November 2010 - Thoroughbred Owner and Breeder

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Thoroughbred Owner & Breeder inc Pacemaker November 2010

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Eye on the Classics But which one will best suit Dewhurst ace Frankel?

Plus ■ James Underwood talks politics and pedigrees ■ Melbourne Cup: 150 years of the nation-stopping race ■ Northern Racing’s Tony Kelly fires prize-money warning

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Unbeaten at 2 Years World Champion at 3 Years

Brilliant at 4 Years

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Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe-Gr.1 Irish Derby-Gr.1 Prix Niel-Gr.2

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• Sire of 14 individual Group 1 winners including world champion Hurricane Run, Racing Post Trophy & Epsom Derby winners Motivator and Authorized and European Champion 2-year-old St. Nicholas Abbey.

• In 2010 his top colts include Fame And Glory (Tatts Gold Cup & Coronation Cup) and Joshua Tree (Canadian International) while his top fillies include Miss Keller (Canadian S.-Gr.2 & 2nd E.P. Taylor S.-Gr.1), Maria Royal (Prix de Royallieu-Gr.2) etc.

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Unbeaten at 2 Years World Champion at 3 Years

Brilliant at 4 Years

1st 1st 1st

1st 3rd

Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe-Gr.1 Irish Derby-Gr.1 Prix Niel-Gr.2

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King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes-Gr.1 Tattersalls Gold Cup-Gr.1 Champion Stakes-Gr.1

• Sire of 13 individual first crop 2-year-old winners including Cochabamba (2nd Rockfel Stakes-Gr.2 for Roger Teal), Kreem (3rd Prix de Conde-Gr.3 for Andre Fabre) and Hurricane Havoc (3rd Silken Glider Stakes-L. for Jim Bolger).

• Other winners or exciting prospects for Richard Hannon, Andre Fabre, J.C. Rouget, Andrew Balding, Pat Fahy, Sir Michael Stoute, Henry Cecil, Aidan O’Brien, Michael Bell, John Gosden, Peter Chapple-Hyam, Michael Jarvis, David Lanigan etc.

Contact: Coolmore Stud, Fethard, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. Tel: 353-52-6131298. Fax: 353-52-6131382.

Christy Grassick, David O’Loughlin, Eddie Fitzpatrick, Tim Corballis, Maurice Moloney, Gerry Aherne or Mathieu Alex.

Tom Gaffney, David Magnier, Joe Hernon or Cathal Murphy: 353-25-31966/31689. Kevin Buckley (UK Rep.) 44-7827-795156.

E-mail: sales@coolmore.ie Web site: www.coolmore.com

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Eye on the Classics But which one will best suit Dewhurst ace Frankel?

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■ James Underwood talks politics and pedigrees ■ Melbourne Cup: 150 years of the nation-stopping race ■ Northern Racing’s Tony Kelly fires prize-money warning

Cover: Tom Queally and Frankel Photo: George Selwyn

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New venue can boost profile of famous race I

t is a measure of racing’s unending search for new stars that Twice Over’s second Champion Stakes triumph – propelling him on to an elite list that includes Brigadier Gerard, Triptych and Alborada – played second fiddle in the press to Frankel’s Dewhurst Stakes victory.

Henry Cecil, trainer of both Group 1 winners, had declared Frankel to be the best juvenile he has trained for 35 years, helping to make this year’s renewal of the two-year-old contest the most eagerly anticipated in recent memory.

The race itself was something of an anti-climax, however, with previously unbeaten duo Dream Ahead and Saamidd producing disappointing efforts, leaving Frankel to emerge with his reputation intact and head bookmakers’ lists for next year’s 2,000 Guineas and Derby.

Only time will tell if Frankel can make his mark in either contest; pedigree experts Tony Morris and Jeremy Early offer their own views (The Big Picture, pages 10-13) as to what they believe will prove his best distance next year.

The Champion Stakes may have come off second best in the publicity stakes this year but it is unlikely to be the same scenario in 2011, when the contest moves to Ascot as part of the recently-formatted British Champions’ Day. This new event is the culmination of a British Champions’ Series instigated by Racing For Change that will showcase the best Flat races with the aim of boosting the sport’s wider appeal and commercial value.

Removing the Champion from its Newmarket home has caused a certain amount of disquiet among racing’s followers, and doubts remain about its new date on a card that falls just two weeks after the Arc. Karl Oliver, the man at the helm of British Champions’ Series Ltd, answers that question and others in our news section (pages 6-7).

It is entirely understandable why many people feel aggrieved at the change of location for a race that has been part of Newmarket’s history for the past 133 years.

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Yet now the decision has been made to make Ascot its new home, it must be hoped that this fragmented industry gets behind British Champions’ Day in an effort to make it a huge success.

As the Managing Director of Northern Racing, which owns nine racecourses outright and manages Ffos Las, Tony Kelly is only too well aware of the need to promote the racing product at a time when hospitality and sponsorship revenues are down and tracks are being forced to dig into their reserves to plug gaps caused by a rapidly declining levy.

Northern’s attitude to prize-money is one reason why it has received more than its fair share of negative publicity in the past, yet Kelly acknowledges that the situation has now reached crisis point.

“Owners are saying ‘the prizemoney was never great but at least it covered a few costs’. It’s getting to the stage where prizemoney isn’t even covering a few costs,” he says (The Big Interview, pages 56-60).

“We’ve reached the point where prize-money cannot get any lower; otherwise it will start to have a massive effect on the training industry, the stable staff and jockeys and owners.”

One race that certainly does not suffer from a prize-money perspective is the Melbourne Cup; this year’s renewal – the 150th – is worth AUS$6 million, about £3.7m.

‘The race that stops a nation’ has long been a target for European-trained horses, while many Australian owners have focused their attention on buying potential Cup winners in Britain and Ireland. John Berry looks at the history of the race and this year’s hopefuls (pages 50-54).

Also in this issue, the irrepressible James Underwood features in Talking To (pages 45-48) and we welcome as our new columnist Julian Muscat (page 27), who reveals his feelings regarding racing’s campaign to make AP McCoy the Sports Personality of the Year.

“It must be hoped

that the industry gets behind British Champions’ Day and makes it a success

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CONTENTS NOVEMBER 2010

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NEWS & VIEWS

FEATURES

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News Focus British Champions’ Series report

Changes

Khalid Abdullah’s star duo Frankel (above) and Workforce

ROA Leader

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Strike seems inevitable

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TBA Leader The emergence of foreign buyers

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NEW! Julian Muscat Sports Personality a non-event

128 Your Say Casela Park case unsatisfactory

INTERNATIONAL SCENE 33

View From Ireland Recession hits Goffs hard

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Continental Tales Gentoo’s Cadran joy

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Going Global PMU betting is in rude health

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The Big Interview Northern Racing’s Managing Director and Chairman

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A history of Tattersalls Racing’s famous sales venue

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Talking To...

James Underwood, candid bloodstock journalist

Bloodstock special Reviewing the yearling sales so far

Tony Morris Recalling his Sporting Life days

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The Great Owner/Breeders

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Lord Rosebery in focus

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Melbourne Cup The ‘race that stops a nation’ celebrates its 150th renewal

COVER STORY The Big Picture

Your monthly round-up

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The Northern line: Tony Kelly (left) and Lord Howard exclusive in The Big Interview (pages 56-60)

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ROA Forum Levy collapse equals prize-money catastrophe

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BBM Focus Highclere’s Harry Herbert joins the team

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LEADING THE FIELD IN BLOODSTOCK INSURANCE

The Next Generation Great day out at Park Paddocks

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TBA Forum The threat posed by EIA-positive horses from Europe

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Vet Forum

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DATA BOOK 103 Caulfield Files

AHEAD OF THE FIELD

Invincible Spirit’s two-year-olds are flying

106 European Pattern

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NEWS Stories from the racing world

The British Champions’ Series 2011 What is it?

When is it?

Why now?

A new Flat racing series devised by Racing For Change to showcase the best races throughout the season, with the aim of producing champions in five categories: sprint, mile, middle distance, fillies & mares, and long distance.

The series will start on April 30 with the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket and climax with British Champions’ Day at Ascot on October 15, the richest ever day of racing in Britain worth over £3 million, featuring the £1.3m Champion Stakes.

British racing’s stakeholders have agreed that the sport must reach a wider audience in order to prosper; the new branding will provide a season-long narrative that aims to make the Flat more marketable and easier to follow.

BRITISH CHAMPIONS’ SERIES 2011 – THE RACES SPRINT

Temple Stakes

King’s Stand Stakes

Golden Jubilee Stakes

MILE

2,000 Guineas

Lockinge Stakes

St James’s Palace Stakes

MIDDLE DISTANCE

Coronation Cup

Derby

Prince of Wales’s Stakes

FILLIES & MARES

1,000 Guineas

Oaks

Coronation Stakes

LONG DISTANCE

Yorkshire Cup

Gold Cup

Goodwood Cup

‘Defining the best of British Flat racing in a clear package’ Karl Oliver is Chief Executive of British Champions’ Series Ltd, set up to oversee marketing and commercial rights associated with the new initiative Why is the British Champions’ Series, culminating in British Champions’ Day, so vital to the future of British racing?

We need to extend the appeal of the sport to a wider and more commercially valuable audience. The industry felt that the Flat season tended to tail-off and that the Arc was the climax to the British Flat season; that was something that needed to be addressed.

The British Champions’ Series is about defining the very best of British Flat racing – showcasing the premier events and linking them together – in a clearly branded package.

The word ‘narrative’ has been overused but it is appropriate; we need to explain how the story progresses from one race to another through to a climax.

British Champions’ Day will be worth more than £3 million – are you seeking a sponsor to contribute this entire amount to the day?

No. Part of the programme has investment from the industry, through Racing Enterprises Ltd (REL) and the British Champions’ Series courses. We are looking for a commercial partner who will have exclusive rights to British Champions’ Day and the opportunity

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exists for them to be the sponsor of the series also. We are talking to some of our existing sponsors about taking on this role. In 2011 all the races on British Champions’ Day are clean for us to take to a new or existing partner. Charles Barnett said he would be delighted if he got a crowd of 30,000 next year – I am more ambitious and would like to think we can go beyond that.

A terrestrial channel will broadcast British Champions’ Day in 2011, but could it move to Sky after Channel 4’s racing contract expires in 2012?

Of course that is a possibility. We need to consider not only the media rights to the British Champions’ Series and British Champions’ Day but certainly the rights to the whole of British racing that currently enjoys free-to-air television. The key for us is to drive some real value and some understanding to the wider, younger, more upmarket audiences that we feel will, in time, pay us back in terms of media rights funds, sponsorship and advertising revenues.

The 2011 Champion Stakes will be worth £1.3m. Would you like to see the

value of the race increase year-on-year?

From 2013 onwards, yes. We have a longterm target of a very competitive level of prize-money. I would want it to be on a competitive level with its international rivals.

The Arc is worth €4m (£3.5m), rising to €4.8m (£4.2m) in 2013. The Breeders’ Cup carries a purse of $5m (£3.1m).

Can you expect to compete with such valuable races?

Yes, because we’re offering more than just prizemoney. British racing has heritage and tradition, and I’m told that it’s not just about the prize fund; for example, there’s also the bloodstock value of these races. Our focus is ensuring that we attract the best quality field that we can and look to build the Champion Stakes over the long-term to sit alongside the races mentioned.

British Champions’ Day will come two weeks after the Arc – how hopeful are you of diverting Arc runners to Ascot?

This is not a direct attack on the French. Our primary concern is to attract the best quality field that we can and if that means horses missing Paris and coming to Ascot, or running in both races, then so be it.

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Twice Over wins his second Champion Stakes at Newmarket; Ascot takes over in 2011

sh Champions’ Day Briti Ascot, October 15, 2011

July Cup

Nunthorpe Stakes

Sprint Cup

Diadem Stakes

Queen Anne Stakes

Sussex Stakes

Joel Stakes

Queen Elizabeth II Stakes

Eclipse

King George VI Stakes

International Stakes

Falmouth Stakes

Nassau Stakes

Yorkshire Oaks

Lonsdale Cup

Doncaster Cup

St Leger

Will cash be diverted from other races to support this new initiative?

No; the money is coming from the British Champions’ Series courses and REL reserves.

The industry has recognised that it needs to protect its top assets in order to attract the best international runners. These races need to continue to enjoy the prestige that they do, otherwise the pyramid below will become weaker.

What would you say to critics and those who think the Champion Stakes belongs at Newmarket?

I understand that change is difficult, particularly when you start to challenge traditional values. I would say that the opportunity for the Champion Stakes to be seen by a lot more people than it can be at Newmarket, to be put onto a greater world stage, and also have its prize-money increased so significantly, has to be extremely positive for the sport. We want to take the race and give it a much higher profile.

How confident are you that the series will be part of the programme for many years?

This is a long-term plan – these are our best races and our business plan takes us up to 2018. We want to showcase Britain’s best racing in a simple-to-understand, easy-tofollow format. By doing this we can reach out to this wider audience, engage and educate them, and start to build the emotion and passion. These things will not happen THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

overnight, so it is a long-term process. You have to get the framework in place though, which is what we have done.

Aside from the Champion Stakes and Queen Elizabeth II Stakes, the other contests on British Champions’ Day are not Group 1s. How soon would you like these races to be upgraded?

The objective is to see the other races upgraded to Group 1 level; that’s why we are putting so much prize-money in place to attract the best quality fields that we can. We were restricted by the Pattern so we’ve had to work within it to achieve the best outcome. There will also be a premier handicap on the day so we will have at least six races on the card.

Champion Stakes Pride Stakes Jockey Club Cup *a premier handicap will also be run on the card

re Champions’ Day Futu Newmarket, October 8, 2011

The new fixture aims to identify horses with the potential to compete in the British Champions’ Series in 2012 Dewhurst Stakes (7f) Rockfel Stakes (7f) Middle Park Stakes (6f) Autumn Stakes* (1m)

What other areas of racing are you looking to improve?

The same opportunity exists with jump racing as it does with the Flat; jumping already has Cheltenham and Aintree but we can showcase better the best races in the lead up to the festivals. You can create the same sort of structure in narrative and I think we will be committed to doing that in 2011.

People have said about jump racing in Britain: ‘It ain’t broke’, but that doesn’t mean it wouldn’t benefit from better branding and showcasing. If you can go to the broadcast market with a clearly defined series of races that are clearly understood to be ‘Road to Cheltenham’ races, for example, then it makes for a much more appealing package for the broadcaster.

Challenge Stakes (7f) Darley Stakes (1m 1f) Cesarewitch (2m 2f) *switched from Ascot

n the move...

Also o Two races have been transferred from Ascot to Newmarket as part of the revamp for 2011

Fillies’ Mile (Sept 23) Royal Lodge Stakes (Sept 24)

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NEWS In association with

Changes – R a c i n g ’ s n e w s i n a n u t s h e l l PEOPLE AND BUSINESS Alan Munro Eamon Tyrrell Harry Herbert Cheltenham Kevin Prendergast Sportech Peter Chapple-Hyam William Biddick Phil Haworth Star Sports Champion Hurdle John Baker TurfTV Jonathan Sheppard Ladbrokes Hennessy Gold Cup Nic Coward Chris Thornton Northern Racing

Derby-winning jockey quits Britain for a second time in order to continue riding career in Japan and Qatar Kildare trainer handed three-year ban, the same punishment as jockey Jason Behan, by BHA after running of Casela Park at Newcastle in August Managing Director of Highclere Thoroughbred Racing replaces Gavin Pritchard-Gordon as non-executive Chairman of British Bloodstock Marketing New two-and-a-half mile novice chase to be run for the first time at next year’s Festival Trainer records 2,000th winner with Tell The Wind at Dundalk Liverpool-based football pools company buys US-based Tote business Scientific Games Racing Newmarket trainer puts Machell Place and Machell House Stables on the market with a combined guide price of £1.5 million Cheltenham Festival-winning jockey quits the saddle aged 24 after struggling with his weight Moves from role as Assistant Manager at The Royal Studs to become Manager at Barton Stud in Bury St Edmunds Telephone betting operator buys Turner and Kendrick bookmaking business, having also acquired Vickers Bookmakers in mid-August Stan James revealed as new backer of championship two-mile hurdle on the opening day of the Cheltenham Festival Carlisle’s Managing Director to become Group Director of Operations with Jockey Club Racecourses Fires three people following mix-up which saw incorrect betting shows being sent to off-course bookmakers Becomes the first trainer to send out 1,000 jumps winners in the US More than doubled its operating profit, to £51.1m, in the third quarter of the financial year Value of Newbury’s showpiece race drops by £25,000 to £175,000 as racecourses feel the pinch of levy cuts BHA Chief Executive steps down as Chairman of the Sports Rights Owners Coalition; his replacement is Nick Bitel, legal advisor to the Horsemen’s Group Long-serving Middleham trainer, with nearly 700 winners to his credit, calls time on career spanning 33 years Racecourse group becomes the first to agree a deal with on-course bookmakers over thorny subject of tenure

RACEHORSE AND STALLION – MOVEMENTS AND RETIREMENTS

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Fleeting Spirit Zebedee Rachel Alexandra Quality Road Mullionmileanhour Rob Roy Stimulation Areion Martillo Arcano Mawatheeq Cacique Daryakana Cesare Kingmambo Big Bad Bob Fast Company Showcasing

High-class sprinting daughter of Invincible Spirit, winner of the Group 1 July Cup in 2009, is retired aged five Leading two-year-old sprinter is retired ahead of stallion career at Tally-Ho Stud in County Westmeath US Horse of the Year in 2009 is retired after failing to recapture the brilliance of her three-year-old season; she will be bred to Curlin Multiple Grade 1-winning son of Elusive Quality will retire to Lane’s End Farm in Kentucky for 2011 Listed-placed son of Mull Of Kintyre retires to Hedgeholme Stud in County Durham Group 2 winner moves from Hedgeholme Stud to Elevage des Loges in Normandy, where he will stand at a fee of €2,000 Son of Choisir, winner of the 2008 Group 2 Challenge Stakes, to take up stud duties at David Hodge’s Llety Stud in Carmarthen German stallion relocates from Gestüt Evershorst to Gestüt Auenquelle; the son of Big Shuffle’s fee has risen to €8,000 Haras des Fontaines secures son of Anabaa, a high-class miler, after three years at stud in Germany; his fee is €2,500 Group 1-winning juvenile by Oasis Dream is retired to Derrinstown Stud in County Kildare Five-year-old son of Danzig, runner-up in the 2009 Champion Stakes, is retired to owner/breeder Hamdan Al Maktoum’s Nunnery Stud Juddmonte retires Dansili’s brother from covering duties owing to fertility problems Daughter of Selkirk who won the 2009 Hong Kong Vase is retired by her owner, the Aga Khan, aged four Stalwart for the James Fanshawe stable is retired aged nine following a career that yielded ten wins, including the Group 2 Summer Mile at Ascot Exceptional racehorse and stallion is pensioned by Lane’s End Farm at the age of 20 Irish National Stud secures services of stallion son of Bob Back for 2011; his fee has risen to €6,000 Acomb Stakes winner and Dewhurst runner-up is recruited to stallion ranks at Rathasker Stud, County Kildare Juddmonte-bred winner of the 2009 Gimcrack Stakes retires to Whitsbury Manor Stud in Hampshire

PEOPLE OBITUARIES

AGE

John Brennan Stathi Katsidis Paddy Vaughan Mark Villa

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HORSE OBITUARIES

AGE

Pleasant Tap Safin

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Former Senior Steward of the Irish National Hunt Steeplechase Committee and racing novelist Multiple Group 1-winning Brisbane-based jockey Successful apprentice jockey who won the Irish Cesarewitch and Irish Cambridgeshire in the 1960s New Mexico-based rider who partnered more than 1,000 winners

Sire of Champion Stakes and Eclipse winner David Junior who had been based at Lane’s End Farm Sue Bradburne-trained gelding dies after horsebox accident in Fife

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Tweenhills Times

Tweenhills Farm & Stud Tweenhills Racing David Redvers Bloodstock

NOVEMBER 2010

HOOKED ON SUCCESS The new Redwall Bloodstock pinhooking syndicate set up in 2009 by Hannah Wall, assistant to David Redvers, got off to a cracking start with their Dubawi filly realising 180,000gns at Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 2 when knocked down to Shadwell’s Johnny Peter-Hoblyn. The filly was purchased as a foal for just 9,500gns by the syndicate and Peter Molony of Rathmore Stud, who had a 50% share.

Hannah Wall said: “I set up the syndicate for some great friends and family, who have now had a very exciting introduction to bloodstock. Everything came right for this filly, with her sire having a fantastic season and her sister Dingle View winning the Group 3 at the Curragh.”

The established Tweenhills/Rathmore pin-hooking syndicate has also returned some profitable results this season. An Iffraaj filly out of Melaaya made £55,000 at the DBS Premier Sales having been purchased for just €14,500. At the Goffs Orby Sale, a lovely looking Oasis Dream colt caught the expert eye of John Warren who went to €120,000 for him, nearly double his purchase price.

Trainer PROFILE

Pearl Bloodstock’s run of success continues unabated. Fresh after the success of Vulcanite in the valuable ladbrokes.com (Heritage Handicap) at Ascot, three juveniles – Googlette, Pearl Ice and Pearl Arch – comfortably won at Kempton showing immense potential for the future. In addition, Dever Dream landed her sixth win and second consecutive Listed success when landing the Boadicea Fillies’ Stakes at Newmarket.

Ger Lyons, trainer

MAKFI ON SHOW IN NEWMARKET

David Redvers said: “I am grateful that The National Stud has made their facilities available for us to show Makfi to all those visiting Tattersalls December Sales. We will be offering refreshments, and welcome anyone wishing to inspect him between 10am and 4pm over the weekend.”

Dubawi ex Livius Lady filly makes a 170,500gns profit on her foal price at Tattersalls October Sale Book 2.

FIVE WINS IN A ROW

Dual Gr.1 Classic winner Makfi has been retired from racing. He will arrive at Tweenhills Stud in November.

To ensure all breeders have the opportunity to see this magnificent son of Dubawi, Makfi will be paraded at The National Stud on Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th November.

Tattersalls

“I am thrilled for everyone at Tweenhills - this is the first time in several years the farm has consigned under its own name and to have had such success with this filly has been great," added Hannah.

How did you meet David Redvers?

At the sales with Roger Marley, Peter Molony and Ralph Beckett. We now mostly work the yearling sales together as allies rather than opposition.

What is your involvement with David?

I train for both David and his client Pearl Bloodstock for whom I raced and recently sold Wade Giles. He provided Pearl Bloodstock with its first winner and went on to be placed second in two Group 3 races before being sold for a good profit to Hong Kong.

Why David?

Very honest. In this game it is imperative to trust the people around you 100%.

Vulcanite storms to victory in the ladbrokes.com (Heritage Handicap) at Ascot for Pearl Bloodstock.

RIPPLES AT DECEMBER SALE Tweenhills will be consigning 30 mares and fillies at the Tattersalls December Sales, the highlight being the Stakes winning Dansili mare Ripples Maid who is offered in-foal to Sea The Stars.

Best horse purchased?

Our first horse together was Pasar Silbano. She cost just €25,000 from Goffs, and won a Stakes race at the Curragh and the valuable Goffs Sportsman’s Challenge before being sold to the US for a profit where she landed a Grade 3.

Any funny moments?

Ralph’s inability to win a game of spoof always causes much amusement.

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NEWMARKET

Frankel: Guineas and Derby horse?

Tony Morris Henry Cecil has likened Frankel to Wollow, the colt he trained for an unbeaten 1975 campaign, which included victory in the Dewhurst. Wollow met his first defeat in the Derby and proved himself top class only up to ten and a half furlongs.

The trainer also compared Frankel to Arazi, the top two-year-old of 1991, but a three-year-old who met defeat whenever he ventured beyond a mile.

Frankel’s pedigree provides no guarantees. His sire Galileo is generally an influence for both stamina and class. His dam Kind (by Danehill) was speedy but her half-brother Powerscourt (by Sadler’s Wells) was a Group 2 winner over a mile and a half and Group 1-placed at 14 furlongs, and the pair were out of a Lancashire Oaks winner.

The odds are perhaps slightly in favour of Frankel staying the Derby trip, but there will be no hard evidence to support that view until next spring.

Jeremy Early With Dream Ahead and Saamidd running so far below their best in the Dewhurst, one could argue there wasn’t too much to beat, though we don’t know how good Roderic O’Connor is.

The thing about Frankel is the way he can accelerate like lightning after travelling with ease off even a very strong gallop, the way he looks – he is very reminiscent of his handsome relative Powerscourt – and the way he moves. He is the complete article, in terms of his connections, too.

As regards stamina, Frankel gives the impression he may owe much to his dam Kind, who stayed seven furlongs but was better over shorter.

He looks a good thing for the 2,000 Guineas but I’m far from convinced that the Derby trip will be ideal for him in June, or at any stage of his career.

Edward Rosenthal Frankel has looked awesome this year but for some bookmakers to price him up as odds-on favourite for the 2,000 Guineas is ridiculous; one only needs to think back 12 months and recall the name St Nicholas Abbey to realise that.

For a trainer like Henry Cecil to rave so much about one horse says plenty, but the son of Galileo will find life far tougher in his second season and I’m not convinced a mile will be his best distance.

Placing a bet now on next year’s Classics is an act akin to throwing your cash in the Thames, and I would not be tempted to take the 5-4 about Frankel for the Guineas or 5-1 for the Derby.

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ROA LEADER

PAUL DIXON President Racehorse Owners Association

Strike looks inevitable over dire prize-money Racing should organise itself to inflict maximum damage on bookmakers

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evy forecasts for 2011 are now so dire that prizemoney levels will not be able to sustain a fully funded fixture list next year. Over the next few weeks the reality of this situation will begin to dawn even on those head-in-the-sand racing commentators who like to believe that owners and trainers will go on racing for any level of prize-money.

The truth is they won’t and it now seems inevitable that members of the Horsemen’s Group will be driven to taking action by not running their horses. Our quarrel is primarily with the betting industry, whose members have used every trick in the book to avoid paying levy. Racing should therefore organise itself to exert maximum harm on the bookmakers. This would require having non-racing days.

Closing down just single fixtures would allow punters to gravitate to the remaining fixtures on that day.

The bookmakers like to tell us that racing is far less important to them than it used to be. We shall see. Anybody who has spent time in betting shops will know there are many more activities to bet on than there used to be, but racing continues to be the principal draw for punters.

Let there be no doubt, horseracing remains very important to bookmakers and its withdrawal would inflict significant harm on their businesses.

We are in this position primarily because the levy yield continues to decline at an unprecedented rate. The method by which money is collected from the betting industry and distributed to racing is broken, and racing can cling only to the hope that the government will now understand the importance of modernising the levy system so that its current flaws can be addressed. This is, of course, based on the pretty obvious assumption that racing and bookmakers will have failed to agree on the terms of the 50th levy scheme by October 31, in which case the matter will be referred to government for determination.

It is clear that racing must impress on government the potential catastrophe facing this industry with its grave implications for employment and the rural economy if prize-money plummets to the predicted levels. The government must understand that prize-money is the racing industry’s lifeblood and that we have now reached a level where the impact on owners and trainers, and therefore the whole industry, will be profound.

The government’s recent announcement that it will divorce itself from adjudicating over future levy disputes from next year is an encouraging development. It means the government will need to put new laws into place to allow the levy to function in a different way. This is against the wishes of the betting industry, which has been campaigning for the abolition of the levy, and a move in favour of racing that has long called for a new, modernised levy process.

The government now needs to close two significant loopholes.

Offshore bookmakers, and those operating businesses through the exchanges, must be made to pay levy on their British racing bets.

But this will require a lengthy process when racing’s needs are immediate.

There are at least two quick fixes that could be put into place from the start of next year. A return to charging bookmakers levy on overseas horseracing shown in UK betting shops and the removal of the threshold system – ruthlessly exploited by the major bookmakers in recent years – that allows them to pay less than the full 10% on gross profits.

These moves would certainly help in the short term but are relatively minor in the context of racing’s overall funding requirements which, as set out in our submission to the Levy Board, are a minimum of £130 million a year.

Set this against the bookmakers’ wish of a total levy yield of £50m next year and you can see the measure of racing’s plight.

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TBA LEADER

KIRSTEN RAUSING Chairman Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association

Expansion of overseas client base a good sign Tough middle market remains stagnant but production levels have been reduced

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t the time of writing Tattersalls’ October Yearling Sale Book 1 has been digested by vendors, purchasers and observers alike. It was a great achievement to see the leading vendors’ list headed by Highclere Stud for the fourth consecutive year, whilst six of the top ten vendors were based in Britain. The only obvious conclusion I have not seen mentioned is that sale results suggest that there will be many more owner/breeders running their horses, whether solely or in shares, in 2011.

The moving on of the final pre-recession foal crop proved to be tougher throughout Books 2 and 3. Going forward, the 2010 foal crop has seen massive adjustment; British breeders have reduced their production from 5,595 in 2009 to estimates in the region of 4,500, whilst in Ireland the current estimates put the 2010 foal crop at some 7,000, reduced from 10,167 in 2009.

Sales companies, supported by their national marketing bodies, must be congratulated on their success in attracting and developing their international client base, but concerns remain focused on the middle market, where the depressing fall in prizemoney levels in Britain has done little to encourage owners to place orders.

The Racing Post Yearling Bonus Scheme has lent support, but we need to be in a position where subsidies from producers are kept to a minimum; otherwise the result will be further falls in production to a point where there will be insufficient young horses to meet the requirements of the British and Irish fixture lists.

The British Bloodstock Marketing Group, of which the TBA is a member, can be congratulated on securing The Hon. Harry Herbert’s services when he takes over as BBM Chairman from November 1. I am sure that his vision, coupled with excellent marketing and promotional skills, ably demonstrated by the huge successes enjoyed by the Highclere Syndicates, and a significant profile in the racing industry, will help to propel BBM forward.

Signs of inward investment into the British breeding industry are numerous and the winds of change are certainly already being felt within the close-knit community of leading British stud farms.

The passing of some long-standing names signals changes, changes which we must embrace if racing and breeding in Britain is to remain at the forefront of this global business.

Probably for the first time since involvement of the Arab ruling families we are witnessing the emergence of new foreign investors. British studs are once more changing hands; interest from Turkey, Qatar and Kazakhstan must be seen as a reassuring sign for the future.

Through this new support, the British breeding industry, and the exceptional land, resources and services on which it relies, is secured for future generations.

The end of November sees the focus switch to breeding stock at Tattersalls’ December Sales and the culmination of the TBA’s lengthy lobbying campaign to lift the Indian trade restrictions. We look forward to welcoming Indian breeders and their representatives, in what represents another signal of the expanding global attraction of the thoroughbred.

As we look forward to this new investment, the TBA will continue its work to ensure that the gains we have made during 2011 are secured. Addressing the threats of fatal equine disease outbreaks, posed by the movement of horses through Europe, will be one of our primary objectives over the coming months.

Whilst conscious of the threat of the poorly regulated movement of non-thoroughbred horses in Eastern Europe, we must also, however, maintain the right to ensure free movement of registered horses throughout the UK, France and Ireland, via the Tripartite Agreement. In 2009 this totalled a staggering 8,500 individual thoroughbred horse movements between these countries, and underlines the need for the TBA to attend to welfare and trade issues to protect our members’ interests.

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THE MAN YOU CAN’T IGNORE COMMENT

Tony Morris Fellow racing journalist James Lambie’s career was based on perseverance, so there was no way he would leave the story of The Sporting Life untold; the end result is a triumph

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ames Lambie was one of the first in line when they handed out dogged determination; I’ve known that for a long while. Still in his teens, in 1964 he caught a train from Fort William to London, found his way to Fleet Street and hung around for two days, with no intention of leaving before he had secured an interview with the Racing Editor of the Press Association.

His patience was eventually rewarded and perhaps for no other reason than that the guv’nor, Leo McClean, was a fellow Scotsman, he was taken on in the humble position of typist. Whether or not he lied about his typing ability, I don’t know, but it soon became apparent to his colleagues in the department that he and the typewriter were total strangers.

His mastery of the machine came slowly, but as that was potentially going to prove a factor in his being able to advance his career to the point where McClean, or anyone else, might give him the chance to write about racing, he persevered. It was the same story when he transferred to the sub-editors’ desk; the key to so much work on a news agency is getting it done quickly; Jamie was painstaking and thorough, when often speed was what was most required.

And when he finally got the chance to get outside and file from the racecourse, he drove everyone in the office to despair. His was always the last report to come through, invariably perilously close to the deadline for its transmission out of the building. Copy typists, sub-editors and despatch clerks cursed him as a matter of routine. The story was always going to come, but it would come in Jamie’s own time, to the frustration of all who took deadlines more seriously.

The annoying thing was that away from the work environment he could, and often did, act fast, doing things on impulse, often to the discomfiture of others. I can’t remember now whether it was he or I who conceived the idea of taking the Saturday night sleeper from Victoria for the 1965 Prix

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de l’Arc de Triomphe. But I do recall that he was the one who insisted that we couldn’t visit Paris without going up the Eiffel Tower and persuading me that it was a good idea.

Forty-five years later I can’t climb a flight of stairs and look down without feeling queasy.

From horse to hearse, nearly I also recall the time when he tried to kill me.

He had recently taken up riding with a degree of enthusiasm and, at a loose end one afternoon, I let myself be inveigled into accompanying him to the stable where his horse was kept. That was all very well until he suddenly asked the guy who ran the place whether there was another horse tacked up, because his friend would love to have a ride.

“When he finally got the chance to file from the racecourse he drove everyone in the office to despair” As I had never sat on a horse in my life, a fact Jamie knew well, I should have chipped in with the observation that he was quite mistaken, but recklessly I succumbed to his plan and the next thing I knew he and I were riding out of the stable into acres of open parkland. It should have been a nice day for a quiet hack in the Kent countryside.

Anyone cognisant with the Lambie sense of humour can guess what followed. He gave his mount a kick in the belly and mine took that as his cue to also head for the horizon like a bat out of hell. There was Jamie, laughing his head off while I fought vainly to

control a beast who was obviously just going to do what he damn well pleased. I felt that my end was nigh.

But, much to the sorrow of my erstwhile friend, I didn’t fall off. Don’t ask me how I managed to maintain the partnership; I have no idea. Nor do I know how far and for how long I was carted, but I don’t suppose I was the first idiot treated to unwelcome excitement by my mount, who graciously pulled himself up when he felt that he had expressed a sufficient quota of natural exuberance, or had just become plain bored.

It was soon after that terrifying experience that I left the Press Association – not especially because I felt the need to escape the dubious friendship of a homicidal maniac, though that may have been a minor consideration. I joined The Sporting Life and had four years cocooned in relative safety – well, there were always other potential dangers in the drinking culture of Fleet Street and environs – before I learnt that Jamie was making the same move.

Independent scrapes Much to my relief, we didn’t have a lot of contact after we found ourselves on the same firm again. He was soon based in Yorkshire, acting as the Life’s northern correspondent, while I remained in the south, so the scrapes we got into were independent of one another. Once in a while we would bump into each other at Doncaster or York and exchange pleasantries; I made it a rule not to get involved when he came up with one of his hare-brained schemes for what he regarded as fun. During my spell as a teetotaller he knew it was pointless to try to rope me in.

In 1985 we became enemies, or more accurately employed by rival publications. I departed for the fledgling Racing Post, while Jamie soldiered on, still, as it turned out, not halfway through his tenure as the Life’s trusty northern reporter. His stint amounted to some 24 years and throughout that time he THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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James Lambie was one of those for whom the end of The Sporting Life meant the end of his employment, at a time far short of what he would have envisaged as the appropriate moment to put away his pen for good. And so he decided to venture into a labour of love, embarking on a history of the paper which for almost a quarter of a century had provided him with a salary and enabled him to make a host of friends, and which for a far longer period had touched the lives of millions.

When he told me what he was proposing to do, I cast my mind back to those days at the Press Association long years ago and immediately knew what to expect. This was going to be a long job, involving much painstaking and thorough research, and the outcome would be a tome; there would be times when its continued non-appearance would provoke some to suspect that it might never happen, but that dogged determination would eventually prevail.

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JULIAN MUSCAT COMMENT

Who cares if AP McCoy loses out in the Sports Personality of the Year race?

Our new columnist is not concerned; he can’t see what all the fuss is about

BBC award is not the real McCoy

GEORGE SELWYN

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t’s as well for AP McCoy’s prospects of winning the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award that the core jumps season is upon us. Some regular heroics from the jockey would certainly help his cause.

McCoy’s entitlement to win has animated the racing press since April, when he landed the Grand National aboard Don’t Push It. Public affection for him saw Don’t Push It’s odds halve to 10-1 joint-favourite just before the off and McCoy reciprocated by conquering Aintree for the first time at the 15th attempt.

The feeling is that it is now or never for the man consumed by closing a 16th successive season as champion jockey. So much so that genuine resentment will greet McCoy’s failure to win an award that was bestowed last year on the footballer Ryan Giggs.

That detail alone should warn against expectation. Racing should be wary of a public vote that will surely gravitate towards Graeme McDowell, whose putt won the Ryder Cup three months after he became the first European to win the US Open for 40 years.

If McCoy is beaten, it won’t be down to ambivalence. Racing For Change is coordinating a campaign to deliver McCoy to the non-racing audience. Sports editors of national dailies, who are responsible for compiling the short-list, are being solicited.

And Brough Scott’s painstakingly compiled book on the serial champion’s career has just been published. Such emotional input can generate only an emotional response to failure.

Yet why the fuss? Why worry about a

McCoy (centre) wins the Grand National on Don’t Push It, his 15th crack at the race

programme so lacking in resonance that its format changes almost as often as McCoy wins titles? Why should we care about an award that rarely ends up with the most deserving?

Why even countenance something so contrived for television that it resembles The X-Factor of sport?

It is ridiculous that McCoy is said to have enhanced his prospects by winning the Grand National. It is evidently not enough that he has given his all, every day, for 15 successive years en route to 15 successive championships. The clincher, apparently, is that his number finally came up in an Aintree lottery that eluded Jonjo

O’Neill, John Francome and Peter Scudamore.

The irony is unpalatable – but guess what, folks? The BBC broadcasts the Grand National: one of the increasingly rare occasions the corporation deems worthy of showing McCoy in action. Please spare me the condescension.

The more I think about it, the more emotional I become that people get emotional about it in the first place.

Only one thing needs to be recognised here.

Every barren year for McCoy represents one more step on the award’s unrelenting march towards the credibility scrap heap. It is the BBC’s loss, not ours. And certainly not McCoy’s.

Sunday programme needs an overhaul It is impossible to pick up any racing publication these days without reading of the sport’s financial difficulties. Poor prize-money levels remain a vexing question but not all is doom and gloom.

One detail that continues to offer encouragement is racecourse attendance. High admission charges do nothing to deter racegoers, even if the controversial addition of post-race bands has greatly massaged the figures. Nevertheless, this is one area of growth at a time when everything around it shrinks.

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capitalising fully on the trend. Major festivals increasingly gravitate towards the weekend, when people are free to attend, yet the Sunday programme remains woefully short of quality.

This is something the Levy Board should embrace. The potential for growth, allied to an evidently willing public, should encourage the board to take an innovative approach to funding Sunday racing. Racecourses may be less inclined to experiment with what is, for them, a financially successful project, but racing – not to mention the public – deserves better. A more vibrant racing Sabbath is long overdue.

Too much about the funding of British racing has been set in stone for too long. The Levy Board’s annual pot is much diminished by handouts that insulate deserted racetracks against midweek losses, in the process enriching bookmakers and portraying the sport in a sorry light.

The money would be better spent handing out cash incentives for better-quality Sunday fare. Who knows? Given the racegoer’s appetite, a properly coordinated series of such Sundays might become profitable even without Levy Board assistance.

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By JEREMY EARLY

LORD ROSEBERY TBA President who fought for racing to continue in wartime

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he 6th Earl of Rosebery, at one time or another MP, Secretary of State for Scotland, President of the Liberal Party and outstanding sportsman, had a hard act to follow in the world of bloodstock when his father died in 1929. The latter had bred the winners of no fewer than 12 Classics at his Mentmore Stud in Bedfordshire, including three in the Derby with Ladas, Sir Visto and Cicero.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained, though, and the son did pretty well on his own account, to the extent that he was champion owner in 1939 and champion breeder that year, then in 1944 and 1969 as well. He also had the finest horse ever to carry the famous primrose and rose colours – the family name was Primrose – in the shape of Blue Peter.

Lord Rosebery’s five Classic wins came via yearling purchase Sandwich, who landed the 1931 St Leger, and owner-bred Blue Peter (1939

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doing nothing to hinder the war, we must do all that we can to keep racing going” As well as being an accomplished horseman, Lord Rosebery captained Surrey at cricket

2,000 Guineas and Derby), Ocean Swell (1944 Derby, plus the Gold Cup at four) and Sleeping Partner (1969 Oaks).

On the face of it, the 38-year span covering this quartet might suggest his success was slightly fitful, but that was far from the case since he had a succession of Classic runnersup. They were Hyperides (1942 Derby), Afterthought (1942 Oaks), Ribbon (1944 1,000 Guineas, Oaks and St Leger in very tight finishes), Midas (1945 Derby), Blue Smoke (1945 1,000 Guineas), Iona (1946 Oaks), THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

Aberlady (1955 1,000 Guineas) and Gwen (1964 1,000 Guineas).

Of these, Hyperides won the Coronation Cup, Afterthought the Jockey Club Cup and Ribbon the Middle Park Stakes from Nasrullah.

Lord Rosebery also bred other major winners in Flamenco, who beat exceptional colt Colombo in the 1934 St James’s Palace Stakes; Hippius, successful in two wartime Champion Stakes; Mermaid, successful in the Falmouth Stakes and third in the Oaks in 1947; and Skye (out of

Iona), who notched the Ribblesdale Stakes and ran second in the Yorkshire Oaks in 1953.

On top of his breeding, Lord Rosebery purchased Miracle (Eclipse Stakes) and Peter Flower (Champion Stakes), so his position as a giant of the turf, one supplemented by his being President of the TBA from 1931 to 1955 and Senior Steward of the Jockey Club in 1932 and 1948, was undeniable.

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of recent Arlington Million winner Debussy.

Donald, out of Donah from this line, won the Ebor Handicap and Jockey Club Cup in 1956, and Donah’s 1959 foal, Old Dutch, produced Sleeping Partner, who followed her Oaks triumph with victory in the Ribblesdale Stakes.

Interestingly Old Dutch was by a stallion who had raced for Lord Rosebery, Fastnet Rock, and while he regularly used established top sires, in particular Fairway and Hyperion, loyalty to his own was evident throughout his career as a breeder.

Fastnet Rock was by Ocean Swell, who was not an outstanding stallion, a comment which can equally be applied to his sire Blue Peter, who

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the value of the industry in those troubled times.

With supreme accuracy he said: “After this war has been won there will be an increasing demand for our thoroughbred stock. England has the finest breed of racehorses in the world.

This is widely recognised in every land. I feel that so long as we are doing nothing to hinder the war in any way, we must do all that we can to keep racing going.”

The success of horses bred and/or reared at Mentmore and The Durdans – the latter was within a stone’s throw of Epsom racecourse – was based mainly on a handful of mares brought into the stud by the 5th Earl.

Chief among these were Paraffin in 1872 and Kermesse in 1880. Paraffin was ancestress of three Rosebery-bred Derby winners, including

Ocean Swell, plus Flamenco, Hippius, Iona, Mermaid and Ribbon. Champion juvenile filly Kermesse is in the bottom line of the pedigrees of Afterthought, Hyperides and Midas.

Lord Rosebery also made some shrewd purchases. Buying the bloodstock of Lord Wimborne in 1930 brought Fancy Free, dam of Blue Peter, who would surely have landed the Triple Crown had the St Leger not been abandoned due to the outbreak of World War II. One of Fancy Free’s daughters, Springtime, was sold to Lionel Holliday and became the fourth dam of Derby victors Blakeney and Morston.

Similarly, success came from getting involved in the 1950s with the famous Pearl Maiden family that had produced one of the best-ever French fillies, Pearl Cap, dam of 1947 Derby winner Pearl Diver and ancestress

stallions was evident throughout his career as a breeder” stood at Mentmore. Be that as it may, a high proportion of Blue Peter’s other leading performers also raced for Lord Rosebery, notably Blue Smoke, Mermaid, Peter Flower and Skye.

Lord Rosebery died aged 92 in 1974.

Although the Dowager Lady Rosebery enjoyed some success as an owner thereafter, the glory days of Mentmore – and they were glorious – had ended, as the dispersal of his bloodstock in 1975 underlined.

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Runners descended from Lord Rosebery’s mares mentioned in the main article continue to confirm the quality of his bloodstock worldwide, with the tale of Ribbon perhaps most gratifying. She did not produce anything of note on the track in a short stud career but became the sixth dam of brilliant middle-distance colt Hurricane Run. Blue Smoke features in the bottom line of several Grade 1 winners Stateside but her main claim to fame rests with two topnotch speedsters successful in the July Cup – she is fifth dam of Sakhee’s Secret and sixth dam of Stravinsky.

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Skye is the fifth dam of 1996 South African Horse of the Year London News, while her dam Iona figured as grandam of one Kentucky Derby winner, Tomy Lee, while Lord Rosebery was alive and fourth dam of another, Genuine Risk, after his death.

To bring us up to date, Mermaid is the fifth dam of Blushing John (Poule d’Essai des Poulains, Hollywood Gold Cup) and fourth dam of Aptostar. The latter was successful in the Acorn Stakes and is third dam of that splendid racemare Profound Beauty, who is to represent Moyglare Stud and Dermot Weld in the 150th Melbourne Cup.

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By LEO POWELL, MANAGING EDITOR OF THE IRISH FIELD

Goffs is a sales company, not a bank says Beeby Goffs Chief Executive Henry Beeby was busy during the last week of September welcoming clients to the County Kildare sales headquarters of his company. The occasion was the annual Orby Yearling Sale and it was business as usual for the ‘honorary’ Irishman.

He was, however, sitting on some difficult news, released just after the sale concluded.

Ireland’s largest sales company, established in 1866, was about to publish its annual report for the year ending March 2010. It showed pre-tax losses of €6.4 million, more than double the 2009 figure. Goffs announced a €5.7m provision for what are termed ‘overdue debts’. They are obviously still pursuing much of this outstanding amount.

While those figures made for grim reading, Beeby was also able to announce that Goffs’ major shareholder, the Aga Khan, has agreed to purchase the majority of the Goffs-owned shares in Arqana for €7.5m in cash, subject to being ratified by the shareholders.

The economic downturn, together with a parallel property crash in Ireland, contributed hugely to the problems encountered by Goffs and their income fell during the period from €17.6m to €14.7m. Redundancies and significant cost cutting also took place.

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The Aga Khan and Henry Beeby (inset) spoke of the brutal recession

the company. “It’s been a good, progressive company,” he said.

“It has excellent leadership with people who have been good industry figures and that has brought strength to the company. What they didn’t see was the brutality of the recession and it had a whole lot of fallout consequences that they found very difficult to manage. It’s not just the bloodstock industry, but the banking industry too has caused problems.

They will certainly work their way out of this, I have no worries about that at all.”

Beeby said: “The speed and severity of the downturn caught everyone by surprise. It has

affected us dramatically. Our turnover has halved. Everyone took a major hit. We did a number of things, including major cost cutting, which sadly resulted in a redundancy programme. We cut out loss-making days.

“It’s hit us very hard and has been a strong learning curve. We have announced some very big losses, but we are doing that as a means of clearing the decks. Bad debts will be carried by the company, while vendors were all paid on time as they put their faith in Goffs. We are taking 100% of the risk. We now have to take a careful approach to credit.

“The message is that Goffs is not a bank, it is a sales company.”

Celebration for Moyglare Stud’s Haefner

Walter Haefner: 100 not out

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One of the most significant figures in the Irish bloodstock industry celebrated his 100th birthday on September 13 surrounded by family and friends in Zurich.

The man in question is the billionaire founder of Moyglare Stud, Walter Haefner.

Among the greetings he received on the day was a personal letter from the Irish head of state, President Mary McAleese.

In the last year, Haefner has passed on the ownership and running of Moyglare to his daughter Eva-Maria Bucher Haefner. He also has a son, Martin.

Moyglare was established in 1962 with the purchase of a dairy farm near Maynooth in County Kildare. Originally the stud bred

to sell, but in 1980 Haefner changed the focus to breeding to race. In latter years the stud has begun to offer young stock again at the sales. Stars bred include four-time Group 1 winner and successful stallion Refuse To Bend, Melbourne Cup winner Media Puzzle and Casual Conquest, the stud’s latest top-level victor.

Dermot Weld trains exclusively for Moyglare in Ireland, while Sir Mark Prescott in the UK and Christophe Clement in America are also on the training roster.

In 1988 Haefner was given an honorary doctorate by Trinity College Dublin for his services to the Irish bloodstock industry and his contributions to education in Ireland.

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Johnny Murtagh: RACE graduate

New stallions for Irish studs Some evidence of green shoots on the Irish bloodstock scene is the fact that a number of new stallions have been announced for the 2011 season. The Irish National Stud is to stand the Group 1-winning Speightstown colt Lord Shanakill, while the successful young sire Big Bad Bob is also to relocate to the farm.

He is a Bob Back half-brother to the dam of Snow Fairy.

Derrinstown Stud will welcome the unbeaten Group 1-winning two-year-old Arcano, a son of Oasis Dream. Winner of the Darley Prix Morny in record time, he also won the Group 2 July Stakes and his dam is a half-sister to the dam of the 2010 Group 1winning juvenile Gilt Edge Girl.

Meanwhile, Tony O’Callaghan’s Tally-Ho Stud landed a coup when acquiring the services of Zebedee for 2011. The son of Invincible Spirit is one of the fastest juveniles seen this year, winning six of his seven races including the Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes and Group 3 Molecomb Stakes.

to move on site for the residential course. The reasons were not forthcoming, but one view is that it was partially prompted by negative comments from previous students.

A public outcry followed and within a fortnight funding was restored and the students, who were originally told to return to school, were welcomed to RACE, whose Chairman is trainer John Oxx. A review of the course will take place in the coming months and it is hoped that secure funding will be forthcoming once this review is completed. The employment record of graduates of the course show the respect in which it is held throughout the industry.

Johnny Murtagh and Conor O’Dwyer are just two examples of the quality of graduates from RACE, the Racing Academy and Centre of Education in Ireland.

The school runs a 42-week course annually and also trains students from abroad. The course is funded from a number of sources, but the largest contribution of €350,000 comes from the state training agency Fas. That body has been under scrutiny from politicians and the media for some time now, with accusations of mismanagement.

In a shock move in mid-September Fas announced it would not be funding this year’s course, just a week before students were due

Prendergast bags 2,000th winner Kevin Prendergast is one of the longest serving trainers in Ireland. The 77-year-old son of PJ ‘Darkie’ Prendergast, had his first winner in 1962 (he also was in the saddle) and in late September he reached the milestone of 2,000 winners.

A hugely talented amateur rider in an era of greats, he trained Nebbiolo to land the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket and has been responsible for seven Irish Classic wins.

Oscar Schindler won back-to-back Irish St Legers, Nebbiolo and Northern Treasure won the Irish 2,000 Guineas, Arctique Royale the fillies’ equivalent, Pidget both the Irish 1,000 Guineas and Irish St Leger, and Conor Pass the Irish St Leger.

He also trained Ardross before the colt moved to Henry Cecil. His Royal Ascot winners have been Ore (twice), Oscar Schindler and Verglas. Last year Prendergast won Group 1 juvenile races with Termagant and Kingsfort, and this year he handles one of the best two-yearolds in Dunboyne Express.

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The Young Irish Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association was set up a year ago to foster greater interest in becoming involved in the industry among the 17-30 age group. As part of the wide-ranging activities they undertake, one is to have a number of horses racing in their name. They suffered the loss of one horse earlier in the year, but that disappointment was

put firmly behind them when the Paul Deegan-trained Stand To Attention landed the €150,000 Tattersalls Ireland Super Auction Sale Stakes at Fairyhouse, on the eve of the sponsor’s successful Yearling Sale.

The victory has sparked a renewed interest in the racing club and it is hoped they will have 250 members by the end of the year.

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Of the home team, the winner who prompted most column inches was of course Goldikova, who became the first European horse to win 11 times at the top level.

Deemed rather less newsworthy was the Prix du Cadran victory of Gentoo. This was a result even more unlikely than the Prix de l’Abbaye success of Gilt Edge Girl, who began this season by being beaten in a Wolverhampton handicap.

Gentoo’s roots are even more humble. A gelded son of Loup Solitaire, who stands at Haras du Grand Chesnaie in the Mayenne region of Central France at a cost of just €2,000, he was an €11,000 yearling.

He then cost just over double that price (and the equivalent of only £16,000) when bought out of the yard of Keven Borgel by current owner Serge Tripier-Mondacin, having landed a claimer at Vichy in July 2007.

The gruelling Prix du Cadran at Longchamp saw Gentoo capture his first Group 1

Sent to Alain Lyon, Monsieur TripierMondacin has certainly got his money’s worth out of Gentoo since then. But almost three years on, with 29 further starts having brought six victories and numerous places, he still did not look like a Pattern winner waiting to happen.

Then, in late June, and perhaps belatedly given that Gentoo had stayed on strongly into fifth over an extended mile and a half on the second start of his lengthy career, connections opted to try him over a proper staying trip.

Their decision brought an impressive handicap win under top weight. Two narrow

defeats over shorter distances followed before his win in the 1m7f110yds Group 3 Prix Gladiateur, which was widely labelled a fluke owing to a farcically slow gallop.

Yet there was nothing lucky about his decisive 2m4f Prix du Cadran score, though the very soft ground did make it an extreme test of stamina. It also provided a deserved moment in the spotlight for unheralded Maisons-Laffitte trainer Lyon. His string currently numbers just 22 but he has saddled approaching 900 winners (albeit in much lesser company than the Prix du Cadran) since first taking out a licence in 1979.

Jarnet’s horror story continues

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By JAMES CRISPE, INTERNATIONAL RACING BUREAU

A few words of advice for Thierry Jarnet. If anyone rings to offer you a ride in next year’s Prix de Royallieu, tell them that you are otherwise engaged. Now one of the senior members of the French weighing room at 43, he has taken part in countless races staged on one of Longchamp’s four interlocking courses. Yet the recent history of the Royallieu, a Group 2 fillies’ contest run on the Saturday of Arc weekend, has been a tale of woe for the four-time French Champion so extreme that it almost beggars belief.

The statistics relate he has failed to win the extended mile-and-a-half contest in 16 attempts. But that fails to transmit the severity of a horror story that first plumbed the depths in 1999. That was the year when Jarnet, aboard Daring Miss, stood up in his irons as he passed the winning post half a length in front. Unfortunately, that was the first winning post and the Royallieu is run to the second winning post, over half a furlong further down the home straight. By the time Daring Miss reached that marker, she had been relegated into second by Fairy Queen.

Four years on and Jarnet again forgot it was run to the seldom-used second post, with excruciating consequences. This time he even punched the air on arrival at the first post and, despite soon realising his error, his mount, Whortleberry, was collared right on the real line by Moon Search.

In comparison to those two calamities, Jarnet’s 2010 transgression was minor. Riding La Boum, he looked the likely winner with a furlong to run but, while being ridden out to the correct line, La Boum hung across fifth-placed Peinture Rare and, having lost out in a three-way photo to Maria Royal and High Heeled, was demoted two positions and her pilot hit with a two-day ban.

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Jane turns from plain to plane with Lund

Malton trainer Richard Fahey has been earning plenty of plaudits for his astute handling of cheaplybought bloodstock over recent seasons.

But even the experts make the odd mistake – just look at the exploits of Sweet Baby Jane since she left Fahey’s Mews House Stables at the end of last year.

An Irish-bred daughter of Royal Applause and the Unfuwain mare Nebulae, Sweet Baby Jane earned not a single penny and failed to beat more than two rivals in any of her four juvenile starts for Fahey, hence she fetched a paltry 800 guineas at the Tattersalls February Mixed Sale.

But she has been a revelation since moving to Norway and entering the barn of veteran trainer Arnfinn Lund at Ovrevoll racecourse in Oslo. She picked up her first cheque when fourth in a maiden in late June and got off the mark in similar company two weeks later.

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of the Norwegian Oaks before completing a four-timer in two more mile-and-a-half events, the first of which came on the Norwegian Derby undercard.

And she reserved a special place in her trainer’s heart with her victory on September 26. The first leg of a treble for the yard on the

day, it came in the Arnfinn Lund Seventy Fifth Birthday Stakes.

On her most recent start on October 15, Sweet Baby Jane finished a fine third in the Norsk St Leger. Her six starts this year have all been at her new home course, earning her connections a total of almost £27,000.

Scalo fever breaks out

Among the plethora of end-of-season big-race winners, one top prospect for 2011 who may have slipped underneath the radar is Scalo, winner of Cologne’s Europa-Preis.

His smooth victory impressed his jockey, Olivier Peslier, who as regular partner of such recent champions as Goldikova and Vision d’Etat should know a good horse when he rides one, and earned him the title of Germany’s top-rated three-year-old.

Fittingly, Scalo’s success came just five days after his sire, Lando, returned to Gestüt Ittlingen after six seasons at Haras d’Etreham in France.

Lando’s owner/breeder, furniture magnate Manfred Ostermann, explained the move, saying: “Lando was still in very good demand in France but we wanted to let him spend the rest of his life in the environment where he was born. It is like the prodigal son returning!”

He added: “Scalo’s aims for next year will be much like Lando’s at the same stage – we will start him off late, around the end of May, and give him an international campaign culminating in the Arc or the Japan Cup.”

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Friborg on Malmo mission Stefan Friborg, owner of both Gloria de Campeao, the highest money-earner in the history of European racing, and Natagora, winner of the 2008 1,000 Guineas, is set to relocate his European-based horses to his native Sweden.

Now living in Brazil, where most of his 200 thoroughbreds are based, Friborg was guest of honour at the Stockholm Cup International meeting at Taby on September 12. Friborg brought with him a trio of Brazilian-bred horses to take part in the meeting’s three feature events, but

only Oroveso, who finished fifth in the valuable Listed Nickes Minneslopning, managed to plunder any prize-money.

Two days beforehand, Friborg was at Jagersro racecourse in Malmo to sign an agreement to build a new 21-box yard at the venue. This will become home to his European string, currently housed at Chantilly under the care of Pascal Bary.

Friborg has yet to decide upon a trainer for his Jagersro team but sees Malmo as an ideal base from which to raid big races across the continent.

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GOING GLOBAL

By MICHELE MACDONALD

Creativity in trying times Ingenuity in Hong Kong, France and Britain stems decline

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s global foal production has declined and wagering in many jurisdictions bounced in the volatility of world economics, racing operators in Hong Kong, France and Britain have coped more creatively than some of their peers.

Aki Akitani, Deputy Secretary General of the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities, cited those jurisdictions for ingenuity in trying to keep the sport strong in trying times during the 44th International Conference in Paris on October 4.

Hong Kong, burdened by heavy government taxation on wagering and restrictions on international simulcasting, nonetheless was able to generate 13% more betting in the 2009/10 racing season compared to the previous year.

Through the first part of the current year, Hong Kong betting is up 14%, Akitani said.

He pointed to Hong Kong’s rebate programme as the most significant factor in the improved business, which also benefited from more race meetings and a few additional international races on the simulcast menu.

Under the Hong Kong rebate plan, bettors who have losing wagers of HK$10,000 (about £808) receive a rebate of 10% of what they bet that was not a winning wager.

“This programme was surely encouraging customers to bet more,” Akitani said, “because technically speaking, they can bet with 10% less budget. I think those who lost more than HK$10,000 would be categorised as core

Worldwide wagering has been steady

customers who contribute to the majority of betting turnover in Hong Kong.”

France’s Pari Mutuel Urbain has stimulated wagering, and thus financial support for racing and breeding in France, by its action in 2007 to lower the takeout rate on win and place bets, which are the most popular in the country, by 3.5% to 15%.

“Eventually, overall monthly turnover showed at least two digits increase,” Akitani said, pointing out that the PMU could have suffered losses if the move had not encouraged bettors to wager more. “The PMU took risks and they won.”

Betting through the PMU was up slightly in

2009 and is up again through the first half of 2010.

With Hong Kong and Australia leading the way by percentage growth at 9.8% and 12.8% last year, wagering on racing worldwide has been remarkably steady, with only a 1.2% decline globally from 2008 to 2009. Total race betting for last year was reported by the IFHA as €84.2 billion (about £73.6b). In the first half of 2010, wagering is up in France, South Korea and Sweden in addition to Hong Kong, while numbers have dropped in the powerhouse betting nations of Japan and the US, as well as in other countries such as Singapore and Italy.

Akitani emphasised that promotion of the sport must also be given priority and praised the BHA for its Racing For Change plan, not so much for the specific programmes, but for taking action to try to spark interest among fans and the general public.

“In a nutshell, we cannot afford to stay where we were,” he declared.

Akitani reported that global foal production fell by more than 5% from 2008 to 2009, dropping from about 120,000 foals to roughly 113,000. The hardest hit nation has been the world’s leader, the US, where the total number of mares, stallions and foals fell by 15.9% from 2007 to 2009, when 79,440 thoroughbreds in all categories were listed in IFHA statistics.

Australia and Ireland, the second and third most active breeding nations, experienced declines of 11.7% and 13.2%.

Nations that experienced growth in numbers of breeding stock included Argentina, the fourth most active breeding area in the world, Chile, Peru, Venezuela and Uruguay in South America, as well as New Zealand, Spain, India and South Korea.

Thoroughbred numbers in Austria slowly increasing Racing in Austria is slowly moving toward a recovery following the bankruptcy of Magna Entertainment Corp., which had offered hope for a new era by opening the Magna Racino track in Ebriechsdorf, about 25km south of Vienna, in 2004.

Dr Isabella Copar, racetrack veterinarian, presented information during the IFHA annual conference in Paris that outlined Magna founder Frank Stronach’s efforts to keep racing alive in his homeland. Stronach took over the Magna Racino at the end of 2007, just as he is trying to assume control of the tracks MEC operated in the United States, and has charged the Austrian Racehorse Owners Club with organising racing events.

Racing has a long history in Austria, dating to 1778. The first Austrian Derby was run in

1868 and from 1867 to 1918 “horseracing and breeding was a very popular and successful business,” Copar said. Vienna track Freudenau became the first worldwide to employ an electronic timing system, in 1901.

But the First World War virtually wiped out

Racing in Austria has a rich history

breeding in the nation and racing struggled to survive in the following decades, although there was an average of about 300 horses in training annually following World War Two and through the 1990s.

The Magna Racino was built on 270 hectares and includes turf and dirt tracks, and eight stables with boxes for 602 horses. The opening year proved its best, with 231 horses in training, 16 licensed trainers and prizemoney of €1,090,740 (about £953,960).

Copar said there are 134 horses in training in 2010, racing for €398,920 (about £348,895) in prize-money for ten licensed trainers. “The number of thoroughbreds in training and breeding is slowly increasing and we are all working hard for a successful future,” she said.

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Indian figures reveal immense potential With numbers of horses, prize-money and turnover growing, India was portrayed as a developing power during the IFHA conference.

“Breeding [in India] now can compare to setups anywhere in the world,” said Surender Reddy, Chairman of the Hyderabad Race Club, who represented the Turf Authorities of India in Paris. “What makes this more remarkable is there is virtually no government support at all.”

Reddy presented a video that indicated there are 89 stud farms, 123 stallions and 3,615 broodmares registered with the Stud Book Authority of India. Nearly 200 broodmares are imported to India annually and 18 new stallions have been brought into the country over the last year.

Among the relatively new stallions is former Godolphin Group 1 winner Noverre, a son of Rahy who stands at Sohna Stud Farm in Haryana, outside New Delhi.

Conference delegates were told that “with the cost of breeding and rearing in Europe rising, and an unavailability of manpower there, India is a future with developed best breeding practices at low costs and with abundant manpower.”

Further defining the Indian industry, the video stated there are 238 trainers, 331 jockeys

Action from Pune, one of nine active racecourses in a country clearly on the up

and 109 apprentices plying their trade, with the total number of people directly employed in racing and breeding surpassing 100,000.

Turnover on 447 racedays conducted yearly at nine active racecourses has hit the $449 million (£283.2m) mark, with bookmakers generating another $40m (£25.2m).

Total prize-money per year is about $33m (£20.8m), with 4,013 individual runners reported in the IFHA’s annual report as having raced in 2009. Indian racing is among the most lucrative for owners among significant racing nations, with prize-money being equal to 112%

of expenses in 2009, according to the IFHA, although that was down from 147% in 2008.

Attendance at Indian tracks, including the Mahalaxmi racecourse in Mumbai that hosts all five Indian Classics, has reached nearly ten million annually.

“India is a destination where investments are realising immense returns,” Reddy concluded.

“The horseracing story in India has only just started to be explored by the international racing fraternity and is one which has the potential of a great market and an unforgettable experience.”

UAE leapfrogs Hong Kong to top purse rankings Racehorse owners seeking a return on their investment in 2009 found the highest average prize-money per race in the United Arab Emirates, home of the world’s richest event, the Dubai World Cup, run for $US10 million (£6.24m/€7.14m) this year.

The UAE led all other jurisdictions with an average £84,435 for the 295 races in its relatively brief racing season, according to statistics compiled by the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities.

Ranking a strong second was Hong Kong, which offered significantly more races with 767. Average purse per race in Hong Kong was reported at £80,030, down from a tabletopping £90,486 for 2008.

Third on the list was South Korea, with an average of £40,405 for 1,833 races, followed

by Singapore, with prize-money averaging £32,395 over 822 races.

Japan ranked fifth when all Flat races, including those from the local National Association of Racing in addition to the lucrative Japan Racing Association circuit, were counted, with average purse of £30,650

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over 17,568 individual racing events.

With only Flat races included in most of

Global prize-money in 2009 In order of average purse distribution Nation

UAE Hong Kong South Korea Singapore Japan Ireland Macau France Turkey Australia Great Britain United States Malaysia Saudi Arabia Greece

Av purse (£)

84,435 80,030 40,405 32,395 30,650 24,000 22,668 20,034 18,877 11,840 11,573 11,301 10,861 10,655 10,183

Flat races

295 767 1,833 822 17,568 1,032 571 4,730 4,142 19,326* 6,254 49,196 756 496 1,232

International Federation of Horseracing Authorities *includes 112 jump races

the calculations, Ireland topped all European nations with average prize-money of £24,000 for 1,032 races. France was next at £20,034 for 4,730 racing events.

Asian nations supplied 50.8% of the total prize-money distributed around the world, with the Americas ranking next at 31.4% and Europe trailing with 17.8%.

With 150,820 Flat races reported for 49 nations (statistics from some countries were not available), a total of nearly £2.05 billion was paid to owners in those areas covering the vast majority of the global landscape, a figure just under the record amount paid in 2005.

Average prize-money for these 49 nations, with the US leading all others with 49,196 Flat races conducted, was £13,549, a figure that is higher than the average prize-money distributed in the birthplace of modern racing, Britain.

The average purse reported by the IFHA for British racing in 2009 was £11,573. That represented a slight rise on 2008, when the average contest was worth £11,064.

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TALKING TO...

JAMES UNDERWOOD

Great minds do not THINK ALIKE James Underwood’s interest in bloodstock and journalism has taken him all over the world; never short of an opinion, he is not afraid to go where other commentators fear to tread...

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rowing up in Woore, north Shropshire, how did your fascination with thoroughbred breeding and bloodlines start?

It started with the names of the horses, especially those of the present Aga Khan’s grandfather. Natural curiosity led me to search for some explanation of them in the encyclopedia and the information aroused further curiosity about the cultures associated with these names. Looking up the name Naishapur, for example, told me it was the birthplace of a great scientist and poet, Omar Khayyam. This later led me to read a lot more about the Middle East and Near East in particular, and draw me there later.

Where I grew up, everybody was into racing and hunting; it was inevitable that one would get involved. I started by going racing to places like Bangor, Ludlow and Chester.

Pleased to see you: “My history includes being chucked out of three countries and the occasional flight from angry mobs”

Most people know you for the European Racing & Breeding Digest; how did the publication start?

I left Iran in late 1979 and returned to Britain; at that time The Sporting Life used to cover the sales and stallion stories, but there was nothing journalistic written about pedigrees.

In the mid-1980s I started British and Irish Breeding Update, the forerunner to the Digest.

Why did you stop producing hard copies of the Digest?

Most of the subscribers were quite happy about switching it to email; they prefer it that way, especially those abroad who get it much faster, and it has cut out a lot of timeconsuming work as well as cut costs. It can carry on as long as I am here to do it. The ignorance of pedigrees among racing people and scribes compared to my younger days is

astonishing. But if somebody really capable would like to have it, and continue it, I will gift it to them.

Your annual Review is always eagerly anticipated; any surprises this year?

2010 marks 25 years of the Review. All I can say is there will be plenty of competition for the ‘Villain of the Year’ award!

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TALKING TO... >> A number of racing highflyers earned their stripes working with you. Who are you most proud of?

Richard Griffiths, who developed the Owner & Breeder magazine and revolutionised the Racing Post’s bloodstock section. He was green when he started but certainly a very determined, enthusiastic and ambitious young man. Then there is Michael Youngs, now one of the world’s leading pedigree and bloodstock advisors.

There’s also a stud manager, two assistant trainers, a top advertising company executive and a former assistant who is now editing a leading magazine outside racing. Being able to help young journalists in the Middle East made me realise that encouraging and directing young people to go to where their real interests lie is the answer.

“The upgrading of

some Listed races has been disastrous for the Pattern” How far afield have you travelled in your career as a journalist?

I started working on the Birmingham Post and have been a general reporter on newspapers for much of my life, so I have written about a lot of things. But after I moved to the Middle East it was mainly about development and cultural things. Blame the old Aga Khan!

You seem to have had a run-in with almost every racing body and journalist at some point in your career. Would you describe yourself as a maverick?

No. My history – which includes being chucked out of three countries and the occasional flight from angry mobs – has turned me into a different animal to people who have spent most of their lives at Much Binding in the Marsh and whose main excitements are changes in the weather; their frighteningly laid-back attitude to almost everything made me an odd man out.

I don’t like to brag, but I think I have chivvied quite a few people in the sport into becoming much more enthusiastic about carrying on their business. And Peter Savill, my racing hero, wrote me a letter after he retired from the BHB which I treasure.

How successful have you been as an owner and breeder?

My first winner was nearly 40 years ago, a

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partnership horse in training with Jeremy Hindley. Then I began to breed and have raced the odd winning filly. Here at home Anniversary Present, who won a couple of big handicaps and went on to win several races in the States, and the useful filly, Litany, both of them sold as yearlings, have done best. I have bred quite a few winners of lesser races abroad. All of this from stallions around the £2,000 mark, the most I could afford.

You spend most of the winter in India. Why is this?

To keep warm! I know a lot of racing people there, visit their studs, go racing and stay mostly with a generous friend whose servants and office staff all look after me. The ordinary people seem remarkably relaxed and friendly.

continues as it has always done. Both parties are entitled to adopt their own policies and, it must be said, most of the racing public isn’t even aware of any rift.

Can you name one small breeding operation you consider to have been a particular success?

The operation of the late Gerald Leigh at Eydon Hall Farm is perhaps the most successful small one in recent times. Within a few years he produced three Classic winners – Barathea, Gossamer and Bosra Sham – and a high proportion of Pattern winners from a

How dependent is the British breeding industry on the Arab influence?

It is a matter of common sense that the stallions the Arab investors can afford to stand are now a key source for a wide range of breeders. Most of the other stallion masters cannot afford to offer the deals that Darley can, or to stand the high-quality middle-distance stallions that the Arab-owned studs do.

To what extent would the British racing and breeding industry be in trouble if the Arabs withdrew from the sport?

The actual race programme would contract and a lot of tracks would go out of business because there wouldn’t be enough horses to race on them. The top half could survive because there is Coolmore and quite a lot of people with exceptional wealth who are still in love with the sport. Vast numbers of workers in the sport would have to leave it as it diminished rapidly in size.

What did you make of the Tattersalls Book 1 Sale?

In the circumstances it wasn’t a bad sale. We got used to all those millions paid by the Maktoums, but I suppose Sheikh Mohammed has had to be careful about his image back home because of the current financial situation in Dubai. But there are still people who can pay three or four hundred thousand guineas five or six times over, reflecting the fact that there are still a lot of rich people in the world. It was very encouraging because there was plenty of money for the nice horses.

Overall, I think the prices were more rational than they were before.

Has the stand-off between Sheikh Mohammed and John Magnier been damaging to racing?

One hopes that relations can be mended and the healthy competition between them

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TALKING TO... small band of mares. The reasons for this appear to be his business acumen, the understanding of what makes quality in the thoroughbred and being hands on at all times. Also, he searched out the right advice.

In your view, the outstanding broodmare of the last 50 years is...

Urban Sea. Many mares have produced several high-class winners, but none has given us two champion racehorses like Galileo and Sea The Stars. Galileo is now the world’s leading stallion, too; Sea The Stars can follow in his footsteps.

Has the Pattern system lost some of its significance owing to the number of races now included?

Yes, it’s so obvious. The fields for many of the Listed races are no better in quality than handicaps on the same card and the upgrading of some of them to Group level has been disastrous.

Black type was handed out to racecourses without regard for the maintenance of quality and once the tracks got them they wouldn’t give them up. More than one, I gather, threatened to sue if any of theirs were withdrawn. The French started the

rot, but the decision to compete with them rather than face them down led to a significant deterioration. It is time the European Pattern Committee became serious for once.

Do British breeders get enough recognition from our industry?

No. The racing press is the worst because they haven’t had the time or the intellectual capacity to get a grasp of pedigrees; they ignore them in their reports. The Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association has progressed a great deal in recent years and gives its members an excellent

At home in the office with a copy of his European Racing & Breeding Digest, which is now sent around the world via email

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TALKING TO... >> service. But too many of the Breeders’ Prizes have gone to the winners of insignificant short-distance races and the National Hunt races which don’t really fit in with the aim of encouraging breeding of Classic quality.

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Who would be your four ideal dinner party guests?

Kirsten Rausing, Henrietta Bedford, Deirdre Mulley (pedigree expert) and Demi O’Byrne What is the best advice you’ve been given?

Stay out of debt Who do you most admire in racing?

The late Colin Hayes, who bred and trained top winners in Australia, and had time for people like me What irritates you?

The British obsession with themselves and their society Who would you cross the road to avoid?

Nobody, the traffic’s too bad these days

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Is there too much of a focus on betting in the Racing Post?

Yes, but one has to appreciate that the vast majority of its readers are punters. It has become much more readable for non-betting readers under its present editor and it is now required reading for anyone interested in the sport. The racing channels are also bettingobsessed, but that’s because the presenters feel that is what racing is largely about. Most of the racing media seems to have graduated from betting shops, not publications.

In 1999, you were vocal in your criticism of the idea of a racing trust buying and running the Tote. Do you still feel the same?

Not entirely, but it could be fatal if the buyers, as is often the practice here, don’t appreciate just what the Tote can do and handed it over to unqualified people, who are perhaps pals, to run it. The Woodrow Wyatt period is a horrifying memory.

My point has always been that we naturally don’t have the competence and skill in the field that Australia and the USA have developed in a situation without bookmakers, and the contract for running the machine should be given to some proven company from there. There are minor racing countries which have a much bigger variety of Tote bets than we have.

You have advocated owners going on strike if racing does not receive a satisfactory levy deal. Discuss…

Because of the widespread resentment of the attitude of the bookmakers, the behaviour of the racecourses in not supplying prize-money to the level needed and overcharging their customers has not been publicised as much as it should have been. Their policy continues to eat away at the prosperity of the sport.

An owners’ strike is long overdue but it has to be organised to force the tracks to pay up from their resources. The Levy Board has handed out huge charity to the tracks over the years and now is the time for them to show they appreciate it.

Is the BHA taking our sport on the right path?

I don’t think they really have the authority to do that. They are voluble about the need for the bookies to pay up and they have regulation under control. But, sadly, they don’t have a properly representative board, and the committees, who are designed to help them, don’t really contain the right people.

The BHA’s problem is that it is too isolated from the real racing people and hasn’t found a way to get their confidence. The failure to arouse genuine interest in the problems of the sport among government officials – a reflection of the failure of MPs who profess an interest in the sport to produce any worthwhile help – is another big handicap.

Mark Johnston said that if he could pick a team to run racing, you would be on it. So what’s the first thing you’d do if given the chance?

Invite the Jockey Club – a vastly different body today than it was in the days when it tried to block Peter Savill and reportedly sacked people merely for not fitting in – to work with the BHA, which so badly needs real input from the main body of the sport.

“A strike by owners is long overdue; it has to be organised to force the tracks to pay up”

There are a lot of sound businessmen and key figures in the day-to-day activities of the sport in the Jockey Club now, and the old backwoodsmen don’t count any more. It is there that the BHA can find help.

As for Racing For Change, I would sack everybody and dissolve it. It is tragic that so many well-meaning people in the sport have presided over such an awful waste of money.

Will the new Champions’ Day at Ascot in 2011 be a success?

As a social occasion, yes, but as far as long term publicity for the sport is concerned I don’t see the need. There is no longer the same awareness or interest in racing among the public at large. It will remain a minority sport that will get its lifeblood from those who invest in it or love it, those who see it as a vehicle for social advancement and those who bet on it. Efficiently run, it can survive.

The current plan to hold the Champion Stakes and the Queen Elizabeth II on the same day won’t work, nor will a Champions’ Day without two-year-old championships.

The idea of having the Dewhurst and the Middle Park on the same day at Newmarket is another waste of resources.

The moving of the Foret to Arc day this year turned the Saturday Longchamp programme into a non-event. The so-called narrative already exists and there is no new attraction in it.

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THE HISTORY OF THE MELBOURNE CUP

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THE CUP The Melbourne Cup, in which battlers go head-to-head with bluebloods, celebrates its 150th renewal this year and boasts a history as rich as the nation it holds in its thrall

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his November, on its traditional first Tuesday date, the Melbourne Cup will be run for the 150th time. The Cup, worth an unprecedented Aus$6.175 million (£3.84m/€4.36m) thanks to the sponsorship of Emirates Airline, is the second major historical milestone of Australia’s current Spring Racing Carnival.

Last month saw the first: the 200th anniversary of the first official race meeting in Australia, staged on October 15, 1810 on a ten-furlong course laid out on what has become Sydney’s CBD. Thus began a mighty tradition of racing in the continent.

It is a mark of the importance of racing within Australian society that the sport is nearly as old as the land’s colonial history.

The horse is not indigenous to Australia, with the first having arrived in Sydney Cove with the pioneers on the First Fleet on January 26, 1788. Even in the early days, the colonists wished to race their few horses, with racing believed to have taken place near Sydney as early as 1795. Australia’s proudly classless ethos was in evidence even at this early stage, with emancipists (former convicts) racing horses alongside officers at the first official meeting, staged 200 years ago.

Australia as we know it dates only from New Year’s Day 1901, when federation saw the six separate self-governing British colonies become states of the Commonwealth of Australia. Melbourne, the capital of the state

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of Victoria, had initially been within the colony of New South Wales. Founded in 1835, Melbourne was the principal settlement in the Port Phillip District in what was southern New South Wales. However, Port Phillip was ceded from NSW in July 1851 and became a separate (British) colony, named Victoria in honour of its Queen.

Racing in Melbourne is almost as old as the town, with the first race seeming to have been held in 1837. Race meetings were first held on the flat land beside the Maribyrnong River at Flemington in 1840 and, once Victoria was established, the new state developed its own Classics and ran them there: the Derby (1855), St Leger (1857) and Oaks (1861).

However, most of the colonists had come down under hoping for a better life. An establishment-dominated society was thus an aspiration held by very few. Set-weights races, with victory going to the man who could afford the best horses, were not in keeping with this general philosophy. A handicap, therefore, in which Jack might have as good a chance as his master and in which the ‘battler’ would always be given a ‘fair go’, seemed more likely to capture the public’s attention.

Thus the Melbourne Cup, a two-mile handicap, was inaugurated in 1861, and the public loved it. In 1865, Cup Day (then a Thursday) was decreed a half-day for bank and government employees. In 1877, the third year in which the Cup was run on its

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now-traditional Tuesday date, it became the world’s only race to be designated a public holiday by an act of (the Victorian) parliament. It remains one to this day, with a crowd of upwards of 100,000 pouring into Flemington, and many of Australia’s 50 tracks which race that day recording their best attendance figures of the year.

Inaugurated soon after Victoria’s secession from New South Wales, the Cup straightaway featured inter-colony rivalry. The first Cup – to the consternation, no doubt, of the locals – was won by the NSW-trained Archer, who won again the following year. Folklore has it that Archer walked the 500 miles from his home town of Nowra, but it is more likely he travelled by sea. What is known is that he made his journey under the care of the THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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The history-making British-bred mare Makybe Diva was unsold as a foal at Tattersalls and went on to win three Melbourne Cups

masterhorseman Etienne de Mestre, who held the record for the most Cup winners trained for over a century until modern-day ‘Cups King’ Bart Cummings won his sixth Melbourne Cup with Gold And Black in 1977. The Cummings honour roll has subsequently expanded, the maestro saddling his 12th winner when Viewed edged out the Luca Cumani-trained Bauer in 2008.

In the Cup’s first 100 years, two other horses stand out. The tail-end of the 19th century saw the New Zealand-bred Carbine set a weight-carrying record that is likely to stand forever: he won the Cup in 1890 under 10st 5lb, a weight that is unlikely ever to be carried again by any runner, never mind a winner. In the subsequent 120 years, only two horses have been asked to carry a larger THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

“Carbine’s

weight-carrying record is likely to stand forever” impost; both, as one might deduce, figure among the greats. Peter Pan won the Cup as a three-year-old in 1932 under 7s 6lb and as a five-year-old in 1934 under 9st 10lb, when he became the first dual winner of the race since Archer. It was a mark of the horse’s dominance, and probably no coincidence,

that in 1935 the handicapper decided to allot him a weight, 10st 6lb, which, were he to have defied it, would have seen him break Carbine’s record. That task proved beyond him, but he made a further impression on the race when his son Peter was an unlucky second in the 1944 Cup. If Peter Pan was a champion, the horse who has carried the highest weight in a Melbourne Cup was a legend: Phar Lap, who ran unplaced in the 1931 Cup under 10st 10lb. Like Carbine, Phar Lap was bred in New Zealand. Arguably the greatest of the many great horses in history to finish last on debut, Phar Lap went on to win 36 races in Australia and one in North America. Perhaps the most famous of his wins was in his last race, the Agua Caliente Handicap in Mexico,

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shortly before his mysterious death, but in Australia his finest victory came in the 1930 Melbourne Cup, which he won with his head in his chest by three lengths under 9st 12lb as the 8-11 favourite. That year he posted another achievement which will surely never be repeated, winning at Flemington on all four days of the Victoria

“The 1910 winner

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Comedy King sailed to Australia from Britain as a foal”

An Australian legend: Phar Lap, who now has pride of place in the Melbourne Museum

Racing Club’s Carnival (Saturday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday).

While inter-colony/interstate rivalry was a feature of the Cup’s early years, improvements in international travel meant that eventually the Australian states became united in their desire to keep the Cup at home – home being Australia, rather than Victoria, with each year’s race featuring a strong challenge from New Zealand. Since, however, Vintage Crop’s history-making victory for Ireland in 1993, ‘international’ challengers have come to mean the raiders from outside Australasia. In the period since the VRC began to set out its stall to bolster the Cup’s popularity by making it a truly international event, several international stables have become notable for their

Easily the most notable of the Australian owners trying to win the Cup with European horses is Victoria businessman Lloyd Williams, the founder of Melbourne’s Crown Casino who has owned three Cup winners: Just A Dash (1981), What A Nuisance (1985) and Efficient (2007).

Just A Dash was bred in Australia and the other two in New Zealand, but it seems ever more inevitable that Williams will one day own a northern hemisphere-bred Cup winner. Williams (in partnership with the late Kerry Packer) bought his first European horses in the 1980s – the former Luca Cumani-trained Nayrizi was beaten in a photo in the 1989 Caulfield Cup in his colours – before going through a period of focusing on buying yearlings by Zabeel in New Zealand.

This policy yielded his most recent Cup

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Alamshar’s half-brother Akzar has joined the Williams team from Ireland

winner Efficient but more recently he has turned again to Europe. His horses are now trained, by Robert Hickmott, under his daily supervision at his own property at Mount Macedon, and he feels European horses are particularly well suited to this environment.

“I’m more interested in the training of the horses than anything,” says Williams. “My passion is getting the horse to the race.”

That race being, of course, the Cup, which he describes as “the aim – that is the ambition, that is the dream”.

His entrants for this year’s Cup include two high-class stayers bought out of John Oxx’s stable last year (Irish St Leger and Prix du Cadran winner Alandi and Irish Derby third Mourayan), while this autumn has seen him snap up the likes of Derby runner-up At First Sight, Royal Ascot runner-up Imposing and the lightly-raced Akzar.

Horses purchased by Grant PritchardGordon also go to a private training centre away from the bustle of the main metropolitan tracks. Lee Freedman, who has won the Cup with Tawriffic, Subzero and Doriemus, as well as training Makybe Diva for her second and third wins in the race, relocated out of the city down to his new property, ‘Markdel’ on the Mornington

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The 1890 winner Carbine was exported to England to stand at Welbeck Abbey Stud

Admiral Drake, Bois Roussel, Bull Dog and Sir Gallahad III), Sentiment (dam of Night Raid, who sired Melbourne Cup winners Phar Lap and Nightmarch), Spearhead (sire of 1926 Cup winner Spearfelt, who in turn sired 1943 Cup winner Dark Felt) and

Sangster, who ultimately bred numerous horses in Australia, won his only Melbourne Cup in 1980 with the American-bred Beldale Ball. The son of Nashua had been bought as a yearling in America by Michael Jarvis, who trained him to win at Haydock and Yarmouth for Tony Kelly. Sangster then bought Beldale Ball as a potential Cup horse, sending him to be trained by Colin Hayes in South Australia.

past two decades, internationally-bred winners are no new phenomenon. The first was the British-bred 1910 winner Comedy King, a son of Persimmon who sailed to Australia alongside his mother as a foal in 1907 and whose stud career yielded Artilleryman and King Ingoda, winners of the Cup in 1919 and 1922 respectively. More recently, international owner/breeder Robert

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keenness to challenge. Dermot Weld’s wins with Vintage Crop and Media Puzzle (2002) place him in pole position, with both Cumani and Godolphin having come agonisingly close at least twice each – while Japanese trainer Katsuhiko Sumii posted a one-two (Delta Blues and Pop Rock) in 2006.

Although Cup runners trained outside Australasia have been a feature of only the

peninsula, a few years ago.

This has particularly suited the trainer’s imports and Pritchard-Gordon observes that “there has been a big increase in purchases from England over the past few years”, with Freedman, David Hayes (whose buys this autumn include Gordon Stakes winner Rebel Soldier) and Williams being the main importers into Victoria, and Chris Waller into New South Wales.

The majority of Pritchard-Gordon’s purchases, including Sound Of Nature, who won a Listed race in March, Fanjura who won the Group 3 Easter Cup at Caulfield this year, Ajhar and Above Average, whose target for the spring is the Group 2 Saab Quality on Derby Day, have raced for the Ball And Chain Syndicate, set up by Freedman specifically to race horses imported from the UK.

Cyklon (sire of 1927 Cup winner Trivalve).

Thanks to the influence of Catnip and Plucky Liege (who was out of a St Simon mare), Carbine’s name figures in the pedigrees of just about every good horse anywhere in the world.

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As a two-mile handicap which is often won by a gelding, the Melbourne Cup has clearly always been more a race to entertain the public than a trial for the breeding shed. However, one Melbourne Cup winner stands head and shoulders above the others as regards his influence on the breed: Carbine. At the end of his racing career, Carbine, a New Zealand-bred son of Musket, was sold by owner Donald Wallace to the Duke of Portland, who bought him unseen for 13,000gns and brought him to England to stand at Welbeck Abbey Stud, alongside St Simon.

Despite living in St Simon’s shadow, Carbine sired the 1906 Derby winner Spearmint, thus initiating a threegeneration Derby-winning sequence that has never been bettered: Spearmint sired the 1920 winner Spion Kop, who in turn sired 1928 winner Felstead. Furthermore, Spearmint also sired the likes of Catnip (grandam of Nearco), Plucky Liege (dam of

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Vintage Crop, left, the first of Dermot Weld’s two winners, and Media Puzzle, ridden by Damien Oliver sporting his brother’s breeches just days after his death from a race fall

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Dermot Weld and Luca Cumani are arguably the two trainers most proficient in and most accustomed to preparing horses for big races around the world, each having an extensive list of international credits going back to the 1980s. Even to those two, though, it is clear that the Melbourne Cup presents a challenge at once both daunting and enticing.

Looking ahead to this year’s race, Weld observed: “Every year is special for the Melbourne Cup, but this year is particularly special being the 150th. I’ve been fortunate to win it twice and, if everything goes well, Profound Beauty could represent us with

A similar journey was made a few years later by the Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoumowned At Talaq, who had finished fourth to Secreto in the 1984 Derby before winning the Grand Prix de Paris. When that year’s Timeform annual had observed that he “should be a worthy candidate for the Cup races”, one presumes that the writer was referring to the Cups at Ascot, Goodwood and Doncaster. However, Sheikh Hamdan had already begun his love affair with Australian racing which continues to this day, and At Talaq duly landed the 1986 Cup. Sheikh Hamdan had bought At Talaq as a yearling in Kentucky for $1.25m, but the purchase of his second Cup winner, Jeune (1994), shows his enthusiasm for the race: Jeune was already a Royal Ascot winner from Geoff Wragg’s stable when Sheikh Hamdan bought him specifically to challenge for the Melbourne Cup. Both At Talaq and Jeune subsequently sired Group 1 winners in Australia, as did the US-bred 1990 Cup winner Kingston Rule. A son of the Australian champion filly Rose Of Kingston, whose owner David Hains had sent her to America

credit in this year’s race. You need luck to keep your horse sound and to get them there in good form, and then you need luck in running during the race.”

Cumani is clearly similarly in awe, both of the Cup’s unique appeal and of its demands. He says: “Of all the big races around the world, the Melbourne Cup is the one for which you need to start planning the farthest in advance and which requires the most organisation.

“Part of that is the quarantine, but even leaving that aside it is still just a very hard race to win even for the locals – unless, of course, your name happens to be Bart

Luca Cumani: sights set on Cup glory

Cummings! But, despite the complications, it’s a race I’m always very pleased to go for because it’s a fantastic event and the buildup and atmosphere are second to none.”

to be covered by Secretariat, Kingston Rule broke the track record, thus making amends for the narrow defeat of Hains’ triple Cox Plate winner Kingston Town at the hands of Gurner’s Lane in 1982.

Sheikh Hamdan has also won the Caulfield Cup (Melbourne’s other major staying prize,

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Cup winners may be less of a rarity in future than of late” run over a mile and a half) with the exEuropeans Fraar (1993) and Tawqeet (2006).

Arguably the most influential horse he has raced in Australia is the New Zealand-bred Zabeel, who won the 1990 Australian Guineas at Flemington in his colours before being sold to Cambridge Stud in New Zealand, whence he has sired three

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Melbourne Cup winners, equalling the tally of his sire, the former Cambridge Stud-based Sir Tristram. In recent years, horses redirected down under by Sheikh Hamdan to challenge for the Cup include his 2007 Derby placegetter Aqaleem, while his purchases include St Leger runner-up Unsung Heroine.

With the Australian bloodstock industry nowadays proving itself adept in the breeding of world-class sprinters but unskilled in the production of good stayers, numerous Australian owners and trainers are imitating Sangster and Sheikh Hamdan in buying proven stayers from Europe to try to win the Cup. In addition, Australian breeders continue to recruit British and Irish mares who seem capable of producing high-class stayers.

None has done so more successfully than South Australian tuna fisherman Tony Santic, who bought Tugela in 1998, the aim being for her to head south to join his broodmare band once the Desert King foal she was carrying had been born, weaned and sold.

But when that filly failed to fetch her reserve at the 1999 December Sale, Santic brought her home too. He must have been delighted that he did: named Makybe Diva, she made history in 2005 when becoming the first horse to win three Melbourne Cups.

While precocity and speed are clearly going to remain the cornerstones of the Australian breeding industry, the appetite for ‘the race that stops the nation’ is such that Australianbred Cup winners may be less of a rarity in the future than they have been in recent years.

The ongoing success in Australia of High Chaparral’s offspring has seen Coolmore shuttling him this season to New South Wales, rather than New Zealand, and he will surely spearhead Australia’s future defence of its greatest race. As, perhaps, will Makybe Diva’s first foal, a three-year-old son of Galileo named Rockstardom.

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THE BIG INTERVIEW TONY KELLY

Northern EXPOSURE The reputation of Northern Racing has taken a few knocks over the years but Managing Director Tony Kelly is determined to emphasise the group’s contributions to the industry Words Edward Rosenthal • Photos George Selwyn

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orthern became the first racecourse group to sign a prize-money agreement with the Horsemen’s Group. What exactly did this deal involve?

The Horsemen wanted three guarantees: that we would continue to invest in prize-money at the same level as previous years; that we wouldn’t reduce our executive contribution to prize-money in 2011 below our average contribution for the past three years; and that

Northern in numbers Courses

9* Admissions turnover in 2010

£4.5m (+7.1%) Hospitality turnover in 2010

£4.3m (-8.5%) Fixtures allocated for 2011

209 (+2) Executive contribution in 2011

£1.05m** (-£0.05m) *Bath, Brighton, Chepstow, Fontwell, Hereford, Newcastle, Sedgefield, Uttoxeter and Yarmouth; the group also manages Ffos Las **Minimum figure

The independent tracks are having a hard time at the moment; indeed, Stratford has lost two fixtures for 2011, including one to Sedgefield.

Is this just survival of the fittest?

I can only assume we guaranteed a higher level of prize-money than Stratford. Being brutally honest, I’ve lost plenty of fixtures in those battles because bigger tracks have been able to put on higher prize-money. I don’t think racing has a right for 60 racecourses to exist – why should they? Football, cricket and rugby clubs don’t have the right to exist. The levy has acted as a subsidy over the years, particularly on jumps tracks. A large amount of money was paid as an underpinning element. Now that’s gone, they’ll find it hard. But due to media rights payments I’m not sure we’ll see any go to the wall yet.

region of 35% down and that not everybody is flushed with media rights payments. So where does this money keep coming from?

I’m worried that we have set minimum values only for the first quarter of 2011. When you are planning a calendar year’s fixtures, it is not linear. Fixtures that fall in the first quarter of the year may carry a substantial amount of executive contribution. So do I go out and put prize-money into the big days when I may then have significantly increased minimum values later in the year? Or do I downgrade a few races so that when minimum values are agreed for the remaining nine months of the year, I can afford to run my programme?

The Horsemen can’t keep saying to racecourses put more and more in, because it simply isn’t there, and the racecourses can’t keep saying to the Horsemen that they’re taking more and more out because they have to balance their books; there has to be a meeting point.

The Horsemen’s Group has agreed to accept a continuation of present minimum prize-money levels only until the end of the first quarter of 2011.

Are you receptive to agreeing improved terms with the Horsemen?

This is difficult: you cannot agree a prizemoney agreement on one hand and then say you want to improve your position on another.

You cannot escape the fact that the levy is in the

How will Northern’s tracks be affected by the funding shortfall from the Levy Board?

We have to find seven-figure sums to maintain what we are doing. Our strategy is to put

we would invest in a minimum level of prizemoney for the additional fixtures that we got.

We need additional fixtures to be able to make money to invest in our executive contribution.

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THE BIG INTERVIEW on a balanced product, not just for our customers but also the horse population. We try to maintain the highlights at an acceptable prize-money level.

There will be investment in some of the bigger races, such as Silver Trophy day at Chepstow and the Yarmouth and Brighton festivals. We want those peaks in our racing product as they tick a lot of boxes for our customers, annual members, local owners and trainers. Outside of that, we are sometimes putting on racing for an audience that is not necessarily commercially or racing-focused.

We won’t be investing into Class 5/6 races because the market is there; it’s our volume product. Instead we will invest in the races further up the pyramid. It would be my ambition to raise minimum values for lower races but until such time as we get the structural issues of the industry sorted out we cannot do it.

The winner of the 2009 John Smith’s Brighton Mile won over £16,000. This year’s first prize was £10,000. How has this happened?

We’ve been hit by two deductions in levy this year. Some courses have taken value off the better races in order to support the lower value races. Am I pleased by it? No, not particularly.

We have moved quickly to address any other instances where we felt there had been a wrong decision in the allocation of funds.

How important do you think prize-money is?

Prize-money is very important, although shouldn’t be taken out of context, as many owners are not involved for the prize-money per se. Yet owners are saying ‘the prize-money was never great but at least it covered a few costs’. It’s getting to the stage where prizemoney isn’t even covering a few costs. We’ve

“If prize-money gets

any lower it will start to have a huge effect on the industry” reached the point where prize-money cannot get any lower; otherwise it will start to have a massive effect on the training industry, the stable staff and jockeys and owners.

Media rights income reportedly doubled between 2006 and 2009 to £65m, as a result of TurfTV’s arrival, and it is estimated this figure will be over £80m in 2013. Is enough of this being put back into prize-money?

I would question whether those numbers are right. They could be inflated by the fact that

Arena have had to go public with what they have had in advance; I think in the last two years they have received around £22m as cash up front.

Even for the new media rights deals, when cash has been received up front, they’ve started receiving this money only in 2010. Where do the Horsemen think the investment into prizemoney will come from when the levy is so far down and the racecourses are still saying they will support prize-money agreements? It will come from reserves. The model is not simply media rights and prize-money. We’ve been through the worst recession that hopefully most of us will ever experience in our professional careers. Sponsorship income has fallen, hospitality income has fallen, and I think we all get taken in by the fact that we see very busy racecourses, but that has come at the cost of employing people to market it better.

Media rights income will go up and that is where the investment will come from in prizemoney, but it also supports an awful lot more, such as investment in track and facilities. These are massively huge assets and if you own big assets then they take a lot of time and effort in maintenance.

If you race 20-odd times a year on a singleuse track and run on a very small head-count then you still have massive overheads. A lot of our courses are not massively profitable. For instance, Yarmouth was bought from the council in a state of disrepair. The lease cost DAN ABRAHAM

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THE BIG INTERVIEW £1m, we committed to building a new grandstand at a cost of £3.5m, and since then we have put around £1.5m into other improvements. We’ve also put around £7m into new stabling in the last five years, at Bath, Fontwell, Sedgefield, Newcastle and Yarmouth.

What is your most profitable racecourse?

Newcastle is our most profitable racecourse and not necessarily because it hosts the Fighting Fifth and the Plate, because on a raceday the Fighting Fifth will make a very small return, as it’s in winter and will often clash with Newcastle United playing at home. In terms of the summer months it’s a party racecourse; they come for the three days of the Plate and Ladies’ Day. Yarmouth is the biggest loser for Northern.

Bookmakers say they are paying racing twice, through the levy and media rights payments. Is this true?

Bookmakers are a very important customer, generating a huge amount of income for racecourses, and we need to work with them.

But for a very long time the BAGS service was a monopoly and therefore media rights payments were kept low because of it. TurfTV came along and the game changed; that created the competition and the market rate for pictures altered.

Regarding the levy, they are using the same set of rules as previously – the key fundamental of the levy is the same – but there is leakage. I do think they have an argument with the dual service into betting shops; it creates a problem for them with extra costs.

How do we tackle the issue of exchanges and the levy?

I think we need to work with bookmakers regarding the exchanges. Because even Ralph Topping would jump on board with racing to try to resolve the issues that exchanges have created for us. The contribution the exchanges make at the moment – and we’re really talking only about Betfair – is probably outweighed by the amount the BHA now spends in increased integrity costs.

I don’t think that everyone who uses the exchanges should pay a levy on their gross win, but exchanges should not be used by business customers as is currently happening and that is where racing and betting should work together to come up with a solution.

The trainer boycott at Yarmouth two years ago was a low point for racing.

What has your response been?

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The Chairman certainly knows his way around government and the City

‘Racing must lead in levy debate’ Lord Howard was recruited by Northern in 2008; the former MP shares his views on the sport’s big issues...

The levy: “The system is clearly unsatisfactory at present but I’m not sure it’s permanently broken. The question is whether it can be made to work effectively through agreement from all parties involved in the process.

“If racing wants an alternative funding mechanism to the levy it must put forward specific proposals and make a compelling case. The onus is on racing now – the government cannot be expected to take the initiative in this matter.

“The issue of primary legislation could be problematical but it depends on the nature of the alternative proposals and the level of opposition. If there was agreement across the board regarding a basis for change then the government would be delighted, but is this going to happen?”

The exchanges: “Racing is not asking for the law to be changed regarding exchange punters, it is asking for the law to be enforced. Racing says operators who use exchanges for business operations must pay levy; the exchanges say it’s not the case. It must be tested in the courts as the only person who can decide is a judge. I would agree with racing’s position.”

The Tote: “I actually stopped Ken Clarke selling the Tote as racing would not have benefited; it is vital that racing gets a share of the proceeds. I cannot believe there isn’t a way round the state aid issue. But it’s not fair to say that the government does not need to get good value for the taxpayer; the argument over who owns the Tote is irrelevant.”

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THE BIG INTERVIEW operator that is willing to invest in it. Racing does not have the foggiest idea how to run betting shops and I think therefore that they should be run by betting shop experts. I don’t believe that racing should be gifted the Tote pool, but we should have a big say in its future.

I’m less hung up on the ownership structure.

He’s smiling now, but Tony Kelly was thwarted in his efforts to acquire Great Leighs

>> Owners and trainers are talking seriously about refusing to run their horses in races with very low prizemoney. Have racecourses taken the industry for granted?

If you had £92m to invest – which was what Northern Racing was bought for – you would be better off putting it in the bank. These are not assets which make such significant returns on investment that they are commercially attractive. You have to work very, very hard to make very, very small returns and to suggest that racecourses are taking people for granted demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of how racecourses’ finances work. As we see downward pressure on the levy we just have to work three times as hard, which may mean doing more things outside of racing to balance the books, such as conferences, events, weddings and car boots. If I didn’t have those additional income streams at some of my racecourses – such as Brighton – they wouldn’t be viable.

There is a general feeling in the racing press that there is too much bad racing. Should the BHA impose further restrictions for races based on ratings?

We’re often seeing two divisions for low class races; owners want to run horses, particularly on the turf. Should we tier it better? Arguably yes. But if we label it as moderate racing for people who are in it for the enjoyment/hobby angle, not the expectation of owning a Derby winner, then it’s being rude to owners. If people want to trade at that level, and racecourses want to put these races on, and bookmakers want to take the pictures, let them get on with it.

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Since I took over as MD you’ll find that

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Northern’s performance is significantly better.

Hereford and Sedgefield are small, country tracks, and it is difficult to justify large amounts of investment. Flat tracks generate more levy and betting turnover than the jumps, so it is easier to justify your prize-money investments.

See Racecourse League Table, page 86 As a Director of Racing Enterprises Ltd (REL), what have its successes been and what does the future hold?

Despite its slow start, it now has an idea of what it owns in terms of pre-race data. That is a joint initiative between the RCA and Horsemen’s Group, and it’s trying to monetise that. Clearly its best achievement is the Racing For Change board, which has announced the British Champions’ Series. The key to British Champions’ Day is getting a broadcaster on board. Once we get a terrestrial broadcaster sorted and a mainstream sponsor, then you have the opportunity of this being a success.

But post-2012 everything is up for grabs, because the current Channel 4 contract runs only up until then.

What does REL do next? Aside from monetising data rights, you could argue it’s well placed to negotiate on behalf of racing for a new commercial mechanism (to replace the levy), or the Tote.

How keen would Northern be to get their hands on an all-weather track?

I’ve tried! We led the charge for Great Leighs but pulled out about three months ago over ownership structure issues. We haven’t got the opportunity to develop an all-weather track at one of our current racecourses – there was a hope we could put one in at Sedgefield but it was too tight.

What would Northern like to see happen to the Tote?

I would like to see the Tote run by the most able

How involved are the Reuben Brothers in running Northern?

I see Simon and David on a regular basis in London. They have appointed Michael Howard as Chairman and he is their main conduit, if you like. We are one of a few operating businesses that they own and they take a great interest in how the business is doing, but generally they leave me, Michael and the board to get on with running the business. We agree a business plan with them once a year and as long as we maintain that then they are happy. I think they have a long-term commitment to horseracing. Since the Reubens have been involved we haven’t developed anything other than racing assets on racecourses.

“Our tracks make

very small returns; they are not attractive commercially” What does Michael Howard bring to the table in his role as Chairman at Northern?

Michael comes racing regularly, hosts clients and guests, and of course chairs the board. I value his opinion; every MD needs someone they can turn to occasionally to double check that they’re going in the right direction. He knows his way around government and the City, and is very useful in helping us to determine our strategy for where we position ourselves going forward in levy negotiations and international negotiations. He’s an owner and is passionate about racing.

Overall, how tough has the recession been for Northern?

It’s been really tough but we run pretty lean teams and have avoided making any redundancies. We’ve seen these large institutions like Northern Rock – who used to be a big sponsor and bring hundreds of staff on full hospitality – fall by the wayside and when you take such a level of income out of a racecourse’s profit and loss account it’s really difficult to react to. This year has been better than 2009, but I’m just a little nervous about this fourth quarter. Hopefully we can move on again next year.

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The theatre of

DREAMS Richard Tattersall began trading in bloodstock at London’s Hyde Park Corner and almost 250 years later his auction house is now firmly ensconced in its spiritual home of Newmarket, where the spectacle of the sales ring is second to none Words Laura Thompson • Photos Trevor Jones, Rouch Wilmot Library & Emma Berry

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here is, as somebody once said to me, no better theatre in England. Nowhere creates a more potent atmosphere than the sales ring at Tattersalls, for those brief minutes when it’s full to capacity and when that peculiar awestruck hush fills the space around a lone, circling horse.

It happened last year, for instance, when the filly whom we now know as Date With Destiny – then a nameless bay, number 405 in Book 1 of the October sale – entered the ring. I can still feel how the large arena seemed to shrink into intimacy, how the light gleamed and the heat rose, how the auctioneer softly coaxed the bidders by reminding them that this was “George Washington’s little girl”. Theatre, indeed.

Except that the chief actor was not really joining in the show. She wandered round with her head lowered, centre stage but in a world of her own, sublimely unaware of the significance that she held for us all. And that, I think, is what makes the sales so mysterious. It is that disconnection: between the hope, the desire, the weight of past and future contained within these A-list thoroughbreds, and their absolute indifference to all that we feel about them.

They are just horses, for heaven’s sake.

When they walk around the sales ring they may react, as animals, to the accumulations of atmosphere, but they don’t have a clue as to why they are there. Yet they are the repositories for our wildest imaginings.

At which point cynics will scoff and say that the sales are all about hard business, which of course is true. But the business of racing would not exist if the sport of racing did not thrive on dreams. That is the point of the thoroughbred, to represent a dream; one THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

that just might, this time, be realised.

It has been that way since the ideal of the thoroughbred was conceived and horses like Flying Childers began to speed across the English countryside. It was certainly that way by 1766, when 42-year-old Richard Tattersall opened for business on a piece of land called the Five Fields, which lay across what is now Grosvenor Crescent, at London’s Hyde Park Corner.

“In those days

Hyde Park Corner was a thriving marketplace. It was also, after dark, a hotbed of criminality” Racing was then just getting into its magnificent stride. The Jockey Club had set up premises in Newmarket in 1752 and the town was becoming an alternative capital city for the racehorse-owning classes. The horse, too, was developing at a rate of knots.

Herod was foaled in 1758, Gimcrack in 1760 and Eclipse in 1764. Tattersall – scion of a venerable but impoverished Lancashire family, who bought his first horse at the age of 14 – arrived on the scene at precisely the right moment.

At the start, of course, he was one of many

horse sellers in London. An early advertisement proclaimed that “Mr Tattersall” would offer “some pairs of Coach Geldings of different colours... some pairs of Poneys and odd ditto; a great many strong boney Geldings and Mares, fit for machine, post-chaises, & c....”. He also did a roaring trade in hounds: hence the famous fox, formerly of the Five Fields, which now gazes beadily across the paddocks at Tattersalls in Newmarket.

In those days Hyde Park Corner was a thriving marketplace. It was also, after dark, a hotbed of criminality. The north-west corner, where Tattersall used land belonging to the Earl of Grosvenor, was known for the relative gentlemanliness of its thieves (a later Tattersall would be spared by a highwayman who recognised him). Nevertheless it was far from being the suave district that we know today. No Apsley House, no Belgrave Square: just a jostling crowd, mingling with horseflesh, on the eternal lookout for a bargain or a profit.

By 1780 Tattersall was such a fixture in fashionable London as to be named in the Restoration comedy, The Belle’s Stratagem: “Oh, yes! I stopped at Tattersalls as I came by, and there I found Lord James Jessamy, Sir William Wilding...” Where he differed from even his most successful competitors – such as Mr Beevor of St Martin’s Lane (later Aldridge’s) – was in the sheer strength of his contacts. As a young man he had been stud groom to the Duke of Kingston and he was close enough, by birth and by nature, to be viewed as part of the thoroughbred-owning aristocracy. ‘Better lose commission than lose a friend’ was his motto and this insistence upon integrity established the reputation of Tattersalls from the very first.

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THE HISTORY OF TATTERSALLS

The famous fox, depicted in this painting of Tattersalls in Hyde Park in 1775, now has pride of place at Park Paddocks, Newmarket

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London sales took place twice a week and the rest of the time found Tattersall in Newmarket.

In around 1770 he took over auctioneering duties from John Pond, producer of The Sporting Kalendar. And in 1779 he made a triumphant entry into ownership with the purchase of Highflyer, after whom he named his new country house – Highflyer Hall – near Ely. The son of Herod proved a potent stallion, who in his prime earned £2,000 a year in stud fees. The sire of three of the early Derby winners, Highflyer also threw the infamous Escape, who in 1791 was at the centre of the first great racing scandal.

His Newmarket win at odds of 5-1, the day after he ran last when backed into favouritism, led to an uproar that caused his owner, George, Prince of Wales, to storm out of racing. The royal dispersal sale was handled by Tattersall, who bought Escape for himself.

Tattersall had already done rather well out of the Prince, whose likeness is perched upon the cupola containing the fox. In 1786 George ran so short of money that he sold his entire stable at a dreadful loss – “The Stud of HRH the Prince of Wales was not sold but given away”, wrote a contemporary chronicler – before buying a whole new set of horses the following year when Parliament voted him more money.

It was bad business; but not for Tattersall.

When he died in 1795 at his house in Hyde Park, Tattersall was a rich man. The Morning Post wrote: “From his indefatigable industry, and the justice of his dealings, he acquired a degree of affluence which was exercised to the general good, unaccompanied by ostentation...”

By then Tattersalls had become a family business and throughout the 19th century its primacy grew ever more assured. Gradually the convention was established that studs would sell their yearlings annually, rather than piecemeal.

This became a chief source of income. Less conventionally, the firm sold the skeleton of

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Eclipse and in 1818 disposed of Napoleon’s horses, “four brown Barouche Geldings taken with the Military Carriage of the ex emperor”, which made a mere 73 guineas in total.

In 1815 Subscription Rooms were set up, on the approximate site of what is now the Lanesborough Hotel, where bets were settled every Monday. These mornings were the focus of much drama, occasionally comparable with that of the sales themselves; as, for instance, after the chaotic Derby of 1844, won by the fouryear-old ringer Running Rein.

The following Monday everybody turned up, including, in a high temper, the owner of the runner-up Orlando. Such was the doubt as to

“His insistence upon

the motto ‘Better lose commission than lose a friend’ established the reputation of Tattersalls”

move the sales to the Elephant & Castle, but that (fortunately) foundered.

Instead, an elegant grey brick building was built near Albert Gate, with an entrance arch that today, having been saved from demolition in 1955, looms gloriously outside the sales ring at Newmarket. It is near-inconceivable to think that, across the road from Harrods (which in 1865 was a new shop, employing two assistants), nearly two acres of land were available for stables, carriages, kennels and the like.

Nevertheless, the Knightsbridge sales continued until World War Two, when operations were definitively transferred to Newmarket.

Tattersalls has sold horses not just in London but at Doncaster, Hampton Court, Middle Park

Black type memories

which horse would be awarded the race that nobody would pay their debts: it was, wrote Vincent Orchard in his history of Tattersalls, “a fomentation at the Rooms on Settling Day after the Derby as certainly there had never been before.”

The business moved to Knightsbridge Green in 1865, with the last historic sale at ‘the Corner’ taking place on April 8. Belgravia was beginning to raise itself by then, white and stately, and the Grosvenor estate was unwilling to renew the Tattersalls lease. The original plan had been to THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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THE HISTORY OF TATTERSALLS Stud, Tattenham Corner and Glasgow, among others, and, since 1979 in Ireland. Yet Newmarket now feels like its spiritual home; even though, until the building of the present sales ring, Park Paddocks was really quite unlovely. The land alongside The Avenue was first used for open-air sales in 1870, then developed in 1884, but by comparison with Knightbridge Green it was a ramshackle affair.

Nevertheless, it was there that one of the most famous sales of the 20th century took place, on July 4, 1900.

The page, in one of the old catalogues housed at the Tattersalls office, gives little away. Therein, of course, lies the fascination. The opening lots on that day were yearlings, part of the dispersal sale of the recently deceased Duke of Westminster. They are listed briefly, not with the full page they would have today, and beside them the prices have been carefully pencilled.

Lot number 261 is ‘a bay filly, by Persimmon out of Ornament.’ Next to this is written ‘R. Sievier – 10,000 guineas.’ And then a name: ‘Sceptre.’

What a story lies within those bare words – of a record price for a yearling and of a filly who won a record four Classics. Robert Sievier, actor, gambler, adventurer, you name it, had won £30,000 on Diamond Jubilee’s Derby and had set his heart on the beautiful daughter of Persimmon. The evening before the sale he strolled into the Rutland Arms on Newmarket High Street and handed £20,000 to Somerville Tattersall to secure the filly. The alarmed Tattersall, who would be the last of the dynasty, hid the money overnight in the wardrobe of his hotel room. The next day, Sievier captured his prize; as it happened, she was cheap at the price.

Somerville Tattersall was the last of the line to run the booming family business

Fast-forward almost 70 years, to December 7, 1967. The magnificent octagonal sales ring at

“Tattersalls sold the

skeleton of Eclipse and in 1818 disposed of Napoleon’s horses, which made a mere 73 guineas in total”

Tattersalls had been newly built, to the design of Sir Albert Richardson, who had supervised the transportation to Newmarket of the fox and the arch. Into the ring walked lot 1044, ‘a bay colt,

by Vienna out of Noble Lassie’. This horse was a two-year-old and he already had a name: Vaguely Noble.

Again, the page in the old catalogue tells us nothing. It holds its mysteries. It gives the bare facts, the prim statistics; but nothing of how, for instance, when Vaguely Noble entered there was a surge upon the rope, as when a film star arrives at a première, and so great a commotion that the auctioneer snapped: “This is ridiculous – someone will get hurt.”

The bidding began at 80,000 guineas, already nearly double the record price (set by Solario in 1932), and leapt almost immediately to 125,000 guineas. Then the mood quietened, tautened, as the price crept up by tantalising thousand-guinea degrees.

It was two minutes and 12 seconds after the bidding had begun that Vaguely Noble was knocked down for 136,000 guineas to Dr Robert A Franklyn: a Californian plastic surgeon and thus, in his own way, a dealer in dreams.

Since then there have been other records broken – in 1982, for example, the three-yearold Tenea became the first horse to break the million-guinea barrier – and other moments of pure, poignant theatre.

I particularly remember the first progeny of Bosra Sham, by Rainbow Quest, selling for 1,000,000 guineas in 2000. A horse worthy of the wildest imaginings; although, in that instance, reality soon stepped in. It usually does, as we know. But Tattersalls has never been a place to let that knowledge come between us and our dreams.

Sceptre sold in July 1900, her name added to the record after the event, while Vaguely Noble stole the show in December 1967

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BREEDERS’ DIGEST

By EMMA BERRY, Bloodstock Editor

Our bloodstock coverage this month includes:

• Sales Circuit: reports and analysis From Tattersalls October, Goffs Orby, Tattersalls Ireland, Keeneland and SGA – pages 68-78

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ur previous issue could hardly have featured a more appropriate cover star than Galileo. In October, two of his daughters, Misty For Me and Lily Of The Valley, each won a Group 1 at Longchamp on Arc day to set up a week of unprecedented sales-ring success for the champion sire of 2008. Of course it’s no secret that Galileo is one of Europe’s elite sires but his stock dominated Tattersalls October Book 1, with almost 18% of the total turnover being paid for his sons and daughters, 23 of whom fetched six-figures sums in addition to the top lot of 1.2 million gns. Galileo’s influence was further felt through his son Teofilo, who is leading first-season sire by yearling average.

Four years ago Teofilo just got the better of Holy Roman Emperor in one of the most memorable Dewhurst Stakes of recent seasons.

Galileo struck again this year by providing the winner and runner-up, Frankel and Roderic O’Connor, on the final Champions’ Day at Newmarket. Next year the Dewhurst will feature on Future Champions’ Day but, surprisingly, no two-year-old races form part of the Champions’ Series. Even more puzzling is that the Future Champions’ card, in addition to including three races for older horses, will also include the Middle Park Stakes, some of whose principals often play a part in the Dewhurst, as was the case this year when Middle Park winner Dream Ahead started second favourite in the latter race. The logic of running these two races on the same day is not easy to appreciate – although in our news feature on pages 6-7, Karl Oliver, the Chief Executive of British Champions’ Series Ltd, says: “We want to showcase Britain’s best racing in a simple-tounderstand, easy-to-follow format.”

If one of Racing For Change’s raisons d’etre is to demystify racing for newcomers, has the Champions’ Series been put in place to complicate matters for the sport’s dedicated followers, who find some of the changes hard to rationalise? This disregard for the hitherto carefully planned Pattern will inevitably weaken either the Middle Park or the Dewhurst.

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If we are to have a Champions’ Series it must surely include juveniles. When Teofilo and Holy Roman Emperor slugged it out for the Dewhurst, nobody could have predicted that neither horse would be seen on the racecourse again. By the vagaries of fate, they were not to become future champions but that detracts nothing from their glorious juvenile campaigns.

Such concerns will almost certainly, however, have been far from the minds of consignors slated to sell late in the week in the final sessions of Book 2 and in Book 3. After the more hopeful atmosphere of Book 1, the second week of trade at Park Paddocks was an altogether much tougher grind, with few profitable returns.

As hard to fathom as the logic behind the recent fixture-juggling is the sudden appearance

on the ‘cold list’ of stallions with perfectly decent results. Enthusiasm appears to be waning for the aforementioned Holy Roman Emperor, eclipsed only in the freshman list this season by Iffraaj.

Another is Cape Cross, whose great champion Sea The Stars is backed up with strength in depth on perusal of his sire’s stud record, which was boosted by a Group-race double for two of his daughters on Champions’ Day. An interesting aspect of the sales was a perceived cooling of buyers’ fervour for firstseason stallions, perhaps because a number of this year’s freshmen are horses whom one would expect to produce later-maturing stock.

Even so, if this is a trend, it could benefit proven sires in their middle years, horses who are often overlooked in the fickle following of fashion.

First-crop stallions’ yearling averages (with more than one sold) Stallion

Teofilo (IRE) Lawman (FR) Dylan Thomas (IRE) Excellent Art (GB) Authorized (IRE) Manduro (GER) Dutch Art (GB) Dark Angel (IRE) Cockney Rebel (IRE) Misu Bond (IRE) Sir Percy (GB) Stormy River (FR) Amadeus Wolf (GB) Three Valleys (USA) Strategic Prince (GB) Rail Link (GB) Red Clubs (IRE) Heliostatic (IRE) Jeremy (USA) Notnowcato (GB) Scorpion (IRE) Vital Equine (IRE) Moss Vale (IRE) Echo of Light (GB) Soldier Hollow (GB) Multiplex (GB) Windsor Knot (IRE) Baltic King (GB)

Sold

Average (£)

Stud fee 2008

46 44 51 42 44 34 43 53 19 3 24 9 54 25 40 20 58 8 27 22 2 12 43 16 6 15 13 14

98,274 60,506 53,585 49,155 48,617 44,122 32,169 29,764 28,890 28,000 27,677 23,646 23,551 23,409 22,860 21,389 19,869 18,993 18,624 17,445 16,095 15,556 15,027 14,552 13,300 12,149 9,307 6,990

€40,000 €25,000 €50,000 €25,000 £25,000 €40,000 £10,000 €10,000 £10,000 £2,500 £8,000 €8,000 €10,000 £6,000 €9,000 £12,500 €12,500 €6,500 €12,500 £8,000 €6,000 £6,000 €5,000 £5,000 €6,500 £4,000 €4,000 €4,000

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SALES CIRCUIT

By EDWARD PROSSER, MICHELE MACDONALD AND EMMA BERRY

Millionaire yearling a one-off

JASON SINGH/TATTERSALLS

New buyers encouraging but highly selective market continues to hit vendors hard

This close relation to New Approach was the only seven-figure yearling sold in Europe

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fter 2009 became the first year since 1997 to lack a guinea or euro millionaire yearling in Europe, there was some relief for top-end breeders when – after another blank at Arqana and Goffs – a Galileo filly out of a half-sister to Derby winner New Approach broke the magic barrier at Book 1 of Tattersalls’ October Sale when selling for 1.2 million gns.

But despite the headline-maker, there was no doubting that it was a scarcely-populated place at the market’s top end and the 107,445gns average was the lowest since the sale’s first renewal in the current format in 2004. The 70,000gns median returned to 2005 levels while the 48.2 million gns aggregate was the smallest total expenditure in the present guise.

Although a couple of breeders, and to a lesser extent pinhookers, landed significant touches, few showed major overall profits. As well as market peak nomination costs, many who sold well had huge costs tied up in mares.

A pair of 525,000gns colts helped Highclere Stud become the week’s leading vendor for the fourth year in a row and its owner Lady Carolyn Warren reiterated that point.

“When you had a lovely horse that matched its page then the market was as strong as ever for those highs but the middle to lower end is really tough. You really need two or three of them to pay for the whole show,” she said. “The costs are high, whether you’re paying keep or running your own place, and as well as the price of nominations you have to factor other things

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in like the depreciation of the mare and costs of staff.”

While as ever there were long-term breeders seeking blue-blooded fillies – with a member of Qatar’s royal family a notable new name, buying as Al Shahania – colts at the market’s very top end proved to have a smaller following.

Last year, 10 colts made 400,000gns or more but in 2010 there were only five. Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum bought two of those, Coolmore picked up one and there was another each for Dubai-based Dr Jim Hay and New York-based Bjorn Nielsen, each of whom owns a racing yard in Lambourn.

Hay (who spent 590,000gns on two lots at the 2009 sale) paid 600,000gns and 410,000gns respectively for a filly and colt by Galileo, while among the purchases made by Nielsen (who spent 1.07 million gns on six lots

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Tattersalls October Book 1

in 2009 via various agents) was a 550,000gns Galileo colt knocked down to agent Charlie Gordon-Watson.

But some colt buyers who made a big mark in the past seemed to have less of an impact this time. Scotsman Thomas Barr bought six lots for 1.86 million gns via Michael Goodbody last year, three for 985,000gns (including Kite Wood) in 2007 and three for 1.18 million gns in 2008 but seemingly did not strike in 2010.

While Sir Robert Ogden bought four horses for 1.235 million gns, he was not prepared to outlay as much as 12 months ago. He dropped out on several of the dearer lots and his highestpriced purchase cost 375,000gns. Last year, he was underbidder on the 700,000gns top lot and bought yearlings for 600,000gns and 550,000gns among a seven-strong haul that cost 2.3 million gns.

Meanwhile, the Abu Dhabi-ruling Al Nahyan family, who bought two lots for 350,000gns and 475,000gns last year through Blandford Bloodstock, did not appear to be operating at such a high level.

But inevitably most eyes were on the activity of Sheikh Mohammed, the man who has been the bloodstock market’s single biggest benefactor for three decades.

While his brother Sheikh Hamdan attended the sale, buying 20 lots for 5.15 million gns (compared to 22 for 4.425 million gns in 2009) his higher-profile sibling was not present, perhaps a sign of a direction change after a successful year for Darley’s home-grown performers on the track.

Subsequent registrations show that the various Maktoum entities accounted for over 150 of the 472 horses sold last year and around

Fathers and sons: John and MV Magnier with Joseph and Aidan O’Brien at Tattersalls

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Tattersalls October Book 1 Top ten lots Sex Pedigree

Vendor

Price (gns)

Buyer

f

Galileo-Alluring Park (Green Desert)

Lodge Park Stud

1,200,000

Demi O’Byrne

f

Galileo-Gwynn (Darshaan)

Camas Park Stud

900,000

John Magnier

f

Oasis Dream-Tariysha (Daylami)

Corduff Stud

700,000

Shadwell Estate Company

f

Galileo-Riskaverse (Dynaformer)

Voute Sales

600,000

Hugo Merry BS

c

Galileo-Intrigued (Darshaan)

Denford Stud

550,000

Charlie Gordon-Watson BS

c

Nayef-Blue Symphony (Darshaan)

Highclere Stud

525,000

Shadwell Estate Co

c

Montjeu-Tarfah (Kingmambo)

Highclere Stud

525,000

Demi O’Byrne

c

Oasis Dream- Siringas (Barathea)

Ballyhimikin Stud

480,000

Shadwell Estate Co

f

Green Desert- Maganda (Sadler’s Wells)

Oakgrove Stud

450,000

Dwayne Woods

f

Mr Greeley- Helena Molony (Sadler’s Wells)

Newsells Park Stud

425,000

Michael Goodbody

Top ten buyers Buyer

Bought

Aggregate (gns)

Shadwell Estate Company

20

5,150,000

Demi O’Byrne

14

4,472,000

John Ferguson Bloodstock

24

3,280,000

Charlie Gordon-Watson Bloodstock

15

2,515,000

Blandford Bloodstock

24

1,978,000

Dwayne Woods

10

1,440,000

Cheveley Park Stud

11

1,390,000

Peter Doyle Bloodstock

20

1,288,000

Kern/Lillingston Association

15

1,287,000

BBA Ireland

14

1,251,000

Top ten vendors Vendor

Sold

Aggregate (gns)

Highclere Stud

26

3,713,000

Camas Park Stud

18

3,662,000

Newsells Park Stud

9

2,153,000

Watership Down Stud

15

1,885,000

The Castlebridge Consignment

18

1,844,000

Voute Sales

17

1,533,000

Lodge Park Stud

5

1,510,000

Glenvale Stud

9

1,478,000

Jamie Railton

13

1,289,000

Denford Stud

5

1,260,000

Seven-year tale Year

Catalogued

Offered

Sold

Clearance (%)

Aggregate (gns)

Average (gns)

2010

689

595

449

75.5%

48,243,000

107,445

70,000

2009

676

609

472

77.5%

53,764,000

113,907

78,000

700,000

2008

610

532

407

76.5%

48,996,000

120,383

85,000

650,000 (x2)

2007

733

639

510

79.8%

64,922,000

127,298

80,000

2,500,000

2006

652

563

432

76.7%

55,035,000

127,396

82,000

1,200,000 (x2)

2005

688

592

499

84.3%

59,635,000

119,509

70,000

1,250,000

2004

791

708

512

72.3%

52,631,500

102,795

70,000

1,150,000

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Median (gns) Top Price (gns)

1,200,000

a third of the 53.7 million gns turnover. It would be a big void to fill, even with Sheikh Hamdan’s continued spending.

Although John Ferguson signed for 24 lots for 3.28 million gns, and some of Blandford Bloodstock’s purchases are likely to race for Princess Haya, it was still way below his 8.16 million gns expenditure in 2009.

Meanwhile, trainer Mark Johnston – who spent 1.347 million gns on 14 yearlings for the Maktoum family last year – seemingly did not buy any for them this year in Book 1.

The Coolmore team bought 25 lots for 6.56 million gns in 2009 through various agents and trainers and their expenditure is likely to have been similar this year.

It was a common sentiment that while, as ever, there was strong demand for the best horses, there were many cheaper horses “slipping through the cracks” but Lady Carolyn Warren’s bloodstock agent husband John – who bought 10 for the Highclere syndicates – felt that was not the case.

Just as with Coolmore, who often recoup much of a yearling’s price when selling on threeyear-olds to the likes of Hong Kong, America and South Africa as racing prospects, Highclere also looks to the long-term resale market.

“The Book 1 sale is so professionally covered that horses don’t slip through the net, that only happens if something is not as it should be,” said Warren. “I am very selective about what I buy because we sell them on at Highclere and I always think of selling in the future when I’m buying a yearling.

“It’s most important from a conformation and a vetting point of view, I’ve got to be as cautious as I can because I know they will have another market. Highclere has survived because of that, our ambition is to give the shareholders a return.”

Tattersalls October Books 2 and 3 While 76% of yearlings in Book 1 found homes, the clearance rate steadily slipped away through the marathon second week of Tattersalls’ October Yearling Sale. A total of 74% of those in Book 2 were listed as sold (a sharp fall from 83% in 2009) while that figure had fallen to 66% for Book 3 (down from 71%).

Despite record numbers of yearlings catalogued, the combined 72.3 million gns for Tattersalls’ October Sales was the lowest figure since 2004, as was the 51,006gns average.

But there were a respectable 28 six-figure lots in Book 2, compared to 23 last year, 31 in 2008 and 55 in 2007.

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Tattersalls October Book 2

of Book 2, with only seven of the 28 to make 100,000gns being knocked down to either Shadwell or John Ferguson.

Well-bred fillies were again in demand and Andrew Tinkler bought the 240,000gns saletopping daughter of Azamour, while other six-figure filly buyers included Betfair founder Andrew Black and Clodagh McStay of Oaklawn Stud, who bought a Hurricane Run half-sister to Lillie Langtry to be trained by John Oxx. John Magnier’s son M V bought five six-figure lots for Coolmore while other names to make a splash included bookmaker John Humphreys and Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone, who bought a 200,000gns Excellent Art colt and Stuart Stuckey, who bought two lots for 255,000gns through Rachel Boffey.

A London-based Australian, Stuckey, who had been at Tattersalls for Book 1, co-founded the Pengana Capital fund management company and enjoyed success this year via the Italian Oaks heroine Contredanse. He is set to have an expanded team with Luca Cumani.

There was no shortage of breeze-up consignors sticking around for Book 3 and most of them had earmarked an Iffraaj colt bred by Baron Oppenheim’s Boswells Stud and consigned by Peter Stanley’s New England Stud.

He set a new sale record of 82,000gns (beating the previous high of 72,000gns) when selling to David Redvers who plans to resell him next year in partnership with Willie Browne’s Mocklershill Stables.

Maurice Burns was the leading consignor in Book 3, completing a memorable fortnight for his family after his brother Seamus had sold the top lot in both Book 1 and Book 2.

But this was not a lucrative sale for nearly all involved as vendors. Although two-thirds of the yearlings offered were officially sold, alarmingly few of those were making a profit according to calculations made by Thoroughbred Owner & Breeder.

Top lots Sex Pedigree

Vendor

f

Azamour-Flashing Green (Green Desert)

Lodge Park Stud

Price (gns)

240,000

Dwayne Woods

Buyer

c

Dylan Thomas-Inchiri (Sadler’s Wells)

Woodcote Stud

210,000

M V Magnier

c

Excellent Art-Gentle Night (Zafonic)

Camas Park Stud

200,000

John Humphreys

f

Dubawi-Livius Lady (Titus Livius)

Tweenhills Farm & Stud

180,000

Shadwell Estate Co

c

Rock Of Gibraltar-High Spot (Shirley Heights)

Churchtown House Stud

170,000

Charlie Gordon-Watson BS

c

Iffraaj-Camp Riverside (Forest Camp)

Denniff Farms

160,000

John Ferguson BS

c

Iffraaj- Voyage Of Dreams (Riverman)

Whatton Manor Stud

150,000

John Ferguson BS

c

High Chaparral-Desert Classic (Green Desert)

Heatherwold Stud

145,000

M V Magnier

c

Acclamation-Fairy Contessa (Fairy King)

Norelands Stud

140,000

Michael Jarvis

c

Rock Of Gibraltar-Apache Dream (Indian Ridge)

Clare Castle Stud

125,000

Jill Lamb BS

c

Pivotal-Brilliance (Cadeaux Genereux)

Highclere Stud

125,000

M V Magnier

Four-year tale Year

Catalogued

Offered

Sold

Aggregate (gns)

Average (gns)

Median (gns)

Top Price (gns)

2010

1,031

929

685

22,241,900

32,470

25,000

240,000

2009

820

733

606

20,565,500

33,936

25,000

260,000

2008

847

719

509

19,672,700

38,650

29,000

420,000

2007

633

569

473

23,907,500

50,544

35,000

300,000

Tattersalls October Book 3 Top lots Sex Pedigree

Vendor

c

Iffraaj-Topkamp (Pennekamp)

New England Stud

Price (gns)

82,000

David Redvers BS

Buyer

c

Refuse To Bend-Lilakiya (Dr Fong)

Furnace Mill Stud

60,000

John Jenkins

f

Iffraaj-Quaich (Danehill)

Rathasker Stud

46,000

BBA Ireland

f

Kyllachy-Descriptive (Desert King)

Barnane Stud

40,000

Peter Doyle BS

c

Dutch Art-Grey Pearl (Ali-Royal)

Brookside Stud

38,000

Andrea Wilkinson

Four-year tale Year

Catalogued

Offered

Sold

Aggregate (gns)

Average (gns)

Median (gns)

Top Price (gns)

2010

510

433

284

1,842,200

6,487

3,500

82,000

2009

466

412

294

2,442,500

8,308

5,850

50,000

2008

485

414

271

2,815,300

10,389

7,000

72,000

2007

653

573

367

5,697,400

15,524

11,000

70,000

Total Tattersalls October Yearling Sales (includes old Houghton and Autumn Yearling Sales) Year

Catalogued

Offered

Sold

Clearance (%)

Aggregate (gns)

Average (gns)

2010

2,230

1,957

1,418

72.5

72,327,100

51,006

2009

1,962

1,754

1,374

78.3

76,743,000

55,854

2008

2,101

1,775

1,240

69.8

72,439,300

58,419

2007

2,201

1,917

1,490

77.7

95,015,000

63,768

2006

2,170

1,913

1,472

76.9

83,866,400

56,974

2005

1,557

1,363

1,135

83.3

76,623,400

67,509

2004

2,093

1,887

1,362

72.2

65,624,600

48,182

2003

1,865

1,649

1,284

77.8

76,388,500

59,493

2002

1,538

1,354

1,072

79.2

60,040,800

56,008

2001

1,703

1,555

1,072

68.9

55,441,000

51,717

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If using a 15,000gns production cost in order to cover expenses involved in getting a yearling to the sale, just 14 of those sold, or 4.9%, made a profit when including the cost of their 2008 stallion fee (and not factoring in depreciation of the mare).

Indeed this year’s 1.8 million gns Book 3 turnover, was only 32% of the aggregate when this sale was first held in 2007 in its present format. This year’s average of 6,487gns average has fallen by 58% since then and the 3,500gns median had dropped by 68%.

Despite the sharp drop in figures, this year’s clearance rate was actually higher than in 2007, perhaps demonstrating that those sellers are taking a philosophical attitude and now looking to move on their lower-end horses rather than seeking to profit from them.

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Orby six-figure lots thin on the ground but marginal improvement seen at Fairyhouse Goffs Orby

Irish-bred yearlings at home to be sold.

“What I noticed was that the vendors who supported the sale with nice horses got every penny as much as they would have done at Tattersalls,” said County Cork-based agent Hugo Merry, who bought the 2009 sale topper at Goffs. >>

(buying nine lots for €1,025,000) as well as the likes of Tinkler and Sir Robert Ogden, who was paying his first visit to the Kill venue.

The company showed with the top lot that it has the same top buyers found at its Newmarket rival to help achieve big prices, but its priority must be to keep the better

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t was almost like Goffs’ golden era late on day two of this year’s Orby Sale when a Kilcarn Stud-bred filly from Flame Of Tara’s family set the Kill ring alight when selling to the Maktoum family for €950,000, double last year’s top price.Demonstrating the spread of buyers on hand, one of the sport’s big new investors, Andrew Tinkler, bid €800,000 for the filly as a racing and breeding prospect while the eventual underbidder was ex-Irish Thoroughbred Marketing executive Eamonn Cullen, representing Jehan Malherbe’s Form Bloodstock from South Africa.

But it was somebody whose presence could scarcely have been more reassuring for vendors, Sheikh Mohammed’s advisor John Ferguson, who sealed the deal.

Remarkably it was the ninth time in 20 years that an offering from Pat O’Kelly’s County Meath-based Kilcarn Stud had headed the Goffs action and the Dubawi filly provided a welcome fillip to the sale.

Although Goffs reported a 3% rise in median to €29,000 over the event’s three days (the first two days are following by a final less select session), other indicators have a long way to go to reach the Orby’s heyday.

Turnover dropped by 11% to €22,232,000, the lowest figure for the sale since 1995, while the average price fell to €47,800, its smallest level since 2004 when there was a far larger catalogue.

In the Celtic Tiger’s heyday, and the era of the Million races, there were as many as 35 lots making €300,000 or more in 2006, but this year there were just four, one fewer than 12 months earlier. A total of 16 had reached that landmark in 2008, 22 in 2007 and 27 in 2005.

Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum, traditionally a Goffs supporter, was at the sale in person

Goffs Orby Top lots Sex Pedigree

Vendor

Price (€) Buyer

f

Dubawi-Spirit Of Tara (Sadler’s Wells)

Kilcarn Stud

950,000 John Ferguson

c

Invincible Spirit-Saoire (Pivotal)

Cahermorris Stables

550,000 Demi O’Byrne

f

Galileo-Winning Sequence (Zafonic)

Croom House Stud

300,000 Demi O’Byrne

c

Teofilo-Hundred Year Flood (Giant’s Causeway)

Hawthorn Villa Stud

300,000 Sir Robert Ogden

c

Galileo-Tarascon (Tirol)

Glenvale Stud

260,000 Demi O’Byrne

c

Oasis Dream-Whisper To Dream (Gone West)

Camas Park Stud

250,000 Alex Cole 240,000 Cheveley Park Stud

f

Galileo-Grecian Dancer (Dansili)

Lodge Park Stud

c

Medaglia D’Oro-Greeley Appealing (Mr Greeley)

Barouche Stud (Ireland)

240,000 Sir Robert Ogden

f

Dylan Thomas-Bright Bank (Sadler’s Wells)

Churchtown House Stud

220,000 Blandford BS

c

Holy Roman Emperor-Save The Table (Tale Of The Cat) Camas Park Stud

220,000 Sir Robert Ogden

Leading Buyers Aggregate (€)

No. Bought

Average (€)

John Ferguson Bloodstock

Buyer

1,620,000

8

202,500

Sir Robert Ogden

1,450,000

8

181,250

Demi O’Byrne

1,432,000

6

238,666

Peter Doyle Bloodstock

1,226,000

21

58,380

Shadwell Estate Company

1,025,000

9

113,888

Average (€)

Leading Vendors Aggregate (€)

No. Sold

Camas Park Stud

Vendor

1,754,000

23

76,260

Kilcarn Stud

1,140,000

6

190,000

Castlebridge Consignment

932,000

20

46,600

Glenvale Stud

883,000

16

55,187

Ballylinch Stud

796,000

25

31,840

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Ten-year tale Year

Offered

Sold

Clearance (%)

Aggregate (€)

Average (€)

Median (€)

2010

610

467

76.6

22,322,500

47,800

29,000

2009

610

499

81.8

24,784,600

49,669

28,000

2008

592

444

75.0

32,353,000

72,867

45,000

2007

565

488

86.4

53,851,000

110,350

72,000

2006

600

510

85.0

59,158,000

115,996

70,000

2005

573

519

90.6

51,617,000

99,455

65,000

2004

921

806

87.5

32,422,600

40,226

21,000

2003

924

835

90.4

39,176,200

46,918

20,000

2002

619

578

93.4

41,927,000

72,538

n/a

2001

676

599

88.6

43,956,044

73,382

n/a

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“I think €950,000 for the Dubawi filly out of an older mare is compatible with what she would have made anywhere. Any lack of quality was down to the vendors not supporting the sale but ITM and Goffs did a great job in getting people there.”

Looking at the Goffs market, Merry echoed a sentiment that has become ubiquitous at all yearling sales.

“I’ve never been a huge yearling buyer but got four at Goffs and as with everywhere the nice horses were hard to buy but it was all duck or no dinner. Budgets have contracted at the moment and the buying bench is simply not big enough. Hopefully with the reduction in foal crop, supply and demand will kick in.”

But Merry cautioned that it has been a tough year financially for many vendors, who have been saddled with high production costs, and that their customers owe them some sympathy.

“Trainers must remember that producers need to be rewarded to stay in business, otherwise there will be no product for them to train,” he added.

BBA Ireland chairman Adrian Nicoll, whose company snapped up 11 lots, agreed with many of Merry’s sentiments.

“Just as at Tattersalls Book 1, you can’t expect to have a catalogue of 400-600 horses and expect them all to be good but I think the market held up pretty well, it’s certainly not down and out,” said Nicoll.

“I think we managed to get a bit of value at Goffs compared to Tattersalls, where the nice ones really were hard to buy in Book 1, while you wouldn’t want some of the horses that were easy to buy.”

Coolmore have bought Invincible Spirits at the breeze-ups in the past and paid €550,000 for a colt by the Irish National Stud sire - in whom Sheikh Mohammed has a quarter share - sold from Joe Joyce’s Cahermorris Stables.

But Ferguson ended up as the leading individual buyer, collecting eight lots for an outlay of €1.62 million.

Tattersalls Ireland September

A

lthough still a long way from its heyday, the Tattersalls Ireland September Sale did at least show advances with a turnover of €4,336,450 (still only half the amount spent in 2007), increasing by 10.6% on the previous year. The €10,179 average returned to five figures with a 3.6% rise, while the €6,500 median price - an amount once again demonstrating how few vendors will have made a significant profit - increased by 18.2%.

The traditional value-seeking trainers, many from Britain, were present and helped to improve the clearance rate to a healthy 83.2%.

Nick Shutts, who founded the Julian Graves nuts retail business on a market stall in Gloucestershire, was originally best-known for

Tattersalls Ireland September Top lots Sex Pedigree

Vendor

Price (€€ Buyer

f

Choisir-Filimeala (Pennekamp)

Norman Ormiston

70,000

Nick Shutts

c

Excellent Art-Jamrah (Danehill)

Swordlestown Stud

70,000

Eddie Fitzpatrick

c

Dubawi-Piece Unique (Barathea)

Grennanstown Stud

65,000

Con Marnane

f

Giant s Causeway-El Laoob (Red Ransom)

Castlebridge Consignment

52,000

BBA Ireland

f

Iffraaj-Choice Pickings (Among Men)

Galbertstown Stud

46,000

Oak Tree Farm

c

Amadeus Wolf-Meanya (Revoque)

Castlebridge Consignment

45,000

David Redvers BS

f

Teofilo-Dame s Violet (Groom Dancer)

Croom House Stud

44,000

Kern Lillingston

f

Sleeping Indian-Pikaboo (Pivotal)

Colbinstown Stud

44,000

Emma O’Gorman

c

Zamindar-Cabriole (Dansili)

Lee Valley Bloodstock

42,000

P Hogan

c

Azamour-Brave Madam (Invincible Spirit)

Newtownbarry House Stud

40,000

Frank Barry

Five-year tale Year

Offered

Sold

Clearance (%)

Aggregate (€)

Average (€)

2010

512

426

83.2%

4,336,450

10,179

6,500

2009

510

399

78.2%

3,920,550

9,826

5,500

W

hen the September yearling sale trudged to an end after exactly 4,173 horses had been led through the ring, breeders, sellers and sale officials alike could breathe a deep sigh of relief.

An almost palpable anxiety that the North American market would continue what seemed like an inexorable plunge dissipated when final figures showed some appreciable, and appreciated, growth in key categories.

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Median (€)

2008

466

300

64.4%

4,421,400

14,738

10,500

2007

640

475

74.3%

9,001,400

18,950

13,000

2006

583

480

82.3%

10,708,800

22,310

16,000

Keeneland and SGA Sales Keeneland September round-up

his jumping string but has made great strides on the level since joining forces with trainer David Evans.

The pair combined to snap up a €70,000 Choisir filly offered by her breeder Norman Ormiston. The price was matched by a first-crop Excellent Art colt bought by Coolmore’s Eddie Fitzpatrick.

But the sale possibly missed the fireworks of 12 months earlier when there were three six-figure lots.

Breeze-up buyers collected three of the top 10 lots, with Con Marnane buying a €65,000 Dubawi colt, Norman Williamson spending €46,000 on an Iffraaj filly and Emma O’Gorman taking home a €44,000 daughter of Sleeping Indian.

Meanwhile, Bobby O’Ryan was the most prolific buyer, spending €254,500 on 32 lots.

to $198,257,900, up 3.3%. Thus, average and median prices also rose, by 6.7% and 13.6%, respectively, to $64,811 and $25,000.

But perhaps what grew the most was hope that the market has steadied enough, as Keeneland attempted to encourage with a new format for the crucial first week, and that some confidence can be restored to an industry that has seen total sales fall by more than half since 2006, when gross reached almost $400 million.

Under the new schedule, Book 1 was trimmed in numbers with two select sessions held at night, and the four-session Book 2 offered yearlings arranged alphabetically by dam to retain buyer interest and participation.

“Our goal going into the sale was to try to build some stability in the market that we could grow on,” said Keeneland Director of Sales Geoffrey Russell. “I think the sale met and exceeded the majority, if not all, of our consignors’ expectations going in.”

The star of the sale was the powerfully-built A.P. Indy colt out of Zenyatta’s Grade 1-winning half sister Balance that sent a jolt of much needed electricity throughout the sale grounds when he generated a bid of $4.2-million from relatively new owner Benjamin Leon Jr. “Going in, I think everyone was concerned about the top end of the market, because there was concern about certain buyers pulling back, >>

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American-based buyers dominated the proceedings, although Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid al Maktoum’s Shadwell Estate Company, which has branches in Europe and America and was buying for both regions, led all rivals with 22 yearlings for $8,230,000. Shadwell stepped in to fill the void left by Sheikh Mohammed, who did not attend the sale for the first time in years and whose bloodstock advisor John Ferguson acquired only 13 yearlings for the relatively modest total of $2,755,000. In comparison, Ferguson signed tickets for 34 yearlings in 2006 for a total of $59,945,000.

Russell lauded the overall diversity of buyers from 40 countries. He said: “We saw a great mix of old and new faces, both domestic and foreign, and they stayed longer into the sale.”

As his sale-topping son set the sale pace, A.P. Indy ranked as leading sire by average with 16 yearlings sold for a total of $8,235,000 and average of $514,688. Distorted Humor topped all sires by gross with $8,385,000 for 24 sold, an average of $349,375, while Street Sense eclipsed other first-season sires with 32 sold for $3,668,000 and an average of $124,150.

Since this year’s sale marked the last for yearlings bred on stud fees before reductions necessitated by the global economic crisis, next year’s sale should, in theory, be even better for breeders and sellers.

Yet the anxiety in Lexington has not vanished.

What has been described as record number of area horse farms – up to 160 or more by one real estate brokerage count – are for sale, no doubt reflecting the tenuous situations many breeders find themselves in after several years of declines and bank cutbacks in lending.

€13,000 and buyers came forward for 178 of the 283 yearlings offered.

Dubawi, sire of this season’s dual Italian Classic winner Worthadd, was responsible for the sale’s top lot, an Azienda Agricola Rosaticonsigned colt out of Group 3 winner Kathy College, who was purchased by Dick O’Gorman for €190,000 on behalf of Sheikh Mohammed.

The same vendor struck again with an Ad Valorem half-brother to Prix de Sandringham winner Joanna, which sold for €130,000 to Scuderia Incolinx.

The top-priced filly of the sale was a first-crop daughter of Derby winner Authorized, already named Maria Vezzera and out of the Mozart mare La Virtu. She will be joining the Newmarket-based stable of trainer Marco Botti after being purchased by Scuderia Rencati, best known for their success with Falbrav.

Irish pinhooker Con Marnane added a €100,000 daughter of Invincible Spirit out of the Listed producer Seerah to the Bansha House Stables battalions for next year’s breeze-up sales and made his stay throughout the sale worthwhile when signing for the top lot of the second session, a daughter of Iffraaj from the Allevamento Carlo Pierobon draft, at €38,000.

SGA Select Yearling Sale

F

our six-figure lots in the opening select session of Italy’s two-day sale helped to return a first-day average of €34,956, a figure which fell to €11,010 for the second session, which is generally deemed to have more appeal to the domestic market.

Overall, however, the average of €21,576 was up on the previous year’s auction by 16%, an increase closely matched in the aggregate rise of 15.3%, to €3,840,500. The median declined a little more than 10% from €14,500 in 2009 to

Tinkler intends to be in for the long haul It is less than three years since Andrew Tinkler enjoyed his first win as an owner but the CEO of the Stobart Group has not wasted any time in becoming a major player at the races and the sales.

Last year he had 26 horses in training.

More than 40 yearlings have been added to next year’s team over the last few months.

“I’ve always had a love of horses but it was my partner Alison [Schmutz] who had the involvement through point-to-pointing and eventually we thought we’d buy a racehorse to have something to do at the weekends,” said Tinkler.

“We bought our first horse Hiccups with Michael Dods. He never won for us and then Michael went to the sales in 2007 and bought us two yearlings and two horses in training, one of which was Barney McGrew and we’ve had a lot of fun with him.

“He was our first winner and he really inspired me to become more involved. I came to the sales last year but we didn’t just buy yearlings, we also bought broodmares – I’m looking forward to breeding my own winner one day and I know I’ll get plenty of job satisfaction out of that. There’s more chance of succeeding if you’re breeding and racing.”

Tinkler keeps six broodmares at Brook Stud just outside Newmarket, which is owned by Dwayne Woods, who acts as

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bloodstock advisor and buyer, while Tim Jones has recently left the RCA to become Tinkler’s racing manager.

“Eventually we’ll get involved from a commercial point of view. It’s really interesting and we’re trying to do it right. I think there’s an opportunity this year to buy horses at a decent price and that’s what we’re trying to capitalise on.

“We’re buying with an eye on the longer term and looking for yearlings with the ability to be a good broodmare or stallion prospect so you might as well pay a little bit extra if the potential is there.”

As a successful businessman, Tinkler enjoys the diversion provided by his involvement with racing but takes a hands-on approach.

“I do a lot of homework myself on the catalogues before we get to the sales and give a list to Dwayne, then he looks at those horses and might find others that I’ve missed,” he said. “Alison, Dwayne and I plan the matings together. And now I’ve got Tim on board, hopefully my job will be a lot easier than it was. It got to the point that with the number of horses we have that I needed someone to get round to see them on a regular basis and to know where the trainer is at with each horse.”

He added: “You have to be disciplined with work. Business is business but to me being at the sales is like a holiday. I’d rather come here and buy some horses than go to the south of France. I’m fully committed to my business but to have a hobby like this where you can use some of your business skills to try to make it work I think can give you an advantage.”

The Stobart Group made its first appearance as a race sponsor with support of the Park Stakes at this year’s St Leger meeting and Tinkler is keen for this to continue.

“The Stobart brand is so strong that race sponsorship makes sense for us,” he said.

“We can take our customers and they can bring their wives which they couldn’t do if was a golf day. They all have a good day out and it’s something that we’ll be focusing more on next year.”

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Tales from the sales...

Wootton Bassett’s success nice for Bryce They may not have topped Tattersalls as they did the DBS Premier Yearling Sale but there was no hiding the delight on the faces of Colin and Melba Bryce at Park Paddocks during the October Sale.

Melba Bryce: still smiling after big win

Just 48 hours before the start of the sale, Wootton Bassett continued his unbeaten run to land the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère on Arc day at Longchamp to give the small breeders their first Group 1 victory. The Bryces, who are based in Hertfordshire at Laundry Cottage Stud, sold Wootton Bassettt’s Kyllachy halfsister to Andrew Tinkler at Doncaster in August, her £120,000 selling price making her the joint sales-topper. But the story really started at Tattersalls, where they purchased the duo’s dam Balladonia in July 2003.

“She had an Alhaarth foal at foot and we were prepared to go to 70,000gns but Eamonn Reilly bought her for us at 27,000gns,” recalled Colin.

Balladonia’s next two foals, Mister Hardy and Mister Laurel, both ended up with Wootton Bassett’s trainer Richard Fahey and won ten races between them.

“Richard has made the mare for us but everything she produces is very laidback, just like Wootton Bassett,” said Melba.

Balladonia’s current yearling was the first to be prepared for the sale at home by the Laundry Cottage team and they are currently at work on a Le Vie Dei Colori yearling for the December Sales.

“Furnace Mill Stud consigned for us at Doncaster and Jamie Railton at Tattersalls,” added Melba. “Eventually we might do it ourselves but we want to make sure we slowly build a reputation for doing things the right way and not rush into it.”

Maintaining great tradition of the BBA The British Bloodstock Agency (BBA), which celebrates its 100th birthday next year, has been saved from potential obscurity by

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Kirsten Rausing and Richard Frisby, both of whom are former directors of the Newmarket-based operation. The once leading agency was sold in 2001 and renamed Newmarket Investments.

“When the BBA first broke up, I must admit as I walked out of the door of Queensberry House for the last time I thought to myself ‘one day, one day’,” admitted Rausing, the owner of Lanwades Stud.

While neither partner plans to operate the BBA in the same manner as its previous role as a largescale bloodstock agency, the main aim is to form an Enterprise Investment Scheme, which will be up and running in time for the December Sales and will be known as ‘BBA 2010’.

Rausing added: “We’re hoping to rekindle the old BBA atmosphere of great friendship it was great to see people from all over the world. We obviously can’t aspire to the same international clientele but we hope that some surviving members might wish to join us.”

Richard Frisby already has experience in the investment fund field via Ptarmigan Bloodstock, which he formed with David Loder, and in which name bred Fame And Glory in partnership with Rausing.

He said: “Ptarmigan Bloodstock had three companies between 2004 and the present day and we’ve just wound up the last one. In a way this is the next generation of Ptarmigan.

It’s a mission to rekindle the name BBA and rescue it from oblivion. Who knows, maybe in the future it may become attractive for someone to restart the whole thing as it was but that’s not our intention at all.”

Joining the BBA in its new guise is Guy Heald, a lead investor in Ptarmigan Bloodstock, and Michael Goodbody, who will act as a consultant.

“We hope to be able to breed something as good as Fame And Glory and to continue to produce racehorses as well as being successful in the sales ring,” said Frisby. “We’re in it for the long term so you want people to keep buying your horses.”

From sport horses to racehorses

seven-year-old Forest Camp mare Camp Riverside for 160,000gns. This followed a top ten finish at the DBS Premier sale with an Exceed And Excel colt from Hill Welcome, which made £95,000.

“My father had a stud in Ireland but I was always more involved in the sport horse world and competed several of my homebreds to advanced level in eventing,” said Mick. “Fiona started the racehorses.

About ten years ago she became very ill and we thought at least she could go racing in a wheelchair and see her name in a racecard.”

Now happily fully recovered, Fiona relishes her role as a hands-on breeder. She and Mick look after their own sales preparation from their Nottinghamshire base with minimal outside help.

“We’d always want to be small – we have six mares and that’s a nice number,” said Fiona. “We love to do all the prep ourselves and pay great attention to detail. It can be very tiring and we added to the stress this year by having a litter of whippet puppies.

“What I really enjoy about the sales is how pleased other people are for you if you have some success. We had so many people congratulating us after the Iffraaj colt sold and it was heartening because really they are our competitors.”

To market, to market In the bloodstock business there’s no escaping marketing, whether on paper or in digital format. While a certain vendor frazzled nerves by crashing Thoroughbred Owner & Breeder’s inbox with huge PDF files on an almost daily basis in the build-up to the October sale, top marks for a polite and innovative approach must go to Hope Hall Stud.

The Newmarket operation’s sole offering in Book 2 must have been the only yearling in the sale with her own business card, which was passed around unobtrusively by Hope Hall’s Howard Russell. Unable to resist the invitation to ‘come and see’ their Shamardal filly, we did and we loved her, but sadly, at 50,000gns, she was out of our price range.

Well sold.

As the breeder of Hickstead Derby winner and equine Olympian Welham, Mick Denniff has already received plenty of accolades from the show jumping world and now he and his wife Fiona are enjoying similar success in the world of thoroughbred breeding.

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Purses set to fall further Collapse of the levy will have a catastrophic effect on prize-money

By MICHAEL HARRIS, CHIEF EXECUTIVE It is not surprising that the ROA is now receiving a growing number of complaints about reducing prize-money levels.

Ironically, on one front, real progress has been made. Thanks to the Horsemen’s Group’s new Chief Executive, Alan Morcombe, agreements have now been reached with racecourse groups and many independent racecourses on levels of executive and sponsorship contributions the courses will make during 2011. These agreements have reflected some of the additional money racecourses are now receiving from media rights payments. These are the payments that racecourses receive for pictures shown in betting shops.

However, although this money is very important, it can only soften the blow of what is happening to the levy. Traditionally, the levy has been responsible for 50-60% of total prizemoney. Its collapse will have a catastrophic effect on prize-money across the board.

Such is the complexity of the levy system, budgeting is very difficult – doubly so since the levy moved from being based on betting turnover to being based on the bookmakers’ gross win. It is therefore extremely difficult to calculate with any certainty how much the levy will be down by the end of this year and by the end of next. The only certainty is that it will be down by a long way unless we receive help from the government.

In 2009 the levy’s contribution to prizemoney was £63.1 million, in 2010 it is predicted to be around £55m and in 2011, all things being equal, it may decline to under £30m from a total levy yield of £60m.

It is the scale of this decline and its effect on the industry that sets alarm bells ringing. The government should be similarly concerned.

Bookmakers claim the levy has dropped because there is less money being bet on British horseracing. What they do not say is that this unprecedented decline is due more to the fact

that bookmakers have used every means available to them to avoid making their levy payments, including, in the case of the major companies, moving their internet operations overseas and exploiting a threshold payment system that was designed only for the very small bookmakers.

These arguments are certain to be strongly debated on the days leading up to October 31, by which time the Levy Board has to find agreement on the 50th Scheme (covering 2011/2012). Otherwise, the matter will be referred to government.

Presuming this is the outcome, it will be racing’s fervent hope that the government decides the levy system has to undergo substantial legislative changes in order to meet the demands of the present day.

Never has there been a time when the ROA so needs the active support of its members.

Please sign the levy campaign charter on www.racingunited.co.uk

Stephen Wallis the history maker

Newmarket’s Rowley Mile team receive the ROA Gold Standard Award in October

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Newmarket’s Rowley Mile joined the July Course as an ROA Gold Standard Award holder, with a presentation by ROA VicePresident Rachel Hood (pictured centre) to Newmarket’s Managing Director Stephen Wallis (pictured far right) on October 2.

Newmarket’s prize-money for the past 12 months was almost £10.5 million and their executive and sponsorship contributions amounted to more than 30% of their overall prize-money pool.

Steven Astaire, ROA Council member and Gold Standard Committee member, said: “Stephen Wallis and his team have worked closely with us to achieve this and he has created a little bit of Gold Standard history, having attained the award previously for Epsom and the July Course.

Wallis said: “This prestigious award recognises all of the work undertaken to ensure that we offer first-class facilities for owners, hostel accommodation, stabling and a racing surface second to none.”

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Diary dates and reminders

Christopher Tsui (right) receives the top award from Sportingbet’s CEO Andrew McIver

Join racing’s glitterati at this year’s ROA Awards The ROA/sportingbet.com Horseracing Awards will take place on Thursday, December 2 at the London Hilton, Park Lane.

The evening celebrates racing’s champions – the top Flat and jump horses and their owners, as selected by a vote of ROA members.

Acknowledged as one of the most exciting nights out in racing’s social calendar, the starstudded black tie evening honours racing’s glitterati.

Tickets are on sale at £135 each. Tables of ten are discounted at £1,200. For further details and to book, contact Keely Brewer on 020 7152 0200, email kbrewer@roa.co.uk or buy tickets at www.racehorseowners.net.

Guests will enjoy a champagne reception on arrival and then a four-course dinner. The awards will be compered by Nick Luck and Alice Plunkett, and there will be a short live

auction hosted by Richard Phillips. A number of exclusive lots will be offered live and in a silent auction, both of which will raise funds for the Spinal Injuries Association and Spinal Research. After the awards, guests can enjoy dancing to a live band until 1am.

Members are encouraged to support the awards by voting and booking tickets for the evening.

Owners can support the fundraising by including their racing colours in the awards brochure for £100. Proceeds will go to ‘The House that Jack Built,’ an initiative spearheaded by Jack Berry. This future Injured Jockeys Fund project aims to create a similar facility to that of Oaksey House, but in the north of England, to benefit and assist the northern racing community.

Voting forms for the award categories will be sent out to members in early November.

DID YOU KNOW? Owners whose trainers make entries online will notice their Weatherbys Bank statement includes a credit on the 1st of the month described as ‘BHA Discount – internet usage for October’. This credit equates to the cumulative discount on the entry processing fee where entries are made online, rather than by telephone. The internet fee is £14.98, against the call centre fee of £19.49.

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Tranquil Sea: the class act last year

NOVEMBER 13 Paddy Power Gold Cup day Exclusive ROA marquee facility for members and their guests at Cheltenham’s Open meeting, a highlight of the new jumps season, on the 50th anniversary of this historic race. The marquee is well located and offers a popular base for the day. There is a cash bar, hot and cold food to purchase, Tote betting and TV screens. Marquee badges are just £25 for ROA members and £28 for their guests. Call 020 7152 0200 or book tickets at www.racehorseowners.net

DECEMBER 2 ROA/sportingbet.com Horseracing Awards At the London Hilton, Park Lane (see news story, left, for prices and how to book tickets).

JANUARY 1 Racecourse Badge Scheme for Owners 2011 Please ensure you apply/reapply to join the Racecourse Badge Scheme for Owners for 2011. The scheme runs on the calendar year from January 1, so even if you are on this year’s scheme you do need to apply for your card to be reactivated to work beyond December 31. Contact the ROA on 020 7152 0200 or email info@roa.co.uk for details.

ROA/RCA CAR PARK LABEL 2011 Please return the application form sent to you for the car park label which allows you to park in the owners and trainers car park at most meetings.

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Farnsworth: encourage not fleece Musselburgh and Cartmel MD replies to last month’s article about selling race commissions

I read with interest the article titled ‘Out of pocket after seller win’ in the October issue. I feel the ROA and Horsemen’s Group should do more to raise awareness of selling races, their purpose, pitfalls etc, as most owners and some trainers seem to be unaware of the race conditions prior to running their horses.

In Scotland, and at Cartmel, we changed our selling race conditions because we believe that we should not be making money out of a transaction between two racehorse owners.

Our business is to encourage racehorse ownership, not to fleece it. It is therefore disappointing to read that Mr Swinglehurst feels that, whilst he used a selling race as an easy opportunity to win a race and give his horse a confidence boost, he still felt he had been hard done by. If he understood the concept of selling races and the charging mechanism in place, and if his trainer had explained conditions to him, this could have been avoided. Instead we have a disgruntled owner, which is what we are trying to avoid.

Our policy in Scotland and at Cartmel is straightforward. When a horse is sold in the auction we charge the buyer 5% commission – this goes to the auctioneer. The seller receives the full 100% value of his horse. Hopefully he/she will return to the sales to buy another one, buoyed by winning a race and with winnings in their pocket, as well as the full market price of their horse (we have recent evidence that this does happen).

However, if the horse is bought in, we charge the owner 20% commission on the bought-in price. We charge 20% commission only in order to protect the selling race itself, because if we didn’t charge 20% commission, or similar, what is to stop owners running horses who are clearly well above class 5/6 selling race standard? They could do so in the knowledge they could buy the horse back-in at virtually any price, paying only 5% commission, and still walk away with a profit.

This would ruin most selling races, which is not in the interests of racehorse owners, as these races would be contested by one or two

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Bill Farnsworth does not believe in making money out of transactions between owners

horses rated in the 80s or 90s (Flat), racing for a £2,000 first prize, resulting in an uncompetitive race and a small field.

In the case of Mr Swinglehurst, his horse was obviously better than a low grade £3,000 Class 5 seller and so won easily by nine lengths (the horse in question being a fouryear-old mare rated 98 who has won twice since). You could say he stole the race, giving his horse a nice confidence booster in the process, but he paid the price because it attracted the interest of potential buyers.

The problem appears to be that Mr Swinglehurst should have been aware of the possible consequences of running a nice horse in a seller, for a confidence booster, when he had no intention of selling his horse.

Selling races have their place and if there was more transparency and awareness about them they could play a better/bigger role. I believe Mark Johnston is a fan of the selling race concept and would welcome better quality, encouraging trade, but whilst mystery surrounds these races they will always be under-exploited and misunderstood.

Perhaps we should look at introducing some selling races with ratings restrictions as a means of attracting the appropriate class of horse for the money on offer? The bought-in commission could then be reduced but then, in the Cartmel race, Mr Swinglehurst’s horse may not have qualified, given that a Class 5, £3,000 seller would have had a rating restriction of 0-90 attached to it. *The ROA is making commissions charged on selling races more transparent by posting details on its website. Commission charged in selling races is also taken into consideration as part of the Gold Standard Award criteria.

Notice to owners: beware the protocol for claiming races The British Horseracing Authority reports that it has come to their attention that some of the current ‘Protocol for Claimants’ when lodging a claim for a horse are not fully understood by all claimants.

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submission of a duplicate claim. Accordingly, persons who are involved in multiownerships and who wish to make a claim should check that no other claim for the same horse has been made by another person involved in the same multi-ownership.

Trainers should also ensure that they and their authorised employees do not make more than one claim for the same horse.

Any claimant who may be at risk of an offence under the provisions of the rules relating to duplicate claims should ask the person with whom they are lodging their claim for the names of the earlier claimants prior to deciding if they wish to proceed to lodge a claim. The onus rests with the claimant to make the request to be provided with the names of any earlier claimants.

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In Brief Recommend a friend for a bottle of claret

send cheques made out to NASS addressed to NASS, Bretby Business Park, Ashby Road, Bretby, Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire DE15 0YZ.

Do you have a friend who might enjoy the benefits of ROA membership? If you introduce a friend to the ROA as a new member, we will send you and your friend a bottle of La Reserve Claret 2006, a superb red wine. Call the ROA office on 020 7152 0200 and quote ‘friend’ with your name and membership number.

Epsom Awards evening

London Racing Club events

Belle Royal: excellent start to her career

Ultra consistent Belle During August, 73 races were won by horses in the ROA’s Totesport owner-sponsorship scheme (full list: www.racehorseowners.net).

A particularly impressive tally was recorded

by Belle Royale, a two-year-old filly owned by Peter Mort and trained by Mark Brisbourne, with three wins during the month. Her twoyear-old career to early October read four wins from 14 starts, plus five seconds.

For further details of the ROA/Totesport owner-sponsorship scheme contact Keely Brewer at the ROA on 020 7152 0200 or email kbrewer@roa.co.uk

The club will be holding their National Hunt season preview on November 9. Nick Luck of Racing UK and David Williams of Ladbrokes will be on the panel. The evening is free to members and £5 for non members.

The club’s Christmas quiz will be held on December 7 and is free to all. Both are at the Holiday Inn, Kensington Forum, near Gloucester Road tube. For details call Kate Austin on 07711 260973.

Plea for staff social The National Association of Stable Staff (NASS) is aiming to raise £3,000 to fund the hosting of the Irish Stable Staff Association in Newmarket for their first football match on November 14. All donations will be gratefully received to assist this new venture and will be acknowledged and accounted for. Please

Appearance money races The following races in November will offer appearance money as a consequence of 48-hour declarations for Flat races. These payments are split so that 80% goes to the owner, 8% to the trainer, 6% to the rider and 6% to stable staff. The appearance money is split equally between the runners.

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The Epsom Owners’ & Trainers’ Awards Dinner is on November 20 in the Duchess’s Stand, Epsom racecourse. The black tie evening includes a Champagne reception, four-course meal, auction, raffle, comedian, fun casino, live music and dancing. Bookings pre-October 31 will be at a reduced price of £90 per ticket or £85 each for a table of ten or more, plus a free bottle of Champagne per table. From November 1 tickets are £95 each. For further details or to book email epsomtdf@googlemail.com or telephone 01372 721490.

Christmas cards on sale A variety of cards can be purchased now, benefiting various charities.

The Spinal Injuries Association has a pack of ten, with various designs and greetings, at £4, and Big Buck’s notelet cards at £3.95, plus p&p. Order via www.spinal.co.uk or call 0845 6786633.

The Injured Jockeys Fund card features two designs: ‘All Wrapped Up’ and ‘Out of The Woods’, with five cards of each. Both were painted for the IJF by Katie O’Sullivan. They are £7.50 for a pack of ten. Over printed cards are £12 per pack. A wall calendar and diaries are also on sale. Call 0808 0453 453 or see www.injuredjockeys.co.uk HEROS cards feature photos from ‘The Glorious Winter of 2009’, and ‘The Horse’ – a poem by Ronald Duncan – inside. They cost £8.50 for a pack of ten, inc p&p. See www.heroscharity.org or call 01488 638820.

The Sir Peter O’Sullevan Charitable Trust card features ‘Christmas Day, Cheltenham’, painted by Terence Gilbert. The proceeds will be donated equally to six animal welfare charities.

Each pack of ten cards costs £7.50, plus p&p). To order call 020 8333 1411 or email: mail@red.media.uk.com The Bob Champion Cancer Trust has a double-sided card by Tilly TaylerLevy. Ten cards cost £6.20, plus p&p.

Visit www.bobchampion.org.uk or call 020 7924 3553.

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Racecourse League Table Ptn Racecourse

Racecourse ownership

Exec + Sponsors (£)

1 Cheltenham JCR 2,937,435 2 Aintree JCR 1,561,334 3 Ascot I 4,061,587 4 York I 2,231,023 5 Epsom Downs JCR 1,288,210 6 Chester I 615,752 7 Goodwood I 1,377,264 8 Haydock Park JCR 1,327,942 9 Hamilton Park I 253,818 10 Sandown Park JCR 1,148,270 11 Ripon I 273,884 12 Musselburgh I 378,678 13 Beverley I 269,924 14 Ayr I 574,193 15 Doncaster Arena 1,311,143 16 Newmarket JCR 3,126,911 17 Cartmel I 65,224 18 Newbury I 1,046,303 19 Salisbury I 235,218 20 Newton Abbot I 170,421 21 Thirsk I 187,104 22 Bath North 153,639 23 Windsor Arena 270,364 24 Stratford-on-Avon I 204,717 25 Pontefract I 220,015 26 Chepstow North 276,312 27 Wetherby I 162,175 28 Newcastle North 312,951 29 Perth I 135,479 30 Fakenham I 81,720 31 Yarmouth North 157,687 32 Carlisle JCR 170,271 33 Leicester I 250,573 34 Kelso I 130,681 35 Ffos Las I 202,328 36 Bangor-on-Dee I 144,818 37 Ludlow I 122,165 38 Nottingham JCR 130,800 39 Lingfield Park Arena 614,059 40 Brighton North 94,985 41 Redcar I 120,912 42 Market Rasen JCR 128,222 43 Catterick Bridge I 106,768 44 Warwick JCR 126,784 45 Exeter JCR 103,366 46 Fontwell Park North 104,100 47 Kempton Park JCR 615,610 48 Wincanton JCR 84,570 49 Hexham I 56,678 50 Huntingdon JCR 77,419 51 Folkestone Arena 62,213 52 Taunton I 49,316 53 Uttoxeter North 85,233 54 Worcester Arena 44,833 55 Towcester I 41,404 56 Sedgefield North 23,635 57 Plumpton I 28,115 58 Hereford North 13,123 59 Wolverhampton Arena 93,547 60 Southwell Arena 43,574 Total 30,286,798

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% of Total

Levy Board (£)

51.3 1,949,380 49.5 1,118,160 45.4 2,753,420 44.2 1,519,720 41.7 925,730 40.2 772,860 38.1 1,684,754 38.1 1,609,966 34.3 410,420 33.5 1,787,292 33.0 436,200 32.8 650,670 32.5 449,960 30.5 1,024,214 29.7 1,936,802 29.7 3,492,678 27.1 151,740 26.4 2,175,880 26.0 527,992 25.9 477,590 25.9 397,260 25.3 380,572 24.9 662,030 24.5 554,800 24.2 586,810 23.6 736,310 22.4 480,220 22.3 882,350 22.2 430,520 22.0 289,980 21.5 463,822 21.0 555,470 20.8 780,120 20.3 461,790 19.9 719,030 19.6 546,460 18.4 494,680 17.4 450,950 16.1 2,708,390 15.4 460,140 15.1 439,390 14.2 683,145 14.1 562,500 14.1 652,900 14.0 557,963 13.0 618,580 12.9 3,533,785 11.1 585,900 10.6 420,890 10.6 564,920 10.5 472,060 10.4 365,010 8.9 733,000 7.7 430,200 7.4 464,120 5.0 398,420 4.9 506,540 3.0 360,760 2.9 2,675,302 1.9 2,027,750 28.7 55,950,267

% of Total

Owners (£)

34.1 806,759 35.4 476,088 30.8 2,064,162 30.1 1,257,372 29.9 854,318 50.4 90,186 46.7 508,252 46.2 453,625 55.4 56,202 52.2 447,236 52.6 91,647 56.4 101,629 54.2 60,507 54.3 255,328 43.9 1,068,373 33.1 3,757,074 63.0 24,036 54.9 584,913 58.4 76,914 72.6 5,180 55.0 76,376 62.6 56,639 61.0 108,239 66.3 68,432 64.6 53,097 63.0 123,930 66.4 57,830 62.9 172,000 70.7 38,938 78.0 0 63.2 80,741 68.4 79,170 64.9 118,952 71.7 46,526 70.8 84,512 73.8 34,885 74.5 46,865 59.9 97,100 71.0 298,878 74.4 56,399 55.0 218,044 75.8 81,955 74.3 60,391 72.5 100,895 75.7 71,323 77.1 80,082 73.8 432,383 76.8 75,885 78.7 47,455 77.1 78,902 79.5 55,756 76.8 37,730 76.3 125,713 74.1 67,925 83.1 53,242 83.9 51,482 88.9 32,960 82.7 58,516 83.6 283,164 88.6 172,012 53.1 16,925,125

% of Total

Total 2009/10 (£)

Total 2008/9 (£)

14.1 5,722,574 5,648,836 15.1 3,155,582 3,419,742 23.1 8,949,169 10,389,488 24.9 5,045,615 4,594,643 27.6 3,091,258 2,970,910 5.9 1,532,548 1,497,417 14.1 3,610,270 3,753,027 13.0 3,486,133 3,858,020 7.6 740,440 830,359 13.1 3,425,798 3,818,262 11.1 828,731 892,205 8.8 1,153,477 1,479,200 7.3 829,991 849,650 13.6 1,884,735 2,130,676 24.2 4,413,318 4,710,476 35.7 10,537,663 11,135,055 10.0 241,000 219,400 14.8 3,961,096 3,751,557 8.5 904,124 991,731 0.8 657,891 674,715 10.6 722,240 734,195 9.3 607,650 797,286 10.0 1,085,633 1,201,404 8.2 836,949 967,693 5.9 907,922 1,011,700 10.6 1,169,052 1,253,823 8.0 723,225 1,002,143 12.3 1,402,601 1,500,208 6.4 608,937 619,089 0 371,700 410,759 11.0 733,750 838,866 9.8 812,411 830,065 9.9 1,202,645 1,235,293 7.2 644,497 582,606 8.3 1,014,870 334,000 4.7 740,563 703,016 7.1 663,710 683,970 12.9 753,350 870,700 7.8 3,816,327 4,105,780 9.1 618,624 636,027 27.3 798,246 903,300 9.1 900,822 900,071 8.0 756,659 801,136 11.2 901,079 826,708 9.7 736,652 811,036 10.0 802,762 952,192 9.0 4,790,278 4,990,925 10.0 762,855 1,074,057 8.9 534,823 429,400 10.8 732,741 778,299 9.4 593,529 791,160 7.9 475,306 595,326 13.1 960,546 1,041,623 11.7 580,958 692,909 9.5 558,766 618,000 10.8 475,137 471,400 5.8 569,615 507,813 13.4 436,399 575,335 8.9 3,199,913 3,149,560 7.5 2,289,836 2,329,315 16.0 105,464,989 112,124,034

% total Up/ 2008/9 down

49.2 49.3 44.5 45.1 40.5 32.1 31.3 34.3 27.0 27.7 23.7 27.8 20.7 23.1 29.8 28.2 14.4 20.4 20.1 3.2 19.7 20.3 21.6 21.1 21.3 13.3 21.7 15.5 12.8 22.5 17.4 17.1 18.8 5.8 31.2 13.3 11.0 13.0 15.4 7.4 13.2 13.5 7.2 2.2 4.9 9.1 14.2 16.2 0.7 14.4 4.3 5.6 9.9 -0.1 2.0 19.0 1.0 7.4 0.5 2.0 25.7

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In order of racecourses’ percentage contributions to overall prize-money Figures relate to prize-money for the 12-month period October 1, 2009 to September 30, 2010

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

A small additional contribution is also made by the Divided Race Fund and the BHA Development Fund. The order is taken from the percentage in the second column of figures. This shows how much each racecourse has contributed to prize-money, expressed as a percentage of their overall prize-money.

The arrows at the end of each line are based on a comparison between the percentages for the two rolling year periods.

If a racecourse has improved its position by this criteria it receives a green ‘up’ arrow.

If the year-on-year percentage has decreased it receives a red ‘down’ arrow.

Note: All of the figures are produced on an ‘as originally programmed’ basis, i.e. where any transferred fixtures were originally programmed rather than where the fixtures have actually taken place. However, any transferred BHA ‘National’ fixtures and ‘Regional’ fixtures are attributed to the courses where the fixtures have actually taken place. *Wincanton’s Gold Standard annual renewal was granted as analysis showed that a spate of abandonments had caused its decline below the required 15% threshold. Taking the abandonments into account, Wincanton’s figure is comfortably above the threshold.

RACECOURSE OWNERSHIP KEY JCR Jockey Club Racecourses

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

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focus s INFO BBM GB COM s WWW BBM GB COM HARRY HERBERT JOINS THE TEAM

BUSY AUTUMN FOR BBM

Herbert said: “I am honoured to accept the position of non-executive Chairman of British Bloodstock Marketing. BBM has achieved much in raising the profile of British bloodstock in a short space of time and I am very much looking forward to working with the BBM team and committee in continuing to develop links with overseas markets while promoting the success of British-breds.�

Harry Hebert joins the BBM team as non-executive chairman

BRITISH BLOODSTOCK MARKETING recently announced the appointment of Harry Herbert as non-executive Chairman of BBM. Herbert will begin his new role on November 1, replacing Gavin Pritchard-Gordon, who is retiring as executive Chairman of BBM.

Herbert is well known in racing and the wider sporting arena for his role as Managing Director of Highclere Thoroughbred Racing. Founded by Herbert in 1992, the syndicates have enjoyed huge success, notably this season with Harbinger in the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes, and Memory in the Group 2 Cherry Hinton Stakes and Group 3 Albany Stakes at Royal Ascot.

With the appointment of Herbert, BBM also sees the retirement of Pritchard-Gordon, who has been

executive Chairman since August 2008, when the operation moved to its Newmarket base.

Pritchard-Gordon brought a wealth of experience to the role after 14 years as Chief Executive of the TBA, following his successful training career in Newmarket, where he trained such big-race winners as Noalcoholic, Ardoon and Record Run. Commenting on Pritchard-Gordon’s retirement, BBM’s International Development Manager Anna Powell said: “It has been a great experience working with Gavin, who has been an integral part in the growth and development of BBM and is so well respected within the industry. “Gavin will be greatly missed at the helm of this industry-funded organisation but I’m very much looking forward to working with Harry Herbert. Harry’s high-profile in the racing and breeding industry is just what BBM needs to continue to drive it forward.�

GROUP 1 GLORY FOR BRITISH-BREDS

THE French soil proved fertile for British-breds this autumn, with the GB suffix victorious in four Group 1 races in the space of a month.

This included the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe which saw Workforce (King’s Best) fend off the Japanese raider Nakayama Festa by a head, providing trainer Sir Michael Stoute with a first win in a race that had alluded him for so long.

On the same afternoon, two British trainers posted their first Group 1 victories, with Gilt Edge Girl winning the Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp for Clive Cox, and Wootton Bassett running away with the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere for Richard Fahey.

Gilt Edge Girl was bred by Whitsbury Manor Stud and is by Monsieur Bond, who has proved a revelation this season.

Formerly based at Whitsbury, the son of Danehill Dancer now stands in Yorkshire at Norton Grove Farm. Wootton Bassett was bred by Laundry Cottage Stud in Hertfordshire.

Earlier in the month, British-bred and -trained runners mounted another successful raid in France, resulting in

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Workforce (pink cap) triumphing in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe

Midday (Oasis Dream) winning the Group 1 Prix Vermeille, while Duncan (Dalakhani) took the Group 2 Prix Foy. Further afield, British-breds enjoyed Group 1 success in the US when Ave (Danehill Dancer) took the Flower Bowl Invitational Stakes and Hibaayeb (Singspiel) the Group 1 Yellow Ribbon Stakes. Redwood (High Chaparral) landed the Grade 1 Northern Dancer Breeders’ Cup Turf Stakes in Canada, while sire sensation Dubawi scored his first Group 1 victory in Australia when Secret Admirer triumphed in the Flight Stakes.

THE yearling sales at Tattersalls marked the start of a busy time for BBM. As well as being present during the sales to offer assistance to overseas visitors, BBM was represented at Breeders’ Day on the Rowley Mile in Newmarket on the eve of Champions Day. In addition, the team gave support to Lingfield racecourse’s own Breeders’ Day on Thursday, October 28.

In mid-October BBM’s Amy Bennett travelled to India to host joint receptions with Tattersalls for breeders in Delhi and Pune. The trip was an invaluable way of meeting with breeders wishing to travel to the Tattersalls December Breeding Stock Sale following the lifting of the importation ban earlier this year.

A full report of the trip will appear in next month’s magazine.

The trip also gave BBM an opportunity to invite Indian breeders to BBM’s December Marquee at Tattersalls.

BBM looks forward to welcoming all visitors to the marquee, which is open from 9.30am6pm from November 24-December 2. Buyers will have the opportunity to meet the BBM team, seek assistance with any queries and be introduced to British breeders and industry professionals, and enjoy light refreshments.

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THE NEXT GENERATION

By GINA BRYCE

Be there...

NOVEMBER 12-14 Open Meeting, Cheltenham Faux fur and tweed abound as the jumps season kicks off in style at National Hunt’s HQ.

NOVEMBER 27 Hennessy Gold Cup Meeting, Newbury The three-day Winter Festival goes out with a bang as the historic Hennessy rounds out a feast of top-class jump racing.

DECEMBER 4 Tingle Creek Chase, Sandown Park Get in the Christmas spirit for Grade 1 racing and plenty of festive fun, including a courtesy sleigh ride from Esher station to the course.

Perfect for those of us in inappropriate heels!

DECEMBER 26 King George VI Chase, Kempton Park Make sure Boxing Day is even better than Christmas Day by cheering on Kauto Star in his planned bid for an unprecedented fifth victory in the feature race.

Sales visit helps to hook a new audience T

he increasingly shrinking pool of buyers for the entry level horse at last month’s yearling sales made ever more urgent the need to attract new generations of investors to the sport. So when a group of 20 fresh faces descended on Park Paddocks for the Next Generation Club sales event, heads were turned.

The group, made up predominantly of university students, may not have sufficient overdraft facilities at this stage to muster a bid ringside but capturing young people’s enthusiasm for the sport and developing that interest for the future is at the top of the TBA Next Generation Committee’s agenda.

The event kicked off at the sociable student hour of 3pm with an introduction by Tattersalls’ Hetty Stearn before the day’s host, Kevin Sommerville, took to the floor to explain how to navigate a sales catalogue and evaluate pedigrees. More commonly found

singing the praises of Juddmonte stallions, Kevin put aside his loyalties for a few minutes to explain why a filly by Galileo was deemed to be worth a punchy 1.2 million guineas, not to mention how much a guinea is actually worth.

NGC guests pore over their catalogues

What are you up to at the yearling sales? WHAT’S HOT Kate McMahon Darley Nominations, USA

had fun too! I look forward to continuing my education in the racing industry, hopefully with a trip to Kentucky next year.”

“I’m over from Kentucky to look at some of the yearlings

by Darley America stallions, such as Street Cry and Bernardini, who have been doing so well over in Europe this year. There is so much cross over with the work we do in the States and what the British and Irish Nominations team do so it is also a great opportunity to meet up with some of the breeders we deal with based here in the UK, and also compare how the different teams are managed on both sides of the Atlantic.”

“Charlie Gordon-Watson was leading independent buyer during Book 1 of the sales and my week generally involves looking at horses, organising Charlie’s catalogue, pedigree research and covering all the admin. It’s our busiest time of year so I really have to bring my A-game.”

Alex Lowe

Hugo Palmer

Runner, Kern Lillingston

“I have just finished a course in Equine Business Management and am looking to get into the racing industry so I have been grateful to Kern Lillingston for giving me the opportunity to work with their agents at the October sales. I have gained invaluable experience, met many interesting people and

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Will Douglas Assistant to Charlie Gordon-Watson

New trainer in the ranks

“I am about to embark on a training career so it’s really important to look for horses that are going to run and win as two-year-olds. Nice horses in this bracket aren’t easy to come by but I have been trawling the sales over the past week and I’m thrilled with those that I am taking home and excited about the future.”

Outgoing two-year-old crop Get set for a vintage Classic year.

Wootton Bassett Call me biased, but the unbeaten colt is definitely up there with the best of them!

Lovetheraces.com RFC’s fun and glossy new site is a good start but more info on the sport itself would be even better.

WHAT’S NOT Champions’ Day 2011 There’s nothing hot about freezing under the Ascot stand in mid-October.

Pin-hooking Almost impossible to turn a profit in the current atmosphere of selectivity.

The last few days of Tattersalls’ October Sale Temperatures plummeting along with the yearling prices. Brrr.

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Armed with their new pedigree expertise, the group then headed out with Kevin, Hetty and committee members Sam Hoskins and Jane Hedley to assess three yearlings kindly paraded by Barton, Tweenhills and Rathbarry Studs. By selecting three diverse yearlings, the idea was to explain what trainers and agents may look for in a certain youngster and how to estimate their value by combining their physical attributes with the strength of the pedigree and commercial appeal of the stallion.

Even the already knowledgeable racing enthusiasts of the group were interested to learn what constitutes a two-year-old type and why a horse’s walk is important.

Having looked at a cross-section of yearlings, the group was then put to the test by committee member Ed Harper of Whitsbury Manor Stud, who showed a Green Desert filly out of Lil Najma and asked them to estimate her sale price. Despite generous valuations from most, the group filed into the ring later that evening to see her unfortunately led out unsold at £18,000, yet another reminder of the worrying lack of depth to the market at present.

The day concluded with a fascinating lecture from James Tate on the role of vets at the sale, including details on x-ray and windtesting procedures, information that no doubt proved just as useful to committee members as it did to the sales virgins.

The Tatts bar provided the final destination on the itinerary, where plans were hatched for a third NGC event set to take place during the National Hunt season. Racing fan Joe Douehi, who works in the city, has attended both NGC events to date and concluded: “The event gave an insight into a part of the industry that’s often seen as insular and inaccessible to the outsider. The committee representatives’ willingness to help and explain how the sales process operates, all the way from preparing a horse for sale through to the veterinary inspections, was a real eyeopener. I think these events provide a great window of opportunity for the next generation to gain a better grasp of how different aspects of the industry work.”

Luckily Joe and the other attendees managed to escape the sales ground without falling victim to whatever it is the sales companies spray in the air to cause normally sensible people to abandon their senses and empty their wallets on some untried and untested thoroughbred. But hopefully some of the group will be encouraged, nonetheless, to return in the future and do just that!

For more information on the Next Generation Club’s forthcoming events, visit www.thetba.co.uk or find us on Facebook at TBA Next Generation Committee.

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Q&A SAM SANGSTER has a surname synonymous with racing but is making his own mark as an owner, syndicate manager and partner in Sirecam Europe Explain what Sirecam is all about Sirecam Europe is a digital marketing company providing filming services for clients based here and also internationally. We are the market leaders for filming horses catalogued for yearling sales in particular.

Has it been well received in Europe?

It has been very well received since we launched a year ago. We have been very active over the yearling sales in the UK and Ireland.

We have just analysed our figures from the Tattersalls Book 1 Sale and the average price of horses filmed by Sirecam was 153,470gns compared to the sale average of 107,445gns and our clearance rate was more than 10% higher than that of the sale.

Is it something that is popular in other countries?

Absolutely, we also provide filming services for overseas owners with horses in Europe, allowing them to see their horses in work on a weekly basis. It is an easy way for trainers to communicate with international clients.

You obviously have a background steeped in racing but did you always know you would end up working in the industry too?

Not at all. When I was a lot younger I used to love going racing with my father and used to follow all our horses but when joining Harrow my focus was somewhat blinkered.

It was only when moving to Australia three years ago to work with my brother at his stud that I realised just how much there is to learn about this industry.

Tell us about the syndicates you manage...

We are very excited to have a great new group of people this year. Half are virgins to racehorse ownership and the other half are pretty experienced so it works quite well. I manage the syndicates online using videos of the work filmed once a week at Manton with comments from Brian [Meehan]. It’s a pretty

easy way of keeping people involved in the whole process.

Are you very involved in the buying process?

Always. I like to be there right from the first looks through to buying in the ring. I have a good relationship with Stuart Boman and Johnny McKeever, both of whom have a wealth of knowledge when it comes to buying yearlings. They are the ones who assist me in making sure I don’t buy a slow horse, but you never know!

What has been your most memorable success to date?

I would have to say winning the Queen Alexandra Stakes at Royal Ascot with a horse called Bergo, trained by Gary Moore and ridden by Ryan Moore. It was an amazing day for all of us that were there, though I cannot claim the credit for him as he was leased from a good friend of mine, Harry Findlay.

Give us a horse to watch out for next year...

We have just bought a lovely Bertolini colt from Book 2 of the Tattersalls October sale.

He looks like he will be a nice speedy early type so definitely keep an eye out for him.

Bergo triumphs at Royal Ascot

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EIA: an increasing risk for UK horses?

By J Richard Newton FRCVS, Head of Epidemiology and Disease Surveillance, Animal Health Trust, Newmarket Equine infectious anaemia (EIA) is a notifiable, blood-borne viral disease of horses caused by infection with EIA virus (EIAV), which is related to the human AIDS virus. A particular feature of EIA is that surviving animals remain infected for life, during which time they can act as a potential source of infection for other animals if there is exchange of blood, which can occur via insects such as biting flies.

EIAV-infected horses develop antibodies that persist lifelong and it is detection of these that is used to confirm EIA. There is currently no cure or vaccine available to prevent infection by EIAV. The cornerstone of control of EIA in the UK at the present time is that all EIA-positive animals, irrespective of whether they are showing clinical signs, are required by law to be humanely destroyed in order to remove the potential perpetual infectious risk to the wider susceptible horse population.

At the time of writing, at the end of September 2010, sources indicate there are at least nine countries in or close to Europe where EIA has been recorded since mid-2010. These include Belgium (seven incidents), Croatia (four), France (three), Germany (nine), Greece (one), Hungary (two), Italy (at least ten incidents since February), Romania (endemic) and the UK (two).

Among these, the endemic and widespread status of EIA in Romania, which only joined the EU in 2007, is widely recognised as posing the most significant threat to horses elsewhere in Europe if appropriate EU controls are not adhered to. This was borne out in January this year with the first identification of EIA in the UK for almost 35

A murky scene: the number of EIA-positive animals to have entered the UK is unclear

years, with the detection of two EIAV-positive horses that had come from Romania via Belgium. The two more recent UK EIA outbreaks confirmed earlier in September 2010 in Northumberland and Devon are ongoing, with epidemiological investigations continuing in order to establish whether transmission to contact horses has occurred.

Preliminary findings to date in both outbreaks indicate that no other EIA antibody positive animals have so far been detected.

New pre- and post-import rules, as well as additional protective measures for equidae and certain equine products originating in Romania, have come into place very recently across the EU. However, these changes are so recent that it is too early to assess their benefit in reducing the risk of introduction of EIA positive horses into Europe from Romania.

In conclusion, there is currently an

unquantified but tangible likelihood that further EIA-positive animals, with or without clinical signs, are present in the UK. It is most likely that these will be among horses imported into the UK and particularly those that originated from endemic countries such as Romania before the current more rigorous control measures were introduced.

The annual pre-breeding screening for EIA that is conducted in accordance with the recommendations in the HBLB Codes of Practice by some sectors, but particularly thoroughbreds, has so far not identified any EIA-positive horses in the UK. More widespread EIA screening of the UK horse population will be required to provide valuable assurance about the absence of EIA in UK horses.

The 2011 Codes of Practice has been sent free of charge to all TBA members.

Hazel and Henry help out our Heroes Congratulations to Hazel West (left, with Sergeant Cecil), TBA Regional Chairman of West Midlands, who was the top fundraiser for the Horses for Heroes Charity Ride on July 10. Hazel was presented with an award at the Burghley Horse Trials in recognition of the £11,575 she raised for the charity.

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Riding Henry, her 18-year-old hunter who “enjoyed himself immensely”, Hazel said: “I am thrilled to have raised this money for such a wonderful organisation. The bravery of soldiers returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is outstanding – they are an example to us all.”

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Diary dates and reminders FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12 NH Stallion Parade, Cheltenham An opportunity for members to view a number of top-class National Hunt stallions at one venue. Members can gain free entry to Cheltenham on production of their TBA membership card. For further details, please contact Pauline Stoddart at the TBA.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13 Cheltenham Breeders’ Club, Cheltenham Racecourse Now in its 11th year, the Cheltenham Breeders’ Club is exclusive to members of the TBA. Free entry to Cheltenham on Paddy Power Gold Cup Day and use of the Club marquee for Cheltenham Breeders’ Club members.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27 Next Generation Club Event Don’t forget to book your place for the enjoyable and educational three-day event

Annual Stud Farming Course is a valuable tool for breeders Members are reminded that the annual TBA Stud Farming Course takes place at the British Racing School from December 7 to 9.

This residential course provides a unique opportunity for delegates to learn from leading veterinary and industry experts on topics ranging from pedigrees and mating plans to management of the growing foal and yearling.

Speakers include representatives from Rossdales & Partners, the Newmarket Equine Hospital, Animal Health Trust and Kentucky Equine Research, and all delegates will receive a comprehensive handbook with up-to-date

notes. Away from the lecture theatre, delegates can look forward to dinner on the first evening, plus visits to the Newmarket Equine Hospital and Lanwades Stud, and a tour of the British Racing School.

The course is supported by The Horserace Betting Levy Board, The Niniski Trust and Saracen Horse Feeds. Further information can be found at www.thetba.co.uk or through contacting Christine Standley at Stanstead house on 01638 66132. The fee is £385 TBA members, £525 for non-members and includes dinner on the first night, lunches and visits, but excludes accommodation.

New health and safety publication Members of the TBA Employers’ Register should, by now, have received a hard copy of the fifth edition of Health and Safety in the Racing and Breeding Industry, which replaces all previous versions. Produced and endorsed by a working group comprising a cross section of the industry, it provides guidance on good practice and includes advice from the Health and Safety Executive. A downloadable version is also available on the TBA website, together THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

with a template Health and Safety Policy, and Risk Assessment example.

Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) Accredited Health and Safety Seminars will take place on November 30, 2010 in Lambourn and February 14, 2011 in Newmarket at a cost of £37 per head, which includes IOSH certification. For further information visit the TBA website or contact Caroline Turnbull at Stanstead House.

Held in conjunction with Doncaster Bloodstock Sales and Newbury racecourse, this will take place on Hennessy Gold Cup day at Newbury.

Further details from Lesley O’Shea at Stanstead House. Email Lesley@thetba.co.uk

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7 – THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9 TBA Stud Farming Course This annual three-day course takes place at the British Racing School in Newmarket and features presentations from prominent equine veterinary surgeons and industry experts, together with visits to a leading Newmarket stud farm and veterinary hospital. The course provides a unique opportunity to update knowledge formally and informally through meeting other delegates. For further information and to register, please contact Christine Standley at the TBA on 01638 661321, or email Christine@thetba.co.uk

BHA HEALTH AND SAFETY SEMINARS WILL BE HELD ON THE FOLLOWING DATES: Tuesday, November 30 – BHA Health and Safety Seminar in Lambourn and Monday, February 14, 2011 in Newmarket. For further information contact Caroline Turnbull at the TBA.

TBA NEW MEMBERS Carwell Equities Ltd, Dorset. Mrs H M Luscombe, Devon. Mrs A O’Sullivan, Greater Manchester. Miss A Potter, Powys. R Trew Esq, London.

Mr & Mrs P Williams, Gloucestershire.

Ms S Woolf, Suffolk.

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Breeders’ Prizes Flat HBLB Breeders’ Prizes worth £640 or more

Based on date money was paid

Breeder

Prize (£)

Horse

Sire

Dam

Darley

9,600

Poet’s Voice

Dubawi

Bright Tiara

Biddestone Stud Watership Down Stud

3,456 3,072

Wild Rose Senate

Doyen Pivotal

Makhsusah Sauterne

Card Bloodstock

3,072

Activate

Motivator

Princess Manila

Meon Valley Stud

2,880

J B Haggas Cheveley Park Stud Ltd

2,688 2,432

Mrs N A Ward Whitsbury Manor Stud J L Dunlop

2,304 2,240 1,984

Herculean Rock N Roll Ransom Avon Lady Harris Tweed Penitent Red Gulch Myplacelater Temple Meads Harlestone Times

Sakhee Red Ransom Avonbridge Hernando Kyllachy Kyllachy Where Or When Avonbridge Olden Times

Someone Special Zee Zee Top Delightful Rhythm Frog Pious Enrapture Star Welcome Harryana Harlestone Lady

Newsells Park Stud Russell Trew Ltd Mrs C R Philipson & Mrs H G Lascelles Mrs P Good Fittocks Stud Raimon Bloodstock

1,920 1,920 1,792 1,792 1,792 1,792

Ethics Girl Kathleen Frances Bridle Belle Delegator Forte Dei Marmi Brick Red

Hernando Sakhee Dansili Dansili Selkirk Dubawi

Palinisa Trew Class River Belle Indian Love Bird Frangy Duchcov

The Queen Meon Valley Stud Carwell Equities Ltd M Wassall Horizon Bloodstock Limited A Gibson Sir Eric Parker Phil Jen Racing London Thoroughbred Services Ltd & West Blagdon Stud G Strawbridge The Rt Hon Lord Rothschild M E Broughton Wickfield Stud & Hartshill Stud Mrs A Wigan & London Thoroughbred Services Ltd Mr N A Blyth Bearstone Stud Mr S Emmet & Miss R Emmet Floors Farming & Dominic Burke The Lavington Stud Fifehead Farms M C Denning I N Marks Breeding Capital Plc & Swettenham Stud Granham Farm & P Hearson Bloodstock Slatch Farm Stud Brook Stud Bloodstock Ltd Wellsummers Farm & Hammarsfield B'stock Mrs C R D Wilson L A C Ashby Newhall Estate Farm Mr & Mrs D D Clee Andrea Wilkinson Gay Kelleway

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Duncan wins the Prix Foy in the Normandie Stud colours

Two Group 2 winners in the space of as many days in September made it a ‘special merit’ occasion for Philippa Cooper of Normandie Stud, with Samuel in the Doncaster Cup and his half-brother, Duncan, in the Prix Foy. Over the years Cooper has assembled a band of top-class broodmares at her stud in West Sussex, which she acquired in 1997.

At the time, she and husband Nick were into jumpers, two of the best they owned being Eulogy (1999 Whitbread Gold Cup) and smart hurdler I’m Supposin. It was a fatal injury sustained by Eulogy shortly after his Sandown victory that turned Cooper’s attention to the Flat.

However, she had no intention of breeding Flat horses. She explained. “It was not something I was looking for, it just happened.

We were searching for some summer grazing for I’m Supposin, discovered Boxalland Stud through Richard Rowe (I’m Supposin’s trainer) and I ended up buying it.�

One of the big attractions was that the experienced Richard Brunger came with the property and he was instrumental in the purchase of Agnus, the dam of Dolores, and the first mare Cooper ever purchased.

She said: “Richard is a friend of Barry and Fiona Reilly of Woodcote Stud, and they had bought Agnus and put her in foal to Machiavellian with a view to selling her at the 1997 December Sales. She had won twice in Belgium and came from a good family, but had been badly treated. Like everything I do, it was an instinctive purchase.�

The change of stud name reflects a little known side to Cooper’s background. Educated at the French LycÊe in South Kensington, and King’s College, London, she pursued a career teaching French.

Samuel and Duncan are the first two offspring of homebred Dolores, whom Cooper described as a ‘pantomime horse.’ She had everything wrong with her, conformation-wise, and no one wanted to train her, but she became a first homebred black type winner for Normandie in the 2002 Conqueror Stakes at Goodwood, compensation for finishing third in the Coronation Stakes and a close fourth in the 1,000 Guineas.

Cooper used to offer all her yearlings for sale but ceased to do so when “no-one wanted to buy them�.

She said. “Duncan was one of six I consigned in 2006 and four of them won – the other to earn black type was Queen Of Naples, who was placed in the Lancashire Oaks. That was my last draft of yearlings as I decided I was better off racing them all as I concentrate on breeding for the future, with the emphasis on middle distances. I now sell horses-in-training annually and mares in alternate years.�

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VET FORUM: THE EXPERT VIEW

By JAMES TATE BVMS MRCVS

Impact of splints and curbs on racecourse performance Afflicted horses will make less money as youngsters at sales, but can still rise to the top

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his year’s yearling sales are now well under way and it will soon be the turn of the foals to pass through the ring.

Each young horse will have its pedigree and conformation closely scrutinised. Perhaps the most common conformational fault for which a horse is condemned is a ‘splint’ or ‘curb’, despite the fact that these blemishes are unlikely to cause the horse any further problems.

The assessment of conformation in order to predict performance and durability is a fundamental concept of horsemanship.

Therefore, one might expect that all highclass horses have perfect conformation, but in reality this is not the case and many

successful horses have conformational faults such as splints and curbs. However, at the sales, horses with splints or curbs will always make less money than they would have done if they had been blemish-free. This article will examine the reasons why splints and curbs form and their significance.

What is the splint bone?

Unlike humans, horses walk only on one digit – the equivalent of our middle or third finger.

However, horses also have comparable bones to our second and fourth fingers in the form of the incompletely developed ‘splint bones’.

There are eight splint bones in the equine skeleton – one on either side of the cannon

bone in both the front and hind limbs.

These splint bones may be small but they are not insignificant. The top of each splint bone plays a role in the stabilisation of the joint above them (the knee in the front limb or the hock in the hind limb). The splint bones are joined with the cannon bone by means of the interosseous ligament. As the horse ages, this ligament calcifies and becomes like bone and the splint bones actually become fused to the cannon bone.

This is the reason why ‘splints’ are rarely seen in older horses.

What are splints?

For a variety of reasons (which include

The splint bones are found either side of the cannon bone in both the front and hind limbs

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A photograph and x-ray of an inside or ‘medial’ splint on the left foreleg of a two-year-old colt. This splint took a while to settle but once resolved it caused no further problems. The x-ray shows just how ‘active’ the inflammation was and hence, in this case, the resultant splint was quite large

conformation and trauma) a horse’s splint bone can suddenly become hot and painful before growing to an enlarged size – this is what is commonly referred to as a splint. The cause of the problem is inflammation of the interosseous ligament between the splint bone and the cannon bone, which in turn results in inflammation of the splint bone.

Splints are more common in front legs than back legs and inside or ‘medial’ splints are more common than outside or ‘lateral’ splints.

Whilst the splint is forming it is painful and may cause lameness. Active splints should be treated by restricting the horse’s exercise and initiating anti-inflammatory therapy in the form of drugs such as bute, cold-therapy, swimming and the application of various topical remedies. After the inflammation has subsided, the enlargement usually becomes slightly smaller and firmer but will not disappear entirely. The resultant bony lump is of little significance in a racehorse but is obviously highly undesirable for a young horse about to go through the sale ring.

What causes splints?

Splints are generally a problem seen in young horses and they occur most frequently when a foal or yearling is turned out in a large field for the first time, during sales preparation or when a horse is put into training. They can be caused by trauma, for example, a kick or a THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

An outside or ‘lateral’ splint on the left foreleg of a two-year-old filly.

This settled quite quickly and did not cause her to miss much work.

Lateral splints are significantly less common than medial splints and are often caused by trauma

bang, but they are much more commonly found as the result of abnormal weightbearing due to poor conformation – this is why splints are such a big issue when they are found in foals or yearlings at the sales.

As the splint bones play a role in the stabilisation of the joint above them (particularly the knee), it follows that a horse with imperfect knee-cannon bone conformation when viewed from the front is putting more stress on one splint than the other. For example, a horse whose cannon bones are ‘offset’ to the outside of the knee has more pressure put on the inside or ‘medial’ splint bones and so is at increased risk of developing medial splints. Therefore, if an ‘offset’ yearling arrives at the sales with two large medial splints on the inside of both its front legs, then it is not only the splints that are devaluing the horse but the abnormal conformation which has caused them. The splints are ‘proof’ that the horse has poor conformation and could not even stand turnout and sales preparation without developing these blemishes. Whilst the potential purchaser understands that the splints themselves are unlikely to cause any further problems, the concern is that the weight-bearing through the horse’s front legs

A horse whose cannon bones are ‘offset’ to the outside of the knee has more pressure put on the inside or ‘medial’ splint bones and so is at increased risk of developing medial splints.

If splints do form here then it strongly suggests that the weight-bearing through the horse’s front legs is uneven

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unsoundness will be enough to prevent the horse from reaching its full potential.

What is a ‘curb’?

A ‘curb’ is simply a swelling found at the back of the hock, which is caused by inflammation or ‘desmitis’ of the plantar ligament of the hock. A horse with a new curb has a hot, painful swelling at the back of the hock and it may also be slightly lame. Rest and antiinflammatory therapy in the form of drugs such as bute and cold-therapy usually settles the problem relatively quickly, although horses often require as much as one month for the problem to settle before they can be put back into full work.

What is the significance of a curb?

Horses recover from curbs without exception but, as with splints, the fact that the horse has developed a curb is held against it as a marker of poor weight-bearing through its limb, particularly if its hind limb conformation is perceived to be less than ideal.

If a horse’s hind limb is too far underneath its quarters then it has ‘sickle-hocked’ conformation and these are considered to be ‘weak’ hind limbs. It is these horses that are predisposed to curbs because excess pressure is being put on the back of the hock.

Although the curbs themselves are really only of cosmetic significance, they are a physical marker of poor weight-bearing through a horse’s hind limb. Given that most of the horse’s propulsion comes from its hind end, any weakness through its back legs has to be a concern for potential buyers.

Conclusion

A photograph of a horse with a ‘curb’ as a result of ‘sickle-hocked’ conformation. Whilst the curb will settle and is unlikely to cause problems in the future, the fact that the horse has developed this blemish is held against it as a marker of poor weight-bearing through its limb

is uneven and may cause future lameness due to knee or fetlock joint pain.

However, the reality is that most purchasers have to accept some conformational faults and it is at this point that it is worth discussing the function of the front and hind legs of the racehorse.

When analysing the gait of the racehorse, it soon becomes apparent that much of the propulsion actually comes from the hind

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limbs and some go so far as to suggest that the function of the forelimb is simply not to break under the considerable pressures of training and racing. Therefore, it is worth pointing out that horses with splints are condemned because of the increased risk of being unsound, not because they directly affect a horse’s performance. The question is whether the risk that the horse may be unsound is worth taking and whether the

Assessing conformation of the young racehorse to try and predict its future performance and durability may be a fundamental principle of horsemanship, but it is also extremely difficult, as illustrated by the number of perfectly conformed low-grade horses and the number of poorly conformed champions.

With regard to specific conformational faults, splints and curbs are often grouped together because although they are common problems that settle relatively quickly, they are held against horses as obvious markers of uneven weight-bearing through limbs. As a result, they can devalue horses considerably at the sales, particularly when they are seen in untried, young horses. However, it can be argued that curbs are more significant than splints because much of the horse’s propulsion comes from its hind end and hence any fault or weakness here may not only increase its chance of being unsound but may also have a negative effect on performance.

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Getting the balance right – growth, development and economics!

Nutrition plays a key role in producing a healthy foal and in developing a sound structure that will withstand the rigours of training and racing. It is also one of the factors that contributes to the cost of producing a foal.

The questions is can you reduce cost without reducing performance ?

Luckily the answer to this is yes. A combination of accurate feeding by stage of pregnancy and good pasture management will reduce cost and produce healthy foals. The trick is to remember that the key elements are vitamins and minerals. These elements are not naturally found in forages or cereals. These are you responsibility. Once these small but significant elements are catered for the other two main dietary factors, carbohydrates and proteins, can be found from several sources.

Sourcing carbohydrates and proteins Carbohydrates, including starches and sugars, can be found in both forages and cereals. The same applies to proteins. Although it is worth noting that not all proteins are created equal. The quality of protein will depend on the ammount of amino acids it provides.

These amino acids have many key roles in development of the foal, including regulation of carbohydrate metabolism, growth rates and cell metabolism. To give an example the quantity of lysine in extruded soyabeans is approx 3.08%, in oats 0.55% and in hay 0.12%.

terms her ‘calorie’ requirements are only increasing by 14%. Her protein requirements are increased from 540 grams to 704 grams.

Mineral and vitamin requirements increase slightly for Vitamin A and Vitamin E. Whilst the mare is stabled and fed dried forages a stud cube of 14% protein fed at 2.5kg will cover all the needs. Alternatively 600 grams of gro-care balancer will also cover the vit/min needs but will need supplementing with some extra protein and carbohydrates, which can be fed as oats.

When the mare moves to the pasture the vitamin and mineral balancer route is an opportunity to start saving on feed bills. 600 grams of balancer will keep the essentials supplied to the developing foetus. Good quality pasture will provide the protein and carbohydrates needed. If you do not have good pasture or have a mare that is a very poor keeper additional calories will need to be provided. At this stage of pregnancy the mare should be healthy but not fat.

Whilst balancers may appear initially expensive with a higher price tag per bag, they are in fact, on a cost per mare per day basis, an opportunity to make a saving. It is worth taking the time to cost out 2.5kg of your stud cubes versus the feed company’s balancer.

This is all providing that you have good quality pasture for the majority of the first six months of pregnancy.

7-8 months

You can go one of two routes when creating a balanced diet. The first is the complete diet route of stud cubes/mixes, yearling and foal cubes/mixes etc.These provide all those elements needed, vits/mins, proteins and carbohydrates. The second option is to feed a vitamin and mineral balancer and use this on top of forages, grains, beet pulp etc.

Both routes have their merits and potential down sides. One thing to consider is time. Time is money. Complete diets are ready made, quick and simple to use, especially when you are managing a large stud. The balancers route offers greater flexibility but does require a little more thought and takes up staff time.

Which ever route you choose it should be based on the stage of pregnancy and the type of forage available at that time.

In these two months we see an increased need for energy, protein, calcium and phosphorus. At this time of year pasture should still be providing the majority of carbohydrates and proteins. And so the increase in feeding is only small when using a balancer, from 600 grams up to 900 grams per day. If reliant on stud cubes these need to be fed at 3.5 kg per day in order to provide all elements in the correct balance.

As before the balancer can be supplemented with oats, beet pulp or other ingredients if needed. Remember to include the cost of these straights into your feed plan. The volume of straights needed will depend on the quality of your pasture/dried forages if used.

Straights have different MJ ‘calorie’ values. Beet pulp as fed is around 2.5-4 MJ/kg, whole oats around 10 MJ/kg, flaked oats around 11 MJ/kg, flaked barley around 13 MJ/kg and flaked wheat around 14 MJ/kg.

Feeding by stage of pregnancy

9-11 months

Dietary options

Pregnancy from a vitamin and mineral point of view can be divided into three stages. l 0-6 months l 7-8 months l 9-11 months

0-6 months In this period the change in diet is only small. The foetus is only accounting for around 2% of the mares bodyweight and so she is not ‘eating for two’. The energy requirement for a 500kg mare, which is measured in MJDE (mega joules of digestible energy), increases from 63 MJ to 72 MJ. To put this in human

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As before there is an increase of energy, protein, calcium and phosphorus, but also copper. This is a period of rapid development with nutrients being transferred across the placenta at an accelerated rate of 32,000 ml/min versus 16,000 ml/min in the preceding months.

Increasing the intake of stud cubes to 4.5 kg per day will meet the increased demands. The balancer can remain at 900 grams providing additional protein and carbohydrates are provided as the pasture will no longer be providing these two elements. If reliant on Gro-Care balancer alone this should be fed at 1.5kg per day.

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National Hunt Stallion Parade Generously supported by the BEBF, BBM, DBS Ltd. and Weatherbys Good quality dried forages are worth paying for and should be fed at a minimum of 1.5% of bodyweight to keep the stomach and gut functioning.

It is natural for mares to show a drop in appetite in the last 4-5 weeks as their capacity is reduced due to foetal development.

In these cases adding 200 grams of balancer for every 1kg of stud cubes lost will help keep nutrient intake high.

Summary Good pasture management and use of good quality hay will offer more flexibility in your feeding program. Always remember to cater for vitamins and minerals as these are key to sound development of the skeleton and joints. Getting the balance right during pregnancy will have benefits to the foal in later life. By feeding according to each stage of pregnancy you will be more accurate in your costs and not be over feeding or under feeding the mare. If in doubt about creating a balanced diet contact your feed provider for advice. n The above article was based on Connollys Red Mills Stud Cubes and gro-care balancer values. For more information visit www.redmills.com

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CLARENDON STUD

TEFFONT, NR. SALISBURY, WILTSHIRE

GUIDE PRICE: £1,500,000

Woolley & Wallis are delighted to be appointed to sell Clarendon Stud, Teffont, near Salisbury, Wiltshire with a Guide Price of £1,500,000. The property lies just 10 miles west of the cathedral city of Salisbury in the heart of the Nadder Valley, one of Wiltshire’s most beautiful rural settings.

Clarendon Stud is an outstanding professional equestrian property with a principle 3 bedroom dwelling, a separate self contained annexe providing additional accommodation either

for family members or staff with separate door entrance, both enjoying spectacular views across the paddocks and woodland beyond. The equestrian facilities are exceptional and comprise an all weather rising gallop, outdoor manège, Claydon horse walker, two stallion pens & 35 stables. The majority of the stables are housed under a single large steel building. There are also 10 additional high quality stables which stand in the yard and allow flexibility in housing a large team of horses.

Outside there is a large lorry and box yard with plenty of room for turning and manoeuvring.

The 50 acres of free draining grass paddocks are a key element of Clarendon Stud and have been managed to a high standard. The land is contained within a ring fence and the paddocks are divided into useful sizes by timber post and rail fencing. There is direct outriding from the property.

Richard Nocton, Partner at Woolley & Wallis said "with the tremendous range of facilities for breeding, rearing and training that Clarendon Stud offers, we are sure to have a large number of enquiries. This is a property which one could easily move into and seamlessly keep a business running."

Viewing is by appointment via agents Woolley & Wallis.

Further details are available on their website www.w-w.co.uk or be phoning 01672 515252.

Historic racing stables, Machell Place and Machell Place Stables, for sale Machell Place Stables, part of the operation of Classic winning trainer, Peter Chapple-Hyam, is being launched into the market.

Along with Machell Place House the property comprises a six bedroom house and yard with 39 boxes. The property is available as a whole or in two lots at a guide price of £1.5m for the whole.

Machell Place has a fine position and views over the gallops and therefore the stables are excellently located to take advantage of the Bury side gallops at Warren Hill and Limekilns, as well as being within reach of the Racecourse side gallops.

Machell Place House offers 3,240 sq feet of accommodation with large basement and has the potential to be developed into a fine house for either a private buyer or a racehorse trainer.

Machell Place Stables is a Grade ll Listed, classic courtyard of 39 boxes with tack room and feed storage. A cottage at the end of the easterly wing of the courtyard provides two bedroom staff accommodation. Within the courtyard is a horse walk around the perimeter, and a five horse walker at the centre. At the rear of the stables is a horse spa which is a benefit to the yard.

Gemma Burtt who is dealing with the sale comments, 'Machell Place is the kind of opportunity that rarely comes along – it's situated in a sought after position for residential buyers and trainers alike, and the yard is of a good commercial size'.

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For further information please contact: Gemma Burtt – tel: 01223 559407 e-mail: gemma.burtt@bidwells.co.uk Press Office Ruth Bonner – tel: 01223 559294 e-mail: ruth.bonner@bidwells.co.uk Editors notes Lot 1: Machell Place – £550,000 Lot 2: Machell Place Stables – £950,000

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Still invincible even after rise in fee Success of Irish National Stud stallion owes much to mares from the Mr Prospector line

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hen a comparatively inexpensive stallion makes a considerable splash with his progeny from run-of-themill mares, there is always some concern about whether he can justify the consequent substantial rise in his fee. After all, the change in fee can result in his attracting a very different type of mare, often from further up the distance scale.

Any such concerns about the Irish National Stud’s Invincible Spirit are proving groundless.

After four seasons at €10,000, his fee shot up to €35,000 in 2007, on the strength of a first-crop sires’ championship achieved with a record number of winners. His fee then climbed to €75,000 in 2008, before the downturn in the market forced a realignment.

The €35,000 crop is racing at two in 2010 and it too has produced an impressive mix of quality and quantity. With only about a month of the turf season remaining at the time of writing, the 13-year-old stallion held a lead of nearly £280,000 among the sires of two-yearolds, with 24 winners in Britain and Ireland.

Among those 24 were Hooray, who has shown such enthusiasm in winning the Lowther, Sirenia and Cheveley Park Stakes, and Zebedee, who suffered only one setback in a seven-race campaign which featured victories

Hooray, a wonderful advert for her sire

in the Molecomb and Flying Childers Stakes.

Other notables include the Listed winner Al Aasifh and the French filly Moonlight Cloud, who showed so much talent in winning her first two starts that Freddie Head was prompted to say that he had “never had a two-year-old this good.” While she didn’t justify that description when pitched in against the colts in the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère, Moonlight Cloud remains a name to remember.

Hooray’s efforts, including three Group victories, netted her £189,400, while Zebedee’s earnings of £162,819 owed its biggest dividend to his victory in the £100,000 Tattersalls Millions Auction Stakes. The earnings of both these multiple stakes winners were eclipsed when another of Invincible Spirit’s sons, Fury, took the £500,000 Tattersalls Millions 2YO Trophy to remain unbeaten in two starts. The Racing Post handicappers rated Fury no higher than 101 after his big win, but it will be a surprise if the Cheveley Park colt doesn’t also develop into a black-type winner.

Invincible Spirit owes quite a lot of his success to the Mr Prospector line, as Hooray is out of a Machiavellian mare, as is his first-crop Gimcrack winner Conquest, and his Prix du Jockey-Club winner Lawman is out of a daughter of Gulch.

This links to the record of Oasis Dream, another Green Desert stallion who sired two of his Group 1 winners from daughters of Kingmambo and Machiavellian. Cape Cross continues the theme, as he sired the brilliant Sea The Stars from a Miswaki mare. Cape Cross also has a Group winner out of a mare by Mr Prospector, plus two out of daughters of Woodman, so we can expect to see more and more good winners representing this cross.

Dolores’s boys provide memorable double

GEORGE SELWYN

When 17 fillies lined up for the 2002 1,000 Guineas, few spared a thought for Amanda Perrett’s Dolores. The daughter of Danehill had run only once before, when second in a maiden over six months earlier, but she belied her odds of 66/1. Despite having little luck in running, Dolores ran on to finish fourth to

Dolores, dam of Samuel and Duncan

Kazzia, beaten only a length. Although she became a Listed winner on her next appearance, a major victory continued to elude the Normandie Stud homebred, even though she ran well to be third in the Coronation Stakes and second in the Sun Chariot. She eventually retired as a winner of only one of her seven starts.

Fortunately Dolores has made full amends with her first two foals for any omissions on the track. Her first foal, the Sakhee gelding Samuel, hasn’t been easy to train but he justified owner/breeder Philippa Cooper’s patience by winning the Doncaster Cup on September 10, two days before her second foal, the Dalakhani colt Duncan, gained the best victory of his career in the Prix Foy. Duncan’s main victim in the Foy was the future Arc second Nakayama Festa. Duncan had earlier demonstrated his class with a fine fourth in the 2009 Coronation Cup and a

second to Harbinger in the Hardwicke Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Dolores’s third foal, Howard, has disappointed, as have so many of the progeny of Haafhd, but her fourth foal, the Dubawi filly Deirdre, was third to Snow Fairy in the Height of Fashion Stakes. Deirdre is going to be very valuable to Normandie, as Dolores’s 2008 Pivotal filly died and she then produced a dead foal to Halling in 2009 before being barren to Dubawi. However, that Dolores visited Sea The Stars in 2010 suggests that her problems are considered only temporary.

Incidently, Duncan is a reminder that his sire Dalakhani has plenty to offer the many breeders looking for outcrosses for their Danehill mares. The Gilltown stallion has only 12 foals out of Danehill mares but they also include Shemiyla, who this year gained her first Group success in the Prix Allez France.

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Bond breakthrough comes at little cost Classic winner was not a hit at stud

Mention of Pennekamp in breeding circles is likely to result in a groan. He won the 2,000 Guineas but was bad news as a stallion. A fertility issue restricted his first crop to 29 foals and, although he shook off these problems, he was soon struggling for support and left Kildangan for Haras du Logis before returning to Ireland to cover modest numbers of jumping mares.

Pennekamp is credited with 310 foals, but only five became stakes winners on the Flat and only one, Alexander Three D, was a Group winner. Surely there can’t be many Classic winners with a worse record.

However, two of his daughters have been doing very well with Sadler’s Wells stallions. Pennegale is the dam of Lily Of The Valley, the Galileo filly who was winning for the seventh successive time in the Prix de l’Opera. And Shadow Song has made a great start, her first two foals being Group 1-winning Montjeu colt Jan Vermeer and Group 1-placed Galileo filly Together. These mares illustrate that a mare needn’t have shown tremendous talent on the track to become an effective producer.

Shadow Song’s only victory in six starts for Sheikh Mohammed came in a maiden at the minor French track of Segre, shortly before she was sold at the 2005 July Sales.

Pennegale didn’t even win in nine races.

The turnaround in these mares’ fortunes reflects the fact both come from strong female lines. Shadow Song is a more-thanhalf-sister to Multimara, who produced Prix de l’Abbaye winner Imperial Beauty.

Their female line traces to Comely Nell, a mare with a Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes winner to her credit. Pennegale has a distinguished ancestor, her second dam being Gay Apparel, whose total of Groupwinning descendants is in double figures.

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Pennekamp makes mark

Gilt Edge Girl: one reason why Arc weekend was a big success for Monsieur Bond

Earlier this year I was asked for my views about the stallion potential of a particular son of Danehill Dancer. My answer wasn’t too positive, partly because the available evidence suggested that the 2009 champion sire still had some way to go before he could be described as a successful sire of sires. At the same time, it had to be taken into account that his eldest stallion sons came from his early, inexpensive crops, and therefore were not guaranteed to have the depth of pedigree one hopes to find in a successful stallion, In next to no time, I had to start reviewing my advice. Choisir showed what he is capable of when his imported son Starspangledbanner gained consecutive Group 1 victories in the Golden Jubilee and July Cup. Then there was Where Or When, who has been very ably represented by the tough three-year-old filly Myplacelater, but it has been Monsieur Bond who has arguably made the biggest breakthrough.

The ten-year-old is now back in Yorkshire, scene of his best victory in the Duke of York Stakes, and he promises to prove an asset to northern breeders. Although Monsieur

Bond’s fee for 2010 was no higher than £2,000 (with generous discounts available for higher-rated mares), he was represented in two of the Group 1 contests on Arc day.

One of his representatives, Gilt Edge Girl, blitzed the opposition in the Prix de l’Abbaye but the other, the Jean-Luc Lagardère contender My Name Is Bond, didn’t reproduce the form of his impressive victory in the Prix des Chenes (the Chenes third Maiguri was second to Wootton Bassett).

Even so, it was still a magnificent weekend for Monsieur Bond, thanks to his daughter Ladies Are Forever. Shaking off an absence of more than three months since her close third in the Queen Mary Stakes, she landed the very valuable Totepool Two-Year-Old Trophy.

The striking aspect of her pedigree is that she is inbred 3 x 3 to Danehill, who was himself inbred 3 x 3 to Natalma.

My earlier comment questioning the depth of the pedigrees of some of Danehill Dancer’s older sons doesn’t apply to Monsieur Bond. His third dam is the Prix de la Foret winner Vareta, who produced the Classic sire Zeddaan, so he is well qualified for stallion success.

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DATA BOOK STAKES RESULTS

European Pattern 2008: HELLEBORINE (f Observatory) 3 wins at 2, Prix d’Aumale G3, Prix Six Perfections LR. 2010: (f Observatory)

277 PARK HILL S G2 DONCASTER. Sep 9. 3yo+f&m. 14f 132yds.

1. EASTERN ARIA (UAE) 4 9-4 £56,770 b f by Halling - Badraan (Danzig) O-Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Al Maktoum B-Darley TR-M Johnston 2. Rumoush (USA) 3 8-6 £21,520 b f by Rahy - Sarayir (Mr Prospector) O-Hamdan Al Maktoum B-Shadwell Farm LLC TR-MP Tregoning 3. Meeznah (USA) 3 8-6 £10,770 b f by Dynaformer - String Quartet (Sadler’s Wells) O-Saif Ali, Saeed H Altayer B-Swettenham Stud TR-DR Lanigan Margins 1, 1.75. Time 3:02.00 (fast 3.80). Going Good.

Age 3-4

Starts 22

Wins 10

Places 8

DONCASTER. September 10. 3yo+. 18f.

2nd Dam: MUSICANTI by Nijinsky. 1 win in France.

Dam of DISTANT MUSIC (c Distant View: Dewhurst S G1, 3rd Champion S G1), New Orchid (see above) Broodmare Sire: QUEST FOR FAME. Sire of the dams of 24 Stakes winners. In 2010 - SKILLED Commands G1, TAVISTOCK Montjeu G1, SILVER POND Act One G2, FAMOUS NAME Dansili G3, HELLEBORINE Observatory G3.

Observatory/Quest For Fame cross has produced: AFRICAN ROSE G1, HELLEBORINE G3.

HELLEBORINE b f 2008

Earned £224,112

Mr Prospector Distant View Seven Springs

Sire: HALLING. Sire of 47 SWs. In 2010 - CUTLASS BAY Danzig G1, EASTERN ARIA Danzig G2, OPINION POLL Shirley Heights G2, HOLBERG Assert LR. 1st Dam: BADRAAN by Danzig. 3 wins at 4 in UAE. Dam of 3 winners: 2005: HARLEM SHUFFLE (f Halling) Winner at 2.

2006: EASTERN ARIA (f Halling) 10 wins at 3 and 4, Park Hill S G2, Lillie Langtry S G3, Aphrodite S LR, Prix Joubert LR. 2007: NARYA (f Halling) 3 wins at 3 in Spain.

2nd Dam: GOLD SUNRISE by Forty Niner. 3 wins, Golden Rod S G3, 3rd Alcibiades S G2. Dam of T S Eliot (c Storm Cat: 3rd Tony Gatto Dream Big S).

Grandam of Bernasconi.

Broodmare Sire: DANZIG. Sire of the dams of 153 Stakes winners. In 2010 - CUTLASS BAY Halling G1, EASTERN ARIA Halling G2, KEIAI GERBERA Smarty Jones G3, MAGICAL POCKET Jungle Pocket G3, TEMPLE CITY Dynaformer G3.

The Halling/Danzig cross has produced: CUTLASS BAY G1, BOSCOBEL G2, EASTERN ARIA G2, QUEEN OF POLAND G2, Age of Reason G1.

EASTERN ARIA b f 2006 Atan Rocchetta Reliance II Doubly Sure Soft Angels Nijinsky Green Dancer Green Valley Pontifex Never A Lady Camogie Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Admiral’s Voyage Pas de Nom Petitioner Mr Prospector Forty Niner File Grey Dawn II Seattle Dawn Embellished Sharpen Up Diesis HALLING ch 91 Dance Machine

Danzig BADRAAN b 98 Gold Sunrise

278 PRIX D’AUMALE G3 LONGCHAMP. September 9. 2yof. 1600m.

1. HELLEBORINE (GB) 8-9 £35,398 b f by Observatory - New Orchid (Quest For Fame) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-Mme C Head-Maarek 2. Immortal Verse (IRE) 8-9 £14,159 b f by Pivotal - Side of Paradise (Sadler’s Wells) O-RC Strauss B-Kilfrush Stud TR-R Collet 3. Nitza (FR) 8-9 £10,619 b f by Indygo Shiner - Realdad (Victory Speech) O-Louis Serge Seenyen B-SNC Regnier, San Gabriel Inv Inc TR-Mme C Head-Maarek Margins 5, 0.5. Time 1:47.90. Going Soft.

Age 2

Starts 3

Wins 3

Places 0

Earned £70,353

OBSERVATORY ch 97 Roberto Stellaria Victoria Star Rainbow Quest Quest For Fame Aryenne NEW ORCHID b 2000 Nijinsky Musicanti Populi

1st Dam: New Orchid by Quest For Fame. Winner at 3, 2nd Food Brokers Aphrodite S LR, 3rd Bet365 Lancashire Oaks G3. Dam of 3 winners: 2005: AFRICAN ROSE (f Observatory). 3 wins at 2 and 3 at home, France, Ladbrokes Sprint Cup G1, 2nd Prix Maurice de Gheest G1.

2007: CULTIVAR (c Xaar) 2 wins at 3.

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Raise A Native Gold Digger Irish River La Trinite Hail To Reason Bramalea Northern Dancer Solometeor Blushing Groom I Will Follow Green Dancer Americaine Northern Dancer Flaming Page Star Envoy Sister Shannon

279 FLYING CHILDERS S G2

1. SAMUEL (GB) 6 9-1 £56,770 ch g by Sakhee - Dolores (Danehill) O/B-Normandie Stud Ltd TR-JHM Gosden 2. Tastahil (IRE) 6 9-1 £21,520 ch g by Singspiel - Luana (Shaadi) O-Hamdan Al Maktoum B-Darley TR-BW Hills 3. Motrice (GB) 3 7-12 £10,770 gr f by Motivator - Entente Cordiale (Affirmed) O/B-Miss K Rausing TR-Sir Mark Prescott Margins 1.25, hd. Time 3:52.99 (fast 1.01). Going Good.

Age 2-6

Starts 12

Wins 2

Places 8

1. ZEBEDEE (GB) 9-0 £45,416 gr c by Invincible Spirit - Cozy Maria (Cozzene) O-Mrs J Wood B-Hascombe & Valiant Studs TR-R Hannon 2. Dinkum Diamond (IRE) 9-0 £17,216 b c by Aussie Rules - Moving Diamonds (Lomitas) O-Eight Star Syndicate B-Ms HW Topping TR-H Candy 3. New Planet (IRE) 9-0 £8,616 ch c by Majestic Missile - Xena (Mull of Kintyre) O-Ross Harmon B-Mrs Diane Williams TR-JJ Quinn Margins Neck, 0.75. Time 0:59.42 (fast 0.92).

Going Good.

Sire: SAKHEE. Sire of 8 Stakes winners. In 2010 PRESVIS Never So Bold G2, SAMUEL Danehill G2, NICE DANON Warning G3.

1st Dam: DOLORES by Danehill. 1 win at 3, Conqueror S LR, 2nd Sun Chariot S G2, 3rd Coronation S G1. Dam of 3 winners: 2004: SAMUEL (g Sakhee) 2 wins, Doncaster Cup G2, Stowe Family Law Grand Cup LR, 2nd Lonsdale Cup G2, March S LR, Esher S LR, 3rd Yorkshire Cup G2, Bahrain Trophy LR. 2005: DUNCAN (c Dalakhani) 3 wins at 3 and 4, John Doyle Buckhounds S LR, 2nd Hardwicke S G2.

2006: Howard (c Haafhd) 2007: Deirdre (f Dubawi) Winner at 2, 3rd Height of Fashion S LR.

Starts 7

Wins 6

Places 0

Earned £162,819

Sire: INVINCIBLE SPIRIT. Sire of 40 Stakes winners. In 2010 - YOSEI Fuji Kiseki G1, ALLIED POWERS High Line G2, HOORAY Machiavellian G2, ZEBEDEE Cozzene G2, CHARMING WOMAN Kendor G3, GLAMOROUS SPIRIT Air Express G3, KARGALI Last Tycoon G3.

1st Dam: Cozy Maria by Cozzene. Winner at 3, 2nd October Club Place To Be EBF Valiant S LR. Dam of 1 winner: 2005: Citron Presse (f Lemon Drop Kid) 2006: Albaasha (c Lemon Drop Kid) 2007: Satwa Son (c Oasis Dream) in training.

2008: ZEBEDEE (c Invincible Spirit) Sold 70,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 6 wins at 2, Flying Childers S G2, Betfair Molecomb S G3, Dragon S LR. 2009: (c Oasis Dream) 2nd Dam: MARIAMME by Verbatim. 2 wins at 3 in USA. Dam of Cozy Maria (f Cozzene, see above) Broodmare Sire: COZZENE. Sire of the dams of 35 Stakes winners. In 2010 - ZEBEDEE Invincible Spirit G2, MEMORIAL MANIAC Lear Fan G3.

ZEBEDEE gr c 2008 Danzig Green Desert INVINCIBLE SPIRIT b 97 Kris Rafha Eljazzi Caro Cozzene Ride The Trails COZY MARIA gr/ro 99 Verbatim Mariamme Miss Tusculum

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Sir Ivor Courtly Dee Sharpen Up Doubly Sure Artaius Border Bounty Fortino II Chambord Prince John Wildwook Speak John Well Kept Boldnesian Sailor Town

wins in USA, Mariah’s Storm S, 2nd Gardenia H G3.

Dam of 2 winners: 2005: CONCHITA (f Cozzene) Winner at 3 in USA. 2006: Towanda (f Dynaformer) 2008: WHITE MOONSTONE (f Dynaformer) 4 wins at 2, Meon Valley Stud Fillies’ Mile S G1, Keepmoat May Hill S G2, germantb.com Sweet Solera S G3.

2009: (f Arch) 2010: (f Tiznow) 2nd Dam: DESERT STORMETTE by Storm Cat. 1 win at 4 in USA. Own sister to DESERT STORMER. Dam of DESERT GOLD (f Seeking The Gold, see above) Broodmare Sire: SEEKING THE GOLD. Sire of the dams of 67 Stakes winners. In 2010 - BLAME Arch G1, WARRIOR’S REWARD Medaglia d’Oro G1, WHITE MOONSTONE Dynaformer G1, BATTLE PLAN Empire Maker G2, KAVANAGH Tiger Ridge G2, BIRDIE BIRDIE Brian’s Time G3, CLUBHOUSE RIDE Candy Ride LR, COYOTE LEGEND Gold Legend LR, GOLDEN MOKA Golden Missile LR, PEPPI KNOWS Stephen Got Even LR. The Dynaformer/Seeking The Gold cross has produced: RISKAVERSE G1, WHITE MOONSTONE G1, VACATION G3, Pick Six G2, Cable G3, Ea G3, Rescue Squad G3, Cognashene LR, Quarayed LR, Tend LR. WHITE MOONSTONE b f 2008 Hail To Reason Roberto

Broodmare Sire: DANEHILL. Sire of the dams of 138 SWs. In 2010 - ABLE ONE Cape Cross G1, BUZZWORD Pivotal G1, ZABRASIVE Zabeel G1, SAMUEL Sakhee G2, SHOCKING Street Cry G2, STRIKING DANCER Smart Strike G2, BULLET TRAIN Sadler’s Wells G3, NOLL WALLOP High Chaparral G3, PRECIOUS GEM Sadler’s Wells G3, SHEMIYLA Dalakhani G3, SOLAR CHARGED Charge Forward G3.

Bramalea DYNAFORMER b 85 His Majesty Andover Way On The Trail Mr Prospector Seeking The Gold Con Game DESERT GOLD ch 99 Storm Cat Desert Stormette Breezy Stories

Turn-To Nothirdchance Nashua Rarelea Ribot Flower Bowl Olympia Golden Trail Raise A Native Gold Digger Buckpasser Broadway Storm Bird Terlingua Damascus New Tune

SAMUEL ch g 2004 Riverman Bahri Wasnah

Age 2

Earned £141,090

2nd Dam: AGNUS by In The Wings. 2 wins at 2 and 3 in Belgium. Dam of DOLORES (see above)

DONCASTER. September 10. 2yo. 5f.

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Sire: OBSERVATORY. Sire of 9 Stakes winners. In 2010 - TWICE OVER Caerleon G1, HELLEBORINE Quest For Fame G3.

280 DONCASTER CUP G2

SAKHEE b 97 Sadler’s Wells Thawakib Tobira Celeste Danzig Danehill Razyana DOLORES b 99 In The Wings Agnus Wavy Reef

Never Bend River Lady Nijinsky Highest Trump Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Ribot Heavenly Body Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Sadler’s Wells High Hawk Kris Triple Reef

281 MAY HILL S G2 DONCASTER. September 10. 3yof. 8f.

1. WHITE MOONSTONE (USA) 8-12 £45,416 b f by Dynaformer - Desert Gold (Seeking The Gold) O-Godolphin B-Stonerside Stable TR-Saeed bin Suroor 2. Al Madina (IRE) 8-12 £17,216 b f by Noverre - Tasha’s Dream (Woodman) O-AMA Al Shorafa B-Forenaghts Stud TR-B Smart 3. Musharakaat (IRE) 8-12 £8,616 b f by Iffraaj - Gift of Spring (Gilded Time) O-Hamdan Al Maktoum B-Mrs Mary Gallagher TR-EAL Dunlop Margins 5, 1.25. Time 1:38.73 (slow 0.23).

Going Good.

Age 2

Starts 4

Wins 4

Places 0

Earned £197,711

Sire: DYNAFORMER. Sire of 99 Stakes winners. In 2010 - HARMONIOUS Storm Cat G1, WHITE MOONSTONE Seeking The Gold G1, AMERICAIN Arazi G2, DYNASLEW Seattle Slew G2, BEARPATH Unbridled’s Song G3, HAKA Mr Prospector G3, IT’S TEA TIME Storm Cat G3, LE GRAND CRU El Gran Senor G3, RAINBOW VIEW Nureyev G3, TEMPLE CITY Danzig G3.

1st Dam: DESERT GOLD by Seeking The Gold. 6

282 NATIONAL S G1 CURRAGH. September 11. 2yo. 7f.

1. PATHFORK (USA) 9-1 £102,655 b c by Distorted Humor - Visions of Clarity (Sadler’s Wells) O-Silverton Hill Partnership B-Flaxman Holdings Ltd TR-Mrs John Harrington 2. Casamento (IRE) 9-1 £33,628 ch c by Shamardal - Wedding Gift (Always Fair) O-Sheikh Mohammed B-D Cantillon, J Cantillon, C Canning, K Canning TR-M Halford 3. Zoffany (IRE) 9-1 £15,929 b c by Dansili - Tyranny (Machiavellian) O-Michael Tabor B-Epona Bloodstock Ltd TR-AP O’Brien Margins Head, 5. Time 1:27.95 (slow 4.45).

Going Soft.

Age 2

Starts 2

Wins 2

Places 0

Earned £62,562

Sire: DISTORTED HUMOR. Sire of 64 Stakes winners. In 2010 - DROSSELMEYER Moscow Ballet G1, PATHFORK Sadler’s Wells G1, COLIZEO Dixieland Band G3, ENDORSEMENT A P Indy G3, RADHARCNAFARRAIGE Storm Bird G3.

1st Dam: VISIONS OF CLARITY by Sadler’s Wells.

2 wins at 3 in France, Prix de Bagatelle LR. Dam of 2 winners: 2005: PSI (g Hernando) Winner at 3 in France.

2006: Flock of Doves (f Kingmambo) unraced.

2007: Lotus Sutra (f Kingmambo) unraced to date.

2008: PATHFORK (c Distorted Humor) 2 wins at 2, National S G1, Galileo EBF Futurity S G2.

2009: (f Kingmambo) 2010: (c Lemon Drop Kid) 2nd Dam: IMPERFECT CIRCLE by Riverman. 2 wins at 2 and 3 Firth of Clyde S LR, 2nd Cheveley Park S G1. Dam of SPINNING WORLD (c Nureyev: Irish 2000 Guineas G1, Prix du Moulin de Longchamp G1, Prix Jacques Le Marois G1 (twice), Breeders’ Cup Mile G1, 2nd Poule d’Essai des Poulains G1, Prix du Moulin de Longchamp G1, Breeders’ Cup Mile G1), VISIONS OF CLARITY (f Sadler’s Wells, see above),

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Rangoon Ruby (f Kingmambo: 3rd Prix de RisOrangis G3). Grandam of Sagara. Third dam of Bet On The Blue.

283 IRISH ST LEGER G1 CURRAGH. September 11. 3yo+. 14f.

Broodmare Sire: SADLER’S WELLS. Sire of the dams of 237 SWs. In 2010 - CAMPANOLOGIST Kingmambo G1, CHINESE WHITE Dalakhani G1, PATHFORK Distorted Humor G1, WORKFORCE King’s Best G1, APPROVE Oasis Dream G2, BANKABLE Medicean G2, EMERALD COMMANDER Pivotal G2, MEISHO BELUGA French Deputy G2, ZARIUS Zabeel G2, BALETTI Gulch G3, BEETHOVEN Oratorio G3, CAT JUNIOR Storm Cat G3, DEEM Dalakhani G3, ELUSIVE PIMPERNEL Elusive Quality G3, LAAHEB Cape Cross G3, POSAVINA Tiger Hill G3.

PATHFORK b c 2008 Raise A Native Gold Digger Tom Rolfe File Continue DISTORTED HUMOR ch 93 Northern Dancer Danzig Pas de Nom Danzig’s Beauty Mr Leader Sweetest Chant Gay Sonnet Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Sadler’s Wells Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special VISIONS OF CLARITY b 2000 Never Bend Riverman River Lady Imperfect Circle Northfields Aviance Minnie Hauk Mr Prospector

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Some of America’s highest-priced stallions have yet to establish their suitability for European turf racing but Distorted Humor is beginning to do so.

The WinStar stallion has had three Group winners in Ireland – all at two years – and his son Pathfork is unbeaten in three seven-furlong races at the Curragh.

Bred by the Niarchos Family’s Flaxman Holdings, Pathfork was sold for $230,000 as a yearling – just $5,000 more than Distorted Humor’s fee in 2007. The colt is out of a daughter of Sadler’s Wells and provides further evidence that Distorted Humor is well suited by descendants of the great Coolmore stallion. Distorted Humor’s top son Flower Alley has a second dam by Sadler’s Wells, while his Gr1 winner Bit Of Whimsy is out of a mare by Sadler’s Wells’s son El Prado.

Pathfork comes from an exceptional Niarchos family. His dam, the eight-furlong Listed winner Visions Of Clarity, is very closely related to Nureyev’s outstanding miler Spinning World, who numbered the Breeders’ Cup Mile among his Gr1 victories.

When Visions Of Clarity’s half-sister Rangoon Ruby visited Sadler’s Wells she produced Arc third Sagara, and Sadler’s Wells also sired dual Gr1 winner Saddex and Prix du Cadran winner Chief Contender from this family.

Pathfork’s second dam Imperfect Circle finished second in the Cheveley Park Stakes. Her high-class half-sister Chimes Of Freedom was best at a mile, before developing into a great broodmare, with the champion American sprinter Aldebaran among her three Graded winners. Although speed has been the main asset of this family, it occasionally produces a highclass performer with plenty of stamina, such as Denon, a half-brother to Imperfect Circle who won Gr1 races at up to a mile and a half in the USA. Pathfork’s third dam Aviance won the Phoenix Stakes.

1. SANS FRONTIERES (IRE) 4 9-11 £123,363 ch c by Galileo - Llia (Shirley Heights) O-Sir Robert Ogden B-The Lavington Stud TR-J Noseda 2. Profound Beauty (IRE) 6 9-8 £40,531 b m by Danehill - Diamond Trim (Highest Honor) O/B-Moyglare Stud Farm TR-DK Weld 3. Flying Cross (IRE) 3 9-0 £19,292 b c by Sadler’s Wells - Ramruma (Diesis) O-Mrs John Magnier B-Southern Bloodstock TR-AP O’Brien Margins 0.75, 1.75. Time 3:10.36 (slow 11.86).

Going Soft.

Age 2-4

Starts 8

Wins 3

Places 3

Earned £128,141

Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 74 Stakes winners. In 2010 CAPE BLANCO Presidium G1, MAHBOOBA Red Ransom G1, MISTY FOR ME Storm Cat G1, RIP VAN WINKLE Stravinsky G1, SANS FRONTIERES Shirley Heights G1, KITE WOOD Mark of Esteem G2, LINTON Centaine G2, MIDAS TOUCH Darshaan G2, LILY OF THE VALLEY Pennekamp G3, MIKHAIL GLINKA Mark of Esteem G3, TOGETHER Pennekamp G3.

1st Dam: Llia by Shirley Heights. Winner at 2, 3rd Madagans Pretty Polly S LR. Dam of 6 winners: 1997: DILSAA (g Night Shift) 3 wins.

1998: Effie (f Royal Academy) unraced. Broodmare.

1999: KOOTENAY (f Selkirk) 4 wins, Masaka S LR, Princess Elizabeth S LR, Premio Coolmore LR, 2nd Premio Dormello G3, 3rd Falmouth S G2.

Dam of Kelowna 3rd HBPA S LR) 2000: JAY GEE’S CHOICE (g Barathea) 4 wins 2-4.

2001: GRETNA (f Groom Dancer) Winner at 3.

2005: KING FINGAL (g King’s Best) 3 wins 3-5.

2006: SANS FRONTIERES (c Galileo) Sold 450,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 3 wins at 2 and 4, Irish St Leger G1, Princess of Wales’s S G2, Geoffrey Freer S G3, 2nd Craven S G3, 3rd Dante S G2.

2007: Hellenio (g Cape Cross) 2009: (c Cape Cross) 2010: (c Montjeu) 2nd Dam: LLYN GWYNANT by Persian Bold. 5 wins, Desmond S G3, Matron S G3, 4th Prix de l’Opera G2. Dam of GUEST CONNECTIONS (g Zafonic: Premio Primi Passi G3), LADY OF THE LAKE (f Caerleon: George Stubbs Rated S LR), Llia (f Shirley Heights, see above). Grandam of Coventina.

Broodmare Sire: SHIRLEY HEIGHTS. Sire of the dams of 175 SWs. In 2010 - FAME AND GLORY Montjeu G1, SANS FRONTIERES Galileo G1, OPINION POLL Halling G2, AKDARENA Hernando G3, POET Pivotal G3, STOTSFOLD Barathea G3.

SANS FRONTIERES ch c 2006 Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special Mr Prospector Miswaki Hopespringseternal Lombard Allegretta Anatevka Never Bend Mill Reef Milan Mill Hardicanute Hardiemma Grand Cross Bold Lad Persian Bold Relkarunner Busted Etoile des Galles Welsh Star Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells GALILEO b 98 Urban Sea

Shirley Heights LLIA b 92 Llyn Gwynant

Combining Sadler’s Wells with mares from the Mill Reef line has long been considered one of the surest ways of producing a classic middle-distance performer. Consequently Galileo was guaranteed to receive numerous Mill Reef line mares and he currently has 24 foals of racing age out of daughters of Shirley Heights, another 71 foals out of Darshaan mares and eight out of mares by Darshaan’s son Mark Of Esteem.

The Darshaan contingent includes

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no fewer than six stakes winners, headed by the 2009 Irish St Leger and Prix du Cadran winner Alandi, and the 2010 St Leger runner-up Midas Touch; the Mark Of Esteem team includes two Group winners, the 2009 St Leger second Kite Wood and the 2010 Queen’s Vase winner Mikhail Glinka; and now the Shirley Heights squad has produced another very talented stayer in Sans Frontieres, winner of the 2010 Irish St Leger.

With three Group victories under his belt, Sans Frontieres is now repaying the 450,000gns he cost as a yearling.

His dam Llia stayed a mile and a half, without showing nearly as much talent as her dam, the Persian Bold mare Llyn Gwynant, who won a pair of Gr3 races over a mile in Ireland.

A mile was also the optimum trip of Llia’s previous stakes winner, the very useful Selkirk filly Kootenay.

284 SELECT S G3 GOODWOOD. September 11. 3yo+. 9f 192yds.

1. RED BADGE (IRE) 3 8-7 £32,359 ch c by Captain Rio - Red Fuschia (Polish Precedent) O-Michael Pescod B-Thomas Foy TR-R Hannon 2. Mirror Lake (GB) 3 8-4 £12,266 b f by Dubai Destination - Reflections (Sadler’s Wells) O-K Abdullah B-Millsec Ltd TR-Mrs AJ Perrett 3. Poet (GB) 5 9-3 £6,139 b h by Pivotal - Hyabella (Shirley Heights) O-HE Sheikh Sultan Bin Khalifa Al Nahyan B-Meon Valley Stud TR-CG Cox Margins 1.25, neck.

Time 2:11.14 (slow 6.84).

Going Good to soft.

Age 2-3

Starts 11

Wins 3

Places 5

Earned £88,554

Sire: CAPTAIN RIO. Sire of 13 Stakes winners. In 2010 - RED BADGE Polish Precedent G3, RIOMORAL Last Tycoon G3, BURNING THREAD Green Desert LR, CORCOVADA Namaqualand LR, RIO FORTUNE Volksraad LR. 1st Dam: Red Fuschia by Polish Precedent. unraced.

Dam of 1 winner: 2003: (c Titus Livius) 2007: RED BADGE (c Captain Rio) Sold 5,147gns foal at GONO1, 43,809gns yearling at DNSLY. 3 wins at 2 and 3, Whiteley Clinic Select S G3, Shadwell Steventon S LR, 2nd Novae Bloodstock Insurance Fairway S LR. 2008: Sister Red (f Diamond Green) in training.

2009: (f Kheleyf)

285 PARK S G2 DONCASTER. September 11. 3yo+. 7f.

1. BALTHAZAAR’S GIFT (IRE) 7 9-4 £90,832 b h by Xaar - Thats Your Opinion (Last Tycoon) O-HE Sheikh Sultan Bin Khalifa Al Nahyan B-Pat Beirne TR-CG Cox 2. Premio Loco (USA) 6 9-4 £34,432 ch g by Prized - Crazee Mental (Magic Ring) O-Bernard Westley B-Kidder, Cole, Griggs TR-CF Wall 3. Himalya (IRE) 4 9-4 £17,232 b g by Danehill Dancer - Lady Miletrian (Barathea) O-Ms Gillian Khosla B-Lodge Park Stud TR-J Noseda Margins 0.5, nose. Time 1:24.30 (fast 0.70).

Going Good.

Age 2-7

Starts 48

Wins 8

Places 16

Sire: XAAR. Sire of 26 Stakes winners. In 2010 BALTHAZAAR’S GIFT Last Tycoon G2, JOKU Pine Bluff LR, MOE GREEN Sadler’s Wells LR. 1st Dam: Thats Your Opinion by Last Tycoon. Dam of 1 winner: 2000: Fern Tycoon (f College Chapel) unraced.

Broodmare.

2001: King’s Opinion (g Desert King) ran twice and over hurdles.

2003: BALTHAZAAR’S GIFT (c Xaar) Sold 4,023gns yearling at GOFEB, 8,047gns yearling at GOOR2, 20,000gns 2yo at DNAPR. 8 wins at 2 to 7, 2010 at home, France, UAE, Hungerford S G2, Park S G2, Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte G2, HBLB Hackwood S G3, Trailfinders Travel Leisure S LR, Rockingham S LR, 2nd Golden Jubilee S G1, Betfair Cup Lennox S G2, Hopeful S LR (twice), Totepool City Plate LR, 3rd Betfred Sprint Cup G1, John Bovington Memorial Criterion S G3, Hackwood S G3.

2004: Mirna (f Celtic Swing) unraced. Broodmare.

2005: Monday Morning (f Touch of The Blues) ran 3 times. Broodmare.

2006: (c Celtic Swing) 2007: (f Xaar) 2009: (f Iffraaj) 2nd Dam: FAWAAYID by Vaguely Noble. 3 wins at 2 EBF Silver Flash S LR, EBF Eyrefield Race LR. Dam of GREEN LADY (f Green Desert: Prix de Bagatelle LR, 3rd Prix de la Grotte G3, Prix du Calvados G3), Entisar (c Nashwan: 3rd Newmarket S LR) Broodmare Sire: LAST TYCOON. Sire of the dams of 131 Stakes winners. In 2010 - DARIANA Redoute’s Choice G1, GREEN BIRDIE Catbird G1, SAINT EMILION Zenno Rob Roy G1, TYPHOON TRACY Red Ransom G1, BALTHAZAAR’S GIFT Xaar G2, KARGALI Invincible Spirit G3, RIOMORAL Captain Rio G3, SHAAHEQ Redoute’s Choice G3.

BALTHAZAAR’S GIFT b h 2003 Gone West Zafonic Zaizafon

2nd Dam: RED AZALEA by Shirley Heights. 2 wins at 2 and 3. Dam of Red Peony (f Montjeu: 2nd Totesport Virginia Fillies H LR, EBF Harvest S LR, 3rd Citroen C5 Prestige S G3) Broodmare Sire: POLISH PRECEDENT. Sire of the dams of 32 Stakes winners. In 2010 - DUNBOYNE EXPRESS Shamardal G3, RED BADGE Captain Rio G3, MABAIT Kyllachy LR, BACCALAUREATE High Chaparral LR, CUTTING EDGE Kapgarde LR, IMPREZER Jape LR.

Earned £566,159

XAAR b 95 Sir Ivor Monroe Best In Show Try My Best Last Tycoon Mill Princess THATS YOUR OPINION b 95 Vaguely Noble Fawaayid Clara Bow

Mr Prospector Secrettame The Minstrel Mofida Sir Gaylord Attica Traffic Judge Stolen Hour Northern Dancer Sex Appeal Mill Reef Irish Lass II Vienna Noble Lassie Coastal Perils of Pauline

RED BADGE ch c 2007 Nureyev Marie d’Argonne Cozzene Fearless Revival Stufida Mr Prospector Miswaki Hopespringseternal Nijinsky Abeesh Lady Bugler Northern Dancer Danzig Pas de Nom Buckpasser Past Example Bold Example Mill Reef Shirley Heights Hardiemma Mummy’s Pet Cerise Bouquet Rosia Bay Polar Falcon Pivotal CAPTAIN RIO ch 99 Beloved Visitor

Polish Precedent RED FUSCHIA b 98 Red Azalea

286 ST LEGER S G1 DONCASTER. September 11. 3yo. 14f 132yds.

1. ARCTIC COSMOS (USA) 9-0 £283,850 b c by North Light - Fifth Avenue Doll (Marquetry) O-Rachel Hood, Robin Geffen B-Sheridan & Iadora Farm TR-JHM Gosden 2. Midas Touch (GB) 9-0 £107,600 b c by Galileo - Approach (Darshaan) O-Mrs J Magnier B-Belgrave Bldstk TR-AP O’Brien 3. Corsica (IRE) 9-0 £53,850 b c by Cape Cross - Cedar Sea (Persian Bold) O-Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Al Maktoum B-Epona Bloodstock, PA Byrne TR-M Johnston

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European Pattern Margins 1.75, nose. Time 3:03.12 (fast 2.68).

Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 8

Wins 3

Places 3

Earned £333,280

Sire: NORTH LIGHT. Sire of 3 Stakes winners. In 2010 - ARCTIC COSMOS Marquetry G1, GO FORTH NORTH Holy Bull LR. 1st Dam: FIFTH AVENUE DOLL by Marquetry. 10 wins at 2 to 6 in USA. Dam of 1 winner: 2007: ARCTIC COSMOS (c North Light) Sold 47,000gns yearling at TAOC2. 3 wins at 3, St Leger S G1, 2nd King Edward VII S G2, 3rd Gordon S G3.

2008: (c Giacomo) Broodmare Sire: MARQUETRY. Sire of the dams of 13 Stakes winners. In 2010 - ARCTIC COSMOS North Light G1, PRESIOUS PASSION Royal Anthem G2.

ARCTIC COSMOS b c 2007 Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Danehill His Majesty Razyana Spring Adieu NORTH LIGHT b 2001 Blushing Groom Rainbow Quest I Will Follow Sought Out Charlottown Edinburgh Queen’s Castle Mr Prospector Conquistador Cielo K D Princess Marquetry Vice Regent Regent’s Walk Lover’s Walk FIFTH AVENUE DOLL b 98 Hoist The Flag Alleged Princess Pout Allego Clandestine Dotsie Go Gay Rose Danzig

The great Danehill enjoyed North American Graded stakes success with no fewer than 17 of his progeny, including the Gr1 winners Artiste Royal, Aussie Rules, Cacique, Champs Elysees, Landseer, Banks Hill, Intercontinental, Dress To Thrill, Danish, Light Jig and Luas Line.

Unfortunately, with all this success coming on turf, few sons of Danehill have been given a chance at stud in the USA. Frank Stronach attempted to buck the trend when he acquired the 2004 Derby winner North Light to stand at Adena Springs, starting at a fee of $50,000 in 2006. By 2010 North Light’s fee had dropped to $10,000 and the experiment was beginning to seem doomed to failure.

However, the 2010 season has provided a glimmer of hope, with North Light’s progressive son Arctic Cosmos winning the St Leger five days after his daughter Go Forth North was beaten a neck in the Gr2 Palomar Handicap.

I was surprised when North Light was recruited to the USA. The bottom half of his pedigree is packed with stamina, his dam being the Prix du Cadran winner Sought Out, who also produced the Group-winning stayer Cover Up to the speedy Machiavellian.

This stamina has emerged in Arctic Cosmos, whose dam Fifth Avenue Doll shared the same sire, Marquetry, as the champion American sprinters Artax and Squirtle Squirt.

Fifth Avenue Doll won ten races on dirt – eight of them over sprint distances. She never made more than $8,000. However, Arctic Cosmos’s second dam Allego was by Alleged, who sired the St Leger winner Shantou. Allego was a half-sister to Castle Royale, a Gr2 winner over 11 furlongs who was a good broodmare.

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287 CHAMPAGNE S G2 DONCASTER. September 11. 2yo. 7f.

1. SAAMIDD (GB) 8-12 £67,386 b c by Street Cry - Aryaamm (Galileo) O-Godolphin B-Darley TR-Saeed bin Suroor 2. Approve (IRE) 9-1 £25,544 b c by Oasis Dream - Wyola (Sadler’s Wells) O-Highclere Thoroughbred Racing (Bahram) B-Abbeville And Meadow Court Partners TR-B Haggas 3. Waiter’s Dream (GB) 8-12 £12,784 b c by Oasis Dream - Sarah Georgina (Persian Bold) O-RP Foden B-Ridgecourt Stud TR-BJ Meehan Margins 2.25, 2. Time 1:26.32 (slow 1.32).

Going Good.

Age 2

Starts 2

Wins 2

Places 0

Earned £72,243

Sire: STREET CRY. Sire of 38 Stakes winners. In 2010 - HERE COMES BEN Dayjur G1, VICTOR’S CRY Clever Trick G1, ZENYATTA Kris S G1, BLUES STREET Capote G2, SAAMIDD Galileo G2, SHOCKING Danehill G2, DESERT PARTY Tabasco Cat G3, FREEDOM STAR Williamstown G3, SOUTHDALE Saint Ballado G3, TALLOW Lion Hunter G3, TROPA DE ELITE Midnight Tiger G3, BREVITY Diesis LR, SECRET WISH Awesome Again LR, ZAIDAN Atticus LR. 1st Dam: ARYAAMM by Galileo. Winner at 3. Dam of 1 winner: 2008: SAAMIDD (c Street Cry) 2 wins at 2, Neptune Investment Management Champagne G2.

2009: (c Dubai Destination) 2010: (c Cape Cross) 2nd Dam: Zibilene by Rainbow Quest. 1 win at 3, 3rd Grangewood Severals S LR. Dam of Mathematician (c Machiavellian: 2nd Prix de la Jonchere G3, 3rd Prix Daniel Wildenstein Casino Barriere G2)

2005: Spring Season (f Dansili) ran once. Broodmare.

2006: MIDDAY (f Oasis Dream). 7 wins at 2 to 4 at home, France, USA, Nassau S G1 (twice), Yorkshire Oaks G1, Prix Vermeille G1, Breeders’ Cup f&m Turf G1, Lingfield Oaks Trial LR, 2nd Investec Oaks S G1, Middleton S G2, 3rd Irish Oaks G1, Prix de l’Opera G1.

2008: Midsummer Sun (c Monsun) unraced to date.

2009: (f Oasis Dream) 2010: (f Pivotal) 2nd Dam: Modena by Roberto. unraced. Dam of ELMAAMUL (c Diesis: Eclipse S G1, Irish Champion S G1, 2nd Juddmonte International S G1, 3rd Derby S G1), REAMS OF VERSE (f Nureyev: Fillies’ Mile S G1, Oaks S G1), MANIFEST (c Rainbow Quest: Yorkshire Cup G2), MODERN DAY (c Dayjur: King’s Cup H G3, 3rd Drill Hall S G2), MODERNISE (c Known Fact: Ascot H G3), HIGH WALDEN (f El Gran Senor: Matiara S LR, 2nd Santa Ana H G2), MODESTA (f Sadler’s Wells: Lady Godiva Fillies’ S LR), NOVELLARA (f Sadler’s Wells: Noel Murless S LR), Midsummer (see above). Grandam of CONFRONT, MANY VOLUMES, CHASING STARS. Third dam of ZACINTO.

Coup de Folie STREET CRY b/br 98 Troy Helen Street Waterway Sadler’s Wells Galileo Urban Sea ARYAAMM b 2003 Rainbow Quest Zibilene Brocade

Raise A Native Gold Digger Halo Raise The Standard Petingo La Milo Riverman Boulevard Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Miswaki Allegretta Blushing Groom I Will Follow Habitat Canton Silk

288 PRIX VERMEILLE G1 LONGCHAMP. September 12. 3yo+f&m. 2400m.

1. MIDDAY (GB) 4 9-3 £176,982 b f by Oasis Dream - Midsummer (Kingmambo) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-HRA Cecil 2. Plumania (GB) 4 9-3 £70,805 b f by Anabaa - Featherquest (Rainbow Quest) O/B-Wertheimer et Frere TR-A Fabre 3. Sarafina (FR) 3 8-8 £35,403 b f by Refuse To Bend - Sanariya (Darshaan) O/B-HH The Aga Khan TR-A de Royer-Dupre Margins 0.75, 0.5. Time 2:32.40 (slow 1.90).

Going Soft.

Age 2-4

Starts 15

Wins 7

Places Earned 7 £1,548,362

Sire: OASIS DREAM. Sire of 35 Stakes winners. In 2010 - LADY JANE DIGBY Niniski G1, MIDDAY Kingmambo G1, QUERARI Acatenango G1, TUSCAN EVENING Suave Dancer G1, APPROVE Sadler’s Wells G2, FROZEN POWER Royal Academy G2, ALTA FEDELTA Luge G3, MAIN AIM Selkirk G3, RAINFALL Barathea G3, SANDBAR Hernando G3, SRI PUTRA In The Wings G3, WAITER’S DREAM Persian Bold G3.

1st Dam: Midsummer by Kingmambo. Winner at 3, 2nd Oaks Trial LR. Dam of 1 winner:

BEHKABAD b c 2007 Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier CAPE CROSS b/br 94 Ahonoora Park Appeal Balidaress Sharpen Up Doubly Sure BEHKARA b 2000 Mill Reef Behera Borushka

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Sir Ivor Courtly Dee Lorenzaccio Helen Nichols Balidar Innocence Atan Rocchetta Reliance II Soft Angels Never Bend Milan Mill Bustino Valdavia

MIDDAY b f 2006 Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier OASIS DREAM b 2000 Dancing Brave Hope Bahamian Mr Prospector Kingmambo Miesque MIDSUMMER ch 2000 Roberto Modena Mofida

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Sir Ivor Courtly Dee Lyphard Navajo Princess Mill Reef Sorbus Raise A Native Gold Digger Nureyev Pasadoble Hail To Reason Bramalea Right Tack Wold Lass

SAAMIDD b c 2008 Mr Prospector

Broodmare Sire: KRIS. Sire of the dams of 104 Stakes winners. In 2010 - BEHKABAD Cape Cross G1, NOORDHOEK FLYER Pivotal G2.

Kris

Broodmare Sire: KINGMAMBO. Sire of the dams of 36 Stakes winners. In 2010 - MIDDAY Oasis Dream G1, REGAL PARADE Pivotal G1, DANZON Royal Academy G3, LIVE CONCERT Singspiel G3.

See race 207 in the Septemer issue

Broodmare Sire: GALILEO. Sire of the dams of 1 Stakes winner. In 2010 - SAAMIDD Street Cry G2.

Machiavellian

BEHKARA (see above), BAYRIKA (f Kahyasi: Prix Berteux G3, 2nd Prix Hubert de Chaudenay G2), BEHKIYRA (f Entrepreneur: Martin Molony S LR), Behra (f Grand Lodge: 3rd Prix Petite Etoile LR), BEHRAJAN (g Arazi: Sun’King of the Punters’ Tolworth Hurdle G1, 3rd Bonusprint Stayers’ Hurdle G1, Bonusprint Distance Championship Hurdle G1, Pillar Property Chase G2, 2nd Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup Chase G1), Beherayn (g Dansili: 3rd totesport Standard Open NH Flat Race LR). Grandam of BAYLANI DE S’ENA. Third dam of VITAL EQUINE.

289 PRIX NIEL G2 LONGCHAMP. September 12. 3yoc&f. 2400m.

1. BEHKABAD (FR) 9-2 £65,575 b c by Cape Cross - Behkara (Kris) O-HH The Aga Khan B-HH The Aga Khan’s Studs SC TR-J-C Rouget 2. Planteur (IRE) 9-2 £25,310 b c by Danehill Dancer - Plante Rare (Giant’s Causeway) O-Ecurie Wildenstein B-Dayton Investments Ltd TR-E Lellouche 3. Kidnapping (IRE) 9-2 £12,080 b c by Intikhab - Claba di San Jore (Barathea) O-Effevi B-Azienda Agricola Allevamento Deni TR-S Botti Margins head, 4. Time 2:30.80 (slow 0.30).

Going Soft.

Age 2-3

Starts 8

Wins 6

Places 2

Earned £549,604

Sire: CAPE CROSS. Sire of 62 Stakes winners. In 2010 - ABLE ONE Danehill G1, BEHKABAD Kris G1, CAPECOVER Zabeel G2, CROSSTHESTART Gold And Ivory G2, MEKONG MELODY Niniski G2, TREAT GENTLY In The Wings G2, CORSICA Persian Bold G3, LAAHEB Sadler’s Wells G3, SEA LORD Woodman G3.

1st Dam: BEHKARA by Kris. 4 wins at 3 and 4 in France, Prix Hubert de Chaudenay Casino Barriere G2, 2nd Prix Royal-Oak G1, 3rd Prix Royal-Oak G1.

Dam of 2 winners: 2006: BEHESHTAM (c Peintre Celebre) 2 wins at 3 in France, Prix de l’Avre LR, 2nd Prix Niel G2.

2007: BEHKABAD (c Cape Cross) 6 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Grand Prix de Paris G1, Qatar Prix Niel G2, Prix de Guiche G3, Prix des Chenes G3, 3rd Prix Omnium II LR. 2008: Beynamar (c Green Desert) unraced to date.

2010: (f Azamour) 2nd Dam: BEHERA by Mill Reef. Champion 3yr old filly in Europe in 1989 (11-14f.). 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix Saint-Alary G1, 2nd Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe G1, 4th Breeders’ Cup Turf G1. Dam of

290 BLANDFORD S G2 CURRAGH. September 12. 3yo+f&m. 10f.

1. ELEANORA DUSE (IRE) 3 8-12 £57,522 b f by Azamour - Drama Class (Caerleon) O/B-Ballymacoll Stud TR-Sir Michael Stoute 2. She’s Our Mark (GB) 6 9-5 £16,814 ch m by Ishiguru - Markskeepingfaith (Ajraas) O-B&M Syndicate B-M Barrett, Redmyre Bloodstock TR-Patrick J Flynn 3. Choose Me (IRE) 4 9-5 £7,965 ch f by Choisir - Hecuba (Hector Protector) O-JF Tuthill B-Owenstown Stud TR-K Prendergast Margins Short head, head. Time 2:10.60 (slow 5.60).

Going Soft.

Age 2-3

Starts 8

Wins 3

Places 3

Earned £126,095

Sire: AZAMOUR. Sire of 4 Stakes winners. In 2010 ELEANORA DUSE Caerleon G2, AZMEEL King’s Best G3, NATIVE KHAN Kendor G3, PUNCHER CLYNCH Rainbow Quest G3.

1st Dam: Drama Class by Caerleon. Winner at 3, 3rd Fawley Stud Golden Daffodil S LR. Dam of 4 winners: 2002: Highland Diva (f Selkirk). Broodmare.

2003: SCOTTISH STAGE (f Selkirk) 2 wins at 2 and 3, Swettenham Stud Fillies Trial LR, 2nd Darley Irish Oaks G1. Broodmare.

2004: (g Cadeaux Genereux) 2005: Voice Coach (c Alhaarth) 4 wins, 2nd De Bortoli Wines Kingston Town S G3.

2006: NAMIBIAN ORATOR (c Cape Cross) Winner at 3.

2007: ELEANORA DUSE (f Azamour) 3 wins at 2 and 3, www.thetote.com Blandford S G2, Lord Weinstock Memorial Ballymacoll S LR, 3rd Darley Yorkshire Oaks G1, Tattersalls Musidora S G3.

2008: Hot Ticket (f Selkirk) unraced to date.

2009: Debating Society (c Invincible Spirit) 2010: (f Dalakhani) 2nd Dam: STAGE STRUCK by Sadler’s Wells. 1 win at 3. Own sister to PRINCE OF DANCE, BALLET PRINCE and Golden Ball. Dam of STAGE GIFT (g Cadeaux Genereux: Sky Bet York S G2), Drama Class (f Caerleon, see above) Broodmare Sire: CAERLEON. Sire of the dams of 152 Stakes winners. In 2010 - BUENA VISTA Special Week G1, TWICE OVER Observatory G1, ELEANORA DUSE Azamour G2, RED DESIRE Manhattan Cafe G2, ANNA SALAI Dubawi G3, GILT EDGE GIRL Monsieur Bond G3, GOLDWAKI Dalakhani G3, SIMON DE MONTFORT King’s Best G3, APOLLO PHOENIX Afleet LR, GARDENING LEAVE Selkirk LR, MARIE DE MEDICI Medicean LR, PEACOAT Doyen LR.

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Caulfield on Arctic Cosmos: “His stamina has come from the bottom half of sire North Light’s pedigree, his dam being Prix du Cadran winner Sought Out, who also threw Cover Up”

ELEANORA DUSE b f 2007 Northern Dancer Night Shift Ciboulette AZAMOUR b 2001 Lear Fan Asmara Anaza Nijinsky Caerleon Foreseer DRAMA CLASS ch 97 Sadler’s Wells Stage Struck Sun Princess

Nearctic Natalma Chop Chop Windy Answer Roberto Wac Darshaan Azaarika Northern Dancer Flaming Page Round Table Regal Gleam Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge English Prince Sunny Valley

291 RENAISSANCE S G3

292 DEUTSCHES ST LEGER G3 DORTMUND. September 12. 3yo+. 2800m.

1. VAL MONDO (GER) 3 8-9 £28,319 b c by Lando - Valleria (Big Shuffle) O-Stall Dipoli B-Gestut Auenquelle TR-U Ostmann 2. Burma Gold (IRE) 3 8-9 £9,735 ch c by Java Gold - Bougainvillea (Acatenango) O/B-Gestut Ammerland TR-P Schiergen 3. Brusco (GB) 4 9-6 £4,867 b c by Rock of Gibraltar - Blaze of Colour (Rainbow Quest)mO-R&B International B-Miss A Shaykhutdinova TR-A Wohler Margins 0.5, 1. Time 3:04.53. Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 7

Wins 1

Places 5

Earned £11,202

2005: Swiss Franc (g Mr Greeley) Winner at 2, 2nd Coventry S G2.

2006: SWISS DIVA (f Pivotal) 6 wins, Prix de Meautry G3, Prix du Petit Couvert G3, Prix du Cercle LR, 2nd Hopeful S LR, Sweet Mimosa S LR. 2007: SWISS CROSS (g Cape Cross) Winner at 2.

2008: SWISS DREAM (f Oasis Dream) Winner at 2.

2009: Swiss Spirit (c Invincible Spirit)

Starts 14

Wins 6

Places 3

Earned £158,867

1st Dam: ABBATIALE by Kaldoun. 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix Penelope G3, 2nd Prix de Diane Hermes G1. Own sister to AUBERGADE. Dam of 5 winners: 2000: Atmosphere (f Barathea). Broodmare.

2001: APOSTROPHE (f Barathea) Winner at 4 in France. Broodmare.

2002: ARLINGTON (c Desert Prince) Winner at 3 in France.

2003: AVORIAZ (g Desert Prince) Winner at 4.

2004: Apparence (f Sinndar) 2006: PETER TCHAIKOVSKY (g Dansili) 2 wins at 2 and 3.

2007: BEWITCHED (f Dansili) Sold 112,044gns yearling at ARAUG. 6 wins at 2 and 3, Bengough S G3, Renaissance S G3, Sandy Lane S LR, Sweet Mimosa S LR, 3rd Phoenix Sprint S G3, Land O’Burns S LR. 2008: Armoirie (f Azamour) unraced to date.

2009: Attachante (f Teofilo) 2nd Dam: Anna Edes by Fabulous Dancer. Dam of ABBATIALE (f Kaldoun, see above), AUBERGADE (f Kaldoun: Prix Rose de Mai LR, 2nd Prix Penelope G3, 3rd Prix de Pomone G2). Grandam of Good Neighbor.

Broodmare Sire: KALDOUN. Sire of the dams of 41 Stakes winners. In 2010 - BEWITCHED Dansili G3, MAIL DE BIEVRE Cadoudal LR. BEWITCHED gr f 2007

DANSILI b 96 Hasili

Kaldoun ABBATIALE gr 95 Anna Edes

Delsy DALAKHANI gr 2000 Miswaki Daltawa Damana

Danehill Razyana DOLORES b 99 In The Wings Agnus Wavy Reef

Broodmare Sire: INDIAN RIDGE. Sire of the dams of 42 Stakes winners. In 2010 - CALMING INFLUENCE King’s Best G2, CAT BY THE TALE Tale of The Cat G2, INDIAN DAYS Daylami G2, KINGSGATE NATIVE Mujadil G2, SWISS DIVA Pivotal G3.

Mill Reef Hardiemma Abdos Kelty Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Crystal Palace Denia Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Sadler’s Wells High Hawk Kris Triple Reef

295 SOLONAWAY S G3 CURRAGH. September 12. 3yo+. 8f.

Sire: DANSILI. Sire of 45 Stakes winners. In 2010 HARBINGER Bering G1, PROVISO Woodman G1, ZOFFANY Machiavellian G1, ICE BLUE Unfuwain G2, ILLUSTRIOUS BLUE Efisio G2, STRAWBERRYDAIQUIRI Travelling Victor G2, AVIATE Irish River G3, BEWITCHED Kaldoun G3, EMULOUS Distant View G3, FAMOUS NAME Quest For Fame G3, ABATON Night Shift LR, DELEGATOR Efisio LR, FORETELLER Warning LR, GRAFITTI Half a Year LR, TIMEPECKER Arazi LR.

Danehill

Shirley Heights Darshaan

Danzig

2nd Dam: Blue Iris by Petong. 5 wins at 2 to 4, 2nd Rous S LR. Dam of SWISS LAKE (f Indian Ridge, see above), Dubai Princess (f Dubai Destination: 2nd EBF Bosra Sham Fillies’ S LR)

CURRAGH. September 12. 3yo+. 6f.

1. BEWITCHED (IRE) 3 8-12 £34,513 gr f by Dansili - Abbatiale (Kaldoun) O-Mrs John Magnier B-JC Coude TR-Charles O’Brien 2. Croisultan (IRE) 4 9-3 £10,089 ch g by Refuse To Bend - Zoudie (Ezzoud) O-Brunabonne Syndicate B-DG Iceton TR-Liam McAteer 3. Snaefell (IRE) 6 9-6 £4,779 gr g by Danehill Dancer - Sovereign Grace (Standaan) O-Lady Clague B-Newberry Stud Farm TR-M Halford Margins Neck, 0.75. Time 1:14.30 (slow 3.30).

Going Soft.

Age 2-3

DUNCAN b h 2005

Northern Dancer Danzig Pas de Nom His Majesty Razyana Spring Adieu Ile de Bourbon Kahyasi Kadissya High Line Kerali Sookera Fortino II Caro Chambord Le Haar Katana Embellie Northern Dancer Fabulous Dancer Last of The Line Jim French Abbey Almyre

Sire: LANDO. Sire of 26 Stakes winners. In 2010 SCALO Exit To Nowhere G2, VAL MONDO Big Shuffle G3, IVORY LAND Peintre Celebre LR, PASSATO Polar Falcon LR. 1st Dam: VALLERIA by Big Shuffle. 4 wins at 3 and 4 in Germany. Dam of 1 winner: 2007: VAL MONDO (c Lando) 1 win at 3 in Germany, Deutsches St Leger G3, 2nd SWB Derby Trial LR, Sparda Bank Trophy LR. 2008: Vallanda (f Lomitas) unraced to date.

2010: (c Doyen)

The Pivotal/Indian Ridge cross has produced: HALFWAY TO HEAVEN G1, SWISS DIVA G3.

SWISS DIVA br f 2006

PIVOTAL ch 93 Fearless Revival

Indian Ridge

2nd Dam: VALBONNE by Master Willie. 2 wins at 2 in West Germany. Dam of Vallonga (f Lando: 2nd Preis der Winterkonigin G3), VALGANO (g Acatenango: Corsa Siepi di Merano Hurdle G1, Gran Corsa di Siepi di Milano Hurdle G1, 3rd Gran Corsa di Siepi di Milano Hurdle G1), VIPER (g Banyumanik: Badener Roulette Preis Hurdle LR), Val de Fleurie (f Mondrian: 3rd Mitie Group Kennel Gate Novices’ Hurdle G2)

Northern Dancer Special Jefferson Marie d’Argonne Mohair Caro Cozzene Ride The Trails Bustino Stufida Zerbinetta Lorenzaccio Ahonoora Helen Nichols Swing Easy Hillbrow Golden City Mansingh Petong Iridium Strong Gale Bo’ Babbity Get Ready Nureyev

Polar Falcon

SWISS LAKE br/b 99 Blue Iris

1. STEINBECK (IRE) 3 9-1 £34,513 b c by Footstepsinthesand - Castara Beach (Danehill) O-Michael Tabor B-Dr D Harron TR-AP O’Brien 2. Wade Giles (IRE) 3 9-1 £10,089 b g by Azamour - Tekindia (Indian Ridge) O-Pearl Bloodstock Limited B-ear Mulhern, J Flynn, Abbeville Stud TR-GM Lyons 3. Across The Rhine (USA) 4 9-6 £4,779 ch g by Cuvee - Seductive Smile (Silver Hawk) O-Thistle Bloodstock Limited B-Dr & Mrs JK Griggs TR-Tracey Collins Margins 0.75, 0.5. Time 1:40.83 (slow 4.83).

Going Soft.

Age 2-3

Starts 7

Wins 3

Places 3

Earned £106,459

Sire: FOOTSTEPSINTHESAND. Sire of 6 Stakes winners. In 2010 - FORMOSINA Royal Applause G2, STEINBECK Danehill G3, CHACHAMAIDEE Danehill LR, STEP UP Indian Ridge LR.

294 PRIX FOY G2 LONGCHAMP. September 12. 4yo+. 2400m.

Broodmare Sire: BIG SHUFFLE. Sire of the dams of 17 Stakes winners. In 2010 - ENZIO Next Desert G3, VAL MONDO Lando G3, TWINLIGHT Muhtathir LR. VAL MONDO b c 2007 Literat Surama Aggressor Aggravate Raven Locks Sharpen Up Sharpman Miss Manon Dschingis Khan Licata Liberty Bold Reasoning Super Concorde Prime Abord Elevation Raise Your Skirts Strings Attached High Line Master Willie Fair Winter Viceregal Victory Kingdom Happy Victory Surumu Acatenango LANDO b 90 Laurea

Big Shuffle VALLERIA b 2001 Valbonne

293 PRIX DU PETIT COUVERT G3 LONGCHAMP. September 12. 3yo+. 1000m.

1. SWISS DIVA (GB) 4 8-13 £35,398 br f by Pivotal - Swiss Lake (Indian Ridge) O/B-Lordship Stud TR-DRC Elsworth 2. Bluster (FR) 4 8-13 £14,159 b c by Indian Rocket - Tell Me Why (Distant Relative) O-Slim Chiboub B-M Jarlan TR-R Collet 3. Mar Adentro (FR) 4 8-13 £10,619 b c by Marju - Guermantes (Distant Relative) O-R Chotard, B Cadet, A Cadet B-Jose M Soriano TR-R Chotard Margins 2, head. Time 0:57.50 (slow 0.70).

Going Soft.

Age 2-4

Starts 17

Wins 6

Places 9

Earned £202,001

Sire: PIVOTAL. Sire of 82 Stakes winners. In 2010 BUZZWORD Danehill G1, REGAL PARADE Kingmambo G1, EMERALD COMMANDER Sadler’s Wells G2, NOORDHOEK FLYER Kris G2, SARISKA Muhtarram G2, POET Shirley Heights G3, SIX OF HEARTS Devil’s Bag G3, SWISS DIVA Indian Ridge G3, TURNING TOP Cadeaux Genereux G3.

1st Dam: SWISS LAKE by Indian Ridge. 3 wins at 2 and 3, St Hugh’s S LR, EBF Lansdown S LR, 2nd Flying Childers S G2. Dam of 4 winners:

THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

1. DUNCAN (GB) 5 9-2 £65,575 b h by Dalakhani - Dolores (Danehill) O/B-Normandie Stud TR-JHM Gosden 2. Nakayama Festa (JPN) 4 9-2 £25,310 b c by Stay Gold - Dear Wink (Tight Spot) O-Shinichi Izumi B-Arai Bokujo TR-Yoshitaka Ninomiya 3. Timos (GER) 5 9-2 £12,080 ch h by Sholokhov - Triclaria (Surumu) O-Marquesa De Moratalla B-Gestut Etzean TR-F Doumen Margins 0.75, 1. Time 2:35.90 (slow 5.40).

Going Soft.

Age 3-5

Starts 14

Wins 4

Places 7

Earned £185,570

Sire: DALAKHANI. Sire of 18 Stakes winners. In 2010 - CHINESE WHITE Sadler’s Wells G1, DUNCAN Danehill G2, DEEM Sadler’s Wells G3, GOLDWAKI Caerleon G3, SHEMIYLA Danehill G3.

1st Dam: DOLORES by Danehill. Winner at 3, EBF Conqueror S LR, 2nd Peugeot Sun Chariot S G2, 3rd Coronation S G1. Dam of 3 winners: 2004: SAMUEL (g Sakhee) 2 wins at 4 and 6, Doncaster Cup G2.

2005: DUNCAN (c Dalakhani) Sold 100,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 4 wins at 3 to 5 at home, France, Prix Foy G2, Buckhounds S LR, 2nd Hardwicke S G2, John Doyle Buckhounds S LR, 3rd Rose of Lancaster S G3.

2006: Howard (c Haafhd) ran.

2007: Deirdre (f Dubawi) Winner at 2, 3rd Blue Square Height of Fashion S LR. 2nd Dam: AGNUS by In The Wings. 2 wins at 2 and 3 in Belgium. Dam of DOLORES (see above) Broodmare Sire: DANEHILL. Sire of the dams of 138 Stakes winners. In 2010 - ABLE ONE Cape Cross G1, BUZZWORD Pivotal G1, ZABRASIVE Zabeel G1, DUNCAN Dalakhani G2, SAMUEL Sakhee G2, SHOCKING Street Cry G2, STRIKING DANCER Smart Strike G2, BULLET TRAIN Sadler’s Wells G3, NOLL WALLOP High Chaparral G3, PRECIOUS GEM Sadler’s Wells G3, SHEMIYLA Dalakhani G3, SOLAR CHARGED Charge Forward G3, STEINBECK Footstepsinthesand G3.

The Dalakhani/Danehill cross has produced: DUNCAN G2, SHEMIYLA G3.

1st Dam: Castara Beach by Danehill. Own sister to HILL HOPPER. Dam of 2 winners: 2001: Heselrig (g Entrepreneur). ran a few times, died at 2 years.

2002: Varenka (f Fasliyev) Winner at 2, 2nd P.Repubbliche Marinare-Trofeo Tattersall LR. Broodmare.

2003: Cora Pearl (f Montjeu). Broodmare.

2005: (c Galileo) 2007: STEINBECK (c Footstepsinthesand) Sold 100,000gns foal at TADEF, 250,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 3 wins at 2 and 3, Solonaway S G3, Ruby S LR, 2nd Meld S G3.

2008: Corsicanrun (c Medicean) 2010: (f Henrythenavigator) 2nd Dam: Sea Harrier by Grundy. ran twice at 2 and 3, (a twin). Dam of WATER BOATMAN (g Main Reef: delaide Cup G1, 2nd Foster’s Caulfield Cup G1), HILL HOPPER (f Danehill: Criterion S G3). Grandam of NANNINA, Gurkha. Third dam of Worchester.

Broodmare Sire: DANEHILL. Sire of the dams of 138 Stakes winners. In 2010 - ABLE ONE Cape Cross G1, BUZZWORD Pivotal G1, ZABRASIVE Zabeel G1, DUNCAN Dalakhani G2, SAMUEL Sakhee G2, SHOCKING Street Cry G2, STRIKING DANCER Smart Strike G2, BULLET TRAIN Sadler’s Wells G3, NOLL WALLOP High Chaparral G3, PRECIOUS GEM Sadler’s Wells G3, SHEMIYLA Dalakhani G3, SOLAR CHARGED Charge Forward G3, STEINBECK Footstepsinthesand G3.

The Footstepsinthesand/Danehill cross has produced: CHACHAMAIDEE G3, SENT FROM HEAVEN G3, STEINBECK G3, Walkingonthemoon LR. STEINBECK b c 2007 Storm Cat Giant’s Causeway Mariah’s Storm FOOTSTEPSINTHESAND b 2002 Rainbow Quest Glatisant Dancing Rocks Danzig Danehill Razyana CASTARA BEACH b 96 Grundy Sea Harrier Anchor

Storm Bird Terlingua Rahy Immense Blushing Groom I Will Follow Green Dancer Croda Rossa Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Great Nephew Word From Lundy Major Portion Ripeck

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DATA BOOK STAKES RESULTS

European Pattern BROOX b c 2008

296 PRIX GLADIATEUR G3 Zafonic

LONGCHAMP. September 12. 4yo+. 3100m.

1. GENTOO (FR) 6 8-11 £35,398 b g by Loup Solitaire - Ifni (Bering) O-Serge Tripier-Mondancin B-JC Seroul TR-A Lyon 2. Watar (IRE) 5 8-11 £14,159 b h by Marju - Ombrie (Zafonic) O-Hamdan Al Maktoum B-Haras du Mezeray TR-F Head 3. Kimble (FR) 8 8-11 £10,619 b g by Jimble - Kipartira (Magwal) O-Mme Hugues Crosnier B-L, Mme F, M & Mme S Duverger TR-N Leenders Margins 2, 0.75. Time 3:34.10 (slow 15.60).

Going Soft.

Age 2-6

Starts 40

Wins 9

Places 18

Earned £366,010

Sire: LOUP SOLITAIRE. Sire of 17 Stakes winners.

In 2010 - GENTOO Bering G1, ELIXIR DU BERLAIS Saint Preuil LR, VICBILH Gulch LR. 1st Dam: IFNI by Bering. 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France.

Dam of 2 winners: 2003: KONYALI (f Hernando) 6 wins at 3 and 4 in France.

2004: GENTOO (g Loup Solitaire) Sold 7,429gns yearling at AFDEC. 9 wins at 3 to 6, 2010 in France, Qatar Prix du Cadran G1, Qatar Prix Gladiateur G3.

2nd Dam: Lunar Quest by Rainbow Quest. 1 win at 3 in France, 2nd Prix d’Automne LR, Prix Joubert LR, Prix de Thiberville LR. Dam of Lunaa (f Anabaa: 3rd Prix Delahante LR, La Coupe des Pouliches LR) Broodmare Sire: BERING. Sire of the dams of 55 Stakes winners. In 2010 - GENTOO Loup Solitaire G1, HARBINGER Dansili G1, BLUE PANIS Panis LR, CLASSIC COLORI Le Vie Dei Colori LR, MALIKAYAH Fasliyev LR, ORO SOLIDO Solitary Vision LR, PEDRA POMPAS Mark of Esteem LR, ALARM CALL Solar One LR. GENTOO b g 2004 Roberto Lear Fan Wac LOUP SOLITAIRE b 93 Nureyev Louveterie Lupe Arctic Tern Bering Beaune IFNI ch 98 Rainbow Quest Lunar Quest Papermoon

Hail To Reason Bramalea Lt Stevens Belthazar Northern Dancer Special Primera Alcoa Sea Bird II Bubbling Beauty Lyphard Barbra Blushing Groom I Will Follow Troy Bold Lady

297 PRIX D’ARENBERG G3

Mr Prospector Secrettame The Minstrel Zaizafon Mofida Sir Gaylord Sir Ivor Attica Traffic Judge Best In Show Stolen Hour Known Fact Warning Slightly Dangerous Sadler’s Wells Ballet Classique Estaciones Nureyev Polar Falcon Marie d’Argonne Double Jump Double Finesse Horus Blue Gone West

XAAR b 95 Monroe

Bishop of Cashel MISS BROOKS b 99 Crimson Rosella

298 ARC TRIAL S G3

Age 3-4

Starts 10

Wins 5

Places 1

Earned £109,762

Sire: LION HEART. Sire of 14 Stakes winners. In 2010 - LINE OF DAVID Capote G1, KANTHAROS Southern Halo G2, DANGEROUS MIDGE Seattle Slew G3, PRETTY PROLIFIC Seattle Slew G3, EDGEWATER Unbridled LR, HEART ASHLEY Beau Genius LR. 1st Dam: Adored Slew by Seattle Slew. 2 wins at 3 and 4 in France, USA, 2nd Prix Minerve G3. Dam of 6 winners: 1997: Sound of Rhythm (c Chimes Band) unraced.

1998: ADORARA (f Silver Hawk) Winner at 3.

1999: FORRER HALL (c Royal Academy) 4 wins in USA. 2000: Silver Traffic (c Carson City) 5 wins 3-4, 2nd Thunder Road H LR, Santana Mile H LR. 2003: MOHTARRES (g Kingmambo) 1 win over hurdles.

2006: DANGEROUS MIDGE (c Lion Heart) 5 wins at 3 and 4, Dubai Duty Free Arc Trial G3.

2007: TUSCAN CHIANTI (f Roman Ruler) Winner at 2 in USA. 2008: (f Forest Wildcat) 2nd Dam: AFFIRMATIVELY by Affirmed. 2 wins at 3 and 4 in USA. Dam of MAIS OUI (f Lyphard: Prix de Bagatelle LR, 2nd Prix de Sandringham G3), Adored Slew (f Seattle Slew, see above), Petiteness (f Chief’s Crown: 3rd Tanya S LR, Sweetest Chant S LR). Grandam of SCORPION, IMPERFECT WORLD, AFRAAH, MONSIEUR CAT, ENDYMION, AWESOME OF COURSE. Third dam of ALWAJEEHA, KRYPTON, Cape To Rio.

Age 2

DANGEROUS MIDGE b c 2006

Earned £108,305

The Lion Heart/Seattle Slew cross has produced: PRETTY PROLIFIC G1, DANGEROUS MIDGE G3.

Tale of The Cat

Sire: XAAR. See race 285.

LION HEART ch 2001

1st Dam: MISS BROOKS by Bishop of Cashel.

Winner at 3. Dam of 3 winners: 2005: HAYBROOK (c Xaar) 3 wins.

2006: SPRING SECRET (g Reset) 2 wins at 3.

2008: BROOX (c Xaar) Sold 16,643gns. 3 wins, Prix d’Arenberg G3, 2nd Prix Robert Papin G2.

Satin Sunrise

Seattle Slew ADORED SLEW br 90

Broodmare Sire: BISHOP OF CASHEL. Sire of the dams of 2 Stakes winners. In 2010 - BROOX Xaar G3, PENITENT Kyllachy LR.

110

Wins 3

Places 1

Earned £60,619

Sire: DUBAWI. Sire of 18 SWs. In 2010 - HAPPY ARCHER Jeune G1, MAKFI Green Desert G1, IRISH FIELD Hernando G2, MONTEROSSO Barathea G2, POET’S VOICE Chief’s Crown G2, WORTHADD Rahy G2, ANNA SALAI Caerleon G3, ASTROPHYSICAL JET Rainbow Quest G3, CELLARMASTER Sound Reason G3, MAJESTIC DUBAWI Singspiel G3, PRINCE BISHOP Prospect Bay G3.

1st Dam: North East Bay by Prospect Bay. ran on the flat in USA at 2. Dam of 3 winners: 2005: STRATEGIC MISSION (g Red Ransom) 2 wins at 2 and 3.

2006: ACQUIESCED (f Refuse To Bend) 1 win at 2.

2007: PRINCE BISHOP (c Dubawi) Sold 80,000gns foal. 3 wins, Prix du Prince d’Orange G3.

2008: Salmon Rose (f Iffraaj) unraced to date.

2009: (c Authorized) 2010: (c Kheleyf)

Affirmatively

Storm Bird Storm Cat Terlingua Mr Prospector Yarn Narrate Hail To Reason Mr Leader Jolie Deja Naskra Logic Bactu Reason Boldnesian Bold Reasoning Reason To Earn Poker My Charmer Fair Charmer Exclusive Native Affirmed Won’t Tell You Hail To Reason Straight Deal No Fiddling

2003: BOTANY BAY (c Storm Cat) 3 wins at 4 and 5 in Canada.

2004: Kon Tiki (f Red Ransom). Broodmare.

2005: Battlecruiser (c Red Ransom) ran a few times.

2006: Sydney Cove (g Cape Cross) 2007: SEA LORD (c Cape Cross) 7 wins at 2 and 3, totesport.com Sovereign S G3.

2008: FRENCH NAVY (c Shamardal) 3 wins at 2 in France, Prix des Chenes G3.

2009: (c Singspiel) 2nd Dam: Frankova by Nureyev. Dam of FIRST FLEET (f Woodman, see above), Scottago (c Lear Fan: 3rd American Derby G2). Grandam of Reflect Times, I Am Neo, Hagino Lucere.

Broodmare Sire: WOODMAN. Sire of the dams of 136 Stakes winners. In 2010 - BYWORD Peintre Celebre G1, KINSALE KING Yankee Victor G1, PROVISO Dansili G1, D’ FUNNYBONE D’Wildcat G2, ROTHESAY Fastnet Rock G2, AILALEA Pulpit G3, FRENCH NAVY Shamardal G3, REDWOOD High Chaparral G3, SEA LORD Cape Cross G3, STRYKER Fastnet Rock G3, HERCULIAN PRINCE Yamanin Vital LR, HERMAN MUNSTER Traditionally LR, HIDDEN UNIVERSE Linamix LR, I’M SO LUCKY Zilzal LR, TORLUNDY Monarchos LR. The Shamardal/Woodman cross has produced: FRENCH NAVY G3, Miss Shamardal LR. FRENCH NAVY b c 2008 Storm Cat Giant’s Causeway Mariah’s Storm SHAMARDAL b 2002 Machiavellian Helsinki Helen Street Mr Prospector

2nd Dam: Wassifa by Sure Blade. 4 wins, 3rd Capital Holding Mile H LR. Dam of HOLD TO RANSOM (f Red Ransom: Sandringham S LR), Market’s Best (f Marquetry: 3rd Baby Doe H)

Woodman Playmate FIRST FLEET ch 98 Nureyev Frankova Secret Asset

Broodmare Sire: PROSPECT BAY. Sire of the dams of 4 SWs. In 2010 - PRINCE BISHOP Dubawi G3.

PRINCE BISHOP ch c 2007

Storm Bird Terlingua Rahy Immense Mr Prospector Coup de Folie Troy Waterway Raise A Native Gold Digger Buckpasser Intriguing Northern Dancer Special Graustark Numbered Account

301 WORLD TROPHY S G3

Mr Prospector Con Game Dubai Millennium Shareef Dancer Colorado Dancer Fall Aspen DUBAWI b 2002 Shirley Heights Deploy Slightly Dangerous Zomaradah Dancing Brave Jawaher High Tern Mr Prospector Crafty Prospector Real Crafty Lady Prospect Bay Danzig Baltic Sea Renounce NORTH EAST BAY b/br 2001 Kris Sure Blade Double Lock Wassifa Ile de Bourbon Rye Tops Topsy Seeking The Gold

300 PRIX DES CHENES G3 LONGCHAMP. September 18. 2yo. 1600m.

Broodmare Sire: SEATTLE SLEW. Sire of the dams of 172 Stakes winners. In 2010 - ESKENDEREYA Giant’s Causeway G1, DYNASLEW Dynaformer G2, GREENSPRING Orientate G2, REACH THE CROWN Special Week G2, SOUND BARRIER Agnes Digital G2, DANGEROUS MIDGE Lion Heart G3, PICA SLEW Pico Central G3, PRETTY PROLIFIC Lion Heart G3, EGO’S DARE Hussonet LR.

Places 3

Starts 6

NEWBURY. September 17. 3yo+. 11f 5yds.

1. DANGEROUS MIDGE (USA) 4 9-3 £32,359 b c by Lion Heart - Adored Slew (Seattle Slew) O-Iraj Parvizi B-Tony Holmes, Dr Walter Zent TR-BJ Meehan 2. Rainbow Peak (IRE) 4 9-3 £12,266 b g by Hernando - Celtic Fling (Lion Cavern) O-PD Savill B-PD Savill TR-MA Jarvis 3. Campanologist (USA) 5 9-10 £6,139 b h by Kingmambo - Ring of Music (Sadler’s Wells) O-Godolphin B-Darley TR-Saeed bin Suroor Margins 4, 2. Time 2:19.45 (slow 2.45). Going Good.

MAISONS-LAFFITTE. Sep 13. 2yo. 1100m.

Wins 3

LONGCHAMP. September 18. 3yo. 2000m.

1. PRINCE BISHOP (IRE) 9-2 £35,398 ch c by Dubawi - North East Bay (Prospect Bay) O-Godolphin SNC B-Thurso Limited TR-A Fabre 2. Wealthy (IRE) 9-2 £14,159 b c by Refuse To Bend - Enrich (Dynaformer) O-Godolphin SNC B-Darley TR-A Fabre 3. Rajsaman (FR) 9-2 £10,619 gr c by Linamix - Rose Quartz (Lammtarra) O-HH The Aga Khan B-Haras De Son Altesse L’Aga Khan Scea TR-A de Royer-Dupre Margins Short neck, nose. Time 2:09.60 (slow 5.70).

Going Good to soft.

Age 3

1. BROOX (IRE) 8-11 £35,398 b c by Xaar - Miss Brooks (Bishop of Cashel) O-G Lucas B-Canary Tbreds TR-EJ O’Neill 2. Chinese Wall (IRE) 8-8 £14,159 b f by Aussie Rules - Ganar El Cielo (Ashkalani) O/B-Marquise de Moratalla TR-D Guillemin 3. Boccalino (GER) 8-11 £10,619 b c by Iron Mask - Bella Monica (Big Shuffle) O-Horst Rapp B-Gestut Westerberg TR-H-A Pantall Margins 2.5, 1.5. Time 1:03.60. Going Good to soft.

Starts 6

299 PRIX DU PRINCE D’ORANGE G3

1. FRENCH NAVY (GB) 9-2 £35,398 b c by Shamardal - First Fleet (Woodman) O-Godolphin SNC B-Darley TR-A Fabre 2. Havane Smoker (GB) 9-2 £14,159 ch c by Dubawi - Ballet Ballon (Rahy) O-G Augustin Normand, D-Y Treves B-Meon Valley Stud TR-J-C Rouget 3. Surfrider (IRE) 9-2 £10,619 b c by Dansili - Ecoutila (Rahy) O-Michel Delauzun B-Ecoutila Partnership TR-E Libaud Margins 0.75, 5. Time 1:46.40. Going Good to soft.

NEWBURY. September 18. 3yo+. 5f 34yds.

1. ASTROPHYSICAL JET (GB) 3 8-13 £34,062 b f by Dubawi - Common Knowledge (Rainbow Quest) O-Ladas B-Grangecon Stud TR-ES McMahon 2. Golden Destiny (IRE) 4 8-11 £12,912 ch f by Captain Rio - Dear Catch (Bluebird) O-HJW Davies P Spencer-Jones, M H Holland B-Yeomanstown Stud TR-PJ Makin 3. Prohibit (GB) 5 9-0 £6,462 b g by Oasis Dream - Well Warned (Warning) O-Dasmal, Rix, Barr, Morley, Penney B-Juddmonte Farms TR-RMH Cowell Margins 0.5, 0.5. Time 1:00.07 (slow 0.07).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-3

Starts 10

Wins 4

Places 3

Earned £112,484

Sire: DUBAWI. Sire of 18 Stakes winners. In 2010 HAPPY ARCHER Jeune G1, MAKFI Green Desert G1, IRISH FIELD Hernando G2, MONTEROSSO Barathea G2, POET’S VOICE Chief’s Crown G2, WORTHADD Rahy G2, ANNA SALAI Caerleon G3, ASTROPHYSICAL JET Rainbow Quest G3, CELLARMASTER Sound Reason G3, MAJESTIC DUBAWI Singspiel G3, PRINCE BISHOP Prospect Bay G3.

Sire: SHAMARDAL. Sire of 17 Stakes winners. In 2010 - FAINT PERFUME Zabeel G1, LOPE DE VEGA Vettori G1, NO EVIDENCE NEEDED Generous G2, SHAKESPEAREAN Priolo G2, ZAZOU Lomitas G2, DUNBOYNE EXPRESS Polish Precedent G3, ELLE SHADOW Roi Danzig G3, FRENCH NAVY Woodman G3.

1st Dam: Common Knowledge by Rainbow Quest. unraced. Dam of 2 winners: 2004: Raise Your Spirits (f Generous) unraced.

2005: COIN OF THE REALM (g Galileo) 3 wins 3-5.

2006: Manoeuvre (f Galileo) unraced. Broodmare.

2007: ASTROPHYSICAL JET (f Dubawi) Sold 42,000gns yearling at TAOC2. 4 wins, Flying Five S G3, World Trophy G3, 2nd Cecil Frail S LR, 3rd King George S G2, Firth of Clyde S G3.

2009: (f Rock of Gibraltar) 2010: (f Kheleyf)

1st Dam: FIRST FLEET by Woodman. 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, La Coupe des Pouliches de Marseille LR. Dam of 3 winners:

2nd Dam: Highbrow by Shirley Heights. 1 win at 2, 2nd Ribblesdale S G2. Dam of BLUEPRINT (c Generous: Sagitta Jockey Club S G2, San Luis Rey H

Age 2

Starts 3

Wins 3

Places 0

Earned £61,061

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G2, Sunset H G2, 3rd San Juan Capistrano Invitational H G1), FAIRY GODMOTHER (f Fairy King: Ballymacoll Stud S LR, 2nd Weatherbys Earl of Sefton S G3). Grandam of ASK, Kingdom of Fife, Four Winds.

Broodmare Sire: RAINBOW QUEST. Sire of the dams of 116 Stakes winners. In 2010 - PLUMANIA Anabaa G1, ASTROPHYSICAL JET Dubawi G3, ELUSIVE WAVE Elusive City G3, PUNCHER CLYNCH Azamour G3, BRUSCO Rock of Gibraltar LR, KING OF WANDS Galileo LR, MOONLIGHT RED Kheleyf LR, ROSES FOR THE LADY Sadler’s Wells LR, AURORAS ENCORE Second Empire LR, EBADIYAN Daylami LR. ASTROPHYSICAL JET b f 2007 Mr Prospector Con Game Shareef Dancer Colorado Dancer Fall Aspen DUBAWI b 2002 Shirley Heights Deploy Slightly Dangerous Zomaradah Dancing Brave Jawaher High Tern Red God Blushing Groom Runaway Bride Rainbow Quest Herbager I Will Follow Where You Lead COMMON KNOWLEDGE b 2000 Mill Reef Shirley Heights Hardiemma Highbrow Queen’s Hussar Highclere Highlight Seeking The Gold

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302 MILL REEF S G2 NEWBURY. September 18. 2yo. 6f 8yds.

1. TEMPLE MEADS (GB) 9-1 £37,468 ch c by Avonbridge - Harryana (Efisio) O-JC Fretwell B-Whitsbury Manor Stud TR-ES McMahon 2. Formosina (IRE) 9-4 £14,203 b c by Footstepsinthesand - Scarlett Rose (Royal Applause) O-Daniel Pittack B-Oak Lodge Bloodstock TR-J Noseda 3. Crown Prosecutor (IRE) 9-1 £7,108 b c by Exceed And Excel - Miss Brief (Brief Truce) O-Sangster Families B-Edmond Kent, Richard Kent TR-BJ Meehan Margins 1.75, 0.50. Time 1:11.73 (slow 0.43).

Going Good to firm.

303 FIRTH OF CLYDE S G3 AYR. September 18. 2yof. 6f.

1. MAJESTIC DUBAWI (GB) 8-12 £34,062 b f by Dubawi - Tidal Chorus (Singspiel) O-Jaber Abdullah B-PA Mason TR-MR Channon 2. Ragsah (IRE) 8-12 £12,912 ch f by Shamardal - Colorado Dancer (Shareef Dancer) O-Godolphin B-Darley TR-Saeed bin Suroor 3. Barefoot Lady (IRE) 8-12 £6,462 b f by Footstepsinthesand - Lady Angharad (Tenby) O-Mrs H Steel B-Arbawny Ventures 2000 TR-RA Fahey Margins 1, head. Time 1:12.01 (slow 1.81).

Going Good.

Age 2

Starts 3

Wins 2

Places 0

Earned £36,134

Sire: DUBAWI. Sire of 18 Stakes winners. In 2010 HAPPY ARCHER Jeune G1, MAKFI Green Desert G1, IRISH FIELD Hernando G2, MONTEROSSO Barathea G2, POET’S VOICE Chief’s Crown G2, WORTHADD Rahy G2, ANNA SALAI Caerleon G3, ASTROPHYSICAL JET Rainbow Quest G3, CELLARMASTER Sound Reason G3, MAJESTIC DUBAWI Singspiel G3, PRINCE BISHOP Prospect Bay G3.

Starts 4

Wins 3

Places 1

Earned £154,163

Sire: AVONBRIDGE. Sire of 2 Stakes winners. In 2010 - TEMPLE MEADS Efisio G2.

1st Dam: HARRYANA by Efisio. 2 wins at 2. Dam of 3 winners: 2002: FLAXBY (g Mister Baileys) Winner at 5 in Jersey.

2004: (f Piccolo) 2005: Harryana To (f Compton Place) 2006: Sneak Preview (f Monsieur Bond) Winner at 2, 2nd Laundry Cottage Stud Firth of Clyde S G3.

2007: Yeadon (c Fraam) 2008: TEMPLE MEADS (c Avonbridge) Sold 15,238gns yearling at DNSLY. 3 wins at 2, Dubai Duty Free Mill Reef S G2.

2009: (c Sleeping Indian) 2010: (f Sakhee’s Secret) Broodmare Sire: EFISIO. Sire of the dams of 19 Stakes winners. In 2010 - ILLUSTRIOUS BLUE Dansili G2, TEMPLE MEADS Avonbridge G2, AGENT SECRET Pyrus G3, BATHWICK BEAR Kodiac LR, DELEGATOR Dansili LR, PEARL BANKS Pivotal LR. TEMPLE MEADS ch c 2008 Warning Averti Imperial Jade AVONBRIDGE b 2000 Caerleon Alessia Kiss Formidable Efisio Eldoret HARRYANA b 97 Thatching Allyana Miss Loving

Known Fact Slightly Dangerous Lochnager Songs Jest Nijinsky Foreseer Habitat Miss Petard Forli Native Partner High Top Bamburi Thatch Abella Northfields Sacred Ibis

2nd Dam: FINGER OF LIGHT by Green Desert. 1 win at 2. Dam of FAR HOPE (f Barathea, see above) Broodmare Sire: BARATHEA. Sire of the dams of 35 Stakes winners. In 2010 - JAKKALBERRY Storming Home G1, MONTEROSSO Dubawi G2, BERG BAHN Big Bad Bob G3, RAINFALL Oasis Dream G3, VOILA ICI Daylami G3.

The Daylami/Barathea cross has produced: VOILA ICI G1, MAHAATHEER LR, Rose Diamond G3, Roscoff LR, Shazand LR. VOILA ICI gr h 2005 Mill Reef Doyoun Dumka DAYLAMI gr 94 Miswaki Daltawa Damana Sadler’s Wells Barathea Brocade

1st Dam: Tidal Chorus by Singspiel. ran twice at 3.

Dam of 1 winner: 2008: MAJESTIC DUBAWI (f Dubawi) Sold 2,800gns yearling at TAFEB, 22,000gns yearling at TAOC3. 2 wins at 2, Firth of Clyde S G3.

2009: (f Bertolini) 2nd Dam: SOUTH SHORE by Caerleon. 4 wins at 3.

Dam of SOUTH ROCK (f Rock City: Prix de Saint-Cyr LR). Grandam of Black Dahlia, Rodrigo de Torres.

Broodmare Sire: SINGSPIEL. Sire of the dams of 8 Stakes winners. In 2010 - DEBUSSY Diesis G1, LIBRANNO Librettist G2, COSMO NEMO SHIN Zenno Rob Roy G3, MAJESTIC DUBAWI Dubawi G3, VIA MEDICI Medicean G3, ARTS Ontario LR. MAJESTIC DUBAWI b f 2008 Mr Prospector Con Game Shareef Dancer Colorado Dancer Fall Aspen DUBAWI b 2002 Shirley Heights Deploy Slightly Dangerous Zomaradah Dancing Brave Jawaher High Tern Sadler’s Wells In The Wings High Hawk Singspiel Halo Glorious Song Ballade TIDAL CHORUS ch 2003 Nijinsky Caerleon Foreseer South Shore High Line Shore Line Dark Finale Seeking The Gold

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Age 2

di Milano G1, Premio Presidente della Repubblica G1, 3rd GP del Jockey Club e Coppa d’Oro G1, Gran Premio di Milano G1.

2006: Harmonieux (c One Cool Cat) unraced.

2007: Egocentrique (c Rock of Gibraltar) 2009: Jusque Ici (c Oratorio)

304 PREMIO FEDERICO TESIO G3

FAR HOPE b 99 Green Desert Finger of Light Circus Ring

Never Bend Milan Mill Kashmir II Faizebad Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Crystal Palace Denia Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Habitat Canton Silk Danzig Foreign Courier High Top Bell Song

305 LA COUPE DE MAISONS-LAFFITTE G3 MAISONS-LAFFITTE. Sep 24. 3yo+. 2000m.

1. AKARLINA (FR) 4 8-10 £35,398 gr f by Martaline - Akaralda (Akarad) O-N Clement B-SARL Haras de la Faisanderie TR-N Clement 2. Reggane (GB) 4 8-10 £14,159 b f by Red Ransom - Reine Zao (Alzao) O/B-Haras De La Perelle TR-A de Royer-Dupre 3. Hermoun (FR) 4 9-0 £10,619 b c by Septieme Ciel - Hermine (Kaldoun) O-Prime Equestrian SARL B-Haras D’Etreham TR-X Nakkachdji Margins 2, neck. Time 2:07.20. Going Soft.

Age 3-4

Starts 11

Wins 6

Places 2

Earned £113,624

Sire: MARTALINE. Sire of 3 Stakes winners. In 2010 - AKARLINA Akarad G3.

1st Dam: AKARALDA by Akarad. Winner at 3 in France. Dam of 1 winner: 2006: AKARLINA (f Martaline) 6 wins at 3 and 4 in France, La Coupe de Maisons-Laffitte G3.

2007: Santakalda (f Saint des Saints) unraced.

2008: Astaralda (f Astarabad) unraced to date.

2009: Robinka (f Robin des Pres)

2. Klammer (GB) 8-12 £26,900 b c by Exceed And Excel - Aymara (Darshaan) O-Yan Wah Wu B-Ermyn Lodge Stud Limited TR-Jane Chapple-Hyam 3. Treasure Beach (GB) 8-12 £13,463 b c by Galileo - Honorine (Mark of Esteem) O-D Smith, Mrs J Magnier, M Tabor B-Ashley House Stud TR-AP O’Brien Margins 10, 0.75. Time 1:41.73 (slow 1.53).

Going Good to soft.

Age 2

Starts 3

Wins 3

Places 0

Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 75 Stakes winners. In 2010 CAPE BLANCO Presidium G1, MAHBOOBA Red Ransom G1, MISTY FOR ME Storm Cat G1, RIP VAN WINKLE Stravinsky G1, SANS FRONTIERES Shirley Heights G1, FRANKEL Danehill G2, KITE WOOD Mark of Esteem G2, LINTON Centaine G2, MIDAS TOUCH Darshaan G2, LILY OF THE VALLEY Pennekamp G3, MIKHAIL GLINKA Mark of Esteem G3, TOGETHER Pennekamp G3, CIMA DE TRIOMPHE Danehill LR, KING OF WANDS Rainbow Quest LR, SOUTH EASTER Nureyev LR, SPACECRAFT Octagonal LR, EPPURSIMUOVE Soviet Star LR. 1st Dam: KIND by Danehill. 6 wins at 3 and 4, Kilvington S LR, Flower of Scotland S LR, 3rd Ballyogan S G3. Dam of 2 winners: 2007: BULLET TRAIN (c Sadler’s Wells) 2 wins at 2 and 3, totesport.com Derby Trial S G3.

2008: FRANKEL (c Galileo) 3 wins at 2, Juddmonte Royal Lodge S G2.

2009: (c Galileo) 2010: (c Oasis Dream) 2nd Dam: RAINBOW LAKE by Rainbow Quest. 3 wins at 3 Lancashire Oaks G3. Dam of POWERSCOURT (c Sadler’s Wells: Tattersalls Gold Cup G1, Arlington Million S G1, 2nd Prince of Wales’s S G1, Racing Post Trophy G1, Bayerisches Zuchtrennen G1, 3rd Irish St Leger G1, Irish Champion S G1, John Deere Breeders’ Cup Turf G1), KIND (see above).

Broodmare Sire: DANEHILL. Sire of the dams of 139 Stakes winners. In 2010 - ABLE ONE Cape Cross G1, BUZZWORD Pivotal G1, ZABRASIVE Zabeel G1, DUNCAN Dalakhani G2, FRANKEL Galileo G2, SAMUEL Sakhee G2, SHOCKING Street Cry G2, STRIKING DANCER Smart Strike G2, BULLET TRAIN Sadler’s Wells G3, NOLL WALLOP High Chaparral G3, PRECIOUS GEM Sadler’s Wells G3, SHEMIYLA Dalakhani G3, SOLAR CHARGED Charge Forward G3, STEINBECK Footstepsinthesand G3.

The Galileo/Danehill cross has produced: BANC DE FORTUNE G1, CIMA DE TRIOMPHE G1, CUIS GHAIRE G1, TEOFILO G1, FRANKEL G2, SIDERA G3, MISS GALILEI LR, Gile Na Greine G1, The Assayer G1, Crystal Gal G3, Acteur Celebre LR, Lagalp LR, Via Galilei LR. FRANKEL b c 2008 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells

MILAN. September 19. 3yo+. 2200m.

1. VOILA ICI (IRE) 5 8-11 £37,610 gr h by Daylami - Far Hope (Barathea) O-Scuderia Incolinx B-Soc Finanza Locale Consulting SRL TR-V Caruso 2. Cima de Triomphe (IRE) 5 8-11 £16,548 grro h by Galileo - Sopran Londa (Danehill) O-Teruya Yoshida B-Scuderia Sofim SRL TR-B Grizzetti 3. Nicea (GER) 3 8-2 £9,026 b f by Lando - Nicolaia (Alkalde) O-Stall Nizza B-Jurgen Imm TR-P Schiergen Margins 1.25, 1.75. Time 2:18.10. Going Very soft.

Broodmare Sire: AKARAD. Sire of the dams of 43 Stakes winners. In 2010 - AKARLINA Martaline G3, HARRIS TWEED Hernando LR, SKINS GAME Diktat LR.

Mendez Lunadix MARTALINE gr 99 Sadler’s Wells Coraline Bahamian Labus

Age 2-5

Starts 19

Wins 11

Places 5

Earned £489,638

Akarad Licata AKARALDA bl 99

Sire: DAYLAMI. Sire of 22 SWs. In 2010 - INDIAN DAYS Indian Ridge G2, VOILA ICI Barathea G3.

1st Dam: FAR HOPE by Barathea. 5 wins at 2 and 3 in Italy, Premio Vittorio Crespi LR. Dam of 1 winner: 2004: Rosh Ha Shana (f Sinndar) unplaced.

2005: VOILA ICI (c Daylami) Sold 39,408gns yearling at SGSEP. 11 wins at 2 to 5, 2010 in France, Italy, Premio Roma G1, Prix Maurice de Nieuil G2, Premio Carlo d’Alessio G3, Premio Federico Tesio G3 (3 times), 2nd Gran Premio

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Fairy Bridge GALILEO b 98 Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta

AKARLINA gr f 2006 Linamix

Kaldoun Makalda Malenka

Bellypha Miss Carina Breton Lutine Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Mill Reef Sorbus Busted Cordovilla Abdos Gaia Caro Katana Fabulous Dancer Moika

306 ROYAL LODGE S G2 ASCOT. September 25. 2yoc&g. 8f.

1. FRANKEL (GB) 8-12 £70,963 b c by Galileo - Kind (Danehill) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-HRA Cecil

Earned £86,400

Danzig Danehill Razyana KIND b 2001 Rainbow Quest Rainbow Lake Rockfest

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Lombard Anatevka Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Blushing Groom I Will Follow Stage Door Johnny Rock Garden

307 FILLIES’ MILE S G1 ASCOT. September 25. 2yof. 8f.

1. WHITE MOONSTONE (USA) 8-12 £123,759 b f by Dynaformer - Desert Gold (Seeking The Gold) O-Godolphin B-Stonerside Stable TR-Saeed bin Suroor 2. Together (IRE) 8-12 £46,914 b f by Galileo - Shadow Song (Pennekamp) O-D Smith, Mrs J Magnier, M Tabor B-Lynch Bages Ltd TR-AP O’Brien 3. Theyskens’ Theory (USA) 8-12 £23,479 b f by Bernardini - Heat Lightning (Summer Squall) O-A Rosen B-AR Enterprises TR-BJ Meehan

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European Pattern Margins Neck, 1.25. Time 1:42.75 (slow 2.55).

Going Good to soft.

Age 2

Starts 4

Wins 4

Places 0

Earned £197,711

Sire: DYNAFORMER. Sire of 99 Stakes winners. In 2010 - HARMONIOUS Storm Cat G1, WHITE MOONSTONE Seeking The Gold G1, AMERICAIN Arazi G2, DYNASLEW Seattle Slew G2, BEARPATH Unbridled’s Song G3, HAKA Mr Prospector G3, IT’S TEA TIME Storm Cat G3, LE GRAND CRU El Gran Senor G3, RAINBOW VIEW Nureyev G3, TEMPLE CITY Danzig G3.

1st Dam: DESERT GOLD by Seeking The Gold. 6 wins in USA, Mariah’s Storm S, 2nd Gardenia H G3.

Dam of 2 winners: 2005: CONCHITA (f Cozzene) Winner at 3 in USA. 2006: Towanda (f Dynaformer) 2008: WHITE MOONSTONE (f Dynaformer) 4 wins at 2, Meon Valley Stud Fillies’ Mile S G1, Keepmoat May Hill S G2, germantb.com Sweet Solera S G3.

2009: (f Arch) 2010: (f Tiznow) 2nd Dam: DESERT STORMETTE by Storm Cat. 1 win at 4 in USA. Own sister to DESERT STORMER. Dam of DESERT GOLD (f Seeking The Gold, see above) Broodmare Sire: SEEKING THE GOLD. Sire of the dams of 67 Stakes winners. In 2010 - BLAME Arch G1, WARRIOR’S REWARD Medaglia d’Oro G1, WHITE MOONSTONE Dynaformer G1, BATTLE PLAN Empire Maker G2, KAVANAGH Tiger Ridge G2, BIRDIE BIRDIE Brian’s Time G3, CLUBHOUSE RIDE Candy Ride LR, COYOTE LEGEND Gold Legend LR, GOLDEN MOKA Golden Missile LR, PEPPI KNOWS Stephen Got Even LR. The Dynaformer/Seeking The Gold cross has produced: RISKAVERSE G1, WHITE MOONSTONE G1, VACATION G3, Pick Six G2, Cable G3, Ea G3, Rescue Squad G3, Cognashene LR, Quarayed LR, Tend LR. WHITE MOONSTONE b f 2008 Hail To Reason Roberto Bramalea DYNAFORMER b 85 His Majesty Andover Way On The Trail Mr Prospector Seeking The Gold Con Game DESERT GOLD ch 99 Storm Cat Desert Stormette Breezy Stories

Turn-To Nothirdchance Nashua Rarelea Ribot Flower Bowl Olympia Golden Trail Raise A Native Gold Digger Buckpasser Broadway Storm Bird Terlingua Damascus New Tune

Two years after Dynaformer’s unbeaten daughter Rainbow View clinched the title of champion twoyear-old filly with victory in the Fillies’ Mile, history may well have repeated itself with the success of another Dynaformer filly, White Moonstone.

Both fillies lined up for the Meon Valley Stud-sponsored event as the unbeaten winner of three starts, including the Sweet Solera Stakes and May Hill Stakes.

In winning the Fillies’ Mile, White Moonstone became the 11th daughter of the Three Chimneys stallion to become a Gr1 winner. Dynaformer’s daughters have outshone their male equivalents, as only six of Dynaformer’s sons have scored at the highest level on the Flat. However, those six included the Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro and the St Leger winner Lucarno.

White Moonstone was acquired by Sheikh Mohammed as part of the bloodstock included in the purchase of

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The pedigree of her dam Desert Gold contains Seeking The Gold, Mr Prospector and Storm Cat, a combination of stallions which made Desert Gold a good bet to produce a gem to Dynaformer. Desert Gold’s sire Seeking The Gold ranks as the broodmare sire of three Group/Graded winners by Dynaformer, one of the others being the Gr1 winner Riskaverse. Mr Prospector, for his part, also ranks as the broodmare sire of three of Dynaformer’s Group winners, including the Gr1 winner Film Maker. Storm Cat also contributed to Dynaformer’s success story, with his daughters producing eight black-type winners, including four Graded winners.

Desert Gold was a talented performer at around nine furlongs as a four-year-old, when she won the Mariah’s Storm Stakes and finished second in the Gr3 Gardenia Handicap.

Her sister-in-blood, Sahara Gold, was arguably even better, as the daughter of the Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner Desert Stormer won the Gr2 Stonerside Beaumont Stakes over seven furlongs.

308 DENNY CORDELL LAVARACK AND LANWADES STUD S G3 GOWRAN PARK. Sep 25. 3yo+f&M. 9f 100yds.

1. SHAREEN (IRE) 3 8-11 £46,018 b f by Bahri - Sharesha (Ashkalani) O-HH The Aga Khan B-HH The Aga Khan’s Studs SC TR-John M Oxx 2. She’s Our Mark (GB) 6 9-5 £13,451 ch m by Ishiguru - Markskeepingfaith (Ajraas) O-B&M Syndicate B-M Barrett, Redmyre Bloodstock TR-Patrick J Flynn 3. Miss Laa di Da (GB) 3 8-11 £6,372 ch f by Dr Fong - Tatterdemalion (Galileo) O-PB Kelly B-Duke of Devonshire TR-Noel Meade Margins Short head, 2. Time 2:05.70 (slow 6.70).

Going Yielding.

Age 2-3

Starts 7

Wins 3

Places 3

Earned £54,710

Sire: BAHRI. Sire of 15 Stakes winners. In 2010 SHAREEN Ashkalani G3, LANCELOT Marju LR. 1st Dam: SHARESHA by Ashkalani. Winner at 3.

Dam of 2 winners: 2005: Sharleez (f Marju) 2 wins at 2 and 3, 2nd Belgrave S LR, Fairy Bridge S LR. Broodmare.

2006: Shariyan (c Kahyasi) ran twice.

2007: SHAREEN (f Bahri) 3 wins at 3, D.Cordell Lavarack/Lanwades Stud S G3, 2nd Dance Design S G3.

2008: Sharestan (c Shamardal) unraced to date.

2009: (c Azamour) 2010: (c Lawman)

309 QUEEN ELIZABETH II S G1 ASCOT. September 25. 3yo+. 8f.

1. POET’S VOICE (GB) 3 8-13 £151,860 b c by Dubawi - Bright Tiara (Chief’s Crown) O-Godolphin B-Darley TR-Saeed bin Suroor 2. Rip Van Winkle (IRE) 4 9-3 £57,566 b c by Galileo - Looking Back (Stravinsky) O-Mrs J Magnier, M Tabor, D Smith B-Roberto Brogi TR-AP O’Brien 3. Red Jazz (USA) 3 8-13 £28,810 b c by Johannesburg - Now That’s Jazz (Sword Dance) O-RJ Arculli B-William F Murphy, Annabel Murphy TR-BW Hills Margins Nose, 0.5. Time 1:39.76 (fast 0.44).

Going Good to soft.

Age 2-3

Starts 10

Wins 4

Places 4

Earned £301,682

Sire: DUBAWI. Sire of 18 Stakes winners. In 2010 HAPPY ARCHER Jeune G1, MAKFI Green Desert G1, POET’S VOICE Chief’s Crown G1, IRISH FIELD Hernando G2, MONTEROSSO Barathea G2, WORTHADD Rahy G2, ANNA SALAI Caerleon G3, ASTROPHYSICAL JET Rainbow Quest G3, CELLARMASTER Sound Reason G3, MAJESTIC DUBAWI Singspiel G3, PRINCE BISHOP Prospect Bay G3.

1st Dam: BRIGHT TIARA by Chief’s Crown. Winner at 2 in USA. Own sister to CHIEF HONCHO. Dam of 6 winners: 1995: (c Seeking The Gold) 1996: GOLD TIARA (f Seeking The Gold) 9 wins at 2 to 4 in Japan, Procyon S LR, Unicorn S LR, Sirius S LR, Mile Championship Nambu Hai LR, Kakitsubata Kinen LR. Broodmare.

1997: QUEEN’S PARK (f Relaunch) 4 wins at 2 to 4 in USA, Jack Hardy S. Dam of GEMSWICK PARK (f Speightstown: 3 wins at 2 and 3 in Canada, USA, Old Hat S G3, 3rd Frizette S G1), Sheraton Park (f Cozzene: 3 wins at 4 in Canada, 3rd River Memories S LR), Queen’s College (f Carson City: Winner in Canada, 2nd Shady Well S LR) 1998: Keiai Bright (c Petionville) ran on the flat in Japan.

1999: BEST BOOT (f Storm Boot) Winner at 3 in USA. Dam of Mozu (c Special Week: Winner at 2 in Japan, 2nd Sapporo Nisai S LR) 2002: SWAN NEBULA (f Seeking The Gold) 2 wins at 2. Broodmare.

2003: Catherinette (f Seeking The Gold) unraced.

2005: THE WORLD (f Dubai Destination) Winner at 3 in France. Broodmare.

2006: Wedding Gown (f Dubai Destination) 2007: POET’S VOICE (c Dubawi) 4 wins at 2 and 3, Sony Queen Elizabeth II S G1, Champagne S G2, Celebration Mile S G2, 2nd Sovereign S G3, 3rd Acomb S G3.

2008: Patroness (f Dubawi) unraced to date.

2nd Dam: EXPRESSIVE DANCE by Riva Ridge. 12 wins in USA Comely S G3, Bewitch S G3, Ballerina S G3, 2nd Alcibiades S G2, 4th Acorn S G1, Selima S G1. Dam of CHIEF HONCHO (c Chief’s Crown: Brooklyn H G1, 2nd Jockey Club Gold Cup S G1, Brooklyn H G1, Suburban H G1, Whitney S G1, 3rd Philip H Iselin H G1, Gulfstream Park H G1, Whitney S G1), Wooden Dance (g Woodman: 3rd Primal H).

Grandam of AMERICAN CHANCE, OPHIDIAN, Our Colors, Juke, Flexible Princess. Third dam of HAKA, Kelly’s Olympics, On Safari, Minutesandtouches.

Broodmare Sire: ASHKALANI. Sire of the dams of 10 Stakes winners. In 2010 - GABBY’S GOLDEN GAL Medaglia d’Oro G1, SHAREEN Bahri G3, CHINESE WALL Aussie Rules LR.

Broodmare Sire: CHIEF’S CROWN. Sire of the dams of 46 Stakes winners. In 2010 - POET’S VOICE Dubawi G1.

SHAREEN b f 2007

POET’S VOICE b c 2007 Never Bend

Riverman River Lady BAHRI b 92 Nijinsky Wasnah Highest Trump Soviet Star Ashkalani Ashtarka SHARESHA b 2000 Doyoun Sharemata Sharenara

Nasrullah Lalun Prince John Nile Lily Northern Dancer Flaming Page Bold Bidder Dear April Nureyev Veruschka Dalsaan Asharaz Mill Reef Dumka Vaguely Noble Shademah

Mr Prospector Con Game Shareef Dancer Colorado Dancer Fall Aspen DUBAWI b 2002 Shirley Heights Deploy Slightly Dangerous Zomaradah Dancing Brave Jawaher High Tern Northern Dancer Danzig Pas de Nom Chief’s Crown Secretariat Six Crowns Chris Evert BRIGHT TIARA ch 89 First Landing Riva Ridge Iberia Expressive Dance Native Dancer Exclusive Dancer Exclusive Seeking The Gold

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When the Chief’s Crown mare Bright Tiara was sent to Seeking The Gold in 1995 the resultant filly, Gold Tiara, went on to win at Gr1 level on dirt in Japan. Indeed, Gold Tiara won five stakes races over seven furlongs or a mile, ultimately retiring with earnings equivalent to more than $3.5 million.

Gold Tiara’s success was reflected in Bright Tiara’s price when the mare came on the market in 2000, with John Ferguson having to go to $3 million to secure her for Darley.

Switched to Europe, Bright Tiara became an obvious candidate to visit Seeking The Gold’s grandson Dubawi when he retired to Dalham Hall in 2006 and the recipe worked again, the resultant foal being Poet’s Voice.

Now fulfilling his potential after taking a long time learning to settle, Poet’s Voice became a Gr1 winner with a brave effort in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes – a race which had fallen to his grandsire Dubai Millennium in 1999 and which should probably also have fallen to Dubawi in 2005.

Bright Tiara’s three-million-dollar price tag in 2000 wasn’t just a reflection of Gold Tiara’s achievements. Bright Tiara was herself a sister to Chief Honcho, a tough performer who was placed in numerous Gr1 events before finally becoming a Gr1 winner in the Brooklyn Handicap over 11 furlongs.

Bright Tiara’s Relaunch filly Queen’s Park had also become a stakes winner and Queen’s Park is now the dam of Gemswick Park, a Gr3 winner in the USA. Poet’s Voice’s second dam Expressive Dance showed a lot of ability at around a mile and was a halfsister to General Assembly, a versatile Secretariat colt who numbered the Vosburgh Stakes among his successes. Poet’s Voice’s third dam Exclusive Dancer was a half-sister to Exclusive Native, a dual champion sire in North America.

310 DIADEM S G2 ASCOT. September 26. 3yo+. 6f.

1. LADY OF THE DESERT (USA) 3 8-9 £61,397 ch f by Rahy - Queen’s Logic (Grand Lodge) O-Jaber Abdullah B-Rabbah Bloodstock TR-BJ Meehan 2. Dalghar (FR) 4 9-0 £23,274 gr c by Anabaa - Daltawa (Miswaki) O-HH The Aga Khan B-HH The Aga Khan’s Studs SC TR-A de Royer-Dupre 3. Kingsgate Native (IRE) 5 9-4 £11,648 b g by Mujadil - Native Force (Indian Ridge) O-Cheveley Park Stud B-Peter McCutcheon TR-Sir Michael Stoute Margins 2.25, 3.75. Time 1:14.13 (slow 0.63).

Going Good to soft.

Age 2-3

Starts 10

Wins 4

Places 3

Earned £257,937

Sire: RAHY. Sire of 76 Stakes winners. In 2010 LADY OF THE DESERT Grand Lodge G2, STRONG SUIT Silver Hawk G2, RAHYSTRADA Deputy Minister G3, RETRIEVE Red Ransom G3, RIO DE LA PLATA Ahmad G3, RUMOUSH Mr Prospector LR. 1st Dam: QUEEN’S LOGIC by Grand Lodge.

Champion 2yr old filly in Europe in 2001. 5 wins at 2 and 3, Shadwell Stud Cheveley Park S G1. Dam of 3 winners:

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2004: GO ON BE A TIGER (g Machiavellian) 2 wins.

2005: (c Kingmambo) 2006: DUNES QUEEN (f Elusive Quality) 1 win at 3.

2007: LADY OF THE DESERT (f Rahy). 4 wins at 2 and 3, Diadem S G2, Lowther S G2, Princess Margaret S G3, 2nd Betfred Sprint Cup G1, 3rd Cheveley Park S G1, Fred Darling S G3.

2008: Enjoy Today (c Kingmambo) unraced to date.

2009: (f Street Cry) 2010: (c Nayef) 2nd Dam: Lagrion by Diesis. Own sister to Pure Genius. Dam of DYLAN THOMAS (c Danehill: Budweiser Irish Derby G1, Baileys Irish Champion S G1 (twice), King George VI & Queen Elizabeth S G1, P.de l’Arc de Triomphe - Lucien Barriere G1, Prix Ganay G1, 2nd Tattersalls Gold Cup G1, International S G1, Prince of Wales’s S G1, 3rd Vodafone Derby S G1), QUEEN’S LOGIC (see above), Love To Dance (f Sadler’s Wells: 3rd Blandford S G2), Remember When (f Danehill Dancer: 3rd Oaks S G1) Broodmare Sire: GRAND LODGE. Sire of the dams of 23 Stakes winners. In 2010 - TOORAK TOFF Show A Heart G1, WALL STREET Montjeu G1, ZIPPING Danehill G1, LADY OF THE DESERT Rahy G2, BLACKBALL Canny Lad G3, GEEGEES BLACKFLASH Clangalang G3, LE PLUNGE Tobougg G3, DISSOLVED Lonhro LR, GRACEFUL ANNA Canny Lad LR, ROYAL EXCHANGE Royal Applause LR, BARIZAN Kalanisi LR. LADY OF THE DESERT ch f 2007 Red God Blushing Groom Runaway Bride RAHY ch 85 Halo Glorious Song Ballade Chief’s Crown Grand Lodge La Papagena QUEEN’S LOGIC ch 99 Diesis Lagrion Wrap It Up

Nasrullah Spring Run Wild Risk Aimee Hail To Reason Cosmah Herbager Miss Swapsco Danzig Six Crowns Habitat Magic Flute Sharpen Up Doubly Sure Mount Hagen Doc Nan

2nd Dam: LUCAYAN PRINCESS by High Line. 2 wins at 2 Sweet Solera S LR. Dam of LUSO (c Salse: Derby Italiano G1, Aral-Pokal G1 (twice), WGZ Bank Deutschland Preis G1, 2nd Grand Prix de SaintCloud G1, Prix Ganay G1, Gran Premio del Jockey Club G1, Gran Premio di Milano G1 (twice), AralPokal G1, Mercedes-Benz Grosser Preis von Baden G1, EMS Kurierpost Europa Preis G1), WARRSAN (c Caerleon: Vodafone Coronation Cup G1 (twice), Grosser Volkswagon Preis von Baden G1 (twice), 2nd Coral Eclipse S G1, Gran Premio di Milano G1, 3rd Gran Premio del Jockey Club G1, Credit Suisse Private Banking Pokal G1, Hong Kong Vase G1), NEEDLE GUN (c Sure Blade: Gallinule S G2, 2nd St James’s Palace S G1, Derby Italiano-Trofeo Mercedes Benz G1, Premio Presidente della Repubblica G1 (3 times), 3rd Premio Roma G1), CLOUD CASTLE (f In The Wings: Shadwell Stud Nell Gwyn S G3, 2nd Prix Vermeille G1, 3rd Yorkshire Oaks G1), Luana (f Shaadi: 3rd Bedford Lodge Hotel Bentinck S LR).

Grandam of BLUE MONDAY, HATTAN, QUEEN’S BEST, TASTAHIL, REVERIE SOLITAIRE, NIDEEB. Broodmare Sire: SADLER’S WELLS. Sire of the dams of 237 Stakes winners. In 2010 - CAMPANOLOGIST Kingmambo G1, CHINESE WHITE Dalakhani G1, PATHFORK Distorted Humor G1, WORKFORCE King’s Best G1, APPROVE Oasis Dream G2, BANKABLE Medicean G2, EMERALD COMMANDER Pivotal G2, MEISHO BELUGA French Deputy G2, ZARIUS Zabeel G2, BALETTI Gulch G3, BEETHOVEN Oratorio G3, CAT JUNIOR Storm Cat G3, CHRYSANTHEMUM Danehill Dancer G3, DEEM Dalakhani G3, ELUSIVE PIMPERNEL Elusive Quality G3, LAAHEB Cape Cross G3, POSAVINA Tiger Hill G3, A CHANCE TO DREAM Volksraad LR, ALSACE LORRAINE Giant’s Causeway LR, CIVIL WAR War Emblem LR, HAWK ISLAND Hawk Wing LR, KILO ALPHA King’s Best LR, MIRROR LAKE Dubai Destination LR, MOE GREEN Xaar LR, OCEAN AND BEYOND Kingsalsa LR, PRINCIPAL ROLE Empire Maker LR, TIMEPIECE Zamindar LR, FRENCH OPERA Bering LR. The Cape Cross/Sadler’s Wells cross has produced: LAAHEB G3, MANYRIVERSTOCROSS LR, Cedarberg G2, Caucus G3.

LAAHEB b g 2006

311 CUMBERLAND LODGE S G3

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Sir Ivor Foreign Courier Courtly Dee CAPE CROSS b/br 94 Lorenzaccio Ahonoora Helen Nichols Park Appeal Balidar Balidaress Innocence Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Sadler’s Wells Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special MASKUNAH b 97 High Hat High Line Time Call Lucayan Princess Sir Gaylord Gay France Sweet And Lovely II Danzig

2005: ALIANTHUS (c Hernando) Sold 78,817gns yearling at BBAGS. 4 wins, Grosse Europa Meile G2, EBF Meile LR, 2nd Preis Reiter Rennvereins G3, 3rd Grosser Preis der Mehl Mulhens Stiftung G2.

2006: AMAZING TIGER (c Tiger Hill) 5 wins.

2008: Anabasis (f High Chaparral) unraced to date.

ASCOT. September 26. 3yo+. 12f.

Age 3-4

Starts 12

Wins 7

Places 4

Earned £171,537

312 GROSSE EUROPA MEILE G2

Storm Cat Giant’s Causeway Mariah’s Storm SHAMARDAL b 2002 Machiavellian Helsinki Helen Street

2nd Dam: Adjani by Surumu. Dam of Acamani (g Winged Love: 2nd Grosser Radeberger Pilsner Preis LR, 3rd Deutsches Derby G1), Allure (see above).

Danzig Always Fair Carduel WEDDING GIFT b/br 93 Sassafras

Broodmare Sire: KONIGSSTUHL. Sire of the dams of 52 SW. In 2010 - ALIANTHUS Hernando G2, BUDAI Dai Jin G3.

Such Style Regal Lady

Nijinsky Niniski Virginia Hills HERNANDO b 90 Miswaki Whakilyric Lyrism Dschingis Khan Konigsstuhl Konigskronung ALLURE b 96 Surumu Adjani Annaberta

Northern Dancer Flaming Page Tom Rolfe Ridin’ Easy Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Lyphard Pass A Glance Tamerlane Donna Diana Tiepoletto Kronung Literat Surama Alpenkonig Anna Charlotta

1. CASAMENTO (IRE) 9-1 £57,522 ch c by Shamardal - Wedding Gift (Always Fair) O-Sheikh Mohammed B-D Cantillon, J Cantillon, C Canning, K Canning TR-M Halford 2. Mawaakef (IRE) 9-1 £16,814 b c by Azamour - Al Euro (Mujtahid) O-Hamdan Al Maktoum B-J Egan, J Corcoran, J Judd TR-K Prendergast 3. Robin Hood (IRE) 9-1 £7,965 b c by Galileo - Banquise (Last Tycoon) O-Mrs John Magnier B-Lynch Bages Ltd TR-AP O’Brien Margins 4, 2.5. Time 1:43.52 (slow 7.52).

Going Yielding to soft.

Wins 2

Places 1

Starts 7

Wins 5

Places 0

1st Dam: Maskunah by Sadler’s Wells. unraced. Dam of 3 winners: 2002: Mutabilis (g Anabaa) ran once over hurdles.

2003: My (f King’s Best) ran a few times. Broodmare.

2004: Guarantia (f Selkirk) Winner at 3, 3rd Finnforest Oh So Sharp S LR. Broodmare.

2005: Skycruiser (g Dubai Destination) 2006: LAAHEB (g Cape Cross) Sold 200,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 7 wins at 3 and 4, Grosvenor Cumberland Lodge S G3, totesport.com September S G3, Betfair Fred Archer S LR, bet365.com James Seymour S LR, 2nd CGA Geoffrey Freer S G3, Festival S LR, 3rd Bet365 Gordon Richards S G3.

2007: TITLE FIGHT (g Pivotal) Winner at 3 in Greece.

2008: Saadiah (f Dubai Destination) unraced to date.

2009: (c Cape Cross) 2010: (f A P Indy)

COLOGNE. September 26. 3yo+. 1600m.

1. ALIANTHUS (GER) 5 9-2 £35,398 b h by Hernando - Allure (Konigsstuhl) O-Baron G Von Ullmann B-Gestut Karlshof TR-J Hirchberger 2. Noble Alpha (IRE) 3 8-11 £13,717 b c by Shamardal - Nouvelle Noblesse (Singspiel) O-Eckhard Sauren B-Eckhard Sauren TR-M Hofer 3. Win For Sure (GER) 5 9-2 £5,752 b g by Stravinsky - Win For Us (Surumu) O/B-Stiftung Gestut Fahrhof TR-A Wohler Margins 3, 1.75. Time 1:38.10. Going Soft.

Age 3-5

Starts 11

Wins 4

Places 5

Earned £77,945

Sire: HERNANDO. Sire of 48 Stakes winners. In 2010 - ALIANTHUS Konigsstuhl G2, AKDARENA Shirley Heights G3.

1st Dam: Allure by Konigsstuhl. Winner at 3 in Germany, 3rd Grosser Stutenpreis der Dreijahrigen LR. Dam of 4 winners: 2001: Apokalypse (f Lomitas) 3 wins at 2 and 5 in France, Germany, 3rd Preis des Casino BadenBaden LR. 2002: A BEAUTIFUL MIND (f Winged Love) 2 wins at 2 and 3 in Germany. Broodmare.

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Earned £215,639

Sire: LANDO. Sire of 26 SWs. In 2010 - SCALO Exit To Nowhere G1, VAL MONDO Big Shuffle G3.

CURRAGH. September 26. 2yo. 8f.

Starts 3

COLOGNE. September 26. 3yo+. 2400m.

1. SCALO (GB) 3 8-13 £88,496 b c by Lando - Sky Dancing (Exit To Nowhere) O/B-Gestut Ittlingen TR-A Wohler 2. Night Magic (GER) 4 9-3 £29,204 b f by Sholokhov - Night Woman (Monsun) O-Stall Salzburg B-Gestut Etzean TR-W Figge 3. Quijano (GER) 8 9-6 £13,274 ch g by Acatenango - Quila (Unfuwain) O/B-Stiftung Gestut Fahrhof TR-P Schiergen Margins 1.75, 1.5. Time 2:34.53. Going Soft.

Age 2-3

313 BERESFORD S G2

Age 2

314 PREIS VON EUROPA G1

Earned £99,393

Sire: SHAMARDAL. Sire of 19 Stakes winners. In 2010 - FAINT PERFUME Zabeel G1, LOPE DE VEGA Vettori G1, CASAMENTO Always Fair G2, NO EVIDENCE NEEDED Generous G2, SHAKESPEAREAN Priolo G2, ZAZOU Lomitas G2, DUNBOYNE EXPRESS Polish Precedent G3, ELLE SHADOW Roi Danzig G3, FRENCH NAVY Woodman G3, FEMINA FASHION Jeune LR, GINGERBREAD MAN Hurricane Sky LR, HAPPY HIPPY Soviet Lad LR, IT’S MIDNIGHT Fairy King LR, MARQUARDT Centaine LR, SHAMILLION Redoute’s Choice LR, SIYAADAH Lahib LR.

1st Dam: SKY DANCING by Exit To Nowhere. 5 wins at 2 and 4 in Germany, Italy, Premio Buontalenta LR. Dam of 4 winners: 2003: SEXY LADY (f Danehill Dancer) 4 wins at 3 in France, Germany, Prix Chloe G3. Broodmare.

2004: Sky Express (c Lando) unraced.

2005: Scolari (c Monsun) 5 wins, 2nd Grosser Preis der Dortmunder Wirtschaft G3, Preis der Sparkassen Finanzgruppe G3.

2006: SKYLOR (c Sakhee) 3 wins at 4 in Germany.

2007: SCALO (c Lando) 5 wins, Preis von Europa G1, Prix Guillaume d’Ornano G2, Fruhjahrspreis des Bankhauses Metzler G3, Bavarian Classic G3.

2008: Stromberg (c Medicean) unraced to date.

2009: (f Lomitas). died as a yearling.

2010: (c Dalakhani) 2nd Dam: Saquiace by Sagace. 4 wins at 3 and 4 in France, 2nd Grand Prix de Villeurbanne LR. Dam of SKY DANCING (f Exit To Nowhere, see above), Starla (f Lando: 3rd Bremer Stuten Meile LR).

Grandam of WHAT’S UP PUSSYCAT. Broodmare Sire: EXIT TO NOWHERE. Sire of the dams of 22 SW. In 2010 - SCALO Lando G1, BLEK Chichicastenango G2, DARIOLE Highest Honor G3.

SCALO b c 2007 Surumu Acatenango

Sire: CAPE CROSS. Sire of 63 Stakes winners. In 2010 - ABLE ONE Danehill G1, BEHKABAD Kris G1, CAPECOVER Zabeel G2, CROSSTHESTART Gold And Ivory G2, MEKONG MELODY Niniski G2, TREAT GENTLY In The Wings G2, CORSICA Persian Bold G3, LAAHEB Sadler’s Wells G3, SEA LORD Woodman G3, BEZIQUE Peintre Celebre LR, COLONIAL Mr Prospector LR, FIELD DAY Last Tycoon LR, RECHARGE Robellino LR.

Storm Bird Terlingua Rahy Immense Mr Prospector Coup de Folie Troy Waterway Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Buckpasser Minstrelete Sheshoon Ruta Relko Noble Lassie

ALIANTHUS b h 2005

Green Desert

1. LAAHEB (GB) 4 9-3 £36,901 b g by Cape Cross - Maskunah (Sadler’s Wells) O-Hamdan Al Maktoum B-Darley TR-MA Jarvis 2. Whispering Gallery (GB) 4 9-0 £13,988 b g by Daylami - Echoes In Eternity (Spinning World) O-Godolphin B-Darley TR-Saeed bin Suroor 3. Monitor Closely (IRE) 4 9-0 £7,001 b c by Oasis Dream - Independence (Selkirk) O-Lawrie Inman B-Cliveden Stud Ltd TR-MLW Bell Margins Nose, 10. Time 2:34.32 (slow 4.12).

Going Good to soft.

CASAMENTO ch c 2008

1st Dam: WEDDING GIFT by Always Fair. 2 wins in France, Prix Saraca LR, 3rd Prix du Calvados G3, Prix Vanteaux G3. Dam of 5 winners: 2000: WANA DOO (f Grand Slam) 2 wins at 2 and 3 in France. Broodmare.

2001: SKY GIFT (f Stravinsky) 3 wins at 3 in France.

2002: Sandee’s Eight (f High Yield) unraced.

2003: Royal Moon (g Royal Academy) 2004: BROSNA CRY (g Street Cry) Winner at 2.

2005: (g Cape Cross) 2007: INLER (c Red Ransom) Winner at 2.

2008: CASAMENTO (c Shamardal) Sold 37,814gns foal at GONO1. 2 wins at 2, Juddmonte Beresford S G2, 2nd boylesports.com Vincent O’Brien National G1.

2009: (f Motivator) 2nd Dam: Such Style by Sassafras. Dam of WEDDING GIFT (f Always Fair, see above), Chehana (f Posse: 4th Queen Charlotte H G2). Grandam of FRENCH CLOCK, DREAM ABOUT IT, VERI’S GAME, LADYBIRD BLUE, ALEGRIO. Third dam of Bella Princess. Fourth dam of HEART OF DREAMS, RIGHTFULLY YOURS, FAST FUTURE. Broodmare Sire: ALWAYS FAIR. Sire of the dams of 9 Stakes winners. In 2010 - CASAMENTO Shamardal G2, ST PETERSBOURG True Brave LR.

Aggravate LANDO b 90 Sharpman Laurea Licata Irish River Exit To Nowhere Coup de Folie SKY DANCING b 97 Sagace Saquiace Laquiola

Literat Surama Aggressor Raven Locks Sharpen Up Miss Manon Dschingis Khan Liberty Riverman Irish Star Halo Raise The Standard Luthier Seneca Lyphard Kalila

It was announced in August that the German champion Lando was returning to his native land after several years at Haras d’Etreham. The 20-year-old will again be based at Gestut Hof Ittlingen, where he was bred and where he took up stallion duties in 1996.

Lando’s racing career yielded seven Gr1 victories in Germany, Italy and Japan, including the German Derby, the Japan Cup and two editions of the Grosser Preis von Baden. He never

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European Pattern contested the Preis von Europa but this race has now fallen to two of his progeny, Gonbarda and Scalo.

Scalo never got into the race in the German Derby but he has since shown he is much better than that performance suggests. Sent to Deauville for the Prix Guillaume d’Ornano, he won comfortably and he again finished well to defeat Night Magic in the Preis von Europa.

Scalo is another product of Gestut Hof Ittlingen, as was his half-sister Sexy Lady. The daughter of Danehill Dancer also travelled to France to win a Group race, namely the Prix Chloe over nine furlongs. His first three dams were all black-type performers and his fourth dam, Kalila, had the distinction of being a half-sister to the Classic winners Val de Loir and Valoris. Kalila also got into the act, as her son Roi Lear won the Prix du Jockey-Club.

315 CL WELD PARK S G3 CURRAGH. September 26. 2yof. 7f.

1. CHRYSANTHEMUM (IRE) 8-12 £34,513 b f by Danehill Dancer - Well Spoken (Sadler’s Wells) O-Michael Tabor B-Pegasus Breeding Ltd TR-David Wachman 2. Wild Wind (GER) 8-12 £10,089 b f by Danehill Dancer - Woman Secret (Sadler’s Wells) O-Mrs J Magnier, M Tabor, D Smith B-Ecurie Des Monceaux TR-AP O’Brien 3. Bible Belt (IRE) 8-12 £4,779 br f by Big Bad Bob - Shine Silently (Bering) O/B-Anamoine Ltd TR-Mrs John Harrington Margins Head, head. Time 1:28.96 (slow 5.46).

Going Yielding to soft.

Age 2

Starts 2

Wins 2

Places 0

Earned £71,327

Sire: DANEHILL DANCER. Sire of 119 Stakes winners. In 2010 - LILLIE LANGTRY Darshaan G1, CONTREDANSE Rahy G2, MEMORY Diesis G2, PLANTEUR Giant’s Causeway G2, AIR CHIEF MARSHAL Warning G3, CHRYSANTHEMUM Sadler’s Wells G3, OBAMA RULE Entrepreneur G3, REBEL SOLDIER Irish River G3, SNAEFELL Standaan G3, HEN NIGHT Green Desert LR, LADY ECLAIR Explodent LR, LATIN LOVE Be My Guest LR, MONTE ALTO Perugino LR, NEWS ALERT Brief Truce LR, NOURIYA King’s Best LR, SAMUEL MORSE Mt Livermore LR, SANJUAN Last Tycoon LR, SUPER SATIN Rock City LR, THE MIKADO Rigoletto LR, URAMAZIN Acatenango LR. 1st Dam: WELL SPOKEN by Sadler’s Wells. Winner over jumps in France. Dam of 1 winner: 2007: Division Alpha (c Dubai Destination) 2008: CHRYSANTHEMUM (f Danehill Dancer) Sold 92,464gns yearling at ARAUG. 2 wins at 2, C L Weld Park S G3, Flame of Tara EBF S LR. 2009: (f Dalakhani) 2nd Dam: SAINTLY SPEECH by Southern Halo. 2 wins at 2 Princess Margaret S G3.

Broodmare Sire: SADLER’S WELLS. Sire of the dams of 237 Stakes winners. In 2010 CAMPANOLOGIST Kingmambo G1, CHINESE WHITE Dalakhani G1, PATHFORK Distorted Humor G1, WORKFORCE King’s Best G1, APPROVE Oasis Dream G2, BANKABLE Medicean G2, EMERALD COMMANDER Pivotal G2, MEISHO BELUGA French Deputy G2, ZARIUS Zabeel G2, BALETTI Gulch G3, BEETHOVEN Oratorio G3, CAT JUNIOR Storm Cat G3, CHRYSANTHEMUM Danehill Dancer G3, DEEM Dalakhani G3, ELUSIVE PIMPERNEL Elusive Quality G3, LAAHEB Cape Cross G3, POSAVINA Tiger Hill G3.

The Danehill Dancer/Sadler’s Wells cross has produced: SALUT D’AMOUR G2, CHRYSANTHEMUM G3, DANEHILL MUSIC G3, DANEHILL’S PEARL LR, Kissable G1, Wild Wind G3, Fiumicino LR, Foolish Ambition LR, Kingdom of Munster LR, Purple Sage LR.

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CHRYSANTHEMUM b f 2008 Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Danehill His Majesty Razyana Spring Adieu DANEHILL DANCER b 93 Atan Sharpen Up Rocchetta Mira Adonde Caro Lettre d’Amour Lianga Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Sadler’s Wells Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special WELL SPOKEN b 2002 Halo Southern Halo Northern Sea Saintly Speech Deputy Minister Eloquent Minister Art Talk Danzig

316 SOMERVILLE TATTERSALL S G3 NEWMARKET. September 30. 2yoc&g. 7f.

1. REROUTED (USA) 8-12 £28,385 ch c by Stormy Atlantic - Rouwaki (Miswaki) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-BW Hills 2. Surrey Star (IRE) 8-12 £10,760 b c by Dubawi - Turning Light (Fantastic Light) O-M Vickers B-Anima Negra Gmbh & Co Kg TR-RA Teal 3. Royal Exchange (GB) 8-12 £5,385 b c by Royal Applause - Diamond Lodge (Grand Lodge) O-The Queen B-The Queen TR-R Hannon Margins Short head, 0.5. Time 1:26.06 (slow 2.86).

Going Soft.

Age 2

Starts 5

Wins 2

Places 3

Margins Neck, 1.5. Time 2:12.94 (fast 0.56).

Going Standard.

Age 2-4

Starts 9

Wins 5

Places 2

Sire: HERNANDO. Sire of 48 SWs. In 2010 ALIANTHUS Konigsstuhl G2, AKDARENA Shirley Heights G3, GITANO HERNANDO Perugino G3.

The Diktat/Cadeaux Genereux cross has produced: DREAM AHEAD G1, RAJEEM G1.

See race 245 in the October issue

1st Dam: GINO’S SPIRITS by Perugino. 9 wins at 2 to 5 at home, USA, Noble Damsel H G3, 2nd Sun Chariot S G2. Dam of 4 winners: 2003: ECLIPSE PARK (g Rainbow Quest) 3 wins 4-6.

2004: CROSBY JEMMA (f Lomitas) 2 hurdles wins.

2005: Ginos Destination (f Dubai Destination) ran once.

2006: GITANO HERNANDO (c Hernando) Sold 25,740gns yearling at ARAUG. 5 wins, Goodwood S G1, Diamond S G3, Winter Derby Trial S LR, 2nd Dee S G3.

2007: INDIA SPIRIT (f Dr Fong) 4 wins 2-3 in Italy.

2008: Johannes Kepler (c Dubai Destination) unraced.

2010: (c Hernando)

DREAM AHEAD b/br c 2008

2nd Dam: RISING SPIRITS by Cure The Blues. 2 wins. Dam of GINO’S SPIRITS (see above).

Broodmare Sire: PERUGINO. Sire of the dams of 3 Stakes winners. In 2010 - GITANO HERNANDO Hernando G3, MONTE ALTO Danehill Dancer LR, NINA CELEBRE Peintre Celebre LR. GITANO HERNANDO ch c 2006

Earned £35,524

Nijinsky Niniski Virginia Hills

Sire: STORMY ATLANTIC. Sire of 40 Stakes winners. In 2010 - GET STORMY Kiri’s Clown G2, REROUTED Miswaki G3.

1st Dam: Rouwaki by Miswaki. Dam of 4 winners: 2004: Refresh (f Hennessy) unraced. Broodmare.

2005: RATTAN (c Royal Anthem) Winner at 3.

2006: CORNISH CASTLE (g Mizzen Mast) 2 wins at 3.

2007: CRITICAL MOMENT (c Aptitude) 3 wins at 2 and 3, bluesquare.com Thoroughbred S LR, 3rd Racing Post Craven S G3.

2008: REROUTED (c Stormy Atlantic) 2 wins at 2, Somerville Tattersall S G3.

2009: (f Aptitude) 2nd Dam: ROUGEUR by Blushing Groom. 2 wins, Gaily Gaily H LR, 2nd Orchid H G2. Dam of FLUTE (f Seattle Slew: Alabama S G1, Kentucky Oaks G1), VELVET MORNING (f Broad Brush: Palisades S LR) Broodmare Sire: MISWAKI. Sire of the dams of 113 SW. In 2010 - DASHER GO GO Sakura Bakushin O G2, DALGHAR Anabaa G3, MISS SINGHSIX Singspiel G3, REROUTED Stormy Atlantic G3.

The Stormy Atlantic/Miswaki cross has produced: REROUTED G3, NOT GROUNDED LR. REROUTED ch c 2008 Northern Dancer South Ocean Secretariat Terlingua Crimson Saint STORMY ATLANTIC b 94 Bold Reasoning Seattle Slew My Charmer Hail Atlantis Coastal Flippers Moccasin Raise A Native Mr Prospector Gold Digger Miswaki Buckpasser Hopespringseternal Rose Bower ROUWAKI ch 99 Red God Blushing Groom Runaway Bride Rougeur Star Appeal Media Luna Sounion Storm Bird

Storm Cat

317 DIAMOND S G3 DUNDALK. October 1. 3yo+. 10f 150yds.

1. GITANO HERNANDO (GB) 4 9-2 £34,513 ch c by Hernando - Gino’s Spirits (Perugino) O-Team Valor B-Newsells Park Stud TR-M Botti 2. Wade Giles (IRE) 3 8-11 £10,089 b g by Azamour - Tekindia (Indian Ridge) O-Pearl Bloodstock Limited B-ear Mulhern, J Flynn, Abbeville Stud TR-GM Lyons 3. Mid Mon Lady (IRE) 5 8-13 £4,779 br m by Danetime - Shining Desert (Green Desert) O-Mad In The Head Syndicate B-Patrick Cassidy TR-H Rogers

Earned £296,732

Broodmare Sire: CADEAUX GENEREUX. Sire of the dams of 29 Stakes winners. In 2010 - DREAM AHEAD Diktat G1, TURNING TOP Pivotal G3, ROCK MY SOUL Clodovil LR, ROCKATELLA Rock of Gibraltar LR.

HERNANDO b 90 Miswaki Whakilyric Lyrism Danzig Perugino Fairy Bridge GINO’S SPIRITS ch 96 Cure The Blues Rising Spirits Mrs McArdy

Northern Dancer Flaming Page Tom Rolfe Ridin’ Easy Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Lyphard Pass A Glance Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Bold Reason Special Stop The Music Quick Cure Tribal Chief Hanina

318 MIDDLE PARK S G1 NEWMARKET. October 1. 2yoc. 6f.

1. DREAM AHEAD (USA) 8-12 £106,046 bbr c by Diktat - Land of Dreams (Cadeaux Genereux) O-Khalifa Dasmal B-Darley TR-DM Simcock 2. Strong Suit (USA) 8-12 £40,199 ch c by Rahy - Helwa (Silver Hawk) O-Mrs J Wood B-McDowell Farm, Gainsborough Farm et al TR-R Hannon 3. Approve (IRE) 8-12 £20,118 b c by Oasis Dream - Wyola (Sadler’s Wells) O-Highclere Thoroughbred Racing (Bahram) B-Abbeville And Meadow Court Partners TR-WJ Haggas Margins 9, short head. Time 1:14.28 (slow 4.08).

Going Soft.

Age 2

Starts 3

Wins 3

Places 0

Earned £286,590

Sire: DIKTAT. Sire of 21 SWs. In 2010 - DREAM AHEAD Cadeaux Genereux G1, CONTAT Robellino G3.

1st Dam: LAND OF DREAMS by Cadeaux Genereux.

3 wins at 2 and 3, Polypipe PLC Flying Childers S G2. Dam of 4 winners: 2001: INTO THE DARK (g Rainbow Quest) 5 wins, Doonside Cup LR, James Seymour S LR, 2nd Arc Trial G3.

2002: ONLY MAKE BELIEVE (c Selkirk) Winner at 2.

2003: Dream Shared (f Fantastic Light). Broodmare.

2005: WILLIAM BLAKE (g Rainbow Quest) 4 wins.

2006: Idle Tears (f Selkirk) 2007: Queenofthefairies (f Pivotal) unraced to date.

2008: DREAM AHEAD (c Diktat) Sold 7,275gns yearling at KESEP, 34,285gns 2yo at DNAPR. 3 wins, Middle Park S G1, Prix Morny G1.

2009: (c Street Sense) 2nd Dam: SAHARA STAR by Green Desert. 2 wins at 2 Molecomb S G3, 3rd Lowther S G2. Dam of LAND OF DREAMS (see above), Just A Poser (c Darshaan: 3rd Prix La Rochette G3). Grandam of Say No Now.

In Reality Tamerett Roberto Slightly Dangerous Where You Lead DIKTAT br 95 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge Arvola Ahonoora Park Appeal Balidaress Balidar Young Generation Brig O’Doon Cadeaux Genereux Sharpen Up Smarten Up L’Anguissola LAND OF DREAMS b 95 Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier Sahara Star Star Appeal Vaigly Star Dervaig Known Fact

Warning

319 CHEVELEY PARK S G1 NEWMARKET. October 1. 2yof. 6f.

1. HOORAY (GB) 8-12 £98,439 b f by Invincible Spirit - Hypnotize (Machiavellian) O/B-Cheveley Park Stud TR-Sir Mark Prescott 2. Rimth (GB) 8-12 £37,316 b f by Oasis Dream - Dorelia (Efisio) O-Denford Stud B-Belgrave Bloodstock Ltd TR-PFI Cole 3. Maqaasid (GB) 8-12 £18,675 b f by Green Desert - Eshaadeh (Storm Cat) O-Hamdan Al Maktoum B-Shadwell Estate Co Ltd TR-JHM Gosden Margins 4.5, 1.25. Time 1:14.09 (slow 3.89).

Going Good to soft.

Age 2

Starts 7

Wins 4

Places 1

Earned £189,400

Sire: INVINCIBLE SPIRIT. Sire of 40 Stakes winners. In 2010 - HOORAY Machiavellian G1, YOSEI Fuji Kiseki G1, ALLIED POWERS High Line G2, ZEBEDEE Cozzene G2, CHARMING WOMAN Kendor G3, GLAMOROUS SPIRIT Air Express G3, KARGALI Last Tycoon G3, AL AASIFH Zafonic LR, BEYOND DESIRE Mujtahid LR, INVINCIBLE ASH Brief Truce LR, REYKON Indian Ridge LR, SPIRIT OF FORTUNE Machiavellian LR, SPIRIT OF SHARJAH Doulab LR. 1st Dam: HYPNOTIZE by Machiavellian. 2 wins at 2, Milcars Star S LR. Dam of 5 winners: 2002: HYPNOTIC (g Lomitas) 7 wins, The Darley Criterium de l’Ouest LR. 2003: MACEDON (g Dansili) 2 wins at 3.

2004: Rhapsodize (f Halling) unraced. Broodmare.

2005: HIP (f Pivotal) Winner at 2. Broodmare.

2007: NOTORIZE (c Hernando) Winner at 2.

2008: HOORAY (f Invincible Spirit) 4 wins at 2, Cheveley Park S G1, Lowther S G2, Sirenia S G3, 3rd Cherry Hinton S G2.

2009: Transfix (f Pivotal) 2010: (c Pivotal) 2nd Dam: BELLE ET DELUREE by The Minstrel. 2 wins at 2 and 3 in France. Dam of DAZZLE (f Gone West: Hillsdown Cherry Hinton S G2, 3rd Pertemps 1000 Guineas G1), FANTASIZE (f Groom Dancer: Carey’s Swinley S LR), HYPNOTIZE (f Machiavellian, see above), Baschar (c Starcraft: 3rd Oppenheim Union-Rennen G2), Enchant (f Lion Cavern: 3rd Tripleprint Lupe S LR). Grandam of DANEHURST, HUMOURESQUE, Mighty, Illusion. Third dam of Jairzihno, Queen Cheap.

Broodmare Sire: MACHIAVELLIAN. Sire of the dams of 65 Stakes winners. In 2010 - HOORAY Invincible Spirit G1, VICTOIRE PISA Neo Universe G1, ZOFFANY Dansili G1, ANGEL’S PURSUIT Pastoral Pursuits LR, KURT Intikhab LR, SACHA Keeper LR, SNOW WATCH Verglas LR, SPIRIT OF FORTUNE Invincible Spirit LR, TOOLAIN Diktat LR, RUN HERAMBA Taiki Shuttle LR. The Invincible Spirit/Machiavellian cross has produced: HOORAY G1, CONQUEST G2, SPIRIT OF FORTUNE LR.

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Caulfield on Hooray: “Her Cheveley Park Stakes win ended Cheveley Park Stud’s long wait for a Group 1 victory from a family which has provided them with numerous winners”

HOORAY b f 2008 Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Green Desert Sir Ivor Foreign Courier Courtly Dee INVINCIBLE SPIRIT b 97 Sharpen Up Kris Doubly Sure Rafha Artaius Eljazzi Border Bounty Raise A Native Mr Prospector Gold Digger Machiavellian Halo Coup de Folie Raise The Standard HYPNOTIZE b 97 Northern Dancer The Minstrel Fleur Belle Et Deluree Stop The Music Sophisticated Girl Close Control Danzig

The Cheveley Park Stud team is naturally keen to win the historic Cheveley Park Stakes and they landed this prestigious prize for the third time in 17 years when Hooray proved much too fast and determined for her ten rivals.

Hooray’s victory also ended the stud’s long wait for a Gr1 victory from a family, descending from Sophisticated Girl, which has supplied David and Patricia Thompson with numerous smart performers over the last two decades. Hooray’s second dam Belle Et Deluree was bought for $140,000 at the 1989 Keeneland November Sales, having won over a mile and a mile and a quarter at Longchamp. The daughter of The Minstrel produced important fillies for Cheveley Park to several sons of Mr Prospector, including the smart Gone West filly Dazzle (Cherry Hinton Stakes and third in the 1,000 Guineas), the Miswaki filly Miswaki Belle (dam of the Group winners Danehurst and Humouresque) and Machiavellian’s daughter Hypnotize.

A winner of the seven-furlong Star Stakes at two, Hypnotize is now the dam of Hooray and of Hypnotic, a Lomitas gelding who won a Listed race at two over a mile, which proved the limit of his stamina.

Coincidentally, Belle Et Deluree’s three-parts-sister Dancing Tribute was runner-up in the 1988 Cheveley Park Stakes. Cheveley Park acquired Dance Sequence, one of Dancing Tribute’s successful daughters by Mr Prospector, for $375,000 as a yearling. Dance Sequence landed the Lowther Stakes, a race which also figures among Hooray’s victories.

Sophisticated Girl was also among the best two-year-old fillies of her year. She is one of five daughters of Close Control who did well, one of the others being Fitted Crown, dam of the top American filly Excellent Meeting, and Fair Advantage, dam of the fast American filly Advancing Star.

Margins 7, nose. Time 1:39.84 (slow 4.04).

Going Good to soft.

Age 2-4

Starts 9

Wins 3

Places 5

Earned £116,062

Sire: SELKIRK. Sire of 80 Stakes winners. In 2010 AKMAL Swain G2, ANNOUNCE Gone West G3, CITYSCAPE Distant View G3, TRANQUIL TIGER Distant View G3, GARDENING LEAVE Caerleon LR. 1st Dam: TANTINA by Distant View. 4 wins at 3, Oak Tree S LR, JRA London Office’s Kyoto Sceptre S LR, 3rd Charlton Hunt Supreme S G3. Dam of 3 winners: 2005: Scuffle (f Daylami) 3 wins at 3, 3rd oddschecker.com Snowdrop S LR. 2006: CITYSCAPE (c Selkirk) 3 wins at 2 and 4, Nayef Joel S G3, Betfred Goals Galore Superior Mile LR, 2nd Juddmonte Royal Lodge S G2, Bathwick Tyres Greenham S G3, Britain’s Got Talent Paradise S LR. 2007: BATED BREATH (c Dansili) 3 wins at 3.

2008: Daintily Done (f Cacique) unraced to date.

2009: (f Oasis Dream) 2010: (f Dansili) 2nd Dam: DIDINA by Nashwan. 5 wins at 2 and 3 at home, USA Dahlia H G2, 3rd Gamely H G1. Dam of TANTINA (f Distant View, see above), Trekking (f Gone West: 2nd Santa Barbara H G2). Grandam of Crying Lightening.

Broodmare Sire: DISTANT VIEW. Sire of the dams of 11 Stakes winners. In 2010 - AFLEET EXPRESS Afleet Alex G1, SOLE POWER Kyllachy G1, SPECIAL DUTY Hennessy G1, CITYSCAPE Selkirk G3, TRANQUIL TIGER Selkirk G3, EXCLUSIVE SCHEME Saarland LR. The Selkirk/Distant View cross has produced: CITYSCAPE G2, TRANQUIL TIGER G3.

CITYSCAPE ch c 2006 Atan Sharpen Up Rocchetta SELKIRK ch 88 Nebbiolo Annie Edge Friendly Court Mr Prospector Distant View Seven Springs TANTINA ch 2000 Nashwan Didina Didicoy

Native Dancer Mixed Marriage Rockefella Chambiges Yellow God Novara Be Friendly No Court Raise A Native Gold Digger Irish River La Trinite Blushing Groom Height of Fashion Danzig Monroe

321 OH SO SHARP S G3 NEWMARKET. October 1. 2yof. 7f.

1. HAVANT (GB) 8-12 £22,708 b f by Halling - Louella (El Gran Senor) O-Mr & Mrs James Wigan B-Mrs James Wigan, London TB Services Ltd TR-Sir Michael Stoute 2. Look At Me (IRE) 8-12 £8,608 b f by Danehill Dancer - Queen Cleopatra (Kingmambo) O-Mrs John Magnier B-Queen Cleopatra Syndicate TR-AP O’Brien 3. Khawlah (IRE) 8-12 £4,308 b f by Cape Cross - Villarrica (Selkirk) O-Godolphin B-Darley TR-Saeed bin Suroor Margins 3.25, 1.75. Time 1:28.74 (slow 5.54).

Going Good to soft.

Age 2

Starts 2

Wins 2

Places 0

Earned £26,917

NEWMARKET. October 1. 3yo+. 8f.

Sire: HALLING. Sire of 49 Stakes winners. In 2010 CUTLASS BAY Danzig G1, EASTERN ARIA Danzig G2, OPINION POLL Shirley Heights G2, HAVANT El Gran Senor G3, HAKKAR Sadler’s Wells LR, HOLBERG Assert LR, LONGHUNTER Night Shift LR.

1. CITYSCAPE (GB) 4 9-0 £34,062 ch c by Selkirk - Tantina (Distant View) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-R Charlton 2. Penitent (GB) 4 9-0 £12,912 b g by Kyllachy - Pious (Bishop of Cashel) O-Cheveley Park Stud B-Cheveley Park Stud TR-B Haggas 3. Fair Trade (GB) 3 8-11 £6,462 ch c by Trade Fair - Ballet (Sharrood) O-Raymond Tooth B-Highclere Stud TR-DRC Elsworth

1st Dam: Louella by El Gran Senor. Dam of 6 winners: 1999: LEADERSHIP (c Selkirk) 5 wins at 2 to 4 at home, Italy, Gran Premio di Milano G1.

2000: RITA SKEATER (f Hector Protector) 3 wins at 3.

2001: TONY CATALOPO (c Groom Dancer) 4 wins.

2003: Slieve (f Selkirk) unraced. Broodmare.

2005: Selsey (f Selkirk) 2006: ROUGHAM (g Red Ransom) 2 wins over hurdles at 3 and 4.

320 JOEL S G3

2007: TUSCAN GOLD (c Medicean) 2 wins at 3.

2008: HAVANT (f Halling) 2 wins at 2, Sakhee Oh So Sharp S G3.

2009: (c Shirocco) Broodmare Sire: EL GRAN SENOR. Sire of the dams of 58 SWs. In 2010 - HAVANT Halling G3, LE GRAND CRU Dynaformer G3, TERTIO BLOOM Tertullian LR, FRAMMASSONE Fraam LR. HAVANT b f 2008 Atan Rocchetta Reliance II Doubly Sure Soft Angels Nijinsky Green Dancer Green Valley Pontifex Never A Lady Camogie Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Buckpasser Sex Appeal Best In Show Riverman Irish River Irish Star Mr Prospector Witwatersrand Sleek Belle Sharpen Up Diesis HALLING ch 91 Dance Machine

El Gran Senor LOUELLA b 94 Celtic Loot

322 PRIX CHAUDENAY G2 LONGCHAMP. October 2. 3yo. 3000m.

1. CELTIC CELEB (IRE) 9-2 £65,575 ch c by Peintre Celebre - Gaelic Bird (Gay Mecene) O-Henri De Pracomtal B-Horse Breeding Corporation TR-F Doumen 2. Ivory Land (FR) 9-2 £25,310 ch c by Lando - Ivory Coast (Peintre Celebre) O-E Fierro B-Z Hakam TR-A de Royer-Dupre 3. Le Larron (IRE) 9-2 £12,080 gr c by High Chaparral - Mare Aux Fees (Kenmare) O-Marquesa De Moratalla B-P Nataf TR-A de Royer-Dupre Margins 1.5, head. Time 3:32.40 (slow 21.00).

Going Very soft.

Age 2-3

Starts 9

Wins 3

Places 4

Sire: PEINTRE CELEBRE. Sire of 48 Stakes winners. In 2010 - BYWORD Woodman G1, CELTIC CELEB Gay Mecene G2.

LONGCHAMP. October 2. 3yo+. 1600m.

1. ROYAL BENCH (IRE) 3 8-11 £65,575 b c by Whipper - Hit The Sky (Cozzene) O-RC Strauss B-Kilfrush Stud TR-R Collet 2. Lochinver (USA) 3 8-11 £25,310 b c by Kingmambo - Campsie Fells (Indian Ridge) O-Godolphin SNC B-Darley TR-A Fabre 3. Emerald Commander (IRE) 3 9-0 £12,080 b c by Pivotal - Brigitta (Sadler’s Wells) O-Godolphin B-Grangecon Stud TR-Saeed bin Suroor Margins 3, 1.5. Time 1:44.30. Going Very soft.

Age 2-3

Starts 8

Wins 4

Places 1

1st Dam: GAELIC BIRD by Gay Mecene. 5 wins, Prix Chloe G3, Prix de Sandringham G3, 3rd Dahlia H G2.

Dam of 4 winners: 1993: Gaelic Sovereign (g Sovereign Dancer) 1994: Gaelic Cat (f Storm Cat). Broodmare.

1995: SHARP EYES (f Storm Cat) 2 wins 3-4. Dam of Choice Play (2nd Red Carpet S LR).

1998: GAELIC QUEEN (f Fairy King) 2 wins at 3, Garnet S LR, 3rd Concorde S G3. Broodmare.

1999: FALCONER (c Alzao) 4 wins 5-6 in USA. 2003: (f Sadler’s Wells) 2005: Guillaume d’Orange (g Barathea) 2007: CELTIC CELEB (c Peintre Celebre) Sold 59,523gns yearling at ARAUG. 3 wins, Prix Chaudenay G2, Prix Maurice Caillault LR, 2nd Prix Hocquart G2, GP de Clairefontaine LR.

Earned £137,714

Sire: WHIPPER. Sire of 4 Stakes winners. In 2010 ROYAL BENCH Cozzene G2, WIZZ KID Soviet Star LR, YAA WAYL Nicholas LR. 1st Dam: Hit The Sky by Cozzene. unraced. Dam of 2 winners: 2006: RAIN OF MELODY (c Night Shift) 2 wins at 3 in France.

2007: ROYAL BENCH (c Whipper) 4 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Qatar Prix Daniel Wildenstein G2, Prix du Haras de la Huderie LR. 2008: Memphis Tennessee (c Hurricane Run) in training.

2009: (c Barathea) 2nd Dam: CERULEAN SKY by Darshaan. 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France Prix Saint-Alary G1, 2nd E P Taylor S G1, 3rd Prix Vermeille G1. Own sister to L’ANCRESSE and Qaatef. Dam of HONOLULU (c Montjeu: National Express Doncaster Cup G2, 3rd Ladbrokes St Leger S G1) Broodmare Sire: COZZENE. Sire of the dams of 36 Stakes winners. In 2010 - ROYAL BENCH Whipper G2, ZEBEDEE Invincible Spirit G2, MEMORIAL MANIAC Lear Fan G3, CANDY’S DAUGHTER Candy Ride LR, RUSTLER HUSTLER Ecton Park LR, TANGERINE TREES Mind Games LR. ROYAL BENCH b c 2007 Mr Prospector Miesque’s Son Miesque WHIPPER b 2001 Sadler’s Wells Myth To Reality Millieme Caro Cozzene Ride The Trails HIT THE SKY b 2002 Darshaan Cerulean Sky Solo de Lune

Raise A Native Gold Digger Nureyev Pasadoble Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Mill Reef Hardiemma Fortino II Chambord Prince John Wildwook Shirley Heights Delsy Law Society Truly Special

324 PRIX DE ROYALLIEU G2 LONGCHAMP. October 2. 3yo+f&M. 2500m.

2nd Dam: ORANGE BIRD by Sea Bird II. 1 win at 3 in France. Dam of GAELIC BIRD (f Gay Mecene, see above), GOLD BIRD (f Rheingold: Prix des Belles Filles LR, 2nd Prix de Royallieu G3). Grandam of GABINA, GALETTO, Gold Rose. Third dam of GOLDMARK, GARZA, Ocean Sound, Matikaneharesugata, Over Looked. .

Broodmare Sire: GAY MECENE. Sire of the dams of 34 Stakes winners. In 2010 - CELTIC CELEB Peintre Celebre G2.

CELTIC CELEB ch c 2007 Northern Dancer Nureyev Special PEINTRE CELEBRE ch 94

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Earned £152,043

323 PRIX DANIEL WILDENSTEIN G2

Alydar Peinture Bleue Petroleuse Vaguely Noble Gay Mecene Gay Missile GAELIC BIRD b 87 Sea Bird II Orange Bird Mock Orange

Nearctic Natalma Forli Thong Raise A Native Sweet Tooth Habitat Plencia Vienna Noble Lassie Sir Gaylord Missy Baba Dan Cupid Sicalade Dedicate Alablue

1. MARIA ROYAL (IRE) 4 8-7 £65,575 b f by Montjeu - Notable (Zafonic) O-Slim Chiboub B-Lynch Bages Ltd TR-A de Royer-Dupre 2. High Heeled (IRE) 4 9-1 £25,310 b f by High Chaparral - Uncharted Haven (Turtle Island) O-G Strawbridge, J Wigan B-Ballylinch Stud TR-JHM Gosden 3. Sarah Lynx (IRE) 7 9-1 £12,080 b m by Montjeu - Steel Princess (Danehill) O-Mrs Robert G Ehrnrooth B-Grangecon Stud TR-JE Hammond Margins Neck, head. Time 2:49.60 (slow 12.60).

Going Very soft.

Age 3

Starts 6

Wins 4

Places 0

Earned £115,796

Sire: MONTJEU. Sire of 92 SWs. In 2010 - FAME AND GLORY Shirley Heights G1, TAVISTOCK Quest For Fame G1, WALL STREET Grand Lodge G1, JUKEBOX JURY Kenmare G2, MARIA ROYAL Zafonic G2, MISS KELLER Warning G2, GROWL Western Symphony G3, JAN VERMEER Pennekamp G3.

1st Dam: Notable by Zafonic. Dam of 1 winner: 2004: Nebola (f Sadler’s Wells) unraced.

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DATA BOOK STAKES RESULTS

European Pattern 2007: MARIA ROYAL (f Montjeu) Sold 35,014gns yearling at ARAUG. 4 wins, Prix de Royallieu G2, Prix Madame Jean Couturie LR. 2008: (f Dansili) 2nd Dam: Nesaah by Topsider. 2 wins, 2nd Galtres S LR. Dam of ORFORD NESS (f Selkirk: Prix de Sandringham G3), Aware (c Kenmare: 2nd Prix Eugene Adam G2). Grandam of WEIGHTLESS, MAIN AIM, HOME AFFAIRS. Third dam of RAINFALL. Broodmare Sire: ZAFONIC. Sire of the dams of 37 SWs. In 2010 - MARIA ROYAL Montjeu G2.

The Montjeu/Zafonic cross has produced: PAPAL BULL G1, MARIA ROYAL G2.

MARIA ROYAL b f 2007 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge MONTJEU b 96 Top Ville Floripedes Toute Cy Gone West Zafonic Zaizafon NOTABLE b 99 Topsider Nesaah Sylph

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special High Top Sega Ville Tennyson Adele Toumignon Mr Prospector Secrettame The Minstrel Mofida Northern Dancer Drumtop Alleged Society Column

325 SUN CHARIOT S G1 NEWMARKET. October 2. 3yo+f&m. 8f.

1. SAHPRESA (USA) 5 9-2 £102,186 b m by Sahm - Sorpresa (Pleasant Tap) O/B-Douglas Owen McIntyre TR-Rod Collet 2. Strawberrydaiquiri (GB) 4 9-2 £38,736 gr m by Dansili - Strawberry Morn (Travelling Victor) O-Fawzi Abdulla Nass B-Newsells Park Stud TR-Sir Michael Stoute 3. Rainfall (IRE) 3 8-13 £19,386 b f by Oasis Dream - Molomo (Barathea) O-Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Al Maktoum B-Barouche Stud Ireland Ltd TR-M Johnston Margins 1.75, 1. Time 1:38.80 (slow by 3.00).

Going Soft.

Age 3-5

Starts 13

Wins 6

Places 6

Earned £552,671

Sire: SAHM. Sire of 9 Stakes winners. In 2010 SAHPRESA Pleasant Tap G1, MARAM Quest For Fame LR. 1st Dam: SORPRESA by Pleasant Tap. 3 wins in USA. Dam of 3 winners: 2002: MONFILS MONFILS (g Sahm) 6 wins.

2003: MIOFILIO MIOFILIO (g Dayjur) 3 wins.

2005: SAHPRESA (f Sahm) 6 wins at 3 to 5 at home, France, Kingdom of Bahrain Sun Chariot S G1 (twice), Prix du Pin G3, Prix Coronation LR, Prix Montretout LR, 2nd Prix du Chemin de Fer du Nord G3, Prix Quincey - Lucien Barriere G3, 3rd Mile Championship G1.

2007: Fils d’Albert (c Albert the Great) unraced.

2008: Pleasant Albert (c Albert the Great) unraced to date.

2010: (c Country Be Gold) 2nd Dam: DUBIOUSLY by Jolie Jo. 2 wins in USA Proud Sister S. Broodmare Sire: PLEASANT TAP. Sire of the dams of 14 Stakes winners. In 2010 - SAHPRESA Sahm G1, PLEASANT PRINCE Indy King G3.

SAHPRESA b m 2005 Native Dancer Raise You Nashua Gold Digger Sequence Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge Artaius Flame of Tara Welsh Flame His Majesty Pleasant Colony Sun Colony Stage Door Johnny Never Knock Never Hula Round Table Jolie Jo Jolie Deja Olden Times Skeptic Lady Mysterious Lady Raise A Native Mr Prospector SAHM b/br 94 Salsabil

Pleasant Tap SORPRESA b/br 96 Dubiously

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The decision to keep Sahpresa in training at the age of five looked none too wise when the daughter of Sahm had problems which restricted her campaign to just one start prior to September. However, with her problems behind her, Sahpresa returned to win the Gr3 Prix du Pin before repeating her 2009 victory in the Sun Chariot Stakes.

Sahpresa is one of around 200 foals sired by the royally-bred Sahm, who died at the age of 13 in 2007. As many as 15 became stakes winners, even though the son of Mr Prospector and the triple Classic winner Salsabil didn’t receive support commensurate to the brilliance of his bloodlines. Part of the problem was that Sahm’s racing career had been full of stops and starts. Although he looked very promising when he won the first two of his three juvenile starts for John Dunlop, his entry in Racehorses of 1996 ended with “sent to Dubai where reportedly had wind operation.”

Unraced at three, Sahm was next seen as a four-year-old in the USA, where he won the Gr2 Knickerbocker Handicap over nine furlongs on turf.

After suffering another blank season in 1999, he retired to Shadwell’s Kentucky branch.

His record has proved that he was worthy of stronger support. He sired the good Irish performers Mustameet, Red Maloney and Adaala, while his American runners included Maram, who narrowly landed the 2008 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf.

Maram is still winning at stakes level in 2010.

Sahpresa is the only Gr1 winner among the five Graded winners produced by daughters of Pleasant Tap, America’s champion older male horse in 1992. Pleasant Tap is best known in Europe as the sire of the Coral-Eclipse and Champion Stakes winner David Junior. Sahpresa’s dam Sorpresa was a minor American winner on dirt and turf.

326 PRIX DOLLAR G2 LONGCHAMP. October 2. 3yo+. 1950m.

1. CIRRUS DES AIGLES (FR) 4 9-0 £65,575 b g by Even Top - Taille de Guepe (Septieme Ciel) O-JCA Dupouy B-Y Lelimouzin, B Deschamps TR-Mme C Barande-Barbe 2. Budai (GER) 4 9-0 £25,310 b c by Dai Jin - Bejaria (Konigsstuhl) O-PT Stable B-Gestut Schlenderhan TR-W Hickst 3. Distant Memories (IRE) 4 9-0 £12,080 b g by Falbrav - Amathia (Darshaan) O-Mrs Fitri Hay B-Kildaragh Stud TR-TP Tate Margins 2, head. Time 2:09.60 (slow 10.60).

Going Soft.

Age 2-4

Starts 24

Wins 8

Places 16

Earned £384,207

Sire: EVEN TOP. Sire of 1 Stakes winners. In 2010 CIRRUS DES AIGLES Septieme Ciel G2.

1st Dam: Taille de Guepe by Septieme Ciel. unraced.

Dam of 2 winners: 2003: MESNIL DES AIGLES (c Neverneyev) 7 wins at 3 to 7, 2010 in France.

2004: Miss des Aigles (f Alamo Bay) 2005: Vie des Aigles (f Alamo Bay) unplaced.

2006: CIRRUS DES AIGLES (g Even Top) 8 wins at 3 and 4 in France, Qatar Prix Dollar G2, Prix du Conseil de Paris G2, Prix du Prince d’Orange G3, Prix de Boulogne LR, Grand Prix du Lion d’Angers LR, 2nd G. P. de Clairefontaine Denis Weibel LR, Prix Matchem LR, Derby du Languedoc LR, Prix Policeman LR, 3rd Prix Gontaut-Biron-Hong Kong Jockey Club G3, Prix Ridgway LR, Prix Pelleas LR. 2008: Kiva des Aigles (f Enrique) unraced to date.

Broodmare Sire: SEPTIEME CIEL. Sire of the dams of 17 Stakes winners. In 2010 - CIRRUS DES AIGLES Even Top G2, THIS ONES FOR PHIL Untuttable LR.

Rainbow Quest who was fourth in the 2005 Prix du Cadran.

Gentoo shares the same broodmare sire, Bering, as the remarkable King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes winner Harbinger, but the 1986 Prix du Jockey-Club winner doesn’t have an outstanding record in this role, the only other Gr1 winners out of his daughters being Torrestella, winner of the French 1,000 Guineas, and smart turf horse Special Ring.

CIRRUS DES AIGLES b g 2006 Ahonoora Topanoora Topping Girl EVEN TOP br 93 Niniski Skevena Skhiza Seattle Slew Septieme Ciel Maximova TAILLE DE GUEPE ch 99 Funambule Roots Ruma

Lorenzaccio Helen Nichols Sea Hawk II Round Eye Nijinsky Virginia Hills Targowice Anticlea Bold Reasoning My Charmer Green Dancer Baracala Lyphard Sonoma Rheffic Runnello

327 PRIX DU CADRAN G1 LONGCHAMP. October 3. 4yo+. 4000m.

1. GENTOO (FR) 6 9-2 £126,416 b g by Loup Solitaire - Ifni (Bering) O-Serge Tripier-Mondancin B-JC Seroul TR-A Lyon 2. Winter Dream (IRE) 6 9-2 £50,575 b c by Act One - Settler (Darshaan) O-Mlle Micheline Vidal B-Kilfrush Stud TR-R Collet 3. Kasbah Bliss (FR) 8 9-2 £25,288 b g by Kahyasi - Marital Bliss (Double Bed) O-Henri De Pracomtal B-Haras d’Ecouves, H De Pracomtal TR-F Doumen Margins 2.5, 1.5. Time 4:40.80 (slow 22.80).

Going Very soft. See race 296.

As recently as July 2007, Gentoo was claimed after winning over a mile and a quarter at Vichy, but the son of Loup Solitaire has done nothing but improve since then. Gentoo is proving well suited by a stiff test of stamina, as the six-year-old showed by following up his victory in the Gr3 Prix Gladiateur with a Gr1 success in the Prix du Cadran.

Loup Solitaire, who stands at a fee of €2,500, looked to have a bright future when he broke his maiden in the 1995 Grand Criterium. However, he managed only two more starts, finishing second to Helissio in the Prix Lupin in the second of them. The wellbred son of Lear Fan has sired a handful of Group winners, ranging from the sprinter Blanche to Gentoo.

Gentoo’s dam Ifni was a minor winner over 11 and 13 furlongs. With Bering as her sire and Bold Lady as her third dam, Ifni was bred along similar lines to the Gran Criterium winner Steamer Duck, who was by Bering out of a daughter of Bold Lady.

Two of Bold Lady’s other daughters were responsible for top-notch winners in Japan, with Jolie Zaza, producing the Japan Cup Dirt winner Time Paradox and Lola Lola the Horse of the Year Sakura Laurel. Sakura Laurel was by Rainbow Quest, as was Gentoo’s second dam Lunar Quest.

Lunar Quest’s half-sister Mondsee also had a smart French stayer to her credit in Allez Olive, a grandson of

328 PRIX DE L’ARC DE TRIOMPHE G1 LONGCHAMP. October 3. 3yo+c&f. 2400m.

1. WORKFORCE (GB) 3 8-11 £2,022,655 b c by King’s Best - Soviet Moon (Sadler’s Wells) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-Sir Michael Stoute 2. Nakayama Festa (JPN) 4 9-5 £809,204 b c by Stay Gold - Dear Wink (Tight Spot) O-Shinichi Izumi B-Arai Bokujo TR-Yoshitaka Ninomiya 3. Sarafina (FR) 3 8-8 £404,602 b f by Refuse To Bend - Sanariya (Darshaan) O/B-HH The Aga Khan TR-A de Royer-Dupre Margins Head, 2.5. Time 2:35.30 (slow 4.80).

Going Very soft.

Age 2-3

Starts 5

Wins 3

Places Earned 1 £2,856,901

Sire: KING’S BEST. Sire of 36 Stakes winners. In 2010 - EISHIN FLASH Platini G1, WORKFORCE Sadler’s Wells G1, CALMING INFLUENCE Indian Ridge G2, ALLYBAR Irish River G3, SIMON DE MONTFORT Caerleon G3, SPICE ROUTE In The Wings G3.

1st Dam: Soviet Moon by Sadler’s Wells. unraced.

Own sister to BRIAN BORU, KITTY O’SHEA and Kushnarenkovo. Dam of 3 winners: 2005: ROCKET LAUNCH (c Oasis Dream) 3 wins at 3 to 5 in Greece.

2006: EXTREME IMPACT (g Rock of Gibraltar) Winner over hurdles at 4.

2007: WORKFORCE (c King’s Best) 3 wins, Derby S G1, Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe G1, 2nd Dante S G2.

2008: Spectacle (f Dalakhani) unraced to date.

2009: (c Halling) 2nd Dam: EVA LUNA by Alleged. 4 wins at 4 and 5 Stones Bitter Park Hill S G3. Own sister to Petralona.

Dam of BRIAN BORU (c Sadler’s Wells: St Leger S G1, Racing Post Trophy G1, 2nd Irish St Leger G1, 3rd Canadian International S G1 (twice)), MOON SEARCH (f Rainbow Quest: Prix de Royallieu G2), KITTY O’SHEA (f Sadler’s Wells: Park Express S LR), Kushnarenkovo (f Sadler’s Wells: 2nd Noblesse S G3).

Broodmare Sire: SADLER’S WELLS. Sire of the dams of 238 Stakes winners. In 2010 CAMPANOLOGIST Kingmambo G1, CHINESE WHITE Dalakhani G1, PATHFORK Distorted Humor G1, WORKFORCE King’s Best G1, APPROVE Oasis Dream G2, BANKABLE Medicean G2, EMERALD COMMANDER Pivotal G2, MEISHO BELUGA French Deputy G2, ZARIUS Zabeel G2, BALETTI Gulch G3, BEETHOVEN Oratorio G3, CAT JUNIOR Storm Cat G3, CHRYSANTHEMUM Danehill Dancer G3, DEEM Dalakhani G3, ELUSIVE PIMPERNEL Elusive Quality G3, LAAHEB Cape Cross G3, POSAVINA Tiger Hill G3, A CHANCE TO DREAM Volksraad LR, ALSACE LORRAINE Giant’s Causeway LR, CIVIL WAR War Emblem LR, HAKKAR Halling LR, HAWK ISLAND Hawk Wing LR, KILO ALPHA King’s Best LR, MIRROR LAKE Dubai Destination LR, MOE GREEN Xaar LR, OCEAN AND BEYOND Kingsalsa LR, PRINCIPAL ROLE Empire Maker LR, TIMEPIECE Zamindar LR, VERTANA Sinndar LR, FRENCH OPERA Bering LR. The King’s Best/Sadler’s Wells cross has produced: BEST ALIBI G1, CREACHADOIR G1, RUNAWAY G1, WORKFORCE G1, KILO ALPHA LR, TO SENDER LR, Gemini Gold G3, Earl’s Court LR, Angelonmyshoulder LR, Honour System LR, Ski Sunday LR. See race 102 in the July issue

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Caulfield on Wootton Bassett: “The son of Iffraaj maintained his unbeaten record in fine style, in the process effectively securing his sire the title of champion European first-crop stallion”

WORKFORCE b c 2007 Raise A Native Gold Digger Nureyev Miesque Pasadoble Agio Lombard Promised Lady Espresso Anatevka Almyra Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special Hoist The Flag Alleged Princess Pout Star Appeal Media Luna Sounion Mr Prospector Kingmambo KING’S BEST b 97 Allegretta

Sadler’s Wells SOVIET MOON b 2001 Eva Luna

329 PRIX DE L’ABBAYE DE LONGCHAMP G1 LONGCHAMP. October 3. 2yo+. 1000m.

1. GILT EDGE GIRL (GB) 4 9-7 £126,416 ch f by Monsieur Bond - Tahara (Caerleon) O-Wood Street Syndicate, V Harper, CJ Harper B-Whitsbury Manor Stud TR-CG Cox 2. Lady of The Desert (USA) 3 9-7 £50,575 ch f by Rahy - Queen’s Logic (Grand Lodge) O-Jaber Abdullah B-Rabbah Bloodstock TR-BJ Meehan 3. Mar Adentro (FR) 4 9-11 £25,288 b c by Marju - Guermantes (Distant Relative) O-R Chotard, B Cadet, A Cadet B-Jose M Soriano TR-R Chotard Margins 1, 1.5. Time 0.57.00 (slow 0.20).

Going Very soft.

Age 2-4

Starts 18

Wins 6

Places 9

Earned £217,138

Sire: MONSIEUR BOND. Sire of 3 Stakes winners.

In 2010 - GILT EDGE GIRL Caerleon G1, MY NAME IS BOND Makbul G3.

1st Dam: Tahara by Caerleon. Dam of 6 winners: 1999: THE NAME GAME’S (c Pennekamp) 9 wins at 3 to 7 in Italy.

2000: ZAIZATAH (f Zamindar) 2 wins at 3 and 4.

2001: Tagrand (c Grand Lodge) 2002: TAMORA (f Dr Fong) Winner at 4. Broodmare.

2003: GODFREY STREET (g Compton Place) 8 wins at 2 to 6, 2009, Flying Childers S G2.

2005: ALWAYS READY (c Best of The Bests) 3 wins.

2006: GILT EDGE GIRL (f Monsieur Bond) Sold 17,000gns yearling at DNSLY, 22,000gns 3yo at TADEM. 6 wins, Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp G1, Ballyogan S G3, Lansdown S LR, 3rd Goldene Peitsche G2, Summer S G3.

2007: Ahwahnee (f Compton Place) in training.

2008: Xclaim (c Proclamation) in training.

2009: (c Notnowcato) 2010: (f Sakhee’s Secret) 2nd Dam: TARWIYA by Dominion. 3 wins at 2 C L Weld EBF Park S G3, 2nd Moyglare Stud S G1, 3rd Irish 1000 Guineas G1. Dam of Tarwila (f In The Wings: 3rd Trigo S LR). Grandam of ARCANO, MESSAGER DU ROI, BIG AUDIO. Broodmare Sire: CAERLEON. See race 290 GILT EDGE GIRL ch f 2006 Danzig Razyana Sharpen Up Mira Adonde Lettre d’Amour Sing Sing Song Intent Charlottesville Effervescence II Vareta Northern Dancer Nijinsky Flaming Page Round Table Foreseer Regal Gleam Derring-Do Dominion Picture Palace Tap On Wood Touraya Takrana Danehill Danehill Dancer MONSIEUR BOND ch 2000 Musical Essence

Caerleon TAHARA ch 94 Tarwiya

As Gilt Edge Girl started at more than 50-1, the English filly was clearly a highly unexpected winner of the Prix de l’Abbaye. However, her victory doesn’t look quite so unpredictable if you take a long look at her female line.

Her eighth dam, the middle-distance winner Tosca, became a regular mate

of Relic, a fast American horse imported by Francois Dupre, and their progeny contested several editions of the Prix de l’Abbaye.

The first, a colt called Mystic, was third in the 1957 race, which was won by his exceptional two-year-old sister Texana. This filly headed the French Free Handicap after recording 11 consecutive victories over distances ranging from four furlongs to five.

Texana’s younger sister Texanita was another formidable performer, who included the 1963 Prix de l’Abbaye among her eight wins from 11 juvenile starts. Texanita returned to Longchamp for the 1964 Abbaye and won again, to make it three wins for Tosca’s offspring.

Texana is the seventh dam of Gilt Edge Girl, her sixth dam being the very successful broodmare Tremogia, who was inbred 3 x 3 to Relic. Gilt Edge Girl’s second dam is another influential broodmare, Tarwiya. A half-sister to the very speedy Blue Dakota, winner of the Gr3 Norfolk Stakes, Tarwiya was a two-year-old Gr3 winner who trained on to be third in the Irish 1,000 Guineas. Although none of Tarwiya’s progeny became a stakes winner, no fewer than four of her daughters have achieved that goal, largely with help from the Danzig male line. Her Daylami filly Tariysha produced the 2009 Prix Morny winner Arcano to Oasis Dream; her Grand Lodge filly Tarbela produced the dual Listed winner Big Audio to Oratorio; and her Caerleon filly Tahara has produced Gilt Edge Girl to Monsieur Bond (plus the Gr2 Flying Childers Stakes winner Godfrey Street to Compton Place).

330 PRIX MARCEL BOUSSAC G1 LONGCHAMP. October 3. 2yof. 1600m.

1. MISTY FOR ME (IRE) 8-11 £151,699 b f by Galileo - Butterfly Cove (Storm Cat) O-M Tabor, D Smith, Mrs J Magnier B-March Thoroughbreds TR-AP O’Brien 2. Helleborine (GB) 8-11 £60,690 b f by Observatory - New Orchid (Quest For Fame) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-Mme C Head-Maarek 3. Rainbow Springs (GB) 8-11 £30,345 b f by Selkirk - Pearl Dance (Nureyev) O/B-George Strawbridge TR-JHM Gosden Margins 1, 3. Time 1:42.50. Going Very soft.

Age 2

Starts 5

Wins 3

Places 1

Earned £299,818

Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 76 Stakes winners. In 2010 CAPE BLANCO Presidium G1, LILY OF THE VALLEY Pennekamp G1, MAHBOOBA Red Ransom G1, MISTY FOR ME Storm Cat G1, RIP VAN WINKLE Stravinsky G1, SANS FRONTIERES Shirley Heights G1, FRANKEL Danehill G2, KITE WOOD Mark of Esteem G2, LINTON Centaine G2, MIDAS TOUCH Darshaan G2, MIKHAIL GLINKA Mark of Esteem G3, TOGETHER Pennekamp G3.

2nd Dam: Mr P’s Princess by Mr Prospector. unraced. Dam of FASLIYEV (c Nureyev: Phoenix S G1, Prix Morny G1), KAMARINSKAYA (f Storm Cat: 1000 Guineas Trial S G3) Broodmare Sire: STORM CAT. Sire of the dams of 100 SWs. In 2010 - HARMONIOUS Dynaformer G1, MISTY FOR ME Galileo G1, SIDNEY’S CANDY Candy Ride G1, CITY TO CITY City Zip G2, MAQAASID Green Desert G2, AMERICAN LION Tiznow G3, EL CABALLO El Corredor G3, IT’S TEA TIME Dynaformer G3, KEERTANA Johar G3, KHANCORD KID Lemon Drop Kid G3, RED SPADA Taiki Shuttle G3, SNOW TOP MOUNTAIN Najran G3.

See race 255 in the October issue MISTY FOR ME b f 2008 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge GALILEO b 98 Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta Storm Bird Storm Cat Terlingua BUTTERFLY COVE b/br 2001 Mr Prospector Mr P’s Princess Anne Campbell

331 PRIX JEAN-LUC LAGARDERE G1 LONGCHAMP. October 3. 2yo. 1400m.

1. WOOTTON BASSETT (GB) 9-0 £176,982 b c by Iffraaj - Balladonia (Primo Dominie) O-Frank Brady, The Cosmic Cases B-Laundry Cottage Stud Farm TR-RA Fahey 2.=Maiguri (IRE) 9-0 £53,104 ch c by Panis - Zanada (Sinndar) O/B-Ecurie Jarlan TR-C Baillet 2.=Tin Horse (IRE) 9-0 £53,104 gr c by Sakhee - Joyeuse Entree (Kendor) O/B-Marquise de Moratalla TR-D Guillemin Margins 2.5, dead heat. Time 1:23.00.

Going Very soft.

Age 2

Starts 5

Wins 5

Places 0

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Earned £524,445

Sire: IFFRAAJ. Sire of 1 Stakes winners. In 2010 WOOTTON BASSETT Primo Dominie G1.

1st Dam: Balladonia by Primo Dominie. Winner at 3, 2nd EBF/Cantor Sport Spreadbet. Hoppings S LR. Dam of 4 winners: 2002: Bratislava (f Dr Fong). Dam of Katla (2nd Blenheim S LR).

2003: ZAAL (g Alhaarth) 6 wins.

2005: Mister Hardy (g Kyllachy) 7 wins at 2 to 5, 2010, 3rd Winkfield S LR. 2006: MISTER LAUREL (g Diktat) 3 wins at 2 and 3.

2008: WOOTTON BASSETT (c Iffraaj) Sold 43,809gns yearling at DNSLY. 5 wins at 2, Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere G1.

2009: (f Kyllachy) 2010: (c Kheleyf) 2nd Dam: SUSQUEHANNA DAYS by Chief’s Crown. 2 wins at 3. Dam of Balladonia (see above), Tioga (g Unfuwain: 2nd Washington Singer S LR) Broodmare Sire: PRIMO DOMINIE. Sire of the dams of 24 Stakes winners. In 2010 - WOOTTON BASSETT Iffraaj G1, ASTRAKHAN Sri Pekan LR, ENTANGLE Pivotal LR, PEAS AND CARROTS Final Appearance LR.

Gone West Zaizafon IFFRAAJ b 2001 Nureyev Pastorale Park Appeal Dominion Primo Dominie Swan Ann BALLADONIA b 96 Chief’s Crown Susquehanna Days Gliding By

332 PRIX DE L’OPERA G1 LONGCHAMP. October 3. 3yo+f&m. 2000m.

1. LILY OF THE VALLEY (FR) 3 8-11 £151,699 b f by Galileo - Pennegale (Pennekamp) O-Bernard Barsi B-Dunmore Stud Limited TR-J-C Rouget 2. Stacelita (FR) 4 9-2 £60,690 bl f by Monsun - Soignee (Dashing Blade) O-M Schwartz B-J-P H Dubois TR-J-C Rouget 3. Fleur Enchantee (FR) 6 9-2 £30,345 b m by Marchand de Sable - Mademoiselle Fleur (River Mist) O-Antoine Sauty De Chalon B-G Leyoff TR-P Van de Poele Margins 0.75, 6. Time 2:09.80. Going Very soft.

Age 2-3

WOOTTON BASSETT b c 2008 Zafonic

1st Dam: Butterfly Cove by Storm Cat. unraced. Own sister to KAMARINSKAYA. Dam of 2 winners: 2005: Showcall (f Kingmambo) ran once. Broodmare.

2006: Pedasus (g Fusaichi Pegasus) 2007: COME TOUCH THE SUN (f Fusaichi Pegasus) Winner at 3 in USA. 2008: MISTY FOR ME (f Galileo) 3 wins at 2 at home, France, Moyglare Stud S G1, Total Prix Marcel Boussac G1, 2nd Keeneland Debutante S G2.

2009: (f Galileo) 2010: (f Galileo)

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Lombard Anatevka Northern Dancer South Ocean Secretariat Crimson Saint Raise A Native Gold Digger Never Bend Repercussion

Having earned almost £350,000 in England, without tackling stakes company in any of his four starts, Wootton Bassett was finally given his chance to show exactly how good he is in the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere. The son of Iffraaj maintained his unbeaten record in fine style, in the process effectively securing his sire the title of champion European first-crop sire.

In winning the equivalent to the Prix de la Salamandre, another Gr1 race over seven furlongs at Longchamp, Wootton Bassett followed in the footsteps of his grandsire Zafonic, an impressive winner of the 1992 Salamandre.

The colt’s broodmare sire Primo Dominie was a fine sprinter who became a reliable source of speed as a stallion. Every now and then, though, he sired a talented middle-distance performer, a good example being Imperial Dancer, a Group winner at up to a mile and a half. Wootton Bassett’s dam Balladonia also stayed that far and once failed by only a head to win a Listed race over a mile and a quarter.

It’s easy to see why Balladonia stayed comparatively well. Although her dam Susquehanna Days gained her wins over a mile, she stayed an extra quarter mile and was a halfsister to Early Rising, an excellent broodmare who proved a rich source of stamina. Best known as the dam of the St Leger winner Silver Patriarch, Early Rising also produced Papineau, winner of the Gold Cup, and My Patriarch, winner of the Henry II Stakes over two miles even though he was by a miler.

Wootton Bassett’s fourth dam, the celebrated broodmare Key Bridge, was responsible for Fort Marcy, America’s Horse Of The Year in 1970, and Key To The Mint, the champion three-year-old of 1972. Key To The Mint was by a son of Ribot and so was Wootton Bassett’s third dam, the Tom Rolfe mare Gliding By.

Mr Prospector Secrettame The Minstrel Mofida Northern Dancer Special Ahonoora Balidaress Derring-Do Picture Palace My Swanee Anna Barry Danzig Six Crowns Tom Rolfe Key Bridge

Starts 9

Wins 7

Places 0

Earned £282,215

Sire: GALILEO. See race 330.

1st Dam: Pennegale by Pennekamp. Dam of 2 winners: 2004: CALBUCO (c Kendor) 12 wins, Prix Servanne LR, Prix Cor de Chasse LR. 2005: Mulled Wine (f Night Shift) unraced.

2007: LILY OF THE VALLEY (f Galileo) Sold 98,039gns yearling at ARAUG. 7 wins, Prix de l’Opera G1, Prix Chloe G3, Darley Prix de la Nonette G3, Prix Volterra LR. 2008: Cerences (c Oratorio) in training.

2009: Happy Holly (f Holy Roman Emperor) 2010: (f Holy Roman Emperor)

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European Pattern 2nd Dam: GALE WARNING by Last Tycoon. 1 win at 2 in France. Dam of COMMON SPIRIT (c Common Grounds: Tyros S LR), Hurricane Spirit (c Invincible Spirit: 2nd betdirectuk.com Spring Cup LR), IN THE HIGH GRASS (g In The Wings: Shamrock H. Chase G3, 3rd Ulster Bank H. Chase G2). Grandam of HILL OF FIRE. Broodmare Sire: PENNEKAMP. Sire of the dams of 4 Stakes winners. In 2010 - LILY OF THE VALLEY Galileo G1, JAN VERMEER Montjeu G3, TOGETHER Galileo G3.

The Galileo/Pennekamp cross has produced: LILY OF THE VALLEY G1, TOGETHER G1.

LILY OF THE VALLEY b f 2007 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge GALILEO b 98 Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta Bering Pennekamp Coral Dance PENNEGALE b 98 Last Tycoon Gale Warning Gay Apparel

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Lombard Anatevka Arctic Tern Beaune Green Dancer Carvinia Try My Best Mill Princess Up Spirits Brief Attire

Arc day provided a fine demonstration of the staying power of Galileo’s progeny. Misty For Me’s stamina proved decisive in the Prix Marcel Boussac after Helleborine had quickened to head her, and then Lily Of The Valley wore down Stacelita to take the Prix de l’Opera.

Lily Of The Valley, who was winning for the seventh consecutive time, is one of two very smart fillies Galileo has sired from daughters of the 2,000 Guineas winner Pennekamp, the other being the Fillies’ Mile runner-up Together. Lily Of The Valley’s dam Pennegale showed very little ability in France but comes from a family which has produced a stream of good winners, including some very speedy individuals.

Her third dam Gay Apparel was very useful at two in Canada, where she won two sprint stakes races, before being imported to France in foal to Bold Forbes. That foal proved to be the smart sprinter Bold Apparel, winner of the Gr2 Premio Umbria at two and the Gr3 Prix du Petit Couvert at three.

Bold Apparel didn’t produce anything of note, but five of her halfsisters became stakes producers, including Gaiete de Coeur (dam of the very good Japanese filly Little Audrey and the French Gr3 winner Coco Passion) and Basilea. Although Basilea was just a middle-distance maiden, she produced a very fast filly in Pont Aven, winner of the Gr3 Prix de Saint Georges. Pont Aven demonstrated how dominant this family’s speed can be by producing Josr Algarhoud, who proved himself one of Darshaan’s fastest sons, and Sainte Marine, runner-up in the Nunthorpe.

Lily Of The Valley’s second dam Gale Warning won over six furlongs at two on her only start. Her best winner was Common Spirit, a seven-furlong Listed winner at two. Shakespearean and Indian Days are two other 2010 Group winners from this family.

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333 PRIX DE LA FORET G1 LONGCHAMP. October 3. 3yo+. 1400m.

1. GOLDIKOVA (IRE) 6 8-13 £126,416 b m by Anabaa - Born Gold (Blushing Groom) O/B-Wertheimer et Frere TR-F Head 2. Paco Boy (IRE) 5 9-2 £50,575 b h by Desert Style - Tappen Zee (Sandhurst Prince) O-The Calvera Partnership No 2 B-Mrs Joan Browne TR-R Hannon 3. Dick Turpin (IRE) 3 9-0 £25,288 b c by Arakan - Merrily (Sharrood) O-John Manley B-John McEnery TR-R Hannon Margins 0.5, 0.5. Time 1:22.10. Going Very soft.

Age 2-5

Starts 20

Wins 14

Places Earned 5 £3,069,212

Sire: ANABAA. Sire of 78 Stakes winners. In 2010 GOLDIKOVA Blushing Groom G1, PLUMANIA Rainbow Quest G1, LOUP BRETON Irish River G2, ANACHEEVA Zabeel G3, BE POSITIVE Hennessy G3, DALGHAR Miswaki G3, KUTCHINSKY Zabeel G3, SLAPSTICK Red Ransom G3, AVENUE Kenmare LR, BAAHAMA Rainbow Quest LR, COURT Zedavite LR. 1st Dam: BORN GOLD by Blushing Groom. Winner at 4 in France. Own sister to GOLD SPLASH. Dam of 11 winners: 1996: GLAMADOUR (f Sanglamore) Winner at 3 in France. Broodmare.

1997: GOLD ROUND (f Caerleon) 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix Cleopatre G3. Dam of GOLDWAKI (c Dalakhani: 4 wins at 3 in France, Prix du Lys G3), SPECTACULAIRE (c Spectrum: 6 wins to 2010 in France, Prix Right Royal LR) 1998: Born Something (f Caerleon) 4 wins at 2, 4 and 5 in France, USA, 2nd West Virginia Senate President’s Cup S LR, 3rd Prix de la Grotte G3. Broodmare.

1999: DEMONIOUS (g Dr Devious) 7 wins at 4 to 8 in France.

2000: SUPERFONIC (f Zafonic) Winner at 3 in France. Broodmare.

2001: Red Tune (g Green Tune) 3 wins at 3, 6 and 7 in France, 2nd Prix de Guiche G3.

2002: GOLD SOUND (g Green Tune) 11 wins to 2010 in France, USA, Prix de Guiche G3, 2nd Prix Noailles G2.

2004: NEARTICA (f Sadler’s Wells) Winner at 3 in France. Broodmare.

2005: GOLDIKOVA (f Anabaa) Champion older mare in Europe in 2009. 14 wins at 2 to 5, 2010 at home, France, USA, Falmouth S G1, Queen Anne S G1, Prix Rothschild G1 (3 times), Prix de la Foret G1, Prix d’Ispahan G1, Prix du Moulin de Longchamp G1, P. Fresnay le Buffard Jacques Le Marois G1, Breeders’ Cup Mile G1 (twice), Prix Chloe G3, 2nd Poule d’Essai des Pouliches G1, Prix Jacques Le Marois G1, 3rd Prix de Diane G1, Prix de la Foret G1.

2006: Born Again (f Cape Cross) 2007: OCEAN SEVEN (c Green Tune) Winner at 2 in France.

2008: GALIKOVA (f Galileo) Winner at 2 in France.

2010: (c Anabaa) 2nd Dam: RIVIERE D’OR by Lyphard. 4 wins, Prix Saint-Alary G1, 2nd Prix Marcel Boussac G1, Prix de Diane Hermes G1. Dam of GOLD SPLASH (f Blushing Groom: Coronation S G1, Prix Marcel Boussac G1, 3rd Poule d’Essai des Pouliches G1).

Grandam of ROYAL GOD. Broodmare Sire: BLUSHING GROOM. Sire of the dams of 143 Stakes winners. In 2010 - GOLDIKOVA Anabaa G1, CERES HUNT Coronado’s Quest LR. GOLDIKOVA b m 2005 Northern Dancer Danzig Pas de Nom ANABAA b 92 Gay Mecene Balbonella Bamieres Red God Blushing Groom Runaway Bride BORN GOLD ch 91 Lyphard Riviere d’Or Gold River

Nearctic Natalma Admiral’s Voyage Petitioner Vaguely Noble Gay Missile Riverman Bergamasque Nasrullah Spring Run Wild Risk Aimee Northern Dancer Goofed Riverman Glaneuse

Includes winners and placed horses in European Pattern races.

Winners are in bold type A Media Luz 23 Aajel 31 Abbashiva 96 216 Across The Rhine 295 Address Unknown 63 Age Of Aquarius 52 133 Agent Secret 187 Air Chief Marshal 183 Aizavoski 49 Akarlina 305 Akdarena 66 146 Akmal 93 Akzar 213 Al Madina 281 Alexandros 104 193 Alfred Nobel 79 Alianthus 96 216 312 Allied Powers 49 109 Allybar 191 Alta Fedelta 19 56 Alverta 167 Americain 246 Amico Fritz 64 107 256 Anna Salai 29 84 Annabelle’s Charm 78 Announce 223 Ansiei 53 Antara 106 128 207 247 Appel Au Maitre 21 232 Approve 131 194 237 287 318 Arasin 257 Arcano 18 Arctic Cosmos 134 196 286 Aslana 176 Astrophysical Jet 201 259 301 At First Sight 22 63 102 Atasari 62 Avatar Day 140 Aviate 67 Await The Dawn 266 Azmeel 24 51 Back Hunting 20 Baine 77 Balthazaar’s Gift 285 Barefoot Lady 303 Barney McGrew 143 Barshiba 138 154 Baschar 117 Bea Remembered 188 Beacon Lodge 180 Beethoven 225 Behkabad 65 175 289 Beltanus 10 Benbaun 75 Berg Bahn 153 Bethrah 62 84 Bewitched 218 291 Beyond Desire 114 Bible Belt 315 Big Issue 260 Bikini Babe 24 208 Black Spirit 230 Blek 41 82 174 246 Blu Constellation 140 Blue Jack 34 Blue Maiden 13 Blue Panis 120 Bluster 293 Board Meeting 247 Bobbyscot 88 Boccalino 297 Bonnie Charlie 143 Borderlescott 34 80 124 201 Bould Mover 157 Brigantin 272 Brisant 98 Broox 194 297 Brusco 173 292 Budai 226 250 326 Bullet Train 55 Burma Gold 292

Burn The Breeze 227 Bushman 104 191 Buzzword 134 184 Byword 35 85 127 235 Cadeau For Maggi 178 Campanologist 116 181 232 298 Canford Cliffs 18 33 81 123 200 Cape Blanco 70 148 192 269 Cape Dollar 252 Captain Chop 212 Casamento 282 313 Cat Junior 198 229 Caucus 166 Cavalryman 273 Celimene 12 92 Celtic Celeb 73 322 Charming Woman 56 Chinchon 1 Chinese Wall 297 Chinese White 83 146 Chink Of Light 48 Choose Me 290 Choose Wisely 197 Chrysanthemum 315 Cima de Triomphe 304 Circumvent 30 Cirrus des Aigles 226 326 Cityscape 320 Claremont 16 32 Class Is Class 214 Classic Punch 267 Clondinnery 147 Cochabamba 252 Colonial 105 Contat 64 107 256 Contredanse 99 248 Coordinated Cut 70 Corsica 166 286 Court Canibal 12 122 Critical Moment 15 Croisultan 9 97 291 Cronsa 36 Crown Prosecutor 237 302 Crying Lightening 215 Crystal Gal 5 Cutlass Bay 12 38 Dalghar 105 198 276 310 Dam d’Augy 179 Dancing David 15 51 Dandino 196 Dandy Boy 183 225 Dangerous Midge 298 Dariole 23 Darley Sun 93 Daryakana 92 151 Debussy 50 Deluxe 86 Devoted To You 3 Dick Turpin 18 33 76 123 156 333 Dingle View 260 Dinkum Diamond 279 Distant Memories 214 253 326 Distinctive 114 Dixie Music 221 Doncaster Rover 95 144 Dream Ahead 245 318 Dream Eater 95 125 170 Dubawi Phantom 55 Duchess Of Foxland 5 43 Duff 97 183 Dunboyne Express 186 Duncan 138 294 Dynasty 42 Earl Of Fire 171 263 Eastern Aria 203 277 Ecliptic 169 Eldalil 132 Eleanora Duse 67 238 290 Electrolyser 31 202 Elle Shadow 87 172 211 264 Elnawin 152 Elusive Pimpernel 15 Elusive Wave 209 257 Elzaam 126 165 Emerald Commander 120 159 263

323 Emerald Ring 113 Empire Storm 264 Emulous 225 Enora 211 Enzio 10 Equiano 34 80 124 167 Estejo 25 Evading Tempete 8 36 Evaporation 112 276 Excel Bolt 131 Eye Of The Tiger 60 98 Fabiana 176 263 Fadela Style 161 Fair Trade 320 Fame And Glory 44 83 100 221 Famous 43 Famous Name 61 188 Famous Warrior 4 Field Day 224 First City 254 Fleur Enchantee 332 Flying Cloud 69 146 253 Flying Cross 283 Fork Handles 243 Formosina 147 302 Fort Hastings 265 Frankel 306 Free Judgement 42 81 French Navy 300 Frozen Power 91 Fuisse 118 180 274 Galileo’s Choice 44 Gallic Star 132 Genki 271 Gentoo 296 327 Getaway 60 116 Gile Na Greine 39 135 Gilt Edge Girl 114 168 256 329 Gitano Hernando 317 Glamorous Spirit 152 Glass Harmonium 26 94 Glor Na Mara 219 242 260 Gold Bubbles 67 Gold Harvest 37 Golden Destiny 301 Golden Stream 54 206 Goldikova 85 125 209 231 333 Goldwaki 119 Gotlandia 29 Govinda 178 Grace O’Malley 66 121 Grand Admiral 145 221 Green Rock 57 Green Tango 41 Gris de Gris 6 35 Group Therapy 157 201 Habaayib 17 Handsome Devil 57 Harbinger 16 52 138 192 Harris Tweed 166 Havane Smoker 300 Havant 321 Hearts Of Fire 123 Heaven’s Vault 58 Helleborine 278 330 Hen Night 62 Hermoun 305 Hibaayeb 86 132 High Heeled 100 227 324 High Ruler 189 High Standing 182 217 Himalya 143 254 285 Holberg 267 Hollywood Kiss 195 Honimiere 40 Hooray 163 239 268 319 Hosiba 149 Hot Prospect 55 253 Hung Parliament 275 Ice Blue 57 Icon Dream 48 Il Fenomeno 59 Illo 141 Illustrious Blue 31 202 Immortal Verse 278

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Caulfield on Lily Of The Valley: “She is one of two very smart fillies Galileo has sired from daughters of Classic winner Pennekamp, the other being Fillies’ Mile runner-up Together”

Index to winners and placed horses Indiana Gal 66 78 213 Indomito 107 Irish Field 160 194 Isantha 99 Ivory Land 11 73 322 Jacqueline Quest 39 135 Jakkalberry 25 116 Jan Vermeer 88 148 175 Joanna 8 77 112 158 217 Johannes Mozart 25 Jolie Jioconde 189 Joshua Tree 234 Jukebox Jury 32 Juliet Capulet 113 Kachgai 258 Kali 45 112 Karasiyra 121 Kargali 9 Kasbah Bliss 41 82 327 Keep Cool 46 Keratiya 160 Khawatim 212 Khawlah 321 Khor Sheed 215 Kidnapping 289 Kimble 296 King Jock 61 King Of Wands 236 King Torus 169 199 Kings Gambit 240 Kingsgate Native 80 310 Kinsale King 139 Kissable 177 255 Kite Hunter 91 Kite Wood 82 Klammer 169 306 Kolokol 75 La Boum 1 47 261 Laaheb 26 228 267 311 Ladies Are Forever 129 Lady Jane Digby 154 193 Lady Lupus 185 Lady Of The Desert 17 271 310 329 Lady Springbank 5 Lady’s Purse 111 150 Latin Love 3 Laughing Lashes 177 220 255 Le Larron 119 322 Leo Gali 210 Les Fazzani 50 Liang Kay 6 250 Libranno 165 205 Lillie Langtry 135 270 Lily Of The Valley 161 248 332 Lindentree 117 Lochinver 323 Lolamar 149 Lolly For Dolly 43

Lone Cat 160 Look At Me 321 Lope de Vega 28 76 103 Lord Shanakill 72 198 Los Cristianos 174 Lovelace 158 Luisant 218 Mabait 104 Madda’s Force 19 Mahamaya 90 161 Maiguri 275 331 Main Aim 68 95 251 Majestic Dubawi 303 Major Art 199 Makfi 7 33 231 Mambia 243 Manifest 16 71 Manighar 246 Maqaasid 129 319 Mar Adentro 293 329 Marchand d’Or 75 110 Margot Did 137 190 239 Maria Royal 324 Marinous 261 Markab 79 124 271 Marshade 20 Mashoor 119 Mawaakef 313 Measuring Time 244 Meeznah 101 277 Mellon Martini 159 Memory 137 163 Meow 129 Mid Mon Lady 317 Midas Touch 63 148 234 286 Midday 69 207 238 288 Middle Club 23 99 223 Mikhail Glinka 22 136 Mirror Lake 284 Miss Europa 108 Miss Fifty 243 Miss Gorica 153 Miss Jean Brodie 185 Miss Laa di Da 262 308 Miss Starlight 172 Misty For Me 220 255 330 Monitor Closely 311 Monterosso 134 Mores Wells 49 Motrice 203 280 Munsef 52 Musharakaat 281 Music Show 13 84 162 209 270 My Name Is Bond 275 Nakayama Festa 294 328 Nanton 32 266 Native Khan 244 Neatico 264 Neebras 165

Neon Light 45 Never Forget 111 150 New Planet 279 Nice Danon 265 Nicea 211 304 Night Magic 108 193 273 314 Nightdance Paolo 46 89 Nitza 278 No Risk At All 65 Noble Alpha 91 312 Noll Wallop 4 Norderney 60 141 Northern Glory 173 Obama Rule 262 On Verra 37 Opinion Poll 236 Ouqba 72 229 Ovambo Queen 172 249 Pachattack 106 Paco Boy 27 72 125 231 333 Pain Perdu 30 103 Palavicini 14 Pallodio 2 38 Pathfork 242 282 Pearl Away 58 111 Peinture Rare 227 Penitent 320 Perfect Tribute 190 Permesso 59 Permit 272 Piccadilly Filly 110 241 Planet Five 110 Planteur 11 103 175 289 Plumania 92 151 288 Poet 214 284 Poet’s Voice 222 251 309 Pollen 3 Polly’s Mark 154 203 Pont des Arts 187 Pontenuovo 212 245 Pouvoir Absolu 109 Prakasa 90 Precious Gem 145 Premio Loco 144 170 200 285 Pressing 27 74 99 Prime Defender 68 Prince Bishop 299 Principal Role 13 Profound Beauty 142 213 283 Prohibit 301 Puff 17 Puncher Clynch 22 Purple Moon 71 133 202 Pyrrha 54 206 Querari 74 Quijano 181 273 314 Radharcnafarraige 113 Ragsah 303 Rainbow Peak 240 298

Rainbow Springs 330 Rainfall 130 162 325 Rajsaman 28 299 Rasmy 51 Rayeni 9 Rebel Soldier 196 Recharge 44 83 Reckless Reward 131 268 Red Badge 284 Red Jazz 130 144 309 Redwood 26 164 204 261 Regal Parade 182 217 Reggane 54 106 305 Reine Heureuse 45 90 Remember When 101 Rerouted 316 Reverence 152 Rewilding 11 102 234 Rimth 239 319 Rio de La Plata 240 274 Rip Van Winkle 200 235 269 309 Rite Of Passage 133 Roayh 126 205 Robin Hood 313 Rock Jock 130 Rockatella 224 Rosanara 29 115 Rose Blossom 168 Rose Hip 61 Roses For The Lady 142 Royal Bench 323 Royal Exchange 316 Rudolf Valentino 186 Rumoush 208 277 Russian Cross 122 Russian Tango 91 184 Saamidd 287 Sahpresa 276 325 Salona 265 Salut L’Africain 105 158 Samuel 236 280 Samuel Morse 147 186 242 Sandbar 58 115 Sanjii Danon 96 Sans Frontieres 164 228 283 Sant’antonio 59 Santo Padre 259 Saptapadi 93 228 Sarafina 86 115 288 328 Sarah Lynx 324 Saratoga Black 53 Sariska 69 100 Scalo 46 89 230 314 Scolari 141 250 Sea Lord 222 Secrecy 222 Secret Asset 182 Sehrezad 10 35 171 216 Shakespearean 229

Shalanaya 38 Shamalgan 76 195 Shamanova 150 223 272 Shamwari Lodge 78 Shareen 262 308 Shemiyla 47 She’s Our Mark 210 290 308 Shimraan 195 Shintoh 88 145 Showcasing 68 Signs In The Sand 268 Silver Black 7 Silver Frost 180 Silver Pond 73 Silvertrees 233 Simenon 24 Simon de Montfort 30 Sir Reginald 237 Six Of Hearts 97 Siyouni 28 156 274 Skins Game 6 Slickly Royal 118 Smooth Operator 64 178 Snaefell 79 218 291 Snow Fairy 101 185 238 Society Rock 139 Sole Power 241 Soraaya 163 190 Sordino 108 Sormiou 120 South Easter 50 266 Spacious 40 128 162 270 Special Duty 8 39 77 Sri Putra 14 155 204 Stacelita 122 207 247 332 Starlish 1 Starspangledbanner 139 167 241 Steinbeck 188 295 Stentorian 199 Step Up 140 Steuben 21 Stone of Folca 197 Stotsfold 94 Strawberrydaiquiri 40 128 325 Strong Suit 126 219 318 Suits Me 2 Summer Fete 251 Summit Surge 99 191 Superstition 47 249 Surfrider 300 Surrey Star 244 316 Swiss Diva 258 293 Tactic 142 Tastahil 280 Tax Free 259 Tazeez 94 127 164 Tech Exceed 149 249 Ted Spread 48 Temple Meads 302

The Cheka 27 The Paddyman 205 Theology 136 Theyskens’ Theory 252 307 Timos 109 294 Timothy T 233 Tin Horse 245 331 Tip Toe 65 187 Titurel 174 Titus Shadow 56 Tiz My Time 137 Tiza 179 258 Together 177 220 307 Too Nice Name 7 Total Command 136 Touch Of Hawk 21 Traffic Guard 204 Tranquil Tiger 2 14 Treasure Beach 306 Tres Rock Danon 98 173 Triple Aspect 157 Tropical Paradise 206 254 Tropical Treat 168 Twice Over 127 155 235 269 Unity 121 Val Mondo 292 Vanjura 87 176 Velvet Flicker 153 Vertigineux 118 170 257 Via Medici 224 Viscount Nelson 4 81 155 Vision d’Etat 226 Voila Ici 74 304 Wade Giles 295 317 Waiter’s Dream 233 287 Wajir 71 Waldjagd 87 War Artist 179 Watar 296 Wealthy 159 230 299 Wheredreamsare 89 Whispering Gallery 311 White Moonstone 215 281 307 Wiener Walzer 85 181 Wild Wind 315 Win For Sure 99 171 312 Winter Dream 327 Wootton Bassett 331 Workforce 70 102 328 Worthadd 20 53 Xtension 156 Youmzain 151 192 Zagora 37 208 248 Zarebiya 210 Zayaan 42 Zazou 117 184 232 Zebedee 197 279 Zobenigo 19 36 Zoffany 189 219 282

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DATA BOOK LISTINGS OF EVERY WORLDWIDE GROUP OR GRADED STAKES WINNER

Global Stakes Results Date Grade Argentina 11/09 G1 04/09 G1 25/09 G2 24/09 G2 18/09 G2 12/09 G2 10/09 G2 05/09 G2 28/08 G2 03/10 G3 02/10 G3 01/10 G3 22/09 G3 19/09 G3 17/09 G3 15/09 G3 14/09 G3 11/09 G3 06/09 G3

Race

Dist

Horse

G. P. Polla de Potrancas (1000 Guineas) Gran Premio Polla de Potrillos Clasico Cyllene Clasico Coronel Miguel F Martinez Clasico Ensayo C. Jockey Club Provincia de Buenos Aires Clasico Sibila Clasico Ecuador Clasico La Mission Clasico Progreso Clasico Republica Federativa del Brasil Clasico Federico de Alvear Clasico Pedro Chapar Clasico Vicente L Casares Clasico Chile Clasico Condesa Clasico Hipodromo de la Plata Clasico Italia Clasico Paraguay

8.0f 8.0f 5.0f 9.0f 9.0f 10.0f 8.0f 8.0f 10.0f 12.0f 8.0f 9.0f 7.0f 12.5f 11.0f 5.0f 8.0f 10.0f 5.0f

Catch The Mad (ARG) Es Corino (ARG) Filoso Emperor (ARG) Mustang Force (ARG) Afrato (ARG) Sipan Dagh (ARG) Bouclette Gulch (ARG) San Livinus (ARG) Ollagua (ARG) Riomaggiore (ARG) Mad Speed (ARG) Tattoum (ARG) Bochi's Flirt (ARG) Equal Planet (ARG) Cuan Linda (CHI) La Liz (ARG) Cafrune (ARG) Flesh For Fantasy (ARG) El Azor (ARG)

Catch The Mad was a Group 1 winner over seven furlongs at San Isidro in April and ran third in the Mil Guineas there in July. Those are the only two of her seven races on turf.

Switched back to dirt, she led three Australia 03/10 02/10 02/10 02/10 02/10 25/09 24/09 18/09 18/09 03/10 03/10 03/10 02/10 02/10 25/09 24/09 18/09 18/09 18/09 18/09 11/09 11/09 11/09 04/09 04/09 04/09 04/09 04/09 02/10 25/09 25/09 24/09 24/09 18/09 18/09 18/09 18/09 18/09 16/09 15/09 15/09 11/09 11/09 11/09 04/09 04/09

G1 G1 G1 G1 G1 G1 G1 G1 G1 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3

Turnbull Stakes Telstra T Box Epsom Handicap Inglis Spring Champion Stakes Daily Telegraph Metropolitan Handicap Coolmore Stud Flight Stakes Yellowglen George Main Stakes Sportingbet Manikato Stakes Patinack Sir R. Clarke Invitation Stakes Rokk Ebony Underwood Stakes Gilgai Baguette Stakes Blazer Rose of Kingston Stakes Edward Manifold Stakes Urbis Roman Consul Stakes The Sydney City Lexus Shorts Bacardi Breezer Stan Fox Stakes Statue of Liberty Bill Stutt M.V. Stakes Rydges North Sydney Hill Stakes Japan Racing Association Shannon Stakes Rydges Cronulla Premiere Stakes Rydges Parramatta Tea Rose Stakes Cleanevent W H Stocks Stakes Sebring Theo Marks Handicap Sprint Dato Tan Chin Nam John F Feehan Stakes Sharp Furious Stakes Let's Elope Milady Stakes Makybe Diva Craiglee Stakes Danehill Rory's Jester Stakes Tatt's Club Chelmsford Stakes Chandon Craven Plate Bill Ritchie Handicap Syd. Toyota Colin Stephen Quality Hcp TBV/Gallagher Champagne Stakes Tatts Group Japan Racing Association Cup The Age Caulfield Guineas Prelude Schweppes 1000 Gns Tranquil Star Prelude D'Urban Naturalism Stakes Rydges Gloaming Stakes Sportingbet How Now Stakes Toohey's New Newcastle Gold Cup MGA Insurance Brokers Spring Stakes Patinack Farm Cameron Handicap Mitty's Ian McEwan Trophy Stakes De Bortoli Wines Kingston Town Stakes APN Outdoor Research Stakes Bobby Lewis Quality Stakes Tatt's Club Tramway Handicap

Gai Waterhouse became just the fourth Australian trainer to win 100 Group 1 races when Herculian Prince won the Metropolitan Handicap 18 years after her first top level victory in the same race. Equipped with a tongue tie for the first time, Herculian Prince soon established a long lead yet was unfazed when Mourayan came past and pulled right away again in the closing stages to beat that rival by three and a half lengths.

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furlongs from home and was driven out to score by three lengths.

Her sire is already responsible for another Group 1 winner on turf and dirt in Anaerobio. However, after winning the Dos Mil Guineas on

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Zipping (AUS) Captain Sonador (AUS) Erewhon (AUS) Herculian Prince (NZ) Secret Admirer (AUS) More Joyous (NZ) Hay List (AUS) Response (AUS) So You Think (NZ) Hay List (AUS) Palacio De Cristal (AUS) Sistine Angel (AUS) Buffering (AUS) Hot Danish (AUS) Decision Time (AUS) Hollowlea (AUS) Descarado (NZ) Firebolt (NZ) Hot Danish (AUS) More Strawberries (AUS) Avienus (AUS) More Joyous (NZ) Whobegotyou (AUS) More Strawberries (AUS) No Evidence Needed (AUS) Shocking (AUS) Soul (AUS) Theseo (AUS) C'Est La Guerre (NZ) Drumbeats (AUS) No Wine No Song (AUS) Lone Rock (AUS) Precedence (NZ) Anacheeva (AUS) Divorces (AUS) Rainbow Styling (NZ) Retrieve (AUS) Valentine Miss (AUS) Stratofortress (NZ) Ilovethiscity (AUS) Kenny's World (AUS) Hay List (AUS) Herculian Prince (NZ) Trim (AUS) Doubtful Jack (AUS) Neeson (AUS)

Waterhouse had also been on the mark a week earlier when More Joyous completed a seven-timer in the George Main Stakes, but she is still barely a third of the way to matching the Group 1 tally of her legendary father T J Smith.

His closest pursuer is Bart Cummings, who has another superstar on his hands in So You Think, last year’s Cox Plate winner who scored an easy victory in the Underwood Stakes despite reportedly needing the race.

Age

Sex

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

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

Sire

Dam

Broodmare Sire

Catcher In The Rye (IRE) Espaciado (ARG) Emperor Jones (USA) Sunray Spirit (USA) Jamelao (ARG) Sebi Halo (ARG) Thunder Gulch (USA) Mutakddim (USA) Pure Prize (USA) Alpha Plus (USA) Mad Champ (ARG) Lode (USA) Flirteador (ARG) Equal Stripes (ARG) Dynamix (USA) Bernstein (USA) Colonial Affair (USA) Lasting Approval (USA) Lasting Approval (USA)

Crazy Wells (ARG) Potricorina (ARG) Filis (ARG) Mas Gaucha (ARG) Fragil Toss (ARG) Instintiva (ARG) Bouclette Champ (ARG) Capalize (ARG) Open Secrets (USA) Regina Belle (ARG) Speed Wells (ARG) Tatibitati (ARG) Flip Lady (ARG) Fantalinda (ARG) Cuanta Bondad (CHI) La Marlene (ARG) Ipacarai (ARG) Flor de Pasion (ARG) Aguilet (ARG)

Poliglote (GB) Potrillazo (ARG) Firery Ensign (USA) Halo Sunshine (USA) Egg Toss (USA) Interprete (ARG) Ski Champ (USA) Equalize (USA) West By West (USA) Confidential Talk (USA) Poliglote (GB) Fitzcarraldo (ARG) Candy Stripes (USA) Ride The Rails (USA) Crowning Tribute (USA) Rainbow Corner (GB) Interprete (ARG) Bold Second (USA) Ahmad (ARG)

August 7 at San Isidro, that colt could do no better than seventh of 12 behind Es Corino in Palermo’s longestablished Polla de Potrillos. Es Corino, ridden like Catch the Mad by Edwin Talaverano, produced a strong

9 4 3 5 3 4 5 4 4 5 5 3 3 7 3 3 4 5 7 3 5 4 5 3 4 5 3 7 6 5 9 3 5 3 3 6 3 5 6 3 6 5 5 4 4 4

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

Danehill (USA) Shamardal (USA) Commands (AUS) Yamanin Vital (NZ) Dubawi (IRE) More Than Ready (USA) Statue of Liberty (USA) Charge Forward (AUS) High Chaparral (IRE) Statue Of Liberty (USA) Encosta de Lago (AUS) Testa Rossa (AUS) Mossman (AUS) Nothin' Leica Dane (AUS) Foreplay (AUS) Hidden Dragon (AUS) High Chaparral (IRE) Stravinsky (USA) Nothin' Leica Dane (AUS) More Than Ready (USA) Reset (AUS) More Than Ready (USA) Street Cry (IRE) More Than Ready (USA) Shamardal (USA) Street Cry (IRE) Commands (AUS) Danewin (AUS) Shinko King (IRE) Redoute's Choice (AUS) Song Of Tara (IRE) Fastnet Rock (AUS) Zabeel (NZ) Anabaa (USA) Domesday (AUS) Zabeel (NZ) Rahy (USA) Danetime (IRE) Stravinsky (USA) Magic Albert (AUS) Kenny's Best Pal (AUS) Statue Of Liberty (USA) Yamanin Vital (NZ) Lonhro (AUS) Not A Single Doubt (AUS) Mossman (AUS)

run in the straight to beat the lightlyraced Star Runner (Southern Halo) by four lengths. It was his fourth consecutive victory. His sire won the Group 1 GP Montevideo as a twoyear-old in 1995.

Social Scene (IRE) Pushing Daisies (AUS) Pseudonym (AUS) Sea Island (NZ) Secret Illusion (AUS) Sunday Joy (AUS) Sing Hallelujah (AUS) Live It Up (AUS) Triassic (NZ) Sing Hallelujah (AUS) Crystal Palace (NZ) Famous Painter (AUS) Action Annie (AUS) Hot 'n' Breezy (AUS) Daunting Thought (AUS) Cabaret Girl (AUS) Karamea Lady (NZ) Woodsong (AUS) Hot 'n' Breezy (AUS) Milva (USA) Genova (IRE) Sunday Joy (AUS) Temple Of Peace (JPN) Milva (USA) Generosa (NZ) Maria di Castiglia (GB) Marvilha (AUS) Ozone Sand (USA) La Magnifique (NZ) Delicate Choice (AUS) Deep Time (NZ) Pride Of Pine (AUS) Kowtow (USA) Monroe Magic (NZ) Family Breakup (AUS) Done That (NZ) Hold To Ransom (USA) Torolosa (NZ) Instantly (NZ) Kensington Rose (NZ) See The Stars (AUS) Sing Hallelujah (AUS) Sea Island (NZ) Firm (AUS) Tootsie Roll (AUS) Favorite Actress (NZ)

The 2009 Melbourne Cup winner Shocking was not disgraced in fifth and improved to get within a long neck of the nine-year-old Zipping in the Turnbull Stakes. Zipping is himself now being aimed at the Melbourne Cup, a race he has already finished fourth in twice.

The latest Aussie sprint sensation is Hay List, who broke his Group 1 duck by two and a half lengths in the Manikato Stakes. Two weeks on and he took his career record to 12 from 14 in

Grand Lodge (USA) Kenny's Best Pal (AUS) Quest For Fame Woodman (USA) Secret Savings (USA) Sunday Silence (USA) Is It True (USA) Match Winner (FR) Tights (USA) Is It True (USA) Palace Music (USA) Peintre Celebre (USA) Anabaa (USA) Zephyr Zip (NZ) Just Awesome (AUS) Scenic Lord Ballina (AUS) Woodman (USA) Zephyr Zip (NZ) Strawberry Road (AUS) Darshaan Sunday Silence (USA) Carnegie (IRE) Strawberry Road (AUS) Generous (IRE) Danehill (USA) Night Shift (USA) L'Enjoleur (CAN) Kampala Last Tycoon Kinjite (NZ) Lion Cavern (USA) Shadeed (USA) Zabeel (NZ) Octagonal (NZ) Centaine (AUS) Red Ransom (USA) Housebuster (USA) Spectacular Love (USA) Kenfair (NZ) Mr Henrysee (USA) Is It True (USA) Woodman (USA) Night Shift (USA) Marscay (AUS) Don't Forget Me

the Gilgai Stakes and the Statue Of Liberty gelding now has Royal Ascot 2011 firmly on his agenda.

Further first-time Group 1 heroes were trainer Roger Milne, in the Epsom Handicap, and jockey Brenton Advulla in the Flight Stakes. Milne sent Captain Sonador down to Sydney from his secluded base in Queensland and the long journey was vindicated when, under a brilliant Glen Boss ride, he got up on the line to beat Trusting.

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Advulla was no less stylish in the saddle, despite his inexperience, bringing Secret Admirer from last to first to beat the Waterhouse-trained favourite, More Strawberries, by a short Brazil 02/10 02/10 26/09 07/09 07/09 03/10 02/10 05/09 04/09 25/09 12/09 11/09 07/09

G1 G1 G1 G1 G1 G2 G2 G2 G2 G3 G3 G3 G3

neck.

Skill in the saddle also came to the fore in the Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes as Craig Williams went against orders and made all aboard Response, who held

Grande Premio Jockey Club de Sao Paulo Grande Premio Diana (Oaks) Grand Premio do Parana Grande Premio Henrique de Toledo Lara Grande Premio Ipiranga (2000 Guineas) G.P.Antonio Joaquim Peixoto de Castro Jr G. P. Presidente Antonio Correa Barbosa Grande Premio Doutor Frontin G.P. C. Telles e C. Gilberto Rocha Faria Grande Premio Costa Ferraz GP.Jose Carlos e Joao Jose de Figueiredo Grande Premio Ricardo Lara Vidigal Grande Premio Independencia

Hook The Pirate could not win any of his six races as a juvenile but is unbeaten in three this season, which began on July 1. He had won a conditions event over course and distance last time and stayed on too well for the Argentine-bred Citadel Roc, beating that son of Orpen by half a length. Guineas winner Xin Xu Lin was a well-beaten third.

That was the second leg of the colts’ Quadruple Crown but the fillies are one

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Hook The Pirate (BRZ) Una Beleza (BRZ) Jaburu Vip (BRZ) Una Beleza (BRZ) Xin Xu Lin (BRZ) Another Xhow (BRZ) Mr Nedawi (BRZ) Tonemai (BRZ) Olympic Message (BRZ) Sweet Roar (BRZ) Scottish Boy (BRZ) Olympic Festival (BRZ) Divertente (BRZ)

race further on. Parapatibum (Nedawi) and Una Beleza, winners of the first two Classics, had the race to themselves from early in the straight.

Parapatibum was soon under pressure, however, and Una Beleza drew away in the final furlong to beat her three and a quarter lengths. They finished well clear of the rest. Una Beleza completed a hat-trick while scoring in slightly faster time than Hook the Pirate. She had been an even easier winner of her

off No Evidence Needed and Woorim by a neck and a short head over seven furlongs.

Trainer Peter Snowden pulled off a one-two with his Darley-owned pair, 3 3 3 3 3 4 6 4 3 3 5 3 3

C F C F C C H C F F H C F

Torrential (USA) Signal Tap (USA) Inexplicable (USA) Signal Tap (USA) Wondertross (USA) Suspicious Mind (BRZ) Nedawi (GB) Wild Event (USA) Wild Event (USA) Durban Thunder (BRZ) Dodge (USA) Siphon (BRZ) Romarin (BRZ)

Erewhon and Retrieve, in the Spring Champion Stakes. It was the less fancied of the pair, Erewhon, who came out on top, beating the Victoria Derbybound Retrieve by a neck.

Free To Wake (BRZ) Just Perfect (BRZ) Daflan (BRZ) Just Perfect (BRZ) Barbiera (BRZ) Esperta Demais (BRZ) Cryptic Crucial (USA) Onda (USA) Mere Catherine (BRZ) Twilight Uproar (USA) Liz Alba (BRZ) Fula's Power (BRZ) Dites Moi (BRZ)

previous race in which the odds-on Parapatibum was fifth. Julio Bozano’s Haras Santa Maria de Araras bred and still owns the filly, who is trained by Luis Roberto Feltran at Taruma racecourse in Curitiba, south of Sao Paulo.

Xin Xu Lin gained his second Group 1 win over the Cidade Jardim mile with a seven-and-a-half length annihilation of his 13 rivals.

Jaburu Vip finished tenth when having his first try on turf in that race but

L'Emigrant (USA) Nugget Point Burooj (GB) Nugget Point Pleasant Variety (USA) Stuka (USA) Cryptoclearance (USA) Jules (USA) Jules (USA) Roar (USA) Midnight Tiger (USA) Fast Gold (USA) Choctaw Ridge (USA)

made a winning return to Taruma in the GP Parana. He had been victorious on his debut there before suffering two defeats at Cidade Jardim. Most of the 13 runners and riders came down from Sao Paulo but Jaburu Vip, one of only two three-year-olds in the field, was too good. His handler Edgar Araujo, who rode the winner of this race in 1992, is in his first year as a trainer. Leandro Chimenes, who rode the colt, was the first local jockey to triumph for ten years.

Canada 19/09 03/10 26/09 26/09 18/09 18/09 04/09

G2 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3

Canadian Stakes Durham Cup Stakes Selene Stakes British Columbia Derby Natalma Stakes TVG Summer Stakes Seaway Stakes

9.0f 9.0f 8.5f 9.0f 8.0f 8.0f 7.0f

Miss Keller (IRE) Southdale (CAN) Biofuel (USA) Majesticality (CAN) New Normal (USA) Pluck (USA) Hooh Why (USA)

4 4 3 3 2 2 4

F C F G F C F

Montjeu (IRE) Street Cry (IRE) Stormin Fever (USA) Finality (USA) Forestry (USA) More Than Ready (USA) Cloud Hopping (USA)

Ingozi (GB) Pinafores Pride (CAN) Ms Cornstalk (USA) Majestic Music (CAN) New Economy (USA) Secret Heart (SAF) Magic Merger (USA)

Warning Saint Ballado (CAN) Indian Charlie (USA) Dixieland Brass (USA) Red Ransom (USA) Fort Wood (USA) Corporate Report (USA)

Chile 02/10 01/10 17/09 04/09 03/09 03/09 17/09 17/09 17/09 17/09

G1 G1 G1 G1 G1 G1 G2 G2 G3 G3

P.Gran Criterium-Mauricio Serrano Palma P. Nacional Ricardo Lyon-Cruz del Sur GP.Asoc.Latinoamericana de Jockey Clubes P.dos Mil Guineas Bicentenario (2,000 Gns) Premio Polla de Potrancas (1,000 Guineas) Premio Polla de Potrillos (2,000 Guineas) P. Velocidad Elaboradora Montes Alpa Premio Carlos Campino P.Raimundo Valdes Cuevas C Pisco Mistral P. Carlos Valdes Izquierdo Vina Indomita

9.5f 10.0f 10.0f 8.0f 8.5f 8.5f 6.0f 9.0f 8.0f 8.0f

Lobo Blanco (CHI) El Farrero (CHI) Belle Watling (CHI) Ascot Prince (CHI) Porque (CHI) Viejo Querido (CHI) Jazid (CHI) Kissin My Love (CHI) Ashtar (CHI) Muy Amiga (CHI)

3 3 4 3 3 3 4 4 3 3

C C F C F C C F C F

Merchant Of Venice (USA) Powerscourt (GB) Dushyantor (USA) Sir Cat (USA) Ocean Terrace (USA) Heavyweight Champ (USA) Sir Cat (USA) Ocean Terrace (USA) Merchant of Venice (USA) Crocker Road (USA)

Locura De Amor (CHI) La Cimarra (CHI) Biala (CHI) Wolfie (CHI) Por Mi (CHI) Shy Mountain (ARG) Jealousy (CHI) Kissin My Friends (USA) Mey (CHI) Misia Juanita (CHI)

Jaded Dancer (USA) Northair (USA) The Great Shark (USA) Hussonet (USA) Columbus Day (USA) Shy Tom (USA) Hussonet (USA) Crafty Friend (USA) Hussonet (USA) Dushyantor (USA)

The first six in the Dos Mil Guineas met again in the Gran Criterium-Mauricio Serrano Palma on the same dirt at the Hipodromo Chile. The result was a complete reshuffle. Ascot Prince, oddson after his easy Guineas victory, was hampered in the battle for early position.

Lobo Blanco led for half a mile and took over again more than three furlongs from home. Gonzalo Ulloa shifted Ascot Prince to the outside after the interference. They were sixth into the straight and improved to reach second 300 yards out. But David Sanchez, who was riding Lobo Blanco for the first time, was already at work and never allowed Ascot Prince closer than the final margin of four and threequarter lengths. Lobo Blanco, scoring for the fifth time in ten outings, had finished eight and three-quarter lengths and a head behind him in the Guineas.

Rich Court was another seven lengths Japan 26/09 26/09 19/09

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back in third this time, followed by Tao Mina.

They are both sons of Powerscourt, the Sadler’s Wells horse who had sired El Farrero to win the Ricardo Lyon on turf the previous day. El Farrero had won only a maiden but had finished second in four Group races. Viejo Querido, who had beaten him by threequarters of a length in the Polla de Potrillos (2,000 Guineas), set a good pace and soon had them all stretched out. However, he was headed and beaten approaching the straight.

Langston Butler (Indian Lodge) took over with more than a furlong to run but El Farrero, after recovering from early interference, had made steady progress on the outside and collared him 100 yards from home. He scored by threequarters of a length, with Golden Impact another half-length behind in third after making promising progress

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on the rails. Porque, Viejo Querido, Ashtar and Bum Bum Chiquibum all finished close behind. Remarkably, Viejo Querido kept on steadily after appearing bound for a humiliating defeat turning for home. But he is not the only one who could improve in El Ensayo (Santiago Derby) on October 31. Langston Butler and Golden Impact are half-brothers to Belle Watling and Casablanca Smile, who filled the first two places in that race last year.

Reigning Horse of the Year Belle Watling extended her winning sequence to nine with a narrow victory in the Clasico Latinoamericana. She held off the Grande Premio Sao Paulo winner Sal Grosso by only half a length but Hector Berrios always appeared confident of victory. Shackleton and Papelon, two sons of Monthir (Gulch), finished close behind. Belle Watling was the sixth Chilean winner in 26 3 7 3

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runnings of this international contest, which had been postponed from March because of the Concepcion earthquake. It will return to its usual date next year, when San Isidro will be the host.

Ascot Prince was drawn on the extreme outside of 14 in the Dos Mil Guineas but Berrios quickly had him close up. He took over early in the straight, was soon clear and came home in new record time. It was his second Group 1 success.

Porque gave Ocean Terrace his fourth Group 1 winner from his first two crops with a half-length defeat of the odds-on Vamo a Galupiar. She stayed on gamely in the Ricardo Lyon and will be tough to beat back among her own sex.

Viejo Querido, whose sire is now based in Argentina, made all to hold the late effort of El Farrero.

Rosebud (JPN) Nifty Heart (JPN) Regenbogen (JPN)

Sunday Silence (USA) Sunday Silence (USA) French Deputy (USA)

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Global Stakes Results >>

Date Grade Japan (cont) 19/09 G2 12/09 G2 02/10 G3 02/10 G3 20/09 G3 12/09 G3 11/09 G3 05/09 G3 05/09 G3

Race

Dist

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Age

Sex

Sire

Dam

Broodmare Sire

R F Radio Nippon Sho St. Lite Kinen Centaur Stakes Sapporo Nisai Stakes Sirius Stakes Elm Stakes Keisei Hai Autumn Handicap Asahi Challenge Cup Kokura Nisai Stakes Niigata Nisai Stakes

11.0f 6.0f 9.0f 10.0f 8.5f 8.0f 10.0f 6.0f 8.0f

Quark Star (JPN) Dasher Go Go (JPN) All As One (JPN) King's Emblem (JPN) Courir Passion (JPN) Fireflaught (JPN) Captain Thule (JPN) Brown Wild (JPN) Meine Isabel (JPN)

3 3 2 5 5 4 5 2 2

C C C H H C H C F

Agnes Tachyon (JPN) Sakura Bakushin O (JPN) Neo Universe (JPN) War Emblem (USA) Wild Rush (USA) Special Week (JPN) Agnes Tachyon (JPN) Wild Rush (USA) Telegnosis (JPN)

Festa Delle Donna (JPN) Negano (CAN) Toho Progress (JPN) Scarlet Lady (JPN) Imagination (JPN) Burningwood (USA) Air Thule (JPN) Brown Shine (JPN) Meine Regina (JPN)

Hector Protector (USA) Miswaki (USA) Narita Brian (JPN) Sunday Silence (USA) Tony Bin Tabasco Cat (USA) Tony Bin Yamanin Zephyr (JPN) Sunday Silence (USA)

New Zealand 02/10 G1 18/09 G1 02/10 G2 02/10 G3 18/09 G3 11/09 G3

Kit Ormond Memorial Spring Classic Windsor Park Plate NZ Bloodstock Ins. Hawkes Bay Guineas Traderacks G R Kelt Memorial Stakes Hawkes's Bay Breeders Gold Trail Stakes Merial Ancare Metric Mile

10.0f 8.0f 7.0f 7.0f 6.0f 8.0f

Wall Street (NZ) Wall Street (NZ) Jimmy Choux (NZ) Katie Lee (AUS) Rememba Howe (NZ) Spare A Fortune (NZ)

6 6 3 4 3 5

G G C F F G

Montjeu (IRE) Montjeu (IRE) Thorn Park (AUS) Pins (AUS) Handsome Ransom (AUS) Spartacus (IRE)

Villa Wanda (GB) Villa Wanda (GB) Cierzo (NZ) Miss Jessie Jay (NZ) Yachting Magic (NZ) Seek A Fortune (NZ)

Grand Lodge (USA) Grand Lodge (USA) Centaine (AUS) Spectacularphantom (USA) Yachtie (AUS) Kaapstad (NZ)

The first three Group 1 races of the New Zealand season have been dominated by Wall Street and Keep The Peace. Wall Street failed by a nose to overhaul Keep The Peace in Peru 19/09 12/09 19/09 11/09 22/08

G1 G1 G3 G3 G3

the Mudgway Partsworld Stakes in late August, but has since beaten last term’s Oaks winner into third in both the Windsor Park Plate and the Spring Classic. The Classic, which

C. Polla de Potrillos (2,000 Guineas) Clasico Polla de Potrancas (1,000 Guineas) Clasico Claudio Fernandez Concha Clasico Miguel Fort Magot Clasico Comercio

Kentucky-bred Murjan received two kilos from all but one of his 11 rivals. A juvenile to northern hemisphere time, his career was less advanced than theirs but he had won both his races and started second favourite behind his stable companion Infiernillo. He beat

8.0f 8.0f 9.0f 9.0f 11.5f

Murjan (USA) Almudena (PER) Mago Feliz (PER) Kendrita (PER) Rumbo Norte (CHI)

that colt by three-quarters of a length, but Infiernillo hung right close home and was disqualified and placed third.

Juan Suarez, who trains Murjan, fielded five of the ten runners in the Polla de Potrancas (1,000 Guineas).

The previously unbeaten Cruzada

was worth little more than a fifth of its 2009 value when it was sponsored

by Kelt Capital, was the first time that Wall Street had run over further than a mile. The Montjeu gelding

2 3 3 3 5

C F C F H

Officer (USA) Silver Planet (ARG) Mago Nativo (PER) Play The Gold (USA) Riyadian (GB)

responded with a dominant threequarters of a length victory under a quiet ride from Michael Coleman and thus booked his ticket to Australia for the Cox Plate.

Miss Jeanne Cat (USA) Fire Legend (ARG) Fio da Seda (PER) July's Time (PER) Mirurgia (CHI)

dominated the market but the Chileanborn Suarez again produced a lightlyraced stablemate for an upset.

Almudena had broken her duck over five furlongs on her previous start but stayed on strongly and will get even further. Her sire was a Group 2 winner

Tabasco Cat (USA) Engrillado (ARG) Short Selling (USA) Gilded Time (USA) Winning (USA)

in Argentina and stands in that country.

The recent history of Silver Planet’s male line is all Argentine but four generations back from him you reach the supreme stayer Alycidon, winner of the Ascot Gold Cup, Goodwood and Doncaster Cups in 1949.

South Africa 25/09 G2

Emerald Day Cup

7.0f

Iron Curtain (SAF)

5

G

Fort Wood (USA)

West Wall (SAF)

Plugged Nickle (USA)

Sweden 12/09

G3

Stockholm Cup International

12.0f

Mores Wells (GB)

6

H

Sadler's Wells (USA)

Endorsement (GB)

Warning

Turkey 05/09 05/09

G2 G2

Bosphorus Cup Topkapi Trophy

12.0f 8.0f

Indian Days (GB) Pressing (IRE)

5 7

H H

Daylami (IRE) Soviet Star (USA)

Cap Coz (IRE) Rafif (USA)

Indian Ridge Riverman (USA)

Clement L Hirsch MemTurf Championship Oak Leaf Stakes Flower Bowl Invitational Stakes Vosburgh Stakes Jockey Club Gold Cup Stakes Yellow Ribbon Stakes Norfolk Stakes Beldame Stakes Goodwood Stakes Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Inv. Stakes Lady's Secret Stakes Garden City Stakes Del Mar Futurity Three Chimneys Hopeful Stakes Spinaway Stakes Forego Stakes Woodward Stakes Darley Debutante Stakes Kelso Handicap Indiana Oaks Fitz Dixon Cotillion Stakes Indiana Derby Hawthorne Gold Cup Handicap Super Derby Pennsylvania Derby Gallant Bloom Handicap Bowling Green Handicap Palomar Handicap Del Mar Derby Pilgrim Stakes Miss Grillo Stakes Robert F Carey Memorial Handicap Senator Ken Maddy Handicap Kent Stakes Noble Damsel Stakes Turfway Park Fall Championship Stakes Presque Isle Downs Masters Stakes

10.0f 8.5f 10.0f 6.0f 10.0f 10.0f 8.5f 9.0f 9.0f 12.0f 8.5f 9.0f 7.0f 7.0f 7.0f 7.0f 9.0f 7.0f 8.0f 8.5f 8.5f 8.5f 10.0f 9.0f 9.0f 6.5f 11.0f 8.5f 9.0f 8.5f 8.5f 8.0f 6.5f 9.0f 8.0f 12.0f 6.5f

Champ Pegasus (USA) Rigoletta (USA) Ave (GB) Girolamo (USA) Haynesfield (USA) Hibaayeb (GB) Jaycito (USA) Life At Ten (USA) Richard's Kid (USA) Winchester (USA) Zenyatta (USA) Check The Label (USA) J P's Gusto (USA) Boys At Tosconova (USA) R Heat Lightning (USA) Here Comes Ben (USA) Quality Road (USA) Tell A Kelly (USA) Tizway (USA) Always A Princess (USA) Havre de Grace (USA) Lookin At Lucky (USA) Redding Colliery (USA) Apart (USA) Morning Line (USA) My Jen (USA) Al Khali (USA) Gotta Have Her (USA) Twirling Candy (USA) Air Support (USA) Winter Memories (USA) Amazing Results (USA) Unzip Me (USA) Grand Rapport (USA) Strike The Bell (USA) Eldaafer (USA) Informed Decision (USA)

4 2 4 4 4 3 2 5 5 5 6 3 2 2 2 4 4 2 5 3 3 3 4 3 3 3 4 6 3 2 2 5 4 3 4 5 5

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

Fusaichi Pegasus (USA) Concerto (USA) Danehill Dancer (IRE) A P Indy (USA) Speightstown (USA) Singspiel (IRE) Victory Gallop (CAN) Malibu Moon (USA) Lemon Drop Kid (USA) Theatrical Street Cry (IRE) Stormin Fever (USA) Successful Appeal (USA) Officer (USA) Trippi (USA) Street Cry (IRE) Elusive Quality (USA) Tapit (USA) Tiznow (USA) Leroidesanimaux (BRZ) Saint Liam (USA) Smart Strike (CAN) Mineshaft (USA) Flatter (USA) Tiznow (USA) Fusaichi Pegasus (USA) Medaglia d'Oro (USA) Royal Academy (USA) Candy Ride (ARG) Smart Strike (CAN) El Prado (IRE) Grand Slam (USA) City Zip (USA) Grand Reward (USA) Mizzen Mast (USA) A P Indy (USA) Monarchos (USA)

Salt Champ (ARG) Almost Aprom Queen (USA) Anna Amalia (IRE) Get Lucky (USA) Nothing Special (CAN) Lady Zonda (GB) Night Edition (CAN) Rahrahsixboombah (USA) Tough Broad (USA) Rum Charger (IRE) Vertigineux (USA) Don't Trick Her (USA) Call Her Magic (USA) Little Bonnet (USA) Yellow Heat (USA) Chasetheragingwind (USA) Kobla (USA) Evrobi (USA) Bethany (USA) Gabriellina Giof (GB) Easter Bunnette (USA) Private Feeling (USA) Joop (USA) Detach (USA) Indian Snow (USA) Mekko Hokte (USA) Maya (USA) Winnowing (USA) House Of Danzing (USA) Gaze (USA) Memories Of Silver (USA) Ioya Two (USA) Escape With Me (USA) Dance Moccasin (USA) Vesper Cat (USA) Habibti (USA) Palangana (USA)

Salt Lake (USA) Montbrook (USA) In The Wings Mr Prospector (USA) Tejabo (CAN) Lion Cavern (USA) Ascot Knight (CAN) Rahy (USA) Broad Brush (USA) Spectrum (IRE) Kris S (USA) Mazel Trick (USA) Caller I D (USA) Coronado's Quest (USA) Gold Fever (USA) Dayjur (USA) Strawberry Road (AUS) Tabasco Cat (USA) Dayjur (USA) Ashkalani (IRE) Carson City (USA) Belong To Me (USA) Zilzal (USA) Unbridled (USA) A P Indy (USA) Holy Bull (USA) Capote (USA) Rahy (USA) Chester House (USA) Danzig (USA) Silver Hawk (USA) Lord At War (ARG) Arazi (USA) Native Uproar (USA) Mountain Cat (USA) Tabasco Cat (USA) His Majesty (USA)

United States 03/10 G1 03/10 G1 02/10 G1 02/10 G1 02/10 G1 02/10 G1 02/10 G1 02/10 G1 02/10 G1 02/10 G1 02/10 G1 18/09 G1 08/09 G1 06/09 G1 05/09 G1 04/09 G1 04/09 G1 04/09 G1 03/10 G2 02/10 G2 02/10 G2 02/10 G2 02/10 G2 25/09 G2 25/09 G2 25/09 G2 11/09 G2 06/09 G2 05/09 G2 03/10 G3 03/10 G3 02/10 G3 30/09 G3 25/09 G3 19/09 G3 11/09 G3 11/09 G3

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United Status (cont) 11/09 G3 Arlington Washington Futurity 11/09 G3 Kentucky Cup Turf Stakes 11/09 G3 Endine Stakes 11/09 G3 Arlington Washington Lassie Stakes 06/09 G3 Pucker Up Stakes 06/09 G3 Glens Falls Handicap 05/09 G3 Red Bank Stakes 05/09 G3 Saranac Stakes 04/09 G3 Washington Park Handicap 04/09 G3 Sapling Stakes 03/09 G3 With Anticipation Stakes

The 2009 Horse Of The Year, Rachel Alexandra, was retired on September 28, five days before the mare many believe should have won that award, Zenyatta, made it 19 starts unbeaten when thrilling a 26,000-strong crowd with her trademark late swoop to beat Switch for a third straight Lady’s Secret Stakes success. Zenyatta will have her 20th and final outing in the Breeders’ Cup Classic.

But her unblemished record will not be secured lightly as Lookin At Lucky, Blame, Haynesfield, Quality Road and Richard’s Kid are all set to take her on over the traditional dirt of Churchill Downs that may not suit the reigning champ. Lookin At Lucky dropped down to Grade 2 level to complete his preparations with a sloppy ground win in the Indiana Derby, while Blame never got close to the front-running Haynesfield in the Jockey Club Gold Cup. Quality Road, touched off by

8.0f 12.0f 6.0f 8.0f 9.0f 11.0f 8.0f 9.5f 9.5f 6.0f 8.5f

Major Gain (USA) Rezif (USA) Secret Gypsy (USA) Wonderlandbynight (USA) Dade Babe (USA) Keertana (USA) Get Serious (USA) Lethal Combination (USA) Gran Estreno (ARG) Madman Diaries (USA) Soldat (USA)

2 5 5 2 3 4 6 3 7 2 2

Blame at Saratoga in August, found a soft opportunity in the Woodward Stakes at the same venue a month later, while Richard’s Kid landed the big West Coast trial, the Goodwood Stakes.

Godolphin had to wait until August for its first US Grade 1 success of 2009 and its 2010 has been even worse, completely barren at the top level until October. But when the dam burst it did so with a bang, Godolphin’s BC Sprint hope, Girolamo taking the Vosburgh Stakes just a few hours before their recently-arrived Ribblesdale Stakes winner Hibaayeb landed the Yellow Ribbon Stakes.

Ave, whose nine-race European career scooped nothing bigger than a Gowran Park Group 3 success, hit the Grade 1 jackpot in the Flower Bowl Invitational. Still part-owned by Trevor Harris of Lordship Stud, Ave beat the former Brian Meehan inmate

Horse

Born

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Stands/Stood

Danehill Dancer (IRE) Dubawi (IRE) Oasis Dream (GB) Pivotal (GB) Giant’s Causeway (USA) Shamardal (USA) Galileo (IRE) Street Cry (IRE) Elusive Quality (USA) Bernstein (USA) More Than Ready (USA) Distorted Humor (USA) Montjeu (IRE) Dansili (GB) Zabeel (NZ) Cape Cross (IRE) Dynaformer (USA) Medaglia d'Oro (USA) Invincible Spirit (IRE)

1993 2002 2000 1993 1997 2002 1998 1998 1993 1997 1997 1993 1996 1996 1986 1994 1985 1999 1997

Danehill (USA) Dubai Millennium (GB) Green Desert (USA) Polar Falcon (USA) Storm Cat (USA) Giant’s Causeway (USA) Sadler’s Wells (USA) Machiavellian (USA) Gone West (USA) Storm Cat (USA) Southern Halo (USA) Forty Niner (USA) Sadler’s Wells (USA) Danehill (USA) Sir Tristram Green Desert (USA) Roberto (USA) El Prado (IRE) Green Desert (USA)

IRE AUS IRE UK AUS UK UK USA AUS IRE UK AUS IRE AUS USA AUS USA AUS USA ARG USA AUS USA AUS IRE NZ UK NZ IRE NZ USA USA IRE NZ

BTH BTW GH GW 46 29 33 32 41 25 44 29 28 27 35 31 38 26 19 26 24 19 21

21 19 18 18 17 17 17 16 16 15 15 15 15 14 14 13 13 13 13

31 18 21 15 21 14 32 18 7 12 17 15 21 13 12 17 18 7 9

10 12 12 9 6 10 12 12 3 6 9 5 8 10 7 9 10 6 7

C G M F F F G G H G C

More Than Ready (USA) Distant View (USA) Sea Of Secrets (USA) Sky Mesa (USA) Cimarron Secret (USA) Johar (USA) City Zip (USA) Broken Vow (USA) Lucky Roberto (USA) Bring The Heat (USA) War Front (USA)

Changing Skies by a head, with the much-travelled Japanese filly Red Desire third.

The soft-ground-loving and now Christophe Clement-trained Winchester, who Dermot Weld sent out to land the 2008 Secretariat Stakes, defeated the 2010 winner of that race, Paddy O’Prado, by a length in the Joe Hirsch Turf Classic. The first two are set to do battle again in the BC Turf, while Ave will take on Midday in the BC Filly & Mare Turf.

The month’s other big turf event for males, the Clement Hirsch Memorial, went to the Richard Mandella-trained Champ Pegasus, while on the female side of things Check The Label completed a Graded race fourtimer in the Garden City Stakes.

Life At Ten, who had landed six on the bounce prior to her defeat at the hands of Rachel Alexandra in August, returned to the winners’ circle when accounting for Unrivalled Belle and

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Old Trieste (USA) Dynaformer (USA) Rahy (USA) Gulch (USA) Sheikh Albadou (GB) Storm Cat (USA) Java Gold (USA) Boundary (USA) Senor Pete (USA) Outflanker (USA) Coronado's Quest (USA)

thee others in the Beldame Stakes.

The two-year-old division remains cloudy, but trainer Richard Dutrow has the Breeders’ Cup in mind for his unbeaten twice-raced Three Chimneys Hopeful Stakes winner Boys At Tosconova.

J P’s Gusto proved much too strong for second-placed Jaycito in the Del Mar Futurity, but four weeks later the places were overturned, by a length, in the Norfolk Stakes at Hollywood Park.

It was a similar story with the girls as Tell A Kelly beat Rigoletta by almost seven lengths into third place in the Darley Debutante at Del Mar then lost out to her, by half a length, in Hollywood’s Oak Leaf Stakes.

Another puzzling result came in the Spinaway Stakes as R Heat Lightning, the least-fancied of trainer Todd Pletcher’s four runners, stormed through from the rear to score by four lengths.

Leading global sires by stakes winners When it comes to jumping up the international table, Dubawi and Shamardal could give lessons to any stallion. Dubawi is now in second (up from tenth) behind Danehill Dancer, and clearly within striking distance, which is astonishing for a stallion whose first crop are only three.

This month saw Dubawi add six to his tally of black type winners, the same as fellow Darley sire Shamardal, who wasn’t even on the table last month but

now lies sixth. This puts them ahead of Street Cry (four) and Montjeu (three) among the other leading scorers.

Dubawi is also joint-leader with Galileo, Oasis Dream and Street Cry in number of graded winners. He didn’t have bad books of mares when retired, but they should be exceptional now.

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Leading sires 2010 by stakes winners to runners (50+ runners) Name

Dubawi Dynaformer Oasis Dream Hernando Sadler’s Wells Pastoral Pursuits Pivotal Areion Shamardal Dansili Galileo Azamour Dalakhani Halling Street Cry Zamindar Mujadil Danehill Dancer Invincible Spirit Pentire Danetime Selkirk Monsieur Bond Cape Cross Intikhab Footstepsinthesand Green Tune Giant’s Causeway Desert Style Anabaa Bahri Sinndar Monsun Rainbow Quest High Chaparral Medicean Doyen Montjeu Highest Honor Peintre Celebre American Post Whipper Diktat Oratorio Panis Tiger Hill Rock Of Gibraltar Orpen Mark Of Esteem Motivator Lando Observatory Marju Tertullian

YOF

2002 1985 2000 1990 1981 2001 1993 1995 2002 1996 1998 2001 2000 1991 1998 1994 1988 1993 1997 1992 1994 1988 2000 1994 1994 2002 1991 1997 1992 1992 1992 1997 1990 1981 1999 1997 2000 1996 1983 1994 2001 2001 1995 2002 1998 1995 1999 1996 1993 2002 1990 1997 1988 1995

Sire

Rnrs

Wnrs

%WR

Races

AWD

Earnings (£)

SH

%

SW

%

Dubai Millennium Roberto Green Desert Niniski Northern Dancer Bahamian Bounty Polar Falcon Big Shuffle Giant’s Causeway Danehill Sadler’s Wells Night Shift Darshaan Diesis Machiavellian Gone West Storm Bird Danehill Green Desert Be My Guest Danehill Sharpen Up Danehill Dancer Green Desert Red Ransom Giant’s Causeway Green Dancer Storm Cat Green Desert Danzig Riverman Grand Lodge Konigsstuhl Blushing Groom Sadler’s Wells Machiavellian Sadler’s Wells Sadler’s Wells Kenmare Nureyev Bering Miesque’s Son Warning Danehill Miswaki Danehill Danehill Lure Darshaan Montjeu Acatenango Distant View Last Tycoon Miswaki

132 51 201 79 119 53 187 67 116 191 207 75 85 104 52 55 56 263 245 63 65 112 70 190 121 122 98 100 78 105 53 80 108 54 137 170 57 204 59 89 60 92 186 124 62 156 190 132 101 68 106 71 109 76

73 24 91 36 37 21 91 32 61 83 75 42 22 40 17 15 18 95 97 25 41 41 23 72 47 49 32 37 22 37 16 31 46 20 41 60 20 60 25 36 23 39 49 36 15 59 76 51 35 24 30 25 38 33

55.3 47.1 45.3 45.6 31.1 39.6 48.7 47.8 52.6 43.5 36.2 56.0 25.9 38.5 32.7 27.3 32.1 36.1 39.6 39.7 63.1 36.6 32.9 37.9 38.8 40.2 32.7 37.0 28.2 35.2 30.2 38.8 42.6 37.0 29.9 35.3 35.1 29.4 42.4 40.5 38.3 42.4 26.3 29.0 24.2 37.8 40.0 38.6 34.7 35.3 28.3 35.2 34.9 43.4

127 41 144 56 49 33 134 45 91 130 118 58 31 59 23 21 29 143 139 42 71 64 39 124 76 71 49 47 34 54 32 48 66 35 56 99 27 86 44 52 38 58 73 52 28 89 117 81 55 36 44 29 59 48

8.8 11.2 7.7 11.1 11.9 6.8 8.4 8.0 8.5 9.4 10.8 10.4 10.5 11.5 9.5 8.9 7.2 8.9 7.5 10.3 7.1 9.7 6.9 9.4 8.5 8.2 9.8 9.7 7.7 9.5 9.4 11.5 11.4 11.8 10.1 8.6 9.3 11.6 10.3 10.9 9.1 8.0 8.6 8.0 9.0 10.3 9.2 7.8 8.6 11.6 10.5 9.8 8.2 8.2

2,857,159 839,255 3,227,938 899,919 966,605 340,348 2,403,712 659,739 2,339,480 3,052,335 5,426,335 849,147 791,422 1,070,831 335,802 314,751 392,894 3,032,454 2,212,259 323,099 611,832 950,056 611,794 2,597,218 1,315,283 1,150,511 1,281,770 909,218 657,077 1,887,078 516,380 1,051,906 1,095,347 634,161 1,296,708 1,176,918 360,360 2,228,971 669,450 1,166,561 585,614 763,177 1,253,800 704,562 652,538 1,144,868 1,571,164 770,039 616,035 434,002 879,118 981,114 824,016 503,642

24 7 29 9 16 5 26 7 13 24 32 9 9 9 5 5 3 30 16 4 6 10 4 18 11 15 6 12 3 6 2 7 14 5 12 12 5 24 2 5 5 7 9 7 2 9 16 7 5 9 9 5 8 5

18.2 13.7 14.4 11.4 13.5 9.4 13.9 10.5 11.2 12.6 15.5 12.0 10.6 8.7 9.6 9.1 5.4 11.4 6.5 6.4 9.2 8.9 5.7 9.5 9.1 12.3 6.1 12.0 3.9 5.7 3.8 8.8 13.0 9.3 8.8 7.1 8.8 11.8 3.4 5.6 8.3 7.6 4.8 5.7 3.2 5.8 8.4 5.3 5.0 13.2 8.5 7.0 7.3 6.6

14 5 17 6 9 4 14 5 8 13 14 5 5 6 3 3 3 14 12 3 3 5 3 8 5 5 4 4 3 4 2 3 4 2 5 6 2 7 2 3 2 3 6 4 2 5 6 4 3 2 3 2 3 2

10.6 9.8 8.5 7.6 7.6 7.6 7.5 7.5 6.9 6.8 6.8 6.7 5.9 5.8 5.8 5.5 5.4 5.3 4.9 4.8 4.6 4.5 4.3 4.2 4.1 4.1 4.1 4.0 3.9 3.8 3.8 3.8 3.7 3.7 3.7 3.5 3.5 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.3 3.3 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.6

Dynaformer making most of advantage Reaching the 50-runner benchmark for inclusion can result in a stallion entering the table pretty high up, as happened last month with Pastoral Pursuits and this time with Dynaformer.

The 25-year-old has been praised in these columns before and White Moonstone is certainly giving him a high profile in Europe, backed by Meeznah and French stayer Americain, winner of Australia’s Geelong Cup. This is splendid, but there is a rider.

American stallions tend to benefit from quality control in so far as their progeny arriving in Europe can be assumed to be better than average.

Without doubt their lists contain fewer of the inevitable mundane performers that lower the percentages for home-based sires.

The fact that Dubawi has crossed the classic 10% stakes threshold from 132 runners speaks volumes for him.

Hernando has made excellent headway into fourth on 7.6%. The Lanwades stallion never lets the side down but his number of runners, 75, indicates that he has not quite received the patronage his record deserves.

The admirable Harris Tweed, with four wins this year including two Listed events, is a typically good advert for this consistent sire.

Leading sires of two-year-olds 2010 by earnings Name

Invincible Spirit *Iffraaj Galileo Dansili Oasis Dream Dubawi Danehill Dancer Footstepsinthesand Exceed And Excel Diktat Shamardal *Holy Roman Emperor Oratorio Monsieur Bond Compton Place One Cool Cat *Aussie Rules Indian Rocket Kheleyf *Indesatchel Distorted Humor Elusive City Dynaformer Avonbridge Choisir Verglas Panis Acclamation Cape Cross *Kodiac

YOF

1997 2001 1998 1996 2000 2002 1993 2002 2000 1995 2002 2004 2002 2000 1994 2001 2003 1994 2001 2002 1993 2000 1985 2000 1999 1994 1998 1999 1994 2001

Sire

Rnrs

Wnrs

%WR

Races

AWD

Green Desert Zafonic Sadler’s Wells Danehill Green Desert Dubai Millennium Danehill Giant’s Causeway Danehill Warning Giant’s Causeway Danehill Danehill Danehill Dancer Indian Ridge Storm Cat Danehill Indian Ridge Green Desert Danehill Dancer Forty Niner Elusive Quality Roberto Averti Danehill Dancer Highest Honor Miswaki Royal Applause Green Desert Danehill

78 64 37 51 50 50 56 49 57 41 41 55 60 33 42 37 43 25 56 26 7 42 12 37 32 54 19 56 32 38

31 30 16 19 21 21 19 19 22 7 19 19 13 8 15 19 12 8 18 8 2 15 6 9 9 18 3 16 8 15

39.7 46.9 43.2 37.3 42.0 42.0 33.9 38.8 38.6 17.1 46.3 34.6 21.7 24.2 35.7 51.4 27.9 32.0 32.1 30.8 28.6 35.7 50.0 24.3 28.1 33.3 15.8 28.6 25.0 39.5

50 45 23 26 29 29 26 25 35 10 25 27 19 11 19 27 18 10 26 12 5 22 10 15 12 23 6 23 9 23

6.0 6.6 7.5 6.8 6.2 6.5 6.8 6.2 5.7 6.0 7.1 6.2 6.8 6.0 5.8 6.2 6.8 5.6 6.2 5.7 6.6 6.1 7.6 5.6 5.8 6.5 6.5 5.7 7.1 5.7

Earnings (£)

1,069,655 902,374 768,944 595,999 583,944 561,249 520,840 427,602 417,099 403,342 368,736 316,909 311,858 287,561 274,761 274,580 273,502 272,453 265,645 260,304 249,251 240,588 232,601 230,960 230,309 229,323 224,865 222,785 210,891 205,811

Top horse

Earned (£)

Fury Wootton Bassett Misty For Me Zoffany Approve Irish Field Samuel Morse Formosina Klammer Dream Ahead Casamento High Award King Torus Ladies Are Forever Sir Reginald Lone Cat Chinese Wall Captain Chop Meracus Galtymore Lad Pathfork Chiswick Bey White Moonstone Temple Meads Codemaster Snow Watch Maiguri Eucharist I Love Me Bathwick Bear

283,431 524,445 299,819 192,465 209,826 98,624 87,339 124,170 102,768 286,590 99,394 35,518 92,373 143,582 89,082 44,027 69,027 51,770 55,389 161,500 165,217 47,632 197,711 154,164 54,970 39,447 122,661 43,074 119,138 49,387

Still all to play for as juvenile title climaxes In terms of prize-money the destination of the two-year-old championship is still uncertain, though there have been plenty of changes over the last month.

Fury’s sales race success kept Invincible Spirit at the top, but he is not that far clear of freshman Iffraaj, whose Wootton Bassett provided a double cash boost with his wins at Doncaster and Longchamp. Galileo is not that far behind and cannot be discounted given the valuable Group 1 juvenile events still to come in Europe.

The numerical battle is also far from clear-cut since Invincible Spirit is back in front of Iffraaj after six additional winners, the same as Oasis Dream and Shamardal achieved.

* first-season sire; all statistics to October 4

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Breeder Abbey, Miss G. J. Aston House Stud Aston House Stud Ballygallon Stud Limited Ballykilbride Stud Barouche Stud Ireland Ltd Callanan, Mr M. J. G. Camogue Stud Ltd Canary Thoroughbreds Castlemartin Stud & Skymarc Farm Chaplin, Miss J. Cheveley Park Stud Ltd Childwick Bury Stud Management Ltd Churchtown House Stud Cliveden Stud Ltd & Ocean Bloodstock Cooke, B. Corduff Stud Cullen, Miss N. Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley David Jamison Bloodstock Davis & Star Pointe Ltd, J. G. Dayton Investments Ltd Dayton Investments Ltd Dayton Investments Ltd Deerforest Stud Dorrian, J. Duffy, M. Egan, Mr D. C. Farrington, P. J. Forenaghts Stud Gascoigne, P. Genesis Green Stud Ltd Gigginstown House Stud Grundy Bloodstock Grundy Bloodstock Ltd Grundy Bloodstock S R L Grundy Bloodstock S R L Hackett, Mr and Mrs M. & P. Haggas, J. B. Hanly, Eoin and Stephanie Hanly, J. Harty, E. P. Hascombe & Valiant Studs Hascombe & Valiant Studs Horse Breeding Corporation Howard Barton Stud Iceton, D. G. Jamieson, Mrs B. Juddmonte Farms Ltd Juddmonte Farms Ltd Juddmonte Farms Ltd. Juddmonte Farms Ltd. Juddmonte Farms Ltd. Juddmonte Farms Ltd. Juddmonte Farms Ltd. Kilfrush Stud Kilfrush Stud Kirtlington Stud Ltd Knocklong House Stud Laundry Cottage Stud Farm Legard, Lady London Thoroughbred Services Ltd Lordship Stud Loughtown Stud Lynch Bages Ltd Mac Hale & J. Hyland, C. March Thoroughbreds Maye, C. McKeon, Miss S. McLoughlin, J. Meon Valley Stud Meon Valley Stud Mullins, G. New England Stud & Mount Coote Stud New England Stud, Myriad & Elite Bloodstock Newsells Park Stud Newsells Park Stud Newsells Park Stud Limited Newsells Park Stud Limited Normandie Stud Ltd O'Connor, O. O'Flynn, C. Oghill House Stud Oghill House Stud O'Leary, J. Ormsby, L. O'Rourke, Mrs P. K. O'Shaughnessy, Miss I. Plantation Stud Pocock, Exors of the Late T. E. Quay Bloodstock Rathasker Stud Reid, J. G. Ridgecourt Stud River Downs Stud Rockfield Farm Shadwell Estate Company Limited Shadwell Estate Company Limited Shadwell Estate Company Limited Southill Stud Stack, Mrs L. Stone Ridge Farm Tally-Ho Stud Thurso Limited Venner, P. and Mrs A. G. Venner, P. and Mrs A. G. Whisperview Trading Ltd Whitsbury Manor Stud Wills, Exors of the Late K. R.

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Winner Trewarthenick (GB) Ravilious (GB) Bezique (GB) Best of Order (IRE) King's Iron (IRE) First Blush (IRE) Footsteppy (IRE) Quissisana (IRE) Broox (IRE) Seventh Star (IRE) Officer Rocket (GB) Entangle (GB) Timepecker (IRE) Missit (IRE) Mores Wells (GB) Hawk Island (IRE) Acapulco Gold (IRE) Rayo Negro (IRE) Spirit Ditty (GB) Samaaha (GB) Patterning (GB) Grand Vent (IRE) Colonial (IRE) Lawspeaker (GB) French Navy (GB) Luck Or Design (IRE) Deal Breaker (GB) Belle Lumiere (GB) Oppenort (IRE) Parade Militaire (IRE) Blagueuse (IRE) Lisa's Strong (IRE) Connie Mac (IRE) Samba School (IRE) Mekong Melody (IRE) Island Waif (IRE) Outtheblue (IRE) Karakorun (GB) March Madness (GB) Achilles of Troy (IRE) Cima de Pluie (GB) Daylang (GB) Ransom Hope (GB) Stay Alive (IRE) Story Telling (IRE) Dream Hall (GB) Meracus (IRE) Vallodiadriano (IRE) Corcovada (IRE) Group Captain (GB) Miss Keller (IRE) Celtic Celeb (IRE) Johann Zoffany (GB) Redesignation (IRE) Gemo Lotus (IRE) Helleborine (GB) Midday (GB) Merchandise (GB) English Summer (GB) Gold Option (GB) Redwood (GB) Workforce (GB) Sweet Smile (IRE) Royal Bench (IRE) Blue Maiden (GB) Vittoria Day (IRE) Wootton Bassett (GB) Ronnie (GB) Dream of Kunda (GB) Swiss Diva (GB) Para Elisa (IRE) Maria Royal (IRE) Whatsthescript (IRE) Misty For Me (IRE) Iruz (IRE) Hiresh (IRE) Dunnboinee (IRE) Your So High (GB) Primera Vista (GB) Breaking Ice (IRE) Dorian Crown (GB) Adagio (GB) Kellemoi de Pepita (GB) Kellemoi de Pepita (GB) Royal Revival (GB) Royal Revival (GB) Duncan (GB) Prinzde Glas (IRE) Lisselan Diva (IRE) Jack Russel (IRE) Elusive Time (IRE) Street Honor (IRE) Ashton Girl (IRE) Sebastian Flyte (GB) Ridge City (IRE) Ave (GB) Lukian (GB) Achill Island (IRE) Vera's Moscou (IRE) Filba Candramjga (IRE) Montaquila (GB) Katici Princess (IRE) Yumine de Paban (IRE) Giu La Testa (IRE) Riqa (GB) Naabegha (GB) Ami Ami Chair (GB) Another Express (IRE) Charming Eyes (IRE) Ileny Princess (IRE) Prince Bishop (IRE) Baileys Etoile (GB) Baileys Etoile (GB) Tellovoi (IRE) Gilt Edge Girl (GB) Lisselan Troubador (IRE)

Sire Cape Cross (IRE) Selkirk (USA) Cape Cross (IRE) Pivotal (GB) Soviet Star (USA) Pivotal (GB) Footstepsinthesand (GB) Antonius Pius (USA) Xaar (GB) Dubai Destination (USA) Officer (USA) Pivotal (GB) Dansili (GB) Orpen (USA) Sadler's Wells (USA) Hawk Wing (USA) Azamour (IRE) Shinko Forest (IRE) Singspiel (IRE) Singspiel (IRE) Pivotal (GB) Shirocco (GER) Cape Cross (IRE) Singspiel (IRE) Shamardal (USA) Dubawi (IRE) Night Shift (USA) Fantastic Light (USA) Aussie Rules (USA) Peintre Celebre (USA) Statue of Liberty (USA) Kalanisi (IRE) Elusive City (USA) Sahm (USA) Cape Cross (IRE) Turtle Island (IRE) Motivator (GB) Kheleyf (USA) Noverre (USA) Danehill Dancer (IRE) Singspiel (IRE) Daylami (IRE) Red Ransom (USA) Iffraaj (GB) Hawk Wing (USA) Halling (USA) Kheleyf (USA) Elusive City (USA) Captain Rio (GB) Dr Fong (USA) Montjeu (IRE) Peintre Celebre (USA) Galileo (IRE) Key of Luck (USA) Alamshar (IRE) Observatory (USA) Oasis Dream (GB) Beat Hollow (GB) Montjeu (IRE) Observatory (USA) High Chaparral (IRE) King's Best (USA) Catcher In The Rye (IRE) Whipper (USA) Medicean (GB) Arakan (USA) Iffraaj (GB) Indian Haven (GB) Oasis Dream (GB) Pivotal (GB) Halling (USA) Montjeu (IRE) Royal Applause (GB) Galileo (IRE) High Chaparral (IRE) Redback (GB) King's Best (USA) High Chaparral (IRE) Haafhd (GB) Whipper (USA) E Dubai (USA) Grand Lodge (USA) Hawk Wing (USA) Hawk Wing (USA) King's Best (USA) King's Best (USA) Dalakhani (IRE) Verglas (IRE) Barathea (IRE) Fasliyev (USA) Elusive City (USA) Byron (GB) Elnadim (USA) Observatory (USA) Elusive City (USA) Danehill Dancer (IRE) Orpen (USA) Sadler's Wells (USA) Kheleyf (USA) Captain Rio (GB) Hawk Wing (USA) Noverre (USA) Aussie Rules (USA) Muhtathir (GB) Dubawi (IRE) Muhtathir (GB) Trade Fair (GB) Choisir (AUS) Whipper (USA) Kodiac (GB) Dubawi (IRE) Bertolini (USA) Bertolini (USA) Indian Haven (GB) Monsieur Bond (IRE) Definite Article (GB)

Age/sex 3g 5h 2f 3c 2c 3f 2f 3f 2c 3g 6h 4f 3f 5m 6h 5h 3c 3c 3f 4f 3c 2c 3c 3c 2c 3c 5g 3f 2c 3f 3f 3f 4f 4f 5m 8g 2f 2f 2f 5h 3c 5h 5h 2f 2f 2f 2c 4c 3f 8g 4f 3c 4g 5g 3c 2f 4f 3c 3c 6h 4c 3c 4c 3c 3f 2f 2c 2c 3c 4f 4f 3f 6h 2f 5h 3c 2c 2f 4c 2f 4c 6h 2f 2f 3c 3c 5h 3c 4f 2c 2c 2c 5m 3c 3c 4f 5h 5h 4c 4f 5g 5m 2f 2f 2f 3g 2f 5h 3f 2f 3c 2f 2f 2c 4f 6g

Dam Play With Fire (FR) Risen Raven (USA) Batik (IRE) Groom Order (GB) Indiana Annie (IRE) Zibilene (GB) Final Opinion (IRE) Lanark Belle (GB) Miss Brooks (GB) Yara (IRE) Ocean View (USA) Entwine (GB) Pas d'Heure (IRE) High Spot (GB) Endorsement (GB) Crimphill (IRE) El Rabab (USA) Chaste (GB) Maids Causeway (IRE) Genovefa (USA) Historian (IRE) Housa Dancer (FR) Elizabeth Bay (USA) Forum Floozie (NZ) First Fleet (USA) Birjand (GB) Photo Flash (IRE) Bella Bianca (IRE) Odessa (IRE) Poughkeepsie (IRE) Bright Sky (IRE) Bauci (IRE) Strange Destiny (GB) Lulua (USA) Nini Princesse (IRE) Wasaif (IRE) Across The Ice (USA) Assuage (GB) Spinning Reel (GB) Twice The Ease (GB) Grey Way (USA) Kelang (GB) Field of Hope (IRE) Pursuit of Life (GB) Amaniy (USA) Blue Dream (IRE) Miss Progressive (IRE) Pink Cashmere (IRE) Misty Mountain (IRE) Alusha (GB) Ingozi (GB) Gaelic Bird (FR) Belle Allemande (CAN) Disregard That (IRE) Lily Beth (IRE) New Orchid (USA) Midsummer (GB) Phone West (USA) Hunt The Sun (GB) Minskip (USA) Arum Lily (USA) Soviet Moon (IRE) Quivala (USA) Hit The Sky (IRE) Bluebelle (GB) Maydaymayday (IRE) Balladonia (GB) Quadri (GB) Kunda (IRE) Swiss Lake (USA) Ice Ballet (IRE) Notable (GB) Grizel (GB) Butterfly Cove (USA) Eilanden (IRE) Polissena (IRE) For Starters (IRE) You Too (GB) Colorvista Fall Habit (IRE) Slow Jazz (USA) Lalindi (IRE) Golightly (USA) Golightly (USA) Holy Nola (USA) Holy Nola (USA) Dolores (GB) Bellacoola (GER) Vintage Escape (IRE) Tatamagouche (IRE) Brosna Time (IRE) La Rendita (GB) Black Jack Girl (IRE) Aravonian (GB) Absolutely Cool (IRE) Anna Amalia (IRE) Ladywell Blaise (IRE) Prawn Cocktail (USA) Inching (GB) No Tomorrow (IRE) Intellectuelle (GB) Just A Mirage (GB) Perfect Sound (FR) Deraasaat (GB) Thamarat (GB) Hawafiz (GB) Belle de Nuit (IRE) Chantarella (IRE) Private Collection (IRE) Cayman Expresso (IRE) North East Bay (USA) Kosmic View (USA) Kosmic View (USA) Kloonlara (IRE) Tahara (IRE) Jesting (GB)

Ctry Fr Ity Ity Fr Ity Fr Fr Aut Fr Usa Usa Swe Fr Can Swe Aus Fr Spa Fr Fr Fr Fr Fr Fr Fr Hk Usa Fr Fr Fr Fr Ity Usa Usa Can Ity Ity Swe Ity Hk Ity Ity Ity Ity Fr Ity Ity Ity Chr Fr Can Fr Aus Fr Fr Fr Fr Fr Fr Aus Can Fr Aus Fr Usa Ity Fr Ity Ity Fr Spa Fr Usa Fr Spa Ity Fr Fr Gny Fr Rus Usa Gny Gny Fr Fr Fr Fr Fr Ity Nor Ity Usa Usa Fr Usa Gny Hk Fr Ity Mac Saf Fr Ity Fr Fr Ity Hk Fr Ity Fr Fr Fr Ity Fr Fr

Date 16/9/10 26/9/10 12/9/10 2/10/10 8/10/10 8/10/10 13/9/10 3/10/10 13/9/10 26/9/10 04/9/10 12/9/10 11/9/10 25/9/10 12/9/10 03/9/10 30/9/10 3/10/10 22/9/10 10/10/10 07/9/10 13/9/10 25/9/10 11/9/10 18/9/10 05/9/10 2/10/10 19/9/10 22/9/10 21/9/10 13/9/10 26/9/10 16/9/10 22/9/10 26/9/10 21/9/10 3/10/10 12/9/10 05/9/10 08/9/10 04/9/10 05/9/10 21/9/10 05/9/10 17/9/10 08/9/10 04/9/10 1/10/10 19/9/10 08/9/10 19/9/10 2/10/10 08/9/10 23/9/10 07/9/10 09/9/10 12/9/10 22/9/10 17/9/10 18/9/10 19/9/10 3/10/10 23/9/10 2/10/10 3/10/10 8/10/10 3/10/10 10/9/10 07/9/10 12/9/10 05/9/10 2/10/10 19/9/10 3/10/10 03/9/10 05/9/10 11/9/10 22/9/10 05/9/10 07/9/10 25/9/10 19/9/10 19/9/10 6/10/10 15/9/10 9/10/10 12/9/10 13/9/10 15/9/10 06/9/10 26/9/10 13/9/10 06/9/10 04/9/10 29/9/10 2/10/10 12/9/10 15/9/10 1/10/10 17/9/10 19/9/10 14/8/10 10/10/10 12/9/10 4/10/10 18/9/10 21/9/10 18/9/10 29/9/10 26/9/10 18/9/10 30/9/10 21/9/10 8/10/10 3/10/10 25/9/10

Racecourse Le Lion D'Angers Milan Rome Cavaillon Rome Compiegne Maisons-Laffitte Magna Racino Maisons-Laffitte Monmouth Park Philadelphia Park Taby Toulouse Woodbine Taby Wyong Toulouse Zarzuela Compiegne Ajaccio Nancy Maisons-Laffitte Craon Toulouse Longchamp Sha Tin Golden Gate Le Pin Au Haras Compiegne Maisons-Laffitte Maisons-Laffitte Rome Arlington International Fairplex Park Woodbine Rome Milan Taby Milan Happy Valley Florence Rome Rome Milan Saint-Cloud Milan Florence Rome Velka Chuchle Nancy Woodbine Longchamp Sandown Lakeside Saint-Cloud Nancy Longchamp Longchamp Compiegne Lyon-Parilly Morphettville Woodbine Longchamp Hawkesbury Longchamp Hollywood Park Rome Longchamp Rome Rome Longchamp Zarzuela Longchamp Belmont Park Longchamp San Sebastian Rome Toulouse Bordeaux Le Bouscat Baden-Baden Nancy Gudermes Monmouth Park Dusseldorf Cologne Fontainebleau Maisons-Laffitte Longchamp Maisons-Laffitte Fontainebleau Naples Ovrevoll Naples Philadelphia Park Del Mar Marseille Borely Belmont Park Munich Happy Valley Saint-Cloud Rome Taipa Kenilworth Mont-De-Marsan Milan Maisons-Laffitte Longchamp Rome Sha Tin Maisons-Laffitte Milan Longchamp Toulouse Maisons-Laffitte Rome Longchamp Craon

Distance 1m2f 1m1f 7f110y 1m 7f 1m2f 1m 1m2f 5f110y 1m 5f 1m1f165y 1m2f 1m 1m4f 1m2f110y 1m2f110y 5f110y 1m2f 1m4f 1m1f165y 1m 1m55y 1m4f 1m 6f 1m 1m3f165y 1m1f 1m4f 6f 1m3f 5f 1m 1m4f 6f 1m1f 5f165y 7f110y 6f 1m3f 1m2f 7f 7f110y 1m 1m 7f110y 6f 1m 1m4f 1m1f 1m7f 1m2f110y 1m4f 1m4f 1m 1m4f 1m2f 1m4f 1m4f110y 1m4f 1m4f 1m2f 1m 1m 1m110y 7f 7f 1m 5f 1m3f 1m4f110y 1m 1m 1m6f 1m 1m 1m 1m1f 6f165y 1m2f 1m 7f 1m 1m1f 1m1f 1m4f 6f 5f 5f 6f187y 7f 5f 1m 7f165y 1m2f 6f110y 1m55y 1m2f110y 7f110y 5f55y 6f 1m2f 1m 7f110y 7f 6f 6f 1m2f110y 6f 1m2f 1m 1m 1m 5f 1m7f110y

Prize-money (ÂŁ) 6,195 6,769 21,061 (L) 6,637 6,393 5,752 12,832 5,973 35,398 (Gr3) 14,074 7,407 21,645 (L) 24,336 (L) 23,894 86,580 (Gr3) 43,333 (L) 11,947 13,274 5,752 6,195 8,407 12,832 23,009 (L) 24,336 (L) 35,398 (Gr3) 79,356 7,963 6,637 8,850 10,619 15,044 5,641 11,296 7,778 35,294 (Gr2) 7,522 5,641 17,316 5,641 29,021 11,283 11,283 8,274 9,402 9,292 5,641 21,061 (L) 5,641 7,558 5,752 105,882 (Gr2) 65,575 (Gr2) 10,202 9,735 6,195 35,398 (Gr3) 176,982 (Gr1) 5,752 7,965 11,111 264,706 (Gr1) 2,022,655 (Gr1) 5,778 65,575 (Gr2) 14,815 7,522 176,982 (Gr1) 6,769 7,522 35,398 (Gr3) 18,584 65,575 (Gr2) 22,222 151,699 (Gr1) 15,929 6,769 7,965 6,195 11,504 6,195 10,335 11,852 22,124 22,124 12,832 24,336 (L) 65,575 (Gr2) 12,389 8,850 6,017 14,973 6,393 25,926 21,111 11,947 185,185 (Gr1) 10,619 (L) 29,021 7,522 5,641 15,036 7,845 (Gr3) 6,195 7,522 10,619 12,832 6,393 38,544 9,292 21,062 (L) 35,398 (Gr3) 6,195 7,965 8,274 126,416 (Gr1) 7,048

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Casela Park case raises impartiality concerns ANDREW SCUTTS Deputy News Editor for the Racing Post

Whatever your view of the ride, elements of the hearing left a sour taste

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icture this. We’re at Newcastle Magistrates Court.

In the dock are two men; we’ll call them Defendant A and Defendant B. A is up for assault, B on a charge of conspiracy. They have been unable to afford a solicitor. Having heard the arguments and seen CCTV footage, the three-person panel is probing the two men before considering their verdict.

The chief magistrate is chief prober.

“Defendant A, the prosecution says you are jabbing at the victim’s head and that you always have a very tight hold of it, not letting the victim go, stopping him.

“As for you, Defendant B, you are accused of abetting your co-defendant, instructing him to carry out this crime.

“The motive, we’re told, while not proven, is that you wanted practice for a murder you were intending to carry out on the victim in Edinburgh two days later, that as we know you did not go through with.

“The prosecution says it has ‘evidence’, in the form of the local rag that quotes you, Defendant B, as saying: ‘I told (Defendant A) not to kill him as we wouldn’t be able to go to Edinburgh’. What have you both, in summary, to say?”

Defendant A: “I was not jabbing the victim, sir, I was pushing him away. Basically, it is my word against the QC’s.”

Defendant B: “What motive was there for using this as practice for murder? There was no motive, no gain in it for us.”

After spending further time reviewing the CCTV, the magistrates decide both men should serve three months, reasoning Defendant B’s punishment must equal that of the actual perpetrator of the crime.

Back in the (sur)real world of the BHA’s disciplinary panel, Jason Behan the jockey and Eamon Tyrrell the trainer have been disqualified for three years for deliberately preventing Casela Park from winning at Newcastle in August. Tyrrell first said he would seek a judicial review, then belatedly appealed the decision.

Anyone who has seen the Newcastle race can make up their own mind about whether Behan stopped Casela Park. The disciplinary panel had every right to make a judgement based on the videos they watched.

But there were several things wrong with the Casela Park hearing. First, it should not have gone ahead without Behan and Tyrrell being legally represented.

The reason it did was that the BHA was informed only a couple of days before the hearing that rider and jockey would not be represented. The BHA felt it was too late for one of their disciplinary department staffers to prepare the case and present it, and pointed to the waste of money, on a QC, that would have entailed – fair comment. But it was even more unfair, given careers and livelihoods were at stake, that it took place with an experienced solicitor on one side of the room and two ‘green’ defendants on the other.

The BHA has come under fire for wasting money, but they would hardly have been criticised for delaying the hearing for a few weeks in the interest of a fair trial.

The second unsatisfactory element, related to the first, was the issue of motive. In the hearing the BHA’s QC, Graeme McPherson, said they couldn’t find one, but did not have to.

Yet McPherson’s suggestion was that connections were intent on disguising Casela Park’s ability at Newcastle to facilitate a betting coup two days later at Musselburgh.

There was no evidence for this, however, and an opposing solicitor would have had a field day in cross-examining McPherson, especially about his reference to Casela Park’s owner having been a business acquaintance of Kieren Fallon.

The panel said in its report that it did not factor in motive in the punishments. This is debatable.

Also questionable, certainly from a defendant’s perspective, is the independence of the panel. The BHA often stresses this point, but these hearings are held at their London headquarters. Is this not akin to a football club playing every game at home, with a rotating set of referees and linesmen? Even if you argue that the officials are independent, the benefits of conducting a prosecution on your own turf, against opponents unfamiliar with the setting, are obvious.

Last, and most unsatisfactory of all, was handing the trainer the same penalty as the jockey. That, however, is a story with another chapter to be written.

“An opposing

solicitor would have had a field day in cross-examining the BHA’s QC

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