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Plus • Bjorn Nielsen’s Derby dream for Kingsdown Stables • New columnist Richard Edmondson on Aintree ire • Celebrating 50 years of Doncaster Bloodstock Sales

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15 April Furner’s Green DYLAN THOMAS won Leopardstown 2,000 Guineas Trial Stakes-Gr.3. 15 April Homecoming Queen HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR won Leopardstown 1,000 Guineas Trial Stakes-Gr.3.

HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR 15 April Amarillo won Preis der Dreijahrigen-L.R. by 7 lengths. ROCK OF GIBRALTAR 10 April Europa Point (Ire) won a Group 1 at Turffontein by 3½ lengths. 8 April

HIGH CHAPARRAL Baisse won Vanjura-Oster-Stutenpreis-L.R. on her first outing in Germany.

7 April

The Reaper won Cork Stakes-L.R.

25 Mar

DANEHILL DANCER Chrysanthemum won Park Express Stakes-Gr.3 at the Curragh.

20 Mar

ROCK OF GIBRALTAR Starlish won Prix de la Porte de Madrid-L.R. at Saint-Cloud.

10 Mar

Mikhail Glinka won Dubai City of Gold-Gr.2.

10 Mar

PEINTRE CELEBRE Celebrissime won Prix Altipan-L.R. at Saint-Cloud by 4 lengths.

9 Mar

Russian Rock won Jebel Ali Sprint-L.R.

26 Feb

STRATEGIC PRINCE Tones won Baffle Stakes-L.R. at Santa Anita.

11 Jan

FOOTSTEPSINTHESAND Pure Champion won January Cup-Gr.3 at Happy Valley.

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Furner’s Green (DYLAN THOMAS)

Celebrissime (PEINTRE CELEBRE)

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Arguments over safety at Aintree set to run and run

he jumps season may have all but run its course, however we can be sure that the torrent of criticism that spewed out after this year’s Grand National will continue to flow for some time yet. As the home of the world’s most famous horserace, the media spotlight is always ready to shine brightly on Aintree in April. The potential for tragedy that inevitably exists gives sensationalists the opportunity to deliver a withering assessment of the National, which is exactly what happened following the heartbreaking deaths of Synchronised and According To Pete. That this year’s fatalities included a Cheltenham Gold Cup winner meant the level of vitriol directed at Liverpool’s showpiece was higher than usual and, disappointingly, became the focus of many media reports. This was a real pity, as the thrilling battle between Neptune Collonges and Sunnyhillboy, resulting in the closest finish in the race’s history, deserved far better coverage. So what now for the National, a sporting event that divides opinion like no other? Our new columnist, Richard Edmondson, is steadfast in his own beliefs and nails his colours to the mast in defence of the event. “You either consider it a glorious expression of the sporting spirit, the ultimate commentary on the courage of man and beast in cohesion. Or you think it is an abattoir,” he says (page 27). “This is the great problem. The twain shall never meet. “If the National became a great, long stampede without peril and one where we could promise almost all would survive, we would have to call it something else. The Cesarewitch is my call, but I’m open to suggestions.” The BHA has an unenviable role in having to handle this situation. Derided by those who love the National and lament previous changes to the race, and also by those who want it banned, appeasement will be the policy, yet it is almost impossible to achieve.

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With this year’s National producing so much negative publicity for racing, it was heartening to hear that Frankel, the colt who has generated so many positive headlines for the sport, will race on as a four-year-old this year after recovering from a minor tendon injury. Reports on Twitter that Khalid Abdullah’s superstar had been retired proved, thankfully, wide of the mark and the unbeaten son of Galileo is being primed for a return to the racecourse. Should Frankel make the field for the Lockinge Stakes at Newbury on May 19, his initial target before injury intervened, he may just find a certain Michael Hills trying to get him beat. Now 49 and the senior inhabitant of the weighing room, with a CV that features almost 150 Pattern race wins including the Derby on Shaamit, Hills starts this Flat season without one old foe in opposition, his twin brother Richard having retired after the Dubai World Cup in March. The two had their first rides on the same day in 1979. “Richard went to Windsor and I went to Nottingham,” Hills tells Julian Muscat (pages 42-46). “Charlie Nelson put us up because dad wouldn’t give either of us a ride. He said we were too light. “I asked Richard how it went for him and he said he’d been smacked in the face by a big clump of turf. He didn’t really enjoy it, whereas I just pulled mine out and we sailed past Bryn Crossley [and won]. It was magic.” With Barry Hills having stepped down from the training ranks last year, it is up to son Charlie to continue the family tradition at Faringdon Place Stables, and Hills has some words of advice for his younger brother as he embarks on his first full season with a licence. “Charlie has lots of his own ideas but he has to remember that he has taken over a fantastic set-up, with great staff,” he says. “He will gradually put his own print on it as he goes, but he won’t disturb a winning formula.”

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CONTENTS MAY 2012

42 NEWS & VIEWS 7

ROA Leader

48 FEATURES 16

TBA Leader

News

Changes Your monthly round-up

Foundation Mares Talking To... Owner/breeder Bjorn Nielsen

Milczarek appeal joy

COVER STORY Michael Hills This twin’s career is still alive

DBS: 50 of the best Half-century up for sales house

A Wind Is Rising

Threat of infectious diseases

Big Picture Aintree and Meydan

BBC a big loss to racing

Breeders’ Digest Gerald Leigh’s influence

Sales Circuit Kempton’s breeze-up

Flashback El Gran Senor’s Guineas

Tony Morris Premature loss of Montjeu

NEW! Richard Edmondson Not ashamed of the National

INTERNATIONAL SCENE 31

View From Ireland Industry contraction

Continental Tales Hot Hickst

Around The Globe US fatalities in the spotlight

Daryl Jacob celebrates Grand National glory on Neptune Collonges: Big Picture pgs. 16-23

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ROA LEADER

RACHEL HOOD President Racehorse Owners Association

Channel 4’s racing deal leaves questions aplenty Value of terrestrial coverage cannot be expressed in monetary terms alone

very time we are told by racecourses and media people that the recent four-year Channel 4 rights deal for the exclusive terrestrial coverage of racing is good for the sport, a little voice from somewhere continues to ask, ‘Are you sure?’ Certainly, you can’t argue with the commercial justification, if the reported £15 million that Channel 4 has paid for the rights is somewhere near the mark. Neither are these doubts related to the quality of Channel 4’s coverage. Of course, there are many contrasting views as to which channel puts on the best coverage and to the merits of the commentators they employ. But nobody can question Channel 4’s support of racing over the years or their sincerity in wanting to make improvements. The doubts remain because of less tangible reasons. They are there because many of us share an ingrained instinct that when an event is covered by the BBC it is something special. As Edward Rosenthal wrote in last month’s magazine, “having your product on the BBC gives it an appeal and gravitas that no other channel has matched”. The value attached to BBC coverage may be difficult to express in monetary terms but it remains hugely important and valued. It is connected with a unique ‘Britishness’ about certain events in our sporting calendar, whether it is Wimbledon, the boat race or Royal Ascot. Nobody else in the world can quite replicate the flavour and atmosphere of events like these and an essential part of this mix is coverage by the ‘Beeb’. Racing losing its links with the BBC is exactly that, a loss, and potentially robs it of something that it will almost certainly never be able to get back. We should also recognise that racing on terrestrial TV is the sport’s most effective shop window. More people have been introduced to racing through television than by any other means. There are people who have never been racing who will watch it

regularly on TV. There are people who have never been into a betting shop and who have hardly ever had a bet who still get great pleasure from horseracing via the television. A casual interest to begin with can convert into a lifelong following. The BBC, with its higher audience figures, attracts a wider cross section of people. Those who might not specifically set out to watch the Grand National or Derby might first see these events on TV as casual viewers but then become regular viewers. It is the BBC, with its ad-free continuous coverage, that is better placed to work this piece of magic. But now the deal is done, Racecourse Media Group must focus on a number of important issues not just on behalf of the racecourses they represent but for the whole sport. One hopes, for example, that Channel 4’s selection of the production company which produces the programmes will ensure that the quality of the programmes is paramount. Then there is the issue of advertising. Concern has been expressed about the nature of advertising during Royal Ascot week and how this must not be allowed to impair the status of the event, while, more generally, a careful eye needs to be kept on the increasing blurring of the division between advertising and editorial content. Income from bookmaker advertising might be important but a more pronounced line needs to be drawn. And lastly, while four years may seem a long time, if the BBC walks away for good, where, we must ask, will the competitive tension come from to ensure that next time round racing retains some bargaining power? At face value the new deal with Channel 4 is good for racing – especially as the Levy Board would surely now reject any request for the continuation of its current near-£1m subsidy. However, the prospect of jam today but scraps tomorrow continues to make us very unsure.

“Will racing retain

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TBA LEADER

KIRSTEN RAUSING Chairman Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association

Infectious diseases pose serious threat to racing Message about biosecurity must be reiterated to sport horse breeders

he continued decline in prize-money, if not robustly addressed, may eventually result in the slow death of our sport and livelihoods. However, only an outbreak of a severe equine disease has the potential to stop racing and breeding immediately, offering little or no time to avoid the outcome. To all those racing executives who are about to turn away and leave such concerns to the ‘vets and other bodies’, I would just ask that you check your risk management policies and see if you cannot improve upon your own biosecurity measures, perhaps also support the valuable disease surveillance work of the Animal Health Trust? It is the AHT’s experts to whom we will turn in the event of a disease outbreak which has the potential to stop racing. Thankfully, we have not witnessed an outbreak of fatal diseases such as Equine Infectious Anaemia or African Horse Sickness in Britain. We have to put our faith in the strict regulations which protect Europe from diseases of such magnitude and in our climate which, to date, has not harboured the vectors which carry infection – but for how long will this continue? We are all at risk from diseases which are brought to the UK from mainland Europe, via the often indiscriminate breeding practices adopted by nonthoroughbred breeders. In April, DEFRA confirmed the isolation of Taylorella equigenitalis (the Contagious Equine Metritis organism) from an asymptomatic 16-year-old thoroughbred mare in Gloucestershire who, according to her owner, has never been covered by a thoroughbred stallion and has never been pregnant, but was unsuccessfully inseminated with semen from a non-thoroughbred stallion in 2011. The only other horse on the mare owner’s premises is a nine-year-old non-thoroughbred mare that is reported to have been previously neither covered, nor inseminated, yet samples taken confirm that she is also positive and, therefore, may have been laterally contaminated. DEFRA has confirmed that all positive horses are under

official breeding restrictions, and must be treated and tested according to the Horserace Betting Levy Board’s Codes of Practice before these restrictions will be lifted, underlining the power that DEFRA wields in protecting our equine industry. These codes are designed to help maintain freedom from CEM and other important equine infectious diseases. After more than 30 years of consistent use in the UK they have proved highly successful. More needs to be done to educate the nonthoroughbred sector, members of which are largely ignorant of the wider-scale effects of biosecurity shortcomings. Witness not only threats to the breeding industry from CEM, but also to racing, caused by influenza or strangles outbreaks in the random local equine population. These too have the potential to stop equine movement and cancel racedays. Fortunately, there is no evidence to suggest that this outbreak involves the UK’s thoroughbred breeding industry, where the application of the codes is standard practice. The concern for all of us is the apparent disregard for the codes within the nonthoroughbred breeding sector in the UK and particularly across Europe. The 2012 TBA Seminar will revisit equine infectious diseases but I fear we will be preaching to the converted and it is members of the sport and leisure horse breeding industry, who rely heavily on the practice of artificial insemination, which features in this latest outbreak, and also in the much larger outbreak in the USA in 2011. Ironically, a recent issue of Horse & Hound magazine was almost entirely devoted to sport horse breeding, yet not once did the stallion studs concerned promote or advise potential clients that they adhere to the Codes of Practice. These were studs operating at the forefront of nonthoroughbred breeding. In view of the recent CEM outbreak in Gloucestershire, their attitude is indeed alarming to all breeders mindful of biosecurity.

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NEWS Stories from the racing world

Milczarek’s two-year ban lifted BHA Integrity Director Paul Scotney is standing by the decision to include Kirsty Milczarek’s ‘blindfold race’ at Lingfield as one of ten in a corruption case that ended with her receiving a two-year ban, despite the jockey’s penalty being quashed on appeal. Milczarek, 31, was one of 11 people found in breach of the rules in December after a two-year investigation. She had been found guilty on the basis of circumstantial evidence relating to phone calls between her and James Crickmore, who was warned off in the same case, with the panel believing she had deliberately taken off Obe Gold’s hood too early in the stalls, an action which the panel decided had compromised her chances. However, the appeal board found there was insufficient evidence to back up the initial decision to disqualify Milczarek. Although barred from race-riding for four months, it is understood Milczarek will have no recourse to legal action for such as loss

By Chairman Paul Dixon As the Flat season gets into gear, most horsemen will be focussed on the challenges ahead for their horses and yards. Where to run first; what trip suits; how will the weather affect the ground? I see this daily bustle more than ever as, with my son now a licensed trainer, the Dixon family – as owners and breeders already – now performs three of the five roles performed by horsemen (unlikely to become jockeys anytime soon, I fear!) Amidst all this, a recent announcement by

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Jockey can resume riding after corruption verdict is quashed on appeal

Kirsty Milczarek was banned in December after an investigation into race-fixing

inquiry, on the basis of betting patterns surrounding the contest. “We accept the decision of the Appeal Board to allow the appeal of Kirsty Milczarek,” Scotney explained. “It is the role of the Appeal Board to consider such appeals and additional evidence when presented. However, we stand by the original decision to include the race as one of the ten under scrutiny on account of the extraordinary betting patterns and the pattern of communication around the race.”

of earnings or reputation, as the BHA has a robust position in this regard. Milczarek was naturally keen to draw a line under the episode, telling At The Races: “I’ve kept very fit and I started eventing. I hunted all winter and I’ve thrown everything into my horses at home and I’ve been schooling. “The heaviest I got was 8st 8lb and I was 8st 4lb the last time I rode. I’m back down to eight three and a half which is brilliant.” Scotney, meanwhile, defended the inclusion of the Lingfield contest in the corruption

the Horsemen’s Group could easily have escaped attention – but it should not. Leicester racecourse has decided that it will increase its commitment to sustainable prize-money for the 2012 season, becoming a Horsemen’s Group Partner Racecourse in the process. To do so, Leicester will meet tariff in 90% of races or more, maintain an executive contribution of 50% of total prize-money and contribute a total average executive contribution of £20,888 per fixture. Leicester and the HG have had a somewhat chequered history. When the tariff system was announced last year, Leicester was the most vocal racecourse opponent of the scheme. Despite being a profitable track, Chairman Nick Lees, in a series of interviews with the media, declared that even if Leicester could pay sustainable prize-money (as defined by the

HG), it would not. Owners and trainers voted with their feet as a result, with the Midlands track enduring a series of small fields, including a walkover and the first race abandoned for lack of runners in modern racing history. If not unexpected by the HG – we were made very aware by trainers what they thought of the situation – it was a little unfair on Leicester to end up looking as if it had been singled out. Lees had only voiced publicly what many racecourses still believed: that every other outgoing a racecourse has to address, from shareholder dividends, to infrastructure improvements, to salaries, is more important than paying sustainable prize-money, and horsemen would turn up, whatever. Last summer exploded this latter contention, with a grudging acceptance by

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BHA backtrack over laying to lose

Paul Scotney: rule is unnecessary

Consignor turns to art promotion Andrew Mead, a partner and Director of Europe’s largest consigning business, the Castlebridge Consignment, is taking a gallery just off Park Lane in London to showcase the talent of Venezuelan artist Enrique Gonzalez. “I first came across Enrique’s works in Kentucky and was immediately impressed by them,” said Mead. “He’s a colourful and original painter and, whilst he paints equine scenes, I personally

those tracks that had resisted tariffs that there could be a concrete downside for them, in terms of reduced field sizes. Gradually, though, racecourses are also coming to understand that even they – and the bookmakers, too – are affected by degrading the finances of the industry they depend on to make their profits. If the horse population decreases, it becomes ever harder to fill races, and justify the size of the fixture list. Since a large fixture list is to the benefit of racecourses and bookmakers, there is a direct link to their future prosperity. Ultimately, this is one of the main raisons d’etre of the Horsemen’s Group: to convince our external stakeholders (the BHA, racecourses, bookmakers) that sustainable prize-money is crucial to all parties, not just owners. At the heart of this argument is the question

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The BHA has concluded that a proposed rule to prevent owners from placing lay bets on horses in the same yard in which they have a horse in training is unnecessary, and the rule will not therefore be implemented. The ROA Council made representation against the change when the rule was due to be introduced last November. A decision was postponed due to concerns about the likelihood of unknowing “technical” breaches of the rule through the use of automated betting software.

prefer his seascapes and coastal views. There will be over 30 of the painter’s best works in the London exhibition for a week towards the end of May.” Asked about the departure from his regular duties of running the Castlebridge Consignment, Mead said: “I’ve always had a strong interest in art and have in recent years sold paintings with Christie’s in Hong Kong and at exhibitions in London. “Promoting Enrique Gonzalez and running an exhibition is something of a learning curve but I’m very happy with the way it’s progressing. We have an opening charity night for a London children’s hospice followed by a major corporate sponsor on the second evening. “Fortunately this is all happening in May; I don’t think I would be doing this in the middle of the October yearling sales!” Enrique Gonzalez at 54 The Gallery, Shepherd Market, London, runs May 21-26.

of whether the trainers’ and breeders’ customer base are ‘price sensitive’. Do we, as owners, partially base our decision on whether to have horses in training on how expensive the overall

“Racecourses are

finally understanding that they have to become competitive” cost is (purchase of horse and training fees, minus prize-money)? Bizarrely, the case put forward by some racecourses, bookmakers and journalists in the

The BHA has carried out further consultation, in particular with Betfair, and concluded that the rule is unnecessary. Under the current rules, the BHA is allowed to take action against any owner abusing their position by using inside information to lay horses to lose. Paul Scotney, Director of Integrity Services, Compliance and Licensing at the BHA, said: “Each case will be looked at on its merits and, where there is evidence of such conduct, disciplinary action may be taken under the current rules.”

Colourful: an example of Gonzalez’s art

past has been that owners – being supposedly ‘rich men’ – are not price sensitive. But if that were the case, a racecourse would treble the cost of corporate boxes and bookmakers would double their margins for high-staking punters, on the basis that the wealthy don’t care about cost. The reality, of course, is that we all – racecourses, bookmakers and horsemen – have to exist in a competitive world. If owning a horse becomes 20% more expensive, there are plenty of other fun ways for a potential owner to spend his disposable income. Leicester racecourse’s welcome decision to become a partner of the Horsemen’s Group is the latest indication that, thanks to the HG’s determination, racecourses are understanding this at last, paving the way to a more united and constructive future for racing.

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NEWS

GEORGE SELWYN

Montjeu’s untimely death a blow to European breeders

Montjeu and Mick Kinane after winning the 1999 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe

European breeding suffered a major loss on March 29 with the death of Coolmore stallion Montjeu from septicaemia. The son of Sadler’s Wells retired to stud in 2001 and over the last decade had become established as one of the world’s elite sires, eclipsed only in Europe by his stablemate Galileo, who routinely enjoyed greater patronage than his paternal half-brother. Having started covering at a fee of IR£30,000, he was an instant success as a stallion with his first-crop son Motivator winning the Racing Post Trophy before becoming his sire’s first Classic winner in the 2005 Derby. That same season he also sired the Irish Derby and Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner Hurricane Run, St Leger winner Scorpion and Prix de Conseil de Paris-winning filly Montare, who would go on to add the Group 1 Prix Royal-Oak to her list of achievements. Since 2005, Montjeu has been responsible for three Derby winners – Authorized and last year’s winner Pour Moi having added to Motivator’s early success – and three Irish Derby winners, with Fame And Glory and Frozen Fire following Hurricane Run. He also has a superb record in the Racing Post

Trophy with last year’s winner Camelot being the fourth Montjeu-sired winner of the race after Motivator, Authorized and St Nicholas Abbey. In his early days at stud, Montjeu shuttled to Windsor Park Stud in New Zealand, completing four seasons there. Despite a

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Derby winners and his candidates for this season’s Classics include Camelot” general perception that his offspring were ‘wet-trackers’ (soft-ground horses) and thus generally not suited for the Australian export market, he has nevertheless left a resounding legacy in the southern hemisphere, with Nom Du Jeu and Tavistock among his six sons at stud in New Zealand. His Group 1

winners in Australia include the AJC Derby winners Roman Emperor and the aforementioned Nom Du Jeu, Emirates Stakes winner Wall Street and the Britishbred Speed Gifted. In his column this month, bloodstock expert Tony Morris pays tribute to Montjeu, saying: “He confounded the doubters and surpassed the expectations of even his keenest supporters by establishing himself as a top ranking sire who transmitted his abundant class to his progeny. “The breeding industry has lost one of its giants, whose record over the eight completed seasons in which he has been represented on the racecourse outpaced that of his sire at the same stage of his career.” As a racehorse, Montjeu was as enigmatic as he was brilliant and towards the end of his career he had to be cajoled into entering the parade ring on several occasions. Bred by Sir James Goldsmith from the Groupwinning Top Ville mare Floripedes, he won 11 of his 16 starts under the care of John Hammond in Chantilly, including the Prix du Jockey-Club, Irish Derby and Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe. By the end of his threeyear-old season he had been beaten just twice, when runner-up in the now defunct Prix Lupin and fourth in the Japan Cup. Staying in training at four, he annexed three Group 1s, the Tattersalls Gold Cup, Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, the lastnamed providing what many present that day believed to be his most imperious performance. Montjeu enjoyed one of his best seasons at stud last year, with his top-level winners including Masked Marvel in the St Leger, the same day that Jukebox Jury dead-heated for the Irish St Leger, Fame And Glory in the Ascot Gold Cup, and Irish-bred fillies Miss Keller and Sarah Lynx in North America. His candidates for this season’s Classics include Camelot and his stablemate Wading, and Montjeu also features as the broodmare sire of last season’s Dewhurst winner Parish Hall and French Group 2 winner Restiadargent, both of whom have strong Classic claims. ● Tony Morris on Montjeu, pages 24-25 THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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Jockey decides to switch codes and will ride on the Flat in 2012; he won the 2004 Grand National on Amberleigh House for trainer Ginger McCain Fife-based trainer announces she will retire at the end of the jumps season and become assistant to neighbour Nick Alexander Lord Derby’s plan to build up to 1,200 new homes in Newmarket is finally defeated after the Secretary of State rejects his appeal Former jockey is declared bankrupt owing more than £80,000 to the BHA Launch of Britain’s first professional female jockeys’ championship sponsored by information technology business Prolinx Jockey set to be on sidelines for a period of months after experiencing dizziness, preventing him from driving and riding New charity established to handle the £90 million share, paid in instalments, from the sale of the Tote Takes the all-weather jockeys’ championship at the expense of Luke Morris Owner/breeder puts his 116-acre Stetchworth Park Estate near Newmarket on the market for £11m; his breeding stock will move to Dullingham Ley Prize fund for this year’s meeting will rise by £715,000 to £4.5m; the Gold Cup is one of four races to rise in value by £100,000, to £350,000 Trainer purchases 65-box Whitcoombe House Stables in Lambourn from Charlie Mann but won’t move from his current base in Compton until October Coral extends sponsorship of Sandown’s Group 1 race for a further three years Lambourn-based handler decides to quit training for financial reasons and become assistant to owner/breeder Martin Meade Runner-up in the 2009 apprentice championship in Ireland named first jockey to trainer Michael Halford Jockey banned for two years following race-fixing trial in December is successful in her appeal and free to return to race-riding Upwardly mobile jumps trainer set to move to Conkwell Grange Stables near Bath having been at Sunnyside Stables in Devon since May 2010 Historic race at ROA Gold Standard track Hamilton Park to be sponsored by Ladbrokes for a further three years Top Italian jockey begins new chapter in his career by moving to Britain Body responsible for selling British and Irish racing to overseas broadcasters agrees deals with companies in Canada and Denmark

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Sire of Blue Bunting, Lucarno and Barbaro retired by Three Chimneys Farm at the age of 27 Group 1-winning son of Arakan, standing his first season at the National Stud, will shuttle to Mungrup Stud in Western Australia, home to Hala Bek Last year’s Preakness Stakes hero will retire to Darby Dan Farm in Kentucky in 2013; the son of Forestry will continue to race this season Coolmore’s Derby-winning son of Montjeu to shuttle to Windsor Park Stud in New Zealand Dual Group 1 winner in Italy joins Ed Dunlop from Vittorio Caruso with a view to running in the Melbourne Cup for his new Australian owners High class middle distance performer for Mike de Kock, winner of the 2010 Grade 1 Durban July Handicap, is retired to Ascot Stud in South Africa Coolmore confirm that the eight-time Group 1 winner will retire this summer in order to begin his stallion career in Australia Lanwades stallion to shuttle to Haras Arroyo de Luna and Haras La Quebrada in Argentina for the southern hemisphere season along with Archipenko South African champion and leading international performer to join Coolmore Australia stallion roster Grand National winner is immediately retired by his connections; State Of Play, winner of the 2006 Hennessy Gold Cup, is also retired after Aintree

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Above: Daryl Jacob can sense the biggest win of his career as Neptune Collonges jumps the final fence behind Seabass (Katie Walsh) and Sunnyhillboy (Richie McLernon). Left: John Hales’s gallant grey edges out Sunnyhillboy by a nose in a pulsating finish. It was the narrowest margin of victory in the contest’s history, with Seabass’s third place the highest ever finish for a woman rider. Champion trainer Paul Nicholls was saddling his first Grand National winner at the 53rd attempt, while owner Hales had never previously had a runner in the race

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THE BIG PICTURE

Main image: The Stewart Familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ace, Big Buckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, becomes the first horse ever to win 17 races in succession over jumps with his fourth straight victory in the Liverpool Hurdle. Above: Follow The Plan causes a 50-1 upset in the Betfair Bowl under Tom Doyle (left), while the Peter Bowen-trained Always Waining records his third win in the Topham Chase

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THE BIG PICTURE

City sparkles The Roger Charlton-trained Cityscape lights up Dubai World Cup night with a stunning performance in the Dubai Duty Free, giving jockey James Doyle his first triumph at the highest level; Khalid Abdullahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s charge could head to the Lockinge on May 19 Photos George Selwyn

Top: Mickael Barzalona gives his now customary salute after taking the Dubai World Cup aboard Monterosso. Above: Cirrus des Aigles and Olivier Peslier land the Dubai Sheema Classic for trainer Corine Barande-Barbe

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THE MAN YOU CAN’T IGNORE COMMENT

Tony Morris The breeding industry has suffered a setback with the death of Montjeu, the Derby sire ‘par excellence’ whose record suggests he could even have surpassed his famous father

GEORGE SELWYN

he coming of spring is popularly supposed to inspire a renewal of positive and optimistic thoughts, but in these islands, in our little world of racing, it has brought instead an unwelcome dose of gloom this year. Before March was out we lost one of our – and the world’s – outstanding sires in Montjeu. In mid-April the National Hunt game suffered, for the second successive year, the deaths of two runners in the Grand National, the sport’s highest-profile event, a disaster that could only swell the numbers of those who seek the suppression of the race and even of all racing over jumps. In addition, with the new Flat season barely under way, doubts were cast over the principal reason for relishing its return, namely Frankel. At the time of going to press he had just been given the all-clear to return to training after an injury scare. Let’s hope everything now goes to plan with the world’s top-rated horse. Tennyson did not have racing in mind when he wrote that “we needs must love the highest when we see it,” but the remark is certainly applicable to racegoers, who love nothing better than the sight of a champion in action. And when we recognise one, we greedily want to see him or her as often as possible. It’s much the same where the top sires are concerned. We appreciate those who regularly supply the leading performers, depend on them to deliver quality year after year, and acknowledge their contribution to our enjoyment of the sport. It wasn’t necessary to be a shareholder in Sadler’s Wells to relish the success he generated over more than two decades; the profusion of outstanding runners that came from him was a source of wonder and delight to every ordinary racegoer. Having been conspicuously successful at stud at the outset of his career, and strikingly consistent in the production of high-calibre sons thereafter, Sadler’s Wells was naturally expected to establish an important male-line dynasty, so it was surprising that he was represented by champion sires in South Africa (Fort Wood) and North America (El Prado)

Class act: Montjeu was an exceptional racehorse and an outstanding stallion

before any threatened to claim a title in Europe. While intending no disrespect to the likes of In The Wings and Barathea, who both compiled good records, neither was ever going to come close to emulating his sire. The picture eventually changed, and it was the very best of Sadler’s Wells’s sons on the racecourse who provided the breakthrough. Nobody could doubt that Montjeu deserved that accolade. He was Timeform-rated 137, 5lb higher than his sire, he won 11 of his 16 races over three seasons in training, and only once finished out of the frame. His six Group 1 triumphs came in the Prix du Jockey-Club, the Irish Derby, the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, the Tattersalls Gold Cup, the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud and the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes, his victory in the last-named event registered in a canter, demonstrating his overwhelming superiority. Montjeu’s performances clearly identified him as an exceptional middle-distance runner, effective on any ground and blessed with a

tremendous turn of foot. Those qualities surely gave him licence to achieve great things at stud, yet when he retired to Coolmore in 2001 that was not how everyone assessed his potential.

Stiff competition He began stud duties in the same season as Giant’s Causeway, whom Timeform rated his inferior by 5lb. But whereas the fee for Storm Cat’s son was set at Ir100,000gns, the charge for Montjeu’s services was only 30,000gns. The case presented by the devil’s advocate cited several reasons for the apparent want of faith in his prospects: the suspicion that his pedigree was over-loaded with stamina, the absence of a Pattern victory at two on his cv, the temperamental quirks he had displayed on several occasions, and, not least, the fact that sons of Sadler’s Wells really hadn’t cut the mustard in Europe. Yes, there was always the chance that Montjeu would get plodders with dubious characters for racing, and that wasn’t an argument that might be advanced in the case of THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

Giant’s Causeway; the so-called ‘iron horse’ had six Group 1 wins of his own to flaunt, one of them as a juvenile, and all between seven and ten furlongs. As it turned out, Montjeu was by no means neglected in his first season, receiving 144 mares, but Giant’s Causeway had a book of 181, and was much more keenly supported by his home team. In addition, Montjeu was earmarked for southern hemisphere covering as well, suggesting that Coolmore’s priority was to maximise income from him before his progeny had been tested on the racecourse. The horse who died on March 29 after suffering complications from septicaemia was no sire of plodders. On the contrary, he confounded the doubters and surpassed the expectations of even his keenest supporters by establishing himself as a top-ranking sire who faithfully transmitted his abundant class to his progeny. The breeding industry has lost one of its giants, whose record over the eight completed seasons in which he has been represented on the racecourse outpaced that of his sire at the same stage of his career. As was to be expected, there have been no sprinters among Montjeu’s stock, and precocity was not among their traits. But many have been able to demonstrate their quality by the end of their first season, a point emphasised most strikingly by his four winners of the Racing Post Trophy – Motivator, Authorized, St Nicholas Abbey and Camelot. Others successful at Group 1 level as juveniles include Fame And Glory, Jan Vermeer and Recital. But it is as the Derby sire par excellence that he is most widely recognised. Motivator, Authorized and Pour Moi have triumphed for him at Epsom, Hurricane Run, Frozen Fire and Fame And Glory at The Curragh. To that list we must add Nom du Jeu, the Australian Derby victor, while noting that Camelot heads the ante-post market for Epsom in 2012. Of course, it has to be acknowledged that Galileo, with his progeny’s tally of Pattern races won already in three figures, now outranks Montjeu among the sons of Sadler’s Wells, but Frankel’s sire has had the benefit of larger books and generally better mares. Montjeu has 36 winners of 82 Pattern races to his credit, 31 of those wins coming at Group 1 level, most of them conceived off a fee under €50,000. It is a fair bet that his final tally will reach the century mark; although the crops yet to race lack the numbers typical of his earlier years at stud, they are the products of more distinguished mares. We shall never know what Montjeu might have achieved, granted normal longevity, but the evidence to date confirms his status as a progenitor of the highest class. His influence has been expressed chiefly through his sons, currently headed by Hurricane Run, who emulated him as a rare winner of both the Arc and the King George, but his daughters have lately made a more notable mark, including this year’s Classic hope Wading; her victory in the Group 2 Rockfel Stakes made her his only Pattern scorer in the northern hemisphere at less than a mile. Of Montjeu’s sons at stud only Hurricane Run and Motivator have yet been numerously represented on the racecourse, and neither has so far chalked up a victory at Group 1 level. But with so many other younger sons at stud or due to stand at stud in the years to come, chances are that Montjeu’s impact will extend beyond a single generation.

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RICHARD EDMONDSON COMMENT

Our new columnist believes that, despite this year’s events, making further changes at Aintree would destroy the race as we know it

GEORGE SELWYN

No danger, no National

Thrills and spills: Always Right and James Reveley part company at The Chair

or the Grand National of 2012, I was at Victoria Falls. This was most enjoyable, not least because it allowed me to write an intro which I thought I was never going to use. Obvious connections between racing and the awesome cascades were seemingly hard to find. But then came the realisation that the first European to see them bears almost the same name as a Galileo colt at Ballydoyle. And the feature itself could easily find its way into Jim McGrath’s National commentary. Word about this year’s National soon reached us in Zambia via jungle telegraph, or the internet room at the Royal Livingstone Hotel to be more precise. And it was not good. Neptune Collonges had “bravely” taken the National – as most winners do – but two horses had perished. One of them was Synchronised, who was aiming to become only the second horse to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup and National in the same year. It was what we call in the trade a public relations disaster. People do not sit on the fence about the National, unless they are riding in the race itself that is. You either consider it a glorious THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

expression of the sporting spirit, the ultimate commentary on the courage of man and beast in cohesion. Or you think it’s an abattoir. This is the great problem of the Grand National. The twain shall never meet. In one corner you have the welfare groups, those who will not be happy until the Liverpool horses are jumping over rows of matchboxes

with mattresses on the landing side. In the other corner is the Ginger McCain Tendency. They would have barbed wire and flames on the top of each obstacle and dropoffs akin to jumping into the Grand Canyon (to also drop the name of another geographical masterpiece). If the race is to survive as we know it, the latter group will have to continue to hold sway. For if the National became a great, long stampede without peril and one where we could promise almost all would survive we would have to call it something else. The Cesarewitch is my call, but I’m open to suggestions. A personal feeling is that a United Nations resolution-type answer will be found. We’ll talk a lot about it and nibble at the edge of the dilemma while pretending profound and affirmative action is being taken. That should keep the masses happy. The games will continue. We are not as long out of the colosseum as we like to believe. Most of us prefer to watch Mike Tyson fighting rather than Mike Tyson collecting stamps. Only the other day I was reminded of this when my offspring dragged me to the cinema to watch The Hunger Games, which, to paraphrase gently, was about gangs of children killing each other in a game with food as the first prize. They’ll probably think Becher’s Brook is a little tame.

Locked out and lonely in Liverpool As we have just been reminded, terrible things happen at the Grand National meeting. Who can forget the year of 1999 and Bobbyjo when myself and other members of the press pack took rooms at the Devonshire Park Hotel? After a professionals’ night of discussing form and probability we retired to our lodgings. With matters pressing, I woke in the night to go to the bathroom and opened my eyes only when the latch clicked. But I was not in the bathroom. I was in an area they call the corridor. And I was not in pyjamas, rather my birthday suit.

I took the brave man’s route straight down the inner to reception, dodging quickly between plant pots to hide my embarrassment. My rather unsympathetic colleagues later asked if these had been bonsai. There are few certainties at the National, but one guarantee was the look on the receptionist’s face as I strode boldly to the desk and asked for a replacement key. I had been seriously amateurish in my behaviour, but Miss Reception did not make the same mistake. She kept steady eye contact throughout. I have not seen her again since.

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THE FOUNDATION MARES By JEREMY EARLY

A WIND IS RISING Though her own breeding is modest, her daughters, including It’s In The Air, have joined the broodmare bands of some of the biggest breeders of the modern era

GEORGE SELWYN

he names of the mares dealt with in this series so far will have been familiar to just about everyone, but that is unlikely to be the case with A Wind Is Rising. A check via any internet search engine turns up just a handful of references to her, only one of which describes her as an ‘elite’ mare. Yet she is a rare bird indeed as ancestress of nine winners of 22 Group/Grade 1 races including six Classics – another top event was lost in the stewards’ room – with 11 second places at that level also featuring on the scoresheet. Uniquely, the winners include five bred by three of the modern giants of the bloodstock industry – Robert Sangster, Maktoum Al Maktoum and Sheikh Mohammed – among them Balanchine. Clearly the bushel that has tended to cover this bright light needs to be removed. The story begins in 1969 when A Wind Is Rising was foaled. She was not exactly bred in the purple. Her sire was Francis S, a son of Royal Charger who had been a good three-year-old in 1960 but was not a great stallion, out of a mare who foaled 11 winners, only one of them in stakes company. That was Native Royalty, smart at around a mile and successful in the Carter Handicap. A Wind Is Rising, who was bred 3 x 3 to Nearco, won in minor company and was not a great producer at stud despite being mated with such sires as Raise A Native and Prince John. The best of her three winners by a wide margin was the filly It’s In The Air; she was by Mr Prospector, who was unheralded and in Florida at that point. It’s In The Air landed 16 races, five of them Grade 1, and was the joint top-rated two-year-old filly of 1978 – not a bad return on the $25,000 she cost as a weanling. She fetched a lot more than that when sold in foal to Seattle Slew at Keeneland in November 1984, knocked down to Darley Stud Management for $4.6 million before joining Maktoum Al Maktoum’s Gainsborough broodmare band. It’s In The Air did reasonably well, foaling nine winners headed by Bitooh (Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte), but it was her daughters who really lit the fuse. One filly, Sous Entendu (by Shadeed), who ran third

Balanchine, the last filly to win the Irish Derby, is A Wind Is Rising’s great grand-daughter

in the Prix de la Grotte, produced Slip Stream, runner-up in the Prix Jean Prat, and Grilse, dam of 2010 Australian Group 1 scorer Alverta, who was bred by

“She is a rare bird indeed as ancestress of nine winners of 22 Group/Grade 1 races, including six Classics” Gainsborough Stud Australia. A second daughter, minor winner Try To Catch Me (by Shareef Dancer), also hit the heights by foaling high-class turf campaigner Storming Home, winner of the Champion

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

Contraction in the training ranks Number of licences issued drops, with fewer horses and owners to go around

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he training ranks in Ireland are set to be further depleted this year according to the Chief Executive of the Irish Racehorse Trainers Association, Jim Kavanagh. Speaking to a large gathering at the annual Flat awards for 2011, held after the opening day of the turf season in Ireland, he told guests that many among the profession are battling to survive. He said that approximately 415 trainers’ licences are issued each year, but by mid-March only about 350 were issued. “It would be remiss of me not to mention the difficulties facing many of our members as they struggle to survive in the present economic climate,” he said. Speaking to the politicians present, he reminded them of the economic role played by trainers. “We represent close to 400 trainers, all small to medium businesses, some employing two or three workers, and some up to 100 workers,” he said. “They are all selffinanced; they build their stables, barns and hay sheds; they instal gallops, lunging rings and horse walkers. Then there are the ancillary services their horses require, such as veterinary care and feed.” While Kavanagh cited reduced prizemoney, unpaid accounts and problems in securing credit from banks as major factors affecting trainers, the alarming fact is that they have fewer horses to train due to declining numbers of owners. With no inductee to the Hall of Fame this year, the destination of the various trophies at the ceremony was known in advance. Aidan O’Brien topped the tables for champion and

Trainer Aidan O’Brien and jockey Johnny Murtagh were among the award winners

leading trainer (one title based on money won and the other on number of winners). These were his 14th and ninth times to win the respective awards.

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that trainers have fewer horses due to declining numbers of owners” One of O’Brien’s principal backers, Michael Tabor, took the owner award, while Johnny Murtagh was king of the saddle. Joseph

O’Brien, having shared the title with two others a year before, was the sole recipient this time of the apprentice championship. Ger Lyons was honoured for his first Group 1 success with Lightening Pearl, while a trio of trainers had their first Group wins in 2011. They were Andy Oliver, Patrick Prendergast and Pat Fahy. At the awards local politician and racing enthusiast Martin Haydon, deputising for the Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney, revealed that the legislation that will allow the collection of tax from offshore betting is due before the Irish parliament for approval and enactment before July. Also due to see the light of day by the summer will be the Indecon review into the structure, legislation and funding of Irish racing.

Win one of four races this year in Ireland and, subject to being eligible, the wining horse will receive free entry and a travel allowance of $20,000 to compete at the Breeders’ Cup at Santa Anita in November. A free run in the $3 million Breeders’ Cup Turf awaits the winner of the Red Mills Irish Champion Stakes on September 8 at Leopardstown, while a coveted berth in the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf is a carrot for the winner of the Stobart

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Ireland Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh on July 1. The two other challenge races in Ireland are both for juveniles and both are staged at the Curragh. The Moyglare Stud Stakes winner on September 9 is slated for a run in the Juvenile Fillies’ Turf, while the Juvenile Turf could be the target for the Juddmonte Beresford Stakes winner on September 30. Both those Breeders’ Cup races carry a prize fund of $1m.

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Races on the Flat in Ireland have been subjected to an increase in weights following extensive medical research

Dehydration studies lead to weights rise Extensive research has led to some major changes being announced in the weights to be carried by jockeys riding on the Flat in Ireland in 2012. The new changes were introduced just prior to the start of the Flat season on the turf in March. Dr Adrian McGoldrick, the Irish Turf Club’s medical officer, is largely responsible for the changes which come on the heels of research he has pioneered. He cited dehydration as a key factor that has led to the changes being recommended and he also revealed that further work will be carried out as the season goes on.

“I carried out two dehydration studies on Flat jockeys last summer and I found that dehydration was much more severe in apprentices than in fully-fledged jockeys,” he said. “This led me to look at the average weight of our apprentices in recent years and it is averaging between 8st 5lb and 8st 7lb.” Apprentices starting out are expected to claim 10lb off their mounts. Dr McGoldrick would like to see this change. “In the short term I had proposed reducing the apprentice claim to 7lb and setting a general minimum weight below which apprentices couldn’t ride,” he said.

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(596,227), Romania (262,000), Poland (179,552) and Spain (138,929).

Irish figures low in comparison

National Stud’s royal approval

Reacting to the need for accurate figures, and stung by some unwarranted criticism in overseas newspapers – especially in the USA and Germany – the Irish Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association and the Department of Agriculture in Ireland commissioned a study last year to look into the problem of Ireland’s unwanted horses. The study, which covered the years 2005 to 2010, found that “the combined total number of horses found dead or requiring immediate or subsequent euthanasia by welfare groups and local authorities in 2010, the majority of which are by definition low-value horses, was 337 and this must be a major national concern”. Thoroughbred horses, however, account for a tiny percentage of these. While the numbers of horses slaughtered in Ireland is growing, the total for the eightyear period was only 2.1% of the European total at 33,800. Britain’s slaughter rate in this same period was 6.4%, or 101,000. The top four countries by slaughter numbers are Italy

For the second time within a year, the Irish National Stud played host to a royal visitor. In March the Princess Royal followed in her mother’s footsteps and experienced the delights of the stud and gardens. The Princess Royal was visiting Ireland in her role with Riding for the Disabled and she also attended the Ireland versus Scotland rugby match.

Willyconker conquers How do you turn €1,000 into a Grade 1 winner? Well, a good starting point would be to visit Kilmallock, in Co Limerick, and speak with trainer Austin Leahy and his bloodstock agent daughter Susan. The scene for this transformation was set at the first Flat yearling sale staged by Goresbridge Sales in Kilkenny in September 2008. The timing was not so great, with the recession beginning to bite deep. It was a buyer’s market for sure. Susan Leahy liked a racy Pyrus colt consigned for Islanmore Stud (where Snow

The main changes made were as follows: • Weights in two-year-old maidens go up 2lb to 9st 3lb for colts, 8st 12lb for fillies • In single-sex maiden for all ages, weights rise 5lb for colts/geldings to 9st 5lb • Maximum weight in nurseries rises 3lb to 9st 10lb • Lowest weight in conditions and black-type races increases 2lb to 9st • Maximum weight in three-year-old only handicaps rises 2lb to 9st 12lb (to end of June) and 10st (from start of July)

Fairy was born and raised) but she faced no real competition and acquired him for €1,000. Named Willyconker (a compromise to get through the naming department as the colt is called after a Scottish match official with a similar name), he took time to win but, when he did, he promptly did it again. Both his juvenile wins were at Dundalk. Irishman and now American-based trainer Eoin Harty bought him privately and the horse subsequently was sold to Doug O’Neill, who now trains him. He won races, lost form and even ran in a claimer for $25,000. But a resurgence came and after three successive wins he earned a tilt at the Grade 1 Frank E Kilroe Mile at Santa Anita in early March, which he duly won.

New backer for the final Classic The Irish St Leger has a new sponsor. Gain Horse Feeds will take over the mantle from The Irish Field, which has sponsored it for the last nine years. The new sponsors have taken a two-year deal initially and this year’s race will be run on September 15. Recent winners have been guaranteed a place in the Melbourne Cup.

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CONTINENTAL TALES

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By JAMES CRISPE, INTERNATIONAL RACING BUREAU

Zazou joins trainer on the rise The arrival of Ramzan Kadyrov’s Group 1 winner a boost for Waldemar Hickst

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he global reach of the top international races continues to amaze. For instance the recent Dubai World Cup featured a horse – Zazou – owned by the President of one former Soviet republic, Chechnya, and trained by an emigrant from another, Kyrgyzstan. Much has already been written about the President, Ramzan Kadyrov, though most of it in the news pages, as his name has become synonymous with allegations of corruption and human rights abuse. Less is known about the Kyrgyzstani, Waldemar Hickst, despite the fact that he is Germany’s most upwardly mobile trainer who looks destined to become a regular participant in Europe’s top races. Born in December 1963, Hickst had already risen to the top of both riding and training professions when, like so many of his countrymen, he left Kyrgyzstan upon the fall of communism in 1990. As a German speaker it was no surprise that he chose to start a new life in Cologne. He found a job as work rider to trainer Harro Remmert – himself no stranger to mid-life upheavals, having been wheelchairbound since a race fall at Krefeld in 1976. Hickst began to get offered rides only after he

Zazou enjoyed a lucrative trip to Dubai after winning last season’s Premio Roma

partnered the Russian-bred and Slovak-trained Rezon to victory in the Group 2 Grosser Kaufhof Preis at Cologne in 1992. But he never broke into the upper echelons of German jockey ranks and a dozen years and 236 winners later quit the saddle in order to take over the licence from Remmert.

Taylors pay price of tax change The decision of William Haggas to run his Epsom Oaks heroine, Dancing Rain, in the German equivalent last August raised a few eyebrows. Why take the daughter of Danehill Dancer all the way to Dusseldorf and have to cough up a near £35,000 supplementary entry fee for the privilege, when she could have gone to Haggas’s beloved Yorkshire instead to contest the Yorkshire Oaks? But, as usual, the Master of Somerville Lodge’s reasoning looked hard to dispute once his critics were in full possession of the facts. The Preis der Diana was worth more than the York version (more, indeed, than the original Classic itself) and the opposition was less fearsome. Dancing Rain duly collected the German prize but Haggas and owners Martin and Lee Taylor have since suffered a nasty shock when they tried to get hold of the cheque.

Foreign visitors had always previously been able to avoid a swingeing withholding tax that was payable on all prize-money if you were a German taxpayer. However, unbeknown to many, including the Direktorium (German Jockey Club), the rules changed on January 1, 2011 to adhere with a new taxation treaty between Britain and Germany. So, just like all the locals, the Taylors had to pay withholding tax of 15.83%. Suddenly, instead of picking up £198,782 they collected £166,889. The current level of German prize-money is nothing special, especially when compared to France, hence just 29 runners ventured from Britain and Ireland in 2011 – the lowest number of raiders for over 20 years. That figure is set to tumble even further now that withholding tax lops almost a sixth off any prize-money plundered.

The 2006 German Oaks triumph of Almerita got his name on the map and when he reached the 50 winners in a season mark for the first time in 2010 it prompted the arrival of Zazou, who was already a German Derby runner-up and three-time Pattern race winner. Zazou broke through at Group 1 level in November’s Premio Roma in Italy. And, having lowered the colours of no less a celebrity than Cirrus Des Aigles in a Dubai World Cup prep race on the new Polytrack at Chantilly in early March, he went on to enjoy a near £200,000 payday with a solid fifth place behind Monterosso in the Meydan showpiece. In 2011, Hickst augmented a domestic tally of 63 winners with a further 14 in France and now has an equine team of 107. Though loath to select any Classic prospects, the obvious place to start is All Shamar, a British-bred son of Shamardal who won a Listed contest at Saint-Cloud last autumn. Hickst is quick to deflect any praise for his success onto others, particularly Remmert, whom he calls “my mentor and greatest supporter, he still comes by the yard every week.” But, given that he could be considered something of an outsider, it is significant that no-one in the German racing industry has a bad word to say about him or his wife, Olga. Indeed, now well and truly integrated into their new home, the husband and wife team have gained a reputation as very hard workers and extremely skilled to boot. THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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Munir a prize-money millionaire in France

The past winter of jump racing has been good for owner Simon Munir – on both sides of the Channel. The 47-year-old former Merrill Lynch employee-turned-portfolio manager from Elstree in Hertfordshire has enjoyed some high-profile victories with a small but select team in Britain, which includes the Alan King-trained Raya Star and Nicky Henderson’s Grandouet. In France his string is three times as large and though 17 of his horses are with Pau

handler Guillaume Macaire, the other 15 are split between nine different trainers. Heading into the Grand National meeting, he was in fifth place in the British jump owners’ championship with almost £300,000 in prize-money. The French season starts on January 1, so exact comparisons are impossible, but in 2011 Munir’s charges broke the €1 million barrier (which converts to roughly £860,000) for the first time, which again placed him fifth in the owners’ standings.

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Umberto Rispoli, the Italian riding sensation, must be looking forward to returning to Italy at the beginning of May following a spectacularly unsuccessful stint in Hong Kong. Rispoli has known nothing but good times since bursting onto the scene as a 16-year-old in 2005. Two Italian jockeys’ championships have come his way, most notably in 2009 when his tally of 245 winners smashed a record that for 27 years had belonged to Frankie Dettori’s father, Gianfranco. And, though he has notched just a single success from 17 rides in Britain, he has already proven himself on foreign fields, a spell in Japan early last year yielding 28 winners and three big-race triumphs. However, a ten-week stint in Hong Kong has proved that even the best have barren spells – his first 75 mounts were all defeated before he got off the mark at Sha Tin on April 9. Another Italian import (this time a fourlegged one) struggling to make an impact in the former colony is last year’s Italian Derby runner-up Cazals. Now renamed Willie Cazals, the son of Aussie Rules failed his Hong Kong stalls test no fewer than six times before being allowed to make his belated Asian debut on April 1. He finished fourth, coincidentally in a race won by his fellow countryman and 2011 Premio Parioli winner Al Rep, who now has the unfortunate moniker Packing Whiz.

Officials alter declaration rule France Galop officials have taken the necessary steps to avoid a repetition of the unfortunate incident which saw Snow Fairy denied a start in last August’s Group 1 Prix Jean Romanet because she had been withdrawn from the Yorkshire Oaks three days previously. The rule of French racing stating that any horse that failed to take part in a race having been a declared runner was not allowed to THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

contest another race for a period of eight days has, as of April 1, 2012, been amended. Henri Pouret, France Galop’s Director of Racing, explains that the rule now only encompasses horses withdrawn upon veterinary grounds. He said that it would no longer apply in a case like that of Snow Fairy, who was scratched on account of unsuitable going.

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AROUND THE GLOBE THE WORLDWIDE RACING SCENE

NORT H A MER ICA

by Steve Andersen

merican racing faces a public relations crisis after reports in two newspapers in March detailed separate instances of high fatality rates at racetracks. The articles were published during the same month that a racing television programme was cancelled because of a third equine fatality on set. The extent of any backlash for racing could occur in several forms: reduced attendances, particularly from casual fans scared off by concern of horses being severely injured; lower betting turnover, the result of smaller crowds; and a possible call for federal oversight of a sport regulated on a state-by-state basis. The newspaper reports were published just weeks before the Kentucky Derby on May 5, one of the rare occasions when racing receives considerable publicity in the US. The New York Times article discussed injury rates and medication issues at New Mexico’s tracks, focusing largely on the state’s lucrative Quarter Horse racing. The article was critical of the use of raceday medication such as painkillers, the presence of undetected drugs, insufficient testing procedures and the rate of

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Media dishes dirt on drugs and deaths Santa Anita’s return to a dirt surface has seen the fatality rate more than double

breakdowns at tracks. Different state racing commissions in the US have varying levels of penalties for medication violations. For example, the report cited the differences in use of the powerful painkiller Flunixin. In New Mexico, a first violation against a trainer constitutes a warning, with fines of $200 and $400 for second and third violations. In Indiana, a first violation results in a loss of purse earnings. The Los Angeles Times article focused on fatality rates at Santa Anita, the track that will host the Breeders’ Cup in November. Santa Anita had a synthetic surface from the autumn of 2007 until the summer of 2010, as part of a mandate issued in 2006 by the California Horse Racing Board for all of the state’s major thoroughbred tracks to instal such surfaces. During that time, Santa Anita hosted the Breeders’ Cup twice.

While the synthetic surface at Santa Anita resulted in fewer catastrophic injuries than the previous conventional track, trainers complained of a higher incidence of soft tissue injuries. The synthetic surface failed to drain sufficiently during the winter rainy season, resulting in 11 days of cancelled racing during the 2007-08 winter/spring meeting and five cancelled days during the 2009-2010 meeting. When track Chairman Frank Stronach announced in August 2010 that Santa Anita was returning to a conventional clay-and-sand track, he was greeted with a roaring ovation from a gathering of 250 horsemen in a conference room meeting. According to racing board statistics, published by the Los Angeles Times, there were 1.5 fatalities per 1,000 starters during the three years the track had a synthetic track. For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2011, with a

by Nicola Hayward

Elliodor’s legacy lives on through his daughters On March 7, the well-travelled ten-year-old Tiza won at Fontainebleau to record his 13th victory from 60 starts. By Goldkeeper out of the Elliodor mare Mamushka, he was bred at Daytona Stud in the picturesque Western Cape town of Ceres. Just before leaving South Africa for Dubai he won the 2006 Grade 2 Post Merchants, while his best run in Dubai was second in the Mujahid Stakes. In France, he has won six, including four Group 3s. Daytona Stud was for many years the home of Tiza’s broodmare sire, the French-bred Elliodor. A son of Lyphard, Elliodor raced

briefly in France before injuring a tendon. He arrived in South Africa in 1981 and although his first crop was small (only 14 foals) it included Model Man, South Africa’s first-ever equine millionaire. Elliodor never covered more than 70 mares and was never champion sire yet he was voted South African Sire of the Century. Last year he topped the broodmare sires’ table, having been second eight times. To date, he heads the log for the current season. His daughters have produced individuals which, like Tiza, are tough, consistent and never stop trying.

Val De Ra is a five-year-old daughter of Var out of Elliodor mare Minelli. She has won 11 of 12 starts including three Group 1s and looks world class, though the current export ban prevents her travelling to race in Europe. Another fine filly with Elliodor as her broodmare sire is Donatella. A Group 1 winner, at stud Donatella produced Senor Versace, a Group 2 winner. While not in the same racing mould as Donatella, Laptop Lady also boasts Elliodor as her broodmare sire and she is the dam of Jay Peg, a Group 1 winner in South Africa, the UAE and Singapore.

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Patience and placing key to Pritchard-Gordon’s flying start When Sam Pritchard-Gordon left the employment of the Freedman brothers, Lee and Anthony, last year after four years as racing manager, the last thing on his mind was taking out a training licence. Pritchard-Gordon, son of leading English bloodstock agent Grant Pritchard-Gordon, considered a number of options before realising that his best chance of making a life for himself in Australia was as a trainer. Not that he didn’t have the credentials – his CV included time working at Juddmonte Farms in England and also 12 months with champion trainer Gai Waterhouse in Sydney, while his pedigree includes a cousin, Rupert, who trains at Chantilly and his uncle Gavin, who was a successful trainer in England. Pritchard-Gordon, 32, took the plunge into training when he bought a small complex near Mornington racecourse in Victoria, about 40 minutes drive south of Melbourne, and not far from the Freedman’s Markdel training complex at St Andrews. The young trainer, wife Kate and two-yearold daughter Jemima are comfortable in the surroundings and the lifestyle of the area, so while it was a dramatic shift in his career direction, it wasn’t so tough on the family. Pritchard-Gordon has, at the time of writing, trained six winners from a handful of starters. It hasn’t been a headline-grabbing introduction but the discerning racing people of Melbourne have taken notice. Pritchard-Gordon admits it would be a tough assignment for any English trainer to adapt to Australian racing conditions without having first spent time in the country. He said: “The first bit of advice when I took out my licence was from Harry Mitchell (the English-born co-principal of Yarraman Stud in the Hunter Valley), who said, ‘Don’t even consider training like a pom’. “Horses in Australia need to be trained to retain their speed, the turn of foot. We don’t have the staff, nor can we afford to send horses out in strings like they do in England.” However, Pritchard-Gordon did employ some English philosophy to set up his first runner in December last year. “I got my licence on October 1 but I had only a handful of fair horses, so it was important to

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conventional clay-and-sand track in place, the figure rose to 3.7 fatalities per 1,000 starters. California’s other three major racetracks continue to use synthetic tracks – Polytrack at Del Mar, Tapeta at Golden Gate Fields and Pro Ride at Hollywood Park. There are no plans in the works for Santa Anita to return to a synthetic surface but the issue of injuries at all of California’s tracks is foremost on the racing board’s mind. Any horse that dies within the confines of a state-regulated racecourse in California, whether the incident was racing related or occurred in the stables, is subject to a necropsy report. In response to the articles, the National Thoroughbred Racing Association issued a statement in March, stating the organisation must increase research of injuries. “We must do more and move with a greater sense of urgency than has been demonstrated to date,” said NTRA President Alex Waldrop. In recent years, the NTRA’s Safety and Integrity Alliance has urged racetracks throughout the nation to comply with a wideranging set of standards, including the reporting of injuries; the safety of horses and jockeys; better racing environments through consistent track surfaces; uniform medication testing and penalties; and care for retired racehorses. There are also a set of ‘frontside’ rules for racetrack operators, notably wagering security. In North America, 21 racetracks are accredited by the Alliance, including the aforementioned California tracks, four in New York, and one in New Mexico, Sunland Park, near El Paso. On a related matter, state government in New York in March called for an investigation into a series of fatalities at Aqueduct. From the end of November to March 14, there were 16 fatalities on its inner dirt course. The articles on fatal breakdowns occurred shortly after HBO cancelled the TV racing drama ‘Luck’. In mid-March at Santa Anita, one of the horses used in racing scenes reared over and struck its head on the ground, suffering injuries from which it could not be saved. It was the third time since late 2010 that a horse involved in filming had been fatally injured. On the day of the last accident, HBO announced that it was suspending filming, pending an investigation. Producers then announced that they could not guarantee such an event would not occur in the future and cancelled further production.

by Danny Power

New trainer Sam Pritchard-Gordon

have a long lead-in time to have them ready when they went to the races,” he said. “I needed to establish the perception that I could train. I couldn’t afford for the horses to race into fitness [as is usual in Australia].” Pritchard-Gordon bounced out of the blocks like Allan Wells, winning with his first two starters on the provincial tracks of Benalla and Sale. After seven starters, he had four winners. “The first win (with Allthekingshorses) was over 1,400 metres on a heavy track, so you could say I got it right,” he said. Pritchard-Gordon is one of only a handful of Englishmen trying their luck as trainers in Melbourne. He joins the well-established Nigel Blackiston, who trains at Flemington, and the recently arrived David Feek, who is a Mornington neighbour in the position as co-trainer (training partnerships are allowed in Australia) with David Brideoake. Interestingly, only Feek has held a licence in the UK, for a short time after working for three years as an assistant to Ed Dunlop. Blackiston, who worked with Tony Hide in Newmarket and William Mather in Dubai, has been in Australia for more than 20 years, the first ten of which were working for legendary trainer Bart Cummings before he took out his own licence in 1999. Blackiston attributes Cummings to be his greatest influence and he has trained more than 100 winners, including the multiple Group 1 winner Littorio.

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TALKING TO... BJORN NIELSEN

Masked Marvel is led in by owner Bjorn Nielsen after romping home in the 2011 St Leger at Doncaster

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Breeding TO RUN Bjorn Nielsen has enjoyed four Group 1 victories in Europe, including Classic glory with Masked Marvel last year, but the Derby with a homebred is the success that he craves By Tim Richards • Photos George Selwyn

as it your move from South Africa to Epsom, where you spent your schooldays, which fired your interest in racing? Not exactly, but it was like throwing the fox into the chicken coop! What were your earliest impressions of the sport? The excitement of listening on the radio to the great Sea Cottage dead-heat for the Durban July Handicap in 1967 and watching the epic 1973 Grand National in which Red Rum caught the gallant Crisp in the dying strides; the first stimulated my interest, the second scarred me for life. You now live in the United States but have a string of racehorses trained in England. Why? I was brought up on English/European horseracing and the great variety of racetracks and race distances make European racing far more attractive. What prompted your recent purchase of Kingsdown Stables in Lambourn and why did you pick David Lanigan to train there? Kingsdown became available during the recent downturn and presented a good opportunity for me. The 1974 Derby winner, Snow Knight, amongst other champions, was trained there and I am hoping those results can be reproduced. David is young, hardworking, talented and ambitious. He comes from a great racing family, has been around horses all his life and served his apprenticeship working for the best in the business. I have 19 horses with David and in a perfect world he will be at Kingsdown forever. THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

How often do you manage to see your horses in England? I have 25 Flat horses spread between David Lanigan, Roger Charlton and John Gosden, plus three National Hunt horses with Tom Taaffe in Ireland. I come to the UK roughly three or four times a year, depending on the importance of the occasion. The rest I watch on satellite. I have been over a few times recently, principally to see the finishing touches being put to Kingsdown. In the past I used to come only if I had a runner

“The great variety of racetracks and race distances make European racing far more attractive”

in a big race, but now I spend more time at Kingsdown. Being a tennis fan, I plan for the month of June in Europe for the French Open, Wimbledon and, of course, Royal Ascot. To what extent are you involved in breeding? I am quite involved and have a number of broodmares, which are boarded at the LloydWebbers’ studs, Watership Down in England and Kiltinan in Ireland. I have studied pedigrees for 25 years, a pastime I have thoroughly enjoyed. I am keener on the breeding side than anything else and visit my mares at both studs from time to time. I also seek opinions from

people who are looking at my mares all the time; I might mention a certain stallion I like or want to use and they sometimes dissuade me, explaining various reasons why that stallion might not be suitable. Do you have any plans to have your own stud? I am very happy with the job being done by Simon Marsh, the Lloyd-Webbers’ bloodstock manager, who has been very responsible for developing Watership Down and Kiltinan. Both studs produce nice horses and at the moment I am not planning to have my own stud. What do you look for in particular when buying horses at auction? Good pedigrees, good conformation and good temperament. I listen to my trainers and a number of bloodstock agents – including Jeremy Brummitt, who bought my St Leger winner Masked Marvel, Tom Goff and Charlie Gordon-Watson – before forming an opinion. Is there a limit on what you would spend on a racehorse and do you get a buzz from bidding at the sales? There is certainly a limit, but of course that varies from type to type. I get a bigger buzz from offering at the sales, as that means money coming in rather than money going out! But, in truth, I don’t really want to sell because what I breed is what I am aiming for, and that’s to win the Epsom Derby or breed a filly that could produce me a Derby winner. If I had something that looked like making very good money because it had a relative that had just turned out to be very good and I looked like getting a premium then I would consider selling. But basically, I am breeding to race.

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TALKING TO... >> You’ve won big prizes with the likes of

Assessor, Tante Rose and Masked Marvel. Which gave you most pleasure and why? Winning any race is great and winning the big ones is even better. But I wouldn’t like to differentiate between any of the performances of the horses you have mentioned. For me, they were and still are all very special. Masked Marvel wasn’t himself in the Arc. Do you plan to run him over a mile and a half this season? The Arc was a little bit of an afterthought. He broke the track record in the St Leger and then running him three weeks later could have been asking a bit much. The Leger probably took the edge off him. But having said that, he was jumping, kicking and squealing at home and the ground was very much in his favour because he

Nielsen’s Assessor bounds clear to win the Group 1 Prix du Cadran in 1993

loves it on top. We will bring him back to a mile and a half, starting with the Jockey Club Stakes at Newmarket on 2,000 Guineas day. Do you like to have a bet? I have been known to have a good wager, but I don’t bet often. Splendorinthegrass is one that stands out. He was David Lanigan’s first runner for me at Kempton on the all-weather two years ago and David was very confident that day. Splendorinthegrass was 14-1, 12-1 and 10-1 and it turned out to be a great day for both of us.

CLOSE UP AND... PERSONAL I am driven by… having to feed my horses Best advice I’ve had… pursue what you love to do in life; everything else will fall into place I relax by… watching racing My biggest regret is… I have no regrets Biggest extravagance… going to the tennis Grand Slams

CLOSE UP AND... PROFESSIONAL My racing hero is… Lester Piggott, Vincent O’Brien and Peter O’Sullevan One horse to watch this year… Suhaili, an improving type who won a Doncaster handicap at the end of last season Worst moment in the sport… the death of any of my mares Best horse seen… Dancing Brave My ambition is… to win the Epsom Derby

Your horse Treacle fell in this year’s Grand National. What did you make of the furore surrounding the race? The Grand National seems to have been turned on its head with 99% of the focus on a couple of negatives that happened rather than on the race itself. I think that’s wrong. Of course, it is very unfortunate that any horse dies anywhere. I have heard arguments from experts that the horses are going quicker as a result of the National fences being lower than they used to be. Some years there are fatalities and some years there are not. People die driving racing cars and in other sports. Sport is a vital part of life and there is so much tradition in the Grand National that it will never go away. And let’s be honest, it was a fantastic race this year. Treacle was hampered early on and fell at the 10th, but happily he is 100% and we are planning to run him again in the National next year. How do you see the future of British racing and how does it stack up against the American model? I’d always be bullish about prospects for racing in the UK as it is a national pastime. There has been doom and gloom over prize-money since I’ve been going racing, the same with owners and breeders. I’ve been reading for 35 years that we’ve seen the last of the big owner/breeders, but you can’t get much bigger than the Arab involvement, can you? There will always be owner/breeders. The prize-money issue has been an issue forever, but I am hoping it will improve. The English sport is very different to American racing, which tends to be principally over six

furlongs to a mile at tracks in suburbia near big cities; in England courses are in the country and racegoers enjoy a day out in the countryside. In America it is more of a numbers game. The majority go for a punt rather than the horses. What is your view of horses running on medication in America? Being interested in the breed makes me antimedication because medication artificially improves performance. Does your wife, Debbie, or any of your three daughters have an interest in the sport? Their interest is mainly social. However, they do know who Secretariat and Seabiscuit were. Are you at all concerned with the prizemoney situation in the UK? Who wouldn’t be? Though I have to say I haven’t looked into the situation closely enough to be in a position to make an informed comment. John Gosden and his wife Rachel Hood, President of the ROA, are much more on top of the political side of the game. Apart from training horses they put a lot into the administrative side of the sport and we need people like that. You’ve made your name in the hedge fund world. What advice would you give racing, where finances are always an issue? The price for most goods and services is determined by the market place, but that doesn’t happen in racing. It should. Owners, trainers, breeders produce a product and what they get for that in prize-money is not determined by the market place, but by the Levy Board fixing a price between bookmakers and racing. Sadly, there is no free market in racing. Everyone knows Australia has the best system with bookmakers on course, which is always an attraction for racegoers, and Tote off-course. How good were you at tennis? I’d have been a lot better had I not discovered horseracing! I played all over England as a junior and went to play in the US on a scholarship. THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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MICHAEL HILLS

Further

TO FLY Michael Hills has plenty to reflect on after 30-plus years in the saddle but, unlike his twin brother, the Derby-winning jockey has no plans to call it a day just yet Words Julian Muscat • Photos George Selwyn

ichael Hills could be excused for feeling out on a limb when the Flat turf season opened for business. For the first time he was obliged to confront it without a pair of regular props. His father, Barry, retired from training in August, by which time Hills knew that his twin, Richard, was planning to stand down from the saddle. Their absence represents the passing of an era in one of the longestrunning soap operas in racing. But the show goes on. Hills himself is looking forward to fresh storylines in which he teams up with younger brother Charlie to carry the plot forward. In Coronation Street parlance he is the son of Ken Barlow, who has been ever-present on the soap since it was first broadcast in 1960. At that time Barry had just become travelling head lad to trainer John Oxley.

And just as ‘The Street’ would change beyond recognition over the next 50 years, the Hills’ family fortunes would follow a similar path.

“It felt really weird

when Richard told me he was standing down; we’ve always been close” Michael’s role to date requires little imaginative intervention from scriptwriters. More precocious than

Richard, his junior by ten minutes, he flew the coop as a teenager before returning to ride for Barry during his Manton tenure – and was unceremoniously sacked. After seven years in Newmarket he returned to the family embrace a more mature rider, and has been there every since. It has been a long and emotional journey for the jockey who became the weighing room’s senior inhabitant on Philip Robinson’s retirement last October. “I rode in January and when I walked into the place I didn’t recognise half of the jockeys,” the 49-year-old says. “I also felt very small; many of the younger boys today are so tall.” It wasn’t the only difference. “It felt really weird when Richard told me last summer he would be standing down unless a really good two-year-old came along,” he reflects.

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MICHAEL HILLS >>

“We’re twins, obviously, and have always been close, but then I started thinking about it. We both had our first rides on the same day (in 1979), when we were 16. Richard went to Windsor and I went to Nottingham. [Former trainer] Charlie Nelson put us up because dad wouldn’t give either of us a ride. He said we were too light.” The outcome to their respective public debuts was an accurate reflection of their saddle acumen, since Michael was seen as the better prospect. He won aboard Sky Chief, whereas Richard finished unplaced. “I asked Richard how it went for him and he said he’d been smacked in the face by a big clump of turf,” Michael says. “He didn’t really enjoy it, whereas I just pulled mine out and we sailed past Bryn Crossley. It was magic.” Their respective career paths unfolded along those lines. Michael was first off the mark, he became champion apprentice in 1983 and rode his first Group 1 winner on Huntingdale fully five years before Richard reached the milestone aboard Ashal in the 1990 Gold Cup at Ascot. Huntingdale’s Dewhurst triumph came at a time when the boys had just completed their apprenticeships at different Newmarket stables. Michael was with Jeremy Hindley and Richard with Ashal’s trainer, Tom Jones. These identical twins have “stood in” for each other on numerous occasions, notably when Richard collected Michael’s trophy after the latter won the Prix de l’Abbaye at Longchamp in 1988. But Michael won’t forget the experience when he swapped with Richard for evening stables at Jones’s Newmarket yard, which was run along military lines. “Basically, there was a pretty girl working at Tom’s,” Michael remembers. “I went there with the plan to ask her for help in doing the

Top: Michael Hills wins the 1996 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes on Pentire, beating into third Shaamit, on whom he’d won the Derby a month earlier Above: Another success on Further Flight, this time at York’s Ebor meeting

Charlie relishing challenge of succeeding famous father There are many definitions of success but one detail is bound to resonate with Charlie Hills as he beds down for his first full season at Faringdon Place. His father, Barry, is the only trainer to send out 100 winners in a season from three different yards. Faringdon Place, which Charlie took over on Barry’s retirement in August, was the last of them. It was built from scratch in the mid-1990s after Barry sold South Bank stables in Lambourn, where he started training in 1969. The bar is set high, although Charlie, 33, is undaunted. “It is certainly a challenge, although I feel pretty comfortable about it,” he says. “We are all very proud of what dad

has done and we want to keep up the standard. Hopefully we will get the bit of luck that all trainers need from the start.” Appropriately, Michael Hills was aboard when Charlie saddled a winner, Blaise Chorus, with his first runner at Kempton in August. The task of extending the Faringdon Place dynasty now rests principally with the two brothers. “It is a big asset having Michael down here to ride work,” Charlie says. “He has been twice a week since the end of February and he knows the gallop here like the back of his hand. “One of the best things is that at this stage of the season Michael is not just thinking about today. He thinks about the

future and what is best for each horse.” Of course, the brothers’ efforts are sure to be closely monitored. “Dad lives on the doorstep so we’re expecting to see quite a bit of him,” Charlie says. “You can’t expect someone with his long involvement to suddenly stop, and it would be sillly not to pick his brains from time to time.” However, the passing of the baton has brought Michael fresh impetus. He was a key ingredient in his father’s story and is now anxious to help Charlie make a smooth transition. “It’s a big thing for me to be a part of Charlie’s first full season,” he says. “I have stayed with him a lot over the last ten years and heard him say how he would

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MICHAEL HILLS horses and I couldn’t believe the amount of work involved. I had to tie the straw at the front of the box into a twist and lay out all the grooming kit in a line. “There was even an empty matchbox into which I had to tap out the dust from my curry-comb to show that I’d groomed the horse properly. Well, Tom took one look at me and said, ‘We have a ringer in here today, don’t we?’ It was very different with Jerermy [Hindley]. He didn’t even notice that Richard went in my place.” Their paths diverged soon after. Richard continued to make his way with Jones but to Michael befell the challenge of riding for his

“We had some nice

winners at Manton but when the big one didn’t come along the jockey got the blame” father on Hindley’s retirement, which coincided with Barry moving to the lavish Manton establishment Robert Sangster renovated at great cost. It was not a happy time. “Dad was under presure to come up with a big horse so he could stay at Manton,” Hills relates. “We had some nice winners but when the big one didn’t come along the jockey got the blame.” What followed was the making of him. He spent seven years riding freelance for a range of Newmarket trainers, mainly Michael Bell,

Spot the difference: Michael (right) with twin brother Richard and father Barry

William Haggas and Geoff Wragg. In that time he won 29 Pattern races, ten of them Group 1s, yet his signature season came in 1996 when he won the Derby on Shaamit and the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes aboard Pentire. Although no jockey ever forgets winning the Derby, the day started badly for Hills. An overnight thunderstorm caused a power-cut that silenced his alarm clock. That saw him miss first lot at Haggas’s, when the trainer was working his Royal Ascot horses. Nor did he make it to Haggas’s for second lot. In between he was dropped before the start of a seven-furlong gallop by one of Wragg’s and had to walk back. Haggas was furious. “He never forgave me for it even though I rode him the Derby winner that

afternoon,” Hills says with a rueful smile. It that moment Hills realised the dream of every jockey. Together with Ryan Moore and Martin Dywer, he is one of just three active English riders to have won the blue riband. “The rest of the day passed in a haze,” he says. “Even though I was absolutely knackered Pat Eddery told me I wouldn’t sleep that night – and he was right.” There wasn’t much time for the Hills/Haggas axis to savour victory before jockey had to tell trainer he would forsake Shaamit in the King George for his regular seat aboard the Wragg-trained Pentire. “Geoff had been very loyal to me,” Hills says. “We thought Pentire was a good thing, but winning that King George was different from the Derby. Epsom was pure joy but at

do things. Now that time has come. Charlie has lots of his own ideas but he has to remember that he has taken over a fantastic set-up, with great staff. He will gradually put his own print on it as he goes, but he won’t disturb a winning formula.” Charlie has set himself targets. “It would be nice to send out more winners than last year,” he says. “We are aiming for between 80 and 100 winners, so it won’t be easy, but we’ve got to carry on where dad left off. We have to aim high.”

Charlie Hills gives the work riders their orders at Faringdon Place; the trainer is aiming for 100 winners this season

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MICHAEL HILLS

Retirement rebuffed: “I’m still really enjoying riding, my weight is good and so is my fitness. I’ll take it year by year” says Hills

Ascot it was more relief at getting the job done.” For all their obvious merit, neither of these twin peaks represent the jockey’s career highlight. That accolade belongs to Further Flight, on whom Hills won five successive Jockey Club Cups, the last of them in 1995. “When you wanted him, he was so aggressive in a finish,” the jockey relates. “His ears would go flat back and you could feel him locking onto another horse. You had to love him for it.” That love went unreciprocated when Hills took Further Flight into his Newmarket home on the horse’s retirement. “He just wouldn’t come near me,” he recalls. “Every time he saw me coming in the paddock he would walk away. It was quite upsetting. I just wanted to give the old boy a pat.” Further Flight proved the conduit for a return to the family fold. Doubtless hurt by the Manton eipsode, when his hands were almost certainly tied, his father had solicited a reunion for a while. By the time Michael agreed he was more than ready for the position’s demanding requirements. “Dad was very aggressive, very ambitious, and very verbal with it,” Hills says. “The bark is loud and he forgives quickly, but he must always make his point. He’d give you a

bollocking and five minutes later he’d give you another one to put it right. “That really upset me in my first stint. I used to take it home, but I’d been out on my own and proved myself since then. I was riding like a mature jockey, not a kid, and I’d also learnt how to stand up for myself. “But the bottom line with dad is that I’m so

“Dad was very

aggressive, very ambitious, and very verbal with it, but I’m proud to be his son” proud to be his son. He came from nothing. He was a travelling head lad and built up this massive place. We are all really trying to match what he has done.” The father and son alliance blossomed to the extent that Hills enters the twilight of his riding career with an impressive big-race haul. He has registered 146 Pattern race

triumphs and is within one good season of reaching 2,000 career winners. He has one eye on opportunity in his postriding days but his heart remains set. He does not feel like the elder statesman even though his regular place in the weighing room is closest to the exit. “You can imagine how many times I was asked about retirement when I rode at the Dubai World Cup,” he says of the night when Richard drew stumps on his own career. “I’m still really enjoying it, my weight is good and so is my fitness. I’m going to take it year by year.” In the meantime, the weighing room remains his second home. Its occupants may change but the buzz has been a constant. “In the beginning there were guys like Lester Piggott, Willie Carson, Steve Cauthen, Pat Eddery and Greville Starkey – they could have held their own in any era,” he says. “But these days, the tier below the top jockeys is much stronger than it was because there is more scrutiny. There will always be practical jokers and the place is never quiet when Frankie [Dettori] is around. He is either screaming because he’s winning or screaming because he’s losing. That has never changed. I’ll miss it for sure, but I’m not ready to give it up yet.” THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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DBS: 50 OF THE BEST

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Over half a century, Doncaster Bloodstock Sales has become an integral part of the British sales scene, providing numerous memorable characters, both equine and human Words Edward Prosser

t may never boast the might, glitz or history of its giant Newmarket rival but the duo that began Doncaster Bloodstock Sales 50 years ago this month and those that developed it over the past half-century can only look back with pride at their achievements. DBS has become the ultimate dual-purpose sales company with a roll of honour that features inexpensive Classic heroes alongside winners of the Cheltenham Gold Cup, Champion Hurdle and Grand National. One of the features of a visit to the South Yorkshire town has been the fun factor both at and away from the sales complex, and below we list 50 notable Doncaster facts and figures, some more serious than others...

1. The beginning Tattersalls abandoned selling at Doncaster in 1957. Encouraged by council leader Albert Cammidge, the new Doncaster Bloodstock Sales was set up by trainers Ken Oliver and Willie Stephenson in 1962. They each lodged cheques of £150 with the Royal Bank of Scotland in Hawick to start the company, the only capital they ever put in.

2. Ken Oliver In his biography, The Benign Bishop, Oliver is described as a “livestock auctioneer, amateur jockey, farmer, National Hunt trainer, cofounder of Doncaster Bloodstock Sales, golfer, tennis player, country lover and partygoer”. As well as being a great host at the sales, Oliver, who died in 1999, was also Scotland’s most successful ever jumping trainer, saddling five Scottish Grand National winners from his Hawick stables. Oliver’s widow Rhona is still on the DBS board and is a regular sales visitor.

3. Willie Stephenson As well as co-founding DBS, Stephenson is one

The first DBS catalogue in 1962

of only five people to have trained winners of the Derby and Grand National. Arctic Prince (1951) and Wyndburgh (1959) completed the double from his Royston stables.

4. May 22 The date of Doncaster’s first sale in 1962. The catalogue, priced at four shillings, featured a photo of the Willie Stephenson-trained Oxo beating Wyndburgh, saddled by Ken Oliver, in the 1959 Grand National. The sale was held in a marquee over the pre-parade ring, although permanent buildings were soon put up.

Grand National winner Foinavon

5. Harry Beeby An integral part of the DBS success story. The son of Cheltenham Gold Cup-winning trainer George Beeby, he gave up a career as a London estate agent to join the company on April 1, 1964. The first horse he auctioned was Beau D’Argent, bought in for 420gns on May 18 that year after winning a Hexham seller. Beeby, who recently turned 74, is still going strong as an auctioneer.

6. Michael White A nephew of Charlie Hall, ‘Mouse’ White retired as DBS Vice-Chairman last month after a career that began with the company in 1967. One of the most distinctive auctioneers with catchphrases such as a gorilla (£1,000 – two monkeys) and the umpire (a single finger), he gained a huge following. Colleague Michael Dale is another stalwart of the firm, while the cousins Jeremy and Stuart Mactaggart, both directors, come from a family with a longstanding connection with DBS.

Ken Oliver: talented all-rounder

7. Andrew Oliver & Son DBS originally shared offices in Hawick with Ken Oliver’s family firm of livestock auctioneers, the oldest in Britain. Founded in 1817, the

Dual Guineas winner Right Tack

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company advertised in the first Doncaster sales catalogue that it annually sold 282,700 sheep. While the company administration, cataloguing and accounts took place in Hawick, Willie Stephenson was responsible for overseeing the sales paddocks. Cataloguing was originally done by hand. The main DBS office is still in Hawick, while a branch in Lambourn, manned by Tim Kent, was opened recently.

father Mickey at Mocklershill, were still selling this year having been involved from the start.

15. Speciosa Bought by trainer Pam Sly for 30,000gns, the 2006 1,000 Guineas heroine is the only British Classic winner sold at a breeze-up.

16. Ireland

Doncaster’s most famous Flat auction, now rebranded the Premier Sale, was first held in 1963. The top price of 3,200gns was paid by Keith Freeman for Riding Home, a two-yearold winner for Bruce Hobbs.

From its earliest days, Doncaster’s catalogues were well populated with offerings from across the Irish Sea, both at the store sales and with precociously-bred yearlings at the St Leger Sale. Jack White was the first Irishbased director with his brother-in-law, Jack ‘Ginger’ Powell, soon joining the board.

9. Right Tack

17. Timmy Hyde

The first top-class Flat horse sold at Doncaster, making 3,200gns in 1967. He was trained by John Sutcliffe to become the first winner of the English and Irish 2,000 Guineas, going on to land the St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Both a DBS director and one of the company’s most successful vendors. The master of Camas Park Stud has consigned the St Leger sales-topper eight times.

8. St Leger Sale

10. Sandford Lad Sold for just 1,800gns in 1971, he went on to be the first top-class sprinter to emerge from DBS, winning the Nunthorpe Stakes at York and Prix de l’Abbaye at Longchamp.

11. Punches Hotel Apres-sales fun has always gone hand in hand with selling at Doncaster. Through the 1970s and 1980s this hotel was scene of much latenight entertainment and frivolity.

12. Red Rum

18. Robert Percival “Sue and I were oddities when we started out; we were aged in our 20s amongst all these older people,” says Percival, who began selling at Doncaster in the late 1960s and with wife Sue is still going strong at Glen Andred Stud in Northamptonshire. He was leading vendor at the St Leger Sale for 12 successive years and sold a Grey Sovereign colt for a then massive 42,000gns in 1972.

A select session was introduced to the St Leger Sale in the early 1980s and this Be My Guest colt became Doncaster’s first six-figure yearling when making 104,000gns in 1981.

Winner of the 1983 St James’s Palace Stakes for Matt McCormack, after landing the previous year’s Gimcrack and Coventry Stakes, this 8,000gns yearling was one of a handful of graduates to be remembered by a yard at the sales complex.

13. The sales bar

21. Jack Berry

Particularly at DBS’s original venue, the bar – still run, as in the earliest days, by Rose – was always a raucous hub of activity when selling was on, sometimes drawing those with no business at the sale.

“None of the other sales have the buzz or atmosphere of Doncaster, it is brilliant,” wrote Berry in his autobiography. As well as buying stable stars such as O I Oyston, Clantime, Almost Blue and Selhurstpark Flyer in South Yorkshire, Berry once raised money for charity when singing ‘The Crystal Chandelier’ from the Doncaster rostrum.

DBS brought the two-year-olds in training sales to Britain in the late 1970s. A tie-up with Playboy Bookmakers saw bunny girls liven up the early sales. Tony O’Callaghan of TallyHo Stud and Willie Browne, working with his THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

Classic-winning graduate Speciosa

19. Gamon

Ginger McCain headed to the 1972 Doncaster August Sale with an order from octogenarian owner Noel Le Mare to buy a Grand National prospect. He picked up Red Rum for 6,000gns, the rest is history. Foinavon was the first National winner sold at Doncaster and there have been 12 in all, most recently Silver Birch, who was bought for 20,000gns out of Paul Nicholls’s stable by Gordon Elliott.

14. Breeze-up sales

Red Rum: 6,000gns for a legend

DBS Director Timmy Hyde

20. Horage

Horage had a yard named after him

22. Lyric Fantasy The ‘Pocket Rocket’ sold for 12,000gns at the 1991 St Leger Sale, going on to win the

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DBS: 50 OF THE BEST >>Nunthorpe Stakes as a two-year-old for Lord Carnarvon and Richard Hannon.

its most recent star was Riverside Theatre, sold for 44,000gns in 2007.

23. Peter Doyle

31. Barry Geraghty

Has been going to Doncaster sales since 1973, first with his father Jack and then as an agent in his own right, buying for Liam Browne and now Richard Hannon. Doyle’s son Ross is now continuing the family tradition.

Getting just £20,000 in 2009 for a four-year-old at Doncaster did not seem a great result at the time for vendor Barry Geraghty. Subsequently named Bobs Worth, he has brought rewards for his vendor as a jockey on the racecourse with wins at the last two Cheltenham Festivals.

24. One Man Jack Berry sang from the rostrum

DBS have held various sales away from Doncaster, including bookmakers’ pitch sales and now boutique National Hunt auctions at Newbury. A unique event was the late Arthur Stephenson’s dispersal at his County Durham stables in May 1993, when the top price of 68,000gns was paid by John Hales for the future brilliant chaser One Man.

25. May Sale Lyric Fantasy: the ‘Pocket Rocket’

Grew from its first mixed catalogue of 216 lots in 1962 to a peak of 1,125 animals listed in 2007. The reduced demand for stores and form horse sales growing elsewhere saw that catalogue shrink to 691 lots last year.

26. Garde Champetre

The old Doncaster sales complex

Made 530,000gns in May 2004 and remains the dearest National Hunt horse in training sold at public auction. Went on to win six Cheltenham cross-country races for JP McManus before sadly being killed in March. Clive Smith unsuccessfully bid just shy of 500,000gns and instead ended up buying a certain Kauto Star.

27. Million In Mind Garde Champetre was sold in the 22-year-old syndicate’s annual dispersal, always staged at Doncaster in May. The ring is never as packed through the year as when Million In Mind’s members turn up. Other bumper results include the sales of Royal Rosa (340,000gns in 2003), Mister Banjo (240,000gns in 2000), Afsoun (270,000gns in 2006) and Tricky Trickster (£320,000 in 2009).

28. David Minton The party continues at the sales

No National Hunt agent in the modern era can boast a longer-standing high-profile association with DBS than Minton, through his days with the CBA, BBA and now Highflyer Bloodstock, alongside Anthony Bromley. Minton’s wife Juliet is also a leading vendor from Shropshire-based Mill House Stud.

29. Shows An integral part of the May store and National Hunt foal fixtures was the pre-sale show-classes with guest judges. The May class has been axed, although the TBA-backed foal show continues.

30. Goldford Stud Saying goodbye to the old HQ

Richard and Sally Aston’s Cheshire nursery has dominated the show classes and store sales, and

32. Cheltenham Gold Cup See More Business, who was bought for 5,600gns as a store by Richard Barber, was the latest Cheltenham Gold Cup winner sold at Doncaster. Others are Charter Party, Master Oats and Royal Frolic.

33. 43,033,881gns Doncaster’s record turnover in the halcyon days of 2007. Last year in the post-recession era, the aggregate was £27,689,600.

34. Purple Door Doncaster is not one of the country’s cultural epicentres and some salesgoers found themselves in this down-to-earth gentleman’s club. It was not quite Stringfellows – one of the hostesses was fondly known as Miss Leeds 1974 – and spawned a racehorse who showed a similar level of class to the venue after which she was named.

35. Puns Doncaster’s shopkeepers love a play on words. While driving to the sales, you can nip into the bookmaker Bet Davis, buy a drink at the Rhythm ‘n Booze off licence, get a bite to eat at Joe’s Plaice chip shop, purchase perfume at Heaven Scent, get your car washed at Mr Hand Job or a coiffeur at Richard E Gent’s Hairdressers.

36. Michael Owen Doncaster’s new £7 million sales complex finally overcame endless red tape to begin selling on April 1, 2008, with the Lincoln Handicap Sale. Manchester United striker Owen opened the venue.

37. Goffs Many in the bloodstock world were surprised in April 2007 with news that DBS was in merger talks with Ireland’s premier sales company. The deal was completed that July, with DBS receiving a 9% stake in Goffs. Henry Beeby moved to Ireland as Goffs’ Chief Executive.

38. Fungus Doncaster’s old complex had developed some problem areas and one was a damp wall in the press room that proved a remarkably fertile breeding ground for mushrooms.

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DBS: 50 OF THE BEST had won an English Classic, Geoff Huffer saddled Cockney Rebel to win the 2007 2,000 Guineas. He was purchased for 30,000gns by Bobby O’Ryan, an agent who rarely misses a sale at Doncaster.

40. Sales race Introduced at Doncaster in 1998 and now held at York in August, the £300,000 race for Premier Sale graduates boasts an impressive roll of honour that includes the likes of Acclamation and Somnus.

41. Ladies’ Day Much of the partying from St Leger week Thursday on the racecourse used to carry on in the evening when the main yearling sale took place across the road. A police presence was usually required to diffuse disagreements between well-oiled visitors. Matters are more restrained at the Festival Sale taking place that week at the new complex.

42. Canford Cliffs Possibly the best horse sold at the St Leger Sale. A five-time Group 1 winner and now Coolmore stallion who was bought for £50,000 by Peter Doyle in 2008.

43. Irish 2,000 Guineas Doncaster yearling graduates have excelled in Ireland’s first Classic. Canford Cliffs (2010) was following Right Tack (1969), Turtle Island (1994) and Cockney Rebel (2007) when scoring at the Curragh.

44. Tatbeeq The record-priced St Leger Sale graduate, having realised 275,000gns when bought by Hamdan Al Maktoum in 2006. That price was nearly matched by Gale Force Ten, last year’s £280,000 sale-topper, now in training with Aidan O’Brien.

45. Howard Johnson The now warned-off trainer was a prolific spender for Graham Wylie over the past

decade with purchases such as Presenting Forever (£370,000), Royal Rosa (340,000gns), Percussionist (340,000gns), Tidal Bay (300,000gns), On Raglan Road (£320,000), Kealshore Boy (290,000gns), Feathard Lady (270,000gns), Logans Run (220,000gns), Beauchamp Gigi (200,000gns), Diamond Sal (200,000gns) and Bleak House (200,000gns).

Tom Dascombe and Michael Owen

46. America A surprising number of Doncaster graduates have excelled across the Atlantic. Kentucky Derby fourth Jumron, Santa Anita Derby scorer The Deputy and Grade 1 winners Milk It Mick and Daytona, bought with the help of Rebecca Curtis, among them.

47. Dream Ahead Realised £36,000 at the 2010 breeze-up and went on to be one of the best DBS graduates, with five Group 1 successes by the time he retired to Ballylinch Stud this year.

Parading at the new complex

48. Excelebration Already has one Group 1 win on board, last year’s Prix du Moulin, and many will expect the bargain £20,000 Doncaster yearling to add to that tally this year from his new base at Ballydoyle.

49. Rock On Ruby

David Minton and Anthony Bromley

Richard Barber bought a Cheltenham Gold Cup winner at Doncaster in See More Business and completed a rare double in March when Rock On Ruby, whom he had purchased for £23,000 as a store, won the Champion Hurdle.

50. Henry Beeby Last but very much not least. Ken Oliver and Willie Stephenson may have founded the firm and Harry Beeby did much to help it grow, but nobody has done more for DBS than the latter’s son Henry, its driving force for the past 25 years. Still DBS Managing Director alongside his role at Goffs, the workaholic Beeby has been involved in all aspects of the company.

Getting the message across

The powerful Hannon-Doyle team

Present-day team: Tim Kent, George Stanners, Harry Beeby and Henry Beeby

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Record-breaker Garde Champetre

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BREEDERS’ DIGEST By EMMA BERRY, Bloodstock Editor

Our bloodstock coverage this month includes:

• Sales Circuit: Breeze-ups from Kempton and Keeneland, Easter Yearling Sale – pages 54-57

Major studs combine to provide latest Aussie star

n September 2010, as part of our series on great owner/breeders, we featured Gerald Leigh, whose many top-class performers included Brocade, her son Barathea, Markofdistinction and Act One. A major update to the feature is now required thanks to Pierro, who won Australia’s biggest two-year-old race, the Golden Slipper, on April 7 and followed up seven days later with another Group 1 strike in the AJC Sires’ Produce Stakes. Despite being bred by Darley, Pierro is the product of acquisitions from other major owner/breeders. Sheikh Maktoum’s Gainsborough Stud bought Criquette from Gerald Leigh and she features as the third dam of Pierro via her grand-daughter Right Note, by Daylami, who was exported to Australia, where she is known as Miss Right Note. Following Sheikh Mohammed’s purchase in 2008 of the Ingham family’s Woodlands Stud, Right Note was covered by Australia’s current champion sire Lonhro, with the result being Pierro, who was sold as a weanling by Darley for A$115,000. Lonhro is currently reverse-shuttling to Darley’s Jonabell Farm in Kentucky, where he has recently covered Right Note’s dam, Sky

by Australian Thoroughbred Bloodstock as a potential Melbourne Cup candidate. With Group/Grade 1 wins in France and America to his name already with Excelebration and Gitano Hernando, Botti is looking forward to a southern hemisphere raid later this year. He said: “We’ve never had a runner in Australia but hopefully this will be the year. “Jakkalberry hasn’t been tried over two miles but he ran a good race over a mile and six in Dubai so a little bit farther shouldn’t be a problem. I’m sure he’ll stay and he has the speed and a change of gears.” Claba Di San Jore, who is booked to Dubawi this year, also has a yearling full-sister to Crackerjack King, by Shamardal.

Song. The daughter of Sadler’s Wells was previously successfully mated with Lonhro’s sire Octagonal and produced Godolphin’s Laverock, the sole Group 1 winner sired by Octagonal during his northern hemisphere stints at Haras du Quesnay. Another recent big winner for Godolphin from the family is Dubai Gold Cup winner Opinion Poll, out of Criquette’s full-sister Ahead.

Barathea plays his part Indirectly, Gerald Leigh’s influence extends to Italy, where one of the country’s best broodmares, Claba Di San Jore, is a daughter of Barathea. Her impressive production record extends to two Derby Italiano winners, Awelmarduk and Crackerjack King, Gran Premio di Milano winner Jakkalberry and dual Listed winner Kidnapping, while her current three-year-old, the Dalakhani filly Freezy, is being primed for the Oaks d’Italia. Jakkalberry is a recent recruit to the British horses in training ranks and is now stabled with Marco Botti, whose father Alduino is Italy’s multiple champion trainer with his brother Giuseppe and is Jakkalberry’s co-breeder. The six-year-old son of Storming Home was previously trained in Italy and was the first Group 1 winner for Botti’s cousin, Endo. Jakkalberry was purchased over the winter

Field day for Newmarket sires The Dubai World Cup meeting provided another good day for British-breds abroad and was a particularly fine advertisement for Newmarket stallions with African Story and the Lady Fairhaven-bred Krypton Factor, winners of the Godolphin Mile and Golden Shaheen, continuing to highlight the merits of their sires Pivotal and his son Kyllachy (see Caulfield Files, page 76). Both are resident at Cheveley Park Stud, owned by the stallions’ breeders, David and Patricia Thompson. Just across the road on Duchess Drive in Newmarket stand Halling and Dubawi, the sires of the second and third Darley-bred winners of the meeting, Opinion Poll (who carries an Irish suffix) and Monterosso, the last-named following in the footsteps of his grandsire Dubai Millennium when landing the World Cup itself. Last but by no means least, the grand old man of the Newmarket stallion ranks, 24-yearold Selkirk, sired his 15th Group 1 winner when his son Cityscape, captured in the spotlight by George Selwyn on pages 22-23, ran home the emphatic winner of the Dubai Duty Free for owner/breeder Khalid Abdullah.

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Souk’s enduring legacy

Gerald Leigh, left, and Luca Cumani, right, after Barathea’s Breeders’ Cup Mile win

Fittocks Stud, the breeding operation of Luca and Sara Cumani, recently bade farewell to its most celebrated foundation mare, Souk, who died on April 15 at the age of 24. Bought by the Cumanis as a yearling, the daughter of Ahonoora won at two and three and was placed in the Listed Sceptre Stakes

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over a mile. At stud she proved to be a prolific producer, with 11 winners from her 16 foals, including her Listed-winning Darshaan daughter Puce, who subsequently bred the black-type trio of Pukka, Pongee and Lion Sands and was sold by Fittocks Stud for 750,000gns in 2006 in foal to Pivotal. Members of Souk’s family were as notorious for sales-ring success as they were on the racecourse. Her daughter by Shirley Heights, Shouk, went through Tattersalls’ December Sale in 2001, carrying a Barathea foal later known as Magical Romance. Winner of the Cheveley Park Stakes for trainer Brian Meehan and owner Fergus Wilson, Magical Romance would go on to create her own historical niche as the most expensive broodmare ever sold at public auction, when knocked down for 4.6 million gns to the Rothschild family, and carrying her first foal by Pivotal, who unfortunately was born early, just 23 days after the sale, on December 21, 2006. Talented though she was, Magical Romance was not the best of Shouk’s daughters. That honour goes to Alexandrova, who won the Oaks, Irish Oaks and Yorkshire Oaks in 2006. Her first foal, the once-raced Kingmambo filly Drops, holds an entry for this year’s Oaks. Only one daughter of Souk remains at Fittocks, the six-year-old Daylami mare Barter, who has Puce’s daughter, the Lancashire Oaks winner Pongee, for company. “We also have Souk’s final foal, a yearling colt by Yeats,” said Sara Cumani. “I think we’ll have to keep him to race just for sentiment’s sake. “We sent Souk to Daylami as Darshaan was no longer around and he was the next best thing. Barter didn’t win but she has a lovely High Chaparral filly and a colt foal by Galileo.” Another member of the family who has already had success with High Chaparral is Barter’s Salse half-sister Sitara, who was sold by Fittocks as a four-year-old and subsequently produced Irish Derby runner-up Golden Sword to So You Think’s sire. Sara Cumani added: “Souk was a really sweet, kind mare who passed on her lovely temperament to her offspring. They’ve all had a real willingness and have been very easy to deal with.”

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Breeder’s Derby fillip In the space of 12 months, West Australian breeder Trevor Delroy of Wyadup Valley Farm has experienced two incredible highs and one of the inevitable lows which go hand-in-hand with owning and breeding horses. In April 2011, his homebred Helenus gelding Cedarberg won The BMW at Rosehill, a Group 1 mile and half contest landed this year by the former Cumani-trained Manighar. In the course of his preparation for the THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

Cloudy Lane, a homebred winner for Trevor Hemmings in the Aintree Fox Hunters’

Melbourne Cup, Cedarberg died from a suspected heart attack during routine trackwork. Now, a year on from his memorable topflight win, Delroy has struck again via homebred Ethiopia’s victory in the Group 1 Australian Derby at Randwick on April 14 – the horse’s first win in four starts. Not only is Ethiopia also by Helenus, both he and Cedarberg are out of daughters of Spectrum. Helenus is one of former National Stud resident Helissio’s most talented offspring to date, claiming the VRC Derby and Rosehill and

“Members of Souk’s family were as notorious for sales-ring success as they were on the track” Caulfield Guineas among his Group wins. Despite hailing from the Fairy King line, which has produced Australia’s former champion sire Encosta De Lago, Helenus is not one of the most fashionable stallions on the block, but he was West Australia’s leading first-season sire in 2007/08 and Delroy’s faith in him has certainly been rewarded.

Twin impostors The success of British-bred jumpers at Cheltenham continued through to Aintree with three of those successful at Prestbury Park in March – Simonsig, Attaglance and Cape Tribulation – becoming winners at both of the spring’s big National Hunt meetings.

David and Kathleen Holmes of Pitchall Farm Stud will have been particularly pleased with results on the Friday of Aintree. Attaglance, by Pitchall stallion Passing Glance, secured his hat-trick of victories since February 19 by winning the Listed John Smith’s Hurdle, and in the following race, the Listed mares’ bumper, Passing Glance’s stud-mate Midnight Legend sired the first two home. The only fly in the ointment for the couple was the fact that their homebred mare Call Me A Star, who started favourite for the race, was beaten into second by Eleven Fifty Nine, bred by Martin Rowe. But as Call Me A Star is already a Listed winner, her breeders probably didn’t mind giving best to another daughter of Midnight Legend and thus boosting their stallion’s statistics further. It’s what one might call a win-win situation. The Catridge Farm-bred Grumeti became the first National Hunt Grade 1 winner for his sire Sakhee when leading home Cheltenham winner Countrywide Flame, by Sakhee’s former fellow Shadwell resident Haafhd, while Lifestyle, a daughter of the late Mickley Stud sire Karinga Bay, helped to boost Nicky Henderson’s Grand National day winners’ tally to four. Ballabriggs tried valiantly to provide his owner Trevor Hemmings with a third win in the Grand National. While sixth place was the best he could manage, Hemmings’s homebred Cloudy Lane, by his stallion Cloudings, offered the next best thing by winning the Fox Hunters’. Of course, Aintree was not only a scene of joy for owner/breeders and our sympathies are with the Nelson family and JP and Noreen McManus for the sad loss of their talented and cherished chasers, According To Pete and Synchronised.

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SALES CIRCUIT By EDWARD PROSSER and EMMA BERRY

Domestic buyers lead the way The European breeze-up season is ushered in at Kempton, where a solid clearance rate proves that vendors are prepared to be realistic in a challenging marketplace

Nobody got rich selling at the sixth Kempton breeze-up sale held by Goffs, but vendors were happy to place realistic reserves on their juveniles and in return were rewarded with an excellent trade, resulting in an impressive 83% clearance rate. There was a good, predominantly domestic, crowd at the sale with the top price of £80,000 paid by David Redvers for a Dutch Art colt set to go into training with David Barron for Pearl Bloodstock. The relative of Airwave produced the day’s biggest profit, having been bought for vendor Norman Williamson as a yearling by Mags O’Toole for £30,000. British Horseracing Authority Chairman Paul Roy part-owned the 2008 Kempton saletopper Glamorous Spirit and he turned up at the sale to collect a £70,000 Harlan’s Holiday colt, who has joined Ed Dunlop, and a £50,000 son of Tapit. Chepstow handler Ron Harris, who later trained Glamorous Spirit, was another busy buyer accompanied by owners Steve and Anita Mares. Looking for early two-year-olds, he picked up a £60,000 son of Invincible Spirit and a £50,000 Acclamation filly. An even more prolific buyer was trainer Tom Dascombe, who bought seven lots through agent Ed Sackville headed by a £60,000 Exceed And Excel colt. Sheikh Sultan bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, a member of Abu Dhabi’s ruling family, is becoming an increasingly prominent owner and, bidding through Richard Brown of Blandford Bloodstock, acquired a Speightstown colt for £65,000. Although there was no six-figure lot to rival the £130,000 sale-topper in 2011, a total of eight lots made £50,000 or more, compared to five the previous year, two in 2009 and 2010, 11 in 2008 and 14 at the first sale in 2007. As last year, the sale looked to benefit from moving to a post-Cheltenham Festival date and taking place in Kempton’s panoramic restaurant. The £1,795,000 turnover was up by 10% in line with an increased catalogue and, although the £23,311 average and £18,000 median fell shy of the 2011 figures, they were still well ahead of those posted in 2010.

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Goffs Kempton Breeze-up

Lot 33, an Acclamation filly from Bansha House, was sold for £50,000 to Ron Harris

Goffs Kempton Breeze-up Top lots Sex/Breeding

Vendor

c Dutch Art-Petra Nova (First Trump)

Oak Tree Farm

Price (£) 80,000

Buyer David Redvers

c Harlan’s Holiday-Hadley (Kingmambo)

Lynn Lodge Stud

70,000

Jane Allison Bloodstock

c Speightstown-Bond Queen (Stormy Atlantic)

Kilminfoyle House Stud

65,000

Blandford Bloodstock

c Red Clubs-Solo Symphony (Fayruz)

Tally-Ho Stud

60,000

Noel Quinlan

c Invincible Spirit-Bint Al Balad (Ahonoora)

Kilminfoyle House Stud

60,000

Ron Harris

c Exceed And Excel-Gandini (Night Shift)

Hillwood Stud

60,000

SackvilleDonald

f Acclamation-Pitrizzia (Lando)

Bansha House Stables

50,000

Ron Harris

c Tapit-Baroness Thatcher (Johannesburg)

Hawthorn Villa Stud

50,000

Jane Allison Bloodstock

c Officer-Willow Rush (Wild Rush)

Mocklershill

43,000

Bobby O’Ryan

c Speightstown-Lemon Lady (Lemon Drop Kid)

Mocklershill

42,000

Gill Richardson BS

Six-year tale Sold

Clearance (%)

Agg (£)

Average (£)

Median (£)

2012

Year

Catalogued Offered 100

1,795,000

23,311

18,000

Top Price (£) 80,000

2011

1,600,500

25,008

20,000

130,000

2010

863,500

15,991

12,500

55,000

2009

663,100

18,728

15,000

58,000

2008

101

1,944,500

30,383

25,000

105,000

2007

100

2,074,000

31,908

26,000

110,000

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Joseph Murphy and Willie Browne

David Redvers signed for the top lot

Henry Beeby and Nick Nugent in the commentator’s booth

Looking for winners

Trainer George Baker and bloodstock agent David Loder

Pedigree expert Clive Webb-Carter

Sean and John Quinn, Dick O’Gorman

Anthony Stroud and John Osborne

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Hawthorn Villa Stud’s Tapit colt, who was later bought for £50,000 by Paul Roy

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SALES CIRCUIT

Ciaran Dunne’s Wavertree Stables dominated Keeneland’s one-day breeze-up sale when selling 17 lots for $3.34 million, among them the $700,000 sale-topper. That Majestic Warrior colt had cost just $137,000 as a yearling when bought in partnership with John Greathouse and he is set to race for George Bolton and Barbara Banke’s Stonestreet Stable. Dunne, who runs Ocala-based Wavertree Stables with wife Amy, grew up on the Irish National Stud where his father was head gardener and moved to America as a 21year-old in 1987. He also sold a $500,000 Dynaformer half-brother to Antonius Pius for breeder Shane Ryan of Castleton Lyons. There was a selective trade with 59 lots selling at a clearance rate of 62%. The $165,322 average was marginally up on 2011, although the $9.7 million turnover fell by $1.8m and the median dropped by $10,000 to $120,000. Martin Schwartz, best known for purchasing fillies in training, bought a $400,000 daughter of Lemon Drop Kid. Schwartz has campaigned European stars such as Stacelita, Elusive Wave and Maids Causeway, but this new recruit will stay in the US and join the stable of Bobby Frankel’s former assistant Chad Brown. A total of three lots hit the $500,000 mark this year, copmpared to only one 12 months previously. Rick Porter, who races 2011 Horse of the Year Havre De Grace, bought one of that trio via advisor Tom McGreevy. Porter, who races as Fox Hill Farm, paid $560,000 for a Speightstown colt sold by Kip Elser’s South Carolina-based Kirkwood Stables. This represented another huge pinhooking success with Elser having bought the juvenile for $72,000 at FasigTipton in October.

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Keeneland Breeze-Up

The sales-topping Majestic Warrior colt proved to be a lucrative pinhook

Keeneland Breeze-up Sale Top lots Sex/Breeding

Vendor

c Majestic Warrior-Counter Cat

Wavertree Stables Inc

Price ($) 700,000

Buyer

c Speightstown-Five Star Holding

Kirkwood Stables

560,000

Fox Hill Farm/Tom McGreevy

c Dynaformer-Catchascatchcan

Wavertree Stables Inc

550,000

Bluegrass Hall

f Tapit-Instant Coverage

Niall Brennan Stables

475,000

Patrice Miller, EQB, Agent

f Lemon Drop Kid-Queenie Belle

De Meric Sales

400,000

Martin S Schwartz

f Majestic Warrior-South African

Baby Eddie Woods

400,000

Hill n Dale Bloodstock

f Mr Greeley-Bonnie Byerly

Wavertree Stables

350,000

John McCormack Bloodstock

c Tiz Wonderful-Shake Off

Kirkwood Stables

310,000

Sagamore Farm/Bob Feld

f Street Sense-Mayfield

Niall Brennan Stables

300,000

James Moloney

c Street Sense-Tale Of A Lady

Stephens Thoroughbreds

300,000

Mike McCarthy

George Bolton & Stonestreet Stables

Three-year tale

Inglis Easter Yearling Sale There was only ever going to be one sales-topper at the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale in Sydney and Black Caviar’s half-sister by Redoute’s Choice duly obliged when securing a $2.6 million bid from syndicate BC3 Thoroughbreds. The filly, whose two-year-old half-brother All Too Hard has made an impressive start to his racing career this season with two Group 2 victories to his name, is to go into training in Victoria with Danny O’Brien. “It’s very rare that a horse like this would be offered for auction,” said O’Brien, who trains Classic-winning filly Shamrocker and has made two raids on Royal Ascot with

Year

Catalogued

Offered

Sold

Clearance (%)

Agg ($)

Average ($)

2012

161

62.1

9,754,000

165,322

120,000

2011

169

104

67.3

11,564,000

165,200

130,000

2010

181

112

63.4

12,013,000

169,197

135,000

Glamour Puss and Star Witness. “Fillies like this generally would be retained by breeders because anyone lucky enough to breed a filly like this would be very loath to sell it. “So it was really a once-in-a-generation chance to buy a filly like this, not only the pedigree but she’s an outstanding individual herself. “The mare’s still a very young mare, this is only her fourth foal, and she’s shown us what an outstanding producer she’s been

Median ($)

with the three foals that have already raced and arguably this is by the best stallion that she’s ever been to.” The filly was offered for sale in the Makybe draft, which was responsible for the sale’s two top-priced yearlings, the other being no less well-credentialed as a Street Cry half-brother to Makybe Diva, who lends her name to the farm just outside Geelong. The colt was bought by Peter Moody and THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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agent Paul Willetts for $1.2m. One other yearling fetched seven figues, with a colt by the in vogue Fastnet Rock out of Tale Of The Cat mare Catreign being knocked down to James Bester and Demi Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Byrne for $1m. Oasis Dream made a rare appearance in Australian sales results when his colt out of the 2008 Dubai Sheema Classic winner Sun Classique, who was conceived in Britain to southern hemisphere time, sold from the Patinack Farm draft for $850,000. Other stellar mares with offspring featured in the saleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top ten list were champion two-year-old and three-year-old Miss Finland, whose second foal by Hussonet sold to Blue Sky Thoroughbreds and Gai Waterhouse for $750,000, and four-time Group 1 winner Tuesday Joy, whose first foal was bought by Katsumi Yoshida for the same amount. The colt is by More Than Ready and thus closely related to More Joyous, who is out of Tuesday Joyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s half-sister Sunday Joy. A total of $72,825,000 changed hands for 330 of the 398 lots offered throughout the three days of the saleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first session, which was slightly down on last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s figure of $74,130,000 for 311 sold, though

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The weight of expectation: Black Caviarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s $2.6 million Redouteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Choice half-sister

the clearance rate rose by 2% to 83%. The average of $220,682 was down from the 2011 figure of $238,360, as was the median of $160,000 (from $180,000). l As this magazine went to press, the

Tattersalls Craven Breeze-up Sale was about to begin. For reports from this sale and the DBS Breeze-up, please see ownerbreeder.co.uk. A full round-up will be included in next monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s magazine.

Inglis Easter Yearling Sale Top lots Sex/Breeding

Vendor

Buyer

f Redouteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Choice-Helsinge

Makybe, Gnarwarre

BC3 Thoroughbreds

Price (A$) 2,600,000

c Street Cry-Tugela

Makybe, Gnarwarre

Moody Racing Pty Ltd / Paul Willetts

1,200,000

c Fastnet Rock-Catreign

Newgate Farm, Scone

James Bester Bloodstock / Demi Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Byrne Bloodstock

1,000,000

f Encosta de Lago-Ameliaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dream

Edinglassie Stud, Muswellbrook

James Harron Bloodstock

f Redouteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Choice-Brave and Bold

Evergreen Stud Farm, Heatherbrae

Dean Hawthorne Bloodstock

875,000

c Oasis Dream-Sun Classique

Patinack Farm, Hunter Valley

George Moore Bloodstock

850,000

c Hussonet-Miss Finland

Arrowfield Stud, Scone

BlueSky Thoroughbreds / Gai Waterhouse Racing

750,000

c More Than Ready-Tuesday Joy

Strawberry Hill Stud, Mt White

Katsumi Yoshida

750,000

c Fastnet Rock-Allegra

Kia-Ora Stud, Scone

BBA Ireland Limited

650,000

f Fastnet Rock-Absolut Glam

Willow Park Stud, Scone

James Bester Bloodstock / Demi Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Byrne Bloodstock

625,000

910,000

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Your raceday experiences are important to us Richard Wayman wants to see more UK racecourses achieve the ROA Gold Standard Award The findings from our latest survey of training costs are provided on the next page and, whilst it provides a lot of fascinating details, the overarching message is something we all already know: having a horse in training in Britain is very expensive, with the annual cost equating to an amount not much less than the average annual salary. The importance of providing an equitable return to owners remains our principal aim and, to that end, we will continue to work with our partners in the Horsemen’s Group with a view to extracting a fair price from the two groups that benefit from the incredible amounts invested in racehorses by owners, namely the betting industry and racecourses. We must never lose sight of the fact, however, that prize-money is not the only issue that matters to owners and an area that I am particularly interested in is the owners’ experience at the racecourse on those days when they have a runner. The ROA has developed the Gold Standard Award as a way of identifying those

racecourses that meet the many criteria that we believe owners should expect in return for providing the runners that make a race meeting happen. I make no apology for the fact that the Gold Standard sets a challenging benchmark and, indeed, is achievable only if the racecourse is truly committed to

“Win or lose, owners must feel they have enjoyed a day their investment deserves”

providing owners with exceptional service levels in all areas. For this reason, the 18 courses holding the Gold Standard Award, which are identified in our prize-money tables on page 62, deserve much credit and we will continue to support them with a view to maintaining their current high standards. A significant majority of courses, however, do not meet the Gold Standard criteria and it is these venues that I am keen for the ROA to work much more closely with in the coming

months. I know that the Racecourse Association is supporting its members in this area and I truly believe that a partnership approach involving the ROA, RCA and racecourses is the best way of delivering the positive experience for owners that we all want to see on Britain’s racecourses. We already have a small team, comprising council members and staff, who visit racecourses to review the facilities for owners and we plan to invite all racecourse managers to work much more closely with your representatives. Our team will provide details of best practice, discuss ideas and help to find pragmatic solutions to particular issues. They will also pass on the regular feedback – positive and negative – received from ROA members. I have little doubt that most racecourse managers are as committed as we are to improving the owners’ raceday experience and I am therefore optimistic that they will welcome our invitation to support them in this area. Ultimately, I hope that this exercise results in the number of racecourses achieving the Gold Standard Award increasing but, for now, let’s all work together to make sure that at the end of a day’s racing, win or lose, the racehorse owner feels that they have been treated to the sort of day that their investment deserves.

Champagne reception and lunch tickets Members are encouraged to attend the ROA AGM, which will take place on Tuesday, July 10 at the Jumeirah Carlton Tower hotel in Knightsbridge, London, starting at 10.15am. The AGM gives members an opportunity to listen to stimulating debate on a wide range of industry issues. Owners can address questions to the ROA Council during the Owners’ Forum on racing topics and listen to keynote speeches from ROA President Rachel Hood and BHA Chief Executive Paul Bittar. No booking is required for the AGM but places do need to be reserved in advance for the champagne reception and lunch which follow. Tickets are £85 each and tables of ten are available for £750.

Members and their guests can enjoy a champagne reception and three-course lunch with wine. Entertainment will be provided by our guest speaker, award-winning actor Nathaniel Parker.

Council election At the time of writing, there are two places available in the ROA Council election, with three existing Council members planning to re-stand. The three incumbents standing for re-election are Paul Dixon, Sally RowleyWilliams and Justin Wadham. Details of candidates with manifestos and details of how to vote will be sent out to members soon. The results will be announced at the AGM.

Nathaniel Parker: guest speaker

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Training costs differ between Flat and jumps racing but the ‘cost per run’ is similar

Owners reveal their costs An ROA survey of racehorse owners has revealed some interesting figures on the annual costs of keeping a horse in training. The findings, which relate to 2010, show for Flat horses in particular there is a considerable variation in the total training and racing costs. While the average works out at £20,264, for one in ten Flat horses the costs exceeded £29,000 and for one in three exceeded £22,000. While it costs more to have a horse in training on the Flat than over jumps, the ‘cost per run’ is similar under both codes. The survey reveals the average annual cost recovery for owners in Britain, expressing returns over costs as a percentage, is 21%,

unchanged since our last costs survey in 2007. Looking at training costs, direct comparisons could be made between the 2007 and 2010 surveys by looking at the daily training rates. These showed an increase of 2.9% per annum for Flat trainers and 2.4% for jumps trainers. Prize-money fell by 10% in 2010 and the number of individual horses which ran was 9% lower in 2010 against the 2007 figure, which balanced this drop in terms of the spread of prize-money. The average cost recovery for owners in Britain compares poorly with France, where owners saw a return of 54% in 2010, according to figures from the International Federation of

Breakdown of costs (averages) Training fees Gallops Farrier Supplements/Wormer Clipping Racing expenses Transport Vet/Physio/Dentist Race entries Jockeys Registration fees Admin (Weatherbys/BHA) Other costs Pre-/Out of training Total (1) Less, Appearance Money Total (2)

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Flat (£)

Jumps (£)

13,496 394 653 147 12 503 1276 1075 1217 689 93 70 96 638 20,359 - 95 20,264

10,520 127 510 107 20 282 1044 1001 839 739 101 107 60 762 16,219 - 91 16,128

Horseracing Authorities (IFHA). The findings showed the average daily rates are £43 for a Flat horse and £37 for a jumps horse. There are variations between ‘big’ and ‘small’ trainers, and these are more pronounced for Flat trainers. The highest daily rate for a Flat horse was nearly £75 and for a jumps horse £50. There are noticeable regional variations in total training costs. For the two codes combined, Newmarket (exclusively Flat horses in our sample) and the Lambourn area emerge as the most expensive places to have a horse trained, at £20,307 and £16,749 respectively. Yorkshire came out third at a lower £12,999 and the rest of the north of England and Scotland lowest at £10,436. The West of England is considered a ‘power base’ for jumps horses and here the average training costs for a jumps horse works out at

Total costs in 2010 i.e. training, transport, vets, farriers, Weatherbys/BHA, pre-/out of training, etc

Average (£)

Flat Jumps Codes combined

20,264 16,128 18,651

Average daily rates Flat (£)

Jumps (£)

‘Cost per run’ Average no. of runs in 2010 (in sample)

Flat Jumps

6.7 5.1

Cost per run (£)

3,056 3,218

£12,643, second to the Lambourn area at £13,579. In terms of training agreements, 81% of owners represented in our survey confirmed they had an agreement in place. Richard Wayman, ROA Chief Executive, said: “The survey confirms that the net return to owners of racehorses in Britain remains worryingly low and, unless this improves, I fear that the sport will not be able to sustain its current ownership base and horse numbers. “Whilst in many ways British racing has so much going for it, the simple comparison with the situation in France speaks volumes.” • A more detailed analysis of the survey findings appears on the ROA website. Questionnaires were sent to over 1,280 ROA members. Responses received allowed us to analyse expenses for 170 horses, 98 Flat and 72 jumps. Survey and analysis conducted by Ian Murray.

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In Brief

Gold Standard for Newton Abbot

ROA regional meetings The ROA is planning three regional meetings this year. The first of these will take place prior to racing on Friday, August 10 at Musselburgh racecourse. This is an opportunity for members to meet some of the ROA staff and council in an informal atmosphere, providing an opportunity for members to air their views and raise questions about owner-related or membership topics. There will also be a short presentation before racing on what the ROA is striving to achieve for owners. Two more regional meetings are planned on August 22 at Newton Abbot (evening racing) and September 27 at Pontefract.

Racing Post offers Racing Post Photos is extending its discount for ROA members to 33% on its range of photographs, canvasses and gifts. The Racing Post Photos website features galleries of photographs from a team of award winning photographers and offers a search facility so owners can check whether their horse is featured. The Racing Post is also offering members generous discounts on selected books which are being published in May. For details log on to the Members’ Area of the ROA website at racehorseowners.net

Competition winner The lucky winner of our very popular online competition for a three-night trip for two in May to Coolmore Stud and the Irish Guineas is Graham Bromley from Derbyshire. Graham’s prize takes in a tour of Coolmore Stud and Kildangan Stud and two days of top class racing action at The Curragh for the Irish 1,000 and 2,000 Guineas, as part of a fully-escorted luxury trip with Horse Racing Abroad. Visit the ROA site for details of our future competitions.

Members feedback on news items Members can post views on news stories and articles posted on the ROA website in a comment box. We welcome feedback to help us respond to members needs and help shape future policy.

Left to right: Newton Abbot Chairman Aubrey Loze and Managing Director Pat Masterson receive the Gold Standard Award from Paul and Janet Duffy

Newton Abbot became the latest track to join the ranks of ROA Gold Standard racecourses with a presentation during racing at its opening fixture of the season on Sunday, March 18. The presentation was made to the racecourse executive by Paul Duffy, a member of the ROA Council and the Gold Standard Committee. The award recognises overall excellence in the raceday experience for owners, their horses and stable staff. Newton Abbot became the 18th current holder of the coveted accolade. Paul Duffy said: “We are pleased to award the Gold Standard to Newton Abbot. Pat Masterson and his friendly team do a very good job for owners, and it has been a pleasure to work with them on the Gold Standard process. We were

particularly impressed by the improvements to the owners’ and trainers’ facilities.” Newton Abbot’s total prize-money for 2011/12 was more than £650,000 and it is one of only two courses where owners are not charged an entry fee to run. Pat Masterson, Managing Director of Newton Abbot, said: “Newton Abbot racecourse is delighted and honoured to be recognised for this tremendous award. At Newton Abbot the owners are very important to us and we shall endeavour to continue to enhance their raceday experience. “We are very grateful to the ROA Council and to Paul Duffy for their advice and assistance in obtaining this accolade.”

ROA’s Chloe set for charity race Chloe Homer, ROA Subscriptions Secretary, will put her riding skills to the test in a charity race at Ascot in aid of the British Horseracing Education & Standards Trust (BHEST) education programme. The ‘Racing to School Frankel Challenge Trophy’ on Wednesday, May 2 will see 12 riders compete over one mile to raise money for Racing to School, the initiative that educates schoolchildren on the racecourse and introduces them to horseracing. Chloe, who joined the ROA team in May 2011, rides out regularly for dual Cheltenham Gold Cup-

winning trainer Noel Chance (pictured with Chloe below) and is relishing her upcoming Ascot appearance. She said: “I’m thrilled to be riding at Ascot and in the process raising money for such a great cause. It’s important to encourage the next generation of racing enthusiasts.” Racing to School supports around 10,000 children each year, giving them the opportunity to increase their teamwork skills and build their confidence. Any money that Chloe raises over her £2,000 target will be split between BHEST and the British Racing School in Newmarket. Donations can be made at www.justgiving.com/chloehomer

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The Horsemen’s Group Bonus Scheme is adding a £5,000 bonus payment to around 100 Flat and jump races this year. A list of races through to the end of June appears on the ROA website and are marked with the Bonus Scheme logo (above) in the Racing Calendar and on the Racing Admin website. The bonus will be split 70% to the winning owner, 15% to the trainer, 10% to the jockey and 5% to the stable staff pool, after the distribution of a bonus of £500 to an eligible winning breeder. To win the owner’s bonus, the successful owner must be a member of the ROA. For horses in joint ownership, 51% or more of the winning horse must be owned by members of the ROA. For horses owned by Racing Partnerships, 51% or more of the nominated partners must be ROA members.

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ROA MEMBERS IN FOCUS:

HELEN CHECKLEY

Diary dates and reminders MAY 26

Abu Dhabi Irish 2,000 Guineas ROA members can gain free admission to the Curragh on Saturday, May 26, which features the Abu Dhabi Irish 2,000 Guineas.

JUNE 19-23

Exclusive ROA facility at Royal Ascot The ROA chalet offers members a bespoke hospitality package at a discounted rate. The chalet accommodates 50 members each day.

JULY 1

Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby Festival Members visiting the Curragh can obtain free admission on Sunday, July 1.

JULY 10

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

Helen Checkley with her pride and joy Monsieur Joe after winning at Leicester

Mike Checkley has a lot of credit in the bank when it comes to his wife Helen’s birthday, after selecting Monsieur Joe as a present. Not only has he proven a star on the track, finishing in the first four in 17 of his 29 races, but his suitability to Meydan just happens to coincide with Helen’s birthday. Monsieur Joe capped a lucrative five-race spell in Dubai this winter with a fine fourth in the $1 million Al Quoz Sprint on World Cup day and his owners and trainer Robert Cowell have big plans this summer, starting with Haydock’s Temple Stakes in May. Monsieur Joe was previously with Walter Swinburn, who departed the training ranks last year. “He was bought for me as a birthday present by my husband and it was the best kept secret in the yard,” recalls Checkley. “Walter and Alison [Swinburn] had bought him at the yearling sales but he’d been missed in their earlier breeze-ups. Mike picked him out from four and chose him because he looked cute.” Monsieur Joe never shows much at home – “he’s very laid-back, which is unusual for a sprinter and you never know what you’re going to get” – coming alive only when he gets to the racecourse, so new trainer Cowell was a relieved man when he showed him what he could do this winter. The Checkleys live in Chiswick, London, a fair distance from Cowell’s Newmarket base, THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

but it was the trainer’s handling of Prohibit, along with a chance encounter at Meydan, that persuaded Monsieur Joe’s owners he was the right choice. “We shared a table at Meydan with Robert and Prohibit’s owners last year and we all got on so well,” says Checkley. “At the time Prohibit was a Group 1 horse and Joe was a handicapper, so the fact they might run in some of the same races this year was not an issue at the time. But even if they do we’ve such a good relationship with Prohibit’s owners that we will cheer each other’s horse on.” The Checkleys managed to watch four of Monsieur Joe’s races at Meydan this winter, on the latest occasion enjoying the luxury of complimentary business class flights and accommodation, various entertainments during the week and a meal on raceday. “They really look after you,” admits Checkley. “Last year, when we went for the first time, they brought out horses in a ceremony, with the flags of each nation represented, and it was amazing to think our little horse was one of only 18 from the UK.” Ascot and York are deemed worthy of a name-check by Checkley when she is asked about owners’ facilities at British tracks, but otherwise “just a cup of tea or coffee” is the disappointing norm. “Prize-money is poor and tracks need to look after owners more,” she continues.

JULY 31

Glorious Goodwood The ROA offers a special service for members to order admission badges for the Richmond Enclosure at Glorious Goodwood. Members can also book a special hospitality package which includes Richmond Enclosure admission, a reserved seat in the March Grandstand, a three-course lunch in the Horsewalk Restaurant, afternoon tea, racecard, Racing Post and valet parking. Bookings for the package close on May 31.

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.

DECEMBER 6

ROA Horseracing Awards A special date for the diary as we salute the year’s top racehorses and their owners with a glittering ceremony at the London Hilton.

Monsieur Joe is described by Checkley as “one of the family”, so it’s perhaps not surprising that she considers a jockey letting him down by not riding to instructions as the most frustrating thing about ownership. Now that Cowell is acquainted with Monsieur Joe’s particulars, riders can be selected more knowingly. Should Prohibit’s rider Jim Crowley ever get off him to partner Monsieur Joe, do not pass up the hint!

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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

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

Figures for period April 1, 2011 to March 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 (£)

I I JCR JCR I I Arena JCR I JCR I I I Northern I I Northern I I JCR I JCR I Northern JCR JCR I Arena Arena Northern I Arena Northern Northern Arena Arena

333,521 157,030 102,510 87,878 76,321 67,027 62,909 48,175 45,295 37,850 33,220 29,190 27,070 26,604 23,736 21,976 20,745 20,448 19,609 16,612 16,417 16,381 16,143 15,507 14,877 14,735 13,643 12,971 12,815 12,471 12,053 10,846 10,586 10,423 9,892 8,576 34,270

91,106 68,433 47,882 61,601 54,611 31,126 42,271 39,527 45,162 29,735 12,596 16,262 22,223 5,692 19,497 15,343 17,178 15,317 22,962 10,611 13,064 11,507 11,377 9,127 13,845 14,572 10,559 17,486 17,422 12,384 12,906 10,558 11,484 9,950 11,263 11,866 22,157

135,000 71,926 60,406 77,736 20,140 6,132 36,582 16,384 24,118 12,870 4,280 4,261 7,336 3,516 4,763 4,858 6,188 3,104 3,301 2,853 2,740 3,393 3,516 2,252 4,048 4,192 2,045 2,548 3,655 2,880 13,003 2,066 2,119 2,318 1,553 1,672 13,559

559,627 297,389 210,798 227,925 151,477 105,161 143,312 104,085 119,117 81,856 50,497 50,980 57,098 36,165 49,516 44,677 44,759 38,869 46,797 31,121 33,020 32,236 32,251 27,254 34,400 35,104 27,216 34,016 34,250 28,643 38,933 24,611 24,269 22,891 23,283 22,329 70,897

18 17 13 38 21 14 25 18 18 24 15 15 16 9 15 13 19 18 16 90 20 11 20 19 13 19 16 74 26 24 18 98 20 15 53 14 891

10,073,278 5,055,618 2,740,375 8,661,152 3,181,020 1,472,255 3,582,799 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 2,800,897 660,401 354,600 645,026 517,833 447,200 666,969 435,450 2,517,177 890,500 687,427 700,803 2,411,844 485,380 343,363 1,234,011 312,600 63,138,501

214,349 136,346 86,514 80,609 60,045 47,366 51,442 37,738 34,964 35,137 19,628 18,259 22,737 10,654 15,841 13,365 14,200 14,101 14,366 7,296 13,496 8,659 11,379 7,949 7,575 7,606 3,656 7,299 10,717 6,495 6,857 4,300 4,351 7,853 2,588 4,038 23,685

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Jumps Racecourse League Table Ptn Racecourse

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 (£)

1 Cheltenham JCR 2 Aintree JCR 3 Ascot I 4 Haydock Park JCR 5 Kempton Park JCR 6 Sandown Park JCR 7 Newbury I 8 Ayr I 9 Doncaster Arena 10 Chepstow Northern 11 Wincanton JCR 12 Kelso I 13 Perth I 14 Newton Abbot I 15 Market Rasen JCR 16 Taunton I 17 Ffos Las Northern 18 Cartmel I 19 Newcastle Northern 20 Wetherby I 21 Musselburgh I 22 Fakenham I 23 Stratford-on-Avon I 24 Hereford Northern 25 Bangor-on-Dee I 26 Carlisle JCR 27 Uttoxeter Northern 28 Ludlow I 29 Exeter JCR 30 Huntingdon JCR 31 Sedgefield Northern 32 Fontwell Park Northern 33 Lingfield Park Arena 34 Worcester Arena 35 Warwick JCR 36 Plumpton I 37 Southwell Arena 38 Folkestone Arena 39 Leicester I 40 Hexham I 41 Towcester I 42 Catterick Bridge I Total

208,942 195,014 119,573 74,561 52,773 50,474 43,018 26,878 26,363 25,020 24,815 21,531 20,480 20,336 19,841 19,164 19,048 18,995 18,571 18,030 17,348 17,163 16,340 16,221 15,041 14,745 14,201 13,490 13,067 12,713 11,704 11,692 11,657 11,341 11,132 10,999 10,536 10,088 8,799 8,186 6,716 5,558 28,243

76,809 95,767 62,440 47,228 46,431 52,280 57,200 35,122 31,989 19,392 20,753 18,345 14,607 15,150 15,775 17,995 13,926 10,064 20,342 20,069 23,298 15,927 18,875 4,941 14,268 18,145 11,658 20,079 22,145 16,548 10,327 13,213 10,672 8,088 26,907 15,403 9,848 11,001 17,450 16,117 12,786 21,004 22,263

46,786 50,440 17,715 12,323 8,664 12,073 12,253 10,578 5,772 6,609 4,351 3,203 1,575 0 3,439 3,945 3,213 2,957 3,607 3,496 3,327 0 3,482 2,675 1,957 3,768 3,619 3,191 3,819 3,133 2,034 2,466 2,751 2,322 4,524 2,430 2,085 2,105 3,191 2,224 2,477 2,201 5,908

332,537 341,220 199,728 134,112 107,867 115,297 112,471 72,578 64,124 52,198 50,481 44,146 36,876 35,486 39,056 41,412 36,458 32,016 42,719 41,892 44,194 33,090 38,697 23,935 31,383 36,930 29,917 37,046 39,674 32,393 24,065 27,449 25,080 22,610 42,563 28,832 22,928 23,194 29,440 26,706 22,596 29,013 56,652

16 9 8 9 9 9 11 9 9 13 16 12 14 18 19 13 19 7 12 16 9 9 17 17 15 11 25 14 14 16 18 23 5 17 9 15 16 8 10 14 17 8 554

5,320,589 3,070,979 1,597,823 1,264,485 970,804 980,028 1,237,185 653,203 577,113 678,577 807,700 529,748 516,269 638,750 742,064 538,350 674,475 224,114 512,627 670,269 397,750 297,810 657,850 406,892 470,739 406,235 747,937 518,648 555,433 518,285 433,178 631,323 125,400 384,366 383,064 432,483 366,846 185,551 294,400 373,883 384,130 232,100 31,409,454

187,226 182,440 91,285 65,385 23,279 38,675 40,229 36,776 11,224 14,183 20,479 9,376 9,677 10,386 8,589 15,208 17,310 9,318 2,626 11,034 11,620 16,516 12,747 8,772 13,002 11,740 3,650 7,984 9,216 5,156 3,607 3,880 4,655 2,732 12,723 4,345 4,691 5,440 6,142 2,762 2,686 6,275 21,194

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Plenty of reasons not to let your TBA membership lapse... It seems timely to remind all members of the many benefits of being part of the Association. The TBA helps to create confidence in the breeding industry, ensuring that it is wellrun, well-administered, and has fair legislation in order to create the conditions for you to be able to run a successful and profitable breeding business. It actively lobbies in defence of breeders’ interests in this country and internationally, and also helps you in a variety of practical ways to run your business and to save you money: • HORSEMEN’S GROUP BONUS SCHEME The Horsemen’s Group is responsible for a new bonus scheme. Underwritten by the group’s Development Fund, the scheme will see a £5,000 bonus added to almost 100 races in 2012, and began on Wednesday, April 18. The Horsemen’s Group Bonus Scheme races, comprising both Flat and jump contests, will be selected by a sub-committee of the HG’s board and will take place only at

racecourses which have been awarded HG ‘Partner Status’. The bonuses will be payable only to winning connections who are existing and fully paid-up members of the HG’s constituent bodies: the Racehorse Owners Association, The National Trainers’ Federation, the Professional Jockeys Association, the Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association and the National Association of Stable Staff. See the full press release on the TBA website. • HBLB BREEDERS’ PRIZES SCHEME If you are not a member you will lose £230 every time you win a prize. • THIRD PARTY LIABILITY INSURANCE Cover up to £10 million for members. • FREE LEGAL, VETERINARY AND ACCOUNTANCY ADVICE • TBA/RCA BREEDERS’ BADGE SCHEME Membership entitles complimentary

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Employers’ notes Employment Law News The second TBA quarterly employment law newsletter is now available for all TBA members on the TBA website. The most significant news item is the increase to the qualifying period for unfair dismissal claims from one to two years, which came into force on April 6, 2012. Employees employed from that date will now need to complete two years of continuous service before they acquire unfair dismissal rights. Those already in employment retain the one year qualifying period. It should be noted that some dismissals remain automatically unfair, e.g. in cases of discrimination. For further information, visit www.thetba.co.uk and register or log in to access the employers’ area.

TBA Employment Law Fact Sheets Updates to the following TBA Employment Law Fact Sheets have been made. These can be accessed from the Employers’ Area of the website: • Right to Work in the UK • Legal Reasons for Dismissal • Redundancy • Maternity

Reporting accidents and incidents at work Changes to the RIDDOR (Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations) reporting requirements came into force on April 6, 2012. From this date, employers should

report injuries that lead to a worker being incapacitated for more than seven consecutive days as the result of a workrelated accident or injury. This is an increase from the previous three-day requirement. The report must be made within 15 days of the accident. You should, however, still keep a record of the accident if the worker has been incapacitated for more than three consecutive days. All incidents can be reported online at www.hse.gov.uk/riddor, but a telephone service remains for reporting fatal and major injuries only: call the Incident Contact Centre on 0845 300 9923 (opening hours Monday to Friday 8.30am to 5pm). For further information on RIDDOR visit www.hse.gov.uk.

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TBA members watch Nicky Henderson’s string warming up in the covered ride at Seven Barrows

Seven winners at Seven Barrows Alan Yuill Walker reports from the West Regional Day Regional representatives Penny van Straubenzee and Harriet Houghton organised a topical visit to Lambourn for the West Regional Day on March 27 on a gloriously sunny day. In the immediate aftermath of this year’s Cheltenham Festival, there is little more that a National Hunt enthusiast could wish for than to get up close to Nicky Henderson’s own ‘magnificent seven’, which made him the top Cheltenham trainer of all time. Addressing his guests in the main yard, the master of Seven Barrows had singled out 14 of his stars for inspection. Having given pride of place to last season’s Gold Cup hero Long Run, that septet of Cheltenham winners was served up by assistant trainer Ben Pauling. No fewer than five of the group were Grade 1 winners – Sprinter Sacre, Simonsig, Bobs Worth, Finian’s Rainbow and Riverside Theatre – and it was fascinating to hear their trainer giving the inside story (with quite a few controversial asides into the bargain!). One for whom Nicky has the highest expectations is the tremendously good-looking Arkle winner Sprinter Sacre. “He’s the biggest show-off in the world and is all class,” said Henderson. “He just says, ‘Look at me’ – he’s good and he knows it.” Interestingly, the trainer also included The Queen’s Open Hearted in this elite parade. “At the moment he is a great big baby,” he enthused. “But he is going to be a lovely horse.” Following drinks at Seven Barrows, the TBA party moved on to Oaksey House, the flagship THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

home of the Injured Jockeys’ Fund (IJF), situated on the site of Bourne House, the former training yard in Lambourn. A splendid lunch in the first-floor Arkle Room (so named because of the numerous paintings of ‘Himself’ which have been loaned by the Westminster family) was prepared by trainer’s wife Avery Ffrench-Davis. Afterwards, Lady Oaksey explained the background of the IJF and the creation of Oaksey House (Sheikh Mohammed and the Moller Trust were two of the biggest benefactors), which was opened by The Princess Royal in September 2009. Oaksey House fulfils two principal roles. The Betfair Wing on the ground floor of the main block, with a lovely light, spacious feel about it, has a state-of-the-art gym, physiotherapy and rehabilitation facilities – Jason Maguire and

Robert Thornton are just two of the high-profile beneficiaries to date. Behind this is a three-sided courtyard providing 12 single-storey units for residential and respite accommodation. At the centre is a landscaped garden presided over by a statue of Lord Oaksey himself, the man who was largely responsible for instigating the IJF in 1964 following the paralysing accidents to Paddy Farrell and Tim Brookshaw. There are many evocative images hanging on the walls at Oaksey House, but none is more relevant than a framed tea-towel depicting all the many broken bones and injuries sustained by three-time champion jockey Terry Biddlecombe. Just to bring the message home, it deserves a more prominent position! Our sincere thanks are due to all the many people at Seven Barrows and Oaksey House who made this such a memorable outing.

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rateable value’, then to ‘Valuation list application’ and then ‘Find my property’ through your postcode. You can then see the details of the valuation and the details of the accommodation that is in the VO records. By going to ‘Compare my property’ you can also see details of other comparable properties. The rateable value details should include a reduction at the end of the valuation of up to

£4,200 for stud relief. This relief is for buildings that are used for the breeding and rearing of horses and ponies. If your rateable value is below £12,000 you should apply for small business rate relief. This relief must be claimed otherwise the billing authority will charge you the full amount. The details should be included with the rate demand papers. If you have any questions on the matter please contact Bill Simpson on 01488 685111 or email tyto@btconnect.com.

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The talented Venetia Williams-trained Pepite Rose (by Bonbon Rose ex Sambre) claims her fourth successive steeplechase win within a month with victory in the EBF/TBA Mares’ Novices’ Chase Finale at Newbury on March 24

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Diary dates APRIL 30

2012-2013 TBA/RCA Breeders’ Badge Scheme If you do not update your TBA/RCA Horseracing Privilege card it will automatically deactivate on April 30. Forms should by now have been returned to Weatherbys.

MAY 10

The North regional day Richard Fahey’s Musley Bank Stables and Rainbow Equine Clinic.

being generously sponsored by Shadwell Estate Company Ltd, will be held at Tattersalls, Park Paddocks, Newmarket. The evening will begin with a Champagne Reception at 7.15pm. Members will be sent an invitation to apply for tickets at the beginning of May, which are priced at £85 each. Numbers are strictly limited and places will be allocated on a ‘first come, first served’ basis. To avoid disappointment return your application as soon as possible to Stanstead House.

prevention, the aim of the day is to educate and inform breeders on what must be done to ensure that the UK remains free of these diseases. The seminar takes place directly after the AGM at Tattersalls, with registration and coffee at 10.30am. Tickets are £45 for TBA members or £65 for non-members. Further information and application forms will be sent to TBA members in the next mailing and are available from Caroline Turnbull at Stanstead House on 01638 661321 or email caroline@thetba.co.uk.

JUNE 28

MAY 18

TBA NH Mares’ Only Race at Aintree The first of seven new races, following sponsorship from the TBA’s NH Committee, to recognise and reward those racecourses who continue to support mares only races.

MAY 28

South-east regional day John Dunlop’s Castle Stables and a tour of the Rolls Royce factory or Goodwood House.

JUNE 12

Wales & West Midlands regional day John Spearing’s Kinnersley Racing Stables and Simon Sweeting’s Overbury Stud.

JUNE 14

South-west regional day Roger Charlton’s Beckhampton House and optional trip to Newbury races.

JUNE 27

TBA Awards Dinner This year’s Annual Awards Dinner, which is

JULY 3-4

TBA Annual General Meeting

Open regional day

Held at Tattersalls, Park Paddocks, Newmarket, commencing at 9.45am.

Two-day visit to Normandy, France, to include racing at Clairefontaine and Deauville, Arqana sales and the opportunity for other trips to local studs/trainers.

JUNE 28

TBA Annual Seminar – Equine Infectious Diseases This year’s seminar offers breeders the chance to hear the latest information on existing and re-emerging infectious diseases that pose a threat not only to the thoroughbred breeding industry but to the whole UK equine sector. Speakers include international experts with first-hand experience of less familiar but reemerging diseases including Dourine (Dr Ilaria Pascucci, Italy) and Glanders (Dr Ulrich Wernery, Dubai). Closer to home, Dr Ann Cullinane of the Irish Equine Centre will report on Equine Infectious Anaemia and Professor Sidney Ricketts will focus on the ever-present threat posed to the breeding industry by CEM. Updates on African Horse Sickness and EVA, and the importance of continuing disease surveillance and monitoring, will be presented by Dr Richard Newton. With the emphasis very much on

JULY 21

TBA NH Mares’ Only race At Cartmel (to be confirmed)

JULY 23-26

International Breeders’ Meeting To be held in Newmarket.

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Breeders’ Prizes

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

Prize (£)

Based on date money was paid

Horse

Sire

Dam

Date

Course

Mrs J L Egan

6,000

Alfie Sherrin

Kayf Tara

Mandys Native

13/03/2012

Cheltenham

Simon Tindall

6,000

Simonsig

Fair Mix

Dusty Too

14/03/2012

Cheltenham

Chieveley Manor Stud

5,000

Son Of Flicka

Groom Dancer

Calendula

14/03/2012

Cheltenham

R W Huggins

5,000

Ikorodu Road

Double Trigger

Cerisier

03/03/2012

Doncaster

24/03/2012

Newbury

Taker Bloodstock

3,000

Cape Tribulation

Hernando

Gay Fantastic

15/03/2012

Cheltenham

D And Mrs Holmes

2,500

Call Me A Star

Midnight Legend

Second Call

10/03/2012

Sandown Park

H Young

1,750

Attaglance

Passing Glance

Our Ethel

16/03/2012

Cheltenham

W P Jenks

1,250

Lackamon

Fleetwood

Pearlossa

17/03/2012

Uttoxeter

Flat Breeder

New England, Mount Coote & P Barrett

Based on date money was paid

Prize (£)

Horse

Sire

Dam

1,800

Gusto

Oasis Dream

Pickle

Date

Course

24/03/2012

Lingfield Park

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

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MARCH 2011

GEORGE SELWYN

SIMON TINDALL

Simonsig, now a dual Festival winner following Aintree romp

Eight British-bred winners at the Cheltenham Festival was a commendable tally to say the least. Two of four Grade 1 winners were Riverside Theatre (responsible for our February Breeder of the Month) in the Ryanair Chase and Simonsig in the Neptune Investment Management Novices’ Hurdle. Both were major contributors to Nicky Henderson’s record-breaking tally, Simonsig being owned by Ronnie Bartlett, sponsor of the Grade 1 Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle, who bought him privately from his breeder Simon Tindall, who gains the March award for the gelding’s Cheltenham triumph and wins one bottle of premium Irish whiskey and a supply of TRM’s world famous Calphormin. Simonsig add to his tally with victory in the Grade 2 John Smith’s Mersey Novices’ Hurdle at Aintree. “He is a really good horse and he has a lot of speed,” enthused his trainer. “Previously with Ian Ferguson in Northern Ireland, he is very clean-winded and does not take a lot of work. I imagine he’ll go over fences next year.” Simonsig, named after a South African vineyard, is a grey like his parents Fair Mix and Dusty Too. So too is his maternal grandsire Terimon, who used to stand alongside Fair Mix at Shade Oak Stud. Terimon also features as the broodmare sire of Triumph Hurdle victor Countrywide Flame.

Homebred Dusty Too scored two wins in bumpers and hurdle races. Her six-year-old Fair Mix gelding, whose point-to-pointing career comprised two wins from three starts in Ireland, has been a model of consistency under rules, his Aintree victory being his fifth win from only six outings, including the champion point-to-point bumper at Fairyhouse. Tindall owned Simonsig’s grandam, the unraced American-bred mare Princess Florine, throughout her stud innings. Her first offspring, the winning Fine de Claire (by Teenoso), was retained, and she produced My Murphy, a Graded winner over hurdles at Limerick. Based in East Sussex at Highfields Farm, near Mayfield, Tindall has had a diverse involvement in racing. Formerly joint-owner of Haymarket Publishing, among the numerous magazines for which he was responsible was Pacemaker. Over the years his many trainers on both sides of the Irish Channel have included Stan Mellor. During the 1980s they shared such stalwarts as Charlie Muddle, Krug, No-U-Turn and the entire Mister Lord, all of whom were in training in Lambourn at the same time. “For about 30 years I have had Flat mares with Bob McCreery,” explained Tindall. “Some I have owned outright and others in partnership. Although I have cut back in numbers, I still own some in partnership at Stowell Hill. At the moment I have a half share in Ronaldsay.” At last year’s Doncaster Premier Yearling Sales Ronaldsay’s Oasis Dream colt, a first foal, realised top price of £280,000. The mare was a Listed winner in Tindall’s colours and is half-sister to another grey to score for him in Crackle. The Exceed And Excel filly out of Crackle (a half-sister to Pickle and Auld Burns), was one of three Tindall foals to average over 50,000gns at Tattersalls’ December Sale last year. Crackle is by Anshan out of Crackling (by Electric out of Birch Creek), all four bred by the McCreerys. Meanwhile, Dusty Too has been mated with Presenting in three of the last four covering seasons, resulting in a gelding (now three) and a yearling colt, and she was due to foal to him again on April 26. She also has a five-year-old gelding by Erhaab, Simarthur, who won a point-to-point in April, and a two-year-old filly by Robin Des Champs. Asked what has given him the biggest thrill thus far, Tindall said: “There have certainly been some exciting moments over the years, but I think breeding a Grade 1 winner at the Cheltenham Festival, whether one owns it or not, takes some beating.”

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Be there...

Jamie Snowden stable visit

MAY 5

NGC 2,000 Guineas Day, Newmarket Savour the build-up to the first Classic of the year in the NGC Paddock Bar with a glass of free Pimm’s in hand before returning the following day for free to nurse the hangover at the 1,000 Guineas.

MAY 19

NGC Lanwades Stud visit, Newmarket TBA Chairman Kirsten Rausing has invited members to an exclusive tour of Lanwades Stud followed by a great afternoon of racing enjoyed from the comfort of our own designated box at Newmarket’s Rowley Mile Course. Secure a place at www.the-ngc.co.uk

JUNE 2

Investec Derby, Epsom Witness the defining moment for the Classic generation in the sunshine of the somewhat colourful surroundings of the Epsom Downs.

JUNE 19-23 Royal Ascot

In the year of the Olympics and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, what better way to celebrate all things British than amidst the pomp and ceremony of Flat racing’s crown jewels?

Young Jamie Snowden chats to NGC members at his Folly House yard in Lambourn

n an unseasonably glorious Saturday in March, a small crowd of 20 enthusiasts assembled at Jamie Snowden’s Folly House yard in Lambourn for the first NGC event of 2012. Following on from the success of last year’s visit to Warren Greatrex’s Lambourn yard, which saw members enjoy both sunshine and a 33-1 winner, the pressure was on for up-andcoming trainer Jamie Snowden and he

certainly didn’t disappoint his visitors. After a warm welcome to the yard, the affable young trainer led the way up to the stunning Mandown gallops where the group watched some of Snowden’s stable stars in action. As they followed past in procession, the trainer talked through his training routine, one, which, by his own admission, closely mirrors the handlers he previously worked under. With several years as assistant

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“Racing’s decline in the sports betting market can be partly put down to the accessibility of other sports, through the proliferation of Sky and cable TV. “As a sport-mad child in the 80s, the only sport I could watch was on a Saturday afternoon on the BBC’s Grandstand, which then offered full racing coverage. By comparison, my kids now grow up in a world with 30 sports channels on their TV, plus endless sporting events from around the globe, streamed live to laptops, tablets and smart phones. To increase its market share, racing must first understand the consumer market it is trying to interact with. “Focus groups, questionnaires, database segmentation and CRM all have to be part of the marketing mix.”

“Racing’s share of the sports betting market is primarily decreasing because of the constant and dramatic growth in the popularity of football betting. At the start of the 1990s, racing was competing with a product that was rarely shown live in the UK and had only a limited number of betting opportunities. If you were having a bet on a top-flight game back then, you could only really bet on the outright result and often that had to be part of what was a minimum treble. “In short, the product offering on football, from a broadcasting and betting perspective, has been turned on its head over a 20-year period. Not only is football shown live virtually every day of the week, bookmakers offer hundreds of markets on every game. The choice is staggering

and the new generation of sports bettors have had their heads turned from Chepstow to Charlton and from Southwell to Southampton! “So, what can racing do to grab back its share of the limelight? Well, it’s revolutionary but it may have to take some drastic steps to ensure that it doesn’t go head-to-head and compete on the big days with the most popular sport of all. “The briefest of looks at the racing calendar shows that some of our biggest races clash with football on a Saturday afternoon. Other sports have positioned their flagship events not to clash with football. Racing may not be brave enough to consider it but it may be time to stop trying to compete with football.”

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www.the- ng c.co.uk trainer to Nicky Henderson, a year under the tutelage of Paul Nicholls and a prolific career as an amateur jockey behind him, Jamie had plenty of stories to tell and advice to offer. In addition to quizzing the Lambourn handler on his career in the industry, the group was also lucky enough to witness a schooling session, which provided plenty of ammunition for a lengthy discussion on race preparation and the reasons behind certain schooling drills. Heading back to the yard, Jamie was more in need of one of his wife’s delicious bacon rolls than the NGC members! With breakfast quickly polished off, a fully recharged trainer gave the group a tour of the yard and a brief on all of his horses including his two runners that afternoon. With the drying ground flagged up as a worry that morning, Miss Milborne still ran a cracking fourth in the Mares’ Final while Marodima finished a game second on the undercard. Not one to be outdone by the tipping prowess of local rival Greatrex, Snowden pinpointed Millers Reef, owned by the prospering Jamie Snowden Racing Club, as a likely improver. Members made sure their money was down at Taunton a few days later where he duly obliged at 5-2. The winning form didn’t stop there either. Snowden’s biggest training success so far

are far more options on what to bet on and where to do it. With the introduction of the internet and mobile betting it’s much easier to place a bet on your choice of sport. How does racing promote itself better? That’s a tough question. We have a great product, we just need to manage it better and we need to keep modernising.”

Andrew Harding Palatinate Thoroughbred Racing

“I think it’s interesting to look at horseracing in the USA, where the sport has very much evolved and been promoted over the last ten to 15 years solely as a betting product rather than a sport. The result is that people’s interest and enthusiasm for horseracing wanes and the betting market relies on a smaller demographic. “In this country, the sports markets that appear to be growing are not doing so due to their popularity as a betting product but as a sport itself. Racing should continue to promote itself as a sport and maximise its best stories to ensure people’s interest is maintained long term and future generations of the betting public are equally captured by it.” THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

The discussion continues over breakfast

came in the 2011 Summer National at Uttoxeter, courtesy of the victorious Knighton Combe, whom the trainer reported to be on course for a defence of his title this summer. With an Ascot win just one week after the visit, Knighton Combe’s prospects of defending his crown are increasingly strong. Now entering his twilight years, the stable star’s potential successor in the yard could well be embryonic chaser Caminero, who was earmarked by the trainer as a horse to follow. Snowden is certainly making great strides amongst the training ranks and the NGC will be following both his and Caminero’s progress with interest.

Student diary STEPHEN HEATH Darley Flying Start After being warned by many about the cold Kentucky winters, the current crop of Darley Flying Start first-year students have been led to wonder what all the fuss was about. An unseasonably mild winter has led into a spring best described as a scorcher, causing a beautifully early bloom in both the surroundings and the equine members of the Bluegrass state. Also blooming is the Kentucky Wildcat college basketball team, as mentioned last month, and now excitement has reached epic proportions as they beat great rivals the Louisville Cardinals to reach the national finals. The partying in the streets was truly something to behold, even if things did get a little out of hand, mainly through the strange tradition of setting couches ablaze, which proved too much of a temptation for many college households. This display of pure enthusiasm for a sporting event leads to an inevitable comparison with how racing markets its heroes and heroines, and how great rivalries can be exploited. So much attention on our sport tends toward the negative and so it is refreshing and timely that a horse with the charisma and ability of Frankel has come along to again stoke the fire, and it is hoped that Racing For Change can help ride the wave of this exceptional animal into bringing more new blood into racing. People with an interest in horses, rather than racing per se, are an obvious target for bringing into the sport and this is exemplified

through the work of Zenyatta’s connections here in America. Through ‘her’ daily blog posts on her very own website, connections have used the opportunity to educate and enlighten her fans, many of whom have only a passing interest in the sport but were sucked in to the idea of Zenyatta as a heroine to be followed. They have explained the breeding process with a remarkable dichotomy of both candour and respect, along with explanations of the pregnancy and foaling processes, and dealt skillfully with her initial pregnancy loss. So it is wonderful that they have been rewarded with a great-looking and healthy colt by Bernardini, pictures of whom were rapidly consumed by her now obsessivelyinterested fans. Also successful has been an online store selling Zenyatta merchandise, such as t-shirts and soft toys alongside pictures and even jewellery. My Japanese colleague tells me that such merchandise is commonplace in her homeland, where the jockeys are often treated as rock stars with their own action figures! From personal experience, the rosettes given out at the 2,000 Guineas won so triumphantly by Frankel were a great step in this kind of direction, giving racegoers a kind of ownership and share in such a great success. To excite the next generation further, why not have soft toys of their heroes? I know I would have been overjoyed with my very own mini Lammtarra to race around a constructed Epsom, but maybe that’s just me!

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On Saturday 31st March the curtains opened on the start of the Flat at Doncaster, the track also hosted the launch of Barney’s Challenge. @RacingWelfare

Paul ‘Barney’ Bamford worked as a stable lad and work-rider for 12 years for Barry Hills in Lambourn before taking up a position with Spanish based trainer Les Eyre. It was here in 2006 that Barney sustained a fall from a racehorse that left him paralysed from the chest down. In the immediate aftermath of his accident, Racing Welfare funded his emergency air lift back to the Spinal Injuries unit at the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield, in the intervening years the

Lucky 13 for a Marathon Test

13 runners from the British racing industry will line up in the Capital on the 22nd April for the London Marathon, all striving to complete the gruelling 26.2 miles and raise significant funds for Racing Welfare, the Jockey Club’s Charity. The training ranks are represented by George Baker, whilst Nick and Hannah Walker along

Charity has helped him and his family with the provision of specialist housing, wheelchairs, standing frames and retraining courses. To help support Racing Welfare and other racing staff, who like him have suffered severe injuries from falls and kicks, the 41 year old, who lives near Sheffield with his wife and two Children has set himself a herculean physical Challenge. ‘Barney’s Challenge’ starts on the 14th May when he sets off from Redcar Racecourse on his specially adapted Hand Cycle with his arrival planned at Doncaster

with Veryan Gould are running as a Somerset racing trio. Another runner is Seb Vance from Racing UK and Channel 4 Racing who will be joined by “Team Warwick” who are Racecourse Manager Huw Williams, Office Administrative Assistant, Melissa Stark and Lee Moulson who is the track’s Conference & Events Executive. The weighing room’s runners for this year’s slog are Jockey’s Valet Andrew “Gandy” Hardacre from Gloucestershire, Will Pettis a conditional jockey with Noel Chance and Amateur Jockey Niall Halley. Kirsty Durham is representing the stud side of racing, who works for Hascombe Stud in Cheveley just outside Newmarket. The final runner is Marco Botti’s head lad Alex Cairns who sourced a highly prized signed Manchester United shirt from his old friend Michael Owen, which he hopes to auction at a later date to aid his fundraising efforts, the shirt that is, not Michael (sorry ladies)! Anyone who would like to make a last minute donation to the Racing Welfare runners can do so simply using a mobile phone to Text Give LMAR12 £1 to 70070.

Racecourse six days later on the 19th May. During the 110 mile trek he will cross the North Yorks Moors, visiting racing yards, the leading racehorse training centre of Malton and York Racecourse for the Betfred Dante meeting. His journey equates to 5 marathons in 6 days, with him relying upon nothing more than arm power and a huge amount of determination. Barney Bamford explains why he is putting himself through such agony “I wouldn’t be here without Racing Welfare, they have helped me so much since my accident; the Welfare Officers are truly incredible. Many people who watch racing only

sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss The Zamindar Colt, given to Racing Welfare by Dr Marwan Koukash [Owner Breeder March Issue] in an innovative fundraising campaign for the Charity, has found a new owner. The Reuben Foundation, the Charitable Trust of the Reuben Brother’s, whose business interests include the ownership of Northern Racing, have donated a significant sum to the Charity in exchange for a year’s ownership of the 2 year old racehorse that is in training with David Simcock. @RacingWelfare

Despite owning 10 of the UK’s leading racecourses the Reuben Brothers have never ventured into the arena of racehorse ownership before. This change of heart is explained by a Reuben Foundation spokesman

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that the majority of accidents happen to stable staff out on the gallops or in stable yards. I am trying to raise £100,000 to support Racing Welfare’s work in helping stable lads and lasses who suffer serious injuries. The Charity not only helps with wheelchairs and housing but they are also always there to talk to and provide support when times get tough.”

Barney in his hand cycle

Barney’s Challenge is not merely physical; it is also a Challenge to racing fans throughout the country to do something to raise money to help stable staff in times of need. Golf matches, a sponsored slim, cross country foot races and football matches are already planned to help Barney raise his total. To donate on line visit www.JustGiving.com/BarneysChallenge or contact Richard Negus 01638 560763

Success for Racing Welfare at Ludlow

Over 300 people enjoyed a great day’s racing and a superb lunch at Ludlow’s Maundy Thursday meeting which was held in aid of Racing Welfare and Barney’s Challenge. A total of £28,000 was raised thanks to £7,500 in generous sponsorship, a draw for a Magnum of champagne and an auction that boasted lots including boxes at Cheltenham and Ludlow, artworks by Trevor Osborne and Florence Houston and a hat donated by Royal Ascot milliner Yvette Jelfs and a made to measure tweed outfit from Suit The Country that will leave Shropshire rivalling Paris, London or Milan as the fashion centre of Europe! A 10% donation from money raised the day was made by Racing Welfare to the Midlands Air Ambulance in recognition of the vital service that they perform for racing staff who suffer falls in rural training grounds in the Midlands region.

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Reuben Brothers buy the Charity Colt! “The Reuben’s involvement in racecourse ownership gives us a firsthand understanding of just how vital stable, stud and racecourse staff are to making a day at the races possible. Through our donation to Racing Welfare we are able to support their work on behalf of the often forgotten people in the sport. We know that working with racehorses can be a dangerous occupation, and we are delighted that our support will help the significant number of stable lads and lasses who are injured each year on the gallops and in stables. We have named the colt ‘Great

Ormond’ after another charity the Reuben Foundation supports. Any prize money raised will go to supporting Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital, London.” Racing Welfare patron, Dr Koukash, was delighted with the success of his fundraising idea “I want to encourage everyone with a stake or interest in racing to get behind Racing Welfare as they are there for everyone in racing, irrespective of occupation or background. I hope that the Reuben Foundation’s donation to the Charity

Great Ormond is shaping up nicely via their purchase of Great Ormond illustrates what can be done to help Racing Welfare and I encourage others to follow suit.”

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VET FORUM: THE EXPERT VIEW By DEIDRE CARSON

The complications of laminitis ‘No foot, no horse’, the saying goes, which is why this disease must be taken seriously are much more common in ponies. Whatever the trigger factor, within 24 hours of the causative insult there is already separation between the cells of the laminae and their underlying base. This results in some loss of the ability of the hoof to remain aligned with the pedal bone and the degree of separation depends on how severe and widespread the damage is. In the worst cases, there is complete separation at the toe, heels, bars and quarters and the bone will drop into the hoof, a condition colloquially described as ‘sinking’.

Clinical signs

An excessive intake of lush grass is one of the triggers for the onset of laminitis

he only simple thing that can be said about laminitis is “it is complicated”. It is important to realise that it can be life threatening and the potential for disaster must not be underestimated. Even in severe cases which survive there are long-term consequences in terms of foot care and pain management. This article aims to set out the basic features of diagnosis and treatment but it is impossible to cover here all of the current theories and treatment options you might hear about.

What is laminitis? The word ‘laminitis’ means inflammation of the laminae (sensitive tissues which join the hoof capsule to the underlying pedal bone) of the hoof. From a practical point of view the term covers a spectrum of clinical syndromes, from a very low-grade, transient episode in which there may or may not be obvious lameness, through moderately severe lameness with chronic rotation and foot changes, to the peracute rotation and penetration of the sole by the pedal bone or the complete separation of the hoof capsule at the coronary band. It is helpful to imagine that the pedal bone is ‘suspended’ within the hoof capsule by a complex interdigitating network of tiny projections emanating from a vast number of ‘leaves’ (laminae or lamellae). These laminae are composed of layers of cells which adhere to

their base (the basement membrane) forming a junction which keeps the bone attached to the hoof wall. The laminae have a very rich local blood supply via the two main digital arteries (plus a few smaller local branches). These can be felt on the outside of the sesamoid bones at the level of the fetlock or just above the lateral cartilages at the back of the lower pastern. In normal feet, the pulse is barely detectable.

What causes laminitis to develop? An enormous amount of work has been done, and continues to be done, to try to understand the processes involved in the early stages of laminitis. The commonly recognised trigger factors are: • Grain overload • Excessive intake of lush grass • Toxaemia (eg associated with colic or serious uterine infection) • Overloading of the sound forelimb where there is a serious injury to the other forelimb • Concussion, such as that seen in endurance horses • The administration of excessive doses of corticosteroids. There are also predisposing conditions, such as Cushings Disease, which is the overproduction of cortisol, and Equine Metabolic Syndrome, where the body’s cells are resistant to the effects of insulin, both of which

In very low-grade cases, where the symptoms and separation are minimal, signs might go unnoticed. However, as the degree of damage and separation increase, so does the degree of pain and inflammation. The feet will feel warm and there is an increase in the pulse pressure to the foot – the so called ‘bounding’ pulse in the digital arteries. This is a paradoxical sign as there is actually real and serious interference to the blood supply to the damaged laminae. The severity of signs progresses in line with the degree of damage. In less severe cases, there will usually be low grade single or multiple limb lameness – usually both fore and/or both hind feet are affected, but in the early stage only one foot might appear sore. It is also not unusual for one foot to be more severely affected. Some horses will lie down more than usual and some, particularly those in which all four feet are affected, may look uncoordinated. Affected horses may shift weight and will adopt the characteristic stance where they sit back on their hindlimbs in an attempt to take weight off their forelimbs. However, as the severity of the damage increases the degree of lameness also does, so that in the most severe cases the horse may refuse or be unable to move at all. Some become and remain recumbent.

Diagnosis Because of the range of clinical signs, it is not always as straightforward as it might seem to diagnose mild cases of laminitis. Bruised soles, subsolar abscesses and other injuries to the foot can mimic the early signs of laminitis. More severe cases tend to be more straightforward. In long-standing low-grade to moderate cases, the rings which normally run parallel to the coronet can be seen to diverge towards the heels. Diagnosis is usually based on the clinical history (eg exposure to lush grass or excess THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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X-ray showing a normal foot and the ‘suspended’ pedal bone

carbohydrate or infection) and the findings of a clinical examination. This will usually include a positive pain response to pressure, either just thumb pressure or using hoof testers, over the solar region of the foot in front of the frog; increased digital pulse; lameness usually affecting both fore feet, but possibly affecting the hinds or all four; a reluctance to walk and when forced to walk, shifting the weight onto the hind limbs before moving off. If the horse can walk, the heel usually contacts the ground first in an effort to remove weight from the toe. Where rotation and or sinking has occurred and is severe, the sole of the hoof may bulge and the pedal bone may even appear through the sole. In severe, peracute cases where there has been total separation of the laminae from the underlying bone, blood may appear around the coronet. Further information may be gained by obtaining x-rays of the feet. In mild cases, no abnormalities may be evident, but in more severe cases, there may be a varying degree of rotation of the pedal bone compared to the hoof capsule. This is best seen by comparing lines drawn down the front of the pedal bone and down the front of the hoof wall. These should be parallel. Radiographs obtained at the beginning of the process, even if they are normal, give a reference point against which the progress of disease process and the effectiveness of any treatment may be measured. They also make a useful guide for the farrier undertaking corrective foot trimming and balancing.

Treatment Treatment is aimed at controlling pain, reducing inflammation and stopping, or at least slowing, the progression of the damage. It is important to first treat or remove the cause, for example, by bringing the horse in from the rich grazing or treating any infection or grain overload. Pain management is imperative as this condition can be very painful and distressing. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), such as THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

The rotation of the pedal bone is evident in this radiograph

phenylbutazone (bute) and flunixin, are commonly used, but stronger or different drugs might help in certain cases (such as butorphanol or fentanyl patches). In some cases, it may be necessary to perform nerve blocks to help relieve foot pain and allow the feet to be picked up for x-ray or treatment, although nerve blocks should be avoided. Acetylpromazine is believed to help to improve the blood supply to the damaged tissues and to help clear potentially damaging by-products of the inflammatory process. In recent years, the benefit of cold therapy has also been recognised and icing the feet by standing the horse in a mixture of water and ice, or the use of a specialised cooling machine for several

“Pain management is imperative as this condition can be very painful and distressing”

hours a day, is recommended in the early stages of moderate to severe cases. If a case is hospitalised, intravenous analgesics may be administered on a continual basis and supportive fluids given. The affected horse must be rested, preferably in a stable with a deep bed of sand or shavings which will pack into the sole of the foot. In all but the most mild cases, foot pads, either in the form of styrofoam blocks or commercial impression material which will conform to the sole and provide support to the whole of the sole, should be applied as an emergency measure. Some vets and farriers use heel wedges to raise the heels slightly to relieve tension in the deep digital flexor tendon. After initial assessment, a decision should be

Chronic laminitis in a broodmare

made as to whether the foot would benefit from immediate trimming and shoeing, or if this can be avoided or delayed. Corrective trimming is aimed at restoring a normal relationship between the pedal bone and the hoof wall. This usually involves removing hoof tissue from the toe and the front of the hoof and lowering the heels where possible. Rarely, a dorsal wall resection is performed where the entire front of the hoof wall is removed. This procedure is less popular than it used to be but is still recommended by some vets. A pad, usually made of impression material moulded to conform to the sole, is fitted to support the pedal bone and to protect the tender sole from further trauma. This whole process might need to be repeated regularly, and for many months, with x-rays being taken at intervals to assess the internal changes. If rotation is severe, or sinking is evident, the prognosis for recovery becomes poor or even hopeless. In some cases surgery might be performed to cut the deep digital flexor tendon. However, the damage may be too severe for this procedure to be effective. For the worst cases, the only reasonable option is euthanasia.

The slow rotation commonly seen in broodmares This is a form of chronic laminitis. Low-grade laminitic processes result in gradually worsening separation of the hoof wall from the pedal bone and rotation of the bone. The affected mares may only appear ‘pottery’ and the degree of damage is often seriously underestimated until irreparable. These mares require regular radiographic reassessment and competent shoeing to ensure they remain sound for as long as possible. The abnormalities in hoof growth are largely untreatable but efforts can be made to keep the feet trimmed, balanced and well supported. Food supplements formulated to support the production of healthy hoof horn should be given daily. These mares also often benefit from limited turn-out on grass but access to a consistently softer all-weather surface.

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CAULFIELD FILES ANDREW CAULFIELD REPORTS ON THE BLOODSTOCK WORLD

Pivotal and Kyllachy enjoy Dubai double

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Cheveley Park’s father-and-son combination strike with African Story and Krypton Factor from 1992 to 2001. When David Thompson bought Polar Falcon at the end of the colt’s threeyear-old career, the son of Nureyev had won only two of his eight starts and nothing more important than a Listed race. However, with a June 1 birthday, he had every right to be something of a late developer and he was transformed at four, when he won the Prix Edmond Blanc and a slowly-run Lockinge Stakes over a mile. The speed Polar Falcon showed in winning the Lockinge encouraged his connections to try him over six furlongs and the move paid off with a victory in the Sprint Cup. Polar Falcon’s legacy consisted of 15 Group winners, headed by the Group 1 winners Pivotal, Exclusive, Sunstrach and Shibuni’s Falcon, with Iceman and Passing Glance winning at Group 2 level. His record was respectable, without being outstanding, and his Average Earnings Index stood at 1.43. Pivotal has proved a much better stallion, with his AEI of 2.06 reflecting a magnificent total of more than 50 Group winners, including 19 at the top level.

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Nureyev inbreeding brings results

Pivotal’s son African Story storms clear in the Group 2 Godolphin Mile (top), while Kyllachy’s son Krypton Factor won the Group 1 Dubai Golden Shaheen

arch 31 was something of a red letter day for Cheveley Park Stud’s fatherand-son combo of Pivotal and Kyllachy. Pivotal’s late-developing son African Story set the ball rolling with a decisive victory in the Group 2 Godolphin Mile on Meydan’s Tapeta track. This was the third win from four 2012 starts for the gelding, who didn’t make his first appearance until the November of his threeyear-old season. From then on it was the turn of Pivotal’s champion son Kyllachy. His Nunthorpe Stakes winner Sole Power came out best of the northern-hemisphere contingent when second to Ortensia in the Group 1 Al Quoz Sprint. Then, 35 minutes later, another of Kyllachy’s geldings, Krypton Factor, wore down one of the world’s fastest horses, Rocket Man, to take the Group 1 Dubai Golden Shaheen.

Bred by Lady Fairhaven, Krypton Factor has now developed into a formidable performer on Tapeta, winning three of his last four starts on the Meydan surface and failing by only a short head to win the other. The gelding had taken a little time to find his feet after his transfer to Bahrain, but he had won five of his ten starts for Sir Mark Prescott at two, before being sold for 100,000gns. We shouldn’t be too surprised at Krypton Factor’s prowess on all-weather, as Kyllachy finished seventh on the 2010-11 list of leading all-weather stallions, two places below Pivotal, and is taking high rank again in 201112. To put the icing on the cake, Kyllachy also landed the following day’s Doncaster Mile with yet another durable gelding, Penitent. Of course Cheveley Park has stood three generations of Krypton Factor’s male line, as the stud was also home to Pivotal’s sire Polar Falcon

Pivotal’s Group winners include several inbred to Nureyev, including Regal Parade (3 x 4), Silvester Lady (3 x 3) and Brazilian Bride (3 x 4), which raised the possibility of inbreeding to Polar Falcon. Lady Fairhaven did exactly that when she arranged to send her fast and precocious Polar Falcon mare Cool Question to Kyllachy in 2007, with this mating producing 3 x 2 inbreeding to Polar Falcon. As Polar Falcon was described as standing only 15.2 hands at the start of his stallion career, close inbreeding to him runs the risk of producing something on the small side. Size, though, has clearly not been an issue with Krypton Factor. Moving on to African Story, it is significant that this smart miler is out of Blixen, a lightlyraced useful performer sired by Gone West from a Group 1-winning Danehill mare. Blixen is by no means the first grand-daughter of Mr Prospector to enjoy success with Pivotal. The Cheveley Park stalwart sired the St James’s Palace Stakes winner Excellent Art from a Seeking The Gold mare, the Sprint Cup winner Regal Parade and the Group 3 winner Brazilian Bride from Kingmambo mares, and the Group winners Captain Rio and Humouresque from daughters of Miswaki. There’s even a South African Group 1 winner out of a Woodman mare. Mr Prospector also appears a generation further back in the pedigrees of Pivotal’s Classic winners Falco and Halfway To Heaven. THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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I suspect that Perugino will always be best remembered – if he’s remembered at all – as a three-parts brother to Sadler’s Wells, Fairy King and Tate Gallery. Even so, the onceraced son of Danzig made his mark in several of the major racing countries, in more than one sphere. Perugino’s career wasn’t helped by constant changes in location, ranging from Ireland, Japan, Australia and Germany. Even so, he sired Next Gina, winner of the German Oaks, The Tatling, the tough-as-teak sprinter who won the King’s Stand Stakes in his prime, and It’s Gino, who finished third in the 2008 Arc. Perugino was also responsible for that high-class but enigmatic hurdler Harchibald. It was in Australia, though, where he was arguably most successful. His six Australian Group winners included Testa Rossa, a champion Australian sprinter who scored at Group 1 level at two, three and four, and Sudurka, another fast Group 1 winner. Haras du Petit Tellier showed great enterprise in arranging to stand Testa Rossa during the northern hemisphere seasons in

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Perugino’s influence felt down under

Australia’s Al Quoz Sprint winner Ortensia is a grand-daughter of Perugino

2003 and 2004. Perhaps the unfamiliar nature of his dam’s bloodlines didn’t help, or perhaps he was priced too highly at €10,000. Whatever the reason, Testa Rossa struggled for support. However, despite having fewer than 40 foals in France, he confirmed his potential by siring the Group 3 winner Blue Chagall and the Listed winners Big Monologue, Silent Sunday and Testama. Testa Rossa’s record in Australia also suggests he merited more attention from

European breeders. His fee has doubled from its original A$22,000, thanks to a total of stakes winners that now stands at more than 30. Among them are the Group 1 winners Ortensia, Rostova and Testafiable. Ortensia confirmed her own merit – and the quality of Australia’s sprinters – when she produced a scintillating finish to take the Group 1 Al Quoz Sprint. She could be very interesting if she travels to Royal Ascot for the King’s Stand Stakes.

When you think of Green Desert as a sire of sires, you automatically think of the likes of Cape Cross, Invincible Spirit and Oasis Dream. But spare a thought for Desert Sun. A member of the same fast L’Anguissola family as the champion sprinter Cadeaux Genereux, Desert Sun created plenty of excitement early in his career. His only appearance at two was in an end-of-season maiden race at Doncaster, when he created such a favourable impression that he earned a fullpage essay in Racehorses of 1990; Timeform awarding him a large ‘P’. A very good looking colt with a long, fluent action, Desert Sun colt justified Timeform’s optimism by ending 1991 with a rating of 120, but he remained something of an underachiever for a colt who was once ante-post favourite for the 2,000 Guineas. After he had continued to frustrate at four, he was transferred to Bobby Frankel in the USA, where he managed to win only one of his 11 starts, despite continuing to show very useful form. Desert Sun’s next destination was New Zealand, where he found fame as the sire of that astonishing mare Sunline, a winner of 13 Group THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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Desert Sun proves his worth through Helsinge

Desert Sun did well on the track and has also proven successful as a stallion

1 races, including two Cox Plates. The mare’s exploits led to Desert Sun spending his time shuttling between Australia and Europe. He wasn’t a runaway success in Ireland or England – his best achievement in Europe was the Greenham winner Salford City – and his Australian efforts failed to add to his tally of top level winners. However, his time in Australia has

been more than justified by his siring Helsinge. This mare struck gold when she produced the brilliant Black Caviar to Bel Esprit and now she looks to have another potential Group 1 winner in All Too Hard. This son of the firstcrop sire Casino Prince has raced four times for three wins, including two Group 2s, and a second in the Group 1 AJC Sires’ Produce Stakes. Casino Prince, winner of the Group 1 Chipping Norton Stakes over a mile, is by Danehill’s son Flying Spur. When Flying Spur was mated to Helsinge’s dam, the result was the Australian Group 1 winner Magnus, third in the 2007 King’s Stand Stakes. Incidentally, Casino Prince headed the 201112 first-crop sires’ list in Australia at the time of writing and this list shows that the Danehill male line is maintaining its dominance in Australia. Third place is held by Court Command, a grandson of Danehill by Commands, and fourth place by Danehill Express, a son of Danehill. All Too Hard’s close relative Magnus is in sixth place, ahead of the likes of Bernardini, Excellent Art and Henny Hughes.

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Sire MARJU 3IRE OF 3TAKES WINNERS )N CHINCHON (ECTOR 0ROTECTOR ' 1st Dam *!2!-! BY (ECTOR 0ROTECTOR 7INNER AT IN &RANCE $AM OF 3 winners 2005 CHINCHON C -ARJU WINS 5NITED .ATIONS 3 G1 ,A #OUPE DE -AISONS ,AFFITTE G3 0RIX %XBURY G3 TWICE ND 5NITED .ATIONS 3 G1

'RAND 0RIX DE #HANTILLY G2 0RIX DE "OULOGNE LR RD 0RIX %UGENE !DAM G2 ,A #OUPE DE -AISONS ,AFFITTE G3 0RIX %XBURY G3 2006 &5.%3 G )RON -ASK WINS AT IN 3PAIN 2007 %30!24!#/ C ,EADERSHIP 7INNER AT IN &RANCE 2008 %RKIOS C ,EADERSHIP 5NPLACED 2009 $IAMANT 2OUGE G ,EADERSHIP Broodmare Sire HECTOR PROTECTOR 3IRE OF THE DAMS OF 3TAKES WINNERS )N CHINCHON -ARJU ' #().#(/. B H Northern Dancer Sex Appeal -ILL 2EEF -ILL 0RINCESS )RISH ,ASS )) 2OUND 4ABLE !RTAIUS 3TYLISH 0ATTERN 7ELSH 0AGEANT 7ELSH &LAME %LECTRIC &LASH -R 0ROSPECTOR 7OODMAN 0LAYMATE 2IVERMAN +ORVEYA +ONAFA #ARO 4EJANO )NFANTES Northern Dancer .ORTHERN 0RANCER Sex Appeal 4RY -Y "EST ,AST 4YCOON MARJU BR &LAME OF 4ARA

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Sire PRIZED 3IRE OF 3TAKES WINNERS )N PREMIO LOCO -AGIC 2ING ' 1st Dam Crazee Mental BY -AGIC 2ING 7INNER AT ND #HEVELEY 0ARK 3 G1 $AM OF 2 winners 2002 2!-3'),, G 0RIZED WINS AT AND 2004 PREMIO LOCO G 0RIZED 3OLD GNS YEARLING AT 4!$%9 WINS 0ARK 3 G2

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Sire DANEHILL DANCER 3IRE OF 3TAKES WINNERS )N ATOMIC FORCE ,USKIN 3TAR '

STEPS IN TIME / 2EILLY ' CHRYSANTHEMUM 3ADLER S 7ELLS ' 1st Dam 7%,, 30/+%. BY 3ADLER S 7ELLS 7INNER OVER JUMPS IN &RANCE $AM OF 1 winner 2007 $IVISION !LPHA C $UBAI $ESTINATION 2008 CHRYSANTHEMUM F $ANEHILL $ANCER 3OLD GNS YEARLING AT !2!5' WINS AT AND # , 7ELD 0ARK 3 G3 0ARK %XPRESS 3 G3

&LAME OF 4ARA 3 LR RD 0RETTY 0OLLY 3 G1 2009 3WEET #ASSANDRA F $ALAKHANI 5NRACED 2011 F $YLAN 4HOMAS 2nd Dam SAINTLY SPEECH BY 3OUTHERN (ALO WINS AT 0RINCESS -ARGARET 3 G3 Broodmare Sire SADLERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S WELLS 3IRE OF THE DAMS OF 3TAKES WINNERS )N MASTER OF HOUNDS +INGMAMBO ' VISCOUNT NELSON 'IANT S #AUSEWAY ' CHRYSANTHEMUM $ANEHILL $ANCER ' FOX HUNT $UBAWI '

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Sire ORATORIO 3IRE OF 3TAKES WINNERS )N MOONWALK IN PARIS 3INGSPIEL ' 1st Dam 3HINING 'LORY BY 3INGSPIEL UNRACED /WN SISTER TO AGOG $AM OF 1 winner 2008 MOONWALK IN PARIS G /RATORIO 3OLD GNS FOAL AT !2$%# GNS YEARLING AT !2!5' WINS AT AND IN &RANCE 0RIX %DMOND "LANC G3 2009 !NALYSIS C !NABAA 5NRACED 2010 C 3INNDAR 2011 F $YLAN 4HOMAS 2nd Dam 3HINING %YES BY -R 0ROSPECTOR 5NRACED $AM OF AGOG C 3INGSPIEL 0RIX 6ULCAIN LR

Symonds Inn G )N 4HE 7INGS RD 3ILVER 4ANKARD 3 LR 'RANDAM OF Night Passion Broodmare Sire SINGSPIEL 3IRE OF THE DAMS OF 3TAKES WINNERS )N MOONWALK IN PARIS /RATORIO ' EPAULETTE #OMMANDS ,2 -//.7!,+ ). 0!2)3 B G .ORTHERN $ANCER 0AS DE .OM (IS -AJESTY 3PRING !DIEU 6IENNA .OBLE ,ASSIE !LYDAR +ATONKA 3ADLER S 7ELLS (IGH (AWK (ALO "ALLADE 2AISE ! .ATIVE 'OLD $IGGER ,YPHARD 'ODZILLA

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National Hunt Grade Ones

$ONALD -C#AIN GOT AN AWFUL LOT OF PEDIGREE FOR COMPARATIVELY LITTLE MONEY WHEN HE PAID a FOR A TWO YEAR OLD SON OF "EAT (OLLOW AT $ONCASTER S 3PRING 3ALES 4HE YOUNGSTER S DAM -OON 3EARCH HAD WON THE 'R 0RIX DE 2OYALLIEU OVER FURLONGS IN THE SAME YEAR THAT HER YEAR YOUNGER HALF BROTHER "RIAN "ORU WON THE 3T ,EGER "RIAN "ORU HAD EARLIER LANDED THE 2ACING 0OST 4ROPHY "EAT (OLLOW BECAME AN OBVIOUS CHOICE AS A MATE FOR -OON 3EARCH AS HE IS BY THE SAME SIRE 3ADLER S 7ELLS

AS "RIAN "ORU AND "RIAN "ORU S TALENTED SISTERS +ITTY / 3HEA AND +USHNARENKOVO 4HE MARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS IMPRESSIVE COLLECTION WAS %VA ,UNA WHO WON HER FIRST THREE STARTS AS A FOUR YEAR OLD INCLUDING THE 'ALTRES 3TAKES AND 0ARK (ILL 3TAKES %VA ,UNA S STAKES WINNING HALF SISTER 2OUGEUR PRODUCED THE TOP !MERICAN FILLY &LUTE WHO NUMBERED THE +ENTUCKY /AKS AND THE !LABAMA 3TAKES AMONG HER SUCCESSES -OON 3EARCH S SECOND DAM -EDIA ,UNA

FAILED BY ONLY A NECK TO WIN THE /AKS WHILE -EDIA ,UNA S HALF SISTER 3UNI WAS THIRD IN THE /AKS !S ) SAID -C#AIN GOT A LOT OF PEDIGREE FOR HIS MONEY AND THE PEDIGREE HAS BECOME EVEN MORE DISTINGUISHED OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS "RIAN "ORU S UNRACED SISTER 3OVIET -OON IS NOW THE DAM OF 7ORKFORCE

THE SPECTACULAR $ERBY WINNER WHO WENT ON TO WIN THE !RC !ND %VA ,UNA S "EAT (OLLOW COLT 3EA -OON RAN AWAY WITH THE 'REAT 6OLTIGEUR BEFORE BEING PLACED IN THE 3T ,EGER AND "REEDERS #UP 4URF -C#AIN S YOUNGSTER HAS ALSO BLOSSOMED .AMED #INDERS !ND !SHES HE WAS WINNING FOR THE SIXTH TIME IN TEN STARTS WHEN HE LANDED THE 3UPREME .OVICES (URDLE )N THE PROCESS HE HELPED HIGHLIGHT THE .ATIONAL (UNT POTENTIAL OF "EAT (OLLOW WHO HAD RECENTLY BEEN TRANSFERRED TO "ALLYLINCH 3TUD AS A REPLACEMENT FOR +ING S 4HEATRE

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.EARCTIC .ATALMA "OLD 2EASON &AIRY "RIDGE 3PECIAL ,YPHARD $ANCING "RAVE .AVAJO 0RINCESS -ILL 2EEF "AHAMIAN 3ORBUS 2ED 'OD "LUSHING 'ROOM 2UNAWAY "RIDE (ERBAGER ) 7ILL &OLLOW 7HERE 9OU ,EAD (OIST 4HE &LAG !LLEGED 0RINCESS 0OUT 3TAR !PPEAL -EDIA ,UNA 3OUNION

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2AINBOW 1UEST MOON SEARCH B %VA ,UNA

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Caulfield on Cinders And Ashes: “In winning the Supreme Novices’ he highlighted the National Hunt potential of Beat Hollow, who had recently been transferred to Ballylinch Stud”

$ESPITE SIRING NUMEROUS NOTABLE PERFORMERS /SCAR HAS NEVER QUITE MANAGED TO TAKE THE TITLE OF CHAMPION SIRE BUT HE HAS BEEN MAKING STEADY PROGRESS UP THE LIST (AVING FINISHED FIFTH IN HE MOVED UP TO FOURTH IN THIRD IN AND THEN TO SECOND IN 4HE SON OF 3ADLER S 7ELLS IS AGAIN AMONG THE MAIN CONTENDERS IN HELPED BY THE 'RADED VICTORIES OF HIS SONS &ELIX 9ONGER "IG :EB !MBION 7OOD /SCAR 7HISKY AND $AYS (OTEL (IS BIGGEST EARNER

THOUGH HAS BEEN HIS PROGRESSIVE SON 2OCK /N 2UBY 3INCE HE FAILED BY ONLY A SHORT HEAD TO RECORD HIS FIRST 'R WIN AT THE #HELTENHAM &ESTIVAL

2OCK /N 2UBY HAS RACED ONLY SPARINGLY BUT HE HAS IMPROVED WITH EACH START AND WAS COMFORTABLY THE BEST IN THE #HAMPION (URDLE 4HERE WAS NO LACK OF STAMINA IN /SCAR S MAKE UP AS THIS RUNNER UP IN THE 0RIX DU *OCKEY #LUB WAS SIRED BY 3ADLER S 7ELLS FROM A 2ELIANCE MARE 4HIS BACKGROUND HAS HELPED HIM SIRE SUCH ACCOMPLISHED STAYERS AS 2EFINEMENT "LACK *ACK +ETCHUM

/SCAR 4IME /FFSHORE !CCOUNT 2AZOR 2OYALE 4RICKY 4RICKSTER /SCAR ,OOBY AND #ASEY *ONES (OWEVER BY NO MEANS ALL OF HIS BEST PROGENY RELISH A THOROUGH TEST OF STAMINA AS 0EDDLERS #ROSS &ELIX 9ONGER /SCARS 7ELL 3ILENT /SCAR AND 2OCK /N 2UBY HAVE SHOWN )T IS HARDLY SURPRISING THAT 2OCK /N 2UBY RANKS AMONG /SCAR S SPEEDIEST SONS (IS BROODMARE SIRE IS 4IROL

WINNER OF THE 'UINEAS IN %NGLAND AND )RELAND IN 4IROL HIMSELF WAS A SON OF THE CHAMPION SPRINTER 4HATCHING 2OCK /N 2UBY S DAM THE UNRACED 3TONY 6IEW HAS A PREDOMINANTLY &LAT BACKGROUND AND STARTED HER BROODMARE CAREER WITH VISITS TO THE SPEEDY STALLIONS #OLLEGE #HAPEL $OLPHIN 3TREET AND ,AKE #ONISTON (OWEVER THIS HALF SISTER TO THE VERY USEFUL HURDLER "ANK 6IEW WAS THEN SWITCHED TO THE .ATIONAL (UNT SECTOR PRODUCING THREE FOALS TO /SCAR 2OCK /N 2UBY S SISTER !LPINE 'LADE WAS PLACED IN A COUPLE OF 'RADED HURDLE RACES AT UP TO TWO AND A HALF MILES 2OCK /N 2UBY S SECOND DAM 3TONY 'ROUND WAS A HALF SISTER TO &LORIDA 3ON A STALLION WHO FOUND FAME AS THE SIRE OF THAT OUTSTANDING )RISH CHASER &LORIDA 0EARL 4HE #HAMPION (URDLE WINNER S THIRD DAM 0EACH 3TONE WAS A HALF SISTER TO THE TOP &RENCH TWO YEAR OLD "RETON 182 ARKLE CHALLENGE TROPHY CHASE G1 #(%,4%.(!- -ARCH F 'OOD

302).4%2 3!#2% &2 B BR G .ETWORK &ATIMA ))) "AYOLIDAAN O--RS #AROLINE -OULD B--R # -ASLE TR-.ICKY (ENDERSON #UE #ARD '" B G +ING S 4HEATRE 7ICKED #RACK +ING S 2IDE -ENORAH )2% B G +ING S 4HEATRE -AID &OR !DVENTURE 3TRONG 'ALE Age

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302).4%2 3!#2% B BR G +ONIGSSTUHL -ONSUN

-OSELLA

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$SCHINGIS +HAN +ONIGSKRONUNG 3URUMU -ONASIA 4ANTIEME 2ELANCE ))) .ARAS .INA $JAKAO $IAMOND $ROP 3TYMPHALE "ELSTA 2HEINGOLD -ISS -ELODY %DELLIC !MIE 3ACREE

)F YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A STALLION TO WATCH OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS YOU COULD DO WORSE THAN FOLLOW -ONSUN S &RENCH BASED SON .ETWORK ! WINNER OF THE 'R 5NION 2ENNEN OVER FURLONGS IN HIS NATIVE 'ERMANY

.ETWORK WASN T EXTENSIVELY USED DURING THE EARLY YEARS OF HIS STALLION CAREER )NDEED NONE OF HIS FIRST FIVE CROPS BORN BETWEEN AND

CONTAINED MORE THAN FOALS .ONETHELESS THESE CROPS HAVE PRODUCED A STRING OF NOTABLE PERFORMERS )N &RANCE THEY INCLUDE 2UBI "ALL TWICE A WINNER OF THE 'R 0RIX ,A (AYE *OUSSELIN .ET ,OVELY A 'R WINNER OVER HURDLES AND FENCES AND 1UART -ONDE A 'R WINNER OVER FENCES .ETWORK S PROGENY HAVE ALSO SHONE IN "RITAIN AND )RELAND THANKS TO THE EFFORTS OF 3AINT !RE 'R 3EFTON .OVICES (URDLE AND 2UBI ,IGHT 'R *OHN $URKAN -EMORIAL 0UNCHESTOWN #HASE AND 'R 2ED -ILLS #HASE "EST OF THE LOT THOUGH IS 3PRINTER 3ACRE (AVING FINISHED THIRD IN THE 3UPREME .OVICES (URDLE THIS GELDING HAS WON HIS FIRST FOUR STARTS OVER FENCES BY A TOTAL OF LENGTHS (E WAS ABLE TO EASE DOWN BEFORE THE LINE DESPITE FACING VERY STIFF OPPOSITION IN THE !RKLE #HALLENGE 4ROPHY .ETWORK COVERS MAINLY !103 MARES IN &RANCE AND THEREFORE MANY OF HIS PROGENY ARE NAMED WITH THE APPROPRIATE INITIAL LETTER FOR THEIR YEAR

3PRINTER 3ACRE AND 3AINT !RE BEING AMONG THE h3v GROUP FROM THE CROP 4HE GOOD NEWS IS THAT THERE ARE AROUND THREE YEAR OLDS MANY WITH NAMES BEGINNING WITH 6 AND ROUGHLY TWO YEAR OLDS MANY WITH NAMES STARTING WITH ! #LEARLY WE CAN EXPECT TO HEAR A GREAT DEAL MORE FROM .ETWORK WHOSE FEE IN IS _ 3PRINTER 3ACRE S DAM &ATIMA ))) IS A ONCE RACED DAUGHTER OF "AYOLIDAAN A STALLION WHO GAINED FIVE OF HIS SIX WINS OVER HURDLES AT UP TO AROUND TWO AND A HALF MILES &ATIMA HAS YOUNG DAUGHTERS BY $ARAMSAR AND &RAGRANT -IX THE LATTER SELLING AS A YEARLING FOR _ IN )RELAND IN THE EARLY PART OF 6IVA 3ACREE THE SECOND DAM OF 3PRINTER 3ACRE FAILED TO EARN ANYTHING IN FIVE STARTS (ER SIRE -AIYMAD WAS A WELL BRED COLT WHO DID WELL OVER HURDLES BEFORE SIRING THE OUTSTANDING 5BU )))

WHOSE RECORD FEATURED TWO WINS IN THE 'RANDE #OURSE DE (AIES D !UTEUIL AND ONE IN THE 'RAND 3TEEPLECHASE DE 0ARIS

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184 QUEEN MOTHER CHAMPION CHASE G1

183 RSA CHASE G1 #(%,4%.(!- -ARCH F 'OOD

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"/"3 7/24( B G (AIL 4O 2EASON 2OBERTO

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)T TAKES A VERY GOOD HORSE TO WIN AT SUCCESSIVE #HELTENHAM &ESTIVALS BUT "OBS 7ORTH PROVED EQUAL TO THE TASK 7INNER OF THE !LBERT "ARTLETT .OVICES (URDLE ON HIS LAST APPEARANCE OVER HURDLES THE SON OF "OB "ACK HAS BEEN TRYING FENCES WITH MIXED SUCCESS !FTER BEING BEATEN BY 'RANDS #RUS AND 3ILVINIACO #ONTI AT +EMPTON AND BY )NVICTUS AT !SCOT

"OBS 7ORTH TIDIED UP HIS JUMPING IN THE 23! #HASE AND WON WELL FROM &IRST ,IEUTENANT WITH 'RANDS #RUS ONLY FOURTH "OBS 7ORTH RANKS ALONGSIDE "OSTON "OB "URTON 0ORT AND 2OBERTO 'OLDBACK AS ONE OF THE PERFORMERS MAKING SURE WE DON T FORGET THEIR SIRE "OB "ACK WHO DIED IN AT THE AGE OF !LTHOUGH "OB "ACK NEVER WON OVER FURTHER THAN A MILE AND A QUARTER THE DISTANCE OF HIS VICTORIES IN THE 0RINCE OF 7ALES S 3TAKES AND 0REMIO 0RESIDENTE DELLA 2EPUBBLICA

PLENTY OF HIS BEST WINNERS STAY WELL AND "OBS 7ORTH IS CLEARLY ONE OF THEM "OBS 7ORTH IS THE SECOND MAJOR JUMPING WINNER PRODUCED BY A DAUGHTER OF +ING S 4HEATRE FOLLOWING 3HINROCK 0ADDY WINNER OF A 'R NOVICE HURDLE AND RUNNER UP AT THE SAME LEVEL OVER FENCES "OBS 7ORTH S DAM &ASHIONISTA WAS BRED WITH A &LAT CAREER IN MIND (ER SISTER ,AST 4HEATRE WAS A ,ISTED PLACED WINNER OF FIVE RACES AT UP TO FURLONGS ON THE &LAT

PRIOR TO WINNING OVER HURDLES AND &ASHIONISTA IS ALSO A THREE PARTS SISTER TO THE SMART FILLY "ALLYKETT .ANCY BY .ORTHERN $ANCER S SON (ERO S (ONOR &ASHIONISTA S 0RESENTING COLT SOLD FOR _ AS A FOAL "OBS 7ORTH S SECOND DAM ,AST &LAIR PRODUCED ANOTHER THREE BLACK TYPE PERFORMERS INCLUDING THE USEFUL HURDLER )L 4ROVATORE ,AST &LAIR WAS HERSELF A HALF SISTER TO THE &RENCH 'UINEAS WINNER 5KRAINE 'IRL

AND "OBS 7ORTH S THIRD DAM 0ADDY S &LAIR WAS A HALF SISTER TO THE )RISH 'UINEAS WINNER "ALLYMORE THEIR DAM BEING THE TOP TWO YEAR OLD 0ADDY S 3ISTER

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/DDLY STEEPLECHASING S GREATEST TEST OF SPEED THE 1UEEN -OTHER #HAMPION #HASE WAS WON BY &INIAN S 2AINBOW WHOSE SIRE 4IRAAZ ONCE CONTESTED ONE OF &LAT RACING S GREATEST TESTS OF STAMINA THE 0RIX DU #ADRAN 4IRAAZ WENT WITHIN HALF A LENGTH OF WINNING THAT 'R CONTEST OVER TWO AND A HALF MILES BEFORE WINNING THE 'R 0RIX 2OYAL /AK OVER NEARLY TWO MILES (OWEVER IT MUSTN T BE FORGOTTEN THAT 4IRAAZ S SIRE ,EAR &AN WAS A SPECTACULAR PERFORMER WHO NEVER TACKLED MORE THAN A MILE 4IRAAZ NEVER ATTRACTED MORE THAN MARES IN HIS FOUR SEASONS IN )RELAND BUT HIS DEATH AT THE AGE OF TEN IN WAS PROBABLY QUITE A LOSS (E LEFT SEVERAL OTHER ABOVE AVERAGE PERFORMERS INCLUDING 4AZBAR :AARITO AND "ALLYHOLLAND 'ALWAY 0LATE )N WINNING THE #HAMPION #HASE

&INIAN S 2AINBOW IMPROVED HIS RECORD OVER FENCES TO SIX WINS AND TWO SECONDS FROM EIGHT STARTS (E HAD EARLIER WON HIS ONLY START IN A BUMPER AND TWO OF HIS FOUR STARTS OVER HURDLES

DESPITE HAVING COST ONLY %UROS AT 'OFFS IN *UNE &INIAN S 2AINBOW S FIRST TWO DAMS

THE POINT TO POINT WINNER 4RINITY 'ALE AND THE WINNING CHASER 4RINITY !IR

WERE RESPECTIVELY DAUGHTERS OF THE CHAMPION SIRES 3TRONG 'ALE AND -ENELEK 4HE THIRD DAM "EAUAIR ALSO WON OVER HURDLES AND FENCES BEFORE BECOMING THE DAM OF THE TALENTED )RISH CHASER "RAVE !IR AND SECOND DAM OF ANOTHER ,UCKY 4OWN 185 BINGHAM NOVICES’ HURDLE G1 #(%,4%.(!- -ARCH F 'OOD

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DATA BOOK STAKES RESULTS

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Caulfield on Bobs Worth: â&#x20AC;&#x153;He ranks alongside Boston Bob, Burton Port and Roberto Goldback as one of the performers making sure we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forget their sire Bob Backâ&#x20AC;?

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Oscar and Beneficial still in the running In the run-up to Aintree everything was still to play for, with Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Theatre top thanks to his excellent Cheltenham. However, Oscar and to a lesser extent Beneficial were close enough to take over if things went right for them. Oscar has had another splendid season, one which Rock On Ruby crowned with his sterling victory in the Champion Hurdle. There have been plenty of other highlights for the Grange Stud stallion, whose fee this year was â&#x201A;Ź6,000. His old standby Big Zeb has landed a Grade 1 and a Grade 2, and Days Hotel, Oscar Whisky and Felix Yonger have each won a Grade 2. The last-named was also second in a Grade 1 at Cheltenham, where Teaforthree won the four-miler. Oscar has quantity as well as quality in his favour. With 107 runners more than Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Theatre, his percentage of winners to runners inevitably is significantly lower, 23.2% against a table-topping 37.9% for sires with at least 50 runners. Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Theatre and Oscar are both by Sadlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Wells, who completed a rare record by siring Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Synchronised. Derby winners, a Champion Hurdle winner and now a Gold Cup winner. What a sire.

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DATA BOOK LISTINGS OF EVERY WORLDWIDE GROUP OR GRADED STAKES WINNER

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HALF HEAD RUNNER UP 2ANGIRANGDOO %UROPEAN IMPORTS ARE DOMINATING SO MANY TOP RACES AT BEYOND A MILE BUT !USSIE SPRINTERS ARE THE BEST IN THE WORLD AND (AY ,IST FRANKED THE FORM OF HIS ,IGHTNING 3TAKES CONQUEROR "LACK #AVIAR WHEN LIFTING THE .EWMARKET (ANDICAP UNDER A WEIGHT THAT HAD NOT BEEN EXCEEDED FOR OVER YEARS (AY ,IST THEN SUFFERED A SHOCK REVERSE TO 2OYAL !SCOT POSSIBLE &OXWEDGE IN THE 7ILLIAM 2EID 3TAKES BUT THAT MAY BE

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APPROACHING THE STRAIGHT WHILE 1UICK #ASABLANCA MOVED INTO THIRD ON THE INSIDE AS THEY STRAIGHTENED UP (E WENT BACK TO THE RAIL WHEN THE TIRING )BEMAN BEGAN TO HANG AND HIT THE FRONT APPROACHING THE FINAL FURLONG %XPRESSIVE (ALO WHO WAS RUNNING FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE HIS TRIUMPH IN THE '0 #ARLOS 0ELLEGRINI BEFORE #HRISTMAS

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TOOK COMMAND EARLY IN THE STRAIGHT AND GAINED HIS FOURTH 'ROUP SUCCESS

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!RTEBA !2' 1UICK !2' "AMBA &ITZ !2' )BELLA !2' 7ILD "ERRY !2' 'LAMOROUS /NE 53! -ALINCHE !2' 3TORMY -ARCH !2' 7ALLY !2' 'AMBUZINA !2' %MISARIA !2'

3OUTHERN (ALO 53! #IPAYO !2' &ITZCARRALDO !2' ,ODE 53! 3OUTHERN (ALO 53! 'ONE 7EST 53! ,ODE 53! "ERNSTEIN 53! 3OUTHERN (ALO 53! 'RAND #HELEM 2OY 53!

RALLIED TO GET WITHIN A NECK WITH YDS TO GO BUT COULD FIND NO MORE AND WAS BEATEN HALF A LENGTH 4HERE WAS NOT MUCH FOR PUNTERS TO GO ON IN THE '0 5NZUE "AMBA *ANE HAD WON HER ONLY RACE OVER FOUR AND A HALF FURLONGS IN $ECEMBER 3HE WAS OUTPACED EARLY AND DID NOT TAKE THE TURNS TOO WELL BUT STAYED ON TO WIN BY A

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(IGH (EELS !53 9ES 3HE #AN #ANCAN !53 -INTLY &RESH 53! &OREST .ATIVE 53! 3UMEHRA .: -INTLY &RESH 53! 0ENTAMEROUS .: 3ING (ALLELUJAH !53 (ELSINGE !53 2ED 1UEEN !53 2IVER 3ONG !53 #UT ! $ASH !53 ) "ELIEVE !53 2IGHT .OTE )2% 3AMAR !53 ,UNASPUR !53 3UNDAY *OY !53 %MPRESS *ADE !53 ,IGHTNING 2ULES !53 3UGGESTIVE !53 :EFTA !53 %TTU "LU !53 (ELSINGE !53 'REEN .OON &2 %MPRESS *ADE !53 0ENSIAMO !53 (ARD 2IDER .: 'EORGIAgS 3TORM !53 $INNA &ASH !53 3UDDEN "EAT !53 $ISGUISE !53 !XIOM .: .OVEMBER &LIGHT !53 *ADE $IVA !53 -ONTE 2OSA !53 ,IGHTNING 2ULES !53 9ES 3HE #AN #ANCAN !53

EXPLAINED BY A FOOT PROBLEM HE HAD SUSTAINED A WEEK EARLIER (AY ,IST HAS SINCE INCURRED A CAREER THREATENING KNEE INJURY -OSHEEN TOOK HER 'ROUP TALLY TO THREE WHEN AGAIN BEATING THE BOYS IN THE 2ANDWICK 'UINEAS 4HAT FORM LOOKS SOLID BECAUSE A FORTNIGHT LATER THE THIRD AND SEVENTH

,ASER (AWK AND THE .EW :EALAND RAIDER /CEAN 0ARK STEPPED UP TO TEN FURLONGS TO FINISH ONE TWO IN A THREE WAY

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HEAD WITHOUT BEING GIVEN A HARD RACE 4HE ,URO WAS A TEAM EFFORT :OULOU SET A STRONG PACE !RTE 0OP RECOVERED FROM EARLY TROUBLES TO CATCH HIM MORE THAN A FURLONG FROM HOME AND THEN STORMED CLEAR TO BEAT HIM BY EIGHT LENGTHS 4HEY ARE HOMEBREDS OWNED BY (ARAS ,A 1UEBRADA AND TRAINED BY )SIDORO 3AN -ILLAN

PHOTO FINISH TO THE 2OSEHILL 'UINEAS 3HOOT /UT A 2ANDWICK 'UINEAS AND !*# $ERBY WINNER BOUNCED BACK FROM A PERIOD IN THE WILDERNESS TO SCOOP THE #HIPPING .ORTON 3TAKES FOR NEW TRAINER #HRIS 7ALLER BUT WAS THEN ONLY THIRD IN THE 2ANVET +ATHY / (ARA BECAME ONLY THE FOURTH WOMAN JOCKEY TO WIN AT THE TOP LEVEL IN !USTRALIA WHEN SURVIVING AN OBJECTION BY -ICHELLE 0AYNE TO TAKE THE #OOLMORE #LASSIC ABOARD /FCOURSEICAN

0LENI 4URBO "2: #HANSON 0OUR *ULIA "2: $ASH $ANCE #!. ,IZZY 'IRL "2: +EY ,ARGO "2: 0EPPERMINT 3ODA "2: (IS ,OVE "2: ,EGGERA "2: &ANTASTIC 3TAR !53

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#ANNY ,AD !53 #ANNY ,AD !53 2UBIANO 53! &OREST 7ILDCAT 53! 3TRAVINSKY 53! 2UBIANO 53! 0ENTIRE '" )S )T 4RUE 53! $ESERT 3UN '" 2EDOUTEgS #HOICE !53 &USAICHI 0EGASUS 53! 7HISKEY 2OAD 53! /CTAGONAL .: $AYLAMI )2% 3ECRET 3AVINGS 53! &LYING 3PUR !53 3UNDAY 3ILENCE 53! %NCOSTA DE ,AGO !53 +INGSTON 2ULE 53! !L (AREB 53! :EDITAVE !53 0RINCE %CHO $ESERT 3UN '" 'REEN 4UNE 53! %NCOSTA DE ,AGO !53 3OVEREIGN 2ED .: -AROOF 53! -ETAL 3TORM &2 #ANNY ,AD !53 3ERHEED 53! 'RAND ,ODGE 53! :ABEEL .: &LYING 3PUR !53 *ADE 2OBBERY 53! &RAAR 53! +INGSTON 2ULE 53! #ANNY ,AD !53

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WAS HIS FIRST ATTEMPT BEYOND ONE MILE AND HE IS UNBEATEN IN THE LAST SIX OF HIS

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SEVEN RACES (E NOW HAS A CHANCE OF CLAIMING THE 4RIPLE #ROWN BUT HIS IMMEDIATE VICTIMS MIGHT STAY BETTER

THAN HIM /LD 4UNE IS ALSO ON COURSE FOR A 4RIPLE #ROWN BID /NE OF FOUR RUNNERS

TRAINED BY 6ENANCIO .AHID IN A FIELD OF SHE GOT THE BETTER OF A FINAL FURLONG BATTLE TO TRIUMPH BY HALF A LENGTH AND

ONE FROM TWO COMPLETE OUTSIDERS 5NIQUE :UCA AND ,A $EFENSE )T WAS HER THIRD 'ROUP VICTORY

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2OYAL !SCOT IS UNDER CONSIDERATION FOR #URREN #HAN WHO FOLLOWED UP /CTOBER S 3PRINTERS 3TAKES VICTORY TO .EW :EALAND ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '

-ANAWATU 3IRESg 0RODUCE 3TAKES 7ELLFIELD .EW :EALAND /AKS (AUNUI &M $IAMOND 3IRESg 0RODUCE 3TAKES ,INDAUER .EW :EALAND ND #ENTURY 3TAKES 3TELLA !RTOIS !UCKLAND #UP !WAPUNI 'OLD #UP 7INDSOR 0ARK 3TUD *APAN .: )NT 4ROPHY -ANAWATU #LASSIC 3HINKO +ING AT 0AXTON 0ARK #UDDLE 3TAKES

2IDING SENSATION *AMES -C$ONALD HAS HAD AN AMAZING AUTUMN AND HE LANDED TWO MORE 'ROUP S ABOARD 3HEZ 3INSATIONAL AND 3CARLETT ,ADY 3HEZ 3INSATIONAL IS LIVING UP TO THE INTENDED MEANING OF HER ERRATICALLY SPELT NAME

AS THE !UCKLAND #UP WAS HER THIRD TOP LEVEL VICTORY SINCE "OXING $AY 4HE OTHER TWO HAVE BEEN AT A MILE AND A QUARTER BUT THIS WAS OVER TWO MILES AND QUALIFIED HER FOR HER MAIN TARGET

.OVEMBER S -ELBOURNE #UP 4HE RACE 3OUTH !FRICA ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '

TAKE THE *APAN 2ACING !SSOCIATION S OTHER BIG SPRINT PRIZE n AND A LEG OF THE 'LOBAL 3PRINT #HALLENGE n THE

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3LUMDOGMILLIONAIRE 3!& "AMBINA 3TRIPES !2' $ANCEWITHTHEDEVIL 3!& 7AR (ORSE 3!& !TYEB !53 &RANNY 3!& #HECCETTI 3!& $ELIVER 4HE 0OWER 3!& *ET ,EGEND 3!&

ASSERTING BEFOREHAND THAT SHE HAD SUFFERED A TROUBLED PREPARATION /N THE SAME CARD BOTH THE 3! #LASSIC AND ITS FILLIES EQUIVALENT WERE DECIDED BY THE MARGIN OF A HEAD )N THE COLTS DIVISION 3LUMDOGMILLIONAIRE

5NITED !RAB %MIRATES ' %MIRATES !IRLINE $UBAI 7ORLD #UP ' $UBAI $UTY &REE 3TAKES ' 'ULF .EWS $UBAI 'OLDEN 3HAHEEN 3TAKES ' ,ONGINES $UBAI 3HEEMA #LAS ' %MIRATES *EBEL (ATTA ' %MIRATES !L -AKTOUM #HALLENGE 2 ' %MIRATES ."$ !L 1UOZ 3PRINT ' 4HE 3 - !L .ABOODAH 'ROUP 5!% $ERBY ' %TISALAT 'ODOLPHIN -ILE ' 3KYWARDS $UBAI #ITY OF 'OLD 3TAKES ' !L 4AYAR -OTORS $UBAI 'OLD #UP ' !BU $HABI #HAMPIONSHIP ' %MIRATES 3KY #ARGO "URJ .AHAAR ' 3KYWARDS -AHAB !L 3HIMAAL

! COSMOPOLITAN FIELD LINED UP FOR THE WORLD S RICHEST RACE THE MILLION $UBAI 7ORLD #UP WITH THREE SHIPPING

#HOICE "RO !53 !RTISTIC .: 7ARHORSE .: 3CARLETT ,ADY .: 3HEZ 3INSATIONAL .: 2IOMORAL .: 6ILLIFYE .: -ALANDRINO .: &LORIA .:

WAS DRAMATIC BOTH BEFORE AND DURING

AS -C$ONALD DELAYED THE START AS HE HAD TO FIND A NEW SADDLE AFTER A STIRRUP IRON BROKE THEN HAD TO WAIT FOR A GAP WITH LESS THAN THREE FURLONGS TO RUN BEFORE HIS MOUNT STORMED HOME TO COLLAR 3PIRO ON THE LINE 3CARLETT ,ADY BOUNCED BACK FROM SURGERY ON A FETLOCK LESS THAN SIX MONTHS EARLIER TO DENY 6EYRON A THIRD 'ROUP WIN ON THE SPIN AFTER A THRILLING DUEL IN THE .EW :EALAND 3TAKES

3OUTH !FRICAN #LASSIC 3OUTH !FRICAN &ILLIES #LASSIC (ORSE #HESTNUT 3TAKES 0ROTEA 3TAKES #ARADOC 'OLD #UP 0RETTY 0OLLY 3TAKES *ACARANDA (ANDICAP -AN /g7AR 3PRINT +INGS #UP

$ANCEWITHTHEDEVIL IS PROVING THE HORSE OF A LIFETIME FOR HER OWNER TRAINER BREEDER 3T *OHN 'RAY 3HE TROUNCED A HIGH CLASS FIELD BY THREE AND A QUARTER LENGTHS IN THE (ORSE #HESTNUT 3TAKES TO LAND HER FIFTH 'ROUP DESPITE 'RAY

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-ONTEROSSO '" #ITYSCAPE '" +RYPTON &ACTOR '" #IRRUS DES !IGLES &2 -ASTER OF (OUNDS 53! #APPONI )2% /RTENSIA !53 $ADDY ,ONG ,EGS 53! !FRICAN 3TORY '" -IKHAIL 'LINKA )2% /PINION 0OLL )2% !L 3HEMALI '" !FRICAN 3TORY '" +RYPTON &ACTOR '"

IN FROM *APAN TWO FROM !MERICA AND THREE FROM DIFFERENT %UROPEAN COUNTRIES "UT IT WAS THE HOME TEAM THAT

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4AKAMATSUNOMIYA +INEN 3AN #ARLO EMULATED HIS SECOND PLACED FINISH OF AND HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN

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#HOISIR !53 $ARCI "RAHMA .: 'ENERAL .EDIYM !53 3AVABEEL !53 %KRAAR 53! #APTAIN 2IO '" /g2EILLY .: $ARCI "RAHMA .: 3AVABEEL !53

,ADIDI !53 !RTLESS !53 2ATHLIN )SLAND !53 /N #ALL .: /RIGINAL 3IN .: )MMORAL .: *ACILO .: 3TARYN 'LENN .: !RIA .:

-C$ONALD WAS ALSO FIRST PAST THE POST ABOARD 2OLLOUT 4HE #ARPET IN THE $IAMOND 3TAKES BUT HIS MOUNT HAD HUNG ACROSS THE SHORT HEAD RUNNER UP 7ARHORSE SO THE STEWARDS HAD NO OPTION BUT TO REVERSE THE PLACINGS 4HE FIRST TWO RENEWED RIVALRY THREE WEEKS LATER IN THE 3IRES 0RODUCE 3TAKES BUT WHILE 7ARHORSE MANAGED A CLOSE THIRD 2OLLOUT 4HE #ARPET WAS ONLY TENTH BEHIND STABLEMATES #HOICE "RO AND -AGIC 3HAFT WHOSE TRAINER *OHN

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$UBAWI )2% 3ELKIRK 53! +YLLACHY '" %VEN 4OP )2% +INGMAMBO 53! -EDICEAN '" 4ESTA 2OSSA !53 3CAT $ADDY 53! 0IVOTAL '" 'ALILEO )2% (ALLING 53! -EDICEAN '" 0IVOTAL '" +YLLACHY '"

,AST 4YCOON 2IDE 4HE 2AILS 53! #AESOUR 53! $EPUTY 'OVERNOR 53! -R 0ROSPECTOR 53! .ATIONAL !SSEMBLY #!. 2OYAL 0REROGATIVE 4ARAgS (ALLS 3!& .ORTHERN 'UEST 53!

4HE &ILLIES #LASSIC WAS BLIGHTED BY A VERY SLOW EARLY PACE AND THE WINNER THE !RGENTINE BRED "AMBINA 3TRIPES

DESERVES EXTRA CREDIT AS SHE CAME FROM THE REAR AND WAS CAUGHT WIDE ON ONLY THE FIFTH START OF HER CAREER

0ORTO 2OCA !53 4ANTINA 53! #OOL 1UESTION '" 4AILLE DE 'UEPE &2 3ILK !ND 3CARLET '" .AWAIET 53! !ERATEgS 0ICK !53 $REAMY -AIDEN 53! "LIXEN 53! ,ADY +ARR '" !HEAD "ATHILDE )2% "LIXEN 53! #OOL 1UESTION '"

DOMINATED 4HE THIRD

-ONTEROSSO WHO HAD FINISHED FOURTH IN HIS ONLY SUBSEQUENT RUN OVER COURSE

0ALACE -USIC 53! $AHAR 53! 'IANTgS #AUSEWAY 53! )RONCLAD .: 3HINKO +ING )2% ,AST 4YCOON %NTREPRENEUR '" -ONTJEU )2% #ENTAINE !53

3ARGENT WAS ABSENT WATCHING HIS SON COMPETE IN THE .ATIONAL 2OWING #HAMPIONSHIPS 4HERE WAS ANOTHER ONE TWO IN THE .EW :EALAND /AKS ! GREAT BATTLE BETWEEN TWO 3HAUNE 2ITCHIE CHARGES SAW THE LESSER FANCIED OF THE PAIR

!RTISTIC TOUCH OFF :URELLA BY A NOSE "OTH ARE OWNED AND BRED BY 4HE /AKS 3TUD AND !RTISTIC WILL NOW BE AIMED AT THE /AKS IN 1UEENSLAND WHERE THE STUD S OWNER $ICK +ARREMAN IS BASED

-AKE ! -ILLION !53 "AMBELLA !2' %MPERORgS $ANCE 3!& 3TAR $EPUTY .: !TYAB 53! 3CENTED 3AMANTHA 3!& $ANCERgS #HOICE 3!& 4ARAgS $ESTINY 3!& -AJESTIC 'UEST 3!&

MADE THE RUNNING WAS BRIEFLY HEADED BY THE FAVOURITE AND * " -ET THIRD

'IMMETHEGREENLIGHT THEN JUST HELD THE LATE THRUST OF 0OMODORO 'IMMETHEGREENLIGHT SUFFERED FOR HIS WIDE DRAW AND FINISHED SEVENTH

SOMEWHAT UNFORTUNATE AS HE CAME FROM SOME WAY BACK AND WENT DOWN BY ONLY A NECK

"ARATHEA )2% $ISTANT 6IEW 53! 0OLAR &ALCON 53! 3EPTIEME #IEL 53! 3ADLERgS 7ELLS 53! :ILZAL 53! 0ICNICKER !53 -EADOWLAKE 53! 'ONE 7EST 53! -ARK OF %STEEM )2% 3HIRLEY (EIGHTS 'ENEROUS )2% 'ONE 7EST 53! 0OLAR &ALCON 53!

AND DISTANCE IN THE THIRD ROUND OF THE -AKTOUM #HALLENGE THREE WEEKS EARLIER CLEARLY IMPROVED FOR THAT OUTING

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AND DEFEATED HIS FELLOW -AHMOOD !L :AROONI TRAINEE AND -AKTOUM #HALLENGE WINNER #APPONI BY THREE LENGTHS "OTH THE FIRST TWO HAD SPENT THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF THEIR RACING LIVES WITH -ARK *OHNSTON IN -IDDLEHAM

-ONTEROSSO WINNING IN 'ROUP COMPANY FOR HIS PREVIOUS TRAINER BUT #APPONI NEVER GETTING BEYOND HANDICAP COMPANY #LOSE BEHIND IN THIRD WAS 0LANTEUR HAVING HIS FIRST START FOR -ARCO "OTTI AND COMPLETING A LUCRATIVE EVENING FOR THE .EWMARKET HANDLER AS BOTH HIS OTHER TWO RUNNERS $ATE 'RADE 5NITED 3TATES ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '

WERE PLACED INCLUDING THE RANK OUTSIDER *AKKALBERRY (E SCOOPED a FOR TAKING A DISTANT THIRD BEHIND #IRRUS DES !IGLES AND 3T .ICHOLAS !BBEY IN A $UBAI 3HEEMA #LASSIC WHICH WAS PROBABLY DECIDED WHEN THE &RENCH TRAINED WINNER WHO WAS FOLLOWING UP HIS SURPRISE #HAMPION 3TAKES TRIUMPH AT !SCOT LAST /CTOBER GOT FIRST RUN !IDAN / "RIEN S "REEDERS #UP 4URF WINNER 3T .ICHOLAS !BBEY TRIED HARD TO PEG HIM BACK BUT WAS STILL A NECK ADRIFT AT THE LINE / "RIEN DID NOT GO BACK TO )RELAND

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4AKE #HARGE )NDY 53! 7ILLA " !WESOME 53! )NCLUDE -E /UT 53! (ERO OF /RDER 53! #ASINO (OST 53! .ATES -INESHAFT 53! "ELIEVE 9OU #AN 53! 'RACE (ALL 53! 6AMO ! 'ALUPIAR #() "OURBON "AY 53! .EWSDAD 53! 4APITSFLY 53! 3ECRET #IRCLE 53! USICAL 2OMANCE 53! #REATIVE #AUSE 53! 0ROSPECTIVE 53! -UCHO -ACHO -AN 53! #ORPORATE *UNGLE 53! &ORT ,ARNED 53! !WESOME -ARIA 53! (IT )T 2ICH 53! $ADDY .OSE "EST 53! 7ENT 4HE $AY 7ELL 53! $YNAMIC (OST 53! )N ,INGERIE 53! 4IZ -IZ 3UE 53! -ARILYNgS 'UY 53! (OWE 'REAT 53! $AYATTHESPA 53! )ZZY 2ULES 53! 4RINNIBERG 53! !LTERNATION 53! !GAVE +ISS 53! /N &IRE "ABY 53! :AGORA &2

+ENTUCKY $ERBY FAVOURITE 5NION 2AGS WAS ONLY THIRD IN THE &LORIDA $ERBY BUT HE DID NOT LACK FOR EXCUSES 4HE WINNER

4AKE #HARGE )NDY GOT AN UNCONTESTED LEAD 5NION 2AGS WAS FORCED TO SIT TOWARDS THE REAR AT A TRACK THAT HAD BEEN FAVOURING FRONT RUNNERS ALL

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DATA BOOK OVERSEAS WINNERS Breeder Al Mazeedi, T. Alder, R. H. Al-Khalifa, Sheikh Abdullah bin Isa Allevamento Gialloblu SRL Allevamento Gialloblu SRL Allevamento Robiati S.A.S. Anderson, Mr J. S. B. Anglo Irish Choral Society, The Antonini, Alessandro Archipova Syndicate Aston House Stud Az Agr Francesca Azienda Agricola Antezzate Srl Azienda Agricola Cappelli Fabio Azienda Agricola Francesca Azienda Agricola Gennaro Stimola & Vito Colonna Azienda Agricola La Morosina Azienda Agricola Patrizia Azienda Agricola Razza Emiliana Srl Azienda Agricola Rosati Colarieti Azienda Agricola Rosati Colarieti Azienda Agricola S. Giamcomo Srl Ballygallon Stud Limited Ballygallon Stud Limited Ballygrelihan Partnership Ballylinch Stud Ballymacoll Stud Farm Ltd Ballymacoll Stud Farm Ltd Barronstown Stud Barronstown Stud & Mrs T. Stack Berglar, C. Bone, Mrs L. B. K. Bosio, Luciano Boudengen, P. Brady, P. Brady, P. Brand, Dieter Brennan, Mrs J. Brickfield Stud Browne, J. Burns, M. Callanan, Mr M. J. G. Camma S A S di Schiavi Castellane Partnership Castlemartin Stud & Skymarc Farm Ceka Ireland Limited Cheveley Park Stud Ltd Cheveley Park Stud Ltd Clee, Mr & Mrs D. D. Conneally, Mr A. L. Connelly, T. Corduff Stud & J. Corcoran Cosgrave, Mr G. Cosgrove, Mrs B. Cosgrove, Mrs B. Coughlan, S. Cullinan, J. Curran, Mrs D. D. G. Hardisty Bloodstock Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darpat S.L & C. Laffon-Parias David Jamison Bloodstock Davis & Star Pointe Ltd, J. G. Dayton Investments Ltd de Moratalla, Marquesa De Vere Hunt, R. Dean Fleming Thoroughbreds Dean Fleming Thoroughbreds Denford Stud Ltd Dobson, D. H. W. Donnelly, Mrs J. Doyle, J. Dual S R L Dullea, M. Dunne, F. DXB Bloodstock Ltd DXB Bloodstock Ltd Edy SRL Ellis Stud Partnership Ellis Stud Partnership Elsdon Farms Elsdon Farms Epona Bloodstock Ltd Epona Bloodstock Ltd Ermyn Lodge Stud Limited

Winner Contract Caterer (IRE) Batten Boom (IRE) Majeen (GB) Magic Samurai (IRE) Gerbole (IRE) Love And Dance (IRE) Bibock (IRE) Maya Queen (GB) Il Grande Luigi (GB) Holy Imperor (IRE) Latika (GB) Faciascura (GB) Biancaora (IRE) Lasciatelapassare (IRE) Famcur (GB) Lawboy (IRE) Vioz (IRE) Armus (IRE) Exotic Horse (GB) Julie My Princess (IRE) Garud (IRE) Ciano (IRE) Myrica (GB) Myrtlewood (IRE) Super Refuse (IRE) Mustaheel (IRE) Namibian Orator (IRE) Fruehling (IRE) Around The Moon (IRE) Russian Rock (IRE) Novellist (IRE) Candys Girl (GB) Dr House (IRE) Aussi Princess (IRE) Corro Presto (IRE) Corro Presto (IRE) Amarula Sunrise (GB) Valiant Blue (IRE) Cielo di Napoli (IRE) Gaddo (IRE) Arneson (IRE) Alto Monte (IRE) Xiao Xiao (IRE) Miss Maddie (IRE) Pigeon Catcher (IRE) La Reine de Pearls (IRE) Keep Cool (GB) Dream Stride (GB) Sharaayeen (GB) Nigriculus (IRE) Camp Rock (IRE) Zabaleta (IRE) Town Rebel (IRE) Execution (IRE) Nova Valorem (IRE) Achrome (IRE) Al Rep (IRE) Cathedral Spires (GB) Hadba (IRE) Hallingsome (GB) Bu Naaji (IRE) Salt Man (GB) Uffa Che Noia (IRE) Lost Soldier Three (IRE) Yorkshire Lass (IRE) Woven Lace (GB) Linda Radlett (IRE) Tesslam (GB) Mulaqat (GB) Jutland (GB) Huma Bird (GB) African Story (GB) Capponi (IRE) Luck Or Design (IRE) African Story (GB) Opinion Poll (IRE) Monterosso (GB) Arasin (IRE) Compton Park (GB) Threestepstoheaven (GB) Bomber Pilot (IRE) Surfista (GB) Fiesolana (IRE) Atlantic Oak (GB) Atlantic Oak (GB) Sound Manduro (GB) Sound of Sunshine (IRE) Irish Kelt (IRE) Fortun (IRE) Amianto (IRE) Mariscal (IRE) Montmorency (IRE) Miss Sortina (GB) Belle Royale (IRE) Lexis (IRE) Lord Victor (GB) Lord Victor (GB) Baisse (GB) Facoltoso (GB) Cricqueboeuf (IRE) Mutajare (IRE) Klammer (GB)

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Date 10/3/12 25/3/12 07/4/12 21/3/12 25/3/12 10/4/12 01/4/12 17/3/12 28/3/12 09/4/12 29/3/12 08/4/12 21/3/12 10/4/12 10/4/12 24/3/12 08/4/12 08/4/12 08/4/12 01/4/12 08/3/12 24/3/12 09/4/12 29/3/12 07/4/12 29/3/12 15/3/12 04/4/12 22/3/12 09/3/12 08/4/12 08/4/12 31/3/12 11/4/12 26/3/12 19/3/12 01/4/12 18/3/12 19/3/12 21/3/12 26/3/12 17/3/12 25/3/12 07/2/12 23/3/12 09/4/12 01/4/12 21/3/12 17/3/12 02/4/12 01/4/12 18/3/12 08/4/12 20/3/12 01/4/12 30/3/12 01/4/12 18/3/12 17/3/12 01/4/12 10/4/12 15/3/12 09/4/12 03/4/12 07/4/12 22/3/12 02/4/12 09/3/12 09/3/12 23/3/12 30/3/12 10/3/12 10/3/12 04/3/12 31/3/12 31/3/12 31/3/12 28/3/12 01/4/12 25/3/12 24/3/12 30/3/12 27/3/12 24/1/12 18/2/12 31/3/12 29/3/12 20/3/12 25/3/12 22/3/12 24/3/12 11/3/12 09/4/12 07/4/12 18/3/12 03/3/12 08/4/12 08/4/12 25/3/12 11/4/12 09/3/12 01/4/12

Racecourse Doomben Pisa Al Rayyan Grosseto Rome Florence Milan Siracusa Grosseto Varese Pisa Milan Milan Florence Florence Milan Pisa Treviso Treviso Rome Ballarat Milan Saint-Cloud Compiegne Siracusa Compiegne Al Rayyan Sandown Lakeside Chantilly Jebel Ali Berlin-Hoppegarten Golden Gate Milan Salon-De-Provence Casarano Casarano Cologne Zarzuela Casarano Milan Casarano Siracusa Milan Greyville Lyon-Parilly Saint-Cloud Frankfurt Urawa Meydan Varese Rome Sha Tin Sonsbeck Saint-Cloud Saint-Cloud Rome Sha Tin Sha Tin Meydan Treviso Florence Al Rayyan Rome Moulins Nancy Chantilly Chantilly Jebel Ali Jebel Ali Jebel Ali Fontainebleau Meydan Meydan Sha Tin Meydan Meydan Meydan Happy Valley Zarzuela Dusseldorf Toulouse Salon-De-Provence Bordeaux Le Bouscat Turffontein Turffontein Hanshin Pisa Lyon La Soie Zarzuela Pisa Toulouse Abu Dhabi Siracusa Santa Anita Milan Taipa Taipa Berlin-Hoppegarten Pisa Chantilly Jebel Ali Sha Tin

Distance 1m2f 1m3f 1m1f55y 1m3f 1m 1m2f 1m 5f110y 1m165y 1m2f110y 1m3f 1m2f 1m 1m2f 6f 1m110y 1m165y 1m3f165y 1m55y 1m 7f 1m110y 1m 1m2f 1m1f110y 1m2f 7f110y 1m 1m1f110y 5f 1m 5f 1m110y 1m1f 1m 6f 1m 1m 1m 1m2f 1m1f 1m1f 7f110y 1m2f 1m 1m 1m2f 1m1f110y 1m3f 1m2f110y 1m 6f 7f55y 1m2f110y 1m 6f 1m 7f 1m1f110y 1m2f 7f110y 7f110y 1m 1m4f 1m4f 1m 1m1f110y 1m 1m1f165y 1m1f165y 6f 1m 1m2f 7f 1m 2m 1m2f 1m1f 7f 1m2f110y 1m2f 1m1f 1m 1m4f55y 1m3f 7f 7f110y 1m2f165y 1m2f 1m2f 6f 1m 6f 1m 1m1f 1m1f 6f 1m 1m 7f 1m1f 1m

Prize-money (ÂŁ) 21,053 2,916 4,057 1,666 6,250 1,875 2,500 1,458 1,666 2,500 2,916 8,333 5,833 1,666 1,875 2,916 2,083 2,291 1,458 7,500 8,980 2,916 10,000 14,167 1,666 14,167 4,057 12,081 11,250 52,910 (L) 2,500 2,910 2,916 5,417 1,250 1,458 2,500 3,750 1,458 4,000 1,250 1,458 5,000 4,128 6,667 12,500 2,000 20,023 9,735 1,666 2,916 56,858 500 10,833 20,367 2,083 106,733 42,643 7,788 1,250 3,333 4,057 5,666 6,667 6,667 10,000 10,000 10,582 12,698 13,756 14,167 77,883 (Gr3) 155,767 (Gr1) 284,289 (L) 389,417 (Gr2) 389,417 (Gr3) 3,894,179 (Gr1) 56,858 9,000 2,917 6,667 6,667 11,250 5,474 6,220 41,715 3,333 5,000 3,750 2,500 7,083 8,465 1,458 30,077 (L) 5,416 9,426 10,773 10,833 (L) 20,833 (L) 6,667 8,994 42,643

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DATA BOOK Fairhaven, Lady Fairhaven, Lady Farmers Hill Stud Fattoria di Marcianella di Razza del Pian del Lago Ferrand, B. & N. Finegan & Noel Cogan, N. Foley, M. J. G. B. Bloodstock Limited Gainsborough Stud Management Ltd Gainsborough Stud Management Ltd Genesis Green Stud Ltd Georgestown Stud Gibbons & P. & Mrs Gibbons, D. Glebe Stud & Mrs F. Woodd Glebe Stud & Partners Glending Bloodstock Glending Bloodstock Goldsmith Bloodstock Partnership Grangecon Stud Green, Lady J. Grogan, P. Hanly, J. Haras d'Etreham Haras du Mezeray Haras du Mezeray Hardy, Lady Henochsberg & Domonique Hazem Ades, M. Highclere Stud His Highness the Aga Khan's Studs S.C. Holborn Trust Co. Horse Breeding Company Jenny Hall Bloodstock & Sideways Bloodstock Juddmonte Farms Ltd Juddmonte Farms Ltd Juddmonte Farms Ltd. Juddmonte Farms Ltd. Juddmonte Farms Ltd. Juddmonte Farms Ltd. K.I. Farm Kavanagh, P. Keatly Overseas Ltd Kennedy, Mrs P. Kiernan, Mr C. J. Kilfrush Stud Killeen, B. Knockainey Stud Lavington Stud, The Leinster Stud Lewis & John Dwane, T. Limestone & Tara Studs Lisieux Stud Lisieux Stud Little, J. C. Llety Stud Llety Stud Loder, Sir E. J. London Thoroughbred Services Ltd London Thoroughbred Services Ltd Lostford Manor Stud Lynch, K. Lynch, K. Lynn Lodge Stud Lyons, Miss C. M3 Elevage & Haras d'Etreham Madigan, P. Magner, Mr & Mrs B. Mahon, M. Malard, Mr H. Malingue, D. Marchetti, Ugo Marston Stud & Fleming Thoroughbreds Mason, Mrs M. Mason, P. A. Maye, Mrs S. McCarthy, D. A. McDonnell, D. Meenaghan, P. Meenaghan, P. Middlebrook, Mr & Mrs G. Mill House Stud Millsec Limited Minster Enterprises Ltd Minster Stud Moeran & L. J. Graffard, R. & V. Monaghan, Mr T. J. Morrissey, Mrs S. Morrissey, Mrs S. Mountarmstrong Stud Moyglare Stud Farm Ltd Moyglare Stud Farm Ltd Mulhime Ltd Murfitt, C. J. Murphy, C. Natton House Thoroughbreds Newberry Stud Farm Ltd Newberry Stud Farm Ltd Newsells Park Stud Limited Newsells Park Stud Limited Newsells Park Stud Limited Newsells Park Stud Limited Newsells Park Stud Limited Newsells Park Stud Limited Newton, P.

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FLASHBACK

May 5, 1984 El Gran Senor and Pat Eddery receive a great reception after defeating Chief Singer in the 2,000 Guineas

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1 Vincent O’Brien 2 Mystery man 3 Pat Eddery 4 Stoney Burke 5 Sue Sangster 6 Gerry Gallagher

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efore Frankel, Sea The Stars, Nashwan and Dancing Brave became household names, El Gran Senor lit up the turf. Unbeaten at two, when he won the Dewhurst Stakes and earned a Timeform rating of 131, the son of Northern Dancer recorded a stunning success in the 1984 2,000 Guineas from a field that included Chief Singer, Lear Fan and Rainbow Quest. Trainer Vincent O’Brien next ran his charge in the Epsom Derby but, despite travelling beautifully, he failed narrowly to hold off Secreto, trained by Vincent’s son David. Success in the Irish Derby followed but El Gran Senor then sustained an injury and was retired to stud. He went on to sire Rodrigo de Triano, who

completed the English/Irish 2,000 Guineas double in 1992. Trainer Charles O’Brien was at school in 1984 but remembers vividly the brilliant bay trained by his dad. “El Gran Senor was seriously good,” he says. “He had more class than any horse I’ve ever seen. My father rated him very highly, up there with the best he trained. “The Guineas was a hell of a race. Chief Singer went on to win the St James’s Palace Stakes and July Cup, while the third, Lear Fan, was also very good. “He would have been a very good sire but unfortunately suffered with poor fertility. The quality of mares he was sent tapered off, but El Gran Senor still did well with what he had.” THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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