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Irish-trained horses are set to dominate the Derby Ballydoyle’s whirlwind of Classic trials Guineas winner John Oxx in profile How breeders are fighting the recession

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Filly ex. Fillies’ Mile Gr.1 runner-up DANCE TO THE TOP (Sadler’s Wells) dam of Gr.3 winner CHESHIRE and Listed winner BANKABLE. Colt ex.

CHALICE WELLS (Sadler’s Wells) - a full-sister to YEATS.

Colt ex. MONEVASSIA (Mr. Prospector) - an own-sister to KINGMAMBO and dam of European Champion 2YO Filly RUMPLESTILTSKIN.

Filly ex. ECOUTILA (Rahy) dam of ENTICEMENT (Montjeu) unbeaten winner of the Montrose Fillies’ Stakes-L.R. in 2008.

STALLIONS FOR 2009 • AD VALOREM • ANTONIUS PIUS • AUSSIE RULES • CATCHER IN THE RYE • CHOISIR • DANEHILL DANCER • DUKE OF MARMALADE • • DYLAN THOMAS • EXCELLENT ART • FOOTSTEPSINTHESAND • GALILEO • HIGH CHAPARRAL • HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR • HURRICANE RUN • IVAN DENISOVICH • • MONTJEU • ONE COOL CAT • ORATORIO • PEINTRE CELEBRE • ROCK OF GIBRALTAR • STRATEGIC PRINCE • All Coolmore Stallions nominated to the European Breeder’s Fund.

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Six-time Group 1 winner by DANEHILL ½-brother to European Champion 2YO Filly QUEEN’S LOGIC Bred on a similar Danzig/Sharpen Up cross to DANEHILL DANCER and INVINCIBLE SPIRIT

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WELCOME

Reflections of our Gentlemen Johns n explosion of Classic trial winners from the Aidan O’Brien stable has cemented the stronghold of Irishtrained colts on this year’s Derby to the extent that they occupy the first six places in ante-post betting on the race.

Four of that sextet are trained by O’Brien, but lurking among them are the Jim Bolger-trained Gan Amhras – described by Graham Dench in this month’s Racing Review (pages 46-49) as “not to be underestimated” – and, of course, the John Oxx-trained 2,000 Guineas winner Sea The Stars, who adorns our cover.

Oxx is the subject this month of a revealing interview with Leo Powell, in which you learn much about the man from his descriptions of his upbringing, not least that family get-togethers might have been slightly confusing, bearing in mind he carries the same first name as his father and grandfather.

Oxx admits that his father, who trained Arctic Storm, was “a great influence”, persuading him that the basics of the job “never change: getting horses fit, the routine, the work and basic stable management. There are some principals that never change, no matter how many decades pass.”

He also appears inspired by the “very straightforward, simple life” his parents led.

Oxx says: “They worked, sat by the fire in the evenings, read books and grafted away. They were a great example like that. They lived a good life and the one thing they always impressed was the most important thing in your life was your integrity. That was worth more than anything else.”

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gauge how hopeful he is of Sea The Stars staying 12 furlongs, turn to pages 36 to 39.

It is not often that any publication can claim interviews with two people known as ‘Gentleman John’, but we can – thanks to this month’s Big Interview with John Dunlop (pages 30-35).

Dunlop is also in deeply reflective mood, perhaps not so surprisingly considering that a health scare several years ago left him ten minutes from death.

“I’m told that 95% who suffer a burst aorta die from it,” he says. “I was very fortunate to be in the right place at the right time, with a very good surgeon and an operating theatre nearby. They just caught me in time.”

Yet Dunlop feels such a dramatic passage of his life has had a surprisingly minimal effect, adding: “I don’t think it’s changed my outlook one bit. The surgeon said I’d probably change, but I don’t think I have.”

Nonetheless, he admits the loss of friends like Sir Philip Payne-Gallwey has taken the edge off some race meetings. He admits: “You do miss these people. I don’t know 95% of the people who go racing these days. People just seem to disappear.”

In their place has come a new breed of racegoer, Dunlop adding: “I reckon 90% of the crowd on 2,000 Guineas day knew bugger all about the Classics, but they went for a party. You only had to look at the girls’ dresses to see that.

“But I don’t think it detracts from the day at all. In fact, I get distracted by these ladies in very short skirts!”

Richard Griffiths Editor

“You can learn plenty about John Oxx from the descriptions of his upbringing”

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22 John Cotton’s Classic hero Silver Frost

30 John Dunlop, a member of the 3,000 winners club, is The Big Interview

40 Owner-breeder George Strawbridge

CONTENTS | JUNE 2009

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News Focus Latest on the Yearling Bonus Changes Your news in a nutshell ROA Leader Levy links with Government could pay off TBA Leader Why we will oppose DEFRA’s plan Tony Morris Racing needs the Queen to do well Lysaght’s People Garden gnomes and concrete balls Your Say Grant Pritchard-Gordon on older mares

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Going Global Kentucky Derby sensation

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The Big Picture Guineas glory for Hills and Oxx Talking to…

Trainer-turned-writer Charlie Brooks The Big Interview John Dunlop’s ‘wonderful life’ at Arundel John Oxx Trainer with the midas touch George Strawbridge Versatile and successful owner-breeder Racing Review Irish tighten grip on Derby market Fighting Back Bloodstock world tackles the recession Sales Circuit Tattersalls and Arqana breeze-ups

FEATURES 27 30 38 40 46

INTERNATIONAL SCENE 20 22

View from Ireland Punchestown festival’s success Continental Tales French Classics reviewed

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Age Of Aquarius features in Graham Dench’s Racing Review

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FORUM 56 60 63 64 66

ROA News Reserves for all Royal Ascot handicaps TBA News Structural change in store as EGM looms Breeders’ Prizes Your latest jumps and Flat winners Breeder of the Month Poilin Good, for Delegator Vets Forum Causes and therapies of skin conditions

DATA BOOK 76 78 82 93 94

Caulfield Files Gone West’s dirt-turf example International Stakes Winners From Canada to Peru Data Book Pedigrees of European Pattern winners analysed Stallion Stats Leading Flat sires of 2009 British/Irish-breds Your victories abroad

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NEWS FOCUS

A ROUND-UP OF THE BIG STORIES IN HORSERACING

‘Invisible racing too complex’ Branding research portrays a sport that is both “peripheral” and like “a dysfunctional family”

Rod Street: early research has established “a few home truths”

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acing’s wide-ranging re-branding exercise “drove home a few truths” about the sport, according to Rod Street, who has represented the racing industry in its work with branding specialists Harrison Fraser.

After more than six months of

consultation work at a cost of £250,000, Harrison Fraser has found a wide-ranging number of issues that need to be addressed before racing can market itself effectively.

These issues come from both inside and outside the sport, and have raised “a real fear that

racing had failed to recognise the trouble it was in,” according to David Fraser, a partner in Harrison Fraser.

However, the fact racing attracted an audience of 396,000 a year but is “invisible to 90% of the public” presents a “tremendous opportunity” to develop the sport.

Among racing’s constituents came the view that it lacks ‘premium products’, its languages and traditions are seen as significant barriers, and it lacks appeal to broadcasters, sponsors and advertisers.

Racing was also “widely regarded as a dysfunctional family”, which lacked commercial marketing skills and experience, and that it suffers from “a lack of leadership and vision.”

Consumers described racing

as having “low interest and saliency” and was “a peripheral activity in a highly competitive leisure market.”

It was also “too complex”, lacked appeal for the online generation and was “not famous and lacks profile.”

In summary, Fraser argued: “Horseracing is invisible, a world that goes on in a parallel universe.”

His colleague John Harrison added: “Racing has assets to die for but they are not being fully exploited for the mass market.”

Amid some criticism, a maledominated committee has been set up to oversee the findings of seven sub-committees, which will address such issues as “premierisation”.

Their findings are expected at the end of July.

Investec signs up as Derby sponsor This year’s Derby received a late and welcome boost with the news that Epsom has secured the specialist banking group Investec as sponsors of the meeting until 2013.

Epsom’s outgoing Managing Director Nick Blofeld said: “There is a great fit between the two companies, which will mean we are both able to benefit long term.

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partnerships and there are many ways we can work together to keep the Derby festival a hugely successful event, but also to bring some fresh creativity and reach new audiences.

“Investec are a very successful international company and have worked in other sports already; probably best known in the UK is their England autumn international rugby sponsorship at Twickenham.”

Raymond van Neikerk, Investec’s Head Of Marketing pictured at a reception to launch this year’s Derby

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Yearlings sold this autumn are in line for a prize-money incentive that could be worth up to £2 million

Bonus scheme moves near Final details for the proposed £2 million ‘Yearling Bonus’ scheme, the exciting new self-help initiative designed to boost this autumn’s market, are close to being completed.

At the time of going to press, the plan was “almost 100% finalised”, according to David Redvers, one of the organisers.

One change to the details exclusively revealed in last month’s Thoroughbred Owner & Breeder is the payment structure for vendors.

Rather than pay £500 in one lump sum, their contribution will now be staggered so that participating yearling vendors will pay £250 per horse before July 15 to nominate to the Yearling

Bonus scheme. The second £250 will be deducted by the relevant sales company from the sales proceeds of each nominated horse.

A plan is now being considered that would allow participating sales companies to also collect a £250 payment from purchasers of nominated yearlings at the time of sale – unless the new owner specifically requests that his purchases are removed from the scheme.

Encouragement that the bonus scheme will have a significant impact has come from a recent survey of members of the Federation of Bloodstock Agents and National Trainers’ Federation.

Of those who responded, 59

out of 60 were in favour of it.

The scheme will be administered by Tim Jones, who will report to a committee that is to include individual vendors as well as representatives of the Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association, Irish Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association, Tattersalls, Goffs, British Bloodstock Marketing and Irish Thoroughbred Marketing.

The scheme will be subject to an independent review at the end of 2010, when the impact on the yearling market, field sizes, betting turnover and foreign investment will all be assessed.

A report will then be sent to the British Horseracing Authority, Horse Racing Ireland and the UK

and Irish Governments to highlight the anticipated stimulus the scheme has given to the yearling market, and also to underline the benefits of more prize-money.

Organisers are seeking an overall sponsor from outside the racing and bloodstock world.

Philip Freedman, Treasurer of the Yearling Bonus Scheme Committee, said he hoped the initiative would show that “we have confidence in our product.

“This is a self-help initiative that we hope will add stimulation to the yearling market at a difficult time, as well as help address the problem of those horses whose success on the racecourse is not adequately rewarded by prizemoney they earn,” he added.

Breeders’ Cup Europe boost Up to ten European races this year could receive extra premiums funded for the first time by the Breeders’ Cup. Races in line for the bonus include the Curragh’s Pretty Polly Stakes, Dundalk’s Diamond Stakes, the Irish Champion Stakes, its Newmarket equivalent, the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes, plus other top races from Ascot, the Prix de l’Abbaye and Prix Maurice de Gheest.

To be eligible for a premium, a winning horse has to be Breeders’ Cupnominated.

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Racing’s news in a nutshell People and business

Investec Nick Blofeld Speed Bonus Warwick Stuart Boman Tingle Creek BBC Nicky Henderson Norman Jones Bill Adams Hayley Turner Great Leighs Andrew Brown Linda Perratt Levy deal Santa Anita Tattersalls Ireland Jamie Yeates

International banking group to sponsor two-day Epsom Derby meeting for the next five years Epsom’s managing director to leave post in August; he succeeded Stephen Wallis in 2007 and has accepted a position outside of racing ROA President Paul Dixon is first owner to enter horses in the initiative, which takes place at Goodwood on September 13 Owner Jockey Club Racecourses unveils plans for £8 million hotel project at track, with work due to start in 2011 Darley’s former head of marketing joins Blandford Bloodstock to oversee its operations in Australasia and Hong Kong Sandown seeks new sponsor for its prestigious two-mile chase after Seasons Holidays decides not to extend one-year contract Broadcasts the Swinton Handicap Hurdle as its last live race from Haydock Park after five decades of coverage; Channel 4 will cover former BBC races Trainer charged by the BHA after six-year-old mare Moonlit Path, owned by the Queen, fails a drug test Father of apprentice jockey Jamie Jones handed 33-year jail sentence after being found guilty of murdering a traveller; son Joseph is also jailed Former National Secretary of the Stable Lads’ Association cleared in court of stealing £75,000 from the organisation 26-year-old jockey lodges appeal against one-year suspension from race-riding, imposed after a Newmarket gallops fall left her with head injuries Essex racecourse, which went into administration in January, is unlikely to reopen this year Former Racing UK executive and architect of the much maligned Sovereign Series appointed chief executive of the New Zealand Racing Board Returns to training ranks from new base at her family’s Northallerton Farm in East Kilbride, five months after leaving Belstane Racing Stables Agreement reached between racing and bookmakers over 2010-2011 levy scheme, six months ahead of the deadline, with a rollover of current terms Californian track confirmed as venue for this year’s Breeders’ Cup despite owner Magna Entertainment’s bankruptcy; Churchill Downs had been on standby 2009 September Sale of yearlings will now take place on September 23 and 24; it was originally due to commence on September 22 Aspiring jockey murdered by his step-father to be remembered by memorial race at Ffos Las on July 21

Racehorse and stallion – movements and retirements Brave Inca Stravinsky Gone West Librettist Elusive Quality Tale Of Ekati Osana Doctor Dino Henrythenavigator (pictured)

Champion Hurdle winner of 2006 is retired aged 11; tremendously tough, the son of Good Thyne won ten Grade 1s for the Colm Murphy stable Dual Group 1-winning son of Nureyev, 13, to shuttle from Shizunai Stallion Station in Japan to Cambridge Stud in New Zealand; his fee will be NZ$35,000 Sire of Zafonic and Da Hoss, based at Kentucky’s Mill Ridge Farm, to be retired at the end of the 2009 breeding season due to declining fertility. He is 25 Haras du Logis stallion to shuttle to Westbury Stud in Karaka, New Zealand for forthcoming southern hemisphere season Son of Gone West, sire of Smarty Jones and Raven’s Pass, will shuttle to Stud TNT in Brazil from his current base at Darley’s Jonabell Farm in Kentucky Winner of two Grade 1s on dirt in the US is retired; the four-year-old son of Tale Of The Cat has been shipped to Darby Dan Farm Runner-up in 2008 Champion Hurdle moved by owner Thomas Barr from David Pipe’s Somerset yard to Edward O’Grady in Ireland Seven-year-old son of Muhtathir, a top level winner in Hong Kong and America, to begin stud duties at Haras du Mesnil in France next year Coolmore stallion will stand at Hunter Valley in New South Wales for southern hemisphere season, along with Duke Of Marmalade and 16 others

People obituaries Age Roy Cambidge Captain Marcos Lemos Richard Hambro John Hills Ron Sheather Neale Smith Jonnie Fenwicke-Clennell

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Trained Threadbare to win over hurdles, fences and on the Flat on three consecutive racing days in 1973, entering the Guinness Book of Records Shipping magnate who bred and owned brilliant filly Pebbles, winner of the 1984 1,000 Guineas, and later sold to Sheikh Mohammed Chairman of Newmarket racecourses who began his career with his family’s Hambros Bank and was a tireless worker for cancer charities Taunton racecourse managing director Jockey-turned-trainer who sent out Chief Singer to win the 1984 St James’s Palace Stakes, July Cup and Sussex Stakes Senior executive at Weatherbys Bank Clerk of the Course at Hexham and a popular figure on the northern racecourse scene

Exceptional New Zealand racemare, winner of 13 Group/Grade 1 races, including two Cox Plates and a Hong Kong Mile Daughter of Lapierre who won eight of her 23 races under Rules dies after giving birth to second foal Talented hurdler, winner of the 1996 Coral Cup and Ascot’s Long Distance Hurdle in 1997, who was bred and owned by the Marquesa de Moratalla Winner of the Scottish Grand National in 1984 and 1985 Champion older sprinter of 1984, winning the King’s Stand Stakes, William Hill Sprint Championship and Prix de l’Abbaye Made 116 appearances on the Flat, winning 15 races and over £100,000 in prize-money 1997 Ebor winner owned by Tony Yates Winner of the 1990 Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup owned by Brian Stewart-Brown Progressive sprinter bred and owned by Poilin Good Winner of the Irish 2,000 Guineas and Breeders’ Cup Mile, and a rich source of Group 1 talent from Rathbarry Stud

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ROA LEADER

Government intervenes over offshore operators Representatives of the Levy Board unite with the Government in a move to force overseas bookmakers to pay tax and levy on British horseracing bets he workings of British racing’s key funding body, the Levy Board, are often perceived to be so complex by those involved in the industry, let alone the racing public, that few people have the patience to try to understand what it does.

It is no surprise, therefore, that the recent announcement that racing and the betting industry have already agreed on the terms of the 49th Levy Scheme (relating to fiscal year April 2010 to March 2011) will hardly have registered in the minds of racing’s great and good who, quite rightly, would much prefer to be thinking about the outcome of this year’s Derby.

It is, however, the very fact that the levy injects around £100 million into racing annually (nearly 60% of which goes into prize-money) that not only makes it a fundamental part of our infrastructure, but also necessitates those charged with running the industry to spend many hours discussing, negotiating and poring over detail relating to the levy system.

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Paul Dixon President, Racehorse Owners Association

But this appears to be the case judging from the contents of a recent press release put out by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, under whose auspices the levy falls.

The press release talks about overseas gambling operators and how DCMS will be looking at securing fair contributions from them towards, among other things, the payment of levy.

The mere fact that DCMS has formally recognised this marks a very significant move forward for racing.

There has been a growing trend during the past decade for credit bookmakers to set themselves up overseas, thereby avoiding the payment of both the 10% of gross profits to the levy, and also the 15% gross profits tax. On-line gambling has obviously accelerated this trend.

To put it bluntly, overseas-based betting operators are getting a free ride. They are taking bets on British racing and not paying for it.

Ironically, some of them have become major sponsors.

But it’s no surprise that they can comfortably

“The fact that DCMS has recognised the issue of overseas operators marks a very significant move forward” body that takes money from bookmakers at the rate of 10% of their gross profits and puts it into the hands of racing, sometimes on a discretionary basis but usually according to carefully thoughtout formulae.

Disagreements over how much bookmakers pay to racing have been a feature of the levy for the 50 years of its existence, but disputes usually relate to the edges rather than the core of the system.

In the last couple of years the argument that has raged long and hard has been about the bookmakers’ insistence that the additional costs they are bearing for the betting shop service TurfTV should be reflected in a reduction in levy payments.

This argument has now been dropped by the bookmakers, which means racing has chalked up a rare victory.

It is very unusual to find an issue where the Levy Board, its racing and bookmaker representatives and the Government are united.

afford to give a little back when they are getting a 25% advantage over domestic bookmakers.

The additional cash British racing would receive if off-shore bookmakers were forced to pay levy is difficult to assess, but it would run into several million pounds annually.

The problem is that, if the Government doesn’t take action soon, even the major bookmakers will be going overseas and where would that leave the levy and racing?

Finding an effective method to make overseas operators pay their dues will take a lot of ingenuity, but DCMS have already shown how seriously they regard the problem by suggesting that a condition may be put in place whereby, if you want to advertise in the UK, you will have to pay tax and levy on British racing bets.

The levy system may have received a lot of criticism over the years, but here we have a situation where its links with Government could pay racing substantial dividends. Watch this space.

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The TBA will strongly oppose this new plan The need to monitor our Government has never been more vital, at a time when DEFRA is giving thought to a costly, unnecessary scheme Kirsten Rausing Chairman Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association

ith the economic situation unlikely to abate and businesses facing tough decisions, is it really the right time for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) to announce its plans for an Independent Animal Health Body, to be funded by a feebased keeper scheme on the main farm livestock species – dairy, beef, poultry, pigs, sheep and, probably, horses?

Granted, these proposals are currently in a consultation period and DEFRA have taken on board the agricultural industry’s rejection of another levy on their costs of production, but why is no other member state intending to levy such a charge on their equine sector?

The TBA has already written to Jane Kennedy, Minister for the Horse, and through my column I wanted to assure members that our position has been most robust in rejecting these proposals for equines. At present, horses warrant a mere three paragraphs in DEFRA’s 52-page report. This proposes that the equine

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100,000 horses of all ages, it is easy to see who could be footing a disproportionate percentage of this bill. Added to which, excellent data records on owners and keepers of thoroughbreds makes our industry an attractive target for Government levy collectors.

So what would we gain by the introduction of the Independent Animal Health Body? Will it really be cost-neutral, as we have been encouraged to consider? I have my doubts.

The British thoroughbred industry, and in particular the TBA, have been proactive in addressing a protocol in the event of an exotic disease outbreak and we continue to support disease surveillance and control through the Animal Health Trust’s Diagnostic Services Unit.

Furthermore, as a result of lobbying by the Horsemen’s Group, the Levy Board has made a commitment to meet the costs of dealing with an exotic disease outbreak from their own reserves. All these measures demonstrate that this industry recognises the importance of disease surveillance, prevention and control

“The thoroughbred industry recognises the importance of disease surveillance, prevention and control” industry should make an annual contribution to the value of £4.5 million – 20% of the whole budget for exotic diseases for all farm animals.

We asked how DEFRA could justify such a sizeable allocation, bearing in mind the previous costs of foot and mouth outbreaks, and the more live threat of avian influenza and possibly swine flu, particularly when compensation in the case of mandatory slaughter of horses is limited to £1.

The current consultation does not state that leisure horse owners would be exempt, but in discussions last year this was clearly proposed.

The proposal therefore to restrict the cost of introducing the independent body to just the commercial keeper would result in impossible extra burdens on breeders, the majority of whom operate very small businesses.

With some 1.3 million horses in Great Britain and the British thoroughbred industry comprising in the region of some 50,000 to

measures, and is better placed to deal with it in the first instance. Both the TBA’s political lobbying activities, as well as the contribution to the fine work of the AHT’s Diagnostic Services Department, are funded by contributions from vendors to the TBA sales levy.

As a result of the halving of this income from 2008 to 2009, it has put a great strain on our ability to meet these commitments. It would, therefore, be remiss of me not to add a word of encouragement for the support of this levy, in order to enable the TBA to continue to include political lobbying in its brief, as well as support veterinary research.

Finally, the TBA’s annual seminar will be held again at Tattersalls, on Tuesday, June 30.

Entitled ‘The Breeding Business’, we have secured the support of a first class range of speakers and their messages promise to be both thought-provoking and educational. I do encourage you to attend.

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Tony Morris

It’s been 100 years since a reigning British monarch won the Derby; victory for Her Majesty’s Free Agent at Epsom would ignite our sport

S I write, Richard Hannon is preparing an unbeaten colt for a Goodwood trial with a view to learning whether a bid for the Derby can be justified. Having had nine previous runners in the Epsom Classic, and no finisher closer than sixth (Gran Alba in 1989), the East Everleigh trainer will be keen to take another shot in this, his 40th season as a licence-holder.

But for the owner-breeder of the colt, victory in the Derby has been an unfulfilled ambition for rather longer. Her Majesty the Queen went close at the first attempt in 1953, when her Aureole finished second to Pinza in the week of her coronation, and her colours have been carried successfully in all the other Classics since then.

But the blue riband of the turf remains elusive; she has not even had a runner since 1981, when Church Parade finished fifth behind Shergar.

Free Agent, the hope of 2009, has already ended one losing sequence, having become the Queen’s first Royal Ascot winner for nine years when he took the Chesham Stakes last summer.

That was all well and fine, but it was always going to be a taller order this year, the centenary of the only time when a Derby winner carried the colours of the reigning monarch.

Horseracing’s definition as the Sport of Kings is well founded. It was James I who discovered Newmarket, albeit principally as a base for hunting and hawking, and Charles II who established it as racing’s natural home before the thoroughbred became a distinctive equine breed. It was the royal Duke of Cumberland, a son of George II, who bred Herod and Eclipse, two of the great figures in the new breed’s early evolution, and two of George III’s sons were lavish patrons of the sport, both enjoying Derby success – the future George IV with Sir Thomas in 1788 and Frederick, Duke of York, with Prince Leopold in 1816 and Moses six years later

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“The British public awaits the opportunity to express its affection for the Queen’s support of racing”

We are not amused

Queen Victoria was famously not amused by racing, but simply by dint of maintaining the tradition of a royal stud, she became the most successful monarch with an involvement in the sport; she bred 11 Classic winners, including Sainfoin, who landed a Derby victory in the colours of Sir James Miller in 1890. By that time the Queen’s eldest son had himself become a breeder and, to the chagrin of his mother, he

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found racing a wholly enjoyable diversion.

Although Victoria disapproved of Bertie’s passion for the turf, she probably came to recognise in time that it was beneficial for the institution of the monarchy. In an era when football’s profile was low, and cricket’s scarcely much higher, all classes of society relished the fact that the Prince of Wales shared their enthusiasm for what was undeniably the king of sports. After all those years when the Queen had chosen to absent herself from public life, royalty no longer seemed remote; the common man and woman felt a connection with the man who would become their King, and it was largely through his interest in racing that the popularity of the monarchy was restored.

Bertie’s colours were carried to victory in eight Classic races, the first six of them with horses he had bred himself. The first came with Thais in the 1,000 Guineas of 1896, the year which also brought him success with Persimmon in the Derby and St Leger. Four years later the nation rejoiced over the Triple Crown triumph of Persimmon’s brother, the colt whose name commemorated the great event in the year of his birth, Diamond Jubilee.

Decline in fortunes

Having reigned merely over the turf in 1900, when he also won the Grand National to be leading owner on the Flat and over jumps, Bertie finally succeeded to the throne as King Edward VII in 1901, but coincident with his accession came a lean period for the products of his stud.

By 1907 the stud’s fortunes had reached such a low ebb that His Majesty was persuaded to lease half a dozen yearlings from the Tully Stud of William Hall-Walker, and among them was a well-bred colt called Minoru, whose sire Cyllene already had one Derby winner – Cicero in 1905 – to his credit.

The breeder was known to be more than a little eccentric, trusting to astrology for guidance in the mating of his mares and the racing of his horses in training, yet it could not be denied that he had achieved major success. His Cherry Lass had won the 1,000 Guineas and Oaks in 1905, and he had repeated in the Newmarket Classic with Witch Elm in 1907. While his methods were unconventional, he got results.

When the Tully-bred team arrived at Richard Marsh’s Newmarket stable, it was Minoru who

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

took the trainer’s fancy, and he reported that impression to Lord Marcus Beresford, who managed the King’s horses. When the colt won the valuable Great Surrey Foal Stakes on his debut, a day after another dire Derby display in the royal livery by Perrier, there was at last some cause for optimism.

Impossible dream

Five defeats later, Minoru ended the season ranked 22lb behind Bayardo in the Free Handicap, and all hope seemed to have been extinguished; Marsh toyed with the idea of advising his patron to scratch the colt from the Classics. In the following spring, after Minoru had shown exceptional improvement in a gallop, the trainer thanked his lucky stars that he had kept his earlier despondent thoughts to himself.

Minoru reappeared in the Greenham Stakes, giving 5lb and an easy beating to the odds-on Valens. He had another odds-on favourite to contend with in Bayardo in the 2,000 Guineas, but that colt – unbeaten in seven starts at two – had been slow to come to hand. Minoru triumphed again and now had to be considered a legitimate Derby hope.

But punters scarcely dared to believe in a royal win and on the day they made American invader Sir Martin favourite. The champion US twoyear-old, he had arrived in this country with a great reputation, and on his first outing here had trounced a group of older horses at Newmarket, giving them plenty of weight.

It was not to be Sir Martin’s day at Epsom; he stumbled and fell on Tattenham Hill, interfering with Bayardo in the process, and in the straight Minoru came to the front, with the Newmarket Stakes winner Louviers bearing down on him.

A thrilling battle between the pair ensued and as the finish drew nearer they were all but joined by the duelling William The Fourth and Valens, engaged in their own titanic tussle. But there was no doubting the result that the public wanted.

Once the royal colours could be seen in front, the cheering developed into a deafening roar, likened to a salvo of artillery by the Winning Post’s correspondent, who asserted that after the announcement of Minoru’s short-head victory: “Such a scene of patriotism, of gratification, of affection has never been witnessed in connection with a monarch of any country in the world.”

One hundred years on, the British public awaits another opportunity to express its affection and gratitude for its monarch’s support of racing in identical circumstances.

Ignominious A special three-for-two offer on plastic garden gnomes at the Homebase store in Newmarket has led to fun and games amongst the local, er, grown-ups.

It all started following disruption to training routines by the noisy pollarding (or ‘lopping’ if you are an ignoramus like me) of a tree close to the town’s Fordham Road, and the consequent obstruction of a horse walk. Before you could say Dutch elm disease, little fellas started to

appear on the semi naked trunk apparently in protest at the whole debacle.

A root and branch investigation is now underway to determine if the incident was connected to the midnight sighting in the vicinity of two of Newmarket ’s finest wielding an extendable ladder.

Meanwhile, a group of gnomes appeared amidst the controversial concrete balls that decorate the new roundabout adjacent to the Clock Tower.

Nicholls tells all Paul Nicholls won’t have much time to celebrate his latest record-breaking jumps season. Not only has the now four-time champion trainer a team of around 20 horses to race through the summer, but he will also be putting the finishing touches to a much-anticipated autobiography.

Called Lucky Break, it’s written in conjunction with journalist Jonathan Powell, and is expected to be amongst the must-read sports titles of the year. It’s understood that no punches are pulled in the 120,000-word account, so much so that one or two big name jump racing figures may have reason to quake in their boots when it finally goes on sale.

After you, Claude It’s the end of an era for racing in the West Country, where long-serving steward Claude Berry, a regular at Exeter, Newton Abbot and Taunton, is hanging up his copy of the rulebook.

In his time, Berry, 70, has owned, trained and ridden winners. However, perhaps he counts his proudest racing achievements as not only breeding a Newmarket trainer in younger son John, but also a Group 1 winner in 1982 Italian Derby hero Old Country.

Exeter marked the retirement, with the running of the Claude Berry Mares’ Novices’ Hurdle. “It was kind of them to

give me one of their very good novice hurdles,” he said. “A friend said that if you get a seller it’s an indicator of what they think of you.”

Propre bargain BBC Radio Five Live’s coverage of the opening day of Royal Ascot should make particularly interesting listening.

Anchoring the programme will be John Inverdale, one of the six owners of lightning fast three-year-old Amour Propre, a leading hope for the King’s Stand Stakes.

Bought for just £1,500, the son of Paris House has climbed the racing ladder in true rags-to-riches style, skipping away with the Palace House Stakes on 2,000 Guineas day at Newmarket .

In the event of success, post-race interviews will be somewhat happier than when, after the 1997 Champion Hurdle, ‘Invers’ had to chat to owner Peter Deal about his winner Make A Stand, a horse he’d previously partowned.

Strictly hardcore Overheard at the Perth festival: “It’s pornographic”. No, nothing to do with the Home Secretary’s movie-loving husband, but, intriguingly, a senior jockey impressed by the state of the turf, which was good, good to firm in places.

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A momentous year for Barry Hills is sealed, even at this early stage of the season, as son Richard lands the 1,000 Guineas on 20-1 shot Ghanaati, a filly making her seasonal debut and having her first outing on turf

In the year that he trained his 3,000th winner, and after 40 years with a licence, Barry Hills happily reminded us that training is not just a young man’s game. At the age of 72, he saddled his fifth UK Classic winner – his first came with Enstone Park in the 1978 1,000 Guineas – using the progressive route: Ghanaati lined up for Newmarket without a seasonal prep via two Kempton all-weather races as a juvenile. The result was not without tradition, however, as it marked a Classic win for Hamdan Al Maktoum from the family of his ‘banker’ mare Height Of Fashion.

Going Global, pages 24-25

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To say Sea The Stars was bred to be a Classic winner is something of an understatement, bearing in mind his recently deceased dam, the Arc winner Urban Sea, has produced three other top level winners, among them Galileo. So impressive was this one-and-a-half length defeat of the 3-1 favourite Delegator that Sea The Stars was thrust towards the top of the Derby betting, albeit only to be displaced once Fame And Glory had sauntered home at Leopardstown a week later.

John Oxx feature, pages 36-39

Sea stars The Derby now beckons for the Tsui family-owned Sea The Stars, following his scintillating 2,000 Guineas triumph for John Oxx and Mick Kinane

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VIEW FROM IRELAND FROM LEO POWELL

Punchestown rises to economic challenge

Words: Leo Powell is Managing Editor of The Irish Field

Times switch proves a success and management pleased with the attendance, despite the 10,500 drop on last year

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he dust has settled on the Punchestown festival and, overall, it has to be acclaimed a major success. The meeting was held in one of the toughest economic times but the innovative team at the County Kildare racecourse rose magnificently to the challenge.

The five-day fixture attracted just over 95,000 people. This was 10,500 down on a year earlier, but when you consider that the downturn in corporate bookings – estimated at between 10,000 and 12,000 – was a major factor, the overall total was exceptional.

The biggest talking point of the week was the decision to start racing on the first four days (Tuesday to Friday) at 3.45pm.

There were some mutterings of discontent, but the general reaction was positive and the move generated a thumbs up from Jim Kavanagh, the Chief Executive of the Irish Racehorse Trainers’ Association.

He pointed to the fact that hard-working trainers could tend to their day’s work at home before going racing.

One disappointment was the attendance on the final day of the festival. Once again, the executive were forced to make a change to the normal starting times, with the action kicking off

Over 95,000 people enjoyed this year’s Punchestown festival, which featured later start times

at 1.10pm to avoid a clash with the Heineken Cup semi-final.

This rugby match kicked off at 5.30pm and saw two Irish provinces, Leinster and Munster, pitted against each other. When you consider that some 82,000 attended the game and the television audience was one of the biggest ever, Punchestown was up against it.

Undeterred, they made an effort, expected or hoped for about 25,000 customers but attracted ‘only’ 17,500.

Reflecting the times we live in, betting was hit badly during the week and bookmakers in the ring

took €9,613,204 compared to €13,124,939 12 months earlier, a drop of 27%. The fall in percentage terms was a little more for the Tote at 30%, their turnover declining to €3,293,470 from €4,732,348.

Some restaurants in the area reported a slowdown in their trade for the week but, again, this was as much due to a lack of spending power as it was to the new starting times. Reports suggest that it is the intention to keep with the new format for next year.

Not basking in any reflected glory for a job well done, the

team at Punchestown is already canvassing the views of all stakeholders to see what can be done to improve the racing product for next year.

It is worth also commending the Fairyhouse executive for their efforts in modestly increasing the attendance at their three-day Easter Festival meeting.

Ruby Walsh rode seven winners at Cheltenham and ten at Punchestown. Phenomenal figures. And what of Willie Mullins? He trained a dozen winners at Punchestown, including Hurricane Fly – an equally amazing achievement.

A chance to mark the passing of some notable names A number of notable Irish racing personalities have passed away recently, among them James Bowe and Pat Doyle.

Bowe trained and bred the great Limestone Lad, and he enjoyed great success too with

the mare Solerina, a winner of 22 races, five of them at Grade 1 level. Between them Limestone Lad and Solerina won the Grade 1 Hatton’s Grace Hurdle six times. Bowe was 77.

The death on Easter Sunday of

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81-year-old Pat Doyle robbed him of the opportunity to relive the anniversary of his Irish Grand National victory in 1951 on the Willie O’Grady-trained Icy Calm.

Later in life he enjoyed success as a breeder and trainer.

Wexford breeder and stallion master John Rothwell died in April.

He bred a number of good hurdlers and chasers, and stood, among others, Hubbly Bubbly, the sire of Cloudy Bays.

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Search is on for sponsors amid climate of cutbacks Horse Racing Ireland has launched a campaign to attract sponsors to racing and has written to all previous and present sponsors to highlight the value of their support. This is likely to be a difficult time to attract sponsors and every effort must and will be made to keep existing ones.

HRI already reports a fall in sponsorship for 2009.

One initiative that was welcomed was the news that the Irish Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association will be backing a €75,000 bumper at the Punchestown Festival and two novice hurdles. These races will be confined to fillies purchased at three sales in Ireland, one at Goffs and two at Tattersalls Ireland. Fillies remain eligible for the races for two years.

The ITBA is also sponsoring four black type races for mares, a

Grade 3 hurdle at Punchestown, a Listed hurdle at Leopardstown, a Grade 3 novice chase at Limerick and a new two-mile Listed bumper at Navan.

Incredibly, this will be the first Listed bumper for mares in the Irish racing calendar.

HRI has also been forced to make further cost cutbacks following the recent decision to reduce the allocation from government.

Prize-money will be reduced by €2.7 million for the remainder of 2009, with a 5% cut in base values for all races from the end of May. The problem for HRI has been compounded by the fact that there has also been a significant drop in entry fees.

Meanwhile, the Turf Club, which looks after the integrity services, has been asked to cut their costs by a further 6%.

Government role leaves Ireland in envious position There is one aspect of Irish racing that makes us the envy of many other racing nations and I know this from conversations with counterparts around the world. It is the interest in racing that many of our government leaders have.

Take the scene on the last day of the National Hunt season. The trophies are to be presented to the champions in all categories and Horse Racing Ireland is looking for someone to present the three principal winners with their specially commissioned Siobhan Bulfin bronzes, inscribed with the names of all title winners since 1947. Who do you get?

The Taoiseach (Prime Minister), of course. Brian Cowan was on hand to congratulate all the winners, though sadly the champion owner JP McManus was unavoidably absent. Frank Berry received the bronze on his behalf.

Willie Mullins won his fourth

trainers’ championship, while rider Ruby Walsh’s title was his seventh, and fifth in a row.

Willie and Jackie Mullins’s son Patrick beat the long-standing record of Ted Walsh when he claimed his second amateur title, partnering an amazing 50 winners to Nina Carberry’s 29.

Alain Cawley took the conditional riders’ title with 30 victories.

The Taoiseach was also at Fairyhouse on Easter Monday to present the connections of Niche Market with their trophies after the Irish Grand National.

Willie Mullins: fourth trainers’ title

Artist Nicola Russell awaits a public vote

Who is the nation’s choice?

Reflecting the love affair that the Irish public has with National Hunt racing, a most interesting project was launched at the Punchestown Festival.

Belfast-based artist Nicola Russell is to produce the largest equine painting in Ireland.

Measuring 11 feet by 16 feet, it will celebrate Ireland’s favourite racehorse of the last 25 years.

But who to choose? Five of the six nominees excelled over jumps, with the trailblazing Melbourne Cup winner Vintage Crop the sole Flat nominee.

Unsurprisingly, Dawn Run was an automatic choice of the expert panel assembled to produce the shortlist. The only horse ever to land the Gold Cup and Champion Hurdle double, she was without doubt the greatest National Hunt racemare

ever. Istabraq won 23 of his 29 starts over hurdles, including three consecutive Champion Hurdles at Cheltenham.

Moscow Flyer has been the outstanding two-mile chaser of his era and is a worthy nomination, while the final two places have been taken up by Danoli and Limestone Lad. Both these horses captured the racing public’s imagination like few others.

When the painting is completed it will become the property of the people of Ireland and hang in a public place. The public are being asked to vote for the horse of their choice and the winner will have their portrait commissioned.

A percentage of the money raised will go to the Injured Jockeys’ Fund in Ireland.

Cantillon has the pedigree You know the old saying that pedigree will out? Well, one of the two Irish winners at the annual Martin Wills Writing awards is Jack Cantillon, who has the pedigree of a Classic winner.

He is the eldest son of Dermot and Meta Cantillon. Dermot is the manager for the Smurfit family and continues to serve the racing

and breeding industries in many other ways.

Together with Meta he owns Tinnakill House Stud in County Laois, a 150-acre establishment which they started in 2002.

Meta is a veterinary surgeon and daughter of the late Michael Osborne, whose contribution to the industry is immeasurable.

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THE NEWS FROM MAINLAND EUROPE

Home and Away Words: James Crispe

The first Classics of the French season go to home-based runners – but representing British and American owners

Owner John Cotton (above) triumphed at Longchamp in the Poule d’Essai des Poulains, with the Christophe Soumillon-ridden Silver Frost

Elusive City and bred at Michael Morrin’s Pier House Stud in Ireland, has an unusual ownership history.

With less than a year’s racing under her belt, she has already won in three different sets of silks: those of Andrew Russell when she won a Goodwood maiden for Richard Hannon; Marc de Chambure when landing the Deauville Listed event named after his father; and Martin Schwartz after changing hands for €660,000 at last October’s Arqana Sales.

Florida-resident Schwartz has been a major player in the sport’s upper echelons for a few years

now, most notably with the 2005 Coronation Stakes heroine Maids Causeway.

Cotton business The same cannot be said about John Cotton, whose purple and yellow hoops were carried to victory aboard Silver Frost in the Poule d’Essai des Poulains.

Cotton is from Harrogate in Yorkshire. Almost a century after his father set up the family business supplying carpet underlay, he is now Chairman of the John Cotton Group, Europe’s largest manufacturer of pillows and duvets, with factories as far afield as Poland and China.

His involvement in ownership goes back less than a decade and began close to home, with trainers such as Mary Reveley and Tim Easterby. And, as his youngest son has become responsible for the day-to-day running of the business, so Cotton has found the time to develop his racing interests.

Initially, successes were rare.

Then he began to look further afield, reasoning: “As you get more involved, you realise that you want your horses trained by the experts and ridden by the best jockeys.”

Advised by David Minton and Anthony Bromley, he was

Christophe Lemaire and Elusive Wave return after landing the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches for owner Martin Schwartz (above)

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he French Tricolore fluttered proudly over Longchamp as the home team managed to stave off a strong raiding party in the first two Classics of the season on May 10.

But, while the proudest Frenchman of the lot may have been Jean-Claude Rouget, whose one-two in the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches and second place with Le Havre in the colts’ equivalent may have set him on the road to a first trainers’ championship, the exultant winning owners were American and British respectively.

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introduced to Guillaume Macaire.

One of his first purchases was Golden Flight, whose ten chase wins include the 2005 renewal of France’s top autumn jump race, the Prix La Haye Jousselin.

Cotton is fulsome in praise for Macaire. “His intensive training technique means that his horses can jump with their eyes shut,” he said. “He is not just a fabulous trainer, he’s a fabulous chef too, judged by the wonderful meal he cooked when we visited, not to mention a talented artist – last year he sent me a painting of one of my horses.”

Triumphs in Flat races proved harder to come by and Cotton became frustrated that, despite considerable investment, he had yet to manage a runner at one of his favourite tracks, Deauville.

“I have always loved Deauville, going back to early childhood when we used to go there by yacht,” he recalled. “But my British trainers were not getting very far in that direction, so we thought if we bought a horse at the Deauville sales and sent him to a Deauville trainer that might solve the problem.”

Recommended by fellow Macaire owners, Yves de Nicolay was the trainer chosen and, less than a year after Charlie GordonWatson paid €95,000 for him in the town’s sales ring, Silver Frost landed the Group 3 Prix de Cabourg at Deauville.

Four more triumphs have followed for the son of Verglas, culminating in Group 1 glory, and Cotton can barely believe it.

“When you have a horse over jumps you think you have a pretty good chance,” he said. “But as a Flat owner you have every disadvantage against the likes of the Maktoums and the Aga Khan.

“It’s absolutely marvellous that a small trainer from Deauville and an individual owner can beat the likes of them.”

There has, however, been one momentous blip among this spring’s stream of victories.

Golden Flight, now with Nicky Henderson, got no further than the first fence in the Grand National. “We went to Aintree and when he fell we thought our life had ended,” added Cotton.

Norway As the third biggest exporter of oil and gas in the world, Norway is unlikely to be badly hit by the recent global economic downturn.

But this has not stopped one of the country’s leading ownerbreeders, Einar Nagell-Erichsen, from coming up with a new initiative to attract owners into the sport under the banner of ‘Recession Racing.’

Nagell-Erichsen is proprietor of Meridian Stud in Horten, near Oslo, home of three stallions and recently upgraded to become the base for trainer Roy Kvisla, whose wife, Eva, is the Stud Manager. Meridian enjoyed its finest hour when Blue Canari won the 2004 Prix du Jockey-Club at Chantilly.

For a one-off fee of 50,000 crowns (less than £5,000), Recession Racing offers

owners a share in a two-year-old Kheleyf filly out of the Indian Ridge mare Flying Ridge, with the promise of more to come.

Bought for £15,000 at the Kempton Breeze-Up Sale in March, the filly has been named Kredit Krunch while, cheekily, the syndicate boasts an ‘RR’ logo startlingly similar to that of Rolls-Royce. “I’m not sure we will be able to use that in future,” admitted Kvisla.

Now 40 years old, Kvisla returned six months ago from a three-year stint in Britain which saw him hold a licence, initially in Lambourn from Brian Meehan’s old base, Newlands Stables, then in Newmarket.

He looks back on that time fondly, especially with reference to the Mark Of Esteem filly Puggy, who won him a Salisbury maiden at 66-1 in

2006 and went on to finish third in the Rockfel Stakes and eighth in the following year’s 1,000 Guineas.

“It was a thrill to have a horse in the Guineas and then at Royal Ascot, that was the ultimate,” he said. “But to train in England you have to improve your standard of horses every year just to survive and I found it very hard to find new owners.”

Kvisla is now back in the land of his birth, although he spent much of his adult life in Sweden, where he was a successful jumps jockey.

Assisted by Patrick Murphy, a former head lad with Bill O’Gorman and Julie Cecil, he currently has 14 horses in training and sees the Frenchbred High Chaparral colt Monte Zuma as a Norwegian and Swedish Derby prospect.

was such a let-down at stud that at Keeneland in 2002 she was sold to Giampaolo Raponi for just $21,000.

Five years on and she was still the mother of a single minor winner from her first nine foals. Then came Gladiatorus, a five-time Listed scorer and Group 1 runner-up as a juvenile whose stunning Dubai Duty Free win in March made him the world’s top-rated horse.

Gladiatorus is the only stakes winner by the hugely disappointing Breeders’ Cup Mile winner Silic.

By another stallion flop,

Minardi, My Sweet Baby is trained by Riccardo Menichetti for the current and eight-time Italian champion owner Razza Dell’Olmo, and who is owned

by Rome-based accountant Salvatore Limata. A Listed winner as a two-year-old, My Sweet Baby is now on target for the Italian Oaks (May 24).

Unfortunately, given this belated and meteoric rise to stardom, Gmaasha was struck by lightning and died while at grass in Kentucky in June 2007. Her final foal, a colt by Castledale, is in training with Menichetti.

Italy My Sweet Baby’s win in the Italian 1,000 Guineas in Rome on May Day would have made her dam, Gmaasha, one of breeding’s hottest properties – if only she were still alive.

A late-developing broodmare if ever there was one, Gmaasha was a daughter of Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum’s 1985 Coronation Stakes winner Al Bahathri, and a half-sister to such luminaries as 2004 2,000 Guineas winner Haafhd.

But she never made it to the racecourse and, despite visiting some fancy stallions,

European round-up Visiting jockeys beware – whips have been banned in Norway since the beginning of this season, not including twoyear-old and jumps races. A copy of the precise rules, translated into many different languages, will be highlighted to any newcomers to the weighing room.

The Aga Khan rarely gets involved in early-season juvenile racing, so Siyouni’s entry at Longchamp on May 4 raised a few eyebrows. The Pivotal colt, from the family of the Group 1 winner Slickly duly dotted up by a length and a half. Next stop Royal Ascot.

Godolphin’s Mastery could be Epsom-bound but some of the £359,000 he earned in landing the Italian Derby will need to be used to supplement him.

Incredibly, he might have been balloted out of the Capannelle race but for a late increase in the maximum field size from 20 to 22.

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THE COLUMN THAT EMBRACES EVERY CONTINENT

Hands up if you’ve won the Derby: Calvin Borel and the shock winner Mine That Bird

Some superb equine performances and inspiring human endeavours are partly overshadowed by questionable practices

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n a blur of drama that was both unfathomable and unpredictable, Mine That Bird, an unheralded gelding conditioned by a trainer wearing a black cowboy hat who had saddled only one winner previously in 2009, captured the Kentucky Derby on behalf of anyone who has dared to dream.

At 50.6-1, Mine That Bird, ridden by Calvin Borel, became the second longest-priced Derby winner after crossing the line seven lengths clear, the largest margin since Assault’s eightlength triumph in 1946.

“To be honest, I didn’t have any real feeling that I could win the Derby,” said stunned trainer Bennie ‘Chip’ Woolley Jnr, a former rodeo rider who drove a van carrying Mine That Bird 1,700

miles from his base at Sunland Park in New Mexico to Churchill Downs. “We just wanted to be competitive.”

A $9,500 yearling, Mine That Bird won three stakes races in Canada last year before being sold for $400,000 to Mark Allen and veterinarian Leonard Blach.

The compact bay then finished last in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile and lost both his starts this year prior to the Derby, although he did win laurels as Canada’s champion juvenile for 2008.

Calvin Borel completed a Derby/Oaks double having partnered odds-on Rachel Alexandra to a record 20-length Oaks victory. “She’s incredible, I think she’s the best horse in the country right now,” declared Borel.

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Just how incredible was illustrated when Borel partnered Rachel Alexandra to a length success over Mine That Bird in the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico.

Rachel Alexandra became only the fifth filly ever to win the prize, and the first since Nellie Morse in 1924, while Borel is now the only jockey to have won the first two legs of the Triple Crown on different horses.

Words: Michele MacDonald

Even before Rachel Alexandra stepped on to the Churchill track, the daughter of Medgalia D’Oro had touched hearts in a very unusual way when her connections allowed seriously ill seven-year-old fan Rachel Mattson to visit her under the auspices of the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Wearing one of the Rachel Alexandra team’s pink hats bearing the phrase “Alexandra the Great,” she also accompanied them to the postOaks press conference, where trainer Hal Wiggins had to choke back the tears.

Just five days later, Wiggins had another reason to get choked up: Rachel Alexandra’s breeder and co-owner Dolphus Morrison and his partner Mike Lauffer sold the filly to Jess Jackson’s Stonestreet Stables, and the horse was transferred to the Steve Asmussen stable. Rachel Alexandra will be bred to Curlin when she is retired, Jackson said.

Against all those stories, Churchill Downs not only could not escape the spector of last year’s horrific fatal accident involving Derby runner-up Eight Belles, but track officials actually stirred up memories. First, six days before the Derby, they hosted the dedication of a larger than life-size bronze memorial to 2006 Derby winner Barbaro, who

Yet Borel rode one even better in Oaks winner Rachel Alexandra

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did not survive injuries suffered in that year’s Preakness. His ashes have been placed under the statue near a main entrance gate to the track.

Then, not long before this year’s Derby field paraded to post, Churchill had a US Navy detail march on to the track, where a podium with a bell on it had been positioned for a somewhat surreal ceremony in honour of Eight Belles.

Such an act seemed misplaced and vividly contrasted with the much more upbeat occasion hosted by Three Chimneys Farm during Derby week. The Lexington stallion station was flooded with more than 1,000 fans who poured in the gates for an open house to see and snap photos of Big Brown, Smarty Jones and Point Given, among others.

Yet despite that sweet interlude of homage to living champions, American racing cannot seem to escape shadows of controversy.

Immediately after the Derby, it was revealed in an Alaskan newspaper report that Allen, Mine That Bird’s co-owner, paid off an Alaska state legislator, according to his own father, Bill.

Allen snr’s 2007 plea of guilty in an Alaska public corruption scandal was submitted under a deal for immunity from federal prosecution for his son.

In a scandal that American racing can barely afford right now, a 34-page federal indictment has accused jockey Ricardo Valdes of conspiring with two other men to fix races in Florida, Delaware and Michigan for a year extending from December 2005.

Valdes, 43, who was one of seven jockeys barred from riding at Tampa Bay Downs in 2006, and others who are not named allegedly accepted money and gifts “to use less than their best efforts to win.”

Valdes and the other two named men, Mitchell Edward Karam and Ghazi Manni, are also accused of obtaining wageringrelated information from jockeys and bribing riders to give less than their best efforts in races.

Derby victory sees late deluge of requests to use Birdstone How important is a Kentucky Derby victory? Just ask Michael Hernon, director of sales at Gainesway Farm in Lexington, where Mine That Bird’s sire Birdstone has stood for a fee of $10,000 live foal since his first season in 2005.

Hernon reported that within days of the race, Gainesway had fielded about 50 requests for 2009 seasons to Birdstone, even though the end of the season was very near. He predicted that Birdstone could end up covering 110 mares this year, nearly double the 63 he was bred to in 2008.

In some ways a victim of his own racetrack success, Birdstone has “been misread really from the beginning,” Hernon asserted, with most people remembering him only as “the villain who ruined Smarty Jones’s Triple Crown” in the Belmont Stakes.

But many breeders seemed

Hero or villain? Birdstone ended Smarty Jones’s Triple Crown bid

to forget that the son of Kentucky Derby winner Grindstone and grandson of Kentucky Derby winner Unbridled had also won the Grade 1 Champagne Stakes as a juvenile and the Travers Stakes after the Belmont, Hernon said.

Even with Mine That Bird’s remarkable Derby win,

Birdstone’s owners Marylou Whitney and her husband, John Hendrickson, do not plan to increase his fee for the rest of this year.

Birdstone is also the sire of this year’s Kentucky Oaks runner-up Stone Legacy and Grade 3 winner Livin Lovin.

“Hopefully, this is the tip of the iceberg,” said Hernon.

Understated,maybe? Successful, oh yes!

Ghanaati’s 1,000 Guineas winner was the tenth Classic win since 1985 for Sheikh Hamdan’s Shadwell Farm, one of the most understated of Kentucky’s signature studs — until it comes to racetrack performance.

“It all goes back to Sheikh Hamdan,” said Shadwell Vice President and General Manager Rick Nichols, who was back to work in the Lexington farm’s office soon after witnessing the Newmarket victory. “He approves all the matings and he gives us every tool we need — nothing is spared for the horse.”

When Ghanaati was sent to Dubai to be given early training under the tutelage of John Hyde, Sheikh Hamdan was so impressed that he decided he would change the previous

name of the grandaughter of Height Of Fashion.

The new name he bestowed on the bay filly means “my love” in Arabic. Nichols said: “He was very specific about changing to this name. He evidently really liked her when he saw her in Dubai.”

Ghanaati is by Mr Prospector mare Sarayir, who produced a filly on April 19 by Grade 1 winner Hard Spun and has an unnamed yearling filly by Forestry and a two-year-old daughter, Rumoush, by Rahy.

Shadwell continues to mine the Height Of Fashion family and includes among its broodmare band champion Lahudood, whose grandam Bashayer is a full sister to Ghanaati’s dam.

Lahudood produced her first foal this year, a filly by

Kingmambo.

Two of Shadwell’s ten Classic wins — the 1989 Epsom Derby and 2,000 Guineas — were captured by Nashwan, Height Of Fashion’s son by Blushing Groom, after whom the breeding complex at the farm is named. The farm’s other Classic wins include two other 1,000 Guineas victories via Shadayid in 1991and Harayir in 1995.

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Talking to

Charlie Brooks The racehorse trainer-turned-author looks forward to writing new material and impending marriage Words: Tim Richards

I had nothing else to distract me. I used to get up at 4am and put in four uninterrupted hours.

Now I am with my fiancée, Rebekah [Wade, editor of The Sun]. Seriously, though, I reckon I am pretty disciplined.

Your new novel, Citizen – what’s it all about?

Is writing a book a bigger test of character than training horses?

It’s basically a traumatic love story, set in the racing world, woven into a plot involving quite serious consequences for world sport, not just racing. The twist in the tail is that if it really happened in sport it would be shocking. It is a fun, light read with a serious point at the end.

It is a different and bigger test of character, and actually I think it suits me. With training you have the horse there, to get fit, keep healthy and run in the right race. Writing a book, you are staring at a blank piece of paper wondering what you are going to create.

How much of it was drawn from your own racing experiences?

What made you give up training when you had handled such high class jumpers as Celtic Shot, Couldnt Be Better and Suny Bay?

A lot – I want to leave the reader wondering where fact ends and fiction starts. I have tried to do that by using real people and real places.

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You have produced a tale of skulduggery. Does this mean you think a lot goes on in racing, or is the sport cleaner than ever?

I have set it in racing but it could so easily have been in athletics, cycling or another sport.

Ironically, I do think racing is cleaner than other sports. If what the book predicts was to happen, I think it will take place with humans before horses; probably somewhere like China. I envisage it happening in a country where the population could be manipulated.

How disciplined a writer are you?

When I was single I was very disciplined because

Charlie Brooks with his fiancée Rebekah Wade

I wasn’t achieving the goals that I’d set myself.

When I took over from Fred Winter I thought it would be worth doing only if I could match what he did. I simply couldn’t keep my horses healthy and that was a problem that neither I nor the vets could get to grips with. We had some good horses and won some big races but for four or five seasons from the end of November to March the horses weren’t healthy.

For all I know, it might have been the way I trained them.

Paul Nicholls has a stable full of stars – could you have handled the pressure of training his string or dealing with his high-profile owners?

Yes, I believe I could handle the Paul Nicholls pressures, provided the horses were healthy. He

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FINGERS ON THE BUZZERS What excites you?

Horses

seems to be very good at keeping his horses healthy and very rarely goes through barren patches. That seems to be a great art. If I knew how to do it I’d probably still be training!

What makes you happy?

My wife-to-be

Do you consider yourself more of a people person than a horse person?

How do you relax?

Fertilizing my gooseberries Most dangerous thing you’ve done?

Listening to Charlie Egerton when I was 18 Who would you cross the road to avoid?

Nobody, I’m a prostitute Describe yourself in five words?

Insecure, obsessive, interested, expressive, fat FAVOURITES Watering hole Jeremy Clarkson’s fridge Journey New York to El Paso

I am more of a horse person, though I wish I knew a bit more about them. There are some horrible gaps in my knowledge; I don’t know enough about a foal when I am looking at it, or breaking in a yearling.

What impact has your education at Eton had on your life?

My wife-to-be says I’m a pompous old Etonian.

I think you learn more than you realise at such a place. The label of Eton follows you around but it doesn’t bother me at all. With both David Cameron and Boris Johnson doing a pretty good job, I thought this might be a good decade to be an old Etonian, so I put it on the book cover.

I understand you are still in touch with David Cameron, who you were at school with. Have you ever been tempted to enter politics?

I am fascinated by politics, but I don’t think I’d ever be an MP. I like Gordon Brown, while not necessarily agreeing with his politics. I admire a lot of politicians for the enormous amount of work they do. I think Cameron will be a good Prime Minister.

Night out Night in

You once trained as a goalkeeper for Watford.

How would you have coped with a career as a footballer?

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Graham Taylor used to bring his Watford team to train at Eton. John Barnes, Luther Blissett and Eric Steele, who is now the Manchester United goalkeeping coach, would play against us. But Eric told me I was too small to make it as a goalkeeper. If I could wave a magic wand I would love to be a football manager; it is very similar to being a racehorse trainer.

Sport Hunting and then coming home to tell my mother-in-law-to-be about it. She hates hunting

Suny Bay and Graham Bradley en route to Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup glory in 1997

If you owned just one horse, who would train it?

And if you could win only one race, which would it be and why?

Sir Mark Prescott, and the Grand National. I own a tiny part of a horse with Sir Mark, who is a fascinating character, though I haven’t worked him out yet. I’d like him to win the National because it was very frustrating being second twice with Suny Bay. The other day I signed a copy of Citizen for Nigel Twiston-Davies. I told him, ‘Thank God you beat us (with Earth Summit), otherwise I’d still be depressed’. If Suny Bay had won, I’d still be training.

I understand you have set up the London Kriotherapy Centre. What is it?

It is a chamber we imported from Poland that goes down to a temperature of minus 135 degrees centigrade and stimulates the hormone system. The Everton team that beat Manchester United in the FA Cup semi-final spent some time in it after the match, and Tony McCoy has also used it a lot on his way back from injury.

How involved are you?

I am helping to try to take kriotherapy forward.

In Poland, it is used as mainstream medicine for rheumatism and arthritis, and we are attempting to produce a smaller, more affordable chamber.

You have already written your autobiography and are a regular columnist for The Daily Telegraph. Are you planning another book?

I am working on a précis of a new book, though the other week I did about eight hours work on the précis and my laptop lost the lot. I nearly had a mental breakdown!

How would you improve racing?

I would get rid of the whip as we know it, though I’d let the jockeys carry it for their own safety. Seeing jockeys go ‘whack, whack, whack’ can be a turn-off, particularly for the casual racegoer or television viewer. Two-year-olds run straight until you hit them and then they are all over the place. I would also establish a premier league of fixtures, so that every weekend there would be one thumping good meeting when working people could attend.

Who is the most underrated trainer and jockey in Britain, and why?

Mark Bradstock is the most underrated trainer.

There is a touch of the ‘Darling Buds of May’ about his yard but when you walk into the place you know that the horses are number one.

Richard Hughes is a proper horseman who can get a horse settled and into a rhythm.

You are getting married to Rebekah Wade in June. Any extravagant plans?

Don’t worry, we’ll be locked away somewhere.

But whenever I want to wind Rebekah up, I tell her I am close to doing a deal with Hello!.

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Far from the madding crowds Even though he claims not to know “95% of the people on racecourses these days”, John Dunlop continues to revel in the “wonderful life” that training at Arundel provides him Words: Julian Muscat | Photos: George Selwyn

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You have been training for 43 years and have won ten British Classics. Which of them has given you most pleasure?

I’ve been awfully lucky to have won two Derbys, and there is nothing like winning that race. We’ve had some near-misses, too – it’s always heartbreaking to come so close. I think the pick would have to be Shirley Heights winning in 1978.

The Halifaxes, who owned him, were charming people, and the horse went on to win the Irish Derby. That was almost more pleasing because Charles Halifax didn’t really believe in the Irish Derby. If your horse won the Derby it ran in the St Leger, and that was that.

Anyway, Shirley Heights just got up and won by a short head. Greville Starkey got cramp in his thighs and couldn’t ride him out properly. I thought he’d got beat and because the owners weren’t keen to go, I thought, ‘Oh dear, I’ve done the wrong thing.’ But luckily, the photograph went our way.

How much detail can you remember about Shirley Heights winning at Epsom?

Not much. It all becomes a bit of a blur.

Shirley Heights was nearly favourite, I remember that. He had won the Dante impressively, as did Erhaab (Dunlop’s second Derby winner in 1994), but when you win the Derby with a fancied horse, the feeling is more of relief than jubilation.

You’re worrying yourself silly that they will run badly and make you look like a fool. It’s certainly true that once you win the race, you really do want to win it again.

Is the Derby still the ‘blue riband’ of the turf?

I think it is. I’m sure that John Oxx and Jim Bolger are excited about running their 2,000 Guineas horses in the Derby. John Oxx is very traditional; I’m sure he was thinking about the Derby as soon as Sea The Stars won at Newmarket. He won that race by staying.

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What about the Wednesday versus Saturday debate?

I’ve always been a supporter of Wednesday. I think of Derby day as a national day, whereas on Saturday there are so many other sporting events. And people have family commitments, so the effect is diluted. Wednesday was a holiday.

On the other hand, it’s logical to argue that more people can watch the race on Saturday, both at Epsom and on television. Life changes.

People keep saying that midweek race meetings are not popular, but they are if you’ve got serious racing. Once again, Chester was packed every day.

It is over 40 years now since Mount Athos was your first Derby runner in 1967 in what was a signifcant running...

It was the year of Sir Ivor and Connaught, and Mount Athos finished third. He was an interesting horse. He was trained by Harry Whiteman as a two-year-old. Sandy Struthers owned him and the two of them fell out spectacularly, for whatever reason. Sandy was very upset about the whole thing and sent me the horse.

Mount Athos was a 50-1 shot because I’d only won a pair of handicaps with him at Nottingham and Newcastle before the Derby. The public thought his chance was very remote, but he was actually a bloody good horse.

What about your first winner?

That’s easy, partly because it was a very decent race. I won the Palace House Stakes at Newmarket with Tamino, who was by Sing Sing out of Fair And True. He won by a head with Hutchy (Ron Hutchinson) up, beating off Charles Nelson’s, owned by Charles Hewson and ridden by Scobie Breasley. That was in 1966, more than 40 years ago. The Pattern didn’t even exist back then.

You obviously remember it well...

That’s because I have a photograph of it in my downstairs loo!

You also trained the first winner owned by Sheikh Mohammed

Yes, I did. Hatta in 1977.

Did you have any idea at the time how his involvement would grow?

None whatsoever. There was no indication of what would happen. Who could possibly imagine that it would lead to the participation of the three Maktoum brothers on a vast scale? It had certainly never been done before.

Sheikh Mohammed also sent you Snaafi Dancer to train...

Well, there have always been expensive horses throughout the history of the game. Dorothy Paget bought one in the 1930s, it cost two or

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three thousand quid, an unbelievable sum in those days.

In Snaafi Dancer’s case, I suppose his $10 million yearling price tag was always going to single him out for attention...

Yes, it did. And he was absolutely useless, the poor thing. Absolutely useless. He lacked any ability whatsoever as a racehorse, so he never ran. And when he went to stud he was sterile. A pathetic story all round, really.

Actually, we heard afterwards that from a young age his breeders felt he was so valuable to sell as a yearling that they never allowed him to run with other horses. He was mollycoddled, which is very unnatural for a horse.

As absurd as the whole thing was, Vincent O’Brien and Robert Sangster were the underbidders. Soon after, they outbid the sheikh to buy Seattle Dancer, the most expensive yearling ever, who cost $13 million. Absurd prices, but then the prices of most horses are absolutely absurd, I think.

It is interesting that at a time when the value of sales incentive races is being debated, you actually won the inaugural Tattersalls Tiffany race at Newmarket in 1990 and promptly described it as “grotesque”!

I wasn’t allowed to forget it. But actually, a fair few people agreed with me. These sales races are all the same. They seem to last only a few years; I notice Goffs has dropped theirs this year. It’s a bit of a gimmick which is supposed to bring in new owners. That Tattersalls race I won was worth more than the Derby. It was ridiculous.

It’s often said that people change their outlook on life after a major health scare. Did that happen to you when you had heart surgery seven years ago?

Frankly, no it didn’t. I’m told that 95% who suffer a burst aorta die from it. I was very fortunate to be in the right place at the right time, with a very good surgeon and an operating theatre nearby. They just caught me in time.

Another ten minutes or so and I’d have been dead – and we’d only come back from Spain the day before, so I was bloody lucky to survive it.

But I don’t think it’s changed my outlook one bit. The surgeon said that I’d probably change, but I don’t think I have.

Does that suggest you were living your life as you really wanted to?

Well, anyone who has been to Arundel can see that’s it’s a wonderful place, and I’ve been there all my life. We’ve had some bad luck through the years, but that’s life. On the whole we’ve been extraordinarily lucky.

Given your life again, would it be in racing?

I can’t imagine what else I’d do. Is there any alternative?

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“Anyone who has been to Arundel can see that it is a wonderful place, and I have been here all my life,” says Dunlop. “I’ve been extraordinarily lucky”

“If I had any sense, I would have left Arundel 30 years ago and bought my own establishment. But would I have been as successful if I’d moved? Probably not” Asked if he could live his life again, would it still be in racing? “I can’t imagine what else I’d do,” admits Dunlop. “Is there any alternative?”

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Well, you could have bred more of your prize bulls or hunters...

Racing’s a bit more exciting than that. And there are more disappointments, too.

Some of your close friends have passed away – Sir Philip Payne-Gallwey, for example. Does that create a void in your enjoyment of racing?

Yes, it does. Philip was one of our greatest friends. Then there are the regular racegoers who loved the game, who you’d come to meet.

Patrick Wiener, for example, who died in March.

He was a very unusual figure: a shortish, rather fat little lad with very thick glasses.

At Newmarket Patrick would always stand by the rail where horses leave the paddock. He was one of the regulars who you were always glad to see. You do miss these people. I don’t know 95% of the people who go racing these days. People just seem to disappear.

For how much longer are you going to train?

How long is a piece of string? I’ve been asked that question several times in the last five years, when these two sons of mine (the trainers, Ed and Harry) started to rear their ugly heads.

People say to me, ‘What are you still doing, old man, when the two young ones are in action?’

But I don’t own the stables at Arundel, I’m a

leaseholder. If I did own the place, I’m sure one of the boys would have succeeded me by now.

Will either of them eventually take over at Arundel?

I don’t think so. Edward’s heart is very much in Newmarket, where he’s been successful, and Harry...well, Arundel is a big operation and very expensive to run. I don’t know what’s going to happen to it when I stop.

Did you envisage staying at Arundel for your whole career?

Not at all. I went there in 1963 and took out a licence in the autumn of 1965. I was assistant to Gordon Smyth for two seasons until he went to Lewes, when Towser Gosden (father of Newmarket trainer John) retired.

Why don’t you ever have jockeys down to ride work?

The last one I let on the place was probably Brian Rouse, who rode Quick As Lightning before she won the 1,000 Guineas in 1980. I haven’t had a stable jockey for years and you can’t really ask people to come down if you’re not employing them. Also, I personally don’t think that jockeys and stable lads mix all that well together.

Dunlop on the future: “I don’t think Ed or Harry will take over. Arundel is a big operation and very expensive to run. I don’t know what will happen”

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In what way?

The lads try and beat the jockeys on the gallops, while the jockeys try and show up the lads. You almost end up with a race within a race, which can be somewhat unsatisfactory.

What’s the biggest change you’ve seen in your career?

The biggest change has been in the ranks of owners. When I first started the majority of owners were breeders, members of the aristocracy in this country, and some rich American anglophiles. That has dramatically changed.

The Derby winners: Shirley Heights (rail) in 1978 and Erhaab (blue) in 1994

Was it easier to deal with them than today’s syndicates?

On the whole they were much more understanding. The majority of them had a horse of some sort. They hunted, they were involved with horses all their lives. They were typical countrymen in many ways. I think they understood horses more than your typical syndicate member, who wouldn’t know it if a horse trod on his foot.

You got to the stage where you knew almost all the people who owned horses. Now you walk into the paddock for the Guineas, never mind an ordinary race, and you don’t know who the majority of the people are.

“I have always been a supporter of a Wednesday Derby. It was a ‘national day’, whereas on a Saturday there are so many other sporting events” both regular racegoers. My father was a founder member of Chepstow. He didn’t own any horses but he loved going racing You don’t bet now; did you ever bet?

I used to bet in the days when I couldn’t afford to lose – as an assistant, and in the early days when I started training.

Have you noticed a big change in the racing audience?

Did you make it pay?

Certainly. Big racedays these days are more like party days. They are not really so much about racing. I reckon 90% of the crowd on 2,000 Guineas day knew bugger all about the Classics, but they went for a party. You only had to look at the girls’ dresses to see that.

Virtually, I think, but I was never very serious about betting. When you train a lot of horses, to a certain extent you’re going to be rewarded when they win. It’s disappointing enough when they get beat without having lost money on them as well.

Does that detract from the racing spectacle?

How do you find the time to do all your charity work and sit on so many committees?

I don’t think it detracts from the day at all. In fact, I get distracted by these ladies in very short skirts. What is unattractive to me is to see a lot of young people getting very pissed. That’s probably a fault of the management, who are supposed to stop people walking about with drinks, but they don’t.

You can see people walking about in front of the stands with their pints of lager, which is unfortunate. But there’s no doubt racing has to be entertaining and fun for the young, otherwise what will happen in the future?

How does the son of a surgeon end up becoming a trainer?

I had a great friend in my regiment in the Army, Jerry Flynn, who was mad about race-riding. He had a horse in Germany and I got involved in helping him to train it. That’s what fired the whole thing. Jerry actually ended up as a racecourse judge on the northern circuit, but he made a bollocks of it and got the sack.

Having said that, my father and mother were

I’ve been awfully lucky throughout my life, so if I can do something to help other people, I’ll do it. It’s nothing more than that. I’m certainly not holier-than-thou than anybody else. But I enjoy it, too.

I’ve been involved with the Racing School and Racing Welfare for a long time. I’m still a member of the Pattern Committee and that’s interesting, too. It’s giving something back.

If you could change one thing about your career, what would it be?

If I had any sense at all, I would have left Arundel 30 years ago and bought my own establishment. But that’s by the by. If I’d done that, I wouldn’t have these wonderful memories of the place.

Would my training career have been as successful if I’d moved away? Probably not. I don’t think there’s been one huge mistake I’ve made. As I keep saying, I’ve been incredibly lucky.

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John Oxx (left) enjoyed his first 2,000 Guineas success with Sea The Stars, who will now try to prove his stamina in the Epsom Derby

Patience is a virtue John Oxx has skilfully nurtured a host of equine champions over the years; the latest is 2,000 Guineas hero and Derby hope Sea The Stars Words: Leo Powell | Photos: George Selwyn hirty years after taking over from his father at Currabeg, John Oxx is aiming to add a second Epsom Derby to his already impressive list of achievements.

And if the 2,000 Guineas winner Sea The Stars does overcome the burgeoning Ballydoyle battalions to follow the lead of Sinndar in 2000, then his success will bring a strong reminder of the importance of upbringing.

Few horses in training have a pedigree of excellence as that of Sea The Stars, the fourth Group 1-winning offspring of 1993 Arc heroine Urban Sea. It could hardly be more appropriate, therefore, that few trainers have as immaculate a grounding as John Oxx, whose veterinary studies have blended with the careful, vigilant approach of his parents to create his renowned blueprint for patience and skill.

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Stars from the beginning, as Oxx recalls: “When a horse like that walks through your gate, a halfbrother to (Derby winner) Galileo, a cracking looker, everybody’s hopes are high. When he started to work he showed plenty.

“I always felt that bred the way he was and showing the speed he did as a two-year-old, that we should be giving him his chance (in the Guineas). Everyone was saying, ‘Derby horse, Derby horse’, but they weren’t really looking at his pedigree.”

So does his trainer have any worries about the Derby, bearing in mind the possible stamina shortcomings in the colt’s pedigree? “You have to be concerned,” he admits. “With any Guineas winner it will be 50-50 whether he gets the trip.

“If he only had a 10% chance I suppose I wouldn’t run him. He deserves his chance because it is such a rare feat (the Guineas/Derby

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double, last achieved by Nashwan in 1989). He would be one of an elite group.

“He doesn’t have anything much to lose but he has a lot to gain if he wins the Derby. His owners (the Tsui family) would get unbelievable pleasure from it. There are lots of negatives in the pedigree from the point of view of stamina, but he would definitely go a long way. I’m sure he’d be strong at a mile and a quarter. There’s that little brick wall between the one furlong and two furlong mark that nobody sees except the horses.

“They have to stay to get the Epsom Derby trip, but it’s a track for speed horses and that’s why it’s been such a success over the years. It’s always been the test for stallions because it can’t be won by a slow horse. This horse means a lot to his owners and it’s marvellous that he has already achieved so much.”

Whether he hits that “little brick wall” or not, Sea The Stars is in for one almighty test at Epsom, posed mainly by Aidan O’Brien-trained colts, such as Fame And Glory, Rip Van Winkle and Black Bear Island.

Oxx has a form-line on Fame And Glory as his colt Mourayan has twice been beaten by him this season. He admits: “I must say I was impressed with Fame And Glory. He’s a real nice horse to look at, a lovely galloper, has a high cruising speed, quickens up and stays. You couldn’t help but be deeply impressed by him.”

Destiny calls

Even though he is a qualified veterinary surgeon, Oxx was destined for a career as a trainer and to follow in his father’s footsteps.

“I was always going to be a trainer,” he insists.

“My parents would, I imagine, have been disappointed if I wasn’t a trainer, whereas I wouldn’t have that attitude. It was more of a thing in their generation. I went to do veterinary for education. My parents had the idea that if training didn’t work out I would have another career to fall back on. But I never dreamt that it wouldn’t work out.

“That said, I continue to keep an interest in veterinary matters and read all the articles. It was the best thing I could have done. It was a great help to me.”

Family background has been influential in the development of Oxx’s career and hearing him speak of his father and grandfather - both called John - helps to understand him better.

His grandfather ran Hilltown Stud but ill health curtailed his working life. Fortunately, his son showed a great interest and helped his father, eventually taking over from him at a very young age. Always underplaying events, the current master of Currabeg says that his father “claimed” to have foaled 1934 Derby winner Windsor Lad. Oxx’s father never strayed far in his youth from the Dunboyne area and eventually ended up working at Woodpark for James McVey. This

intrepid punter had a number of horses in training and wanted a private trainer. John Oxx snr took on the role as a 33-year-old in 1943, though he had never held any role within a training establishment.

Based at Summerseat, later associated famously with the Kerr family, success was instantaneous and in that first season he trained Solferino to cause one of the greatest upsets in a Classic when the colt dethroned the long oddson shot The Phoenix to capture the Irish St Leger. Forty-four years later his son was to win the same race when Eurobird landed the first of his trainer’s three victories in the Irish St Leger.

Currabeg era

John snr then worked as a private trainer for A T Adams and won the ‘1500’ at Phoenix Park in 1946 with Lady Kells. He next moved to rented yards on the Curragh in 1948, eventually purchasing Currabeg in 1950. He built a house on the then six acres, now expanded to nine, and the location is hard to better. He had a stellar career as a trainer, with support from many of the country’s leading owner-breeders. He trained eight Irish Classic winners, a feat equalled by his son when Kastoria won the 2006 Irish St Leger.

John snr was especially successful with fillies and half of his Classic successes came in the Irish Oaks. However, the best horse he trained was undoubtedly the colt Arctic Storm.

His son recalls travelling to Phoenix Park for the ‘1500’ as an 11-year-old. “I remember my father saying to my mother that if this fellow wins today, he’ll win the Derby,” he recalls. “He got beaten a short head – and he got beaten a short head in the Derby as well. He was a terrific horse.”

The colt won the Irish 2,000 Guineas in 1962, was second in the Epsom Derby, and finished the season with victory in the Champion Stakes at Newmarket.

The handover at Currabeg in 1979 mirrored a change also in the nature of the business. The commercialisation of the industry was well under way, owner-breeders were becoming thin on the ground and people were sending their Ridgewood Pearl and Johnny Murtagh after 1995 Breeders’ Cup Mile glory at Belmont

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“My parents taught me that the most important thing in your life is your integrity”

best horses to the sales, rather than keeping them. Horses were a valuable commodity.

The closeness of the father and son relationship didn’t change when Oxx took over from his father, though it often led to animated discussions about how things were done.

Nevertheless, he soon realised that much about his father’s way of doing things was right.

“There are some basics that never change: getting horses fit, the routine, the work and basic stable management,” says Oxx. “Some principals never change, no matter how many decades pass. My father was a great influence.

Integrity vital

“My parents lived a very straightforward, simple life. They worked, sat by the fire in the evenings, read books and grafted away. They were a great example like that. They lived a good life and the one thing they always impressed was the most important thing in your life is your integrity.

“That was worth more than anything else. You never tried to do anything smart. My father always believed that’s why he got good clients, Sinndar and Johnny Murtagh (green and red) beat off Sakhee in the Derby in 2000

because they knew they could trust him. I learned that lesson as a very small boy.”

The first few years of Oxx’s career were nonetheless a learning curve. “I was tipping along,” he recalls. “I’d have a good year and then a bad year and was finding it hard to get a clean bill of health every season. Then 1986 was my first really good year and the next season we won our first Classic (Irish St Leger with Eurobird). It was a very important day because it was for Mr and Mrs Jennings, who had Sorbus in my father’s last year, when he won the Irish Oaks, only to lose it in the stewards’ room.”

The next year saw the start of one of the most enduring partnerships in Irish racing, that of

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John Oxx and the Aga Khan. The first yearlings arrived in the autumn of 1988 and by the following summer there were 22 juveniles in the yard. He was the first trainer for the Aga Khan in Ireland. Why was he chosen?

“I was in the right place at the right time,” is his typically understated reply. “Maybe I did have a profile of producing later developing horses and that might have been an attraction.

“His Highness has a great enthusiasm for his horses. He is as excited as any other owner or breeder when he thinks he might have a good horse. But he is far more realistic than most people. Nobody enjoys a good winner more than he does because it represents the outcome of a lot of hard graft over many years and the development of his great families.

“He is a good winner, but he is a good loser.

He doesn’t want a runner in a race like the Derby just to have a runner. There is never any pressure on you to produce a runner for a particular race.”

Sensational Sinndar

While Oxx is reluctant to single out one horse as the best he has trained, the most highly rated was the brilliant Sinndar, his Epsom Derby winner who followed up in the Irish equivalent and later with a memorable Arc de Triomphe success. Oxx says: “He was a terrific horse, a lovely looking horse, wonderful temperament and there was no end to him. It is very hard to look past him.

“Sinndar winning the Epsom Derby was wonderful and then winning the Irish Derby was very emotional, because it was the Irish Derby, and my father’s horse was just beaten in the first big Irish Derby (Sweeps Derby in 1962). Then going to win the Arc was the crème de la crème.”

Ridgewood Pearl was another obvious standout, while the Aga Khan’s Timarida was not far behind. “Ridgewood Pearl was exceptional, she could win on any ground,” says Oxx. “She was so tough and genuine, as tough as any colt, as was Timarida.”

Oxx recalls a fascinating story about Ridgewood Pearl. He was in France for the Prix Vermeille when Ridgewood Pearl made her debut in a Listed race at the Curragh. The filly was partnered by Christy Roche. Encountering a far from trouble free run, she was beaten into third without being harried or hassled too much.

When Roche dismounted, he told assistant trainer Jimmy O’Neill that she was the best filly he had ever ridden.

“It was an extraordinary statement,” says Oxx. “A two-year-old first time out gets beaten, and to say that? It was credit to Christy’s judgement.

He had remarkable instincts. We knew we had something. She was my first star horse.”

Oxx remains very rooted and success is not something he gets carried away with. “The job is never complete,” he says. “ You just have to keep it in perspective and move on. These wins mean everything. That’s why we do it.”

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John Oxx has been firing in Group-race winners for 30 years

Factfile: John M Oxx Creeve, Currabeg, Kildare Born: July 14, 1950. Married to Caitriona with three children First trainer’s licence: 1979 First winner: Orchestra, Rank Cup, Phoenix Park, 1979 First Group winner: Orchestra, Group 3 Whitehall Stakes, Phoenix Park, 1979 Classic wins: Derby (Sinndar 2000); 2,000 Guineas (Sea The Stars 2009); Irish Derby (Sinndar 2000, Alamshar 2003); Irish 1,000 Guineas (Ridgewood Pearl 1995); Irish Oaks (Ebadiyla 1997, Winona 1998); Irish St Leger (Eurobird 1987, Petite Ile 1989, Kastoria 2006) Group 1 wins: King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes (Alamshar 2003, Azamour 2005); Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (Sinndar 2000); Irish Champion Stakes (Timarida 1996, Azamour 2004); St James’s Palace Stakes (Azamour 2004); Prince of Wales’s Stakes (Azamour 2005); Ascot Gold Cup (Enzeli 1999); Coronation Stakes (Ridgewood Pearl 1995); Prix du Moulin (Ridgewood Pearl 1995); Prix de l’Abbaye (Namid 2000); National Stakes (Manntari 1993, Sinndar

1999); Moyglare Stud Stakes (Flamenco Wave 1988, Edabiya 1998); Yorkshire Oaks (Key Change 1996); Prix Royal-Oak (Ebadiyla 1997); Breeders’ Cup Mile (Ridgewood Pearl 1995); Beverly D Stakes (Timarida 1996); Bayerisches Zuchtrennen (Timarida 1996); Total wins (to May 13, 2009): 1,683 (30 Group 1 wins, 117 Group wins, 129 Listed wins) Champion trainer in Ireland: 1995 Other interests: Irish National Stud Chairman 1985-1990; Irish Racehorse Trainers’ Association Chairman 19861991, 1993-1996; Trainers’ Association committee member 1996-1999; Irish Equine Centre Board member 1990-1999; Irish Horseracing Authority member 1994-1999; Punchestown and Mallow racecourses committee member 1994-1999; RACE (Racing Academy & Centre of Education) Board member 1993-2007; Chairman Leopardstown racecourse 2007 to date, committee member 2005 to date

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The versatile traditionalist Even though he came into racing as “a strict amateur”, George Strawbridge is an established racing force, both in Europe and America, and on the Flat and over jumps Words: Julian Muscat | Photos: George Selwyn

eorge Strawbridge is not averse to the company of fast ladies. A trait that surfaced with the deeds of Silver Fling, who won the Prix de l’Abbaye 20 years ago, gains further expression in a season when Strawbridge can flaunt an embarrassment of feminine riches.

Rainbow View and Fantasia may have come up short to date but the balance is redressed by Forever Together and Informed Decision, both recent Grade 1 winners in the US. Never before in four decades of patronage has the Anglophile been so blessed.

“It’s such an unusual occurrence to have these wonderful animals,” the owner-breeder says of his four high-class ladies. “It’s just a matter of fortune and luck. And that’s all it is. Nothing more, nothing less.”

In an era when science increasingly prevails in the production of thoroughbreds, Strawbridge is a throwback to the days when racing was sport. Those seduced by its wiles have squandered fortunes when drawn to the flame.

Strawbridge may have a fortune to squander but restraint has governed his enduring love affair with the turf.

If restraint seems inappropriate to describe his winter purchase of Fantasia, these things are relative. His antecedents had accumulated their own wealth before his father married into the Campbell Soup Company dynasty.

As for Strawbridge himself, his early banking investments, which soared through a series of high-profile takeovers, attest to an eye firmly fixed on the bottom line. The fact that his range of disparate interests embraces an encyclopedic

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knowledge of Latin American history and politics singles him out as a broad thinker with an insatiable hunger for knowledge.

Fantasia’s purchase also marked a rare departure for Strawbridge, 71, who invariably consigns his annual racing fate to his homebreds and yearling purchases. In fact, he is a willing seller of horses in training; horses like Blue Sky Basin, whom he traded to Dubaian interests after the gelding won at Glorious Goodwood last year. The transaction still brings a smile to his face.

“When I got the cheque, it was not from an individual but from the Treasury of Dubai,” he says. “I liked that. I’ve never been paid by the government of a country, but in life, there are always first times.”

Permanence

For Strawbridge, first things tend to become permanent. His association with Silver Fling’s trainer Ian Balding now extends to Ian’s son Andrew, who trained Blue Sky Basin. He has long been a supporter of John Gosden, who trains Rainbow View, while his patronage of Jonathan Sheppard is into its fifth decade.

Sheppard handles both Informed Decision and Forever Together, yet he is renowned as America’s finest trainer of jumpers.

Strawbridge’s steeplechasers, campaigned under the Augustin Stable banner, have earned in excess of $8 million. That’s some going within a minority pursuit, yet one in which Strawbridge’s heart almost certainly lies.

“I came into racing as a strict amateur from a rather parochial background,” he reflects. “I

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loved foxhunting and riding in steeplechases, but they were all local (Pennsylvania) meets. My greatest thrill was winning the Iroquois Steeplechase, the most valuable race for amateurs on the east coast. I managed to win it four times. We had some nice successes and I became terribly enthusiastic, so we went to the Saratoga yearling sales the year before Robert Sangster arrived with his millions of dollars in the early 1970s.”

It was to prove a defining moment. “I bought a Northern Dancer yearling from EP Taylor (who bred the great stallion) for $25,000,” Strawbridge recalls. “He became Northern Fling and he won stakes races. It became really competitive in the auction ring soon afterwards, so I began to collect broodmares and had a lot of fun. But it wasn’t as a result of any Tesio-like theories. I just ended up getting fairly lucky.”

Another man local to Strawbridge in Pennsylvania was Bruce Davidson, the three-day event rider who sold him Eagle Lion, whose Badminton triumph in 1995 complemented a series of major racing victories on European soil.

Where there were once many, Strawbridge is one of the last American owner-breeders still racing on this continent.

He does so with mixed feelings. The positive elements outweigh the negative, although his parsimonious streak causes him to wince at the costs. “Over the years expenses have gone up and purses have gone down,” he says. “Unless you have a superior horse, you are doomed to

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lose money in Europe. The theory is that you increase the value of a horse if it wins, but that’s true only to a certain extent. You have to win two or three good handicaps, which is tough.”

Camaraderie

Conversely, Europe is the place to campaign a gifted runner. “If you’re going to have a top horse, it’s so enjoyable to have one there,” he says. “There’s a camaraderie among the people.

The atmosphere is more appreciative.

“These moments are very joyful. It’s extremely important for me to share them with like minds, because I realise what an extremely rare thing it is to have a good horse. You have a lot of disappointments in this game; I certainly know what losing is like.”

In that respect Strawbridge experienced a sense of déjà vu when Rainbow View and Fantasia were beaten in the 1,000 Guineas and French equivalent respectively.

A daughter of Sadler’s Wells out of a Darshaan daughter of the Queen Mary Stakes heroine Blue Duster, Fantasia is now bound for the Prix de Diane over ten furlongs. Whether she can excel at the longer distance is a debate that has polarised opinion. To Strawbridge, however, such imponderables are best left to the track.

“You just can’t tell with the gene pool thing,” he maintains. “Does Fantasia take after Sadler’s Wells and Darshaan, or does she get it from her dam’s side? I have absolutely no idea. I don’t believe anybody does.”

“I had a lot of fun collecting my broodmares.

It wasn’t down to Tesio-like theories. It was just luck”

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He feels the random nature of dipping into the genetic mix is amplified by Rainbow View, whom he bred simply because he admires her sire. “I bred her dam, No Matter What, to AP Indy and Thunder Gulch, but I never got any size,” he explains. “So I bred her to something larger than average in Dynaformer, whose stock like distance. And what we get is a filly that showed blistering speed last season. It’s an enormous game of chance.”

The same sentiment applies to keeping his broodmare band in check. He tends to fall in love with his families and thus finds it hard to reconcile their successes in other hands.

“I have cut loose some from my first blue-hen mare,” he laments. “I sold Sommes Sound and she produced two Group 1 winners, one of them a champion. I’m very proud of that but, still, I sold her. The ones you keep against the ones you sell: that too is a matter of luck.

“I’m trying very hard to cut down on my horses but it’s a really hard chore. The one fact is that you can’t keep them all.”

Strawbridge keeps his mares on the 700-acre Derry Meeting Farm, near his home in Unionville. It has been that way since he started breeding horses with the late Marshall Jenney, a lifelong friend and neighbour who owned and bred Mrs Penny, winner of the Prix de Diane under Lester Piggott in 1980.

Strawbridge’s eyes glaze at the mention of Jenney, whose joie de vivre was matched by a rare capacity to enjoy the triumphs of others as though they were his own. “Marshall is the reason for the small successes I have had,” he says. “He learnt to raise horses from Bull Hancock, in a very natural way. I’m sure that’s why the horses always outran their pedigrees.

That pleased me enormously.”

With those words Strawbridge betrays himself.

They amplify one of his core values in that few

pleasures match that of a triumph against the odds.

Strawbridge could have bred from a slew of equine bluebloods and savoured triumph that way, yet he chose the less opulent route.

The concept is relative, as with the purchase of Fantasia, but when yearling prices escalated in the era of the Sangster/O’Brien axis, Strawbridge withdrew and developed his bloodstock interests more modestly.

Although the media allude to his clinical approach to business, it’s a fair bet he spends more time pondering life’s values than the value of assets. He would probably have made an excellent High Court judge by his appreciation of the scales of justice, which is why he smiles ruefully when asked for his take on one of the more bizarre examples of modern art.

Few images stirred the public’s collective conscience as did Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans. Heralding the advent of pop art in 1962, the 32 canvasses depicted each of the Campbell soup flavours and caused controversy for their blatant commercial slant. Strawbridge may be a model of decorum on the subject of a lithograph that hangs in the Campbell Soup Company boardroom, but he finds its value – financial or otherwise – impossible to fathom.

“I thought it was rather silly,” he muses. “I suppose he (Warhol) thought it was an icon brand, so he did the lithograph. It was something simple that he made a lot of money out of; I mean, extraordinary, around £2 million I think. When it came up for sale there was a debate within the company, and the feeling was that it had a lot to do with our history, so we bought it.”

There follows a shrug of indifference, before he adds: “On the whole, I guess I find modern art very confusing.”

In the can: Strawbridge is a member of a famous American dynasty

Strawbridge with racing manager James Wigan (left) and John Gosden after Lucarno’s St Leger victory at Doncaster in 2007

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Strawbridge’s 1994 Breeders’ Cup Turf winner Tikkanen was trained in France by Jonathan Pease, reflecting his owner’s all-embracing approach

“Synthetic surfaces are a good thing” In two fundamental respects, North American racing is at a crossroads. Debate over a drugsfree environment is as impassioned as that between advocates of synthetic surfaces and traditional dirt. The outcome holds serious implications for racing’s future as a united, international sport.

The majority of George Strawbridge’s Group or Grade 1 triumphs have been gained on turf, both in Europe and the US. It is common practice for his European horses to run at the Breeders’ Cup; Tikkanen, trained in France by Jonathan Pease, landed the 1994 Breeders’ Cup Turf. Strawbridge savoured a second Breeders’ Cup winner when Forever Together, trained in the US by Jonathan Sheppard, landed the Filly & Mare Turf at Santa Anita last year.

Nevertheless, Strawbridge has savoured numerous triumphs on dirt. His 1977 Eclipse Award

winner, Waya, raced on that surface, while Informed Decision won the Grade 1 Humana Distaff Handicap at Churchill Downs in April. He is well placed to assess the merits of both arguments.

Of racing on synthetic surfaces, he says: “I think it’s a very good thing, because in general, it helps a horse’s soundness. It has been proven that there are a lot fewer fatal injuries. More than that, last year’s Breeders’ Cup was a true international event because the European horses could run on the synthetic surface.

“Dirt is a specialist surface. At Santa Anita, the Europeans were able to compete fairly and well, which ties in with the original Breeders’ Cup concept of having a world champion.”

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don’t know. In last year’s Kentucky Derby you had Eight Belles breaking down, and my God the headlines were brutal.

“There were big pictures under the words ‘Race To Death’, with the filly lying in the middle of the track. They say a picture’s worth a thousand words, but that was worth a lot more.”

Strawbridge also inclines towards the European view on medication, saying: “The people that care about it are trying very hard to produce a level playing field and ban the use of drugs, starting with steroids. That really is a no-brainer, but is really difficult to achieve.

“Frankly, there are trainers in the US who use the veterinarian to train, rather than horsemanship.

“There’s little doubt that a change will be forced if the animal rights people get very serious about this – and they are serious about a lot of things.”

“Frankly, there are trainers in the US who use the veterinarian to train, rather than horsemanship”

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Black Bear Island (dark blue) beats stablemate Freemantle in the Dante

The Ballydoyle battalions Aidan O’Brien’s team of Classic three-year-olds struck form with a vengeance in May, winning four Derby trials in eight days Words: Graham Dench, Chief Analyst for the Racing Post ame And Glory’s win in April’s Ballysax Stakes had been one of the few bright spots in what had been a pretty dismal start to the season by Ballydoyle’s usual standards, a situation that was not improved when their top juveniles of 2008, Rip Van Winkle and Mastercraftsman, finished only fourth and fifth respectively in the Guineas.

How quickly things can change. In the space of just eight days, Aidan O’Brien sent out the winners of four Derby trials, none more impressive than Fame And Glory in the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial.

Ridden by Seamie Heffernan, the Montjeu colt came from behind in a race which had two pacemakers and was run at a sustained gallop.

Having closed smoothly to pick up the leaders before the furlong marker, Fame And Glory came clear in the style of a colt who will have no trouble at all with the extra two furlongs at Epsom, his flick of the tail just a minor concern in an otherwise flawless performance.

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The Derrinstown winner has not gone on to win the Derby since 2002, when High Chaparral followed on from Sinndar and Galileo. However, Alamshar and Dylan Thomas both ran well at Epsom, and there can be no questioning the race’s validity as a trial, as all five went on to win the Irish Derby.

Fame And Glory looks very much Ballydoyle’s number one for the Derby, but the team boasts real strength in depth, Golden Sword having beaten his better fancied stablemate Masterofthehorse in the Chester Vase, Drumbeat running better than the bare form suggests in third behind the highly promising William Haggas-trained colt South Easter in the Dee Stakes, Age Of Aquarius landing Lingfield’s trial, and finally Black Bear Island beating another from the stable, Freemantle, in the Dante.

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and Fame And Glory having already laid down markers he would need something pretty special if he was to regain his winter position at the head of the Derby market. Sadly, he simply wasn’t up to it, and he finished a well-beaten eighth, having been in trouble too far out to blame lack of hard fitness or deficiency in the stamina department. That said, he did scope badly after the race. Derby plans are on hold.

Black Bear Island looked O’Brien’s second string, as he was partnered by Colm O’Donoghue, while Johnny Murtagh took the mount on the shorter-priced Freemantle, but in a reversal of the usual roles Murtagh made the running at a decent pace and unwittingly helped set the race up. A brother to High Chaparral and so likely to be a strong stayer, Black Bear Island came from last to first for a narrow success.

It did not look the performance of a North Light, a Motivator or an Authorized – all recent Dante winners who went on to succeed at Epsom – but it elevated Black Bear Island to second spot in Ballydoyle’s Derby pecking order.

Nothing captured the imagination for the Oaks until York, when Sariska stormed home nearly four lengths clear of the highly regarded Star Ruby in the Musidora Stakes.

As Enticement and High Heeled, who at that stage were both trading at single-figure odds for Epsom, were left trailing much further back, it was no surprise to see Sariska promoted to favouritism.

Michael Bell’s filly, bred by owner Lady Bamford, had impressed at Newmarket last year on her debut and then found things happening too quickly when only fourth in the Fred Darling on her reappearance. She is by Pivotal, but the dam Maycocks Bay stayed pretty well and has already produced a useful stayer in Gull Wing. The extra distance at Epsom will not be a problem judging how long it took Jamie Spencer to pull her up.

It would be hard to rate Midday’s Lingfield win quite so highly, even though she won very impressively by six lengths. However, she looked an ideal type for Epsom, where she had already been second behind Debussy in the Blue Riband Trial, and she could hardly be in better hands than those of Henry Cecil.

Midday is by another sprinter, Oasis Dream, but the dam is a half-sister to Cecil’s 1997 Oaks winner Reams Of Verse. One senses, though, that Cecil does not rate her quite top drawer.

than Sir Michael Stoute, who has already won with Tartan Bearer, Patkai, Ask and Doctor Fremantle, and still has Conduit waiting in the wings. Whoever wins the Derby and the Oaks will surely face a stern examination from their elders. Bring it on!

The Classics

Sea The Stars lit up what had looked no more than a routine 2,000 Guineas with a performance that oozed class and at once stamped him as both an outstanding talent at a mile and the one to beat in the Derby.

But it’s a sobering thought that eight 2,000 Guineas winners have tried and failed in the Derby since Nashwan completed the double in such glorious fashion 20 years ago.

While one can see why so many Guineas winners go on to Epsom, it’s not difficult to fathom why so many of them have failed lately.

With the benefit of hindsight, the likes of Rodrigo De Triano, Mister Baileys, Pennekamp and King Of Kings all had suspect stamina. Sea The Stars, whose thoroughly convincing defeat of Craven winner Delegator provided John Oxx with his first win in the race, ought to be a much stronger stayer than any of that quartet.

However, Entrepreneur and Refuse To Bend are harder to explain, particularly Refuse To Bend, a Sadler’s Wells half-brother to Media Puzzle who was regarded much more the type for the Derby than the Guineas through the winter, yet finished 13th at Epsom and was swiftly dropped in distance. The 2001 Guineas winner Golan stands alone among the eight in having run his race at Epsom, where he was beaten only by an outstanding winner in Galileo, who is Sea The Stars’s half-brother. The truth of the matter is that colts with the speed to win the 2,000 Guineas and the stamina to win the Derby are rare in these days of acute specialisation.

Older vision

If the season so far has been all about the threeyear-olds, midsummer will give the older horses opportunities to show their worth over the full range of distances.

Eric Libaud’s French Derby winner Vision D’Etat struck an early blow when beating his compatriot Loup Breton in the Prix Ganay, and he could be seen next in the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes. Nobody has a stronger team, however,

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Sea The Stars might just fit the bill, though.

His sire, the miler Cape Cross, would not be the strongest of stamina influences, notwithstanding Ouija Board’s win in the Oaks, but the late dam Urban Sea won the Arc and has produced another Group 1 mile-and-a-half winner in Black Sam Bellamy, besides Galileo.

The stamina issue will not be resolved until June 6, but Sea The Stars has the form and he is a really handsome and well balanced individual who looks to have all the other main attributes too. He was very strong at the finish at Newmarket and he could hardly be in better hands. Oxx has saddled a winner, Sinndar, and a third from just two Epsom runners, while jockey Mick Kinane won the race on Commander In Chief and Galileo, and has also been second three times.

Do not understimate Guineas third Gan Amhras at Epsom, though. Jim Bolger’s colt is similarly unexposed and left his juvenile form well behind with a highly encouraging show at Newmarket, keeping on well. By Galileo – there he is yet again – out of a Darshaan mare, the surprising aspect of his Newmarket performance was that he had the speed to lay up until a bit outpaced running into the dip.

Speed of Ghanaati

The 1,000 Guineas winner Ghanaati’s stamina need not concern us for now, as her connections are resolved not to go to Epsom.

After the Barry Hills-trained Kempton allweather winner had made a stunning turf debut with her length-and-a-quarter defeat of Gan Amhras’s stablemate Cuis Ghaire, owner Sheikh Hamdan nominated Royal Ascot’s Coronation Stakes as the likely next target, reasoning that there was little to be gained by winning another

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Guineas, and that she is unlikely to stay a mile and a half.

Although Ghanaati is by Coolmore stallion Giant’s Causeway, Sheikh Hamdan could not know the dam’s family better, for Sarayir, a good winner at up to ten furlongs, is a half-sister to Nashwan, Unfuwain and Nayef. It is a family that go on improving and Ghanaati could be very special. She should stay further than a mile and Hills reckons she might be the type for the Champion Stakes.

Wherever he aims her, you can bet he will not be handing over the reins to his son Charlie while she is around.

Disappointment of the race was the previously unbeaten Rainbow View, as she had been the outstanding juvenile filly of 2008 and the Guineas looked hers to lose. She is highly strung and there was always a nagging worry that her temperament might one day get the better of her. In the event, however, she stayed calm throughout the preliminaries and was beaten by the quick ground, according to trainer John Gosden and jockey Jimmy Fortune. An 8-11 chance in a field of 14, she was in trouble at halfway and finished only fifth.

While Ghanaati was a worthy winner, and a popular one despite odds of 20-1, one had to wonder how the runaway Nell Gwyn winner Fantasia, bought in the winter by Rainbow View’s owner George Strawbridge, might have fared had she been allowed to take her chance.

We will never know for sure but ante-post punters who had felt robbed when she swerved Newmarket had less to complain about when she managed only third behind all-the-way winner Elusive Wave in the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches at Longchamp a week later.

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inclined to blame the lack of pace but, considering how good she looked in her trial, it was very difficult not to be disappointed.

With Rainbow View’s sights set firmly on the Oaks, Fantasia is likely to return to France for the Prix De Diane, where the extended ten furlongs looks more appropriate. While first impressions of her pedigree scream stamina – she is by Sadler’s Wells out of a Darshaan mare – Cumani has never had Fantasia down as a stayer and right from the start has drawn attention to the speed on the distaff side, the dam Blue Symphony having been a daughter of the outstandingly speedy Queen Mary and Cheveley Park Stakes winner Blue Duster, who was by Danzig out of a Habitat mare.

Fantasia’s shock defeat deflected some of the attention from a brilliant training performance by Jean-Claude Rouget. Having pretty much cleaned up in the trials, with colts as well as fillies, Rouget saddled not just Elusive Wave, a £20,000 Elusive City yearling who had been bought out of Richard Hannon’s stable after a debut success at Goodwood last May, and had changed hands again since, but also runnerup Tamazirte.

Rouget also had two realistic challengers in the colt’s equivalent, the Poule d’Essai des Poulains, but while Le Havre, the mount of Elusive Wave’s rider Christophe Lemaire, ran well in second, he had no answer at the end of a much faster-run affair to the startling burst of finishing speed produced by Silver Frost, who led home a French one-two-three completed by the subsequently-demoted Naaqoos.

The winner, by Verglas, so needless to say a grey, is trained in Deauville by Yves De Nicolay, who did not sound keen on travelling him across for Royal Ascot’s St James’s Palace Stakes.

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Fighting Back Last year the bloodstock world received a rude awakening that it was far from immune from the global recession.

Little time has been wasted in trying to overcome it Words: Ed Prossser fter a punishing round of autumn sales that were, frankly, as depressing as those involved could ever have anticipated, anybody who believed the bloodstock business was immune to the external economy suffered a rude awakening.

Clearance rates of 50% were suddenly respectable as jam-packed catalogues were offered late into the night to sparse crowds of buyers who neither had orders nor any inclination to buy ‘on spec’.

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reserves but often didn’t attract a single bid and there were sorry faces accompanying precarious bank balances as the year ended and breeders and pinhookers, burdened with higher production costs than ever before, bid a none too fond farewell to 2008.

But, unexpectedly, that dark cloud from last year could be providing the silver lining that an unwieldy, uncoordinated and disjointed bloodstock industry had needed for some time.

Because – while few are making money out of the business just now – an admirable sense of pragmatism has developed between competing sales companies, consignors, studs and breeders.

The £500,000 breeze-up bonus scheme, whose seeds were sown at last year’s December Sale, has been the most visible example of selfhelp so far, and there are even grander plans for a similar stimulus worth up to £2 million at this autumn’s yearlings sales (see page 9).

Alongside these financial incentives has come a sea change in attitude. Moving on horses, often at a loss, has become a priority in this new market. Goffs and DBS supremo Henry Beeby says: “The autumn caught people out because it was so sudden and unpredicted by anybody, either in or out of the industry. But I think they have reflected and approached the future with a more pragmatic attitude.”

One notable and not unwelcome feature of the early sales this year has been a dramatic fall in the numbers catalogued as, despite a larger than ever equine population, vendors of

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uncommercial horses have accepted there is little point in sending them to auction.

Clearance rates have generally been much improved, with 84% of those offered at the Doncaster Breeze-Up finding new homes.

Figures compiled by this magazine show that catalogue sizes at the principal British and Irish sales so far this year have fallen by 34% on their equivalents 12 months ago.

Every sales company is faced with the doubleedged spectre of reduced commission income and clients facing difficulty in paying for horses.

Goffs has taken an innovative approach for its Open Yearling Sale in October. Vendors will not be charged commission but must pay their entry fee before the catalogue is published. However, they will not be paid out until Goffs has received payment from the buyers.

As was revealed in Thoroughbred Owner & Breeder, work is under way on creating a bonus scheme for yearlings sold this autumn. Beeby said that Goffs and Doncaster Bloodstock Sales are broadly in favour of the initiative, as is their Newmarket rival Tattersalls.

“The autumn caught people by surprise but everyone is now approaching the future with a more pragmatic attitude” Henry Beeby

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Working together

“What has been so good about the breeze-up scheme is that it is essentially competitors working together,” says Beeby. “Tattersalls, DBS, Goffs, Goresbridge and Arqana are all competing but got together to help get the breeze-up bonus scheme off the ground.”

Leading consignor Ted Voute is among those who feel it is important that the proposed yearling scheme comes to fruition, while he also supports Tattersalls’ plans to spread its Million sales races over more prizes, which was also revealed in last month’s issue.

“The yearling bonus will be a big help in the October 2 and St Leger, that sort of sale, but it’s not going to make a big difference to people spending £100,000 in Book 1 at Newmarket,” Voute believes. “But it’s a great form of self-help and no matter how much they raise they should go ahead with it.

“I’ve always been a fan of the sales races.

There’s a move to having more of the Tattersalls races for less of the money, so there are more people who are winners; maybe six or seven people winning £100,000 rather than one taking £1 million.”

Voute, who pioneered the US-style sales consigning business in Europe, expects to be offering a reduced team of yearlings this year.

“We are just going to have to be a bit more accurate in what we do,” he says. “Some of my clients are keeping yearlings to race, whereas in the past they might have sold them. We are down by about 50% on the horses from across the Atlantic, but that’s almost deliberate. We’re trying to bring only October 1 and Deauville horses over. And selling horses by American stallions here has become a much more fickle market.”

Voute is experiencing a greater deal of common sense from his clients.

“Everybody’s in at the highest production costs and being ‘realistic’ means making a loss in 50% of the cases,” he says. “But I do think that if people are commercially minded they will look to get some cash back and carry on in the game.”

Eagerly awaited

One of this year’s more eagerly awaited publications will be the Return of Mares in November, when the degree to which breeders have or have not cut down on coverings will become apparent.

“I don’t think as many mares as we were all expecting have been retired, but some people will have rested them,” adds Voute. “We have 15 mares on the place and 13 of them were bred before April 30. The ones after are not going to be bred.”

A similar story emerges from Chris Harper’s Whitsbury Manor Stud in Hampshire, where the five stallions – including freshman sire Sakhee’s Secret – have seen their workloads reduced.

He says: “My general feeling is that there’s probably 25% fewer mares covered. People have been saying that if a mare foals late then they won’t cover her and if they haven’t sold anything for a couple of years out of her they might rest her.”

While breeders have flocked to the proven top-flight sires this year, those viewed as less commercial have proved harder to fill, with stallion masters having to offer better deals.

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“It’s interesting that people have moved more towards proven sires rather than freshman stallions – they are looking for a safer option” Chris Harper of Galileo who is a brother to Irish Derby winner Soldier Of Fortune. Under the terms of the deal, which applies only to mares who have bred winners or were successful themselves, breeders will not be charged the €5,000 nomination fee at the time of covering.

Instead, the fee will be deferred, payable only when the progeny has been sold, either at auction or privately. If the progeny is unsold by the end of its yearling year, the fee will be waived completely.

Oak Lodge Stud’s general manager Louise Fitzsimons said: “We are commercial breeders and understand that times are tough at the moment. Breeders have to wait for their money, and we are prepared to do the same.”

Harper has also been willing to negotiate at Whitsbury Manor to ensure his stallions, all from a sprinting background, receive adequate patronage.

Less demand

“The stallions are definitely in less demand than in the past but the interesting thing is that people have moved towards proven sires even

more than freshman stallions – in difficult times they are looking for a safer option,” he says.

“We’ve done very well with our newcomer Sakhee’s Secret but it’s not like it would have been in the past.

“People have said let’s go for the bankers like our Compton Place or, elsewhere, Bahamian Bounty, Kyllachy, Kheleyf and Royal Applause, and it’s been very difficult to get into any of those – they were full very early on.

“But the new sires and stallions in limbo, those who have been standing for a couple of years without a runner, have found it that bit more difficult to get mares.”

However, Voute, who oversees a high-class broodmare band, has seen studs turning away potential clients.

“Some of the studs have actually been fussier – they have turned down doing foal shares and have not done deals because they are trying to discourage overproduction,” he says. “That’s a good thing for the industry.”

One aspect of the business that has still to adapt to the new bloodstock world order is the pricing of horses in training.

Kern Lillingston’s Alastair Donald, who buys for the US and Hong Kong, reports that orders for lower-end horses have fallen heavily and that owners still expecting to get £200,000 for ordinary maiden winners need to have a rethink.

“We do the majority of our business from July to September but of the few horses I have enquired about so far this year, people are still expecting boom figures,” he says. “If they want

The recession does not seem to be biting quite so hard in the major racing nations of continental Europe, although in the case of both Italy and Germany, this may be because the sport there was in a right muddle even before last September, writes James Crispe.

In France, betting turnover is holding up well and, in common with Italy, prize-money remains at a healthy level, especially if owners qualify for breeders’ premiums.

For example, a low grade (Class F) juvenile maiden has a first prize of €12,000 , and should the horse in question qualify for the French-bred premiums, this will be topped up by a further €9,000, thus comfortably covering training fees for more than a year.

Eric Hoyeau, President of

France’s leading sales company, Arqana, admits: “It is difficult to say how the recession will hit here. But, although France is no Eldorado, we are certainly in a better position in terms of prizemoney than England.

“The market is global, so we will probably follow the trend, but I think that the middle market here is probably better equipped to resist the downturn.”

Arqana is a full partner in the new Breeze-Up Bonus Scheme, and around three-quarters of the 150 lots catalogued for its solitary breeze-up sale (on May 9) were eligible to the scheme.

But Hoyeau points out that the lack of a tradition of this type of sale means that there are no real breeze-up professionals in France.

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the proposed yearling bonus scheme. “We thought it was important to take part in the new breeze-up scheme in order to support the vendors,” he says.

“But there are no current plans for a similar yearling scheme. We don’t consider there to be a particular overproduction problem in France and therefore do not feel that there is a real need for a yearling scheme.”

In Germany, the recession has made the industry, which was already critically ill, slightly sicker without severely affecting its overall condition.

Attempts at an industry-wide ‘Structural Reform’, first mooted in 2007, have fizzled out completely in recent months as the foreign investors, who were supposed to provide a cash injection of €30 million, could not agree on how to proceed.

Attempts by the ruling body (the Direktorium) to introduce a more centralised fixture list and other cost-cutting measures have so far met with little success.

The situation is so bad that earlier this spring, the Owners and Breeders Association made an appeal to its members to take up a financial stake in the sport. It is not yet clear how much money has been raised in this way.

Italy is still recovering from the month-long strike of last autumn.

But prize-money remains high enough that a horse winning an average maiden in Rome or Milan will pay for at least a year’s keep, provided it qualifies for Italianbred bonuses.

However, the nascent Italian Flat season has seen a decrease of around 30% in the number of runners in the early two-year-old races.

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to turn these horses over they are going to have to lower their sights a bit. I do know I’m biased but the best bit of advice to anyone in this business is that 95% of the time you are best taking a profit.”

Vendors look set to go into the summer and autumn yearling sales with a totally different mindset from 12 months ago, and, while few would be rash enough to anticipate huge profits, there is a refreshing lack of negativity as the industry has united to help itself.

Voute says: “It’s going to be down but if we can keep it to 25% then we’ll be in clover, but where there’s a downturn there have always been opportunists waiting in the wings to come Sales numbers: reality bites Last year’s “jam-packed catalogues, offered late into the night to sparse crowds of buyers who neither had orders nor any inclination to buy on spec” may well be a thing of the past based on these revealing figures about 2009 sales numbers 2008

2009

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Doncaster January Tattersalls February Tatts Ire February NH Goffs February Goffs Kempton Doncaster Lincoln Doncaster Breeze-Up Tattersalls Craven Cheltenham April Tattersalls Guineas Doncaster May

537 290 568 989 101 155 170 194 127 163 1,125

242 222 328 535 75 125 152 183 91 167 790

(-55) (-23) (-42) (-46) (-26) (-19) (-11) (-6) (-28) (+2) (-30)

Total

4,419

2,910

(-34)

“People are still expecting boom figures for horses in training. If they want to sell, they are going to have to lower their sights a bit” Alastair Donald in and invest, and in our lifetime it’s going to be the best time to invest in horses. We in the business all know that.

“It’s just that some of us might not have the available cash to do it. But we know in our heart of hearts it’s probably not going to get much lower than now.

“If you want to buy a broodmare or a nice filly to race from a good family, now is probably the best time you will ever get to do that.”

Few would disagree that a market correction had needed to happen for several years. A better organised and harmonious industry is set to emerge when the economy does recover.

“I wouldn’t paint too gloomy a picture, because it’s surprising how enthusiastic people still are,” adds Harper.

“They know a nice horse will still make a decent price and, although times are tough, people are amazingly resilient in this climate.

“It’s not all doom and gloom. We’ve had ten years of a rising population and things were going to come to a head anyway – all of this is going to be a much better thing in the long run for the industry.”

US stallion bosses have concocted a plethora of enticements In this season of uncertainty caused by worldwide economic pressures, North American stallion bosses have concocted a plethora of enticements to woo mare owners, beginning with decreases of 20% or more in many fees compared to 2008, writes Michele MacDonald.

A significant shift in policy regarding payment schedules has accompanied the reductions at many farms, with Lane’s End setting the pace in turning back from due dates of September or November in favour of being paid when the resulting foal stands and nurses. If breeders pay in the autumn, they receive a discount.

Taylor Made has offered breeders the choice of paying at either time for the services of its eight stallions, with a discount of about 10% if payment is made by November 1. Thus, a breeder

could mate a mare to leading sire Unbridled’s Song for $112,500, rather than for his advertised fee of $125,000, due when the foal stands and nurses.

Taylor Made is one of a number of farms offering volume discounts for breeders who choose at least two of the farm’s six stallions, not including headliners Unbridled’s Song and Forestry.

As examples, if breeders opt for Master Command, who stands for a listed fee of $15,000, and Officer, who is advertised at $17,500, they can get both for $12,500 each if they send two mares, or $10,000 each for three.

But the creative deals on breeding don’t stop just at fees and payment schedules.

Stonewall Farm, which stands 12 horses, offers one-time, noguarantee complimentary seasons to any of its stallions (other than

hot first-crop sire Medaglia d’Oro) for approved graded stakes winners and producers. The farm also grants complimentary seasons to mares foaling in the states of Louisiana, New York and Pennsylvania, where there are lucrative breeder incentive programmes, as long as Stonewall is designated a co-breeder with rights to 50% of the awards the foal may earn as a racehorse.

Some studs now offer plans to ensure that breeders do not take a loss when they sell the resulting offspring as weanlings or yearlings.

Sheikh Mohammed’s Darley was among the first to initiate this type of incentive, which is primarily designed for those horses standing for $20,000 or less. If the offspring brings only half the stud fee when sold, Darley does not charge the breeder for the rest.

Walmac Farm has devised a

“breeders’ stimulus plan” covering its nine Kentucky stallions and four in Pennsylvania that allows breeders to pay fees from the sale proceeds for weanlings or yearlings, with an option to convert every mating to a foal share plan.

Darby Dan Farm has also promoted a “profit protection plan” for four of its seven stallions, although only a limited number of mares are accepted. Breeders receive the first $5,000 of sale proceeds for offspring and then split the rest 50-50 with Darby Dan until the fee is covered. For sales below $5,000 no fee is due.

In Florida, Signature Stallions is offering pay from proceeds agreements and multiple mare discounts of 50% for four or mare mares. It has also pledged to limit books for each of its six stallions to 100 and to sell approved progeny without consignor commissions.

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French sale soars as Tatts slides Tattersalls’ Guineas Breeze-Up Sale sees declines similar to those at its Craven Sale, while Arqana’s Breeze-Up Sale posts very impressive figures, despite the recession Top lots Sex

Pedigree

Vendor

Price (gns)

f

Danehill Dancer—Moon Festival

Mocklershill

170,000

Buyer Jamie McCalmont

f

Oasis Dream—Molomo

Ballyhane Sales

140,000

R O´Gorman Bloodstock

f

Exceed And Excel—Amiata

Seven Springs Stables

130,000

Jill Lamb BS

c

Langfuhr—Party Circuit

Powerstown Stud

130,000

R O´Gorman Bloodstock R O´Gorman Bloodstock

f

Shamardal—Kirk

Jamie Railton

125,000

c

Acclamation—Venus Rising

Mocklershill

105,000

Blandford Bloodstock

c

Exceed And Excel—Rowan Flower

Hillwood Stud

105,000

Blandford BS

c

Invincible Spirit—Theory Of Law

Meadowview Stables

95,000

Anthony Stroud BS

f

Camacho—Kelsey Rose

Yeomanstown Stud

95,000

David Redvers BS

c

Azamour—Spirit Of Age

Lynn Lodge Stud

85,000

Highflyer Bloodstock

Guineas Breeze-Up Aggregate: 2,819,200gns (-26%) Sold: 74 (53.6% clearance) Average: 38,097gns (-26%) Median: 25,000gns (-17%) Reaction Dick O’Gorman: “The average standard of horse was much lower than at the Craven Sale and the prices they had cost as yearlings and then at the sale reflected that. However, a few very nice horses stood out.”

Highlights Although, as at the Craven Breeze-Up, John Ferguson’s name did not appear on the

results sheet, Sheikh Mohammed dominated the sale.

He is believed to have bought half of the top ten lots. Dick O’Gorman, who frequently works alongside Ferguson, was the leading buyer when getting four lots for 420,000gns.

Of the remaining five, the saletopper was believed to have been bought by Coolmore, while owner Liam Sheridan, agent Tom

Goff, Ralph Beckett’s clients David and Lavinia Aykroyd, and an owner with Willie Mullins accounted for the others.

This was the only British breeze-up with increased numbers and it boasted the lowest clearance rate of the four UK sales. The 53.6% clearance rate was the smallest in the sale’s three-year history. It compared with 60.6% in 2008 and 60.8% in 2007.

vendor, this year selling nine lots for 9,496,500gns.

The Guineas sale was followed by a dispersal of the racing interests of Martin Myers’s Mountgrange Stud. The mini sale turned over 669,900gns for 21 lots sold and was topped by Splendorinthegrass, who returned to Roger Charlton after being bought for 160,000gns by agent Charlie Gordon-Watson for owner Bjorn Nielsen.

Although Tattersalls do not include private sales in the results, there were 17 recorded transactions outside the ring for 289,000gns, bringing the clearance rate up to 66%.

Fillies dominated the top-end of the sale, accounting for four of the top five lots headed by a 170,000gns Danehill Dancer filly sold by Willie Browne’s Mocklershill Stables to Jamie McCalmont, who was accompanied by Coolmore’s Paul Shanahan while bidding.

PHOTO: WWW.TATTERSALLS.COM

“The clearance rate was the smallest in the sale’s three-year history; Mocklershill was leading vendor, as in 2008 and 2007”

As at the previous two renewals of this sale, Mocklershill was the leading

Pinhook Tales Just 21 of the 72 lots (29%) apparently pinhooked as yearlings showed a profit, after including a £10,000 preparation cost and £3,000 shipping fee for US purchases.

The top lot appeared the most profitable, a Danehill Dancer filly bred by Denis Brosnan’s Epona Bloodstock. She had cost €58,000 as a yearling at Goffs and resold from Mocklershill for 170,000gns to Jamie McCalmont. A Langfuhr colt who cost $37,000 as a yearling was resold for 130,000gns to Dick O’Gorman.

Guineas Breeze-Up since it started

Top lot: Danehill Dancer filly sold for 170,000gns to Jamie McCalmont

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AGG (gns)

AV (gns)

MED (gns)

2009 2008 2007

2,819,200 3,833,000 2,129,000

38,097 47,913 28,013

25,000 30,000 23,000

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This Dubawi colt impressed during its breeze and later topped the sale, making €280,000 when selling to Paul Nataf, acting for Gerard Laboureau

Top lots Sex

Pedigree

Vendor

Price (€)

Buyer

c

Dubawi–Lady Bex

Mocklershill

280,000

Paul Nataf

c

Mizzen Mast–Coco

Haras du Saubouas

170,000

J C Rouget R O’Gorman BS

c

Nayef–Fasliyeva

Bansha House Stables

165,000

c

Azamour–El Rabab

Mocklershill

160,000

Riviera Equine

f

Elusive City–Elle S’voyait

Deja Haras du Saubouas

120,000

Andre Fabre

c

Gone West–Balletomaine

Hawthorn Villa Stud

100,000

MAB Agency

f

Dalakhani–Future Flight

The Bloodstock Connection

85,000

A Stroud BS

c

High Chaparral–Miss Champagne

Grove Stud

85,000

Will Edmeades

c

Mr Greeley–Expose

Grove Stud

80,000

Patrick Barbe

c

Invincible Spirit–Suave Star

Kilminfoyle House Stud

75,000

Mandore Int BS

Arqana Breeze-Up

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Aggregate: €4,040,000 (+32%) Sold: 97 (76% clearance) Average: €41,649 (+20%) Median: €30,000 (+4%) Reaction Brendan Holland, Grove Stud: “It had the best strength in depth of any breeze-up sale this year and I’d guess there were about 60 individual buyers there. The standard of horses has gone up each year and French buyers now see it as a second option after Deauville in August. It was very French-dominated and far less reliant on Darley’s support than the British sales.

“The prize-money and French premiums have a very positive effect and, for me, Arqana is the most progressive sales company at the moment. I’ll definitely be targeting it next year.

“One of the main reasons it was so successful was that we probably sell three times as many breeze-up horses to a similar sized market in Britain and Ireland as they do in France. We have becomes victims of our success and the sales companies increased the numbers, but I think that is going to change.”

Highlights Arqana’s breeze-up, just like the company’s August Yearling Sale at Deauville last year, attracted a unique band of buyers who helped it defy market trends and show increases on 2008 in every category.

Pinhook Tales The sale-topping Dubawi colt rocketed in price from the 26,000gns he had cost Bobby O’Ryan as a yearling at Tattersalls when knocked down to Paul Nataf, acting for owner Gerard Laboureau, for €280,000. He was resold through Willie Browne’s Mocklershill Stables.

Laboureau will also race the second dearest lot, a €170,000 Mizzen Mast colt bought by trainer Jean-Claude Rouget.

The sale has made rapid strides and its turnover had more than doubled since 2005, while the average and median had almost increased by as much in the same period. The clearance rate of 76% was the best at this sale since 2006.

were from Ireland, although the list was headed by Paul Basquin’s Haras du Saubaos, based in the south of France.

Seven of the ten top buyers

A Nayef colt originally bought for €80,000 as a yearling at Deauville had failed to sell when bought back for 45,000gns at the Tattersalls Craven Breeze-Up Sale. Three weeks later he resold for €165,000 at Saint-Cloud, bought by Dick O’Gorman for Sheikh Mohammed.

Arqana Breeze-Up five-year-tale YEAR

AGG (€)

AV (€)

MED (€)

2009 2008 2007 2006 2005

4,040,000 3,061,000 3,031,000 2,082,500 1,590,000

41,649 34,784 32,946 26,699 20,921

30,000 28,000 26,000 20,000 16,000

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THE SPECIAL SECTION FOR ROA MEMBERS Fifteen Love (16) pips Masaalek in last year’s Britannia Handicap at Royal Ascot

PHOTO: GEORGE SELWYN

Totesport ROA Club exclusive

The news was welcomed by Paul Dixon, ROA President, who said: “This is a great benefit for owners wanting to have runners at Royal Ascot.

“It will lead to owners having runners at the Royal meeting who would otherwise have been denied those opportunities.”

Ascot racecourse will continue their policy of giving two complimentary Grandstand tickets to owners of any horse balloted out or eliminated from races at Royal Ascot. A travelling allowance will not be paid, as runners will be known 24 hours before racing.

The ROA is pleased to announce a new partnership with the Tote which offers exclusive and valuable benefits to ROA members who open a new Totesport credit account.

Members who join will enjoy benefits including an exclusive priority betting line and best ‘available’ early prices to owners to a liability of £2,000.

To apply, contact the New Accounts Department on 0800 666160, or write to Carol Moran, Totesport, New Accounts Department, NWW 11127, Wigan WN3 4ZZ. Please quote your ROA membership number.

ROA Chief Executive Michael Harris said: “The Tote has been a valued partner for many years as sponsor of the ROA’s Totesport ownersponsorship scheme.

“They make a huge commitment to horseracing and have shown they are sympathetic to the needs of members.”

register by phone, please contact Allegra Hindes at the ROA on 020 7408 0903.

The Speed Bonus will be open only to horses owned by ROA members who have paid a registration fee. The winning owner will receive 80% of the Speed Bonus, with 10% going to the trainer and 5% each going to the jockey and stable.

The bonus will be based on registration fees amounting to £100,000. In the event of less than £50,000 being collected, the ROA and Goodwood will reserve the right to withdraw the scheme and return registration payments.

Green light for reserves in Royal Ascot handicaps Owners will benefit after agreement is reached on reserve runners system which will apply to all handicaps at this year’s Royal meeting

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scot racecourse and the British Horseracing Authority have agreed to a new reserve system which will apply for all handicaps during Royal Ascot.

Three reserve places will be provided for all handicaps at this year’s Royal meeting.

Reserves will each be given a number and a draw, and in the event of there being any nonrunners notified prior to 9am the day before the race, reserves will replace the non-runners.

Reserves will be numbered in accordance with the elimination sequence, adjusted to take

account of penalties, with the first reserve being the reserve with the highest elimination sequence number.

Charles Barnett, Ascot Chief Executive, said: “We’re conscious and indeed very proud that the handicaps at Royal Ascot are generally long term targets for many horses, and so delighted to be providing this opportunity to fill empty positions that might arise after the 48-hour stage.”

The ROA helped to initiate a pilot scheme at Royal Ascot in 2008 in which day-of-race reserves were trialled in three handicaps.

Speed Bonus details unveiled Further details can now be revealed regarding the exciting Speed Bonus at Goodwood.

The Speed Bonus, worth up to £100,000, is part of an innovative raceday planned on Sunday, September 13.

The Speed Bonus will be awarded to connections of the winning horse who records the fastest time on the eight-race card, based on the Racing Post standard time for each distance.

Registration dates and charges ROA members need only register ONCE to be eligible for a chance of winning the Speed Bonus.

The options are: Registration up to June 30: £150 per horse Registration between July 1 and Aug 12: £250 per horse Registration between Aug 13 and Sept 10: £1,000 per horse Members and trainers have been sent registration forms. To

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Council Agenda

Funding fillip for retired racehorses Racehorse owners are helping to bolster funding for Retraining of Racehorses, British horseracing’s official charity for the welfare of horses who have retired from racing.

The ROA Council has given its approval for the surcharge paid by racehorse owners on entry fees to be increased from 50p to £1, which has been endorsed by the British Horseracing Authority.

Michael Harris, Chief Executive of the ROA, said: “The adjustment is a response to our concerns about the welfare of retired racehorses and the need to ensure that there is an effective structure in place to monitor and respond to their needs.

“Although the increased surcharge is another burden on racehorse owners, in the context of their overall commitment of keeping a horse in training, it is a relatively small price to pay. We hope it will help enable RoR to continue its excellent work in promoting the options available to retired racehorses.”

Peter Deal, Chairman of Retraining of Racehorses, said: “This is terrific news. RoR’s funding is under pressure this year. This demonstrates again the responsible attitude of owners towards the welfare of their racehorses.”

Peter Deal: RoR chairman

The April Council meeting,

by Chief Executive Michael Harris 49th Levy Scheme The Council returned to the discussion of the 49th Levy Scheme proposal and the President said that racing and the bookmakers were edging towards an early agreement, although the bookmakers’ proposal for a three-year deal could not be formalised within the statutory framework of the levy.

However, both sides could, if they wished, commit for three years. The essence of the deal was that there would be a continuation of 10% of bookmakers’ gross profits going to racing. The bookmakers had dropped their assertion from last year that there should be an offset arrangement to compensate them for the extra cost of TurfTV. The Council were disappointed that much of the modernisation process could not be implemented without primary legislation. However, there was a positive reaction to the likelihood that the Government would be addressing the problem of off-shore betting operators paying no tax or levy on bets they took on British racing.

It also seemed likely that the Government was now listening to racing on how those exchange punters, who bet in sufficiently large sums to suggest they are acting as unlicensed bookmakers, should be treated for tax and levy purposes.

Bloodstock Code of Practice The Council discussed a letter regarding the commission paid by public studs to bloodstock agents and there was general consensus that this fell under the Bloodstock

Code of Practice.

It was believed that agents who did not disclose a commission to their clients were not acting in a sufficiently transparent way. It was felt that all public studs should reveal to owners what they are paying agents. The President said that, in order to deal with this, a simple clause could be included in agreements.

Yearling Bonus The ROA Council applauded the scheme whereby £10,000 bonuses would be attached to approximately 200 maiden races, but agreed that further adjustments to some of the detail was required.

One of the biggest concerns was that the scheme, as presented, would prevent some of the best twoyear-old maiden races from dividing from July onwards.

This would seriously restrict running opportunities.

However, it was clear from recent conversations that this point had been taken on board and would be acted upon.

Gold Standard Awards A discussion took place around the non-renewal of the Beverley Gold Standard and the problems going forward relating to those racecourses which did not offer free food and beverages to owners with runners on the day. It was agreed to discuss this further after there had been a Gold Standard Committee meeting.

ROA membership It was reported that a personalised mailing about the third party insurance scheme had produced over 100 new members. However, in line with the decreasing

number of owners, the ROA’s membership was declining.

Various ideas were put forward to arrest this but it was agreed the most significant uplift was likely to come from the new Racecourse Badge Scheme for Owners that, from the beginning of next year, would be open to owners with 50% or more of a horse in training, rather than the current 100%.

The Council also heard that an approach had been made to the Tote to increase their contribution to the sponsorship scheme. This had long been an important marketing tool for the ROA and provided invaluable assistance for owners in allowing them to register for VAT. Speed Bonus Proofs of a brochure relating to the Speed Bonus at Goodwood were circulated and the details discussed.

The Council agreed to get behind this novel initiative which, if it worked to full capacity, would provide the connections of one of the winning horses at Goodwood on September 13 with a £100,000 bonus.

Shergar Cup The Council heard that Ascot were keen that, in this year’s Shergar Cup, jockeys would wear “team” colours rather than owners’ colours. It was agreed that the Shergar Cup was one of racing’s success stories and we should help to bring fresh impetus to the day.

However, owners’ colours were very important and the Council did not feel comfortable with lending its support without first taking soundings from the ROA’s members.

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Champagne all round: Gavin Vaughan, Zoie Vaughan, Keely Brewer, Allegra Hindes and Francesca O’Sullivan enjoy the 2009 Lesters Awards

‘Lesters’ evening revelry for Club ROA members

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lub members enjoyed the opportunity to meet with jockeys and other industry figures at the annual Professional Jockeys’ Association Awards, ‘The Lesters’, held at the Birmingham Hilton Metropole Hotel on April 9.

A delicious three-course meal was followed by the awards

ceremony, before a spot of gambling and mingling in the casino, plus dancing until 3am!

Events took a more practical turn during the club’s highly enjoyable visit to Shadwell’s Nunnery Stud on Saturday, April 18, when Stud Manager Johnny Peter-Hoblyn led members on an informative tour of the stud and

its facilities. Members viewed resident stallions Green Desert, Nayef and Haafhd, and a number of mares and foals.

This month, Club members can look forward to enjoying exclusive facilities in the Royal Enclosure at Royal Ascot.

To learn more please visit www.betfairclubroa.com.

Meanwhile, Cornus, a longstanding and highly popular member of Club ROA’s string, notched his sixth victory for the club at Thirsk on April 18.

He went on to make his 100th career start at the same track on May 16, a fine achievement for the durable seven-year-old, who is trained by Alan McCabe.

We warmly invite all members to attend the Annual General Meeting on Thursday, June 25.

This year sees the event taking place at a new venue, the Jumeirah Carlton Tower Hotel, Cadogan Place, London.

The morning session will begin at 10.15am, and the formal business will include the result of the ROA election. This will be followed by the President’s address and then an owners’ question and answer forum.

Our guest industry speaker is Nick Rust, Managing Director of Gala-Coral’s retail betting division, who will address the meeting and take questions.

A Champagne reception will follow, and this will include the

presentation of the ROA Industry Award, given to commemorate the life and contribution to racing of the late Chris Deuters. Last year, the inaugural award was presented to Sir Eric Parker.

Those who book for the members’ and guests’ lunch can enjoy a three-course meal with wine, and anecdotes from our guest speaker Michael Howard, former Conservative Party leader.

Tickets are £85 per head, and tables of ten are £750. Places for the lunch can be booked by contacting Keely Brewer on 020 7408 0903 or online at www.racehorseowners.net.

Voting details for the Council election have been sent to all members (votes close June 19).

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Sir Eric Parker receives his ROA Industry Award from Antonia Deuters

PHOTO: DAN ABRAHAM

Members urged to attend ROA AGM in June

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Animals Act amendment under consultation DEFRA is consulting on a proposal to amend the Animals Act 1971 to clarify the application of strict liability to the keepers of animals that cause harm or damage. This amendment will help to protect animal owners who have taken all reasonable precautions to prevent their animals causing harm.

The intention is to replace existing wording with a new formulation referring to the damage being caused by “unusual or conditional” characteristics of the animal.

Michael Harris, ROA Chief Executive, said: “The proposed amendment deals with the application of strict liability but does not address the issue of owner’s liability if he is not the actual keeper.

“This law continues to define a person as a keeper of an animal if ‘he owns the animal or has it in his possession’. Members can be assured that the ROA’s third party liability scheme will remain as relevant as ever.”

Further details can be found at www.defra.gov.uk.

“The third party liability scheme will remain as relevant as ever” Michael Harris, Chief Executive

News in brief Royal Ascot offer Ascot racecourse is repeating its offer of an exclusive ROA special rate for dining in the Old Paddock chalets at the Royal meeting. The deal includes premier admission ticket, fourcourse lunch, full bar with drinks included, and afternoon tea, for £295 per person plus VAT (brochure price is £530).

Where members have already purchased admission, this will be refunded. For more details phone 0870 727 4321 or email hospitality@ascot.co.uk.

Badge Scheme at Ffos Las Members who are on this year’s Racecourse Badge Scheme for Owners will be able to use their Horseracing Privilege Card at two race meetings at Ffos Las this year, on July 21 ( Flat) and October 11 (jump).

GoingStick review A review of GoingStick reports will take place in July.

Racecourses have been required to provide GoingStick readings on the racing administration website since

January, so the review will cover the first six months since this became mandatory.

Jodie Kidd fundraiser The Jodie Kidd Foundation Annual Charity Golf Classic is a fun-filled day on the golf course, followed by a drinks reception and sumptuous three-course dinner at Goodwood House.

For more information, to take party in the golf day or to book a table for the gala dinner, contact Liz Hamilton on 020 8834 8915 or email info@ thejodiekiddfoundation.co.uk.

Sloane Square Hotel rate ROA members can take advantage of an ROA corporate room rate at the stylish Sloane Square Hotel, London, SW1.

The corporate rates, exclusive of VAT and breakfast, are: Single (£115.74), Double (£143.23), Superior (£172.17) and Club (£198.94). To make a reservation, call the Sloane Square Hotel on 020 7896 9988, quoting ROA. Terms and conditions are available on the ROA website.

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“The new TBA will achieve an enhanced charity structure, suitable to meet the challenges of the 21st century” Kirsten Rausing

embers of the TBA will soon have the chance to vote on the future of their organisation.

An Extraordinary General Meeting has been scheduled for July 6 to discuss proposed changes to the structure of the TBA, following an assessment of its activities, necessitated by changes in the law.

In her Leader column in February’s Thoroughbred Owner & Breeder, TBA Chairman Kirsten Rausing said: “The TBA’s

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

“It is proposed that the current structure be divided into two companies; the TBA will then benefit from an optimum governance structure, designed to ensure that its future operations fulfil its charitable purposes, manage its legal risks and achieve legal compliance.

“The aim is to achieve an enhanced charity structure which is suitable to meet the challenges of the 21st century, but which also maintains the valuable ongoing participation of the TBA’s members.”

The Notice of Meeting for the EGM, being held in the Jockey Club Rooms, Newmarket, on Monday, July 6 at 5pm, has

already been mailed to every member in the April send-out.

Pursuant of Rule 21(C) of the Rules of the Association, a complete set of draft documentation will be sent out under separate cover by email no later than June 15.

Members without access to email should request a postal copy prior to this date.

The proposed restructure of the TBA In essence, what is needed is a new legal framework within which the existing work of the organisation can continue, but which facilitates modern good governance and effective management of risk.

The suggested new arrangements would comprise a charitable company to carry on the TBA’s principal activities, and a wholly owned subsidiary company for other non-charitable activities

such as fundraising events.

Such a restructure will provide the TBA with a fit-for-purpose constitution designed to ensure its efficient and effective operation for the future.

What is involved? At its simplest, taking steps to prepare, in draft form, the new structure and the method for the transfer of ‘old’ TBA into its new legal framework.

These steps include: 1. Creation of a new constitution for the TBA, including provisions relating to membership rights; 2. Drafting constitutional documents for a subsidiary, noncharitable trading company; 3. Seeking the approval of the Charity Commission to the draft proposals; 4. Identifying the TBA’s assets (including employees) and preparing appropriate documents for the transfer variously into ‘TBA Ltd’ and/or ‘TBA Trading Ltd’ 5. Designing an appropriate ‘membership scheme’ for future subscribing ‘members’, and drafting the appropriate documentation.

If approval by the membership is given, the Council would instigate: Setting up the new charitable company based on the agreed constitution; Setting up the trading subsidiary – a company limited by shares – wholly owned by the TBA; Transfer of all relevant assets and liabilities, and the winding up of the existing TBA association.

Special Bloodstock News offer for TBA members For those TBA members who have already advised us of their email addresses and who presently enjoy receiving our Stanstead House reports, we will shortly be sending you an email advising that you can receive a free month’s trial of European Bloodstock News via email.

This represents a great

opportunity for members to receive this informative daily publication, which helps keep everyone in the racing and breeding industry up to date with all the breaking bloodstock news from around the world.

At the end of the free trial, members will have the opportunity to take out an

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annual email subscription to EBN, for either a single payment of £210 plus VAT, which represents a 25% discount on the normal rate, or by using a standing order of £16 plus VAT per month, which represents a discount of over 30% on the normal rate.

For TBA members who already subscribe to EBN, they

will be eligible for the new rates upon expiry of their current subscriptions.

This is yet another advantage of being a TBA member.

For those members who have not yet advised us of their email addresses, do so today in order to take advantage of this offer, which is exclusive to TBA members.

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Chris Wilby receives the Stud Staff Award from TBA Chief Executive Louise Kemble (left)

STUD STAFF AWARD

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MAY 2009

Diary Dates and Reminders Thursday, June 25 – South East A visit to Whitsbury Manor Racing Stables, home to trainer Ralph Beckett, followed by a tour of Whitsbury Manor Stud.

Friday, June 26 – Wales A visit to Llety Stud followed by a tour of Dyffryn Tywi Equine Clinic and Ffos Las racecourse.

Tuesday, June 30 TBA Seminar: ‘British Breeding: Now and in the Future’ at Tattersalls.

Stud Staff Award May 2009 Chris Wilby – Banstead Manor Stud For Chris Wilby, winner of the May Stud Staff Award, stud work was a career change from time spent as a pig farmer, when for 12 years he worked as Assistant Manager responsible for over 520 sows at Limestone Farming in Lincolnshire.

Following a downturn in the pig farming industry, Wilby transferred to the thoroughbred breeding world, joining Juddmonte Farms’ Banstead Manor Stud in July 2004.

Prior to working at Juddmonte, he had very little experience of horses, although Limestone Stud was part of the farm where he worked.

However, Simon Mockridge, Stud Manager at Banstead Manor Stud, comments that, despite this, Wilby has made the transition from pig farmer to stud hand effortlessly, being hard working, adaptable, willing and a tremendous team player.

Mockridge also praises him for his sympathetic, quiet and patient manner when handling horses in all situations, and values his contribution to the smooth operation of the stud very highly.

Wilby is pictured being presented with his Stud Staff Award by TBA Chief Executive Louise Kemble (left), with Lorna Bradburne, paddock commentator at Newmarket racecourse.

Insurance cover an important benefit Members are reminded that they are already receiving third party insurance cover, as part of their annual TBA subscription.

Full details can be obtained from Stanstead House or Lycetts.

However, to summarise, this policy provides indemnity to fully paid up UK members where a member is found legally liable for injury or damage to a third party (not including family members or

employees) or their property, caused by a thoroughbred broodmare or youngstock registered as the property of a member but not whilst in their care, custody or control.

This insurance is in respect of broodmares and youngstock only, in line with the interests of the TBA. It does not apply to active racehorses or any other type of leisure/sport horse.

To be eligible, a mare must be actively being used for the purposes of breeding following or instead of a training/racing career, but not whilst resting during training/racing.

Youngstock are eligible whilst being reared, including whilst in the process of ‘breaking’ or pre-training for racing.

All details relating to this policy can be seen at ww.thetba.co.uk

Top panel lined up for Breeding Seminar Tickets are still available for this year’s TBA Seminar, ‘The Breeding Business’, at Tattersalls, Newmarket on Tuesday, June 30.

Leading industry figures will examine and debate the current state of the breeding industry, and its future in the face of the global economic situation.

Speakers will include Bill Oppenheim and Grant PritchardGordon, supported by a panel including Tony Morris, David Redvers, Andrew Mead, Chris Wall, Tom Goff, Henry Beeby and Martin Mitchell.

Contact Caroline Turnbull at Stanstead House for details.

On the panel: David Redvers

Monday, July 6 Extraordinary General Meeting of the TBA, 5pm, Jockey Club Rooms, Newmarket, followed by a drinks party at Stanstead House.

Tuesday, July 14 – East Anglia An early morning tour of the Godolphin stables, followed by a visit to the Newmarket Equine Hospital.

Thursday, July 23 – West Midlands A morning visit to George Baker’s Far Westfields Farm, followed by an afternoon tour of Upton Viva Stud.

Friday, September 25 Watership Down Stud Sales Race, Ascot.

NEW MEMBERS HOME: M Merwood Esq, West Sussex. Mrs S Maude, Devon.

Mrs P de W Johnson, Devon. S Kettlewell Esq, North Yorkshire.

Mrs C Beech, Worcestershire.

M Hazell Esq, Oxfordshire.

Miss V Hargreaves, North Yorkshire. M Percival Esq, Suffolk. Mrs S Perriam, Kent. P Tory Esq, Dorset. P Chamings Esq, Hampshire. A Pakenham Esq, Suffolk. T Curtis Esq, Northamptonshire. Mrs P Lang, Wiltshire. Dr D Christensen, Cornwall. P Whitten Esq, Devon. L Kimber Esq, Buckinghamshire. C Aston Esq, Cheshire. Mr & Mrs D Curran, Suffolk. E Fewtrell Esq, Herefordshire. Mrs E Bosley, Oxfordshire.

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Breeders’ Prizes Based on dates money was paid

National Hunt HBLB Breeders’ Prizes worth £2,600 or more Breeder B J Eckley Bricklow Ltd

Prize (£) 15,200

Horse Jaunty Flight

Sire Busy Flight

Dam Jaunty June

10,300

*Deep Purple

Halling

Seal Indigo

*Punjabi *Ogee *Bouggler *Lyes Green Argento Luna Seymour Weld

Komaite Generous Tobougg Bien Bien Mtoto Weld

Competa Aethra Rush Hour Dissolve Dissolve Seymour News

Double Trigger Sir Harry Lewis Sir Harry Lewis Kayf Tara Definite Article Karinga Bay Accordion Midnight Legend Phardante Erhaab Selkirk Romany Rye

Cobusino Juste Belle Not Enough Ara Roxy River Valls d'Andorra Winnowing Cherrygayle Briery Gale Aeolina Vice Vixen Nearly A Brook

Capt J H Wilson Hesmonds Stud ltd

10,000 9,600 David Brown, Slatch Farm Stud & G B Turnbull Ltd 9,600 P K Gardner T/A Springcombe Park Stud 9,100 G Edwards

7,400

J W Haydon Wood Farm Stud

6,000 5,600

Isobel Phipps Coltman Helshaw Grange Stud Ltd

5,300 5,100

Exors Of The Late Mrs A M Jenkins P J Mercer Simon and Helen Plumbly S E Kettlewell Mrs S J Maltby

4,800 4,800 4,800 4,800 3,900 3,900

Russian Trigger Thedeboftheyear Kia Kaha *Kayf Aramis *Candy Creek De Welsh Wizzard Darkness Aimigayle Briery Fox Sitting Tennant *Mount Benger Picts Hill

T J Wyatt

3,900

Muhtenbar

Muhtarram

Ardenbar

R Aston

3,900

Isn’t That Lucky

Alflora

Blast Freeze

Sir Harry Lewis Defacto Commanche Run Busy Flight Midnight Legend Singspiel Bob Back Midnight Legend Environment Friend Classic Cliche Sabrehill Bob Back Polar Falcon Sir Harry Lewis Kayf Tara Karinga Bay Kahyasi Terimon Kayf Tara Double Trigger Exit To Nowhere

Bampton Fair Wych Willow Cherry Sip Eatons Kins Token Thea Little Red Spider Amys Delight Gemma’s Wager Jobiska Lucia Tarditi Gallants Delight Pip’s Dream Queen's Favourite Fit For Firing Bay Lough Fortune’s Girl Rhyming Moppet Herald The Dawn Miss Diskin Awesome Aunt

London Thoroughbred Services Ltd & J Gaines

J R Bosley & Mrs E Bosley 2,600 Patsy Finnegan V Hargreaves 2,600 Wot Way Chief Mrs P H Parris 2,600 Panama At Once P B Shaw 2,600 Busy Isit Mrs Kin Lundberg-Young 2,600 Oakfield Legend T R G Vestey 2,600 *Song Of Songs A Jenkins 2,600 *Cousin Nicky Ms S Perriam 2,600 Storymaker Barry and Dame Sheila Noakes 2,600 Green Gamble G A Bosley 2,600 Tom’s Toybox Side Hill Stud 2,600 *Elare Exors Of The Late B Johnston 2,600 *Watch My Back P E Axon 2,600 *Dream Falcom Mrs David Gordon Lennox 2,600 Freeline Fury W Smith 2,600 Fit To Drive Mrs M L Luck 2,600 Luccombe Bay Goldford Stud 2,600 *Ring The Boss E R Hanbury 2,600 Fermion Mr C G M Lloyd-Baker 2,600 Planet Of Sound Martin Forrester 2,600 Double Dizzy A Briscoe & Mrs G Meacham 2,600 *Awesome George *second tier (40% of Breeders’ Prize awarded)

Date Course 22/4/09 Perth 05/3/09 Carlisle 18/4/09 Ayr 16/3/09 Hereford 10/3/09 Cheltenham 03/4/09 Aintree 04/4/09 Aintree 21/3/09 Newbury 21/3/09 Newbury 15/4/09 Cheltenham 05/4/09 Market Rasen 14/3/09 Uttoxeter 14/4/09 Exeter 12/1/09 Fakenham 12/3/09 Cheltenham 03/4/09 Aintree 04/4/09 Chepstow 28/2/09 Newbury 21/3/09 Newbury 27/3/09 Ascot 04/4/09 Aintree 16/4/09 Cheltenham 20/3/09 Newbury 03/3/09 Exeter 27/3/09 Ascot 11/3/09 Huntingdon 11/4/09 Carlisle 09/3/09 Stratford-on-Avon 26/2/09 Ludlow 27/2/09 Doncaster 06/3/09 Ayr 06/3/09 Sandown Park 06/3/09 Sandown Park 07/3/09 Sandown Park 09/3/09 Taunton 15/3/09 Carlisle 17/3/09 Kempton Park 20/3/09 Kelso 21/3/09 Haydock Park 21/3/09 Haydock Park 25/3/09 Taunton 11/4/09 Newton Abbot 14/4/09 Exeter 14/4/09 Market Rasen 17/10/08 Cheltenham 12/1/09 Fakenham 14/1/09 Wincanton 17/1/09 Wincanton 01/1/09 Cheltenham

Flat HBLB Breeders’ Prizes worth £1,500 or more Woodcote Stud Ltd

9,200

Scintillo

Fantastic Light

Danseuse du Soir

Mrs P Good Lostford Manor Stud Black Horse Farm Worksop Manor Stud The Earl Of Halifax Pollards Stables Mrs M Bryce The Complimentary Pass Partnership A M Foustok Highclere Stud

5,000 2,800 2,800 2,800 2,100 1,800 1,800 1,800 1,500 1,500

Delegator Extraterrestrial Ocean’s Minstrel Secret Night Wind Flow Nehaam Mister Hardy Mafaaz Salute Swiss Act

Dansili Mind Games Pivotal Dansili Dr Fong Nayef Kyllachy Medicean Muhtarram Act One

Indian Love Bird Expectation Minstrel's Dance Night Haven Spring Charm The Stars Balladonia Complimentary Pass Alasib Dancing Mirage

21/3/09 18/3/09 16/4/09 18/4/09 04/4/09 04/4/09 26/2/09 15/4/09 04/4/09 18/3/09 07/3/09 12/3/09

Lingfield Park Kempton Park Newmarket Newbury Lingfield Park Lingfield Park Wolverhampton Newmarket Newcastle Kempton Park Wolverhampton Southwell

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Poilin Good, her nephew Padraig Purcell and Jamie Spencer with Delegator after Craven glory; the groom is Steven Radley

Breeder of the Month April - Poilin Good Homebred colt Delegator follows up impressive Craven victory by finishing second in the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket Words: Alan Yuill Walker

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n the eve of Delegator’s excellent second place in the 2,000 Guineas on May 2, his owner-breeder Poilin Good said: “I’m just thrilled to have a runner in the race – to have bred such a good horse is very satisfying. I would also like to say how brilliantly Brian Meehan has handled him.”

Like Meehan, Poilin is Irish. She hails from Tipperary, as indeed does Timmy Hyde of Camas Park Stud, the breeder of her foundation mare, Indian Love Song, the grandam of Delegator.

Good, who owns Boxhedge Hall Stud at Great Budworth in Cheshire, secured a significant double on successive days to

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earn April’s Breeder of the Month award, for which she receives a year’s free nutritional consultancy and 20 sacks of stud feed balancer from TopSpec.

First, Delegator won the Craven Stakes in great style, and then Chief Editor carried topweight to victory in a valuable sprint handicap at Newbury.

Tragically, Chief Editor collapsed with a suspected heart attack in the Palace House Stakes, the race following the Guineas.

Delegator is out of unraced Indian Love Bird (Efisio – Indian Love Song), while Chief Editor’s sire Tomba is an own-brother to Indian Love Bird.

When Tomba won the Prix de

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British-based sires Despite her strong Irish connections, Poilin Good’s breeding success has been engineered by patronising Britishbased stallions – Holding Court is by Hernando, Tomba is by Efisio, and Delegator is by Dansili.

Another of the same breed is Good’s Ordnance Row (by Mark of Esteem), a very useful miler who landed the Group 3 Sovereign Stakes at Salisbury and a Listed event at Windsor last season.

Tomba, who was placed three times in the Haydock Park Sprint Cup and showed his best form on a soft surface, now stands at Fox Farm at Sudbury, near Newmarket.

Poilin and John Good owed a debt of gratitude to Reg Hollinshead, who procured Indian Love Song privately as a threeyear-old in 1986 after she had failed to make her reserve at the Newmarket December Sales.

Hollinshead trained Indian Love Song (Be My Guest – Indian Bird), though he was unable to win with her on the track.

“The family is very precious to me,” said Good, “and as an owner-breeder I’m not that concerned about putting my fillies in training.”

Now in foal to Exceed And Excel, Indian Love Bird has had two offspring since Delegator.

Her two-year-old filly by Oasis Dream is at home, while the year younger half-brother by Haafhd sadly died as a foal.

Two seasons ago the stud also lost Language Of Love, the dam of Ordnance Row, whose halfsister Tamzin has just produced her first foal, a filly by Haafhd.

Small Breeder Special Merit, April - Mette Campbell-Andenaes

Presvis and Ryan Moore come from last to first in the Queen Elizabeth II Cup at Sha Tin

The success of Presvis in the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Cup in Hong Kong from another British-bred, Viva Pataca (who raced in this country as Comic Strip) earned Mette CampbellAndenaes the first Special Merit award of the 2009 season.

Reacting to her first Group winner as a breeder, CampbellAndenaes said: “I couldn’t be happier. Luca Cumani always told me that the horse ‘had something’. Thank goodness for the trainer’s patience.”

Campbell-Andenaes, from Hartfield in East Sussex, where she has 80 acres, may sound Greek, but is in fact Norwegian.

Presvis’s immediate female antecedents all made their mark in Scandinavia, with his dam Forest Fire having been bred in Sweden, as was the grandam.

Forest Fire was a smart performer without earning black type. However, until now her progeny record has been anything but spectacular and all

the ‘experts’ had been telling her breeder that she was ‘overmating’ the mare.

Presvis realised 15,000gns as a foal to Will Edmeades when consigned by Jamie Railton and doubled his value as a yearling from Kirtlington Stud when purchased by Amanda Skiffington to join Cumani.

Connections have been patient with the Sakhee gelding, who did not run until he was a four-year-old last season. His progress has been astounding, graduating from handicap success off a mark of 72 to Group 1 hero in nine months.

Prior to his Hong Kong triumph, Presvis had posted a career best to chase home Gladiatorus in the Dubai Duty Free at Nad Al Sheba, while after his Hong Kong success he was an unlucky second in the Singapore Airlines International Cup. The origin of Presvis’s family in Scandinavia goes back to

1978, when his third dam Twins Fire was exported as a two-yearold to Norway – she had been sold by her breeder Bill Blanshard of Semley Stud in Dorset (father of Lambourn trainer Michael) as a yearling at Doncaster for just 850gns.

By Firestreak from the immediate family of Vilmorin, Twins Fire became a champion mare in Norway, where she won the Oaks.

In March, Forest Fire foaled a colt by Cockney Rebel at Templeton Stud, owned by Caroline Green, before being reunited with Sakhee.

Forest Fire’s two previous offspring are a two-year-old filly, Her Name Is Lola (by Mujahid), and a yearling colt by Val Royal.

The latter was actually bred by Paul and Janet Jackson of Palehouse Farm in Kent, who had leased the mare temporarily.

This youngster was sold for 10,000gns from the National Stud last November.

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la Foret and Cork And Orrery Stakes in 1998, he won the annual Langham Cup, awarded to the Small Breeder of the Year, for Poilin and her late husband John.

Indian Love Song’s success in the breeding shed was not confined to producing top class sprinters, however. She also bred a Classic winner for Boxhedge Hall with Holding Court, sixlength winner of the 2000 Prix du Jockey Club.

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Only skin deep?

Thoroughbreds can be affected by a host of skin conditions, some more serious than others, revealing vital information about the health of the horse Words: James Tate BVMS MRCVS

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here is a lot of truth in the old saying ‘looks well, runs well’ and a good deal of information can be gained about a horse’s well-being by simply looking at its coat.

This article concentrates on the causes of various imperfections of equine skin and aims to distinguish between some of the most common conditions, as well as guiding the reader towards some successful therapies.

Skin serves a number of functions, including protection, heat regulation and sensation.

Skin disease is usually caused by infection, allergy or abnormal growths and is manifested by itchy skin, hair loss, scaling and crusting, weeping and seeping, alterations in pigmentation and abnormal lumps.

Diagnosis is usually easy, as appearances are quite characteristic, although samples can be taken and sent off for laboratory analysis if necessary.

Ringworm The most common cause of skin disease in the thoroughbred is infection, which is usually fungal or bacterial. Any patch of scabby spots found on a horse is fungal in origin until proved otherwise, particularly in ‘sweaty’ areas such as the regions occupied by tack.

The most common type of fungal disease is ringworm, which sounds like it should be caused by a worm that burrows in a circle but is actually caused by one of two fungal organisms; Trichophyton equinum var equinum and Microsporum equinum.

Ringworm is a worldwide disease that is highly contagious and can be transferred from horse to horse directly or indirectly by objects such as tack, rugs and brushes. It most commonly affects young horses, unless the infection burden is particularly high or, perhaps more importantly, if the horse’s immune system is suppressed for any

A severe case of classical ringworm

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reason. The health of any older horse who contracts ringworm must be questioned.

In the equestrian sector, there is a certain stigma attached to ringworm and there is a tendency to deny that a horse has the disease unless the spots are the classical ring-shaped, bald patches of skin usually associated with ringworm. In fact, any spots similar to ringworm and found in the same locations are probably also caused by fungal skin disease and may simply be a slightly different form of ringworm.

Ringworm does not have to be treated, as spots usually disappear in a few weeks and sunlight kills the fungal organism.

Hence, turning a horse out in the field during the summer will cure the condition, but if the horse is to remain stabled, often the most effective treatment is to remove the scabs and keep the affected areas of the coat clean and dry.

If treatment is necessary, then there are several topical treatments that can help to kill the pathogens involved and certain yards tend to find that different treatments work more effectively than others. Occasionally, the spots can become secondarily infected by bacteria and hence the horse may require antibiotics.

Again, this is easy to diagnose as the spots become filled with pus.

Rain scald There are also a number of skin diseases that are primarily caused by bacterial infections. Rain scald is caused by the presence of prolonged water on the horse’s back, resulting in lots of paintbrush-shaped crusty scabs, which when removed reveal superficial bacterial infection.

Severe cases can be quite painful and treatment comprises

of removal of the scabs, the application of antibacterial or antiseptic substances and keeping the horse’s coat dry.

Only occasionally are systemic antibiotics necessary. Prevention is common sense; stopping the horse becoming wet for long periods of time, either by not turning it out when it is wet or by equipping the horse with a rug.

Mud fever Mud fever is another bacterial skin infection that most commonly occurs when conditions are wet and, in fact, may be caused by the same organism as rain scald – Dermatophilus congolensis. It is found in the pastern and seems to be particularly common in horses with white markings.

It is preventable by avoiding turning a horse out in mud or applying barrier ointments to prevent the condition when horses are being turned out only during the day. Most cases will self-resolve once the horse is

Mud fever in a horse with a white pastern

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brought in from the field, unless they are very severe. Treatment comprises of gentle cleaning of the area prior to applying antibacterial ointments but the pastern should always be left as dry as possible – systemic antibiotics are required only in severe cases.

Cracked heels There is a very common skin condition of the racehorse that is similar to mud fever – the cracked heel. This condition has become particularly common since the advent of waxy sand-based allweather surfaces, such as Polytrack. The sticky surface becomes embedded in the fold of the pastern and creates a small wound.

The initial wound is often only very small but, due to its position and the necessity for the racehorse to exercise on the same sticky all-weather surface every day, it continues to be irritated daily and hence without careful management these can get worse very quickly. Treatment involves trying to keep the heel as clean and dry as possible, and various ointments can be used depending on the individual case.

Regrettably, there is no one magic ointment that cures these heels, although if they become infected then antibiotics should be used. As with mud fever, barrier creams such as Vaseline

A severe, infected cracked heel

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can be used, although the waxy surfaces do tend to remove these during exercise. In reality, the heels usually toughen up and often get slightly worse before getting better.

Lice The final common infectious skin disease group is parasitic skin disease. There are several parasites that can affect the horse, such as mites, ticks and fleas, but perhaps the most common is lice.

There are two types of lice that affect horses – Damalinia equi and Haematopinus asini. The condition is contagious and much more common and severe in winter. Affected horses have itchy, scurfy coats, with the highest infestation found in the mane and tail, hence any horse with a rubbed tail should be considered likely to have lice.

Diagnosis can usually be made by simply looking closely for lice, but microscopic examination can be used for confirmation. Sadly, a lot of the most effective products have either been taken off the market for safety reasons or are not actually licensed for the killing of lice in horses, but common louse powder is reasonably effective and vets can advise on other products. Consideration should also be given to treating the affected horse’s stable and rugs to prevent re-infection.

Any horse with a rubbed tail is likely to have lice

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“Not only is it important to diagnose and treat skin conditions accurately and effectively, but they really can give the onlooker an idea as to the health of the horse inside”

A horse suffering from hives

Hives Horses can also suffer from immune-mediated skin diseases, with by far the most common being allergic reactions, otherwise known as urticaria or hives. Horses generally come up in fluid-filled circular lumps of varying sizes over quite large areas of their body. Often the lumps disappear nearly as fast as they came.

The cause often remains unknown but possible allergens include foods, drugs, infections, insect bites, plants, heat and bedding. If the lumps do not disappear by themselves or with the help of cold-therapy and exercise, then the injection of intravenous corticosteroids will resolve the problem. If the allergy persists, tests can be carried out to establish the specific cause or causes.

Juvenile warts Finally, there is a group of equine skin diseases that cause skin growths, but not all of these are as serious as one might expect.

For example, there are the insignificant juvenile warts found on many horses aged two or under which are thought to be caused by the Equine Papillomavirus. They appear quickly and can look quite unsightly, but they are harmless

and disappear in a relatively short period of time. They are usually found around the horse’s face and muzzle but can also appear in other locations such as the lower leg.

Sarcoids Equine skin does not escape the big ‘c’ but, fortunately, by far the most common equine cancerous skin condition, the sarcoid, is usually fairly manageable.

Sarcoids are rather strange skin growths that can occur in all ages, breeds and colours of horses, and mainly affect the head and leg. There are several types of sarcoid and horses can be affected with one inconspicuous small, nodular sarcoid on the inside of a back leg or can be covered from head

A young horse with juvenile warts around his muzzle

to toe in horrendous verrucose sarcoids. Small sarcoids that are not growing in size in a place where they do not cause problems do not need treating.

However, if sarcoids are either in an important place, or if they are particularly active and growing, then treatment may be necessary. Options include a rubber ring or suture to kill the root of a nodular sarcoid, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, the injection of BCG, excisional surgery or Liverpool University’s sarcoid cream.

It should also be pointed out that not every skin growth is a sarcoid and horses can suffer from several other types, perhaps most commonly melanomas in grey horses, which carry a variable prognosis.

Conclusion It would be impossible to mention every equine skin disease in one short article. Perhaps one of the most significant points concerning skin disease is that when abnormalities are seen, the strength of the horse’s immune system should be questioned.

If a broodmare with white legs develops mud fever in the middle of a wet winter then we should not be surprised, but if a racehorse develops ringworm and cracked heels, is this really a healthy horse who will win races?

Not only is it important to diagnose and treat skin conditions accurately and effectively, but they really can give the onlooker an idea as to the health of the horse inside.

A horse with an occult sarcoid just behind its right ear

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“It is the relationship between the lad or lass and ‘their’ horse which is the heartbeat of this great sport” Sir Peter O’Sullevan

Most trainers would say that without good horses you don’t win many races. It is also true that without the human element there would be no horses to race.

The process of breeding, foaling down, yearling or store horse preparation, farriery care, mucking out, schooling and education, exercise, race going and post race care are some of the back room activities that smooth the precarious road to the Winner’s enclosure.

The people responsible for the care of the thoroughbred race horse, from foal to the race course, are individuals who are skilled, caring and tough. Half a ton of well bred, highly intelligent and extremely fit race horse is both the epitome of athleticism and potentially, extremely dangerous.

Trainers, stud and stable staff, farriers, pretraining yard staff, racecourse staff, gallops men and work riders are amongst the backbone of racing and sadly, quite often, the least recognized. Their day to day job involves hours of strenuous and physically

demanding work. In return they may get the occasional moment of sheer ecstasy, shared with their horses; be that in the winner’s enclosure, on the gallops or even in the foaling box as the realization dawns that their efforts have aided a new life to take it’s first breath. For all of the positives of a career in racing most stable and stud staff will not receive a salary that matches that of those who have chosen a desk bound career, and the potential for receiving serious injury or later life problems of debilitating arthritis loom large. Like many in society, racing staff can suffer from problems of addiction and the nature and location of many racing establishments can lead to isolation, difficulty in finding affordable housing and sometimes financial hardship.

Racing Welfare helps all of Racing’s people.

In 2008 the Charity spent over £1.5 million doing just that. It is the only charity to support the backbone of Britain’s racing industry. It provides help and support to anyone who works or has worked in racing or thoroughbred breeding and who is in need or distress. The Charity’s role is essential to the well being of the industry as a whole and the

continuation of it’s work relies solely upon funds raised from events and through the donations of individuals, corporate bodies, trusts and foundations.

Injury, infirmity and personal crises can happen to anyone. Racing Welfare’s professional organization helps racing’s people overcome these problems. The Charity regards its financial supporters as investors in the wellbeing and reputation of our sport. Whilst the current economic crisis will inevitably take its toll, by mitigating at least some of its effects the Charity will help preserve some of the key foundations for the future recovery of racing.

Cedric Burton OBE Chief Executive of Racing Welfare

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The Circle of a Jim Welch is 80 years young, full of fun, sprightly some may say and one of life’s true gentlemen. He lives in Wilfred Sherman house, the latest property in Headquarters that is owned and run by Racing Welfare, and provides comfortable, accessible and affordable housing for some of racing’s retired unsung heroes.

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Racing Life Jim Welch’s two bedroom cottage together with 4 two bedroom flats sits adjacent to Jack Jarvis Close, another of Racing Welfare’s retirement schemes. His home is within hearing distance of a colts whinny from Park Lodge stables where James Eustace now trains. Previously the yard was synonymous with Jack Jarvis and was where he produced so many winners from the 30’s – 60’s. It is also the yard to where a young Jim moved in 1945 as an apprentice following the death of his first employer, Capt Whittaker.

Born and bred in Surrey, Jim is proud of Runnymede’s historical association with that most English of documents ‘The Magna Carta’ and the freedoms it espouses. It is from that sense of freedom and independence that the residents of Wilfred Sherman House and the 157 other properties throughout the training centres benefit. Cedric Burton, Racing Welfare’s Chief Executive, is passionate about empowering racing’s older people “The 6 residents of Wilfred Sherman house alone have given a combined total of 260 years to the racing industry, they are justifiably proud of their former profession. They do not deserve to just be forgotten in their retirement and left to the vagaries of chance and the Gordian knot of the government’s housing benefit system. Through our housing and welfare work we enable retired racing staff to retain their sense of pride and independence”.

The story of Jim Welch is one that resembles a full circle. Apprenticeship served, he quickly recognised that bar from a few race rides on the stable hack he was never going to be a jockey, so returning from his national service with the RASC about which time Jim joked “I was the best sergeants mess waiter in the regiment, it was the only time I ever put

weight on!” he went back to work as a lad for Jack Jarvis followed by a spell with Jack Watts. After meeting his wife Veronica, who was one of those rarities in 1950’s racing, a stable lass, the pair decided that the only path that they wanted to follow was to join the trainer’s

“I was a tear away at 14, you know fighting and all that, so my father said” “Do you want to be a jockey”? “The next thing I knew I was an apprentice in Newmarket for Capt Whittaker at Sefton Lodge on the Bury Road.” ranks. The adventure took them firstly to Market Drayton where Jim learned from Stan Warren and from there in 1969 to a 5 box yard in Ascot where after only three months the fledgling permit holder produced his first winner ridden by a young Stephen, (later Lord) Stanhope. A great exponent of buying horses for as little money as possible Jim expanded the yard slowly to 15 horses and winners came for him, on occasion ridden by the likes of John Francome and Richard Pitman, Jim also trained a few jockeys along the line including Bill Elder and Don Coomber. And the horses earned their keep in other ways too, Jim and his charges appeared in a number of films and adverts where directors wanted to achieve a “taste of the turf”. Some performances were surreal including Jim’s appearance as one of Father Christmas’s little helpers in the Dudley Moore film ‘Santa Claus: The Movie’! Following a diagnosis of cancer for Veronica, Jim decided to retire and they moved to Wales where he still rode out for local point to point trainers. With cancer finally claiming his wife in 2000 Jim met up again with Pat Warren wife of Jim’s long standing friend and former boss Stan. Now a widow herself, the pair decided to move in together firstly at Racing Welfare’s cottages at Hamilton Road and then to Wilfred Sherman House in December of last year thus closing the circle back where the 14 year old tearaway had first started out his career in 1943.

Help for racing’s people in need

When asked what living in Wilfred Sherman House meant to Jim he talks seriously “This place is everything to me, I was a kid here, I earned my first 5 shillings a week just over there by the Bury Road at Captain Whittaker’s and I had my first ride on a racehorse here too on a horse called Sunlight. Truth be told I fell off it and had concussion for five days! I will probably end my days here too, but I don’t plan on doing that just yet mind”. When asked about his favourite horses he instantly mentions Fastnet Rock and Fire Mister both trained

by Jack Jarvis, he also speaks with a fond memory of his favourite owner Lord Milford “ he was a good man, and always had time for us lads”.

What is most striking about Jim Welch though is his obvious love and depth of knowledge of the horse. I would advise anyone who loves their racing to come to Newmarket, knock on his door at Wilfred Sherman House and ask to meet Mr Welch. You will leave the better for it having had a cup of tea in his and Pat’s comfortable lounge, learned a lot, laughed till you cried and enjoyed some time in the company of a truly independent man who has journeyed the full circle of racing life, and doesn’t regret one single day of it.

Jim aged 14

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Help for racing’s people in need

Affordable Homes

in Racing

Over 20% of everyone who asks for help from Racing Welfare has a problem concerning affordable homes. Back in 2004 Lord Donoughue’s Stud and Stable Staff Commission reported that ‘Staff accommodation is acknowledged by all parties as a major problem … it is a key factor in the ability of employers to attract and retain stable and stud staff’. In 2006 73% of trainers said that they believed that a lack of affordable homes limited their ability to recruit and retain key staff.

Over half of studs and stables provide some accommodation. However, the costs and difficulties of making new provision are considerable. This is unsurprising given that racing businesses tend to be located in some of the most attractive and expensive places.

Generally house prices in areas where there is a concentration of studs and stables tend to be 36% higher than the national average. In many locations the average price of homes is more than 11 times the wages of the typical racing employee.

Planning policy does not help. Already onerous restrictions such as those on the conversion of redundant agricultural buildings to residential use are often exacerbated by additional regulation associated with Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, National Parks or greenbelt.

The crisis of affordable homes in the countryside is acute. On the Government’s own figures over 11,000 new homes are needed each year to meet the rural need. Public sector programmes currently produce less than 4,000 per year. Other commentators put the need at

closer to 20,000. The National Housing Federation warned recently that ‘Over 100,000 young adults will leave the English countryside over the next three years …. village life in many areas of the country is now in terminal decline’ due to the lack of affordable homes. These are todays and tomorrows employees.

bonds yielding around 2%, attracting investment from employers within an area or industry could offer cheaper sources of development funding. The sale of nomination rights to employers secures them accommodation for their staff whilst providing a capital receipt to help fund the development.

Affordable homes can only be produced with a subsidy. By definition the cost of occupation will be below the market value. Subsidy can come from the State via a housing association but there will be no guarantee that the home will be filled by a racing employee, even if such a subsidy were available. However, there may be some innovative alternatives. Clearly a more sympathetic tax regime for investors in affordable homes would help but there is little prospect in the short term. But to develop affordable homes cheap money and cheap land are needed. Land adjacent to village development boundaries may be used for affordable homes as an ‘exception’ to planning policy. It could be provided on long leases (60 years) at around agricultural returns by landowners with a vested interest in ensuring the availability of labour. Collective investment

Racing Welfare has been working on behalf of the British Horse Racing Board to try to find a practical solution to racing’s affordable homes problems. A series of proposals has been made, in association with the Hastoe Housing Association, which has attracted significant support and interest from the Homes and Communities Agency and others. We believe that unless those with an economic interest in the rural economy grasp the nettle and try to solve the affordable homes crisis themselves there will be no effective solution.

A countryside drained of young employable people will not sustain viable racing businesses.

For more information about this initiative including the proposed housing bond contact: Cedric Burton at Racing Welfare. Tel 01638 560763 or cburton@racingwelfare.co.uk

WILFRED SHERMAN HOUSE

Newmarket

Wilfred Sherman House is sited off Park Lane in Newmarket and was previously known as Crampton House. Built in 1868 the building was originally The Stableman’s Mission and acted partly as a chapel. Subsequently Crampton House was the home of Jockey Frankie Barlow and his wife Carol. Barlow famously won the 1956 2000 Guineas on Gilles de Retz owned by AG Samuel Today the building is re- named in honour of one of the founding trustees of the Stablelads Welfare Trust, Wilfred Sherman House has been re-developed to provide quality affordable accommodation for retired racing staff. Features include:-

• One new build two bedroom cottage • Four converted two bedroom flats • Full wheelchair accessibility • Solar water heating system • Renewable energy heat store Whilst fully retaining the character of the old building, Wilfred Sherman house incorporates cutting edge renewable energy technology to provide heating and hot water, thereby being environmentally friendly and benefiting the residents through greatly reduced utility bills.

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ANDREW CAULFIELD’S TAKE ON THE BLOODSTOCK WORLD

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Last year’s Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner Zarkava is one of a number of successful European horses sired by a son of Gone West

US sires to goeast?

Lessons can be learned from the career of Gone West: his racing on dirt did not stop his progeny from succeeding in Europe

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ith many of the leading Kentucky stallions who made their names on Europe’s racecourses now dead or nearing the end of their careers, are the younger American stallions ever going to convince European buyers that their progeny can adapt to European conditions?

One of the prejudices facing these younger stallions is that most of them raced on dirt. But, with the international nature of modern racing effectively creating a melting pot of bloodlines, it can be dangerous for Europeans to dismiss a stallion in such a way.

A perfect example is Gone West, the 25-year-old son of Mr

Prospector who will be retired at the end of the 2009 season because of failing fertility.

With Mr Prospector as his sire and a daughter of Secretariat as his dam, Gone West was bred to excel on dirt. In a 17-race career spent entirely on dirt, the freerunning Gone West won a Grade 1 and a pair of Grade 2s. His Withers Stakes victory came on a fast track, his Dwyer Stakes success on a good track, and his Gotham Stakes win on a sloppy track. Conditions were muddy when he failed by a head to defeat Gulch in the Wood Memorial.

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Gone West, especially when mated with mares with European backgrounds. For example, he sired Zafonic and Zamindar from The Minstrel’s smart British-raced daughter Zaizafon; he sired the German champion Royal Abjar from a French-bred daughter of Arctic Tern; he sired the dual Breeders’ Cup Mile winner Da Hoss from an Irish Group 3 winner by Welsh Saint; and he sired the Breeders’ Cup Turf dead-heater Johar from a champion turf runner by Lear Fan. Mr Greeley, another of Gone West’s important winners, was another who raced entirely on dirt.

However, Mr Greeley’s first two dams were successful on turf in Europe and this has no doubt

helped him sire European runners of the calibre of Finsceal Beo, Saoirse Abu and Reel Buddy.

Another of Gone West’s sons, Elusive Quality, did most of his racing on dirt before developing into a dual Grade 3 winner on turf as a five-year-old.

Like Zafonic, Zamindar and the American Grade 1 winner Grand Slam, Elusive Quality is out of a grand-daughter of Northern Dancer and this probably helped him come up with such accomplished British runners as Raven’s Pass, Elusive City and Evasive. Now Elusive City has extended the Gone West line’s Classic influence to a third generation, with his daughter Elusive Wave taking the 2009 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches.

Collectively, Gone West’s sons have sired such outstanding performers as Zarkava, Darjina, Zenda, Raven’s Pass, Finsceal Beo, Xaar, Zafeen and Iffraaj, with his daughters responsible for the likes of Motivator, Pipedreamer and Rob Roy.

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Class is the key to Sadler’s sons It is barely believable that just six years ago there were doubts about the ability of the Coolmore legend to become a noted sire of sires

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ry to cast your minds back to the end of 2003.

There were still those who were critical of Sadler’s Wells as a sire of sires, despite the achievements of In The Wings and Barathea in Ireland, El Prado in North America, Scenic in Australia and Opera House in Japan. The seeds of doubt had germinated from the failures of Entrepreneur and King Of Kings, two stallions who, as Guineas winners, had been expected to do better than some of their less speedy paternal half-brothers.

Consequently, High Chaparral wasn’t considered a shoo-in for stallion success when he retired to stand alongside his extraordinary sire at a fee of €35,000 at Coolmore at the end of 2003. High Chaparral’s situation can’t have been helped, either, by the fact that he was in direct competition at Coolmore with two more of Sadler’s Wells’s unproven Derby winners.

High Chaparral was €5,000 more expensive than Montjeu, whose eldest progeny were yearlings in 2003, and €5,000 cheaper than Galileo, whose first foals were born in 2003.

Montjeu and Galileo have both proved themselves outstanding

Classic stallions, with their records suggesting that class, rather than distance preference, is the most important factor in Sadler’s Wells’s stallion sons.

According to the Racing Post’s handicappers, Montjeu is Sadler’s Wells’s most talented son, with Galileo ranking third in the pecking order. With a rating of 130, High Chaparral holds fifth place on this long and illustrious list, so it isn’t surprising that he too – a Group 1 winner at two, three and four – is shaping up as a formidable force.

Splendid sequence In April and May this year, High Chaparral enjoyed a splendid sequence of success. Magadan, a member of his first crop, had been off the course for the remainder of 2008 following his third to Montmartre in the Group 1 Grand Prix de Paris, but he is making up for lost time at four, with stakes victories on his first two starts.

For the record, that first crop also features the St Leger second Unsung Heroine, the Italian 2,000 Guineas winner Senlis and the very useful fillies Winkle and Beach Bunny.

However, it has been High Chaparral’s second crop which

High Chaparral has really caught the eye with his second crop

has really caught the eye. It produced a two-year-old Group winner in 2008, when Serienhoehe won the Maurice Lacroix-Trophy, and this year Redwood, Above Average, Golden Sword and High Heeled have all advertised their Classic potential by winning stronglycontested trials. Perhaps High Chaparral benefited from having his fee reduced to €30,000 in his second season, at a time when Montjeu’s fee was beginning to soar.

It’s worth adding that High Chaparral’s fee in 2009 is a highly competitive €10,000, having fallen every year he has been at stud. The fall from €20,000 in 2007 to €15,000 in 2008 was prompted by the slow start made by High Chaparral’s first two-year-olds in 2007, but – as the American stallion Sky Mesa has also demonstrated – it doesn’t always pay to jump to conclusions about a young stallion, especially one who shone over middle distances.

While on the subject of the Sadler’s Wells male line, Galileo has again been in excellent form with the three-year-olds he sired at a fee of €37,500. Among them are Age Of Aquarius (Lingfield Derby Trial), Cuis Ghaire (runnerup in the 1,000 Guineas), Gan Amhras and Rip Van Winkle (third and fourth in the 2,000 Guineas), Oh Goodness Me (Park Express Stakes), Perfect Truth (Cheshire Oaks), Sans Frontiere (second in the Craven Stakes) and South Easter (Dee Stakes).

South Easter is particularly interesting from a pedigree viewpoint, as he is Galileo’s second Group winner from his first six foals out of Nureyev mares, following the very smart French stayer Incanto Dream.

As Nureyev and Sadler’s Wells were three-parts-brothers, Galileo’s matings with Nureyev mares create 3 x 3 to Northern Dancer and 4 x 3 to Special.

Sovereign line continues to rule in France While the Grey Sovereign male line qualifies as an endangered species in Britain, the descendants of this famously temperamental stallion continue to flourish in France. Indeed, it’s fair to say France has become its natural homeland, with eight winners of the Poule d’Essai des Poulains (French 2,000 Guineas) and five of the Prix du Jockey-Club (French Derby).

Grey Sovereign himself sired two Poulains winners in Zeddaan and Don II, and Zeddaan also went on to sire two winners of this Classic, thanks to Kalamoun in 1973 and Nishapour in 1978. The other son of Grey Sovereign with a Poulains winner to his credit was Fortino II, sire of the admirable 1970 winner Caro, who in turn was responsible for Siberian Express, the winner in 1984.

The line’s next victory came when Kendor, a colt by Kalamoun’s son Kenmare, triumphed in 1989.

But most sire lines come and go and, with the Mr Prospector and Danzig lines coming to the fore in the 1990s and the noughties, it was to be another 20 years before the Grey Sovereign line struck again, this time with Silver Frost, trained by Yves De Nicolay and owned

by Englisman John Cotton.

The 2009 Poulains winner comes from the first Irish crop by Kenmare’s grandson Verglas, whose sire Highest Honor was by Kenmare.

With Stormy River and now Silver Frost highlighting Verglas’s ability to sire highclass milers, it looks as though this Irish National Stud resident is capable of breathing new life into his male line in Britain and Ireland.

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DATA BOOK LISTINGS OF EVERY SINGLE WORLDWIDE STAKES WINNER

Northern hemisphere sires to the fore in Australasia No Excuse Needed, Montjeu and Celtic Swing among the many stallions wielding their influence in Group races down under, from thousands of miles away Words: Jeremy Early tallions foaled in the northern hemisphere have had a long-standing impact on bloodstock in Australia and New Zealand, one that shuttling has increased.

The latest set of stakes results confirms the point, since of the 30 sires with major winners in those two countries, only seven were foaled ‘locally’.

The AJC Oaks and AJC Australian Derby provided a notable double for sires campaigned in Europe.

Daffodil, who had landed the NZ 1,000 Guineas before striking in the AJC Oaks, is the first Classic winner for crack miler No Excuse Needed, now based full-time at Waikato Stud.

Roman Emperor, successful in the colts’ race, certainly wasn’t the first Classic victor for Montjeu, who shuttled to Windsor Park Stud in New Zealand from 2001-04.

His record in Europe is well known but Roman Emperor, who was chased home by another of the stallion’s sons, Harris Tweed, was his second winner of the AJC Derby in a row following Nom du Jeu in 2008.

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Takeover still on target

The Irish National Stud, where Celtic Swing stands at just €4,000, is a long way from Australia, but that’s where his remarkable son Takeover Target continues on his merry way.

The ten-year-old sprinter notched two more Group 1s in the T J Smith Stakes and Goodwood Handicap to take his earnings above the A$6 million mark.

Celtic Swing was far from a sprinter and has been rather fitful at stud, but with Six Perfections also

Montjeu: dual success in AJC Derby

on the scoresheet no-one can claim he hasn’t left a mark.

It is less surprising that, also in Australia, Diadem Stakes winner Bianconi should get a Group 1 sprint winner, in Nicconi in the Galaxy Handicap.

Bianconi (by Danzig) and star South African sire Fort Wood (by Sadler’s Wells), responsible for Group 2 South African Oaks winner Bedloe’s Island, have more in common than Northern Dancer in the top line of the pedigree. Both are out of world famous broodmare Fall Aspen.

Loud applause for Fort Wood

Grand Prix de Paris winner Fort Wood’s record is tremendous, since he has averaged almost 13% stakes winners.

Admittedly, he has only twice had in excess of 70 foals, and high ratios of black type performers are more readily attained from smallish crops than from the sort of books most leading sires in the northern hemisphere attract nowadays.

Fort Wood still merits loud applause though, and he is doing well as a broodmare sire too.

His daughters have found a good match in 12-year-old Strike Smartly, a Mr Prospector colt who

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was nowhere near so good as his siblings Dance Smartly or Smart Strike on the track but is making his presence felt at stud.

Based like Fort Wood at Mauritzfontein Stud, he is responsible for this year’s dual Group 1 scorer Smart Banker and South African Derby winner Bouquet-Garni.

The latter is one of three stakes winners by him out of Fort Wood mares from three crops.

Smart Strike, twice leading sire in the States, figures in the table as sire of Arkansas Derby winner Papa Clem and as maternal grandsire of Mine That Bird, successful in the Kentucky Derby. Mine That Bird (by Grindstone) is the tenth Kentucky Derby winner since 1990 to have Mr Prospector in the top line of his pedigree.

Reasonable designation

One thing that strikes from the table is the designation of the best races in several countries. In the States there are six Grade 1s, against 39 in Grade 2 and 3. In South Africa there are three against 14. The respective figures for the previous month were eight against 40 and three against ten.

All this seems reasonable but can the same be said for Australia or Argentina?

The former has 13 Group 1s, compared with 16 in the next two grades (11 and 23 for the month before), while Argentina has parity for the two categories on eight.

Last month the tally there was three Group 1s and six others.

This is the climax of the season for both countries, but in Europe the tallies in September and October are nowhere near so askew. Food for thought.

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DATA BOOK

Global Stakes Results – 2009 Argentina Date Grade 5 May G2 1 May G3 1 May G1 1 May G1 1 May G1 1 May G1 1 May G1 1 May G1 1 May G1 26 Apr G3 25 Apr G3 24 Apr G3 22 Apr G3 18 Apr G2 11 Apr G1 10 Apr G3

Race Clasico Raul Aristegui Clasico Pedro E y Manuel A Crespo Gran Premio Republica Argentina Gran Premio Criadores GPde las Americas-OSAF Gran Premio Montevideo Gran Premio Jorge de Atucha Gran Premio Criadores Gran Premio Ciudad de Buenos Aires Asoc Bonarense Prop Caballos Carrera Asoc de Propietarios Caballos de Carrera Clasico Olavarria Clasico Porteno Clasico Abril Gran Premio Raul y Raul E Chevalier Clasico Coronel Pringles

Dist 7.0 f 50 f 100 f 100 f 80 f 75 f 75 f 100 f 50 f 60 f 70 f 50 f 120 f 90 f 70 f 50 f

Horse La Chamante (ARG) Allez Zizou (ARG) Calidoscopio (ARG) Cayaya (ARG) El Garufa (ARG) Evocado (ARG) Ishitaki (ARG) Ollagua (ARG) Que Vida Buena (ARG) Polemic Buster (ARG) Aprilla (ARG) Que Felicidad (ARG) Eternal Fire (ARG) Dando Amor (ARG) Interaction (ARG) Que Vida Buena (ARG)

Age 3 3 6 4 7 3 3 4 4 4 5 5 4 4 3 4

Sex F C H F H C F F C C M M C F C C

Sire Indygo Shiner (USA) Editor’s Note (USA) Luhuk (USA) Slew Gin Fizz (USA) Luhuk (USA) Southern Halo (USA) Interprete (ARG) Pure Prize (USA) Bernstein (USA) Housebuster (USA) Roy (USA) Bernstein (USA) Lode (USA) Thunder Gulch (USA) Easing Along (USA) Bernstein (USA)

Dam La Magie (ARG) Refreshing Ballet (USA) Calderona (ARG) Candy’s Breeze (ARG) La Camorrera (ARG) Evidenciada (ARG) Nice Watch (ARG) Open Secrets (USA) Queen Tango (ARG) Irreverencia (ARG) April Talk (ARG) Queen Tango (ARG) Eterna Girl (ARG) Declaring Love (USA) Inter Rails (ARG) Queen Tango (ARG)

Broodmare Sire Luhuk (USA) Moscow Ballet (USA) Lefty (USA) Candy Stripes (USA) Rainbow Corner (GB) Equalize (USA) The Watcher (USA) West By West (USA) Lode (USA) Interprete (ARG) Confidential Talk (USA) Lode (USA) Sonus (IRE) Gone West (USA) Ride The Rails (USA) Lode (USA)

G3 G2 G3 G1 G3 G1 G2 G1 G1 G1 G1 G2 G2 G1 G3 G3 G1 G1 G1 G3 G2 G2 G3 G1 G3 G3 G3 G1 G1

Gold Coast Guineas A D Hollindale Stakes Auraria Stakes South Australian Derby Sires’ Produce Stakes Goodwood Handicap Big6 Emancipation Stakes The Daily Telegraph All Aged Stakes Schweppes Sydney Cup Moet & Chandon Champagne Stakes Emirates Queen Elizabeth Stakes Greenslopes Sir Byrne Hart Stakes Panasonic Queen of the South Stakes Patinack Farm AJC Oaks Sharp South Pacific Classic evrightcom D C McKay Stakes Sydney Hospital Sires’ Produce Stakes Sydney City Lexus T J Smith Stakes Emirates Doncaster Mile Frank Packer Plate Tabcorp Sapphire Stakes Emirates Chairman’s Handicap WA Sires’ Produce Stakes Schweppes WATC Derby Mary Martin Victoria Handicap Cargo Bar Adrian Knox Stakes Le Pines Funerals Easter Cup The Coffey Projects Galaxy Handicap David Jones AJC Australian Derby

60 f 90 f 90 f 125 f 80 f 60 f 80 f 70 f 160 f 80 f 100 f 60 f 80 f 120 f 70 f 55 f 70 f 60 f 80 f 100 f 60 f 130 f 70 f 120 f 70 f 100 f 100 f 55 f 120 f

Chakvetadze (AUS) Fulmonti (NZ) Princess Pulse (NZ) Rebel Raider (AUS) Silent Surround (AUS) Takeover Target (AUS) Amberino (AUS) Danleigh (AUS) Ista Kareem (NZ) Onemorenomore (AUS) Pompeii Ruler (AUS) Swiss Ace (AUS) Bird of Fire (NZ) Daffodil (NZ) Fravashi (AUS) I Am Invincible (AUS) Manhattan Rain (AUS) Takeover Target (AUS) Vision And Power (NZ) Yallingup (AUS) Court (AUS) Divine Rebel (NZ) God Has Spoken (AUS) Markus Maximus (NZ) Masked Assassin (AUS) Miss Darcey (AUS) Miss Maren (NZ) Nicconi (AUS) Roman Emperor (NZ)

4 7 4 4 3 10 6 6 9 3 7 5 5 4 4 5 3 10 7 4 4 5 3 4 5 4 5 4 4

F G F C F G M G G C G H M F C H C G H G F M C G H F M C C

Taimazov (ARG) Montjeu (IRE) King Of Kings (IRE) Reset (AUS) Face Value (AUS) Celtic Swing (GB) Perugino (USA) Mujahid (USA) Germano (GB) Red Ransom (USA) Genuine (JPN) Secret Savings (USA) Stravinsky (USA) No Excuse Needed (GB) Falbrav (IRE) Invincible Spirit (IRE) Encosta de Lago (AUS) Celtic Swing (GB) Carnegie (IRE) More Than Ready (USA) Anabaa (USA) Don Eduardo (NZ) Blackfriars (AUS) Pentire (GB) Danzero (AUS) Hussonet (USA) Stravinsky (USA) Bianconi (USA) Montjeu (IRE)

Gotha (AUS) Grosvenor’s Pride (NZ) Surprize Offer (NZ) Picholine (AUS) Biography (AUS) Shady Stream (AUS) Amber Plate (AUS) Graceful Lily (AUS) Princesses Touch (NZ) Palia (AUS) West With Night (NZ) Rapid Serve (USA) You Beauty (NZ) Spring (NZ) Angelic Smile (AUS) Cannarelle (AUS) Shantha’s Choice (AUS) Shady Stream (AUS) Escada (NZ) Damodah (AUS) Splish (AUS) It’s My Sin (AUS) Dolly Will Do (AUS) Shafty Lady (NZ) Duk Duk (AUS) Miss Bussell (AUS) Deebee Lady (NZ) Nicola Lass (AUS) Gussy Godiva (NZ)

Rustic Amber Grosvenor (NZ) Vice Regal (NZ) Dehere (USA) Rory’s Jester (AUS) Archregent (CAN) Rustic Amber Dr Grace (NZ) Touching Wood (USA) Last Tycoon Pompeii Court (USA) Carson City (USA) Comet Shine (CAN) O’Reilly (NZ) Dehere (USA) Canny Lad (AUS) Canny Lad (AUS) Archregent (CAN) Centaine (AUS) Maizcay (AUS) Zedavite (AUS) Success Express (USA) Rubiton (AUS) Last Tycoon Claudius Danzero (AUS) Brilliant Invader (AUS) Scenic Last Tycoon

G3 G3 G3 G1 G2 G1 G1 G3 G3 G2 G3 G3 G3 G3

Grande Premio Antonio Carlos Amorim Grande Premio Julio Mesquita Grand Premio Derby Paranaense Grande Premio Joao Cecilio Ferraz Grande Premio Antenor Lara Campos G P Zelia Gonzaga Peixoto de Castro Grande Premio Cruzeiro do Sul (Derby) AsocCriade Propde CavCorrida do RJ Grande Premio Henrique de Toledo Lara Grande Premio Joao Borges Filho G P Presidente Fabio da Silva Prado GP Presidente Antonio T Assumpcao Netto Grande Premio Oswaldo Aranha GP Presidente Emilio Garrastazu Medici

70 f 50 f 100 f 75 f 75 f 120 f 120 f 50 f 100 f 120 f 100 f 80 f 120 f 80 f

Right Line (BRZ) Ultima Palavra (BRZ) Vitalino Mestre (BRZ) Balada da Hora (BRZ) Gallian (BRZ) Estrela Anki (BRZ) Gibson (BRZ) Special Class (BRZ) Spring Love (BRZ) Time For Fun (BRZ) Ursula’s Home (BRZ) Kapo Di Tutti (BRZ) Mr Nedawi (BRZ) Blue Elf (BRZ)

5 4 4 3 3 4 4 4 5 5 4 4 5 6

M F C F C F C F M H F C H H

Put It Back (USA) Dodge (USA) Torrential (USA) Mastro Lorenzo (BRZ) Dodge (USA) Thignon Lafre (BRZ) Roi Normand (USA) Wild Event (USA) Bonapartiste (FR) Yagli (USA) Torrential (USA) Redattore (BRZ) Nedawi (GB) Choctaw Ridge (USA)

Haute Fidelite (BRZ) Uberaba Fighter (BRZ) Expressao (BRZ) Balada da Noite (BRZ) Iriscordemel (BRZ) Marne La Coquette (BRZ) Eletrizada (BRZ) Ivy League (BRZ) Jingle Bells (BRZ) Tarradine (BRZ) Ursula Mirouet (BRZ) Granny’s Pie (BRZ) Cryptic Crucial (USA) British Reef

Tokatee (USA) Irish Fighter (USA) Minstrel Glory (USA) Exile King (USA) Minstrel Glory (USA) Effervescing (USA) Rasputin (CHI) Ghadeer (FR) Aksar (USA) New Colony (USA) Slap Jack (USA) Ghadeer (FR) Cryptoclearance (USA) Main Reef

G3

Whimsical Stakes

60 f

Dancing Allstar (CAN)

4

F

Millennium Allstar (CAN)

High On Believen (USA)

Honor Grades (USA)

G1 G2 G3 G3 G2 G3

Clasico Club Hipico de Santiago Premio El Estreno Nicanor Senoret Premio Cotejo de Potrillos Premio Cotejo de Potrancas P Otono-Pedro Garcia de la Huerta Matte Premio A Breque Venegas y A B Espinoza

100 f 65 f 70 f 70 f 100 f 65 f

Last Impact (CHI) Polar Emperor (ARG) Galimidis (CHI) Hostilizada (CHI) Casablanca Star (CHI) Coeur Loyal (CHI)

7 3 3 3 4 3

H C C F C C

Stuka (USA) Emperor Jones (USA) Stormin Fever (USA) Dushyantor (USA) Dushyantor (USA) Dance Brightly (CAN)

Angel de Furia (CHI) Lyphielo (USA) Rosita Guadalupe (CHI) Homogenica (CHI) Granate (CHI) L’Eclipse (CHI)

Stagecraft Lyphard (USA) Stagecraft Fappavalley (USA) Golden Voyager (USA) Smooth Performance (USA)

G1 G1

Audemars Piguet Queen Elizabeth II Cup Champions’ Mile

100 f 80 f

Presvis (GB) Sight Winner (NZ)

5 6

G G

Sakhee (USA) Faltaat (USA)

Forest Fire (SWE) Kinjinette (NZ)

Never So Bold Kinjite (NZ)

G1 G3 G3 G2 G2 G2

Tenno Sho (Spring Emperor’s Cup) Antares Stakes Fukushima Himba Stakes Yomiuri Milers Cup Sankeisports Hai Hanshin Himba Tokubetsu New Zealand Trophy

160 f 90 f 90 f 80 f 70 f 80 f

Meiner Kitz (JPN) War Tactics (JPN) Bravo Daisy (JPN) Super Hornet (JPN) Jolly Dance (JPN) San Carlo (JPN)

6 4 4 6 8 3

H C F H M C

Chief Bearhart (CAN) War Emblem (USA) Kurofune (USA) Rodrigo de Triano (USA) Dance In The Dark (JPN) Symboli Kris S (USA)

Takara Kanna (JPN) Admire Happy (JPN) Bravo Sunrise (JPN) You Sun Polish (JPN) Peterhof’s Patea (USA) Diva (JPN)

Soccer Boy (JPN) Tony Bin Sunday Silence (USA) El Senor (USA) Peterhof (USA) Crafty Prospector (USA) )

Coca-Cola Canterbury Gold Cup First Sovereign Trust Rotorua Cup Windsor Park Stud Breeders Stakes Travis Stakes Fairview Hawke’s Bay Gold Cup Christchurch Casino Easter Cup Land Pride Easter Handicap

100 f 105 f 60 f 100 f 110 f 80 f 80 f

The Meista (NZ) Tinseltown (NZ) Geeza (NZ) Veloce Bella (NZ) All In Black (NZ) Hold It Harvey (AUS) Prince Kaapstad (NZ)

4 6 4 6 5 5 5

G H G M M G G

Montjeu (IRE) Pentire (GB) Ishiguru (USA) Volksraad (GB) Don Eduardo (NZ) King Cugat (USA) Kaapstad (NZ)

Zablinka (NZ) Tinsel (NZ) Blazing Bridles (AUS) Wave To Lottie (NZ) All In Grace (NZ) Daly Charm (AUS) Brilliant Princess (NZ)

Zabeel (NZ) Jetball (AUS) Unbridled’s Song (USA) Crested Wave (USA) Prized (USA) Best Western (AUS) Spectrum (IRE)

Australia 2 May 2 May 2 May 2 May 2 May 2 May 25 Apr 25 Apr 25 Apr 25 Apr 25 Apr 25 Apr 18 Apr 18 Apr 18 Apr 18 Apr 18 Apr 18 Apr 18 Apr 18 Apr 11 Apr 11 Apr 11 Apr 11 Apr 11 Apr 11 Apr 11 Apr 11 Apr 11 Apr

Brazil 3 May 26 Apr 26 Apr 25 Apr 25 Apr 21 Apr 21 Apr 21 Apr 21 Apr 19 Apr 19 Apr 18 Apr 18 Apr 12 Apr

Canada 18 Apr

Chile 1 May 29 Apr 24 Apr 24 Apr 13 Apr 11 Apr

Hong Kong 26 Apr 26 Apr

Japan 3 May 26 Apr 25 Apr 18 Apr 11 Apr 11 Apr

New Zealand 3 May 2 May 25 Apr 25 Apr 18 Apr 18 Apr 11 Apr

G3 G3 G3 G2 G3 G3 G1

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DATA BOOK LISTINGS OF EVERY SINGLE WORLDWIDE STAKES WINNER Global Stakes Results – 2009 Peru 12 Apr

G3

Clasico Miguel A Checa Eguiguren

95 f

Buen Mar (PER)

4

C

Privately Held (USA)

Buonna Sera (ARG)

Lefty (USA)

The Debutante Stakes Umkhomazi Stakes Kenilworth Fillies Nursery Cape of Good Hope Nursery Poinsettia Stakes Winter Guineas South African Oaks South African Derby Camellia Stakes Computaform Sprint Champions Challenge The Fillies South African Nursery The South African Nursery Gold Bowl Sunday Tribune Umzimkhulu Stakes Sunday Tribune Byerley Turk Plate Senor Santa Handicap

60 f 60 f 60 f 60 f 60 f 80 f 120 f 120 f 55 f 50 f 100 f 55 f 55 f 160 f 70 f 70 f 55 f

Captain’s Call (SAF) Mr Crazy Boy (ARG) Flower’s Angel (SAF) Nocturnal Affair (SAF) Rei Rei (SAF) Royal Chalon (AUS) Bedloe’s Island (SAF) Bouquet-Garni (SAF) Mochachino (SAF) Private Jet (ARG) Smart Banker (SAF) Spring Clover (SAF) Vacherin (SAF) Western Walk (SAF) On Her Toes (SAF) Polished Steel (AUS) Rebel King (SAF)

3 3 3 3 5 4 4 4 5 4 5 3 3 8 4 4 6

F C F C F G F C M G G F C G F C H

Captain Al (SAF) Numerous (USA) Captain Al (SAF) Victory Moon (SAF) Doowaley (IRE) Royal Academy (USA) Fort Wood (USA) Strike Smartly (CAN) Silvano (GER) Orpen (USA) Strike Smartly (CAN) Kahal (GB) Var (USA) Model Man (SAF) Western Winter (USA) King Of Danes (AUS) National Emblem (SAF)

Evening Standard (SAF) Crazy Fitz (ARG) Dragon Flower (SAF) Aretha (SAF) Late Night Live (SAF) Chalonne (AUS) Trade Enquiry (SAF) Bay Tree (SAF) Mabola Plum (SAF) Pacatyba (BRZ) Larapinta (SAF) Spring Key (ZIM) Golden Treat (SAF) Cool Of Heart (SAF) Savannah Breeze (SAF) Shower Of Steel (AUS) Cousin Linda (SAF)

London News (SAF) Fitzcarraldo (ARG) National Assembly (CAN) Centenary (USA) Fine Edge Rubiton (AUS) Qui Danzig (USA) Fort Wood (USA) Fort Wood (USA) Itajara (BRZ) Al Mufti (USA) Hallgate Golden Thatch Proclaim (USA) Badger Land (USA) Comet Shine (CAN) Badger Land (USA)

80 f 70 f 85 f 90 f 70 f 75 f 80 f 70 f 100 f 85 f 80 f 85 f 50 f 85 f 85 f 90 f 50 f 80 f 85 f 120 f 75 f 80 f 80 f 80 f 80 f 120 f 120 f 140 f 90 f 85 f 100 f 65 f 70 f 90 f 85 f 80 f 65 f 80 f 70 f 85 f 90 f 55 f 90 f 80 f 60 f

Mrs Kipling (IRE) Accredit (USA) Cosmonaut (USA) Einstein (BRZ) Flashing (USA) Four Gifts (USA) Gorgeous Goose (USA) Informed Decision (USA) Mine That Bird (USA) My Princess Jess (USA) Tizaqueena (USA) Bullsbay (USA) Chamberlain Bridge (USA) Miss Isella (USA) Orthodox (USA) Rachel Alexandra (USA) Aegean (USA) Bribon (FR) Madeo (USA) Criticism (GB) Hull (USA) Jonesboro (USA) Mr Fantasy (USA) Mr Napper Tandy (GB) Wesley (USA) Spice Route (GB) Winter View (USA) Midships (USA) Parading (USA) Advice (USA) Magical Fantasy (USA) Mr Gruff (USA) Seattle Smooth (USA) Swift Temper (USA) Indescribable (USA) Afternoon Stroll (USA) Gotta Have Her (USA) Dream Play (USA) Eternal Star (USA) Forever Together (USA) General Quarters (USA) Heros Reward (USA) Papa Clem (USA) Mr Sidney (USA) Semaphore Man (USA)

3 4 7 7 3 3 4 4 3 4 4 5 5 4 3 3 2 6 4 5 3 7 3 5 4 5 5 4 6 3 4 5 4 5 5 3 5 3 5 5 3 7 3 5 7

F C H H F F F F G F F H G F C F F H C M C H C H C G M C H C F H F M M F M F H M C G C H G

Exceed And Excel (AUS) E Dubai (USA) Lemon Drop Kid (USA) Spend A Buck (USA) A P Indy (USA) Even the Score (USA) Mongoose (USA) Monarchos (USA) Birdstone (USA) Stormy Atlantic (USA) Tiznow (USA) Tiznow (USA) War Chant (USA) Silver Charm (USA) Pulpit (USA) Medaglia d’Oro (USA) Northern Afleet (USA) Mark of Esteem (IRE) Mizzen Mast (USA) Machiavellian (USA) Holy Bull (USA) Sefapiano (USA) E Dubai (USA) Bahamian Bounty (GB) El Prado (IRE) King’s Best (USA) Thunder Gulch (USA) Mizzen Mast (USA) Pulpit (USA) Chapel Royal (USA) Diesis Mr Greeley (USA) Quiet American (USA) Giant’s Causeway (USA) Pleasant Tap (USA) Stroll (USA) Royal Academy (USA) Hennessy (USA) Five Star Day (USA) Belong To Me (USA) Sky Mesa (USA) Partner’s Hero (USA) Smart Strike (CAN) Storm Cat (USA) Formal Gold (CAN)

Quinzey (JPN) Pocketbrook (USA) Cosmic Fire (USA) Gay Charm (BRZ) Morning Pride (IRE) Agiftfromservice (USA) Gorgeous Me (USA) Palangana (USA) Mining My Own (USA) Jewell Of Jewels (USA) Issaqueena (USA) The Hess Express (USA) She’s Got Class (USA) La Cucina (IRE) Dominique’s Joy (USA) Lotta Kim (USA) Apt To Star (USA) Rowat Arazi (GB) Passion Flower (USA) Innuendo (IRE) Band Queen (USA) Mom’s Command (USA) Twice Forbidden (USA) Starfleet (GB) Moving Picture (USA) Zanzibar (IRE) No Matter What (USA) Interim (GB) On Parade (USA) Word O’ Wisdom (USA) Kissing Gate (USA) Ruff (USA) Our Seattle Star (USA) Glasgow’s Gold (USA) Catnip (USA) Gertie (USA) Winnowing (USA) Playcaller (USA) Retsina’s Princess (USA) Constant Companion (USA) Ecology (USA) Lifes Passage (USA) Miss Houdini (USA) Tomisue’s Delight (USA) Semaphore Ms (USA)

Carnegie (IRE) Montbrook (USA) Capote (USA) Ghadeer (FR) Machiavellian (USA) Service Stripe (USA) Big Spruce (USA) His Majesty (USA) Smart Strike (CAN) Pleasant Colony (USA) Mr Prospector (USA) Lord Carson (USA) Trempolino (USA) Last Tycoon Strawberry Road (AUS) Roar (USA) Aptitude (USA) Arazi (USA) Deputy Minister (CAN) Caerleon (USA) Chimes Band (USA) Top Command (USA) Spectacular Bid (USA) Inchinor (GB) Alysheba (USA) In The Wings Nureyev (USA) Sadler’s Wells (USA) Storm Cat (USA) Hennessy (USA) Easy Goer (USA) Clever Trick (USA) Seattle Song (USA) Seeking The Gold (USA) Flying Paster (USA) Danzatore (CAN) Rahy (USA) Saratoga Six (USA) Eternal Prince (USA) Relaunch (USA) Unbridled’s Song (USA) Caveat (USA) Belong To Me (USA) A P Indy (USA) Lost Code (USA)

South Africa 3 May 3 May 2 May 2 May 26 Apr 26 Apr 25 Apr 25 Apr 25 Apr 25 Apr 25 Apr 25 Apr 25 Apr 25 Apr 19 Apr 19 Apr 4 Apr

G2 G2 G3 G3 G3 G3 G2 G1 G2 G1 G1 G2 G2 G2 G3 G3 G2

United States 3 May 2 May 2 May 2 May 2 May 2 May 2 May 2 May 2 May 2 May 2 May 1 May 1 May 1May 1 May 1 May 30 Apr 29 Apr 26 Apr 25 Apr 25 Apr 25 Apr 25 Apr 25 Apr 25 Apr 24 Apr 23 Apr 19 Apr 19 Apr 18 Apr 18 Apr 18 Apr 18 Apr 18 Apr 17 Apr 16 Apr 12 Apr 11 Apr 11 Apr 11 Apr 11 Apr 11 Apr 11Apr 10 Apr 10 Apr

G3 G2 G3 G1 G3 G3 G3 G1 G1 G3 G2 G3 G3 G2 G3 G1 G3 G3 G3 G2 G3 G3 G3 G2 G3 G2 G3 G2 G3 G2 G2 G3 G2 G3 G3 G3 G3 G2 G2 G2 G1 G3 G2 G1 G3

Senorita Stakes Churchill Downs Stakes Fort Marcy Stakes Woodford Reserve Turf Classic Stakes Nassau County Stakes Eight Belles Stakes Wilshire Handicap Humana Distaff Stakes Kentucky Derby Beaugay Stakes Churchill Distaff Turf Mile Stakes Alysheba Stakes Aegon Turf Sprint Stakes Louisville Distaff Stakes American Turf Stakes Kentucky Oaks Kentucky Juvenile Stakes Westchester Stakes Inglewood Handicap La Prevoyante Handicap Derby Trial Stakes Texas Mile Stakes Withers Stakes San Francisco Mile Stakes Miami Mile Handicap Fifth Third Elkhorn Stakes Grey Goose Bewitch Stakes San Juan Capistrano Handicap Ben Ali Stakes Coolmore Lexington Stakes Santa Barbara Handicap San Simeon Handicap Bed O’ Roses Handicap Sixty Sails Handicap Doubledogdare Stakes Appalachian Stakes Las Cienegas Handicap Comely Stakes Commonwealth Stakes Jenny Wiley Stakes Toyota Blue Grass Stakes Shakertown Stakes Arkansas Derby Maker’s Mark Mile Stakes Count Fleet Sprint Handicap

Montjeu will surely be a giant threat to Causeway

Leading sires by stakes winners – 2009 Horse

Born

Sire

Stands/Stood

Giant’s Causeway (USA) Encosta de Lago (AUS) Redoute’s Choice (AUS) Red Ransom (USA) Zabeel (NZ) Montjeu (IRE) Lemon Drop Kid (USA) Danehill Dancer (IRE) O’Reilly (NZ) Belong To Me (USA) More Than Ready (USA) Smart Strike (CAN) Unbridled’s Song (USA) Rock Of Gibraltar (IRE) Unusual Heat (USA) Elusive Quality (USA) Exceed And Excel (AUS) Distorted Humor (USA) Dushyantor (USA) Galileo (IRE) Bernstein (USA) War Chant (USA) Candy Ride (ARG) Choisir (AUS) Invincible Spirit (IRE) Anabaa (USA) Razeen (USA)

1997 1993 1996 1987 1986 1996 1996 1993 1993 1989 1997 1992 1993 1999 1990 1993 2000 1993 1993 1998 1997 1997 1999 1999 1997 1992 1987

Storm Cat (USA) Fairy King (USA) Danehill (USA) Roberto (USA) Sir Tristram Sadler’s Wells (USA) Kingmambo (USA) Danehill (USA) Last Tycoon Danzig (USA) Southern Halo (USA) Mr Prospector (USA) Unbridled (USA) Danehill (USA) Nureyev (USA) Gone West (USA) Danehill (USA) Forty Niner (USA) Sadler’s Wells (USA) Sadler’s Wells (USA) Storm Cat (USA) Danzig (USA) Ride The Rails (USA) Danehill Dancer (IRE) Green Desert (USA) Danzig (USA) Northern Dancer

USA AUS, IRE AUS AUS NZ IRE USA IRE NZ USA USA, AUS USA USA AUS, IRE USA USA AUS, IRE USA CHI IRE USA USA ARG AUS, IRE IRE FR SAF

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10 9 9 8 8 8 8 8 8 7 7 7 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 5 5 5 5 5 5

14 14 10 9 9 13 10 14 7 9 11 10 7 4 3 7 10 5 4 11 7 7 4 7 3 11 -

7 5 3 4 6 6 4 3 4 3 5 4 3 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3

A cracking month, highlighted by Ghanaati’s 1,000 Guineas victory, has seen Giant’s Causeway jump from fourth to first in the list. With the southern hemisphere season now in abeyance he should continue to make hay at the top, though Montjeu for one, who wasn’t in the table last month but now lies joint third, will surely pose a big threat.

Danehill Dancer, eighth with eight black type winners, reached a milestone when French Derby hope Wajir landed the Prix Hocquart, since the victory pushed the stallion on to the 50 mark for worldwide Group or Graded winners.

Superb as his record is, with more pattern winners in Europe last year than any sire, Coolmore’s claim that he is ‘the best sire son of Danehill’ might be regarded with amusement by Arrowfield Stud. Their son of Danehill, Redoute’s Choice, has sired 14 Group 1 scorers. Redoute’s Choice is third in the table.

A little further down, Unusual Heat, with six black type winners, is not that well known here. Foaled in 1990 by Nureyev, he showed smart form at around a mile in Ireland.

Based at Old English Rancho in California, he holds the record for earnings by a sire in that state of nearly $6 million last year. Unusual Heat has had only six Graded winners from nine crops, so clearly these are heady times for him.

Comments: Jeremy Early Statistics to May 10 BTH = black type horses; BTW = black type winners; GH = Group horses; GW = Group winners

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EUROPEAN PATTERN AND NATIONAL HUNT GRADE 1 WINNERS

European Pattern Sire: DR FONG. Sire of 25 Stakes winners. In 2009 CELIMENE Groom Dancer G3.

11 PRIX IMPRUDENCE G3 MAISONS-LAFFITTE. April 10. 3yof. 1400m.

1. ELUSIVE WAVE (IRE) 9-0 £38,835 b f by Elusive City - Multicolour Wave (Rainbow Quest) O-M Schwartz B-Pier House Stud TR-J-C Rouget 2. Entre Deux Eaux (FR) 9-0 £15,534 gr f by Ange Gabriel - Goutte d’Eau (Vacarme) O/B-R Jesus TR-R Collet 3. Only Green (IRE) 9-0 £11,650 b f by Green Desert - Only Seule (Lyphard) O/B-Wertheimer et Frere TR-F Head Margins 2, 2.5. Time 1:23.60 (slow 1.60).

Going Good to soft.

See race 58 in this issue 14 PRIX LA FORCE G3 12 PRIX DE FONTAINEBLEAU G3 LONGCHAMP. April 12. 3yo. 2000m.

LONGCHAMP. April 12. 3yoc. 1600m.

1. SILVER FROST (IRE) 9-2 £38,835 gr c by Verglas - Hidden Silver (Anabaa) O-JD Cotton B-Ecurie Skymarc Farm TR-Y de Nicolay 2. Westphalia (IRE) 9-2 £15,534 b c by Danehill Dancer - Pharapache (Lyphard) O-M Tabor, D Smith, Mrs J Magnier B-Lynch Bages Ltd, Samac Ltd TR-AP O’Brien 3. Oiseau de Feu (USA) 9-2 £11,650 b c by Stravinsky - Slewadora (Seattle Slew) O-B Weill B-Gallaghers Stud TR-J-C Rouget Margins 0.5, 1.5. Time 1:39.49 (slow 2.09).

Going Good to soft.

See race 59 in this issue

LONGCHAMP. April 12. 3yof. 1600m.

1. TAMAZIRTE (IRE) 9-0 £38,835 b f by Danehill Dancer - Tanami Desert (Lycius) O-Ecurie Vallee Martigny, Mme L Rabineau B-Churchtown Bloodstock Ltd TR-J-C Rouget 2. Soneva (USA) 9-0 £15,534 bbr f by Cherokee Run - Lakabi (Nureyev) O-A Curty B-Mineola Farm, Dr Houchin, JW Hirshmann TR-Y de Nicolay 3. Proportional (GB) 9-0 £11,650 b f by Beat Hollow - Minority (Generous) O/B-Juddmonte Farms TR-Mme C Head-Maarek Margins Neck, 0.5. Time 1:42.78 (slow 5.38).

Going Good to soft.

Starts 4

Wins 3

Age 2-3

Starts 5

Wins 3

Places 1

Earned £74,108

Sire: ENRIQUE. Sire of 8 Stakes winners. In 2009 ON EST BIEN Cardoun G3.

13 PRIX DE LA GROTTE G3

Age 2-3

1. ON EST BIEN (IRE) 9-2 £38,835 b c by Enrique - Doucelisa (Cardoun) O-Mme D Lellouche B-E Lellouche TR-E Lellouche 2. Topclas (FR) 9-2 £15,534 b c by Kutub - Noble Presence (Fasliyev) O/B-M Debeusscher TR-P Demercastel 3. Black Bear Island (IRE) 9-2 £11,650 b c by Sadler’s Wells - Kasora (Darshaan) O-Mrs John Magnier, M Tabor B-Tower Bloodstock TR-AP O’Brien Margins 2.5, 2. Time 2:09.56 (slow 5.66).

Going Good to soft.

Places 1

Earned £64,240

Sire: DANEHILL DANCER. Sire of 88 Stakes winners. In 2009 - INDIAN OCEAN Fasliyev G2, TAMAZIRTE Lycius G3, BHUTANE DANE Bite The Bullet LR, GO CART Scenic LR, WAJIR Caerleon LR. 1st Dam: Tanami Desert by Lycius. ran on the flat in France at 3. Dam of 1 winner: 2005: General Humbert (g Fasliyev) ran once.

2006: TAMAZIRTE (f Danehill Dancer) Sold 28,011gns 2yo at ARAPR. 3 wins at 3 in France, Prix de la Grotte G3.

2007: (f Rock of Gibraltar)

1st Dam: DOUCELISA by Cardoun. Winner at 4 in France. Dam of 3 winners: 2002: Princesse Jasmine (f Gold Away) 2 wins at 2 and 4 in France, 2nd Prix des Lilas LR. Broodmare.

2004: DIVORCE ME (f Take Risks) Winner at 4 in France.

2006: ON EST BIEN (c Enrique) 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix La Force G3, 2nd Prix Francois Mathet LR. 2007: (c Westerner) 2nd Dam: LA MONALISA by Gorytus. 4 wins at 2 to 4 in France Prix Penelope G3, 2nd Prix de Malleret G2. Dam of Mister Kybelee (c Kaldoun: 2nd Grand Prix de Compiegne LR, 3rd La Coupe G3) Broodmare Sire: CARDOUN. Sire of the dams of 3 Stakes winners. In 2009 - ON EST BIEN Enrique G3.

ON EST BIEN b c 2006 Sadler’s Wells Barathea Brocade ENRIQUE b 96 Raise A Cup Gwydion Papamiento Kaldoun Cardoun

2nd Dam: Tanami by Green Desert. 2 wins at 2, 2nd Shadwell Stud Cheveley Park S G1. Dam of CAIRNS (f Cadeaux Genereux: Owen Brown Rockfel S G2)

Cable Car DOUCELISA b 96 Gorytus La Monalisa Lady Jeff

Broodmare Sire: LYCIUS. Sire of dams of 16 Stakes winners. In 2009 - TAMAZIRTE Danehill Dancer G3.

The Danehill Dancer/Lycius cross has produced: TAMAZIRTE G3, MEDLEY LR.

Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Habitat Canton Silk Raise A Native Spring Sunshine Blade Commemoration Caro Katana Fabulous Dancer Bay Area Nijinsky Glad Rags Jefferson La Caldera

1st Dam: LUNASSA by Groom Dancer. 2 wins at 3 in France. Own sister to Loophole. Dam of 4 winners: 1997: (c Priolo). died.

1998: LUNASKA (f Ashkalani) 4 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix des Jouvenceaux et des Jouvencelles LR. Dam of LUNA ROYALE (f Royal Applause: 2 wins at 2 in France, Prix des Jouvenceaux et des Jouvencelles LR) 1999: Lasso (c Exit To Nowhere) died as a foal.

2000: LUNABA (f Anabaa) 2 wins at 2 and 3 in France. Broodmare.

2001: Loner (c Octagonal) died as a yearling.

2003: Limeaick (c Fasliyev) unraced.

2004: Priceless Baby (f Peintre Celebre) 2005: Lune Rose (f High Chaparral) Winner at 3 in France, 3rd Prix Urban Sea LR. 2006: CELIMENE (f Dr Fong) Sold 38,610gns yearling at AROCT. 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix Penelope G3.

2008: (c Red Ransom)

Broodmare Sire: GROOM DANCER. Sire of the dams of 38 SWs. In 2009 - CELIMENE Dr Fong G3.

CELIMENE b f 2006 Hail To Reason Bramalea Princequillo Sharp Queen Bridgework Mr Prospector Miswaki Hopespringseternal Coco La Terreur Coco La Investment Great Investment Red God Blushing Groom Runaway Bride Lyphard Featherhill Lady Berry Stop The Music Cure The Blues Quick Cure Mill Reef Lucaya La Mirande Roberto Kris S DR FONG ch 95 Spring Flight

Groom Dancer LUNASSA b 92 Luvia

Danzig Danehill Razyana DANEHILL DANCER b 93 Sharpen Up Mira Adonde Lettre d’Amour Mr Prospector Lycius Lypatia TANAMI DESERT b 99 Green Desert Tanami Propensity

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Atan Rocchetta Caro Lianga Raise A Native Gold Digger Lyphard Hypatia Danzig Foreign Courier Habitat Kalamac

1. CELIMENE (IRE) 9-0 £38,835 b f by Dr Fong - Lunassa (Groom Dancer) O-G Laboureau B-Petra Bloodstock Agency Ltd TR-C Lerner 2. Plumania (GB) 9-0 £15,534 b f by Anabaa - Featherquest (Rainbow Quest) O/B-Wertheimer et Frere TR-A Fabre 3. Villa Molitor (FR) 9-0 £11,650 b f by Muhtathir - Sizal (Sicyos) O-J Beres B-SCEA de Maulepaire TR-F Rohaut Margins 1.5, 1.5. Time 2:21.30 (slow 12.00).

Going Soft.

Age 2-3

Starts 3

Wins 3

Places 0

Earned £63,428

FANTASIA b f 2006 Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma SADLER’S WELLS b 81 Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special

NEWMARKET. April 15. 3yof. 7f.

1. FANTASIA (GB) 8-12 £36,901 b f by Sadler’s Wells - Blue Symphony (Darshaan) O-George Strawbridge B-Ronchalon Racing (UK) Ltd TR-JHM Gosden 2. Damaniyat Girl (USA) 8-12 £13,988 ch f by Elusive Quality - Dabaweyaa (Shareef Dancer) O-Mohamed Obaida B-Gainsborough Farm LLC TR-WJ Haggas 3. First City (GB) 8-12 £7,001 b f by Diktat - City Maiden (Carson City) O-Saeed Misleh B-Darley TR-DM Simcock Margins 7, 2.25. Time 1:26.93 (slow 3.63).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-3

Starts 4

Darshaan Delsy BLUE SYMPHONY b 2000 Danzig Blue Duster Blue Note

Nearco Lady Angela Native Dancer Almahmoud Hail To Reason Lalun Forli Thong Mill Reef Hardiemma Abdos Kelty Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Habitat Balsamique

17 EARL OF SEFTON S G3 NEWMARKET. April 16. 4yo+. 9f.

1. TAZEEZ (USA) 5 8-12 £36,901 bbr g by Silver Hawk - Soiree Russe (Nureyev) O-Hamdan Al Maktoum B-Clovelly Farms TR-JHM Gosden 2. Steele Tango (USA) 4 8-12 £13,988 ch c by Okawango - Waltzing Around (Ela-Mana-Mou) O-The Thirty Acre Racing Partnership B-Tom Zwiesler TR-RA Teal 3. Twice Over (GB) 4 8-12 £7,001 b c by Observatory - Double Crossed (Caerleon) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-HRA Cecil Margins 3.5, 2. Time 1:47.83 (fast 1.17).

Going Good to firm.

Age 3-5

Starts 10

Wins 4

Places 4

Earned £160,554

Sire: SILVER HAWK. Sire of 72 Stakes winners. In 2009 - TAZEEZ Nureyev G3.

16 NELL GWYN S G3

Wins 3

Places 1

Earned £120,879

SAINT-CLOUD. April 13. 3yof. 2100m.

TAMAZIRTE b f 2006

The Sadler’s Wells/Darshaan cross has produced: EBADIYLA G1, ELECTION DAY G1, FANTASIA G1, FRONT HOUSE G1, GAGNOA G1, GREEK DANCE G1, HIGH CHAPARRAL G1, ISLINGTON G1, MILAN G1, QUARTER MOON G1, SEPTIMUS G1, YESTERDAY G1, CRIMSON TIDE G2, CURTAIN CALL G2, EZIMA G2, TIME ON G2, GYPSY KING G3, NEW MORNING G3, ALMA MATER LR, ASHKAZAR LR, HINDU KUSH LR, HONORIA LR, MUSHA MERR LR, NALANI LR, ZAIYAD LR.

Shirley Heights

2nd Dam: LUVIA by Cure The Blues. 2 wins at 2 and 3 in France. Own sister to LUCRATIF. Dam of Loophole (f Groom Dancer: 2nd Prix Belle de Nuit LR, Prix Joubert LR), Land Shark (f Pitskelly: 2nd Prix Petite Etoile LR, Prix Casimir Delamarre LR, Prix Herod LR). Grandam of ASK FOR THE MOON, ALBRET, LIVE LIVE CLASS, LUCKY LUNE, Wire To Wire. Third dam of VITAL CLASS, BORIS DE DEAUVILLE, LAW OF CHANCE.

Sire: SADLER’S WELLS. Sire of 302 Stakes winners.

In 2009 - FRONT HOUSE Darshaan G2, FANTASIA Darshaan G3, ASHKAZAR Darshaan LR, THE FIST OF GOD Woodman LR.

15 PRIX PENELOPE G3

127 SWs. In 2009 - FRONT HOUSE Sadler’s Wells G2, FANTASIA Sadler’s Wells G3, BARON DE’L In The Wings LR, ASHKAZAR Sadler’s Wells LR, JUMBO RIO Captain Rio LR, SILK AFFAIR Barathea LR.

1st Dam: BLUE SYMPHONY by Darshaan. Winner at 3. Dam of 2 winners: 2005: BLUE RHAPSODY (f Cape Cross) 1 win at 2.

2006: FANTASIA (f Sadler’s Wells). 3 wins at 2 and 3, Nell Gwyn S G3, Prestige S G3, 2nd Meon Valley Stud Fillies’ Mile S G1.

2007: Pink Symphony (f Montjeu) unraced to date.

2008: (c Pivotal) 2nd Dam: BLUE DUSTER by Danzig. Champion 2yr old filly in Europe in 1995. 5 wins at 2 and 3 Shadwell Stud Cheveley Park S G1, 2nd Haydock Park Sprint Cup G1. Own sister to ZIETEN. Broodmare Sire: DARSHAAN. Sire of the dams of

1st Dam: SOIREE RUSSE by Nureyev. Winner at 3 in France. Dam of 2 winners: 2003: IN FULL COMMAND (f Deputy Commander) 2 wins at 3 in USA. 2004: TAZEEZ (g Silver Hawk) Sold 135,088gns yearling at GOOY1. 4 wins at 4 and 5, Weatherbys Earl of Sefton S G3.

2006: Ballet Rousse (f Milwaukee Brew) unraced to date.

2008: (f Cat Thief) 2nd Dam: Private View by Mr Prospector. 1 win in France, 2nd Premio Lydia Tesio G1. Dam of Ionio (g Silver Hawk: 2nd Great Voltigeur S G2). Grandam of Paso A Paso. Third dam of PASO ALEGRE. Broodmare Sire: NUREYEV. Sire of the dams of 176 Stakes winners. In 2009 - TAZEEZ Silver Hawk G3, GESTURE Bahri LR, SONEVA Cherokee Run LR. The Silver Hawk/Nureyev cross has produced: TAZEEZ G3, L’OISEAU D’ARGENT LR, SHINKO CALIDO LR, Silver Swan LR. TAZEEZ b/br g 2004 Turn-To Nothirdchance Nashua Bramalea Rarelea Nearco Amerigo Sanlinea Mat de Cocagne Matchiche II Chimere Fabuleuse Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Forli Special Thong Raise A Native Mr Prospector Gold Digger Vaguely Noble Untitled Artists Proof Hail To Reason Roberto SILVER HAWK b 79 Gris Vitesse

Nureyev SOIREE RUSSE b 97 Private View

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1. DELEGATOR (GB) 8-12 £36,901 b c by Dansili - Indian Love Bird (Efisio) O-Mrs P Good B-Mrs P Good TR-BJ Meehan 2. Sans Frontieres (IRE) 8-12 £13,988 ch c by Galileo - Llia (Shirley Heights) O-Sir Robert Ogden B-The Lavington Stud TR-J Noseda 3. Pure Poetry (IRE) 8-12 £7,001 b c by Tagula - Express Logic (Air Express) O-Mrs J Wood B-R Collins, Jerry Kennedy TR-R Hannon Margins 2.75, 0.75. Time 1:36.56 (slow 0.56).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-3

Starts 4

Wins 2

Places 1

Earned £51,364

2006: LAHALEEB (f Redback) Sold 26,272gns foal at GONO1, 70,000gns yearling at TAOC2. 4 wins 2-3, Rockfel S G2, Fred Darling S G3, 2nd C L Weld Park S G3, 3rd May Hill S G2.

2007: (f Redback) 2008: (c Chineur) 2nd Dam: Dancing Debut by Polar Falcon. Dam of DANCE PARTNER (f Danzero: EBF At The Races John Musker S LR), Kindlelight Debut (f Groom Dancer: 3rd EBF Fleur de Lys S LR) Broodmare Sire: BLUSHING FLAME. Sire of dams of 2 Stakes winners. In 2009 - LAHALEEB Redback G3.

Shirley Heights Delsy Ajdal Homage Home Love Mummy’s Pet Precocious Mrs Moss Sound Track Western Air Peggy West Red God Blushing Groom Runaway Bride Sadler’s Wells Nearctic Flame Flame of Tara Nureyev Polar Falcon Marie d’Argonne Shadeed Exclusive Virtue Exclusive Order

REDBACK ch 99 Patsy Western

Blushing Flame FLAMES b 98 Dancing Debut

Broodmare Sire: EFISIO. Sire of the dams of 12 Stakes winners. In 2009 - DELEGATOR Dansili G3.

The Dansili/Efisio cross has produced: DELEGATOR G3, ILLUSTRIOUS BLUE G3.

DELEGATOR b c 2006 Danzig Danehill Razyana DANSILI b 96 Kahyasi Hasili Kerali Formidable Efisio Eldoret INDIAN LOVE BIRD b 99 Be My Guest Indian Love Song Indian Bird

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Ile de Bourbon Kadissya High Line Sookera Forli Native Partner High Top Bamburi Northern Dancer What A Treat Relko Maina

19 FRED DARLING S G3 NEWBURY. April 18. 3yof. 7f.

1. LAHALEEB (IRE) 9-0 £36,901 b f by Redback - Flames (Blushing Flame) O-M Al-Qatami, KM Al-Mudhaf B-Tom Twomey TR-MR Channon 2. Super Sleuth (IRE) 9-0 £13,988 ch f by Selkirk - Enemy Action (Forty Niner) O-Mrs Lucinda Freedman B-Cliveden Stud Ltd TR-BJ Meehan 3. Danehill Destiny (GB) 9-0 £7,001 b f by Danehill Dancer - Comeraincomeshine (Night Shift) O-Cheveley Park Stud B-TG Mills, Mr J Humphreys TR-WJ Haggas Margins Head, 3. Time 1:27.87 (slow 4.07).

Going Soft.

Age 2-3

Starts 10

Wins 4

Places 3

Earned £112,793

Sire: REDBACK. Sire of 4 Stakes winners. In 2009 LAHALEEB Blushing Flame G3.

1st Dam: Flames by Blushing Flame. unraced. Dam of 2 winners: 2002: (g Victory Note) 2004: PRECOCIOUS STAR (f Bold Fact) 3 wins at 2 and 3, intercasino.co.uk Masaka S LR. 2005: Dawn Storm (g City On A Hill) ran once.

ENROLLER b c 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 Herbager I Will Follow Where You Lead Stop The Music Cure The Blues Quick Cure Bon Mot III Warsaw War Path III Try My Best

MARJU br 88 Flame of Tara

Rainbow Quest WALK ON QUEST b 96 Walk On Air

22 PREMIO PARIOLI G3 ROME. April 19. 3yoc. 1600m.

20 GREENHAM S G3 NEWBURY. April 18. 3yoc&g. 7f.

2nd Dam: Indian Love Song by Be My Guest. Dam of TOMBA (c Efisio: Prix de la Foret G1, 2nd Haydock Park Sprint Cup G1, 3rd Stanley Leisure Sprint Cup G1 (twice), Prix de la Foret G1), HOLDING COURT (c Hernando: Emirates Airline Prix du Jockey Club G1). Grandam of ORDNANCE ROW.

The Marju/Rainbow Quest cross has produced: ENROLLER G3, Gipsy Rose Lee G3.

Last Tycoon Darshaan

Mark of Esteem

1. VOCALISED (USA) 9-0 £36,901 b c by Vindication - Serena’s Tune (Mr Prospector) O-Mrs JS Bolger B-Hill ‘N’ Dale Farm, Edward McGhee TR-JS Bolger 2. Cityscape (GB) 9-0 £13,988 ch c by Selkirk - Tantina (Distant View) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-R Charlton 3. Icesolator (IRE) 9-0 £7,001 b g by One Cool Cat - Zinnia (Zilzal) O-B Bull B-Pier House Stud TR-R Hannon Margins 1, 1.5. Time 1:27.81 (slow 4.01).

Going Soft.

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1. LIBANO (IRE) 9-2 £70,145 b c by Indian Ridge - Daniela Grassi (Bound For Honour) O-Scuderia Lucrezia B-Scuderia Tamara TR-L Polito 2. Sottone (GB) 9-2 £30,864 b c by Observatory - Scundes (Barathea) O-Allevamento dei Sette B-Azienda Agricola Rosati Colarieti TR-B Grizzetti 3. Osservatorio (ITY) 9-2 £16,834 b c by Colossus - Oropa (Indian Ridge) O-Scuderia Razza dell’Olmo B-A Boesso TR-R Menichetti Margins 4, 2. Time 1:39.80 Going Heavy.

Age 2-3

Starts 7

Wins 4

Places 3

Earned £112,066

Sire: INDIAN RIDGE. Sire of 82 Stakes winners. In 2009 - LIBANO Bound For Honour G3, MAD ABOUT YOU Danehill G3, ELDEST Caerleon LR.

21 JOHN PORTER S G3 NEWBURY. April 18. 4yo+. 12f 5yds.

1. ENROLLER (IRE) 4 8-11 £36,901 b c by Marju - Walk On Quest (Rainbow Quest) O-DG Clarke, C LA Edginton B-Mrs Denise Brophy TR-WR Muir 2. Centennial (IRE) 4 8-11 £13,988 gr c by Dalakhani - Lurina (Lure) O-Michael O’Flynn B-W Lazy T Ltd TR-JHM Gosden 3. Tastahil (IRE) 5 8-12 £7,001 ch g by Singspiel - Luana (Shaadi) O-Hamdan Al Maktoum B-Darley TR-BW Hills Margins 1.5, 1.25. Time 2:42.78 (slow 10.78).

Going Soft.

Age 2-4

Starts 12

Wins 3

Places 4

Earned £78,182

Sire: MARJU. Sire of 48 Stakes winners. In 2009 ENROLLER Rainbow Quest G3, COMIC STRIP Be My Chief LR, SPIRIT OF SPORT Crafty Prospector LR. 1st Dam: WALK ON QUEST by Rainbow Quest.

Winner at 3 in France. Dam of 2 winners: 2001: Gallowmix (c Linamix) unraced.

2002: POLISH ODYSSEY (f Polish Precedent) Winner at 3. Broodmare.

2003: (c Alhaarth) 2005: ENROLLER (c Marju) Sold 37,000gns foal at TADEF, 26,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 3 wins at 3 and 4, Dubai Tennis Ch’ships John Porter S G3.

2006: (f Barathea) 2008: (c Mujadil) 2nd Dam: Walk On Air by Cure The Blues. Dam of WALK ON MIX (g Linamix: Prix Noailles G2, 2nd Grand Criterium G1), WALKAMIA (f Linamix: Prix Fille de l’Air G3, 2nd Premio Lydia Tesio-Darley G1, 3rd Prix de l’Opera Casino Barriere Enghien G1), Walk Alone (c Always Fair: 3rd Derby de l’Ouest - Prix Synergie LR), Walking Around (c Linamix: 2nd Prix

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23 PREMIO CARLO CHIESA G3 ROME. April 19. 3yo+. 1200m.

Broodmare Sire: RAINBOW QUEST. Sire of the dams of 104 Stakes winners. In 2009 - ELUSIVE WAVE Elusive City G3, ENROLLER Marju G3, IRIAN Tertullian G3, EBADIYAN Daylami LR.

LAHALEEB b f 2006

Sire: DANSILI. Sire of 32 Stakes winners. In 2009 DELEGATOR Efisio G3, DANSANT Kris LR, PERCE ROCK Vaigly Great LR. 1st Dam: Indian Love Bird by Efisio. unraced. Own sister to TOMBA. Dam of 1 winner: 2004: Love On The Rocks (c Hernando) 2005: Ecusson (f Singspiel) ran twice.

2006: DELEGATOR (c Dansili) 2 wins at 2 and 3, banshahousestables.com Craven S G3.

2007: (f Oasis Dream) 2008: (c Haafhd)

Pelleas LR), Walk On Turf (f Bikala: 3rd Prix de la Seine LR). Grandam of Romantic Count, ROYAL SHAKESPEARE.

1st Dam: DANIELA GRASSI by Bound For Honour.

2 wins at 2 and 3 in Italy. Own sister to ANNA GRASSI. Dam of 3 winners: 2002: SLAPPER (g Indian Ridge) 7 wins at 2 to 4 in Italy, Premio Pisa SIS LR, Premio Giuseppe de Montel LR, 3rd Premio Parioli (2000 Guineas) G2.

2003: Highlight (c Central Park) unraced.

2005: ULTRA DIMIDIUM (c Dr Devious) Winner at 3 in Italy.

2006: LIBANO (c Indian Ridge) 4 wins at 2 and 3 in Italy, P. Parioli Mem. L Brogi (2000 Guineas) G3, Premio Daumier LR. 2008: (c Compton Place)

1. L’INDISCRETA (GB) 4 9-2 £33,009 b f by Desert Prince - I Remember (Dominion) O-Scuderia Blueberry B-Azienda Agricola Razza Del Sole TR-B Grizzetti 2. Lips Arrow (GER) 4 9-2 £14,524 b f by Big Shuffle - Lips Plane (Ashkalani) O-Stall Lintec B-Stall Partenaue TR-Andreas Lowe 3. Ruby Dancer (IRE) 4 9-2 £7,922 b f by King’s Best - Beauty Dancer (Alzao) O-San Paolo Agri Stud B-San Paolo Agri Stud TR-Alessandro Turco Margins 2, 1.5. Time 1:10.40 Going Heavy.

Age 2-4

Starts 14

Wins 4

Places 6

Sire: DESERT PRINCE. Sire of 35 Stakes winners.

In 2009 - L’INDISCRETA Dominion G3, TARZI Twig Moss G3.

1st Dam: I REMEMBER by Dominion. 2 wins at 2 and 3 in Italy. Dam of 5 winners: 1997: Potere Assoluto (c Mtoto) ran on the flat in Italy.

1998: QUALCOSA IN PIU (f Night Shift) 12 wins in Italy. Broodmare.

1999: La Risposta (f Halling) 4 wins at 2 and 3 in Italy, 2nd Premio Seregno LR. Broodmare.

2000: Supergiu (c Royal Applause) 2001: TANTOMEGLIO (f Slip Anchor) 3 wins at 2 and 3 in Italy.

2002: Ustimov (c Marju) unraced.

2003: VISIR (c Danehill Dancer) 6 wins at 2 to 5, 2008 in Italy.

2005: L’INDISCRETA (f Desert Prince) Sold 18,390gns yearling at SGSEP. 4 wins at 2 and 4 in Italy, Premio Carlo Chiesa G3, Premio Ubaldo Pandolfi LR, 2nd Premio Divino Amore LR, Premio Eupili LR, 3rd Premio Pietro Bessero Trofeo Shadwell LR. 2006: L’Invitata (f Dr Fong) in training.

2007: L’Imprevista (f Observatory) unraced to date.

2008: (f Librettist) 2nd Dam: HABIDOS by Manado. 3 wins at 2 in Italy Criterium Labronico LR. Dam of Fante di Cuori (c Glint of Gold: 3rd Premio Eupili LR). Grandam of ZENONE, LUNA NEL POZZO, Chettengavere.

Broodmare Sire: DOMINION. Sire of the dams of 25 Stakes winners. In 2009 - L’INDISCRETA Desert Prince G3, GAUVAIN Sternkoenig LR. L’INDISCRETA b f 2005 Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier DESERT PRINCE b 95 Bustino Flying Fairy Fairy Footsteps Derring-Do Dominion Picture Palace I REMEMBER b 92 Manado

2nd Dam: Beb Italia by Jaazeiro. 4 wins at 3 in Italy, 4th Premio Buontalenta G3. Dam of ANNA GRASSI (f Bound For Honour: Premio Repubbliche Marinare LR). Grandam of Euribor. Third dam of DEMATIL. Broodmare Sire: BOUND FOR HONOUR. Sire of the dams of 2 Stakes winners. In 2009 - LIBANO Indian Ridge G3.

The Indian Ridge/Bound For Honour cross has produced: SLAPPER G2, LIBANO G3, Euribor G3.

LIBANO b c 2006 Lorenzaccio Ahonoora Helen Nichols INDIAN RIDGE ch 85 Swing Easy Hillbrow Golden City Danzig Bound For Honour Fabuleux Jane DANIELA GRASSI b 96 Jaazeiro Beb Italia Ginger

Klairon Phoenissa Martial Quaker Girl Delta Judge Free Flowing Skymaster West Shaw Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Le Fabuleux Native Partner Sham Rule Formi Red God Hedgerow

Earned £87,994

Habidos Lady Habitat

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Sir Ivor Courtly Dee Busted Ship Yard Mill Reef Glass Slipper Darius Sipsey Bridge Princely Gift Palais Glide Captain’s Gig Slipstream Habitat Lady Extra

24 BALLYSAX S G3 LEOPARDSTOWN. April 19. 3yo. 10f.

1. FAME AND GLORY (GB) 9-1 £41,083 b c by Montjeu - Gryada (Shirley Heights) O-Derrick Smith B-Ptarmigan Bloodstock, Miss K Rausing TR-AP O’Brien 2. Fergus McIver (IRE) 9-1 £12,053 b c by Sadler’s Wells - Danelissima (Danehill) O-Martin W Lightbody B-Dram Bloodstock, Sphere Bloodstock TR-JS Bolger 3. Mourayan (IRE) 9-1 £5,743 b c by Alhaarth - Mouramara (Kahyasi) O-HH The Aga Khan B-HH The Aga Khan’s Studs SC TR-John M Oxx Margins 1, head. Time 2:07.40 (slow 3.20).

Going Good to yielding.

Age 2-3

Starts 3

Wins 3

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Places 0

Earned £152,217

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Caulfield on Vision d’Etat: “The Prix Ganay winner’s less-than-fashionable pedigree no doubt contributed to his staying in training at four” (pg 84) Margins Head, 1.75. Time 2:10.24 (slow 3.24).

Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 4

Wins 1

Places 1

Earned £38,250

Sire: HIGH CHAPARRAL. Sire of 8 Stakes winners.

In 2009 - ABOVE AVERAGE Danehill G3, MAGADAN Machiavellian LR, REDWOOD Woodman LR.

25 DR BUSCH MEMORIAL G3 KREFELD. April 19. 3yo. 1700m.

1. IRIAN (GER) 9-2 £31,068 b c by Tertullian - Iberi (Rainbow Quest) O/B-Gestut Schlenderhan TR-J Hirchberger 2. Daring Tiger (GER) 9-2 £9,709 b c by Tiger Hill - Denial (Sadler’s Wells) O/B-Gestut Ammerland TR-P Schiergen 3. King of Sydney (USA) 9-2 £4,854 b c by Diesis - Padmore (French Deputy) O-Hoffmeister, Hermann-Schmitt B-E Melynk TR-M Hofer Margins 2.5, 1. Time 1:45.20 Going Soft.

Age 3

Starts 2

Wins 2

Places 0

Earned £33,981

1st Dam: CRYSTAL VALKYRIE by Danehill. Winner at 2. Dam of 2 winners: 2004: SPINNING CRYSTAL (f Spinning World) 3 wins.

2005: Pnyka (f Montjeu) ran on the flat in Greece.

2006: ABOVE AVERAGE (c High Chaparral) Sold 45,044gns yearling at GOOY1. 1 win at 3, Bet365 Classic Trial G3.

2007: Sent From Heaven (f Footstepsinthesand) unraced to date.

2008: (f Hawk Wing) 2nd Dam: CRYSTAL CROSS by Roberto. 4 wins at 3 and 4. Grandam of Golden Liberty.

ABOVE AVERAGE b c 2006

TARTAN BEARER ch c 2005

Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge HIGH CHAPARRAL b 99 Kasora Kozana Danzig Danehill Razyana CRYSTAL VALKYRIE b 99 Roberto Crystal Cross Crystal Cup

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Shirley Heights Delsy Kris Koblenza Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Hail To Reason Bramalea Nijinsky Rose Bowl

Raise A Native Gold Digger Buckpasser Hopespringseternal Rose Bower Sharpen Up Trempolino Trephine Lombard Allegretta Anatevka Red God Blushing Groom Runaway Bride Herbager I Will Follow Where You Lead Nijinsky Green Dancer Green Valley Tamerlane Idrissa Indira II

Mr Prospector Miswaki TERTULLIAN b 95 Turbaine

Rainbow Quest IBERI b 96 Iberica

26 CLASSIC TRIAL S G3 SANDOWN PARK. April 24. 3yo. 10f 7yds.

1. ABOVE AVERAGE (IRE) 9-0 £36,901 b c by High Chaparral - Crystal Valkyrie (Danehill) O-J Hanson B-COP Hanbury TR-BW Hills 2. Big Bound (USA) 9-0 £13,988 b c by Grand Slam - Golden Cat (Storm Cat) O-Lady Rothschild B-Carwell Equities Ltd TR-JHM Gosden 3. Malibu Bay (USA) 9-0 £7,001 b c by El Prado - Favorite Funtime (Seeking The Gold) O-Mrs J Magnier, M Tabor, D Smith B-Betty L Mabee, Larry Mabee TR-AP O’Brien

Rainbow Quest SPECTRUM b 92 River Dancer

Generous HIGHLAND GIFT b 93 Scots Lass

27 GORDON RICHARDS S G3 SANDOWN PARK. April 25. 4yo+. 10f 7yds.

1. TARTAN BEARER (IRE) 4 9-0 £36,901 ch c by Spectrum - Highland Gift (Generous) O-Ballymacoll Stud B-Ballymacoll Stud TR-Sir Michael Stoute 2. Pipedreamer (GB) 5 9-0 £13,988 b h by Selkirk - Follow A Dream (Gone West) O-Cheveley Park Stud B-Cheveley Park Stud TR-JHM Gosden 3. Buccellati (GB) 5 9-3 £7,001 ch h by Soviet Star - Susi Wong (Selkirk) O-Mr & Mrs P McMahon, Mr & Mrs R Gorell B-Burton Agnes Stud Co Ltd TR-AM Balding Margins Short head, 2.25. Time 2:08.65 (slow 1.65).

Going Good.

Age 2-4

Starts 6

Wins 3

Places 3

Earned £531,747

Sire: SPECTRUM. Sire of 46 Stakes winners. In 2009 - TARTAN BEARER Generous G3.

1st Dam: HIGHLAND GIFT by Generous. Winner at 3. Dam of 7 winners: 1998: GOLAN (c Spectrum) 4 wins at 2 to 4 at home, France, King George VI & Queen Elizabeth S G1, Sagitta 2000 Guineas G1, 2nd Juddmonte International S G1, Vodafone Derby S G1, 3rd

Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier DESERT STYLE b 92 High Top Organza Canton Silk

Sandhurst Prince 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

Age 2-4

Starts 12

LONGCHAMP. April 26. 4yo+. 2100m.

1. VISION D’ETAT (FR) 4 9-2 £166,427 b c by Chichicastenango - Uberaba (Garde Royale) O-J Detre B-Gaetan Gilles TR-E Libaud 2. Loup Breton (IRE) 5 9-2 £66,583 b h by Anabaa - Louve (Irish River) O-Ecurie Wildenstein B-Dayton Investments Ltd TR-E Lellouche 3. Adlerflug (GER) 5 9-2 £33,291 ch h by In The Wings - Aiyana (Last Tycoon) O/B-Gestut Schlenderhan TR-J Hirchberger Margins 0.75, short head. Time 2:09.43 (fast 0.57).

Going Good.

Age 2-4

1. PACO BOY (IRE) 4 9-6 £56,770 b c by Desert Style - Tappen Zee (Sandhurst Prince) O-The Calvera Partnership No 2 B-Mrs Joan Browne TR-R Hannon 2. Dream Eater (IRE) 4 9-0 £21,520 gr c by Night Shift - Kapria (Simon du Desert) O-JC Smith B-Stone Ridge Farm TR-AM Balding 3. Virtual (GB) 4 9-0 £10,770 b c by Pivotal - Virtuous (Exit To Nowhere) O-Cheveley Park Stud B-Cheveley Park Stud TR-JHM Gosden Margins 0.75, neck. Time 1:43.04 (slow 2.04).

Going Good.

IRIAN b c 2006

PACO BOY b c 2005

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Red God Runaway Bride Herbager I Will Follow Where You Lead Riverman Irish River Irish Star Dancer’s Image Dancing Shadow Sunny Valley Nijinsky Caerleon Foreseer Master Derby Doff The Derby Margarethen Mill Reef Shirley Heights Hardiemma Charlottown Edinburgh Queen’s Castle

SANDOWN PARK. April 25. 4yo+. 8f 14yds.

Broodmare Sire: RAINBOW QUEST. Sire of the dams of 104 Stakes winners. In 2009 - ELUSIVE WAVE Elusive City G3, ENROLLER Marju G3, IRIAN Tertullian G3, EBADIYAN Daylami LR.

Broodmare Sire: SANDHURST PRINCE. Sire of the dams of 8 Stakes winners. In 2009 - PACO BOY Desert Style G2.

Blushing Groom

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2nd Dam: IBERICA by Green Dancer. 3 wins at 2 and 3, Fruhjahrs Stuten Preis LR. Dam of IBERUS (g Monsun: Muller Brot-Reimer Meile LR, Excelsior Hotel Ernst Meile LR, 2nd Preis Der Winterfavoriten G3, 3rd Derby Italiano G1), Incitation (f Be My Guest: 2nd Everest TV Fruhjahrs Stuten Preis LR, IDEE Festa Rennen LR). Third dam of IOTA, IOANNINA.

2nd Dam: ROSSALDENE by Mummy’s Pet. 1 win at 2. Dam of CAPE TOWN (c Desert Style: Victor Chandler European Free H LR, Michael Page International Silver Trophy LR, 2nd Attheraces Mile S G2, 3rd Entenmann’s Irish 2000 Guineas G1), REGIMENT (c Shaadi: Easter S LR), Green’s Ferneley (c Taufan: 3rd Bovis Autumn S LR), Lammastide (f Martinmas: 3rd Precocious National S LR). Grandam of COCONUT JOHNNY, Harvest Warrior, Gypsy Johnny. Third dam of ELECTRIC BEAT.

Pampapaul

Broodmare Sire: GENEROUS. Sire of the dams of 27 Stakes winners. In 2009 - TARTAN BEARER Spectrum G3, CAPRICE Monsun LR. The Spectrum/Generous cross has produced: GOLAN G1, TARTAN BEARER G1, POGGIO TORSELLI LR, Gift Range G3, Sue Generoos LR.

Darshaan

1st Dam: IBERI by Rainbow Quest. 2 wins at 3 in Germany. Dam of 5 winners: 2001: IMBROS (c Big Shuffle) 3 wins at 4 and 5.

2002: Isotta (f Tiger Hill) Winner at 3 in Germany, 2nd Grosser Zentis Stutenpreis LR, Grosser Hoppegartener 3yo Stutenpreis LR. 2003: IMPERIA (f Tertullian) Winner at 3 in Germany.

2005: Irisijana (f Diktat) Winner at 3 in Germany, 2nd BMW Preis Dusseldorf Wettchance Tages LR. 2006: IRIAN (c Tertullian) 2 wins, Dr Busch Mem G3.

2007: Inez (f Dai Jin) unraced to date.

2008: Ibicenco (c Shirocco)

2nd Dam: SCOTS LASS by Shirley Heights. 1 win at 3. Dam of BONNY SCOT (c Commanche Run: Great Voltigeur S G2, 3rd Coalite St Leger S G1), Border Mate (f Be My Guest: 2nd Hillsborough H G3), Alignment (f Alzao: 2nd Prestige S G3). Grandam of Hidden Luck, Allegoria.

Broodmare Sire: DANEHILL. Sire of the dams of 106 Stakes winners. In 2009 - DANE JULIA Caesour G1, TUESDAY JOY Carnegie G1, LARGO LAD Encosta de Lago G2, ROMNEYA Red Ransom G2, ABOVE AVERAGE High Chaparral G3, MAD ABOUT YOU Indian Ridge G3.

Sadler’s Wells

Sire: TERTULLIAN. Sire of 5 Stakes winners. In 2009 - IRIAN Rainbow Quest G3.

Budweiser Irish Derby G1. Sire.

1999: MOUNT STREET (f Pennekamp) Winner at 3.

Broodmare.

2000: HIGHLAND GAMES (g Singspiel) 5 wins.

2001: GIFT VOUCHER (g Cadeaux Genereux) 2 wins.

2002: Gift Range (f Spectrum) Winner at 3, 2nd Trigo S LR, 3rd Irish Stallion Farms EBF Blue Wind S G3, 2nd Prix Petite Etoile LR. Broodmare.

2004: (f Rock of Gibraltar) 2005: TARTAN BEARER (c Spectrum) 3 wins at 3 and 4, totesport.com Dante S G2, Bet365 Gordon Richards S G3, 2nd Vodafone Derby S G1, 3rd Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby G1.

2006: LEOCORNO (f Pivotal) Winner at 2.

2007: Highland Park (c Pivotal) unraced to date.

Wins 8

Places 1

Earned £379,162

Sire: DESERT STYLE. Sire of 17 Stakes winners. In 2009 - PACO BOY Sandhurst Prince G2.

1st Dam: TAPPEN ZEE by Sandhurst Prince. 2 wins at 3. Dam of 6 winners: 1992: Tappen Lady (f Doulab) 1993: MAWINGO (g Taufan) 3 wins at 3 inc. Dom Ruinart Champagne Handicap, Newmarket, Baileys Irish Cream Liqueur Handicap, Newmarket.

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.

Broodmare.

2001: FUEL CELL (g Desert Style) 4 wins.

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. 8 wins at 2 to 4 at home, France, Total Prix de la Foret G1, Betfair Cup Lennox S G2, CGA Hungerford S G2, Bet365 Mile G2, Bathwick Tyres Greenham S G3, betdirect.com Spring Cup LR. 2006: TARTAN TURBAN (c Invincible Spirit) Winner at 2.

Starts 9

Wins 7

Places 1

Earned £999,129

Sire: CHICHICASTENANGO. Sire of 3 Stakes winners. In 2009 - VISION D’ETAT Garde Royale G1.

1st Dam: UBERABA by Garde Royale. 4 wins over jumps in France. Dam of 5 winners: 1994: Guatemala (f Synefos) unraced.

1995: Horse Pistol (g Synefos) 1996: DIANA LA BELLE (f Synefos) Winner at 3 in France. Broodmare. Dam of KADABELLE (f Kadalko: Prix Orcada Steeplechase G3) 1998: Miss Canon (f Cadoudal). Broodmare.

1999: ROYAL AWAY (g Cadoudal) 2 wins.

2000: BRONNSA (f Kadalko) Winner over jumps.

2002: MILAN DEUX MILLE (g Double Bed) 5 wins.

2005: VISION D’ETAT (c Chichicastenango) Sold 25,615gns yearling at AFDEC. 7 wins at 2 to 4 in France, Prix du Jockey Club G1, Prix Ganay Grand Prix Air Mauritius G1, Qatar Prix Niel G2, Prix de Suresnes LR, 3rd Prix d’Harcourt G2.

2006: Nataba (f Chichicastenango) unraced to date.

2008: Affaire d’Etat (c Chichicastenango) Broodmare Sire: GARDE ROYALE. Sire of the dams of 25 Stakes winners. In 2009 - VISION D’ETAT Chichicastenango G1, MASTER MINDED Nikos LR. Chichicastenango/Garde Royale cross has produced: VISION D’ETAT G1, CHICHI CREASY G3.

VISION D’ETAT b c 2005 Kaldoun Smadoun Mossma CHICHICASTENANGO gr 98 Antheus Smala Small Partie Mill Reef Garde Royale Royal Way UBERABA b/br 86 Montevideo Ile d’Amour Old England

Caro Katana Tip Moss Ticma Northern Dancer Apachee Fabulous Dancer Summer Parties Never Bend Milan Mill Sicambre Right Away Honeyway Fair Nicolle Wild Risk Folie Douce

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DATA BOOK EUROPEAN PATTERN AND NATIONAL HUNT GRADE 1 WINNERS European Pattern Prior to 2009, the only horse in the last 40 years to win both the Prix du Jockey-Club and Prix Ganay was Bikala, in 1981-2, but this difficult double looks likely to become easier now that both races are over 2,100 metres. Vision d’Etat, the fourth winner of the shorter Jockey-Club, duly won the Ganay to establish himself as a contender for the year’s top mile-and-a-quarter events.

Of course the rarity of winners of the Jockey-Club and Ganay owes a lot to many Jockey-Club winners being retired at three, but Vision d’Etat’s less-than-fashionable pedigree no doubt contributed to his staying in training at four.

His sire Chichicastenango is now based at Shadai Stallion Station in Japan, and his sale could prove a loss to the French industry.

Chichicastenango – a son of the multiple Listed winner Smadoun – outran his pedigree by winning the Prix Lupin and Grand Prix de Paris.

Although he began his stallion career at only €1,450, that didn’t stop him siring two Group winners from a first crop of 36 foals. Vision d’Etat comes from his second crop, which again numbers 36.

Two of his Group winners are out of mares by Garde Royale, sire of the Prix de Diane winner Carling. Garde Royale is best known as a sire of numerous good jumping winners and Vision d’Etat’s dam, Uberaba, won four times over hurdles at Auteuil at three, her last two successes coming in claiming company. Vision d’Etat’s winning half-sister Diana La Belle produced Kadabelle, a Grade 3 steeplechase winner. Vision d’Etat’s second dam, Ile d’Amour, didn’t win until her 25th attempt but his third dam Old England was a half-sister to Mi Carina who won the Prix Vermeille, while another half-sister, Peroxide Blonde, produced the champion American colt Stage Door Johnny.

1993: Pareo Bleu (c Steinlen) 1994: PEINTRE CELEBRE (c Nureyev) Champion 3yr old in Europe in 1997. 5 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Grand Prix de Paris G1, Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe G1, Les Emirats Arabes Unis P.du Jockey Club G1. Sire.

1995: Pine Chip (f Nureyev). Dam of Perfect Murder (c Desert King: 3 wins at 3 and 6 in France, 3rd G. P. de Clairefontaine-Haras du Logis LR) 1996: Peace Signal (f Time For A Change) unraced.

Dam of PAINTER’S DREAM (f Sadler’s Wells: 6 wins, Allez France H LR) 1997: Pyramid Lake (f Broad Brush) unraced. Dam of Pyramid Love (f Fusaichi Pegasus: 4 wins at 2 and 3 in France, USA, 2nd Doubledogdare S G3), Pyrana (f Anabaa: 3 wins at 3 and 4 in France, USA, 3rd Locust Grove H G3) 1999: Pierre Bonnard (c Danzig) 2 wins at 5 and 6 in France, 3rd Grand Prix de Compiegne-Paris Turf LR. 2000: PEINTURE ROSE (f Storm Cat) 2 wins at 3 in France, Prix Ceres LR. Broodmare.

2002: Peinture Ancienne (f Seeking The Gold) unraced. Broodmare.

2003: POINTILLISTE (c Giant’s Causeway) 5 wins at 3, 5 and 6 in France, Prix de Barbeville-MTPA G3, Prix Rene Bedel LR, Prix Right Royal LR, 2nd Prix Ridgway LR. 2004: Peintre du Roi (g El Prado) ran on the Flat in France and ran once over hurdles.

2006: Peinture Rare (f Sadler’s Wells) unraced.

2008: Peinture Abstraite (f Holy Roman Emperor)

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31 PREMIO AMBROSIANO G3

2nd Dam: PETROLEUSE by Habitat. 2 wins at 2 and 3 Princess Elizabeth S G3. Dam of PEINTURE BLEUE (f Alydar, see above), PROVINS (c Chief’s Crown: William P Kyne H G3, 2nd San Luis Rey S G1), PARME (c Blushing Groom: Prix Andre Baboin (G.P. des Provinces) G3), Chateau Royal (c Personal Hope: 2nd Castlemartin/La Louviere Stud Gladness S G3, Tetrarch S G3). Grandam of POLICY MAKER, PUSHKIN, PLACE ROUGE. Broodmare Sire: ALYDAR. Sire of the dams of 133 Stakes winners. In 2009 - GIO PONTI Tale of The Cat G1, BALLYMORE LADY War Chant G3, POINTILLISTE Giant’s Causeway G3.

Storm Bird Terlingua GIANT’S CAUSEWAY ch 97 Rahy Mariah’s Storm Immense Raise A Native Alydar Sweet Tooth PEINTURE BLEUE ch 87 Habitat Petroleuse Plencia

Northern Dancer South Ocean Secretariat Crimson Saint Blushing Groom Glorious Song Roberto Imsodear Native Dancer Raise You On-And-On Plum Cake Sir Gaylord Little Hut Le Haar Petite Saguenay

MILAN. April 26. 4yo+. 2000m.

1. SELMIS (GB) 5 8-12 £33,009 ch h by Selkirk - Nokomis (Caerleon) O-Scuderia Incolinx B-Scuderia Vittadini TR-V Caruso 2. Papetti (ITY) 4 8-12 £14,524 b c by Shantou - Pasionaria (Celtic Swing) O-Societa Allevamento Besnate B-Societa Allevamento Besnate TR-B Grizzetti 3. Duellant (IRE) 4 8-12 £7,922 b c by Dashing Blade - Dapprima (Shareef Dancer) O-Frau M Herbert B-Dr Klaus Schulte TR-P Schiergen Margins 6, 1.75. Time 2:12.50 Going Heavy.

Wins 5

Places 8

Earned £134,517

Sire: GIANT’S CAUSEWAY. Sire of 55 Stakes winners. In 2009 - COWBOY CAL Seeking The Gold G2, HOLD ME BACK Unbridled’s Song G2, OUR GIANT McGinty G2, GIANT MOON Capote G3, POINTILLISTE Alydar G3, SWIFT TEMPER Seeking The Gold G3, AWESOME PLANET Fasliyev LR, PHENOMENONS Octagonal LR. 1st Dam: PEINTURE BLEUE by Alydar. 3 wins at 3 in France, USA, Long Island H G2. Dam of 4 winners:

Broodmare Sire: CAERLEON. Sire of the dams of 136 Stakes winners. In 2009 - CRITICISM Machiavellian G2, SELMIS Selkirk G3, APOLLO PHOENIX Afleet LR, BUENA VISTA Special Wish LR, ELDEST Indian Ridge LR, IBIZA Anees LR, WAJIR Danehill Dancer LR. The Selkirk/Caerleon cross has produced: FREEDONIA G1, SCOTT’S VIEW G1, SCOTTISH STAGE G1, SELMIS G3, KEEN WINNER LR. SELMIS ch h 2004 Atan Sharpen Up Rocchetta SELKIRK ch 88 Nebbiolo Annie Edge Friendly Court Nijinsky Caerleon NOKOMIS b 92 Raja Baba Nyoka Movin’ Money

Native Dancer Mixed Marriage Rockefella Chambiges Yellow God Novara Be Friendly No Court Northern Dancer Flaming Page Round Table Regal Gleam Bold Ruler Missy Baba Dr Fager Ride The Trails

Age 2-5

Starts 20

Wins 6

Places 9

Earned £123,902

Sire: SELKIRK. Sire of 73 Stakes winners. In 2009 SELMIS Caerleon G3.

1st Dam: NOKOMIS by Caerleon. 3 wins at 2 and 3 in Italy. Dam of 5 winners: 1998: NUAGE IRISE (f Rainbow Quest) Winner at 2 in Italy. Broodmare.

1999: NYONGABO (c Hector Protector) 2 wins at 3 and 6 in Italy.

2000: Mixed Feeling (c Linamix)

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32 PRIX VANTEAUX G3 LONGCHAMP. April 26. 3yof. 1850m.

1. DENOMINATION (USA) 9-0 £38,835 b f by Smart Strike - Dreamlike (Storm Cat) O-Mme Alec Head B-Brookdale Thoroughbreds Inc TR-Mme C Head-Maarek 2. Celebra (FR) 9-0 £15,534 ch f by Peintre Celebre - Thearena (Seattle Slew) O/B-Wertheimer et Frere TR-C Laffon-Parias 3. Tassara (FR) 9-0 £11,650 gr f by Sendawar - Trice (Highest Honor) O-Y de Nicolay, Mlle J Beauland B-Haras d’Elbe TR-Y de Nicolay Margins Nk, 0.75. Time 1:55.39. Going Good.

Age 2-3

1. POINTILLISTE (USA) 6 9-0 £38,835 ch h by Giant’s Causeway - Peinture Bleue (Alydar) O-Ecurie Wildenstein B-Dayton Investments Ltd TR-E Lellouche 2. La Boum (GER) 6 8-13 £15,534 bbr m by Monsun - La Bouche (In The Wings) O-E Trussardi B-Gestut Karlshof TR-R Collet 3. Faramir (IRE) 4 8-8 £11,650 b c by Celtic Swing - Perfect Fun (Marju) O-Cuadra Miranda SL B-Mrs B Clarke TR-M Delcher Sanchez Margins 1, 1. Time 3:21.04 (slow 2.54). Going Good.

Starts 13

2nd Dam: Nyoka by Raja Baba. unraced. Dam of BRAVE INDIGO (c Rainbow Quest: Premio Guido Beradelli G2), BEAT OF DRUMS (c Warning: Premio Melton - Memorial Tudini G3, Premio Umbria G3), GLACIAL (c Icecapade: Premio Eupili LR, Premio delle Aste LR, 2nd Premio Emanuele Filiberto G3, 3rd Premio Parioli (2000 Guineas) G1). Grandam of IN ACTION.

POINTILLISTE ch h 2003 Storm Cat

DENOMINATION b f 2006 Raise A Native Mr Prospector Gold Digger SMART STRIKE b 92 Smarten Classy ‘n Smart No Class Storm Bird Storm Cat Terlingua DREAMLIKE b 97

Foreseer

LONGCHAMP. April 26. 4yo+. 3100m.

Age 3-6

2001: Nemoosha (f Indian Ridge) unraced.

2002: NAIYO (f Diktat) 3 wins at 3 and 4 in Italy.

2003: NOSHAQ (c Mtoto) 6 wins at 3 to 5 in Italy.

2004: SELMIS (c Selkirk) 6 wins at 3 to 5 in Italy, Premio Ambrosiano G3, 2nd Premio Daumier LR, Premio d’Estate LR, 3rd Premio Ambrosiano G3, Premio Merano LR, Premio F. Cadoni - Villa Borghese LR. 2006: Danang (c Domedriver) unraced to date.

2007: Be Choosy (f With Approval) unraced to date.

2008: Romis (c Royal Applause)

Starts 8

Wins 3

Places 3

Earned £101,122

Sire: SMART STRIKE. Sire of 50 Stakes winners. In 2009 - PAPA CLEM Belong To Me G2, BREAK RUN OUT French Deputy G3, DENOMINATION Storm Cat G3, TWILIGHT METEOR With Approval G3.

1st Dam: Dreamlike by Storm Cat. Dam of 4 winners: 2000: WOKE UP DREAMIN (c Holy Bull) 6 wins, True North H G2, Smile Sprint H G2. Sire.

2001: DAME BLANCHE (f Cherokee Run) Winner at 4.

2002: Dream Art (c Atticus) 2004: Philly’s Philly (f A P Indy) ran in USA. 2005: DREAM SMART (c A P Indy) Winner at 3.

2006: DENOMINATION (f Smart Strike) 3 wins at 2 and 3, Prix Vanteaux G3, Prix Finlande LR, 2nd Prix Francois Boutin LR, 3rd Prix d’Aumale G3.

2008: (c Lemon Drop Kid) 2nd Dam: FLAWLESSLY by Affirmed. Champion older mare in U.S.A. 16 wins, Beverly Hills H G1 (twice), Ramona H G1 (3 times), Matriarch S G1 (3 times), Beverly D S G1. Own sister to PERFECT and Presently.

Broodmare Sire: STORM CAT. Sire of the dams of 76 Stakes winners. In 2009 - DENOMINATION Smart Strike G3, PARADING Pulpit G3, VANQUISHER Gulch LR.

Affirmed Flawlessly La Confidence

Native Dancer Raise You Nashua Sequence Cyane Smartaire Nodouble Classy Quillo Northern Dancer South Ocean Secretariat Crimson Saint Exclusive Native Won’t Tell You Nijinsky La Dame du Lac

33 GERLING-PREIS G2 COLOGNE. April 26. 4yo+. 2400m.

1. KAMSIN (GER) 4 9-7 £38,835 b c by Samum - Kapitol (Winged Love) O-Stall Blankenese B-Gestut Karlshof TR-P Schiergen 2. Dwilano (GER) 6 9-0 £14,563 ch h by Silvano - Dwings (In The Wings) O-Stall Piaggio B-Frau Dr E Wachtarz TR-P Remmert 3. Shawnee Saga (FR) 4 9-0 £5,825 b c by Sagacity - Shawnee (Dashing Blade) O-Stall Lustige Funf B-Sarl Haras du Tallis TR-W Baltromei Margins 1.25, 0.75. Time 2:31.18 Going Good.

Age 2-4

Starts 9

Wins 6

Places 2

Earned £487,574

Sire: SAMUM. Sire of 4 Stakes winners. In 2009 KAMSIN Winged Love G2.

1st Dam: KAPITOL by Winged Love. 3 wins at 3 in Germany, Preis der Landes Nordhein-Westfalen G3.

Dam of 3 winners: 2002: KONTINENT (c Benny The Dip) 4 wins.

2003: KRONOS (g Spectrum) 3 wins.

2004: (f Samum) 2005: KAMSIN (c Samum) Champion 3yr old in Germany in 2008. 6 wins at 3 and 4 in Germany, Rheinland-Pokal Stadtsparkasse Kolnbonn G1, BMW Deutsches Derby G1, Grosser Mercedes-Benz Preis von Baden G1, Gerling Preis G2, Fruhjahrspreis des Bankhaus Metzler G3.

2006: Kohinoor (c Samum) unraced to date.

2007: Kings Messenger (c Samum) unraced to date.

2008: Kapitale (f Dubawi) 2009: (f Samum) 2nd Dam: KARLSHORST by Surumu. 1 win at 3 in West Germany. Dam of KAPITOL (see above) Broodmare Sire: WINGED LOVE. Sire of the dams of 1 Stakes winners. In 2009 - KAMSIN Samum G2.

KAMSIN b c 2005 Dschingis Khan Konigskronung Surumu Mosella Monasia Sadler’s Wells Old Vic Cockade Ridan Brave Lass Bravour II Sadler’s Wells In The Wings High Hawk Top Ville J’Ai Deux Amours Pollenka Literat Surumu Surama Luciano Kaisertreue Kaiserzeit Konigsstuhl Monsun SAMUM ch 97 Sacarina

Winged Love KAPITOL b 97 Karlshorst

34 PRIX ALLEZ FRANCE G3 CHANTILLY. April 28. 4yo+. 2000m.

1. SHEMIMA (GB) 4 9-0 £38,835 gr f by Dalakhani - Shemaka (Nishapour) O-HH The Aga Khan B-HH The Aga Khan’s Studs SC TR-A de Royer-Dupre 2. Tres Rapide (IRE) 4 8-9 £15,534 b f by Anabaa Blue - Tres Ravi (Monsun) O-H Rapp B-Haras Chevotel TR-H-A Pantall 3. Albisola (IRE) 4 9-0 £11,650 b f by Montjeu - Mahalia (Danehill) O-GA Oldham B-Citadel Stud TR-R Collet Margins Sh nk, 3. Time 2:06.20. Going Soft.

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Caulfield on Sea The Stars: “Victory in the Guineas made him the fourth Group 1 winner out of Arc-winning Urban Sea, after Galileo, Black Sam Bellamy and My Typhoon” (pg 86) Age 3-4

Starts 7

Wins 3

Places 3

Earned £119,791

Sire: DALAKHANI. Sire of 10 Stakes winners. In 2009 - DEEM Sadler’s Wells G3, SHEMIMA Nishapour G3, KADABI Sadler’s Wells LR. 1st Dam: SHEMAKA by Nishapour. 4 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix de Diane Hermes G1. Dam of 5 winners: 1996: SHEMAYA (f Darshaan) 2 wins at 3 in France, Prix Casimir Delamarre LR. Dam of Shendaya (f Danehill Dancer: 3 wins at 3 in France, 2nd Prix Casimir Delamarre LR) 1997: SHEMDANI (g Unfuwain) 6 wins.

1998: Shemissa (f Fairy King) unraced. Dam of Shediak (c Selkirk: Winner at 2 in France, 2nd Qatar Prix La Rochette G3, 3rd Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere-Grand Criterium G1) 1999: Shemita (f Sadler’s Wells) unraced. Broodmare.

2000: SHEMALA (f Danehill) 2 wins at 3 in France, Prix Madame Jean Couturie LR. Broodmare.

2002: Shezan (c Darshaan) 2003: Shemiyra (f In The Wings) unraced.

2004: Shemanikha (f Sendawar) unraced.

2005: SHEMIMA (f Dalakhani) 3 wins at 3 and 4 in France, Prix Allez France G3, Prix de Lutece G3, 2nd Qatar Prix Chaudenay G2, Prix Minerve- Shadwell G3, Prix de Thiberville LR. 2006: SHEDIYAMA (f Red Ransom) Winner at 2 in France.

2008: (f Danehill Dancer) 2nd Dam: Shashna by Blakeney. ran twice at 3. Dam of SHEMAKA (f Nishapour, see above), SHERIYNA (f Darshaan: Prix Denisy LR), Sheshara (f Kahyasi: 2nd Prix Vulcain LR, 3rd Prix de Lutece G3). Third dam of Crocodile Bay.

(twice), Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf G1, 3rd Ireland The Food Island Champion S G1, Prince of Wales’s S G1, Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf G1), GREEK DANCE (c Sadler’s Wells: G.Dallmayr-Preis Bayerisches Zuchtrennen G1, 2nd Tattersalls Gold Cup G1, Juddmonte International S G1, Esat Digifone Champion S G1, Prix Ganay G1, Hong Kong Cup G1), MOUNTAIN HIGH (c Danehill: Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud G1), NEW MORNING (f Sadler’s Wells: betfair.com Brigadier Gerard S G3), ELECTION DAY (c Sadler’s Wells: Quantel Aston Park S LR, 2nd Ormonde S G3, 3rd Ascot Gold Cup G1), Desert Beauty (f Green Desert: 3rd Ben Marshall S LR).

Grandam of HYBLON. Broodmare Sire: SADLER’S WELLS. Sire of the dams of 196 Stakes winners. In 2009 - MIDSHIPS Mizzen Mast G2, DEEM Dalakhani G3, PATKAI Indian Ridge G3, EYSHAL Green Desert LR, UNRIVALED Neo Universe LR, KADABI Dalakhani LR. The Indian Ridge/Sadler’s Wells cross has produced: HIGH PITCHED G2, IMPERIAL STRIDE G2, SLEEPING INDIAN G2, PATKAI G3, BOCA DANCER LR, INDIAN FILLY LR, INDIAN PACE LR. PATKAI ch c 2005 Ahonoora INDIAN RIDGE ch 85 Hillbrow

Sadler’s Wells OLYMPIENNE b 2000 Hellenic

Broodmare Sire: NISHAPOUR. Sire of the dams of 18 Stakes winners. In 2009 - NEWPORT Encosta de Lago G3, SHEMIMA Dalakhani G3.

SHEMIMA gr f 2005

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Darshaan Delsy DALAKHANI gr 2000 Miswaki Daltawa Damana Zeddaan Nishapour Alama SHEMAKA b 90 Blakeney Shashna Shamim

Mill Reef Hardiemma Abdos Kelty Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Crystal Palace Denia Grey Sovereign Vareta Aureole Nucciolina Hethersett Windmill Girl Le Haar Diamond Drop

1. VERTIGINEUX (FR) 5 8-12 £71,942 bbr h by Nombre Premier - Very Gold (Goldneyev) O-C & P Dufreche B-P Dufreche TR-Mme C Dufreche 2. Gris de Gris (IRE) 5 9-1 £27,767 gr h by Slickly - Deesse Grise (Lead On Time) O/B-J-C Seroul TR-A de Royer-Dupre 3. Precious Boy (GER) 4 9-1 £13,252 bbr c by Big Shuffle - Pretty Su (Surumu) O/B-Gestut Park Wiedingen TR-W Hickst Margins 0.75, 2.5. Time 1:37.90 (fast 0.10).

Going Soft.

1. PATKAI (IRE) 4 8-11 £36,901 ch c by Indian Ridge - Olympienne (Sadler’s Wells) O/B-Ballymacoll Stud TR-Sir Michael Stoute 2. Mischief Making (USA) 4 8-8 £13,988 bbr f by Lemon Drop Kid - Fraulein (Acatenango) O/B-Cliveden Stud Ltd TR-EAL Dunlop 3. Baddam (GB) 7 9-1 £7,001 b g by Mujahid - Aude La Belle (Ela-Mana-Mou) O-N Martin B-Mrs V Rapkins TR-Ian Williams Margins 9, 9. Time 3:30.23 (slow 8.23).

Going Good to firm.

Wins 4

Places 3

Earned £95,399

Sire: INDIAN RIDGE. Sire of 82 Stakes winners. In 2009 - LIBANO Bound For Honour G3, MAD ABOUT YOU Danehill G3, PATKAI Sadler’s Wells G3, ELDEST Caerleon LR.

Wins 8

Places 5

Age 3

Starts 2

Wins 2

Places 0

Earned £50,485

Sire: STORMING HOME. Sire of 3 Stakes winners.

In 2009 - FLYING CLOUD Shirley Heights G3, ATLANTIC STORM Green Desert LR. 1st Dam: CRIQUETTE by Shirley Heights. 2 wins at 2 and 4 at home, UAE, Radley S LR. Own sister to Ahead. Dam of 5 winners: 1995: (c Machiavellian). died since birth.

1997: Sky Song (f Sadler’s Wells). Dam of LAVEROCK (Prix d’Ispahan G1, G. P. del Jockey Club e Coppa d’Oro G1, 2nd G.Dallmayr-Preis G1, 3rd Criterium de Saint-Cloud G1, Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud G1, G. P. del Jockey Club e Coppa d’Oro G1) 1998: Candice (f Caerleon) Winner at 2, 2nd John Musker S LR, 3rd May Hill S G3. Broodmare.

2000: Open Offer (f Cadeaux Genereux) 4 wins, 3rd Prix de la Pepiniere LR, Prix Tantieme LR. 2001: Knocknacrea (f Green Desert) unraced.

2002: HESTIA (f Machiavellian) Winner at 2.

2003: Siwa (f Green Desert) 2005: CAPTAIN WEBB (c Storming Home) 4 wins at 2 and 3, Glasgow S LR. 2006: FLYING CLOUD (f Storming Home) 2 wins at 3 in France, Prix Cleopatre G3.

2008: (f Diktat) 2nd Dam: GHISLAINE by Icecapade. 1 win at 3.

Dam of MARKOFDISTINCTION (c Known Fact: Queen Elizabeth II S G1, 3rd Swettenham Stud Sussex S G1, 4th General Accident 2000 Guineas G1), CRIQUETTE (f Shirley Heights, see above), Ahead (f Shirley Heights: 2nd Godolphin S LR, 3rd Princess Royal S G3, 3rd La Prevoyante Invitational H G2). Grandam of SALSELON, HORATIA.

Earned £237,209

Broodmare Sire: SHIRLEY HEIGHTS. Sire of the dams of 165 Stakes winners. In 2009 - FAME AND GLORY Montjeu G3, FLYING CLOUD Storming Home G3, WICKLOW HILLS Danewin LR, CHIEF YEOMAN Machiavellian LR. FLYING CLOUD b f 2006

2nd Dam: VERY FLIGHT by Direct Flight. 1 win at 3 in France. Dam of Volona (c Solicitor: 3rd Criterium du Bequet LR). Grandam of CHOPASTAIR.

Shirley Heights

Mr Prospector Machiavellian Coup de Folie STORMING HOME b 98 Shareef Dancer Try To Catch Me It’s In The Air Mill Reef

Broodmare Sire: GOLDNEYEV. Sire of the dams of 7 SWs. In 2009 - VERTIGINEUX Nombre Premier G2.

Hardiemma CRIQUETTE b 90 Icecapade Ghislaine Cambretta

Raise A Native Gold Digger Halo Raise The Standard Northern Dancer Sweet Alliance Mr Prospector A Wind Is Rising Never Bend Milan Mill Hardicanute Grand Cross Nearctic Shenanigans Roberto Cambrienne

VERTIGINEUX b/br h 2004 Kenmare Belle Mecene NOMBRE PREMIER gr 94 The Wonder Sabiola Mon Isabel Nureyev Goldneyev Gold River

2nd Dam: HELLENIC by Darshaan. 3 wins at 3 Aston Upthorpe Yorkshire Oaks G1, 2nd St Leger S G1. Dam of ISLINGTON (f Sadler’s Wells: Vodafone Nassau S G1, Aston Upthorpe Yorkshire Oaks G1

1. FLYING CLOUD (IRE) 8-9 £38,835 b f by Storming Home - Criquette (Shirley Heights) O-Sheikh Mohammed B-Gainsborough Stud Management Co Ltd TR-A Fabre 2. Board Meeting (IRE) 8-9 £15,534 b f by Anabaa - Bright Moon (Alysheba) O-Ecurie Wildenstein B-Dayton Investments Ltd TR-E Lellouche 3. Excellent Girl (GB) 8-9 £11,650 b f by Exceed And Excel - Dame Blanche (Be My Guest) O-Ecurie Skymarc Farm B-Brick Kiln Farming TR-Y de Nicolay Margins 1, neck. Time 2:13.60 (slow 4.30).

Going Soft.

1st Dam: Very Gold by Goldneyev. Dam of 1 winner: 2004: VERTIGINEUX (c Nombre Premier) 8 wins, Prix du Muguet G2, Prix de la Porte Maillot G3, Prix Perth G3, Prix de Tourgeville LR, Prix Luthier LR, 2nd Zabeel Mile G3.

2005: Vent d’Affaire (c Charge d’Affaires) 2006: Voyante (f Coroner) in training.

2007: Very Astair (f Astair) unraced to date.

Kendor

1st Dam: Olympienne by Sadler’s Wells. unraced.

Own sister to ISLINGTON, NEW MORNING, GREEK DANCE and ELECTION DAY. Dam of: 2005: PATKAI (c Indian Ridge) 4 wins at 2 to 4, Sagaro S G3, Queen’s Vase G3.

2006: Saptapadi (c Indian Ridge) 2007: Modun (c King’s Best) unraced to date.

Age 2-3

SAINT-CLOUD. May 1. 3yof. 2100m.

Starts 10

VERY GOLD d/b 98 Direct Flight Very Flight Renommee

Kalamoun Belle of Ireland Gay Mecene Djaka Belle Wittgenstein The Lark Mon Fils St Isabel Northern Dancer Special Riverman Glaneuse Baldric II Felicia II Cambremont Revoquee II

38 PREMIO REGINA ELENA G3 ROME. May 1. 3yof. 1600m.

1. MY SWEET BABY (USA) 8-11 £70,145 b f by Minardi - Gmaasha (Kris) O-Scuderia Razza dell’Olmo B-Azienda Agricola Le Ferriere di Raponi TR-R Menichetti 2. Aria di Festa (IRE) 8-11 £30,864 b f by Orpen - Alarme Belle (Warning) O-Scuderia Blueberry B-Mulino Verde Stud SRL TR-B Grizzetti 3. Louise Aron (IRE) 8-11 £16,834 b f by Intikhab - Liszewska (Desert King) O/B-Razza Dormello Olgiata TR-G Dolfi

Wins 6

Places 2

Earned £120,262

Sire: MINARDI. Sire of 3 Stakes winners. In 2009 MY SWEET BABY Kris G3, KIKO’S RETURN Amalgam LR. 1st Dam: Gmaasha by Kris. unraced. Own sister to HASBAH. Dam of 3 winners: 1994: Malabi (c Danzig) 1995: SINAN (g Mr Prospector) 2 wins in USA. 1996: El Karim (c Storm Cat) 1997: Jackie’s Bluff (f Alleged) unraced. Broodmare.

1998: Muraaqeb (c Mr Prospector) ran on the flat in France.

1999: Tebabah (f Red Ransom) unraced. Broodmare.

2000: Breon (f Benny The Dip) unraced.

2002: El Maasha (c Elnadim) unraced.

2004: Golden Canaveral (c Dayjur) unplaced in Italy.

2005: GLADIATORUS (c Silic) 9 wins at 2 and 4 in Italy, UAE, Dubai Duty Free S G1, 2nd Gran Criterium G1.

2006: MY SWEET BABY (f Minardi) 6 wins at 2 and 3 in Italy, Premio Regina Elena 1000 Guineas G3, Premio Repubbliche Marinare LR. 2007: (c Castledale) 2nd Dam: AL BAHATHRI by Blushing Groom.

Champion 3yr old filly in Ireland in 1985, Champion 3yr old miler in Ireland in 1985. 6 wins at 2 and 3 Irish 1000 Guineas G1, 2nd 1000 Guineas G1, 3rd Cheveley Park S G1. Dam of HAAFHD (c Alhaarth: Champion S G1, 2000 Guineas G1, 3rd Dewhurst S G1), MUNIR (c Indian Ridge: Challenge S G2), HASBAH (f Kris: EBF Garnet S LR, 2nd Coronation S G1), Za-Im (c Green Desert: 2nd Poker S G3), Goalwah (f Sadler’s Wells: 3rd John Musker S LR).

Grandam of ALMATY, MUTAKARRIM, NAFISAH, JUDHOOR, Salee. Third dam of SNAAFY, POWER ELITE, SUNDRENCHED. Broodmare Sire: KRIS. Sire of the dams of 95 Stakes winners. In 2009 - GLADIATORUS Silic G1, MY SWEET BABY Minardi G3, DANSANT Dansili LR, FISHER BRIDGE Singspiel LR. MY SWEET BABY b f 2006 Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Damascus Ponte Vecchio Raise A Native Mr Prospector Gold Digger Honest Pleasure Narrate State Atan Sharpen Up Rocchetta Reliance II Doubly Sure Soft Angels Red God Blushing Groom Runaway Bride Nodouble Chain Store General Store Danzig Boundary

Edge MINARDI br 98 Yarn

Kris

Starts 17

Sire: NOMBRE PREMIER. Sire of 4 Stakes winners.

In 2009 - VERTIGINEUX Goldneyev G2.

ASCOT. April 29. 4yo+. 16f.

Starts 8

SAINT-CLOUD. May 1. 4yo+. 1600m.

Age 2-5

35 SAGARO S G3

Age 2-4

Klairon Phoenissa Martial Helen Nichols Quaker Girl Delta Judge Swing Easy Free Flowing Skymaster Golden City West Shaw Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special Shirley Heights Darshaan Delsy Homeric Grecian Sea Sea Venture Lorenzaccio

Margins 0.75, 0.5. Time 1:38.30 Going Good.

37 PRIX CLEOPATRE G3

GMAASHA ch 89 Al Bahathri

39 JOCKEY CLUB S G2 NEWMARKET. May 2. 4yo+. 12f.

1. BRONZE CANNON (USA) 4 8-12 £56,770 bbr c by Lemon Drop Kid - Victoria Cross (Mark of Esteem) O-AE Oppenheimer B-Hascombe And Valiant Studs TR-JHM Gosden 2. Casual Conquest (IRE) 4 8-12 £21,520 b c by Hernando - Lady Luck (Kris) O/B-Moyglare Stud Farm TR-DK Weld 3. Drill Sergeant (GB) 4 8-12 £10,770 br g by Rock of Gibraltar - Dolydille (Dolphin Street) O-J Barson B-DG Hardisty Bloodstock TR-M Johnston Margins 3, 3. Time 2:30.70 (slow 1.70).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-4

Starts 11

Wins 5

Places 3

Earned £104,982

Sire: LEMON DROP KID. Sire of 28 Stakes winners.

In 2009 - SANTA TERESITA Gilded Time G1, BRONZE CANNON Mark of Esteem G2, COSMONAUT Capote G3, KISS THE KID Danzig G3.

1st Dam: Victoria Cross by Mark of Esteem. Winner at 3, 3rd Prix Coronation LR. Dam of 2 winners: 2004: Valiance (c Horse Chestnut) Winner at 2, 2nd Linda Alexander Washington Singer S LR.

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DATA BOOK EUROPEAN PATTERN AND NATIONAL HUNT GRADE 1 WINNERS European Pattern 2005: BRONZE CANNON (c Lemon Drop Kid) Sold 85,000gns yearling at TAOC1, 45,000gns 2yo at TAAPR. 5 wins at 2 to 4, stanjames.com Jockey Club S G2, 3rd sportingbet.com Winter Derby G3, Bet 365 James Seymour S LR, williamhill.com Magnolia S LR. 2006: Crimson Ribbon (f Lemon Drop Kid) 2007: (c Elusive Quality) 2008: (c Elusive Quality) 2nd Dam: Glowing With Pride by Ile de Bourbon. 2 wins at 3, 2nd Park Hill S G2, 3rd Prix de Malleret G2. Dam of PRIZE GIVING (c Most Welcome: San Marcos H G2, 3rd Hollywood Turf H G1), Everglades (g Green Desert: 3rd Firsteel Group John of Gaunt S LR), Much Commended (f Most Welcome: 3rd Marriott Goodwood Pk.Hotel Conqueror S LR, 3rd Premio Regina Elena (1000 Guineas) G2, Henkel Rennen (1000 Guineas) G2), Victoria Cross (f Mark of Esteem, see above), PRIDWELL (g Sadler’s Wells: Martell Aintree Hurdle G1, 2nd Citroen Supreme Novices’ Hurdle G1, Martell Aintree Hurdle G1, Smurfit Long Walk Hurdle G1, Cleeve Hurdle G1, 3rd Smurfit Champion Challenge Trophy Hurdle G1), Inchcailloch (g Lomond: 2nd Research Into M.E. Pendil Novices’ Chase LR). Grandam of ALPRIDE, BLUE MOUNTAIN, MONTE CARLO, MAGIC EYE, GROUP CAPTAIN, Dabbers Ridge.

2005: Sea’s Legacy (c Green Desert) unraced.

2006: SEA THE STARS (c Cape Cross) 3 wins at 2 and 3, 2000 Guineas G1, Beresford S G2.

2nd Dam: Allegretta by Lombard. 2nd Oaks Trial S G3. Sister to ANNO, ARIONETTE and Alya. Dam of URBAN SEA, KING’S BEST (c Kingmambo: 2000 Guineas G1), ALLEZ LES TROIS (f Riverman: Prix de Flore G3). Grandam of ANABAA BLUE, ANZILLERO, TERTULLIAN, TEREK, REUNITE, TUSCULUM, MEASURED TEMPO. Third dam of TAMAYUZ. Broodmare Sire: MISWAKI. Sire of the dams of 104 SWs. In 2009 - SEA THE STARS Cape Cross G1, FRENCH BERET Broad Brush G3.

SEA THE STARS b c 2006

BRONZE CANNON b/br c 2005 Mr Prospector Kingmambo Miesque LEMON DROP KID b 96 Seattle Slew Charming Lassie Lassie Dear Darshaan Mark of Esteem Homage VICTORIA CROSS b 98 Ile de Bourbon Glowing With Pride Be Easy

Raise A Native Gold Digger Nureyev Pasadoble Bold Reasoning My Charmer Buckpasser Gay Missile Shirley Heights Delsy Ajdal Home Love Nijinsky Roseliere Be Friendly Easy To Love

40 2000 GUINEAS S G1 NEWMARKET. May 2. 3yoc&f. 8f.

1. SEA THE STARS (IRE) 9-0 £241,840 b c by Cape Cross - Urban Sea (Miswaki) O-Christopher Tsui B-Sunderland Holdings TR-John M Oxx 2. Delegator (GB) 9-0 £91,675 b c by Dansili - Indian Love Bird (Efisio) O-Mrs P Good B-Mrs P Good TR-BJ Meehan 3. Gan Amhras (IRE) 9-0 £45,880 b c by Galileo - All’s Forgotten (Darshaan) O-Mrs JS Bolger B-Ennistown Stud TR-JS Bolger Margins 1.5, 0.75. Time 1:35.88 (fast 0.12).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-3

Starts 4

Wins 3

Places 1

Earned £311,613

Sire: CAPE CROSS. Sire of 49 Stakes winners. In 2009 - SEA THE STARS Miswaki G1, RECHARGE Robellino G3, RE BAROLO Irish River LR. 1st Dam: URBAN SEA by Miswaki. Champion older mare in Europe in 1993. 8 wins, Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe G1, 3rd Prix Ganay G1, Prix Vermeille G1.

Dam of 7 winners: 1996: URBAN OCEAN (c Bering) 4 wins at 2 to 4, Gallinule S G3. Sire.

1997: MELIKAH (f Lammtarra). Winner at 3, Pretty Polly S LR, 2nd Irish Oaks G1, 3rd Oaks S G1.

1998: GALILEO (c Sadler’s Wells) Champion 3yr old in Europe in 2001. 6 wins, Derby S G1, Irish Derby G1, King George VI & Queen Elizabeth S G1, 2nd Irish Champion S G1. Sire.

1999: BLACK SAM BELLAMY (c Sadler’s Wells) Champion 3yr old in Italy in 2002. 4 wins, Tattersalls Gold Cup G1, Gran Premio del Jockey Club G1. Sire.

2000: Atticus (c Sadler’s Wells) unraced.

2001: ALL TOO BEAUTIFUL (f Sadler’s Wells) 3 wins, Middleton S G3, 2nd Oaks S G1.

2002: MY TYPHOON (f Giant’s Causeway) 9 wins, Diana S G1, 3rd Garden City S G1.

2004: Cherry Hinton (f Green Desert) 2nd Blue Wind S G3.

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Sir Ivor Foreign Courier Courtly Dee Lorenzaccio Ahonoora Helen Nichols Balidar Balidaress Innocence Raise A Native Mr Prospector Gold Digger Buckpasser Hopespringseternal Rose Bower Agio Lombard Promised Lady Espresso Anatevka Almyra Danzig

Green Desert CAPE CROSS b/br 94 Park Appeal

Miswaki URBAN SEA ch 89

Broodmare Sire: MARK OF ESTEEM. Sire of the dams of 5 Stakes winners. In 2009 - BRONZE CANNON Lemon Drop Kid G2.

Sire: GIANT’S CAUSEWAY. Sire of 56 Stakes winners. In 2009 - GHANAATI Mr Prospector G1, COWBOY CAL Seeking The Gold G2, HOLD ME BACK Unbridled’s Song G2, OUR GIANT McGinty G2, GIANT MOON Capote G3, POINTILLISTE Alydar G3, SWIFT TEMPER Seeking The Gold G3, AWESOME PLANET Fasliyev LR, PHENOMENONS Octagonal LR.

Allegretta

Anyone who likes to see a Classic race won by a horse with Classic bloodlines can have no complaints about the 2009 2,000 Guineas.

Victory for Sea the Stars made the son of Cape Cross the fourth Group 1 winner out of the Arc-winning Urban Sea, following Galileo, Black Sam Bellamy and My Typhoon.

Unfortunately, his victory came just weeks after this extraordinary producer died at the age of 20, following the birth of a three-partsbrother to Sea The Stars by Invincible Spirit.

Seven of Urban Sea’s eight runners have become stakes winners, even though they were by five different stallions. Even Cherry Hinton, the single exception to the stakes-winner rule, was good enough to finish fifth in the 2007 Oaks. As many as four of them – Sea The Stars, Galileo, All Too Beautiful and Melikah – were talented enough to finish first or second in a Classic, and the family’s Classic connections don’t end there. Urban Sea was a half-sister to King’s Best, winner of the 2,000 Guineas nine years before Sea The Stars, and to Allez les Trois, dam of Prix du Jockey-Club winner Anabaa Blue. Cape Cross covered the outstanding Urban Sea and many other accomplished mares only two years after he had stood his fourth season at just €10,000.

The explanation is that Cape Cross’s potential had been trumpeted by his achievement of becoming champion sire of twoyear-olds with his first runners in 2003. By the end of 2004 Cape Cross had become a top-ten sire, with Ouija Board’s victories in the Oaks, Irish Oaks and Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf helping boost his fee to €50,000 in 2005. In addition to Sea The Stars, Cape Cross’s first €50,000 crop contains Recharge, winner of the Group 3 Leopardstown 2,000 Guineas Trial.

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41 PALACE HOUSE S G3 NEWMARKET. May 2. 3yo+. 5f.

1. AMOUR PROPRE (GB) 3 8-7 £36,901 ch c by Paris House - Miss Prim (Case Law) O-Simon Broke And Partners B-Mrs Sheila Oakes TR-H Candy 2. Hoh Hoh Hoh (GB) 7 8-13 £13,988 ch g by Piccolo - Nesting (Thatching) O-Multi Lines 2 B-DR Botterill TR-RJ Price 3. Borderlescott (GB) 7 8-13 £7,001 b g by Compton Place - Jeewan (Touching Wood) O-James Edgar, William Donaldson B-James Clark TR-R Bastiman Margins 2.5, nose. Time 0:57.73 (fast 0.17).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-3

Starts 5

Wins 4

Places 0

Earned £73,214

Sire: PARIS HOUSE. Sire of 6 Stakes winners. In 2009 - AMOUR PROPRE Case Law G3.

1st Dam: Miss Prim by Case Law. ran a few times at 3. Dam of 1 winner: 2006: AMOUR PROPRE (c Paris House) Sold 1,500gns yearling at DNOC2. 4 wins at 2 and 3, Wilmott Dixon Cornwallis S G3, stanjames.com Palace House S G3.

2007: Sydney Bridge (c Danbird) unraced to date.

2008: (c Zafeen) 2nd Dam: CALAMANCO by Clantime. 2 wins at 3 and 4. Dam of CORRYBROUGH (c Kyllachy: Bettercasino.com Scurry S LR, 2nd Uplands Racing Hackwood S G3) Broodmare Sire: CASE LAW. Sire of the dams of 1 Stakes winners. In 2009 - AMOUR PROPRE Paris House G3.

AMOUR PROPRE ch c 2006 Jaipur Tutasi Linacre Tula Melody Round Table Stylish Pattern Petingo Lighted Lamp Lorenzaccio Helen Nichols Reliance II Miss Justice Music Boy Penny Pincher Roman Warrior Poshteen

Mansingh Petong Iridium PARIS HOUSE gr 89 Artaius Foudroyer Foudre Ahonoora Case Law Travesty MISS PRIM ch 2001 Clantime Calamanco Laena

1st Dam: SARAYIR by Mr Prospector. 3 wins at 2 and 3, Pertemps Virginia Rated S. H LR, Oh So Sharp S LR. Own sister to Wijdan and Bashayer.

Dam of 5 winners: 1999: SUNDUS (f Sadler’s Wells) Winner at 3.

Broodmare.

2000: Shawahid (f A P Indy) unraced. Broodmare.

2001: Eshaadeh (f Storm Cat) ran twice.

Broodmare.

2002: ITQAAN (f Danzig) Winner at 3. Broodmare.

2004: ATAYEB (f Rahy) Winner at 3.

2005: MAWATHEEQ (c Danzig) 2 wins at 3.

2006: GHANAATI (f Giant’s Causeway) 2 wins at 2 and 3, stanjames.com 1000 Guineas G1.

2007: Rumoush (f Rahy) unraced to date.

2nd Dam: HEIGHT OF FASHION by Bustino. 5 wins at 2 and 3 Princess of Wales’s S G2. Dam of NAYEF (c Gulch: Juddmonte International S G1, Dubai Champion S G1, Prince of Wales’s S G1, Customs Free Zone Corp. Sheema Classic G1, 2nd Coral Eclipse S G1, King George VI & Queen Elizabeth S G1, 3rd Tattersalls Gold Cup G1, Juddmonte International S G1, Emirates Airline Dubai World Cup G1), NASHWAN (c Blushing Groom: Ever Ready Derby S G1, Coral Eclipse S G1, King George VI & Queen Elizabeth S G1, General Accident 2000 Guineas G1), UNFUWAIN (c Northern Dancer: General Accident Jockey Club S G2, Princess of Wales’s S G2, 2nd King George VI & Queen Elizabeth S G1, 4th Ciga Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe G1), ALWASMI (c Northern Dancer: Lanes End John Porter EBF S G3, 2nd General Accident Jockey Club S G2, Tidal H G2, 4th Jefferson Smurfit Mem. Irish St Leger G1), MUKDDAAM (c Danzig: Charmer Fred Archer S LR, 2nd King Edward VII S G2, Princess of Wales’s S G2), SARAYIR (f Mr Prospector, see above), Bashayer (f Mr Prospector: 2nd Shadwell Stud Cheshire Oaks LR), Wijdan (f Mr Prospector: 2nd Madagans Pretty Polly S LR). Grandam of MAKDERAH, ORIENTAL FASHION, MUSTANFAR, TADRIS. Third dam of LAHUDOOD, KAREEMAH, Green Coast, New Design.

Broodmare Sire: MR PROSPECTOR. Sire of the dams of 291 Stakes winners. In 2009 - GHANAATI Giant’s Causeway G1, TIZAQUEENA Tiznow G2, STORMALORY Storm Cat G3, VOCALISED Vindication G3, FURIOSO Brian’s Time LR, TAKE THE HINT Montjeu LR. The Giant’s Causeway/Mr Prospector cross has produced: ARAGORN G1, GHANAATI G1, PRIMARY G1, Almonsoon G3, Contentious G3.

GHANAATI b f 2006 Storm Bird Storm Cat Terlingua GIANT’S CAUSEWAY ch 97 Rahy Mariah’s Storm Immense Raise A Native Mr Prospector Gold Digger

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SARAYIR b 94 Bustino Height of Fashion

NEWMARKET. May 3. 3yof. 8f.

1. GHANAATI (USA) 9-0 £227,080 b f by Giant’s Causeway - Sarayir (Mr Prospector) O-Hamdan Al Maktoum B-Shadwell Farm LLC TR-BW Hills 2. Cuis Ghaire (IRE) 9-0 £86,080 b f by Galileo - Scribonia (Danehill) O-Mrs JS Bolger, DHW Dobson B-JS Bolger TR-JS Bolger 3. Super Sleuth (IRE) 9-0 £43,080 ch f by Selkirk - Enemy Action (Forty Niner) O-Mrs Lucinda Freedman B-Cliveden Stud Ltd TR-BJ Meehan Margins 1.5, 1.25. Time 1:34.22 (fast 1.78).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-3

Starts 3

Wins 2

Places 1

Earned £231,664

Highclere

Northern Dancer South Ocean Secretariat Crimson Saint Blushing Groom Glorious Song Roberto Imsodear Native Dancer Raise You Nashua Sequence Busted Ship Yard Queen’s Hussar Highlight

You won’t find any Coolmore or Ashford stallions among those used

by Shadwell in recent years, but Shadwell received a Classic dividend before the parting of the ways by sending Mr Prospector’s daughter Sarayir to Giant’s Causeway in 2005.

This mating resulted in Ghanaati, stylish winner of the 1,000 Guineas.

Giant’s Causeway had been champion first-crop sire in 2004 and his affinity for mares from the Mr

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Caulfield on Ghanaati: “Her sire Giant’s Causeway’s affinity for mares from the Mr Prospector line had already been established by Shamardal and Maids Causeway” Prospector line had already been established by the likes of Shamardal (out of a Machiavellian mare) and Maids Causeway (out of a Kingmambo mare). Since then Giant’s Causeway has added some good winners out of mares by Mr Prospector himself, such as the highclass American turf miler Aragorn, plus many more out of Mr Prospector’s grandaughters.

Sarayir isn’t just any daughter of Mr Prospector. A talented racemare, she won the Oh So Sharp Stakes at two and the Virginia Stakes at three.

Arguably more importantly, Sarayir is a daughter of the exceptional broodmare Height Of Fashion. A champion at two, Height Of Fashion later produced 11 named foals. Six of them were colts and among them were the stakes winners Nashwan, Nayef, Unfuwain, Alwasmi and Mukddaam. Only one of the five fillies – Sarayir – became a stakes winner, but most have made ample amends at stud, including Sarayir’s sisters Wijdan (dam of Group 2 winners Makderah and Oriental Fashion) and Bashayer (second dam of the champion turf mare Lahudood). Manwah, another of Height Of Fashion’s daughters, produced the smart Mustanfar and the talented Tadris.

Ghanaati is by no means the first 1,000 Guineas winner from this extraordinary family. Her third dam Highclere won the 1974 Classic (plus the Prix de Diane) and her fifth dam Hypericum took the 1946 race.

The next dam, Feola, was runner-up in 1936 and even Sarayir contested the Guineas, finishing ninth in 1997.

43 DAHLIA S G3 NEWMARKET. May 3. 4yo+. 9f.

1. HEAVEN SENT (GB) 6 8-12 £36,901 ch m by Pivotal - Heavenly Ray (Rahy) O/B-Cheveley Park Stud TR-Sir Michael Stoute 2. Casilda (IRE) 4 8-12 £13,988 b f by Cape Cross - Koniya (Doyoun) O-Jon Haseler B-David Jamison Bloodstock, G Roddick TR-AM Balding 3. Barshiba (IRE) 5 8-12 £7,001 ch m by Barathea - Dashiba (Dashing Blade) O-JC Smith B-Littleton Stud TR-DRC Elsworth Margins 1.25, 2. Time 1:47.98 (fast 1.02).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-5

Starts 17

Wins 5

Places 8

Earned £142,063

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 in France, USA, Yellow Ribbon S G1, John C Mabee H G1, 2nd Del Mar Oaks G1, Gamely Breeders’ Cup H G1, Hollywood Turf Cup S G1, Beverly D S G1, 3rd Gamely Breeders’ Cup H G1.

2000: Lightsabre (f Polar Falcon). Broodmare.

2002: Red Heaven (f Benny The Dip) ran once.

Broodmare.

2003: HEAVEN SENT (f Pivotal) 5 wins at 3 to 5, stanjamesuk.com Dahlia S G3, compareoddsatoddschecker.com Snowdrop S LR, 2nd Ridgewood Pearl S G3, Variety Club Atalanta S LR, Wolferton H LR, 3rd Sony Summer Mile S

G2, Countrywide Steel & Tubes Joel S G3.

2004: HEAVENWARD (c Pivotal) Winner at 4 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 Stakes winners. In 2008 - JALIL Storm Cat G2, RUTHERIENNE Pulpit G2, HEAVEN SENT Pivotal G3, DIEGO RIVERA Diffident LR, ICABAD CRANE Jump Start LR, JAZZ JAM Pivotal LR. 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

44 FRUHJAHRSPREIS DES BANKHAUSES METZLER G3 FRANKFURT. May 3. 3yo. 2000m.

1. GLAD PANTHER (GB) 9-2 £31,068 b c by Seattle Dancer - Glady Beauty (Big Shuffle) O/B-Gestut Auenquelle TR-U Ostmann 2. Saphir (GER) 9-2 £9,709 b c by Black Sam Bellamy - Salontasche (Dashing Blade) O-Frau M Herbert B-Stiftung Gestut Fahrhof TR-P Schiergen 3. Night Magic (GER) 8-13 £4,854 b f by Sholokhov - Night Woman (Monsun) O-Stall Salzburg B-Gestut Etzean TR-W Figge Margins 0.75, 0.5. Time 2:08.38 Going Soft.

Age 2-3

Starts 4

Wins 2

Places 2

Earned £35,659

Sire: SEATTLE DANCER. Sire of 34 Stakes winners.

In 2009 - GLAD PANTHER Big Shuffle G3, EL DANCER Dschingis Khan LR. 1st Dam: Glady Beauty by Big Shuffle. 4 wins, 2nd Dusseldorfer BMW Preis LR, 3rd Henkel Rennen (1000 Guineas) G2. Dam of 4 winners: 2000: Glad Racer (c Laroche) unraced.

2001: GLAD LION (g Dashing Blade) Champion 2yr old in Germany in 2003. 6 wins at 2 to 5 in France, Germany, Preis Der Winterfavoriten G3.

2002: GLAD HERO (c Sternkoenig) 5 wins at 3 to 6, 2008 in Germany.

2005: GLAD EAGLE (c Fantastic Light) 4 wins at 3.

2006: GLAD PANTHER (c Seattle Dancer) 1 win at 2, Fruhjahrspreis des Bankhauses Metzler G3, 3rd Kronimus Rennen LR. 2007: (c Singspiel) 2nd Dam: GLADY SUM by Surumu. 4 wins at 2 and 3 in Germany. Dam of GLAD HUNTER (c Laroche: P.der Dreijahrigen LR, 2nd Preis Der Winterfavoriten G3), Glady Beauty (f Big Shuffle, see above) Broodmare Sire: BIG SHUFFLE. Sire of the dams of 13 Stakes winners. In 2009 - GRANDCAMP Platini G2, GLAD PANTHER Seattle Dancer G3, GALANA Black Sam Bellamy LR.

Age 3-5

45 TETRARCH S G3 CURRAGH. May 4. 3yoc&f. 7f.

1. VOCALISED (USA) 9-1 £53,723 b c by Vindication - Serena’s Tune (Mr Prospector) O-Mrs JS Bolger B-Hill ‘N’ Dale Farm, Edward McGhee TR-JS Bolger 2. Chief Lone Eagle (USA) 9-1 £15,762 ch c by Giant’s Causeway - Legend Maker (Sadler’s Wells) O-Michael Tabor B-Barnett Enterprises TR-AP O’Brien 3. Count John (IRE) 9-1 £7,510 b c by Intikhab - Triton Dance (Hector Protector) O-Miss M McWey B-NE Poole, George Thornton TR-JT Gorman Margins 1.75, 0.5. Time 1:34.80 (slow 10.80).

Going Heavy.

Age 2-3

Starts 5

Wins 4

Places 1

Earned £129,096

Nearctic Natalma Bull Page Flaming Page Flaring Top Round Table Poker Glamour Jet Action Fair Charmer Myrtle Charm Bold Reasoning Super Concorde Prime Abord Elevation Raise Your Skirts Strings Attached Literat Surumu Surama Star Appeal Glady Star Gladiole Northern Dancer

SEATTLE DANCER b 84 My Charmer

Big Shuffle GLADY BEAUTY ch 95 Glady Sum

Wins 4

Places 8

Sire: VINDICATION. Sire of 3 Stakes winners. In 2009 - VOCALISED Mr Prospector G3.

1st Dam: SERENA’S TUNE by Mr Prospector. 7 wins in USA, La Habra S LR, Victoria Lass H LR, Phoenix S LR. Dam of 3 winners: 2003: SERENA’S CAT (f Storm Cat) 4 wins at 2 to 4 in USA, Klassy Briefcase S, 2nd Hush Dear S LR. 2004: Mutawahej (c Storm Cat) ran a few times.

2005: NOBLE SOUND (c Vindication) 3 wins at 3 and 4 in USA. 2006: VOCALISED (c Vindication) 4 wins at 2 and 3, Bathwick Tyres Greenham S G3, Dylan Thomas EBF Tetrarch S G3, Newbridge Credit Union Loughbrown S LR.

Earned £122,535

Sire: LEND A HAND. Sire of 3 Stakes winners. In 2009 - EMILY BLAKE Lycius G3.

1st Dam: Kirri by Lycius. Dam of 1 winner: 2002: Born For Diamonds (f Night Shift) ran.

2003: Greenhills King (c Distant Music) ran once.

2004: EMILY BLAKE (f Lend A Hand) 4 wins at 3 to 5, Athasi S G3, 2nd Athasi S G3.

Broodmare Sire: LYCIUS. Sire of the dams of 17 Stakes winners. In 2009 - EMILY BLAKE Lend A Hand G3, TAMAZIRTE Danehill Dancer G3.

The Lend A Hand/Lycius cross has produced: EMILY BLAKE G3, Improvise LR. EMILY BLAKE b m 2004 Nureyev Great Commotion Alathea LEND A HAND b 95 Kris Janaat Triple First Mr Prospector Lycius Lypatia KIRRI ch 97 Dance of Life Perfect Time Prudent Girl

Northern Dancer Special Lorenzaccio Vive La Reine Sharpen Up Doubly Sure High Top Field Mouse Raise A Native Gold Digger Lyphard Hypatia Nijinsky Spring Is Here Primera Bride Elect

47 MOORESBRIDGE S G3 CURRAGH. May 4. 4yo+. 10f.

2nd Dam: SERENA’S SONG by Rahy. Champion 3yr old filly in U.S.A. in 1995. 18 wins at 2 to 4 in USA Beldame S G1, Hempstead H G1, Haskell Invitational H G1, Mother Goose S G1, Oak Leaf S G1, Santa Maria H G1, Santa Monica H G1, Santa Anita Oaks G1, Gazelle H G1, Starlet S G1, Las Virgenes S G1, 2nd Beldame S G1, Coaching Club American Oaks G1, Ruffian H G1, Vanity Invitational H G1, Whitney H G1, Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies G1, Breeders’ Cup Distaff G1, 3rd Philip H Iselin H G1, Apple Blossom H G1. Dam of SOPHISTICAT (f Storm Cat: Coronation S G1, 2nd Cheveley Park S G1, 3rd Moyglare Stud S G1, Poule d’Essai des Pouliches G1), HARLINGTON (c Unbridled: Gulfstream Park H G2), GRAND REWARD (c Storm Cat: Oaklawn H G2), SERENA’S TUNE, Arbitrate (c Deputy Minister: 2nd Dr Fager S).

Grandam of SEFROUA, Pursuit of Glory.

Broodmare Sire: MR PROSPECTOR. Sire of the dams of 291 Stakes winners. In 2009 - GHANAATI Giant’s Causeway G1, TIZAQUEENA Tiznow G2, STORMALORY Storm Cat G3, VOCALISED Vindication G3, FURIOSO Brian’s Time LR, TAKE THE HINT Montjeu LR VOCALISED b c 2006 Boldnesian Reason To Earn Poker My Charmer Fair Charmer Whiskey Road Strawberry Road Giftisa Hail To Reason Pretty Reason Mysore Native Dancer Raise A Native Raise You Nashua Gold Digger Sequence Blushing Groom Rahy Glorious Song Northfields Imagining Image Intensifier Bold Reasoning Seattle Slew VINDICATION b 2000 Strawberry Reason

Mr Prospector SERENA’S TUNE b 98 Serena’s Song

GLAD PANTHER b c 2006 Nijinsky

Starts 22

46 ATHASI S G3 CURRAGH. May 4. 3yo+f&m. 7f.

1. EMILY BLAKE (IRE) 5 9-9 £53,641 b m by Lend A Hand - Kirri (Lycius) O-S Hayden B-Francis J O’Toole TR-JC Hayden 2. Mad About You (IRE) 4 9-12 £15,680 b f by Indian Ridge - Irresistible Jewel (Danehill) O/B-Moyglare Stud Farm TR-DK Weld 3. Girouette (IRE) 4 9-9 £7,427 br f by Pivotal - Vassiana (Anabaa) O/B-Celbridge Estates Ltd TR-Tracey Collins Margins 1.75, 3.5. Time 1:32.70 (slow 8.70).

Going Heavy.

1. CURTAIN CALL (FR) 4 9-1 £53,641 b c by Sadler’s Wells - Apsara (Darshaan) O-Mrs PK Cooper & Partners B-The Niarchos Family TR-LM Cumani 2. Famous Name (GB) 4 9-1 £15,680 b c by Dansili - Fame At Last (Quest For Fame) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-DK Weld 3. Moiqen (IRE) 4 9-1 £7,427 b g by Red Ransom - Za Aamah (Mr Prospector) O-Hamdan Al Maktoum B-Shadwell Estate Co Ltd TR-K Prendergast Margins 3, neck. Time 2:24.70 (slow 21.20).

Going Heavy.

Age 2-4

Starts 10

Wins 3

Places 2

Earned £168,326

Sire: SADLER’S WELLS. Sire of 302 Stakes winners.

In 2009 - FRONT HOUSE Darshaan G2, CURTAIN CALL Darshaan G3, FANTASIA Darshaan G3, ASHKAZAR Darshaan LR, THE FIST OF GOD Woodman LR. 1st Dam: Apsara by Darshaan. Dam of 1 winner: 2005: CURTAIN CALL (c Sadler’s Wells) Sold 60,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 3 wins at 2 to 4, Juddmonte Beresford S G2, Mooresbridge S G3, 2nd Galileo EBF Futurity G2.

2006: Souen (f Montjeu) unraced to date.

2008: (f Beat Hollow) 2nd Dam: WHAKILYRIC by Miswaki. 3 wins, Prix du Calvados G3, 3rd Prix de la Foret G1, Prix de la Salamandre G1. Dam of HERNANDO (c Niniski: Prix du Jockey Club G1, Prix Lupin G1, 2nd Irish Derby G1, Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe G1, Turf Classic Invitational H G1), JOHANN QUATZ (c Sadler’s Wells: Prix Lupin G1, 2nd Breeders’ Cup Mile G1, 3rd Eddie Read H G1, Arlington Million G1), RES JUDICATA (c Rainbow Quest: Grand Prix de Lyon LR, 2nd Carleton F Burke H G3), WALTER WILLY (c Sadler’s Wells: Grand Prix de Compiegne LR, Prix Michel Houyvet LR, 3rd Louisiana Downs H G3), ADNAAN (c Nashwan: Zetland S LR, 3rd Gordon S G3). Grandam of WHISPERED SECRET, WELLS PRESENT, Wellington Hall.

Broodmare Sire: DARSHAAN. Sire of the dams of 129 Stakes winners. In 2009 - FRONT HOUSE Sadler’s Wells G2, CURTAIN CALL Sadler’s Wells G3, FANTASIA Sadler’s Wells G3, ALANDI Galileo LR, BARON DE’L In The Wings LR, RENOWING Halling LR, ASHKAZAR Sadler’s Wells LR, JUMBO RIO Captain Rio LR, SILK AFFAIR Barathea LR. The Sadler’s Wells/Darshaan cross: see race 16

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DATA BOOK EUROPEAN PATTERN AND NATIONAL HUNT GRADE 1 WINNERS European Pattern CURTAIN CALL b c 2005 Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma SADLER’S WELLS b 81 Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special Shirley Heights Darshaan Delsy APSARA b 2000 Miswaki Whakilyric Lyrism

Nearco Lady Angela Native Dancer Almahmoud Hail To Reason Lalun Forli Thong Mill Reef Hardiemma Abdos Kelty Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Lyphard Pass A Glance

48 PRIX D’HEDOUVILLE G3

Margins 2, 1.5. Time 2:33.86 (fast 2.04).

Going Good to firm.

49 PRIX HOCQUART G2 LONGCHAMP. May 4. 3yoc&f. 2200m.

1. WAJIR (FR) 9-2 £71,942 b c by Danehill Dancer - War Game (Caerleon) O-Ecurie Wildenstein B-Dayton Investments Ltd TR-E Lellouche 2. Telluride (GB) 9-2 £27,767 b c by Montjeu - Bayourida (Slew O’ Gold) O-Mme R-G Ehrenrooth B-Haras de Bourgeauville TR-JE Hammond 3. Claremont (IRE) 9-2 £13,252 b c by Sadler’s Wells - Mezzo Soprano (Darshaan) O-Sheikh Mohammed B-Darley TR-A Fabre Margins 0.5, sh nk. Time 2:17.60. Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 6

Wins 4

Places 2

Earned £137,481

Age 2-3

Starts 6

Wins 2

Places 3

Earned £56,015

Sire: HIGH CHAPARRAL. Sire of 9 Stakes winners.

In 2009 - ABOVE AVERAGE Danehill G3, GOLDEN SWORD Salse G3, MAGADAN Machiavellian G3, REDWOOD Woodman LR. 1st Dam: SITARA by Salse. Winner at 3. Dam of 2 winners: 2004: Skimmia (f Mark of Esteem) unraced.

2005: BITOOH (f Diktat) Winner at 3 in France.

2006: GOLDEN SWORD (c High Chaparral) Sold 165,000gns foal. 2 wins at 2 and 3, Chester Vase G3.

2008: (c Galileo)

LONGCHAMP. May 4. 4yo+. 2400m.

1. MAGADAN (IRE) 4 8-11 £38,835 b c by High Chaparral - Molasses (Machiavellian) O-Ecurie Wildenstein B-Kilcarn Stud TR-E Lellouche 2. Coastal Path (GB) 5 9-4 £15,534 b h by Halling - Coraline (Sadler’s Wells) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-A Fabre 3. Winkle (IRE) 4 8-7 £11,650 b f by High Chaparral - Bernique (Affirmed) O-HH The Aga Khan B-Haras De Son Altesse L’Aga Khan Scea TR-M Delzangles Margins 2, 0.75. Time 2:29.80 (fast 1.70).

Going Good.

Sire: DANEHILL DANCER. Sire of 89 Stakes winners. In 2009 - INDIAN OCEAN Fasliyev G2, WAJIR Caerleon G2, TAMAZIRTE Lycius G3, BHUTANE DANE Bite The Bullet LR, CONTEST Brief Truce LR, FEELS ALL RIGHT Old Vic LR, GO CART Scenic LR, PRIMA NOVA Star Way LR.

Earned £122,592

1st Dam: WAR GAME by Caerleon. 3 wins at 3 and 4, Prix Maurice de Nieuil G2. Dam of 3 winners: 2002: Woland (g Loup Sauvage) 2003: WARDEN (c Halling) Winner at 4 in France.

2004: WAR PARTY (g Fantastic Light) 2 wins 3-4.

2006: WAJIR (c Danehill Dancer) 4 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix Hocquart G2, Prix Maurice Caillault LR, 3rd Prix Noailles G2.

2007: War Monger (c Linamix) unraced to date.

Sire: HIGH CHAPARRAL. Sire of 8 Stakes winners.

In 2009 - ABOVE AVERAGE Danehill G3, MAGADAN Machiavellian G3, REDWOOD Woodman LR.

2nd Dam: WALENSEE by Troy. 3 wins, Prix Vermeille G1. Dam of WESTERNER (c Danehill: Gold Cup G1), WAR GAME.

1st Dam: Molasses by Machiavellian. unraced. Dam of 3 winners: 2003: MUSIQUE MAGIQUE (f Mozart) Winner at 2.

2004: ROCK OF TARIK (g Rock of Gibraltar) Winner at 4.

2005: MAGADAN (c High Chaparral) Sold 81,053gns foal. 3 wins, Prix d’Hedouville G3, Prix Lord Seymour LR, 3rd Grand Prix de Paris G1.

2006: China Tea (f High Chaparral) unraced to date.

2007: (f Distorted Humor) 2008: (f First Samurai)

Broodmare Sire: CAERLEON. Sire of the dams of 136 SWs. In 2009 - CRITICISM Machiavellian G2, WAJIR Danehill Dancer G2, SELMIS Selkirk G3.

Age 3-4

Starts 6

Wins 3

Places 1

2nd Dam: Souk by Ahonoora. 2 wins at 2 and 3, 3rd Sceptre S LR. Dam of PUCE (f Darshaan: Harvest S LR, 3rd Park Hill S G3), Golden Quest (g Rainbow Quest: 2nd Goodwood Cup G2). Grandam of ALEXANDROVA, MAGICAL ROMANCE, PONGEE, LION SANDS, Saree, Washington Irving, Pukka, Masterofthehorse. Third dam of PRUDENZIA. Broodmare Sire: SALSE. Sire of the dams of 14 SWs. In 2009 - GOLDEN SWORD High Chaparral G3, HOW’S BUSINESS Josr Algarhoud LR. GOLDEN SWORD b c 2006

HIGH CHAPARRAL b 99

Danzig Danehill Razyana Sharpen Up Mira Adonde Lettre d’Amour Nijinsky Caerleon Foreseer Troy Walensee Warsaw

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Atan Rocchetta Caro Lianga Northern Dancer Flaming Page Round Table Regal Gleam Petingo La Milo Bon Mot III War Path III

MAGADAN b c 2005 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge HIGH CHAPARRAL b 99 Darshaan Kasora Kozana Mr Prospector Machiavellian Coup de Folie MOLASSES ch 98 Shirley Heights Lingerie Northern Trick

Salse SITARA ch 98 Souk

WAJIR b c 2006

WAR GAME b 96

Broodmare Sire: MACHIAVELLIAN. Sire of the dams of 52 Stakes winners. In 2009 - FLASHING A P Indy G3, MAGADAN High Chaparral G3.

Kasora

The Danehill Dancer/Caerleon cross has produced: WAJIR G2, GOOD MOOD G3.

DANEHILL DANCER b 93

2nd Dam: Lingerie by Shirley Heights. Dam of LIGHT SHIFT (f Kingmambo: Oaks S G1, 2nd Irish Oaks G1), SHIVA (f Hector Protector: Tattersalls Gold Cup G1), LIMNOS (c Hector Protector: Prix Foy G2, P. Jean de Chaudenay G2), BURNING SUNSET (f Caerleon: Prix Solitude LR, 3rd Prix d’Harcourt G2).

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special Shirley Heights Darshaan Delsy Kris Kozana Koblenza Northern Dancer Topsider Drumtop Prince John Carnival Princess Carnival Queen Lorenzaccio Ahonoora Helen Nichols Pharly Soumana Faizebad Northern Dancer

Sadler’s Wells

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Shirley Heights Delsy Kris Koblenza Raise A Native Gold Digger Halo Raise The Standard Mill Reef Hardiemma Northern Dancer Trick Chick

51 HUXLEY S G3 CHESTER. May 7. 4yo+. 10f 75yds.

1. DOCTOR FREMANTLE (GB) 4 9-0 £36,901 b c by Sadler’s Wells - Summer Breeze (Rainbow Quest) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-Sir Michael Stoute 2. Staying On (IRE) 4 9-0 £13,988 b g by Invincible Spirit - Lakatoi (Saddlers’ Hall) O-MH Dixon B-MH Dixon TR-WR Swinburn 3. Expresso Star (USA) 4 9-0 £7,001 b c by War Chant - Caffe Latte (Seattle Dancer) O-HRH Princess Haya Of Jordan B-Stonerside Stable TR-JHM Gosden Margins Short head, 0.5. Time 2:10.04 (fast 0.06).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-4

Starts 9

Wins 3

Places 5

Earned £183,923

Sire: SADLER’S WELLS. Sire of 302 Stakes winners.

In 2009 - FRONT HOUSE Darshaan G2, CURTAIN CALL Darshaan G3, DOCTOR FREMANTLE Rainbow Quest G3, FANTASIA Darshaan G3, ASHKAZAR Darshaan LR, THE FIST OF GOD Woodman LR.

50 CHESTER VASE G3 CHESTER. May 7. 3yo. 12f 66yds.

1. GOLDEN SWORD (GB) 8-12 £39,739 b c by High Chaparral - Sitara (Salse) O-M Tabor, D Smith, Mrs J Magnier B-TE Pocock, Morton Bloodstock TR-AP O’Brien 2. Masterofthehorse (IRE) 8-12 £15,064 b c by Sadler’s Wells - Shouk (Shirley Heights) O-M Tabor, D Smith, Mrs J Magnier B-Quay Bloodstock TR-AP O’Brien 3. Debussy (IRE) 8-12 £7,539 b c by Diesis - Opera Comique (Singspiel) O-Princess Haya B-Darley TR-JHM Gosden

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1st Dam: Summer Breeze by Rainbow Quest.

Winner at 2 in France, 3rd Prix des Reservoirs G3.

Own sister to SUNSHACK and RAINTRAP. Dam of 2 winners: 2001: Open Air (c Zafonic) unraced.

2002: Magnum Opus (g Sadler’s Wells) 2003: Summer Shower (f Sadler’s Wells) 2 wins at 3 in France, 2nd Prix Denisy LR. Broodmare.

2005: DOCTOR FREMANTLE (c Sadler’s Wells) 3 wins at 2 to 4, Bank of America Chester Vase G3, extrabet.com Huxley S G3.

2007: (c Dansili) 2008: (f Dansili) 2nd Dam: Suntrap by Roberto. 3 wins at 2, 3rd Sheraton Park Tower Lupe S LR, BBA Atalanta S LR, 3rd Prix d’Aumale G3. Dam of RAINTRAP (c Rainbow Quest: Prix Royal Oak G1, Rothman’s International S G1, San Juan Capistrano Invitation H G1),

SUNSHACK (c Rainbow Quest: Coronation Cup G1, Criterium de Saint-Cloud G1, Prix Royal Oak G1, 2nd Hollywood Turf H G1, San Juan Capistrano Invitation H G1, 3rd Grosser Preis von Baden G1), Summer Breeze (f Rainbow Quest, see above). Grandam of METEOR STORM, POLISH SUMMER, HOST NATION, MORNING ECLIPSE, Winter Solstice, Winter Silence.

Broodmare Sire: RAINBOW QUEST. Sire of the dams of 105 Stakes winners. In 2009 - DOCTOR FREMANTLE Sadler’s Wells G3, ELUSIVE WAVE Elusive City G3, ENROLLER Marju G3, IRIAN Tertullian G3, YOUR OLD PAL Rock of Gibraltar LR, EBADIYAN Daylami LR. Sadler’s Wells/Rainbow Quest cross has produced: ASK G1, POWERSCOURT G1, DAY FLIGHT G2, DOCTOR FREMANTLE G3, ESSEX LR, Tycoon G1, Roses For The Lady LR, Summer Shower LR. DOCTOR FREMANTLE b c 2005 Nearco Lady Angela Native Dancer Natalma Almahmoud SADLER’S WELLS b 81 Hail To Reason Bold Reason Lalun Fairy Bridge Forli Special Thong Red God Blushing Groom Runaway Bride Rainbow Quest Herbager I Will Follow Where You Lead SUMMER BREEZE br 96 Hail To Reason Roberto Bramalea Suntrap Northern Bay Sunny Bay Staunch Lady Nearctic

Northern Dancer

52 DEE S G3 CHESTER. May 8. 3yo. 10f 75yds.

1. SOUTH EASTER (IRE) 8-12 £39,739 ch c by Galileo - Dance Treat (Nureyev) O-Markus Jooste, Bernard Kantor B-Tarworth Bloodstock Investments Ltd TR-WJ Haggas 2. Gitano Hernando (GB) 8-12 £15,064 ch c by Hernando - Gino’s Spirits (Perugino) O-Team Valor B-Newsells Park Stud TR-M Botti 3. Drumbeat (IRE) 8-12 £7,539 b c by Montjeu - Maskaya (Machiavellian) O-D Smith, M Tabor, Mrs J Magnier B-Epona Bloodstock Ltd TR-AP O’Brien Margins Head, head. Time 2:10.21 (slow 0.11).

Going Good to firm.

Age 3

Starts 2

Wins 1

Places 1

Earned £41,184

Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 47 SWs. In 2009 - DRESS REHEARSAL Night Shift G3, OH GOODNESS ME Indian Ridge G3, SOUTH EASTER Nureyev G3, ALANDI Darshaan LR, FIULIN Indian Ridge LR, PERFECT TRUTH Darshaan LR, REPRISAL Dehere LR, CELESTIAL HALO High Top LR. 1st Dam: DANCE TREAT by Nureyev. 4 wins at 3 and 4 in France, La Coupe G3, Prix de Flore G3. Dam of 6 winners: 1999: LOGGER (c Woodman) 2 wins 4-5 in USA. 2000: JUBILEE TREAT (f Seeking The Gold) Winner at 3. Broodmare.

2001: RIVER TREAT (c Irish River) Winner at 3.

2003: JUPITERS MOON (c Galileo) 6 wins at 4 and 5 in Italy.

2004: FIRST BUDDY (g Rock of Gibraltar) 4 wins.

2005: Belladee (f Selkirk) 2006: SOUTH EASTER (c Galileo) Sold 210,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 1 win at 3, Dee S G3.

2007: (f Orpen) 2008: (f Barathea) 2nd Dam: OFFICE WIFE by Secretariat. 5 wins at 3 to 5 in USA Modesty H, 2nd Queen Charlotte H G3, New York H G3, 3rd Firenze H G2. Dam of DANCE TREAT, Sharjah (c Nijinsky: 3rd Zetland S LR), Polish Blue (c Danzig: 2nd Royal Yorkshire S LR) Broodmare Sire: NUREYEV. Sire of the dams of 179 SWs. In 2009 - SOUTH EASTER Galileo G3, TAZEEZ Silver Hawk G3, WINTER VIEW Thunder Gulch G3, GESTURE Bahri LR, SONEVA Cherokee Run LR, TRUST OR BUST Trust n Luck LR. The Galileo/Nureyev cross has produced: INCANTO DREAM G1, SOUTH EASTER G3.

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Caulfield on Elusive Wave: “There is plenty of stamina in her pedigree, as her first three dams are daughters of Rainbow Quest, Niniski and Round Table” (pg 90) SOUTH EASTER ch c 2006 Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special Mr Prospector Miswaki Hopespringseternal Lombard Allegretta Anatevka Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Forli Special Thong Bold Ruler Secretariat Somethingroyal Vaguely Noble Exotic Treat Rare Treat Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells GALILEO b 98 Urban Sea

Nureyev DANCE TREAT ch 92 Office Wife

54 PRIX DE GUICHE G3 CHANTILLY. May 8. 3yoc. 1800m.

1. CALVADOS BLUES (FR) 9-2 £38,835 dk c by Lando - Persian Belle (Machiavellian) O-M Parrish B-T, Mme D & A De La Heronniere TR-P Demercastel 2. Dovil Boy (IRE) 9-2 £15,534 b c by Clodovil - Lycius Girl (Lycius) O-Deauville Racing Club SAS B-Glending Bloodstock TR-S Wattel 3. Vesuve (IRE) 9-2 £11,650 b c by Green Tune - Verveine (Lear Fan) O-Ecurie Wildenstein B-Dayton Investments Ltd TR-E Lellouche Margins Neck, short head. Time 1:52.30 (slow 3.80).

Going Good to soft.

2005: Artisti (f Cape Cross) unraced.

2006: MASTERY (c Sulamani) 2 wins at 2 and 3, Derby Italiano G2.

2007: Quiet Queen (f Sulamani) unraced to date.

2008: (c Librettist) 2nd Dam: CHEROKEE ROSE by Dancing Brave. 5 wins, Haydock Park Sprint Cup G1, Prix Maurice de Gheest G1, 2nd Prix de l’Abbaye G1. Dam of BOWMAN (c Irish River: Prix de Fontainebleau G3, 3rd Poule d’Essai des Poulains G1). Grandam of Giotto.

Starts 7

Wins 2

Places 2

Earned £84,749

Broodmare Sire: TOP VILLE. Sire of the dams of 81 Stakes winners. In 2009 - AGE OF AQUARIUS Galileo G3.

MASTERY b c 2006

AGE OF AQUARIUS b c 2006

SULAMANI b 99 Soul Dream

Diesis

53 ORMONDE S G3

Nijinsky Virginia Hills Miswaki Whakilyric Lyrism Hoist The Flag Alleged Princess Pout Northfields Normia Mia Pola Atan Sharpen Up Rocchetta Reliance II Doubly Sure Soft Angels Lyphard Dancing Brave Navajo Princess Secretariat Celtic Assembly Welsh Garden Niniski

Sire: LANDO. Sire of 20 Stakes winners. In 2009 CALVADOS BLUES Machiavellian G3, OSTLAND Last Tycoon G3, INTEGRAL Local Suitor LR. 1st Dam: Persian Belle by Machiavellian. unraced.

Own sister to BEAUTYANDTHEBEAST. Dam of 1 winner: 2006: CALVADOS BLUES (c Lando) Sold 83,655gns yearling at ARAUG. 2 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix de Guiche G3, Prix des Chenes G3, 3rd Prix Omnium II LR. 2007: Plain Vanilla (f Kendor) unraced to date.

2008: (f Lando)

2nd Dam: KAMIYA by Kalamoun. 2 wins in France.

Dam of HOUWAYDA (f Carwhite: Prix Belle de Nuit LR, 3rd Prix Corrida G3).

Broodmare Sire: DIESIS. Sire of the dams of 72 Stakes winners. In 2009 - MASTERY Sulamani G2, ERIN DANCER Foreign Intrigue LR.

Hernando

Age 2-3

2004: HUJUM (c Rock of Gibraltar) 4 wins 3-4 in France.

2005: Turtle Bug (c High Chaparral) unraced.

2006: AGE OF AQUARIUS (c Galileo) Sold 900,900gns yearling at ARAUG. 2 wins at 2 and 3, Derby Trial G3.

2007: Indiana Wells (f Sadler’s Wells) unraced.

MOYESII b 97 Cherokee Rose

Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge GALILEO b 98 Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta High Top Top Ville Sega Ville CLARA BOW b 90 Kalamoun Kamiya Shahinaaz

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Lombard Anatevka Derring-Do Camenae Charlottesville La Sega Zeddaan Khairunissa Venture Cherry

CHESTER. May 8. 4yo+. 13f 89yds.

1. BUCCELLATI (GB) 5 9-3 £42,578 ch h by Soviet Star - Susi Wong (Selkirk) O-Mr & Mrs P McMahon, Mr & Mrs R Gorell B-Burton Agnes Stud Co Ltd TR-AM Balding 2. Scintillo (GB) 4 9-3 £16,140 ch c by Fantastic Light - Danseuse du Soir (Thatching) O-White Beech Farm B-Woodcote Stud Ltd TR-R Hannon 3. Frozen Fire (GER) 4 9-0 £8,078 b c by Montjeu - Flamingo Sea (Woodman) O-M Tabor, D Smith, Mrs J Magnier B-JUW Hoyer TR-AP O’Brien Margins 3, 8. Time 3:45.91. Going Gd to fm.

Age 2-5

Starts 21

Wins 8

Places 5

2nd Dam: NICOLA BELLA by Sadler’s Wells. 1 win at 3. Own sister to Sister Bella. Dam of BEAUTYANDTHEBEAST (f Machiavellian: Las Palmas H G2), Narcisco (g Fantastic Light: 2nd Grosser Freiberger Premium-Preis LR) Broodmare Sire: MACHIAVELLIAN. Sire of the dams of 52 Stakes winners. In 2009 - CALVADOS BLUES Lando G3, FLASHING A P Indy G3, MAGADAN High Chaparral G3, OUQBA Red Ransom LR, MOSKOVA Montjeu LR. CALVADOS BLUES b c 2006 Surumu

Earned £241,515

Acatenango Aggravate LANDO b 90 Sharpman

Sire: SOVIET STAR. Sire of 41 Stakes winners. In 2009 - BUCCELLATI Selkirk G3, EVA’S REQUEST Taufan LR.

Laurea Licata Mr Prospector

1st Dam: Susi Wong by Selkirk. 2 wins at 3 in Germany, 3rd Radisson SAS Hotel Berlin Cup LR. Own sister to Selking. Dam of 5 winners: 2001: LA PETITE CHINOISE (f Dr Fong) 5 wins, Erik O Steens Memorial LR. 2002: HOPE AN GLORY (g Nashwan) Winner at 3.

2003: GOLDEN STUD (c In The Wings) 5 wins, Premio Alberto Giubilo LR, 2nd Premio Primi Passi G3.

2004: BUCCELLATI (c Soviet Star) Sold 25,000gns yearling. 8 wins, Ormonde S G3, St Simon S G3, Godolphin S LR, 3rd Gordon Richards S G3.

2005: NANIGATA (f Domedriver) Winner at 3.

2007: (f Footstepsinthesand) 2nd Dam: Stay That Way by Be My Guest. unraced.

Dam of Selking (c Selkirk: 2nd Spring Trophy Rated H LR, Queensferry S LR), Susi Wong, Delirious Moment (f Kris: 2nd Prix Edellic LR) Broodmare Sire: SELKIRK. Sire of the dams of 15 SWs. In 2009 - BUCCELLATI Soviet Star G3.

BUCCELLATI ch h 2004 Northern Dancer Nureyev Special SOVIET STAR b 84 Venture Veruschka Marie d’Anjou Sharpen Up Selkirk Annie Edge SUSI WONG ch 95 Be My Guest Stay That Way Areola

Nearctic Natalma Forli Thong Relic Rose O’Lynn Vandale Marigold Atan Rocchetta Nebbiolo Friendly Court Northern Dancer What A Treat Kythnos Alive Alivo

Machiavellian Coup de Folie PERSIAN BELLE b 2001 Sadler’s Wells Nicola Bella Valley of Hope

Literat Surama Aggressor Raven Locks Sharpen Up Miss Manon Dschingis Khan Liberty Raise A Native Gold Digger Halo Raise The Standard Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Riverman Virunga

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1. MASTERY (GB) 9-2 £359,223 b c by Sulamani - Moyesii (Diesis) O-Godolphin B-Darley TR-Saeed bin Suroor 2. Turati (GB) 9-2 £158,058 b c by Lomitas - Torrigiana (Celtic Swing) O-Allevamento La Nuova Sbarra B-Scuderia Nordovest Srl TR-G Pucciatti 3. Jakkalberry (IRE) 9-2 £86,214 b c by Storming Home - Claba di San Jore (Barathea) O-Scuderia Effevi B-Azienda Agricola Allevamento Deni TR-E Botti Margins 1.5, head. Time 2:16.50.

Going Good to firm.

Starts 4

Wins 2

Places 2

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LINGFIELD PARK. May 9. 3yoc&g. 11f 106yds.

COLOGNE. May 10. 3yoc&f. 1600m.

1. AGE OF AQUARIUS (IRE) 8-12 £36,901 b c by Galileo - Clara Bow (Top Ville) O-Magnier, Tabor, Smith, Mordutchovitch B-Berend Van Dalfsen TR-AP O’Brien 2. Montaff (GB) 8-12 £13,988 b c by Montjeu - Meshhed (Gulch) O-Barry Walters Catering B-B Walters TR-MR Channon 3. Father Time (GB) 8-12 £7,001 b c by Dansili - Clepsydra (Sadler’s Wells) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-HRA Cecil Margins Neck, head. Time 2:29.93 (slow 1.93).

Going Good to firm.

1. IRIAN (GER) 9-2 £97,087 b c by Tertullian - Iberi (Rainbow Quest) O/B-Gestut Schlenderhan TR-J Hirchberger 2. Zafisio (IRE) 9-2 £36,893 b c by Efisio - Goldthroat (Zafonic) O-H Downs, D Looney B-Airlie Stud, Sir Thomas Pilkington TR-R Curtis 3. Globus (GER) 9-2 £17,476 ch c by Areion - Globuli (Surako) O-Stall Dipoli B-Herbert Schniepp TR-U Ostmann Margins 1.5, 3.5. Time 1:35.87. Going Soft.

Age 2-3

ROME. May 9. 3yoc&f. 2200m.

Age 2-3

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Earned £8,516

Sire: SULAMANI. Sire of 1 Stakes winner. In 2009 MASTERY Diesis G2.

1st Dam: MOYESII by Diesis. Winner at 3 in France.

Dam of 2 winners: 2002: Magic Tree (f Timber Country) ran once.

Broodmare.

2004: KIRKLEES (c Jade Robbery) Champion 2yr old in Italy in 2006. 5 wins at 2, 3 and 5 at home, Italy, UAE, Gran Criterium G1.

Starts 3

Wins 2

Places 1

Earned £53,494

Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 48 Stakes winners. In 2009 AGE OF AQUARIUS Top Ville G3, DRESS REHEARSAL Night Shift G3, OH GOODNESS ME Indian Ridge G3, SOUTH EASTER Nureyev G3, ALANDI Darshaan LR, FIULIN Indian Ridge LR, PERFECT TRUTH Darshaan LR, REPRISAL Dehere LR, CELESTIAL HALO High Top LR. 1st Dam: Clara Bow by Top Ville. ran on the flat in France at 2 and 3. Dam of 8 winners: 1994: OLDEN WAAL (f Nashamaa) Winner at 2.

1995: OLDEN MAAS (f Sanglamore) 3 wins at 2 to 4.

1997: Olde Vechte (f Tenby) unraced.

1998: Whitton Court (g Cardoun) 3 wins, 2nd Derby du Midi LR, Derby du Languedoc LR. 1999: TURTLE BOW (f Turtle Island) 5 wins, Prix d’Astarte G2, 2nd Flower Bowl Invitational S G1.

2000: Lady Zorreghuietta (f Anabaa). Broodmare.

2001: SUPER BOWL (g Green Tune) 6 wins over jumps at 4 and 7 in France, G.P. du CraonConseil Gen. Mayenne Stp LR, 3rd Grand Steeplechase d’Enghien G2.

2002: TURTLE BOWL (c Dyhim Diamond) 7 wins at 2, 3 and 5 in France, Prix Jean Prat G1, 2nd Prix d’Ispahan G1, 3rd Queen Anne S G1, Prix Jacques Le Marois G1. Sire.

Age 3

Starts 3

Wins 3

Places 0

Earned £131,068

Sire: TERTULLIAN. Sire of 5 Stakes winners. In 2009 - IRIAN Rainbow Quest G2.

1st Dam: IBERI by Rainbow Quest. 2 wins at 3 in Germany. Dam of 5 winners: 2001: IMBROS (c Big Shuffle) 3 wins at 4 and 5.

2002: Isotta (f Tiger Hill) Winner at 3, 2nd Grosser Zentis Stutenpreis LR, Grosser Hoppegartener 3yo Stutenpreis LR. Broodmare.

2003: IMPERIA (f Tertullian) Winner at 3.

2005: Irisijana (f Diktat) Winner at 3, 2nd BMW Preis Dusseldorf Wettchance Tages LR. 2006: IRIAN (c Tertullian) 3 wins at 3, Mehl-Mulhens Rennen G2, Dr Busch Mem G3.

2007: Inez (f Dai Jin) unraced to date.

2008: Ibicenco (c Shirocco) 2nd Dam: IBERICA by Green Dancer. 3 wins, Fruhjahrs Stuten Preis LR. Dam of IBERUS (g Monsun: Muller Brot-Reimer Meile LR, Excelsior Hotel Ernst Meile LR, 3rd Derby Italiano G1), Incitation (f Be My Guest: 2nd Fruhjahrs Stuten Preis LR, Festa Rennen LR). Third dam of IOTA, IOANNINA. Broodmare Sire: RAINBOW QUEST. Sire of the dams of 105 SWs. In 2009 - ELUSIVE WAVE Elusive City G1, IRIAN Tertullian G2, DOCTOR FREMANTLE Sadler’s Wells G3, ENROLLER Marju G3.

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DATA BOOK EUROPEAN PATTERN AND NATIONAL HUNT GRADE 1 WINNERS European Pattern IRIAN b c 2006 Raise A Native Gold Digger Buckpasser Hopespringseternal Rose Bower Sharpen Up Trempolino Trephine Lombard Allegretta Anatevka Red God Blushing Groom Runaway Bride Herbager I Will Follow Where You Lead Nijinsky Green Dancer Green Valley Tamerlane Idrissa Indira II

Mr Prospector Miswaki TERTULLIAN b 95 Turbaine

Rainbow Quest IBERI b 96 Iberica

58 POULE D’ESSAI DES POULICHES G1 LONGCHAMP. May 10. 3yof. 1600m.

1. ELUSIVE WAVE (IRE) 9-0 £221,903 b f by Elusive City - Multicolour Wave (Rainbow Quest) O-M Schwartz B-Pier House Stud TR-J-C Rouget 2. Tamazirte (IRE) 9-0 £88,777 b f by Danehill Dancer - Tanami Desert (Lycius) O-Ecurie Vallee Martigny, Mme L Rabineau B-Churchtown Bloodstock Ltd TR-J-C Rouget 3. Fantasia (GB) 9-0 £44,388 b f by Sadler’s Wells - Blue Symphony (Darshaan) O-George Strawbridge B-Ronchalon Racing (UK) Ltd TR-JHM Gosden Margins 0.5, 1.5. Time 1:36.87 (fast 0.53).

Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 6

Wins 5

Places 1

Earned £364,359

Sire: ELUSIVE CITY. Sire of 4 Stakes winners. In 2009 - ELUSIVE WAVE Rainbow Quest G1, NASHMIAH Alzao LR. 1st Dam: Multicolour Wave by Rainbow Quest. Dam of 5 winners: 2003: Million Waves (f Mull of Kintyre) Winner at 2, 2nd Gerrardstown House Stud Silken Glider S LR. Broodmare.

2004: MILLION SPIRITS (f Invincible Spirit) 2 wins at 2 and 3.

2005: PHOTOPHORE (f Clodovil) 2 wins at 3 in France.

2006: ELUSIVE WAVE (f Elusive City) Sold 12,869gns yearling at GOOY2, 462,184gns 2yo at ARARC. 5 wins at 2 and 3, Poule d’Essai des Pouliches G1, Prix du Calvados G3, Prix Imprudence G3, Prix Roland de Chambure LR, 2nd Prix Marcel Boussac G1.

2007: WEALDMORE WAVE (c Oratorio) Winner at 2.

2nd Dam: ECHOES by Niniski. 2 wins at 2 and 4 in France Prix Corrida G3, 3rd Ciga Prix de Royallieu G2. Grandam of LANGS LASH. Broodmare Sire: RAINBOW QUEST. See race 57.

ELUSIVE WAVE b f 2006 Mr Prospector Secrettame Elusive Quality Hero’s Honor Touch of Greatness Ivory Wand ELUSIVE CITY b 2000 Danzig Dayjur Gold Beauty Star of Paris Native Charger Liturgism Cult Red God Blushing Groom Runaway Bride Rainbow Quest Herbager I Will Follow Where You Lead MULTICOLOUR WAVE b 98 Nijinsky Niniski Virginia Hills Echoes Round Table Equal Honor Bold Honor Gone West

In an era of falling markets, Elusive Wave has proved a solid investment for virtually all who have come into contact with her. Conceived at a fee of €8,000, she sold for €20,000 as a yearling and then made an impressive winning debut in the colours of Andrew Russell at Goodwood in the May of her juvenile season. Presumably Mr Russell then received an offer too good to refuse, because his filly

carried the colours of Marc de Chambure when she won her next two starts, the Listed Prix Roland de Chambure and the Group 3 Prix du Calvados. Elusive Wave’s next public appearance came on October 4, when she was sold to Martin Schwartz for €660,000 at Arqana’s Arc Sale. Less than a day later she added to her reputation by finishing second in the Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac and she has carried on the good work at three.

Having warmed up for the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches with a victory in the Group 3 Prix Imprudence, the free-running filly duly landed the Classic at Longchamp in determined style. How much would it cost to buy her now?

Elusive Wave, together with the Goffs Million winner Soul City, has highlighted the considerable potential of her young sire Elusive City, winner of the Prix Morny.

Although speed was Elusive City’s main asset, there is plenty of stamina in Elusive Wave’s pedigree, as her first three dams are daughters of Rainbow Quest, Niniski and Round Table. Her dam Multicolour Wave was fourth in a small race at Durtal for the Niarchos Family but was sold for only 11,500gns later the same year. Multicolour Wave’s dam, Echoes, won the Group 3 Prix Corrida, and is also the second dam of Langs Lash, winner of the Group 2 Queen Mary Stakes.

59 POULE D’ESSAI DES POULAINS G1 LONGCHAMP. May 10. 3yoc. 1600m.

1. SILVER FROST (IRE) 9-2 £221,903 gr c by Verglas - Hidden Silver (Anabaa) O-JD Cotton B-Skymarc Farm TR-Y de Nicolay 2. Le Havre (IRE) 9-2 £88,777 b c by Noverre - Marie Rheinberg (Surako) O-G Augustin-Normand B-Team Hogdala Ab TR-J-C Rouget 3. Westphalia (IRE) 9-2 £44,388 b c by Danehill Dancer - Pharapache (Lyphard) O-M Tabor, D Smith, Mrs J Magnier B-Lynch Bages Ltd, Samac Ltd TR-AP O’Brien Margins 2, short neck, . Time 1:35.43 (fast 1.97).

Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 9

Wins 6

Places 2

Earned £379,110

Sire: VERGLAS. Sire of 12 SWs. In 2009 - SILVER FROST Anabaa G1, VERSAKI Persian Bold LR. 1st Dam: HIDDEN SILVER by Anabaa. Winner at 3 in France. Dam of 1 winner: 2006: SILVER FROST (c Verglas) Sold 61,132gns yearling at ARAUG. 6 wins, Poule d’Essai des Poulains G1, Prix de Cabourg G3, Prix de Fontainebleau G3, Prix Thomas Bryon G3, Prix Omnium II LR, 3rd Criterium International G1.

2007: Blazon (c Verglas) unraced to date.

2nd Dam: HINT OF SILVER by Alysheba. 1 win at 2.

Sister to HILL SILVER. Dam of HOMELAND (g Highest Honor: Prix Andre Baboin G3), HIGH ROCK (c Rock of Gibraltar: Prix de Conde G3, Prix La Force G3), HIDEAWAY (f Cape Cross: Grand Prix du Lion d’Angers LR), High Flash (c Selkirk: 2nd Prix Pelleas LR, 3rd Prix Daphnis G3) Broodmare Sire: ANABAA. Sire of the dams of 11 SWs. In 2009 - SILVER FROST Verglas G1, ROSTOVA Testa Rossa G2.

The Verglas/Anabaa cross has produced: SILVER FROST G1, Alhaban G2.

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SILVER FROST gr c 2006 Kenmare Highest Honor High River VERGLAS gr 94 Secreto Rahaam Fager’s Glory Danzig Anabaa Balbonella HIDDEN SILVER b 2000 Alysheba Hint of Silver Hot Silver

Kalamoun Belle of Ireland Riverman Hairbrush Northern Dancer Betty’s Secret Mr Prospector Street’s Glory Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Gay Mecene Bamieres Alydar Bel Sheba Nureyev Her Silver

The two Guineas races at Longchamp on May 10 proved a triumph for the Irish National Stud.

The Poulains winner Silver Frost comes from the first Irish crop by Verglas, while the Pouliches heroine Elusive Wave comes from the first crop of Elusive City, who moved to the Irish National Stud after a single season at Huma Park Stud. As the 2,000 Guineas winner Sea The Stars also has links to the Irish National Stud, 2009 is proving a vintage year for the Tully stud.

Like Indian Ridge before him, Verglas moved to the Irish National after achieving excellent results from modest opportunities early in his career. Verglas’s own racing career began in Europe, where he achieved a clearcut victory in the Coventry Stakes and a three-length second to Desert King in the Irish 2,000 Guineas. Although a debut victory in a Santa Anita allowance suggested Verglas was likely to shine in the USA, he failed to win again, his best effort being a narrow second in the San Marino Handicap over a mile and a quarter.

A place was eventually found for Verglas as a stallion at the Haras du Logis St Germain, starting as a sixyear-old in 2000 at a fee of only 12,000 francs. His best effort before Silver Frost was the high-class French miler Stormy River, who was a close third as the odds-on favourite for the 2006 Poule d’Essai des Poulains.

Silver Frost, now the winner of six of his nine starts and very nearly £400,000 in prize-money, was bought by bloodstock agent Charlie Gordon-Watson for €95,000 as a yearling at the Deauville August Yearling Sale.

His dam, the Anabaa mare Hidden Silver, won only a maiden race over 1900 metres in the French Provinces but is a half-sister to several smart French performers, including the Group 3 winners Homeland (who is by Verglas’s sire Highest Honor) and the classy Rock Of Gibraltar colt High Rock.

60 DERRINSTOWN STUD DERBY TRIAL S G2 LEOPARDSTOWN. May 10. 3yo. 10f.

1. FAME AND GLORY (GB) 9-4 £75,728 b c by Montjeu - Gryada (Shirley Heights) O-Derrick Smith B-Ptarmigan Bloodstock, Miss K Rausing TR-AP O’Brien 2. Mourayan (IRE) 9-1 £22,136 b c by Alhaarth - Mouramara (Kahyasi) O/B-HH The Aga Khan TR-John M Oxx

3. Fergus McIver (IRE) 9-1 £10,485 b c by Sadler’s Wells - Danelissima (Danehill) O-Martin W Lightbody B-Dram Bloodstock, Sphere Bloodstock TR-JS Bolger Margins 5, 0.5. Time 2:03.60 (fast 0.60).

Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 4

Wins 4

Places 0

Earned £227,945

Sire: MONTJEU. Sire of 70 Stakes winners. In 2009 ROMAN EMPEROR Last Tycoon G1, FAME AND GLORY Shirley Heights G2, FULMONTI Grosvenor G2, HARRIS TWEED Prized G2, BALLACK Last Tycoon G3, COURT CANIBAL Arazi G3, THE MEISTA Zabeel G3, STORM MOUNTAIN Mujadil LR, TAKE THE HINT Mr Prospector LR, HURRICANE FLY Kenmare LR, MOSKOVA Machiavellian LR, SHARPMON Sharpen Up LR. 1st Dam: Gryada by Shirley Heights. 2 wins at 2, 3rd Premio Dormello G3. Own sister to Golan Heights.

Dam of 7 winners: 1998: Guaranda (f Acatenango) 2 wins at 3, 3rd EBF Upavon S LR. Dam of GRAVITATION (f Galileo: 2 wins at 3, Moet Hennessy Lillie Langtry S G3) 1999: Grampian (c Selkirk) 4 wins at 2, 3 and 6, 2nd Manchester Evening News July S LR, John Smith’s Extra Smooth Silver Cup H LR. 2001: GRAHAM ISLAND (g Acatenango) 2 wins at 3 and 4.

2002: GRYSKIRK (g Selkirk) Winner at 2.

2003: GAZE (f Galileo) 2 wins at 4 in Germany.

2005: YUMMY MUMMY (f Montjeu) Winner at 3.

2006: FAME AND GLORY (c Montjeu) Sold 190,000gns foal at TADEF. 4 wins at 2 and 3 at home, France, Criterium de Saint-Cloud G1, Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial S G2, P W McGrath Memorial Ballysax S G3.

2007: Rain Forest (c Sadler’s Wells) unraced to date.

2nd Dam: GRIMPOLA by Windwurf. 2 wins in West Germany ARAG Schwarzgold-Rennen (1000 Guineas) G2. Own sister to GRIMBEAU. Dam of Golan Heights (g Shirley Heights: 2nd Parfetts Anniversary July Trophy S LR), Gryada (f Shirley Heights, see above). Grandam of GONBARDA, GLOBAL DREAM, GONFILIA, GONLARGO, GORLOR, Gondoro, Global Dancer, Global World.

Third dam of GOATHEMALA, GALANA. Broodmare Sire: SHIRLEY HEIGHTS. Sire of the dams of 165 Stakes winners. In 2009 - FAME AND GLORY Montjeu G2, FLYING CLOUD Storming Home G3, WICKLOW HILLS Danewin LR, CHIEF YEOMAN Machiavellian LR. The Montjeu/Shirley Heights cross has produced: ANTON CHEKHOV G1, FAME AND GLORY G1, MONTARE G1, Washington Irving G2, Red Peony G3.

FAME AND GLORY b c 2006 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge MONTJEU b 96 Top Ville Floripedes Toute Cy Mill Reef Shirley Heights Hardiemma GRYADA b/br 93 Windwurf Grimpola Gondel

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special High Top Sega Ville Tennyson Adele Toumignon Never Bend Milan Mill Hardicanute Grand Cross Kaiseradler Wiesenweihe Zank Goldhenne

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Caulfield on Rare Bob: “His dam Cut Ahead comes from the exceptional Felucca female line – his fourth dam Cutter won the Park Hill, as did two of Felucca’s other daughters” MASTER MINDED b g 2003 47 POWERS GOLD CUP CHASE G1

Nearctic Nonoalco Seximee

FAIRYHOUSE. April 12. 20f. Good.

1. ARAN CONCERTO (IRE) 8 b g Zaffaran - Frizzball (Orchestra) O-Mr John Corr B-James Doran TR-N Meade 2. Barker (IRE) 8 gr g Mister Mat - Drumrawn Lass (King’s Ride) 3. Deutschland (USA) 6 b g Red Ransom - Rhine Valley (Danzig) Age 5-7

Starts 7

Wins 5

Places 0

NIKOS b/br 81 Sovereign Path No No Nanette Nuclea Mill Reef Garde Royale Royal Way HAUTE TENSION b 94 The Scoundrel La Vedrelle

Earned £115,758

La Vela II

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

ARAN CONCERTO b g 2001 Be My Guest Assert Irish Bird ZAFFARAN b 85 Sir Ivor Sweet Alliance Mrs Peterkin Tudor Music Orchestra Golden Moss FRIZZBALL br 92 Current Coin Credit Card Tarkita

Northern Dancer What A Treat Sea Bird II Irish Lass II Sir Gaylord Attica Tom Fool Legendra Tudor Melody Fran Sheshoon Muscosa Hook Money Frances Black Tarquin Nikita

49 CHAMPION NOVICE HURDLE G1 PUNCHESTOWN. April 28. 16f. Soft.

1. HURRICANE FLY (IRE) 5 b g Montjeu - Scandisk (Kenmare) O-G Creighton B-Agr Del Parco TR-WP Mullins 2. Kempes (IRE) 6 b g Intikhab - Unicamp (Royal Academy) 3. Riverside Theatre (GB) 5 b g King’s Theatre - Disallowed (Distinctly North) Age Starts Wins Places Earned 2-5 16 7 5 £267,639 See race 4 in the February issue for analysis

Aran Concerto – now a Grade 1 winner over hurdles and fences – has so far raced mainly up to two and a half miles, but there is no reason why he shouldn’t stay well. His brother Browns Baily was seventh in a Grade 1 novice hurdle over three miles at the Cheltenham Festival.

Their sire Zaffaran, a longstriding galloper, won the March Stakes before finishing fourth in the St Leger. Zaffaran sired jumpers of the calibre of Beau, Scotsirish, Will Be Done, Frantic Tan, Santabless and Looks Like Trouble. Sadly, Zaffaran died at the age of 16.

Aran Concerto is a grandson of that fine chasing mare Credit Card.

After scoring at up to 14 furlongs on the Flat, Credit Card won four times over hurdles and six times over fences, with her stamina bringing her third place in the Irish Grand National. This testing career didn’t affect her as a broodmare and among her eight foals were prolific winners Bankers Benefit, runner-up in the Irish Grand National, and Run For Free, successful in the Scottish National and Welsh National. Credit Card’s last foal – Aran Concerto’s dam Frizzball – failed to win in two starts. Frizzball’s sire Orchestra was responsible for such good chasers as Dorans Pride, Rince Ri, Pat’s Jester and Fiddling The Facts. Another of his daughters produced Hello Bud, winner of the 2009 Scottish National.

HURRICANE FLY b g 2004

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When a three-year-old gelding by Bob Back appeared at the 2005 Derby Sale, Dessie Hughes had to go to €125,000 to secure him – and no wonder, as the gelding’s dam Cut Ahead had already produced a pair of notable sons. The first, Far Ahead, won the Tote Ebor, and Far Ahead’s brother Tiutchev did even better. Even though he was by the top sprinter-miler Soviet Star, the versatile Tiutchev stayed three miles

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

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

well enough to finish second in the King George VI Chase and to win the Grade 2 Martell Cognac Cup Chase.

Hughes’s purchase of Cut Ahead’s Bob Back gelding has proved a sound investment, now that the gelding, Rare Bob, has graduated to fences. Rare Bob followed up a fine fourth in the Irish Grand National with victory in Punchestown’s Champion Novice Chase, showing the type of stamina for which his family is famed.

Cut Ahead, a winner over ten furlongs, comes from the exceptional Felucca female line. Rare Bob’s fourth dam Cutter won the Park Hill Stakes, as did two of Felucca’s other daughters. Cutter also won the Yorkshire Cup and produced several smart sons and two notable broodmare daughters. One daughter, Pirogue, became the dam of Ascot Gold Cup winner Longboat and second dam of Irish Oaks winner Bolas, while another, Cutle, produced the Irish 2,000 Guineas winner Sharp Edge, the St Leger hero Cut Above and Rare Bob’s second dam, the Virginia Stakes winner Cut Loose.

Rare Bob is the latest in a long line of high-class jumping sons of Bob Back, following such as Cousin Vinny, Back In Front, Thisthatandtother, Bachannal, Putty Road, Treble Bob, Farmer Brown and Calling Brave.

jumps, as he retired the winner of 11 of his 15 races over hurdles, including numerous stakes races.

Kadalko’s last win came in the Prix Leon Orly-Roederer over three miles, so he stayed well. Kadalko is also sire of the smart staying hurdler Pride Of Dulcote and of Ladalko, who failed by a short head to take the Scottish National.

Notre Pere’s dam, Gloria IV, had an extraordinary record, being unbeaten in 12 middle-distance races against other AQPS horses in 1997 and 1998. Gloria is a daughter of Video Rock, the leading sire of chasers in France in 2007. Video Rock’s good British jumpers include the very smart hurdler Osana, a brother to Gloria IV. Other good British winners by Video Rock include Edmond, Nine de Sivola, Hussard Collonges and Nenuphar Collonges. In France he has top chaser El Paso III, plus Lycaon de Vauzelle and Homme du Jour.

52 CHAMPION INH FLAT RACE G1 PUNCHESTOWN. April 29. 16f. Soft to Heavy.

1. DUNGUIB (IRE) 6 b g Presenting - Edermine Berry (Durgam) O-D Harnett B-Liam Meade TR-Philip Fenton 2. Sweeps Hill (NZ) 5 b g Montjeu - Windfield Dancer (Zabeel) 3. Luska Lad (IRE) 5 ch g Flemensfirth - Notsophar (Phardante) Age Starts Wins Places 5-6 5 4 1 See race 36 in the May issue for analysis.

Earned £115,209

DUNGUIB b g 2003 50 CHAMPION NOVICE CHASE G1

51 PUNCHESTOWN GOLD CUP CHASE G1

PUNCHESTOWN. April 28. 25f. Soft.

PUNCHESTOWN. April 29. 25f. Soft to Heavy.

1. RARE BOB (IRE) 7 b/br g Bob Back - Cut Ahead (Kalaglow) O-DA Syndicate B-Don Hadden TR-DT Hughes 2. Gone To Lunch (IRE) 9 ch g Mohaajir - Jayells Dream (Space King) 3. Joncol (IRE) 6 b g Bob’s Return - Finemar Lady (Montelimar)

1. NOTRE PERE (FR) 8 b g Kadalko - Gloria IV (Video Rock) O-Mrs PJ Conway B-Y d’Armaille TR-JTR Dreaper 2. Schindlers Hunt (IRE) 9 ch g Oscar Schindler - Snipe Hunt (Stalker) 3. Scotsirish (IRE) 8 b g Zaffaran - Serjitak (Saher)

Age 4-7

Age 5-8

Crepello Sans Le Sou Mincio Alzara PRESENTING br 92 Bold Lad Persian Bold Relkarunner D’Azy Riverman Belle Viking Vallarta Northern Dancer Nureyev Special Durgam Nashua Famed Princess Copper Princess EDERMINE BERRY b 94 Secretariat General Assembly Exclusive Dancer Tickhill Prince Taj Royal Reproach First Nominee Busted

Mtoto

Starts 18

Wins 3

Places 13

Earned £110,873

RARE BOB b/br g 2002 Hail To Reason Roberto Bramalea BOB BACK br 81 Carry Back Toter Back Romantic Miss Kalamoun Kalaglow Rossitor CUT AHEAD b 86 High Top Cut Loose Cutle

Starts 19

Wins 7

Places 9

Earned £394,724

Amazer

NOTRE PERE b g 2001 Turn-To Nothirdchance Nashua Rarelea Saggy Joppy Beauchef Roman Zephyr Zeddaan Khairunissa Pall Mall Sonia Derring-Do Camenae Saint Crespin III Cutter

Green Dancer Cadoudal Come To Sea KADALKO b 88 Fant Koln Kornahre No Lute Video Rock Pauvresse GLORIA IV ch 94 Brezzo Voilette Jolivette

Nijinsky Green Valley Sea Hawk II Camarilla Almeido Fugung Agio Krickel Luthier Prudent Miss Home Guard Misoptimist Gift Card Brezette Laniste Diane

53 WORLD SERIES STAYERS HURDLE G1 PUNCHESTOWN. April 30. 24f. Soft to Heavy.

1. FIVEFORTHREE (IRE) 7 gr g Arzanni - What A Queen (King’s Ride) O-Olde Crowbars Syndicate B-P Downes TR-WP Mullins 2. Pettifour (IRE) 7 b g Supreme Leader - Queen of Natives (Be My Native) 3. Whatuthink (IRE) 7 ch g Presenting - Glen’s Encore (Orchestra) Age 5-7

Starts 10

Wins 5

Places 4

Earned £272,413

FIVEFORTHREE gr g 2002

PUNCHESTOWN. April 28. 16f. Soft.

1. MASTER MINDED (FR) 6 b g Nikos - Haute Tension (Garde Royale) O-Mr C Smith B-Mrs MC Gabeur TR-PF Nicholls 2. Big Zeb (IRE) 8 b g Oscar - Our Siveen (Deep Run) 3. Conna Castle (IRE) 10 b g Germany - Mrs Hegarty (Decent Fellow) Age Starts Wins Places Earned 3-6 17 10 3 £856,271 See race 8 in the February issue for analysis

Notre Pere has something in common with Madison du Berlais, another very successful staying chaser, in that both are by winning jumpers sired by Cadoudal, the dominant force in France’s jumping industry for many years. Notre Pere’s sire Kadalko, whose last foals were born in 2004, won only one of his 15 races on the Flat and even ran in a claiming race. Fortunately, it was a very different story over

Shirley Heights Darshaan Delsy ARZANNI gr 87 Nishapour Astara Astana Rarity King’s Ride Ride WHAT A QUEEN b 84 Vulgan What A Honey What A Daisy

Mill Reef Hardiemma Abdos Kelty Zeddaan Alama Arbar Theano Hethersett Who Can Tell Sovereign Path Turf Sirlan Vulgate Grand Inquisitor Lady Sunderlin

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Fiveforthree is comfortably the best representative of Arzanni, whose finest moments on the course were his victory in the Yorkshire Cup and second in the Gold Cup. Fiveforthree’s Punchestown success came on his first attempt at three miles, but there was always a very good chance he would be suited by that distance.

Besides being by a horse who stayed extreme distances on the flat, Fiveforthree has a broodmare sire, Rarity’s son King’s Ride, who sired more than his fair share of smart winners at around three miles, including King’s Curate, King’s Road, Coq Hardi Diamond, Merry Masquerade, Tullymurry Toff and Tipping Tim. Fiveforthree’s second dam, the unraced Vulgan mare What A Honey, was one of two daughters produced by What A Daisy, an outstanding broodmare who

produced L’Escargot, The Pilgarlic, What A Buck, Havago and Flitgrove.

What A Daisy was herself a threeparts-sister to another famous chaser in Mr What, winner of the 1958 Aintree Grand National.

54 SWORDLESTOWN CUP NOVICE CHASE G1 PUNCHESTOWN. April 30. 16f. Soft to Heavy.

1. BARKER (IRE) 8 gr g Mister Mat - Drumrawn Lass (King’s Ride) O-E Duignan B-P McArdle TR-WP Mullins 2. Forpadydeplasterer (IRE) 7 b g Moscow Society (USA) - Run Artiste (Deep Run) 3. Made In Taipan (IRE) 7 br g Taipan - No Easy Way (Mandalus) Age 5-8

Starts 19

Wins 7

Places 3

Earned £173,443

BARKER gr g 2001 Sea Hawk II Matahawk Carromata MISTER MAT br 87 Kashmir II La Psalette Telda Rarity King’s Ride Ride DRUMRAWN LASS gr 93 Walshford Lisgarvan Miss Symbol

Herbager Sea Nymph St Paddy Carrozza Tudor Melody Queen of Speed Iron Liege Ormara Hethersett Who Can Tell Sovereign Path Turf I Say Romany Rose Symbol Poor Hyacinth

Few novice chasers can have been in better form during the first third of 2009 than Barker. But for failing by a short head to catch Aran Concerto in the Grade 1 Powers Gold Cup, he would be unbeaten in four 2009 starts, and he is still improving judging by his impressive win in the Swordlestown Cup Novice Chase.

Barker is the second Grade 1 winner by the French-bred Mister Mat, who was based in France when he sired Barker’s predecessor, the Finale Junior Hurdle winner Mister Banjo. Mister Mat was brought to stand at Glebe House in Northern Ireland by Jeremy Maxwell, an ardent admirer of French bloodlines long before they became the vogue.

A veteran of 33 races between the ages of two and six, Mister Mat was transformed from just a successful handicapper into a dual Listed winner at four. His best wins came in the Grand Prix de Lyon over 11 furlongs and the Grand Prix de Compiegne over a mile and a half, after which he finished second in the Grade 3 Grand Prix de Vichy.

Unfortunately, Mister Mat died in 2002, after spending only three seasons as a stallion in Ireland.

Barker is comfortably the best winner in recent generations of his family but his unraced dam Drumrawn Lass is a half-sister to a useful chaser in All For Luck.

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

57 CHAMPION 4YO HURDLE G1 PUNCHESTOWN. May 2. 16f. Soft to Heavy.

1. JUMBO RIO (IRE) 4 b g Captain Rio - Nafzira (Darshaan) O-Mr Patrick Wilmott B-Cloneen Stud TR-EJ O’Grady 2. Mourad (IRE) 4 ch c Sinndar (IRE) - Mouramara (IRE) (Kahyasi) 3. The Fist of God (IRE) 4 b g Sadler’s Wells - Hula Angel (Woodman) Age 2-4

Starts 16

PUNCHESTOWN. May 1. 16f. Soft to Heavy.

1. SOLWHIT (FR) 5 b g Solon - Toowhit Towhee (Lucky North) O-Top Of The Hill Syndicate B-Haras de Preaux TR-Charles Byrnes 2. Punjabi (GB) 6 b g Komaite - Competa (Hernando) 3. Quevega (FR) 5 b m Robin des Champs - Vega IV (Cap Martin) Age Starts Wins Places 3-5 11 6 2 See race 46 in the May issue for analysis

Earned £206,557

SOLWHIT b g 2004 Red God Runaway Bride Vaguely Noble Home Love Homespun SOLON b 92 Tamerlane Alpenkonig Alpenlerche Scilla Alizier Saxifraga Suleika Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Lucky North Olden Times Lucky Ole Me Me Next TOOWHIT TOWHEE b 88 The Axe II Hatchet Man Bebopper Chop Towhee Crozier Swiftybyrd Miss Glamour Gal Blushing Groom

Local Suitor

56 CHAMPION NOVICE HURDLE G1 PUNCHESTOWN. May 1. 20f. Soft to Heavy.

1. MIKAEL D’HAGUENET (FR) 5 b g Lavirco - Fleur d’Haguenet (Dark Stone) O-Mrs S Ricci B-Mme M Lelong TR-WP Mullins 2. Cousin Vinny (IRE) 6 b g Bob Bac - Trixskin (Buckskin) 3. Bouggler (GB) 4 b g Tobougg - Rush Hour (Night Shift) Age 3-5

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Starts 7

Wins 5

Places 1

Earned £191,276

Wins 2

Places 11

Earned £63,154

JUMBO RIO b g 2005 Nureyev Marie d’Argonne Cozzene Fearless Revival Stufida Mr Prospector Miswaki Hopespringseternal Nijinsky Abeesh Lady Bugler Mill Reef Shirley Heights Hardiemma Abdos Delsy Kelty Nijinsky Green Dancer Green Valley Run The Gantlet Nawazish Nilmeen Polar Falcon Pivotal CAPTAIN RIO ch 99 Beloved Visitor

Darshaan NAFZIRA b 94 Nafzawa

55 CHAMPION HURDLE G1

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

As a horse who proved best at sprint distances, Captain Rio might be an unlikely type to sire a Grade 1 winner over hurdles, but he reached that landmark when Jumbo Rio benefited from the last-flight fall of Tharawaat to take the Ballymore Champion Four Year Old Hurdle.

Although Captain Rio was a sprinter, he is a son of Pivotal, who has often passed on much more stamina than expected to his progeny. Captain Rio has sired a mile-and-a-half Listed winner on the Flat and Jumbo Rio was also suited by that distance on the level, as he showed with a victory at the Curragh and seconds in a pair of valuable handicaps.

He is proving even more effective over hurdles, and he had previously enjoyed Grade 2 success in the Spring Juvenile Hurdle.

It almost goes without saying that Jumbo Rio must have stamina in the bottom half of his pedigree. Sure enough, he is out of Nafzira, a stoutly-bred Darshaan mare who won a small race over a mile and a quarter at two, on her only start.

His second dam, Nafzawa, gained both her victories over two miles, and Jumbo Rio’s third dam, Nawazish, recorded her best ever victory, in the Listed Prix Belle de Nuit in France, when she stepped up to a mile and a half for the very first time.

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Leading sires in Europe Flat sires 2009 by earnings Name

YOF

Sire

Rnrs

Wnrs

%WR

Wins

AWD

Earnings (£)

Top horse

Cape Cross Verglas Danehill Dancer Galileo Montjeu Dansili Anabaa Fasliyev Oasis Dream Giant’s Causeway Invincible Spirit Indian Ridge Nayef Orpen Sadler’s Wells Slickly Elusive City Lomitas High Chaparral Linamix Desert Prince Diktat Rock Of Gibraltar Chichicastenango Sulamani Gold Away Fantastic Light Pivotal Daylami Take Risks Noverre Hawk Wing King Charlemagne Namid Peintre Celebre Intikhab Kendor Marchand de Sable Spectrum Enrique Marju Kingsalsa

1994 1994 1993 1998 1996 1996 1992 1997 2000 1997 1997 1985 1998 1996 1981 1996 2000 1988 1999 1987 1995 1995 1999 1998 1999 1995 1996 1993 1994 1989 1998 1999 1998 1996 1994 1994 1986 1990 1992 1996 1988 1996

Green Desert Highest Honor Danehill Sadler’s Wells Sadler’s Wells Danehill Danzig Nureyev Green Desert Storm Cat Green Desert Ahonoora Gulch Lure Northern Dancer Linamix Elusive Quality Niniski Sadler’s Wells Mendez Green Desert Warning Danehill Smadoun Hernando Goldneyev Rahy Polar Falcon Doyoun Highest Honor Rahy Woodman Nureyev Indian Ridge Nureyev Red Ransom Kenmare Theatrical Rainbow Quest Barathea Last Tycoon Kingmambo

119 128 127 91 107 103 88 109 81 63 120 71 57 91 72 71 47 74 66 69 97 135 98 25 20 54 82 108 81 75 88 100 84 104 68 65 66 72 58 57 84 74

39 27 34 22 23 39 28 38 24 16 36 21 19 28 16 14 12 22 20 17 34 29 23 10 7 17 27 23 20 18 19 23 24 27 15 20 11 18 17 12 20 11

32.8 21.1 26.8 24.2 21.5 37.9 31.8 34.9 29.6 25.4 30.0 29.6 33.3 30.8 22.2 19.7 25.5 29.7 30.3 24.6 35.1 21.5 23.5 40.0 35.0 31.5 32.9 21.3 24.7 24.0 21.6 23.0 28.6 26.0 22.1 30.8 16.7 25.0 29.3 21.1 23.8 14.9

50 35 45 24 28 50 34 50 29 18 42 32 28 34 17 14 13 27 26 20 45 40 30 12 7 21 40 23 25 22 25 31 33 35 19 31 12 19 28 14 26 16

8.1 8.9 7.7 10.5 10.7 9.1 8.9 7.0 7.7 10.2 6.9 8.2 10.8 8.0 10.6 8.9 7.0 9.4 9.5 10.8 8.6 7.9 8.3 10.1 10.4 9.6 9.8 7.9 11.8 9.9 7.8 9.5 8.2 6.6 10.8 8.4 10.0 9.8 9.1 10.0 10.1 8.7

816,076 787,130 780,907 720,855 636,786 581,580 529,430 478,735 472,965 471,231 463,437 462,207 459,667 456,118 423,418 419,791 416,209 410,852 406,580 405,012 404,951 398,114 398,017 396,747 392,776 386,612 367,448 360,622 356,353 344,522 343,030 338,782 333,895 310,493 308,725 308,633 307,783 306,803 298,539 294,834 290,640 285,563

Sea The Stars Silver Frost Tamazirte Cuis Ghaire Fame And Glory Delegator Loup Breton Coubiza Monitor Closely Ghanaati Peach Pearl Libano Nehaam Aria di Festa Fantasia Gris de Gris Elusive Wave Turati Magadan Qertaas Leap Ahead Addicted Three Rocks Vision d’Etat Mastery Nizamabad Scintillo Heaven Sent Voila Ici Prise de Risque Le Havre The Bogberry Dubai Queen Magic Box Trincot Louise Aron Golden Clou Gibor Tartan Bearer On Est Bien Spirit Of Sport Salsalava

Earned (£)

241,840 287,437 151,398 86,080 116,811 128,576 83,184 66,505 88,640 227,080 40,097 103,566 216,680 65,225 81,289 66,602 260,738 176,790 64,078 45,534 48,602 41,748 58,169 179,680 362,959 44,175 99,926 36,900 47,450 37,961 115,476 36,097 55,583 25,942 71,942 43,933 34,233 29,854 36,900 66,019 37,000 25,728

Two-year-old sires 2009 by earnings Name

YOF

Sire

Rnrs

Wnrs

%WR

Wins

AWD

Earnings (£)

Top horse

Panis Johannesburg Danehill Dancer Okawango One Cool Cat *Camacho Verglas Indian Rocket Bertolini Nombre Premier Titus Livius Orpen Captain Rio Kheleyf High Yield *Zafeen Kingsalsa Bernebeau Le Vie Dei Colori Forestier Royal Applause Desert Style Keltos *Whipper *Pastoral Pursuits Oasis Dream Rock Of Gibraltar *Footstepsinthesand Hawk Wing Slickly *Le Vie Dei Colori Choisir Invincible Spirit Le Triton *Oratorio Exceed And Excel Kyllachy Enrique *Antonius Pius Stormin Fever Street Cry *Firebreak Chevalier Pivotal Bahamian Bounty

1998 1999 1993 1998 2001 2002 1994 1994 1996 1994 1993 1996 1999 2001 1997 2000 1996 1999 2000 2000 1993 1992 1998 2001 2001 2000 1999 2002 1999 1996 1999 1999 1997 1993 2002 2000 1998 1996 2001 1994 1998 1999 2000 1993 1994

Miswaki Hennessy Danehill Kingmambo Storm Cat Danehill Highest Honor Indian Ridge Danzig Kendor Machiavellian Lure Pivotal Green Desert Storm Cat Zafonic Kingmambo Green Tune Efisio Nikos Waajib Green Desert Kendor Miesque's Son Bahamian Bounty Green Desert Danehill Giant’s Causeway Woodman Linamix Royal Applause Danehill Dancer Green Desert El Gran Senor Danehill Danehill Pivotal Barathea Danzig Storm Cat Machiavellian Charnwood Forest Danehill Polar Falcon Cadeaux Genereux

4 8 7 5 10 9 9 10 11 4 8 5 19 10 4 8 6 1 7 1 8 3 3 6 10 6 8 11 3 1 10 12 11 1 3 12 12 2 9 1 1 3 2 1 10

1 3 3 2 2 1 3 1 4 1 1 1 1 3 3 2 0 1 1 1 3 2 2 1 2 3 1 1 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 3 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 2

25.0 37.5 42.9 40.0 20.0 11.1 33.3 10.0 36.4 25.0 12.5 20.0 5.3 30.0 75.0 25.0 0 100.0 14.3 100.0 37.5 66.7 66.7 16.7 20.0 50.0 12.5 9.1 66.7 100.0 10.0 16.7 18.2 100.0 33.3 25.0 8.3 50.0 22.2 100.0 100.0 33.3 50.0 100.0 20.0

2 4 3 2 2 4 3 1 4 1 2 2 1 4 3 2 0 2 1 2 3 3 2 1 3 3 1 1 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 3 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 2

4.8 5.0 5.7 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.4 4.5 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.5 5.0 5.0 5.3 4.8 0.0 4.9 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.1 6.0 5.0 5.1 5.0 5.2 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.1 4.8 5.0 5.4 5.0 4.5 5.3 5.0 6.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.2

43,349 43,171 38,537 37,038 31,749 30,931 29,490 29,466 28,700 27,961 27,139 26,443 24,602 24,227 22,524 21,630 21,548 21,456 21,192 20,679 20,252 18,818 17,718 17,564 17,401 16,936 16,885 16,763 16,504 16,262 16,047 15,649 15,370 15,097 14,967 14,136 13,983 13,300 12,707 12,640 12,075 12,006 11,796 11,650 11,116

Molesne Bay Chantilly Creme Air Chief Marshal Quintalina Irish Cat Star Rover Love Lockdown Chopouest What About Me High Domino Archers Road Orpen Shadow Golden Ramon Leleyf Kitty Yield Zafeereli Too Nice Name Fairy Sky Baglioni Foresta Royal Infidelity Desert Auction Kelty In Love Atasari Here Now And Why Field Of Dream Eireannach Walkingonthemoon Dream Cafe Kokouchu Golden Acclamation Charger Bull Stand And Fight Tryanon Wealdmore Wave Kingdom Of Light Rodarte Divine Poesie Metal Soldier King Ledley Gold Bubbles Hearts Of Fire Monsieur Chevalier Siyouni Nadeen

Earned (£)

28,155 16,505 13,548 20,874 16,602 30,160 13,179 10,194 9,392 14,466 16,859 20,630 8,252 9,529 8,932 14,951 11,262 21,456 16,409 20,680 12,345 12,627 8,981 12,076 10,550 8,252 12,678 5,425 8,252 16,262 8,252 7,096 4,809 15,097 14,221 4,456 8,252 13,301 8,419 12,641 12,076 12,006 11,796 11,650 4,145

Cape must hope for more good from Sea The initial Classics across Europe predictably had a major effect on the earnings table, with Cape Cross (sire of York Group 3 winner Crystal Capella, as well as Sea The Stars), Verglas and Giant’s Causeway all prominent.

How long Cape Cross can hang on to his advantage depends greatly on Sea The Stars being fully effective at a mile and a half, since the progeny of Galileo and Montjeu are bound to rack up mountains of cash in richly endowed middledistance races.

Galileo leads the field in number of stakes winners on six, ahead of Danehill Dancer, High Chaparral, Indian Ridge, Invincible Spirit, Marju and Montjeu. This affords confirmation that Indian Ridge’s demise was regrettable and that Invincible Spirit remains one to watch. So far Invincible Spirit has had only one Group 1 scorer but, with his progeny out of better mares now coming through, more can be expected.

First-season sires bid to make flying start The first-season sires have been up and running to try to make an early mark, and Antonius Pius, Pastoral Pursuits and Zafeen have all notched a couple of winners.

Avonbridge (off-table), with 12 runners for one winner, leads the way numerically from Footstepsinthesand, with one of the most interesting of the whole batch, Oratorio, having had just three face the starter.

Overall, Captain Rio leads in terms of number of runners on 19, while Bertolini has the edge in winners, with a creditable four from 11. Acclamation has made a slower start than usual but no doubt he will be cracking on before long.

But what of the sire in first spot? Panis, whose son Molesne Bay has won twice at Longchamp, was leading sire of juveniles by number of winners in 2006 and stands at Haras du Quesnay for €5,000.

Comments: Jeremy Early

*First-season sire; statistics to May 10

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THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN THE BLOODSTOCK WORLD

British and Irish-bred winners overseas Breeder

Winner

Sire

Age/sex Dam

Ctry

Date

Agricola Del Parco Agricola Dell ‘Olmo Agricola Dell ‘Olmo Appleby Lodge Stud Aston Mullins Stud Azienda Agricola Antezzate Srl Azienda Agricola Francesca Azienda Agricola La Morosina Azienda Agricola Patrizia Azienda Agricola Razza del Sole Azienda Agricola Razza Emiliana Srl Azienda Agricola Rosati Colarieti Azienda Agricola Rosati Colarieti Azienda Agricola Rosati Colarieti Azienda Agricola Rosati Colarieti Balding, P Ballyhane Stud Ballymacoll Stud Farm Ltd Ballymacoll Stud Farm Ltd Ballymacoll Stud Farm Ltd Barnes, R Barnett Ltd, W and R Biddestone Stud Blackdown Stud Blueberry, S Blueberry, S Blueberry, S Bluegate Stud Bone, Mrs L B K Borsani S N C, Aldo and Carlo Boucheron, S Brain International Ltd Brick Kiln Farming Brinkley Stud SAS Brinkley Stud SAS Byrne, David F Camma S A S di Schiavi Campbell-Andenaes, Mrs M Campbell-Andenaes, Mrs M Celbridge Estates Ltd Celbridge Estates Ltd Cheveley Park Stud Ltd Churchtown Bloodstock Ltd Citadel Stud Clarke, B Cliveden Stud Ltd Corduff Stud Corduff Stud Cullen, Miss N Cyzer, C A Dalton, M Damiano, Pascal Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darpat S L Dayton Investments Ltd Dayton Investments Ltd Dayton Investments Ltd Dayton Investments Ltd Dayton Investments Ltd Dayton Investments Ltd Dayton Investments Ltd Dayton Investments Ltd Dayton Investments Ltd De Druval, Haras Dual S R L Dunchurch Lodge Stud Co Ellesmere Bloodstock Ltd Elsdon Farms Epona Bloodstock Ltd Epona Bloodstock Ltd Fair, I D Fair, I D Farish, W S Fattoria di Marcianella di Razza del Pian del Lago Finegan & Noel Cogan, N Fisher, N D Foley, J Forenaghts Stud Gainsborough Stud Management Ltd Gainsborough Stud Management Ltd Gainsborough Stud Management Ltd Gestut Hof Ittlingen Glending Bloodstock Good, Exors of the Late J R and Mrs P Gorman & B Gallagher, S Grimes, John Grimley, Duncan Grundy Bloodstock H H The Aga Khan’s Studs SC Hamilton, J Hammarsfield Bloodstock & Stuart Mullion Hanly, J Haras De Son Altesse Laga Khan Scea Henochsberg & Pontchartrain Stud, Mr M His Highness the Aga Khan’s Studs SC His Highness the Aga Khan’s Studs SC His Highness the Aga Khan’s Studs SC Holdcroft & Mrs M Forsyth, Mrs M Horizon Bloodstock Limited

Laguna Salada Dubai Oasis Goodison Glory Domeside Feisty Royale Altarma Fringuell Garnera Ludstar L’Indiscreta Exotic Horse Ekin Acero Kiai Abaton Mr Rigsby Mountain Excel Hard Top Hidden Rainbow Hyblon Atlantikos Granary Grand Star Varya Storm Mountain Storm Mountain Storm Mountain Karlisse Hameildaeme Easy Hawk Barastraight Do Or Die Major Willy Rodarte Alta Fedelta Indos Exilissi Sikelos Presvis Edgbaston Maid For Music Opaline Tamazirte Mafra Faramir Funny Bone Silky Steps Silky Steps Aiboa Restless Soul Juzilla Spanish Moss Lady Marguerite Baron’s Court Shadow Cabinet Shadow Cabinet Mojave Moon Red Alert Day Music Review Criticism Benalup Pokot Golconde Mine Mount Kenya Ankhor Vat Bartholdi Pouvoir Absolu Vesuve Sand River Pointilliste (USA) Sakkaline Acqua Ragia West Act Don Lorenzo Northern Glory Confucius Classic Red Shooter Volver Craggy Cat Diamondrella Remarque Ragtimeband Lank Grand Unquenchable Fire Hill Invader Radical Views Flying Cloud Romberg Dovil Boy Manchurian Zenside Swing The Ring Moon Child Secret de Vie Shemima Elmarena Florian Albert Vallodiadriano Sakza Benveniste Teshali Kaliyan Shamakiya Reel Gift Quick Queen

Invincible Spirit Dubai Destination (USA) Tout Seul Domedriver Royal Applause Rock Of Gibraltar Allied Forces (USA) Key Of Luck (USA) Domedriver Desert Prince Efisio Mujahid (USA) High Chaparral Zamindar (USA) Dansili Forzando Exceed And Excel (AUS) Darshaan Spectrum Machiavellian (USA) Barathea Singspiel Medicean Diktat Montjeu Montjeu Montjeu Celtic Swing Storming Home Hawk Wing (USA) Barathea Tomba Xaar Kyllachy Oasis Dream Almutawakel Choisir (AUS) King Of Kings Sakhee (USA) Pivotal Dubai Destination (USA) Barathea Danehill Dancer Kalanisi Celtic Swing Pivotal Nayef (USA) Nayef (USA) King Charlemagne (USA) Singspiel Marju Fasliyev (USA) Dubai Destination (USA) Pivotal Noverre (USA) Noverre (USA) Singspiel Diktat Singspiel Machiavellian (USA) Anabaa (USA) Poliglote Alamo Bay (USA) Freedom Cry Red Ransom (USA) Kalanisi Sadler’s Wells (USA) Green Tune (USA) High Chaparral Giant’s Causeway (USA) Pennekamp (USA) Imprevedibile Act One Marju Rainbow Quest (USA) Danehill Dancer Red Ransom (USA) Danehill Dancer Statue Of Liberty (USA) Rock Of Gibraltar Marju Danetime Josr Algarhoud Grand Lodge (USA) Invincible Spirit Danehill (USA) Machiavellian (USA) Storming Home Singspiel Clodovil Singspiel Diktat Rossini (USA) Shinko Forest Fantastic Light (USA) Dalakhani Elmaamul (USA) Averti Elusive City (USA) Sakhee (USA) Refuse To Bend Anabaa (USA) Desert Prince Intikhab (USA) Reel Buddy (USA) Singspiel

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Flying Flag Tenderlit (USA) Thorbella Buck’s Fizz Hawait Al Barr Ma Bouche Rabadan Golden Honor Lyonette I Remember Viva Verdi Eye To Eye Maid In The Shade Special Society Guntakal Rain Splash Shadow Mountain Well Head Grecian Urn Desert Beauty Sasimoto (USA) All Grain Cragreen Regent’s Folly Lady Storm Lady Storm Lady Storm Karlinaxa Sweet Cando Easy Style Straight Lass Satiric Dame Blanche Infiel Infiel Crystal Land Carolina My Love La Genereuse Forest Fire (SWE) Pure Spin (USA) Green Tambourine Irish Light (USA) Tanami Desert Sovana Perfect Fun Laughing Girl (USA) Legal Steps Legal Steps Spirit Of Hope Seasonal Splendour Mizillablack Valses Pour Moi (USA) Shimaal Grafin (USA) Shadow Roll Shadow Roll Moon Cactus Strike Hard Vivid Concert Innuendo Arazena (USA) Pont Audemer (USA) Grenouillere (USA) Mountain Spirit Airline (USA) Buffalo Dance Pine Chip (USA) Verveine (USA) Special Delivery Peinture Bleue (USA) Shardazar Acqua Pesante West One Collected Northern Goddess Sublime Beauty (USA) Aspiration Chanteleau (USA) Trexana Tap Your Feet (USA) Run For Me True Freedom (FR) Lady Mabel Easy Pop Tasha’s Dream (USA) Youm Jadeed Nawaiet (USA) Criquette Lacatena (GER) Lycius Girl (ITY) Royal Passion Zenith Sharkiyah Bois de Citron (USA) Grey Way (USA) Shemaka Renee Chandni Pink Cashmere Miss Sazanica (FR) Compromise (FR) Tashiriya Kaliana Shamadara Its Another Gift Castaway Queen

Racecourse

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Milan Milan Athens Dax Al Rayyan Milan Rome Milan Milan Rome Milan Rome Milan Rome Milan Mijas Rome Gulfstream Park Saint-Cloud Nakayama Athens Al Rayyan Milan Al Rayyan Milan Milan Florence Angers Santa Anita Milan Churchill Downs Athens Al Rayyan Milan Milan Athens Rome Athens Sha Tin Athens Golden Gate Athens Longchamp Saint-Cloud Toulouse Athens Cholet Chantilly Chantilly Golden Gate Athens Nantes Athens Athens Warwick Farm Canterbury Maisons-Laffitte Santa Anita Randwick Calder Strasbourg Ajaccio Fontainebleau La Teste De Buch Le Croise-Laroche Longchamp Longchamp Longchamp Longchamp Longchamp Le Croise-Laroche Rome Milan Milan Milan Happy Valley Tokyo Nimes Happy Valley Keeneland Rome Rome Siracusa Gulfstream Park Toulouse Athens Athens Saint-Cloud Athens Maisons-Laffitte Athens Zarzuela Le Croise-Laroche Athens Milan Chantilly Athens Athens Rome Lyon-Parilly Maisons-Laffitte Fontainebleau Saint-Cloud Longchamp Athens Athens

1m1f 5f 7f 1m3f110y 1m 1m3f 1m1f 1m 7f110y 6f 1m110y 6f 1m3f 7f 1m2f 6f 6f 1m 1m 6f 7f 1m 6f 1m 1m 1m7f 1m3f 1m 6f 5f 1m 7f 1m2f 5f 1m 1m1f 1m 7f 1m2f 5f 1m 1m 1m 1m2f110y 1m4f 7f 1m2f110y 1m2f 6f 1m3f 6f 1m 7f 7f 1m 7f165y 1m4f 6f 1m 1m4f 1m3f165y 1m4f 1m7f 1m1f110y 1m2f110y 1m3f 1m4f 1m2f 1m2f 1m7f110y 1m1f 1m2f 1m2f 1m2f 1m1f 6f 1m1f 1m1f110y 6f 5f 6f 7f110y 7f110y 1m 1m 7f 7f 1m2f110y 6f 1m 1m 1m 5f110y 7f 1m2f 1m2f 5f 7f 6f 1m3f 1m 1m2f 1m4f 1m3f 6f 6f

Prize-money (£)

£23,106 (L) £7,014 £25,515 £7,282 £10,878 £9,077 £8,252 £9,077 £7,014 £33,009 (Gr3) £8,252 £7,014 £9,078 £10,315 £23,107 (L) £10,680 £7,014 £7,500 £21,903 £180,664 £7,087 £10,878 £6,189 £10,878 £9,077 £23,106 (L) £33,422 £12,136 £25,417 £8,252 £15,000 £6,124 £10,878 £8,252 £23,106 (L) £25,515 £8,252 £5,670 £718,133 (Gr1) £6,379 £31,250 (L) £6,733 £38,835 (Gr3) £12,136 £7,767 £8,292 £8,738 £21,903 £26,699 (L) £31,250 (L) £5,316 £9,709 £6,379 £7,087 £8,519 £8,519 £11,650 £20,000 £29,126 £64,583 (Gr2) £7,282 £5,340 £5,825 £7,767 £7,767 £8,252 £12,621 £16,505 £16,505 £38,835 (Gr3) £8,738 £10,315 £14,441 £7,014 £9,077 £43,492 £116,136 £5,825 £71,634 £43,056 (L) £10,315 £7,014 £8,252 £6,250 £9,223 £6,251 £6,946 £38,835 (Gr3) £6,379 £14,078 £8,009 £23,301 £6,796 £7,087 £7,427 £38,835 (Gr3) £6,379 £5,741 £6,189 £11,650 £10,194 £6,796 £8,738 £11,650 £7,087 £6,379

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DATA BOOK

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/May Hyde Park Stud Hyde Park Stud & S M Hillen Ltd Irish National Stud Juddmonte Farms Ltd Juddmonte Farms Ltd Juddmonte Farms Ltd Juddmonte Farms Ltd Juddmonte Farms Ltd Juddmonte Farms Ltd KI Farm Keane, M Kelly, Eamon Kilcarn Stud Kilcarn Stud Kildaragh Stud Knipe, Mr & Mrs R F Lane End Bloodstock Latina, Mr G Loughtown Stud Ltd Lyons, Michael Malone, J Mangan, Mrs M M Marchetti, Ugo McCarthy, C McManus, Miss R Meon Valley Stud Meon Valley Stud Meredith, R Millett, M V Millsec Limited Moszkowicz, Mr & Mrs H Mount Coote Partnership Mount Coote Stud & Richard Pegum Mulino Verde Stud SRL Mulligan, J Mullins, T Myriad Communications & New England Stud Nagle, Mrs D Nataf, P Nawara Stud Co Ltd Needham, Mr & Mrs S Newsells Park Stud Limited O’Brien, R & H O’Connor & John Fitzell, John O’Connor, J O’Gorman, Mrs Marie Ormsby, L Parker, Mr A Parker, Mr A Petra Bloodstock Agency Ltd Petra Bloodstock Agency Ltd Pier House Stud Prestonwood Farms Purcell, John Rangio Farm SRL Rausing, Miss K Razza Dormello Olgiata & CITAI Redmyre Bloodstock & Helen Wadsworth Bloodstock Redmyre, Silfield & Rathmore Redpender Stud Ltd Ri Ma Srl Robinson, G Robinson, G and Mrs Rockhart Trading Ltd Ryan, J Scarpellini Lino Schmid, E Scuderia Blueberry SRL Scuderia Cesare Turri Scuderia Golden Horse S R L Scuderia Golden Horse S R L Scuderia Golden Horse S R L Scuderia PMZ SAS Scuderia Sant’ Ambroeus S R L Scuderia Super King Scuderia Tamara S A S Scuderia Vittadini srl Scuderia Vittadini srl Scuderia Vittadini srl Scuderia Vittadini SRL Shadwell Estate Company Limited Shadwell Estate Company Limited Shadwell Estate Company Limited Skymarc Farm Skymarc Farm Skymarc Farm Inc Skymarc Farm Inc Soc Finanza Locale Consulting Srl Soc Finanza Locale Consulting Srl Soc Finanza Locale Consulting SRL Stack & Newborough Stud, T Stewkesbury, M Stone Ridge Farm Stonethorn Stud Farms Ltd Stratford Place Stud Tally-Ho Stud Team Hogdala AB Turri, Miss F Vidin Gate Stud Wardstown Stud Ltd Waterside Stud Webley, D Weld, J Whitwell Bloodstock Whitwood & C Oakshott, Mrs Carol Wigan, Mrs Dare Wiji Bloodstock & Leo Powell

Dubitante Kentucky Ray Vital Link Game Hunt Atlas Silk Proviso Property Drive World Heritage Lord Rock Star Ousaros Smart Alek Magadan Magadan Wilside Doughnut Prinos Salar des Bains (ITY) Martin Alonso Zona Cero Piramide Zontanos Thrylos Spirit Of Sport Princess Rose Anne Spinmaster Manipulate Misericorde Invisible Inzone Mister Louis Ponca City Grey Latino Ferneley Aria di Festa Feels All Right Bernice Fabienne Battle Of Hastings Contest Dubai Queen Biased Opinion Amfitryon Fasarias Thomas Malory Pedrolo Shaka Sign Dribbling Ziliara Eastern Emperor Eastern Emperor Milhaarth Celimene Elusive Wave Anabaa’s Creation Prince Johann Invincible Joy Enetos Louise Aron Pagan Belief Frozen Time Paktolos Love Bugs Mount Hollow Overdose Rendir Avantage Eldest Silent Sunday Lady Sadowa Soltanto Golden Ramon Golden Acclamation Golden Mexico Vassilikades Burdlaz Giancarlino Giof Libano Sun Over The Hill Selmis Selmis Peace Royal Ashaaq Mutasaddi Qertaas Lookafternumberone Silver Frost Soledad Anco Marzio Tres Elegant Parfaite Voila Ici Aranel Perlanta Irish Cat Cats In Boots Gimme Some Lovin Six Of Diamonds Le Havre Confidenza Zafeereli Puntero Triste Barongo Oil Man Lorgan Reina Vasia Elisavet Dal Al Precedent Signorinasilvani

Hawkeye 3g Noverre (USA) 3c Pivotal 4g Oasis Dream 4c Dansili 3f Dansili 4f Kahyasi 6m Dansili 3f Kahyasi 3c Rock Of Gibraltar 3c Raise A Grand 4c Orpen (USA) 6h High Chaparral 4c High Chaparral 4c Verglas 3f Acclamation 3f Emperor Jones (USA) 8h Monashee Mountain (USA) 6 h Green Tune (USA) 3c Noverre (USA) 4c Pyrus (USA) 3f Key Of Luck (USA) 3c Marju 3c Danehill Dancer 4f Spinning World (USA) 5g Machiavellian (USA) 6h Fasliyev (USA) 4f Diktat 6h Fayruz 4f Indian Lodge 5h Largesse 3f Daylami 4c Ishiguru (USA) 5h Orpen (USA) 3f Danehill Dancer 3c Spinning World (USA) 4f Royal Applause 3g Danehill Dancer 5h King Charlemagne (USA) 4 f Fasliyev (USA) 4c Bertolini (USA) 4c Spectrum 6h Mujadil (USA) 4c Mull Of Kintyre (USA) 5h Shantou (USA) 3f Okawango (USA) 4c Acclamation 3f Halling (USA) 5g Halling (USA) 5g Alhaarth 5h Dr Fong (USA) 3f Elusive City (USA) 3f Anabaa (USA) 5m Medicean 4c Invincible Spirit 3c Inchinor 5h Intikhab (USA) 3f Fraam 5g Danehill Dancer 3c Orpen (USA) 6h Hawk Wing (USA) 3c Beat Hollow 4g Starborough 4c Danehill Dancer 3c Fraam 4f Indian Ridge 4c Testa Rossa (AUS) 4f Nayef (USA) 3f Namid 3c Captain Rio 2f Acclamation 2c Daggers Drawn (USA) 3c Marju 3c Indian Ridge 4c Nashwan (USA) 7h Indian Ridge 3c Tiger Hill 3c Selkirk (USA) 5h Selkirk (USA) 5h Royal Applause 3c Anabaa (USA) 3c Linamix (FR) 3c Linamix (FR) 3f Verglas 3c Verglas 3c Priolo (USA) 9g American Post 3c Intikhab (USA) 3c Daggers Drawn (USA) 4c Daylami 4c Hawk Wing (USA) 3c Fasliyev (USA) 4f One Cool Cat (USA) 2f Choisir (AUS) 4c Desert Style 5m Redback 5h Noverre (USA) 3c Exit To Nowhere (USA) 5m Zafeen (FR) 2c Medecis 4c Distant Music (USA) 4c Pyrus (USA) 3c Desert Style 5h Diktat 4f Bertolini (USA) 4f Polish Precedent (USA) 5g Trans Island 3f

Margooba Gr Siwaayib Ity Attachment (USA) Gr Moment Gr Marani Fr Binche (USA) Fr House Hunting Gr Rive (USA) Gr Imbabala Fr Lady Pastel (JPN) Jpn Spritsail (USA) Gr Wing And A Prayer Gr Molasses (FR) Fr Molasses (FR) Fr Sigonella Fr Pure Speculation Usa Nationalvelvetgirl Gr Lady Dilva (FR) Fr Badaayer (USA) Fr Thoroughly Spa Bamboo Ity Desert Order Gr Be Crafty (USA) Ity Hawksleys Jill Swi Scanno’s Choice Sin Balalaika Fr Match Point Jpn Night Fall Gr Royal Interlude Gr Voyage Of Dreams (USA) Gr Palmstead Belle Ity Zarara (USA) Ity Amber Tide Usa Alarme Belle Ity Zagreb Flyer Fr Regal Maid (USA) Gr Subya Usa Mala Mala Fr Dubai Victory Fr Atnab (USA) Gr Urban Dancer Gr Gleaming Sky (SAF) Gr Isca Gr Cupid’s Target (USA) Spa Kayak Ity High Demand Ity Tashyra Gr B Beautiful Gr B Beautiful Gr Misplace Fr Lunassa (FR) Fr Multicolour Wave Fr Premiere Creation (FR) Usa Possessive Lady Gr Gioiosa (GER) Ity Semiramis Gr Liszewska Ity Au Contraire Gr Bravo Dancer Jpn Kingdom Pearl Gr L’Idea Geniale Ity Lady Lindsay Fr Our Poppet Hun Streetcar Jpn Kirvana Gr Lara’s Shock Ity Snow Lady (SWI) Fr Sadowa (GER) Ity Mia Pantera Ity Solid Golden (USA) Ity Nelly Golden (USA) Ity Golden Vizcaya (USA) Usa Cland di San Jore Ity Babalu Fr Paola Quatraro Ity Daniela Grassi Ity Clef De Sol (USA) Ity Nokomis Ity Nokomis Ity Spirit Of Peace Ity Al Ishq (FR) Fr Filfilah Fr Qurrah Fr Septieme Face (USA) Gr Hidden Silver Fr True (FR) Fr Atlantic Blue (USA) Fr Komleva (FR) Ity Shwe Dagon Fr Far Hope Ity Antinnaz Spa Photographie (USA) Gr Babacora Fr Eurostorm (USA) Jpn Licence To Thrill Gr Villa Nova Hk Marie Rheinberg (GER) Fr Crudelia Ity Tamesis Fr Changi Ity Blazing Soul Fr So Precious Usa Society Fair (FR) Fr Honours Even Gr Ballerina Bay Gr Beaming Fr Emy’s Girl (USA) Ity

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Athens Rome Athens Athens Longchamp Longchamp Athens Athens Longchamp Hanshin Athens Athens Longchamp Longchamp Maisons-Laffitte Santa Anita Athens Marseille Pont De Vivaux Chantilly Zarzuela Florence Athens Rome St Moritz Kranji Marseille Borely Hanshin Athens Athens Athens Milan Rome Golden Gate Rome Chantilly Athens Santa Anita Chantilly Longchamp Athens Athens Athens Athens Zarzuela Milan Milan Athens Athens Athens Maisons-Laffitte Saint-Cloud Maisons-Laffitte Santa Anita Athens Milan Athens Rome Athens Hanshin Athens Milan Longchamp Budapest Nakayama Athens Rome La Teste De Buch Milan Pisa Rome Rome Keeneland Milan Longchamp Rome Rome Milan Milan Milan Milan Lyon Villeurbanne Saint-Cloud Longchamp Athens Longchamp Le Croise-Laroche Longchamp Rome Saint-Cloud Milan Zarzuela Athens Chantilly Kyoto Athens Happy Valley Maisons-Laffitte Pisa Saint-Cloud Rome Maisons-Laffitte Santa Anita Toulouse Athens Athens La Teste De Buch Rome

6f 1m2f 6f 5f 1m2f110y 1m 7f 5f 1m3f 1m1f 6f 1m 1m4f 1m4f 1m 6f 7f 1m2f137y 1m 1m 1m2f 6f 1m2f110y 5f 7f 7f165y 7f 1m 5f 6f 1m 1m4f 1m 7f110y 1m2f 5f 1m 6f 1m 5f 5f 1m 7f 7f110y 1m4f 7f110y 5f 7f 1m 7f 1m2f110y 7f 1m 7f 1m 7f 1m1f 6f 7f 7f 1m2f 7f 5f 1m 7f 1m 1m 1m3f 7f110y 5f 5f 1m 1m1f 1m1f165y 1m 1m 1m1f 1m2f 1m2f 7f110y 1m1f 1m 1m2f 5f 1m 1m2f110y 1m 7f110y 1m2f110y 1m4f 1m 6f 5f 1m1f 6f 1m55y 7f 6f110y 4f110y 1m110y 1m5f 1m1f 7f 7f 7f 1m7f 7f

£9,214 £10,315 £6,379 £6,379 £11,650 £16,019 £5,457 £9,214 £11,650 £78,984 £5,741 £8,150 £25,243 (L) £38,835 (Gr3) £11,650 £13,750 £6,591 £6,796 £11,650 £5,340 £5,776 £9,214 £16,636 (L) £9,412 £9,054 £6,796 £116,458 £5,670 £7,087 £5,316 £7,427 £7,014 £16,250 £23,106 (L) £26,699 (L) £5,741 £41,667 (L) £25,243 (L) £22,816 £5,741 £11,694 £6,520 £7,087 £5,340 £7,014 £8,252 £8,292 £5,316 £5,741 £8,252 £38,835 (Gr3) £38,835 (Gr3) £23,333 £5,670 £7,427 £5,316 £10,315 £5,316 £38,364 £5,457 £7,427 £8,738 £13,818 £53,710 £6,379 £23,106 (L) £13,592 £9,077 £5,776 £8,252 £8,252 £20,451 £10,315 £22,816 £8,252 £70,145 (Gr3) £6,189 £14,441 £33,009 (Gr3) £7,427 £6,796 £11,650 £16,505 £9,214 £38,835 (Gr3) £8,738 £11,650 £7,014 £8,738 £14,441 £5,825 £6,379 £11,650 £56,779 £6,251 £89,542 £26,699 (L) £8,252 £11,650 £7,014 £10,680 £21,667 £10,194 £6,379 £6,379 £9,709 £10,315

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Treasured older mares must be shown respect Grant Pritchard-Gordon Bloodstock agent

In times of financial duress the temptation may be to sell additional assets to raise funds – but senior broodmares should be protected from this

hile many countries have initiated some excellent programmes for the retraining of racehorses, there is another area of industry welfare that deserves serious attention from breeders of every nation.

In times of recession, there is more likelihood of financial duress, the consequence of which may force breeders to consider selling additional breeding assets at auction to raise necessary funds.

One category of breeding stock now more likely to be considered for sale are older mares, who in easier times were more likely to be pensioned off in a quiet corner of the farm.

Very few auction companies around the world have age restrictions on lots to be catalogued.

They all purport to make endeavours to ensure that all horses through their sales ring are in appropriate condition to endure the stress of the auction process.

However, there is a strong groundswell of opinion that if an age limit were imposed

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to endorse the current movement and add formal pressure to SITA. The timing of the International Breeders’ Meeting in May is very opportune. A message from this meeting would crystalise the issue and give more incentive for SITA to address this issue immediately.

The relevant question is to define an ‘aged mare’. A clause from the wording of the current Keeneland entry form gives a pertinent starting point. It does not, however, address the upper age limit for a pregnant mare. It is suggested that 18 years old is also appropriate.

The Keeneland form states: “Broodmares which are 18 years old, or older, and which are presently not in foal, will not be accepted for this sale. Broodmares which have not been in foal for three consecutive years, including the present year, will not be accepted for this sale."

This particular wave of action has been prompted by the inclusion in the Australian Easter Broodmare Sale, held by William Inglis on April 14 to 16 this year, of two aged barren

“Lot 11 was a 22-year-old mare who had been barren for two years. Lot 134 was 20 years old” worldwide, then the responsibility is moved from the auctioneers back to the breeders, to ensure that aged mares are never subjected to the untold stress of being shipped to and from sales centres (sometimes a matter of days rather than hours), as well as the actual proceedings of the sale itself.

By the very nature of auctions, the eventual destination of an aged mare cannot be guaranteed, nor the extra standards of care required for an aged mare.

The matter of ‘aged mares’ is really a breeders’ problem. However, Tattersalls has been persuaded to raise this matter with the Society of International Thoroughbred Auctioneers at their next meeting in June.

The likelihood of getting any pro-active results are limited, as there is no visible body pushing for change.

It would therefore be much appreciated if the most relevant breeders’ body in the world were

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mares. Lot 111 was a 22-year-old mare who had been barren for two years.

Lot 134 was a 20 year old mare who had also been barren for two years. And this was a select sale!

It would be highly desirable to have an age limit imposed on all auctions of bloodstock around the world.

This would concentrate the minds of hobby breeders who are not prepared to spend the additional time and money on the welfare of aged mares. Their mare would move from being a tradeable commodity to a welfare liability at the stroke of a pen.

It would also enable the industry to educate breeders on the adage that ‘Old Mares Are For Life’.

No one denies that they can be very rewarding, both financially and as friends, but most importantly there would be an immediate safety net in place to limit any future abuse.

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