS 10

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PHOTOS: GEORGE SELWYN/

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The retirement of 14-time champion sire Sadler’s Wells

News Focus Sadler’s Wells; prize-money Changes Your must-read news wrap-up ROA Leader Impact of the Horsemen’s Group TBA Leader Knock-on effects of US racing Be Our Guest Times journalist Alan Lee Lysaght’s People All the racecourse gossip Going Global Fallout from the Kentucky Derby Your Say Sally Rowley-Williams

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Jeremy Naylor An innovative approach to training

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Sales Circuit Focus on the breeze-ups

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FEATURES

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The Guineas One festival, two Big Pictures

Talking to…

Epsom’s Nick Blofeld The Big Interview With Barry Hills Cumani and the Derby What a third victory would mean

ROA News Salisbury gets the Gold Standard Racecourse Prize-money How Britain’s 60 courses compare Picture Parade From Newmarket and Sandown Owner of the Month Lee Power, for Iris De Balme Owners in the News Graham Paver’s magic weekend

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TBA News Your chance to play The Belfry

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Breeders’ Prizes Your latest jumps and Flat winners

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Breeder of the Month Alan Tombs for Blazing Bailey

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Breeders in the News Featuring Paul Murphy

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Vets Forum Equine grass sickness

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Caulfield Files Sadler’s Wells-Mill Reef

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Stakes Results From Europe and the US

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Stallion Stats Old Vic and Pivotal

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Sadler’s Wells is retired – he was ‘simply the best’

Sadler’s Wells, the most influential stallion in Europe of the last 20 years, has been retired by Coolmore owing to declining fertility.

The 27-year-old son of Northern Dancer, whose progeny have often made spectacular sums in the sales arena, was champion sire in Britain and Ireland a recordbreaking 14 times between 1990 and 2004, including 13 years in succession.

Kirsten Rausing, chairman of the TBA and owner of Lanwades Stud in Newmarket, said: “Sadler’s Wells was simply the best active sire in

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“He sired attractive, tenacious, tough horses” – Kirsten Rausing

the world. His impact on racing and breeding is global, and we are incredibly fortunate to have had him for 20 years.

“He will be greatly missed, however his legacy will survive through his sons – the likes of Galileo, Fort Wood and El Prado. Sadler’s Wells was also an excellent broodmare sire. I would say his daughters will be like gold-dust now.

“The first mare I sent to him produced Dragon Dancer, runner-up to Sir Percy in the Derby. Sadler’s Wells sired attractive animals, often very tenacious in spirit and body, and tough.

“And we must not forget there are still a number of his offspring who are unraced.

Who knows what is to come?”

Sadler’s Wells has sired over 100 Group 1 winners in Europe, including the winners of 33 Classics in Britain, Ireland and France.

The brilliant filly Salsabil, winner of the 1,000 Guineas, Oaks and Irish Derby, French and Irish Derby hero Old Vic, and In The Wings, successful in the Coronation Cup and Breeders’ Cup Turf, were three of Sadler’s Wells’s earliest big achievers.

Galileo was his first Derby winner in 2001, followed a year later by his second, High Chaparral, both trained by Aidan O’Brien. Both are now highly-prized stallions, as is Montjeu, the 1999 Arc winner, who has gone on to sire Derby winners Motivator and Authorized.

Sadler’s Wells has also been champion broodmare sire on three occasions. In addition, the likes of Oscar and Old Vic continue to fly their father’s flag as National Hunt sires.

Bred by his owner Robert Sangster’s Swettenham Stud in 1981, Sadler’s Wells showed top-class form on the track for Vincent O’Brien, his triumphs including the Irish 2,000 Guineas, Eclipse Stakes and Irish Champion Stakes.

It is not known how many mares Sadler’s Wells covered this year up to his retirement.

He reportedly covered 64 mares last season. I

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News Focus “I will come at commercial rights from a new angle” – Chris McFadden, chairman of REL

McFadden: avoid internal squabbles Chris McFadden, 48, the inaugural chairman of Racing Enterprises Ltd, has identified the creation of a levy replacement as his most important long term aim, while stressing there should be no “squabbles” with the British Horseracing Authority in pursuit of that.

In the short-term, he said it was important that REL’s role and objectives should be clearly identified and publicised, particularly as the body that was intended to act as racing’s commercial arm has taken longer than expected to get

off the ground.

McFadden argued it was “natural” the BHA should have become involved in recent commercial negotiations “because no one else has been there”.

Asked how the BHA and REL will dovetail, he added: “I wouldn’t say it is black and white; there are certain areas which are going to be grey. We want to work a way forward which doesn’t involve getting into a squabble. There is no point doing that and has to be avoided at all costs.”

McFadden was first

identified for his role by BHA chairman Paul Roy, after the pair had worked together at Merrill Lynch.

“I have known Paul for some time and that is something I see as a positive,” said McFadden.

“We need to thrash out quite quickly what we are trying to do but my understanding is that REL is there to exploit the commercial rights of racing.

I think I can contribute to this and will probably be able to come at it from a slightly different angle.”

An early attempt at raising more funds could come through looking at various data-related contracts which are up for re-negotiation within the next two years.

“We will also be looking at sponsorship, and why it seems to be on the decline; we need to focus on how to bring in new sponsors,” said McFadden.

“The Tote is another area to look at. The response of racing to whatever happens – if racing does or doesn’t get it – will have to be on the agenda.”

REL will also “look at projects to promote the theatre of the sport, which

will be a central focus,” although McFadden, recognising a wariness about previous attempts to market racing centrally, spoke of “measured” such funding.

McFadden is keen to work closely with BHA chief executive Nic Coward on promotion of the sport.

“Racing has a great tradition, but must look with a fresh perspective at the changing marketplace in which it operates,” he said.

“Other sports, such as football, golf and Formula 1, have remodelled to create a clear, dramatic narrative – leading to substantially increased investment.

“One of the attractions of leading REL is the desire among racing’s constituents to embrace change and to really drive a programme to seek new sponsors and highprofile supporters, new revenue streams and achieve greater public interest.”

His appointment was welcomed by REL director Paul Dixon, who said: “Chris impressed us with his enthusiasm and desire to take REL forward, and he will be a great asset in developing new ideas and thinking about the sport.” I

US legend Storm Cat follows Sadler’s Wells out to grass

PHOTO: GEORGE SELWYN

Storm Cat is to the US what Sadler’s Wells is to Europe

Forty-eight hours after the retirement of European legend Sadler’s Wells was revealed, top US sire Storm Cat had his stud career terminated.

The 25-year-old son of Storm Bird, who stood at Overbrook Farm in Kentucky for a fee of $300,000, has managed to get only three mares in foal this season.

Storm Cat is responsible for a plethora of top level winners on both sides of the Atlantic,

including Giant’s Causeway, whose six Group 1 victories featured the Irish Champion Stakes, Tabasco Cat (Preakness, Belmont) and Cat Thief (Breeders’ Cup Classic).

His success as a sire of sires is reflected by the likes of Giant’s Causeway and Tale Of The Cat in the US, and One Cool Cat in Europe.

Bred by William Young and trained by Jonathan Sheppard, Storm Cat landed the Grade 1

Young America Stakes and was second in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile. His initial stud fee was $20,000 but by 2002 had reached $500,000.

In 2005 Sheikh Mohammed paid $9.7 million for Storm Cat colt Jalil, while in 2006 his grandson, The Green Monkey, was bought for $16m by Coolmore, who own shares in Storm Cat. His dam, Terlingua, died only a few weeks before her son’s retirement. I

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Spotlight on prize-money

‘Excellent news’ as purses get £6.7 million cash injection British racing will receive an extra £6.7 million in prizemoney this year after the Levy Board agreed to increase its contribution in a move described by ROA president and Horsemen’s Group chairman Paul Dixon as “excellent news for the sport”.

From July 1, the total prize fund will be bolstered to £56.2m (a rise of 13.5%), which equates to a calendar year contribution of £62.5m, equalling the 2006 record.

The Levy Board’s decision, taken at its April strategy review meeting, comes on the back of a revised predicted levy yield for 2007/2008 of up to £120m, the result of a higher than anticipated financial return from the betting industry.

It was initially forecast that bookmakers would contribute around £85.5m

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TOTAL ANNUALISED LEVY INCOME £m (b)

% OF LEVY INCOME ALLOCATED TO PRIZE-MONEY

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99

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2006

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99

63.1

103

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2007

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107

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99

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(a) Revised minimum estimates of projected income and contribution to prize-money for 2008 (b) Financial year figures adjusted to calendar year (c) Total prize-money, including Levy Board, racecourses’ and owners’ contribution

to racing this year – a figure that proved to be pessimistic – which led to the Levy Board cutting its prizemoney contribution from £55m to £49.5m.

However, with this year’s levy yield from the betting industry now set to eclipse the high of £110.7m

recorded in 2003/2004, the Levy Board has acted accordingly and redressed the balance.

Dixon said: “This is excellent news and some positive PR for the racing industry.

“The Horsemen’s Group worked hard to ensure that

the injection of cash was immediate and equalled the record level of 2006.

“When the levy drops, prize-money is cut, so when it goes up, it is only right that the proceeds should be put back into prize-money immediately.”

Looking further ahead,

Tote set to contribute £9.2m to levy

“We have performed very well” – Trevor Beaumont

Trevor Beaumont, chief executive of the Tote, is “proud how the business has performed” in light of a forecast £9.2 million contribution towards this year’s record levy yield.

That is despite continuing uncertainty over the impending sale of the Tote on the open market.

Beaumont said: “The increased levy yield is extremely good news for racing. We are likely to contribute around £9.2 million, which is on top of our race sponsorship and commissions of circa £11 million.

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“It is a not insignificant amount and I would want to continue to provide that level of contribution in future, however it very much depends on who purchases the Tote. Things are out of our hands in that respect.

“Unlike Ladbrokes, we do not maintain a high roller clientele, but good luck to them. We operate at a different level and are not a commercial bookmaker. Tote turnover is up this year, although our figures have not yet been released.”

Beaumont acknowledged that uncertainty over the Tote’s future had not been

conducive to an ideal working environment, but he refused to dwell on that.

He added: “I never look backwards and always try to move forwards. The unresolved issue of the Tote’s sale has made life more difficult, however I am proud how the business has coped.

Our performance has been good in the circumstances.

“Of course, you should never be entirely satisfied with results and there is always the opportunity to do better. We have been focused on running our business, keeping morale high and delivering profits.” I

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Demand for bookmakers’ accounts to be made more transparent to racing

“The Levy Board seeks to achieve certainty for the industry”

Bookmakers’ accounts should be subject to an independent audit to provide “greater transparency to racing”, according to Paul Dixon, ROA president and Horsemen’s Group chairman, who was responding to news that this year’s levy yield will far exceed the original £85.5 million forecast.

A combination of factors has resulted in bookmakers’ profits on racing hitting unexpected heights, including positive results on the track, changes to the SP collection system yielding increased starting price

margins, and the impact of ‘high roller’ punters losing significant amounts of money.

Dixon commented: “There needs to be greater transparency regarding how much profit the bookmakers are making on racing.

“An independent audit of the bookmakers’ accounts is needed. We just want to know that they are playing with a straight bat.

“Racing and the bookmakers must build a closer working relationship in order to make our product more attractive to the nation’s punters.”

“We want to know they are playing with a straight bat” – Paul Dixon

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– Rob Hughes

the Levy Board has stated its intention to provide a prize-money contribution of at least £65m for the next three years up to 2011.

Rob Hughes, chairman of the Levy Board, expressed his delight at the prizemoney increase, while

stressing that it was “additional to the existing levels of contribution by racecourses.”

He continued: “As far as possible we are looking to achieve certainty for the industry to plan going forward.

“In order to achieve

future stability, a long term agreement between racing and betting for the levy is necessary.”

BHA chief executive Nic Coward was also pleased with the outcome and said: “In our levy case we have argued for increased prizemoney, as it is vitally

important to racing and crucially to all the people who make the sport happen.

“So this is really good news and the setting of a minimum for three years is something we will look to build on as we plan for the future.” I

Enhancement Fund created to boost Pattern races As part of its additional allocation to prize-money, the Levy Board has approved the creation of a £1.5 million Enhancement Fund, in response to concern over poor field sizes in Group and Listed races.

Britain has been overtaken

by Ireland and France in relation to minimum prizemoney levels for Pattern races, and the BHA has moved to rectify that by increasing minimum values for top-end races in the second half of this year.

Ruth Quinn, director of racing at the BHA, said: “We have seen over the last few years many higher-rated

horses being exported and sold abroad. It is becoming more difficult to persuade owners to keep their horses in Britain as a result of declining levels of prizemoney.

“While we cannot compete with the levels of prize-money on offer in the US and the Far East, for example, it is important to raise minimum values, so that we can be competitive with our nearest competitors, namely Ireland and France.

“Having recognised that there is a problem, we are now increasing minimum values at the top end

beyond previous levels.”

Plans for 2009 are yet to be finalised but if a total sum of £7m is realised, it would allow other races to be financially supported through the established Development Fund.

Quinn added: “We would like to support more races for up-and-coming horses, such as conditions races, two-year-old novice events and open maidens on the Flat, and black type mares’ races and four-year-old hurdles over jumps.

“Providing prize-money which is commensurate with horses’ ability is a necessity for British racing.” I

Ruth Quinn: boosting top end

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Former ROA president remembered in memorial service in London attended by family, friends and colleagues Channel 4 considers renewing its coverage of the Newmarket meeting, having not done so since 2005 Former apprentice jockey, now 28, sues Warwick racecourse over a fall at the track in 2003, in which he damaged his knee, causing him to quit the saddle 29-year-old returns from year-long suspension for passing information for reward on the Jeremy Noseda-trained Sir Billy Nick at Yarmouth Dame Elizabeth Neville’s independent review exonerates the BHA over the failed race-fixing trial at the Old Bailey; City of London Police admit mistakes Billionaire financier and racehorse owner sued by Sporting Index for alleged gambling debts totalling nearly £750,000 Racing UK’s bonus channel scrapped owing to disappointing audience figures and failure to promote co-mingled betting Former assistant trainer to Francois Boutin and Criquette Head-Maarek joins Arqana to manage the breeze-up and store horse markets, held at Saint-Cloud Veteran handler steps down from training at his Herefordshire base to hand over to his grandson, 24-year-old Michael Jr Two teenagers are charged with killing a 60-year-old punter in a Coral betting shop in Barking, east London 2008/2009 format changed; a horse must be placed in the Betfair Chase, finish first or second at the Cheltenham Festival and win the Grand National Both betting firms fall foul of new advertising codes by mocking people of restricted growth Sedgefield’s former commercial executive continues upwardly mobile career by being appointed managing director at Kempton Trainer and jockey among nine facing BHA corruption charges connected with 11 Blockley-trained runners between March 2004 and September 2005 Appointed Jockey Club chief executive, he’ll leave Racing UK in September to take up his new post Cheltenham Gold Cup winner named Horse of the Year at the 2008 Anglo-Irish Jump Racing Awards Six-time champion jockey launches tipping service in bid to fund new leisure facilities for stable staff in Newmarket Independent Betting Arbitration Service revamps board by bringing in two non-executives, Paul Bellringer and Chris Bird, and chief executive Chris O'Keeffe Ireland’s new sports minister – his appointment is welcomed by Horse Racing Ireland chief executive Brian Kavanagh Elected new chairman of the European Federation of Thoroughbred Breeders’ Associations, taking over from Dr Franco Castelfranchi

Racehorse and stallion – movements and retirements Sadler’s Wells Storm Cat Big Brown Scat Daddy Speirbhean More Than Ready Spring At Last Beef Or Salmon

14-time champion sire is retired at 27 due to declining fertility (see page 6) Most prominent stallion standing in Kentucky over at least the last decade is retired, aged 25, due to declining fertility (see page 7) Unbeaten Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner to stand at Three Chimneys Farm, Kentucky in 2009 alongside Smarty Jones and Dynaformer Four-year-old son of Johannesburg set to join Coolmore’s Australian roster Sheikh Mohammed purchases ten-year-old daughter of Danehill, who has produced champion juvenile Teofilo; she is likely to be bred to Authorized US shuttle stallion has his fee significantly raised; the leading champion two-year-old sire will command a fee of A$110,000 (£51,700) at Vinery Australia Grade 1 winner retired to stud at WinStar Farm, Kentucky, after bowing a tendon; the five-year-old had his best win in the Donn Handicap Ten-time Grade 1-winning chaser is retired after the Punchestown Guinness Gold Cup; he’ll be taught dressage by owner Joe Craig’s grandson Conor Drain

People obituaries

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Terlingua Fayr Jag Ivy Creek Eight Belles Star Way Le Vie Dei Colori

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Former bloodstock agent, journalist and racing manager to Enrique Sarasola, owner of 1996 Arc winner Helissio Owner in Lambourn who was also a breeder Underwriter for the Lexington Insurance Company Former champion amateur jockey; appointed Sheikh Mohammed’s first European trainer in 1980 and was riding out well into his 80s One-time racing correspondent on the Daily Mail and racecourse manager Ran Darby Dan Farm in Kentucky after her father died, breeding five Grade 1 winners; the establishment bred 1972 Epsom Derby winner Roberto Long-standing owner with Richard Hannon; his best horse was Cape Town, third to Bachir in the Irish 2,000 Guineas in 2000 Front man for Boylesports bookmakers Driving force behind Racing Welfare in Lambourn and former racing secretary to Dick Hern and Jenny Pitman

Dam of Storm Cat, the Grade 2 winner has been buried at Overbury Farm, Kentucky, her home for the past 26 years Tim Easterby-trained sprinter who landed his biggest success in the 2004 Golden Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot Dual Listed winner for the Geoff Wragg stable Daughter of Unbridled’s Song was fatally injured crossing the finishing line in second behind Big Brown in the Kentucky Derby (see pages 24-25) Influential southern hemisphere stallion, whose maternal grandson is Encosta De Lago; trained by Paul Kelleway, he won the Chesham Stakes Group 1-winning son of Efisio; he was approaching the end of his third season at Rathbarry Stud in County Cork

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Why Horsemen’s Group matters Paul Dixon President Racehorse Owners Association

This month I’m going to write about the Horsemen’s Group and how this relatively new body, comprising owners, trainers, jockeys, breeders and stable staff, is now making its presence felt throughout racing.

First, though, I should respond to The Guardian’s excellent racing correspondent Greg Wood, who recently complained I had ignored the part played by the British punter when I made a statement about the imminent increase in prize-money.

I said it was right the levy increase should benefit those who contributed most to the sport – owners, trainers, jockeys, breeders and stable staff. However, Greg questioned why I had not acknowledged the crucial part played by punters, whose losses have led to this increase.

I cannot deny punters the world over are at the very core of any horseracing industry, but I would say to Greg there is almost certainly nowhere else in the world where the punter either gets such a good deal or has such a variety of betting opportunities than here in the UK. Far be it from me to extol the fact we alone have an off-course betting market controlled by bookmakers, but it is this highly competitive environment that has much to do with the British punter largely enjoying better margins than his overseas counterpart. Sadly, it is equally true the bookmaker system is the reason why British owners have the worse cost-recovery of any major racing country in the world – a fact that rubs off on the industry’s workforce.

The financial plight of British racing – and how it affects those who work within it – is why we should be applauding the growing strength of the Horsemen’s Group and why we should acknowledge its notable recent achievements.

These achievements include a prize-money agreement with most of the racecourses, the setting up of a system with the racecourses and television companies for dealing with overseas income as a partial payback to the industry’s workforce for having to cope with 48-hour

declarations, and the introduction of a ‘reserveson-the-day’ trial for three races at Royal Ascot.

Special payments for the 48-hour declarations scheme will, through a combination of appearance money and additional prize-money, deliver an extra £600,000 this year.

Additionally, the Horsemen’s Group has been instrumental in ensuring the industry will benefit from increased and much-needed prizemoney flowing from the Levy Board from July 1, rather than next year, as might easily have been the case without our intervention.

Then, over the next few months, a Horsemen’s Group’s representative will join the racecourses and the Levy Board in deciding how the additional funds will be spent during the next three years.

All this has taken time, energy and persistence. Often we have had to phase down strong opposition and, in the case of the prize-money agreement with racecourses, have had to show flexibility and compromise. It is because of this we now have 75% of Britain’s 60 courses signed up to the deal. We believe this figure will come close to being a full house.

The prize-money agreement relates to how much the courses put in themselves through their executive and sponsorship contributions.

The three-year agreement represents a major step forward, not because it will suddenly deliver huge increases in prize-money, but because it shows the willingness of all sections of the industry to work together. And because it will help to provide us with a stable platform on which to build for the future.

Within all this we must also remember the Horsemen’s Group and Racecourse Association are 50% shareholders of Racing Enterprises Ltd. With its first chairman, Chris McFadden, recently appointed, REL puts the remaining piece of the industry’s complex structure in place. Now the Horsemen’s Group and RCA must work within REL to help achieve that most important of objectives – to bring about solidarity and, with it, commercial success. I

“We’ve had to phase down strong opposition and had to show flexibility and compromise”

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TBA Leader Why a healthy American racing scene is essential for breeders worldwide

US events have global resonance Philip Freedman Former chairman Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association

AS yet again one of the most prestigious days racing in the United States was marred by the death of one of its equine stars, and managed to attract the wrong headlines in the nonracing media, a number of issues have been raised. The prevalent view following the death of Kentucky Derby runner-up Eight Belles is that something must now be done.

This is relevant to all with an interest in breeding, given first the continued significance of US bloodlines throughout the racing world, and second its importance in the worldwide thoroughbred economy.

While some of the issues raised, in particular the thorny subject of excessive use of the whip, have been addressed with varying degrees of success, and, while important in ensuring that US racing does not alienate its fan base, are not of fundamental importance to the breed, others are of real significance; in particular, questions have been raised over the ages at which horses begin their careers, the emphasis placed on speed at the expense of soundness, the question of horses racing and being trained on medication, and the surfaces they compete on.

It would be hard to argue that the problems which recent events have highlighted are due to short-term failures – and therefore if they are the consequence of long-term structural weaknesses, then they will take time to be corrected. A kneejerk reaction to appease the sport’s critics, attractive as it might be, will not be the best way forward. What is needed is a more fundamental review. For example, much veterinary research has debunked the myth that horses would be less prone to injury if they went into training later. Similar detailed analysis can and must be done into the effects of medication and racing surfaces.

Given America is unique among the major racing nations in allowing horses to race on drugs designed to mitigate the consequences of physical failings, comparisons between the number of fatalities suffered on racetracks in America and in other countries would be a

starting point for proving whether or not these drugs, in enabling horses to run through the pain barrier, are themselves making American racing more dangerous, irrespective of the longer term consequences for the breed of encouraging production from horses whose congenital defects the drugs may have masked.

Such statistics cannot tell the whole story, given the number of variables which exist between American racing and that which takes place elsewhere, in particular surfaces.

Comparisons between the number of injuries which occur on dirt, synthetic surfaces and turf in America should show if any one surface is dangerous, while comparing those injuries with drug-free jurisdictions should also be revealing.

Once statistics can show the extent, if at all, to which dirt racing is more dangerous than racing on all-weather surfaces, and the degree to which drugs cause more injuries than their prohibition, then the benefits to both the breed, and the image of American racing, from change can be assessed.

Even before this analysis is undertaken, it appears that the European model of trying to ensure the condition of the tracks for its major events are designed for the wellbeing of the participants, rather than breaking records, is one which American racing could follow.

It would be inconceivable that Epsom would fail to water the course in the hope of setting a new record for the Derby. If it did, the only record likely to be set would be for the smallest field in the history of the race.

Just as economies throughout the world need a strong American economy if they are to flourish, so it is essential for breeders that racing and breeding in the US remains vibrant.

For that reason it is vital that the various taskforces set up in the wake of this year's Kentucky Derby take real steps to address the issues raised – although the impact on the breed of putting greater emphasis on the production of sound horses is one from which breeders globally should also benefit. I

“A kneejerk reaction to appease the sport’s critics will not be the best way forward”

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Be Our Guest Does winning the Derby really do nothing for a horse’s stallion career?

How racing and breeding diverge Alan Lee Racing correspondent of The Times

Imagine Sir Alex Ferguson revealing at a pre-season press conference that his target for Manchester United was not, after all, the Champions League but the Carling Cup. Then transfer this unthinkable image to racing and it is not a million miles from the bombshell dropped by Jim Bolger a couple of weeks before the 2,000 Guineas.

New Approach, he announced to a gathering of open-mouthed journalists, would not run in the Derby at Epsom, whatever the outcome of the Guineas. It was not that the trainer harboured any doubts over stamina, balance or constitution.

He just fancied the Irish 2,000 Guineas instead.

“I’m not shying away from Epsom,” said Bolger, who apparently has full control over the racing programme for New Approach. “I don’t think he would have any problems with the trip or the track, but the two Irish races (Guineas and Derby) is the route I’d like to go.

For me, winning the Derby will happen in time.”

And there was the rub, the excruciating niggle. It did not matter what happened at Newmarket; this was a stunning put-down to the race still seen by most of Britain as the biggest and best.

For this was not the complacent whim of a trainer who had already won the Derby and wanted to fill in the gaps on his CV. Bolger, accomplished as he is, has never tasted Epsom glory, yet here he was passing up what looked his finest chance in favour of an Irish Classic comparatively insignificant in profile.

Imagine how this came across at Epsom, where there has seldom been greater pressure on all areas of the business. Since last June, when Authorized and Frankie Dettori swept the Derby onto the front pages, Epsom has been firefighting constantly.

This would always be a challenging Derby, staged in the throes of essential grandstand redevelopment. The decision not to move the race for a year was admirable, considering no

other venue could begin to replicate the Downs, but it was also a risk. The public has to be satisfied with temporary facilities. The race still has to work as a major event. Two more things conspired to increase the uncertainty.

Stephen Wallis, whose entrepreneurial spirit had done much to restore Derby day to former glories, left to take on Newmarket. And the search for a new Derby sponsor was so embarrassingly unsuccessful that the begging bowl was extended once more to Vodafone.

All in all, then, the 2008 race could have done without the slap in the face administered by Bolger. Those who have worked with and for him, most notably Tony McCoy, speak of Bolger with deep respect. Yet he has always been inscrutable. Now he had become unfathomable.

The decision might have been easier to understand if Bolger had justified it with concern over his colt’s temperament.

New Approach, after all, needed an equine escort to the start in the Dewhurst last autumn and the same nannying was employed for the Guineas.

Epsom’s microwave atmosphere could have brought the worst out of him. But Bolger did not use this factor at all.

Indeed, within the narrow, self-fulfilling world of breeding, which sustains and sometimes smothers the sport of Flat racing, the real damage to Epsom was done by Bolger’s supplementary comment on his decision. “I don’t think Epsom does anything for a horse’s stallion career,” he said bluntly.

Those who value Flat racing as a public sport, rather than a private business, will be united in horror over this. When breeding experts begin to waffle about the modern need to instil speed rather than stamina, most of us glaze over.

And if the race still acknowledged as the greatest single advertisement for British Flat racing is now regarded as unfashionable, in stallion terms, then there is surely a case for saying that racing and breeding interests have diverged too dramatically for the long-term good of either. I

“The Derby could have done without the slap in the face from Jim Bolger”

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Lysaght’s People The man from the Beeb brings us all the racecourse patter

Cameron’s Pride Cornelius Lysaght

The results in May clearly put a spring in the step of Tory leader David Cameron; well, most of them did. In East Anglia, while Cameron’s Conservatives generally did pretty well in local elections, Mountain Pride, a horse owned by his father Ian, barely caught the eye of Newmarket’s very own returning officer, racecourse judge Alistair Stewart.

The well-regarded three-yearold, who went into many notebooks after a promising juvenile career, beat only one home in a handicap on 2,000 Guineas day. However, with master trainer John Dunlop, with whom Cameron Sr is a long-term patron, entrusted with Mountain Pride’s tutelage, things can, as someone once sang, only get better.

Racing correspondent of BBC Radio

Some media cynics rather unkindly claim that Channel 4 Racing runs British racing. Perhaps it does. Is it just me, or are suave Mike Cattermole of Channel 4 Racing (left) and well-groomed Nic Coward of the BHA ringers for one another?

McPeek one of many Statesiders mulling Ascot Nick Smith, Ascot’s globetrotting ambassador, is anticipating the biggest ever invasion of the Royal meeting from the US this season.

Whilst the Europeans have long enjoyed their tilts at the Breeders’ Cup, Americans have been much less enthusiastic about travelling.

However, Smith, who has visited Hong Kong, Japan, Australia and the US of late, detects the beginning of a change of heart.

Kenny McPeek has constructed a right-handed turf gallop at his Kentucky base, around which Drilling For Oil (Gold Cup), My Baby Baby (Ribblesdale Stakes) and Nistle’s Crunch (King Edward VII Stakes) are being prepared with a summer raid in mind.

Having bought Curlin for $57,000, it’s no wonder McPeek says the most rewarding part of his job is “discovering a diamond in the rough.”

Flapjack’s strike-rate a match for Choc and co With its fat-laden texture, the flapjack is not the most regular fare to be found in jockeys’ changing rooms.

Until now. On the northern jumps circuit, Czech-born Jan Faltejsek’s surname is too much of a tonguetwister for his rivals,

so he has been christened ‘Flapjack’.

With an impressive record last term of 23 placed horses from 76 rides, trainer George Charlton’s jockey has been quite a Czech mate for punters. Dare I say what a yummy encounter it would be if Flapjack ever found himself in a tight finish with Robert ‘Choc’ Thornton?

Tompkins hot on the collar Newmarket trainer Mark Tompkins (above) is infectiously superstitious. “If you see a funeral on your way to the races,” he once told me, “hold your collar until you see a dog. If you don’t, your horse will run like a drain, you’ll see.” Funerals?

Collars? Dogs? And people have been known to defend trainers from claims they’re all barking.

Anyway, having spied a hearse en route to Perth, I tested the theory, arriving clutching my collar before eventually unearthing a canine in the shape of clerk of the course Anthea Morshead’s long-haired Jack Russell, named Jack.

My horse ran well.

“I told you,” beamed Tompkins.

“I’ve been known to go miles out of my way to satisfy that one. There used to be some kennels near Cambridge that were very helpful. When they shut down I was going to offer to pay to keep them open.”

As a Classic-winning trainer, Tompkins may not be quite as daft as you may think.

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Henry the First When Coolmore has a Classic winner, it is not usually a surprise. But that was the situation with this year’s 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket, in which Henrythenavigator turned two-year-old form on its head to gain revenge on hot favourite New Approach. The Irish-trained superstars fought out a terrific finish, with Johnny Murtagh (dark blue) edging out Kevin Manning by a nose

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Glory for Natagora In stark contrast to the colts’ Classic, the 1,000 Guineas appeared a wide-open race beforehand, with several fillies vying for favouritism. Among them was Natagora, and it was the French flyer who proved best on the day, leading throughout to continue jockey Christophe Lemaire’s love affair with the Rowley Mile. The favourite won by half a length from Spacious (Jamie Spencer)

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A performance which didn’t deserve marring Racing in America may have taken two divergent steps towards a different future in the two minutes-plus it took to complete the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on May 3.

In a resounding victory, the undefeated Big Brown flashed potential to be the kind of horse who could change the sport, much the way Secretariat did in 1973.

The words ‘Triple Crown’, which are not uttered with abandon following a 30-year drought since Affirmed completed the feat in 1978, suddenly sprang to life again.

With Big Brown following up in the Preakness Stakes, the treble remains within his reach.

Yet before Big Brown could gallop out after crossing the line in Kentucky, runner-up Eight Belles shattered both front ankles, collapsing in a heap in front of 157,770 fans at the track, the second highest attendance ever reported, and a huge television audience.

The filly was euthanised immediately. The media and animal rights activists instantly focused on Eight Belles’s death, attacking racing and the emphasis in American breeding

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on speed. The sport’s leaders scurried belatedly for ways to make racing safer.

Almost lost in the uproar were Big Brown’s stunning accomplishments. He became the first horse since Regret in 1915 to win the Classic after only three previous runs. He also became the first to win from stall 20 since Clyde Van Dusen in 1929.

Trainer Rick Dutrow Jr said: “It’s absolutely unbelievable that he could make this race, when he didn’t even go to the track in January. Incredible.”

While the media covered Big Brown’s win with headlines like Bloomberg’s “Big Brown Aims for Preakness Under Death’s Shadow,” another incredible race was unfolding – for his breeding rights. Figures as high

as $60 million were mentioned.

Michael Iavarone, the copresident of principal owner IEAH Stables, said he and his partners had acquired $50m in insurance on the colt and were poised to sell breeding rights to one of the “most widely respected stud farms”.

Both Coolmore and Darley were mentioned as likely suitors. In the event, Robert Clay’s Three Chimneys Farm, home to the likes of Smarty Jones, Dynaformer and Rahy, won the race to stand Big Brown next year. The Kentucky outfit reportedly has only a minority interest in the colt’s stud rights.

Dutrow, who predicted Big Brown would win the Derby, said: “I haven’t laid eyeballs on a horse who could beat him.”

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US racing’s ‘slide into oblivion’ driven by high-profile fatalities

“Big Brown’s stunning win was almost lost in the uproar” Big Brown again proved in a different league to his opponents, passing the post over five lengths clear of Macho Again.

Desormeaux described the latest big race success as “an armchair ride and a pushbutton”.

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His four and threequarter-length winning margin over Eight Belles was the narrowest of his life, but jockey Kent Desormeaux ceased asking Big Brown for acceleration close home.

Desormeaux praised Big Brown as the most talented horse he has ridden.

In the Preakness Stakes,

Ogden Mills Phipps: concerned

Often, when a significant problem arises in American racing, which has no central governing body, committees are formed to examine the situation. While many called for far-reaching changes and cautioned that the future of the sport could be at stake following the death of Eight Belles after the Kentucky Derby, racing’s primary response was to form another study panel.

At first, racing’s leaders

did little, save for expressing their condolences to the filly’s connections.

Then on May 8, officers of the American Jockey Club formed a seven-member Thoroughbred Safety Committee to review “every facet of equine health, including breeding practices, medication, the rules of racing and track surfaces.”

Jockey Club chairman Ogden Mills Phipps said: “We will do everything in our power to encourage changes that will benefit the breed in any way. We will do this in a timely manner.”

Among those who will serve on the panel is renowned vet Dr Larry Bramlage, who said after the Eight Belles incident that, despite all his years of working in racing: “I have never seen this happen at the end of a race or during it.”

Her specific injuries may have been unusual, but American racing has endured a string of incidents on television over the past two years that led to the deaths of high-profile horses.

“Too many horses are

dying on the sport’s biggest days,” wrote a columnist on the website of national sports broadcaster ESPN. Former journalist Jim Squires, who bred 2001 Kentucky Derby winner Monarchos, said in an essay published by several newspapers that if human athletes were euthanised on television when injured, many sports “would be out of business”.

He added: “Unless the thoroughbred industry stops demoralising TV audiences with tragic endings to its most important and widely watched races, it will continue to make public enemies and slide further into oblivion.”

Prominent breeders Arthur Hancock III and Brereton Jones both issued statements about the problems facing American racing, Jones calling for the formation of a national governing organization and Hancock urging: “Drugs must be banned if we are going to survive as an industry and thoroughbreds as a robust breed.” I

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Casino Drive bidding to cap unique Belmont hat-trick

Belmont-bound Casino Drive

Brown makes Knapp ecstatic Dr Gary Knapp got hooked on racing in 1973 when he was living in the sprawling hills of Kentucky, at the time Secretariat was about to conquer the Triple Crown and that year’s foal crop was gamboling through the fields.

He knew immediately he wanted to breed his own horses one day.

By 2001, he had founded Monticule Farms in Lexington and begun to consign horses to Keeneland sales. Today, not only has he sold the third highest priced yearling in Keeneland history, a $9.2 million Danzig colt, he is also breeder of Kentucky Derby winner Big Brown.

“We’re beside ourselves about it,” said Knapp, who praised his staff, led by farm manager Dominique Tijou.

Knapp’s unique breeding programme includes only 21 mares. The primary owner of EQUIX Biomechanics, he utilises data from the company’s patented measuring technology to identify ideal potential physical matches for his mares from a large stallion database and then reviews hypothetical pedigrees before deciding on matings.

When he saw his winning homebred Nureyev mare Mien was matched with Claiborne Farm’s nowpensioned Danzig stallion Boundary, he knew he liked what he saw on paper.

The foal turned out to be Big Brown. I

In an unprecedented assault on American racing with its own horses, Japanese businessman Hidetoshi Yamamoto plans to run two colts with the bluest of Kentucky bloodlines in the Belmont Stakes on June 7.

One, Casino Drive, is out of Broodmare of the Year Better Than Honour, who produced the last two Belmont winners in Jazil and Rags To Riches. Casino Drive, a son of 2003 Horse of the Year Mineshaft, who was bought by Yamamoto for $950,000, would be seeking

a never-before-completed treble for his dam.

The other colt, Spark Candle, is a son of A P Indy out of champion Serena’s Song and was acquired for $1.5 million at the same Keeneland sale as Casino Drive. The latter won the Peter Pan Stakes at Belmont Park on May 10, with Spark Candle fifth.

Nobutaka Tada, managing director of Globe Equine Management, bid on the colts at Keeneland and went with them to Belmont.

“It is because of Casino

Drive’s breeding for the Belmont Stakes that we are here and, hopefully, we can attract many people to the race,” said Tada.

“Yamamoto is very sportsminded. This is why these horses are in America.”

Casino Drive raced only once in Japan, winning over nine furlongs at Kyoto in February. Spark Candle won as a two-year-old over turf at Tokyo.

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Melbourne Cup prize-money increase makes it second richest turf contest

Efficient (winner, nearside) and British raider Purple Moon fight out the exciting finish to last year’s Melbourne Cup at Flemington Park

Continuing the global competition for top horses to headline the most prestigious races, the Victoria Racing Club has boosted prizemoney for this year’s Melbourne Cup to a record AUS$5.5 million (£2.65m).

The hike will make the Melbourne Cup the second richest turf race, behind only the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, which will rise this year to €4 million (£3.15m) under a new fiveyear sponsorship deal with Qatar.

“It is no secret we regard the Melbourne Cup as the staying championship of the world and we are absolutely

determined that it stays on the world stage,” said Victoria Racing Club chief executive Dale Monteith.

The Melbourne Cup will thus join the Arc this year in surpassing the purses paid out in the previous richest turf races, the Dubai Duty Free and the Dubai Sheema Classic, both worth US$5m (about £2.55m).

Prize-money for Australia’s ‘race that stops a nation’ will also exceed that offered by the Japan Cup at Tokyo, which will be worth £2.63m this year.

Falling behind in the purse competition among championship grass races is

America’s Breeders’ Cup, which offers $3m, including a portion set aside for breeders’ premiums, for the Breeders’ Cup Turf – even though Breeders’ Cup president Greg Avioli has described the overall Breeders’ Cup programme as the “pre-eminent global racing brand”.

Breeders’ Cup offers $5m for the Classic on dirt, although that race does not tend to attract many international entries.

To reach out to Europeanbased owners and trainers, Breeders’ Cup Ltd announced in April that three races run at Ascot on September 27, the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes, Meon Valley Stud Fillies’ Mile and Juddmonte Royal Lodge Stakes, will be the first European races added to the Breeders’ Cup Challenge.

Winners of those races will be immediately eligible to compete in corresponding Breeders’ Cup races.

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Nick Blofeld Epsom’s new managing director. By Tim Richards

What was your background before coming into racing?

I went to Loughborough University, where I played a lot of rugby, alongside future England coaches Andy Robinson and John Wells. After that, I went to Sandhurst and then joined the Gurkhas, moving to Hong Kong. I once played for Hong Kong against the All Blacks in the Sydney Sevens in Australia.

After the Gurkhas, I did an MBA at Cranfield and then joined Proctor & Gamble, which was a great training ground for marketing. I moved on to Johnson & Johnson and then spent five years with Dunlop Slazenger. I also worked at IMG, the sports marketing company, where I did a lot of work with Nick Faldo.

In 2004 I received a head-hunter call from racing and, while I had never really anticipated moving into the sport, the more the job and its challenges were explained to me, the more it appealed. Stephen Wallis’s huge racing knowledge and my marketing, sales and commercial knowledge dovetailed very neatly. I learnt a hell of a lot from Stephen over three and a half years.

One of the key aspects was putting the business case together to get the new grandstand redevelopment under way. It was a big team effort and we massaged it through.

Once that was under way it meant there wasn’t a full-time job for me at Epsom, so I was split as commercial director between Epsom and Sandown. I had a year working more at Sandown than Epsom, before becoming managing director at Epsom.

Did you have any interest or involvement in racing before joining Epsom?

As a child I went for the odd hack round Windsor Great Park, and when I was in Zimbabwe we used to hack through game parks, which was fun. I don’t ride any more.

What is your earliest/most outstanding Derby memory?

My earliest Derby memory is of Shergar, who came here a fabulous winner before eventually disappearing. Watching the whole of the Royal Ascot Racing Club trying to get into the winners’ circle with Motivator, who had a phenomenal turn of pace, is something I’ll never forget.

In your role as Epsom’s managing director, how will you try to boost the Derby’s global standing?

I think it still has a strong global standing but we need to make sure that we get the right blend of international entries as well. Stephen has been to Japan with a view to attracting the Japanese; Andrew Cooper has visited France; and I am going to Kentucky. We also work closely with Melbourne. I do think we need to come up with a clearer international plan.

Maybe we should look more at America.

Are you frustrated that the Derby has struggled to find a new backer, particularly in view of the Irish Derby’s recent five-year sponsorship deal with Dubai Duty Free?

At the moment it is slightly like an unfinished product, because we are in a transitional year with the building works. It is a big challenge to find the right sponsor and perhaps an even bigger challenge for racing to present itself in the right way to attract a wider audience, and that includes a wider audience of sponsors. We are approached by prospective sponsors on a regular basis and some are put off by the price.

Vodafone were the classic sponsor because we worked for them on an international basis for about eight years, but then towards the end we worked for their UK audience but not for their global audience, and that’s why they went off into Formula 1 and football, where they knew they would get year-round mass audiences. It is challenging for us because we are famous for one race, a two-day festival and we have to build that narrative so sponsors receive coverage year-round. We had been talking to Dubai Duty Free through an agency, but they have now committed elsewhere.

We are talking to a number of potential sponsors. Ultimately, we would like to return to a title sponsor and possibly two or three official partners underneath.

So, rather than one brand taking everything, as Vodafone did, we

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How do you pass your spare time?

With the family, going for walks and being a taxi driver; ferrying the children to football, rugby and hockey matches.

What scares you?

What worries me is the current terrorist threat and if it ever affected the Derby.

What sport do you play? I go running, play golf, occasionally visit the gym and help coach the under-13s rugby at Marlow, where my son plays.

How do you spoil yourself? I love nice food.

What bugs you?

Rude people.

Who do you envy?

My best man, who is a tax exile in the Bahamas and worth £85 million.

Shergar, 1981: Blofeld’s earliest Derby memory

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would cut it into a slightly smaller slice; maybe one firm taking 70% of the branding opportunities and then two or three partners with branding underneath it.

Will you be reviewing the Derby’s entry process, on the basis that owners are being asked to contribute too much?

At the moment we think the entry system is working really well. I think it is nice to have something a bit different and unique, and the fact we had 13 supplementary entries in April, which is a record, speaks volumes for the fact that we still have that broad appeal. As for owners being asked to contribute too much, I am not an expert in this field, but in certain areas we have got to make it work for all parties concerned. I don’t think owners are being asked to contribute too much.

What do you expect at Epsom this year?

This will be a fascinating, transitional year. As far as the Derby goes, the challenge is to make sure that the crowd hardly notices the one area that’s affected by the redevelopment, which is the grandstand enclosure. The steppings will be open and 4,000 people will be able to watch racing from them with wonderful views, but they won't be able to go into the new betting hall or the upstairs restaurants and boxes.

Have you learnt lessons from other new racecourse grandstands, especially Ascot’s?

We went round a number of different racecourses and we have feedback from all sorts of different people. We had a team that looked at racecourses, while I went to look at places like Wembley and other stadia. Between us we have looked at Doncaster, York, Newbury, Aintree and Ascot, and picked lots of brains.

Can you guarantee that people coming will be able to see the action?

Yes I can. You can stand where the boxes and restaurants are going to be, and also on the steppings and you have the most fabulous view.

You will be able to see the action from all vantage points.

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“The Derby entry system works really well” FAVOURITES

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How beneficial will the new hotel on the old paddock site be to Epsom racecourse?

It will be a 120-room Holiday Inn. We will own it but a company will run it on Epsom’s behalf. It will transform our business in that it will be a big bonus for racedays, weekends and for leisure use. Also, it will be used for conferences and banqueting.

The average conference in the UK is 1.7 days and we are ignored by a lot of the big agencies who book these venues for blue chip companies because we don’t have a convenient hotel. We do a tremendous amount of business outside racing. In 2006, we did something like 460 events and they varied from a small wedding to a huge conference for Unilever. It is vital we use the venue outside racing days.

GADGET

Who is the most outstanding individual you have met in the course of your duties at Epsom?

Undoubtedly, it has to be Clare Balding. She is outstanding as an ambassador for the sport. Her knowledge is phenomenal and she is a key player in our ‘Breakfast With The Stars’ before the Derby, when she skilfully juggles interviews and phones calls coming in from abroad. Also, she can talk about and simplify racing for a wider audience. I’m hugely impressed with her.

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Do you ever get teased about sharing your surname with a Bond villain?

There have been one or two amusing stories, with people asking, ‘Where’s the white cat?’

You know, the one the Bond villain always used to be stroking. When I joined Epsom a rumour was doing the rounds that I was the son of another Blofeld, Henry, the cricket commentator. Once, on a visit to the Royal Box at Sandown, I was put on the official list as the son of Henry Blofeld, who I’ve never met!

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Barry Hills Desert Dew landed a “good touch” for Hills at Sandown

Much has changed since Barry Hills started training 39 years ago. But not his love of a gamble, and having fun Words: Julian Muscat Photos: George Selwyn It's a well-told story that you won enough by backing Frankincense in the 1968 Lincoln to set up as a trainer the following year. Is that true?

It certainly helped. The year before Frankincense, Sky Diver won the Stewards’ Cup. I backed him at 50-1 and that gave me some capital to play around with. When I was travelling head lad to John Oxley, we had quite a few good touches, including when Ovaltine won the 1967 Ebor. I backed Frankincense from 66-1 all the way down and won a lot of money.

Could you pull that off today or is there too much surveillance to get a horse well handicapped?

Esher Cup last season. But, as I said, it’s different now because horses have to run on their merits. You’ve got to find one who’s improving fast.

Is plotting one up the best part of it for you?

It’s fun, but the best part is being with your horses in the morning and evening, and getting them into the winners’ enclosure. That and the company, which is why the good meetings are what I live for. If you go to Kempton and order a bottle of wine, you’ll drink it alone. Who wants that? It’s all about having fun but it is hard work. You have to put an awful lot into it.

“The good meetings are what I live for”

Well, you don’t see 66-1 laid very often now. It wouldn’t be impossible but it’s a different thing now. I thought I had a horse who would win the Lincoln this year, but he got balloted out. You’ve got to get the horse rated highly enough to get in, which dictates what you can do with them.

This is your 39th year with a trainer’s licence. How much has racing changed in that time?

Oh, enormously. I can remember everyone ranting and raving about the introduction of starting stalls in 1965. No-one wanted them. I also clearly remember the first evening meeting, which was at Ally Pally (Alexandra Palace, north London, which closed in 1970).

Do you still enjoy a tilt at the ring?

If I’ve got the right horse.

Is it a better sport now?

What was the last one?

It’s certainly not as much fun. We all agree there’s too much racing and prize-money remains a big issue. But without intending to

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THE JohnBIG Quinn INTERVIEW drag on about all that, the time has come for two-tiered racing, with an emphasis on a principal meeting every day. We need to encourage people to go racing because you can’t beat watching from the racetrack. And no-one wants to watch bad horses.

Hills, with sons Michael (left) and Charlie, after Red Clubs’s Haydock Sprint Cup win Below, with wife Penny

Are there too many horses in training?

Any fool can see that. The staff have so little time with the horses now. As Sir Mark Prescott said recently, there were 38 trainers in Newmarket when he started, now there are nearly 90. The staff had to do only two lots, now they do three or four. And there are lots of foreigners among the staff.

Is that because young people here don’t want to work?

It’s purely because the nation is fed and nourished better. We no longer have all the small kids who came out of places like Liverpool, Glasgow and Manchester. That’s where potential jockeys used to come from.

Look at (Mill Reef’s jockey) Geoff Lewis: he was picked up in the foyer of a hotel, where he worked as a bellboy. He’d never ridden a horse before then.

racecourse. Because they are more relaxed at home, I think they hit the ground harder.

Years ago the split pastern was the most common injury, but all-weather training surfaces have helped. You’ve also got to recognise that there are many more bad horses in training now. Some of them are so slow they can trip themselves up.

Does the number of foreign stable staff concern you?

They are not as skilled. One of the problems is that there are too many of them, so they don’t try to learn to speak English. It’s too easy for them to talk among themselves, but they are conscientious and they do their best. I wouldn’t say their skills are polished, but I don’t know where we’d be without them.

Did you support the boycott of Yarmouth in April?

We should make some protest about prizemoney, but I don’t think boycotts are the way to do it.

So how would you make the point?

It’s not easy. The bottom line is that more money has to come into the sport. It’s all set up for the bookmakers now; they have it pretty well their own way. Another thing I can’t understand is why racecourses close together race on the same day. I get angry about these things but, at the end of the day, there’s bugger all you can do about it.

Are horses as sound as when you started training?

I remember Ian Balding saying they were not, but I haven’t found that. I would say we have slightly more pelvic injuries. When they set off on all-weather gallops, their hind legs get left behind – rather like from the starting stalls. But horses don’t do as much damage on the 3 4 THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER JUNE 2008

Should they be taken out of training?

“Geoff Lewis was found in the foyer of a hotel”

I don’t want to criticise anybody but I think David Oldrey created a big heap of rubbish when he advocated that we should have more and more racing. But now that they’ve done it, you can’t just take away people’s livelihoods. I think it’s right to have a minimum rating for horses, as is proposed, but the problem is how to introduce it.

What would you do?

Well, I have 165 horses in my yard and not one of their owners wants to run on the all-weather.

They don’t mind it, but they don’t particularly want to. All-weather racing doesn’t excite me, it’s like watching paint dry. Remember, I had to start out just like everyone else, but I aimed high from the start. All-weather racing is good for betting, but you can’t run the industry totally from a betting perspective.

The big meetings mean everything. The Craven meeting, for instance, is for the connoisseurs, people who really love their racing. After the Guineas, the show moves on to Chester, York, Epsom and Ascot, which is as it should be. All we have before the Craven meeting is dross, most of it on the all-weather.

Why are you so down about all-weather racing?

It’s the fact that there are too many bends. The

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jockeys jump off, they go a nice pace for a furlong or two and then control it from the front. So if you’re parked in fifth or sixth, you’ve got all the patrol cameras watching you, so you can’t do very much. You just have to stay in your position until you reach the straight and hope it opens up in the rush to the line.

There’s very little skill in it and skill is what I enjoy about racing. At places like Chester and York, you have to go there with the right horses. You have to think it through if you want to win.

How would you react if some of your owners said that they wanted to run through an all-weather winter?

That wouldn’t amuse me at all. But I know they wouldn’t do that.

What if, though?

Well, I’d turn them straight over to Charlie (his son and assistant).

Talking of Charlie, what does the future hold for you and him?

One day I’ll retire. I’m not far short of 3,000 winners. There are a couple of other markers I’ve got my eye on, but it won’t be for a while yet. No-one will know about it. It will happen like Martin Pipe, I’ll just say so one day and that will be that.

“I will retire like Martin Pipe – that will be that”

Is Charlie going to take over from you?

That’s what it looks like at the moment. John (his eldest son) has been training since 1986; he started when I moved to Manton. He’s got his own place, he’s had a reasonable amount of success, he hasn’t had the...I don’t know, it’s difficult to look at what your sons are doing without commenting. But I’d be critical of him.

But that’s your way with family, isn’t it?

Yes it is; always has been. I’m never satisfied.

Yet when Charlie starts out, he’ll be much younger than John and he’ll take over your place with your big owner-breeders...

He might if he’s lucky enough.

Let’s say that’s what happens...

Well, that’s life, that’s how it goes. A lot of it is about being in the right place at the right time, so John will just have to get on with it. He has got his own set-up.

Describe yourself as a father to your sons...

You had better ask their mother about that. If they did something wrong, they’d soon know about it, put it that way.

And if they did something well?

I wouldn’t say a lot, but they wouldn’t expect me to.

Haafhd after winning the Champion Stakes, ridden by Hills’s son Richard

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THE BIG INTERVIEW Is there anyone in the game you’ve ever been afraid of?

No. Have you ever been afraid of anyone at all?

Shit no. You just go out and do your thing.

How proud are you that all five of your sons are involved in racing?

Very proud. The twins have both ridden big winners for me. With Richard, the best moment was when he won the 2,000 Guineas on Haafhd; with Michael, it was winning the Irish 1,000 Guineas on Nicer.

My youngest son, George, is in America and he’s doing very well. He’s quite a determined character who wants to prove himself. He’s selling stallion nominations at the moment, doing deals on boarding mares at Walmac Farm, in Kentucky. He also runs a little stud in Philadelphia.

He’s only 24, so I don’t really know what he’ll end up doing. I don’t want to push him but I’m sure he’ll make a success of whatever he does. All the boys have done well. They’ve been lucky to have had a start, but I have expected them to do well. They’ve made their own beds.

Family aside, you’ve had your fair share of talent through the yard...

I’ve got people who have worked for me since I started. Remember that very few boys ever make it as a jockey. Apart from Richard and Michael, Alan Munro started with me; he had his first ride here. I also had Darryll Holland.

He’d never ridden before he arrived but it took him about two minutes to discover that he was good. He should have been a champion jockey.

Steve Cauthen wins the 1979 2,000 Guineas for Hills on Tap On Wood

“Steve Cauthen was just the best you’ve ever seen”

since is William Buick – a natural. He comes to ride work for me every Tuesday. He’s a good lad and as one lady said in the paddock last year, ‘Oooh, I’d like to pick him up and cuddle him’.

Peter Chapple-Hyam was another trainee...

Peter worked for me for a long time. He used to look after Gold Cup winner Gildoran before we went to Manton. That horse ended Peter’s career as a work rider one morning; he set off like a scalded cat and buggered everything up.

Joe Naughton was with me; a lot of trainers, Robert Williams, Chris Wall...even John Warren came through the place. He used to wear an earring back then.

How do you reflect on your four years at Manton?

Well, I had more than 400 winners there.

Penny (his wife) and I tried desperately to stay and we nearly succeeded at one stage. We needed to raise a lot of money. Everyone says to me that we were lucky we couldn’t raise it, but I disagree strongly. I had secured a lot of planning permission and it was a beautiful place.

I loathed having to leave.

Did it come too easy to him?

No, he’s always worked well and I’m very fond of him. Then there was Steve Cauthen, who was very young when he arrived in 1979. Just the best you’ve ever seen. The best I’ve seen Gildoran, the horse who ended Peter Chapple-Hyam’s career as a work rider

How much do you miss the late Robert Sangster, who owned Manton?

God...even (Sangster’s friend and Daily Express journalist) Charles Benson was a big gap to fill.

We all had a lot of good times together, but Robert is sadly missed by me. He supported me well and I trained more winners for him in Britain than anyone else.

Was he the best kind of owner to have?

Well, if he’d have been here with us now...what is it, 11.30am? Jeremy Hindley and Bill Gredley would have been round (to Hills’s Newmarket house during sales time) and we’d have been well into the champagne. Then we’d go racing and on to the sales in the evening. I miss those times. That’s why I maintain that racing has to have its characters.

What’s happening now is that quite a few of the real characters are watching racing at home.

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Hills, wife Penny, son Charlie and close friend Robert Sangster

press...years ago there was always someone looking for a story.

Early one morning, soon after I started at Manton, I found Michael Seely (former racing correspondent of The Times) hiding in a ditch.

I’m sure he’d had a few the night before. Very few people do that sort of thing now, least of all Jockey Club officials, who have had to change with the times.

Did racecourse stewards deserve their reputation for putting away the port?

They always used to drink back then, but not now.

Years ago a horse fell badly at Hurst Park and the vet was summoned. He decided it would have to be put down but before he could shoot it his gun went off and startled the horse, who simply got up and ran away.

Will you ever win the Derby?

“I miss those times with Robert...racing needs its characters”

Well, it hasn’t been a lucky race for me. I’ve had four runners-up, but it’s still better to be runner-up than third. Obviously I’d love to win it, but I can’t do much more than try. One of the greatest setbacks for me, both professionally and personally, was when Sheikh Maktoum Al Maktoum died. He had 50 horses with me every year, really nice horses.

We rarely see you buying yearling colts for big money at the sales. Does that make the Derby harder to win?

I’ve always believed that money doesn’t buy success in the yearling market. I buy all my horses with Adrian Nicholl and we never spend much more than €150,000. If someone came to me and said he’d like me to buy a yearling for 250,000gns, I would say he should buy three for 75,000gns each.

I also believe that trainers probably don’t train expensive horses as well as they might. If

Hawaiian Sound (No. 10) is pipped

by Shirley Heights in the 1978 Derby

you gave 400,000gns for a horse and it was not showing you very much, you wouldn’t be too keen to run it.

Having said that, I have two or three expensive two-yearolds, whom Michael Goodbody bought last year for a client who wants only quality.

Maybe there will be one for Epsom there.

Has Derby Day itself changed much?

“I found Michael Seely in a ditch at Manton…I’m sure he’d had a few the night before”

I would still like to see it moved back to a Wednesday. And it should be a national holiday.

The track is now in wonderful condition, they’ve done a great job there.

And personally, I would like to see the old paddock revived. It’s not much fun where it is now – and what’s wrong with going for a walk in the afternoon? You can’t just stand in one spot and drink all day. I also haven’t won an Oaks or a King George, but I’d dearly love a Derby.

Well, you won the Austrian and Slovakian Derbys with Zimzalabim...

The Austrian one was a real hoot. They had a starter there in pinstripe trousers and a bowler hat, and the horses kept breaking through the stalls before the start. It was getting beyond a joke. Lester [Piggott] didn’t find it very funny, because when it happened again he just pissed off and rode his horse back to the paddock.

Anyway, after Zimzalabim won, this huge band gathered for the presentation ceremony, hundreds of them, all dressed up. They surrounded us in a circle before striking up the national anthem, but the din caused the horse to bolt straight through them. Just scattered them and charged off loose into the distance.

That was some day...

Sounds like there might be a few more before you retire...

Let’s hope so.

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“TWICE IS NEVER ENOUGH”

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Cumani and the Derby Jim Bolger may be ambivalent about winning the Derby, but Luca Cumani certainly isn’t – despite two previous victories Words: Emma Berry

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Then and now: Cumani’s first Derby winner Kahyasi came in 1988 (above), while 20 years on – and a further Derby victory later – the Newmarket trainer has a leading contender in Curtain Call (below), who was sent to the Italian with Epsom in mind

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ET us take, for example, the two most important races in the world – the Derby and the Oaks.

So reads the almost throwaway line in Breeding The Racehorse, the fascinating musings and research of Federico Tesio, published in 1958.

What Tesio would have made of Jim Bolger’s decision to steer New Approach away from the path to Epsom is easy to imagine and the Italian author’s compatriot Luca Cumani, who, like Tesio and Bolger is both a trainer and breeder, would almost certainly agree with him.

Tesio won the Italian Derby 20 times, most notably with his homebred Nearco, who, via his son Nasrullah and grandson Northern Dancer, would go on to have more influence on the modern-day racehorse than any other stallion in the 20th century.

While Cumani came to England to ply his trade, he has carved his own niche in turf history as trainer of 1988 Derby winner Kahyasi. He repeated the feat a decade later with High-Rise. Fast-forward another ten years and Cumani again has a live contender in Curtain Call. He may already have notched two successes in the race, but Cumani’s personal sat-nav is still firmly locked on Epsom Downs.

“It’s still the race I want to win,” he says.

“I’ve won it twice but it’s never enough. Racing is like a drug – the more races you win, the more you want to win.

“I’ve been very lucky. Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that being a solitary wop in Newmarket I could get enough decent horses together to one day win a Derby, let alone two.”

While Kahyasi and High-Rise followed almost identical routes to Epsom – one backend winning run as a two-year-old, followed by two Derby prep races – Curtain Call had a busier juvenile campaign in Ireland with Jessica Harrington, with five starts reaping a sole win in the Group 2 Beresford Stakes.

His initial trio of owners were adamant that this was a Derby horse from the outset, so the Niarchos-bred colt was brought to England to be syndicated with a stallion career in mind and sent to the trainer they felt most able to deliver their dream.

Cumani says: “Patrick [Cooper] put the syndicate together and it’s identical to a stallion syndication, but done while he’s still racing. He sold shares, which was a novel idea. Via luck

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THE CURTAIN CALL TEAM Jimmy George, marketing director of Tattersalls “One hundred per cent of the credit for the horse goes to Patrick [Cooper]. The reason we have him is that we bought a foal a year before and we sold her for more than we expected on the last day of the October 1 sale. At the end of the day Patrick wandered up to me and said, ‘By the way, I’ve spent some of your money’.

“We wondered about breezing him but we thought we’d never have another horse like this again, so decided to stick him in training. He was broken in and pre-trained by Dick Brabazon in Ireland, and it’s funny how a decent horse gives people associated with it a good feel early on. Dick said he really liked the horse and we said, ‘Come on, it’s only February’ – but Curtain Call seems to have done that with everyone he’s gone to.

“It’s rare for people like Pat, Bill and myself to be involved with a horse with as much potential as he has, with a pedigree to match.”

Patrick Cooper, BBA Ireland “The main reason for syndicating him at the end of his two-year-old season was financial.

Horses at this level are very expensive and so we needed to sell some shares in him.

“We couldn’t syndicate the horse in Ireland – he needed to be in England and we wanted to be with someone who would give us the best chance of winning the Derby. We’re going to get only one shot at it. This is the one race we all want to win.

“A good Derby winner with a good pedigree will be a good stallion, like Galileo. One without a pedigree won’t be.”

Bill Oppenheim, journalist and bloodstock consultant “The one thing I will say is that with all the horses being talked about for the Derby, you won’t find one with a better pedigree. It’s a once in a lifetime thing, the likes of us being able to buy such a horse. Patrick said right from the start that he was a Derby horse.

I agree with Jim Bolger up to a point, that winning the Derby doesn’t necessarily enhance a stallion’s career, but it is an extraordinary thing to miss the race.

“There aren’t too many people who wouldn’t want to win the Derby.

We’re fortunate to be involved but we’re just passengers. Patrick Cooper found the horse and he’s very much his baby.”

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High-Rise and Olivier Peslier (left) deny City Honours by a head to give Cumani his second Derby winner...

...Ten years later, will Curtain Call be a third?

and good judgement they got involved in this horse and they have bought themselves some insurance to say, ‘If anything goes wrong, at least we have something to show for it’.”

Now ensconced at Bedford House Stables in Newmarket, Curtain Call began the traditional Cumani Derby route. Act one went according to plan with a winning return at Nottingham.

After that, it was only natural he would be aimed at the Lingfield Derby Trial, a pattern that had proved so successful in the past. Alas, fast ground led to his withdrawal at Lingfield.

Of recent Derby winners, only Sir Percy has been campaigned so rigorously at two, with trainers now generally favouring a late-season debut for Classic hopefuls.

“As the number of horses in training has increased – since Mill Reef’s day it has probably doubled – there has been more specificity over the trips over which you campaign your horses, knowing full well that two-year-old racing is much more competitive than it used to be,” says Cumani.

“I have no proof of this, and I may be wrong, but I venture to say that, today, Mill Reef would perhaps struggle to win the races he did as a two-year-old because the races are that much more competitive.

“There is an increase in the number of American-breds, an increase in the number of breeze-up horses, who are more precocious, and an increased number of specialist two-yearold trainers who are very good at producing two-year-olds fully fit and ready to run for their lives. That wasn’t the case 35 years ago.”

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Cumani and the Derby not start until high summer, the increasing trend towards speed and perceived precocity in the breeding shed is puzzling to Cumani.

He says: “If the Derby stops having a good rate of successful stallions, it’s purely down to the breeders. For some strange reason – and this is a key factor – breeders seem to be moving away from mile-and-a-half horses to milers or mile-and-a-quarter horses, which seems to be what’s been happening in the last ten years or so in the mindset of people.

“There is no logic to it, absolutely none. If you look at the last 30 years, successful stallions in Europe have been horses such as Nijinsky, Caerleon, Darshaan, Sadler’s Wells, Rainbow Quest and now Galileo and Montjeu; all mileand-a-half horses. I don’t think you can name many fast horses who have had the same impact, other than Danehill and Pivotal.”

First glance at Curtain Call’s pedigree would have had the trainer salivating. By Sadler’s Wells out of a Darshaan half-sister to French Derby winner Hernando and Prix Lupin winner Johann Quatz, it is the cross that has proved successful, particularly for Coolmore, with High Chaparral, Gypsy King, Septimus, Milan, Yesterday and her sister All My Loving. The Ballymacoll Stud Darshaan matron Hellenic has produced Islington, Greek Dance, Election Day and New Morning via trysts with Sadler’s Wells.

The trainer says: “Looking at his pedigree, the only thing you’d probably add is that the dam could have won the Oaks – that’s the only thing that’s missing. Otherwise it’s perfect!”

Cumani’s sole Derby runner as a breeder to date, Pukka in 2004, was also bred on the same

“I’ve been lucky enough to win the Derby as a trainer; I would love to do it as a breeder as well”

cross and he, like Curtain Call, came from a family perfectly qualified for Epsom. His dam Puce is a half-sister to Shouk, a Shirley Heights mare bred and trained by Cumani who was retired in 1998 to Fittocks Stud, which he runs with his wife Sara.

Three years later, she was sold in-foal to Barathea, carrying what would become Cheveley Park Stakes winner Magical Romance, who broke the world broodmare sales record when selling for 4.6 million guineas at Tattersalls in 2006. Her next foal was triple Oaks winner Alexandrova.

Don’t be surprised to see Fittocks Stud graduates challenging for such races in future, as the Cumanis’ mating plans revolve around middle-distance success.

“I’ve been lucky enough to win the Derby as a trainer and it would be lovely to win it as a breeder as well,” says Cumani.

“If you look around the world, the best races are around a mile and a quarter, or a mile and a half, and they are the ones I want to win. I’d love to win a Coronation Cup with a four-yearold. I’d much prefer to win the Arc than the Abbaye.”

Jim Bolger’s comment that winning the Derby does not do much for a stallion’s career has sparked debate in the Epsom preliminaries.

Cumani has a different take on the matter.

HOW VALUABLE A STUD COMMODITY IS THE DERBY WINNER? WE ASK THE EXPERTS...

PETER WILLETT Bloodstock consultant and journalist “The Derby has lost some of its lustre as a source of potential stallions because of the poor stud record of the winners of the last 20 years. Even Nashwan, who was a good stallion, didn’t quite come up to scratch.

“The multitude of top-class international races means the Derby no longer reigns supreme and the way potential Classic horses are campaigned nowadays has also played its part. We don’t generally see them on the racecourse until the autumn, when they race over seven furlongs or a mile.

“Going back a long way, Hyperion won the New Stakes (now known as the Norfolk Stakes) over five furlongs in a faster time than the leading older sprinter of the day. Gold Bridge won the King’s Stand Stakes. Mill Reef also won over five furlongs in May. “We have to go back several decades to see a really good stallion from the Derby. Between 1968 and 1972 we had Sir Ivor, Blakeney, Nijinsky, Mill Reef and Roberto. They were all tremendous but since then there has been very little. A lot of ordinary horses have won.

“But I think Galileo could change all that. He’s already sired Classic winners and two very good horses in Teofilo and New Approach.”

ALEX SCROPE Pedigree expert and former advisor to Gerald Leigh “I think the Derby is overlooked as a good source of broodmare sires – horses such as Sir Ivor, Mill Reef and Shirley Heights. I believe most firmly that we’re seeing a drop in the quality of the stock of the new generation of broodmares because they’re just not getting a mile and a half. When the Galileo and the Montjeu broodmares start coming through, I think we’ll get very good broodmare sires coming back in. The key to producing good mile-and-a-half horses is having mile-and-a-half mares.”

PHILIP FREEDMAN Cliveden Stud, breeder of 1987 hero Reference Point and 2006 fourth Hala Bek, beaten two short heads and a head “The success of horses such as Galileo and Montjeu has helped, and I’m sure that Authorized will prove popular too. Derbywinning stallions are probably more attractive now than they were five years ago. If you have mile-and-a-half mares you’re almost inevitably trying to breed mile-and-a-half horses, so with the mares I have I’m always looking at that type of horse.

“To win the Derby with an out-and-out stayer isn’t commercially attractive, which is why you have horses like Authorized coming back to the Juddmonte and Galileo to the Irish Champion Stakes. It’s to prove that they have speed as well.”

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Cumani and the Derby

DERBY WINNERS AT STUD Year 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 1980 1989 1978

Horse, stud details, notable offspring Authorized, Dalham Hall Stud, UK, set to cover 145 mares Sir Percy, Lanwades Stud, UK Motivator, Royal Studs, UK, first crop are yearlings, covered 84 mares in first year North Light, Adena Springs, USA, first crop are yearlings, covered 92 mares in first year Kris Kin, Morristown Lattin Stud, Ireland, sire of Cima On Fly (stakesplaced in Italy) High Chaparral, Coolmore, Ireland, sire of Senlis (G3 winner in Italy) Galileo, Coolmore, Ireland, sire of Teofilo, New Approach, Soldier Of Fortune, Nightime, Sixties Icon, Red Rocks Sinndar, Aga Khan Studs, France (formerly in Ireland), sire of Shawanda, Youmzain Oath, stood at Yushun Stud, Japan, now in India, sire of Kyowa Happiness (Japan G3) High-Rise, stood in Japan, now at Park House Stud, Ireland Benny The Dip, stood in the USA and at Cheveley Park Stud, UK, died in 2003, sire of three USA stakes winners Shaamit, stood at the National Stud and Scarvagh House Stud, died in 2001, sire of Bollin Eric Lammtarra, stood in Japan, now retired, sire of Simeon, Melikah Erhaab, stood in Japan, now at Wood Farm Stud, UK, sire of Ballygally Bay (G3 hurdler) Commander In Chief, Yushun Stud, Japan, died in 2007, sire of Ein Bride (Japan G1) Dr Devious, stood in Ireland and Japan, now in Italy, sire of Collier Hill, Kinnaird Generous, stood in the UK and Japan, now at Scarvagh House Stud, sire of Mystic Lips, Catella, Blueprint Quest For Fame, Woodlands Stud, Australia, sire of champion 2yos Viscount and Dracula Nashwan, died in 2002 at Shadwell Stud, UK, sire of Swain, One So Wonderful Kahyasi, started at Ballymany Stud, Ireland, now at Aga Khan Studs, France, sire of Enzeli, Zainta, Khalkevi Reference Point, died in 1991 at Dalham Hall Stud, UK, sire of Ivyanna (G1 placed) Shahrastani, stood in USA, Ireland, France and Japan, now at Walton Fields Stud, UK, sire of Rifapour, Cajarian Slip Anchor, stood at Plantation Stud, UK, now retired, sire of User Friendly, Morshdi Secreto, stood in the USA and Japan, died in 1999, sire of Mystiko, Miss Secreto Teenoso, stood at Highclere Stud, then Shade Oak Stud, UK, died in 1999, sire of Starlet, Young Buster Golden Fleece, died in 1984 after one season at Coolmore stud, sire of Pixie Erin (G3) Shergar, kidnapped after standing one season at Ballymany Stud in 1983, sire of Authaal Henbit, stood at Airlie Stud, Ireland, then Helshaw Grange Stud, UK, sire of Borromini, Kribensis (Champion hurdler) Troy, stood at Highclere Stud, died in 1983, sire of Helen Street, Walensee Shirley Heights, stood at The Royal Studs, UK, died in 1997, sire of Slip Anchor, Darshaan

“What a race like the Derby does is give a profile to the horse when he goes to stud, in order for him to be patronised by the right breeders with the right mares,” he says.

“But, if we look at the last 30 years of the Derby, or the last 30 years of the Guineas or the July Cup, we can name three or four successful stallions from each, which is what we know: it is the average. One in ten stallions are successful.

“There is absolutely no logic that you can link a race to the genetic transmission a stallion can have on his offspring. A stallion is going to be successful or not whether he’s won the Derby or not, because he’s either going to be prepotent and transmit highly desirable qualities to his offspring, or he’s not.

“The fact that he he won the Derby does not change his genetic material, so it’s rubbish to talk about one race being better than another at producing stallions.”

Cumani continued: “Historically, you had the three super races: the Derby and the Arc, and then the King George came in a bit later. Now we have a plethora of Group 1 races which are all equally important, so the Derby is no longer the be-all and end-all.

“Nevertheless, I feel that if you ask 100 breeders, trainers, owners, jockeys and stable lads, what race would you like to win most on the Flat, I would say the vast majority would say the Derby. It’s still a very prestigious race and the one everybody tries to win.

“And long may it stay that way, because we need those showcase races that we are all aiming and aspiring to do well in.”

Of recent Derby winners, most experts concur that Galileo is destined to be a dominant force in the pedigrees of future Classic winners, having been passed the baton by his sire Sadler’s Wells, whose extraordinary career at stud has only recently ended.

Jim Bolger is almost certainly a fully paid-up member of the Galileo Appreciation Society, as breeder of his Irish Derby-winning son Soldier Of Fortune and top-class juvenile, now firstseason stallion, Teofilo.

New Approach may not be Epsom-bound but the number of Galileo-sired entries for this year was not far off that of Sadler’s Wells, which includes, of course, Curtain Call.

Nothing would make Cumani happier than this particular colt adding another Classic to Sadler’s Wells’s fine record. Until, that is, the name Fittocks Stud appears in the rollcall of Derby-winning breeders. I

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These giant birds have been reintroduced in a controlled experiment to see if they can thrive in modern Britain. In some ways, Jeremy Naylor is trying to do the same.

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Dr Naylor, a qualified vet who also has a PhD in Exercise Physiology, is an innovator. Yet while the 42-year-old has yet to set the training ranks alight with his volume of victories, he is firmly in the vanguard of modern thinkers.

To this end he is developing an aid to training that could have a dramatic impact on the way horses are galloped and exercised in future.

His creation, which looks just like a large wristwatch, via satellite transmission, monitors the heart rate and the speed a horse is moving.

This, in turn, can be read by the groom on top.

Naylor, who is based at Cleeve stables on the outskirts of the Wiltshire village of Shrewton, where Sceptre was trained to win four of the five Classics in 1902, cannot understand why more trainers aren’t crying out for this essential aid. And this is just the start.

With a pupil, Debbie Holmes, he is conducting another experiment to see if it is possible to measure stride frequency and length.

In other words: are horses with longer strides running more efficiently and would trainers and

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owners be better off looking for this at breezeups and in sales rings, rather than at other, more obvious, qualities such as pedigree?

Naylor, who started training in 1999, having eschewed the job of senior veterinary lecturer at Bristol University with the promise of a professorship, has charge of 20 modest achievers, some Flat and some jump horses.

His best season has yielded ten winners. But he is proud to have transformed some nohopers from other yards into occupants of the winners’ enclosure. He readily admits that his success rate is limited by the stock he is sent.

Realistically, he says: “I’ll never be champion trainer but I’d like to be remembered as an innovator. I’m not remotely trying to tell other people how to train, but I want to share what I’ve learnt with my training colleagues.

“It’s all about getting the longest possible life out of racehorses, about giving them the least amount of work to get them fit and right. It’s a welfare issue, too, as in a lot of yards getting fit can be about attrition.

“It’s extraordinary how little training has changed and developed over the last 50 years”

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“If you run a Formula 1 team you need to know about the rev counter and what power ratio the engine has to this. The horse is little different, although of course it is a sentient being. You can’t motivate a horse by any thought process, so you have to approach training in a different way.

“One example I can give of a positive from my system is that I discovered two horses who had heart fibrillation problems, which I wouldn’t have known about until it happened on a racecourse. I was able to deal with this before they ran badly in a race.”

Naylor, whose American-born wife Enid runs their small animal veterinary practice adjacent to the yard, is anxious to share his proselytizing zeal and regularly lectures at the Newmarket courses for would-be trainers. He explains many of the basics about getting horses fit.

He also tells wouldbe Vincent O’Briens that horses have no incentive to win races and that most are entirely unaware of where the winning post is.

Indeed, he argues that as a herd animal the smarter horse will be reluctant to lead as it is the most dangerous place to be and the place where predators can more readily attack.

With the increase of foreign staff, many with limited English, Naylor believes giving instructions about precise speeds of gallops is easier when the groom has a watch to consult.

All work is downloaded, complete with a record of the horse’s heart rate against his speed. This can be printed out and sent to the

1994 Grand National winner Miinnehoma (above, right) was monitored by Naylor during his time as resident vet to trainer Martin Pipe

“There is a clear case for closer monitoring of exercise”

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owner if required. It can also be retained as a record of the training programme of each individual horse.

Naylor, who spent two years as resident vet to 15-time champion jumps trainer Martin Pipe, for whom he monitored 1994 Grand National winner Miinnehoma, says: “It’s extraordinary how little training has changed and developed over the last 50 years.

“The principal limitation on horses achieving their maximum is lung capacity. They have huge engines which require a lot of oxygen. Lung development has not matched their physical development.

“On a treadmill, for example, you can up

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their oxygen intake from 21% to 25% and it will have a dramatic effect. How the muscles and cardiovascular systems work are vital to horses.”

Naylor adds: “Between a third and a half of all National Hunt horses will suffer tendon injuries, and much of this is due to undergoing too much work. Many of these injuries occur in the final week or two before a race is contemplated, as the trainer steps up the work.

“Too much work can sour a horse and this is where the role of science can help a trainer to have a more accurate idea of what is happening. Up to 40% of two-year-olds and 25% of three-year-olds in training never run. There is a huge requirement for trainers to think more deeply about this.

“Much of this could be because a lad has worked a horse too hard or too little. Different lads do things differently and the trainer can’t be everywhere.

Traditionally, training can be quite haphazard.

“But it doesn’t need to be if the trainer can give instructions to the riders which are obeyed, with the results downloaded each day to prove that the outcome was correct. I say there is a clear case for closer monitoring of exercise.”

Naylor has used a variety of different monitors and his current model, a Garmin Forerunner 301, costs around £100. It utilises a GPS system which is easily downloaded onto a computer, which compares the speed of an individual gallop with heart rate. He tends to

A pad under the girth monitors the horse’s heart rate

The information is downloaded for analysis

gallop his horses at around 26mph for their first work, upping the speed to 32mph for the second gallop.

Even if he is away at the races, the gallops can be monitored and downloaded so he can analyse them on his return. Standing still, a horse’s heart rate is 35-40 beats per minute.

Walking, the rate goes up to 75-80, trotting to 110, cantering to 120-140, while at full tilt a horse’s heart will beat at 210-220 beats per minute.

As a horse gets fitter their heartbeat will diminish slightly as their oxygen consumption becomes more efficient. Chasers work slower than Flat horses but the monitoring is easily tailored to each individual horses’s needs. The lad fits a monitoring pad under the left side of the saddle and another under the girth behind the elbow for heart rate.

It is the same principle as an ECG. The voltage spreads through the body tissues and the pads pick up the signals, translating them into heart rate. The satellite monitors the exact speed.

Naylor says: “I wasn’t born with a silver spoon and I wasn’t sent high-class horses with ability. I’ve got modest stock and we’ve done well with it. We are not reinventing the wheel but I would tell prospective owners that they should be more confident if their trainer had a thinking approach to the job.

“I know I can train more sympathetically this way. I take blood samples after gallops and see if the lactates are different. Record keeping is very important in my mind. By knowing what horses have done, you can refer back and you can change the routine.

“If I could have one more piece of equipment here it would be a high speed treadmill, which they have at Bristol, on which you can scope a horse while it’s galloping.”

It is not unusual for qualified vets to become successful trainers – Mark Johnston and James Given in Britain, and Dermot Weld in Ireland, are examples who have taken the art of training to the highest level. In his quiet and understated way, Jeremy Naylor is trying to take his message to a wider audience. He is not saying he knows better how to train but simply, ‘Why not try this and see if it works?’

In a sport frequently criticised by those outside it for a supposedly cavalier attitude to equine welfare, it might well be that monitoring of the type Naylor describes could be a positive, not only as a training tool but also as a method of early detection of physical fallibility.

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A tale of Irish sellers and Maktoum buyers British consignors barely got a look in at this year’s breeze-ups, which were dominated spending-wise by the Maktoums and their associates Rio De La Plata’s victory for Godolphin in the Group 1 Grand Criterium in October could just have been the most significant fillip this year’s bloodstock trade will receive.

The Rahy colt had been bought six months earlier by Sheikh Mohammed’s advisor John Ferguson at the Craven breeze-up sale and his exploits seems to have inspired a massively increased spend at this year’s juvenile auctions by the Maktoum family.

Sheikh Mohammed dominated the two-year-old sales, generally bidding in anonymity through a host of different agents and trainers.

How many of the 48 sixfigure lots at this year’s British breeze-ups will race for the Dubai ruling family will emerge in time, but it will be a surprise if more than half do not run for a Maktoum entity.

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Comprehensive review of the 2008 breeze-ups Words: Ed Prosser

Lady Asha, 540,000gns saletopper at Tattersalls Craven

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Sheikh Mohammed attended the Craven sale, as did his brother Sheikh Hamdan, who bid himself for several lots and collected a total of five offerings for 1.185 million guineas at Tattersalls’ two sales.

Buyers whose purchases have already been registered with Godolphin include John Gosden (Al Wasl 440,000gns), John McCormack (Dubai Festival 300,000gns and Bawadi 170,000gns), Tom Goff (Life’s Challenge 340,000gns, Al Marmoon 200,000gns and Khor Dubai 130,000gns), Angie Sykes (Ever Loved 250,000gns) and David Loder, who bought Global City (£200,000) and Dream Of Mine (£180,000) at Doncaster.

The Maktoums’ family friend Saeed Suhail also picked up a couple of the six-figure lots via Charlie Gordon-Watson, while

Rabbah Bloodstock and Dubaibased Malih Al Basti bought one apiece.

Dr Jim Hay, who owns the Uplands yard in Lambourn and lives in Dubai, was another prominent UAE-based buyer, spending 710,000gns on three lots through his new trainer Jane Chapple-Hyam and stable jockey John Egan.

Michael Tabor usually buys a couple of choice breeze-up lots to go to the likes of John Hammond and Jeremy Noseda – past purchases include Derby runner-up Walk In The Park and Petrovich – and he was also at both Tattersalls sales.

But, accompanied by Coolmore’s Paul Shanahan and bidding through Jamie McCalmont, they had a frustrating run, ending up as underbidders on all of the top five lots, of which two each were sold by John Hassett and Norman Williamson, and one

by Willie Browne.

It was a year dominated by Irish consignors. Of the 48 sixfigure lots, only five were sold

by British vendors, with Emma O’Gorman accounting for four and Roger Marley the other.

Noseda will take charge of the two dearest lots, Lady Asha, a 540,000gns Mr Greeley filly bought by agent Kerri Radcliffe for Asha Narang, and a 490,000gns Dansili colt knocked down to Sir Robert Ogden.

“There were a few other huge orders but I’d say 70% of it was Arab driven and it all stemmed from the success they had last year,” said Willie Browne, whose Mocklershill Stables accounted for over a

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“We’re all hoping we have sold them some nice horses, as they have put a lot of confidence into the market.

I hope they’re rewarded.”

Browne and his father Mickey were among the early breeze-up pioneers in the mid 1970s and he admits incredulity as to how the sales have developed.

“There’s probably a million euros about for a horse now – I never thought you’d see a fifth of that in my lifetime,” he added. “My father has been dead 12 years now and he would be amazed at what’s happened.

“I was lucky enough this year that a lot of mine were

“It was easier to sell a 20 grand horse in the 1980s than now” – Willie Browne by the right sires, which is a big thing now. A few months ago I thought we were in for a tough time and, although I’ve had a super year, it was tricky at times. There’s a lack of depth to the middle and further down, and I actually think that in the early 1980s it was easier to sell a 20 grand horse than it is now.”

The combined 2008 British and Irish turnover (excluding Goresbridge’s sale in late May) at Kempton, Doncaster, the two Newmarket events and Dundalk’s new sale came to 21.3 million guineas, a near five-fold increase in the last decade. The average rose by a similar amount, although, despite the extra sales, the number of horses sold rose only 15% to 433.

The American breeze-ups have traditionally been

BREEZE-UPS: THE FIVE-YEAR-TALE

(all prices converted to guineas)

Goffs Kempton YEAR

CATALOGUED

OFFERED

SOLD

CLEARANCE

AGGREGATE

AVERAGE

MEDIUM

TOP PRICE

2008 2007

101 100

85 82

64 65

75.3 79.3

1,851,429 2,074,000

28,928 31,908

23,809 26,000

100,000 (Glamorous Spirit) 110,000 (Amazing Star)

TOP PRICE

Doncaster YEAR

CATALOGUED

OFFERED

SOLD

CLEARANCE

AGGREGATE

AVERAGE

MEDIUM

2008

170

140

115

82.1

3,131,905

27,234

20,952

190,476 (Global City)

2007

220

191

153

80.1

4,627,500

30,245

25,000

245,000 (Crop Over)

2006

250

213

173

81.2

4,196,300

24,256

20,000

110,000 (City Of Tribes)

2005

256

220

183

83.2

4,217,550

23,046

19,000

150,000 (Hinton Wells)

2004

250

218

198

90.8

3,765,700

19,019

15,000

92,000 (Sentiero Rosso)

Tattersalls Craven YEAR

CATALOGUED

OFFERED

SOLD

CLEARANCE

AGGREGATE

AVERAGE

MEDIUM

TOP PRICE

2008

194

158

116

73.4

11,884,000

102,448

70,000

540,000 (Lady Asha)

2007

213

190

120

63.2

8,636,000

71,967

55,000

370,000 (Fonda)

2006

206

175

147

84

10,736,000

73,034

50,000

625,000 (Danon Augusta)

2005

193

172

124

72.1

6,333,000

51,072

35,000

270,000 (Red Duster)

2004

188

167

130

77.8

6,071,500

46,703

31,000

500,000 (Fusaichi Seishiro)

Tattersalls Guineas YEAR

CATALOGUED

OFFERED

SOLD

CLEARANCE

AGGREGATE

AVERAGE

MEDIUM

TOP PRICE

2008

163

132

80

60.6

3,833,000

47,913

30,000

470,000 (f, Exceed And Excel)

2007

164

125

76

60.8

2,129,000

28,013

23,000

90,000 (Close To Paradise, Truly Divine)

Dundalk YEAR

CATALOGUED

OFFERED

SOLD

CLEARANCE

AGGREGATE

AVERAGE

MEDIUM

TOP PRICE

2008

110

90

58

64.4

626,667

10,804

82,05

49,978 (c, War Chant)

streets ahead, certainly in terms of price, but many felt the Europeans had finally caught up this year.

It has been a long journey.

In 1999, while Americans were celebrating their first $2 million breeze-up horses, Europe was still a year off its first six-figure two-year-old.

“I think the Irish pinhookers like Willie Browne were stronger than the Americans last year,” said agent Hugo Merry, a major breeze-up buyer on both sides of the Atlantic.

“They were paying more money for their yearlings so they deserved to be rewarded for their courage.

The standard has gone up in Europe; they are getting closer to the US sales.”

Fellow agent Anthony Stroud, who bought the likes of Strike The Deal, Fleeting Spirit and Sir Gerry from last year’s breeze-ups, said: “Although the prices aren’t the same, I think the European breeze-up market is better than in America.

UK & IRELAND BREEZE-UPS (all prices converted to guineas) Excludes Goresbridge breeze-up, includes Wolverhampton breeze-up 1997-2001 YEAR

CATALOGUED

OFFERED

SOLD

AGGREGATE

AVERAGE

SIX-FIGURE LOTS

2008

738

605

433

CLEARANCE

71.6

21,327,001

49,254

48

2007

697

588

413

70.2

17,367,738

42,053

30

2006

456

388

320

82.5

14,932,300

46,663

29

2005

449

392

307

78.3

10,550,550

34,367

22

2004

43

8385

328

85.2

9,837,200

29,991

10

2003

437

380

334

87.9

6,940,500

20,780

3

2002

433

358

317

88.5

6,225,380

19,638

6

2001

538

400

321

80.3

4,436,500

13,821

0

2000

502

410

384

93.7

5,458,000

14,214

1

1999

514

417

374

89.7

4,309,600

11,523

0

2008 COMBINED LEADING VENDORS AT ALL SALES CONSIGNED

AGGREGATE

60

4,998,175

Bansha House (Con Marnane)

37

2,395,906

Oak Tree Farm (Norman Williamson)

12

1,509976

Bloodstock Connection (John Hassett Jr)

10

1,217,225

Mocklershill (Willie Browne)

Yeomanstown (Gay O’Callaghan)

6

852,476

Tally-Ho (Tony O’Callaghan)

16

779,000

Kilminfoyle House (Fitzpatrick family)

19

670,553

Seven Springs (Emma O’Gorman)

7

641,000

Kirkwood (Kip Elser)

9

555,000

Meadowview (Willie Slattery)

10

496,519

“Over there, only one in two horses sell, whereas the clearance rate is much better here. I think we are doing more for the horses here by not printing the times they

breeze in; it makes our job as buyers a little harder in one way, but on the other hand, it helps as vendors don’t feel the need to push the horses so much.”

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How was it for you?

PHOTOS: TREVOR JONES/CHRIS BOURCHIER

The verdict of leading buyers and sellers

Hugo Merry, agent “Starting at Calder and going on to Kempton, Doncaster and Newmarket, we got 16. It’s more than I normally buy but, although we spent our budget, we didn’t get our A-list as, with the exception of three or four, I was always having to drop down a gear. Much more so than last year.

The chosen few who breezed well, had good conformation and a commercial pedigree were very hard to buy. But anything that slipped below that, you could pick and choose – the middle market was not strong. A few people, including myself, thought we would have the pick of horses around the 100,000gns to 150,000gns mark, but when Sheikh Mohammed showed his interest it was game over.

You got the same old sparring match between Michael Tabor and the Arabs. It put a lot of confidence in the market, which held up remarkably well. There’s never a surplus of top horses.

Our problem in Calder was that we vetted 29; 13 passed the vet and, of those, we bought three at the lower end. The other ten made far more than we expected and it was the same in Newmarket. If they

ticked all the boxes then you paid a big premium.

There was a lot of money in Calder but not enough horses. There were too many broken toys.

At the Craven sale the ground was very good but it was shocking at the Guineas. It was tacky and soft. It’s hard to assess them when you don’t have uniform ground. I am sure there will be some very nice horses who didn’t breeze well. I bought one who didn’t work well, but I’d seen him breeze at the consignor’s home place.

But if you’re buying one just because the vendor tells you it goes well, you might as well get a yearling.”

Anthony Stroud, agent “The days of taking a yearling who didn’t sell to the breeze-ups have gone; the horses there have been either bought or specifically kept back to go there. The vendors are so much more professional now, they do an excellent job.

The success of horses from last year’s sales encouraged people to go back. Darley got Rio De La Plata last year so they bought more and it was much more competitive trying to buy this time around.

We did very well with

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Fleeting Spirit and Strike The Deal from the sale in 2007, and their owners, The Searchers, reinvested and bought three here and one in America, but I found it much harder this year. It was a lot more difficult to get the horse you really wanted.

If I had one comment on the schedule, it would be that the Goffs sale at Kempton is a little bit early.

I know it’s probably then to avoid a clash with Calder and come before Tattersalls, but I would revisit the date.

If you’ve had a bad winter, selling at the beginning of March makes it pretty tough.

One other thing was that it was almost entirely a domestic market this year.

There were barely any Japanese buyers, which says a great deal for it.”

Willie Browne, Mocklershill Stables “Wherever the Arabs saw quality, they bought it and obviously there was more of it at the Craven. But anything they saw that was decent at the Guineas Sale they bought.

Kempton was quite disappointing after the good start they had the year before. I’ve already sold a winner out of this year’s sale, but got only £15,000

for the horse. There wasn’t any Arab money there and it just shows how vulnerable you are without that money – it’s reality.

France was the same, it was a struggle. They were probably the two real barometers of how the horse trade is at the moment.

There are now too many sales and I know we are all guilty because we support them. I suppose we feel we are missing out if we are not there.

We were always following the Americans but now we could get more for a horse than them and I thought the Craven catalogue looked superior to the one at Keeneland this year.

But now we’re catching up with them, the danger is we take on their bad habits – the clock is so important now. There’s huge pressure on us to deliver but I wouldn’t like to see official timing.

I can live with everyone trying to work out themselves what horses have done time-wise, but if the clock was on the wall I think we’re in real trouble.

We’d end up with a lot of unsound horses.

People are at your stable door straight away for any horse who does the time and has the conformation and pedigree. Those horses are homed in on and very easy to sell.

I always set out to buy half the number of horses and hopefully I won’t have as many for next year.

If I could buy all the good ones and cut out the bad ones, it would be easy.

Sadly, it doesn’t work out that way!

It’s a numbers game and I’ll be setting out to buy

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quality. That’s what always sells.

Without giving away too many secrets, I’ll also be looking for some well-bred fillies – they are much safer.

We got huge money for a filly this year, but they must have a page.”

Con Marnane, Bansha House Stables “It was very worrying at the beginning what with the economy, but all the sales held their own, with the Craven being the strongest.

Even Dundalk had a solid sort of trade for a commercial horse – Irish Thoroughbred Marketing did a fantastic job in getting people over.

Overall, we had our highs and lows, including a couple of nice horses being injured.

The number of top-class racehorses coming out of the breeze-ups is amazing and I think that was behind the strength. Try putting a value now on Rio De La Plata and Fleeting Spirit, who I sold last year. They look cheap horses now.

The breeze-ups have changed so much. We have gone from buying two-yearolds to make a few quid out of, to the position now where we are really just looking for stakes horses.

But we were absolutely

worn out by the end of the sales this year. I was on the go from the first week in March. I wish Doncaster would move their sale back to the Lincoln meeting, when the racing is on.

We went straight from Doncaster to Newmarket and from there on the Friday morning to SaintCloud, but I hadn’t seen the French horses for a fortnight.

Moving Doncaster would make life so much easier for us and, at the same time, Doncaster need more trainers there. If the races are on, more will go across the road to the sales.

I think more trainers could be buying at all the sales. They must know in March and April if some horses are no good, and they should be replacing them and upgrading.

One thing I don’t want to see is official timing, as in America, although I know there are certain trainers over here who won’t touch a horse who doesn’t do a fast time.

Better racehorses are coming out of the European sales because they are not put under pressure.

The wastage rate in America is too high; the horses are being pushed too early and too quick, and that’s because of timing.

A lot of my horses have a lot of beef on them, with steady muscle, at the sales, but won’t have done too much sprinting.

Although we probably spent too much last year, we’ll be searching the globe for nice horses from the summer onwards. No doubt it’ll be a case of a different circus with the same clowns at the yearling sales this year!” I

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Owners given 48-hour boost Additional revenue from the sale of British pictures overseas will bring a collective benefit of £600,000 The agreement on 48-hour declarations between the Horsemen’s Group, Racing UK and At The Races means that owners, trainers, jockeys and stable staff will collectively benefit by nearly £600,000 during the current Flat season.

This is being paid as a result of additional revenue stemming from the sale of British horseracing pictures overseas, made possible by 48-hour declarations. The deal will see the extra funding distributed as follows: £300,000 to be paid as appearance money in selected races at those courses covered

by Racing UK £118,000 to be paid additionally into prize-money for selected races at Arena Leisure courses £58,000 to be paid

additionally into prize-money for selected races at Northern Racing courses Ascot to pay additional prizemoney into the following races: King’s Stand Stakes (plus £50,000), Wokingham Stakes (plus £20,000), Britannia Stakes (plus £31,000) Ripon and Leicester to pay £2,500 and £2,000 respectively as additional sums into prize-money Notification of the races can be found in The Racing Calendar. They will also be logged on the ROA website www.racehorseowners.net.

“This agreement shows how the whole industry can work together when it puts its mind to it,” said Michael Harris, the ROA chief executive.

Michael Harris: agreement shows value of industry working together

“Without the Horsemen’s Group, this would not have been possible. Neither would it have been without the co-operation of both Racing UK and At The Races.”

The agreement, signed last November, is for three years, with an annual break-clause.

Ascot to trial day-of-race reserves Following the story in last month’s ROA Forum, Ascot have confirmed that three races at this year’s Royal meeting – the Duke of Edinburgh Stakes, Buckingham Palace Stakes and Britannia Stakes – will allow for up to three reserve runners to be added to each race at around 8.30am on the morning of the race, if any horses are declared non-runners before that time.

The initiative, brought about after discussions between Ascot, the ROA and the Horsemen’s Group, is currently being set up as a pilot scheme and its longterm future will very much depend on whether reserves coming in on the morning of the race has any adverse effect on betting turnover.

The three races were chosen partly on the basis that they are not early-closing events and are therefore unlikely to attract

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betting before entry.

Allowing reserves in these races on the morning of the race provides opportunities for owners and connections to have runners at the Royal meeting that they would otherwise be denied. It also allows the races in question to come closer to achieving their maximum field sizes.

Plans are still being put together, but Ascot confirm they will contribute £500 towards the travelling cost of any horse which is a reserve and is travelling to the racecourse but does not get a run.

Ascot’s chief executive, Charles Barnett (right), said:

“We are going into the trial with an open mind, hoping for a successful outcome.”

Speaking for the Horsemen’s Group and ROA, Paul Dixon said: “This has not been an easy thing to achieve but, because of Ascot’s help and enthusiasm, we are delighted that it is now going ahead.

“We thank the Duke of Devonshire and Charles Barnett for helping to make this happen, and we believe it will prove very popular with owners and connections.

“It is very upsetting for owners to just miss the cut in races of this quality. This initiative will help to reverse that.”

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COUNCIL AGENDA The April Council meeting, by chief executive Michael Harris ROA Business The meeting began with discussion about the continuing success of BetfairClub ROA and the obvious receptivity of members to the third party liability insurance scheme as an automatic right of ROA membership.

On the Gold Standard Awards, it was confirmed that Salisbury had now ticked all the boxes and would be presented with their award in May. There was further discussion relating to Ayr and it was agreed that Ayr’s

eligibility for an award would be the subject of further debate at the next Gold Standard Committee meeting.

The Council considered the election of new members and a discussion ensued as to whether the Council should have the right to reject the application of any member whom they deemed unsuitable.

On the subject of veterinary costs, the Council re-affirmed its wish to provide ROA members with guideline charges for the most common of the veterinary procedures. It was acknowledged that, although this would be difficult to achieve, it would be a very worthwhile exercise and provide a good service for our members.

The Council agreed that a commemorative award to reflect the late Chris Deuters’s (above) outstanding contribution to the ROA and racing should be made at the AGM.

Racing Industry Business The ROA president said that the most significant news to emerge from the Levy Board strategy review meeting was that the levy yield for 2007/2008 looked likely to achieve a figure far in excess of the original budget – £120 million-plus was being suggested. Although this was clearly seen as good news by the Council, there was bewilderment over why the figure had suddenly increased from what had earlier been predicted as £90-£95m.

The explanation that the increase was entirely due to losing bets from Ladbroke’s ‘high rollers’ was treated with scepticism. As a result of this increase, the president had pushed hard for the Levy Board contribution to prize-money to increase to £62.5m, thereby matching the 2006 figure. This would relate, prorata, to the six-month period July 1 to December 31, 2008. With substantial money going into reserves, it was intended that the minimum levy contribution to prize-money would be £65m in each of the following three years and this would include a contribution of £3m to an expanded Development Fund. In particular, this would allow a boost for prize-money in the Group 3 and Listed race area that

catered for so-called ‘twilight’ horses, who were most vulnerable to being sold abroad.

owners and jockeys when a meeting was abandoned on the morning of the race.

There was further discussion about Levy Board support for the whole of the winter evening programme and whether this was prudent in the light of recommendations from the BHA’s strategic review of the fxture list.

The president reported there had been agreement from the bookmakers to implement a number of independent audits on horserace betting figures to substantiate the levy yield. The Council heard that future funding had been debated at the strategy review meeting but that the bookmakers had refused to step away from the notion of receiving an offset relating to their additional costs from taking TurfTV. Discussions were being frustrated by this and, more immediately, by the impending court case between the major bookmakers and TurfTV on competition issues.

The Council were pleased to hear the Levy Board had given a favourable response to the idea of late abandonment payments being made to

The Council heard that Goldman Sachs would undertake a ‘beauty parade’ of submissions from potential bidders for the Tote. There was a view that most of the major bookmakers were now showing an interest, even if it meant that the overall purchase would necessitate their shedding a large number of smaller shops in order to satisfy the requirements of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission. It was generally acknowledged that the ROA/Horsemen’s Group continued to have a significant part to play in any Tote acquisition, since the support of the racing industry would be important to any potential purchaser. Arrangements had been made to meet with various interested parties.

On the strategic review of the fixture list, the Council noted there would be a move to construct the race programme to exclude horses of 40 and below from next year. Of the other recommendations, it seems the most popular would be to raise the quality of Saturday fixtures generally.

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Membership tops record 7,600 mark We are delighted to report that ROA membership has topped a record 7,600 in recent weeks. This is a significant milestone for the association, and the highest figure achieved in its 63-year history.

At the end of April, ROA members accounted for 10,208 horses in training, against a total figure of 16,356 – meaning that we represent 62% of horses in training.

Membership has grown by 3,000 over the last ten years. In recent years the association has worked hard to enhance the range of benefits of membership and this has clearly paid dividends.

Much of the thrust of the ROA’s work continues to take place within the areas of the sport’s politics and finance, and we are entirely dependent on membership subscriptions to fund what we do. The greater the number of members, the greater our resources to promote and protect members’ interests.

We would, of course, be able to do more were we to have the support of all owners, so if you know an owner who isn’t a member, it is in your interests to encourage them to join the ROA. Anyone who is not a member is, after all, getting a free ride when we make progress in maintaining prize-money and appearance money payments.

The annual membership subscription of £195 is a relatively small price to pay when weighed against the benefits and discounts offered, and the costs of racehorse ownership.

BetfairClub ROA enjoys Punchestown trip BetfairClub ROA members are pictured with trainer Ferdy Murphy (third left) in the paddock at the Punchestown Festival, prior to Cardinal Spirit’s run in the Real Estate Handicap Hurdle, in which the six-year-old finished unplaced under Davy Russell

The importance of insurance A tragic incident at Haydock in April, in which a racecourse worker died of his injuries after being struck by a loose horse, was a reminder to owners of their potential exposure to claims for third party injury.

Malcolm Siberry, 63, a regular member of Haydock Park’s casual raceday staff, had been manning a crossing to the centre of the circuit when the David Nicholls-trained Pure Imagination broke loose from his handler.

The seven-year old, wearing blinkers, set off towards the crossing and attempted to jump the rail Siberry was leaning on, but ran into him.

The gelding, owned by the Dab Hand Partnership, escaped unhurt.

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This incident raised concerns from a number of owners, who contacted the ROA office seeking to establish whether they would be covered in the event of their horse causing third party damage.

Under the Animals Act, the ‘keeper’ of an animal is viewed as not only the person who has possession or control of it, but also its owner.

The ROA’s third party liability insurance scheme provides indemnity where a member is found legally liable for injury or damage, caused by a racehorse in their ownership, to a third party or their property, up to a limit of liability of £10 million per incident. It is this fallback aspect to the insurance scheme that is very important.

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Salisbury joins the Gold Standard ranks Salisbury racecourse has become the 12th course to join the prestigious ranks of ROA Gold Standard Award holders, with a formal presentation made to the racecourse executive during racing on Thursday, May 15.

Salisbury’s executive and sponsorship contribution to prize-money stands at 23.2%. Their prize-money for 2008 is over £824,000.

Salisbury’s unflagging co-operation in the Gold Standard process was particularly praised, as Jeremy Martin, the clerk of the course and manager, worked tirelessly over the winter to secure improved road signage from the local authorities, an issue highlighted by the Gold Standard Committee.

Martin said: “We are naturally

extremely pleased to receive the Gold Standard Award. We were advised at the end of last season that we were on the verge of being awarded, but on the basis we could improve the signage to the racecourse on key parts of the city’s ring road. This has now been achieved.”

Sally Rowley-Williams, ROA Gold Standard Committee member and ROA Council member, said: “I am very pleased for Jeremy and his team.

“We worked together on improving signage to prevent owners and trainers touring the countryside, as I did on my first visit! Jeremy deserves praise for his diligence throughout the winter to

sort this out and he acted quickly to resolve issues. Salisbury is a lovely course with a terrific atmosphere and great prize-money. I urge owners to run their horses there.”

Levy and levity await those who attend the ROA AGM and lunch Members and their guests are encouraged to attend the ROA AGM on Wednesday, June 25 at the Hyatt Regency London Churchill, Portman Square, London.

The morning session gets underway at 10.15am, and the formal business will include an announcement of the results of the Council election. There are nine candidates standing for three places this year, with Tony Hirschfeld and Sally Rowley-Williams standing for re-election after serving a four-year term each.

ROA president Paul Dixon will make an address, which will be followed by an owners’ forum, during which

news in brief Brighton ownership day Brighton racecourse is staging an ownership forum and lunch on Wednesday, June 11, in conjunction with the Racing Post.

The forum is aimed at both potential owners and existing owners. Attendees will be able to direct questions to a panel of experts which will include ROA Council member Dena Arstall, ROA partnership manager Tom Gittins, vet Fred Barrelet of Rossdale & Partners, Weatherbys’ Adrian

members can direct questions to the Council. After that, Douglas ErskineCrum, chief executive of the Horserace Betting Levy Board, will address the meeting and take questions.

Places can be booked in advance for the reception, and members’ and

Douglas Erskine-Crum

McGlynn, Northern Racing’s Charlie Moore and Epsom trainer Simon Dow. Tables of ten for the lunch are £600 including VAT, or £65 each, including Premier admission badges. The day starts with a champagne and strawberries reception at 11.45am, to be followed by the question and answer forum at 12.15pm, and a parade of syndicate horses at 1.15pm.

This will include a practical demonstration from a bloodstock agent on points to look for in a racehorse.

Guests will have lunch in

Sir Mark Prescott

guests’ lunch which follows. The champagne reception, sponsored by Arbuthnot Latham, starts at noon.

Tables of ten are £700 and individual tickets are £80 per head for a threecourse lunch including wine.

We are pleased to reveal Sir Mark Prescott will make an after-lunch speech, so guests are assured of an entertaining afternoon after the morning’s political issues.

Voting details for the Council election have been sent to all ROA members. If you have not received these, please contact the ROA on 020 7408 0903.

the Prince Regent Suite at 1.45pm. To book a table or place, contact Kate Barker on 01273 603580 or email kbarker@brighton-racecourse.co.uk

received a vaccination against equine influenza on the day of a race, or on any of the six days before the day of the race in which it is declared to run.

Goodwood deadline Rule modifications Unruly horses: The Stewards of the BHA have introduced a modification to the Orders and Rules to allow them to order the withdrawal from a race of any unruly horse where they have reason to be concerned.

Flu vaccinations: A horse will not be qualified to race if it has

Members wishing to take advantage of the offer to book badges for the Richmond Enclosure at Glorious Goodwood are reminded the early booking price of £58 applies to bookings received

by June 1. After that date, badges will be £63 each. To book, call the ROA office on 020 7408 0903 or visit www.racehorseowners.net

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

RACECOURSE LEAGUE TABLE Ptn Racecourse

Racecourse ownership

% of Total

Levy Board (£)

1 Aintree JCR 1,801,426 2 Cheltenham JCR 3,302,738 3 Ascot I 4,800,702 4 Epsom Downs JCR 1,365,168 5 York I 1,933,400 6 Goodwood I 1,379,600 7 Newmarket JCR 2,953,682 8 Chester I 517,106 9 Doncaster Arena 1,568,805 10 Great Leighs I 49,933 11 Sandown Park JCR 1,285,357 12 Haydock Park JCR 938,697 13 Newbury I 1,076,655 14 Thirsk I 209,159 15 Ripon I 204,651 16 Newcastle North 399,552 17 Pontefract I 265,646 18 Windsor Arena 271,270 19 Ayr I 502,899 20 Salisbury I 191,363 21 Musselburgh I 271,145 22 Beverley I 205,561 23 Folkestone Arena 188,337 24 Stratford-Upon-Avon I 168,936 25 Kelso I 159,411 26 Kempton Park JCR 895,511 27 Hamilton Park I 156,345 28 Hexham I 92,763 29 Carlisle JCR 132,809 30 Bangor-On-Dee I 131,224 31 Bath North 118,402 32 Fakenham I 55,680 33 Warwick JCR 172,780 34 Perth I 106,605 35 Chepstow North 173,371 36 LIingfield Park Arena 604,156 37 Exeter JCR 143,568 38 Ludlow I 99,346 39 Wetherby I 112,289 40 Leicester I 180,529 41 Wincanton JCR 152,683 42 Taunton I 73,352 43 Fontwell Park North 98,005 44 Yarmouth North 92,049 45 Market Rasen JCR 116,328 46 Huntingdon JCR 84,463 47 Nottingham JCR 77,970 48 Catterick Bridge I 95,561 49 Cartmel I 19,563 50 Plumpton I 35,806 51 Uttoxeter North 70,292 52 Newton Abbot I 35,700 53 Redcar I 51,321 54 Sedgefield North 30,119 55 Brighton North 26,880 56 Towcester I 22,575 57 Wolverhampton Arena 74,500 58 Hereford North 5,685 59 Southwell Arena -9,062 60 Worcester Arena -8,032 Total 30,332,332

58.3 55.1 50.9 45.3 45.1 40.0 37.9 37.8 37.1 36.6 36.2 32.0 30.2 29.0 27.8 26.1 25.6 25.5 25.2 23.2 22.3 22.2 21.9 21.5 21.3 20.5 19.6 19.5 19.1 17.7 17.1 16.5 16.1 16.0 15.7 15.5 15.4 14.9 14.7 14.3 13.9 13.6 13.1 12.8 12.6 12.1 11.9 11.4 9.8 6.5 6.5 6.1 5.7 5.3 4.7 4.3 2.3 1.4 -0.5 -2.2 30.1

857,480 1,674,233 2,622,185 812,780 1,094,760 1,539,600 2,789,430 732,270 1,611,740 80,000 1,803,560 1,543,530 1,893,670 473,010 473,290 977,380 675,970 667,930 1,183,157 501,810 834,940 623,212 580,213 531,415 532,513 2,944,480 553,835 342,897 498,843 545,690 507,920 276,820 760,083 513,490 826,655 2,856,820 660,210 528,310 547,340 925,120 819,980 409,080 597,020 550,340 716,340 502,740 434,893 659,720 158,000 469,580 884,310 519,590 557,520 486,675 507,480 441,415 2,920,515 369,620 1,628,980 336,110 54,368,500

% of Total

Owners (£)

% of Total

Total 2007/8 (£)

Total 2006/7 (£)

27.7 399,576 12.9 3,090,482 2,756,901 28.0 923,054 15.4 5,990,025 5,469,315 27.8 1,880,401 19.9 9,431,538 9,529,685 27.0 802,201 26.6 3,013,149 3,216,405 25.5 1,240,253 28.9 4,290,913 4,375,650 44.6 478,024 13.9 3,452,474 3,530,787 35.8 1,860,789 23.9 7,798,401 7,223,460 53.6 75,071 5.5 1,366,447 1,370,620 38.1 924,888 21.9 4,231,433 2,885,589 58.6 6,475 4.8 136,408 N/A 50.8 397,400 11.2 3,547,317 3,568,779 52.6 408,798 13.9 2,934,225 3,523,085 53.1 447,345 12.5 3,566,990 3,976,039 65.6 10,581 1.5 720,750 692,500 64.2 28,936 3.9 736,877 825,657 63.7 127,516 8.3 1,533,148 1,542,621 65.2 70,568 6.8 1,036,684 1,072,096 62.8 98,900 9.3 1,063,800 1,303,388 59.3 279,931 14.0 1,994,487 2,106,259 60.8 72,140 8.8 824,813 933,803 68.8 85,187 7.0 1,213,272 1,191,689 67.3 66,206 7.2 925,479 964,239 67.4 73,442 8.5 861,343 818,500 67.5 62,900 8.0 787,251 996,000 71.2 45,975 6.2 747,400 749,517 67.4 336,905 7.7 4,370,223 3,812,627 69.4 64,381 8.1 797,561 843,279 72.0 30,740 6.5 476,400 558,900 71.7 56,821 8.2 695,823 759,875 73.7 46,636 6.3 740,050 585,171 73.5 45,013 6.5 690,835 773,620 82.0 0 0 337,500 407,390 70.7 114,071 10.6 1,074,434 1,089,583 77.2 35,405 5.3 665,000 693,700 74.9 95,134 8.6 1,103,860 1,230,885 73.2 279,800 7.2 3,903,995 3,959,912 70.7 83,653 9.0 933,931 794,086 79.1 37,635 5.6 667,791 680,387 71.4 76,621 10.0 766,250 1,060,001 73.2 106,597 8.4 1,264,246 1,427,553 74.7 98,286 9.0 1,097,449 1,100,020 75.8 37,891 7.0 539,523 604,213 79.6 52,672 7.0 750,197 813,960 76.7 52,371 7.3 717,520 786,010 77.4 85,296 9.2 925,964 979,400 72.1 80,755 11.6 696,958 718,160 66.6 73,772 11.3 652,635 975,566 78.9 53,461 6.4 836,242 1,059,280 79.2 15,487 7.8 199,550 206,700 85.3 33,245 6.0 550,631 629,637 82.2 100,148 9.3 1,076,250 1,133,550 88.9 5,776 1.0 584,166 734,616 62.0 273,209 30.4 898,750 1,004,000 85.3 41,502 7.3 570,796 660,380 89.3 34,126 6.0 568,486 671,062 84.9 49,010 9.4 520,000 664,775 90.2 221,432 6.8 3,239,447 3,356,548 88.2 35,998 8.6 419,053 693,750 92.9 104,732 6.0 1,753,750 2,112,650 91.1 39,425 10.7 369,003 711,000 54.0 13,764,563 13.7 100,749,371 102,914,827

% total Up/ 2006/7 down

60.2 54.6 51.5 40.7 43.0 41.5 38.8 35.1 32.2 N/A 37.5 34.6 30.2 28.3 23.5 25.8 17.8 15.6 22.8 21.1 16.5 17.7 9.4 17.7 4.2 21.9 14.3 0.6 13.8 13.8 9.8 10.4 8.7 14.1 9.4 11.6 10.7 12.6 9.0 11.4 21.5 9.0 3.7 4.5 16.4 12.7 8.0 8.2 15.0 1.6 -0.1 8.0 9.0 5.8 0.2 2.5 5.6 4.4 4.2 -0.1 27.7

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EXPLANATION OF TABLE This table sets out the three main contributors to prize-money with percentages of the total: 1 Racecourses’ executive and sponsorship; 2 Levy Board; 3 Owners. A small additional contribution is also made by the Divided Race Fund and the BHA Development Fund. The order is taken from the percentage in the second column of figures. This shows how much each racecourse has contributed to prize-money, expressed as a percentage of their overall prize-money. These figures relate to 2006. 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.

RACECOURSE OWNERSHIP KEY JCR Jockey Club Racecourses

North Northern Racing Ltd Arena Arena Leisure Ltd I Independently owned racecourse Gold Standard Award

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NEWMARKET CRAVEN

April 16-17

Stimulation won the Free Handicap for owners Robert Tullett (left) and Michael KerrDineen (right)

Terry Benson (second right) after his Fanjura had made a winning debut in division two of the Wood Ditton Stakes

Patricia Thompson (right) enjoys another big winner for her Cheveley Park Stud, with Infallible in the Nell Gwyn Stakes

Zidane tasted Listed race glory in the Abernant Stakes for owner Peter Hopper (left)

Owner Anthony Oppenheimer (right) collects his prize after Bronze Cannon’s win in the ten-furlong handicap

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SANDOWN April 25-26 Lady Lloyd Webber with impressive fillies’ maiden scorer Dar Re Mi, whom she bred at her Watership Down Stud

Patrick Fahey (right), groom Sandra Briend and Ryan Moore savour Ask’s success in the Gordon Richards Stakes

Monkerhostin, winner of the Bet365 Gold Cup, with owner Martin St Quinton and groom Emma Smith

David Mort, Norman Woodcock and Tony Pickford celebrate Mador Cadeaux’s success in the Group 2 Bet365 Mile

Michael O’Flynn (left) with his prize after Centennial’s victory in the Casino At Bet365.com Classic Trial

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May 3-4

Baron Georg von Ullmann with his trophy after Getaway’s emphatic triumph in the Jockey Club Stakes

Captain Gerrard provided owner Reg Bond (blue shirt) with a big success in the Group 3 Palace House Stakes

Crispin de Moubray collects the trophy on behalf of Gestut Ammerland after Kandahar Run’s Listed success

Phil Cunningham (left) and Bob Crothers, owners of Slugger O’Toole, who landed the seven-furlong handicap

Thomas Barr (hat) collects his prize after Duntulm’s remarkable last-tofirst success in the mile handicap JUNE 2008 THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER 59

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OWNER OF THE MONTH LEE POWER When owner Lee Power teamed up with trainer and jockey Sean Curran, they knew they needed a ‘Saturday horse’ to get their new training establishment noticed.

For that reason they will be eternally grateful to Iris De Balme, emphatic winner of the Scottish Grand National at Ayr. Power said: “Sean has made a great start and has been training for only 18 months. The first runner he had for me won and he claimed Rebellious Spirit, who then won four on the bounce for him, but we were on the lookout for a Saturday horse.

“I bought Waterside, who was a 100-rated Flat horse, but he was injured on his first run for us at Wolverhampton. We thought it was never going to happen.”

But patience paid off for the former professional footballer and a horse he and co-owner Geoff Peck selected themselves with Curran in France would give them the break they were looking for.

Power said: “The nice thing is we went to Deauville together to look

Iris De Balme on his way to finishing a creditable fourth in the Bet365 Gold Cup, having won the Scottish National

at the horse. Sean rode him and liked him, and we’ve all been in on it right from the start.

“We didn’t really expect what happened at Ayr. Being 26lb out of the handicap, we hoped Iris De Balme might just steal a place, but to win by 14

lengths without the jockey picking up his stick was amazing.”

The eight-year-old French-bred, who was a maiden when the trio purchased him and has since also won the Kent National, followed up his Scottish National success with a

creditable run to take fourth in the Bet365 Gold Cup Chase on the final day of the jumps season.

He is now “bucking and kicking out in the field” on a summer break, before a planned resumption towards the end of the year.

For Power, a win on the

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An out of this world weekend!

PHOTO: GEORGE SELWYN

big stage has echoes of his days as a player for teams like Norwich and Dundee.

He said: “There’s nothing like scoring a goal – I’ve played at big grounds like Old Trafford, White Hart Lane, San Siro in

Extraterrestrial’s Thirsk Hunt Cup win sealed a memorable weekend for owner Graham Paver, who celebrated his 50th birthday and retirement with a party the following day at York.

“It was certainly quite a weekend,” said Paver, who was born in Yorkshire and now lives in York. He initially became involved in racing through his owner-breeder father Michael.

“My dad was interested in racing and he first got involved with shares here and there about 25 years ago,” he explained. “He had a heart

Milan – and you’re always looking for something to replace the buzz. Racing comes very close.

“I’ve always been interested in racing. Richard Dunwoody is a close friend and we both retired through injury at the same sort of time. He got me into it, so I have lots to thank him for.

“Sean lives near me and I’d had horses in training with various different trainers for a number of years. Once you have six or seven in training the bills mount up, so I decided to look for a place of my

attack and it was really racing that kept him going.

“I was the only one in the family who shared his interest, so we talked for hours and hours about horses, and I ended up getting the bug.”

While Graham is yet to follow his father’s interest in breeding, he currently also has a share in Veiled Applause with John Quinn.

He took ownership of fouryear-old Extraterrestrial after he was purchased by trainer Richard Fahey at least year’s horses-in-training sale.

“This was his first win for me

and it was the first time I’d bought an older horse,” said Paver. “I’ve bought yearlings in the past with limited success.”

His mother Catherine has continued to race his father’s homebreds, including Michaels Dream, a nine-yearold by Spectrum who has won seven times for trainer Noel Wilson – three on the Flat and four over hurdles.

“Michaels Dream has been pretty successful,” added Paver. “My dad always dreamt of having a runner in a Classic and this horse is named after him.”

own. We pretty much built it ourselves and put the gallops in, and I sent Sean all my horses.”

As well as being closely involved with Curran’s training operation, Power is head of a publishing company called Cre8, which is responsible for producing matchday football and rugby programmes.

His clients include Chelsea, Arsenal, Celtic and Rangers, and it provided the programmes for last year’s Rugby World Cup. He has also just bought the magazine Racing Ahead Weekend. The company

“To win the Scottish National so easily was amazing”

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Lee Power (left), Charlie Huxley and Sean Curran with the Scottish National trophy

sponsors jockeys Timmy Murphy, Paul Doe and Iris De Balme’s partner Charlie Huxley.

The Faringdon stable’s recent big win has prompted enquiries from potential new owners and Power is keen for Curran to expand and improve his current team, of which he owns 11, some of whom are to be syndicated.

He said: “It’s a dualpurpose yard. We bought a nice two-year-old at the Dundalk breeze-up sale, whom we’d like to think will be a decent prospect.

“We’ve had some owners contact us and we’ll have to wait and see what we get sent. For Sean’s career to move forward, we need three or four Iris De Balmes.

“I always liken training to football – a manager is only as good as his team.” I

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Starts here: all the news and events for TBA members

Ever watched the Ryder Cup and thought you could do better?

Now’s your chance...

Golf weekend is your opportunity to play The Belfry In a major and welcome change of plan, this year’s annual TBA golf weekend will be held at the world famous course, The Belfry, in the West Midlands.

As the headquarters of the Professional Golfers’ Association and ‘spiritual home of the Ryder Cup’, a visit to The Belfry is a must for anyone with a passion for the game.

The August two-dayer –

Sunday 10 and Monday 11 – aims to raise prize-money for two fillies’ races, one Flat, the other National Hunt, through racecourse sponsorship, hole sponsors and a player auction.

Last year, £8,000 worth of prize-money was split between the Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association Golf Day Mares’ Only Maiden Hurdle at Taunton in January and the

Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association Golf Day Fillies’ Handicap at Musselburgh on May 20.

The Belfry is also home to the Quinn Insurance British Masters, and has hosted the Benson & Hedges International Open and the PGA Seniors’ Championship. Those taking part will be playing the PGA National and the Brabazon course.

The weekend is extremely well supported and with only 40 places available those wishing to attend will have to register their interest quickly.

The cost of £190 includes two rounds of golf, dinner, bed (twin room) and breakfast.

For full details and an application form, contact Samantha Knight via Samantha@thetba.co.uk I

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TBA Regional Profile: Yorkshire Continuing our series outlining the role of each TBA region and the people behind it Chairman

Jack Berry, MBE, served his apprenticeship with Charlie Hall and rode as a jump jockey before quitting the saddle. Berry trained both Flat and National Hunt horses for 30 years at Cockerham, near Lancaster, and still holds the record for training the fastest 100 winners in a season.

North Yorkshire

West Yorkshire

Humberside

South Yorkshire

Representative

Richard Burridge, the co-breeder and owner of Desert Orchid.

stepping back in time to visit ‘The World of James Herriot’ at Skeldale House, Thirsk, where the author was born and as seen on the TV show All Creatures Great and Small.

Past regional events

Have included visits to racing stables, studs and the Northern Racing College. A couple of years ago members were taken to Middleham Moor to watch two lots of Mark Johnston’s horses, followed by a talk with the Middleham maestro on the gallops, then a tour of Ann and George Duffield’s stables, and a BBQ in Jack and Jo Berry’s garden with a Western band.

Future events

This year’s regional day is on June 25

Contacts

The Yorkshire region held a successful day with Mark Johnston in Middleham

and will consist of a tour of Kevin Ryan’s yard, where members will see his horses work on the famous Hambleton Hill gallops. That will be followed by lunch at a local pub before

The regional reps are available to help, assist and advise members on any subject covered by the TBA. I Jack Berry MBE, Well Close House, Hunton, Bedale, North Yorkshire DL8 1QW. Tel: 01677 450025 I Richard Burridge, Morgan Intakes, Fryup, Whitby, North Yorkshire YO21 2AT. Tel: 01947 897526 I

Regional chairman’s priorities . . .

“As a regional representative I would really like to see a lot more members in my region.

I appreciate the racing industry has its fair share of problems, but it is not only racing that is suffering, many more industries are. The most important question is, without being selfish, what can we do to better our lot?

First, we must remember our industry is supposed to be a sport. The word sport means we should have some fun, some pleasure, take chances, be physically recreated, be fair and, above all, abide by the rules of the game.

Reading the minutes of the TBA regional representatives meeting last September, I was saddened to learn we

– the TBA – have lost more members recently than we have gained. In my book that’s not very sporting. The TBA does a vast amount of good for racing and breeding.

We have been on trips abroad to Coolmore and Ballydoyle, the Irish

“The TBA does a vast amount for the sport” – Jack Berry

National Stud, John Oxx, France and many more – all at affordable prices.

Later this year there is a trip to Germany.

Imagine the energy on the trip, the stories, the laughter that will be had. I recommend that you, your partner, spouse, friend, whoever, are members of the TBA. Buy membership as a present. I guarantee it will be a present that will be enjoyed and appreciated.

See you on June 25!”

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‘Exotic’ diseases – closer than you think to Britain Newmarket seminar aiming to highlight threats to the breeding industry of AHS and WNV If you haven’t already booked a ticket there are still places available for this not-to-be-missed seminar, which aims to raise awareness of certain ‘exotic’ diseases that may soon pose a genuine threat to the British equine industry.

Focusing specifically on African Horse Sickness (AHS) and West Nile Virus (WNV), the seminar is at Tattersalls Park Paddocks on June 23, and is open to everyone whose business or pleasure interests might be affected by a serious disease outbreak.

The morning session will feature an overview of the current threat, an explanation of how these diseases are

spread, and first-hand experiences of living with AHS and WNV, including clinical signs, diagnosis and control methods. The afternoon will concentrate on potential contingency plans for a response to any disease outbreak in Britain, the current status and future possibilities for new vaccine technologies for AHS and WNV, and what else can be done to protect both the equine population and industry.

Leading international speakers will include Professor Alan Guthrie from the University of Pretoria, South Africa; Dr Josie Traub-Dargatz, from Colorado State University, USA;

Race For Life

Stable Staff Award – May 2008

The TBA ‘girl’s team’ has managed to raise over £10,000 during the past two years in aid of Cancer Research UK. If you are able to support them for this year’s 5km run on Sunday, July 6, please send your donation, large or small, made payable to ‘Cancer Research UK’, to Christine Standley, TBA, Stanstead House, The Avenue, Newmarket, Suffolk CB8 9AA. I

Trina Stanbridge, Rossdale & Partners

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Trina Stanbridge and Gavin Pritchard-Gordon

Professor Philip Mellor and Dr Chris Oura from the UK’s Institute of Animal Health, Pirbright; Dr Jules Minke from Merial, France; and representatives from Defra. There will be ample opportunity for questions and discussion throughout the day.

Tickets are £30 per person, with a buffet lunch included in the price.

Registration and coffee are from 9.30am onwards and the seminar will close at 4.30pm. For further information visit www.thetba.co.uk or contact Caroline Turnbull at Stanstead House on 01638 661321 or email caroline@thetba.co.uk. I

Trina Stanbridge has been a dedicated member of the Rossdale & Partners team for 14 years. After spending 12 years at racing stables in Newmarket she moved to Rossdales to manage the inpatients. Since then she has become a cornerstone of the hospital.

Stanbridge, head of yard staff, has seen many changes and watched the practice grow, all the while ensuring the highest standards of care for mares, foals and yearlings, many of them coming from TBA members and stud farms in and around Newmarket.

The senior partner at Rossdales, Nicholas Wingfield-Digby, who nominated Stanbridge for the award, said that her commitment and professionalism are second to none, and that the award recognises and rewards her care of sick and injured horses. I

Dates, reminders and new members June 5 South East Regional Day – a morning visit to William Knight’s Lower Coombe Stables at Angmering Park, followed by a visit to Lavington Stud and the Arundel Veterinary Hospital.

June 10 West Midlands Regional Day – David Redvers’s Tweenhills Stud and a Dodson & Horrell nutrition presentation.

June 12-15 Cologne, Germany – overseas trip for members.

June 23 Exotic Diseases

Seminar, Tattersalls, Newmarket.

Herefordshire. Mountcharge Ltd, Suffolk.

Mrs S Phipps, Wiltshire. Mr W Fox, June 25 Yorkshire Regional Day – Kevin Norfolk. Mr C Forster, Roxburghshire. Mr J Ryan’s Hambleton Stables and James Lightfoot, Devon. Mr I Fraser, Berkshire. Mr Herriot’s house and surgery.

M Forrester, London. Mr B Taker, Essex. G August 10-11 TBA Golf Tournament, The G Racing, Kent. Miss F Broad, Clwyd. Mrs T Stone Brown, West Sussex. Mr I Belfry, West Midlands.

Norman, West Midlands. Mr & Mrs J TBA new members Somner, East Sussex. Mr J Allen, Cheshire.

Home: Mr B Boyle, Somerset. Ms L Scott, Mr W Cox, Staffordshire. Mr & Mrs R Wiltshire. Mrs G Rees, Lancashire. Ms A Davis, Worcestershire. Mr S Humphries, Lumley, West Yorkshire. Mr T Cooper, South Yorkshire. Overseas: Sheikh Dorset. Ms A Rees, Kent. Mr R Scandrett, Mohammed Bin Isa Al Khalifa, Bahrain.

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TBA Forum Breeders’ Prizes NH HBLB Breeders’ Prizes worth £1,000 or more Breeder R J McAlpine & D O Pickering Mrs J Key P J H Wills B J Eckley R D and Mrs J S Chugg Mrs S C Welch M H Ings Mrs P E W Nicholson A G Knowles C I Ratcliffe R Nicholls & T Smith Dandy’s Farm Barry and Dame Sheila Noakes S Hadley Kimbridge Stud

Prize (£) 10,000 10,000 6,000 5,800

Horse Inglis Drever* Mister McGoldrick* Himalayan Trail Jaunty Flight

Based on dates money was paid

Sire In The Wings Sabrehill Nomadic Way Busy Flight

4,800 2,600 2,600 2,600 2,600 2,600 2,600 2,600 2,600 2,600 2,500

Old Benny* Saddlers’ Hall Trigger The Light Double Trigger Classic Clover Classic Cliché Romany Dream Nomadic Way Brave Rebellion Primitive Rising Gods Token Gods Solution Petite Margot Alderbrook Flying Falcon Polar Falcon Green Gamble Environment Friend Keepthedreamalive* Roselier Inghwung Kayf Tara Little Al Alflora R J Scandrett 1,500 Quillan Hill Environment Friend Taker Bloodstock 1,500 Cape Tribulation Hernando R Aston 1,500 Isn’t That Lucky Alflora G R S and Mrs Nixon 1,300 Hush Tiger Moshaajir J K Beckitt & Son 1,300 River Logic* Fasliyev Mrs R I Vaughan 1,300 Harringay Sir Harry Lewis N B Mason 1,300 Red Scally Alflora Gail C List 1,300 King Mak Makbul Martyn Forrester 1,300 Double Dizzy Double Trigger J M Castle 1,300 Gypsy George Sovereign Water Scott Hardy Partnership 1,000 In Vino Kayf Tara Chieveley Manor Stud 1,000 Son of Flicka Groom Dancer I Norman 1,000 Putney Bridge Slip Anchor *NH Breeders’ Prizes second tier – breeders receive 40% of the prize shown above

Flat HBLB Breeders’ Prizes worth £1,000 or more Gainsborough Stud Management Ltd

Dam Cormorant Creek Anchor Inn Hindu Lady Jaunty June Jack’s The Girl Lamper’s Light National Clover Half Asleep Grand Queen Pro-Token Outfield Lemon Balm Gemma’s Wager Nicklup Mossy Fern Mossy Fern Bowland Girl Gay Fantastic Blast Freeze Just Hush Grey Again Tamergale Southend Scallywag Miss Nova Miss Diskin Query Line Carousel Music Calendula Mayroni

Date Course 13/3/08 Cheltenham 13/3/08 Cheltenham 15/3/08 Uttoxeter 29/3/08 Newbury 06/3/08 Carlisle 13/3/08 Cheltenham 18/3/08 Warwick 06/3/08 Wincanton 14/3/08 Fakenham 15/3/08 Wetherby 09/3/08 Hereford 20/3/08 Wincanton 22/3/08 Carlisle 26/3/08 Kempton 27/3/08 Exeter 02/3/08 Huntington 27/2/08 Folkestone 09/3/08 Market Rasen 15/3/08 Uttoxeter 29/3/08 Bangor-on-Dee 30/3/08 Hexham 25/3/08 Sedgefield 09/3/08 Warwick 14/3/08 Fakenham 22/3/08 Carlisle 17/3/08 Taunton 07/3/08 Ayr 02/3/08 Bangor-on-Dee 28/3/08 Newbury 29/3/08 Stratford-on-Avon

Based on dates money was paid

2,200

William Blake

Rainbow Quest

Land Of Dreams

05/3/08

Lingfield

Theobalds Stud

2,000

Stoneacre Sarah Silver Hotspur

Cadeaux Genereux Tropical Royal Applause Noble View

Serotina Persuasion Tahara Bint Zamayem Wannabe Grand Nest Egg Jetbeeah Eve Shall We Dance

12/2/08 28/2/08 04/3/08 19/2/08 22/3/08 26/2/08 14/2/08 18/3/08 18/3/08 29/3/08 07/3/08 28/3/08 15/3/08 29/3/08 23/3/08

Southwell Lingfield Southwell Southwell Wolverhampton Lingfield Wolverhampton Kempton Kempton Doncaster Wolverhampton Wolverhampton Lingfield Doncaster Musselburgh

St Clare Hall Stud

1,800

Underworld

Cadeaux Genereux Mythic

Hollingston Stud Lady Lonsdale Miss S N Ralphs Sir Eric Parker Chippenham Lodge Stud Ltd Templeton Stud Beechgrove Stud Highclere Stud G Reed Mrs C F van Straubenzee & Miss A Gibson Fleming

1,500 1,500 1,400 1,400 1,200 1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000

Buster Hyvonen Art Man Always Ready Mia’s Boy Wannabe Free Bee Stinger Summer Winds Charm School Cha Cha Cha

Dansili Dansili Best Of The Bests Pivotal Red Ransom Almaty Where Or When Dubai Destination Efisio

1,000

Against The Grain

Pivotal

Oh Hebe

29/3/08

Doncaster

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BREEDER OF THE MONTH ALAN TOMBS NH Breeder of the Month: April

Alan Tombs and daughter Stephanie, with Blazing Bailey’s dam Wannaplantatree, and a colt by Fair Mix

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Alan King’s two star hurdlers Katchit and Blazing Bailey were both bred in Gloucestershire.

With festival victories during April in the Grade 1 World Series Hurdle at Punchestown and Grade 2 Liverpool Hurdle at Aintree, Blazing Bailey earned Alan Tombs from Tewkesbury the last of the season’s monthly TBA/TRM NH breeders’ awards, for which he receives a TRM product pallet worth in excess of €2,000.

The pallet will consist of TRM tack bags and saddle pads, as well as a large selection of the world famous TRM product range.

A bottle of fine Irish whiskey is also part of the prize.

A retired mechanical engineer for the mining industry, Tombs now spends a good deal of time looking after his three mares at Strensham, about eight miles from Cheltenham.

“I bought the place about five years ago,” said Tombs.

“There are 16 acres and we have fenced it and put up stables. We do all the work ourselves. My daughter Stephanie is a great help – she used to assist Bryan Smart and Amanda Perrett.

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JAN HOPPER AND ELIZABETH GRUNDY Small Breeder Special Merit: March/April

Zidane (left) wins a thrilling renewal of the Listed Abernant Stakes

“When we started, the plan was to keep the fillies and sell the colts. Blazing Bailey failed to make his reserve at Doncaster, so I sold him privately to Stuart Williams for 16,000gns.

“Blazing Bailey’s dam Wannaplantatree was a nice athletic horse; they don’t need to be big.

“She was owned by a syndicate of four, but I bought out my partners and she won the Queen’s Prize for me at Kempton. It was the best day’s racing I’ve had. I backed her at 33-1 and again at 28-1, which helped to pay for the party!”

Wannaplantatree breeds in alternate years only. Tombs revealed: “She won’t hold a foal if she has a foal at foot.

“She produced a colt by Fair Mix on April 23, so if I had wanted to cover her again this season, I would

have to find a foster mother for the foal.”

So far Wannaplantatree has had four offspring to run, all of them winners; the fillies Aker Wood and Armada Grove, and geldings Blazing Bailey and Lord Oroko.

Her only other progeny is Jarrah Bay, a two-year-old Mark Of Esteem filly who has joined Lord Oroko at John O’Shea’s.

Having sold Aker Wood, Tombs has retained her halfsister Armada Grove. Her first two offspring, a threeyear-old filly by Mtoto and a two-year-old colt by Bertolini, are with George Foster in Scotland. She also has a yearling colt by Ishiguru and a filly foal by Proclamation. Tombs’s third mare, Lady Algarhoud, a multiple all-weather winner, has just produced her first foal, a filly by Firebreak. I

It was a case of deja vu regarding the Small Breeder Special Merit award for March/April.

In 2004, Jan Hopper and Elizabeth Grundy won the equivalent May award after Frizzante’s victory in the Palace House Stakes. She proceeded to win the July Cup – which could well be the target of her halfbrother Zidane (by Danzero), who is likewise trained by James Fanshawe.

Frizzante, who later realised a substantial 500,000gns, had embarked on that season by finishing

runner-up in the Abernant Stakes at Newmarket, a Listed sprint in which the gelded Zidane prevailed by a short head in the most recent renewal.

Another good winner out of Juliet Bravo, who died foaling Zidane, is Frizzante’s sister Firenze.

The latter finished third in the 2006 Stewards’ Cup, a race Zidane won last season.

Remarkably, these three progeny of Juliet Bravo, a yearling bargain at just 2,100gns, have all excelled as five-year-olds.

WOODCOTE STUD Flat Breeder of the Month: March/April Although the big guns, notably Juddmonte and Shadwell, lost no time in hitting the target at Group 3 level this season, Woodcote Stud looked the more deserving candidate for the season’s initial Breeder of the Month for March/April.

Those who follow the fortunes of British-bred winners might wonder about the success of Major Cadeaux in the Group 2 Bet365 Mile at Sandown, but it transpires that the son of Cadeaux Genereux, who has a ‘GB’ suffix, was bred by a Frenchman from a mare then based in France.

Woodcote Stud at Epsom owes their award to the

success of Jumbajukiba in the Group 3 Gladness Stakes at the Curragh, where he beat Major Cadeaux.

It’s an extraordinary scenario, considering that the five-year-old was transferred to Jessica Harrington’s Irish stable as a prospective jumper.

It was Jumbajukiba’s dam, Danseuse Du Soir, who earned Woodcote Stud the TBA’s Annual Broodmare of the Year Award last season, when Scintillo won the Group 1 Gran Criterium at the San Siro and his halfbrother Jumbajukiba the Group 3 Solonaway Stakes at the Curragh.

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The 2007/2008 jumps season was, literally, a bumper one for broodmare Carole’s Crusader.

A seven-time jumps winner herself, the 17-yearold has certainly conveyed her prowess to her offspring and this year has become the proud mother of a four-, five- and six-year-old bumper winner.

Her owner Paul Murphy said: “I don’t know if it’s a record but it’s certainly a great achievement.”

Two of the trio have scored multiple wins. The eldest, Mad Max, a six-yearold by Kayf Tara, has been victorious twice at Newbury, most recently in a Grade 2 bumper. The four-year-old Sir Harry Lewis filly Carole’s Legacy has been the most precocious, with one of her two wins coming in the Listed mares’ bumper at Aintree, while Jayne’s Crusader, a five-year-old by Lord Americo, got off the mark recently at Towcester.

If the Nicky Hendersontrained Mad Max seems a

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Murphy’s Crusader earns her spurs

Carole’s Legacy (centre) wins the Listed mares’ bumper at Aintree

“She is a real prospect as a broodmare” – Paul Murphy late developer compared to his siblings, one must take into account his size – he stands 18 hands high.

“He’s huge and that’s why we didn’t run him until he was six,” said Murphy.

“He’s been in training for

two months each year and then we’ve backed off.

When I took him to Nicky Henderson’s I said, ‘Don’t laugh when he comes off the box but I think he’s got a serious engine’. Nicky phoned me a few weeks later to say, ‘You’re right’.”

Murphy has “four or five mares” at his stud in Wychnor, Staffordshire and is hoping Carole’s Legacy may one day join her mother.

He said: “I think Carole’s

Legacy is a real prospect as a broodmare but we’ll race her until she’s eight or nine.”

Murphy has the offspring of Carole’s Crusader’s repeated matings with Hernando to look forward to. He has two fillies by the Lanwades sire – a yearling and a foal – and their dam is booked to return to him this season.

Among Murphy’s other achievements, he is able to boast of being one of only two British breeders to have supplied a Cheltenham Festival winner last year, having bred Coral Cup winner Burntoakboy, whom he sold as a foal.

In addition to racing Mad Max and Carole’s Legacy in partnership with the original owner of their dam Carole Skipworth, Murphy, who describes himself as a “hobby breeder”, has also purchased Hernando Royal, with breeders’ prizes earned

by Burntoakboy. The fiveyear-old is now with the Cheltenham winner’s trainer, Dr Richard Newland. I

Precocious Percolator makes lively start for owner-breeder Percolator has made the kind of start to her career that most owners and breeders of two-year-olds can only dream about.

Second on her debut at Warwick, she returned a week later at Lingfield to win by two and a half lengths, becoming the very first winner for her young sire Kheleyf in the process.

Her owner-breeder Henry Robinson did not have long to wait until his precocious filly was back in the winners’ enclosure, having made a trip

to Longchamp extremely worthwhile when leaving five rivals trailing by six lengths.

“It’s been a wonderful start,” said Robinson, who bred Percolator with his wife Claire.

“We’ve been breeding for eight years now and this is extra special as we inherited her dam Coffee Cream from my father-in-law on his death.”

A Common Grounds mare and dual winner, Coffee Cream has also bred winners Carte Noire and Mocha Java, who, like Percolator, was trained by Paul Cole before

being sold. She is in foal to another young son of Green Desert, Byron.

The Robinsons own two other mares. Rakata, by Quiet American, won four times before being retired at the end of last year. She has been bred to Singspiel, while their homebred Beejay, a winner at two and three, has a yearling from the final crop of Mark Of Esteem.

The mares board with Lady Sarah Whent at Raffin Stud, close to the Robinsons’ home near Newbury.

Robinson, who describes himself as “largely speaking retired”, has endured the ups and downs that most breeders have to face, and is thus keeping his feet firmly on the ground as far as his latest winner is concerned.

He said: “We are yet to make up our minds where she goes next. I wouldn’t rule out going back across the Channel – it’s just lovely that she’s made such a promising start, but it might be a bit much to be talking about Ascot for her.”

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EGS: what can be done about a killer disease?

Claire Wylie of the Animal Health Trust, Newmarket, focuses on equine grass sickness KINDLY SUPPLIED BY PROFESSOR B MCGORUM

Equine grass sickness (EGS) is believed to kill at least one horse in 200 every year.

When grass sickness strikes, the mortality rate is in excess of 90% – with very few cases considered suitable for treatment. Although cases can occur in every month of the year, there is a significant rise in the months of April, May and June. So which horses are at risk and what can be done about this killer disease?

EGS is a frequently fatal disease of horses, ponies and donkeys. The condition affects parts of the nervous system that controls involuntary functions, the so-called ‘autonomic nervous system’, and hence the alternative name for the disease, ‘equine dysautonomia’. The gastrointestinal tract is particularly affected, although some of the signs of the disease are related to nerve damage

How is EGS diagnosed?

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Clinical appearance of equine grass sickness

2). Other signs are detailed in the table below.

All cases of AGS and SAGS are incurable, and affected animals are therefore put down on humane grounds. Recovery from the chronic form may be possible based on careful case selection and only with tremendous amounts of supportive care. The prognosis is incredibly poor.

Figure 1 (above): Clinical result of intestinal paralysis Figure 2: Colic in AGS

elsewhere. EGS is classified into three broad types, based on the length of survival from the onset of clinical signs: Acute grass sickness

(AGS): animals survive one to two days only Subacute grass sickness (SAGS): animals survive two to seven days only Chronic grass sickness (CGS): animals survive more than seven days The most severely affected body system is the gastrointestinal tract, with clinical signs of intestinal paralysis (Figure 1) or colic (Figure

Equine grass sickness may be a diagnostic challenge as the clinical features are common to other diseases.

Diagnosis is often based on historical data, the pattern of clinical signs and details of the horse. A thorough physical examination by a vet is essential to obtain as much information as possible.

Definitive diagnosis of EGS requires identification of specific lesions in the nerve cells. This technique involves general anaesthesia and abdominal surgery,

Specific clinical signs associated with acute/subacute and chronic EGS Acute EGS

Signs are severe and appear very suddenly

Subacute EGS

Chronic EGS

Depression Absence of gut sounds (ileus) High heart rate (tachycardia) Salivation Reflux of gut contents through the nose (gastric reflux) Muscle tremors (fasciculation) Drooping eyelids (ptosis) Patchy or generalised sweating Difficulty swallowing (dysphagia) Abdominal discomfort (colic) Constipation (impaction)

Rapid and severe weight loss leading to emaciation (Figure 3) Markedly tucked up abdomen Base narrow stance Dry, crusty nose (rhinitis sicca) (Figure 4) Drooping eyelids (ptosis) Slightly elevated heart rate (tachycardia) Muscle tremors (fasciculation) Patchy sweating Reduced appetite (inappetance) Slight difficulty swallowing (dysphagia)

Signs similar to AGS but usually less severe

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More gradual onset of clinical signs

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Vets Forum “Unfortunately, until the cause of EGS can be proved, it is difficult to give advice aimed at prevention”

Figure 3: Emaciation in CGS KINDLY SUPPLIED BY DR E MILNE

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Figure 4: Rhinitis sicca, common in CGS

Figure 5: Drooping eyelids

which unfortunately are not indicated in horses considered suitable for treatment (some CGS cases) due to the high risks involved.

Other diagnostic tests that can help to reach a diagnosis include x-ray imaging, and application of eyedrops which work to reverse any eyelid drooping (Figure 5).

viruses. The current favoured theory, due to the nature of damage to the nervous system and the clinical signs, is that EGS is a toxico-infectious form of botulism caused by Clostridium botulinum type C, with the disease occurring when the neurotoxin is produced locally in the intestine (Figures 6 and 7).

This is in contrast to classical botulism, in which the pre-formed neurotoxin is eaten in contaminated feed, such as spoiled silage.

Although further research is required to prove the causal link between toxicoinfection with C. botulinum and EGS, if this is proved, then prevention by vaccination is theoretically possible in the same way that tetanus (caused by another clostridial toxin) has been controlled very effectively by a simple inactivated toxin vaccine (a so-called ‘toxoid’).

Can EGS be treated?

Unfortunately, there is no specific treatment for EGS. Some less severely affected chronic cases may respond to intensive nursing care.

Important features of this include keeping the horse warm and comfortable, grooming, walking and providing fresh, palatable, easy-to-eat succulent feedstuffs, which provide adequate nutritional support for the convalescent horse.

What causes EGS?

Studies have failed to identify definitively a specific cause of EGS. Previous investigations have examined the role of various agents, including poisonous plants, bacterial toxins, insects and

What are the risk factors for developing EGS?

All those involved in the horse industry should be

acutely aware of EGS at this high-risk time of year. Risk factors have been identified through observational epidemiological studies, including: Grazing As the name may suggest, ingestion of grass is the main risk factor for development of EGS Season Although cases may occur in any month of the year, the greatest incidence is seen in April, May and June Recent movement to new premises or pastures Many cases are associated with exposure to new pasture Age All are susceptible but, most frequently, cases occur in two- to seven-yearolds Previous occurrence of EGS on the premises Premises that, particularly recently, have had a case of EGS provide increased risk Pasture disturbance Several recent studies have identified increased risk associated with pasture disturbance, possibly through soil ingestion.

Horses who were present on pastures when EGS occurred previously were found to have a reduced risk of the disease, implying that exposure to the aetiological agent generates a protective immune response Unfortunately, until the cause of EGS can be proved, it is difficult to give advice aimed at preventing cases of EGS. Stabling high-risk horses during this time of year will reduce the likelihood of cases, as may

limiting pasture disturbance while horses are grazing during the spring.

How common is EGS?

EGS has been recognised for almost 100 years, since the first reports of cases in Forfar, Scotland at the beginning of the 20th century. Ever since, Britain has had the highest frequency of cases in the world, with disease now occurring in Scotland, England and Wales.

The disease also occurs in several northern European countries, while an identical condition called mal seco (literally translated as ‘dry sickness’) has been recognised in Argentina, the Falklands, Colombia and Chile. Interestingly, EGS is rare in America, Africa, Australia and Asia.

Notably, despite extensive horse movements between mainland Britain and Ireland, EGS remains virtually unknown in the Emerald Isle.

The phenomenon of EGS has been known to veterinary science for around 100 years and many aspects of its clinical and pathological significance have been studied, but there are no accurate records of how frequently it occurs in Britain in the 21st century.

Addressing the need for surveillance of EGS

To address this shortcoming, the Animal Health Trust (AHT) is in the process of developing and implementing the first nationwide system for the

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Figure 6 (above): The site of damage – the equine intestines

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How to get involved

Figure 7: Nerve damage from ingested toxins

surveillance of EGS, to collect details of clinical cases and produce an accurate representation of the true frequency of the disease in Britain.

The main steps in the development of this surveillance project include: Establishing and maintaining a regularly updated confidential database of British premises affected by EGS Developing a system for

This project is funded by The Horse Trust, in collaboration with the Equine Grass Sickness Fund, the University of Edinburgh and the University of Liverpool. It is intended that, following the initial development of the surveillance scheme, results will be included in the AHT/DEFRA/BEVA quarterly equine disease surveillance report, published on www.aht.org.uk/equine_dise ase.html and regularly in The Veterinary Record.

collecting data on the numbers of cases occurring in Britain Collecting parallel data on the numbers of horses in Britain Generating frequency measures for EGS occurrence Developing a study protocol for a vaccine field trial

In order to facilitate equine grass sickness surveillance, two questionnaires have been developed to give more information on the incidence of the disease. The first has been designed to gather information for every new case of equine grass sickness which occurs, while the second questionnaire focuses on the history of affected premises since 2000.

For the most accurate surveillance picture we hope to obtain details on all the cases of equine grass sickness

which have occurred in Britain since 2000, as well as gather information on all new cases which occur.

These questionnaires can be obtained by contacting Claire Wylie at the AHT, Newmarket, on 01638 552993 ext 1241, or via claire.wylie@aht.org.uk.

Both questionnaires are also available at www.equinegrasssickness. co.uk, where you can get more general information.

The data collected from this surveillance scheme will be fundamental to a proposed vaccine trial against C. botulinum type C. The surveillance scheme will be used to identify premises which are at ‘highrisk’, with cases occurring on a recurrent basis. It is proposed that the vaccine will be offered to high-risk premises participating in the surveillance scheme as part of a controlled vaccine field trial against the disease.

The success of the AHT surveillance scheme is dependent on publicity and awareness. It is vitally important all cases of EGS are reported to the AHT.

news in brief Rossdale & Partners Foal Care course notes For those unable to attend the course earlier this year, extensive notes are available from Lifelearn Ltd (info@lifelearn.co.uk) at a cost of £35. The course covered the neonatal and older foal.

Date for your diary This year’s Thoroughbred Racing & Breeding Seminar will be held at Cheltenham on November 13. Now in its seventh year, Europe’s largest annual thoroughbred conference showcases the latest research relating to the racing and breeding industries. Further details of this year’s programme will be included in next month’s issue.

HRH extends support to equine vets HRH The Princess Royal, Patron of the British Equine Veterinary Association since 2003, has agreed to extend her patronage for a further three years. It is hoped that she will be able to support the work of the BEVA Trust and the Emergency Services Protocol.

New vets certificates for non-runners With effect from March 22, the British Horseracing Authority modified Rule 144, that pertains to veterinary certification with regard to non-runners. A trainer can now self-certify a horse he/she considers unfit to race as

being a non-runner. In such an event, the horse will not be permitted to race for a period of six days from the date of self-certification. Veterinary certificates issued as a result of a clinical examination by a veterinary surgeon will not be subject to the six-day restriction, but cannot rescind a trainer’s self-certification.

Equine diseases that are far from ‘exotic’ At one time, diseases such as African Horse Sickness and West Nile Virus drew little interest in Britain. However, we are now being warned that they could pose a serious threat. The TBA is organising a seminar at Tattersalls, Newmarket, on June 23, to

raise awareness of these diseases. Further details are provided on page 64, or the TBA website (www.thetba.co.uk).

Name change for ILPH The International League for the Protection of Horses has changed its name to World Horse Welfare, to reflect the breadth and depth of the charity’s activities, and its desire to focus on the causes of cruelty to horses. The decision followed a strategic review and a year-long consultation with the charity’s supporters and staff. The charity has outlined its three areas of activity as British welfare, campaigns and international training.

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Nick that can’t fail to hit target With great results, is it any wonder breeders with Sadler’s Wells mares have often focused on Mill Reef line stallions?

Even people with only a rudimentary knowledge of bloodstock breeding are likely to be aware of the affinity which exists between Sadler’s Wells and mares by Mill Reef and his male line descendants.

For the record, the 14-time champion sire has been represented by eight black-type winners out of Mill Reef mares, 21 out of Shirley Heights mares and 20 out of daughters of Darshaan. He also sired the Derby second Daliapour from a mare by Mill Reef’s son Doyoun.

Before anyone suggests these totals are so high because this nick has been tried so often, 49 stakes winners from 258 foals equates to 19%. The PHOTO: GEORGE SELWYN

The latest developments in the bloodstock world Words: Andrew Caulfield

percentage of stakes winners in Sadler’s Wells’s general population was nearly 15% to the end of 2007, so this cross is especially effective. Limit the sample to Group winners and you’ll find Sadler’s Wells has over 12% Group winners among his foals out of mares by both Shirley Heights and Darshaan, which again is well above his overall strike-rate.

The Darshaan cross has already produced seven Group 1 winners, plus Curtain Call.

Is it any wonder breeders with Sadler’s Wells mares have often focused on Mill Reef line stallions, especially as Darshaan sired seven stakes winners (13%) from

“How would Dalakhani fare with the Sadler’s Wells mares who’ve flocked to him? The early signs are encouraging” 74 THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER JUNE 2008

daughters of Sadler’s Wells?

Obviously this cross can’t fail.

Or can it?

Darshaan’s Classic-winning son Mark Of Esteem sired only one stakes winner from his first 30 foals out of Sadler’s Wells mares and Doyoun’s son Daylami failed to hit the stakes target with his first 41 foals.

So how would Darshaan’s excellent son Dalakhani – who shares the same dam as Daylami – fare with the Sadler’s Wells mares who have flocked to his door since he retired to Gilltown Stud? As many as 15 of the 76 foals in Dalakhani’s first crop are out of daughters of Sadler’s Wells and the early signs are encouraging.

Last year saw Group-placed Yahrab earn a Timeform rating of 104 and Chinese White score by six lengths on her only start. Chinese White maintained her unbeaten record with a decisive victory in a Listed race on her return.

Her trainer Dermot Weld has another talented performer in Unwritten Rule, who followed up a conditions win with a third in the Group 3 Ballysax Stakes. Conduit and Ragamuffin Man, two of Dalakhani’s other winners out of Sadler’s Wells mares, also have potential.

Dalakhani isn’t showing promise exclusively with daughters of Sadler’s Wells mares. Neither of his first two Group winners, Sandown

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Classic Trial winner Centennial and Prix Hocquart winner Democrate, have Sadler’s Wells in their pedigree.

Centennial is out of Lurina, a useful daughter of dual Breeders’ Cup Mile winner Lure, who proved sub-fertile. This family has already produced Group 1 winners Sleepytime, AliRoyal, Taipan and Croco Rouge, so it would be no surprise to see Centennial continue to progress.

Democrate, who was winning for the first time in four starts in the Hocquart, also has a classy background.

His dam, Group 3-winning Silver Hawk mare Aiglonne, is a three-parts sister to Germance, runner-up in the 2006 Prix de Diane after winning the Group 1 Prix Saint-Alary. Top-class colts White Muzzle and Almutawakel are other graduates of this fine family.

This sort of background is typical of the high quality mares who have been sent to Dalakhani, a four-time Group 1 winner with a pedigree free of Northern Dancer. Further examples are the two most in-demand yearlings from the second crop by the 2003 Prix du Jockey-Club and Arc winner.

Yankee Doodle, his 1,000,000gns colt out of Bella Lambada, is a grandson of Prix de l’Opera winner Bella Colora, while his 480,000gns colt out of Time Honoured is a grandson of Time Charter.

As Time Honoured is a winning sister to Group 2 winner Time Allowed, her son – now with Godolphin – is another representative of the Dalakhani-Sadler’s Wells cross. He holds an entry in the 2009 Derby, as do colts out of four other Sadler’s Wells mares, Balaabel, Daring Miss, Josh’s Pearl and Verzasca. Chances are this budding nick is going to live up to expectations. I

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Caulfield Files Big Brown storms clear to win the Kentucky Derby

Big Brown’s talent can fairly be attributed to inbreeding One of the imponderables is how much significance should be attached to inbreeding.

There are times when an individual’s talent is credited to inbreeding in its pedigree, when its ability is probably more attributable to its aboveaverage parents.

But surely it’s fair to attribute the extraordinary talent shown

by Big Brown, the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner, to the inbreeding in his pedigree, especially the 3 x 3 inbreeding to the phenomenal Northern Dancer.

Big Brown’s sire Boundary, who won only two Grade 3s during an abbreviated career, has 401 foals of racing age, sired at fees ranging from $7,500 to $20,000. Only eight of them (2%) have achieved the status of Group/Graded winner in the USA, Europe or Japan. None of Big Brown’s first three dams earned black type and none had produced a stakes winner until Big Brown.

Northern Dancer’s stallion statistics are a perfect example of how much the breeding industry has changed over a matter of

decades. In a career spanning over 20 years, he sired only 635 named foals (Sadler’s Wells’s total of racing age offspring stands at over 2,000). His 147 stakes winners equated to an astonishing 23%. Although no modern stallion could aspire to matching Northern Dancer’s figure, a handful of his sons

“Close inbreeding to Northern Dancer can unlock potential” made bold attempts, with Danzig and Nijinsky leading the way with 18%, just ahead of Nureyev.

Concentrating on these highly-productive sons offers breeders a chance of reinforcing Northern Dancer’s influence, if they are prepared to inbreed 3 x 3. There are 31 foals by sons of Danzig out of daughters of Nijinsky. Among

them are Iktamal, winner of the Group 1 Haydock Sprint Cup, and Grade 3 winner Pollock’s Luck. Sending daughters of Nureyev to sons of Danzig has been tried more often and the first 50 foals bred this way include six Group winners – an impressive 12%. Big Brown’s predecessors consist of four by Danehill (Desert King, the Australian Group 1-winning stayer Danestorm, Distinction and Costume) and one by Anabaa (Dalna).

It’s worth pointing out that Iktamal’s dam, Crystal Cup, was unplaced in her two starts; that Sabaah, dam of dual Classic winner Desert King, failed to win and was rated 65 by Timeform; and that Ivy Leaf, dam of Group 2 winner Distinction, was winless in eight starts.

Danestorm’s dam Shalbourne won in England but was rated 71 and Big Brown’s dam Mien was a minor turf winner from two starts. Close inbreeding to Northern Dancer seems to have unlocked the potential in these unexceptional but wellconnected racemares. I

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17 2,000 GUINEAS TRIAL G3 LEOPARDSTOWN. April 6. 3yoc&g. 8f.

1. FAMOUS NAME (GB) 9-0 £33,507 b c by Dansili - Fame At Last (Quest For Fame) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-DK Weld 2. Moiqen (IRE) 9-0 £9,831 b c by Red Ransom - Za Aamah (Mr Prospector) O-Hamdan Al Maktoum B-Shadwell Estate Co. Lim ited TR-K Prendergast 3. Hebridean (IRE) 9-0 £4,684 b g by Bach - Delphinium (Dr Massini) O-Mrs AM O’Brien B-Whisperview Trading Ltd TR-AP O’Brien

2003: FIRST FEERIE (f Turgeon) Winner over hurdles at 4.

2004: FUNNY LINE (f Emperor Jones) Winner at 3 in France.

2005: FULL OF GOLD (c Gold Away) 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Criterium de Saint-Cloud G1, Prix Noailles G2.

2006: Fuisse (c Green Tune) unraced to date.

2007: Flagstaff (c Numerous)

Wins 2

Places 1

Earned £52,775

Broodmare Sire: QUEST FOR FAME. Sire of the dams of 12 Stakes winners. In 2008 FAMOUS NAME Dansili G3, STICKPIN Pins LR. FAMOUS NAME b c 2005 Danzig Danehill Razyana DANSILI b 96 Kahyasi Hasili Kerali Rainbow Quest Quest For Fame Aryenne FAME AT LAST b 97 Majestic Light Ranales Katsura

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Ile de Bourbon Kadissya High Line Sookera Blushing Groom I Will Follow Green Dancer Americaine Majestic Prince Irradiate Northern Dancer Noble Fancy

18 PRIX NOAILLES G2 LONGCHAMP. April 6. 3yoc&f. 2100m.

1. FULL OF GOLD (FR) 9-2 £54,485 ch c by Gold Away - Funny Feerie (Sillery) O-A Head B-Alec & Ghislaine Head TR-Mme C Head-Maarek 2. Court Canibal (GB) 9-2 £21,029 b c by Montjeu - Pas d’Heure (Arazi) O-Marquise de Moratalla B-Childwick Bury Stud Management TR-M Delzangles 3. Blue Bresil (FR) 9-2 £10,037 b c by Smadoun - Miss Recif (Exit To Nowhere) O-F Tondelier B-J-L Pariente TR-Mlle B Halley des Fontaines Margins Head, 0.75. Time 2:22.50 (slow 12.50).

Going Heavy.

Age 2-3

Starts 5

Wins 3

Places 2

Northern Dancer Special Riverman Gold River Glaneuse Red God Blushing Groom Runaway Bride Raja Baba Sweet Revenge Away Red God Blushing Groom Runaway Bride Bellypha Silvermine Sevres Riverman Irish River Irish Star Lyphard Messenie Mediterranee Nureyev

1st Dam: FAME AT LAST by Quest For Fame.

Winner at 2. Dam of 4 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) 2 wins at 2 and 3, Leopardstown 2000 Guineas Trial G3, 2nd Killavullan S G3.

2007: (c Zamindar)

Earned £162,357

Sire: GOLD AWAY. Sire of 7 Stakes winners. In 2008 - FULL OF GOLD Sillery G2, CRACK AWAY JACK Rudimentary LR. 1st Dam: FUNNY FEERIE by Sillery. 3 wins over jumps in France, Prix Finot Hurdle (fillies) LR. Dam of 4 winners: 2002: FREJUS (g Mansonnien) Winner over jumps.

Pas de Nom Gay Mecene Balbonella Bamieres Riverman Irish Star LOUVE ch 96 Nureyev Louveterie Lupe

Nearctic Natalma Admiral’s Voyage Petitioner Vaguely Noble Gay Missile Riverman Bergamasque Never Bend River Lady Klairon Botany Bay Northern Dancer Special Primera Alcoa

FULL OF GOLD ch c 2005 Goldneyev

Sire: DANSILI. Sire of 25 Stakes winners. In 2008 - FAMOUS NAME Quest For Fame G3, DANSANT Kris LR, DIAMOND DIVA Indian Ridge LR, GRECIAN DANCER Statoblest LR, PERCE ROCK Vaigly Great LR.

Danzig ANABAA b 92

The Gold Away/Sillery cross has produced: FULL OF GOLD G1, CLIFDEN G3.

GOLD AWAY ch 95

Starts 4

Northern Dancer

Irish River

Broodmare Sire: SILLERY. Sire of the dams of 9 SW. In 2008 - FULL OF GOLD Gold Away G2.

Margins 4, 1.25. Time 1:43.90 (slow 5.50).

Going Yielding.

Age 2-3

LOUP BRETON b c 2004

Blushing Away

Sillery FUNNY FEERIE b 95 Funny Pearl

20 GRAND PRIX AUFGALOPP G3 COLOGNE. April 6. 4yo+. 2200m.

1. ORIENTAL TIGER (GER) 5 8-13 £23,529 b h by Tiger Hill - Oriental Flower (Big Shuffle) O/B-Gestut Auenquelle TR-U Ostmann 2. Dwilano (GER) 5 8-11 £7,353 ch h by Silvano - Dwings (In The Wings) O-Stall Piaggio B-Frau Dr E Wachtarz TR-P Remmert 3. White Lightning (GER) 6 8-11 £3,676 b h by Sternkoenig - Whispering Grass (Konigsstuhl) O-P Hanke B-L Zieger-Dickerhoff TR-U Stech Margins 2, 3. Time 2:33.39. Going Heavy.

Age 2-4

19 PRIX D’HARCOURT G2

Starts 12

Wins 2

Places 9

Earned £208,292

Margins Head, 2.5. Time 1:28.90 (slow 3.40).

Going Yielding.

Age 2-3

Starts 6

Wins 1

Places 4

Sire: DANEHILL DANCER. Sire of 65 Stakes winners. In 2008 - LIGHT FANTASTIC Kendor G1, CARRIBEAN SUNSET Royal Academy G3, STRIPPER Zabeel G3.

1st Dam: BONHEUR by Royal Academy. Winner at 3. Dam of 3 winners: 2003: HAPPY LODGE (f Grand Lodge) Winner at 2.

2004: OMMADAWN (f Montjeu) Winner at 3.

2005: CARRIBEAN SUNSET (f Danehill Dancer) Sold 105,089gns yearling at GOOY1. 1 win at 3, Leopardstown 1000 Guineas Trial S G3.

2006: (f Montjeu) 2007: (c Azamour) 2nd Dam: QUEEN TO CONQUER by King’s Bishop.

Yellow Ribbon S G1. Dam of QUEBRADA (f Devil’s Bag: ARAG Preis G2), COURT (f Devil’s Bag: Rockingham S LR. Grandam of SILVESTER LADY. Broodmare Sire: ROYAL ACADEMY. Sire of the dams of 50 SW. In 2008 - CARRIBEAN SUNSET Danehill Dancer G3, BLAZONRY Spectrum LR, KANDIDATE Kabool LR, WHY BE Success Express LR, YANKEE BRAVO Yankee Gentleman LR. CARRIBEAN SUNSET b f 2005 Danzig Danehill

LONGCHAMP. April 6. 4yo+. 2000m.

1. LOUP BRETON (IRE) 4 8-12 £54,485 b c by Anabaa - Louve (Irish River) O-Ecurie Wildenstein B-Dayton Investments Ltd TR-E Lellouche 2. Spirit One (FR) 4 8-12 £21,029 b c by Anabaa Blue - Lavayssiere (Sicyos) O-B Chehboub B-K Chehboub, B Chehboub TR-P Demercastel 3. Boris de Deauville (IRE) 5 9-1 £10,037 b h by Soviet Star - Logjam (Royal Academy) O-Mme M Bryant, L Haegel B-Petra Bloodstock Agency Ltd TR-S Wattel Margins 0.5, 0.5. Time 2:14.60 (slow 10.70).

Going Heavy.

Sire: TIGER HILL. Sire of 20 Stakes winners. In 2008 - ORIENTAL TIGER Big Shuffle G3.

Earned £38,513

1st Dam: ORIENTAL FLOWER by Big Shuffle.

Champion 2yof in Germany. 4 wins at 2 in Germany.

Own sister to ORIENTAL PEARL. Dam of 2 winners: 1999: ORIENTAL SEA (f Lando) Winner at 2.

2000: Oriental Power (c Sternkoenig) unraced.

2001: Oriental Rock (g Acatenango) 2002: Oriental River (c Lomitas) unraced.

2003: ORIENTAL TIGER (c Tiger Hill) Gerling Preis G2, Grand Prix Aufgalopp G3, 2nd Grosser Preis von Baden G1, 3rd BMW Deutsches Derby G1, Idee Hansa-Preis G2, Oppenheim Union-Rennen G2, Dr Busch Memorial G3, Preis des Winterfavoriten G3.

2004: Oriental Lane (f Seattle Dancer) unraced.

2005: Oriental World (f Platini) 2006: Oriental Lion (c Seattle Dancer) unraced.

Sire: ANABAA. Sire of 47 Stakes winners. In 2007 HEADTURNER Zabeel G3, LOUP BRETON Irish River G3, JOAQUIN Raise A Cup LR, KEY BAR NIGHTS Black Zephyr LR, NO DREAM Seattle Slew LR.

2nd Dam: Orange Bowl by General Assembly. unraced. Dam of ORANGE CURE (f Cure The Blues: Amacitalopning - Veckans Komb LR), ORANGE TOUCH (g Lando: March S LR), ORIENTAL PEARL (f Big Shuffle: Preis des Gestutes Graditz LR).

1st Dam: LOUVE by Irish River. 2 wins at 3 in France, Prix de Flore G3. Dam of 3 winners: 2001: LOUVE ROYALE (f Peintre Celebre) 4 wins at 3 and 5 in France, USA, Rood and Riddle Dowager S LR, 2nd Bewitch S G3, Modesty H G3.

2002: Louve des Reves (f Sadler’s Wells) 4 wins at 3 to 5 in France, USA, 2nd Prix Solitude LR. 2003: Loup Mysterieux (c Sadler’s Wells) 2004: LOUP BRETON (c Anabaa) 2 wins at 3 in France, Prix Daphnis G3.

2005: Labrador (c Fasliyev) unraced to date.

2006: L’Ile Aux Loups (f Rock of Gibraltar)

Broodmare Sire: BIG SHUFFLE. Sire of the dams of 9 SW. In 2008 - ORIENTAL TIGER Tiger Hill G3.

Age 3

Starts 4

Wins 2

Places 0

2nd Dam: LOUVETERIE by Nureyev. 2 wins at 2 and 3 in France Prix Vanteaux G3, 2nd Prix de Diane Hermes G1, Prix Saint-Alary G1. Dam of LOUP SAUVAGE (c Riverman: Prix d’Ispahan G1, 2nd Dubai Champion S G1, Dubai Poule d’Essai des Poulains G1, 3rd Budweiser Irish Derby G1, Dubai World Cup G1), LOUP SOLITAIRE (c Lear Fan: Grand Criterium G1, 2nd Prix Lupin G1), LOUVE (f Irish River, see above), Loudeac (c Riverman: 2nd Prix de Fontainebleau G3, 3rd Prix du Muguet G2), Louveteau (c Bahri: 3rd P.Eugene Adam (G.P. de Maisons-Laffitte) G2) Broodmare Sire: IRISH RIVER. Sire of the dams of 110 Stakes winners. In 2007 - AQUA D’AMORE Danehill G1, SADDEX Sadler’s Wells G2, LOUP BRETON Anabaa G3, MUSTAMEET Sahm G3.

The Anabaa/Irish River cross has produced: LOUP BRETON G3, Princess d’Orange LR.

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ORIENTAL TIGER b h 2003 Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Razyana Spring Adieu TIGER HILL b 95 Herbager Appiani II Angela Rucellai The Filly St Chad Tigress Silver Templeogue Bold Reasoning Super Concorde Prime Abord Big Shuffle Elevation Raise Your Skirts Strings Attached ORIENTAL FLOWER b 94 Secretariat General Assembly Exclusive Dancer Orange Bowl Vaguely Noble Golden Bowl Rose Bowl Danzig

Earned £128,378

Razyana DANEHILL DANCER b 93 Sharpen Up Mira Adonde Lettre d’Amour Nijinsky Royal Academy Crimson Saint BONHEUR b 98 King’s Bishop Queen To Conquer Beat It

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Atan Rocchetta Caro Lianga Northern Dancer Flaming Page Crimson Satan Bolero Rose Round Table Spearfish Silnet Beactive

22 PRIX PENELOPE G3 SAINT-CLOUD. April 11. 3yof. 2100m.

1. GAGNOA (IRE) 9-0 £29,412 b f by Sadler’s Wells - Gwynn (Darshaan) O-D Smith, M Tabor, Mrs J Magnier B-Quay Bloodstock TR-A Fabre 2. Top Toss (IRE) 9-0 £11,765 gr f by Linamix - Tossup (Gone West) O-Ecurie Skymarc Farm B-Ecurie Skymarc Farm TR-Y de Nicolay 3. Sanjida (IRE) 9-0 £8,824 b f by Polish Precedent - Sanariya (Darshaan) O-HH The Aga Khan B-HH The Aga Khan’s Studs SC TR-A de Royer-Dupre Margins Neck, 0.5. Time 2:23.10 (slow 13.80).

Going Heavy.

Danehill

Age 2-3

Starts 5

Wins 3

Places 1

Earned £70,053

Sire: SADLER’S WELLS. Sire of 291 Stakes winners. In 2008 - GAGNOA Darshaan G3, ASHKAZAR Darshaan LR. 1st Dam: Gwynn by Darshaan. unraced.

Dam of 1 winner: 2004: May Kiersey (f Sadler’s Wells) unraced.

2005: GAGNOA (f Sadler’s Wells) Sold 124,794gns yearling at Agence Francaise August, Prix des Reservoirs G3, Prix Penelope G3.

2006: Rendezvous (c Sadler’s Wells) unraced.

21 1,000 GUINEAS TRIAL G3 LEOPARDSTOWN. April 6. 3yof. 7f.

1. CARRIBEAN SUNSET (IRE) 9-0 £33,507 b f by Danehill Dancer - Bonheur (Royal Academy) O-Dr R Lambe B-Barronstown Stud TR-DK Weld 2. Halfway To Heaven (IRE) 9-0 £9,831 gr f by Pivotal - Cassandra Go (Indian Ridge) O-Michael Tabor B-T Stewart TR-AP O’Brien 3. Saoirse Abu (USA) 9-3 £4,684 ch f by Mr Greeley - Out Too Late (Future Storm) O-Ennistown Stud B-White Cloud Bloodstock, O Trevino et al TR-JS Bolger

2nd Dam: VICTORESS by Conquistador Cielo. 1 win at 3 in France. Grandam of FELICIA, ATLANTIC WAVES, Abandonment, Victoria Night.

Broodmare Sire: DARSHAAN. Sire of the dams of 111 Stakes winners. In 2008 - ALEXANDRA ROSE Caesour G3, GAGNOA Sadler’s Wells G3.

The Sadler’s Wells/Darshaan cross has produced: EBADIYLA G1, ELECTION DAY G1, GREEK DANCE G1, HIGH CHAPARRAL G1, ISLINGTON G1, MILAN G1, QUARTER MOON G1, SEPTIMUS G1, YESTERDAY G1.

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Caulfield on Duke Of Marmalade: “His female line has produced the likes of A P Indy, Summer Squall, Lemon Drop Kid, Al Mufti and Statue Of Liberty” (pg 80) GAGNOA b f 2005 Nearco Lady Angela Northern Dancer Native Dancer Natalma Almahmoud SADLER’S WELLS b 81 Hail To Reason Bold Reason Lalun Fairy Bridge Forli Special Thong Mill Reef Shirley Heights Hardiemma Darshaan Abdos Delsy Kelty GWYNN b 97 Mr Prospector Conquistador Cielo K D Princess Victoress Northern Dancer Royal Statute Queen’s Statute Nearctic

23 PRIX LA FORCE G3

2005: TAMAYUZ (c Nayef) Prix de Fontainebleau G3.

2006: Ashaaq (c Anabaa) unraced to date.

2007: Dijlah (f Linamix)

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JUMBAJUKIBA b g 2003 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge

LONGCHAMP. April 13. 3yof. 1600m.

1. ZARKAVA (IRE) 9-0 £29,412 b f by Zamindar - Zarkasha (Kahyasi) O-HH The Aga Khan B-HH The Aga Khan’s Studs SC TR-A de Royer-Dupre 2. Conference Call (GB) 9-0 £11,765 b f by Anabaa - Phone West (Gone West) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-P Bary 3. Lessing (FR) 9-0 £8,824 b f by Orpen - Lady Morgane (Medaaly) O-J Martinez Salmean B-Mlle Francoise Perree TR-R Gibson Margins 2.5, head. Time 1:44.70 (slow 7.30).

Going Heavy.

2nd Dam: ALLEZ LES TROIS by Riverman. 3 wins in France Prix de Flore G3. Dam of ANABAA BLUE (c Anabaa: Prix du Jockey Club G1), REUNITE (f Kingmambo: Virginia Fillies S LR, 2nd Winter Hill S G3), MEASURED TEMPO (f Sadler’s Wells: Swettenham Stud Fillies Trial LR)

BARATHEA b 90

Broodmare Sire: NUREYEV. Sire of the dams of 162 Stakes winners. In 2008 - BIG BROWN Boundary G1, COSTUME Danehill G2, TAMAYUZ Nayef G3.

DANSEUSE DU SOIR b 88

Habitat Brocade Canton Silk Thatch Thatching Abella Northfields Dance By Night Elvina

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Sir Gaylord Little Hut Runnymede Clouded Lamp Forli Thong Abernant Darrica Northern Dancer Little Hut Dancer’s Image Relicia

TAMAYUZ ch c 2005 Raise A Native Gold Digger Rambunctious Jameela Asbury Mary NAYEF b 98 Busted Bustino Ship Yard Height of Fashion Queen’s Hussar Highclere Highlight Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Nureyev Forli Special Thong AL ISHQ ch 97 Never Bend Riverman River Lady Allez Les Trois Lombard Allegretta Anatevka Mr Prospector

27 NELL GWYN S G3

Gulch

LONGCHAMP. April 13. 3yo. 2000m.

1. HIGH ROCK (IRE) 9-2 £29,412 ch c by Rock of Gibraltar - Hint of Silver (Alysheba) O-R Bousquet B-Ecurie Skymarc Farm TR-J-C Rouget 2. Salsalavie (FR) 9-2 £11,765 bbr c by Fly To The Stars - Lavayssiere (Sicyos) O-K Chehboub, B Chehboub B-K Chehboub, B Chehboub TR-P Demercastel 3. Watar (IRE) 9-2 £8,824 b c by Marju - Ombrie (Zafonic) O-Hamdan Al Maktoum B-Haras du Mezeray TR-F Head Margins 6, 2.5. Time 2:12.90 (slow 9.00). Going Heavy.

Age 2-3

Starts 3

Wins 3

Places 0

Earned £152,331

Sire: ZAMINDAR. Sire of 11 Stakes winners. In 2008 - ZARKAVA Kahyasi G3.

1st Dam: Zarkasha by Kahyasi. unraced.

Dam of 1 winner: 2004: Zarakiysha (f Kendor) unraced.

2005: ZARKAVA (f Zamindar) Champion 2yr old filly in Europe in 2007. 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix Marcel Boussac-Barriere Deauville G1, SG Private Banking Prix de la Grotte G3.

2006: (f Soviet Star) 2007: (c Azamour)

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NEWMARKET. April 16. 3yof. 7f.

1. INFALLIBLE (GB) 8-12 £28,385 b f by Pivotal - Irresistible (Cadeaux Genereux) O-Cheveley Park Stud B-Cheveley Park Stud TR-JHM Gosden 2. Kylayne (GB) 8-12 £10,760 b f by Kyllachy - Penmayne (Inchinor) O-Mrs Jan Harris B-DP Martin, Mrs JA Martin TR-PW D’Arcy 3. Festivale (IRE) 8-12 £5,385 b f by Invincible Spirit - Cephalonie (Kris S) O-Prince AA Faisal B-Nawara Stud Co Ltd TR-JL Dunlop

CURRAGH. April 13. 4yo+. 7f.

Age 2-3

Starts 4

Wins 3

Places 1

Earned £65,662

Sire: ROCK OF GIBRALTAR. Sire of 29 Stakes winners. In 2008 - HIGH ROCK Alysheba G3, MUSIDORA Bering G3, SEVENTH ROCK Rubiton G3, GAMBLE ME Pleasant Tap LR, STARLISH Anshan LR, SWEETER STILL Belmez LR, TRULY MINE Barathea LR. 1st Dam: HINT OF SILVER by Alysheba. Winner at 2 in France. Own sister to HILL SILVER. Dam of 8 winners: 1996: HEXAGON (g Kris) 2 wins at 3 and 5 in France, USA. 1997: HERO’S HINT (c Priolo) 3 wins.

1998: HOMELAND (g Highest Honor) 5 wins at 3 in France, Prix Andre Baboin (G. P.des Provinces) G3.

2000: HIDDEN SILVER (f Anabaa) Winner at 3 in France. Broodmare.

2001: High Flash (c Selkirk) 3 wins at 2 to 4, 2nd Prix Pelleas LR, 3rd Prix Daphnis G3.

2002: HIDEAWAY (f Cape Cross) 2 wins at 3 in France, Grand Prix du Lion d’Angers LR. 2003: HONOR BADGE (c Highest Honor) 2 wins at 2 and 3 in France.

2005: HIGH ROCK (c Rock of Gibraltar) 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix de Conde G3, SG Private Banking Prix La Force G3.

2006: How High The Sky (f Danehill Dancer) unraced to date.

2007: (c Cape Cross) 2nd Dam: Hot Silver by Nureyev. 1 win at 2 in France, 2nd Prix des Lilas LR, 4th Prix des Reservoirs G3. Dam of BLACK QUESTION (g Seattle Song: Lord Avie S LR, 3rd Forerunner S G3), HILL SILVER (f Alysheba: Prix de la Calonne LR) Broodmare Sire: ALYSHEBA. Sire of the dams of 39 Stakes winners. In 2008 - HIGH ROCK Rock of Gibraltar G3, BULLISH LUCK Royal Academy LR. HIGH ROCK ch c 2005 Danzig Danehill Razyana ROCK OF GIBRALTAR b 99 Be My Guest Offshore Boom Push A Button Alydar Alysheba Bel Sheba HINT OF SILVER ch 91 Nureyev Hot Silver Her Silver

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Northern Dancer What A Treat Bold Lad River Lady Raise A Native Sweet Tooth Lt Stevens Belthazar Northern Dancer Special Herbager Silver Bright

2nd Dam: ZARKANA by Doyoun. 2 wins at 3 in France. Dam of ZARKIYA (f Catrail: Prix de Sandringham G3), Zariyan (c Anabaa: 3rd Prix Ridgway LR, Prix du Pont-Neuf LR, 3rd Prix Challenge de Haies des 4 Ans Hurdle LR), Zarkali (g Starborough: 2nd Gran Premio Merano Forst G1).

Broodmare Sire: KAHYASI. Sire of the dams of 26 Stakes winners. In 2008 - CHAMPS ELYSEES Danehill G2, ZARKAVA Zamindar G3, SALFORD MILL Peintre Celebre LR. ZARKAVA b f 2005 Mr Prospector Gone West Secrettame ZAMINDAR b 94 The Minstrel Zaizafon Mofida Ile de Bourbon Kahyasi Kadissya ZARKASHA b 99 Doyoun Zarkana Zarna

Raise A Native Gold Digger Secretariat Tamerett Northern Dancer Fleur Right Tack Wold Lass Nijinsky Roseliere Blushing Groom Kalkeen Mill Reef Dumka Shernazar Zahra

25 PRIX DE FONTAINEBLEAU G3 LONGCHAMP. April 13. 3yoc. 1600m.

1. TAMAYUZ (GB) 9-2 £29,412 ch c by Nayef - Al Ishq (Nureyev) O-Hamdan Al Maktoum B-Shadwell Estate Co Ltd TR-F Head 2. Murcielago (FR) 9-2 £11,765 ch c by Spinning World - So Long Girl (Selkirk) O-R Vallaud B-R Vallaud TR-R Le Gal 3. Hello Morning (FR) 9-2 £8,824 gr c by Poliglote - Hello Molly (Sillery) O-Mme M Leurson B-Haras du Champ Benard TR-Mme C Head-Maarek Margins Head, 1. Time 1:48.30 (slow 10.90).

Going Heavy.

Age 2-3

Starts 3

Wins 3

Places 0

Earned £47,993

Sire: NAYEF. Sire of 2 Stakes winners. In 2008 TAMAYUZ Nureyev G3.

1st Dam: AL ISHQ by Nureyev. Winner at 3 in France. Dam of 3 winners: 2003: Thamarat (f Anabaa) Winner at 2 in France, 3rd Prix Yacowlef LR. 2004: Nuqoosh (f Machiavellian) Winner at 2 in France, 2nd Prix Miesque G3.

1. JUMBAJUKIBA (GB) 5 9-3 £33,456 b g by Barathea - Danseuse du Soir (Thatching) O-JP O’Flaherty B-Woodcote Stud Ltd TR-Mrs John Harrington 2. Major Cadeaux (GB) 4 9-3 £9,779 ch c by Cadeaux Genereux - Maine Lobster (Woodman) O-NA Woodcock, AC Pickford, D Mort B-Earl Richard Evain TR-R Hannon 3. US Ranger (USA) 4 9-0 £4,632 b c by Danzig - My Annette (Red Ransom) O-Michael Tabor B-Joseph Allen TR-AP O’Brien Margins 3.5, 0.75. Time 1:36.61 (slow 12.61).

Going Heavy.

Age 2-5

Starts 15

Wins 5

Places 4

Earned £144,786

Sire: BARATHEA. Sire of 76 Stakes winners. In 2008 - JUMBAJUKIBA Thatching G3.

1st Dam: DANSEUSE DU SOIR by Thatching. 5 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Dubai Poule d’Essai des Pouliches G1, Prix de la Foret G1, 3rd Prix Jacques Le Marois G1. Dam of 5 winners: 1993: Dangerous Love (f Lear Fan) unraced.

1994: Danger Reef (c Nureyev) 1995: Discret Amour (c Riverman) unraced.

1996: Dancing Fire (f Dayjur) unraced. Broodmare.

1997: DREAM SEEKER (c Lear Fan) 2 wins over jumps in France.

1998: DURER (c Kingmambo) Winner at 3 in France.

1999: Diamant Bleu (c Our Emblem) unraced.

2000: DANCING WARRIOR (c Lear Fan) Winner at 4 in USA. 2001: Loup du Soir (c Loup Sauvage) 2003: JUMBAJUKIBA (g Barathea) Sold 18,000gns 3yo at TAAUT. 5 wins at 2, 4 and 5, Castlemartin & La Louviere Gladness S G3, ladbrokes.com Solonaway S G3, Platinum S LR. 2005: SCINTILLO (c Fantastic Light) Champion 2yr old in Italy in 2007. 2 wins at 2 at home, Italy, Gran Criterium G1.

2007: (c Barathea) 2nd Dam: DANCE BY NIGHT by Northfields. 2 wins at 2, unraced at 3 years due to an accident.

Dam of DANSEUSE DU SOIR, DANA SPRINGS (f Aragon: Upavon Fillies’ S LR, Piaget d’Or LR), DON CORLEONE (c Caerleon: July Trophy S LR).

Broodmare Sire: THATCHING. Sire of the dams of 51 SW. In 2008 - JUMBAJUKIBA Barathea G3, GEORGEBERNARDSHAW Danehill Dancer LR, INSTANT RECALL Indian Ridge LR, THIRD SET Royal Applause LR.

Margins 3.5, 3. Time 1:27.15 (slow 3.85).

Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 2

Wins 2

Places 0

Earned £33,243

Sire: PIVOTAL. Sire of 49 Stakes winners. In 2008 INFALLIBLE Cadeaux Genereux G3, HEAVEN SENT Rahy LR, IL WARRD Machiavellian LR, JAZZ JAM Rahy LR. 1st Dam: IRRESISTIBLE by Cadeaux Genereux. 3 wins at 2 and 3, Tote Exacta Kilvington Fillies S LR, 2nd Irish Stallion Farms EBF Brownstown S G3.

Dam of 1 winner: 2005: INFALLIBLE (f Pivotal) 2 wins at 2 and 3, Leslie Harrison Nell Gwyn S G3.

2006: Penchant (f Kyllachy) unraced to date.

2007: (f Pivotal) 2nd Dam: POLISH ROMANCE by Danzig.

1 win at 3. Own sister to POLISH LOVE. Dam of IRRESISTIBLE (f Cadeaux Genereux, see above) Broodmare Sire: CADEAUX GENEREUX. Sire of the dams of 19 Stakes winners. In 2008 INFALLIBLE Pivotal G3.

INFALLIBLE b f 2005 Northern Dancer Special Jefferson Marie d’Argonne Mohair PIVOTAL ch 93 Caro Cozzene Ride The Trails Fearless Revival Bustino Stufida Zerbinetta Balidar Young Generation Brig O’Doon Cadeaux Genereux Sharpen Up Smarten Up L’Anguissola IRRESISTIBLE b 2000 Northern Dancer Danzig Pas de Nom Polish Romance Fappiano Some Romance Zippy Do Nureyev

Polar Falcon

28 EARL OF SEFTON S G3 NEWMARKET. April 17. 4yo+. 9f.

1. PHOENIX TOWER (USA) 4 8-12 £28,385 b c by Chester House - Bionic (Zafonic) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-HRA Cecil 2. Traffic Guard (USA) 4 8-12 £10,760 b c by More Than Ready - Street Scene (Zafonic) O-Mrs Fitri Hay B-Frank Penn, John R Penn TR-Jane Chapple-Hyam 3. Pipedreamer (GB) 4 8-12 £5,385 b c by Selkirk - Follow A Dream (Gone West) O/B-Cheveley Park Stud TR-JHM Gosden

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Margins Head, neck. Time 1:54.11 (slow 5.11).

Going Good.

Age 2-4

Starts 4

Wins 4

Places 0

Earned £49,672

Sire: CHESTER HOUSE. Sire of 14 Stakes winners.

In 2008 - SPRING HOUSE Itajara G2, VENTURA Be My Guest G2, HOSTESS Vice Regent G3, PHOENIX TOWER Zafonic G3.

1st Dam: BIONIC by Zafonic. Winner at 2. Dam of 5 winners: 2001: Diplomatic Agent (c Deputy Minister) 3 wins at 3 and 4 in USA, 3rd Singspiel S LR. 2002: KRYNICA (f Danzig) Winner at 2. Broodmare.

2003: FAST THOUGHT (c Aptitude) 2 wins at 4.

2004: PHOENIX TOWER (c Chester House) 4 wins at 2 to 4, Weatherbys Earl of Sefton S G3.

2005: WINTER BLOOM (f Aptitude) Winner at 2.

2006: (f Empire Maker) 2nd Dam: BONASH by Rainbow Quest. Prix de Malleret G2. Dam of DAY FLIGHT (c Sadler’s Wells: John Porter S G3, Ormonde S G3, St Simon S G3), SENSE OF JOY (f Dansili: Prestige S G3) Broodmare Sire: ZAFONIC. Sire of the dams of 21 Stakes winners. In 2008 - PHOENIX TOWER Chester House G3, MARUKA SHENCK Sunday Silence LR. PHOENIX TOWER b c 2004 Native Dancer Raise You Nashua Gold Digger Sequence Northern Dancer El Gran Senor Sex Appeal In Reality Image of Reality Edee’s Image Mr Prospector Gone West Secrettame The Minstrel Zaizafon Mofida Blushing Groom Rainbow Quest I Will Follow Nijinsky Sky Love Gangster of Love Raise A Native Mr Prospector CHESTER HOUSE b 95 Toussaud

Zafonic BIONIC br 96 Bonash

29 CRAVEN S G3 NEWMARKET. April 17. 3yoc&g. 8f.

1. TWICE OVER (GB) 8-12 £28,385 b c by Observatory - Double Crossed (Caerleon) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-HRA Cecil 2. Raven’s Pass (USA) 8-12 £10,760 ch c by Elusive Quality - Ascutney (Lord At War) O-Stonerside Stable B-Stonerside Stable TR-JHM Gosden 3. The Bogberry (USA) 8-12 £5,385 ch c by Hawk Wing - Lahinch (Danehill Dancer) O-Mrs EM Stockwell B-March Thoroughbreds TR-AP O’Brien Margins Short head, 6. Time 1:38.54 (slow 2.54).

Going Good.

TWICE OVER b c 2005

Margins 1.25, 0.75. Time 1:28.69 (slow 4.89). Going Soft.

Raise A Native Gold Digger Distant View Irish River Seven Springs La Trinite OBSERVATORY ch 97 Hail To Reason Roberto Bramalea Stellaria Northern Dancer Victoria Star Solometeor Northern Dancer Nijinsky Flaming Page Caerleon Round Table Foreseer Regal Gleam DOUBLE CROSSED b 98 Red God Blushing Groom Runaway Bride Quandary Cloudy Dawn Lost Virtue Aunt Tilt Mr Prospector

30 GREENHAM S G3 NEWBURY. April 19. 3yoc&g. 7f.

1. PACO BOY (IRE) 9-0 £26,682 b c by Desert Style - Tappen Zee (Sandhurst Prince) O-The Calvera Partnership No 2 B-Mrs Joan Browne TR-R Hannon 2. Bobs Surprise (GB) 9-0 £10,114 ch c by Bertolini - Flourish (Selkirk) O-ALR Morton B-Wyck Hall Stud Ltd TR-BW Hills 3. Red Alert Day (GB) 9-0 £5,062 b c by Diktat - Strike Hard (Green Desert) O-Gallagher Equine Ltd B-Darley TR-SA Callaghan Margins 0.75, 4. Time 1:27.14 (slow 3.34). Going Soft.

Age 2-3

Starts 5

Wins 4

Places 1

Starts 3

Wins 3

Places 0

Earned £44,210

Sire: DESERT STYLE. Sire of 16 Stakes winners. In 2008 - PACO BOY Sandhurst Prince G3.

1st Dam: TAPPEN ZEE by Sandhurst Prince. 2 wins at 3. Dam of 5 winners: 1992: Tappen Lady (f Doulab) 1993: MAWINGO (g Taufan) 3 wins at 3.

1995: (f Balla Cove) 1996: SUPER PERFORMANCE (g Mujadil) 3 wins at 4 and 5 in Hong Kong.

1998: ZACHOLIV (f Desert Style) 2 wins at 3.

2001: FUEL CELL (g Desert Style) 3 wins 3-6.

2003: Xarzee (f Xaar) ran twice.

2005: PACO BOY (c Desert Style) Sold 12,157gns foal at GONO1, 10,508gns yearling at TIDEC, 30,000gns 2yo at DNAPR. 4 wins at 2 and 3, Greenham S G3, Spring Cup LR. 2006: Tartan Turban (c Invincible Spirit) unraced.

2nd Dam: ROSSALDENE by Mummy’s Pet. 1 win at 2. Dam of CAPE TOWN (c Desert Style: European Free H LR, Silver Trophy LR,, 3rd Irish 2000 Guineas G1), REGIMENT (c Shaadi: Easter S LR), Green’s Ferneley (c Taufan: 3rd Autumn S LR), Lammastide (f Martinmas: 3rd National S LR).

Broodmare Sire: SANDHURST PRINCE. Sire of the dams of 8 SW. In 2008 - PACO BOY Desert Style G3.

PACO BOY b c 2005 Danzig Foreign Courier DESERT STYLE b 92 High Top

Sire: OBSERVATORY. Sire of 4 Stakes winners. In 2008 - TWICE OVER Caerleon G3.

Organza

1st Dam: DOUBLE CROSSED by Caerleon. 2 wins at 3, Arena Racing Oaks Trial LR. Dam of 1 winner: 2003: Deceived (f Selkirk) unraced.

2004: Tricked (f Beat Hollow) unraced.

2005: TWICE OVER (c Observatory) 3 wins at 2 and 3, Craven S G3.

2006: Betray (f King’s Best) unraced to date.

Sandhurst Prince

2nd Dam: QUANDARY by Blushing Groom. 3 wins at 4 James Seymour S LR. Dam of DOUBLE CROSSED (f Caerleon, see above). Grandam of PASSAGE OF TIME. Broodmare Sire: CAERLEON. Sire of the dams of 127 Stakes winners. In 2008 - ARIEGE Doneraile Court G1, NASHOBA’S KEY Silver Hawk G1, ADMIRE AURA Agnes Tachyon G2, TWICE OVER Observatory G3, ELDEST Indian Ridge LR, GO BETWEEN Point Given LR, BEAU MICHAEL Medicean LR, DAYIA Act One LR.

Starts 3

Canton Silk Pampapaul Blue Shark TAPPEN ZEE ch 86 Mummy’s Pet Rossaldene Palestra

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Sir Ivor Courtly Dee Derring-Do Camenae Runnymede Clouded Lamp Yellow God Pampalina Silver Shark Well Armed Sing Sing Money For Nothing Palestine TSF

31 FRED DARLING S G3 NEWBURY. April 19. 3yof. 7f.

1. MUTHABARA (IRE) 9-0 £26,682 b f by Red Ransom - Hureya (Woodman) O-Hamdan Al Maktoum B-Shadwell Estate Co Ltd TR-JL Dunlop 2. Dream Day (GB) 9-0 £10,114 b f by Oasis Dream - Capistrano Day (Diesis) O-R Barnett B-W and R Barnett Ltd TR-R Hannon 3. Lady Deauville (FR) 9-0 £5,062 gr f by Fasliyev - Mercalle (Kaldoun) O-PJ Hughes Developments Ltd B-Aerial Bloodstock et al TR-PA Blockley

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Wins 3

Places 0

Earned £45,651

Sire: RED RANSOM. Sire of 76 Stakes winners. In 2008 - PORTILLO Polish Precedent G2, ACOUSTICAL Gone West G3, ALL AMERICAN Strawberry Road G3, MARTINI RED Centaine G3, MOIQEN Mr Prospector G3, MUTHABARA Woodman G3, RANSOM EXPRESS Danehill G3, VALPOLICELLA Last Tycoon G3.

1st Dam: HUREYA by Woodman. Winner at 3. Dam of 3 winners: 2003: ESTIQRAAR (c Alhaarth) Winner at 3.

2004: AQMAAR (c Green Desert) 2 wins at 2 and 3.

2005: MUTHABARA (f Red Ransom) Fred Darling S G3, Star S LR. 2006: Aswaaq (f Peintre Celebre) unraced to date.

2nd Dam: NOBLE STATION by Executioner. 3 wins at 3 and 4 in USA. Dam of SMART ‘N NOBLE (f Smarten, see above), Sweet Lady Jo (f Jolie Jo: 3rd New Jersey Futurity (fillies) LR). Grandam of Gravano.

Broodmare Sire: SMARTEN. Sire of the dams of 47 Stakes winners. In 2008 - ROYAL AND REGAL Sadler’s Wells G3, PAINT ME RED Red Bullet LR. ROYAL AND REGAL b c 2004 Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma SADLER’S WELLS b 81 Bold Reason

2nd Dam: Istiqlal by Diesis. unraced. Dam of MUQBIL (c Swain: Greenham S G3)

Fairy Bridge

Broodmare Sire: WOODMAN. Sire of the dams of 99 SW. In 2008 - EISHIN DEPUTY French Deputy G3, MUTHABARA Red Ransom G3.

Smarten

Special Cyane Smartaire SMART ‘N NOBLE b 91 Executioner

The Red Ransom/Woodman cross has produced: MUTHABARA G3, RED MASQUE LR, Daring Ransom LR, El Laoob LR.

Noble Station Home Bound

Nearco Lady Angela Native Dancer Almahmoud Hail To Reason Lalun Forli Thong Turn-To Your Game Quibu Art Teacher The Axe II Mae East Tom Fool Leading Home

MUTHABARA b f 2005 Turn-To Nothirdchance Nashua Bramalea Rarelea Sword Dancer Damascus Kerala Nearctic Christmas Wind Bally Free Raise A Native Mr Prospector Gold Digger Buckpasser Playmate Intriguing Sharpen Up Diesis Doubly Sure Nijinsky Wasnah Highest Trump Hail To Reason Roberto

Green Desert

Age 2-3

Earned £72,591

Age 2-3

de Lutece G3.

2005: Royal Reprieve (f Celtic Swing) unraced to date.

2006: Caravan of Dreams (f Anabaa) unraced to date.

RED RANSOM b 87 Arabia

Woodman HUREYA b 98 Istiqlal

NEWBURY. April 19. 4yo+. 12f 5yds.

1. ROYAL AND REGAL (IRE) 4 9-0 £26,682 b c by Sadler’s Wells - Smart ‘n Noble (Smarten) O-PD Savill B-PD Savill TR-MA Jarvis 2. Zaham (USA) 4 8-11 £10,114 ch g by Silver Hawk - Guerre Et Paix (Soviet Star) O-Hamdan Al Maktoum B-London Thoroughbred Services Ltd TR-M Johnston 3. Tempelstern (GER) 4 8-11 £5,062 gr c by Sternkoenig - Temple Esprit (Esprit du Nord) O-Ennismore Racing I B-Dr O Herminghaus TR-HRA Cecil Margins Neck, 0.75. Time 2:43.19 (slow 11.19).

Going Soft.

Starts 9

Wins 4

ROME. April 20. 3yoc. 1600m.

1. SENLIS (IRE) 9-2 £59,765 b c by High Chaparral - Senebrova (Warning) O-Scuderia Pieffegi B-Compagnia Generale SRL TR-E Borromeo 2. Eustachione (IRE) 9-2 £26,296 ch c by Desert Prince - Vaghezza (Persian Bold) O-Scuderia Tieffe B-Cesare Turri TR-M Gasparini 3. Eldest (IRE) 9-2 £14,343 ch c by Indian Ridge - Lara’s Shock (Caerleon) O-Scuderia Incolinx B-Lino Scarpellini TR-V Caruso Margins 1.5, 2.5. Time 1:38.10 Going Good.

Age 2-3

32 JOHN PORTER S G3

Age 2-4

33 PREMIO PARIOLI G3

Places 4

Earned £120,495

Sire: SADLER’S WELLS. Sire of 291 SW. In 2008 GAGNOA Darshaan G3, ROYAL AND REGAL Smarten G3, ASHKAZAR Darshaan LR. 1st Dam: SMART ‘N NOBLE by Smarten. 12 wins at 2 to 4 in USA, Barbara Fritchie H G2. Dam of 2 winners: 1998: CELTIC SILENCE (c Celtic Swing) 2 wins at 2, Chesham S LR, 2nd Convergent Communications Dante S G2.

1999: Celtic Silhouette (f Celtic Swing). Dam of CELTIC SLIPPER (f Anabaa: 2 wins at 2 at home, Italy, Premio Dormello G3, 3rd Frenchgate for Fashion May Hill S G2) 2000: Celtic Sapphire (f Celtic Swing) 3rd Chesham S LR, Weatherbys Superlative S LR. Broodmare.

2001: Celtic Solitude (f Celtic Swing) ran a few times.

2004: ROYAL AND REGAL (c Sadler’s Wells) Sold 256,669gns yearling at GOOY1. 4 wins at 2 to 4 at home, France, Jockey Club Cup G3, Dubai Tennis Ch’ships John Porter S G3, Prix de l’Avre LR, 2nd Prix Hocquart Mitsubishi Motors G2, 3rd Prix Hubert de Chaudenay Casino Barriere G2, Qatar Prix

Starts 4

Wins 2

Places 2

Earned £77,067

Sire: HIGH CHAPARRAL. Sire of 1 Stakes winners.

In 2008 - SENLIS Warning G3.

1st Dam: SENEBROVA by Warning. 5 wins at 3 and 4 in Italy, Premio Bagutta - Memorial Sergio Cumani G3. Dam of 5 winners: 1997: STEPHANT (c Green Desert) 4 wins at 3 to 5 in Italy, Premio Bereguardo LR, 2nd Premio Emilio Turati G2.

1998: SOROKINA (f Polish Precedent) 2 wins at 4.

1999: Semyonova (f Spinning World) unplaced.

2000: STEPANENKO (f Theatrical) 5 wins 4-5..

2001: SARADON (f Mark of Esteem) Winner at 3.

2002: Stanton (c Dr Fong) 2005: SENLIS (c High Chaparral) 2 wins at 2 and 3 in Italy, Premio Parioli G3, 2nd Premio Gardone LR, 3rd Premio Rumon LR. 2006: Harwalla (c Desert Style) 2007: (f Shinko Forest) 2nd Dam: STEMEGNA by Dance In Time. 3 wins at 2 in Italy Premio Dormello G2. Dam of SENEBROVA (f Warning, see above), Leopoldo di Lorena (c Bustino: 3rd Premio Grosseto LR) Broodmare Sire: WARNING. Sire of the dams of 32 Stakes winners. In 2008 - SENLIS High Chaparral G3, POCKET MONEY Namid LR. SENLIS b c 2005 Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special Shirley Heights Darshaan Delsy Kris Kozana Koblenza In Reality Known Fact Tamerett Roberto Slightly Dangerous Where You Lead Northern Dancer Dance In Time Allegro Charlottown Seldovia Sunol Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells HIGH CHAPARRAL b 99 Kasora

Warning SENEBROVA b 91 Stemegna

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Age 2

LEOPARDSTOWN. April 20. 3yo. 10f.

Sire: DAI JIN. In 2008 - LIANG KAY Funambule G3.

1. MOIQEN (IRE) 9-1 £33,507 b c by Red Ransom - Za Aamah (Mr Prospector) O-Hamdan Al Maktoum B-Shadwell Estate Co Ltd TR-K Prendergast 2. Hebridean (IRE) 9-1 £9,831 b g by Bach - Delphinium (Dr Massini) O-Mrs AM O’Brien B-Whisperview Trading Ltd TR-AP O’Brien 3. Unwritten Rule (IRE) 9-1 £4,684 gr c by Dalakhani - Triple Try (Sadler’s Wells) O/B-Moyglare Stud Farm TR-DK Weld

Starts 2

Wins 1

Places 1

1st Dam: LINTON BAY by Funambule. BMW Preis Dusseldorf LR. Dam of 3 winners: 2002: LAVEYA (f Second Set) 2 wins at 4.

2004: LAEYA STAR (f Royal Dragon) 2 wins at 3, Jaxx Weidenpescher Stutenpreis LR. 2005: LIANG KAY (c Dai Jin) Dr Busch Mem G3, 2nd Preis des Winterfavoriten G3.

Broodmare Sire: FUNAMBULE. Sire of the dams of 4 Stakes winners. In 2008 - LIANG KAY Dai Jin G3.

LIANG KAY b c 2005

Margins 1, 1. Time 2:13.60 (slow 8.10).

Going Good to Yielding.

Nureyev Peintre Celebre

Age 2-3

Starts 4

Wins 2

Places 1

Earned £51,275

Sire: RED RANSOM. Sire of 76 Stakes winners. In 2008 - PORTILLO Polish Precedent G2, ACOUSTICAL Gone West G3, ALL AMERICAN Strawberry Road G3, MARTINI RED Centaine G3, MOIQEN Mr Prospector G3, MUTHABARA Woodman G3, RANSOM EXPRESS Danehill G3, VALPOLICELLA Last Tycoon G3.

1st Dam: Za Aamah by Mr Prospector. unraced.

Own sister to SIYADAH. Dam of 4 winners: 2001: DESERT LEADER (g Green Desert) 3 wins at 4 and 6.

2002: Kushoofaat (f Danehill) unraced.

2003: Rekaab (g In The Wings) 3 wins at 2 and 4, 2nd Beresford S G2.

2004: DAWLA (f Alhaarth) 2 wins at 3.

2005: MOIQEN (c Red Ransom) 2 wins at 2 and 3, Ballysax S G3, 2nd Leopardstown 2000 Guineas Trial G3.

2007: Mudalalah (f Singspiel) 2nd Dam: ROSEATE TERN by Blakeney. 3 wins at 3 and 4 Aston Upthorpe Yorkshire Oaks G1, 2nd Gold Seal Oaks S G1, 3rd St Leger S G1. Dam of ESLOOB (f Diesis: R L Davison Pretty Polly S LR, EBF Hoppings S LR, 3rd Meon Valley Stud Fillies’ Mile S G1), SIYADAH (f Mr Prospector: R L Davison Pretty Polly S LR). Grandam of ALLODIAL LAND, Musanid, Mahara.

Broodmare Sire: MR PROSPECTOR. Sire of the dams of 283 Stakes winners. In 2008 - LITTLE BELLE A P Indy G1, ADRIANO A P Indy G2, GRASSHOPPER Dixie Union G3, MOIQEN Red Ransom G3, EDDINGTON Model Man LR, FURIOSO Brian’s Time LR, SOPRAN PROMO Montjeu LR, SUTEKI SHINSUKEKUN Danzig LR. The Red Ransom/Mr Prospector cross has produced: BAYEUX G1, PICO TENERIFFE G1, CRYSTAL SYMPHONY G3, MOIQEN G3, Aldo G2.

MOIQEN b c 2005 Turn-To Nothirdchance Nashua Bramalea Rarelea Sword Dancer Damascus Kerala Nearctic Christmas Wind Bally Free Native Dancer Raise A Native Raise You Nashua Gold Digger Sequence Hethersett Blakeney Windmill Girl High Top Rosia Bay Ouija Hail To Reason Roberto RED RANSOM b 87 Arabia

Mr Prospector ZA AAMAH ch 96 Roseate Tern

Earned £23,176

Peinture Bleue DAI JIN b 2000 Shirley Heights Dawlah Urjwan Lyphard Funambule Sonoma LINTON BAY b 97 Ti Amo Ludhiana Lumaria

Northern Dancer Special Alydar Petroleuse Mill Reef Hardiemma Seattle Slew White Star Line Northern Dancer Goofed Habitat Satu Kaiseradler Tiarella Herero Liebesglut

36 GORDON RICHARDS S G3

MILAN. April 26. 4yo+. 2000m.

1. AXXOS (GER) 4 8-11 £25,312 b c by Monsun - Acerbis (Rainbow Quest) O/B-Gestut Ittlingen TR-P Schiergen 2. Golden Titus (IRE) 4 8-11 £11,137 ch c by Titus Livius - Oraplata (Silver Hawk) O-Scuderia Millenium B-Scuderia Golden Horse TR-A Renzoni 3. Selmis (GB) 4 8-11 £6,075 ch c by Selkirk - Nokomis (Caerleon) O-Scuderia Incolinx B-Scuderia Vittadini TR-V Caruso Margins 0.5, 3. Time 2:02.70. Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 8

Wins 2

Places 5

1. ASK (GB) 5 9-3 £26,682 b h by Sadler’s Wells - Request (Rainbow Quest) O-Patrick J Fahey B-Side Hill Stud TR-Sir Michael Stoute 2. Hattan (IRE) 6 9-3 £10,114 ch h by Halling - Luana (Shaadi) O-Saeed Manana B-Darley TR-CE Brittain 3. Philatelist (USA) 4 9-0 £5,062 b c by Rahy - Polent (Polish Precedent) O-Gary A Tanaka B-Darley TR-MA Jarvis Margins 0.5, 2.5. Time 2:10.63 (slow 3.63).

Going Good to soft.

G2, Gladness S G3, Criterion S G3.

2005: Brave Optimist (f Diktat) unraced to date.

2006: Lord of The Dance (c Indian Haven) unraced to date.

2007: (c Indian Haven) 2nd Dam: CAPADES by Overskate. 11 wins at 2 to 4 in USA Selima S G1, 2nd Flower Bowl H G1. Dam of CAP BEINO (f Lyphard: Lilac S, Miss Indy Anna S). Grandam of Plum Red. Broodmare Sire: WOODMAN. Sire of the dams of 99 Stakes winners. In 2008 - MAJOR CADEAUX Cadeaux Genereux G2, EISHIN DEPUTY French Deputy G3, MUTHABARA Red Ransom G3.

MAJOR CADEAUX ch c 2004

Earned £149,835

Balidar Young Generation Brig O’Doon

Sire: MONSUN. Sire of 60 SW. In 2008 - AXXOS Rainbow Quest G3, ART MARTIAL Priolo LR. 1st Dam: ACERBIS by Rainbow Quest. 2 wins at 2 and 4 in Germany. Dam of 4 winners: 2000: ALIETTE (f Lando) 3 wins at 4 in France.

2001: Activo (g Trempolino) 3 wins at 2 and 4, 2nd Preis von Schlenderhan LR. 2002: Activa (f Sendawar) 2003: ALLORO (c Lando) Winner at 3 in Germany.

2004: AXXOS (c Monsun) Union-Rennen G2, Premio Ambrosiano G3, 2nd Grand Prix de Paris G1.

2005: Acerba (f Monsun) unraced to date.

2007: (f Lando) 2008: (f Paolini)

SANDOWN PARK. April 25. 4yo+. 10f 7yds.

CADEAUX GENEREUX ch 85 Sharpen Up Smarten Up L’Anguissola Mr Prospector Woodman Playmate MAINE LOBSTER ch 98 Overskate Capades Medal of Valor

Will Somers Violet Bank Shantung Tam O’Shanter Atan Rocchetta Soderini Posh Raise A Native Gold Digger Buckpasser Intriguing Nodouble Overstate Damascus La Fuerza

39 CLASSIC TRIAL S G3 SANDOWN PARK. April 26. 3yo. 10f 7yds.

2nd Dam: ARAGOSTA by Nebos. 3 wins at 3, Ludwig Goebels-Erinnerungsrennen G3. Dam of Agnelli (c Surumu: 2nd GP von Deutschland G2).

Broodmare Sire: RAINBOW QUEST. Sire of the dams of 85 SW. In 2008 - ASK Sadler’s Wells G3, AXXOS Monsun G3, AURORAS ENCORE Second Empire LR, SHANBEL Shantou LR. The Monsun/Rainbow Quest cross has produced: AXXOS G1, DUKE D’ALBA G3.

AXXOS b/br c 2004 Tamerlane Donna Diana Tiepoletto Kronung Literat Surumu Surama Authi Monasia Monacensia Red God Blushing Groom Runaway Bride Herbager I Will Follow Where You Lead Caro Nebos Nostrana Kronzeuge Arabeske Ankertrosse

1. CENTENNIAL (IRE) 9-0 £26,682 gr c by Dalakhani - Lurina (Lure) O-M O’Flynn B-W Lazy T Ltd TR-JHM Gosden 2. Whistledownwind (GB) 9-0 £10,114 b c by Danehill Dancer - Mountain Ash (Dominion) O-Mrs Susan Roy B-Paramount Bloodstock TR-PW Chapple-Hyam 3. Feared In Flight (IRE) 9-0 £5,062 b c by Hawk Wing - Solar Crystal (Alzao) O-J Hanson, Cavendish Inv Ltd, A Patrick B-TW Bloodstock Ltd TR-BW Hills Margins Neck, 1.25. Time 2:09.61 (slow 2.61).

Going Good.

Dschingis Khan

Age 3-5

Starts 10

Wins 4

Places 5

Earned £308,732

Konigsstuhl

Konigskronung MONSUN br 90

Sire: SADLER’S WELLS. Sire of 291 SW. In 2008 ASK Rainbow Quest G3, GAGNOA Darshaan G3, ROYAL AND REGAL Smarten G3.

1st Dam: Request by Rainbow Quest. Dam of 1 winner: 2003: ASK (c Sadler’s Wells) 4 wins at 3 to 5, Cumberland Lodge S G3, Ormonde S G3, Gordon Richards S G3, 2nd Pattison Canadian International S G1.

2005: Kensington Oval (c Sadler’s Wells) unraced.

2007: (f Dr Fong) 2nd Dam: Highbrow by Shirley Heights. 1 win at 2, 2nd Ribblesdale S G2. Dam of BLUEPRINT (c Generous: Jockey Club S G2, San Luis Rey H G2, Sunset H G2), FAIRY GODMOTHER (f Fairy King: Ballymacoll Stud S LR) Broodmare Sire: RAINBOW QUEST. Sire of the dams of 85 Stakes winners. In 2008 - ASK Sadler’s Wells G3, AXXOS Monsun G3.

The Sadler’s Wells/Rainbow Quest cross has produced: ASK G1, POWERSCOURT G1, DAY FLIGHT G2, ESSEX LR, Tycoon G1.

ASK b h 2003

35 DR BUSCH-MEMORIAL G3

Nearco Lady Angela Native Dancer Natalma Almahmoud Hail To Reason Bold Reason Lalun Forli Special Thong Red God Blushing Groom Runaway Bride Herbager I Will Follow Where You Lead Mill Reef Shirley Heights Hardiemma Queen’s Hussar Highclere Highlight Nearctic

Northern Dancer

KREFELD. April 20. 3yo. 1700m.

1. LIANG KAY (GER) 9-2 £23,529 b c by Dai Jin - Linton Bay (Funambule) O-Stall Emina B-Frau Ina E Zimmermann TR-U Ostmann 2. Precious Boy (GER) 9-2 £7,353 b c by Big Shuffle - Pretty Su (Surumu) O/B-Gestut Park Wiedingen TR-W Hickst 3. Let’s Rock (GER) 9-2 £2,206 b c by Dashing Blade - Les Intimes (Be My Guest) O-W Busch B-Gestut Brummerhof TR-P Rau Margins Short head, 0.75. Time 1:48.00. Going Soft.

37 PREMIO AMBROSIANO G3

SADLER’S WELLS b 81 Fairy Bridge

Rainbow Quest REQUEST b 97 Highbrow

Mosella

Rainbow Quest ACERBIS b 94 Aragosta

38 BET365 MILE S G2 SANDOWN PARK. April 26. 4yo+. 8f 14yds.

1. MAJOR CADEAUX (GB) 4 9-0 £45,416 ch c by Cadeaux Genereux - Maine Lobster (Woodman) O-NA Woodcock, AC Pickford, D Mort B-Earl Richard Evain TR-R Hannon 2. Rob Roy (USA) 6 9-0 £17,216 bbr h by Lear Fan - Camanoe (Gone West) O-P Newton B-Millsec Ltd TR-Sir Michael Stoute 3. Metropolitan Man (GB) 5 9-0 £8,616 ch h by Dr Fong - Preceder (Polish Precedent) O-The Metropolitans B-Mrs G Slater TR-DM Simcock Margins 0.75, short head. Time 1:43.23 (slow 2.23).

Going Good.

Age 2-4

Starts 8

Wins 3

Places 3

Earned £126,112

Age 2-3

Starts 5

Wins 3

1st Dam: Maine Lobster by Woodman. Dam of 1 winner: 2003: Konstantin Light (c Fantastic Light) 2004: MAJOR CADEAUX (c Cadeaux Genereux) Sold 37,000gns foal at TADEF, 43,903gns yearling at GOOY1. 3 wins at 2 to 4, Bet365 Mile G2, Greenham S G3, 2nd Coventry S

Earned £53,823

Sire: DALAKHANI. Sire of 1 Stakes winner. In 2008 - CENTENNIAL Lure G3.

1st Dam: Lurina by Lure. Winner at 3, 3rd Prix de Sandringham G2. Dam of 1 winner: 2003: Moohimm (c Sadler’s Wells) 2004: Zayyir (c Indian Ridge) ran a few times.

2005: CENTENNIAL (c Dalakhani) Sold 360,000gns yearling at TADEY. 3 wins at 2 and 3, Classic Trial G3, 2nd Prix Thomas Bryon G3.

2006: (f Pivotal) 2007: (f Pivotal) 2nd Dam: Alligatrix by Alleged. 1 win at 2, 3rd Hoover Fillies’ Mile G3. Dam of CROCO ROUGE (c Rainbow Quest: Prix d’Ispahan G1, Prix Lupin G1, 2nd Prix du Jockey Club G1), PERSIANALLI (c Persian Bold: Relaunch S LR, 3rd La Jolla S G3, Will Rogers H G3), ALIDIVA (f Chief Singer: Oak Tree S LR). Grandam of TAIPAN, ALI-ROYAL, OONAGH MACCOOL, SLEEPYTIME. Broodmare Sire: LURE. Sire of the dams of 3 Stakes winners. In 2008 - CENTENNIAL Dalakhani G3, SOARESSA Twining LR. CENTENNIAL gr c 2005 Shirley Heights Darshaan Delsy DALAKHANI gr 2000

Sire: CADEAUX GENEREUX. Sire of 60 SW. In 2008 - MAJOR CADEAUX Woodman G2.

Places 2

Miswaki Daltawa Damana Danzig Lure Endear LURINA b 98 Alleged Alligatrix Shore

Mill Reef Hardiemma Abdos Kelty Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Crystal Palace Denia Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Alydar Chappaquiddick Hoist The Flag Princess Pout Round Table Delta

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40 PREMIO CARLO CHIESA G3 ROME. April 27. 3yo+f&m. 1200m.

1. LOVE INTRIGUE (IRE) 3 8-5 £22,780 b f by Marju - Love Contest (Love The Groom) O-Scuderia Alex B-Loscot SRL TR-A Peraino 2. Eastern Romance (GB) 3 8-5 £10,023 b f by Oasis Dream - Ocean Grove (Fairy King) O-TG and Mrs ME Holdcroft B-Bearstone Stud TR-KA Ryan 3. Docksil (GB) 4 9-2 £5,466 b f by Docksider - Simil (Apalachee) O-Societa Allevamento Besnate B-Curtasse SNC TR-B Grizzetti Margins 0.5, 1. Time 1:09.20. Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 13

Wins 4

Places 6

Earned £48,739

Sire: MARJU. Sire of 44 Stakes winners. In 2008 LOVE INTRIGUE Love The Groom G3, MARJALINA Linamix G3, COMIC STRIP Be My Chief LR, ONLY SHE CAN Rory’s Jester LR. 1st Dam: Love Contest by Love The Groom. 2 wins at 3, 3rd Premio Verziere LR. Dam of 1 winner: 2003: Contested (f Barathea) 2004: Intreccio (c Keltos) 2005: LOVE INTRIGUE (f Marju) Sold 7,881gns yearling at SGSEP. 4 wins at 2 and 3 in Italy, Premio Carlo Chiesa G3, Premio Vittorio Crespi LR, 3rd Premio Eupili LR. 2006: Storm Cloud (f Storming Home) unraced to date.

2007: Cool Contest (f One Cool Cat)

2001: REEFSCAPE (c Linamix). 5 wins at 3 and 4 in France, P.du Cadran Casino les Princes Barriere G1, 2nd Gold Cup G1, Prix Ganay G1, Prix Royal-Oak G1, 3rd Vodafone Coronation Cup G1.

2002: Diamond Reef (f Alzao) ran on the flat in France. Broodmare.

2003: Grand Coral (f Grand Lodge) unraced.

2004: COASTAL PATH (c Halling). 5 wins at 3 and 4 in France, Prix Hubert de Chaudenay G2, Prix de Barbeville G3, Prix de Lutece G3.

2005: Crystal Reef (f King’s Best) unraced to date.

2006: Prankster (c Rock of Gibraltar) unraced.

2nd Dam: BAHAMIAN by Mill Reef. 1 win at 3 Oaks Trial S LR, 2nd Prix de Pomone G2. Dam of WEMYSS BIGHT (f Dancing Brave: Irish Oaks G1, 2nd Prix Vermeille G1), VACAMONTE (c Caerleon: Superlative S LR), New Abbey (f Sadler’s Wells: 2nd Princess Royal S G3), Trellis Bay (f Sadler’s Wells: 2nd Stubbs Rated S LR). Grandam of BEAT HOLLOW, OASIS DREAM, ZENDA, BELLAMY CAY, YARALINO, SPANISH DON. Broodmare Sire: SADLER’S WELLS. Sire of the dams of 177 Stakes winners. In 2008 - COASTAL PATH Halling G3, CAMPANOLOGIST Kingmambo LR, ELUSIVE DREAM Rainbow Quest LR. The Halling/Sadler’s Wells cross has produced: COASTAL PATH G2, ART EYES G3.

COASTAL PATH b c 2004 Diesis HALLING ch 91

2nd Dam: ROYAL CONTEST by Lord Avie. 3 wins at 2 and 3 in Italy. Dam of COUNTERPLOT (f Last Tycoon: Criterium Femminile LR), Strategic Tactics (f Bigstone: 2nd Premio Memorial Mario Incisa G3), Love Contest (f Love The Groom, see above).

Grandam of Tenson.

Dance Machine

Sadler’s Wells CORALINE b 94

Broodmare Sire: LOVE THE GROOM. Sire of the dams of 6 Stakes winners. In 2008 - LOVE INTRIGUE Marju G3.

Bahamian

Atan Sharpen Up Rocchetta Reliance II Doubly Sure Soft Angels Nijinsky Green Dancer Green Valley Pontifex Never A Lady Camogie Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special Never Bend Mill Reef Milan Mill Busted Sorbus Censorship

LOVE INTRIGUE b f 2005 Northern Dancer Sex Appeal Mill Reef Mill Princess Irish Lass II Round Table Artaius Stylish Pattern Welsh Pageant Welsh Flame Electric Flash Red God Blushing Groom Runaway Bride Lanyon Nell’s Briquette Double’s Nell Lord Gaylord Lord Avie Avie Reform Combattente Tenzone Try My Best Last Tycoon MARJU br 88 Flame of Tara

Love The Groom LOVE CONTEST b 97 Royal Contest

42 PRIX GANAY G1 LONGCHAMP. April 27. 4yo+. 2100m.

1. DUKE OF MARMALADE (IRE) 4 9-2 £126,044 b c by Danehill - Love Me True (Kingmambo) O-Mrs John Magnier, M Tabor B-Southern Bloodstock TR-AP O’Brien 2. Saddex (GB) 5 9-2 £50,426 b h by Sadler’s Wells - Remote Romance (Irish River) O-Stall Avena B-The Niarchos Family TR-P Rau 3. Sageburg (IRE) 4 9-2 £25,213 bbr c by Johannesburg - Sage Et Jolie (Linamix) O-HH The Aga Khan B-SNC Lagardere Elevage TR-A Fabre Margins 0.5, 2. Time 2:08.30 (fast 1.70). Going Soft.

DUKE OF MARMALADE b c 2004 Northern Dancer Danzig Pas de Nom DANEHILL b 86 His Majesty Razyana Spring Adieu Mr Prospector Kingmambo Miesque LOVE ME TRUE ch 98 Alydar Lassie’s Lady Lassie Dear

Nearctic Natalma Admiral’s Voyage Petitioner Ribot Flower Bowl Buckpasser Natalma Raise A Native Gold Digger Nureyev Pasadoble Raise A Native Sweet Tooth Buckpasser Gay Missile

When a yearling filly sells for more than $1 million, you can be fairly sure that she hasn’t been bought purely as a racing prospect. These seven-figure fillies generally have the potential to excel as broodmares, no matter what they achieve on the track. Take Love Me True as an example. Racing for Sue Magnier, the daughter of Kingmambo managed to win only one of her 15 starts – a mile maiden at Naas. Consequently, she repaid less than £20,000 towards the $1,350,000 she’d cost at Saratoga.

Love Me True’s owners had every reason for thinking that the filly would balance the books as soon as she retired to stud. Not only is she a daughter of a leading Classic sire, but she also comes from the highly sought-after Lassie Dear family, her dam Lassie’s Lady being a useful daughter of the famous blue hen. Consequently, Love Me True has been given every chance, her first five foals being by Danehill (two), Sadler’s Wells and Storm Cat (two). Her second Danehill foal, Duke Of Marmalade, looks set for a very rewarding 2008, judging by his Prix Ganay victory.

Duke Of Marmalade will eventually be much in demand as a stallion, as his female line has produced the likes of A P Indy, Summer Squall, Lemon Drop Kid, Al Mufti and Statue Of Liberty.

Saint Patrick LR, 2nd Brigadier Gerard S G3.

1997: Seule A Paris (f Pistolet Bleu). Dam of Here She Comes (f Take Risks: 2nd Prix de la Cochere LR, Prix de Lieurey).

1998: ALBULA (f Anabaa) Winner at 3 in France.

1999: Bithia (f Sillery) ran on the flat in Italy.

2000: ORDINARY HERO (c Anabaa) 5 wins at 3 and 5 in Norway.

2001: Hoops And Blades (c Peintre Celebre) ran a few times.

2002: Maternelle (f Machiavellian) ran on the flat in France. Broodmare.

2003: MAESTA (c Starborough) 3 wins in France.

2005: BELLE ALLURE (f Numerous) Sold 29,556gns yearling at AFAUG. 2 wins at 2 and 3, Prix Vanteaux G3.

2006: Jukebox Jury (c Montjeu) unraced to date.

2007: (c High Chaparral) 2nd Dam: Feerie Boreale by Irish River. 1 win at 2 in France, 2nd Prix d’Aumale G3, 3rd Prix Marcel Boussac G1. Dam of TAKE OFF TIME (c Polish Precedent: Premio Carlo Porta Limited H LR).

Grandam of MATIN DE TEMPETE. Broodmare Sire: KENMARE. Sire of the dams of 65 Stakes winners. In 2008 - BELLE ALLURE Numerous G3, EMBLEM OF LIBERTY National Emblem G3, HERE DE ANGELS Dehere G3, PACO JACK Soviet Star LR. BELLE ALLURE ch f 2005 Raise A Native Mr Prospector Gold Digger NUMEROUS b 91 Nijinsky Number Special Kalamoun Kenmare Belle of Ireland MARE AUX FEES gr 88 Irish River Feerie Boreale Skelda

Native Dancer Raise You Nashua Sequence Northern Dancer Flaming Page Forli Thong Zeddaan Khairunissa Milesian Belle of The Ball Riverman Irish Star La Varende Fidra

44 GERLING-PREIS G2 COLOGNE. April 27. 4yo+. 2400m.

1. ORIENTAL TIGER (GER) 5 8-11 £29,412 b h by Tiger Hill - Oriental Flower (Big Shuffle) O/B-Gestut Auenquelle TR-U Ostmann 2. Dickens (GER) 5 8-11 £11,029 bbr h by Kallisto - Desidera (Shaadi) O/B-Gestut Rottgen TR-H Blume 3. Poseidon Adventure (IRE) 5 8-11 £4,412 b h by Sadler’s Wells - Fanny Cerrito (Gulch) O-Stall Salzburg B-Tower Bloodstock TR-W Figge Margins 2, neck. Time 2:26.44 Going Soft.

See race 20 for pedigree details

43 PRIX VANTEAUX G3 Age 2-4

41 PRIX DE BARBEVILLE G3

Starts 10

Wins 2

Places 8

Earned £414,331

LONGCHAMP. April 27. 4yo+. 3100m.

1. COASTAL PATH (GB) 4 9-2 £29,412 b c by Halling - Coraline (Sadler’s Wells) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-A Fabre 2. Orion Star (FR) 6 8-10 £11,765 gr g by Sternkoenig - Okocha (Platini) O-H Rapp B-Haras de Chevotel TR-H-A Pantall 3. Ponte Tresa (FR) 5 8-10 £8,824 gr m by Sicyos - Ponte Brolla (Highest Honor) O-Mme E Hilger B-P Hilger TR-Y de Nicolay Margins 1.5, 2. Time 3:17.80 (fast 0.70). Going Soft.

Age 3-4

Starts 5

Wins 5

Places 0

Earned £123,061

Sire: HALLING. Sire of 39 Stakes winners. In 2008 COASTAL PATH Sadler’s Wells G3, HATTAN Shaadi G3, AIGLE D’OR Alzao LR. 1st Dam: CORALINE by Sadler’s Wells. Winner at 3 in France. Own sister to New Abbey and Trellis Bay. Dam of 4 winners: 1999: MARTALINE (c Linamix) 5 wins at 2 to 5 in France, Prix Maurice de Nieuil G2. Sire.

2000: Clear Thinking (g Rainbow Quest) 3 wins, 2nd Prix Berteux G3, 3rd Prix Hubert de Chaudenay G2, Prix Vicomtesse Vigier G2, Prix Maurice de Nieuil G2.

Sire: DANEHILL. Sire of 343 Stakes winners. In 2008 - DUKE OF MARMALADE Kingmambo G1, SHINZIG Straight Strike G1, CHAMPS ELYSEES Kahyasi G2, COSTUME Nureyev G2, OFFENBACH Shirley Heights G3.

1st Dam: Love Me True by Kingmambo. Winner at 3, 3rd Killavullan S G3. Own sister to Black Mambo.

Dam of 2 winners: 2003: Mystification (c Danehill) unraced.

2004: DUKE OF MARMALADE (c Danehill) Prix Ganay G1, 2nd Irish Champion S G1, St James’s Palace S G1, Vintage S G2, 3rd Queen Elizabeth II S G1.

2005: SOINLOVEWITHYOU (f Sadler’s Wells) Winner at 2.

2006: (c Storm Cat) 2007: (f Storm Cat) 2nd Dam: Lassie’s Lady by Alydar. 2 wins at 3 and 4 in USA, 3rd Sonnenburg H. Dam of BITE THE BULLET (c Spectacular Bid: Sanford S G2), SHUAILAAN (c Roberto: Winter Hill S LR).

Broodmare Sire: KINGMAMBO. Sire of the dams of 15 SW. In 2008 - DUKE OF MARMALADE Danehill G1, COLORADO PARTS Scatmandu LR.

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45 PRIX ALLEZ FRANCE G3 LONGCHAMP. April 27. 3yof. 1850m.

1. BELLE ALLURE (IRE) 9-0 £29,412 ch f by Numerous - Mare Aux Fees (Kenmare) O-Ronchalon Racing (UK) Ltd B-Paul Nataf TR-R Prichard-Gordon 2. Wait And See (FR) 9-0 £11,765 b f by Montjeu - Dareen (Rahy) O-Vidal Family B-G & Mme G Forien TR-R Collet 3. Proviso (GB) 9-0 £8,824 b f by Dansili - Binche (Woodman) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-A Fabre Margins 1.5, 2. Time 1:54.30 (slow 1.30).

Going Soft.

Age 2-3

Starts 5

Wins 2

Places 1

Earned £41,912

Sire: NUMEROUS. Sire of 43 Stakes winners. In 2008 - BELLE ALLURE Kenmare G3.

1st Dam: MARE AUX FEES by Kenmare. Winner at 3 in France. Dam of 7 winners: 1993: PIERROT SOLAIRE (c Dancing Spree) 10 wins in Italy, Criterium Partenopeo LR. 1994: Mare Aux Tanches (f Lead On Time) unraced.

1995: CLAIR DE MER (c Dancing Spree) 5 wins in Italy.

1996: THE MASK (c Saint Estephe) 4 wins, Prix de

CHANTILLY. April 29. 4yo+f&m. 2000m.

1. FAIR BREEZE (GER) 5 9-0 £29,412 bbr m by Silvano - Fairwind (Andrang) O-Stall Margarethe B-Frau Margit Wetzel TR-Mario Hofer 2. Claire Et Bleu (FR) 4 8-7 £11,765 gr f by Anabaa Blue - Clarte du Soir (Kaldoun) O-Mme G de Chatelperron B-G de Chatelperron TR-Mme M Bollack-Badel 3. Believe Me (IRE) 4 8-9 £8,824 ch f by In The Wings - Golden Wings (Devil’s Bag) O-M Parrish B-Skymarc Farm TR-J-M Beguigne Margins 4, short neck. Time 2:09.00 (slow 7.00).

Going Very Soft.

Age 2-5

Starts 19

Wins 6

Places 10

Earned £142,620

Sire: SILVANO. Sire of 7 Stakes winners. In 2008 KINGS GAMBIT Al Mufti G1, PROUDINSKY Dashing Blade G2, FAIR BREEZE Andrang G3, ANIMATED Harry Hotspur LR. 1st Dam: FAIRWIND by Andrang. 8 wins at 3 to 7 in Germany. Dam of 2 winners: 2000: Fortano (c Surako) ran on the flat in Germany.

2002: FORETTO (g Lavirco) Winner of a NH Flat race at 5.

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Caulfield on Natagora: “Her sire, Divine Light, was a close second in the Group 1 Takamatsunomiya Kinen, in which he defeated Agnes World and Black Hawk” (pg 82) 2003: FAIR BREEZE (f Silvano) 6 wins at 3 to 5 in France, Germany, Prix Allez France G3, Grosser Preis der Helaba Hessen Pokal G3, Prix Solitude LR, Preis der Nurnberger Nereide-Rennen LR, Engels & Volkers Int Herbst Steher Preis LR, 2nd Premio Lydia Tesio - Shadwell G1, Premio Paolo Mezzanotte G3, Frankfurter der Mehl Muhlens Stiftung G3, 3rd Fahrhofer Stutenpreis G3.

2005: Frida (f Terre de L’Home) in training.

2007: Fair Storm (c Konigstiger) Broodmare Sire: ANDRANG. Sire of the dams of 1 Stakes winner. In 2008 - FAIR BREEZE Silvano G3.

FAIR BREEZE b/br m 2003 Niniski Lomitas La Colorada SILVANO b 96 Beau’s Eagle Spirit of Eagles Big Spirit Amboss Andrang Anonyma FAIRWIND b 91 Athenagoras Fairness Fleur

Nijinsky Virginia Hills Surumu La Dorada Golden Eagle Beaufield Big Spruce Beautiful Spirit Prodomo Alpenblume Straight Deal Alive-O Nasram II Avenida Lombard Fredericia

46 SAGARO S G3 ASCOT. April 30. 4yo+. 16f.

1. SHIPMASTER (GB) 5 9-1 £28,385 b g by Slip Anchor - Cover Look (Fort Wood) O-Nigel Bunter B-Newsells Park Stud TR-A King 2. Peppertree Lane (IRE) 5 9-4 £10,760 ch h by Peintre Celebre - Salonrolle (Tirol) O-PD Savill B-Gestut Wittekindshof TR-M Johnston 3. Distinction (IRE) 9 9-1 £5,385 b g by Danehill - Ivy Leaf (Nureyev) O-Highclere Thoroughbred Racing Ltd B-Orpendale, Minch Bloodstock TR-Sir Michael Stoute Margins Short head, 5. Time 3:42.22 (slow 20.22).

Going Soft.

47 PRIX CLEOPATRE G3 SAINT-CLOUD. May 1. 3yof. 2100m.

1. LEO’S STARLET (IRE) 8-9 £29,412 ch f by Galileo - Premiere Creation (Green Tune) O-W-J Preston B-Prestonwood Farm TR-A de Royer-Dupre 2. Antiquities (GB) 8-9 £11,765 ch f by Kaldounevees - Historian (Pennekamp) O-Sheikh Mohammed B-Darley TR-A Fabre 3. Sanjida (IRE) 8-9 £8,824 b f by Polish Precedent - Sanariya (Darshaan) O-HH The Aga Khan B-HH The Aga Khan’s Studs SC TR-A de Royer-Dupre

Starts 3

Wins 3

Places 0

Starts 11

Wins 2

Places 4

2nd Dam: Allwaki by Miswaki. unraced. Dam of Premiere Creation (f Green Tune, see above).

Grandam of First Charm.

Broodmare Sire: GREEN TUNE. Sire of the dams of 4 Stakes winners. In 2008 - LEO’S STARLET Galileo G3.

LEO’S STARLET ch f 2005 Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge GALILEO b 98 Miswaki

Sire: SLIP ANCHOR. Sire of 29 Stakes winners. In 2008 - SHIPMASTER Fort Wood G3.

1st Dam: COVER LOOK by Fort Wood. 5 wins in South Africa, South African Fillies Classic G2, Tony Millard Juvenile S G2, 2nd Cape of Good Hope Paddock S G1, 3rd Spring Fillies & Mares Challenge G1. Dam of 1 winner: 2003: SHIPMASTER (g Slip Anchor) Sold 44,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 2 wins at 3 and 5, Sagaro S G3, 2nd Further Flight S LR. 2004: Cunning Runner (c Robellino) unplaced.

2005: City Look (f Vettori) 2006: Paquerettza (f Dr Fong) 2007: (c Green Tune) 2nd Dam: FANCIFUL by Ringaro. 7 wins in South Africa Xerox Copier Fillies & Mares Challenge G1, Bar Valley Classic G1, 4th Richelieu Guineas G1.

Dam of COVER LOOK (f Fort Wood, see above).

Grandam of ORANGE ALERT, Winter Fever.

Broodmare Sire: FORT WOOD. Sire of the dams of 7 Stakes winners. In 2008 - SHIPMASTER Slip Anchor G3, MOON STORM Strike Smartly LR, ROYAL VINTAGE Rich Man’s Gold LR. SHIPMASTER b g 2003 Mill Reef Shirley Heights Hardiemma SLIP ANCHOR b 82 Birkhahn Sayonara Suleika Sadler’s Wells Fort Wood Fall Aspen COVER LOOK b 96 Ringaro Fanciful Imaginada

Never Bend Milan Mill Hardicanute Grand Cross Alchimist Bramouse Ticino Schwarzblaurot Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Pretense Change Water Caro Guanajibena Good Manners Infundia

Earned £47,169

1st Dam: Premiere Creation by Green Tune. 2 wins at 3 and 4 in France, USA, 2nd Prix Chloe G3, 3rd Del Mar Oaks G1. Dam of 2 winners: 2003: Mandola (c Rahy) unraced.

2004: ANABAA’S CREATION (f Anabaa) 2 wins at 2 in France, Prix Isonomy LR, 3rd Montjeu Coolmore Prix Saint-Alary G1.

2005: LEO’S STARLET (f Galileo) 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix Cleopatre G3.

2007: (c Rakti)

Earned £40,114

Urban Sea Allegretta Green Dancer Green Tune Soundings PREMIERE CREATION ch 97 Miswaki Allwaki Alloy

Broodmare Sire: LEAD ON TIME. Sire of the dams of 7 SW. In 2008 - GRIS DE GRIS Slickly G2.

Bellypha Miss Carina Linamix Breton Lunadix Lutine SLICKLY gr 96 Mr Prospector Conquistador Cielo K D Princess Slipstream Queen Explodent Country Queen Carrie’s Rough Northern Dancer Nureyev Special Lead On Time Lorenzaccio Alathea Vive La Reine DEESSE GRISE gr 94 Dancer’s Image Godswalk Kate’s Intent Grey Goddess Busted Thiella Seaswan Mendez

Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 26 Stakes winners. In 2008 - GALLANT TESS Diesis G2, LEO’S STARLET Green Tune G3, CIMA DE TRIOMPHE Danehill LR, INCANTO DREAM Nureyev LR, MISS GALILEI Danehill LR, CELESTIAL HALO High Top LR.

Northern Dancer

Age 2-5

2nd Dam: GREY GODDESS by Godswalk.

Champion older miler in Ireland in 1987. 5 wins at 3 and 4, Gladness S G3, Matron S G3, 4th Forte Mile G2. Dam of Alost (g Highest Honor: 2nd Derby du Languedoc LR, 3rd Red Smith H G2). Grandam of PIPALONG, OUT OF AFRICA, China Eyes.

GRIS DE GRIS gr c 2004

Margins 0.75, 3. Time 2:13.60 (slow 4.30).

Going Very soft.

Age 2-3

Grand Prix de la Riviera Cote d’Azur LR, 2nd Prix Edmond Blanc G3, Prix Aymeri de Mauleon LR, 3rd Prix Montenica LR. 2005: GIRALDINA (f Xaar) Winner at 3 in France.

2006: Frere Bai (c Slickly) unraced to date.

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Lombard Anatevka Nijinsky Green Valley Mr Prospector Ocean’s Answer Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Pharly Alea II

48 PRIX DU MUGUET G2 SAINT-CLOUD. May 1. 4yo+. 1600m.

1. GRIS DE GRIS (IRE) 4 8-11 £54,485 gr c by Slickly - Deesse Grise (Lead On Time) O-JC Seroul B-JC Seroul TR-J-M Capitte 2. Turfrose (GER) 4 9-0 £21,029 b f by Big Shuffle - Turfquelle (Shaadi) O-Teruya Yoshida B-Gestut Auenquelle TR-A Fabre 3. Spirito Del Vento (FR) 5 9-0 £10,037 b g by Indian Lodge - Heavenly Song (Machiavellian) O-L Ciampi B-Haras des Sablonnets TR-J-M Beguigne Margins 2, neck. Time 1:40.60 (slow 2.60).

Going Very soft.

49 2,000 GUINEAS S G1 NEWMARKET. May 3. 3yoc&f. 8f.

1. HENRYTHENAVIGATOR (USA) 9-0 £212,888 bbr c by Kingmambo - Sequoyah (Sadler’s Wells) O-Mrs John Magnier B-Western Bloodstock TR-AP O’Brien 2. New Approach (IRE) 9-0 £80,700 ch c by Galileo - Park Express (Ahonoora) O-HRH Princess Haya Of Jordan B-Lodge Park Stud TR-JS Bolger 3. Stubbs Art (IRE) 9-0 £40,388 ch c by Hawk Wing - Rich Dancer (Halling) O-Matthew Green B-Grenane House Stud, S Hillen, S Graham TR-DRC Elsworth Margins Nose, 4. Time 1:39.14 (slow 3.14).

Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 5

Wins 3

Places 2

Earned £312,769

Sire: KINGMAMBO. Sire of 69 Stakes winners. In 2008 - ARCHIPENKO Nijinsky G1, HENRYTHENAVIGATOR Sadler’s Wells G1, CAMPANOLOGIST Sadler’s Wells LR, FARIDAT Sunday Silence LR, SOVEREIGN DUTY Nijinsky LR. 1st Dam: SEQUOYAH by Sadler’s Wells. 2 wins at 2, Moyglare Stud S G1. Own sister to LISTEN. Dam of 3 winners: 2003: QUEEN CLEOPATRA (f Kingmambo) Winner at 3, 1000 Guineas Trial G3, 3rd Irish 1000 Guineas G1, Prix de Diane G1.

2004: ABIDE WITH ME (c Danehill) Winner at 2.

2005: HENRYTHENAVIGATOR (c Kingmambo) 3 wins at 2 and 3, 2000 Guineas G1, Coventry S G2, 2nd Phoenix S G1, 3rd Futurity G2.

2007: (c Kingmambo) 2nd Dam: BRIGID by Irish River. 1 win at 3 in France. Own sister to OR VISION and Litani River.

Dam of SEQUOYAH (f Sadler’s Wells, see above), LISTEN (f Sadler’s Wells: Meon Valley Stud Fillies’ Mile S G1, 2nd Moyglare Stud S G1), OYSTER CATCHER (f Bluebird: Belgrave S LR, 3rd Coolmore Home of Champions Concorde S G3). Grandam of ABSOLUTELYFABULOUS.

Sire: SLICKLY. Sire of 2 Stakes winners. In 2008 GRIS DE GRIS Lead On Time G2, GRIS TENDRE Mujadil LR.

Broodmare Sire: SADLER’S WELLS. Sire of the dams of 179 Stakes winners. In 2008 - HENRYTHENAVIGATOR Kingmambo G1, COASTAL PATH Halling G3, CAMPANOLOGIST Kingmambo LR, CHINESE WHITE Dalakhani LR, SERETH Monsun LR, ELUSIVE DREAM Rainbow Quest LR.

1st Dam: DEESSE GRISE by Lead On Time. 10 wins at 2 to 6 in France. Dam of 3 winners: 2002: EFISIA (f Efisio) 6 wins at 3 to 6 in France.

2003: Taulane (f Vettori) 2004: GRIS DE GRIS (c Slickly) 6 wins at 2 to 4 in France, Prix du Muguet G2, Prix de Pontarme LR, Prix Altipan LR, Prix de la Californie LR,

The Kingmambo/Sadler’s Wells cross has produced: DIVINE PROPORTIONS G1, EL CONDOR PASA G1, HENRYTHENAVIGATOR G1, QUEEN CLEOPATRA G1, THEWAYYOUARE G1, VIRGINIA WATERS G1, AKAREM G3, CAMPANOLOGIST LR, AMBOBO LR, Ershaad G1, Shahin G2, Indigo Myth LR, Moon Dazzle LR, Multazem LR.

Age 2-4

Starts 17

Wins 6

Places 7

Earned £174,020

HENRYTHENAVIGATOR b/br c 2005 Native Dancer Raise You Nashua Gold Digger Sequence Northern Dancer Nureyev Special Prove Out Pasadoble Santa Quilla Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special Riverman Irish River Irish Star Raise A Native Luv Luvin’ Ringing Bells Raise A Native Mr Prospector KINGMAMBO b 90 Miesque

Sadler’s Wells SEQUOYAH b 98 Brigid

A survey of Britain’s Classics since the start of the millennium predictably reveals that the most prolific source of winners is Sadler’s Wells, with seven.

However, his nearest rival isn’t Danehill or Montjeu, but the American-based Kingmambo, who notched up his sixth British Classic success when Henrythenavigator snatched victory from New Approach in the 2,000 Guineas.

Kingmambo owed his previous Classic triumphs to King’s Best, Russian Rhythm, Rule Of Law, Virginia Waters and Light Shift, and his Classic influence doesn’t stop there. He is also responsible for the French Classic winners Bluemamba and Divine Proportions, the Belmont Stakes hero Lemon Drop Kid and the Japanese Derby winner King Kamehameha.

Henrythenavigator could be described as bred for Classic success, as his pedigree combines Kingmambo and Sadler’s Wells – as do those of Divine Proportions, Virginia Waters and El Condor Pasa.

Another name which crops up on the dam’s side of several of Kingmambo’s Group 1 winners is Never Bend and he’s also there in Henrythenavigator’s pedigree, as the colt’s second dam, Brigid, is by Never Bend’s grandson Irish River.

Brigid has the distinction of having produced a pair of Group 1winning juvenile fillies to Sadler’s Wells, one being Listen and the other being Henrythenavigator’s dam, Sequoyah.

Sequoyah’s previous mating to Kingmambo resulted in Queen Cleopatra. Brigid wasn’t as talented as her sister Or Vision, but she is now only one Group 1 winner behind Or Vision, who produced Saffron Walden and Insight to Sadler’s Wells, plus Dolphin Street to Bluebird.

50 DAHLIA S G3 NEWMARKET. May 3. 4yo+f&m. 9f.

1. HEAVEN SENT (GB) 5 8-12 £28,385 ch m by Pivotal - Heavenly Ray (Rahy) O-Cheveley Park Stud B-Cheveley Park Stud TR-Sir Michael Stoute 2. Harvest Queen (IRE) 5 8-12 £10,760 ch m by Spinning World - Royal Bounty (Generous) O-Bakewell Bloodstock B-Bakewell Bloodstock TR-PJ Makin 3. Barshiba (IRE) 4 8-12 £5,385 ch f by Barathea - Dashiba (Dashing Blade) O-JC Smith B-Littleton Stud TR-DRC Elsworth

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European Pattern/North American Grade Ones GETAWAY b h 2003

Margins 3, 0.75. Time 1:55.00 (slow 6.00).

Going Good.

Konigsstuhl

Age 2-5

Starts 17

Wins 5

Places 8

Earned £142,063

MONSUN br 90 Mosella

Sire: PIVOTAL. Sire of 49 Stakes winners. In 2008 HEAVEN SENT Rahy G3, INFALLIBLE Cadeaux Genereux G3, IL WARRD Machiavellian LR, JAZZ JAM Rahy LR. 1st Dam: HEAVENLY RAY by Rahy. 2 wins at 3 and 4. Dam of 3 winners: 1999: MEGAHERTZ (f Pivotal) 14 wins at 2 to 6, Yellow Ribbon S G1, John C Mabee H G1.

2000: Lightsabre (f Polar Falcon). Broodmare.

2002: Red Heaven (f Benny The Dip) ran once.

2003: HEAVEN SENT (f Pivotal) Dahlia S G3, Snowdrop S LR, 2nd Ridgewood Pearl S G3, 3rd Summer Mile S G2, Joel S G3.

2004: HEAVENWARD (c Pivotal) Winner in Greece.

2005: Celeste (f Green Desert) unraced to date.

2006: (f Falbrav) 2007: Heavenly Dawn (f Pivotal) Broodmare Sire: RAHY. Sire of the dams of 45 SW. In 2008 - JALIL Storm Cat G2, RUTHERIENNE Pulpit G2, HEAVEN SENT Pivotal G3.

The Pivotal/Rahy cross has produced: MEGAHERTZ G1, HEAVEN SENT G2, JAZZ JAM LR. HEAVEN SENT ch m 2003 Northern Dancer Special Jefferson Marie d’Argonne Mohair Caro Cozzene Ride The Trails Bustino Stufida Zerbinetta Red God Blushing Groom Runaway Bride Halo Glorious Song Ballade Raise A Native Alydar Sweet Tooth Quack Plankton Gang Plank Nureyev Polar Falcon PIVOTAL ch 93 Fearless Revival

Rahy HEAVENLY RAY ch 94 Highest Truth

51 JOCKEY CLUB S G2 NEWMARKET. May 4. 4yo+. 12f.

1. GETAWAY (GER) 5 9-1 £51,093 b h by Monsun - Guernica (Unfuwain) O-Baron G Von Ullmann B-Baron G Von Ullmann TR-A Fabre 2. Sixties Icon (GB) 5 8-12 £19,368 b h by Galileo - Love Divine (Diesis) O-Mrs Susan Roy B-Lordship Stud TR-J Noseda 3. Galactic Star (GB) 5 8-12 £9,693 ch h by Galileo - Balisada (Kris) O-Saeed Suhail B-Hascombe And Valiant Studs TR-Sir Michael Stoute Margins 3.75, 0.5. Time 2:35.63 (slow 7.63).

Going Good to firm.

Age 3-5

Starts 10

Wins 6

Places 4

Tamerlane Donna Diana Tiepoletto Konigskronung Kronung Literat Surumu Surama Authi Monasia Monacensia Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Bustino Height of Fashion Highclere Never Bend Riverman River Lady Targowice Greenway Gracious Dschingis Khan

Earned £266,341

Unfuwain GUERNICA b 94 Greenvera

52 PALACE HOUSE S G3 NEWMARKET. May 4. 3yo+. 5f.

1. CAPTAIN GERRARD (IRE) 3 8-7 £28,385 b c by Oasis Dream - Delphinus (Soviet Star) O-RC Bond B-Alan Dargan TR-B Smart 2. Sakhee’s Secret (GB) 4 9-7 £10,760 ch c by Sakhee - Palace Street (Secreto) O-Miss B Swire B-Miss B Swire TR-H Morrison 3. Enticing (IRE) 4 8-10 £5,385 b f by Pivotal - Superstar Leo (College Chapel) O-Lael Stable B-Lael Stable TR-WJ Haggas Margins Neck, 1. Time 0.59.00 (slow 1.00).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-3

Starts 11

Wins 6

Places 4

1st Dam: DELPHINUS by Soviet Star. Winner at 3 in France. Dam of 4 winners: 1998: Glocca Morra (g Catrail) 4 wins at 4 and 5, 3rd Naas Sprint S LR, Abergwaun S LR. 2000: SATURN (g Marju) 4 wins at 2, 4 and 5 at home, Hong Kong, Queen Mother’s Memorial Cup LR, 2nd Prix Guillaume d’Ornano G2.

2002: SEDNA (f Priolo) 2 wins at 5.

2003: Ballivor (g Marju) unraced.

2005: CAPTAIN GERRARD (c Oasis Dream) Sold 85,000gns foal at TADEF, 130,000gns yearling at DNSLY. 6 wins at 2 and 3, Wilmott Dixon Cornwallis S G3, Stan James Palace House S G3, James Barr Harry Rosebery S LR, Julia Graves Roses S LR, 3rd Betfair Molecomb S G3.

2nd Dam: SCIMITARRA by Kris. 3 wins at 2 and 3 Sheraton Park Tower Lupe S LR. Broodmare Sire: SOVIET STAR. Sire of the dams of 20 Stakes winners. In 2008 - CAPTAIN GERRARD Oasis Dream G3, GROUP CAPTAIN Dr Fong LR. CAPTAIN GERRARD b c 2005 Danzig Foreign Courier OASIS DREAM b 2000

Sire: MONSUN. Sire of 61 SW. In 2008 - GETAWAY Unfuwain G2, AXXOS Rainbow Quest G3, ART MARTIAL Priolo LR, SERETH Sadler’s Wells LR. 1st Dam: Guernica by Unfuwain. Dam of 4 winners: 1999: GUADALUPE (f Monsun). 4 wins at 2 and 3, Oaks d’Italia G1, 2nd Yorkshire Oaks G1, Gran Premio del Jockey Club G1.

2000: Guadalquivir (c Midyan) 2001: GUADALAJARA (f Acatenango) 5 wins 4-5, G P de Lyon LR, 2nd Prix de Pomone G2.

2003: GETAWAY (c Monsun) 6 wins at 3 to 5, Jockey Club S G2, Prix Kergorlay G2, Prix de Lutece G3, 2nd Prix Gladiateur G3, 3rd Prix Hubert de Chaudenay G2.

2004: Guardia (f Monsun) Winner at 3, 3rd Japan Racing Association Trophy LR. 2nd Dam: Greenvera by Riverman. Dam of ROYAL REBEL (g Robellino: Ascot Gold Cup G1 (twice)).

Broodmare Sire: UNFUWAIN. Sire of the dams of 18 SW. In 2008 - GETAWAY Monsun G2.

The Monsun/Unfuwain cross has produced: GUADALUPE G1, GETAWAY G2, Guardia LR.

Dancing Brave Hope Bahamian Nureyev Soviet Star Veruschka DELPHINUS b 91 Kris Scimitarra Fanghorn

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Sir Ivor Courtly Dee Lyphard Navajo Princess Mill Reef Sorbus Northern Dancer Special Venture Marie d’Anjou Sharpen Up Doubly Sure Crocket Honeymoon House

53 1,000 GUINEAS S G1 NEWMARKET. May 4. 3yof. 8f.

1. NATAGORA (FR) 9-0 £212,888 gr f by Divine Light - Reinamixa (Linamix) O-Stefan Friborg B-B Gouin, G Duca TR-P Bary 2. Spacious (GB) 9-0 £80,700 b f by Nayef - Palatial (Green Desert) O-Cheveley Park Stud B-Cheveley Park Stud TR-JR Fanshawe 3. Saoirse Abu (USA) 9-0 £40,388 ch f by Mr Greeley - Out Too Late (Future Storm) O-Ennistown Stud B-White Cloud Bloodstock, O Trevino et al TR-JS Bolger

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Age 2-3

Starts 9

Wins 7

Places 2

Earned £498,758

Sire: DIVINE LIGHT. Sire of 1 Stakes winner. In 2008 - NATAGORA Linamix G1.

1st Dam: REINAMIXA by Linamix. Winner at 3 in France. Dam of 3 winners: 2000: SMILE DREAM (c Lyphard’s Wish) 9 wins at 2 to 7.

2001: SEL ET POIVRE (f Lyphard’s Wish) 4 wins over jumps at 3, 5 and 6 in France.

2003: Queen Dream (f Spadoun) 2005: NATAGORA (f Divine Light) Sold 19,704gns yearling at AFOCT. Champion 2yo filly in England. Cheveley Park S G1, 1000 Guineas G1, Prix Robert Papin G2, Prix du Bois G3, Prix La Fleche LR, Prix Imprudence LR, 2nd Prix Morny G1.

2006: Baila Morena (f Agnes Kamikaze) unraced.

2nd Dam: REINE MARGIE by Margouillat. 1 win in France. Dam of REINSTATE (c Kaldoun: Prix de Bonneval LR).

Broodmare Sire: LINAMIX. Sire of the dams of 30 Stakes winners. In 2008 - NATAGORA Divine Light G1, MARJALINA Marju G3.

NATAGORA gr f 2005

Earned £113,415

Sire: OASIS DREAM. Sire of 6 Stakes winners. In 2008 - CAPTAIN GERRARD Soviet Star G3.

Green Desert

Margins 0.5, 0.5. Time 1:38.99 (slow 2.99).

Going Good to firm.

Hail To Reason Cosmah Understanding Wishing Well Mountain Flower Northern Dancer Northern Taste Lady Victoria Marino Shadai Prima Night And Day Bellypha Mendez Miss Carina Breton Lunadix Lutine Diatome Margouillat Tita Mincio Reine des Sables Begrolles Halo

Sunday Silence DIVINE LIGHT b 95 Meld Sport

Linamix REINAMIXA gr 94 Reine Margie

Bolkonski mare who provided JeanLuc Lagardere with the Prix de Diane winner Resless Kara and the Group 3 winner Restiver.

Although Linamix’s stallion career has recently been blighted by fertility problems, his broodmare daughters are doing well. Natagora follows Clodivil and Valixir as their third Group 1 winner.

Coincidentally, Clodovil is the sire of Nahoodh, the filly who was so unlucky behind Natagora in the Guineas.

North American Grade Ones 54 WOOD MEMORIAL S G1 AQUEDUCT. April 5. 9f. Fast.

1. TALE OF EKATI (USA) 3 b c Tale of The Cat - Silence Beauty (Sunday Silence) O-Charles E Fipke B-Charles E Fipke TR-Barclay Tagg 2. War Pass (USA) 3 bbr c Cherokee Run - Vue (Mr Prospector) 3. Court Vision (USA) 3 bbr c Gulch - Weekend Storm (Storm Bird) TALE OF EKATI (USA) b c 2005 Storm Bird Storm Cat Terlingua TALE OF THE CAT bbr 94 Mr Prospector Yarn Narrate Halo Sunday Silence Wishing Well

The Turkish National Stud recruited Doyoun in 1998, before he was so ably represented by the likes of Daylami, Kalanisi and Manndar, and the Turks must now be pleased to have secured the services of Divine Light, before he was so ably represented by Natagora in the 1,000 Guineas.

Natagora has now won seven of her nine starts, the first of which came as early as May 1, and she has provided a reminder of the good old days by adding the Guineas to previous Group victories over five, five and a half and six furlongs.

Divine Light is a son of Sunday Silence, the Kentucky Derby winner who revolutionised Japan’s breeding industry. A winner of four races during a lengthy and varied career, Divine Light once finished a close second in the Group1 Takamatsunomiya Kinen, in which he defeated Agnes World and Black Hawk.

It isn’t hard to understand why the offer for Divine Light was accepted. He was rising 13 years of age and hadn’t been in great demand in France, Natagora being one of only eight foals in his first French crop, sired at a fee of €2,500. Natagora’s grey colour comes from her dam Reinamixa, a mile winner by that very good stallion Linamix. Her third dam, the smart Reine des Sables, produced Restless Girl, an unraced

SILENCE BEAUTY b 97 Nijinsky Maplejinsky Gold Beauty

Northern Dancer South Ocean Secretariat Crimson Saint Raise A Native Gold Digger Honest Pleasure State Hail To Reason Cosmah Understanding Mountain Flower Northern Dancer Flaming Page Mr Prospector Stick To Beauty

Speed, rather than stamina, was the hallmark of Tale Of The Cat’s career. His best victory came over seven furlongs in the Grade 2 King’s Bishop Stakes and he seemed to struggle a little over nine furlongs, when seeking the Grade 1 status one expects to find in a horse in whom a 50% stake was sold for $7.1 million.

This speed has also been apparent in Tale Of The Cat’s progeny.

None of his best winners has so far succeeded in winning a Graded race beyond nine furlongs and only three had managed to score over that distance prior to Tale Of Ekati’s victory in the Grade 1 Wood Memorial. However, one of Tale Of Ekati’s predecessors, Lion Heart, was second to Smarty Jones in the Kentucky Derby. Tale Of Ekati has prospects of staying, even though he is inbred 4 x 3 to Mr Prospector. His first two dams are

by Sunday Silence and Nijinsky, and he is also inbred 4 x 4 to Northern Dancer and 5 x 3 to Nijinsky.

Tale Of Ekati’s dam, the lightlyraced Silence Beauty, cost $1,000,000 as a yearling, her price reflecting her outstanding pedigree.

Her dam Maplejinsky won the Grade 1 Alabama Stakes over ten furlongs, even though she was a

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Caulfield on Zenyatta: “The ease of her victory in the Apple Blossom Handicap suggests that Street Cry has another potential champion in his first crop” daughter of the champion sprinter Gold Beauty and a half-sister to the flying Dayjur. Maplejinsky produced four foals – all fillies – before being sold to Japan for $2,700,000 in 1994. Her first foal was the outstanding Sky Beauty, who recorded nine Grade 1 victories from two to four (when she was champion older female).

Sky Beauty, who was sold for $2,850,000 as a nine-year-old, won the CCA Oaks and Alabama Stakes, and this family produced yet another Alabama Stakes winner in Pine Island. This is also the family of Pleasant Home, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Distaff in 2005.

Futurity. Colonel John has continued to progress, taking the Grade 3 Sham Stakes and Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby, before finishing sixth in the Kentucky Derby.

Colonel John’s dam Sweet Damsel is by Turkoman. Although this champion older horse was a serious disappointment as a stallion, he has followed his sire Alydar as a good broodmare sire; he also ranks as the broodmare sire of top colts Point Given and Hard Spun.

Colonel John’s third dam, the CCA Oaks third Fia, is the second dam of Kentucky Derby third Imperialism.

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1. COLONEL JOHN (USA) 3 b c Tiznow - Sweet Damsel (Turkoman) O-WinStar Farm B-WinStar Farm TR-Eoin G Harty 2. Bob Black Jack (USA) 3 bbr c Stormy Jack Molly’s Prospector (Native Prospector) 3. Coast Guard (USA) 3 bbr c Stormy Atlantic - Vassar (Royal Academy) COLONEL JOHN (USA) b c 2005 Relaunch Cee’s Tizzy Tizly TIZNOW b 97 Seattle Song Cee’s Song Lonely Dancer Alydar Turkoman Taba SWEET DAMSEL bbr 95 Zen Grande Dame Fia

In Reality Foggy Note Lyphard Tizna Seattle Slew Incantation Nice Dancer Sleep Lonely Raise A Native Sweet Tooth Table Play Filipina Damascus Penny Bryn One For All Sticks n’ Stones

Tiznow’s racing career ended before all-weather surfaces were introduced in North America and he raced exclusively on dirt. The traditional American surface clearly suited him extremely well, as he twice triumphed in the Breeders’ Cup Classic, but the record of his progeny suggests he would also have been perfectly at home on synthetic surfaces.

Only Bold Executive (who has a lot of runners on Woodbine’s Polytrack) enjoyed more success than Tiznow with his all-weather runners in 2007. Among Tiznow’s main contributors were Bear Now, who shone at Woodbine, Slew’s Tizzy, winner of the Grade 2 Lexington Stakes at Keeneland, and Tough Tiz’s Sis, who numbered the Grade 1 Lady’s Secret Stakes among her all-weather wins. The Lady’s Secret is staged over Santa Anita’s troubled Cushion Track surface, on which Tiznow’s stock has continued to flourish in 2008.

Although Well Armed took the Grade 2 San Antonio Stakes, Tiznow’s star performer has been Colonel John, who gained his first stakes success in the Real Quiet Stakes in the November of his juvenile season, before finishing second in the Grade 1 Cashcall

1. LITTLE BELLE (USA) 3 b f A P Indy - Dubai Belle (Mr Prospector) O-Darley Stable B-Darley TR-Kiaran P McLaughlin 2. Bsharpsonata (USA) 3 b f Pulpit - Apasionata Sonata (Affirmed) 3. Proud Spell (USA) 3 b f Proud Citizen - Pacific Spell (Langfuhr) LITTLE BELLE (USA) b f 2005 Boldnesian Reason To Earn Seattle Slew Poker My Charmer Fair Charmer A P INDY br 89 Bold Ruler Secretariat Somethingroyal Weekend Surprise Buckpasser Lassie Dear Gay Missile Native Dancer Raise A Native Raise You Mr Prospector Nashua Gold Digger Sequence DUBAI BELLE b 99 Northern Dancer Nureyev Special Flagbird Hoist The Flag Up The Flagpole The Garden Club Bold Reasoning

Among the many remarkable aspects of Mr Prospector’s career was the way he retained his fertility to a very advanced age. This enabled him to get 44 of his 46 mares in foal at the age of 28 in 1998, the year before he died.

Although his 1998 efforts resulted in nothing better than a Group 3 winner, his penultimate crop also included Dubai Belle, a useful French miler.

Sheikh Mohammed, the owner of Dubai Belle, can’t have found it too difficult to decide on the highpriced A P Indy as her ideal mate.

For a start, this champion stallion has a remarkable record with Mr Prospector’s daughters. When Adriano won the Grade 2 Lane’s End Stakes in April, he became no less than the 12th Graded winner from the first 100 foals bred on this cross. Now Dubai Belle’s first foal, Little Belle, has become Graded winner number 13, thanks to her narrow success in the Ashland Stakes. However, this famous nick was by no means the only incentive for sending Dubai Belle to A P Indy. Dubai Belle’s dam, the Premio Presidente della Repubblica winner Flagbird, is a half-sister to Prospectors Delite. This winner of the Ashland Stakes and Acorn Stakes was also by Mr Prospector,

58 CARTER H G1 AQUEDUCT. April 5. 7f. Fast.

1. BUSTIN STONES (USA) 4 ch c City Zip - Shesasurething (Prospectors Gamble) O-Roddy J Valente B-Roddy J Valente TR-Bruce N Levine 2. Executive Fleet (USA) 5 b h Northern Afleet - Saralina Jo (Executive Order) 3. Premium Wine (USA) 4 b c Prime Timber - Just a Bullet (Jolie’s Halo) BUSTIN STONES (USA) ch c 2004 Raise A Native Gold Digger Blushing Groom Blushing Promise Summertime Promise CITY ZIP ch 98 In Reality Relaunch Foggy Note Baby Zip Tri Jet Thirty Zip Sailaway Mr Prospector Crafty Prospector Real Crafty Lady Prospectors Gamble Sunny South Fannie C Garden Fresh SHESASURETHING grro 97 Damascus Timeless Moment Hour of Parting Nona’s Moment Tom Tulle No No Nona Split Silk Mr Prospector

OAKLAWN PARK. April 5. 8f 110yds. Fast.

KEENELAND. April 5. 8f 110yds. Fast.

that Street Cry has another potential champion in his first crop.

Carson City

57 APPLE BLOSSOM H G1

55 SANTA ANITA DERBY G1 SANTA ANITA. April 5. 9f. Fast.

so Dubai Belle and Prospectors Delite are three-parts sisters.

Prospectors Delite and her dam Up The Flagpole visited A P Indy in 1993 and both produced a Grade 1 winner. Prospectors Delite’s daughter, Tomisue’s Delight, won the Ruffian Handicap, while Up The Flagpole’s daughter, Runup The Colors, took the Alabama Stakes.

Prospectors Delite did even better when returned to A P Indy in 1998, producing American Horse of the Year Mineshaft.

1. ZENYATTA (USA) 4 bbr f Street Cry - Vertigineux (Kris S) O-Mr and Mrs Jerome S Moss B-Maverick Productions TR-John A Sherriffs 2. Brownie Points (USA) 5 ch m Forest Wildcat - Stylish Society (Forty Niner) 3. Ginger Punch (USA) 5 ch m Awesome Again - Nappelon (Bold Revenue) ZENYATTA (USA) b/br f 2004 Mr Prospector Machiavellian Coup de Folie STREET CRY bbr 98 Troy Helen Street Waterway Roberto Kris S Sharp Queen VERTIGINEUX b 95 Forli For The Flag In The Offing

Raise A Native Gold Digger Halo Raise The Standard Petingo La Milo Riverman Boulevard Hail To Reason Bramalea Princequillo Bridgework Aristophanes Trevisa Hoist The Flag Mrs Peterkin

The celebrated broodmare Mrs Peterkin made quite an impact on the list of America’s highest-priced yearlings. Her daughter Kinema (now the dam of the high-class Mizzen Mast) was sold for $2,200,000 in 1984, three years after one of Mrs Peterkin’s grandsons, the future Irish Derby winner Shareef Dancer, made $3,300,000. As these prices indicate, this is a much sought-after family and it has now produced another very successful broodmare in Vertigineux, whose third dam is Mrs Peterkin.

Vertigineux was nothing special on the racecourse, winning twice on turf as a four-year-old, but her first three foals are all stakes winners. What’s more, they include Balance, who numbered the Santa Anita Oaks among her three Grade 1 victories, and Zenyatta, a late developer who didn’t make it to the races until the November of her three-year-old season.

Zenyatta quickly won her first three races, including the Grade 2 El Encino Stakes in January 2008.

Although it was nearly three months before Zenyatta raced again, it was more of the same in the Apple Blossom Handicap, in which she had the champion older filly Ginger Punch back in third.

The ease of her victory suggests

The many breeders who have sent mares to Ghostzapper, American Horse of the Year in 2004, in his early years at stud must be encouraged that his older halfbrother, City Zip, has made a pleasing start as a stallion. Although City Zip was a very good racehorse, especially at two, when the Grade 1 Hopeful Stakes featured among his four Graded victories, he was essentially a sprinter. This effectively limited his appeal as a stallion and the grandson of Mr Prospector retired not to Kentucky but to New York, at a fee of only $7,500.

His first crop raced in 2005, earning him third place among the freshman sires, and City Zip’s early success saw him transferred to Kentucky, with his fee doubled at Lane’s End Farm.

The last of City Zip’s four New York crops reaches the races in 2008, and his first Kentucky yearlings will benefit from the exploits of Bustin Stones. The fouryear-old remained unbeaten when he landed the Carter Handicap at Aqueduct on his sixth start, having earlier taken the Grade 2 General George Stakes, also over seven furlongs.

Bustin Stones is inbred 3 x 4 to the accomplished sprinter Mr Prospector, his dam, the winning sprinter Shesasurething, being by Mr Prospector’s grandson Prospectors Gamble.

59 MAKER’S MARK MILE S G1 KEENELAND. April 11. 8f. Good (turf).

1. KIP DEVILLE (USA) 5 grro h Kipling - Klondike Kaytie (Encino) O-IEAH Stables, Pegasus Holding Group Stables, John Roberts, A Cohen, S Cohen B-Center Hills Farm TR-Richard E Dutrow Jr 2. Einstein (BRZ) 6 bbr h Spend A Buck - Gay Charm (Ghadeer) 3. Thorn Song (USA) 5 grro h Unbridled’s Song - Festal (Storm Bird)

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KIP DEVILLE (USA) grro c 2003 Raise A Native Gold Digger Gulch Rambunctious Jameela Asbury Mary KIPLING b 96 Northern Dancer Storm Bird South Ocean Weekend Storm Secretariat Weekend Surprise Lassie Dear Northern Dancer Nijinsky Flaming Page Encino Crimson Satan Crimson Saint Bolero Rose KLONDIKE KAYTIE ro 88 Grey Dawn II Vigors Relifordie Charming Dawn High Tribute High Charme Charmella Mr Prospector

Gulch’s record as a sire of sires looks likely to rest largely on the shoulders of Thunder Gulch in America and Nayef in Europe, but he has another notable son in Kipling, sire of the top American turf miler Kip Deville.

When Kipling appeared at the 1997 Saratoga Yearling Sale, he topped the sale at $1,400,000, his price reflecting the fact that his dam Weekend Storm was an unraced sister to the Preakness Stakes winner Summer Squall.

Weekend Storm was also a halfsister to A P Indy, who had earned Horse of the Year honours in 1992, and she comes from a family which has produced numerous sires of Grade 1 winners.

Unfortunately, Kipling didn’t add to his family’s reputation on the track, although he won five times in four seasons spent mainly at the less glamorous tracks.

Retired at a fee of $1,500 in Oklahoma, Kipling hasn’t been widely patronised, with only 70 named foals in his first four crops, but he was represented by four stakes winners in 2006. One of the four, Kip Deville, has gone on to Grade 1 success in the Frank E Kilroe Mile and Breeders’ Cup Mile in 2007, and in the Maker’s Mark Mile in 2008. He has now won ten of his 22 starts and has earned over $2.6 million – pretty good going for a colt bought for $20,000 as a yearling in Texas.

Thanks largely to having six Graded winners in 2006, Maria’s Mon’s fee rose from $25,000 to $60,000 – eight times the fee that the champion juvenile colt had started out at in 1997. He covered 132 mares at his increased fee, only to succumb to laminitis later in the year, at the age of 14.

The victory of Monba in the Blue Grass Stakes acted as another reminder that Maria’s Mon’s death represented a sizeable blow to the Kentucky industry.

The victory was the third from five starts for Monba, who follows the champion filly Wait A While, the Kentucky Derby winner Monarchos, and Latent Heat as the fourth American Grade 1 winner by Maria’s Mon (who also sired the Grade 1 Canadian winner See How She Runs).

Monba’s dam Hamba is a halfsister to the Grade 1 winner Secret Hello. One feature of Maria’s Mon’s record was that he sired Wait A While and Latent Heat from grand-daughters of Seattle Slew. Mating Maria’s Mon to mares with Seattle Slew blood resulted in horses with at least four lines to the famous American broodmare La Troienne, and Monba’s pedigree also features several lines to La Troienne. He is inbred 4 x 4 to Buckpasser, whose third dam was La Troienne, and he’s also inbred 5 x 5 to Better Self, whose sire Bimelech was out of La Troienne.

KEENELAND. April 12. 9f. Fast.

1. MONBA (USA) 3 grro c Maria’s Mon - Hamba (Easy Goer) O-Starlight Stable, Donald J Lucarelli, Paul H Saylor B-Mill Ridge Farm, Jamm TR-Todd A Pletcher 2. Cowboy Cal (USA) 3 bbr c Giant’s Causeway Texas Tammy (Seeking The Gold) 3. Kentucky Bear (USA) 3 ch c Mr Greeley - Tate (Afleet)

1. PROUD SPELL (USA) 3 b f Proud Citizen - Pacific Spell (Langfuhr) O-Brereton C Jones B-Brereton C Jones TR-J Larry Jones 2. Little Belle (USA) 3 b f A P Indy - Dubai Belle (Mr Prospector) 3. Pure Clan (USA) 3 ch f Pure Prize - Gather The Clan (General Assembly)

Uncommitted Caro Carlotta Maria Water Malone Alydar Easy Goer Relaxing HAMBA b 92 Silent Screen Ciao Ave Valeque

Majestic Prince Irradiate Buckpasser Lady Be Good Fortino II Chambord Naskra Gray Matter Raise A Native Sweet Tooth Buckpasser Marking Time Prince John Prayer Bell Bold Ruler Pillow Talk

CHURCHILL DOWNS. May 3. 10f. Fast.

1. BIG BROWN (USA) 3 b c Boundary - Mien (Nureyev) O-IEAH Stables, Michael A Iavarone, Paul Pompa Jr B-Monticule TR-Richard E Dutrow Jr 2. Eight Belles (USA) 3 grro f Unbridled’s Song - Away (Dixieland Band) 3. Denis of Cork (USA) 3 b c Harlan’s Holiday - Unbridled Girl (Unbridled) See race 16 in the May issue for analysis BIG BROWN (USA) B c 2005 Nearctic Natalma Admiral’s Voyage Pas de Nom Petitioner Sword Dancer Damascus Kerala Round Table Ponte Vecchio Terentia Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Forli Special Thong Roberto Lear Fan Wac Damascus Syrian Circle Friendly Circle Northern Dancer Danzig BOUNDARY b 90 Edge

Nureyev MIEN b 99 Miasma

NH Graded and Listed Races

See race 488 in the March issue for analysis INTANGAROO (USA) b/br f 2004 Mt Livermore Flama Ardiente Cox’s Ridge Dream Team Likely Double Fappiano Tasso Ecstacism TASSO’S MAGIC ROO b 95 Bet Big Aroogala Golden Toss

Red God Runaway Bride Crimson Satan Royal Rafale Best Turn Our Martha Nodouble Likely Lark Mr Prospector Killaloe What A Pleasure Toute Belle Distinctive Majestic Hostess Strike Gold Jongleuse

246 JOHN SMITH’S EXTRA COLD H HURDLE Listed Race AINTREE. April 5. 24f 110yds. Good.

1. FOREST PENNANT 6 b/br g Accordion - Prudent View (Supreme Leader) O-Mr Peter Hart B-Michael Ross TR-PF Nicholls 2. Superior Wisdom 8 b g Pierre - Viva Las Vegas (Pennine Walk) 3. According To Pete 7 b g Accordion - Magic Bloom (Full of Hope) FOREST PENNANT b/br g 2002 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge ACCORDION b 86 Successor Sound of Success Belle Musique Bustino Supreme Leader Princess Zena PRUDENT VIEW b 90 Royal Highway Regency View Rising View

PROUD SPELL (USA) b f 2005 Raise A Native Gold Digger Secretariat Secrettame Tamerett PROUD CITIZEN b 99 Shecky Greene Green Forest Tell Meno Lies Drums of Freedom Buckpasser Danseuse Etoile Arctic Dancer Northern Dancer Danzig Pas de Nom Langfuhr Briartic Sweet Briar Too Prima Babu Gum PACIFIC SPELL b 99 Nijinsky Encino Crimson Saint Malibu Magic Hard Work Dream Harder Great Squaw

MONBA (USA) grro c 2005

MARIA’S MON grro 93

1. INTANGAROO (USA) 4 bbr f Orientate - Tasso’s Magic Roo (Tasso) O-Tom Grether Farms Inc, Carl B Grether B-Pollock Farms, Taylor Made Farms Inc TR-Gary Sherlock 2. Baroness Thatcher (USA) 4 ch f Johannesburg - Natkeeta (Gulch) 3. Hystericalady (USA) 5 ch m Distorted Humor - Sacramentada (Northair)

ORIENTATE bbr 98

CHURCHILL DOWNS. May 2. 9f. Sloppy.

64 KENTUCKY DERBY G1

CHURCHILL DOWNS. May 3. 7f. Fast.

Blushing Groom

61 KENTUCKY OAKS G1

Mr Prospector

Wavering Monarch

62 HUMANA DISTAFF S G1

Gone West has an enviable reputation as a sire of sires, thanks to such as Mr Greeley, Grand Slam, Zafonic, Zamindar and Elusive Quality. Now Proud Citizen’s name can be added to this list.

Proud Citizen won only three of his 16 starts in a career seriously hampered by two lengthy spells on the sidelines. His first absence resulted in a rushed preparation for the Triple Crown events, but Proud

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Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Bold Ruler Misty Morn Tudor Minstrel Bellesoeur Busted Ship Yard Habitat Guiding Light Straight Deal Queen’s Highway Raise You Ten Rare View

63 TURF CLASSIC S G1

Gone West

60 BLUE GRASS S G1

Majestic Light

Citizen was good enough to win the Grade 2 Lexington Stakes prior to finishing second in War Emblem’s Kentucky Derby and third in the Preakness. He suffered a fracture when fifth in the Belmont and was then off the course for nearly ten months. No wonder he failed to reproduce his best form at four.

The Airdrie Stud resident started his stallion career at $12,500 – a tempting price for a horse who comes from the same female line as Northern Dancer, Danehill and Machiavellian. He has made a bright start, notably siring French Guineas third River Proud and the smart American filly Proud Spell, winner of the Kentucky Oaks.

Proud Spell, whose pedigree features four lines of Nearctic, isn’t the first Oaks winner from her family, as her second dam Malibu Magic was a half-sister to Imaginary Lady (1989 Santa Anita Oaks).

CHURCHILL DOWNS. May 3. 9f. Good (turf).

1. EINSTEIN (BRZ) 6 bbr h Spend A Buck - Gay Charm (Ghadeer) O-Patricia Cunningham, Melissa Green B-Fazenda Mondesir TR-Helen Pitts 2. Out of Control (BRZ) 5 bbr h Vettori - Heavenly Dancer (Fitzcarraldo) 3. Artiste Royal (IRE) 7 b h Danehill - Agathe (Manila)

247 HUGH MCMAHON MEMORIAL NOVICE CHASE G2 LIMERICK. April 6. 24f. Yielding to soft.

See race 3 in the April issue for analysis

1. CANDY GIRL 9 b m Un Desperado - Dynamic Venture (King’s Ride) O-T Merrigan B-EG Canavan T-WP Mullins 2. Drunken Disorderly 8 b g Luso - Slave Hero (Sandalay) 3. Oscar Honey 7 b g Oscar Schindler - Tanhoney (Asir)

EINSTEIN (BRZ) b/br h 2002

CANDY GIRL b m 1999

Buckpasser Buckaroo Stepping High SPEND A BUCK b 82 Speak John Belle de Jour Battle Dress Lyphard Ghadeer Swanilda GAY CHARM b 85 Waldmeister Virga Merry Sunshine

Tom Fool Busanda No Robbery Bebop Prince John Nuit de Folies Jaipur Armorial Northern Dancer Goofed Habitat Sweet And Lovely II Wild Risk Santa Isabel Santa Claus Los Angeles

High Top Top Ville Sega Ville UN DESPERADO b 83 Baldric II White Lightning Rough Sea Rarity King’s Ride Ride DYNAMIC VENTURE b 91 Bargello Goolagong Coolnagratten

Derring-Do Camenae Charlottesville La Sega Round Table Two Cities Herbager Sea Nymph Hethersett Who Can Tell Sovereign Path Turf Auriban Isabelle Brand Vulgan Lady Banker

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Caulfield on Monba: “Mating Maria’s Mon to mares with Seattle Slew blood resulted in horses with at least four lines to the famous American broodmare La Troienne” 248 SILVER TROPHY H CHASE G2

251 SCOTTISH GRAND NATIONAL H CHASE G3

CHELTENHAM. April 16. 21f. Good to soft.

AYR. April 19. 32f 110yds. Good.

1. STAN (NZ) 9 b g Super Imposing (NZ) Take Care (NZ) (Wham (AUS)) O-Paul Beck B-Mrs MA Davies T-Miss Venetia Williams 2. Il Duce 8 br g Anshan - Glory-Glory (Buckskin (FR)) 3. Glenfinn Captain 9 br g Alderbrook - Glenfinn Princess (Ginger Boy)

1. IRIS DE BALME (FR) 8 ch g Phantom Breeze - Fleur d’Ecajeul (Cyborg) O-L M Power, G D Peck B-J-L Henry, Marc Henry T-S Curran 2. Halcon Genelardais (FR) 8 ch g Halcon Francetphile (FR) (Farabi) 3. Flintoff (USA) 7 ch g Diesis - Sahibah (USA) (Deputy Minister (CAN))

STAN b g 1999

IRIS DE BALME ch g 2000

When Gestut Karlshof decided to send four-time winner Ame Soeur to Lando in 2001, it was no doubt hoped that this mating would result in a top Flat performer, as it produced 3 x 3 inbreeding to Aggravate. Although Aggravate had won the Park Hill Stakes and finished fourth in the Oaks, she had made an even bigger impact as a broodmare, notably becoming dam of the outstanding German horse Acatenango and second dam of champion colt Abary.

Acatenango’s long list of Group winners included none other than Lando, who numbered the German Derby and Japan Cup among his seven Group 1 victories.

Ame Soeur’s Lando colt, Air Force One, has proved very effective over jumps. Chasing seems to be his metier and he was winning for the fourth time over fences when winning the Champion Novice Chase.

Star Kingdom Oceana Imposing Arctic Explorer Hialeah Kuch Parwani SUPER IMPOSING b 81 Stardust Stunning Running Wild Semenova Able Seaman Eunomy Dancing Water Zeddaan Adraan Adara Wham Brave Lad Tequila Sunrise Sleepyhead TAKE CARE b 88 Aureole Hopeful Venture White House Venturesome Girl Abernant Gwen Donna

Northern Dancer Flaming Page Vision Round Table Foreseer Regal Gleam PHANTOM BREEZE b 86 Tom Rolfe Run The Gantlet First Feather Ask The Wind Exbury Arburie Ardelle Sea Bird II Arctic Tern Bubbling Beauty Cyborg Sadair Cadair Blarney Castle FLEUR D’ECAJEUL ch 90 Le Levanstell River Peace Appreciation Kaisersberg Wild Risk Wild Girl Jeannine

249 YORKSHIRE BANK MARES H HURDLE LR

252 SCOTTISH CHAMPION H HURDLE G2

CHELTENHAM. April 17. 21f 110yds. Good.

AYR. April 19. 16f. Good.

1. ONE GULP 5 b m Hernando - Elaine Tully (Persian Bold) O-RJ McAlpine B-Mrs PG Wilkins, RJ McAlpine T-PR Webber 2. Magical Legend 7 gr m Midnight Legend - Alice’s Mirror (Magic Mirror) 3. De Blanc 8 b m Revoque - Queen’s Share (Main Reef)

1. BORDER CASTLE 7 b g Grand Lodge (USA) - Tempting Prospect (Shirley Heights) O-Staverton Owners Group B-The Queen T-AB Haynes 2. Takeroc (FR) 5 gr g Take Risks (FR) Rochambelle (FR) (Truculent (USA)) 3. Kalahari King (FR) 7 b/br g Kahyasi - Queen of Warsaw (FR) (Assert)

PUNCHESTOWN. April 22. 16f. Good.

ONE GULP b m 2003

BORDER CASTLE b g 2001

BAMBOOTCHA b m 2001

Todman

Nijinsky Niniski Virginia Hills HERNANDO b 90 Miswaki Whakilyric Lyrism Bold Lad Persian Bold Relkarunner ELAINE TULLY b 88 Busted Hanna Alta Hamada

Northern Dancer Flaming Page Tom Rolfe Ridin’ Easy Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Lyphard Pass A Glance Bold Ruler Barn Pride Relko Running Blue Crepello Sans Le Sou Habitat Helvetie II

Nijinsky

Danzig Chief’s Crown Six Crowns GRAND LODGE ch 91 Habitat La Papagena Magic Flute Mill Reef Shirley Heights Hardiemma TEMPTING PROSPECT b 94 Northern Baby Trying For Gold Expansive

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Secretariat Chris Evert Sir Gaylord Little Hut Tudor Melody Filigrana Never Bend Milan Mill Hardicanute Grand Cross Northern Dancer Two Rings Exbury Amicable

250 CHAMPION NOVICES’ CHASE G2

253 CHAMPION NOVICE CHASE G1

AYR. April 19. 20f. Good.

PUNCHESTOWN. April 22. 25f. Good.

1. STARZAAN 9 b g Darshaan - Stellina (Caerleon) O-Ben Arbib B-Citadel Stud Establishment T-H Morrison 2. Noland 7 b g Exit To Nowhere - Molakai (Nureyev) 3. Frankie Figg 6 b g Portrait Gallery - Ardnataggle (Aristocracy)

1. AIR FORCE ONE (GER) 6 ch h Lando (GER) Ame Soeur (FR) (Siberian Express (USA)) O-Brian Walsh B-Gestut Karlshof T-CJ Mann 2. Pomme Tiepy (FR) 5 b m Apple Tree (FR) - Unetiepy (FR) (Marasali) 3. Ballycullen Boy 8 ch g Executive Perk - Shuil Ub (Le Moss)

STARZAAN b g 1999

AIR FORCE ONE ch h 2002

254 GAIN HORSE FEEDS H HURDLE G3

1. BAMBOOTCHA 7 b m Saddlers’ Hall - My Maizey (Buckskin (FR)) O-Price Of Oats Syndicate B-Mick Berry T-CA Murphy 2. Clear Riposte 6 b m King’s Theatre - Niamh Cinn Oir (King of Clubs) 3. Dreamy Gent 6 b g Trans Island Calamity Kate (Fairy King (USA))

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Vieux Manoir Val de Loir Vali Charlottesville Sunland Sunny Gulf Mossborough Yelapa Your Point Herbager Bete A Bon Dieu Caralline II Arctic Star Arctic Slave Roman Galley Vic Day Spring Campaign Halador Northern Dancer

Sadler’s Wells

Fairy Bridge SADDLERS’ HALL b 88 Sunny Valley

Buckskin MY MAIZEY br 83 Mrs Oates

255 CHAMPION CHASE G1 PUNCHESTOWN. April 22. 16f Good..

1. TWIST MAGIC (FR) 6 b g Winged Love - Twist Scarlett (GER) (Lagunas) O-Barry Fulton, Tony Hayward, Michael Lynch B-Dr Georg Hastrich and Co T-PF Nicholls 2. Natal (FR) 7 b g Funny Baby (FR) - Donitille (FR) (Italic (FR)) 3. Mansony (FR) 9 br g Mansonnien (FR) - Hairly (FR) (Air de Cour (USA)) See race 56 in the February issue for analysis

Mill Reef Shirley Heights Hardiemma DARSHAAN br 81 Abdos Delsy Kelty Nijinsky Caerleon Foreseer STELLINA b 88 Sir Gaylord Mariella Zambara

Never Bend Milan Mill Hardicanute Grand Cross Arbar Pretty Lady Venture Marilla Northern Dancer Flaming Page Round Table Regal Gleam Turn-To Somethingroyal Mossborough Grischuna

Acatenango LANDO b 90 Laurea

Siberian Express AME SOEUR ch 89 Arjona

Surumu Aggravate Sharpman Licata Caro Indian Call Caracol Aggravate Literat Surama Aggressor Raven Locks Sharpen Up Miss Manon Dschingis Khan

TWIST MAGIC b g 2002 Liberty Fortino II Chambord

Sadler’s Wells In The Wings High Hawk WINGED LOVE b 92 Top Ville

Warfare La Morlaye

J’Ai Deux Amours Pollenka

Tanerko Crape Band

Ile de Bourbon Lagunas

Aggressor Raven Locks

Liranga TWIST SCARLETT b 92 Athenagoras Twistqueen Twistlady

Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Shirley Heights Sunbittern High Top Sega Ville Reliance II Polana Nijinsky Roseliere Literat Love In Nasram II Avenida Our Michael Two Timing Lady

256 CHAMPION NOVICE HURDLE G1 PUNCHESTOWN. April 22. 16f. Good.

1. JERED 6 ch g Presenting - La Noire (Phardante (FR)) O-John P McManus B-Exors Of The Late MD McGrath T-Noel Meade 2. Salford City 7 b g Desert Sun - Summer Fashion (Moorestyle) 3. Fiveforthree 6 gr g Arzanni - What A Queen (King’s Ride) JERED ch g 2002 Crepello Sans Le Sou Mincio Amazer Alzara Bold Lad Persian Bold Relkarunner Riverman Belle Viking Vallarta Lyphard Pharly Comely Taj Dewan Pallante Cavadonga Pampered King Deep Run Trial By Fire Bargello Arctic Rhapsody Arctic Blaze Busted Mtoto PRESENTING br 92 D’Azy

Phardante LA NOIRE b 95 Arctic Run

The growing list of important winners by Glenview Stud’s Presenting owes a lot to other stallions who previously, at some time, stood under the Glenview/Rathbarry banner.

Denman and Silverburn are out of a daughter of Pollerton, while the broodmare sires of War Of Attrition, Another Promise and Jered are Good Thyne, Strong Gale and Phardante respectively.

Jered became Presenting’s latest Grade 1 winner when he easily landed the VCbet.com Champion Novice Hurdle, for his fourth win in seven starts over hurdles.

His dam La Noire, who was fourth twice in bumpers, is by Phardante, runner-up in the St Leger.

Phardante is best known as the sire of Hanakham, Truckers Tavern, Urubande, The Toiseach, Go Roger Go and Liss de Paor, and is also the broodmare sire of plenty of good jumping winners, such as Rule Supreme, Coolgreaney, Gemini Lucy, Maca Rince, Emotional Moment, Chelsea Harbour, River City and Toofarback.

Grade 1 success at the Punchestown Festival is nothing new for Jered’s family. La Noire is a half-sister to Leading Run, who took the 2006 Champion INH Flat race, and Strong Run, winner of the BMW Chase at the meeting in 2002. Jered’s third dam Arctic Rhapsody was an unraced half-sister to Arctic Serenade, winner of the Irish Cesarewitch.

Arctic Serenade produced the useful staying hurdler Last Serenade and one of her great-granddaughters, Strong Serenade, is the dam of Grade 3-winning hurdler Supreme Serenade and the smart hurdler/chaser Supreme Prince.

Another of Arctic Rhapsody’s half-sisters, Blazing Lady, produced useful Irish chaser Arctic Gossip.

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DATA BOOK NH Graded and Listed races 257 CHAMPION INH FLAT RACE G1 PUNCHESTOWN. April 23. 16f. Gd to Yielding.

1. COUSIN VINNY (IRE) 5 b g Bob Back (USA) - Trixskin (Buckskin (FR)) O-Festival Syndicate B-J Hore T-WP Mullins 2. Endless Intrigue 4 ch g In The Wings - Chill Seeking (USA) (Theatrical) 3. Academy Sir Harry 6 b g Dushyantor (USA) - Ciana Van Fleet (Yashgan) See race 195 in the May issue for analysis

Castille Collonges is by El Badr, who twice won the Prix du Cadran.

Castille Collonges is closely related to Diane Collonges, whose son Nenuphar Collonges scored at the Cheltenham Festival. Diane Collonges is out of Castille Collonges’s half-sister Mariane Collonge.

Neptune Collonges’s third dam Penelope is also third dam of Hussard Collonges, winner of the Royal & SunAlliance Chase.

COUSIN VINNY b g 2003 Turn-To Nothirdchance Nashua Bramalea Rarelea Saggy Carry Back Joppy Beauchef Romantic Miss Roman Zephyr Mossborough Yelapa Your Point Herbager Bete A Bon Dieu Caralline II Pampered King Deep Run Trial By Fire Blue Chariot Merry Chariot Merry Trix Hail To Reason Roberto BOB BACK br 81 Toter Back

Buckskin TRIXSKIN b 93 Merry Run

258 GUINNESS GOLD CUP CHASE G1

259 ULSTER BANK H CHASE G2 PUNCHESTOWN. April 23. 20f. Gd to Yielding.

1. NOTABLE D’ESTRUVAL (FR) 7 b g Nononito (FR) - Vocation (FR) (Toujours Pret (USA)) O-Mr PJ Mccarthy B-Mme B Le Gentil TR-ALT Moore 2. Bishop’s Bridge 10 b g Norwich - River Swell (Over The River (FR)) 3. Justpourit (IRE) 9 b g Glacial Storm (USA) - Gale Choice (Strong Gale)

NOTABLE D’ESTRUVAL b g 2001 Nonoalco

PUNCHESTOWN. April 23. 25f. Gd to Yielding.

1. NEPTUNE COLLONGES (FR) 7 gr g Dom Alco (FR) - Castille Collonges (FR) (El Badr) O-Mr J Hales B-Gaec Delorme Freres TR-PF Nicholls 2. Snowy Morning 8 b g Moscow Society (USA) Miss Perky (Creative Plan (USA)) 3. Mossbank 8 b g Kadeed - Miromaid (Simply Great (FR))

Nikos No No Nanette NONONITO b/br 91 Crystal Palace Feuille d’Automne Serbie Val de Loir Toujours Pret Dundee III VOCATION 87 Shikampur Esperide Ugalde

NEPTUNE COLLONGES gr g 2001 Rheffic Dom Pasquini Boursonne DOM ALCO gr 87 Nonoalco Alconaca Vela Weavers’ Hall El Badr Indian Maid CASTILLE COLLONGES b 90 Vieux Chateau Gitane Collonges Penelope

Traffic Rhenane La Varende Arctic Star Nearctic Seximee Sheshoon Cenerentola Busted Marians Astec Currarevagh Chamant Nive Blue Hollywood Idylle

For the second successive year, Neptune Collonges confirmed his status as one of Britain’s finest staying chasers with victory in the Punchestown Guinness Gold Cup. As he is still only seven, he looks sure to add plenty of other prestigious prizes to his tally.

Neptune Collonges stays very well, as might be expected of a son of Dom Alco, who failed to win in 14 starts on the Flat, including in claiming races, but proved much more effective over hurdles. He built up a total of six victories, including the Prix Aguado and Prix Amadou. Dom Alco’s other good representatives include Heros Collonges, Mysoko, Monoalco and Naiad du Misselot.

Dom Alco only once tackled a distance as long as three miles, when second at Auteuil, but clearly stayed well.

There is also stamina in the bottom half of Neptune Collonges’s pedigree, as his dam

Nearctic Seximee Sovereign Path Nuclea Caro Hermieres Breton Serjanie Vieux Manoir Vali Chingacgook Ecossaise Tehran Mehmany Night And Day Callidie

260 SWORDLESTOWN CUP NOVICE CHASE G1 PUNCHESTOWN. April 24. 16f. Good.

1. BIG ZEB 7 b g Oscar - Our Siveen (Deep Run) O-Mr Patrick Joseph Redmond B-L Buttimer TR-CA Murphy 2. Thyne Again 7 ch g Good Thyne (USA) Fine Affair (Fine Blade (USA)) 3. J’Y Vole (FR) 5 ch m Mansonnien (FR) - J’Y Reste (FR) (Freedom Cry)

BLAZING BAILEY b g 2002 Roberto Robellino Isobelline MISTER BAILEYS b 91 Sharpen Up Thimblerigger Tender Annie Nijinsky Niniski Virginia Hills WANNAPLANTATREE b 91 Ela-Mana-Mou Cataclysmic Hardirondo

Hail To Reason Bramalea Pronto Isobella Atan Rocchetta Tenerani Annie Oakley Northern Dancer Flaming Page Tom Rolfe Ridin’ Easy Pitcairn Rose Bertin Hardicanute Rotondo

The 2,000 Guineas winner Mister Baileys isn’t a name usually associated with National Hunt racing and his son Blazing Bailey started out on the Flat. However, after winning only a 14-furlong handicap at Nottingham at three, when he was rated no higher than 69, Blazing Bailey was sold for 27,000gns.

Remarkably, his subsequent earnings over hurdles now stand at over £320,000, thanks largely to his success in the 2007 Cleeve Hurdle and more recently to consecutive victories in the Grade 2 Liverpool Hurdle and Grade 1 Ladbrokes.com World Series Hurdle. Blazing Bailey was also good enough to reach the frame in Grade 1 hurdle races at the last three Cheltenham Festivals.

Although Mister Baileys shared the same sire, Robellino, as the dual Ascot Gold Cup winner Royal Rebel, Blazing Bailey probably owes his stamina mainly to his dam Wannaplantatree. This mare enjoyed her finest moment when she won the two-mile Queen’s Prize as a five-year-old.

Niniski has made quite an impact on jumps racing, including through his stallion sons, such as Alflora, Hernando and Assessor.

Blazing Bailey’s second dam Cataclysmic did her winning over 12 furlongs and his third dam, the admirably tough Hardirondo, was suited by two miles.

OSCAR b 94 Snow Day

Deep Run OUR SIVEEN ch 83 Clontinty Queen

263 CHAMPION NOVICE HURDLE G1 PUNCHESTOWN. April 25. 20f. Good.

1. TRANQUIL SEA 6 b g Sea Raven - Silver Valley (Henbit (USA)) O-D Cox B-Edward Curtin T-EJ O´Grady 2. Fiveforthree 6 gr g Arzanni - What A Queen (King’s Ride) 3. Trafford Lad 6 b g Tragic Role (USA) - Another Shuil (Duky) TRANQUIL SEA b g 2002

BIG ZEB b g 2001 Sadler’s Wells

In much the same way as Katchit completed the Triumph HurdleChampion Hurdle double in consecutive years, Katchit’s old rival Punjabi achieved the Irish equivalent by adding the ACCBank Champion Hurdle to his victory in the Ballymore Properties Champion 4-Y-O Hurdle.

Highflyer Bloodstock took a bit of a gamble when they paid 42,000gns for Punjabi at Tattersalls’ Autumn Sales in 2006.

Although he had been placed over an extended nine furlongs at two, his three subsequent wins had come at around a mile. Needless to say, the son of Komaite has been kept to around the minimum distance over hurdles – and he has thrived.

Never out of the first four in nine starts, he also showed his class when second under a big weight in the Totesport Trophy Hurdle.

Komaite won over seven furlongs, which is roughly the average winning distance of his Flat progeny. Punjabi’s sister Kompete was a five-furlong winner at two, but there is plenty of stamina in the bottom half of the pedigree.

His dam Competa is an unraced daughter of Hernando. Competa is bred along similar lines to the German Derby second Calcavecchia, who was by Hernando’s sire Niniski out of a daughter of the Oaks second Val’s Girl. Val’s Girl is the third dam of Competa.

Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special Tantieme Reliance II Relance III Roi Dagobert Vindaria Heavenly Body Prince Chevalier Pampered King Netherton Maid Court Martial Trial By Fire Mitrailleuse Saint Crespin III Laurence O Feevagh Sica Boy Si Si Rififi

Northern Dancer

262 CHAMPION HURDLE G1

Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge

PUNCHESTOWN. April 25. 16f. Good.

1. PUNJABI 5 b g Komaite (USA) - Competa (Hernando (FR)) O-Raymond Tooth B-Capt JH Wilson T-NJ Henderson 2. Sublimity (FR) 8 b g Selkirk (USA) Fig Tree Drive (USA) (Miswaki (USA)) 3. Ebaziyan 7 gr g Daylami - Ebadiyla (Sadler’s Wells (USA))

SEA RAVEN b 91 Home Guard Cormorant Wood Quarry Wood Hawaii Henbit Chateaucreek SILVER VALLEY ch 92 Deep Run Victor’s Valley Merry Valley

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Forli Stay At Home Super Sam Phrygia Utrillo II Ethane Chateaugay Mooncreek Pampered King Trial By Fire Festive Conna Vale

PUNJABI b g 2003 Northern Dancer

261 WORLD SERIES STAYERS HURDLE G1

Nureyev Special KOMAITE b 83

PUNCHESTOWN. April 24. 24f. Good.

1. BLAZING BAILEY 6 b g Mister Baileys Wannaplantatree (Niniski (USA)) O-Three Line Whip B-AM Tombs T-A King 2. Refinement 9 b m Oscar - Maneree (Mandalus) 3. Aitmatov (GER) 7 b g Lomitas - Atoka (GER) (Kaiseradler)

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Mount Marcy Brown Berry Brown Baby Niniski Hernando Whakilyric COMPETA b 99 Indian Ridge Mo Chos Chle Liebside Lass

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

With Sadler’s Wells as his sire and Cormorant Wood, a winner of the Benson & Hedges Gold Cup and Champion Stakes, as his dam, Sea Raven was bred well enough for anything. Unfortunately, his racing career fell well short of expectations, culminating with a fourth at Thirsk and a third at Newmarket. He was rated only 75 and seemed to have more stamina than speed.

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Caulfield on Punjabi: “Highflyer Bloodstock took a bit of a gamble when they paid 42,000gns for him at Tattersalls’ Autumn Sales in 2006. But it’s paid off” However, Sea Raven was given his chance as a National Hunt stallion on the basis of his physique and his pedigree. His dam was a half-sister to the top hurdler River Ceiriog and his second dam, Quarry Wood, was a half-sister to the very useful hurdler Cullen, and to Davett, the dam of that highclass chaser Young Hustler. Sea Raven was also a three-parts brother to the high-class Rock Hopper.

Sea Raven has now justified his chance by siring Tranquil Sea, a good winner of the Land Rover Champion Novice Hurdle.

Tranquil Sea’s dam Silver Valley, a daughter of the Derby winner Henbit, was placed in point-topoints, and the next dam, Victor’s Valley, won over hurdles to become one of three winners sired by Deep Run from the winning hurdler Merry Valley. One of the others, Brideswell Dew, graduated successfully to fences.

264 BETFAIR.COM NOVICE H CHASE G1 PUNCHESTOWN. April 25. 21f. Good.

1. SCOTSIRISH 7 b g Zaffaran (USA) - Serjitak (Saher) O-Double R Stables LLP Syndicate B-Eugene O’Sullivan T-WP Mullins 2. Double Dizzy 7 b g Double Trigger - Miss Diskin (Sexton Blake) 3. Ambobo (USA) 8 b g Kingmambo (USA) Bold Bold (Sadler’s Wells (USA)) SCOTSIRISH b g 2001 Northern Dancer What A Treat Sea Bird II Irish Lass II Sir Gaylord Sir Ivor Attica Tom Fool Mrs Peterkin Legendra Honeyway Great Nephew Sybil’s Niece Romulus Another Chance Recount Pardal Pardao Three Weeks Twilight Alley Tongue Twister Word Perfect Be My Guest Assert

Irish Bird ZAFFARAN b 85 Sweet Alliance

Saher SERJITAK b 87 Parijatak

265 BALLYMORE ANNIVERSARY H HURDLE G2 PUNCHESTOWN. April 26. 20f. Gd to Yielding.

1. BRAVE RIGHT (IRE) 8 b g Right Win Timber Toes (Mandalus) O-Jonathan Redmond B-MT Cunningham T-Leonard Whitmore 2. Ring The Boss 7 b g Kahyasi Fortune’s Girl (Ardross) 3. Jayo (FR) 5 ch g Grape Tree Road - Joie de Nuit (USA) (Affirmed (USA)) BRAVE RIGHT b g 2000 Alleged Law Society Bold Bikini RIGHT WIN br 90 Lorenzaccio Popular Win Jakomima Mandamus Mandalus Laminate TIMBER TOES b 94 Brave Invader Mistress Nova New Arrival

Hoist The Flag Princess Pout Boldnesian Ran-Tan Klairon Phoenissa Diatome Vivien Petition Great Fun Abernant Lamri Ribot Lynchris Master Owen Beggar Lady

INDEX: winners and placed horses in NH Graded and Listed races (wins in numerical bold type)

Abbeybraney 100 156 Abragante 15 Academy Sir Harry 257 Accordello 161 According To Pete 200 246 Adamant Approach 71 99 Afistfullofdollars 176 Afsoun 34 144 Aigle d’Or 135 Air Force One 166 253 Aitmatov 168 1 51 261 Aka Jake 11 Al Eile 46 102 Albanov 84 146 Albertas Run 166 198 237 Albinus 185 Alderburn 80 Aleron 43 All Heart 70 120 Alph 160 Alsadaa 78 Amber Brook 227 Ambobo 264 An Accordion 133 189 Annie’s Answer 10 Ansar 107 Arbor Supreme 145 Argento Luna 187 Art Professor 67 Ashkazar 185 192 Auroras Encore 232 Back On Line 226 Back To Bid 11 Badgerlaw 170 210 Ballistraw 164 Ballycullen Boy 184 253 Ballyfitz 200 Bambootcha 254 Barbers Shop 201 Barker 117 Battlecry 75 131 166 198 237 Be My Leader 53 Beau Michael 115 175 Beef Or Salmon 36 Benefit Night 177 Beshabar 186 Bewleys Berry 39 Big Buck’s 149 237 Big Zeb 156 217 260 Binocular 173 193 233 Bishop’s Bridge 259 Black Apalachi 126 Black Jack Ketchum 8 79 Blazing Bailey 129 234 261 Blencathra Bay 113 Bleu Superbe 5 Blue Bajan 236 Blythe Knight 160 Bohemian Lass 218 Border Castle 252 Borora 2 Brave Betsy 101 Brave Right 117 222 265 Breedsbreeze 57 110 Burntoakboy 130 Butler’s Cabin 159 Calatagan 205 Calgary Bay 110 Call Me A Legend 239 Callherwhatulike 100 212 Callisto Moon 3 Candy Girl 101 212 247 Cape Tribulation 245 Captain Cee Bee 193 Carole’s Legacy 239 Carrigeen Kalmia 107 183 Carruthers 114 Casey Jones 179 Castlecrossings 227 Catch Me 165 Celestial Gold 153 Celestial Halo 204 233

Central House 20 Ceoperk 109 C’Est Ca 223 Character Building 50 Charlie Yardbird 118 Charlton Kings 5 Chasing Cars 216 Chelsea Harbour 58 145 Chivalry 14 32 Chomba Womba 109 132 206 Chrysander 35 Classic Fiddle 226 Clear Reposte 254 Clew Bay Cove 188 Clew Bay Lodge 40 Coat of Honour 2 Coe 131 163 Comply Or Die 243 Conna Castle 217 Coolcashin 178 Cooldine 148 184 216 Cork All Star 52 93 157 Cornell Precedent 3 Cornish Sett 25 Corskeagh Royale 195 73 County Zen 150 Cousin Vinny 195 257 Crack Away Jack 192 Cream Cracker 10 Cricket Boy 104 Dancingwithbubbles 187 D’Argent 112 Dark Artist 169 Dark Bolero 23 Dayia 187 De Blanc 109 249 Deal Maker 184 Decoy Daddy 72 Deep Purple 76 110 Denman 50 98 153 203 Deutschland 49 Dev 33 231 Divali Princess 239 Don’t Be Bitin 146 Double Dizzy 264 Dream Alliance 50 Dreamy Gent 254 Drumconvis 213 Drunken Disorderly 214 247 Earth Magic 125 221 Ebaziyan 51 Elusive Dream 103 235 Emma Jane 21 Emotional Moment 58 Endless Intrigue 257 Escrea 31 European Dream 45 57 Exotic Dancer 36 82 230 Faasel 8 234 Fair Along 13 196 Farmer Brown 1 30 Fier Normand 38 Finger Onthe Pulse 84 118 201 Five Dream 67 Fiveforthree 208 256 263 Flintoff 162 251 Flying Enterprise 85 Fond of A Drop 147 Footy Facts 168 For A Song 31 Foreman 69 Forest Leaves 228 Forest Pennant 246 Forgivememaria 211 Forpadydeplasterer 93 157 Four Chimneys 188 Franchoek 28 90 136 204 235 Frankie Figg 250 Fredensborg 185 French Accordion 20 French Saulaie 45 202 Fundamentalist 199 Gardasee 138 Gaspar 108 Gaspara 10 41 124 Gauvain 103 Gazza’s Girl 21

Gem Daly 40 72 Gentleman Jimmy 16 Give It Time 211 Glencove Marina 118 Glenfinn Captain 249 Glenrock Leader 97 Gold Gun 123 Golden Alchemist 76 Gone To Lunch 65 129 240 Good Bye Simon 63 Grand Schlem 174 192 Grangeclare Lark 101 Group Captain 158 Gungadu 172 Gwanako 199 Halcon Genelardais 89 251 Harchibald 46 83 Hardy Eustace 34 79 102 139 Harmony Brig 43 Harper Valley 47 233 Head Waiter 29 Hear The Echo 220 Heathcote 244 Hedgehunter 176 Here’s Johnny 54 88 He’s On His Way 48 215 Hi Cloy 69 119 Hidden Agent 213 Hills of Aran 143 Himalayan Trail 210 Hobbs Hill 42 75 Hold Em 77 135 Holly Tree 81 Honest John 245 Hoo La Baloo 92 Howle Hill 38 Ignotus 182 Il Duce 27 248 I’m So Lucky 232 I’msingingtheblues 23 In The High Grass 137 215 Indian Spring 86 Inglis Drever 44 129 194 234 Iris de Balme 251 Its A Ladys Deal 212 Jaamid 29 Jack The Giant 78 Jaunty Flight 227 Jayo 49 219 265 Jazz Messenger 30 71 102 165 Jered 225 256 Joe Lively 16 54 88 Junior 207 Justified 7 Justpourit 229 259 J’Y Vole 156 179 260 Kahuna 20 Kalahari King 252 Kalderon 221 Kasbah Bliss 44 161 194 Katchit 46 68 160 190 Kauto Star Kazal 125 168 194 167 203 230 Keepthedreamalive 75 Kelami 172 Kerryhead Windfarm 18 Khachaturian 244 Kicking King 127 164 Kicks For Free 207 Kilcrea Castle 141 170 King Johns Castle 116 243 Kings Quay 14 King’s Revenge 78 Knight Legend 22 107 119 164 Knowhere 27 128 Kruguyrova 41 149 191 Labelthou 64 124 Lakil Princess 188 L’Ami 25 189 L’Antartique 27 Larkwing 165 L’Aventure 162 Lazy Darren 236

Le Volfoni 66 172 Lead On 106 171 Leading Man 85 Lemon Silk 28 67 Lenrey 87 Light On The Broom 7 22 Lightning Strike 35 55 Line Ball 53 Liskennett 12 140 209 Lord Generous 104 Lord Henry 231 Lord Over 73 Lothian Falcon 85 Lough Derg 8 34 79 123 161 180 Loup du Saubouas 17 Lucky Wish 73 Lyceum 19 Lydon House 145 Lyes Green 26 Ma Yahab 133 Maca Rince 47 Macs Joy 30 Mad Max 151 Made In Taipan 61 225 Madison du Berlais 80 Magical Legend 248 Mahogany Blaze 59 91 121 152 Major Finnegan 12 Major Sensation 222 Maljimar 130 Mansony 60 95 122 224 Maralan 169 177 Marhaba Million 94 Marodima 59 Massini Magic 29 Master Minded 152 196 238 Mattock Ranger 11 183 Meadow Vale 19 Medicinal 214 Megans Joy 4 Merchent Paddy 148 Merry Cowboy 84 Merveilles 17 Midnight Sail 151 Migmatite 17 Miko de Beauchene 89 162 200 Miss Fancy Pants 223 Mister McGoldrick 2 199 Mister Quasimodo 38 92 Mister Top Notch 116 Mister Watzisname 147 Model Son 105 Modicum 242 Mon Michel 45 Monet’s Garden 56 167 Monkerhostin 9 62 Moon Over Miami 33 Moskova 49 219 Mossbank 22 98 197 258 Mount Oscar 55 Mr Pointment 39 Muirhead 52 Mutineer 228 My Petra 91 205 My Valley 4 My Way de Solzen 180 Nacarat 181 Naiad du Misselot 207 Nakai 55 Narquois 225 Natal 37 181 255 Naunton Brook 112 159 Nenuphar Collonges 65 114 209 Neptune Collonges 128 159 203 258 New Alco 189 Newbay Prop 96 126 Newmill 127 Nickname 95 127 Nirphania 211 No Full 96 229 Noland 191 250 Notable d’Estruval 116 259 Notre Pere 100 220 Old Benny 64 Ollie Magern 9

One Cool Cookie 6 60 119 One Gulp 131 249 Oneway 181 Ornais 16 Orpen Wide 121 Osako d’Airy 134 144 Osana 32 68 190 241 Oscar Honey 217 247 Oscar Rebel 218 Oslot 171 Our Ben 69 Our Bob 140 Our Vic 82 128 197 230 Outlaw Princess 70 Over The Creek 62 89 Overclear 158 Pablo du Charmil 13 Paco Jack 47 223 Pagan Starprincess 182 Pak Jack 39 Pancake 59 171 Papini 42 106 Paramount 81 Parsons Pistol 74 Patman du Charmil 66 105 Pearl King 244 Penzance 68 83 Perce Rock 214 Personal Column 115 154 Pettifour 240 Philson Run 112 Pierrot Lunaire 173 236 Pigeon Island 63 174 Pip ‘n Pop 120 Pomme Tiepy 70 120 141 170 253 Poquelin 14 Possol 201 Pouvoir 63 Preacher Boy 130 Predateur 33 106 Preists Leap 108 126 Psycho 202 Punjabi 150 190 262 Pur de Sivola 91 Quartano 174 Quinmaster 19 Quintana 61 Racing Demon 37 167 Rare Bob 213 Raslan 26 Rathmore Castle 40 Raven’s Run 147 178 Refinement 41 124 180 206 261 Regal Heights 153 Ring Hill 4 Ring The Boss 57 149 232 265 Roll Along 198 Rosaker 18 Royal County Star 220 Royal Heritage 137 Royal Man 48 Royal Rosa 43 Royal Shakespeare 13 Salford City 1 256 Santa’s Son 24 Save The Bacon 222 Savitha 31 138 Scavenger 97 Schindlers Hunt 95 224 Scotsirish 87 169 264 Scriptwriter 182 Sea Diva 48 Secretofshambhala 24 Serabad 90 136 Sesenta 115 Sher Beau 229 Shirley Casper 218 Shoreacres 77 113 Siegemaster 140 Sigma Digital 97 Signatory 12 Silver Jaro 117 202 Silverburn 42 88 142 Silverhand 175 Simon 62 Sir Rembrandt 25

Sizing Europe 32 139 Sky’s The Limit 53 87 Slim Pickings 58 Smugglers Bay 3 Snap Tie 23 193 Snowy Morning 155 176 243 258 Soliya 132 Son of Oscar 219 Sonnyanjoe 26 99 Souffleur 65 103 114 Sound Accord 163 Sound Witness 96 Sovereign King 186 Spaceman 74 Special Envoy 44 Spiderback 175 Squadron 136 Stan 231 248 Starzaan 250 State of Play 9 Straw Bear 83 144 241 Strawberry 226 Sublimity 262 Sunshine Guest 81 Super Wisdom 246 Sweet Kiln 18 51 71 99 125 Takeroc 242 252 Tamarinbleu 66 122 238 Taranis 7 Tatenen 90 Tawnies 215 Tazbar 35 134 163 That’s An Idea 94 The Budgee 137 The Dark Lord 210 The Ethiopian 86 The Flying Dustman 148 The Listener 60 98 155 The Market Man 142 The Nightingale 151 The Tother One 143 209 240 The Wicketkeeper 5 Theatre Girl 132 Thousand Stars 154 Thyne Again 138 179 260 Tiarella 21 Tidal Bay 191 242 Tiger Cry 205 Time To Sell 94 Tom Sayers 15 Torduff King 141 Tot O’Whiskey 186 Touch of Irish 245 Trafford Lad 72 111 208 263 Tranquil Sea 157 263 Tumbling Dice 146 Turko 155 197 Turthen 15 Twist Magic 56 122 255 Uffa Fox 77 Uncle Junior 74 Ungaro 133 Venalmar 111 208 Verasi 64 Vintage Treasure 108 177 Vodka Bleu 80 105 Voice of Reason 113 Voy Por Ustedes 56 92 152 196 238 Warne’s Way 123 143 Wee Robbie 121 142 Well Tutored 183 What A Friend 135 Whatuthink 52 93 Wheresben 228 Whiteoak 134 206 235 Willie Pep 76 Wingman 57 150 Wishwillow Lord 224 Won In The Dark 28 86 154 204 Woodbine Willie 111 178 216 Working Title 158 Yonder 104 Your Sum Man 61 Zaarito 195 Zanir 173

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DATA BOOK Leading sires

Leading NH sires 2007/2008 by earnings Name

Old Vic Presenting Flemensfirth Accordion Oscar Supreme Leader Saddlers’ Hall Beneficial Bob Back Lord Americo In The Wings Pistolet Bleu Zaffaran Roselier Video Rock Villez Village Star Sadler’s Wells Kahyasi Nikos Taipan Alderbrook Montjeu Moscow Society Kalanisi Anshan Overbury Luso Daylami Mansonnien Kayf Tara Mister Lord Dom Alco King’s Theatre Norwich Shernazar Good Thyne Epervier Bleu Germany Winged Love Sir Harry Lewis Unfuwain Apple Tree Alflora Glacial Storm Dr Massini Un Desperado Fourstars Allstar Mister Baileys Turtle Island Turgeon Alzao Diesis Cloudings Classic Cliche Hernando Carroll House Acatenango Lomitas Trempolino Perugino Be My Native Right Win Giant’s Causeway Cyborg Komaite Kadeed Robin des Pres Muhtathir Insan Rainbow Quest Galileo Selkirk Leading Counsel Cadoudal Naheez Nashamaa Arctic Lord Rashar

YOF

1986 1992 1992 1986 1994 1982 1988 1990 1981 1984 1986 1988 1985 1973 1984 1992 1983 1981 1985 1981 1992 1989 1996 1985 1996 1987 1991 1992 1994 1984 1994 1979 1987 1991 1987 1981 1977 1987 1991 1992 1984 1985 1989 1989 1985 1993 1983 1988 1991 1991 1986 1980 1980 1994 1992 1990 1985 1982 1988 1984 1991 1979 1990 1997 1982 1983 1991 1994 1995 1985 1981 1998 1988 1982 1979 1984 1983 1980 1986

Sire

Sadler’s Wells Mtoto Alleged Sadler’s Wells Sadler’s Wells Bustino Sadler’s Wells Top Ville Roberto Lord Gayle Sadler’s Wells Top Ville Assert Misti IV No Lute Lyphard’s Wish Moulin Northern Dancer Ile de Bourbon Nonoalco Last Tycoon Ardross Sadler’s Wells Nijinsky Doyoun Persian Bold Caerleon Salse Doyoun Tip Moss Sadler’s Wells Sir Ivor Dom Pasquini Sadler’s Wells Top Ville Busted Herbager Saint Cyrien Trempolino In The Wings Alleged Northern Dancer Bikala Niniski Arctic Tern Sadler’s Wells Top Ville Compliance Robellino Fairy King Caro Lyphard Sharpen Up Sadler’s Wells Salse Niniski Lord Gayle Surumu Niniski Sharpen Up Danzig Our Native Law Society Storm Cat Arctic Tern Nureyev Sadler’s Wells Cadoudal Elmaamul Our Native Blushing Groom Sadler’s Wells Sharpen Up Alleged Green Dancer Critique Ahonoora Lord Gayle Alleged

Rnrs

182 303 163 172 247 276 249 164 148 146 58 111 117 68 30 24 1 96 44 26 110 77 53 73 19 177 134 130 43 26 107 69 8 87 64 106 58 13 28 17 49 24 9 118 74 93 54 91 14 87 20 21 17 56 95 46 65 28 26 25 31 36 19 21 27 10 8 9 5 28 22 20 45 40 28 32 2 71 53

Wnrs

%WR

Wins

AWD

Plcs

Earnings (£)

51 28.0 65 21.5 45 27.6 51 29.7 56 22.7 69 25.0 48 19.3 37 22.6 41 27.7 30 20.6 19 32.8 26 23.4 31 26.5 19 27.9 13 43.3 12 50.0 1 100.0 27 28.1 12 27.3 7 26.9 26 23.6 17 22.1 18 34.0 13 17.8 5 26.3 25 14.1 30 22.4 18 13.9 19 44.2 9 34.6 28 26.2 21 30.4 4 50.0 27 31.0 22 34.4 24 22.6 12 20.7 5 38.5 5 17.9 2 11.8 17 34.7 8 33.3 3 33.3 21 17.8 16 21.6 19 20.4 13 24.1 12 13.2 3 21.4 15 17.2 4 20.0 4 19.1 8 47.1 15 26.8 14 14.7 13 28.3 16 24.6 12 42.9 11 42.3 6 24.0 6 19.4 12 33.3 5 26.3 8 38.1 7 25.9 2 20.0 3 37.5 6 66.7 4 80.0 6 21.4 6 27.3 8 40.0 9 20.0 12 30.0 9 32.1 8 25.0 1 50.0 10 14.1 9 17.0

65 96 69 77 77 95 69 56 58 46 29 37 43 30 18 20 3 39 19 15 42 25 28 21 9 35 41 24 32 11 48 28 7 42 29 33 15 7 10 4 28 10 8 32 19 29 18 18 6 17 6 5 11 23 18 23 19 19 13 13 9 18 9 12 10 2 4 10 7 9 15 11 12 13 11 9 2 12 12

21.9 20.2 19.7 20.0 19.7 20.2 19.4 18.8 19.2 20.7 18.9 19.6 22.0 22.7 21.1 20.0 23.2 19.3 18.6 18.1 19.6 21.1 16.9 18.8 16.8 19.6 19.1 20.2 17.3 20.7 19.2 21.8 22.8 18.6 19.8 19.4 20.5 20.0 17.8 16.1 21.0 18.5 21.1 20.1 20.1 19.6 20.4 19.9 19.8 17.3 20.4 17.4 17.5 22.2 21.8 19.5 20.0 18.8 17.7 16.6 17.5 21.3 21.0 18.3 19.1 16.3 20.9 19.0 18.9 19.0 18.5 19.1 17.3 21.8 20.2 20.1 29.0 18.9 20.1

184 270 184 162 234 232 191 153 130 118 50 89 117 73 39 37 3 125 47 30 95 81 53 58 20 118 124 95 44 30 95 63 11 73 73 86 50 16 20 15 56 31 10 70 71 77 45 59 10 62 22 24 17 40 120 48 52 39 30 41 34 47 8 23 36 10 9 21 19 27 25 15 32 34 37 31 3 66 28

1,613,478 1,436,041 1,155,496 1,119,953 1,022,062 866,854 741,762 741,457 673,715 592,142 582,554 550,250 544,529 543,364 529,249 501,245 471,032 464,337 455,217 436,297 432,229 387,063 386,849 383,601 381,004 372,218 371,066 367,025 352,694 352,044 350,462 334,800 331,429 327,733 304,335 297,774 296,583 293,224 265,451 252,836 252,117 245,556 245,423 239,560 230,301 223,955 222,074 220,877 220,506 219,987 217,902 217,522 215,139 211,667 206,493 203,645 202,193 200,924 200,659 199,942 198,665 196,695 196,120 193,190 189,818 185,986 183,740 168,253 166,059 162,492 162,448 161,004 159,778 150,916 150,568 150,520 149,584 142,868 142,522

Top horse

Earned (£)

Comply Or Die Denman Tidal Bay Albertas Run Big Zeb Pettifour Old Benny Gungadu Farmer Brown Knowhere Inglis Drever Sizing Europe Scotsirish The Listener Osana Voy Por Ustedes Kauto Star Ashkazar Kasbah Bliss Master Minded Earth Magic Ollie Magern Won In The Dark Snowy Morning Katchit Clew Bay Cove Ballyfitz Hear The Echo Pigeon Island Mansony Venalmar Mister Top Notch Neptune Collonges Mister Watzisname Gazza’s Girl Bewleys Berry Thyne Again Tamarinbleu Conna Castle Twist Magic Burntoakboy Hoo La Baloo Lough Derg Hobbs Hill Cool Running Psycho Candy Girl Chomba Womba Blazing Bailey Liskennett Exotic Dancer Al Eile Straw Bear Cloudy Lane Wonderkid One Gulp Roll Along Jazz Messenger Aitmatov Franchoek Harchibald Hi Cloy Brave Right Jack The Giant L’Antartique Punjabi Mossbank Marodima Kruguyrova Sir Frederick Elusive Dream Celestial Halo Sublimity Justified Big Buck’s High Chimes Miko de Beauchene Lord Ryeford Macs Flamingo

486,400 466,103 204,396 147,181 90,845 63,445 68,536 95,554 105,372 111,512 215,982 130,549 73,424 138,206 246,658 280,328 471,033 62,514 84,298 269,412 44,577 60,380 133,082 158,917 321,935 47,486 74,260 104,044 109,863 93,376 60,893 86,919 217,239 28,761 30,500 42,670 111,046 187,153 100,674 236,148 36,718 129,064 140,023 45,533 34,336 27,643 53,537 72,585 190,193 69,265 102,922 166,380 100,742 72,260 23,783 38,912 47,490 90,436 105,000 105,628 73,493 49,066 143,971 111,128 78,134 173,574 163,397 56,890 85,485 92,478 83,870 103,931 60,639 46,564 63,544 40,714 149,107 20,251 27,113

Old Vic and co continue Irishbased command Despite Presenting notching yet another Grade 1 success, via Jered in the Champion Novice Hurdle at Punchestown, Old Vic duly emerged as champion jumps sire.

This continued the nowinescapable tradition of seeing an Irish-based stallion triumph.

In fact, one has to look a long way down the table to find the mainstays among British sires, notably Overbury, Kayf Tara and Alflora.

There is little chance of this circumstance changing, though great white hope Kayf Tara, who had 107 runners compared with 303 for runnerup Presenting, is undoubtedly one to watch.

One notable aspect of the final table – and hardly an encouraging one for British stallion masters – is the relative youth of the leaders.

Among the top ten, Presenting, Flemensfirth, Oscar and Beneficial are all aged under 20, suggesting that the shape of the list may not change much in the foreseeable future. I

All statistics up to May 4

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DATA BOOK Leading sires

Leading sires in Europe 2008 by earnings Name

Pivotal Verglas Slickly Galileo Orpen Anabaa Kingmambo Danehill Dancer Desert Prince Marju Montjeu Anabaa Blue Divine Light Cape Cross Sadler’s Wells Rock Of Gibraltar King’s Best Kendor Singspiel Invincible Spirit Linamix Barathea Peintre Celebre Dr Fong Poliglote Cadeaux Genereux Fasliyev Dansili Royal Applause Danetime Diktat Marchand de Sable Dr Devious Danehill Take Risks Big Shuffle Red Ransom Spectrum Halling Highest Honor Enrique Medicean Xaar King Charlemagne Selkirk Indian Rocket Green Desert Daylami Nayef Bertolini Hawk Wing Elnadim Zafonic Vettori Hernando Trempolino High Chaparral Compton Place Alhaarth Monsun Oasis Dream Tiger Hill Loup Solitaire Stravinsky Desert Style Sendawar Green Tune Kingsalsa Namid Daggers Drawn Intikhab Lomitas Starborough Majorien Ski Chief Le Triton Kaldounevees Elusive Quality Mujahid

YOF

1993 1994 1996 1998 1996 1992 1990 1993 1995 1988 1996 1998 1995 1994 1981 1999 1997 1986 1992 1997 1987 1990 1994 1995 1992 1985 1997 1996 1993 1994 1995 1990 1989 1986 1989 1984 1987 1992 1991 1983 1996 1997 1995 1998 1988 1994 1983 1994 1998 1996 1999 1994 1990 1992 1990 1984 1999 1994 1993 1990 2000 1995 1993 1996 1992 1996 1991 1996 1996 1995 1994 1988 1994 1994 1988 1993 1991 1993 1996

Sire

Rnrs

Wnrs

%WR

Wins

AWD

Polar Falcon 93 Highest Honor 113 Linamix 53 Sadler’s Wells 82 Lure 117 Danzig 84 Mr Prospector 37 Danehill 101 Green Desert 105 Last Tycoon 79 Sadler’s Wells 80 Anabaa 57 Sunday Silence 7 Green Desert 118 Northern Dancer 69 Danehill 54 Kingmambo 109 Kenmare 59 In The Wings 82 Green Desert 72 Mendez 66 Sadler’s Wells 103 Nureyev 76 Kris S 108 Sadler’s Wells 58 Young Generation 67 Nureyev 115 Danehill 77 Waajib 96 Danehill 87 Warning 100 Theatrical 67 Ahonoora 83 Danzig 42 Highest Honor 80 Super Concorde 92 Roberto 56 Rainbow Quest 91 Diesis 46 Kenmare 60 Barathea 47 Machiavellian 70 Zafonic 82 Nureyev 77 Sharpen Up 54 Indian Ridge 48 Danzig 52 Doyoun 73 Gulch 32 Danzig 115 Woodman 62 Danzig 63 Gone West 33 Machiavellian 68 Niniski 62 Sharpen Up 59 Sadler’s Wells 38 Indian Ridge 90 Unfuwain 70 Konigsstuhl 47 Green Desert 47 Danehill 38 Lear Fan 51 Nureyev 48 Green Desert 57 Priolo 35 Green Dancer 37 Kingmambo 59 Indian Ridge 99 Diesis 67 Red Ransom 61 Niniski 61 Soviet Star 54 Machiavellian 43 Chief’s Crown 40 El Gran Senor 23 Kaldoun 50 Gone West 28 Danzig 58

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

37.6 28.3 30.2 20.7 29.9 20.2 24.3 19.8 32.4 26.6 22.5 21.1 42.9 23.7 13.0 35.2 22.9 18.6 29.3 34.7 21.2 21.4 18.4 25.0 24.1 29.9 20.0 20.8 21.9 36.8 18.0 14.9 36.1 21.4 17.5 25.0 32.1 24.2 37.0 20.0 29.8 21.4 22.0 28.6 18.5 29.2 32.7 20.6 21.9 22.6 12.9 19.1 51.5 35.3 24.2 22.0 21.1 25.6 27.1 21.3 27.7 31.6 23.5 33.3 17.5 31.4 24.3 17.0 15.2 31.3 29.5 24.6 16.7 16.3 22.5 39.1 10.0 35.7 27.6

45 38 26 20 47 23 11 25 45 26 19 13 4 35 10 23 29 18 36 32 17 29 16 38 19 29 28 18 36 50 24 10 37 9 17 30 18 28 17 14 17 20 24 27 11 16 24 18 7 31 10 16 28 28 17 13 9 34 23 11 13 17 13 23 13 14 12 15 20 33 21 19 11 9 13 14 5 13 23

7.7 9.1 9.5 10.4 8.0 9.3 8.5 7.4 8.6 8.6 10.5 8.9 7.7 8.5 10.9 9.5 8.8 8.7 10.4 7.3 10.9 8.2 9.8 9.0 11.0 7.1 7.5 9.8 6.8 7.3 7.1 8.8 8.9 9.3 10.2 7.2 8.6 8.0 10.0 10.6 10.1 8.4 8.2 8.3 9.1 8.6 7.8 10.5 9.1 6.8 9.3 7.5 9.9 10.3 11.4 10.0 9.4 6.8 9.2 11.6 7.2 10.0 9.7 7.8 8.0 10.4 9.7 8.4 5.8 8.2 8.3 9.7 11.0 10.1 8.8 9.3 10.8 9.0 8.6

All statistics up to May 4

90 THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER JUNE 2008

Earnings (£) Top horse

490,133 430,059 427,698 339,703 322,123 320,179 317,214 311,908 304,507 300,788 284,000 279,144 275,438 272,644 255,171 254,802 246,006 245,660 242,967 241,186 227,083 226,248 222,471 221,106 221,022 218,799 218,180 216,937 209,525 208,614 208,587 206,367 201,271 199,711 199,122 196,652 194,499 191,366 188,243 186,251 182,852 180,308 176,677 176,544 176,508 173,251 170,838 169,010 166,724 166,014 163,280 161,913 161,313 161,119 160,349 160,316 159,356 159,304 157,266 154,431 153,753 153,309 153,198 152,196 151,743 151,172 150,661 149,577 148,964 142,284 140,899 140,706 140,384 139,768 139,742 138,253 137,080 136,687 136,449

Infallible Quick Bere Gris de Gris New Approach Lessing Bluefields Henrythenavigator Snaefell Eustachione Marjalina Court Canibal Spirit One Natagora Re Barolo Saddex Truly Mine Benodet Calbuco Cymbal Miss Denmark Top Toss Jumbajukiba Proponent Lang Shining Round Stone Major Cadeaux Dalle Famous Name Silver Hotspur Cochlear Mundybash Sablier Noir Saltagioo Duke Of Marmalade Guanaderia Konig Turf Moiqen Paging The King Hattan Rue de Lappe Riobamba d’Ho Eire Chief Xodipo Rey Davis Blythe Knight Indran Dixie Girl Roscoff Spacious Hyksos Stubbs Art Alleluja Angel Zizany Tarpon Trois Rois Farlino Senlis Scamperdale Trevelez Getaway Captain Gerrard Oriental Tiger El General Le Rossignol Paco Boy Mister des Aigles Volverta Fantasy King Northern Empire Palms Of Victory Slugger O’Toole Gimmy Vahayna Major d’Helene Salut L’Africain Poly Dance Too Nice Raven’s Pass Balius

Earned (£)

SH

%SH

SW

%SW

48,522 10 29,779 1 110,184 4 80,700 6 29,044 2 60,750 4 212,888 2 39,969 9 45,808 5 47,868 6 29,118 6 63,037 4 233,108 1 38,707 2 50,426 7 33,507 5 26,809 1 57,353 1 34,191 1 18,309 4 31,985 2 33,456 3 32,790 1 21,808 4 21,250 1 55,195 4 14,294 1 33,507 5 18,262 2 23,624 0 28,500 2 13,566 0 18,750 0 126,044 4 13,419 0 29,412 6 43,338 2 19,081 2 66,894 3 19,853 0 27,353 0 32,206 0 39,610 0 15,662 0 27,157 4 19,191 0 17,463 2 31,471 1 80,700 3 13,625 2 40,854 4 24,825 3 43,118 0 22,647 0 20,588 3 18,971 0 67,465 1 15,831 0 27,316 1 51,093 3 28,385 5 52,941 5 13,713 0 23,250 1 60,750 1 25,368 1 28,382 0 30,221 0 13,879 0 11,312 1 16,408 1 17,500 1 13,603 0 22,610 2 24,265 1 23,235 1 30,000 1 30,898 4 18,456 1

10.8 0.9 7.6 7.3 1.7 4.8 5.4 8.9 4.8 7.6 7.5 7.0 14.3 1.7 10.1 9.3 0.9 1.7 1.2 5.6 3.0 2.9 1.3 3.7 1.7 6.0 0.9 6.5 2.1 0 2.0 0 0 9.5 0 6.5 3.6 2.2 6.5 0 0 0 0 0 7.4 0 3.9 1.4 9.4 1.7 6.5 4.8 0 0 4.8 0 2.6 0 1.4 6.4 10.6 13.2 0 2.1 1.8 2.9 0 0 0 1.5 1.6 1.6 0 4.7 2.5 4.4 2.0 14.3 1.7

4 0 2 3 1 3 2 4 1 2 2 3 1 1 4 4 0 1 0 2 1 2 0 1 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 1 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0

4.3 0 3.8 3.7 0.9 3.6 5.4 4.0 1.0 2.5 2.5 5.3 14.3 0.9 5.8 7.4 0 1.7 0 2.8 1.5 1.9 0 0.9 0 3.0 0 3.9 0 0 0 0 0 2.4 0 1.1 3.6 0 4.4 0 0 0 0 0 1.9 0 0 0 3.1 0 0 1.6 0 0 0 0 2.6 0 0 6.4 2.1 5.3 0 2.1 1.8 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.6 0 0 2.5 0 0 0 0

Pivotal’s rivals wary of mares bearing fruit Pivotal’s status as the toppriced stallion standing in Britain is acknowledged, and he has made a splendid start to the campaign.

This is surely, in part, because the improved quality of the mares he has been covering over the last five years or so following his initial success is beginning to bear fruit.

Certainly 11% stakes horses and four stakes winners headed

by Infallible make impressive reading, and put him at the top of the pile.

Mind you, in that respect Pivotal is not far ahead of nowretired Sadler’s Wells, who is on 10% stakes horses and four stakes winners. Time will tell, but perhaps the old stager will be launching another title challenge.

Of the top five sires in earnings, Pivotal and fourthplaced Galileo can both be expected to make their presence felt throughout the season.

The same is not guaranteed for the other three, Verglas, Slickly and Orpen. Well done to them, though, for hitting the gate running. I

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Starts here: British and Irish-bred winners overseas Breeder

Winner

Sire

Date

Racecourse

Distance

Ahmed bin Rashid al Maktoum, Sheikh

Mojjedd

Lion Cavern (USA)

Age/sex Dam

8h

Chief Ornament (USA)

Ctry

Ity

30/4/08

Grosseto

1m3f

Airlie Stud

El Rey

Lend A Hand

4c

Surfing

Swe

24/4/08

Taby

6f

£2,719

Airlie Stud & R N Clay

Spiffing

Indian Ridge

4c

Stunning (USA)

Gny

20/4/08

Krefeld

7f

£1,507

Allan, D

Hardy Norseman

Mull Of Kintyre (USA)

5g

Miss Willow Bend (USA) Swe

22/3/08

Jagersro

6f

£2,641

Allan, D

Hardy Norseman

Mull Of Kintyre (USA)

5g

Miss Willow Bend (USA) Swe

03/4/08

Jagersro

6f

Balding, P

Mission

Komaite (USA)

4c

Leominda

30/3/08

Sha Tin

1m

£21,669

Ballina Stud Ltd

Ventana

Fath (USA)

3f

Beyond Doubt

Ity

23/3/08

Rome

1m

£6,875

Ballygallon Stud Limited

Banja

Hernando (FR)

4f

Barbizou (FR)

Bel

22/3/08

Mons

7f110y

Ballyhane Stud

Matter Of Magic

Daggers Drawn (USA)

3f

Garnock Academy (USA) Ity

20/4/08

Milan

1m110y

Ballymacoll Stud Farm Ltd

Allegoria

Spectrum

3f

Alignment

Ity

26/4/08

Milan

1m

£5,625

Banahan, Joe and Edel

Fay Choy Ichiban

Intikhab (USA)

3g

Al Amlah (USA)

Hk

30/3/08

Sha Tin

5f

£27,545

Baronrath & Baroda Studs

Piety

Danehill (USA)

5m

Quest of Passion (FR)

Aus

25/4/08

Moe

2m187y

£7,159

Barronstown Stud

Richly Of Liberty

Statue Of Liberty (USA)

3f

Richly Deserved

Ity

01/4/08

Rome

7f

£2,187

Bates, Miss Susan

Daggers Tango

Daggers Drawn (USA)

3c

Gold Air

Ity

12/4/08

Milan

1m2f

£3,125

Beever, J M

Bounty Med

Bahamian Bounty

3c

Bee Gee

Ity

13/4/08

Siracusa

1m1f

£968

Belgrave Bloodstock & Elite Bstock

Rockfonic

Rock Of Gibraltar

4c

Procession

Swe

10/4/08

Taby

1m2f

£2,719

Bergin, P

Park Med

Atraf

3c

Shadow Princess

Ity

13/4/08

Siracusa

6f

£968

Bourke, O

Lady Lily

Desert Sun

4f

Sheila Blige

Den

25/4/08

Copenhagen

6f

£2,459

Brady, Philip

Trumspect

Spectrum

4c

Wattrey

Ity

23/4/08

Grosseto

1m3f

£1,093

Brady, Philip

Vegas Star

Spinning World (USA)

4f

Burmese Princess (USA) Ity

14/4/08

Tagliacozzo

1m

£2,500

Hk

Prize-money

£1,093

£2,719

£735 £2,187

Brand, Dieter

King Fernando

Silver Patriarch

5g

Kastelruth

Gny

06/4/08

Cologne

1m3f

Brown, Slatch Farm Stud & J Berry, David J

Carnegie Hall

Danehill (USA)

6h

Bolshaya

Hk

09/4/08

Happy Valley

5f

£1,691

Brunton, Sir Gordon

La Data di Giulio

Generous

3f

Persian Victory

Ity

17/4/08

Pisa

1m1f110y

£2,500

Buckley, C C

Wild Daughter

Bachir

6m

Wild Woman

Ity

15/4/08

Rome

7f

£2,187

Butler, Martin

Fragolina Med

Chevalier

3f

Delia

Ity

27/4/08

Siracusa

1m2f

£968

Butler, Miss Catherine

Sandy Med

Iron Mask (USA)

3f

Anamara

Ity

06/4/08

Siracusa

5f110y

£968

£21,669

CAS

Musical Feud

Distant Music (USA)

3g

Family At War (USA)

Bel

26/4/08

Mons

1m2f110y

Castleton Group

Green Lyons

Green Desert (USA)

4f

Spinnette

Usa

10/4/08

Santa Anita

1m1f

£18,392

£919

Chaplin, Miss J

Officer Rocket

Officer (USA)

4c

Ocean View (USA)

Usa

02/4/08

Oaklawn Park

6f

£11,457

Cheng & A Smith, N

Miss Maybe

Hawk Wing (USA)

3f

Pintada de Fresco (FR)

Fr

28/4/08

Agen

1m4f110y

£3,676

Cheveley Park Stud Limited

Authentic

Pivotal

3c

Red Passion (USA)

Ity

25/4/08

Rome

7f110y

£4,687

Cheveley Park Stud Ltd

Shotgun Charlie

Groom Dancer (USA)

6g

Twilight Patrol

Nor

17/4/08

Ovrevoll

1m

£1,843

Cheveley Park Stud Ltd

Gesture

Bahri (USA)

6h

Stark Ballet (USA)

Ity

20/4/08

Rome

6f

£6,875

Cheveley Park Stud Ltd

Ilbaritz

Zilzal (USA)

4c

Radiant

Fr

21/4/08

Longchamp

1m110y

£8,088

Churchtown House Stud

Missit

Orpen (USA)

3f

High Spot

Usa

05/4/08

Santa Anita

1m

Citadel Stud

Albisola

Montjeu

3f

Mahalia

Fr

06/4/08

Longchamp

1m1f55y

Classic Bloodstock

Senorita Best

Best Of The Bests

4f

Classic Fan (USA)

Ity

30/4/08

Grosseto

1m

Clifford, Mrs S

Neardown Queen

Lugana Beach

5m

Polgwynne

Swe

03/4/08

Jagersro

1m143y

£1,554

Cliveden Stud Ltd

Vraona

Fantastic Light (USA)

3f

Laughing Girl (USA)

Fr

10/4/08

Longchamp

1m2f

£9,191

Cloneen Stud

Cottonmouth

Noverre (USA)

4f

Nafzira

Ity

20/4/08

Rome

1m2f

£6,875

Colclough, Bernard

Kikee

Mujadil (USA)

8h

Torrmana

Ity

06/4/08

Treviso

1m55y

£1,093

£45,226 (Gr2) £20,221(L) £968

Conaghan, M

Mukazazu

Mukaddamah (USA)

7h

Zazu

Ity

05/4/08

Milan

1m2f

£1,875

Condon, J C

Aneebee

Fraam

3f

Emilia Romagna (GER)

Swe

20/3/08

Taby

1m2f

£1,942

Connolly, Sean

Get Ready

Orpen (USA)

3c

Bragain Flower

Spa

30/3/08

Zarzuela

7f110y

£4,044

Coogan, M

Alex Cookie

Val Royal (FR)

3c

White Caps

Spa

06/4/08

Zarzuela

1m

£4,044

Corrin Stud

Soviet Hope

Soviet Star (USA)

5m

Najda

Ity

01/4/08

Rome

7f110y

£2,500

Costelloe, Mrs J

Commissariomaigret

Rossini (USA)

3c

Brentsville (USA)

Ity

29/4/08

Rome

7f

£4,687

Cottrell, Laurent

Deja Super

Priolo (USA)

4f

Hier Deja (FR)

Fr

22/4/08

Saint-Cloud

1m2f110y

£6,250

County Down Bloodstock

Cold Corner

Monashee Mountain (USA) 4 c

Formidable Liz

Ity

12/4/08

Corridonia

5f

Crangle, B J and Mrs

Foxysox

Foxhound (USA)

5m

Triple Tricks

Usa

19/4/08

Santa Anita

1m2f

Dalton, Michael

Oleandro

Sri Pekan (USA)

8h

Galyph (USA)

Swi

13/4/08

Avenches

1m

£2,133

Darley

Mina Alsalaam

Lujain (USA)

6m

Rain And Shine (FR)

Hun

06/4/08

Budapest

6f110y

£1,220

Darley

Princeton

Maria’s Mon (USA)

4c

Enrich (USA)

Usa

27/4/08

Bay Meadows

1m

£3,317

Darley

Estacion Central

Lomitas

4c

Kameez

Spa

13/4/08

Zarzuela

1m3f

£3,676

Darley

Walamba

King’s Best (USA)

3f

Sisal

Fr

20/4/08

Chalons En Champagne 1m2f110y

£968 £60,302 (Gr2)

£3,676

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DATA BOOK

British and Irish-bred winners overseas Breeder

Winner

Sire

Dam

Ctry

Racecourse

Distance

Darley

Sensibility

Halling (USA)

Age/sex

3f

Blixen (USA)

Fr

27/4/08

Date

Nantes

1m4f

Prize-money

£5,147

Darley

Foreign Raider

Lend A Hand

5m

Chania

Spa

27/4/08

Zarzuela

1m

£5,882

Darley

Antiquities

Kaldounevees (FR)

3f

Historian

Fr

06/4/08

Longchamp

1m2f

£8,088

Darley

Fairy Duster

Green Desert (USA)

3f

Jomana

Fr

17/4/08

Argentan

1m4f110y

Darley

Rebellion

Mozart

5h

Last Resort

Usa

12/4/08

Keeneland

7f

£124,623 (Gr2) £6,854

£8,456

Davison, J

Funmaker

Xaar

5h

Indian Imp

Usa

11/4/08

Keeneland

6f

Dayton Investments Ltd

Mount Kenya

Freedom Cry

6g

Mountain Spirit

Fr

17/4/08

Argentan

1m1f165y

£5,147

Dayton Investments Ltd

Artaban

Peintre Celebre (USA)

3c

Ange Bleu (USA)

Fr

27/4/08

Longchamp

1m3f

£8,088

Dayton Investments Ltd

Loup Breton

Anabaa (USA)

4c

Louve (USA)

Fr

06/4/08

Longchamp

1m2f

£54,485 (Gr2)

de Moratalla, Marquesa

In Chambers

Oasis Dream

3c

Cas Royaux (USA)

Fr

22/4/08

Saint-Cloud

1m

De Vere Hunt, Des

Beckina

Beckett

5m

Cashel Princess

Nor

24/4/08

Ovrevoll

5f110y

Donlon, Brian

Some Night

Night Shift (USA)

6m

Some Merit

Nor

24/4/08

Ovrevoll

5f110y

£2,074

Dowling, P

Col d’Aspen

Orpen (USA)

4f

Need You Badly

Ity

21/4/08

Tagliacozzo

1m

£1,250

Downclose Stud

Minnow

Averti

4f

Tharwa

Bel

22/3/08

Mons

1m2f110y

£1,103

Downey, Michael

Carlos Girl

Sri Pekan (USA)

9m

Sliding

Swe

20/4/08

Jagersro

1m143y

£2,253

£12,500 £1,843

Droney, Pat

Dynamic Power

Namid

3c

Hunzy

Ity

25/4/08

Rome

6f

£3,750

Dunderry Stud

Jiffies Flyer

Desert Story

7m

Moon Dust

Gny

12/4/08

Halle

7f110y

£1,507

Dunne, Frank

Kokkola

Daylami

3f

Sidelined

Ity

20/4/08

Rome

1m1f

£5,625

Ecurie Skymarc Farm

High Rock

Rock Of Gibraltar

3c

Hint Of Silver (USA)

Fr

13/4/08

Longchamp

1m2f

£29,412 (Gr3)

Emerald Bloodstock

Asiatic Lady

Averti

3f

Fineline

Fr

27/4/08

Macon-Cluny

1m4f55y

Emerald Bloodstock

Red And Black

Efisio

4f

Astoria

Ity

20/4/08

Rome

7f110y

£4,687

Enniskillen College of Agriculture

Rita Jet’aime

Orpen (USA)

4f

Sunset Park

Ity

23/4/08

Grosseto

1m165y

£1,093

Ennistown Stud

Powerful Runner

Bertolini (USA)

5m

Borneo

Kor

12/4/08

Seoul

1m1f

Erhardt, Joachim

Zaungast

Alkalde (GER)

4c

Zauberwelt

Gny

13/4/08

Frankfurt

1m2f

Ernst & Castletown Stud, R

Newly Elected

Acclamation

3c

Assafiyah

Hk

12/4/08

Sha Tin

7f

£4,044

£13,799 £2,206 £38,563

Fairhaven, Lady

Black Duke

Diktat

3c

Cool Question

Swe

13/3/08

Taby

6f165y

Ferris, Brendan

Varoshiro

Titus Livius (FR)

6h

Wheatsheaf Lady

Hun

20/4/08

Budapest

7f

£1,942 £2,353

Foy, C J

Russian Rosie

Traditionally (USA)

4f

Pink Sovietstaia (FR)

Usa

23/4/08

Keeneland

1m

£13,958

Gahan, Patrick

Twin Peaks

Monashee Mountain (USA) 6 g

Goldenfort Queen

Bel

22/3/08

Mons

1m2f110y

£1,103

Gahan, Patrick

Twin Peaks

Monashee Mountain (USA) 6 g

Goldenfort Queen

Bel

06/4/08

Mons

1m3f110y

£1,471

Gainsborough Stud Management Ltd

Point Pleasant

Grand Lodge (USA)

5g

Follow That Dream

Hol

23/3/08

Duindigt

1m1f

£941

Gainsborough Stud Management Ltd

Paradise Search

Rainbow Quest (USA)

4f

Moonlight Paradise (USA)Gny

05/4/08

Dortmund

1m1f

£1,360

Gestut Romerhof

Masako

High Chaparral

3f

Medina

Gny

20/4/08

Hannover

1m

£2,206

Glebe Stud & Mrs F Woodd

Diamond Diva

Dansili

4f

Vivianna

Usa

30/3/08

Santa Anita

1m

£23,352 (L)

Glebe Stud & Mrs F Woodd

Diamond Diva

Dansili

4f

Vivianna

Usa

23/4/08

Hollywood Park

1m

£33,407 (Gr3)

Halligan, M J

Petite Cherie

Fasliyev (USA)

4f

Diamant

Usa

19/4/08

Santa Anita

6f

Hames, Mrs S

Lunar Wind

Piccolo

7g

Faraway Moon

Aut

20/4/08

Magna Racino

6f

£1,324

Hanly, Mrs A

Mac Sissi

Barathea

5m

Twin Logic (USA)

Ity

27/4/08

Florence

7f110y

£1,562

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The data published in this section is restricted to breeders based in Great Britain or Ireland, as determined by the address used when the foal was first registered. Some foreign-based breeders may be included if the mare was boarded in Great Britain or Ireland and is registered as being ‘care of’ a domestic breeder. Performance data covers results processed by Weatherbys during April Breeder

Winner

Sire

Age/sex Dam

Ctry

Racecourse

Distance

Haras Chevotel

Tres Rapide

Anabaa Blue

3f

Tres Ravi (GER)

Fr

14/4/08

Date

Maisons-Laffitte

1m4f

Prize-money

Haras du Mezeray

Jodhpur

Pivotal

4c

Khumba Mela

Fr

28/4/08

Maisons-Laffitte

1m

Hascombe & Valiant Studs

Ave Ransom

Red Ransom (USA)

3c

Animatrice (USA)

Chr

20/4/08

Velka Chuchle

1m1f13y

Hascombe & Valiant Studs

Leo

Pivotal

5h

Miss Penton

Usa

23/4/08

Aqueduct

1m

£15,980

£12,500 £9,559 £1,174

Hatta Bloodstock

Fantastic Reign

Muhtarram (USA)

5m

Dhuhook (USA)

Swe

24/4/08

Taby

1m

£1,942

Headon, P F

Leonardohand

Golan

4c

Kayoko

Ity

20/4/08

Milan

7f110y

£3,125

Heatrick, Thomas

Kooragan

Sesaro (USA)

8h

Brunswick

Ity

08/4/08

Rome

6f

£2,187

Helshaw Grange Stud Ltd

Barbarossa

Beat All (USA)

3c

Gagajulu

Swe

06/3/08

Taby

6f

£2,719

Hesmonds Stud Ltd

Celtinger

Celtic Swing

9h

Tea Colony (USA)

Ity

28/4/08

Varese

1m2f110y

£3,125

Highfort Stud

Boss Mak

Shinko Forest

5g

Lucky Achievement (USA)Gny

19/4/08

Dusseldorf

1m4f

£1,912

His Highness the Aga Khan’s Studs SC

Sharpour

Desert Sun

4c

Sharamana

Chr

13/4/08

Velka Chuchle

1m1f

His Highness the Aga Khan’s Studs SC

Shadiyna

Dubai Destination (USA)

3f

Shamadara

Fr

28/4/08

Maisons-Laffitte

1m2f110y

£829 £8,088

His Highness the Aga Khan’s Studs SC

Zarkava

Zamindar (USA)

3f

Zarkasha

Fr

13/4/08

Longchamp

1m

Hogan, Miss Jane

Delta Fox

Imperial Ballet

4c

Rivers Rainbow

Spa

20/4/08

Zarzuela

7f

£3,676

Howard Barton Stud

Italian Stallion

Grand Lodge (USA)

4c

Belle Allemande (CAN)

Aut

20/4/08

Magna Racino

1m1f

£2,316

Bel

26/4/08

Mons

1m3f

21/4/08

Tagliacozzo

6f165y

£29,412 (Gr3)

Hubbard Rodwell, S and S

Captain Bolsh

Tagula

5g

Bolshoi Star

Iceton, D G

Dear Madda

Honour And Glory (USA)

5m

Johnny And Clyde (USA) Ity

£735

Irish National Stud

Paint In Green

Invincible Spirit

4f

Theory Of Law

Ity

01/4/08

Rome

1m110y

Irish National Stud

Daytona

Indian Ridge

4g

Kyka (USA)

Usa

05/4/08

Santa Anita

1m

£45,226 (Gr2)

Juddmonte Farms Ltd

Triple Beat

Beat Hollow

4c

Three More (USA)

Gny

13/4/08

Mulheim

1m

£3,676

Juddmonte Farms Ltd

Coastal Path

Halling (USA)

4c

Coraline

Fr

27/4/08

Longchamp

1m7f110y £29,412 (Gr3)

Keatly Overseas Ltd

Lord Snooty

Traditionally (USA)

3c

Actualite

Usa

11/4/08

Laurel

1m

Kells & Margaret Christie, D

Alhamazing

Alhaarth

5h

Bee Off

Ity

19/4/08

Corridonia

6f165y

Kelly, Patrick F

Emil

Rock Of Gibraltar

3c

Dionea

Swe

06/3/08

Taby

1m2f

£1,250 £6,875

£6,874 £968 £1,942

Kennedy, B

Art Basel

Clodovil

3c

Sticky Green

Ity

23/4/08

Milan

7f110y

£5,625

Kennedy, B

Emerald Hill

Piccolo

4c

Sticky Green

Hk

09/4/08

Happy Valley

1m55y

£38,563

Kilcarn Stud

Magadan

High Chaparral

3c

Molasses (FR)

Fr

06/4/08

Longchamp

1m2f

Kilfrush Stud

Winter Dream

Act One

4c

Settler

Fr

06/4/08

Longchamp

1m7f110y

Killeen Castle Stud

Humbolt

Ashkalani

8h

Midnight Angel

Swi

06/4/08

Avenches

1m

Kingwood Partnership, The

Ibio

Poliglote

5h

Morning Queen (GER)

Fr

27/4/08

Tarbes

1m6f

Knockainey Stud

Musical High

Mozart

5m

Blew Her Top (USA)

Usa

24/4/08

Hollywood Park

1m

£13,266

£8,088 £16,588 £2,560 £3,676

Landi, E

Mr Hicks

Desert Prince

5h

Michelle Hicks

Ity

22/4/08

Rome

1m

£1,562

Larkwood Stud

Champion Place

Compton Place

5m

Villa Via

Ity

04/4/08

Rome

5f

£6,875

Liesack, C G A

Smoke Alarm

Almutawakel

5h

Allarm Grey (USA)

Hol

06/4/08

Duindigt

1m1f

Limetree Stud Ltd

Desert Attack

Daggers Drawn (USA)

4f

Lasca Creek

Ity

09/4/08

Grosseto

1m165y

£1,093

Limetree Stud Ltd

Desert Attack

Daggers Drawn (USA)

4f

Lasca Creek

Ity

24/4/08

Chilivani

1m

£1,405

Lino, S

Luxury Baby

Hawk Wing (USA)

3c

Sopran Lori (USA)

Ity

12/4/08

Milan

1m

£3,125

Lino, S

Luxury Baby

Hawk Wing (USA)

3c

Sopran Lori (USA)

Ity

21/4/08

Varese

7f110y

£3,125

£544

Lisselan Farms Ltd

Amazing Charlie

King Charlemagne (USA) 5 m

Amazonian (CAN)

Spa

27/4/08

Zarzuela

1m4f

£3,676

London Thoroughbred Services Ltd

Victorian Prince

Desert Prince

Miss Lorilaw (FR)

Usa

05/4/08

Santa Anita

1m6f

£22,613

Loughtown Stud

Radhakunda

Galileo

3f

Nawasib

Ity

13/4/08

Milan

1m110y

Loughtown Stud

Doraq

Spinning World (USA)

3f

Royal Ulay (FR)

Spa

06/4/08

Zarzuela

7f

£7,353

Loughtown Stud

Fruela

Fasliyev (USA)

3c

Gold Dodger (USA)

Fr

24/4/08

Chantilly

1m4f110y

£9,191

4c

£5,625

Lunn, N

Double Friend

Zaha (CAN)

4c

Bally Wonder

Gny

30/3/08

Dusseldorf

7f

£2,574

Martin Francis Ltd

Arnie’s Joint

Golan

4g

Green Green Grass

Swe

06/4/08

Jagersro

6f

£2,253

Matthews Breeding & Racing Ltd

Nine Cities

Johannesburg (USA)

4c

First Exhibit

Usa

06/4/08

Gulfstream Park

5f

£4,523

McCaughey, P J

Sugimoto

Pursuit Of Love

4c

Pips Way

Ity

16/4/08

Milan

1m4f

£4,687

McCutcheon, Peter

Princess Ileana

Danetime

4f

Uhud

Gny

27/4/08

Mannheim

7f

£1,618

McCutcheon, Peter

Robscarvic

Statue Of Liberty (USA)

3g

Calypso Run

Usa

14/4/08

Santa Anita

1m1f

McDonnell, Denis

Loulan Cape

Cape Cross

4c

Robin

Jpn

06/4/08

Mizusawa

6f110y

£675

McEvoy, C

Nero Sicily

Chevalier

3c

Ambarspec

Ity

20/4/08

Siracusa

1m2f

£968

£17,186

Meridian Stud

Maybach

Machiavellian (USA)

7h

Capote Line (USA)

Swe

24/4/08

Taby

1m

£3,108

Mike Channon Bloodstock Ltd

Curtain Bluff

Dansili

6g

Gayane

Swe

15/3/08

Taby

1m4f

£2,641

Milton Park Stud Partnership

Maine Rose

Red Ransom (USA)

3f

Messila Rose

Fr

29/4/08

Lyon-Parilly

1m3f

£5,147

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DATA BOOK

British and Irish-bred winners overseas Breeder

Winner

Sire

Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, Sheikh

Simeon

Lammtarra (USA)

Age/sex Dam

9h

Noble Lily (USA)

Ctry

Date

Racecourse

Distance

Usa

31/3/08

Gulfstream Park

1m

Prize-money

Mohician & Sunflower International

Mister Fixit

Perugino (USA)

8h

Dreams Are Free (USA) Fr

14/4/08

La Rochelle-Chatelaillon 1m4f55y

£2,206

Monaghan, Mr T J

Merrimack

Singspiel

Monaghan, Mr T J

Merrimack

Singspiel

6h

River Erne (USA)

Gny

30/3/08

Mannheim

1m4f110y

£1,103

6h

River Erne (USA)

Gny

13/4/08

Frankfurt

1m2f

Moran, Larry and Billy

West Nile

Trans Island

£1,728

6h

Athlumney Dancer

Ity

19/4/08

Siracusa

1m1f

£1,250

Moratalla, Marquesa De

Overlogo

Coroner

2c

Wagtail (FR)

Fr

19/4/08

Bordeaux Le Bouscat

5f

£5,147

Morrissey, Michael

Fuente Apache

Hawk Wing (USA)

3f

Szabo

Ity

16/4/08

Milan

1m2f

£5,625

£3,920

Mount Coote Partnership

Grey Latino

Daylami

3c

Zarara (USA)

Ity

29/4/08

Rome

1m1f110y

£4,687

Mountgrange Stud Ltd, T Stewart & A Stroud

Master Chef

Oasis Dream

3c

Miss Honorine

Den

11/4/08

Copenhagen

7f

£1,967 £4,044

Moyles, P

Condado

Golan

4c

Belike The Wind

Spa

06/4/08

Zarzuela

1m

Mulhern, Eimear

Redmillson

Red Ransom (USA)

3c

Millay

Swi

06/4/08

Avenches

1m2f165y

£1,707

Mylerstown Stud

Piaras

Fath (USA)

3c

Tartan Lane

Swe

10/4/08

Taby

1m2f

£2,719

Nakata, Mr T

Louve Orientale

Red Ransom (USA)

3f

Louve Sereine (FR)

Fr

12/4/08

Le Croise-Laroche

1m2f110y

£7,353

Nataf, Paul

Storming Spirit

In The Wings

4g

Aptostar (USA)

Fr

22/4/08

Lyon-Parilly

1m3f

£6,618

Nataf, Paul

Belle Allure

Numerous (USA)

3f

Mare Aux Fees

Fr

27/4/08

Longchamp

1m1f55y

National Stud, The

Sing Silence

Sakhee (USA)

4c

Premiere Dance

Fr

27/4/08

Montlucon-Neris

1m110y

£29,412 (Gr3)

National Stud, The

Mega Back

Zamindar (USA)

3c

Gitane (FR)

Fr

05/4/08

Bordeaux Le Bouscat 1m

£11,765

New England Stud, Myriad & Elite Bloodstock

Adagio

Grand Lodge (USA)

4c

Lalindi

Usa

29/3/08

Gulfstream Park

1m1f

£13,116

Newsells Park Stud

Lions Call

Giant’s Causeway (USA)

4c

La Belga (ARG)

Gny

13/4/08

Frankfurt

1m

Nicholas, Mr P

Non Dire Niente

Robellino (USA)

3g

Empress Dagmar

Ity

16/4/08

Grosseto

1m3f

Northmore Stud

Eire

Medicean

4f

Mavourneen (USA)

Fr

13/4/08

Longchamp

1m

£2,941

£1,471 £968 £8,824

Nugent, P D & Mrs Player & R Griffin, N and Mrs N

Purelove

Pursuit Of Love

6h

Bee Off

Ity

04/4/08

Pisa

7f110y

£1,405

O’Brien & B McGarvey, C

Ten Tenors

Rossini (USA)

5m

Prima

Usa

12/4/08

Turf Paradise

6f

£1,809

O’Brien, Miss Carmel

El Mago

Rossini (USA)

3c

Social Butterfly (USA)

Spa

06/4/08

Zarzuela

1m2f

£4,044

O’Connor & Liam Gallagher, J

Irish Malpensa

Orpen (USA)

3f

Ohreoh (USA)

Ity

26/4/08

Pisa

7f110y

£2,500

O’Connor, John

Frostburg

Gulch (USA)

5h

Wandering Pine (USA)

Usa

21/4/08

Mountaineer Park

6f

£2,740

O’Donovan, P and Mrs E

Pearl Trader

Dubai Destination (USA)

3f

Vintage Tipple

Fr

27/4/08

Saint-Malo

1m4f55y

£4,779

O’Mara, Michael

Irish Dun

Daggers Drawn (USA)

4c

Sposa (USA)

Fr

13/4/08

Senonnes-Pouance

1m2f110y

£3,676

O’Neill, Brian

Piccolo Ale

Night Shift (USA)

5h

Love And Desire (USA)

Ity

21/4/08

Tagliacozzo

1m2f165y

£1,562

Ormsby, Tom

Nuova Esperienza

Manndar

3f

Infra Blue

Ity

12/4/08

Siracusa

6f

£1,562

Paget Bloodstock

Josala

Mull of Kintyre (USA)

5h

Mer Noire

Ity

06/4/08

Treviso

1m2f

£1,093

Parker, Sir Eric

Exclusive Danielle

Thunder Gulch (USA)

7m

Hasta (USA)

Usa

31/3/08

Santa Anita

1m1f

£12,362

Peacock, Mrs R D

Buddies Girl

Golan

4f

Moonlight

Bel

22/3/08

Mons

5f

£1,471

Pearson, Mrs D N B

Lady Disdain

Foxhound (USA)

5m

Much Ado

Usa

25/4/08

Hollywood Park

1m

£4,523

Pease, Mrs R

Infusion

Efisio

4f

Fox Croft (FR)

Fr

20/4/08

Carpentras

1m5f165y

Pendley Farm

Marzelline

Barathea

4f

Juno Marlowe

Usa

11/4/08

Santa Anita

1m1f

£3,309 £17,186

Persse, A M F

Millerand

Rossini (USA)

3c

Jack-N-Jilly

Ity

04/4/08

Pisa

6f110y

Petra Bloodstock Agency Ltd

Mismatch

Zilzal (USA)

8g

Miscast

Fr

23/4/08

Marseille Borely

1m2f

£3,125 £2,574

Platt Promotions Ltd

Prince Of Elegance

Cape Cross

4c

Elegant Lady

Swe

08/3/08

Taby

6f165y

£2,641

Player, P D and Mrs

Miss Creek

Intikhab (USA)

7m

Creeking

Swe

19/4/08

Taby

1m2f

£2,641

Plumbly, Simon and Helen

Mr Day Off

Erhaab (USA)

3c

Branston Berry

Ity

25/4/08

Rome

1m

£2,500

Purcell, John

Castellina

Medicean

4f

Protectorate

Fr

22/4/08

Saint-Cloud

1m2f110y

£9,559

Quay Bloodstock

Gagnoa

Sadler’s Wells (USA)

3f

Gwynn

Fr

11/4/08

Saint-Cloud

1m2f110y £29,412 (Gr3)

Quellier, C

King’s Davis

King Charlemagne (USA) 5 m

Panarea (FR)

Gny

30/3/08

Mannheim

1m1f110y

£699

Quinn, Francis

A’Callaghan

Raise A Grand

5h

Mitsubishi Style

Ity

30/4/08

Grosseto

1m165y

£968

Radley, Tom

Sawbo Lad

Namaqualand (USA)

10 h

Maafi Esm

Bel

06/4/08

Mons

1m2f110y

Rathasker Stud

Happy Feelings

Daylami

7h

Moonlight Partner

Sin

25/4/08

Kranji

1m

Rathbarry Stud

Buena Suerte

Indian Lodge

3f

Wild Liffey (USA)

Ity

02/4/08

Grosseto

1m165y

Rathbarry Stud

Baradore

Barathea

6m

High Flying Adored

Usa

22/4/08

Tampa Bay Downs

1m

£2,804

£735 £6,530 £968

Rausing, Miss K

Sassicaia

Hernando (FR)

3f

Eternelle

Spa

30/3/08

Zarzuela

7f110y

£4,044

Remora Bloodstock Ltd

Fast As You Can

Cape Cross

4f

Crocus

Ity

10/4/08

Pisa

1m1f110y

£1,405

Renaghan, Brian

Cibao La Pampa

Princely Heir

3c

Una

Aut

20/4/08

Magna Racino

1m1f

£2,647

Riddell, N A

Chippewa River

Pursuit Of Love

5g

Sharp Top

Den

23/4/08

Odense

1m55y

Robins, Mrs Shirley

Cherie’s Dream

Silver Wizard (USA)

4f

Last Dream

Usa

03/4/08

Santa Anita

6f

Robinson, G and Mrs

Overdose

Starborough

3c

Our Poppet

Aut

06/4/08

Magna Racino

5f110y

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Breeder

Winner

Sire

Dam

Ctry

Date

Racecourse

Distance

Rockdown Investments

Sonrisillas

Best of The Bests

Age/sex

4f

Amaniy (USA)

Spa

13/4/08

Zarzuela

1m165y

Prize-money

£3,676

Rotondo, Frank

Hard Job

Night Shift (USA)

6h

Via Oriani

Ity

14/4/08

Varese

7f110y

£3,905

Ryan, Mrs M

Mr Island

Trans Island

3c

Coffeeburn

Ity

21/4/08

Tagliacozzo

5f

£2,500

Ryan, R P

Komoda

Russian Revival (USA)

7m

Dry Lightning

Ity

05/4/08

Siracusa

1m2f110y

£6,250

Schulte, K

Komfort

Montjeu

3c

Kabuki (GER)

Fr

27/4/08

Tarbes

1m3f110y

£6,618

Shadwell Estate Company Limited

Gun Power

Mark of Esteem

8h

Mousaiha (USA)

Ity

12/4/08

Milan

1m1f

Shadwell Estate Company Limited

Tamayuz

Nayef (USA)

3c

Al Ishq (FR)

Fr

13/4/08

Longchamp

1m

£29,412 (Gr3)

Shortgrove Manor Stud

Il Grande Ardone

Dr Fong (USA)

3c

Bombalarina

Ity

14/4/08

Tagliacozzo

1m

£1,250

Shortgrove Manor Stud

Il Grande Ardone

Dr Fong (USA)

3c

Bombalarina

Ity

21/4/08

Tagliacozzo

1m

£3,280

Sinanan, Mrs M

Full Attraction

Raise A Grand

4c

Ballykett Pride

Ity

17/4/08

Treviso

1m2f

£1,093

Skara Glen Stables

Almighty (USA)

Sadler’s Wells (USA)

6h

Saganeca (USA)

Hk

09/4/08

Happy Valley

1m1f

£21,669

Skymarc Farm

La Galerna

Hernando (FR)

3f

Algoa (FR)

Spa

27/4/08

Zarzuela

1m

£15,441

Slatch Farm Stud

Bayside

Docksider (USA)

7g

Sister Sophie (USA)

Gny

27/4/08

Mannheim

1m1f110y

Slater, Mrs G

Fault Line

Groom Dancer (USA)

5h

Little Tramp

Ity

13/4/08

Siracusa

5f110y

£968

Slater, Mrs G

Fault Line

Groom Dancer (USA)

5h

Little Tramp

Ity

27/4/08

Siracusa

5f110y

£968

Southern Bloodstock

Duke Of Marmalade

Danehill (USA)

4c

Love Me True (USA)

Fr

27/4/08

Longchamp

1m2f110y £126,044 (Gr1)

St Clare Hall Stud

Giardini

Vettori

5m

Motto (FR)

Gny

19/4/08

Dusseldorf

1m110y

£1,912

Starr, Paul

Zoe Med

Fayruz

3f

Super Zoe

Ity

19/4/08

Siracusa

7f110y

£1,562

Starr, Paul

Mandarin Boy

Royal Abjar (USA)

9h

Orange And Blue

Swe

06/3/08

Taby

6f

£1,942

Staughton & Mrs O Staughton, Miss J

Mennabilly

Compton Place

4g

Petarga

Ity

17/4/08

Pisa

6f

£1,562

Steigenberger, Albert

Metro Pictures

Shinko Forest

5h

Miss Greinton (GER)

Ity

13/4/08

Milan

1m110y

£2,500

Stonethorn Stud Farms Ltd

Ask The Chef

Keltos (FR)

4c

Titsan

Ity

06/4/08

Rome

6f

Stonethorn Stud Farms Ltd

Cats In Boots

Choisir (AUS)

3c

Eurostorm (USA)

Jpn

27/4/08

Kyoto

1m1f

Stowell Hill Ltd

Sophia Gardens

Barathea

4f

Lovely Lyca

Gny

19/4/08

Dresden

1m1f110y

Strawbridge, George

White Cay

Dalakhani

3f

Balnaha

Fr

21/4/08

Chatillon-Sur-Chalaronne 1m

Strawbridge, George

Destare

Desert Prince

3f

Contare

Fr

22/4/08

Saint-Cloud

1m

Sunny Days Ltd

Azabara

Pivotal

3f

Danella (FR)

Fr

03/4/08

Longchamp

1m

£12,500

Swettenham Stud

Rustic Flame

Danehill Dancer

4f

Soviet Artic (FR)

Usa

23/4/08

Keeneland

1m

£13,958

Swordlestown Stud

Gold Neo

Invincible Spirit

4c

Waltzing Around

Jpn

26/4/08

Fukushima

6f

£48,948

Tally-Ho Stud

Six of Diamonds

Redback

4c

Villa Nova

Hk

09/4/08

Happy Valley

1m1f

£28,647

Thompson, Miss Audrey F

Il Colosseo

Spectrum

6g

Valley Lights

Usa

28/3/08

Houston

5f

£1,296

Tindall, Simon

Pivock

Pivotal

6h

Crackle

Fr

07/4/08

Maisons-Laffitte

6f

£8,456

Tindall, Simon

Pivock

Pivotal

6h

Crackle

Fr

27/4/08

Longchamp

7f

£8,456

Tipson & K F Tipson, Mrs M J

Nabe

Bertolini (USA)

3c

Naval Dispatch

Ity

04/4/08

Rome

7f110y

£2,500

Tipson & K F Tipson, Mrs M J

Nabe

Bertolini (USA)

3c

Naval Dispatch

Ity

18/4/08

Rome

7f110y

£2,500

Tromel, Peter H C

Nomusaruola

Indian Lodge

3c

Gloria Crown

Ity

04/4/08

Rome

5f

£2,187

Tucker, D R

Top Experience

Mujahid (USA)

4c

Once Removed

Ity

23/4/08

Milan

7f

£4,687

Turri, Miss Francesca

Tris di Donne

Almutawakel

3f

Twist Again (GER)

Ity

15/4/08

Rome

6f

£4,687

Turri, Miss Francesca

Confidenza

Exit To Nowhere (USA)

4f

Crudelia

Ity

26/4/08

Pisa

6f110y

£6,250

Walsh, Mrs Noelle

De Phazz

Barathea

8g

Fizz Up

Fr

10/4/08

Longchamp

1m

£8,456

Walters, B

Mister Lukas

Peintre Celebre (USA)

3c

Enlisted

Spa

20/4/08

Zarzuela

1m165y

£3,676

Wardstown Stud Ltd

Puntero Triste

Medecis

3c

Changi

Ity

30/4/08

Grosseto

1m165y

West Lodge Stud

Cavewarrior

Arkadian Hero (USA)

5g

Lyna

Den

25/4/08

Copenhagen

1m3f

West Stow Stud Ltd

Yepes

Catcher In The Rye

3c

Lavanda

Spa

13/4/08

Zarzuela

7f

£7,353

West Stow Stud Ltd

Light Impact

Fantastic Light (USA)

4f

Ganga

Fr

13/4/08

Lyon-Parilly

1m3f

£8,824

Whelan, J J

Verothea

Barathea

4c

Veronica Franco

Ity

05/4/08

Milan

1m2f

£3,125

White, S

Amfetamin

Monashee Mountain (USA) 3 f

Ashtoreth

Hun

20/4/08

Budapest

7f

Whitsbury Manor Stud & Mrs M E Slade

Night School

Machiavellian (USA)

Good Enough (FR)

Jpn

03/4/08

Funabashi

1m

£17,987

Williams, R P

Hatherden

Tobougg

4g

Million Heiress

Swe

13/3/08

Taby

1m

£2,331

Wright, A A

Big Leo

Erhaab (USA)

3c

Due West

Ity

18/4/08

Rome

5f

£2,187

Wyatt, C G P

Barathunder

Barathea

3c

Ballet Princess

Ity

13/4/08

Milan

7f110y

£5,625

Wyck Hall Stud Ltd

Scroll

Mark Of Esteem

5g

Bella Bellisimo

Bel

26/4/08

Mons

1m3f

£735

Wyck Hall Stud Ltd

Big Snake

Golden Snake (USA)

4f

Key

Ity

27/4/08

Siracusa

7f110y

£968

6h

£2,187

£1,324

£4,687 £22,484 £1,103 £4,044 £12,500

£968 £1,475

£523

Yue, H

Deerfield

Green Desert (USA)

6g

Twilight Walk (USA)

Hk

02/4/08

Happy Valley

6f

£21,669

Zubieta Limited

Chinchon

Marju

3c

Jarama

Fr

21/4/08

Longchamp

1m2f

£12,500

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Your Say To have ‘Your Say’, e-mail editor@ownerbreeder.co.uk or telephone 01444 440540

Consistency is key to staying Gold Sally RowleyWilliams ROA Council member, and racehorse owner for 18 years

The ROA began the Gold Standard Award in 2005 with the aim of encouraging racecourses to put more of their executive contribution and sponsorship funds into prize-money, as well as improving the facilities for owners and their connections with runners on the day.

The first hurdle is that of prize-money; a racecourse must put in a minimum 15% of their own funds and sponsorship raised on a consistent basis.

Consistency means at least a rolling threemonth period, monitored on a monthly basis and revealed in the table on page 57.

We ask the racecourses to complete a lengthy questionnaire about what is offered to owners with runners on the day, as well as facilities provided for the horses and stable staff. Of the 59 courses at the time, only Wetherby refused to answer our questions.

Utilising the prize-money hurdle, about one-half of the courses qualified initially for inspection.

These 29 tracks have been visited, at first on an anonymous basis by one or more members of the Gold Standard Award committee – Dena Arstall, Steven Astaire and myself – and ROA Council members and owners with runners who have worked closely with the committee.

Before a final decision is reached as to whether or not the Gold Standard Award is given, at least one of the three committee members will be certain to visit the course, if there was not initial involvement, to assure quality control and consistency of delivery.

Joanne Gunn, the ROA’s marketing executive, corresponds with the racecourse after the initial visit and will advise the course managing director or clerk of the course of our findings and raise any issues that we see as requiring resolution before consideration for the Gold Standard Award.

The committee member responsible for the course will then present his/her recommendation to the committee and once we are unanimous in our vote, we then discuss our findings with the full ROA Council for final approval.

In some cases, the process has taken three years as the management changes, or the decision to look after owners and connections only slowly scales the priority ladder.

We maintain an active dialogue with the course and will certainly try to help management with any challenges they face where we can provide support.

An example of this is writing to the district council to help the racecourse get signage to the track from major roads, local councillors having initially been deaf to the pleas of the managing director of the racecourse concerned.

Gold Standard Award courses include large and small tracks, dual and single purpose, and are geographically spread around Britain.

They number Beverley, Hamilton Park, Epsom Downs, Goodwood, Haydock Park, Market Rasen, Newbury, Pontefract, Salisbury, Sandown Park, Wincanton and York.

The qualification for the award is reviewed annually and we assure the courses that it would be worse to lose a Gold Standard because of a reduction in their prize-money contribution or facilities than to not have earned it in the first place, given the embarrassment factor with losing the award.

In addition to the 12 courses named above who have earned the Gold Standard, and given the pipeline of candidates, we would hope to have about 15 tracks with our honour.

We have found that for those courses who are designated as Gold Standard, the relationship with the management has certainly been mutually beneficial and we continue to seek improvements in what they offer to us.

Our goal is to continue to raise the bar for the owner’s racing experience and to encourage best practice among the racecourses.

We also welcome hearing from ROA members on your racing experience, both positive and negative, as it relates to those qualifying courses.

Should you have further questions on this award, please do not hesitate to contact Jo in the ROA office, Dena, Steven or myself.

“Our goal is to continue to raise the bar for the owner’s racing experience”

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