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Profitable enterprise Alan Spence living life in the fast lane with his sprinting star

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Leading First Crop Sires in Europe RANK STALLION

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PEACE ENVOY wins the Anglesey Stakes-Gr.3 at the Curragh on 16th July for Aidan O’Brien

Irish 2,000 Guineas-Gr.1 & National S.-Gr.1 winner by Oasis Dream. ½-brother to Curvy (Gr.1W) and out of a ½-sister to FootstepsInTheSand.

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HESHEM defeats Gr.1 winner Ultra in the Prix Eugene Adam-Gr.2 at Maisons-Laffitte on 17th July

IFFRAAJ INVINCIBLE SPIRIT KODIAC LAWMAN LE HAVRE NEW APPROACH TEOFILO Source: Hyperion Promotions, 18th July

KASPERSKY wins his fourth Group race, the Meilen Trophy-Gr.2 at Dusseldorf on 17th July

2,000 Guineas-Gr.1 winner by Giant’s Causeway.

Out of Group winning 2yo Glatisant.

Contact: Coolmore Stud, Fethard, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. Tel: +353-52-6131298. Fax: +353-52-6131382. Christy Grassick, David O’Loughlin, Eddie Fitzpatrick, Tim Corballis, Maurice Moloney, Gerry Aherne, Mathieu Legars or Jason Walsh. Tom Gaffney, David Magnier, Joe Hernon or Cathal Murphy. Tel: 353-25-31966/31689. Kevin Buckley (UK Rep.) Tel: +44-7827-795156.

E-mail: sales@coolmore.ie Web site: www.coolmore.com All stallions nominated to EBF.

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Cover: Profitable and Adam Kirby win the King’s Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot in June for owner Alan Spence Photo: George Selwyn

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Owner’s stamina rewarded with outstanding sprinter

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estled in between Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum and Khalid Abdullah in the leading Flat owners’ table, just outside the top ten, sits Alan Spence, who is currently enjoying his best season to date in terms of prize-money banked, thanks mainly to his star sprinter, Profitable.

The four-year-old son of Invincible Spirit is one of the fastest horses in training and provided his owner, trainer Clive Cox and jockey Adam Kirby with a huge thrill when dashing to victory in the King’s Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot in June.

That Profitable is still appearing in Spence’s familiar red and white silks is testament to the negotiating prowess of his owner, who has agreed to sell the colt – apparently very well named – to Darley as a stallion.

However not before he has a crack at the Coolmore Nunthorpe Stakes at York on August 19 and some other top five-furlong races this year.

“I have total control over who rides [Profitable] and which races the horses runs in,” Spence explains to Julian Muscat (The Big Interview, pages 48-52) regarding the agreement with Darley.

“I outlined what I wanted to John Ferguson, he went away, came back less than 30 minutes later and we did the deal.

Everybody was happy.”

Spence owned a travel business, which he sold, and now spends his leisure time watching his string of racehorses – his jumpers include the talented chaser Josses Hill, trained by Nicky Henderson – and following his beloved Chelsea FC, where he is Vice–Chairman.

For an owner of some 45 years’ standing, Spence has resisted the lure of thoroughbred breeding, focussing on acquiring his horses at the sales. However all that will change soon, as breeding rights to Profitable will allow the owner to dip his toe into the other side of the industry.

“I haven’t got into breeding because it’s too longwinded for my liking,” he says. “I like to buy and sell, but having these nominations makes me much more

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motivated to breed some horses with them. I like the fact I will still be involved with Profitable when he goes to stud.

“It could really pay off if he does well, and it was important to me that I can go and see the horse at his new home rather than seeing him sold abroad as [dual Group 1 winner] Jukebox Jury was to Germany.

“That’s why the sale to Darley made me happy. I wasn’t interested in talking to anyone who wouldn’t let me run the horse in my colours for the rest of the season. A really good one’s been a long time coming and I want to enjoy it.”

Kieren Fallon is sadly no longer enjoying the world of horseracing, having quit the saddle last month, aged 51, to focus on his battle with depression.

Rarely far away from success or scandal, Fallon has been one of the leading riders for over two decades. His emergence on the northern circuit (see From The Archives, pages 26-27) proved the springboard for high-profile jobs in Newmarket with Sir Henry Cecil and Sir Michael Stoute, and Ireland with Aidan O’Brien, that yielded a multitude of big-race winners all over Europe.

Yet, initially, Fallon did not convince everyone of his merits.

I recall one well-known scribe (now deceased) saying that the rider “did not cut the mustard” when it came to the elite level, following an unfortunate outing on 4-7 favourite Bosra Sham in the Coral-Eclipse in 1997, not long into his association with Sir Henry Cecil. How wrong he was to doubt the Irishman.

Perhaps the issue of depression in racing – and sport in general – will be brought more into the public arena by the plight of Fallon and others.

Among jockeys in particular, required to perform at a weight that barely seems possible to those of us not used to denying ourselves food on a daily basis, it would come as no surprise if the issue of depression is more widespread than just a few individuals. Now is the time to act.

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CONTENTS AUGUST 2016

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NEWS & VIEWS

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ROA Leader Keep calm and carry on after Brexit

TBA Leader Levy replacement deadline must be met

News Racehorse Owners Survey results

Changes Your news in a nutshell

Jean-Claude Rouget (below) and Sheikh Joaan Al Thani enjoy the Group 1 Coronation Stakes win of Qemah at Royal Ascot

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Tony Morris

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Howard Wright

Betting focus on TV wrong

Don’t blame tracks for drunks

INTERNATIONAL SCENE

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View From Ireland

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Continental Tales

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Around The Globe

Pathway programme launched

Bro Park underway

Keith Desormeaux flying

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FEATURES

FORUM

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The Big Picture

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The Thoroughbred Club

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From The Archives

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ROA Forum

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Talking To...

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TBA Forum

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COVER STORY The Big Interview

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Breeder of the Month

With owner Alan Spence

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Vet Forum

From Sandown and Newmarket

Kieren Fallon in 1994

Behind the scenes at York racecourse

AGM and election report

French trainer Jean-Claude Rouget

Visit to Godolphin’s HQ

Caroline Wilson for Twilight Son

The importance of conformation

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TBA Awards British breeding’s big night

DATA BOOK

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Sales Previews

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European Pattern

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Stallion Statistics

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Looking ahead to Arqana and Goffs UK

Sales Circuit Record results at Tattersalls’ July Sale

The latest Group winners

Sir Prancealot quick off the mark

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Caulfield Files

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Dr Statz Sea The Stars superb

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24 Hours With...

Can other magazines prove theirs?

Johannesburg’s legacy

Arqana President Eric Hoyeau

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ROA LEADER

NICHOLAS COOPER President Racehorse Owners Association

Racing must keep calm and carry on after Brexit Sport’s importance to nation well enough entrenched to allay any concern

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aking predictions on how horseracing will be affected long-term by Brexit is about as difficult as trying to envisage how this momentous political event will change all our lives in the years ahead. We just don’t know.

But, right now, we must remain optimistic that, short term, the Brexit vote will not delay racing’s plans for the setting up of a new funding system to replace the levy, due in the spring of next year.

It would certainly be a bitter irony if European politics were to emerge again as a barrier to our sport receiving its full entitlement from betting on British horseracing. Just a dozen years ago, it was the European Court of Justice that proved the downfall of a new commercial funding system based on the principle that the compilation of runners and riders – the horseracing programme – constituted an intellectual property right.

This was pushed through with enormous energy by the then British Horseracing Board’s Chairman Peter Savill and his very able Chief Executive Greg Nichols. Under the new system, Irish bookmakers were already being subjected to proper audits and paying a percentage on the bets they took on British racing, generating an income that far exceeded anything that British racing had previously received from them.

In 2004 the levy was being wound down in preparation for this scheme to be rolled out over the full estate of British bookmakers – and, in fact, any betting operator that was processing bets on British horseracing by the use of runners and riders data.

With barely contained glee, the racing world looked forward to a much improved and sustainable funding system, only to find that it would fall at the very last fence when the European Court of Justice intervened, ruling that the new basis for funding was not legally enforceable.

All hell then broke loose with racing having to go

back to the government ‘cap in hand’ and plead for the levy to be continued.

With the events of recent weeks, one certainty is that it will not be a European court that trips us up this time, though it is entirely possible that circumstances surrounding the European exit will cause our new funding system to be put on the back-burner.

Although, inevitably, some of the gloss has been taken off the fine work done by the BHA and others in racing to foster excellent relationships with former cabinet members – the Prime Minister and Chancellor among them – it is good news that Matt Hancock, racing’s greatest cheerleader in government in recent years, moves to the Department for Culture, Media & Sport.

It is, in any case, inconceivable the new government would take a different approach to racing than the former one, especially as work for the new legislation required to create levy replacement will continue to be carried out by the same civil servants at DCMS. There must also be a good chance that the enormous legislative programme required to extrictate Britain from the EU will move at such a snail’s pace that the statutory instrument needed to pave the way for racing’s new funding body will be waved through before the heavy lifting of the new legislative programme starts to gain momentum.

A further important consideration for racing is that soon there will be no requirement to get approval from Brussels for racing’s new act to be implemented and therefore no concerns that the legislation will have to be watered down to circumvent those state aid laws that have proved such a thorn in racing’s side over the years.

Despite the uncertain world in which we live, there remains a growing recognition of our sport’s economic, cultural and social importance across all political parties. It is a good position from which to move forward, whatever the effect of Brexit.

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TBA LEADER

JULIAN RICHMOND-WATSON Chairman Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association

Levy replacement cannot be derailed by leaving EU Racing’s financial wellbeing depends on meeting the April 2017 deadline

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rexit came as a shock to many of us and the fallout from the majority decision to leave the European Union will have profound effects on racing as well as the wider world.

Negotiations will inevitably be lengthy and wideranging, but it is vital that the TBA works closely along with BHA and others to ensure that the freedom with which thoroughbreds move around Europe and the rest of the world is maintained, and that disease controls, restrictions and notifications are strictly maintained across borders without any increase in red tape.

The relatively easy ability to transport thoroughbreds throughout Europe is a vital part of our breeding and racing industries, and it will require a fully-focused task force to make sure our particular requirements are understood in Defra and other governmental ministries.

Defra has a new minister in Andrea Leadsom, one of Theresa May’s first appointments on becoming prime minister. While Mrs May and her husband were once involved in racehorse ownership, Mrs Leadsom is a less familiar name in this area.

However, George Eustice continues in his junior role, which includes responsibility for animal health and welfare. We will be in touch with both ministers and their officials as events move forward.

It is important to ensure that medicines and vaccines to support the breeding and racing of thoroughbreds remain freely available, and the TBA’s veterinary committee will be fully engaged on any changes to the current status.

Brexit has caused political turmoil in every direction, and while racing’s senior administrators are led to believe that levy replacement legislation will not be affected by changes at Westminster, the timetable for implementation in April 2017 was already tight.

The DCMS, which looks after the levy, is also much changed. Like Defra, it has a new minister of state, in

Karen Bradley, and like Mrs Leadsom, hers is not a name that racing would immediately recognise. However, the sports minister Tracey Crouch, who has demonstrated her interest, remains in place, and although having no direct ministerial involvement in the issue, Newmarket’s Matthew Hancock has joined the department.

Everyone involved must press hard for the levy deadline to be maintained, so that the sport’s finances are secured. Failure to achieve this timetable will result in the industry having to accept the sharp fall in levy income predicted for 2016 and 2017, and some serious belt-tightening will need to take place.

Prize-money is the largest item of Levy Board expenditure, amounting to some 40% of the total earned in 2015.

Yet the contribution from the levy has fallen from £54.4m in 2015 to £49.8m this year, which affects everyone but particularly those at the lower end, and it is to be hoped that a sense of urgency over the replacement timetable can be conveyed to politicians and civil servants.

As yet there has been no discussion with government over the quantum or the funding model that would deliver a fair sum to racing from the betting industry. This needs to happen quickly for the deadline to be met.

This is racing’s one chance for a generation to put its finances on a better footing, and, however tempting it may be, the sport must not be rushed or bounced into a model that fails to deliver in the long term – even if it means delay and some short-term pain.

Remember also that self-help schemes such as MOPS and Plus 10 rely on levy funding and breeders should support them in numbers. The 2016 Plus 10 foal registration deadline is August 31.

With cross-party support and many political friends in Westminster, let’s hope that a speedy and satisfactory way forward can be found. Uncertainty is the last thing that breeding and racing need as another sales season, offering more horses than ever before, fast approaches.

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NEWS Exclusive report

Racehorse Owners Survey: the results Huge response provides unique insight into the ownership ranks in Britain

The thrill of ownership: the Ontoawinner syndicate and trainer Karl Burke enjoy Quiet Reflection’s Group 1 win at Royal Ascot

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he largest ever survey of racehorse owners was conducted earlier this year, in a project between the Racehorse Owners Association and British Horseracing Authority working with sports data company, Two Circles. The ROA helped secure funding for this important project through support from the British Horseracing Grant Scheme, administered by the BHA on behalf of the Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport.

Over 2,200 responses were received in the National Racehorse Owners Survey, which asked fundamental questions looking into why people became owners, what their ownership experience has been like, and why owners decided to leave the sport.

With the number of registered owners with a horse(s) in training declining from 9,329 in 2006 to 7,892 in 2015 – a drop of 15.4% over ten years – the survey’s findings will help to direct strategy for the recruitment and retention of owners in the coming years.

ROA members are owners for longer One of the standout figures in the survey concerned the number of years racehorse owners stay involved in the sport. The average

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duration of ownership for a registered owner is 4.7 years, this rises to 6.5 years for an ROA member.

When it comes to an owner staying in the sport for a period of ten years or more, the figure is 14% for a registered owner, against 35% for an ROA member. Therefore an owner is two and

“An owner is more

than twice as likely to stay in ownership for a decade if they are a member of the ROA” a half times more likely to stay in ownership for a decade if they are a member of the Racehorse Owners Association.

Charlie Liverton, ROA Chief Executive, said: “These results are important and reflect the hard work the ROA has put in over many years to look after its members and improve the position of the racehorse owner in Great Britain.

“The many benefits to ROA membership, including free admission schemes, international hospitality, third-party liability insurance, SIS owner-sponsorship and ROA Owners Jackpot to name but a few, help owners get the most out of their involvement in this wonderful sport.

“Growing the ownership base is vital to the future prosperity of racing and the clear message is that the ROA is absolutely central to achieving that goal.”

Trainers and racecourses have a massive role to play On the question of what is the most influential decision to becoming involved in owning a racehorse, 53% said speaking to a trainer and/or visiting a yard.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the owners of successful horses gave trainers higher marks for communication, approachability and information than the owners of unsuccessful horses.

One in four owners has taken a break, with the biggest factors being financial constraints and horse injury. When it comes to leaving the ownership ranks, 29% of lapsed owners cited a poor trainer experience; 44% named facilities and treatment of owners at racecourses as the THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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National Racehorse Owners Survey in numbers

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Average age of racehorse owner in Britain

Charlie Liverton: survey important

main factor in their decision to cease ownership.

The importance of prize-money to the owner has been widely discussed in recent years. Asked whether, if prize-money increased, they would alter the number of horses in training, 45% of current owners answered positively.

Syndicates provide highest satisfaction rating The growing popularity of syndicate ownership is a theme in the National Racehorse Owners Survey – and syndicate owners are the happiest type of owner.

Asked to give a score out of 10 for their overall racehorse ownership experience, the syndicate owner average is 8.2, compared to 7.9 for an ROA member and those owning with family and friends, to 7.5 for the sole owner.

Most syndicate owners say that winning races is a bonus, while most sole owners believe that winning is important, but not the be all and end all. Syndicate and new owners are motivated more by the social aspects of racing, thinking of the potential excitement above the expense.

The survey says that 73% of racehorse owners started out in ownership with others,

44%

Percentage of lapsed owners who cite facilties and treatment of owners at racecourses as a factor in their decision

6.5

years

Average duration of ownership for an ROA member compared to 4.7 years for a registered owner highlighting the importance of syndicates, racing clubs and owning with family and friends as a springboard into the sport.

Among sole and joint owners, 32% say racing is a passion they cannot live without; the figure

73%

Percentage of lapsed owners who would like to own horses again

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Satisfaction rating (out of 10) for ownership experience by syndicate owners; sole owners averaged 7.5

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Percentage of ROA members who remain an owner for ten years; the figure for registered owners is 14%

is 27% for all other owners. In addition, 72% of owners said they would have used a forum whereby experienced owners offer advice to new owners or those thinking of becoming owners.

For the full survey results see roa.co.uk

Visiting a trainer to view horses is a popular route into ownership

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NEWS

BHA takes action over Lohn cases The fallout from the quashing of Jim Best’s disqualification continues to cast a shadow over the sport after the BHA revealed it had contacted individuals involved in seven other cases where “there might be grounds to claim an appearance of bias” regarding the disciplinary panel’s findings.

Trainer Best was handed a four-year ban by the BHA in April, having been judged to have instructed conditional rider Paul John to stop two horses from running on their merits.

“Those involved in

the other cases could challenge the panel’s findings and demand compensation” Nick Rust says the BHA is acting ”fairly and responsibly” over the Lohn matter

However it subsequently emerged that Matthew Lohn, the solicitor who chaired the disciplinary panel – an independent body – had undertaken other work for the BHA, advising them on a number of cases. As a result, the Best verdict was scrapped – the trainer has continued to send out runners – with the sport’s regulator seeking a rehearing.

The BHA has already allowed an appeal by trainer Paul Gilligan, who was disqualified for six months, and agreed to pay towards costs incurred before that case is heard again.

Those involved in seven other disciplinary cases, not named by the BHA, could now challenge the panel’s findings and also demand compensation.

Nick Rust, Chief Executive of the BHA, said: “We are acting fairly, responsibly and proactively to deal with this matter and to address issues arising from a small number of past cases involving Matthew Lohn.

“We will provide support and guidance to anyone who decides to come forward to discuss any concerns that they might have

and how best to resolve them.”

The seven cases in which Matthew Lohn sat on the disciplinary panel followed his instruction by the BHA in October 2013 to provide advice on unrelated issues. In each case the panel found that the Rules of Racing had been breached and penalties were imposed. Two of the cases dismissed appeals from a decision by the racecourse stewards, while the other five cases concerned an individual who had breached the rules and a penalty was imposed.

The story of the thoroughbred over 300 years Breeding buffs and racing fans alike will delight in a new book that uncovers the development of the modern thoroughbred.

Mr Darley’s Arabian takes readers on a journey of discovery over 300 years, from 18th century Aleppo and the export of a single purebred Arabian, right up to the present day and the outstanding champion that is Frankel.

The story begins in 1704, when a bankrupt English merchant buys a colt from Bedouin tribesmen near the ruins of Palmyra and sends it back to his home county of Yorkshire. The animal that Thomas Darley purchased never saw a racecourse – yet 95% of all thoroughbreds in the world today are descended from him.

As the Darley Arabian’s bloodline

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is traced through 25 generations, we find out about the people, places and events that helped to produce the greatest names to have graced the Turf, gaining a unique insight into the men and women who owned, traded and bred horses descended from that first stallion.

With a canvas that spreads across England and Europe, from Argentina to America, with a cast that takes in aristocrats and nouveaux riches, playboys and industrialists, Smithfield meat salesmen and the rulers of Dubai, Mr Darley’s Arabian expertly and wittily sweeps us through three centuries of outstanding thoroughbreds.

Mr Darley’s Arabian is the first book written by Chris McGrath, former racing correspondent of The Independent and a Thoroughbred Owner & Breeder contributor.

Mr Darley’s Arabian – High Life, Low Life, Sporting Life: A History of Racing in 25 Horses, is published by John Murray Press and costs £25 (hardback). Also available as an ebook.

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NEWS

Views sought for diversity in racing survey Oxford Brookes University, in partnership with Women In Racing (WIR), has launched an online survey to help understand the role of diversity in British horseracing, specifically the representation of women.

The project will investigate diversity, including issues covering gender, ethnicity, disability and geography, and how these impact on underrepresentation of minority groups in leadership roles.

Funded by The Racing Foundation and WIR, the survey is aimed at people working at all levels of the racing industry. Answers will be anonymous. The survey will be live until August 15 and should take no longer than ten minutes to complete.

Using the data collected, the team at the Centre for Diversity Policy Research and Practice will investigate career development for women in the racing industry, along with the impact of other aspects of diversity.

The survey findings will be made available early next year and published on the Women In Racing website.

Simonetta Manfredi, Professor of Equality and Diversity Management at Oxford Brooks

The online survey will help to understand the representation of women in the sport

recommendations to increase diversity and develop good practice in this important sector.”

To take part in the survey go to womeninracing.co.uk/OxfordBrookesSurvey

University, said: “I am really pleased to be possibly the first academic to be investigating diversity issues within the horseracing in Great Britain. I hope that the findings will be informative and produce evidence-based

Plus 10 foal payment deadline Breeders who wish to register foals for the £5.5 million Plus 10 bonus scheme must do so before August 31.

Following a change to the scheme

announced earlier this year, breeders who pay the foal registration of £150 are guaranteed a £1,000 bonus prize each time their horse win a Plus 10 race.

Plus 10-registered foals and yearlings achieve higher prices in the sales ring

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Plus 10 is an owner and breeder bonus scheme, which pays £10,000 bonuses – on top of prize-money – across more than 550 two- and three-year-old races held on British and Irish tracks each year.

Breeders must pay the foal registration if they wish to sell their horse with Plus 10 certification either as a foal or in 2017 as a yearling, and with no supplementary entries permitted, it is vital this fee is paid in order for future owners to be able to partake in the scheme.

In 2015, horses that were sold with Plus 10 registration at the Goffs and Tattersalls foal sales sold for higher median sale prices than those sold without Plus 10 registration, the figures being €7,500 more at Goffs and £6,000 more at Tattersalls.

For more information and registration forms, visit www.plus10bonus.com or contact +44(0) 20 7152 0026.

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Racing’s news in a nutshell PEOPLE AND BUSINESS Racecourse attendances Bad weather blamed for 6% fall in aggregate crowds over first half of the year against 2015, the respective totals being 2,804,218 and 2,986,760.

Brian Ellison Dual-purpose trainer notches 1,000th winner when Robero strikes at Newmarket under Ben Curtis.

Phil White Appointed London Regional Director by Jockey Club Racecourses, promoted from his previous role as Sandown’s General Manager.

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Kieren Fallon Six-time British champion jockey, with 16 Classics to his name, retires aged 51 and is admitted to hospital suffering from severe depression.

John Smith’s Longest Flat racing sponsorship gets longer and more valuable as York’s now-£200,000 John Smith’s Cup will be backed by the brewer until at least 2019.

Barry Geraghty JP McManus’s retained jockey breaks right arm in fall at Market Rasen and will be on the sidelines for between two and three months.

Achieves what is a fantastic feat for an amateur jockey when riding her 100th winner on Indian Chief at Nottingham.

John Ferguson Chief Executive and Racing Manager to Godolphin puts his Bloomfields training base on the market for £4.5 million.

Michelle Payne Melbourne Cup-winning rider set to join the training ranks having redeveloped a farm in Ballarat next door to her father.

James Henderson Steps down from his role as Chief Executive of bookmaker William Hill.

Francesca Cumani Revealed as the co-host of ITV’s racing coverage next year, when she will work alongside Ed Chamberlin.

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Enghien looks set for closure as a jumps track after France Galop President Edouard de Rothschild said the cost of racing there was too prohibitive. Trainer Darren Weir sets a new record in Australia for victories in a season when saddling his 335th winner.

QIPCO Champion Stakes could be run on the jumps track at Ascot in a bid to ensure better ground – a decision could be made by August 2, when entries for the race close.

Karen Bradley, Conservative MP for Staffordshire Moorlands, is made Culture Secretary in new Prime Minister Theresa May’s cabinet reshuffle. Chris Catlin calls time on a career in the saddle that yielded 1,218 winners in Britain; he joins Godolphin as a work rider. Classic-winning owner Phil Cunningham has expanded his Newmarket operation to nearby Six Mile Bottom after purchasing Swynford Paddocks Stud.

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RACEHORSE AND STALLION MOVEMENTS AND RETIREMENTS Untapable Eclipse Award-winning three-year-old champion of 2014 is retired – Ron Winchell’s homebred won the Kentucky Oaks and Breeders’ Cup Distaff under Rosie Napravnik.

Primitivo Progressive Royal Ascot winner is sold out of the Alan King yard to continue his career in Hong Kong.

Duramente Japanese 2,000 Guineas and Derby winner who was nation’s leading hope for a muchcoveted first victory in the Arc is retired after injuring his near-fore.

Defrocked Another winner at the Royal meeting this summer who is bound for Hong Kong after being sold by Michael Buckley and Michael Watt.

Black Caviar First foal of the unbeaten champion sprinter is named Oscietra – which is one of the most prized and valuable types of caviar in the world.

HORSE OBITUARIES

Cuff A fractured knee sees Galileo’s talented twoyear-old daughter, a Listed winner at Naas in May for Aidan O’Brien and Coolmore, retired.

Woolfall Treasure 11 Eight-time winner who spent most of his career with Gary Moore is found shot dead in a field at his Chislehurst stable.

Euro Charline Top-class filly for the Marco Botti stable owned by Team Valor, winner of the Grade 1 Beverly D Stakes, is retired aged five due to a tendon injury.

Cannon Fodder 9 Diminutive hurdler for Sheena West stable who won three times and chased home Vroum Vroum Mag and Jennies Jewel in a Grade 2 at Ascot.

Brilliant Speed 8 Stallion based at Three Chimneys Farm is killed by a lightning strike; the son of Dynaformer was a Grade 1 winner and retired to stud in 2013.

Roseburg 5 Owned by Sheikh Mohammed Obaid, he ran a personal best when third behind his same owner’s Postponed in the Coronation Cup in June.

PEOPLE OBITUARIES Chung Wah Thong 28 Apprentice jockey in Malaysia and winner of a local Group 1, he was killed along with other members of his family in a shooting.

Lady Susan Renouf 74 Australian socialite who was the mother of trainer Jane Chapple-Hyam and the former wife of the late Robert Sangster.

Marigold Coke 94 PA to Grand National-winning trainer Tim Forster in his heyday and a friend to many of the sport’s household names.

Midnight Legend 25 Talented performer on the Flat and over hurdles who won more fans as a rags-to-riches jumps sire.

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Nerys Dutfield 66 Molecomb-winning trainer with Misty Eyed who was adept at turning inexpensive fillies into Pattern-class performers.

Bill Parsonage 85

Jon Hearne 64

Ludlow bookmaker whose family are synonymous with the Forbra Gold Cup Challenge Cup at the track.

Worked with racecourse bookmaker Joe Oliver throughout the south of England and was a racehorse owner.

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Phonsie O’Brien, 86 Former champion amateur rider and hugely successful trainer, he was the youngest brother of Vincent O’Brien. Marion Green, 81 Successful pinhooker – notably of Group 1 winners Tagula and Hello – and owner of Forest Stud in Lancashire. John Dudgeon, 84 Stalwart of the Scottish jumps scene who trained 1984 Aintree Fox Hunters’ winner Gayle Warning. Richard Bowers, 85 Key figure in British National Hunt breeding who with his wife Meg ran The Elms Stud in Northamptonshire from 1976 until 2000.

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THE BIG PICTURE

HAWK TOPS SANDOWN BILL French Classic winner The Gurkha (purple silks) was favourite to land the CoralEclipse at Sandown but despite Ryan Moore’s best efforts he was unable to get past Hawkbill (blue), who displayed a fantastic attitude under William Buick to land the ten-furlong Group 1 prize by half a length. Godolphin’s improving three-year-old, trained by Charlie Appleby, has now won his last six races and could bid for the Juddmonte International Stakes at York on August 17 Photo George Selwyn

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D A R L E Y J U LY C U P

BENTLEY MOTORS An 18-runner field went to post for the Darley July Cup, including three Group 1 sprint winners from Royal Ascot. However it was an Ascot absentee, Limato (left), who proved his class with a decisive two-length victory in the colours of Paul Jacobs. Trainer Henry Candy was celebrating his second Group 1 of the season after Twilight Son’s Diamond Jubilee Stakes win; for jockey Harry Bentley it was a first triumph at the top level in Britain Photo George Selwyn

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FROM THE ARCHIVES

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The story behind the photo Frankie Dettori called Kieren Fallon his “most ferocious competitor” after news broke that Fallon had decided to retire from the saddle aged 51, due to an ongoing battle with depression.

In this picture we can see the two men, who shared nine jockeys’ championships between them, doing battle in the 1994 Gimcrack Stakes at York, with Fallon on Chilly Billy (left) getting the better of Dettori on Fallow.

This success at Group 2 level was the only one in Chilly Billy’s short career. The son of Master Willie was trained by Lynda Ramsden, who with husband Jack supported Fallon on the northern circuit before he hit the big time. Elite jobs followed riding for Newmarket heavyweights Sir Henry Cecil and Sir Michael Stoute, later becoming stable jockey at Aidan O’Brien’s powerful Ballydoyle stable.

Things had become tougher for Fallon in the last few years, despite his 2,000 Guineas victory in 2014 on Night Of Thunder, with the rider trying his luck in America before he returned to his native Ireland this season with up-and-coming trainer Michael O’Callaghan.

County Clare-born Fallon claimed six riding titles in his 34-year career, partnering over 2,700 winners that included 22 British and Irish Classics. An outstanding rider of Epsom’s unique course, he won the Derby three times on Oath (1999), Kris Kin (2003) and North Light (2004).

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THE MAN YOU CAN’T IGNORE COMMENT

Tony Morris Mark Johnston exaggerated to make a point with his comments about betting coverage on Channel 4 Racing, but his sentiment was correct – there is too much focus on betting

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side from his obvious talents as one of the nation’s leading trainers, Mark Johnston has a great gift for expressing articulate opinions in forthright fashion – and I doubt there could be any aspect of racing on which he has no opinion. Readers of the excellent Kingsley Klarion, the monthly magazine which charts the progress of his Middleham stable, have never had to wonder why the column he pens appears under the heading: Straight Talking. He pulls no punches.

Johnston recently acquired a wider audience for one of his views, when he spoke out about the way the sport is portrayed on terrestrial TV. Blunt and, provocative as ever, he called for ITV to dispense with all coverage of betting, which he described as “ridiculous”, and appealed for more interesting material. And he hoped his message would be heard by planners at ITV, which takes over as racing’s principal “shop window” at the start of 2017.

As was predictable, the reports of Johnston’s radical opinion produced plenty of reaction, most of it negative, and I have no doubt he’d have expected that to be the case. My initial amused response was to recall that time when we could hear racing results on the wireless, but Auntie BBC would never tell us the starting prices; betting was clearly the unsavoury aspect of the sport and it was not to be encouraged.

I don’t suppose for one moment Johnston imagined anyone would entirely echo the view he expressed, and he would have known that coverage of racing with no mention of the betting angle was impossible in this day and age.

He was exaggerating to make a point, a ploy to which most people will resort at times, and one I have myself used on numerous occasions.

Of course, if he had toned his message down, he would not have achieved the publicity and the impact he did. He wanted to open a debate, and he chose a surefire way to go about it.

It was no surprise that some of the most scathing criticism came from bookmakers. Nor was it a shock that some of the arguments advanced by bookmakers appeared to be totally irrelevant. Worse still, it struck me, was that some were almost certainly quite untrue.

Coral’s Simon Clare dismissed Johnston’s

Mark Johnston: wanted to open a debate – and he did

remarks as “beyond laughable” and reasoned that “as the majority of viewers have either placed a bet, or intend to, the coverage surely has to reflect that fact in the most compelling and relevant way possible.”

David Williams, of Ladbrokes, was quoted as saying: “Whether or not folk particularly like it, the primary attraction to the sport for the public is through betting.” He thought the idea of removing the betting element from coverage was “absurd.”

Asked for his slant on the issue, Jon IvanDuke of William Hill responded with a confident assertion that ITV would recognise that racing and betting had always been inherently linked and would reflect that fact in its coverage. And, like his industry colleagues, he added: “The vast majority of racing fans grow

to love the sport through having a punt.”

Of course, the topic was bound to be referred to John McCririck, whose response proved as over-the-top and maddening as we came to expect from him in his TV heyday. The storm in a teacup became a raging tempest as he thundered: “This is very serious and brings into stark relief the contempt that the upper classes who rule racing have always had for betting. If Mark Johnston had his way, racing would be run on private estates and nobody would care.”

As everyone ought to know, the aristocracy who invented organised racing did so primarily as a medium for wagering among themselves; they didn’t just condone betting, they fostered it and encouraged it. Racing’s rulers have never held betting in contempt, and have always – now more than ever – recognised its importance THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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to the sport. Not content with his rant over what Johnston did say, McCririck then chose to condemn him for something he did not say and never would say.

We should not forget that McCririck was once a bookmaker – albeit, by his own admission, a failed one – so we ought not to have been surprised when he echoed the thoughts of those quoted above, and even laid more stress on them. According to him: “At least 95% of people who watch racing on television or go to the sport have had a bet.”

Fine. I’ve had a bet. In nearly 60 years of going racing and watching races, I’ve had quite a few. But, relative to the number of races I’ve seen in all that time, ‘quite a few’ represents an accurate description. I once had an account with the Tote, but that got cancelled because I hardly ever used it. I honestly can’t remember when my last bet was struck.

What’s more, most of the people I mix with on the racecourse are not there because they like a bet. They attend for social reasons, to enjoy the spectacle of thoroughbreds in competition in the company of likeminded individuals. Yes, they might have the occasional bet, but they don’t need to bet to find pleasure in going racing. It’s my contention that, aside from stable staff, few people professionally involved with racing would say that betting constitutes any kind of motivating factor in their enjoyment of the sport.

Okay, but what about the casual racegoer and the casual viewer of racing on the box? Yes, I’ll grant that most people who go racing have a bet or several, just as most people who go racing have a drink or several. And their punting helps to keep the show on the road. I’ve no quarrel with that assertion.

But the TV viewer? Where is the evidence for the notion that a majority of those who tune into Channel 4 racing do so because they bet? Are we supposed to believe that so many thousands – shame we can’t say millions – have betting accounts and crave the up-to-the-minute market moves in order to make their investments every half an hour? Absolute poppycock.

Plenty will be watching just because there’s nothing much worth watching on BBC or ITV, and there will be those, like my mother, who found it undemanding viewing while she was doing the ironing, didn’t care who won, and cared even less about anyone’s opinion as to the likely winner. She quite liked seeing the actual races, though.

And that’s a significant point. Anyone chancing on Channel 4 Racing for the first time is more likely to be turned on to the sport and become a committed fan by the spectacle; the punditry and concentration on betting is all too baffling and esoteric for the newcomer. The show should focus principally on presenting the races themselves to the best effect, encouraging the viewer to appreciate the sheer pleasure of watching horses and their riders in competition.

On terrestrial TV – and that is just what this argument is all about – racing must be seen to be fun, a branch of the entertainment industry, like football, tennis, cricket or any other sport. As Johnston correctly remarked, while betting features significantly in those pursuits as well, it doesn’t require frequent updates or regular mentions.

Nothing I’ve opined here, and everything opined by the bookmakers quoted above, applies to the dedicated racing channels of At The Races and Racing UK. The serious punters are subscribers, and I suspect that most subscribers are serious punters. They want, need and get up-tothe-minute betting information. It matters to them. It’s no big deal for Channel 4 viewers, and it will be no big deal for ITV viewers next year.

“On terrestrial TV racing must be seen to be fun, like football or any other sport”

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HOWARD WRIGHT COMMENT

Racecourses certainly can do more to minimise the chances of trouble, but a drinking culture and drunken behaviour already exist outside their gates

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hew, only a few days until meaningful football returns to England, with the Community Shield at Wembley providing a useful warm-up for champions Leicester City and Cup winners Manchester United, and then it’s straight into the Premier League a week later. Racecourses and regular racegoers can breathe a sigh of relief; the risk of crowd disturbance will not go away altogether, but it will be significantly reduced.

The lull between regular football campaigns coincides with a rise in the potential for added misbehaviour on racecourses, and evidence suggests a link, even though the off-season for soccer fans cannot be blamed entirely. It does, however, provide the opportunity for migration of those looking to cause trouble in a public place and open space.

Such was the case on Derby day at Epsom, where the aftermath of a post-racing, infield fracas resulted in 11 men, with ages ranging from 16 to 36, being arrested on the spot, mainly on suspicion of affray, and a further seven, aged between 15 and 19, being apprehended, for alleged offences ranging from grievous bodily harm to robbery, in a concerted operation by Surrey Police over the following fortnight.

The identity of the men, some just boys, suggests that the incident could just as easily have occurred in the nearby town centres of Sutton or Croydon. It had nothing to do with horseracing.

The football season break also coincides with a natural increase in the number of summer racing festivals and weekend meetings, but in terms of rank bad behaviour there are other forces at work, for which the sport cannot be blamed.

Take the midweek first day of the July festival at Newmarket, a fixture to which champagne purveyor Moet & Chandon gives its backing as title sponsor on a course that – probably unbeknown to most attendees – has granted the naming rights to a corporate sponsor, the drinks company Adnams.

My first sighting of a legless racegoer, supported on either side to maintain some semblance of equilibrium, was at 2.10pm, as the runners went into the stalls for the first race.

And yes, it was a woman. Racing was not to blame. Just a measure of social responsibility. Or rather social irresponsibility.

At 5.45pm, after the seventh race, in a car

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The July festival at Newmarket attracted its share of socially irresponsible people

park opposite the main grandstand entrance, two mid-20s men squared up to each other, one all mouth and jacket removed ready for action, the other taking two steps back and one to the side every time his adversary advanced, while friends of each circled the pair. Nothing to do with drink, nor racing. All to do with social irresponsibility.

“My first sighting of a legless racegoer was at 2.10pm, as the runners went into the stalls for the first”

Final observation came at 11.10pm, as stragglers in their best frocks, fancy hats askew and considerably the worse for wear on their Ladies’ Day out, contemplated the meaning of life on the edge of the pavement in Newmarket High Street. Nothing intimidating, but socially irresponsible nevertheless.

All were instances that might be used to

tarnish racing’s name, but for which racing was not to blame. Yet racecourses generally, and particularly those staging well-attended events, can do more. Increased vigilance with a light touch and better training for security and bar staff would be top of the list.

Not far behind would be greater and more prominent promotion of the Pace Yourself campaign, now in its third year after being introduced by the Racecourse Association in conjunction with Drinkaware, the independent charity that promotes responsible drinking and works to reduce alcohol misuse and harm in the UK. Whatever measures are taken, the impression – call it a perception even – will probably remain that alcohol is the main driver for misbehaviour. Yet critics who bemoan the influx of once-a-year racegoers can take no credit for displaying a short-sighted appreciation of how racecourse commercialism works, and those who accuse managements of encouraging a drinking culture are just plain blind.

A drinking culture exists in Britain. A mindless drinking culture, and all that goes with it, is not racing’s fault. It’s the fault of 21st century society, and should be recognised as such, instead of being heaped squarely, and unfairly, on the sport’s shoulders.

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VIEW FROM IRELAND

By JESSICA LAMB

Support network set for launch Pathway programme will help jockeys facing professional or personal problems

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talent identification programme could be key to diminishing mental health problems among Irish jockeys, says the Racing Academy and Centre for Education (RACE).

In the wake of multiple champion jockey Kieren Fallon’s shock retirement from riding due to depression, RACE manager Keith Rowe has revealed that his team is working towards the creation of a jockeys’ pathway system that could dramatically improve the way they are supported.

“We need to change the way we treat, manage and develop young people, and specifically, we need to look at jockeys as athletes,” said Rowe. “If you look at any other sport – boxing, athletics, rugby, showjumping – they have a pathway system for bringing along those with ability, from as young as nine or ten in some cases.”

He stressed: “Kieren was dropped off at Kevin Prendergast’s at around 17, and it was sink or swim, like so many other young jockeys. Imagine if he had been plugged into a proper framework? He is an incredibly talented rider and things could have been different.”

Rowe, Horse Racing Ireland, the Turf Club’s Chief Medical Officer Dr Adrian McGoldrick and former research fellow Sarah-Jane Cullen have led the production of a framework – a pathway – that could help to prevent mental health problems in young riders.

The pathway will identify talent and offer all-round support and development for someone aspiring to be a jockey. Its aim will be to produce successful and well-balanced athletes who have careers in which their ability is maximised.

It will achieve this by using a network of educators and coaches to build strong foundations and a support team that can recognise and address problems, whether they be technical, tactical or personal.

“There are very few people in life who are totally bulletproof – people who go through life without problems and don’t have to learn life skills and coping mechanisms,” said Rowe.

“The logic with this is you start early and it’s preventative. Jockeys will start to think, ‘Mental fitness is as important to me as riding fitness’, and by the time they are 24-25 they are a much more resilient person.”

He added: “From a young age we can expose them to professional set-ups, instil

Kieren Fallon in happier times with Dylan Thomas; he has retired due to depression

good habits and help make them the best they can be.

“And we can keep supporting them throughout their careers, helping them to get around whatever problems they hit.

“I think a pathway system providing that kind of support can play a vital role in not just improving the riding talent that Ireland produces, but keeping these kids healthy, both mentally and physically.”

The creation of the jockeys’ pathway and how it will be implemented is due to be launched later this year, with the first riders expected to come under its wing in early 2017.

One group that could especially benefit from such a supportive programme is females; a record 13 girls graduated from RACE’s latest 28-strong apprentice jockey course. But Rowe is frustrated at the obstacles standing in their way.

He said: “For a lot of people, it’s still a blind spot. Girls just don’t get the same opportunities as boys and I think it’s down to a lot of old-school perceptions.

“I think, with the continued advancement of sports science and how we measure performance, that it’ll soon become obvious that those perceptions aren’t based on fact – that in reality there is very little difference between a man and a woman’s strength and ability on a horse.”

Bar those who returned to school to

complete Leaving Cert examinations, all the female graduates have obtained full-time employment within the racing and breeding industries.

Among their new bosses are trainers John Feane, Johnny Murtagh (himself a RACE graduate), Dermot Weld and Tracey Collins, and those continuing full-time education have also committed to part-time positions to continue building towards a career in racing.

Yet Rowe fears each of them could be better off leaving Ireland.

“Samantha Wynne and Emily Finnegan are perfect examples,” he said. “They have done very well in New Zealand and Australia.

“The racing schools over there have something like 80% girls in them, so it’s clear they have embraced female riders and they haven’t put barriers up – barriers that are commonplace in this hemisphere.”

Wynne, a RACE graduate who had only a handful of rides on the Flat in Ireland, is in her fourth season of riding in New Zealand and sits 15th in this season’s jockeys’ Premiership table, with 163 career wins under her belt.

Finnegan arrived in Australia in 2013 after a stint on the Irish pony racing circuit. The 21-year-old has now ridden 118 winners from nearly 1,000 rides, notably recording a treble at Mount Gambier on one memorable day in January 2015, when all eight races were won by female riders.

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VIEW FROM IRELAND

Healy legacy assured through family

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horseracing photographers in the world, becoming the face of Healy Racing, but not before suffering the same sadness his father had when losing his mother Joan to breast cancer in 1987.

Like her husband last month, Joan died peacefully with her family and, though devastating, this symmetry best displays the togetherness of one of racing’s best-known and most-loved families.

Before long Liam jnr got his own camera and, once they had completed college, sisters Lisa and Cathy had taken over the running of the office at Healy Racing, continuing their mother’s legacy as they and their six children will do for their father in the years to come.

Every Thursday afternoon and Sunday he began photographing horses at race meetings and point-to-points, and it wasn’t long before he took the plunge to take it on fulltime.

Joan joined the business, looking after the office, and Pat, his eldest son, started joining him at the races too.

Pat would grow into one of the finest

Liam Healy snr: much-missed

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The fabric of Irish racing was torn last month when Liam Healy snr, patriarch of the Healy photography dynasty, died at the age of 71.

Since founding the company in 1975, Healy had been at the head of Healy Racing, driving it to become the leading supplier of horseracing photographs throughout Ireland.

Sons Pat and Liam jnr, and daughters Lisa and Cathy, working full-time for the family business, have helped build it into an all-encompassing service, covering every race meeting and point-to-point on the calendar – not to mention countless awards nights, sales, and special horseracing occasions.

For approaching three generations, there has been a Healy Racing photographer at every raceday, and at most of them has also been Liam Healy snr.

However, four and a half years ago, Healy fell ill with cancer and despite many good months and years, on July 4, it eventually took him.

He died surrounded by his loving family in Tralee hospital, close to his home in Listowel – the place that gave him life and sparked his interest in horses and photography.

Born on June 12, 1945 to Paddy and Kitty Healy, Liam’s earliest experiences of racing were in a local betting shop.

He had been looked after by neighbours Hannie and Garrett Carey by day, since the death of his mother when he was three. Garrett was a painter and both were punters, and they would send Healy to the bookmakers with their wagers.

The young man was captivated by the photos of racehorses on the newspaper pages that lined the walls and would have the betting shopkeeper save him the pages so he could cut out the pictures.

Through his days cutting turf, delivering milk, delivering minerals and working the cloakroom at a local dancehall, Healy’s interest in photography grew and, after he married childhood sweetheart Joan, he saw an opportunity to stop thinking and start doing.

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CONTINENTAL TALES

Bro can grow as surfaces bed in New track’s turf and all-weather can improve but a pleasing start

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SWEDEN

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Bro Park’s first fixture proved a hit with Ray (inset) taking a Listed prize for owner-breeder Benny Andersson, formerly of Abba

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wedish racing has entered a new era now that Stockholm-based fans of the sport have swapped the 1960s architecture of Täby racecourse, not far from the city centre, for the brand spanking new Bro Park, some 20 miles to the north.

Täby, which had such a prime location that the lure of selling up to housing developers became too strong, closed its doors for the final time with a ten-hour spectacular, featuring 14 well-subscribed races (all but three had nine runners or more) on May 18.

Even though it was just an ordinary Wednesday, a very healthy attendance of almost 4,000 turned out to say farewell.

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There was a veteran jockeys’ invitation race and a sale of racing memorabilia – nostalgia was all around.

Turn forward time by a month and a day and the grand opening of Bro Park took place on June 19 with a mere 11 races, including the Group 3 Stockholms Stora Pris and a pair of Listed contests, an international female jockeys’ competition, a couple of horses from outside Scandinavia and a crowd that may have just snuck into five figures.

Despite wins for America’s pin-up girl Chantal Sutherland and Aidan O’Brien’s daughter Ana, the local ‘jockettes’ proved too strong. But there was less for the home team

to shout about in the big races, with Danish raider Beaufort Twelve landing the Swedish 2,000 Guineas and the Norwegian visitor Cathrine Erichsen notching a stakes race double with Coprah and Easy Road.

The Listed fillies’ event, the Bloomers Vase, did at least avoid export thanks to Abba star Benny Andersson’s homebred Rock Of Gibraltar filly, Ray. And there were some serious celebrations in the Bravery household as Subtle Knife, trained by Newmarket handler Giles and bred by his wife Fiona, finished second to achieve some black type in the nick of time on her 56th and possibly final outing before retiring to the paddocks.

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Dennis Madsen, who took up the job as Head of Racing at the Swedish Horseracing Authority at the beginning of the year, looked back on opening day with a good deal of satisfaction.

“It was a success from beginning to end,” said Madsen, a Dane by birth who has a quarter of a century’s experience within the racing industry as a journalist, jockeys’ agent and television presenter, having been based in Sweden for the past 14 years.

“Of course we made some small mistakes – the mobile public address system wasn’t up to scratch and the gates between the preparade ring, paddock and course that we ordered from France ages ago never arrived – but overall it went off better than we expected.

“The weather in May was quite difficult, very warm and dry, so the turf track was a bit firm, but it continues to improve all the time as its roots are growing deeper.

“There were a few complaints about the sand track being loose, and our maintenance team needs to learn how to look after it as it needs an incredible amount of watering, but it really just needs time to bed in.

“We have had to forget the old days, back in the seventies and eighties, when Täby regularly attracted 5,000 or 6,000 people.

Our goal is to pull in 4,000-plus crowds seven or eight times a year, but the grandstand has been constructed with an average crowd of between 1,000 and 2,000 in mind.

“Last night [a summer Monday evening] we had 1,100 through the turnstiles and the stand was quite intimate, so I’m positive that it’s going to work very well.”

One innovation that could be a hit is the marketing of Bro Park as a ‘destination restaurant’. Top professional chefs have been employed to work there all year round, not just when racing is on, as going out for lunch is a big thing in Sweden, even during the week.

Madsen is now keen to attract international participation at the three-day Festival of Swedish Racing, in particular its final day, Sunday, September 11, for which entries close on August 8. The biggest race, the Group 3 Stockholm Cup, has received a cash boost so that it is now worth £112,540, while the same day’s three Listed races are all now worth at least £40,192.

“We have created a nice two-mile handicap worth 300,000 krone (£24,116) and there is good money right throughout the card, so if you want to bring a horse for the stakes races it makes sense to fill up the box with another for the undercard,” Madsen enthused.

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SWITZERLAND

If there was an award for the young horse in training in Europe to best combine class and durability, that prize might well go to this year’s Swiss Derby winner Kidmenever.

Ever since this Irish-bred son of Baltic King was purchased as an unraced two-year-old for just €10,000 (£7,752) at Goresbridge Sales late last May, he has been on the go, competing relentlessly as he progressed from claiming company to Pattern races, paying his way for three different sets of connections.

His original purchaser was Lambourn trainer Stan Moore, who, after initial starts at Salisbury and Lingfield, took him across the Channel. Following his third French outing, a win at Deauville in late August, he was claimed by trainer Xavier Nakkachdji for €34,500.

A jump to Listed class proved premature, but he still did well enough in six runs for Nakkachdji, winning once before changing hands again, this time for €21,500, following a second place in a Chantilly claimer on February 26.

However, he has really thrived since joining the Chantilly yard of Fabrice Vermeulen, a 38year-old Belgian expatriate. Never out of the prize-money for him in six attempts, wins in Marseille and Cagnes-sur-Mer have come either side of a fine third place in the Group 2 Prix Greffuhle at Saint-Cloud.

And so to Switzerland on June 12 and a first attempt at a mile and a half. This was Kidmenever’s 17th start since he made his racecourse debut less than a year earlier, yet he posted another career best to beat the Alain de Royer-Dupre-trained Black Sea (himself a French Listed winner) by an easy two and a half lengths.

Who knows when his impressive progress will end? Kidmenever holds a Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe entry.

HUNGARY

Yorkshire trainer Geoff Harker may be surprised to find out that Mocassin, his 57-rated threetime handicap scorer, is a half-brother to a Derby winner.

But that is reality after Merion, like Mocassin a French-bred son of the Rainbow Quest mare Museum Piece, came out on top in the Magyar Derby at Kincsem Park in Budapest on July 3.

In a race worth 7 million florints (£16,352) to the winner and featuring horses bred in eight different countries among its 16 runners, Merion got the better of a protracted duel with Sarkanyfu to score by a short neck and get off the mark in the grandest manner having failed to prevail in any of his five previous starts.

British involvement was restricted to the Larksborough Stud-bred Sixties Icon colt Souvenir de Mauve, who finished fifth, and jockeys Danny Brock and Saleem Golam, who filled the last two places.

However, there were three British-bred winners on the 11-race card, including Three Robins, a former Richard Hannon-trained Cape Cross filly who won a ten-furlong contest under Brock.

The big race result completed an Eastern European Derby double for French breeding as, a few minutes earlier and 500 miles to the north in Warsaw, the Polish Derby had been won

by Caccini, a French-bred son of American Post. Both were purchased as yearlings at the Arqana Deauville Autumn Mixed Sale of 2014, Caccini costing €7,000 and Merion exactly half that amount.

GERMANY

Given the absence of high-profile female European jockeys following the retirement of Hayley Turner, it is pleasing to report that a woman currently shares third place in the German jockeys’ championship, just four winners adrift of the leader Filip Minarik.

The lady in question is the exotically named Eva-Maria Zwingelstein, who has been successful 28 times already this season at a strike-rate of almost one in four. But, although she is an apprentice, she is no wunderkind, far from it. In fact she is a 29-year-old mother of one who, in May 2015, had just two victories to her name and (barely believably given her subsequent success) was coming to the end of a decade-long wait for her third triumph.

This long hiatus is partly explained by the demands of bringing up a daughter and partly by a stalls accident at Verden, which left her with a serious knee injury.

Zwingelstein is the partner of the Iffezheim trainer Gerald Geisler, who provided her with a first Group 1 ride when Rosenhill took part in the German Derby on July 10. The couple plan to get married in September.

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AROUND THE GLOBE THE WORLDWIDE RACING SCENE

NORT H A M E R I CA

by Steve Andersen

Desormeaux still pinching himself

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rainer Keith Desormeaux walked out of the winner’s circle at Santa Anita in southern California on the first Saturday in July shaking his head in wonder.

Dalmore, a promising colt bought for $47,000 as a yearling, had just won the Grade 3 Affirmed Stakes for three-year-olds, the trainer’s fourth Graded stakes win of 2016.

The victory was not entirely unexpected – Dalmore was the second choice in a small field – but it was the latest reminder of a remarkable season for the 49-year-old trainer.

The end of the summer has the same potential. At Del Mar in Southern California and Saratoga in upstate New York, Desormeaux hopes to extend the success at the two most popular August race meetings in the United States. Judging from the year Desormeaux is having, anything is possible.

Desormeaux won his first Classic in May when Exaggerator won the $1.5 million Preakness Stakes at Pimlico. Earlier in the spring, Exaggerator won the Santa Anita Derby in April and was second in the Kentucky Derby to Nyquist in early May. Exaggerator is a candidate for the $1.25m Travers Stakes at Saratoga on August 27.

Up to July 5, Desormeaux’s stable had earned more than $2.6m in prize-money this year, well within range of his personal best of $3.8m set in 2015. In the last two years, Desormeaux has won four seven-figure races, including the 2014 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile with Texas Red. The Preakness win by Exaggerator was different, occurring during a time of year racing draws the attention of the general sports fan in the US. In the following weeks, Desormeaux was still trying to comprehend the famous win.

“I’ve done my best to appreciate it,” Desormeaux said. “It’s still hard to put into words. It’s not that I didn’t believe it could happen. It’s a confirmation of what I’ve known. Whether there’s a racing God, karma or spirits, thank you for letting it happen.”

The Preakness win was a family affair.

Exaggerator was ridden by Keith’s younger brother, Hall of Fame jockey Kent Desormeaux.

Keith Desormeaux will be based at Del Mar this summer and will make frequent trips to oversee his stable at Saratoga, which will be run by his girlfriend, Julie Clark. She was alongside Exaggerator through the Triple

Keith Desormeaux and jockey brother Kent celebrate the Preakness success of Exaggerator in the Pimlico slosh

Crown, which ended in disappointment when Exaggerator finished 11th in the Belmont Stakes on June 11.

Having a runner in such races is a massive change for Desormeaux. For years he raced in his native Louisiana and Texas, winning minor stakes at venues such as Delta Downs, Evangeline Downs, Louisiana Downs, Lone Star Park and Retama Park.

In 2014, Desormeaux began to focus on the more lucrative California circuit and saw immediate results. He was boosted by investment from Matt Bryan of Dallas through his Big Chief Racing. Many of Desormeaux’s clients have ties to Texas and Louisiana, with some new additions based in California.

They have provided him with a bankroll to acquire runners. At the 2014 Keeneland September Yearling Sale, Desormeaux bought five prospects that developed into stakes winners – Dalmore, Decked Out, Exaggerator, Right There and Swipe – for a combined $292,000. Exaggerator was the most expensive at $110,000. Swipe cost $5,000. They have earned a combined $4,197,971.

“The lifelong goal has come to fruition,” Desormeaux said. “How many people get to say that?”

The Del Mar and Saratoga seasons will provide Desormeaux with a chance to unveil numerous juveniles that could develop into runners for the Breeders’ Cup races at Santa Anita on November 4-5. This year, in particular, Desormeaux is ready for the seaside meeting at Del Mar. “It’s always exciting,” he said. “We have a bunch of good two-year-olds – and we get to go to the beach!”

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AROUND THE GLOBE

AUST R A L I A

by Danny Power

Australian racing’s governing body, Racing Australia, has made few friends in the breeding industry with its decision to introduce new rules for the registration of thoroughbred foals.

The announcement might have been made on a wintry July 6, but the heat that rose from the dismay of Australia’s breeders made for a balmy response.

The new Australian Rule of Racing makes acceptance into the Australian Stud Book conditional on foals being registered within 30 days of foaling and beneficial owners being declared within another 30 days.

This new registration means that thoroughbred foals and their owners will come under the Australian Rules of Racing.

Breeders, almost en masse, have fought such a registration, with their main argument being that they are primary producers and therefore should not be bound by rules that govern the racing industry.

“The bloke who owns the cow isn’t responsible for what happens on the supermarket shelves,” is how one breeder put it.

There is strong talk from the national and state breeding associations to consider a legal challenge to any new rules, citing that there is no precedent for Racing Australia to have control over a primary industry.

Racing Australia’s Chief Executive Peter McGauran claims the reforms “will strengthen ownership transparency and traceability, leading to improved integrity and animal welfare in the thoroughbred industry.”

On the other hand, the breeders’ lobby has described the rules as “cumbersome, badly drafted, costly and intrusive”.

McGauran said it was important that there be control for owners over the lifespan of the thoroughbred.

“At the moment, authorities have no knowledge of the owners, nor any responsibility or authority until they’re registered as racehorses at two years,” he said.

“That’s unacceptable, as there are some 3,000 thoroughbreds born each year that aren’t registered as racehorses.

“We do need to account for them so we can rebut the animal-rights extremists and satisfy the general community that thoroughbreds are cared for and their location is known.”

Breeders are dismayed that the rules have gone through after months of consultation and with their concerns ignored. One of their arguments is that the control of the primary

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Breeders aghast at new rules

John Messara: ‘nothing to fear’

“The bloke who owns

the cow isn’t responsible for what happens on the supermarket shelves” producers is simply a “cash grab” by racing’s ruling body.

The governance of foals from 30 days of age also means that Racing Australia, through its national integrity departments, can subject breeders’ properties to random inspections.

Basil Nolan, president of Thoroughbred Breeders Australia, has been very vocal in his argument against any interference by Racing Australia, and claims the proposed rule changes may needlessly increase the administrative burden on studs and lead to higher costs.

In an interesting twist, the Chairman of Racing Australia is John Messara, who is probably Australia’s best known thoroughbred breeder and the principal of Arrowfield Stud, where he stands the champion stallion Redoute’s Choice along with rising stars

Snitzel and Not A Single Doubt.

“Breeders have nothing to fear if they are doing nothing wrong,” Messara said at a meeting with breeders in May. Peter Orton, from Vinery Stud, said it was incongruous that breeders don’t have a place on the board of Racing Australia, but now will be answerable to it, while another breeder, Hamish Esplin, who is also a solicitor, said any challenge by a breeder to a prosecution by RA stewards could cost “at least $100,000”.

At the end of the meeting, none of the 90 breeders in attendance – apart from Messara – supported the Racing Australia proposal.

However, many trainers, bloodstock agents and yearling sale buyers support the intervention by Racing Australia.

Hall of Fame trainer Lee Freedman said it was long overdue that the ownership of a weanling or yearling is fully disclosed to prospective buyers at a sale.

“Every yearling should have a passport of its complete veterinary history for inspection at the time of sale – everything from corrective surgery to treatments for illness,” he said.

“People are spending hundreds and thousands on yearlings with no knowledge of the horse’s history. It’s time for a change.”

Another called for a register of ownership of all foals to be able to be accessed by the public.

Until now, once a mare has finished her racing career and sold as a broodmare, a transfer of ownership with the racing body doesn’t exist. The mare’s registration certificate remains with her during her breeding life, but the only indication of a change of ownership is when the birth of any foal is notified to the Stud Book.

Interestingly, advocates for change were quick to jump on the fact that the new rules will help prevent what has happened to the greyhound racing industry in New South Wales.

The day after the announcement of the new rules, the NSW state government made the shock announcement to shut down greyhound racing in July 2017 following an extensive report in the wake last year’s discovery of widespread live-baiting and extensive “wastage” deaths of uncompetitive greyhounds in Australia.

The thoroughbred breeding industry may consider itself at arms length from the racing industry, but in these interesting times a cohesive joint response to welfare concerns can only be a good thing.

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JEAN-CLAUDE ROUGET

Rouget dining at the

TOP TABLE

Based in Pau, Jean-Claude Rouget is an outlier but he has shown that horses can progress from the provinces to winning Group 1s in Paris and this year has been a non-stop success story – six Group 1s and counting and a probable trainers’ title at the end of the rainbow means he is nailing his aim of joining the ‘big circle’ of messrs O’Brien, Gosden and Fabre

By Tim Richards • Photos George Selwyn

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ictories with Almanzor in the Jockey Club, La Cressonniere in the Pouliches and Diane, Qemah in the Coronation Stakes and Zelzal in the Prix Jean Prat, have made summer 2016 the most successful of your career. What does it mean to be top of the training tree in Europe?

It is the reward for 45 years of hard work and perseverance. We have come from having a few jumpers and it has been a tough journey because racing in Europe is very competitive.

I know this year has been quite exceptional, but we try every year to look for the top horses – it does not always work out. Last year I had only two Group horses and maybe next year I’ll have nothing, though of course I hope not. You can go up in the racing world and then come down very easily. You always have to remember that. The memories that stand out are those first winners, particularly Millkom’s Group 1s in the 1994 Prix Jean Prat and Grand Prix de Paris, and my first Group 1 in England, the 2007 Champion Stakes with Literato.

While you are now recognised as an elite trainer, it was not always the case, despite saddling so many winners. Did Millkom, the horse that took you from the provinces to the Paris tracks, help change your image among the racing fraternity?

I think I can say I broke the system, thanks to Millkom. He set up a sequence of ten wins, starting with six in the provinces, and then came to Paris to win four Group races.

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He brought us to Paris and made such a big change in our lives because before Millkom we thought it was impossible to compete with the Chantilly trainers. There was such a large ‘ditch’ between Paris and the provinces, but we showed that we could train a Classic horse in Pau. Before, all the good yearlings were going to Chantilly, but now more are coming to Pau. The change in the system was a big event for all the trainers in the provinces. After that many of them were trying and realised that improving the quality of their horses was the way forward. In England you don’t have such a difference between Newmarket and the other training centres.

“Last year I had only

two Group horses and maybe next year I’ll have nothing, though of course I hope not” You have trained some big winners for the Aga Khan, including the illfated Valyra and Ervedya, both top-class fillies, and Behkabad. Has his support helped to take your career to a new level?

Of course when the Aga Khan decided to send horses to be trained in Pau it was big recognition for us. The last 20 years we have

had between 180 and 250 horses and that hasn’t changed, but it is very important to have the big owner-breeders. The Aga Khan came to me after he had bought the Jean-Luc Lagardere bloodstock operation because I had been training some of the Lagardere horses. The Aga Khan sent me some yearlings and that was the start. Since then we have received horses from Sheikh Joaan’s Al Shaqab Racing and the recent success with Qemah, Zelzal and Al Wathna in the sheikh’s colours has meant a lot to us.

Unlike many high-profile French trainers who are based in Chantilly, you are stationed in Pau, some 800 kilometres away. What benefits does your location offer and do they outweigh the travelling you must do to compete at the top level?

There is a very good climate in Pau, particularly for the horses. We have no wind; it is a quiet environment and a good ambience for the staff, which is very important. It is a long way to travel to Paris but the roads have improved so much with motorways all the way. It is 12 hours with the big van to Chantilly and ten with the smaller van, Longchamp is about an hour and a half less. The trip to Deauville is 12 hours but we stay there for the meeting in August. Starting horses’ careers in the provinces used to be an advantage and help in building their confidence, but nowadays racing in the provinces is more competitive than it used to be and a horse could have a harder introduction at Bordeaux than at, say, Chantilly or Saint-Cloud.

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JEAN-CLAUDE ROUGET Juddmonte International at York, or, later in the year, the Champion Stakes, a race you won in 2007 with the three-year-old Literato?

I am thinking of taking Almanzor to Deauville for the Prix Guillaume d’Ornano, then to Leopardstown for the Irish Champion Stakes and after that to Ascot for the Champion Stakes on Champions Day. That’s the plan, but you know it can change!

Literato was tough and so is Almanzor, both with good temperaments. Literato was a small horse with a big action; Almanzor has more scope and is bigger.

>> You had a satellite yard at Chantilly for two years in 1996 and 1997 but decided to move back to Pau. What made you return south?

It was very difficult for the staff to live in Chantilly for nine months of the year and it was also difficult to organise gallops for the horses because at the time we were limited

to stabling just 25 horses there. So we moved back to Pau and started travelling regularly backwards and forwards again. However, we are considering having a satellite yard at Deauville next year from May to October, the Arc weekend.

Will we be seeing Almanzor in the

Literato edges out Eagle Mountain in the 2007 Champion Stakes at Newmarket (top), while closer to home and hand, Almanzor takes this year’s French Derby at Chantilly and La Cressonniere lands the French 1,000 Guineas at Deauville (right)

With some 250 horses, you train one of the biggest string in Europe.

There must be a lot of pressure and stress with such large numbers.

What is the secret of being able to oversee such a large stable so successfully?

It is all a question of organisation and I love to organise everything. I have built up a strong and serious team of staff. It is a pleasure to work with them all. The lads love their horses and are a big part of the success.

I have three yards with a head lad in each, two assistants who started with me as 17year-olds and have been with me ever since.

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JEAN-CLAUDE ROUGET One is Millkom’s former jockey, Jean Rene Dubosc and the other Jean-Bernard Roth, who has been my travelling head lad for a long time. I feel the pressure less and less, but of course it is difficult when you are faced with horses’ physical problems and injuries.

But thankfully we don’t have too many, partly because of the way we train – not too slow and not too fast, just in the middle.

Your father managed a Normandy stud and later was training in Brittany at the time you were working for Paul Cole and Ian Balding. Did the training side always appeal to you more than the breeding?

The breeding side had been all that I knew, but when my father Claude started to train in 1967 it was a new life for me. He went to

Prize-money in France is far better than in England and attracts strong raiding parties from the British Isles and Ireland. Will the weaker pound, as a result of the recent ‘Brexit’ referendum, mean even more runners from the UK competing in France?

I don’t think so. Your horses always come over for Deauville and the other big races here and I can’t see there being much change, also we will continue to compete for your top prizes. When there is a strong pound it can be better for us to buy in euros at the sales in Ireland, but some owners just prefer to buy at Newmarket and maybe more will come to the Deauville sales if there is a weaker pound.

At the moment I don’t think we can anticipate any noticeable difference as a result of your referendum vote.

“I have built up a

winning three Paris Classics.

My grandmother on my father’s side was Scottish and I used to go to Bournemouth and Brighton with her on vacation. Then I spent time with Paul Cole and Ian Balding and every time you go to a new place you learn something else. I was always keeping an eye on what was going on at their stables and trying to anticipate what the trainers would do in certain situations. It is difficult to explain in detail, but I always find it is important to watch out for everything around you so you are learning all the time.

Pau every winter for the big jump meetings and I went down there with him and I discovered it was better to be in the south of France than staying in England in winter!

That was the beginning of my association with Pau. Sadly, my father died in 2009, which had been my best year up to then,

Do you see a big cultural difference between racing in France, where crowds are so sparse, and England, where attendances are much higher?

We always go racing to the big meetings in England in summer so I don’t know what it’s like at other meetings, particularly in winter.

Some of our smaller meetings, like in Brittany, can be very enjoyable. But I do prefer to race in England. I did say after Qemah won the Coronation Stakes that Royal Ascot has the best racing in the world, and it does, because it attracts horses from all round the world. French and English racing have a greater variety than American racing, which I don’t like very much because

strong and serious team of staff. It is a pleasure to work with them all”

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it is always the same, similar tracks and galloping left-handed – a bit monotonous. If I have to name my favourite racecourse it would be Deauville; I always think of it as my garden! Also my horses seem to run well there, I don’t know why.

“I always think of

Deauville as my garden! My horses seem to run well there, I don’t know why” You started with ten jumpers in 1978 in Pau and switched to the Flat in 1992. Why did you forsake jumpers for Flat horses?

I did train some Flat horses at the beginning but I stopped training jumpers in 1992 because I had only 15, whereas there were 100-plus Flat horses in the yard. My jockey had suffered a knee injury, decided to train and so I passed the jumpers on to him.

Another reason was the jumpers are always prone to injury, more so than Flat horses, particularly with tendon problems.

You are known as a good judge of a horse, buying stars like Literato for £40,000 and Le Havre and Almanzor for £100,000. Can you explain what you look for in a horse at the sales?

Some horses are ‘speaking’ to you and others are not. It is a question of having a feeling about certain horses. I don’t want to explain because there are secrets I want to keep for myself! I prefer to look at the conformation and see if the make-up of the animal suits what I want, rather than going through the pedigree. My maximum price is usually

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£100,000; I don’t like to go any more and I don’t use any vetting.

At this stage what are your plans for

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My favourite relaxation is… golf and music

Favourite racecourse… Deauville

Trait I most deplore in others… jealousy and pettiness

Race I want to win… St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot

Four dinner party guests… Angus Gold, John Gosden, Paul Webber and Sir Mark Prescott

Horse I would have loved to train…

Blushing Groom

Perfect meal… foie gras My weakness is… becoming angry

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My racing hero is… my father Claude

Best advice I’ve had… never give up

the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe?

La Cressonniere has the Arc as her target, but first she runs in the Prix de la Nonette and we’ll see after Deauville. Mekhtaal is another Arc possible. Mekhtaal is very quiet, but a good horse and I am not anxious about his disappointing eighth in the Prix du Jockey Club because there was something wrong at the last minute and he just did not run his race.

You have won countless big races, French trainers’ titles, hold the record for victories in a season, and passed 6,000 winners with Zelzal in April. What else would you like to achieve in this sport?

To continue being sent top yearlings, and to continue training a string as good as I have this year. I would also like to enter the ‘big circle’ alongside Aidan O’Brien, John Gosden and Andre Fabre.

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THE BIG INTERVIEW ALAN SPENCE

Red and white

FLYING HIGH

His team Chelsea play in blue but on the racetrack their Vice-Chairman Alan Spence cheers on horses in red and white – and with top-notchers like Jukebox Jury, Josses Hill and sprinting star Profitable, he has had much to shout about Words Julian Muscat • Photos George Selwyn

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he fruits of a rewarding career are plainly evident as you approach tall gates guarding the entrance to an immaculately kept property. Once inside, post and rail flank the drive towards a white-washed house surrounded by paddocks.

Even though he has never strayed far from where he was born, Alan Spence has lived a life of many dimensions. The man who was raised in a Kingston council house now dwells in the leafy Esher environs so popular with those of affluence.

Along the way Spence, 69, sold candy floss at Chessington zoo as a teenager. He set up a couple of businesses in Epsom, sold them well and gained entry into the boardroom as a shareholder in Chelsea Football Club, of which he is now Vice-Chairman. He has also owned racehorses for 45 years, during which time he has celebrated more than 300 winners.

The most onerous task confronting Spence in retirement is how to spend his week. He starts by consulting his diary, which contains dates of imminent football fixtures and meetings when any of the 20 horses he has in training might be running.

It’s no wonder he cannot suppress a smile when he says: “Being involved with Chelsea and the horses is a nice life.”

Life has also got a lot better for Spence this year. It has seen the emergence of his Profitable

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from the ranks of promising sprinters to the fringe of championship honours. True to his self-made roots, he has already cashed in, having sold the horse to Darley under a free lease-back arrangement that will see Profitable carry his colours until the end of the year.

“I’m very pleased with it,” he says. “I have total control over who rides, and which races the horse runs in. I outlined what I wanted to [Darley lynchpin] John Ferguson, he went away, came back less than 30 minutes later and we did the deal. Everybody was happy.”

Profitable’s victory in the King’s Stand Stakes means that Spence is one of only two British owners to have won a Group 1 race in Britain this season. At the time of writing he is suspended between Sheikh Mohammed Obaid and Khalid Abdullah on the owners’ table. And further gains seem likely when Profitable lines up for the Coolmore Nunthorpe Stakes at York.

It was typical of Spence’s sense of adventure that he supplemented Profitable into the sixfurlong July Cup. His four-year-old son of Invincible Spirit has plundered three Pattern races this season, all at five furlongs, and while he ran well to finish fourth at Newmarket he will now revert to the minimum trip.

“He certainly got the trip,” Spence relates. “He wasn’t beaten far, but Adam [Kirby] said he couldn’t really hold him up to get the trip. He’s got a very high cruising speed which he can

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Jukebox Jury carries the Spence silks to victory in the Royal Lodge Stakes at Ascot

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he’d have been disputing the lead. The race didn’t go right. There’s a difference between racing over five and six furlongs.”

It’s interesting that Spence handled the sale of Profitable himself, rather than deploy a bloodstock agent. But then he’s been handling his own racing interests ever since he bought his first yearling in 1971, when he was 24. In the same year he started Britannic Travel, which he later would sell for a reported £50 million.

More immediately, however, his first taste of ownership was electric. “I paid 1,000 guineas for Starch Reduced in October,” he recalls. “The following May it won first time out by four lengths at Goodwood with Lester Piggott on board. The horse then won again before finishing runner-up at Glorious Goodwood. I guess that’s what got me hooked.”

For the first ten years he never had more than a couple of horses, initially with Arthur Pitt and then with Reg Akehurst, both of whom trained at Epsom, where Spence’s offices were. He could watch his horses galloping in the mornings before settling down to work.

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ALAN SPENCE quickly school it and bang, bang, bang. I actually prefer the jumps to the Flat, but as one jumps season ends I find myself looking forward to the Flat, and vice-versa.”

As the years passed Spence gradually upped both his spend on horses and the number he had in training, which resulted in him winning better-quality races. His most talented horse before Profitable was the Mark Johnston-trained Jukebox Jury, the best of whose nine victories came when he dead-heated for the 2011 Irish St Leger.

He was also learning as he went, which prompted him to get involved with aspects like entries and races to target.

“There is an element of luck with horses but I think my involvement helps,” he says.

“Trainers are so busy, they have so many horses that they are thinking about everything and anything.

“Sometimes on a Monday the ground is already soft at Haydock and more rain is forecast before Saturday,” he continues. “If you have a fast-ground horse, what’s the point of throwing £300 away in entry fees? So I say, ‘No way’. That’s just wasting money because we’re never going to run.

He never found success hard to come by. He had Freight Forwarder with Pitt until Pitt’s retirement, and subsequently with Akehurst.

The horse was a prolific winner on the Flat, over hurdles and latterly over fences nearly 40 years ago. The experience led Spence to appreciate both codes.

So much so that he asked Akehurst to buy him horses that could perform on the Flat and over jumps. Among them was Admiral’s Well, bought out of John Gosden’s stable for 18,000gns in 1993.

Having won twice over hurdles soon after his purchase, Akehurst returned the horse to the Flat to finish third behind Double Trigger in the 1995 Gold Cup at Ascot. Admiral’s Well then won the Queen Alexandra Stakes at the Royal meeting 12 months later.

There was also Fact Finder, who was bought to go hurdling but wouldn’t bend his legs on the schooling grounds. Akehurst salvaged the day by saddling the gelding to win the 1989 Lincoln Handicap.

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Alan Spence chats with Adam Kirby (main image) after Profitable’s King’s Stand Stakes win, though the owner does slightly prefer jumping – right is one of his best in that code, Josses Hill

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ALAN SPENCE

Chelsea just champion As Vice-Chairman of Chelsea Football Club, Alan Spence is unequivocal about what the new season will bring.

“I really think Chelsea will win the Premiership this year,” he says. “If you look at the first seven teams in the betting, they are all in Europe except us.

“From what I’ve been hearing, the team will have been strengthened. It doesn’t look like any of the quality players will be going unless they think they will be squeezed out by a new signing. We thought Eden Hazard might go but now he’s saying he wants to stay. Thibaut Courtois wanted to go but he seems to have changed his mind.”

Chelsea start the campaign with a new manager in Antonio Conte after Guus Hiddink filled in for Jose Mourinho, who was dismissed in mid-season. “I like Mourinho and was disappointed when he went,” Spence says. “I think he’ll do well at Manchester United but not straight away. They will be in the top five but I don’t see them winning it. They have to play on Thursdays in the Europa League.”

Conte, he says, quickly won the respect of the players. “He was doing one day a week with us before the Euros and everything became very settled.

“The whole team will be motivated. The

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“Trainers do it because they want to have a look, but you have to think before you make the entry. Now my trainers phone me before entering or declaring. From my perspective, being involved makes it more exciting.”

For all that, Spence has been steadfastly loyal.

He was with Pitt and Akehurst until their retirements, after which he placed horses with Gerard Butler, Paul Cole, Michael Jarvis, Johnston and Amanda Perrett. He has since added Profitable’s trainer, Clive Cox, to the roster.

Spence says he still supports each of them, yet while they have become friends he maintains the relationship must be established on a professional footing.

“Okay, you have barneys with trainers every now and again but at the end of the day the owner’s still the owner,” he says. “The owner hires the trainer, so if you want something done it needs to be remembered you are the supplier.”

Since Spence owns horses for fun, he tends to stay out of racing politics. However, the selfmade, with their inquisitive minds, can’t help but notice ways they feel the ownership experience can be improved. Two in particular animate Spence.

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disturbance upset everybody last year, and being in Europe is very tiring. I go to all the away games so I know what it’s like getting back to Gatwick at 4am. If you were handicapping it, I think it’s worth another eight points for us.”

Spence sold his shares in Chelsea when Roman Abramovich bought the club 13 years ago. He is no longer on the board but continues in a nonexecutive capacity. The role has its advantages.

“Funnily enough, I had [Darley’s] John Ferguson on the phone a few weeks before he called to buy Profitable,” Spence relates. “He will have more time in winter now that he’s not training, but he couldn’t get any season tickets with good seats.

“To cut a long story short, I managed to get some for him. It’s been good business for both of us.”

Chelsea’s Vice-Chairman Spence thinks the team will flourish this season under new manager Antonio Conte

“I think racing is still a bit behind the game,” he says. “For instance, bookmakers sponsor races, they have all this money for sponsorship but as an owner I can’t ask them to put their name on my silks because the BHA won’t allow it. So instead they are putting their names on the shirts of football teams. That’s plain stupid.

“The other thing I don’t like is that races that were once £50,000-added have become £50,000 guaranteed. In the past, the stake money was added on but now racecourses just keep the money, which adds up to quite a lot.”

Despite nearly half a century as an owner Spence has yet to race a homebred. But that is about to change. Part of the deal involving Profitable’s sale was Spence’s retention of “several breeding rights”, some of which he intends to utilise.

“I’ve got a Street Cry mare which I share with a good friend and Hint Of Pink, an unraced filly, who I’ll probably put to Profitable next year,” he says. “I’ve also got Priceless, a three-year-old. She was second in a handicap at the July meeting but she might stay in training for another year.”

He has never previously had the inclination to breed his own but Profitable has put a different perspective on it.

“I haven’t got into breeding because it’s too long-winded for my liking,” he says. “I like to buy and sell, but having these nominations makes me much more motivated to breed some horses with them. I like the fact I will still be involved with Profitable when he goes to stud.

“It could really pay off if he does well, and it was important to me that I can go and see the horse at his new home rather than seeing him sold abroad, as Jukebox Jury was to Germany.

“That’s why the sale to Darley made me happy. I wasn’t interested in talking to anyone who wouldn’t let me run the horse in my colours for the rest of the season. A really good one’s been a long time coming and I want to enjoy it.

“Other people have said to me I should have waited instead of selling the horse before Royal Ascot. To me, that’s plain greedy. I got a good price, and his win at Ascot enhanced the value of the deal, so I really like where I am with it.”

Some people just have the knack. Spence has made one fortune from business and now puts a smaller one in the bank which will cover the cost of him racing horses for a while yet.

He smiles again and says: “It’s not a bad sort of game when that can happen, is it?”

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TBA AWARDS

Britain shines brightly Domestic breeders honoured for achievements in another stellar year for TBA members on the Flat and in the National Hunt field

The winners gather following another memorable TBA Awards Dinner, this time at the picturesque Chippenham Park, near Newmarket

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he location may change but the sense of occasion at the Annual TBA Awards Dinner remains the same, and over the last 12 months there has been every reason to celebrate British breeding, with the Derby winner and the three highest National Hunt earners all hailing from these isles.

The setting for this year’s dinner was the stunning Chippenham Park, where guests gathered on the lawn for pre-dinner drinks and canapés, kindly sponsored by the Jockey Club.

Showcasing a number of success stories of the 2015 season, the evening was a great opportunity for some of the leading figures of the bloodstock world and those who have made a significant contribution to the industry to come together and celebrate those achievements.

Her Majesty the Queen has been patron of the TBA for much of her reign and last year was awarded the most prestigious prize the TBA had to offer, the Devonshire Bronze for

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outstanding contribution to the bloodstock industry. The Queen is a hard act to follow but no less deserving a winner this time around was former TBA Chairman Kirsten Rausing, whose Lanwades and Staffordstown Studs continue to

produce high-class winners in her white-andgreen hooped colours year on year.

In presenting the award, current Chairman Julian Richmond-Watson said: “A former Chairman of the TBA, Kirsten also sits on

Racing UK presenter Oli Bell was once again an entertaining compere for the awards

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several committees that influence and shape policy that affects British thoroughbred breeders. Her stud farm, Lanwades, based on the outskirts of Newmarket, stands sires that have long provided breeders with opportunities to continue to improve the breed. Kirsten is a well-deserving recipient for this esteemed award.”

Rausing responded: “I was of course astounded, greatly honoured and very grateful indeed. Although the Devonshire Award is for lifetime achievement in the thoroughbred industry, I think there’s a possibility that I might postpone my retirement for some time yet.”

Gill Jeffrey, a long-serving member of the Goffs UK (formerly Doncaster Bloodstock Sales) team for 28 years, was similarly honoured for her commitment to the breeding industry with the presentation of the Dominion Bronze, while Anthony and Antoinette Oppenheimer were in attendance at the dinner to collect the TBA Silver Rose Bowl for Flat Breeder of the Year with their outstanding homebred Golden Horn.

Julian Richmond-Watson with the Devonshire Award winner Kirsten Rausing

Darley dominant No fewer than four of the evening’s awards were added to the Darley trophy cabinet, with Sheikh Mohammed’s team of stallions winning leading British-based stallion by earnings and individual Flat winners through Dubawi and Exceed And Excel respectively, while their young stablemate and Dubawi’s son, Poet’s Voice, claimed the Tattersalls Silver Salver for leading British-based first-season sire in 2015.

Furthermore, Darley was named leading British-based Flat breeder for the third year in a row, the operation’s major homebred winners throughout last year including the exciting juveniles Lumiere, Ultra and Emotionless.

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Philip Newton and Julian Dollar of Newsells Park Stud Julian Richmond-Watson with Dominion Bronze winner Gill Jeffrey

Derek Christopher and Annual Stud Staff Award winner Sue Caldwell

Anthea Gibson Fleming presents to Helen and Simon Plumbly

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Philip Mitchell with Jack Hobbs’ breeders Elaine and Willie Carson

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must be on every breeder’s bucket list and that feat was achieved in 2015 by Anthony Oppenheimer’s Hascombe & Valiant Studs, whose Golden Horn won not just Epsom’s blue riband but also the Coral-Eclipse, Irish Champion Stakes and Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.

Another major British stud, Newsells Park, collected the TBA Silver Salver following a banner year which saw graduate Legatissimo win the 1,0000 Guineas and Group 1 Matron Stakes, while the enigmatic Pallasator lifted the Group 2 Doncaster Cup. Other notable Group winners for the Hertfordshire farm in 2015 were Secret Gesture and Western Hymn, while deserved recognition was given to Newsells Park Stud’s foaling manager, Sue Caldwell, who won the New England Stud-sponsored TBA Annual Stud Staff Award.

Willie and Elaine Carson’s Swain’s Gold gained her place in racing’s history books as the dam of Irish Derby winner and Derby runnerup Jack Hobbs and was duly awarded the H J Joel Silver Salver as Flat Broodmare of the Year.

Caroline Wilson won the Langham Cup for Small Breeder of the Year on the Flat courtesy of Twilight Son, who won last year’s Haydock Sprint Cup and has subsequently doubled his Group 1 tally by landing the Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot this season.

A proper British champion There’s been one name on the lips of British National Hunt breeders in recent seasons and that’s Kayf Tara, who has been the champion jumps sire in Britain for seven consecutive seasons. A stalwart of Simon Sweeting’s Overbury Stud, the 22-year-old son of Sadler’s Wells again won the Whitbread Silver Salver and Horse & Hound Cup for being the leading active sire by earnings and the stallion with the highest number of individual steeplechase winners.

Kayf Tara played his part in Robin and Scarlett Knipe collecting the Dudgeon Cup for National Hunt Broodmare of the Year with Ardstown. The daughter of Ardross sadly died foaling a filly by Kayf Tara three years ago but her name lives on thanks to her outstanding son, Thistlecrack, the highest-rated hurdler in training last season and winner of Grade 1 contests at both Cheltenham and Aintree for owners John and Heather Snook.

The seven-year-old King’s Theatre mare Briery Queen notched her third victory for Noel Williams when battling home to take the Listed EBF & TBA Mares’ Novices’ Hurdle Finale at Newbury in April and her breeders and coowners Simon and Helen Plumbly were recognised in Newmarket with the Queen Mother’s Silver Salver for National Hunt achievement.

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Louise Kemble and Darley’s Head of Nominations Dawn Laidlaw

Anthea Gibson Fleming and Thistlecrack’s breeder Scarlett Knipe

Philip Newton and Godfrey Wilson

Hannah Lemieux and Simon Sweeting

Edmond Mahony and Sam Bullard

Anthea Gibson Fleming and Darley’s Director of Stallions Sam Bullard

Edmond Mahony and Jo Brown of Overbury Stud for Kayf Tara

Golden Horn’s breeders Anthony and Antoinette Oppenheimer

Louise Kemble and Denes Marffy of Darley’s Aston Upthorpe Stud

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ROLL OF HONOUR

FILLIES’ RACE INITIATIVE AND GENETIC TESTING REVIEW ON AGENDA AT AGM The 99th Annual General Meeting of the TBA preceded the awards dinner and was held the same morning at the Jockey Club Rooms in Newmarket.

Chairman Julian Richmond-Watson reflected on achievements and results of the past year, and also touched on a subject on many people’s minds at the moment: Brexit.

He said: “None of us can predict the outcome of Brexit but there are undoubtedly going to be challenges with legislation, taxation and horse movements, and uncertainty is never good for markets, and bloodstock cannot be immune from that uncertainty. The TBA will be heavily involved with what will inevitably be complicated negotiations with DEFRA and other ministries.”

Developments across many areas included the commissioning of a strategic review in order to better understand the perception of the TBA, its activities and how well it fulfils its role within the industry.

The results were encouraging, with the TBA’s veterinary work gaining high accolades from within the industry. The Chairman advised that the veterinary area of the TBA’s work will provide a benchmark to which other projects will aspire to reach in terms of delivery and communications.

At the start of 2016 the National Hunt Mare Owners’ Prize Scheme (NH MOPS) was launched, with encouraging registration rates and many prizes already being won on the racecourse.

“The progress with more mares’ races and better quality mares’ races is a tribute to the work of the National Hunt Committee,” said Richmond-Watson.

Flat racing initiatives in the last 12 months included the introduction of three-year-old races within Plus 10 and the scheme’s concentration on fillies’ races in Great Britain to further encourage support for the purchase of fillies at the sales. In a joint initiative with the British European Breeders’ Fund, a breeders’ series of fillies’ races was introduced for the 2016 Flat racing season, along with a £25,000 nomination bonus available to qualifying winners on the final day of the series.

The TBA has also been working closely with the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) on a project to enhance the race programme for fillies and mares. The BHA Racing Department conducted a comprehensive study into the current programme and it has revealed some fascinating data.

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The Queen’s Silver Cup Leading British-based Flat breeder (Flat earnings) Winner: Darley BBA Silver Cigar Box Leading British-based Stallion (Flat earnings) Winner: Dubawi Barleythorpe Cup Leading British-based Stallion (Individual Flat Winners) Winner: Exceed And Excel Tattersalls’ Silver Salver Leading British-based First Season Sire (Flat) Winner: Poet’s Voice

Board member Philip Newton outlines plans for the #thisfillycan campaign

number of fillies and mares winning black type has increased, which is a very good reason to buy or race a filly, especially as the programme for them continues to improve,” offered the Chairman.

TBA board member Philip Newton has been instrumental in the development of the project, which will include a sustained communication campaign run under the slogan ‘#thisfillycan’.

Newton briefed members of the aims to both raise interest and awareness of fillies’ race opportunities and subsequently their sales value.

Peter Webbon, whose fascinating presentation at the previous week’s annual seminar on the issues surrounding genetic testing and the potential impacts on the thoroughbred breeding industry was well received, gave a further address at the AGM. A highly experienced vet and former head of the Animal Health Trust, Webbon will lead the committee reviewing the genetic tests available to thoroughbred breeders and will investigate and monitor this subject to ensure that members’ interests are best represented.

As a BHA shareholder and a member of the Horsemen’s Group, the TBA is also involved with discussions on the levy replacement and the future of the Tote.

The Chairman commented: “The outcome of these will have wide ramifications for all horsemen and we must hope that the government holds steadfast to its timetable for a new levy system by April 2017.

“The mechanism and quantum of how much this delivers is so important and we will only have one chance to get this right. We must insist on obtaining a fair share of betting revenues generated by the sport and this will require nerve and determination by those negotiating on our behalf and we need to stand solidly behind them.”

H.J. Joel Silver Salver Broodmare of the Year (Flat) Winner: Swain’s Gold TBA Silver Rose Bowl Flat Breeder of the Year Winner: Hascombe & Valiant Studs TBA Silver Salver Special Merit Award (Flat) Winner: Newsells Park Stud Langham Cup Small Breeder of the Year (Flat) Winner: Caroline R D Wilson TBA Annual Stud Staff Award Kindly sponsored by New England Stud Winner: Sue Caldwell Whitbread Silver Salver Leading active British-based NH Stallion (2015-2016 earnings) Winner: Kayf Tara Horse & Hound Cup Leading active British-based NH Stallion (2015-2016 individual chase winners) Winner: Kayf Tara Dudgeon Cup NH Broodmare of the Year Award Winner: Ardstown The Queen Mother’s Silver Salver NH Achievement Award Winner: Simon & Helen Plumbly The Dominion Bronze Employee who has made a significant contribution to the British breeding industry Winner: Gill Jeffrey The Devonshire Bronze For a significant contribution to the British breeding industry Winner: Kirsten Rausing

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TBA AWARDS

A night to remember

Kirsten Rausing and James Crowhurst

Dr Peter Webbon, Alan Delmonte and Caroline Turnbull

The awards presentations get under way Saracen Horse Feeds’ guests gather on the terrace at Chippenham Park

Helen Warboys, Ronan Murphy, John Warboys and Ann Corbett

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Henry Beeby, Matt Camacho, Sam Bullard and Vanessa Beeby

Former top jockey, now top breeder, Willie Carson of Jack Hobbs fame

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Guests head to dinner after Champagne on the lawn at Chippenham Park

TBA members Jane and Fred May

The TBA would like to thank the organisations who generously supported this year's event: The Jockey Club, New England Stud, Horse & Hound, Tattersalls, Thoroughbred Owner & Breeder and Weatherbys James Oldring and Susannah Gill

Caroline Turnbull, Annette Bell and Howard Wright

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Richard Wayman and Dena Arstall

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1-2 for BBAG Graduates in the Group 2 German 2000 Guineas, with DEGAS a close second.

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As every racehorse trainer will tell you, it’s not rocket science. They may be putting themselves down unfairly, but we need only look in the parade ring to see that most trainers know how to turn out a winner. There are a certain amount of basic training and feeding regimes necessary to all horses to keep them happy and healthy and not too many tricks of the trade hidden up sleeves, so what little unique extras can an individual trainer offer? writes Lissa Oliver

Richard Fahey’s string at exercise in the beautiful countryside of North Yorkshire, a wonderful environment for racehorses

The first priority for an owner is that their horse will be kept physically well and mentally happy, something easily ascertained by a stable visit and watching the runners from the yard while at the races. The quality of staff is another consideration and their happiness in their daily work reflects in the horses in their care. Visit the yard, watch them about their work and don’t be afraid to have a chat with them.

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olds, sprinters or stayers?

Most importantly, will your horse be within the upper dozen elite of that stable? We have often heard of good horses slipping through the net in a large stable, the bargain buys at the horses-in-training sales who make good for others. The contrasting worry can be that full potential may not be recognised in too small a yard. Securing your horse the individual attention it needs is simply a matter of assessing where it might come in the pecking order.

Trust and friendship Settling your horse into the right environment is only half the battle, of course. As an owner, you should be just as important. You need a trainer you can trust, feel comfortable with and communicate fully with. Together, it is hoped, you will be sharing treasured moments on the racecourse, but your trainer may also be the bearer of bad news.

Perhaps it’s important to you to have him or her within a particular location, to enable you to drop in and see your horse on a regular basis. Location should therefore be your first tick box. Once a short-list of trainers has been drawn up, visit each potential yard and trust your instinct. Could you see your horse happily settling in here? Is the trainer easy to get on with? Every owner will tell you one thing – good communication is imperative, so ensure it’s in place.

Perfectly positioned When it comes to good communication, Charlie Fellowes (charliefellowesracing.co.uk) has links to Facebook, YouTube and Twitter that illustrate the ease of socialising and sharing information. Even if you can’t call into St Gatien Cottage Stables, Newmarket in person, you can meet the team via the website. It thoughtfully carries personal snippets that provide a very warm and friendly

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welcome, including photos of staff and information on their hobbies and favourite horses.

A comprehensive gallery shows that photos of your horse at home and at work will be sent to you regularly, to keep you in touch and feeling a part of the process. YouTube links provide video footage, too. Fellowes also writes a lively and up-to-date blog, so it’s possible to follow the yard from anywhere in the world and always feel a sense of involvement.

“We’re quite proud of our website,” Fellowes says. “Any syndicate we form has a WhatsApp group set up for all members so that we can instantly send a video of the horse on the gallops, which enhances the ownership experience.”

He is also aware of the proud history of St Gatien Cottage Stables and hopes to restore to the yard the original wooden boards listing the past great winners of the yard, as well as hopefully adding to that illustrious list, of course!

“It’s an incredibly rich heritage and we’re lucky to inhabit a yard of such historical importance, at the foot of Warren Hill,” Fellowes says.

“I live there, too, so I’m able to give round the clock care and attention. But the most important thing is results and that’s what we’ve consistently provided and we’ve had a tremendous season so far.”

reflected that with any new build.”

Pegasus Stables also benefits from being set on seven acres, so there is plenty of turnout space and relaxation for the horses.

“We take our time with our horses, an unrushed approach,” says Fanshawe. “We try to create a relaxed atmosphere for staff and horses and for any visiting owners.” The latter could be in high numbers as Fanshawe trains for the Elite Racing Club and also runs the successful Fred Archer Racing syndicates.

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Robert Stephens: trainer making an impact under both codes

Rich heritage Another Newmarket yard offering a rare connection to the past is Pegasus Stables, home to the team of James Fanshawe (jamesfanshawe.com). “It’s a beautiful historic yard, Fred Archer’s legacy,” Fanshawe tells us.

“Every original stable is designed to his highest standard, keeping in mind the importance of ventilation, and we have

Robert Cowell (robertcowellracing.co.uk) is based at Bottisham Heath Stud, just five miles outside Newmarket, so can boast the best of both worlds. “It is a beautiful, peaceful and safe environment for horses to be trained in, with the added bonus of ‘time out’ in the paddocks to unwind and relax when needed,” says Cowell. “As well as this unique and tranquil setting, we have easy access to the vast array of gallops in Newmarket, the headquarters of horseracing.”

Family-owned Bottisham Heath Stud is set within 180 acres of paddocks and has its own private polytrack gallop and, currently, stabling for 70 horses. A recent addition is the walking ring, which provides a contained area for the horses to settle once legged up, also giving time for instruction to be given to each rider before making their way up to exercise on the gallops. This is proving popular with

Prince Of Lir advertised the training talents of Robert Cowell with victory in the Group 2 Norfolk Stakes at Royal Ascot

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visiting owners and gives an opportunity to watch their horses warm-up close to the yard and office. Those who are unable to visit can of course keep up-to-date via the news posted regularly on the website and the photo gallery, which is a recurring asset among all our featured trainers.

Racecourses on the doorstep Tom Gretton is equally on the ball when it comes to social media and offers a dualpurpose base just outside Inkberrow, in the beautiful surroundings of rural Worcestershire.

Middle Bouts Farm boasts excellent facilities and being set in the Midlands provides unparalleled access to the entire country, with no fewer than 11 racecourses within 50 miles.

Gretton is one of the few trainers who provides a Racing Club (tomgrettonracing.com), which is a genuinely affordable opening into racehorse ownership.

With wife Laura, Gretton also keeps a small band of broodmares, so has a unique understanding of that particular aspect of the thoroughbred industry. As a broodmare owner, he fully appreciates the ups and downs of being an owner-breeder and is conscious of doing his best to help and support others in what is often a challenging pursuit.

“We try and buy horses to run in categories offering more value for money, such as fillies and juvenile hurdlers, as we tend to have a very small budget,” he explains. “We first got into breeding because when we went to the sales we found the horses from the mares with good pedigrees were too expensive for us.

We breed commercially for the stores sales, but if we don’t sell a horse then we’re more than happy to keep it and race it.”

facilities at Tyre Hill are excellent and include an equine pool, turnout paddocks and a highspeed treadmill.

Getting the right start Another who can offer the vital chill-out time a racehorse needs is Richard Fahey (richardfahey.com), who has trained at least 100 winners in each of the last nine years and equalled the record for the number of winners

Making the most of opportunities

Importance of turnout time Turnout time is increasingly recognised as important for horses in training and the Tyre Hill Racing Stables of David Dennis (daviddennistrainer.co.uk) is nestled in the heart of the beautiful Worcestershire countryside, providing a secluded and peaceful training atmosphere.

Dennis has over ten years’ experience as a National Hunt jockey and a record of high profile wins, so can utilise that knowledge when training racehorses. Tyre Hill Stables is set at the foot of the Malvern Hills, just outside the village of Hanley Swan, and within easy access of local racecourses Cheltenham, Worcester, Stratford and Chepstow. “With first-class facilities located in 140 acres of private farmland, a horse can receive the individual training and holistic care it needs to thrive,” Dennis points out.

“We are in the process of constructing a brand new barn for up to 60 new boxes,” he reveals. “Being set at the foot of the Malvern Hills we can take the horses out for a hack on the Hills, which they enjoy. It’s a very relaxed atmosphere because we’re on our own, away from a training centre.” This is often beneficial to a horse arriving from elsewhere, and the

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in a calendar year, 235, achieved in 2015. His plan was to make Musley Bank one of the best training facilities in the country and this has certainly been realised.

“We have a lot of land here, over 150 acres, so horses can get out in the paddocks,” Fahey tells us. “North Yorkshire is a beautiful part of the country and from London you can get here in under two hours. We have nine racecourses within an hour of us.”

A large indoor school allows horses to be exercised regardless of the weather conditions and Fahey’s horses also use it as a warm-up before going out to work on the gallops. The yearlings are all broken at Musley Bank, so Fahey and his team get to know them right from the start and the indoor school is invaluable to them, providing a safe environment to get them cantering before going out on the gallops.

“We have an open house, we’re very approachable,” says Fahey of owners and visitors and he is typical of the trainers featured, tweeting regular updates and news and keeping those who can’t visit fully in the picture. The yard also sends out plenty of overseas runners, so opportunities for a win are never missed.

James Fanshawe: patient approach

Over in Gwent, Robert Stephens is putting South Wales firmly on the racing map. With a small National Hunt and mixed string at the picturesque Castle Farm, not far from local course Chepstow, Stephens can offer the personal individual attention that makes all the difference to both horses and owners.

Though still relatively new to the training ranks, he has already made an impact and his early experience as a conditional and amateur jockey with Philip Hobbs and later working with Sir Mark Prescott and William Haggas has stood him in good stead.

“The main thing is the surface,” Stephens says of his purpose-built facilities that he put in at Castle Farm. “When I worked in Newmarket I found it had great grass gallops and I felt we could use them even more. I do try to train my horses on the grass as much as possible, as long as the ground is right I feel you get fewer injuries than on an all-weather surface. It’s less of a shock to them when they go to the races.”

He is putting in an additional all-weather gallop at Castle Farm and is looking to expand the stables, which currently have room for 40 horses. “We try to do the best with the horses we’ve got and as we’re relatively new we have to show we can train all types of horse.” A good example is Equijade, who made a winning debut over five furlongs at Lingfield at the start of the year, in stark contrast to the exploits of Grade 2-winning hurdler Beltor, one of Stephens’ earlier stable stars. As he says, Stephens and his team at Castle Farm can certainly make the best of any type of horse they are sent.

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Our bloodstock coverage this month includes:

• Sales Preview: Yearlings come under the hammer in Deauville and Doncaster – pages 68-72 • Sales Circuit: Buoyant trade at Tattersalls’ and Arqana’s midsummer auctions – pages 74-79 • Caulfield Files: Scat Daddy’s juvenile success should come as no surprise – pages 81-82 • Dr Statz: Sea The Stars another feather in the cap of the staying brigade – page 112

A sound initiative at heart of TBA review

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ven before the publicity surrounding the pre-Derby testing of Galileo Gold, the TBA had launched a genetic testing review on behalf of its members.

Steering the review is the experienced hand of Dr Peter Webbon, whose previous roles include having been Chief Executive of the Animal Health Trust, Veterinary Director of the Jockey Club and Chief Executive of the Horseracing Regulatory Authority. Members have had several opportunities to hear Dr Webbon’s views on the matter recently through his briefings at the TBA seminar and later at the AGM, and he outlines his remit thus: “There are two aims of the review.

In the first instance it is to make as much information available to breeders as to what tests are currently available, their costs and their value – that’s stage one.

“The second aim is to look around on behalf of members for other technology available and one obvious area is in Estimates Breeding Values (EBVs) in farm animals and pedigree dogs. We will ask whether there is current technology available for other species which could be applied to thoroughbreds.”

Dr Webbon emphasises the fact that ultimately the decision to test or not to test lies with the individual breeder and/or owner.

He says: “It’s not our job to say whether tests are good or bad but to advise on what they can achieve and what they are based on.”

Plusvital, the Irish-based company which now owns Dr Emmeline Hill’s Equinome operation that was responsible for carrying out the Speed Gene test on Galileo Gold, launched four new tests in July. These include the Elite Performance Test v3.0, which it purports can identify the potential for elite racecourse performance and breeding success, and a Dirt v Turf v1.0 test to indicate a horse’s preferred racing surface. Also launched is a more specific version of the Speed Gene Test called Distance Plus v1.0, which it is claimed can refine optimum racing distance beyond just the C:C,

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C:T and T:T classifications for sprinters, middledistance horses and stayers, and Raced/Unraced v1.0 to establish a foal’s ability to race as a twoor three-year-old.

Plusvital’s Chief Executive Mike Shelly claims genetic testing has gone “mainstream” in the last year and said: “Our clients are already using genetic test information to inform their breeding and racing decisions and the additional information in the new tests will further strengthen the use of this technology across the industry where it is being used as a tool to complement existing horsemanship and pedigree analysis.”

It is this complementary aspect which most appeals to Dr Webbon, who said at the TBA seminar: “Genetic testing isn’t the answer to everything. It contributes usefully to making breeding and racing management decisions – but only in conjunction with conventional methods.

“If we are seduced into trying to improve the athletic performance of the racing thoroughbred using modern genetic and genomic techniques it will probably fail and will almost certainly lead to an increased number of horses that aren’t sound

Dr Peter Webbon is leading the review into genetic tests available to breeders

enough to train and race. We really shouldn’t be going down that route but what we can do is use genetic techniques to reduce the level of injury and disease. If we can achieve that it will have significant benefits for all of you who breed, own and train racehorses, and clearly will have benefits for the horses.”

It’s hard to argue with a stance that puts the emphasis on breeding with a long-term view that has horse welfare at its core and should ultimately improve and enhance individual families, as well as the breed as a whole.

Furthermore, this approach could also aid the BHA’s desire to increase the equine numbers – not simply by breeding more horses.

“Sound horses can run more frequently, so the BHA’s objective of increasing field sizes can be met by increasing the number of starts. The current average is 5.7 starts per season for Flat horses and the staggeringly low 3.4 for National Hunt horses,” states Dr Webbon.

One sticking point for breeders could be the cost involved in genetic testing, which is currently around £500 per horse, a figure which compares unfavourably with single-gene testing in other species, which tends to be around £30 for sheep, £50 for Fell ponies and £65 for dogs.

“There is a fiction that says genetic tests need to be expensive,” says Dr Webbon. “There’s absolutely no reason for that whatsoever. Testing is cheap and getting cheaper all the time, it’s not an expensive activity.”

There’s no doubt that whatever means breeders decide to employ in selecting breeding stock and producing racehorses, considering heritable traits, such as fracture risk and laryngeal paralysis, is every bit as important as breeding for performance, though inevitably of course the two go hand in hand.

We’ll let Dr Webbon, whose review will be submitted to the TBA in the coming months, have the final word: “We should abandon the notion of trying to produce faster horses specifically by testing for athletic potential but try to produce sounder horses, that can run more frequently and run better, and then may be coincidentally capable of running faster because they are inherently fitter and sounder.”

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Summer’s here but it’s no holiday on the sales circuit, where from August 14 the serious business of yearling trade begins with France’s elite auction, Arqana August, followed nine days later by Goffs UK’s Premier Sale in Doncaster Words Emma Berry

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or those on the sales beat, August brings not only the start of the yearling sales but a frighteningly rapid countdown to Christmas as the charabanc moves from one auction house to the next and yearlings lead into horses in training then mares and foals.

We’re broken in gently, however, with the delights of Deauville in high summer, a classy curtain-up for the season in a swanky seaside resort which offsets plenty of long, cold days as the season marches on.

While mid-August may still be silly season in politics, in the racing world it’s deadly serious.

France’s yearling season starts on a high with the routinely successful Arqana August Sale, which last year saw record turnover just shy of €43 million for 265 yearlings sold at an average price of €163,292. The 2015 sale-topper – a €2.6m son of Dubawi from leading vendor Ecurie des Monceaux – is now named Parabellum and is in training in France with Andre Fabre for Godolphin.

There’s only one Dubawi on offer this time

around, a filly out of the Group 3-winning Orpen mare Gracefully and thus a half-sister to Group 1 Falmouth Stakes winner Giofra.

She too hails from Monceaux and could provide an early highlight, selling as lot 25 on the first night. The sale starts a day later than in previous years, with the first of two evening sessions forming Part I of the August Sale starting after racing on Sunday, while Tuesday afternoon is devoted to Part 2 and Wednesday sees the fourth edition of the rising v.2 Yearling Sale.

The Elie de Brignac complex was the scene of a salestopping Frankel filly for Arqana’s Breeze-up Sale in May on the weekend that the Juddmonte star sired his first winner, Cunco.

After a breathtaking start with his first runners, Frankel has the chance to shine again in Deauville, with nine yearlings catalogued for August. They include Haras de Colleville’s colt, already named Frankelio (lot 104), the first foal of Guy Pariente’s homebred sprinter Restiadargent, who won the Group 2 Prix d’Arenberg and, along with Moonlight >>

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start, Frankel has the chance to shine again in Deauville with nine yearlings catalogued”

A mouth-watering array of yearlings has been assembled for Arqana’s August Sale, including a full-brother to this season’s dual Classic winner La Cressonniere

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filled an all-female trifecta for the Group 1 Diamond Jubilee Stakes, not far behind Australian star Black Caviar. The 2014 August Sale was headed by Fadillah, a Monsun filly out of Sasuela, from the family of German Derby winners Samum, Schiaparelli and Sea The Moon, who sold to Tony Nerses for €1.2m. Sasuela’s current yearling is another by Frankel and is slated as lot 113, selling through Monceaux.

Lest we forget, Frankel’s sire Galileo is also represented, his five yearling fillies including a half-sister to Irish Oaks winner Chicquita (lot 97), out of Prudenzia whose Invincible Spirit colt, the dual winner Craven’s Legend, fetched €1.1m in the same ring in 2014. A half-sister to another Irish Oaks winner, Covert Love, is offered (lot 147) by Haras de Loges and is a daughter of Al Shaqab’s Classic-winning freshman Style Vendome.

The August catalogue is bursting with wellrelated individuals by the elite of the European stallion ranks, as well as a smattering of desirable American sires, including Kitten’s Joy, Scat Daddy, Smart Strike and More Than Ready.

A quintet of Oasis Dream yearlings in the sale includes Haras du Buff’s filly out of the 1,000 Guineas winner Virginia Waters (lot

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142), while a Nathaniel half-brother to dual Group 1 winner Belardo will make his presence felt early when offered as lot 2 from Ballylinch Stud.

The Crimbourne Stud matriarch Jessica’s Dream, whose Group 1-winning son Havana Gold has his first crop of yearlings selling this year, appears in the catalogue as the dam of

A new dawn for the freshman sires The popularity of freshman sires at the yearling sales shows no sign of abating and with the list of new recruits increasing on an annual basis, it’s no surprise that there will be plenty of yearlings representing the class of 2014 this season.

Arqana’s young guns Camelot and Intello head the list at Arqana, with 19 first-crop yearlings catalogued apiece. Camelot’s entries include Haras d’Etreham’s filly out of Clodovina, a halfsister to the Classic winner and popular sire Clodovil (lot 186) and a half-sister to another freshman, Dabirsim (lot 110) Intello moved from Cheveley Park Stud to Haras du Quesnay for 2016 and among his British-conceived first crop catalogued is a daughter of the Ecurie des Monceaux mare Platonic (lot 93), whose previous August offerings – by Frankel, Dansili and Galileo – have sold for €1.15m, €500,000 and €280,000 respectively.

Intello’s erstwhile stablemate Lethal Force has one yearling in the August Sale and another in the v.2 catalogue, with his August entry (lot 187), from the Elevage de Tourgeville draft, likely to attract plenty of

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attention as he is a half-brother to Group 1 winner Robin Of Navan.

Not many breeders were fortunate enough to get a mare in foal to the subfertile Al Kazeem during his initial stint at The Royal Studs but Newsells Park Stud was among the lucky few and will offer a colt out of Keene Dancer, a daughter of Group 1 Prix de l’Opera winner Kinnaird and a half-sister to the Group 2 winner Berkshire.

Similar comments apply to Reckless Abandon, who is no longer at stud but is represented by two yearlings in the August book and another in v.2.

Declaration Of War, the first son of War Front to retire to stud in Europe, has eight catalogued for August, including a half-sister to Listed winner Lady Of Kyushu from the family of Irish 2,000 Guineas winner Roderic O’Connor (lot 46).

The top-class French juvenile Dabirsim started his stud career in Germany and is now at Haras de Grandcamp in Normandy.

His first yearlings appear at Arqana and include the Haras du Logis-consigned halfbrother to the stakes-winning duo of Make It Reel and Tourny (lot 56).

Group 3 Princess Margaret Stakes winner

African Skies has already produced a Listed-winning two-year-old in Calypso Beat, which makes her yearling by the Darley freshman Dawn Approach a potentially precocious prospect. He is offered as lot 155 from the Monceaux draft as one of eight by his young sire in the sale.

Haras de Bouquetot is swiftly assembling an impressive line-up of stallions and two of its young residents have yearlings on offer this year. The Poule d’Essai des Poulains winner Style Vendome has four in August – most notably Irish Oaks winner Covert Love’s half-sister (lot 147) – and another four in v.2, while Planteur has six in total throughout the week.

Also represented at Arqana are Cityscape (1), George Vancouver (4), Havana Gold (2), Most Improved (2), Penny’s Picnic (12), as well as the German-based duo of Maxios (2) and Reliable Man (5).

On the list at Goffs UK The catalogue for the Goffs UK Premier Sale was not available as this issue went to press but a breakdown of the first-season stallion entries was made available to us and shows

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behalf of Haras de la Cauviniere.

Another fancy brother is lot 22, Horse Park Stud’s full-sibling to young Darley stallion Slade Power, and Haras de Montaigu

that Cheveley Park’s dual Group 1-winning sprinter Lethal Force is best represented at the sale famed for strong early types, with 20 yearlings included and a further six in the Silver Sale.

Darley’s Epaulette, the three-parts brother to Helmet, is next on the numbers’ list with 18, while the late Society Rock has 17 catalogued. Whitsbury Manor Stud will be hoping that Swiss Spirit can follow the great start made by his stablemate Showcasing, and he is well represented at Doncaster, with 13 Premier yearlings and seven in the Silver Sale. Tweenhills resident Havana Gold has 11 first-crop yearlings in the Premier Sale and six for the following day, while the Irish-based duo of Most Improved and Red Jazz weigh in with seven apiece.

Also making their Premier Sale debut are Dawn Approach (2), Declaration Of War (1), Farrh (1), Finjaan (1), Intello (1), Reckless Abandon (1), Worthadd (2), and Tough As Nails (1), while from farther afield comes a yearling by Gestut Fahrhof’s Maxios, a miler son of Monsun whose foals were well received in Europe last year.

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lot 34, a Sea The Stars filly selling through Coulonces Consignment, which also offers the full-brother to this season’s dual French Classic victrix La Cressonniere (lot 154) on

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consigns a brother to the dual Group 1 winner and their new sire Prince Gibraltar.

He is lot 95, the first yearling into the ring on Monday evening.

Among the stand-outs in the Monceaux draft, it’s hard to look past the brother to treble Group 1 winner Charm Spirit (lot 44), one of 11 yearlings by Invincible Spirit at Deauville. Eleven is also the number catalogued by Australian champion sire Redoute’s Choice, whose first French crop of yearlings proved popular at Arqana last year, with ten sold at an average price of €366,500. Highlights this year include lot 10, a half-brother to this season’s Group 3 Prix de Royaumont winner The Juliet Rose.

Also with a good recent update to his page is lot 116, La Motteraye Consignment’s halfbrother to Group 3 Prix Djebel winner Cheikeljack, one of seven Zoffany yearlings in the catalogue.

This year marks the final batch of yearlings

by Coolmore’s High Chaparral and the six to be offered in France include Haras de la Louviere’s colt out of Lawless Lady, a winning sister to Lawman (lot 51).

Now established as leading lights of the French stallions ranks, Siyouni and Le Havre feature prominently at Arqana, with 15 and 13 yearlings apiece, while the country’s rising star, Wootton Bassett, sire of Prix du Jockey

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YEARLING SALES: ARQANA AND GOFFS UK freshman, Power. The colt’s three victories include the Group 3 Anglesey Stakes.

“I am bringing colts by Choisir and Le Havre, both of which have been bred by my parents, one in partnership with Charlotte Hutchinson. It’s great for me to be able to say to prospective buyers that they are from the breeders of Le Havre and Peace Envoy. And the Le Havre thread continues to the Siyouni filly I am consigning – the only one in the

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in the European second-crop sires’ table, has five to be offered.

The names of Scat Daddy and Kitten’s Joy could not have escaped the notice of European breeders this season, with Scat Daddy, who died prematurely last December, notching a Group-race double at Royal Ascot with Lady Aurelia and Caravaggio, while Kitten’s Joy’s major breakthrough outside America came with Hawkbill in the Group 1 Eclipse Stakes. The American duo has a brace of yearlings each in Deauville, with Kitten’s Joy’s two (lots 12 and 130) being sold by Ted Voute of Voute Sales and the Scat Daddy pair (lots 53 and 65) offered by Newsells Park Stud and Ecurie des Monceaux respectively.

New name at Goffs UK The Goffs UK Premier Sale catalogue was unavailable for scrutiny at the time of writing but one new name that will appear on the list

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of vendors this year is Anna Drion’s Coulonces Consignment.

For anyone who is a regular at Arqana, this isn’t a new name at all but the three yearlings being consigned by the Swedish-born Drion at Doncaster represent a foray into previously untried grounds.

“I’ve been looking at this sale for a while in order to take another step forward,” says Drion, who, chiefly in association with her parents Jan and Maja Sundstrom of Team Hogdala, is a successful breeder as well as sale consignor. Together the family operation, which is now assisted by Anna’s teenage daughter Moa, bred Le Havre, winner of the Prix du Jockey Club and now one of the most sought-after stallions in France.

Fittingly, one of the trio coming to Doncaster is by the Haras de la Cauviniere resident.

More recently, the Sundstroms have also been responsible for breeding Peace Envoy, the first Group winner for Coolmore

do with the specific individual and to me that’s the perfect way to sell a horse”

sale – who was bred by Francois Mathet, who also bred the grandam of Le Havre.”

The sale’s reputation as one where yearlings are judged first and foremost as individuals has appeal to Drion, who adds, “It’s important to find the right sale for the right horse, and really finding the right buyer is more important to us than getting a good price. We need the results on the track.

“I’ve looked closely at the results from Doncaster and it seems to be a real trainers’ sale. It has a lot to do with the specific individual and to me that’s the perfect way to sell a horse.”

The Choisir colt to be offered is the third foal of the winning Gone West mare Almogia, whose 2015 yearling by Helmet sold for €120,000 at Arqana’s August Sale, where Drion once again has a large draft in store, with 27 yearlings to sell.

“Being in Doncaster will almost be like a little holiday for me,” she admits. “It’s a luxury to just be able to concentrate on the three. It’s a trial really but I feel very comfortable with presenting the yearlings there and it’s good to have a new challenge.”

Sales dates Arqana August Sale, Deauville, August 14 to 16 Arqana v.2 Sale, Deauville, August 17 Goffs UK Premier Sale, Doncaster, August 23 and 24 Goffs UK Silver Sale, Doncaster, August 25

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Hottest July as mixed sale figures soar in Newmarket and Deauville

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Godolphin blues lead to record figures at Tattersalls’ midsummer highlight

The Godolphin draft dominated Tattersalls’ July Sale, with 72 lots selling for almost 4.5 million gns, a third of the sale’s aggregate

Tattersalls July Sale A bigger catalogue for this three-day mixed sale, a fine clearance rate, falling pound and a highly significant input from Sheikh Mohammed’s Godolphin created record turnover.

It went up 38%, but was set to rise long before the first session – the very long first session – was concluded owing to the sheikh’s decision to clear a quantity of valuable fillies and mares, many of them young and with a first cover. The majority had the benefit of being outcrosses for the ubiquitous Sadler’s Wells/Galileo lines of European stallions.

Why the sheikh elected to clear quite so many – 72, all on day one – only a few know, but Godolphin Chief Executive John Ferguson said it was a business decision made on the merits of each horse. Selling at the July Sale, rather than the more competitive December Sale, suited some, he reasoned.

It may have been that Godolphin chiefs interpreted bookmakers’ odds of a British exit from Europe (which had taken place the

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Tattersalls July Sale Top lots Name/Breeding

Vendor

Carte de Visite (Street Cry – Ascutney)

Godolphin

Price (gns) 270,000

BBA Ireland

Buyer

Desert Snow (Teofilo – Requesting)

Godolphin

250,000

BBA Ireland

Zuhoor Baynoona (Elnadim – Spasha)

Godolphin

250,000

Cormac McCormack Bloodstock

Zoella (Invincible Spirit – Zaeema)

Godolphin

220,000

Oliver St Lawrence Bloodstock

Lake Hamana (Shamardal – Lake Toya)

Godolphin

210,000

Sheamus Mills/Yulong Investments

Satiriste (Shamardal – Satwa Queen)

Godolphin

180,000

Broadhurst Agency

Kamakura (Medaglia d’Oro – Kotuku)

Godolphin

150,000

BBA Ireland

Aaraamm (Street Cry – Aryaamm)

Godolphin

150,000

Brian Grassick Bloodstock

Main Chance (Street Cry – Fatefully)

Godolphin

140,000

McKeever Bloodstock/Aquis Farm

Fanciful Angel (Dark Angel – Fanciful Dancer)

Prestige Place

135,000

Adam Driver

Five-year tale Year

Sold

Agg (gns)

Avg (gns)

Mdn (gns)

Top Price (gns)

2016

572

12,311,329

21,523

10,000

270,000

2015

486

8,949,800

18,415

11,000

230,000

2014

500

8,342,700

16,685

10,000

185,000

2013

436

6,970,300

15,987

8,000

260,000

2012

402

4,745,400

11,804

6,500

220,000

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previous week) diametrically, and had correctly reckoned a subsequent fall in the pound’s strength would give encouragement to overseas buyers and a chance to maximise values on the draft.

If so it worked, and had the additional benefit of spreading in-utero foals of young

Desert Snow, a grand-daughter of Alruccaba, sold to Newtown Anner Stud

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Darley sires such as Brazen Beau, Night Of Thunder and Slade Power out into the community.

The result was that day one’s turnover of more than 7,000,000gns (up 71% on the same day 12 months earlier) was more than that achieved at all but a handful of July Sales over three days, and Godolphin dominated the top-ten board. It filled all ten places until a few hours before the sale’s conclusion when the gelding Fanciful Angel crept on to the bottom of this list having been knocked down for 135,000gns to vet Adam Driver of Global Equine on behalf of Mike Kaye.

Godolphin’s draft apart, the rest of the catalogue was short of stars. It contained 877 horses, of which 648 walked the ring, 105 more than in 2015 and leading to some lengthy sessions. Overall turnover went up 38%, the average climbed 17% but the median dipped 9%.

BBA Ireland was the leading buyer, taking breeding stock and horses in training, and enjoying the kudos of leaving with the top two lots. They were Carte De Visite, an unraced three-year-old daughter of Street Cry, and Desert Snow, a five-year-old with a Night Of Thunder cover – both have joined a broodmare band at the Regan family’s Newtown Anner Stud in Tipperary.

Qatar trainer Jassim Ghazali, pursued on many lots by trainers from his own country, played his now-usual important role as a buyer of horses in training, and another key

Mike Kaye of Touch Gold Racing bought Fanciful Angel, who will remain in training with Marco Botti

player was Yuesheng Zhang, a China-based businessman of Mongolian origin and with the Yulong Stud in Australia to furnish.

Making his July Sale debut in company with Antipodean agent Sheamus Mills, Zhang spent more than 750,000gns and bid on a number of horses that failed to drop into his net. Hopefully he will be back in Europe soon.

Arqana Summer Sale Holes that appeared in the 2015 results from this sale were comprehensively plastered over with the result that records fell here, too.

Turnover soared to a new high, up 30% from a slightly smaller catalogue, while the average and median prices rose 22% and 8% respectively. A clearance rate of 74% was a healthy improvement on last year’s 65%, and a new best-price top lot of €400,000 was the icing on Arqana’s cake.

The introduction of a breeding-stock section worked well – with three fillies or mares sold for six-figure sums – the store market improved, and the company’s president, Eric Hoyeau, said the introduction of an online repository can only have helped buyer confidence.

Local agent Robert Nataf and New Zealand agent Paul Moroney teamed up to land the €400,000 top lot Dance Of Life, who had

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Saint-Cloud a couple of weeks before his ring appearance. Better was to follow, for two weeks after his purchase – he is set to join Moroney’s brother Mike, who trains from yards in Australia and New Zealand – his form had a vibrant lift. Mont Ormel, who had finished behind Dance Of Life when they were a close second and third at Deauville in May, won the Group 1 Grand Prix de Paris.

Tom Malone was on the mark for clients of trainer Kerry Lee when buying a winning Duke Of Marmalade three-year-old colt called Mahari with a bid of €280,000. Lee, whose superb start as a jumps trainer was one of the talking points of the 2015/16 season, had been underbidder on the £290,000 top lot Le Prezien at Goffs UK’s Spring Sale.

At this sale in 2015 Malone bought the €380,000 joint-top lot Zubayr, who went into training with Paul Nicholls and landed the Grade 2 Adonis Hurdle.

David Pipe was another British trainer who left with highly-valued assets, his haul including the filly Magie Du Ma and four-yearold gelding King’s Socks, who both realised €210,000 to bids from agent Hubert Barbe.

King’s Socks had finished runner-up in a Grade 1 hurdle at Auteuil two weeks earlier.

JRHA Select Sale

Japan’s gradual establishment of a world-class collection of stallions and broodmares is gaining rewards at its major sale of foals and yearlings.

Held on the island of Hokkaido, this twoday event has enjoyed year-on-year gains in recent editions, and did so again when the latest instalment took place in mid-July.

European buyers were thin on the ground, but interests from China, North America and Australia were among overseas buyers successful in gaining stock – Canadian Charles Fipke made the top-ten yearling board when paying ¥125m (approximately £893,000) for a Deep Impact filly – and a contingent from Coolmore was present. It returned home apparently empty-handed, but was not present purely for the excellent hospitality offered to visitors.

M V Magnier was a bidder on one of two foals by Deep Impact that headed the sale with a valuation of ¥280 million (approximately £2,000,000), although he had to give best to leading Japanese racehorse owner Hajime Satomi. The foal in question was produced by Poule d’Essai Des Pouliches winner Elusive Wave, who was bought by Magnier for 800,000gns at the December Sale following the conclusion of her racing career, but then sold privately to the Yoshida family.

Satomi also picked up the other Deep Impact sale-topper, this one a son of

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Arqana Summer Sale Top lots Name or sex/Breeding

Vendor

Dance Of Life (Mastercraftsman – Above Limits)

Carlos Lerner

Price (€) Buyer 400,000 Horse France/Paul Moroney

Mahari (Duke Of Marmalade – Mission Secrete)

Andre Fabre

280,000 Tom Malone/Kerry Lee

Wadyhatta (Cape Cross – Thamarat)

Haras du Mezeray

275,000 Horse France

Manamite (Kentucky Dynamite – Masaya)

Nicolas Clement

215,000 Horse Racing Advisory

Magie Du Ma (Sageburg – To Much Fun)

Patrick Chevillard

210,000 Horse Racing Advisory

King’s Socks (King’s Best – Alexandrina)

Bertran de Balanda

210,000 Horse Racing Advisory

Ibleo (Dick Turpin – Mahendra)

Franck Leblanc

210,000 Guy Petit

Cepage (Saddler Maker – Sience Fiction)

Emmanuel Clayeux

160,000 Guy Petit

Roll Again (Walk In The Park – Olina)

Source

150,000 Willie Browne

G (Saint Des Saints – En La Cruz)

Haras du Buff

145,000 Bertrand le Metayer

Duc De Beauchene (Saddler Maker – Quatia d’Angron) Remoue

145,000 Horse Racing Advisory

Five-year tale Year

Sold

Agg (€)

Avg (€)

Mdn (€)

2016

229

7,214,500

31,504

13,000

Top Price (€) 400,000

2015

215

5,582,000

25,963

13,000

380,000

2014

283

6,965,500

24,613

12,000

190,000

2013

255

6,509,206

25,526

13,000

280,000

2012

201

3,724,500

18,530

9,000

160,000

Argentine mare Malpensa (Orpen), and he ended the event as leading buyer. The head of a software gaming company, Satomi invested no less than ¥1.3 billion (more than £9m) over the two days.

Deep Impact has rarely failed to live up to his name, either as a racehorse – albeit he crushed Japanese hearts when only third (and

later disqualified) in the 2006 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe – or a stallion, although he has been represented by few runners in Europe.

There will be more, but the intensity of trade for his best stock at auction in Japan will curb the numbers.

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JRHA Select Sale Top lots Sex/Age/Breeding

Vendor

C (F) Deep Impact – Elusive Wave

Northern Farm

280,000,000

Price (¥)

Buyer Hajime Satomi

C (F) Deep Impact – Malpensa

Northern Farm

280,000,000

Hajime Satomi

C (Y) Deep Impact – Awesome Feather

Northern Farm

260,000,000

K T Racing

C (F) Deep Impact – Mandela

Northern Farm

240,000,000

Ryouichi Ootuka

C (Y) Deep Impact – Champagne d’Oro

Shadai Farm

235,000,000

Kieffers Co

C (F) Deep Impact – Cambina

Shadai Farm

230,000,000

Takaya Shimakawa

C (Y) Deep Impact – Dubai Majesty

Northern Farm

220,000,000

Danox Co

C (Y) Deep Impact – Venenciador

Northern Farm

190,000,000

Dream Farm

Comparative figures Year

Sold

Agg (¥)

Avg (¥)

Mdn (¥)

2016

390

14,942,100,000

38,313,077

26,000,000

Top Price (¥) 280,000,000

2015

394

13,173,500,000

33,435,279

25,000,000

235,000,000

2014

404

12,575,050,000

31,126,361

22,000,000

260,000,000

Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale

Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale Top lots Sex/Breeding

Vendor

Price (€)

Buyer

G Saddler Maker – Glycine Bleue (Le Nain Jaune)

Lakefield Farm

255,000

G Robin Des Champs -– Present Gesture (Presenting)

Busherstown

250,000

Mouse Morris

G Lauro – Posterite (Video Rock)

Walshtown Stables

235,000

Gordon Elliott

H Kirk/W Mullins

Joseph O’Brien

G Presenting – Whyalla (Bandari)

Rathbarry Stud

185,000

G Robin Des Champs – Tambourine Davis (Cadoudal)

Lakefield Farm

175,000

Gordon Elliott

G Walk In The Park – Queen Isabella (El Prado)

Brown Island Stables

160,000

M V Magnier

G Beneficial – Silaoce (Nikos)

Gatterstown Stud

160,000

Aiden Murphy

C Flemensfirth – J’y Viens (Smadoun)

Ballincurrig House Stud

155,000

Aiden Murphy

G Flemensfirth – Lady Petit (Beneficial)

Goldford Stud

155,000

Colm Murphy

Five-year tale Year

Sold

Agg (€)

Avg (€)

Mdn (€)

2016

297

14,216,000

47,865

36,000

255,000

2015

289

12,416,500

42,964

36,000

320,000

Top Price (€)

2014

337

14,685,000

43,576

34,000

220,000

2013

307

11,540,500

37,591

30,000

250,000

2012

337

9,423,450

27,926

22,000

250,000

Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale II Top lots Sex/Breeding

Vendor

G Touch Of Land – Accordion To Bob (Accordion)

Ralahine Stud

60,000

Bobby O’Ryan

F Presenting – Impudent (In The Wings)

Ballintry Stud

38,000

Five Star B/s

F Flemensfirth – Native Bid (Be My Native)

Ashwood Stud

31,000

Longways Stables

G Denham Red – Rhea De Grissay (Grand Tresor)

Rathturtin Stud

30,000

Monbeg Stables

F Flemensfirth – Top Quality (Simply Great)

Ballybrennan Stud

26,000

Andrew Leigh

G Doyen – My Linda (Bob Back)

Cedars Stables

25,000

Kevin Ross

G Let The Lion Roar – Chitty Bang Bang (Presenting)

Peter Nolan B/s

25,000

Margaret O’Toole

Price (€)

Buyer

Comparative figures Year

Sold

Agg (€)

Avg (€)

Mdn (€)

2016

117

1,443,550

12,338

10,500

60,000

2015

124

1,943,000

15,669

14,000

55,000

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Not surprisingly the men who have steered Japanese breeding into such a strong position – the Yoshida brothers Katsumi and Teryua – were leading vendors through their Northern and Shadai farms. It may be some time before that position of dominance is relaxed.

Foal trade went up 12% when turning over ¥6,811,500,000 and clearing 75% of the 232 youngsters – some still at their mothers’ hips – on offer. The average price rose 19%, while 88% of the 247 yearlings changed hands when they generated ¥8,130,600,000. The average price of ¥37,470,000 was an increase of 11%.

Turnover for the entire sale went up 13%, yet another record, as was the average price, which increased 15%.

Top Price (€)

Buyers from both sides of the Irish Sea arrived with purpose for the premier sale of jumping stores, resulting in some heady figures.

Day one contained the most sought-after lots, including a trio of three-year-old geldings who sold for more than €200,000. The three were headed by a €255,000 son of the late France-based sire Saddler Maker, whose very smart offspring Apple’s Jade and Alpha Des Obeaux put him on the map in Britain and Ireland during the 2015/16 jumps season.

Harold Kirk, buying for Apple’s Jade’s trainer Willie Mullins, secured this fine prospect, who was offered by Lakefield Farm’s John Bleahen and his brother Niall. They bought the horse privately in France, and by heading this sale completed a double instigated when they sold the top lot – for €320,000 – at the 2015 edition of the event.

Tattersalls Ireland’s Tom Rudd, who sells horses under the name of Busherstown in partnership with wife Katie, was just deprived of pole position when his son of Robin Des Champs made €250,000 to a bid from trainer Mouse Morris.

A record 32 horses made the six-figure mark – beating the total achieved pre-bank crash in 2007 – and 82% (300) of the 367 who came up for sale left with a sold sticker on their rump.

Turnover rose 14% and the average by 11%, while the median remained static, and there were falls across the board in the single-session Part II section which was introduced last year.

At the main event, Aiden Murphy was leading buyer, taking ten at an average of €107,500, while Michael Moore’s Ballincurrig House draft held onto the number one consignor position when trading 20 horses for a total of €1,090,500. Flemensfirth’s 28 representatives helped him to the leading sires’ role by aggregate.

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HOME OF THE BRAVE Won Jury Stakes (Gr.3) & King Richard III Stakes (LR)

ASTRONEREUS Won Al Rayaan Stakes (Gr.3)

GOLDEN VALENTINE Won Prix de Thiberville (LR)

OUR LAST SUMMER Won Norwegian Guineas (LR)

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From Johannesburg to Chile Predominantly courtesy of the late Scat Daddy, Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner Johannesburg is compiling a rich legacy in North and South America and beyond

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ver the years, we have become all too accustomed to hearing Aidan O’Brien hail his latest star as probably the best he has ever trained. Well, I don’t know whether anyone has ever claimed that Johannesburg, the champion two-year-old of 2001, was the most talented juvenile to have passed through O’Brien’s hands, but this American-bred son of Hennessy was surely the most accomplished.

Seven starts yielded seven victories, the last six of them coming at Group level. The first of those Group victories came at Royal Ascot, when Johannesburg was fairly unspectacular in winning the Group 3 Norfolk Stakes by just over a length. It is interesting to recall that Michael Tabor told the Racing Post that “this is obviously a decent horse and he is up there, but is not the best [in the yard]. There is a nice Group race in him, one would have thought.”

Tabor must have been surprised by the colt’s subsequent efforts. Johannesburg proved himself unique among two-year-olds by becoming a Group/Grade 1 winner in four different countries, progressing from the Phoenix Stakes in Ireland to the Prix Morny in France, the Middle Park in England and finally the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile in the USA. This sequence – achieved in the space of less than ten weeks – surely demanded extraordinary toughness and versatility. He won from six furlongs to eight and a half, as well as on yielding turf and fast dirt. He had also won on fast turf earlier in the season. His temperament must also have been bombproof, as he coped extremely well with a lot of travelling and changes of scene.

Unfortunately, Johannesburg’s exploits in his first season proved to be something of a false dawn – and the same was to happen when he took up stallion duties at Ashford Stud in Kentucky. Perhaps he wasn’t helped by being aimed at the Kentucky Derby, over a distance beyond his capacity, but the end result was three starts and no further wins.

This anti-climactic end to his racing career limited Johannesburg’s initial fee to $30,000, at a time when his grandsire Storm Cat was priced at $500,000. However, Johannesburg was still able to show the same sort of precocious brilliance that had been the hallmark of his racing career.

Johannesburg, a Group/Grade 1 winner in four countries, takes Belmont Park by storm

His first crop, numbering 144 named foals, produced the very creditable total of 15 stakes winners, of which ten – nearly 7% – were successful at Graded/Group level, including the Group 1 Prix d’Ispahan winner Sageburg.

The star of the show, though, was Scat Daddy, who won three of his five juvenile starts,

“Scat Daddy has proved himself a worthy son of a champion two-year-old”

including the Group 1 Champagne Stakes, to be ranked the second-best American two-yearold of 2006, behind the future Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense. Scat Daddy was also a leading contender for the Kentucky Derby, following his win in the Grade 1 Florida Derby,

but he suffered a slight tendon injury in the race.

Because he needed to be rested for three months, there wasn’t enough time to bring him back for the major autumn races, so the decision was taken to retire him.

The timing of Scat Daddy’s stud debut in 2008 wasn’t perfect. The success of Johannesburg’s first crop was proving to be another false dawn. His second and third crops failed to produce a top-level winner and his only other Grade 1 winner, Strapping Groom, didn’t achieve that status until he was a six-year-old in 2013. By then Johannesburg was long gone. His departure for Japan was announced in October 2009. It is sad to report that he had only 15 registered foals born in 2013 and again in 2014, but he bounced back after an encouraging start by his first Japanese runners in 2013, to the extent that he had 93 foals in 2015. It will be fascinating to watch their progress when they reach the track next year.

You can gauge breeders’ attitude to Scat Daddy from the way his fee plummeted in his first four seasons. After starting at $30,000, it fell to $22,500, then $15,000 and finally to as low as $10,000 in his fourth season, in 2011.

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Scat Daddy probably also wasn’t helped by Johannesburg’s record during the five years he was shuttled to Australia. Johannesburg sired only four Group winners from over 400 foals (but two of them, Turffontein and Once Were Wild, were Group 1 winners).

So, with Australia ceasing to be an option for Scat Daddy, he was shuttled to Chile from 2009 to 2011. He was next scheduled to shuttle to Argentina in 2013 but the visit had to be aborted when he suffered a severe bout of dehydration early in his journey.

His legacy in Chile has been particularly rich, with his progeny often dominating the Grade 1 events. One of his Chilean champions, Dacita, has successfully transferred her skills to the US, where she has won a pair of Grade 2 turf contests. Interestingly, with Scat Daddy no longer available, Chile has turned to his younger brother Grand Daddy, whose only stakes success came at Turfway Park. Grand Daddy has proved an instant hit, matching his brother’s feat of siring the first three in a Group race and in June his sons Gran Carboncillo and Big Daddy were first and second in the Grade 1 Clasico Tanteo de Potrillos.

Scat Daddy has proved himself a worthy son of a champion two-year-old. Tragically his greatest successes have come too late for him to capitalise on them, as he died suddenly at the age of 11 in December 2015. For much of 2015 he had looked certain to end the year as America’s champion sire of two-year-olds, only to be denied by Uncle Mo’s late surge. He set a new record of nine stakes-winning two-yearolds (from a crop of 154), with no fewer than six of the nine winning at Graded/Group level.

Acapulco stunned everyone when she dwarfed the opposition, both in the paddock and in the race, in the Group 2 Queen Mary Stakes. This was Scat Daddy’s second major juvenile success at the Royal meeting, as No Nay Never had emulated Johannesburg’s Norfolk Stakes success in 2013, before going on to take the Group 1 Prix Morny.

Now Scat Daddy has boosted his score to four, thanks to a spectacular double at the 2016 renewal. The unbeaten Caravaggio shaped like a potential champion when he quickened to land the Group 2 Coventry Stakes but even he was overshadowed a day later when the American-trained Lady Aurelia followed in Acapulco’s footsteps in the Group 2 Queen Mary Stakes. In scooting seven lengths clear she earned the very high Racing Post rating of 123.

It is worth pointing out that No Nay Never was sired at a low point in Scat Daddy’s popularity, and belonged to a crop of only 53.

Caravaggio and Lady Aurelia, on the other hand, were conceived in 2013. By then Scat Daddy had narrowly taken the title of champion first-crop sire in 2011 and finished a good second among the second-crop sires of 2012.

Even so, his fee was set no higher than $30,000 in 2013 and the result was a book of

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Hawkbill became Kitten’s Joy’s first European Group 1 winner in the Eclipse

Kitten likely to roar some more In the March 2014 issue, when I analysed which American stallions had sired the most qualifiers for the Experimental Free Handicaps of the previous five years, I was surprised to find that they were led by Kitten’s Joy, with an impressive 24 qualifiers. Not that I was unaware that Kitten’s Joy was siring a lot of good horses.

He had, after all, topped North America’s Leading Sires’ table in 2013, with help from 11 Graded stakes winners. Kitten’s Joy had also been champion sire of twoyear-olds in 2011, even though he never contested a stakes race at that age.

I pointed out that, although Kitten’s Joy hadn’t had a lot of runners in Britain, his progeny clearly merited more opportunities on this side of the Atlantic.

I wasn’t the only one to reach that conclusion. The buyers of Kitten’s Joy yearlings at the 2014 sales included Al Shaqab, Mark Johnston and Shadwell, but the most prolific buyer was John Ferguson, with half a dozen.

171 mares. He was even busier at $30,000 in 2014, when his total of 216 mares included 40 covered to southern hemisphere time. He also covered 217 mares in 2015, at $35,000, so there are two large crops to look forward to, even if we will never know what he might have achieved at a greatly increased fee in 2016.

Coincidentally, the pedigrees of Caravaggio and Lady Aurelia both contain the stallion Great Above (sire of Caravaggio’s broodmare sire Holy Bull and of Lady Aurelia’s third dam Blue Eyed Cat). The presence of this former Florida-based stallion could help explain why they are so fast.

Although he was a late bloomer (he didn’t become a stakes winner until he was five), Great

Shadwell and Ferguson have every reason to be delighted that they gave Kitten’s Joy a chance. The Ferguson sextet includes the Group 1 Coral-Eclipse winner Hawkbill, who has repaid his $350,000 purchase price with interest, and the $300,000 Cymric, who failed by only a short neck to catch Ultra in the Group 1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere.

Taareef, a $675,000 purchase by Shadwell, is also doing well. He followed up a creditable effort in the Poule d’Essai des Poulains with victory in the Group 3 Prix Daphnis.

Ferguson bought two more Kitten’s Joy yearlings in 2015, which have been named Cranesbill and Cross Step. Shadwell also has a colt called Mutanaaseb with Taareef’s trainer Jean-Claude Rouget which could be worth watching out for.

It’s a safe bet that the Maktoums will again be shopping for Kitten’s Joy yearlings this autumn – and so will plenty of other Europeans if the sinking pound allows.

Above set a track record in winning the Grade 3 Toboggan Handicap over six furlongs. He was also a son of the flying filly Ta Wee, who twice took the title of champion sprinter in the USA – a feat matched by her half-brother Dr Fager.

While on the topic of top sprinters, it mustn’t be forgotten that Scat Daddy is inbred 4 x 2 to Mr Prospector, who gained both of his stakes successes over six furlongs. This inbreeding could be significant when Tapit, another highly successful American stallion, is inbred 3 x 4 to the legendary Claiborne stallion. Then there’s Flower Alley, a stallion inbred 3 x 3, who numbers the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner I’ll Have Another among his progeny.

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he Thoroughbred Club held its second event of the year on the opening day of the John Smith’s Cup meeting at York racecourse. Members were treated to a fantastic day of hospitality and behind-the-scenes action, starting with a welcome from Chief Executive and Clerk of the Course William Derby, at their base for the day, the beautiful Gimcrack Suite.

Members were then taken on a tour of the weighing room, jockeys’ changing rooms and facilities by Assistant Clerk of the

Course Anthea Morshead, before heading out to walk the course with ex-jockey and York expert John Murray.

An insightful morning was topped off by a delicious lunch and a few tips from Adele Mulrennan before the sun came out for a great afternoon of racing and trip to the start to finish the day off.

Our thanks go to the fantastic team at York racecourse whose generosity made the day a huge success.

Members are welcomed to the Gimcrack Suite

Anthea Morshead, Assistant Clark of the Course, shows members around the new purpose-built weighing-room and jockey facilities

Ex-jockey John Murray describes the route from weighingroom to pre-parade ring and out on to the course

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ROA President: stakeholder unity is key Nicholas Cooper tells AGM that working together has helped racing get its message across to government

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icholas Cooper made unity between racing’s stakeholders the key theme of his first speech as ROA President at the organisation’s AGM in London on June 28.

However, he also advocated that there would be greater harmony were the racecourses as a group to agree to the BHA being given ultimate control over the fixture programme, saying “everyone would be better off” were that the case.

Cooper, who took over the presidency of the ROA from Rachel Hood, told delegates at the Jumeirah Carlton Tower Hotel: “Only the governing authority is in a position to stand above individual racecourses and racecourse groups – in fact, to stand above all the interest groups – to make objective judgements while pulling all the many strings together on fixtures

Nicholas Cooper: used speech to call for fixture list to come under BHA wing

and the race programme.

“Racing could then end the ludicrous geographical clashes of meetings and the allocation of fixtures could be based on a system that creates maximum benefit for the sport as a whole, while spreading the horse

population in such a way that very small fields and uncompetitive racing would be a thing of the past.”

Cooper stressed, however, that horsemen knew racecourses had to be successful in order to deliver investment in infrastructure, buildings and prize-money – and spoke of the improved relationship between owners and the tracks which had been essential in the creation of the tri-partite Members’ Agreement.

“It means that horsemen, racecourses and the sport’s governing authority are at last working together for the common good,” he said.

Should that unity continue, the future was rosy, Cooper added.

“There is no doubt racing’s new relationship has allowed us to send the right message to government – and government has, in turn, given us the support we so desperately need to alter the sport’s funding structure,” he said.

Cooper was speaking only a few days on from the Brexit vote, and he said: “Of course, with the UK now embarking on the process of leaving the European Union, we cannot pretend the racing industry will be immune to the changes about to unfold in this country.

“I am not the first to point out, however, that it was European State Aid legislation that provided the underlying reason for racing not

Wadham tops poll to be re-elected Newmarket lawyer Justin Wadham topped the poll to be re-elected to the board of the ROA in this year’s election. Also successful in the poll in which five candidates stood was Steven Astaire, who returns after an interval of 12 months, while Yvette Dixon was elected for the first time.

ROA President Nicholas Cooper said: “I would like to offer my congratulations to the three successful candidates. I warmly welcome Yvette Dixon, while Justin Wadham will be continuing his immensely valuable work after being re-elected – and we welcome back Steven Astaire, who stood down after 25 years of dedicated service in 2015 and returns after just 12 months.

“I would like to thank Jonny Allison and ROA elected board members Justin Wadham

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Robert Jones who also stood in this keenly contested election but were unsuccessful on this occasion. I hope that they will consider putting themselves forward again next year.”

Board members serve a three-year term, after which they are required to stand for re-election.

In line with the ROA’s articles, two appointed directors – Patricia Pugh and Chris Wright – were also endorsed at the annual meeting.

Appointed directors are selected to balance the skills, knowledge and experience on the board and will serve a three-year term.

Pugh is the owner of Altior, winner of this year’s Supreme Novices’ Hurdle. She is currently Curator of Paintings, Prints and Drawings at the Museum of London, having previously worked at the National Portrait Museum. She has also worked as a litigation lawyer, specialising in bank and corporate criminality cases. She has been an owner since 2001 and an ROA member for three years.

Wright, a music, media and sport entrepreneur, co-founded Chrysalis Records and launched the Heart commercial radio brand

Justin Wadham: popular choice with members for election to the board

in London and Birmingham. The ownerbreeder has been an ROA member since 1982 and has enjoyed much success, including with French 1,000 Guineas winner Culture Vulture and 2013 Breeders’ Cup heroine Chriselliam.

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www.roa.co.uk receiving its full income from betting and – when that legislation is swept away – we can look forward to an estimated leakage of £30 million plus per annum being returned to British racing.

“We can also look forward to the setting up of a horseracing authority for the purpose of distributing this money throughout racing without the sort of bookmaker involvement that has so illogically been pivotal to the levy system for the past 60 years.

“And we can also look forward to putting together a serious plan for the Tote, so British racing, working as one, obtains a pool betting licence when Betfred’s exclusive licence expires in 2018.”

Cooper also underlined that the 7,500-plus members of his organisation, along with owners generally, had a vital role within the sport’s ‘strategy for growth’, one of the objectives of which is to arrest the decline in the number of active owners in recent years.

The ROA, he said, was supporting the nationwide initiative built around experiencing the thrill of owning a racehorse through syndication.

He said: “This campaign will involve the development of an online central ownership hub that illustrates the adventure that surrounds owning a racehorse and will explain how to get involved. And, in the spirit of unity, racecourses have agreed to play their part in promoting ownership to racegoers.”

Retiring board members The ROA bid a fond farewell to outgoing President Rachel Hood at the AGM. She was elected to the board in 2005 and served as President since 2011. Her passion and energy knew no bounds and during her tenure she was a driving force behind the setting up of the Horsemen’s Group, and helped forged positive relationships between racing and key government figures. She was instrumental in the establishment of the Members’ Agreement, which provides a united front to represent horsemen, racecourses and the BHA. Another former President, Paul Dixon, stood down. A member of the board since 2003, and an owner on a significant scale, he was President from 2007 to 2011. He has been a familiar face in racing politics during his tenure, on the BHA, Levy Board and Horsemen’s Group.

His friend and colleague Tony Hirschfeld is another long-serving board member who stepped down. He joined the board in 2004 and served as Vice-President in 2011. He has worked tirelessly to help make the ROA Horseracing Awards a successful and prestigious event, and in so doing has raised tens of thousands of pounds for charity.

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Industry best served by focus on prize-money at lower end British racing is on the cusp of “something truly great” according to Arena Racing Company Chief Executive Martin Cruddace, who delivered the industry address at the ROA AGM. Cruddace has been in position for only nine months but has already made a positive impact, with developments such as the reopening of Hereford and improvements at Yarmouth and Bath, enabling the racetrack-owning group – much-maligned in recent years – to win over many critics. The replacement of the much-loved turf track at Newcastle was a project in motion before Cruddace took the reins.

Cruddace said: “Without wishing to be too dramatic, I think British racing is on the cusp of something truly great. The future is enticing.

“The leadership within the industry knows there is more that binds us than separates us, and under Nick Rust the BHA has a commercially-driven CEO who is showing real leadership. He has our unequivocal support.”

However, he warned: “For the industry to grow we need to trust each other and not think we can micro-manage each other’s businesses.

“Most racehorse owners believe in free markets and competition. We must, within reasonable perimeters, apply those principles to our industry and horsemen have to trust our commitment to compete

for the participation of their horses.”

Cruddace claimed ARC has changed for the better, with increased prize-money, investment in racecourses, and taking “the considerable financial pain of the authorised betting partner policy”.

He also said it was important the lower levels of the sport were looked after.

“It is important we have aspirations to increase prize-money at the top but, without doubt, the best thing we can do for the industry is to substantially increase prize-money at the bottom by using the new levy income in the years ahead and addressing how prize-money is distributed,” he said. “All pyramids need a firm and secure base.”

Cruddace welcomed plans revealed recently that the racing industry is looking at potential new fixtures for 2017, such as on Friday and Saturday evenings.

“We need to put racing on when people can go,” he said. “That means more evenings and weekends and, it follows, weekend evenings.”

Cruddace also called for engagement with retail bookmakers, which he called “the primary customer of British racing,” despite disagreement over the Authorised Betting Partner policy.

ARC Chief Executive Martin Cruddace argued for more evening and weekend racing

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Champagne occasion With the formal AGM business concluded, ROA members, their guests and leading industry personalities enjoyed the champagne reception, kindly sponsored by SIS Photos Dan Abraham

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Sir Paul Stephenson and Laura Whyte

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PASS system for owners revamped The means by which owners with a runner enter racecourses in Britain known as PASS (Privileged Access Swipe System) is set to be revamped in an effort to make the procedure more secure.

PASS has been in operation for 20 years as a partnership between the Racecourse Association and Weatherbys. After a joint detailed review of the system it was decided that PASS needed to be updated in order to keep pace with technological advances. The new system will also provide greater interaction with owners and other key customers.

Holly Cook, the RCA’s Racecourse Services Manager, who has been responsible for seeking out alternatives since September 2014, explains: “It’s a testament to the efficiency of PASS that 20 years on it continues to work on a daily basis, but clearly it’s not a modern system. Although we’ve kept it under review there was always going to come a time when it needed to be updated. Weatherbys’ advice gave us the impetus to create something new.”

PASS was introduced in 1996-97 to help tracks manage and control complimentary access, particularly concerning racehorse owners. Cook explains: “Before then owners would ring the racecourse and they would leave an envelope on the gate. Anybody could turn up and say they were the owner.

“Allocation of badges has always been at the racecourse’s discretion but generally owners were given in the region of four to six badges, which is still the case, but there was no way of verifying that the person who showed up to collect the badges was who they said they were, and there was no central monitoring.”

Setting criteria for the new system, Cook says: “We wanted the same as PASS does at the moment, so tracks could manage allocation of badges, particularly for owners, but we also wanted it to do more in terms of providing customer relations management benefits.”

Having spoken to several companies, the RCA decided against an off-the-shelf product and opted for a bespoke system. Sports Fusion,

So far 50 racecourses have signed up to the new system for admitting owners

a London-based company that has worked with racing and a number of other sports, was brought on board, and its director Chris Thomas has led the development team, with Jon Davis of Kickstart Technologies, which specialises in the hospitality industry as well as stadium access and ticketing system integration, appointed project manager.

Cook says: “Sports Fusion completely understood the nature of our industry and wanted to work with us to get the right solution.

They developed a prototype of the system, from

Come and chat to us about ownership The ROA will be hosting two informal networking evenings during September for current owners and individuals considering getting involved in racehorse ownership.

The gatherings are designed to enable members to chat and enjoy a drink with owners, trainers and others involved in racing. Representatives of the National Trainers Federation, Tattersalls and the ROA will be invited to the evening sessions in Bristol on Wednesday, September 7 and Harrogate on Tuesday, September 13.

These events will be a trial and, if successful, we will plan to arrange these more regularly next year. To register your interest, see www.roa.co.uk/roadshow or call David Bowen in the ROA office. Places will be limited and by invitation only. Please note that registering does not guarantee a place.

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which we could get the racecourses’ buy-in. We have 50 racecourses signed up, and the others can come on stream later if they want.”

The new PASS system has three components: an administrative back-of-house section; a racecourse back-of-house section, where racecourses can pre-set badge allocations that automatically feed through to the operator’s screen on the day; and a concierge facility for which PASS cardholders will be issued a log-in.

Cook says: “Concierge is the new part, where owners with a horse declared at the 48- and 24hour stages can see how many guest badges they are entitled to, which can be allocated to guests in advance and sent via a text message or PDF. It means guests will be able to access the racecourse on their own, instead of having to arrive at the same time as the owner or make special arrangements to collect a badge.

“Owners will have more control over the admission experience, because they can communicate directly with the racecourse, while racecourses can send personalised messages through the concierge section.

“The racecourses can use this opportunity to look at providing a better welcome experience for owners and trainers, and we will encourage consistency among racecourses about applying the system, which will benefit everyone.”

Implementation of the new system is being phased in. Jump courses will come on stream in the autumn and dual-purpose courses in November. Flat-only courses will be linked up from January 1, but in effect will start the operation from the resumption of racing.

For more information regarding the PASS update and to register your details please visit the RCA website at britishracecourses.org

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Win a trip to Longines Irish Champions Weekend In association with our friends at Horse Racing Ireland we are delighted to offer members the chance to win a fantastic VIP weekend for two to Longines Irish Champions Weekend, on Saturday, September 10 and Sunday, September 11.

This incredible prize package includes flights, travel, accommodation, two fabulous days racing at Leopardstown and the Curragh and dinner on one evening.

The full VIP package includes: • Two nights at the award-winning Sandymount Hotel (Sept 9-10 or 10-11) • Full Irish breakfast on both mornings • Dinner for two on one evening in the Sandymount Hotel’s ‘Line Out Bar’ • Two thrilling days racing at Leopardstown on Saturday, September 10 and the Curragh on Sunday, September 11, including a threecourse lunch, racecards and a glass of champagne upon arrival at Leopardstown • Flights from mainland Britain to Dublin • Free wifi, parking and car hire Longines Irish Champions Weekend carries prize-money of €4.5m. Last year, the Group 1 QIPCO Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown on the opening afternoon saw the John Gosden-trained Derby hero Golden Horn prevail under Frankie Dettori, while the Palmerstown House Estate Irish St Leger at the Curragh on the second day went to star stayer Order Of St George.

Golden Horn (right) recorded a dramatic win in last year’s Irish Champion Stakes

The newly-refurbished Sandymount Hotel is located in the heart of Dublin, within 20 minutes of Leopardstown.

The family-owned and -operated awardwinning hotel is situated close to a wide variety of local Dublin bars and restaurants, boutique shops and a weekly Sunday market in nearby Herbert Park. There is easy access to the city centre using the DART commuter train just next to the hotel.

To enter, visit the member area at roa.co.uk, or email info@roa.co.uk and answer the following question:

Q: Which horse won at both Irish Champions Weekend last year and Royal Ascot this year?

A: Found B: Minding C: Order Of St George There are a number of tempting race and stay packages on sale for Longines Irish Champions Weekend, with one-, two- and three-night options. Further information and online ticketing for the weekend can be found at irishchampionsweekend.ie

Richard Hannon honoured

Richard Hannon with Mike Cattermole

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Richard Hannon senior has become the latest recipient of the Chris Deuters Award, presented after the ROA’s AGM in June.

The award recognises individuals who have made a significant contribution to the horseracing industry and is named after the ROA’s former President, who died in 2008.

The award winner is decided by the ROA Board and Chris’s widow, Antonia, who made the presentation of an inscribed Asprey’s alms dish to Hannon on the day.

Hannon was champion trainer on the Flat no fewer than four times and achieved a century of winners in a season on 20

occasions. He also sent out 32 Royal Ascot winners and trained more than 4,000 winners during a career which spanned 43 years. His best horses include Tirol, Mr Brooks, Lyric Fantasy, Olympic Glory, Toronado and Canford Cliffs.

Hannon follows in the footsteps of past recipients of the Chris Deuters Award – the late Sir Eric Parker (2008), Jack and Jo Berry (2009), Sir Peter O’Sullevan (2010), Rod Fabricius (2011), Michael Harris (2012), David and Patricia Thompson (2013), JP McManus (2014) and Brough Scott MBE (2015).

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The latest news from the UK’s racecourses

In Brief Keep dry at Musselburgh Musselburgh racecourse has introduced a novel way to recognise owners with runners in three of its feature races this year. Owners with a runner in the Edinburgh Cup, Scottish Spring Cup and consolation race were given bespoke umbrellas made up with their racing colours, printed by Weatherbys.

Bespoke umbrellas at Musselburgh Perth Chairman John Gellatly and champion jockey Richard Johnson open The Lodge

Perth’s new stable staff facility June 30 saw the opening of a new £2 million stable staff accommodation and stable complex at Perth racecourse. The Lodge contains 26 rooms and a 40-cover restaurant, and will also offer the public somewhere to stay on non-racedays.

George McGrath, Chief Executive of the National Association of Stable Staff, said: “Perth is leading the way in stable staff accommodation with this new facility. People these days – everyone in fact – expect a level of accommodation and The Lodge surpasses that easily.”

Champion jump jockey Richard Johnson said: “It’s a fantastic facility. I’m sure The Lodge will be truly appreciated by the hard-working stable staff after the hard graft of a raceday.”

Feedback form winner All ROA members submitting feedback regarding their owners’ raceday experience via the quick and easy questionnaire on the ROA website are entered into a monthly prize draw. This month’s lucky winner of £50 ‘Love to Shop’ vouchers is Mark Lenton, who has horses in training with Shaun Harris.

Could you be next? Don’t forget to log on to roa.co.uk after your next visit to a racecourse.

Diary dates and reminders JULY 30 – AUGUST 28

SEPTEMBER 6

OCTOBER 6

Racing at Deauville

Visit to Cheveley Park and Banstead Manor Studs

Ayr regional meeting

Reciprocal offer for members (see story on page 96)

OCTOBER 15 SEPTEMBER 7

AUGUST 9

Ownership matters roadshow

Chepstow regional meeting

In Bristol

AUGUST 17

SEPTEMBER 13

ROA facility at York

Ownership matters roadshow

British Champions Day at Ascot

NOVEMBER 4 Warwick regional meeting

Juddmonte International day

In Harrogate

AUGUST 20

SEPTEMBER 30

Racing to School family event

Visit to National Heritage Centre

At Sandown

for Horseracing

NOVEMBER 15 Nichola Eddery private view At Osborne Studio Gallery

DECEMBER 1 ROA Horseracing Awards

Further details and how to book for ROA events can be found at roa.co.uk, by emailing info@roa.co.uk or by calling the office on 020 7152 0200

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Cheveley Park and Banstead Manor trip Want to see Frankel at stud? How about Pivotal?

Well, a lucky group of ROA members and their guests will get to do just that on Tuesday, September 6 in Newmarket at the ROA’s latest, exclusive, behind-the-scenes trip.

The day will start with a morning visit to the world-famous Cheveley Park Stud. Home to seven top-class stallions, including the aforementioned Pivotal, and the current leading first-season sire Mayson, Cheveley Park has bred a plethora of Group 1 horses.

Members will be treated to a stallion parade, followed by a coach tour of the various stud divisions.

Leaving Cheveley Park, members will go onto the Red Lion Pub, Brinkley, for a twocourse lunch and refreshments. From there, the visit will proceed onto Banstead Manor Stud, and an afternoon date with wonder horse Frankel.

Not just content with taking the racing world by storm, Frankel now looks likely to make an impact on the bloodstock world too, with his first runners impressing on the track.

Members have the chance to visit Cheveley Park Stud, home to star stallion Pivotal

He will parade for members, along with other stallions from the stud, including Dansili and Kingman, before members are returned to their cars.

This amazing day is sure to sell out, so ROA members wishing to attend are limited

to bringing one guest each, and are advised to book early. The entire package will cost £30 per person, and those wishing to attend can book online at roa.co.uk, by emailing sholton@roa.co.uk or by calling 020 7152 0200.

See the National Heritage Centre first We are delighted to announce that ROA members will have the chance to enjoy a special pre-opening visit to the new National Heritage Centre for Horseracing and Sporting Art at Palace House, Newmarket on the afternoon of Friday, September 30.

The visit to Palace House will be a treat for all racing aficionados, as the centre becomes the new home to the three unique attractions.

A much-expanded National Horseracing Museum uses the latest audio visual techniques to tell the story of the evolution of the thoroughbred horse, the growth of the sport from its beginnings in Newmarket to become the global sport it is today, and of

course celebrates the heroes of racing both equine and human.

It will also provide a permanent home for the British Sporting Art Collection, which charts the genre from its inception to the present day and features paintings and objects drawn from the Tate, V&A and a number of important private collections.

Featuring artists as diverse as Stubbs, Orpen, Munnings and Blake, it tells the story of sport through art.

Thirdly, it will provide a flagship home for the Retraining of Racehorses charity and will house a string of ex-racehorses undergoing training for a life after racing.

Palace House is the surviving portion of Charles II’s racing palace and stables which

Palace House was Charles II’s racing stable which he built in 1671

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he built in 1671 and which remained in the Royal family until it was sold to the Rothschild family by Queen Victoria.

In addition to the palace itself, the fiveacre site has two historic training yards from which four Derby winners have been trained. The Sir Peter O’Sullevan Arena for the Welfare of the House will be where RoR will give live demonstrations of its work.

The afternoon visit will be up for 40 people, and includes a two-course lunch with wine in the centre’s café and introduction and tour of the facility and its fine artworks and fascinating exhibits.

Places are £18 per person and will be taken on a first come, first served basis.

On the same day in Newmarket, a group of ROA members will be able to enjoy an optional morning gallops and stable tour.

The visit to the Newmarket gallops will include a stable visit.

The morning on the gallops and yard visit will include the services of a Discover Newmarket guide and coach to transport members to and from the Rowley Mile racecourse. The cost per person is £16.

There will be 28 places available on the morning visit.

Bookings for both events can be made in the Events section at roa.co.uk or by calling the office on 020 7152 0200.

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M AGICAL M OM E NT S with ROA member Derek Boocock

Light Up Our World wins the Listed Coral Distaff at Sandown on Eclipse day

Asked how many horses he has in training, Derek Boocock laughs and replies: “More than I should have!” Many owner-breeders, he says, would tell you likewise. Happily for Boocock, an owner for more than 20 years, this is a productive period in an operation he tries to run like a business.

Eclipse day at Sandown was the stage for a Listed success from homebred Light Up Our World, one of two horses he has with Richard Hannon, while Boocock also has one with Tony Carroll, one in France with Nicolas Clement, and stakes in two with Scott Dixon.

Three-time winner Blaze Of Song was Boocock’s first horse, but a fractured cannonbone – from which he recovered, but not to the extent of recapturing his best form – was an early taste of frustration.

“Since then I’ve owned some 30 racehorses, over 50% of which have been winners, so I consider I’ve been fortunate, as several have performed at a good level,” Boocock says.

Light Up Our World is obviously among them, and sometimes even just owning a horse good enough to contest decent races can provide some magical moments, as Boocock adds: “When we recently ran Light Up Our World in the Musidora, Teddy Grimthorpe was kind enough to invite us into the directors’ suite, when we had the honour of being introduced to the Duke of York.”

Boocock the breeder is a newer guise than Boocock the owner, though he is now well established. “I decided to start breeding 13 years ago, when a very nice two-year-old filly

by Desert King, Princess Sabaah, who I owned with Major Everett, father of the actor Rupert, fractured a sesamoid in a Sandown Listed race, which ended her racing career,” he says.

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“We put her in the sales but I bought her back for 17,000gns and put her in foal to Spectrum; this mating produced Prince Sabaah, who won at Wolverhampton.

“I’ve increased the broodmare band to six, one of which is in partnership with Simon Sweeting of Overbury Stud, which cares for all my mares and rears their offspring through to entry into the appropriate sales. Simon’s team do a very professional job and as the stud is only 20 minutes’ drive from my home, I can visit the farm regularly to check on the development of the youngsters.

“I’ve had the fortune

to acquire Shine Like A Star, a half-sister to a Group 1 winner” “In expanding the small band of mares I’ve had the good fortune to acquire an outstanding individual, Shine Like A Star, who is a half-sister to Coronation Stakes winner Fallen For You. She’s since produced Light Up My Life, a multiple Group-placed winner who was sold to Al Shaqab and covered by Frankel last year, as well as Light Up Our World.”

While Boocock has also had horses with Sylvester Kirk, David Wintle and Venetia Williams, all of whom provided he and wife Kathryn with much fun, his number one trainer has always been Richard Hannon, first senior and now junior.

He recalls: “I approached Richard with a modest budget for my first venture into ownership. He invited me to visit and Richard was so professional amongst a string of 30 or so horses, spotting small problems and giving out instructions, that I knew I’d chosen well; the glass or two of champagne offered to me afterwards helped as well!

“Richard jnr has made a great start, not only because of his many years assisting his father but due to the introduction of modern technology and communication, which adds to the ownership experience.”

Boocock, a retired Chartered Engineer, adds: “My fun extends to France, where I’ve a nice unraced two-year-old Youmzain filly with Nicolas Clement in Chantilly. My wife and I were over there for the French Derby weekend, when we saw her working on the gallops. Like ourselves, Nicolas enjoys relaxing with a nice bottle of wine over a good meal, so we enjoy spending time with him.”

Of his on-track experiences, Boocock says: “Our magical moment has to be the recent success of Light Up Our World in the Listed Coral Distaff at Sandown, as she was my first homebred stakes winner. This would be closely followed by the win of her half-sister Light Up My Life at the July Course on my birthday three years ago, as well as the Groupplaced runs of both fillies in the last few years.

“In earlier times, we enjoyed a special day at Newcastle when our Turtle Island colt King O’ The Mana won the Blaydon Race; it was the richest nursery in Europe at the time, sponsored by Hennessy Cognac. The trophy was presented by Monsieur Hennessy himself and a famous north-eastern tenor sang ‘The Blaydon Races’ accompanied by a brass band as the horses went to post.”

Boocock is also a member of the Royal Ascot Racing Club so was able to share in the glory of Motivator’s Derby success.

He recalls: “I was one of dozens crowded into the Epsom winners’ enclosure that day and recall Her Majesty The Queen looking down with obvious enjoyment at the sea of top hats being waved at her from below.”

Boocock adds: “One that got away was The Outback Way, in whom I had a third share when he was trained by David Wintle.

We thought we’d sold him on well, but he went on to win the Murphy’s Gold Cup at Cheltenham and accrue £263,000.”

You can’t win them all – that’s another thing every owner-breeder could relate to!

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Owners Jackpot in August The Jardin des Propriétaires provides owners with a haven during the races

Exclusive Deauville facility Through a collaboration with France Galop and the Association of Irish Racehorse Owners, ROA members are once again able to book places in an exclusive owners’ garden area at Deauville’s August Festival.

Members of the ROA and AIRO are able to book places in the ‘Jardin des Propriétaires’ on 13 selected racedays below. The cost per person for lunch will be €32. There is a childrens’ menu available for €15. Drinks are not included.

We received great reviews from members who availed themselves of this facility last year, and are delighted to offer places again.

Reservations for the ‘Jardin des Propriétaires’ on the above dates can be made by contacting Sadie Evans at the ROA on sevans@roa.co.uk or by calling the ROA office. Please note that reservations are taken subject to confirmation with France Galop.

This offer will not apply during the Arqana sales, August 13-17. France Galop suggest the following two alternative dining options during the sales period in the Panoramic restaurant or the Jardin du Paddock indoor and outdoor garden area.

Direct booking for the above options (during the sales period) can be made direct via email to: reservationhippodrome@lucienbarriere.com Date

First race Feature race

Sat July 30

1.30pm

Prix Psyche Group 3

Sun July 31

1.30pm

Prix Rothschild

Tues Aug 2

12.15pm

Fri Aug 5

1.20pm

Sun Aug 7

1.30pm

Tues Aug 9

12.15pm

Thur Aug 11

12.15pm

Thur Aug 18

1.30pm

Prix de la Nonette

Sat Aug 20

2.30pm

Prix du Calvados

Sun Aug 21

1.30pm

Prix Morny/Prix Romanet, Group 1, Kergorlay, Group 2

Tue Aug 23

1.20pm

Sat Aug 27

1.30pm

Sun Aug 28

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Prix Maurice de Gheest Group 1

There are five chances for owners to scoop a £2,000 Owners Jackpot prize this month. Races that have been allocated the bonus can be won by any horse owned at least 51% by ROA members, or in the case of a partnership, where both nominated partners are members of the ROA. If you are targeting the race at Chepstow, we will be holding a regional meeting on that day. Places for the meeting have been filled, but please let us know if you’d like to pop in and join us during the afternoon’s racing.

September’s Jackpot races, and further information about how to ensure your horse is qualified, can be found online at roa.co.uk

ROA OWNERS JACKPOT RACES THIS MONTH August 4 at Newcastle 7f Class 6 3yo+ 0-65 Handicap August 9 at Chepstow 7f Class 5 2yo 0-70 Handicap August 16 at Wolverhampton 1m4f Class 4 3yo+ 0-80 Handicap August 25 at Fontwell 2m 1f Class 4 4yo+ 0-105 Handicap Chase August 31 at Newton Abbot 2m 5 1/2f Class 5 4yo+ 0-100 Handicap Hurdle Details of future races can be found in the Jackpot section on the ROA website at roa.co.uk

Grand Prix de Deauville, Group 2, Meautry/Quincey, Group 3

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So far this year Charlie has trained fifteen winners from just sixty runners at a twenty five percent strike rate. In just three years with a trainers licence, Charlie has had runners at Royal Ascot, The Breeders’ Cup and Woodbine Racecourse in Canada.

In the last three years he has sold several horses privately for over four times their purchase price and is honoured to be training for the likes of Mr Anthony Oppenheimer, Saleh al Homaizi and Imad Al Sagar, Mohammed Obaida and Lawn Stud.

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Flat Racecourse League Table Ptn Racecourse

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

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

Figures for period July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016

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 2014-15 (£)

Up/ down

I I I JCR JCR I ARC I JCR JCR I I ARC I I I I I ARC I I I JCR JCR JCR I ARC I ARC ARC I I ARC ARC ARC ARC

433,887 194,451 171,562 130,111 110,988 86,236 68,864 68,418 59,347 51,307 41,298 40,573 39,974 38,984 35,672 33,938 33,542 32,252 31,511 29,050 26,559 26,406 26,222 25,006 24,614 24,142 23,285 22,888 21,826 21,341 19,901 19,643 18,567 18,446 16,608 10,635 50,463

132,627 98,112 91,257 66,527 79,457 43,104 55,597 55,781 49,889 41,832 19,592 17,668 22,824 32,703 23,155 31,812 27,803 1,200 24,327 19,287 21,051 18,961 16,159 20,892 20,996 22,201 19,416 13,170 13,768 24,739 19,312 18,077 19,979 14,450 15,620 24,844 32,550

247,968 110,766 60,707 105,150 98,329 10,499 32,165 36,730 23,714 17,692 4,991 5,467 8,801 10,674 4,870 3,896 5,652 4,110 4,117 3,887 3,620 5,462 4,503 5,666 4,324 5,155 4,904 3,391 3,545 4,961 11,635 2,782 3,396 3,321 2,756 2,521 20,398

814,482 404,035 323,526 301,788 288,773 139,838 156,865 161,400 133,326 111,548 65,882 63,708 71,599 82,528 63,698 69,645 67,121 38,375 60,039 52,224 51,480 50,829 46,885 51,791 49,969 51,497 47,739 39,449 39,226 51,042 50,847 40,502 41,983 36,550 34,983 38,000 103,514

18 17 19 12 39 15 24 17 16 24 60 16 13 18 17 16 16 4 89 18 20 16 13 22 58 20 28 7 23 7 18 18 93 15 22 39 887

14,660,674 6,868,590 6,146,994 3,621,460 11,262,162 2,097,574 3,764,771 2,743,800 2,133,209 2,724,950 3,952,892 1,019,332 930,784 1,485,500 1,082,860 1,114,319 1,073,935 153,500 5,343,440 940,033 1,029,607 813,266 609,500 1,139,398 2,898,199 1,029,944 1,336,697 276,140 902,201 357,292 915,250 729,038 3,904,454 548,256 769,630 1,482,000 91,861,649

369,431 173,582 94,264 136,018 90,683 85,748 64,880 69,316 55,849 48,642 38,101 41,410 24,152 32,476 33,065 31,339 29,845 31,970 30,044 23,908 23,174 28,724 24,526 21,040 22,006 22,132 20,232 23,951 19,592 17,345 18,190 17,281 15,945 14,200 13,513 10,129 43,389

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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 Sandown Park Haydock Park Newbury Kempton Park Ayr Newcastle Kelso Doncaster Cartmel Chepstow Newton Abbot Wincanton Ludlow Stratford-on-Avon Wetherby Perth Market Rasen Musselburgh Fakenham Taunton Uttoxeter Bangor-on-Dee Warwick Carlisle Huntingdon Exeter Leicester Ffos Las Fontwell Park Southwell Hexham Lingfield Park Catterick Bridge Worcester Sedgefield Plumpton 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 2014-15 (£)

JCR JCR I JCR JCR I JCR I ARC I ARC I ARC I JCR I I I I JCR I I I ARC I JCR JCR JCR JCR I I ARC ARC I ARC I ARC ARC I I

249,064 234,698 139,862 94,827 89,392 56,101 48,608 41,260 33,912 33,371 30,154 30,090 29,800 28,860 28,588 27,808 27,310 24,976 24,720 23,823 23,094 22,971 22,635 20,707 20,076 20,074 19,976 19,925 19,528 18,171 16,838 16,835 16,619 16,543 15,855 15,689 15,555 14,889 14,186 13,936 37,048

131,882 115,233 86,051 86,945 78,929 78,430 59,635 38,295 41,652 27,037 44,404 17,573 38,554 28,755 31,574 27,175 17,386 26,602 25,114 22,361 33,896 23,721 25,134 26,084 20,708 30,072 27,123 22,259 29,770 26,219 24,111 23,571 19,935 18,281 26,864 25,998 22,368 20,842 23,146 21,039 34,661

70,590 61,573 19,014 16,507 16,784 20,946 10,140 12,896 8,416 2,908 8,385 5,015 8,277 0 5,310 4,791 3,825 4,652 3,040 4,387 5,136 0 5,339 6,341 4,626 5,573 4,204 4,543 5,185 4,546 4,012 3,375 3,884 2,962 3,348 2,917 3,973 3,142 3,350 3,551 8,190

451,723 411,504 247,427 200,500 191,405 157,477 119,537 92,452 83,980 63,816 83,360 52,678 76,631 57,615 65,636 59,773 48,521 56,330 52,874 50,571 62,776 46,692 53,107 53,403 45,409 57,414 52,557 47,005 55,420 48,936 44,960 43,781 40,553 37,971 46,067 44,834 42,012 39,427 40,681 38,692 80,351

8 16 8 9 9 10 13 11 8 13 12 9 14 16 14 15 15 15 16 23 10 12 13 24 14 17 13 18 16 10 10 21 20 14 6 10 20 20 15 9 546

3,613,784 6,584,067 1,979,413 1,804,503 1,640,613 1,574,775 1,553,978 1,016,973 671,839 829,606 1,000,318 474,100 1,072,828 921,842 918,910 896,600 727,815 844,950 845,989 1,163,128 627,762 560,310 690,392 1,281,680 635,732 976,038 683,238 846,084 886,722 489,356 449,600 919,409 811,062 531,600 276,400 448,339 840,233 788,541 610,221 348,231 43,836,978

244,870 223,142 135,525 96,862 98,706 45,631 50,823 31,902 21,606 29,390 27,022 25,787 25,177 20,843 26,585 26,487 22,620 24,479 25,836 22,568 26,507 25,040 15,750 17,712 18,958 21,988 20,352 19,749 20,007 12,844 17,707 15,719 12,257 17,684 13,076 15,602 14,217 13,773 14,044 11,532 34,196

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EXPLANATION The tables set out the average prize-money at each fixture staged by a racecourse over the last 12 months. They show how this is made up of the three sources of prizemoney: 1. Racecourses’ contribution 2. Levy Board (HBLB) 3. Owners The tables also confirm the number of fixtures staged and the total amount of prize-money paid out by each racecourse throughout this period.

The racecourses are ordered by the average amount of their own contribution to prizemoney at each fixture. This contribution originates from various sources including media rights, admission revenues and racecourse sponsors.

If a racecourse has increased its average contribution at each fixture compared with the previous 12 months, it receives a green ‘up’ arrow. If its average contribution has fallen, however, it receives a red ‘down’ arrow.

As these tables are based on the prize-money paid out by each racecourse, the abandonment of a major fixture could distort a racecourse’s performance.

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Eastern delight at Godolphin’s headquarters

Hawkbill poses for members just weeks before winning the Eclipse

TBA members view the extensive covering sheds at Dalham Hall Stud

T

he East Regional day was blessed with warm, dry weather which was perfect for our visit to Dalham Hall and Moulton Paddocks in Newmarket.

Dawn Laidlaw, Head of Nominations, welcomed us to Dalham Hall Stud and took us through a brief history from its comparatively small beginnings to the global breeding and racing operation that it is today, employing more than 600 people in the UK alone. Our enthusiastic members were encouraged to ask questions while enjoying refreshments in the entertainment suite at Godolphin HQ. Members could not quite manage to circumnavigate the 3,500 acres taken up by the stud in the time allowed, so we were walked through impeccable grounds towards the stallion boxes. En route were poignant reminders of some of Sheikh Mohammed’s most famous racehorses, including Dubai Millennium and Singspiel, as we walked past the dedicated cemetery.

Members were treated to a mini stallion parade with Golden Horn, New Approach, Iffraaj, Dubawi, Outstrip and Helmet looking very impressive and in fine fettle despite the end of a very busy covering season.

On arrival at Moulton Paddocks it’s hard not to be impressed by the sheer scale of one of the largest private training establishments in Europe.

First-season sire and new Darley Club stallion Outstrip on parade

One would never imagine that such a large-scale operation is nestled between Warren Hill and the Bury Road, almost completely out of public view. With several dedicated training yards, each housing horses in various stages of pre-training and training, this is a very impressive set-up indeed. James Ferguson, assistant to Charlie Appleby, met us at the main yard which consists of two identical mirror-image yards which total 110 boxes.

We were able to get up close to admire the impressive array of horses, including Hawkbill, winner of the Tercentenary Stakes at Royal Ascot and most recently of the Group 1 Coral-Eclipse Stakes at Sandown.

From the main yard, the tour took in the hydrotherapy area which included some of the training aids used by Godolphin, such as the sea walker, galloping treadmill, spas and aqua-pacer treadmills, as well as the equine pool. Members boarded the bus to take a drive through the 1,200acre estate and view the private gallops, which as well as traditional turf include all-weather, wood chip, and sand, enabling training to continue all year round in any climate.

The day finished with a delicious lunch back at Granary Barns in Woodditton, where all agreed it had been a real treat to be able to have a private tour of Godolphin’s outstanding facilities and stallions. Our thanks to all at Godolphin for making us so welcome.

Oxford Brookes graduation At the end of June, the TBA’s Tallulah Lewis attended the Oxford Brookes University graduation to present a prize to the student on its BSc in Equine Science and Thoroughbred Management course who had demonstrated dedication to and a keen enthusiasm for the thoroughbred breeding industry. This year’s winner is Maria Baker, a member of The Thoroughbred Club who during her time at Oxford Brookes worked at Bath racecourse and spent six months at Eliza Park in Australia.

Upon completing her degree Maria has been accepted and taken part in the BHA Graduate Development Programme and is currently on the first half of her placement at the Horserace Betting Levy Board, before she heads to the British Racing School for the second half.

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TBA diary dates MONDAY, AUGUST 1 Scotland Regional Day, Dumfriesshire

FRIDAY, AUGUST 26 The TBA #thisfillycan Fillies’ Handicap Newmarket

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 North Regional Day

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7 – FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9 TBA Stud Farming Course, Members view mares and foals at Westerlands Stud

South East Regional Day The South East held its regional day at William Knight’s Lower Coombe Stables and Westerlands Stud on Wednesday, June 8. For the first part of the day members were invited to view horses exercising on the gallops, which included a mile-and-a-half soft-track gallop and a five-furlong woodchip gallop, all set amongst the picturesque 6,750-acre backdrop of Angmering Park.

Greeted by William Knight and his staff, we were invited to a tour around the stables, meeting some of his best horses.

After lunch, the second part of the day involved a visit to Westerlands Stud in Graffham. Positioned in the shadow of the chalk- and sand-rich lands of the South Downs, the stud is in an area of outstanding natural beauty. Founded in 1904 by Lord Woolavington, the stud is owned and

managed by the Jamison family, but already has a rich and interesting history being once owned by the first woman to hold a trainer’s licence, Florence Nagle.

In her introduction, TBA regional representative Antonia Jamison gave a fascinating insight into plans for the stud, stressing the importance in the value of land

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NEW TBA MEMBERS Mr Clive Webb-Carter, Gloucestershire Mr Simon Clarke, Staffordshire Jacqueline Humphries, Oxfordshire Nichola Barrett, Hereford Jane Maggs, Cumbria Jo Brown, Gloucestershire Alan R W Marsh, Buckinghamshire

Members observe the string at William Knight’s training grounds

Antonia Jamison and Oliver Hancock speak to members at Westerlands Stud

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management and staff input.

Manager Russell Boult then showed us some of the mares residing on the 230-acre stud, with foals at foot, by leading stallions War Front, Siyouni and Lope De Vega.

Fortunately, the weather was kind to us, making it a thoroughly enjoyable day out.

The TBA would like to thank all those who made the day a success, including all the staff at Lower Coombe Stables, Westerlands Stud and TBA regional representative John Needham.

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TBA takes on new secretariat role for ITBF

In its aim to provide breeders with the latest updates on current affairs in the industry, the TBA has set up a review board looking into the impact of genetics on the industry as a whole. Chairing the panel is Dr Peter Webbon, with input from Dr Sarah Blott (University of Nottingham) and the addition of experts recruited as required for specific tasks. The two stages agreed by the TBA board as terms of reference are: To review the genetic-based tests that are commercially available to thoroughbred breeders.

To advise on the value and/or negative impact that these tests might have for thoroughbred breeding.

ADAM SMYTH

Stage 1:

Dr Peter Webbon heads the TBA review into Genetic testing of thoroughbreds

Stage 2: To consider how established genetic technology could be applied in the future to breeding by reviewing the technology applied to other species, particularly farm animals.

Evaluating the current research which could be translated into practicable tests.

The Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association is delighted to accept the invitation to provide the permanent secretariat function for the International Thoroughbred Breeders’ Federation.

The TBA will be managing the accounts, co-ordinating meetings (and associated papers), as well as fielding press and general enquiries on behalf of the ITBF’s members.

The TBA will also be liaising with host countries for each congress and will be providing support between events where necessary.

Relevant contact information can be found on the ITBF website (www.international-tbf.com).

Members will be updated in due course on the progress of the review.

The Patron’s Lunch in the Mall

TBA plays its part in Patron’s Lunch On Sunday, June 12, Pauline Stoddart and Caroline Turnbull represented the TBA at the Patron’s Lunch celebration to mark the Queen’s 90th birthday. The lunch, devised by Peter Phillips to commemorate the Queen’s patronage of over 600 different charities, was attended by 10,000 guests and held in the Mall, London. Despite the deluge of rain, spirits were high among the crowd and a delicious selection of food, plenty of tea and lots of ice-cream helped make the event a thoroughly enjoyable day out.

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Following the AGM held at Newmarket’s Jockey Club rooms on July 5, we welcome back two members who have served on the board since 2012, Philip Newton and Philip Mitchell; we also welcome new TBA board member Nicholas Jones and newly co-opted board member and previous Chairman of the National Hunt committee, Robert WaleyCohen.

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our members the profile and resolve that they deserve. I am particularly interested in improving the marketing and membership.’’

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Nicholas Jones Nicholas Jones was Chairman of the National Stud from 1991 to 2000, an independent director of Ladbrokes from 2002 to 2010, an independent director of Newbury racecourse from 2007 to 2010 and an independent director of the BHA from 2011 to 2014. He is currently in his sixth and final year as a Steward of the Jockey Club.

He says: “I am delighted to become a member of the TBA board.

“For 35 years, I worked as a corporate financier until 2010, when I retired as managing director of Lazard in London. I started Coln Valley Stud 30 years ago, where we keep nine mares breeding for both the Flat and National Hunt. We have eight homebred horses in training.’’

Philip Mitchell Best known as General Manager of Juddmonte Farms, a post he held until standing down in November 2015, Philip Mitchell, a previously co-opted member of the board, has now become a fully-elected member of the board.

He said: ‘’I have been a co-opted member of the TBA for the past four years and have now been given the opportunity to become an elected member of the board. Without breeders there would be no thoroughbred racing and as such they deserve far greater recognition by our industry. While the TBA already does excellent work in this respect we can always do more and I will to continue to be an active board member and help to give THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

Philip Newton, a previously elected board member, is to take up a new term on the board after re-election. A small breeder with four broodmares and six horses in training, during his previous tenure on the TBA board he has been active in introducing, initiating and promoting a number schemes to assist the thoroughbred industry as a whole, including working on the recent ‘#thisfillycan’ campaign to change existing perceptions of owning mares and fillies to race.

He said: “I have been an elected member of the TBA board since 2012. I am committed to the development of a robust and sustainable breeding industry that is essential to the health of the overall racing programme.

“Small breeders like myself are key to this, providing over 33% of total foal production.

Ensuring the health and wellbeing of this sector has been part of my remit over the last four years.’’

Robert Waley-Cohen was co-opted to the TBA board at the 2016 AGM and from July will be Chairman of the TBA’s National Hunt Committee, which he chaired from 20102015. During this time the HBLB agreed to fund up to half the stud fees for ‘elite’ mares visiting British-based stallions. MOPS was initiated and much work was done, and is still being done, to improve the racing opportunities for fillies and mares.

Robert has been Chairman of Cheltenham racecourse since 2011. He served from 19952000 as a Steward of the Jockey Club, the last three years as Deputy Senior Steward, and as a racecourse steward from 1977-2006 at seven racecourses. He was also Chairman of the Point-to-Point Authority 2005-2011, Chairman of the Pony Racing Authority 2007-2009, an independent director of the Horsemen’s Group from 2007-2010 and a member of the BHA Jump Race Committee 2010-2015.

In 2001 Robert was a founding partner in Upton Viva Stud, where there are now ten mares, eight of them ‘elite’ mares. The stud has produced Grade 1 winners at Aintree, Auteuil, the Cheltenham Festival and Sandown, plus two winners on the Flat who have subsequently gone hurdling. The stud’s objective is to increase this record.

He has owned five Cheltenham Festival winners including Long Run, winner of the 2011 Cheltenham Gold Cup, and seven winners over the Aintree Grand National fences (but not the Grand National), three of these trained by Robert under permit.

After working at Christie’s in London and the USA for 12 years, Robert founded and was CEO of Alliance Imaging Inc. in the USA from 1981-1988, and Alliance Medical Ltd in Europe from 1989-2007, since when he has been an active investor.

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TBA Annual Seminar: New technologies and older adversaries established genetic technology could be applied in future to thoroughbred breeding for the benefit of breeders and horses.

Dr Sarah Blott offered a different perspective on the subject of genetic testing, providing examples of single-gene diseases for which tests have been developed. Dr Blott emphasised that, through testing, over time it should be possible to reduce and eliminate diseases such as Foal Immunodeficiency Syndrome in the Dales pony and Hoof Wall Separation Disease in the Connemara.

Genetics could be used to inform selection of replacement breeding stock, plan matings, and improve the health and soundness of the horse population.

The general consensus given by the morning experts was that the genetic testing on offer commercially to the industry was only scratching the surface, and that there were other potential uses of genetic testing to be investigated for the benefit of the industry.

Professor Max Rothschild flew in from Iowa to talk genetics

Combating infectious diseases This year’s well attended annual TBA Seminar held at Tattersalls Park Paddocks tackled the diverse but important topics of genetics and infectious disease, both of which could not have been more relevant for very different reasons.

The use of genomic testing to determine Galileo Gold’s ability to stay the Derby distance brought this technique back into the public eye, while this year’s breeding season has been marred by outbreaks of EHV-1 with devastating consequences for some breeders, highlighting how close to home these topics can be.

The day started with TBA Deputy Chairman Paul Greeves providing an informative update on the thoroughbred population since the economic downturn in 2008. He identified a number of trends, a statistic of note being that, despite a significant fall in annual foal numbers, the number of foals and yearlings being offered at public auction is greater now (up 7%) than back in 2008 when production peaked.

Worldwide foal production has fallen 24% since 2008 and there has been an increase in the production of foals for the Flat in both Britain and Ireland. Greeves also highlighted the fact that France has now overtaken Britain in terms of foal production and that the number of Irish-bred horses in training in Britain has increased to 44% while Britain has maintained its contribution at 46%.

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Following Greeves’ ‘lay of the land’ presentation, the next three speakers emphasised the potential benefits of modern genetic technology, and the need for breeders to take control of this technology now.

Dr Peter Webbon concluded that using genetic techniques solely to enhance athletic performance were likely to fail and could result in increased numbers of unsound animals, whereas use of genetic techniques to reduce the level of injury and disease in the horse population could have significant advantages for all involved in the industry, not least the horse itself.

Professor Max Rothschild, a world authority on genetics in cattle and pigs, advised the audience that testing for a single gene was not the answer, but that genomic testing could become an additional tool for breeders to add to conformation, performance and pedigree analysis. He suggested that the thoroughbred industry should act now by, for example, setting up an advisory group of geneticists, breeders, and genomic industry suppliers, and should obtain funds to support public research, product development and public education.

There are already moves in this direction at European level and the TBA has formed a review group as the first step towards understanding what genetics tests are currently available and the value of them. The review group will be aiming to identify how

The afternoon session picked up the second hot topic of the year, disease, both exotic and endemic. Kicking off was Dr Richard Newton of the Animal Health Trust, who discussed some of the existing exotic and endemic disease threats that breeders should remain vigilant to. He warned of changing global ecology of insect vector-borne diseases such as African Horse Sickness and West Nile Virus, particularly as wetland areas, such as the local Wicken Fen near Ely, house a population of feral Konik ponies that could be susceptible to mosquito-borne disease.

Old and previously presumed conquered equine diseases, such as Dourine and Glanders, have re-emerged in recent years in Europe, and there is still no effective vaccine.

The final disease Dr Newton touched upon and that of most concern to breeders in the audience was Equine Herpesvirus (EHV), which has been prevalent in 2016, causing respiratory issues in young horses, abortion in pregnant mares and paralysis in horses of all ages in studs and racing yards across the country. Newton reminded the audience that most horses are latently infected with herpesvirus and that appropriate management of index cases is crucial, but that disaster can strike despite good management.

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Obituary: Richard Bowers

Paul Greeves discussing Weatherbys’ statistics

stable population of fully vaccinated mares.

On reflection, Dollar concluded that turning out mares into small groups in paddocks, rather than remaining in an American Barn, where the first abortion had occurred, may have prevented further abortions. In future he would consider foaling mares outside under lights if necessary.

Although he concluded that they will never know exactly why and how the outbreak occurred, there were many lessons learned that provided an invaluable take-home message to the audience. Openness and good communications with other stallion studs and the industry, robust biosecurity measures and following the HBLB Codes of Practice were among the positive actions.

EquiBioSafe App launched In a fitting end to the seminar, Dr Celia Marr concluded with news of an exciting new

development for the HBLB Codes of Practice, which, together with the NTF Codes of Practice for Racehorse Trainers, are to be offered in a more accessible and modern format. The EquiBioSafe App is now available for free through the iTunes app store, allowing breeders, trainers and yard staff to have quick access to the relevant information on the go. It will include images and video guides illustrating clinical symptoms and swab techniques, and updates will be automatically incorporated ensuring users always have the latest information on each of the diseases. An Android version of the app will also be available soon.

Delegates had plenty of opportunities to ask questions throughout the day, which once again offered much food for thought among the delegates. The TBA is extremely grateful to all speakers and panel members for their valued contribution.

There have been many distinguished winners of the TBA’s Andrew Devonshire Award, but none more hands-on than Richard Bowers, who died on Sunday, July 10.

He and his wife Meg, who died last year, were synonymous with The Elms Stud in Northamptonshire, which they ran as a National Hunt stallion stud from 1976 until 2000.

Over a period of time, Richard stood a number of stallions, two of the best known being Broadsword, sire of Irish Grand National hero Flashing Steel, whom Richard bought as a foal, and Neltino, sire of that outstanding grey chaser Teeton Mill.

He also kept a significant number of boarding mares for Flat breeders. Two local owner-breeders to patronise The Elms in those days were David Oldrey, who maintained a handful of broodmares there, and Pearl Lawson Johnston, whose brilliant filly Cry Of Truth was bred and raised there.

A true all-round horseman, Richard had been a joint-master of the Oakley Hunt, a competent point-to-point rider, a renowned show judge at home and abroad, and an expert at making and breaking young horses. But more than that, if he could do anyone a good turn, he would – a fitting epitaph to a delightful personality. AYW

GODOLPHIN STUD AND STABLE STAFF AWARDS 2017 – nominations now open The Godolphin Stud and Stable Staff Awards were first held in 2005 to celebrate those working in racing. In partnership with the Racing Post and with the generous sponsorship of Godolphin, the awards are organised by BHA and offer prize-money of over £120,000. Nominations for the 2017 Godolphin Stud and Stable Staff Awards opened on July 6.

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our sport. Winners will be presented with their awards in front of a specially invited audience at the Jumeirah Carlton Hotel, Knightsbridge in February 2017.

The categories for the awards are...

• Leadership Award • Rider/Groom Award • Stud Staff Award • Dedication to Racing Award • David Nicholson Newcomer Award

The awards will also recognise an Employee of the Year, who will be selected from the winners of the first four categories.

Nominations for all the awards are accepted from anyone, so owners, trainers, colleagues and managers can all show their appreciation for hard-working members of staff. Stud employees qualify for all categories apart from the Rider/Groom Award, and we urge you to nominate someone you feel deserves recognition.

Further information can be found on the TBA, BHA or Racing Post websites.

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Supervisory Skills Course The National Stud and TBA joined forces in June to run the first supervisory course aimed at stud employers and employees. Delivered

by HR professional Jacquie Findlay, delegates spent two days at the National Stud engaged in an interactive course, which included team building exercises and role plays to enhance their ability to build and manage effective teams, manage individual performance, provide constructive feedback and coach members of staff.

They also learned about the role of Racing Welfare and the services it offers to support

employees and employers on all stud farms around the country.

The group enjoyed the experience and felt that it had been beneficial to them, whether already in a supervisory role or about to step up to one. ‘’It was a great chance to learn how to make the jump into first-line supervising, a must for any future managers,” said Jake Woolf of Juddmonte Farms.

Polly Gunn, from Cheveley Park Stud, also commented on the course, saying: “It was an extremely informative two days. There was a lot to take away and put into practice.”

Melissa Parris: new staff member

Melissa Parris joins the TBA team Melissa Parris recently joined the team at Stanstead House as Office Administrator. Melissa joined the TBA from Shadwell Stud, where she worked as a Stud Hand, and will be working with the team on a number of projects and events over the coming months.

Commenting on her new role, Melissa said: “I am pleased to join the team at Stanstead House and have been assisting with the AGM, Awards Dinner and the NH Foal Show.

“I look forward to meeting TBA members at events in my new role.”

Delegates of the first course at the National Stud with Jackie Findlay, right

Breeders’ badges for Ebor festival

Don’t Miss Out

In recognition of the contribution made by breeders to the racing industry, Ascot racecourse gave breeders the opportunity to see their horses run at Royal Ascot.

Through contacting the TBA, the registered breeders were provided with two badges per horse, providing the horse was declared to run. This special initiative proved extremely popular, with almost 70 breeders applying for tickets.

We are excited to offer a similar opportunity in association with York racecourse, for the Ebor festival and other dates in their racing calendar. The registered breeders of declared runners will be able to apply for tickets provided they are a TBA member.

It is hoped that the scheme will be rolled out across a number of prestigious events at other racecourses.

Tickets must be applied for four days in advance. For enquiries please contact Annette Bell on 01638 661321 or annette.bell@thetba.co.uk

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Scotland’s Regional Day will be held at Iain Jardine’s Hetland Hill Farm, including a tour of the yard and gallops.

Northern Regional Day – Tuesday, September 6 Northern Regional Day will include a tour of David O’Meara’s yard; further details to be confirmed in due course.

The TBA Stud Farming Course, British Racing School, Newmarket – December 7 to December 9 Bookings are now being taken for the TBA’s

popular three-day Annual Stud Farming Course, which consists of 24 sessions and a variety of speakers. Topics range from conception of the foal to foaling, care of the newborn and older foal, nutrition, sales preparation and disease prevention.

The course also offers an external visit to a local stud, veterinary practice or other relevant location, and is a great opportunity to keep up-to-date with current issues in the stud industry.

The course, delivered by industry experts in an informal setting, allows plenty of opportunities to ask questions and learn from speakers and other delegates.

For further information and to book your place for this year’s course, please contact Melissa Parris at the TBA on 01638 661321, or alternatively email melissa.parris@thetba.co.uk

Flat sponsorship portfolio The TBA is delighted to announce the sponsorship of two races at Goodwood and Newmarket this year. Both races will be run over a distance of 14-plus furlongs for staying fillies and mares.

The first will be run at Newmarket on August 26 and the second will be on September 21 at Goodwood. Further details will be available on the TBA website.

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BREEDER OF THE MONTH – June 2016

Caroline Wilson

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Recipient of the 2015 Langham Cup, the TBA’s annual Small Breeder Special Merit award, Caroline Wilson will doubtless be in the running again for the current season following Twilight Son’s Royal Ascot victory.

Last year, Wilson was represented by Twilight Son and his half-brother Music Master. The former has a predetermined career at Cheveley Park Stud alongside his sire Kyllachy, while the latter has replaced his now deceased sire Piccolo at Throckmorton Court Stud.

The first three generations of Twilight Son’s male line is all about Cheveley Park stallions: Polar Falcon, his son Pivotal and his son Kyllachy.

Apart from homebred Pivotal, the other pair (like Twilight Son) were intraining acquisitions.

Twilight Son’s victory in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes was a second Group 1 victory for the Henry Candy-trained sprinter (he also trained Kyllachy), following success in last season’s Sprint Cup at Haydock Park, while he was also runner-up in the British Champions Sprint.

The breeding record of Twilight Son’s dam, Twilight Mistress, highlights the influence of Lady Whent’s Raffin Stud, which is where Wilson, from Tring in Hertfordshire, boards her two broodmares. It was through Sarah Whent’s racing partnerships that Wilson and her husband Godfrey acquired Twilight Mistress, who scored three times.

Twilight Son is giving Caroline Wilson another memorable year

Dam of six winners, Twilight Mistress has been mated with Whent’s two homebreds, Bold Edge and his son Assertive, on a number of occasions.

Now 18 years of age, she currently has a two-year-old filly by Assertive and a yearling filly by Bahamian Bounty. Barren to Kyllachy, she is now carrying to Muhaarar.

Twilight Son’s distaff relatives have done well at Royal Ascot, with Haymaking (1966 Coronation Stakes), On Tiptoes (1990 Queen Mary Stakes), and top jumping sire Midnight Legend (1994 King George V Handicap) all bred by Limestone Stud.

SPECIAL MERIT – June 2016

Springcombe Park Stud Anyone who starts a stud from scratch and breeds a Group 1 winner from a homebred mare within a decade is not doing too badly.

In 2007, Paul Gardner purchased a 100-acre dairy farm at North Brewham, near Bruton in Somerset, and set about converting it into Springcombe Park Stud. Here he has bred no less a celebrity than Quiet Reflection. Successful in last season’s Cornwallis Stakes, she has progressed to win this year’s Group 3 Prix Sigy, Group 2 Sandy Lane Stakes and Group 1 Commonwealth Cup. However, Gardner, whose involvement in racing started with jumpers and point-to-pointers, is under no illusions that breeding for the Flat is the easy option. Just to emphasise the point, both Quiet Reflection and her dam My Delirium are the first of only two foals accredited to their respective dams.

It was upon David Redvers’ recommendation that Gardner purchased Clare Hills, the dam of My Delirium, as a three-year-old at Tattersalls’ December Sales in 2006 for 65,000gns. Trained, like Quiet Reflection, by Karl Burke, she had won the Listed Hilary Needler Trophy at Beverley for Redvers’ Tweenhills Racing syndicate.

Springcombe Park is not far from Whitsbury Manor Stud and both of My Delirium’s two offspring are by the resident Showcasing. Quiet Reflection and Full Intention were sold as yearlings at Doncaster, the former for £32,000 and the latter for £54,000. Royal Ascot was not just about Quiet Reflection as Full Intention finished fourth in the Windsor Castle Stakes.

My Delirium (by Haafhd), a winner at two, had to be put down following a paddock accident when Full Intention was a yearling.

Fortunately, her half-sister Finesse (by Shamardal), who scored four times, has been retained. Her first two offspring are a yearling colt by Showcasing and a filly foal by his former stud companion Foxwedge.

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How important is conformation?

Two major studies have shown conformational defects don’t necessarily inhibit the chances of thoroughbreds performing successfully on the track

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n the next few weeks, the moving circus of the yearling sales will kick off in Deauville. Many thousands of hours of yearling inspections, by potential purchasers and their veterinary surgeons, will take place.

Detailed notes on the conformation of each yearling, the way it walks, its physique, size and gait abnormalities will be scrupulously logged on catalogue pages. Certain horses will be damned as a result of their conformation and their sale price accordingly affected. But are we sure all of this matters?

The serious consideration given to conformation assessment during the yearling sales results from the belief that conformation is critically important, both in the success and future durability of the yearling as a racehorse. It may therefore come as a surprise to some to learn that there has been very little published evidence to support this assumption. In fact, there have been very few research studies carried out on the effects of conformation on soundness on the thoroughbred.

One would suspect that if conformation was vitally important in future racing success, then examples of poor conformation would have become increasingly rare over the years, as selective breeding would have effectively eliminated them. A brief look at the sales cohort of yearlings any year will tell you this has clearly not happened. The prime factor in deciding whether an animal will add its genes to the gene pool by becoming a stallion or broodmare is race success, and race success only. Everything else is secondary. Standing by the winners’ enclosure of any racecourse quickly confirms the belief that horses of all sizes, shapes and conformational abnormalities win races, and this is why these conformational abnormalities remain widely distributed in the population.

There have been two large studies on the effect of conformation on future racing success and durability. The first of these, published in the Equine Veterinary Journal in 2006, was the result of many years of meticulous observation by the popular north country-based bloodstock vet Peter Calver.

His untimely death prevented him from publishing the data which he had accumulated over many years of examining

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Figure 1 ‘Toeing out’ was one of the few conditions to be linked, in its more extreme manifestations, to reduced racing success, but when the effect of sire was controlled for, the association was significantly weakened

yearlings at the public sales, in his attempt to log the effect of conformational defects on future racing ability, performance and durability. Fortunately, Peter’s colleagues and friends at the veterinary schools at the Universities of Glasgow and Bristol, along

“Some

conformational abnormalities actually seemed to have a protective effect” with veterinary colleagues within what was then the Jockey Club (now the BHA) completed the study, partly as a tribute to his memory, and subjected the findings to rigorous statistical analysis. The study took place over a seven-year period between 1993

and 1999 and included over 4,000 yearling inspections. Nine specific defects were rated, on a scale of 1-3, where 0 was considered correct.

The traits studied included all of the common abnormalities such as ‘back at the knee’, ‘offset’ knees (Figure 3), upright pasterns (Figure 4), turned-out and turnedin feet. As the sire and dam of each yearling was known, heritability of these defects was also investigated.

Race success was judged by the number of starts as two-year-olds and three-year-olds, and the overall equivalent of the BHA rating.

For the first time, the frequency of occurrence of all of these conformational abnormalities was logged. These figures ranged from as low as 1.5% for ‘tied in below the knee’ to as high as 30% for turned-out feet (‘toeing out’ – Figure 1).

The first interesting finding from the study was that only 7% of these horses failed to race. These horses did have a higher proportion of conformational abnormalities than the average of those that raced, but when subjected to rigorous statistical analysis this did not turn out as a significant difference and could have been thrown up by chance.

In the group that raced, there were some conformational abnormalities, however, which did seem to impact on racing performance. For instance, at the highest grade of 3/3, toeing out (Figure 1) was linked to lower race performance. However, when subjected to closer scrutiny, the effects of influence of the sire were impossible to remove from the conformation. In other words, horses inherit from the sire line not only aspects of their conformation but other aspects important to racing ability, such as heart size, respiratory tract health, body physique and athleticism, and these impact more profoundly on subsequent racing performance than any conformational trait.

Because the outcome of this study was simply judged on race success and durability, no details of clinical problems were available, so it was impossible to say whether the reduced racing performance was the result of the conformation, or simply the result of lower ability in the sire line.

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Figures 2a and 2b Carpal valgus (‘out through the knee’), in which the angle of this right fore limb changes at the knee (see lines in 2b) was rather surprisingly found to have a slight protective effect for knee problems in the Colorado study. Horses that showed a degree of valgus had fewer knee problems than correct ones

conformation in the development of subsequent musculoskeletal problems, and therefore racing performance, in the thoroughbred was also published in the Equine Veterinary Journal in 2004 by Wayne McIlwraith’s group from the University of Colorado. This studied the conformation of 115 horses, the property of a single large owner-breeder in France, raised under the same management practices.

The animals were photographed, so that measurements could be taken of specific reference points, to remove the subjective bias that may come into the equation from simple visual assessment. All 115 horses were in full training and most of them had raced. Conformational variables measured were numerous but included, for instance, height of the wither and croup, the length of the top-line and bottom-line of the neck, the THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

Figures 3a and 3b ‘Offset knees’, where the centre of the cannonbone (blue line) is parallel to the centre of the forearm (orange line), but displaced laterally, as in this left front limb. This is notoriously associated with development of medial splints (already present in this case – see arrow, 3a), and knee problems in many vets’ minds, but in the Colorado study was linked only to increased front fetlock effusion

length of the major long bones, the degree of uprightness of the pasterns (Figure 4) and degree of offset (Figure 3) or outward deviation (Figure 2) of the knees. The horses were examined weekly by Philippe Douay, the clinician who looked after these horses while in training, and monthly by Wayne McIlwraith, the lead researcher. End-point clinical conditions studied included tendonitis, suspensory desmitis, effusion in the joints or tendon sheaths, fractures, surgery and osteoarthritis.

As with Peter Calver’s study, there were surprisingly few strong associations between conformational defects and subsequent clinical problems. What was even more surprising was that some conformational abnormalities such as carpal valgus (angular deviation/turned out through the knee – see Figure 2) actually seemed to have a protective

effect on the future incidence of orthopaedic problems, in that the frequency of carpal chips, swelling in the knee and lameness associated with the knee decreased with an increase in the degree of angulation through the knee. Some of the negative impacts were that offset knees (Figure 3) showed a higher tendency to develop front fetlock problems, long pasterns (Figure 6) were associated with an increase in front limb fractures and steep upright hind feet were associated with hind fetlock problems. Some factors which are meticulously judged as important at the yearling sales appeared to have no impact at all on clinical problems and these included height at the wither, height at the croup, length of the topline of the neck, length of the long bones such as the humerus, radius, cannon, femur and tibia, and the angles of the scapula (shoulder blade) and pasterns.

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Figure 4 Short, upright, pasterns.

These are often over-represented in horses showing fetlock pain, but conversely many horses with this conformation still race with great success, diluting any effect on performance. They may nonetheless need careful management and repeated treatment to get there, something not revealed in simple performance ratings

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As racehorse clinicians these studies are frustrating, as we often encounter clinical problems which are associated with a specific conformational abnormality over and over again. For instance, short upright pasterns (Figure 4) are incredibly common when dealing with horses suffering from subchondral bone pain in the front or hind fetlock joints. Sickle hocks (Figure 5) are almost always present when one encounters horses affected with ‘curb’ (usually tearing of the connective tissue around the tendons at the back of the hock), or fracture of the upper cannon in front of the hock. Marked offset knees (Figure 3) are often associated with medial ‘splints’, and problems in the third carpal bone of the knee.

What stops these conformational traits being inextricably linked to specific disease problems in research studies, however, is the huge variability of tolerance within the thoroughbred. So although one may see four or five cases in succession where subchondral bone pain is associated with short upright pasterns, there would no doubt be another 20 or 30 horses in the yard showing the same conformation that have not developed the problem. This confounds large epidemiological studies on the effect of conformation, in that while some horses undoubtedly develop their problems as a result of a conformational defect, other horses, for reasons unclear, seem to cope with this defect without developing

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Figures 5a and 5b ‘Sickle hock’ conformation, where there is excessive hock angulation, is often associated with development of ‘curbs’, and incomplete stress fracture of the top of the cannon (Fig 5b arrow – same horse). This horse did not run at two because of the hock injury, but did eventually race

problems. This must in some way be related to other aspects of bone strength and its ability to withstand abnormal loading.

As veterinary clinicians, the fact that a specific conformation is over-represented in one conformation group, such as ‘curb’ with ‘sickle-hocks’, will inform one’s advice on

Figure 6 A very weak hind leg, sickle hocked and with long sloping pasterns. This conformation is often linked to a range of problems, including ‘curbs’, suspensory desmitis, and hock fracture, and just the type of horse to confound the experts. This horse raced at two, three and four without showing any hind limb lameness, illustrating the difficulty of firmly associating conformation and racing soundness

that conformation at purchase. But that doesn’t mean that all horses with ‘sicklehocks’ will develop ‘curbs’. Trainers also tend to remember a certain horse which was untrainable because of conformation issues, and that in turn may make them run a mile from a yearling at the sales with the same conformation. But that doesn’t mean that individual horse will be untrainable, or even lack ability, as several bargain purchases have proved over the years.

Over the forthcoming months, the great and the good of the thoroughbred veterinary profession will be out in force at the sales ring, imparting their wisdom following conformational assessment of the yearlings presented to them irrespective of the facts, which are that conformation has very limited impact in many cases on the subsequent ability, durability and performance of the horse.

At the end of the day, soundness and race success are not always inextricably linked, some racehorses manage to perform at a very high level in the face of serious soundness issues, and many of these studies, as we have seen, are looking solely at race success as an outcome, not soundness. It is race success only which informs the decision whether to breed or not to breed with each individual animal. So our judgement and wisdom on selection by conformation will forever be doomed to throw up outliers who defy our predictions and perform well, with awful conformation (see Figure 6).

And be assured, trainers and bloodstock agents will endlessly remind their vets of these individuals, the ones that got away, for many years to come!

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Sea The Stars’ impact is great news Former superstar racehorse’s results especially dynamic when mated with younger mares

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hat a year it has been for Gilltown Stud’s Sea The Stars. The son of Cape Cross is fast emerging as perhaps the world’s second-best source of Classic stamina. Only his illustrious half-brother Galileo can top his 12.6% stakes winners to runners among sires whose stock aged three and older have an average winning distance of ten furlongs or more.

Top-class stallions that can sire top middledistance horses have always been in short supply, with a few outstanding sires providing most of our Derby winners over the past 20 years or so. The likes of Sadler’s Wells (average winning distance of his three-year-old-plus stock is 11.1 furlongs), Galileo (11 furlongs) and Montjeu (11.2 furlongs) have consistently supplied a disproportionate number of our top young stayers in recent times.

One of the main reasons why stallion studs shy away from standing staying sires is that commercial breeders tend to shun them, particularly if they are not top-notch prospects.

Breeders instead prefer good-looking, fast commercial horses that will provide quick returns in the ring and on the racecourse. It is worth noting that of the 213 British and Irish sires with 100 or more runners in 2016, only 31 have mature progeny with an average winning distance of ten furlongs or more. Even more alarming is the fact that only six are currently active in Britain and Ireland. Only three – Galileo, Sea The Stars and Teofilo – are currently attaining strike-rates of 10% stakes winners to runners.

So the emergence of a world-class stallion at this end of the distance spectrum is to be welcomed. After all, Galileo is not getting any younger. So where does Sea The Stars sit among all sires in Britain and Ireland? Well, only Galileo and Dubawi are

SEA THE STARS’ GROUP WINNERS Best Run

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Born

Dam

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G1w G1w G1w G1w G1w G2wG1p G2wG1p G2w G2w G2w G2w G3wG2p G3wG2p G3w G3w G3w G3w G3w

HARZAND SEA THE MOON TAGHROODA VAZIRA ZELZAL CLOTH OF STARS STORM THE STARS ACROSS THE STARS ENDLESS TIME MEKHTAAL MUTAKAYYEF MY TITANIA ZARSHANA AFTERNOON SUNLIGHT ASTRONEREUS CASUAL SMILE QUASILLO STAR STORM

2013 2011 2011 2011 2013 2013 2012 2013 2012 2013 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2012 2012

Hazariya Sanwa Ezima Vadaza Olga Prekrasa Strawberry Fledge Love Me Only Victoria Cross Mamonta Aiglonne Infallible Fairy Of The Night Zarkasha Lady Luck Marie Rheinberg Casual Look Quetena Sayyedati Storm

Xaar Monsun Sadler’s Wells Zafonic Kingmambo Kingmambo Sadler’s Wells Mark Of Esteem Fantastic Light Silver Hawk Pivotal Danehill Kahyasi Kris Surako Red Ransom Acatenango Storm Cat

posting better ratios at the moment, while Dansili, Oasis Dream, Pivotal, Shamardal, Lope de Vega and the aforementioned Teofilo remain the only other sires with ratios in excess of 10%.

What has been particularly noticeable about Sea The Stars’ career so far is that he’s covered plenty of older proven mares in his first few years. And why not? After all, conventional wisdom insists that it is far better to deal with only one unknown at a time. But the inescapable truth is that stallions more often than not fare better with younger mares and the case of Sea The Stars is a perfectly clear example of this phenomenon.

When the dams of the Sea The Stars runners were aged 12 or under, 13% of them went on to earn Timeform ratings of 115 or higher.

Conversely, when they were aged 13 or over, their stock featured only 5% capable of a 115 rating. His younger mares accounted for Harzand (128p), Sea The Moon (127), Taghrooda (127), Storm The Stars (123),

Dual Derby winner Harzand is one of Sea The Stars’ triumphs

Mutakayyef (123), Zelzal (122+) and Migwar (120). He hasn’t sired a single winner rated 120 or higher from his older mares, even though about a third of his runners were produced from these older matrons. And it’s important to underline that these older ladies are not just poor mares. Invariably, they’d already produced a good one by another sire earlier in their career.

The proof lies in the fact that when the dams of Sea The Stars’ runners visited other sires, their ratio of stakes winners is a whopping 20.2%, compared to his 12.6%. These figures will begin to balance out once his younger mares age and have runners by other stallions.

Another interesting comparison with Sea The Stars’ half-brother Galileo is on the question of stamina. The fact that Sea The Stars was more adept at shorter distances, winning the 2,000 Guineas, as well as staying 12 furlongs, seems to be playing a part in his stamina index. His winning stock average 10.4 furlongs at three and above, from mares that average 9.7 furlongs with other sires. That’s a 0.7 furlong difference, which suggests he is a staying influence. His half-brother, meanwhile, has been exposed to marginally faster mares (9.2 furlongs) but adds a full 1.7 furlongs to his figure, suggesting that he is indeed a much stronger source of stamina.

Of course, it has to be said that in our quest for top-class middle distance racehorses, we can use other less stamina-laden sires. It’s just great to see a top-class stamina influence emerge when speed and early maturity have become so dominant.

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European Pattern 117 KING’S STAND STAKES G1 ASCOT. Jun 14. 3yo+. 5f.

1. PROFITABLE (IRE) 4 9-4 £226,840 b c by Invincible Spirit - Dani Ridge (Indian Ridge) O-Mr A. D. Spence B-C. Harrington TR-Clive Cox 2. Cotai Glory (GB) 4 9-4 £86,000 ch c by Exceed And Excel - Continua (Elusive Quality) O-Kangyu Int. Racing (HK) Ltd & Mr F Ma B-Glebe Stud, J. F. Dean & Lady Trenchard TR-Charles Hills 3. Goken (FR) 4 9-4 £43,040 b c by Kendargent - Gooseley Chope (Indian Rocket) O-Mr Guy Pariente B-E.A.R.L. Guy Pariente Holding TR-Kevin Ryan Margins Neck, 1. Time 1:02.60. Going Soft.

Age 2-4

Starts 16

Wins 5

Places 6

Earned £409,021

Sire: INVINCIBLE SPIRIT. Sire of 96 Stakes winners.

In 2016 - PROFITABLE Indian Ridge G1, GRENDISAR Mark of Esteem G3, RIVELLINO Pivotal LR, SIGNS OF BLESSING Seeking The Gold LR, SPIRIT QUARTZ Rainbow Quest LR, SPIRIT RAISER Classic Cliche LR. 1st Dam: DANI RIDGE by Indian Ridge. 3 wins at 4 and 5. Own sister to BLOMBERG. Dam of 7 winners: 2005: RIDGE WOOD DANI (g Invincible Spirit) 8 wins.

2006: Danidh Dubai (f Noverre) Winner at 2, 3rd Albany S G3. Dam of GAMGOOM (c Exceed And Excel: 11 wins at 4 in Belgium, Germany, Italy, Premio Cancelli LR), Nabhan (g Youmzain: 2 wins, 3rd G.P.von Engel & Volkers Junioren-Preis LR) 2007: Full Mandate (f Acclamation) Winner at 2, 2nd Abu Dhabi Princess Margaret S G3.

Broodmare.

2008: INVINCIBLE RIDGE (g Invincible Spirit) 5 wins at 2, 6 and 7.

2010: BADR AL BADOOR (f Acclamation) 4 wins at 2 to 4.

2011: RIDGE RANGER (f Bushranger) 5 wins at 3 to 5, EBF Weatherbys Kilvington S LR, 2nd Dubai International Airport World Trophy G3.

2012: PROFITABLE (c Invincible Spirit) Sold 95,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 5 wins at 2 to 4, King’s Stand S G1, Temple S G2, Pearl Bloodstock Palace House S G3, British Stallion Studs EBF Westow S LR, 2nd Winner Bet & Watch Scurry S LR. 2013: Acclaim The Nation (g Acclamation) 2014: (f Mastercraftsman) 2015: (c Acclamation) 2nd Dam: DANIELLA DRIVE by Shelter Half. 12 wins at 2 to 5 in USA. Dam of BLOMBERG (c Indian Ridge: Vodafone Diomed S G3) Broodmare Sire: INDIAN RIDGE. Sire of the dams of 94 Stakes winners. In 2016 - PROFITABLE Invincible Spirit G1, RIDGE RANGER Bushranger G3, BOLD COMMAND Arazan LR, CREGGS PIPES Rip Van Winkle LR, DAYIM BENIM Lion Heart LR, LOVE SPIRIT Elusive City LR, ROCK OF ROMANCE Rock of Gibraltar LR, STAR COUNCILLOR Arazan LR. The Invincible Spirit/Indian Ridge cross has produced: PROFITABLE G1, SWISS SPIRIT G2, PRETEND G3, RUSSIAN SOUL G3, TICKLED PINK G3, REYKON LR, VARESE LR, Sgarzulina LR, Spirit of Pearl LR.

PROFITABLE b c 2012 Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier INVINCIBLE SPIRIT b 97 Kris Rafha Eljazzi Ahonoora Indian Ridge Hillbrow DANI RIDGE b 98 Shelter Half Daniella Drive De Laroche

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Sir Ivor Courtly Dee Sharpen Up Doubly Sure Artaius Border Bounty Lorenzaccio Helen Nichols Swing Easy Golden City Tentam Gay Matelda Noble Decree Buvette

Sometimes a successful nick owes as

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much to geography as to a perfect blend of bloodlines. Indian Ridge, a winner of a Jersey, Duke of York and King’s Stand Stakes, arrived at the Irish National Stud in 1993 and was joined there at the end of 2002 by Green Desert’s Sprint Cup winner Invincible Spirit.

Mating daughters of Indian Ridge to Invincible Spirit naturally appealed to breeders eager to produce talented two-year-olds and sprinters. So far there are 38 foals of racing age from this cross, of which 31 have started, 22 have won and seven have won at black-type level.

Among them are the Groupwinning sprinters Swiss Spirit, Tickled Pink and Russian Soul, but it is Profitable who is proving the fastest of them all.

Prior to 2016 Profitable had won nothing more important than a Listed race. However, he has gone from strength to strength as a mature four-year-old, notably winning the King’s Stand Stakes 27 years after Indian Ridge.

Profitable is the latest in a lengthy line of Gr1 winners out of Indian Ridge mares. Three of the others were also sired by sons of Green Desert, with Oasis Dream being responsible for Charming Thought (Middle Park Stakes) and Jwala (Nunthorpe Stakes), while Desert Style sired the American ten-furlong winner Desert Blanc.

Profitable’s dam Dani Ridge was also something of a late developer.

Having raced only once before the age of four, she packed 22 starts into the next three seasons, winning three times over six furlongs. A sister to the Gr3 Diomed Stakes winner Blomberg, Dani Ridge has produced three foals that have reached the first three at Group level at Ascot, the others being the juvenile fillies Danidh Dubai and Full Mandate. She is also the dam of the speedy Ridge Ranger, a Listed winner at the age of five in 2016.

118 QUEEN ANNE STAKES G1 ASCOT. Jun 14. 4yo+. 8f.

1. TEPIN (USA) 5 8-11 £340,260 b m by Bernstein - Life Happened (Stravinsky) O-Mr Robert E. Masterson B-Machmer Hall TR-Mark Casse 2. Belardo (IRE) 4 9-0 £129,000 b c by Lope de Vega - Danaskaya (Danehill) O-Godolphin & Prince A A Faisal B-Ballylinch Stud TR-Roger Varian 3. Lightning Spear (GB) 5 9-0 £64,560 ch h by Pivotal - Atlantic Destiny (Royal Academy) O-Qatar Racing Limited B-Newsells Park Stud Limited TR-David Simcock Margins 0.5, 1.25. Time 1:43.90. Going Soft.

Age 2-5

Starts 20

Wins 12

Places Earned 4 £2,326,121

Sire: BERNSTEIN. Sire of 75 Stakes winners.

1st Dam: Life Happened by Stravinsky. unraced. Dam of 4 winners: 2006: BUDDHA BOP (c Buddha) 4 wins in USA. 2008: Prime Cut (c Bernstein) 3 wins at 2, 3 and 5 in USA, 2nd Coolmore Lexington S G3, 3rd Peter Pan S G2.

2010: VYJACK (g Into Mischief) 7 wins in USA, Jerome S G2, Kelso H G2, 3rd Forego S G1, Wood Memorial S G1.

2011: TEPIN (f Bernstein) 12 wins at 2, 4 and 5 at

2012: 2013: 2014:

home, USA, Queen Anne S G1, Breeders’ Cup Mile G1, Coolmore Jenny Wiley S G1, Longines Just A Game S G1, First Lady S G1, Hillsborough S G2, Churchill Distaff Turf Mile S G2 (twice), Lambholm South Endeavour S G3, Delta Downs Princess S G3, 2nd Diana S G1, Ketel One Ballston Spa S G2, San Clemente H G2, 3rd Rags to Riches S. Azara (f More Than Ready) unraced.

Taniko (c Gio Ponti) unraced to date. (c Harlan’s Holiday)

2nd Dam: Round It Off by Apalachee. 3 wins at 3 in USA, 3rd Gala Lil S. Dam of DISCO RICO (c Citidancer: Maryland Breeders’ Cup H G3, Jersey Shore Breeders’ Cup H G3, 3rd General George H G2). Grandam of Sca Doodle.

Broodmare Sire: STRAVINSKY. Sire of the dams of 38 Stakes winners. In 2016 - SACRED ELIXIR Pour Moi G1, TAVAGO Tavistock G1, TEPIN Bernstein G1, VERY NICE MOON Nedawi G1, LOST BUS Bring The Heat G2.

The Bernstein/Stravinsky cross has produced: TEPIN G1, Prime Cut G2.

TEPIN b m 2011 Storm Bird Storm Cat Terlingua BERNSTEIN b 97 Affirmed La Affirmed La Mesa Nureyev Stravinsky Fire The Groom LIFE HAPPENED ch 01 Apalachee Round It Off Capp It Off

Northern Dancer South Ocean Secretariat Crimson Saint Exclusive Native Won’t Tell You Round Table Finance Northern Dancer Special Blushing Groom Prospector’s Fire Round Table Moccasin Double Zeus Turn Capp

We’ve seen brilliant European miling mares cross the Atlantic to win the Breeders’ Cup Mile, including Goldikova, winner of the 2010 Queen Anne Stakes. Now the 2015 Breeders’ Cup Mile winner Tepin has made the reverse journey to take the latest Queen Anne Stakes. The five-year-old daughter of Bernstein has now won seven consecutive races and would be unbeaten in her last 12 starts but for a head defeat in the Gr2 Ballston Spa Stakes and a nose defeat in the Gr1 Diana Stakes in the summer of 2015.

Bernstein had previously made his mark in Europe with his Japanesefoaled son Karakontie, a winner of the Poule d’Essai des Poulains who went on to take the 2014 Breeders’ Cup Mile. Bernstein was still only 14 when he had to be euthanized in October 2011, following complications of colic.

This son of Storm Cat had become the highest-priced weanling of 1997 when Demi O’Byrne bid $925,000 for him at Keeneland. Consequently Bernstein prompted a lot of hype when he impressively won his first two starts for Aidan O’Brien, but the bubble soon burst. He was smart, though, with a Timeform rating of 115 at three.

In addition to his Breeders’ Cup Mile winners, Bernstein enjoyed Gr1 success with Dream Empress and Miss World, and also sired numerous top performers in Argentina.

By the time of Tepin’s purchase for $140,000 as a yearling in 2012, her dam Life Happened had been sold

three times, for $50,000 in 2006, $30,000 in 2007 and then for only $4,500, to Machmer Hall Thoroughbreds, in 2008. Life Happened had never raced but her pedigree was interesting.

With a son of Nureyev (Stravinsky) as her sire and Apalachee as her broodmare sire, she has the highlyaccomplished sisters Thong and Moccasin in her fourth and third generations.

She was carrying a colt by Bernstein at the time of her 2007 sale and this colt, Prime Cut, was placed in a couple of Graded stakes.

Life Happened has gone on to even better things, as her 2010 son by Into Mischief was Vyjack, a dual Gr2 winner whose earnings exceed $1.15 million, and Tepin came next.

Life Happened is herself a half-sister to Disco Rico, a smart American sprinter, and their dam Capp It Off was a winner of half of her 18 starts.

119 ST JAMES’S PALACE STAKES G1 ASCOT. Jun 14. 3yoc. 8f.

1. GALILEO GOLD (GB) 9-0 £226,840 ch c by Paco Boy - Galicuix (Galileo) O-Al Shaqab Racing B-Mr B. O’Rourke TR-Hugo Palmer 2. The Gurkha (IRE) 9-0 £86,000 b c by Galileo - Chintz (Danehill Dancer) O-Mr D. Smith, Mrs J. Magnier, Mr M. Tabor B-Chintz Syndicate TR-Aidan O’Brien 3. Awtaad (IRE) 9-0 £43,040 br c by Cape Cross - Asheerah (Shamardal) O-Mr Hamdan Al Maktoum B-Shadwell Estate Co Ltd TR-K. Prendergast Margins 1.25, 0.5. Time 1:44.00. Going Soft.

Age 2-3

Starts 8

Wins 5

Places 3

Earned £707,034

Sire: PACO BOY. Sire of 7 Stakes winners.

1st Dam: Galicuix by Galileo. ran twice at 3. Dam of 1 winner: 2013: GALILEO GOLD (c Paco Boy) Sold 26,190gns yearling at TISEP. 5 wins at 2 and 3, St James’s Palace S G1, Qipco 2000 Guineas G1, Qatar Vintage S G2, 2nd Tattersalls Irish 2000 Guineas G1, 3rd Qatar Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere Grand Crit G1.

2014: Choumicha (f Paco Boy) unraced to date.

2015: (c Champs Elysees) 2nd Dam: Clizia by Machiavellian. unraced. Dam of GOLDREAM (g Oasis Dream: King’s Stand S G1, Qatar Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp G1) Broodmare Sire: GALILEO. Sire of the dams of 53 Stakes winners. In 2016 - GALILEO GOLD Paco Boy G1, LA CRESSONNIERE Le Havre G1, DARTMOUTH Dubawi G2, ROLY POLY War Front G2, VANQUISH RUN Deep Impact G2.

GALILEO GOLD ch c 2013 Danzig Foreign Courier High Top Organza Canton Silk Sandhurst Prince Pampapaul Blue Shark Mummy’s Pet Rossaldene Palestra Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta Mr Prospector Machiavellian Coup de Folie Highest Honor Cuixmala Floripedes Green Desert

Desert Style PACO BOY b 05 Tappen Zee

Galileo GALICUIX ch 08 Clizia

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120 PRINCE OF WALES’S STAKES G1 ASCOT. Jun 15. 4yo+. 10f.

1. MY DREAM BOAT (IRE) 4 9-0 £425,325 b c by Lord Shanakill - Betty Burke (Choisir) O-Paul & Clare Rooney B-P. Monahan TR-Clive Cox 2. Found (IRE) 4 8-11 £161,250 b f by Galileo - Red Evie (Intikhab) O-Mr M. Tabor, D. Smith & Mrs John Magnier B-Roncon, Wynatt & Chelston TR-Aidan O’Brien 3. Western Hymn (GB) 5 9-0 £80,700 b g by High Chaparral - Blue Rhapsody (Cape Cross) O-RJH Geffen and Rachel Hood B-Newsells Park Stud Limited TR-John Gosden Margins Neck, 3.5. Time 2:11.30. Going Soft.

Age 2-4

Starts 15

Wins 6

Places 5

Earned £576,898

Sire: LORD SHANAKILL. Sire of 1 Stakes winner.

1st Dam: BETTY BURKE by Choisir. Winner at 3. Dam of 2 winners: 2011: COMPOUND (c Art Connoisseur) 5 wins at 2, 4 and 5 in Italy.

2012: MY DREAM BOAT (c Lord Shanakill) Sold 2,709gns yearling at GOFEB, 12,388gns yearling at GOOY2. 6 wins at 3 and 4 at home, France, Prince of Wales’s S G1, bet365 Gordon Richards S G3, Prix Perth G3, Prix du Ranelagh LR. 2015: (c Elnadim) Broodmare Sire: CHOISIR. Sire of the dams of 6 Stakes winners. In 2016 - MY DREAM BOAT Lord Shanakill G1, PERSUASIVE Dark Angel LR.

MY DREAM BOAT b c 2012 Gone West Speightstown Silken Cat LORD SHANAKILL b/br 06 Theatrical Green Room Chain Fern Danehill Dancer Choisir Great Selection BETTY BURKE b 05 Turtle Island Island Lover Loveliest

Mr Prospector Secrettame Storm Cat Silken Doll Nureyev Tree of Knowledge Blushing Groom Chain Store Danehill Mira Adonde Lunchtime Pensive Mood Fairy King Sisania Tibaldo Lovely Ann

At 16-1 My Dream Boat was the outsider of a six-strong field for the Prince of Wales’s Stakes, but this very progressive four-year-old snatched victory from Found in the last strides.

My Dream Boat’s sire Lord Shanakill is a member of the remarkable first crop sired by the Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner Speightstown. Lord Shanakill’s contribution was to win the Gr2 Mill Reef Stakes at two, the Gr1 Prix Jean Prat over a mile at three and the Gr2 Lennox Stakes over seven furlongs at four, and he also went very close to winning the Dewhurst. These efforts earned Lord Shanakill a place at the Irish National Stud, but he often struggled for support and a book of fewer than 20 mares in 2015 resulted in his being transferred to the USA, where he is standing at $5,000 in Pennsylvania.

My Dream Boat is himself a member of Lord Shanakill’s first crop, which also included a couple of colts who were Graded-placed on turf in the US in 2015. He clearly stays a mile and a quarter very well, which is slightly surprising in view of his immediate pedigree. His dam Betty Burke is a daughter of the dual Royal Ascot sprint winner Choisir and she

tackled a distance longer than seven furlongs only once in a 20-race career. Her only win came over six furlongs. It is worth mentioning that several of Speightstown’s best sons – Golden Ticket, Haynesfield, Seek Again and Force The Pass – were Gr1 winners over a mile and a quarter.

My Dream Boat’s third dam, the American mare Loveliest, is best known as the dam of Optimistic Lass, who stayed well enough to win the Musidora and Nassau Stakes and to start favourite for the 1984 Oaks, despite being a daughter of Mr Prospector (grandsire of Lord Shanakill). To confuse matters further, Optimistic Lass went on to produce that good filly Golden Opinion when mated to the mile-and-a-half Gr1 winner Slew o’Gold.

A winner of the Gr1 Coronation Stakes, Golden Opinion later divided Cadeaux Genereux and Danehill in the July Cup over six furlongs.

Optimistic Lass also ranks as the third dam of several other Group performers, including Samitar (Gr1 Irish 1,000 Guineas), Shaweel (Gr2 Gimcrack Stakes), Nijoom Dubai (Gr3 Albany Stakes) and Alice Springs (third in the 2016 1,000 Guineas).

121 THE QUEEN’S 90TH BIRTHDAY ASCOT GOLD CUP G1 1. ORDER OF ST GEORGE (IRE) 4 9-0 £226,840 b c by Galileo - Another Storm (Gone West) O-L.Williams,MrsJ.Magnier,M.Tabor,D.Smith B-Paget Bloodstock TR-Aidan O’Brien 2. Mizzou (IRE) 5 9-2 £86,000 b h by Galileo - Moments of Joy (Darshaan) O-Mr Jon S. Kelly B-Matrix Bloodstock TR-Luca Cumani 3. Sheikhzayedroad (GB) 7 9-2 £43,040 b g by Dubawi - Royal Secrets (Highest Honor) O-Mr Mohammed Jaber B-Rabbah Bloodstock Limited TR-David Simcock Margins 3, 2.25. Time 4:26.20. Going Soft.

Starts 11

Wins 6

Places 4

Earned £475,311

Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 237 Stakes winners. In 2016 ALICE SPRINGS Danehill Dancer G1, DEAUVILLE Danehill G1, MINDING Danehill Dancer G1, ORDER OF ST GEORGE Gone West G1, THE GURKHA Danehill Dancer G1, THE UNITED STATES Pivotal G1, SWORD FIGHTER Grand Lodge G2, BEACON ROCK Danehill Dancer G3, BONDI BEACH Danehill G3, FAUFILER Celtic Swing G3, FOUND Intikhab G3, HOUSESOFPARLIAMENT Dixieland Band G3, MIDTERM Oasis Dream G3, MIZZOU Darshaan G3, PHOTO CALL Rock of Gibraltar G3, PRETTY PERFECT Danehill G3, SIR ISAAC NEWTON Danehill G3, US ARMY RANGER Dalakhani G3.

1st Dam: ANOTHER STORM by Gone West. Winner at 2 in USA. Dam of 6 winners: 2004: ASPERITY (c War Chant) 7 wins at home, France, USA, Prix Paul de Moussac G3.

2005: Stormy View (f Cozzene). Broodmare.

2006: SEHOY (c Menifee) 9 wins at 3 to 5 at home, Sweden, Sk. Faltrittklubbens Jubileumslopning LR. 2007: KITTY LOVE (f Kitten’s Joy) 2 wins at 3 in USA. Broodmare.

2009: ANGEL TERRACE (f Ghostzapper) 4 wins at 3 and 5 in USA, Pin Oak Valley View S G3.

Broodmare.

2010: Our Smile (f Medaglia d’Oro) unraced.

2012: ORDER OF ST GEORGE (c Galileo) Sold 321,355gns yearling at KESEP. Champion 3yr old stayer in Europe in 2015, Jt Champion 3yr old colt in Ireland in 2015. 6 wins at 2 to 4, The Queen’s 90th Birthday Ascot Gold Cup G1, Palmerstown House Estate Irish St Leger G1, Ballycullen Palmerstown St Leger Trial G3, S & R McGrath Memorial Saval Beg

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2015:

2nd Dam: STORM SONG by Summer Squall.

Champion 2yr old filly in U.S.A. in 1996. 4 wins at 2 in USA Frizette S G1, Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies G1, 2nd Matron S G1, 3rd Ashland S G1, Kentucky Oaks G1. Dam of Balladry (c Unbridled’s Song: 2nd San Fernando S G2), Trojan Nation (c Street Cry: 2nd Wood Memorial S G1), Piano Concerto (g Red Ransom: 3rd Toteexacta Ch’ship Open NH Flat Race LR). Grandam of MIDSUMMER FAIR, BETTER LIFE. Broodmare Sire: GONE WEST. Sire of the dams of 117 Stakes winners. In 2016 - GIANT TREASURE Mizzen Mast G1, ORDER OF ST GEORGE Galileo G1, NORIMBERGA Exchange Rate G2, SIGNOFF Authorized G3, APOLLO KENTUCKY Langfuhr LR, PIONEERING AGAIN Pioneering LR. The Galileo/Gone West cross has produced: ORDER OF ST GEORGE G1, Amazing Beauty G3.

when she was offered in foal to Ghostzapper at Keeneland’s 2010 November Sale. That dramatic fall in her value occurred even though she had been represented by the Gr3 mile winner Asperity in 2007. She now has three Group/Graded winners to her credit, as her 2009 Ghostzapper filly Angel Terrace was a Gr3 winner over 8.5 furlongs on dirt in the USA in 2012.

Another Storm’s seven-figure price as a yearling reflected the fact that she is out of Storm Song, America’s champion juvenile filly of 1996, when she won the Gr1 Frizette Stakes and the Gr1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies. This daughter of Summer Squall is by no means the family’s only talented two-year-old, another being her half-sister Diamond Omi (Gr2 Oak Leaf Stakes).

122 COMMONWEALTH CUP G1

ORDER OF ST GEORGE b c 2012 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge GALILEO b 98 Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta Mr Prospector Gone West Secrettame ANOTHER STORM b 99 Summer Squall Storm Song

ASCOT. Jun 16. 4yo+. 20f.

Age 2-4

2013: 2014:

S LR, 2nd At The Races Curragh Cup G3, thetote.com Eyrefield S LR. KELLSTORM (c Galileo) Winner at 3.

Arwa (f Holy Roman Emperor) unraced to date. (c Declaration of War)

Hum Along

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Lombard Anatevka Raise A Native Gold Digger Secretariat Tamerett Storm Bird Weekend Surprise Fappiano Minstress

It is usually a lottery nowadays whether any horse is going to stay two and a half miles well enough to win the Gold Cup. It can help, though, if you have Sadler’s Wells on your side. This great stallion enjoyed six victories as a sire in the premier stayers’ race, thanks to the dual winner Kayf Tara and the four-time hero Yeats.

Since then we have seen Montjeu, one of Sadler’s Wells’s best stallion sons, supply the winners of 2011 and 2014, in the shapes of Fame And Glory and Leading Light. And now we have seen Galileo, arguably Sadler’s Wells’s best stallion son, take the Gold Cup for the first time, when the 2015 Irish St Leger winner Order Of St George scored decisively from Mizzou, another son of Galileo.

As Order Of St George was untried beyond a mile and three-quarters, there had to be some doubt about his ability to stay the extra six furlongs – especially when his dam, the twoyear-old winner Another Storm, is a daughter of the miler Gone West.

However, Montjeu owed one of his Gold Cup winners – Leading Light – to another daughter of Gone West, and Order Of St George proved that he also stays extremely well.

Order of St George was offered as a yearling at Keeneland, where he was knocked down for $550,000, and his year-younger brother, the 12furlong winner Kellstorm, sold even better in 2014, making 875,000gns.

Another Storm had herself sold for $1,000,000 as a yearling in 2000, but her price had fallen to only $50,000

ASCOT. Jun 17. 3yo. 6f.

1. QUIET REFLECTION (GB) 9-0 £243,853 b f by Showcasing - My Delirium (Haafhd) O-Ontoawinner, Strecker & Burke B-Springcombe Park Stud TR-K. R. Burke 2. Kachy (GB) 9-3 £92,450 b c by Kyllachy - Dubai Bounty (Dubai Destination) O-Jones Lowe Mound Trowbridge B-Denniff Farms Ltd TR-Tom Dascombe 3. Washington DC (IRE) 9-3 £46,268 b c by Zoffany - How’s She Cuttin’ (Shinko Forest) O-Mrs John Magnier,Mr M.Tabor & Mr D.Smith B-P. Hyland & C. & J. Mchale TR-Aidan O’Brien Margins 1, 0.5. Time 1:14.50. Going Good to Soft.

Age 2-3

Starts 8

Wins 6

Places 1

Earned £464,508

Sire: SHOWCASING. Sire of 13 Stakes winners. In 2016 - QUIET REFLECTION Haafhd G1, PRIZE EXHIBIT Inchinor G2, CAORUNN Bertolini G3, CONSELICE Diktat G3, CYLINDER BEACH Rainbow Quest G3, TASLEET Cadeaux Genereux G3, MAXIMUM AURELIUS Deputy Minister LR, RAGHU Zabeel LR. 1st Dam: MY DELIRIUM by Haafhd. Winner at 2. Dam of 1 winner: 2013: QUIET REFLECTION (f Showcasing) Sold 30,476gns yearling at DNSIL. 6 wins at 2 and 3 at home, France, Commonwealth Cup G1, 188Bet Sandy Lane S G2, Dubai Cornwallis S G3, Prix Sigy G3, Shadwell EBF Stallions H.Rosebery S LR. 2014: Full Intention (c Showcasing) 2nd Dam: CLARE HILLS by Orpen. 2 wins at 2 Hilary Needler Trophy LR. Broodmare Sire: HAAFHD. Sire of the dams of 3 Stakes winners. In 2016 - QUIET REFLECTION Showcasing G1, VENTURA STORM Zoffany LR.

QUIET REFLECTION b f 2013 Green Desert Oasis Dream Hope SHOWCASING b 07 Zafonic Arabesque Prophecy Alhaarth Haafhd Al Bahathri MY DELIRIUM b 08 Orpen Clare Hills Morale

Danzig Foreign Courier Dancing Brave Bahamian Gone West Zaizafon Warning Andaleeb Unfuwain Irish Valley Blushing Groom Chain Store Lure Bonita Francita Bluebird Shebasis

When My Delirium entered Tattersalls’ sales ring as lot 2279 at the 2012 December Sales, the bidding ground to a halt at 9,500gns, short of the

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European Pattern four-year-old’s reserve. The lack of interest was understandable. My Delirium had proved disappointing in handicaps at three, having been rated 83 after a win in a six-furlong maiden at two. Nor was she fashionably bred.

Although her sire Haafhd had won the 2,000 Guineas and Champion Stakes during a distinguished career, he had made a very disappointing start to his stallion career, to the extent that his fee had fallen from £20,000 in 2005 to £2,500 in 2012.

The next dam, Clare Hills, had inherited speed and precocity from her sire, the Prix Morny winner Orpen.

Trained by Karl Burke, Clare Hills won her first two starts over five furlongs, including a Listed race, but had little to show for some creditable efforts at three, when she was sold for 65,000gns. The only other stakes winner under any of the first three dams was a Listed winner in Sweden, a brother to My Delirium’s second dam Morale.

When My Delirium came under the hammer, she was carrying her first foal, by Showcasing. This Whitsbury Manor Stud stallion had stood the 2012 season – his second – at a fee of only £4,500. The fact that Showcasing was priced at £25,000 in 2016 tells its own story. His first crop produced the highly encouraging total of three Group/Graded winners, including the Gr2 scorers Prize Exhibit and Toocoolforschool, and his second crop has matched that achievement. In fact it has bettered it, as My Delirium’s Showcasing foal was Quiet Reflection.

In winning the Gr1 Commonwealth Stakes for Karl Burke, this very progressive filly improved her record to six wins from seven starts. Quiet Reflection had earlier been impressive in taking the Gr2 Sandy Lane Stakes by more than three lengths.

123 CORONATION STAKES G1 ASCOT. Jun 17. 3yof. 8f.

1. QEMAH (IRE) 9-0 £226,840 b f by Danehill Dancer - Kartica (Rainbow Quest) O-Al Shaqab Racing B-Ecurie Cadran, SCEA Bissons & SAS IEI TR-Jean Claude Rouget 2. Nemoralia (USA) 9-0 £86,000 b/br f by More Than Ready - Alina (Came Home) O-Mr T Allan, Mr J Lovat & Mr C Pigram B-Ms A. Davies TR-Jeremy Noseda 3. Alice Springs (IRE) 9-0 £43,040 ch f by Galileo - Aleagueoftheirown (Danehill Dancer) O-Mrs John Magnier,Mr M.Tabor & Mr D.Smith B-Lynch - Bages & Longfield Stud TR-Aidan O’Brien Margins 1.75, Short Head. Time 1:40.50.

Going Good to Soft.

Age 2-3

Starts 6

Wins 3

Places 3

Earned £337,707

Sire: DANEHILL DANCER. Sire of 175 Stakes winners. In 2016 - QEMAH Rainbow Quest G1, OVIDIO Red Ransom G2, TUSCAN SLING Kenny’s Best Pal G3, DREAMTIME DANCER Galileo LR, SMUGGLER’S MOON Dubai Destination LR. 1st Dam: Kartica by Rainbow Quest. Winner at 2 in France, 3rd Prix Fille de l’Air G3. Dam of 1 winner: 2013: QEMAH (f Danehill Dancer) Sold 158,730gns yearling at ARAU1. 3 wins at 2 and 3 at home, France, Coronation S G1, Prix de la Grotte G3, 3rd Total Prix Marcel

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Boussac G1, Prix Poule d’Essai des Pouliches G1.

Niedziela (f Henrythenavigator) unraced to date. (c Lawman)

2nd Dam: CAYMAN SUNSET by Night Shift.

3 wins at 3 to 5 at home, USA Directa Parseal Dahlia S LR, 3rd Canadian H G2. Own sister to Tarfaa.

Dam of Kartica (f Rainbow Quest, see above), Lady Gorgeous (f Compton Place: 3rd Investec Surrey S LR) Broodmare Sire: RAINBOW QUEST. Sire of the dams of 178 Stakes winners. In 2016 - QEMAH Danehill Dancer G1, CYLINDER BEACH Showcasing G3, FREEDOM BEEL Pour Moi LR, RAY Rock of Gibraltar LR, SPIRIT QUARTZ Invincible Spirit LR, TENERIFE SONG Fastnet Rock LR. The Danehill Dancer/Rainbow Quest cross has produced: BEATRICE AURORE G1, QEMAH G1, Oracle G1, HIPPY HIPPY SHAKE LR.

QEMAH b f 2013 Danzig Danehill Razyana DANEHILL DANCER b 93 Sharpen Up Mira Adonde Lettre d’Amour Blushing Groom Rainbow Quest I Will Follow KARTICA b 07 Night Shift Cayman Sunset Robinia

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Atan Rocchetta Caro Lianga Red God Runaway Bride Herbager Where You Lead Northern Dancer Ciboulette Roberto Royal Graustark

It has been in the role of broodmare sire that Danehill Dancer has been thriving in 2016, with his daughters being responsible for the Classic winners Minding, The Gurkha and Hawksmoor. The former champion sire was heading towards the end of his career in 2012, with his fertility not being what it was, but he has still added another Gr1 winner – Qemah – to his tally. In winning the Coronation Stakes, Qemah has followed in the footsteps of Lillie Langtry, the dam of 1,000 Guineas and Oaks winner Minding.

Previously a winner of the Gr3 Prix de la Grotte and third in the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches, Qemah has yet to tackle more than 8.5 furlongs.

However, both her running style and her pedigree suggest that she will eventually stay a mile and a quarter.

Although Danehill Dancer was essentially a fast horse, he has sired middle-distance winners of the calibre of Dancing Rain, Legatissimo, Planteur and Hillstar.

Qemah’s dam Kartica was sired by the Arc winner Rainbow Quest and her second dam was a daughter of the Derby-winning Roberto. Rainbow Quest had a distinguished record with daughters of Roberto, notably siring two winners of the Prix Royal-Oak in the brothers Raintrap and Sunshack, plus a Yorkshire Cup winner in Manifest. Kartica showed useful form at around a mile and a quarter, while her dam Cayman Sunset won the Dahlia Stakes over nine furlongs during its days as a Listed race.

Rainbow Quest’s broodmare daughters have owed a lot of their Classic success to the Danehill male line. They provided Danehill with the

Derby winner North Light, Rock Of Gibraltar with his Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Samitar, and Danehill Dancer’s son Mastercraftsman with his St Leger winner Kingston Hill.

Another of Danehill’s stakes winners with a dam by Rainbow Quest is Kind, dam of Frankel and Noble Mission.

124 DIAMOND JUBILEE STAKES G1 ASCOT. Jun 18. 4yo+. 6f.

1. TWILIGHT SON (GB) 4 9-3 £340,260 b c by Kyllachy - Twilight Mistress (Bin Ajwaad) O-Mr Godfrey Wilson & Cheveley Park Stud B-Mrs C. R. D. Wilson TR-Henry Candy 2. Gold-Fun (IRE) 7 9-3 £129,000 ch g by Le Vie Dei Colori - Goodwood March (Foxhound) O-Mr Sutong Pan B-M. Downey & Roalso Ltd TR-Richard Gibson 3. Signs of Blessing (IRE) 5 9-3 £64,560 b h by Invincible Spirit - Sun Bittern (Seeking The Gold) O-I.Corbani/Pandora Racing/A.Mouknass B-Mr S. Boucheron TR-Francois Rohaut Margins Neck, Short Head. Time 1:13.80.

Going Good to Soft.

Age 2-4

Starts 9

Wins 6

Places 1

Earned £725,151

Sire: KYLLACHY. Sire of 28 Stakes winners. In 2016 TWILIGHT SON Bin Ajwaad G1, ASHADIHAN Malibu Moon G3, KYLLACHY QUEEN King Charlemagne LR, MUJADIL LACHY Daggers Drawn LR. 1st Dam: TWILIGHT MISTRESS by Bin Ajwaad. 3 wins at 3 to 5. Dam of 6 winners: 2004: SHADED EDGE (g Bold Edge) 6 wins at 3 to 5.

2006: NIGHT AFFAIR (f Bold Edge) 3 wins at 2 and 4.

Broodmare.

2007: THE CONFESSOR (g Piccolo) 5 wins at 3, 5 and 6.

2010: MUSIC MASTER (c Piccolo) 3 wins at 3 and 4, Al Basti Equiworld Hackwood S G3, 3rd Betfred Sprint Cup G1. Sire.

2011: SPRING FLING (f Assertive) Winner at 3.

2012: TWILIGHT SON (c Kyllachy) 6 wins at 2 to 4, Diamond Jubilee S G1, Betfred Sprint Cup G1, 2nd Qipco British Champions Sprint S G1.

2014: Twilight Spirit (f Assertive) unraced to date.

2015: (f Bahamian Bounty) 2nd Dam: BY CANDLELIGHT by Roi Danzig. 1 win at 3. Dam of Romantic Evening (c Dr Fong: 3rd Stan James Washington Singer S LR) Broodmare Sire: BIN AJWAAD. Sire of the dams of 9 Stakes winners.

TWILIGHT SON b c 2012 Nureyev Marie d’Argonne Cozzene Stufida Sing Sing Song Intent Crooner Moonlight Serenade March Moonlight Blushing Groom Rainbow Quest I Will Follow Sallust Salidar Balidaress Danzig Roi Danzig Gdynia Be My Guest Penny Candle Pennyweight Polar Falcon

Pivotal

2016. Kachy would have given Quiet Reflection more to do had he kept a straight course when in the lead in the Gr1 Commonwealth Cup, and the Sprint Cup winner Twilight Son returned to his best to land the Gr1 Diamond Jubilee Stakes. Like his father before him, Twilight Son is trained by Henry Candy.

Twilight Son has raced exclusively over six furlongs, whereas Kyllachy and Sole Power did all their winning over five. However, his dam is by Bin Ajwaad, who was third in the 2,000 Guineas and second in the French equivalent. Although Twilight Son’s dam Twilight Mistress raced at up to nine furlongs, she did her winning at up to seven and her final win came over an extended five furlongs.

Twilight Mistress has done well as a broodmare, mainly with modestly-priced stallions (Kyllachy’s fee in 2011 was £8,000). In 2009 she had visited Piccolo, who stood at £5,000, to produce Music Master, a Gr3 winner who was third in the 2014 Sprint Cup. Her 2014 filly Twilight Spirit is by Assertive (2013 fee £2,500) and she has a yearling filly by Bahamian Bounty.

Second dam By Candlelight won over six furlongs and the next dam, Penny Candle, scored over six and seven. This is a speedy female line and Penny Candle’s half-sister On Tiptoes won the Queen Mary Stakes despite being by the Irish Derby winner Shareef Dancer.

The next dam, Hayloft, won the Molecomb Stakes and produced the Irish 2,000 Guineas winner Wassl.

125 PRIX DE DIANE LONGINES G1 CHANTILLY. Jun 19. 3yof. 2100m.

1. LA CRESSONNIERE (FR) 9-0 £420,147 b f by Le Havre - Absolute Lady (Galileo) O-Mr G. Augustin-Normand B-Franklin Finance TR-Jean Claude Rouget 2. Left Hand (GB) 9-0 £168,088 ch f by Dubawi - Balladeuse (Singspiel) O-Wertheimer et Frere B-Wertheimer et Frere TR-C. Laffon-Parias 3. Volta (FR) 9-0 £84,044 b f by Siyouni - Persian Belle (Machiavellian) O-Ecurie Salabi B-T, Mme D & A De La Heronniere TR-Francis-Henri Graffard Margins 0.5, 1.25. Time 2:09.45. Going Soft.

Fearless Revival KYLLACHY b 98 Pretty Poppy

Bin Ajwaad TWILIGHT MISTRESS b 98

By Candlelight

Kyllachy’s only defeat as a four-year-old came at Royal Ascot, when he finished only third as hot favourite for the King’s Stand Stakes.

However, the son of Pivotal has made amends with several important winners at the Royal meeting, including Sole Power (dual winner of the King’s Stand Stakes) and Tariq (Jersey Stakes).

Kyllachy’s sons also did well in

Age 2-3

Starts 7

Wins 7

Places 0

Earned £692,225

Sire: LE HAVRE. Sire of 15 Stakes winners. In 2016 LA CRESSONNIERE Galileo G1, ZGHORTA DANCE Anabaa G3, SOTTEVILLE Verglas LR. 1st Dam: Absolute Lady by Galileo. Own sister to PARIS WINDS. Dam of 1 winner: 2011: Annoville (f Le Havre) ran on the flat in France.

2012: Saon (c Le Havre) ran on the flat in Germany.

2013: LA CRESSONNIERE (f Le Havre) 7 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix Poule d’Essai des Pouliches G1, Prix de Diane Longines G1, Prix La Camargo LR, Prix Herod LR, Prix Isonomy LR. 2014: Tonneville (f Air Chief Marshal) unraced to date.

2015: Gratot (c Le Havre) 2nd Dam: LIL’S JESSY by Kris. 4 wins at 2 and 3 Shadwell Stud Nell Gwyn S G3. Dam of PARIS WINDS (f Galileo: Revidere S, 2nd Beautiful Pleasure S LR, Mariensky S LR, 3rd Irish National Stud Blandford S G2)

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Broodmare Sire: GALILEO. Sire of the dams of 53 Stakes winners. In 2016 - GALILEO GOLD Paco Boy G1, LA CRESSONNIERE Le Havre G1, DARTMOUTH Dubawi G2, ROLY POLY War Front G2, VANQUISH RUN Deep Impact G2.

HARZAND br c 2013

MINDING b f 2013

Green Desert Cape Cross Park Appeal SEA THE STARS b 06 Miswaki Urban Sea

LA CRESSONNIERE b f 2013 Blushing Groom Glorious Song Northern Dancer Danseur Fabuleux Fabuleux Jane Konigsstuhl Surako Surata Marie d’Argonne Jefferson Mohair Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta Sharpen Up Kris Doubly Sure Mill Reef Lobmille Light O’Battle

Allegretta

Rahy

Noverre LE HAVRE b 06 Marie Rheinberg

Galileo ABSOLUTE LADY b 06 Lil’s Jessy

See race 47 in the July issue 126 DUBAI DUTY FREE IRISH DERBY G1 CURRAGH. Jun 25. 3yoc&f. 12f.

1. HARZAND (IRE) 9-0 £628,676 br c by Sea The Stars - Hazariya (Xaar) O-H.H. Aga Khan B-His Highness The Aga Khan’s Studs S.C. TR-D. K. Weld 2. Idaho (IRE) 9-0 £209,559 b c by Galileo - Hveger (Danehill) O-Mr M. Tabor, D. Smith & Mrs John Magnier B-Hveger Syndicate TR-Aidan O’Brien 3. Stellar Mass (IRE) 9-0 £99,265 b c by Sea The Stars - Juno Marlowe (Danehill) O-Mrs June Judd B-Tinnakill House & Alan Byrne TR-J. S. Bolger Margins 0.5, 3.75. Time 2:38.05.

Going Good to Yielding.

Age 2-3

Starts 5

Wins 4

Places Earned 0 £2,161,589

Sire: SEA THE STARS. Sire of 28 Stakes winners. In 2016 - HARZAND Xaar G1, ZELZAL Kingmambo G1, ACROSS THE STARS Mark of Esteem G2, CLOTH OF STARS Kingmambo G2, ENDLESS TIME Fantastic Light G2, MEKHTAAL Silver Hawk G2, MUTAKAYYEF Pivotal G2, ASTRONEREUS Surako G3.

1st Dam: HAZARIYA by Xaar. 3 wins at 3, EBF Athasi S G3. Dam of 5 winners: 2007: HAZARAFA (f Daylami) 2 wins at 3, Go Racing in Kildare Finale S LR. Broodmare.

2008: Haziyna (f Halling) 2 wins at 3, 2nd Irish Stall.Farms EBF Give Thanks S G3.

Broodmare.

2010: HARASIYA (f Pivotal) 2 wins at 2, Silver Flash S G3, 2nd Keeneland Debutante S G2, 3rd Moyglare Stud S G1.

2011: HAZARABA (f Oasis Dream) Winner at 3.

2013: HARZAND (c Sea The Stars) 3 wins at 3, Investec Derby S G1, Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby G1, P W McGrath Memorial Ballysax S G3.

2014: Haripour (c Shamardal) unraced to date.

2015: (f Fastnet Rock) 2016: (f Dansili) 2nd Dam: HAZARADJAT by Darshaan. 2 wins at 2 and 3. Own sister to Hashar. Dam of HAZARIYA (f Xaar, see above), HAZARISTA (f Barathea: Irish StallionFarms EBF Blue Wind S G3, 3rd Darley Irish Oaks G1, Aston Upthorpe Yorkshire Oaks G1), Hidden Brief (f Barathea: 3rd Prix Petite Etoile LR). Grandam of HAMAIRI, HANABAD, HUMPHREY BOGART, Handazan, Maryellen’s Spirit. Third dam of SEAL OF APPROVAL, GALE FORCE, PURE POETRY, Instance.

Broodmare Sire: XAAR. Sire of the dams of 19 Stakes winners. In 2016 - HARZAND Sea The Stars G1, YANKEE ROSE All American G1, TSARITSA Dane Shadow G2, ADJUSTED Montjeu LR, NINTH LEGION Fastnet Rock LR, THE ALFONSO Magnus LR, VAL NANDA Fast Company LR.

Zafonic Xaar Monroe HAZARIYA b 02 Darshaan Hazaradjat Hazy Idea

Danzig Foreign Courier Ahonoora Balidaress Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Lombard Anatevka Gone West Zaizafon Sir Ivor Best In Show Shirley Heights Delsy Hethersett Won’t Linger

See race 54 in the July issue 127 SEA THE STARS PRETTY POLLY STAKES G1

Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge GALILEO b 98 Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta Danehill Danehill Dancer Mira Adonde LILLIE LANGTRY b/br 07 Darshaan Hoity Toity Hiwaayati

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Lombard Anatevka Danzig Razyana Sharpen Up Lettre d’Amour Shirley Heights Delsy Shadeed Alathea

See race 41 in the June issue 128 CORAL ECLIPSE STAKES G1

CURRAGH. Jun 26. 3yo+f. 10f.

SANDOWN PARK. Jul 2. 3yo+. 10f.

1. MINDING (IRE) 3 8-12 £108,640 b f by Galileo - Lillie Langtry (Danehill Dancer) O-Mr D. Smith, Mrs J. Magnier, Mr M. Tabor B-Orpendale, Chelston & Wynatt TR-Aidan O’Brien 2. Bocca Baciata (IRE) 4 9-10 £35,110 b/br f by Big Bad Bob - Sovana (Desert King) O-Flaxman Stables Ireland Ltd B-Citadel Stud TR-Mrs J. Harrington 3. Lucida (IRE) 4 9-10 £16,728 b f by Shamardal - Lura (Street Cry) O-Godolphin B-Darley TR-J. S. Bolger Margins 4.5, 5. Time 2:09.94. Going Yielding.

1. HAWKBILL (USA) 3 8-10 £297,728 ch c by Kitten’s Joy - Trensa (Giant’s Causeway) O-Godolphin B-Helen K. Groves Revokable Trust TR-Charlie Appleby 2. The Gurkha (IRE) 3 8-10 £112,875 b c by Galileo - Chintz (Danehill Dancer) O-Mr D. Smith, Mrs J. Magnier, Mr M. Tabor B-Chintz Syndicate TR-Aidan O’Brien 3. Time Test (GB) 4 9-7 £56,490 b c by Dubawi - Passage of Time (Dansili) O-Mr K. Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms Ltd TR-Roger Charlton Margins 0.5, 1.75. Time 2:10.70. Going Soft.

Age 2-3

Starts 9

Wins 6

Places Earned 3 £1,182,329

Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 237 Stakes winners.

In 2016 - ALICE SPRINGS Danehill Dancer G1, DEAUVILLE Danehill G1, MINDING Danehill Dancer G1, ORDER OF ST GEORGE Gone West G1, THE GURKHA Danehill Dancer G1, THE UNITED STATES Pivotal G1, SWORD FIGHTER Grand Lodge G2, BEACON ROCK Danehill Dancer G3, BONDI BEACH Danehill G3, FAUFILER Celtic Swing G3, FOUND Intikhab G3, HOUSESOFPARLIAMENT Dixieland Band G3, MIDTERM Oasis Dream G3, MIZZOU Darshaan G3, PHOTO CALL Rock of Gibraltar G3, PRETTY PERFECT Danehill G3, SIR ISAAC NEWTON Danehill G3, US ARMY RANGER Dalakhani G3.

1st Dam: LILLIE LANGTRY by Danehill Dancer. 5 wins at 2 and 3, Coronation S G1, Coolmore Fusaichi Pegasus Matron S G1, 3rd Moyglare Stud S G1. Dam of 2 winners: 2012: KISSED BY ANGELS (f Galileo) Winner at 3, Derrinstown Stud 1000 Guineas Trial G3.

2013: MINDING (f Galileo) Champion 2yr old filly in Europe in 2015. 6 wins at 2 and 3, Dubai Fillies’ Mile S G1, Moyglare Stud S G1, Investec Oaks S G1, Qipco 1000 Guineas G1, Sea the Stars Pretty Polly S G1, 2nd Tattersalls Irish 1000 Guineas G1, Breast Cancer Research Debutante S G2.

2014: How (f Galileo) 2015: (f Galileo) 2nd Dam: Hoity Toity by Darshaan. unraced. Dam of LILLIE LANGTRY (f Danehill Dancer, see above), COUNT OF LIMONADE (c Duke of Marmalade: Dubai Duty Free Celebration S LR, 3rd Jebel Ali Anglesey S G3, Airlie Stud Gallinule S G3). Grandam of MASTER APPRENTICE. Broodmare Sire: DANEHILL DANCER. Sire of the dams of 59 Stakes winners.

In 2016 - ALICE SPRINGS Galileo G1, MINDING Galileo G1, MUSIC MAGNATE Written Tycoon G1, THE GURKHA Galileo G1, HAWKSMOOR Azamour G2.

The Galileo/Danehill Dancer cross has produced: ALICE SPRINGS G1, MINDING G1, THE GURKHA G1, WEDDING VOW G1, BEACON ROCK G2, QUEST FOR PEACE G2, Criteria G2, Lahinch Classics G2, BE MY GAL G3, KISSED BY ANGELS G3, RECORDER G3, Kingston Jamaica G3, Noble Galileo G3, Queen Nefertiti G3, INDIAN MAHARAJA LR, KIND OF MAGIC LR, Facade LR, Felix Mendelssohn LR, Seussical LR.

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Age 2-3

Starts 8

Wins 6

Places 1

Earned £383,770

Sire: KITTEN’S JOY. Sire of 52 Stakes winners. In 2016 - DIVISIDERO Lemon Drop Kid G1, HAWKBILL Giant’s Causeway G1, CAMELOT KITTEN Forestry G2, HOME RUN KITTEN Grand Slam G3, OSCAR NOMINATED Theatrical G3, SMOKEM KITTEN Unbridled’s Song G3, TAAREEF Carson City G3, BOBBY’S KITTEN Forestry LR, LITTLEBITOFJOY Ghazi LR. 1st Dam: Trensa by Giant’s Causeway. 3 wins at 3 to 5 in USA, 2nd Robert G Dick Memorial H G3. Dam of 1 winner: 2012: Trensita (f Curlin) 2013: HAWKBILL (c Kitten’s Joy) 6 wins at 2 and 3, Coral Eclipse S G1, Tercentenary S G3, Havana Gold Newmarket S LR. 2014: (f Hard Spun) 2nd Dam: SERAPE by Fappiano. 5 wins at 2 to 4 in USA Ballerina S G1. Dam of BATIQUE (f Storm Cat: Vinery Matchmaker S G3, Honey Fox H G3, My Charmer H G3), Trensa (f Giant’s Causeway, see above). Grandam of Tejida, Alexander Castle, Miss Lamour. Third dam of VIRAMUNDO. Broodmare Sire: GIANT’S CAUSEWAY. Sire of the dams of 54 Stakes winners. In 2016 - HAWKBILL Kitten’s Joy G1, GOOD STANDING Artie Schiller G2, GUN RUNNER Candy Ride G2, CHEIKELJACK Myboycharlie G3, DICTON Lawman G3, DONEGAL MOON Malibu Moon G3, FAMILY TREE Smart Strike G3, TIMBALINA Timely Advice G3.

The Kitten’s Joy/Giant’s Causeway cross has produced: HAWKBILL G1, LUCK OF THE KITTEN G1, Empire Builder G3.

HAWKBILL ch c 2013 Sadler’s Wells El Prado Lady Capulet KITTEN’S JOY ch 01 Lear Fan Kitten’s First That’s My Hon Storm Cat Giant’s Causeway Mariah’s Storm TRENSA ch 04 Fappiano Serape Mochila

Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Sir Ivor Cap And Bells Roberto Wac L’Enjoleur One Lane Storm Bird Terlingua Rahy Immense Mr Prospector Killaloe In Reality Ride The Trails

As the Royal Ascot winner Hawkbill confirmed his courage and consistency with a hard-fought victory over The Gurkha in the Coral-Eclipse, he evoked memories of broodmare sire Giant’s Causeway. The so-called Iron Horse had also had to fight to win the Eclipse from the year-older Kalanisi as a three-year-old, having recently scored at Royal Ascot.

The Eclipse proved the second of five consecutive Gr1 successes for Giant’s Causeway and it would be no surprise were Hawkbill to prove similarly hard to beat at the top level.

Although he began his career with defeats in maidens at Lingfield and Kempton, he has now won his last six starts, improving with every race.

Hawkbill cost $350,000 as a yearling. Although bred in America, he has plenty of turf elements in his pedigree. In addition to having Giant’s Causeway as his broodmare sire, he has the champion turf horse Kitten’s Joy as his sire. Also, his third dam Mochila was a half-sister to Cozzene, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Mile.

However, there are also dirt aspects to Hawkbill’s pedigree – enough, perhaps, to justify one day trying him on the surface. Giant’s Causeway went close to winning the Breeders’ Cup Classic and Hawkbill’s second dam, Serape, was typical of her sire Fappiano in that she preferred dirt to turf. Serape was good enough to win the Gr1 Ballerina Stakes over seven furlongs.

The next dam, Mochila, was also a talented dirt specialist, as might have been expected of a mare sired by In Reality from a daughter of Prince John. Mochila’s Gr1 placings were gained over nine and ten furlongs.

However, Hawkbill’s dam, the Graded-placed Trensa, gained most of her earnings on turf, as did her three-parts-sister Batique, a triple Gr3 winner on turf by Storm Cat. 129 GRAND PRIX DE SAINT-CLOUD G1 SAINT-CLOUD. Jul 3. 4yo+. 2400m.

1. SILVERWAVE (FR) 4 9-2 £168,059 b c by Silver Frost - Miss Bio (River Mist) O- Hspirit B-Mlle M-L Collet, J Collet & Mme M Collet TR-P Bary 2. Erupt (IRE) 4 9-2 £67,235 b c by Dubawi - Mare Nostrum (Caerleon) O-Niarchos Family B-The Niarchos Family TR-Francis-Henri Graffard 3. Siljan’s Saga (FR) 6 8-13 £33,618 bl m by Sagamix - Humoriste (Saint Cyrien) O-E Palluat de Besset/E Tassin B-Mme Antoinette Ouvry TR-J. P. Gauvin Margins 1.25, Neck. Time 2:29.20. Going Good.

Age 2-4

Starts 12

Wins 5

Places 4

Earned £344,698

Sire: SILVER FROST. Sire of 3 Stakes winners.

1st Dam: Miss Bio by River Mist. unraced. Dam of 7 winners: 2001: NORMAN BIO (g Chef de Clan) 4 wins at 3, 4 and 6 in France.

2003: STORMY RIVER (c Verglas). 5 wins at 2 to 4 in France, Prix Jean Prat G1, 2nd St James’s Palace S G1, Prix du Moulin de Longchamp G1, Criterium International G1, 3rd Gainsborough Poule d’Essai des Poulains G1, Prix d’Ispahan G1. Sire.

2004: Mary d’Or (f Verglas) Winner at 3 in France,

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European Pattern 2005: 2006: 2008: 2010: 2012:

2014: 2015:

2nd Prix Ceres LR. Dam of GROWING GREY (g Murtajill: 6 wins in Macau, SJM EC Card Cup Lisboa Challenge LR) Saga River (f Sagacity) unraced. Broodmare.

Saphir River (g Slickly) 6 wins, 2nd Grand Prix d’Automne Hurdle G1.

STORMY OCEAN (c Verglas) 6 wins at 2 to 6 in France.

Line Drummer (g Galileo) 3 wins, 3rd Prix Messidor G3, Premio del Piazzale G3.

SILVERWAVE (c Silver Frost) Sold 46,457gns yearling at AROCT. 5 wins at 2 to 4 in France, Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud G1, Prix La Force G3, 2nd Prix Ganay G1, Qatar Prix Niel G2, 3rd Prix d’Ispahan G1.

Laem Sing (f Myboycharlie) unraced to date. (f Siyouni)

2nd Dam: RIVER SANS RETOUR by Vacarme. 1 win at 3 in France. Dam of FANTASTIC FILLY (f Myrakalu: Senorita S G3, Miesque S G3). Grandam of Nouvelle Vague, LIKE A STORM. Broodmare Sire: RIVER MIST. Sire of the dams of 4 Stakes winners.

Palace Stakes and Prix du Moulin.

Since then Miss Bio has visited a variety of stallions, including Galileo, sire of her useful miler Line Drummer, but the mare came nowhere near replicating her early success until 2011. That was the year she visited Verglas’s Classic-winning son Silver Frost. Once again a Gr1-winning son was the outcome, this time Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud winner Silverwave.

Silverwave, who had been runnerup in the Prix Ganay earlier in 2016, is well suited by middle distances, whereas his close relative Stormy River was essentially a miler. Stormy River is inbred 4 x 4 to Riverman, whereas Silverwave has three lines to him – 5 x 6 x 4. Silverwave’s pedigree also demonstrates how ubiquitous Northern Dancer has become, as he

SILVERWAVE b c 2012 Highest Honor Verglas Rahaam SILVER FROST gr 06 Anabaa Hidden Silver Hint of Silver Irish River River Mist Principle MISS BIO b 96 Vacarme River Sans Retour Riverstar

Kenmare High River Secreto Fager’s Glory Danzig Balbonella Alysheba Hot Silver Riverman Irish Star Viceregal Queen’s Law Lyphard Virunga Sir Ivor Riverside

When the six-year-old Miss Bio visited the very inexpensive Verglas in 2002, she exceeded all expectations. The resultant colt, Stormy River, developed into a high-class miler whose CV featured a victory in the Gr1 Prix Jean Prat, plus seconds in the St James’s

has five lines to this great sire – 5 x 5 x 6 x 5 x 5.

Miss Bio never raced and was sired by the comparatively little-known River Mist, who crossed the line first in the 1985 French 2,000 Guineas, only to be demoted to fourth. River Mist sired nothing better than a couple of Listed winners on the Flat.

However, Miss Bio is a half-sister to Fantastic Filly, a dual Gr3 winner in the USA. Silverwave’s third dam Riverstar was a half-sister to Riverqueen, winner of the French 1,000 Guineas, Prix Saint-Alary and Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud. Their dam, the Prix de Royallieu winner Riverside, has numerous accomplished descendants, including in Japan, where Rose Kingdom won the Japan Cup.

Group 2 & 3 Races Date 11/06 12/06 12/06 14/06 15/06 15/06 15/06 16/06 16/06 16/06 16/06 17/06 17/06 18/06 19/06 19/06 19/06 19/06 22/06 22/06 25/06 25/06 25/06 26/06 26/06 26/06 26/06 26/06 29/06 02/07 02/07 02/07 02/07 02/07 03/07 03/07

Grade G3 G2 G3 G2 G2 G2 G3 G2 G2 G3 G3 G2 G3 G2 G2 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G2 G3 G3 G2 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G2 G3 G3 G3 G3 G2 G2

Race (course) Prix Paul de Moussac (Chantilly) Diana Trial (Berlin-Hoppegarten) coral.ie Munster Oaks Stakes (Cork) Coventry Stakes (Ascot) Duke of Cambridge Stakes (Ascot) Queen Mary Stakes (Ascot) Jersey Stakes (Ascot) Norfolk Stakes (Ascot) Ribblesdale Stakes (Ascot) Tercentenary Stakes (Ascot) O. Brady Mem. Shabra Ballycorus Stakes (Leopardstown) King Edward VII Stakes (Ascot) Albany Stakes (Ascot) Hardwicke Stakes (Ascot) Oppenheim Union-Rennen (Cologne) Prix Bertrand du Breuil Longines (Chantilly) Prix du Lys Longines (Chantilly) Premio Del Giubileo (Milan) La Coupe (Chantilly) Prix Daphnis (Chantilly) GAIN Railway Stakes (Curragh) Betfred Chipchase Stakes (Newcastle) John Sunley Memorial Criterion Stakes (Newmarket) coral.ie Curragh Cup (Curragh) Finlay Volvo International Stakes (Curragh) Grangecon Stud Balanchine Stakes (Curragh) Grosser Preis der Wirtschaft (Dortmund) Premio Primi Passi (Milan) Prix de Ris-Orangis (Maisons-Laffitte) Bet 365 Lancashire Oaks (Haydock Park) Prix de la Porte Maillot (Deauville) Prix du Bois (Deauville) F.-Gunther von Gaertner Gedachtnisrennen (Hamburg) The Coral Charge Sprint Stakes (Sandown Park) www.pferdewetten.de Grosser Hansa Preis (Hamburg) Prix de Malleret (Saint-Cloud)

Dist 8f 10f 12f 6f 8f 5f 7f 5f 12f 10f 7f 12f 6f 12f 11f 8f 12f 9f 10f 9f 6f 6f 7f 14f 10f 6f 8.5f 6f 6f 11.5f 7f 5f 8f 5f 12f 12f

Horse Zelzal (FR) Meergorl (GER) Pretty Perfect (IRE) Caravaggio (USA) Usherette (IRE) Lady Aurelia (USA) Ribchester (IRE) Prince of Lir (IRE) Even Song (IRE) Hawkbill (USA) Dick Whittington (IRE) Across The Stars (IRE) Brave Anna (USA) Dartmouth (GB) Boscaccio (GER) Pas de Deux (GER) Spring Master (GB) Greg Pass (IRE) Air Pilot (GB) Taareef (USA) Medicine Jack (GB) Markaz (IRE) Breton Rock (IRE) Sword Fighter (IRE) Sir Isaac Newton (GB) Roly Poly (USA) Potemkin (GER) Hargeisa (USA) Damila (FR) Endless Time (IRE) Jimmy Two Times (FR) Cosachope (FR) Shy Witch (GER) Brando (GB) Protectionist (GER) Al Wathna (GB)

Age 3 3 3 2 4 2 3 2 3 3 4 3 2 4 3 6 3 4 7 3 2 4 6 3 4 2 5 2 3 4 3 2 3 4 6 3

Sex C F F C F F C C F C C C F C C G C C G C C C G C C F H F F F C F F G H F

Sire Sea The Stars Adlerflug Galileo Scat Daddy Shamardal Scat Daddy Iffraaj Kodiac Mastercraftsman Kitten’s Joy Rip Van Winkle Sea The Stars War Front Dubawi Mount Nelson Saddex Mastercraftsman Raven’s Pass Zamindar Kitten’s Joy Equiano Dark Angel Bahamian Bounty Galileo Galileo War Front New Approach Speightstown Milanais Sea The Stars Kendargent Soave Areion Pivotal Monsun Nayef

Dam Olga Prekrasa Mouette Milanova Mekko Hokte Monday Show D’ Wildcat Speed Mujarah Esuvia Guantanamera Trensa Sahara Sky Victoria Cross Liscanna Galatee Bianca de Medici Palucca Cracovie Baranja Countess Sybil Sacred Feather Agony Aunt Folga Anna’s Rock Tarbela Shastye Misty For Me Praia Hasay Dawaes Mamonta Steel Woman First Chope Shyla Argent du Bois Patineuse Lemon Twist

Broodmare Sire Kingmambo Tertullian Danehill Holy Bull Maria’s Mon Forest Wildcat Marju Whipper Sadler’s Wells Giant’s Causeway Danehill Mark of Esteem Sadler’s Wells Galileo Medicean Big Shuffle Caerleon St Jovite Dr Devious Carson City Formidable Atraf Rock of Gibraltar Grand Lodge Danehill Galileo Big Shuffle Lomitas Marchand de Sable Fantastic Light Anabaa Indian Rocket Monsagem Silver Hawk Peintre Celebre Marju

Index 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165

Leading sires of two-year-olds 2016 by earnings Name

Kodiac War Front Acclamation Scat Daddy Dark Angel Choisir *Power Sageburg Galileo Fast Company Dandy Man Equiano *Dragon Pulse Myboycharlie Exceed And Excel *Bated Breath *Mayson *Elzaam Elusive City *Helmet *Sir Prancealot Soave Fastnet Rock Dream Ahead Invincible Spirit

YOF

2001 2002 1999 2004 2005 1999 2009 2004 1998 2005 2003 2005 2009 2005 2000 2007 2008 2007 2000 2008 2010 1999 2001 2008 1997 Holy Roman Emperor 2004 *Requinto 2009 *Rajsaman 2007 Bushranger 2006

Sire

Rnrs

Wnrs

Danehill Danzig Royal Applause Johannesburg Acclamation Danehill Dancer Oasis Dream Johannesburg Sadler's Wells Danehill Dancer Mozart Acclamation Kyllachy Danetime Danehill Dansili Invincible Spirit Redoute's Choice Elusive Quality Exceed And Excel Tamayuz Dashing Blade Danehill Diktat Green Desert Danehill Dansili Linamix Danetime

58 11 38 5 53 13 19 20 19 34 39 25 25 26 36 28 26 22 10 26 48 6 14 20 19 21 17 18 32

18 6 7 3 10 6 8 5 3 6 8 7 5 8 8 7 8 9 4 8 9 3 7 6 6 6 6 4 8

%WR

31.03 54.55 18.42 60.00 18.87 46.15 42.11 25.00 15.79 17.65 20.51 28.00 20.00 30.77 22.22 25.00 30.77 40.91 40.00 30.77 18.75 50.00 50.00 30.00 31.58 28.57 35.29 22.22 25.00

Races

AWD

Earnings (£)

Top horse

Earned (£)

23 9 11 5 10 9 10 7 4 9 11 9 6 8 10 9 9 11 4 10 10 5 7 7 7 6 8 5 9

5.4 6.2 5.6 5.4 5.8 5.6 5.8 5.7 6.7 5.7 5.4 5.4 5.6 5.8 5.6 5.6 5.3 5.8 5.8 5.6 5.8 5.3 6.3 5.7 5.3 6.4 5.7 5.8 5.4

335,580 215,535 197,858 182,650 156,857 153,717 128,854 124,797 123,476 120,172 118,011 117,270 112,065 111,298 108,837 103,738 91,869 88,487 88,068 84,393 83,102 78,223 77,509 72,794 72,052 71,998 70,544 69,097 68,666

Prince Of Lir Roly Poly Mehmas Caravaggio Vona The Last Lion Peace Envoy Adele Star Churchill Red Onion Rapacity Alexander Medicine Jack Legendary Lunch La Fibrossi Yalta Al Johrah Global Applause King Electric Vega Sicilia Boater Copper Knight Cosachope Lundy Boos Pedestal Eagle Spirit La Dame En Rouge Hermangarde The McGregornator

72,273 85,811 124,268 119,284 26,725 49,984 63,374 23,381 46,586 42,266 29,793 64,248 37,055 15,194 17,625 48,098 33,529 30,562 27,493 18,242 14,409 53,211 19,521 19,763 15,470 12,377 17,568 17,957 8,761

Sir Prancealot off to an encouraging start Kodiac got off to a flier and with 18 winners he is eight clear of Dark Angel. Both stallions have had two stakes winners and they are the only ones with more than 50 runners.

However, Sir Prancealot, who raced only as a juvenile, is close to that mark on 48.

Sir Prancealot is joint-leader with Elzaam among the freshmen on nine winners; Elzaam’s have come from just 22 runners. Next in the numerical list are Helmet, Mayson and Power on eight. The latter two have each sired one stakes winner.

Statistics to July 12; *first-season sire

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share my time between Paris and Deauville, the first half of the week in the office at Saint-Cloud and the second half at Deauville.

Generally I get up early at 6.30. I live on a houseboat on the Seine, close to Longchamp, and it takes about ten minutes to reach Saint-Cloud, where we have sales as well. I am also conveniently placed for Auteuil, so I am well-situated on the river. I also have a house in Trouville-sur-Mer, a few minutes along the coast from Deauville and close to the very good fish market and some excellent restaurants.

Wherever I am, first thing in the morning I always pour myself an espresso coffee, quickly followed by another, and usually that’s my breakfast. From my boat I start the day with a wonderful view of the Bois de Boulogne, but resist having a swim. Instead I’ll read the Racing Post, Paris Turf and any other racing news on my iPad. As President, I oversee the whole Arqana Sales company, organising a very good team as well as the finance, marketing and bloodstock.

My passion is the horse and I am always very keen to be involved in the bloodstock side of the business. It’s very important for me to keep up the yearling inspections at the studs, mainly in the spring when we are putting together our catalogues.

I maintain close contact with the breeders and buyers and always enjoy discussing matings and conformations at the studs. Those visits are what the French would call my ‘Nerf de la Guerre’ – in other words, what I pursue to achieve our goals.

My father Pierre is a small breeder with a few National Hunt mares in the west of France, where I was an

As President of Arqana, ERIC HOYEAU oversees a big team – downtime for the boss can include horseriding, running, swimming, water-skiing and cooking, and most crucially of all a good sleep amateur rider and rode nearly 200 winners on the Flat and over jumps.

After a course in Business Studies, I got a job with Goffs, France in 1987. I became manager the following year and the company introduced the first breeze-up sales in France, as well as the annual Arc sale.

We also created a special market for pure Arabians and bought a trotting company.

In 2006, Goffs France merged with Agence Francaise, creating Arqana and during the last decade I have worked very closely with Olivier Delloye, who is now the head of France Galop.

There has been much talk about the Brexit vote, but it is too early to say what difference it will make to the

bloodstock market. After all, we have operated in the last ten years when the currency between the UK and Europe has been up and down. We had good vendors from England when the pound was high as well as when it was low. I am not an economist so it is difficult to anticipate what the impact will be. The best way forward is to keep working together. I am sure we will.

I enjoy my visits to England, especially when I am racing at Royal Ascot and Cheltenham.

I like Goodwood’s summer meeting and Newmarket, but I always discover a very special atmosphere at the Cheltenham Festival. I find it difficult to compare the sport in different countries because they are just that, different.

Of course, the Arc weekend is exceptional. I always get very excited at the Arc Horses in Training boutique sale because there is often a horse from the sale running at the meeting. That adds even more interest for us.

By lunchtime I am usually very hungry as I have been up early and am ready for something to eat, but it has to be quick. So I usually have an entrecote steak in a local bistro. As far as entertaining is concerned, it is usually in the evening, especially at Deauville, where we have exceptional restaurants. We try and share the pleasure with buyers and vendors.

I am not directly involved with any racehorses but my wife Anne is partner in one or two syndicates. I do keep two horses in Deauville for Anne and I love to ride on the beach on Saturday mornings before I go to the fish market in Trouville, and again on Sunday mornings before we leave for the races in Paris. As the weekend cook, I am in charge of producing the fish and the lobster. However my favourite is sea bass.

In addition to the riding, I do a bit of running and swimming and on a day off in Paris I will water ski with my sons, step children and friends on the Seine near Longchamp, where the river is widest and reserved for water skiers. During Christmas and the New Year, we usually travel to the southern hemisphere to places like Cape Town, Sydney and South America.

Our evening meal is around nine o’clock. I am not a big drinker though I do enjoy white Burgundy and red Bordeaux from my wine cellar in Trouville. I am a good sleeper and that’s the best way to be for a fresh start in the morning.

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