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Racing’s chance to make up ground in sports race

t was fascinating to watch the recent media circus surrounding Fabio Capello, Harry Redknapp and Luis Suarez, three men involved in various scandals and controversies in the football world. They say any publicity is good publicity but when the issues in the spotlight include allegations of serious fraud and racism, there must be few people, if any, who feel that the ‘beautiful game’ has emerged with much credit from its recent spell on the front pages. Certainly, of the trio above, only Mr Redknapp enjoyed a happy outcome. How racing would love to gain a successful verdict in its own offshore battle! Looking at the bigger picture, I wonder if a growing disenchantment with our national sport could leave the door open for others? We often hear how horseracing has “lost its relevance” with people in this country. In his column last month, Tony Morris, who has followed thoroughbreds since the 1950s, pointed to the Sport of Kings losing out in the popularity stakes to other sports and pastimes in which it is easier to participate, claiming it is “a minority-interest sport and inevitably so when most people are brought up in towns, where they never see a horse”. The betting industry, meanwhile, is united – not a phrase you’ll hear too often – in its assertion that racing’s share of the market is rapidly dwindling. So it’s all doom and gloom – or is it? Racing may be starting towards the back of a competitive field in the overall sports race, but it can start to gain ground against flagging rivals. Perhaps some editors will start to realise that people are bored of reading stories about overpaid, underperforming footballers who lack integrity. How many times does anyone want to read about a nonhandshake? Match of the Day broadcast slow motion replays of the incident, from different angles. The pundits argued about who was to blame. And I changed the channel.

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If the mainstream media decides it may be worth covering some real sport, it should look no further than Cheltenham, for the stars on show at the Festival will be giving their all on the field of play, human and equine. No handshakes needed here. Two trainers heading to Prestbury Park with big hopes are Colin Tizzard and Martin Keighley, both in charge of burgeoning strings and harbouring real contenders for the major prizes. For Tizzard, who talks to Alan Lee about his unique set-up (pages 46-40), it is very much a family affair, with son Joe riding the horses. Cue Card, winner of the Champion Bumper in 2010 and fourth in last year’s Supreme Novices’ Hurdle, is the stable star and heading straight for the Arkle Trophy after a slight knock ruled him out of a prep run. Martin Keighley also relies on his nearest and dearest to help his operation run smoothly; wife Belinda does most of the administration and entries and also deals with owners, not to mention caring for the couple’s two young children. Having spent his youth working for the late, great David Nicholson, who sent out 17 winners at the Cheltenham Festival, Keighley explains to Tim Richards (pages 40-44) what it would mean to get his first winner at jump racing’s Olympics, and what it was like to work for ‘The Duke’. “I learnt so many things from him, but manners and turnout stand out,” Keighley recalls. “He bollocked you when you needed it but then moved on and the next minute was grand. I admired him for that.” Another man who enjoyed plenty of big days at Cheltenham was Josh Gifford, who sadly passed away in February. Whilst I never had the privilege of meeting Mr Gifford, I recall some of his many big winners, including Deep Sensation, Bradbury Star and Brief Gale. Our tribute to this great racehorse trainer is on pages 16-17.

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CONTENTS MARCH 2012

46 NEWS & VIEWS 7

ROA Leader

52 FEATURES 16

TBA Leader

News

Changes

Tony Morris The brilliance of Sea-Bird

INTERNATIONAL SCENE View From Ireland ITBA Awards night

Continental Tales Espen Ski slides into trouble

Around The Globe Barbara Banke looks to future

Talking To...

The Tizzards Dorset stable has high hopes for Cheltenham

Haras de la Cauviniere French stud on the up

Breeders’ Digest Yearling Bonus Scheme D-day

Sales Circuit From Europe and South Africa

104 Flashback Monksfield in 1979

James Willoughby Sectionals point to Hurricane

Cheltenham Preview

Trainer Martin Keighley

Your monthly round-up

Foundation Mares

Rathbarry & Yorton Cashman operations in focus

Your essential betting guide

Marwan Koukash’s offer

Drumrora

Mares’ races vital

Josh Gifford Tribute to the late trainer

Fixture list delays help no-one

Wishfull Thinking (blue) is tipped in our Festival preview (pages 38-39)

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TBA Forum Stallion Parade a hit

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Racing Welfare News and views

Vet Forum HBLB Code of Practice

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European Pattern Results and reviews

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ROA LEADER

RACHEL HOOD President Racehorse Owners Association

Sorting the fixture list: it’s not rocket science The industry cannot afford to repeat the embarrassing mess of last year

t a time when the horse population continues its recent decline, tough decisions need to be made about the fixture list and race programme for the coming years. And they need to be made in an efficient, rational, responsive and effective manner. As part of the detailed discussions between horsemen, racecourses, BHA and Levy Board on this crucial issue, there must be a sensible deadline set for the completion of the fixture list. Without this, we will end up in the same embarrassing mess as last year when the 2012 fixture list was completed so late that many diaries and calendars either had to be published without the information, or risked missing the Christmas market. We rightly aspire to spend much time and energy on marketing British racing and yet seemingly ignore the fact that the annual fixture list is one of the central marketing planks of any professional sport. A multimillion pound sport that cannot organise itself in a way where the list of fixtures is compiled on time deserves to be ridiculed. People in British racing may point to the complications of our fixture process, but the world outside merely shakes its collective head in disbelief. Whatever the whys and wherefores, it is simply about agreeing that certain race-meetings should take place on specified days. Rocket science it isn’t. A further important consideration now hangs over the whole fixture process. With fewer horses in training, logic demands there should be fewer fixtures. If not, field sizes will get smaller and races less competitive, reducing racing’s appeal as a spectator sport and a betting medium. Figures show a worrying trend in this direction. Flat races having fewer than eight runners increased from 18% in 2007 to 30% in 2011. While the number of horses in training reduced by 8.6% last year, fixtures shrunk by only 3.2% – and this at a time when racecourses increasingly stage more races per fixture. It is a concern that the Levy Board continues to be swayed by the demands of bookmakers in insisting that

more is better, while the racecourses, primarily interested in maximising their media rights income, grasp every fixture they can get. This is, however, not just about fixtures. It is also about the creation of a race programme that matches the profile of the horse population. The two things must work in tandem. Racing insiders will tell you that, in these commercially driven days, it is impractical to finalise a fixture list before levy negotiations have been completed, which, in essence, means after the statutory deadline of October 31. The solution therefore is to establish a core fixture list well before that date, say the end of August. Since the core is likely to constitute over 90% of fixtures – and those remaining will be of very moderate quality – the effect on the officially published fixture list would be minimal. Market forces would then come into play for those interested in staging the non-core fixtures. If bookmakers are prepared to pay for them, racecourses want to put them on and, crucially, the horsemen can provide the horses, then I say, through gritted teeth, let it happen. But these poor quality fixtures will need to find their own level. The diminishing horse population means there is an increasing probability that these races will attract small fields of moderate horses. In the current economic climate, they hold limited attraction for racegoers and punters. With all this, it is, as ever, vitally important that the meritocratic principles underpinning our race programme remain firmly entrenched in the system, which, in the simplest of terms, means the better the horse the better the prize-money. The fixture process must be about knowing where to draw the line – the line between the proper fixture list and the bits that bookmakers, racecourses and horsemen can haggle over in their final negotiations. Let everybody agree on this as a starting point for 2013.

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KIRSTEN RAUSING Chairman Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association

Taking initiative to boost appeal of mares in training National Hunt Committee plans to reward courses staging mares’ races

wo well-respected annual publications recently landed on my desk: Weatherbys Bloodstock Sales Review and the General Stud Book Fact Book. The former is famed for its analysis of the past year’s sales, meticulously prepared by Michael Ross and providing a valuable final independent perspective on the year’s trade. Setting 2011 results against the background of a worldwide economic crisis, Ross outlined clear reasons for the challenges we faced in selling our bloodstock. However, he too was surprised the European bloodstock sales bucked the trend with improved figures almost across the board. A combination of reduced catalogue numbers, a global market hungry for the best bloodstock buying at favourable currency rates, and a feeling of confidence generated at earlier international sales created a positive outcome, with sufficient optimism to encourage breeders to invest and plan for the future. A wealth of headline data published in the Fact Book suggests the severe corrections witnessed by the British and Irish bloodstock industries in 2007/8 have largely levelled out and numbers appear to be stabilising. I hope overproduction is a phenomenon of the past and that British and Irish breeders, whilst consolidating their businesses, take encouragement from the demand witnessed for quality bloodstock. This information is vital to breeders and Weatherbys are to be congratulated for providing well-presented, accurate information. All breeders share the same goals: to improve the quality of their stock, first and foremost producing an athlete. I believe stallion selection must, therefore, focus on suitable conformation, performance and pedigree, particularly in a discerning market. There would appear to be a consolidation in the number of commercial sires and no more so than in the National Hunt market. It is undeniably tough for British National Hunt breeders but, thanks to the TBA Elite Mares Scheme, devised by the TBA NH Committee and funded by the Levy Board, we have seen a significant increase in the number of quality mares visiting

British-based sires this year (see TBA Forum, page 81). Despite representing 50% of the thoroughbred population, mares account for less than 20% of the NH horses in training with a published rating. It is vital that the racing industry addresses this unused resource and supports a programme of races to exclusively test mares at all levels. In support of this aspiration, the TBA will also be sponsoring two Listed mares’ novice hurdles in 2012, providing valuable black type opportunities for mares, the first of which is being run at Cheltenham on April 19. We have also launched an annual award to recognise and reward racecourses which outperformed in the number of mares races staged in a season. This latest initiative provides a further incentive by way of additional race sponsorship to support these courses. Together with plans to launch a monthly mares’ award later this year, I must congratulate NH Chairman Robert Waley-Cohen and his committee – and wish him the best of luck at the Festival! Our message to the racing industry is “quality matters”. This should be the mantra of British racing. I hear alarm bells rang in Newmarket in February when Paul Bittar addressed a group of industry representatives, leading trainers and breeders. As a result we need to press home the message that the global attraction of our sport relies on the quality of the British-trained horses and the calibre of racing we stage. This is intrinsically linked to the health of the domestic breeding industry. If we fail to recognise this, we risk the unique nature of British racing. Wise words from one of our leading trainers reminded those present at the introduction of Paul in Newmarket that, despite the most encouraging signs from government, valuable income from licensing offshore betting operators and exchanges is still, even for the optimists, some way off boosting prize-money. There is, therefore, the greatest need to pay full attention to maintaining and enhancing the quality of British racing now, if we are to retain the support of the global bloodstock market.

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NEWS Stories from the racing world

Kash donations for charity Owner gives money and racehorse to help Racing Welfare

Unbeaten colt to stay at home

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Dabirsim team opt for France

Marwan Koukash, with daughter Lexi, wants to attract more owners to the sport

Leading racehorse owner Marwan Koukash has pledged to give a percentage of his prize-money winnings from Group races and heritage handicaps this year to Racing Welfare – and he would like others to follow his lead. Koukash, who has become a patron of the charity that helps people who work or have worked in the racing and breeding industries, is also trying to encourage more businesses to get involved in ownership. He has decided to offer a two-year-old colt, in training with David Simcock, free for a whole year to any business that is prepared to make a suitable donation to Racing Welfare.

By Chairman Paul Dixon Future structure tops agenda Now that 2012 is underway, it is clear to those involved in driving our sport forward that the much-awaited ‘future structure’ is top of the agenda. This is especially so following the arrival of Paul Bittar, finally enabling the BHA to participate fully in discussions. The Horsemen’s Group is crystal clear as to what the restructuring is meant to achieve, and what we believe should happen to achieve it.

Koukash said: “I hope that by offering a colt to any company or group wanting to experience racehorse ownership in return for a donation to the charity, I can illustrate what can be done to help Racing Welfare.” A stellar year in 2011 saw Koukash bag a number of big prizes, including the Cesarewitch with Never Can Tell and the Ayr Gold Cup with Our Jonathan. The owner has already donated a significant percentage of the prize-money won in those races to Racing Welfare. For more details on Marwan Koukash’s offer and Racing Welfare, see pages 88-89.

The restructuring will lead to clarity as to how the commercial side of our industry is led, with the BHA stepping aside from its already diminishing part in this task to concentrate on a regulatory and disciplinary mandate. That, in turn, means the commercial leadership of the industry being devolved to the two elements of the industry with financial interests and expertise: the racecourses, on the one hand, and the horsemen on the other. The detail – the fine print – of the restructuring needs to enable decisions by these two entities to be made in a clear, transparent and streamlined manner, rather than lazily resting on the idle hope that ‘racing’ will agree on every issue. Let me explain what I mean. Whereas

Dabirsim, the joint-champion two-yearold of 2011 following an unbeaten first season, will miss the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket on May 5 in favour of the French equivalent eight days later. Trained in France by Christophe Ferland, the son of Hat Trick captured two Group 1s last year, recording an easy three-length victory in the Prix Morny at Deauville over six furlongs before successfully stepping up an extra furlong in the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere at Longchamp on Arc day. “We’ve decided Dabirsim will be trained for the Poule d’Essai des Poulains,” his trainer said. “His reappearance will be in the Prix Fontainebleau [April 15] over the same course at Longchamp, which we know suits him well.” The ante-post favourite for the 2,000 Guineas is the Aidan O’Brien-trained Camelot, who rounded off his juvenile campaign with a facile win in the Group 1 Racing Post Trophy at Doncaster.

both racecourse executives and, say, trainers are both professionally involved in racing, their business models are, in some ways at

“We need to remove

unnecessary public debate over who gets what from where” least, in natural tension. Racecourses, for example, have (in some cases fiduciary) duties to their shareholders to maximise profits. This partially involves

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Strong trade delights Goffs

TBA Chairman Kirsten Rausing (right) is a mentor on the Women In Racing scheme

Mentoring scheme launched Women In Racing (WIR), the organisation set up to develop the profile of females in the sport, has launched a nationwide mentoring programme. The scheme will pair individuals already working in the industry with senior racing figures. The mentor will provide one-to-one guidance and support to help the recipient progress their careers. An impressive list of mentors singed up the scheme includes TBA Chairman and Lanwades Stud owner Kirsten Rausing, ROA Council member and qualified life coach Dena Arstall and Penny Boys, former governmentappointed member of the Levy Board. Sally Rowley-Williams, WIR Chairman and ROA Council member, said: “Mentoring has been a key objective from the start of Women In Racing. I am delighted that we are now in a

maximising the number of fixtures and minimising the amount of their revenue they put into prize-money. Trainers, meanwhile, make their business work by attracting as many fee-paying owners as possible, and by taking a percentage of a horse’s winnings. Both these revenue streams are affected heavily by the level of prizemoney – which racecourse profits benefit from minimising! Or take the negotiation of the levy. For horsemen, negotiating the levy with the betting industry is an uncomplicated affair, as it is the only commercial contact we have with bookmakers. Racecourses, however, have substantial TV rights agreements with the same companies, not to mention sponsorship contracts and corporate hospitality. And these THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

position to launch a formal programme with 20 senior members as mentors, based in Scotland and northern England right through the midlands and the south across all facets of the industry. “This means we are in a position to offer guidance and developmental support for our less experienced members wherever they are located as they navigate their way through their careers. “We are proud to be in a position to offer this cross-industry development and believe it will benefit racing at large. Naturally, we welcome new members who wish to participate in this programme as either mentor or mentee.” For more information about the mentoring programme and Women In Racing, see www.womeninracing.co.uk

revenues, unlike the levy, do not have to flow into prize-money for horsemen: they flow direct to the racecourses. Furthermore, the main bargaining chip with bookmakers – the fixtures – is harder to press for racecourses, who want as many fixtures as possible.

Keep discussions ‘in-house’ So if racing is to present a united front to the outside world, it will only happen if there are strong commercial structures and agreements in place which remove unnecessary public debate over who gets what, from where. There is a successful model for this. Racecourses sell TV picture rights to overseas betting jurisdictions, but to do so need horsemen to consent to 48-hour declarations: a deal was therefore done between the courses

As we went to press, Goffs’ two-day February Sale was underway, with Teo’s Sister, a winning sister to Galileo’s champion two-year-old Teofilo, topping proceedings after selling to Haras de Bernesy for €500,000 from her breeder Jim Bolger’s Glebe House Stables. The first day’s trade was headed by a first-crop Mastercraftsman yearling halfsister to new Rathbarry sire Lilbourne Lad. Kildare-based Swordlestown Little offered the March-foaled filly who was bought by Timmy Hyde for €200,000. Speaking at the end of the first session, which saw turnover rise by 103% on last year’s opening day and the average and median post gains of 56% and 20% respectively, Goffs’ Chief Executive Henry Beeby said: “We are delighted with the level of trade today. An improved catalogue has seen strong competition amongst a large and diverse bunch of buyers, and the fact that we have far surpassed last year’s top priced yearling on six different occasions demonstrates the quality of horses on offer.” John Ferguson secured a yearling by New Approach, who has his first runners this year, for €120,000. The Castlebridgeconsigned colt is a half-brother to Chesham Stakes winner Big Audio. Of the 269 horses offered during the opening session, 147 (54.6%) found new homes, with first-crop yearlings by Bushranger and Intense Focus also featuring among the top ten. Sales Circuit, pages 69-73.

and the Horsemen’s Group to pay a percentage of these revenues to horsemen through prize money. Last year this realised £1.2 million, with automatic increases as the overseas income grows. Therefore, because of a strong commercial deal British racing is able to sell itself overseas in an uncomplicated, transparent and united way. Ultimately, the restructuring needs to be based around a commercial vehicle, owned and controlled in equal part by racecourses and horsemen, in which these natural tensions can be resolved and into which revenues can flow, to be allocated as a result of internal commercial negotiations. Such a body does already exist – Racing Enterprises Limited – and since a lot of time and money was spent setting up, why not use it?

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NEWS

The JP McManus-owned Synchronised, who captured the Grade 1 Lexus Chase at Leopardstown over Christmas, has been allotted top weight of 11st 10lb in the John Smith’s Grand National on April 14. Of the 82 entries for this year’s Aintree showpiece, 69 are in the handicap, and the track’s Managing Director, Julian Thick, said: “It is tremendous to see that. The 2012 renewal of the John Smith’s Grand National promises to be a race full of quality, with a higher percentage of horses rated over 135 than ever before.” Jonjo O’Neill, Synchronised’s trainer, said: “He has been given a fair chance by the handicapper. We know he goes on better ground and is in good old form.” The Lexus Chase winner was not, however, in good enough form to contest the Hennessy Gold Cup at Leopardstown. He could run in the Betfred Cheltenham Gold Cup in advance of further consideration about Aintree. Making entry criteria more stringent was among the consequences of the review into the Grand National conducted by the BHA in the

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Synchronised has ‘fair chance’ in National

Grand National-winning trainers Jonjo O’Neill (left) and Donald McCain in London

wake of last year’s race, in which two horses died and plenty more were drenched in water after crossing the finishing line on an unusually hot day at Aintree. Winning jockey Jason Maguire received a whip ban for his ride on Ballabriggs, who is one of the favourites again this time, and has been

allotted second-top weight of 11st 9lb. The sport will be holding its collective breath on April 14, in the hope that events at Aintree do not provide further grist to the tabloids’ mill. The Grand National has record prize-money of £975,000 this year, with 2013 likely to witness the first £1 million National.

Refuse To Bend death a blow to French industry Darley’s stallion operation has suffered a second blow since the start of the new year with the death of 12-year-old Refuse To Bend just six weeks after the loss of Irish-based Echo Of Light. The sire of the Aga Khan’s multiple Group 1 winner Sarafina, who was recently sold privately to Teruya Yoshida as a broodmare, Refuse To Bend was about to embark on his

first season at Haras du Logis in France when he suffered a heart attack on February 10. He won the 2,000 Guineas in 2003 when trained by Dermot Weld for his breeder Moyglare Stud, and went on to win the Queen Anne Stakes at four after being bought by Sheikh Mohammed to race for Godolphin. By Sadler’s Wells out of the Gulch mare Market Slide, Refuse To Bend was a half-

Darley sire Refuse To Bend was about to start his first season at Haras du Logis

brother to Melbourne Cup winner Media Puzzle and embarked on his stallion career at Darley’s Kildangan Stud in Co Kildare in 2005. He was also leased for two seasons to Whitsbury Manor Stud and had stints shuttling to Australia and Brazil. His best results on the track had come in France, where he was also responsible for Wavering, who won the Group 1 Prix SaintAlary the year after Sarafina, making relocation to Normandy an obvious progression. Sam Bullard, Darley’s Director of Stallions, said: “Refuse To Bend was a superb racehorse and he had it all ahead of him as a stallion. His progeny had a wonderful 2010 and 2011 and he was proving very popular in France.” Ten-year-old Echo Of Light was put down at Kildangan Stud after fracturing a leg in a paddock accident at the beginning of January. He was represented by his first runners in 2011 and sired four winners from 31 starters, including the Listed-placed Sound Advice. His loss will be felt keenly by Darley as he was one of just two sons of the late Dubai Millennium to stand at stud, the other being arguably the operation’s top stallion, Dubawi.

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TWEENHILLS TIMES AN EYE FOR SUCCESS

MARCH 2012

hot tips for Cheltenham Several horses purchased by David Redvers Bloodstock have a great chance at the forthcoming Cheltenham Festival. The unbeaten five-year-old Darlan heads for the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle for trainer Nicky Henderson. He was purchased for just 13,000gns from the DBS Foal Sales and after winning a bumper he was subsequently sold for a six-figure sum to JP McManus. Pearl Bloodstock’s first jumping horse, Vulcanite, is also in the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle.

Tweenhills first foals

In addition, the formerly Pearl Bloodstock owned, Pearl Swan, is a strong contender in the Triumph Hurdle following his recent success for trainer Paul Nicholls.

The unbeaten Darlan, is one of the favourites for the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle

STAFF PROFILE Leigh De Clifford, BVSc, MRCVS, Resident Vet

A filly out of Honesty Pays by Hellvelyn is one of several foals born at Tweenhills so far this year

A host of new foals have been arriving at Tweenhills Farm & Stud, primarily by first-season sires. The Stakes winning mare Clifton Dancer was the first to foal at the stud producing an attractive filly by Equiano on 15th January. Another first-season sire and Group winning sprinter, Hellvelyn, is represented by two cracking filly foals, one out of Honesty Pays owned by Audrey Hill who boards her mare at Tweenhills, and another out of Startori for Redmyre Bloodstock. Also Eliza Doolittle foaled a filly by Starspangledbanner on 20th January for Redland Bloodstock. Another Redland Bloodstock mare to have already foaled at Tweenhills is Tropical Breeze who produced a cracking colt by Hellvelyn. Tropical Breeze herself was purchased for just £31,000 and the Dubawi filly she was carrying realised 120,000gns at Tattersalls last year.

What did you do before joining Tweenhills? I’d previously worked for a specialist equine clinic for three years in Australia, where I was born, having qualified in New Zealand. The clinic dealt with both thoroughbreds and sport horses so also provided services for AI and embryo transfer.

Pearl Bloodstock’s, Vulcanite, heads for the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival

Why Tweenhills? The opportunity arose following a chance meeting at the Melbourne Cup between David and Kim McKeller, owner of Wyndholm Park Stud and a great mentor of mine being a vet himself. Future ambitions? I find the advances they have made in equine veterinary medicine challenging and very exciting. It is my ambition to be at the forefront of future developments and to continually fine-tune my expertise. Other interests? Cricket, hunting and rugby, so I’m enjoying watching the Six Nations whilst I’m over here.

first foals for makfi Tweenhills’ resident sire, Makfi, has had some great first foals. The first, a colt out of Raisonable, a half-sister to the Gr.2 winner and Gr.1 placed Legerete, was born at Haras des Monceaux on 20th January. Soon after, Kildangan Stud welcomed a colt out of Kassiopeia whose Oasis Dream yearling realised 700,000gns last year. Two more foals born in France included a colt born at Haras de Mezeray out of Time Pressure, a half-sister to Gr.2 winner Time On, and at Haras de Meautry the Stakes mare Russian Hill foaled a filly on 8th February. Nick Bell, manager at Haras de Meautry, said: “We are extremely happy with our filly

by Makfi, she is big, strong and a very nice type.” Breeder Dr Bridget Drew was also delighted with her Makfi colt, a three-parts brother to the Group winning filly Perfect Tribute, and said: “He is absolutely stunning and has so much presence. A big strong foal, we are thrilled with him.”

At the time of writing we have not had any Makfi foals born at Tweenhills, but I’ve been inundated with photographs from ecstatic breeders, and I can’t wait to see a few in the flesh. David Redvers, Stud Manager

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A true gentleman Josh Gifford passed away in February at the age of 70. He enjoyed a distinguished career as both a jockey and trainer and was a legend in his sport Photos George Selwyn

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Clockwise from main image: Josh Gifford doffs his cap after Golden Minstrel gives him a first Cheltenham Festival winner in 1988; with Aldaniti and Bob Champion on the morning of their 1981 Grand National success; Kybo demolishes a hurdle at Ascot; Brief Gale and Philip Hide en route to 1995 Sun Alliance Chase glory; Deep Sensation (left) edges out Cyphrate in the 1993 Champion Chase

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THE MAN YOU CAN’T IGNORE COMMENT

Tony Morris No horse has left such an indelible impression than that born 50 years ago this month, the mighty Sea-Bird, whose Timeform assessment of 145 has not been matched since

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here was no reason to expect anything special from the chesnut colt born at the Haras de Victot in Calvados on March 8, 1962. His pedigree was so-so and he could not be considered any more likely to distinguish himself than a thousand other new arrivals in France that spring. But the 50th anniversary of that apparently mundane event deserves to be marked and celebrated, for that colt was Sea-Bird, who would achieve enduring renown as most people’s idea of the outstanding thoroughbred of the 20th century. We recognised his supreme talents in his exceptional performances as a three-year-old and we are still waiting to see them matched by a 21st century horse. Sea-Bird’s sire was Dan Cupid, a son of Native Dancer who had shown promise as a juvenile with three victories and placings in the Prix Morny and Middle Park Stakes, and at three added two more wins in minor events, efforts which signified far less than the standout performance of his career, when a neck second to champion Herbager in the Prix du JockeyClub. His record of five wins from 15 starts could only be considered disappointing for one capable of that form at Classic level. Perhaps it had been a fluke. There were no great expectations for Dan Cupid’s stud career and among his first-season mates Sicambre’s daughter Sicalade hardly appealed as one destined to aid his cause. Her best showing on a racecourse was to dead-heat for second in minor company and that made her the fifth in consecutive generations of her female family without a Flat race win. Her dam Marmelade had been unplaced on her only start and her dam Couleur had to go jumping to register a victory. The next dam Colour Bar was no better than third in a seller and she was out of Lady Disdain, unsuccessful in two efforts. There was just one runner of distinction from the family in recent generations – Marmelade’s half-sister Camaree, who had brought Jean Ternynck his first Classic when successful in the 1,000 Guineas of 1950. That at least provided some justification for her owner/breeder to persevere with a family

Sea-Bird: the 50th anniversary of the stunning Arc winner’s birth falls on March 8

that was more miss than hit. Time would tell Dan Cupid was anything but an outstanding sire. Sicalade, who had problems giving birth to all three of her foals, would be put down as a barren seven-year-old, supposedly more bother than she was worth. But somehow their unpropitious alliance resulted in a paragon of the breed.

Precocious, moi? Non! Ternynck sent Sea-Bird to his distant cousin Etienne Pollet, who had trained Dan Cupid and had two other products of the horse in his Chantilly yard in 1964. The one who would distinguish himself was nothing like so precocious as his sire, who had made a winning debut over five furlongs in June. It was September before the big, leggy, backward SeaBird had his first outing, over seven furlongs at Chantilly. Palpably green, he missed the break, but there was promise in the way he made up the ground to win by a neck. Little more than two weeks later he won again by the same margin

in the Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte, his immediate victim being Blabla, who would win the Prix de Diane a year later. Sea-Bird was already clearly smart – smart enough to warrant an entry in the Grand Criterium – but Pollet and rider Pat Glennon both reckoned he was not yet up to matching their precocious star Grey Dawn, who had impressive wins in the Prix Morny and Prix de la Salamandre on his CV. Grey Dawn duly won, earning the title of champion juvenile as a consequence, though many felt that Sea-Bird, two lengths behind him at the finish, would have finished a lot closer if Maurice Larraun had launched his challenge earlier. Sea-Bird went into his second season acknowledged as a high-class performer and we did not have to wait long before realising he could be special. He resumed in the Prix Greffulhe, over ten and a half furlongs at Longchamp in April, recording a smooth threelength win. Six weeks later he was set a tougher task over that course and distance in the Prix Lupin – and it was then that many began to talk THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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him up as a superstar. His foes included hitherto unbeaten Diatome and Cambremont, who had dealt Grey Dawn a defeat in the Poule d’Essai des Poulains. They would surely test him. But no, more impressive than ever, he blew them away, scoring by six lengths with any amount in hand. France knew the Derby represented a formality. England was not so sure and on the day he could be backed at 7-4. Many a Derby has been won by wider margins but few can have been won with such effortless ease. Sea-Bird was still on the bridle when he assumed command, was ridden for just a few strides to assert his dominance, and was back on the bit by the line, where Meadow Court was flattered as two-length runner-up.

Evidence mounts We still did not have to believe that Sea-Bird was the reincarnation of Pegasus. Maybe he had just beaten a sub-standard field. Then Meadow Court won the Irish Derby – and after that the King George. Those results and Sea-Bird’s win over older rivals in the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud provided hard evidence he was truly exceptional. If there were still any non-believers, the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe converted them. Sea-Bird thrived noticeably during his three-month break from competition; on Arc day he was a bigger, stronger, more impressive physical specimen than the one we had seen at Epsom and, though he sweated up a bit, he looked the picture of health. But there was nothing about the field to suggest he was about to be presented with the Arc on a plate. The best Europe could muster were on hand, including an undefeated compatriot in Reliance, who had won the Prix du Jockey-Club, the Grand Prix de Paris and the Prix-Royal Oak. America’s top three-year-old Tom Rolfe, the Preakness winner, was also among Sea-Bird’s 19 rivals. There had never been an Arc with comparable depth of quality. How Sea-Bird dealt with such apparently formidable opposition had to be seen to be believed. When he and Reliance drew out from the pack, a duel between them all the way to the line seemed on the cards. That is not what we got. As Reliance demonstrated his marked superiority over 18 of his rivals, he was himself being left for dead by the horse who on that day was the champion of champions. Sea-Bird’s margin over Reliance was six lengths and there were five more back to third-placed Diatome. There was nothing more that Sea-Bird could have achieved, but in the course of the six weeks that followed compliments were paid to him by his victims. Diatome won the Washington DC International, fifth-placed Anilin won the Preis von Europa by four lengths, and Demi Deuil, far back in seventh at Longchamp, came out on top by seven lengths in the Premio Roma. And there were other accolades, not least Timeform’s assessment of his merit at 145, a mark yet to be matched by any runner since 1965. The French official handicap for three-year-olds and up ranked him 9lb superior to the best older horse, an equally telling tribute to the supreme equine athlete of that or any other era. A lifetime in racing has provided me with the privilege of seeing a host of great horses, but still none to make such an indelible impression as the chesnut colt who first saw the light of day 50 years ago this month.

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JAMES WILLOUGHBY COMMENT

Big Buck’s is a brilliant hurdler but our columnist uses sectional times to argue that Hurricane Fly is the superior performer – and he likes Sprinter Sacre, too

Put your bucks on the Fly

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t has been said that the best jumps horse in training is Big Buck’s. As a student of times and sectionals, I have no truck for that. The best and most talented jumps horse is Hurricane Fly. When he won last year’s Champion Hurdle, the brilliance of his effort was disguised by the run of the race. The sectionals here enables the reader to make a direct comparison on the clock between the Champion and Supreme Novices’. It is easy to see that the early pace in the Supreme was much stronger. The race might have been run over two miles and half a furlong, but the qualities it emphasised were more those belonging to three-milers. Indeed, the winner Al Ferof may well turn out best over a significantly longer trip, making his effort in the two-mile Victor Chandler Chase this season all the more praiseworthy. While an experienced eye could doubtless have reached a similar conclusion about the Supreme, I seriously doubt even the most experienced race-watcher could have properly analysed the Champion Hurdle without the objective data provided by sectional times. That Hurricane Fly clocked a slower time in the Champion than Al Ferof in the Supreme is no basis to compare the merit of the two horses. Instead, it was a reflection of the contrasting way both races were run. Understanding that detail from 12 months ago is extremely relevant in anticipating that we might see a much more commanding display this year. As his other performances have hinted, this is a horse capable of winning a Champion Hurdle in dominating fashion – not scrambling home like last year. Look again at the sectionals. Hurricane Fly – held up in midfield – reached the fourth-last nearly three and a half seconds slower than Al Ferof in the Supreme, despite the latter being patiently ridden by the jockey who was on both horses, Ruby Walsh. Walsh has said the relatively steady pace of the Champion caused Hurricane Fly to race too keenly, a tendency he now attributes to immaturity. He had already run 11 times over hurdles but it always pays to take Walsh at his word. What happened in the Champion did Hurricane Fly no favours at all. No doubt mindful of the steady gallop, Jason Maguire on the leader Peddlers Cross kicked for home. As the field were still relatively fresh,

Assessing how the Champion was run makes you appreciate Hurricane Fly (right)

Winners’ sectional times SUPREME NOVICES’ & CHAMPION HURDLE 2011 Elapsed time

Winner

to 2nd 4th 3 out last

line

Al Ferof

49.3 116.1 173.6 216.6 229.5

Hurricane Fly

51.0 119.5 174.7 217.1 230.4

Split time Winner

to 2nd 4th 3 out last

line

Al Ferof

49.3

66.8

57.5 43.0 12.9

Hurricane Fly

51.0

68.5

55.2 42.4 13.3

Times in seconds and specific to each horse

this served to compress the Champion into a furious middle-section between the fourthlast hurdle and last, during which the speed horses reached was going to be unsustainable. Look at the column under ‘to line’ in the table. The Champion Hurdle horses were better than those in the Supreme and they had run at a slower early pace, yet Hurricane Fly and Peddlers Cross could still not run as fast a split time for the run-in as Al Ferof had. This type of slow-fast-slow pattern is common in top-class races, both over jumps and on the Flat. Among good horses, there is

a preponderance of ability to accelerate, so the early pace tends to err on the cautious side. But, faced with this type of race, many riders are keen to make the first move (and even keener, perhaps, to be credited with enterprise) and the pace peaks too far from home for the horses to run evenly. For this reason and others related to pace, it is a fact that the tempo of the majority of a race is not conducive to the winner showing full superiority. Races like the Champion, in effect, have the tendency to drag the best horse towards the level of inferiors – not that having to struggle with Peddlers Cross is any real disgrace. The comparison between the Champion and Supreme also led to another hidden gem last year, one that has been polished for all to see this season: owing to the strong pace, the best horse did not win the Supreme. Sprinter Scare, beaten five lengths in third by Al Ferof, was ridden too aggressively in the circumstances by AP McCoy. He was kicked ahead three out off the strong fractions and led the field while going strongly running down the hill. But in hitting his peak speed so far out, the efficiency of his muscles would have been severely compromised before the final flight and he duly faded up the hill. He can make up for that in this year’s Arkle.

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THE FOUNDATION MARES By JEREMY EARLY

DRUMRORA Unraced through wartime restrictions, Edward Courage’s half-bred mare left an impressive jumping dynasty, including the great Spanish Steps and Oscars Well

“Courage never had any reason to regret the money he spent on Drumrora” One of Pride Of Mabestown’s daughters, Mabestown, also won several steeplechases and foaled Pride Of Drumrora, who was on the mark in point-to-points and gained third prize at the Royal Dublin Show in 1923. She in turn produced Drumrora, who never ran, due in part to wartime restrictions. In 1946 Drumrora was bought by Edward Courage, a director of the brewing family and

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he theory that jumpers are bred by accident rather than design has had currency for a long time, and not just with hurdlers – to name three giants of the late 20th century, Red Rum, Night Nurse and Desert Orchid were respectively by miler Quorum, precocious juvenile Falcon and miler Grey Mirage. An aptitude for jumping comes principally from the way a horse is trained but that’s not to say there is an absence of families with a record for producing first-rate jumpers over a long period. The line tracing to Drumrora and beyond is a classic and marvellous example of this, one with current relevance due to the successes over the last couple of seasons of dual Grade 1 winner Oscars Well, Skint and Wymott. Drumrora, by Friar Gray and foaled in 1935, was a half-bred but the family was included in Bobinski’s Family Table of Racehorses, published in the 1950s, on account of there being a Grand National winner there in the shape of Drumcree, who ran second at Aintree in 1901, then triumphed in 1903. Drumcree was by the best jump sire of the day, Ascetic, out of a winning Irish chaser named Witching Hour. His younger sister Pride Of Mabestown landed six chases – she also contested two Nationals, including Drumcree’s – and produced several successful chasers including seven-time winner Pride Of Delvin.

Drumrora’s daughter Tiberetta won nine chases and produced Lictor and Spanish Steps

a big chasing fan who not only bred and owned his runners but also trained them near Banbury. Courage never had any reason to regret the money he spent on Drumrora since she produced four winning daughters, three of whom – Tiberetta, Tiberina and French Colleen – excelled for him at stud. Tiberina and French Colleen were not brilliant runners, though they won four chases and two point-to-points between them, but Tiberetta, a sister to Tiberina by Ascot Gold Cup winner Tiberius, was exceptional. A flawless jumper, she ran over 50 times and won nine chases headed by the Becher Chase and Grand Sefton Chase, both at Aintree, where she also finished third in the 1957 Grand National and second behind Mr What in the 1958 edition. Tiberetta foaled seven winners, the pick of them Lictor, successful in the Topham Trophy, and even better, the consistent Spanish Steps,

who won 16 races, 12 of them over fences. Spanish Steps was a standing dish in the major chases of the 1970s, picking up such top events as the Champion Novices’ Chase at Cheltenham and the Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup under 11st 8lb. Continuing a fine family tradition, he was once third and twice fourth in the Grand National. Another of Tiberetta’s sons, Quintus, ran third in the Topham Trophy and her daughter Tamoretta was stakes-placed over fences before becoming the grandam of Riverside Boy, winner of the Welsh National in 1993. Tiberina also did well at stud, foaling 11 winners headed by San Angelo, successful in the Sandown Park Pattern Handicap Chase. One of her daughters, Neapolitan Lou, won ten races over jumps and became dam of smart chaser Quickapenny, winner of the Golden Miller Handicap Chase and third dam of Wymott, who won the Grade 2 Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle in 2010. THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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Leading jump winners descended from Drumrora Foaled

Winner

Races

m 1948 g 1960 m 1962

Tiberetta San Angelo Certainement

g 1963

Spanish Steps

g 1964

Royal Relief

g 1967 m 1970 g 1983 g 1990

Lictor Quickapenny Riverside Boy Red Marauder

g 1993

Red Striker

g 2004 g 2005

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Another daughter, stakes-placed chaser Lira, left an even bigger mark since via her daughter Cover Your Money she became grandam of Red Marauder, winner of the 2001 Grand National by a distance in the mud, and the First National Bank Gold Cup at Ascot. His brother Red Striker was equally good, landing the Dipper Novices’ Chase and Peter Marsh Chase. Courage would doubtless have been proud that another National winner had come from the family he developed, but he had died in 1982. Cover Your Money is also grandam of six-year-old Skint, who ended last season with a Grade 3 victory at Sandown and has won over fences this season. He is trained by Nicky Henderson, and the stable also contains promising novice hurdler Open Hearted, who traces to Tiberetta. The best recent winner tracing to Tiberina is Oscars Well, who has her as his fifth dam. He developed into one of the top novice hurdlers in Ireland last season, picking up two Grade 1s in the Deloitte Novice Hurdle and Navan Novice Hurdle. The last of Drumrora’s daughters to come under the spotlight is French Colleen, who foaled one smart chaser in Certainement but has as her main claim to fame the achievements of her splendid son Royal Relief. Foaled in 1963, he made his Cheltenham Festival debut over hurdles in 1969, then proceeded to contest a record eight Champion Chases, finishing second as a novice in 1970, third in 1971, winning in 1972, coming second in 1973, winning in 1974 and running second again in 1975 before failing to complete in 1976 and 1977. Royal Relief ran 81 times, including 11 in his final season when rising 14 – compare that with the lack of runs the best chasers have nowadays – and his record confirmed everything that the Drumrora line has stood for over the last 60 years, namely toughness, reliability and pure class.

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VIEW FROM IRELAND By LEO POWELL, MANAGING EDITOR OF THE IRISH FIELD

Successes and challenges ahead ITBA Chairman Dr Dean Harron addresses breeders at annual awards ceremony

CAROLINE NORRIS

he social highlight of the year for many is the Irish Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association annual awards ceremony and this year’s renewal took place on the last weekend in January. Almost 400 people attended the black-tie evening, which had Simon Coveney, the Minister for Agriculture and the man with responsibility for the racing and breeding sectors, as its guest of honour. The ITBA Chairman Dr Dean Harron used the occasion to highlight the successes enjoyed during the year, while also warning of the challenges ahead. “We must stay grounded as trading conditions remain challenging and we are only making up lost ground,” he told guests. While addressing the issues facing breeders at home, Harron broadened his address to deal with the problems facing the industry on a wider scale. “In Europe, through our lobbyist in Brussels and the European Federation of Thoroughbred Breeders’ Associations, we are addressing issues such as animal welfare, transport of horses, availability of medicines, harmonisation of forensic testing and disease reporting, and, very importantly, the major threat to the VAT rate for equines. “On the world stage, through the International Breeders’ Organisation, we are keeping a watching brief on all matters affecting thoroughbred breeding, including the ongoing artificial insemination court case in Australia.”

Liz and Frank Barry, who was presented with the Lifetime Achievement award

Minister Coveney addressed four main points in his speech, tackling the subjects of betting tax, the industry review which is under way, Irish Thoroughbred Marketing and the Irish Equine Centre. He praised the work of the latter two bodies, reminding the audience that “this is an export industry. We need to find new markets and new money,” while also revealing that he would be visiting China with a delegation in April. A dozen of the 14 awards presented on the night reflected the success of horses throughout 2011, while the other pair are in

the gift of the Association. They are the Hall of Fame award and the Lifetime Achievement award. Denis Brosnan was inducted into the Hall of Fame and this honour reflected his roles within racing and breeding. Popular bloodstock agent and breeder Frank Barry was presented with the Lifetime Achievement award. A highlight for his Manister House Stud in 2011 was breeding the Group 1-winning filly La Collina. He has also had a long and successful association with Kevin Prendergast.

System of ownership in Ireland needs tightening Two decisions made by the Turf Club in January have brought to public attention serious problems concerning the withholding of passports against outstanding debts and led to calls by sales companies, trainers and stud owners to put in place a workable solution to an age old problem. Legislation is in place that requires that a passport accompany a horse at all times, while passports remain the property of the issuing authority at all times and are not a deed of ownership. This creates difficulties for stud

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owners and trainers who are owed money, as it does for sales companies who sell horses on credit terms. In most other leading racing nations there is an additional certificate of ownership, without which a horse cannot run. This is not the case in Ireland. Given the increased value of horses over the years, it seems incredible that this matter has not been addressed before. The simple issuing of a certificate of ownership would not necessarily solve the

problem fully and would need to be recognised internationally too. What is clear is that the present system needs to be tightened up. Sales companies in particular are frustrated, with Goffs chief Henry Beeby supporting a proposal whereby the sales company could object to a horse racing, while Tattersalls Ireland’s Roger Casey commented that “we welcome the opportunity to finally try to put a meaningful and permanent solution in place”.

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VIEW FROM IRELAND

Punchestown: races and splurges

Women spend €7m on attire relating to the Punchestown festival

Fewer jobs and horses in training Statistics published recently by Horse Racing Ireland show a mixed set of results for the year 2011. More people going racing was counter-balanced by the fact that the numbers of horses in training fell sharply. This is a great cause for concern and the Chief Executive of the Irish Racehorse Trainers’ Association Jim Kavanagh expressed his angst, saying: “Every three horses gone means one job less.” He went on to add: “Our Association represents about 400 full-time trainers and I would estimate that this number will fall by 10% this year.” HRI Chief Executive Brian Kavanagh echoed these worries, saying: “The weakness of the horses in training figure is a cause for real concern. This is one of the many challenges which must be addressed.” Bloodstock sales in Ireland showed significant growth, while most of the increase in Tote turnover can be attributed to international co-mingling.

Many readers may be preparing for a trip to the annual Punchestown festival of racing in late April. If so, they should be aware that they are making a most important contribution to the economic life of the region, according to an important study carried out by the economics department at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. They surveyed more than 1,000 racegoers at the 2011 Punchestown festival meeting and found that those attending the races for the five days made a contribution of just short of €60 million to the local economy. Some 95,000 attended the races last year. Those in attendance included over 19,000 from Britain, a figure that has grown steadily in recent years. Some €25m was spent on accommodation, food and entertainment in the locality. An interesting figure to emerge from the research was that women, who make up 45% of the attendance, spent €7m on attire. Professor Rowena Pecchenino led the team at NUI Maynooth and while confident about the €60m economic contribution, stressed: “Another €9 to €12 million could be added to account for the indirect economic or expenditure multiplier effects.” New visitors to the festival accounted for a third of all those attending, while some 50,000 attend the meeting every year. This year’s festival runs from Tuesday, April 24 to Saturday, April 28.

KEY IRISH INDUSTRY STATISTICS 2011 (v 2010) Number of Fixtures Number of Races Number of Entries Eliminations Total Number of Runners Number of Individual Runners Number of Individual Winners Number of Individual Placed Horses Total Prize-Money Total Race Sponsorship Total Attendances Average Attendance Total Betting Tote Betting On-Course Bookmakers On-Course SP Shops Total Number of Owners Number of New Owners Total Number of Horses in Training Average Number of Horses in Training Bloodstock Sales at Public Auction Value of Irish Foaled Exported Horses (sold at public auction) Point-to-Point Fixtures Point-to-Point Races

Up 0.6% from 334 to 336 Up 0.7% from 2,381 to 2,397 Down 9.1% from 72,459 to 65,858 Down 29.9% from 11,356 to 7,962 Down 1.6% from 30,590 to 30,106 Down 4.9% from 8,027 to 7,630 Down 1.3% from 1,726 to 1,703 Down 2.4% from 3,951 to 3,858 Down 3.5% from €46.0m to €44.4m Down 3.0% from €4.96m to €4.81m Up 3.3% from 1,197,654 to 1,237,377 Up 2.7% from 3,586 to 3,682 Down 3.2% from €163.6m to €158.4m Up 11.3% from €45.9m to €51.1m Down 9.2% from €107.4m to €97.5m Down 4.9% from €10.3m to €9.8m Down 8.3 % from 4,667 to 4,278 Up 0.1 % from 776 to 777 Down 11.7% from 11,136 to 9,832 Down 12.8% from 5,769 to 5,030 Up 19.1% from €68.0m to €81.0m Up 6.5% from €146.9m to €156.5m Up 1.8% from 110 to 112 Down 1.1% from 820 to 811

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Black Type on the all –weather Jagersro (Malmo) Sweden Tuesday, May 15th (Evening)

One of the richest

Group 3 races in Europe. A record £63 000 to the winner.

Jagersro invites you to a new and valuable racing experience. It is the first Racecourse, outside Great Britain, to be granted an International Group Race – The

Pramms Memorial Stakes Group 3.

Over the extended mile the race this year is worth 1 200 000 SEK in prize money.

A record 700.000 SEK (approx

£63.000) to the winner makes it into one of the richest Group 3 races in Europe. The race day also includes the Listed Lanwades Stud Jagersro Sprint over 1200 m (500 000 SEK) and a valuable Handicap, Tattersalls Malmo Spring Cup (300 000 SEK) over 2400 m. Three other races on the card are worth a 100 000 SEK each.

Excellent hospitality for owners and

trainers Jagersro Race Course will make everything possible to make your trip to Malmo and Sweden a pleasant racing experience. We cannot guarantee you will bring back a winner, we sure can guarantee you a memorable trip.

For complete race conditions, travelling allowances etc, please contact Richard Penney at The International Racing Bureau Tel: 01368 668881, fax: 01638 665032

Closing date April 10th

Closing date May 3rd

Pramms Memorial (Group 3) 1730 m (1m about 1f 30y) Total value 1 200 000 SEK (approx £108.570) winner 700.000 SEK (approx £63.300) 4yo+ no penalties or allowances

Tattersalls Malmo Spring Cup 2400 m (1 1/2 mile) Total value 300.000 SEK (approx £27.140) winner 180.000 SEK (approx £16.280) Handicap, top weight 62 kg for the highest rated runner declared to run

Lanwades Stud Jagersro Sprint (Listed) 1200 m (6 f) Total value 500.000 SEK (approx £45.200) winner 300.000 SEK (approx £27.140) 3yo+ no penalties or allowances

Handicap 1730 m (1m about 1f 30y) Total value 100.000 SEK (approx £9.040) winner 50.000 SEK (approx £4.520) 3yo+ for horses with GB hcp 70+ (hpc 70 carries 52 kg)

Handicap 1200 m (6f) Total value 100.000 SEK (approx £9.040) winner 50.000 SEK (approx £4.520) 3yo+ for horses with GB hcp 66+(hpc 66 carries 52 kg) 3-year-olds 1600 m (1m) Total value 100.000 SEK (approx £9.040) winner 50.000 SEK (approx £4.520) Conditions race Jagersro is a left handed, completely flat, American style dirt all-weather track. With banked bends it is just under a mile.

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By JAMES CRISPE, INTERNATIONAL RACING BUREAU

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Blue Panis taste of things to come Little known Xavier Thomas Demeaulte enjoys first overseas success at Meydan

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raids across the Channel to Cheltenham and Kempton Park with the likes of The Fellow. After a further four years with Carlos Laffon-Parias, he took the plunge in November 2001 and took out his licence. Success was not immediately forthcoming, although he picks out Great Blood chasing home Divine Proportions in a Group 3 under crack American jockey Gary Stevens as an early highlight. Indeed, it was not until November 2011, exactly a decade after he set up on his own, that Thomas saddled his initial Listed scorer when Rock Me Baby lifted the Criterium de Languedoc at Toulouse. However, his language skills have enabled him to attract a number of loyal Spanish owners and a crucial moment came four years ago when he began training for the Dubaibased owners Prime Equestrian. Thomas picked out Blue Panis from the Arqana’s October sales catalogue on the basis

Blue Panis was a first runner, and winner, overseas for Xavier Thomas Demeaulte (right), who trains in south-west France

he early stages of the lucrative Dubai World Cup Carnival have proved a little disappointing for the visiting European contingent, with just three victories gleaned from our first 100 runners (up to the end of January). Two of those have gone to the most persevering of candidates, David Nicholls, who had been waiting ten years and suffered 65 consecutive Dubai defeats before Addictive Dream brought a brace of triumphs within a week. In contrast, when Blue Panis landed a £46,452-to-the-winner handicap at Meydan on January 20, he was a first ever intercontinental runner for little-known French handler Xavier Thomas Demeaulte. Thomas, 41, has been training for ten years in Mont-de-Marsan, south western France. He is certainly no stranger to travel, as his father’s employment by Renault Trucks meant that he experienced a nomadic childhood – he was born in Iran and moved to Paris aged 16 after seven years in Nigeria and six in the Ivory Coast. “In Africa I had been involved in showjumping but when we came back to THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

France I had no money and you did not have to pay to ride racehorses, so I started riding out for trainer Roland Kleparski,” Thomas revealed. “He was the man who gave me the passion for racing.” And Kleparski’s daughter, Emmanuelle, must have given him a passion of a different kind, as she is now his wife! After attending business school in Barcelona, Thomas served four years as assistant to Francois Doumen, riding as an amateur on the Flat and over jumps, and remembers fondly some successful winter

of his proven ability to handle international travel (he was runner-up in the 2010 Oak Tree Derby in California when trained by Fabrice Chappet) and Prime Equestrian duly came up with the €140,000 required to acquire him. So Thomas has plenty to look forward to. Blue Panis is being aimed at either the Godolphin Mile or Dubai Duty Free on World Cup day, while Rock Me Baby, a daughter of Rock Of Gibraltar, will go for another Listed win at Deauville in March with a view to taking in the French 1,000 Guineas.

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Harley adds interesting new chapter to lifestory

Paul Harley (left) with Manduro after his victory at Royal Ascot in 2007

New trainer Paul Harley, who has just set up under his own name for the first time at Warendorf, between Dortmund and Hanover, has packed an awful lot in to the first 45 years of his life. On these shores County Donegal-born Harley may still be best known for an unspectacular 53-winner career as a jump jockey, culminating in a close third place aboard Kilgariff in the Gold Card Hurdle Final at the 1994 Cheltenham Festival. Prior to that, he left the family farm at 14 to join the famed apprentice academy of Liam Browne’s yard that produced the likes of Mark Dwyer and Mick Kinane. And even before shifting his attention to the Flat and moving to Germany in late 1994, he enjoyed a stint as work-rider with legendary American trainer Charlie Whittingham. After more than 180 winners in Germany he upped sticks once more to Dubai, initially to work for Erwan Charpy before transferring to Godolphin. His career path took another fork in 2002 when he landed the plum job as racing manager to top German owner/breeder Baron Georg von Ullmann. Over the next seven seasons he helped engineer such highs as winning the Breeders’ Cup Turf with Shirocco and Prince Of Wales’s Stakes and Prix Jacques le Marois with Manduro. During this period he regularly got the chance to ‘pick the brains’ of 23-time French champion trainer Andre Fabre, who trained both those superstars. When his association with von Ullmann

ended in 2008, he completed the modules required to qualify for a British training licence while taking a hands-on approach to his role as manager to owner Rupert Plersch, particularly in the training of War Artist, who has won four Pattern races in Europe and Dubai while under his tutelage. Now comes another upheaval, with Harley giving up the chance to bask in another winter in his beloved Dubai in order to take over from Torsten Mundry overseeing a 40-strong string in the distinctly chillier climes of western Germany. “It was -13C here this morning,” he told me recently, but his enthusiasm and ebullience remains undimmed by the cold. The offer from the yard’s owner, Gregor Baum (also proprietor of Gestüt Brummerhof and breeder of Arc heroine Danedream) came out of the blue when Mundry was found to be suffering from depression in mid-December. Harley, who is hoping to use the riding talents of his nephew, champion apprentice Martin Harley, whenever he can, will have a couple of golden bullets to fire as he loads up for his opening salvo as a trainer. Durban Thunder, who won last year’s Bayerisches Zuchtrennen, will again have that mid-season Munich Group 1 as his major target, while Harley has lofty expectations for Labrice, a Group-placed Dubawi filly out of a full-sister to Lando. “I intend to take Monsieur Fabre’s advice and not complicate things too much – it’s complicated enough already,” Harley added.

Ski loses his cool

When racing returns to Ovrevoll in Oslo on April 12 after its midwinter break, it will do so without its five-time champion jockey Espen Ski, following an incident at its penultimate 2011 meeting. The six-runner ‘King Of Sweden Stakes’ was shaping into a run-of-the-mill contest until the final turn when Ski, who was on the inside disputing the lead, reached out his right hand to give Madeleine Haugland, on Rapponghi, a hefty push. Caught unawares, Haugland momentarily found both her legs on the same side of the saddle. But, displaying the balance of a trapeze artist, she soon returned her left foot to its iron and, having given Ski what Paddington Bear would have referred to as a ‘hard stare’, got on with the business in hand – winning the race. Ski, meanwhile, dropped away to finish last. Ski’s fiery temper had got the better of him in public once before in September 2008, when he was handed a one-month suspension for striking fellow jockey Marc Stott with his whip at the end of a race in Copenhagen. It was no surprise when the Ovrevoll stewards decided that this latest transgression deserved a greater punishment than the three-week maximum it was within their powers to impose. The matter wss passed to the Norwegian Jockey Club, who suspended Ski for six months. He thus missed the remaining fixture of the season, costing the 31-year-old, three winners behind Per-Anders Graberg, any chance of collecting a sixth national title inside seven years. Haugland went on to be crowned champion apprentice with 11 winners.

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AROUND THE GLOBE THE WORLDWIDE RACING SCENE

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by Steve Andersen

Stonestreet babies are Banke’s bonuses

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The 125lb colt was born at 2.40pm on a Sunday afternoon in late January, at a picturesque farm near Lexington, Kentucky. He was standing within 90 minutes, staying close to his mother. By the Wednesday, they were already betting on whether the baby would make it to the starting gate for the 2015 Kentucky Derby. Such is the attention – and expectation – that will accompany this impeccably-bred youngster by Curlin, the 2007 and 2008 Horse of the Year, out of Rachel Alexandra, 2009 Horse of the Year. The colt is owned by Barbara Banke, the widow of prominent owner Jess Jackson, whose stable dominated American racing in the late 2000s. Jackson died last June after a battle with skin cancer, but Banke will continue the Stonestreet involvement. “He pulled me into this sport,” Banke said of Jackson in January. “I thought he was crazy, but I’m hooked.” Banke was speaking at the Eclipse Awards in Beverly Hills, accepting the award for My Miss Aurelia’s title as champion two-year-old filly. She won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at Churchill Downs in November and by default is early leader of the three-year-old filly of 2012, a division Rachel Alexandra dominated in 2009. At that time, Stonestreet was at its height.

Barbara Banke with the late Jess Jackson

Curlin capped his 2007 season with a win in the Breeders’ Cup Classic and won the Dubai World Cup months later. By the end of 2008, Curlin had won three more Grade 1s but finished the year with a fourth place in the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Santa Anita. Jackson bought a share of Rachel Alexandra after she won the Kentucky Oaks in May 2009

and took the bold move of starting her against males in the second leg of the Triple Crown, the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico. She won three more Grade 1s that year but did not contest the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Santa Anita as Jackson had become averse to synthetic surfaces. Jackson operated a top-down organisation. As interest in Rachel Alexandra soared through 2009 and into 2010, the announcements of her next races were published via press releases at the family’s business headquarters in California, and not through a trainer at a backstretch barn. The family business is quite prominent – the Kendall-Jackson winery is famous in the US through that brand name and the more prominent Stonestreet label. The continuation of Stonestreet Stable will include holdings in stallions such as Curlin, broodmares and racehorses. Last September, Stonestreet spent $1.85 million on seven yearlings at Keeneland. There was a scare following the foaling of the Curlin-Rachel Alexandra colt. The mare and foal were taken to a leading vets for a few days in January to be monitored, but they were back at Stonestreet within a matter of days. “I’m a Rachel-chondriac,” Banke said on the stable website while both were being treated.

by Stephen Howell

JOFF DUMAS

New scheme quadruples purses in Victoria

Jason Warren: first up for ‘great scheme’

Victoria, home of the Melbourne Cup, and regarded as racing’s go-ahead state, has set the pace in owners’ bonuses with its Super VOBIS scheme, for which breeders must nominate yearlings with a one-off payment. Now, its innovative VOBIS Gold has the other states chasing even harder. VOBIS Gold offers rewards that can exceed original race prize-money for qualified horses. For example, a $12,000 maiden in the country offers a standard first prize of $6,825. If the horse is Super VOBIS qualified, it gets $11,235. And, when the first VOBIS Goldqualified horses – this season’s yearlings – race late this year, the winner will earn $25,235, almost four times the base first prize. For a standard Saturday and public holiday race worth $70,000, the $42,700 first prize will

leap to $72,000. The bonuses “cost” $1,000, payable by June 1 in the year the youngster was bought. The Magic Millions sale on the Gold Coast in January was the first opportunity for yearlings to be signed up for VOBIS Gold, and Mornington trainer Jason Warren was the first buyer. He grabbed Lot 1, a $140,000 colt by Bel Esprit out of a Snippets mare, Gavroche. The colt is a brother to Warren’s stable star Bel Sprinter, who has won four of his five starts (to the end of January). “He’s a mirror image of his older brother,” the young trainer said. “He’s a great type and will mature into a really strong racehorse. “The fact that I could pay up for Super VOBIS and also nominate to VOBIS Gold made the decision to part with $140,000 all the more easy. THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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I’m thrilled to be the first to pay up to this great new scheme.” Bel Esprit is the sire of the world champion sprinter Black Caviar – and the second yearling signed up for VOBIS Gold was another by the stallion. Peter Moody, premier trainer for the past two years and the man who handles the brilliant Black Caviar, bought the colt out of Magic Harmony for $115,000 for Queensland owners, who said the lure of VOBIS Gold was too hard to resist. After the January sales on the Gold Coast and in Sydney, Richard Andrews, Racing Victoria’s owners and breeders manager, said feedback was positive and, although major promotion of the scheme had not begun, there were likely to be up to 50 yearlings paid up for at this early stage, with Inglis’s big sales in Melbourne (February) THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

The jewel in de Kock’s crown overcomes obstacles

GOLD CIRCLE

“We are taking every precaution to ensure that Rachel and her colt are healthy and happy.” The arrival of the colt was a source of pride and anticipation for Steve Asmussen, who trained both Curlin and Rachel Alexandra. “It’s tremendously special,” Asmussen said. “It reminds you of different glimpses and different times. When you’re in this, you look to be part of something like that. That’s what Jess was working and talking about right there.” The mating of Curlin and Rachel Alexandra was the rare recent instance of a Horse of the Year being bred to a Horse of the Year. Such arrangements have had disappointing results in the US in the last 25 years. Lady’s Secret was bred to such sires as Seattle Slew and Skip Away but never got a stakes winner. The mare Azeri was bred to A P Indy and the foal, Take Control, has been plagued by setbacks, though he sold for $1.9m as a twoyear-old in training at Keeneland. Rachel Alexandra will be bred to 2006 champion threeyear-old male Bernardini this year. As for her current foal, the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas is offering 60-1 that he will line up for the 2015 Kentucky Derby. Considering the epic accomplishments of his parents, his chances should not be underestimated.

by Nicola Hayward

Igugu showed just why she is Horse of the Year with victory in the J&B Met

Traditionally one of Cape Town’s most festive events, the J&B Met was dominated by one horse who made the day her own and whose name means ‘Jewel’ in Zulu – Igugu. The Mike de Kock-trained, Australianbred daughter of Galileo is reigning Horse of the Year in South Africa following an outstanding season that saw her win seven of her nine starts, including the Grade 1 Durban July at Greyville. An outbreak of African Horse Sickness in the Western Cape in the late summer of 2011 effectively closed the door to Igugu leaving her shores and so Cape racegoers eagerly anticipated her summer appearance at Kenilworth. They were disappointed when she was scratched from the Paddock Stakes in January after developing a respiratory infection, but de Kock remained bullish about her participation in the J&B Met. Only days before the race she endured an 18-hour trip from her Gauteng base at Randjesfontein

and Sydney (April) to come. Other schemes – BOBS (NSW), QTIS (Queensland), SABOIS (South Australia), Westspeed Incentive Scheme (Western Australia), Super VOBIS (Tasmania) and TROBIS (Northern Territory) – give owners and breeders incentive to race at home, but not on the Victorian scale. Racing Victoria trumpets that $18 million in VOBIS Gold and Super VOBIS bonuses will be on offer in Victoria each year from the start of the new season on August 1. VOBIS Gold will offer

to Cape Town. At Kenilworth she was subjected to isolation in the quarantine facility from two hours before dusk until two hours after dawn because of an outbreak of African Horse Sickness near de Kock’s Randjesfontein base. Cape punters kept their faith, sending her off favourite. Having sweated up on the way to the start, she was unusually lacklustre out of the gates, then was badly cut into in the early stages of the race and with 200m to go looked unsure of even a place. But in the end she refused to be beaten, prevailing by half a length over game top weight Bravura. Igugu’s win was special, not because it was only the seventh time since 1920 that a filly had won the Met, or because she became the first filly ever to do the July-Met double. Simply, the filly did what true champions do: despite all the events that had conspired against her, she dug deep to rise above her competitors to win.

$20,000 on up to 350 races across all ages, classes and tracks (city and country), plus an annual $1m restricted race series exclusively for VOBIS Gold-qualified horses. The bonus is paid 85% to the owner, 10% to the trainer and 5% to the jockey. The state government, through the Victorian Racing Industry Fund, will provide $6.8m over the next four years to support the programme on the basis that it increases returns to owners and adds value to Victorian-bred horses in the sales ring.

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Published here is the consolidated Final List of the stallions named in the final lists of stallions sent to the Co-Ordinating Committee by the British, Irish, French, German and Swiss Trustees in accordance with the Co-Ordinating Agreement. The progeny of these stallions, CONCEIVED IN 2011 IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE (the foal crop of 2012), will be eligible to enter the EBF races to be held during the year 2014 and thereafter. They will also be eligible for other relevant benefits under the EBF terms and conditions in force in Great Britain, Ireland, France, Italy, Germany and Switzerland.

A ACAMBARO (GER) ACCESS TO JAVA (GER) ACCLAMATION (GB) ADELPHOS (FR) ADIEU (GER) ADLERFLUG (GER) AGNES KAMIKAZE (JPN) AIR CHIEF MARSHAL (IRE) AIR EMINEN (IRE) AIRMAIL SPECIAL (IRE) AL NAMIX (FR) AL SALB (USA) ALBERTO GIACOMETTI (IRE) ALEXANDROS (GB) ALFLORA (IRE) ALFRED NOBEL (IRE) ALHAARTH (IRE) ALHIJAZ (GB) ALKAADHEM (GB) ALL MY DREAMS (IRE) AMADEUS WOLF (GB) AMERICAN POST (GB) AMRAK AJEEB (IRE) ANABAA BLUE (GB) AND BEYOND (IRE) ANDROID (USA) ANGE GABRIEL (FR) ANTARCTIQUE (IRE) ANZILLERO (GER) APPLE TREE (FR) APPROVE (IRE) APSIS (GB) AQLAAM (GB) ARABIAN GLEAM (GB) ARAKAN (USA) ARC ROYAL (GER) ARCADIO (GER) ARCANO (IRE) ARCHANGE D'OR (IRE) ARCHIPENKO (USA) AREION (GER) ARISTOTLE (IRE) ARITHMANCER (USA) ARKADIAN HERO (USA) ARMY KING (FR) ART CONNOISSEUR (IRE) ARTISTE ROYAL (IRE) ARVICO (FR) ASHKALANI (IRE) ASK (GB) ASSERTIVE (GB) ASSESSOR (IRE) ASTARABAD (USA) ASTRONOMER ROYAL (USA) AUSSIE RULES (USA) AUTHORIZED (IRE) AVONBRIDGE (GB) AXXOS (GER) AZAMOUR (IRE)

B BACAR (IRE) BACH (IRE) BACHIR (IRE) BAHAMIAN BOUNTY (GB) BAHRI (USA) BALKO (FR) BALLINGARRY (IRE) BALTIC KING (GB) BANNABY (FR) BARASTRAIGHT (GB) BAROUD D'HONNEUR (FR) BEAR KING (GER) BEAT ALL (USA) BEAT HOLLOW (GB) BELENUS (GER) BENEFICIAL (GB) BERNEBEAU (FR) BERTOLINI (USA) BIG BAD BOB (IRE) BIN AJWAAD (IRE) BLACK SAM BELLAMY (IRE) BLEU D'ALTAIR (FR) BLUE BRESIL (FR) BLUE CANARI (FR) BLUE CORAL (IRE) BOLLIN ERIC (GB) BONBON ROSE (FR) BORN KING (JPN) BOSPORUS (IRE) BRAVE MANSONNIEN (FR) BRETIGNY (FR) BRIAN BORU (GB) BROADWAY FLYER (USA) BUCK'S BOUM (FR) BULLY PULPIT (USA) BUSHRANGER (IRE) BYRON (GB) BYZANTIUM (FR)

C CALIFET (FR) CALL ME BIG (GER) CAMACHO (GB) CANYON CREEK (IRE) CAPE CROSS (IRE) CAPTAIN GERRARD (IRE) CAPTAIN MARVELOUS (IRE) CAPTAIN RIO (GB) CARADAK (IRE) CARDOUN (FR) CARLO BANK (IRE) CARLOTAMIX (FR) CENTENNIAL (IRE) CENTRAL PARK (IRE) C'EST UN ANGE (FR) CHAMPS ELYSEES (GB) CHARGE D'AFFAIRES (GB) CHARMING GROOM (FR) CHICHI CREASY (FR)

CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT (USA) CHINEUR (FR) CIMA DE TRIOMPHE (IRE) CIRCUS DANCE (GB) CITY HONOURS (USA) CLASSIC LAW (GB) CLETY (FR) CLODOVIL (IRE) CLOUDINGS (IRE) CLOUSEAU (DEN) COASTAL PATH (GB) COCKNEY REBEL (IRE) COLORADO KID (USA) COLOSSUS (IRE) COMPTON ADMIRAL (GB) COMPTON PLACE (GB) CONFUCHIAS (IRE) CONTAT (GER) CORONER (IRE) CORRI PIANO (FR) COUNTRY REEL (USA) COURT CAVE (IRE) COURTSHIP (GB) CRAIGSTEEL (GB) CREACHADOIR (IRE) CRILLON (FR) CROCO ROUGE (IRE) CROSSHARBOUR (GB) CROSSPEACE (IRE) CURTAIN TIME (IRE) CUVEE (USA)

D DAHJEE (USA) DAI JIN (GB) DALAKHANI (IRE) DALTABAD (IRE) DANANEYEV (FR) DANDOUN (GB) DANDY MAN (IRE) DANEHILL DANCER (IRE) DANO-MAST (GB) DANSANT (GB) DANSILI (GB) DAPPER (GB) DARAMSAR (FR) DARK ANGEL (IRE) DARNAY (GB) DARO SOPRAN (GER) DARSI (FR) DASHING BLADE (GB) DAVIDOFF (GER) DAY FLIGHT (GB) DAYLAMI (IRE) DEFINITE ARTICLE (GB) DEHERE (USA) DELFOS (IRE) DELLA FRANCESCA (USA) DENHAM RED (FR) DENON (USA) DENOUNCE (GB)

DEPORTIVO (GB) DESERT PRINCE (IRE) DESERT STYLE (IRE) DIAMOND GREEN (FR) DIKTAT (GB) DILSHAAN (GB) DISCOVER D'AUTEUIL (FR) DISTANT MUSIC (USA) DIVINE LIGHT (JPN) DOCTOR DINO (FR) DOMEDRIVER (IRE) DON CORLEONE (GB) DOUBLE ECLIPSE (IRE) DOUBLE TRIGGER (IRE) DOYEN (IRE) DR FONG (USA) DR MASSINI (IRE) DREAM WELL (FR) DUBAI DESTINATION (USA) DUBAWI (IRE) DUKE OF MARMALADE (IRE) DUNKERQUE (FR) DUTCH ART (GB) DYLAN THOMAS (IRE)

E EAGLE EYED (USA) EARLY MARCH (GB) ECHO OF LIGHT (GB) EGERTON (GER) ELASOS (FR) ELECTRIC BEAT (GB) ELNADIM (USA) ELUSIVE CITY (USA) ENJOY PLAN (USA) ENRIQUE (GB) EPALO (GER) EQUERRY (USA) EQUIANO (FR) EREWHON (USA) ERHAAB (USA) EVASIVE (GB) EXCEED AND EXCEL (AUS) EXCELLENT ART (GB) EXECUTE (FR) EXIT TO NOWHERE (USA)

F FAIR MIX (IRE) FAIRLY RANSOM (USA) FAIRLYPI (IRE) FALCO (USA) FAST COMPANY (IRE) FASTNET ROCK (AUS) FELICIANO (SWI) FERRULE (IRE) FINE GRAIN (JPN) FIREBREAK (GB) FIRST TRUMP (GB) FLEETWOOD (IRE) FLEMENSFIRTH (USA)

FLY TO THE STARS (GB) FOOTSTEPSINTHESAND (GB) FORESTIER (FR) FOREVER BOND (BRZ) FOUR STAR GENERAL (IRE) FRACAS (IRE) FRAGRANT MIX (IRE) FRANKLINS GARDENS (GB) FRUITS OF LOVE (USA) FUISSE (FR) FULL OF GOLD (FR)

G GALILEO (IRE) GAMUT (IRE) GENEROUS (IRE) GENTLEWAVE (IRE) GERI (USA) GETAWAY (GER) GLADIATORUS (USA) GOLAN (IRE) GOLD AWAY (IRE) GOLD WELL (GB) GOLDEN LARIAT (USA) GOLDEN TORNADO (IRE) GOLDMARK (USA) GOODRICKE (GB) GRAND COUTURIER (GB) GRAND EKINOKS (TUR) GRANDERA (IRE) GRAPE TREE ROAD (GB) GREAT JOURNEY (JPN) GREAT PALM (USA) GREAT PRETENDER (IRE) GRIS DE GRIS (IRE)

H HAAFHD (GB) HAATEF (USA) HALLING (USA) HAMAIRI (IRE) HAMOND (GER) HANNOUMA (IRE) HELIOSTATIC (IRE) HELISSIO (FR) HELLVELYN (GB) HERETIC (CZE) HERNANDO (FR) HIGH CHAPARRAL (IRE) HIGH EXTREME (IRE) HIGH ROCK (IRE) HIGH-RISE (IRE) HOLD THAT TIGER (USA) HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR (IRE) HONOLULU (IRE) HURRICANE CAT (USA) HURRICANE RUN (IRE)

I IALYSOS (GR) IFFRAAJ (GB) IKTIBAS (GB)

IN YARAK (GB) INDESATCHEL (IRE) INDIAN DAFFODIL (IRE) INDIAN DANEHILL (IRE) INDIAN HAVEN (GB) INTENDANT (GER) INTENSE FOCUS (USA) INTIKHAB (USA) INVINCIBLE SPIRIT (IRE) IRISH WELLS (FR) IRON MASK (USA) IT'S GINO (GER)

J JACKSON'S DRIFT (USA) JAGMIN (POL) JAPE (USA) JAZZ DANCER (GER) JEREMY (USA) JOE BEAR (IRE) JOHANN QUATZ (FR) JOHNNY RED KERR (USA) JOSR ALGARHOUD (IRE)

K KADEED (IRE) KAIETEUR (USA) KALANISI (IRE) KALATOS (GER) KALDOUNEVEES (FR) KALLISTO (GER) KAMSIN (GER) KANDAHAR RUN (GB) KANDIDATE (GB) KAP ROCK (FR) KAPGARDE (FR) KAVAFI (IRE) KAYF TARA (GB) KENDARGENT (FR) KENTUCKY DYNAMITE (USA) KEY OF LUCK (USA) KHALKEVI (IRE) KHELEYF (USA) KIER PARK (IRE) KING CHARLEMAGNE (USA) KING CHEETAH (USA) KING'S BEST (USA) KING'S THEATRE (IRE) KINGSALSA (USA) KIRKWALL (GB) KODIAC (GB) KOENIGSTIGER (GER) KONIG SHUFFLE (GER) KONIG TURF (GER) KORNADO (GB) KORNEL (POL) KOUROUN (FR) KUTUB (IRE) KYLLACHY (GB)

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L LAHIB (USA) LANDO (GER) LAURO (GER) LAVEROCK (IRE) LAVERON (GB) LAWMAN (FR) LAYMAN (USA) LE BALAFRE (FR) LE CADRE NOIR (IRE) LE FOU (IRE) LE HAVRE (IRE) LE HOUSSAIS (FR) LE MALEMORTOIS (FR) LE TRITON (USA) LECROIX (GER) LEGOLAS (JPN) LEND A HAND (GB) LET THE LION ROAR (GB) LIBRETTIST (USA) LIMNOS (JPN) LINDA'S LAD (GB) LINNGARI (IRE) LION HEART (USA) LIQUIDO (GER) LITERATO (FR) LITTLE ROCK (GB) LIZIO (GB) LOCHBUIE (IRE) LOPE DE VEGA (IRE) LORD DU SUD (FR) LORD OF ENGLAND (GER) LORD SHANAKILL (USA) LOUP SOLITAIRE (USA) LOUVETEAU (USA) LOXIAS (FR) LUCARNO (USA)

M MAGADINO (FR) MAHLER (GB) MAJESTIC MISSILE (IRE) MAJOR CADEAUX (GB) MAKFI (GB) MALINAS (GER) MAMOOL (IRE) MANDURO (GER) MARCH GROOM (USA) MARESCA SORRENTO (FR) MARIENBARD (IRE) MARJU (IRE) MARTALINE (GB) MARTILLO (GER) MASTERCRAFTSMAN (IRE) MATRIX (GER) MAWATHEEQ (USA) MEDECIS (GB) MEDICEAN (GB) MESHAHEER (USA) MIDNIGHT LEGEND (GB) MIDSHIPS (USA) MIESQUE'S SON (USA) MIGHTY (GB) MILAN (GB) MILK IT MICK (GB) MILL POND (FR) MILLENARY (GB) MILLENNIUM BIO (JPN) MILLKOM (GB) MINDS MUSIC (USA) MINGUN (USA) MINLEY (GER) MIR SADA (FR) MISTER FOTIS (USA) MISU BOND (IRE) MOHAAJIR (USA) MONSIEUR BOND (IRE) MONSIEUR PAUL (FR) MONSUN (GER)

MONTJEU (IRE) MONTMARTRE (FR) MOONJAZ (GB) MOROZOV (USA) MOSS VALE (IRE) MOTIVATOR (GB) MOUNT NELSON (GB) MOUNTAIN CAT (USA) MOUNTAIN HIGH (IRE) MR COMBUSTIBLE (IRE) MR DINOS (IRE) MR SIDNEY (USA) MR VEGAS (IRE) MUHAYMIN (USA) MUHTATHIR (GB) MUJADIL (USA) MUJAHID (USA) MULLIONMILEANHOUR (IRE) MULTIPLEX (GB) MUSTAMEET (USA) MUTAMARKIZ (IRE) MY RISK (FR) MYBOYCHARLIE (IRE)

N NAAQOOS (GB) NAMID (GB) NAYEF (USA) NEAR HONOR (GER) NETWORK (GER) NEW APPROACH (IRE) NICARON (GER) NICKNAME (FR) NICOBAR (GB) NIGHT TANGO (GER) NO DANZIG (USA) NOBLE SANG (GER) NOMADIC WAY (USA) NOMBRE PREMIER (GB) NORMEN (GER) NOROIT (GER) NORSE DANCER (IRE) NOTNOWCATO (GB) NOWOGRODEK (POL)

O OASIS DREAM (GB) OBSERVATORY (USA) OCEAN CREST (USA) OCTOBER (USA) OKAWANGO (USA) OLDEN TIMES (GB) ON EST BIEN (IRE) ORATORIO (IRE) ORIENTOR (GB) ORPEN (USA) OSCAR (IRE) OVERBURY (IRE)

P PACO BOY (IRE) PALACE EPISODE (USA) PALAMOSS (IRE) PANIS (USA) PANORAMIC (GB) PAOLINI (GER) PAPAL BULL (GB) PARISIS (FR) PASSING GLANCE (GB) PASSING SALE (FR) PASTERNAK (GB) PASTORAL PURSUITS (GB) PEER GYNT (JPN) PEINTRE CELEBRE (USA) PELDER (IRE) PEPPERSHOT (GER) PERSIAN RULER (GB) PHOENIX REACH (IRE) PICCOLO (GB) PIERRE (GB)

PIVOTAL (GB) POLICY MAKER (IRE) POLIGLOTE (GB) POMELLATO (GER) POP ROCK (JPN) PORTRAIT GALLERY (IRE) POUNCED (USA) POWERSCOURT (GB) PRESENTING (GB) PRIMARY (USA) PRINCE FLORI (GER) PROCLAMATION (IRE) PROTEKTOR (GER) PUBLISHER (USA) PUIT D'OR (IRE) PYRAMUS (USA)

R RACINGER (FR) RAGMAR (FR) RAIL LINK (GB) RAINBOW HIGH (GB) RAINWATCH (GB) RAJJ (IRE) RAMONTI (FR) RANSOM O'WAR (USA) RASHBAG (GB) RAVEN'S PASS (USA) RAY OF LIGHT (IRE) RECHARGE (IRE) RED BISHOP (USA) REDBACK (GB) REEL BUDDY (USA) REFUSE TO BEND (IRE) RESPLENDENT CEE (IRE) RESPLENDENT GLORY (IRE) REVOQUE (IRE) RIP VAN WINKLE (IRE) ROB ROY (USA) ROBIN DES CHAMPS (FR) ROBIN DES PRES (FR) ROCAMADOUR (GB) ROCK OF GIBRALTAR (IRE) ROL'OVER BEETHOVEN (FR) ROMAN SADDLE (IRE) ROSENSTURM (IRE) ROYAL ABJAR (USA) ROYAL ANTHEM (USA) ROYAL APPLAUSE (GB) ROYAL ASSAULT (USA) ROYAL DRAGON (USA) RUDIMENTARY (USA) RUGBY (USA)

S SABIANGO (GER) SADDEX (GB) SADDLER MAKER (IRE) SAFETY WIRE (IRE) SAGACITY (FR) SAGEBURG (IRE) SAINT DES SAINTS (FR) SAKHEE (USA) SAKHEE'S SECRET (GB) SALUTINO (GER) SAMRAAN (USA) SAMSON HAPPY (JPN) SAMUM (GER) SANDMASON (GB) SANDWAKI (USA) SANTIAGO (GER) SATRI (IRE) SAYARSHAN (FR) SCATER (POL) SCHIAPARELLI (GER) SCORPION (IRE) SCYRIS (POL) SEA HERO (USA) SEA THE STARS (IRE) SECURITY RISK (USA)

SELKIRK (USA) SENDAWAR (IRE) SEPTEMBER STORM (GER) SEVRES ROSE (IRE) SHAANMER (IRE) SHAMARDAL (USA) SHANTOU (USA) SHIROCCO (GER) SHOLOKHOV (IRE) SHOWCASING (GB) SHREK (GER) SILVER FROST (IRE) SIMPLEX (FR) SINNDAR (IRE) SIR PERCY (GB) SIXTIES ICON (GB) SIYOUNI (FR) SKI CHIEF (USA) SLEEPING INDIAN (GB) SLICKLY (FR) SMADOUN (FR) SOAVE (GER) SOCR HOUSE (CZE) SOLDIER HOLLOW (GB) SOLDIER OF FORTUNE (IRE) SOLON (GER) SORDINO (GER) SOVIET STAR (USA) SPADOUN (FR) SPANISH MOON (USA) SPECIAL KALDOUN (IRE) SPEEDMASTER (GER) SPIRIT ONE (FR) SRI PEKAN (USA) ST JOVITE (USA) STAR BLAST (USA) STARSPANGLEDBANNER (AUS) STIMULATION (IRE) STORM MIST (IRE) STORM TROOPER (GER) STORMY RIVER (FR) STOWAWAY (GB) STRATEGIC PRINCE (GB) STRIKE THE GOLD (USA) STRIKING AMBITION (GB) SUBTLE POWER (IRE) SULAMANI (IRE) SUNDAY BREAK (JPN) SUPER CELEBRE (FR) SUPREME SOUND (GB) SUTEKI SHINSUKEKUN (USA)

T TAGULA (IRE) TAJRAASI (USA) TAMAYUZ (GB) TAMURE (IRE) TAU CETI (GB) TEMPELTANZER (GER) TEOFILIO (IRE) TEOFILO (IRE) TERTULLIAN (USA) THE CARBON UNIT (USA) THEWAYYOUARE (USA) THOUSAND WORDS (GB) THREE VALLEYS (USA) TIANTAI (USA) TIGER CAFE (JPN) TIGER GROOM (GB) TIGER HILL (IRE) TIKKANEN (USA) TILLERMAN (GB) TIPES (GB) TOBOUGG (IRE) TOMORROWS CAT (USA) TORLUS (GER) TOT OU TARD (IRE) TOUCH DOWN (GER) TOUCH OF LAND (FR) TOUCH OF THE BLUES (FR) TOYLSOME (GB) TRANS ISLAND (GB) TREMPOLINO (USA) TURGEON (USA) TURTLE BOWL (IRE)

U UNACCOUNTED FOR (USA) UNGARO (GER) UNTIL SUNDOWN (USA) URBAN POET (USA)

V VALANOUR (IRE) VALE OF YORK (IRE) VANGELIS (USA) VATORI (FR) VENDANGEUR (IRE) VERGLAS (IRE) VERMEER (IRE) VERTICAL SPEED (FR) VERTIGINEUX (FR) VESPONE (IRE) VICTORY GALLOP (CAN)

VICTORY NOTE (USA) VINNIE ROE (IRE) VIRTUAL (GB) VISION D'ETAT (FR) VISIONARY (FR) VITA ROSA (JPN) VITUS (GB) VOCALISED (USA) VOIX DU NORD (FR) VOL DE NUIT (GB)

W WAKY NAO (GB) WALK IN THE PARK (IRE) WALLACE (GB) WALRAS (IRE) WAR BLADE (GER) WAREED (IRE) WATER DRAGON (GB) WAY OF LIGHT (USA) WELL CHOSEN (GB) WELSH LION (IRE) WESTERNER (GB) WHERE OR WHEN (IRE) WHIPPER (USA) WHITMORE'S CONN (USA) WHITTINGHAM (IRE) WIESENPFAD (FR) WINDSOR CASTLE (GB) WINDSOR KNOT (IRE) WINGED LOVE (IRE) WINKER WATSON (GB) WITH THE FLOW (USA) WITNESS BOX (USA) WOLFE TONE (IRE)

Y YEATS (IRE) YONAGUSKA (USA) YOUMZAIN (IRE)

Z ZAFEEN (FR) ZAGREB (USA) ZAMBEZI SUN (GB) ZAMINDAR (USA) ZANZIBARI (USA) ZAREWITSCH (IRE) ZEBEDEE (GB) ZILZAL ZAMAAN (USA)

EBF INTERNATIONAL STALLIONS STALLION ALEX THE WINNER (USA) ARAGORN (IRE) BAGO (FR) DAAHER (CAN) FIRST DEFENCE (USA) INTIDAB (USA) INVASOR (ARG) JAZIL (USA) KITTEN'S JOY (USA)

STANDS CAN USA JPN USA USA USA USA USA USA

STALLION LEMON DROP KID (USA) MIZZEN MAST (USA) MUSTANFAR (USA) NORTH LIGHT (IRE) QUALITY ROAD (USA) REDOUTE'S CHOICE (AUS) SLIGO BAY (IRE) WILKO (USA)

STANDS USA USA USA CAN USA AUS CAN CAN

The stallions listed above stood OUTSIDE THE EBF AREA IN 2011 and are qualified as International Stallions for that year by reason of stallion nomination payments. The progeny of these stallions, CONCEIVED IN 2011 (the foal crop of 2012), will be eligible to enter the EBF races to be held during the year 2014 and thereafter with no further payment. Further details from the Chief Executive, European Breeders’ Fund.

Prepared by: EUROPEAN BREEDERS' FUND,

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CHELTENHAM FESTIVAL PREVIEW

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Hurricane Fly, of course, will be mighty hard to beat in the Champion Hurdle, but we have not seen him face Binocular (left) at Cheltenham. When Hurricane Fly beat Binocular nine lengths into third at Punchestown last May, Binocular ran an odd race, making a lot of the running after being slow to jump off. When he is at his best he hurdles quickly and travels strongly in behind the leaders. Maybe his glory days are behind him, but he’s only eight, the same as Hurricane Fly. The 10-1 on offer is very fair. The last seven favourites in the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle have been turned over, but another recent feature of the Festival’s opening race is that most winners have been well fancied, with only 40-1 stunner Ebaziyan bucking that trend. One that fits the bill this year is Tetlami, around a 16-1 chance at the time of writing and who has won both hurdles strats this year plus a ‘jumpers bumper’ at Kempton. Trainer Nicky Henderson has many entries for the race but this might be his best. The Giant Bolster (below) has had mixed fortunes at Cheltenham. He has unseated his rider twice, and fallen, but has won two of three completed starts round there. At around 16-1 for the JLT Specialty Handicap Chase he makes plenty of appeal, having watched him record a resounding 17-length thumping of Poquelin at the track’s trials day, albeit in receipt of weight. Kid Cassidy is clearly talented and worth a wager at 25-1 to cause an upset in the Racing Post Arkle Chase. Nicky Henderson has the favourite for this in Sprinter Sacre, but the tip is JP McManus’s only live candidate for the race and it would therefore be a surprise if Kid Cassidy does not join his higher-profile stablemate.

Last year’s winner Sizing Europe must go well in the sportingbet.com Queen Mother Champion Chase, but Finian’s Rainbow (below) is worth a go at 5-1 to surprise the favourite. Finian’s Rainbow has finished first or second in all seven starts over fences and he will be coming into this year’s Festival fresher than last term, when he had had three runs prior to finishing runner-up in the Arkle to Captain Chris. Finian’s Rainbow is a strong traveller, which will serve him well, and good ground would be a plus, not just because it is his ideal surface but because Sizing Europe is arguably best with some cut these days. Noel Meade (above) doesn’t have an outstanding record at the Festival but he knows what it takes to win the Neptune Investment Management Novices’ Hurdle, having sent out Nicanor to topple Denman in 2006, and looks to have an ideal candidate this year in the shape of Monksland. The son of Beneficial, who ran out on his only point-to-point start, has made giant strides in a short space of time under rules, with a bloodless bumper victory at Down Royal in November followed by hurdle wins at Navan and Naas, the latter a competitive Grade 2 event. Significantly, although his three wins have been achieved in testing conditions, his trainer believes Monksland will enjoy better ground and the 12-1 available for Cheltenham looks real value. Ireland are also very likely to boast the favourite for the Weatherbys Champion Bumper, but The New One – trained down the road from Cheltenham by Nigel Twiston-Davies – has won both his bumpers, including the Listed one at his local track on New Year’s Day, and at 16-1 makes lots of appeal. Twiston-Davies’s horses looked superb at the Festival last season and he rates this one “a very serious” beast. If you hack up by 52 lengths over an extended three miles with cut in the ground at Towcester, it’s probably fair to say you are a stayer. With that in mind, Universal Soldier rates a bet at 16s for the National Hunt Chase. Trainer Charlie Longsdon mentioned the Festival fourmiler after that Towcester triumph and he looks to have been targetted at the race.

ADVISED: Binocular (Champion Hurdle, 10-1) Tetlami (Supreme Novices’, 16-1) The Giant Bolster (JLT Specialty, 16-1) Kid Cassidy (Arkle, 25-1)

ADVISED: Finian’s Rainbow (Champion Chase, 5-1) Monksland (Neptune, 12-1) The New One (Bumper, 16-1) Universal Soldier (National Hunt, 16-1)

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Opposing Big Buck’s in the World Hurdle might seem like sacrilege but his winning run must end one day and, in Oscar Whisky (right), Andy Stewart’s star may be about to meet his match. Classy enough to be placed in a Champion Hurdle, Oscar Whisky is completely unexposed over staying distances and appeals as the type to relish the step up to three miles. If Barry Geraghty is able to conserve his mount’s energy and deliver a challenge after the final hurdle, the chances are that Oscar Whisky’s turn of foot will prove decisive. At 5-1, it’s worth a bet. The Byrne Group Plate is a competitive affair and Roudoudou Ville has the chance to gain compensation for a slightly unlucky defeat over the course and distance in December. That day Victor Dartnall’s (below) charge looked set for victory after kicking for home rounding the final turn, only to be run down in the shadows of the post by Quantitativeeasing and Medermit. The seven-year-old still looks wellhandicapped and odds of 11-1 look tempting for an up-and-coming chaser with course form in the bag. Plenty of ifs and buts in the Ryanair Chase, with many entries also engaged in other races, but this appears the likely destination for Wishfull Thinking, who chased home Noble Prince in the 2011 Jewson Novices’ Chase at the Festival. The nine-year-old looked set for big things this season but has been inconsistent, his best effort coming at Kempton when finishing second to Finian’s Rainbow. On the plus side, he likes Cheltenham, will appreciate the step back up to two miles and five furlongs and enjoys decent ground. If he comes back to his best, 33-1 is far too big. Lucinda Russell hasn’t had a chase winner at Cheltenham, from 14 runners, in the past five seasons, but Bold Sir Brian is worth a stab at 40-1 to put that right in the Jewson Novices’ Chase. Despite that statistic, the trainer does have a healthy level stakes profit at Cheltenham in the past five seasons, thanks to two hurdle winners and a bumper success, and Bold Sir Brian has won his last three and been flagged as a Jewson horse by Russell. Rider Peter Buchanan is one of the best in the business over fences, too.

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F Heavy ground did not play to Sea Of Thunder’s strengths at Leopardstown at the end of January, when he ran fifth in a Grade 2 over two and a half miles, but much better can be expected when he contests the Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle. The son of Old Vic relishes decent going and looked set for a wide-margin victory at Prestbury Park in December over three miles, only to meet the last wrong and take a horrific fall. Returned to a better surface, Sea Of Thunder, who is a halfbrother to former top-class hurdler Macs Joy, rates a standout bet at 14-1 to get in the money at the Festival. Ted Spread proved classy on the Flat, winning the Group 3 Chester Vase in his youth, and although he doesn’t look good enough to mix it with the best novice hurdlers, a race such as the Vincent O’Brien County Hurdle looks well worth a shot. Now in the care of Paul Nicholls, Ted Spread ran into useful sorts including Broadbackbob, Cinders And Ashes and Grumeti on his first two starts over obstacles before hacking up in a handicap at Taunton. While his lack of experience is a concern ahead of a race as competitive as the County, his profile as an unexposed, potentially well-handicapped runner from a top stable is enough persuasion that 14-1 is a fair price. De Boitron finished a never-nearer fourth in the Johnny Henderson Grand Annual Chase a year ago, after which he produced a series of below-par performances, but the eight-year-old signaled a return to form when third at Musselburgh in February. Trainer Ferdy Murphy is a master at getting his runners to the Festival in peak condition and De Boitron’s mark – he was dropped 17lb by the handicapper – looks to have given him a real chance of improving on last year’s effort. Having won on soft and good ground, conditions won’t be an issue for De Boitron and 16-1 is too big to ignore. The Gold Cup market is dominated by Long Run and Kauto Star, however there are reasons for taking both on this time. Long Run has yet to really fire this term. Paul Nicholls deserves huge credit for revitalising Kauto Star and while the heart says a third Gold Cup win is definitely a possibility, the head says he is vulnerable to younger rivals. With that in mind, the Willie Mullins-trained Quel Esprit (below, centre) is put forward as an alternative. Jumping problems blighted the early fencing career of this talented sort but he has looked in rude health this term, including when landing the Grade 1 Hennessy Gold Cup, his third win on the bounce. He does have plenty to find with the top two on ratings but, still only eight, is open to plenty of improvement and 20-1 is tempting.

ADVISED: Sea Of Thunder (Albert Bartlett, 14-1) Ted Spread (County, 14-1) De Boitron (Grand Annual, 16-1) Quel Esprit (Gold Cup, 20-1)

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TALKING TO... MARTIN KEIGHLEY

Ideal GROUNDING Martin Keighley learnt his trade under David Nicholson and spent time on the Cheltenham groundstaff; a Festival winner would be a “dream come true” for the jockey-turned-trainer By Tim Richards • Photos George Selwyn

ow did your involvement in horseracing start and what was the spur? I started riding my cousins’ horses and later had my own horse as a teenager. Racing was never far away because my Dad has always loved the sport. I started riding out at weekends for Steve Norton, our local trainer in Yorkshire, and it was then that I knew racing was all I wanted to do. You quit race-riding aged 25 – do you have any regrets? I wasn’t making a living as a jockey so I couldn’t have carried on and, in any case, I get far more pleasure and a much bigger buzz from training a winner than I did riding one. This season has been your best yet in terms of winners and prize-money. How have you managed to attract a better type of horse and would you like to expand further? We have been so lucky that owners have supported us and been prepared to spend more money and send us a better quality of horse. Our Irish bloodstock agent Gerry Hogan has done very well for us and managed to get quite a few of our current stars on a reasonable budget compared with some of the big yards. I’d be happy to get up to 50 or 60 horses, but no more because I think you would then lose the personal touch and that is very important to us. You must have learnt a lot working for ‘The Duke’ David Nicholson. What were the main things? So many things, but manners and turnout

stand out as he was a stickler for both, and now I am very aware of their importance. They are the lasting impression of The Duke and lie behind the way we operate and hopefully help us to attract owners and horses. Hygiene within the yard was also a massive thing with him and we try to be as hygienic as possible, which hopefully helps keep the bugs away.

“The Duke would

bollock you when you needed it but then move on; I admired him for that” How to take a telling-off must have been one of the lessons… Certainly, and I hope I am similar to him. He bollocked you when you needed it, but then moved on and the next moment was grand with you. I admired him for that. There’s nothing worse than someone who sulks all day. I’m sure some of the youngsters coming into racing today wouldn’t last a week with The Duke. He certainly did us more good than harm. Warren Marston, who was with us at The Duke’s, often says he taught us all such important ‘life skills’, which is so true. In what way has your time with The Duke influenced your outlook on life?

He taught me to make the most of the good days as they are sometimes few and far between. He also taught me patience with horses, although I think I’ve had to learn that myself as well, as I’m definitely more patient than I was when I started. He died too young and that, along with losing both of Belinda’s parents too young (they both died in 2010), has taught us to make the most of life. You train at Luckley in Gloucestershire, close to the village of Condicote from where The Duke sent out so many winners. Do you use any of his old facilities or former staff? We certainly do still have some members of his team, namely Jeremy Swan, the vet, Maggie Turner, physio, and Deb Butler, who does all the clipping. Miranda Theobald and Pete Welch still ride out and The Duke’s youngest son John rides out occasionally. His widow, Dinah, makes all our coloured racing browbands, non-slip Nicho-nets and is in the Nicholson Racing Syndicate, owners of Sky Calling. We use his old woodchip gallop, which we have resurfaced with a wax finish which I couldn’t be happier with. It has stood up >>

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TALKING TO... even when you expand and trust others to do some of the jobs you have always done. But I have a fantastic team and I am getting better at delegating! I have always done all the tractor work but am training someone to do that job now, which will be a great help. I try to ride out as much as I can and still enjoy riding work. How big a role does your wife Belinda, who won point-to-points and hunter chases as a rider, play in your operation? Belinda plays a massive role and is a huge support to me. It is lucky that she loves racing too as it really is a 24/7 job. She does most of the administration and we are often doing entries and other jobs for a few hours in the evenings after our boys have gone to bed; she often reminds me that most racing secretaries have finished work hours ago! She tries to keep me positive on bad days and has to have a thick skin for the times I’m not in great form. She’s a real people person and enjoys spending time with the owners. Champion Court won the Dipper Novices’ Chase for Keighley on New Year’s Day

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Would you describe yourself as a hands-on trainer? After you’ve done it all yourself, as I did in the first couple of years, it is hard to let go,

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TALKING TO... >> finished race-riding and Belinda noticed an

don’t know us involved in the day to day running of the yard, and we enjoy doing it too. It is hard work keeping the website up to date, but when people show their appreciation it makes the task worthwhile.

advert for a groundsman, and I thought it would be good to learn that side of the business. Cheltenham was an amazing place to work and because I had race-ridden, Simon Claisse would often discuss the line of the running rail and similar matters on the course with me. I really enjoyed racedays as I followed the runners round with the vets and doctors. I learnt how to build fences and hurdles as well, a job I enjoyed and which helped me when I started training as I could then build my entire schooling ground. I also learnt even more about ground conditions than when I was riding and consequently have learnt how to maintain and keep my gallops in top condition. In those days did you ever imagine you would train winners there, and possibly even at the Festival? No, never. It is an amazing experience and when Belinda and I are waiting to greet our winners at the bottom of the shoot it is always very emotional. As is walking into the winner’s enclosure with the fabulous reception we have always received. What are you hoping to run at this year’s Festival and what would be your best chance of a winner? Benbane Head (NH Chase), Champion Court (Jewson), Havingotascoobydo (Centenary Ch), Wolf Moon (Cross Country/Kim Muir), Court In Session (Coral Cup), All For Free (Centenary/Grand Annual), Hard To Swallow (Albert Bartlett), Any Currency (Cross Country), Flementime (Bumper). If any one of these hits the target it will be a dream come true. Most of your horses are Irish-bred, many from the point-to-point scene. Why are you drawn to these horses and do you feel they offer better value than French-breds? I have had lots of success with horses that have run well or won their Irish point-topoints and are ready to go on. I trust Gerry Hogan so much. He was with me at The Duke’s and he knows the Irish horses inside out. I am not against French-breds and got a couple of them recently through Richard Hobson, who I’ll be using again as it is best to keep your options open.

Champion Court cost £130,000. Is there a limit on what you would pay? He is the most expensive horse we have had and has luckily lived up to it. My only limit is my owners’ pockets. If an owner likes a horse and wants to spend more, then that’s fine, but Gerry Hogan wouldn’t let them pay the price if he didn’t think the horse was worth it. I admire him for that, as I’m sure plenty of others would just keep bidding.

How has Alain Cawley settled into his role riding for the stable? Ian Popham is our stable jockey but is out injured, having broken his pelvis in September. We were lucky that Alain was thinking of moving from Ireland just after Ian’s injury. He was advised to give me a ring and has fitted in really well. Like Ian, he is naturally talented but also happy to listen to advice and is a great team player. I’d hate to lose him when Ian is back and hope to have enough horses to be able to use both of them.

CLOSE UP AND... PERSONAL My favourite holiday destination is... family-friendly Portugal where we try to go at least once a year I relax by... spending time with the family and watching Grand Prix racing Would most like to meet... the person who finds a cure for cancer Actor to play me in a film... Jim Carrey, if only I was half as funny and entertaining Perfect evening would be... celebrating a winner over supper with Belinda and friends at The Plough at Ford

CLOSE UP AND... PROFESSIONAL If I had to take up another career it would be... a Grand Prix driver Most difficult part of training is... losing horses, it’s heartbreaking and never gets any easier New BHA boss Paul Bittar must... sort out the new whip rules, and I don’t envy him Best horses I’ve sat on… Viking Flagship, Barton Bank and Relkeel The Cheltenham Festival could be improved by... having more staff in the Arkle Bar!

Your blog is one of the best in racing. How important is this and your website to your operation? It is hugely important to me and we are always thrilled when people comment on it. It keeps owners, friends and even those who

Are you for or against the changes to the whip rules? Against, as jockeys are so anti using the whip out in the country. I am sure some horses that need a few reminders out in the country are getting beaten because jockeys are not willing to risk being banned. I am not sure what to suggest, but the current rules are not working and are making me and my owners so frustrated. If you can’t hold your position in a race, it’s as good as over. How important is prize-money to your stable and is it something you consider when making race entries? There are races where the prize-money is so insulting I won’t even consider entering. The owner could win the race and come away without even covering his monthly training bill. Prize-money is important to everyone and when we have a good run it gives me great pleasure to see the staff getting a big payout from their pool money as they put so much into the job. It is great when they can reap some of the rewards. You are married with two young children. Do you find balancing work and family life difficult? It is hard and they have to be understanding. I am lucky that I can see them at lunchtimes when other office-based Dads wouldn’t be able to. But I am not often around at weekends when they’d like to do family things. We try to make the most of any time we do have together as it flies by and you can’t get it back. Luckily, Freddie and Harry absolutely love racing and Belinda brings them whenever possible. They also love being out in the yard with the team and the horses. They have a beautiful dapple grey rocking horse, given to them by one of our owners, Andrew Jones. And Freddie in particular looks very stylish. However, even 18-month-old Harry is struggling with the new whip rules as he’s already a bit too stick happy!

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Master of all he surveys: Colin Tizzard oversees morning exercise at his thriving Dorset stable

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A family FORCE It started with one, Mister One, in fact, whose success paid for their gallop, but Colin and Joe Tizzard now have 60 horses, including several with chances at the Cheltenham Festival Words Alan Lee • Photos George Selwyn

olin Tizzard was born in a caravan in Milborne Port and has never left the Dorset village. The caravan has long gone and the Tizzards’ land, split between three brothers, now stretches further than the eye can see. Front of house, where the A30 meanders towards Somerset and all points west, is a racing stable brimming over in numbers and ambition. Where cows once took priority, Cheltenham winners are trained now. This is the home of Cue Card, one of the box-office acts in jump racing. Like most horses here, he lives in a converted cowshed, nourishing the casual preconception of a rustic operation, a farmer with a hobby. A morning here dispels that impression. The Tizzards are a rising force, and they mean to go on rising. The stable has enjoyed winners at the last two Cheltenham Festivals, through Cue Card and Oiseau de Nuit, and will

send its biggest and most portentous team this month. More than 60 horses are trained here now, 40-odd in the main yard and another 20 across the village, where

“If this hill hadn’t

been on the farm, I would never have trained. It wouldn’t have worked” extra boxes have been built at the home of Colin’s jockey son, Joe. A dreary dawn has just broken over the village. Catrin Eymon, a strikingly

efficient head girl who joined from Peter Bowen’s yard, has briefed Colin on the horses in front of a battered work board. In the yard, Brendan Powell jnr and Steven Clements swap stories of takeaway meals as they muck out. The riding talent here is not confined to close family. Colin takes me on a wheel-spinning tour of the facilities, including a smart, new schooling ring, built by his brother Robert. Soon, we are standing beneath trees alongside a challenging woodchip gallop, surveying the Tizzard farmland surrounding the grounds of stately Ven House, home to the designer Jasper Conran. “If this hill hadn’t been on the farm, I would never have trained,” Colin says simply. “It wouldn’t have worked without this.” A more poignant usage is now pointed out. Four years ago, Tizzard’s late father, Les, was buried on the hill. “He can see the horses every day,” the trainer said.

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Pauline and Kim Tizzard share a smile and a cuppa, while father and son are pictured below right. The main image shows Cue Card (right, Michael Legg riding) working on the woodchip gallop with six-year-old Wosayu

This is a close family in every respect, still bound to this village even if some have fluttered their wings. Joe is milking 250 cows during first lot but he is back in the farmhouse as his mother, Pauline, cooks breakfast. Although the farmhouse sign still advertises bed and breakfast, these days, by choice, she confines it to family and friends. Kim, Joe’s sister, arrives from her married home in Mere, wryly announcing that her main duty of the day is to prepare Colin’s hunter for a meet later in the day. “I’m the gofer,” she says. Colin has the ruddy features, ruminative manner and sing-song voice that might caricature a Dorset farmer. For some years, that was all he expected to be, as his family history tells. “Father lived in the Queen’s Head pub in Milborne Port and kept half a dozen cows in what’s now the skittle alley,” he begins. “When he married mother, he moved down to Ven as a tenant farmer. They got going with about ten cows and lived in the caravan, where I was born.” As his parents moved from the caravan to a rented cottage, and eventually built the house now known as Venn Farm, Colin had a sporting childhood beyond the usual country pursuits. “I played a lot of cricket at school, up to county colts’ level,” he says. “I was vice-captain of the Yeovil district team and Ian Botham was captain. Do’you know, he never used to bowl as a boy, then one day in a game he suddenly grabbed the ball and said he’d have a go himself. Of course, he was better than all of us. After he’d been on the MCC groundstaff he came back here and played football in our local Sunday league.

He was only 18 but such a huge lad, he’d knock everyone over.” Of the four Tizzard sons, three stayed farming. “We had enough land and felt we

“Ian Botham played

in our local league. He was only 18 but such a huge lad he’d knock everyone over” needed three farms,” Colin says. “After six months of arguing, we sorted it out. That was our future.” Except it wasn’t. Alan and Michael still concentrate on cattle, more than 1,000 on each of their farms, but Colin’s diversion into

horses was quickly under way. “I rode in point-to-points on horses we kept, but they were only ever half fit,” he says. “When Joe came on the scene we thought we’d better make sure they were fitter. We bought two for him to ride when he was 16, they each won four races in that first season and it kicked off from there.” The crunch came when Joe turned professional and hit an immediate jackpot as stable jockey to their meteoric near neighbour, Paul Nicholls. “That last season of pointing, with Joe not riding, wasn’t much fun,” Colin says. “I suppose we could have stopped then but I decided to get a licence and move on.” Ironically, the horse that ignited their dreams came from Nicholls and his landlord, Paul Barber. Across the breakfast table, Joe takes up the story: “Mr Barber had a horse called Mister One, who’d broken down twice. He said we could have him if we were prepared to have him in a field for 18 months. We got him back slowly and he won two Cheltenham races for us and a Royal THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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THE TIZZARDS Artillery Gold Cup. You could say he paid for the gallop.” It has all turned full circle now, with Joe back full-time in the family business. I ask how father and son rub along. “Horses are easy, we’re both aiming for the same thing,” Joe says. “I don’t get riding instructions too often and I don’t listen anyway. We probably argue more over the farm than anything else.” “It’s not easy for Joe,” his father puts in. “I’m still the boss and I think I should make the telling decisions, just like my father did until he retired. But we’re doing this together, more than ever before. “Joe is still primarily a jockey but he’s looking to take over from me, getting ready for the next stage in his life. But I can’t see me retiring for a few years yet and I can’t see him stopping riding. Four years from now, I’ll be 60. Maybe that will be the time to let go.” You sense he has ambitions to fulfil before that day comes. The business is flourishing, despite difficult economic times. “The financial climate is still so poor that we’ll probably do well to stand still for a couple of years,” he says. “Every trainer is going to be affected. But farming is in a good period now and the two overlap for us. “I’m sure some people think I spend too much time farming and not enough with the horses, but I don’t think that’s fair at all. The two overlap but they complement each other. Every morning is spent training the horses

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>> and, 90% of the time, I’m dealing with the

owners and the hassle. The farm allows me to get away for a while, each day. Sorting the cows can take my mind off things. But, you know, I really don’t count training as work. “As we’ve got more horses, we keep having to push the cows further away. But with the facilities we have here, we could manage twice as many horses – and I will never turn one away. We’ve concentrated on store horses and, with the type of owners we have now, I can go to the store sales and buy the best.” That is what he did at the Derby Sale in 2009, paying €52,000 for Cue Card. “We went out there with Bob and Jean Bishop, who have been in racing a long time and were looking for a horse we could get on with,” he says. “Cue Card was a real sharp type, out of a good mare (Wicked Crack). I thought I could win a bumper with him the following season – but I never dreamed it would be the Champion Bumper. “I remember that day at the Festival, watching him walk round the parade ring next to Willie Mullins’s big six-year-olds and thinking he looked a pony. I lost a bit of faith then and told Joe to look after him. When Joe went right round the outside and took it up at halfway, I thought he wouldn’t get home. But he bolted up. “Last year, Cue Card was all anyone wanted to talk to us about. It was fever pitch here. We had the press in several times a week and everyone thought he was unbeatable. But we couldn’t run him between Christmas and

Cue Card’s Champion Bumper win was Joe’s first Festival success for 11 years

‘I had a hell of a time in Nicholls job’ There is no regret in Joe Tizzard’s manner as he speaks of the job he won as a teenager and lost in his early twenties. Time spent with the aspiring champion that was Paul Nicholls, he says, has shaped his future. “I had a hell of a time there,” he says. “I rode plenty of winners for Paul, more than anyone else besides Ruby [Walsh]. I had two spells as first jockey and loved every second of it. “When I first went to Ditcheat, Paul and Bridget [Nicholls’ former wife] were like a second set of parents. I spent masses of time with them and they’d take me racing every day. I also learned a lot on the training side. Our gallop is very similar to theirs and we’ve copied a lot of what Paul

Cheltenham and he didn’t have his usual flamboyance in the Supreme.” After much discussion, sometimes heated, between father and son, the Arkle Trophy is the Festival target this time round. “Dad tried to make him slow,” Joe says cheekily. “But I always thought Cue Card had the speed for two miles. “He will get further and be a King George horse but, at the moment, he doesn’t need to. You need a stayer to win an Arkle and he definitely gets two and a half.”

does, just tweaking a few things to make it work for us. “Paul’s job ran its course but, even when I stopped being first jockey there, I rode 36 winners for him the next season. It wasn’t like going from everything to nothing. Luckily, when I finished at Ditcheat, Dad’s yard was up and running – we had 25 horses and were getting busy. I missed the big days but I wasn’t short of rides.” Yet for all the high days under Nicholls, Tizzard had ridden only two Cheltenham Festival winners – the Foxhunter on Earthmover and the Arkle on Flagship Uberalles – before Cue Card came along. “I’d gone 11 years without one,” he laments. “To have one for the family yard was very special.”

The Festival team is chewed over, along with the toast. Third Intention – “the first three-year-old we had in the yard” – is fancied for the County Hurdle and Oiseau de Nuit for a follow-up in the Grand Annual. The latter is owned by Terry Warner, who won the Champion Hurdle with Rooster Booster but now has more horses with Tizzard than any other trainer. “He likes being able to talk to any of us about his horses,” Kim suggests. “He enjoys the fact that it’s a real family concern.” THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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RATHBARRY STUD AND YORTON FARM

Living up to a

LEGACY

Rathbarry Stud’s Liam Cashman died two years ago but the success of his family-run farm is undimmed, with a flagship Flat sire and thriving jumps interests in Ireland and Britain

TREVOR JONES

Words Carl Evans

Acclamation, left, and mares in Rathbarry’s sheltered paddocks

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t would be fair to say we’re on a roll,” says Catherine Cashman, over a cup of tea at her Rathbarry Stud home in County Cork. No ordinary tea, either, for the water comes up from the ground beneath the farm and Catherine is convinced it makes a better brew. If Rathbarry Stud results are a guide, the water is good for horses, too, although they are benefiting from a lifetime of ‘engineering’ by Catherine’s husband Liam, who died two years ago aged 72. Catherine says: “Liam always said, ‘If I hadn’t been born a farmer I would have been an engineer or an architect’. There was nothing he liked better than to buy a farm and plan where he would put the barns and lay out the paddocks. He loved reading about anything to do with agriculture.” Later, during a drive around the farm (incorporating “seven or eight” yards for stallions, mares, foaling etc), evidence of Liam’s planning becomes apparent – all Cashman properties face south to benefit from the sun and the paddocks are bordered by manicured beech and leylandii hedgerows that give mares and young horses shelter. In

Catherine Cashman and Donal White with champion National Hunt sire Presenting

one area they have been configured to create a walkway for yearlings during sales preparation. Two jobs for the price of one makes sense. ‘Multi-tasking’ sums up Rathbarry, but Catherine is not the only family member with a full-time role. Her children Paul and Niamh are backed up by Niamh’s husband Frannie Woods, a former jockey, and by

Liam’s nephew Paul McCarthy, in addition to long-serving staff members such as accountant Micheal Fahy. The business involves three jumping sires, including perennial champion Presenting, and four Flat stallions headed by Acclamation, whose 2011 season was a dreamt-for second coming after his first-crop championship in 2007. Add in sales

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preparation (more than 60 yearlings last autumn), the training of young point-topointers with the aim of racing once or twice and then going to market, plus a band of broodmares – headed by Musical Treat, dam of dual Guineas winner Finsceal Beo – and you have a casserole of breeding and racing. Another strand to the business is Rathbarry’s ‘twinning’ with Yorton Farm Stud in Shropshire. David and Teresa Futter, tenants at that farm, stand three Rathbarryowned sires in Malinas, Revoque and Sulamani. The two farms operate independently, but the Futters are forever grateful for the opportunity given by Liam and maintained since his death. Reflecting on Rathbarry’s soaring year in 2011, Catherine says: “We were blown away – the success of Acclamation’s progeny on the track and the way it translated into sales results was brilliant, and on the jumping front Presenting’s son Ballabriggs won the Grand National. We were so pleased for Trevor Hemmings [Ballabriggs’ owner], who has sent mares here and has bought our young horses. “Presenting has sired Gold Cup winners [War Of Attrition and Denman], but it was special to get a Grand National winner while the sire is still alive.” Not that Rathbarry relied on two stallions in 2011, for Tagula had top-class Canford Cliffs as a five-star representative, while Robin Des Champs was responsible for two

The multi-tasking Paul Cashman with point-to-pointer Abbey Storm, by Presenting

Cheltenham Festival winners – Quevega and Sir Des Champs – sired while he stood in France. Rathbarry’s third jumping sire, Dubai Destination, has been represented in jumps races by horses conceived during his time with Darley. The farm’s Flat roster is completed by Moss Vale and Acclamation’s son Lilbourne Lad, who is making his debut in the covering shed after proving a talented performer as a

Life after “irreplaceable” Liam It has not been lost on the Cashman family that Liam is missing out on the current wave of success: “Yes,” says Catherine, “we think of it all the time. “Paul faced a difficult job in trying to slip into Liam’s shoes, particularly at the autumn sales [in 2010] because he is so busy with the pointers at that time of year and until then had attended only the occasional sales day. “It was emotional for us all when we sold Musical Treat’s yearling [to the Hong Kong Jockey Club for 320,000gns, seven months after Liam’s death], for she is probably the best mare we have owned and it was Liam that bought her. “When Liam died I knew I had to get stuck in, otherwise I would have fallen apart, and while he is irreplaceable and you don’t forget 40 years together I count myself lucky for several reasons. My two children are involved in the business, it was going well at the time and by going to the office I had the company of others.

juvenile last year, winning the Group 2 Railway Stakes and finishing his season as runner-up in the Middle Park Stakes. He makes a useful foil for his illustrious father, whose fee has risen to €35,000. Breeders can use his son for €7,500. Lilbourne Lad and the other Flat stallions reside at Rathbarry, while the jumping trio is based nearby at Glenview Stud, where Paul, an accomplished amateur rider, trains the pointers. They are made fit on an enviable Polytrack gallop that swirls away up a hill into the distance. At 20, Presenting covers only selected mares, but he looks younger than his years and has an air of venerable worldliness. Led from his box by Glenview Stud manager

“Presenting has sired

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CARL EVANS

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Liam Cashman, a master planner

“Liam went in March 2010 and Niamh gave birth to my grandson Paddy the following October, so we had that excitement in our lives, which helped enormously.”

Gold Cup winners but it was special to get a National winner while the sire is still alive” Donal White, he stops perfectly in the showing position. His manners are matched by 15-year-old Robin Des Champs, a horse of imposing stature who is similarly willing when put on parade. Dubai Destination, now aged 13, has the most to prove, but Liam’s decision to stand him implied that the horse would not be long in siring good jumpers, and he has recently accelerated past 50 winners under THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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R AT H B A R RY S T U D A N D Y O RT O N FA R M that code, with his runners including Triumph Hurdle hopeful Ranjaan.

Presenting a story from Stockada to Acclamation Rathbarry Stud’s current profile traces to Liam’s father Paul, who owned a thoroughbred stallion called Stockada that would be travelled to villages for meetings with local mares. Gradually that method died out and when Catherine joined her husband at Rathbarry it comprised the sires Perspex and Carlburg, a herd of dairy cattle and the promise of a home for the newly-weds,

although a bank strike delayed that goal by six years. Ask Catherine for a key moment in the stud’s development and she says: “Strong Gale. That horse got us noticed, especially on the National Hunt side, while Kampala was a leading first-season sire who was another big help. Taufan followed and then came Alzao, who stood here for five seasons before being sold to Coolmore.” Rathbarry owns its jumping stallions but syndicates its Flat sires and via that system has made some local people very happy. Alzao, syndicated for Ir£12,000 a share,

covered initially at IR£4,000 but was standing for IR£18,000 at the time of his sale. Catherine laughs when recalling: “Many [shareholders] were just ordinary farmers whose mares weren’t good enough for a stallion of that calibre, but they did very well when he was sold. Liam even got his brotherin-law, who wouldn’t have known the first thing about stallions, to take a share, so it was a happy day for a lot of people.” Liam’s interest in innovations led to another key player, vet Stefanie Bucca, who brought new ideas to traditional practices. Catherine says: “We had worked with very

National Hunt sires at Glenview Stud PRESENTING 20yo by Mtoto-D’Azy (Persian Bold) Champion sire of Gold Cup winners Denman and War Of Attrition, and Grand National winner Ballabriggs. Progeny heading towards 900 wins and £8,000,000 in prize-money in Britain and Ireland. ROBIN DES CHAMPS 15yo Garde Royale-Relayeuse (Iron Duke) Son of a top-class jumping sire. Useful juvenile hurdler in France, sire of Grade 1 winners there and of leading British/Irish winners Quevega, Sous Les Cieux, Sir Des Champs, etc. Transferred from Haras de Saint-Voir to Rathbarry for 2009 season. DUBAI DESTINATION 13yo Kingmambo-Mysterial (Alleged) Oldest progeny seven, but has 50-plus jumping winners including smart juvenile hurdler Ranjaan. Joined Rathbarry from Darley for 2010 season.

At Yorton Farm SULAMANI 13yo Hernando-Soul Dream (Alleged) Half-brother to Irish Derby winner Dream Well. Sire of St Leger and Hong Kong Vase winner Mastery while at Darley. Joined Yorton Farm from Haras du Logis for 2010. Jumps progeny include the smart hurdler Cash And Go. MALINAS 11yo Lomitas-Majoritat (Konigsstuhl) Group 2 winner in Germany, Group 1placed there (German Derby) and Italy.

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Sulamani with Jenny Membery, Teresa and David Futter, and Lucy Dawson

Joined Yorton Farm from Haras de la Hetraie for 2012 season. Oldest crop fiveyear-olds includes winners over jumps on both sides of the Channel. REVOQUE 18yo Fairy King-La Bella Fontana (Lafontaine) Sired plenty of winners on Flat and over jumps including consistent King Revo, Pay Attention, Rev It Up, etc.

Flat sires at Rathbarry Stud ACCLAMATION 13yo Royal Applause-Princess Athena (Ahonoora) Group 2 winner and Group 1-placed, but proving even better at stud. Sired Dark Angel, Equiano and Hitchens in first crop, to finish as champion sire, and better mares led to brilliant 2011 season headed by unbeaten Harbour Watch, plus Lilbourne Lad. Yearlings were hugely popular in 2011 – top price 360,000gns – which helped

Rathbarry to top-vendors’ slot at Tattersalls’ Book 2. LILBOURNE LAD 3yo Acclamation-Sogno Verde (Green Desert) Group 2 winner and Group 1-placed colt who joins his father for 2012. Paul Cashman says: “He ran eight times at two, so proved his temperament, and he filled all the other criteria you would want in a young sire.” MOSS VALE 11yo Shinko Forest-Wolf Cleugh (Last Tycoon) Consistent sprinter who raced 42 times and won at Group 2 level, plus Group 1-placed. Ten winners from his first crop in 2011. TAGULA 19yo Taufan-Twin Island (Standaan) Sire of Classic-winning, brilliant miler Canford Cliffs (new recruit to Coolmore for 2012), plus Group 2 winners Tax Free, Atlantis Prince, Tagshira, etc.

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CARL EVANS

the chance to bring in some revenue. We built a foaling barn and foaled 100 mares in that first season and continued from there.” Revoque has stayed, while other Rathbarry sires such as Croco Rouge, Indian Danehill and Blueprint came and went, before current Yorton Farm residents Sulamani and Malinas arrived. The latter pair, bought with Rathbarry funds by David and bloodstock agent Richard Venn, went straight to Yorton Farm rather than arriving via County Cork. “You’ve got to keep moving forward in this business,” says Futter. “Sulamani had sired a St Leger winner but wasn’t going to be commercially successful for Darley on the Flat. I knew he would work for us, while

David Futter with new recruit Malinas, sire of good young hurdler Black Thunder

good vets, but they relied on the hand [to check mares, etc]. Scanners were coming in and this was an area in which she specialised. Liam heard about Stef, offered her a job and she stayed 13 years. “Joe O’Flynn [now working in his family’s hotel business] was another of Liam’s recruits who became a key player as assistant manager, not least in getting Barathea and Presenting to stand here.”

Valuable support in setting up Yorton Farm Hard work and enthusiasm would be the sort of qualities to impress Liam Cashman and he spotted it in quantity when introduced to David and Teresa Futter. David has no family background in horses, while Teresa comes from a hunting home in Ireland, but the couple stand three Rathbarry-owned sires at Yorton Farm Stud in Shropshire. Initially the couple traded hunters but their goal lay in standing stallions and when Yorton Farm, which is part of the Thompson family’s Sansaw Estate near Shrewsbury, became available they moved in. Revoque (from Rathbarry) and Primo Valentino (from Bearstone Stud) soon followed on a lease arrangement. Catherine Cashman recalls: “We could cater for only three jumping stallions and felt Revoque could do with a change of scene. There is only a certain pool of mares and after three or four years you are waiting to see if a new sire can deliver the goods. “I asked Willie Jenks, an owner and breeder in Britain who has used our sires, if he could recommend a good stallion man. He mentioned David, I passed the message to Liam and it went from there.”

Futter says: “Liam was the sort of man who liked helping young people and since he had just recruited Indian Danehill he sent Revoque to us – we got 80 mares to him in his first season, which was a good number. “When Liam passed away we did not take it for granted that the Cashman family would want to continue the arrangement. I had really only dealt with Liam, but Catherine said, ‘Liam liked you and Teresa, and we would like to carry on the same’. They have been unbelievably good to us and very easy to deal with. “Another couple who helped us get off the ground were Bill and Di Bromley [who recently retired from nearby Wood Farm Stud]. Bill was standing Classic Cliche at the time and getting plenty of mares, but when he asked if we would foal them we jumped at

young people; the Cashman family has been unbelievably good to us” Malinas is a son of Lomitas with a great dam line.” Don’t mare owners suffer when a stallion is leased or sold to another stud after just a few years? “It doesn’t do anyone any good when a stallion is waiting for results and covering just a few mares,” he adds. “Breeders won’t keep going back to a sire until he’s shown what he can do, so in some cases it is better to move him on and keep his book up. If he is successful and the winners keep flowing, he can always return to his original base.”

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“Liam liked helping

Quevega, one of the many star turns by Glenview resident Robin Des Champs

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HARAS DE LA CAUVINIERE

Reward for

EFFORT With a patron such as major owner/breeder Gérard Augustin-Normand, Sylvain and Elisabeth Vidal have been fortunate, but not without plenty of groundwork Words Emma Berry

hree years ago, a visitor to Haras de la Cauvinière would have found a beautiful old Normandy farmhouse next to a small stable yard and barn, with a handful of mares grazing in tree-lined paddocks, similar to hundreds of properties dotted around that horse-laden area of northern France. The stud’s proprietors, Sylvain and Elisabeth Vidal, son-in-law and daughter of the owners of the land on which the original hub of the operation sits, set out with the same dream as many young people in the racing and breeding business: to attract enough clients to their fledgling business to make it viable. Like a number of studs in the area, La Cauvinière enjoyed the patronage of breeders from England and Ireland keen to take

advantage of the lucrative French premiums on offer, but it was a domestic owner who would help to turn the stud into the busiest new stallion farm in France. “A few years ago, Gérard Augustin-Normand started buying a few yearlings and the horses were coming here after the sales to have a break,” says Sylvain Vidal, 39. “He asked me if I would like to get more involved and to have a stallion here, and then if I would like to buy some horses for him.”

As luck would have it, the stallion AugustinNormand had in mind to stand at stud in the tiny village of Notre Dame de Courson, just south of Lisieux, was his 2009 Prix du JockeyClub winner Le Havre, who was named in honour of his home town. Now in his third season at stud, the dark brown son of Noverre has been instantly popular with breeders, covering 146 mares in his first season and 138 last year. In 2011 he was joined at the stud by the former Ballydoyle campaigner Air Chief Marshal, who covered the biggest book of mares of any freshman sire in France last season.

“We are very happy,” says Sylvain Vidal, unsurprisingly. “We have two really popular stallions but they are two very different horses – one a sprinter with a lot of precocity and the other a Classic winner. Promotion is very important, of course, and we didn’t want to price them too high but Le Havre already has 120 mares booked to him again this year.” With our conversation having taken place in late January during France’s ‘Route des Etalons’ weekend, that figure has doubtless risen, particularly given the number of visitors to the stud during those two days. One of the early birds was Berend Van Dalfsen, whose own stallion Turtle Bowl, resident at Haras de la Reboursière et de Montaigu, was quick off the mark with a Group 1 winner in his first crop last season. Van Dalfsen, along with breeders such as Newsells Park Stud and Lady Chryss O’Reilly, has an arrangement with Cauvinière to swap nominations to stallions under their ownership. While Air Chief Marshal’s fee of €3,000 is at a level one might expect to help him to attract a decent number of ‘commercial’ mares whether he was standing in England, Ireland or France, Le Havre’s €5,000 fee seems relatively little for a horse with Classic credentials. It is, however, in keeping for the French >>

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A busy team: Sylvain and Elisabeth Vidal with Mathieu Alex

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stallion market, which has been missing a star turn since the deaths of the likes of Highest Honor, Anabaa and Linamix, and has a raft of stallions in the €2,000-€5,000 bracket.

Branching out

Air Chief Marshal, a new addition to the French ranks who covered 120 mares in 2011

‘Northern Dancer’ he invited me to have a drink. “We became friends but Sylvain went one way and I stayed there. I really enjoyed my time

“We’re very fortunate

that Le Havre has stayed in France; he could easily have been sold to Japan” in Ireland but I started to feel it was time to come home to France. There was only one place to come back to and that was here.” The Coolmore connection has already helped in bringing Air Chief Marshal to the stud – he is currently the sole son of Danehill Dancer in France – and it has given the duo a good head start when it comes to stallion management.

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Le Havre and Air Chief Marshal now have a special stallion complex on the site of a nearby farm formerly known as Haras du Montfort, which is also now home to Sylvain, Elisabeth and their one-year-old daughter Victoire. The next-door farm, Haras de la Touques, has also been purchased in partnership with Augustin-Normand and houses yearlings, in addition to another yearling farm on land bought by the Vidals between La Cauvinière and Montfort. The original stud is still home to the 75-strong broodmare band, and cumulatively the four farms cover 250 hectares. “As well as M. Augustin-Normand we have kept our same clients for the last six years – breeders from Switzerland, England, Ireland, Germany and Spain,” says Vidal. “We’re looking for another stallion and would welcome the opportunity to stand another horse with a strong pedigree and good performance record.” As the equine population at La Cauvinière has grown, so, naturally, has the number of people involved. Vidal now employs a team of 15 and made a key appointment two years ago when encouraging his former colleague and compatriot Mathieu Alex to leave Coolmore and County Tipperary to return to France. An engaging character who speaks fluent English with a Franco-Irish accent, Alex has no doubt benefited from the thorough grounding he was given when part of Coolmore’s nominations team, but is very much enjoying being back in his homeland and working with his old friend. Together they have invested in some mares and have formed a breeding partnership under the name ‘Ecurie La Cauvinière’. He says: “Sylvain was my mentor at Coolmore. I first met him on the street in Fethard and he pointed at me and said ‘Are you the new Frenchman?’ I said yes and he asked me who Sadler’s Wells was by. When I replied

Gérard Augustin-Normand, right, with Le Havre after winning the Prix Nino at two

“We were told that the first two years of a stallion’s career are the most important ones,” says Alex. “We have had to work hard to make sure that they were getting the mares but Sylvain and Elisabeth are a very good team and for the last six years Cauvinière has built up a very good name – that’s where it starts. “It helps on the stallion side that I got to know a lot of people in Ireland and England, but a stallion can’t cover 100 or 120 mares if they are not nice. So we invited a lot of people to come and look at them and they liked the horses and wanted to do business. We learned from the English and the Irish how to do business.”

One man’s passion For Vidal, his Coolmore experience was backed up by stints with Ballydoyle, the Niarchos family and at Lane’s End Farm in Kentucky, looking after the likes of A.P. Indy. His role now incudes buying yearlings and mares for Augustin-Normand, who also owns Air Chief Marshal in partnership with Haras de la Cauvinière, and has supported both stallions with a significant increase in the size of his broodmare band. With 120 horses in training, the financial analyst and former head of asset management firm Richelieu France set a new record of 98 winners as an owner in 2011, breaking the seasonal record previously held by the Aga Khan. Augustin-Normand is now a significant force in the French thoroughbred industry but his passion for racing, however, was developed in the field of trotting. “The great thing is he just loves horses. His grandfather was a trotting trainer so he used to go racing as a kid,” says Vidal, who was also occupied during the open weekend with a trip to Vincennes for trotting’s biggest prize, the Prix d’Amerique. Augustin-Normand’s runner Quif de Villeneuve was heading to the race following victory in the Group 1 Prix du Cornulier. THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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SULAMANI

The Leading living Britishbased sire of hurdlers by % winners to runners 2011-2012* A classic sire on the flat and now sire this season of 46% winners to runners over hurdles, including GRADE 1 winner CASH AND GO, winner of the Paddypower.com Future Champions Novice Hurdle at Leopardstown and the unbeaten novice hurdler MUCH ACCLAIMED, winner of the Lartigue Hurdle (Gr.C) at the Listowel festival. Also the second leading living British*Source: Racing Post (sires with £100,000+ earnings) based jumps sire by winners to runners “He must rank as one of the most promising young jumps this season, both overall (38%) and in stallions in Britain and Ireland” Racing Post, 7/2/12 bumpers (27%).

Fee: £2,500 Oct 1st

97 mares covered in his first season at Yorton

MALINAS

CLASSIC AND MULTIPLE GROUP 1 PLACED

Off to a flying start with his first French bred crops including BLACK THUNDER (winner of his maiden hurdle for Paul Nicholls in December), MEDINAS (bumper winner for Alan King) and TOUCH THE EDEN (flat winner in France, now in training with Willie Mullins). Also sire in France of the Listed placed hurdler STORY MALINAS and juvenile hurdle winner MENELAS AR LEN.

2 winners from only 3 jumps runners in Britain this season.

Standing his first season at Yorton in 2012

Fee: £2,000 Oct 1st

Fee: £2,000 OctGROUP 1st ALSO STANDING 1 WINNER REVOQUE

Fee: £1,500 Oct 1st

Enquiries: David or Teresa Futter t: 01939 220411 m: 07860 670184 e: enquiries@yortonfarm.co.uk w: www.yortonfarm.co.uk Yorton Farm, Yorton, Shropshire SY4 3EP

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HARAS DE LA CAUVINIERE

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The Haras de la Cauvinière stallions

The owner’s thoroughbred string is spread about, with Le Havre’s trainer Jean-Claude Rouget being the main beneficiary. Vidal says: “He likes to have many trainers – Jean-Claude Rouget is in the south-west where the climate is good for the horses, but there’s also Francois Rohaut, Mikel Delzangles, Elie Lellouche, Nicolas Clement, Stephane Wattel, Yann Barberot and Pia Brandt. It was his idea to operate like that and it works well.” With plenty of breeders visiting La Cauvinière, combined with Vidal’s increasingly high profile as a buyer at the sales, his is a face that is becoming well known in racing circles. “We’re quite busy but it’s better this way,” he says. “There are only a few Classic winners who stay at stud in France so we were lucky that M. Augustin-Normand wanted to keep Le Havre in this country. We’re really grateful to him for standing him here. His involvement with the stud is obviously a good opportunity for us but it’s also good for French breeders as he could easily have sold Le Havre to Japan. It has been a dream really.” A dream it may be, but it is one which demands Vidal keeps to a punishing schedule. His and Elisabeth’s hard work has been rewarded by a dose of good fortune, and few could begrudge them that.

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Sylvain Vidal with Berend Van Dalfsen, owner of young stallion Turtle Bowl

Le Havre, first foal of the unraced Marie Rheinberg, a half-sister to Polar Falcon

LE HAVRE 6yo Noverre – Marie Rheinberg (Surako) Winner of the Prix du Jockey-Club and runner-up to Silver Frost in the Poule d’Essai des Poulains, his first crop are yearlings of 2012.

AIR CHIEF MARSHAL 5yo Danehill Dancer – Hawala (Warning) Winner of the Group 3 Minstrel Stakes and runner-up to stable-mate Alfred Nobel in the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes at two, his first crop are foals of 2012.

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FIREBREAK Group 1 Millionaire Miler - Group 1 Sire The Leading Sire of 2YO's in GB since 2009 by % Stakes winners to runners Another hugely successful year in 2011, highlighted by the speedy Group class two-year-old Caledonia Lady and a yearling average at the major sales of over £33,000 - more than 11x their covering fee

INDESATCHEL Classic-placed dual Group winner A fast emerging son of sire of sires Danehill Dancer, and with a growing reputation His impressive two year old strike rate in 2011 equalled the achievements of Royal Applause and Kheleyf and his yearlings made up to almost £40,000

MAJOR CADEAUX Top class sprinter/miler and multiple Group winner An exceptional son of an exceptional sire with his first yearlings in 2012 Too good on the racecourse for Dutch Art (champion 1st crop sire in 2011) and Holy Roman Emperor (champion 2nd crop and 2yo sire in 2011) and now off to a flying start at stud His first foals averaged 17,167 gns almost 5x their covering fee

All £3,500 Oct 1st Live Foal Free Return Special Offer for 2012 'Free Keep Fees' for visiting mares... ...now limited availability Enquiries: Terry or Margaret Holdcroft or Mark Pennell, Bearstone Stud, Market Drayton, Shropshire TF9 4HF Office: 44 (0)1630 647197 Mobile: 44 (0)7974 948755 e: enquiries@bearstonestud.co.uk w: www.bearstonestud.co.uk

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BREEDERS’ DIGEST By EMMA BERRY, Bloodstock Editor

Our bloodstock coverage this month includes:

• Sales Circuit: European mixed sales plus South Africa’s Premier Yearling Sale – pages 69-73

Decision time approaching for bonus scheme

bottom line is that owners are losing hundreds of millions of pounds every year.” It’s hard to argue that the situation has improved in the ensuing decade and, while bonus schemes and sales races provide a tremendous boost to those fortunate enough to win them, it must be remembered that owners and breeders are funding these initiatives while the return from others benefiting from the investment of the industry’s core participants remains woeful. The sheikh’s 2002 speech also highlighted how underfunding of the sport was largely responsible for poor pay within the industry and called for “a new deal for stable staff”. Just a few years later those words were put into practice with generous sponsorship of the Godolphin Stud and Stable Staff Awards which were held for the eighth year this February. Congratulations are due to all those shortlisted in each category, including, from the breeding side, Graham Nicklin, Frances Eilbeck and Gordon Laing of Glebe Stud, Minster Stud and Fittocks Stud respectively. As breeders, it is endlessly fascinating to pore over pedigrees and wonder which particular combination of bloodlines will provide the perfect racehorse, but the human element involved in bringing a thoroughbred from a nursery paddock to the racecourse cannot be underestimated. Good handlers and riders can make the world of difference when it comes to a young horse’s mental wellbeing, which is every bit as key as its physical development. British racing is fortunate to have the patronage of the Maktoum family and its various operations which employ thousands of people

in this country and beyond. Among the family’s many contributions to the sport, one of the most special is its recognition of the valuable work of those on the frontline offering hands-on care to the would-be champions all breeders strive to produce.

Appreciating the old boys One of my favourite photographs of recent weeks was that of the 25-year-old Vintage Crop walking alongside his fellow honourable retirees Moscow Flyer and Florida Pearl at the Irish National Stud. Fantastic moves have been made in recent years in retraining retired racehorses for other disciplines but there’s something special about simply being able to gaze at three such great horses, as visitors to the stud are able to. Grand National winner Amberleigh House was a star attraction at the National Stud in Newmarket and I’d like to see more made of those former champs who are not being utilised for breeding. An essential port of call for any racing fans in Melbourne is the Living Legends retirement home near the airport. The Cox Plate winners Better Loosen Up and Fields Of Omagh are paddock-mates and they share the home with another Cox Plate winner Northerly, Melbourne Cup winners Brew, Might And Power and Rogan Josh, plus Caulfield Cup winner Paris Lane and the Hong Kong champions Bullish Luck and Silent Witness. Surely a centre featuring some of our great jumpers and gelded stars of the Flat in retirement would make for a hugely popular day out for the many fans of racing in this country?

CAROLINE NORRIS

ext month the committee of the Racing Post Yearling Bonus Scheme will decide whether it is to continue for a fourth year. Since its inception in 2009, 11,943 of the 13,956 yearlings catalogued for sales in Britain and Ireland have been nominated by breeders for an initiative which has so far put more than £5 million into owners’ pockets by way of bonuses, with a further £2m to be paid out for last season’s yearlings. One stable that will be hoping for its continuation is that of Richard Hannon, which has won a staggering 50 bonus races over the last two seasons – almost 10% of the entire number up for grabs all over Europe. The scheme’s Chairman John Osborne has admitted to a division of opinion, saying: “A lot of people want to see it continue and some people feel it’s an unnecessary expense. The fund itself has fallen over the last year simply because the number of horses going through sales has fallen. That in itself makes the scheme less effective as we are unable to offer the same number of bonuses. “Gratifyingly, the sales in 2011 were not as dreadful as they have been. The scheme’s stated purpose in bridging the trough in the bloodstock sales market has been achieved, so perhaps there’s less of a need for it.” Osborne was quick to acknowledge, however, that the timing may not be right to take away bonuses when prize-money in the UK remains at concerning levels, despite the introduction of the Horsemen’s Group’s tariffs over the last year. It is almost ten years since Osborne’s father Michael gave the Gimcrack Speech on behalf of Sheikh Mohammed after Country Reel’s victory in the race. Five years earlier, via the same platform, the sheikh had warned of a potential Maktoum withdrawal from British racing if the funding situation did not improve. While admitting that he had seen signs of progression in that time, albeit at a slow pace, his speech read: “To be blunt about it, the return to owners in Britain continues to languish on the pathetic side of poor. When you combine the costs of breeding or buying horses with the costs of putting those animals into training and set it against the amount returned in prize-money, the

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Major draw: Vintage Crop, Moscow Flyer and Florida Pearl at the Irish National Stud

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MULTIPLEX b. 2003 Danehill – Shirley Valentine (Shirley Heights)

Second crop of yearlings sold for up to 145,000 guineas and foals sold up to 130,000 guineas. Sire of 2 stakes performers, Radio Gaga, Timeform Rated 91P and Luv U Forever. Sire of Richard Hannon's impressive stakes winner Intuition. Sired winners of 13 races from 21 runners. Stud fee: £3,500 1st Oct

By sire of sires DANEHILL Unbeaten Group winning 2-y-o, stakes winner at 3&4

CAPTAIN GERRARD b. 2005 Oasis Dream – Delphinus (Soviet Star)

Won 5 times as a juvenile including Gr.3 Cornwallis Stakes and two Listed races, also third in the Gr.3 Molecomb Stakes to Gr.1 winners Fleeting Spirit and Kingsgate Native. At 3, winner of the Gr.3 Palace House Stakes beating Gr.1 July Cup winner Sakhee’s Secret. From the family of Soldier Of Fortune & Double Form Stud fee: £3,000 1st Oct

The speedy son of the brilliant OASIS DREAM FIRST YEARLINGS 2012 Call for end of season deal to Richard Kent at: MICKLEY STUD, Tern Hill, Market Drayton, Shropshire, TF9 3QW Tel: 01630 638840 • Fax: 01630 639761 Mobile: 07973 315722 • Email: mickleystud@btconnect.com

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SALES CIRCUIT

DBS

By EDWARD PROSSER AND NICOLA HAYWARD

DBS Vice-Chairman Michael White took his last turn on the rostrum at the January Sale and will retire from the company in April

Inauspicious start on home front Low-key January sales for DBS and Brightwells but young jumping stock provided a boost for Tattersalls Ireland as Binocular’s half-brother led the way at Fairyhouse

DBS January With its National Hunt foals’ and mares’ section moved to the previous month, Doncaster’s year began with its smallest modern-day January Sale and a renewal with few highlights. Peter Niven’s dual Musselburgh bumper winner Rendl Beach topped the sale with a price of just £30,000 when sold to join Rebecca Curtis’s stable. Following the death of Cumbria trainer Roger Fisher a month earlier, there was a small dispersal from his stable headed by a four-year-old Oscar gelding, who had cost €14,000 as a yearling and was resold for £22,000 to North Yorkshire handler Tim Walford. DBS Vice-Chairman Michael White, who retires in April, auctioneered for the final time at Doncaster after a career with the company that spanned six different decades. THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

DBS January Top lots Name/Age/Sex/Breeding

Vendor

Rendl Beach (5g Milan)

Clovafield Stables

Price (£) 30,000

Buyer Gearoid Costelloe

4g Oscar-Cailińs Princess (Luso)

Great Head House Estates Ltd

22,000

Tim Walford

George Fernbeck (4g Java Gold)

Hambleton Lodge Stables

18,000

John Hanlon

4g Presenting-Reverse Swing (Charmer)

Great Head House Estates Ltd

18,000

G Fawcett

Abdul Malik (3c Bertolini)

Rabbah Bloodstock Ltd from Darley

14,000

Kate Walton

Flying Power (4g Dubai Destination)

Darley

14,000

John Norton

Plattsburgh (4g Bernardini)

Kingsley House Stables

13,000

Carters Of Baltimore

Five-year tale Year

Sold

Clearance (%)

Agg (£)

Average (£)

Median (£)

Top price (£)

2012

Catalogued Offered 125

103

73.8

392,800

5,168

3,350

30,000

2011

177

143

65.0

630,800

6,783

2,800

65,000

2010

432

363

179

49.3

1,147,900

6,412

3,000

50,000

2009

242

191

133

69.6

717,200

5,392

2,500

47,000

2008

537

432

285

65.9

1,735,650

6,090

2,100

157,500

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Brightwells Cheltenham January Brightwells’ January Sale at Cheltenham was the least successful of five renewals so far. Not only were the catalogue and turnover at their lowest levels in that time, but so were the £25,816 average, £23,000 median and £60,000 top price. County Carlow handler John ‘Shark’ Hanlon bid that highest price by telephone when securing Carlisle novices’ hurdle winner Kings Canyon, a full-brother to his smart novice chaser Hidden Cyclone. Pennsylvaniabased Irv Naylor, who currently has Grand National hope Alfa Beat with Hanlon, is Kings Canyon’s new owner. The dearest point-to-pointer was Ballincurrig, who scored on New Year’s Eve and realised £50,000. He was an expensive recruit to the British pointing and hunter chasing world when bought by Anthony Bromley for an unnamed East Anglian client. National Hunt breeze-up horses continue to prove a hard sell to many buyers and the dearest horse in that section was a Brian Boru half-brother to Grade 1-winning novice chaser Last Instalment who had cost €14,000 in June and was resold for £30,000 to agent Gerry Hogan.

Tattersalls Ireland February Tattersalls Ireland’s year began with its best February Sale since the pre-recession era of 2008. Yearlings dominated the sale, led by a €100,000 Yeats half-brother to Champion Hurdle winner Binocular bred by RTE racing presenter Brian Gleeson and offered from Yellowford Farm. Tom Rudd, a member of the Tattersalls Ireland team, signed for the colt on behalf of an undisclosed client. Away from that flagbearer for Yeats’s first crop, it was Presenting who again dominated the upper-end market, accounting for five of the top eight prices, led by €35,000 and €33,000 colts who were knocked down to agent John O’Byrne. Although the 53% clearance rate may not be a spectacular figure, it was the first time in recent years that more than half of the February Sale offerings have found new homes.

Tattersalls February Well-bred four-year-old fillies were the commodity most in demand at Tattersalls’ first sale of 2012 and none more so than Appeal, a 110,000gns daughter of Selkirk, who returned in new ownership to her previous trainer, Sir Mark Prescott.

Brightwells Cheltenham January Top lots Name/Age/Sex/Breeding

Vendor

Price (£)

Buyer

Kings Canyon (6g Stowaway)

Greystoke Stables

60,000

John Hanlon

Ballincurrig (6g Craigsteel)

Avondale Stables

50,000

Highflyer Bloodstock

It’s A Steel (5g Craigsteel)

Ballinakill Stables

40,000

Mr & Mrs William Rucker

Ballybough Pat (5g Waky Nao)

Clonmult Stables

38,000

Favourites Racing

Ifyousayso (5g Definite Article)

Church Farm Stables

33,000

Donald McCain

4g Brian Boru-Final Instalment (Insan)

Knockanglass Stables

30,000

Boher Bloodstock

The Flying Column (6g Dr Massini)

Killknocken Stables

30,000

Donald McCain

Green Flag (5g Milan)

Liam Walshe

26,000

Tom Malone/ Lucinda Russell

4g Shantou-Erintante (Denel)

Kennycourt Stud

26,000

Highflyer Bloodstock

4g Oscar-Beech Lodge (Supreme Leader)

Mocklershill Stables (Agent)

23,000

Paul Webber Racing

Five-year tale Year Catalogued Offered

Sold

Clearance (%) Aggregate (£)

Average (£)

Median (£)

Top price (£)

2012

50.0

490,500

25,816

23,000

60,000

2011

65.9

1,071,300

36,941

25,000

130,000

2010

37.5

1,044,400

33,690

14,000

240,000

2009

57.7

901,500

30,050

25,000

80,000

2008

100

68.7

2,076,500

37,755

26,000

180,000

Tattersalls Ireland February Top lots Name/Age/Sex/Breeding

Vendor

Price (€)

y c Yeats-Bleu Ciel Et Blanc (Pistolet Bleu)

Yellowford Farm (Agent)

100,000

Buyer Ormond Bloodstock

y c Presenting-Supreme Dreamer (Supreme Leader) Rathbarry Stud (Agent)

35,000

John O’Byrne

y c Presenting-Prowler (Old Vic)

33,000

John O’Byrne

Gareth Metcalfe/Hillhead Farm

y c Flemensfirth-Alleygrove Lass (Alderbrook)

Oliver Loughlin

32,000

Landscape Stud

y f Presenting-Molly Maguire (Supreme Leader)

Shanaville Stables (Agent)

31,000

John O’Byrne

y c Presenting-Uncertain Affair (Darshaan)

Rathbarry Stud (Agent)

30,000

Gerry Merrigan

y c Westerner-Nostra (Limnos)

Sheridan House Stables

25,000

Ian Ferguson

y c Presenting-Bay Pearl (Broadway Flyer)

Aaron Metcalf/Trench Hill Farm

25,000

Richard E Rohan

Baccara Sacree (y f Fragrant Mix)

Galbertstown Stud

24,000

John Kenny

y c King’s Theatre-Ninna Nanna (Garde Royale)

Mill House Stud

20,000

Ian Ferguson

Bellator (y c Network)

Elms Stud

20,000

John Kenny

Five-year tale Year

Catalogued

Offered

Sold

Average (€)

Median (€)

2012

253

224

118

Clearance (%) Aggregate (€) 52.7

873,950

7,406

3,750

2011

187

161

46.6

517,550

6,901

5,000

2010

329

286

104

36.4

601,900

5,788

3,000

2009

328

236

41.5

577,800

5,896

3,000

2008

587

470

200

42.6

1,931,750

9,659

6,200

Other standouts included Tameen, who is leaving John Dunlop to join his son Ed after making 80,000gns, and Tuscania, who made the same amount when bought by Anthony and Victoria Pakenham as a prospective mate for Sir Percy. She will first go into training in Newmarket with Lucy Wadham. The four-year-old Singapore Lilly was offered under the ownership of Tattersalls having not

been paid for when originally purchased to go to California for 210,000gns in 2010. She recouped only 62,000gns of that outlay and Tattersalls are likely to pursue the difference, with costs. The only male horse to hit the sale’s top ten was Pearl Bloodstock’s Pearl Rebel, who was bought out of Stuart Williams’s stable for 65,000gns by Greg Chung to race in Hong THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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Tattersalls February

TATTERSALLS

Top lots

Appeal remains with Sir Mark Prescott

Kong on the back of two victories in as many starts over the winter. British Horseracing Authority chairman Paul Roy, who part-owned the brilliant Canford Cliffs, was shopping for a mare to send to the son of Tagula in his first year at Coolmore. Bidding through County Cork agent Hugo Merry, Roy paid 45,000gns for the Listed Bosra Sham Stakes winner Spinning Lucy, offered with an Aqlaam cover. This was the first sale for which Tattersalls – in common with most other European auction companies – included private sales in its results, transactions which also bolster the end-ofauction figures.

Name/Age/Sex/Breeding

Vendor

Appeal (4f Selkirk)

Heath House Stables

Price (gns)

Tameen (4f Shirocco)

Shadwell Stud

80,000

Ed Dunlop Racing

Tuscania (4f King’s Best)

Juddmonte Farms

80,000

Wadham Racing

Fennica (4f Empire Maker)

Juddmonte Farms

68,000

Cormac McCormack Bloodstock

Pearl Rebel (3c Cockney Rebel)

Pearl Bloodstock/Diomed Stables

65,000

Linden Lodge Bloodstock

Singapore Lilly (4f Mujadil)

The National Stud

62,000

BBA Ireland

Betray (6m King’s Best)

Millsec Ltd/Juddmonte Farms

50,000

BBA Ireland

Soliza (11m Intikhab)

Trickledown Stud

48,000

Peter & Ross Doyle Bloodstock

Street Secret (4f Street Cry)

Darley

48,000

Meridian International

Spinning Lucy (7m Spinning World)

Hillwood Stud

45,000

Hugo Merry Bloodstock

110,000

Buyer C Gordon-Watson Bloodstock

Five-year tale Year Catalogued Offered

Sold

Clearance (%)

2012

298

244

179

73.4

Agg (gns) Average (gns) Median (gns) Top price (gns) 1,641,100

9,168

3,500

110,000

2011

272

207

164

79.2

1,672,300

10,197

4,500

160,000

2010

289

233

147

63.0

991,500

6,745

3,500

55,000

2009

222

155

108

69.7

707,100

6,547

3,500

47,000

2008

290

231

153

66.2

2,250,500

14,709

5,000

450,000

NOTNOWCATO TRIPLE GROUP ONE WINNER - Timeform 128

WON Coral Eclipse Stakes Gr.1 WON Tattersalls Gold Cup Gr.1 WON Juddmonte International Stakes Gr.1

Tattersalls Book 2 yearlings in 2011 ALL SOLD for an average of 39,143gns, 6.5x their covering fee, and a top price of 90,000gns A LEADING FIRST CROP SIRE IN 2011 AND NOW OFF TO A FLYING START IN 2012 WITH 60% WINNERS TO RUNNERS 3 winners from 5 runners including MISS CATO, unbeaten in two races, and with several potentially high class 3yo's waiting in the wings, headed by the Newbury winner WATERCLOCK. Fee for 2012: £5,000 Oct 1st Enq: LONDON THOROUGHBRED SERVICES LTD., T: 01725 517711 E: lts@lts-uk.com www.lts-uk.com or: Stanley House Stud, Newmarket CB8 7DJ T: 01638 663081 Peter Stanley mob: 07778 464146

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SALES CIRCUIT

Arqana Mixed Sale A dispersal from Daniel Wildensteinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s late widow Sylvia dominated Arqanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one-day February Sale in Deauville with breeding stock from one family captivating buyersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; attention. The nine-year-old mare Nickelle, whose dam is a half-sister to Nickname â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a multiple Graded winner for first Jean-Paul Gallorini in France and then Martin Brassil in Ireland â&#x20AC;&#x201C; was the standout lot when selling for â&#x201A;Ź85,000 to the Yes Agency. Katchitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s breeder Dominic Burke, who is based at Whitley Stud in Gloucestershire, picked up two of the Wildenstein mares via his longstanding bloodstock advisor James Delahooke. New Destiny, who is from Nickelleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family, was bought for â&#x201A;Ź65,000 by Delahooke, who also spent â&#x201A;Ź55,000 on Nickelleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s three-year-old daughter Natsuke. Delahooke reported that New Destiny is likely to be covered in France by Martaline while Natsuke is also set to remain across the Channel, to race in Burkeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s colours. Gloucestershire-based agent David Redvers was another making his mark and spent

Arqana Mixed Sale Top lots Name/Age/Sex/Breeding

Vendor

Price (â&#x201A;Ź)

9m Nickelle (Sagamix-Nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;avoue Jamais)

Sylvia Wildenstein Dispersal

85,000

Yes Agency

10m New Saga (Sagamix-Newness)

Sylvia Wildenstein Dispersal

70,000

Meridian Bloodstock

11m New Destiny (Highest Honor-Newness)

Sylvia Wildenstein Dispersal

65,000

James Delahooke

3f Stellevera (Anabaa-Pitpit)

Haras de Saint

62,000

Arnoult Horse France

3f Natsuke (Chichicastenango-Nickelle)

Sylvia Wildenstein Dispersal

55,000

James Delahooke

5m Super Motiva (Motivator-Haute Volta)

La Motteray

51,000

David Redvers

16m Nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;avoue Jamais (Marignan-Newness)

Sylvia Wildenstein Dispersal

48,000

Eclipse Bloodstock

11m Ardere (El Prado-Flaming Torch)

La Motteray

45,000

Broadhust Agency

3f Golden Gleam (Acclamation-Traou Mad)

Robert Collet

45,000

Agence FIPS

2f No News (Gentlewave-Nickelle)

Sylvia Wildenstein Dispersal

34,000

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New company’s curtain-raiser a success While Cape Town embraced its racing fans ahead of the J&B Met, for vendors it was business as usual as they prepared their charges for the first sale of the season at the International Convention Centre, the temporary home to some 350 yearlings consigned to South Africa’s inaugural Cape Premier Yearling Sale. Buyers from around the globe scrutinised a strong catalogue that included the progeny of established sires Jet Master, Captain Al, Silvano and Trippi, as well as the first yearlings by Jay Peg, Argonaut and Kingmambo’s half-brother Judpot. By the end of the two days, the sale had certainly lived up to its pre-event hype. Of a catalogued 349 lots, 265 were sold and the aggregate of R106,835,000 (£8,691,000) and average of R403,151 (£33,000) were more or less in line with the Cape Premier Sale of 2011 – and better than any auction last year. Proceedings got under way with an upbeat performance by local pop outfit Freshly Ground and the stage was set for the first lot, a bay daughter of Jet Master. She left the ring unsold, as did the next lot. There was a palpable sense of relief when the gavel dropped on lot 3, the only Spectrum yearling in the catalogue. Thereafter, things picked up and the first million-rand individual was knocked down to Form Bloodstock for R1.4m. The Drakenstein Stud-consigned colt called James Blunt was by Trippi, out of the Centenary mare Aretha. Overall, 33 youngsters by Trippi sold for R17,775,000 at an average R535,636. South African buyers are always prepared to dig deep into their pockets for progeny of stallions standing abroad and this sale was no

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The sales-topping colt, by the recently deceased Jet Master, goes under the hammer

exception. A well-grown grey filly by Americanbased Tapit sold for R1.5m to John Freeman, who also paid R1 million for an Australian colt by Teofilo and ended the sale as leading buyer, signing for 30 lots for a total of R14,250,000. Unsurprisingly, progeny of the recently deceased champion sire Jet Master were most sought after: Mike Bass, on behalf of Marsh Shirtliff (owner of Jet Master’s Pocket Power and River Jetez) and partners topped the sale with a bid of R2.8m for lot 225, a son of Jet Master out of the Fusaichi Pegasus mare Our Table Mountain, who is a half-sister to Breeders’ Cup Mile winner Artie Schiller. The bay colt was consigned by Highlands Farm Stud. Drakenstein Stud accepted R2.3m for the bay colt Mountain Master by Jet Master and out of the Shirley Heights mare Mountain Of Mist, while Klawervlei Stud, the sale’s leading vendor, consigned the most expensive filly, a Jet Master half-sister to Jay Peg. The tall athletic bay fetched R2.2m and was another on John Freeman’s list of purchases. Shadwell South Africa went to R2.6m for a colt by Dynasty out of the Badger Land mare

Something Of Value, and an elegant grey filly by Western Winter from the fabulous racemare Dancer’s Daughter fetched R1m. Another well-bred Western Winter yearling, this time out of Cape Fillies Guineas winner Shadow Dancing and a half-sister of Captain Al, went to Geoff Woodruff for R700,000 and helped boost the average for Western Winter yearlings to R432,813 for 16 lots sold. Silvano was also well supported, with 12 lots fetching an average R706,250. Cape Thoroughbred Sales CEO Robin Bruss was satisfied, saying: “One positive aspect has been the number of new buyers from overseas.” He also called on the racing fraternity to remove the barriers that prevent South African horses from proving themselves abroad, a sentiment echoed by leading trainer Mike de Kock. Vendors were happy, particularly since the payment guarantees of CTS ensure that they know when they will be paid. “I think it’s an absolutely amazing sale,” said Marsh Shirtliff. “They [the horses] are in a small area here and it’s very accessible. We’ve shown we can produce a world-class horse.”

OPINION Bias against SA imports illogical Grant Pritchard-Gordon There is no doubt that subtle changes of climate will bring about increasing risks for the UK from midge- or mosquito-borne diseases. The same midge that brought Blue Tongue to these shores in 2007 can also carry African Horse Sickness. There is nothing that can be done about this except to remain extra vigilant and prepared. That is exactly why DEFRA has already sourced 100,000 emergency vaccines against AHS. However, there remains an illogical bias against importing horses from South Africa. The UK remains happy to import horses from

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Australia despite the increasing incidences of Hendra Virus, which kills horses and humans. We continue to import horses from America, where West Nile Virus and Eastern Equine Encephalitis also kills horses and humans. The simple explanation for this is that DEFRA must be satisfied that existing quarantine arrangements from those countries will negate the possibility of transmitting these diseases to the UK. It can only be assumed that DEFRA is not convinced by the proven protocols in place in Cape Town, despite the fact that South Africa has never exported a case of African Horse Sickness to another country. The quarantine station in Cape Town is in an area that

has never had an outbreak of the disease. Over and above this, the disease is seasonal and does not occur anywhere in the South African winter months. Surely it must therefore be obvious that a 40-day vectorprotected quarantine for a disease with a maximum incubation period of 14 days must be secure, especially during the winter months. Vigilance, knowledge, forward-planning and proper quarantine protocols are essential for this country to maintain the status quo of our relative disease-free status. However, there is no place for illogical bias. The South African bloodstock industry has just cause for vocal complaints of injustice.

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Numbers add up to invaluable tool for owner Richard Wayman says new league tables will highlight the racecourses that deserve support A table full of numbers is not everybody’s cup of tea but I would urge all readers to have a good look at the new Racecourse League Tables on page 78 of this edition. As I have said before, the importance of prize-money can never be overstated. It is the sport’s lifeblood, not just in terms of attracting and retaining owners, but also supporting the numerous occupations that keep the show on the road. The Horsemen’s Group has been very successful in encouraging racecourses to increase their own contributions to prizemoney during 2011, for which the racecourses also deserve credit, but there can be no escaping the extremely concerning fact that total prize-money has fallen by more than £16 million in just two years. Racing’s revenue streams have changed in recent years, with media rights payments becoming increasingly important. This is particularly significant because, unlike funding received from the Levy Board, racecourses have complete discretion over the share of these

payments that they pass on to the participants in prize-money. As a result, each racecourse’s attitude towards prize-money has, rightly, come under increasing scrutiny and the purpose of our tables is to provide the facts that will help owners construct their own informed views

“The tables will help

owners construct their own views about each track’s performance” about the relative performance of each venue. The tables do this by showing for each racecourse the average prize-money at each fixture over the past 12 months. Their real value, however, is that, in the very first column of numbers, they show the average amount that racecourses contribute from their own revenue streams, including media rights. It is this measure that forms the basis

for ordering the racecourses in the tables. It is only fair to point out that even this approach has shortcomings; a racecourse that stages most of its fixtures at weekends should be able to allocate more to prize-money than a rival which races in midweek slots through the winter. Also, the abandonment of a major fixture can have an adverse impact on a racecourse’s position. That said, the tables show that racecourses that may otherwise be considered comparable venues can often have a very different attitude towards offering a fair and reasonable return through prize-money, and it is my hope for the coming year that all owners and trainers give increasing thought to which racecourses deserve their support and which don’t. Finally, in the near future, the Horsemen’s Group will be identifying those racecourses that meet its Partner and Associate Partner status. We will be incorporating these gradings within the tables and I have no doubt that they will prove an invaluable addition towards creating an environment in which deserving racecourses prosper, whilst others gradually see their customers disappearing to their rivals. If you have any views on the issues raised in this column, please get in touch by emailing rwayman@roa.co.uk

The ROA Arkle Partnership enjoyed a fourth win of the season when Renard romped home by six lengths in the Go Commando Handicap Chase at Taunton at the end of January. The seven-year-old, trained by Venetia Williams, was dropping back to a distance of 2m110yds. Since his first win at Chepstow on November 2, Renard has been raised a total of 26lb in the handicap, taking in other wins at Lingfield and Exeter. Connections are now eyeing the Johnny Henderson Grand Annual Chase, the concluding race at the Cheltenham Festival on Friday, March 16.

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Trainer Venetia Williams, jockey Aidan Coleman, Renard and Fran Hargest with Derrick Mayes and Annie Lambert, members of the ROA Arkle Partnership

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The West Sussex track’s racing surface came out on top in the jumps category

Fontwell has grounds for glee The big winners of the Neil Wyatt Racecourse Groundstaff Awards for 2011 were Newmarket, Musselburgh and Fontwell Park. Newmarket was the winner in the best Flat racecourse category. The dual-purpose award went to Musselburgh, while Fontwell Park received the award for best jump track. A special merit award was made to Gilly Gilford, head groundsman at Ascot racecourse, for his dedication and professionalism in a career spanning over 40 years within the industry.

The awards panel comprises representatives of the National Trainers Federation and Professional Jockeys Association, with support from the BHA Inspector of Courses. Rupert Arnold, Chief Executive of the NTF, said: “The award submissions always give an interesting account of the challenges of producing a racing surface to the highest standards. There is some impressive work going on at racecourses and the panel has chosen very worthy winners.”

FLAT Winner: Newmarket Runner-up: Nottingham JUMPS Winner: Fontwell Park Runner-up: Cartmel DUAL-PURPOSE Winner: Musselburgh Runner-up: Ascot

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Jump to it: book your marquee badges now! Members planning to attend the Cheltenham Festival (March 13-16) are reminded that the ROA has a fabulous marquee, and badges for the facility can be booked up until March 8. The Cheltenham Festival attracts an audience of 220,000 and the marquee provides a base from which to fully appreciate the occasion at its best. Situated in a prime location in the tented village, the facility offers unreserved seating, with ample television screens and Tote facilities. The marquee has a cash bar and hot and cold food can be purchased. To book marquee badges, order at www.racehorseowners.net or call 020 7152 0200. Members can book up to three badges for guests each day, priced at... ROA Member Guest Daily £27 £38 Weekly £80 £125

Marquee badges don’t provide admission into the racecourse, but Club enclosure tickets can be ordered at www.cheltenham.co.uk or by calling 0844 579 3003. Cheltenham racecourse hosts the Official Festival Preview night on Sunday, March 11. Links to this and other Cheltenham Festival previews can be found on the ROA website.

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In Brief Amateur photographers The Injured Jockeys Fund has launched an innovative Amateur Photographic Calendar Competition. Members of the public are invited to send in photos across 12 different categories until June 2012, with the top 12 being selected for the IJF’s 2013 calendar. The overall winner will receive a VIP prize for the 2013 Cheltenham Festival with two nights’ accommodation at a luxury hotel. The judges for the competition will include Channel 4 presenters John Francome and Emma Spencer, 16-time champion jockey and IJF Vice-Patron AP McCoy, renowned racing journalist and IJF Chairman Brough Scott, IJF Chief Executive Lisa Hancock and multiple award-winning sports photographer Chris Smith. Channel 4’s The Morning Line will showcase some of the entries over the coming months and the winner will be announced live on the show in June 2012. Enter at www.injuredjockeys.co.uk

Owner sponsorship scheme The owners branding site for the John Smith’s Grand National meeting is subject to an exclusive use arrangement, as part of a three-year deal to 2013. Owners with horses running in the John Smith’s Grand National will be paid £900 to carry the sponsor’s branding this year. Runners in other races at the meeting will be paid £200. An exception to this will be the charity race, which is in support of the Bob Champion Cancer Trust, where the £200 per runner fee will be waived.

Off-times improved The percentage of races off three minutes or more late fell to a low of 6.95% in 2011, down from 7.6% the previous year and from 11.15% in 2007. Procedures agreed between the NTF and BHA in December 2010 reflected a more flexible approach to Flat starts and stalls loading. This saw a number of horses facing six month bans being granted stalls certificates with specific loading options.

Member-only offers For details of member-only offers, including discounts on RaceTech services and Racing Post books, log in to the Members Area at www.racehorseowners.net

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Free racing days at the Curragh

Misty For Me (left) wins last year’s Pretty Polly Stakes: you can be there in 2012

ROA members can take advantage of one day’s free admission at two fixtures at the Curragh this spring and summer, on Saturday, May 26, which forms part of the Abu Dhabi Irish Guineas festival, and Sunday, July 1, which forms part of the Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby festival. Saturday, May 26 features a high quality programme which includes the Group 1 Abu Dhabi Irish 2,000 Guineas, the first Irish Classic of the season. The top colts in Europe will compete over one mile, while the card features the Group 3 Weatherbys Ireland Greenlands Stakes and TRI Equestrian Stakes. Members would be encouraged to stay for racing on the Sunday, with the Etihad Airways

Irish 1,000 Guineas and Tattersalls Gold Cup taking centre stage with admission costing only €20. The Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby Festival takes place at the Curragh from Friday, June 29 to Sunday, July 1, with the Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby taking places on a Saturday for the first time this year on June 30. The feature race on July 1 is the Group 1 Stobart Ireland Pretty Polly Stakes for fillies and mares, won last year by Misty For Me. The free admission offer is based upon production of a valid ROA member’s Horseracing Privilege Photocard. To plan a visit to the Curragh visit www.curragh.ie

Win a brilliant break to Ireland ROA members are reminded of their chance to win an exciting threenight trip for two to Coolmore Stud and the Irish Guineas, on May 24-27. The tour is operated by Horse Racing Abroad and the prize is worth over £1,200. This very special short break includes a visit to the world-famous Coolmore Stud, home to a host of familiar names, as well as two days of top-class racing action at the Curragh for the Irish 1,000 and 2,000 Guineas. With escorted transfers throughout, flights by Aer Lingus and half-board accommodation in quality hotels, it promises to be a memorable trip for the lucky winner and their guest. To enter, visit www.racehorseowners.net. Entries close on March 19.

DID YOU KNOW? If you are looking for information on setting up a racing partnership or leasing a horse in training... The ROA website Resource section offers practical advice on points to consider when setting up a racing partnership. The resource

also features a guide to leasing. We recommend that members seek legal advice tailored to their needs when drawing up partnership and lease agreements. Our website lists contact details for a number of horseracing specialist solicitors.

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KEITH BENSON Our Mick is by far the best horse Keith and Edna Benson have had in two decades of ownership. He has already notched as many wins – five – as their two other flagbearers Our Jasper and Our Jim had when they’d finished their careers aged 12 and ten. Now aged six, Our Mick and has won his last three races, warranting an entry in the Jewson Chase at the Cheltenham Festival [he is also entered in Newbury’s Betfair Novices’ Chase at the time of writing]. That in itself is fantastic as far as the Bensons are concerned, although there may be a minor division of opinion in the household, with Mrs perhaps keener on a Festival run than Mr. Keith Benson explained: “He is by far the best we’ve had. He is entered at Cheltenham but I’m not sure what to think. It’s certainly been my wife’s ambition to have a runner at the Festival. “I never thought we’d have a horse good enough to even be considered. It is easy to get carried away but I’m level-headed. We will try to find the right race next and see where we are. He’s been put up 19lb for his last two wins, which I know is too much, but there you go.” In addition to Our Jasper, Our Jim and Our Mick, the Bensons’ mare Dawn’s Della, daughter of Easter Swallow, whom they acquired when Edna Benson’s sister died of cancer, has given them an unraced four- and three-year-old, and she is in foal again. So why the ‘Our’ prefix? “The naming of the horses goes back to when we rang up to register the first one – in those days you had to ring Weatherbys,” said Keith Benson. “We had always called him Jasper, but that was

taken. They said we could have Our Jasper. “When local racegoers see ‘Our’ something running, they assume it’s one of ours but it’s not always, as there are others like that.” Donald McCain is the Bensons’ trainer, being around a 20-minute drive away, and the owners prefer to go racing locally if possible, both having retired ten years ago. “Bangor is our local track, I’ve been going there for more than 60 years,” explained Keith Benson. “For the past few years it’s been run by the people that manage Chester and it’s much better. Near us, Haydock and Aintree are good for owners.” He continued: “It would seem most people feel there’s too much racing, too much lowgrade fare. I don’t know, but would say it provides jobs for people in a lot of ways. Prize-money is poor at all-weather tracks, but it is all-year round. If it didn’t exist horses would be put down as a lot aren’t good enough to earn a living on turf. “Any owner will tell you prize-money generally is scandalous. You are racing for peanuts and it’s possible to be in the first three and not even cover transport costs. Anybody coming into horseracing thinking they’ll make money has got it wrong. There’s no quicker way to go broke!” There are, however, few more thrilling experiences than owning a winner, more so when you have bred the horse too. “We are doing things we could not have imagined in our wildest dreams,” admitted Benson. “We have been lucky as Our Jasper, Our Jim and Our Mick have all won five. They are not world-beaters but are tough and honest.”

Diary dates and reminders MARCH 13-16

ROA marquee at the Cheltenham Festival Exclusive marquee for ROA members and their guests at the biggest meeting in National Hunt racing. See details on page 75.

APRIL 24

First day of Punchestown festival ROA members attending the first day of the Punchestown festival can take advantage of free admission to the racecourse on production of their ROA Horseracing Privilege Photocard.

MAY 26

Abu Dhabi Irish 2,000 Guineas ROA members can gain free admission to the Curragh on Saturday, May 26, which features the Group 1 Abu Dhabi Irish 2,000 Guineas. See opposite page for details.

JUNE 19-23

Exclusive facility at Royal Ascot ROA members can take advantage of a bespoke hospitality package at a discounted rate for the five days of Ascot’s showpiece of the Flat season.

JULY 1

Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby Festival ROA members visiting the Curragh can obtain free admission on Sunday, July 1. See opposite page for details.

JULY 10

ROA AGM The ROA AGM will be held on Tuesday, July 10 at the Jumeirah Carlton Tower hotel in Knightsbridge, London. The formal business of the AGM will be followed by a lunch for members and guests.

OCTOBER 20

QIPCO British Champions’ Day The ROA has secured a fabulous box with a package including catering and drinks for ROA members in a stunning location on the third floor of the Grandstand. Details will be mailed out to members in early summer.

DECEMBER 6

ROA Horseracing Awards The Awards evening celebrates the year’s top racehorses and their owners, as voted for by ROA members, at the London Hilton on Park Lane. This glittering black-tie dinner is one of the social highlights in the racing calendar.

Keith and Edna Benson with Our Jasper, their first winner at local track Bangor

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Flat Racecourse League Table Ptn Racecourse

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36

Figures are for period Feb 1, 2011 to Jan 31, 2012

Ownership

Avg racecourse spend per fixture (£)

Avg HBLB spend per fixture (£)

Avg owner spend per fixture (£)

Avg prizemoney per fixture (£)

Total no. of fixtures

Total prize-money (£)

Avg racecourse spend per fixture 2010-2011 (£)

Ascot I York I Epsom Downs JCR Newmarket JCR Goodwood I Chester I Doncaster Arena Sandown Park JCR Newbury I Haydock Park JCR Musselburgh I Ripon I Ayr I Ffos Las Northern Salisbury I Thirsk I Newcastle Northern Hamilton Park I Pontefract I Beverley I Carlisle JCR Leicester I Kempton Park JCR Bath Northern Warwick JCR Nottingham JCR Catterick Bridge I Windsor Arena Yarmouth Northern Redcar I Lingfield Park Arena Brighton Northern Chepstow Northern Wolverhampton Arena Folkestone Arena Southwell Arena Total

333,521 157,030 102,510 87,878 76,321 67,027 60,910 48,175 45,295 37,850 33,220 29,190 27,070 26,604 23,736 21,976 20,745 20,448 19,609 16,417 16,381 15,889 15,805 15,507 14,877 14,735 13,370 12,815 12,471 12,053 11,006 10,586 10,423 10,290 8,576 7,933 33,733

91,106 68,433 47,882 61,601 54,611 31,126 41,311 39,527 45,162 29,735 12,596 16,262 22,223 5,692 19,497 15,343 17,178 15,317 22,962 13,064 11,507 11,624 10,379 9,127 13,845 14,572 10,662 17,422 12,384 12,906 16,667 11,484 9,950 10,392 11,866 11,782 22,047

135,000 71,926 60,406 77,736 20,140 6,132 37,114 16,384 24,118 12,870 4,280 4,261 7,336 3,516 4,763 4,858 6,188 3,104 3,301 2,740 3,393 3,450 2,817 2,252 4,048 4,192 2,030 3,655 2,880 13,003 2,453 2,119 2,318 2,023 1,672 1,466 13,522

559,627 297,389 210,798 227,925 151,477 105,161 140,617 104,085 119,117 81,856 50,497 50,980 57,098 36,165 49,516 44,677 44,759 38,869 46,797 33,020 32,236 32,120 30,016 27,254 34,400 35,104 26,974 34,250 28,643 38,933 31,047 24,269 22,891 23,791 22,329 21,765 70,187

18 17 13 38 21 14 24 18 18 24 15 15 16 9 15 13 19 18 16 20 11 21 86 19 13 19 17 26 24 18 75 20 15 98 14 54 890

10,073,278 5,055,618 2,740,375 8,661,152 3,181,020 1,472,255 3,374,799 1,821,495 2,144,101 1,929,462 757,448 764,701 913,560 307,400 742,738 580,800 850,424 699,643 748,752 660,401 354,600 674,526 2,581,390 517,833 447,200 666,969 458,550 890,500 687,427 700,803 2,328,562 485,380 343,363 2,331,506 312,600 1,175,315 62,435,947

214,349 136,346 86,514 80,609 60,045 47,366 52,788 37,738 34,964 35,137 19,628 18,259 22,737 10,654 15,841 13,365 14,200 14,101 14,366 13,496 8,659 11,408 6,494 7,949 7,575 7,606 3,359 10,717 6,495 6,857 7,729 4,351 7,853 2,135 4,038 612 23,383

Ownership

Avg racecourse spend per fixture (£)

Avg HBLB spend per fixture (£)

Avg owner spend per fixture (£)

Avg prizemoney per fixture (£)

Total no. of fixtures

Total prize-money (£)

Avg racecourse spend per fixture 2010-2011 (£)

Cheltenham JCR Aintree JCR Ascot I Haydock Park JCR Sandown Park JCR Kempton Park JCR Newbury I Ayr I Doncaster Arena Chepstow Northern Ffos Las Northern Wincanton JCR Perth I Kelso I Wetherby I Newcastle Northern Newton Abbot I Cartmel I Taunton I Musselburgh I Market Rasen JCR Fakenham I Hereford Northern Bangor-On-Dee I Stratford-On-Avon I Warwick JCR Uttoxeter Northern Carlisle JCR Exeter JCR Huntingdon JCR Ludlow I Sedgefield Northern Worcester Arena Fontwell Park Northern Plumpton I Southwell Arena Lingfield Park Arena Folkestone Arena Leicester I Catterick Bridge I Hexham I Towcester I Total

206,875 195,014 118,026 75,585 49,729 40,464 29,959 28,816 28,047 23,330 22,724 22,512 20,480 20,334 20,134 19,340 19,198 18,995 18,909 18,254 17,692 17,632 16,092 15,599 15,501 14,679 14,174 13,152 12,852 12,377 12,093 11,385 11,341 10,710 9,753 9,543 8,532 8,461 7,596 6,952 6,795 5,904 27,083

77,277 95,767 63,185 45,905 53,261 51,325 47,991 31,418 31,869 18,862 13,214 21,892 14,607 18,851 19,277 19,915 15,197 10,064 18,512 21,202 17,588 14,940 4,833 13,260 19,318 26,295 11,830 18,524 23,299 16,589 20,220 10,407 8,088 14,157 16,091 10,176 13,340 11,111 17,146 18,328 16,524 13,519 22,180

49,116 50,440 17,307 11,640 11,873 8,467 8,265 10,553 9,701 6,544 3,408 4,105 1,575 3,252 3,524 3,526 0 2,957 3,469 3,011 3,424 0 2,710 1,594 3,382 4,751 3,589 3,420 3,918 3,204 3,232 1,979 2,322 2,466 2,266 2,071 2,504 1,787 3,088 2,187 2,263 2,356 5,802

333,268 341,220 198,519 133,130 114,863 100,256 86,215 70,786 69,616 49,644 39,346 48,656 36,876 43,003 43,231 43,000 34,395 32,016 41,157 42,668 38,705 32,572 23,727 30,562 38,200 45,725 29,914 35,346 40,869 32,171 35,545 23,771 22,610 27,411 28,110 22,056 24,375 21,359 27,831 27,689 26,082 22,168 55,237

16 9 8 9 10 10 12 9 9 13 21 17 14 12 16 11 19 7 15 10 19 9 18 16 16 10 24 12 15 17 15 20 17 23 17 13 6 11 11 9 14 18 576

5,332,289 3,070,979 1,588,150 1,255,224 1,091,199 1,002,557 1,034,585 637,077 626,548 645,367 806,603 827,153 516,269 516,040 691,704 472,995 653,505 224,114 617,351 426,678 735,396 293,145 427,078 488,999 611,207 457,254 717,937 424,151 613,033 546,905 533,181 475,415 384,366 630,456 477,867 286,726 146,250 234,951 306,136 249,200 365,145 399,030 31,840,214

181,515 182,440 83,678 67,941 52,211 18,372 46,577 29,277 21,073 13,229 9,965 13,920 9,677 7,910 12,114 -7,638 10,025 9,318 10,097 11,916 7,986 15,264 3,969 10,358 11,284 10,951 3,999 12,876 9,864 4,263 6,848 936 2,732 4,426 3,162 4,537 3,388 4,893 4,087 7,393 2,854 2,929 20,106

Jumps Racecourse League Table Ptn Racecourse

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EXPLANATION The tables set out the average prize-money at each fixture staged by a racecourse over the last 12 months. They show how this is made up of the three sources of prizemoney: 1. Racecourses’ contribution 2. Levy Board (HBLB) 3. Owners The tables also confirm the number of fixtures staged and the total amount of prize-money paid out by each racecourse throughout this period. The racecourses are ordered by the average amount of their own contribution to prizemoney at each fixture. This contribution originates from various sources including media rights, admission revenues and racecourse sponsors. If a racecourse has increased its average contribution at each fixture compared with the previous 12 months, it receives a green ‘up’ arrow. If its average contribution has fallen, however, it receives a red ‘down’ arrow. As these tables are based on the prize-money paid out by each racecourse, the abandonment of a major fixture could distort a racecourse’s performance.

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It may have been bitterly cold but at least the sky was blue and the sun shone on the TBA’s annual Stallion Parade at Tattersalls on February 2. Thirteen stallions representing the National Stud, Stanley House Stud, Cheveley Park Stud, Lanwades Stud, Bucklands Farm, Newsells Park Stud, Shadwell, Mickley Stud, Hedgeholme Stud, Whitsbury Manor Stud and Withyslade Farm made the trip to Newmarket to be viewed by an appreciative near-capacity crowd. The commentaries during the parade, from Sam Sheppard and Matt Coleman, were further enhanced by complimentary booklets giving additional details of all those on show. After the parade, breeders took full advantage to inspect individually those stallions which took their interest, and the TBA’s hospitality box was busy throughout the morning, providing a good place to have a chat whilst enjoying hot refreshments to warm up! The annual stallion parade is generously supported by British Bloodstock Marketing and Tattersalls, whom the Association would like to thank for their continued support of this event, which gives breeders a wonderful opportunity to see an impressive collection of sires in one place. The TBA would also like to thank the connections of all the stallions parading on the day, without whose support this parade would not be possible.

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Warm reception for stallions despite freezing conditions

Roisin Close with Bucklands Farm’s pride and joy, the second-season sire Hellvelyn

Breeders’ Prizes

National Hunt HBLB Breeders’ Prizes worth £1,250 or more Breeder

Prize (£)

Horse

Sire

Dam

Based on date money was paid

Date

Course

Conkwell Grange Stud Ltd

8,000

Midnight Chase

Midnight Legend

Yamrah

28/01/2012

Cheltenham

K Benson and Mrs E Benson

6,000

Our Mick

Karinga Bay

Dawn's Della

21/01/2012

Haydock Park

Mrs Claire Massey

6,000

Alasi

Alflora (IRE)

Anamasi

28/01/2012

Doncaster

Brian and Gwen Griffiths

3,000

Kells Belle

Alflora (IRE)

Clandestine

07/01/2012

Sandown Park

Mr George Searle

1,500

Webberys Dream

Bandmaster (USA)

Sheilas Dream

07/01/2012

Wincanton

W Bush

1,250

Harry The Viking

Sir Harry Lewis (USA)

Viking Flame

29/12/2011

Doncaster

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

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Flying start for TBA Elite NH Mares Incentive Scheme By Bryan Mayoh, TBA NH Committee member and scheme co-ordinator many based in the UK. Mares rated between 125 and 134, or those who have produced runners rated 140 to 149, are eligible for subsidies only to specified British NH sires under the age of 15, in order to encourage stronger books of mares to these stallions in the early years of their careers. Stud owners agreed to make three free nominations available to each stallion, these also being subsidised by a 50% payment by the HBLB. Of 122 eligible mares, 32 applied for free nominations and, again, numbers were affected by several eligible mares remaining in training or not being owned by TBA members. All of the free nominations were utilised for seven stallions (Black Sam Bellamy, Fair Mix, Schiaparelli, Sulamani, Malinas, Passing Glance and Phoenix Reach). No fewer than 21 applications were received for the three free nominations to Black Sam Bellamy. As in other cases, these were allocated in descending order of the mares’ ratings, the successful mares being Carole’s Legacy (153), Bella Haze (149) and My Petra (147). Amongst those to miss out on a free nomination and be awarded a 50% subsidy instead was 145-rated Amaretto Rose,

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The new TBA Elite National Hunt Mares Incentive Scheme, funded by the Horserace Betting Levy Board (HBLB) and announced in November 2011, has got off to a flying start. The scheme is aimed at encouraging good NH racemares, and broodmares that have already produced high-class NH runners, to visit British stallions by providing them with subsidised, and in some cases free, nominations. Mares with a highest official rating of over 135 or who have produced a 150+ runner are entitled to 50% off the advertised nomination fee to qualifying British-based stallions (those that either won or were placed in a Group 1 race over ten furlongs or more, bred a Group 1 Flat winner over similar distances or produced a 150+ NH runner). Eighty-five mares were identified as being in this category and no fewer than 46 of them applied for the scheme. Since a significant number of the 85 are still in training, and others were ineligible as a result of not being owned by TBA members, this is an outstanding result and it should go a long way towards offsetting the advantages formerly enjoyed by Irish stallions in attracting greater numbers of high-quality mares, including

Shade Oak Stud’s Black Sam Bellamy attracted plenty of interest through the scheme

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National Hunt Committee launches award for mares only races The TBA National Hunt Committee has launched a new award to recognise those racecourses that support mares-only races, with seven courses meeting the criteria set in 2010/11. In addition to a certificate, the TBA also offered £750 in sponsorship towards another mares only race, either a mares only NH Flat Race, hurdle race or steeplechase, to be run either this season or next. The first course to take up this offer is Lingfield Park. Clerk of the Course Neil Mackenzie-Ross commented: “Lingfield Park was thrilled to receive this award and it will certainly incentivise us to run more mares only races in the future. It is great to get support from the industry.” The TBA Mares Only National Hunt Flat Race was due to be held at Lingfield Park on Wednesday, February 8, but was sadly a victim of the weather. Lingfield is one of six courses, including Ludlow, Uttoxeter and Cartmel, to have welcomed the TBA’s sponsorship offer. Robert Waley-Cohen, Chairman of the National Hunt Committee, added: “The committee felt that it was important to recognise and reward those courses who already support mares only races and we are delighted to encourage them to continue with this.”

owned by the parents of Shade Oak Stud owner Peter Hockenhull. Perhaps they were at least able to negotiate a small discount. Overall, Black Sam Bellamy attracted the most mares of any stallion in the scheme, with 16 finally booked to visit him (some of the applicants for free nominations transferred to second choices). Others to attract significant numbers were Flat stallion Shirocco (15); Kayf Tara (10); Schiaparelli (6); Fair Mix, Phoenix Reach and Malinas (4 each); and established stars Alflora and Midnight Legend (3 each ). The highest-rated mare in the scheme is J’y Vole, purchased by Paul Murphy in November 2011. Her owner is backing his judgement by sending her to his own stallion Flying Legend. It can surely only be a matter of time before the encouragement provided by the scheme produces a flow of British-sired, British-bred winners of the major NH prizes.

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Introducing the Bloodstock Taxation Group The TBA Bloodstock Taxation Group is responsible for monitoring fiscal and related issues affecting British thoroughbred breeders and the bloodstock industry. Through liaison with HMRC and taxation advisers the group aims to ensure that the bloodstock industry’s interests are safeguarded and protected, and advice on correct practice disseminated. In the short time since the group was formed the members have reviewed and updated the Bloodstock Industry Taxation Guide, which can be found on the TBA

website along with further taxation advice. The group has successfully defended the industry against the HMRC proposals to introduce a duty on imported yearlings from outside the EU. This small Bloodstock Taxation Group continues to monitor threats and opportunities for the industry and is made up of just six industry professionals, all highly respected leaders in their field:

has been advising clients in the bloodstock industry for over 20 years. He currently also chairs the industry VAT group that oversees the operation of the Owners VAT Scheme.

Penelope Lang Penelope is a Tax Director with Smith & Williamson. She is a member of several professional bodies, including the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland. Penelope advises on all aspects of direct tax affecting breeders and trainers, and is also a List 1 dressage judge.

Peter Mendham Peter is a member of the TBA Board and chairs the taxation group. He is a VAT specialist and

Examining the opportunities provided by the Penelope Lang of Smith & Williamson explains the enhanced opportunities which apply from April 2012 under the extended Enterprise Investment Scheme The Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) has existed for many years. The scheme provides valuable tax reliefs to investors in small startup trading companies, potentially providing income tax relief and capital gains tax deferrals. Small start-ups are important to the economy and the tax reliefs provide an incentive to invest in some of these companies. The relief has been used to good effect in the bloodstock industry, attracting funds into the breeding industry as well as providing vehicles through which people can have interests in mares and youngstock which they could not aspire to as individuals. The most well-known of the ventures taking advantage of EIS has been Breeding Capital. The relief has also been used to good effect in trainers’ trading structures. Proposed changes to extend the relief from April 6, 2012 have been announced and this article will cover those. The legislation governing EIS is very complicated and fraught with elephant traps which can trip up the unwary. Before embarking on any EIS investment it is very important to take tax advice.

The company The company must carry out a trade on a commercial basis with a view to profit. However, there are certain prohibited trades, one of which is agriculture. Agriculture is

the profits from racing activities are not liable to taxation. HMRC will provide an advance opinion as to whether the proposed activities fall within the EIS parameters.

The benefits

Penelope Lang of Smith & Williamson

defined in the tax legislation as the occupation of land for the purposes of husbandry. Breeding and rearing horses counts as husbandry. However, the EIS companies involved in breeding have attracted HMRC approval as they have all acted as virtual studs, i.e the mares have been boarded so the companies do not occupy any land. Pinhooking is not an agricultural activity and thus a company dedicated to this should be eligible for EIS assuming all other conditions are fulfilled. To date, racing has not been an eligible activity, since in the UK

Individual investors are able to get a credit of 30% on a maximum investment of £500,000. This increases to £1 million for investments made after April 6 this year. The credit will be set off against the individual’s income tax liability, so can only reduce the liability to nil and will not generate a repayment. For investments made in the 2009/10 income tax years or later, an individual may carry back any EIS income tax relief to the previous tax year. This is subject to the individual having sufficient income to offset the relief. Where income tax relief has been obtained (and not withdrawn – see below) any gains on the EIS shares will be tax free provided that the shares are held for three years. In order to obtain income tax relief, neither yourself nor your family can control more than 30% of the votes as shareholders (currently the 30% test includes an aggregate of issued share capital and loans made to the company by the shareholder and his family).

Capital Gains Deferral In addition to the income tax relief there is also an opportunity to defer the CGT charge on the disposal of any asset in the period from one year before to three years after the

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Diary dates Robin Platt

Chris Kennard

Robin qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1967 and is a consultant for Morley & Co. He has specialised throughout in equine/rural sectors, providing personal/proactive advice.

Chris qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1982 and has been the Finance Director of Shadwell Estate Company Limited since 1988.

Terry Dockley, CTA (Fellow)

Philip is the bloodstock consultant for James Cowper LLP. A familiar face to many TBA members, Philip is a former Chairman of the Association and has represented the TBA on industry tax groups since 1991. Philip is the owner of the highly successful Cliveden Stud Ltd.

Philip Freedman

Terry has his own VAT advisory company, Terry Dockley & Co, and has advised on VAT for over 20 years, writing the VAT and bloodstock chapter for LexisNexis and advising a wide range of bloodstock owners, breeders, trainers and charities.

MARCH 24

EBF/TBA Mares’ Novices’ Steeplechase Final At Newbury racecourse

APRIL 19

TBA Mares’ Novices’ Hurdle Race At Cheltenham racecourse

JUNE 27-28

TBA Awards Dinner followed the next day by the AGM and Seminar

JULY 23-26

International Breeders’ Meeting To be held in Newmarket

Enterprise Investment Scheme acquisition of qualifying new shares in an EIS company. Gains up to the amount invested can be deferred. This can be very useful where substantial gains have been made on the sale of property or shares which have not qualified for the 10% Entrepreneur’s Relief rate of CGT. For this purpose the definition of an EIS company is more liberal than it is for claiming income tax relief: l The rules relating to shareholdings do not apply for deferral relief, so in theory a shareholder can own 100% of the EIS company and still defer capital gains. l The ceiling that applies on the amount invested for income tax relief does not apply to gains. When the shares in the EIS company are disposed of, the deferred gain will come back into charge, although the gain will be washed out on death. Also, any gain on the shares in the EIS company will be liable to capital gains tax if the income tax relief is not obtained.

Dangers The benefits of EIS are considerable but there are stringent conditions which have to be followed and not broken one year before and three years after the shares are issued in order to prevent the relief (both income tax and capital gains tax) being clawed back. The investor must not receive any return on his shares other than normal, not preferential, dividends, or any other ‘excessive’ benefit. Should they do so the reliefs can be clawed back.

Seed EIS Seed EIS companies are small companies with gross assets at the time of the EIS investment. Such companies can raise up to £150,000 under the scheme and the funds must be used within three years. Once 75% of the funds have been invested the company may raise money under the EIS Scheme.

Other Changes The government has had approval from the EU to allow it to raise the limits as follows: l An EIS company can have up to 250 employees (currently 50 or fewer) l Company can have gross assets of £15m before investment and £16m immediately after investment (currently £7m and £8m respectively) lThe maximum amount that can be invested in a company through the EIS in aggregate in any 12-month period to increase to £10m (currently £2m) l The annual amount that an individual can invest under the EIS to increase to £1m (currently £500,000).

Conclusion EIS is an excellent scheme to allow companies to raise money in a tax efficient way. It has been used very successfully in the bloodstock industry to allow people to form companies to raise money efficiently. It can also be used to defer substantial amounts of tax. Its scope has just been increased, with the opportunities for larger businesses to take advantage.

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P Beasant Esq, Berkshire; Russell Bloodstock, Suffolk; W Bush Esq, Wiltshire; M Ford Esq, West Midlands; M Gichero Esq, Mid Glamorgan; J Hales Esq, Shropshire; D Lee Esq, West Glamorgan; O P Hoddinott & Sons Ltd, Somerset; R Mathias Esq, Herefordshire; D Mead Esq, Bedfordshire; B Middleton Esq, Devon; A Morris Esq, Mid Glamorgan; Mrs R Outhwaite, Oxfordshire; S G Searle Esq, Devon; A Shire Esq, Somerset; M J Tuckey Esq, Buckinghamshire; Ms S Waring, Gloucestershire. Jean-Michel Defoirdt Esq, Belgium.

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Richard Bandey, Hampshire; Rachel Brodie, Gloucestershire; Lucinda Evans, Gloucestershire; Megan Goff, Hampshire; William Harford, Wiltshire.

Before embarking on investing or starting your own EIS company, it is important to be aware of the requirement of the legislation, to make sure the relief is not lost. There are many pages of anti-avoidance legislation in the Income Taxes Act waiting to trip up the innocent and unwary.

Disclaimer By necessity, this briefing can provide only a short overview and it is essential to seek professional advice before applying the contents of this article. No responsibility can be taken for any loss arising from action taken or refrained from on the basis of this publication. All details were correct at the time of writing.

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PLAN YOUR YEAR: TBA REGIONAL DAYS FOR 2012 Last year’s regional days included a visit to Dominic Burke’s Whitley Stud

Reorganisation brings reduction in the number of TBA regions The TBA has recently reorganised its regions and reduced the number to seven. This will ensure that members are well served with venues for regional days and that regional representatives can work together within their regions to help members more effectively. SCOTLAND

Chairman of Region

There are 26 regional representatives who are available to offer advice and support on local issues to those members within their region and who arrange local events for TBA members. For further contact details please refer to Stanstead House. Chairman of Region

Tim Finch, Roxburghshire. 01835 862293

Andrew Mead, Suffolk. 01638 561116

Dorothy Thomson, Kinross. Alan Mactaggart, Roxburghshire. William Hodge, Dumfriesshire.

Derek Christopher, Hertfordshire. Rachel Wilson, Norfolk. David Botterill, Leicestershire. Fiona Denniff, Nottinghamshire.

NORTH

Northern Ireland, Isle of Man, Northumberland, Tyne & Wear, Durham, Cleveland, Cumbria, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Yorkshire, Humberside.

Chairman of Region

Andrew Spalding, County Durham. 01325 730209

THE WEST

Application forms for the regional visits will be included in the next mailing from Stanstead House at the end of February. MARCH 27

The West Regional Day Nicky Henderson’s Seven Barrows and Oaksey House, Lambourn

APRIL 24

Scottish Regional Day James Ewart’s Craig Farm, Dumfriesshire

MAY 10

The North Regional Day Richard Fahey’s Musley Bank Stables and Rainbow Equine Clinic

MAY 28

South East Regional Day John Dunlop’s Castle Stables and a Rolls Royce factory tour or trip to Goodwood House

JUNE 12

Wales & West Midlands Regional Day John Spearing’s Kinnersley Racing Stables and Simon Sweeting’s Overbury Stud

Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire.

JUNE 14

Chairman of Region Penny van Straubenzee, Berkshire. 01635 278214

Roger Charlton’s Beckhampton House and optional trip to Newbury races

Harriet Houghton, Gloucestershire. Basil Anderson, Berkshire.

Philip Bamford, Lancashire.

South West Regional Day

JULY 3-4

Open Regional Day Trip to Deauville: racing at Clairefontaine and Deauville, plus Arqana sales

SOUTH EAST WALES & WEST MIDLANDS

Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, London.

Chairman of Region

Chairman of Region John Needham, Kent. 01892 891145 David Bowe, Hampshire. Felicity Veasey, East Sussex. Joan Langmead, West Sussex.

Louise Parry, Pembrokeshire. Mary Rimell, Worcestershire. Patrick Burling, Powys. David Hodge, Dyfed.

SOUTH WEST

THE EAST

Chairman of Region

Wales, Staffordshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire, Cheshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire, West Midlands, Derbyshire. Hazel West, Warwickshire. 01789 459032

Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Norfolk, Nottinghamshire, Rutland, Suffolk.

Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, Dorset, Channel Islands, Avon, Wiltshire. Michael Falkiner, Somerset. 01460 76457 Diana du Feu, Devon. Anthea Gibson Fleming, Dorset.

Breeders’ Prizes update Further to the article printed in the February issue of the magazine, the TBA is pleased to announce that, effective from January 1, second-tier eligible horses will receive 50% of the National Hunt prize awarded. The TBA will now be officially recognising the achievement of winning a Breeders’ Prize by sending the winning breeder a certificate.

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Words Alan Yuill Walker

JANUARY 2011

CLAIRE MASSEY

Alasi won a novice chase and Grade 2 hurdle race in January

From a bloodstock perspective, the January Breeder of the Month award was all about girl power. The principals were Worcestershirebased Claire Massey, breeder of Alasi, an eight-year-old mare whose sire and dam were both bred by members of the fairer sex. Massey faced strong opposition for this particular accolade with a gaggle of distinguished British-bred winners, but the fact that Alasi had the distinction of winning a novices’ chase at Ludlow on the fifth of the month and a Grade 2 mares’ hurdle at Doncaster on the 28th clinched it in her favour. This brought Alasi’s total winning tally to six, following two earlier successes this season, at Wetherby in October when she won a Listed mares’ hurdle, and at Huntingdon in December when she won a mares’ novices’ chase on her debut over fences. With such versatility she obviously has a few options for Cheltenham. Described in the Racing Post prior to her Doncaster victory as ‘a very smart hurdler who’s run some cracking races against the best of her sex at a range of trips up to three miles’, Alasi is trained by Paul Webber for Shully Liebermann, one of his principal patrons. “I’m strictly a hobby breeder,” said Massey, “so it’s a great thrill to gain a little recognition. I’m absolutely delighted to win this award, it means a lot. I’m strictly hands-on. I do everything myself. But don’t make too much of this as I’m not used to any publicity!” Massey, whose home Birch Hall Farm in Dunley is just south of Stourport-on-Severn, originally had Alasi’s dam Anamasi in training with Fred Rimell’s former assistant John McConnochie at Alscot Park near Stratford-upon-Avon (stables now occupied by Robin Dickin). The Worcestershire breeder bought Anamasi as a foal at the Doncaster November Sales of 1985, recalling: “I asked my friend Rod Juckes to bid for her and we got her for 1,700gns. My plan was to race her and then breed from her, but we had to retire her after only three runs over hurdles because she injured a knee.” The timing of that purchase was significant as it was in the spring of 1985 that her half-brother Androma (by Andrea Mantegna) won the second of two consecutive Scottish Nationals for Jimmy FitzGerald’s THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

Malton stable. By that time Mrs John Thorneloe from Oxfordshire, who bred Anamasi, had decided to mate their dam Stella Roma exclusively with jumping sires and to the local stallion Suny Boy, who stood at Conduit Farm Stud. She subsequently bred Bigsun (National Hunt Chase) and Mulloch Brae, both multiple winners for David Nicholson. Anamasi, whose own sire Idiot’s Delight did so well at Hurstwood Stud in Gloucestershire, died in February 2007 aged 22. The best of her offspring prior to Alasi had been the Gunner B gelding Navarone, trained by David Nicholson’s former assistant Nigel Twiston-Davies. Massey has also enjoyed some exciting moments as an owner on the Flat. In 1989, her colours were carried by a top juvenile in Champagne Gold (Stardom Stakes at Goodwood, Woodcote Stakes at Epsom), trained by Denys Smith. More recently she raced The Kiddykid, a black-type winner for David Evans. At the moment there are just a couple of jumping stores at Birch Hall Farm. “With the economy being as it is, I’m just waiting to see which way the wind blows,” explained Massey. Meanwhile, Anamasi’s final offspring is the six-year-old gelding Go Limpopo, an own-brother to Alasi, who was sold privately to owners in Philip Hobbs’s stable.

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Snowden hoping NGC can bring him luck F ollowing on from the success of last year’s event, Next Generation Club members have a second opportunity to enjoy Newbury’s final National Hunt meeting of the year and go behind the scenes at another up-and-coming jumps yard. Last year’s visit to Warren Greatrex’s Lambourn base not only afforded members an insight into the running of a busy National Hunt yard but also in my case, a

Be there... MARCH 3

Exclusive NGC Newbury ticket offer Take advantage of your NGC membership with half-price Premier enclosure tickets to Newbury’s Greatwood Charity and Equestrian Raceday. For tickets, visit www.the-ngc.co.uk

MARCH 13-16

Cheltenham Festival The jewel in jump racing’s crown and the perfect chance to roar home your favourite stars of the season alongside an electric, ecstatic and usually somewhat inebriated crowd.

MARCH 24

NGC Newbury raceday To secure a place on our first NGC event of the year to Jamie Snowden’s Lambourn yard and Newbury races, register for free at www.the-ngc.co.uk

APRIL 5

The Stobart Lesters, The Hilton Metropole, Birmingham A lively night out with the stars of the weighing room. For details visit www.pja.co.uk

APRIL 12-14

John Smith’s Grand National meeting, Aintree An eye-popping spectacle from start to finish, with the highlight being our very own race that stops the nation.

new pair of shoes. With a gamble landed on the yard’s first-time-out bumper winner, members certainly enjoyed heading home a few quid richer, something this year’s host Jamie Snowden is hoping he can repeat. “We’re planning to have Miss Milborne running in the mares’ final so hopefully the NGC visit will be a good luck charm for us too,” said Snowden, who invited NGC members to visit his new base at Folly House after meeting committee member Sam Hoskins at the Fitzdares Breeders’ Cup event. “Sam told me a little bit more about some of the events that the NGC has organised in the past and I thought it would fit perfectly for them to visit us prior to the final Newbury raceday,” he added. “This year’s youth are next year’s owners so obviously I am always a fan of trying everything we can to encourage younger

“Part of the fun of

being an owner is being involved in the development of your horse” people’s interest in the sport.” The morning of March 24 will be spent on the famous Lambourn gallops to watch Jamie’s resident 25 horses complete their morning routine before enjoying a bacon sarnie and a tour of the yard back at base camp. The chance to get a taster of the excitement enjoyed by an owner, in addition to Mrs Snowden’s bacon butties, is something the Lambourn handler believes is key in growing people’s enjoyment of the sport. He said: “I am conscious that a lot of people just go racing without understanding the work and training that goes on at home to get the horses to the racecourse. Of course part of the fun of being an owner is being

Jamie Snowden: opening yard to NGC

involved in the development of your horse and if you can give people a small insight into that through these types of visits then it can only be a good thing.” Event organiser and NGC committee member Sam Hoskins said: “It should be a fantastic day and it is great that exciting young trainer Jamie Snowden has agreed to take us under his wing for the morning. “It is always a great card for this jumps season finale at Newbury, featuring two of the biggest National Hunt mares’ races of the season.” The Newbury raceday will be the first of another busy schedule of NGC events in 2012, which will include a Guineas meeting drinks party, tours of Roger Varian’s yard and Lanwades Stud, in addition to visits to Paul Nicholls, Tattersalls and Doncaster Bloodstock Sales. THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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EPDS Racing aiming to encourage young owners With horse welfare increasingly dominating the racing pages, the need to give something back to the sport that entertains us has never been more important and it is this philosophy that is at the forefront of EPDS Racing. The newly-formed racing partnership also sponsors the new Racing Welfare Best Turned Out Series. Founder and National Hunt enthusiast John Powell describes EPDS Racing as “a partnership aiming to have fun whilst ensuring the welfare of the horse comes first”. Such aims have also prompted Powell to become involved with various racing charities. “A few weeks ago EPDS group sponsored the entire card at Huntingdon racecourse and as part of this sponsorship we gave over two races to Racing Welfare, as we are keen supporters of the work that they do,” said Powell. “During the day all EPDS Partnership members enjoyed going in to the paddock and judging the best turned out for each race as well as presenting the prizes, so it prompted us to create a series. “Winning the best turned out is a lad’s way of getting recognition for all the care and attention they give their horses, both on and off the course, as well as putting a bit of well-deserved cash in their pockets.”

Reduced rates for under-25s Powell is keen for his racing partnerships to offer affordable entry for racing enthusiasts looking to dip their toe into ownership for the first time. He said: “We provide discounts to under-25s joining the club in a deliberate move to try to encourage the next generation of owners and breeders that have not necessarily come from traditional racing backgrounds.” Despite being just £25 per month for young members, the syndicate offers all the benefits of being an owner, including involvement in the first EPDS syndicate horse, Shilpa. “We are very lucky that we have a great trainer in Simon Earle who is very flexible about people dropping in on the yard,” said Powell. As well as allowing members access to the yard, the club also hosts regular scheduled visits. He added: “The team came down to see Shilpa school over hurdles. It was great for the members as Simon was able to talk people through the methodology and process involved in training horses.” With high hopes to add more horses to the partnership portfolio, it obviously came as a blow to Powell when they were forced to retire THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

their second syndicate horse, Lisselan Amazon. Although initially disappointing for the club, it opened up the possibility of introducing a breeding syndicate to the portfolio. “We had a lot of enquiries from people wanting to know more about the breeding options so we are currently husband-hunting for Amazon,” Powell said. “National Hunt breeding is obviously a long process but we are very hopeful that people will get involved.” For more information on the syndicate, see www.epds-racing.co.uk.

Lisselan Amazon and John Powell

Student diary STEPHEN HEATH Darley Flying Start The horses at Turfway Park are not very fast, the facilities are neither modern nor expansive and the weather in Ohio in February is not very warm. However, there are things to commend and their ‘Dollar Fridays’ highlight what can be possible even at a second-tier track. Admission is free, beer and hotdogs are just $1 and, like many evening meetings in England, a [local] band plays after racing to enable those who have availed themselves of the economical beer to fulfil their apparent necessity to dance. A great aspect of the Darley Flying Start programme is being able to go racing in very different countries and at both the high and lower end of the spectrum, hopefully giving a good grounding in what we like and what works less well. Through trips in France to the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe and through trips racing in America it becomes obvious what is possible when racing is allowed to fund itself through pari-mutuel gambling. In Paris the exceptionally detailed racecard was distributed free, while the information-filled American racecards are generally to be bought for around $2 (£1.20). It seems that the British pricing structure of around £3 for a racecard with far less information suggests that a card is an optional extra for a day at the racing. Our Japanese trainee, Madoka Kamei, suggested

in her presentation during our Irish phase that this immediate sting on racegoers just seconds after they have parted with upwards of £15 to enter the races may not provide the greatest evidence that a day at the races offers value for money. Obviously British racing does not have the same luxury of pool betting income, but it must surely be in the interests of the sport that the racecards are subsidised, if nothing else for the impression of value a cheaper or free racecard would leave on first-time visitors to the races. What Britain does well, especially in comparison to America, is having racegoers who clearly have a great appreciation for the horse and its role in our great sport. It is just as rare as it is to hear a British racegoer cheering on “the five” as it is to hear an American shouting home “Spinelessjellyfish”. This generic nature to the everyday racing here in America is something I find hard to get used to, exemplified when in the simulcast rooms at Keeneland the whole floor seems to be cheering on the five-four-nine trifecta. Racing in America is vastly different and I would go as far to say a day’s racing in the spring at Keeneland is about as good as it gets – but I hope you don’t hear me shouting home the four horse for a superfecta (just the first four) any time soon.

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‘Racing is my passion and I want to give something back’ Dr Marwan Koukash, leading owner and Patron of Racing Welfare, has devised a unique ownership opportunity by offering one of his racehorses for free Calling all firms and businesses: if you’ve ever wanted to experience the thrill of racehorse ownership and promote your company at the same time, now is your chance! Dr Marwan Koukash, Racing Welfare Patron and leading Flat owner, has decided to offer one of his racehorses for a whole year, with all fees paid. The racehorse in question is a two-year-old son of top stallion Zamindar and will be trained by David Simcock in Newmarket. In return for this unique ownership opportunity, Dr Koukash has asked that a suitable donation is made to Racing Welfare. The successful owner will receive the following benefits:

One-year exclusive ownership deal Naming the horse (subject to approval) ● Choosing the colours it will run under ● Take clients to watch the horse on the gallops and visit the yard in Newmarket ● Receive weekly email updates from the trainer on the horse’s progress ● Keep all trophies and prize-money won ● Be given six racecourse entry badges each time the horse races ● Benefit from the owners’ facilities at racecourses ● Advertise your company on the horse’s rug in the Parade Ring ● Advertise your company on the handler’s jacket In addition to all of this, if the horse is no longer able to run for any reason, Dr Koukash ● ●

will provide a replacement. Dr Koukash said: “Becoming a Patron of Racing Welfare extends my passion for racing to supporting the people who are vital to developing successful winners.

JOCK’S STARTER FOR 10

Coral puts money on Maguire and Brennan Bookmaker Coral has teamed up with jockeys Jason Maguire and Paddy Brennan to help raise money for Racing Welfare. From February 20 until the final race at the Cheltenham Festival on March 16, Coral will place £100 to win on every horse each jockey rides during that period, with all winnings being donated to Racing Welfare. The firm guarantees a minimum payment of £10,000. Roger Weatherby, Chairman of Racing Welfare, said: “This is a fantastic idea and shows excellent creativity and a lot of heart too. “Racing Welfare is focusing its attention this year upon its work with stable and stud staff who have suffered serious injury at work. “The funds raised will go a long way to helping us provide vital mobility aids, housing adaptations and retraining opportunities for our beneficiaries.”

Dr Marwan Koukash is keen to entice new owners into horseracing

Jock Urquhart is a retired stable lad and Racing Welfare volunteer in Newmarket. He kicks off his series of ten-minute interviews with leading trainers by talking to David Simcock, the master of Trillium Place 1. How did you start in racing? I was at Agricultural College and needed a holiday job. I went to Ian Balding’s for what was supposed to be a six-week stint and ended up staying for three and a half years! I also worked for Luca Cumani for three years and for Major Hern in his last year; I don’t think it was me that finished him off! I also worked for Willie Muir. I like to think I took a bit of knowledge from them all. 2. What do you like about training in Newmarket? I love the buzz of Newmarket, the facilities are world class, and Jennie and I have so many friends here. I wouldn’t change a thing about the place!

3. You have a reputation for keeping staff, what’s your secret? I like to think I am fair; if people are fair to me then I am fair to them. My staff know that I am approachable, they don’t want me to be their friend but to be a fair employer who will listen to their concerns and can act upon them. There is a lot of pressure on staff, it’s an industry that can be very lonely and if trainers aren’t approachable that adds to employees’ concerns. 4. How big a part does teamwork play in your success? We have a great mix of staff, Asians, English, Eastern European, Irish and Scots, and a wide range of ages. That balance really helps to make the yard work. 5. What part of racing do you enjoy most? Being around the horses and racing people.

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A two-year-old son of Zamindar is being offered with all fees paid for a year

“Stud and stable staff shape the performance and lives of racehorses, they are the ones who make racing possible. When those who work in, or are retired from racing, face difficulties through injury, illness or other life-changing problems, it is important that those of us who are passionate about the sport are able to give something back to them. “I want to encourage everyone with a significant interest in racing to get behind the one charity that is there for everyone in racing who is in need, irrespective of occupation or background. “I hope that by offering a colt to any company or group wanting to experience racehorse ownership in return for a donation to the charity, I can illustrate what can be done to help Racing Welfare and encourage others to follow suit.”

Racing Welfare is planning a PR campaign based around the support of Dr Koukash and the company will be mentioned in all press releases sent to national press, local press, television stations, racing publications and social media networks. To find out more about this incredible offer, contact Tansy Challis at Racing Welfare on 01638 560763 or email tchallis@racingwelfare.co.uk. In a further commitment to Racing Welfare, Dr Koukash will donate a significant percentage of first place prize-money gained in Group races and Heritage Handicaps in 2012. He recently handed over a cheque to the charity which represents a percentage of the prize-money from wins for Never Can Tell in the Cesarewitch and Our Jonathan in the Ayr Gold Cup.

last year and I think he’s a progressive type.

Newmarket handler David Simcock

6. And what’s the worst part? Many people will say its owners or staff, but for me it’s when horses get injuries, I hate that. 7. What horse are you most looking forward to seeing on the track this year? There are several but I’d say it’s a three-yearold called Cardinal Walter. He ran only once

8. Dr Marwan Koukash has donated one of his horses to Racing Welfare for 2012. Why do you think he is doing this? I think this sums the guy up. He gets so much enjoyment out of racing that he wants to put something back into the game. It is owners like Marwan who need to be looked after and encouraged; win lose or draw he just loves his racing so much. He now understands what goes on behind the scenes and just how important staff are to the game. 9. What are your other sporting interests outside racing? I love all sports. I play golf and cricket, and used to play rugby too. I am also an avid Nottingham Forest fan. 10. Give us one fact that the readers won’t know about you… I have absolutely no secrets!

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The Household Cavalry in action on the Queen’s birthday

Chance to ride in Newmarket charity race Racing Welfare is teaming up with the Household Cavalry Operational Casualties Fund (HCOCF) to host a ‘Horsemen and Heroes’ charity day at Newmarket’s July Course on August 18, when a sevenfurlong charity race will be run. Already recruited to ride are Roger Weatherby, Chief Executive of Weatherbys Bank, Fakenham’s Managing Director David Hunter, Beverley’s Sally Iggulden and Racing Welfare’s Marianne Dacombe. There are a limited number of spaces available to ride in this race, with each rider asked to raise a minimum of £3,000, which will be split between the two charities. The HCOCF provides financial support to injured Household Cavalry soldiers and their families, including those who have lost their lives on active service. Racing Welfare’s beneficiaries may not face the sand and bullets that serving soldiers do, yet the injuries sustained in the line of duty and the dangerous nature of working with thoroughbreds can still leave lasting disability and sadly cause fatalities. Anyone keen to take part in the charity race – the first of its kind ever to be run at Flat racing’s HQ – should contact Sarah Oliver at the Amateur Jockeys’ Association on 01886 884488 or sph.oliver@btinternet.com.

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VET FORUM: THE EXPERT VIEW By ROB PILSWORTH

Importance of following the code

TREVOR JONES

The HBLB Code of Practice forms part of everyday life on the stud, but how and why did it evolve and how is it kept relevant in today’s rapidly changing world?

Strict hygiene measures were introduced in the thoroughbred breeding industry in the wake of the CEM outbreak in the 1970s

henever a broodmare is sent for covering it is standard practice for a set of swabs to be taken at various intervals before covering to check that she is free from diseases which could be passed on either to the stallion, or via him to other mares. This common sense procedure we now take for granted as ‘normal practice’, but this was not always the case. It was the explosion on to the scene of the contagious equine metritis (CEM) organism which pushed the industry into taking the necessary effective action to stem the spread of this disease, which was having disastrous consequences for the thoroughbred breeding

industry, and the Horserace Betting Levy Board Veterinary Advisory Committee (VAC) played a significant role in this. The CEM outbreak occurred in 1977 and the disease was first diagnosed by Donald Simpson, a partner at the Crowhurst Practice which has now metamorphosed into the Newmarket Equine Hospital. The initial outbreak occurred on the National Stud, although later epidemiological data indicated that the organism and disease was probably present in both Ireland and France prior to its detection in Newmarket. The disease exploded on to the scene as a completely new phenomenon. Mares would

be covered and would then develop a vaginal discharge a few days after covering, which caused infertility. It soon became obvious that the disease was being spread not only by the stallions but also by veterinary surgeons and their equipment.

Containment vital This immediately led to the introduction of a whole raft of containment measures, which included the use of disposable gloves and single use, disposable speculums. Prior to that time vets would often use steel instruments which were merely washed between horses, and hygiene measures in THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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Equine Herpes Virus infections By Deidre M Carson There are five equine herpes viruses which cause infection in the horse but the two of major concern are EHV1 and EHV4. Both of these are endemic in the UK horse population. EHV1 causes respiratory disease and is the main infectious cause of abortion in the second half of pregnancy. EHV4 also causes respiratory disease, especially in young stock, but can also occasionally cause abortion. One of the biggest problems we face in trying to minimise the risk of infection with either of these viruses is that they induce a lifelong carrier state in horses which have recovered from infection. These carrier animals act as a source of infection for other horses as well as themselves. A further problem is that, even after infection, protection against future infection (immunity) is very short-lived (three to six months), so re-infection is common.

Clinical Signs Respiratory Signs In animals which have not been previously infected, both EHV1 and EHV4 cause upper respiratory tract disease. The incubation period (time between exposure to infection and onset of clinical signs) can be anything between two and ten days but is usually around three days. Signs include some or all of the following: increased temperature (pyrexia); watery nasal discharge which might become thicker if secondary bacterial infection occurs; cough; loss of appetite; depression. Symptoms can persist for a few weeks, particularly if secondary bacterial infection occurs. Abortion Abortion due to EHV1 or EHV4 is seen in the last third of pregnancy. The mare rarely shows any evidence of illness before aborting, although there might be a history of respiratory infection several weeks or more earlier. The foetus appears fresh and may even be born alive but soon dies. In some cases, an apparently normal foal may

general were not great. At the time of the initial outbreak the attending veterinary surgeons could see the organism under the microscope on samples taken from affected mares, but could not grow the organism in culture. It fell to Dr Edward Taylor at the University of Cambridge to realise that this organism required a specific THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

be born at term but succumbs to the effects of respiratory infection soon after. Abortions usually occur singly and can occur in vaccinated mares, but batches or outbreaks can also happen. Large scale outbreaks are less common nowadays due to improved management methods.

isolated and kept away from other mares for at least 28 days. The stable should be disinfected and contaminated bedding disposed of, preferably burned. The aborted foetus, placenta and fluids are an excellent source of infection and should be kept well away from other horses.

Sources of Infection

Prevention

The main route of infection is inhalation of infective particles which have been coughed or breathed out by an infected or carrier animal. Because of the existence of the carrier state and because immunity following infection (and vaccination) is short-lived, mares and young stock provide a constant source of infection and re-infection. Infection occurs after inhalation or ingestion of infective material, either directly from another horse’s respiratory tract, by contact with a contaminated surface, by ingestion of contaminated food or water, or through contact with an infected foetus or foetal fluids. A carrier can be induced to start excreting the virus without becoming ill themselves and so cannot be readily detected. Trigger factors for a carrier to start excreting the virus in respiratory tract fluids include any stressful occurrence. These include transportation, competition, mixing into new social groups, overcrowding etc. A filly coming out of a training yard onto a stud is a prime source of infection for others, particularly pregnant mares, on the stud. The herpes viruses are not very stable in the environment and are easily killed by most disinfectants. However, they are believed to be able to survive longer under certain conditions, e.g. if protected by moisture, organic matter such as feed or general stable ‘dirt’. Therefore, good stable cleanliness and hygiene can help reduce the risk of spreading the disease. In the event of an abortion, the HBLB guidelines should be followed (see HBLB Codes of Practice 2012). The mare must be

Management The best way to try to prevent infection with EHV1 or EHV4 in pregnant mares is through good management practices. All incoming pregnant, barren or maiden mares should be isolated for at least three weeks upon arrival at the stud. Where this is not possible, in foal mares should be kept away from young stock and maiden and barren mares. In-foal mares should be kept in small groups according to their foaling dates. Vaccination In spite of the limitations of the available vaccines, it is still strongly recommended all mares are vaccinated against EHV1 and EHV4. Given the nature of the infections, particularly the existence of a carrier state and the short duration of natural immunity, the vaccine is not guaranteed to prevent infection. However, most vaccines, including those for Equine Herpes Virus, act by reducing the severity of clinical signs and the number of infectious particles released by the infected animal, thus reducing the risk of infection to others. Vaccination against EHV1 and EHV4 should be “herd based” i.e. all mares and in-contact young stock should be vaccinated at least every six months. All in-foal mares should be vaccinated at five, seven and nine months of pregnancy to help to protect them during the last trimester of pregnancy.

type of environment in which to grow, called microaerophilic culture. This was the standard method of growing organisms such as that responsible for brucellosis. Further immediate research work showed that some horses were acting as carriers of the disease without showing clinical signs and intense investigation of the reproductive tract

• For further advice on control and what to do in the event of an abortion due to Equine Herpes Virus please see the HBLB Codes of Practice 2012 at www.hblb.org.uk.

in both the stallion and the mare revealed that the organism survived best in some very specialised and local sites. These were found to be the clitoral fossa and sinuses in the mare and the urethral fossa and prepuce in the stallion, all areas which have low accessibility to air and therefore have the low oxygen levels required for survival of the organism.

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Events moved quickly in 1977 and a meeting was called during the December Sales at Tattersalls, where a group was set up to fight the disease which included David Pile of the Animal Health Trust, John David of Bristol University and Charles Frank, the Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association veterinary advisor, as well as Donald Simpson, the veterinary surgeon dealing with the outbreak at the National Stud. A decision was taken at that meeting that, at all costs, the disease should, if possible, be completely eradicated from the thoroughbred population.

VAC provides unique aid The veterinary advisory committee of the HBLB provided funding for the necessary research work and the development of a strategic code of practice, which would involve the screening of both mares and stallions prior to service on at least three occasions to make sure that the disease was not present. Special small swabs which we now take for granted were developed to

“The HBLB Code of

Practice goes a long way to preserving the health of the equine population” enable swabbing of the clitoral sinuses, and Edward Taylor discovered that the organism would survive well only if transported in a specific charcoal transport medium. Taylor’s work on the organism was unique and was later acknowledged by the naming of the organism as Taylorella equigenitalis. David Ellis, the recently retired senior partner of Newmarket Equine Hospital who was present and closely involved at the time of the outbreak, comments: “The HBLB serves an enormously useful function, being there and ready to jump in to help at a time of crisis. This kind of help is invaluable, indispensable really, and to be effective has to be delivered quickly. A concern is that the thoroughbred breeding industry cannot expect government money any more. “More and more, the stakeholders in individual agricultural concerns are being asked to bear the costs involved in regulation of disease and in this context the

Levy Board, and in turn the VAC, serve a unique function for the thoroughbred breeding industry. “Without this help, of course, the industry could not maintain its standing in international racing, and its highly important export business, which sustain it and partially compensate for the comparatively low levels of prize-money when compared to the rest of the world.” The initial work in the late 1970s resulted in this voluntary code of practice for control of CEM, which has become the standard principle in dealing with venereal infection such as this in the thoroughbred. It is the recommendations of this code of practice which resulted in all thoroughbred mares being screened by swabbing of the reproductive tract prior to covering even to this day. As further diseases have emerged the HBLB code of practice booklet has been expanded and now includes specific advice and guidance on what action to take in the face of Equine Herpes Virus (EHV), ‘Strangles’ and Equine Viral Arteritis. EHV caused significant losses in 1979, both from abortion and from the desperately debilitating paralysis that can sometimes ensue. ‘Strangles’ is an ever-present threat and can be disastrous if allowed to spread unchecked, both on the breeding farm and in the racing yard. Outbreaks in both situations have occurred in recent years but have been promptly and effectively contained because of the immediate adoption and implementation of the control measures listed in the HBLB Code of Practice booklet. A sub-committee drawn up of distinguished scientists and veterinary surgeons with specific expertise in this area meets once a year to consider whether changes in these codes of practice have to be made in the light of changing circumstances. Although we all take these codes of practice for granted in dealing with disease outbreaks it has to be remembered that the original ‘pump primer’ for their development came from the HBLB Veterinary Advisory Committee. “Horses are now able to move across Europe, particularly from Eastern Europe, without any special health requirements and diseases such as Equine Viral Arteritis, which we don’t have here in the UK, are endemic in some of those areas,” says David Ellis. • The HBLB Code of Practice document is moving to a new online format and can be found at http://codes.hblb.org.uk/

New faces on the vet pages Over the last three years, the Vet Forum has been ably compiled and written by James Tate, an accomplished veterinary surgeon who has now started his own racehorse training business in Newmarket. We thank James for his fascinating insight into the constantly developing world of equine veterinary science and wish him luck in his new role. We are delighted to welcome two new contributors to these pages.

Deidre M Carson BVSc (Syd), MRCVS A Sydney graduate, Deidre started working at Rossdale and Partners in Newmarket 1983 and became a partner in 1996. She is Immediate Past President of the British Equine Veterinary Association and has a particular interest in stud medicine.

Rob Pilsworth MA, Vet MB, Cert VR, BSc (Hons), MRCVS Rob has worked in thoroughbred racehorse practice in Newmarket for the past 25 years and is currently an Associate at Newmarket Equine Hospital (formerly known as Greenwood Ellis and Partners). He is also an associate lecturer at the University of Cambridge and sits on the Veterinary Advisory Committee of the Horserace Betting Levy Board. His special interests include equine lameness, diagnostic imaging and skin diseases.

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Cape Cross – Love Divine Bay 16.2hh 2005 £800+VAT NFNF Oct 1st By Cape Cross, the sire of Sea The Stars and Ouija Board out of the oaks winner Love Divine, and half brother to the European champion Sixties Icon.

Rainbow HIGH Rainbow Quest – Imaginary Bay 16.1hh 1995 £800+VAT NFNF Oct 1st

Group winning son of Classic sire Rainbow Quest. Sire of Real Treasure, 2 wins and placed over hurdles and won and placed over fences. Simply Blue, 2 wins and placed twice over hurdles. The Rainbow Hunter won and placed over fences, winner of 2 P-P’s and won and placed over hurdles. Rated 132. Lambs Cross made £60.000 at the breeze ups and has won over hurdles. Western High, bumper winner and placed horses Rainbow Haze and Murchan High.

Denounce

Selkirk – Didicoy Bay 16.2hh 2001 £650+VAT NFNF Oct 1st The three parts brother to Cityscape, leading Miler in 2011. From the family of Xaar, Spinning World, El Gran Senor and Try My Best ‘Denounce was a miler with great potential, good looking and beautifully bred, so he should breed some winners.’ Sir Henry Cecil

Sir Henry Cecil described him as ‘….Potentially a high class Group performer. He is a lovely mover with a top class pedigree. I can see him at stud, producing horses of real ability both on the Flat and National Hunt. I strongly recommend him, as I feel that he is a very exciting stallion prospect.’

Sire of Destiny Of A Diva, 3 wins and placed 5 times on the flat.

Won at 3yrs and placed 4 times from 7 starts including 2nd by a nose in the Gr.2 Jockey Club Stakes and 4th in the Gr.2 Yorkshire Cup.

Other Denounce horses in training with Reg Hollinshead, Robin Dickin and Linda Perratt.

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CAULFIELD FILES ANDREW CAULFIELD REPORTS ON THE BLOODSTOCK WORLD

King ruling the Japanese sires’ table Country’s fondness for Kingmambo’s sons a boost for leading stallion imported in utero

this has developed into true love thanks to the Group-winning efforts of El Condor Pasa, Star King Man, Alkaased, King Kamehameha, Admire Mambo, American Boss, Mambo Twist and King Fidelia. King Kamehameha’s contribution was very significant. After showing plenty of promise in winning both his juvenile starts, King Kamehameha won the Mainichi Hai over a mile and a quarter in March 2004. He then inflicted a five-length defeat on the champion two-year-old Cosmo Sunbeam in the local Grade 1 NHK Mile Cup, following in the footsteps of another of Kingmambo’s best sons, El Condor Pasa, who also won the Japan Cup and Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud and was second in the Arc. El Condor Pasa missed the Tokyo Yushun, the Japanese Derby, but King Kamehameha proved his class and versatility by taking the Classic by a length and a half from Heart’s Cry. King Kamehameha again defeated Heart’s Cry in the Kobe Shimbun Hai on his return to action but was forced into retirement when he bowed a tendon, leaving his record at seven wins from eight starts. Although the World Rankings rated him no higher than 117, King Kamehameha landed the title of champion three-year-old colt and he was syndicated for the equivalent of around $19 million to stand at Shadai, a record at that time for a Japanese-trained horse.

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he leading sires’ list in Britain and Ireland for 1990 featured seven American-bred stallions in the top ten. Fast forward 21 years and the equivalent list reflects the excellent use that European breeders have made of imported American bloodlines in the interim. You have to look down as far as 15th place before you find a stallion carrying the (USA) suffix and there is only one Americanbased stallion in the top 20. It’s a similar story in Japan. The 1990 list featured 14 imported stallions in the top 20, with Northern Taste heading a team of eight imports in the top ten. Ten of the imported stallions originated from North America. Move on to 2011 and you will find that every one of Japan’s top ten stallions spent their racing careers in Japan, as did 17 of the top 20. That said, the American influence is still highly visible, bubbling away just under the surface. Two of the top four stallions – Kurofune and Symboli Kris S – were bred in the USA and the champion sire, King Kamehameha, was conceived there. Six other members of the top ten were sired by American Horse of the Year Sunday Silence. The career of King Kamehameha helps explain why Shadai Farm was keen to add Kingmambo’s grandson Workforce to its illustrious stallion team. Japanese breeders have always had an infatuation for Kingmambo and

As a grandson of Kingmambo, Workforce has appeal for Japanese breeders

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King Kamehameha has been kept very busy, siring 685 foals in his first four crops, born between 2006 and 2009. That’s an average of over 170 foals per crop. With the benefit of numbers, King Kamehameha has rapidly accumulated a string of honours. Not only did he become the leading first-crop sire of 2008, but he was also champion sire of two-year-olds. He has continued to collect sires’ championships, topping the two-year-old table again in 2009 before recording his first general sires’ championship in 2010. He was again champion sire in 2011, when his number of Graded stakes winners reached double figures. Now he is making a tremendous start to 2012, racing into a substantial early lead on the stallion table thanks to black-type victories by four of his older sons – To The Glory, Rulership, Hiraboku King and Lord Kanaloa – in January. His best representatives have been Rose Kingdom and Apapane. After being champions of their sex at two, the pair trained on very well. Rose Kingdom was second in the Derby and St Leger prior to being awarded the 2010 Japan Cup, while Apapane numbered the 1,000 Guineas and Oaks among her Grade 1 victories. King Kamehameha’s fifth crop, two-year-olds of 2012, numbers ‘only’ 109 but his feat of siring both the male and female two-year-old champions of 2009 earned him tremendous support in 2010. Consequently he has a 2011 crop numbering 206. They include a colt out of the smart German mare Moonlady, who produced the 2010 Tokyo Yushun winner Eishin Flash to Workforce’s sire King’s Best, another son of Kingmambo. King Kamehameha was imported into Japan in utero, after his dam, the Irish-bred Last Tycoon mare Manfath, had been acquired by Katsumi Yoshida for $650,000 at Keeneland’s November Sale in 2000. The mare had been in the news earlier in the year, when The Deputy, her Petardia colt, won the Santa Anita Derby. Manfath had been sold by Shadwell for 4,200gns at the end of a winless career from seven starts at up to two miles. However, the fact that Manfath is a Shadwell-bred is tantamount to saying that she possessed topclass bloodlines. Her female line traces to Black Ray, ancestress of those exceptional stallions Mill Reef and Blushing Groom. King Kamehameha has a long way to go before he can be mentioned in the same breath as Mill Reef or Blushing Groom, but he is clearly an asset to the Japanese breeding industry.

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Martaline, whose dam is a three-parts sister to promising jumps sire Beat Hollow

Martaline is living up to expectations A couple of years ago in this column I predicted that Martaline, a handsome son of Linamix based at Haras de la Reboursière et de Montaigu, would “develop into a favourite with importers looking for quick-maturing French jumping stock.”

The intervening years have done nothing to alter that belief – especially now that Martaline’s English-based son Dynaste has achieved a RPR of 163 following his fine second to Big Buck’s in the Cleeve Hurdle. As a six-year-old, Dynaste is a member of the

first crop by Martaline, a Group 2-winning brother to the Prix du Cadran winner Reefscape. Other British runners by Martaline include the talented novice hurdlers Barbatos and Toubab. At the age of 12 in 2011, Martaline achieved a fourth-place finish among France’s leading sires of jumpers. He achieved this high ranking despite having no more than 68 runners, compared to the 98 of top-ranked Turgeon and 120 of second-placed Kapgarde. What’s more, Martaline’s winners featured Roi de Treve (winner of the Grade 2 Prix Congress Steeplechase at Auteuil), Ozeta and Taruma (both Listed winners over hurdles), Ucello Conti (a Listed winner over fences at Enghien) and the very useful chaser Pierrot Bay. Martaline’s success is one contributing factor in Beat Hollow’s recent transfer to Ballylinch Stud as a replacement for the highly successful King’s Theatre. Martaline’s dam Coraline was sired by Sadler’s Wells from Bahamian, which makes her a three-parts sister to Beat Hollow, who is out of Bahamian’s Classic-winning daughter Wemyss Bight. Bearing in mind that Beat Hollow shares the same sire, Sadler’s Wells, as King’s Theatre, Accordion, Oscar, Old Vic, Kayf Tara, Milan and Saddlers’ Hall, he is very well qualified to sire leading jumping performers. From only 33 runners during the 2011-12 season, he has sired 15 winners, featuring the likes of Hollow Tree, Cinders And Ashes, Ted Spread, London Bridge and Citizenship. Unfortunately Beat Hollow won’t have numbers on his side for the next few years, but his Ballylinch crops should prove well worth waiting for.

Inbred Burden proving himself in India Having enjoyed the Racing Post’s articles on racing in Mumbai, I thought it was time to increase my scant knowledge of India’s budding bloodstock industry. Inevitably the leading sires’ list for 201112 contains some familiar names. The top two places are occupied by Mr Prospector’s sons Always A Rainbow and Placerville, and then come China Visit, Predappio and Burden Of Proof. Many will remember China Visit’s impressive victory over the future Classic winner Bachir in the 2000 UAE Derby and Predappio’s win in the 1997 Hardwicke Stakes. It is Burden Of Proof, though, that interests me. He stood up to the racecourse test in fine style, racing 32 times in the space of six seasons, and achieved the rare record

of having been a stakes winner at the ages of two, three, five, six and seven. In the process he showed he was effective from six furlongs to a mile. Burden Of Proof clearly suffered no harm from being closely inbred. With Fairy King as his sire and a Be My Guest mare as his broodmare sire, he was inbred 2 x 3 to Northern Dancer. As it is now, shockingly, more than 50 years since Northern Dancer was born, it is worth reminding everyone just how tough he was. Despite being born as late as May 27 in 1961, Northern Dancer started his racing career in the August of his two-year-old season and then packed 18 starts into the space of 11 months. No doubt his toughness played a substantial part in his brilliant success story.

Although Fairy King didn’t inherit his sire’s durability, the brother to Sadler’s Wells did remarkably well to rise through the ranks, siring winners of the Derby, Arc, Japan Cup, Irish 2,000 Guineas, French 2,000 Guineas and numerous other Group/Grade 1 races. I wish I could say that he proved equally effective as a sire of sires, but he didn’t – at least not in the northern hemisphere. It has been a different story in the southern hemisphere, though, thanks largely to the champion Australian stallion Encosta de Lago. It will be interesting to see whether more recent imports to India, such as Noverre, Phoenix Tower and Multidimensional, can help move the nation’s bloodstock higher up the international ladder.

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Ultra tough and consistent four-time Gr.1 winner Sire of tough and classy horses like himself incl: LOUGH DERG, POMME TIEPY, ONIRALOIN, OEIL DE SIVOLA, MODIAL JACK, QOZAK, ELYUL FIRTINASI, LINE APPLE, PROUESSE COLLOGNES, BRAMLYNN BROOK. Second season at Beech Tree Stud 2010

Multiple Group and Stakes winner Won 7 races from 3 to 8 years, 9 to 16 furlongs, £541,601, and was placed 20 times. Consistently rated over 120 in Racehorses. First season 2012

Classic placed son of Sadler’s Wells in Somerset by the leading sire. And sire of sires under both Rules from a leading Classic family. Stakes performing sire from limited opportunities including: JONTY’S LASS, LET’S ROLL, DANZATRICE, EASBY PARK, SUMMER LIGHTNING, TELL THE TREES, SOMMELIE, CHARLIE CRAB, ATLANTIC JANE, BETONART, CUTE N YOU, KNOW IT, FRESCHEZZA, STUDENT LOAN. Yearlings have made up to £24,000gns

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DATA BOOK STAKES RESULTS

National Hunt Grade Ones 108 TOLWORTH NOVICES’ HURDLE G1

109 CLARENCE HOUSE CHASE G1

SANDOWN PARK. January 7. 16f 110yds. Soft.

ASCOT. January 21. 17f. Good to Soft.

110 ARKLE NOVICE CHASE G1 LEOPARDSTOWN. January 29. 17f. Heavy.

111 IRISH CHAMPION HURDLE G1 LEOPARDSTOWN. January 29. 16f. Heavy.

1. CAPTAIN CONAN (FR) 5 b g Kingsalsa - Lavandou (Sadler’s Wells) O-Triermore Stud B-Woodcote Stud Ltd TR-Nicky Henderson 2. Colour Squadron (IRE) 6 b g Old Vic - That’s The Goose (Be My Native) 3. Magnifique Etoile (GB) 5 b g Kayf Tara - Star Diva (Toulon)

1. SOMERSBY (IRE) 8 b g Second Empire - Back To Roost (Presenting) O-Mrs TP Radford B-Miss NA Adams TR-Henrietta Knight 2. Finian’s Rainbow (IRE) 9 b g Tiraaz - Trinity Gale (Strong Gale) 3. Al Ferof (FR) 7 gr g Dom Alco - Maralta (Altayan)

1. FLEMENSTAR (IRE) 7 b g Flemensfirth - Different Dee (Beau Sher) O-Stephen Curran B-D Barnwell TR-Peter Casey 2. Gift Of Dgab (IRE) 8 b g Winged Love - Creative Princess (Creative Plan) 3. Notus de La Tour (FR) 6 b g Kutub - Ridiyla (Akarad)

1. HURRICANE FLY (IRE) 8 b g Montjeu - Scandisk (Kenmare) O-George Creighton B-Agricola Del Parco TR-WP Mullins 2. Oscars Well (IRE) 7 b/br g Oscar - Placid Willow (Convinced) 3. Thousand Stars (FR) 8 gr g Grey Risk - Livaniana (Saint Estephe)

Age 4-5

Age 4-8

Age 5-7

Age 2-8

Starts 4

Wins 2

Places 2

Earned £43,329

CAPTAIN CONAN b g 2007 Raise A Native Gold Digger Nureyev Miesque Pasadoble Fortino II Caro Chambord Klairon Klainia Kalitka Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special Nijinsky Caerleon Foreseer Persian Bold Sarah Georgina Dance By Night

Starts 20

KINGSALSA b 96 Caretta

Sadler’s Wells LAVANDOU b 99 Intellectuelle

A lot was expected of Kingsalsa after the Classic-placed Gr3-winning miler ended 2005 as France’s leading firstcrop sire. That early success resulted in plenty of support for the son of Kingmambo and this helped Kingsalsa finish fifth among France’s leading Flat stallions in 2010, when he had more runners than any other stallion, and seventh in 2011. These rankings have perhaps owed more to quantity than quality, as Kingsalsa is still awaiting his first Group winner on the Flat. Bearing in mind that Kingsalsa only just scraped into France’s top 50 jumping stallions in 2011, it was rather surprising that he now has a leading young hurdler to his credit in Captain Conan, winner of the Gr1 Tolworth Hurdle on his British debut. He had been a wide-margin winner on the last of his three starts over hurdles in France seven months earlier. Kingsalsa’s previous jumping stock includes the French Gr3 winners Kinglaska and Salsa Melody. Kingmambo did so well with Sadler’s Wells mares, siring the likes of Henrythenavigator, El Condor Pasa, Divine Proportions and Virginia Waters, that his sons became an automatic choice for daughters of the perennial champion sire. The Gr1 winners Workforce, Creachadoir and Ibn Khaldun come from this cross and so does Captain Conan. His lightly-raced dam Lavandou, who also produced the Group-placed flat filly Cavaliere, comes from a family which has served Woodcote Stud very well. Captain Conan’s fourth dam Dance By Night produced three stakes winners, headed by Danseuse du Soir, winner of the French 1,000 Guineas and Prix de la Foret, His third dam, Sarah Georgina, also produced three stakes winners, including the 2010 Acomb Stakes winner Waiter’s Dream and the Prix de Flore winner Audacieuse. Sarah Georgina’s third stakes winner on the Flat, Lord Jim, also did well over jumps.

Places 13

Earned £269,787

Northern Dancer Fairy King

Fairy Bridge

SECOND EMPIRE b 95 Ela-Mana-Mou Welsh Love Welsh Flame Presenting BACK TO ROOST br 98 Horner Water

Mtoto D’Azy Over The River Phyll-Tarquin

Starts 9

Wins 5

Places 3

Earned £74,232

FLEMENSTAR b g 2005

SOMERSBY b g 2004

Mr Prospector Kingmambo

Wins 6

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Pitcairn Rose Bertin Welsh Pageant Electric Flash Busted Amazer Persian Bold Belle Viking Luthier Medenine Tarqogan Purcella

After several gallant efforts behind the dazzling Master Minded, including a short-head defeat in the 2011 Victor Chandler Chase, no-one could begrudge Somersby his first major success, gained in typically determined fashion in the 2012 Victor Chandler. Somersby’s unraced dam Back To Roost could fairly be described as National Hunt bred, her first three dams being daughters of Presenting, Over The River and Tarqogan. However, his sire Second Empire isn’t a name often associated with the jumping sector. The son of Fairy King justified his high yearling price by winning all three of his juvenile starts, including the Grand Criterium, on his way to taking second place on the International Classification for 1997. Although his second season was a bit of an anti-climax, Second Empire still showed good enough form at around a mile to claim a Timeform rating of 124. After disappointing in two starts at four, Second Empire joined the Coolmore team at a fee of IR8,000gns in 2000. He struggled to establish himself and was eventually exported to South Africa, but not before he had covered some jumping mares in 2003.. In addition to Somersby he is responsible for Strangely Brown, a Gr1 winner over hurdles in France. Back To Roost is also doing quite well with her 2005 Oscar gelding Cucumber Run, winner of two of his first three races over fences. Back To Roost is a sister to Horner Woods, runner-up in the 2009 RSA Chase. Their dam, the useful hurdler Horner Water, was a half-sister to Mr Baxter Basics, a smart chaser who was effective at distances up to and around two and a half miles. Somersby wasn’t disgraced behind Kauto Star when tried over three miles in the 2011 King George VI Chase but is probably more at home over shorter distances, thanks to Second Empire’s influence.

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Princess Pout

FLEMENSFIRTH b 92 Diesis Etheldreda Royal Bund Beau Sher DIFFERENT DEE ch 94 White’s Quay

Ile de Bourbon Mai Pussy Quayside Ann Advancer

Starts 24

Wins 14

Places 6

Earned £880,912

HURRICANE FLY b g 2004 Tom Rolfe Wavy Navy Prince John Determined Lady Sharpen Up Doubly Sure Royal Coinage Nato Nijinsky Roseliere Realm Broad River London Gazette Wong Even Money Princess Pontet

Owner Stephen Curran must now be delighted that his Flemensfirth gelding Flemenstar failed to reach his lofty reserve when offered at Tattersalls Ireland’s Point-to-Point Sale in May 2011. Already the winner of a point-topoint and a maiden hurdle, Flemenstar had also underlined his potential with a fourth place in a Gr2 novice hurdle shortly before the sale. However, it is as a steeplechaser that he has revealed his true merit. After a respectable second on his debut over fences, Flemenstar has won all three of his subsequent starts, including the Arkle Novice Chase by 19 lengths. Flemenstar, a brother to the useful hurdler Barafundle, has a fine jumping pedigree. His broodmare sire, Beau Sher, isn’t a particularly well-known name but the 16.3-hands son of Ile de Bourbon sired several good jumpers, headed by that smart chaser Rathgar Beau. Beau Sher seemed to have plenty to offer when he retired to Knockhouse Stud, home too to the excellent jumping stallion Roselier. Ile de Bourbon’s dam Roseliere was a top-class sister to Roselier and Beau Sher – himself a smart performer at up to nine furlongs – was a halfbrother to the smart hurdler Bold Boss. Beau Sher’s links to Roselier no doubt influenced his selection as a mate for Flemenstar’s second dam, the unraced White’s Quay. This mare’s half-sister Suir Valley had visited Roselier to produce the outstanding chaser Carvill’s Hill. Two other halfsisters to White’s Quay also produced notable chasers, Annie Buskins being the dam of the Grand National third Samlee and Ann’s Cap being the dam of the Roselier Gr1 winner Alcapone. Flemenstar’s sixth dam, Pontet, won the Irish Grand National in 1937 and his fourth dam, Princess Pontet, is the second dam of Hard Outlook, runnerup in the 1982 Grand National. The Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Bregawn was another from this family.

Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells

Fairy Bridge

MONTJEU b 96 Top Ville Floripedes Toute Cy Kenmare SCANDISK b 95 Yankee Lady

Kalamoun Belle of Ireland Lord Gayle 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

On the weekend that Big Buck’s extended his winning run to 15, Hurricane Fly also turned in an outstanding performance to record his 12th victory from 14 starts over hurdles. As many as ten of Hurricane Fly’s wins have been gained at Gr1 level and his dominant display against Oscars Well and Thousand Stars in the Irish Champion Stakes suggests there are plenty more to come. To the time of writing, Hurricane Fly’s sire Montjeu had had only 27 runners over jumps during the 201112 season but they also include Noble Prince (runner-up to Big Zeb in a Gr1 chase), Eradicate (another who has made a successful transition to fences), Midnight Game (a very progressive young hurdler) and Sweeps Hill (a Gr3 winner over fences). This impressive record reflects the fact that Montjeu’s sire Sadler’s Wells and his broodmare sire Top Ville both made a considerable impact on the jumping sector. All this bodes well for any of Montjeu’s stallion sons geared to the jumping division, notably his St Leger winner Scorpion. Hurricane Fly was fast enough to win a Listed race over a mile on the Flat as a three-year-old before leaving France. He no doubt owes some of his speed to his dam Scandisk, a Kenmare mare who won over seven furlongs at two in Italy. Montjeu also sired the very smart Jukebox Jury from another daughter of Kenmare and the Gr1 winners Recital and Corre Caminos from a mare by Kendor. Hurricane Fly’s second dam Yankee Lady shared the same sire, Lord Gayle, as several successful National Hunt stallions, such as Strong Gale, Lord Americo and Callernish. Yankee Lady’s brother Yankee Gold, twice a winner of the Gr2 Ballymoss Stakes, also sired some smart jumpers. Yankee Lady was also a sister to Lady Singer, winner of the Curragh’s Pretty Polly Stakes.

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DATA BOOK EXCLUSIVE STALLION STATS

National Hunt Graded races Date Jan 01 Jan 01 Jan 07 Jan 08 Jan 14 Jan 14 Jan 14 Jan 15 Jan 19 Jan 19 Jan 21 Jan 21 Jan 21 Jan 21 Jan 21 Jan 21 Jan 21 Jan 21 Jan 22 Jan 26 Jan 26 Jan 28 Jan 28 Jan 28 Jan 28 Jan 28 Jan 28 Jan 28 Jan 28 Jan 28 Jan 28 Jan 28 Jan 29

Grade G2 G3 G3 G2 G3 G3 G2 GrC G3 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G3 G2 G2 GrA G2 G2 G2 G3 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 GrB G2 GrA G2

Race (course) Dipper Novices’ Chase (Cheltenham) Victor Chandler H Chase (Cheltenham) Phil Sweeney Memorial Chase (Thurles) Slaney Novice Hurdle (Naas) Juvenile Hurdle (Punchestown) Betfred Classic H Chase (Warwick) Leamington Novices’ Hurdle (Warwick) Foxrock H Chase (Navan) Coolmore NH EBF Mares Novice Chase (Thurles) Matty Ryan Memorial Kinloch Brae Chase (Thurles) Warfield Mares’ Hurdle (Ascot) Holloway’s H Hurdle (Ascot) Altcar Novices’ Chase (Haydock Park) Peter Marsh H Chase (Haydock Park) Champion Hurdle Trial (Haydock Park) Rossington Main Novices’ Hurdle (Haydock Park) Limestone Lad Hurdle (Naas) Woodlands Park 100 Club Novice Chase (Naas) Normans Grove Chase (Fairyhouse) Thyestes H Chase (Gowran Park) Galmoy Hurdle (Gowran Park) Cotswold Chase (Cheltenham) Finesse Juvenile Hurdle (Cheltenham) Murphy Group H Chase (Cheltenham) Classic Novices’ Hurdle (Cheltenham) Cleeve Hurdle (Cheltenham) River Don Novices’ Hurdle (Doncaster) Doncaster Mares’ Hurdle (Doncaster) Lightning Novices’ Chase (Doncaster) Boylesports.Com H Hurdle (Leopardstown) Boylesports.Com Novice Chase (Leopardstown) Leopardstown H Chase (Leopardstown) Synergy Security Solutions Novice Hurdle (Leopardstown)

Dist 21f 21f 18f 20f 16f 29f 21f 20f 20f 20f 24f 19.5f 20f 24f 16.5f 16.5f 19f 24f 17f 24f 24f 25.5f 17f 21f 20.5f 24f 24.5f 16.5f 16.5f 16f 21f 21f 20f

Horse Champion Court (IRE) Calgary Bay (IRE) Quel Esprit (FR) Monksland (IRE) Ut De Sivola (FR) Hey Big Spender (IRE) Cotton Mill (GB) Jack The Bus (IRE) Knockfierna (IRE) Apt Approach (IRE) Violin Davis (FR) Smad Place (FR) Our Mick (GB) According To Pete (GB) Celestial Halo (IRE) Cinders And Ashes (GB) Mikael D’Haguenet (FR) Medical Card (IRE) Blazing Tempo (IRE) On His Own (IRE) Zaidpour (FR) Midnight Chase (GB) Grumeti (GB) The Giant Bolster (GB) Batonnier (FR) Big Buck’s (FR) Rocky Creek (IRE) Alasi (GB) Kid Cassidy (IRE) Citizenship (GB) Sir Des Champs (FR) Seabass (IRE) Boston Bob (IRE)

Age 7 9 8 5 4 9 5 12 7 9 6 5 6 11 8 5 8 8 8 8 6 10 4 7 6 9 6 8 6 6 6 9 7

Sex G G G G G G G G M G M G G G G G G G M G G G G G G G G M G G G G G

Sire Court Cave Taipan Saint Des Saints Beneficial Robin Des Champs Rudimentary Tiger Hill Old Vic Flemensfirth Bob Back Turgeon Smadoun Karinga Bay Accordion Galileo Beat Hollow Lavirco Flemensfirth Accordion Presenting Red Ransom Midnight Legend Sakhee Black Sam Bellamy Spadoun Cadoudal Dr Massini Alflora Beneficial Beat Hollow Robin Des Champs Turtle Island Bob Back

Leading National Hunt sires 2011/12 by earnings Name

Flemensfirth King’s Theatre Beneficial Oscar Presenting Anshan Accordion Milan Old Vic Kayf Tara Bob Back Definite Article Sadler’s Wells Alderbrook Cadoudal Montjeu Saddlers’ Hall Barathea Alflora Pistolet Bleu Dr Massini Village Star Galileo Norwich Overbury Daylami Karinga Bay Witness Box Luso Great Palm Winged Love Dom Alco Cape Cross Saint des Saints Beat Hollow Alhaarth Turtle Island Midnight Legend Shantou Sir Harry Lewis Bach Robin des Champs Al Namix Rudimentary Second Empire Grand Plaisir Martaline King’s Best Danehill Dancer Heron Island Turgeon Bob’s Return Catcher In The Rye Lavirco Taipan

YOF

1992 1991 1990 1994 1992 1987 1986 1998 1986 1994 1981 1992 1981 1989 1979 1996 1988 1990 1989 1988 1993 1983 1998 1987 1991 1994 1987 1987 1992 1989 1992 1987 1994 1998 1997 1993 1991 1991 1993 1984 1997 1997 1997 1988 1995 1989 1999 1997 1993 1993 1986 1990 2000 1993 1992

Sire

Alleged Sadler’s Wells Top Ville Sadler’s Wells Mtoto Persian Bold Sadler’s Wells Sadler’s Wells Sadler’s Wells Sadler’s Wells Roberto Indian Ridge Northern Dancer Ardross Green Dancer Sadler’s Wells Sadler’s Wells Sadler’s Wells Niniski Top Ville Sadler’s Wells Moulin Sadler’s Wells Top Ville Caerleon Doyoun Ardross Lyphard Salse Manila In The Wings Dom Pasquini Green Desert Cadoudal Sadler’s Wells Unfuwain Fairy King Night Shift Alleged Alleged Caerleon Garde Royale Linamix Nureyev Fairy King Darshaan Linamix Kingmambo Danehill Shirley Heights Caro Bob Back Danehill Konigsstuhl Last Tycoon

Rnrs

220 157 236 249 246 102 84 184 168 115 90 119 69 82 16 74 85 33 122 23 80 1 52 41 68 39 107 65 92 54 57 19 23 10 30 38 46 57 32 51 56 20 4 38 6 5 13 45 33 51 26 59 41 15 18

Wnrs

60 52 67 52 43 25 20 50 52 38 27 24 23 22 3 21 21 7 28 6 18 1 13 7 17 9 27 18 14 10 18 8 9 5 11 13 6 16 12 15 9 5 4 9 4 4 6 11 8 11 8 9 11 4 4

%WR

27.3 33.1 28.4 20.9 17.5 24.5 23.8 27.2 31.0 33.0 30.0 20.2 33.3 26.8 18.8 28.4 24.7 21.2 23.0 26.1 22.5 100.0 25.0 17.1 25.0 23.1 25.2 27.7 15.2 18.5 31.6 42.1 39.1 50.0 36.7 34.2 13.0 28.1 37.5 29.4 16.1 25.0 100.0 23.7 66.7 80.0 46.2 24.4 24.2 21.6 30.8 15.3 26.8 26.7 22.2

Races

87 72 89 69 56 38 28 69 69 52 37 33 28 25 7 24 26 10 35 8 22 2 17 10 24 14 36 23 19 13 24 11 13 7 19 18 10 20 18 21 19 9 6 11 6 4 10 12 11 17 11 11 13 8 9

AWD

19.9 19.6 19.1 19.2 20.7 21.1 19.7 19.8 20.0 20.6 20.3 20.5 18.9 20.4 23.4 18.1 22.1 17.2 20.0 21.0 18.2 24.0 19.4 18.3 19.3 17.2 19.3 20.7 21.7 18.2 21.1 20.0 18.9 17.9 17.4 18.6 17.6 21.4 18.6 22.2 20.4 18.8 18.7 22.9 19.5 24.9 19.4 18.4 16.8 19.9 22.3 21.9 19.7 19.3 22.8

Earnings (£)

752,307 739,684 727,774 699,502 590,597 544,603 510,483 508,259 491,868 417,144 394,319 348,259 298,120 293,369 286,049 283,244 260,513 249,684 239,273 233,522 225,096 216,064 215,635 209,945 209,702 209,052 197,352 196,059 186,744 184,576 181,011 177,479 170,946 168,814 168,126 166,312 165,238 161,450 157,784 145,988 144,196 142,895 138,965 138,425 131,898 121,487 120,334 120,028 115,674 113,106 112,825 112,262 111,421 111,226 111,023

Top horse

Flemenstar Voler La Vedette Mount Benbulben Big Zeb First Lieutenant Quantitativeeasing Blazing Tempo Raya Star Royal Reveille Carruthers Boston Bob The Real Article Synchronised Groody Hill Big Buck’s Hurricane Fly Featherbed Lane Overturn Alasi Sizing Europe Fosters Cross Kauto Star Celestial Halo Moon Dice Stewarts House Brampour Our Mick Havingotascoobydo Blazing Beacon Great Endeavour Cannington Brook Grands Crus Cross Appeal Quito de La Roque Citizenship Sam Bass Seabass Midnight Chase De Valira Restless Harry Ongenstown Lad Sous Les Cieux Grandouet Hey Big Spender Somersby Exmoor Ranger Dynaste His Excellency Unaccompanied Galaxy Rock Violin Davis Joncol Oneeightofamile Mikael d’Haguenet Calgary Bay

Earned (£)

66,974 94,588 36,940 77,047 50,909 89,005 162,106 90,769 38,797 89,705 68,948 83,319 88,197 75,677 87,843 59,583 29,127 169,018 33,589 113,124 43,103 216,064 99,599 140,330 57,246 98,995 22,606 20,559 24,651 93,420 22,574 47,230 108,129 84,052 63,116 32,129 76,207 61,230 35,323 32,116 33,952 54,181 99,059 47,692 104,295 57,425 57,372 30,591 64,388 28,164 38,696 28,513 24,472 40,779 68,172

Dam Mooneys Hill Dante’s Thatch Jeune D’Esprit Cush Jewel Kerrana Jims Monkey Mill Line Monas Jem Garden Town Imminent Approach Trumpet Davis Bienna Star Dawn’s Della Magic Bloom Pay The Bank Moon Search Fleur D’haguenet Me Grannys Endoors Leading Duke Shuil Na Mhuire Zainta Yamrah Tetravella Divisa La Bazine Buck’s Kissantell Anamasi Shuil Na Lee Three More Liste En Tete Muscovy Duck Bavaway

Broodmare Sire Supreme Leader Phardante Royal Charter Executive Perk Cadoudal Monksfield Mill Reef Be My Native Un Desperado Lord Americo Rose Laurel Village Star Scottish Reel Full Of Hope High Top Rainbow Quest Dark Stone Tremblant Supreme Leader Roselier Kahyasi Milford Groom Dancer Lomitas Dreams To Reality Le Glorieux Broken Hearted Idiot’s Delight Phardante Sanglamore Video Rock Moscow Society Le Bavard

Index 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144

Flemenstar helps sire rocket to first place While most of the leading group added around £100,000 to their tally, Flemensfirth enjoyed a tremendous month that took him from fourth place to first. His progeny earned £233,910, which would be good going even for a stallion at Cheltenham or Aintree. Flemensfirth, aged 20 and based at Coolmore’s Beeches Stud for €10,000, is another fine jump stallion by Alleged, after Montelimar and British-based stalwart Sir Harry Lewis. Like most of his rivals in the list he showed good form over middle distances, winning the Prix Lupin and Premio Roma. Initially Flemensfirth seemed to be more of a sire of hurdlers than chasers but that has changed. His star turns Flemenstar, Imperial Commander, Joe Lively, Muirhead, Pandorama, Tidal Bay and Time For Rupert, all rated at least 160, have fine form over fences. Flemenstar has shown himself one of the best novice chasers in Ireland this season, the highlight being a runaway victory in a Grade 1 at Leopardstown in January. He would have been an interesting contender at Cheltenham. Of course Flemensfirth benefits from covering massive books, with a total of around 1,600 mares from 2006-2011. He has had 220 runners this season. Thirty years ago the top two, Deep Run and Menelek, had 37 and 39.

Statistics to January 29

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Global Stakes Results Date Grade Argentina 22/01 G3 21/01 G3 15/01 G3 14/01 G3 07/01 G3

Race

Dist

Horse

Age

Sex

Clasico Estados Unidos de America Clasico Congreve Clasico Latinoamerica Clasico Buenos Aires Clasico Apertura

5.0f 5.0f 8.0f 8.0f 10.0f

In The Shot (ARG) West Key (ARG) Cafrune (ARG) Google Earth (ARG) Tradizione Slam (ARG)

4 3 6 4 5

Australia 27/01 G2 02/01 G3

Australia Stanley Wootton Stakes Standish Handicap

6.0f 6.0f

Black Caviar (AUS) Catapulted (AUS)

Brazil 25/01 20/01 15/01 14/01

G2 G3 G3 G3

Grande Premio 25 de Janeiro G.P. Prefeitura Cidade do Rio de Janeiro Grande Premio Jose Buarque de Macedo Grande Premio Roger Guedon

10.0f 11.0f 8.0f 8.0f

Chile 06/01 Japan 22/01 15/01 29/01 29/01 28/01 22/01 15/01 09/01 08/01 05/01 05/01

Premio Copa Jackson

G2 G2 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3

New Zealand G1 28/01 G1 21/01 G1 01/01 G2 28/01 G2 21/01 G2 01/01 G2 01/01 G2 01/01 G2 01/01 G3 28/01 G3 21/01 G3 21/01 G3 01/01

Sire

Dam

Broodmare Sire

C C H C M

Easing Along (USA) Key Deputy (USA) Colonial Affair (USA) Iberal (ARG) Grand Slam (USA)

Eco Austral (CHI) La Vecina Cat (ARG) Ipacarai (ARG) Linda Brujula (ARG) Tradizione (ARG)

Barkerville (USA) Easing Along (USA) Interprete (ARG) Handsome Halo (ARG) Forlitano (ARG)

6 7

M G

Bel Esprit (AUS) Catbird (AUS)

Helsinge (AUS) Siren Miss (AUS)

Desert Sun (GB) Umatilla (NZ)

Morena Matte (BRZ) Stockholder (BRZ) Energia Davos (BRZ) Old Tune (BRZ)

6 5 4 4

M H C F

Shudanz (CAN) Dancer Man (BRZ) Torrential (USA) Wild Event (USA)

Viva Gata (BRZ) Sweet Biscuit (BRZ) Star Brisingamen (USA) Chanson Pour Julia (BRZ)

Midnight Tiger (USA) Effervescing (USA) Maria's Mon (USA) Irish Fighter (USA)

9.5f

Senor Jack (CHI)

Hurricane Cat (USA)

Dame Carino (CHI)

Tanaasa (IRE)

American Jockey Club Cup Nikkei Shinshun Hai The Negishi Stakes Kyoto Himba Stakes Silk Road Stakes Heian Stakes Keisei Hai Fairy Stakes Nikkan Sports Sho Shinzan Kinen Sports Nippon Sho Kyoto Kimpai Nikkan Sports Sho Nakayama Kimpai

11.0f 12.0f 7.0f 8.0f 6.0f 9.0f 10.0f 8.0f 8.0f 8.0f 10.0f

Rulership (JPN) To The Glory (JPN) Silk Fortune (JPN) Donau Blue (JPN) Lord Kanaloa (JPN) Hiraboku King (JPN) Best Deal (JPN) Tosen Benizakura (JPN) Gentildonna (JPN) Meiner Lacrima (JPN) Federalist (JPN)

5 5 6 4 4 5 3 3 3 4 5

H H H F C H C F G C H

King Kamehameha (JPN) King Kamehameha (JPN) Gold Allure (JPN) Deep Impact (JPN) King Kamehameha (JPN) King Kamehameha (JPN) Deep Impact (JPN) Daiwa Major (JPN) Deep Impact (JPN) Chief Bearhart (CAN) Empire Maker (USA)

Air Groove (JPN) To the Victory (JPN) Silk Esperanza (USA) Donna Blini (GB) Lady Blossom (JPN) Encantado (USA) Commercante (FR) Tosen Brilliant (JPN) Donna Blini (GB) Teardrops (JPN) Dance Partner (JPN)

Tony Bin Sunday Silence (USA) Alwuhush (USA) Bertolini (USA) Storm Cat (USA) Rahy (USA) Marchand de Sable (USA) White Muzzle (GB) Bertolini (USA) Sunday Silence (USA) Sunday Silence (USA)

Harcourts Thorndon Mile J & N Berkett Telegraph Handicap Blandford Lodge Railway Stakes Pacific Jewellers Wellington Cup Avondale Stud Wakefield Challenge Stakes New Zealand Bloodstock Royal Stakes Radio Live Championship Stakes Rich Hill George Adams Mile Handicap W.W.City of Auckland Queen Elizabeth Cup Tigeer Prawn Desert Gold Stakes P. Cataldo Bloodstock Wellington Stakes Mills Reef Winery Trentham Stakes Stella Artois Eclipse Stakes

8.0f 6.0f 6.0f 12.0f 6.0f 10.0f 10.5f 8.0f 12.0f 8.0f 8.0f 10.5f 6.0f

Say No More (NZ) Guiseppina (NZ) Atomic Force (AUS) Six O'Clock News (NZ) Pussy Willow (NZ) Chicharita (NZ) Silent Achiever (NZ) Platinum Princess (NZ) Single Minded (NZ) Quintessential (NZ) Ocean Park (NZ) Six O'Clock News (NZ) Warhorse (NZ)

5 6 7 8 3 4 4 6 5 4 4 8 3

G M G G F F F M G F C G C

No Excuse Needed (GB) Johar (USA) Danehill Dancer (IRE) Zabeel (NZ) O'Reilly (NZ) Towkay (AUS) O'Reilly (NZ) Keeper (AUS) Bachelor Duke (USA) Fast 'n' Famous (AUS) Thorn Park (AUS) Zabeel (NZ) General Nediym (AUS)

Sorgente (NZ) Battocchi (NZ) Show Of Force (AUS) Maurine (NZ) Octapussy (AUS) Trisynd (NZ) Winning Spree (NZ) Merle Park (USA) Capacity (NZ) Florette (USA) Sayyida (NZ) Maurine (NZ) Rathlin Island (AUS)

O'Reilly (NZ) Success Express (USA) Luskin Star (AUS) Harbor Prince (USA) Octagonal (NZ) Sir Tristram Zabeel (NZ) Machiavellian (USA) Zabeel (NZ) Sword Dance Zabeel (NZ) Harbor Prince (USA) Giant's Causeway (USA)

The Australian sprinter Atomic Force, who won a Group 1 in Sydney last April, made his class tell when overcoming a slow start to beat The Hombre by half a length in the Railway Stakes. But his attempt to follow up under top weight in the Telegraph Peru 08/01 14/01 28/01 22/01

G1 G2 G3 G3

Gran Premio Nacional-Augusto B Leguia Clasico Ciudad de Lima Clasico Velocidad Clasico Enrique Meiggs

Fillies dominated the first big race of the year. They took the first four places, but the fourth, La Aliara, was disqualified, allowing a colt to enter the frame. Chilean-bred La Hoja Seca was still a South Africa G1 28/01 G1 28/01 G1 28/01 G1 21/01 G1 07/01 G1 07/01 G2 28/01 G2 04/01 G2 02/01 G3 08/01 G3 03/01 G3 01/01

Investec Cape Derby Klawervlei Majorca Stakes J & B Met Betting World Cape Flying Championship L'Ormarins Queen's Plate TBA Paddock Stakes J & B Reserve Stayers Handicap Peninsula Handicap Graham Beck Memorial Sceptre Stakes London News Stakes Lebelo Sprint Flamboyant Stakes

The Mike de Kock-trained Igugu overcame all manner of problems to add the J & B Met to last year’s Vodacom July victory and strongly suggest that, once current quarantine restrictions are eased, she can become

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Handicap over the same track and trip three weeks later came up just short thanks to another example of the brilliance of top Kiwi jockey James McDonald. His mount Guiseppina was drawn 18 of 18 but McDonald kept a cool 13.0f 10.0f 5.0f 10.0f

La Hoja Seca (CHI) Querubin (PER) Gran Rebelde (PER) Al Qasr (USA)

maiden after five races but had only one and three-quarter lengths to make up on favourite Cubage on their running when second and third in the Clasico Postin over a furlong shorter on 10.0f 8.0f 10.0f 5.0f 8.0f 9.0f 14.0f 9.0f 6.0f 9.0f 5.0f 8.0f

Jackson (SAF) Ebony Flyer (SAF) Igugu (AUS) Val de Ra (SAF) Gimmethegreenlight (AUS) Thunder Dance (SAF) Blake (SAF) Polar Bound (SAF) Covenant (SAF) Smanjemanje (SAF) Gold Site (SAF) Queen's Command (AUS)

a global superstar. Denied a prep race when a respiratory infection ruled her out of the Paddock Stakes, she then had to comply with African Horse Sickness restrictions and be stabled at Kenilworth’s quarantine centre following

head and, sticking to the outside to guarantee a clear run, Guiseppina made the most of her 13lb weight receipt to collar Atomic Force close home. Another young jockey to look out for is Rosie Myers, who notched the 4 6 7 4

F H H C

Riyadian (GB) Quintillon (USA) Apprentice (USA) Aptitude (USA)

Simply (CHI) Campbell (PER) Bayadera (USA) Majestic Dy (USA)

November 6. Cubage led approaching the straight but La Hoja Seca, who had been in rear in a field of 13 to that point, cut her down inside the final furlong. The daughter of Paul Cole's 1995 4 5 5 6 4 4 6 5 5 6 5 5

C M M M C F G G M H G M

second Group 1 of her nascent career (both achieved in partnership with trainer Paul Duncan) when the heavily backed lightweight Say No More came with a withering run down the centre of the course to lift the Thorndon Mile by a length and three-quarters.

Dynasty (SAF) Jet Master (SAF) Galileo (IRE) Var (USA) More Than Ready (USA) Jet Master (SAF) Dynasty (SAF) Western Winter (USA) Western Winter (USA) Kahal (GB) Goldkeeper (USA) Commands (AUS)

Jockey Club Stakes winner Riyadian scored by one and a half lengths, with Lady Solange third again but only threequarters of a length behind this time; in the Derby she was beaten 24 lengths.

Moonlit Prairie (USA) Sunshine Lover (SAF) Zarinia (IRE) Minelli (SAF) Yes She Can Cancan (AUS) Shadow Dancing (SAF) Watercolours (NZ) Travel In Front (AUS) Secret Pact (SAF) In Style (SAF) Prime Site (ZIM) Judicial Queen (AUS)

an 18-hour box ride from de Kock’s yard. In the race she missed the break, was caught wide and struck into yet, despite never travelling with her usual vigour, she got up late to beat Bravura by half a length. She would already

Winning (USA) Short Selling (USA) Houston (USA) Dynaformer (USA)

Cozzene (USA) Badger Land (USA) Intikhab (USA) Elliodor (FR) Canny Lad (AUS) Fort Wood (USA) Nassipour (USA) Citidancer Bush Telegraph (SAF) Model Man (SAF) Assail (USA) Unbridled's Song (USA)

have been in Dubai but for the Horse Sickness outbreak. The result franked the form of the Queen’s Plate, run over two furlongs shorter three weeks earlier. This was won by the three-year-old

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Gimmethegreenlight, who took third in the Met, while Bravura’s fourth place in the Queen’s Plate can be put down to having had to race very wide. The Queen’s Plate form was also on trial in the Cape Derby via the runner-up Variety Club. But the Cape Guineas winner found his stamina ebbing away in the closing stages and he again had

to settle for second, two lengths adrift of Jackson while beating the others in some comfort. Jackson was completing a wonderful month for 21-year-old jockey Karis Teetan and trainer Brett Crawford as they had earlier taken advantage of both Igugu’s absence and a very slow pace to lift the Paddock Stakes with Thunder Dance.

Ebony Flyer, yet another Queen’s Plate principal (she was sixth as joint favourite), returned to winning ways in the Majorca Stakes although her trainer, Justin Snaith, remains unconvinced as to whether an operation has fully fixed her breathing problems. Val de Ra, What A Winter and J J The Jet Plane, three of the best recent

South African sprinters, clashed in the Cape Flying Championship. The laurels went to Val de Ra, whose record now reads 11 wins from 12 starts. But she had to fight hard to see off What A Winter, who has come back well from surgery, by a neck, while J J The Jet Plane can be excused his fourth, as he was having his first run for ten months.

United Arab Emirates G2 26/01 Dubai Duty Free Al Rashidiya Stakes G2 20/01 The S & M Al Naboodah Cape Verdi Stakes G3 12/01 Etisalat Al Maktoum Challenge Round 1

9.0f 8.0f 8.0f

Musir (AUS) First City (GB) Musir (AUS)

6 6 6

H M H

Redoute's Choice (AUS) Diktat (GB) Redoute's Choice (AUS)

Dizzy de Lago (AUS) City Maiden (USA) Dizzy de Lago (AUS)

Encosta de Lago (AUS) Carson City (USA) Encosta de Lago (AUS)

United States G1 28/01 G2 29/01 G2 22/01 G2 21/01 G2 16/01 G2 15/01 G2 14/01 G2 07/01 G2 01/01 G3 29/01 G3 28/01 G3 28/01 G3 21/01 G3 21/01 G3 14/01 G3 14/01 G3 08/01 G3 07/01 G3 07/01 G3 02/01 G3 01/01

7.0f 7.0f 8.5f 6.0f 9.0f 6.5f 8.5f 8.5f 9.0f 8.0f 9.0f 8.5f 8.0f 8.5f 8.5f 8.0f 6.5f 8.0f 8.5f 6.5f 6.0f

Home Sweet Aspen (USA) Broadway's Alibi (USA) Include Me Out (USA) Frumious (USA) Norvsky (USA) Reneesgotzip (USA) Tapizar (USA) Uh Oh Bango (USA) Bauble Queen (USA) Algorithms (USA) Papaw Bodie (USA) Willa B Awesome (USA) Mr Bowling (USA) Mr Vegas (USA) Silver Medallion (USA) Jackson Bend (USA) Caracortado (USA) Out of Bounds (USA) Heavenly Landing (USA) Mizdirection (USA) Sacristy (USA)

4 3 4 6 6 3 4 5 4 3 5 3 3 5 4 5 5 3 5 4 3

F F F H G F C H F C H F C H C H G C M F F

Candy Ride (ARG) Vindication (USA) Include (USA) Grindstone (USA) Vronsky (USA) City Zip (USA) Tapit (USA) Top Hit (USA) Arch (USA) Bernardini (USA) Strong Hope (USA) Awesome Gambler (USA) Istan (USA) Freud (USA) Badge of Silver (USA) Hear No Evil (USA) Cat Dreams (USA) Discreet Cat (USA) Pulpit (USA) Mizzen Mast (USA) Pulpit (USA)

My Gal Groovy (USA) Broadway Gold (USA) Don't Trick Her (USA) Eternal Legend (USA) Fimbrelith (USA) No Dress Code (USA) Winning Call (USA) French Debutante (USA) Muneefa (USA) Ava Knowsthecode (USA) Trillion Wing (USA) Cause I'm Tricky (USA) Goldilock's Bear (USA) Lhotse (USA) Another Vegetarian (USA) Sexy Stockings (USA) Mons Venus (CAN) Unbridled Elaine (USA) Peace River Lady (USA) Deceptive (USA) Christies Treasure (CAN)

Groovy (USA) Seeking The Gold (USA) Mazel Trick (USA) Gold Legend (USA) Flying Paster (USA) Distorted Humor (USA) Deputy Minister (CAN) French Deputy (USA) Storm Cat (USA) Cryptoclearance (USA) In The Wings Nineeleven (USA) Irish Tower (USA) The Minstrel (CAN) Stalwart (USA) Tabasco Cat (USA) Maria's Mon (USA) Unbridled's Song (USA) Woodman (USA) Clever Trick (USA) Belong To Me (USA)

Santa Monica Stakes Forward Gal Stakes La Canada Stakes Palos Verdes Stakes San Gabriel Stakes Santa Ynez Stakes San Fernando Stakes San Pasqual Stakes Robert J Frankel Stakes Holy Bull Stakes John B Connally Turf Stakes Santa Ysabel Stakes Lecomte Stakes Colonel E R Bradley Handicap Fort Lauderdale Stakes Hal's Hope Stakes Daytona Stakes Sham Stakes Marshua's River Stakes Monrovia Stakes Old Hat Stakes

The form of December 31’s La Brea Stakes (over the same course and distance) was comprehensively

overturned in the Santa Monica Stakes as Home Sweet Aspen, who had possibly gone too fast in front in the La

Brea, was ridden with more restraint by Joel Rosario to score by a neck. Sugarinthemorning was second again,

while the La Brea heroine Teddy’s Promise resented getting dirt in her face and beat only two home.

Leading global sires by stakes winners Horse

Born

Sire

Stands/Stood

King Kamehameha (JPN) City Zip (USA) Dynasty (SAF) Trippi (USA) Commands (AUS) Pulpit (USA) Easing Along (USA) Deep Impact (JPN) Torrential (USA) Western Winter (USA) Bernardini (USA) O'Reilly (NZ) Jet Master (SAF) Wild Event (USA) Rebuttal (USA)

2001 1998 1999 1997 1996 1994 1998 2002 1992 1992 2003 1993 1994 1993 2002

Kingmambo (USA) Carson City (USA) Fort Wood (USA) End Sweep (USA) Danehill (USA) A P Indy (USA) Storm Cat (USA) Sunday Silence (USA) Gulch (USA) Gone West (USA) A P Indy (USA) Last Tycoon Rakeen (USA) Wild Again (USA) Mr Greeley (USA)

JPN USA SAF USA AUS USA ARG JPN BRZ SAF USA NZ SAF USA IND

BTH BTW GH GW 8 4 4 4 4 5 3 5 2 5 3 3 3 3 3

5 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2

7 3 3 0 1 4 1 5 1 4 1 3 2 1 0

4 1 2 0 1 2 1 3 1 2 1 2 2 1 0

BTH = black type horses; BTW = black type winners; GH = Group horses; GW = Group winners

At this early stage of the season, the plaudits go to King Kamehameha, standing at the Shadai Stallion Station. He was champion sire in Japan in 2010 and 2011, and, given his success so far this year, he looks well set to maintain his run. His eight Black Type Horses (BTH) include two Group 2 scorers. It would be fascinating to see King Kamehameha’s progeny trying their luck in Europe – by Kingmambo out of a Last Tycoon mare he has the right pedigree to make a mark here – and there are certainly a few to spare. Last

year he had an eyewatering 418 runners, 193 of whom won 367 races for total earnings of 4.203 billion yen (around £34 million). Crucially, his runners are effective over a wide range of distances and he gets good results from mares by Sunday Silence. Among the chasing pack is Dynasty, a 13-year-old by Fort Wood and South African Horse of the Year in 2003. He has made a good start at stud, getting three Group 1 winners including Horse of the Year Irish Flame and recent Cape Derby winner Jackson.

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DATA BOOK OVERSEAS STAKES RESULTS WINNERS – FULL LIST AT WWW.OWNERBREEDER.CO.UK Breeder Al Qatami & Hugo Merry, M. Allan, D. Ambersham Stud Appleby Lodge Stud Aston House Stud, The Balding, P. Ballylinch Stud Ballylinch Stud Barnett Ltd, W. and R. Baugh, P. Bean, D. Blake, Mr K. Botterill, D. R. Bumble Bloodstock & Mrs O. M. Weston Byrne, P. Callanan, Mr M. J. G. Catcher Equine Ltd Cheveley Park Stud Ltd Cohn, Exors of the Late Seymour Craig & S.Couldridge, F. Cunningham, P. M. Cunningham, P. M. Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Dayton Investments Ltd Donnelly, Mrs J. Doyle, S. Dundon, Mr D. J. Epona Bloodstock Ltd Fairhaven, Lady Farrell, Miss M. Floors Farming Floors Farming & Dominic Burke Fox, Mrs M. Glending Bloodstock Hanly, J. Harron, Dr D. Joyce, Mr J. Juddmonte Farms Inc Juddmonte Farms Inc Juddmonte Farms Ltd Juddmonte Farms Ltd. Juddmonte Farms Ltd. Juddmonte Farms Ltd. Keatly Overseas Ltd Ken Lock Racing Kent, N. & E. Kilfrush Stud Knight & E. Cantillon, J. Lees & Cummings Bloodstock Lock, T. R. Lodge Park Stud Mark Johnston Racing Ltd Mason, P. A. Matthews, Mr E. McGinn & James Waldron, Mick Minster Stud Montauban, Mr F. Mooney, P. Mooney, P. Moroney, Paul Mulhern & John Flynn, Ms E. Newsells Park Stud Newsells Park Stud Limited Norelands Bloodstock, J. Hanly & H. Lascelles O'Brien, S. O'Looney, Brian O'Reilly, Mr P. Parry, Mr A. T. M. Paulyn Limited Phipps, A. B. Pier House Stud Ptarmigan Bloodstock Limited Queen, The Rathbarry Stud Rathbarry Stud Redmyre Bloodstock Ltd Robinson, J. B. Ryan, Brendan Quinn & Joan Quinn, R. Shadwell Estate Company Limited Shadwell Estate Company Limited Shadwell Estate Company Limited Sharkey, M. Smythson Southern Bloodstock Spooner, Mr H. Q. Strategy Bloodstock Stratton, L. J. Sunderland Holdings Ltd Sweeting, P. Tally-Ho Stud Tally-Ho Stud Taylor, Mr B. J. Theobalds Stud Thurso Limited Tuthill, J. F. Watership Down Stud Weld, J. Wetherill, Mr P. Wyck Hall Stud Ltd

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Winner Lord Peter Flint (IRE) Hardy Norseman (IRE) The Love Guru (GB) Domeside (GB) Glorified (GB) Popeye Boy (GB) Cash Queen Anna (IRE) Fox Hunt (IRE) Granary (GB) Bluie (GB) Indigo River (IRE) Master Macho (IRE) Dutchessa (GB) Olivminot (GB) Rey Davis (IRE) Beacon Hill (IRE) Kanaf (IRE) Firstknight (GB) Exclamation (GB) Olynthos (IRE) Slim Shadey (GB) Slim Shadey (GB) Songcraft (IRE) Fares (IRE) First City (GB) Capponi (IRE) African Story (GB) Moannaa (GB) Gamilati (GB) Poincon de France (IRE) Irish Kelt (IRE) Archers Prize (IRE) Veyron (IRE) Mutahadee (IRE) Krypton Factor (GB) Ale Alejandro (IRE) Federation (GB) Correct (GB) Makalali (IRE) Issacar (IRE) Cashmere Cat (IRE) Steinbeck (IRE) Feng Su (IRE) Treble Jig (USA) Treble Jig (USA) Greenwich Meantime (GB) Weald (GB) Hunting Tartan (GB) Weald (GB) Loukas (IRE) Millyluvstobouggie (GB) Monsieur Joe (IRE) Wazn (IRE) Jamr (GB) Silent Victory (GB) Dunedain (GB) Cai Bao In (IRE) Always de Man (IRE) Zezao (GB) Addictive Dream (IRE) Kalahari Gold (IRE) Tajaarub (GB) Mamoue (IRE) Flamsteed (IRE) Flamsteed (IRE) Monashee Gold (IRE) Rosehill Dew (IRE) Al Muthanaa (GB) Imasci (GB) Party Cat (IRE) Arrieta (IRE) Arrebato (IRE) Be My Whisper (IRE) The Wicked Lord (GB) Business As Usual (GB) Talley Close (GB) Collect Art (IRE) Quick Wit (GB) Quick Reaction (GB) Scantily Clad (IRE) Scantily Clad (IRE) Sandoval (GB) Fulani's (IRE) Think About Money (IRE) Tanfeeth (GB) Mefraas (IRE) Maraheb (GB) Michaelmas Daisy (GB) Ouri (IRE) Picture Perfect (IRE) Walfa (IRE) Kilt Rock (IRE) Cometh (GB) El Gouna (IRE) Diamond Laura (GB) Factory Time (IRE) Mister Fips (IRE) Muhtaker (GB) Noonenose (GB) Prince Bishop (IRE) Winning Mascot (IRE) Festival Spirit (GB) Vereda (IRE) Wet One (IRE) Bonfire Knight (GB)

Sire Cadeaux Genereux Mull Of Kintyre (USA) Ishiguru (USA) Domedriver (IRE) Danehill Dancer (IRE) Superior Premium (GB) Dr Fong (USA) Dubawi (IRE) Singspiel (IRE) Ishiguru (USA) Kodiac (GB) Camacho (GB) Dutch Art (GB) Diktat (GB) King Charlemagne (USA) Shamardal (USA) Elnadim (USA) Kyllachy (GB) Acclamation (GB) Chineur (FR) Val Royal (FR) Val Royal (FR) Singspiel (IRE) Mark Of Esteem (IRE) Diktat (GB) Medicean (GB) Pivotal (GB) Pivotal (GB) Bernardini (USA) Peintre Celebre (USA) Indian Danehill (IRE) Dark Angel (IRE) Fasliyev (USA) Encosta de Lago (AUS) Kyllachy (GB) Captain Rio (GB) Motivator (GB) Oasis Dream (GB) Kodiac (GB) Traditionally (USA) One Cool Cat (USA) Footstepsinthesand (GB) Antonius Pius (USA) Gone West (USA) Gone West (USA) Royal Academy (USA) Bering Oasis Dream (GB) Bering Haafhd (GB) Tobougg (IRE) Choisir (AUS) Whipper (USA) Singspiel (IRE) Silent Times (IRE) Avonbridge (GB) Hawk Wing (USA) Lucky Story (USA) Fasliyev (USA) Kheleyf (USA) Trans Island (GB) Lomitas (GB) Hurricane Run (IRE) Clodovil (IRE) Clodovil (IRE) Monashee Mountain (USA) Danehill Dancer (IRE) Pivotal (GB) Medicean (GB) One Cool Cat (USA) Captain Rio (GB) City On A Hill (USA) Le Vie Dei Colori (GB) Byron (GB) Invincible Spirit (IRE) Danbird (AUS) Footstepsinthesand (GB) Oasis Dream (GB) Elusive Quality (USA) Acclamation (GB) Acclamation (GB) Ishiguru (USA) Tobougg (IRE) Red Clubs (IRE) Singspiel (IRE) King's Best (USA) Redoute's Choice (AUS) Camacho (GB) Dansili (GB) Danehill Dancer (IRE) Haafhd (GB) Giant's Causeway (USA) Iceman (GB) Perugino (USA) Lucky Story (USA) Baltic King (GB) Chevalier (IRE) Medicean (GB) Compton Place (GB) Dubawi (IRE) Marju (IRE) Notnowcato (GB) Kheleyf (USA) Slickly (FR) Red Ransom (USA)

Age/sex 7h 9g 5g 6h 5m 4c 5m 5g 8m 5g 3f 4c 3f 4f 7h 4g 5g 4c 7g 4c 4g 4g 4g 8h 6m 5h 5h 4g 3f 8h 9h 3c 10 g 4c 4g 3g 4f 3f 3c 5h 3f 5h 3c 5h 5h 12 g 7g 5h 7g 3c 4f 5g 5h 4g 3f 4c 4g 4c 6g 5g 7g 5g 3f 6h 6h 9h 4f 5g 5h 6g 5h 7h 3c 3c 5g 4c 5g 5h 5g 4f 4f 6h 4f 3f 4c 6g 4c 5m 3c 5m 4f 5g 4f 10 h 5m 3c 7g 5g 4c 5g 5g 3g 3f 5m 5g

Dam Bibi Karam (IRE) Miss Willow Bend (USA) Beauty (IRE) Buck's Fizz (GB) Olivia Grace (GB) Classical Song (IRE) Cashel Queen (USA) Kiltubber (IRE) All Grain (GB) Flying Highest (GB) Sunny Slope (GB) Desert Rose (GB) Nippy (FR) Polar Dancer (GB) San Luis Rey (GB) Alegranza (IRE) Catcher Applause (GB) Wedding Party (GB) Summer Siren (FR) Mistic Sun (GB) Vino Veritas (USA) Vino Veritas (USA) Baya (USA) Iftitan (USA) City Maiden (USA) Nawaiet (USA) Blixen (USA) Belle Argentine (FR) Illustrious Miss (USA) Poughkeepsie (IRE) My Simpaty (IRE) Silver Arrow (USA) For Kicks (FR) Mosaique Bleue (GB) Cool Question (GB) Matetsi (IRE) Flirtation (GB) Dusty Answer (GB) Hawattef (IRE) Indolente (IRE) Pink Cashmere (IRE) Castara Beach (IRE) Gift Of Grace (FR) Light Jig (GB) Light Jig (GB) Shirley Valentine (GB) New Abbey (GB) Delta (GB) New Abbey (GB) Mount Street (IRE) Milly's Lass (GB) Pascali (GB) New Story (USA) Never Enough (GER) River City Moon (USA) True Seeker (GB) Dazzling Park (IRE) Yes Virginia (USA) Graffiti Girl (IRE) Nottambula (IRE) Neat Shilling (IRE) Simacota (GER) Mamounia (GER) Nautical Gem (IRE) Nautical Gem (IRE) Onsomespecialnight (CAN) Virginia Rose (IRE) Mail The Desert (IRE) She's Classy (USA) Congress (IRE) St Bride's Bay (GB) Flying Cockatoo (IRE) Lady Flyer (IRE) Sable 'n Silk (GB) Lesgor (USA) No Candles Tonight (GB) Night Scent (IRE) Roo (GB) Arutua (USA) Meadow (GB) Meadow (GB) Route Sixty Six (IRE) Tarkwa (GB) Lilac Mist (GB) Nasij (USA) Khaizarana (GB) Hureya (USA) Desert Daisy (IRE) Clodora (FR) Makarova (IRE) Theatrical Act (USA) Eliza (USA) Ennobling (GB) Kengar (FR) Erracht (GB) Mark One (GB) Blue Holly (IRE) Kalindi (GB) Noble View (USA) North East Bay (USA) Supportive (IRE) Party Doll Society Fair (FR) La Fontainiere (IRE) Attune (GB)

Ctry Hk Swe Mac Spa Usa Swe Usa Uae Qtr Hk Usa Mac Fr Swe Fr Gny Uae Uae Usa Fr Usa Usa Uae Uae Uae Uae Uae Uae Uae Fr Fr Qtr Fr Uae Uae Swe Usa Fr Spa Fr Fr Hk Sin Uae Uae Fr Swe Qtr Swe Usa Gny Uae Aus Uae Fr Spa Hk Swe Hk Uae Fr Fr Fr Fr Fr Usa Usa Qtr Fr Swe Fr Spa Ity Swe Hk Hk Qtr Uae Hk Usa Usa Spa Fr Ity Uae Qtr Uae Qtr Fr Usa Qtr Uae Qtr Swe Qtr Uae Usa Fr Hk Uae Hk Swe Spa Usa Usa

Date 11/1/12 22/1/12 06/1/12 22/1/12 15/1/12 29/1/12 29/1/12 03/2/12 18/1/12 04/1/12 13/1/12 14/1/12 14/1/12 05/2/12 06/2/12 15/1/12 27/1/12 27/1/12 10/2/12 31/1/12 12/1/12 11/2/12 12/1/12 13/1/12 20/1/12 26/1/12 26/1/12 27/1/12 03/2/12 23/1/12 08/2/12 25/1/12 26/1/12 20/1/12 26/1/12 15/1/12 11/2/12 30/1/12 29/1/12 13/1/12 18/1/12 11/1/12 08/1/12 13/1/12 27/1/12 27/1/12 15/1/12 19/1/12 05/2/12 26/1/12 29/1/12 03/2/12 26/1/12 20/1/12 28/1/12 22/1/12 08/1/12 29/1/12 21/1/12 12/1/12 10/2/12 26/1/12 16/1/12 14/1/12 08/2/12 26/1/12 09/2/12 08/2/12 09/2/12 08/1/12 04/2/12 15/1/12 12/2/12 05/2/12 15/1/12 25/1/12 09/2/12 26/1/12 21/1/12 15/1/12 04/2/12 29/1/12 14/1/12 12/2/12 21/1/12 26/1/12 03/2/12 26/1/12 10/2/12 20/1/12 02/2/12 13/1/12 08/2/12 22/1/12 08/2/12 03/2/12 07/2/12 20/1/12 21/1/12 20/1/12 08/1/12 29/1/12 15/1/12 14/1/12 04/2/12

Racecourse Happy Valley Taby Taipa Dos Hermanas Santa Anita Taby Turf Paradise Meydan Al Rayyan Happy Valley Santa Anita Taipa Marseille Pont De Vivaux Taby Marseille Pont De Vivaux Neuss Jebel Ali Jebel Ali Turf Paradise Pau Santa Anita Santa Anita Meydan Jebel Ali Meydan Meydan Meydan Jebel Ali Meydan Cagnes-Sur-Mer Cagnes-Sur-Mer Al Rayyan Cagnes-Sur-Mer Meydan Meydan Taby Tampa Bay Downs Cagnes-Sur-Mer Dos Hermanas Pau Cagnes-Sur-Mer Happy Valley Kranji Jebel Ali Jebel Ali Pau Taby Al Rayyan Taby Santa Anita Dortmund Meydan Warwick Farm Meydan Pau Dos Hermanas Sha Tin Taby Sha Tin Meydan Pau Cagnes-Sur-Mer Cagnes-Sur-Mer Marseille Pont De Vivaux Cagnes-Sur-Mer Turf Paradise Santa Anita Al Rayyan Marseille Pont De Vivaux Taby Cagnes-Sur-Mer Vila Seca Pisa Taby Sha Tin Sha Tin Al Rayyan Meydan Sha Tin Golden Gate Golden Gate Dos Hermanas Marseille Pont De Vivaux Pisa Meydan Al Rayyan Meydan Al Rayyan Pau Santa Anita Al Rayyan Jebel Ali Al Rayyan Taby Al Rayyan Meydan Charles Town Cagnes-Sur-Mer Sha Tin Meydan Sha Tin Taby Dos Hermanas Gulfstream Park Golden Gate

Distance 1m55y 6f165y 6f110y 1m3f 1m 1m 1m 1m6f11y 6f 6f 6f 6f 7f110y 1m4f 7f110y 7f110y 6f 5f 6f 7f110y 1m2f 1m2f 1m2f 1m 1m 1m1f110y 7f 1m 1m 2m 7f110y 6f 1m2f 1m1f 6f 1m 1m 1m2f 1m2f110y 7f110y 1m 1m1f 6f 1m1f165y 1m 1m4f 1m4f 7f110y 1m2f 6f 6f 5f 1m4f 1m3f 7f110y 6f110y 1m 1m4f 7f 6f 7f 1m4f 1m2f 7f110y 7f110y 1m 1m1f 7f 7f110y 6f165y 1m2f 1m110y 1m165y 6f 1m 6f 5f110y 1m2f 1m55y 6f 6f 1m 1m5f 1m 1m3f 1m1f55y 1m 1m 1m1f165y 6f 1m110y 6f 6f 1m4f 6f 7f 6f 1m 7f 1m2f 1m 1m2f 1m 1m1f 1m

Prize-money (£) 31,983 2,341 15,711 10,000 10,065 2,808 2,234 58,412 5,578 24,875 22,452 9,426 5,833 2,808 5,417 2,500 11,640 6,349 2,112 6,250 22,452 58,065 (Gr2) 46,730 7,407 77,883 (Gr2) 42,835 46,730 6,349 97,354 (L) 8,333 5,833 4,057 6,667 58,412 42,835 2,808 6,735 9,583 7,500 8,333 12,083 113,716 (L) 17,317 52,910 (L) 52,910 (L) 6,667 2,340 5,578 2,340 22,452 2,167 68,148 40,000 (L) 42,835 6,250 3,333 31,983 2,340 24,875 46,730 8,333 6,250 9,583 5,833 7,917 3,097 22,452 7,100 5,833 2,340 7,917 2,675 3,333 2,808 56,858 42,643 7,100 58,412 24,875 2,981 4,026 4,167 6,667 5,000 9,735 5,071 46,730 4,057 5,833 11,613 4,057 9,523 7,100 3,745 7,100 38,941 4,258 10,417 31,983 58,412 24,875 2,808 3,750 7,742 12,581

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