Breeding on a Budget 2024 by RACING POST BLOODSTOCK

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BLOODSTOCK SPECIAL BREEDING ON A BUDGET

N COMPILING the tables for this supplement, the feeling was of more change and movement than usual. That seems like a positive thing, with additional options for breeders on a limited budget and the repurposing of some sires, albeit any who get shifted what might be considered too quickly from the Flat ranks is regrettable. There are some notable, indeed venerable, admissions to the £10,000/€12,500 or less category this year, one being Bated Breath. The 16-year-old Juddmonte stalwart has not been available at £10,000 since 2019, and while it is only right to admit he has just the one top-level winner notch on his bedpost, Viadera, he did cover a reasonable book last year – 83 according to the Return of Mares – at his career-high fee of £15,000. Any stallion would have their work cut out standing alongside Frankel, Kingman and now Chaldean, but Bated Breath is marketed as “the best-value sire of black-type performers in Britain”, and that’s simply the way to look at it. Darley often drop one or two reasonably big names into this supplement’s price bracket and this year is no exception, with Perfect Power (our Edward Whitaker-snapped cover star) standing his second season at £10,000, down from his introductory £15,000 last year, and Iffraaj eligible for inclusion for the first time since 2013, after receiving the same cut from 2023. Iffraaj – sire, of course, of Wootton Bassett and Ribchester, among others – turned 23 last month and covered a fairly modest 26 mares last year. If you like him, and plenty of breeders do, now might be the time to step up. Derby hero Masar is another Dalham Hall sire available at £10,000 this year, and this is the first time he has been included in this supplement since his retirement from racing in 2019. Darley and breeders who have used him will be hoping he breaks his Pattern-race duck sooner rather than later. He covered a book of 113 mares in 2023. Coolmore’s Magna Grecia is at the same stage of his stallion career and also eligible for the supplement for the first time, having stood for €15,000 last year. He’s another who could do with a breakout performer. ANDREW SCUTTS, BLOODSTOCK MANAGING EDITOR

Bargain

Martin Stevens runs the gamut, A-Z, of humbly bred

is for AZURE BLUE

Champion Big Rock is from the 17th crop of Rock Of Gibraltar bred at a fee of just €7,500

5yo gr m El KabeirSea Of Dreams (Oasis Dream) Bred by Debbie Kitchin and Mary Davison The conqueror of Highfield Princess in last year’s Duke of York Stakes is from the first crop of El Kabeir, who stood at only €8,000 in his first season at Yeomanstown Stud, but was actually in-utero when her dam was bought privately for a reasonable sum by her astute breeders.

5yo ch g Prince Of LirApproaching Autumn (New Approach) Bred by Lorna Doyle Last year’s Nunthorpe hero is the poster boy for bargain breeding and buying. He is by Prince Of Lir, who was standing at Ballyhane at a fee of €4,000 when he was bred, out of an unraced mare bought as a breeding prospect for 3,500gns, and was sold as a short yearling for €4,000.

is for BIG ROCK

4yo b c Rock Of Gibraltar-Hardiyna (Sea The Stars) Bred by Yeguada Centurion Who would have thought that the brilliant miler Rock Of Gibraltar, who covered blue-chip books of mares at lofty fees in his early years at stud but ultimately proved disappointing, would come up with a champion like Big Rock in his small 17th crop conceived at a cost of just €7,500?

is for COMMANCHE FALLS

7yo br g Lethal Force-Joyeaux (Mark Of Esteem) Bred by Redgate Bloodstock and Peter Bottomley The reliable sprinter is the result of Joyeaux, a multiple winner bought as a yearling for 25,000gns, visiting Lethal Force when he was standing his third season at Cheveley Park Stud at £10,000. The dam also bred tough cookie Dakota Gold to Equiano when he stood at just £8,000.

is for DILIGENT HARRY

6yo b g Due DiligenceHarryana To (Compton Place) Bred by Whitsbury Manor Stud Whitsbury Manor Stud showed the way with its former budget option Due Diligence by breeding this smart sprinter, who has earned more than £230,000 in prize-money, from him. He is out of a placed mare who was once an 11,000gns vendor buyback.

is for LIVE IN THE DREAM

is for EQUALITY

6yo b g EquianoPenny Drops (Invincible Spirit) Bred by Gary and Lesley Middlebrook Equiano was standing at Newsells Park Stud at the reasonable fee of £8,000 when he conceived Coral Charge winner Equality, one of his 14 Group or Graded winners. He is even cheaper now, available at the Irish National Stud for a mere €2,000.

is for FAIR ANGELLICA

3yo b f Harry AngelFair’s Fair (Lawman) Bred by Jarosa Stud A fine advertisement for Dalham Hall Stud resident Harry Angel, having won all of her three starts at two for Richard Hughes last year. The sire, who records creditable winners-to-runners ratios and has big crops in the pipeline, looks well priced at £10,000 this year.

is for GOLDEN TRICK

3yo ch c Galileo Gold-Duplicitous (Oasis Dream) Bred by McCracken Farms Galileo Gold, then standing at Tally-Ho Stud at a fee of €7,500, and Duplicitous, an unplaced daughter of Oasis Dream bought as a breeding prospect for 6,000gns, combined to create this colt,

who landed a near €150,000 pot in the Ballyhane Stakes last year.

is for HAATEM

3yo b c Phoenix Of Spain-Hard Walnut (Cape Cross) Bred by Hyde Park Stud Phoenix Of Spain distinguished himself as a first-crop sire to watch last year thanks to his useful 39 per cent winners-to-runners strike-rate, with Vintage Stakes winner Haatem his flagbearer. He might represent a bit of value at €10,000 at the Irish National Stud this year.

is for INDIAN RUN

3yo br c Sioux NationJust Wondering (Danehill Dancer) Bred by Ciaran McGrath on is now out of Sioux Natio reach to breeeders on a shoestring,, as his fee at Coolmore has h ascended to €27,500 on the backk of the his first exploits of h two crops cconceived at a cost of €12,500. Those earlyy ors ambassado include last mb year’s Acom Stakes winner Indian Run.

is for JASOUR

3yo gr c Havana GreyTwilight Thyme (Bahamian Bounty) Bred by Wardley Bloodstock Havana Grey has shown how breeders can hit the jackpot by taking a chance on a budget sire after his first season. Jasour, from the sire’s second crop covered at a fee of £6,500, sold as a yearling for £85,000 and won the July Stakes. His sire now commands a fee of £55,000.

is for KING CUAN

3yo b c TasleetRutherford (Dutch Art) Bred by Robin and Scarlett Knipe He might be by a sire who was standing his second season at £6 000 and ou out of a mare who £6,000 only 20,000gns in cost o spitee of being a dual nner, but he won win hree races at two th laast year, including he valuable Goffs th Sportsman’s S Challenge and C IIrish EBF Auction Series A Race Final. R Duke of York Stakes winner Azure Blue is from the ﬁrst crop of El Kabeir

is for MOSS TUCKER

6yo b g ExcelebrationRare Symphony (Pastoral Pursuits) Bred by Donal Spring Excelebration’s fee had dropped to €10,000 in his fifth season at Coolmore when Donal Spring sent him the winning hurdler Rare Symphony, once knocked down for just €3,200 – the result being last year’s Flying Five winner Moss Tucker.

is for NATIVE AMERICAN

3yo b c Sioux Nation-Pencarrow (Green Desert) Bred by Patricia Casement and Dean Harron The Tattersalls Ireland Super Auction Sales Race Stakes winner, another star from Sioux Nation’s second crop, is out of a well-bred Green Desert mare bought by joint-breeder Patricia Casement for just €8,500. He was able to be bought as a foal for the paltry sum of €12,000.

is for OH SO GRAND

4yo b f PostponedLady Zonda (Lion Cavern) Bred by Rabbah Bloodstock The recent Winter Oaks winner, who has more than £93,000 in the bank, doesn’t sound like the paragon of bargain breeding, as she is a half-sister to top-level heroine Hibaayeb by a multiple Group 1 winner. However, sire Postponed now stands at Yorton Farm at just £4,000.

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performers who wrote their name in lights on the track in 2023 €5,000, when he has shown with Prix Maurice de Gheest runner-up Spycatcher that he can get a high-class sprinter.

is for TIGER BELLE

3yo b f Cotai GloryDark Acclamation (Acclamation) Bred by Paul Giles The Prix d’Arenberg winner is one of ten black-type winners, along with Prix de l’Abbaye heroine The Platinum Queen, from the first three crops of Tally-Ho Stud resident Cotai Glory, who has foals resulting from bigger and better books to come and is still priced at €12,500.

Leading middle-distance talent Pyledriver is by Harbour Watch

is for PYLEDRIVER

7yo b h Harbour Watch-La Pyle (Le Havre) Bred by La Pyle Partnership We’re still scratching our heads at how precocious two-year-old sprinter Harbour Watch, generally a very disappointing sire, could have come up with such an outstanding middle-distance talent as Pyledriver from his fourth crop bred off a fee of £7,500.

is for QUEEN’S GUARD

3yo b f Havana GreySo Brave (Kyllachy) Bred by Carmel

Stud The promising Yarmouth maiden winner is yet another case study in the riches that awaited breeders who used Havana Grey in his

The unbeaten Vandeek is ﬂying the ﬂag for Havana Grey y

second season at a fee of £6,500. She was sold by Carmel Stud to Joe Foley for 125,000gns at Book 3 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale.

is for REGIONAL

6yo b g TerritoriesFavulusa (Dansili) Bred by Razza Del Sole The Haydock Sprint Cup winner, sold to current connections as a horse in training for a scarcely believable 3,500gns, is one of 15 Group/Graded winners to have emerged from the first four crops of Territories, who is standing at Dalham Hall Stud this year at a respectable £10,000.

is for SPYCATCHER

6yo b g VadamosDamask Damas (Red Cllubs) y-Ho Stud Bred by Tally There’s notthing to stop Flat broodmaare owners breeding to race Vadamos using V n though even he stands at umps ju peration op Grange G Sttud at a fee of

is for UP THE MANOR

3yo b c Soldier’s Call-Quick Recovery (Lethal Force) Bred by Trickledown Stud Carrington Bloodstock’s £20,000 breeze-up purchase and Doncaster novice stakes winner-turned Windsor Castle Stakes fourth was one of the highlights among the first two-year-old runners by Soldier’s Call, who is new to Dullingham Park at a fee of £8,500 this year.

is for VANDEEK

3yo gr c Havana Grey-Mosa Mine (Exceed And Excel) Bred by Maywood Stud The unbeaten Prix Morny and Middle Park Stakes winner, who became a first elite-level winner for Havana Grey, represents an exceptional feat of bargain breeding by Maywood Stud. The Carmarthenshire farm bought back his placed dam Mosa Mine for just £800 at the horses in training sales.

Tamayuz, when the source of multiple Group 1 winners was standing at a fee of €10,000.

is for XCITATIONS

9yo b g UniversalBonnet’s Pieces (Alderbook) Bred by Pam Sly Universal, who stands at Plumton Hall Stud at a private but presumably very reasonable fee, hasn’t fared too badly at all despite delivering small, cheaply bred crops. Xcitations (right), a seven-time winner over jumps with £97,000 in earnings, is one of the chief exponents of his powers.

is for YOKOHAMA

3yo b c Make Believe-Am I (Thunder Gulch) Bred by Patrick Hayes and Make Believe Syndicate Make Believe, a €10,000 option at Ballylinch Stud, came up with the magnificent Mishriff in his first crop but is no one-hit wonder, as shown by top-notchers including Believe In Love and Rose Of Kildare

CLASSIC WINNER, CLASSIC SIRE

is for ZIGGY’S CONDOR

3yo br g Havana Grey-Dolly Colman (Diamond Green) Bred by Ballyhane Stud Another second-crop success story for Havana Grey, the Goffs UK Harry Beeby Premier Yearling Stakes runner-up is out of modest winner Dolly Colman, bought as a breeding prospect for 20,000gns, and was a €33,000 foal resold for £62,000 as a yearling.

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3yo b f TamayuzLuang Prabang (Invincible Spirit) Bred by Des Thurlby The earner of £150,000 in prize-money thanks to back-to-back wins in valuable sales races serves as a reminder to disregard veteran sires at your peril. She is from the 12th crop of

– and the likes of once-raced winner Yokohama.

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BLOODSTOCK SPECIAL BREEDING ON A BUDGET Golden Horn (right), who is now based at Overbury Stud, at the Dalham Hall Stud stallion parade in 2016; Haskoy (below), one of the sire’s Pattern-winning sons; Harry Angel looks out from his barn at Dalham Hall

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IRST, the bad news. Almost all of the leading sires by the Racing Post’s invaluable metric of percentage of runners with a Racing Post Rating of at least 80 are priced out of reach of breeders on a budget, or are overseas or deceased. As so often in life, you tend to get what you pay for in the stallion business. But now the good news. There are plenty of sires standing in Britain and Ireland this year at fees of £10,000/€12,500 or less with at least 30 per cent of their runners awarded an RPR of 80-plus on these shores in 2023. That’s the sort of level required to win a useful maiden, or compete in higher-class handicaps, so allows the hope of earning better prize-money or a profitable sale. Golden Horn is the leader

in this category, with 44 of his 102 runners – an admirable 43 per cent – hitting or surpassing a mark of 80. They included Pattern winners Caius Chorister, Gregory, Haskoy and Trawlerman, but not Italian Derby victor Goldenas, as he raced solely overseas, so the sire’s efforts can be upgraded. It is worth remembering that Golden Horn’s early representatives are the results of strong books of mares covered at fees between £40,000 and £60,000, so his record is boosted by mare power, but that is factored into his much lower covering fee of £10,000 at Overbury Stud this season. He should do breeders some good turns. Awtaad’s position as the thinking man and woman’s bargain sire is confirmed in these statistics. He managed a highly creditable 40 per cent strike-rate of runners rated at least 80 in Britain and Ireland last year, for 33 out of 82. They included top-notchers Anmaat and Al Qareem, classy handicappers Austrian Theory, Isla Kai and Solent Gateway,

and exciting maiden or novice winners Kamboo, Katola and Tannola. Outside of this table, he also had Anisette and Diamil shine on the world stage. That has all been achieved from books of mares covered at Derrinstown Stud for no more than €15,000. He is a no-brainer at a mere €5,000 at the same farm this year. Harry Angel has distinguished himself as a winner machine with his first two crops in Europe. It’s fair to say he could do with a headliner, as Group 3 scorers Al Dasim and Marshman are his highest-ranking northern hemisphere-bred Pattern performers (he has a Group 1 winner in Australia in Tom Kitten), but he did produce horses rated at least 80 in Britain and Ireland last year at a decent clip of 37 per cent. That haul included a couple of two-year-old fillies who were unbeaten in five starts between them, in A Lilac Rolla and Fair Angellica, so there is plenty to look forward to. All in all, a price of £10,000 Continues page 6

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ANISETTE

Sire of 2023’s Gr.1 Del Mar Oaks and Gr.1 American Oaks victor Anisette and Gr.1 Prix d’Ispahan hero Anmaat

ANMAAT (right)

Ireland’s best value sire Standing at Derrinstown Stud, Ireland Contact Stephen Collins, Joe Behan or Kay Skehan: +353 (0) 1 6286228 | nominations@derrinstown.com View our stallion roster: www.shadwellstud.com

Other highlights last year inc. two Gr.3 winners and a Listed winner. His daughter Primo Bacio also sold for 1,100,000gns in the Sceptre Sessions at Tattersalls.

€5,000 January 1st SLF

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for his services at Dalham Hall Stud this year seems fair. Dual Derby hero Harzand didn’t do enough with his Flat-bred offspring to maintain his position on the roster at Gilltown Stud alongside his legendary sire Sea The Stars, but he was no write-off either, as shown by Weld Park Stakes winner Caught U Looking and progressive handicapper In The Breeze. They were among the seven rated at least 80 in Britain and Ireland last year from 19 runners, giving their sire a smart 37 per cent strike-rate in this department. He is now standing in a dual-purpose role at Kilbarry Lodge Stud at an undisclosed fee that is presumably close to the €5,000 at which he was advertised when he was new to the County Waterford operation last year. Vadamos is in a similar situation to Harzand, having had his sights switched from Flat to dual purpose a few seasons ago, and also having come up with some very decent horses on the level last year, Prix Maurice de Gheest runner-up Spycatcher and Daisy Warwick Fillies’ Stakes winner Luisa Casati in his case. The son of Monsun achieved a 33 per cent strike-rate of runners rated at least 80, so is ignored by Flat breeders at their peril, especially as his fee at Grange Stud is just €5,000, which allows plenty of room for profit. Holy Roman Emperor has proved time and time again he can get one out of the top drawer – think Designs On Rome, Homecoming Queen, Romanised etc – and he checked in with a useful 34 per cent 80-plus rated horses to runners again last year. His flagbearers on the home front were Conqueror Stakes winner Roman Mist, Curragh Listed scorer Vischio and classy handicapper Atrium, but it is high-earning international exports that have long been his stock-in-trade and he delivered dual Australian Group 1 runner-up

Harzand is shown to visitors at Gilltown Stud in 2019 but now stands as a dual-purpose sire at Kilbarry Lodge Stud; (top right) Derrinstown Stud’s Awtaad will stand for a paltry €5,000 this year; (bottom right) Calyx struts his stuff in his paddock at Coolmore

Numerian and a bundle of Hong Kong scorers again. Holy Roman Emperor must be one of the most reliable options for starting off a young mare and he’s even cheaper at Castle Hyde Stud this year, at €8,000. Ulysses (32 per cent runners rated 80 or higher in 2023) is attractively priced at £9,000 at Cheveley Park Stud for a sire who gets horses able to compete in the middle-distance Classics like Piz Badile and White Birch, and a very capable miler in Mighty Ulysses. He also has a lot of lightly raced winning three-year-olds on his team, like Feigning Madness, Goodwood Odyssey and Hebridean Nomad.

Praiseworthy figures of 31 per cent runners rated 80 or higher in 2023 belonged to newcomer Calyx, stalwart Raven’s Pass and one in between in Belardo, who has sizeable crops to come through. All are worthy of consideration this year. As are Bated Breath, Mayson and Rajasinghe, who are all on 30 per cent and deserve patronage at their reasonable fees. They all beat some noteworthy names who command much higher fees. It’s worth keeping an eye on the table, to be found on the Racing Post statistics page, to find out which sires’ output actually boasts strength in depth.

Leading budget stallions* by percentage of runners with a Racing Post Rating of 80 or more in 2023 Stallion

Runners

No. RPR≥80

Stud

2024 fee

Golden Horn

102

Overbury, UK

£10,000

Awtaad

Derrinstown, Ire

€5,000

Harry Angel

Dalham Hall, UK

£10,000

Harzand

Kilbarry Lodge, Ire

€5,000

Holy Roman Emperor

Coolmore, Ire

€8,000

Vadamos

Coolmore NH, Ire

€5,000

Ulysses

105

Cheveley Park, UK

£9,000

Belardo

Bearstone, UK

£5,500

Calyx

Coolmore, Ire

€12,500

Raven’s Pass

Kildangan, Ire

€7,500

Bated Breath

105

Banstead Manor, UK

£10,000

Mayson

113

Oak Lodge, Ire

€4,250

Rajasinghe

National, UK

£3,000

*Stallions standing in UK & Ire for £10,000/€12,500 or less in 2024

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BLOODSTOCK SPECIAL BREEDING ON A BUDGET Triple Time (left), a Group 1 winner by Frankel, is new to Dalham Hall Stud in 2024; Hurricane Lane (right) puts his rivals to the sword in the 2021 St Leger; (far right) Group 1-winning juvenile Dubai Mile is from the sole crop of the late Roaring Lion

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As a Group 1-winning miler by the reigning champion sire, it’s a surprise that Triple Time can be classified as a bargain stallion but the Royal Ascot winner sneaks into this at the upper limit of our bracket. New to Dalham Hall for 2024, and one of 33 individual Group 1 winners by Frankel, Triple Time achieved a Racing Post Rating of 123 when earning that Group 1 accolade in the Queen Anne Stakes last June. That victory was the highlight of an eight-race career that yielded four wins and two placings. Out at the start of June as a juvenile, Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum’s homebred won a mile maiden at Haydock in August and returned to the track in September to claim the Listed Ascendant Stakes. He wasn’t seen for a year before making a winning reappearance at three in the Group 3 Superior Mile Stakes at what must have been Triple Time’s favourite track. In four visits to Haydock, he won three times and was second on the other occasion. A successful seasonal debut as a four-year-old was an audacious one – winning the Queen Anne on his first attempt at a Group 1. He made one further start last season, finishing fifth in the Prix Jacques le Marois. Inbred 3x3 to the full-brothers Sadler’s Wells and Fairy King, Triple Time is

out of the winning Mark Of Esteem mare Reem Three, who has excelled herself as a broodmare. Now the dam of eight winners from nine runners, she has foaled two Group 1 winners by sons of Galileo – her first, the Prix Jean Romanet winner Ajman Princess, is by Teofilo. Her two visits to another son of Galileo, the Derby winner New Approach, have produced Group 2 winner Ostilio and the unraced Rosaline, the dam of last season’s Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere winner Rosallion. The Listed-placed Reem Three is also the dam of Group 3 winner Cape Byron, the Listed winners Third Realm and Captain Winters, and the Group 1 third Imperial Charm, a daughter of Dubawi. Whitsbury Manor launches the stallion career of another high-class sprinter in Dragon Symbol, who was placed in three Group 1s at three and was first past the post in the Commonwealth Cup. Unraced at two, Dragon Symbol made up for lost time at three, making a winning debut on March 1 and racking up a sequence of four wins in the space of two months for trainer Archie Watson. On his first foray into Group company in the Sandy Lane Stakes, he failed by a nose to catch Rohan. That set him up for Royal Ascot, but the stewards intervened and reversed the placings with Campanelle. He

was then runner-up to Starman in the July Cup and filled the same position in the Group 2 King George Stakes. Dragon Symbol was third to Winter Power and Emaraaty Ana in the Sprint Cup and fourth in the Flying Five at the Curragh. He ran 11 times as a three-year-old and only once finished out of the first four, displaying tenacity and consistency. At four he won over five furlongs at Hamilton and was second in the Listed Achilles Stakes for the Roger Varian stable, finishing his career with five wins and six places from 17 starts. The Harper family have masterminded the stud careers of Showcasing and Havana Grey, who Dragon Symbol

programmes, just as his dam and broodmare sire Teofilo are, while his sire New Approach was bought by the master trainer as a yearling and guided to Europe’s champion two- and three-year-old crowns. A son and grandson of champion juveniles, Mac Swiney (below) was a classy two-year-old himself, winning the Group 2 Futurity Stakes at the Curragh before his impeccably timed victory in the Group 1 Futurity Trophy at Doncaster on the centenary of Terence MacSwiney’s death. At the Curragh he beat stablemate and homebred 2,000 Guineas winner Poetic Flare in the Irish 2,000 Guineas, and was fourth to Adayar in the Derby. He finished the season with a

joins in Hampshire along with first-season sire Sergei Prokofiev. Standing for £8,000, Dragon Symbol, a son of Cable Bay, is the first foal out of Arcamist, who was bred by Whitsbury Manor in partnership and is a winning Arcano three-parts sister to Listed Cleeves Stakes winner Oasis Dancer and a half-sister to Swedish Listed winner Smart Enough. Her Dansili half-sister Funny Enough is the dam of Listed-winning sprinters Laugh A Minute and Funny Story, and the Group 3-placed Endless Joy. The Irish National Stud’s new boy for 2024 is a Classic winner with a fascinating pedigree. Mac Swiney is another product of Jim Bolger’s breeding and training

New stallions standing in Britain and Ireland for £10,000/€12,500 or less Name Age Sire Amhran Na Bhfiann 7 Galileo

Stud Knockhouse, Ire

Fee €1,500

Asymmetric

Showcasing

Ballyhane, Ire

€7,000

Bolshoi Ballet

Galileo

Coolmore NH, Ire

€3,000

Bouttemont

Acclamation

Rathbarry, Ire

€5,000

Castle Star

Starspangledbanner

Capital, Ire

€5,000

Dragon Symbol

Cable Bay

Whitsbury Manor, UK

£8,000

Dubai Mile

Roaring Lion

Manton Park, UK

£7,500

El Caballo

Havana Gold

Culworth Grounds, UK

£6,000

Hurricane Lane

Frankel

Coolmore NH, Ire

€6,000 0

Kenway

Galiway

Coolagown, Ire

€3,000 0

Mac Swiney

New Approach

Irish National, Ire

€8,000 0

Marie’s Diamond

Footstepsinthesand

Diamond Stud, Ire

€6,000 0

Midnight Sands

Speightstown

Norton Grove, UK

£2,500 0

Mojo Star

Sea The Stars

Whytemount, Ire

Mutasaabeq

Invincible Spirit

National, UK

0 £6,500

Oriental Eagle

Campanologist

Meelin, Ire

€1,000 0

Pyledriver

Harbour Watch

Coolmore NH, Ire

€4,000 0

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Teofilo

Alne Park, UK

0 £4,000

The Antarctic

Dark Angel

Coolmore, Ire

€6,000 0

Triple Time

Frankel

Dalham Hall, UK

0 £10,000

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third to Sealiway in the Champion Stakes, ahead of Mishriff, Adayar and Addeybb. He attained an RPR of 115 as a two-year-old and bettered that at Ascot at three. Mac Swiney, who opens at €8,000, is out of Halla Na Saoire, an unraced full-sister to the Derrinstown Derby Trial winner Light Heavy, who was third to Camelot in the Irish Derby. She is also a three-parts sister to Teofilo’s Dewhurst Stakes winner Parish Hall. A lot rests on Manton Park Stallions’ new sire Dubai Mile, not least the legacy of his sire Roaring Lion, who had just one crop before his untimely death. The Group 1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud winner and Royal Lodge runner-up is one of four black-type winners from that sole crop of the beautiful son of Kitten’s Joy, who was a quadruple Group 1 winner at three, including in the Eclipse and Irish Champion Stakes. Dubai Mile stands for £7,500 and was trained by the Johnstons to win three of his five starts at two, including that success in Paris over Arrest. Last season he ran four times and was fourth in the King Edward VII Stakes to King O Steel. Of The striking chestnut was brred by the late Lady O’Reilly from her Listed Dance Design Sttakes winner and Group 1 Prretty Polly Stakes second Beeach Bunny. The daughter of H High Chaparral is the dam of Liisted Cammidge Trophy and G Garrowby Stakes winner N Naadirr and Beach Belle. That In nvincible Spirit mare won a Liisted juvenile contest at Naas an nd was fourth in the Group 1 Ph Phoenix Stakes, and is now the

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make mark dam of Australian Group 2 winner Surf Dancer. It’s a strong female line: Beach Bunny’s dam Miss Hawai is an unraced half-sister to 1,000 Guineas winner Miss France out of the Prix Marcel Boussac winner Miss Tahiti, who was placed in the Prix de Diane, Prix Saint-Alary and Prix Vermeille. Ballyhane Stud provided one of Steve Parkin’s sons of Showcasing with the perfect base to start his stallion career and the team will hope to repeat the trick with another, the Richmond Stakes winner and Prix Morny third Asymmetric. Successful in four of his 12 starts over three seasons, Asymmetric (below) won the Listed Prix du Cercle at Deauville last August and was third in the Group 3 Prix du Petit Couvert. The 150,000gns yearling was bred by Redpender Stud and is the first foal outt off Swirral Edge, twice successfu ul at two. Her second foal is last season’s Group 3 Prix de Meautry winner Mill Ridge. Her oldest so on has been introduced duced to Irish breeders at €7,000 and has a fast female line. Swirral Edge is a half-sister to Listed winner Fashion Queen, by another son of Oasis Dream in Aqlaam. Fashion Queen has produced Italian Listed winner Noble Title. They are out of Pizarra, a Shamardal half-sister to Flying Childers winner Wunders Dream and Ridgewood Pearl Stakes winner Grecian Dancer.

Both mares are the dams of stakes winners. The National Hunt ranks of sires in Ireland and Britain this season have been swelled by the addition of four individual Group 1 winners; three of them at Coolmore’s Irish farms. Grange Stud welcomes dual Classic winner Hurricane Lane for the 2024 breeding season and the St Leger, Irish Derby and Grand Prix de Paris winner is advertised at €6,000. The son of Frankel was also third to Adayar in the Derby and filled the same position behind Torquator Tasso and Tarnawa in a thrilling finish to the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe. Also successful in the Dante Stakes at three, he added the Group 2 Jockey Club Stakes to his list of wins last season. Bred by Normandie Stud, Hurricane Lane was a 200,000gns Book 1 purchase ffor G dolphin. His dam, Godo Gale Force, won the Lissted Prix Denisy and has also foaled the Group 2-placed G stayer Sweet William s and a Listed second Frankel’s Storm. F She is a Shirocco halff-sister to Group 1 h Champions Fillies British & Mares Stakes winner Seal S Of Approval and the family includes the Derby and Irish Derby hero Harzand, now a National Hunt sire. The Beeches Stud has added King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and Coronation Cup winner Pyledriver, and Bolshoi Ballet to their roster. Pyledriver has an advertised fee of €5,000 and the son of Harbour Watch was

“CASTLE STAR WAS A VERY CONSISTENT 2YO, BY EUROPEAN CHAMPION SPRINTER STARSPANGLEDBANNER.

✪ STAR VALUE ✪ Hurricane Lane Combining Frankel and Shirocco with an Aga Khan pedigree that includes Harzand, he is an intriguing option for Irish National Hunt breeders Kenway The first son of Galiway to retire to stud in Ireland, he stands at Coolagown in partnership with his owners, the Chehboub family, who stand Sealiway and Ace Impact at their Haras de Beaumont. The Group 3 Prix la Rochette winner is bred on the same Galiway-Kendargent cross as Sealiway The Antarctic Standing at Coolmore’s Castle Hyde, this Group 3-winning sprinter at two and three was also twice placed in Group 1 company as a juvenile. By Dark Angel, he is a full-brother to Battaash, one of the best sprinters of the past decade a tough and talented performer, running 20 times over five seasons. His eight successes included the Listed Ascendant Stakes as a two-year-old. At three he won the King Edward VII and Great Voltigeur Stakes, and was third in the St Leger. His final success came last season, at six, in Royal Ascot’s Hardwicke Stakes. In addition to his two top-level triumphs, he was also placed in the Hong Kong Vase and in defence of the Coronation Cup. He is the first foal out of La Continues page 10

CON MARNANE

“HE IS A STRONG BODIED HORSE WITH A LOT OF PRESENCE AND SPEED! I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO USING HIM.”

“THE CLASSY CASTLE STAR HAS ALL THE HALLMARKS OF AN APPEALING COMMERCIAL OPTION... BY A HOT STALLION? CHECK. GROUP 1 FORM AT TWO? CHECK. AND THE LOOKS TO MATCH? CHECK. “UNSURPRISINGLY PLENTY OF BREEDERS HAD OPENED THEIR CHEQUE BOOKS AND BOUGHT NOMINATIONS OR BREEDING RIGHTS AFTER ENCOUNTERING CASTLE STAR ON THE TRAIL.”

JAMES THOMAS, GOOD MORNING BLOODSTOCK

“HE WAS SUCH A PRECOCIOUS TWO-YEAR-OLD. HE RAN 7 TIMES, WAS ONLY ONCE OUT OF THE FIRST TWO, WHEN FINISHING FOURTH IN THE GR.1 PHOENIX STAKES AND FINISHED RUNNERUP IN GR.1 MIDDLE PARK.

JOHN BOURKE

“I WILL DEFINITELY BE USING CASTLE STAR, I’M REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO BREEZING HIS STOCK.”

CAPITAL STUD

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Ballyhane Stud’s Space Traveller set to be going places judged on popularity with breeders From page 9

Pyle, a Le Havre full-sister to Group 3 Park Express Stakes winner Normandel and half-sister to Grand Prix de Paris winner Mont Ormel (renamed Helene Charisma when sold to Hong Kong). Her half-sister Lillebonne is the dam of three Listed winners and they are out of Lidana, a King’s Best half-sister to the European Group 1 winner Linngari. Bolshoi Ballet (right), who standss for €3,000, was a dual turf Grade 1 winner for Aidan O’Brien and the Coolmore team, and won both of Leopardstown’s Group 3 Derby triaals. A son of the incomparable Galileo, he is a full-brother to Australian Group 2 winner Southern France, who was third in the St Leger and Irish St Leger. Their unraced dam Alta Anna is a Anabaa half-sister to the Group 3 winner and Prix de Diane second Abbatiale, who is the dam of Group 3 winner Bewitched, in turn the dam of Pablo Escobarr and Roberto Escobarr, both Group 3 winners by Galileo. Subjectivist is an exciting recruit for Alne Park Stud and his owner, Dr Jim Walker, told the Racing Post over Christmas he had bought a mare to send

to his Gold Cup winner, who stands for £4,000. By Teofilo, Subjectivist was victorious in Royal Ascot’s showpiece race and the Prix Royal-Oak at Group 1 level. He also won the Dubai Gold Cup, March Stakes and Glasgow Stakes, and in all won or placed in 14 of his 20 starts. He made a remarkable comeback from injury last season,, his third in the Gold Cup revviving memories of hiis glory days. He is closely reelated to multiple Group 2 m winner Sir Ron w Priestley, who P allso won the Maarch Stakes, and is at stud in France. Theyy are two of the five winners out of Reckoning, a daughter of Danehill Dancer who was placed in three Listed contests at three. His family includes National Hunt stallions. Sholokhov is a full-brother to Subjectivist’s third dam Aspiration, while their Erins Isle half-sister Affianced is the dam of Soldier Of Fortune, another Group 1 winner. Group winner and Group 1-placed Marie’s Diamond, by Footstepsinthesand, starts out at €6,000 at Ciaran De Barras’s Diamond Stud Bellewstown, and there’s the carrot of a €25,000 breeders’ bonus

Ascot Gold Cup hero Subjectivist is an exciting new recruit to Alne Park Stud; Perfect Power (right), a three-time Group 1 winner by Ardad, gets his every need catered for at Dalham Hall Stud

First-crop foal stallions standing in Britain and Ireland for £10,000/€12,500 or less Name Caturra

Age 5

Sire Mehmas

Stud Overbury, UK

Fee £5,000

No. covered in 2023 109

Dubawi Legend

Dubawi

Starfield, Ire

€6,000

122

Foment

Frankel

Universal, UK

£1,000

Ilaraab

Wootton Bassett

Old Road, Ire

€2,500

Midnights Legacy

Midnight Legend

Alne Park, UK

£3,000

Naval Crown

Dubawi

Kildangan, Ire

€10,000

119

Perfect Power

Ardad

Dalham Hall, UK

£10,000

100

Persian Force

Mehmas

Tally-Ho, Ire

€8,000

133

Space Traveller

Bated Breath

Ballyhane, Ire

€6,500

186

Stradivarius

Sea The Stars

National, UK

£10,000

120

Waldkonig

Kingman

Knockhouse, Ire

€1,500

Wells Farhh Go

Farhh

Norton Grove, UK

£2,500

– €10,000 to the breeder of his first juvenile winner in Britain or Ireland, and €15,000 to the breeder of his first Group winner in Britain or Ireland. AISLING CROWE

FIRST FOALS OF 2024

Visitors to Ballyhane Stud last winter and spring were wowed

YEAR TWOIS THEYEAR TO...

by the handsome good looks of the Carlow farm’s new sire for 2023 and sent Space Traveller the largest book of mares of any stallion in this cohort. The Royal Ascot winner by Bated Breath covered 186 mares in his first season, a considerably larger number than any other sire within these parameters.

Successful over five furlongs at two and second in the Group 3 Prix Eclipse, Space Traveller won the Jersey Stakes at three and went on to win the Group 2 Boomerang Stakes, sponsored by owner Steve Parkin’s Clipper Logistics, on Irish Champions Weekend. At five and six he was placed three times in Grade 1

company, with his final start yielding second place in the Frank E Kilroe Mile at Santa Anita. With Galileo and Kingmambo as the sires of his dam and second dam respectively, he has strong influences on his female line. His page received an update, too, with Pellucid, his Group 3-placed half-sister, producing last season’s Horris Hill Stakes winner Orne, while at the yearling sales Orne’s full-brother made €280,000 to the Hong Kong Jockey Club at Goffs Orby, the highest price for an Acclamation yearling in 2023. Standing at an unchanged €6,500, he is a grandson of Snow Crystal, who is a half-sister to the Fillies’ Mile winner Crystal Music, who was also placed in the 1,000 Guineas and Coronation Stakes. Snow Crystal is also a half-sister to the Group 3 winners State Crystal and Solar Crystal, who were both Group 1-placed.

“I’m a massive fan” NICK BRADLEY

The second-crop yearlings by ARDAD and 6x fee 9x fee MEHMAS made much more than their first. CATURRA The f lying Mehmas from

“Has to be used” TOM BLAIN

the team behind Ardad.

Call Simon Sweeting on 07796 174926 or 01386 725552.

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Darley’s duo of Naval Crown and Perfect Power are new entrants in this supplement having received fee reductions ahead of their second seasons. Perfect Power stands at Dalham Hall Stud, where he covered 100 mares last year, and this season has been competitively priced at £10,000. The triple Group 1 winner provided his sire Ardad with the perfect start to his stud career, as the Middle Park, Prix Morny and Norfolk Stakes winner arrived in his first crop. Bred, like his sire, by Tally-Ho Stud, he was a £110,000 purchase at the Goff ffs UK Breeze-Up Sale in Doncaster by Blandford Bloodstock on behalf of Sheikh Rashid Dalmook Al Maktoum. Sent into training with Richard Fahey, coincidentally the trainer of Space Traveller, he made an immediate impact at Royal Ascot in the Norfolk and bounced back from Goodwood disappointment to earn a brace of Group 1 successes. At three, victory in the Greenham Stakes opened up the possibility of the 2,000 Guineas but his pure speed and power were that of a sprinter. He proved that at Royal Ascot when victorious in the Commonwealth Cup, flying home from last to land the third Group 1 win of his career. He is the first runner out of his dam Sagely, a winning daughter of the German 2,000 Guineas winner Frozen Power, who is an Oasis Dream half-brother to Finsceal Beo. Sagely’s second foal is the

Galileo Gold colt Golden Mind, who was runner-up in last season’s Listed Chesham Stakes. Sagely is a half-sister to Listed Upavon Stakes winner Sagaciously, dam of Listed winner and Group 3-placed Epic Poet. Third dam Saga D’Ouilly is a Linamix full-sister to Arc hero Sagamix and Group 2 winner Sage Et Jolie, the dam of Sageburg, who was successful in the Prix d’Ispahan. Her Danehill half-sister is Shastye, dam of the Group 1 winners and sires Japan and Mogul, among five black-type winning offspring. Dubawi’s Platinum Jubilee Stakes St k w winner Naval Crow wn (left) stands at Kildangan K Stud fo or €10,000 this y year, having c covered 119 m mares in his first s season. A fourthgen neration homeebred for Sheikh Mohamm Mohammed, the son of Listed Prix Amandine winner Come Alive earned an RPR of 121 for his sprint success as a four-year-old but was a classy performer from the start. As a juvenile he was third in a pair of French Group 3s; the Prix Thomas Bryon and Prix la Rochette, and filled the same position in the Listed Pat Eddery Stakes. At three he won the Listed Meydan Classic and was second in the Jersey Stakes and Free Handicap, and fourth in the 2,000 Guineas. He won the Group 2 Al Fahidi Fort on his first start at four and then, dropped down in distance for the Group 1 Al Quoz Sprint, he finished fourth. To Royal Ascot for the Platinum Jubilee and Naval Crown earned his Group 1

stripes in style, grabbing glory from Creative Force in the final strides. He followed that up with a second behind Alcohol Free in the July Cup. His younger Lope De Vega half-sister Spring Promise was a Listed winner at three last season in Germany for Alex Pantall and they are the only two runners out of Come Alive, by Dansili. Their second dam, Portrayal, by Saint Ballado, won the Listed Severals Stakes at three and was a talented juvenile, finishing placed in the Prix Robert Papin and Prix d’Aumale for Saeed bin Suroor. She is also the dam of Belle Boyd, by Oasis Dream, who was Listed-placed at around a mile. Third dam True Glory, by In The Wings, is a daughter of the excellent Kilfrush broodmare Truly Special. True Glory is a three-parts sister to Wareed and a half-sister to EP Taylor Stakes winner Truly A Dream, second dam of Soul Sister. Another half-sister, Solo De Lune, is the dam of Group 1 winners Cerulean Sky and Moonstone, and the Group 1-placed L’Ancresse. The iconic Stradivarius remains on £10,000 for his second season at the National Stud, having attracted a book of 120 mares in 2023. With a peak RPR of 125 and seven Group 1 victories, including a record four in the Goodwood Cup, Stradivarius is also a son of one of Europe’s best sires, Sea The Stars. Longevity and tenacity were two of the hallmarks of a career that spanned seven seasons and encompassed 35 starts. Successful in 20 of those, including as a juvenile, Stradivarius developed from a classy handicapper into a Group 1 winner as a three-year-old, landing the

first of his Goodwood Cups having been successful in the Queen’s Vase. He was also third in the St Leger and British Champions Long Distance Cup.

His unbeaten season as a four-year-old included the first of three Gold Cup triumphs at Royal Ascot and a second Goodwood Cup, earning him the Weatherbys Hamilton

Stayers’ Bonus of £1 million, which he would claim again the following season. Bjorn Nielsen’s homebred was crowned champion stayer Continues page 12

BOUTTEMONT NEW FOR 2024

THE FASTEST-EVER SON OF ACCLAMATION TO RETIRE TO STUD Dual Stakes Winning Son of Acclamation - His First Son to Retire to Stud in Ireland since Mehmas in 2017

‘Bouttemont is a particularly good-looking horse that is strikingly similar to Acclamation and has the same wonderful temperament’ Paul Cashman of Rathbarry Stud

‘Acclamation’s record as a sire-of-sires is a statistical sensation’ TDN July 2023

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at the Cartier Awards three times. Stradivarius is a half-brother to dual Group 3 winner Persian Storm, by Monsun, and out of Private Life, a Listed-placed daughter of Bering. Incidentally, the Prix du Jockey Club winner is also the broodmare sire of 2022’s champion two-year-old Little Big Bear. It is a deep Wildenstein family; Private Life, a half-sister to the dam of Melbourne Cup winner Protectionist, is a granddaughter of champion Pawneese. In contrast to Stradivarius, Persian Force blazed across just one summer, but his exploits were enough to earn him a place alongside his sire Mehmas at Tally-Ho, where in 2023 he covered 133 mares at a fee of €10,000. His fee for this season has been trimmed to €8,000. His form is remarkably similar to that of his sire, who stands this year for €50,000; both horses won the July Stakes and were second in the Coventry and third in the Middle Park. Persian Force was also second in the Phoenix Stakes and Prix Morny. Persian Force began his career with victory in the Brocklesby and ended it when fourth in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint. His year older full-brother Gubbass was third in the Richmond Stakes and the King Charles II Stakes. They have a three-year-old half-brother by Inns Of Court named Manhattan Mirage, who was placed on both his starts at two for Persian Force’s owners Amo Racing. Their dam Vida Amorosa was sold for 700,000gns at the Sceptre Sessions in December to Charlie Gordon-Watson carrying a full-sibling to Persian Force and Gubbass. She is a Lope De Vega half-sister to Queen Of Power, dam of the multiple Group 3 winner Garrus, who is by Mehmas’s sire Acclamation. The family is that of leading sire and excellent broodmare sire Danehill Dancer. Caturra was the first son of Mehmas to retire to stud in Britain and he was received very well by breeders, who sent 109 mares to the Group 2 Flying Childers winner at Overbury Stud, where the team has successfully launched the career of Ardad, sire of Perfect Power. Again, his fee has been trimmed slightly, to £5,000, for the 2024 season. The 110,000gns Book 2 purchase by Blandford Bloodstock was trained by Clive Cox and, like Persian Force, was a tough and talented juvenile, running eight times in his debut season. Those eight runs yielded victory in the Listed Rose Bowl Stakes in addition

Multiple Group 1-winning stayer Stradivarius takes in his new surroundings at the National Stud; Yeomanstown Stud’s Supremacy (right) offers the speed and precocity the market so covets; (far right) Caturra, in his racing pomp, was the ﬁrst son of Mehmas to retire to stud in Britain

Persian Force’s form is akin to that of his sire, who stands for a €50,000 fee to his Flying Childers success. He was also second in the Listed Julia Graves Roses Stakes. At three, he raced seven times and earned podium positions in three more black-type contests. Caturra was runner-up in the Group 3 Prix Sigy and third in the Group 2 King George Stakes and the Listed Scurry Stakes. He is out of the Listed Empress Stakes second Shoshoni Wind, by Sleeping Indian, and she is also the dam of Qatar Derby third Sir Arthur Dayne. Her three-year-old Inns Of Court colt Speeding Bullet won at Newmarket last season for Richard Hannon and King Power Racing. Caturra’s full-sister made 400,000gns at Book 1 in October, when she was purchased by Jamie McCalmont from breeders Tally-Ho Stud. The family goes back to the Group 1 and Classic winners Mi Emma and Classic Cliche, and also includes multiple Japanese Group 1 winner Satono Crown and Al Riffa, who won the National Stakes for Joseph O’Brien. Dubawi Legend was an exciting recruit for Starfield Stud last year and breeders certainly seemed to agree,

✪ STAR VALUE ✪ Naval Crown A Group 1 sprinter by Dubawi and available for £10,000? Darley’s young sire represents value and has a pedigree free of Galileo, making him ideal for variations on that successful cross Space Traveller (below) The Royal Ascot winner by Bated Breath has become only more handsome since retiring to Ballyhane and impressed breeders who sent him mares in their droves for his first season Stradivarius Multiple Group 1 winner by Sea The Stars has lost none of his allure. His first foals seem to be in his image and if they also inherit his athleticism and constitution, those ose breeders’ bo onuses will be wo on

sending the Group 3 winner by 2022 champion sire Dubawi 122 mares in his first season. Standing this year for €6,000, the Goldene Peitsche winner was a talented juvenile who split Native Trail and Bayside Boy in the Dewhurst and was third in the Acomb Stakes to Royal Patronage. At three, he was third to Minzaal and Go Bears Go in Newbury’s Group 3 Hackwood Stakes and then made the breakthrough in the six-furlong contest at BadenBaden. He is a half-brother to the Listed Aphrodite Stakes winner and Group 2 Park Hill Stakes second Golden Pass, by Golden Horn. They are out of UAE 1,000 Guineas winner and UAE Oaks second Lovely Pass, who was also placed in the Chesham at R Royal Ascot. Lovely Pass, by Raven’s Pass, i a half-sister to the Listed is P Pipalong Stakes winner Spirit R Raiser and they are out of F Falmouth Stakes winner M Macadamia. The Classic C Cliche mare is a half-sister to tthe Scandinavian Group 3 w winner Pistachio and the L Listed Snowdrop Stakes w winner Captivator.

Dubawi Legend is bred on a variation of the cross that produced multiple Group 1 winner Mishriff.

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Supremacy has made a habit of creating a positive first impression and the Yeomanstown Stud stallion replicated that with his first crop of foals, recording the highest price for a stallion in this category. That was at the Goffs G November Foal Salee, where the O’Callaghan family were pushed all the way to €180,000 for a half-brother to Group 3 Weld Park Stakes winner Caught U Looking bred by Peter Kelly. A total of 33 foals from the 127 sired by the Middle Park winner were sold last year, for an average of €30,551. Supremacy’s race record as a juvenile is quite similar to that of his sire Mehmas, who was champion first- and second-season sire. Both horses won the Richmond Stakes but Supremacy

achieved something on the track that eluded his sire, namely a Group 1 victory. His pedigree offers the speed and precocity so coveted by the market, too. His dam, Triggers Broom, is an Arcano half-sister to Xtension, who won two runnings of the Group 1 Champions Mile in Hong Kong and the Group 2 Vintage Stakes at two, when he was also placed in the Dewhurst and Coventry Stakes. Another of her half-sisters, Pott is the dam of Beatrix Potter, July Cu up and Haydock Spriint Cup winner Haarry Angel, who iss a Group 1 sire f Darley. He is for b Dark Angel, by w is bred on who a similar AcclamationMach hiavellian cross Mehm to Mehmas. Supremacy’s fee of €10,000 remains unchanged from last year, when he covered 143 mares. July Cup winner Starman (above) is a new entrant in this category, with his fee reduced to €10,000 for his third season at Tally-Ho Stud. The son of Dutch Art was one of the most popular new recruits to stud in 2022, and

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First-crop yearling stallions standing in Britain and Ireland for £10,000/€12,500 or less Name

Age

Sire

Stud

A’Ali

Fee

Foal avg in 2023 (gns)

No. covered in 2023

Society Rock

Newsells Park, UK

£5,000

23,354

Alkumait

Almighwar

Showcasing

Capital, Ire

€5,000

11,248

121

Dubawi

Garryrichard, Ire

€1,000

Bangkok

Australia

Chapel, UK

£3,000

6,333

Century Dream

Cape Cross

Norton Grove, UK

£3,000

Dee Ex Bee

Farhh

Arctic Tack, Ire

€3,000

157

Eagles By Day

Sea The Stars

Glenview, Ire

private

Fifty Stars

Sea The Stars

Sunnyhill, Ire

€3,000

In Swoop

Adlerflug

Coolmore NH, Ire

€3,500

216

Khalifa Sat

Free Eagle

Lacken, Ire

€2,000

6,742

Logician

Frankel

Shade Oak, UK

£4,000

168

Lope Y Fernandez

Lope De Vega

National, UK

£8,500

20,094

152

Lucky Vega

Lope De Vega

Irish National, Ire

€12,500

36,689

147

Mildenberger

Teofilo

Groomsbridge, UK

£1,500

Mirage Dancer

Frankel

Capital, Ire

private

200

Mogul

Galileo

Coolmore NH, Ire

€3,000

200

Nando Parrado

Kodiac

Irish National, Ire

€6,000

16,270

Rekindling

High Chaparral

Longford House, Ire

poa

Rich History

Dubawi

Kedrah House, Ire

private

104

Roseman

Kingman

March Hare, UK

£5,000

Santiago

Authorized

Coolmore NH, Ire

€5,000

245

Starman

Dutch Art

Tally-Ho, Ire

€10,000

25,617

198

Supremacy

Mehmas

Yeomanstown, Ire

€10,000

27,077

143

Technician

Mastercraftsman

Manton Park, UK

£5,000

Ubettabelieveit

Kodiac

Mickley, UK

£5,000

14,162

105

sired 203 foals in his first crop, conceived at an advertised fee of €17,500. Of those 203 foals, 46 found new homes at the sales, with two achieving six-figure sums. The highest price of

125,000gns was for a filly out of Hidden Brief, making her a half-sister to the Coronation Cup and British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes winner Emily Upjohn. She was purchased by Tally-Ho Stud

from the Castlebridge Consignment. Jimmy Murphy purchased the most expensive first-crop colt by Starman, a half-brother to Soprano, who was placed in Continues page 14

STANDING AT: Springfield House Stud, Roscrea, Co. Tipperary, R32 H425, Ireland Linda Coffey: 086 3310968 Reddy Coffey: 087 9666301 Email: info@springfieldhousestud.com www.oaklodgestud.com

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Handsome Lope Y Fernandez caught breeders’ attention as they sent him strong book of mares From page 13

the Albany, Sweet Solera and Dick Poole Stakes last season. Out of a half-sister to Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint and Shoemaker Mile Stakes winner Obviously, he cost €120,000 from Graigue Stables at Goffs. Starman was unraced at two but won the Listed Garrowby Stakes at three and progressed into a top-class sprinter at four, winning the Group 2 Duke of York Stakes and earning podium positions in the Prix Maurice de Gheest and Sprint Cup. The winner of five of his eight starts, he only once finished outside the top three in his career. His dam Northern Star has also produced the Group 3 Oh So Sharp Stakes third Sunday Star, by Kodiac, and is a Montjeu half-sister to the Grade 2 Tampa Bay Derby winner and Grade 1 Arkansas Derby second Kin ng Guillermo. The family is thaat of last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf winner Hard To Justify. Last year, at a fee of €15,0000, Starman covered a book of 198 1 mares. Two sons of Lope De Vegaa feature prominently in this category, and one is a neighbour of Phoenix Of Spain at the Irish National Stud. The Irish 2,000 Guineas winner by Lope De Vega sired Group 2 Vintage Stakees winner Haatem, one of 18 winners from his first crop. His early results will have given encouragement to tho ose who supported Lucky Vega, a,

Lucky Vega is a standout as a Group 1 winner at two and high-class miler at three; (top right) Kodiac’s son Nando Parrado wins the Coventry Stakes; (bottom right) classy sprinter Lope Y Fernandez is another by Lope De Vega

✪ STAR VALUE ✪ A’Ali (below) First foals impressed judges at the sales with a strong average. He was a high-class juvenile and sprinter, siring good-looking foals and at £5,000 rates very good value Lucky Vega New to this supplement in his third season, he is a standout. A Group 1 winner at two and high-class miler at three when placed in the 2,000 Guineas, he is a grandson of Shamardal, who has established a strong legacy Supremacy First foals looked the part at the sales and he was strongly supported by leading pinhookers. He’s a Group 1 winner from a sire line that delivers and d li d at €10,000 is impossible to overlook

the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes winner who shuttles between the Irish National Stud and Yulong’s farm in Victoria. He is another stallion making his debut in this supplement as his trimmed fee of €12,500 is the upper limit of the budget, having stood for €15,000 for his first two seasons. The first crop of foals he sired numbered 94 and 29 of them were sold at auction last year for an a average price of was almost €42,846, which w three times his stud fee. ost expensive two His mo foals weree both fillies sold at the Tatterrsalls December Sale, nakill House Stud’s with Tinn daughteer of Whisper Dance makingg 82,000gns to heng Zhang, signing Yuesh ucky Vega. She is a as Lu half-sister to three ners, including the winn Prix de l’Abbaye second Gold Vibe. o her, at 80,000gns, Next to was Peter Nolan Bloodstock’s half-siister to Group 2 nner Donnerschlag win nd Listed winner Izzy an Bizu, dam of Listed B winner Dizzy Bizu. w

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GHS Bloodstock was the purchaser of the daughter of Listed-placed Dame Hester. In addition to his Curragh success, Lucky Vega demonstrated high-class talent throughout his career. He finished second to Supremacy in the Middle Park and was third to Poetic Flare and Master Of The Seas in the 2,000 Guineas. Lucky Vega was also runner-up to Jim Bolger’s homebred star in the St James’s Palace Stakes on his final start for Jessica Harrington before embarking on his stallion career in the southern hemisphere. Bred by the renowned Pat O’Kelly, Lucky Vega is out of Queen Of Carthage, an unraced Cape Cross close relation to Listed winner Important Time, by Oasis Dream. She is the dam of Godolphin’s multiple Group 1 winner Nations Pride. Another half-sister, Amerindia, by Dubawi, is the dam of Militarize, who was a triple Group 1 winner last year in Australia for Chris Waller. Second dam Satwa Queen won the Prix de l’Opera and

Prix Jean Romanet, and is a Muhtathir half-sister to Group 1 winner and sire Spadoun. He covered 147 mares last season. The handsome good looks of Lope Y Fernandez caught the attention of breeders, who sent him a strong book of mares in his first season at the National Stud, resulting in 98 foals. The classy sprinter by Lope De Vega was clearly transmitting those attractive genes to his offspring and covered an increased book of 152 mares in 2023, all at a fee of £8,500, which has been held for 2024. At last year’s foal sales, 42 of his first crop changed hands at an average fee of £20,766 and he recorded a six-figure sale. That came at Tattersalls in December, when Amanda Skiffington, on behalf of Giacomo Algranti, went to 100,000gns for Northmore Stud’s colt out of Capla Ishtar, an unraced daughter of Moohajim who is a half-sister to the dam of Listed winner Ventura Diamond. His other big-priced foal came at the same auction, with Kelly Equine buying Glebe

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Farm Stud’s half-brother to Rockfel winner Spain Burg for 78,000gns. They still have a way to go to match their sire’s auction price. Lope Y Fernandez was a €900,000 yearling, bought by MV Magnier at Arqana’s August Yearling Sale from Ecurie des Monceaux. A half-brother to Group 2 Vintage Stakes and Oettingen Rennen winner Dark Vision, by Dream Ahead, Lope Y Fernandez is out of the Listed Ladybird Stakes second Black Dahlia, by Dansili. At two he won the Group 3 Round Tower Stakes and was placed in the Vintage and Chesham Stakes for Aidan O’Brien. He displayed high-class form at three, earning places in four Group 1 races, including the Irish 2,000 Guineas, Prix Jean Prat and Breeders’ Cup Mile. As a four-year-old his best performance came at Royal Ascot, where he was second to Palace Pier in the Queen Anne Stakes. Lope Y Fernandez also won the Listed Heritage Stakes over a mile at

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Their dam Choice is a winning half-sister to Cheyenne, who was a champion in Argentina. A’Ali, who stands at Newsells Park Stud for a fee of £5,000, was a precocious and high-class sprinter, winning the Norfolk, Flying Childers Stakes and Prix Robert Papin as a juvenile for the Crisfords. He maintained his level of speed and form at three, winning the Sapphire Stakes and Coral Charge and finishing fourth to Battaash in the Nunthorpe. A’Ali’s best form was around five furlongs, with all his Group wins at this trip bar the Prix Robert Papin, over half a furlong further. His first book yielded 73 foals and they went down a treat with pinhookers at the sales, averaging £22,263, almost three times his 2022 fee of £7,500. Of the 18 who came on the market, 15 sold and the best price achieved was Lynn Lodge Stud’s 68,000gns 000gns for a half-brotherr to the Listed Dragon n Stakes winner Rocket Rodney, bred by Chris O’Dowd and consigned by Whitwell Bloodstock. Also at the December Foal Sale, Yeomanstown Stud went to 67,000gns for the half-brother to Group 3 Prestige Stakes second Prado out of the Round Tower Stakes second Royal Empress. With the positive reports on his first crop, he received 93 mares in 2023 at a fee of £5,000. The strong and muscular grandson of Rock Of Gibraltar was bred by Tally-Ho Stud and was a £135,000 buy for Stroud

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Leopardstown and retired with ten wins or places from 18 starts. The Irish National Stud is home to two stallions in this group, with Coventry Stakes winner Nando Parrado another member of its young line-up. By Kodiac, he proved that his 150-1 success at Royal Ascot was no fluke as the season went on. Trained by Clive Cox, he was runner-up to Campanelle in the Prix Morny and filled the same position behind Sealiway, who would win the Champion Stakes later in his career, in the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere. With his fee set at €6,000, a figure which has stayed constant, he attracted a sizeable book of mares in his first season, with 86 foals on the ground. At the sales, he recorded an average of €18,872 for 29 sold, which was three times his covering fee. His top prices were achieved at the Tattersalls December Sale, where WH Bloodstock bought the most expensive Nando Parrado foal, Selwood Bloodstock’s 37,000gns colt who is the second produce of Desert Mission, by Shamardal. The Irish National Stud purchased Bryanstown House Stud’s half-brother to Group 2 Grand Prix de Deauville winner and Prix Dollar second Jack Darcy for 32,000gns. Nando Parrado is one of three black-type horses out of the Argentine Group 3 winner and Group 1-placed Chibola. She is a full-sister to the Group 1 Gran Premio Estrellas Junior Sprint winner Chollo. They are by Roy, a son of Fappiano who was champion sire in Chile and Argentina.

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Top-class Sergei Prokofiev was a precocious juvenile and is by brilliant sire of sires Scat Daddy From page 15

Vase winner is out of Wadyhatta, whose dam, the Listed-placed Thamarat, is an Anabaa half-sister to Group 1 winner and sire Tamayuz.

AISLING CROWE

FIRST TWO-YEAROLDS OF 2024

Coventry Stakes winner Arizona was certainly a high-class juvenile, with his Royal Ascot victory being supplemented by placings in the Group 1 National Stakes and Dewhurst behind exceptional two-year-old Pinatubo. Another son of the champion two-year-old sire No Nay Never on Coolmore’s roster, the seven-year-old is advertised at an unchanged fee of €5,000 and holds plenty of appeal for commercial breeders looking to produce quick and early types. Arizona was an eight-length

winner of his maiden on his second start for Aidan O’Brien and had subsequent Gimcrack and Champagne Stakes winner Threat back in second in the Coventry, with the following year’s Commonwealth Cup hero Golden Horde further behind in fifth. Arizona, who is a brother to Churchill Downs Grade 2 winner Nay Lady Nay and from the family of European champion juvenile Dabirsim, could easily be one of the quickest freshman sires out of the gate. While following in Havana Grey’s large footsteps is a daunting prospect, Whitsbury Manor Stud will be hoping Sergei Prokofiev can live up to the billing that saw his first yearlings sell for up to 220,000gns in 2023. He has plenty going for him, as a son of brilliant sire of sires Scat Daddy and a precocious and high-class talent as a juvenile. A $1,100,000 yearling

from Keeneland, the Canadian-bred was another to be trained by O’Brien for the Coolmore partners and he struck at the second time of asking when winning at Navan by seven and a half lengths. He backed up that effort with Listed success in the Rochestown Stakes and then a third behind Calyx and Advertise in the Coventry. A first Pattern score followed later that season in the Group 3 Cornwallis Stakes, in which he showed a potent turn of foot to win by a length and a quarter. He was also a Listed winner at three, in the Cork Stakes at Navan. Sergei Prokofiev was retired to Whitsbury for the 2021 season, and has been supported with around 150 mares in each of his three seasons to date. He stands for £6,000 this year. Without Parole, a Group 1-winning son of Frankel – whose son

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✪ STAR VALUE ✪ Far Above Strongly supported from the off and seems sure to make his mark Sergei Prokofiev High-class talent at two and three, and in the right hands to succeed Without Parole Well-related son of champion sire Frankel who has many of his first crop with leading trainers Cracksman was well represented through champion Ace Impact last year – rates another interesting young prospect at a fee of £8,000. Standing at Newsells Park Stud, where he was bred and raised by Tanya and John Gunther, Without Parole was a 650,000gns buyback from Book 1 and more than justified the decision to hang on to him. A half-brother to Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile winner Tamarkuz and from the family of Grade 1 winner Stay Thirsty, he was a six-length winner on his sole juvenile outing at Newcastle and won his next three starts at three, including the Listed Heron Stakes and then, most notably, the St James’s Palace Stakes. His other efforts included a third-placed finish in the Breeders’ Cup Mile the following year, while he was placed in another two Grade 1s for Chad Brown. Without Parole’s first yearlings sold for up to

€160,000 and 120,000gns, and his fee has been increased from £7,000 in 2023. Given some of those yearlings have ended up in the yards of Ralph Beckett and Jean-Claude Rouget, he has every chance of making a good start. Another Group 1-winning miler from a fine faamily is King Of Change (right), a son of Farhh who has been clipped to €5,000 for 2024. Only lightly raced, but a winner of the Queen Elizabeth III Stakes and second to Magna Grecia in the 2,000 Guineas, he has the pedigree to go with his race record as a half-brother to Group 2 winner and Group 1-placed miler Century Dream. Having stood at Derrinstown Stud for his first

two seasons, King Of Change headed to Starfield Stud and had his first crop sell for up to 70,000gns as yearlings, headed by Baroda Stud’s Book 1 filly from the top-class family of Nightime and Ghaiyyath. Far Above, his studmate ow son of Farhh, and fello also stands this covvering season for 5,000. The €5 Group 3 Palace G House Stakes H and a Listed Prix Kistena winner K waas lightly raced for James Tate due to injury but b has been well supported, covering more than 320 mares in his first three seasons. His yearlings also sold for up to 70,000gns, headed by a close relation to the useful Lady Of Inishfree from Book 3, who went the way of Tate from

First-crop two-year-old stallions standing in Britain and Ireland for £10,000/€12,500 or less Name

Age

Sire

Stud

Fee

Yearling avg in 2023 (gns) 22,117

No. covered in 2023 180

Arizona

No Nay Never

Coolmore, Ire

€5,000

Diplomat

Teofilo

Universal, UK

£1,500

Far Above

Farhh

Starfield, Ire

€5,000

18,263

Galileo Chrome

Australia

Starfield, Ire

€3,000

1,685

Hunting Horn

Camelot

Capital, Ire

private

Kew Gardens

Galileo

Coolmore NH, Ire

€3,000

1,769

King Of Change

Farhh

Starfield, Ire

€5,000

19,076

Legends Of War

Scat Daddy

March Hare, UK

£4,000

Mr Scaramanga

Sir Percy

March Hare, UK

poa

Old Persian

Dubawi

Glenview, Ire

private

117 31

River Boyne

Dandy Man

Tara, Ire

€3,500

8,133

Royal Lytham

Gleneagles

Irish Emerald, Ire

€2,500

Bungle Inthejungle Norman Court, UK

£3,500

6,500

Rumble Inthejungle 8 Sands Of Mali

Panis

Ballyhane, Ire

€5,000

14,714

Sergei Prokofiev

Scat Daddy

Whitsbury Manor, UK

£6,000

36,579

155 44

Shaman

Shamardal

Yeomanstown, Ire

€5,000

20,755

Southern Hills

Gleneagles

Universal, UK

£2,000

Tip Two Win

Dark Angel

March Hare, UK

£2,500

Way To Paris

Champs Elysees

Coolagown, Ire

€3,500

12,642

129

Without Parole

Frankel

Newsells Park, UK

£8,000

36,776

Racing Post Thursday, February 8, 2024

Without Parole, a Group 1-winning son of the incomparable Frankel, stands at Newsells Park Stud; multiple Graded winner River Boyne (left) is the only son of Dandy Man at stud in Europe; (far right) British Champions Sprint Stakes scorer Sands Of Mali is competitively priced at €5,000

Q-Cross Stables, and it will be intriguing to see how the two sire sons of the excellent Farhh get on with their first runners. Another highly likeable sort is Shaman, Yeomanstown Stud’s Group 2 Prix d’Harcourt

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winner and Classic-placed son of Shamardal who is available for €5,000 this year. The Wertheimer homebred from the top-class family of Occupandiste and Mondialiste was a winner and Group-placed at two, and

trained on to do well at three and four. He was a Listed and Group 3 winner in the spring of his three-year-old campaign, before a fine effort in second behind Persian King in the Poule d’Essai des

Poulains. He was also runner-up to Romanised in the Prix Jacques le Marois later that season. In addition to his Group 2 win at four, he was third to Sottsass in the Prix Ganay. His first yearlings realised

prices such as €85,000 and 80,000gns at Goffs Orby and Book 1, with buyers including Dan Hayden, Richard Ryan, the Wertheimers, Peter and Ross Doyle, and Rouget. River Boyne is the only son of the late Dandy Man at stud

in Europe and is worthy of plenty of respect as a tough and talented sort who won or placed in 16 of his 18 black-type starts. He was a winner at two in the United States and struck in

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BLOODSTOCK SPECIAL BREEDING ON A BUDGET From page 17

five Graded races, headed by the Grade 1 Frank E Kilroe Mile. He stands at Tara Stud for €3,500. Group 1 British Champions Sprint Stakes victor and Ballyhane Stud resident Sands Of Mali is another who should not be overlooked. Also a Gimcrack Stakes winner at two who won the Sandy Lane Stakes at three – as well as finishing a half-length second in the Commonwealth Cup – he is priced competitively at €5,000. His first yearlings sold for up to €70,000.

Phoenix Of Spain struts his stuff at the Irish National Stud

KITTY TRICE

FIRST THREE-YEAROLDS OF 2024

Calyx, being a beautifully bred son of Kingman from one of Juddmonte’s great families, had the background to make his mark as a stallion and he did just that with his first runners. As for his time on the track, he won both starts as a juvenile, notably the Group 2 Coventry Stakes, before training on to add a second Pattern-race victory at Ascot to his CV, namely the Group 3 Pavilion Stakes. He has passed on his speed and talent to his progeny, headed by Group 2 winners

Superbly bred Calyx hails from a great Juddmonte family and proved a hit with first runners Classic Flower and Persian Dreamer, Del Mar Grade 3 scorer Zona Verde and Dewhurst third Eben Shaddad. Only last week he had his first winner in the southern hemisphere when Getafix

won over a little further than six furlongs at RandwickKensington. Initially retired to Coolmore at a fee of €22,500, Calyx dropped to €10,000 before his first juveniles in 2023 and was

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Sire of: SANDRINE – Winner of 4 Group races, including Gr.2 Park Stakes (in 2023), Gr.2 Lennox Stakes, Gr.2 Duchess of Cambridge Stakes and Gr.3 Albany Stakes (also Gr.1-placed x2). Now a Group winner at 2, 3 & 4,

TWO YEAR OLDS IN 2023 INCLUDE TOP-RATED

Two year old ALMOTAHED (GB), bred by the Countess of Rothes, winner of three races in Saudi Arabia in 2023.

Two year old filly DARK BLUE SKY (IRE), bred by Moygaddy Stud, winner of three races in Hungary in 2023.

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then deservedly upgraded to €12,500 off the back of a successful debut campaign. With Calyx hailing from a family which has generally trained on well – think Coppice, African Rose and Native Trail – then 2024 could prove equally, if not more, fruitful for the young sire. Expectations for fellow Coolmore second-season sire Magna Grecia will be high, given the Futurity Trophy winner trained on to 2,000 Guineas glory at Newmarket and is, notably, a half-brother to dual French Classic winner and world champion St Mark’s Basilica. Headline acts from his first crop include the precocious Listed sprint winner Myconian and the black-type placed Thekingofmyheart from four progeny with a Racing Post Rating of 90 or over. He is another who started out at €22,500 and will

commence covering this year at €10,000 – and he looks worth a punt given the strong likelihood of his progeny improving for another winter on their backs. Irish National Stud resident and Irish 2,000 Guineas hero Phoenix Of Spain is another with a big year ahead as his first crop turn three. A winners-to-runners ratio of 42 per cent includes the Stakes hardy Vintage S m winner Haatem (right), Mill Reef Stakes fourth Spanish Phoenix, dual scorer and Futurity Stakes fourth Spanish Flame, and impressive debut winner Lady Of Spain. Given Phoenix Of Spain improved at three to win a Classic and is from the family

of Special Kaldoun, a multiple Group winner as an older performer, he looks value for breeders at a clipped-in €10,000. A blend of precocity – he won the Acomb Stakes at two and was subsequently a close second in the Futurity Trophy to Magna Grecia – toughness and class, Phoenix Of Spain is well placed to build on his first crop’s success. Soldier’s Call’s move to Dullingham Park, just outside Newmarket, means the British stallion ranks has another affordable option who provides plenty of bang for your buck. The son of Showcasing stands for a fee of £8,500 following a successful season with his first juveniles. They included four black-type performers, among them a Pattern winner in Group 3 Prix Eclipse scorer Dawn Charger, while the consistent Dorothy Lawrence was unlucky not to get upper-case black type when a close second in the Dick Poole Fillies’ Stakes. Soldier’s Call has numbers on his side in the seasons ahead, with 418 mares covered in the last three years, while he also has quality among his current ranks – 15 of his progeny are rated 80-plus. Moreover, his second crop of yearlings proved popular and sold for up to 190,000gns last year. Another Group-winning juvenile whose first crop showed plenty of promise was Invincible Army, now standin ng at €5,000 at Yeom manstown, from €7,500 in 2023. His winners are h headed by Listed Ingabelle Stakes w winner Kitty Rose, w while other notable rep presentatives include Invincible Molly, winner of her last two starts for Ralph Beckett, and Bengurion, a debut scorer at Lingfield in October for Charlie Johnston. The son of Invincible Spirit,

First-crop three-year-old stallions standing in Britain and Ireland for £10,000/€12,500 or less Name

Age

Sire

Stud

Fee

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Showcasing

Manton Park, UK

£10,000

No. covered in 2023 41

Austrian School

Teofilo

Clongiffen, Ire

€1,500

Barraquero

Zebedee

Claremount, Ire

€2,500

Calyx

Kingman

Coolmore, Ire

€12,500

202

Capri

Galileo

Willow Wood Farm, UK

£2,500

Crystal Ocean

Sea The Stars

Coolmore NH, Ire

€8,000

335

Flag Of Honour

Galileo

Ballycurragh, Ire

private

Inns Of Court

Invincible Spirit

Tally-Ho, Ire

€5,000

164

Invincible Army

Invincible Spirit

Yeomanstown, Ire

€5,000

120

Land Force

No Nay Never

Hedgeholme, UK

£2,500

130

Magna Grecia

Invincible Spirit

Coolmore, Ire

€10,000

128

Marmelo

Duke Of Marmalade

Norton Grove, UK

£2,000

Masar

New Approach

Dalham Hall, UK

£10,000

113

Phoenix Of Spain

Lope De Vega

Irish National, Ire

€10,000

Soldier’s Call

Showcasing

Dullingham Park, UK

£8,500

190

Success Days

Jeremy

Kilbarry Lodge, Ire

poa

The Irish Rover

No Nay Never

Sweep Lane, Ire

€2,500

Waldgeist

Galileo

Ballylinch, Ire

€10,000

Wusool

Speightstown

Lilling Hall, UK

£2,000

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also a Group 1 performer when third in the Flying Five Stakes, produced his two best RPRs as a four-year-old when capturing the Duke of York and Chipchase Stakes, and similar progress can be expected for his stock this term. Tally-Ho Stud resident Inns Of Court was a class act on the track as well, winning from ages two to five, including in the Group 2 Prix du Gros-Chene, and just being denied by One Master in the previous year’s Prix de la Foret. Another son of the great Invincible Spirit, Inns Of Court’s leading progeny include Listed scorer Megarry and the black type-placed trio of Gaenari, Vicuna and Lia Fail. If they take after their sire, they will train on. The success of his first runners translated into sales rings, with 2023’s yearlings selling for up to €220,000. He is another who is competitively priced at €5,000. While Dalham Hall Stud’s Masar was a high-class juvenile – as his win in the Group 3 Solario Stakes and third in the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere attest – he hails from a sireline whose stock improve with age. He did himself, of course, winning the Craven and Derby. The Darley sire’s winners include the unbeaten Golden

✪ STAR VALUE ✪ Calyx Has already produced high-class performers and can continue to prosper in 2024 Masar Derby hero has had some nice winners and progress is expected as his runners mature Phoenix Of Spain Unlucky not to have more than one black-type winner; his stock have plenty of potential

Invincible Army impresses visitors at Yeomanstown Stud

West, last-time-out winner of Epsom’s Derby ‘Wild Card’ Conditions Stakes, and Will Scarlet, Godolphin’s homebred who won snugly on his second start for Andre Fabre in June. Another to note was Prince Rasam, a two-length debut winner at Chelmsford in September. While prevailing market trends point towards precocious speed and quick return on investment, Masar’s adjusted fee of £10,000 makes him an attractive proposition in an important year. Similar sentiments can be applied to Manton Park Stud

EL Caballo Th Horse The Ho e

resident and triple Group 1-winning sprinter Advertise. The son of Showcasing’s progeny were nott especially early types, but they progressed well through the season and included smart sorts such as Listed-placed performers Matters Most – runner-up to subsequent Middle Park Stakes second Task Force at Ripon – and Serious Notions (above).

Advertise’s fee has been halved to £10,000 this covering season, but it would be no surprise were his progeny to follow in hi his footsteps and take a big step forward hree-year-olds. as th A new option this year in Britain is y the dual Classic hero Capri, winner h of o the Irish Derby nd St Leger in an 17. 201 Aftter spending the first four seasons of his second career at Coolmore’s Grange Stud, he has crossed the Irish Sea and is now

ensconced at Willow Wood Farm in Cheshire, where his fee has been set at £2,500. Ballylinch Stud resident and Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe hero Waldgeist was never likely to produce precocious Royal Ascot runners, but there is plenty of reason for optimism as his oldest performers turn three. Not only does the four-time Group 1 winner hail from an impeccable German family that thrives with time, he himself got better with racing. That said, he won on his debut and was a Group 1 winner as a juvenile, in the Criterium de

Saint-Cloud, so he was hardly backward. In any case, he improved further to be a close second in the Prix du Jockey Club, and to win the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud, Prix Ganay and the Arc across his four- and five–year-old campaigns. He has had three individual winners and the chestnut’s fee of €10,000 could look all the more enticing when the 2024 season gets going. KITTY TRICE

MORE ESTABLISHED SIRES

Dalham Hall Stud resident and champion sprinter Harry Angel is again available for £10,000 despite last year bagging a first Group 1 winner Continues page 20

The only other stallion to stand in Europe by the same sire as Havana Grey

Havana Gold X Showstoppa (Showcasing)

Karl Burke “El Caballo was a pleasure to train, his great constitution and will to win made him the perfect racehorse, winning 6 of his first 7 starts”

New for 2024 £6000 1st Oct SLF

G2 Sandy Lane Stakes and Listed Spring Cup Stakes winner Winner of 6 races in a row Won over 5, 6 and 7 furlongs Sound and consistent, raced at 2, 3 and 4 yrs A speed on speed pedigree

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Price reduction is real tempter as Aclaim’s credentials are hard to knock From page 19

in Tom Kitten, Godolphin’s homebred who struck in Randwick’s Spring Champion Stakes. Harry Angel’s northern hemisphere runners have not fared too badly either, with his leading performers including Group 3 Prix Sigy winner and Gimcrack Stakes second Marshman, and Meydan Group 3 winner Al Dasim. His second northern hemisphere crop is so far headed by Flying Childers Stakes third Rosario and there is every reason to think the best is yet to come as his first crop improved from two to three. Harry Angel did just that

himself, translating a Mill Reef Stakes victory at two into successes in the July and Sprint Cups. Rajasinghe’s statistics from small numbers have been highly impressive – he sired 80 per cent winners to runners from his first two-year-olds, among them Waiting All Night, who was also second in the Listed Pat Eddery Stakes. The National Stud’s Coventry Stakes winner was duly rewarded with his biggest book to date in 2023 and his yearlings also proved popular, selling for up to £27,000. His fee has held steady at £3,000 since 2021, and his ability to sire tough and genuine winners should stand

Dalham Hall Stud-based Territories is the sire of 18 Group and/or stakes winners, including 2023 Haydock Sprint Cup hero Regional

him and his loyal supporters in good stead. Another to have produced smart winners from smaller books is Unfortunately, Springfield House Stud’s Prix Morny-winning son of the late Society Rock, whose fee has been trimmed to €3,000 for 2024. His winners are headed by the ultra-tough Perdika, a dual Listed winner and an excellent second to Highfield Princess in the Abbaye last October. It was to her utmost credit, and her sire’s, that she maintained her form throughout the year for

Looking for good value sires?

Twilight Son

Ulysses

Sire of 7 Black Type horses in 2023, including the promising 2yo ﬁlly

BEAUTIFUL DIAMOND

Sire of 3 Classic placed horses from his ﬁrst 2 crops and the UK’S LEADING 3RD CROP SIRE IN 2023 *

2023 YEARLINGS:

Top price:

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Top price:

£160,000

£32,654

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George Boughey, running 15 times between January and October. Aclaim, sire of a Classic heroine in 2022 1,000 Guineas winner Cachet, has all the credentials as a producer of consistent winners, many of them high class. Manton Park Stud’s stallion has had his fee reduced to £8,000 this year, a price that looks a real tempter for breeders on a budget. While Cachet, a 2,200,000gns sale to Katsumi Yoshida at the Tattersalls December Mare Sale, is the standout so far, Aclaim has had other quality performers, including Listed winners and Group-placed pair Purosangue and Royal lian Aclaim, plus Italian Group 2-placed Jacinda. Tally-Ho Stud’s speedy Cotai Glory is another who looks attractively priced off the back of successees tinum such as The Platinum Queen’s (above) Abbaye victory in 2022 and last year’s Pattern winners Tiger Belle and Excellent Truth. The Exceed And Excel 12-year-old can boast 19 black-type performers from his first three crops, including five individual Group winners. A hardy performer himself when winning Group 3 races at two and four – as well as finishing a neck second in the King’s Stand Stakes – Cotai Glory had his yearlings and breeze-up horses sell for up to 160,000gns and €135,000 respectively in 2023. He stands for €12,500 this year. While Ulysses thrived as a Group 1 winner over middle distances in the Eclipse and Juddmonte International, he appeals as another stallion who is more than capable of producing good-class runners over a variety of trips. Standing for £9,000 at Cheveley Park Stud, the Niarchos-bred son of Galileo can count three Classic-placed and Group-winning performers from his first two crops in Irish Derby second Piz Badile, White Birch, who was

third to Auguste Rodin at Epsom last June, and Italian Derby third Relentless Voyager. He has other decent, and lightly raced, prospects heading into 2024, led by Pattern winners Passenger and Mighty Ulysses, while a potential Classic prospect comes in the shape of unbeaten dual winner Feigning Madness. He can get Royal Ascot juvenile winners, as demonstrated by Chesham winner and Futurity Trophy third Holloway Boy, and as a proven conveyor of talent this son of Galileo ought not to be overlooked by breeders at a career-low fee. Awtaad had a good 2023 as he claimed his first two top-levvel winners, starrting with Sh hadwell’s Anmaat in th he Prix d’Ispahan a then with and A Anisette, whose Del M Oaks victory Mar w followed by an was eassy score in the American Oaks on Boxingg D Day. Derrinstown Stud’s Irish 2,000 Guineas hero is responsible for 16 black-type performers, including those two Group/Grade 1 winners, plus Group 2 Prix Chaudenay victor Al Qareem and two Group 3 scorers in Diamil and Create Belief. His six Listed winners include Primo Bacio, subsequently sold for 1,100,000gns at the 2023 Tattersalls December Mare Sale to Hillwood Bloodstock nkel. when in foal to Frankel The 11-year-old iis a o reliable option who deserves to attract support at €5,000 as he compares favourably to many sires standing at fancier fees. nts Similar sentimen s apply to Territories, likewise the sire of two top-flight winners after Regional’s success in last year’s Sprint Cup. Also the sire of the top-notch filly Rougir – a €3,000,000 Arqana December Sale graduate in 2021 – as well as

✪ STAR VALUE ✪ Awtaad Excellent 2023 was capped off with top-level winners in France and the United States Territories With 18 Group and/or stakes winners led by 2023 Sprint Cup hero Regional, what’s not to like at £10,000? Ulysses Has produced Classic performers, with the promise of plenty more to come Group winner and Derby second Hoo Ya Mal, another to make seven figures at £1,200,000 from the Goffs London Sale in 2022, he has 31 individual black-type performers, including eight Group winners. Territories’ crop of juveniles from 2023 bodes well for the future, too. Among them were the exciting Mill Reef Stakes second Mister Sketch and Navassa Island, a half-sister to Cheveley Park Stakes winner Lezoo who was third in the Naas Juvenile Sprint Stakes and Firth of Clyde Stakes. The Invincible Spirit 12-year-old appeals as an excellent source of high-class talent from a fee of just £10,000. With his biggest and best-bred crops in the pipeline, National Stud resident Time Test is another who could go on to better things in the next few years. An adjusted fee of £8,500 reflects a somewhat quieter 2023 for the beautifully bred son of Dubawi, D but his first crop showed jusst what he is caapable of. They included B Beresford Stakes w winner Crypto F Force (left), M Moyglare Stud Stakkes third Sunset Shirazz, Dick Poole Filli ’ St k winner Fillies’ Stakes Romantic Time, and Thoroughbred Stakes victor Rocchigiani. Time Test was strongly supported after those results, covering more than 460 mares in the last three seasons, and Continues page 22

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More established stallions standing in Britain and Ireland for £10,000/€12,500 or less First-crop 4yos in 2024

Storm The Stars

Sea The Stars

Coolagown, Ire

€3,000

Name

Time Test

Dubawi

National, UK

£8,500

Age

Sire

Stud

Fee

Frontiersman

Dubawi

Overbury, UK

£2,000

No. covered in 2023 47

Harbour Law

Lawman

Batsford, UK

£2,000

Harry Angel

Dark Angel

Dalham Hall, UK

£10,000

161

Idaho

Galileo

Coolmore NH, Ire

€3,000

Lightning Spear

Pivotal

Tweenhills, UK

£5,000

Massaat

Teofilo

Mickley, UK

£3,000

Recorder

Galileo

Longford House, Ire

Saintgodrel

Saint Des Saints

Foxwood, Ire

poa

€1,500

Ulysses

Galileo

Cheveley Park, UK

£9,000

Wings Of Eagles

Pour Moi

Coolmore NH, Ire

€3,000

More established stallions standing in Britain and Ireland for £10,000/€12,500 or less First-crop 6yos in 2024 Name

Master Carpenter

Mastercraftsman

March Hare, UK

£1,000

Affinisea

Sea The Stars

Whytemount, Ire

poa

No. covered in 2023 268

Mekhtaal

Sea The Stars

Knockmullen House, Ire

€2,500

Awtaad

Cape Cross

Derrinstown, Ire

€5,000

Order Of St George

Galileo

Coolmore NH, Ire

€6,500

235

Belardo

Lope De Vega

Bearstone, UK

£5,500

Poet’s Word

Poet’s Voice

Boardsmill, Ire

€6,000

257

Bobby’s Kitten

Kitten’s Joy

Lanwades, UK

£5,000

Rajasinghe

Choisir

National, UK

£3,000

Cannock Chase

Lemon Drop Kid

Nunstainton, UK

£2,000

Sumbal

Danehill Dancer

Boardsmill, Ire

€2,500

110

Charming Thought

Oasis Dream

March Hare, UK

£3,000

Tosen Stardom

Deep Impact

Zenith, Ire

€5,000

Unfortunately

Society Rock

Springfield House, Ire

€3,000

Zebediah

Zebedee

Meelin, Ire

€500

More established stallions standing in Britain and Ireland for £10,000/€12,500 or less First-crop 5yos in 2024 Name

Age

Sire

Stud

Fee

Age

Sire

Stud

Fee

Coulsty

Kodiac

Rathasker, Ire

€5,500

Dawn Approach

New Approach

Redmondstown, Ire

€5,000

Fascinating Rock

Fastnet Rock

Burgage, Ire

poa

Haafhd

Alhaarth

Batsford, UK

£2,000

Harzand

Sea The Stars

Kilbarry Lodge, Ire

poa

179

Ito

Adlerflug

Yorton Farm, UK

£3,000

Manatee

Monsun

Whytemount, Ire

€2,000

Marcel

Lawman

Anngrove, Ire

private

Mizzou

Galileo

Old Road, Ire

€1,750

Night Wish

Sholokhov

Foxwood, Ire

€4,000

Aclaim

Acclamation

Manton Park, UK

£8,000

No. covered in 2023 37

Behesht

Sea The Stars

Whytemount, Ire

€2.000

Cotai Glory

Exceed And Excel

Tally-Ho, Ire

€12,500

191

Dartmouth

Dubawi

Shade Oak, UK

£3,000

Decorated Knight

Galileo

Longford House, Ire

€3,000

Forever Now

Galileo

Langaller Farm, UK

£600

Silas Marner

Muhtathir

Knockmullen House, Ire

€1,800

Invincible Spirit

Dalham Hall, UK

£10,000

85 36

Ol’ Man River

Montjeu

Arctic Tack, Ire

€1,500

Parish Hall

Teofilo

Redmondstown, Ire

private

Pearl Secret

Compton Place

Norton Grove, UK

£2,000

Jack Hobbs

Halling

Overbury, UK

£5,000

140

Territories

Kool Kompany

Jeremy

Clongiffen, Ire

€2,000

The Gurkha

Galileo

Roveagh Lodge, Ire

€3,500

Mahsoob

Dansili

Meiklehaugh, UK

poa

Triple Threat

Monsun

Capital, Ire

private

Mattmu

Indesatchel

Norton Grove, UK

£2,000

Twilight Son

Kyllachy

Cheveley Park, UK

£6,000

Pillar Coral

Zamindar

Kilbarry Lodge, Ire

poa

Vadamos

Monsun

Coolmore NH, Ire

€5,000

273

Postponed

Dubawi

Yorton, UK

£4,000

Walzertakt

Montjeu

Chapel, UK

£2,500

SOLD DIER’S C CALL MAKE USE OF H HIS 2024 £8,500 FEE... IT MIGHT NEVER R BE THIS LOW AGAIN N!

Leading Sires of 2yo winners in Europe 2023

DAWN CHARGER Prix Eclipse Gr.3

UK based standing for £10,000 or less

BORN TO ROCK Debut winner

Sire

Fee

SOL LDIER’S CALL

Winners

BTH

£8,500

Harry y Angel

£10,000

Land d Force

£5,000

Territtories

£10,000

Belarrdo

£5,500

Aclaiim

£8,000

Twilig ght Son

£6,000

Ulyssses

£9,000

Time Test

£8,500

Dream Ahead

£6,500

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he therefore looks one to keep on side. Lanwades Stud’s Bobby’s Kitten is another who has shown he can get a good one in the form of multiple Group winner and Group 1-placed Sandrine. Kirsten Rausing’s homebred, who has been retired to the paddocks, displayed talent and tenacity across three seasons of racing and 18 starts. Bobby’s Kitten’s other progeny include the Beresford Stakes-placed Monaasib, dual US Graded-placed Kitty Kitana and Listed performers in Pallapannocchiesch and Fighting King. Bobby’s Kitten had some exciting youngsters in 2023, including champion juveniles in Saudi Arabia (Almotahed) and Hungary (Dark Blue Sky), meaning his progeny have h resale value to other jurisdictions. His fee has been trimmed to £5,000 from £6,000 for 2024. Dawn Approach has sired a genuine top-notcher in Poetic Flare (right), brilliant winner of the 2,000 Guineas and St James’s Palace ’ P l Stakes for Jim Bolger, and also has Group 2-winning juvenile and Derby runner-up Madhmoon plus Australian

Bated Breath has held his own with studmates and is one for bargain hunters Group 1 winner Paulele in his corner. The Bolger stallion remains at his 2023 fee of €5,000, having been double that price in 2022, and his overall record off 33 staakes ormers perfo sugggests he ould be co considered a c bargain at b such a level. s Rathasker ud’s Coulsty Stu d a decent had 2023 on o the track and d in i the h sales ring, with his fee upped to a still-value €5,500 for 2024. His flagbearing Grade 1 winner Shantisara added the

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Grade 2 Hillsborough Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs to her CV last year, before selling to Shadai Farm for $1,300,000 at Fasig-Tipton in November, while Coulsty’s yearlings sold for up to €82,000 in 2023. The top-class Harzand now plies his trade in the National Hunt sphere, but he has a credible potential Classic contender for 2024 in Caught U Looking. The Group 3 Weld Park Stakes winner should be at her best this year and it would be no surprise to see the Noel Meade-trained filly put her sire’s name in the spotlight. Harzand, the dual Derby-winning son of Sea The Stars, produces genuine horses

€10,000

WAL LDGEIST. EXCEPT TIONAL

ARC W WINNER beating ENABL LE & SOTTSASS WINNER OF F 4 GROUP 1s His progeny in n 2023 sold for

€360,000, 125,000gns 1 120,000gn ns, €115,000 100,000gns First two crops of yearlings have averaged €55,000

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Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland Te l : + 3 5 3 ( 0 ) 5 6 7 7 2 4 2 1 7 • i n f o @ b a l l y l i n c h s t u d . i e • w w w. b a l l y l i n c h s t u d . i e

Poetic Flare’s sire Dawn Approach remains at a fee of €5,000, having been double that price in 2022

with a will to win and he should continue to build on the 179-strong book he covered last year. He stands at Kilbarry Lodge, with his price on application. KITTY TRICE

ESTABLISHED SIRES

Banstead Manor Stud resident Bated Breath has the likes of Frankel and Kingman for company, but the high-class son of the late Dansili has held his own and has been a dependable source of quality for breeders on a budget. His 57 black-type performers are headed by Del Mar Grade 1 winner Viadera, and include the likes of Daahyeh, Space Traveller, Worth Waiting, Beckford and Gift List. It is off the back of those Pattern winners he received his best book, and the resulting progeny have recently turned two. His fee has been cut to £10,000 for 2024, from £15,000 in 2022 and 2023, but he has plenty of ammunition to continue in the right direction over the next 12 months. Another thoroughly likeable and established stallion is Bungle Inthejungle, Rathasker Stud’s stalwart whose leading progeny features Nunthorpe winner Winter Power, Lowther Stakes victress Living In The Past and last year’s Marble Hill Stakes winner and Phoenix Stakes third Givemethebeatboys (right). The latter was knocked down for £1,100,000 at the Goffs London Sale. Bungle Inthejungle stands for €7,500 this year, while his other Pattern winner, the Molecomb Stakes winner and Middle Park Stakes third Rumble Inthejungle, will be represented with his first runners in 2024. Bungle Inthejungle’s studmate Gregorian, available for just €4,500, continues to do the business too, his 14 stakes performers led by Plainchant, who went from €3,000 foal and €4,000 yearling to Group 2 winner and 490,000gns Tattersalls December Mare Sale purchase.

Bearstone Stud’s top-class Dream Ahead looks immensely good value at just £6,500, given the talent he has produced and his reputation as an exciting young broodmare sire. The 16-year-old’s 64 black-type performers include some popular campaigners of recent times, such as the Flying Five Stakes, Prix de l’Abbaye and Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint winner Glass Slippers, Diamond Jubilee Stakes scorer Dream Of Dreams, Champions Sprint Stakes victor Donjuan Triumphant, and Prix Jacques le Marois winner Al Wukair. His daughters have added to his appeal; among their number is 2023 British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes winner Poptronic and the Listed-winning Poule d’Essai des Poulains runner-up Texas. For breeders looking for a dependable producer of high-class middl ddledistance, stayiing or even jumping talent, Golden Horn looks just the ticket. He stands at a Overbury for £10,000, a fraction ti off the fee he commanded when starting out at Darley, but he nonetheless enjoyed a purple patch last season with notable winners arriving almost every weekend. They included Long Distance Cup winner Trawlerman, Queen’s Vase victor Gregory and Italian Derby hero Goldenas, plus

✪ STAR VALUE ✪ Dream Ahead Proven sire of top-class performers at a snip of a fee Golden Horn Consistent source of Pattern and Listed-class winners Make Believe Two-year-olds from 2023 promise a fruitful time ahead

Group 3 winners Caius Chorister and Haskoy. The Anthony Oppenheimerbred champion is bubbling along nicely with his early jumps performers, including Grade 2 winners Nusret and Stag Horn, plus Gerry Feilden Handicap Hurdle winner and Christmas Hurdle third First Street. Haydock Listed winner Pawapuri is another to have done her sire a good turn. All in all, Golden Horn looks attractively priced for anyone looking to breed an athlete, be it for the Flat or jumps. Darley veteran Iffraaj’s prowess at getting top-class runners is long established and the sire of Wootton Bassett, Rizeena and Ribchester stands out at a fee of £10,000 even at the age of 23. At that level, the Zafonic horse looks a good option for any breeder looking to get a young mare started. Another Darley stalwart in Raven’s Pass likewise catches Raven s P the eyye at €7,500. The dangan sire has Kild prroduced four ndividual Group or in Grade 1 winners, but G his h record as a broodmare sire is b arrguably where he is layying down a legacy. His daughters have turned up u trump cards in Mishriff and Saffron Beach, while Group scorer and Dewhurst second Dubawi Legend is another with Raven’s Pass as broodmare sire. Speaking of Mishriff, his own sire Make Believe is another who looks very good value at an unchanged fee of €10,000 at Ballylinch Stud. His 14 individual two-year-old winners last year included smart sorts like five-and-a-half-length Listed Prix Saraca scorer Sajir, carrying the same Prince Faisal silks as did his sire, as well as decent older performers such as Meld Stakes winner Self Belief. Preceding them in recent seasons have been, among others, Believe In Love and Rose Of Kildare, both three-time Group 3 winners.

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Established stallions standing in Britain and Ireland for £10,000/€12,500 or less Name

Sire

Stud

Dark Angel

Meelin, Ire

€1,000

Al Kazeem

Dubawi

Oakgrove, UK

Altruistic

Galileo

Rosshill, Ire

Arctic Cosmos

North Light

Arrigo

Ask

Alhebayeb

Age

Fee No. covered in 2023

Kuroshio

Exceed And Excel

Starfield, Ire

Leading Light

Montjeu

Longford House, Ire

€5,000

poa

private

Le Cadre Noir

Danetime

€500

Libertarian

New Approach

Sweep Lane, Ire

private

Knockhouse, Ire

poa

Old Road, Ire

€2,500

Mahler

Galileo

Coolmore NH, Ire

€4,500

136

Shirocco

Yorton Farm, UK

£2,000

Make Believe

Sadler’s Wells

Willow Wood, UK

£2,000

Maxios

Makfi

Ballylinch, Ire

€10,000

Monsun

Coolmore NH, Ire

€4,000

241

Assertive

Bold Eagle

Throckmorton Court, UK

£2,500

Mayson

Invincible Spirit

Springfield House, Ire

€4,250

Authorized

Montjeu

Capital, Ire

private

Monitor Closely

Oasis Dream

Roveagh Lodge, Ire

€2,000

Bated Breath

Dansili

Banstead Manor, UK

£10,000

Nutan

Duke Of Marmalade

Vauterhill, UK

private

Bullet Train

Sadler’s Wells

Woodfield Farm, Ire

private

Ocovango

Monsun

Alne Park, UK

£4,500

Bungle Inthejungle

Exceed And Excel

Rathasker, Ire

€7,500

Passing Glance

Polar Falcon

Batsford, UK

£3,000

Court Cave

Sadler’s Wells

Boardsmill, Ire

€4,000

Pether’s Moon

Dylan Thomas

Yorton Farm, UK

£2,500

Diamond Boy

Mansonnien

Kilbarry Lodge, Ire

poa

242

Planteur

Danehill Dancer

Chapel, UK

£4,000

Dink

Poligote

Alne Park, UK

£3,000

Policy Maker

Sadler’s Wells

Blackrath, Ire

private

Dragon Dancer

Sadler’s Wells

Nunstainton, UK

£1,500

Primary

Giant’s Causeway

Tullyraine House, UK

poa

Dream Ahead

Diktat

Bearstone, UK

£6,500

Racinger

Spectrum

Foxwood, Ire

€3,000

Eastern Anthem

Singspiel

Withyslade, UK

£1,250

Rajsaman

Linamix

Longford House, Ire

Eliot

Tiger Hill

Blackrath, Ire

€1,000

Raven’s Pass

Elusive Quality

Elusive Pimpernel

Elusive Quality

Irish National, Ire

€2,000

Saddex

Equiano

Acclamation

Irish National, Ire

€2,000

Saddler’s Rock

Falco

Pivotal

Nunstainton, UK

£2,000

Sans Frontieres

Famous Name

Dansili

Anngrove, Ire

€1,000

Feel Like Dancing

Galileo

Whytemount, Ire

€2,000

Footstepsinthesand

Giant’s Causeway

Coolmore, Ire

€8,000

Frammassone

Fraam

Tenbury Wells, UK

Free Eagle

High Chaparral

Anngrove, Ire

Fuisse

Green Tune

Roveagh Lodge, Ire

Gamut

Spectrum

Rosshill, Ire

Gentlewave

Monsun

Yorton Farm, UK

Geordieland

Johann Quatz

Grazemoor Farm, UK

poa

Kildangan, Ire

€7,500

Sadler’s Wells

Blackrath, Ire

€2,000

Sadler’s Wells

Grazemoor Farm, UK

poa

Galileo

Vauterhill, UK

poa

Schiaparelli

Monsun

Overbury, UK

£2,000

Scorpion

Montjeu

Old Road, Ire

€2,500

Sea Moon

Beat Hollow

Burgage, Ire

€4,000

£1,000

Shantaram

Galileo

Coolagown, Ire

€1,000

poa

Shirocco

Monsun

Glenview, Ire

private

€2,000

Sholokhov

Sadler’s Wells

Old Road, Ire

private

poa

Sixties Icon

Galileo

Norman Court, UK

£3,000

private

Snow Sky

Nayef

Ballycurragh, Ire

poa

Soldier Of Fortune

Galileo

Coolmore NH, Ire

€6,000

Getaway

Monsun

Coolmore NH, Ire

€5,000

Swiss Spirit

Invincible Spirit

Batsford, UK

£2,000

Gladiatorus

Silic

Windmill View, Ire

poa

Telescope

Galileo

Shade Oak, UK

£3,000

Golden Horn

Cape Cross

Overbury, UK

£10,000

180

Tirwanako

Sin Kiang

Knockhouse, Ire

poa

Gregorian

Clodovil

Rathasker, Ire

€4,500

Top Trip

Dubai Destination

Vauterhill, UK

private

Hellvelyn

Ishiguru

Chapel, UK

£2,500

Universal

Dubawi

Plumton Hall, UK

private

Hillstar

Danehill Dancer

Garryrichard, Ire

€1,500

Vendangeur

Galileo

Anngrove, Ire

private

Holy Roman Emperor

Danehill

Coolmore, Ire

€8,000

Well Chosen

Sadler’s Wells

Kedrah House, Ire

poa

Iffraaj

Zafonic

Dalham Hall, UK

£10,000

Westerner

Danehill

Coolmore NH, Ire

€4,000

Jet Away

Cape Cross

Arctic Tack, Ire

private

104

Workforce

King’s Best

Knockhouse, Ire

poa

225

Jeu St Eloi

Saint Des Saints

Glenview, Ire

private

Yeats

Sadler’s Wells

Coolmore NH, Ire

€4,000

124

Jukebox Jury

Montjeu

Burgage, Ire

private

169

Yorgunnabelucky

Giant’s Causeway

Mickley, UK

£2,500

Kap Rock

Video Rock

Knockhouse, Ire

private

Youmzain

Sinndar

Glenview, Ire

private

Kingston Hill

Mastercraftsman

Nunstainton, UK

£3,000

Zambezi Sun

Dansili

Coolagown, Ire

€2,000

His progeny generally progress well with age and are genuine and tough, just like the globetrotting millionaire and multiple Group 1 hero Mishriff, who belatedly begins his own stud career at Haras de Montfort et Preaux. Nunstainton Stud resident and St Leger winner Kingston Hill must hold considerable

appeal for British National Hunt breeders at his fee of £3,000, likewise Alne Park Stud’s Ocovango, responsible for last season’s Slaney Novice Hurdle winner Champ Kiely and now standing for an increased, but still very reasonable, £4,500. Both stallions supply winners on a regular basis, have Graded winners to their

name and have their first British-bred crop coming down the tracks. Blackrath studmates Saddex – sire of Grade 1 winner and this season’s Desert Orchid Chase winner Editeur Du Gite – and Eliot would not be the only stallions to whom this applies but both are available with filly foal discounts.

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Saddex stands for €2,000, or €1,000 for a filly, while Eliot’s fee is just €1,000 plus there is a filly foal concession. In an era when racing opportunities, and sales ring prices, for fillies and mares are on the rise, such offers are worth bearing in mind. Chapel Stud’s excellent dual-purpose sire Planteur, responsible for champion

stayer Trueshan and Gran Premio Jockey Club winner Road To Arc, consistently produces winners on the Flat and over jumps, with three black-type winners in the jumps arena to go with his 12 stakes performers on the Flat. He once again stands for £4,000 and looks a rock-solid option for breeders on a budget.

One footnote to the established stallions list is that Willow Wood Farm’s Ask, the Coronation Cup and Prix Royal-Oak winner, and sire of recent Grade 1 Challow Novices’ Hurdle runner-up Lookaway, is potentially being retired. Should he return to stud duty, his fee will be a tempting £2,000. KITTY TRICE

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