Breeding on a budget

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Your essential guide to finding value in the stallion ranks

Breeding On A Budget

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N 2006 the Arctic Monkeys played a supporting role on the NME Tour, travelling around university venues to play in front of gatherings in the hundreds for about £15 a go.

This month, social media went into meltdown as the same band announced the first of their live shows for 2018, when they will play to many thousands of adoring fans for a good deal more money than they did 12 years ago.

It is this same principle that guides the way for breeders working on a budget, the dream being to unearth the next big thing the rest of us have yet to pick up on.

Who, then, is this year’s hidden gem? Who is the next Dark Angel, the emerging force who stood for as little as €7,000 back in 2011 before his fee rocketed to its current €85,000?

In the coming pages, Racing Post Bloodstock’s team of experts will bid to answer that very question, with Martin Stevens taking a look back through the 2017 season to demonstrate what can be achieved on a budget.

Elsewhere, ANZ Bloodstock News’s Jack Keene introduces this year’s class of reverse shuttlers, which includes the first son of Australian sensation Snitzel to stand in Europe, while our expert jury answer the key questions.

With so much variety in the stallion ranks for 2018, the next big thing is surely out there at a price that will have breeders singing: “I bet that you look good in the breeding shed!”

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Librisa Breeze

6-year-old grey gelding Mount NelsonBruxcalina (Linamix) The sprint ace – who landed the British Champions Sprint in October to take his lifetime earnings to £675,000 – is by Mount Nelson, who achieved the extraordinary feat of supplying top-level winners over 6f and 3m in 2017, with Penhill having taken the Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival. A true dual-purpose sire, Mount Nelson stands at Boardsmill Stud in County Meath at a fee of just €5,000.

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Havana Grey

3 gr c Havana Gold-Blanc De Chine (Dark Angel)

Another fine advertisement for using sires in their first season: Havana Grey was bred by Mickley Stud and Lady Lonsdale when they sent their mare Blanc De Chine – sold for 28,000gns at the end of her racing career – to Havana Gold when he was standing his debut season at Tweenhills for £8,500. The colt, a 42,000gns foal/€70,000 yearling, was one of the most admirable juveniles around last season, winning three black-type contests including the Molecomb Stakes and finishing second in the Prix Morny and Flying Childers Stakes.

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If you were make it big, Beat The Bank

4 b g Paco Boy-Tiana (Diktat)

The second crop of Paco Boy, who now stands in Turkey, yielded top miler Galileo Gold and his third contained Beat The Bank, who took the Sir Henry Cecil Stakes, Thoroughbred Stakes and Joel Stakes last year. Beat The Bank’s breeder Fiona Denniff is the epitome of a shrewd operator on a budget; she bred the gelding’s dam Tiana from Diktat when he stood at a fee of £10,000, sold her to Godolphin as a yearling for 90,000gns, and bought her back after her racing career for 35,000gns before sending her to Paco Boy.

The Tin Man

6 b g Equiano-Persario (Bishop Of Cashel) Elizabeth Grundy sent her mare Persario to Equiano when he was standing his first season at Newsells Park Stud at a fee of £8,000 to produce The Tin Man, who landed the Diamond Jubilee Stakes last year and finished third in the Haydock Sprint Cup to go with his earlier victories in the British Champions Sprint and Hackwood Stakes. Equiano – also sire of last year’s Group 3-winning sprinter Lady Macapa, sold for 170,000gns in December – is available once again at £8,000 at Newsells Park in 2018.

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CONTENTS 4-5 Expert jury 6 This year’s visiting stallions from Australia 8-9 The leading ‘budget’ stallions of 2017 10-11 Interview: Whitsbury Manor Stud’s Ed Harper 12-23 The Directory: British and Irish-based sires standing for a fee of £10,000/ €12,500 or less

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5 b h Showcasing-Bird Key (Cadeaux Genereux)

Showcasing was the stuff of dreams for breeders on a budget: available for just £5,000 and then £4,500 in his first years at Whitsbury Manor Stud before he demonstrated he was an excellent source of pacey and precocious stock and his value skyrocketed. The average price for his last two yearling crops bred during those early years was £53,000 and £46,000 with a high of 330,000gns.

Last year’s Duke of York Stakes winner Tasleet, also second in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes, Haydock Sprint Cup and British Champions Sprint, was a nugget who Whitsbury Manor Stud bred from their own goldmine sire.

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3 b c Society Rock-Unfortunate (Komaite)

3 b c Bated Breath-Whirly Dancer (Danehill Dancer)

A reminder why breeders persist with playing the crap shoot that is using new sires. Society Rock was advertised at just €8,000 in his first season at Tally-Ho Stud but his first yearlings were in hot demand – selling for up to 210,000gns – and he duly delivered, finishing last season as leading freshman.

Unfortunately, bred by Tally-Ho Stud and sold to trainer Karl Burke for €24,000 as a yearling, was the best of the sire’s four runners with RPRs of 100-plus. Sadly, Society Rock is no longer around, but perhaps Unfortunately could develop into a brilliant budget sire himself if he joins the stallion roster of his new owner Cheveley Park Stud.

If you’re a breeder intending to sell the produce as a yearling, using a sire in their second season at stud can be a risk as the market might have taken a dislike to them if they deem them to have not made a strong enough start with their early two-year-olds. However, Joyce Wallsgrove got the judgement right by sending her 9,500gns buy Whirly Dancer to Bated Breath in his second season at Banstead Manor Stud when his fee was £8,000. The resultant colt was sold as a foal for 58,000gns and later resold to Gordon Elliott, for whom he won the Railway Stakes and finished second in the Phoenix Stakes and National Stakes under the name of Beckford.

He is now set to continue his racing career in America.

CAN BE DONE Limato

6 b g Tagula-Come April (Singspiel)

Most budget breeding success stories come from getting into inexpensive sires at ground level before their reputations and fees soar. But remember: there’s many a good tune played on an old fiddle. For evidence, look no further than Tagula, who came up with the brilliant Limato – placed in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes and July Cup and on the mark in the Challenge Stakes last year. Tagula is about to embark on his 22nd season at his long-term home Rathbarry Stud at a fee of just €4,000.

Won Sandy Lane Stakes Gr.2 6f Won Hungerford Stakes Gr.2 7f

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Andrew Black

Mark Clarke

Peter Ebdon

Alex Elliott

Betfair founder and breeder

Wardstown Stud owner

Snooker champion and pedigree analyst

Bloodstock agent

Spill The Beans is a speedy son of Snitzel who could continue the success of Australian stallions in Britain; Ultra, who offers rare precocity from the Monsun line, which is intriguing, plus he catches the eye as an outcross; and Recorder, a precocious son of Galileo with a big pedigree and a large action.

Barney Roy is an obvious choice with his solid Group 1 form – he has good looks to match and is bound to be popular. Divine Prophet has a lot going for him and is by an established sire of sires in Choisir. He’s sure to get great-looking stock. It would also be hard to overlook Brametot, who, as a dual Classic winner in France, is also an interesting outcross.

I’m fascinated by the genetic potential of sending Harbour Watch mares to Time Test in particular, and to other sons of Dubawi, and wouldn’t be too surprised if a Group 1 winner was bred that way. I’ll also be closely following the careers of Attendu, El Kabeir and Spill The Beans. All can do very well with genetically compatible mares.

Yeomanstown Stud’s play for El Kabeir was an intelligent move and I’m sure they’ll be rewarded handsomely. I find him hard to crib on any level, especially price. Cotai Glory finds himself housed in one of the best studs in Ireland for producing a young commercial stallion. I managed to see Spill The Beans and was impressed with what I saw. He has a great chance if supported properly.

), who Brazen Beau (right), offers quality Australian speed and whose foals sold well last year; he’s a son of I Am Invincible and may have had a nice book of mares to promote his claims. Also Gutaifan, a good-looking son of Acclamation who was well received at the foal sales.

Epaulette has had a very encouraging start with his first runners and I expect him to build on this. Reliable Man has made a remarkable start, siring a number of stakes winners in both hemispheres from his first crop.

Cannock Chase has the potential to sire a Group 1 horse, especially from Exceed And Excel mares, and he represents outstanding value for money, for the right mare. I also really like the chances of Dariyan and Marcel and they can both be very successful, if seeing compatible mares.

Always a tough year for the new stallions from the preceding year but I believe Vadamos and Pride Of Dubai are two who will prove better than their current fees in time.

War Command. The price has fallen for this superstar two-year-old who didn’t train on, but his first two-year-olds might turn that around.

Bated Breath is looking as though he could be a serious stallion – he’s made great strides in a short time and looks to be on an upward curve. Excelebration is now value for money and should be popular with breeders. Two stallions yet to have runners who have impressed me with their toughness on the track and their physical attributes are Mehmas and Vadamos.

French Navy looks certain to sire Group winners from Danehill-line mares and my clients have some very nice matings to look forward to by him, Garswood and Mukhadram, especially. I envisage all three stallions will do very well indeed and they’re all outstanding value for money.

Gutaifan (below) had some very smart, strong foals and people didn’t mind paying for them. I was also impressed with Cable Bay’s first crop.

Which older or more established sires are worth using at those prices?

Farhh. The cover price has been falling for this miler-son of Pivotal, but with signs of life in the ring and on the course he may yet make his mark as a stallion.

It’s got to be Tamayuz, now a Classic sire and a consistent source of stakes horses. His stats are amazing and I’ve used him from the start. I feel Equiano is somewhat underrated for what he’s achieved. I like his stock because they’re tough and he shouldn’t be overlooked.

Pour Moi represents great value, especially for mares with a male strain of Zeddaan, as proven by last year’s Derby winner Wings Of Eagles. I’ve also designed potentially top matings for clients to Equiano, Poet’s Voice, Fast Company, Mayson and Cityscape this year. Again, all great value for money.

Sir Percy is a stallion who I have a lot of time for and can get you sales horses, two-year-olds, stayers and even National Hunt horses.

Bated Breath is one who I firmly believe will prove himself to be of premiership calibre in years to come.

Any tips for sourcing a mare cheaply to send to those stallions?

Look for well-related three-year-old fillies who are healthy, a fair size but not overly big, but who were a little too weak for racing, in order to send to smaller and stronger stallions. Always have a first mating in mind before you buy.

Patience at a sale is important, especially in heated trade.

Sometimes perhaps a very well-bred mare who has had a few foals by the wrong stallions can be the shrewdest way of getting into good blood.

We’re now retaining fillies out of stakes-producing mares as this is the ultimate way to restock your farm, knowing the families and what works best with them.

Snap up a Sixties Icon mare.

They have the potential to produce top-class Group winners by Mayson and Equiano in particular. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if either stallion ultimately produced their very best horse from a Sixties Icon mare.

You’re not going to be able to tick every box of performance, pedigree and physical if buying with a limited budget, but you must try to have two.

Performance is, in my opinion, the least important. If it came down to one, I’d nearly always go for physical, as that’s what is predominantly judged in the sales ring.

JURY Which new sires who stand at £10,000/€12,500 or less offer best value for money?

Your pick of last year’s first-season sires in that price bracket?

Which other young sires in that range take your fancy?

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Jonathon Smithers

Willie Twiston-Davies

Car Colston Hall Stud manager

Former jockey

A snip above at the price, but Aclaim looks good value at £12,500. He was a tough, consistent performer finishing second to Brando in the Prix Maurice de Gheest and finally got his head in front in the Foret. He looks good value as a winner at two, three and four and being a Group 1-winning son of Acclamation.

Aclaim. He’s slightly outside the bracket at £12,500 but I think he’ll prove good value for money. He won the Foret, was progressive throughout his career and is a good-looking horse, so his stock should sell well. A lot of people are supporting him and I’m sure he’ll continue to be marketed well, especially being with the National Stud.

Farhh (right) has started encouragingly, considering he’s had smaller crops than most. A Group-1 winning son of Pivotal with a Group winner [Wells Farhh Go] in his first crop, I’m happy to use him at £10,000.

I think horses by Maxios [first two-year-olds in 2017] will improve with age. I bought a foal by him who looks a nice type and, for me, he’s similar to Nathaniel in that his two-year-olds are never going to be the best but will improve as they get older. He throws nice stock.

Elzaam has done okay in the ring and on the track. A son of Redoute’s Choice, he’s not bad value at €6,000. Fascinating Rock was a good racehorse, rated 127. He beat some good horses and is reasonably priced at €10,000.

Gutaifan is a son of Dark Angel whose stock all sold really well and he has all the right people supporting him.

Tamayuz is probably undervalued at €12,500. He always seems to produce black-type horses. He had two Group/Grade 1 winners last year in Precieuse and Blond Me and his yearlings always seem to sell well at the sales.

Excelebration. His horses seem to run and his strike-rate is good enough.

He’s been represented by Barney Roy and other smart horses like Dream Castle. He produces winners and he had a lovely foal at the December Sale I really liked.

Buying an older mare can sometimes be a cheaper way to get into some of the better pedigrees.

The first thing you have to look for at the sales is something you think represents value. For Excelebration and Maxios, they both produce horses who stay, so you could be looking to send speedier mares to them to hurry the process up. If you can get a black-type mare to them, they’re value for money and usually sell well.

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Jack Keene of ANZ Bloodstock News with the lowdown on this year’s stallion visitors from Australia

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OR those breeders without a substantial bankroll who are open-minded about partnering their mare with a less familiar name, a visit to an Australian reverse shuttler could offer excellent value.

More often than not, the southern hemisphere-based sires stand for a fraction of the fee when travelling to Europe, and for the first time this year breeders will be able to tap into the bloodline of the hottest property in Australia.

Arrowfield Stud-based champion sire Snitzel has swept all before him over the past two years and now commands a career-high fee of A$176,000 in the Hunter Valley, and his Group 2-winning son Spill The Beans will stand for just £6,000 at the National Stud in Newmarket.

An imposing physical specimen and a three-parts brother to the Group 2 winner Kenedna, the horse was unbeaten as a two-year-old and went on to win the Group 2 QTC Cup in Brisbane the following season. He stood his first season at Aquis Farm in 2016 for a fee of A$11,000 (£6,275/€7,153).

His father has shown his versatility in siring a variety of Group 1 winners, from top-class sprinters in Redzel and Sizzling to a brilliant miler in Wandjina and a Cox Plate hero in Shamus Award, and if Spill The Beans can inherit those potent genes he ought to develop into a classy stallion.

Brazen Beau is a sire breeders will have been acquainted with over the last few years, with the former Chris Waller-trained sprinter returning for his third season in Britain at Darley’s Dalham Hall Stud at a fee of £7,000.

He is a son of leading stallion I Am Invincible, who took the recent Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale by storm with 38 yearlings selling for a total of A$17,960,000 (£10,246,784/€11,680,594).

Brazen Beau, who hails from the family of several stakes winners, came within half a length of landing the Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot in 2015 when second to Undrafted having ploughed a

Four wonders from down under (clockwise from top left): Exceed And Excel, Fastnet Rock, Epaulette and Helmet

Targeting reverse shuttlers can put you ahead of the game

lone furrow on the stands’ rail, although he was twice successful at the highest level in Australia.

His first crop of yearlings averaged A$135,952 at the Gold Coast and he looks a viable budget option, particularly when you consider that his grandsire Invincible Spirit will command a fee of €120,000 at the Irish National Stud this year.

Another top-class performer who has shuttled to Britain in recent years is Helmet, the three-time Group 1 winner who is a three-quarters brother to dual top-level winner and fellow reverse shuttler Epaulette.

Having been crowned champion first season sire in Ireland in 2016, he has several crops on the ground in Europe and has enjoyed

notable success over the past two years with dual Group 1 winner Thunder Snow.

The son of Exceed And Excel will stand for a fee of £12,000 at Dalham Hall Stud this year, while his close relation Epaulette, who made such a promising start with his first European crop last year with 13 individual winners in Britain alone, will stand for just €7,000 at Kildangan Stud.

Ireland will be introduced to an exciting new stallion this year in Divine Prophet, who was Group 1-placed as a juvenile and enjoyed Classic success in Australia in 2016 when landing the Caulfield Guineas.

The son of Choisir is a brother to Group 3-winning Thunder Snow: has flown the flag for his reverse shuttle sire Helmet

Rich Hill Stud-based stallion Proisir, and his services were in high demand in his first season at Emirates Park, where he stands on behalf of Aquis Farm, covering a book of 170 mares at a fee of A$22,000.

He will shuttle to Tara Stud, something of a coup for the County Meath-based operation, and he will command a fee of €7,500.

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N AN intriguing move, high-class sprinter Counterattack will shuttle to Gestüt Karlshof in Germany for a fee of just €6,500.

A son of Arrowfield-based champion and former shuttler Redoute’s Choice, he came close to registering a top-flight success when second in the Doomben 10,000 last May, and he boasts an impressive pedigree being a half-brother to Group 1 winners Red Tracer and Shellscrape.

The well-related, Group 1-winning juvenile Pride Of Dubai will return to Europe this year with the five-year-old – a half-brother to South African Group 2 winner Enaad from the family of Invincible Spirit – due to stand for a fee of €15,000 at Coolmore Stud.

At the upper end of the market, champion stallions Fastnet Rock and Exceed And Excel will be back once again.

The pair have sired 43 Group 1 winners between them and will stand for €70,000 and €50,000 at Coolmore Stud and Kildangan Stud.

Fastnet Rock and Exceed And Excel are the paragons of successful dual-hemisphere stallions and if this year’s newcomers Counterattack, Divine Prophet and Spill The Beans can achieve only a fraction of what they have, they will have done all right. vvJack Keene is a writer for ANZ Bloodstock News

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LETHAL FORCE

FIRST RUNNERS IN 2018

Gr.1 winning sprinter by DUTCH ART

Dual Gr.1 winning Champion Sprinter by DARK ANGEL

Black Type winner at 2, 3 and 4 First crop yearlings at the major sales averaged over 10 times his fee, fetching 140,000gns, 98,000gns, €100,000, etc.

2017 yearlings made up to 115,000gns

Fee:

Sire of 25 individual first crop winners in 2017 including the Stakes horses LETHAL STEPS, MOKAATIL and WOULD BE KING.

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£6,000

£10,000

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TWILIGHT SON

The highest-rated sprinter by Invincible Spirit standing at stud Sire of 11 individual 2yo Stakes horses from his first 2 crops, including LR winners DANCE DIVA (Gr.3 placed) and RAYDIANCE, and the Gr.2 placed MAY GIRL and MAYSON JUNIOR.

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Sires who did not cost the earth yet delivered the goods Martin Stevens on the leading sires of 2017 who stood within the budget of most ordinary breeders

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ROODMARE owners on a budget can admire Galileo and Dubawi from afar but, when it comes to making mating plans, those elite breed-shapers are an irrelevance. Always were out of their price range, always will be.

Instead, their focus is on inexpensive young sires in the hope they outperform their fee and rise through the ranks, or better-established names who may not have hit the heights but are still able to throw a talented performer.

Removing all of those stallions who are not standing in Britain and Ireland for £10,000/€12,500 or less from last year’s table of leading sires by progeny earnings gives some of those still very useful older sires their turn in the spotlight.

It does not, of course, contain any sires without progeny yet; and before we get on to their elder counterparts who excelled last year, it’s worth a small digression to reflect on the eight stallions who featured in the top 20 and were filleted due to them commanding large fees in 2018, but who were available to breeders for budget prices before their progeny ran.

They were, in order of their position in the table: Dark Angel, Kodiac, Acclamation, Iffraaj, Invincible Spirit, Exceed And Excel, Pivotal and Dansili.

Seven of the octet could be termed sprinters, apart from the high-class miler Dansili, while six achieved best Racing Post Ratings of at least 118

apart from, intriguingly, the two highest-placed finishers, Dark Angel (114) and Kodiac (111).

Three are by the great Danehill (Dansili, Exceed And Excel and Kodiac) but the likes of Acclamation – by Royal Applause – and Pivotal, a son of Polar Falcon, have illustrated that it can sometimes pay to take a chance on a newcomer from a less conventional sire-line.

Many boasted strong distaff pedigrees too: the half-brothers Kodiac and Invincible Spirit, out of Prix de Diane heroine Rafha; Dansili, a son of blue

LEADING SIRES O 201 Stallion

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hen Hasili; Acclamation, out of Queen Mary Stakes winner Princess Athena; and Pivotal and Iffraaj, maternal grandsons of Group 1 scorers Stufida and Park Appeal respectively.

An eye-opener, considering the premium that many commercial breeders place on early juvenile form, is that only Dark Angel, Exceed And Excel and Invincible Spirit among that group scored in a stakes race at two.

So, generally, those rags-to-riches

stallions who excelled with their progeny last year and are now towards the top of price tariffs serve to remind that breeders Wings Of Eagles: Derby-winning son of Pour Moi

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Sta e

inner

rogen earning

16 4140

20 16313

2

£1,347,778

53 13540

73 72311

1

£1,166,045

23 7631

29 3668

1

£1,105,638

51 15633

76 8469

2

£1,089,008

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Next generation: the focus of breeders on a budget is on inexpensive young sires in the hope they outperform their fee and rise through the ranks

HO ARE STANDING 201 AT £10,000/ £10,000/€12,500 £10,000/€ 12,500 OR LESS

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Pour Moi

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xcelebration

30 7839

47 35114

3

£1,062,625

Champs lysees

37 10934

58 45713

3

£986,565

Fast Company

46 11042

69 63811

3

£897,384

Footstepsinthesand

36 10634

62 57311

0

£851,299

37 9838

57 6439

3

£843,895

Rock Of Gibraltar Bated Breath

40 10240

58 46213

1

£785,634

Tamayuz

19 5535

35 31612

5

£764,889

Raven sPass

37 8445

60 40715

4

£685,428

Sir Percy

40 10738

66 57012

1

£643,440

Mayson

31 7840

43 40911

2

£629,348

Pastoral Pursuits

38 9540

73 65512

1

£609,944

Dandy Man

40 13131

58 7129

0

£595,053

Helmet

32 10132

39 4429

2

£489,276

Tagula

18 5235

29 3339

1

£486,764

Dylan Thomas

18 3947

32 25513

2

£481,730

Clodovil

26 7237

39 40410

0

£471,435

Sir Prancealot

34 8242

58 45913

0

£457,578

Sixties Icon

24 8329

32 4058

1

£456,104

21 5638

31 28711

0

£415,199

Born To Sea

26 6540

35 34511

1

£410,464

Dragon Pulse

26 6143

36 36210

0

£406,742

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Dark Angel

€7,000 2010and 2011

€85,000

£3,843,952

Kodiac

€4,000 2009and 2010

€50,000

£2,564,845

€9,000 2005to 2007

€40,000

£2,185,370

£40,000

£2,152,377

€10,000 2003to 2006

€120,000

£1,851,680

£7,500 2006

€50,000

£1,755,964

£5,000 1999to 2001

£40,000

£1,663,052

£65,000

£1,363,189

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€6,000 2010

£8,000 2001

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using affordable, unproven stallions should be looking to tick as many of the boxes of performance, pedigree and physique as possible, but perhaps do not need to worry about fashion so much when it comes to precocity and popular sire-lines.

Jump to it

Back to those longer-serving sires who figured highly in the 2017 British and Irish Flat sire standings, and a clear lesson emerges as all of Pour Moi – who tops the table when pricier stallions are removed – third-placed Mount Nelson, sixth-placed Champs Elysees and Dylan Thomas, further down the line, are now marketed primarily as jumps sires.

Pour Moi, on the mark with Derby hero Wings Of Eagles, is available at just €5,000 at Grange Stud; Mount Nelson, source of British Champions Sprint winner Librisa Breeze, is pitched at €5,000 at Boardsmill Stud; Champs Elysees, sire of the classy Barsanti, is available for €6,500 at Castle Hyde Stud; and Dylan Thomas, whose sons Caspian Prince, Dylan Mouth and Spark Plug landed decent prizes in 2017, is also at Castle Hyde with an advertised price of €5,000.

All might be on National Hunt rosters, but they have proved to varying degrees they are capable of coming up with useful Flat performers even if – especially in the case of Dylan Thomas, retired to stud at a fee of €50,000 – they have not lived up to early expectations. There is nothing to stop Flat breeders using them, in particular owner-breeders without a commercial imperative,

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Mukhadram

Shamardal - Magic Tree

although the shrewdest sales ring judges should appreciate a well-conformed individual by any of the above.

Finding his voice

Second to Pour Moi among the cheapies in last year’s sire standings was Poet’s Voice who, after a somewhat slow start with his early progeny, shifted things up a gear or two in 2017.

The son of Dubawi has a possible Group 1 winner in waiting for him in 2018 in the shape of five-year-old Poet’s Word, who progressed through the handicap marks to finish second in the Irish and British Champion Stakes. If you infer from Poet’s Word that the sire’s progeny need time, you would be mistaken, as Poet’s Voice supplied a slew of juvenile winners in 2017, more in Europe indeed than any other sires bar those sources of precocity par excellence Kodiac and Dark Angel.

The reputation of Poet’s Voice had taken quite a knock since 2015, when his first two-year-olds emerged, and his opening yearling average price in Britain and Ireland of £108,000 had fallen to £25,000 by 2016. But that figure recovered to £35,000 in 2017 in the wake of Poet’s Word et al, and the sire’s career-low fee of £6,000 at Dalham Hall Stud in 2018 leaves more room for profit.

Best of the rest

Newsells Park Stud resident Equiano continues to produce a steady stream of smart sprinters – notably The Tin Man, Lady Macapa and Final

Venture in 2017 – and his yearlings sold for up to £120,000. At £8,000 he appears to be a fair bet.

Excelebration was responsible for one of the very best three-year-olds in Europe last year in Barney Roy. He was no one-horse sire, though, as he had two stakes-winning two-year-olds, Rebel Assault and Speak In Colours, as well as the close Middle Park Stakes fourth Hey Jonesy.

There should be plenty more to come from Excelebration, so his reduced fee of €8,000 at Coolmore looks quite attractive.

Fast Company warrants a good word too. Even after the Kildangan Stud resident’s star offspring Jet Setting had been retired, he kept up momentum in 2017 with a creditable 42 per cent winners-to-runners strike-rate in Britain and Ireland and three individual stakes winners. His yearlings seemed popular with trainers at the sales.

So those were the leading budget sires in 2017. One last thought: having started by saying the likes of Galileo and Dubawi are beyond the means of most reading this, it should be remembered there are more cost-effective ways of tapping into their genes, through buying and breeding from their affordable daughters.

Those mares – and there are daughters of Galileo and Dubawi plus the likes of Dark Angel, Shamardal and so on at the coming mixed winter sales – could potentially upgrade a mating with your choice of cheaper sire.

Barney Roy: the son of Excelebration was one of the best three-year-olds of 2017

GROUP 1-WINNING SON OF SHAMARDAL

Yearlings sold for up to £200,000 and averaged more than five times his fee

£7,000(1st JAN, SLF)

Nayef

Gulch - Height Of Fashion

CONSISTENT SOURCE OF HIGH-CLASS WINNERS 55% lifetime winners-to-runners

£5,000(1st JAN, SLF)

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‘We’re trying to breed horses who can be bought by syndicates who want early action at two’ Mark Scully talks to Ed Harper as the director of Whitsbury Manor Stud eagerly awaits the season ahead

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EARTACHE’S dominant victory in the Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot was a moment of great significance for Whitsbury Manor Stud and its director, Ed Harper, who lives for precisely such results.

Harper makes no secret of the fact Whitsbury Manor Stud is geared towards producing precocious two-year-olds and standing stallions capable of making that happen. As far as Harper is concerned, it is the way to go for anybody in the market unable to spend in the region of £50,000 or more on sending expensively sourced mares to Classic-producing stallions.

“When you’re talking about breeding on a budget, the best commercial option is to keep speed in your mares, keep speed in your stallions and try to breed good two-year-olds,” Harper says. “We’re trying to breed horses who can be bought by syndicates who want early action at two and that end of the market is where it’s healthiest.

“At the fun end of horse ownership, so to speak, that’s

what people want, the chance to go to the Coventry or the Queen Mary. We make no bones about the fact we try to breed the winners of those races here.”

Heartache landed the Queen Mary, and the Coventry has been narrowly missed on a couple of occasions but Harper is optimistic that can be put right before too long.

This interest in juvenile racing is not purely commercial for Harper. His passion for the division is there for all to see and he admits he finds himself looking forward to the Brocklesby from the moment the calendar flips over to January.

“I love two-year-old racing more than anything and try to watch every two-year-old race,” Harper says. “This year we’re going to have a lot to look forward to.”

He is not wrong. The most expensively bred two-year-olds

by Whitsbury Manor’s flagbearer, Showcasing, will hit the track in 2018 and while Harper has faith in their ability to enhance the reputation of their upwardly mobile sire, they are far from the only thing keeping him warm through the winter months.

There are high hopes too for Swiss Spirit, who will once again stand for £4,000 as his second crop of two-year-olds prepare to make their first appearances. The Group 1-winning son of Invincible Spirit was represented by 17 first-crop

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The most expensively bred two-year-olds by Whitsbury Manor flagbearer Showcasing will race in 2018. The stud, whose director is Ed Harper (left), is geared towards producing precocious juveniles and stallions capable of making that happen

winners in 2017 and Harper is confident the best is shortly to come.

“This is Swiss Spirit’s best crop of two-year-olds to my eyes, both in terms of numbers and the quality of mares they’re out of,” he says.

“He seemed to catch the imagination in his second season far more than he did in his first, which is strange for a commercially priced horse, as it’s usually the other way around. I’m very much looking forward to his two-year-olds but I’m just hoping for more sunshine this year, unlike last, because they have a strong bias towards being at their best on good to firm ground.

“Sometimes when we’re looking forward to a season, we’re looking for a certain weather type and I would always rather that a stallion, if they’re going to have a leaning towards one type of ground or another, be towards good to firm ground than soft. I think that produces more exciting racing and more exciting horses.”

If there is a true ‘breeding on a budget’ star among the Whitsbury Manor Stud roster, though, it could just be Due Diligence, whose first foals hit the market last year.

Harper is not afraid to draw comparisons between the respective profiles of Due Diligence and Showcasing when asked and it is not hard to see the similarities.

Showcasing arrived at stud with a fee of £5,000, thanks in large part to the lack of a Group 1 victory

on his CV. Due Diligence likewise failed to hit the target at the elite level but Harper argues it is here the son of War Front holds an advantage over his now proven stud mate.

“In terms of his ability, he might not be one who sticks out in people’s minds in terms of winning a big race because his best performance came when he was just pipped into second behind Slade Power in the July Cup, so people might need reminding what a good performance that was,” Harper explains.

“When they look up his three-year-old rating and match that up to the fact that War Front is a sensational sire of two-year-olds, it really makes for an exciting prospect.

“On ratings, he ran to a much higher mark than Showcasing ever did and has been able to get more support from ourselves than we were able to give Showcasing in his early career.”

It is not only the form book that has Harper excited about the

Due Diligence (left), whose first crop are yearlings of 2018, and Whitsbury Manor Stud-bred Heartache after her victory at Royal Ascot in the Queen Mary Stakes last season

prospects of Due Diligence, who was formerly trained by Aidan O’Brien. His first foals were well received by the market last year, with the highest price coming for Whitsbury’s own colt out of Amazed, who was knocked down to Glenvale Stud for 62,000gns at Tattersalls in November.

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ARPER says: “I would say his foals are a more even bunch and have created more of an impression at the sales than Showcasing’s ever did.

“They sold very well but what was most pleasing was more pinhookers were going out to buy a Due Diligence foal towards the end of the two weeks of foal selling than the beginning. That suggests he was gaining momentum and that people were clocking on to

the fact he was producing nice two-year-olds.

“If you could compare my feelings now to how I felt in January after Showcasing’s first foals had sold, I’m actually a lot more positive about Due Diligence. It’s nice to see that he’s building momentum and we’ve grown in confidence from what we’ve seen, so we’ll be sending him some of our best mares in this third year for him.”

Completing the Whitsbury Manor Stud roster for 2018 is Adaay, who will stand for a fee of £6,000, down from £7,000 in his first season. Harper is confident Adaay has every chance to succeed and feels he has covered the strongest first book of mares the stud has seen since the days of Cadeaux Genereux.

A dual Group 2-winning sprinter who boasts a victory over Limato on his CV, Adaay fits the mould of a Whitsbury Manor stallion and was the first son of the record-shattering producer of top two-year-olds Kodiac to head to stud.

“He’s expecting foals this year by either dams of or half-sisters to recent stars like Heartache, Nebo and Prince Of Lir among many others,” says Harper. “We’ve never had anything like that with a first-season horse.”

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The Directory

Martin Stevens on the value to be found for breeders among the British and Irish stallion ranks for less than £10,000/€12,500 New For 2018

New sires available at the upper end of what we class as a budget price – £10,000 or €12,500 and under – are two sons of noted stallion maker Invincible Spirit.

Profitable was just below the best at two, when he won a maiden, finished second in three competitive nurseries and finished fifth in the Cornwallis Stakes. But he got better with age, taking the Westow Stakes and running fifth in the Commonwealth Cup at three, reeling off a hat-trick in the Palace House Stakes, Temple Stakes and King’s Stand Stakes at four, and reaching the places in the King’s Stand Stakes, King George Stakes and Prix de l’Abbaye at five.

He has a fine pedigree to complement that race record as not only is he by Invincible Spirit but he is also out of a winning Indian Ridge mare who has produced nine winners in total, four of them black type, including Danidh Dubai, the dam of Listed winner Gamgoom.

Darley were perhaps a little generous introducing him to breeders at Kildangan Stud at €12,000, and they have reportedly had their hands bitten off.

The Irish National Stud has partnered with Sun Stud to secure the first son of its own flagship sire Invincible Spirit for its roster – National Defense, who swept to a four-and-a-half-length victory in the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere at two.

Although he made only two starts at three, he did at least show he had retained his ability by getting to within a length of Al Wukair when second in the Prix Djebel.

National Defense has a persuasive pedigree, as a half-brother to Listed-placed Cascading out of a Kingmambo half-sister to high-class pair Anna Salai and Iguazu Falls from Sheikh Mohammed’s fine family descended from Anna Paola that has also yielded the young Group 1 sire Helmet.

Speaking of Helmet, he was one of two sophomore sire sons of Exceed And Excel on the mark with a Group 1 winner in Europe in 2017, in his case

Mondialiste: the Arlington Million-winning son of Galileo will stand his debut season at Elwick Stud at a fee of £6,000

Find the freshman destined to become the next stud king courtesy of Thunder Snow’s success in the Prix Jean Prat.

The other was Excelebration, who was responsible for Barney Roy, who took the scalps of Lancaster Bomber, Thunder Snow and Churchill in the St James’s Palace Stakes before being carried out on his

shield with a nose second to Ulysses in the Coral-Eclipse and a third behind the same rival in the Juddmonte International.

Those efforts earned Barney Roy a lofty Racing Post Rating of 124 and mean he is one of the best recently retired

racehorses standing in this price range – just £10,000 at Dalham Hall Stud.

He hails from a fair family, too, as he is out of a daughter of Galileo and Group 3 winner Cheyenne Star and is closely related to top sprinter Gordon Lord Byron.

NE STALLIONS STANDING IN BRITAIN & IRELAND OR £10,000/€12,500 OR LESS Stallion

Age

Sire

Stud

Ardad

4

Kodiac

Overbury

Barney Roy

4

Excelebration

Dalham Hall

Cotai Glory

6

Exceed And Excel

Tally Ho

€6,000

Dartmouth

6

Dubawi

Shade Oak

£3,000

Divine Prophet

4

Choisir

Tara

€7,500

6

Scat Daddy

Yeomanstown

€8,000

Forever Now

7

Galileo

Norton Grove

£1,000

ack Hobbs

6

Halling

Overbury

£4,000

6

Cape Cross

Glenview

On application

Koropick

4

Kodiac

Annshoon

€3,000

Mahsoob

7

Dansili

Hedgeholme

£2,000

Mattmu

6

Indesatchel

Bearstone

£3,000

l Kabeir

Karpino

11

Mondialiste

8

Galileo

Elwick

My Dream Boat

6

Lord Shanakill

Bridge House

€4,000

National Defense

4

Invincible Spirit

Irish National

€12,000

Peace nvoy

4

Power

Worsall Grange

£2,000

Pillar Coral

4

Annshoon

€2,500

amindar Teofilo

auterhill

£10,000

Media Hype

Portage

Tiger Hill

Fee

£6,500

odge oad

£500 £6,000

€ 00

Profitable

6

Invincible Spirit

Kildangan

€12,000

Shakeel

4

Dalakhani

Clongiffen

On application

Silver Galaxy

7

Galileo

Annshoon

€1,500

Spill The Beans

5

Snit el

National

£6,000

Time Test

6

Dubawi

National

£8,500

Exceed And Excel is represented among this year’s less expensive newcomers by son Cotai Glory, a Group 3-winning sprinter beaten a neck into second by Profitable in the King’s Stand.

He is priced at €6,000 at Tally-Ho Stud, the operation that launched the careers of the last two leading freshman sires in Britain and Ireland, Sir Prancealot and Society Rock, and built Kodiac into an international record-breaker.

Kodiac’s influence continues to grow with two inexpensive sons starting their second careers this year, one each on either side of the Irish Sea: Windsor Castle and Flying Childers Stakes winner Ardad, from the fantastically fast family of Anita’s Prince, Maarek and Swiss Spirit, is available at Overbury Stud for £6,500; while Chipchase Stakes winner Koropick, related to Irish 2,000 Guineas hero and sire Jaazeiro, has been installed at Annshoon Stud at a fee of €3,000.

As far as pedigrees go, surely Mondialiste and Time Test boast the best?

Owner Geoff Turnbull has retired his Arlington Million and Woodbine Mile winner Mondialiste to stand at his Elwick Stud in the north of vvContinues page 14

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CANNOCK CHASE Lemon Drop Kid (USA) / Lynnwood Chase (USA) Fee: £3,000

• Winner of the Pattison Canadian Grade 1) International Stakes (Grade (Group 3) • Tercentenary Stakes, Royal Ascot (Group • Huxley Stakes (for the Group 3) Tradesman’s Cup) (Group • Won o er 10-12f • Highest RPR 120 OR 117 • First Foals due in 2018

"He’s a very progressive horse that we have always liked... he’s got a turn of foot and a bit of class."

Sir Michael Stoute, Racing Post

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“He reminds me very much of Rock of Gibraltar.”

Ryan Moore

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Advertised as jumps stallions: Dubai Sheema Classic winner Jack Hobbs, classy stayer Dartmouth (top right) and Prince of Wales’s Stakes scorer My Dream Boat (bottom right)

El Kabeir’s principal appeal lies in the identity of his sire vvFrom page 12 England at £6,000 and will throw his weight behind him by sending him his best mares.

He could be richly rewarded, as not only was his colour-bearer out of the very top drawer but he is by Galileo out of Prix de la Foret and Prix Maurice de Gheest heroine Occupandiste, making him a half-brother to Group 2 winner and Poule d’Essai des Pouliches second Impressionnante, who found further fame as the dam of Prix du Jockey Club winner and promising young sire Intello. Further back this is the family of champion sprinter and useful progenitor Elnadim and last year’s crack miler Ribchester.

Dual Group 2 winner and multiple Group/Grade 1-placed Time Test, meanwhile, has been pressed into service by the National Stud in Newmarket where he will command a fee of £8,500 and is of equally noble birth.

He is by Dubawi – whose sons Makfi and Poet’s Voice have fared well at stud – out of Criterium de Saint-Cloud winner Passage Of Time, a sister to stakes winners Continuum and Father Time and half-sister to Falmouth Stakes winner Timepiece, from the bejewelled Juddmonte family of Group 1 winners Twice Over (developing into a

notable sire in South Africa), All At Sea and Mutual Trust.

The annual intake of shuttlers brings two new visitors from Australia, both borrowed from the Aquis Stud roster: Divine Prophet, new to Tara Stud for €7,500, and Spill The Beans, standing alongside Time Test at the National Stud at £6,000.

Divine Prophet scored in the Caulfield Guineas at three and was also Group 1-placed at two. He is by Choisir – becoming such a breed-shaper as sire of Olympic Glory, Starspangledbanner and The Last Lion, paternal grandsire of The Wow Signal and maternal grandsire of My Dream Boat, Persuasive and Winter – out of an Encosta De Lago mare who has also produced Randwick Guineas second Proisir.

Spill The Beans breaks new ground as the first son of Australian sensation Snitzel to stand in Europe. The Group 2 and dual Group 3-winning sprinter is by the same sire who brought us Redzel, Wandjina and Russian Revolution and is a half-brother to Australian Oaks runner-up Kenedna out of a winning Encosta De Lago half-sister to stakes scorers Blab (dam

Star value Cotai Glory Speedy son of Exceed And Excel in good hands at Tally-Ho Stud Mondialiste Blueblooded dual Grade 1 hero to receive strong home support Spill The Beans Form, pedigree and something different as a son of Snitzel of Group 1-winning sprinter Speak Fondly) and Yammer, from the family of champion two-year-old Bounding Away.

It pays tribute to Spill The Beans’ looks that he was the busiest new sire in Australia in 2016, serving 201 mares at Aquis.

Another debutant in the breeding shed this year bringing international flavour to Europe is El Kabeir, drafted into duty for Yeomanstown Stud at a fee of €8,000.

Winner of the Grade 2 Kentucky Jockey Club Time Test: the dual Group 2 winner is a son of Dubawi out of Criterium de Saint-Cloud scorer Passage Of Time

Stakes at Churchill Downs at two and two Grade 3 events at Aqueduct at three, he was also third to the fabulous Frosted in the Wood Memorial at that track.

El Kabeir’s principal appeal lies in the identity of his sire – Scat Daddy, on the scoresheet with four winners at Royal Ascot last year, while first yearlings by one of his earlier winners at the meeting, No Nay Never, went down a storm at the sales in the autumn. Mind you, the other side of his pedigree isn’t too shabby as he is out of an Unbridled’s Song half-sister to four stakes winners, including dual Grade 2 scorer and Grade 1-placed Too Much Bling.

Finally, disregard those newbies who are being billed as jumps sires at your peril. There is no reason why owner-breeders not thinking of the sales ring would not want to produce a Flat foal in the image of stayer Dartmouth, a Group 2 winner by Dubawi out of a Group 3-winning Galileo mare who stands at Shade Oak Stud at £3,000; Jack Hobbs, the brilliant Irish Derby and Dubai Sheema Classic winner by Halling who is new to Overbury Stud at £4,000; or My Dream Boat, conqueror of Found in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes who is standing at Bridge House Stud for €4,000.

First Foals 2018

If you believe in safety in numbers – or if you are breeding with the intention of selling the resultant foal as a yearling, when this group of budget sires will have their debut two-year-old runners – then it will be of comfort that Mehmas and Vadamos covered bumper books in their first season at Tally-Ho Stud last year.

It is hardly a surprise that so many commercial broodmare owners were keen to jump on the Mehmas bandwagon. He was a sharp two-year-old, winning the Richmond and July Stakes and finishing placed in the Coventry, National and Middle Park Stakes, and shares a remarkably similar profile to sire phenomenon Dark Angel, who also raced solely as a juvenile and is by Acclamation out of a Machiavellian mare.

With those credentials and numbers on his side, Mehmas will surely start favourite to be leading freshman sire of 2020, and his second-season fee has been trimmed from €12,500 to €10,000 to boot.

Progeny of Vadamos, a son of Monsun who took the Prix du Moulin aged five, will likely take longer to come to hand.

The huge support he received from breeders was due in no small part to his exceptional looks and if his offspring,

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arriving on farms at the moment, inherit those then he should remain popular.

Vadamos remains priced at €10,000, a fraction of what his foals and yearlings will fetch if they are in his image.

Dark Angel, the red-hot sire so many breeders are hoping Mehmas will emulate, had two sons join the Irish stallion ranks last year and both – Estidhkaar at Tara Stud and Markaz at Derrinstown – were in strong demand.

Estidhkaar showed good form at two when he won the Superlative and Champagne Stakes; at three, when beaten a neck into second by Muhaarar in the Greenham Stakes; and at four, the season he struck in the Listed Ben Marshall Stakes.

Estidhkaar has quite the claim to fame in his distaff pedigree too, as a half-brother to European champion two-year-old Toormore (who, incredibly, was withdrawn from stud duty last year due to lack of demand, presumably due to the antipathy towards his sire Arakan). So he looks a snip at €5,000.

Chipchase and Criterion Stakes winner Markaz also boasts a famous sibling, as his sister is none other than the superlative sprinter Mecca’s Angel. Again, €6,000 looks fine value.

As Dark Angel mania demonstrates, as does the lack of interest in Toormore, breeders set great store by sire power, and they piled into sons of that other budget-to-blockbuster stallion, Kodiac, last year.

Kodiac had his first four representatives on stallion rosters last year: Adaay at Whitsbury Manor, Coulsty at Rathasker, Kodi Bear at Rathbarry and Prince Of Lir at Ballyhane.

Adaay beat Limato to land the Sandy Lane Stakes at three

STALLIONS IN BRITAIN & IRELAND (£10,000/€12,500 OR LESS) Stallion

Age

Sire

Stud

IRST RO Fee

Star value

OALS o

o ered in

Adaay

6

Kodiac

Whitsbury Manor

£6,000

127

A aya

5

Invincible Spirit

Rathbarry

€8,000

59

Buratino

5

Exceed And Excel

Kildangan

€5,000

121

Cannock Chase

7

Lemon Drop Kid

Worsall Grange

£3,000

55

Charming Thought

6

Oasis Dream

Dalham Hall

£6,000

83

Clovis Du Berlais

7

King’s Theatre

Yorton Farm

£2,250

59

Coulsty

7

Kodiac

Rathasker

€5,000

66

6

Dark Angel

Tara

€5,000

143

Fascinating Rock

7

Fastnet Rock

Ballylinch

€10,000

91

Kodi Bear

6

Kodiac

Rathbarry

€8,000

105

Life Force

7

Invincible Spirit

Moortown

€2,500

28

Marcel

5

Lawman

National

£5,000

23

stidhkaar

Markaz

6

Dark Angel

Derrinstown

Mehmas

4

Acclamation

Tally Ho

€6,000

108

€10,000

187

Mizzou

7

Galileo

The Old Road

On application

21

Ol’ Man River

6

Mont eu

Arctic Tack

On application

93

Pearl Secret

9

Compton Place

Bucklands Farm

£4,000

58

Prince Of Lir

4

Kodiac

Ballyhane

€4,000

122

Proconsul

5

Galileo

Mickley

£3,500

42

Strath Burn

6

E uiano

Bridge House

€4,000

23

The Last Lion

4

Choisir

Kildangan

€7,500

90

Twilight Son adamos

6

Kyllachy

Cheveley Park

£10,000

142

7

Monsun

Tally Ho

€10,000

184

Estidhkaar and Markaz are sons of Dark Angel in strong demand and later that season added the Hungerford Stakes to his resumé, while at four he finished on the heels of Breton Rock in the Criterion Stakes and Park Stakes. The 2018 fee for the half-brother to classy sprinter Mullionmileanhour has been shaved by £1,000 and is now £6,000.

Coulsty boasts three stakes successes – in the Prix de Meautry, King Charles II Stakes and King Richard III Stakes – and was half a length behind Adaay in the Hungerford. The relation to fellow talented sprinters

Lugana Beach and The Tatling has had his fee held at €5,000.

Kodi Bear was runner-up in the Dewhurst at two and hosed up in the Sovereign Stakes and Celebration Mile at

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three to post a lofty best RPR of 121. A half-brother to seven winners and from the family of ace miler Esoterique, he is the subject of a price reduction from €10,000 to €8,000 this year.

Prince Of Lir, who accounted for The Last Lion when he landed the Norfolk Stakes at two, his only season to race, is out of a half-sister to Group 3-winning sprinter and sire Resplendent Glory. A

Twilight Son: covered 142 mares at Cheveley Park Stud in his debut season and his £10,000 fee is unchanged

Buratino Coventry winner related to Danehill Dancer at a basement fee Estidhkaar Class, precocity and that all-important Dark Angel factor Twilight Son Profile has echoes of other sprint sires who hit the big time grand has been knocked off his fee for 2018 and he is now available for €4,000.

Adaay was the busiest of the Kodiac club, covering 127 mares, followed by Prince Of Lir on 122, Kodi Bear on 105 and Coulsty on 66.

Another sire who evidently had mass appeal was Twilight Son at Cheveley Park Stud, as he covered 142 mares. That was understandable, as he offers a lot at his £10,000 fee, which remains unchanged.

A worthy replacement at the stud for his retired winner-machine sire Kyllachy, he followed in his father’s footsteps by graduating through handicaps to take Group 1 honours – in his case in the Haydock Sprint Cup at three and the Diamond Jubilee Stakes at four. He is also a half-brother to Group 1-placed sprinter Music Master.

Similar comments apply to Buratino, a Coventry Stakes winner and Middle Park Stakes runner-up out of a stakes-placed Kingmambo mare closely related to champion sire Danehill Dancer. All that, and access to the Kildangan Stud resident can be gained for just €5,000.

Buratino’s colleague at Kildangan Stud, Middle Park Stakes winner The Last Lion, covered 90 mares last year, which would have been vvContinues page 16

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higher but for a temporary dip in his fertility mid-breeding season. Still, some might infer that reduced number to be a good thing, in particular with regard to the demand for his stock in the ring, and a significant price cut from €12,000 to €7,500 is further temptation to use this Choisir half-brother to stakes winners Contest and Russian Rock.

A similar volume of mares visited Fascinating Rock at Ballylinch Stud, and he rates as a genuine bargain at €10,000 for a Champion Stakes and Tattersalls Gold Cup winner by Fastnet Rock.

Breeders who used him last year were in good company, as his owner Newtown Anner Stud is standing foursquare behind him and he covered 11 black-type winners.

Charming Thought weighed in with a similar number of mares to Fascinating Rock and The Last Lion, and the Middle Park Stakes hero by Oasis Dream out of a Listed-winning Indian Ridge mare is cheaper again in 2018 at Dalham Hall Stud, down to £6,000 from £8,000.

First Yearlings 2018

Yeomanstown Stud resident Gutaifan was the first-crop sire all the buyers wanted at the foal sales this winter. The combination of his stock’s good looks and the fact they were by a son of the dazzling Dark Angel fuelled strong demand, with 53 lots sold for an average of 44,387gns including four who made six-figure sums, two of those bought by Yeomanstown themselves.

Gutaifan has been strongly supported by breeders – 207 and 152 mares in his first two seasons – as well as those sales-goers, and it costs only €10,000 to join the throng by sending a mare to him in 2018.

Brazen Beau fielded the second-best debut foal average among the budget sires, with 17 sold for 33,971gns, including three who made 50,000gns or more, and shrewd judges Tally-Ho Stud and Powerstown Stud among the buyers.

A dual Group 1-winning sprinter in his native Australia and just touched off when second in the Diamond Jubilee

Star value Brazen Beau Fee reduction looks a gift considering popularity at the sales Gutaifan A real buzz about him and huge prices for his first foals to prove it Intrinsic Nominations to the well-bred sprinter cost practically next to nothing Stakes at Royal Ascot, the son of sire revelation I Am Invincible has had a generous-looking 30 per cent reduction in fee to £7,000 at Dalham Hall Stud for the notoriously difficult third season.

When it comes to the 2019 Flat season, Gutaifan and Brazen Beau look likely candidates to produce plenty of two-year-old winners and be in the running for leading freshman honours.

Another who must enter calculations is Ivawood.

The son of Zebedee – a fast starter himself in his stallion career – won his first three starts, including

Fascinating Rock: the dual Group 1 winner by Fastnet Rock stands at Ballylinch Stud

the July and Richmond Stakes, and was beaten just a nose into second by Charming Thought in the Middle Park Stakes.

He was no flash in the pan as he trained on at three to fill third position behind Gleneagles in the Newmarket and Curragh 2,000 Guineas.

Ivawood had 29 first foals sell for an average of 24,190gns with a high of 105,000gns paid by Amanda Skiffington Ivawood: down to a fee of €6,000 yet his first foals sold for an average of 24,190gns

STALLIONS IN BRITAIN & IRELAND (£10,000/€12,500 OR LESS) Stallion

Age

Sire

Stud

Fee

– who bought the sire as a yearling for 220,000gns back in 2013 – for a colt from the Irish National Stud. That makes him look good value at just €6,000 this year, down from his €9,000 opening fee.

A trio of British-based sires were the others in this price range with first-crop foals who sold for an average in excess of 20,000gns: Cable Bay (22,985gns), Hot Streak (21,929gns) and Due Diligence (21,571gns).

Cable Bay, a son of Invincible Spirit who finished second in the Dewhurst at two and struck in the Challenge Stakes on his last start, has been extremely popular with breeders having covered 275 mares in his two first books.

IRST RO o

o ered in

EARLINGS Foal a erage in

Altruistic

7

Galileo

Rosshill Farm

€1,000

35

An aal

7

Bahamian Bounty

Rathasker

€5,000

80

14,615gns

Brazen Beau

7

I Am Invincible

Dalham Hall

£7,000

101

33,971gns

Cable Bay

7

Invincible Spirit

Highclere

£6,500

123

22,985gns

Cappella Sansevero

6

Showcasing

Bridge House

€4,000

22

7,855gns

Due Diligence

7

War Front

Whitsbury Manor

£5,000

57

21,571gns

7

Oasis Dream

Bearstone

£4,500

81

18,278gns

Shamardal

Kildangan

€4,000

74

6,682gns

9

Exceed And Excel

Kildangan

€4,000

46

10,818gns

Gutaifan

5

Dark Angel

Yeomanstown

€10,000

152

44,387gns

Hillstar

8

Danehill Dancer

Garryrichard

€2,500

75

5,150gns

Hot Streak

7

Iffraa

Tweenhills

£6,000

44

21,929gns

Intrinsic

8

Oasis Dream

Hedgeholme

£1,750

34

13,333gns

Ivawood

6

Coolmore

€6,000

50

24,190gns

Kingston Hill

7

Mastercraftsman

Coolmore

€5,000

94

13,235gns

Lucky Speed

8

Silvano

Sunnyhill

€2,500

45

10,286gns

Fountain Of outh French Navy Fulbright

10

ebedee

Music Master

8

Piccolo

Throckmorton Court

£2,000

11

Outstrip

7

Exceed And Excel

Dalham Hall

£5,000

141

Pether sMoon

8

Dylan Thomas

Yorton Farm

£2,250

71

Beat Hollow

Burgage

€4,000

45

7

Nayef

Ballycurragh

8

Galileo

Shade Oak

Sea Moon

10

Snow Sky Telescope inBritain and Ireland

N A

N A 19,183gns N A 10,500gns

On application

60

8,000gns

£3,000

167

15,200gns

His fee at Highclere Stud stands at £6,500.

Hot Streak hails from the hot sire-line of Iffraaj, responsible for Wootton Bassett, father of European champion Almanzor, and brilliant miler Ribchester.

Stock by the Middle Park Stakes runner-up and Temple Stakes winner were popular with pinhookers at the sales, and he is available at the reasonable price of £6,000.

High-class sprinter Due Diligence – the only son of War Front, sire of last year’s dual Group 1-winning two-year-old US Navy Flag, at stud in Britain – is down to £5,000 in 2018, which will allow plenty of room for profit for commercial breeders, especially if sharp-eyed horse traders such as Glenvale Stud and Manister House Stud continue to support him.

Coming in with a very respectable debut foal average of 18,278gns for nine sold is Fountain Of Youth, an impeccably bred son of Oasis Dream and Attraction who stands at Bearstone Stud for just £4,500. Perhaps his unbeaten three-year-old half-brother Elarqam will advertise the pedigree to good effect in the year ahead.

Outstrip, by Exceed And Excel out of Grade 1 heroine Asi Siempre, was a Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf winner and stands at Dalham Hall Stud for £5,000. It pays high tribute to the appearance of his early offspring that he covered a healthy 141 mares last year.

Anjaal, a Group 2-winning two-year-old by Bahamian Bounty, presents some different bloodlines as he is out of a winning Peintre

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STALLIONS IN BRITAIN & IRELAND (£10,000/€12,500 OR LESS) Stallion

Albaasil Alhebayeb

Age

10 8

Sire

Stud

Fee

IRST RO 2 OS o

o ered in

Foal a erage in

Dansili

Moor End

£3,500

27

Dark Angel

Tara

€5,000

81

24,476gns

N A

Battle Of Marengo

8

Galileo

Ballyhane

€4,000

57

16,450gns

Bungle Inthe ungle

8

Exceed And Excel

Rathasker

€5,000

21

13,020gns

Burwaaz

9

Exceed And Excel

Longford House

£2,000

15

1,900gns

Coach House

7

Oasis Dream

Bucklands Farm

£3,000

55

17,811gns

Danon Ballade

10

Deep Impact

Batsford

£4,000

N A

Dunaden

12

Nicobar

Overbury

£3,000

56

N A 7,883gns

l Salvador

9

Galileo

Killack

€1,000

14

s ue Love

9

Clodovil

Rathasker

€5,000

19

16,247gns

Gale Force Ten

8

Oasis Dream

Irish National

€5,000

16

13,842gns

Garswood

8

Dutch Art

Cheveley Park

£4,000

88

33,668gns

Gregorian

9

Clodovil

National

£4,500

45

17,648gns

Heeraat

9

Dark Angel

Mickley

£5,000

101

24,528gns

11

Cape Cross

Arctic Tack

On application

136

4,250gns

et Away

N A

Leading Light

8

Mont eu

Grange

€4,500

125

9,688gns

Libertarian

8

New Approach

Knockhouse

€3,000

53

3,298gns

Moohaa im

8

Cape Cross

Rathbarry

€4,000

23

25,316gns

Morpheus

8

Oasis Dream

Tally Ho

€4,000

63

16,509gns

Mukhadram

9

Shamardal

Nunnery

£7,000

72

29,588gns

Ocovango

8

Monsun

Beeches

€3,500

188

6,805gns

Ruler Of The World

8

Galileo

Coolmore

€8,000

69

20,467gns

Saddler sRock Sun Central

10 9

Sadler’s Wells

Beech Tree

£1,500

13

N A

Galileo

Elusive Bloodstock

£2,000

14

N A

Tau Ceti

19

Hernando

Rosshill

€1,000

12

9,500gns

alirann

8

Nayef

Whytemount

€1,500

152

5,000gns

7

War Front

Coolmore

€8,000

59

39,900gns

War Command

Celebre mare. He is on offer at Rathasker Stud at €5,000.

Other less expensive names to look out for are Cappella Sansevero, a precocious son of rags-to-riches sire Showcasing standing at Bridge House Stud at just €4,000; French Navy and Fulbright, classy sons of Shamardal and Exceed And Excel who are Kildangan Stud stablemates both at €4,000; and Racing Post Trophy and St Leger winner Kingston Hill at Coolmore at €5,000.

One who is a bit of a sleeper perhaps, and at a giveaway price, is Stewards’ Cup scorer Intrinsic, a son of Oasis Dream and Coronation Stakes runner-up Infallible, making

him a half-brother to high-class pair Mutakayyef and Intimation. He had three foals sell for an average of 13,333gns and should be of interest to any breeder on a shoestring, standing at £1,750 at Hedgeholme Stud as he does.

Telescope, the Group 2-winning and Group 1-placed son of Galileo, is likely to find his metier as a jumps sire and has been extremely popular at Shade Oak Stud, where he stands at

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£3,000, having covered 167 mares last year.

First Two-Year-OLds 2018

The best debut yearling average price for a budget sire in this category belonged to Coolmore resident War Command Command, who started out at €15,000 and has been reduced to a tempting €8,000 for 2018.

Cappella Sansevero: a precocious son of Showcasing

War Command: 18 of his yearlings sold for 50,000gns-plus

Garswood is another we can expect a good showing from with his first juvenile runners The son of War Front had 55 lots sell for a mean price of 39,900gns in Britain and Ireland, including a half-sister to Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe runner-up Cloth Of Stars sold to Dermot Farrington at Goffs for €300,000. Another two commanded six-figure sums, while 18 in total made 50,000gns or more.

If War Command’s early runners have inherited his precocity – he won the Coventry and Dewhurst Stakes – he should be in with a good shout of making a significant impact as a first-season sire in the year ahead.

The other stallion standing at £10,000 or €12,000 and under whose debut yearlings

produced an average in excess of 30,000gns was Garswood, which is much to his credit as those lots were conceived at a price of £7,000. The son of Dutch Art is down to a bargain basement £4,000 at Cheveley Park Stud this year.

Garswood is another we are entitled to expect a good showing from with his first juvenile runners, as he was a Listed winner and pipped at the post in the Cornwallis Stakes at two. He has speed and quality in his family as he is out of Penchant, a daughter of Kyllachy keeping company with Galileo these days – the yearling filly bred that way was sold to Coolmore for vvContinues page 19

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Ruler Of The World: chance to use a Classic sire at a cut-price fee vvFrom page 17

1,600,000gns last year – and is a kinsman of top-class sprinters Infallible and Mutakayyef and smart sprinters Intrinsic and Watchable.

With a yearling average just shy of 30,000gns last year was Mukhadram, who was represented by a half-sister to Beckford sold to BBA Ireland for £200,000.

Breeders should count themselves lucky they have had access to this well-bred son of Shamardal for £7,000 in each of his four seasons at Nunnery Stud, as he was after all a two-length winner of the Coral-Eclipse who notched victories in two other Group races and finished placed at the highest level another four times.

Mill Reef Stakes winner and Middle Park runner-up Moohaajim, by Cape Cross out of a Kingmambo mare, clocked a debut yearling average of 25,316gns, which is all the more creditable considering he stands at Rathbarry Stud for a measly €4,000.

The popularity of Dark Angel is a thread running through this directory of cheaper sires, and the two sons who joined the stallion ranks in 2015 – Alhebayeb and Heeraat – fared well with their first yearlings in the ring.

July Stakes winner Alhebayeb, who stands at Tara Stud at €5,000, was the sire of 88 lots who sold for an average of 24,476gns, with SackvilleDonald, Andrew Balding and Shadwell paying six-figure prices for his stock.

Heeraat, the Hackwood Stakes scorer installed at Mickley Stud with a fee of £5,000, had 39 yearlings change hands for an average of 24,528gns, with Shadwell again zoning in on his two most expensive colts who cost £150,000 and 100,000gns.

Alhebayeb and Heeraat were certainly the surprise packages of the new sires at last year’s sales, but then, as Paul Thorman wryly remarked, “Dark Angel’s third cousin would sell well at the moment.”

The pair should be striking with fast, early two-year-olds this year, as should the beautifully bred Oasis Dream

Star value Alhebayeb Dark Angel mania helped his yearlings fly off the shelves Garswood Admirable sale results for lots conceived at a cost of just £7,000 Mukhadram An Eclipse winner by Shamardal in this price bracket is a gift sons Coach House – just £3,000 at Bucklands Farm and Stud – and Gale Force Ten – on offer for €5,000 at the Irish National Stud.

From cheap sources of speed to the other end of the spectrum, and who would have thought breeders without bottomless pockets would be able to get into an unproven Derby-winning son of Galileo for just €8,000? But that is precisely the case with Ruler Of The World, whose fee at Coolmore has been dropped from €15,000 in his first season at stud.

Some 19 yearlings by the half-brother to Duke Of Marmalade went through the ring last year and their average price came to 20,467gns. This could be a rare chance to use a Classic sire at a cut-price fee.

Another intriguing Galileo stallion in this price bracket is Ballyhane Stud’s Battle Of Marengo, winner of the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial and fourth to Ruler Of The World in the main event at Epsom. Available to breeders for just €4,000, his 36 first-crop yearlings under the hammer conjured an

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STALLIONS IN BRITAIN & IRELAND (£10,000/€12,500 OR LESS) Stallion

Age

Aiken Cityscape paulette

IRST RO

Stud

10

Selkirk

Anngrove

€1,200

2

12

Selkirk

Overbury

£4,500

48

€7,000

154

£10,000

37

9

Fee

OS

Sire

o

o ered in

Commands

Kildangan

Farhh

10

Pivotal

Dalham Hall

Fin aan

12

Royal Applause

Ga eley

£2,500

2

Imperial Monarch

9

Galileo

Beeches

€2,500

165

Lethal Force

9

Dark Angel

Cheveley Park

£8,000

96

Mazameer

8

Green Desert

Merrington

£3,000

1

Ballyhane

€5,000

113

Red azz

11

ohannesburg

Shantaram

9

Galileo

Coolagown

€1,000

44

Swiss Spirit

9

Invincible Spirit

Whitsbury Manor

£4,000

133 N A

Tough As Nails

9

Dark Angel

Old Meadow

€3,000

niversal

9

Dubawi

Yorton Farm

£2,500

25

Worthadd

11

Dubawi

Irish National

€5,000

44

STALLIONS IN BRITAIN & IRELAND (£10,000/€12,500 OR LESS) Stallion

Age

Sire

Stud

Arctic Cosmos

11

North Light

The Old Road

Bated Breath

11

Dansili

Banstead Manor

IRST RO Fee

OS o

o ered in

€2,500

32

£10,000

104

€5,000

26

Born To Sea

9

Invincible Spirit

Gilltown

Bullet Train

11

Sadler’s Wells

Woodfield Farm

9

Kyllachy

Irish National

€8,000

120

9

Redoute’s Choice

Ballyhane

€6,000

135

xcelebration

10

Exceed And Excel

Coolmore

€8,000

85

Famous Name

13

Dansili

Anngrove

€1,000

71

Finsceal Fior

8

Galileo

Green Hills

ukebox ury

12

Mont eu

Burgage

Mayson

10

Invincible Spirit

Cheveley Park

£6,000

Re uinto

9

Dansili

Coolmore

€5,000

80

Sans Frontieres

12

Galileo

Beeches

€2,500

128

Sayif

12

Kheleyf

Llety Farms

12

Giant’s Causeway

Mickley

Dragon Pulse lzaam

orgunnabelucky

honourable average of 16,450gns.

A freshman sire for 2018 whose pedigree is a pleasing mix of speed and Classic class, meanwhile, is Morpheus, the winning Oasis Dream half-brother to Frankel (and Bullet Train and Noble Mission, of course).

His career is being guided by the kingmakers Tally-Ho Stud and he has been popular with breeders, covering more than 300 mares in his first three seasons. He is priced at just €4,000.

Finally, it is a big year for

Rathasker Stud, which is being represented by three first-season sires: Bungle Inthejungle (€5,000) and Es Que Love (€5,000) who stand at home in County Kildare, and Gregorian (£4,500) who is based at the National Stud in Newmarket.

Using any or all of them could be justified, especially at those nominal prices. Bungle Inthejungle was an early and speedy son of Exceed And Excel and is a half-brother to Group 1-winning sprinter Muarrab; Es Que Love is a Group 2-winning Clodovil

Mukhadram: a half-sister to Beckford by the Coral-Eclipse hero sold for £200,000 in 2017

na

li a ion

€3,000 On application

11 N A 141

On application

8

£1,500

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half-brother to Hong Kong star Dominant; and Gregorian, another son of Clodovil, was admirably versatile, winning the Hungerford Stakes and finishing placed in the July Cup, St James’s Palace Stakes and Queen Anne Stakes.

First Three-Year-Olds/ Four-Year-Olds 2018

Among last year’s British and Irish-based freshman sires, only Havana Gold managed to escape the budget price bracket. After the son of Teofilo supplied a slew of winners, including the Group winners Havana Grey and Treasuring, plus Coventry Stakes runner-up Headway, his fee was more than doubled from £7,000 to £15,000 at Tweenhills.

Still, that means some of his peers who put up a bold show with their early racecourse representatives but were just behind him and the late Society Rock and French-based Dabirsim remain at a very fair price. Furthermore, others who could fare better after their sophomore season could eventually increase in stud value.

In the first category lie Red Jazz (stands at Ballyhane Stud vvContinues page 20

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ESTABLISHED STALLIONS STANDING IN BRITAIN & IRELAND (£10,000/€12,500 OR LESS) Stallion

Age

Aeroplane

15

Sire

Stud

Danehill Dancer

Eisenfarn

On application

Fee

On application

Air Chief Marshal

11

Danehill Dancer

Longford House

Arcadio

16

Monsun

Arctic Tack

€4,000

Ask

15

Sadler’s Wells

Beeches

€3,000

Assertive

15

Bold Edge

Throckmorton Court

£2,500

Blue Bresil

13

Smadoun

Yorton Farm

£4,500

Camacho

16

Danehill

Yeomanstown

€7,500

Captain Gerrard

13

Oasis Dream

Mickley

£2,500

Carlotamix

15

Linamix

Coolagown

€3,000

Champs lysees

15

Danehill

Castlehyde

Conduit

13

Dalakhani

Tullyraine House

On application

Court Cave

17

Sadler’s Wells

Boardsmill

On application

Dandy Man

15

Mo art

Ballyhane

€10,000

Dansant

14

Dansili

Bridge

Diamond Boy

12

Mansonnien

Kilbarry Lodge

Dragon Dancer

15

Sadler’s Wells

Nunstainton

Dream ater

13

Night Shift

Dylan Thomas astern Anthem lusive Pimpernel uiano

€6,500

€2,500 £5,000 On application

auterhill

£800

15

Danehill

Castlehyde

€5,000

14

Singspiel

Withyslade

£2,000

11

Elusive uality

Irish National

€1,000

13

Acclamation

Newsells Park

£8,000

Fast Company

13

Danehill Dancer

Kildangan

€9,000

Footstepsinthesand

16

Giant’s Causeway

Coolmore

€10,000

Frozen Fire

13

Mont eu

Coolagown

€3,000

Fuisse

12

Green Tune

Longford House

€2,500

Geordieland

17

Beech Tree

£2,000

Getaway

15

Monsun

Grange

€7,500

Gladiatorus

13

Silic

Withyslade

£2,000

Haafhd

17

Alhaarth

Batsford

£3,000

Haatef

14

Dan ig

Derrinstown

€2,000

Hellvelyn

14

Ishiguru

Bucklands Farm

Irish Wells

15

Poliglote

Woodlands

Laverock

16

Octagonal

Clongiffen

€2,000

Le Cadre Noir

14

Danetime

Sweep Lane

€1,500

Let The Lion Roar

17

Sadler’s Wells

Bridge House

€1,500

Linda sLad

15

Sadler’s Wells

auterhill

Lovelace

14

Royal Applause

Springlodge

Lucarno

14

Dynaformer

Longford House

Mahler

14

Galileo

Beeches

€5,500

Malinas

17

Lomitas

Glenview

€3,500

Masterofthehorse

12

Sadler’s Wells

Annshoon

€1,750

Milk It Mick

17

Millkom

Norton Grove

£1,000

Mores Wells

14

Sadler’s Wells

The Old Road

€1,500

Mount Nelson

14

Rock Of Gibraltar

Boardsmill

€5,000

ohann uat

£3,000 On application

€1,000 €1,000 On application

Native Ruler

12

Cape Cross

Batsford

£1,500

Notnowcato

16

Inchinor

Knockhouse

€5,000

Wells Farhh Go: the Acomb Stakes winner a hit for Farhh

Swiss Spirit made one of the swiftest starts of any of the freshmen last year

vvFrom page 19 for €4,000), Lethal Force (Cheveley Park Stud, £8,000), Epaulette (Kildangan Stud, €7,000) and Swiss Spirit (Whitsbury Manor Stud, £4,000).

Red Jazz – who shares his sire, Johannesburg, with the late, lamented Scat Daddy – produced plenty of winners including Snazzy Jazzy, who was brought along eye-catchingly steadily by Clive Cox to win all his three starts including a valuable sales race, and Burgundy Boy, fourth in a Group 3 contest and sold to Zhang Yuesheng for €260,000 at the Goffs Champions Sale.

Lethal Force (another for Dark Angel) posted 21

individual two-year-old winners including the stakes-placed Lethal Steps, Mokaatil and Would Be King, while buyers evidently kept the faith as five of his yearlings of 2017 sold for in excess of 50,000gns.

Epaulette, the half-brother to Thunder Snow’s sire Helmet, also boasts a glut of winners and four black type-getters in the northern hemisphere, most notably son McMunigal, who found only the Galileo hotpot Kenya too good in the Killavullan Stakes.

Swiss Spirit, meanwhile, made one of the swiftest starts of any of the freshmen last year and kept momentum going to finish the year with a good haul of winners.

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Star value Bated Breath Solid source of winners is popular with agents and trainers Dragon Pulse Sales favourite has quietly racked up a number of classy runners Red Jazz On the heels of last year’s leading freshmen and more to come Among those whose profiles could be expected to look better by the end of the year are Cityscape (Overbury Stud, £4,500) and Farhh (Dalham Hall Stud, £10,000).

Cityscape, a half-brother to the exciting value sire Bated Breath, supplied a pair of Listed-placed juveniles but it is some of the unexposed talents – like William Haggas’s wide-margin Lingfield novice stakes winner Give And Take – who set the pulse racing.

Farhh made a conspicuously good start with his first juveniles despite limited numbers. They included Acomb Stakes winner Wells Farhh Go – a top middle-distance prospect for 2018 – and Zetland Stakes runner-up Dee Ex Bee. He too has a number of lightly raced winners who could be anything, such as Elegiac, Move Swiftly and Thunderbolt Rocks.

The only drawback is Darley are likely to be overrun with applications for Farhh’s limited book and they will be able to afford to be choosy.

Those sires whose first three-year-olds raced last year hold fewer secrets from breeders; indeed, decent value becomes scarcer and scarcer as you go back in time through the stallion ranks.

However, it is there if you dig. For example, Excelebration (Coolmore, €8,000) came up trumps with a first-crop Group 1 winner in the shape of Barney Roy and has some exciting two-year-olds to his name like Hey Jonesy, Rebel Assault and Speak In Colours.

Bated Breath (Banstead Manor Stud, £10,000) is proving quite the conveyor belt

Breeding On A Budget

ESTABLISHED STALLIONS STANDING IN BRITAIN & IRELAND (£10,000/€12,500 OR LESS) Stallion

Age

Pastoral Pursuits

17

Sire

Stud

Bahamian Bounty

Norton Grove

£2,000

Fee

£6,000

Poet s oice

11

Dubawi

Dalham Hall

Pour Moi

10

Mont eu

Grange

€5,000

Prince Flori

15

Lando

Knockhouse

€1,500

Proclamation

16

King’s Best

Longford House

Raven sPass

13

Elusive uality

Kildangan

Sageburg

14

ohannesburg

On application €10,000

Garryrichard

€5,000

Schiaparelli

15

Monsun

Overbury

£2,000

Scorpion

15

Mont eu

Shade Oak

£3,000

September Storm

16

Monsun

Knockhouse

€2,500

Shirocco

17

Monsun

Glenview

€5,000

Sir Percy

15

Mark Of Esteem

Lanwades

£7,000

Sixties Icon

15

Galileo

Norman Court

£5,000

Soldier Of Fortune

14

Galileo

Beeches

Stimulation

13

Choisir

Llety

€8,000 On application

Tamayuz

13

Nayef

Derrinstown

The Carbon nit

16

Catienus

Thistle

€12,500 On application

rban Poet

12

Dynaformer

Gurteen

endangeur

15

Galileo

Anngrove

€500

Watar

13

Mar u

Moortown

On application

Workforce

11

King’s Best

Knockhouse

On application

irtual

13

Pivotal

Woodlands

€1,000

eats

17

Sadler’s Wells

Castlehyde

€5,000

ambezi Sun

14

Dansili

Coolagown

€3,000

€3,500

Bated Breath is providing quite the conveyor belt of winners

of winners, many useful, none more so than his second-crop Railway Stakes winner Beckford, and similar can be said for Mayson (Cheveley Park Stud, £6,000), who has five Listed winners on his record and plenty of dark horses like the last-time-out novice stakes winners Ace Ventura and Two Weeks.

Born To Sea (Gilltown Stud, €5,000) got to within less than two lengths of fielding a Classic winner when daughter Sea Of Grace found only Precieuse too good in the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches last year, and the Invincible Spirit half-brother to Galileo has six other runners with an RPR of 100 or higher to his credit.

Dragon Pulse (Irish National Stud, €8,000) has chalked up six black-type horses and has remained in favour with breeders as he is noted for producing strikingly good-looking sales stock, while Elzaam (Ballyhane Stud, Sea Of Grace: led the way for her sire Born To Sea

€6,000) should be every trainer’s friend after supplying the smart and durable filly Fandango, Superlative Stakes third and sales race second Great Prospector and Mjjack,

twice runner-up in lavishly endowed handicaps at Ascot last summer.

Requinto (Coolmore, €5,000) is another who has maintained a constant flow of

21 winners and is capable of getting a good one, like Superlative Stakes third and Hong Kong export Broken Stones and lucrative handicap winners Demons Rock and Mojito.

Established Sires/ Golden Oldies

There were five stallions whose oldest crop are five or older but not yet aged 18 who posted a Flat Group 1 winner in Europe last year.

Pour Moi managed to supply the winner of the biggest race of all when son Wings Of Eagles surged late to take the Derby, with no little irony after having been switched to Coolmore’s jumps roster.

The son of Montjeu, who landed the Epsom Classic himself of course, is also responsible for New Zealand Group 1 winner Sacred Elixir and classy sprinter Only Mine, and is available at Grange Stud for just €5,000.

Another former Flat-focused sire now covering mares for both codes who got a European Derby winner in 2017 was Shirocco, whose son Windstoss was triumphant in the German version and in doing so, just as in the case of Wings Of Eagles, was emulating his father.

The son of Monsun – whose record also includes Irish St Leger winner Brown Panther, Oaks second Shirocco Star and vvContinues page 22

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Mount Nelson, the very model of a dual-purpose stallion, is on offer for €5,000 at Boardsmill Stud vvFrom page 21

STALLIONS 1 OR OLDER IN BRITAIN & IRELAND (£10,000/€12,500 OR LESS) Stallion

Apple Tree

Age

29

Sire

Stud

Bikala

Beech Tree

Fee

£1,500

Avonbridge

18

Averti

Oakgrove

£2,000

Beat Hollow

21

Sadler’s Wells

Ballylinch

€6,000

Black Sam Bellamy

19

Sadler’s Wells

Shade Oak

£3,000

Brian Boru

18

Sadler’s Wells

Longford House

€2,000

Califet

20

Freedom Cry

Boardsmill

On application

Clodovil

18

Danehill

Rathasker

€7,500

Cloudings

24

Sadler’s Wells

The Old Road

€2,500

Curtain Time

20

Sadler’s Wells

Woodfield Farm

€2,500

Doyen

18

Sadler’s Wells

Sunnyhill

€5,000

Fairly Ransom

18

Red Ransom

Lodge Road

€1,000 £1,500

Fair Mix

20

Linamix

Shade Oak

Franklins Gardens

18

Halling

East Lynch

£1,000

Fruits Of Love

23

Hansel

Annshoon

On application

Gamut

19

Spectrum

Rosshill Farm

Golden Tornado

22

Sadler’s Wells

Gurteen

Indian Haven

18

Indian Ridge

Withyslade Farm

Kalanisi

22

Doyoun

Boardsmill

Kutub

21

In The Wings

Girsonfield

£1,500

Mamool

19

In The Wings

Clongiffen

€1,500

Milan

20

Sadler’s Wells

Grange

€8,000

Misternando

18

Hernando

Knockboy House

€1,000

Monsieur Bond

18

Danehill Dancer

Norton Grove

£4,000

Morozov

19

Sadler’s Wells

Blackhall

€1,500

Nayef

20

Gulch

Nunnery

£5,000

Norse Dancer

18

Halling

Yorton Farm

£2,800

€3,000 €500 £1,750 On application

Olden Times

20

Darshaan

Throckmorton Court

On application

Orientor

20

Inchinor

Sidehouse Farm

On application

Passing Glance

19

Polar Falcon

Batsford

£2,000

Phoenix Reach

18

Alhaarth

Winterbeck Manor

£2,500

Policy Maker

18

Sadler’s Wells

Blackrath

€2,000

Rock Of Gibraltar

19

Danehill

Coolmore

€7,500

Royal Anthem

23

Theatrical

Beech Tree

£2,000

Sandmason

21

Grand Lodge

Lacken

€1,000

Sholokhov

19

Sadler’s Wells

Glenview

€5,000

Tagula

25

Taufan

Rathbarry

€4,000

Tau Ceti

19

Hernando

Rosshill Farm

€1,000

Well Chosen

19

Sadler’s Wells

Kedrah House

On application

Westerner

19

Danehill

Castlehyde

€6,000

Where Or When

19

Danehill Dancer

Ballycrystal

€2,000

Monsieur Bond

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smart trio Arrigo, Fun Mac and Wild Coco – stands at Glenview Stud at €5,000 as well.

Although it is likely to be mainly jumps breeders using him these days, after he got the likes of Annie Power and Minella Rocco, he can still do owners of Flat mares a good turn.

Tamayuz comes in at the very top end of our budget price bracket as he is standing at Derrinstown Stud at €12,500, but perhaps we should be grateful the son of Nayef is in this range at all after a year in which he was represented by Poule d’Essai des Pouliches heroine Precieuse, EP Taylor Stakes winner Blond Me and Doncaster Cup scorer Desert Skyline.

The yearling average for Tamayuz soared from

36,143gns in 2016 to 67,614gns last autumn, with Shadwell paying 330,000gns and 325,000gns for two of his colts.

Mount Nelson was on the mark last year with British Champions Sprint Stakes winner Librisa Breeze and also, at the other end of the distance spectrum, Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle winner Penhill. This very model of a dual-purpose stallion is on offer for €5,000 at Boardsmill Stud.

Equiano – advertised at £8,000 at Newsells Park Stud – supplied another of last year’s Group 1-winning sprinters in Diamond Jubilee Stakes scorer The Tin Man. The son of Acclamation has provided 12 stakes winners from his first three crops including useful two-year-olds such as Dark Reckoning and Medicine Jack.

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Star value Nayef Top racecourse talent and influential sire is on offer for a giveaway price Poet’s Voice Stallion career has come to life just as his fee hits an all-time low Tamayuz In form and popular at the sales, surprise to see him in this bracket Poet’s Voice did not quite notch a Group 1 winner but if his flagbearer Poet’s Word returns to the track in similar form to last year, when he finished second in the British and Irish Champion Stakes, then the sire looks set to get at least one in 2018.

The son of Dubawi also recorded a magnificent haul of juvenile winners – only Kodiac and Dark Angel had more in Europe – and subsequently his new lowest ever fee of £6,000 at Dalham Hall Stud looks too good to miss.

Champs Elysees (Castle Hyde Stud, €6,500), Dandy Man (Ballyhane Stud, €10,000), Dylan Thomas (Castle Hyde Stud, €5,000), Fast Company (Kildangan Stud, €9,000), Footstepsinthesand (Coolmore, €10,000) and Sir Percy (Lanwades Stud, £7,000) are all proven sources of top-level winners and deserve their share of patronage.

Dandy Man, Fast Company and Sir Percy in particular have large and well-bred crops in the pipeline and should be among the first ports of call for budget breeders.

Raven’s Pass has not yet managed a Group or Grade 1 winner from six crops of racing age, which is clearly disappointing for a horse of his immense talent who served his first book of mares at a fee of €40,000, but he does have 25 stakes winners to speak of, and an excellent stakes winners to runners ratio, and his all-time low fee of €10,000 at Kildangan Stud in 2018 makes him look attractive at the price.

One who stands out at a real chickenfeed fee is Hellvelyn,, who from meagre opportunities in terms of quality and quantity has struck gold with two fantastic fillies in La Rioja and Mrs Dancers, plus Listed scorer Ardenode and

Ice Breeze (right): last year’s Prix Royal-Oak winner is another feather in the cap of Nunnery Stud veteran Nayef

One who stands out at a real chickenfeed fee is Hellvelyn

progressive handicapper Quench Dolly.

Access to the son of Ishiguru costs only £3,000 at Bucklands Farm and Stud.

There are several elder statesmen of the stallion ranks standing at £10,000 or €12,500 and less who are still able to supply plenty of winners, some high-class.

Many might not offer any guarantee of rich financial rewards at the sales, but they should be considered by owner-breeders without immediate commercial considerations, and they could be suitable for starting off a mare.

Nayef has given us three Group 1 winners – the latest came last year courtesy of Ice Breeze in the Prix Royal-Oak – among 27 stakes scorers and he is exerting a deep influence on the breed, with son Tamayuz and grandson Sir Prancealot getting smart offspring of their own.

For all that, Nayef is

Poet’s Word: a flagbearer for his sire Poet’s Voice, he was second in the British and Irish Champion Stakes in 2017

offered to breeders for just £5,000 at Nunnery Stud. You can’t go too far wrong at that price.

Tagula, the source of two genuine superstars in Canford Cliffs and Limato, is also at a

giveaway price of €4,000 at Rathbarry Stud, while Rock Of Gibraltar, who is responsible for eight Group/ Grade 1 winners conceived in the northern hemisphere, including last year’s late

leading first-season sire Society Rock, is standing at just €7,500 at Coolmore.

Beat Hollow, who has thrown top-level winners on the Flat and over jumps, holds appeal at €6,000 at Ballylinch Stud, while Avonbridge (Oakgrove Stud, £2,000) and Monsieur Bond (Norton Grove Stud, £4,000) still have plenty of life in them as wellsprings of sprinting talent.

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The only son of Oasis Dream in the North, Won 4 races at 3 and 4 years including the Stewards’ Cup (6f) and £87,302 Defeating 8 Group/ Stakes winners From an excellent Black-type family including dual Summer Mile Gr2 winner Mutakayyef and Gr.1 top sprinter Garswood 2018 Fee: £1,750 (1st Oct) We are offering £400 travel expenses to anyone booking a nomination at the advertised price Enquires: ANDREW SPALDING Tel: +44 (0) 1325 730209 Mob: +44 (0) 7990518751 e-mail: hedgeholmestud@gmail.com www.hedgeholmestud.com

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EXCELEBRATION [fee €8,000], a smart miler son of Exceed And

Excel, has made a promising start to his stud career with a team of classy animals led by the 2,000 Guineas runner­up and St James’s Palace winner Barney Roy. He will not want for mares in coming seasons.

2YO’s of 2017 included James Underwood’s Review of 2017 Listed winners SPEAK IN COLOURS and REBEL ASSAULT along with the 110-rated HEY JONESY

FOOTSTEPSINTHESAND represents value at a fee of

€10,000. His 2017 yearlings made up to €210,000.

TDN @theTDN Jan 10

Q. Sire pick for €10,000 or less?

A. FOOTSTEPSINTHESAND Michael Donohue of BBA Ireland, International Thoroughbred, Dec. 2017

Coolmore stalwart ROCK OF GIBRALTAR received a book of 111 mares in 2015, including 17 black­type performers, so will have a fair­sized juvenile crop to go to war with in 2018.

An advertised fee of just €7,500 for a sire of 225 stakes performers including Mount Nelson and Society Rock, both Group 1 sires in 2017, looks tempting RACING POST, Bloodstock World, 27th Dec. 2017

Contact: Coolmore Stud, Fethard, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. Tel: 353-52-6131298. Fax: 353-52-6131382. Christy Grassick, David O’Loughlin, Eddie Fitzpatrick, Tim Corballis, Maurice Moloney, Gerry Aherne, Mathieu Legars, Jason Walsh, Tom Miller or Neil Magee. Tom Gaffney, David Magnier, Joe Hernon, John Kennedy or Cathal Murphy: 353-25-31966/31689. Kevin Buckley (UK Rep.) 44-7827795156. E-mail: sales@coolmore.ie Web site: www.coolmore.com All stallions nominated to EBF.