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Cover: Arabian Queen and Silvestre de Sousa are greeted by groom Laura Gardner after victory in the Juddmonte International Stakes at York Photo: George Selwyn

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Voltigeur result shows the riding rules are not great T here were plenty of talking points to emerge from York’s Ebor meeting, not least the previously unbeaten Golden Horn’s first ever defeat, inflicted by 50-1 outsider Arabian Queen, bred and owned by Jeff Smith, who told Julian Muscat in last month’s magazine that breeding racehorses is essentially a game of luck. How many men in his situation would even have run their filly in that race, lauded as the best in the world on ratings? Sometimes, Jeff, you make your own luck.

One of the more controversial incidents involved the finish to the Great Voltigeur Stakes, a recognised trial for the St Leger, in which Storm The Stars defeated Bondi Beach by half a length. The replay showed the extent to which Storm The Stars had bumped and carried Bondi Beach across the Knavesmire, with jockey Pat Cosgrave failing to change his whip hand to correct the eventual winner.

The subsequent stewards’ enquiry, televised live on Channel 4, had both jockeys fighting their corner; Joseph O’Brien, eloquently, explained that the interference had cost his mount the race, while Pat Cosgrave simply stated that the best horse had won. The stewards went with the latter’s view – to the apparent displeasure of a sizeable chunk of the York crowd, who booed when the decision was announced – although they did hand Cosgrave a three-day ban for careless riding. And therein lies the problem.

We have a situation, highlighted in this prestigious event, whereby the stewards know that an offence has been committed in the pursuit of victory. Yet that victory will nearly always stand, with the punishment restricted to the rider, who, more often than not, will be happy to take his medicine, safe in the knowledge that he has delivered for his owner and trainer.

The horse that causes, and benefits from, the interference will not lose the race unless the margin of victory is so narrow as to force the benefit of doubt to go to the runner-up.

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Claiming this encourages jockeys to adopt a ‘win at all costs’ mentality may be slightly wide of the mark, yet there is little incentive for staying within the rules. We certainly don’t want to follow the USA’s example – Secret Gesture’s recent demotion in the Beverly D Stakes was a joke – but unless the threat of disqualification is increased, we will continue to see such rides deciding the outcome of big races.

Steve Cauthen won plenty of big races in his time, in Britain and America, and this month will see the 30th anniversary of his St Leger triumph on Sheikh Mohammed’s Oh So Sharp, the last winner of the fillies’ Triple Crown, having also captured the 1,000 Guineas and Oaks in 1985.

Cauthen, who was a teenage star in his homeland thanks to his first Triple Crown achievement aboard the mighty Affirmed as an 18-year-old, is hopeful the British version for colts – last achieved by Nijinsky in 1970 – will one day see another victor, as its Atlantic cousin has this year.

“I’d leave the St Leger as it is,” Cauthen tells Tim Richards (Talking To, pages 44-48) when asked whether Doncaster’s 1m6f132y contest should be replaced in the Triple Crown series by a race over 10f.

“If you change the St Leger you are taking away the opportunity for a horse to prove itself in an outstanding way. I know St Leger winners are not necessarily popular with breeders, but when a horse can prove he can do it over the three distances, he shows he has speed, stamina and courage, which make for a great thoroughbred.

“It’s a feat, albeit a very rare one, worth waiting for, as it was in the case of American Pharoah.”

Hugo Palmer may have the St Leger on the horizon for his top-class filly Covert Love, winner of the Irish Oaks this season and runner-up to Pleascach in the Yorkshire Oaks. The Newmarket handler talks to Julian Muscat (The Big Interview, pages 50-54) about his path into training and why it was a move to Australia that really gave him the confidence to take out a licence.

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CONTENTS SEPTEMBER 2015

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NEWS & VIEWS

FEATURES

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ROA Leader Addressing stable staff shortage

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TBA Leader Breeders need incentives

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Tony Morris

Talking To...

The Big Interview With trainer Hugo Palmer

My passion for the sales

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View From Ireland Patrick Harty heads home

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Continental Tales Freddy Head on Solow

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Around The Globe Espinoza in lights

Yearling Sales Previews

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Sales Circuit Records fall at Arqana

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Caulfield Files Don’t judge stallions too quickly

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Dr Statz Market improving in all sectors

Artist Katie O’Sullivan

Ticket touts trouble

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Howard Wright

INTERNATIONAL SCENE

Redoute’s Choice well received

Former top jockey Steve Cauthen

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Breeders’ Digest

In America and Ireland

The Big Picture At Ascot and York

Changes News in a nutshell

Sir Peter O’Sullevan Tribute to the legend

News Fixture list finalised

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Still Oh So Sharp: Steve Cauthen looks back at his superb career in the saddle (pages 44-48)

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ROA LEADER

RACHEL HOOD President Racehorse Owners Association

Stable staff debate: how to get a win-win result Mutual benefits would come from working in partnership with government

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he fact that the Minister for Sport, Tracey Crouch MP, has recently launched a government consultation entitled ‘A New Strategy for Sport’ at a time when a shortage of stable staff has become a high profile subject, should send a strong message to racing.

This consultation process embraces a lot of subjects relevant to horseracing, none more so than how we recruit and retain our workforce. Part of it focuses on how sport can perform a social good in developing skills and education, providing positive opportunities and role models, both through links with schools and in local communities.

It is true that racing already has a good story to tell within these areas through the two racing schools and initiatives such as Racing Together – also, through our excellent charities such as the Injured Jockeys Fund and Racing Welfare, both of which do outstanding work in helping racing’s participants.

That said, we should recognise the obvious connection between youth unemployment generally and racing’s need to fill job vacancies.

With this consultation pressing, the Minister for Sport would surely be interested to hear that racing has at least 500 job vacancies for stable staff, while trainers report poor responses to job applications – a problem made worse since the change in immigration policy stopped the recruitment of labour from outside the EC. As part of its story, racing would concede that, while it may have been caught out by these revelations, especially at a time when the industry is pushing to have 1,000 more horses in training, it has nevertheless long recognised the importance of attracting and retaining a good workforce, as demonstrated by the BHA setting up a Participant Welfare and Training Pillar.

While admitting that, initially, racing had only committed a miniscule budget to improve recruitment, we would tell the Minister that we have now tried to respond to the gravity of the situation by persuading the

Racing Foundation to commit to spending £1 million over the next three years to help address the problem. And it would surely impress her to know these funds have come from the sale of the Tote.

But, we would acknowledge, this still fairly modest budget is only the first step. More important is getting the right strategies in place so that working in racing becomes more appealing to a greater number of young people.

Some will already have horse skills but, overall, we have to introduce measures to make working in racing a viable career choice to a much greater number of school leavers.

The Minister needs to be aware that in the British Racing School and the Northern Racing College, we have two excellent institutions to train young people, but we have to find a way of increasing their intake.

We would say that, however difficult it used to be to make the case for a career in racing when low pay and working unsociable hours were constantly paraded as reasons for looking elsewhere, this is simply no longer true.

And, in any case, there is a compelling argument that for young people who have a love of animals, and who possess the right temperament and attitude, racing offers a much better quality of life than, say, factory work or no work at all.

We would explain that it is difficult to attract more youngsters into racing at a time when people generally are getting heavier so the pool of potential workers is diminishing all the time. However, not everyone is too heavy and not everyone in a racing yard needs to be a work-rider. There is much to be said for training young people of an average weight in equine skills without it being necessary for them to be aspiring jockeys.

And so our meeting with the Minister would surely conclude with an agreement on the glaringly apparent mutual benefits of increasing and improving racing’s workforce while helping youth employment and the rural economy. What you might call a win-win

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JULIAN RICHMOND-WATSON Chairman Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association

Breeders need incentives to help fulfil BHA targets An extra 1,000 horses in training will not be easy with prize-money set to fall

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eflecting on one of the BHA’s four primary ambitions for the next five years – to bring another 1,000 horses into training – it’s easy to suggest but much harder to achieve, prompting the question: what initiatives are needed to persuade British breeders to produce the extra foals that will be required to satisfy those extra numbers on our racetracks?

It is too simple to suggest that more prize-money is the answer. Bigger rewards for owners would help, but realistically the size of uplift that would be needed to change behaviour substantially looks a long way off, because over the next two years at least it appears that prize-money will be static at best.

BHA statistics reveal that prizemoney for the first six months of 2015 is at a record level, averaging more than £12,550 per race against around £8,600 in 2011, while the Levy Board is expecting that its contribution to prize-money this year will be the highest since 2009. Yet the Levy Board has already forecast that its total spending will fall by £4 million next year, and some of that will inevitably come from prizemoney.

So we need to be more imaginative in using what scarce resources we have, and projects such as Plus 10 on the Flat and the proposal for a Mares Owners Initiative Scheme (MOPS) over jumps are two important ways in which we can provide valuable incentives for breeders. I am sure other ideas will emerge.

With race programming and race planning in mind, I am delighted that the BHA has recognised their importance by poaching Richard Wayman from the ROA and appointing him Chief Operating Officer, reporting to Nick Rust and working alongside Ruth Quinn. We look forward to co-operating closely with them to create the best possible environment for breeders.

To reiterate a point I made last month, the race programme is critical for the breeding industry, and I am delighted with the initial response to our Stayers’ Report.

The introduction this autumn of four two-year-old maiden

races restricted to horses by stallions who won over ten furlongs or more, and two extra valuable handicaps over 14 furlongs for three-year-olds represents a start, but there is much more to do.

While the report highlighted issues in this particular area, we also believe that anomalies exist across the entire racing programme, and we are planning to work with the BHA to review the Flat programme, at every distance and level, and especially as it affects fillies and mares.

The BHA’s review of jump racing is also raising a number of issues, many of which would be solved with more horses in training. I make no apology for again stressing the potential of the MOPS scheme, which I sincerely hope the Levy Board will judge to be worthwhile, not to mention other programming issues that could encourage more fillies and mares to race over jumps.

The introduction of the new Grade 2 race, the Trull House Stud Mares’ Novices’ Hurdle, at the Cheltenham Festival, which was suggested by the TBA’s National Hunt committee, is very welcome and should help in this direction, as will the upgrading from Listed to Group 2 status of the mares’ novices’ hurdle at Sandown in February. The developments mean that there will now be nine Pattern or Listed novices’ hurdles for mares over the course of the jumps season.

It is also encouraging that following the results of a questionnaire sent to owners and trainers of mares that ran in a mares’ Pattern or Listed race last season, the BHA has asked racecourses to pitch for two new Listed mares’ chases to be run in November and February, as a precursor to the possibility of adding a mares’ chase to the Festival programme in coming years.

By its very nature breeding is not a short-term fix, and our work on the Flat-race programme will also take time to bear fruit. But the TBA is ready and willing to build a strategy for breeders that encourages more mares and more foals. The challenge is to bring the rest of the industry with us.

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SIR PETER O’SULLEVAN 1918 – 2015 contacts book, and a large and loyal following of readers.

As a punter of rare wisdom, he augmented his own funds significantly and gave his Express readers a regular stream of winners.

And as an owner he saw his colours – black, yellow cross-belts, yellow cap – carried by a succession of horses, notably the great sprinter Be Friendly and the Triumph Hurdle winner Attivo, whose exploits led to O’Sullevan being named Racehorse Owner of the Year in 1974.

But success at the top level of ownership – indeed, success at any level – did not come easily,

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ir Peter O’Sullevan CBE, who died in July at the age of 97, was widely known as ‘The Voice of Racing’ in acknowledgement of his commentaries, which were so deeply woven into the modern history of the sport.

Yet his involvement in racing went much further than his virtuoso performances behind the microphone, when his unforgettable inflexion – three parts honey, one part gravel – called home Ribot, Arkle, Nijinsky, Red Rum, Aldaniti, Dawn Run, Desert Orchid and a host of other landmark horses.

As a racing journalist – for most of his career on the Daily Express – he had a uniquely well-stocked

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S I R P E T E R O ’ S U L L E VA N >> and he always liked to point out that his first

including the first two runnings of what is now the Sprint Cup at Haydock in 1966 (as a two-year-old) and 1967; the King’s Stand Stakes and Ayr Gold Cup in 1967; Prix de l’Abbaye in 1968; and Palace House Stakes in 1969.

The powerfully-built son of Skymaster would probably have won a third Sprint Cup in November 1968, and in so doing given O’Sullevan’s friend Scobie Breasley a final

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point out that his first winner came more than 13 years after his first runner” big-race winner on his retirement day. But a blanket of fog enveloped Haydock that day and racing was abandoned.

Be Friendly went on to become a successful stallion, siring the winners of 325 races.

The diminutive homebred Attivo, a son of Appiani II, won five races on the Flat, including the Chester Cup and Northumberland Plate in 1974 – and in recognition of the Chester win, for several

years O’Sullevan provided wine and Cheshire cheese in the Roodeye press room on Cup day.

Attivo also won five races over hurdles, notably the 1974 Daily Express Triumph Hurdle at Cheltenham, and the sangfroid with which the commentator called home Attivo that day, self-effacingly rushing through the words ‘owned by Peter O’Sullevan’ in the post-race rollcall, can be re-lived on YouTube.

None of O’Sullevan’s later horses – often co-owned with Soledad, the Marquesa de Moratalla – were to hit the same heights as Be Friendly or Attivo, but they gave him plenty of memorable moments.

In November 1997 he called home Suny Bay to win the Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury in his final BBC commentary, and the very next race saw his colours carried by the chaser Sounds Fyne, trained by Jimmy FitzGerald and ridden by Mick Fitzgerald.

On a day when O’Sullevan was at the centre of the sporting world, it should have been no surprise that Sounds Fyne entered into the spirit of the occasion and won at 12-1.

More recently Amigo, trained by Cyril Mitchell’s son Philip, won five races in 2002, and the versatile Never, trained by O’Sullevan’s great friend Francois Doumen, won eight races.

In all his colours were carried to victory 61 times – the last of them in April 2010, when Exulto, trained by Philip Hobbs and ridden

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winner came more than 13 years, and a dozen horses, after his first runner.

That first runner was the Charlie Belltrained Wild Thyme II, who on his debut in the O’Sullevan colours pulled up in a Cheltenham novice chase in November 1940.

The following February O’Sullevan intended to ride Wild Thyme in a novice chase at Plumpton, but the day before the race was diagnosed with pneumonia and had to cry off. With Frenchie Nicholson replacing the owner, Wild Thyme was pulled up in front of the stands with a circuit to go, causing Bell’s head lad Wally Green to run onto the course and berate the jockey, insisting that the horse “was just getting his second wind”. Frenchie replied: “It would need to have been a lot better than the first one.”

O’Sullevan, to his eternal regret, never rode in a race, but for an owner hope always springs eternal, and that elusive first winner came when Pretty Fair, trained by Bell and ridden by René Emery, won a selling hurdle at Windsor in March 1954.

Both his best-remembered horses were trained in Epsom by Cyril Mitchell. The white-faced chestnut Be Friendly, whom O’Sullevan and his owning partner Stephen Raphael bought for 2,800 guineas at the Tattersalls Sales in autumn 1965, won 12 sprint races (one of them a dead heat),

O’Sullevan acted as race-reader for commentator Peter Dimmock on BBC radio, pictured here at Ascot in 1950

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by Richard Johnson, won a handicap hurdle at Southwell.

While O’Sullevan was not closely involved with the bloodstock side of racing, he was familiar enough with the world of the stud and the sale ring, and was wryly amused by one particular episode.

In December 1967, star turn at the sale of horses previously owned by the late Major Lionel Holliday was a son of Vienna, who that year had won two races as a two-yearold including the Observer Gold Cup (now Racing Post Trophy).

A while earlier, the Marquesa de Moratalla’s mother Olga Martin-Montis had asked O’Sullevan: “Why don’t you find me a really good horse, something out of the ordinary, for me to give to Sol?” This son of Vienna clearly fitted the bill and O’Sullevan agreed to bid, but, he asked Olga MartinMontis, what if the price went into six figures? “If you like him,” came the reply, “you buy him.”

When at the sale the bidding started rocketing, O’Sullevan decided not to get involved, and he later wrote: “When the hammer fell at 136,000gns I thought it was madness.

He’d have to win the Arc de Triomphe and everything en route, and then some, to justify that.”

But the colt did justify the price – then a world record for a racehorse sold at public auction.

For he was Vaguely Noble, a brilliant horse who won the 1968 Arc and went to stud in the USA with a valuation of over £2 million.

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O’Sullevan welcomes back his chase scorer Sounds Fyne and Mick Fitzgerald at Newbury in 1997, and, left, Attivo and Robert Hughes jump the second last en route to winning the Triumph Hurdle at Cheltenham in 1974

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eter John O’Sullevan – woe betide anyone who spelled his surname with an ‘i’ rather than ‘e’ – was born in Ireland on March 3, 1918, the only child of Colonel John Joseph O’Sullevan, Resident Magistrate of Killarney, and his wife Vera. His parents separated when he was six years old, and he moved to England, where he was brought up by his maternal grandparents, Sir John and Lady Henry at Gatton Park, not far from Epsom.

His autobiography Calling The Horses, published in 1989, recalls how at the age of seven he rode his pony Fairy across to Epsom in the company of Gatton Park’s head groom. At the top of Tattenham Hill they sneaked on to the racecourse and O’Sullevan rode Fairy down round Tattenham Corner and all the way up the straight to the winning post. “I knew how Steve Donoghue must feel,” he recalled, and thus were sown the seeds of his ambition to be a jockey.

His childhood was affected by a succession of medical problems including chronic asthma and bronchial pneumonia, and after a time at Charterhouse School he was moved to the College Alpin in Switzerland.

The enthusiasm for racing, which had been boosted by that surreptitious gallop up the Epsom straight, had grown ever deeper, and in 1939 he was appointed racing correspondent of the Reading Gazette on a temporary basis.

O’Sullevan, with wife Pat, collects his OBE at Buckingham Palace in 1977

With war looming, in the summer of 1939 O’Sullevan came to an arrangement with the International Council of Labour that he would drive into Germany and distribute literature encouraging workers to rise up against the Nazis.

He had a secret compartment fitted into his car in which the leaflets were hidden – but his plan was thwarted at the last minute by the cessation

of travel facilities to Germany.

Ineligible for military service on health grounds, he spent the early part of the war distributing supplies and driving evacuated families to the country, then joined the Chelsea Civil Defence Rescue Service.

This was literally a dark period of O’Sullevan’s life, as the asthma had caused an outbreak of

‘His voice was the very essence of horseracing’ My passion for racing came from being glued to an old black and white television on Saturday afternoons, while listening to countless Peter O’Sullevan commentaries.

So distinctive was his voice that it was synonymous with the many Grand Nationals and Derbys that captivated me throughout the sixties and seventies.

Nobody I knew, and nobody else on the television, had a voice like Peter O’Sullevan. In my young days, this voice was the very essence of horseracing.

I didn’t realise it at the time but Peter O’Sullevan’s commentaries went beyond being able to call the positioning of horses – although, of course, he did this meticulously. The depth and timbre of his voice were so unusual, delivering words with a natural rhythm that was never lost even during a 25-runner sprint.

Unlike most commentators, particularly of the modern era, Peter O’Sullevan never felt the need to fill every second of air time with commentary. He had a natural sense of timing so he could build drama from silent moments. Before a race he would pause instinctively, like a great actor or comedian building expectation in their audience.

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His speech was efficient and precise; his use of superlatives and exclamations always measured. I often thought that small-field chases best emphasised his unique talents.

In such events, he would pause often, gradually increasing the tempo as the race unfolded.

His natural antipathy towards exaggeration gave real meaning to descriptive words and passages when they were used in commentary. So it was in a Newbury chase in 1965 when I heard the O’Sullevan commentary, “and Dunkirk was

positively brilliant at that fence,” I knew it was a moment to treasure, Dunkirk then being by far my favourite horse, even at a time when Arkle was on the scene.

Many years later I would not only meet my hero – I would actually work with him.

Despite his natural charm, he was never going to let you get away with anything that he did not consider up to his very high journalistic standards.

He abhorred inaccuracies and was never reticent in telling you what he thought, even though the admonishment was delivered without the slightest hint of a raised voice. At a Racing Post board meeting, he once responded to one of my utterances by saying he thought I was talking “balls”. Never has a mild put-down been delivered with such charm.

Sir Peter O’Sullevan was an extraordinary man, not just because of his remarkable talents and numerous achievements. He was extraordinary because he had a presence like no other person I have ever met. How odd that a man who always exuded serenity would become so famed in the frenetic world of horseracing.

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acne so unsightly that, having been admitted to the Middlesex Hospital in London, he would go out only at night. The acne was much worse than the asthma, he later recalled: “It limited the scope of one’s life comprehensively, and I suppose drove me more into myself, as it were, and detached me from my fellow creatures.”

O’Sullevan worked briefly for publishers The Bodley Head before going for a position on the racing desk of the Press Association in 1944. The application process involved tipping four horses, and when three of his quartet obliged (one at 201), unsurprisingly he was appointed.

In 1950 he joined Clive Graham on the racing pages of the Daily Express, and they soon became the best partnership in racing journalism, with O’Sullevan’s unrivalled address book a powerful weapon in the race for top stories as well as the best betting value.

His lifelong friendship with Lester Piggott began in 1951, when the great jockey was still a cherub-faced apprentice in need of a lift from Lincoln to Liverpool as the Flat season got under way. And O’Sullevan was uniquely wellconnected with the leading French and Irish trainers of the 1950s and 1960s, the likes of Alec Head (O’Sullevan recommended Lavandin for the 1956 Derby when the colt was a 50-1 chance in March), Francois Mathet, Etienne Pollet, Vincent O’Brien and Paddy Prendergast.

Although over the years his relations with the Express management became ever more strained, he remained with the paper until 1986. There followed a brief period with the now-defunct paper Today.

O’Sullevan’s race-calling career began with BBC radio in 1946, and the following year brought his first involvement with the Grand National, when he served as ‘race-reader’ for commentator Peter Dimmock. Race-reader again in 1948, he formed part of the radio commentating team in 1949, with Clive Graham in the race-reading role.

Conditions were primitive. “Near the first fence,” O’Sullevan reminisced, “was an old brickbuilt latrine with a sloping corrugated-iron roof.

I took off my shoes and socks and climbed up, then urged Clive to join me. He consented to remove his shoes but insisted on keeping on his socks, which gave him far less grip on the roof than his bare feet would have done.

“As the runners came charging towards us and I was about to make my first National commentary, all I could hear was Clive bellowing, ‘Christ! I’m going to fall off this f***ing roof!’ Somehow he managed to cling on.”

He continued to call the National for BBC radio from various points around the Aintree course before taking over as principal commentator from Raymond Glendenning.

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With Lester Piggott in 2009 – they were good friends for over 60 years

was the natural choice for the leading role.

Between Merryman II in 1960 and Lord Gyllene on the Monday after the bomb scare of 1997, O’Sullevan called home every Grand National winner, magnifying his view with heavy-duty binoculars salvaged from a German U-boat.

By the time of that first televised Grand National his unmistakable voice was already familiar to viewers of Grandstand and other television coverage – notably of Royal Ascot (on which he first commentated in 1953), Goodwood, the Derby and Cheltenham Festival.

O’Sullevan was one of the very few racing figures who was familiar to non-racing people, and his tones became synonymous with his

SIR PETER O’SULLEVAN Born: March 3, 1918 Educated: Charterhouse School and College Alpin, Switzerland Journalist: Press Association 1944-50; Daily Express 1950-86; Today 1986-7 Commentator: BBC radio and television, 1946-97 Racehorse owner: won 61 races, notably with Be Friendly (including Vernons Sprint Cup 1966 and 1967, King’s Stand Stakes 1967, Ayr Gold Cup 1967, Prix de l’Abbaye 1968, Palace House Stakes 1969) and Attivo (including Triumph Hurdle 1974, Chester Cup 1974, Northumberland Plate 1974) Honours: OBE 1977; CBE 1991; knighthood 1997 Died: July 29, 2015

sport, to an even greater degree than those of similarly iconic commentators Harry Carpenter, Bill McLaren, Dorian Williams, Eddie Waring or Kenneth Wolstenholme.

This led to an appearance on The Morecambe and Wise Show in January 1986 as well as more formal honours: OBE in 1977; CBE in 1991; and knighthood in 1997, his retirement year. He was elected a member of the Jockey Club in 1986, and won many awards in recognition of his commentating and journalism.

His autobiography Calling The Horses topped the bestseller list in 1989 and his other books include the ghosted (and unattributed) autobiography of his friend Rae Johnstone, who rode three Derby winners, and Peter O’Sullevan’s Horse Racing Heroes (2004), a lavishly produced tribute to human heroes Gordon Richards, Vincent O’Brien, Paddy Prendergast, Fred Winter, Lester Piggott, Alec Head and Scobie Breasley, and equine favourites Arkle, Be Friendly, Attivo and Sea Bird II. A mark of just how widely O’Sullevan was regarded came with publication of Coming To The Last, a volume of tributes published to mark his retirement: contributors included the Queen, the Queen Mother and Mary Robinson, President of Ireland, as well as his closest racing friends such as Doumen and JP McManus.

The same year saw the founding of O’Sullevan’s charitable trust, which to date has raised more than £4 million for six charities.

Centrepiece of the Trust’s annual lunch in London is the award to a major racing figure: the first was Stoker Hartington in 1997, the most recent the Head family (Alec, Criquette and Freddy) in 2014.

O’Sullevan married his Canadian-born wife Pat in 1951, and they remained together for 58 years until she died in December 2009. They had no children.

Sean Magee

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Under starter’s orders: Musselburgh will kick off the 2016 Flat season after replacing Doncaster as the traditional curtain-raiser

1,482 fixtures in 2016 All-weather meetings up as Newcastle switches to sand

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he 2016 fixture list will attain its highest level since the 1,500-mark was breached in 2010, with 1,482 meetings scheduled for next year.

Despite edging up by 11 fixtures on 2015, the BHA indicated it was pleased to keep the rise in the percentage of all-weather fixtures to a minimum, given Newcastle joined the fray, with the 315 all-weather meetings representing 21.3% of the total, up from 20.9% this year.

The BHA stated it was delighted to publish the list more than two months ahead of the previous year – as no doubt will be diary and calendar producers.

Newcastle is scheduled to race on the allweather for the first time in May, with 37 cards programmed. It will retain all 12 jumps meetings. The Arena Racing Company-owned track is due to begin replacing its muchrespected Flat turf course this autumn.

With Newcastle coming on stream, there has been a knock-on effect for its sister tracks

Wolverhampton, Lingfield and Southwell, which lose 29 meetings between them.

Nick Rust, Chief Executive of the BHA, said: “I’m pleased we have been able to publish the fixture list much earlier this year than has been the case in previous years. We are grateful to the racecourses for their part in this, especially those who engaged in the process of ironing out some of the geographical clashes which were so frustrating to horsemen, racecourses and the racing public alike.

“One of British racing’s strongest assets is the quality and variety of its racing. As such we are pleased to have broadly maintained the balance between jump, Flat turf and all-weather fixtures, despite our board’s decision to permit the entrance of an all-weather track in the north.

“The fact that the balance has been maintained is due to the robust and fair allocation process for BHA fixtures which rewards sporting performance alongside prizemoney contribution.”

Fixtures by code: 2010-2016 Year 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

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Flat turf 610 598 583 583 585 575 573

All-weather 302 300 293 307 296 307 315

Jumps 591 582 580 574 583 589 594

Overall 1,503 1,480 1,456 1,464 1,464 1,471 1,482

Rust added: “Now that we have the 2016 fixture list completed, we have created time to work closely with senior representatives of the horsemen and the racecourses within the spirit and framework of the forthcoming tripartite agreement, to consider how we can better align future fixture lists to the growth drivers for our sport – racehorse ownership (and numbers of horses in training), racing fans (including racecourse attendances) and betting.

“With the right spirit and structure in place, we can together grow the appeal and ultimately the financial wellbeing of our great sport.”

Due to the vagary of when Easter falls, and the BHA’s decision a couple of years ago to sanction racing on Good Friday for the first time, Musselburgh, not Doncaster, will kick off the Flat turf season in 2016.

Other notable programme changes include the Hennessy meeting at Newbury being reduced to two days from three, with the other card being staged three weeks earlier, and the Craven meeting at Newmarket receiving an additional card to make it a three-day meeting.

The day before publishing the fixture list, the BHA announced an extension to the cut-off time reserves can come into a race, a change that will benefit owners from next month onwards.

Instead of 9am the day before a race, reserves can now get a run in the event of a non-runner up to 1.30pm the day before. One catalyst for the change was this year’s Grand National, where there was a non-runner at 11.12am the day before and 39, instead of 40, went to post.

Paul Johnson, the BHA’s Head of Racing, said: “Extending the cut-off time for reserves reduces the chance of an oversubscribed race going off with fewer runners than the safety factor allows.

This ensures these races have the largest field possible and gives horses that haven’t made it into the race initially the best opportunity to get a run.”

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The transformation of Richard Hughes the jockey into Richard Hughes the trainer has materialised earlier than anticipated, with the three-time champion signing off his stellar career in the saddle at Goodwood’s festival meeting.

Hughes, who felt, along with trainer and brother-in-law Richard Hannon, that it was better to call time on race-riding than try to combine it with visits to the sales ring, finished a 27-year career with 2,428 Flat winners in Britain to his name, plus 12 over jumps.

Among that haul are Classic victories on Sky Lantern (1,000 Guineas) and Talent (Oaks) in 2013, the same year Hughes secured his first Breeders’ Cup success on Chriselliam in the Juvenile Fillies’ Turf, nominated by the rider as one of his finest moments in the saddle.

The 42-year-old has been champion jockey for the past three seasons and plans to embark on a training career at Ken CunninghamBrown’s yard in Hampshire.

There was, understandably, plenty of emotion at Goodwood, his favourite stomping ground, when he brought down the curtain on the final day of the festival meeting on August 1.

After a guard of honour before his first ride on the day, his final ever mount, Fox Trotter, finished fourth, after which Hughes said: “I

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Hughes rides into sunset for training career

Richard Hughes after 2013 Breeders’ Cup glory on Chriselliam, one of his standout wins

wanted a winner, but it wasn’t to be. I’m overwhelmed by the whole thing – it’s been brilliant. When I pulled up [on Fox Trotter] I just felt, ‘Well this is it’.

“I enjoyed the ride and it all went to plan apart from failing to win, but I’m ready to retire and delighted to go out on such a high.

“It was unbelievable to be led in front of the crowds – a couple of months ago my kids said on McCoy’s retirement day, ‘Are you going out like that?’ and I said, ‘No way’. But it was nearly like that.

“I’ve had enough winners in my career and one more wouldn’t have made any difference

to a reception like that. I would like to thank Goodwood, who would have moved houses for me, and I’m very grateful. A lot of jockeys retire in a hospital bed and I feel very lucky.”

Hughes, who rode 179 winners at Goodwood, including 56 at the ‘Glorious’ meeting, nine of which came in an amazing week in 2010, added: “I’m 100 per cent into going training, and while I wanted to be champion jockey again this year unfortunately I couldn’t do the two.

“Next year is more important to me now. I’m not at all nervous about the new career. It’s onwards and upwards.”

BHA appoints Richard Wayman to new post

Richard Wayman: new challenge

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Richard Wayman has been appointed Chief Operating Officer by the British Horseracing Authority and will take up his new position by the end of the year.

Currently Chief Executive of the Racehorse Owners Association, for whom he has worked since January 2012, Wayman’s responsibilities will include overall responsibility for the fixture list, race planning and handicapping. He will report directly to Chief Executive Nick Rust.

Wayman, who took part in the graduate development programme then run by the Jockey Club, was the BHA’s Assistant Racing Director prior to joining the ROA. BHA Chief Executive Nick Rust said: “There were a number of very strong candidates for this crucial role at the heart of

BHA – and the sport – but Richard stood out for his deep affinity with British racing and knowledge and understanding of its varied stakeholders and customers.

“The fixture list, and the development of an associated holistic race programme, have been identified as being pivotal to the sport’s progress in the coming years, and will be Richard’s key priorities.”

Richard Wayman said: “I count myself very lucky to have had the opportunity to work on behalf of racehorse owners. I have to say how fortunate racing is to have such a loyal and enthusiastic group of owners.

“I am thrilled to have been given the chance to work with Nick Rust and the rest of the BHA team to support the future of our industry.”

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Racing’s news in a nutshell PEOPLE AND BUSINESS John Cullen Jump jockey, 38, will quit riding in order to start training; he enjoyed high-profile wins on Accordion Etoile and Say Again for the Paul Nolan stable.

Cheltenham mares’ hurdle New novice event for mares at the Festival will be run over 2m1f and carry Grade 2 status with a prize fund of £75,000.

Ffos Las Track spends £200,000 on drainage work to improve the quality of its racing surface, which frequently rides as heavy.

Michael Dickinson Famed trainer who quit the ranks seven years ago to concentrate on his Tapeta all-weather business will start training again from his base in Maryland.

Jamie Moore Sire De Grugy’s rider breaks his hip in a fall at Worcester to join brothers Ryan and Joshua on the sidelines.

John Magnier Coolmore supremo is elected as a member of the US Jockey Club.

Sammy Jo Bell 24-year-old apprentice wins top jockey award and helps girls team triumph at Ascot’s Shergar Cup.

Horseracing Betting Forum Eight members selected to represent the betting public – its purpose is to deliver proposals and recommendations to the BHA.

Niall McCullagh Irish jockey suffers collapsed lung and multiple rib fractures sustained in a fall on the gallops and is set for a long spell out.

Sam Morshead Perth’s General Manager, who has worked at the Scottish track since 1989, will step down at the end of the year to be replaced

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Andrew McNamara Rider of top-class jumpers Beef Or Salmon, Newmill and Hidden Cyclone retires from the saddle aged 32 to start a training career.

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Sandown opts to keep its popular Brigadier Gerard Stakes race meeting on a Thursday next year, after speculation that the fixture could be moved to a Saturday slot.

Speculative Bid’s non-participation in Ascot’s International Stakes costs the betting industry over £100,000 after the four-year-old was declared a runner and then a non-runner. Tom Sadler, an apprentice jockey in Australia, is banned for four months after testing positive for cocaine.

Howard Johnson has not ruled out a return to training after the end of his four-year disqualification for breaching horse welfare and medication rules. Ladbrokes suffers a 44% slump in profits ahead of its merger with rival Coral that will create Britain’s biggest betting shop chain, while pre-tax profits at William Hill dive 35% in the first six months of the year. Newcastle will stage the Fighting Fifth Hurdle in 2015 after plan to move the race to Doncaster while an all-weather track is installed is reversed by owner ARC.

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RACEHORSE AND STALLION MOVEMENTS AND RETIREMENTS Night Of Thunder Son of Dubawi, conqueror of Kingman and Australia in last year’s 2,000 Guineas, is retired to stand at Darley in 2016.

Pigeon Island

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Grand campaigner for owner Raymond Mould is retired aged 12; he won 11 of his 86 races including the 2010 Grand Annual Chase at Cheltenham

Son of Kitten’s Joy, a dual Grade 1 winner, is bought by Calumet Farm after standing his first season this year at Ramsey Farm.

Bartel Progressive three-year-old son of Aussie Rules is sold out of Ed Vaughan’s stable to continue his career in Hong Kong with John Moore.

Al Kazeem Outstanding middle-distance performer who captured four Group 1s for owner/breeder John Deer is retired for a second time aged seven due to injury.

Carpe Diem Dual Grade 1-winning son of Giant’s Causeway is retired after suffering a bone chip injury and will stand at WinStar Farm next year.

Smart Robin Deep Impact’s son, victorious at Grade 2 level in Japan, is sold to continue his stud career in Turkey.

Cursory Glance Top-class daughter of Distorted Humor, winner of the Moyglare Stud Stakes in 2014 for owner/breeder Craig Bennett and trainer Roger Varian, is retired.

Charm Spirit

Avenir Certain

Winner of the 2014 Japan Cup is retired to Shadai Stallion Station where the son of Symboli Kris S will stand alongside Deep Impact and Harbinger.

Daughter of Le Havre, winner of the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches and Prix de Diane in 2014, is bought by Japan’s leading owner/breeder Teruya Yoshida.

PEOPLE OBITUARIES Sir Peter O’Sullevan 97

Allan Madwar 83

Legendary commentator, journalist, author and racehorse owner (full obituary, pages 10-15).

Former trainer and farrier who held a dual-purpose licence in the early 1980s; he often rode his own horses in amateur contests.

Much admired and respected journalist who was recruited by the Racing Post in 1986, later working for the Press Association and Racing UK.

Jean-Marc Moquet 46 Bloodstock agent who managed Lord and Lady Lloyd-Webber’s Kiltinan Castle Stud in Ireland for 15 years.

Virginia Knight 72 Breeder of Jamr, a Group 3 victor in the UAE, and an owner with Mick Channon.

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Talented miler for Highclere Thoroughbred Racing is sold privately to continue his career in Hong Kong.

Big Blue Kitten Calumet Farm will stand the son of Kitten’s Joy, the winner of three Grade 1s on turf, when he retires from racing.

HORSE OBITUARIES

First-season sire based at Tweenhills Farm will relocate to the Aga Khan’s Haras de Bonneval in 2016 along with Dalakhani, currently at Gilltown Stud.

Epiphaneia

Ray Gilpin 68

Consort

John Nerud 102 Trained top-class miler Dr Fager, American Horse of the Year in 1968.

He was instrumental in the creation of the Breeders’ Cup and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1972.

Lord John Fitzgerald 63 Sent out Sizzling Melody to land the Norfolk Stakes and Flying Childers in his debut season in 1986; also helped to establish racing in Dubai, overseeing the creation of Nad Al Sheba racecourse.

Zilzal 29 Brilliant miler for owner Mana Al Maktoum and trainer Sir Michael Stoute, winner of the Sussex Stakes and Queen Elizabeth II Stakes in 1989.

Peanuts Pet 30 Winner of 11 races in a career that spanned both codes, his biggest win was the Grade 2 Henry VIII Novices’ Chase at Sandown.

Manhattan Cafe 17 Multiple Grade 1-winning son of Sunday Silence who was the champion sire in Japan in 2009.

Sri Pekan 23 Brilliant two-year-old for owner Sultan Ahmad Shah and trainer Paul Cole, winning the Coventry, Richmond and Champagne Stakes in 1994. He died at stud in Turkey.

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POSTPONED ON TOP Following their controversial encounter in the Hardwicke Stakes at Royal Ascot, Eagle Top and Postponed showed their true form in Berkshire when fighting out the finish to the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes.

Victory went to the Luca Cumani-trained Postponed, owned by Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum, with Andrea Atzeni (yellow) driving the son of Dubawi to a thrilling nose success over Eagle Top and Frankie Dettori Photo Bill Selwyn

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QUEEN FOR A DAY Derby and Eclipse hero Golden Horn turned up for the Juddmonte International Stakes at York defending an unbeaten record – but left with a ‘2’ in his form figures after finding three-year-old filly Arabian Queen (right) too strong in the drive to the line. Owned and bred by Jeff Smith (pictured below), the daughter of Dubawi, dismissed at 50-1 in the betting, was advertising the training talents of David Elsworth, and provided Silvestre de Sousa with a big-race winner in his quest to land a first jockeys’ title Photos George Selwyn

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CACH PLEASES ON KNAVESMIRE The Darley Yorkshire Oaks saw a tremendous finish between Irish Classic winners Pleascach and Covert Love, successful in the 1,000 Guineas and Oaks respectively.

Victory went to Pleascach (blue), bought by Sheikh Mohammed from breeder and trainer Jim Bolger, with the daughter of Teofilo enjoying the step back up to a mile and a half to overhaul game front-runner Covert Love and Pat Smullen near the line Photo George Selwyn

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EBF S TA L L I O N S

A ABBASHIVA (GER) ACCLAMATION (GB) ACHTUNG (GB) ADELPHOS (FR) ADLERFLUG (GER) AGE OF JAPE (POL) AIKEN (GB) AIR CHIEF MARSHAL (IRE) AIZAVOSKI (IRE) AL NAMIX (FR) ALASKA RIVER (GER) ALBAASIL (IRE) ALEXANDROS (GB) ALHEBAYEB (IRE) ALKAADHEM (GB) ALQAAHIR (USA) AMADEUS WOLF (GB) AMERICAIN (USA) AMERICAN DEVIL (FR) AMERICAN POST (GB) AMICO FRITZ (GER) ANABAA BLUE (GB) AND BEYOND (IRE) ANODIN (IRE) APPLE TREE (FR) APPROVE (IRE) APSIS (GB) ARABIAN GLEAM (GB) ARAKAN (USA) ARCADIO (GER) ARCANO (IRE) ARCHIPENKO (USA) ARCTIC COSMOS (USA) AREION (GER) ASK (GB) ASSERTIVE (GB) AUSSIE RULES (USA) AUSTRALIA (GB) AUTHORIZED (IRE) AVONBRIDGE (GB) B BAHRI (USA) BALKO (FR) BALLINGARRY (IRE) BALTIC KING (GB) BANNABY (FR) BARELY A MOMENT (AUS) BASHKIROV (GB) BATED BREATH (GB) BATTLE OF MARENGO (IRE) BEAT ALL (USA) BEAT HOLLOW (GB) BIG BAD BOB (IRE) BLACK SAM BELLAMY (IRE) BLUE BRESIL (FR) BLUE CANARI (FR) BLUE CORAL (IRE) BLUEPRINT (IRE) BOBY DI JOB (BRZ) BOLLIN ERIC (GB) BOREAL (GER)

BORIS DE DEAUVILLE (IRE) BORN TO SEA (IRE) BRETIGNY (FR) BRIAN BORU (GB) BRUSCO (GB) BULLY PULPIT (USA) BUNGLE INTHEJUNGLE (GB) BURWAAZ (GB) C CACIQUE (IRE) CALIFET (FR) CALL ME BIG (GER) CAMACHO (GB) CAMELOT (GB) CAMERON HIGHLAND (IRE) CAMPANOLOGIST (USA) CANFORD CLIFFS (IRE) CANYON CREEK (IRE) CAPE CROSS (IRE) CAPTAIN CHOP (FR) CAPTAIN GERRARD (IRE) CAPTAIN MARVELOUS (IRE) CARADAK (IRE) CARLOTAMIX (FR) CASAMENTO (IRE) CAT JUNIOR (USA) CENTENNIAL (IRE) CHAMPS ELYSEES (GB) CHARM SPIRIT (IRE) CITYSCAPE (GB) CLODOVIL (IRE) CLOUDINGS (IRE) COACH HOUSE (IRE) COCKNEY REBEL (IRE) COKORIKO (FR) COLORADO KID (USA) COMPTON PLACE (GB) CONILLON (GER) CONTAT (GER) COURT CAVE (IRE) CURTAIN TIME (IRE) D DABBERS RIDGE (IRE) DABIRSIM (FR) DAHJEE (USA) DALAKHANI (IRE) DANDY MAN (IRE) DANSANT (GB) DANSILI (GB) DAPPER (GB) DARK ANGEL (IRE) DARSALAM (IRE) DARSI (FR) DAVIDOFF (GER) DAWN APPROACH (IRE) DELEGATOR (GB) DENON (USA) DEPORTIVO (GB) DESIDERATUM (GB) DIAMOND BOY (FR) DIAMOND GREEN (FR) DICK TURPIN (IRE)

Published here is the Provisional List of the stallions registered with the EBF for the 2015 Covering Season.

Full eligibility of each stallion’s progeny, CONCEIVED IN 2015 IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE, (the foal crop of 2016), for benefits under the terms and conditions of the EBF, is DEPENDENT UPON RECEIPT OF THE BALANCE OF THE DUE CONTRIBUTION BY 15TH DECEMBER 2015. Late stallion entries for the EBF will be included in the Final List, provided the full contribution is received by 15th December 2015.

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EBF INTERNATIONAL STALLIONS The stallions listed here stood OUTSIDE THE EBF AREA IN 2015 and have been provisionally registered as International Stallions for that year.

Full eligibility of each stallion’s progeny, CONCEIVED IN 2015, (the foal crop of 2016), for benefits under the terms and conditions of the EBF, is DEPENDENT UPON RECEIPT OF THE BALANCE OF THE DUE CONTRIBUTION BY 15TH DECEMBER 2015. Late stallion entries for the EBF will be included in the Final List, provided the full contribution is received by 15th December 2015.

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THE MAN YOU CAN’T IGNORE COMMENT

Tony Morris The advice to our columnist when a cub reporter was “whatever you do, never volunteer to cover a bloodstock sale” – he didn’t at first, but was happy to after making his debut

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eptember. It’s the month I used to anticipate with mixed feelings – the start of a period when I would become happily reacquainted with friends whom I hadn’t seen for months, but also the onset of a spell when I would be a stranger to my own home. It launched me on a journey lasting upwards of three months that would always prove fascinating, but would ultimately leave me utterly exhausted, welcoming, relishing its end.

I refer to the bloodstock sales season, on which I first embarked 50 autumns ago and which occupied a quarter of my every year until I finally threw in the towel at the end of 1997.

Initially in the service of the Press Association, then for The Sporting Life, and latterly for the Racing Post, I endured – sometimes enjoyed – travelling back and forth to report on auctions at Doncaster (three times), and Newmarket (four times), with a couple of visits to Ireland and monthly one-dayers at Ascot in between.

Moving to Newmarket in 1987, so that part of the ordeal could be faced on home territory, was probably the reason why I kept going so long.

Of course, there were sales to be covered earlier in the year as well, and I attended plenty of them, most memorably Keeneland and FasigTipton in July, and Saratoga once, but before September those occasions tended to be spaced well apart and fatigue never seemed to be a factor. I even did stints at auctions in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand that made no special demands on my stamina.

Why did I spend such a large chunk of my life watching well-heeled folk shopping for luxury goods? It started because I ignored the advice of well-meaning colleagues shortly after my arrival in Fleet Street as an incredibly naive teenager who had somehow conceived and developed a passion for the thoroughbred after buying a cheap racing annual from a station bookstall. Those senior chaps gave me the benefit of their acquired wisdom: “Whatever you do, never volunteer to cover a bloodstock sale. Sales are not like race meetings, which can be exciting and are all over in three hours; they last all (expletive deleted) day, they’re dull and incredibly boring, and you discover that all horses look alike anyway.”

A memorable occasion: Vaguely Noble sells for 136,000gns at Tattersalls in 1967

The first sale I attended did not come about because I had volunteered for it; I was sent, and it was before I’d been in the job a month. It was a minor event at Doncaster, as it happened, and I didn’t find it boring. It was something new to me, and rather interesting. And although I made a glaring error in my report on the proceedings, duly emphasised in the headline over the piece in The Sporting Life the following day, I wasn’t averse to the idea of having another go. But it was over two years before I answered the call for a volunteer, and the boss evidently assumed that I was volunteering for a lifetime. I got every sales assignment after that.

I could understand why some people would find such occasions dull and boring, but I had cultivated an interest in pedigrees at school, and that was obviously a factor in determining the

value particularly of young stock. I would have my own ideas about valuations, and so what if I was generally wrong? The buyers were frequently wrong themselves, and I soon got used to seeing experienced horsemen make expensive mistakes. ‘Nothing can make a fool of a man like a horse’ ran the oldest adage in the business, and its truth was evident all the time.

The best advice I never took I don’t think there was ever a time when I regretted ignoring the advice of my senior colleagues, who had been so cynical about coverage of bloodstock sales. Instead, I wondered why they had never mentioned what I soon found to be a marvellous positive, particularly at sales of yearlings. As a cub reporter, eager to learn from his elders and THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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betters, I learned that things happened too quickly on the racecourse.

That was all about swift interviews, getting on the phone and transmitting one’s story. Nobody had time for extended conversations.

Sales were different. Just as I was trapped for long sessions, so were the horsemen whose knowledge, expertise and experience I needed to tap into. They had time on their hands, as I had, and I had the chance to learn from them. I was meeting them regularly during the sales season, passing the time of day with them, and once I became accepted as a permanent fixture on the scene, acquaintanceships developed into friendships which would, in many cases, last decades, even lifetimes.

I got to know folks who had 20, 30, 40, 50 years’ more experience of the industry than I had, and I found that, if I succeeded in showing I wasn’t a complete idiot, they would give me their time and benefit of the wisdom they had accumulated. While some senior trainers and agents proved harder to get to know than others, they were the ones who often became my most valued contacts and special friends. And it was all down to my presence in our common environment, the bloodstock sales scene.

Which auctions stirred me most? I suppose it was generally those for yearlings, as they tended to involve the people I had come to know best, and they related most closely to racing, the shop window for thoroughbred production, the reason for it all. But the December breeding stock sales were special, too, affording me opportunities to meet horsemen from a host of foreign nations who flocked to Newmarket for that one week in the year. And, of course, it was in December that I witnessed the single most memorable of the tens of thousands of transactions I saw – the one in which Vaguely Noble changed hands for the fabulous sum of 136,000gns in 1967.

His price was exceeded countless times afterwards, but the occasion was never matched.

Inevitably, many of those who contributed to my education are now long dead, and I’ve progressed from neophyte to veteran all too quickly, still conscious that for all I learned, it could never be enough. I dare say I’m currently forgetting it at a rapid rate of knots.

Of my 52 years in the business, 33 were spent with sales reporting as a significant part of my workload, and I quit – coincidentally on the day that Sheikh Mohammed sold the Racing Post for £1 – rather reluctantly, fearing a further bout of back surgery, which indeed duly did come to pass. When I began my stint the record price for a yearling in these islands was 28,000gns, set by Sayajirao in 1945; I witnessed umpteen advances over the years, until seven-figure transactions became regular occurrences, not even earning the status of a nine-days’ wonder.

It is now nearly 18 years since I covered a bloodstock sale, and I can’t say that I miss what was for so long almost my raison d’être. There are so few of my contemporaries still active in the business that I feel out of place when I make a rare appearance at what used to serve as my second home, though I’m delighted to learn that many grandsons and granddaughters of old friends are maintaining the family connection.

I have been the happy recipient of much good advice from senior figures in both journalism and the horse industry in the course of my career, but I have no doubt that one of the smartest decisions I ever made was to ignore the well-meant counsel of my PA colleagues all those years ago. Bloodstock sales served as the university education I never had.

“‘Nothing can make a fool of a man like a horse’ ran the oldest adage in the business; its truth was evident”

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HOWARD WRIGHT COMMENT

Legislation is of little help in the battle against those out to make a fast, dodgy buck, so racecourses are on their own in trying to drive them out

Ticket touts leave sour taste

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uy or sell. Anyone need tickets?

Anyone want to save money on tickets?

When I was initiated to racing at Doncaster several moons ago, the most familiar cry on the approach to the racecourse was “I gotta horse”, the call to arms of Ras Prince Monolulu, the strikingly befeathered, colourfully-dressed tipster, who struck equal measures of fear and fascination into the heart of an impressionable, short-trousered youngster on seeing a darkskinned man for the first time.

Real name Peter McKay, and no more a prince than anyone in the spellbound audience he regularly gathered around his pitch, he was harmless, a character who added to the experience of the big occasion.

Nowadays, the appeals of nomadic tipsters have disappeared, to be replaced by the pernicious presence of ticket touts, parasites who seriously detract from the raceday experience. They tread as close to harassment as is legally possible, often tricking gullible visitors with forged badges or tickets obtained with stolen credit cards, and only very occasionally offering a genuine service in dealing with an unexpected surplus caused by nonrefundable entry.

Their prevalence could be regarded as a natural consequence of racing’s popularity, for they

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always frequent the best-attended events. But relatively few racedays are sell-outs, and touts can still be found plying their trade at fixtures where tickets are available at the racecourse office, only a few yards on from where they are operating.

Rather than being a reason for satisfied reflection, touts are a cause for concern for the sport as a whole, from racecourses that lose

“The damage is done by the time the entrance checking system throws up a fraudulent ticket”

revenue and reputation to racegoers who are duped into believing they are being done a favour.

They wander through the car parks, dodge among the crowds on approach roads and pavements, generating an uncomfortable atmosphere as they wave wads of tickets and badges in the direction of potential customers.

Faced by an instant need for access, a natural eye for a bargain and

insistent badgering, signs such as those on the perimeter wall at Goodwood, for instance, warning racegoers: ‘Please do not buy tickets from touts as they are unlikely to be accepted by the turnstiles’, appear to offer little deterrent.

The damage is done by the time the entrance checking system throws up a fraudulently issued ticket, often the result of either a forgery or the product of a stolen credit card. Protestations to the racecourse are directed back to the source, who will have made his escape, cash in hand.

Fraud, which one prominent racecourse revealed can amount to up to £20,000 a year, straight from its bottom line, is only part of the iniquitous equation involving touts. The distribution of complimentary tickets and vouchers makes up a greater slice of the supply.

Recourse to the law offers only a limited solution to the problem. With the exception of resale of tickets to football matches, touting is not illegal and there is no legislation through which criminal charges can be brought. A parliamentary select committee inquiry into the subject in 2007 not only completely overlooked the RCA’s concerns but also opted for no alteration to the law.

Nothing has changed in Westminster in the intervening eight years. So, short of renewing efforts to lobby the government, British racing will have to take any significant steps to drive touts out of existence from within.

Several racecourses have developed novel approaches, buying touted tickets to establish the identity of the original buyer, or deploying security staff on car park and pavement patrol, to the extent that some touts have appealed to nearby police about harassment, as if!

Sophisticated ticketing systems, which ought to be capable of better alleviating the general non-refundable policy, have produced greater accountability. They also considerably ease the process of identification, so that action can be taken to cut off the supply to touts.

However, the admission system remains awash with complimentary tickets and open to mismanagement. The owner who was recently caught selling tickets and lunch vouchers in a racecourse car park should have set a better example.

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VIEW FROM IRELAND

By JESSICA LAMB

Hartys going forward together Patrick returns home to help run successful and established yard of father Eddie

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icky Henderson’s former assistant Patrick Harty has returned home to Ireland to begin a partnership with his father, Cheltenham Festival-winning trainer Eddie Harty.

The 24-year-old spent five years under Henderson at Seven Barrows in Lambourn and feels he is now ready to take on anything, having helped to run operations on such a huge scale for the champion trainer.

But to get to that point he came through a whirlwind education he likens to learning a new language. “It was a little bit daunting to start with,” he said. “I was coming from a yard with 25-30 horses and into Seven Barrows, where there were more employees than that.

“I learned an awful lot on a steep learning curve. They always say that when learning a language you’re better off just submersing yourself in the country. I’d say the same rule of thumb applies in racing and in this situation I had no option but to get on with it.”

Harty began as a stable lad, but two years into that role, second assistant trainer Ben Brisbourne left to go to Australia.

Harty slotted into his position, below first assistant Ben Pauling. Six months later Pauling began his own training career and Harty moved to Henderson’s right hand.

“In hindsight it probably was [a bit quick] because a lot of the things I was doing I had to – they were things you’d normally do for two to three years below someone to learn the ropes,” said Harty. “Mainly on the admin side, keeping on top of everything, like making sure everything has an up to date worm dose or flu vaccination.

“Having to develop my own system to remember all these things was the problem. It would have been nice to have had someone to learn from for longer.”

Although Henderson’s yard is run on a larger scale than Harty’s, Patrick sees similarities between the two, significantly in the training.

“Dad’s got some pretty strong fundamentals in the yard and his basic training regime is good,” he said. “It’s very close to what Nicky does, and he’s trained a Cheltenham Festival winner on the back of it.”

Harty began thinking about making the next step in his career, to move back to Ireland, last year. “I’d really enjoyed it but couldn’t see how I could benefit from another year,” he said.

Patrick (crimson tie) and Eddie Harty (hat) have entered into a new partnership

“Ted Walsh was up the gallops the other day and asked if I was home for good. ‘Yeah,’ I said, and he asked, ‘How long were you there?’ ‘Five

“It’s just a case now of learning how to entice more owners in; sell the yard, sell dad, sell myself”

years’. ‘I suppose if you haven’t learnt it in five years you’re not going to learn it in six’. That summed it up pretty well.”

He added: “I’ve dealt with the big numbers and I know I can handle anything the yard throws at me with regard to training problems. It’s just a case now of learning how to entice more owners in; sell the yard, sell dad, sell myself and make it a viable option for someone to have a horse in training here – and an enjoyable experience.”

Liaising with owners as the stand-in trainer at the races gave Harty an unexpected new level of understanding. He had spoken to owners in passing before but not had their

attention as exclusively.

“I absolutely loved talking to the owners at the races,” he said. “When you’re stuck back in the yard, it’s just a horse. To meet the people that own the horse, who brought it up or bought it at the sales, and to hear the story behind the horse is very interesting. It puts into perspective why you do everything.

“From a training point of view, in a way, they’re just numbers, an animal with four legs that you have to make sure stays in working order. But when you meet the owners, it goes far deeper than that.”

You might ask why Harty is not taking out a licence to train himself; it’s because the setup costs are too high in Ireland (another reason so few trainers are under 30) and that it “makes sense” to build on a yard that is already established. At his father’s stables he will not be the assistant trainer, or the trainer.

He explained: “Dad is not stepping back, he’s just putting his arm out saying, ‘Come on, you’re an entity now, you’ve got to pull your weight,’ and we’ll come at it with two heads rather than one.

“He doesn’t want to take a step back, he wants me to step forward and to step forward with me. It’s a partnership; we’re both doing the best for the yard and the team. I’m not moving into his shoes.”

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Stepper Point wins the 2014 Flying Five Stakes at the Curragh, now a Group 2 race

(@SolePowerHorse), as does Gordon Lord Byron (@GLB_Racing), the bargain-buy globetrotting superstar.

It is also the category that is most likely to bring Irish Champions Weekend competitors from the US, Asia and Australia.

It was significant, then, to find seven of the first eight home in Royal Ascot’s King’s Stand Stakes among the final entries for the Curragh race.

The European Pattern Committee assesses races on the average ratings of the top four finishers, based on the World’s Best Racehorse Rankings, over a period of three years and

Hot Property: Jack Kennedy Age 17 County Kerry Occupation jockey Six years ago, ten-year-old Jack Kennedy began racing 12.2hh ponies. He rode two winners and was the eye-catcher of the Dingle Derby festival, the highlight in the pony racing calendar.

The following year he won at Dingle and by 2014 he had become the first to win three national champion jockey titles, racking up a record tally of more than 200 winners, on a circuit that Johnny Murtagh, Paul Townend and Bryan Cooper also graduated from.

Last month, aged 16, he won his first race at the Galway festival, partnering the Willie Mullins-trained Clondaw Warrior to success in the Guinness Premier Handicap.

But that’s not what’s remarkable about this County Kerry teenager; he’s also won 12 hurdle races.

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allocates Group 1 status to races that achieve an average of 115.

The entries include three horses rated more than 115 and a further eight rated between 111 and 114, on British and Irish rankings, giving the race the possibility of the perfect start on its journey towards the top rung.

The race receives a further boost by the fact that the 118-rated Sole Power and the 116rated Gordon Lord Byron are trained in Ireland by Eddie Lynam and Tom Hogan, who have been hugely vocal about the lack of opportunities for sprinters in Ireland and will not miss a chance to help change that.

Jack Kennedy: “bright and gives good feedback”

You cannot race over obstacles on the pony racing circuit, so to leap directly from that experience into professional handicap hurdles and win them takes natural talent.

It’s an unusual move, with most taking a year or two as a Flat apprentice before transitioning. It takes strength and maturity.

Kennedy clearly has that – and it is being nurtured by trainer Gordon Elliott.

Elliott said: “It’s no surprise to see him doing so well and being used by so many other trainers. He’s a good young lad, who works hard and does what he’s told.

“He’s bright and gives good feedback on his rides, he knows what’s going on in a race. And he’s always mannerly.”

To further emphasise the swiftness of his rise, his successor on the pony racing circuit, Danny Sheehy, is also 16.

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The success of this year’s second running of Longines Irish Champions Weekend could be aided significantly by the outcome of the Derrinstown Stud Flying Five Stakes.

The sprint will be run as a Group 2 for the first time, making it Ireland’s joint-highestranked sprint, and has doubled in prize-money to €200,000 in a bid to attract the horses that could help it climb to that coveted Group 1 spot.

Reaching that point would give Ireland its first Group 1 sprint and open a new door for Irish Flat racing to draw the public in.

Attendances at the Curragh are consistently being outranked by those at Galway, Punchestown, Listowel and Leopardstown, which strongly highlights the status of Flat racing in Ireland.

This has been blamed on such as Aidan O’Brien’s dominance and the lack of a narrative, which Irish Champions Weekend was created to solve. It has given the season the grand finale it deserves for horses and racegoers, but its feature races are not beginner-friendly, nor international.

The sprint is arguably the most accessible race to the Flat racing newcomer because it is a straight dash; there’s little time for tactical racing and anyone can understand what is happening.

It is also a genre that allows horses to run regularly and return year after year, giving something for people to follow. Cartier Sprinter of the Year in 2014 Sole Power has such a fan base he has his own twitter page

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On the trail of inaugural Group 1 sprint

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rance’s loss has been Britain’s gain in the last few years with two of the most charismatic horses from the other side of the Channel, Cirrus des Aigles and Solow, both making regular appearances on this side of the pond owing to the ban on geldings taking part in their homeland’s top all-aged races.

The three most valuable races on the French calendar that are open to all ages and sexes – namely the Arc, the Prix Jacques le Marois and the Prix du Moulin – all exclude geldings.

Britain, by contrast, allows geldings in all its top older-horse races, with geldings barred only from the Classics, the St James’s Palace Stakes and certain juvenile events.

So Cirrus des Aigles will again have QIPCO British Champions Day as his major end-ofseason target rather than the Arc at his beloved Longchamp, and is currently being primed for a remarkable fifth straight appearance in the Champion Stakes.

Solow’s progress towards being crowned European champion miler will be via the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes rather than the Marois and the Moulin.

Sportingly, Solow’s trainer Freddy Head has few qualms about the current race conditions for France’s showpiece events. “I don’t really have any objections,” he said, “although maybe the Prix du Moulin could be opened up to geldings.

“I certainly wouldn’t want races like the Arc or the Derby to be opened up. In that way we could become more like Australia, where so many leading horses are geldings – I don’t think

Connections of Solow after his victory in the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot

that would be good for the breeding industry.”

And what about the decision to remove the wedding tackle of a horse that subsequently goes on to great things, denying connections the possibility of receiving huge stallion fees for decades after the horse’s retirement from the racecourse?

Cirrus des Aigles may be the highest earner in the history of European racing, but he was never going to have been a particularly appealing stallion as his bloodlines are poor – he is by a country mile the best progeny of both his sire, Even Top, and his dam, the unraced Septieme Ciel mare Taille de Guepe.

But the decision must have been more difficult with regards to Solow, who was gelded

at the end of his three-year-old campaign. For he is the progeny of Singspiel – who has sired big-race winners on four different continents – and the Group-placed mare High Maintenance.

Yet Head has no regrets on this score either.

“As a three-year-old Solow was a very heavy horse with some leg problems, so we had to have him cut,” he insisted. “It changed his body shape, he became lighter, and all his leg troubles are now over.

“Given what an easy horse to train he has become, it is funny to look back at him before he was gelded and remember what a nervous horse he was. It was very difficult travelling him to the racecourse – but that has all changed now.”

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Racing resumes – and not before time The 2015 Spanish racing season finally got under way in earnest on July 26 when Donostia racecourse in San Sebastian began that Basque venue’s eight-fixture annual meeting which runs through until September 13.

The entire country has witnessed just two minor fixtures since the turn of the year owing to a legal stand-off between the former governing body of the sport in Spain, the SFCCE, and its potential successor, the RFHE, about who owns racing’s media rights.

Although courtroom activities are still ongoing, San Sebastian grabbed the bull by the horns and recommenced racing, with Donostia’s new owner, Jerome Carrus, being painfully aware that he stood to have to pay the local council a €1.5 million penalty should racing not take place in 2015.

The first two fixtures in San Sebastian’s programme are warm-up

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meetings, but they averaged a healthy attendance of 2,000 and were (unsurprisingly given the number of horses forced into inactivity over the previous seven months) oversubscribed with entries – six of their ten races attracted maximum fields of 15 runners.

Possibly weary of the desperate plight that the wider Spanish economy has been placed in by the Euro crisis, there was little sign of unrest among the assembled racing professionals as the on-track action took place in Donostia’s usual relaxed, holiday atmosphere.

Hopes are high that Madrid will be able to stage its autumn meeting as scheduled on September 20.

Fittingly, the last race on July 26 was won by the British-bred Authorized filly Ziga, who is trained by Enrique Leon, one of a number of Spaniards forced to flee to France to avoid the recent hiatus and now based in Pau.

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‘Bob’ not up to job – with jockey!

wo of the most popular and consistent horses in the annals of Norwegian racing were the star attractions at Ovrevoll in Oslo for Oslo Cup day on July 30 – and both managed to get beaten!

First Ragazzo lined up for the Polar Cup over just shy of seven furlongs hoping to not only land this £43,000 Group 3 event for the third straight year, but also extend his unbeaten sequence at Norway’s only racecourse to 13.

But 13 proved unlucky as, despite facing only four rivals, the long odds-on favourite enjoyed dreadful luck in running, being carried wide on the home turn and then persistently hampered

by Giftorm in the home straight.

He plugged away but failed by half a length to overhaul the pair that had stuck to the inside, Easy Road and Silver Ocean. So his sequence came to a halt at 12, and trainer Annike Bye Hansen must be hoping it is not the start of another long sequence for a horse with a lovehate relationship with Ovrevoll – the Academy Award gelding began his career suffering seven consecutive losses at his home track.

Whilst on the subject of sequences, Easy Road merits extra kudos for this very narrow triumph, which reaffirmed the old adage, ‘if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.’

A gelded son of Compton Place bred in Britain by Michael Broughton, Easy Road had raced against Ragazzo nine times previously and finished behind him on every single occasion.

His trainer, Cathrine Erichsen, said: “As they crossed the line I actually thought that he had been beaten, which makes the victory all the sweeter. You couldn’t say that he didn’t deserve it, especially since he’s suffered badly with allergies throughout his career.”

Later on the card, the spotlight fell on another Ovrevoll legend, Bank Of Burden. Trained at the track by Niels Petersen, the now eight-year-old Hawk Wing gelding has been to Meydan to take part in the last four Dubai International Racing Carnivals without ever finishing in the frame.

Yet, when he landed the Group 3 Stockholm Cup for the third time last September, it meant that he had become the highest money-earner in the history of Scandinavian racing, and his career bankroll now stands at almost £850,000.

Running in the Oslo Cup, a race in which he gained his first high-profile victory in 2011, for the fifth time, he managed third, less than two lengths behind successful stablemate Eye In The Sky. This defeat for a horse sometimes lovingly referred to as Bob (the initial letters of his name)

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Bank Of Burden was third in the Oslo Cup, which he was contesting for a fifth time

proved less newsworthy than his previous reverse a month earlier in the Scandinavian Open Championship in Denmark.

His fame increased after that run, as, undeterred by losing his jockey in an early

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melee that grounded three riders, he carried on regardless and completed almost an entire circuit of Klampenborg unaccompanied to ‘win’ the Group 3 prize by half a length from the actual victor Berling.

Teddington bears fruit

A pair of Swiss Listed races have appeared in the European Pattern book for the first time in 2015. And the first of the two, the mile and a half Grand Prix d’Avenches, contested on the eponymous course in the west of the country, not far from Neuchatel, has been won by a Hungarian-trained, British-bred gelding who is related to a French superstar.

The horse in question is Thunder Teddington, bred in the wiles of the Hampshire countryside at Lady Bland’s Clanvale Stud.

Thunder Teddington is a four-year-old by Halling whose dam, Tremiere, is a full-sister to the dam of the dual Arc winner Treve. However, that did not help his auction price when he went to the yearling sales in 2012 as Treve had won only a maiden at that point.

Sold to race in Hungary for just 2,700 guineas, he has done well on the Eastern European circuit, but this victory, at odds of 30-1 and at the expense of the useful French handicapper Lando Blue and the former Group 2 winner Runaway, represented a massive personal best.

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AROUND THE GLOBE THE WORLDWIDE RACING SCENE

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by Steve Andersen

Espinoza an overnight celebrity

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n a July morning at Del Mar racecourse, outside of San Diego, Triple Crown winner American Pharoah drew a big crowd at trainer Bob Baffert’s stable. Many in the group held mobile phones to capture images of the threeyear-old as he came back from exercise and was given a bath.

Among the well-wishers was a man wearing a white helmet and a blue safety vest who was in between riding workouts. Victor Espinoza is not only American Pharoah’s jockey, he is the colt’s biggest fan. Espinoza wanted his own pictures. “I had to put it on Facebook,” he said.

American Pharoah with his biggest fan, Victor Espinoza

It’s hard to blame Espinoza for his enthusiasm. American Pharoah has taken the career of the 43-year-old native of Mexico to a new level of professional accomplishment and fame. American Pharoah was the first horse to sweep the American Triple Crown (Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes) in 37 years this spring, and the third Kentucky Derby winner for Espinoza.

Espinoza has been the colt’s regular rider since last September when American Pharoah won the Grade 1 Del Mar Futurity for his first career win on his second start. The winning streak stretched to eight races when American Pharoah won the $1.75 million William Hill Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park on August 1, his first start since the Belmont Stakes. The New Jersey seaside track announced it drew a record crowd of 60,983.

American Pharoah has made Espinoza into a spokesman for racing, a role the veteran has handled with aplomb. In the week after the Belmont Stakes, Espinoza did not ride, spending his days working the national talk show circuit on programmes such as The Today Show and Jimmy Fallon Show, throwing out the ceremonial first pitch at five Major League Baseball games in New York and southern California, and even making an appearance at the Country Music Awards in Nashville.

“It was fun, going from one place to the next,” he said in late July. “It was all good. I wanted to do what I could to help the sport. A lot of people don’t know about racing. We can get some attention.”

Through his travels, Espinoza told audiences the details of his win in the Belmont Stakes when American Pharoah pulled away from his rivals. It’s a moment

he gladly recreates nearly two months later.

“It was the longest stretch run ever,” he said. “I couldn’t get there quick enough. It was an incredible feeling. I couldn’t hear anything, it was so loud.”

When Espinoza went back to work at Santa Anita in mid-June, he was quickly back to winning important races. After the Belmont Stakes, his racing highlight of June was a win in the $500,000 Gold Cup at Santa Anita with Hard Aces, a candidate for the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Keeneland on October 31.

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has made Espinoza into a spokesman for racing, a role he has handled with aplomb” Espinoza plans to ride American Pharoah in the Breeders’ Cup Classic, a chance for the colt to become the first Triple Crown winner to also win the $5 million Classic. When Affirmed won the 1978 Triple Crown (Steve Cauthen interview, pages 44-48), the Breeders’ Cup was six years from being launched.

The atmosphere at Keeneland should be electric, and Espinoza’s time, and autograph, will be in demand. “The Breeders’ Cup will be insane,” Espinoza said.

The big-race wins have propelled Espinoza toward the top of the standings in purses won this year. Up to August 3, Espinoza ranked fourth in the nation with earnings of $10,248,742, though well behind leader Javier Castellano on $14,233,663.

Espinoza is unlikely to catch Castellano, who rides on the lucrative New York circuit, which has more racing days and greater stakes purses than the Southern California tracks Espinoza calls home. Still, Espinoza could be on his way to surpassing his career best of $16.1 million in 2006.

Regardless of how the final months play out, the 2016 season has been a life-changer for Espinoza.

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by Danny Power

Casual quip sets history in motion Ruby Walsh landed in Melbourne in a whirlwind to ride at the re-positioned Grand National meeting at Ballarat on August 9. Six days earlier there was a Twitter-fed rumour he might be coming to ride star fencer Bashboy in the National, but few believed it was anything more than optimistic scuttlebutt.

After Bashboy’s regular rider Steve Pateman failed to have a suspension overturned at an appeal hearing, it was all hands on deck to ‘get Ruby’. His booking was confirmed after the logistics of the flying visit were ironed out.

The spark that ignited it came from a throwaway line by a veterinarian at trainer Ciaron Maher’s stables, after Pateman was suspended. “Why don’t you get Ruby Walsh?” the vet said with a joking tone.

However, rather than toss it aside as fantasy, Maher contacted Bashboy’s senior owner Ian

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Macdonald and also Melbourne Racing Club Chairman Mike Symons, an unabashed fan of British and Irish jumps racing and a close friend of trainer Willie Mullins. Symons rang Mullins, Mullins rang Walsh…and a few hours later Walsh rang Symons. “I’m keen,” he said, “there’s nothing much on here if it can be organised.”

Walsh arrived in Melbourne on Saturday, flew by helicopter the 114km to Ballarat on Sunday, and was heading home on the Tuesday.

Walsh and Bashboy weren’t the perfect match, but rather a bit of an odd couple. Walsh is 36 and with a receding head of grey hair looks older. Bashboy is 12, but looks and races like a six-year-old. Both were trying for a slice of history’s pie; Walsh to be the first fly-in European jockey to win the Grand National, first run in 1866, and Bashboy the first horse to win the race three times.

The big horse also lumped 74.5kg, which is a modern record weight – the highest winning weight since the champion mare Pedro’s Pride carried 75.5kg to victory in 1957.

The race was a beauty. Walsh followed Pateman’s instruction to let Bashboy bowl along on the pace, and it was the perfect ploy on the

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Ruby Walsh and Bashboy bash through an obstacle en route to a famous victory

heavy ground under the big weight.

Rising star Thubiaan, formerly trained by William Haggas in the UK and now with Eric Musgrove, was going for a $300,000 bonus. His rider, Richard Eynon, tracked Bashboy all the way and the two cleared out for a titanic tussle over the final three furlongs. There were times when each looked to have the measure of the other – both blundered at the second last and it was pure luck the jockeys stayed on. Photos of Walsh ‘side-saddling’ on Bashboy were plastered over the daily newspapers and the internet.

“What a horse!” Walsh told racing.com. “I thought I still had a little bit left [as we entered the straight]. I knew I was giving lots of weight away, but I was jumping so good I couldn’t wait to get to the two fences.

“The horse on my inside nearly fell at the second last and I nearly fell off, but when I got him back on an even keel he started rallying going to the last. It’s a pleasure to ride such a wonderful horse.”

His appearance in Australia was a wonderful fillip for jump racing and its supporters. The Ballarat Turf Club opened its gates for free entry and more than 3,000 (double the normal crowd) took advantage.

While jump racing in Australia has been struggling badly, there is hope. Some imported European Flat stayers are emerging as Australia’s next line of jumpers. There’s irony in that for some, because Australian owners have had to outbid the National Hunt owners and trainers for many of these horses.

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Steve Cauthen won the St Leger three times amid ten Classic successes in Britain

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OH SO SHARP It is 30 years since Steve Cauthen completed the fillies’ Triple Crown in the St Leger, but it was memories of the best horse he ever partnered, Affirmed, which came flooding back recently when American Pharoah captured the US Triple Crown – and the nation’s hearts

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Oh So Sharp’s St Leger triumph was a historic moment. What do you remember about the race itself and what made her so special?

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always did, and his mount Lanfranco, a stable companion of Oh So Sharp. But I thought as long as my filly hadn’t gone over the top, she had the class to win as I was pretty confident she would stay the trip. And she did with Lanfranco in third.

Oh So Sharp should never have been beaten in the two defeats of her nine races.

In the King George at Ascot on unsuitable rock hard going, she was carried wide by a horse in the straight and went down to Petoski, while she couldn’t handle the bottomless, knee-deep ground against Commanche Run in York’s Benson & Hedges Gold Cup. She had so much power, a great desire to win and just enjoyed running.

When you look at the fillies she beat in the 1,000 Guineas – Al Bahathri, Bella Colora as well as Triptych – that tells you how tough a

filly she was racing on ground firmer than she liked. I rode Indian Skimmer, Time Charter and Triptych, three outstanding fillies, but Oh So Sharp was the best.

You enjoyed enormous success for Oh So Sharp’s trainer Henry Cecil, including two Derby victories on Slip Anchor and Reference Point.

What made him such an exceptional trainer?

He had something of the mad genius about him.

He was a very intelligent guy and very quick to recognise different characteristics in horses; he could spot talent at a very early stage of horses arriving at Warren Place, but also he was very sensitive to one that was nervous, or lazy. His mind was active all the time. You could be talking to him and suddenly he would be

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n 1985 you won the fillies’ Triple Crown on Oh So Sharp. No filly has won it since, while Nijinsky remains the last colt to win the Triple Crown in 1970. Should they drop the St Leger and insert a new Group 1 race over ten furlongs?

I compare the English Triple Crown with our own Triple Crown and until American Pharoah came along there were similar doubts in America. People were wondering – would it ever be won again? In reality it takes a very special horse to win all three races. Of course there are good individual milers, mile and a half and mile and threequarter horses. But for one to win over the three distances in the same season makes it an exceptional animal. It’s a long time since Oh So Sharp and even longer since Nijinsky.

It doesn’t happen very often and that’s what makes the achievement so memorable.

I tend to think if you change the St Leger you are taking away the opportunity for a horse to prove itself in an outstanding way. I know St Leger winners are not necessarily popular with breeders, but when a horse can prove he can do it over the three distances he shows he has speed, stamina and courage, which make for a great thoroughbred. It’s a feat, albeit a very rare one, worth waiting for, as it was in the case of American Pharoah.

His success at Belmont meant so much to American racing and its public. A similar triumph at Doncaster would mean the same.

So I’d leave the St Leger as it is.

Cauthen on Belmont Stakes day, when American Pharoah entered the history books

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Affirmed and Cauthen (far side) defeat old rival Alydar in the 1978 Belmont Stakes

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>> overcome with that vague look and be miles away, almost certainly thinking about one of his horses. He put a lot of strong canters and ground work into his horses so when they got to the races they knew their job and continued to thrive. Henry knew when to step them up and placed them very well. He had this incredible eye for

detail and missed nothing. Of course, he would consult all the people around him and I thoroughly enjoyed my six years as his stable jockey.

American Pharoah became the first winner of the US Triple Crown since you won all three races on Affirmed 37 years ago. What have you made of him?

He is very special because he has achieved what many top horses have come close to, but failed. When I heard Bob Baffert talking about American Pharoah before the Kentucky Derby he gave the impression he was in a different league to any horse he had trained, and he has handled some good ones.

The tone in his voice suggested he had something out of the ordinary and American Pharoah has proved him right. The Derby was his first serious race and that brought him on and he seemed better in the Preakness and then he cruised up in the Belmont. And listening to his trainer again, he thinks he’s even better now and may prove he is one of the best we’ve seen, a view endorsed by American Pharoah’s impressive reappearance in the Haskell at Monmouth.

Hopefully he will end up at Keeneland in the Breeders’ Cup Classic. Winning there would be a great way to end the story while we wait for the next Triple Crown. Looking back, when I won on Affirmed people were saying the Triple Crown

Cauthen drives Oh So Sharp home in the 1985 St Leger, beating Phardante and Greville Starkey (centre) by three-quarters of a length, with Lanfranco and Lester Piggott (right) back in third

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You were 18 when you rode Affirmed in 1978, hitting the headlines big-time. How did all the publicity affect you? Could you appreciate the achievement at such a young age?

I was champion the year before as an apprentice, when I won 487 races despite missing a month through injury. So, in my mind the Triple Crown was like an extension of what I was supposed to be doing.

Winning. I realised how lucky I was to get on a horse as talented as Affirmed. I knew that with success comes publicity and I had to deal with interviews and answer the questions as best I could. It helps both sides if you can get on with the media, though of course there are times when things can go wrong when you should have won a race.

Even at such an early stage of my career I was able to grasp that what I had done was pretty unusual.

You made an effortless switch from riding in America to England, even scoring on your first ride on Marquee Universal at Salisbury.

What were the major differences and which courses did

you enjoy riding at most?

In America all the tracks are left-handed, flat and dirt with a turf track on the inside. All very similar, whereas in England no track is the same with cambers, uphill finishes and when the ground is soft you need to be on the outside. There were lots of things I had to learn about each unique course. Barry [Hills] wanted to give me confidence by getting me off to a good start and he laid on Marquee Universal, my first ride, to win at Salisbury.

“You could be talking to Henry Cecil and suddenly he would be overcome with that vague look”

In my first month I won two Group races and the 2,000 Guineas on Barry’s Tap On Wood. But it took two to three years before I felt I was riding against the other jockeys on a level playing field on such a variety of tracks, knowing where to be in a race, the different gradients and turns. I had ridden a lot of winners from the front and I was happy doing that on the right horse, but I had to learn to put one to sleep at the back before coming from behind. The huge fields at Newmarket with 40 runners splitting into three groups were also a whole new deal for me. I rode all the smaller tracks

but where I wanted to be was Newmarket, Newbury, Sandown, Goodwood and Ascot with all the excitement of taking on the best.

My favourite course was York, a big sweeping track and I loved the atmosphere there.

If you have one criticism of American racing, what is it?

I don’t like the fact that every state has its own racing jurisdiction. I think there should be one ruling body overseeing all American racing and universalising the sport across the nation. One authority would make for a level playing field for everyone. Then the rules would not vary from state to state.

Uniformity would make it easier to follow the rules and everyone would know what’s illegal and what isn’t. I know it won’t be easy to regulate, but I would like to see racing under one umbrella.

American racing, as in other countries, finds it tough competing with other sports. Do you have any ideas how it could be made more appealing and popular with the public?

By having more coverage on general television, rather than just the two major dedicated channels. Other sports seem to have got ahead of racing with more TV coverage and we seem to have missed out.

People have to be able to watch racing on a regular basis to be more familiar with the horses. There was a day when racing was just about the only real form of gambling, now you can bet on almost any sport and as a result racing has suffered.

Are the British Horseracing Authority’s testing procedures to stamp out anabolic steroids abuse workable in practice, from the US perspective?

Yes, I think so. I’m not sure that the use of anabolic steroids is as prevalent as people make out. They have been used for prepping horses for the sales to make them more muscular and imposing. But they are banned now in England and also illegal in America.

Sometimes a horse can pick up a prohibited substance by accident, like something being dropped in the hay by mistake and the horse eating it.

What was the best horse you rode, and what made him/her so special?

Affirmed. I rode a lot of great horses and Oh So Sharp was the best filly. But Affirmed stands out for what he achieved. He had a great mind, great work rate, great talent and he was adaptable. He loved a fight and was a fantastic competitor with a big heart, and he beat a great horse in Alydar, who would have won the Triple Crown in any other year.

Affirmed beat him most times they met.

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STEVE CAUTHEN

Cauthen is seen here riding against Lester Piggott, who he considered his toughest foe in Europe in a vintage era for jockeys

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I learned lots about life while I was racing, so much rubs off when you meet all those wonderful people and characters. Pretty much everything I know came from my experiences through racing and rubbing shoulders with people like Barry Hills, and over here in America Chuck Taliaferro, a trainer who was a mentor to me early in my career. They guided me. Having the opportunity to meet owners like Lord Howard de Walden, Louis

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my weight so hard. I am 5ft 6in and when I was riding my natural weight was 10st” Freedman, Sheikh Mohammed and, of course, working for Henry. It was a great education and fun, while at the same time I was working.

You achieved so much in your career – but do you have any regrets?

Yes, I always wished I’d been a lot smaller so I could have ridden for longer. I always had to fight my weight so hard. I am 5ft 6in and when I was riding my natural weight was 10st and very occasionally I could ride at 8st 8lb, though 8st 10lb was generally my minimum.

I wasn’t the only one, plenty of the tall lads had the same problems, and you can go on only so long before damaging your health.

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Who was the best jockey(s) you rode against? What set him apart?

I think I rode in one of the best eras, against Willie Shoemaker, Laffit Pincay, Angel Cordero, Jorge Velasquez, Chris McCarron in America, then in Europe I was taking on Lester Piggott, Pat Eddery, Willie Carson, Yves Saint-Martin and Freddy Head. They were the best around and I’d say Cordero was the toughest to come up against here and Piggott in Europe.

Lester always tried to make sure he was on the best horse and once he was he’d ride with lots of confidence, afraid of nothing. He was probably in his heyday in the earlier 1970s, just before I came over. That’s when he was jocking everybody off! I consider myself lucky to have been riding against such a great bunch of jockeys, not just in Europe but in America as well.

What would be your advice to a new jockey embarking on his career?

Try to hook up with good people, and always try to be around those you respect. If they appreciate and love the game their example should be worth following.

My golf handicap is 12. I’ve been to Augusta to a couple of PGA tournaments and when the Ryder Cup was held down the road from me at Valhalla I managed to get there as well.

You’ve had a few nicknames over the years. Which has been your favourite?

Stevie Wonder.

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PERSONAL I like holidaying… on a cruise ship anywhere warm My favourite film… The Sting Four guests for dinner… my mentors, Henry Cecil, Barry and Penny Hills, and Chuck Taliaferro I am annoyed by… lateness My guiltiest pleasure is… golf

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PROFESSIONAL

What is your involvement in racing these days?

I have a farm and do a bit of breeding with five mares in Kentucky. I’ve bred one or two nice ones. The best I’ve bred is a filly, Winning Image, who won about $900,000, also another filly won half a million dollars.

I’ve bred stakes-placed horses, but so far not a Grade 1 winner.

Best day of my racing life… winning the Belmont and Triple Crown on Affirmed

Do you have time to pursue golf, tennis or any other sports/hobbies?

I play a little tennis and golf whenever I can.

Alternative career… American footballer, but I wasn’t big enough!

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If I could win one more race it would be… Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe Biggest lesson I’ve learnt… always be humble

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THE BIG INTERVIEW HUGO PALMER

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TRAIN Hugo Palmer admits he was “treading water” in Britain as he embarked on the path towards becoming a trainer – it was his time in Australia working for icon Gai Waterhouse that really gave him the self belief to take out a licence

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t isn’t easy to win a mainstream Classic. In an age when select stables are backed by unquantifiable wealth, only eight individual British trainers have prevailed in the 77 British, Irish and French Classics run in the decade to date.

The most recent was Hugo Palmer, and he gained his with a difference. It came courtesy of a filly who cost more to supplement to the Irish Oaks than it would have cost to buy her outright. That €40,000 late entry would have secured Covert Love as a yearling with five figures to spare.

Yet Palmer posted other sterling achievements during a golden three-week spell in July. It started when New Providence landed the Group 3 Summer Stakes at York. Covert Love’s triumph at the Curragh was complemented 24 hours later by Home Of The Brave’s win in the Group 3 Minstrel Stakes. Nine days later Galileo Gold came up trumps in the Group 2 Vintage Stakes, and, somewhere along the way, Palmer found time to get married.

“It was a mad idea to do that in the middle of the season,” Palmer, 35, reflects at his Kremlin Cottage Stables, on Newmarket’s Snailwell Road. “It was a huge relief that the horses kept running well, otherwise people would have said my mind wasn’t on the job. I was fearful of that, because a funny thing about British people in general is that a lot of the time they are looking to knock you.”

It’s a curious observation to hear from a

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man who is about as British as they come.

The Honourable Hugo Palmer is the eldest son of the 4th Baron Palmer, whose ancestral seat, Manderston, is in Berwickshire.

At the turn of the 20th century the family owned one of Britain’s most successful businesses, the biscuit manufacturers Huntley & Palmers. An Eton education was as pre-ordained for Palmer as it was for his father before him, although the institution’s revised selection process means the same may not hold true for Palmer’s sons.

However, it is only when Palmer retraces his formative years that his espousing of the “tall-poppy syndrome” gains context. By far the most rewarding time professionally came when he spent 15 months in Australia with that country’s totemic trainer, Gai Waterhouse.

Unlike so many of similar origins, Palmer does not see Australia as a distant outpost bereft of material significance.

When he returned to Britain five years ago he was “buoyed by the success and vibrancy of the Australian [racing and breeding] industry, where I’d been working for an icon.” It was exactly the sort of opportunity he craved but found hard to find in Britain.

“When I was younger I was considerably heavier than I am today – and I’m not light now,” he says. “I applied for a job as pupil assistant with Sir Mark Prescott and he told me I was too heavy to ride his hack.”

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CAROLINE NORRIS

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Undeterred, Palmer mucked out and drove horseboxes for Patrick Chamings before he spent three years under Hughie Morrison. “I was probably treading water for much of it,” he reflects. “I decided to go abroad and was able to get a job with Gai Waterhouse.”

The experience left a profound impression.

“She was away when I arrived and I spent the first week working out that I’d been brought over from Britain to be a stable lad, starting my day at 2.15am,” he says. “I realised I was

going to have to work my arse off for it not to be the worst decision I ever made.

“But when Gai came back the senior men must have reported well of me,” Palmer continues. “I’d been there for two weeks when she sent a horse to Dubai with her senior foreman and I was suddenly put in charge of running the main yard with 90 horses in it.

“That put some people’s backs up big-time, of course, but I didn’t make a mess of it. In

Australia they are much more receptive to giving young people a go. You find a lot more men and women in their 20s in charge of things, which doesn’t really happen here.

And unlike a lot of trainers here, Gai is a real teacher. She loves exploring; she loves challenging what she does every day.”

This insightful chapter illustrates that Palmer essentially qualifies as self-made. Yes, he offers no pretence over his gilded youth: he loved hunting and was never short of a horse – although he says horses were simply a means to an end. “If people hunted on pogo sticks I would have learnt to ride pogo sticks,” he maintains.

And there’s no doubt his father’s status was instrumental in him securing the sort of mortgage required to buy Kremlin Cottage Stables. Yet while he was able to call on some distant family contacts (Chamings’s wife’s brother is married to his mother’s sister, if you didn’t know), all they could do for a wannabe trainer far too heavy to ride was to throw him a pitchfork.

This spate of hard-graft assignments will have tested his stated resolve to train – particularly when Ed Sackville, his great school friend, joined the Darley Flying Start programme while he trooped off to Highclere Stud for the arduous yearling prep season.

The work ethic instilled in him, which he willingly embraced, served him well when he went to Australia.

Covert Love romps home in the Irish Oaks (left), to the delight of her trainer and Pat Smullen

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Galileo Gold and Frankie Dettori continued Palmer’s superb season with victory in the Group 2 Vintage Stakes at Goodwood

When his visa expired after 15 months with Waterhouse, he was at something of a personal crossroads. “My parents had a long and messy divorce during the years I was at university,” he reflects, “and my relationship with my father became quite strained as a result.

“It brought a clarity to my mind to be so far away from England,” he continues. “But as the eldest son, I was keen to repair that relationship so I came back home. I wasn’t sure what I was going to do, but I decided to spend the summer here.”

No sooner did he return in April 2010 than he was back among old friends in Newmarket during the Tattersalls Craven Breeze-Up sales.

“I ended up buying a horse,” he says of that fateful day.

“I’d worked with Amanda Skiffington in my time with Gai and she told me to look at a filly she liked,” Palmer recalls. “So I looked at it, liked it, and asked Amanda what I was supposed to do about it. She said, ‘Well, I thought you wanted to train, and if you do, you’d better start with a nice horse or two.’ So I got ten friends together and we bought her for 25,000 guineas.”

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Palmer, who thought hard about setting up shop, was swayed by the lack of suitable job opportunities available to him. “We’d also had a week of wall-to-wall sunshine in the buildup to the Guineas,” he says. “In good weather,

“In Australia you find a lot more men and women in their 20s in charge, which doesn’t really happen here”

England is at its absolute best at that time of the year.” And that was that. Decision made.

Now into his fifth season, Palmer often alludes to the “great good fortune” to have blessed his path. He cites the filly he bought at Tatts as a case in point: Making Eyes spent a formative two-year-old season with Chris Wall until Palmer opened his stable doors in

March 2011. “It was outrageous, really,” he reflects. “She won five races for me, two of them Listed. Without her, who knows what would have happened?”

What happened was that Palmer had finally fulfilled a long-held ambition that gained currency during his time at Eton. Lammtarra’s victory in the 1995 Derby was properly celebrated: the colt hailed from the Godolphin stable of Sheikh Mohammed, whose Dalham Hall Stud was being run by Palmer’s uncle, Justin Wadham.

However, Benny The Dip’s victory in the same race two years later marked the tipping point. Sackville’s father, Lord De La Warr, had a fancied candidate in Grapeshot but the colt went wrong in the preamble, allowing Palmer to back Benny The Dip without emotional caveats.

“That got me hooked,” he recalls. “It was definitely the betting side back then. I was given £30 a month, which was an indulgence because beer and betting were the only things that were not paid for. A group of us used to go to the bookies most days and we were relatively successful. I remember I always seemed to have more than £30 in my wallet.”

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Hugo Palmer was six months into his fledgling career in September 2011.

Desperately short of horses to train, he felt there could be only benefits from buying a yearling at auction whose every step was being chronicled by the Racing Post, the sport’s trade newspaper. So it was that Born To Run entered Palmer’s orbit.

“I didn’t think I’d be able to afford her,” he relates. “I thought someone with greater resources would buy her for the attendant publicity alone. No-one had ever heard of me, so to have my business promoted in the newspaper every month seemed like a golden opportunity.”

As it happened, Palmer was detained in traffic as Born To Run’s assignment with the auctioneer loomed at Doncaster. He arrived, wheels spinning, in the nick of time – and could scarcely believe it when he picked up the filly for a scant £20,000.

“She was a sweet little thing but she was, I’m afraid to say, absolutely useless,” Palmer says. “One day she finished fourth of 11 at Lingfield and I left the racecourse thinking I wouldn’t like to be paying training fees for the seven that finished behind her. But she did me an enormous amount of good.”

Indeed she did. Angela Perkins and Peter Shemilt, two members of the original Born To Run syndicate, are with Palmer today.

Together with five others, they are currently enjoying the joyride of a lifetime as members of the Fomo (Fear Of Missing Out) Syndicate, which owns Irish Oaks heroine Covert Love (see page 91).

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A few of Palmer’s friends continued to explore betting paths on leaving school, but Palmer and Sackville inclined towards the horse. “Ed always wanted to become a bloodstock agent but I was not so sure,” Palmer says. “I felt I wanted to train but would settle for being a bloodstock agent if that’s how it turned out.”

There is next to no prospect now of Palmer joining Sackville in the agents’ ranks. Yet while his career graph continues to head north, it is only this year he has been able to turn profit akin to a half-decent salary.

Nevertheless, Palmer is not the sort of man to sit back and contemplate things in midseason. He is driven by a yearning to succeed in the only profession he has ever dreamt of embracing. Yet as he plots equine sorties to foreign fields and ponders expansion plans for Kremlin Cottage, which has room for 80 horses, he takes reassurance from the fact his main reason for returning to Britain from

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Chance of promotion too good to turn down

Hugo Palmer says the decision to buy “useless” Born To Run was a good one

€26,000, she failed to sell as a yearling. The Azamour filly was syndicated before she embarked on her trail-blazing sequence that culminated with victory in the Irish Classic. Agent Hugo Merry and Darley’s Mark McStay, who bred her in partnership, have retained an interest.

The Fomo Syndicate is most unlikely to retain Covert Love for breeding purposes.

Unless she is sold in the interim, the plan is to race her again next season. Before then, however, she will require supplementing to most suitable races, as was the case with the Yorkshire Oaks, in which she ran a fine second to Pleascach.

Australia came to fruition.

“I’m enormously lucky to have had the support of my father,” he says. “I wouldn’t have come anywhere near to getting the

“I’m so glad training

has gone well enough for us to be on track financially for the forseeable future” mortgage I needed without his help, and I’m so glad training has gone well enough for us to be on track financially for the foreseeable future. Without him, I wouldn’t be sitting here.”

“It is difficult with a limited budget to enter into the sort of races you think a horse might be up to running in months down the line,” Palmer says. “A while ago I was chatting to [Juddmonte Racing Manager] Teddy Grimthorpe and he told me a staggering amount was spent every year on unused entry fees.

“We couldn’t spend £30,000 entering Covert Love for everything,” he continues, “so for the big races we just have to pay as we go. Covert Love had won prize-money equivalent to the €40,000 supplementary fee for the Irish Oaks, and winning that race has obviously boosted her value.”

When Palmer was in his late teens his aunt, Lucy Wadham, trained six jumps horses for a syndicate that included Palmer’s father. The venture was a great success; four of the horses won, yet the 4th baron, who’d invested £2,000, eventually received a cheque for £700.

“Dad said to me, ‘You see, I told you racing was a waste of money’,” Palmer relates. As of now, however, Palmer is well on his way to proving otherwise.

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BREEDERS’ DIGEST

By EMMA BERRY, Bloodstock Editor

Our extended bloodstock coverage this month includes:

• Keeneland September preview: Sadler’s Wells a growing force in the US – pages 58-60 • Irish sales preview: Tattersalls Ireland and Goffs prepare for action – pages 62-64 • Sales Circuit: Dubawi colt sets new record at Arqana’s August Sale – pages 68-73 • Caulfield Files: Give young stallions a chance to prove themselves at stud – pages 74-75 • Dr Statz: Encouraging growth in each decile at the major yearling sales – page 97

A Choice boost for French stallion ranks

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eing in Deauville in August is always a great way to start a season that you know will include plenty of cold, wet days in far less appealing locations.

This year, the Aga Khan Studs took the opportunity to thank their clients with a party to celebrate the success of their stallions in France and Ireland at Haras de Bonneval prior to the start of Arqana’s August Sale. It was reasonable to expect a pretty lavish shindig but I’m not sure many would have predicted the welcoming committee for the guests as they filed into the marquee. The ‘hallway’, which is more usually the foaling unit through the breeding season, was lined not with empty foaling boxes but with deep straw-filled stables containing five of the Aga Khan’s best mares, including the outstanding Arc winner Zarkava and her Frankel filly foal.

Also in attendance was Elva with her Elusive City filly foal. Elva’s fourth foal, Ervedya, has been one of the Aga Khan’s shining lights this season with Group 1 wins in France and England, though she has played a much more important role than simply adding to the organisation’s impressive haul of big-race victories. Her swooping run in the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches means she will go down in history as the first Classic winner for her young sire Siyouni, a homebred addition to the stallion roster at Bonneval in 2011.

Siyouni is playing an important part in the resurgence of the French stallion market, which, at the time of his retirement to stud, was in a pretty parlous state.

The last five years, however, have seen the unlikely emergence of Kendargent followed by the retention and great support of Prix du Jockey-Club winner Le Havre. Prior to the realisation of the nascent talent within its own

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stable of Siyouni, the Aga Khan Studs made a bold move, in partnership with Arrowfield, to bring the then-17-year-old Redoute’s Choice to stand in France. At €70,000 his fee was way beyond that commanded by any other stallion available in the country at the time and the announcement of his reverseshuttling of Australia’s three-time champion sire was greeted initially with more than a few raised eyebrows.

However, the Aga Khan supported the son of Danehill with some of his own top-class mares, not least Zarkava, who now has a yearling colt by him, and plenty of other good breeders were keen to use him. The result is that his first crop of European yearlings, now going head to head with Frankel and co in the sales ring, have been very warmly received.

Redoute’s Choice’s biggest backer at Arqana was John Ferguson, who paid just over €2 million for three of his sons and helped to

Zarkava and her Frankel filly foal greeted guests at Haras de Bonneval

propel his August Sale average to €366,500 for ten sold, second only to Frankel on the freshman list, with his six selling for an average of €566,667.

Three more Redoute’s Choice yearlings feature in the Orby Sale at the end of this month, including the first foal of Kirsten Rausing’s Group 3 winner Alla Speranza, while eight are set to go under the hammer during Book 1 of Tattersalls’ October Sale.

Newsells Park Stud consigns two of the octet, with star billing going to the three-part-sister to this year’s 1,000 Guineas and Nassau Stakes winner Legatissimo.

Now 19, Redoute’s Choice did not return to Bonneval for the 2015 covering season. He was replaced by Makfi, who helped to provide a memorable double for first-crop sires when his son Make Believe won the Poule d’Essai des Poulains on the same afternoon Ervedya struck for Siyouni.

There are further changes to the line-up for next season following the recent announcement that Dalakhani is to relocate from the Aga Khan’s Gilltown Stud to the country where he was unbeaten in eight starts (only fellow Aga Khan flag-bearer Alamshar ever got the better of him, by half a length in the Irish Derby).

News of his move could not have been better timed, coming as it did in a week when his son Second Step won the Group 1 Grosser Preis von Berlin, followed by Candarliya’s Group 3 victory at Deauville during the August Sale.

Dalakhani, Siyouni and the grand old stalwart Sinndar will be joined at Bonneval by Qatar Bloodstock’s Charm Spirit, who will certainly be well partonised given his race record and the extraordinary success of his sire Invincible Spirit, both on the racecourse and in the sales ring.

These are not only exciting times for the Aga Khan Studs but for the French breeding industry as a whole.

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A rising force

STATESIDE The dominance of Sadler’s Wells in Europe is well documented but increasingly his sireline is gaining ground and favour in America and is strongly represented at Keeneland Words Lucas Marquardt

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himself – Rachel Alexandra – and emerged as one of the pre-eminent sires of his generation.

Then another top El Prado sire came along in the form of Kitten’s Joy. He led the General Sire List in 2013, and will likely have his 60th stakes winner by the time this goes to print.

So here we stand in 2015 with the tally of $100,000+ sires at El Prado two, Storm Cat nil. Medaglia d’Oro stood this year for $125,000, Kitten’s Joy for $100,000.

The comparison, incomplete as it may be, is useful in a few ways. One is pointing out the difficultly in predicting future bloodstock trends. Another, particularly as it relates to Kitten’s Joy, is that it highlights the growth of turf racing in America. But maybe most

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en years ago, if you asked US breeders which sire – Storm Cat or El Prado – was more likely to have a son standing for $100,000 or more in 2015, the vast majority would have chosen the former.

At that point, after all, while El Prado was a confirmed star sire and standing at Adena Springs for $100,000, he was an unproven sire of sires. By comparison, Storm Cat’s son Giant’s Causeway already stood for $200,000, and Storm Cat was represented that year by no fewer than ten stallion sons on the Top 100 General Sire List. El Prado had zero.

But then something unexpected happened.

El Prado’s top-class son Medaglia d’Oro broke out in 2009 with a horse even better than

Of 4,164 horses catalogued for Keeneland, 289 are by 18 Sadler’s Wells-line sires

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important is that it shows the continued rise of Sadler’s Wells, the sire of El Prado, as an influence in America.

A look at the catalogue for the upcoming Keeneland September Yearling Sale, which begins its 12-day run on September 14, underscores that rise. From a catalogue of 4,164 horses, there are, by our count, 289 horses by 18 Sadler’s Wells-line stallions. At just under 7%, that’s not a huge number. But it is sizeable, and a big increase from years past. A decade ago, at the 2005 Keeneland September Sale, there were 44 Sadler’s Wellsline yearlings – 23 by El Prado and ten by Horse Chestnut – comprising just .009% of the catalogue.

The takeaway? Sadler’s Wells has such a strong foothold in the US, primarily through El Prado, that his name is likely to appear in American pedigrees for generations to come.

The 2015 September Sale also illustrates how American breeders are reaching out for other branches of Sadler’s Wells. From the 289 Sadler’s Wells-line yearlings at September, 64 of them are from branches other than El Prado. Predictably, the preferred choice is Galileo, Sadler’s Wells’s best sire son and maybe the world’s best stallion. At September, 39 yearlings are by Galileo or his sons, mostly through Cape Blanco (27). There are also five from the first crop of the mighty Frankel, one from the first crop of Nathaniel, one by Teofilo, and four by Galileo himself.

Another ten are by Frankel’s three-partsbrother Bullet Train, by Sadler’s Wells.

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KEENELAND SEPTEMBER PREVIEW $2.2m. That came two months after another Group-winning Galileo mare, Airwave’s daughter Aloof, topped Keeneland November at $3.9 million. In 2013, the young mare Betterbetterbetter topped the Fasig-Tipton November Sale at $5.2m. (All three, incidentally, sold in foal to War Front.)

It’s early days yet, but breeders are already seeing big returns with mares like these. At the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale last month, a Tapit half-brother to Christophermarlowe led the way on El Capi Racing’s $2 million bid. The colt was produced by the Graded-winning Galileo mare Dress Rehearsal. The American standout Lea, third in March’s Group 1 Dubai World Cup, was produced by a Galileo mare, and his owner/breeders at Claiborne Farm saw fit to go to 1.1 million guineas to land Long View, a Galileo half-sister to Golan and Tartan Bearer, at last year’s Tattersalls December Sale. Other breeders to cross the pond to purchase mares include Greg Goodman of Mount Brilliant Farm, the Gunthers of

and have used every line that descends from the greatest stallion. In fact, North American breeders were the first to ‘buy into’ a son of Sadler’s Wells in the form of El Prado. El Prado, for a time, was Sadler’s Wells’s most successful son at stud, then the gates opened up with many successful sons. The success of Kitten’s Joy and Medaglia d’Oro can only lead to more breeders using them and their sons.”

And to sons of Galileo, too. In 2015, there were at least five sons of Galileo in North America, led by another sibling to Frankel, his champion full-brother Noble Mission,

“In 2015, there were

who began his stallion career at Lane’s End this year at a fee of $25,000. The Breeders’ Cup winner Magician started at Coolmore’s Ashford at $12,500, with another Breeders’ Cup winner, Red Rocks, at Calumet for $12,500. Midas Touch and Treasure Beach completed the group. Not included is the aforementioned Cape Blanco, who covered an impressive 502 mares in three years at Ashford before being sent to Japan.

Interestingly, Charlie O’Connor, Coolmore’s Director of Sales at Ashford, believes America’s embracing of Sadler’s Wells can in part be attributed to a sire not from that line.

“I think Giant’s Causeway was actually an important part of it,” O’Connor said of the son of Storm Cat. “He was a European champion on turf, but came over here and ran a huge race on dirt in the Breeders’ Cup Classic. He has gone on to be a multiple champion sire, so he showed the crossover between dirt and turf could be done very successfully. In that time, the Sadler’s Wells line has also done well in America on both turf and dirt, and Galileo has developed into a phenomenal stallion. When we gave American breeders access to two very accomplished sons of Galileo in Cape Blanco and Magician, they were very well received.”

Magician, O’Connor reported, bred 130 mares in his initial season at Ashford.

It isn’t just Galileo stallions that Americans are targeting. The group-winning Up, a Galileo half-sister to Dutch Art, topped the Keeneland January Sale early this year at

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at least five sons of Galileo in North America, led by Noble Mission”

Like his sire Sadler’s Wells, El Prado raced in the silks of Robert Sangster

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Glennwood Farm, and Jon Kelly.

The respected Irish horseman Mike Ryan, who is based in Kentucky, took a slightly different tack. He shipped his El Prado mare Rose Of Summer – a half-sister to the Grade 1 winner Laragh – to Banstead Manor to be bred to Frankel. In addition to producing a 3x3 inbreeding to Sadler’s Wells, the mating also produced a smashing colt who will be one of the five Frankel yearlings offered at Keeneland September.

“He’s a very correct horse, a very strong, deep horse, with tremendous strength and substance,” Ryan said of the February 2-foaled youngster, who will be offered by Indian Creek as Hip 571. “He’s very much like Frankel,

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Bullet Train, left, and his three-quarter brother Frankel, second right, both have first-crop yearlings at Keeneland September

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although he is a different colour – he’s grey.

He’s got tremendous girth like Frankel, and he’s extremely powerful through his hind quarters.”

Ryan said he’s seen enough offspring of Frankel’s to “form an opinion,” and said he’s noticed an interesting trend. “It does appear that many of them resemble their dams, or the female line,” he said. “But that’s not a bad thing. One successful sire we have here who is like that is Speightstown. One out of every ten Speightstowns look like him.”

Still, Ryan says they do share some characteristics. “All the Frankels I’ve seen are very good movers,” he noted. “They have a natural, easy way about them, and they’re very light on their feet. They also seem to be very intelligent horses with great dispositions.”

As far as bringing the colt back to the US to sell, Ryan reasoned that American buyers will be more familiar with the female pedigree.

But he also said he believes there’s a growing appetite for top turf horses in this country.

“It seems we’re more accepting of turf now,” he said. “We have a tremendous turf programme 12 months out of the year, and there are plenty of races and money to be won. The Breeders’ Cup has added races like the juvenile turf races and the Turf Sprint, and there are terrific opportunities out there.”

Sadler’s Wells, said Ryan, fits nicely into that growth pattern. “It seems we were so narrow-minded for a long time and it was dirt, dirt dirt,” he said. “We were so bent on speed, through the Storm Cat and Mr Prospector lines, that people are now looking for stamina, and finding it through Sadler’s

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Wells-line horses.”

Ryan, in fact, was so impressed with Noble Mission that he bought a share in him.

Allaire Ryan, Mike Ryan’s daughter and the Director of Sales at the farm that stands Noble

“American breeders were the first to ‘buy into’ a son of Sadler’s Wells in the form of El Prado”

Mission, Lane’s End, is offering another standout yearling by Frankel at September.

Lane’s End consigns Hip 332, a colt out of the Grade 2 winner India, on behalf of Frank and Jane Lyons’s Summer Wind Farm.

“The colt is all quality, from his build to his movement to his pedigree,” said Allaire. “He’s an attractive, well-made horse with very balanced frame and great natural strength.

He’s also a business-minded colt that carries himself with forwardness and intention.

Looking at him you can’t help but think, ‘What an athlete.’”

Reiko and Michael Baum’s Man O’ War Farm offers two homebred Frankels at September. Hip 183 is a grandson of the English and Irish highweight Damson; Hip 548 is out of a half-sister to Group 1-winning siblings Peeping Fawn and Thewayyouare.

The final Frankel of September is the Taylor Made-consigned Hip 698, a colt out of a half-sister to Excelebration.

Of the four Galileo yearlings on offer at Keeneland, Hip 302 looks like a standout on paper. She’s a daughter of the Grade 1 winner Golden Ballet and thus a half to the Breeders’ Cup Classic upsetter Drosselmeyer. She’s consigned by Hill ’n’ Dale, as is Hip 160, a Galileo colt, out of a half-sister to the major winner Bluegrass Cat. Eaton Sales consigns Hip 79, a daughter of the Oasis Dream stakes winner Anne of Kiev, while Paramount offers the last of the Galileos, Hip 380, a halfbrother to the Irish Group winners The Bogberry and Liscanna.

Maybe interestingly, two of the four Galileos are Kentucky-breds, as are four of the five Frankels.

“North American breeders in recent years have made a huge effort to go overseas to purchase and/or breed to the best stallions in the world and bring them back to sell here at Keeneland,” said the sale company’s Geoffrey Russell.

“Galileo is one of the leading stallions in the world, so we would always want as many of them in September as we can get. The first crop of Frankel is the most anticipated crop in recent times, and we were keen to have a strong representation in September, and are delighted to be the only North America sales company to offer his progeny this year.

Hopefully, the domestic buyers will be attracted to the likes of these stallions.”

If recent history is a guide, that attraction seems assured.

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A warm welcome

ASSURED Three very different yearling sales take place in Ireland this month – Tattersalls Ireland’s September Sale plus Goffs’ Orby and Sportsman’s Sales – and international buyers are likely to be out in droves Words Carl Evans • Photos George Selwyn

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urope’s yearling sales express pulls up at platforms in Ireland, France and Germany during September.

Ireland presents two contrasting events – Goffs stages the two-day Orby Sale, an auction that offers the best of pedigrees and looks, with the result that in the past two years buyers have needed a six-figure budget to gain an averagepriced horse. However, the same company also stages a one-day Sportsman’s Sale, which reflects its name and provides purchasers on smaller budgets – think of an average around €20,000 – a chance to buy a racehorse, and possibly a very good one.

A week earlier, Tattersalls Ireland holds its three-day September Sale, cataloguing the best of its stock during the first two sessions, with the third day being known as Part II. While Tattersalls’ British division, operating from Park Paddocks in Newmarket, stages the daddy of European yearling auctions, aka the October Yearling Sales, its Irish counterpart’s September Sale is a solid spread of lesser fare, one that has been producing improving figures while pulling away from the suction of financial upheaval that hit Ireland in 2008.

The two most recent September Sales have generated an average price of around €15,000, which gives an indication of the horses and pedigrees available at the company’s Fairyhouse complex, but a victory for Pether’s Moon in June’s Coronation Cup confirms the truism that gems can be sourced at all auctions. Owner John Manley bought Pether’s Moon in 2011 through Peter & Ross Doyle Bloodstock for €52,000, and the horse has won more than ten times that sum. Remarkably, John Manley achieved another ten-time paper profit with Trumpet Major, who was bought for €20,000, while Dick Turpin, who was sourced for him by the Doyles for €26,000, won just shy of £1 million.

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The Doyles will be in action this time around, as will Federico Barberini, the Newmarketbased Italian bloodstock agent, who says: “The Orby is a more select sale, but you go to Fairyhouse looking for a bit of value, and to buy a horse on a budget. They are offering a different

“The September Sale gives a buyer the chance to find a young pedigree that is going places”

type of horse. At Fairyhouse it is more about the individual and less about the pedigree, whereas at the Orby Sale you can find both – that doesn’t mean one sale is better than the other, but you will find the complete package at the Orby.

“The service at both sales is absolutely top class – both companies are assisted by ITM [Irish Thoroughbred

Three Classic heroines and Goffs graduates: Just The Judge, Sky Lantern and Dancing Rain

Marketing], and when you set foot in Ireland you are looked after throughout your stay.”

Two-year-old Galileo Gold has been another advert for the September Sale during 2015. The winner of Goodwood’s Group 2 Qatar Vintage Stakes, he was bought by Amanda Skiffington for €33,000 on behalf of Colin Murfitt, who sent him to trainer Hugo Palmer. The horse was subsequently sold on to Al Shaqab Racing, but remains with Palmer, who says: “A year ago Galileo Gold was a first foal and a gorgeous horse with a slightly lighter pedigree. Twelve months later his dam’s half-brother [Goldream] has won the Palace House and King’s Stand Stakes and his full sister is going to Doncaster’s Premier Sale. Next year’s yearling could well be in Book 1, so the September Sale often gives a buyer the chance to find a young pedigree that is going places.

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IRISH YEARLING SALES PREVIEW “I’ve been really lucky buying there, and the majority have been of above-average ability. You cannot pigeon-hole it as a sale, but if you work hard there are diamonds to be found.”

John Gosden’s smart sprinter Waady (€37,000) and the Andreas Wohler-trained German 1,000 Guineas winner Full Rose (€6,000) are other graduates to have shone in recent months, so what is on offer this year? You will not find offspring by mighty sire Galileo, his big rival for honours Dubawi, or the unbeaten god of the turf, Frankel, but there are two colts

by Classic winner and Classic-producing sire Sea The Stars. One (Lot 4) is related to this year’s Irish 2,000 Guineas runner-up Endless Drama, the other (Lot 235) comes from the esteemed Riverqueen dynasty.

Pivotal, Britain’s best sire until Dubawi engaged full throttle, is represented by a colt (Lot 372), while the emerging force that is Dark Angel has seven lots catalogued, including a Yeomanstown Stud-offered colt (Lot 332) out of a half-sister to the dam of the multiple Groupplaced sprinter Musetta.

Buyers looking for a member of a leading family should put a tick by a son of young sire Dream Ahead (Lot 68) from Baroda &

Pether’s Moon, a €52,000 Tattersalls Ireland yearling, wins the Coronation Cup

Colbinstown Studs – his relatives include Lady Alexander, Anthem Alexander and Dandy Man. Simon Kerins, a director of Tattersalls Ireland, says: “In terms of yearling sales we are a relatively young company – we held our first such sale in 1989 – and we acknowledge that many vendors want to go to Tattersalls in Newmarket to sell. Historically they have bought foals in England and want to go back there to sell yearlings.

“The September Sale gained a reputation for selling fillies at a good price, and up to 60% of the catalogue used to be fillies, but now we offer more colts and we are changing perceptions slowly. It is a sale that is enjoying great results on the racecourse and will in time mean we gain better horses by bigger sires.”

One could not blame Kerins and his colleagues for adopting rueful smiles when told by vendors, ‘We’re going to Tattersalls in Newmarket – you should be pleased with that’, and by association with Europe’s biggest sales company they have instant recognition. Yet

the racecourse is still the best test, and Kerins says: “To the end of July, 65 two-year-old races had been won by September Sale graduates, more than any other sale in Europe – it is a sale that has come a long way and is attracting more buyers.

“We get huge numbers of overseas visitors from around Europe – and it was very pleasing that we sold the first four in this year’s Polish Derby, given that the Poles said our horses were simply about speed. I hope in due course we will attract the very biggest buyers, because the sale has great potential.”

The phrase ‘a top pedigree’ will apply to buyers and horses at the Orby Sale, and with ITM rolling out the red carpet to overseas visitors, and Goffs and partner brands such as Jaguar backing up the hospitality with soirees such as the K Club Party, it will be a fashionable, and potentially lucrative, place to shop.

On paper the catalogue is full of delights, with offspring by Galileo, Frankel, Dubawi and Sea The Stars heading the star cast, backed up

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Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale 2014 figures: Aggregate €8,615,200 Top Price €115,000 Average €15,330 Median €11,000 Offered 651 Sold 562 Clearance 86%

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The Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale takes place at Fairyhouse in County Kildare on September 22 to 24 (the final day is categorised as Part II). All lots are eligible for Europe’s longest-running sales race, the €250,000 Tattersalls Ireland Super Auction Sales Stakes, which is run on Irish Champions Weekend at the Curragh.

To the end of July, Tattersalls Ireland had 65 juvenile winners, including Galileo Gold

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by the progeny of other top-flight sires such as Oasis Dream, Shamardal and Australian champion Redoute’s Choice.

Purely for being the sons or daughters of the world’s highest-ever rated horse, the lot numbers for six by Frankel have to be noted.

They are a filly out of top racemare Alexander Goldrun (Lot 23), a colt from the family of New Approach (Lot 138), a half-brother to Finsceal Beo (Lot 303), a grand-daughter of Imagine (Lot 186), a half-brother to Group winner US Law (Lot 133), and a filly out of stakes winner Rose Bonheur (Lot 381).

Galileo’s 14 yearlings include a brother to Classic winner Nightime (Lot 84), a half-brother to Ribblesdale Stakes winner Banimpire (Lot 307), who herself made €2.3m at Goffs, a filly out of a sister to Holy Roman Emperor (Lot 285), a half-sister to Group 1 winner Intense Focus (Lot 112) and a half-brother to Group 1 winner Lahaleeb (Lot 161).

Tapit’s dominance in America should swell interest in a Teofilo filly out of his sister Caressor (Lot 80), while Dubawi’s stellar year in Europe will add to the appeal of his filly out of a halfsister to Grandeur (Lot 294). Another filly who will surely fall to a big owner/breeder is a sister to Classic winner Dawn Approach (Lot 201).

“I’m delighted with the catalogue, but we’re always improving,” says Goffs Chief Executive Henry Beeby. “It’s like the Avis quote, ‘when you’re number two you try harder’.

“Last year we catalogued 450 horses, this year it is 487, but we’ve been just as selective, which says leading Irish breeders are sending us more of their best. To be frank there was a time when we would go to studs and there would be a shuffle and a murmur and they would say, ‘We’ll see what we can find you’, but now I’m very confident we get a good percentage of their best horses.”

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Beeby admits Goffs had a reality check in 2011, when the Orby had “only a passable sale”.

The catalogue was cut and pasted into two, not three, days, and the figures roared upwards, with the average and median prices almost doubling the following year.

The Orby has continued to grow, with two seven-figure horses last year and a record number of six-figure lots – success on the track, headed by a Classic winner in all but one of the past 12 years, has aided the revival, but could rising sales figures at leading auctions create the over-production some fear?

Beeby says: “A few years ago it was accepted that we needed numbers to fund the sales races, but in 2012 I instructed the inspection team to forget the numbers and pick the horses that will suit a premier catalogue. I’m adamant we have to achieve a certain standard.

“I’ve been at Goffs eight years and the most upsetting thing anyone has said to me in that time came from John Ferguson, who said, five or six years ago, ‘Your Orby horses are not consistently good enough’, and from there numbers and quality have been very much in our minds.”

With the pound continuing to hold a strong position against the euro it is a good time to be selling in Britain. However, it is also a good time to be buying in euros, a point not lost on Kerins or Beeby. Kerins says: “I believe buyers with sterling will come in their droves – especially younger agents and trainers. They are going to get great value.”

Beeby says: “The weaker euro has been a big incentive for vendors, because there is a general acceptance that the buyers will be attracted – I think it [the exchange rate] is a bit of a red herring, because people judge the horses in front of them, and the overwhelming majority of Irish vendors spread their risk and sell in more than one place.”

Group 2 winner Painted Cliffs has become one of the best from last year’s Orby Sale, but in recent years it has thrown up lots of top-level winners, including Classic heroines Dancing Rain, Sky Lantern and Just The Judge, and a number of horses that progress with age and overseas assignments – witness Cape Blanco and Toast Of New York, plus the multiple Far East winners Military Attack and Designs On Rome.

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Goffs Sportsman’s Sale

2014 figures: Aggregate €37,928,000 Top Price €1,500,000 Average €108,989 Median €70,000 Offered 404 Sold 348 Clearance 86%

2014 figures: Aggregate €4,376,550 Top Price €90,000 Average €19,365 Median €15,000 Offered 274 Sold 226 Clearance 82%

Goffs’ Orby Sale takes place at Kill in County Kildare on September 29 and 30 and is followed by the Sportsman’s Sale on October 1.

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Book 1 Bonus a boon for buyers

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or the last 11 years, the average price of a Tattersalls October Book 1 yearling has been more than 100,000gns – and in 2013 and 2014 it was in excess of 200,000gns. Such lofty figures point to a sale in rude health but while yearling trade has been buoyant since the recovery from recession, the same cannot be said for prizemoney levels in Britain when compared to other major racing nations.

Tattersalls, which has its headquarters in Newmarket but hosts buyers from all around the world, has stepped in to aim to reward those Book 1 patrons who will be racing horses in Britain and Ireland with the introduction of the Book 1 Bonus Scheme, which will pay out £25,000 to each winner of Class 2, 3 or 4 twoyear-old maidens in Britain and ‘Open’ two-year-old maidens in Ireland. This year’s Book 1 graduates are made eligible for the scheme, which launches the celebrations for the 250th anniversary year of Tattersalls, with a single £1,000 payment by the owner before March 1, 2016.

“We’re delighted to have had such positive feedback about the scheme from owners, trainers, agents and from the consignors,” said Tattersalls’ Marketing Director Jimmy George.

“It’s very encouraging that people have been so positive about the concept. There will be 300-plus maidens in Britain and Ireland for around 500 horses from this year’s Book 1 and

they will be racing for the sort of prize-money that’s better than most two-year-old maidens anywhere in the world. You may find the equivalent on offer in Saratoga or Japan – that’s as good as it gets in global terms.”

Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Sale starts its three-day run on October 6 with 513 yearlings catalogued. Among them are 18 firstcrop sons and daughters of Frankel, whose first six yearlings to sell at Arqana in August returned an average of €566,667. The Juddmonte star is far from the only freshman represented, however. Bated Breath, Born To Sea, Casamento, Excelebration, Foxwedge, Harbour Watch, Helmet, Jukebox Jury, Mayson, Nathaniel, Power, Requinto, Sepoy and So You Think all have yearlings catalogued along with members of the first European crop of Redoute’s Choice.

Legatissimo – bought by MV Magnier for 350,000gns in 2013 – has been waving the Classic flag for the October Sale this year and while she and Australia (a 525,000gns purchase in 2012) both commanded six-figure sums, Night Of Thunder, a recent recruit to the Darley stallion ranks and the 2,000 Guineas winner of 2014, proves that buyers don’t have to spend astronomical sums for a top-class horse. Bought by Jono Mills, the son of Dubawi was a 32,000gns yearling offered through the Castlebridge Consignment for breeder Frank Dunne.

Looking ahead to Baden-Baden It’s not just Keeneland, Goffs and Tattersalls Ireland in action on the yearling sales front through September. BBAG holds its main yearling auction on Friday, September 4 with a little bit more breathing space after the DBS Sales this year to give potential buyers a chance to inspect the 246 yearlings on offer.

Last year’s Group 1 Preis der Diana (German Oaks) winner Feodora is a graduate of the sale and while this year’s winner, Turfdonna, was not offered as a yearling, her half-brother by Scalo appears as Lot 72 and is consigned by his breeder, Gestüt Auenquelle.

The former Mark Johnston-trained Group 1-winning duo of Jukebox Jury and Campanologist retired to stud in Germany in

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2013 – to Gestüt Etzean and Gestüt Fahrhof respectively – and each of them is represented by 15 first-crop yearlings , including a colt by Campanologist out of Turfdonna’s winning half-sister Turfflamme (Lot 139).

The dual Group 3 winner Wake Forest was a €40,000 purchase from BBAG in 2011 and his full-brother features among the Fahrhof draft as Lot 148, while a colt by his sire Sir Percy and out of his dam’s half-sister Wurfkette is consigned by Ronald Rauscher as Lot 76.

In similar fashion to Deauville, those attending the sale can also take advantage of some decent racing during Baden-Baden’s festival week, with meetings at Iffezheim on September 2, 3, 5 and 6.

Chesham winner Suits You

Osarus on the rise Three graduates of last year’s Osarus September Sale have already won Listed races this season, including the Eoghan O’Neill-trained Chesham Stakes winner Suits You. At €12,000, the son of Youmzain was the cheapest of the three and he has subsequently been sold on to Hong Kong. The other two, Katie’s Diamond, who won the Empress Stakes at Newmarket, and The Turning Point, cost trainers Karl Burke and Jean-Claude Rouget €18,000 and €23,000 respectively and their early stakes success is ensuring that more people are taking the Bordeaux-based sale seriously.

It does not boast the stellar pedigrees on offer in Deauville but the Osarus team has worked hard at compiling a catalogue to appeal to the domestic market and overseas trainers alike, with all yearlings catalogued elibible for the lucrative French premiums.

The sale is held at Hippodrome du Bequet at La Teste du Buch, but many visitors stay in the nearby seaside town of Arcachon, where the local oysters from the bay add to the culinary delights to be explored at the end of a busy sales day.

On the more important subject of horse-trading, the eighth edition of the sale features 268 yearlings to be sold over two days on September 15 and 16.

As well as yearlings by a decent array of established stallions, including Le Havre, Mastercraftsman, Kendargent, Holy Roman Emperor and Kyllachy, there are plenty of ‘first-croppers’ represented. Le Havre’s stable-mate Rajsaman was the busiest first-season stallion in France on his retirement and he has 12 youngsters catalogued, while Poule d’Essai des Poulains winner Tin Horse has ten.

Yearlings by Sepoy, Rio De La Plata, Power, Harbour Watch, Famous Name and Excelebration also feature.

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By EMMA BERRY and CARL EVANS

Major players out in force as Arqana sets new record Buoyant August yearling trade ensures season starts on a high in Deauville

Arqana August Sale

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he previous record for a French yearling was set back in 2002 but that price of €2 million was well and truly passed in Deauville this August when a son of this season’s leading European sire Dubawi made a show-stopping appearance in the ring to sell for €2.6m.

Given the colt’s parentage it was perhaps no surprise that his purchaser was Sheikh Mohammed, whose representative John Ferguson was the leading buyer by a wide margin when signing for 11 yearlings for a total of €6,910,000. A colt by another Darley flagbearer, Shamardal – and out of a halfsister to that stallion’s best son, Lope de Vega – was among them at €720,000, but Ferguson’s shopping list didn’t contain yearlings solely by the operation’s own sires.

Notably, he spent a little over €2m on three colts by the three-time Australian champion sire Redoute’s Choice, who can be considered one of the great success stories of the sale via the fruits of his first season standing at the Aga Khan’s Haras de Bonneval. His ten yearlings to sell returned an average of €366,500 to put him in fourth position on the Arqana sires’ list, one spot ahead of Galileo.

Dubawi was out in front thanks to his Ecurie des Monceaux-consigned sale-topper, though the only other yearling by him in the sale, also a colt, was led out unsold at €650,000.

The Arqana sales ring is always reduced to standing-room only during August, with curious holiday-makers standing five or six deep in the gods, and this was exacerbated this year by the appearance of the first six Frankel yearlings to go under the hammer, and of course the full-sister to France’s leading lady of the track, Treve. Haras du Quesnay’s star offering did not find a buyer who was willing to part with a sum deemed necessary to wrestle her from the Head family’s ownership, though Treve’s trainer Criquette Head said immediately after she had left the ring, when bidding stalled at €1.2 million,

The €2.6 million Dubawi colt sealed an outstanding sale for Ecurie des Monceaux

Arqana August Sale Top lots Sex/Breeding

Consignor

Vendor

Price (€)

C Dubawi-Pacifique

Monceaux

John Ferguson

2,600,000

C Invincible Spirit-Vedela

Monceaux

Bertrand Le Metayer

1,400,000

F Frankel-Platonic

Monceaux

Charles Gordon-Watson

1,150,000

C Redoute’s Choice-Vadawina

Etreham

John Ferguson

950,000

C Frankel-Piping

Monceaux

Tony Nerses

750,000

C Shamardal-Lavande

Ballylinch Stud

John Ferguson

720,000

C Invincible Spirit-Tonnara

Monceaux

Shadwell France

700,000

C Redoute’s Choice-Sandy

Girl Capucines

John Ferguson

660,000

F Invincible Spirit-Demurely

Monceaux

James Harron/De Burgh Equine

610,000

F Invincible Spirit-Dubai Rose

Monceaux Mayfair

Speculators

550,000

Five-year tale Year

Offered

Sold

%

Agg (€)

Avg (€)

Mdn (€)

2015

333

259

78

43,013,000

95,000

162,541

Top Price (€) 2,600,000

2014

324

261

81

39,417,500

90,000

147,864

1,200,000

2013

335

251

75

34,790,000

80,000

134,622

1,500,000

2012

440

288

65

29,575,500

65,000

98,424

1,200,000

2011

438

327

75

32,666,000

62,000

95,391

1,700,000

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Haras du Quesnay patriarch Alec Head with Treve’s sister, a €1.2 million buy-back

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TATTERSALLS IRELAND SEPTEMBER YEARLING SALE (22nd-23rd September) Lot 20 Grey colt by Mastercraftsman - Alimony (Groom Dancer) Half-brother to 3 winners incl. Stakes placed Naxos Beach.

Dam winner at 3 and own sister to Thrilling Day (dual Group winner of 6 races).

Lot 22 Brown colt by Big Bad Bob - All Day (Jaded Dancer) Half-brother to multiple winners incl. Stakes winner Bachelor Son. Dam a Gr.1 winner and own-sister to Gr.1 winner Alce.

Lot 171 Bay filly by Fast Company - Firecrest (Darshaan) Half-sister to 7 winners and from the family of Jeune and Beneficial.

Dam won 5 races and £51,156 incl. LR Galtres Stakes.

Lot 209 Grey colt by Stormy River - Happy (Bago) Second foal. 3rd dam Miesque; Champion filly in Europe. 12 wins incl. 10 Gr.1’s.

Dam of Gr.1 winners Kingmambo and East Of The Moon.

Lot 308 Bay colt by Clodovil - Mycenae (Inchinor) Half-brother to winners. Grandam Mythic a winner at 3 and placed 5 times incl.

LR Atalanta Stakes. Half-sister to 2 Stakes placed horses (Be Mindful and Staffin).

Lot 384 Bay colt by Henrythenavigator - Rose Of Petra (Golan) Dam won at 2 and 3 years; half sister to 5 winners, incl. Hyblon (LR) and to the dam of Fiorente (£3,942,364, incl. Gr.1 Melbourne Cup.) 3rd dam Hellenic.

Lot 48 Bay colt by Invincible Spirit - Arty Crafty (Arch) Half-brother to 2yo winner. Dam won 4 and is full-sister to Gr.1 winner Prince Arch and half-sister to Gr.1 winner Kingsfort.

Lot 54 Bay filly by Mizzen Mast - Balletomaine (Sadler’s Wells) Half-sister to Gonetrio (8 wins; £94,535). Dam winning own sister to Stakes placed and Stakes producers Iviza and Ivrea and half-sister to Gr.1 Oaks d’Italia winner Ivyanna.

Lot 89 Bay filly by Born To Sea - Chiarezza (Fantastic Light) Dam won at 2. Grandam a winner and dam of 3 winners from 3 runners.

From the family of Gr.1 performer Baya; dam of Stakes winners Birthstone (Gr.3 Prix d’Aumale) and Songcraft.

Lot 93 Brown filly by Excelebration - Classic Remark (Dr Fong) Half-sister to winners. Dam Classic Remark won LR Hoppings S. Grandam Claxon won 5 races, incl. Gr.2 Premio Lydia Tesio; Stakes producer. 3rd dam won Gr.3 Fred Darling S. From the family of leading 1st season sire Zoffany.

Lot 112 Bay filly by Galileo - Daneleta (Danehill) Half-sister to Gr.1 Dewhurst Stakes winner and sire Intense Focus.

Dam Daneleta was Stakes placed. Own sister to Group winner Danelissima (Gr.3 Noblesse S.). Grandam Zavaleta a dual Stakes winner.

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Lot 229 Bay filly by Azamour - Kincob (Kingmambo) Half-sister to 4 winners incl. Gemstone, (LR Silken Glider S; 2nd Gr.3 Lodge Park S). Dam half-sister to Gr.1 Irish 2000 Guineas winner Bachelor Duke.

Family of Nureyev and Northern Dancer.

Lot 27 Bay filly by Pivotal - Allannah Abu (Dubawi) 3rd foal: half-sister to 2 winners; their dam is a Stakes-placed winner of 3 races and half-sister to Gr.2 winner Kingston Mines. Grandam a half-sister to Last Second, Alleluia, Alouette (dam of Albanova and Alborada) and to the dam of Yesterday, Quarter Moon, etc.

Lot 234 Bay colt by Sepoy - Kournikova (Sportsworld) Half-brother to 5 winners, incl. Pearl of Africa, 5 wins, £124,553, incl.

LR Glencairn S, 2014; 2nd Gr.3 Dance Design S; 3rd Gr.2 Balanchine S, and Slight Advantage (LR winner). Their dam won 5 races in S Africa, incl.

Gr.1 Triple Tiara Fillies Guineas.

Lot 30 Bay colt by Lawman - Alleluia (Caerleon) Half-brother to 6 winners, incl. Allegretto (6 wins, £494,983, incl.

Gr.1 Prix Royal-Oak, Gr.2 Lancashire Oaks and Gr.2 Park Hill S; 3rd Gr.1 Yorkshire Oaks). Dam Gr.3 winner of 6 races; half-sister to Last Second and to the LR winning dam of Albanova and Alborada.

Lot 245 Chesnut filly by Sea The Stars - Lady Slippers (Royal Academy) 3rd foal. Dam was useful 2yo: full-sister to CD Europe (6 wins, incl.

Gr.3 Coventry S, Royal Ascot; 2nd Gr.2 Champagne S.), half-sister to the dam of Corsica, (Gr.3 Bahrain Trophy; Gr.1-placed) and to the dam of Iveagh Gardens, (Gr.3 Athasi S.)

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Lot 247 Bay colt by Big Bad Bob - Lamanka Lass (Woodman) Winner at 3. Half-brother to 7 winners incl. Dark Islander (5 wins and £144,970 incl. Gr.2 Oak Tree Derby in USA). Dam a half to 7 winners, incl.

Gr.3 winner Far Lane and My Personal Space, dam of Arod (Gr.2 Summer Mile; 2nd Gr.1 Sussex Stakes).

Lot 287 Bay filly by Redoute’s Choice - Minikin (Montjeu) 2nd foal of a winning half-sister to Steeler (£154,826 to date, won Gr.2 Royal Lodge S; 3rd Gr.1 Racing Post Trophy), and other Stakes-placed winners Secret Brief and Doggerbank.

Lot 288 Chesnut colt by Elusive Quality - Minute Limit (Pivotal) 2nd foal. Dam a winner 3 times and LR placed (£95,447).

Grandam a half-sister to 3 Stakes winners and 3 Stakes placed horses.

Lot 487 Bay colt by Lawman - Viz (Darshaan) Half-brother to Jt. Champion 2yo Filly in Ireland, Viztoria (Gr.2 Park Stakes and LR Waterford Testimonial Stakes). Dam a Stakes winner.

TATTERSALLS OCTOBER YEARLING SALE, BOOK 1 (6th-8th October) Lot 192 Grey colt by Dark Angel - Fair Sailing (Docksider) Half-brother to 2yo winners Montalcino (Gr.3 placed) and Windfast (4th Gr.3 Jersey S, Royal Ascot). Dam half sister to White Muzzle (£701,227, Gr.1 Italian Derby; a leading sire in Japan), Fair Question (Gr.2) and Elfaslah (SW and dam of Almutawakel, Gr.1 x 2).

Grandam Fair of The Furze, won Gr.2 Tattersalls Rogers Gold Cup. Lot 263 Bay colt by Lope De Vega - Kate The Great (Xaar) Half-brother to Eastern Impact (5 wins, incl. LR Queensferry S., 2015; 3rd Gr.1 July Cup) and Miss Katie Mae (2nd Gr.3 Anglesey S.).

Their dam Kate The Great won at 2, and is from the top-class family of Deep Impact, Jeremy and Wind in Her Hair.

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that she had already had enquiries regarding a private sale.

All six of the Frankels sold for sums ranging from €300,000 to €1.15 million. Ed Dunlop is to train the most expensive of them, a filly out of the lucrative Monceaux mare Platonic. The youngster’s half-sister Prudenzia has already produced Irish Oaks winner Chicquita, while another half-sister, Pacifique, is the dam of the record-breaking Dubawi colt. The immediate family received another update two days after her sale when yet another half-sister, Prudente, remained unbeaten when winning her second start next door on the racecourse at Deauville.

Ecurie des Monceaux only made its debut as a consignor at Arqana in 2009 but it has been swift to rise to the top and was leading vendor for the fourth consecutive year, with 27 yearlings sold for a whopping €12,157,000 and average price of €450,259. Not surprisingly, these included seven of the ten most expensive horses sold through the three sessions and four of the six Frankel yearlings.

Willie Browne will go down in history as the first pinhooker bold enough to buy a Frankel yearling to breeze after paying €350,000 for a colt out of a sister to the top-class sprinter Namid.

“His dam side is all speed,” said Browne of his new colt after hammer-fall. Recalling Frankel’s electrifying turn of foot from the gate

Lot 277 Bay filly by Invincible Spirit - Lady Angola (Lord At War) Half-sister to 5 winners incl. Duntle (5 wins incl. Gr.2 Duke of Cambridge S., also 2nd in Gr.1 Matron Stakes). Dam half-sister to Catumbella, dam of Honor In War (Gr.1 Turf Classic Stakes).

Lot 509 Bay colt by Nathaniel - Vassiana (Anabaa) Half-brother to 6 winners, incl. Girouette (£126,629, won Gr.3 Phoenix Sprint, Curragh and LR Sweet Mimosa S.) and Prince d’Alienor (2nd Gr.3 Prix Messidor).

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Lot 792 Chesnut filly by Kyllachy - Dusty Red (Teofilo) 1st foal. Dam a half to Spotlight (Gr.2 Lake Placid Handicap) and Tyranny, dual-winning dam of leading first season sire and 3-time Gr.1 winner Zoffany, and Wilshire Boulevard (Gr.3 Anglesey Stakes).

Grandam Dust Dancer a Gr.3 winner.

Lot 1302 Bay colt by Casamento - Sindiyma (Kalanisi) Dam a winner. Own sister to Sindirana (LR Lingfield Oaks Trial); dam of winners incl. Sinkal (3rd LR Nijinsky Stakes).

From the family of Sinndar (Champion 3yo in Europe, 4 x Gr.1 winner incl. Epsom Derby Stakes); sire.

Lot 1428 Grey filly by Mastercraftsman - Vizean (Medicean) 2nd foal. Grandam Viz a LR winner; Dam of Viztoria, Jt. Champion 2yo Filly in Ireland, (Gr.2 Park Stakes & Gr.3 Athasi Stakes). From the family of Gr.1 winners Zilzal, Awe Inspiring, and Polish Precendent.

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Lot 572 Bay colt by Lawman - All Hallows (Dalakhani) 2nd foal. Dam a half-sister to Allegretto (£494,982, won Gr.1 Prix Royal-Oak, also 2nd Gr.1 Yorkshire Oaks). From the prolific Stakes producing family of Alruccaba, grandam of Gr.1 winners Alborada, Albanova, Aussie Rules and Quarter Moon.

Alice Kavanagh shows off Richard Hughes’s first yearling buy

when making all to win the 2,000 Guineas, one could say the same about the sire.

Invincible Spirit remains one of the most rock-solid stallions, both on the racecourse and in the sales ring, and he too featured prominently among the leading lights at Arqana, his expensive offerings including a half-brother to Group 1 winners Ectot and Most Improved. He will race for Sheikh Hamdan after being bought for €700,000.

The start of the yearling sales is a nervous time for stallion masters with first-season sires but there were encouraging glimpses for a number of freshmen, with a colt by Coolmore’s Requinto selling from Coulonces Consignment for €320,000, while Haras du Logis offered a son of its young resident Rio De La Plata which fetched €250,000.

The La Motteraye-consigned filly by Born To Sea also found favour when selling to Nicolas de Watrigant for €260,000.

Shy of the top lots but notable as the first purchase of the champion jockey-turned-fledling trainer Richard Hughes was a Myboycharlie colt bought by Badgers Bloodstock from the Haras d’Omméel draft for €90,000. The half-brother to French Group 3 winner My Name Is Bond was bred by Lord Huntingdon from his Makbul mare Lady Oriande, who has a Redoute’s Choice filly foal at foot.

Arqana, which continues to be innovative in its marketing of its flagship August Sale, can reflect on a job well done, with not only a record top price but also record turnover of just over €43m – an improvement of 9% on last year. The average price rose by 10% to

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The O’Brien family inspecting yearlings with David Wachman and John Magnier

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Jean-Claude Rouget with Gwen Monneraye and Lucie Lamotte of La Motteraye

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€162,541 – the first time it has ever exceeded €150,000 – and the median was also up at €95,000. The only area which saw a decline was the clearance rate of 78%, which fell three points from the 2014 high of 81%.

Arqana V2 Sales Top lots Sex/Breeding

Consignor

Vendor

C Kendargent-Ideechic

Omméel

Alain Decrion

150,000

F Wootton Bassett-Darkova

Etreham

Jean-Claude Rouget

110,000

Arqana V2 Sale

C Zoffany-Silver Face

Hotellerie

Meridian International

100,000

C Kendargent-Pestagua

Scheldt Roberto

Cocheteux

95,000

Introduced in 2013 to offer a more precocious type of yearling to the fray at Deauville in August – and perhaps in response to the rising profile of the September Sale at Osarus – the V2 Sale didn’t repeat the dizzy heights of 2014 but still cleared more than €3m for 90 horses sold the day after the August Sale ended.

A clearance rate of 75% would look respectable at most sales but fell markedly short of last year’s extraordinary 91%. Though the average fell slightly to €33,922, the level of consistency in the market was highlighted by an improved median price of €30,000 (from €28,000), and a new record price for the young sale was set at €150,000.

That sum was given for a son of Haras de Colleville’s great success story, Kendargent, for the first foal of the multiple-winning juvenile Ideechic. The colt was consigned by Hubert Honoré’s Haras d’Omméel and was one of three V2 yearlings to return a six-figure sum, along with a filly by Wootton Bassett, who will join Jean-Claude Rouget’s Pau stable after the trainer went to €110,000 to buy her. He already trains her full-brother, Almanzor, who won on his debut at La Teste de Buch after the publication of the catalogue.

The final member of the trio was a colt by this season’s leading first-season sire Zoffany, bred by Jean-Pierre and Guillaume Garcon, who sold for €100,000 to Ghislain Bozo of Meridian International.

C Siyouni-Princess Roseburg

Quesnay

Carlos & Yann Lerner

82,000

C Dark Angel-Atullia

Cadran

Powerstown Stud

70,000

F Myboycharlie-Danzigs Grandchild

Grandcamp

Rupert Pritchard-Gordon

65,000

F Myboycharlie-Synergy Logis

Saint-Germain

Sylvain Vidal

65,000

C Kendargent-La Cibeles

Reboursiere et de Montaigu

Grupo CI-TBP

62,000

F Zafeen-Bainorama

Quesnay

Cocheese Bloodstock

55,000

Tattersalls Ireland August Sale Falls in all figures at this three-day sale of jumping stores suggests a little cooling in the engine room that has been providing owners and trainers with hurdlers, chasers and pointto-pointers.

A drop in the clearance rate, from 77% to 69%, added weight to that theory, although Tattersalls Ireland increased its premier store auction, June’s Derby Sale, to three days, and some felt that may have taken trade from this lesser event, which itself was increased by a session 12 months’ earlier.

At this year’s event a total of 586 horses were catalogued, 36 fewer than in 2014, but this 6% reduction was not the sole reason for a 22% drop in turnover. The average and median prices went down by 6% and 7%, but given that the final day consisted of lesser THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

Price (€)

Comparative figures Year

Offered

Sold

%

Agg (€)

Avg (€)

Mdn(€)

Top Price (€)

2015

120

90

75

3,053,000

33,922

30,000

150,000

2014

113

103

91

3,746,000

36,369

28,000

90,000

2013

108

81

75

2,228,000

27,506

20,000

115,000

horses (and a top lot of just €20,000) which pulled those figures down, those falls were not significant.

The most influential buyer at the top of the market – which was dominated by three-yearolds – was agent Gerry Griffin, acting for Cumbrian trainer Nicky Richards. They secured the sale-topper, a son of Arctic Tack Stud’s Monsun stallion Arcadio, and added a Dai Jin gelding to their haul, but the vendor with most to smile about was John Bleahen of Lakefield Farm.

He sold the top lot at the Derby Sale, a Robin Des Champs gelding who made

€320,000, and almost notched the number one slot at this auction, trading a full-brother to Grand National winner Ballabriggs for €70,000 to Highflyer Bloodstock. Like Ballabriggs, he will carry the colours of Trevor Hemmings.

Tattersalls Ireland found a few more lots for the brief in-training section of the sale, offering 23 horses, almost double last year’s 12, and clearing 14 for €260,000 at an average of €18,561. Fledgling Herefordshire trainer Kerry Lee took the top one in this section, Matchaway, who had been placed in two bumpers.

Tattersalls Ireland August Sale Top lots Sex/Breeding

Vendor

C Arcadio-Carryonharriet

Peter Nolan B/s

Price (€) 75,000

Buyer

G Presenting-Papoose

Lakefield Farm

70,000

Highflyer B/s

G Presenting-Alleygrove Lass

Ballincurrig House Stud

50,000

Aiden Murphy

Gerry Griffin

G Dai Jin-Natalis (Law Society)

Galbertstown Stud

50,000

Gerry Griffin

G Gold Well-Strong Irish

Mount Brown Farm

46,000

Dick Frisby

G King´s Theatre-Lively Lass

Mrs M. Brophy 4

46,000

Innisfree Farm

C Beneficial-Doyle´s Pride

Pat Doyle

45,000

Mags O’Toole

G Flemensfirth-Mandys Native

Clifton Farm

40,000

Tom Lacey

G Martaline-Quezac Du Boulay

Brown Island Stables

40,000

Tom Malone

G Matchaway Milan-Hatch Away

Doninga Stables

39,000

Kerry Lee

Five-year tale Year

Sold

Agg (€)

Avg (€)

Mdn (€)

Top Price (€)

2015

401

3,697,400

9,220

5,700

75,000

2014

481

4,752,000

9,879

6,000

80,000

2013

365

2,731,950

7,485

4,800

80,000

2012

327

1,897,400

5,802

3,750

52,000

2011

348

1,706,550

4,904

2,800

44,000

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CAULFIELD FILES ANDREW CAULFIELD REPORTS ON THE BLOODSTOCK WORLD

A marathon, not a sprint Industry shouldn’t be too hasty to judge a stallion in his early years at stud

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hen it comes to the process of stallions establishing themselves, it would be nice to be able to say that it is not a sprint, but a marathon.

There is some evidence to support the view that it isn’t an outright sprint. Back in 2005, Galileo stumbled out of the starting blocks to finish a moderate seventh in the dash for firstcrop sire honours. Then there was a repeat performer three years ago, when Duke Of Marmalade virtually fell flat on his face before he had even found his stride. He too finished only seventh, with eighth place going to Haatef and ninth to Hannouma.

Fast forward to August 1, 2015 and you’ll find Galileo in his customary position at the top of the Anglo-Irish stallion table, while Duke Of Marmalade ranked a highly respectable tenth on the European list, with five Group winners and prize-money equivalent to nearly £1.8 million.

Unfortunately for Duke Of Marmalade’s European admirers, this surge came too late and he is now in his second season in South Africa.

So, while a slow start is far from insuperable, the breeding industry’s commercial sector allows very little time for a stallion to stage a recovery.

In other words, the process has much more in common with a 400m race than a marathon. To stretch the metaphor further, Christine Ohurugu’s admirers will know that the fast starters – the stallions who shine with their quick-maturing two-year-olds – can often be overhauled when it truly matters by their opponents who need a bit more time and distance.

This raises the question of which of last year’s freshman sires are maintaining their progress.

Considering that Lope de Vega’s Timeform rating soared from 108 at two to 125 at three, there appeared to be every reason for thinking that this son of Shamardal would build on his very bright start. I think it is fair to say that he has, but so far without hitting the headlines. He now has five first-crop sons with Racing Post ratings between 111 and 119. Of these his Dewhurst Stakes winner Belardo was a respectable fourth to Gleneagles in the Irish 2,000 Guineas, a race which saw Endless Drama, another Lope de Vega colt, finish second.

We have also seen Consort finish third to Gleneagles in the St James’s Palace Stakes, after winning his first two starts, and Ride Like The Wind defeat the future French 2,000 Guineas

Lope de Vega already has five first-crop Group winners and that figure should rise

“Breeders who used Showcasing at £15,000 should feel they have invested wisely”

winner Make Believe in the Group 3 Prix Djebel.

That Djebel victory made Ride Like The Wind the fifth Group winner from a first crop numbering 101, following Burnt Sugar, Hero Look, Belardo and Royal Razalma. This is a fine achievement on Lope de Vega’s behalf, especially when that total can be expected to rise. It is worth pointing out, though, that the Ballylinch stallion can’t expect as much help from his second crop, as it numbers 78 foals – 23 fewer than its predecessor. That said, this second crop has already been represented by Elegant Supermodel, a fine third to Illuminate in the Group 3 Albany Stakes after winning her first two starts in France. Don’t forget either that Lope de Vega’s run of Group successes in 2014 didn’t start until September 6.

One stallion I have been tracking closely is Oasis Dream’s son Showcasing. I must admit

that I once fostered hopes that he would follow in his sire’s footsteps by developing into a champion sprinter. These hopes were raised by his excellent victory in the Gimcrack, in which he covered the six furlongs in a very swift 1:09.28, and his very encouraging return to action at three, when he accounted for several accomplished older sprinters in finishing a close second in the Group 2 Duke of York Stakes.

This Duke of York effort was somewhat reminiscent of Oasis Dream’s return to action at three, but whereas Oasis Dream benefited from his run, Showcasing went backwards.

So would his progeny train on? Well some of them certainly have, a prime example being his daughter Prize Exhibit. A dual winner in England at two, Prize Exhibit remained in the US after finishing a respectable fourth in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf. She has progressed so well that she collected the Grade 3 Senorita Stakes on her 14th start and the Grade 2 San Clemente Handicap on her 15th.

That gives Showcasing three Group/Graded winners from a first crop of 80, sired at a fee of £5,000.

Two others that have definitely trained on are the Irish-trained Sacrificial and the Frenchtrained Projected. Sacrificial had to be considered somewhat unlucky in the valuable Britannia Stakes at Royal Ascot, when he easily accounted for his 16 rivals on the stands’ side but was third overall, but he gained THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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compensation at Galway. Projected, for his part, has gone close to winning all four of his starts over Chantilly’s Polytrack.

Showcasing was available for even less in his second season, but his second crop is already producing an encouraging flow of juvenile winners, such as the Listed winner Tasleet, second to Shalaa in the Group 2 Richmond Stakes and winner of a valuable sales race at York in August. Muhadathat, another member of this crop, also ran well at Goodwood, taking fourth in the Group 3 Molecomb Stakes.

Breeders who patronised Showcasing at his increased fee of £15,000 in 2015 should therefore feel that they have invested wisely.

Another grandson of Green Desert who has been acquitting himself well is Paco Boy. As a Group 1 winner at three, four and five, Paco Boy is well qualified to sire durable performers, not just speedy two-year-olds. Not that he did at all badly with his first juveniles. Seven of them earned black type in 2014, with Beacon and Smaih leading the way thanks to their respective victories in the Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes

and Group 3 Horris Hill Stakes. Paco Boy has demonstrated that he can sire a different type from these two thanks to his son Peacock, whose Listed win over a mile and a quarter was sandwiched between creditable seconds to Golden Horn and Time Test.

The potential star of the Paco Boy show has to be Galileo Gold, who became his sire’s third Group winner when he took the Vintage Stakes.

That’s a pleasing start for a stallion who stood his first season at £8,500 and his second at £8,000.

“There is another role in which I can envisage him doing very well – as a sire of broodmares.”

That’s a line which appeared in this column in the October 2014 issue, when I commented on the promise being shown by Dubai Destination’s broodmare daughters, even though Dubai Destination himself had recently completed his fifth season at the jumpingoriented Glenview Stud.

Little did I imagine that this tall Kingmambo horse, winner of the Group 1 Queen Anne Stakes in 2003, would do so well in the ensuing months that he started August 2015 in top position on the Anglo-Irish broodmare sires’ table. He achieved this feat by siring the dams of both of Britain’s richest mile-and-ahalf events, with Fleche d’Or being the dam of Derby winner Golden Horn and Ever Rigg the dam of King George hero Postponed.

I mentioned both these mares in trying to explain Dubai Destination’s potential in this sphere: “It is important to remember that any high-priced stallion – even the ones which disappoint – will be sent mares with illustrious backgrounds. So, even if his daughters fail to shine on the track, many will have the depth of pedigree to succeed as broodmares.

“Dubai Destination’s eldest daughters are nine in 2014, so they are at an early stage of their careers, but they pulled off a Group race double at York’s Ebor meeting. Firstly his daughter Endless Love enjoyed Group 3 success via her son Dutch Connection in the Acomb Stakes. The next to strike was Ever Rigg, who appears to have produced a highclass prospect in the shape of Postponed, winner of the Group 2 Great Voltigeur Stakes.

Earlier in the year we had seen the UAE 1,000 Guineas and Oaks fall to Ihtimal, a Shamardal filly out of Dubai Destination’s daughter Eastern Joy. Another to get into the act is Fleche d’Or, dam of the Listed-winning Champs Elysees filly Eastern Belle.”

In addition to the 2015 exploits of Golden Horn and Postponed, Dutch Connection has

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Destination top of the broodmare sire ranks

Postponed is one of two 2015 Group 1 winners out of a Dubai Destination mare

added the Group 3 Jersey Stakes and a fourth Group winner emerged when Kachy, a Kyllachy colt out of Dubai Bounty, won the Group 3 Molecomb Stakes.

Dubai Destination’s fall from grace as a Flat stallion was fairly rapid, to the extent that his fee in 2009, in his sixth season, was down to £7,000. However, he had spent his first season at £25,000, his next three at £20,000 and his fifth at £15,000, so it is fair to expect some good broodmares to emerge from those first crops. None of the mares involved in Dubai Destination’s good run in 2014 had earned black type but two of them came from his first crop and the other two from his second. So does Kachy’s dam Dubai Bounty conform to this pattern? She comes from Dubai Destination’s third crop and she is another who failed to earn black type, though she did win twice at up to a mile and a half.

While on the topic of the year’s leading broodmare sires, Dubai Destination is among some distinguished company. Danehill ranked second at the start of August, with Sadler’s Wells in third place, some 34 years after his birth. Bearing in mind that Sadler’s Wells achieved seven consecutive broodmare sire

championships, it comes as no surprise that the next in line are Sadler’s Wells’s sons Montjeu and Galileo.

Although Montjeu was two years Galileo’s senior, he retired to stud only one year before Galileo, so their careers as broodmare sires are at a similar stage. Montjeu’s daughters now have their first Classic winner in the shape of 1,000 Guineas winner Legatissimo, but Galileo is one ahead, having added the 2015 Oaks winner Qualify to his 2014 2,000 Guineas winner Night Of Thunder.

Galileo is more readily associated with stamina but his daughters are enjoying plenty of success with their 2015 juveniles, the prime example being Vintage Stakes winner Galileo Gold, by Paco Boy. There are also winners by Fastnet Rock (Qualify’s brother Shogun and the Group-placed Turret Rocks), Canford Cliffs (including the Ascot debut winner Wall Of Fire), Acclamation, Exceed And Excel, Holy Roman Emperor and Showcasing. These fast stallions have clearly succeeded in injecting some speed. But speed may not be essential, as was demonstrated by the Wertheimer brothers’ Dalakhani filly Alakhana, who won over seven furlongs on debut.

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The potential of appearance money Richard Wayman says that racecourses will seek new ways to compete for runners in future The early publication of the 2016 fixture list in August was excellent news for owners.

Historically the fixture list was published in July but, as funding became increasingly uncertain, the following year’s fixtures have not been unveiled before October. This has had inevitable consequences for the publication of the first quarter’s Programme Book, with owners and trainers often unable to make running plans much before Christmas.

The 2016 fixture list includes 1,482 fixtures, an increase of 11 on this year. I know from discussions with ROA members the majority view is that we stage too much racing. There is also an understanding, however, that fixtures are the key driver for stimulating many of the sport’s revenues. A significant reduction of race meetings would ultimately impact the returns available to owners, which, as we know all too well, are nowhere close to where they need to be.

Maintaining the current volume of fixtures at a time of declining horse numbers has inevitably put pressure on race competitiveness. It was against this backdrop that the BHA, with industry support, introduced a number of initiatives at the beginning of the year to improve

field sizes. Reviewing data for the first seven months of the year, it seems fair to say the situation is stabilising. Compared with the same period in 2014, the percentage of races with fewer than eight runners has declined from 40% to 39% on the Flat, and from 36% to 34% over hurdles. Chases, however, continue to go the wrong way with 61% of races falling short of a field of eight compared with 59% in 2014.

The result is that racecourses are increasingly competing with each other for runners. In last

“This initiative would influence owners’ plans, particularly at grassroots level”

month’s Thoroughbred Owner & Breeder, we included a Racecourse Performance Table which confirmed how much of their own money racecourses invested in prize-money during the first half of this year. In all but six cases, racecourses had increased their average contribution at each fixture compared with the same period in 2014.

However, not all owners benefit from extra prizemoney and it is concerning that 58% of the

horses that raced in Britain in 2014 won less than £2,500. Indeed, over a quarter collected absolutely nothing.

Owners are also only too aware that the costs of sending a horse to the racecourse are on the rise. By the time you have paid transport costs, staff expenses, entry fees, entry processing fees and riding fees, the total outlay is almost always a very significant one.

Against this backdrop of growing competition for runners, prize-money that the vast majority see little of and increasing costs, I am more than a little surprised that racecourses haven’t considered the payment of appearance money to encourage owners to send horses to their track.

Around this time last year Musselburgh, a course renowned for going the extra mile to attract runners, announced a scheme to pay a minimum of £500 to the owners of all horses who contested chases at particular fixtures.

Although there are many factors taken into account when deciding where to run a horse, I am convinced initiatives such as this would influence owners’ plans, particularly at grassroots level.

As with any business, it is perfectly rational that the underlying economics determines how racecourses run their operations. It is surely only a matter of time until this commercial approach extends to their efforts to encourage owners to choose their racecourse over another.

A successful year of overseas racing action The ROA’s gratitude goes to our counterparts at France Galop and the Irish Racehorse Owners Association for hosting ROA members in a reciprocal arrangement at a number of top racing events this year.

The arrangement has enabled each association’s members the option of privileged access at the Cheltenham Festival, Punchestown festival, Irish 2,000 Guineas and Irish Derby festival at the Curragh, Prix du Jockey-Club at Chantilly, Galway festival and Deauville’s ever-popular August festival.

Member Ken Meredith reported from his visit to Deauville: “My grandson and I enjoyed two delightful days at Deauville races. Although we have only a very basic knowledge of French, we were made very welcome. The Jardin des Proprietaires is in an excellent location and the food and service was wonderful.”

Feedback from members has been very positive from each of the racedays and we very much hope to build on our international exchange arrangements for members in the future.

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The ‘excellent’ Jardin des Proprietaires facility at Deauville

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The American sales house will give purchasers the option of paying for a blood test, to be taken up at hammer fall

New Condition of Sale for Keeneland buyers With the Keeneland Sales taking place in September, the US sales house has announced a new Condition of Sale that enables buyers of yearlings and horses in training that are being exported to Britain within 60 days of purchase to be tested for anabolic steroids and other substances prohibited by the BHA. If the Condition of Sale is taken up by the buyer, which must be done at hammer fall, Keeneland will arrange for a blood sample to be taken by a vet immediately after purchase and prior to the horse

leaving the sales ground.

The sample will be tested at the LGC laboratory in Newmarket, which conducts all of the BHA’s sample analysis, and if it is positive for anabolic steroids, or another prohibited substance, the buyer has the right, within 24 hours of notification, to return the horse under the Conditions of Sale.

The sales testing provides confidence to purchasers that the horse can be imported to be trained and raced in Britain. It should be stressed, however, that blood testing

does not provide a guarantee that anabolic steroids have never been administered.

Owners should therefore be aware that although a subsequent finding of historic administration in a horse purchased from Keeneland would not enable the BHA to take action against any person who was not responsible at the time, a horse may be stood down from training for a period of 12 months from administration (not from the time it is discovered).

It should also be noted that purchasers will be responsible for the costs of testing.

Book now for the ROA Awards

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to attend the evening to book early to avoid disappointment.

Voting details for each horse category will be circulated to members later in the year.

On the evening an award will also be made to the large and small racecourses deemed to provide owners with the best raceday experience.

Charity fundraising on the evening will benefit Racing Welfare, through the inclusion of owners’ colours in the Awards brochure and a silent auction.

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The ROA Horseracing Awards evening is a highlight of racing’s social calendar, celebrating the champions of the Flat and jump seasons, as voted for by ROA members.

Bookings are now open for the 34th Awards, sponsored by Weatherbys Bank, to be held on Thursday, December 3 at the InterContinental, Park Lane, London.

Tickets are priced at £179 per person for the stylish black-tie event, which includes a champagne reception and three-course dinner with half a bottle of wine. Tables of ten are available at the discounted rate of £1,550.

Places will be strictly limited to 500 guests, so we would ask members wishing

Connections of Sire de Grugy enjoy their night in the sun at the 2014 ROA Horseracing Awards

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Whirlwind start to graduate placement Charles Harris reflects on his first month with the ROA After graduating from Newcastle University with a Geography degree, I was very fortunate to enrol on the well-regarded BHA Graduate Scheme, whose alumni include Simon Clare of Coral and ROA Chief Executive Richard Wayman. My previous practical experience within the industry involved shadowing trainers and more recently riding out for jumps handler Harry Whittington in Lambourn.

I also worked alongside James Armstrong, Clerk of the Course at Newcastle, during my second year of university. All this has given me a good grounding in the different sectors of the horseracing industry; however, I am keen to learn much more.

I have been a horseracing fanatic all my life. This stems from a very early age, namely family outings to point-to-point meetings in Pembrokeshire and West Wales, and reading of the Racing Post from cover to cover. This has evolved to attending as many races and racecourses as my spare time will allow!

From this my love of the sport has blossomed and I have followed racing and racing form extremely closely – some would say fanatically – without missing a beat. It meant that racing in Argentina and Chile while on my gap year were an absolute must! However, I’m not just a fan of horseracing, I’m also a very keen golfer and enjoy playing a lot of sports including cricket, hockey and real tennis.

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Working at the Racehorse Owners Association has been a fantastic experience.

I started with a two-week induction course in Newmarket, which included a number of high-profile guest speakers from the industry and trips to Dalham Hall Stud and the Equine Hospital.

This was followed by an eight-week placement at the ROA offices in High Holborn in central London, where I have been given the opportunity to view horseracing from a different perspective, which places an emphasis on the importance of the owner.

I have been thrown in at the deep end, which is an exciting challenge. On my second day, I was allowed to interview a racecourse director about owners’ raceday experiences. This gave me the opportunity to ask questions that I had formed following my visit to the track.

Having attended our members’ facility at York’s Ebor meeting in August, I have plenty of other racecourse visits to look foward to – better than being stuck in the office on a summer’s afternoon! These visits are extremely important, as the ROA invests a lot of resources in improving the raceday experience for owners. These racecourse visits allow face-to face interaction with our members, who feel that they can talk about their concerns with ease.

Since starting at the ROA, I have acquired a much better understanding of the range of

benefits available to members. However, racehorse owners rightly want – and deserve – more, with the old chestnuts of inadequate racecourse facilities and levels of prizemoney improved and addressed. I have witnessed at first hand the efforts ROA staff go to in order to try and achieve these goals.

I am lucky to be working with a dedicated team at the ROA, who have given me an array of interesting tasks to put my mind to.

I’m now helping to co-ordinate the ROA Awards evening on December 3 – put the date in your diary for what I am told is the social highlight of the racing year!

The latest news from the UK’s racecourses

Drainage improvement works at Uttoxeter and Market Rasen Following Uttoxeter’s final summer meeting in July, Arena Racing Company began £70,000 worth of drainage improvement works at the Midlands track, which should be completed in time for the meeting on September 9.

As part of the work, the two-mile chute and five other areas of the chase and hurdle course will receive drainage treatment in an effort to improve the consistency of the going

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and minimise the risk of abandonment at times of high rainfall.

Market Rasen is also currently undertaking a significant drainage project in its home straight. Low lying areas of that section of the track can end up with slower ground than elsewhere and a programme is being completed with a view to alleviating this issue. All-hurdles cards were staged as the work was undertaken.

Feedback winner The ROA Raceday Committee would like to thank all ROA members who have been relaying their raceday experiences via the online feedback form. Please keep the responses coming as we shall soon be debating the merits of all 59 courses with respect to the Gold Standard Awards. The latest monthly prize draw winner of £50 John Lewis vouchers, selected from all those that left feedback in July, is Robert Capstick, who has horses in training with Philip Kirby.

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R O A O F F I C I A L C H A R I T Y PA R T N E R

Do your bit for the stable staff housing survey It has been long acknowledged that the lack of good quality affordable housing is a chief concern for the racing industry. The 2004 Donoughue Report noted that the lack of available accommodation for stable staff was a “major problem” and was a key factor in the ability to attract and retain staff. It concluded that more needed to be done to increase the supply of affordable accommodation for racing’s workforce.

A subsequent review undertaken by the BHA in 2013 identified that housing persists as a key issue for the industry, with 69% of respondents highlighting that the lack of affordable housing was a major welfare issue for staff. These findings are reflected in Racing Welfare’s day-to-day work, with housing being the most common issue across the country.

Racing Homes, Racing Welfare’s own housing authority, has commissioned Cambridge University’s Centre for Housing

Racing Welfare: in the front line when it comes to stable staff housing

and Planning Research (CCHPR) to conduct a national housing needs survey. The aim of the research is to identify the actual levels of welfare-driven housing requirements currently being experienced within the racing industry.

Racing Homes’ Head of Housing, Keith Bovill, explained: “Since the Donoughue Report in 2004, Racing Welfare has delivered an additional 36 units of

accommodation for racing staff, including young person’s schemes in Lambourn, Middleham and Malton.

“The results of this national housing needs survey will be of great importance, not only in informing our own internal housing strategy but also serving as a tool to open up meaningful dialogue in how best to address this wider racing-industry issue.”

With the landscape of housing availability across the country changing, the results of the survey will present a clear picture of how this is affecting the housing needs of the racing industry.

The majority of the funding for this research project is being provided by the Racing Foundation, and the project has encouraged widespread involvement and support from key industry stakeholders.

This is a national survey and Racing Welfare is encouraging anyone who currently works in, or is retired from the industry, to participate. The survey can be completed online at the Racing Welfare website. Those that do not have access to a computer can contact their nearest Racing Welfare office to fill in the survey over the telephone or in person.

Since December 2014 extra prize-money has been paid from the Additional Voluntary Contribution Fund.

It is anticipated that the fund, into which Betfred, Coral, Ladbrokes and William Hill all contribute, will pay out around £4 million by the end of 2015, with the cash being utilised to extend the provision of prize-money in middle and lower tier races.

This scheme has already paid out over £2 million, with eligible Class 2 races receiving prize-money to eighth place, and eligible Class 3-6 races to sixth place.

Payments cover both Flat and jump racing, with the maximum amount that can be received varying based on the quality of the race, as outlined below. Information on whether a race is eligible can be found in the race conditions, which owners can access via the Racing Admin website or, on raceday, can be found at the back of the racecard.

Class 2 3 4 5 6

Payment (£) 400 350 300 250 200

Places 8 6 6 6 6

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More than £2 million paid out in additional prize-money

It is worth riding out down to eighth place in Class 2 races, thanks to the AVC Fund

These payments will not be paid on top of existing prize-money where the place prizemoney is already equal to or above the payment level shown above, but will be used to ensure that these minimum levels are reached.

So, for example, every horse finishing eighth in a Class 2 race will receive at least £400 prize-money, and every horse finishing sixth in a Class 6 race will receive at least

£200. On owners’ bank statements these payments will appear as ‘prize-money top up’.

Owners should note that payments received through the AVC Fund are subject to the same deductions as all other prizemoney. In Flat races owners will receive 80% of any amount due and in jump races this falls to 78.25%. The remainder is split between the trainer, rider, the stable and a number of industry causes.

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MAGICAL MOMENTS with ROA member Keith Trowbridge

Keith Trowbridge (right) and happy Kachy colleagues, from left, Stephen Mound, David Lowe and Russell Jones, at Goodwood

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eith Trowbridge could quite easily not have been an owner with Tom Dascombe, but the old saying ‘all’s well that ends well’ is applicable in their case, with Kachy the latest horse linking owner and trainer.

He’s a very promising one, too, having won both starts at the time of writing, the second of which was the Group 3 Molecomb at Goodwood.

Betting was the catalyst for Trowbridge coming to own horses, the first of which provided one of his magical moments in racing.

He says: “When I gave up the fags about 13 years ago I promised myself the leg of a horse as a means of staying off them. It worked, and me and a couple of friends bought Red Ruffles with Noel Chance. It won first time out in a Newbury bumper at 20-1.

“At the time this experience was on a par with my three wonderful kids being born. It was magical. We had a lot of fun with Ruffles and went on to buy two more jumpers with Noel, and they all won.”

Trowbridge continues: “I had a particularly good year on the gambling front in 2008 and decided to buy a filly with the profits in the hope I could win a race and subsequently breed from her, so I set about researching bloodstock agents.

“I liked the look of David Redvers and asked his advice. He was brilliant and invited me to Doncaster Sales where, after a lot of searching, we bought a fine-looking filly by Starcraft. I named her Don’t Tell Mary, as I spent a bit more than my wife would have approved of.

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“I’d already phoned two up-and-coming Lambourn trainers to see if they would be interested in a new owner. I left messages but neither phoned back. I phoned one of them a second time but, again, he ignored me.

“It was only on my way home from the sale that the one I’d phoned twice phoned me, not because of my call but because he happened to be the under-bidder and wanted to train the horse. What a cheek! His name was Tom

“When I gave up the

fags I promised myself the leg of a horse as a means of staying off them. It worked” Dascombe and I gave him short shrift, but I did agree to look round his yard the following week and eventually agreed to put the filly with him, having made him sweat a bit.”

Like Kachy, Don’t Tell Mary won her first two races, including the Hilary Needler, but what was a big deal for Trowbridge didn’t turn out quite as he hoped.

He recalls: “She was ante-post favourite for the Queen Mary. That was a big moment for me as Royal Ascot had always been my favourite

Flat meeting. But sadly she was injured during the race and was never quite the same after.

“I’m now breeding from her. I keep her with David at Tweenhills. She has a foal by Harbour Watch and is in foal to Bated Breath.”

Explaining the Kachy connection, which he shares with fellow ROA members David Lowe, Russell Jones and Stephen Mound, Trowbridge says: “Tom and Ed Sackville purchase 30-40 yearlings each year and they’re offered to owners in the yard. I noticed some of the best two-yearolds were often the last to be sold, in April or even May. “I said to Tom and [yard owner] Michael Owen when we were in Dubai for Brown Panther’s run I might be interested in the leg of one that hasn’t sold. It was really hard to be so patient as I’d planned this in my head since before Christmas. Eventually Tom phoned towards the end of April and said they were doing a deal on the last one to be sold. That was enough for me. It turned out to be Kachy.”

Owning two-year-olds, you sense, suits Trowbridge, whose favourite race is the Coventry and who when asked for the best and worse things about having horses, replies: “The best thing is the dream your horse could be anything. The worst is that at any time they’re very susceptible to serious injury, and those dreams can disappear in an instant.”

There is nothing head-in-clouds about his profession – “my lovely wife Mary and I are both nurses and run our own successful healthcare business” – but that’s the thing about owning racehorses. They can take you to a happy place.

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Horse welfare case in France Owners are advised the BHA has received intelligence regarding Nicola Elstow, in connection with the welfare of mares exported to France.

Elstow, 45, of Salisbury, was convicted of three counts of failing to ensure that an animal’s welfare needs had been met. She was banned by the RSPCA from keeping horses for five years in 2013.

The intelligence suggests that Elstow is now living in Domeyrot, France and may be going by the name of Nicola Brow. She is exporting British-registered mares and breeding from them in France.

Many of the mares are reportedly in very poor shape.

Equine Rescue France have attempted to prevent this from taking place but are powerless as Elstow has an export licence. Given Elstow’s current ban from keeping horses and the welfare issues that led to the ban, we are passing on this information in order to prevent any horses from being exported where they may potentially be kept in poor conditions and become welfare concerns.

If you have any information regarding Elstow and her operation, please contact the BHA on 020 7152 0170.

New owners up in July July saw an increase of 32% year-on-year on the number of newly-registering owners, with 126 new owners registered this July, against 95 last July. In the year to date, 540 new owners have registered.

This compares to 505 in the same period last year, an increase of almost 7% over the first seven months of the year.

Free UK admission Members are reminded that details of the ROA’s free admission schemes can be found on the ROA website. Members who receive ROA email bulletins are sent an email each month with a reminder of the fixtures that apply to them. To join our ebulletin list, email info@roa.co.uk SIS owner-sponsorship scheme The next SIS owner-sponsorship scheme, which lasts 12 months, starts on September 1. The scheme is open to horses owned by ROA members, enabling owners to register for and reclaim VAT on ownership costs. Full details of the benefits of the scheme can be found on the ROA website or by contacting Sarah Holton in the ROA office on 020 7152 0200 or by email to sholton@roa.co.uk

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Betfair Newmarket Open Weekend The weekend of September 19-20 will see Flat racing’s headquarters welcome visitors to the Betfair Newmarket Open Weekend. Previously a one-day event, it has been extended to promote Newmarket and horseracing and now includes a food and drink festival.

Warren Hill’s famous gallops will welcome visitors on Saturday morning, with coaches leaving Tattersalls between 9am and 11am. An array of equine sites including the British Racing School, Newmarket Equine Hospital and National Stud are also open to visitors on both days, and there will be a demonstration from horse whisperer Gary Witheford. During the afternoon, there is racing on the Rowley Mile.

Sunday will see a host of trainers opening their doors between 9am and 12.30pm. These include Luca Cumani, Hugo Palmer, Saeed bin Suroor, Marco Botti and Charlie Appleby.

The weekend will raise funds for three local causes: Racing Welfare, the National Horseracing Museum and Magpas, an

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Luca Cumani: opening his stable

emergency medical charity.

Full details and ticket information can be found at newmarketopenweekend.co.uk

Review and re-writing of ROA Articles At this year’s Annual General Meeting, it was announced the ROA would undertake a detailed review and re-writing of its Articles of Association, primarily to ensure there is no divergence between the custom and practice that has evolved over the years and the wording of the Articles.

A small working group comprising Council representatives and ROA members has been put

together to review the current document, which can be seen in the ‘About us’ section on the ROA website. Any other ROA members wishing to contribute are invited to put their views in writing to the Chief Executive. It is the intention that once this exercise has been completed an Extraordinary General Meeting will be called for later in the year, when the re-written Articles will be put before the membership for approval.

Diary dates and reminders SEPTEMBER 16

OCTOBER 29

Visit to Banstead Manor Stud

Owners Jackpot at Stratford

Member visit to Prince Khalid Abdullah’s stud, in Cheveley, Suffolk includes the opportunity to see Frankel. Places for this visit have now been filled.

A £10,000 bonus will be on offer to owners with runners at the track’s final fixture of the year.

NOVEMBER 10 SEPTEMBER 30 Owners Jackpot at Nottingham Members with winners at this fixture will share in a £10,000 bonus fund. Race details can be found on the ROA website.

Owners Jackpot and regional meeting at Huntingdon The ROA will host members at the popular Cambridgeshire venue. Members with runners on the day have the chance to scoop a share of a £10,000 Owners Jackpot.

OCTOBER 17 ROA facility at Ascot for QIPCO British Champions Day Bespoke hospitality package for members in a sumptuous, private box on the third floor of the Grandstand for this magnificent day’s racing on the finale of the Flat season.

DECEMBER 3 ROA/Weatherbys Bank Horseracing Awards The InterContinental, Park Lane, provides a chic venue for the annual Awards evening to celebrate the year’s champions. Further details on page 77.

Details of events are listed online at roa.co.uk in the Events section.

Bookings can be made online or by calling the ROA on 020 7152 0200

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Flat Racecourse League Table Ptn Racecourse

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37

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

Figures for period August 1, 2014 to July 31, 2015

Ownership

Avg racecourse spend per fixture (£)

Avg HBLB spend per fixture (£)

Avg owner spend per fixture (£)

Avg prizemoney per fixture (£)

Total no. of fixtures

Total prize-money (£)

Avg racecourse spend per fixture 2013-14 (£)

I I I JCR I JCR ARC I JCR JCR I I I I I I ARC I I I JCR ARC I I I JCR JCR ARC ARC ARC I I ARC ARC JCR ARC ARC

400,164 173,695 150,183 136,469 89,331 89,084 64,934 64,773 56,237 48,829 40,290 38,131 35,969 33,316 32,205 32,069 30,605 30,128 27,895 25,688 24,390 24,212 24,130 23,050 23,024 22,119 21,469 21,236 20,835 19,124 18,473 18,277 15,863 15,764 15,389 13,938 10,253 45,358

147,251 101,903 95,091 80,095 41,938 80,863 57,712 67,834 53,408 47,255 24,300 14,318 30,145 26,562 9,725 32,836 26,037 31,352 18,791 18,344 17,250 22,012 11,318 20,641 22,413 19,801 20,828 14,458 21,012 27,301 20,207 18,861 19,755 14,451 20,480 16,050 21,925 33,983

244,869 94,934 51,983 92,518 9,026 88,868 43,074 31,716 22,979 18,006 5,742 3,541 10,309 4,591 4,508 3,626 4,284 5,093 5,404 3,567 4,178 6,565 3,552 2,885 4,932 4,011 5,481 2,997 4,837 4,737 14,581 2,627 3,013 3,017 4,381 2,410 2,101 19,213

792,285 370,650 297,256 309,083 140,608 258,986 165,981 165,058 132,999 114,752 70,332 56,076 76,717 64,469 47,250 68,531 61,044 67,287 52,090 47,598 45,817 53,414 39,000 46,838 50,905 46,057 48,017 39,120 46,832 51,163 53,261 40,343 38,729 33,947 40,250 32,397 34,278 98,748

17 17 20 11 16 41 24 18 16 23 17 29 17 16 4 16 85 14 18 18 12 18 7 19 21 73 23 21 27 8 18 16 107 14 1 21 39 882

13,468,841 6,301,050 5,945,125 3,399,909 2,249,731 10,618,416 3,983,534 2,971,047 2,127,984 2,688,480 1,195,643 1,626,210 1,304,183 1,031,500 189,000 1,096,493 5,188,713 942,024 937,627 856,759 549,808 961,450 253,500 889,930 1,069,015 3,362,173 1,104,400 821,515 1,264,474 409,300 958,700 645,488 4,143,982 475,260 40,250 680,342 1,336,860 87,088,712

340,546 177,554 95,651 86,776 75,001 87,717 71,828 51,891 49,476 46,000 32,656 0 33,187 31,457 0 29,500 27,515 29,593 22,642 19,632 20,186 16,261 22,617 20,117 18,401 20,460 17,143 14,577 18,525 15,260 15,969 17,388 15,527 10,788 16,269 10,817 11,255 39,034

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Jumps Racecourse League Table Ptn Racecourse

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40

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

Ownership

Avg racecourse spend per fixture (£)

Avg HBLB spend per fixture (£)

Avg owner spend per fixture (£)

Avg prizemoney per fixture (£)

Total no. of fixtures

Total prize-money (£)

Avg racecourse spend per fixture 2013-14 (£)

JCR JCR I JCR JCR JCR I I I ARC JCR I I ARC I I I I I JCR JCR ARC I JCR JCR JCR I ARC I I I ARC I ARC I ARC ARC I ARC I

244,870 223,142 135,525 98,706 96,862 50,823 45,631 31,902 29,390 27,022 26,585 26,507 26,487 25,177 25,040 24,479 24,159 23,887 22,988 22,844 21,988 21,606 20,951 20,352 20,007 19,749 18,561 18,082 17,707 17,684 15,750 15,719 15,602 14,742 14,044 13,773 13,076 12,844 12,115 11,532 34,261

126,549 112,871 82,339 82,115 79,094 57,732 66,742 39,424 32,772 40,868 32,015 30,256 30,828 29,209 18,208 27,301 26,277 22,211 18,714 25,013 31,976 31,801 28,659 26,347 28,796 20,817 20,901 21,792 21,152 17,658 21,963 21,848 26,527 20,151 25,556 19,125 25,769 25,923 19,750 16,775 33,093

67,182 55,943 16,197 16,202 18,287 10,010 16,400 10,235 3,048 6,317 4,960 4,450 4,618 6,414 0 4,752 2,401 4,531 3,949 4,337 5,106 5,124 0 4,375 4,769 3,754 4,139 4,909 3,469 2,845 3,704 3,137 2,758 3,407 3,347 2,799 3,077 3,486 2,982 2,873 7,245

439,476 391,956 237,812 198,344 197,576 118,703 130,439 82,712 65,793 75,407 63,579 61,213 61,933 60,801 43,247 56,707 52,965 50,629 45,650 52,784 60,498 58,531 49,610 51,657 54,048 44,320 43,601 44,900 42,329 38,687 41,417 40,704 45,087 38,409 42,946 36,047 41,922 42,253 35,002 31,334 74,970

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3,515,810 6,271,291 1,902,495 1,501,747 1,778,186 1,543,139 1,565,268 992,540 789,515 754,066 1,017,258 612,129 929,000 972,815 562,214 907,308 741,512 405,030 776,046 1,055,671 846,977 643,836 942,595 619,882 918,824 753,437 654,018 1,077,608 698,423 541,619 704,093 854,786 405,779 806,598 687,140 720,935 251,532 380,276 630,032 407,337 42,138,763

211,204 201,036 101,655 88,098 103,163 53,982 47,222 34,902 22,789 23,093 27,188 21,859 23,509 28,958 16,868 24,528 26,282 26,448 21,467 22,398 17,959 25,605 23,609 15,304 20,104 21,641 14,567 13,952 16,268 13,651 11,317 14,793 15,554 12,895 15,041 9,946 13,805 11,747 12,675 9,990 31,757

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EXPLANATION The tables set out the average prize-money at each fixture staged by a racecourse over the last 12 months. They show how this is made up of the three sources of prizemoney: 1. Racecourses’ contribution 2. Levy Board (HBLB) 3. Owners The tables also confirm the number of fixtures staged and the total amount of prize-money paid out by each racecourse throughout this period.

The racecourses are ordered by the average amount of their own contribution to prizemoney at each fixture. This contribution originates from various sources including media rights, admission revenues and racecourse sponsors.

If a racecourse has increased its average contribution at each fixture compared with the previous 12 months, it receives a green ‘up’ arrow. If its average contribution has fallen, however, it receives a red ‘down’ arrow.

As these tables are based on the prize-money paid out by each racecourse, the abandonment of a major fixture could distort a racecourse’s performance.

OWNERSHIP KEY JCR Jockey Club Racecourses

ARC Arena Racing Company

I Independently owned racecourse

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National Hunt Foal Show saw increase in numbers and quality

The champion Great Pretender colt

The rosettes and trophies for the third TBA National Hunt Foal Show at Bangor

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espite the deluge, the third TBA ‘Stars of Tomorrow’ National Hunt Foal Show saw an increase in the number of foals put before the judges with an obvious continuous improvement in quality across all entries. The unique show, set up and run by the TBA, with generous sponsorship from DBS and BEFB, took place at Bangor racecourse on Sunday, July 26.

Commentator for the day Nick Luck, ably guided spectators and exhibitors through the entries of each class as the appropriate National Hunt weather didn’t deter the breeders who turned out in force. A total of 45 youngsters were put before the panel of international

judges, Hubert Barbe, John Bleahen, Tessa Greatrex, Cathal Murphy, Robert Robinson and Anna Ross, who cast their expert eyes over each foal shown alongside their dams.

The Overall Supreme Champion title went to Stephen Hadley and Goldford Stud’s Great Pretender ex Bold Fire colt who won Class 1 (colt born on or before April 14).

Commenting on the win, Richard Aston of Goldford Stud said: “We always thought he was a lovely foal, we loved Great Pretender when we saw him and were determined to send a nice mare to him. We thought that she would suit and it turned out that it was the right decision.”

The judges assessing one of the 45 foals who turned out for the show in the rain

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As a member of the TBA National Hunt Committee and an ardent member of the organising team behind the show, Richard also commented on the show itself, saying: “You only have to come and experience the reaction to see that the show is a great aid to the exhibitors and also to British breeding; one helps the other and vice-versa. I feel so committed to this that I won’t be happy until we’ve got crowds five deep around the ring.”

Class 1 also produced the eventual Reserve Champion, Richard and Lizzie Kelvin-Hughes’s Milan colt out of their good racemare My Petra, who was exhibited by Little Lodge Farm.

Delighted with the result, Richard KelvinHughes said: “This is the first colt from the mare – who is one of our foundation mares – following three fillies, so we’re very excited about him. He’s likely to go into training eventually with Nicky Henderson.”

Thanks to the generous sponsorship from DBS, the winner and runner-up in all four classes were awarded £400 and £200 in prize-

Class 2 winner: a filly by Kapgarde

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Aiden Murphy’s winning Kayf Tara colt

money, together with free entry to the DBS January Sale. Additionally, the champion and reserve also collected £800 and £400 respectively. Saracen Horse Feeds generously gave bags of feed to all winners and presented a jacket to the overall Champion.

A lovely Kapgarde filly out of Doubly Guest took the honours in Class 2 (filly born on or before April 14). Doug Procter, General Manager and co-owner of The Glanvilles Stud, which showed the filly, was thrilled with the win and what it offers in terms of opportunity, saying: “We’ve had three gorgeous National Hunt foals this year and all are fillies, which is always a bit depressing as you know that they’re not going to sell as well.

“That’s what for me is particularly good about this show, it gives you a way of showing off your nice fillies. As a rule we sell fillies as three-year-olds as the market for filly foals is not strong, but this filly will certainly be considered for the DBS sale.”

Class 3 (colts born after April 15) went to a son of Kayf Tara out of Aiden Murphy’s homebred Invincible Spirit mare Miss Invincible, who has produced a bumperwinning full-brother in Officer Cadet.

The win reinforced the objective of the show for Murphy, who won the same class

two years ago. He said: “Any event that encourages breeders to have more mares at stud and produce good jumping foals is a good event.”

Last year’s supreme champion winning owner Pauline Cowey came with no expectations this year, strongly believing that “lightning doesn’t strike twice”. However, after her Sulamani filly out of She Likes To Boogy scooped Class 4 (fillies born after April 15), she said: “We were coming here for a nice day out to see some friends and have a very nice lunch, and I’m absolutely amazed.”

Exhibited by Thatchmire Stud, the filly was the second youngest foal shown on the day but has clearly inherited the big, scopey features of her dam and impressed the judges.

With the rain falling throughout the day, all exhibitors were even more grateful for the

RESULTS Class 1 Colt born on or before April 14 1

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3 4

GREAT PRETENDER ex BOLD FIRE. Owned by Stephen Hadley & Goldford Stud, exhibited by Goldford Stud MILAN ex MY PETRA. Owned by Mr & Mrs Richard Kelvin-Hughes, exhibited

by Little Lodge Farm LUCARNO ex I’M DELILAH. Owned and exhibited by Christopher Johnston MARTALINE ex HISTOIRE DE MOEURS. Owned by Patrick and Rosalyn Burling, exhibited by Goldford Stud

Class 2 Filly born on or before April 14 1

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KAPGARDE ex DOUBLY GUEST. Owned by Dr G W Guy, exhibited by The Glanvilles Stud SOLDIER OF FORTUNE ex TIDARA ANGEL. Owned and exhibited by Upton Viva Stud SHANTOU ex KARELLO BAY. Owned

by Patrick and Rosalyn Burling, exhibited by Goldford Stud MARTALINE ex GLENREE. Owned and exhibited by Wadacre Stud

Class 3 Colt born on or after April 15 1

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complimentary lunch provided by loyal show sponsor BEBF. Louise Kemble, TBA Chief Executive, summarised another well-attended show, saying: “In its third year we’ve had a really good turnout, slightly up on last year.

“The quality has been fantastic, which is a comment echoed by everyone around the ring as well as the judges. We are very proud of what we are doing, and of our breeders.”

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KAYF TARA ex MISS INVINCIBLE. Owned by Aiden Murphy, exhibited by Warren Chase Stud SHIROCCO ex NO PUSHOVER. Owned by Robin Knipe, exhibited by Cobhall Court Stud UNIVERSAL ex ASOLA BLUE. Owned and exhibited by Yorton Farm Stud MIDNIGHT LEGEND ex PRECIOUS LADY. Owned and exhibited by Swanbridge Bloodstock

Class 4 Filly born on or after April 15 1

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SULAMANI ex SHE LIKES TO BOOGY. Owned by Mrs Pauline Cowey, exhibited by Thatchmire Stud TRANS ISLAND ex QUEEN OF DIAMONDS. Owned and exhibited by Nunstainton Stud GREAT PRETENDER ex LAGO d’ORO. Owned by Mrs S M Newell, exhibited

by Yorton Farm Stud UNIVERSAL ex MAIDEN VOYAGE. Owned by Aiden Murphy, exhibited by Warren Chase Stud

SHOW CHAMPION GREAT PRETENDER ex BOLD FIRE colt Owned by Stephen Hadley & Goldford Stud, exhibited by Goldford Stud

RESERVE CHAMPION MILAN ex MY PETRA colt. Owned by Mr & Mrs Richard Kelvin-Hughes, exhibited by Little Lodge Farm

Pauline Cowey’s Sulamani filly out of She Likes To Boogy shows off in the ring

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he well known ‘green room’ at Tattersalls was at full capacity for the Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association annual seminar, this year focusing on nutrition and the environment – and held over two days for the first time, with a second session held at Newbury racecourse 24 hours later.

Humorously hosted by Hallway Feeds VicePresident Lee Hall – who at one point halted proceedings for a selfie with the delegates – the seminars offered a chance to hear experts discussing a variety of topics, from grassland management to colic, worming to CAP reform.

Dr Joe Pagan, Kentucky Equine Research Dr Joe Pagan opened and closed day one, starting with a figure-packed analysis of seasonal and yearly differences in growth patterns among foals and yearlings, and ending with a talk on how the environment affects bone development in young horses.

One of the take-home messages was that breeders cannot affect the maximum size a horse will grow to, but factors including the environment and nutrition can alter growth rate.

“Thoroughbreds are expected to be competitive athletes at two years of age,” said Dr Pagan. “By this point they’re 85 per cent of their mature body weight and 95 per cent of their mature height. Foals put on 50 per cent of their total weight gain in the first six months, and 75 per cent in the first 12 months.

“However, the aim is for optimal growth rate – too fast and they may suffer from developmental problems, too slow and it may get to the point where they don’t reach their maximum genetic size.”

Professor Celia Marr, Rossdales Veterinary Surgeons Professor Celia Marr provided a comprehensive but succinct talk on factors that can affect colic, stressing the affliction was a clinical sign, not a disease itself.

“The way an animal expresses colic is dependent on the horse,” said Marr. “Foals are very good at telling us they’re uncomfortable,

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Dr Joe Pagan of Kentucky Equine Research assessed growth patterns in foals

and juvenile fillies make the biggest fuss!”

Marr divided colic into two main groups – functional colic, due to an alteration in mobility causing the accumulation of gas or ingesta for which a medical therapy is liked to be employed, and positional colic, where a portion of the intestine relocates, potentially compromising the blood supply – in which case surgery may be required.

“Non-modifiable risk factors include age, sex, breed and the weather,” said Marr.

“Modifiable factors include feeding, parasite status and exercise.”

Marr also reported recent findings from a study into post-partum colic in broodmares.

“A common theory is it’s due to increased space in the abdomen,” said Marr. “However, a study in the Equine Veterinary Journal into microbiomics in mares showed changes in the faecal microbiota preceded the development of colic, which makes more sense than just a big, empty abdomen.”

Roger Allman, The Farm Clinic, and Polly Bonnor, Saracen Horse Feeds Roger Allman and Polly Bonnor shared the platform to discuss nutrition and pasture management, covering a variety of topics including parasite control and when best to fertilise.

“Horses rely on forage to provide the necessary roughage to maintain a healthy digestive tract,” said Bonnor. “The feed you choose will work harder if it’s on a platform of really good quality forage.”

Both cited the importance of stock rotation in parasite control and managing a healthy sward, while Allman also provided insight into when and how to manage grassland.

“During dry spells, keep as much length as possible on pastures,” said Allman. “Don’t cut it too short – if it’s well-established it won’t die, but it will go dormant.

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Emily Haggett, Rossdales Veterinary Surgeons

Julian Wilson makes his point

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growth, and don’t be afraid to seed to maintain a thick cushion.”

Bonnor also stressed the need to provide adequate energy intake in lactating mares.

“For each kilogram of weight gain in a week old foal, the mare needs to produce nine kilograms of milk,” said Bonnor. “That increases to 13 kilograms at one month and 15 kilograms at two months – it’s important at this stage not to underfeed.”

said Crowhurst. “This is a big extension of their influence and regulation.”

Breeders may have noticed a new declaration on foal registration forms this season whereby the signatory agrees to be bound by the rules of racing – and states the foal has not been administered with or has ingested any prohibited substances.

Crowhurst said: “The TBA board is currently negotiating with the BHA because we don’t really want breeders to have to sign up to every rule of racing – good ongoing dialogue is in progress about restricting this declaration to prohibitive substances and not the raft of other rules that really don’t apply to breeders.”

On genetic profiling, Crowhurst said: “Genetic testing is very much on the horizon for the industry and could have quite a lot of benefits, but could have downsides too. We won’t be able to regulate it, but we’re going to move along with it and keep a very careful eye on progression.”

James Crowhurst, Newmarket Equine Hospital The BHA’s updated anti-doping rules and genetic performance profiling were the hot topics covered by James Crowhurst.

The Newmarket Equine Hospital consultant stressed that under the new regulations breeders would be bound by the rules of racing.

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Emily Haggett provided an update on the TBA and Levy Board-funded study into Lawsonia intracellularis, a bacteria thought to be carried by wildlife that causes equine proliferative enteropathy, a thickening of the intestine lining.

Results of the year-long study confirmed that susceptibility to the bacteria peaked at around nine months of age, when colostral antibodies from the mare have dropped and the foal’s own immune system is still maturing.

Symptons include a fever, depression, swelling around the throat, legs and belly, diarrhoea, colic, poor condition and weight loss.

John Johnston from Keylocks provided breeders with a handy guide to CAP reform, including the Basic Payment Scheme, which replaces the Single Payment Scheme, and the four schemes that make up the Rural Development Grant for England.

Anglia Farmers’ David Taylor also gave a comprehensive talk on the benefits of joining for TBA members, including discounts on fuel and electricity, agricultural equipment and feed.

Vet Charlie Pinkham joined the panel at Newbury, discussing atypical myopathy, wormer resistance and foetal gender determination.

On atypical myopathy, a muscle disease caused by a toxin found in sycamore seeds, he said it was important not only to fence off areas where the seeds are found but also reduce stocking densities.

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TBA Flat Sponsorship under way at Newbury

Philippa Cooper, right, with winning trainer Jonathan Portman, jockey Andrea Atzeni and owner Anita Wigan, alongside Al Basti Equiworld’s Arun Menon

As part of an overall mandate to ensure that fillies and mares have race opportunities that act as influential stepping stones in their careers, we are delighted to be investing once again in a series of fillies-only handicaps across a range of distances, providing more occasions to identify race mares with ability. The first race was run at Newbury on July 17.

Industry-renowned Stud Farming Course Sales preparation is in full swing but there is life after the sales and the annual TBA Stud Farming Course provides breeders and stud staff with an opportunity to learn about the latest stud management issues from knowledgeable speakers.

The course, which runs from December 8-10 at the British Racing School in Newmarket, also offers delegates the chance to network with each other in an informal setting. It boasts a unique programme of lectures delivered by leading veterinary and industry experts.

Day one covers management of the broodmare, starting with conception, including managing problem mares, pregnancy diagnosis, pregnancy loss, parasite control, paddock management and disease prevention and bio-security measures.

The following day deals with skin disease, infectious disease, transport, nutrition, pedigrees, sales preparation and stallion management. Day three rounds off the course with foaling, foal care, diseases

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of the yearling, and management of growth defects and angular limb deformities including interventions made by the farrier.

Delegates will have the opportunity to get to know each other better over a course dinner on the first evening, and external visits provide an opportunity for a change of scene. There will be opportunities to question lecturers throughout the three days, and a comprehensive handbook of course notes is provided as a useful reference source. The course is aimed at those who want to build on their practical experience and knowledge of stud work.

The course fee for 2014 is £395 for TBA members (discounts are available for studs sending four or more delegates) and £495 for non-members (fee includes dinner on the first night, lunches and refreshments, but not accommodation or other meals).

Places are limited. For further information, contact Christine Standley at the TBA on 01638 661321 or email Christine.standley@thetba.co.uk

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With a series of events including the Annual Awards Dinner, the AGM, the Seminar and the National Hunt Foal Show, July has been a very busy month for the TBA and it has meant we have had a chance to see around 600 members over a four-week period.

We’ve enjoyed catching up with you all.

To ensure you aren’t missing any news or correspondence from us, can we ask you all to double-check we have your email address and/or the correct postal address. To amend any details please email Chloe.Pitts@thetba.co.uk Another way to make sure you are keeping up to date with our news is to follow us on Twitter @TheTBA_GB

Delahooke a fan of deserving award winner Forrester Each year the TBA presents an Annual Stud Staff Award and runner-up prize, both generously sponsored by New England Stud.

The runner-up prize for 2015 has been awarded to Jill Forrester, the stud groom at Lawn Stud in Northamptonshire.

Jill was nominated by employers Julian and Sarah Richmond-Watson for her consistently high standards, excellent animal husbandry and horse handling skills. She also received plaudits from agent James Delahooke for her calm, determined and professional attitude, and from trainer Ralph Beckett for her ability to produce well-handled young horses ready to make the transition to racing.

As a conscientious and dedicated employee who ensures that her charges are relaxed, healthy and happy, Jill richly deserves her prize, and our congratulations go to her.

Jill is pictured at Newmarket racecourse receiving her prize of £500 from Louise Kemble, Chief Executive of the TBA

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TBA diary dates THURSDAY , SEPTEMBER 10 TBA Fillies’ Handicap Stakes At Doncaster.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 TBA EBF Fillies’ Handicap Stakes At Newmarket.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21 TBA EBF Fillies’ Handicap Stakes At Newmarket.

TBA-SPONSORED COURSES AT THE NATIONAL STUD Two courses remain in our series of sponsored courses at the National Stud...

SEPTEMBER 4 The Mating Game Pedigrees and Mating plans.

NOVEMBER 10 The Mare Conception and Pregnancy Both courses are £54 for TBA members and further details can be obtained from Leaya Slater at the National Stud – email Leaya@nationalstud.co.uk or phone 01638 675930.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 TBA East Regional Day A visit to Marco Botti’s Prestige Place, followed by a tour of the new site of the National Horseracing Museum.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13 National Hunt Stallion Parade At Cheltenham racecourse.

NEW MEMBERS: Mr Shaun Couling, Kent Mr Gary Davies, Oxfordshire Mr Richard Davies, Gloucestershire Mr Chris Dawson, County Durham Mrs Ruth de Quincey, Shropshire Mrs A.E. Jennings, Leicestershire Mr Howard Russell, Suffolk

Members meet one of the resident mares at the Robinson family’s Distillery Stud

Distillery day out to remember It has been a cold and wet summer so far in Scotland but this did not dampen the enthusiasm of Distillery Stud owner and Regional Representative Robert Robinson and his family, who warmly welcomed northern TBA members to the stud in July.

The stud is located just outside Annan, which has spectacular views of the River Annan and boasts historical connections to Robert the Bruce. While for many years Simmental cattle were bred on the farm, Robert now focuses solely on breeding National Hunt horses and has built up an impressive broodmare band headed by the aptly named Mrs Malt, unraced dam of three winners from three runners.

During the walk around the farm members viewed a number of attractive and well-grown foals at foot by Shirocco, Dylan Thomas, Fame And Glory and Scorpion.

Some quality mares in the band included Spieta, by Shirocco, in foal to Fame And Glory, Blue Nymph, by Selkirk, and in foal to Yeats and Twilight Eclipse, by Presenting, in foal to Fame And Glory. The farm is also home to a good number of yearlings, twoand three-year-olds by top-class National Hunt sires such as Yeats, Flemensfirth and Fair Mix. It was a pleasure to see horses out on lush green grass in large paddocks with plenty

of shelter, and all the stock living out at this time looked well and happy despite the poor weather. Members from the Lake District, Scotland and Northumberland then joined with Robert’s guests for an excellent pig roast barbeque – held under cover in the garden and thoroughly enjoyed by all.

After lunch, for those with an interest in whisky, there was an opportunity to tour the re-opened Annandale Distillery, occupying the site of the original distillery which operated from 1930 until the First World War and which has now been beautifully renovated and is currently in the second year of operation.

This meant that, sadly, there was none of the finished product to sample but we were offered a taste of the ‘middle cut’ or second distillation which, at 62% proof, had a powerful kick to it and which is sold as ‘Rascally Liquor’ malt spirit in the visitor centre. A return trip to Annan is definitely on the cards, once the whisky has matured (in casks made of wood from Kentucky) and, more importantly, to see the development of the stud, which is sure to go from strength to strength.

Many thanks to Robert and Margaret Robinson and family for their hospitality, which made the day one to remember.

New TBA Membership Executive We are delighted to welcome new Membership Executive Chloe Pitts to Stanstead House.

Chloe joined the TBA recently on a graduate placement through the BHA’s Graduate Development Programme. However, after a few weeks it was clear that her expertise and knowledge would be suited to a permanent position within the TBA team.

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Commenting on her role Chloe said: “I am delighted to have now been offered the position of the new Membership Executive. I am looking forward to meeting our members and also to working on some exciting projects to both improve and expand the opportunities that the TBA offers and to increase our membership further.”

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The late Lord Carnarvon stood two winners of the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at his Highclere Stud with Troy and Teenoso, but despite being Derby winners both proved disappointing sires.

Now this Hampshire nursery can claim a very close association with the latest winner of the King George, Postponed, who was bred and reared there on behalf of Andrew Stone. He trades as St Albans Bloodstock, named after his London address.

Stone, who is involved with one of the world’s largest software companies and has a background of global commodity trading, founded St Albans Bloodstock in 2005, the very year that Postponed’s dam, Ever Rigg, was foaled. Sold from Whatton Manor Stud as a foal for 26,000gns, she cost Stone €360,000 the following year through Blandford Bloodstock.

Ever Rigg only managed to win a Kempton maiden as a three-yearold, but it’s been a different story since retiring to stud. Her first offspring Neamour, an Oasis Dream filly, realised 34,000gns as a three-year-old (resold in May for 72,000gns), and Postponed, her next offspring, fetched 360,000gns as a yearling.

Neamour was trained initially by David Simcock, from whom Andrew Stone acquired I’m A Dreamer. She provided her new owner with a Grade 1 success when landing the 2012 Beverly D Stakes at Arlington Park as a five-year-old.

A joint yearling purchase between John Warren and Charlie Gordon-Watson, Postponed was bought for Luca Cumani’s owner Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum – Luca and his wife Sara just happen to have their Fittocks Stud yearlings consigned by Highclere.

Currently, Ever Rigg has a two-year-old colt by Iffraaj, who was knocked down to David Simcock for 22,000gns last autumn but is unnamed, a yearling filly by Nathaniel, and a colt foal by Makfi. She is back in foal to Postponed’s sire Dubawi.

Ever Rigg’s first three dams were all bred by the McCreery family of Stowell Hill in Somerset, the first of them, Bianca Nera, being the champion juvenile filly of 1996 in Ireland.

Just like Frankel, Postponed belongs to a family synonymous with Jeremy Tree and his American patron Jock Whitney. The colt’s fifth dam Aurorabella was bought privately by Bob McCreery aged 16 back in the late 1960s, she being an own-sister to Double Bore (1955 Goodwood Cup), whom Tree owned, bred and trained.

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However, this has been the just reward for Bill Gredley with Big Orange (by Duke Of Marmalade) in the Princess of Wales’s Stakes at the Newmarket July Meeting and in the Goodwood Cup. The July Course at Newmarket runs alongside the Devil’s Dyke and this historic landmark also borders Gredley’s Stetchworth Park Stud, which he bought in 1983, adding additional acres at Dullingham Ley that he called Middle Park Stud.

As an owner/breeder, Gredley’s two star performers have been Environment Friend (1991 Eclipse Stakes) and User Friendly (1992 Oaks, Irish Oaks). Environment Friend retired to stand at Stetchworth, as did Hadeer, a horse in training acquisition who proceeded to win three Group races in Gredley’s distinctive yellow and black colours.

A property developer who has had a long-standing altercation with the local planning authority over plans to build a supermarket in Newmarket, Gredley is also an unsung philanthropist to whom many locals owe a debt of gratitude for annual outings to the seaside. He has also been a true stalwart on the racing and breeding front.

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Classic success for young syndicate Irish Oaks winner Covert Love rewards her owners with victory at the highest level

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he scenes in the paddock after Covert Love’s win in the Irish Oaks last month were heart-warming. The thrill and excitement on the faces of the Fomo syndicate after watching their filly sweep past a top-class field summed up what this sport is all about.

The Fomo Syndicate, which stands for ‘fear of missing out’, came about very much through luck, which can come in useful for racehorse ownership. The co-breeder of Covert Love and member of the syndicate, Hugo Merry, is no stranger to breeding and owning good horses, but he explains how the story behind the syndication of this particular filly makes it all the more special.

He says: “I’ve bred a lot of nice Group horses, and the closest I came to breeding a Classic winner was Hermival, who was third to Camelot in the 2,000 Guineas. That was until Covert Love came along.”

Bought back at Goffs as a yearling by Merry for a mere €26,000, Covert Love was sent to be trained by Hugo Palmer in Newmarket (see Talking To, pages 44-48).

“Originally just Mark [McStay] and I owned her and we sent her to Hugo Palmer with the intention of syndicating her out to help spread the cost,” Merry explains.

There are many facets to syndicates that make them an appealing way to get involved in racing.

As well as not being as expensive as sole ownership, being a syndicate member is also sociable and allows people to enjoy some of the best moments in the sport with others who share their enthusiasm and passion.

There is probably not a man involved in horseracing who feels more fortunate than Peter Shemilt, one of the seven members of the Fomo syndicate. He describes his involvement and the 10% share he has in what looks to be one of the most exciting three-year-olds of the year as “complete luck”.

He explains: “I was part of a few syndicates with Hugo and then since the start of 2014, I thought I should get more involved.

“I was always wanting to own horses. I was always keen on horseracing, although my sport is football, but I got interested in the sport when I was at university in Hull.

“Ever since university I’d always harboured an ambition to own horses.”

This is by no means the first syndicate Shemilt has been lucky enough to be a part of, but it is the most successful.

“It has all been down to Hugo,” Shemilt adds.

“He gave me great advice as to where I should spread my money and become part-owner of a number of different horses. It just so happened

Mark McStay, who bred Covert Love with Hugo Merry, greets jockey Pat Smullen

“Ever since

university I’d always harboured an ambition to own racehorses” that Covert Love was one of the horses that was available then.”

Palmer has enjoyed a fantastic season – winning an impressive four Group races in July alone with Covert Love, New Providence (Group 3 Summer Stakes), Home Of The Brave (Group 3 Minstrel Stakes) and Galileo Gold (Group 2 Vintage Stakes) “I love owning horses with Hugo,” Shemilt says. “I took to his openness and honesty, and through that he really got me involved in the game.

“Obviously I’m quite new to the sport but he gives me the time and the patience, even answering the most basic of questions. My involvement in the Fomo syndicate is amazing and I still can’t quite believe it.”

The spread of cost is no doubt a very attractive reason to become a syndicate owner, but the camaraderie between members is what

both Merry and Shemilt enjoy.

“With Covert Love, she had run only a few times and I had not met all the other owners really until the Curragh and quite a lot of them were there,” says Shemilt.

“It was the first time we were all together and that’s why the parade ring was so mobbed, it really was great, great fun.”

Merry hopes the success of the syndicateowned Covert Love, most recently seen finishing a close second to Pleascach in the Group 1 Yorkshire Oaks, can encourage young people to get involved in ownership in future.

He says: “It’s full of very young people who all have shares big or small and it is great to see younger people in racehorse ownership, especially with a young trainer who has just had the most incredible year.

“The whole thing is just a great story.”

COVERT LOVE Sire: AZAMOUR Dam: WING STEALTH Bred by: SOMMERVILLE B’STOCK Owned by: FOMO SYNDICATE Number of syndicate members: 7 Races won: 4 Prize-money won: £292,502

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VET FORUM: THE EXPERT VIEW

By ROB PILSWORTH MRCVS and LUKE THOMPSON AWCF

Interference injuries: why they occur and how to prevent them A horse’s conformation and action can cause all manner of minor problems

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acehorses are at enough risk of injury during their training and racing without them having to deal with injuries they inflict on themselves, by striking one limb with the other during exercise. The self-inflicted injuries are called interference injuries and occur because of a combination of factors often involving the shape, conformation and action of the horse.

Although generally only a nuisance, they can lead to a reduction in performance, lameness or, more frustratingly, infection in the limb that rules the horse out from competition at a critical time. So what are these injuries, and how do they occur?

Fig 1a A heel ‘grab’ or overreach.

Here the flap of horn removed by the hoof strike from the hind limb has been carefully removed and exposes the area of bruised heel (arrows) produced by the impact

by a soft deep surface which ‘holds’ the front foot, preventing it from ‘breaking-over’ and being cleared by the time the hind foot arrives.

Horses which are very ‘fresh’, and are having to be reined in firmly, will often over-reach.

Prevention is sometimes effected by fitting overreach boots, which stop the hind foot from grabbing the bulb of the heel, although these

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Riders to the rescue

themselves can cause problems on all-weather surfaces by rubbing sand into the surface of the skin, producing sores.

Forging increases when horses are ridden on a long loose rein and are not held together properly, so the riders can assist in avoiding this problem. Corrective shoeing follows much the same strategy as that to avoid overreaching, i.e. speeding the break-over of the front foot, delaying the arrival of the hind foot and making sure that when it does arrive, the shoe is set back under the toe in case contact is made (Fig 1b).

Shoeing strategy

‘BRUSHING’

Overreaching can be more common in horses with long toe/low heel conformation because of the delayed break-over it produces, so the first shoeing strategy is to make sure that the foot balance is correct, and the toes trimmed back to the correct length. Use of a rolled-toe on the front foot will aid early break-over and allow the foot to clear more quickly to avoid contact with the hind foot. Hind shoes can be set back under the feet with a quarter-clip shoe and a ‘safed’ toe, to reduce the risk of interference (Fig 1b).

Horses with short compact bodies will often almost walk into the front foot at the walk and are particularly prone to overreaching, as are young and weak horses, although in the latter case this improves with training.

‘Brushing’ is the description given to the lesions produced on the inside of the pastern or fetlock by striking this area (‘brushing’ it) with the inside hoof edge of the contralateral foot. In the front limb brushing is often associated with a base-narrow, toe-out conformation (Fig 2).

In the hind limb, brushing injuries often occur on the medial aspect of the pastern just below the sesamoid (Fig 3) or on the inside surface of the sesamoid of the base of the sesamoid itself. When walked and trotted in

Fig 1b A shoe with side clips, seated well back under the toe, used to avoid over-reaching or forging

THE ‘OVERREACH’ ‘Overreaching’ describes what happens when the heel of a front foot is struck by the toe of the advancing ipsilateral hind foot, usually causing a flap of skin to be partially or wholly removed from the bulb of the heel (Fig 1a).

Overreaching often occurs in the horse’s slower paces and can be made more frequent

of tranquilisers, as it relaxes the horse and slows front-foot clearance, and is a good warning sign that overreaches will be on the agenda if nothing is done to speed the horse’s break-over.

Simply rolling and damping the surface of a soft sand-based all-weather surface can significantly reduce forging and overreaching without making the surface over-firm for normal trotting.

‘FORGING’ ‘Forging’ is named after the sound which accompanies it, that of metal striking metal, as heard in the farrier’s forge. ‘Forging’ occurs when the horse has just missed creating an overreach – the hind toe misses the heel – but strikes the underside of the shoe of the ipsilateral front limb. For similar reasons to those produced in ‘overreaching’, ‘forging’ is more common in horses trotting on a very deep, soft bed, which prevents the fore foot making a rapid ‘break-over’. It’s also often heard more in horses which are exercising under the influence

Fig 2 A horse with base-narrow toeout conformation, typical of those that can hit themselves on the inside sesamoid during galloping.

Here obvious swelling has been produced by impact trauma (arrow)

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Fig 3 A typical brushing injury on the inner aspect of a hind pastern (arrow)

hand these horses usually have an ‘in-swing’ as they bring the leg forward and in some horses, contact is very nearly made on every step.

It’s usually impossible to alter the conformation of the horse once it has entered training, and, to compound things, once brushing has produced trauma, and consequent swelling, this increases the chance of further interference, simply because the target area is now swollen and therefore more likely to be restruck (Fig 2, see arrow).

Not quite the full shoeing Prevention is usually aimed at reducing inflammation and swelling in the area and altering the foot balance, in conjunction with correcting the medio-lateral balance of the feet.

In the hind limb, interference on the medial aspect of the pastern is often treated by fitting ‘three-quarter’ shoes, where approximately a third of the inner metal surface is removed. This makes the chance of severe damage to the skin much less, because the limb will be hit by polished rounded horn only (Fig 4, arrows) and

Fig 5a Scalping injuries on the medial aspect of the coronet and pastern of a hind leg (arrows). The angle of the ‘slash’ proves that these have been produced by a front foot, rather than the contralateral hind limb

not a combination of horn and steel. Threequarter shoes will help avoid the problem but tend to add to it over the longer term as they imbalance the hoof and will lead in time to distortion of the hoof capsule, so should be used only as a temporary measure.

Brushing often occurs when horses are immature and weak and so may self-rectify as training progresses. The type of shoe fitted will often be determined by the individual horse’s conformation. In the front limb, often one can manage with a standard shoe fitted flush on the inside of the foot and rounded off on its lower edge. In the hind-limb, a lateral trailer on the same shoe can also help pull the limb out during flight, thus avoiding contact, and the need for a three-quarter shoe.

Fig 5b A horse at full gallop illustrating how scalping injuries can occur. Here the left fore foot has just missed the left hind foot and is overlapping, but one can easily see how contact interference would produce the cuts shown in Fig 5a

aluminium plates in front and heavy steels behind, which speeds the break-over and removal of the front foot from the path of the incoming hind foot, thus avoiding contact.

Use of a half round shoe or a natural balance shoe in front can sometimes achieve the same goal, again by increasing the speed of break-over of the front foot and getting it out of the way in time to avoid contact. Using half round shoes reduces the severity of any cuts once contact is made.

Alternatively, a toe-preventer shoe may be used (Fig 5c). This shoe has the portion of the shoe that makes contact with the affected hind limb removed, by rounding the edge of the shoe around the outer quarter.

‘SPEEDY CUTTING’ ‘Speedy cutting’ is probably the rarest of the interference injuries but can be among the most frustrating to deal with because of the

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‘SCALPING’

Fig 4 A horse shod with a ‘threequarter’ shoe. The exposed horn in this site quickly becomes polished and rounded (arrows) and much less likely to produce injury than the shoe

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Aluminium strategy These centre around altering the timing of the departure of the front foot and the arrival of the hind foot. One strategy is to shoe with

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‘Scalping’ is the name given to the injuries seen anywhere from the coronet to above the front of the fetlock on the front of the hind limb (Fig 5a). As can be seen from the example, it would be almost impossible from the angle of these wounds for them to be produced by the other hind foot, so we know they are made from in front. They are in fact produced by the outer toe of the ipsilateral front hoof, which makes contact with the pastern during the phase of full speed gallop when the two legs on the same side overlap (Fig 5b).

Fig 5c A ‘toe-preventer’ shoe, used to treat both ‘scalping’ and ‘speedy-cutting’, but on opposite sides of the toe for each

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Fig 7 Horses galloping often have all four limbs off the ground at the same time, as is beautifully illustrated in this picture taken from the Godolphin website. It’s not therefore surprising that occasional interference injuries occur

Fig 6b Here the inside of the left fore limb is passing very close to the medial aspect of the right hind limb and the angle of the shoe would be exactly that to produce the horizontal ‘slash’ shown in Fig 6a, known as a ‘speedy-cut’ Fig 6a An example of ‘speedy cutting’ on the medial aspect of the left hock

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difficulty in preventing its recurrence. In the UK, the term speedy cutting is usually reserved for a very characteristic lesion on the inner aspect of the hock produced by the medial branch of the shoe of the contralateral front limb. A severe case is shown in Fig 6a and one can see from the orientation of the horizontal slashes made by the hoof that it would be impossible to produce this angulation of injury if the injury occurred because of impact with the contralateral hind limb. The horse shown racing in Fig 6b, although not producing a ‘speedy cut’ itself, illustrates well just how this occurs. In this image the right hind leg (the one further forward) is just missing contact with the inside of the hoof of the left fore leg, and one can easily see how at full speed – hence the name – impact may occur.

Fitting the first step Here, close fitting the shoe or even seating it slightly under the horn edge, plus attention

to medial lateral balance of the front feet, is the first step. A similar type of toe-preventer shoe to that used for scalping (Fig 5c) can be employed but in this instance the portion of the toe which is chamfered down is from the toe clip around the inside of the hoof as it’s the inside of the contralateral limb which causes the cuts.

With the racehorse in full flight travelling between 30 and 35 miles an hour and all

four feet very often off the ground together (Fig 7), it’s not surprising that occasional interference injuries do occur, and in most cases, with careful remedial shoeing, impact on the horse’s career and performance can be minimised.

When one sees how close the legs come to each other during galloping exercise, it’s truly astounding that all horses don’t suffer interference injuries.

TECHNICAL TERMS It’s almost impossible to talk about interference injuries without using just a few technical terms, so here we explain them: BREAK-OVER – this is the moment between the stance-phase of the hoof, when it is bearing full weight, to the swinging phase, where it is moving forward. It occurs abruptly, and the moment of break-over can be affected by altering the shape of the foot, especially the toe.

IPSILATERAL – this term refers to the foot on the same side, then further defined in terms of fore or hind foot.

CONTRALATERAL – this refers to the foot on the opposite side to the foot in question and, again, can refer to the fore or hind foot.

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DR STAT JOHN BOYCE CRACKS THE CODE

Five-year boom for select yearling market in Europe Every segment has grown exponentially, the bottom half by an average of 111%

W

ell, here we go again! It’s another round of yearling selling, another chance to balance the books or indeed another opportunity to expand.

Whatever category you fall into, returns from the yearling sales in recent time have provided an ideal environment for growth and expansion. In no other industry can we say that commodity prices have doubled in five years. Thanks to investment from Qatar, the UAE and many other international buyers, there has never been a better time to be a yearling consignor at the main European sales.

Using the five major sales by average price, Arqana August, Doncaster Premier, Goffs Orby and Tattersalls Books 1 and 2 as a barometer of the select yearling market, we can see massive gains from the top to the bottom of these catalogues over the past five years. Almost 10,000 yearlings have been sold at these sales since 2010 and I have broken them down into 10% segments, so that it will become clear where the real strengths and weaknesses, if any, lie.

Positive headline figures driven by the top of the market often distort real weaknesses in the market, but with decile segmentation there is no hiding place.

Since 2010 the select market in Europe has been booming. The top 10% segment has seen an increase in average of £220,011 to £428,906 in the five-year period. That represents a hike of 95%. And it hasn’t all come in one year: the yearon-year increases being 13%, 31%, 21% and 8%. It’s perhaps inevitable that the rate of growth

will slow again in 2015, but any growth in an already buoyant market will be welcomed.

And these excellent figures do not tell the whole story either. Take a look at the bottom decile, the yearlings that were in the bottom 10% of the five major sales. In 2010, this group averaged £4,727, but by 2014 that average has risen to £11,819, an increase of 150%. In fact, every segment of the select yearling market has grown exponentially, the bottom half by an average of 111% and the top half by an average of 80%.

In the accompanying sires’ table relating to the select sales, I have ranked each stallion by their true popularity. In order to remove the distorting effect of a growing market, I have indexed each sale year based on that year’s average price. This gives a more accurate picture of a sire’s popularity and doesn’t discriminate against those with yearlings sold early in the period when prices were lower.

Brothers Galileo and Sea The Stars lead the way and it is no surprise to see them both again well represented at the select sales this year. Sea The Stars has more to do to break into the very top echelon, but he is siring 12% stakes winners to runners, a ratio surpassed only by Galileo and Dubawi on 14%. Dubawi sales yearlings will be in short supply in 2015 but there will be plenty

by Galileo – and plenty by his son Frankel.

Others likely to move up the table include leading first-season sire Zoffany, plus Invincible Spirit, who has 26 catalogued in Tattersalls Book 1 this year. Both are on 1.57 and Invincible Spirit

European select sales 2010-2014 by decile Seg

2010

2011

(+/-)

2012

(+/-)

2013

(+/-)

2014

(+/-)

4-Year (+/-)

1

220,011

248,652

(13%)

325,528

(31%)

395,425

(21%)

428,906

(8%)

(95%)

2

89,204

101,486

(14%)

114,416

(13%)

139,656

(22%)

161,409

(16%)

(81%)

3

59,473

67,815

(14%)

75,608

(11%)

89,827

(19%)

102,821

(14%)

(73%)

4

44,884

49,415

(10%)

55,965

(13%)

67,621

(21%)

75,892

(12%)

(69%)

5

33,815

37,667

(11%)

43,867

(16%)

52,403

(19%)

61,576

(18%)

(82%)

6

26,740

29,528

(10%)

34,463

(17%)

41,719

(21%)

49,704

(19%)

(86%)

7

20,479

22,537

(10%)

26,857

(19%)

32,673

(22%)

39,042

(19%)

(91%)

8

14,466

16,962

(17%)

20,314

(20%)

25,465

(25%)

29,266

(15%)

(102%)

9

9,394

11,378

(21%)

13,837

(22%)

18,231

(32%)

21,380

(17%)

(128%)

10

4,727

5,784

(22%)

7,379

(28%)

9,520

(29%)

11,819

(24%)

(150%)

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Leading sires at European select sales 2010-2014 by ratio of avg annual price Sire

Sold

Index

Galileo

191

4.79

Sea The Stars

92

4.33

Montjeu

73

4.25

Dansili

70

3.45

Oasis Dream

124

2.64

New Approach

113

2.53

Dubawi

113

2.26

44

2.14

Shamardal

161

1.90

Pivotal

136

1.72

Danehill Dancer

132

1.62

Pour Moi

30

1.58

Zoffany

47

1.57

Invincible Spirit

202

1.57

Teofilo

186

1.35

Dream Ahead

56

1.34

Raven’s Pass

70

1.33

Poet’s Voice

Index is the ratio of the average price calculated for every year

in particular deserves to be much higher, with Kingman, Charm Spirit and now Muthmir and Shalaa delivering top performances in recent times. Two outstanding sources of speed are Dark Angel and Dutch Art (not shown on table).

Dark Angel is having a great year and he promises to be even better in future with the help of some strong patronage. Incidentally, all of his top ten horses by Timeform rating were sold at public auction. His current score of 0.85 and Dutch Art’s 0.95 look low given the class of runner they’re capable of producing.

Without question this is the market sector to buy the very best, but it’s a sobering thought to know that only 387 graduates from these sales have so far gone on to win a stakes race of some description. At least they include two (three if Golden Horn had found a buyer) of the last four Derby winners, who incidentally averaged just shy of half a million.

And it’s also good to know that top racehorses don’t have to cost the earth at select sales: the 40 Group 1 winners range from the £5,000 paid for top-class sprinter Slade Power at Doncaster in 2010 to the £1,260,000 it took to secure the filly Was the same year at Tattersalls.

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DATA BOOK ANALYSIS BY ANDREW CAULFIELD

European Group 1s 161 CORAL ECLIPSE STAKES G1 SANDOWN PARK. Jul 4. 3yo+. 10f.

1. GOLDEN HORN (GB) 3 8-10 £255,195 b c by Cape Cross - Fleche d’Or (Dubai Destination) O-Mr A. E. Oppenheimer B-Hascombe & Valiant Studs TR-John Gosden 2. The Grey Gatsby (IRE) 4 9-7 £96,750 gr c by Mastercraftsman - Marie Vison (Entrepreneur) O-Mr F. Gillespie B-M. Parrish TR-Kevin Ryan 3. Western Hymn (GB) 4 9-7 £48,420 b g by High Chaparral - Blue Rhapsody (Cape Cross) O-RJH Geffen and Rachel Hood B-Newsells Park Stud Limited TR-John Gosden Margins 3.5, 4.5. Time 2:05.70.

Going Good to Firm.

Age 2-3

Starts 5

Wins 5

Places Earned 0 £1,186,604

Sire: CAPE CROSS. Sire of 102 Stakes winners. In 2015 - GOLDEN HORN Dubai Destination G1, KARPINO Sadler’s Wells G2, CONVERGENCE Nayef G3, AGENT MURPHY Dansili LR, DON’T BE Fasliyev LR, JORDAN PRINCESS Barathea LR, PLEASURE GAINS Vettori LR, RUGGED CROSS Soviet Star LR. 1st Dam: Fleche d’Or by Dubai Destination. unraced.

Dam of 2 winners: 2011: EASTERN BELLE (f Champs Elysees) Winner at 3, Lord Weinstock Mem. Ballymacoll S LR, 2nd New York S G2.

2012: GOLDEN HORN (c Cape Cross) Sold 190,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 5 wins at 2 and 3, Investec Derby S G1, Coral Eclipse S G1, Betfred Dante S G2, Feilden S LR. 2013: Golden Reign (f Champs Elysees) unraced to date.

2014: (f Acclamation) 2nd Dam: NURYANA by Nureyev. 2 wins at 3 Grand Metropolitan S LR. Dam of REBECCA SHARP (f Machiavellian: Coronation S G1, 2nd Queen Elizabeth II S G1), MYSTIC KNIGHT (g Caerleon: Tripleprint Derby Trial S G3), HIDDEN HOPE (f Daylami: Letheby & Christopher Cheshire Oaks LR, 2nd Bet365 Lancashire Oaks G2, Prix de Pomone G2), Rosse (f Kris: 2nd Charles Heidsieck Marshall S LR), Nyarhini (f Fantastic Light: 3rd 32red.com Lupe S LR, intercasino.co.uk Masaka S LR), Nuryandra (f Reference Point: 3rd Chesham S LR). Grandam of TOKEN OF LOVE, OUR OBSESSION, MISS PINKERTON, BROCCO BABE, Grand Central, Fidelia, Farringdon. Third dam of GOLDONI, This Is The Day, Vanity Rules.

O- Stall Nizza B-Juergen Imm TR-P Schiergen 2. Palace Prince (GER) 9-2 £100,775 b c by Areion - Palace Princess (Tiger Hill) O-Gestut Hony-Hof B-Gestut Hony-Hof TR-Andreas Lowe 3. Fair Mountain (GER) 9-2 £60,465 b c by Tiger Hill - Fair Breeze (Silvano) O- Stall Margarethe B- Frau Margrit Wetzel TR-A Wohler Margins 5, 1.75. Time 2:30.54. Going Good.

Age 3

Starts 4

Wins 2

Places 2

Sire: DUKE OF MARMALADE. Sire of 22 Stakes winners. In 2015 - NUTAN Peintre Celebre G1, STAR OF SEVILLE Selkirk G1, BIG ORANGE Fasliyev G2, MOOFEED Encosta de Lago G3, SIMPLE VERSE Sadler’s Wells G3, SOUND OF FREEDOM Invincible Spirit G3.

1st Dam: Neele by Peintre Celebre. 2 wins at 2 and 3 in Germany, 2nd Fahrhofer Stutenpreis G3. Own sister to NIGHT OF MAGIC. Dam of 3 winners: 2009: NYMPHEA (f Dylan Thomas) 3 wins at 3 and 4 in Germany, Grosser Preis von Berlin G1, 2nd Henkel Preis der Diana - Stuten Derby G1.

2010: NOCTURNE (f Rock of Gibraltar) 3 wins at 3 in Germany. Broodmare.

2012: NUTAN (c Duke of Marmalade) 2 wins at 3 in Germany, IDEE Deutsches Derby G1, 3rd Oppenheim Union-Rennen G2.

2013: Nazbanou (f High Chaparral) unraced to date.

2014: Navaro Girl (f Holy Roman Emperor) 2015: Nabatea (f Camelot) 2nd Dam: NIGHT TEENY by Platini. 1 win at 3 in Germany. Dam of NIGHT OF MAGIC (f Peintre Celebre: Oaks d’Italia G2), NIGHT SERENADE (f Golan: Nereide-Rennen LR), Neele (f Peintre Celebre, see above). Grandam of NIGHTFLOWER. Broodmare Sire: PEINTRE CELEBRE. Sire of the dams of 39 Stakes winners. In 2015 - NUTAN Duke of Marmalade G1, NIGHTFLOWER Dylan Thomas G2, LITTLE NIGHTINGALE Muhtathir G3, PERFECT START Perfectly Ready G3, AKATEA Shamardal LR.

NUTAN b c 2012 Danzig Danehill Razyana DUKE OF MARMALADE b 04 Kingmambo Love Me True Lassie’s Lady Nureyev Peintre Celebre

Broodmare Sire: DUBAI DESTINATION. Sire of the dams of 10 Stakes winners. In 2015 GOLDEN HORN Cape Cross G1, POSTPONED Dubawi G1, DUTCH CONNECTION Dutch Art G3, KACHY Kyllachy G3, SLIGHTLY SWEET Charge Forward G3.

The Cape Cross/Dubai Destination cross has produced: GOLDEN HORN G1, Always Smile LR.

GOLDEN HORN b c 2012 Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier CAPE CROSS b/br 94 Ahonoora Park Appeal Balidaress Kingmambo Dubai Destination Mysterial FLECHE D’OR b 06 Nureyev Nuryana Loralane

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Sir Ivor Courtly Dee Lorenzaccio Helen Nichols Balidar Innocence Mr Prospector Miesque Alleged Mysteries Northern Dancer Special Habitat Lora

See race 59 in the July issue 162 IDEE DEUTSCHES DERBY G1 HAMBURG. Jul 5. 3yoc&f. 2400m.

1. NUTAN (IRE) 9-2 £302,326 b c by Duke of Marmalade - Neele (Peintre Celebre)

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Peinture Bleue NEELE ch 04 Platini Night Teeny Nightrockette

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Mr Prospector Miesque Alydar Lassie Dear Northern Dancer Special Alydar Petroleuse Surumu Prairie Darling Rocket Nightlife

It used to be said that there was no surer way of resurrecting a stallion’s career than to give him a one-way ticket to Japan.

Well, in Duke Of Marmalade’s case, it was a ticket to South Africa, to stand at Drakenstein Stud. His sale was announced in May 2014, before his first three-year-olds had had much chance to shine over middle distances.

However, the original high hopes held of this top-notch middle-distance horse are being fulfilled in 2015.

When Nutan stormed home five lengths clear in the Deutsches Derby, he credited his sire with his third 2015 ‘Classic’ success, following Sound Of Freedom’s win in the Gr3 Premio Regina Elena and Star Of Seville’s in the Prix de Diane. For good measure, his son Big Orange took the Gr2 Princess of Wales’s Stakes.

Now a winner of two of his four

starts, Nutan is the second Gr1 winner for his dam, the Group-placed Peintre Celebre mare Neele. His predecessor, the Grosser Preis von Berlin winner Nymphea, was sired by another of Danehill’s best middle-distance sons, namely Dylan Thomas.

Nutan’s second dam Night Teeny was a winning half-sister to Night Petticoat, a Preis der Diana winner who added to her Classic achievements by becoming the dam of the Deutsches Derby winner Next Desert and Preis der Diana winner Next Gina.

Night Teeny herself produced the Oaks d’Italia winner Night Of Magic, who is a sister to Neele. Night Of Magic, in turn, is now the dam of Nightflower, the Dylan Thomas filly who annexed this year’s Gr2 DianaTrial.

Nutan and Nymphea come from the same German female line as the King George winner Novellist.

Novellist’s fifth dam, the top German juvenile filly Night Music, was a sister to Nutan’s fourth dam Nightlife.

Nightlife was also a half-sister to Novelle, winner of the Preis der Diana in 1983.

As a footnote, Nutan subsequently started favourite for the Grosser Preis von Berlin, in which he was third.

163 QIPCO FALMOUTH STAKES G1

STORY Street Cry G3.

The Mastercraftsman/Tale of The Cat cross has produced: AMAZING MARIA G1, PABLOSKY LR.

AMAZING MARIA gr f 2011 Danehill Danehill Dancer Mira Adonde MASTERCRAFTSMAN gr/ro 06 Black Tie Affair Starlight Dreams Reves Celestes Storm Cat Tale of The Cat Yarn MESSIAS DA SILVA b/br 05 A P Indy Indy Power Clever Power

Danzig Razyana Sharpen Up Lettre d’Amour Miswaki Hat Tab Girl Lyphard Tobira Celeste Storm Bird Terlingua Mr Prospector Narrate Seattle Slew Weekend Surprise Lines of Power Clever Miss

See later in this issue under Prix Rothschild, race 172 164 DARLEY JULY CUP G1 NEWMARKET. Jul 11. 3yo+. 6f.

1. MUHAARAR (GB) 3 9-0 £283,550 b c by Oasis Dream - Tahrir (Linamix) O-Mr Hamdan Al Maktoum B-Shadwell Estate Co Ltd TR-Charles Hills 2. Tropics (USA) 7 9-6 £107,500 ch g by Speightstown - Taj Aire (Taj Alriyadh) O-Mr Dean Ivory B-D. Konecny, S. Branch & A. Branch TR-Dean Ivory 3. Eastern Impact (IRE) 4 9-6 £53,800 b g by Bahamian Bounty - Kate The Great (Xaar) O-Exors of the late Mr D. W. Barker B-Airlie Stud TR-Richard Fahey Margins Nose, 1.5. Time 1:09.30.

Going Good to Firm.

Age 2-3

Starts 9

Wins 5

Places 3

Earned £698,677

NEWMARKET. Jul 10. 3yo+f. 8f.

1. AMAZING MARIA (IRE) 4 9-7 £123,344 gr f by Mastercraftsman - Messias da Silva (Tale of The Cat) O-Sir Robert Ogden B-Sir R. Ogden C.B.E., LLD TR-David O’Meara 2. Euro Charline (GB) 4 9-7 £46,763 b f by Myboycharlie - Eurolink Artemis (Common Grounds) O-Team Valor B-Exors of the Late Mr B. J. Liversage TR-Marco Botti 3. Avenir Certain (FR) 4 9-7 £23,403 b f by Le Havre - Puggy (Mark of Esteem) O-A. Caro/G. Augustin-Normand B-Mme E. Vidal TR-Jean Claude Rouget Margins 1, Head. Time 1:42.00. Going Good to Firm.

Age 2-4

Starts 12

Wins 5

Places 3

Earned £381,648

Sire: MASTERCRAFTSMAN. Sire of 19 Stakes winners. In 2015 - AMAZING MARIA Tale of The Cat G1, IVEAGH GARDENS War Chant G3, MASTER APPRENTICE Hawk Wing G3, THEE AULD FLOOZIE Spinning World G3, UPHAM Gold Brose G3, MAMBOMISS Kingmambo LR, MUTATIS MUTANDIS Darshaan LR, NAKUTI Five Star Day LR, OFF LIMITS Efisio LR, VAGUE NOUVELLE Mr Greeley LR. 1st Dam: MESSIAS DA SILVA by Tale of The Cat. Winner at 2. Dam of 1 winner: 2010: Vulcan (g Tiger Hill) ran once.

2011: AMAZING MARIA (f Mastercraftsman) 5 wins at 2 and 4 at home, France, Qipco Falmouth S G1, Prix Rothschild G1, Duke of Cambridge S G2, Whiteley Clinic Prestige S G3, 3rd Lanwades Stud Ridgewood Pearl S G2.

2012: Madame Butterfly (f Rip Van Winkle) 2013: Constantino (c Danehill Dancer) unraced to date.

2014: (f Mastercraftsman) 2015: (c Mastercraftsman) Broodmare Sire: TALE OF THE CAT. Sire of the dams of 35 Stakes winners. In 2015 - AMAZING MARIA Mastercraftsman G1, DORTMUND Big Brown G1, ADRIFT Zabeel G2, PETALA Captain Al G3, STREET

Sire: OASIS DREAM. Sire of 96 Stakes winners. In 2015 - GOLDREAM Machiavellian G1, MUHAARAR Linamix G1, CLADOCERA Pivotal G2, ERTIJAAL Seeking The Gold LR, MIRZA Primo Dominie LR, MOOHAARIB Selkirk LR, MUARRAB Wolfhound LR, NAADIRR High Chaparral LR, PEARLY STEPH Pivotal LR. 1st Dam: Tahrir by Linamix. 2 wins at 3, 2nd Tote Ten to Follow Wentworth S LR. Own sister to MISTER CHARM. Dam of 5 winners: 2007: Tamaathul (g Tiger Hill) 3 wins, 2nd Dubal Firebreak S G3.

2008: Raasekha (f Pivotal) Winner at 3, 3rd Mobile Casino EBF Conqueror S LR. Broodmare.

2009: SAJWAH (f Exceed And Excel) 2 wins at 2, Irish Stall.Farm EBF Dick Poole S LR. 2010: RUFOOF (f Zamindar) 2 wins at 3.

Broodmare.

2012: MUHAARAR (c Oasis Dream) 5 wins at 2 and 3, Darley July Cup G1, Commonwealth Cup G1, Irish TB Marketing Gimcrack S G2, AON Greenham S G3, 3rd vision.ae Middle Park S G1, Portland Place Properties July S G2, Titanic Belfast Winkfield S LR. 2013: Mootaharer (c Dubawi) unraced to date.

2nd Dam: MISS SACHA by Last Tycoon.

1 win at 3 Topaz Sprint S LR. Dam of MISTER SACHA (c Tiger Hill: Prix de Guiche G3, 3rd Prix Daniel Wildenstein Casino Barrierre G2), MISTER CHARM (g Linamix: Prix Djebel LR, Prix Jacques de Bremond LR (twice), 2nd Prix de la Jonchere G3, Prix des Chenes G3), Tahrir (f Linamix, see above) Broodmare Sire: LINAMIX. Sire of the dams of 87 Stakes winners. In 2015 - MUHAARAR Oasis Dream G1, SUMBAL Danehill Dancer G2, CARLA BIANCA Dansili G3, EYE IN THE SKY Sinndar G3, ASHLAN Dansili LR, AVABIN Amadeus Wolf LR, ROYAL DOLOIS Silver Frost LR, WOMAN O WAR Kingda Ka LR. The Oasis Dream/Linamix cross has produced: MUHAARAR G1, THAI HAKU G2, ALBARAAH G3.

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Caulfield on Territories: “The Jean Prat winner is a reminder that some of Green Desert’s stallion sons have achieved extremely good statistics with Machiavellian’s broodmare daughters”

MUHAARAR b c 2012 Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier OASIS DREAM b 00 Dancing Brave Hope Bahamian Mendez Linamix Lunadix TAHRIR gr 02 Last Tycoon Miss Sacha Heaven High

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Sir Ivor Courtly Dee Lyphard Navajo Princess Mill Reef Sorbus Bellypha Miss Carina Breton Lutine Try My Best Mill Princess High Line Triumphant

See race 124 in the August issue 165 PRIX JEAN PRAT G1 CHANTILLY. Jul 12. 3yoc&f. 1600m.

1. TERRITORIES (IRE) 9-2 £177,178 b c by Invincible Spirit - Taranto (Machiavellian) O-Godolphin S.N.C. B-Darley TR-A. Fabre 2. Dutch Connection (GB) 9-2 £70,884 ch c by Dutch Art - Endless Love (Dubai Destination) O-Mrs Susan Roy and Cheveley Park Stud B-Mrs S. M. Roy TR-Charles Hills 3. Sir Andrew (FR) 9-2 £35,442 b c by Polan - High Zaff (High Chaparral) O-Cuadra Jarilla B- A Jordan Torres TR-Fernando Perez-Gonzalez Margins 0.5, 6. Time 1:36.12. Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 7

Wins 3

Places 4

Earned £409,384

Sire: INVINCIBLE SPIRIT. Sire of 93 Stakes winners.

In 2015 - TERRITORIES Machiavellian G1, IMPASSABLE Green Tune G2, MUTHMIR Danehill G2, SHALAA War Chant G2, CABLE BAY Diktat G3, LOCAL TIME Medicean G3, ARCTIC GYR Kris S LR, GRENDISAR Mark of Esteem LR, MR OWEN Theatrical LR, PRETEND Indian Ridge LR, PROFITABLE Indian Ridge LR, RIVELLINO Pivotal LR, THAT IS THE SPIRIT Acatenango LR. 1st Dam: Taranto by Machiavellian. 2nd EBF River Eden Fillies’ S LR, 2 wins at 2 in France. Dam of 4 winners: 2008: GIREVOLE (g Tiger Hill) Winner at 3 in France.

2009: GREEK COLONY (g Pivotal) 5 wins at 3 to 5 in Greece.

2010: ITALIAN (g Pivotal) 2 wins at 3 in France.

2011: Treaty of Sparta (c Oasis Dream) unraced.

2012: TERRITORIES (c Invincible Spirit) 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix Jean Prat G1, Prix de Fontainebleau G3, 2nd Qipco 2000 Guineas G1, Qatar PX Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere Gd.Crit G1, 3rd Prix La Rochette G3.

2014: (c Invincible Spirit) 2015: (f Sepoy) 2nd Dam: MAGNA GRAECIA by Warning. 5 wins at 3 and 4 in France Prix de Barbeville G3. Dam of Taranto (f Machiavellian, see above) Broodmare Sire: MACHIAVELLIAN. Sire of the dams of 107 Stakes winners. In 2015 - GOLDREAM Oasis Dream G1, SAKHEE’S SOLDIER Sakhee’s Secret G1, SHAMAL WIND Dubawi G1, TERRITORIES Invincible Spirit G1, INCANTATION Sinister Minister G3.

The Invincible Spirit/Machiavellian cross has produced: HOORAY G1, TERRITORIES G1, CONQUEST G2, LOCKWOOD G2, SPIRIT OF FORTUNE LR, TANTSHI LR.

TERRITORIES b c 2012 Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier INVINCIBLE SPIRIT b 97 Kris Rafha Eljazzi Mr Prospector Machiavellian Coup de Folie TARANTO b 03 Warning Magna Graecia Grecian Slipper

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Sir Ivor Courtly Dee Sharpen Up Doubly Sure Artaius Border Bounty Raise A Native Gold Digger Halo Raise The Standard Known Fact Slightly Dangerous Sadler’s Wells Helen Street

For the third time in nine years, the Irish National Stud’s Invincible Spirit was responsible for the winner of the Prix Jean Prat. The first two legs of the treble were provided by Lawman in 2007 and Charm Spirit in 2014, and in 2015 it was the turn of Territories. This colt had earlier followed in the footsteps of another of Invincible Spirit’s best sons, Kingman, by finishing second in the 2,000 Guineas.

Territories is a reminder that some of Green Desert’s stallion sons have achieved extremely good statistics with Machiavellian’s broodmare daughters. For example, Oasis Dream has the Gr1 winners Goldream and Naaqoos among his 18 foals and Invincible Spirit has a similarly impressive record. From 36 foals Invincible Spirit has had 24 winners, with as many as six enjoying blacktype success. This combination owes its success largely to speed – often precocious speed – notably producing Hooray (Gr1 Cheveley Park Stakes), Conquest (Gr2 Gimcrack Stakes) and Lockwood (a speedy dual Gr3 winner). Although he has a May 7 birthday, Territories was also very useful at two, as he showed when beaten less than a length, despite being hampered, by the demoted Gleneagles in the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere. Machiavellian also sired the second dam of Charm Spirit, the 2014 Jean Prat winner who went on to take the Prix du Moulin and Queen Elizabeth II Stakes.

Invincible Spirit’s success with grand-daughters of Mr Prospector isn’t limited to Machiavellian, as Lawman, who won the Prix du Jockey-Club prior to the Jean Prat, is out of a mare by Gulch.

Territories pedigree is a reminder that Sheikh Mohammed’s involvement in British racing and breeding now extends to several decades. Not only did the sheikh breed Territories under the Darley banner but also the colt’s first three dams, Taranto, Magna Graecia and Grecian Slipper. All three of these mares were above average, with Taranto and Magna Graecia respectively achieving Timeform ratings of 111 and 112. Magna Graecia was a Gr3 winner over nearly two miles, so it is understandable that Taranto stayed quite well for a daughter of Machiavellian.

Territories’s fourth dam is the Irish Oaks winner Helen Street, who visited Taranto’s sire Machiavellian to produce the highly successful Street Cry and the useful Helsinki, who supplied Darley with another top stallion in Shamardal.

3. Storm The Stars (USA) 9-2 £53,163 b c by Sea The Stars - Love Me Only (Sadler’s Wells) O-Sheikh Juma Dalmook Al Maktoum B-Summer Wind Farm TR-William Haggas Margins 2, 1.25. Time 2:31.07. Going Good.

Age 3

Starts 4

LONGCHAMP. Jul 14. 3yoc&f. 2400m.

1. ERUPT (IRE) 9-2 £265,767 b c by Dubawi - Mare Nostrum (Caerleon) O-Niarchos Family B-The Niarchos Family TR-Francis-Henri Graffard 2. Ampere (FR) 9-2 £106,326 c by Galileo - Amorama (Sri Pekan) O-Scea Haras De Saint Pair B-Scea Haras De Saint Pair TR-A Fabre

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Places 0

Earned £324,295

Sire: DUBAWI. Sire of 102 Stakes winners. In 2015 AL KAZEEM Darshaan G1, ERUPT Caerleon G1, HUNTER’S LIGHT Barathea G1, NEW BAY Zamindar G1, NIGHT OF THUNDER Galileo G1, POSTPONED Dubai Destination G1, PRINCE BISHOP Prospect Bay G1, SHAMAL WIND Machiavellian G1, SRIKANDI Hurricane Sky G1, BALL OF MUSCLE Gold Brose G2, BAWINA Sadler’s Wells G2, CATKINS Catbird G2, MUBTAAHIJ Pennekamp G2, SAFETY CHECK Royal Academy G2.

1st Dam: MARE NOSTRUM by Caerleon. 2 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix Vanteaux G3, 2nd Prix Saint-Alary G1, 3rd Prix Vermeille-Hermitage Barriere G1. Dam of 4 winners: 2003: HURRICANE MIST (f Spinning World) Winner at 2 in France. Broodmare.

2004: Hespera (f Danehill). Dam of LADY PENKO (f Archipenko: 2 wins at 3 in France, Prix Caravelle-Haras des Granges LR, 3rd Pour Moi Coolmore Prix Saint-Alary G1), NANDO (g Hernando: 5 wins over jumps at 3 and 5 in France, Grande Course de Haies de Cagnes Hurdle LR, 2nd Prix Duc d’Anjou Chase G3, 3rd Prix Congress Chase G2) 2006: ROMAN REPUBLIC (g Cape Cross) 3 wins at 2 and 3.

2007: MARIE DE MEDICI (f Medicean) 2 wins at 2 and 3, stanjames.com Pretty Polly S LR, 2nd Prix des Reservoirs-Haras d’Etreham G3.

Dam of LOCAL TIME (f Invincible Spirit: 6 wins at 2 and 3 at home, UAE, TriConnex Oh So Sharp S G3, S & M Al Naboodah UAE Oaks G3) 2008: Our Sea (f Kingmambo). Broodmare.

2009: Makiwara (f Smart Strike) 2010: Inner Sea (f Henrythenavigator). Broodmare.

2011: Mediteranea (f Smart Strike) ran on the flat in France and over jumps in France.

2012: ERUPT (c Dubawi) 4 wins at 3 in France, Juddmonte Grand Prix de Paris G1, Prix du Lys Longines G3, Coupe des Trois Ans LR. 2013: Eight And Bob (c Big Bad Bob) unraced to date.

2014: (f Medicean) 2015: (c Dutch Art) 2nd Dam: SALVORA by Spectacular Bid. 1 win at 3 in France. Dam of AUBE INDIENNE (f Bluebird: Yellow Ribbon Invitational H G1, 2nd Matriarch S G1, 3rd Santa Ana H G1), MARE NOSTRUM (f Caerleon, see above), SPECIAL GALLERY (f Tate Gallery: Classico Tiradentes LR, 3rd Grande Premio Cordeiro da Graca G2), RAISONNABLE (f Common Grounds: Prix Ronde de Nuit LR, 2nd Prix de la Grotte G3, Prix des Reservoirs G3). Grandam of COMMON WORLD, SENSIBLE, SPECIALE, Ciel Rouge, Strength, Maruka Hannibal, Sunday Whisper, Santa Agata.

Third dam of PEAR TART, LAURENCIANO, SUCK OUT QUEEN, Band On The Run. Fourth dam of ALEGRIA DE POBRE, Hazelberry.

Broodmare Sire: CAERLEON. Sire of the dams of 186 Stakes winners. In 2015 - ERUPT Dubawi G1, CAFE BRILLIANT Brian’s Time G2.

The Dubawi/Caerleon cross has produced: ANNA SALAI G1, ERUPT G1.

ERUPT b c 2012 Dubai Millennium

166 JUDDMONTE GRAND PRIX DE PARIS G1

Wins 4

DUBAWI b 02 Zomaradah

Caerleon MARE NOSTRUM b 98 Salvora

Seeking The Gold Mr Prospector Con Game Colorado Dancer Shareef Dancer Fall Aspen Shirley Heights Deploy Slightly Dangerous Dancing Brave Jawaher High Tern Northern Dancer Nijinsky Flaming Page Round Table Foreseer Regal Gleam Bold Bidder Spectacular Bid Spectacular Sir Ivor Grand Luxe Fanfreluche

The turnaround in Dubawi’s fortunes over the last few years has been nothing short of sensational – so much so that it is easy to forget that breeders’ interest in him stalled significantly in his third and fourth years. In fact it stalled so much in his third year (when he stood at Kildangan) that he was left with a crop of 76 foals (compared to 117 in his first crop and 115 in his second). Even dropping his fee to £15,000 in 2009 didn’t help, with Dubawi’s fourth crop numbering only 62 foals.

Fortunately those large initial crops did so eye-catchingly well that by 2011 Dubawi’s fee stood at £55,000. Now, four years later, the three-year-olds resulting from those 2011 coverings are busily proving that Dubawi is worth every penny of the £125,000 charged for his services in 2015. Seven of the 114 members of this 2012 crop have so far become Group winners, with another four winning at Listed level. Among them are winners of two of France’s top prizes.

Firstly the Prix du Jockey-Club was won by New Bay and now the Grand Prix de Paris has seen the Niarchos family’s Erupt improve his record to four wins from four starts.

The choice of Dubawi as the 2011 mate for Erupt’s dam, Caerleon’s daughter Mare Nostrum, no doubt owed a lot to the 2010 efforts of Anna Salai, another of Dubawi’s foals out of a Caerleon mare. Anna Salai challenged for the Irish 1,000 Guineas, having won the Gr3 Prix de la Grotte, and she looked to be on her way to victory until Bethrah caught her on the line.

The dams of Anna Salai and Erupt were both Gr3 winners in France, and Mare Nostrum also did well at Gr1 level, failing by only a head to win the Prix Saint-Alary before finishing third in the Prix Vermeille. Mare Nostrum clearly stayed quite well and she has succeeded in passing on her stamina to Erupt. Her best previous effort as a broodmare was the tough ten-furlong filly Marie de Medici, now the dam of this year’s UAE 1,000 Guineas and Oaks winner Local Time.

Mare Nostrum was one of several talented daughters of Salvora, a minor French winner by the top American middle-distance horse Spectacular Bid. Best of the others was Aube Indienne, a Bluebird filly who was transformed from Listed winner in France to Gr1 winner in the USA, where she took the Yellow Ribbon Stakes over a mile and a quarter.

This is an outstanding female line, as Erupt’s fourth dam is the champion American filly Fanfreluche, a sister to that good stallion Night Shift. Erupt’s third dam Grand Luxe maintained the family’s reputation for producing talented stallions, thanks to her Australian grandson Flying Spur and great-grandson Encosta de Lago.

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DATA BOOK STAKES RESULTS

European Group 1s 167 DARLEY IRISH OAKS G1 CURRAGH. Jul 18. 3yof. 12f.

1. COVERT LOVE (IRE) 9-0 £179,845 b f by Azamour - Wing Stealth (Hawk Wing) O-FOMO Syndicate B-Sommerville Bloodstock TR-Hugo Palmer 2. Jack Naylor (GB) 9-0 £58,915 b f by Champs Elysees - Fashionable (Nashwan) O-Gerard Byrne B-Mr O. D. Costello TR-Mrs J. Harrington 3. Curvy (GB) 9-0 £27,907 b/br f by Galileo - Frappe (Inchinor) O-Mrs John Magnier,Mr M.Tabor & Mr D.Smith B-Norelands & Mr H. Lascelles TR-David Wachman Margins 1.75, Head. Time 2:30.38. Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 5

Wins 4

Places 0

Earned £393,694

Sire: AZAMOUR. Sire of 30 Stakes winners. In 2015 COVERT LOVE Hawk Wing G1, DOLNIYA Indian Ridge G1, ZANNDA Dalakhani G3, LETTERS OF NOTE Almutawakel LR. 1st Dam: Wing Stealth by Hawk Wing. Dam of 2 winners: 2010: Montjess (f Montjeu) 2011: STEALTH MISSILE (f Invincible Spirit) 2 wins at 2 and 3.

2012: COVERT LOVE (f Azamour) Sold 20,131gns yearling at GOOY1. 3 wins at 3, Darley Irish Oaks G1, Betfred TV EBF Hoppings S LR. 2013: Princesse Eva (f Manduro) 2nd Dam: Starlight Smile by Green Dancer. unraced.

Dam of Portrait of A Lady (f Peintre Celebre: 3rd Aphrodite S LR). Grandam of MISS YOU TOO, Rougemont, Vitruvian Man. Broodmare Sire: HAWK WING. Sire of the dams of 4 Stakes winners. In 2015 - COVERT LOVE Azamour G1, MASTER APPRENTICE Mastercraftsman G3.

COVERT LOVE b f 2012 Northern Dancer Night Shift Ciboulette AZAMOUR b 01 Lear Fan Asmara Anaza Woodman Hawk Wing La Lorgnette WING STEALTH br 05 Green Dancer Starlight Smile Bubinka

Nearctic Natalma Chop Chop Windy Answer Roberto Wac Darshaan Azaarika Mr Prospector Playmate Val de L’Orne The Temptress Nijinsky Green Valley Nashua Stolen Date

There were some very valuable fillies among the nine contenders in the Irish Oaks, but the result provided encouragement for any owner or breeder forced to operate on a restricted budget. Victory went to Covert Love, who was unsold for €26,000 as a yearling after being conceived at a fee of €15,000. And her nearest pursuer was Jack Naylor, who was in utero when her dam Fashionable was sold by Juddmonte for only 10,000gns.

The progressive Covert Love is by Azamour, who died at 13 following an accident midway through the 2014 breeding season. Although Azamour had the distinction of being a major Gr1 winner over eight, ten and 12 furlongs, this admirable son of Night Shift was never hugely fashionable as a stallion and his fee in his final season was only €8,000, compared to the €25,000 he started out at.

Despite not always having numbers on his side, Azamour left quite a rich legacy, with his daughters playing a

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leading role. Dolniya (Dubai Sheema Classic), Valyra (Prix de Diane), Eleanora Druse, Shankardeh and No Explaining rank among the best of Covert Love’s predecessors.

Covert Love’s broodmare sire Hawk Wing was something of a ‘Marmite’ character. Those who liked him could point out that he won three of his four juvenile starts; that he added the 2002 Eclipse at three after finishing second in the 2,000 Guineas and Derby; and that he was officially rated the best horse seen anywhere in 2003, on the strength of his 11length win in the Lockinge Stakes.

Those who felt that Hawk Wing never quite fulfilled all the hype were able to point to his stallion career in their belief that he was overrated. He failed to sire anything greatly out of the ordinary and it wasn’t long before he was heading for South Korea.

Covert Love’s dam Wing Stealth failed to win in nine starts, but was conceived at a fee of €25,000, which reflects the quality of her outstanding female line. Covert Love’s fifth dam is Stolen Hour, whose legacy was based largely on her broodmare daughters Best In Show and Stolen Date. The Best In Show branch is the better known of the two, thanks to such as El Gran Senor, Aldebaran, Xaar, Spinning World, Try My Best, Domedriver, Redoute’s Choice, Rags To Riches and Close Hatches.

Stolen Date was best known as the dam of the successful Irish stallion Taufan (grandsire of Canford Cliffs), but she also produced the talented sisters Stoshka, a Listed winner over a mile and a half, and Bubinka, winner of the Gr3 Premio Buontalenta over a mile. Bubinka ranks as the second dam of Irish Derby winner Grey Swallow and now she is the third dam of Covert Love and of the Hong Kong Horse of the Year Designs On Rome.

168 KING GEORGE VI & QUEEN ELIZABETH STAKES G1 ASCOT. Jul 25. 3yo+. 12f.

1. POSTPONED (IRE) 4 9-7 £689,027 b c by Dubawi - Ever Rigg (Dubai Destination) O-Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum B-St Albans Bloodstock LLP TR-Luca Cumani 2. Eagle Top (GB) 4 9-7 £261,225 ch c by Pivotal - Gull Wing (In The Wings) O-Lady Bamford B-Lady Bamford TR-John Gosden 3. Romsdal (GB) 4 9-7 £130,734 ch c by Halling - Pure Song (Singspiel) O-Godolphin B-W. & R. Barnett Ltd TR-John Gosden Margins Nose, 3.75. Time 2:31.20. Going Soft.

Age 2-4

Starts 12

Wins 4

Places 7

Earned £980,532

Sire: DUBAWI. Sire of 102 Stakes winners. In 2015 AL KAZEEM Darshaan G1, ERUPT Caerleon G1, HUNTER’S LIGHT Barathea G1, NEW BAY Zamindar G1, NIGHT OF THUNDER Galileo G1, POSTPONED Dubai Destination G1, PRINCE BISHOP Prospect Bay G1, SHAMAL WIND Machiavellian G1, SRIKANDI Hurricane Sky G1, BALL OF MUSCLE Gold Brose G2, BAWINA Sadler’s Wells G2, CATKINS Catbird G2, MUBTAAHIJ Pennekamp G2, SAFETY CHECK Royal Academy G2.

1st Dam: EVER RIGG by Dubai Destination. Winner at 3. Dam of 1 winner: 2010: Neamour (f Oasis Dream) 2011: POSTPONED (c Dubawi) Sold 360,000gns

2013: 2014: 2015:

yearling at TAOC1. 4 wins at 2 to 4, King George VI & Queen Elizabeth S G1, Neptune Great Voltigeur S G2, EBF Stallions Glasgow S LR, 2nd bet365 Gordon Richards S G3, 3rd Tattersalls Gold Cup G1, Hardwicke S G2, Novae Bloodstock Insurance Craven S G3, Tercentenary S G3. (g Iffraaj) (f Nathaniel) (c Makfi)

2nd Dam: BIANCA NERA by Salse. Champion 2yr old filly in Ireland in 1996. 3 wins at 2 Moyglare Stud S G1.

Dam of Bite of The Cherry (f Dalakhani: 2nd Golden Square Centre Chester H LR, Stowe Family Law LLP Grand Cup LR), Pietra Dura (f Cadeaux Genereux: 2nd Victor McCalmont Memorial EBF S LR). Grandam of ROBIN HOODS BAY, TURNING TOP. Broodmare Sire: DUBAI DESTINATION. Sire of the dams of 10 Stakes winners. In 2015 - GOLDEN HORN Cape Cross G1, POSTPONED Dubawi G1, DUTCH CONNECTION Dutch Art G3, KACHY Kyllachy G3, SLIGHTLY SWEET Charge Forward G3.

POSTPONED b c 2011 Dubai Millennium DUBAWI b 02 Zomaradah

Dubai Destination EVER RIGG b 05 Bianca Nera

Seeking The Gold Mr Prospector Con Game Colorado Dancer Shareef Dancer Fall Aspen Shirley Heights Deploy Slightly Dangerous Dancing Brave Jawaher High Tern Mr Prospector Kingmambo Miesque Alleged Mysterial Mysteries Topsider Salse Carnival Princess Carwhite Birch Creek Deed

When Postponed pushed his nose ahead of Eagle Top’s to land the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, he became no less than the ninth Gr1 winner of the year for the remarkable Dubawi. Two of those Gr1 winners were the Australian fillies Srikandi and Shamal Wind, but the northern hemisphere septet is an all-male collection, featuring Hunter’s Light, Prince Bishop, Night Of Thunder, Al Kazeem, New Bay, Erupt and now Postponed.

Of these seven, five recorded their Gr1 success from a mile and a quarter to a mile and a half.

Postponed is one of them, even though his pedigree doesn’t shout top-class mile-and-a-half ability. Both his sire Dubawi and broodmare sire Dubai Destination were top winners over seven furlongs at two before becoming Gr1 winners over a mile.

Don’t forget, though, that both of these stallions were far from disgraced when they made their solitary venture over middle distances, with Dubawi’s effort being his third in the Derby.

Dubai Destination’s progeny have an average winning distance of 9.9 furlongs, so perhaps it isn’t so surprising that his broodmare daughters have produced the winners of both of 2015’s richest mile-and-ahalf races in Britain, with Golden Horn taking the Derby and Postponed the King George. Postponed is inbred 4 x 4 to Mr Prospector, something he shares with Prix du Jockey-Club winner New Bay. Postponed’s dam Ever Rigg won a 12-furlong maiden in the April of her three-year-old season, so she clearly

had no stamina issues, even though her dam Bianca Nera was a fast daughter of the seven-furlong specialist Salse. After a debut victory over five furlongs, Bianca Nera progressed to win the Gr2 Lowther Stakes over six and the Gr1 Moyglare Stud Stakes over seven. Bianca Nera’s half-sister, the very useful two-year-old Hotelgenie Dot Com, produced the dual Gr1 winner Simply Perfect (Fillies’ Mile and Falmouth Stakes).

Their dam, Birch Creek, failed to win in six starts, even though she was beaten little more than a length in the Gr3 Premio Royal Mares over a mile.

Postponed’s fourth dam, the speedy two-year-old Deed, also produced a Gr3-winning sprinter in Great Deeds, but her fifth dam Aurorabella was a sister to the Goodwood Cup winner Double Bore.

Aurorabella’s half-sister Life Sentence was the dam of the 2,000 Guineas winner Only For Life.

169 GROSSER DALLMAYR BAYERISCHES ZUCHTRENNEN G1 MUNICH. Jul 26. 3yo+. 2000m.

1. GUILIANI (IRE) 4 9-6 £77,519 br c by Tertullian - Guadalupe (Monsun) O-Stall Ullmann B-Baron G. v. Ullmann TR-Jean-Pierre Carvalho 2. Ajalo (FR) 3 8-10 £23,256 b c by King’s Best - Wings of Glory (Monsun) O- Stall Lucky Owner B-Klaus Hofmann TR-Waldemar Hickst 3. Wunder (GER) 4 9-3 £11,628 ch f by Adlerflug - Wonderful World (Dashing Blade) O-Gestut Gorlsdorf B- Gestut Gorlsdoff TR-Markus Klug Margins 0.5, Short Head. Time 2:07.52. Going Good.

Age 3-4

Starts 9

Wins 4

Places 3

Earned £144,109

Sire: TERTULLIAN. Sire of 17 Stakes winners. In 2015 - GUILIANI Monsun G1, KEROSIN Monsun LR. 1st Dam: GUADALUPE by Monsun. Jt Champion 3yr old filly in Germany in 2002. 4 wins at 2 and 3 in Germany, Italy, Oaks d’Italia G1, 2nd Aston Upthorpe Yorkshire Oaks G1, Gran Premio del Jockey Club G1, 3rd Ostermann - Diana Deutsches Stuten Derby G1.

Own sister to GETAWAY and Guardia. Dam of 5 winners: 2004: Guendalina (f Kingmambo) unraced.

Broodmare.

2005: GUANTANA (f Dynaformer) 3 wins at 3 and 4 in Germany, Monsun Oster Stutenpreis LR, Siemens Rennen - Hanshin-Cup LR, 2nd Walther J Jacobs Stutenpreis G3. Dam of GUARDINI (c Dalakhani: 3 wins at 3 and 4 in France, Germany, Gerling Preis G2) 2006: Glicine (f Tiger Hill) unraced. Broodmare.

2007: GUIANA (f Tiger Hill) Winner at 3 in Germany.

Broodmare.

2008: Guenea (f Sinndar) unraced. Broodmare.

2010: GLEE (f Dansili) 2 wins at 4 in Germany.

2011: GUILIANI (c Tertullian) 4 wins at 3 and 4 in France, Germany, Grosser Dallmayr Bayerisches Zuchtrennen G1, Prix Matchem LR, Fruhjahrs-Meile C.J.Versicherungskontors LR, 2nd Badener Meile G2, Grosser Preis der Wirtschaft G3, Wettmeister Fruhjahrsmeile G3.

2012: GUIGNOL (c Cape Cross) Winner at 3 in Germany.

2013: Gauguin (c Tertullian) unraced to date.

2015: (f Lawman) 2nd Dam: Guernica by Unfuwain. unraced. Dam of GETAWAY (c Monsun: Grosser Mercedes-Benz Preis von Baden G1, Deutschland Preis - Freunde und Forderer G1, 2nd Gran Premio di Milano G1, Rheinland-Pokal G1), GUADALUPE (f Monsun, see above), GUADALAJARA (f Acatenango: Grand Prix de Lyon - Radio Scoop LR, 2nd Prix de Pomone G2),

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Guardia (f Monsun: 3rd Japan Racing Association Trophy LR) Broodmare Sire: MONSUN. Sire of the dams of 38 Stakes winners. In 2015 - GUILIANI Tertullian G1, KAPOUR Toylsome LR, KEROSIN Tertullian LR, MILLE ET MILLE Muhtathir LR. The Tertullian/Monsun cross has produced: GUILIANI G1, KEROSIN G3, Latakia LR.

GUILIANI br c 2011 Raise A Native Gold Digger Buckpasser Hopespringseternal Rose Bower Sharpen Up Trempolino Trephine Lombard Allegretta Anatevka Dschingis Khan Konigsstuhl Konigskronung Surumu Mosella Monasia Northern Dancer Unfuwain Height of Fashion Riverman Greenvera Greenway Mr Prospector

Miswaki TERTULLIAN ch 95 Turbaine

Monsun GUADALUPE br 99 Guernica

Stallions descending from the Allegretta female line have enjoyed extensive success at Gr1 level, with Galileo, King’s Best, Black Sam Bellamy, Sea The Stars and Anabaa Blue all contributing at least one winner at the top level.

Now Allegretta’s grandson Tertullian can be added to the European list, following the success of his son Guiliani in a closely-fought Grosser Dallmayr-Preis (to be fair to Tertullian, another of his German sons, Mawingo, had already hit the Gr1 target, but in the Doomben Cup in Australia).

Tertullian was one of the speedier members of his family, no doubt thanks to being a son of Miswaki (who also sired Allegretta’s remarkable daughter Urban Sea).

Although Tertullian never won above Gr3 level, he did well at around seven furlongs, winning a total of five Group races in Germany, Italy and France.

He has sired a couple of winners of the German 2,000 Guineas and Guiliani is also effective at a mile, though he is clearly suited by a mile and a quarter.

There is plenty of stamina on Guiliani’s dam’s side, as his dam Guadalupe won the Oaks d’Italia and was second in the Yorkshire Oaks.

Her stakes-winning daughter Guantana also has a smart son in Guardini, a Group winner over a mile and a half in France and Germany. Guadalupe’s brother Getaway originally made his name as a stayer, notably winning the Gr2 Prix Kergorlay, but he later shone at around a mile and a half, once finishing a good fourth in the Arc. Guiliani’s second dam Guernica never raced but, at 140,000gns, she was easily the highest-priced Unfuwain yearling of 1995.

Guernica was the first foal of Greenvera, whose third foal, Royal Rebel, won the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot in 2001 and 2002. Guiliani’s fourth dam, Greenway, was one of the fastest French juveniles of 1980,

even though her dam Gracious was a half-sister to Gold River, the remarkably versatile Riverman filly whose wins included the Prix Royal-Oak, Prix du Cadran and the Arc. Gold River’s success led to Greenway also being sent to Riverman, the result being the twice-raced Greenvera. Greenway also produced the very useful sprinter Way West, but her half-sister Gracious Lassie did better, producing the Gr1-winning juveniles Oczy Czarnie and Glaieuil. Greenway also ranks as the third dam of that admirable international filly Alexander Goldrun.

170 QATAR SUSSEX STAKES G1 GOODWOOD. Jul 29. 3yo+. 8f.

1. SOLOW (GB) 5 9-8 £560,200 gr g by Singspiel - High Maintenance (Highest Honor) O-Wertheimer et Frere B-Wertheimer et Frere TR-F. Head 2. Arod (IRE) 4 9-8 £213,300 b c by Teofilo - My Personal Space (Rahy) O-Qatar Racing Limited B-Kabansk Ltd & Rathbarry Stud TR-Peter Chapple-Hyam 3. Gabrial (IRE) 6 9-8 £106,800 b g by Dark Angel - Guajira (Mtoto) O-Dr Marwan Koukash B-B. Kennedy TR-Richard Fahey Margins 0.5, 2.25. Time 1:39.10. Going Good.

Age 2-5

Starts 16

Wins 11

Places Earned 4 £3,415,919

171 QATAR NASSAU STAKES G1 GOODWOOD. Aug 1. 3yo+f. 9f 110yds.

1. LEGATISSIMO (IRE) 3 8-12 £340,260 b f by Danehill Dancer - Yummy Mummy (Montjeu) O-Mr M. Tabor, D. Smith & Mrs John Magnier B-Newsells Park Stud Limited TR-David Wachman 2. Wedding Vow (IRE) 3 8-12 £129,000 b f by Galileo - Remember When (Danehill Dancer) O-Mr M. Tabor, D. Smith & Mrs John Magnier B-Remember When Syndicate TR-Aidan O’Brien 3. Arabian Queen (IRE) 3 8-12 £64,560 b f by Dubawi - Barshiba (Barathea) O-Mr J. C. Smith B-Littleton Stud TR-David Elsworth Margins 2.25, 1.5. Time 2:06.00. Going Good to Firm.

Age 2-3

Starts 9

Wins 4

Places 4

Earned £753,050

Sire: DANEHILL DANCER. Sire of 168 Stakes winners. In 2015 - LEGATISSIMO Montjeu G1, SUMBAL Linamix G2, WALTZING MATILDA Gone West G2, AFFAIRE SOLITAIRE Alzao G3, OSAILA Entrepreneur G3, JAZZI TOP Zafonic LR. 1st Dam: YUMMY MUMMY by Montjeu. Winner at 3.

Own sister to FAME AND GLORY. Dam of 2 winners: 2010: ANOTHER COCKTAIL (g Dalakhani) Winner at 3.

2011: Royal Battalion (g Sea The Stars) 2012: LEGATISSIMO (f Danehill Dancer) Sold 350,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 4 wins at 2 and 3, Qatar Nassau S G1, Qipco 1000 Guineas G1, ISF Victor McCalmont Memorial EBF S LR, 2nd Investec Oaks S G1, Sea the Stars Pretty Polly S G1, Flame of Tara EBF S LR. 2014: (f Redoute’s Choice) 2015: (f Shamardal)

Sire: SINGSPIEL. Sire of 101 Stakes winners.

1st Dam: High Maintenance by Highest Honor. 3 wins at 2 to 4 in France, 2nd G. P. de Lyon Etape du Defi du Galop LR, Prix La Moskowa LR, 3rd Qatar Prix Gladiateur G3. Dam of 1 winner: 2010: SOLOW (g Singspiel) 11 wins at 3 to 5 at home, France, UAE, Queen Anne S G1, Qatar Sussex S G1, Prix d’Ispahan G1, DP World Dubai Turf G1, Qatar Prix Daniel Wildenstein G2, Prix Quincey - Lucien Barriere G3.

2011: Too High (c High Chaparral) 2012: Prime Spot (c High Chaparral) unraced to date.

2013: High Quality (f Invincible Spirit) unraced to date.

2015: Lunch Lady (f Shamardal) 2nd Dam: FABULOUS HOSTESS by Fabulous Dancer. 7 wins at 2 to 4 in France CIGA Prix de Royallieu G2. Dam of HOSTESSANTE (f Pleasant Colony: Prix de la Seine LR), High Maintenance (f Highest Honor, see above). Grandam of FACOLTOSO, COLONY BAND, Aspasia de Mileto. Third dam of COLIZEO. Broodmare Sire: HIGHEST HONOR. Sire of the dams of 62 Stakes winners. In 2015 - SOLOW Singspiel G1, REVE MISTRAL King Kamehameha G2, FLY WITH ME Beat Hollow LR. The Singspiel/Highest Honor cross has produced: SOLOW G1, AU REVOIR G2.

2nd Dam: Gryada by Shirley Heights. 2 wins at 2, 3rd Premio Dormello G3. Own sister to Golan Heights.

Dam of FAME AND GLORY (c Montjeu: Ascot Gold Cup G1, Tattersalls Gold Cup G1, Investec Coronation Cup G1, Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby G1, Criterium de Saint-Cloud G1, 2nd Investec Derby S G1, Tatts Millions Irish Champion S G1), Grampian (c Selkirk: 2nd Manchester Evening News July S LR, J.Smith’s Ext.Smooth Silver Cup H LR), Guaranda (f Acatenango: 3rd EBF Upavon S LR). Grandam of GRAVITATION, GREATWOOD. Third dam of GOOD DONNA. Broodmare Sire: MONTJEU. Sire of the dams of 30 Stakes winners. In 2015 - LEGATISSIMO Danehill Dancer G1, EXQUISITE JEWEL Lucky Unicorn G3, BROKEN GAME Broken Vow LR, CODE RED Bahamian Bounty LR, FINIDAPREST Dylan Thomas LR, LADY DUTCH Dutch Art LR, LADY OF DUBAI Dubawi LR, MAHSOOB Dansili LR, PARISH HALL Teofilo LR. The Danehill Dancer/Montjeu cross has produced: LEGATISSIMO G1, Dynasty G3.

LEGATISSIMO b f 2012 Danzig Danehill Razyana DANEHILL DANCER b 93 Sharpen Up Mira Adonde Lettre d’Amour Sadler’s Wells

SOLOW gr g 2010

Montjeu Sadler’s Wells

In The Wings High Hawk SINGSPIEL b 92 Halo Glorious Song Ballade Kenmare Highest Honor High River HIGH MAINTENANCE gr 04 Fabulous Dancer Fabulous Hostess Young Hostess

Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Shirley Heights Sunbittern Hail To Reason Cosmah Herbager Miss Swapsco Kalamoun Belle of Ireland Riverman Hairbrush Northern Dancer Last of The Line Arctic Tern Yeovil

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Floripedes YUMMY MUMMY b 05 Shirley Heights Gryada Grimpola

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Atan Rocchetta Caro Lianga Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Top Ville Toute Cy Mill Reef Hardiemma Windwurf Gondel

See race 9 in the June issue 172 PRIX ROTHSCHILD G1 DEAUVILLE. Aug 2. 3yo+f. 1600m.

1. AMAZING MARIA (IRE) 4 9-2 £132,884 gr f by Mastercraftsman - Messias da Silva (Tale of The Cat) O-Sir Robert Ogden B-Sir R. Ogden C.B.E., LLD TR-David O’Meara

2. Ervedya (FR) 3 8-9 £53,163 b f by Siyouni - Elva (King’s Best) O-H.H. Aga Khan B-The Aga Khan's Studs Sc TR-Jean Claude Rouget 3. Bawina (IRE) 4 9-2 £26,581 b f by Dubawi - Esneh (Sadler’s Wells) O-Wertheimer et Frere B-Wertheimer et Frere TR-C. Laffon-Parias Margins 1.25, 1.25. Time 1:34.72. Going Good.

Age 2-4

Starts 12

Wins 5

Places 3

Earned £381,648

Sire: MASTERCRAFTSMAN. Sire of 19 Stakes winners. In 2015 - AMAZING MARIA Tale of The Cat G1, IVEAGH GARDENS War Chant G3, MASTER APPRENTICE Hawk Wing G3, THEE AULD FLOOZIE Spinning World G3, UPHAM Gold Brose G3, MAMBOMISS Kingmambo LR, MUTATIS MUTANDIS Darshaan LR, NAKUTI Five Star Day LR, OFF LIMITS Efisio LR, VAGUE NOUVELLE Mr Greeley LR. 1st Dam: MESSIAS DA SILVA by Tale of The Cat. Winner at 2. Dam of 1 winner: 2010: Vulcan (g Tiger Hill) ran once.

2011: AMAZING MARIA (f Mastercraftsman) 5 wins at 2 and 4 at home, France, Qipco Falmouth S G1, Prix Rothschild G1, Duke of Cambridge S G2, Whiteley Clinic Prestige S G3, 3rd Lanwades Stud Ridgewood Pearl S G2.

2012: Madame Butterfly (f Rip Van Winkle) 2013: Constantino (c Danehill Dancer) unraced to date.

2014: (f Mastercraftsman) 2015: (c Mastercraftsman) Broodmare Sire: TALE OF THE CAT. Sire of the dams of 35 Stakes winners. In 2015 - AMAZING MARIA Mastercraftsman G1, DORTMUND Big Brown G1, ADRIFT Zabeel G2, PETALA Captain Al G3, STREET STORY Street Cry G3.

The Mastercraftsman/Tale of The Cat cross has produced: AMAZING MARIA G1, PABLOSKY LR.

AMAZING MARIA gr f 2011 Danehill Danehill Dancer Mira Adonde MASTERCRAFTSMAN gr/ro 06 Black Tie Affair Starlight Dreams Reves Celestes Storm Cat Tale of The Cat Yarn MESSIAS DA SILVA b/br 05 A P Indy Indy Power Clever Power

Danzig Razyana Sharpen Up Lettre d’Amour Miswaki Hat Tab Girl Lyphard Tobira Celeste Storm Bird Terlingua Mr Prospector Narrate Seattle Slew Weekend Surprise Lines of Power Clever Miss

When the two-year-old Amazing Maria led virtually throughout to record an easy victory in the Gr3 Prestige Stakes, she looked poised to become the first Gr1 winner for her young sire Mastercraftsman.

Unfortunately it was more than nine months before she was able to race again, by which time Mastercraftsman had already hit the Gr1 target with Kingston Hill and The Grey Gatsby.

Amazing Maria proved very disappointing as a three-year-old but a change of trainers has helped revive her fortunes, to the extent that she has achieved consecutive successes in the Gr2 Duke of Cambridge Stakes, Gr1 Falmouth Stakes and Gr1 Prix Rothschild.

Although Amazing Maria tackled the Oaks, a mile is proving her ideal distance. This is no surprise as Mastercraftsman won the Irish 2,000 Guineas and St James’s Palace

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European Group 1s Stakes (before proving effective over an extra quarter mile) and the filly’s broodmare sire is Tale Of The Cat, who gained his best win over seven furlongs.

Tale Of The Cat is capable of siring very imposing sales yearlings, with Amazing Maria’s dam Messias de Silva being a good example. Although sired at a fee of $40,000, Messias da Silva made $250,000 at Saratoga as a yearling. Her price then soared to $700,000 when she was bought by Sir Robert Ogden at Fasig-Tipton Florida the following March.

The confidence in her proved misplaced, as she earned less than £5,000, her only win coming over six furlongs on Lingfield’s all-weather track. Happily, Sir Robert is now reaping the rewards via Amazing Maria and he has a yearling sister to his star filly, plus a weanling brother.

He also has a two-year-old colt, Constantino, by Mastercraftsman’s sire Danehill Dancer.

Messias da Silva probably owed her high price as a two-year-old more to her physique and workouts than to a stunning pedigree. Her dam Indy Power had failed to make the first three in any of her four starts and neither of Indy Power’s stakeswinning half-brothers had made their mark in Graded stakes.

However, Amazing Maria’s third dam, the dirt sprinter Clever Power,

was a Gr3 winner and the next dam, Clever Miss, had a Gr2-winning daughter and Gr3-winning son to her credit.

Clever Miss was also a half-sister to the very successful sprinter Clever Trick, who found fame as the sire of champion sprinter Phone Trick.

173 HENKEL PREIS DER DIANA GERMAN OAKS G1

2010: 2011: 2012:

2014:

TURFJAGER (g Manduro) 2 wins at 3 and 4 in France, Germany.

Turfano (c Doyen) unraced.

TURFDONNA (f Doyen) 2 wins at 3 in Germany, Henkel Preis der Diana -German Oaks G1, 3rd Almased Cup Hamburger Stuten Preis G3.

Turfstern (c Scalo)

2nd Dam: Turfquelle by Shaadi. Dam of TURFROSE (f Big Shuffle: Premio Lydia Tesio - Shadwell G1), Tramonto A Ivry (c Montjeu: 3rd Premio Criterium d’Inverno Hurdle G2). Grandam of ROSA GIGANTEA.

DUSSELDORF. Aug 2. 3yof. 2200m.

1. TURFDONNA (GER) 9-2 £2,325,581 b f by Doyen - Turfaue (Big Shuffle) O-Australian Bloodstock Stable B-Gestut Auenquelle TR- A Wohler 2. Nightflower (IRE) 9-2 £77,519 ch f by Dylan Thomas - Night of Magic (Peintre Celebre) O- Stall Nizza B-J. Imm TR-P Schiergen 3. Amona (IRE) 9-2 £38,760 b/gr f by Aussie Rules - Abbasharjah (Tiger Hill) O-Gestut Winterhauch B-Mr J. Hernon TR-Andreas Lowe Margins 0.75, 1.25. Time 2:13.93. Going Good.

Age 3

Starts 4

Wins 2

Places 1

Earned £242,636

Broodmare Sire: BIG SHUFFLE. Sire of the dams of 32 Stakes winners. In 2015 - TURFDONNA Doyen G1, VIF MONSIEUR Doyen LR. The Doyen/Big Shuffle cross has produced: TURFDONNA G1, VIF MONSIEUR G1, MOLLY LE CLOU G2, ORIENTAL MAGIC G3, PIANA LR, New World LR.

TURFDONNA b f 2012 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge DOYEN b 00 Kris

Sire: DOYEN. Sire of 22 Stakes winners. In 2015 TURFDONNA Big Shuffle G1, WILD CHIEF Acatenango G2, VIF MONSIEUR Big Shuffle LR.

Moon Cactus

1st Dam: Turfaue by Big Shuffle. unraced. Own sister to TURFROSE. Dam of 5 winners: 2005: Turfwolke (f Medicean) 2006: TURFLIEBE (f Dashing Blade) 2 wins at 2 and 4 in Germany. Broodmare.

2008: TURFLOWE (c Lando) 2 wins at 4 in Germany.

2009: Turfflamme (f Lomitas) 2 wins at 2 and 3 in Germany, 3rd Wettenleip-Junioren-Preis LR. Broodmare.

Big Shuffle

Lady Moon Super Concorde Raise Your Skirts TURFAUE b 00 Shaadi Turfquelle Thekla

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Sharpen Up Doubly Sure Mill Reef Moonlight Night Bold Reasoning Prime Abord Elevation Strings Attached Danzig Unfurled Prince Ippi Tania

The contenders for the Preis der Diana included several sired by stallions who are now plying their

trade in Ireland’s National Hunt sector.

Among them were the fillies who finished first and second – Doyen’s daughter Turfdonna and Dylan Thomas’s daughter Nightflower.

As a 16.2-hands son of Sadler’s Wells, Doyen had obvious appeal to National Hunt breeders, but it mustn’t be forgotten that he was a very good performer – good enough to win the King George – and a very well-bred one too, being a brother to the Oaks winner Moonshell. His background was good enough for him to start his stallion career in 2006 at a fee of £10,000 at Dalham Hall, but by 2009 he had been transferred to Gestut Auenquelle, where Turfdonna was bred. The next move was to Sunnyhill Stud in 2012.

Turfdonna is Doyen’s first Gr1 winner on the Flat. A May foal, she was running for only the fourth time when she became a Classic winner.

She comes from a successful German family, her dam Turfaue being a sister to Turfrose. This smart daughter of the champion German stallion Big Shuffle won the Premio Lydia Tesio and was also runner-up in a couple of Gr2 races in France.

Turfdonna’s second dam Turfquelle is a half-sister to three Group winners in Germany, including Tryphosa (German 1,000 Guineas) and Turfkonig (Gr1 Grosser Mercedes Benz Preis).

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Grade G3 G3 G2 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G2 G2 G3 G2 G3 G2 G2 G2 G2 G3 G2 G3 G3 G2 G2 G3 G3 G3 G3 G2 G3 G2 G2 G2 G3 G3 G2 G2 G3 G2 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3

Race (course) Sparkasse Holstein Cup Flieger Preis (Hamburg) Grosser Preis Lotto Hamburg Trophy (Hamburg) Bet 365 Lancashire Oaks (Haydock Park) Almased Cup Hamburger Stuten Preis (Hamburg) Prix de la Porte Maillot (Longchamp) The Coral Charge Sprint Stakes (Sandown Park) Irish Stall. Farms EBF Brownstown Stakes (Fairyhouse) Prix Messidor (Maisons-Laffitte) Prix de Ris-Orangis (Maisons-Laffitte) Arqana July Stakes (Newmarket) Arqana Princess of Wales’s Stakes (Newmarket) Bahrain Trophy (Newmarket) Qipco Duchess Of Cambridge Stakes (Newmarket) 888sport Summer Stakes (York) F.Cowley MBE Memorial Summer Mile Stakes (Ascot) bet365 Superlative Stakes (Newmarket) Grosser AudiQ7 Zentrums Meilen Trophy (Hannover) Prix Maurice de Nieuil (Longchamp) Meld Stakes (Leopardstown) Invincible Spirit Sapphire Stakes (Curragh) Jebel Ali Anglesey Stakes (Curragh) Al Basti Equiworld Hackwood Stakes (Newbury) Kilboy Estate Stakes (Curragh) P.Eugene Adam (G.P.de Maisons-Laffitte) (Maisons-Laffitte) Friarstown Stud Minstrel Stakes (Curragh) Grand Prix de Vichy (Vichy) Japanese Racing Association Tyros Stakes (Leopardstown) Turkey Jockey Club Silver Flash Stakes (Leopardstown) Sky Bet York Stakes (York) Juddmonte Princess Margaret Stakes (Ascot) Prix Robert Papin (Maisons-Laffitte) Qatar Lennox Stakes (Goodwood) Qatar Vintage Stakes (Goodwood) Fairmont Molecomb Stakes (Goodwood) Neptune Investment Gordon Stakes (Goodwood) Qatar Goodwood Cup (Goodwood) Qatar Richmond Stakes (Goodwood) Markel Insurance Lillie Langtry Stakes (Goodwood) Qatar King George Stakes (Goodwood) Betfred Glorious Stakes (Goodwood) Bonhams Thoroughbred Stakes (Goodwood) L’Ormarins Queens Plate Oak Tree Stakes (Goodwood) Prix de Psyche (Deauville) Prix de Cabourg Jockey Club de Turquie (Deauville)

Dist 6f 10f 12f 11f 7f 5f 7f 8f 6f 6f 12f 13f 6f 6f 8f 7f 8f 9f 9f 5f 6f 6f 9f 10f 7f 10f 7f 7f 10f 6f 9f 7f 7f 5f 12f 16f 6f 14f 5f 12f 8f 7f 10f 6f

Horse Donnerschlag (GB) Wake Forest (GER) Lady Tiana (GB) Anna Katharina (GER) Baghadur (IRE) Waady (IRE) Ainippe (IRE) Fractional (IRE) Son Cesio (FR) Shalaa (IRE) Big Orange (GB) Mr Singh (GB) Illuminate (IRE) New Providence (GB) Arod (IRE) Birchwood (IRE) Wild Chief (GER) Walzertakt (GER) Carla Bianca (IRE) Stepper Point (GB) Final Frontier (IRE) Strath Burn (GB) Wedding Vow (IRE) Dariyan (FR) Home of The Brave (IRE) Elliptique (IRE) Deauville (IRE) Tanaza (IRE) Tullius (IRE) Besharah (IRE) Gutaifan (IRE) Toormore (IRE) Galileo Gold (GB) Kachy (GB) Highland Reel (IRE) Big Orange (GB) Shalaa (IRE) Simple Verse (IRE) Muthmir (IRE) Dubday (GB) Malabar (GB) Amy Eria (IRE) Bourree (GER) Tourny (FR)

Age 5 5 4 3 3 3 3 6 4 2 4 3 2 3 4 2 4 6 4 6 2 3 3 3 3 4 2 2 7 2 2 4 2 2 3 4 2 3 5 5 3 4 3 2

Sex H H F F C C F G C C G C F F C C C H F G C C F C C C C F G F C C C C C G C F G H F F F F

Sire Bahamian Bounty Sir Percy Sir Percy Kallisto Zanzibari Approve Captain Rio Manduro Zafeen Invincible Spirit Duke of Marmalade High Chaparral Zoffany Bahamian Bounty Teofilo Dark Angel Doyen Montjeu Dansili Kyllachy Dream Ahead Equiano Galileo Shamardal Starspangledbanner New Approach Galileo Dubawi Le Vie Dei Colori Kodiac Dark Angel Arakan Paco Boy Kyllachy Galileo Duke of Marmalade Invincible Spirit Duke of Marmalade Invincible Spirit Dubawi Raven’s Pass Shamardal Siyouni Country Reel

Dam Dame Hester Wurfspiel Cartoon Anna Desta Bargouzine Anne Bonney Imitation Sharp Point Slitana Ghurra Miss Brown To You Sundari Queen of Stars Bayja My Personal Space Layla Jamil Wild Angel Walzerkoenigin Majestic Silver Sacre Coeur Polly Perkins Irish Light Remember When Daryakana Blissful Beat Uryale Walklikeanegyptian Tanoura Whipped Queen Dixieland Kiss Alikhlas Danetime Out Galicuix Dubai Bounty Hveger Miss Brown To You Ghurra Guantanamera Fairy of The Night Dayrose Whirly Bird Berroscoberro Bearlita Maka

Broodmare Sire Diktat Lomitas Danehill Dancer Desert Style Stravinsky Jade Robbery Darshaan Royal Academy Dansili War Chant Fasliyev Danehill Green Desert Giant’s Causeway Rahy Exceed And Excel Acatenango Kingmambo Linamix Compton Place Pivotal Irish River Danehill Dancer Selkirk Beat Hollow Kendor Danehill Dalakhani Kingmambo Dixie Union Lahib Danetime Galileo Dubai Destination Danehill Fasliyev War Chant Sadler’s Wells Danehill Daylami Nashwan Octagonal Lomitas Slickly

Index 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217

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DATA BOOK EXCLUSIVE STALLION STATISTICS

Leading sires 2015 by percentage of stakes winners to runners Name

Monsun Galileo Dubawi Sea The Stars Shamardal Doyen Raven's Pass Dark Angel nvincible Spirit Mastercraftsman Dalakhani Lope de Vega Le Havre Paco Boy Scarface Dansili Siyouni Fastnet Rock Teofilo Dutch Art Muhtathir Hurricane Run Bahamian Bounty Danehill Dancer Kaneko Cape Cross Authorized Nayef Makfi Duke Of Marmalade Silver Frost Dylan Thomas New Approach Oasis Dream High Chaparral Compton Place Win River Win Montjeu Divine Light War Front Sir Percy Mount Nelson Azamour Singspiel Strike The Gold Tertullian Kodiac Champs Elysees Soldier Of Fortune Orpen Pivotal

YOF

1990 1998 2002 2006 2002 2000 2005 2005 1997 2006 2000 2007 2006 2005 2003 1996 2007 2001 2004 2004 1995 2002 1994 1993 2001 1994 2004 1998 2007 2004 2006 2003 2005 2000 1999 1994 1999 1996 1995 2002 2003 2004 2001 1992 1988 1995 2001 2003 2004 1996 1993

Sire

Rnrs

Wnrs

%WR

Konigsstuhl Sadler's Wells Dubai Millennium Cape Cross Giant's Causeway Sadler's Wells Elusive Quality Acclamation Green Desert Danehill Dancer Darshaan Shamardal Noverre Desert Style Montjeu Danehill Pivotal Danehill Galileo Medicean Elmaamul Montjeu Cadeaux Genereux Danehill Pivotal Green Desert Montjeu Gulch Dubawi Danehill Verglas Danehill Galileo Green Desert Sadler's Wells Indian Ridge Virginia Rapids Sadler's Wells Sunday Silence Danzig Mark Of Esteem Rock Of Gibraltar Night Shift In the Wings Alydar Miswaki Danehill Danehill Galileo Lure Polar Falcon

53 226 174 88 210 45 65 194 214 145 93 77 101 88 23 142 71 95 167 144 73 75 127 129 78 169 114 117 89 151 61 159 128 197 168 101 68 109 74 37 121 83 132 44 44 88 224 91 93 93 144

28 81 76 42 91 22 25 71 86 45 31 35 34 32 11 51 24 35 63 55 28 29 38 54 49 73 41 40 32 44 22 59 46 78 59 27 21 34 28 13 45 34 52 20 21 31 75 34 34 36 54

52.83 35.84 43.68 47.73 43.33 48.89 38.46 36.60 40.19 31.03 33.33 45.45 33.66 36.36 47.83 35.92 33.80 36.84 37.72 38.19 38.36 38.67 29.92 41.86 62.82 43.20 35.96 34.19 35.96 29.14 36.07 37.11 35.94 39.59 35.12 26.73 30.88 31.19 37.84 35.14 37.19 40.96 39.39 45.45 47.73 35.23 33.48 37.36 36.56 38.71 37.50

Races

AWD

Earnings (£)

SH

34 103 105 54 143 29 33 102 118 66 41 46 48 40 18 75 31 48 88 77 43 45 52 83 99 95 51 55 46 78 30 91 64 105 76 40 41 48 44 22 59 52 77 31 42 47 108 48 44 50 81

11.2 10.7 9.6 10.6 8.2 9.8 9.3 7.1 7.3 10.5 11.5 7.9 8.7 7 8.3 10.3 7.9 9.2 9.7 7.5 9.9 11.7 6.5 8.7 7.7 9.5 11.5 10 8.8 10.2 8.9 9.4 9.2 8.2 10.8 6.1 8.7 12.3 8.4 7 10 9.4 10.2 9.4 9.2 8.5 6.7 11.7 10.7 7.6 8.8

599,093 3,616,950 4,121,991 1,059,575 2,328,634 457,578 699,034 1,815,293 2,378,823 1,487,442 654,079 734,687 694,035 514,618 570,866 1,116,290 993,984 1,167,870 1,834,981 918,554 592,424 535,781 624,642 2,023,873 1,399,531 2,546,936 631,025 808,750 716,014 1,787,416 406,338 1,032,887 775,831 2,073,718 1,488,686 502,665 774,219 548,952 1,327,337 484,539 572,098 590,455 1,180,896 1,145,202 840,521 481,583 1,128,825 876,000 644,081 546,893 1,323,992

10 42 28 14 28 7 7 24 21 13 8 9 8 4 1 13 8 10 19 8 4 5 8 13 5 15 6 5 5 9 2 8 8 12 10 3 4 4 3 5 6 4 12 5 1 3 11 7 3 4 12

%

18.87 18.58 16.09 15.91 13.33 15.56 10.77 12.37 9.81 8.97 8.60 11.69 7.92 4.55 4.35 9.15 11.27 10.53 11.38 5.56 5.48 6.67 6.30 10.08 6.41 8.88 5.26 4.27 5.62 5.96 3.28 5.03 6.25 6.09 5.95 2.97 5.88 3.67 4.05 13.51 4.96 4.82 9.09 11.36 2.27 3.41 4.91 7.69 3.23 4.30 8.33

SW

%

5 21 16 7 16 3 4 11 12 8 5 4 5 4 1 6 3 4 7 6 3 3 5 5 3 6 4 4 3 5 2 5 4 6 5 3 2 3 2 1 3 2 3 1 1 2 5 2 2 2 3

9.43 9.29 9.20 7.95 7.62 6.67 6.15 5.67 5.61 5.52 5.38 5.19 4.95 4.55 4.35 4.23 4.23 4.21 4.19 4.17 4.11 4.00 3.94 3.88 3.85 3.55 3.51 3.42 3.37 3.31 3.28 3.14 3.13 3.05 2.98 2.97 2.94 2.75 2.70 2.70 2.48 2.41 2.27 2.27 2.27 2.27 2.23 2.20 2.15 2.15 2.08

Galileo or Dubawi: impossible to call Monsun is still on top but his lead is only fractional, with Galileo and Dubawi making relentless progress.

It seems a certainty one of that pair will triumph but it is impossible to predict which. Galileo added six stakes horses and six stakes winners to his tally, while Dubawi‘s respective figures were five and three.

Dubawi had the edge in quality since both Erupt (Grand Prix de Paris) and Postponed (King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes) were on the mark at the highest level.

Sea The Stars and Shamardal both increased their percentage noticeably and jump sire Doyen has made an intriguing appearance thanks to Turfdonna, winner of the Preis der Diana, and easy German Group 2 scorer Wild Chief.

Dark Angel has shot up the table, assisted by Group 2 victories for Birchwood (Superlative Stakes) and Gutaifan (Prix Robert Papin), and Listed wins by Boomshackerlacker and Promised Money.

Leading sires of two-year-olds 2015 by earnings Name

Dark Angel Kodiac Invincible Spirit *Zoffany *Canford Cliffs Exceed And Excel Acclamation Victory Gallop Paco Boy Equiano Showcasing Zebedee Compton Place Lion Heart Royal Applause War Front Dubawi Shamardal *Dream Ahead Pastoral Pursuits Sri Pekan Raven's Pass Galileo Rock Of Gibraltar *Roderic O'Connor Kyllachy American Post Scat Daddy Teofilo Dutch Art Bosporus Siyouni Turtle Bowl Kheleyf Air Chief Marshal

YOF

2005 2001 1997 2008 2007 2000 1999 1995 2005 2005 2007 2008 1994 2001 1993 2002 2002 2002 2008 2001 1992 2005 1998 1999 2008 1998 2001 2004 2004 2004 1995 2007 2002 2001 2007 Holy Roman Emperor 2004 Elusive City 2000 Country Reel 2000 Okawango 1998 *Frozen Power 2007 Namid 1996 Approve 2008 Elnadim 1994 Perfect Storm 2000 Bushranger 2006 Sakhee's Secret 2004 Diamond Green 2001 Fast Company 2005 Sir Percy 2003

Sire

Rnrs

Wnrs

Acclamation Danehill Green Desert Dansili Tagula Danehill Royal Applause Cryptoclearance Desert Style Acclamation Oasis Dream Invincible Spirit Indian Ridge Tale Of The Cat Waajib Danzig Dubai Millennium Giant's Causeway Diktat Bahamian Bounty Red Ransom Elusive Quality Sadler's Wells Danehill Galileo Pivotal Bering Johannesburg Galileo Medicean Night Shift Pivotal Dyhim Diamond Green Desert Danehill Dancer Danehill Elusive Quality Danzig Kingmambo Oasis Dream Indian Ridge Oasis Dream Danzig Hennessy Danetime Sakhee Green Desert Danehill Dancer Mark Of Esteem

47 85 31 42 42 40 54 26 28 40 45 62 17 23 36 10 22 20 27 26 7 18 15 26 23 26 11 9 11 20 14 18 14 43 16 31 10 8 9 34 11 28 13 9 42 42 10 26 23

18 24 11 10 18 13 19 11 8 14 11 17 3 6 15 6 8 8 10 8 3 5 6 6 6 4 6 6 3 7 4 5 4 9 4 7 3 4 2 10 3 10 3 3 10 7 4 9 8

%WR

38.30 28.24 35.48 23.81 42.86 32.50 35.19 42.31 28.57 35.00 24.44 27.42 17.65 26.09 41.67 60.00 36.36 40.00 37.04 30.77 42.86 27.78 40.00 23.08 26.09 15.38 54.55 66.67 27.27 35.00 28.57 27.78 28.57 20.93 25.00 22.58 30.00 50.00 22.22 29.41 27.27 35.71 23.08 33.33 23.81 16.67 40.00 34.62 34.78

Races

AWD

Earnings (£)

Top horse

Earned (£)

26 31 14 16 22 18 20 18 11 20 16 22 4 10 17 7 10 11 13 10 8 6 7 6 7 6 6 6 6 12 7 5 8 10 5 7 6 5 5 11 5 11 4 5 11 9 5 11 9

5.7 5.7 5.6 5.7 5.9 6.0 6.0 5.9 6.0 5.5 5.4 5.6 5.1 5.5 5.9 6.2 7.0 6.3 5.7 5.7 5.9 5.9 6.9 6.8 6.4 5.5 6.2 5.7 6.2 5.8 5.7 5.9 6.1 5.9 6.6 6.3 6.2 5.4 5.7 5.8 5.5 5.4 5.8 5.1 5.8 5.9 6.2 5.9 6.8

491,157 335,979 317,996 314,553 273,686 246,657 215,422 187,671 186,312 185,983 165,707 158,768 146,599 139,356 131,957 115,948 114,813 112,603 112,511 108,752 105,297 102,699 101,053 97,094 94,511 91,984 90,504 89,877 89,105 88,163 88,064 87,915 87,609 87,033 84,943 84,464 82,813 82,759 82,025 79,891 78,935 78,104 78,092 76,736 76,088 75,866 74,912 74,267 72,108

Birchwood Besharah Shalaa Illuminate Painted Cliffs Buratino King Of Rooks Ildir Beyi Galileo Gold Fly On Ohe Night Tasleet David's Duchess Lathom Ilkaan Age Of Empire Air Force Blue Tanaza Sixth Sense Final Frontier Field Of Vision Naifcan Ibn Malik Deauville Viserano Great Page Kachy Money Maker Acapulco Round Two Ottone Arina Me Kotama Danza de la Barre Kurland Rougeoyant Rockaway Valley North End Tourny Botanvadisi Madrinho Mister Leonard Approvation Mr Lupton Pirate Legend Serseri Excessable Insolito Rogues' Gallery Twin Sails

90,176 66,018 163,316 92,181 57,173 109,275 47,101 51,268 123,720 52,830 61,249 15,954 132,838 40,486 20,264 34,630 35,353 31,049 37,400 28,160 50,246 47,528 34,206 14,768 52,246 49,002 25,302 56,710 35,248 38,717 29,983 16,710 30,514 9,888 27,761 25,826 22,515 51,900 50,296 18,613 29,049 10,717 59,433 48,997 9,724 16,540 29,460 16,764 21,879

Freshman Canford Cliffs scales heights Kodiac’s progeny were in fine form and another eight winners put him five clear of Acclamation. Dark Angel still has a sizeable lead on earnings but it was freshman Canford Cliffs who had the best month. He notched 11 new winners, taking his score to 18. The pick of them was Aktoria, whose Listed success at Deauville added to the Pattern victories in June of Most Beautiful and Painted Cliffs.

Three first-season sires have ten winners – Dream Ahead, Frozen Power and Zoffany. Zoffany added two winners, Dream Ahead four, and Frozen Power doubled his score.

Frozen Power, based at Ballyhane, is

by Oasis Dream. The Danzig tribe is also represented in the leading group

by Kodiac, Invincible Spirit, Dansili, Exceed And Excel, Paco Boy, Showcasing, Zebedee and War Front.

Royal Applause is 15th and three of his descendants are in the top ten – Dark Angel, Acclamation and Equiano.

Statistics to August 7; *denotes first-season sire

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HUBIE OSBORNE

T

he alarm goes at 5.20, which is lovely in the summer on gorgeous sunny mornings. I don’t mind early starts and Jamie is up at the same time to attend the horses. Though I must admit it was heavy going recently when I was out of bed at three or four plaiting ponies before going off to shows with my daughter, Saffie.

I have four children, the eldest Woolf, 23, and Tom, 22, from my first marriage, and Hubie, 14, and Saffie, 13, with Jamie. Saffie wants to rule the world and absolutely loves her riding. I love the horses, too, though the shows can be very time-consuming.

My first port of call is for a cup of coffee, which I never used to have until I bought a Nespresso machine, and now I’m addicted. I get the children up and then go and feed the ponies and my own Appaloosa called Spot.

I used to ride out with the string but haven’t since Jamie fell in front of me one morning and broke his leg in two places. I thought it stupid to risk similar injury and better to concentrate on my career.

Jamie doesn’t ride out any more, though occasionally he will go out on Spot (pictured).

On Mondays I invariably read the health article in You magazine and end up having an avocado on rye bread for breakfast, but after that my resolve disappears and by Tuesday I’m back on bacon sandwiches. The children’s breakfast would remind you of some sort of US diner with pancakes and things like that.

Instead of going to the gym like so many mums, I go into the barn and muck out, doing four ponies and Spot. It keeps me involved with the horses, which I enjoy so much. Jamie always thinks Spot is a bit of a joke but I persuaded him to ride him at the Windsor Horse Show, where they won a class and then retired gracefully.

Artist Katie O’Sullivan loves the busy life of a trainer’s wife – and her own career, conducted from the sanctuary of a studio at the stables of husband (and commissioner!) Jamie Osborne I love life as a trainer’s wife and our house is constantly full of people, which I enjoy as I am one of seven children who grew up in a busy Irish household. When Jamie and I had 25 owners to lunch after Royal Ascot, our five dogs, all big, brown, pure wool Irish Water Spaniels, entertained us by chasing everything we threw into the swimming pool.

It’s these dogs and all the horses that I find so uplifting.

Mucking out is finished by nine and I quickly feed the birds on my bird table before going into my studio accompanied by all the dogs.

My new exhibition in November will have a lot of birds in it, as well as horses. I

feel as if I’m about to go into purdah as the days tick by towards the exhibition. I disappear into my own world alone in the studio with Radio 4 my only contact with the outside world. Jamie now finds he has to listen to Radio 4 as well, otherwise we have nothing to talk about!

I don’t really have lunch but when Jamie walks past the studio window with a sandwich I wish I’d asked him to make me one. Then I end up eating sweets and cakes at about four o’clock, which I always regret. I usually finish painting at about 6.30.

The biggest challenge with a commission is working out what a person is envisaging.

When I painted all Philippa Cooper’s mares at Normandie Stud I spent time watching Philippa and her reactions with the mares, which helped me enormously because I wanted to know how she feels about the horses.

When trying to interpret the power and grace of the thoroughbred, I start from the inside and work out in search of the structure. If you know how they work skeletally then everything comes together on top of that and you end up highlighting the power.

Peter Stanley, of New England Stud, wanted a picture depicting all the people who got him involved in racing. The painting tells the story, which was exciting because it not only includes people but Ouija Board and Australia. Jamie is the only jockey to have commissioned me and I painted some of his Cheltenham Festival winners.

He always says he commissioned the artist but didn’t realise he was going to end up marrying her!

Whenever I think of Toast Of New York winning in Dubai it makes me cry. And Santa Anita, when he was narrowly beaten in the Breeders’ Cup, was also unbelievable. Now Jamie’s taking him back to America for more excitement in the Breeders’ Cup at Keeneland next month.

I find I can’t read a book as I’ve been concentrating all day, but I’ll watch EastEnders and love cooking in the evening. My favourite is Indian, especially curry.

Ten o’clock is bedtime and that’s when I must try to dream up Christmas scenes because I am painting the late Sir Peter O’Sullevan’s charity Christmas card this year.

Interview by Tim Richards Katie O’Sullivan’s exhibition opens on November 10 for three weeks at the Osborne Studio Gallery, Motcomb Street, London SW1X 8JU

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