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French 2,000 Guineas-Gr.1, Deauville, by 5½ lengths (PICTURED).

Faster than Kingman, Makfi and Dubawi over course and distance.

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Sussex Stakes-Gr.1, Goodwood by a neck from Gr.1 winners Galileo Gold, Ribchester, Toormore and Awtaad.

Faster than Solow, Kingman and both of Frankel’s wins.

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Maiden, Navan, by 9 lengths.

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St James’s Palace Stakes-Gr.1, Royal Ascot to Galileo Gold.

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Eclipse Stakes-Gr.1, Sandown, beaten ½ length.

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[GALILEO] is simply in another stratosphere when it comes to his ability to get first-class runners at all levels, and his sons have already come into prominence via New Approach, Teofilo, and now, Frankel. ~ BLOODHORSE.COM, 1ST SEPT. 2016

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The Gurkha’s impressive win in Sunday’s Poule d’Essai des Poulains upheld the rich tradition in the race of his extended family. Out of [juvenile] Group 3 winner Chintz, The Gurkha is a direct descendant of Green Valley, dam of the 1975 winner Green Dancer ~ NANCY SEXTON, RACING POST 19TH MAY 2016

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A brilliant miler by sire of sires GALILEO. l Out of a Group winning 2yo by DANEHILL DANCER. l From the family of Champion sire GREEN DANCER.

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.

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Almanzor and Crowley are worthy champions W e have a champion. And his name is Almanzor.

Jean-Claude Rouget’s remarkable season continued at Ascot on British Champions Day, as his brilliant three-year-old cemented his position as Europe’s leading performer with a superb victory in the QIPCO Champion Stakes, defeating Arc heroine Found by two lengths.

When this magazine spoke to Rouget earlier this year, the trainer spoke of his desire to enter the “big circle” alongside Aidan O’Brien, John Gosden and Andre Fabre. On British Champions Day that wish came true in a literal sense, with Rouget, O’Brien and Gosden all savouring Group 1 glory on a perfect autumn afternoon in Berkshire.

Almanzor’s acceleration at the end of the race was spellbinding; it was also noticeable how far he travelled past the winning post – in true Frankel style – before pulling up and returning to rapturous applause from the stands. A superstar, undoubtedly. So how much would one have to pay for his sibling? Well, not as much as you might have thought – €140,000 to be precise, the price his Falco halfbrother realised at Arqana in October.

Considering the recent prices achieved at Tattersalls’ Book 1 Sale (see Sales Circuit, pages 68-78) that might seem a snip. However Falco, a son of Pivotal who was a surprise winner of the 2008 French 2,000 Guineas, is not regarded as an elite stallion, as his €2,500 stud fee would suggest. Yet the same could have been said of Wootton Bassett, the sire of Almanzor.

Found was second best in the Champion Stakes but it was still an outstanding performance from a filly that only 13 days earlier had claimed Europe’s showpiece middle-distance prize, the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, as part of an unprecedented 1-2-3 for owner Coolmore, trainer Aidan O’Brien and, perhaps most importantly, sire Galileo.

Northern Dancer aside, has there been a stallion as dominant as Galileo in the post-war period? Perhaps

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our bloodstock experts Tony Morris and Andrew Caulfield can come up with some opposition to this giant but it seems Galileo has now eclipsed the achievements of his own sire, Sadler’s Wells, in terms of his production record and influence on the breed.

Galileo is now 18 and while his Group 1-winning sons at stud are plentiful it is hard to see any of them getting anywhere near their father’s number of topclass winners. But then who would have thought that Sadler’s Wells could be usurped by one of his sons?

Champions Day also saw Jim Crowley crowned as champion jockey for the first time. Talking to Thoroughbred Owner & Breeder in May, Crowley stated that his championship aspirations were “a work in progress – if I said I was going to be champion I could end up with egg on my face.”

Well, Jim, no eggs needed here!

Crowley was one of the first jockeys to swap a career riding over jumps for the Flat game; he has since been followed, with considerable success, by both Graham Lee and Dougie Costello.

Others may disagree but it seems to me that the exjumping boys are at least as strong in the saddle as their Flat counterparts, if not stronger, which is perhaps not surprising given that they are used to pointing imposing chasers over formidable obstacles on testing ground over three miles. A fitness test, indeed.

Crowley’s title – special mention to Silvestre de Sousa for helping to produce an engrossing encounter over the past few months – was engineered by his agent, Tony Hind, who deserves huge credit for his behind-the-scenes role. Yet Crowley was the man doing the business, day in, day out, all over the country, with barely a moment to catch his breath.

The change to the parameters of the Flat championship did not please everyone in this sport but this was a title hard-earned and thoroughly deserved. So many congratulations to Jim Crowley on his achievement.

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CONTENTS NOVEMBER 2016

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NEWS & VIEWS

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ROA Leader

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TBA Leader

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News

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Changes

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Tony Morris

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Howard Wright

Tackling northern jumping

Breeders need incentives

Levy replacement rate cheer

Your news in a nutshell

Beware the bookies

Weight-for-age scale changes

INTERNATIONAL SCENE

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View From Ireland

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Continental Tales

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Around The Globe

Trainer numbers falling

Rune Haugen heads to UK

Santa Anita’s new turf

Number one: Christophe Soumillon enjoys QIPCO Champion Stakes glory with Almanzor

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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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The Big Interview

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TBA Forum

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Breeder of the Month

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Vet Forum

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From Chantilly and Ascot

Broadheath’s Hennessy in 1986

With jump jockey Brian Harding

COVER STORY

Talking To...

Amy Murphy enters training fold

Newmarket visit thrills members

National Hunt Stallion Parade news

Anthony Oppenheimer for Harbour Law

Trainer Venetia Williams

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Yorkshire breeding

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Sales Circuit

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First Foals

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Caulfield Files

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Dr Statz

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24 Hours With...

Revival in the north

Fireworks at Book 1

Sires’ stock set for sales debut

Growth problems in young horses

DATA BOOK

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European Pattern

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Stallion Statistics

Latest Group victors

Alderflug moves up the table

Dubawi’s dominance

Fastnet rocks with Galileo mares

Gai Waterhouse

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ROA LEADER

NICHOLAS COOPER President Racehorse Owners Association

Initiatives under way to tackle northern jumping Decline a mystery but racing programme that drives aspiration is required

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ump racing in Great Britain is alive and well. It would be difficult to argue with this statement and who would want to?

Year after year, we are fed with facts and figures that show how the Cheltenham Festival reinforces its reputation as the most celebrated horseracing fixture in the calendar.

We see the Grand National continuing to attract domestic and overseas TV audiences that would do justice to any worldwide sporting event, however big, while it easily maintains its position as the biggest betting race of the year and carries out an incalculable PR function for horseracing generally.

We see a structure to the jumps season that is wrapped around at least one major Saturday fixture from late October till early April, creating a sense of anticipation and excitement as each weekend approaches.

And, thanks to developments in ground-cover materials, turf husbandry to improve drainage and a weather pattern that no longer seems to deliver prolonged cold periods throughout the British winter, we find relatively few abandoned jump fixtures in the months of January and February.

So all is well in the state of British jump racing. Well, not quite…

For there is something going on with jump racing in the north of England that most definitely does not conform with the general euphoria that surrounds the sport nationally.

Statistics show us there has been a sharp decrease in the percentage of jumpers trained in the north against the national figure. Field sizes may have been maintained at northern courses but only because of horses travelling from other regions. We also see a decline in the quality of northern-trained jumpers, yet, paradoxically, the average prize-money and class of race in the north easily matches that of the industry average.

Nobody is quite sure why northern jumping is

performing relatively badly. It is no surprise that the economic downturn of 2008 had an adverse effect on racing and racehorse ownership generally, but it is still unclear why the north has apparently experienced a slower recovery in terms of jump racing. Especially so, as we would expect an ROA survey, currently being worked on, to show training costs in the north are significantly lower than those in the south.

The ROA and horsemen are certainly alive to the situation and, working with the BHA, are central to the process for creating a set of initiatives to tackle the problem.

It is already clear that, with the obvious exception of Aintree, more needs to be done to create a race programme in the north that drives aspiration.

For its part, the BHA has already started to implement a range of initiatives to create new targets for owners and trainers.

Examples of these are a Challenger Series for horses rated up to 135, with a finals’ day at Haydock carrying prize-money of over £300,000, and the introduction of a series of Listed mares’ chases at Market Rasen, Carlisle and Doncaster.

In turn, northern-based tracks and horsemen need to show a responsive attitude that reflects their willingness in wanting to make things better – something I know they can do.

It may be sad that we have moved from an era when northern-trained jumpers were winning many of the top jumping events to one where it is difficult to recall a single northern-trained runner, let alone winner, at the Cheltenham Festival, but at least we have recognised the problem and are now striving to find some answers.

Those of us who can recall those magical years when the intrepid young trainer Michael Dickinson sent horses from his Harewood yard in Yorkshire to scoop up numerous big races of the day in the south – not forgetting his momentous first five home in the 1983 Cheltenham Gold Cup – are still hankering after the days when northern-trained jumpers carried all before them. Let’s hope they may one day return.

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TBA LEADER

JULIAN RICHMOND-WATSON Chairman Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association

Sales results don’t provide hope for rise in production Financial enticement needed for breeders to fulfil needs of British fixture list

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hile British racing’s strategy for growth includes many strands, the ambition to have more horses racing – a thousand more by 2020, in fact, which breeders will have to supply – depends entirely on there being a market for the horses, so that those breeders can expect to make a reasonable return on their investment.

At the moment this only partly appears to be the case for many on both sides of the Irish Sea. A significant number of breeders have been disappointed with their sales results this autumn, as buyers have not matched sellers’ expectations and clearance rates have fallen.

Inevitably, breeding for sale always has been, and always will be, a risky and longterm business. Decisions made on the back of this year’s sales will determine the foals of 2018 and yearlings of 2019 who will feed into the pool of racehorses for 2020 and beyond.

Without more owners and better returns for breeders, it is difficult to see how, or why, that number should increase. Only better returns to all in racing will move this necessary progression forward.

Of course, the numbers are not that simple and it should be remembered that most of the increase in supply is from Ireland. The 2015 Flat foal crop in Ireland increased by nearly 800, and over the past five years we have seen an annual increase of more than 1,200 Irish foals. By contrast, Britain has produced fewer foals year on year over the same period, with a total of 4,569, against Ireland’s 8,780. So Ireland has produced the extra foals needed for the growth strategy, but Britain has responded only partly in finding the owners to buy them.

British breeders have not increased the supply to the market, and it may be that as the impact of Brexit takes shape, Irish access to the British market will become more difficult and more expensive, and this should be seen as an opportunity for British breeders and stallion owners alike. Furthermore, the fact that far more foals

and yearlings came to the sales this year, as the number and influence of owner-breeders declines, shows how vital the market is to thoroughbred production.

Commercial breeding was never for the faint-hearted but it would be no surprise if today’s mismatch in supply and demand leads to a reduction or standstill in British foal production, just when the industry is looking to move forward.

The sooner long-term certainty over racing’s funding and strategy can be established, the sooner breeders can make plans for the future. And breeders should and will be at the forefront of developing this strategy.

Prize-money matters at every level, as the cost of breeding and training horses inevitably increases. So it is heartwarming to see those who work so hard for the love of the horse and breeding being rewarded. The story of Mrs Danvers gives us all hope. She was bred by Mike Burton and Connie Hopper, breeders with only one mare and who cared for her. After a superb campaign she has now amassed £196,000 in five unbeaten runs. Well done to everyone connected with Mrs Danvers.

The EBF Breeders’ Series, for fillies just below Listed class, provided opportunities that were well supported throughout the season, and the final four races run on the same programme at Newmarket produced good fields and competitive racing. I was delighted to present the TBA’s £25,000 nomination voucher to Gay Jarvis on behalf of Sheikh Mohammed Obaid for Sharja Queen’s win, a filly who fits exactly into the bracket we hoped to attract when setting up the series. Hopefully this series will gather momentum in its second year (see news story, page 14) and encourage more people to keep fillies in training.

British racing needs a steady supply of horses to fulfil its fixture list, so let’s hope British breeders can find the enthusiasm, optimism and encouragement to bridge the gap.

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NEWS Stories from the racing world

Funding figure boosts racing A levy replacement rate of 10% could bring in close to £100 million for the sport

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he new levy replacement system’s gross profits rate appears set to please the racing industry much more so than bookmakers, after Sports Minister Tracey Crouch told both sides she intends to establish it at 10%.

While the rate for the new system, due to come into effect from April 1, is below the current 10.75% paid by high street firms, it is likely to yield a sum in excess of £90 million, not far off the £100m racing was dreaming of.

Setting a rate for the retail and online sector will enable the formal process of acquiring approval under European state aid rules to begin.

Racing has long wanted an overhaul of the levy system, established in 1961 but never modernised despite the huge change in the betting landscape, with yields falling from £99.3m in 2005-06 to £54.5m in 2015-16.

An increasing number of the sport’s gamblers now wager online; most of the big betting operators moved their internet operations offshore a few years ago, beyond

MP Tracey Crouch: setting rate

the levy net, causing an estimated ‘leakage’ of around £30m per year.

The racing and betting industries have been given until November 4 to make final representations in writing, and the likelihood

is that gambling operators will consider a legal challenge.

While the major high street and online firms will be aghast at a rate of 10%, given what they already pay in media rights, the under-pressure independent sector will benefit from the first £500,000 gross profit on British racing being made exempt from the collection.

It had been announced in March that the government intended to bring in a new funding system for British racing which would close the loophole that allows remote bookmakers based offshore to avoid contributing to racing’s finances through the levy.

Under the replacement system the government would set the rate, while a new racing authority would be in charge of distributing the funds.

It was originally planned that the Levy Board would be responsible for collection and enforcement, but the Gambling Commission could now be handed both those roles.

Crimbourne Stud, the breeding base of the late Sir Eric Parker that produced Group 1 victor Havana Gold, will be sold, it has been announced by his family.

Sir Eric bought the then-derelict West Sussex property in 1989 and developed it into a commercial success and major force at the European sales.

Jessica’s Dream, a daughter of Desert Style, produced Prix Jean Prat victor Havana Gold from her mating with Teofilo. In 2014, with Sir Eric watching on, a filly by Dubawi out of his mare Coyote sold for €500,000 at the Arqana Yearling Sale in Deauville.

Crimbourne Stud, which is set in a beautiful location over 50 acres, encompasses a stable yard of 16 boxes, foaling boxes, tack room and staff room. The site also features a farmhouse with five bedrooms and guest annexe, a three-bedroom converted barn and three staff bungalows.

The Crimbourne broodmares will be moving towards Lambourn, where Sir Eric’s son, Charlie, is based. He said: “Our family has enjoyed a wonderful 27 years at Crimbourne, with some amazing moments on the racecourse and in the sales ring, however the time is right to move on. We hope to continue to run the business as a commercial operation.”

Sir Eric Parker developed Crimbourne into a commercial success

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NEWS

Muffri’Ha (right) progressed from an EBF series win to land a Group 3 prize

Fillies series to continue in 2017 The inaugural EBF Breeders’ Fillies Series concluded at Newmarket’s Rowley Mile on the first Saturday of October, with three of its final four legs – all of which were worth £50,000 – broadcast live by Channel 4 Racing. The series has been given the green light to take place in the same format again next season, starting in early May 2017, with the BEBF agreeing to renew its sponsorship, writes James Crispe.

The Series, which encompassed 20 handicap races of distances varying from six furlongs to a mile and a half, was instigated in order to give valuable opportunities to those fillies that fall just below black-type level, encouraging their owners and ownerbreeders to keep them in training rather than sell them for export or retire them.

A collaboration between the British Horseracing Authority, the Thoroughbred Breeders Association and the British European Breeders’ Fund (BEBF), over £300,000 of its total prize-money of £625,000 was contributed by the BEBF, which itself is funded by British Stallion Farms.

All of the races in the series attracted at least seven runners, with all but three having the all-important eight contestants to qualify

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for each-way betting on the first three home.

Newmarket handler William Haggas was a major advocate of the series before it got under way. His inmate Muffri’Ha went on to become one of the series’ most successful graduates, following up a victory on October 1 with an even more prestigious triumph at the same venue just seven days later, appreciating a slight step up in trip to nine furlongs to land the Group 3 Darley Stakes.

A number of other fillies went on to better things having contested Series races. For instance, John Gosden’s daughter of Azamour, California, followed up a Series win at Ascot in July with a Group 3 score at the Qatar Goodwood Festival and then a third place in Group 2 company.

The Mick Channon-trained Kassia, winner of a Series event at Pontefract in September, went on to prevail in Listed class, as did another Gosden inmate, Eternally, who ran away with a Lingfield leg of the Series in August.

While every series race was won by a filly rated 84 or higher, it also achieved its goal of a broad appeal – Mighty Lady, a daughter of Gazeley Stud’s little-known stallion, Mighty, trained by Robyn Brisland and rated only 74, won more than double her 800-guinea

yearling purchase price when third to the regally-bred pair of Sightline and Sharja Queen in the sixth leg of the series at Chester.

Sagaciously was the only dual series winner. The second of her victories, at Goodwood in late July, also provided arguably the highlight of the 20 contests as her trainer, Ed Dunlop, achieved the remarkable feat of saddling half-sisters to fill the first two places, as both Sagaciously (by Lawman) and runner-up Sagely (by Frozen Power) are out of the Peintre Celebre mare, Saga Celebre.

Kerry Murphy, CEO of the European Breeders’ Fund, said: “We are extremely happy with the success of the EBF Breeders’ Fillies Series in 2016. All 20 races have seen competitive fields and owners and trainers have been very supportive of the initiative as have the racecourses that helped stage the series.

“We hope that, by announcing our intention to continue the Series in 2017, owners can now plan to retain fillies they might otherwise have thought about selling or retiring, in the knowledge that there will be valuable opportunities on offer for them throughout next year.”

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Havana Gold yearlings impress top judges At Tattersalls’ Book 1 Al Shaqab Racing bought a Havana Gold colt for 200,000gns, one month after Shadwell paid £160,000 for one of his sons at Goffs UK’s Premier Sale.

Havana Gold colt x Waveband 200,000gns to Al Shaqab Racing

Other buyers of his yearlings included Clive Cox Racing, Peter & Ross Doyle, David Redvers/SackvilleDonald, John & Jake Warren, Amanda Skiffington and Charlie Gordon-Watson.

Skiffington said: “They are a very solid, correct group of horse that look like they will run,” while Stephen Hillen commented: “Havana Gold’s yearlings are making the short lists. His progeny have everything you look for in a two-year-old.” Ed Sackville said: “His yearlings have really impressed me – they are quality and have great action. I was very pleased to buy one.”

Havana Gold colt x Inner Sea 60,000gns to Charlie Gordon-Watson

Global wins to Watch

QIPCO Champions Day THE best yet

Two-year-olds by Qatar Bloodstock’s Tweenhills sire Harbour Watch have been clocking up victories around the globe.

Great racing, kind weather and some superb performances by outstanding horses made QIPCO British Champions Day at Ascot a huge success.

Broadhaven Honey won on the same day at Windsor, and two days later there was another Harbour Watch double when On The Beach and Dolokhov landed races at Kempton and Chantilly respectively.

Harbour Watch yearlings were in demand at Tattersalls’ October Sale Book 2 – the Hong Kong Jockey Club signed for a 100,000gns yearling consigned by Jamie Railton, while Charlie Gordon-Watson gained a 60,000gns colt from Carmel Stud.

Qatar Racing ran two horses who both delivered fine performances – Simple Verse finished third in the Gr.2 QIPCO Long Distance Cup (right) and would have benefited from a stronger gallop, while Lightning Spear took the same position in the Gr.1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (below right), chasing home Classic winner Minding and Ribchester, and having to switch to join them on the far side of Ascot’s straight mile.

Photos: Laurence Squire & Dan Abraham

His first runner in Australia, the Neil Godbolt-trained Harnova, became his first winner down under when scoring at Tamworth. Jockey Samantha Clenton was impressed, saying: “He has a lot of learning to do, but class prevailed today.”

Rod Street, chief executive of British Champions Series Limited, hailed the event as ‘The best day’s racing ever to have been put on in Great Britain’.

An increased crowd of 31,835 was in attendance.

The Tin Man’s QIPCO Sprint Stakes win was popular, while the QIPCO Champions Stakes fell to Europe’s top horse, Almanzor.

QIPCO British Champions Day was also the conclusion for Qatar Racing’s 8 to Follow competition – the £10,000 first prize went to David Jewers from Essex.

Rugby stars fed on Tweenhills’ beef Tweenhills is now the official supplier of prime Aberdeen Angus beef to the Aviva Premiership side Gloucester Rugby Club.

Players and diners in the Kingsholm Stadium’s corporate boxes are now enjoying the finest Gloucestershire-grazed beef from our own herd. We also sell beef boxes with a selection of cuts to the public – email werner@tweenhills.com for more details.

Makfi sold to Japan Makfi is to stand at stud in Japan after being sold to the Japan Bloodhorse Breeders’ Association (JBBA).

David Redvers, Qatar Bloodstock manager said: “We are sad to see Makfi go as he was the first stallion purchased by Qatar Bloodstock, and he means a lot to Sheikh Fahad and all the team. From a commercial perspective the deal made good sense.”

The sire of Classic winners Make Believe and Sofia Rosa from his first crops in each hemisphere, Makfi initially stood four seasons at Tweenhills, then moved to Haras de Bonneval under the Qatar Bloodstock banner, shuttling annually to New Zealand’s Westbury Stud.

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Racing’s news in a nutshell PEOPLE AND BUSINESS Wilson Renwick Jump jockey retires due to nerve damage in his left arm; he aims to do a ‘reverse Pendleton’ by taking up professional cycling.

Kevin Sexton Former Irish champion conditional jockey tests positive for a metabolite of cocaine.

Henry Brooke Young jumps jockey placed in induced coma after fall at Hexham but subsequently released from hospital and now on road to recovery.

Jonjo O’Neill Trainer achieves landmark 2,000th British jumps winner when Centuro scores at Uttoxeter as rival Red Hot Chilly loses his rider just yards from the line.

Michael Appleby Buys own yard in Langham, just outside Oakham in Rutland, with the intention of furthering career, having previously rented stables near Newark.

Brough Scott Veteran broadcaster will be part of the ITV racing team in 2017, having initially worked for the channel between 1972-1982.

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Sam Twiston-Davies Leading jockey spends week in hospital after Chepstow fall and likely to be sidelined until well into this month.

Josephine Gordon Takes the apprentice jockey title while Jim Crowley celebrates becoming champion jockey for the first time.

Also...

Graham Lee admits that his prolonged absence from the saddle in the summer was due to depression. SIS announces intention to cuts 27 jobs from on-course operation by March. Newmarket handler Willie Musson bows out after 40-year career and more than 400 winners. Colin Tizzard receives huge extra boost as owner Alan Potts sends him 15 horses, including Grade 1 winner Sizing Granite. David Loughnane moves to new premises in Market Drayton having trained in Helmsley, where Roger Fell is now training.

James Doyle loses position as number one rider to Saeed Bin Suroor, who will use the best available riders from now on. Trainer Colm Murphy, who won the Champion Hurdle with Brave Inca, calls it a day, citing an inability to make the profession pay.

Classic-winning trainer Tommy Stack will retire at the end of the year. William Hill’s proposed merger with Amaya, an online poker firm, collapses. Leading point-to-point rider Derek O’Connor will be out of action for about six weeks after breaking his elbow.

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RACEHORSE AND STALLION MOVEMENTS AND RETIREMENTS

Brody’s Cause

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Belardo

Last season’s Cheltenham Festival winner is purchased by JP McManus and will remain in the care of trainer Harry Fry.

Dual Group 1-winning son of Lope De Vega is retired and will take up stallion duties at Darley’s Kildangan Stud.

Mizzou

Dariyan

Luca Cumani-trained Sagaro Stakes winner for the past two years is retired aged five and is set to start new career as a jumps stallion.

This year’s Prix Ganay winner will take up stallion duties at the Aga Khan’s Haras de Bonneval for the 2017 breeding season.

Strath Burn Group 3-winning sprinter is retired and will commence stallion career at Bridge House stud in County Westmeath.

Free Port Lux Five-year-old son of Oasis Dream, a dual Group 2 winner, is recruited by Haras de Cercy to be a predominantly jumps sire.

Vancouver Golden Slipper winner will reverse shuttle from Coolmore Australia to Ashford Stud in Kentucky for the 2017 season.

Mecca’s Angel Outstanding sprinter, dual winner of the Nunthorpe, is retired aged five and sold privately as a broodmare prospect, with her first cover to Galileo.

Red Giant Grade 1-winning son of Giant’s Causeway is sold by Westbury Stud in New Zealand to continue stallion career in Turkey.

Grade 1 winner at two and three is retired to join the roster at Spendthrift Farm in Kentucky.

La Figlia €1.8 million daughter of Frankel is moved by owner Paul Makin to Jeremy Noseda, having initially been stabled with William Haggas.

HORSE OBITUARIES

Harbour Master Two-year-old, a winner at Lingfield and Sandown, has final run for Jamie Osborne at Santa Anita before joining California trainer Jim Cassidy.

Awtaad Irish 2,000 Guineas winner will join the roster at owner Sheikh Hamdan’s Derrinstown Stud, along with Group 2winning sprinter Markaz.

Marcel Owner Paul Makin enters the stallion business by announcing he will stand last year’s Racing Post Trophy winner at the National Stud.

Marju 28 Derby runner-up and St James’s Palace Stakes winner for owner Hamdan Al Maktoum; Marju was the sire of brilliant filly Soviet Song.

PEOPLE OBITUARIES Quiet American 30 Sire of dual Grade 1 winner Real Quiet, and a Grade 1 winner himself, who was a former resident of Darley’s Jonabell Farm.

Graham Roach 69 His famous red and white silks were carried by dual Champion Chase victor Viking Flagship among a raft of highclass jumpers.

Octagonal 24 Ten-time Group 1 winner and sire of Lonhro who resided at Godolphin Woodlands in Australia.

George Moore 88 Successful businessman and owner of top sprinter Moorestyle, who won the July Cup, Haydock Sprint Cup, Abbaye and Foret.

Navarra King 2 Arguably Germany’s leading juvenile, trained by Peter Schiergen, break his leg on the gallops.

Peter Payne 88 Long-serving stable groom in Lambourn who spent 35 years of his career with Fulke Walwyn.

Francis Flood 86 Former champion trainer in Ireland who saddled Glencaraig Lady to win the 1972 Cheltenham Gold Cup and won the Irish Grand National twice.

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THE BIG PICTURE

AS EASY AS 1-2-3 Against the famous, if temporary, backdrop of Chantilly, Found showed her rivals in Europe’s premier all-aged race, the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, the way home, gaining a deserved Group 1 success after several near-misses.

Jockey Ryan Moore sported the Michael Tabor silks, and the owner (centre) along with trainer Aidan O’Brien, are pictured right holding their prizes aloft. It was a remarkable race for O’Brien as he uniquely saddled the first three home, with Highland Reel (purple) and Order Of St George (blue/white) following their stablemate home; all three horses, owned by the Coolmore partners, are by the pre-eminent sire Galileo Photos Bill Selwyn and George Selwyn

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PRIX DE L’ARC DE TRIOMPHE

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THE BIG PICTURE

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QIPCO BRITISH CHAMPIONS DAY

ALMANZOR SOARS The Champion Stakes at Ascot had been a long-term aim for Almanzor, whose trainer Jean-Claude Rouget (inset) seemingly found the lure of the Arc at Chantilly easy to resist, and the prime target was nailed in style, Christophe Soumillon driving his mount out to beat a stellar field which included Arc heroine Found.

The victory secured Almanzor the title of Europe’s middle-distance champion, and he stays in training at four, when the Arc will be given more serious consideration Photos George Selwyn

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THE BIG PICTURE

CHAMPIONS CROWNED Brilliant filly Minding (above) made it seven Group 1 victories with a superb display in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes under Ryan Moore, defeating Ribchester by half a length. The daughter of Galileo, a Classic winner at a mile and 12 furlongs, may race on for Coolmore next season as a four-year-old

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QIPCO BRITISH CHAMPIONS DAY

Clockwise from top: Jim Crowley takes the plaudits after a superb season that saw him crowned champion jockey for the first time; Sheikhzayedroad shows plenty of guts and class to take the Long Distance Cup under Martin Harley for owner Mohammed Jaber and trainer David Simcock; The Tin Man, trained by James Fanshawe and ridden by Tom Queally, records a deserved debut Group 1 success in the Sprint for his owners Fred Archer Racing (Ormonde); Frankie Dettori treats the Ascot crowd to his famous flying dismount after partnering George Strawbridge’s filly Journey to victory in the Fillies & Mares Stakes for boss John Gosden

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FROM THE ARCHIVES

The story behind the photo The Hennessy Gold Cup is perhaps the race Paul Nicholls the jockey is most closely associated with, as he won it in successive years for David Barons, 30 years ago with Broadheath and 12 months later on Playschool.

Here, jumping the last at Newbury, Broadheath has taken the measure of gallant runner-up Two Coppers, ridden by Brendan Powell, the 6-1 chance going on to win pushed out by Nicholls in a memorable contest which also featured famous names such as Maori Venture, who was third, Run And Skip, Charter Party, Door Latch, Arctic Beau, The Langholm Dyer, Strands Of Gold and Church Warden.

Broadheath carried 10st 5lb and recalling his efforts to make the weight, Nicholls wrote in his autobiography Lucky Break: “I starved myself for a week, took pee pills regularly, walked for hours every evening and somehow managed to make the correct weight with the help of my smallest saddle and some custommade wafer-thin cheating boots I reserved for special occasions.

When things were really tight they could save me a pound. Once I passed the scales I’d pop back to the weighing room and change into my regular boots.”

He added: “One of my rewards for winning on Broadheath was a case of Hennessy Cognac. The bottles I took home that night helped solve a few problems with presents that Christmas.”

Photo Alan Johnson

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BROADHEATH, NOVEMBER 22, 1986

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THE MAN YOU CAN’T IGNORE COMMENT

Tony Morris Our columnist and his wealthier school chum learned the perils of punting after being conned by an advertiser – a lesson that longer term has proved a blessing in disguise

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T was shortly after I had changed my order at the newsagent’s, ditching Tiger and taking the Sporting Chronicle Handicap Book instead. Aged thirteen, I had ceased to care about the trials, tribulations and triumphs of Roy of the Rovers, and I now needed a weekly fix from the adult world of the Turf, which had taken over as the main focus of my young life.

It was undoubtedly the history of racing – so much longer and more fascinating than that of any other sport – that interested me most, but I also had an urge to follow closely what was happening in the present, the history to come, as it were. It was all frightfully grown up and, of course, it made me different; here was a subject in which I had to be top of the class, my knowledge far surpassing that of any of my schoolmates, who knew nothing about it and cared even less.

My Handicap Book studies were necessarily a solitary exercise, and there seemed little point in mentioning them to any of my pals, who obviously weren’t going to be interested.

But alongside the form and the programmes of races to come, there were also numerous advertisements, including one which appeared every week from a chap who evidently did not know how to tip a loser. His ad featured a long list of the selections he had given to his clients in recent weeks, and, would you believe it, they had all won. I could have his cast-iron information for next week for the pittance of £2!

That was all well and fine except for the fact that £2 amounted to rather more than a pittance for me. There were other demands on my paper round wages, and there was no way I could raise the necessary in a hurry on my own. I needed a partner.

Out of the kindness of my heart I offered the opportunity to join me in this evidently foolproof get-rich-quick scheme to my pal Phil Jones, with whom I used to cycle to school. I knew that he was an only child and the beneficiary of ample pocket money from generous parents, making him an ideal partner for a joint venture.

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I told Phil all about it and explained how easy it would be to place our bets – by post with a Turf accountant who would have no idea we were under-age. As I’d hoped, he was game and we hatched a plan. We would wait for two or three weeks, which would give us time to raise both the £2 and a sum we could invest on the rock-solid info. If we needed any further encouragement, it soon came: over the next fortnight the fellow’s winning streak continued. Still no losers!

The day to take the plunge arrived. I sent off our postal order and by return came the letter supposed to bring us riches. But it wasn’t quite what I had naively expected – the names of two horses who were going to win at remunerative odds. Instead it included a staking plan which neither of us could understand, but would evidently require us to make multiple bets on umpteen horses.

That was not something we were geared up for, and we had to recognise that we had been conned. We could never work out how it was

that the guy could claim in his next ad that he’d contrived yet another successful week, naming two selections and two winners.

Traps shut...until now!

What could we do? If we tried to complain we had been ripped off, we would risk being exposed as law-breakers, under-age punters, and the repercussions might be catastrophic.

Best to keep quiet about it – which I have done until now, close on 60 years later.

At some time in the 1970s I actually met the guy who had swindled us. I was introduced to him by the advertisement manager of The Sporting Life, who had known him as a rogue tipster for ages. It was a bit late to be asking for a refund, and did I really want to admit how easily I had been duped?

Of course, I recognise that episode as a lesson well learnt now. It helped to ensure that I never became a serious gambler, that I was always wary of ‘information,’ and that I never bet more than I could afford to lose.

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The strategy I developed was never to invest less than a certain amount, because small stakes were never going to make much difference to my bank account. Over a period I raised the sum from a tenner to a score and finally to £50, which explains why now, as a pensioner, I have ceased to be a punter.

All the above provides proof that I have been lucky. I was never going to become addicted to betting after that early experience, and I can watch TV adverts for bookmakers without ever feeling the slightest temptation to succumb to any ‘great offer’ they might make.

Others are not so fortunate. It is impossible to deny that compulsive gambling represents a significant problem in our society, and it is perfectly understandable that the government could remove bookmakers’ advertisements from our screens during the afternoon, when impressionable young viewers may be watching.

But what seems an admirable and laudable proposal promises to have devastating consequences for racing, and not least for ITV, which recently invested millions to acquire sole rights to terrestrial broadcasting of the sport from 2017 to 2020. The company would not have contemplated such a move if it had been aware of the slightest suggestion that bookmakers’ advertisements might be banned. Its business plan makes no sense at all if revenue from bookmakers is barred.

It did not take long for elements in racing to react to the story, which was broken with banner headline treatment on the front page of The Times. The BHA’s spokesman suggested that “as part of any consultation, racing would be united in making strong representations for an exemption for horseracing content.” And he added that such representations “would be based around racing’s obvious interdependence with betting compared to other sports, and the nature of its TV coverage.”

ITV’s own immediate reaction was to point out that the company takes its responsibilities to viewers very seriously, and that its compliance with all advertising codes relating to gambling has been 100%. Its spokesman argued that strict controls were already in place to govern the content of gambling advertising. Not only were ads governed by the UK Code of Broadcast Advertising; the industry itself had also developed its own set of regulations to protect viewers, particularly children.

Those observations were all well and fine, but they hardly addressed the issue. If the government decides that bookmaker advertising during daytime TV racing has the potential to represent a contributory factor to gambling addiction, better counter-arguments will be required.

Can racing persuade the lawmakers that it deserves to be treated as a special case? Can it convince the general public that its stance does not mean that it couldn’t care less about the very real social problem of compulsive gambling? There will be a need for diplomacy of a high order.

Interestingly, there is a distinct perception that most cases of gambling addiction are related to the Fixed Odds Betting Terminals that now appear to constitute a substantial proportion of revenue for betting shops. But has anyone ever seen an ad for the FOBTs? I don’t think there is, or ever was, such a thing. It is necessary to enter a betting shop to find that temptation.

“I was never

going to become addicted to betting after that early experience”

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HOWARD WRIGHT COMMENT

That nearly 90,000 horses featured in the BHA-led weight-for-age analysis meant that not even trainers could argue the scale did not need updating

Research key to big changes

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rexit means Brexit. Yes, Prime Minister May, we hear what you say, and a referendum is a referendum, except when it’s in a third world country, of course, but as a sometime racehorse owner, surely you have heard of the European Pattern Committee. Does Brexit also mean EPC-exit, just when this august body has come up with perhaps the most momentous decision in its history?

Every now and again intemperate voices are raised, suggesting Britain should break away from the EPC and do its own thing. Brexit on horseback, but that approach displays a serious flaw.

The call, usually heard in the wake of a decision that does not suit certain self-interests, ignores the inevitable fact that while we were going our own way, the rest of Europe’s major racing jurisdictions would not simply carry on as normal, operating an integrated system that enjoys international credibility and structure.

Led no doubt by the French and Irish, they would actually make every effort to strengthen their programmes as a consequence of weakened competition.

Dare I say it – yes, I dare – the loudest cries against perceived EPC foul play usually emanate

from within the ranks of trainers, for some of whom displaying self-interest to make a point has become an art form.

With that in mind, it was therefore interesting to hear – absolutely privately, mind you – that during the early stage of discussions about possible changes to the Flat-race weight-for-age scale in Europe, trainers were, and we’ll be generous of spirit about the wording here, the group who needed most convincing that threeyear-olds required less advantage over longer distances in the second half of the season.

Maybe if the EPC had waited to publish its ruling until after the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe,

“So what next?

Whip rules and disciplinary penalties are ripe for harmonisation”

Four-year-old Found won this year’s Arc in which three-year-olds did not figure at all

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in which the best that the six three-year-olds who floundered in the footsteps of Found could manage was eighth place, their position might have attracted a degree of support. Only a tiny degree, though, for one race is nothing on which to base a winning argument.

In fact, the EPC analysis that underpinned the weight-for-age changes was spread over six seasons and more than 8,600 races in which three-year-olds took on older horses, covering 89,385 runners in handicaps and 5,136 in conditions races. A monumental exercise that was undertaken by the BHA racing department, with executive Toni Newman driving the process to logical conclusions.

The extent of the groundwork was crucial. It provided serious answers to a subject that is not universally understood, and while the accumulation of data was going on, those responsible for debating the topic and getting the message across to professional interests were able to take a step back. Once the information was to hand, they could proceed with a surer tread.

The BHA, whose head of handicapping Phil Smith marshalled the facts provided by the data, took the lead. There would have been no point going to the EPC if Britain was not on board.

Then it was up to France, Germany, Ireland and Italy to agree. One dissenter would have been one too many.

Unanimity was achieved and the first changes will take effect in the first half of June 2017, with the rest being implemented a month later. By the time the next Arc comes around, the average older horse will compete on the right weight terms with the average three-year-old.

So, what next? If the EPC can put in place a fundamental technical measure that applies to all its members, there must be scope for agreement in other areas.

Whip rules and disciplinary penalties are ripe for harmonisation. While the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities is looking at the position globally, Europe could maybe take a united lead.

Maybe France can join the rest of Europe on the policy of interference, or at the very least identify individual items of headgear at declaration instead of lumping everything in one category on its racecards.

Maybe all European countries could adopt consistent interpretation and application of the rules on careless riding. Maybe.

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VIEW FROM IRELAND

By JESSICA LAMB

Trainers’ ranks being depleted Financial reasons cited for most leavers but claim that there are still ‘too many’ Murphy, Morgan, and Swan admitted they couldn’t make their businesses pay any more, with Morgan adding that she could “no longer do the work of two or three men”.

“It’s tough to make it

pay, survival of the fittest. Training takes a lot of luck – you need the right break” Wachman did not cite financial reasons as a factor in his retirement, and his prize-money income and runner level has held steady for the last decade, but this year he has saddled just six winners – a fifth of last year’s total of 32 – suggesting that he has been

winding up operations for some time.

Pursuing “other business interests” and spending more time with his family led Wachman to quit, while his ex-colleague Murphy sees nothing negative in any of it.

“It’s always been the same,” he said. “There have always been lads at the top with most of the good horses and trainers coming and going below.

“There are just a few more high-profile trainers quitting right now, but, then again, it’s probably not as easy for others to make the decisions we are making.

“We are lucky to be in the position we are that we can call it a day while we’re fit to do something else.”

Trainer Noel Meade, who began training before Gordon Elliott was born and when Willie Mullins was just 15, sympathises with those who quit the business for financial reasons.

“It is tough to make it pay,” he stresses. “It’s survival of the fittest.”

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ew owners, new horses and more runners. That’s what Horse Racing Ireland’s recent report revealed – so how and why is Ireland haemorrhaging trainers?

With the exit from the training ranks of multiple Cheltenham Festival winner Colm Murphy this autumn, the number of full licences in use has fallen to a 14-year low of 371.

There were that many working trainers back in 2000, a dramatic drop to 361 coming the following year and entrances rising up until the inevitable peak of 456 in 2007.

The decline comes despite HRI showing a 4.7% rise year-on-year in horses in training up to October 4, and a 7.8% increase in new owners registering, bringing total ownership numbers up 1.2%.

And there are more retirements scheduled before the end of 2016 with Classic-winning trainer David Wachman calling time and Tommy Stack’s son and long-time assistant Fozzy taking over that Tipperary operation.

These high-profile retirements follow those in 2015 of Joanna Morgan and Charlie Swan.

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Meade hints there are still too many trainers.

“There’s certainly enough of them [trainers],” he said. “We’re not going to stop people getting into it, but it takes a lot of luck – you need to get the right break.”

Asked whether more should be done to eliminate the luck factor and progress potential trainers towards a crucial break, he added: “It’s a difficult question. What could we do?”

In Britain many trainers take on pupil assistants, who have the sole aim of gaining enough experience to go out on their own (Patrick Harty took that route at Nicky Henderson’s, but is now working in partnership with father Eddie until he can afford to train himself).

Generally yards are smaller in Ireland and Meade, for one, could not afford to lose a head man or girl.

“Not that many trainers here have assistant trainers full stop,” he said. “Gordon Elliott has one [Olly Murphy], Willie has Patrick [Mullins, son], so doesn’t need one, I have Damien McGillick and Emma Connolly, but a lot of trainers are doing everything.

“They are the trainer, the assistant, the box driver, the work rider, the whole lot; it’s because they can’t afford to have anyone else.”

Even though gaining a licence is more efficient – the Turf Club has improved and streamlined procedures for getting a full licence – it’s still a tough business to break into and stay in, particularly in the topheavy jumps game.

The strength of Mullins’ string has been unrivalled, despite his recent reversal with Gigginstown horses, but now Elliott is moving up on par, the volume of the ammunition the pair can field suffocating others jumps trainers.

Restricted advantages While numbers of trainers with full licences – Flat, National Hunt and dual purpose – are declining, restricted trainer numbers had been climbing since a low of 248 in 2011.

Last year saw a total of 301 restricted licences issued, though up to October 4 this year, just 242 had been allocated.

Richard Pugh from P2P.ie highlights that until recently restricted trainers could only train horses they owned. Lifting this confinement opens up the licence to be a ‘learner trainer’ option – as Denise O’Shea shows – and it has other unique benefits too.

Last season they earned more than €7 million in prize-money between them, landing over 300 winners; Henry de Bromhead was the only other trainer to top €1m, and only five other trainers made in excess of €400,000. De Bromhead, their closest rival, saddled 48 winners.

Already both top trainers have earned €1m, each with nearly double third-placed de Bromhead’s winners. It’s stark reading for a rookie starting out and perhaps why more are cutting their teeth on the Flat (see sidebar).

Prize-money is more plentiful in Flat racing and the wealth is spread more evenly, with the top trainers not dominating across every race category, as in jump racing.

At the start of October, with only a few race meetings of the season left, four trainers had earned more than €1m, and a further eight had netted more than €400,000.

Industry figures 2000 2011 Full trainers 371 406 Horses in training 8,028 9,832 New owners 711 777 Total owners 3,723 4,587 *2016 figures are up to October 4

Industry update New owners Active owners All runners Flat runners NH runners Individual runners Horses in training

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2012 2013 2014 2015 2016* Peak 394 380 377 372 371 456 (2007) 9,238 9,199 8,613 8,214 7,912 12,128 (2007) 696 635 660 644 552 894 (2009) 4,195 3,953 3,706 3,609 3,359 5,641 (2008)

Jan 1-Oct 4 2016 552 3,359 21,834 10,251 11,583 6,112 7,912

Jan 1-Oct 4 2015 512 3,319 21,082 9,431 11,651 5,862 7,550

Variance (%) +7.8 +1.2 +3.6 +8.7 -0.6 +4.3 +4.7

“I’m a good example myself,” said Pugh.

“I have a restricted licence for the sole reason that with it I can run a horse in Britain in a bumper. That’s an invaluable option to have in the event that you find you have a poor jumper who isn’t going to win a point-to-point.

“Every year when it comes around to renewing it I do so because I fear that if I let it go I might have to do the two-week trainers’ course again should I need it in the future.

“I cannot afford to take two weeks off work to do that, and I see many others in the same position.”

Catching up Earlier this year View From Ireland spoke to two Flat trainers who are making breakthroughs and expanding.

Adrian Keatley, now a Classic-winning trainer, says the key is to get numbers up, while fellow Curragh trainer Johnny Levins stresses that, in Flat racing, you cannot be isolated and must be on the Curragh to be recognised.

Keatley is in his second season and doesn’t know “if I’ll ever be in profit”, but he has drawn up a five-year plan in the new yard he has bought on the Curragh, and will get out at the end of that if he cannot make it pay – Jet Setting’s Irish 1,000 Guineas win in May and subsequent seven-figure sale has rocketed him up his timetable.

Levins is two years further up the ladder than Keatley and has a key backer in businessman Seamus Mannion, as well as a sales initiative – the Curragh Stud Racing Syndicate, which runs select two-year-olds to sell for profit as threeyear-olds (it sold £42,000 purchase Black Beach for £220,000 last year, though has yet to have a winner this term).

Levins has trebled his 2015 winners tally in 2016, finishing September with nine winners from 100 runners.

Keatley has doubled his 2015 winners tally, recording 17 victories from 148 runners, Jet Setting kicking off October with another Group win.

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Dual Group 3 winner Quarterback will be the star turn for Rune Haugen (inset) when he moves his operation to Newmarket

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une Haugen, a Norwegian trainer of over 20 years standing whose early childhood was consumed by his ambition to become an international ski jumper, is taking a big leap of a different kind by relocating his string to Newmarket.

A former champion apprentice jockey with more than 400 winners to his name as a trainer – including in Germany and the UAE but, despite many near-misses, never in Britain – Haugen has been coming to Newmarket for the best part of 30 years.

“The very first time that I rode up Warren Hill and then went over to racecourse side and rode with my good friend, Lester Piggott, I was blown away by the place, and ever since then it has been a big dream to train or ride horses here,” Haugen admits.

“I am just turning 50 and I want to kick on, and if I don’t make the move now I’ll never do it and I’ll probably regret it for the rest of my life.

“My kids are getting grown up now, and my eldest, Tina, who is 23 and has been acting as my travelling head lad, is going out with William Buick’s younger brother Andrew. They have a house in Cambridge, so I will initially base myself there, but I want to buy a proper house and live on the yard.”

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He continued: “I have a good private setup at Skoger, near Oslo, training for Randi Nilsen, but my contract for her runs out at the end of the year and I have come to realise from my visits to Dubai that it makes a big difference to a horse to not have to endure the hardships of a Norwegian winter.

“At Skoger I’ve been like the farmer, the blacksmith and the gardener, I’ve had to take care of everything; that was another reason for the move as I couldn’t take it any more.

In the winter I had to prepare all the tracks myself and I sat on the tractor for three hours a day.

“It was too much work and I just want to concentrate 100% on the training, not having to get up at three o’clock in the morning to get things ready. Newmarket, by contrast, has everything and is the global centre of horseracing – you can train every day right through the winter, whereas at home it stops.

“I will still be taking some of my Scandinavian-bred horses back in the spring, I have already organised a satellite yard at Ovrevoll racecourse for them, and some of my other horses could go back there for the big money races.”

Haugen has the backing of a trio of enthusiastic owners from the United Arab

Emirates including the former jockey Abdulla Al Saboosi, and Mohammed Al Amri, whose father is a leading camel trainer in Dubai.

But, almost without exception, his Norwegian owners have opted to make the move with him, and he hopes to start next year’s turf season with between 30 and 35 horses.

His standard-bearer will be Quarterback, who arrives in Britain with two recent Group 3 wins to his name, including a five-length romp in the Stockholm Cup International, when he stopped the clock for the mile and a half in a rapid 2m 25.4s.

All of which is a long way from Haugen’s early days, trying to follow in the footsteps of his father and grandfather as a ski jumper.

One too many falls and the arrival, when he was 13 years old, of a pony on the family farm near Trondheim, led to his attention being diverted to horses.

“I saw the Norwegian Derby on the telly and said, ‘That’s it, I want to be a jockey’,” Haugen reveals. “Everyone laughed because, as the eldest son, my mission was to take over the farm.

“And when I left home aged 17 to become a jockey my father said, ‘Don’t worry, he’ll be back in a month’. But I never returned.”

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European Jockeys Cup contest has legs

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A number of familiar names – including Darryll Holland, Jimmy Quinn and Gerald Mosse – took part in the second running of the European Jockeys Cup at Conseq Park (formerly Velka Chuchle racecourse) in Prague on the last Saturday in September.

Enlarged from the first running, it pulled in the biggest crowd of the season to Conseq Park and resulted in a popular victory for the local champion Bauyrzhan Murzabayev, who was flying the flag for Kazakhstan.

Ten other nations were represented among the 16-strong field but it was not a great afternoon for the British-based visitors. Quinn, representing Ireland, did manage a second and two fourths to finish fifth, but Holland was unseated in the paddock from his second mount and, feeling unwell, had to stand aside for his next three rides before returning to finish 14th in the finale.

The competition was the brainchild of one of its competitors, the young Czech trainer Vaclav Luka jnr, who made a name for himself in Deauville this summer when winning two races, including the Listed €100,000 Grand Handicap de Deauville, with a horse that he had acquired a couple of months earlier out of a claimer.

Keen to put Czech racing in the spotlight, Luka convinced one of his principal owners, Milan Kriz, to provide crucial financial backing for the European Jockeys Cup, which allowed it to offer 3.69 million Czech crowns (£100,655) in total prize-money.

The attendance at Conseq Park (so named since 2011 in deference to the sponsors Conseq Investment Management) was 7,000, the biggest turnout of the year, to the delight of

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Managing Director Petr Drahos.

“The crowd was 15% up on last year and we hope to make the event even better in 2017, when we intend to move it forward three weeks to the first Saturday in September,” Drahos said.

“It attracts a large proportion of non-racing fans, so we are already in discussions about how to make it more family-friendly.”

Drahos feels that the past season has been a successful one for the sport.

“Attendances are not falling, many racedays are broadcast on Czech television, and the average field size is a healthy ten runners,” he reveals.

Murzabayev, the Jockeys Cup winner, is an interesting character. At 24, he has made such an impact in just over four years in the Czech Republic, notching more than 150 wins and three jockeys’ titles, that he is now being courted further afield, in particular Berlin, where an association with trainer Roland Dzubasz has brought him 11 wins in Germany this season.

This new German involvement looks likely to cost him a fourth consecutive Czech championship but he still enjoyed a notable highlight when winning the Czech Derby on Gontchar. He faces a big decision over the winter about where to base himself in 2017.

Banzari rewards speculative investment

In the hullabaloo of Chantilly’s Arc meeting perhaps the pick of a plethora of good stories were the feat of Aidan O’Brien’s 1-2-3 in the Arc itself; the Brits mopping up five of the other six Group 1 races; and Criquette Head-Maarek keeping the home team afloat by landing just her third(!) win of the season in the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere.

One cracking tale that may have slipped under the radar surrounds the British-bred four-year-old Motivator filly Banzari, and the British-based bloodstock agent Stephen Hillen, who made a pretty penny on his speculative investment in her.

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The pick of them has been Banzari, who was struggling off marks in the high 80s in British handicaps last season for Michael Bell before she was knocked down to Hillen for 24,000gns at Tattersalls at the end of November.

She has thrived for her journey across the Channel, making relentless progress to

follow two small provincial wins with a Listed third, a Listed win and then victory in the Group 3 La Coupe de MaisonsLaffitte on September 17, the first domestic Pattern success of Devin’s nascent career.

A fortnight later and she went under the hammer again at the Arqana Arc Sale, fetching the remarkable sum of €400,000 to continue her career in California, subsequently finishing a close third in the Grade 1 EP Taylor Stakes at Woodbine.

This represented quite a coup for Hillen given that she had also scooped €92,200 in prize-money during the ten months in his ownership.

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AROUND THE GLOBE THE WORLDWIDE RACING SCENE

NORT H A M E R I CA

by Steve Andersen

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Santa Anita turf gets thumbs-up

The turf track at Santa Anita that will greet European runners at the Breeders’ Cup was laid in the summer and is like a ‘carpet’

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he turf course in place for the Breeders’ Cup meeting at Santa Anita on November 4 and 5 was grown in the California desert in the spring, installed at the Los Angeles-area track in June, and tested for the first time in races in late September and early October.

The timeline may seem hurried, but early reviews were favourable from several jockeys.

The course, a Bermuda-Bandera blend, replaced a surface that showed significant wearand-tear in the preceding year, failed to drain well during rain, and produced a greater-thannormal amount of divots during racing.

The new course was used for 11 races from September 30 to October 1, including three graded stakes races during the first three days of the track’s six-week autumn meeting.

Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith said the course was “wonderful” with a “beautiful bounce”. Fellow Hall of Famer Kent Desormeaux described the course as a “carpet”.

The course is short, about three inches in length, and the going is firm, even by American standards. During the first three days of racing, the course produced fast times, typical for southern California turf courses. In that sense, the track will be similar to one used for Breeders’ Cup races at Santa Anita from 2012 to 2014.

Santa Anita officials gave the course a 90-day period for growth after installation. The sod on the track’s unique hillside course, the start for THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

turf sprints and races at ten furlongs and a mile and a half, was installed first, in early June, followed by the seven-furlong main oval later that month.

Santa Anita did not host racing from mid-July to late September, allowing for the course to settle and establish roots. During that time, the course was frequently watered. Temperatures were hot, typical for the time of year, and frequently in excess of 85 degrees. No

“The installation

project cost more than $500,000 and must stretch well beyond the autumn meeting” measurable rain fell during the summer, and little, if any, is likely before the Breeders’ Cup. The installation project cost more than $500,000, officials said, and the investment must stretch well beyond the autumn meeting.

Santa Anita runs a six-month meeting from late December to early July in 2017 and the course will be used from one to four times a day during the four-day racing weeks, depending

on weather conditions.

“We have to have a surface for year-round,” track Senior Vice-President Joe Morris said earlier this year.

Santa Anita needs a consistent turf course to benefit owners and trainers who have invested in runners with grass pedigrees. Such horses were sidelined for a month in June and early July while Santa Anita installed the new course and before the start of the Del Mar summer meeting.

One measure that will preserve the new course is the use of temporary rails that provide four settings. Aside from the permanent position, rails can be positioned ten, 20 or 30 feet away from the inside to provide fresh ground. The inside position was used on September 30 and October 2 and twice on the weekend of October 8-10.

For the rest of October, the inside portion of the course was not scheduled to be used until the Breeders’ Cup day races.

“We can move the rail every day,” said Rick Hammerle, the track’s Vice-President of Racing.

“We want it to be as perfect as we can be. We need the roots to grow. We think it will get stronger and stronger.”

The course will be used for six seven-figure Breeders’ Cup races – the Juvenile Turf and Juvenile Fillies Turf on November 4, and the Turf Sprint, Mile, Filly & Mare Turf and Turf on November 5.

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AUST R A L I A

by Danny Power

Soon after the champion unbeaten mare Black Caviar has delivered her third foal – a gorgeous filly by Snitzel – in September, it was announced her first foal, a two-year-old filly by Exceed And Excel, will be trained by the Lindsay Park team of David and Ben Hayes and Tom Dabernig.

The filly, named Oscientra (a brand name of a very expensive caviar), was due to arrive at Lindsay Park Euroa late in September after completing her breaking in and early education.

It also was announced that the Hawkes training partnership of Michael, Wayne and John will train Black Caviar’s second foal, a yearling colt by Sebring.

The attention on Black Caviar’s offspring will far outweigh what can be expected of them on the racetrack. We’ve seen it with Makybe Diva’s foals, who became media personalities before it was discovered they were slow racehorses, and then became the butt of ridicule.

Since 1900, only one champion Australian racemare has been able to produce a horse as good as herself. Not that all were dud broodmares, far from it, but more were than were not. In 2000, noted bloodstock journalist, the late Warwick Hobson, listed his 100 greatest Australian racehorses of the century 1900-2000, of which 24 were fillies or mares.

It’s a wonderful list, but if you were producing a list of our top 100 broodmares, none would be on it. In European language, there are no Urban Seas. Of Hobson’s elite 24, only five produced a Group 1 winner at stud.

Hobson’s 17th-ranked mare, Chicquita, the darling of the post-World War II decade, is probably the one champion mare who can be regarded as leaving a son or daughter as good if not better than herself. Chicquita’s handsome jet-black son Eskimo Prince (by Star Kingdom’s champion son Todman) was the glamour colt of 1963-64 and, while a lot of it was to do with his sire and dam, he was a genuine superstar.

Eskimo Prince won the 1963 Silver Slipper and Breeders’ Plate in the spring and returned in the autumn to win the Golden Slipper and AJC Sires’ Produce Stakes. Eskimo Prince trained on to win the Rosehill Guineas later that year.

Another of Chicquita’s sons, Comicquita (by Comic Court), finished runner-up behind Even Stevens in the 1962 Melbourne Cup. Hobson’s top-ranked mare Wakeful (and mine as well) left two outstanding horses: the 1918 Melbourne Cup winner Night Watch and Blairgour, a brilliant sprinter who won the Oakleigh Plate and Futurity Stakes in 1911.

They were good, but nowhere near as good as mum, who won 25 races and the equivalent of

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Unbeaten champion Black Caviar with her second foal, a yearling colt by Sepoy

11 Group 1s from five and a half furlongs to two miles.

Others that left Group 1 winners were Lady Wallace (champion filly of 1905; dam of three outstanding gallopers, including AJC Derby winner Cisco); Valicare (won four Group 1s in the autumn of 1926; the dam of VRC Oaks winner Siren) and 1982 Australian Horse of the Year Rose Of Kingston, who produced 1990 Melbourne Cup winner Kingston Rule to a mating with the great Secretariat.

Some of the champion mares that were great disappointments as broodmares include champion sprinter Dual Choice (nine named foals, all hopeless), Melbourne Cup winner Light Fingers (four named foals, one Listed winner), Caulfield Cup winner Leilani (four named foals), champion miler Maybe Mahal (seven named foals, one Listed winner), Melbourne Cup winner Evening Peal (four named foals), brilliant juvenile Proud Miss (five

named foals, one Listed winner), dual Cox Plate winner Tranquil Star (five named foals, all duds) and Golden Slipper winner Storm Queen (ten named foals, one Grade 3 winner).

Others that left top-class horses but not Group 1 winners include Cox Plate winner Surround, enduring star of the 1960s Wenona Girl, the recently deceased Melbourne Cup winner Let’s Elope and the late Tommy Smith’s champion filly Bounding Away.

Black Caviar is so precious that the Hunter Valley stud where she resides hasn’t been publicly named for fear of a steady stream of fans. The syndicate that owns her have declared they will race all her foals, and at the time of writing we are awaiting the media release to tell us what her next mating will be.

It will be mainstream news, as will Oscientra when she steps out in public for the first time.

Every move will be snapped by the paparazzi as if she was an equine Kim Kardashian.

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THE BIG INTERVIEW BRIAN HARDING

The life of

BRIAN At 44 Brian Harding is used to fielding questions about retirement yet while injury is an ever-present danger for jump jockeys, nothing could be further from his contented mind Words Julian Muscat • Photos George Selwyn

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he first week of October was quiet for Brian Harding. He rode a winner at Kelso on Arc day and would not ride again for the rest of the week. The nearest fixture to his home in Blencowe, Cumbria, was more than 200 miles distant at Ludlow.

Tracking him down was less than straightforward, however. When he eventually called back he sounded slightly breathless. “I’ve been flat out,” he says apologetically, before proceeding to be helpful and courteous in equal measure.

These are not traits readily associated with racing folk in this day and age. But then, Harding is not really of this day and age. At 44, he is a few months older than Andrew Thornton, who makes great play of being the dinosaur desperately seeking his 1,000th career winner ahead of his retirement.

In the north, where he plies his trade, Harding’s weighing-room peg has been closest to the door for longer than he cares to remember. The peg denotes his seniority by age but Harding defies the stereotype in more ways than one. He has never been more prolific in the saddle.

The man who had never previously breached 40 winners posted 56 and 42 winners in the last two campaigns. While the jockeys he grew up with have long since swapped riding boots for slippers, Harding

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yearns for the season to gather momentum.

You’d think the busyness he alluded to was geared towards that end. Renewing alliances after the summer break, riding out as much as possible, touring border yards and beyond which might be fertile sources of rides in the months ahead. But that is not his way.

Busyness is relative where he is concerned. His way is to savour what

“I just tip away with my girlfriend Kelly.

We’re just happy working together, enjoying life ”

remains, which precludes rushing around like a turbo-charged conditional. “These days I generally stick to riding out for Nicky [Richards] a couple of days a week,” he says.

“Sometimes I ride out for Jedd O’Keeffe, who’s a lovely fellow. The odd day for Micky Hammond, but that’s about it.”

Harding’s personal life reached something

of a crossroads in 2013. He extricated himself from a failing marriage and started again, buying a house in a part of England that has become a home from his Irish home.

What sustained him in the preceding years were the horses. Riding sated him in winter and breaking in stores took care of the summer months.

“I’ve been breaking horses for seven or eight years,” he says, the process dispensing the only kind of mental therapy a man like him would be receptive to. “I broke ten horses at Nicky’s yard this summer. I just tip away with my girlfriend Kelly [Gale, who also works for Richards]. We’re just happy working together, breaking horses in the summer, enjoying life.”

Harding believes this rural idyll is largely responsible for his second professional coming. “When things are going well everything seems easier, somehow,” he says.

“There’s definitely a fair chance it has something to do with me being very happy personally. Maybe it brings a different outlook on life.”

It’s refreshing to hear Harding speak in such terms. It telegraphs his maturity, especially for one who has had only two trainer tutors, both of them redoubtable, and whose father was never inclined to enunciate his feelings.

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He grew up in Castletownroche, near Fermoy, a part of Ireland synonymous with jumps horses. Coolmore’s National Hunt stallion division at Castlehyde was nearby, as was Liam Cashman’s Rathbarry Stud, which in Harding’s youth stood a single jumps stallion in Proverb. The area is a hotbed of hunting and point-to-pointing.

Harding’s father had a dairy farm and broke in horses on the side. In his youth, two felicitous events that would become inseparable were responsible for shaping Harding’s life.

“Gordon Richards did

things his way, very properly, and that was it. He had a massive influence on me” “Jonjo O’Neill also came from our village,” Harding reminisces. “It’s a small place, so that was a big deal. Jonjo was my hero and my father broke in Dawn Run, whose career we obviously followed closely.”

The two episodes fused on that unforgettable day at Cheltenham in 1986, when O’Neill partnered Dawn Run to win the Gold Cup. To this day the mare remains the only horse ever to complete the Gold Cup/Champion Hurdle double.

“I was too young to remember my dad breaking in Dawn Run at home; I was only six or seven at the time,” Harding says. “But I was at secondary school when she won the Gold Cup. We listened to it on the radio.”

It must have made his father feel terribly proud. “I imagine so,” Harding says.

“My dad was a man of few words when it came to things like that. You’d think he’d be over the moon but he’d never say so

himself. He was a brilliant horseman but tough enough.”

It was Harding’s father, also Jonjo, who set him on his career path. He was a friend of Cashman, who arranged for the 15-year-old to join Kevin Prendergast at the Curragh, where he rode five winners on the Flat over three years.

“I was light enough then,” Harding says, “but I never wanted to be a Flat jockey. Jumping was always for me, so one day, when Kevin sold some horses to Gordon Richards, I went over with them on the horsebox and arrived at Greystoke [where Richards trained] in 1992.”

Harding thus moved from one demanding taskmaster to another. They would shape his life. “Kevin was a great help to me,” he reflects of Prendergast. “Gordon [father of Nicky, who trains at Greystoke Stables today] was a very hard man but also I would say very fair. He did things his way, very properly, and that was it. He had a massive influence on me.”

An upshot of moving to Greystoke was that O’Neill happened to train in the nearby village of Skelton before he moved south to Jackdaws Castle. Not before Harding was able to renew the family link, however.

“It was nice to make the connection,” Harding says. “I have ridden a couple of winners for Jonjo and we almost had the day of days when I rode [the O’Neill-trained] Simply Gifted to finish third in the [2005] Grand National. I got a fantastic ride that day. No feeling like it.”

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Brian Harding with boss Nicky Richards riding through the village of Greystoke on the way back to the Richards stable, where Harding has been based for nearly a quarter of a century – during that time One Man (left) is the best the jockey has ridden

But it was under Richards’s fiercely protective wing that Harding flourished. It was a slow ascent at a time when Richards’s stable jockey was Tony Dobbin. Yet even Dobbin was sometimes obliged to stand down when one of the stable stars – and Richards had more than a few – travelled south.

One Man epitomised this state of affairs.

Dobbin rode the formidable grey chaser for one and a half seasons, by which time One Man was a raging favourite for the 1996 Cheltenham Gold Cup. But Richard Dunwoody took over the reins when One Man limbered up at Sandown two months before the big race.

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when Dunwoody jumped ship, Dobbin reunited with One Man to win at Ascot in February 1998. Dobbin would get his chance aboard the grey in the Queen Mother Champion Chase at Cheltenham the following month.

Harding watched all this from the shadows.

The weekend before Cheltenham he’d made plans to fill in at the week’s minor meetings but Dobbin injured himself 24 hours before the big race. Richards had no hesitation in summoning Harding for One Man. “The horse had plenty of knockers,” Harding recalls. “His record at Cheltenham wasn’t good.

He probably didn’t stay in the previous two Gold Cups, so there wasn’t an awful lot of pressure because of that.”

In the event Harding rode One Man with conviction and the combination galloped out to a triumph that generated euphoria in packed grandstands. It was demonstrably the highlight of Harding’s career to date, even if the occasion passed in something of a blur.

“When something really big like that happens, you’d love for it to happen again so you can take in a bit more of it than you did the first time,” he says of that day.

Yet the most poignant memory for Harding was Richards’ loyalty in the build-up – and not just the fact Richards gave Harding the ride. “In 1996 I had a double fracture of the skull and there was some bruising to my brain,” he relates.

“I was stood down from riding for a year, which was a bolt out of the blue. So I spent that

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year working in the yard, and when I was able to start race-riding Gordon got me going again.

It was less than three months from my first day back to when I rode One Man at Cheltenham.”

Conversely, One Man’s death at Aintree three weeks later made a perfect vignette of the ups and downs of a jump jockey’s career. “The ground was quite soft, so whether that caused him to fall I don’t know,” Harding says. “It wasn’t nice for anyone; it wasn’t nice for racing, actually, because the horse had a big following.

And Gordon was quite poorly at the time.”

Those were halcyon days for jump racing in the north, which now struggles to muster runners at the big winter festivals. “I don’t really know why that is,” Harding laments. “Back then, I suppose a lot more country people bred and raced horses.

“But the way I look at it is that Nicky has 75 horses. He’s busy enough again, and he has Simply Ned, Eduard and a lot of good young horses coming through.

So I want to enjoy

everything and just see what happens.

“There are no targets for the season, nothing special, although we all love to win good races. But one thing I know is that you’re a long time retired.”

Brian Harding has no targets for the season and is simply happy to enjoy riding decent horses in good races

‘Things are going good, so why retire?’

Ever since he turned 40, Brian Harding has been besieged by questions relating to his retirement. Four years on and the end is not even in his sights.

“They’ve been trying to retire me for a long time now but if you’re fit, you’re happy and you are enjoying it, you’ve got to keep going,” he maintains.

“I suppose a bad injury might finish it, like it has for others,” he continues. “It’s a fickle game. If you’re in it long enough you’re probably going to struggle anyway, but at the moment we’re in one piece and things are going good. So why retire?”

Whenever that happens, Harding has no inclination to start training. “I have absolutely zero interest in that,” he says. “If I do anything with horses it will probably be breaking and pre-training, which I do now, but we’ll see. There’s the coaching as well, which is something I enjoy.”

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For the last seven years Harding has coached a pool of young jockeys in every nuance of race-riding. He currently has 12 on his books and spends four hours every month with each of them.

“Some of them come round to mine and practise on the Equicizer,” he says. “We’ll video it and look back on it, where they need to improve, and see their levels of fitness. But it’s not just about riding skills, you’re trying to help ground them, get them used to everything.

“Then there are all the different wings of the Professional Jockeys’ Association, like nutrition, the psychological side and the various other aspects. I love doing it. Seeing them improve is where the pleasure comes from.”

Harding’s enthusiasm for the cause is plain, although before any of that he will have to resolve a fundamental dilemma.

Will he live in Cumbria in retirement or return to his native Ireland, where many of his seven siblings live and where his sister, Marie, has a licence to train from the family farm in Cork?

“I suppose the place I call home is always going to be Ireland,” he offers. “That’s where I came from, and we love going home, even now. The craic is brilliant when we catch up with the mob of family and friends.

“But I have been in Cumbria for a long time and would consider it home as well,” he continues, his loyalties plainly divided.

“There’s a chance I will live here in Cumbria, although I don’t really know for sure.”

Harding smiles when he realises he hasn’t really answered the question. “We’ll worry about that one when the time comes,” he says. For the time being, he is in no hurry to change anything at all.

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Over a successful career spanning 20 years, Herefordshire trainer Venetia Williams has become renowned for staying chasers, epitomised by Aintree winner Mon Mome and the top-class Teeton Mill, and elegant attire on the racecourse

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D

uring your amateur career you rode ten winners, then you were knocked unconscious at Becher’s in the 1988 Grand National and two weeks later broke your neck in a fall at Worcester. How did those setbacks affect your outlook on life?

I was carted off to hospital in an ambulance after my fall at Becher’s. I came round in the ambulance and was signed off with concussion. Then a fortnight later in my very next ride – a hurdle race at Worcester – I was all set to win on a 33-1 chance when I had a really nasty fall at the last flight. I broke the hangman’s bone in my neck and am very lucky to still be around.

For a period it does make you re-evaluate your life, but then the immediacy of that memory tends to fade a bit over time. I am sure anyone who has experienced a nearmiss like that would agree that it makes you appreciate everything. The moment jockeys start questioning the fragility of what they’re doing is probably the time to start looking for a different way of making a living.

You were only the second woman (Sue Smith has since become the third) to train a Grand National winner, Mon Mome at 100-1 in 2009, and there is still only a small percentage of women

among the top 100 trainers. Is training still a man’s world?

As women we probably bring a slightly different approach to the challenges of the profession. I think there is the possibility of men perhaps having more of a rhinoceros skin when it comes to taking on the inevitable knocks and downs [of training] – I do think they might be better at handling certain situations. I remember Philip Hobbs’s wife, Sarah saying to me, ‘The trouble with you is that you’re on your own.

Philip comes to bed at night, tells me all the troubles of the day, rolls over, goes to sleep and then I lie awake all night worrying.’

Although I am on my own I have a number of great people around me who have worked for me for a long time. My head lad Philip Turner, who has been with me since I started, and my travelling head lad Jerry Roberts, who deals with everything at the races, head up a very good team.

Mon Mome and Emperors Choice, winner of the 2014 Welsh National, epitomise Venetia Williams’s training – top staying chasers. Do they excite you more than two-mile hurdlers?

Any big winner is equally exciting, for sure.

We all appreciate winning the good races, whether chases or hurdles, over two or three

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VENETIA WILLIAMS >> miles, though over the years chasers have been

the bulk of our winners. I don’t think you can train speed into a horse but sometimes perhaps you can train stamina into them. If you have a horse that’s not particularly quick, with a bit of luck you can get it to stay. If it doesn’t stay and it’s not quick it won’t win anything! I also really enjoy seeing early signs of potential in the youngsters and bringing that through.

Your runners appear to relish testing ground. Is it to do with the type of horse you buy or how you train them in Kings Caple, Herefordshire?

I won’t run horses during the summer because the risk of tendon injury is massively increased by drier ground. When owners buy horses they expect them to be racing up to the age of 12 – running them on drier ground is asking for trouble. So if they can’t win on the soft in the winter, that’s the only chance they’re going to get. Those opportunities come during the months of the best races, which is when the ground is softer and safer for them.

Would winning the Cheltenham Gold Cup mean more than your Grand National victory with Mon Mome?

I’ll answer that when it’s happened! Of course, we’d all love to win the Gold Cup. But at the same time we have to remember the National is the race that is known the world over. The word Grand National has its own meaning, in the same way the Derby does. When you see some of those unusual titles like the ‘Pigs Derby’ or ‘Cockroaches Grand National’, thoughts spring immediately to Epsom and Aintree. The Grand National has a meaning worldwide, but if you mention the Gold Cup people would not necessarily know what you’re talking about. I’m hugely thrilled and honoured to have won it.

Teeton Mill, who had won the Hennessy and the King George, was among the favourites for the 1999 Gold Cup but sadly slipped a tendon off his hock at the ditch at the top of the hill.

His jockey Norman Williamson said he couldn’t see him being beaten. Although we’ve had a couple of placed in the race since, that looked our best chance at the time.

How do you go about reading the minds and freshening up horses that lose their way?

Sometimes people say, ‘If only horses could talk’, but I think, on the contrary, it’s a good job they can’t because they speak to us much more truthfully than some people we might know!

They speak loudly through their actions and in the way they handle situations. It is very important to instil that confidence into them and not spoil it. Everything we do in training horses and the questions we ask them is aimed at buoying them up and not risking damaging their belief in themselves, not frightening them.

We have to try to read their minds. You also

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Venetia Williams oversees work at her successful yard in Kings Caple, Herefordshire, her string containing this year’s Denman Chase winner Houblon Des Obeaux (right), partnered by travelling head lad Jerry Roberts

“I’m hugely thrilled

and honoured to have won the Grand National, which has a worldwide meaning” have to give the horse’s body sufficient time to heal itself or give it the necessary therapy to help. And you train them bearing in mind any shortcomings. Our swimming pool is a great help. You also have to decide whether the horse has lost its form or has had its limitations exposed on the racecourse.

Your 100-horse yard attracts a broad spectrum of owners. Is part of your

secret to email new owners with information about the handicapping system and veterinary matters for example, as well as making sure they keep up to date with their horses?

We do that only for syndicate members new to ownership. We have three Venetia Williams Syndicates, two of which are fully subscribed and the third we are looking to fill. A lot of people who join our syndicates are relatively new to ownership and we try to provide more information on racing; we all know that more knowledge helps to provide more interest, appreciation and enjoyment. We have two horses in each syndicate and members pay a lump sum, which buys a share in both horses and includes training fees for two years. So they know exactly what it’s going to cost. We find it’s a way to bring new people into the sport.

Including our partnerships, which have three to six people, I’d say about a third of our yard is made up of syndicate and partnership-owned horses. If people are coming in at the syndicate

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VENETIA WILLIAMS which gives people much more incentive to run in a race where often there is a hot favourite.

In addition, there should be no entry fee for these races. Say I’ve a hurdler rated 122 in an £8,000 novice chase, chances are we’ll face horses rated 140 and 136 – I’m likely to finish third and collect about £700. By the time the owner has paid the jockey, transport and £60 to enter, he or she is out of pocket and would be entitled to ask why I wasted £60 on entry for that sort of race. If there’s no entry fee the owner would be happy to at least ‘have a look’ at the race and might consider running, particularly if the prize-money is spread out a bit more evenly.

All racecourses should provide owners with a private box, or a similar facility, where they can watch without a restricted view. Some tracks do provide this, but some do not.

In your opinion, is the National Hunt season geared too much around the Cheltenham Festival, at the expense of other races and meetings?

The press play a big part in promoting Cheltenham at the expense of other big fixtures.

The Festival is four days and the biggest meeting of the season, so understandably people focus on it and book their week accordingly. I have owners that would love a Cheltenham winner more than anything else. But I have other owners for whom the Festival is not the be all and end all. There are other big events that are far less attritional than those at the two festivals, where the races are run invariably these days on

end, only a few of those would ultimately become sole owners.

Apart from increasing prize-money, what would be your top item to address in the sport?

There has been a lot of whinging about the size of fields for betting purposes. In the summer a lot of fields are small as people don’t want to risk horses on quicker ground. When conditions are suitable most of the small fields are the nonhandicap beginners’/novice chases. I’d say a fairer distribution in prize-money between first, second and third would attract more runners.

Also, prize-money down to sixth for all races would give a token gesture and reward commendable performance, which owners would appreciate. At the moment win money is far bigger than that for placed horses. In many of these races there is a hot favourite you have little chance of beating, but more money for the places would make it worthwhile running. In France prize-money is more evenly distributed, THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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or quicker ground. And they take no prisoners.

Teeton Mill, winner of the 1998 Hennessy and 1999 King George VI Chase, and Lady Rebecca, three-time winner of the Cleeve Hurdle, were among early successes. What impact did they have on your training career?

I was very lucky that in my fourth season I finished fourth with 75 winners, which was a fantastic start. I have managed to keep up in the top ten pretty much ever since and that makes for a challenge every May 1 when we have to start again. Getting Teeton Mill and Lady Rebecca certainly helped to attract owners at an important stage of my career.

Your training facilities are noted for some 50 turn-out paddocks, which is quite rare. What’s the thinking there?

We have enough paddocks to have all the horses turned out for two hours at any one time.

They are turned out on their own or with one good friend. No athlete should be stabled 23 hours a day. Fifty turn-out paddocks cover a lot of acreage and I have an army of yard staff, who

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Mon Mome and Liam Treadwell (green/purple) en route to Grand National glory

don’t ride out but spend a lot of time turning horses out. They put on turn-out bandages and New Zealand rugs, and record their paddock numbers and the time each horse is turned out.

Can you explain what you look for in a prospective jumper?

With a horse that’s run before the obvious question is how good does his form look. With a store horse, you are looking for athleticism and encouragement in the pedigree. Equally, if the pedigree is emblazoned with black type it will probably be too expensive. These horses haven’t had a saddle on, so it is a gamble. They don’t want to have any glaring conformation defects that are likely to flag up future unsoundness. I have been working for many years in France with Guy Petit, who bought Mon Mome, and more recently with Matt Coleman of Stroud Coleman Bloodstock. I like the two Arqana sales in Deauville in July and November, and I buy stores myself at the Derby Sale at Fairyhouse.

Your local track, Hereford, reopened on October 6 after being closed for four years. Was it badly missed?

It was badly missed by the locals. I know there’s Ludlow, Chepstow and Cheltenham within 45 minutes, but a lot of my local friends, who wouldn’t be racing-oriented people, would like to meet up at the races for a social gathering.

Hereford is a good course for viewing as it is square-shaped so horses are never far away, and it’s a thrill seeing them jump down the back.

You are passionate about fast cars. Is this a follow-on from your riding days?

It is purely me needing to get things done and getting to the races during the shortened days of

winter. Flat trainers are lucky. They can have first lot out at 6am and don’t have to leave for racing until about midday. Whereas in the thick of winter we can’t have first lot out until 8am as it’s pitch dark and furthermore I’ve got to leave at 10.15 as the first race is midday. There aren’t enough hours in the day and I need to get to the races quickly. I’m driving an Aston Martin DB9, a two-seater, and also have an Audi S7, which is a good beast of a car and can carry four people.

Fashion is another of your loves and you are known for being very elegant.

How important is looking good on the racecourse?

Thank you for that! As a matter of respect at the races it is important for all of us to make an effort. Part of it is the occasion and we should dress for it. I suppose there is more scope for me than there is for my fellow male trainers.

One day I ran upstairs to change to go racing and in a hurry grabbed a jacket I hadn’t worn for about seven years – as I was going downstairs I received a text message from David Redvers with the sad news Lady Rebecca had been put down. As I walked through the hall there was a photo of Lady Rebecca coming in after her third Cleeve Hurdle win with Norman Williamson raising three fingers and me standing there in the very same jacket. Quite bizarre, and I can’t believe there wasn’t something that made me wear the jacket again.

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Tara Flow did well over hurdles last season and we’re looking forward to sending her chasing.

Bennys King took some time to get into gear last season and had one or two near-misses.

Hopefully he will put that right over hurdles.

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Historic heartland of the

THOROUGHBRED Yorkshire’s proud breeding heritage harks back to the days of the foundation stallions and, though dwindling in its renown, it still boasts some enthusiastic participants Words Chris McGrath

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undertaken locally by Cistercian monks.

One way or another, then, the roots of the thoroughbred extend deep into Yorkshire soil. Which makes the struggles of breeders there today all the more poignant – and, in one or two heartening cases, all the more provoking to their energy and ambition.

“When we started, in the seventies, it would take two hands to count the number of farms round here,” says Richard Lingwood, who presides over one of the last outposts at Norton Grove near Malton.

“Now you’re down to us; Steve Knowles at Beechwood Grange; Andrew Spalding at Darlington; and after that it’s a struggle to think of anyone else [standing a stallion].

“We’re lucky enough to be kept busy, boarding mares and their offspring. But, with

the way transport is nowadays, we’re walking more of them into other studs all round the country than we’re taking to our own stallions.”

Lingwood is staying positive, and indeed hopes to find a fresh name to join Monsieur Bond and Milk It Mick. But Knowles speaks advisedly when he describes breeding in Yorkshire as “a tough old game that’s getting tougher.” At the start of the year, he was supervising three stallions at Beechwood Grange. But Haafhd has moved down to Gloucestershire, while Desideratum was put down after savaging Knowles in a terrifying incident in May. That leaves Sleeping Indian, aptly enough one of the last hopes of the beleaguered sire-line tracing to the Byerley Turk – another of the breed’s three patriarchs

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hen Macaroni won the 1863 Derby, the bells rang out in Newmarket. People had begun to doubt whether the town would ever produce another Classic winner, such was the domination of John Scott and other Yorkshire trainers. Yet Pretender, six years later, remains the last colt to win the race – at Epsom, that is, Dante having won a wartime substitute at Newmarket – for the White Rose county.

Libertarian very nearly stopped the rot when charging down Ruler Of The World three years ago, while Ribchester and Quiet Reflection are only the latest of many to have recently enriched the great Turf heritage of the moors. But if Yorkshire’s Flat trainers are making significant progress, the prospects of an equivalent revival among her breeders would seem as remote as ever. And, if anything, that represents a still bleaker contrast with the proud days of yore.

For this was the cradle of the thoroughbred. Nearly all the foundation mares listed in the first General Stud Book, late in the 18th century, had grazed the pasture of the Dales. Likewise dozens of stallions imported from the fringes of the Mediterranean, between 1650 and 1750, who together seeded a hybrid racehorse from native stock. The Darley Arabian himself, source of the male tail in 19 out of 20 modern thoroughbreds, was sent from Aleppo in 1704 to the estate of a Puritan squire a few miles from York. Marske, the sire of Eclipse, was named after the enchanted nook of Swaledale where he was bred by John Hutton. Long before the county gentry had begun to develop their own studs, moreover, the earliest British experiments in selective breeding of livestock had been

The Darley Arabian was imported from Syria to Yorkshire in 1704 by Thomas Darley

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Twenty-five generations later, the Darley Arabian’s descendant Albaasil represents a first stallion venture for owner Ritchie Fiddes

>> to have been based in the north.

“Sleeping Indian can get very nice horses, like Crazy Horse with John Gosden,” Knowles says. “He’s now won three out of four, including the Horris Hill. So it can be done. And the history is there. We have some of the best feeding land there is for growing bone. It’s strong land and they feed like the devil on it. We’ve been here 40 years, and we’ve got very experienced people. But it’s all about fashion, isn’t it?”

Some argue that the challenges facing northern studs at this level are national, not regional – and trace to the commercial aggression of certain Newmarket behemoths with their bush-league stallions.

But Lingwood, for his part, blames the lazy drift of fashion. “Take Monsieur Bond,” he says. “He’s done us proud. And he’s had his periods of being in fashion, too, when for a couple of seasons he was covering 115 or 120 mares. But without that headline horse the agents don’t bother looking into the facts.

“He has had over 50 winners so far this year, and just look at the fees of the stallions

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surrounding him in the table. He’s advertised at £4,000 and hasn’t covered many blacktype mares. But if he doesn’t get that big winner, a Move In Time winning the Abbaye, nobody notices how well he’s been doing.”

Not everybody is quite so myopic,

“We have some of the best land for growing bone; it’s strong land and they feed like the devil on it”

however, judging from the Monsieur Bond filly sold at Deauville in August for €145,000. “And we’ve a loyal band of people who come back every year, thank goodness,” Lingwood adds. “But I’d like to find a fresh stallion, if I could. As much as anything

because it would help the others as well.

People come and look at one and then they see what else you’ve got.”

In the beautiful setting of Norton Grove, any new recruit would be following in the footsteps of a Derby winner, Morston, and a St Leger winner, Bollin Eric. And perhaps the 21st century tide can still be turned.

According to two relatively new players, however, bias will not be overcome simply by clinging to the past. Both have entered the game with a completely fresh slate, unabashedly investing a business fortune in a field that has notoriously been the preserve of experts in an arcane, inherited lore. And both are backing their own judgement, as tried and tested in other walks of life.

The rags-to-riches story of Ritchie Fiddes was crowned three years ago when, still in his early thirties, he sold his IT business for £23 million. He had already dipped his toe in the water as an owner, and is a partner (along with Harry Redknapp) in the Group 1-placed sprinter Moviesta. But he soon sensed a certain rigidity in the industry, in THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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Sires of 2YOs in 2016 (Europe and North America, by Group/Graded winners) Rank

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Group/Graded winners

Blacktype winners

Starters

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Galileo

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War Front

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6

35

21

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Scat Daddy

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4

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17

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Tapit

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4

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BRED IN YORKSHIRE >> the way not just knowledge has always been

handed down from one generation to the next, but also the businesses based on that knowledge, the training yards and studs.

After trying to look at the whole process afresh, in March Fiddes purchased the young stallion Albaasil to stand on the farm he has developed near Ripon.

“With my IT background, as you can

“I saw that there was a huge gap here in the north; there are only a few stallions around”

imagine, I was interested in a statistics-based approach,” he explains. “Everyone had told me that the mares were most important but it’s in the stallions that the traits come through consistently in conformation, wind, everything. After a couple of years I started buying my own yearlings. I’d done my own homework, and seen that the best horses in the yards I was in at the time were also by the best stallions. And if you start on the basis that stallions can upgrade mares, you can come out ahead of the curve.”

Move In Time is one of two Prix de l’Abbaye winners for Norton Grove Stud stallion

Of course, statistical samples for stallion progeny are far bigger than the equivalent for mares – and Fiddes perceived spikes in the data he collated on various sires. Two were Dark Angel and Kodiac, now among the hottest stallions around. He spent just £30,000 on a yearling by the former at Doncaster, and was able to sell a halfshare to Al Shaqab after Easton Angel won on her debut and then the Hilary Needler.

She proceeded to beat all bar

Acapulco in the Queen Mary.

Now Fiddes hopes he has spotted another neglected opportunity. “As you go on, you hope that you’ll get good racemares turning into good broodmares,” he says.

“And as I built up, I saw that there was a huge gap here in the north. You’ve got only a few stallions around, and yet you’ve got hundreds of mares paying boarding and travelling costs to go south – costs that will often add up to more than the covering fee.”

Albaasil may not mean a great deal to many people as yet – after all, he raced only four times for Sir Michael Stoute before a similarly brief career in Dubai, and only covered a small book of mares in his one year at Longdon Stud – but Fiddes is adamant that the eight-year-old son of Dansili has all the ingredients to make a name for himself.

“He was unlucky not to fulfil his potential through injury but definitely had Group 1 ability,” he says. “Doug Watson thought he was a superstar. Unfortunately he was balloted out on World Cup night and missed his big chance then. If you look at Dansili, he started out as an eight-grand sire with very Ritchie Fiddes employs a statistical approach to buying and breeding

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BRED IN YORKSHIRE stock. If people come on the journey with us, great. After all, they can look round the country and they’ll find those options under ten grand, under five grand, are pretty hitand-miss.

“It’s a phenomenally traditional industry and I respect the heritage and the prestige, all the methods handed down. But at the same time I’ve never been one to go round everywhere else and see what everyone else is doing. And I wouldn’t discourage anyone getting involved who is prepared to use common sense and attention to detail.”

It is very much on the same premise that Tom Wainwright is evolving another ambitious operation, Highbank Stud, just by Wetherby racecourse.

Wainwright’s father, Martin, began investing some of the proceeds of his Leeds construction firm in 2005, when spending 160,000gns on a Rock Of Gibraltar filly at Tattersalls October. The family were then launched on the giddiest of crash courses in the extremes of emotion on the Turf.

“Roxan won the Hilary Needler first time out!” Wainwright recalls. “And then started favourite for the Queen Mary. Kevin Ryan was talking about her as potentially the best

modest mares. But he was upgrading them from day one and ended up as a six-figure cover. And see what his other sons have been doing: Zoffany, Requinto, Famous Name, Delegator, now Bated Breath. So again we’ve a great chance of being ahead of the curve.”

At a fee of £2,500 Albaasil already has 35 mares confirmed for the next covering season and Fiddes hopes to promote him past 50.

Unsurprisingly, given his determination to question received wisdoms, he has been using Equinome gene-testing on his horses from the outset. “And Albaasil has upgraded even the jumping mares he covered at Longdon,” Fiddes enthuses.

“You’d be worried that a middle-distance sire and a staying mare might produce slow horses, but he is adding speed to each and every foal. He’s a beautifully bred, 320,000guinea Book 1 horse with an unbelievable temperament, and he’s really struck a chord.

“The north has definitely been neglected, when you think how much of racing and breeding started here. For sure, there’s a huge commercial opportunity. But it will just be tremendously exciting to launch the stallion and race his progeny. We’re not going to sit around and see how the market reacts. We’re prepared to back him ourselves, and train his

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As a racing centre Yorkshire is thriving, with Ribchester and Quiet Reflection just two of this season’s stars trained in the county

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he’d trained, and we spent that Christmas dreaming about the Guineas.

“Then, two weeks before the Nell Gwyn, Dad got the call that she had colic. And she couldn’t be saved. So our first experience of the game took us as high as we could possibly have hoped, then every bit as low.”

But the lesson was not wasted on them.

“Dad saw then how difficult it would be to succeed on the track,” Wainwright says.

“With the prize-money as it is, and you’re up against Godolphin and Juddmonte and all these huge operations. So we started to think of going in a different direction.”

They have since assembled a team of ten broodmares and, from a standing start, have recorded some remarkable results.

It was another Hilary Needler winner, Loch Jipp, who has twice hit the headlines for Highbank since her acquisition for 160,000gns at the horses-in-training sale in 2010: her two foals by Invincible Spirit were respectively top filly and top lot in the 2014 and 2016 Craven Breeze-ups, at 450,000gns and 360,000gns. But they had already hit the ground running.

“We identified quite early that in this game you’re better off aiming for Book I with a small quantity of high-quality mares than for Books 2 and 3 with a lot of average mares,” Wainwright says. “We believe that gives you the best chance of producing a good racehorse, and also the best chance of a return on your investment.”

They started out with a handful of mares and younger, track fillies. Again, they would

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soon sample ups and downs. Their agent Stephen Hillen spent $320,000 on a breezeup filly by Lemon Drop Kid at Keeneland.

Named Sweet Hope, she seemed to be going nowhere in Britain. “Dad was thinking he’d spent all this money to be running in a handicap on a Tuesday night at Wolverhampton,” Wainwright says.

“But then we decided to send her to America and she took off, winning a Grade

“With all this history behind us, it’s great to be bringing a bit more of Yorkshire to Newmarket”

3 and then coming second in the Grade 1 Test Stakes at Saratoga. We’ve kept her filly

by Speightstown, White Royale, and she was impressive on her second start for Kevin at Newcastle.”

Another American import, a daughter of Malibu Moon named Miss Delila, was well beaten on her only two starts. But she has produced three dual winners already, including Ashadihan, who won the Group 3 Chartwell Stakes in May, while her Invincible Spirit filly sold for 280,000gns at Tattersalls Book 1 this October.

“We also got Miss Delila into Dubawi when he was only a 20-grand cover, and sold the resulting colt for 320,000gns as a yearling,” Wainwright says. “Without doubt that was our best result so far and it showed we were on point with our sire selection.

That was a nice boost to our confidence. Dad and I are massively into our statistics and we draw up the matings we want to make before running them past Stephen, if he’s got any issues with conformation and so on.”

Aside from Hillen, Wainwright also credits new stud manager Siraj Bahadar for his allround horsemanship, while Mark Dwyer has helped their profile at the sales by adding their draft to his consignments. But the owners of Highbank are also gaining in conviction with experience, already nearing the site’s maximum capacity and intent only on improving the quality. “We’ll be looking at the Wildenstein dispersal and mares culled

by Juddmonte or the Aga Khan,” Wainwright says. “We want to end up with high-quality Book 1 or 2 mares across the board.

“We accept we’ve come across some good fortune, so far, but at the same time we’ve bred the quality. Maybe we don’t get the same exposure in Yorkshire, maybe we’re small fish in a big pond, but all you can do in this game is have faith in the right people and by doing so we’ve already shown we can breed good racehorses. It’s a beautiful thing to see, these horses in a setting like this. And with all that history behind us, it’s great to be bringing a bit more of Yorkshire to Newmarket.”

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BREEDERS’ DIGEST

By EMMA BERRY, Bloodstock Editor

Our bloodstock coverage this month includes:

• Sales Section: Yearling wrap from Europe; stallions with first foals – pages 68-82 • Caulfield Files: Dubawi has enjoyed successful trysts with Singspiel mares – pages 85-86 • Dr Statz: Fastnet Rock’s ‘Special’ affinity with descendants of two brothers – page 116

Makin hoping for a National winner W

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take home Glenvale Stud’s full-sister to treble Group 1 winner Alice Springs by wading straight in with a bid of 1,000,000gns and then, when bidding stalled at 1,600,000gns, offering the bold riposte of 2,000,000gns.

Unsurprisingly, he was thwarted in his attempt by MV Magnier, who continued the Coolmore buying partnership with Mayfair Speculators during Book 1, with this filly being the team’s biggest purchase. Makin did, however, succeed in securing a Lope De Vega half-brother to his new stallion, Marcel, and he too will be trained by Peter ChappleHyam.

Sensible terms for Marcel The Racing Post Trophy winner’s addition to the stallion ranks may not be the headline retirement of the year but it should be greeted warmly for several reasons. Firstly, in the era of fierce competition from major stallion operations for the prize colts of each generation, it is always pleasing to see a new

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ith most of the major yearling sales having now concluded, the main message received from the results is that less equals more. The sales which bowed to consignor demand for more places and added an extra day have struggled, while a fairly significant trimming of Books 2 and 3 at Tattersalls’ October Sale has helped not only the company’s figures but those on the frontline trying to show and view a huge number of yearlings in a short space of time.

Book 1 of October has long been the frontrunner of the European yearling season and this year was even the subject of a special BBC World Service documentary. Sharing the stage as the leading lights of the sale were two colts

by Dubawi, both of whom were offered by British owner-breeders, with Meon Valley Stud’s son of Zee Zee Top being sold for 2,600,000gns, the same price paid for a son of another Group 1 winner, Fallen For You. The latter marked a successful return to the sales-ring after a ten-year absence for Philippa Cooper, who consigned a select offering from her Normandie Stud through Norris Bloodstock.

Early-season concerns surrounding a perceived non-participation in the yearling market by Godolphin were resolutely soothed

by John Ferguson’s outlay on Sheikh Mohammed’s behalf of almost 17,000,000gns through Books 1 and 2, while his brother Sheikh Hamdan spent 14,000,000gns. These sums were backed up by fairly major participation from the Rabbah associates, and from Sheikh Mohammed Obaid, whose trainer Roger Varian was the underbidder on both best-selling Dubawi colts.

For those spending a lot of time in sales rings, the dragged-out process of bringing a horse up to its reserve price can be frustrating, which was why the return of a certain flamboyant Australian was refreshing indeed. Welcome back Paul Makin, who upped the stakes significantly in the race to

Marcel at home at the National Stud

recruit for the National Stud, the profile of which has been dramatically improved under the guidance of Brian O’Rourke.

Furthermore, Makin’s terms for his stallion should be welcomed by the many people in the breeding industry who espouse the justifiable twin gripes of stallions being too expensive and covering too many mares.

He says: “Marcel is going to stand for £5,000 and I only want 80 mares to him, that’s the limit. If I get 50 or 60 I don’t mind – at £5,000 I’m not in it for money. I priced him like that in the hope of encouraging some Irish mares as it costs extra to ship them.”

Makin is not planning to send mares to Marcel himself but intends to buy some of his foals and yearlings when they reach the market. Despite selling almost all of his bloodstock at the Paulyn Dispersal at Goffs in 2013, the former owner of Group 1 winners Starcraft and Chicquita couldn’t resist retaining a scaled-down interest in racing and breeding.

“I love the mystery of it,” he confesses.

For a short time, he was the mystery buyer of Frankel’s most expensive offspring, when Finsceal Beo’s filly foal (now named La Figlia) went through the ring for €1,800,000. Her price tag has been bettered only by the recent in-training purchase of Frankel’s Group 3winning daughter Toulifaut for €1,900,000 at the Arqana Arc Sale, and Makin was unveiled as La Figlia’s owner in the spring when she appeared in William Haggas’s string. She has subsequently crossed Newmarket to join Jeremy Noseda and has an entry for the Irish 1,000 Guineas, one of two Classics won by her mother in 2007.

Makin, who turns 80 this year, is unlikely to repeat his short break from racing, preferring instead to keep the little grey cells turning over by pondering the great mysteries of the Turf. “I’m an old guy,” he says. “I tried to retire when I was 75 and now I’m five years older than that and I’m thinking to myself that I’m glad I didn’t retire as I nearly experienced depression. The legs might be weak but it’s important to work harder as you get older and to keep your brain active.”

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By CARL EVANS

Streamlined October Sale reaches new high but lesser lights struggle Clearance rates hit as extra days are scheduled in lower tier of the market

Europe’s highest-grossing bloodstock auction did it again, finding another 6% increase in turnover.

At an event where quality is the focus, the number of seven-figure horses went up from six to nine, yet the number of sires whose names appeared on the top-ten table dropped from six to three. Frankel’s remarkable first season on the track meant he went from one horse on that list in 2015, to four this time. Sharing the honours with him were, of course, Galileo and Dubawi.

The last-named was ruthlessly supported by Maktoum interests, with Godolphin’s John Ferguson particularly keen to buy Dubawi yearlings, including one of two colts who headed the sale at 2.6 million gns. Ferguson’s purchase was bred by Philippa Cooper’s Normandie Stud and consigned by Norris Bloodstock, who have each had a story to tell in recent years.

Normandie Stud was returning to the market after a break and change in selling policy by consigning through a third party, while Liam

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Tattersalls October Sale Book 1

The Dubawi colt out of Fallen For You, one of two yearlings to reach 2.6 million gns

Tattersalls October Sale Book 1 Top lots Sex/Breeding

Vendor

Price (gns)

C Dubawi — Fallen For You (Dansili)

Norris Bloodstock

2,600,000

C Dubawi — Zee Zee Top (Zafonic)

Meon Valley Stud

2,600,000

C Dubawi — Nature Spirits (Beat Hollow)

Watership Down Stud 2,100,000

John Ferguson

F Galileo — Aleagueoftheirown (Danehill Dancer)

Glenvale Stud

2,100,000

Magnier/Mayfair/ Doyle

C Frankel — Attraction (Efisio)

Floors Stud

1,600,000

Shadwell

F Galileo — Shastye (Danehill)

Newsells Park Stud

1,350,000

David Redvers

C Frankel — Peeress (Pivotal)

Cheveley Park Stud

1,300,000

Magnier/Mayfair/Doyle

C Dubawi — Giants Play (Giant’s Causeway)

Newsells Park Stud

1,200,000

John Ferguson

C Frankel — Tyranny (Machiavellian)

Croom House Stud

1,100,000

Magnier/Mayfair/Doyle

F Frankel — Cassydora (Darshaan)

Barronstown Stud

900,000

Buyer John Ferguson Shadwell

Moyglare Stud

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David Trouton and the Duke of Roxburghe of the successful Floors Stud

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Year

Sold

Agg (gns)

Avg (gns)

Mdn (gns)

Top Price (gns)

2016

386

88,038,000

228,078

130,000

2,600,000

2015

372

82,744,500

222,431

150,000

2,100,000

2014

336

79,274,000

235,935

150,000

2,600,000

2013

339

70,343,000

207,501

130,000

5,000,000

2012

418

68,102,500

162,925

100,000

2,500,000

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in the upper echelons, and the greater numbers and bias towards the best did not help the clearance rate, which was pulled down a few points to 78%.

Ferguson was leading buyer, gaining 26 horses for 13,910,000gns at an average of 535,000gns, while South African furniture entrepreneur Markus Jooste was very evident in his partnership with Coolmore’s MV Magnier and Peter Doyle. The trio spent 9,010,000gns at an average of 750,833gns.

Highclere Stud and Newsells Park Stud have

and Jenny Norris reaffirmed their worth in some style after starting afresh from Granham Farm near Marlborough in January.

Mark Weinfeld’s Hampshire-based Meon Valley Stud had the pleasure of selling the other joint-top lot, a Dubawi colt knocked down to Angus Gold of Shadwell.

The number of horses offered went up by 31 to 493 (which is 79 more horses than in 2014), and that helped turnover rise by 6%, while the average price went up 2.5%. The median dropped 13%, underlining the strength of trade

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Tattersalls October Sale Book 2 Top lots Sex/Breeding

Vendor

C Kodiac — Red Vale (Halling)

Bellewstown Farm Stud 380,000 John Ferguson Bloodstock

Price (gns) Buyer

C Dubawi — Brazilian Samba (Sadler’s Wells)

Croom House Stud

C Kyllachy — On The Brink (Mind Games)

Kilminfoyle House Stud 270,000 Shadwell

300,000 John Ferguson

C Kyllachy — Pious (Bishop Of Cashel)

Cheveley Park Stud

260,000 Shadwell

C Sea The Stars — Scarlet And Gold (Peintre Celebre) Mount Coote Stud

260,000 Blandford Bloodstock 250,000 Shadwell

C Shamardal — Dehbanu (King’s Best)

Mountain View Stud

C Holy Roman Emperor — Raving Monsun (Monsun)

Newsells Park Stud

250,000 SackvilleDonald

F Fastnet Rock — Madonna Dell’orto (Montjeu)

Genesis Green Stud

240,000 Skiffington/Magnier/Shanahan

C Shanghai Bobby — Thousandfold (Giant’s Causeway) Rathbarry Stud

240,000 Wavertree Farm

C Iffraaj — Toquette (Acclamation)

Corduff Stud

240,000 Hong Kong Jockey Club

C Shamardal — Boccassini (Artan)

Jamie Railton

240,000 John Ferguson Bloodstock

C Holy Roman Emperor — Brilliant Sunshine (Pivotal)

Grove Stud

240,000 Howson & Houldsworth B/s

Five-year tale Year

Sold

Agg (gns)

Avg (gns)

Mdn (gns)

Top Price (gns)

2016

593

38,758,500

65,360

50,000

380,000

2015

681

42,414,000

62,282

47,000

725,000

2014

660

42,555,500

64,478

50,000

525,000

2013

765

36,359,500

47,529

37,000

320,000

2012

788

31,039,000

39,390

32,000

245,000

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Mark Weinfeld’s Meon Valley Stud provided one of the joint-top lots

headed the leading vendors’ table in recent years, but they were pipped this time by Lord and Lady Lloyd-Webber’s Watership Down Stud, which reaped 6,737,000gns for 13 yearlings sold.

Tattersalls October Sale Book 2 Smaller was beautiful at this three-day sale, which had suffered by being top-heavy with horses in 2015.

Slimming down by 118 lots ensured there were enough stables to go around and brought forward the finishing time for each session, although it did affect the aggregate figure which dropped 8%. However, with the number of sixfigure lots holding up at 118 the average rose 5% and the median by 6%. Also up was the clearance rate, which improved a couple of

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SALES CIRCUIT >> percentage points to achieve 84%.

The horse of the 2015 sale was a Newsells Park Stud-consigned Dubawi colt who made a socking 725,000gns – a record which could stand for some years and was a story in itself.

This year a Kodiac colt was at the head of affairs, and like last year’s best he too was knocked down to John Ferguson. At 380,000gns he was little more than half the price of the recordsetter, yet he came from the four-horse broodmare band of Micheal Magill of Bellewstown Farm Stud.

Magill consigned his horse, too, although given that the colt was a half-brother to Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner Vale Of York (also bred by Magill) it was perhaps no surprise he made a healthy sum.

Pinhookers enjoyed some excellent results, notably Michael Fitzpatrick, who buys foals in the name of J C Bloodstock and then sells on under the name of his family’s Kilminfoyle House Stud. The pick proved to be a Kyllachy colt who was sold to Shadwell’s Angus Gold for 240,000gns after being bought for just 35,000gns as a foal.

A variation on the pinhook theme centred on a colt who will be traded again when heading to the breeze-up sales in Florida. A son of young Coolmore America stallion Shanghai Bobby, his dam was carrying him when knocked down for $130,000 at Keeneland in November 2014. The buyers, the Cashman family of Rathbarry Stud, reaped that investment back with profit when trading the resulting colt for 240,000gns.

Six months earlier, before Britain’s exit from Europe, and the following slide in the pound, his new owners, Ciaran and Amy Dunne’s Wavertree Stables, would have been spending in the region of $370,000, yet at the hammer’s fall their investment would have been just under $300,000.

Also in profit were those breeders who had a Kodiac colt to sell, for while buyers of his stock had plenty of choice (28 lots sold) they were popular throughout and traded for an average of 92,679gns, a handsome mark up on his 2014 covering fee of €10,000.

Castlebridge Consignment was the leading vendor on turnover, while Shadwell’s Angus Gold was far and away the leading buyer, taking 42 yearlings at an average of 122,786gns, while adding 5,157,000gns to the sale’s turnover.

Tattersalls October Sale Book 3 Tattersalls’ determination not to let this sale become burdened by numbers was evident in the catalogue, which had 207 fewer lots than in 2015.

Curiously, the percentage of horses who found a new home fell back from 84% to 78%,

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Tattersalls October Sale Book 3 Top lots Sex/Breeding

Vendor

C Kodiac — Allegheny Creek (Teofilo)

Ballyhimikin Stud

Price (gns) Buyer

C Sir Percy — Three Sugars (Starcraft)

The Castlebridge Consignment 115,000 Dean Ivory Racing

C Kodiac — Kindling (Dr Fong)

Acorn Stud

75,000 Jill Lamb Bloodstock

F Kodiac — Katevan (Heliostatic)

Rathasker Stud

70,000 Willie Browne

F Iffraaj — Park Twilight (Bertolini)

Lodge Park Stud

70,000 Darren Bunyan Racing

200,000 C Gordon-Watson

C Most Improved — Beautiful Dreamer (Red Ransom) Egmont Stud

65,000 B O’Ryan/K Dalgleish

C Havana Gold — Inner Sea (Henrythenavigator)

60,000 C Gordon-Watson

The National Stud

C Thewayyouare — Madam President (Royal Applause) Genesis Green Stud

60,000 Barberini Bloodstock

F Kodiac — Violet’s Gift (Cadeaux Genereux)

Ballyhimikin Stud

60,000 Jose Maria Maldonado

C Delegator — Heartsease (Pursuit Of Love)

Kildaragh Stud

58,000 Blandford Bloodstock

Five-year tale Year

Sold

Agg (gns)

Avg (gns)

Mdn (gns)

Top Price (gns)

2016

326

5,844,300

17,927

13,000

200,000

2015

483

6,335,900

13,118

9,000

115,000

2014

436

7,164,350

16,432

11,500

100,000

2013

216

2,304,300

10,668

6,900

57,000

2012

199

1,669,600

8,390

6,000

52,000

Tattersalls October Sale Book 4 Top lots Sex/Breeding

Vendor

C Hellvelyn-Phoenix Rising

Cinder Farm Stud

Price (gns) Buyer 20,000 H Candy

F Stimulation-Glen Molly

Llety Farms

14,000 Ann Duffield

F Showcasing-Lady Le Quesne

Newpinewood Stables

9,000 Stroud Coleman B/s

F Cityscape-Moonlight Applause Salcey

Forest Stud

5,500 Eddie Linehan

F Mazameer-Faithful Beauty

JKP Bloodstock

5,000 Mark Walford

F Zebedee-Khafayif

Hall Farm Stud

5,000 Steph Hollinshead

Comparative figures Year

Sold

Agg (gns)

Avg (gns)

Mdn (gns)

Top Price (gns)

2016

43

141,900

3,300

2,500

20,000

2015

27

100,200

3,711

2,500

10,000

2014

46

184,300

4,007

2,300

18,000

as 326 of the 418 who walked the ring found a buyer – perhaps the vast number of cheaper yearlings offered in Ireland meant orders had already been filled. Yet this smaller catalogue also resulted in a big impact on prices gained by vendors, with the average going up 37% and the median by 44%. Turnover fell just under 6,000,000gns, but that was only 8% down on last year’s bloated book, and, in his end-of-sale statement, Chairman Edmond Mahony took pride in referring to record turnover from the October Yearling Sales, despite smaller Books 2 and 3. He said: “It was important for all concerned to make the sale more manageable, and decreasing the numbers has without doubt been the key to maintaining the momentum throughout the fortnight.”

Top of the pops on this occasion was a 200,000gns Kodiac colt whose price set a

record for the sale, and was another reminder of the sire’s current popularity in the ring. He was offered from James and Charlotte Hanly’s Ballyhimikin Stud, having been bought as a foal for €25,000.

Tattersalls October Sale Book 4 This catalogue had taken place after Tattersalls’ Horses-in-Training Sale in 2015, but it was logical to place it after Book 3, whose reduced numbers meant there was space on the day.

Of 43 horses offered, 27 were sold (63%), headed by a son of Hellvelyn, a sire who has surprised many with his early crops of small numbers. Henry Candy bought the 20,000gns colt, so he must have been good.

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Dubawi in the spotlight again with a colt out of the Classic winner Beauty Parlour

Goffs Orby Yearling Sale Top lots Sex/Breeding

Vendor

C Dubawi — Beauty Parlour (Deep Impact)

Wildenstein/Castlebridge Consignment 1,400,000 John Ferguson

Buyer

Ballylinch Stud

900,000 M V Magnier

C Frankel — Moonlight’s Box (Nureyev)

Camas Park Stud

750,000 BBA Ireland

C Invincible Spirit — Rose De France (Diktat)

Irish National Stud

750,000 Shadwell

F New Approach — Scribonia (Danehill)

Redmondstown Stud

675,000 P & R Doyle

C Acclamation — Gorband (Woodman)

Riversfield Stud

600,000 Shadwell

F Shamardal — Alexander Goldrun (Gold Away) Mountarmstrong Stud

600,000 Koji Maeda

C Invincible Spirit — Lethal Quality (Elusive Quality) Irish National Stud

500,000 John Ferguson

C Scat Daddy — Excelente (Exceed And Excel)

Camas Park Stud

480,000 Form B/s

C Declaration Of War-Sleeping Beauty

Castlebridge Consignment

475,000 Ingordo/Casse/Zayat

Five-year tale Year

Sold

Agg (€)

Avg (€)

Mdn (€)

2016

363

39,925,000

109,986

67,000

1,400,000

2015

371

38,901,500

104,856

65,000

2,000,000

2014

352

38,450,500

109,234

70,000

1,500,000

Top Price (€)

2013

344

34,940,500

101,571

57,500

2,850,000

2012

301,

27,189,500

90,331

58,000

800,000

The Frankel half-brother to Bago and Maxios sold for €750,000 by Camas Park Stud

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F Galileo — Green Room (Theatrical)

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Buoyed by the kudos of being able to offer horses from a dispersal of the Wildenstein family’s bloodstock interests, this sale walked the walk and talked the talk.

The ups were good, the downs largely irrelevant, from a catalogue of near identical size to last year. Up went the average and median prices by 5% and 3% respectively, and turnover rose too by 3%, and while the clearance rate wavered and then fell from 86% to 84%, that was inconsequential – these figures do not include a group of horses in training from Wildenstein, whose breeding stock will be sold at Goffs’ November Sale.

Also down were the seven-figure lots – a badge of honour at this type of sale – but, since the key indicators showed increases, Goffs could proudly point to the depth of trade.

The final yearling into the ring was worth waiting for, since he became the sale topper, making €1.4 million for the Wildensteins, who offered their stock through Castlebridge Consignment. Being a son of Dubawi out of French Guineas heroine Beauty Parlour, it was almost inevitable that John Ferguson would be on the trail, and he duly signed the sale docket after heading War Front’s owner Joe Allen, who signed for a number of lots in the name of White Birch Farm, including a Dansili filly from the dispersal for €360,000. Wildenstein yearlings alone turned over €2,726,000.

Significant Maktoum involvement in the entire Orby yearling catalogue was nothing unusual – John Ferguson was leading buyer with eight for €2,680,000, just ahead of Shadwell’s Angus Gold – but China Horse Club, a very significant investor 12 months earlier at both this auction and the following Sportsman’s Sale, was more circumspect this time, yet still spent €800,000.

Among curiosities was the sale of a half-brother to last year’s €2 million sale-topping Raven’s Pass filly (now called Tocco d’Amore, but unraced). A son of Declaration Of War, he made €50,000.

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Despite that reverse, first-crop sire Declaration Of War had an excellent sale. Also notably popular among the new boys was his fellow Coolmore resident Camelot, plus Darley’s Dawn Approach and Epaulette.

Castlebridge Consignment had the numbers and quality of horse to ensure it was well clear in the leading vendors’ table.

White Birch Farm missed out on the Dubawi sale-topper, but gained another by the sire during the in-training section of Wildenstein horses. This was two-year-old filly Pavini, who topped this particular part of the sale when knocked down for €600,000, becoming one of three in-training horses bought by the American outfit for a spend of €960,000. Of the 41 horses offered in this group the Wildensteins sold 40 for a return of €3,133,000 >>

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Goffs Sportsman’s Yearling Sale Part II of Tattersalls Ireland’s September Sale struggled to cope with extra horses and it was almost inevitable that this extended, two-day auction would suffer similarly.

Split into Parts I and II, it saw a fall in the clearance rate on day one – although 81% was not a bad return – and, when combined with the following day’s trade, achieved 75% clearance overall.

Chief Executive Henry Beeby said his company would review the sale, admitting it had been difficult to find enough buyers for the horses on offer.

On a positive note, he expressed gratitude to Chinese buyers, chaperoned by BBA Ireland, who he said had mopped up 60 horses. With that clout, BBA Ireland was easily leading buyer over the two days, putting nearly €800,000 onto the aggregate when signing for 68 lots. Castlebridge Consignment was, once again, top vendor.

Clipper Logistics chief Steve Parkin gained the sale’s leading light, a Dandy Man filly who was bred by Mary Davison and knocked down to Ballyhane Stud’s Joe Foley, who has become Parkin’s man at the ring.

Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale At the conclusion of four days of yearling trading at Fairyhouse, Tattersalls Ireland’s Managing Director Roger Casey said: “We will review all aspects of the sale in detail and will continue to consider appropriate ways to accommodate the increasing volume of applications.”

His comment came after Part 1 of this event had just about got away with an increase in size, yet Part II, which had been converted from a single session to one of two days, had struggled to cope with the volume.

Within a week that review had taken place and it was announced that Part II would be returned to a one-day sale, and that the sales company would be “delighted to offer both UK and Irish vendors an excellent alternative opportunity to sell yearlings at the Ascot venue on Tuesday, September 12, 2017”.

This was an example of the flexibility which the 2015 acquisition of Brightwells’ Ascot and Cheltenham sales has given Tattersalls Ireland, and it will be interesting to see how vendors and buyers react. The value of sterling has been falling and could be influential.

It is rarely bad to be too popular, and the volume conundrum was made more likely back in the spring, when a graduate of this sale, Galileo Gold, took the QIPCO 2,000 Guineas. He was bought by Amanda Skiffington, who returned to the same ring >>

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Vendor

F Dandy Man — Speronella (Raven’s Pass)

Catherinestown Stud

Price (€) Buyer 90,000 Joe Foley

C Zoffany — Diminish (Raven’s Pass)

Wardstown Stud

80,000 Bahen/Hanshen Thom

F Zoffany — Ihtiraam (Teofilo)

Church View Stables

70,000 P & R Doyle

C Foxwedge — Brooksby (Diktat)

Castlebridge Consignment

65,000 B O’Ryan/Dalgleish

C Dandy Man — Clytha (Mark Of Esteem)

Ballyhane

65,000 A O’Ryan/Elliott

C Showcasing — First Term (Acclamation)

Baroda & Colbinstown Studs

62,000 P & R Doyle

C Beat Hollow — Birthday Present (Cadeaux Genereux)

Rossenarra Stud

62,000 Salcey Forest Stud

C Power — Naval Affair (Last Tycoon)

Churchtown House Stud

60,000 C & S B/s

C Fast Company — Varna (Efisio)

Irish National Stud

60,000 Crampscastle

C Epaulette — Bronze Queen (Invincible Spirit)

Rockview Stables

60,000 Watkins B/s

Five-year tale Year

Sold

Agg (€)

Avg (€)

Mdn (€)

Top Price (€)

2016

335

5,536,400

16,527

12,000

90,000

2015

203

4,892,700

24,102

18,000

110,000

2014

228

4,408,550

19,336

15,000

90,000

2013

200

3,830,750

19,154

16,000

100,000

2012

138

2,372,700

17,193

14,000

75,000

Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale Part I Top lots Sex/Breeding

Vendor

F Epaulette — Onomatomania (Mr Greeley)

Rathasker Stud

Price (€) Buyer 150,000 Amanda Skiffington

C Oasis Dream — Harmonic Note (Nayef)

Castlebridge Consignment

140,000 Kevin Prendergast

C Dark Angel — Manuelita Rose (Desert Style)

Ballyhimikin Stud

140,000 SackvilleDonald

C Sea The Stars — Jumooh (Monsun)

Mount Coote Stud

135,000 Aiden Murphy

F Dark Angel — Lady Duxyana (Most Welcome)

Yeomanstown Stud

120,000 Willie Browne

C Elzaam — Big Swifty (Intikhab)

Killarkin Stud

95,000 Kilbride/Keatley

C Zoffany — Meeting In Paris (Dutch Art)

Grove Stud

90,000 Ger Lyons

F Kodiac — Tropical Lady (Sri Pekan)

Ballybin Stud

88,000 Mark Gittins

C Footstepsinthesand — Valamareha (Val Royal)

Loughmore Stables

85,000 P & R Doyle

C Casamento — Balamiyda (Ashkalani)

Danesrath Stud

85,000 Blandford Bloodstock

Five-year tale Year

Sold

Agg (€)

Avg (€)

Mdn (€)

2016

407

10,190,700

25,039

19,000

Top Price (€) 150,000

2015

409

9,853,000

24,090

18,000

130,000

2014

397

7,427,000

18,708

15,000

115,000

2013

470

6,879,900

14,638

12,000

180,000

2012

414

4,823,000

11,650

9,250

75,000

Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale Part II Top lots Sex/Breeding

Vendor

F Dandy Man — Marigold (Marju)

Ballyhane

Price (€) 46,000

Buyer P & R Doyle

F Acclamation — Sister Red (Diamond Green)

Cooneen Stud

46,000

John Hussey

C Arakan — Gassal (Oasis Dream)

Ardreigh Stud

40,000

P & R Doyle

Comparative figures Year

Sold

Agg (€)

Avg (€)

Mdn (€)

Top Price (€)

2016

265

1,860,400

7,020

5,000

46,000

2015

182

1,636,200

8,990

7,000

60,000

2014

171

1,265,200

7,399

5,000

56,000

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running, a filly by Darley’s good-looking sire Epaulette and knocked down for 150,000gns.

The buyer was acting for racehorse owner Chris Humber, who campaigned German 1,000 Guineas winner Hawksmoor, also bought by Skiffington at this sale.

At the latest rendition, turnover breached €10m for the first time since 2006, when it was a three-day sale and Ireland was on a roadbuilding and civil engineering boom to match the ancient Romans.

Ten years ago a total of 584 horses were offered, which compares to 501 this year, but the latter figure involved 61 more horses than in 2015, and that was just too many for buyers, for while the average and median figures did commendably well to rise by 4% and 6% respectively, the clearance rate fell back from a wondrous 93% to 81%, which was still a healthy figure.

Clearance became a bigger issue at the following Part II sale, which comprised 198 more lots than in 2015, and ended with just 65% finding homes (compared to 86% 12 months earlier). Also down were the average and median figures.

The top price at Part II was €46,000, given for a Ballyhane Stud-consigned Dandy Man filly, who fell to Peter and Ross Doyle.

Arqana Arc Sale Sales directly associated with race meetings are not guaranteed quality or quantity, but this one has caught on with vendors and buyers.

Moved to Chantilly and held on the eve of the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe – at the yard of trainer Robert Collet – it could boast stakes winners with pedigrees, and none proved more popular than Toulifaut, who arrived unbeaten in three races for Jean-Claude Rouget’s stable.

The pick had been a victory in the Group 3 Prix d’Aumale, and since she was a daughter of Frankel with a good page it was no surprise

Arqana Arc Sale Top lots Name/Breeding

Vendor

Price (€)

Buyer

Toulifaut (Frankel — Cassydora)

J-C Rouget

1,900,000

Narvick International

Spain Burg (Sageburg — Spain Blues)

X Thomas-Demeaulte

1,500,000

Reeves Racing

Thewayyouwish (Thewayyouare — Faby Douglas)

J-C Rouget

625,000

Chantilly Bloodstock

Sweet Charity (Myboycharlie — Sapfo)

Clement

450,000

Lane’s End

Mango Tango (Siyouni — Alexandrina)

Bary

400,000

Abdulatif Al Emadi

Banzari (Motivator — Bantu)

Devin

400,000

James Delahooke

Justwantacontact (Rock Of Gibraltar — Just Little)

J-C Rouget

360,000

Paul Moroney

Minotaur (Azamour — Mycenae)

Clement

340,000

Horse Racing Advisory

Darabad (Dansili — Daryakana)

Aga Khan Studs

320,000

Astute Bloodstock

Fourioso (Footstepsinthesand — Moojeh)

Sogorb

300,000

Khalifa Al Attiyah

Comparative figures Year

Sold

Agg (€)

Avg (€)

Mdn (€)

2016

29

8,474,000

292,207

135,000

1,900,000

2015

32

7,769,000

242,781

117,500

1,350,000

2014

25

6,877,000

275,080

200,000

800,000

when she topped the bill at €1.9m. Narvick International’s Emmanuel de Seroux did the signing on behalf of Japan’s Katsumi Yoshida, who was happy to let her run in the following day’s Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac, in which she was unplaced.

British punters had ignored Spain Burg, trained by little-known Xavier ThomasDemeaulte, when she ran in the previous month’s Group 2 Rockfel Stakes, but she won that and was certainly not going to be overlooked at this sale. US racehorse owner Dean Reeves ensured her next stop will be across the Atlantic when his bid of €1.5m proved successful.

Holding the catalogued numbers steady, the sale offered 43 horses of which 29 changed hands. That was down on last year, but all the other figures rose, with turnover going up by 9%, the average by 20%, and the median by 12.5%.

Top Price (€)

GEORGE SELWYN

>> and bought the top lot for the second year

Spain Burg surges to success on the Rowley Mile before selling for €1.5m

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Al Kazeem bay 2008, 16.1hh by Dubawi - Kazeem (Darshaan) Ë European Champion at 10 furlongs

FIRST 2YOS IN 2017

Ë Winner of 10 races at 2 to 7 years including 4 Gr.1 races

Ë By DUBAWI – sire of 26 Gr.1 winners including Classic sire MAKFI

Ë From the stallion producing family of IN REALITY, KNOWN FACT and RELAUNCH Ë Timeform rated 128 in three consecutive seasons

Ë “He was a gentleman from the outset, full of class and tough as they come” Roger Charlton

10 wins from 23 career starts inc: Gr.1 Tattersalls Gold Cup, 2015 Gr.1 Coral-Eclipse, 2013 Gr.1 Prince Of Wales's Stakes, 2013 Gr.1 Tattersalls Gold Cup, 2013 Gr.2 Jockey Club Stakes, 2012 Gr.2 Prix d'Harcourt, 2015 Gr.3 Winter Hill Stakes, 2014 Gr.3 Gordon Richards Stakes, 2014

Fee: £12,000 Oct 1st SLF (Limited Book)

First yearlings averaged 145,350gns and sold for up to €360,000 STANDING AT OAKGROVE STUD

Oakgrove Estate, St Arvans, Chepstow, Monmouthshire, NP16 6EH Tel: 01291 622876 G Fax: 01291 622070 G Email: oakgrovestud@btinternet.com For Nominations Contact: Tim Lane: 07904 231899 G Vannessa Swift: 01291 622876

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CHALLENGE

As the foal sales get underway later this month, we run the rule over yet another bumper group of stallions represented by members of their first crop Words John Berry

ALBAASIL (IRE)

race victories as a juvenile in the Molecomb Stakes at Goodwood and the Cornwallis Stakes at Ascot. He covered a three-figure book of mares in his first season, and looks sure to be represented by some fast juveniles in 2018.

2008 Dansili ex Wrong Key (Key Of Luck) Longdon Stud - £1,750 (in 2015) Initially a decent handicapper in the UK, Albaasil thrived in the UAE, where he was Group 2-placed over a mile. His stakes-winning dam comes from a very good family, and he could prove to have been an interesting recruit.

Now standing at Moor End Farm Stud in Ripon.

BURWAAZ (GB) 2009 Exceed And Excel ex Nidhaal (Observatory) Hedgeholme Stud - £2,500

ALHEBAYEB (IRE)

Having broken his maiden over five furlongs at Leicester, Burwaaz ran well in many of England’s best juvenile races of 2011 including the July, Molecomb, Gimcrack and Champagne Stakes.

He is bidding to follow in the footsteps of his sire Exceed And Excel by siring fast horses.

2010 Angel ex Miss Indigo (Indian Ridge) Tara Stud - €5,000 A smart juvenile who landed the July Stakes in fine style after being placed at Royal Ascot, Alhebayeb has been given plenty of chances to pass on his speed and precocity because he covered 176 mares in his first season.

Four-time Group 1 winner Kingman

ANODIN (IRE)

BATTLE OF MARENGO (IRE)

2010 Anabaa ex Born Gold (Blushing Groom) Haras du Quesnay - €7,500

2010 Galileo ex Anna Karenina (Green Desert) Ballyhane Stud - €6,000

A full-brother to triple Breeders’ Cup Mile heroine Goldikova, Anodin very nearly won the same race on his swansong, finishing second to Karakontie at Santa Anita in 2014. Having shown similarly solid form in many of Europe’s best mile races, he clearly ranks as a very appealing prospect.

Battle Of Marengo lined up in the 2013 Derby as the winner of his last five races and was went off as the shortest-priced of Aidan O’Brien’s five runners. He ran well, finishing fourth to his lesser-fancied stablemate Ruler Of The World, and looks sure to come up with some nice horses from the three-figure book of mares which he covered in 2015.

CHARM SPIRIT (IRE) as potentially a very significant stallion.

AUSTRALIA (GB) 2011 Galileo ex Ouija Board (Cape Cross) Coolmore Stud - €50,000 By a Derby winner from an Oaks winner, Australia lived up to his lineage with his emphatic victory in the 2014 Derby, a triumph which he followed up by taking both the Irish Derby and the Juddmonte International. He boasts rock-solid credentials, and clearly ranks THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

BUNGLE INTHEJUNGLE (GB) 2010 Exceed And Excel – Licence To Thrill (Wolfhound) Rathasker Stud - €5,000 Exceed And Excel has established himself as an excellent sire of sprinters, and Bungle Inthejungle ranks as one of his fastest sons, as he showed with impressive five-furlong Pattern-

2011 Invincible Spirit ex L’Enjoleuse (Montjeu) Tweenhills Farm & Stud - £25,000 Having run very well in a vintage edition of the 2,000 Guineas, Charm Spirit confirmed that he was one of the very best milers of his generation by signing off with a splendid hat-trick of Group 1 victories in the Prix Jean Prat, Prix du Moulin and Queen Elizabeth II Stakes. He was extremely well supported by breeders, and looks sure to sire plenty of good horses.

COACH HOUSE (IRE) 2011 Oasis Dream ex Lesson In Humililty (Mujahid) Bucklands Farm & Stud - £3,000 By a top-class sprinter from a very fast mare, Coach House unsurprisingly showed plenty of speed when he began working at Ballydoyle in 2013. He went to Royal Ascot bidding for a hattrick, and duly emerged with plenty of credit, finishing a good second to No Nay Never in the

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which he covered in 2015 should give him every chance.

DUNADEN (FR) 2006 Nicobar ex La Marlia (Kaldounevees) Overbury Stud - £3,000 Dunaden more than proved his class and toughness in his 46-start racing career, in which his ten victories included the Melbourne Cup, Caulfield Cup and Hong Kong Vase. His qualities clearly appealed to British breeders as he covered nearly 100 mares in his first season, and he will thrive if he can pass on his ability, soundness and determination.

ES QUE LOVE (IRE) 2009 Clodovil ex Es Que (Inchinor) Rathasker Stud - €5,000 In his four seasons of racing, Es Que Love showed himself to be a byword for toughness, retiring sound after 51 starts. He thrived so well on his exertions that he ended his career on a high, following his seven-furlong Group 2 victory in Goodwood’s Lennox Stakes by running well in Group 1 company.

No Nay Never, a son of the late Scat Daddy, has unsurprisingly been well supported

seasons, Gregorian won three Group races over seven furlongs and a mile including the Group 2 Hungerford Stakes and was third to Slade Power in the July Cup. A scopey son of a popular stallion, he received good support from breeders in Britain and Ireland.

HEERAAT (IRE) GALE FORCE TEN (GB) 2010 Oasis Dream ex Ronaldsay (Kirkwall) Irish National Stud - €5,000 The DBS Premier Yearling Sale topper of 2011, Gale Force Ten lived up both to his price-tag and his smart pedigree by showing himself a top horse for Aidan O’Brien. At two he was placed behind Reckless Abandon in both the Norfolk and the Middle Park Stakes, while at three he took the Jersey Stakes, three weeks after finishing second in the Irish 2,000 Guineas. He covered 160 mares in his first season, so will clearly have every chance of becoming a leading first-season sire in 2018.

GARSWOOD (GB) 2010 Dutch Art ex Penchant (Kyllachy) Cheveley Park Stud - £7,000 A Listed winner at two and a Group 2 winner (of the Lennox Stakes) at three, Garswood received the ultimate reward for his consistently good efforts by gaining Group 1 glory at four, when he scored in the Prix Maurice de Gheest over 1300m at Deauville. His pedigree has Cheveley Park Stud speed stamped all over it, and he has proved popular, having covered 100 mares in his first season.

GREGORIAN (IRE) 2009 Clodovil ex Three Days In May (Cadeaux Genereux)) National Stud - £4,500 A durable and talented campaigner over four

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2009 Dark Angel ex Thawrah (Green Desert) Mickley Stud - £4,000 The consistent Heeraat finished in the first three in more than half of his 22 starts, most notably landing the Group 3 Hackwood Stakes over six furlongs as a four-year-old. From the immediate family of Group 1-winning sprinter Malhub, he covered nearly 100 mares in his first season and should sire plenty of fast horses.

KINGMAN (GB) 2011 Invincible Spirit ex Zenda (Green Desert) Banstead Manor Stud - £55,000 A top-class racehorse who won four Group 1 mile races at three, Kingman represents a mouthwatering stallion prospect. Out of a Classic-winning mare, he makes great appeal on pedigree as well as physique. In his first season he covered a big book of high-class mares, many of whose owners will find that his stud fee will prove to have been a money well spent because his stock are sure to be very popular.

KINGSBARNS (IRE) 2010 Galileo ex Beltisaal (Belmez) Coolmore Stud - €6,000 A top-class juvenile in 2012 when he was an impressive Group 1 winner of the Racing Post Trophy, Kingsbarns did not progress quite as well as one might have hoped in subsequent seasons, but he should have the potential to become another son of Galileo to sire some good horses.

KUROSHIO (AUS) 2010 Excced And Excel ex Arctic Drift (Gone West) Overbury Stud - £3,500 (in 2015 only) A Group 2-winning sprinter at three for Godolphin in Australia, Kuroshio served one season in Gloucestershire but did not return in 2016. He also won the Group 3 Diamond Prelude as a juvenile and it would be no surprise to see him sire some early types.

MOOHAAJIM (IRE) 2010 Cape Cross ex Thiella (Kingmambo) Rathbarry Stud - €5,000 A terrific juvenile who chased home Reckless Abandon in an excellent Middle Park Stakes after having won the Mill Reef Stakes, Moohaajim is a handsome horse who looks sure to have some good-looking foals going through the sales this autumn.

MORPHEUS (GB) 2010 Oasis Dream ex Kind (Danehill) Tally-Ho Stud - €6,000 As an Oasis Dream half-brother to Frankel, Morpheus would have deserved a place at stud even with no form to his name. As it is, he won three times over a mile as a three-year-old, and clearly represents an extremely interesting prospect. The fact that he covered 142 mares in his first season shows that many breeders share this opinion.

MR MEDICI (IRE) 2005 Medicean ex Way For Life (Platini) Hedgeholme Stud - £1,500 Initially a good horse for Kevin Prendergast in Ireland (where he won two races and was seven times stakes-placed) Mr Medici went on to be >> THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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Muhaarar Oasis Dream - Tahrir

£30,000 (1st JAN, SLF)

Mukhadram Shamardal - Magic Tree

£7,000(1st JAN, SLF)

Nayef Gulch - Height Of Fashion

£5,000 (1st JAN, SLF)

Discover more about the Shadwell Stallions at www.shadwellstud.com Or call Richard Lancaster, James O’Donnell or Rachael Gowland on

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S TA L L I O N S W I T H F I R S T F O A L S I N 2 0 1 6 Olympic Glory made a huge impression as a juvenile in 2012, when he won three Pattern races including the Group Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere at Longchamp and sustained his only defeat in five starts when finishing second to Dawn Approach in the Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot. He went on to prove himself a wonderful racehorse, winning another Group 1 race at three (the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot) and two more (the Lockinge Stakes at Newbury and the Prix de la Foret at Longchamp) as a fouryear-old. He looks almost certain to be a successful stallion.

RULER OF THE WORLD (IRE) 2010 Galileo ex Love Me True (Kingmambo) Coolmore Stud - €15,000

Kong, where his umpteen good runs were headlined by a Group One victory in the Champions And Chater Cup at Sha Tin as a fiveyear-old. If he can pass on his own sterling qualities, he will sire some good horses.

MUKHADRAM (GB) 2009 Shamardal ex Magic Tree (Timber Country) Nunnery Stud - £7,000 Shadwell did breeders a great big favour by retiring Mukhadram to stud at a fee as low as £7,000, because he had shown such consistently high-class form (including winning the Eclipse Stakes at Sandown) that a significantly higher figure would have been understandable.

Consequently, he was quickly fully booked, and hence he should have plenty of nice sons and daughters coming along to get his stud career off to a good start.

A top-class middle-distance performer at both three (when he won the Derby) and four (when he beat Flintshire in the Prix Niel), Ruler Of The World offers pedigree as well as performance, coming from a great sire-producing family and being a Galileo half-brother to Duke Of Marmalade. Coolmore pitched him in at a very reasonable fee to give him every chance of success.

SEA THE MOON (GER) 2011 Sea The Stars ex Sanwa (Monsun) Lanwades Stud - £15,000 Sea The Stars’ first crop did sensationally well and one could argue, based on his ultraimpressive 11-length German Derby triumph, that Sea The Moon was its most talented member. Sadly injury prevented him from confirming that impression, but he can be rated a very exciting young stallion, particularly as his dam is a full-sister to three German Classic winners. He covered 132 mares in 2015, and some high-class horses look sure to ensue.

NO NAY NEVER (USA) 2011 Scat Daddy ex Cat’s Eye Witness (Elusive Quality) Coolmore Stud - €20,000

SLADE POWER (IRE)

No Nay Never was a magnificent two-year-old who was as good as he looked, scooting home in the Norfolk Stakes over five at Royal Ascot before landing a similarly impressive victory in the Group 1 Prix Morny over 1200m at Deauville. Furthermore, he trained on to score in Grade 3 company over 5.5 furlongs as a threeyear-old before finishing second in the Breeders’ Cup Turf. He has understandably proved extremely popular at Coolmore, and looks a certainty to sire good-looking and fast stock.

Having won a maiden at two and a Listed race at three, Slade Power developed into a top-class sprinter as he neared maturity, ultimately retiring to stud as the winner of 10 of his 20 starts, his triumphs including brilliant Group 1 victories in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes and the July Cup. He covered 148 mares in his first season and looks certain to have plenty of winners once his first juveniles start running in 2018.

OLYMPIC GLORY (IRE) 2010 Choisir ex Acidanthera (Alzao) Haras du Bouquetot - €15,000 By a magnificent and high-class sprinter from a grand-daughter of the brilliant filly Amaranda,

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SUN CENTRAL (IRE) 2009 Galileo ex Bordighera (Alysheba) Elusive Bloodstock, Lincolnshire - £2,000 As a Galileo half-brother to the mighty but illstarred George Washington, Sun Central would have been worth a chance at stud even if he had never raced. As it was, he raced successfully, winning five of his ten starts including twice scoring in Listed company.

TORONADO (IRE)

Toronado is at the National Stud

>> one of the best and toughest horses in Hong

compiling an admirable record highlighted by four Pattern race triumphs, three in France and one in Germany. He showed his best form around a mile, and looks likely to sire some very nice horses.

2009 Dutch Art ex Girl Power (Key Of Luck) Kildangan Stud - €20,000

SOMMERABEND (GB) 2007 Shamardal ex Sommernacht (Monsun) Haras de Saint Arnoult - €3,500 Shamardal has built his reputation as a stallion by siring horses who are usually very tough as well as talented. Sommerabend is a classic example, as he raced honestly for five seasons,

2010 High Chaparral ex Wana Doo (Grand Slam) National Stud - £15,000 One of the most handsome as well as most talented horses of his generation, Toronado showed high-class form at two, three and four, the best of his six victories coming in Group 1 company over a mile in the Sussex Stakes at Goodwood and the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot. His recruitment was a real coup by the National Stud, and the 152 mares which he covered there in his first season will have given him every chance to put himself firmly on the map from the outset in his second career.

WAR COMMAND (USA) 2001 War Front ex Wandering Star (Red Ransom) Coolmore Stud - €15,000 War Command was an outstanding two-yearold, winning both the Coventry and the Dewhurst Stakes. He was not quite so good at three, although he did run an honourable fourth to Kingman in the St. James’s Palace Stakes. He understandably proved very popular on his retirement to Coolmore, and looks likely to become a notable sire of precocious horses.

XTENSION (IRE) 2007 Xaar ex Great Joy (Grand Lodge) Rathbarry Stud - €5,000 By finishing second in the Coventry Stakes before winning the Vintage Stakes at Goodwood, Xtension proved himself a high-class and precocious juvenile, and later also proved his toughness and durability. After placed efforts in the 2,000 Guineas and Prix Jean Prat at three he was sold to Hong Kong, where several seasons of consistently excellent performance (highlighted by two wins in the Group 1 BMW Champions Mile at Sha Tin) showed him to be a tremendous racehorse in every respect. His repatriation to Rathbarry represented an intriguing boost to the Irish stallions’ ranks.

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By European Champion Sprinter and leading sire influence OASIS DREAM out of European Champion 2YO and five-time Group 1 winner ATTRACTION

FIRST FOALS 2017

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His yearling half-brother was bought by Shadwell for 1,600,000gns

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Fountain of Youth was all speed which is not surprising considering how fast his parents were. His form over 5 furlongs was excellent. At 2 he won his maiden by 4 lengths and was beaten less than a length in the Windsor Castle Stakes at Royal Ascot while at 3 he beat older horses in the Sapphire Stakes-Gr.3 at the Curragh. Aidan O’Brien

Rated 111 by Timeform at 3 years, higher than Oasis Dream’s most successful sire son Showcasing Cost (sire of dual Gr.1 winner Quiet Reflection)

420,000gns as a yearling

Enquiries: Bearstone Stud, Market Drayton, Shropshire TF9 4HF, UK Tel: 01630 647197 Mobile: 07974 948755 Email: enquiries@bearstonestud.co.uk www.bearstonestud.co.uk

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Dubawi dominance a feature of autumn In-form and in demand Darley stallion crosses especially well with Singspiel mares

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establish why a nick works well, people underestimate the relevance of location” be forgiven for thinking he’d passed long ago – when his daughter Wuheida became his first two-year-old Group 1 winner. The style of her victory in the Prix Marcel Boussac suggests she has the potential to follow in the footsteps of several recent winners of the race, such as Divine Proportions, Finsceal Beo, Zarkava, Misty For Me, Elusive Kate and Found.

Wuheida is out of a Singspiel mare, and so is So Mi Dar, who started a hot favourite for the Group 1 Prix de l’Opera two races later.

Unfortunately for her supporters, So Mi Dar was short of room at a crucial stage and in the circumstances did well to close to within half a length of Speedy Boarding and Pleascach.

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he indomitable Galileo may have taken the lion’s share of the honours on Arc day, with his unprecedented 12-3 in the Arc, but arch-rival Dubawi made sure that he wasn’t overshadowed throughout the autumn.

The Arc weekend came just days after the Goffs Orby/Wildenstein dispersal, where Dubawi’s colt out of the Classic-winning Beauty Parlour became the only yearling to make seven figures, at €1,400,000. Then at Tattersalls October Book 1, two Dubawi colts – out of the Group 1 winners Fallen For You and Zee Zee Top – became the world’s jointhighest-priced yearlings of 2016 when selling for 2,600,000gns.

Team Dubawi was also in very fine form on the racecourse. His progressive son Move Up, fresh from a Group 2 victory in Turkey, proved too strong for some smart older horses in the Group 3 Cumberland Lodge Stakes on October 1. The following day saw Dubawi reach a surprising landmark – one you could

Wuheida wins the Prix Marcel Boussac to become Dubawi’s first juvenile Group 1 winner

run – she would have completed a remarkable treble for the Dubawi-Singspiel partnership, as this nick is also responsible for Left Hand, winner of the Group 1 Prix Vermeille three weeks before the Arc. Dubawi’s statistics with Singspiel mares now stand at 21 foals, of which 17 have started, 11 have won and five – a tremendous 24% – have become black-type winners. In addition to Wuheida, Left Hand and So Mi Dar, they include Majestic Dubawi, a Group 3 two-year-old winner, Laugh Aloud, a 2016 Newmarket Listed winner, and Nolohay, who was Group 2-placed in France.

For good measure, Dubawi sired the Group 2 Derby Italiano winner Worthadd, the Listed winner Best Of Times, the Poule d’Essai des Poulains runner-up Havane Smoker, the Group 2 Royal Lodge Stakes second Muntazah and the Listed-placed Algaith from only nine foals out of mares by Singspiel’s half-brother Rahy. That adds up to 11 blacktype horses from 30 foals out of daughters of these two high-class sons of the champion racemare Glorious Song.

I should add that Glorious Song wasn’t just a champion in Canada and the US, where she won half of her 34 starts. She was also a sister to Devil’s Bag, America’s champion two-yearold of 1983, and to Saint Ballado, America’s

champion sire of 2005, so her bloodlines certainly packed a punch.

When trying to establish why a particular nick works so well, I think people often underestimate the relevance of location. For example, the famous Nasrullah-Princequillo nick involved two stallions based at the same farm (Claiborne) and so do Galileo’s partnerships with Danehill and Danehill Dancer. Needless to say, Singspiel was based at Dalham Hall, where Dubawi has also spent most of his career.

Of course it isn’t as simple as that. In a successful nick you usually find that the two stallions complement each other physically and the chances are that their bloodlines also blend very well. It is worth adding that, in the bloodstock world, price is a powerful indicator of class. Singspiel, as a prolific international Group/Grade 1 winner out of a champion racemare, spent most of his stallion career at fees ranging from £20,000 to £50,000 (possibly more in 2005, when he was listed as private).

It has been a similar story with Dubawi, whose early successes resulted in his fee soaring to £75,000 in 2012 and 2013, when the likes of Left Hand, So Mi Dar and Wuheida were conceived. In other words, there was good reason to have high

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expectations of Dubawi’s partnership with Singspiel mares.

Even so, as a pedigree buff, I have to think that the combination of their bloodlines has been an essential part of their success.

Wuheida is the 19th of Dubawi’s Europeanbred progeny to have won at Group 1 level and eight of them have pedigrees carrying duplications in the first five generations to either Shirley Heights, his sire Mill Reef or Mill Reef’s sire Never Bend. Left Hand and Wuheida are among the five with two lines to Shirley Heights. As with Arabian Queen, their inbreeding is 4 x 5, but with Al Kazeem and Hunter’s Light it was 4 x 3.

Another common duplication in the pedigrees of Dubawi’s Group 1 winners is to Mr Prospector, usually accompanied by at least two lines to Northern Dancer. Two of Dubawi’s Classic-winning sons – New Bay and Night Of Thunder – have these Mr Prospector and Northern Dancer duplications, together with two lines to Mill Reef. Mr Prospector is credited with 15%

black-type winners, Northern Dancer with 23% and Mill Reef with 16%, so this concentration on outstanding stallions helps explain why Night Of Thunder and New Bay were so effective. Wuheida’s duplications includes 4 x 4 to Mr Prospector, 4 x 5 to Shirley Heights and 5 x 5 x 5 to Northern Dancer.

Shirley Heights was a thoroughly tough and genuine racehorse, as he showed in snatching victory in tight finishes to the Derby and Irish Derby. He wasn’t without his quirks though, as might have been expected of a member of the Nasrullah male line, and some of his daughters tended to flash their tails under pressure.

It has long been my belief that a bit of temperament, or high mettle, can be a plus rather than a minus in a stallion, especially if it translates into a will to win. However, Wuheida’s pedigree also contains a 5 x 5 duplication to Sunbittern, a filly who took things too far. This daughter of Sea Hawk II dug in her toes and unseated her rider soon

after the break on her second three-year-old start and simply refused to race on her final appearance. She earned a Timeform squiggle in the process. Fortunately, she had been much more co-operative in her first season, when she won her first three starts before finishing fourth in the Cheveley Park.

Duplications to Sunbittern are not uncommon among Dubawi’s progeny. She appears in Dubawi’s pedigree as his fourth dam and she was also the second dam of In The Wings, the top-class Sadler’s Wells horse who sired Singspiel.

We are surely going to hear more of the Dubawi-Singspiel partnership – and not just from Wuheida and So Mi Dar in 2017.

Dubawi’s 2015 crop contains six youngsters out of daughters of Singspiel, comprising colts out of Connecting, the Grade 1 winner Folk Opera, Indian Petal and Inner Secret, as well as fillies out of So Mi Dar’s dam Dar Re Mi and Love Charm. Five of them were bred

by Godolphin or Darley, with Godolphin also owning two youngsters out of Rahy mares.

Exceedingly good start and plenty more to come The theory goes that success breeds success, and that has certainly been the case for Exceed And Excel in Australia.

This fast son of Danehill made quite an impact when his first runners raced in 2007/08, ending the season as champion first-crop sire, and he confirmed his promise when his second-crop son Reward For Effort took one of Australia’s leading prizes for two-yearolds, the Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes.

These two crops had been sired at fees of AUS$55,000 but the promise they showed effectively doubled Exceed And Excel’s fee, to AUS$110,000 for 2008 and 2009.

Naturally expectations were high when his foals of 2009 began their careers in 2011/12 and I must admit to being disappointed with this crop’s initial efforts. I should have allowed it more time, as this crop contained Amber Sky and Flamberge. Amber Sky started 2014 with victory in a race which carries Group 1 status in Hong Kong and then travelled to Dubai to land the Group 1 Al Quoz Sprint.

Flamberge, for his part, became a triple Group 3 winner in 2014 but didn’t gain the first of his three Group 1 successes until he was five, in May 2015.

We didn’t have to wait nearly as long for the second of Exceed And Excel’s 110,000-dollar crops to reveal its talents. With what proved to be a vintage collection of juveniles, containing seven individual Group winners, Exceed And Excel enjoyed Group 1 success with Guelph in the Sires’ Produce Stakes and Champagne Stakes, while Overreach won the Golden Slipper Stakes. Exceed And Excel was responsible for five of the 16 runners in that Golden Slipper and his team took first, second and fourth places.

No wonder, then, that he eclipsed the other sires of two-year-olds, taking the championship with a record-breaking total of AUS$5,320,480, compared to the $1,880,251 of his nearest pursuer.

He also became Australia’s champion sire for the first time, with a team of 17 stakes winners helping him defeat two other sons of Danehill in Fastnet Rock and Commands.

I think it’s fair to say that Exceed And Excel’s story in Australia has contained some ups and downs. After his two seasons at

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Exceed And Excel has been champion sire in his homeland

$110,000, his fee was slashed to $66,000 for the next three years, but his results in the 2012/13 season boosted his fee back up to $88,000 in 2013, when he covered 150 mares. Since then his fee has stood consistently at $110,000.

The early signs are that those 88,000-dollar coverings in 2013 may have produced a batch of two-year-olds to rival that vintage crop of 2012/13. The Randwick card on October 1 included two five-furlong Listed races for juveniles and Exceed And Excel youngsters won them both, with Jorda taking the fillies’ race and Khan the colts’ event.

Another five-furlong Listed race for two-year-olds, the Maribyrnong Trial Stakes, was contested at Flemington the following day and this time Exceed And Excel was responsible for four of the 11 runners. Thanks to Madeenaty, Double Jeopardy and Inquiry, they finished first, second and fourth.

It is going to be interesting to see whether any of these promising youngsters are still at the head of the game when the Group 1 races come around in February, March and April next year.

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Introducing our new National Hunt trainer and exciting jumps prospect Rollins, so he is very well bred and currently he is off a workable mark. I am hoping he can be a great fun horse for the club to really get behind. We will probably look to start him off in a nice handicap sooner rather than later. I would think he is about a month off a run now.

What has he done on the track so far?

He originally went over to race in France, which didn’t quite go to plan for one reason or another, so we brought him back to race over here. I would say on pedigree he is probably slightly underachieving, but hopefully we can see some improvement in him this season. But he’s only five and quite lightly raced for his age so I would hope there is more to come from him, and it also leaves us with plenty of options as to where we go with him.

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s autumn quickly changes to winter, the southern hemisphere’s Flat racing hub Newmarket becomes unusually quiet as the top-class racing heads to the warmer climes of Dubai and Australia. But in a few pockets of the Suffolk town the focus for some trainers shifts away from Flat and towards the National Hunt.

Britain’s newest and youngest trainer and TTC member Amy Murphy, 24, has ten horses in training, five of them National Hunt horses including the Listed handicapwinning mare Kalane. She will be one of the few trainers in Newmarket eagerly anticipating the start of the National Hunt season proper.

The Thoroughbred Club will be leasing out the five-year-old gelding Mercian King from Murphy’s father, Paul, a well-known National Hunt breeder, whose breeding operation Wychnor Park Stud in Staffordshire has churned out winners since 1999, including the Grade 1-winning mare Carole’s Legacy, Graded winners Mad Max and Pendra, and the talented Listed winner Carole’s Spirit.

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Why the TTC?

to Luca Cumani for three years and prior to that an assistant to Tom Dascombe in Cheshire, with her link to National Hunt through her father it is not hard to see why Murphy won’t desert her roots in a hurry and will focus her attention throughout the winter months over the obstacles.

So Amy tell us a little about yourself. . .

I have grown up with horses around me my entire life and I got into racing properly when I was a teenager, being lucky enough to ride out for National Hunt trainers Nicky Henderson and Dr Richard Newland. I then went to study Horse Management at Hartpury before working as an assistant for Tom Dascombe in Cheshire. After that I went on to do a six-month placement with Gai Waterhouse in Australia. Then in 2013 I went to work as an assistant to Luca Cumani, where I stayed for three years, before taking out my own licence this year.

Tell us a little about the new TTC horse in training Mercian King. . .

He is bred and owned by my father and we have leased him to the club. He is by Robin Des Pres out of the good racemare Mariah

I thought it would be good fun for the club to own a National Hunt horse to go with the one they already have on the Flat so there is good variety for the members.

They can follow the Flat horse in the summer and in the winter they can turn their attention to the jumps.

How are you finding training so far?

I am absolutely loving it. I wouldn’t change it for the world. I’m bouncing out of bed in the morning and really enjoying it so far. So hopefully we can attract some new owners and get the yard full up.

Why are you choosing to train both Flat and jumps horses?

Most of my contacts would be predominantly on the Flat, and I am mainly buying yearlings, but of course because I was brought up immersed in jump racing, I want to have some National Hunt horses as well.

Which one do you prefer?

I love them both equally as much as each other, the only issue is I have no idea when my next holiday will be!

Do you find it a daunting prospect being the youngest trainer in the country?

No not at all; I’m relishing the challenge.

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TTC AMBASSADORS HERE TO HELP

MEMBERSHIP OPTIONS Open to all 16- to 30-year-olds £50 per year (£35 per year for 16- to 22-year-olds)

Full Member • Access to all TTC events • Follow our TTC broodmares and horse in training • Thoroughbred Owner & Breeder magazine subscription • Annual Thoroughbred Stallion Guide • Blogs, webinars, vlogs with exclusive access on our website • Career course and educational opportunities From left: Samantha Bennett, Jennie Sherrard, Kirsty Page and Kyle Mitcheison

Associate Member - Free • Six-month membership

As well as our new horse, we would also like to introduce our new TTC Ambassadors.

Our TTC Ambassadors have been selected from our TTC members to promote and encourage membership to the Club within their local community and social network.

Our new Ambassadors have a good understanding of the Club’s ethos, values and objectives, and are located around the country. They will be attending events and promoting engagement with the club through social media and other outlets.

They will also be supporting the creation of events and passing on recommendations from TTC members in their local areas to our TTC Committee, creating a stronger link to ensure that we are providing you with the best club for young people across horseracing.

Details of our TTC Ambassadors and where they are located are as follows: Jennie Sherrard – Shropshire • Kirsty Page – Suffolk

• Limited TTC events access • Limited TTC website access

HOW TO JOIN • Visit thethoroughbredclub.co.uk to sign up • If you would like to discuss membership options please contact Tallulah Lewis at info@thethoroughbredclub.co.uk

Samantha Bennett – Hertfordshire/Bedfordshire Kate Bracken – Northamptonshire • Lucy Ryan – Norfolk Grace Smyth – Exeter • Bertie Hayton – York Laura Joy – Suffolk • Kyle Mitcheison – Surrey George Coombs – London If you are a member and have any suggestions as to how they can continue to engage and promote the club please get in touch with the ambassador in your area, or the one closest to you. For their contact details please email info@thethoroughbredclub.co.uk.

smallest opportunity to try to get experience in all areas of the industry to give yourself a variety of options: sales, studs, yards – try to do it all. It is impossible for a person to know too much and you learn something every day no matter how long you have been doing it.

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Age is only a number and I know I have enough valuable experience under my belt to hopefully make it work.

What do you think training National Hunt horses from Newmarket will be like?

What a lot of people don’t actually know is that Newmarket actually has fantastic National Hunt facilities. It’s got a twomile grass gallop just for National Hunt

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horses and it’s got numerous schooling facilities and a lot people just don’t know it’s there. There are very few National Hunt trainers in Newmarket, but it doesn’t mean the facilities aren’t there.

What advice would you give a young person trying to make it in the industry?

Work hard, don’t turn down even the

I think The Thoroughbred Club can attract new, young people to the sport and get them into horseracing through breeding and racing, and it is obviously what the sport needs. I am very much hoping that we can have great fun with this horse and build relationships with people who want to get into the industry. I want to try to make it enjoyable, because at the end of the day that’s what it is all about.

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he last day of September saw a group of 35 members and guests head to Newmarket to pay a visit to Palace House, the National Heritage Centre for Horseracing and Sporting Art. On a glorious autumn morning, half the group joined an early visit to the gallops and stable tour. We gathered at Newmarket’s Rowley Mile racecourse and were taken by coach to Warren Hill to watch second lot, including Luca Cumani and Michael’s Bell’s strings exercising on the gallops.

Frankel (right) greeted ROA members visiting the National Heritage Centre, while Classic hero Galileo Gold (below) was on show at Hugo Palmer’s stable

We rejoined the coach and were taken on a tour of the local racing and historical landmarks while Malcolm Roper, our Discover Newmarket tour guide, gave a captivating commentary.

It was fascinating to see all the training grounds, owned and managed by Jockey Club Estates, and impressive array of facilities. Our guide put into context the enormity of the collective operation of training up to 2,500 racehorses in the town.

We then headed to Hugo Palmer’s Kremlin Cottage Stables, located on Snailwell Road.

Built in the 19th century, the yard was originally a stud for Prince Soltykoff who lived in a house called The Kremlin, near the Severals trotting rings in the heart of Newmarket.

The original stables have been immaculately restored and the stabling has been extended to accommodate an impressive training yard.

Vicky Griffiths, Communications Assistant, led us on an excellent tour of the yard, its facilities and horses in training. Everyone found a favourite, and naturally special attention was focussed on stable stars Galileo

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Gold, winner of the 2,000 Guineas and St James Palace Stakes, and Gifted Master.

The tour gave a fascinating insight behind the scenes of a busy training establishment.

The group heard about stable routines and observed the attention to detail and equine bio-security measures designed to prevent the risk of entry or spread of infection.

After the stable tour, the group made their way to Palace House and the National Heritage Centre for Horseracing and Sporting Art. Our visit took place during the centre’s

soft launch phase, in advance of the centre’s official opening by Her Majesty the Queen due to take place on November 4.

We were given a warm welcome by Director Chris Garibaldi and Commercial Director Liz Wilkinson, who gave an insightful introduction which set the objectives of the centre as a world-class heritage site in context.

The group enjoyed lunch in The Tack Room, before making their way around Palace House and the Fred Packard Museum & Galleries of British Sporting Art. Joe Grimwade introduced members to equine stars Walkon, Our Vic and Frileux Royal in the Rothschild Yard, the new flagship yard of the Retraining of Racehorses charity.

Guests were able to round off their visit in the Heritage Centre Shop, which provided a tempting array of unique and imaginative horseracing gifts, and the on-site bakery.

Further information about the National Heritage Centre, its facilities and exhibits, and the online shop, can be found at www.palacehousenewmarket.co.uk.

Our grateful thanks go to Discover Newmarket, Hugo Palmer Racing and the National Heritage Centre for their warm welcome to members on the day.

Details of upcoming member events can be found at roa.co.uk/events.

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Awards evening rapidly approaching Mrs Danvers: is the unbeaten juvenile in line for an award?

and will be rounded off with dancing to the ever popular Chance band.

Owners are invited to showcase their racing colours in the awards brochure for a minimum donation of £100 per set. A silent auction will feature over 20 specially selected lots. The net proceeds of the evening will benefit the Racing to School charity after all direct costs have been deducted.

Places for this year’s awards, which will be held on Thursday, December 1 at the InterContinental Hotel on London’s prestigious Park Lane, are selling fast. The black-tie ceremony is always well attended by racing’s great and good and we would urge anyone wishing to attend to book up soon.

Tickets, which include half a bottle of wine per person, are priced at £180 per person. Tables of ten can be booked for £1,550.

Bookings can be made online at roa.co.uk/events or by calling the ROA office on 020 7152 0200.

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The ROA Horseracing Awards evening is a glittering event that recognises the outstanding equine stars of the year and their owners.

Each award on the evening is voted for

by ROA members. Voting forms will be sent out this month and we would urge your participation in deciding the horses and owners to be recognised on the evening.

There are Flat and jump categories, Owner of the Year and the coveted Horse of the Year, won in 2015 by Golden Horn. This year we have a new category to recognise the outstanding NH mare of the season.

All votes will be entered into a prize draw to win a specially selected mixed case of Corney & Barrow wines.

Guests will be welcomed with a champagne reception and enjoy a threecourse meal. The awards ceremony will be compered by Nick Luck and Mike Cattermole.

The evening will feature a silent auction

Your Jackpot races in November To the end of October payments totalling £90,000 have been paid out to ROA members who have won a weekly ROA Owners Jackpot race.

Don’t miss out on your chance to gain an additional £2,000 on top of win prize-money.

Check the weekly Owners Jackpot races coming up in November – to see all the latest news visit roa.co.uk/jackpot.

To qualify to win a bonus, horses must be owned at least 51% by ROA members. In the case of a racing partnership, both nominated partners must be members of the ROA. NOVEMBER JACKPOT RACES

November 4, Warwick 3m1½f Class 4 4yo+ 0-120 Conditional Jockeys H’cap Chase November 9, Ayr 2m4½f Class 4 4yo+ 0-105 Novices’ Handicap Chase November 17, Newcastle 1m4f Class 5 3yo+ 0-75 AWT Handicap November 23, Wetherby 2m½f Class 5 3yo Juvenile Maiden Hurdle

ROA member Gary Kennedy presents trainer Paul Midgley (right) with a prize after the victory of Naggers, owned by Taylor’s Bloodstock, at Ayr in October

November 29, Southwell 2m4f Class 4 0-120 4yo+ Handicap Chase

On November 4 the ROA team will be visiting Warwick for a regional meeting. We look forward to seeing members who have booked to attend the event

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here was a slight delay in speaking to Paul Jacobs for this article as he had something quite important to do – book his flights to California.

Talking shortly after it had been decided that Limato would not run at Ascot on Champions Day and instead head to Santa Anita for the Breeders’ Cup, Jacobs said: “What a performance! Prices have increased, and availability decreased, and there’s still a lot to sort out. It will be something to look forward to once everything is arranged!”

Contesting – and winning – Group 1s isn’t routine for Jacobs, though he has been an owner for around quarter of a century, his predominantly green silks now well known, especially through Limato over the past couple of years.

“When Limato won the Foret my team Plymouth were top of League Two!”

Explaining his background – and silks – Jacobs says: “I was born in 1946 in Plymouth, where all my family came from. All of us being lifelong supporters of Plymouth Argyle – the only team in the Football League to play in dark green, with some black and white – it was a no-brainer my colours are dark green with a black v-sign, politely known as a chevron, and a white cap for identification from a distance!

When Limato won the Foret we were top of League Two!” He continues: “My parents left Plymouth for Kenya in 1951, dad to work for East African Railways & Harbours, and mum at the local CID. To supplement their incomes, they worked weekends at Ngong racecourse in Nairobi.

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Harry Bentley celebrates victory on Limato in the Prix de la Foret

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Paul Jacobs (with scarf) and Team Limato after the gelding’s hugely impressive success in the Foret on Arc day at Chantilly

So I was taken along as a child and had to report back between each race to, respectively, dad in the Tote Credit office and mum at a Tote window, so they knew I hadn’t absconded or been abducted!

“So at the age of five I became hooked on racehorses, and long thought of the day when I could actually own one.

“That had to wait until 1989, when I bought Coronation Stables in Newmarket with Neil and Lesley Graham, the connection being I had become a partner in the London law firm of what is now Clifford Chance, where we had recruited Lesley as an Articled Clerk, and subsequently she and Neil married.”

Jacobs did not have to wait long for his first runner, or winner, as the two came together at Leicester, with Steve Cauthen in the saddle.

He says: “The first horse that ran for me, in early 1990, was Gay Glint, a Glint Of Gold bred by Ballymacoll Stud I had bought for 12,000gns the previous October, the vet having deemed him unlikely to race! He won that first race, and nine in total for me, under both codes.

“I’ve subsequently owned, or had shares in, a few hundred horses. I now have 100% of ten under trainers’ care, plus two shared, a broodmare in foal, and a foal.”

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Henry Candy, via this year’s July Cup and Prix de la Foret winner Limato, is the trainer currently most associated with Jacobs, but the owner is not a one-trainer pony.

“Over the years I’ve had a lot, starting of course with Neil, who is still a close friend and adviser,” says Jacobs.

“Currently my longest standing one is Simon Dow, from the mid-90s, then from the early noughties Emma Lavelle, and since I moved near the Lambourn area, Harry Whittington and Henry Candy.

“Simon’s in Epsom, so when I was in London that was very convenient: he lives and breathes Epsom, and sends me emails earlier in the morning than anyone!

“Emma as a young trainer sent a brilliant round robin letter when she was based near Andover, as a result of which I sent the first of quite a number to her.

“In early 2014 I decided I’d like Limato to be trained closer to where I had recently come to live in the Vale of White Horse, and Henry’s yard was the nearest.

“I phoned, only to be told his yard was ‘chock-a-block’, but miraculously less than 48 hours later a vacancy appeared; he was moved, and the rest is history.

“As for Harry and his team, I couldn’t have

been luckier in finding such a lovely place locally; dedicated, focused, caring, lively, so informative and such good company. Harry’s operation should be the prototype for a great training yard.”

Gay Glint, Tomina, named after father Tom, Marjina for mum Marjorie and Limato – “Li’ for my lovely wife Linda and ‘ma’ and ‘to’ for my great parents” – have all provided Jacobs with memories to cherish, while the best thing about being an owner “is the euphoria of being there to see one of yours passing the post first and in your colours”.

He likes naming horses too – “that’s part of the fun” – but while that is always something an owner can control, how fast they run isn’t, and only Limato has shown enough ability to allow Jacobs to dine at racing’s top table.

“Foolish Heart was a good horse and took us to Italy, and there was Gay Glint, but Limato is the stand-out by a mile,” he admits.

In 2017 Limato might not reappear until Royal Ascot, to preserve him for the second half of the year, but as a dual-purpose owner Jacobs will not be kicking his heels.

“It’s a year-round game for me, and that’s part of the buzz,” he says, before heading off to arrange a trip to Market Rasen to see Pink Play contest a two-and-a-half-mile handicap hurdle.

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Cue Card will be among those horses trying to win the first leg of the Triple Crown at Haydock in the Betfair Chase

Get set for the Chase Triple Crown The Jockey Club Chase Triple Crown, offering a £1 million bonus to connections of the finest staying chasers over-and-above Grade 1 prize-money, kicks off this month with the Betfair Chase at Haydock Park.

Jockey Club Racecourses is offering the bonus to connections of any horse that wins the Betfair Chase on November 19, the 32Red King George VI Chase at Kempton Park on

Boxing Day and the Timico Cheltenham Gold Cup on the final day of the Festival in March.

JCR offered the bonus initially as a one-off for the 2015/16 jumps season in memory of the late Kauto Star, the only horse to have won the Chase Triple Crown since the inception of the Betfair Chase in 2005. Cue Card’s tilt at that challenge helped to set the last jumps season alight, winning the first two

contests before falling three fences from home when disputing the lead in the Gold Cup won

by Don Cossack.

Should a horse achieve the remarkable feat, the bonus would be awarded to connections as follows: 65% to the winning owners, 15% to the trainer, 10% to stable staff at the winning yard, and 10% to the jockey (split a third per race if different jockeys riding).

York bag for winners

and USB memory stick of still images is now a thing of the past, as York responded to feedback from their winning connections and now give owners a stylish way of carrying their mementoes home.

Beyond the practical, York hopes that the quote from Nelson Mandela, “A winner is a dreamer who never gives up,” is apt for all racehorse owners.

handsome saving of £49.

To book, owners need to call the track direct on 01342 834800 (option 1), no later than 24 hours before the day, with prepayment to secure a table. The maximum number of guests per runner with this offer is six, but larger parties are asked to call the hospitality team, who can arrange a discounted package in one of their suites.

Lingfield’s ‘Winter Warmer’

Feedback winner

Lingfield Park’s ever-popular ‘Winter Warmer’ offer for owners kicked off at the end of October, coinciding with the launch off the All-Weather Championships.

Owners and trainers with a runner on the day can enjoy the best available tables in the Panoramic Trackside Restaurant, overlooking the racing action and finishing line. A threecourse lunch with a reserved table for the day costs owners just £20 per person, a

As we go to press the ROA Raceday Committee is making its decisions regarding the 2016 Gold Standard Award winners. We thank all members who continue to provide racecourse feedback via the ROA website and contribute to the selection process.

This month’s lucky prize draw winner of £50 Love To Shop vouchers is Ged Steele, who owns horses under the Owners For Owners banner.

Those owners lucky enough to have a winner at York will have their victory celebrations made easier by the introduction of a trophy bag. Juggling a trophy, framed print, DVD

Owners: bag a prize at York in 2017

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Diary dates and reminders NOVEMBER 4 ROA regional meeting At Warwick.

NOVEMBER 15 Nichola Eddery private view Osborne Studio Gallery.

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Huntingdon now boasts a rubberised horsewalk as part of the improvements

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2017 JANUARY 26 Ownership Matters event In Warwick.

FEBRUARY 7 ROA regional meeting At Hereford.

New facilities at Huntingdon Huntingdon started their new season on October 2 by unveiling over £100,000 worth of investment. The horsewalk, which had previously been comprised of woodchip, has now been rubberised from the stables to pre-parade ring and paddock.

Further investment was made in the winner’s enclosure and paddock,

generously funded by the Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust in memory of Christopher Sporborg, former Chairman of Huntingdon racecourse, a Jockey Club member and a Levy Board Director.

Improvements include a new winners’ rostrum, an increase to the size of the winners’ enclosure and a re-rubberised surface.

RCA Showcase Awards Last month saw the finalists announced for the RCA Showcase Awards, which will take place at Doncaster racecourse on November 17.

The Showcase sees nine awards presented to racecourses for excellence across their business, ranging from best campaign to food and beverage and the owners’ experience.

The five owners’ experience finalists are Ascot, Chester, Fontwell Park, Nottingham and Sedgefield.

An independent judging panel of six included Lynn Douglas, ROA board member, and sifted through 77 submissions from 41 racecourses.

Douglas commented: “It was not easy choosing between the racecourses when you can see that they’ve all worked so hard. They delivered and achieved above and beyond expectations in most cases.

“The day left me with a positive attitude towards the future of our racecourses. I’m very proud of the racecourses in this country and when they get it right the appeal stretches worldwide, with others aspiring to be like them.”

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MARCH 14-17 Cheltenham Festival ROA marquee at the NH highlight.

Further details and how to book for ROA events can be found online at roa.co.uk/events

Nottingham: owners’ experience finalist along with four others

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Third party liability insurance is vital The subject of the ROA member third party liability insurance came up for discussion at a recent Ownership Matters event in Harrogate.

Justin Wadham, ROA board member and solicitor, explains the importance of this benefit of membership.

Anyone who owns or has care of a horse has a potentially ruinous exposure to third party liability. And, because of the 1971 Animals Act, that liability will not depend upon that owner being at fault in any way. Nor will it depend upon whether he/she had any control over the situation.

The good news is that, at low cost – and at negligible/invisible cost if you are an ROA member – you can insure against this exposure.

As, however, little is ever simple in life, it is worth examining potential gaps in the protection people can acquire.

Even if you live outside the UK and have a small stake in a horse, you could find yourself liable for up to 100% of any damage it causes.

Together with your other co-owners, and the trainer, you might find yourself jointly and severally liable. This means that you are potentially liable not just for your pro-rata share of any damage your horse inflicts but, depending upon how able your co-owners are to meet their share of it, you might have to pick up the tab for them too.

Once again, and subject to the £10 million ceiling on your liability, ROA members will be protected to the full extent of this exposure.

That insurance cover will not only cover them for their pro-rata share of the liability, calculated by reference to their contract with the other coowners, but their full financial exposure.

Making the assumption that, because you

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have no day-to-day control over your horse, you cannot be responsible for its misdemeanours is plainly to live in a fool’s paradise.

If, for instance, you are someone who boards horses at a third party facility – and have taken the precaution of ensuring that facility has third party liability insurance – it might automatically be thought that you can therefore sleep easy.

The facility’s third party liability insurers, however, might protect the owners of the facility without extending this protection to the clients of that facility.

This means that if a claim is made against the owners of the facility in relation to damage caused by your horse, and their insurers pay their client out, those very insurers might then try to recover from you the full amount of the claim they have just met.

This will not be a danger if the relevant

insurance policy is with reputable bloodstock insurers. Nor, again, will it be a worry if you are an ROA member.

Nonetheless, there are insurers who, when insuring the custodian of a horse, will only insure that custodian and will refuse to agree that the insurance should extend to protect the underlying owner; and they will refuse to give this extended cover for the precise reason that they want a third party to go against should they have to pay out a claim to their insured.

We all probably know – and certainly assume – that racehorse trainers are obliged to insure against third party and public liability risks. They are. However, they have to have only £2m worth of insurance (any one claim) and, in this day and age, this could be far too low a level of indemnity.

Furthermore, despite the Rule of Racing which requires them to insure, it is unlikely that the question of whether they actually take out the insurance is policed either effectively or at all. In any event, the same problem could arise with the trainer as might arise with any third party facility where an owner keeps his/her horses. In other words, the trainer’s insurers, having paid out their trainer client, look for an owner from whom to claw back what they have just paid out to their trainer client.

Thus, the mere rule requiring trainers to have third party liability, is scant protection. It is not policed. It does not require high enough cover and, of course, it does not make any stipulations about the terms of cover, which would ensure that it protects the underlying owner.

Full details of the ROA third party liability insurance scheme for members can be found at roa.co.uk

In Brief Racehorse Syndicates Association

Desk calendar 2017

The organisation set up to specifically represent commercial racing syndicates and clubs has changed. Racehorse Syndicates Association (RSA), formerly RSACA, has undergone a restructure and rebranding.

The rules of the Association have been replaced with a set of conditions of membership, which, it is hoped, will help improve the recognition and profile of the Association with the aim of growing membership and promotion of the RSA. The changes will help build a robust association with increased standing within the racing industry. The association is recognised by the BHA, ROA and NTF. The RSA website is www.racehorsesyndicates.org

We’re delighted to report that members will once again be sent an ROA branded version of the ever-popular Racing Post desk calendar for 2017. The calendar includes dates of a number of ROA events and we hope will prove useful throughout the new year.

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Irish Champions Weekend The winner of our Longines Irish Champions Weekend competition was Peter Duffy of Stroud. Peter and his wife Deborah enjoyed a fabulous VIP weekend of racing. Peter reported: “Although the only winners I found were at Shelbourne Park greyhounds on the Saturday evening, it was a glorious weekend of top-class racing.” Many thanks to our friends at Horse Racing Ireland for this fabulous prize.

Nichola Eddery private view Members are invited to join an evening of art appreciation on Tuesday, November 15 to view the work of Nichola Eddery at Osborne Studio Gallery, between 6pm and 8.30pm. To book places email sevans@roa.co.uk or call Sadie Evans on 020 7152 0200. The exhibition, the artist’s third solo show, will run from November 9 to December 3.

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Grove Court Stud

CAMERON HIGHLAND 16.0hh, 2009 Galileo – Landmark by Arch

BY WORLD CHAMPION GALILEO His mother’s full sister, ARRAVALE, won 5 races at 2 & 3 years and £632,660.

CAMERON HIGHLAND has won 5 races at 3 & 4 years amounting to a total of £107,462.

He has won the August Stakes (Listed) at Royal Windsor in 2 successive years.

He was 2nd to MICHELANGELO in the Newmarket Tatts Millions.

He then won 2 races at Epsom in August 2012 & 2013.

Half sister SUPPOSING, was sold in Book 1 2012 for 525,000gns.

His full sister was sold in Book 1 2014 for 420,000gns to Qatar Racing while a further full sister was sold in Book 1 2015 for 500,000gns to Al Shaqab Racing.

CAMERON HIGHLAND won on going from Good to Firm to Soft.

He has excellent conformation and temperament. 100% fertility in 2015 and 2016.

Stud Fee 2017: £2,000 Concessions Llanarth, Raglan, Usk, Monmouthshire, NP15 2NA, UK Tel: +44 (0)1873 840494 • Mob Zoe: +44 (0)7974 096252 Mob Mervyn: +44 (0)7830 258494 enquiries@grovecourtstud.com • www.grovecourtstud.uk

Want to find out which stallions are making waves?

For the very latest sire lists go to www.ownerbreeder.co.uk Tables updated every day

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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 Newbury Doncaster Sandown Park Haydock Park Ayr Newcastle Chelmsford City Musselburgh Salisbury Ripon Pontefract Lingfield Park Wetherby Hamilton Park Beverley Thirsk Windsor Carlisle Leicester Kempton Park Nottingham Bath Ffos Las Yarmouth Chepstow Catterick Bridge Redcar Wolverhampton Brighton Southwell Total

Figures for period October 1, 2015 to September 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 I ARC JCR JCR I ARC I I I I I ARC I I I I ARC JCR I JCR JCR ARC I ARC ARC I I ARC ARC ARC

419,108 213,041 174,971 140,472 114,723 80,126 78,262 72,245 62,705 54,105 45,973 42,549 42,291 39,669 37,630 36,725 36,073 33,106 32,066 31,889 29,770 28,713 27,580 26,996 25,739 25,590 25,340 25,134 24,167 24,024 23,081 21,141 21,063 19,299 18,585 10,210 52,793

124,230 91,132 82,333 68,655 74,887 41,667 55,079 53,240 45,957 39,662 29,176 22,291 18,256 15,146 25,882 21,230 29,384 24,781 0 19,206 18,486 16,436 19,240 13,777 20,595 19,869 19,659 13,903 12,050 21,055 13,672 17,784 18,256 19,206 14,471 25,348 30,914

238,498 120,870 69,303 113,995 93,465 10,430 36,831 34,583 28,632 17,991 11,281 8,621 4,880 5,162 5,192 4,491 3,815 4,201 4,185 4,150 4,251 5,235 5,152 4,467 4,920 4,300 5,557 3,852 3,609 4,548 3,566 2,722 11,764 3,386 2,746 2,496 20,753

781,836 425,749 326,607 323,122 283,075 132,223 171,078 160,224 137,294 112,312 86,488 73,461 65,427 59,976 68,704 62,445 69,272 62,177 36,250 55,246 52,507 50,384 51,972 45,241 51,254 49,759 50,556 42,889 39,827 49,626 40,319 41,647 51,083 41,943 35,802 38,054 104,524

19 17 19 11 39 15 16 24 16 23 17 15 64 17 16 17 16 84 2 18 20 17 28 13 20 57 23 22 6 16 15 17 18 92 22 37 888

14,854,886 7,237,740 6,205,542 3,554,346 11,039,909 1,983,351 2,737,245 3,845,385 2,196,700 2,631,319 1,470,300 1,101,919 4,187,316 1,019,591 1,099,266 1,061,566 1,108,354 5,222,887 72,500 994,420 1,050,137 856,525 1,455,229 588,129 1,025,079 2,836,253 1,162,788 943,553 238,960 794,022 604,784 708,000 919,500 3,858,788 787,654 1,408,000 92,861,941

379,815 183,884 168,910 136,791 96,414 86,530 67,252 66,902 57,439 50,343 35,358 24,635 38,350 42,987 31,445 34,084 32,796 30,753 32,205 27,399 24,854 27,121 21,482 25,473 23,769 23,175 23,142 20,800 22,888 19,876 17,669 18,411 18,766 15,944 14,848 10,079 46,747

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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

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

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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 JCR I I I I I JCR I I I ARC I JCR JCR JCR JCR I ARC ARC ARC I I ARC I ARC I I

249,064 235,323 139,862 94,827 89,392 56,101 48,608 41,260 33,912 33,158 30,971 30,843 30,154 28,588 28,556 28,537 28,103 27,808 24,976 24,413 23,094 22,971 22,635 22,032 21,326 20,360 20,276 19,976 19,528 18,171 18,035 18,002 17,300 16,838 16,716 15,855 15,689 15,243 13,936 13,906 37,392

131,882 115,233 86,051 86,945 78,929 78,430 59,635 38,295 41,652 27,287 40,288 17,023 44,404 31,574 18,991 28,658 21,875 27,175 26,602 21,604 33,896 23,721 25,134 26,946 19,424 29,223 22,792 27,123 29,770 26,219 23,408 23,000 20,293 24,111 18,202 26,864 25,998 21,265 21,039 22,657 34,534

70,590 61,573 19,014 16,507 16,784 20,946 10,140 12,896 8,416 2,871 8,674 5,156 8,385 5,310 4,300 0 3,755 4,791 4,652 4,267 5,136 0 5,339 6,706 4,514 5,402 4,638 4,204 5,185 4,546 3,352 4,070 3,920 4,012 2,948 3,348 2,917 3,234 3,551 3,273 8,199

451,723 412,129 247,427 200,500 191,405 157,477 119,537 92,452 83,980 63,816 79,933 53,022 83,360 65,636 52,280 57,195 53,733 59,773 56,330 50,284 62,776 46,692 53,107 55,954 45,265 56,352 47,999 52,557 55,420 48,936 44,795 45,301 41,513 44,960 38,040 46,067 44,834 40,297 38,692 39,836 80,578

8 16 8 9 9 10 13 11 8 13 13 9 12 14 15 17 16 15 15 23 10 12 13 24 15 18 17 13 16 10 22 21 20 10 15 6 10 20 9 15 550

3,613,784 6,594,067 1,979,413 1,804,503 1,640,613 1,574,775 1,553,978 1,016,973 671,839 829,606 1,039,128 477,198 1,000,318 918,910 784,206 972,320 859,728 896,600 844,950 1,156,528 627,762 560,310 690,392 1,342,902 678,969 1,014,338 815,984 683,238 886,722 489,356 985,486 951,324 830,260 449,600 570,600 276,400 448,339 805,941 348,231 597,535 44,283,122

244,870 223,142 135,525 96,862 93,419 26,487 50,823 31,902 22,905 30,794 25,256 25,256 27,022 26,585 23,914 26,507 45,631 50,823 24,479 12,844 13,076 25,040 15,750 18,025 17,716 21,408 19,225 20,352 20,007 19,225 15,733 15,265 13,015 17,781 18,092 30,794 15,602 14,507 11,532 14,022 34,476

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EXPLANATION The tables set out the average prize-money at each fixture staged by a racecourse over the last 12 months. They show how this is made up of the three sources of prizemoney: 1. Racecourses’ contribution 2. Levy Board (HBLB) 3. Owners The tables also confirm the number of fixtures staged and the total amount of prize-money paid out by each racecourse throughout this period.

The racecourses are ordered by the average amount of their own contribution to prizemoney at each fixture. This contribution originates from various sources including media rights, admission revenues and racecourse sponsors.

If a racecourse has increased its average contribution at each fixture compared with the previous 12 months, it receives a green ‘up’ arrow. If its average contribution has fallen, however, it receives a red ‘down’ arrow.

As these tables are based on the prize-money paid out by each racecourse, the abandonment of a major fixture could distort a racecourse’s performance.

OWNERSHIP KEY JCR Jockey Club Racecourses

ARC Arena Racing Company

I Independently owned racecourse Gold Standard Award

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Join us for the parade of National Hunt stallions

Cheltenham’s parade ring will be filled with National Hunt stallions from around the country on November 11

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he 2016 TBA National Hunt Stallion Parade will take place on Countryside Day at Cheltenham on Friday, November 11.

A selection of top British-based EBFqualified stallions will be on parade in the paddock for half an hour from 11.05am. TBA members can gain free entry to the racecourse on the day by producing a TBA membership card at the owners’ and trainers’ desks at either the North or Hall of Fame entrances only. Discounted badges for guests can be bought at a special advanced rate of £25 per

person by contacting the ticket hotline on 0344 5793003 until Thursday, November 3.

TBA members and guests are invited to enjoy use of the TBA stallion parade marquee (M4) in the tented village, where facilities include a cash bar and light refreshments.

Stallion connections will be on hand in the marquee after the parade, and a silent auction of stallion nominations, generously given by their connections, will be held in support of TBA National Hunt breeding initiatives.

The TBA would like to thank the parade sponsors, the British European Breeders’

Fund (BEBF), Goffs UK for generously sponsoring the stallion handlers’ jackets, and Weatherbys General Stud Book Ltd, for help and support in the production of the TBA NH Yearbook. Complimentary copies of the yearbook will be available on the day and will include a report from the NH Stars of Tomorrow Foal Show, details of the stallions parading and the Elite Mares Scheme 2017.

The full list of stallions is available in the news section of the TBA website, or alternatively contact Stanstead House for further information.

Last call for TBA Stud Farming Course There is still time to register for this year’s TBA Stud Farming Course, which takes place at the British Racing School and runs from December 7 to 9.

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Lecturers include representatives from the Animal Health Trust, Newmarket Equine Hospital, Rossdales, the Royal Veterinary College and other leading industry experts. A comprehensive handbook, refreshments and lunches, the welcome dinner on the first evening, and

external visits on each day are also included.

The course fee for 2015 is £395 for TBA members and £495 for non-members. The closing date for applications is November 13. For more information, contact Melissa Parris on 01638 661321 or email melissaparris@thetba.co.uk

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Changes to Codes of Practice The HBLB Codes of Practice set out voluntary recommendations to help breeders, in conjunction with their veterinary surgeons, prevent and control specific diseases in all breeds of horse and pony. It is vital that they are followed to ensure the welfare of breeding stock and to enable the movement of all equines around the UK and Europe.

Diseases included in the Codes are: • Contagious Equine Metritis (CEM) • Klebsiella Pneumoniae • Pseudomonas Aeruginosa • Equine Viral Arteritis (EVA) • Equine Herpesvirus (EHV) • Equine Coital Exanthema (ECE) • Equine Infectious Anaemia (EIA) • Dourine • Guidelines on strangles The Codes of Practice sub-committee reviews the codes on an annual basis and recommends any modifications on scientific or practical grounds. For 2017, changes have been made to the guidelines on Equine Herpes Virus Code of Practice as a result of the increased incidences of EHV1-4 in the UK and Europe in 2016.

Another change for 2017 onwards is that the codes will be made available by the HBLB online (at http://codes.hblb.org.uk/) and as a downloadable App only. The new free App, known as EquiBioSafe, is available in Android and iPhone versions, and provides a useful, portable and interactive resource that will be updated on a regular basis ensuring that latest information is available. Codes of Practice for trainers’ yards are also available on the App. Both versions can be downloaded from the links below: iPhone: http://apple.co/29DGtyQ Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id= com.veterinaryadvances.android.equibiosafe The launch of the App is supported by a free online eBEVA seminar by Dr Richard Newton on biosecurity for equine premises: http://bit.ly/2a2QHuZ The TBA will continue to print copies of the Codes of Practice for its members and the 2017 Codes will be distributed free of charge towards the end of 2016. Mares’ CEM forms for the 2017 breeding season will be available at the TBA office from early December. Please check the members

TBA diary dates FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11 TBA NH Stallion Parade The annual NH Stallion parade will be held on Cheltenham Countryside Day at Cheltenham racecourse. TBA members can gain free entry to the races on the day by producing their TBA membership card at the owners’ and trainers’ desk at either the North or Hall of Fame entrances only.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16 TBA Mares’ Novices Hurdle At Warwick racecourse.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7 TO FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9 Annual TBA Stud Farming Course British Racing School, Newmarket.

NEW MEMBERS Mr Kong Vincent, Hong Kong; Mr Salem Rashid, Suffolk; Mr Walid Marzouk, Buckinghamshire; Mrs Elizabeth Kellar, Berkshire; Mr Michael Robinson, East Yorkshire; Mr Vincent Ward, Surrey; Sheik Mohammed Obaid al Maktoum, Suffolk; Mr S M Eaton, Shropshire.

section of the TBA website for updates on their arrival.

Business rates update in progress by Valuation Office As featured in our section of the July issue of the magazine, the Valuation Office (an agency of HMRC) has been undertaking a rating revaluation of all commercial properties in England which will come into effect from April 1, 2017.

Each commercial property will be issued with a new Rateable Value, which will then determine the amount of rates payable. The last revaluation was carried out in 2010; the purpose of the revaluation is to update the previous valuations to reflect the open market rental value of each property, which is what the Rateable Value represents.

The Valuation Office carries out the valuation two years before the implementation of the new rates, therefore, the previous revaluation reflects the changes in rental values in 2008 for the 2010 revaluation and 2015 for the 2017 revaluation. In that seven-year period there will be relative changes in values reflecting the market for the properties in question.

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As of October 2016, the draft publication of the 2017 rating list should be ready, at which time the VO will send each occupier the valuation details of how the new 2017 Rateable Value is derived. If there are any factual errors these can be notified to the VO and changes made. The new rateable values will then come into effect from April 1, 2017. The government also announce the new multiplier rate in the pound (currently standing at 50p), the provisions for transitional relief (to cushion large increases in rates paid) and the current small business rate relief (for properties with a RV below £12,000) before April 1, 2017.

The Valuation Office has now released this information on its website, which facilitates an opportunity to check the valuation any property is currently based upon online. By using the VO agency website and selecting Business Rates, it is then possible to search for your property

using either the postcode or street address.

This will then show how the current Rateable Value is calculated and the number of stables, gallops, etc, that are currently recorded by the government at the yard in question.

If there are any issues regarding the question of rates, please contact your current advisor or Bill Simpson of Tyto Consultancy on 01488 685111 (or alternatively email tyto@btconnect.com).

Bill acts as consultant to the TBA and has been dealing with rating appeals on stud farms and racing yards for many years.

With the impending revaluation there is likely to be an increase in activity from agents trying to win instructions through high pressure telephone techniques.

Beware of agents who insist on the signing of contracts unless the small print is fully understood, particularly the fee arrangement, the termination fee, and duration of the contract.

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Queen takes prize at fillies series finale Newmarket’s Rowley Mile racecourse played host to the last day of the EBF Breeders’ Fillies Series, incorporating the TBA £25,000 Bonus, on Saturday, October 1.

TBA Members enjoyed hospitality in the Eclipse Marquee during the afternoon and were able to see some competitive fillies’ races, including the Group 1 Kingdom of

Bahrain Sun Chariot Stakes.

There were four potential qualifiers for the TBA £25,000 bonus going into the day, but only Sharja Queen was able to take advantage of this initiative with her length-and-a-quarter win in the ten-furlong handicap.

Her eligibility was confirmed by an earlier victory in a series race at Salisbury in July.

Newbury Hennessy Gold Cup Tickets Newbury racecourse has kindly offered a limited number of Premier Enclosure badges for The Bet365 Festival on Hennessy Gold Cup day, Saturday, November 26, for breeders with a runner at the meeting.

• Maximum of two badges per application – first come, first served.

• Free Parking in car parks 1 to 4.

• Access to the parade ring for the breeder of a winning or placed horse for each race.

Terms and Conditions: • Applications by email to info@thetba.co.uk • Maximum of two badges per day per breeder on the day you have a runner.

• Applications can be made up to 3pm on the day prior to the race. No requests can be accepted after this time.

• ID will be required to collect badges.

This offer is exclusive to TBA members.

Anyone who is not a member but wishes to join to take advantage of this can contact Annette Bell by email annette.bell@thetba.co.uk or call 01638 661321.

Regional Reps meeting TBA Chairman Julian Richmond-Watson awards Sharja Queen’s £25,000 bonus to Gay Jarvis, who was representing winning owner Sheikh Mohammed Obaid

The Regional Representatives Annual Meeting will take place in Newmarket on Tuesday, November 22. TBA members are invited to make suggestions or give feedback to their regional representatives if there is anything you would like to be discussed at the meeting.

This is your chance to put your views across to your representatives. If you would like contact details for the representatives in your area please contact Annette Bell at the TBA on annette.bell@thetba.co.uk, or call Stanstead House on 01638 661321.

NH MOPS reminder A further reminder that the deadline for registrations for the 2014, 2015 and 2016 crops has been extended until December 31. Registration forms can be downloaded from the TBA website (www.thetba.co.uk/what-we-do/ national-hunt-racing/nh-mare-ownersprize-scheme). Alternatively, please call 01638 661321 or email annette.bell@thetba.co.uk to request a form. Full details on the scheme can also be found on the website.

TBA members enjoy hospitality in the Eclipse Pavilion at Newmarket

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Supporting the breed through race programming In September the TBA piloted a set of sevenfurlong two-year-old races to support small breeders. Both races were open to horses who are British-bred and sired by stallions who at the time of covering were advertised for a fee of £15,000 or less.

Newmarket hosted the fillies’ race on September 22, which was won by Urban Fox, who collected a £10,000 Plus 10 Bonus in addition to the £15,000 of prize-money for owner Saeed Manana. This was preceded by Sea Shack’s win in the race for colts and geldings at Goodwood on September 21, for owner Seabrook Miller.

Commenting on the two races, TBA board member Philip Newton said: “The TBA trialled a set of races to support small breeders. The small field sizes have been disappointing but we will look for ways to increase popularity of the sponsored races, including the review of entry conditions.

Top: Bruce Raymond collects the prize from Julian Richmond-Watson for Urban Fox’s owner Saeed Manana Left: TBA regional representative John Needham with William Haggas, trainer of Daphne

“The TBA is committed to supporting smaller, independent breeding operations and will explore all opportunities to improve business viability.”

The TBA also supported the fillies’ staying race on the card which was won by threeyear-old Daphne, who is owned and bred by the TBA’s Patron, HM The Queen.

Employment Matters National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage

NMW / NLW Rates of pay from October 1, 2016

The National Minimum Wage (NMW) is the minimum pay per hour which most workers are entitled to by law. The rate will depend on a worker’s age and if they are an apprentice.

The Government’s National Living Wage was introduced on April 1, 2016 for all working people aged 25 and over, and is set at £7.20 per hour.

The current National Minimum Wage for those under the age of 25 still applies.

•£7.20 per hour – 25 yrs old and over •£6.95 per hour – 21-24 yrs old •£5.55 per hour – 18-20 yrs old •£4 per hour – 16-17 yrs old •£3.40 for apprentices under 19 or 19 or over who are in the first year of apprenticeship.

The rate will change every April, starting April 2017.

For further information visit the ACAS website – www.acas.org.uk

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Hascombe & Valiant Studs Anthony Oppenheimer must have been pleased as he sat down for a cup of tea on Saturday, September 10. Harbour Law, bred by his Hascombe & Valiant Studs, had just won the St Leger and almost simultaneously his homebred two-year-old Good Omen scored at Bath.

Another cause for satisfaction was that the Champagne Stakes, which opened proceedings on Town Moor that afternoon, was won by Good Omen’s stable companion Rivet – he is a great-grandson of a distinguished Oppenheimer mare, Dancing Rocks.

Harbour Law’s St Leger victory means that Hascombe & Valiant Studs have now won four of the five English Classics, following On The House (1,000 Guineas), Footstepsinthesand (2,000 Guineas) and Golden Horn (Derby). Furthermore, African Dancer, fifth dam of Harbour Law, finished third in the Oaks.

The origin of the distaff families responsible for On The House, Footstepsinthesand and Golden Horn involve two purchases in 1973, but Harbour Law’s connection with Hascombe predates that: his seventh dam Stop Your Tickling was acquired privately as an in-foal mare in 1959 from Tim Rogers of Airlie Stud in Ireland.

Inevitably much was made of the fact that Anthony Oppenheimer sold the dam of Golden Horn in the year that he was foaled and it’s an identical scenario with Harbour Law’s dam, Abunai. Furthermore, Golden Horn and Harbour Law were consigned as yearlings at Tattersalls from Hascombe but were unsold.

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Harbour Law featured at the December Yearling Sale before reappearing the following June when offered by Malcolm Bastard at Goffs’ boutique sale in London’s Kensington Park. Purchased by Kiltown Bloodstock for £30,000, the son of Lawman then joined Jo Crowley at Whitcombe before moving to Laura Mongan at Epsom, for whom he has proved such a sensational success.

Abunai was bought for just 15,500gns by Jocelyn Targett in 2013 and resold in February for 40,000gns to John Warren. Her Bated Breath colt sold as a yearling for 30,000gns last year and she currently has a yearling filly by that stallion’s half-brother Cityscape. Both were trained, like Abunai (three wins at two years), by Roger Charlton.

Beckhampton has a strong association with Harbour Law’s female family as his third dam, Inchmurrin, bred the Charlton-trained Inchinor. One of few sprinter types bred by the Oppenheimers, he measured little over 15 hands and his dam, winner of the Child Stakes (now Falmouth Stakes), would have been another candidate for pony racing.

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Rabbah Bloodstock It’s a bit of a coincidence that Rabbah Bloodstock had a smart filly last season in Pelerin and she shares her name with a high-class former Oppenheimer homebred.

Rabbah Bloodstock, which represents various nominees of the Maktoum family of whom the most prominent are probably Saeed Manana, Jaber Abdullah, Mohammed Obaida and Saeed Suhail, has three particular animals to thank for this award.

This trio comprises Sheikhzayedroad (Doncaster Cup), Noor Al Hawa (Grosse Europa Meile) and Afandem (Prix d’Arenberg). Former jockey Bruce Raymond represents connections on the racecourse and two other Group winners for them this season are Queen Kindly (Lowther Stakes) and Beautiful Romance (Middleton Stakes).

The Rabbah bloodstock interests are centred on Gainsborough Stud, Woolton Hill. Because it has a Newbury address everyone assumes that this establishment is in Berkshire, but, like its near neighbours Highclere Stud and Watership Down Stud, it is in fact in north Hampshire, as indeed is Kingsclere.

Gainsborough Stud was previously owned by Sheikh Maktoum Al Maktoum, who died in January 2006 aged 62. The eldest of the four Maktoum racing brothers, he was ruler of Dubai and prime minister of the United Arab Emirates. He was also joint founder of Godolphin with Sheikh Mohammed.

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VET FORUM: THE EXPERT VIEW

By DEIDRE CARSON MRCVS

Growth problems in foals and weanlings A range of conditions can affect future athletic ability, as well as saleability

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he first hint of autumn has followed fast on the heels of a wonderfully hot August. Most foals have been weaned and many owners and consignors will have at least some of their thoughts targeted on the foal sales, which are fast approaching.

Foals grow very quickly through their first year of life and it is important to provide them with enough exercise to promote bone and soft tissue development and strength so that they can withstand training later on. Ideally these are provided from birth.

This is known as ‘conditioning’ the musculoskeletal system and also requires the correct diet for mare and foal. However, there are certain conditions which may occur either side of weaning which might affect their long term soundness or value. Added to these, their natural athleticism and reflex flight responses can result in significant injuries. Weanlings require continuous monitoring to detect any subtle or overt lameness or other symptoms that might indicate bone or soft tissue damage.

Once a lesion has been detected, the important thing is to recognise whether or not it might affect future athletic performance or value at sale.

Fractures We frequently see fractures in foals and weanlings but most are neither life- nor careerthreatening. The most common fractures are those of the pedal bone (inside the hoof) and the proximal sesamoids.

Pedal bone fractures frequently occur when there has been a sudden firming of the ground.

The foal will appear lame with some response to pressure applied to the affected part of the foot. It is easy to think the foot is simply bruised or that the foal has a localised soft tissue infection but the fracture is obvious on x-ray (figure 1).

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Figure 1: A fracture of the pedal bone inside the hoof is clearly visible on x-ray

joint (articular fracture) and these are more complicated, requiring a longer period to heal with the potential for arthritis to develop in the joint.

The proximal sesamoid bones are two bean shaped bones on the back of each fetlock joint.

They are intimately attached to the suspensory and other ligaments and help to support the joint. Small chip fractures of the sesamoids are often found as incidental findings on sales radiographs without any earlier lameness being noticed. As long as the suspensory branches are normal, these are unlikely to cause long-term problems. Less frequently, larger fractures occur indicating potential involvement of the ligaments above or below the joint. These may or may not cause long-term problems and advice from an experienced vet should be sought. Mid body fractures can be a cause for concern, especially if the bone has not fully healed or the ligaments are involved.

We occasionally see large fractures of the

Figure 2: Rapid growth in foals can lead to contracture near the coffin joint, causing them to go upright

knee (carpal) and hock bones as a result of accidental trauma in foals. Each of these must be assessed individually.

Bone chips Small chips are also most likely to be found as incidental findings on radiographs rather than being a common cause of lameness in weanlings. The usual site is the proximal pastern (fetlock joint) of the front limbs. In many cases, the foal might have had some minor joint inflammation which resolved very quickly and therefore was not investigated.

Small fetlock chips are not usually considered to be of great concern for long-term soundness although some are surgically removed for cosmetic reasons prior to sale. Other joint chips, e.g. knee, are rarely seen in weanlings.

OCD and cysts Osteochondritis Dissecans (OCD) is a developmental condition in which there is

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failure of the normal bone maturation processes. It manifests itself as cartilage and/or bone flaps/fragmentation on or adjacent to certain joint surfaces. The common sites for OCD lesions are the stifle, hock and the fetlock joints although other joints might also be affected. Stifle OCD (figure 3) often presents with lameness plus obvious joint distension and one or both stifles might be affected. Hock OCD lesions rarely cause lameness but can cause recurrent or refractory joint distension (bog spavin) in many youngsters.

OCD of the fetlock also caused joint swelling but lameness is variable, depending on the location and severity of the lesion, as is prognosis. In the fetlock OCD lesions are most commonly seen on the lower part of the front of the cannon (distal intermediate ridge) or on the back of the upper pastern.

We used to rush in and operate on many OCD lesions, but a significant proportion either don’t cause lameness or will resolve over time.

Affected weanlings should be kept on restricted turnout and monitored closely for any deterioration in clinical signs. Again, some might end up having surgery for cosmetic reasons only and a small number will be so severely affected that they remain lame in spite of treatment.

Bone cysts can also occur in foals and might be considered part of the same condition as OCD. The stifle is the joint most commonly affected and one or both stifles might be involved. The presenting sign is usually lameness with distension of the affected joint but cysts are occasionally found as incidental findings on pre-sales radiographs and may be shallow dimples or large rounded ‘holes’ communicating with the joint surface. With time, many of these will become symptomless even if they don’t disappear radiographically so we don’t tend to treat them in weanlings unless they are going to sales. Medical treatment with joint injections can help to alleviate the lameness and joint inflammation so that the foal can be managed without having to be box rested.

Growth plate inflammation The growth plates at either end of the long bones are the sites of an enormous amount of activity in a foal as virtually all growth in height occurs at these sites. The ones we see most problems with are those on either side of the fetlock, usually the lower cannon and those of the lower radius. These can become inflamed and painful particularly in heavy topped or over-fed foals. The region will appear enlarged and feel warm. They usually settle down with restricted exercise and some anti-inflammatory medication but they can appear enlarged for quite some time. It is absolutely imperative to ensure that the diet is balanced especially with respect to mineral content, especially while access to grazing is reduced.

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Figure 3: Joint distension and lameness are the obvious signs of stifle OCD, a condition caused by the failure of the normal bone maturation process

Developmental problems As discussed in a previous article, foals can be born with contracted limbs. Older foals can also develop contractures and we think this is due to a mismatch in growth rates between the tendons and bone or in response to some focal pain. We often see foals become ‘upright’ through their fetlocks during a period of rapid growth. These will often ‘come down’ again with dietary restriction although a number will require anti-inflammatory medication as well.

A smaller number go upright through the hoof wall (club foot) to a greater or lesser degree due to contracture at the level of the coffin joint (figure 2). These can be harder to treat. A combination of keeping the heels trimmed and ensuring adequate exercise on a level surface can help. In a few cases, toe extensions are applied. In severe contractures of both fetlock and coffin joints, surgery to cut the superior (fetlock contracture) or inferior (coffin joint

contracture) check ligaments may be required.

A very small number of foals develop a roached back with upward bending of the spine from just behind the withers to the hindquarters. If slight, this won’t affect their future athletic ability, but severe cases might later suffer from back stiffness or pain. Dipped backs can also develop as a weanling gets older.

This is not an exhaustive list of the conditions which might be found in weanlings and occasional disasters do occur. Knowing what is normal is the first step towards recognising the abnormal. If you think you have detected a lameness or lump or bump that shouldn’t be there, don’t hesitate to ask for veterinary advice – better to be told it is nothing to worry about than to find your weanling can’t go to the sales. Likewise, if you are buying, have a veterinary opinion on any uncertainties that you might have flagged up as this might help you to avoid missing a star or buying a disaster.

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How to use Genetic Testing within your breeding operation to achieve greater success There has been much discussion over the summer from a variety of industry experts as to the potential benefits or the impending risks arising from the rapidly-developing field of equine genetic testing. However, it is clear that there are opportunities to increase returns for breeding and racing operations arising from the use of this new technology.

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everal ways that breeders or owners are already using Plusvital’s commercially available genetic testing is outlined below:  Give a horse it’s best chance

The recent use of the Speed Gene Test by connections of Galileo Gold when deciding to not send him to the Derby outlined a key use of genetic tests. This test has been demonstrated in multiple publications to correctly identify the best distance for a racehorse and this has been improved with the recent launch of Distance Plus v1.0.

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stock In a recent study of over 500 yearlings from 2014, horses tested on Elite Performance Test V3.0 with Genomic Racing Values of 1 or 2 earned 44% more on average than those with Genomic Racing Values of 3 or 4.

 Make breeding decisions

In a set of over 1,200 mares and stallions it has been shown that horses with Genomic Breeding Values of Class 1 or 2 produced almost 50% more Group wins & places/foal than those with a score of Class 3 or 4.

 Make sales decisions

Studies at Australian and US yearling sales showed that Speed Gene Type C:C horses realised on

average between 50-75% higher sales prices than other genetic types and they also raced earlier and more successfully as 2 year olds. A leading owner/breeder in Ireland increased the proportion of C:C types in his annual foal crop by over 30% by testing his mares and stallions.  Identify

high risk horses Approximately 30% of foals born don’t ever make it to the racecourse.

The Raced/Unraced genetic test defines horses as Higher, Medium or Lower Potential in terms of likelihood to race. A recent study of this test at a leading UK yard showed that Lower Potential horses were two times more likely to never race than Higher Potential.

It’s easy to understand why some may be skeptical regarding the effectiveness of genetic tests or conversely concerned this new technology will have such an impact as to render the traditional breeding skills and tools irrelevant. However, every breeder recognises that genetics has been used for centuries through the use of pedigree analysis to infer the traits that might have been passed from generation to generation. These new technologies are the modern progression to be used with that age-old skill.

Genetics is a complementary tool to existing good horsemanship, offering additional information but not displacing

the traditional skillset. Turning your back on one or the other will both lead to a missed opportunity.

The use of genetics is well-established in many fields from human health to large animal herd management to improve breed performance and health. The use of genetics is quickly establishing itself in the equine industry too with many – including both leading global operations to small breeders – already using genetic information day to day to make informed decisions about their horses. 

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DR STAT JOHN BOYCE CRACKS THE CODE

Fastnet Rock’s special relationship Eye-catching numbers underpin the fact that Galileo cross has taken deep root in Europe

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Quarter Moon Miss Polaris Inner Realm Perihelion Beyond Compare Pride Starship Descant La Salina Alexandrova Uriah Nightime

undoing of Fastnet Rock in Ireland, at least at the outset. Seen in the light of Galileo’s remarkable 14% it was simply not up to scratch to sustain a career north of the equator. And given his highworth status in Australia, it really wouldn’t make sense to risk the journey each year. It’s exactly the same case with Galileo himself – too valuable a commodity in Europe to risk continued shuttling to Australia.

Yet when we look at the subset of runners by Fastnet Rock out of Galileo mares, we get an altogether different picture of the Coolmore stallion. So far, he’s had 74 runners out of Galileo mares and they have produced 10.8% stakes winners. Prior to his great Irish Champions Weekend, Fastnet Rock had already sired Oaks winner Qualify from a daughter of Galileo, plus Group 2 winner and Group 1-placed Turret Rocks. Three of his eight stakes winners out of Galileo mares were in Australia and include Group 1 winner Magicool.

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he fruits of our labours are sometimes delivered long after these very labours have been suspended or ceased for whatever reason. Such is the case with Coolmore’s superstar Australian sire Fastnet Rock, who commenced reverse shuttling duties long after he retired to stud in Australia.

The logic to bring Fastnet Rock north was sound in principle. After all, his own illustrious sire Danehill needed a successful successor and Coolmore’s mainstay Galileo had already demonstrated in no small way that he crossed well with Danehill mares. Might it be possible that Fastnet Rock, as well as suiting other bloodlines, would work well with the Sadler’s Wells tribe, just as many other sons of Danehill had started to do? That was the theory. And indeed the theory has been borne out at least in one sense, as demonstrated recently with Fastnet Rock siring three Group winners over Irish Champions Weekend, all out of Galileo mares.

Intricately, winner of the Moyglare Stud Stakes, provided young trainer Joseph O’Brien with his first ever Group 1 winner, while twoyear-old colt Rivet landed the Group 2 Champagne Stakes and Dermot Weld saddled four-year-old filly Zhukova to win a Group race at Leopardstown.

So the Fastnet Rock/Galileo cross has really taken root in Europe and the numbers that underpin this fact are quite startling. But first let’s provide some context about what Fastnet Rock has achieved in each hemisphere. From his Irish crops he’s sired 6.8% stakes winners to runners, compared to the 8.4% he’s managed from the Hunter Valley. And it’s the rate of 6.8% stakes winners in Europe that could have been the

Fastnet Rock’s daughter Intricately (red/yellow) lands the Moyglare Stud Stakes

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Broodmare Sire

2nd Dam Sire

Sadler’s Wells Polar Falcon Galileo Galileo Galileo Peintre Celebre Galileo Nureyev Singspiel Sadler’s Wells Acatenango Galileo

Darshaan Ela-Mana-Mou Be My Guest The Minstrel Nashwan Alleged General Assembly The Minstrel Surumu Shirley Heights Kamiros II Indian Ridge

What’s even more remarkable about Fastnet Rock’s European output is that when we extend the broodmare lines to include Galileo sire Sadler’s Wells we can then add four more stakes winners, which include yet another Group 1 victor in Diamondsandrubies, winner of the Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh, to the Fastnet Rock/Sadler’s Wells-line account.

So we can put ten of Fastnet Rock’s 19 Irishconceived stakes winners down to Galileo or Sadler’s Wells mares. Believe it or not, we can take it even further. Another Group winner is out of a Singspiel (a grandson of Sadler’s Wells) mare, while three more major stakes winners are out of daughters of Nureyev or his sons Polar Falcon and Peintre Celebre.

They are Fascinating Rock (out of a Polar Falcon mare), his sire’s best European performer rated 127 by Timeform, Group 2 winner One Foot In Heaven, out of Group 1 winner Pride by Peintre Celebre, plus Group 1placed Cougar Mountain out of a Nureyev mare. Yet another stakes winner, Palace, has Nureyev as the sire of her second dam. Of course, the significance here is that Sadler’s Wells and Nureyev are three-parts brothers.

So, all told, a remarkable 15 of Fastnet Rock’s 19 European-produced stakes winners have the great mare Special, dam of Nureyev and grandam of Sadler’s Wells, in their dam’s pedigrees. You could scarcely find a more convincing cross on which to base a mating decision. For the record, Sadler’s Wells-line mares produced 26 of Fastnet Rock’s 98 worldwide stakes winners.

It just goes to show that when it comes to stallions, not even the most potent of crosses on its own can make a stallion a success. Top sires are required to do well with all mares in order to succeed at stud.

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European Pattern 282 LONGINES GROSSER PREIS VON BADEN G1 BADEN-BADEN. Sep 4. 3yo+. 2400m.

1. IQUITOS (GER) 4 9-6 £110,294 b c by Adlerflug - Irika (Areion) O-Stall Mulligan B-Frau Dr Erika Buhmann TR-H-J Groschel 2. Nightflower (IRE) 4 9-3 £44,118 ch f by Dylan Thomas - Night of Magic (Peintre Celebre) O-Stall Nizza B-J. Imm TR-P. Schiergen 3. Pagella (GER) 3 8-8 £18,382 b f by Soldier Hollow - Princess Lala (Royal Dragon) O-David & Hans-Peter Schon B-David & Hans-Peter Schon TR-J Hirschberger Margins 2.75, 5. Time 2:33.79. Going Good.

Adlerflug twice finished second.

Iquitos is out of the four-time German winner Irika and is the first major winner out of a mare by Areion, Germany’s champion sire in 2010, 2013 and 2015. He is the first Group winner produced by any of his first three dams, but his fourth dam Ipameri was a sister to Imperator, winner of the Zukunfts-Rennen.

283 LADBROKES ST LEGER STAKES G1 DONCASTER. Sep 10. 3yoc&f. 14f 110yds.

Age 3-4

Starts 11

Wins 5

Places 4

Earned £180,684

Sire: ADLERFLUG. Sire of 9 Stakes winners. In 2016 IQUITOS Areion G1, ITO Tiger Hill G2, MEERGORL Tertullian G2, SAVOIR VIVRE Monsun G2, MOONSHINER Monsun G3, SWACADELIC Monsun LR. 1st Dam: IRIKA by Areion. 4 wins at 3 and 4 in Germany. Own sister to Inanya. Dam of 1 winner: 2012: IQUITOS (c Adlerflug) 5 wins at 3 and 4 in Germany, Longines Grosser Preis von Baden G1, Grosser Preis der Badischen Wirtschaft G2, 2nd www.pferdewetten.de Grosser Hansa Preis G2, Grosser Preis der Sparkasse Krefeld G3.

2014: Imperator (c Soldier Hollow) unraced to date.

2015: (f Kamsin) 2nd Dam: INGRID by Nebos. 1 win at 2 in Germany.

Own sister to Inkognito. Dam of Inanya (f Areion: 2nd G.P. Dr. Klein AG Eilert Bauunternehmung LR) Broodmare Sire: AREION. Sire of the dams of 2 Stakes winners.

IQUITOS b c 2012 Sadler’s Wells In The Wings High Hawk ADLERFLUG ch 04 Last Tycoon Aiyana Alya Big Shuffle Areion Aerleona IRIKA b 05 Nebos Ingrid Iracema

Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Shirley Heights Sunbittern Try My Best Mill Princess Lombard Anatevka Super Concorde Raise Your Skirts Caerleon Alata Caro Nostrana Konigsstuhl Ipameri

The career of Adlerflug illustrates the difficulty many stallion owners in Germany face trying to attract sufficient mares to their young sires.

Adlerflug won the 2007 Deutsches Derby and 2008 Deutschland Preis.

He also shares the same sire, In The Wings, as Soldier Hollow, a Horse of the Year who has been represented by such as Pastorius (Deutsches Derby and Prix Ganay), Ivanhowe (Grosser Preis von Baden) and Serienholde (Preis der Diane).

Soldier Hollow himself had only 115 foals in his first four crops, before earning greater support, and history has repeated itself with Adlerflug. He is credited with only 117 in his first four crops, but he too has drawn attention to himself. No fewer than 12 of the 96 foals in his first three crops have either become stakes winners or been Group-placed. His seven Group winners include Ito, winner of the Gr1 Grosser Preis von Bayern in 2015, and Iquitos, winner of the Gr1 Grosser Preis von Baden – a race in which

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1. HARBOUR LAW (GB) 9-1 £396,970 b c by Lawman - Abunai (Pivotal) O-Mrs Jackie Cornwell B-Hascombe & Valiant Stud Ltd TR-Laura Mongan 2. Ventura Storm (IRE) 9-1 £150,500 b c by Zoffany - Sarawati (Haafhd) O-Middleham Park Racing LXXII B-Mr L. Kennedy TR-Richard Hannon 3. Housesofparliament (IRE) 9-1 £75,320 ch g by Galileo - Sharp Lisa (Dixieland Band) O-Mr D. Smith, Mrs J. Magnier, Mr M. Tabor B-Smithfield Inc TR-Aidan O’Brien Margins 0.75, Short Head. Time 3:05.40. Going Good.

Age 3

Starts 6

Wins 3

Places 3

Earned £431,441

Sire: LAWMAN. Sire of 21 Stakes winners. In 2016 HARBOUR LAW Pivotal G1, LIBRAN Sadler’s Wells G2, DICTON Giant’s Causeway G3, CHARTREUSE King’s Best LR, DOUBLE DREAM High Chaparral LR. 1st Dam: ABUNAI by Pivotal. 3 wins at 2. Dam of 3 winners: 2009: Nayef Flyer (g Nayef) 2010: Sibaya (f Exceed And Excel). Broodmare.

2011: BLACK BLADE (c Authorized) Winner at 2 in Hungary.

2012: Moheet (g High Chaparral) Winner at 2, 3rd Novae Bloodstock Insurance Craven S G3.

2013: HARBOUR LAW (c Lawman) 3 wins at 3, Ladbrokes St Leger S G1, 2nd Queen’s Vase LR. 2014: Flying Raconteur (g Bated Breath) unraced to date.

2015: Siena Firenze (f Cityscape) 2nd Dam: INGOZI by Warning. 2 wins at 3 Starlight Express Roller Mile S LR. Dam of MISS KELLER (f Montjeu: E P Taylor S G1, 2nd Fly Emirates E P Taylor S G1), Sir George Turner (g Nashwan: 2nd Select S G3, 3rd Furstenberg-Rennen G3), Kotsi (f Nayef: 2nd Frenchgate for Fashion May Hill S G2), Tissifer (g Polish Precedent: 2nd Baileys Liqueur Fairway S LR).

Grandam of HATTA FORT, FANTASTIC PICK, BLUE BAYOU. Third dam of AYAAR, AGENT MURPHY. Broodmare Sire: PIVOTAL. Sire of the dams of 52 Stakes winners. In 2016 - HARBOUR LAW Lawman G1, RHODODENDRON Galileo G1, THE UNITED STATES Galileo G1, MUTAKAYYEF Sea The Stars G2, PLUJA Sidney’s Candy G2.

284 COOLMORE FASTNET ROCK MATRON STAKES G1

HARBOUR LAW b c 2013 Green Desert Invincible Spirit Rafha LAWMAN b 04 Gulch Laramie Light The Lights Polar Falcon Pivotal Fearless Revival ABUNAI ch 04 Warning Ingozi Inchmurrin

Rivellino and Requisition. Of course the speed shown by these stakes winners was to be expected, as Invincible Spirit and Pivotal were both Gr1-winning sprinters.

Although both these stallions have proved capable of coming up with the occasional very smart middle-distance horse, it was still somewhat surprising to see them crop up as the grandsires of a St Leger winner. The connections of that winner – Harbour Law – are to be congratulated for recognising that this son of Lawman requires a test of stamina, with all six of his starts coming from a mile and a half to two miles. After all, the colt’s dam Abunai scored twice over five furlongs and once over six at a juvenile.

So where does his stamina come from? The finger of suspicion points at the female line responsible for Lawman, who was a Classic winner at around a mile and a quarter in France, as was Lawman’s half-sister Latice.

Their second dam, the Shirley Heights mare Light The Lights, was one of the best staying fillies in France in 1988, when she won the Gr2 Prix de Pomone before running well in the Prix Vermeille and the Arc. Their third dam Lighted Glory – another Gr1 performer in France – was by the St Leger winner Nijinsky and was a half-sister to the very smart stayers King Luthier and Torus. This female line traces to the 1,000 Guineas winner Picture Light, whose descendants have won all five British Classics, with Light Cavalry winning the St Leger.

Harbour Law’s second and third dams, Ingozi and Inchmurrin, did their winning at up to a mile, with Inchmurrin being good enough to finish second in the Coronation Stakes. Both mares left a sizeable legacy. Ingozi’s best effort was to produce the Gr1 EP Taylor Stakes winner Miss Keller to Montjeu, while Inchmurrin is best remembered as the dam of that good stallion Inchinor (sire of Lawman’s Classic-winning half-sister Latice). Once again, though, there is stamina further back in this family, with Harbour Law’s fifth dam being African Dancer, a Nijinsky filly whose wins included the Park Hill Stakes over the St Leger course.

Danzig Foreign Courier Kris Eljazzi Mr Prospector Jameela Shirley Heights Lighted Glory Nureyev Marie d’Argonne Cozzene Stufida Known Fact Slightly Dangerous Lomond On Show

Invincible Spirit has a notable record with Pivotal’s broodmare daughters, with this partnership’s first 14 runners featuring such as the July Cup winner Mayson and the Listed winners

LEOPARDSTOWN. Sep 10. 3yo+f. 8f.

1. ALICE SPRINGS (IRE) 3 9-0 £151,838 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 2. Persuasive (IRE) 3 9-0 £48,897 gr f by Dark Angel - Choose Me (Choisir) O-Cheveley Park Stud B-J. F. Tuthill TR-John Gosden 3. Qemah (IRE) 3 9-0 £23,162 b f by Danehill Dancer - Kartica (Rainbow Quest) O-Al Shaqab Racing B-Ecurie Cadran, SCEA Bissons & SAS IEI TR-Jean Claude Rouget Margins 3.25, 1.25. Time 1:42.08. Going Yielding.

Age 2-3

Starts 15

Wins 5

Places 7

Earned £838,874

Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 243 Stakes winners. In 2016 ALICE SPRINGS Danehill Dancer G1, CHURCHILL

Storm Cat G1, DEAUVILLE Danehill G1, FOUND Intikhab G1, HIGHLAND REEL Danehill G1, MINDING Danehill Dancer G1, MONDIALISTE Kaldoun G1, ORDER OF ST GEORGE Gone West G1, PHOTO CALL Rock of Gibraltar G1, RHODODENDRON Pivotal G1, SEVENTH HEAVEN Johannesburg G1, THE GURKHA Danehill Dancer G1, THE UNITED STATES Pivotal G1.

1st Dam: Aleagueoftheirown by Danehill Dancer.

Winner at 3, 2nd IrishStall.Farms EBF Sweet Mimosa S LR. Dam of 4 winners: 2010: Kingston Jamaica (c Galileo) Winner at 2, 3rd Korean Racing Authority Tyros S G3.

2011: Criteria (f Galileo) Winner at 3, 2nd Betfred Oaks Trial S LR, Newsells Park Stud Aphrodite S LR, 3rd DFS Park Hill S G2, Ribblesdale S G2.

2012: CROCODILE ROCK (g Galileo) 2 wins.

2013: ALICE SPRINGS (f Galileo) Sold 550,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 5 wins at 2 and 3, Tattersalls Falmouth S G1, Kingdom of Bahrain Sun Chariot S G1, Coolmore Fastnet Rock Matron S G1, 2nd Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf G1, Turkey Jockey Club Silver Flash S G3, 3rd Coronation S G1, Moyglare Stud S G1, Qipco 1000 Guineas G1, Leopardstown 1000 Guineas Trial S G3.

2015: (f Galileo) 2016: (c Galileo) 2nd Dam: Golden Coral by Slew O’ Gold. ran 3 times at 3. Own sister to GOLDEN OPINION. Dam of Aleagueoftheirown (f Danehill Dancer, see above) Broodmare Sire: DANEHILL DANCER. Sire of the dams of 62 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, Bound LR, Facade LR, Felix Mendelssohn LR, Seussical LR.

ALICE SPRINGS ch f 2013 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge GALILEO b 98 Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta Danehill Danehill Dancer Mira Adonde ALEAGUEOFTHEIROWN b 04 Slew O’ Gold Golden Coral Optimistic Lass

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Lombard Anatevka Danzig Razyana Sharpen Up Lettre d’Amour Seattle Slew Alluvial Mr Prospector Loveliest

See race 166 in the September issue 285 QIPCO IRISH CHAMPION STAKES G1 LEOPARDSTOWN. Sep 10. 3yo+. 10f.

1. ALMANZOR (FR) 3 9-0 £523,897 b c by Wootton Bassett - Darkova (Maria’s Mon) O-Ecurie Antonio Caro/G Augustin-Normand B-Haras D'Etreham TR-Jean Claude Rouget 2. Found (IRE) 4 9-4 £174,632 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. Minding (IRE) 3 8-11 £82,721 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 Margins 0.75, 2.75. Time 2:08.93. Going Yielding.

Age 2-3

Starts 9

Wins 7

Places Earned 1 £1,398,761

Sire: WOOTTON BASSETT. Sire of 1 Stakes winner.

1st Dam: Darkova by Maria’s Mon. unraced. Dam of 1 winner:

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Caulfield on Harbour Law: “Connections are to be congratulated for recognising he requires a test of stamina, with all six of his starts coming from a mile and a half to two miles”

2013:

2014: 2015:

ALMANZOR (c Wootton Bassett) Sold 79,365gns yearling at ARAU1. 7 wins at 2 and 3 at home, France, QIPCO Irish Champion S G1, Prix du Jockey Club G1, Prix Guillaume d’Ornano-Logis St Germain G2, Prix de Guiche G3, Gd. Criterium de Bordeaux HK Jockey Club LR, 3rd Prix de Fontainebleau G3.

Troarn (f Wootton Bassett) unraced to date. (c Falco)

LIMATO Tagula G1, SINHALITE Deep Impact G1, WUHEIDA Dubawi G1, OLD BUNCH Not For Sale G2, PLEUVEN Turtle Bowl G2, SAMARA DANCER Hinchinbrook G2.

The Dubawi/Singspiel cross has produced: LEFT HAND G1, SO MI DAR G1, WUHEIDA G1, Nolohay G2, MAJESTIC DUBAWI G3, LAUGH ALOUD LR.

2nd Dam: DARKARA by Halling. 4 wins at 3 and 4 in France Prix des Tourelles LR.

LEFT HAND ch f 2013

Broodmare Sire: MARIA’S MON. Sire of the dams of 26 Stakes winners. In 2016 - ALMANZOR Wootton Bassett G1, SANTILLANO Easing Along G1, USHERETTE Shamardal G2, INSPECTOR LYNLEY Lemon Drop Kid G3, ALIGNEMENT Pivotal LR, SHOW DAY Shamardal LR, UXIA P Wilburn LR.

Dubai Millennium DUBAWI b 02 Zomaradah

Singspiel

ALMANZOR b c 2013

BALLADEUSE b 05

Gone West Zaizafon Nureyev Pastorale Park Appeal Dominion Primo Dominie Swan Ann Chief’s Crown Susquehanna Days Gliding By Majestic Light Wavering Monarch Uncommitted Caro Carlotta Maria Water Malone Diesis Halling Dance Machine Doyoun Daralbayda Daralinsha Zafonic

Iffraaj WOOTTON BASSETT b 08 Balladonia

Maria’s Mon DARKOVA ch 08 Darkara

See race 56 in the July issue 286 QATAR PRIX VERMEILLE G1 CHANTILLY. Sep 11. 3yo+f. 2400m.

1. LEFT HAND (GB) 3 8-8 £147,051 ch f by Dubawi - Balladeuse (Singspiel) O-Wertheimer et Frere B-Wertheimer et Frere TR-C. Laffon-Parias 2. Endless Time (IRE) 4 9-3 £58,831 b f by Sea The Stars - Mamonta (Fantastic Light) O-Godolphin B-Mabaki Investments TR-Charlie Appleby 3. The Juliet Rose (FR) 3 8-8 £29,415 b f by Monsun - Dubai Rose (Dubai Destination) O-Mayfair Speculators/Equifrance Holdings B-Guy Heald TR-N. Clement Margins 0.5, 0.75. Time 2:33.23. Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 8

Wins 3

Places 3

Earned £378,016

Sire: DUBAWI. Sire of 124 Stakes winners. In 2016 LEFT HAND Singspiel G1, POSTPONED Dubai Destination G1, WUHEIDA Singspiel G1, DARTMOUTH Galileo G2, MOVE UP Soviet Star G2, SAFETY CHECK Royal Academy G2, SHAMREEN Bahri G2, SHEIKHZAYEDROAD Highest Honor G2, TIME TEST Dansili G2, JOURNEY Montjeu G3, NEW BAY Zamindar G3, RASEED Fantastic Light G3, SO MI DAR Singspiel G3, TANAZA Dalakhani G3.

1st Dam: BALLADEUSE by Singspiel. 2 wins at 3 in France, Qatar Prix de Royallieu G2. Dam of 2 winners: 2010: Central (c Pivotal) unraced.

2011: Barbade (f Oasis Dream) ran on the flat in France.

2012: BILISSIE (f Dansili) 2 wins at 3 in France, Prix Charles Laffitte LR. 2013: LEFT HAND (f Dubawi) 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Qatar Prix Vermeille G1, Prix de Psyche Morocco Cup by Sorec G3, 2nd Prix de Diane Longines G1.

2014: Acrobate (c Oasis Dream) unraced to date.

2016: (f Dansili) 2nd Dam: FEATHERQUEST by Rainbow Quest. 1 win at 2 in France. Dam of PLUMANIA (f Anabaa: Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud G1, 2nd Qatar Prix Vermeille G1 (twice), 3rd Prix de Diane G1), BALLADEUSE (f Singspiel, see above), Dancequest (f Dansili: 3rd Prix de Liancourt LR) Broodmare Sire: SINGSPIEL. Sire of the dams of 54 Stakes winners. In 2016 - LEFT HAND Dubawi G1,

Featherquest

Seeking The Gold Mr Prospector Con Game Colorado Dancer Shareef Dancer Fall Aspen Shirley Heights Deploy Slightly Dangerous Dancing Brave Jawaher High Tern Sadler’s Wells In The Wings High Hawk Halo Glorious Song Ballade Blushing Groom Rainbow Quest I Will Follow Lyphard Featherhill Lady Berry

With 24 black-type winners by September 23, including 13 Group/Graded winners, Dubawi has once again proved himself one of the world’s most prolific sources of high-class performers. However, having been represented by four Gr1 winners in 2014 and nine in 2015, his only Gr1 winner in 2016 had been the excellent Postponed until Left Hand took the Prix Vermeille. This filly thoroughly merited a Gr1 win, having run La Cressonniere to half a length in the Prix de Diane.

The Vermeille represented Left Hand’s first attempt at a mile and a half and the longer distance clearly suited her well. Her dam, the Singspiel mare Balladeuse, was also well suited by that sort of distance, as she showed in winning the Gr2 Prix de Royallieu. The same applied to Balladeuse’s half-sister Plumania, who triumphed in the Gr1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud, even though she is a daughter of the sprinter Anabaa.

Left Hand’s fourth dam is the celebrated Lady Berry, who also ranks as the third dam of that exceptional filly Danedream. Lady Berry stayed well enough to defeat the males in the Gr1 Prix Royal-Oak and she proved similarly effective as a broodmare. Coincidentally, her stakes winners included Indian Rose, winner of the Prix Vermeille in 1988.

Lady Berry also produced Le Nain Jaune, who took the Grand Prix de Paris during its days over nearly two miles, and Vert Amande, a Prix Ganay winner who was third in the Arc. Left Hand’s third dam Featherhill also excelled as a broodmare, notably producing the high-class Groom Dancer and Tagel, third in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile. No fewer than four of Featherhill’s daughters have produced Group winners, another being Keltshaan, dam of the Japanese champion Kinshasa No Kiseki, and one of Featherhill’s grand-daughters is the dam of the 2008 French 2,000 Guineas winner Falco.

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287 QATAR PRIX DU MOULIN DE LONGCHAMP G1 CHANTILLY. Sep 11. 3yo+c&f. 1600m.

1. VADAMOS (FR) 5 9-3 £189,066 b h by Monsun - Celebre Vadala (Peintre Celebre) O-Haras de Saint Pair B-Scea Haras De Saint Pair TR-A. Fabre 2. Spectre (FR) 3 8-9 £75,640 ch f by Siyouni - Inez (Dai Jin) O-mm racing B-M Munch TR-Markus Munch 3. Zelzal (FR) 3 8-13 £37,820 b c by Sea The Stars - Olga Prekrasa (Kingmambo) O-Al Shaqab Racing B-Viktor Timoshenko TR-Jean Claude Rouget Margins 1.25, 1.25. Time 1:38.27. Going Good.

Age 2-5

Starts 18

Wins 8

Places 7

Earned £506,477

Sire: MONSUN. Sire of 122 Stakes winners. In 2016 PROTECTIONIST Peintre Celebre G1, VADAMOS Peintre Celebre G1, THE JULIET ROSE Dubai Destination G2, ALMANDIN Tiger Hill G3, ARAB SPRING Darshaan G3, ARLES Danehill LR, LOPERA Anabaa LR. 1st Dam: CELEBRE VADALA by Peintre Celebre. 2 wins at 3 in France, Prix Melisande-G.P. de Fontainebleau LR. Dam of 3 winners: 2008: CELENZA (f Dansili) 2 wins at 2 in France.

Broodmare.

2009: VADANOR (g Selkirk) 8 wins at 3 to 7, 2016 in France.

2010: Red Sun (f Monsun) ran on the flat in France.

Broodmare.

2011: VADAMOS (c Monsun) 8 wins at 3 to 5 in France, Germany, Qatar Prix du Moulin de Longchamp G1, Prix du Muguet G2, Darley Oettingen Rennen G2, Prix Messidor G3, Prix Frederic de Lagrange LR, 2nd P. Fresnay le Buffard Jacques Le Marois G1.

2012: Vaugondi (c Invincible Spirit) unraced.

2014: Volfango (c Dutch Art) unraced to date.

2015: (c Pour Moi) 2016: (f New Approach) 2nd Dam: VADLAMIXA by Linamix. 2 wins at 2 and 3 in France Prix de Lieurey LR. Dam of VALIXIR (c Trempolino: Queen Anne S G1, Prix d’Ispahan G1, 3rd Prix du Jockey Club G1, P. Fresnay le Buffard Jacques Le Marois G1, Prix Lupin G1), CELEBRE VADALA (f Peintre Celebre, see above), Vadaza (f Zafonic: 2nd Prix de la Seine LR). Grandam of VAZIRA, VADAWINA, VADAPOLINA, VADSALINA, Vayakhan. Third dam of VADAMAR, VEDOUMA, Veda, Vedevani.

Broodmare Sire: PEINTRE CELEBRE. Sire of the dams of 45 Stakes winners. In 2016 - NIGHTFLOWER Dylan Thomas G1, PRECIOUS GEM Econsul G1, PROTECTIONIST Monsun G1, VADAMOS Monsun G1, ONE FOOT IN HEAVEN Fastnet Rock G2, THE JUSTICE LEAGUE I Am Invincible G2.

The Monsun/Peintre Celebre cross has produced: PROTECTIONIST G1, VADAMOS G1, Pure Brise G1.

VADAMOS b h 2011 Dschingis Khan Konigsstuhl Konigskronung MONSUN br 90 Surumu Mosella Monasia Nureyev Peintre Celebre Peinture Bleue CELEBRE VADALA b 03 Linamix Vadlamixa Vadlava

Tamerlane Donna Diana Tiepoletto Kronung Literat Surama Authi Monacensia Northern Dancer Special Alydar Petroleuse Mendez Lunadix Bikala Vadsa

The extensive list of Group winners sired by the outstanding German stallion Monsun features such good stayers as Estimate (Gold Cup), Le Miracle (Prix du Cadran), Getaway (Prix Kergorlay) and Schiaparelli (Goodwood Cup and Prix Kergorlay), as well as the Melbourne Cup winners

Fiorente and Protectionist. However, Monsun was far from onedimensional as a stallion. One of his sons, Maxios, won the Prix du Moulin as a five-year-old in 2013 and now Vadamos has followed his example to take the latest renewal.

Vadamos’ Moulin win was preceded by a fine second to Ribchester in the Prix Jacques le Marois and he seems ideally suited by a mile nowadays. However, his victories as a three-year-old included two over a mile and a half. These wins were in line with his pedigree, as both his sire Monsun and broodmare sire Peintre Celebre were Gr1 winners over a mile and a half – also the distance of one of the wins by his dam, the Listed winner Celebre Vadala.

Vadamos’s second dam Vadlamixa won a Listed race over a mile at three.

Vadlamixa, a daughter of Linamix, was also the dam of the dual Gr1 winner Valixir (Queen Anne Stakes and Prix d’Ispahan). Vadlamixa was closely related to one of Linamix’s top sons in Vahorimix, who collected two major prizes, the French 2,000 Guineas and Prix Jacques le Marois, on disqualifications in 2001. In addition to being by Linamix, Vahorimix and Vadlamixa were both out of daughters of the Halo mare Vadsa. Vahorimix’s dam Vadsa Honor was by Kalamoun’s grandson Highest Honor, whereas Vadlamixa’s dam Vadlava was by Kalamoun’s son Bikala.

Vadlamixa’s half-brother Val Royal triumphed in the Breeders’ Cup Mile, so Vadamos is by no means the first high-class miler from this prolific family, which also produced those Gr1-winning fillies Vazira, Vadawina and Valyra (Prix de Diane).

288 GOFFS VINCENT O’BRIEN NATIONAL STAKES G1 CURRAGH. Sep 11. 2yoc&f. 7f.

1. CHURCHILL (IRE) 9-3 £146,691 b c by Galileo - Meow (Storm Cat) O-Mr M. Tabor, D. Smith & Mrs John Magnier B-Liberty Bloodstock TR-Aidan O’Brien 2. Mehmas (IRE) 9-3 £48,897 b c by Acclamation - Lucina (Machiavellian) O-Al Shaqab Racing B-Epona Bloodstock Ltd TR-Richard Hannon 3. Lockheed (GB) 9-3 £23,162 gr c by Exceed And Excel - Clinical (Motivator) O-China Horse Club B-Cheveley Park Stud Ltd TR-William Haggas Margins 4.25, Neck. Time 1:28.28. Going Yielding.

Age 2

Starts 6

Wins 5

Places 1

Earned £559,193

Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 243 Stakes winners. In 2016 ALICE SPRINGS Danehill Dancer G1, CHURCHILL Storm Cat G1, DEAUVILLE Danehill G1, FOUND Intikhab G1, HIGHLAND REEL Danehill G1, MINDING Danehill Dancer G1, MONDIALISTE Kaldoun G1, ORDER OF ST GEORGE Gone West G1, PHOTO CALL Rock of Gibraltar G1, RHODODENDRON Pivotal G1, SEVENTH HEAVEN Johannesburg G1, THE GURKHA Danehill Dancer G1, THE UNITED STATES Pivotal G1.

1st Dam: MEOW by Storm Cat. 2 wins at 2, Grangecon Stud S LR, 2nd Queen Mary S G2. Dam of 1 winner: 2012: Curlylocks (f Galileo) 2014: CHURCHILL (c Galileo) 5 wins at 2, Dubai Dewhurst S G1, Goffs Vincent O’Brien National S G1, Galileo EBF Futurity S G2,

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European Pattern Japan Racing Association Tyros S G3, Chesham S LR. (f Galileo) (c Galileo)

2015: 2016:

2nd Dam: AIRWAVE by Air Express. Champion 2yr old filly in England in 2002. 6 wins at 2 to 5 betfair Cheveley Park S G1, 2nd Golden Jubilee S G1, 3rd Darley July Cup G1, Stanley Leisure Sprint Cup G1. Dam of ALOOF (f Galileo: D. C. Lavarack & Lanwades Stud S G3), ORATOR (c Galileo: Grand Prix Anjou Bretagne LR), MEOW (f Storm Cat, see above) Broodmare Sire: STORM CAT. Sire of the dams of 200 Stakes winners. In 2016 - A SHIN HIKARI Deep Impact G1, CHURCHILL Galileo G1, DANCING RAGS Union Rags G1, REAL STEEL Deep Impact G1, WEEP NO MORE Mineshaft G1.

The Galileo/Storm Cat cross has produced: ALOFT G1, BALLYDOYLE G1, CHURCHILL G1, COOLMORE G1, GLENEAGLES G1, MARVELLOUS G1, MISTY FOR ME G1, DECORATED KNIGHT G2, GLOBAL VIEW G2, TWIRL G3, Galileo’s Song G3.

CHURCHILL b c 2014 Sadler’s Wells GALILEO b 98 Urban Sea

Storm Cat MEOW b 08 Airwave

Northern Dancer Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special Mr Prospector Miswaki Hopespringseternal Lombard Allegretta Anatevka Northern Dancer Storm Bird South Ocean Secretariat Terlingua Crimson Saint Salse Air Express Ibtisamm Indian Ridge Kangra Valley Thorner Lane

A year ago, in my notes on the Prix Marcel Boussac winner Ballydoyle, I commented that “Galileo’s partnership with Danehill mares is probably always going to be his most fruitful, but the multiple champion sire is enjoying an increasingly impressive partnership with daughters of twotime American champion sire Storm Cat. Twenty-two Storm Cat mares have 45 foals of racing age and eight of them – 18% – have become blacktype winners. They include two pairs of Gr1-winning siblings, namely Gleneagles and his older sister Marvellous, and Misty For Me and her two-year-old sister Ballydoyle.”

Those statistics need some updating. There are now 49 foals, of which ten – 20% – have enjoyed stakes success. The additional stakes winners are the four-year-old Decorated Knight (Gr3 Meld Stakes) and Churchill, who has successfully climbed each step of the Pattern race system. Having won at Listed, Gr3 and Gr2 levels, he was at his most impressive when he took the Gr1 National Stakes by more than four lengths from Mehmas. And he was to follow up in the Dewhurst.

Churchill’s dam Meow also exhibited plenty of speed and precocity during a brief career, finishing a neck second in the Gr2 Queen Mary Stakes before becoming a Listed winner over five furlongs.

Meow represented the first major dividend from the 550,000gns it had cost to purchase her dam Airwave as a four-year-old. It would be fair to say that Airwave’s price was driven more by her top-class efforts on the racecourse than by her pedigree – by

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Airwave had taken the Gr1 Cheveley Park Stakes and later added the Gr2 Temple Stakes, in addition to being placed behind Choisir in the Golden Jubilee and behind Oasis Dream in the July Cup. The family’s profile got another boost in 2013, when Airwave’s halfsister Jwala won the Gr1 Nunthorpe.

Airwave has also produced two stakes winners to Churchill’s sire Galileo. Her daughter Aloof became a Gr3 winner over nine and a half furlongs and was sold for no less than $3,900,000 in November 2014 while carrying a filly by War Front.

Churchill’s third dam Kangra Valley was a five-furlong two-year-old winner and the next dam, Thorner Lane, was a dual five-furlong winner.

Fifth dam Spinner was a half-sister to the very speedy Clantime, a winner of nine races over the minimum trip.

289 MOYGLARE STUD STAKES G1 CURRAGH. Sep 11. 2yof. 7f.

1. INTRICATELY (IRE) 9-0 £146,691 b f by Fastnet Rock - Inner Realm (Galileo) O-Mrs C. C. Regalado-Gonzalez B-Whisperview Trading Ltd TR-Joseph Patrick O’Brien 2. Hydrangea (IRE) 9-0 £48,897 b f by Galileo - Beauty Is Truth (Pivotal) O-Mr D. Smith, Mrs J. Magnier, Mr M. Tabor B-Beauty Is Truth Syndicate TR-Aidan O’Brien 3. Rhododendron (IRE) 9-0 £23,162 b f by Galileo - Halfway To Heaven (Pivotal) O-Mrs John Magnier,Mr M.Tabor & Mr D.Smith B-Orpendale, Chelston & Wynatt TR-Aidan O’Brien Margins Short Head, 1.75. Time 1:28.50. Going Yielding.

Age 2

Starts 4

Wins 2

Places 2

Earned £165,281

Sire: FASTNET ROCK. Sire of 100 Stakes winners. In 2016 - FASCINATING ROCK Polar Falcon G1, HEROIC VALOUR Nassipour G1, INTRICATELY Galileo G1, AMICUS El Moxie G2, AWESOME ROCK Giant’s Causeway G2, COUGAR MOUNTAIN Nureyev G2, FIRST SEAL Scenic G2, MONGOLIAN FALCON Galileo G2, ONE FOOT IN HEAVEN Peintre Celebre G2, RIVET Galileo G2.

1st Dam: Inner Realm by Galileo. ran twice at 3. Dam of 1 winner: 2014: INTRICATELY (f Fastnet Rock) 2 wins at 2, Moyglare Stud S G1, 3rd Breast Cancer Research Debutante S G2, Turkey Jockey Club Silver Flash S G3.

2nd Dam: Offshore Boom by Be My Guest. 1 win at 2, 2nd Irish National Stud Fillies S LR. Dam of ROCK OF GIBRALTAR (c Danehill: Darley Dewhurst S G1, Entenmann’s Irish 2000 Guineas G1, St James’s Palace S G1, Sussex S G1, Sagitta 2000 Guineas G1, Grand Criterium - Lucien Barriere G1, Netjets Prix du Moulin de Longchamp G1, 2nd NetJets Breeders’ Cup Mile G1), Nell Gwyn (f Danehill: 2nd Derrinstown Stud 1000 Guineas Trial G3). Grandam of PRECIOUS GEM, Fiero, Two For Two. Broodmare Sire: GALILEO. Sire of the dams of 61 Stakes winners. In 2016 - GALILEO GOLD Paco Boy G1, INTRICATELY Fastnet Rock G1, LA CRESSONNIERE Le Havre G1, DARTMOUTH Dubawi G2, MONGOLIAN FALCON Fastnet Rock G2, RICH LEGACY Holy Roman Emperor G2, RIVET Fastnet Rock G2, ROLY POLY War Front G2, VANQUISH RUN Deep Impact G2.

The Fastnet Rock/Galileo cross has produced: INTRICATELY G1, MAGICOOL G1, QUALIFY G1, TURRET ROCKS G1, MONGOLIAN FALCON G2, RIVET G2, ROCK HERO G2, Sailing By G2, Shogun G2, ZHUKOVA G3, Perfect Dare G3, EAGLE ISLAND LR, Land’s End LR, Special Memories LR.

INTRICATELY b f 2014 Danzig Danehill Razyana FASTNET ROCK b 01 Royal Academy Piccadilly Circus Gatana Sadler’s Wells Galileo Urban Sea INNER REALM b 08 Be My Guest Offshore Boom Push A Button

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Nijinsky Crimson Saint Marauding Twigalae Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Miswaki Allegretta Northern Dancer What A Treat Bold Lad River Lady

Bearing in mind that Galileo owes so much of his success as a stallion to daughters of Danehill and now to Danehill’s son Danehill Dancer, noone should be too surprised that it has been another son of Danehill – Fastnet Rock – who is achieving impressive statistics with Galileo’s broodmare daughters. The figures stand at 28 winners from 38 starters, of which eight – 11% of the cross’s total number of racing-age foals – have become black-type winners. For the purpose of perspective, Galileo mares’ overall percentage of blacktype winners stands at 3%.

In the past the partnership had been responsible for the 2015 Oaks winner Qualify and the 2015 Queensland Derby winner Magicool. It then hit a very rich seam over the weekend of September 10-11, with Rivet taking the Gr2 Champagne Stakes, Zhukova the Gr3 Kilternan Stakes and Intricately the Gr1 Moyglare Stud Stakes.

Intricately, who was chased home by two daughters of Galileo, is now a winner of two of her four starts. Her dam Inner Realm wasn’t one of Galileo’s many accomplished daughters, though she managed to finish seventh of 24 and sixth of 18 on her only appearances, in mile-anda-quarter maidens.

On the other hand, there was no fault to be found with Inner Realm’s pedigree, as she is a half-sister to Rock Of Gibraltar. Of course this outstanding miler was sired by Danehill, providing another incentive for sending Inner Realm to Fastnet Rock. Inner Realm is also a half-sister to Ruby, a Danehill mare who produced a Gr3 winner to Galileo’s sire Sadler’s Wells.

Rock Of Gibraltar is inbred 3 x 3 to Northern Dancer and so is Inner Realm, while Intricately is inbred 4 x 4 x 4 to the legendary Windfields Farm stallion.

Intricately’s second dam Offshore Boom initially proved so disappointing as a broodmare that she was sold by Moyglare Stud Farm for only IR11,000gns as a 12-year-old in 1997, while carrying her sixth foal.

Offshore Boom won over six furlongs on her juvenile debut prior to finishing a good second in a Listed race over an extra furlong. The next dam, Push A Button, was only a minor winner but she was a half-sister to Riverman, a French 2,000 Guineas winner who went on to sire over 120 stakes winners.

290 PALMERSTOWN HOUSE ESTATE IRISH ST LEGER G1 CURRAGH. Sep 11. 3yo+. 14f.

1. WICKLOW BRAVE (GB) 7 9-11 b g by Beat Hollow - Moraine (Rainbow Quest) O-Wicklow Bloodstock (Ireland) Ltd B-Juddmonte Farms (East) Limited TR-W. P. Mullins 2. Order of St George (IRE) 4 9-11 £55,882 b c by Galileo - Another Storm (Gone West) O-L.Williams,MrsJ.Magnier,M.Tabor,D.Smith B-Paget Bloodstock TR-Aidan O’Brien 3. Trip To Paris (IRE) 5 9-11 £26,471 b g by Champs Elysees - La Grande Zoa (Fantastic Light) O-La Grange Partnership B-P. Monaghan & T. J. Monaghan TR-Ed Dunlop Margins 0.5, 16. Time 3:05.95. Going Yielding.

Age 4-7

Starts 29

Wins 9

Places 10

Earned £292,634

Sire: BEAT HOLLOW. Sire of 26 Stakes winners. In 2016 - WICKLOW BRAVE Rainbow Quest G1, EXOSPHERE Danehill G2, FLY WITH ME Highest Honor G3.

1st Dam: MORAINE by Rainbow Quest. Winner at 3.

Dam of 3 winners: 2009: WICKLOW BRAVE (g Beat Hollow) Sold 9,270gns yearling at TISEP. 9 wins, Palmerstown House Estate Irish St Leger G1, 2nd Boodles Diamond Ormonde S G3, 3rd Palmerstown House Estate Irish St Leger G1, Qipco Brit. Champions Long Distance Cup G2, Weatherbys Hamilton Lonsdale Cup G2, Vincent O’Brien County H. Hurdle G3, I.N.H. Stallion Owners EBF Novice Hurdle LR, 3rd stanjames.com Fighting Fifth Hurdle G1, stanjames.com Morgiana Hurdle G1.

2010: BRASS RING (g Rail Link) 3 wins at 3 and 4.

2011: GLACIAL DRIFT (f Rail Link) Winner of a N.H. Flat Race at 4.

2013: Shipley (f Cacique) unraced to date.

2014: Dreamtide (f Champs Elysees) unraced to date.

2015: (f Bated Breath) 2nd Dam: CANTILEVER by Sanglamore. 2 wins at 3 in France Prix de Royaumont G3, 2nd Prix de Malleret G2, Prix Greffulhe G2.

Broodmare Sire: RAINBOW QUEST. Sire of the dams of 180 Stakes winners. In 2016 - QEMAH Danehill Dancer G1, QUEST FOR MORE Teofilo G1, WICKLOW BRAVE Beat Hollow G1, CYLINDER BEACH Showcasing G3, APEX KING Kodiac LR, FREEDOM BEEL Pour Moi LR, RAY Rock of Gibraltar LR, SPIRIT QUARTZ Invincible Spirit LR, TENERIFE SONG Fastnet Rock LR. The Beat Hollow/Rainbow Quest cross has produced: WICKLOW BRAVE G1, Venteuse LR.

WICKLOW BRAVE b g 2009 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge BEAT HOLLOW b 97 Dancing Brave Wemyss Bight Bahamian Blushing Groom Rainbow Quest I Will Follow MORAINE br 04 Sanglamore Cantilever Cantanta

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Lyphard Navajo Princess Mill Reef Sorbus Red God Runaway Bride Herbager Where You Lead Sharpen Up Ballinderry Top Ville Sarah Siddons

When Wicklow Brave won the Gr3 Vincent O’Brien County Hurdle at the 2015 Cheltenham Festival, he started at 25-1 after some poor efforts. Yet, within 18 months he had become a Gr1 winner – and on the Flat, not over hurdles. The enigmatic seven-year-old is usually held up and he again dwelt at the start of the Irish St Leger, but Frankie Dettori soon took him to the front and the gelding held on to record his finest victory, by half a

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length from the long-odds-on Order Of St George. The latter had had Wicklow Brave more than 11 lengths behind when they filled first and third places in the previous year’s race.

An €11,000 yearling, Wicklow Brave started his career in bumpers, eventually winning three in a row. His pedigree bears the Juddmonte hallmark, although he was bred by Millsec Ltd. His sire Beat Hollow was a Gr1 winner in France and the US for Khalid Abdullah and spent several years at Banstead Manor before being transferred to Ballylinch Stud as a replacement for King’s Theatre.

Beat Hollow sired several very smart Flat performers, including Sea Moon, Exosphere, Proportional and Beaten Up, and he also did well over hurdles with the Juddmonte-bred Cinders And Ashes (Supreme Novices’ Hurdle).

Wicklow Brave’s dam Moraine was a lightly-raced 12-furlong winner. She is by Rainbow Quest, whose daughters enjoyed widespread success with sons of Sadler’s Wells, producing Group winners to Barathea, El Prado, Galileo, High Chaparral, In The Wings and Saddlers’ Hall, as well as those high-class colts Powerscourt and Ask to Sadler’s Wells. The gelding’s second dam, Cantilver, won the Gr3 Prix de Royaumont over a mile and a half, and the next dam, Cantanta, was a sister to the Irish Oaks winner Princess Pati, their dam being the Irish 1,000 Guineas and Yorkshire Oaks winner Sarah Siddons.

291 CONNOLLYS RED MILLS CHEVELEY PARK STAKES G1 NEWMARKET. Sep 24. 2yof. 6f.

1. BRAVE ANNA (USA) 9-0 £102,078 b f by War Front - Liscanna (Sadler’s Wells) O-Mrs E. M. Stockwell B-Mrs E. Stockwell TR-Aidan O’Brien 2. Roly Poly (USA) 9-0 £38,700 b f by War Front - Misty For Me (Galileo) O-Mr M. Tabor, D. Smith & Mrs John Magnier B-Misty For Me Syndicate TR-Aidan O’Brien 3. Lady Aurelia (USA) 9-0 £19,368 b f by Scat Daddy - D’ Wildcat Speed (Forest Wildcat) O-Stonestreet Stables/G Bolton/P Leidel B-Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC TR-Wesley A. Ward Margins Short Head, 2. Time 1:11.90. Going Good to Firm.

Age 2

Starts 6

Wins 3

Places 0

Earned £158,327

Sire: WAR FRONT. Sire of 47 Stakes winners. In 2016 - AVENGE Woodman G1, BRAVE ANNA Sadler’s Wells G1, ON LEAVE A P Indy G2, ROLY POLY Galileo G2, WAR DECREE Street Cry G2, AMERICAN PATRIOT Tiznow G3, INTELLIGENCE CROSS Unbridled’s Song G3, LONG ISLAND SOUND Pulpit G3, ROYAL ARTILLERY Dynaformer G3, WAR FLAG Arch G3.

1st Dam: LISCANNA by Sadler’s Wells. 2 wins at 2 and 3, Ballyogan S G3. Dam of 3 winners: 2009: TAIGAN (c Kingmambo) Winner at 4 in Qatar.

2010: Knightofthegarter (g Giant’s Causeway) unraced.

2011: Good Strike (f Smart Strike). Broodmare.

2013: HIT IT A BOMB (c War Front). 3 wins at 2 at home, USA, Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf G1.

2014: BRAVE ANNA (f War Front) 3 wins at 2, Connollys Red Mills Cheveley Park S G1, Albany S G3.

2015: (c War Front) 2nd Dam: LAHINCH by Danehill Dancer. 3 wins at 2

and 3 Entrepreneur S LR, Leopardstown 1000 Guineas Trial S LR, 2nd Owen Brown Rockfel S G2. Dam of THE BOGBERRY (c Hawk Wing: At The Races Kilternan S G3, 2nd Prix d’Harcourt G2), LISCANNA (f Sadler’s Wells, see above), Lahinch Classics (f Galileo: 2nd Kilboy Estate S G2) Broodmare Sire: SADLER’S WELLS. Sire of the dams of 391 Stakes winners. In 2016 - BLAZING SPEED Dylan Thomas G1, BRAVE ANNA War Front G1, FLINTSHIRE Dansili G1, EVEN SONG Mastercraftsman G2, LIBRAN Lawman G2, RASA LILA Darci Brahma G2, SIMPLE VERSE Duke of Marmalade G2.

The War Front/Sadler’s Wells cross has produced: BRAVE ANNA G1, HIT IT A BOMB G1, Omar Bradley G3, THE BROTHERS WAR LR.

BRAVE ANNA b f 2014 Danzig WAR FRONT b 02 Starry Dreamer

Sadler’s Wells LISCANNA b 04 Lahinch

Northern Dancer Nearctic Natalma Admiral’s Voyage Pas de Nom Petitioner Fappiano Rubiano Ruby Slippers Forli Lara’s Star True Reality Northern Dancer Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special Danehill Dancer Danehill Mira Adonde Private Account Dublah Separate Checks

The Coolmore associates’ faith in War Front has been thoroughly justified by the 2016 juveniles by the Claiborne stallion. The colts include the Gr2 Vintage Stakes winner War Decree, the Gr3 winner Intelligence Cross and the Gr1-placed Courage Under Fire, but it has been the fillies Brave Anna and Roly Poly that have seized the spotlight.

Brave Anna had won the Gr3 Albany Stakes at Royal Ascot, while Roly Poly had taken victory in the Gr2 Duchess of Cambridge Stakes plus a share of the honours under top weight in the Lowther Stakes. The pair dominated the finish to the Gr1 Cheveley Park Stakes after cutting down the odds-on Lady Aurelia, with victory going to Brave Anna by a short head.

Brave Anna, bred and owned by John Magnier’s mother Evie Stockwell, is a sister to Hit It A Bomb, winner of the Gr1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf in 2015. The brother’s record suggests that Brave Anna should stay a mile, but all three of her wins have been over six furlongs and she disappointed in two seven-furlong races on softish ground prior to the Cheveley Park.

It would be no great surprise were Brave Anna to prove a sprinter. Her dam Liscanna holds the distinction of being the only progeny of Sadler’s Wells with enough speed to become a Group winner over a distance as short as six furlongs after the age of two.

Although Liscanna was tried at up to nine furlongs as a two-year-old, she went on to win the Gr3 Ballyogan Stakes over six.

Brave Anna’s second dam, the Danehill Dancer mare Lahinch, won two races over five furlongs, including a Listed race, before ending her first season with a narrow defeat in the Gr2 Rockfel Stakes.

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She was also a Listed winner over seven furlongs at three, when her final appearance came in the Prix de l’Abbaye.

Lahinch’s half-brother The Bogberry stayed better, thanks to being a son of Hawk Wing, and he was a Gr3 winner over a mile and a quarter.

The presence of Danehill Dancer means that Danzig appears in the second and fifth generations of Brave Anna’s pedigree, which also features 3 x 3 inbreeding to Northern Dancer through Danzig and Sadler’s Wells (with three more distant lines appearing via Nijinsky, Danzig and Be My Guest).

292 JUDDMONTE MIDDLE PARK STAKES G1 NEWMARKET. Sep 24. 2yoc. 6f.

1. THE LAST LION (IRE) 9-0 £102,078 b c by Choisir - Mala Mala (Brief Truce) O-John Brown & Megan Dennis B-Barronstown Stud & Mrs T. Stack TR-Mark Johnston 2. Blue Point (IRE) 9-0 £38,700 b c by Shamardal - Scarlett Rose (Royal Applause) O-Godolphin B-Oak Lodge Bloodstock TR-Charlie Appleby 3. Mehmas (IRE) 9-0 £19,368 b c by Acclamation - Lucina (Machiavellian) O-Al Shaqab Racing B-Epona Bloodstock Ltd TR-Richard Hannon Margins 0.75, 2.25. Time 1:12.10. Going Good to Firm.

Age 2

Starts 10

Wins 4

Places 6

Earned £225,663

Sire: CHOISIR. Sire of 77 Stakes winners. In 2016 THE LAST LION Brief Truce G1, JAPONISME Encosta de Lago G2, BIG MONEY Humam G3, DEFCON Encosta de Lago G3, DIVINE PROPHET Encosta de Lago G3, OBVIOUSLY Montjeu G3, CHOICE BRO Palace Music LR, ELOPING Rory’s Jester LR, SECRET WEAPON Montjeu LR, YULONG BAOBEI Bahamian Bounty LR, ZARANTZ Johannesburg LR, ZENALICIOUS Fantastic Light LR. 1st Dam: Mala Mala by Brief Truce. Winner at 3, 3rd Shadwell Stud Cheveley Park S G1, Moyglare Stud S G1. Dam of 8 winners: 2003: MUNSTERS CALL (c Mozart) 2 wins at 5.

2004: CONTEST (c Danehill Dancer) 5 wins at 3 to 5 at home, France, Cork S LR, Prix Servanne LR, 2nd Prix de Meautry- Lucien Barriere G3.

2005: SILVANUS (g Danehill Dancer) 15 wins to 2015.

2006: LAUGHING BOY (g Montjeu) 2 wins.

2007: RUSSIAN ROCK (c Rock of Gibraltar) 11 wins at 2 to 6 at home, UAE, Shadwell Jebel Ali Sprint LR (twice) 2009: (f Dylan Thomas) 2010: Horizon Sky (c Duke of Marmalade) Winner at 2, 3rd Baffle S. 2011: BISMARK (c Oratorio) Winner at 3 in UAE. 2014: THE LAST LION (c Choisir) Sold 60,538gns yearling at GOOY1. 4 wins at 2, Juddmonte Middle Park S G1, Totequadpot Sirenia S G3, RacingUK/Daypass Dragon S LR, 2nd Pepsi Max Flying Childers S G2, Norfolk S G2, Victoria Racing Club Molecomb S G3, 3rd Irish TB Marketing Gimcrack S G2.

2015: (c Power) 2nd Dam: BREYANI by Commanche Run. 4 wins at 4.

Dam of TARASCON (f Tirol: Airlie Coolmore Irish 1000 Guineas G1, Moyglare Stud S G1), MISTER MONET (c Peintre Celebre: Prix Guillaume d’Ornano G2), Mala Mala (f Brief Truce, see above). Grandam of HIGH AWARD, Mayano Sophia. Third dam of Sikara.

Broodmare Sire: BRIEF TRUCE. Sire of the dams of 35 Stakes winners. In 2016 - THE LAST LION Choisir G1, BERISHA Al Samer LR, ESCOBAR Famous Name LR. The Choisir/Brief Truce cross has produced: THE LAST LION G1, Local Lover LR.

THE LAST LION b c 2014 Danzig Razyana Sharpen Up Lettre d’Amour Silly Season Lunchtime Great Occasion Biscay Pensive Mood Staid Riverman Irish River Irish Star Northern Dancer Falafel Queen’s Statute Commanche Run Run The Gantlet Volley Prince Tenderfoot Molokai Cake Danehill

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Mira Adonde CHOISIR ch 99 Great Selection

Brief Truce MALA MALA b 98 Breyani

Choisir’s long journeys from Australia to Europe have yielded some first rate results on two fronts, characterised by great toughness. On the track this Australian-bred son of Danehill Dancer caused a considerable stir by landing the Golden Jubilee Stakes just three days after he had defeated Acclamation and Oasis Dream in the King’s Stand Stakes. Less than three weeks later he was a fine second to Oasis Dream in the July Cup. Choisir had previously packed nine starts into his juvenile season and 11 into his three-year-old campaign.

Choisir succeeded in passing on a degree of this toughness to the best of his offspring sired during his visits to Coolmore in Ireland. Olympic Glory had the distinction of becoming a Gr1 winner at two, three and four; the American-raced Obviously has enjoyed Graded stakes success at the ages of four, five, six and eight; and now The Last Lion has won the Gr1 Middle Park Stakes on his tenth appearance, having won the Brocklesby Stakes on his debut on April 2. The Last Lion has never finished out of the first three, winning four races and crossing the line in second place in another five.

The Last Lion’s broodmare sire, the St James’s Palace Stakes winner Brief Truce, wasn’t a great success as a stallion in the northern hemisphere but has fared better in the role of broodmare sire. One of his daughters produced that fine filly Fallen For You (Coronation Stakes). Another daughter, the Cheveley Park Stakes third Mala Mala, has produced stakes winners to three different members of the Danehill male line, the latest being The Last Lion.

The Middle Park winner’s predecessors were Danehill Dancer’s son Contest and Rock Of Gibraltar’s son Russian Rock. Significantly neither of these useful performers was ever asked to tackle more than seven furlongs during lengthy careers, which suggests that The Last Lion’s future will be as a sprinter. The picture isn’t totally clear, though, as his second dam, Breyani, won four times from 11 furlongs to two miles before becoming the dam of Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Tarascon and the middle-distance Gr2 winner Mister Monet.

The Last Lion’s third dam, Molokai, was a winning sister to Icing, a Fillies’ Mile winner best known as the dam of Al Hareb, winner of the 1988 William Hill Futurity.

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European Pattern 293 PREIS VON EUROPA G1 COLOGNE. Sep 25. 3yo+. 2400m.

1. NIGHTFLOWER (IRE) 4 9-3 £73,529 ch f by Dylan Thomas - Night of Magic (Peintre Celebre) O-Stall Nizza B-J. Imm TR-P. Schiergen 2. Red Cardinal (IRE) 4 9-6 £22,059 b g by Montjeu - Notable (Zafonic) O-Australian Bloodstock B-Lynch Bages Ltd TR-David Simcock 3. Kasalla (GER) 3 8-9 £11,029 b f by Soldier Hollow - Kastila (Sternkoenig) O- Gestut Rottgen B-Gestut Rottgen TR-Markus Klug Margins 0.75, Short Head. Time 2:29.30. Going Good.

Age 2-4

Starts 13

Wins 3

Places 8

Earned £393,974

Sire: DYLAN THOMAS. Sire of 26 Stakes winners.

In 2016 - BLAZING SPEED Sadler’s Wells G1, NIGHTFLOWER Peintre Celebre G1, DYLAN MOUTH Noverre G2, ARYA TARA Barathea LR, MR ARMSTRONG Canny Lad LR, NOT LISTENIN’TOME Encosta de Lago LR, OXFORD POET Magic Ring LR, TOM MELBOURNE Spinning World LR. 1st Dam: NIGHT OF MAGIC by Peintre Celebre.

Winner at 3 in Italy, Oaks d’Italia G2. Own sister to Neele. Dam of 2 winners: 2012: NIGHTFLOWER (f Dylan Thomas) Champion 3yr old filly in Germany in 2015. 3 wins at 3 and 4 in Germany, Preis von Europa G1 (twice), Diana Trial G2, 2nd Longines Grosser Preis von Baden G1 (twice), Longines Grosser Preis von Berlin G1, Henkel Preis der Diana -German Oaks G1.

2013: Nimrod (c High Chaparral) Winner at 2 in Germany, 3rd XTIP Derby Trial LR. 2014: Native Fighter (c Lawman) unraced to date.

2015: Navarra (f Invincible Spirit) 2nd Dam: NIGHT TEENY by Platini. 1 win at 3 in Germany. Dam of NIGHT OF MAGIC (f Peintre Celebre, see above), NIGHT SERENADE (f Golan: Nereide-Rennen LR), Neele (f Peintre Celebre: 2nd Fahrhofer Stutenpreis G3). Grandam of NYMPHEA, NUTAN, NAZBANOU. Broodmare Sire: PEINTRE CELEBRE. Sire of the dams of 45 Stakes winners. In 2016 - NIGHTFLOWER Dylan Thomas G1, PRECIOUS GEM Econsul G1, PROTECTIONIST Monsun G1, VADAMOS Monsun G1, ONE FOOT IN HEAVEN Fastnet Rock G2, THE JUSTICE LEAGUE I Am Invincible G2.

The Dylan Thomas/Peintre Celebre cross has produced: NIGHTFLOWER G1, NYMPHEA G1.

NIGHTFLOWER ch f 2012 Danzig Danehill Razyana DYLAN THOMAS b 03 Diesis Lagrion Wrap It Up Nureyev Peintre Celebre Peinture Bleue NIGHT OF MAGIC ch 06 Platini Night Teeny Nightrockette

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Sharpen Up Doubly Sure Mount Hagen Doc Nan Northern Dancer Special Alydar Petroleuse Surumu Prairie Darling Rocket Nightlife

Although the champion middle-distance horse Dylan Thomas nowadays spends most of his time covering large numbers of National Hunt mares, he continues to make his mark on the Flat via the likes of Dylan Mouth (Gran Premio di Milano), Blazing Speed (in Hong Kong), Spark Plug (winner of the Cambridgeshire) and the German filly Nightflower.

Having added a pair of Gr1

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seconds to her CV in the summer, Nightflower bid to repeat her 2015 victory in the Preis von Europa and succeeded by three-quarters of a length.

The 2015 German Oaks second comes from an outstanding German family.

Her dam Night Of Magic won the Gr2 Oaks d’Italia and Night Of Magic’s sister Neele has excelled as a broodmare.

Mated to Dylan Thomas, Neele produced Nymphea, a sister-in-blood to Nightflower with a similar record.

Nymphea also finished second in the Preis der Diana before defeating the males in the Grosser Preis von Berlin, a race in which Nightflower has finished second.

Neele is also the dam of Nutan, the winner of the 2015 Deutsches Derby. Nutan is bred along pretty similar lines to Nightflower, for his sire Duke Of Marmalade shares the same sire, Danehill, as Dylan Thomas.

Nightflower’s second dam Night Teeny was a half-sister to Night Petticoat, a Preis der Diana winner who produced a Deutsches Derby winner in Next Desert and a Diana winner in Next Gina.

294 PREMIO VITTORIO DI CAPUA G1 MILAN. Sep 25. 3yo+. 1600m.

1. WAIKIKA (FR) 5 8-13 b m by Whipper - Fruhling Feuer (Green Tune) O-Philippe Bellaiche B-Pontchartrain Stud TR-Y Barberot 2. Jallota (GB) 5 9-2 b g by Rock of Gibraltar - Lady Lahar (Fraam) O-Mrs Fitri Hay B-B. Walters TR-Charles Hills 3. Kaspersky (IRE) 5 9-2 b h by Footstepsinthesand - Croanda (Grand Lodge) O-Allevamento La Nuova Sbarra B-Allevamento La Nuova Sbarra TR- Endo Botti Margins Neck, 0.75. Time 1:34.00. Going Good.

Age 2-5

Starts 29

Wins 6

Places 9

Earned £217,902

Sire: WHIPPER. Sire of 23 Stakes winners. In 2016 WAIKIKA Green Tune G1, SETTLER’S SON Darshaan LR. 1st Dam: FRUHLING FEUER by Green Tune. Winner at 3. Dam of 6 winners: 2003: December Sky (f Dr Fong). Broodmare.

2004: Rainfire (f Rainbow Quest). Broodmare.

2005: PONDAPIE (g Highest Honor) Winner at 3.

2006: SOVIETICA ZURDA (f Montjeu) 4 wins at 4 and 5 in France.

2007: PRINTEMPS D’ALSACE (f Xaar) Winner at 3 in France.

2008: Bretzele (f Westerner) ran on the flat in France.

2009: Ekibastuz (c Dr Fong) unraced.

2010: ZAROFSKI (c Zamindar) 5 wins at 3, 5 and 6 in France.

2011: WAIKIKA (f Whipper) Sold 11,904gns yearling at AROCT. 6 wins at 2, 4 and 5 in France, Italy, Premio Vittorio di Capua G1, Grand Prix Anjou Bretagne - Asselco LR, 2nd Premio Pietro Bessero LR, 3rd Prix des Reservoirs G3, Prix Quincey - Barriere G3.

2012: WALINA (f Whipper) 3 wins at 3 in France.

2nd Dam: REEF SQUAW by Darshaan. 2 wins at 3 in France. Dam of Pink Palace (f Selkirk: 2nd Prix Petite Etoile LR, Prix Joubert LR, Prix de Thiberville LR) Broodmare Sire: GREEN TUNE. Sire of the dams of 21 Stakes winners. In 2016 - WAIKIKA Whipper G1, ATTENDU Acclamation G3.

WAIKIKA b m 2011 Mr Prospector Miesque’s Son Miesque WHIPPER b 01 Sadler’s Wells Myth To Reality Millieme Green Dancer Green Tune Soundings FRUHLING FEUER ch 98 Darshaan Reef Squaw Soviet Squaw

Raise A Native Gold Digger Nureyev Pasadoble Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Mill Reef Hardiemma Nijinsky Green Valley Mr Prospector Ocean’s Answer Shirley Heights Delsy Nureyev Apachee

The question remains whether the Premio Vittorio di Capua merits its Gr1 status. None of the eight contenders had previously won at the top level, the best qualified being Kapersky, a Gr2 winner in Germany and Italy, Jallota, a Gr3 winner in France, Diplomat, a Gr2 winner in Italy, and Greg Pass, an Italian Gr3 winner.

The British-trained Jallota ran the best of them but he failed by a neck to wear down the French mare Waikika. This five-year-old daughter of Whipper was racing for the 28th time.

Having won twice at Craon as a two-year-old, she failed to score at three and her next two wins were gained in Parisian handicaps. She finally became a stakes winner at five, in a Listed race at Nantes. Her rating on France-Galop stood at 45, which I believe equates to an official rating of around 100.

Waikika cost €15,000 at a yearling at Deauville’s October Sale. Her dam Fruhling Feuer won a Nottingham maiden over a mile and the next dam Reef Squaw was a middle-distance winner in the French Provinces.

However, her fourth dam Apachee produced the smart Antheus (Gran Premio Jockey Club) and several very successful broodmares, including Alexandrie (dam of champion sire Poliglote). Apachee was a half-sister to Aryenne, a French 1,000 Guineas winner who became the dam of Derby hero Quest For Fame.

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1st Dam: No Quest by Rainbow Quest. Dam of 7 winners: 1998: NAKOS (c Turtle Island) 2 wins at 3 in France.

1999: MACAW (g Bluebird) 5 wins at 3, 5 and 6 at home, USA, Elkhorn S G3, 2nd Pattison Canadian International S G1, Sword Dancer Invitational H G1.

2000: Ridge’s Journey (g Indian Ridge) 2001: RUTTERS REBEL (g Entrepreneur) 4 wins.

2002: Sentee (f Montjeu) unraced. Dam of Royal Punch (c Win River Win: Winner in Turkey, 2nd Sait Akson LR), FAFINTADENIENT (c Sakhee: 15 wins, Gran Corsa Siepi di Merano Hurdle G1) 2003: (f Singspiel) 2004: IRISH QUEST (g Galileo) 2 wins at 3.

2005: PRINCE DESIRE (g Fasliyev) Winner at 2.

2006: One Cool Quest (c One Cool Cat) ran twice.

2007: Fashion Lady (f Montjeu) ran twice.

Broodmare.

2008: Arbalo (c Motivator) 2009: Amhras Thomas (g Dylan Thomas) ran a few times.

2010: QUEST FOR MORE (g Teofilo) Sold 58,000gns yearling at TAOC2. 8 wins at 3 to 6, 2016 at home, France, Qatar Prix du Cadran G1, Weatherbys Hamilton Lonsdale Cup G2, 2nd Doncaster Cup G2, Qatar Goodwood Cup G2, weddingmates.co.uk Grand Cup LR, 3rd John Smith’s Silver Cup H LR. 2012: Master Choice (g Mastercraftsman) ran a few times.

2013: KAJAKI (g Mastercraftsman) Winner at 3.

2nd Dam: No Disgrace by Djakao. 1 win at 2 in France, 2nd Suwannee River H, 4th Prix Chloe G3, Prix Cleopatre G3, Prix de Flore G3. Dam of NO PASS NO SALE (c Northfields: Poule d’Essai des Poulains G1, 2nd Prix Lupin G1, 3rd Grand Criterium G1, Prix de la Salamandre G1), ONCE IN MY LIFE (f Lomond: Prix de Sandringham G3, 3rd Prix d’Astarte G2, All Along S G2), NO LIES (c Rainbows For Life: Prix des Sablonnets LR, 3rd Prix Saint Roman G3), NO PASARAN (c Be My Guest: Grand Prix de la Ville de Nice Chase LR), LASTING GRACE (c Last Tycoon: Prix Wild Monarch Hurdle (c&g) LR). Grandam of RYEHILL DREAMER, Nodiac, Loulan Genereux, EPPURSIMUOVE, Fair Attitude, Scocosita. Third dam of DOUBLE VIE, Cloone Stream. Fourth dam of COSMO OZORA, Meine Auram.

Broodmare Sire: RAINBOW QUEST. Sire of the dams of 180 Stakes winners. In 2016 - QEMAH Danehill Dancer G1, QUEST FOR MORE Teofilo G1, WICKLOW BRAVE Beat Hollow G1, CYLINDER BEACH Showcasing G3, APEX KING Kodiac LR, FREEDOM BEEL Pour Moi LR, RAY Rock of Gibraltar LR, SPIRIT QUARTZ Invincible Spirit LR, TENERIFE SONG Fastnet Rock LR. The Teofilo/Rainbow Quest cross has produced: QUEST FOR MORE G1, Aquilla LR, Desert Snow LR.

QUEST FOR MORE b g 2010 Sadler’s Wells Galileo

CHANTILLY. Oct 1. 4yo+. 4100m.

1. QUEST FOR MORE (IRE) 6 9-2 £126,044 b g by Teofilo - No Quest (Rainbow Quest) O-H.R.H. Sultan Ahmad Shah B-Epona Bloodstock Ltd TR-Roger Charlton 2. Vazirabad (FR) 4 9-2 £50,426 b g by Manduro - Visorama (Linamix) O-H.H. Aga Khan B-S C E A Haras De Son Altesse L'Aga Khan TR-A. de Royer Dupre 3. Nearly Caught (IRE) 6 9-2 £25,213 b g by New Approach - Katch Me Katie (Danehill) O-Mr A. N. Solomons B-Irish National Stud TR-Hughie Morrison Margins Short Neck, 5. Time 4:23.57. Going Good.

Age 2-6

Starts 24

Wins 8

Places 11

Earned £487,794

Sire: TEOFILO. Sire of 62 Stakes winners. In 2016 PALENTINO Palace Music G1, QUEST FOR MORE Rainbow Quest G1, SPECIAL FIGHTER Machiavellian G1, DIPLOMAT Shaadi G2, EZIYRA Dubai Destination G3, HUMIDOR Zabeel G3, SCOTTISH Zieten G3, ADOOL Storm Cat LR, FIREGLOW King’s Best LR, PORTAGE Zamindar LR, TWILIGHT PAYMENT Oasis Dream LR.

Urban Sea TEOFILO b 04 Danehill Speirbhean Saviour Blushing Groom Rainbow Quest I Will Follow NO QUEST b 93 Djakao No Disgrace Exbury Grace

Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Miswaki Allegretta Danzig Razyana Majestic Light Victorian Queen Red God Runaway Bride Herbager Where You Lead Tanerko Diagonale II Exbury Your Grace II

Quest For More’s victory in the Gr1 Prix du Cadran could act as a lesson to anyone who tends to write off mares after they reach the age of 15 or over. His first four dams – No Quest, No Disgrace, Exbury Grace and Your Grace – were all born when their dams were either 16 or 17 years old.

Appropriately, No Quest was also 17 when she gave birth to a Teofilo

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colt in 2010 (63 years after the birth of his fifth dam Aglae Grace).

That Teofilo colt – now a gelding – is Quest For More, whose last three starts have yielded a win in the Gr2 Lonsdale Stakes, a rather unlucky second in the Gr2 Doncaster Cup, when he led everywhere but on the line, and now his first Gr1 success.

Needless to say, he stays extremely well. We never learned the extent of Teofilo’s stamina, because this champion son of Galileo was unable to race after the age of two, but this versatile stallion occasionally comes up with smart performers with plenty of stamina. Voleuse de Coeurs won the Irish St Leger and his other 2016 stakes winners include the progressive three-year-old stayer Twilight Payment, who has thrived at around two miles despite having a dam by Oasis Dream.

Quest For More’s broodmare sire Rainbow Quest has linked well with Teofilo’s sire Galileo, with his daughters producing the smart stayer Mahler and the promising The Anvil.

Rainbow Quest also sired the second dam of Frankel.

When bred to the sprinter Bluebird, No Quest produced Macaw, who was second in a couple of American Gr1 races over a mile and a half. No Quest was a half-sister to two smart milers in No Pass No Sale (French 2,000 Guineas) and Once In My Life, while fourth dam Your Grace was a halfsister to Arc winner Soltikoff.

296 KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN SUN CHARIOT STAKES G1

2015: 2016:

Juvenile Fillies Turf G1, Turkey Jockey Club Silver Flash S G3, 3rd Coronation S G1, Moyglare Stud S G1, Qipco 1000 Guineas G1, Leopardstown 1000 Guineas Trial S G3. (f Galileo) (c Galileo)

2nd Dam: Golden Coral by Slew O’ Gold. ran 3 times at 3. Own sister to GOLDEN OPINION. Dam of Aleagueoftheirown (f Danehill Dancer, see above) Broodmare Sire: DANEHILL DANCER. Sire of the dams of 62 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, Bound LR, Facade LR, Felix Mendelssohn LR, Seussical LR.

Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge GALILEO b 98 Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta Danehill Danehill Dancer Mira Adonde ALEAGUEOFTHEIROWN b 04 Slew O’ Gold Golden Coral Optimistic Lass

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Lombard Anatevka Danzig Razyana Sharpen Up Lettre d’Amour Seattle Slew Alluvial Mr Prospector Loveliest

See race 166 in the September issue 297 PRIX DE L’OPERA LONGINES G1 CHANTILLY. Oct 2. 3yo+f. 2000m.

Age 2-3

Age 2-4

Earned £838,874

Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 243 Stakes winners.

In 2016 - ALICE SPRINGS Danehill Dancer G1, CHURCHILL Storm Cat G1, DEAUVILLE Danehill G1, FOUND Intikhab G1, HIGHLAND REEL Danehill G1, MINDING Danehill Dancer G1, MONDIALISTE Kaldoun G1, ORDER OF ST GEORGE Gone West G1, PHOTO CALL Rock of Gibraltar G1, RHODODENDRON Pivotal G1, SEVENTH HEAVEN Johannesburg G1, THE GURKHA Danehill Dancer G1, THE UNITED STATES Pivotal G1.

1st Dam: Aleagueoftheirown by Danehill Dancer.

Winner at 3, 2nd IrishStall.Farms EBF Sweet Mimosa S LR. Dam of 4 winners: 2010: Kingston Jamaica (c Galileo) Winner at 2, 3rd Korean Racing Authority Tyros S G3.

2011: Criteria (f Galileo) Winner at 3, 2nd Betfred Oaks Trial S LR, Newsells Park Stud Aphrodite S LR, 3rd DFS Park Hill S G2, Ribblesdale S G2.

2012: CROCODILE ROCK (g Galileo) 2 wins.

2013: ALICE SPRINGS (f Galileo) Sold 550,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 5 wins at 2 and 3, Tattersalls Falmouth S G1, Kingdom of Bahrain Sun Chariot S G1, Coolmore Fastnet Rock Matron S G1, 2nd Breeders’ Cup

Mariah’s Storm SHAMARDAL b 02 Machiavellian Helsinki Helen Street Warning Diktat Arvola DASH TO THE FRONT b 03 Nashwan

ALICE SPRINGS ch f 2013

1. SPEEDY BOARDING (GB) 4 9-2 b f by Shamardal - Dash To The Front (Diktat) O-Helena Springfield Ltd B-Meon Valley Stud TR-James Fanshawe 2. Pleascach (IRE) 4 9-2 b f by Teofilo - Toirneach (Thunder Gulch) O-Godolphin B-J. S. Bolger TR-J. S. Bolger 3. So Mi Dar (GB) 3 8-12 b f by Dubawi - Dar Re Mi (Singspiel) O-Lord Lloyd-Webber B-Watership Down Stud TR-John Gosden Margins Short Head, 0.5. Time 2:02.30. Going Good.

Places 7

Storm Cat

Milligram

Sadler’s Wells

Starts 11

Wins 5

Places 3

Earned £385,448

Sire: SHAMARDAL. Sire of 102 Stakes winners.

In 2016 - DARIYAN Selkirk G1, SPEEDY BOARDING Diktat G1, TRYSTER Riverman G1, BLUE POINT Royal Applause G2, BOW CREEK Most Welcome G2, DOHA DREAM King’s Best G2, ROYAL SOLITAIRE Nashwan G2, USHERETTE Maria’s Mon G2, ALRAHMA Oasis Dream G3, ARTISTRY Belong To Me G3, TOSCANINI Panoramic G3.

1st Dam: DASH TO THE FRONT by Diktat. 2 wins at 3 and 4, Tweenhills Farm & Stud Warwickshire Oaks LR. Dam of 3 winners: 2009: MISS DASHWOOD (f Dylan Thomas) 4 wins at 3 and 4. Broodmare.

2010: Fanzine (f Medicean). Broodmare.

2012: SPEEDY BOARDING (f Shamardal) 5 wins at 3 and 4 at home, France, Prix de l’Opera Longines G1, Darley Prix Jean Romanet G1, Prix Corrida G2, Lord Weinstock Mem. Ballymacoll S LR, 2nd EBF Stallions John Musker S LR. 2013: NEXT STAGE (c Dubawi) Winner at 2.

2014: Joshua Reynolds (c Nathaniel) unraced to date.

2015: (c Frankel) 2016: (c Dansili) 2nd Dam: MILLENNIUM DASH by Nashwan. 1 win at

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SPEEDY BOARDING b f 2012

Millennium Dash

NEWMARKET. Oct 1. 3yo+f. 8f.

Wins 5

Broodmare Sire: DIKTAT. Sire of the dams of 12 Stakes winners. In 2016 - SPEEDY BOARDING Shamardal G1, DONNERSCHLAG Bahamian Bounty G2, KLUGER King Kamehameha G2, CONSELICE Showcasing G3.

Giant’s Causeway

1. ALICE SPRINGS (IRE) 3 9-0 £141,775 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 2. Always Smile (IRE) 4 9-3 £53,750 b f by Cape Cross - Eastern Joy (Dubai Destination) O-Godolphin B-Darley TR-Saeed bin Suroor 3. Ervedya (FR) 4 9-3 £26,900 b f by Siyouni - Elva (King’s Best) O-H.H. Aga Khan B-H H The Aga Khan's Studs S C TR-Jean Claude Rouget Margins 0.75, 1. Time 1:37.40. Going Good to Firm.

Starts 15

3. Dam of DASH TO THE TOP (f Montjeu: EBF TSG IBM Hoppings S LR, 2nd Aston Upthorpe Yorkshire Oaks G1, 3rd Meon Valley Stud Fillies’ Mile S G1), DASH TO THE FRONT (f Diktat, see above). Grandam of Dynasty.

Anna Palariva Storm Bird Terlingua Rahy Immense Mr Prospector Coup de Folie Troy Waterway Known Fact Slightly Dangerous Sadler’s Wells Park Appeal Blushing Groom Height of Fashion Mill Reef One In A Million

See race 226 in the October issue 298 QATAR PRIX JEAN-LUC LAGARDERE GRAND CRIT G1 CHANTILLY. Oct 2. 2yoc&f. 1600m.

1. NATIONAL DEFENSE (GB) 9-0 b c by Invincible Spirit - Angel Falls (Kingmambo) O-Sun Bloodstock Sarl B-Ecurie Des Monceaux & Meridian Int TR-Mme C Head-Maarek 2. Salouen (IRE) 9-0 b c by Canford Cliffs - Gali Gal (Galileo) O-Mr H. Balasuriya B-Silvercon Edgerodge Ltd TR-Sylvester Kirk 3. Whitecliffsofdover (USA) 9-0 b c by War Front - Orate (A P Indy) O-Mr M. Tabor, D. Smith & Mrs John Magnier B-Claiborne Farm TR-Aidan O’Brien Margins 4.5, Short Neck. Time 1:35.53. Going Good.

Age 2

Starts 3

Wins 2

Places 1

Earned £165,066

Sire: INVINCIBLE SPIRIT. Sire of 97 Stakes winners.

In 2016 - NATIONAL DEFENSE Kingmambo G1, PROFITABLE Indian Ridge G1, SIGNS OF BLESSING Seeking The Gold G1, GRENDISAR Mark of Esteem G3, SHALAA War Chant G3, RIVELLINO Pivotal LR, SPIRIT QUARTZ Rainbow Quest LR, SPIRIT RAISER Classic Cliche LR. 1st Dam: Angel Falls by Kingmambo. unraced. Dam of 3 winners: 2011: Cascading (f Teofilo) Winner at 3, 3rd British Stallion Stud EBF Chalice S LR. 2013: ANDALOUSERIE (f Poet’s Voice) Winner at 3 in France.

2014: NATIONAL DEFENSE (c Invincible Spirit) Sold 206,718gns yearling at ARAU1. 2 wins at 2 in France, Qatar Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere Grand Crit G1, 3rd Prix des Chenes G3.

2015: (c Makfi) 2nd Dam: ANNA PALARIVA by Caerleon. 2 wins at 2 in France Prix d’Aumale G3. Dam of ANNA SALAI (f Dubawi: Prix de la Grotte G3, 2nd Etihad Airways Irish 1000 Guineas G1), IGUAZU FALLS (g Pivotal: Help for Heroes Surrey S LR, 2nd Somerville Tattersall S G3, 3rd S. & M.Al Naboodah Al Fahidi Fort S G2), ADVICE (c Seeking The Gold: Grand Prix de Bordeaux LR, Grand Prix de Compiegne LR, Prix de Saint Patrick LR, G. P. Anjou Bretagne-Vignerons Nantais LR, 2nd La Coupe de Maisons-Laffitte G3). Grandam of DUBAI GINA. Broodmare Sire: KINGMAMBO. Sire of the dams of 111 Stakes winners. In 2016 - BIG ARTHUR Sakura Bakushin O G1, NATIONAL DEFENSE Invincible Spirit G1, SWEET SORREL Star Dabbler G1, ZELZAL Sea The Stars G1, CLOTH OF STARS Sea The Stars G2.

Anna of Saxony

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Sir Ivor Courtly Dee Sharpen Up Doubly Sure Artaius Border Bounty Raise A Native Gold Digger Nureyev Pasadoble Nijinsky Foreseer Ela-Mana-Mou Anna Matrushka

The 2016 season has been largely one to forget for Criquette HeadMaarek, but National Defense made sure it wasn’t a total write-off by making all to land the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere decisively.

The colt’s sire Invincible Spirit owes a lot of his success to mares from the Mr Prospector line. Of his Gr1 winners, Hooray and Territories are out of Machiavellian mares, his 2016 Prix Maurice de Gheest winner Signs Of Blessing has a dam by Seeking The Gold, the Prix du Jockey-Club winner Lawman is out of a daughter of Gulch, and Horse of the Year Kingman has Zamindar, a grandson of Mr Prospector, as his broodmare sire.

National Defense is out of Angel Falls, a daughter of Kingmambo.

Angel Falls was bred by Darley but failed to make it to the races. She was culled for 80,000gns as a three-yearold at the 2008 July Sales and was returned to Tattersalls at the 2010 December Sales, when her price rose to 130,000gns, in foal to Teofilo.

Angel Falls’ buyers certainly got a lot of pedigree for their money. For an American-based stallion, Kingmambo had a tremendous record in the British Classics, siring two winners each of the 2,000 Guineas, 1,000 Guineas and St Leger, plus an Oaks winner, as well as the French Classic winners Divine Proportions and Bluemamba. Also, Angel Falls’ dam Anna Palariva was a member of the prolific family descending from the German champion Anna Paola.

This family has served Sheikh Mohammed very well. Although Anna Paola produced nothing better than a Gr3 winner, her broodmare daughters have thrived, including National Defense’s fourth dam Anna Matrushka. This Mill Reef mare produced the smart performers Anna Of Saxony, Pozarica and Annaba, as well as the Singspiel mare Accessories, who has found fame in Australia as the dam of Helmet and Epaulette.

Anna Of Saxony, an Ela-Man-Mou filly who stayed well enough to win the Gr3 (as then) Park Hill Stakes, also produced a couple of talented broodmare daughters. One, the In The Wings mare Anna Amalia, produced the American Gr1 winner Ave to Danehill Dancer, and Anna Palariva – herself a winner of the Gr3 Prix d’Aumale – has three stakes winners, headed by her Dubawi filly Anna Salai.

It was by only a head that Anna Salai failed to win the 2010 Irish 1,000 Guineas.

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European Pattern 299 QATAR PRIX DE L’ABBAYE DE LONGCHAMP G1 CHANTILLY. Oct 2. 2yo+. 1000m.

1. MARSHA (IRE) 3 9-8 b f by Acclamation - Marlinka (Marju) O-Elite Racing Club B-Elite Racing Club TR-Sir Mark Prescott Bt 2. Washington DC (IRE) 3 9-11 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 3. Mecca’s Angel (IRE) 5 9-8 gr m by Dark Angel - Folga (Atraf) O-Mr David T. J. Metcalfe B-Yeomanstown Stud & Doc Bloodstock TR-Michael Dods Margins 0.75, Short Head. Time 0:57.27. Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 11

Wins 5

Places 4

Earned £244,980

Sire: ACCLAMATION. Sire of 38 Stakes winners. In 2016 - MARSHA Marju G1, ACLAIM Danroad G2, MEHMAS Machiavellian G2, ATTENDU Green Tune G3, QUEEN CATRINE King’s Best G3, KASSIA Stravinsky LR. 1st Dam: MARLINKA by Marju. 3 wins at 2 at home, France, Prix des Reves d’Or - Jacques Bouchara LR. Dam of 2 winners: 2012: JUDICIAL (g Iffraaj) 6 wins at 2 to 4.

2013: MARSHA (f Acclamation) 5 wins at 2 and 3 at home, France, Qatar Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp G1, Scottish Sun EBF Land O’Burns S LR, John Smith’s City Walls S LR, 2nd Qatar Prix du Petit Couvert G3, 3rd Mercury S LR. 2014: Marseille (f Excelebration) in training.

2015: (c Cape Cross) 2016: (f Iffraaj) 2nd Dam: BARALINKA by Barathea. 4 wins at 2 and 3.

Dam of MARLINKA (f Marju, see above) Broodmare Sire: MARJU. Sire of the dams of 42 Stakes winners. In 2016 - MARSHA Acclamation G1, RIBCHESTER Iffraaj G1, AL WATHNA Nayef G2, RAW IMPULSE Makfi LR. The Acclamation/Marju cross has produced: MARSHA G1, TALWAR G3.

Soviet Song’s first Gr1 success, in the 2002 Fillies’ Mile, prompted her owners to return Kalinka to Marju in 2003, the result being Sister Act. A winner over a mile, Sister Act kept up the good work by becoming the dam of Ribbons, who carried the Elite Racing Club’s colours to victory in the Gr1 Prix Jean Romanet in 2014.

The Club had also had fun with Kalinka’s Barathea filly Baralinka, a four-time sprint winner at the ages of two and three. Naturally Baralinka was also mated to Marju, the sire of Soviet Song and Sister Act. Two of her three Marju foals won and one of them, Marlinka, was a triple two-yearold winner for Roger Charlton in 2010, when her wins included a fivefurlong Listed race at Vichy. Marlinka was then retired and she has made a fast start to her broodmare career. At the age of eight, she is the dam of the useful sprint handicapper Judicial, the fast filly Marsha and the Excelebration two-year-old Marseille.

Marsha, a daughter of Acclamation, has proved very progressive in building a record of five wins and three seconds in 11 starts. Her latest win – and her third at stakes level – came when she cut down Mecca’s Angel to take the Gr1 Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp (still so-titled despite being at Chantilly), a race in which Acclamation finished fourth.

Marsha’s fourth dam Tralthee started second favourite for the 1986 Oaks on the strength of wins in the Rockfel Stakes and Lupe Stakes.

Tralthee’s half-sister Epanoui produced the Gr3 winner Ask Anita, who in turn produced the dual Santa Anita Handicap winner Milwaukee Brew.

MARSHA b f 2013 Waajib Royal Applause Flying Melody ACCLAMATION b 99 Ahonoora Princess Athena Shopping Wise Last Tycoon Marju Flame of Tara MARLINKA b 08 Barathea Baralinka Kalinka

Try My Best Coryana Auction Ring Whispering Star Lorenzaccio Helen Nichols Floribunda Sea Melody Try My Best Mill Princess Artaius Welsh Flame Sadler’s Wells Brocade Soviet Star Tralthee

The Elite Racing Club has received wonderful value, in more ways than one, from the 23,000gns paid by Paul Cole for a Soviet Star filly at Tattersalls’ 1996 breeze-up sale. Within a few months the filly, named Kalinka, had won in good style at Brighton.

Although that proved to be her only success (she was even tried in a couple of hurdle races), Kalinka certainly made her mark as a broodmare.

She was once represented by two very different Gr1 winners in the space of a few months. One was Soviet Song, whose five Gr1 successes established her as one of the era’s finest female milers, and the other was Penzance, who landed the Gr1 Triumph Hurdle.

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300 QATAR PRIX DE L’ARC DE TRIOMPHE G1 CHANTILLY. Oct 2. 3yo+c&f. 2400m.

1. FOUND (IRE) 4 9-2 b f by Galileo - Red Evie (Intikhab) O-Mr M. Tabor, D. Smith & Mrs John Magnier B-Roncon, Wynatt & Chelston TR-Aidan O’Brien 2. Highland Reel (IRE) 4 9-5 b c by Galileo - Hveger (Danehill) O-Mr D. Smith, Mrs J. Magnier, Mr M. Tabor B-Hveger Syndicate TR-Aidan O’Brien 3. Order of St George (IRE) 4 9-5 b c by Galileo - Another Storm (Gone West) O-L.Williams,MrsJ.Magnier,M.Tabor,D.Smith B-Paget Bloodstock TR-Aidan O’Brien Margins 1.75, 1.5. Time 2:23.61. Going Good.

Age 2-4

Starts 19

Wins 6

Places Earned 12 £4,533,630

Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 243 Stakes winners. In 2016 ALICE SPRINGS Danehill Dancer G1, CHURCHILL Storm Cat G1, DEAUVILLE Danehill G1, FOUND Intikhab G1, HIGHLAND REEL Danehill G1, MINDING Danehill Dancer G1, MONDIALISTE Kaldoun G1, ORDER OF ST GEORGE Gone West G1, PHOTO CALL Rock of Gibraltar G1, RHODODENDRON Pivotal G1, SEVENTH HEAVEN Johannesburg G1, THE GURKHA Danehill Dancer G1, THE UNITED STATES Pivotal G1.

1st Dam: RED EVIE by Intikhab. 9 wins at 3 and 4, Juddmonte Lockinge S G1, Coolmore Fusaichi Pegasus Matron S G1, 2nd Coolmore Fusaichi Pegasus Matron S G1. Dam of 4 winners: 2009: Red Corvette (f Galileo) unraced.

2010: MAGICAL DREAM (f Galileo) 2 wins at 2, C L Weld Park S G3, 3rd Lanwades Stud Blandford S G2. Broodmare.

2011: INIESTA (g Galileo) Winner at 2.

2012:

2013: 2015: 2016:

FOUND (f Galileo) Champion 3yr old filly in Europe in 2015, Jt Champion 2yr old filly in Europe in 2014. 6 wins at 2 to 4 at home, France, USA, Total Prix Marcel Boussac G1, Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe G1, Longines Breeders’ Cup Turf G1, Kilfrush Stud Royal Whip S G3, Camelot EBF Mooresbridge S G3, 2nd Tattersalls Gold Cup G1, Qipco Champion S G1, Investec Queen Elizabeth Coronation Cup G1, Coronation S G1, Tattersalls Irish 1000 Guineas G1, QIPCO Irish Champion S G1 (twice), Prince of Wales’s S G1, Darley Yorkshire Oaks G1, Canford Cliffs EBF Athasi S G3, 3rd Moyglare Stud S G1, coral.ie Alleged S LR. BEST IN THE WORLD (f Galileo) 2 wins at 2 and 3, Irish Stall.Farms EBF Give Thanks S G3, 2nd Moyglare Jewels Blandford S G2. (c Galileo) (f Galileo)

2nd Dam: MALAFEMMENA by Nordico. 1 win at 2 in Italy Premio Vittorio Crespi LR, 3rd Prix du Calvados G3. Dam of RED EVIE (f Intikhab, see above) Broodmare Sire: INTIKHAB. Sire of the dams of 13 Stakes winners. In 2016 - FOUND Galileo G1, GORDON LORD BYRON Byron G2, BEST IN THE WORLD Galileo G3, QUEBEE Sir Percy LR. The Galileo/Intikhab cross has produced: FOUND G1, IGUGU G1, BEST IN THE WORLD G2, MAGICAL DREAM G2.

FOUND b f 2012 Sadler’s Wells

Northern Dancer Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Mr Prospector Miswaki Hopespringseternal Lombard Allegretta Anatevka Roberto Red Ransom Arabia Crafty Prospector Crafty Example Zienelle Northern Dancer Nordico Kennelot Martinmas Martinova Pavlova Fairy Bridge

GALILEO b 98 Urban Sea

Intikhab RED EVIE b 03 Malafemmena

The Coolmore camp are clearly subscribers to the theory that “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Since buying Red Evie in 2007, this high-class daughter of Intikhab has visited Galileo every year from 2008 to 2015 with the exception of 2013, when she was rested. Red Evie’s seven foals by Galileo divide into two colts and five fillies. Four of the fillies have raced – the fifth was born on May 7, 2016 – and three have become Group winners.

The first of the three, Magical Dream, won the Gr3 CL Weld Park Stakes at two before being sent to Kentucky, where she has made three consecutive visits to War Front. The third of the three, with the ambitious name of Best In The World, won the Gr3 Give Thanks Stakes over a mile and a half in 2016. But neither of these smart fillies is nearly as good as Red Evie’s 2012 foal, that magnificent mare Found.

Found has won the Gr1 Prix Marcel Boussac at two, the Gr1 Breeders’ Cup Turf at three and now the Gr1 Arc at four – with her Arc win being the sixth by a filly or mare in the space of nine years.

It is hard to believe that Red Evie started at 100-1 on her debut at two, when she made little show. It was a very different story at three, though, as she was winning for the seventh consecutive time when she

accelerated impressively to land the Gr1 Matron Stakes. Another Gr1 success came her way at four, in the Lockinge Stakes, before Red Evie was sent to the 2007 December Sales, where she was led out unsold at 1,000,000gns. It was then that the Coolmore partners stepped in to buy her privately.

Found’s broodmare sire Intikhab wasn’t easy to train. However, his breathtaking eight-length victory in the Queen Anne Stakes earned him a rating of 130 on the International Classifications, which made him the highest-rated European horse of any age in 1998. Intikhab also had the distinction of being the sire of that magnificent international performer Snow Fairy, whose victories included the Oaks, Irish Oaks, Irish Champion Stakes, Hong Kong Cup and two editions of Japan’s Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative Cup, plus a third in the Arc. Found’s fourth dam, Pavlova, was a half-sister to Random Shot, a winner of the Ascot Gold Cup, but this family doesn’t lack speed. Pavlova’s best offspring, the Prince of Wales’s Stakes winner Lucky Wednesday and Found’s third dam Martinova, were respectively third in the Irish 2,000 Guineas and Irish 1,000 Guineas.

Martinova produced a variety of winners, ranging from Export Price, a Group-winning French sprinter, to Ninepins, a leading steeplechaser in the US. Red Evie’s dam Malafemmena won a Listed race over six furlongs in Italy at two.

301 QATAR PRIX DE LA FORET RMC G1 CHANTILLY. Oct 2. 3yo+. 1400m.

1. LIMATO (IRE) 4 9-2 b g by Tagula - Come April (Singspiel) O-Mr Paul G. Jacobs B-S. Phelan TR-Henry Candy 2. Karar (GB) 4 9-2 b c by Invincible Spirit - In The Light (Inchinor) O-Al Shaqab Racing B-J. Wigan TR-Francis-Henri Graffard 3. Suedois (FR) 5 9-2 b g by Le Havre - Cup Cake (Singspiel) O-Mr George Turner B-Mme E. Vidal TR-David O’Meara Margins 3, 0.5. Time 1:21.83. Going Good.

Age 2-4

Starts 13

Wins 8

Places 5

Earned £939,431

Sire: TAGULA. Sire of 18 Stakes winners. In 2016 LIMATO Singspiel G1, HUMPHREY BOGART Kahyasi LR. 1st Dam: COME APRIL by Singspiel. Winner at 3.

Dam of 1 winner: 2011: (c Tagula). died as a yearling.

2012: LIMATO (g Tagula) Sold 39,047gns yearling at DNPRM. 8 wins at 2 to 4 at home, France, Darley July Cup G1, Qatar Prix de la Foret RMC G1, Saint Gobain Weber Park S G2, Merribelle Stable Pavilion S G3, Compton Estates Rose Bowl S LR, Totepool Two Year Old Trophy LR, 2nd Coolmore Nunthorpe S G1, Commonwealth Cup G1, Qatar Prix de la Foret G1, 888sport Sandy Lane S G2.

2013: Limonata (f Bushranger) 2014: Limoncino (f Arcano) unraced to date.

2015: (c Arcano) Broodmare Sire: SINGSPIEL. Sire of the dams of 54 Stakes winners. In 2016 - LEFT HAND Dubawi G1, LIMATO Tagula G1, SINHALITE Deep Impact G1, WUHEIDA Dubawi G1, OLD BUNCH Not For Sale G2, PLEUVEN Turtle Bowl G2, SAMARA DANCER Hinchinbrook G2.

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LIMATO b g 2012 Stop The Music Taufan Stolen Date TAGULA b 93 Standaan Twin Island Jolly Widow In The Wings Singspiel Glorious Song COME APRIL b 04 Suave Dancer So Admirable Sumoto

Hail To Reason Bebopper Sadair Stolen Hour Zeddaan Castania Busted Veuve Joyeuse Sadler’s Wells High Hawk Halo Ballade Green Dancer Suavite Mtoto Soemba

See race 167 in the September issue.

302 TOTAL PRIX MARCEL BOUSSAC G1 CHANTILLY. Oct 2. 2yof. 1600m.

1. WUHEIDA (GB) 8-12 ch f by Dubawi - Hibaayeb (Singspiel) O-Godolphin B-Darley Stud Management Company Ltd TR-Charlie Appleby 2. Promise To Be True (IRE) 8-12 b f by Galileo - Sumora (Danehill) O-Mrs John Magnier,Mr M.Tabor & Mr D.Smith B-Orpendale, Chelston & Wynatt TR-Aidan O’Brien 3. Dabyah (IRE) 8-12 b f by Sepoy - Samdaniya (Machiavellian) O-Mr Abdullah Saeed Al Naboodah B-Godolphin Management Company Limited (Rabbah) TR-John Gosden Margins 0.75, Short Neck. Time 1:35.85. Going Good.

Age 2

Starts 2

Wins 2

Places 0

Bahri G2, SHEIKHZAYEDROAD Highest Honor G2, TIME TEST Dansili G2, JOURNEY Montjeu G3, NEW BAY Zamindar G3, RASEED Fantastic Light G3, SO MI DAR Singspiel G3, TANAZA Dalakhani G3.

1st Dam: HIBAAYEB by Singspiel. 4 wins at 2 to 4 at home, USA, Meon Valley Stud Fillies’ Mile S G1, Yellow Ribbon S G1, 3rd Montjeu Coolmore Prix Saint-Alary G1. Dam of 2 winners: 2013: LACEY’S LANE (f Street Cry) Winner at 3 in France.

2014: WUHEIDA (f Dubawi) 2 wins at 2 at home, France, Total Prix Marcel Boussac G1.

2016: (f Dubawi) 2nd Dam: LADY ZONDA by Lion Cavern. 2 wins at 3.

Dam of HIBAAYEB (f Singspiel, see above), May Meeting (f Diktat: 2nd Kerry Spring Water Rochestown S LR) Broodmare Sire: SINGSPIEL. Sire of the dams of 54 Stakes winners. In 2016 - LEFT HAND Dubawi G1, LIMATO Tagula G1, SINHALITE Deep Impact G1, WUHEIDA Dubawi G1, OLD BUNCH Not For Sale G2, PLEUVEN Turtle Bowl G2, SAMARA DANCER Hinchinbrook G2.

The Dubawi/Singspiel cross has produced: LEFT HAND G1, SO MI DAR G1, WUHEIDA G1, Nolohay G2, MAJESTIC DUBAWI G3, LAUGH ALOUD LR.

WUHEIDA ch f 2014 Dubai Millennium DUBAWI b 02 Zomaradah

Earned £130,572 Singspiel

Sire: DUBAWI. Sire of 124 Stakes winners. In 2016 LEFT HAND Singspiel G1, POSTPONED Dubai Destination G1, WUHEIDA Singspiel G1, DARTMOUTH Galileo G2, MOVE UP Soviet Star G2, SAFETY CHECK Royal Academy G2, SHAMREEN

HIBAAYEB b/br 07 Lady Zonda

Seeking The Gold Mr Prospector Con Game Colorado Dancer Shareef Dancer Fall Aspen Shirley Heights Deploy Slightly Dangerous Dancing Brave Jawaher High Tern Sadler’s Wells In The Wings High Hawk Halo Glorious Song Ballade Mr Prospector Lion Cavern Secrettame Fabulous Dancer Zonda Oh So Hot

In the notes on the Prix Vermeille winner Left Hand earlier in this issue, I mentioned that, up to that point, Dubawi was rather short of individual Gr1 winners in 2016, compared to previous years. He set about redressing the balance when the once-raced winner Wuheida shook off her inexperience to land the Prix Marcel Boussac in very encouraging style. In the process, she became Dubawi’s 19th Gr1 winner in the northern hemisphere.

In winning one of Europe’s best races for two-year-old fillies, Wuheida was following in the footsteps of her dam Hibaayeb, who lost her maiden status in no less a race than the Fillies’ Mile in 2009. This daughter of Singspiel trained on very well, adding the Gr2 Ribblesdale Stakes and Gr1 Yellow Ribbon Stakes at three and the Gr2 Sheepshead Bay Stakes at four.

Hibaayeb is by no means the first smart racemare by Singspiel to shine with Dubawi. The top-class Dar Re Mi is the dam of So Mi Dar, a somewhat unlucky third in the Prix de l’Opera, while the Gr2 winner Balladeuse is responsible for Left Hand.

Yet another of Dubawi’s 2016 stakes winners – the Listed winner Laugh Aloud – is also out of a Singspiel mare. The prospects therefore look good for Hibaayeb’s 2016 Dubawi filly [see Caulfield files for more on this nick]. Of course Singspiel’s success as a broodmare sire is not limited to the progeny of Dubawi, as the Tagula gelding Limato

is another of their Gr1 winners.

It isn’t surprising that Singspiel is building an eye-catching record as a broodmare sire. The former Dalham Hall stallion was responsible for more than 40 Group winners in the northern hemisphere, of which 23 were fillies. Hibaayeb’s dam, the seven-furlong and mile winner Lady Zonda, is by Lion Cavern, a speedy brother to Gone West. Arguably Lion Cavern’s greatest achievement was to sire Crimplene, winner of the Irish 1,000 Guineas, Coronation Stakes and Nassau Stakes for Hibaayeb’s trainer Clive Brittain.

Hibaayeb is the best winner produced by her branch of her family for several generations, but her third dam Oh So Hot was a sister to the top filly Roussalka and to the 1,000 Guineas second Our Home. Oh So Hot was also a half-sister to Oh So Sharp, the 1,000 Guineas, Oaks and St Leger winner.

Dubawi: sire of Wuheida

Group 2 & 3 Races Date 04/09 04/09 04/09 08/09 08/09 08/09 08/09 08/09 09/09 09/09 09/09 10/09 10/09 10/09 10/09 10/09 11/09 11/09 11/09 11/09 11/09 11/09 11/09 17/09 17/09 17/09 17/09 17/09 17/09 18/09 18/09 18/09 21/09 21/09 22/09 23/09 23/09 24/09 25/09 25/09 25/09 30/09 01/10 01/10 01/10 01/10 01/10 01/10 02/10 02/10

Grade G3 G3 G3 G2 G2 G3 G3 G3 G2 G2 G3 G2 G2 G2 G3 G3 G2 G2 G2 G2 G3 G3 G3 G2 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G2 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G2 G2 G2 G2 G3 G3 G3 G2 G2 G2 G2 G3 G3 G3 G3

Race (course) Steinhoff Zukunftsrennen (Baden-Baden) Prix La Rochette (Saint-Cloud) Prix de Lutece (Saint-Cloud) Clugston Construction May Hill Stakes (Doncaster) DFS Park Hill Stakes (Doncaster) Prix d’Aumale (Chantilly) Prix des Chenes (Chantilly) Prix du Pin (Chantilly) Doncaster Cup (Doncaster) Pepsi Max Flying Childers Stakes (Doncaster) Japan Racing Association Sceptre Stakes (Doncaster) At the Races Champagne Stakes (Doncaster) Saint Gobain Weber Park Stakes (Doncaster) Clipper Logistics Solonaway Stakes (Leopardstown) KPMG Enterprise Kilternan Stakes (Leopardstown) Willis Ch’pns Juv Golden Fleece Stakes (Leopardstown) Qatar Prix Foy (Chantilly) Qatar Prix Niel (Chantilly) Derrinstown Stud Flying Five Stakes (Curragh) Moyglare Jewels Blandford Stakes (Curragh) Qatar Prix Gladiateur (Chantilly) Qatar Prix du Petit Couvert (Chantilly) Grosse Europa Meile des Porsche Zentrum (Dusseldorf) Dubai Duty Free Mill Reef Stakes (Newbury) William Hill Firth of Clyde Stakes (Ayr) La Coupe de Maisons-Laffitte (Maisons-Laffitte) Prix du Prince d’Orange (Maisons-Laffitte) Dubai Duty Free Legacy Cup Arc Trial (Newbury) Dubai International Airport World Trophy (Newbury) Premio Federico Tesio (Milan) Grosser Preis Von DSW21 St Leger (Dortmund) D. C. Lavarack & Lanwades Stud Stakes (Gowran Park) Prix Bertrand de Tarragon (Maisons-Laffitte) Prix Eclipse (Maisons-Laffitte) Somerville Tattersall Stakes (Newmarket) Shadwell Joel Stakes (Newmarket) Shadwell Rockfel Stakes (Newmarket) Juddmonte Royal Lodge Stakes (Newmarket) Juddmonte Beresford Stakes (Curragh) C L & M F Weld Park Stakes (Curragh) Premio Elena e Sergio Cumani (Milan) Paddy Power Diamond Stakes (Dundalk) Qatar Prix Chaudenay (Chantilly) Qatar Prix Daniel Wildenstein (Chantilly) Qatar Prix Dollar (Chantilly) Qatar Prix de Royallieu (Chantilly) Gigaset Cumberland Lodge Stakes (Ascot) John Guest Bengough Stakes (Ascot) G.P. der Landeshauptstadt Dusseldorf (Dusseldorf) Coolmore Stud Concorde Stakes (Tipperary)

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Dist 7f 7f 15f 8f 14.5f 9f 8f 7f 18f 5f 7f 7f 7f 8f 12f 8f 12f 12f 5f 10f 15f 5f 8f 6f 6f 10f 10f 11f 5f 11f 14f 9f 9f 6f 7f 8f 7f 8f 8f 7f 8f 10.5f 15f 8f 10f 12f 12f 6f 8.5f 7f

Horse Navarra King (IRE) Kontrastat (FR) Moonshiner (GER) Rich Legacy (IRE) Simple Verse (IRE) Toulifaut (IRE) Akihiro (JPN) Jallota (GB) Sheikhzayedroad (GB) Ardad (IRE) Spangled (GB) Rivet (IRE) Breton Rock (IRE) Awtaad (IRE) Zhukova (IRE) Landfall (FR) Silverwave (FR) Makahiki (JPN) Ardhoomey (IRE) Shamreen (IRE) Vazirabad (FR) Just Glamorous (IRE) Noor Al Hawa (FR) Harry Angel (IRE) Delectation (GB) Banzari (GB) Sky Kingdom (IRE) Algometer (GB) Cotai Glory (GB) Full Drago (ITY) Near England (IRE) Duchess Andorra (IRE) Aim To Please (FR) Sans Equivoque (GER) Larchmont Lad (IRE) Cougar Mountain (IRE) Spain Burg (FR) Best of Days (GB) Capri (IRE) Eziyra (IRE) Silver Step (FR) Long Island Sound (USA) Doha Dream (FR) Taareef (USA) Potemkin (GER) The Juliet Rose (FR) Move Up (GB) Shalaa (IRE) Noor Al Hawa (FR) Jet Setting (IRE)

Age 2 2 3 2 4 2 2 5 7 2 4 2 6 3 4 2 4 3 4 3 4 3 3 2 2 4 3 3 4 3 3 5 3 2 2 5 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 5 3 3 3 3 3

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

Sire Lope de Vega My Risk Adlerflug Holy Roman Emperor Duke of Marmalade Frankel Deep Impact Rock of Gibraltar Dubawi Kodiac Starspangledbanner Fastnet Rock Bahamian Bounty Cape Cross Fastnet Rock Myboycharlie Silver Frost Deep Impact Dark Angel Dubawi Manduro Arcano Makfi Dark Angel Delegator Motivator Montjeu Archipenko Exceed And Excel Pounced Lord of England Duke of Marmalade Excellent Art Stormy River Footstepsinthesand Fastnet Rock Sageburg Azamour Galileo Teofilo Silver Frost War Front Shamardal Kitten’s Joy New Approach Monsun Dubawi Invincible Spirit Makfi Fast Company

Dam Navarra Queen Sikkim Montezuma Borghesa Guantanamera Cassydora Baahama Lady Lahar Royal Secrets Good Clodora Zykina Starship Anna’s Rock Asheerah Nightime Lana Girl Miss Bio Wikiwiki Moy Joy Shareen Visorama Glamorous Air Majestic Roi Beatrix Potter Chushka Bantu We Can Say It Now Albanova Continua Almata Near Galante Andorra Midnight Flash Suissesse Fotini Descant Spain Blues Baisse Dialafara Eytarna Negra Del Oro Treasure Trail Crystal Reef Sacred Feather Praia Dubai Rose Rosinka Ghurra Majestic Roi Mean Lae

Broodmare Sire Singspiel Linamix Monsun Galileo Sadler’s Wells Darshaan Anabaa Fraam Highest Honor Red Clubs Pivotal Galileo Rock of Gibraltar Shamardal Galileo Arch River Mist French Deputy Orpen Bahri Linamix Air Express Street Cry Cadeaux Genereux Pivotal Cape Cross Starcraft Alzao Elusive Quality Almutawakel Galileo Cadeaux Genereux Anabaa Blue Malibu Moon King’s Best Nureyev Anabaa Blue High Chaparral Anabaa Dubai Destination Danehill Dancer Pulpit King’s Best Carson City Big Shuffle Dubai Destination Soviet Star War Chant Street Cry Johannesburg

Index 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352

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DATA BOOK EXCLUSIVE STALLION STATISTICS

Leading sires 2016 by percentage of stakes winners to runners Name

War Front Dubawi Galileo Monsun Adlerflug Sea the Stars Kitten's Joy Lope de Vega Shamardal Mount Nelson Dalakhani Dai Jin Dansili Fastnet Rock Dark Angel Raven's Pass Azamour Teofilo Showcasing Dutch Art Mountain Cat Siyouni Duke Of Marmalade Pivotal Exceed And Excel Manduro Zamindar Invincible Spirit Zoffany Wootton Bassett Le Havre New Approach Unaccounted For Luxor Poet's Voice Soldier Hollow Iffraaj Myboycharlie Areion Bushranger Rock Of Gibraltar Cape Cross Tagula Footstepsinthesand Rip Van Winkle Sir Percy Makfi Champs Elysees Silver Frost Fast Company Victory Gallop

YOF

2002 2002 1998 1990 2004 2006 2001 2007 2002 2004 2000 2000 1996 2001 2005 2005 2001 2004 2007 2004 1990 2007 2004 1993 2000 2002 1994 1997 2008 2008 2006 2005 1991 2000 2007 2000 2001 2005 1995 2006 1999 1994 1993 2002 2006 2003 2007 2003 2006 2005 1995

Sire

Rnrs

Wnrs

%WR

Danzig Dubai Millennium Sadler's Wells Königsstuhl In the Wings Cape Cross El Prado Shamardal Giant's Causeway Rock Of Gibraltar Darshaan Peintre Celebre Danehill Danehill Acclamation Elusive Quality Night Shift Galileo Oasis Dream Medicean Storm Cat Pivotal Danehill Polar Falcon Danehill Monsun Gone West Green Desert Dansili Iffraaj Noverre Galileo Private Account Distant Relative Dubawi In the Wings Zafonic Danetime Big Shuffle Danetime Danehill Green Desert Taufan Giant's Causeway Galileo Mark Of Esteem Dubawi Danehill Verglas Danehill Dancer Cryptoclearance

60 180 258 54 49 130 39 134 205 108 96 50 157 185 271 105 108 179 116 186 97 122 173 174 255 130 108 221 138 28 143 144 90 91 124 94 189 131 134 213 214 180 72 184 148 149 154 124 83 128 172

31 93 127 28 24 73 19 52 99 42 35 23 72 80 114 40 45 69 47 85 34 47 61 81 103 48 44 96 48 9 58 48 52 36 47 41 81 45 71 87 81 82 17 94 60 48 74 56 24 43 74

51.67 51.67 49.22 51.85 48.98 56.15 48.72 38.81 48.29 38.89 36.46 46.00 45.86 43.24 42.07 38.10 41.67 38.55 40.52 45.70 35.05 38.52 35.26 46.55 40.39 36.92 40.74 43.44 34.78 32.14 40.56 33.33 57.78 39.56 37.90 43.62 42.86 34.35 52.99 40.85 37.85 45.56 23.61 51.09 40.54 32.21 48.05 45.16 28.92 33.59 43.02

Races

AWD

Earnings (£)

SH

47 147 181 41 36 106 25 79 147 68 52 45 100 124 161 60 68 98 70 123 71 68 100 125 165 68 66 142 68 12 78 69 118 64 62 58 121 59 115 139 121 132 27 148 73 79 111 89 35 61 150

7.3 9.7 10.8 10.9 11.0 10.6 9.0 8.1 8.1 9.7 11.2 8.8 9.5 8.9 7.9 8.7 10.2 10.1 6.9 7.6 7.8 7.7 10.8 8.1 6.7 10.5 9.1 7.5 8.2 8.8 9.3 9.1 8.5 7.1 7.9 9.6 8.3 8.2 8.1 7.5 9.4 9.7 6.5 8.3 8.9 11.1 9.3 11.4 9.7 7.1 8.0

1,509,595 4,874,874 14,748,587 1,270,180 845,727 4,033,404 819,037 2,055,847 3,133,903 1,176,269 1,081,055 780,913 1,682,181 2,118,081 2,857,959 711,465 1,162,785 2,017,921 1,182,509 1,557,158 1,536,053 1,826,235 1,324,973 2,451,851 2,168,376 913,416 743,099 2,797,940 1,656,237 1,653,736 2,194,671 1,317,424 1,884,398 1,599,081 737,092 1,181,167 1,965,184 921,567 1,062,823 1,379,757 1,692,027 1,829,995 850,020 2,137,759 970,283 1,016,010 1,361,875 1,135,875 880,012 841,068 2,908,479

18 39 58 9 6 22 6 24 23 12 11 4 16 21 19 8 10 16 6 13 6 8 15 17 23 11 5 25 10 2 11 8 6 5 6 12 10 5 11 7 10 9 2 8 7 7 9 12 5 4 10

%

30.00 21.67 22.48 16.67 12.24 16.92 15.38 17.91 11.22 11.11 11.46 8.00 10.19 11.35 7.01 7.62 9.26 8.94 5.17 6.99 6.19 6.56 8.67 9.77 9.02 8.46 4.63 11.31 7.25 7.14 7.69 5.56 6.67 5.49 4.84 12.77 5.29 3.82 8.21 3.29 4.67 5.00 2.78 4.35 4.73 4.70 5.84 9.68 6.02 3.13 5.81

SW

%

9 26 32 6 5 10 3 10 15 7 6 3 9 10 13 5 5 8 5 8 4 5 7 7 10 5 4 8 5 1 5 5 3 3 4 3 6 4 4 6 6 5 2 5 4 4 4 3 2 3 4

15.00 14.44 12.40 11.11 10.20 7.69 7.69 7.46 7.32 6.48 6.25 6.00 5.73 5.41 4.80 4.76 4.63 4.47 4.31 4.30 4.12 4.10 4.05 4.02 3.92 3.85 3.70 3.62 3.62 3.57 3.50 3.47 3.33 3.30 3.23 3.19 3.17 3.05 2.99 2.82 2.80 2.78 2.78 2.72 2.70 2.68 2.60 2.42 2.41 2.34 2.33

Dubawi bears down on leader War Front War Front is still in the lead but his advantage over Dubawi is pretty thin as the Darley sire continues to surpass himself. He had four big winners: Left Hand in the Prix Vermeille, Wuheida in the Prix Marcel Boussac, Move Up in the Bosphorus Cup and Shamreen in the Blandford Stakes.

Twelve-year-old Adlerflug has entered the fray in fifth place, backing up perennial German presence Monsun. By In The Wings, Adlerflug was suited by a mile and a half and won two Group 1s in Germany, including the Deutsches Derby by seven lengths. His third dam Anatevka is grandam of Urban Sea, so there is a link to both Galileo and Sea The Stars in the top section of this table.

Retired to stud in 2010, Adlerflug is responsible this year for good winners Iquitos (Grosser Preis von Baden), Savoir Vivre (Grand Prix de Deauville), Ito (Gerling-Preis) and Meergorl (Diana-Trial).

Leading sires of two-year-olds 2016 by earnings Name

Galileo War Front Kodiac Dark Angel Acclamation *Sir Prancealot Shamardal Scat Daddy Arcano Invincible Spirit *Frankel Fastnet Rock *Helmet Exceed And Excel Lion Heart Choisir *Dragon Pulse Dubawi *Mayson Three Valleys Myboycharlie *Power Kaneko *Bated Breath Equiano Sageburg Luxor Mountain Cat Dandy Man Victory Gallop

YOF

1998 2002 2001 2005 1999 2010 2002 2004 2007 1997 2008 2001 2008 2000 2001 1999 2009 2002 2008 2001 2005 2009 2001 2007 2005 2004 2000 1990 2003 1995 Holy Roman Emperor 2004 Hellvelyn 2004 *Foxwedge 2008 *Native Khan 2008 Fast Company 2005 Poet's Voice 2007 *Sepoy 2008 *Harbour Watch 2009 *Elzaam 2007 *Rajsaman 2007 *Torok 2009 Dehere 1991 Sakhee's Secret 2004 Canford Cliffs 2007 Bosporus 1995 Lawman 2004 Kendargent 2003 Zebedee 2008 Unaccounted For 1991

Sire

Rnrs

Wnrs

Sadler's Wells Danzig Danehill Acclamation Royal Applause Tamayuz Giant's Causeway Johannesburg Oasis Dream Green Desert Galileo Danehill Exceed And Excel Danehill Tale Of The Cat Danehill Dancer Kyllachy Dubai Millennium Invincible Spirit Diesis Danetime Oasis Dream Pivotal Dansili Acclamation Johannesburg Distant Relative Storm Cat Mozart Cryptoclearance Danehill Ishiguru Fastnet Rock Azamour Danehill Dancer Dubawi Elusive Quality Acclamation Redoute's Choice Linamix Singspiel Deputy Minister Sakhee Tagula Night Shift Invincible Spirit Kendor Invincible Spirit Private Account

46 17 77 89 59 71 28 7 49 53 26 36 46 63 41 19 42 30 41 24 45 33 27 43 47 29 20 10 55 36 50 15 41 16 47 56 39 61 31 41 11 13 21 33 27 50 41 55 15

20 11 32 34 20 28 14 4 19 16 13 12 15 22 16 8 16 12 13 7 16 15 11 15 16 9 11 1 16 11 15 8 16 9 11 15 12 12 15 9 5 7 4 12 11 20 9 17 5

%WR

43.48 64.71 41.56 38.20 33.90 39.44 50.00 57.14 38.78 30.19 50.00 33.33 32.61 34.92 39.02 42.11 38.10 40.00 31.71 29.17 35.56 45.45 40.74 34.88 34.04 31.03 55.00 10.00 29.09 30.56 30.00 53.33 39.02 56.25 23.40 26.79 30.77 19.67 48.39 21.95 45.45 53.85 19.05 36.36 40.74 40.00 21.95 30.91 33.33

Races

AWD

31 17 47 40 27 41 18 8 28 20 23 17 24 29 23 13 23 15 16 15 17 20 18 21 20 13 18 5 21 16 16 13 18 15 15 20 16 15 22 12 10 12 6 15 15 20 12 20 11

7.4 6.2 5.9 6.4 5.8 6.4 6.2 5.7 6.5 6.6 7.0 6.7 6.3 6.0 6.2 6.0 6.2 7.5 5.6 6.3 6.9 6.5 6.2 5.8 5.7 6.3 6.2 5.9 5.6 6.1 6.7 5.3 6.5 6.2 6.0 6.6 6.8 6.2 6.0 6.9 5.9 5.6 5.7 7.1 6.2 7.1 6.8 6.0 6.2

Earnings (£)

1,777,435 870,051 803,363 597,209 584,631 560,622 530,806 499,113 490,225 467,942 460,575 457,537 446,874 403,875 401,807 401,344 339,653 329,274 323,281 320,029 306,691 297,152 292,888 292,349 289,955 286,293 282,751 275,121 267,186 260,633 253,449 251,861 245,177 242,693 238,594 235,645 234,290 229,026 225,043 212,466 212,330 209,719 206,281 205,592 205,182 198,182 195,444 195,103 193,339

Top horse

Earned (£)

Churchill Roly Poly Ardad Nations Alexander Mehmas Stormy Clouds Blue Point Lady Aurelia Mubtasim National Defense Queen Kindly Intricately Orewa Yalta Denizcanim The Last Lion Legendary Lunch Wuheida Mazyoun Copperfield Landfall Peace Envoy Glen Al Johrah Medicine Jack Spain Burg Finesse Waneta Big Time Baby Sinkizi Rich Legacy Mrs Danvers Urban Fox Zippy Red Onion Poet's Vanity Baileys Showgirl Tis Marvellous Clem Fandango Brametot Piano Sonata Salamis Wick Powell Salouen Utkunbaba Masham Star Xaarino Smokey Lane Triton

595,026 167,511 89,723 61,373 313,314 213,760 268,025 255,068 194,386 194,175 138,146 189,752 140,933 61,238 108,086 230,727 53,118 153,046 96,511 145,825 58,708 130,158 49,319 92,805 107,017 100,236 74,229 262,182 51,729 37,468 74,396 196,236 95,441 47,513 61,333 53,468 47,058 75,513 93,128 45,375 121,624 78,272 168,174 92,672 41,344 22,888 42,221 32,624 64,158

Galileo first, the rest somewhere behind The juvenile title by earnings has gone the way of Galileo by a very wide margin following a phenomenal month in which Churchill landed two Group 1s and Rhododendron one, with placings in both races and other top-flight events putting icing on the cake.

Galileo has the highest percentage of winners to runners among sires with at least 40 runners and is jointtop with Kodiac in number of stakes winners, although War Front, Dark Angel and Frankel are breathing down their necks. Dark Angel is now top in winners, two ahead of Kodiac, after notching ten more winners.

Frankel has 13 winners from 26 runners but is still around £100,000 behind the leader among the freshmen, Sir Prancealot, who added five winners to his tally, putting him 12 ahead of Dragon Pulse and Foxwedge, followed by Bated Breath, Elzaam, Helmet and Power (plus Requinto just off the table).

Statistics to October 10; *denotes first-season sire

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’m out of bed at the ungodly hour of 2.30.

Calls from my six stable foremen at Randwick racetrack start coming through at 3am, by which time I have started making breakfast for my husband, Rob. I give him a ‘Smiley Face’ of fruit, sometimes with strawberry surprise. I am not a coffee girl first thing and prefer juice as I’m a bit of a healthy type. I also make myself a bowl of fruit.

I leave home in the car at 4.15 with a driver and Bello, my beautiful Cavoodle [King Charles-Poodle cross]. The 20-minute journey to Randwick gives me the opportunity to do any paperwork and also speak to owners in America, England and Ireland. We have six yards at Randwick, as well as stables at Flemington, and by 4.45am I am out on the track with my co-trainer Adrian Bott to supervise the work.

Once the gallops are over the jockeys and riders come to the tower where we do the clocking and share their thoughts on how the horses went. We download the track work and send out what we call the ‘Track Flashers’ to their owners. That gives the owners the opportunity to see how their horses are; they can listen to the jockeys and riders and talk to us. We always like to keep owners well informed and give them a complete picture of their horses.

Winning the Melbourne Cup with Fiorente in 2013 has to be the highlight of my time training, mainly because it is such a prestigious race watched by millions upon millions around the world.

Also, many people try very hard to win the race every year and that makes it such a tough challenge.

Now the whole nation celebrates the event.

Opening the gates to

Training horses in Australia is ‘upside down’ compared to Britain but one who has got it right is GAI WATERHOUSE, a legend and pioneer who begins her act when many others are just going to bed overseas runners – with Dermot Weld’s Vintage Crop in 1993 becoming the first horse trained outside Australasia to win the Melbourne Cup – provided even more international recognition. The selling of TV rights has resulted in remarkable exposure, not to mention the $5 million purse.

I run Excess Knowledge in this year’s Melbourne Cup. He’s an English import who finished sixth in the race last year and is lightly weighted.

I’ve had him about two and a half years and it takes them time to acclimatise. People say why don’t you ring the English trainer [in this case John Gosden] and ask about the horse. But I tell them it’s as though we are training the horse upside down.

Everything you do in

England we do pretty well the opposite in Australia because the conditions are completely different.

When I started in the job 23 years ago the authorities were extremely reluctant to give women a licence – we had to fight a court battle. Now there is the Waterhouse Act, which states that women can be seen as equals in the workforce, and not as appendages of their husband or partner. It was a milestone for women.

Before I started training I was an actress and thought acting would be my life. But now I say to people I’ve never stopped acting because when you’re racing it’s like being on the stage with everyone cheering you on. In my business I need to dress up and be fashionable.

People come to the races and wonder what Gai’s going to be wearing, what sort of hat. It’s a very special occasion for my owners and I try and dress very elegantly for them.

Lunch is usually a crispbread with ham or smoked salmon and avocado, followed by a coffee or two and maybe a little chocolate slice. I am very focused on my meal breaks; I couldn’t maintain my energy levels without them. I am very sensible about my diet and try to keep fit around eating. I need to do that because of the long hours and on racedays I’ll have a big bowl of pasta to sustain my ‘getup-and-go’ right through to the end of racing.

There aren’t a lot of hours left when I’m away from the job and I find relaxing with my family most rewarding. My children Tom and Kate have two kids each and I quite simply enjoy time with them all. That’s my treat. I like to sit on the balcony at home and have a barbecue with Rob, and even doing a bit of gardening when time allows can be therapeutic.

I have a lady to prepare the evening meal between 6pm6.30pm, but I only window dress it. I did a cordon bleu course in London years ago and still enjoy cooking when I can.

When you get up at the hour we do, you’re pretty tired by early evening. So we are not regular theatre-goers but recently we went to a lecture on poets from Sicily University, which was interesting as Sicily is our favourite holiday destination.

I’m in bed by 9pm and quite a good sleeper. But at Carnival time I do get nervous and wake up worrying about the horses, wondering how I might tweak something for a bit of improvement.

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