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THE MEDICATION ISSUE

Do we need worldwide rules?

The views of ‘global vet’ John McVeigh

PLUS

What constitutes a performance enhancer?

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PROFILE The cool and calm

MIKEL DELZANGLES

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GILES ANDERSON The Medication Issue When discussing the medication issue, it’s easy for the casual observer to get confused between performance enhancement, medication and drugs used to increase performance. In this issue of European Trainer, we cover different areas of a subject that has dominated the international racing scene for some time.

In Europe we have some of the toughest rules in place prohibiting the use of raceday medication, yet as John Berry points out in his article, we are still allowed to perform invasive surgery which ultimately enhances performance. But where does one draw the line? How do you determine performance enhancements and who decides what is a performance enhancer? After all, isn’t it the job of the trainer to enhance performance?

Whether it be annually at the European Trainers’ Federation AGM or at the biennial Asian racing Conference, you can bet one subject will come up: Worldwide rules on medication protocols. So much time has been spent debating this topic that you could write a book on it! Well, that’s exactly what Thomas Tobin has done, and in his article in this issue, you’ll get his take on why we need to have a set of world rules for therapeutic medication and equine drug testing. Such a move would be one of the best steps forward this industry could take.

Yet while we all know it needs to happen, it will lead to the argument of who will be responsible for the implementation and governing of the rules. Perhaps what racing really needs at the same time as we implement the rules is a governing body, similar to FIFA in Association Football or the IRB in Rugby Football.

That’s another story in itself, and you’ll have to wait until the autumn issue to read our findings as to how likely that will be.

In our final part of the ‘Medication Issue,’ our South Africanbased writer David Thiselton talks to the “global vet” John McVeigh about his views and what he would implement to make the rulebook more coherent on an international basis.

McVeigh is right about screening limits – for me this is one area that goes back to the heart of the issue. When does everyday medication suddenly become performance-enhancing medication? To believe that every trainer is out there to push the thresholds to the limit is unfair and the view that every racehorse can survive without medication is crazy, so a balance does need to be struck. Let’s hope it’s done with the horse’s best interest in mind.

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Chairman’s message

CRIQUETTE HEAD In France, racing politics has been rather overshadowed recently by the presidential election and what the new president will mean for France. I'm sure we'll have an understanding of what this will mean for racing by this autumn.

I

ENJOYED a wonderful visit to the Cheltenham Festival back in March.

The last time I attended this meeting was when I was at boarding school in England so quite some years ago !

I found the same passionate crowd of racing and horse lovers and was reminded that in England people have this sport in their genes.

I would like to salute the remarkable exploit of Nicky Henderson who won seven races during the Festival. This is a fantastic achievement as these races are the most important of the season and so many things can go wrong with jumpers during their preparation.

I would also like to congratulate the

“I would like to salute the remarkable exploit of Nicky Henderson who won seven races during the Festival. This is a fantastic achievement” connections of the Classic winners we have seen so far this year.

Looking ahead, Royal Ascot should be fantastic this year with the presence of star

sprinter Black Caviar and the great Frankel.

Much is being made of the possibility of these two champions racing against each other later in the season and this would be a great event for racing.

However, I am not sure that the pair meeting would be so good for the horses themselves and believe that the correct programme should be respected for each one.

We should applaud the sporting nature of the connections of Black Caviar who have chosen to cross the globe to compete against the best sprinters of the northern hemisphere.

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Issue 38

CONTENTS...

10 TRM Trainer of the quarter

Michael Figge, trainer of Italian Derby winner, Feuerblitz.

12 Mikel Delzangles

Emma Berry spends a relaxing morning with Classic-winning French trainer Mikel Delzangles.

20 Performance enhancers

John Berry asks, how do we define what equipment and aids enhance a race horse’s performance?

26 John McVeigh

David Thiselton on Dr John McVeigh, who is making waves in his advocacy for a worldwide medication policy.

33 World rules

With increasingly sensitive tests for drugs, now more than ever we need a worldwide standard on what and when it is okay to treat racehorses, by Tom Tobin.

40 Handling heat

A look at the signs of heat stroke and what can be done to help avoid or treat it, by Stacey Oke.

48 Hydroponic feeding

Catherine Dunnett on the pros and cons of feeding hydroponic grass to horses in training.

54 Changing code

How some stables cope with re-homing racehorses, who can be, and often are, successfully trained to other disciplines,

by Lissa Oliver.

62 Australian racing

In advance of Black Caviar’s anticipated trip to Royal Ascot, Mitchell Lamb introduces us to the tough Australian racehorse.

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70 2yo starting racing survey A recent survey in New Zealand suggests that training and racing two-year-olds is in the horses’ best interest, by Celia Marr.

74 Product Focus 78 Stakes Schedules

Forthcoming stakes races from Europe and around the world.

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CONTRIBUTORS Publisher & Editorial Director Giles Anderson Assistant Editor Frances Karon Executive Assistant Alice Jefford Design/Production Neil Randon Advertising Sales Giles Anderson Photo Credits APRH, Aushorse, Fiona Boyd, Michael Burns Photography Ltd, Fodder Solutions, Horsephotos.com, Stefano Grasso, Stud Photgraphy, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Shutterstock.com, Matthew Willman

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Emma Berry is the Bloodstock Editor of Thoroughbred Owner & Breeder and European correspondent for Inside Racing in Austalia. She is married to trainer John Berry and lives in Newmarket with too many horses, dogs and cats.

John Berry has been training in Newmarket since 1995. He had previously worked in several stables and studs in England and Australia, including three years in Luca Cumani’s stable. He combines training with writing, with his regular columns being the overseas report in ‘Winning Post’, Australia’s leading weekly racing paper, and the ‘Stallion of the Week’ feature on www.thoroughbredinternet.com. He is also a Newmarket Town Councillor.

David Conolly-Smith was born in Nottingham, but has lived in Germany for more than 40 years and for the past 30 years has been the leading English-language racing correspondent in the country. He used to run a bookshop in Munich, but is now a full-time freelance journalist and translator.

Dr Catherine Dunnett BSc, PhD, R.Nutr. is an independent nutritionist registered with the British Nutrition Society. She has a background in equine research, in the field of nutrition and exercise physiology, with many years spent at The Animal Health Trust in Newmarket. Prior to setting up her own consultancy business, she worked in the equine feed industry on product development and technical marketing.

Mitchell Lamb was the senior producer and reporter with Australia's Sky Racing Network for more than a decade and is currently senior producer for the industry-owned network TVN. His passion for racing extends more than 25 years and hails from a strong family involvement in the industry but also a genuine passion for the sport from all aspects.

Professor Celia Marr is an equine clinician at Rossdales, Newmarket. She is a RCVS and European Specialist in Equine Medicine and Honorary Professor at the Glasgow University Veterinary School. She has previously worked at veterinary schools in Glasgow, Pennsylvania, Cambridge and London and in racehorse practice in Lambourn. She is Chairman of the Horserace Betting Levy Board’s Thoroughbred Research & Consultation Group and Editor-in-Chief of Equine Veterinary Journal.

Dr. Stacey Oke is a licensed veterinarian and freelance medical writer and editor. In addition to writing for various horse publications, she also contributes to scientific journals, is an editor of an internationallyrecognized, peer-reviewed journal, creates continuing education materials for both human and veterinary medicine, and conducts biomedical research studies.

Lissa Oliver lives in Co Kildare, Ireland and is a regular contributor to The Irish Field and the Australian magazine, Racetrack. Lissa is also the author of several collections of short stories and two novels.

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David Thiselton is the chief racing writer for Gold Circle Publishing, who are contracted to produce all of the racing pages for the Independent Newspaper Group in South Africa including

Thomas Tobin is a veterinarian, (Dublin, 1964), PhD in Pharmacology, University of Toronto, 1970, and a BoardCertified Toxicologist, (1980). He has been in Kentucky since 1975, where he is a Professor of Veterinary Science and also a Professor in the Graduate Center for Toxicology.

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EUROPEAN TRAINERS’ FEDERATION AIMS and OBJECTIVES of the ETF: a) To represent the interests of all member trainers’ associations in Europe. b) To liaise with political and administrative bodies on behalf of European trainers. c) To exchange information between members for the benefit of European trainers. d) To provide a network of contacts to assist each member to develop its policy and services to member trainers.

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Michael Figge (left) with Feuerblitz after the colt’s victory in the Italian Derby

TRM Trainer of the Quarter

MICHAEL FIGGE The TRM Trainer of the Quarter award has been won by Michael Figge. Figge and his team will receive a selection of products from the internationally-acclaimed range of TRM supplements worth €2,000, as well as a bottle of select Irish whiskey.

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NTIL three years ago, the name Figge had little resonance in German racing circles. Wolfgang Figge was a small trainer in Munich, his elder son Michael an even smaller one.

In his younger days, Michael had been a successful amateur jockey, winning 31 races; he was once leading amateur in Germany and also FEGENTRI vice-champion; he won races in Sweden, Austria and Holland and was also runner-up in Epsom’s big race for amateurs at the August meeting.

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Munich is one of the best racecourses in Germany and has possibly the best training conditions, but no top horse had been trained here in many years. The idea that father and son Figge would both send out classic winners would have appeared fanciful in the extreme.

Yet exactly this has happened. First Wolfgang trained Night Magic to win the Preis der Diana (German Oaks) in spectacular fashion in 2009; she also won the Grosser Preis von Baden in 2010 and was runner-up to Danedream in the same race in 2011 to prove herself one of the best German racemares of the century.

Now his son has saddled Feuerblitz to win the Italian Derby, and the Big Shuffle colt is now of the leading candidates for the German Derby at the beginning of July.

Michael’s rise has been nothing short of meteoric. He started training on his own account in 2006 with just two horses; that year he won one race, in 2007 four, in 2008

five; 2009 was his best year to date, with eight winners (two of them abroad), but he was down to four winners again in 2010. But that year he met Patrick Bertermann, a young man who had made a lot of money in IT and social network ventures.

The two of them had lunch together and afterwards Figge showed Bettermann his stable. Bettermann was keen on racing and wanted to buy a horse. On Figge’s advice he first bought a ready-made runner out of a French claimer, then some yearlings.

The first purchase was made at Longchamp on September 1st 2010 – less than two years ago! In October that year he bought the American Post filly Chica Loca for 22,000 euros at Deauville’s October sale.

She won the first German two-year-old race of 2011, at the Baden-Baden spring meeting, and went on to be one of the top juvenile fillies in the country; this year she finished a close seventh in the Poule d’Essai des

Pouliches and looks well capable of winning a group race.

Bertermann, who races under the name of Stall Eivissa, now owns 13 of the 20 horses in Figge’s yard, but had to be talked into taking Feuerblitz after the previous owner ran into money problems.

His Italian Derby win was of course easily the most valuable of Figge’s career so far. Up to the time of writing the stable has won 9 races in 2012, five of them in France; this is already his best ever season, with we hope many more winners to come.

Figge has made a study of homeopathy and naturotherapy and puts these principles into practice with his horses. “For major problems, of course I call the vets,” he says, “but for minor ailments I treat them myself.

What I am aiming for is a mixture of traditional training methods and innovation.”

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PROFILE

The inner calm of

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Not many trainers would consent to a magazine interview just a few hours before saddling a runner in a Classic, but then not many would approach the forthcoming race as if it were nothing more arduous than a routine work morning on the wooded gallops of Chantilly. If one were to ponder the key to the success of Mikel Delzangles during his inexorable rise through the training ranks then his equable demeanour would have to be considered as having played a significant part. WORDS: EMMA BERRY PHOTOS: APRH, HORSEPHOTOS.COM

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’D BE silly to say that I don’t get stressed. Of course I do but there’s no point making a big fuss about things,” he says over breakfast at a friend’s home in Newmarket ahead of Hermival’s engagement in that afternoon’s 2,000 Guineas.

Of course Delzangles had every reason to feel quietly confident: his record in British Classics up until then read one win from one run following Makfi’s 33-1 victory in the 2,000 Guineas of 2010. The result probably left those in the Shadwell operation, which bred the horse and sold him as an unraced back-end two-year-old, wishing they’d never heard of Mikel Delzangles, while the rest of the racing world outside France hastily scribbled his

“He was exactly the same before Makfi ran in the Guineas. That morning he had disappeared upstairs and when I went to see what he was doing I found him asleep” Ann Delzangles

name in their notebooks as one to follow.

But Delzangles’ equilibrium ahead of his second Guineas assault is not born of past success, according to his American-born wife Ann, who says: “He was exactly the same before Makfi ran in the Guineas. That morning he had disappeared upstairs and when I went to see what he was doing I found him asleep. He’s so amazingly calm.”

Along with Hermival, Delzangles took to Newmarket his diminutive six-year-old horse Dunaden, the €1,500 yearling purchase whom Delzangles inherited on the move of his friend Richard Gibson from France to Hong Kong, and who is now known the world over following back-to-back wins in the Melbourne Cup and Hong Kong Vase. That triumphant spell at the end of last year helped to boost

Makfi, who took Delzangles to his first Classic success in the 2010 2,000 Guineas, on the gallops

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“Dunaden’s a very easy horse though. He does no less and no more than he needs to and he only lost a few kilos when he was travelling” Mikel Delzangles

Delzangles discusses tactics with jockey Alexis Achard

Dunaden’s current career earnings to £3,343,470.

After our interview was concluded, both horses finished third in their respective Newmarket races – Hermival coming home best of those racing on the far rails in a splitfield Guineas and Dunaden staying on dourly under a 5lb penalty in the Group 2 Jockey Club Stakes on his first run back from a much deserved spell. It’s unlikely, though, that we’ve heard the last of either of them for this season and the same can be said for their owners.

While Dunaden runs in the increasingly familiar yellow and blue-starred silks of Sheikh Fahad Al-Thani’s Pearl Bloodstock, a 51 percent stake in Hermival was bought pre-Guineas by his uncle, Sheikh Abdullah Bin Khalifa AlThani. The Qatari royal family has made a dramatic impact on European racing in the last

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few years, with the two-day Guineas meeting at Newmarket carrying their financial backing under a variety of guises. The QIPCO 2,000 Guineas heralded the start of the second British Champions’ Series, sponsored in its entirety by Sheikh Fahad Al-Thani and his brothers under the same banner, while Qatar Bloodstock, the breeding wing of the Al-Thani family, lent its name to the Jockey Club Stakes.

The most familiar of the titles, however, is undoubtedly Pearl Bloodstock, which, even in its fledgling days, has already enjoyed extraordinary success. Ger Lyons gave Sheikh Fahad his first Group 1 winner with the juvenile filly Lightening Pearl in last year’s Cheveley Park Stakes but Delzangles cranked the excitement up by several notches with his handling of Dunaden, who was bought privately for the sheikh in October 2010.

Delzangles says: “Dunaden came to me when Richard Gibson stopped training [here]. He’d been bought as a handicapper really but he had already won a Listed race for Richard and he just kept improving.”

The son of Nicobar won the Group 3 Prix de Barbeville on his first start for his new stable on April 30 last year followed by a low-key domestic preparation for the world’s biggest staying race.

“I still can’t believe that it works, taking horses all the way to Australia,” says his trainer.

“It’s such a big journey for them and you have to admire how they cope with it.

“Dunaden’s a very easy horse though. He does no less and no more than he needs to and he only lost a few kilos when he was travelling.”

While Dunaden’s longer-range 2012 target could be the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe on home soil in October, Hermival may aim to improve on his Classic placing with a tilt at the Irish 2,000 Guineas, the race won by his sire Dubawi in 2005. Both horses could also be seen at Royal Ascot however, with the marathon Gold Cup a possibility for Dunaden.

Collecting the cup from the Queen in her Diamond Jubilee year would surely be another item high on the racing wish list of his 22-yearold owner.

It was at the Royal Meeting in 2005, during its one-year tenure at York, that Delzangles made his first successful international foray with the King’s Stand Stakes winner Chineur.

Having spent two years from 1989 working for the late Malton-based jumps trainer Jimmy FitzGerald, it was a return to familiar territory for Delzangles, who says: “Chineur was my first really good horse and it was lovely winning at Royal Ascot. It was especially good to go back to York as I knew it pretty well and enjoyed my time there.”

The sprinter ran in the colours of the trainer’s godmother, the Marquesa de Moratalla, more readily associated with good French jumpers but happy to support the young Delzangles in the early days of his training career. In fact, when he started out in his first full season with just six horses at his disposal, the Marquesa was also owner of the best of these, Saratan, who gave the trainer his principal success at

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Sheikh Fahad (left) with Delzangles after Dunedin’s win in the Hong Kong Vase

The ever-growing racing interests of Pearl Bloodstock have been spread across a number of different stables, with Ralph Beckett, David Barron, Sir Mark Prescott, Luca Cumani, Ger Lyons, William Haggas, Stuart Williams, Richard Hannon, Roger Varian, Ed Vaughan, Chris Wall, Henry Candy, Charlie Hills, Peter ChappleHyam, Kevin Ryan, Andrew Balding, Eddie Lynam, and David Brown all on the roll call of British and Irish trainers. In France the list includes John Hammond, Rupert PritchardGordon and Francis-Henri Graffard, while Graham Motion, Christophe Clement, and Simon Callaghan complete the line-up in the US. Through Qatar Bloodstock’s purchase of Makfi as a stallion prospect whilst still in training and Pearl Bloodstock’s campaigning of the globetrotting Dunaden, it is Mikel Delzangles with whom the operations are

most readily associated, and it is a partnership which is certain to garner yet more success in the future.

Delzangles says: “The exciting thing about being involved with Pearl Bloodstock is that it’s all new. Sheikh Fahad is really enthusiastic but he knows where he is going. He has a major plan and he’s building up a very good team. It’s a pleasure to train for him.”

His sentiment is reciprocated by Pearl Bloodstock’s racing and bloodstock manager, David Redvers, who says: “Mikel is one of the most settled people I know. It doesn’t matter how big the occasion is, he just doesn’t let it get to him. He went for a lie-down before the Melbourne Cup while I was busy box-walking.

“Winning that race was the greatest day I’ve ever had in racing, let alone Sheikh Fahad, who’s only 22. I doubt it will ever be bettered.”

Pearl Bloodstock now has ten horses in training with Delzangles, including a recent recruit from the Aga Khan, four-year-old Dalakhani colt Vadamar, a Group 2 winner over a mile and a half who has been purchased as another potential Melbourne Cup contender.

Redvers adds: “We have four or five of what we like to think of as our main trainers and with Mikel you take special care to listen to what he has to say. There’s no hot air with him and he has an amazing problem-solving brain. I can’t speak highly enough of him.”

Deauville in August 2001. The Aga Khan-bred son of Tirol would go on to secure a hat-trick of competitive ‘tierce’ handicaps the following year before landing the Group 3 Prix du PalaisRoyal in May 2003. The owner/trainer combination struck again when Delzangles landed his first Group 1 victory, this time with Corre Caminos, an early top-flight scorer for Montjeu in the 2006 Prix Ganay.

Born in Biarritz in the south of France,

“Australia was fantastic in every way but the build-up to the race and the interest in it was so intense” Mikel Delzangles Delzangles, now 41, has seen his string grow from single figures to the current tally of 140 in just over a decade. The ten years prior to that, though interspersed with National Service, were spent productively, working at the right hand of France’s pre-eminent trainer Alain de Royer-Dupre, whom Delzangles emulated by winning the Geelong Cup and Melbourne Cup the year after his former boss had completed the double with Americain.

“Of course that was a fantastic place to learn,” he says. “You learn different things from

Delzangles wins the Prix de l’Opera in 2009 with the Shalanaya, who was from the first batch of horses sent to the trainer from the Aga Khan

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Dunedin surges clear to win the Hong Kong Vase, having already won the Melbourne Cup

different people but in the end you have to develop your own method.”

His particular method has drawn plenty of admirers, not least de Royer-Dupre’s major patron, the Aga Khan, who first sent a batch of ten horses to Delzangles in January 2008. The owner/breeder’s faith was rewarded when the trainer sent out Shalanaya to win the Prix de l’Opera on ‘Arc’ day in 2009, and he has a live Derby candidate with the trainer this year in the unbeaten Kesampour, who won the Group 2 Prix Greffulhe at Saint-Cloud while Delzangles was on duty in Newmarket for the 2,000 Guineas.

The Aga Khan is not the only major player on Delzangles’ books as the trainer also enjoys the support of the increasingly ubiquitous Gérard Augustin-Normand, who remains the

co-owner of Hermival along with a number of other horses in the stable, and, of course, Sheikh Fahad and his family (see panel).

Despite a desire to stay close to his roots in Chantilly with Ann and their three young daughters Olivia, four, and 18-month-old twins Charlotte and Alexandra, Delzangles has had to adopt a somewhat nomadic lifestyle in pursuit of his runners around the world. He has also had to endure increased probing from the racing media.

“I only ever wanted to train in either England or France, nowhere else,” he says.

“Australia was fantastic in every way but the build-up to the race and the interest in it was so intense. It was like being in a dream really. It’s not necessarily something I enjoy [being in the limelight] but I felt I couldn’t

refuse the Australians anything, they were so hospitable.

“It’s difficult to compare the big races around the world. The 2,000 Guineas was my first Classic so nothing can compare to that but the Melbourne Cup is a legendary race.”

Whether or not Dunaden returns to Melbourne, Delzangles has another potential candidate for the race in recent Pearl Bloodstock purchase Vadamar.

He says: “It would be nice to go back to Australia with Dunaden but we’ll see how the first half of the season goes for him here. He had a holiday for a month after Hong Kong but he’s back into his routine now. He’s very straightforward, he doesn’t stress, and he knows what he has to do.”

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RACING

I’ll Have Another ran with a nasal strip when winning both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes

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The performance enhancer paradox In Europe a gelding is not permitted to run in a Classic or the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe because it is regarded as having an advantage over a colt, while in America a horse can run with a nasal strip in the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, but not in the Belmont. Unravelling what is a logically acceptable improvement and what isn’t can, therefore, prove to be a minefield.

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HE win by gelding Goldoni in the win-and-you’re-in Investec Derby Trial at Epsom has brought the issue of geldings’ participation in championship races back into focus, as has the emergence over the past 12 months of the gelded Cirrus des Aigles as arguably the best middle-distance horse in Europe.

Geldings, of course, nowadays are eligible to run in several Group One races, but the Classics and the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe remain closed to them, so Goldoni and Cirrus des Aigles won’t be lining up for what would otherwise have been their obvious main targets.

In one sense, it is illogical to bar geldings from championship races, which obviously would only truly fulfill their purpose of identifying the best horses if they were open to all. However, in Europe it is felt that

artificially giving a horse an advantage (by castrating him) should not be part of the preparation for any of the races that matter the most, which means that geldings are barred from competing in them. This philosophy brings us neatly around to the ever-pertinent minefield of which performance-enhancing improvements to a horse are considered acceptable and which are not. This is an area in which it is almost impossible to introduce logical guidelines, because every aspect of training a horse is done with the sole purpose of enhancing his performance.

For as long as men have been racing horses, we have been trying to enhance our charges’ performance. Consequently, a constant dilemma faced by the racing authorities has been to decide which performance-enhancing improvements are permissible and which are not. This is arguably hardest as regards

nutrition: naturally, the horse’s only normal nutrients are grass and water, so the differentiation between what constitutes an acceptable, normal ‘non-normal nutrient’ and what constitutes an unacceptable, abnormal ‘non-normal nutrient’ is never going to be an easy one. Dividing nutrients between food and drugs is far from straightforward, with most drugs coming from seemingly innocuous plants anyway.

Over and above the debate over what a horse can or cannot eat, the dilemma of what tack can be used to enhance a horse’s performance can be similarly perplexing.

Arguably one of the most contentious areas lies around the use of nasal strips, which one might have thought are as an innocuous a piece of tack as one could find.

Obviously, the flow of air into a horse’s lungs during a race is of vital importance to him being able to perform to his full

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Cirrus des Aigles, one of the leading middle-distance horses in Europe, cannot run in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe because he is a gelding

potential. In the passage along which the air must pass to reach the lungs, the larynx is potentially the major bottleneck: if the larynx does not open properly, then the amount of air the horse can take in during each breath is severely reduced, which in turn greatly hastens the onset of fatigue. However, the larynx is not the only potential point of obstruction.

The soft palate, if dislodged, can cause one obstruction to airflow, while the nostrils, if contracting unduly during inspiration, are believed potentially to cause another. The theory behind the latter being a problem is that the sucking in of air can cause a partial collapse of the soft tissue in the nose, reducing the size of the opening through which the air enters the windpipe.

A nasal strip, which is banned for racing throughout Europe but allowed in most North American racing jurisdictions bar New York – meaning regular user I’ll Have Another will have to run in the Belmont Stakes without one in his bid to win the Triple Crown – is a strip of tape stuck across the outside of the nostril, holding the skin in more or less its proper position, thus ensuring that this does not happen. It is a very simple piece of tack that is used to try to ensure correct function of the horse’s breathing apparatus, just as a tongue strap is similarly often brought into play.

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“The tongue tie is just like the nasal strip in that it is a simple piece of tack, designed to hold part of the horse’s head in its correct position with the aim of helping him to breathe better” competition, each horse should compete against his rivals as nature intended. It is arguably thus correct to ban the nasal strip, as it could conceivably lessen the advantage held by a horse whose body naturally functions well (i.e. whose nostrils are not sucked partially shut during inspiration) over a horse whose body is not so naturally efficient. That, of course, is a theory with which few could quibble.

However, in practice, this theory is otherwise honoured so much more in the breach than the observance that one has to question why it is applied in this particular instance. Does, for instance, it make sense for nasal strips to be proscribed while tongue ties are allowed? The tongue tie is just like the nasal strip in that it is a simple piece of tack,

designed to hold part of the horse’s head in its correct position with the aim of helping him to breathe better, thus enhancing his performance. It holds the tongue in its proper place – i.e. beneath the bit, stretched out across the floor of the mouth within the area marked out by the horse’s teeth – and ensures that it is not retracted, a movement which might potentially cause the soft palate to become dislodged, which in turn might interfere with the horse’s breathing.

That, of course, is not the only function of the tongue tie, which can be valuable in giving the rider greater control over a horse who has a tendency to put his tongue over the bit and thus make himself less tractable, because he can thereby become less responsive to the bit.

More and more, though, the tongue tie is being used in the (usually fairly vague) hope that it might improve the flow of air into a horse’s lungs, rather than for giving the rider control.

If, therefore, using a simple piece of tack to hold a horse’s nostrils in their proper position to help him breathe well is deemed unacceptable, does it make sense for it to be permitted to use a simple piece of tack to hold his tongue in its proper position to help him breathe well?

Furthermore, there are numerous other items of tack in daily use despite the fact that their sole aim is to enhance performance. If a horse naturally has poor powers of concentration and is easily distracted, blinkers

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“It is very hard to understand why tubing has been banned while more intrusive, arguably more harmful and definitely less apparent performance-enhancing wind operations remain permissible” can be applied in the belief that, by restricting the horse’s field of vision, they will help him to focus on the job in hand.

If a horse has a natural tendency to carry his head high, a sheepskin noseband can be applied in the belief that, as it is felt that horses like to see their feet while they are galloping, this piece of tack will encourage him to drop his head to a more conventional angle. If a horse is cursed with a timid nature and thus is frightened by noise, he may wear earplugs or a hood.

This line of logic even runs as far as a horse’s shoes. It is extremely rare nowadays to see a horse racing barefoot (in fact, in many countries it is compulsory for horses to wear some form of footwear while racing) but, using the line of thinking that sees the banning of nasal strips, shoes or plates perhaps should be proscribed too: in an ideal world, horses’ feet should be tough enough not to need to be shod, and allowing horses to race in shoes/plates is reducing the advantage which horses with strong, well-conformed feet hold over horses who are naturally less well constructed.

It is arguably even more paradoxical that, while one can’t place a piece of sticky tape across the front of a horse’s nose in an extremely basic attempt to enhance his performance by helping to him breathe well, one is allowed to perform major surgery on him in much more effective pursuit of the same end.

In Britain, wind operations have reached a stage of unprecedented popularity in recent seasons. Nowadays, a startlingly high proportion of big races, particularly over jumps, are won by horses which, we are told, have been subjected to wind operations at some stage of their lives. Laser treatment to a horse’s soft palate has seemingly become a first, rather than a last, resort in many stables; while the two most common treatments for a deteriorating larynx (a tie-back and a hobday) remain in regular use. However, the most time-honoured solution of them all, tubing, has recently been declared off-limits by the

A horse with earplugs and a sheepskin noseband (above) and with blinkers (below). Do these items of tack give an unfair advantage?

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St Leger winner Sixties Icon subsequently had a wind operation after his four-year-old campaign and won three Group 3 races at five

BHA. It is very hard to understand why this should be the case, bearing in mind that the other treatments are still allowed.

Tubing a horse has one drawback compared to the other methods (i.e. that it is unsightly), but set against this, there are numerous advantages. It is arguably the least harmful to a horse, with a tie-back (which ties the horse’s larynx permanently open) having the major disadvantage of meaning that the horse’s wind-pipe remains open when he swallows, which is obviously far from satisfactory as regards the health of his lungs.

Another massive advantage that tubing holds over other wind operations is that it is completely reversible: if one removes the tube, the hole closes up within a couple of weeks.

Furthermore, from the point of view of transparency in an era in which the dissemination of information into ‘the public domain’ is deemed to be of paramount importance, an additional benefit of tubing compared to surgery which has taken place inside the horse is that it is clearly visible to observers, which means that there can be no doubt at all as to whether the horse has had it done.

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“Numerous other forms of surgery do not render the horse subsequently ineligible for racing, despite clearly having been performed with the aim of enhancing his future performance” On this basis, it is very hard indeed to understand why tubing has been banned while more intrusive, arguably more harmful and definitely less apparent performanceenhancing wind operations remain permissible.

The picture is clouded even further by the fact that numerous other forms of surgery do not render the horse subsequently ineligible for racing, despite clearly having been performed with the aim of enhancing his future performance. As outlined at the start of

this article, the improvements wrought on a horse by gelding him are deemed to be enough of an artificial improvement to rule him out of championship races. There would, though, be nothing to prevent a horse who has had a wind operation running in the Derby or the Arc, when logic would seem to dictate that such a horse should be the first to be declared ineligible.

How, too, are horses who have had conformation-correcting surgery as foals deemed not to have been handed an unnatural advantage, or to have had a natural disadvantage annulled? Or horses who have had surgery to repair damage which has resulted from their having been born abnormally fragile?

The point of this article is not to suggest that racing should not be clamping down on those who seek to give their horses an unnatural advantage. That is exactly what it should be doing. However, it is worth pointing out that it is very hard to define the boundaries between performance enhancers that should be permitted and those which should not, and it is only right that the guidelines be constantly reviewed and questioned. n

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cVEIGH said, “We should put the best medical minds together for the welfare and integrity of the sport.”

However, pointing at the Australian and US models as an example, he acknowledged the logistical problems of a worldwide set of rules ever becoming a reality.

“In Australian racing there are six states and two territories that each have their own independent governing bodies, and there are four accredited laboratories in the country, each with its own methods.”

This scenario is enhanced nearly tenfold in the US, where there are more than 30 different racing jurisdictions all with their own laboratories and sets of rules and detection times.

This is in contrast to Europe, for example, where the European Horserace Scientific Liaison Committee (EHSLC) liaises and coordinates between different countries, and Canada, where consensus has been reached on detection times.

“Can you imagine the politics on a world scale if jurisdictions within a single country can’t reach an agreement?” lamented McVeigh.

He added, “The American lobby is huge and powerful as they breed the most thoroughbred horses in the world.”

McVeigh practices chiefly out of South Africa, and he is the chairman of a liaison committee between that country’s horseracing authority (NHRA) and the Veterinary Association.

The NHRA are now adopting something close to the suggestions the liaison committee had actually made some 20 years ago regarding medications.

McVeigh, commenting on the NHRA’s approach back in the 1990s, said, “It was like driving down the road and not knowing what the speed limit was.”

The NHRA are now closely following the recommendations for medication detection times given to them by the EHSLC. The NHRA have also accepted the introduction of a simple record book that McVeigh designed that protects (or implicates) both the trainer and the veterinarian in cases where a horse is found to be “positive.”

The book, which is numbered sequentially, simply provides a master copy of the medicine dosage and the veterinarian’s advised withdrawal time and a tear off duplicate copy is left with the trainer.

McVeigh’s beliefs on racehorse medication are very clear: “Medicine should be administered for the welfare of the horse and in order to allow the horse to safely compete to the best of its ability, but the horse should be free of pharmacologically active levels of medications on race day. That policy is fair to the horse and

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Dr John McVeigh, who has made waves around the world not just for his association with trainers of the calibre of Mike de Kock and Sir Michael Stoute but also for his speech on Salix (Lasix) at a summit at Belmont Park in New York last year, is of the strong opinion that a standard worldwide philosophy on medication and doping control should be reached and incorporated within one worldwide set of rules.

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protects the integrity of the sport.”

McVeigh is hence against the use of furosemide (Salix/Lasix) and Phenylbutazone (Bute) in racehorses unless they are used as controlled therapeutic medicines for the occasional horse that needs it on the training tracks.

McVeigh need not reiterate that the policies of some of the racing authorities of the Western Hemisphere towards the usage of medications like Lasix and Bute are the single biggest obstacle to international harmonisation of medication control in horseracing.

To illustrate the effects these policies are having on the thoroughbred breed, he pointed not only at the example of Germany, which does not allow stallions that have raced on medication in their breeding sheds, but also at the dwindling reputation of US-bred thoroughbreds.

The latter is best summed up by the recent

“Lasix should be prescribed for horses that bleed and if this is not the case it constitutes an abuse of medication” John McVeigh

publication, in the US’s Thoroughbred Daily News, of a no-holds-barred open letter from Coolmore director of sales David O’Loughlin, that slams US racing drug dependency.

O’Loughlin revealed that a frequent discussion topic at Irish, British, and French sales regarded the perceived demise in quality and endurance of American horses “because they are so dependent on drugs for racing” and to the widely held belief that “chronic bursting/ bleeding is endemic in American-bred horses.”

He added that much of this belief stems from people's first-hand experience of US-bred stock when they were put into a racing environment with zero tolerance of Lasix.

“We are all too aware of horses which couldn't compete in Europe because they bled so badly, but went on to achieve success at a high level in America with the assistance of medication,” he wrote.

O’Loughlin reminisced about the great American-bred racehorses and sires of the past before concluding, “Many European purchasers who annually travelled to Kentucky to purchase US-bred weanlings, yearlings, or broodmares no longer do so because they believe your bloodstock is now inferior and unsound. It's going to take a lot of work to turn this mindset around, but if you don't do something about it soon the commercial breeders in Kentucky will be left with a product the major international racing community no longer wants."

In June last year McVeigh, speaking at the International Summit on Race Day Medication: Exercise-Induced Pulmonary Hemorrhaging (EIPH) and the Racehorse, held at Belmont Park, shared the findings of a 2004 South African Study that identified a genetic link to EIPH. The study, by Hans Weideman, S.J. Schoeman, and G.F. Jordaan, was very comprehensive and involved 63,146 horses and 778,532 races run over a period from 1986 to 2002.

The study only considered epistaxis (bleeding from the nose) and did not use endoscopes to look for lesser bleeding. Its conclusion showed that epistaxis, as related to EIPH in South African thoroughbred sires, had a strong genetic basis.

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If this were 50 years ago, they never would have allowed these drugs to be used. But today most breeders want to bring their stock to market and don’t care about what happens after their product is sold” Barry Irwin – owner of Animal Kingdom (left) Of equal concern was that the percentage incidence of epistaxis among the racehorse population increased over the 16 years of the study, particularly over the final five years. In the beginning it showed that 1% of racehorses in South Africa bled from the nose, but by the end this figure had increased to 2.1% and it is currently at 2.5%.

This figure differs around the world and, for example, according to figures disseminated at the summit, Britain has an epistaxis rate of 0.33% per 1000 runners, Hong Kong’s rate is 4.7% and Singapore’s is 5.1%.

South Africa had many stallions imported from the US during the time of the EIPH study and one of the recommendations made in the conclusion was that Lasix be banned internationally from racing, or failing that, breeders should refrain from buying potential sires that have raced on the drug.

McVeigh also pointed out during his summit speech that a couple of the sires that had the worst statistics for passing on the bleeding trait were champion sires and hence had high numbers of progeny.

Many US racing industry men are also vehemently opposed to the use of Lasix including the likes of the legendary Kentucky breeder Arthur Hancock, who said in a CBS report, “Generation after generation, they're going to get weaker and that's what's happened."

Barry Irwin, who owned and bred last year’s Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom and whose syndication company Team Valor International has enjoyed tremendous success with South African-breds, among others, also weighed in.

Irwin said, “In America, we have a few problems that have created the perfect storm to mess up our racing, as follows: One, most trainers today know no other way to train other than to use drugs because they have only

trained under permissive med rules. Two, states rights prevail and we have 50 states and they each have their own rules. Three, commercialism rules the day.

“If this were 50 years ago, when more breeders raced their stock, they never would have allowed these drugs to be used. But today most breeders want to bring their stock to market, they take shortcuts and don't care about what happens after their product is sold.

Add the drugs into the mix and an environment where the states have been sold a bill of goods by trainers and veterinarians and the problem is monumental.”

McVeigh was in fact personally thanked for the dissemination of the information provided by the EIPH study by a senior racing official in the US, who was concerned about the integrity of the breed.

His summit speech was certainly a contributory factor to the Breeders’ Cup decision to make the five two-year-old events Lasix-free this year and to have all 15 Breeders’ Cup events Lasix-free by 2013.

Unfortunately, in February this year, the American Graded Stakes Committee, citing strong opposition from horsemen, reversed a 2011 decision that would require a ban on race day Lasix in order for two-year-old races to obtain a grade, although this reversal will not affect the Breeders’ Cup, who have their own raceday medication committee.

This is not surprising, as a quick glance at a US racecard usually reveals that more than 95% of the horses entered will race on Lasix.

The conclusion of another study done by Guthrie, Hinchcliff, and Morley on 167 horses that were subjected to race day conditions at the Vaal racecourse in South Africa in November 2007 was the first time any proof had been provided that Lasix does indeed reduce the incidence of bleeding.

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Trainer Willie Haggas, in an article in The Thoroughbred Owner and Breeder in 2010, regarded employing McVeigh as his “vet” as perhaps the biggest step forward he had taken as a trainer. He recalled their first meeting, at which McVeigh looked at Haggas’ horse Dupont for about ten minutes and then told him exactly what he needed.

“It was as if a light went on,” he said regarding the impression McVeigh had made.

Haggas later persuaded McVeigh to set up a full-time practice in Newmarket, which he did, and many Newmarket trainers, including Sir Michael Stoute, now use him.

McVeigh also has a practice in Chantilly in France where the likes of Freddie Head use him.

However, his chief practices remain in Durban and Cape Town in South Africa, and Mike de Kock summed up his value: “John McVeigh has changed my way of thinking on horse care. He has taught me to think out of the box as far as veterinary care goes, and deal with the problem rather than think it will go away. I attribute a large proportion of my success to John.”

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RACING amount of blood in their trachea after a single race, and Hinchcliff et al had previously confirmed the widely held belief that breathing into the airways does impair the athletic performance of racehorses.

A study done by Hinchcliff in Australia concluded that, “Horses with EIPH defined as grade 2 or higher, were 4.0 times less likely to win, 1.8 times less likely to finish in the top three places, and finished 1.8 metres farther behind the winner than did unaffected horses.

The severity of EIPH (grade 0-4) was significantly associated with reduced probability of winning, slower horse speed, and greater lengths behind the winner. Horses with grade 4 EIPH finished an average of 3.4 metres farther behind the winner than horses of grade 0.”

Some of the data provided by Guthrie, Hinchcliff, and Morley did give leverage to those who justify the use of Lasix on race day.

However, this doesn’t justify the extremely high percentage of horses in the US and Canada that race on Lasix.

McVeigh said, “Lasix should be prescribed for horses that bleed and if this is not the case it constitutes an abuse of medication. Although one in two horses will show signs of bleeding after a race, only one in five bleed to the extent that it effects their performance.”

He pointed out that Lasix had become so entrenched in US racing that first-time Lasix usage is highlighted on the race card. The Daily Racing Form publication in the US said the reason this information is important is because “first-time Lasix can sometimes leads to a dramatically improved performance from a horse.”

McVeigh gives his full support to those regulatory bodies that distinguish between the control of illicit substances (doping control) and the control of therapeutic substances (medication control).

“Doping” drugs, such as agents that stimulate the central nervous system, can artificially enhance the horse’s physical capacity and its competitive instinct, and there should be zero tolerance for these drugs.

However, an anti-doping policy must not impede the use of legitimate veterinary medications and therefore another important philosophy that most regulatory bodies are now beginning to employ, and which McVeigh also supports, is that a “zero tolerance rule” is not suitable for medication control.

The high level of sensitivity of modern screening methods allows traces of legitimate medications to be detected long after their presence is having any effect. In the past this has led to some trainers attaining “positives” and being unfairly labeled as “cheats” by the uneducated racing public.

“Chasing traces is counterproductive,” said McVeigh.

He pointed out that the general racing public do not have the knowledge to differentiate between irrelevant traces and levels that are

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“Generation after generation, they’re going to get weaker and that’s what's happened” Arthur Hancock having a pharmacological effect, or, even worse, to differentiate between therapeutic medicine and “dope.”

The EHLSC, and other similar bodies like the Racing Testing and Medication Consortium (RMTC) in the US, have now established the use of harmonised screening limits (HSL) relating to commonly used drugs in equine medication.

McVeigh has no problem with the fact that HSLs are generally kept confidential. “As long as one knows the detection time, it is fine,” he said.

However, he feels strongly that progress should be made towards reaching a worldwide standard for Screening Limits so that detection times are the same wherever a horse or a veterinarian travels.

Screening Limits effectively reflect the assessments on integrity risks made by the authority that decides them.

“If you don’t do something about it soon the commercial breeders in Kentucky will be left with a product the major international racing community no longer wants” David O’Loughlin

“No significant effect levels is what we should all be aiming for,” said McVeigh, implying that the world should reach consensus in this area rather than leaving different racing authorities to assess their own integrity risks.

In fact, at an Advisory Council Meeting of the International Federation Of Horseracing Authorites (IFHA) in 2010, there were strong opinions from the US, Australia, and Hong Kong representatives that in order for the IFHA to progress to global harmonisation in this area, publication of agreed Screening Limits was essential.

The meeting was unanimous in agreeing that the Advisory Council, and hence the IFHA, needed to progress this matter and produce a list of drugs with International Screening Limits (ISLs), signatory countries, and, if possible, the corresponding detection times.

This is still a work in progress.

It should be noted that international thresholds for “substances endogenous to the horse, substances arising from plants traditionally grazed or harvested as equine feed, or substances in equine feed arising from contamination during cultivation, processing or treatment, storage or transportation,” are published by the IFHA. McVeigh explained that veterinarians still had to use their discretion when administering drugs that had standardised detection times.

“The withdrawal time will always be longer than the detection time,” he said. “For example, a withdrawal period is longer if a horse is fed the drug as opposed to being given it intravenously.”

He also explained that withdrawal times in horses are effected by differing metabolisms and other factors, meaning it is possible for a medication to show a level above the HSL after the official detection time, so these variables have to be taken into account to be safe.

The IFHA was founded in 1993 in order to, among other things, coordinate and harmonise the rules of the member-countries regarding breeding, racing, and wagering. However, the member countries are unable to reach consensus on medication control.

The aim of Article 6 of the IFHA is to protect the integrity of horseracing, through controlling the use of substances capable of giving a horse an advantage or disadvantage in a race, contrary to the horse’s inherent merits. Only 35 of the 59 member countries are full signatories to Article 6, which has 19 sections, and 17 are partial signatories.

While some of the partial signatories sited the regulation of Lasix and Bute as their only disagreement, there were others, including Great Britain, Australia, USA, and New Zealand, who didn’t sign for section 10, which defines the constitution of a prohibited substance. Still others disagreed with the threshold levels for certain substances, while Korea disagreed with the rule pertaining to the origin of substances that can have a threshold placed on them and others didn’t accept the section pertaining to

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It is clear there is still a long way to go to reach worldwide consensus, while the problem of tracking the administering of recombinant biological substances (EPO, GH, growth factors) is another challenge facing the world’s equine sports scientists.

McVeigh regarded the “gulf” between some of the West racing jurisdictions (the US, some tracks in Canada, and some South American countries including Brazil), and countries that are signatories of the IFHA’s article 6 as “insane.”

In the worst instances, the former not only allow race day medications like Lasix, but also generally a 48-hour detection time for Bute and a 24-hour detection time for Flunixin, as opposed to the 168 hours and 144 hours respectively recommended by the EHSLC. He also pointed to a gulf that could be

dangerous to the future of horseracing, i.e. the gulf in opinion that ranges from the extreme of those who are in favour of race day medications to the extreme of groups like PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), who continue to push the racing industry to ban whips, enforce a zero-tolerance drug policy, dump dirt tracks in favour of softer grass tracks, and wait until horses' third birthdays to use them in competitive racing.

McVeigh does not underestimate the threat of animal activist groups that tend to pounce upon the worst possible examples of the ill effects that equine sport has on horses, and he reckoned a worldwide standard set of rules would lessen their leverage power.

McVeigh practices what he preaches and his expertise in diagnosis and treatment have made him a racehorse veterinarian of worldwide renown.

McVeigh concluded by saying that powerful leadership would be needed to override the

differences in opinion and reach a worldwide consensus on medication and doping control.

“Unpopular decisions are unpopular but have to be made,” he said, before naming Nelson Mandela as a leader who was not scared to make such decisions. Indeed the great man once said, “The day I am afraid to [risk my political capital] is the day I am no longer fit to lead.” n

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EQUINE DRUG TESTING

The story behind the rapidly evolving science

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HEN thoroughbred racing was developing 300 or more years ago there were few "drugs" and no drug testing whatsoever. Carl Vernet, an equine artist in the early 1800s, painted scenes of trainers medicating horses from large bottles right before the race; prerace "medication" of horses was clearly accepted, at least in part because it was presumably not perceived as being effective.

This matter of effectiveness soon changed: morphine and cocaine were purified in the 1800s, and American horsemen rapidly identified their performance effects. Then, when American trainers hit Europe around 1900 armed with these new medications, they did very well indeed. They became known as the “Yankee alchemists”; they won races, and most importantly, they made money for their owners, among them an American barbed wire millionaire known as “Betcha-a-Million” Gates.

When American money, American trainers, and the new American medications met oldschool English society trainers, it was simply no contest. The American trainers were so successful that the leading English trainer, the well-bred and socially and sartorially correct George Lambton, was reduced to announcing in the press that his horse X running in race Y on day Z was going to be medicated with the

It’s been said that change is the only constant in life.

Nowhere is this more true than in the field of equine drug testing. In recent years, testing for performance-altering substances has rapidly evolved from a crude art into a highly sophisticated technology. Equine drug testing can now readily detect and identify low part per trillion concentrations in 1 mL of blood, a dramatic improvement in testing sensitivity and specificity in just the last 20 years.

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new American "dopes." This manoeuvre got the attention of the English Jockey Club and in 1903 the medication of a racing horse became an offense against the rules of racing.

Equine drug testing followed soon thereafter, first in Austria and then in France; prior to World War II, French drug testing technology led the world, with the United States nowhere. Then, in the mid-1930s, George Woodward, for whom the Woodward Stakes is named, sent a veterinarian, Dr. Catlett, and a chemist, Dr. Charles Morgan, to France to learn the new French drug testing techniques. These gentlemen brought drug testing back to the United States, starting on the East Coast in Florida and soon thereafter in New York.

Post-World War II, matters accelerated dramatically. Numerous new drugs/medications were synthesised/became available, including various amphetamines, numerous highly potent narcotics, tranquilisers, bronchodilators, and even your everyday phenylbutazone – basically horse aspirin – all of which became available to horsemen and were soon being widely used.

Drug use and medication testing in American racing came abruptly front and centre in the 1968 Kentucky Derby, when Dancer’s Image won the Derby and was immediately “called positive” for phenylbutazone. Among the outcomes of this event was the setting up of the Kentucky Equine Drug Research program at the

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University of Kentucky, now housed in the Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center where I and my colleagues have been privileged to work for quite some time.

Phenylbutazone was identified in Dancer’s Image because drug detection was just beginning to catch up with drug use. Since then, the sensitivity of drug testing has increased at least a millionfold, and nowadays it is actually difficult to identify a medication that will, in the language of the street, "not test." On the contrary, the problem now is that we can readily detect minuscule traces of therapeutic medications and environmental substances at concentrations which have no significance whatsoever for the sport of racing. And in retrospect, it is interesting to note the first medication called positive in a very high profile race, the Kentucky Derby, was actually a medication which is now recognised worldwide as a therapeutic medication, and not in any way considered a high-potency performance altering substance.

So, just how sensitive is testing today? The answer is, extremely: in Dancer’s Image, phenylbutazone was detected at parts per million concentrations. Testing today, however, can readily detect parts per billion

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and, with just a little effort, parts per trillion.

To put these concentrations into perspective, one part per billion is one second in your life if you are 32 years old, and one part per trillion is one second in your life when you get to be 32,000 years old. Yes, Dorothy, we can detect medication amounts equivalent to one second in 32,000 years, at least one billion times more sensitive than the detection in Dancer’s Image, and without trying

“It is interesting to note the first medication called positive in a very high profile race, the Kentucky Derby, was actually a medication which is now recognised worldwide as a therapeutic medication”

particularly hard, either.

Given this super sensitive testing, one of the problems has become establishing what to do about minuscule ineffective traces of therapeutic medications. This is an industry problem, since anybody who runs a horse that is treated with a therapeutic medication is immediately at risk of having a trace of the medication identified, called "positive," and then being paraded in the press as a trainer/owner associated with a “horse doping positive.” This is because the popular press is generally either not interested in distinguishing or fails to distinguish between a trace level of a therapeutic medication and an outright attempt to improperly influence the performance of a horse with an undetectable high potency stimulant drug.

Or, to put it another way, therapeutic medication "overages" are less likely to sell newspapers.

Given these circumstances, a major part of the problem before the industry is, how do we handle this suddenly arrived, super testing?

The answer, in principle, is simple: you determine when the therapeutic medication stops having an effect, just like when the aspirin you took no longer fixes your

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WORLD RULES ON MEDICATION headache. Any medication traces that you can detect after this point are traces without pharmacological effect and are, therefore, of no forensic significance.

Horseracing worldwide has taken up this challenge. Around the world, regulators have identified medications that are appropriate for use in horses in training, the equine equivalent of the medications in our bathroom medicine cabinets. For these substances, which we call “therapeutic medications” to distinguish them from performance altering substances [colloquially drugs or, a simply appalling word, “dopes”], racing authorities are identifying regulatory thresholds/cut-offs and withdrawal times. The objective, of course, is to allow horses access to modern therapeutic medication during training, but at the same time to not allow them to race with performance-influencing concentrations of these medications in their bodies.

HRH Prince Philip has stated the problem very well: Thirty years ago in his foreword to my book Drugs and the Performance Horse, he noted that “the dividing line between treatment of injury and disease, on the one hand, and the preparation of horses for competition on the other, is very narrow and not easily defined.” And in a nutshell, our current book, World Rules for Equine Drug Testing and Therapeutic Medication Regulation, basically sets forth how this

“Around the world, regulators have identified medications that are appropriate for use in horses in training, the equine equivalent of the medications in our bathroom medicine cabinets” narrow and not easily defined “dividing line” is currently defined, and indeed defined many times around the world. The problem is that it is defined just a little bit differently everywhere.

These differing definitions should not be unexpected. The world of racing and racing itself is, like politics, ultimately local, and these cut-off concentrations have always been worked out locally. The Canadians were the first to formally address this problem, and they have for 30 years now published a booklet of Canadian withdrawal time guidelines. Reflecting the culture of Canada, this book is bilingual, one side in English,

one-side in French, which has led one of my colleagues to name it “the upside down book.”

To the credit of our Canadian colleagues, however, they where the first to clearly identify the problem and the first to come up with and publish a workable solution, an approach the rest of the world has basically followed.

The next group to tackle this problem were the Australians in the late 1980s; they came up with their own booklet covering much the same type of medications and using the testing technologies then available in Australia. Their technology, however, was not exactly equivalent to the Canadian technology, so what they came up with was a system that worked very well for Australians in Australia, and this booklet was published in 1992.

In 1994 matters came to a head in the United States, and the National Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Associations [NHBPA], University of Kentucky, the Jockey Club, and a number of other groups hosted a three-day international workshop on the therapeutic medication regulation problem.

The workshop was attended by racing administrators, analysts, and veterinarians from around the world. Our Canadian colleagues came to the conference and outlined how these matters were handled in Canada. In closing, the workshop endorsed the Canadian approach and recommended it

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19th century equine artist Carl Vernet painted scenes of trainers medicating horses from large bottles right before the race

to racing authorities worldwide. Following this lead, California soon adopted a number of defined regulatory thresholds based on the Canadian model, and our British colleagues went back to England and within a number of years had produced a withdrawal time guideline booklet appropriate for use in English racing.

Since then these regulatory guidelines have proliferated, but with one proviso. In much the same way as currencies vary from country to country, it also happens that medication regulations vary from country to country and, in the United States, from state to state. On the other hand, the big change that has occurred in the last 15 or so years is that these local regulatory procedures are increasingly being communicated, which is the first requirement for their ultimate review, evaluation, and incorporation into a world medication rule.

The United States has approximately 30 different racing jurisdictions, and, therefore, 30 different sets of rules of racing. Given this circumstance, in 2001 or thereabouts it was suggested to the NHBPA that it propose a national medication rule. The NHBPA took up this challenge, and in 2001 produced the first draft of a proposed national medication rule.

This proposed rule was based largely on the rules in place at that time in the United States, and individual rules seen as being particularly suitable for widespread application were identified and proposed as the basis of a national rule. In 2003 this proposed rule was rewritten and published as a 20-page supplement in the Journal of Equine Veterinary Sciences, giving the proposed rules some scientific standing. In 2009, it was again updated, but by this time the document had

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“If there is one thing that is certain, that is that the range of environmental substances identified in post-race urine will continue to increase as the scope and sensitivity of equine drug testing increases” grown too large for publication as even a full volume supplement to a scientific journal, and so it was published as a NHBPA booklet.

This booklet was rewritten yet again in 2012, by which time it had grown to 280 pages and extended to cover world medication rules.

Based on its North American origins, our book draws heavily on the medication rules in place in North America that is in the United States and Canada. It covers about 99 therapeutic medications, endogenous, dietary, and environmental substances and the order of presentation follows the Association of Racing Commissioners International [ARCI] uniform classification system the foreign substances. This ARCI classification system arose when, in the mid-1990s, ARCI categorised all 1,000 or so known potentially performance altering substances into five classes. Class I includes those with the highest potential to influence performance, for example amphetamines and opiates, through

four further gradations, to the last class, ARCI class 5 substances, substances of clear therapeutic benefit and with essentially no capacity to directly alter performance, for example the anti-ulcer medications. This ARCI classification system was originally developed as a guide for regulators, to allow them to adjust the severity of penalties based on the ARCI classification of the performance affecting ability of the substance in question.

Of these 1,000 or so potentially performance altering substances identified by ARCI, about 40-to-50 are recognised by ARCI as therapeutic medications appropriate for use in horses in training. Additionally, close to another 40-50 substances have been identified by other racing authorities around the world as therapeutic medications, and about 15 ARCI substances are either endogenous, for example hydrocortisone; dietary, for example theobromine; or environmental substances, ie arsenic, to pick a relatively innocent and noncontroversial environmental substance.

I say “innocent and relatively noncontroversial” environmental substance because these substances likely to show up at trace levels – and we emphasise the words trace levels – now include morphine (as morphine glucuronides); benzoylecgonine (the major metabolite of cocaine); bufotenine (obscure hallucinogen found in Reed Canary grass); caffeine (with which we are all very familiar); cathinone (recreational substance now available as “bath salts” from “head shops” which has shown up at trace levels in horse urine); salicylate (aspirin) from alfalfa grass and present in enormous concentrations; scopolamine from jimson weed; and the granddaddy of the entire

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WORLD RULES ON MEDICATION group, theobromine, from cocoa husk. And if there is one thing that is certain, that is that the range of environmental substances identified in post-race urine will continue to increase as the scope and sensitivity of equine drug testing increases.

With respect to the other non-American therapeutic medications, some regulatory authorities outside of the United States recognise substances as therapeutic medications. These entities include Canada (Canadian Pari-Mutuel Agency, CPMA), Australia (Rural Industries and Research Development Corporation), Great Britain (British Horseracing Association, BHA), the European Horseracing Scientific Liaison Committee (EHSLC), the International Equestrian Federation (FEI), and in the Far East, we have the so-called Asian Screening Limits, which have been adopted by approximately 22 predominantly Asian countries or administrative entities. Locally, the American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) and the United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) also recognise these substances as therapeutic medicationa.

Given the large number of different entities involved in medication regulation, it is easy to understand why worldwide, harmonised regulation is a quite some distance from being achieved.

Our book is written with primary emphasis on practical information and especially withdrawal time guidelines, which are absolutely essential for anyone wishing to avoid medication problems. At this point a worldwide technical/philosophical divide immediately becomes apparent. In the United States, where 30 or so different racing jurisdictions share a continent, the regulatory emphasis is on concentration-defined thresholds, with relatively limited withdrawal time guideline information.

On the other hand, in Canada and many other jurisdictions in the world, the regulatory information communicated is withdrawal time guidelines, with few or no specifics concerning the actual regulatory thresholds. More recently, however, while the Asian screening limit information includes concentration information, the official communication also makes crystal clear the fact that despite the published existence of these concentration-defined screening limits, simple detection of a medication at any concentration constitutes cause for regulatory action.

We also specifically address the matter of withdrawal time guidelines and factors affecting them, because it is important for horsepersons to understand the various factors which give rise to variability in drug

detection times and as such the probability of incurring a "positive" identification.

Discussion therefore begins with the role of dose, then the matter of analytical sensitivity, and the effects of urine pH and volume. Other factors discussed include the role of route of administration, the matter of frequency of medication use, the presence of substances in the environment, the possibility of postcollection contamination having occurred, and how to identify this non-horsemanrelated source of positives. The discussion closes with the effects of medication formulation on detection times, increasing incidence of low concentration identifications of environmental substances, and the role of unexpected metabolic transformations in generating unexpected positives.

This book also includes a series of specific alerts for certain therapeutic medications that are, for one reason or another, associated with an unusually high incidence or risk of what will call inadvertent positives. These medications include Acepromazine, Carbazochrome, Diclofenac, Dimethyl SulfOxide [DMSO], Fluphenazine, Furosemide, Glycopyrrolate, Ibuprofen, Isoxsuprine, Meloxicam, Methocarbamol, Methylprednisolone, Meclofenamic acid, Naproxen, Phenylbutazone, Premarin, and Pyrilamine. n

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HEAT How racehorses handle summer temperatures

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OW would you like to win a $1-million Grade 1 stakes race and NOT have a win photo to hang on your wall?

The intense heat and humidity the day Big Red Mike won the 151st Queen’s Plate at Woodbine Racetrack in Canada is why there is no “official win photo” taken by photographer Michael Burns.

Trainer Nick Gonzalez, winner of more than 1,000 races, still recalls that day in 2010.

“It was 100 degrees in the shade. We had the Queen [Queen Elizabeth II] and a big crowd. Mike is a very excitable horse, so it was stressful even before the race began,” says Gonzalez, who trains primarily out of Woodbine and Fort Erie with his assistant, wife Martha.

Big Red Mike led the mile and a quarter race from gate to wire.

Afterwards, “Mike ended up galloping out for about twice as long as usual,” adds Gonzalez.

This is because immediately after the race, jockey Eurico Da Silva was interviewed for live television coverage while still on Big Red Mike, which is fairly typical for this type of marquee event.

Eurico Da Silva celebrates as Big Red Mike wins the 151st Queen’s Plate at Woodbine

Although it can be safe to run in the heat, high temperatures combined with high humidity can have profound effects on a thoroughbred’s performance and health.

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When Mike and Da Silva finally reached Gonzalez after the interview, the trainer recalls, “I could see he was in trouble right away.”

Recognizing the signs of heat stroke, Gonzalez immediately began cooling off Big Red Mike.

“Woodbine has (cold) water hoses strategically placed about every eighth of a mile, so we walked him and stopped to hose him all the way (to the winner’s circle). The Queen was there, waiting along with 1,000 other people in the winner’s circle. I felt bad making them wait, but….”

Despite cold hosing, Big Red Mike became extremely agitated in the winner’s circle and, in Martha Gonzalez’ words, “was looking to go down.” Hence the abrupt ending to the celebrations and win photo ceremony. The Gonzalez duo unceremoniously ripped the flowers from Big Red Mike to get him back under the cold water.

Similar weather conditions occur at most of the major North American thoroughbred tracks in the summer months as experienced by Big Red Mike the day of the Plate. By mid-July, Belmont Park in New York will be a stifling 28°C with 75% humidity, whereas Calder racecourse and Gulfstream Park in Florida and Del Mar and Hollywood Park in California will all be upward of 32°C and 85% humidity. Under these conditions, intensely exercising horses are at risk for heat stroke, which is defined as a persistent increase in the core body temperature above 41.5°C in combination with decreased sweating.

Heat stroke most commonly occurs in thoroughbreds training or racing in humid environments. To avoid heat stroke, the horses need to be hydrated, fit, acclimatised to the heat and humidity, and carefully monitored both during and after racing/ training to ensure they do not develop heatrelated disorders. How do thoroughbreds handle training and racing in the hot summer months and what can trainers do if their horses overheat?

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massive muscle mass generates extremely large amounts of heat.

“Although some of this heat is retained and can actually improve function of active muscle, the so-called benefits of ‘warming up,’ more than 90% of the heat generated must be swiftly released from their bodies to limit the rise in internal body temperature,” says Hal Schott II, MS, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM from Michigan State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. Schott is an expert in fluid and electrolyte balancing in athletic horses. “If a horse cannot dissipate this heat, muscle and body temperatures can rise to critical levels and health-related sequelae can quickly develop, some of which can be lifethreatening.

“The heat can be a big problem, especially in places like Florida in the summer,” adds Bruce Solomon, DVM, a racetrack veterinarian at Calder.

sweat evaporate while running, but the efficiency of evaporative cooling diminishes considerably when horses are asked to stand still shortly after exercise, especially when humidity is high,” notes Schott. “Further, in comparison to their human counterparts, horses have approximately 50% less body surface area (per unit of body weight) from which to sweat and dissipate heat.”

How horses normally handle heat

Nick Gonzalez

Typically, a horse’s normal core (internal) body temperature is approximately 38°C. During intense exercise in extremely hot, humid conditions, core temperature can rise to 42oC within only a couple of minutes of maximal exertion.

“This heat load must be dissipated rapidly to prevent development of heat-related problems,” emphasises Schott.

The main way that horses dissipate heat is through sweating.

“The rush of airflow along the body helps

This means that it is harder for horses to sweat to control internal body temperature (a process called thermoregulation) compared to humans. Considering how tough it can be for trainers, owners, jocks, lads, and others on the track to cool themselves off on hot summer days, you can image how an intensely exercising thoroughbred must feel.

In addition to sweat production, effective thermoregulation also requires an increase in blood flow to the skin. During exercise, the

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“Woodbine has water hoses strategically placed about every eighth of a mile, so we walked him and stopped to hose him”

brain “senses” an increase in body temperature as the temperature of blood going to the brain increases to values approaching 42oC. Through the nervous system, the brain then signals the blood vessels supplying the skin to dilate, which increase the flow of blood to the skin. Blood flowing close to the skin’s surface is subsequently cooled by evaporation of sweat and cooler blood returns to the heart where it is pumped to and cools the rest of the body.

“Increasing blood flow to the skin accounts for approximately 60–65% of heat loss in horses,” says Schott. The remaining heat load is either stored in the body (10% or less) or lost through increased ventilation (about 25%).

According to Schott, “The latter heat loss (from the lungs) is actually another form of evaporative cooling in the respiratory tract as a consequence of full humidification of inspired air.”

When things get too hot When the ambient humidity is high, water cannot evaporate as efficiently from either the skin or the respiratory tract, which effectively impairs heat loss.

If a horse’s body temperature gets too high during exercise or continues to increase after exercise, horses can appear weak and disoriented; have shallow and rapid breathing (panting); and may develop muscle tremors or spasms. If the cause of these problems is not identified quickly enough, a horse with heat

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Other ways tO Prevent heat strOke

1. Hydration and Electrolyte Supplementation Hydration is a key way to protect a thoroughbred from the heat. Because sweating is important for horses to help keep their body temperatures down during and after exercise, large volumes of electrolytes (like sodium, chloride, and potassium) are lost in the sweat (largely after the exercise bout is already over).

Gonzalez adds, “We’ve got two water buckets in every stall that are refreshed throughout the day. Like other trainers, I use a complete feed, but I still add electrolytes to the feed. If a horse needs it, we also add electrolytes to the water.”

Solomon concurs and says, “The better hydrated the horse is, the better they deal with the heat.”

Hydration is particularly important for horses racing on Salix (Lasix), which can dehydrate the horses even before they get to the starting gate.

“We (veterinarians) have worked hard over the past ten years or so to get trainers to not draw the water before a race. Having free access to water at all times definitely helps horses stay hydrated,” Solomon says.

2. Rations and Supplementation The diet of a racehorse can also be altered to help horses handle heat and humidity. Diets that are lower in protein and higher in fat are better for exercising horses, but these rations need to be carefully balanced to ensure no deficiencies in amino acids (the building blocks of proteins) or roughage exist.

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stroke can potentially collapse, appear to be having a seizure, or even die.

Because an exercising thoroughbred continues to produce a great deal of heat even after coming off the track, heat exhaustion and heat stroke can develop even after exercising has ceased, when they are still cooling out, which is what appears to have happened to Big Red Mike. This is particularly true if the horse is cooling out in areas that are poorly ventilated or in direct sunlight. Thus, signs of heat exhaustion/stroke may develop either soon after training or racing or even while being cooled out.

“First and foremost, you have to get them some fresh, cold water. If you see if they are getting wobbly, you get the water on the head and neck as best you can” Nick Gonzalez

Risk factors for heat-related issues There are a number of factors that experts believe contribute to heat-related health problems. For example, poor physical conditioning, lack of heat acclimatisation (adaptation to the heat), dehydration, electrolyte imbalances, and in the US, the use of diuretics prior to performing are all thought to contribute to exercise-related heat illnesses.

“Fit racehorses that train in hot, humid conditions are better able to pump the blood to the skin to permit sweating and heat loss, begin sweating at body temperatures that are lower than an unfit horse, and have an improved ‘thermal tolerance’ during exercise,” explains Schott.

Having a horse properly trained and “fit” for a race is not typically a problem, but having a horse acclimatised to racing in the heat can be significantly more challenging.

“There are actually two strategies for horses that will be racing in the heat,” says Solomon.

“Some trainers forget about acclimatising them and bring the horses in as close to the race as possible… a ‘get in, get out with no harm done’ approach. Others bring them in 23 weeks early, and let them acclimatise to the heat. There is great variation in which technique works, and you can’t predict which horses will respond to which strategy.”

Cooling strategies after training/racing Although traditional routines for cooling out horses don’t change with the seasons, most trainers are extra observant of how their horses cool out in the summer.

“If a horse has an increased respiratory rate and an anxious look in their eye, the trainers take some extra time to cool them out. They are sure to get cool water on their heads and bodies, bathe them in alcohol, make sure their temperatures come down, and get them in front of the fans,” Solomon explains.

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HANDLING HEAT anhidrOsis: the nOn-sweatinG disease If sweating is the most important way for horses to thermoregulate during intense exercise, then those that are unable to sweat are not only going to perform poorly but are also at risk for overheating.

Equine anhidrosis is either a decreased ability or complete loss of the ability for horses to sweat.

Although the exact cause of equine anhidrosis remains unclear, affected horses: l Are exercise intolerant; l Have increased respiratory rates and elevated body temperatures; l Are slow to recover following exercise; and l Have a notable lack of sweat over the rump, gluteal muscles, flanks, and ribs.

Because there is no cure for anhidrosis, treatment is aimed at controlling environment, and most of the horses with anhidrosis need to be moved to a region with a more temperate climate for the remainder of their lives, most likely.

According to Solomon, “The number of completely anhidrotic horses is less than 1%.

About 10% have low-grade conditions that are manageable, but trainers just need to back off in the worst part of the summer.”

COnsider humidity, nOt just temPerature

“Sometimes the trainers will even ice pack the carotid artery.”

For horses that trainers know are less able to handle the heat compared to other horses, Solomon recommends taking the time to make sure they are sufficiently cooled out, even if it means walking them for far longer than usual.

The same strategies apply following a win, but as Gonzalez recognizes, properly cooling out the winners can be more challenging than after a regular training session when they may have to stand still under bright sunshine in the winner’s circle.

Gonzalez says, “(After a race) you’re kind of restricted because if you have to go to the test barn you have to follow protocol once you’re in there. Nonetheless, first and foremost, you have to get them some fresh, cold water. If you see if they are getting wobbly, you get the water on the head and neck as best you can before you can get back

to your own barn and get the monster fan on them.”

Respect the heat Both Gonazlez and Solomon recommend using common sense in the heat and taking the same precautions we would for ourselves if we over do it on a hot summer day.

Most importantly, keep the horses hydrated.

If your horse gets overheated, follow these steps: l Move the horse out of the sun, to an area with good airflow (a breeze or large fans); l Immediately apply cool water to the whole body using a hose or bucket then scrape off the water; l Continue “active cooling” until the rectal temperature falls below 39.5°C; and l Contact your veterinarian to examine any horse that has had emergency cooling or who continues to appear distressed even after cooling. n

The classic lifestyle of a thoroughbred appears to be beneficial for those residing in hot conditions because they train in the morning before peak temperature is reached.

“The biggest way to avoid heat-related issues is to get an early start, to get things going as soon as possible,” advises Solomon.

At Calder, for example, the track opens at 5 AM and most horses train between then and 7 AM. By 8 AM, training is done because even by then the heat can become a serious concern.

Unfortunately, in areas such as Florida, the problem is humidity.

“Humidity is actually highest in the early morning hours. So even though it is cooler at 5 AM, thermoregulation can still be challenging for even the fittest racehorse,” warns Schott.

One strategy that racing jurisdictions could consider is a comprehensive investigation of the weather at specific racetracks to establish the optimum timing for competing. At the same time, investigators can also implement, test, and develop state-of-the-art facilities to rapidly cool horses after training and racing. This is exactly what was accomplished prior to horses competing during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. For more information on this strategy, see the article “Managing the effects of the weather on the Equestrian Events of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games” published in the December 2009 edition of the Veterinary Journal (the abstract is available for free on PubMed).

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NUTRITION From seed to feed in 7 days Hydroponic grass involves growing green shoots indoors under climate control with irrigation, without any soil or other growing medium. The development of the cereal “seed” to a feed takes only 6-7 days. The cereal is germinated or sprouted in specially developed trays that are provided with automatically controlled water from overhead sprays, which keeps them moist but not waterlogged and supplies them with the necessary nutrients for growth. The air and water temperature is also strictly controlled within the growing chamber, allowing for optimal growth. Light is provided by a UV source and the growing units can be powered by 240v electricity or alternatively for the environmentally conscious by solar energy.

Hydroponic grass can be grown from a variety of cereal grains, the most common being barley or wheat. Oilseeds such as linseed or sunflower as well as lupins can be added to the mix to modify the oil and starch content of the resultant sprouting grass. In some systems, herbs have also been added for their potential benefit. The product offered to the horse consists of the green shoots and then a mat of the intertwined root structure of the grass.

In terms of production, 1kg of cereal seed yields approximately 7-10kgs of grass fodder, and one of the larger units can potentially produce 1 tonne of fodder for use per day. As the grass mats are consumed, more trays are inoculated, allowing a constant

Hydroponic grass is not a new concept but rather an old one that is enjoying a recent resurgence. Whereas I remember the rather small hydroponic grass mats being offered simply as a tempter or succulent to sick and recovering horses, today it offers a much greater contribution to the daily energy and nutrient intake of horses in training.

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supply of fodder mats on an ongoing basis.

At first glance you may think that horses would just eat the green grass shoots; however, the reality is that they eat the shoots and roots, so the whole growing mat is consumed leaving no waste.

Opportunity to reduce starch intake In fussy feeders, “Dr Green” can often be the key to maintaining appetite as the level of work goes up and the pressure is on.

It is not really practical to use the hydroponic grass as a total replacement for forage due to its low dry matter and high water content. A very large number of mats would have to be fed to achieve the same dry matter intake from an average daily amount of hay or haylage. Feeding alongside hay or haylage, an additional source

of forage, is realistic and can encourage better forage consumption overall in fussy eaters.

Perhaps the bigger opportunity in racing, however, is to use the hydroponic grass mats to replace part of the concentrate feed. A single mat can be used to replace 2-3kg of concentrate feed, maintaining overall energy intake but reducing the reliance on high starch cereal feeds. A reduction in high starch concentrate feed offers many potential health and welfare benefits.

Hindgut health may be improved by reducing the exposure of the resident microflora to starch that has escaped digestion in the small intestine. A healthy hindgut also means that fibre is fermented more efficiently and the resident microflora are able to improve their synthesis of B vitamins. The reduced starch

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HYDROPONIC GRASS intake, coupled with more chewing and greater saliva production, brings potential benefits for gastric health and behaviour. World class eventer Clayton Fredericks uses hydroponic grass successfully to replace the majority of his horses’ concentrate feed and he is very pleased with the overall result.

Simple more available nutrients The hydroponic grass mats like conventional grass have a low dry matter (about 20%) and high moisture content (about 80%), but despite this, feeding a single 7-8kg mat makes a worthwhile contribution to the ration and also helps ensure continued hydration.

The feed value of hydroponic grass largely depends on the nutritional content of the starting material, i.e. the un-sprouted seed or grain. Interestingly, the actual sprouting process can improve the nature of the nutrition provided. This is due to the presence of a number of enzymes in the seed, which are activated by watering, to help mobilise macronutrients like protein, starch, and oil, converting a proportion of them into simpler, more available, compounds. Whilst this process provides readily available nutrients and a fuel source for sprouting, these simple nutrients can also be used by the horse.

Cereal grains such as barley and wheat are high in starch and low in structural fibre.

However, during the sprouting process the starch is mobilised to provide sugars to drive growth and so the resultant level of starch in the sprouted grass is lower. Conversely, the fibre content of the sprouted grass is increased compared to that in the original cereal grain.

Some of the protein will also be mobilised into its constituent amino acids.

have been relatively few post-race positive results for hordenine in Europe in recent years.

Ideally, further work would be undertaken to investigate this issue along with a dialogue with the relevant racing authorities.

Another important factor for health and safety is that good quality clean seed is sourced and that a high degree of cleanliness during the production of hydroponic grass is achieved to prevent mould or bacterial growth, which could be a risk to horse health.

NOPS – Naturally occurring prohibited substance

Self-contained towable units produce up to a tonne of grass daily

Water soluble Carbohydrates (sugars) 3.76

Whilst there are many potential benefits to the use of hydroponic grass in racing, there are also a few questions that need to be answered.

Sprouting grain of various types can contain a substance known as hordenine. Hordenine or hydroxyphenylethyl dimethylamine is a plant alkaloid that has an action similar to that of adrenalin in that it stimulates the heart, constricts blood vessels, and dilates the airway bronchioles. As such, hordenine is considered to be a prohibited substance, by both the British Horse Racing Authority and other racing authorities around the world. Hordenine can be present occasionally in horse feed ingredients like barley and distillers grains, where some sprouting may have occurred. Many feed manufacturers will test ingredients or finished feed for hordenine as part of an analysis screen for NOPS (naturally occurring prohibited substances) prior to releasing product for sale.

As hydroponic grass arises from sprouting cereal grains, particularly barley, the presence of hordenine is a potential risk for horses in training. However, despite the potential for contamination of feed with hordenine, there

The practical use of hydroponic grass is made much easier by the availability of commercial units for growing the mats on a small or large scale. These self contained often towable units are carefully climate controlled and offer both small and large training establishments the opportunity to be self sufficient in producing hydroponic grass. The smallest units on a daily basis can produce 25kg of grass as three mats, whilst for a larger yard there are units that will provide 500kg to 1 tonne of hydroponic grass mats per day, which could provide for over 100 horses.

Hydroponic grass is effectively a live feed which may help to explain some of the often immeasurable benefits of “Dr Green” for horses in training. Excessive consumption of high starch-containing cereal feeds will certainly have an impact on the health and welfare of these horses. Hydroponic grass as part of a balanced diet could help to redress this balance and contribute to realising a more evolutionary normal feeding pattern, bringing benefits to horse health, welfare, and potentially performance. n

Non fibre Carbohydrate (starch, sugars and pectin) 64.65 45.76

A single hydroponic grass mat can replace 2kg of concentrate feed

FEED VALUE OF HYDROPONIC GRASS Macro Nutrients (%)

Pre sprouted Sprouted barley barley fodder at 7 days

Dry matter

91.4

14.35

Ash

2.81

3.72

11.73

13.68

NDF Fibre

20.2

31.8

ADF Fibre

7.2

15.5

Protein

6.26

Macro Minerals (%)

Calcium

0.26

0.39

Phosphorus

0.42

0.44

Ca / P Ratio

0.62

0.89

Potassium

0.39

0.34

Magnesium

0.17

0.26

Iron

96.1

147

Manganese

25.2

17.5

Zinc

17.5

22.4

8

7.8

Microminerals (mg/kg)

Copper

Fazaeli et al (2012) World Applied Sci J 16 (4): 531-539, 2012

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T’S no surprise, given the qualities needed for racing, that failed racehorses can excel in other disciplines, and event riders have been seeking them out long before re-homing charities brought them to our attention.

In the past, the bigger, more muscular horses were usually Australian- or New Zealand-bred and 2011 USEF Horse of the Year Neville Bardos, bought for $850 as a failed racehorse, is the most recent import to succeed. Ready Teddy, formerly raced in New Zealand, remains the only eventer to have won both an Olympic individual gold medal and the individual World Championships; he also took top spot at Burghley in 2001. Parklane Hawk, who raced as Park Lane in New Zealand until he was eight, is currently carrying all before him. Europeanbreds, now dominating Australian racing, are equally sought after in eventing.

“Anything that wouldn’t go quick enough I’d turn into an eventer,” says leading trainer Jessica Harrington. Harrington is no stranger to eventing; she was selected for the 1980 and 1984 Olympics and also finished third at Badminton in 1983 on Amoy. “It usually takes a year for their heads to get right. Amoy used to event in the summer and won point-to-points in the winter, and was placed in a novice chase at the same time as she was a novice eventer,” Harrington reveals. “September Bliss I bought out of the Derby Sale, unfortunately he was a bit slow, but he’ll hopefully go to the Olympics.

The important thing is not to retrain horses that are not retrainable. That’s where experience comes into it.”

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According to the Retired Racehorse Training Project, of the 70 horses entered for the prestigious Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event this year, 25 were former racehorses.

While we might not have thought much of their ability on the racetrack, many of those we’ll be cheering at the Olympics will be ex-racehorses now excelling in a new career, a phenomenon new to our attention, but nearly as old as racing itself.

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12th at Badminton in 1973. Knight later became a judge at Burghley and chaired the British three-day event Olympic selection committee from 1984 until 1988.

“A lot of top show jumpers in the 1980s and 1990s were ex-racehorses,” Knight says.

“Snowbound is one who springs to mind. Quite a number of my horses have gone on and done quite well. Incidental gave Owen Moore a clear round in the cross country at Badminton.

Thoroughbreds find things very easy to understand, they’re intelligent and quick to learn. They have learned to gallop and are keen.

They may look delicate, but they have very good stamina, they do very well in endurance competitions. I still do a lot of judging and I judge a great many ex-racehorses. They use different types of muscles and are fed a bit differently. They can’t carry any excess weight in training, but when I go to see the retrained horses at shows. They’re lovely, well-rounded animals with good strong necks.

“People have a bit of a blank spot with thoroughbreds if they’ve been raced,” Knight

admits. One horse who belies the notion that ex-racehorses can have a poor action is Wiley Trout, who still holds the record for the highest finish in dressage for team Great Britain in the Olympics (in 1984). “Some ex-racehorses don’t have as much trot as foreign horses – it depends on the shoulders, some get very jarred up in racing. We call it the Newmarket Shuffle. A bit of time off and it will right itself. They tend to have a quick action rather than an expansive action. It all depends on the individual, where it’s come from and its past history. All of ours from an early age are taught to jump well and do loose jumping. Most will have some future in other disciplines.”

A horse’s future is paramount in the modern trainer’s mind and when Knight adds, “They are going to a better home, not rescued,” she raises a valid point. One trainer who actively considers the future for his horses is Epsombased Jim Boyle. Jim has a re-homing policy, undertaken by his wife Pippa, for all the horses that retire whilst in his charge. “There is no reason why an ex-racehorse should be treated any differently to any other young horse,” Pippa insists. “They’re not an alien species, and they come with the same issues other breeds come with. Tuition is one of the most important factors.

“We have horses with a wide range of new owners, all with differing amounts of ability, doing a wide range of new jobs,” Pippa Boyle continues. “All of our horses go to their new owners with no retraining whatsoever. Any trainer could do it, but it takes a lot of time and a lot of effort. We’ve successfully re-homed every horse that has retired whilst in our care thus far. Our ethos is that you’re not rescuing a horse, you’re taking on a horse that will be doing you a service. Why view them as a charity case? Due to the fact that many people have the idea that if they don’t ‘rescue’ a horse it will end up going for slaughter, they don’t think about whether the horse is suitable for them or if they can offer a suitable home.”

Henrietta Knight also prefers re-homing for herself. “I would much rather find homes myself for my horses. I’m a bit sceptical about

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re-homing centres and not terribly impressed.

The worry is that if a horse is no good as a racehorse it’s almost given away and the people who take them for peanuts have no experience with horses. If they fall into the wrong hands they won’t do anything. Some people are a bit nervous of them and they sense that very quickly.”

Racehorses may have the physical attributes and mental attitude to make ideal eventers, but do the demands of training create a health issue for new owners? Eventers and show jumpers seek big, muscular horses, and it’s often the bigger horse that can encounter muscular and back problems when in training. Kevin Corley BVM&S PhD DECEIM DACVIM DACVECC MRCVS, of Anglesey Lodge Equine Hospital in Kildare, Ireland, points out, “Many injuries that might end the career of a racehorse can, with a great deal of time and appropriate care, recover to the extent that the horse may be able to go eventing. Unfortunately this is not universally true, as some injuries can cause a weakness that may never stand up to the rigours of eventing.”

Jim Bergin, a Bio Dynamic Cranial Osteopath, deals with injuries to horses in all disciplines, from racehorses to eventers and leisure animals. “Some of the attributes one would like to see in an ex-racehorse-cumeventer is a horse of at least 16 hands and good temperament,” he recommends. “It needs flexibility throughout its spine and sound joints.

From my experience of treating racehorses I have found that many horses are racing with musculoskeletel dysfunctions, such as stiff backs, poor muscle tone/wastage, gait deficiency and high head carriage. These abnormalities can lead to temperamental/ behavioural problems and poor performance.

Left untreated, these would not be suitable for eventing and I would advise any horse to be considered to be checked out by a Bio Dynamic Cranial Osteopath.”

Obviously there are some horses that cannot be retrained and euthanasia becomes the responsible thing to do. This can also have its problems, as Pippa Boyle points out. “We asked an owner to have a horse put down here at home, but the owner paid to have it retrained, which was a disaster. You shouldn’t pass that sort of horse onto someone else. Outside influence is on occasion stopping owners from listening to those that know the horse best.

“Racing is expected to be responsible for its horses for the rest of their lives. Other disciplines are not. Trainers get no help, we’re not supplied with information packs by the RoR [Retraining of Racehorses]; there are no easily downloadable Gifting/Sale/Loan Agreements available on the website. Money is thrown at rehoming centres, but horses could be going straight from the trainer to the right person.”

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Seven-year-old ex-racehorse Bariloche (left) getting to grips with Cavaletti work

Welfare Trust (IHWT) are non-thoroughbred, so the racing industry has a very good record of responsible re-homing. At a conference in 2011, Carrie Humble, founder of the Thoroughbred Rehabilitation Centre, offered realistic advice: “Common problems encountered with ex-racehorses stem from what they have been taught in training. They are not mounted standing still, they don’t exercise alone, they have a very set routine, they are used to a different riding language and they aren’t left

“Thoroughbreds find things very easy to understand, they’re intelligent and quick to learn. They have learned to gallop and are keen.

They do very well in endurance competitions” Henrietta Knight alone in a field or stable. An owner’s confidence might wane, and fear lets the necessary boundaries slip, allowing a horse to get out of hand. But in the right hands they are a bold, athletic, and willing ride. They have been exposed to travel, crowds, noise, and pressure and they will have done roadwork.”

Event rider Blyth Tait knows this well. Tait won individual gold at the 1996 Olympics with Ready Teddy, plus team silver and individual

bronze at the 1992 Olympics with Messiah.

During a short-lived retirement Blyth bred racehorses in New Zealand and was team manager for the New Zealand eventing team at the 2006 World Championships and 2008 Olympics.

“Adapting from racing to eventing depends a little on the actual individual and how they’ve been trained before you get them,” Blyth says.

“Most of my successful horses have been exracehorses, so I’m a big fan. Retraining basically sums it up. Everything they’ve learned up till now has to be erased and they start again. A racehorse has been taught to gallop and they don’t know anything different. The atmosphere at a show is very like a racecourse, with all the people and the noise. I like to take them to a show just as a travelling companion and let them find their feet, without pressure.

“Most racehorse trainers these days are aware of a career after racing for their horses and know how important it is for horses to be kept relaxed. Our job as retrainers is very much easier because of that. I’ve been successful on quite a few ex-racehorses, such as Ready Teddy, Chesterfield and Aspiring. The staying types are ideal for us, whereas the little bit stockyish twoyear-old types are not what we want.”

The final word must go to Yogi Breisner, World Class Performance Manager and Chef d’Equipe to the British Eventing team since 1999. As a member of the Swedish Eventing team he won European team gold in 1983 and competed at the 1984 Olympics. Breisner is also well known to the National Hunt fraternity, being much in demand for training both jockeys and horses to jump.

“The use of ex-racehorses in eventing is not a new thing,” he agrees. “The abilities

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EXAMPLES Of cURREnt PRiZE-fUnDS AVAiLABLE tO EX-RAcEhORSES EVENTINg

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RoR Racing To Eventing Series Horses eventing at BE90 and 100 Level Points over the season: 1st place £750, 2nd £250 plus Bedmax Vouchers

British Showjumping and the ROR Retraining of Racehorses Recognition Awards For the 6 highest Notional Money earners: 1st place £2,500, 2nd-6th places all receive £500

RoR/SEIB Elite Eventing Performance Award A points accumulator over the season for horses competing from Pre-Novice to Advanced.

Highest Number of Points: 1st place £2,500, 2nd £500

The Regional Champion Awards A 1m jumping class for eligible horses – the highest place horse will be awarded a jacket and rug.

ShOWINg

RoR/NTF Retrained Racehorse Event Championship A one off class held at Barbury International Horse Trials run as a Intermediate Novice. Prize money: £6,000 for the class.

SEIB/RoR Racehorse to Riding Horse Series Championships held at The Horse Of The Year Show: 1st place £2,500

RoR and The Jockey Club Sponsored Prizes at Badminton Horse Trials Prizes in kind to the highest placed competitors at the Grass Roots Championships and £500 to the highest placed raced horse in the Mitsubishi Badminton Horse Trials.

SEIB/RoR Elite Performance Award Awarded at the Breeders Dinner & Awards Evening January 2013 to the highest achieving elite level competitor: 1st place £2,500

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SOME Of thE tOP LEVEL cOMPEtitiOnS EX-RAcEhORSES cAn BE SEEn At in 2012

EVENTINg Parklane Hawk Winner of Burghley 2011 – £50,000 and Rolex Horse Trials Kentucky 2012 – $80,000. In contention to win the Rolex Grand Slam – $350,000. London Olympic Selection Squad Dry Old Party Winner of SEIB/RoR Elite Performance Award and 19th Burghley 2011 – £1,200

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Miners Frolic Winner of European Eventing Championship 2009. London Olympic Selection Squad

July 17-22

Macchiato Winner Luhmulen 4* Horse Trials 2008 and 6th Burghley Horse Trials 2009 Ready Teddy Winner of Olympic Gold and Individual World Champions & Burghley 2001 £50,000

ShOWjumPINg Vite Etoile Winner of SEIB/RoR National Performance Award 2011 – £2500

ShOWINg Night Prayers Winner SEIB Racehorse to Riding Horse of the Year – £2500

required for eventing have always been suitable to the qualities thoroughbreds possess. They have made a very easy transition from racetrack to eventing. The Grand National winner, Mr Frisk, did very well at eventing.

“When I was eventing, Ultimus was one of the most successful horses and competed at the 1983 European Championships. He had been a racehorse in Sweden. Miners Frolic, who won the 2009 Europe an Eventing Championship and the bronze at the 2008 Olympics and might be selected for this year’s Olympic team, was also in training, but didn’t actually race.

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in Lexington 2012. is another former racehorse.

They are specifically bred for racing and have a natural instinct for wanting to beat their competitor. Like all horses they are first time learners, they pick something up very quickly and it becomes a habit. If you do things right, from the very beginning, both horse and rider learn to do everything correctly.”

As an incentive, the RoR Recognition Awards and Regional Champion Awards are open to anyone who owns or rides a retrained racehorse. The RoR Eventing Series is open to horses registered with RoR that have raced in the UK. The RoR/SEIB Elite Eventing Performance Award; RoR/NTF Retrained

Racehorse Event Championship; and RoR and The Jockey Club prizes at Badminton are all exclusive opportunities for ex-racehorses in Britain. Last year’s winners included the former Brian Smart-trained gelding Night Prayers and Dry Old Party, a four-star eventer who ran seven times for Peter Winkworth.

In America, the New York Racing Association and the New York Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association have partnered to sponsor Career2, promoting the retraining of retired racehorses for second careers in eventing. The TAKE2 program, with hunter and jumper classes restricted to thoroughbreds, was unveiled by the same partnership in March. n

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Black Caviar wins the Coolmore Lightning Stakes at Flemington

How do the Australians do it?

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Takeover Target with trainer Joe Janiak after winning the King’s Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot

E

LITE athletes – equine or human – need to be structurally sound with the power to perform. Feed them well, keep them fit and ready, and get them on to the track to do what they were born to do – win races.

It’s the method that saw legendary Australian trainer Tommy “TJ” Smith win 34 Sydney training titles and a world record 279 Group One races – “bone and muscle” was coined to describe how Smith’s runners would invariably seem to be rock hard fit, in superb condition, and always hard to get past in a tight finish.

On a wider scale “tough” is an apt characterisation of the Australian thoroughbred in general. Australians breed, raise, and race a resilient, robust, and unyielding horse – and it’s a process that begins from the earliest of ages.

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Frankel apart, all the talk has been of Black Caviar, the Australian super filly who has swept all before her, winning 21 successive races prior to her Royal Ascot engagement. The five-year-old hopes to join the impressive band of Australian horses that have made waves on the European stage.

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conditions,” says Les Young, founder of Doncaster Bloodstock and a highly respected thoroughbred breeding expert.

“Most Australian horses are not housed in any way from when they are foaled, which tends to be the case in the Northern Hemisphere where harsher weather occurs.

“They tend to be left out in all weather and get used to the conditions, they usually have larger paddocks to roam, and colts in particular are often left to roam in larger groups essentially until it’s time for a sale preparation where they get used to fending for themselves – with the obvious exception of

food and health – and it allows them to be able to get accustomed to pushing out of large groups, somewhat simulating the racing experience they will face soon enough.

“The fact that we have much more time in the day with natural light, we don’t get great extremes of weather like they might overseas in places like England, Ireland, Japan, and the US, and also the fact that in the last half a century pastoral practices in Australia have improved immensely,” Young says of Australia’s qualities for raising horses.

“I also think that we are used to generally racing on firmer, drier surfaces than the

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“We are used to generally racing on firmer, drier surfaces than the Northern Hemisphere, and you soon find out if there’s any physical faults with a galloper” The Golden Slipper is the richest two-year-old race in the world

Northern Hemisphere, and you soon find out if there’s any physical faults with a galloper, and over time they can be somewhat ‘bred’ out of the breed and so we’re perhaps tending to breed from horses that are innately more sound, particularly compared to North America where obviously in many states horses can race on drugs, like Lasix, that mask problems a horse may have.”

Alf Matthews had a career in the saddle spanning three decades, riding with great success in Australia and overseas. He is now a leading form expert and one of the most respected teachers of apprentice jockeys in his home country.

“In Europe they have been watering tracks for years for ground that is no better than what we would call dead – we’ve only comparatively just started doing that, and that what has made our racehorses, through the years, become essentially tougher – our horses, especially before the latter part of the 20th century, were raced, spelled, and raised in environments that were often harsh, and

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toughness was something horses had to quickly develop.”

The raising of an Australian racehorse gets them ready for the expectations they will have placed on them.

“The way they’re reared is a lot behind it,” explains Gerald Ryan, one of Australia’s most respected trainers and a renowned conditioner of two-year-olds and sprinters.

“They’re born in a big open paddock, nature takes its course to a big extent, and when they’re ready they are into the system of yearling prep and it might be quite a while before they see a paddock again.

“It makes them mentally tough, we push them through the pain barrier earlier here, even horses that need time still go through a preparation for racing where they are taken as far as possible without being hurt and then, if needed, they are given time to develop more and grow bone, we make them mentally tough and that’s key.”

Grahame Begg is the son of one of TJ Smith’s great training rivals Neville Begg and a

Les Young superb conditioner, having trained more than 25 Group One winners.

“Our horses seem to stand up to a lot more racing. It’s demanded of them because we don’t have a closed season – we race all year round.

“In saying that, I think recently we have definitely learned from the Europeans that perhaps we don’t have to run our horses as often, something that’s best seen with our Melbourne Cup where successful international runners in the race have had either had only one lead up run or perhaps none and yet perform at their best – we’re learning from each other I guess.”

The two-year-old factor Two-year-old racing is huge in Australia.

Apart from the Melbourne Cup, the average racing fan gets more excited about two-yearold racing than any other form. It’s the great unknown and that’s what makes it exciting and appealing.

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Funds are required to enable the Regiment to play an active role in the care of their soldiers and families who are affected by the campaign in Afghanistan.

Please donate via their webpage or write to: The KRH Appeal Office, Aliwal Barracks, Tidworth, Wiltshire, SP9 7BB. All donations will be acknowledged and the office will endeavour to keep donors abreast of the Regiment’s training and progress during the operational tour.

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Choisir won both the King’s Stand Stakes and the Golden Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot in 2003

comparatively much more than any other racing jurisdiction. The Aus$3.5-million on offer for the Golden Slipper makes it the richest two-year-old race worldwide.

“The Golden Slipper, when established in 1957, put the focus on two-year-old racing to the point it has now become, and has been for decades, the stallion making race of Australia – and therefore it’s essentially the number one target race to win for breeders and consequently owners,” says Young.

The pressure on trainers from owners looking to get early returns for their racing investment is huge and potential owners happy to wait until a horse is three or older before they see prize money cheques are few and far between.

“I go to every major sale in Australia,” Ryan states. “You might have up to ten orders from owners and just about all of them will say buy a Slipper horse or a Magic Millions [sale-based million-dollar two-year-old race] horse, very rarely do they say, ‘Buy me a Derby horse.’

“If you go and buy and a horse to win twoyear-old races, then once it’s done that, it’s done its job, if it doesn’t train on you have to realise that’s the reason why. I once had a very early two-year-old type that got caught up in the Equine Influenza outbreak in 2007. That caused him to miss his two-year-old season, and by the time he could race at three all the others had caught up to him and he was only an average horse.”

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“It’s like sending your kid to primary school when they should be at kindergarten and that leap, if they’re not prepared for it, makes them lost both physically and mentally” Joe Janiak

Joe Janiak trained one of Australia’s most popular gallopers in Takeover Target, winner of Group races on four continents and across five Australian states, and a horse who didn’t race until the age of four.

“His previous owners spent around Aus$70,000 in vet bills trying to get him to the track when he was younger because they knew he had ability,” Janiak says. “He just wasn’t mature enough and he got sore.

“It happens so often because with the amount of money that is paid for horses these days owners want a quick return because otherwise they’d be better off investing with the bank. But it’s like sending your kid to primary school when they should be at kindergarten and that leap, if they’re not prepared for it, makes them lost both physically and mentally.”

It’s in the blood You reap what you sew – and Australia has for many years been injecting speed into its thoroughbred bloodlines. This speed prominence wasn’t always their way.

“Going back in history we tended to breed, say before the 1950s, along similar lines to England and Ireland, concentrating on classic bloodlines and Derby winners,” Les Young recalls.

“With the coming of stallions like Star Kingdom [arguably the most influential sire in Australia’s history] and Newtown Wonder,

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AUSTRALIAN SUCCESS STORY that revolutionised the way breeders thought, and speed become the main emphasis in families, which naturally influenced our racing, and the advent of the Golden Slipper enhanced that.

“When the shuttle stallion concept started, it was speed horses who made a name for themselves here – Last Tycoon was a sprinter and he was really the first successful shuttle stallion, and of course he was followed by Danehill, again essentially a sprinter.”

Recently, there has been a slight shift back to giving “classic” type shuttlers a chance to succeed, but it can be a hard slog.

Respect is now forthcoming The Australian racehorse has for a long time performed with great admiration on the world stage.

Phar Lap, our most famed of racehorses, started it when he beat the best the world had to offer in the 1932 Agua Caliente Handicap, the world’s richest race at the time, in Mexico.

There are shining examples all throughout the 20th century: Crisp the legendary jumper who almost claimed the Grand National at Aintree (Red Rum beat him in the last few strides with some 10kgs less weight); Strawberry Road performed admirably all over the world; Better Loosen Up won a groundbreaking victory in the 1991 Japan Cup; plus Australian-bred runners have performed outstandingly at Hong Kong’s international meet since its inception; and many more.

In the last decade, Australian-bred or -trained sprinters have been recognised as some of the best, and they probably were for years before that, though Aussies themselves may have doubted it.

“We were in some way intimidated in previous times. It took the world to become a smaller place for us to become less like that.

Now we see overseas horses everyday here, we see all the big races, we can travel to places much easier and all of a sudden it becomes a lot less intimidating,” Alf Matthews reasons.

Choisir made people take notice; his double sprint victories at the 2003 Royal Ascot Carnival, in the King’s Stand Stakes and Golden Jubilee Stakes, changed certainly many Northern Hemisphere minds about the class of our thoroughbreds and their ability to perform on the biggest of stages.

Since then Australians have won either the King’s Stand or Golden Jubilee four more times, as well as a July Cup. They’ve also had expatriate horses claim victories in the two premier mile races in England – the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (won by Starcraft) and the Queen Anne Stakes (won by Haradasun). So You Think who has proved himself a top weight for age performer, and Europe is about to see Black Caviar strut her stuff on their home turf.

But taking a horse on the arduous journey overseas is not as appealing to everyone.

Legendary Australian trainer Tommy Smith with daughter and trainer Gai Waterhouse

“We have definitely learned from the Europeans that perhaps we don’t have to run our horses as often” Grahame Begg Prize money in Australia, especially for sprinters, is as good as if not better than anywhere else in the world – so the appeal has to be of a different nature.

“I don’t think if Black Caviar goes to England and wins it really adds a lot to her value – where it really counts is for a colt to go over and win a major race in Europe because it instantly makes him a reverse shuttle proposition and his value can automatically

skyrocket,” Young says.

Joe Janiak knew Takeover Target, who as a gelding had no stud value, was capable of competing overseas, but he needed a little convincing that it was within his reach.

“We had Choisir go over there a couple of years before us, so I rang [his trainer] Paul Perry up and asked what he thought my chances would be and he went through it and said to me that we can win so that was the deciding factor – I had no confidence in myself whatsoever, I didn’t think I had the ability to do it and I’d never been there, but in the back of my mind I knew I had a horse who deserved his chance to compete there.”

Royal Ascot and other European carnivals have become major targets for Australian racehorses. Add in Hong Kong and Singapore, where a majority of horses are Australian- or New Zealand-bred, and Dubai as the four big overseas jurisdictions Aussie trainers and owners are currently most comfortable with running their charges at.

The US is a final frontier for Australian horses to conquer, but as Grahame Begg explains, the Breeders’ Cup isn’t at an ideal time in the Australian racing schedule.

“It is run right in the middle of our Spring Carnival in Melbourne, which is unfortunate because it’s obviously the most appealing meeting to want to go to in North America.”

Begg continues, “Then there is the concern about the fact that a lot of our horses aren’t by stallions nominated for the Breeders’ Cup races, and the fees are large if you want to get around that.”

Gerald Ryan warns, “It’s a huge risk, the travelling a horse has to undertake from here is massive and can put great strain on them – look at Black Caviar, what if she goes over there, doesn’t cop the trip one little bit and runs terrible? What has it achieved? But that’s this risk you take when you want to take on a challenge like that.” n

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EW research, published in the Equine Veterinary Journal – the premier international journal for equine veterinary science – has shown that exercise early in life has a positive effect on musculoskeletal health and may have a positive impact on the future racing careers of thoroughbreds.

A recent global collaborative research effort, led by scientists at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, and funded in part by both the U.K.’s Horserace Betting Levy Board and the New Zealand Racing Board, showed that exercising young horses was likely to have a beneficial effect on musculoskeletal tissues, and since musculoskeletal injuries are one of the main causes of wastage and days lost from training, this called the old dogma into question. By superimposing exercise on the normal pasture-based life of foals, researchers have

Jasmine Tanner of Massey University

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RACING

What do the statistics tell us about training two-year-olds – good or bad? New evidence from New Zealand suggests that entering training and racing at two years of age promotes a longer and more successful thoroughbred racing career.

WORDS: CELIA M. MARR PHOTOS: FIONA BOYD, HORSEPHOTOS.COM

been able to show that bone density is increased. The cannon bones of horses that were exercised as foals were bigger and stronger than those of foals managed conventionally. Everyone interested in racing would love nothing more than to produce stronger racehorses and see athletic injuries minimised. However, the experimental situation does not always translate to real life.

Jasmine Tanner of Massey University points out that recent scientific evidence suggests that, contrary to what the layman might anticipate, exercise at a young age may have a protective effect for the equine athlete. There

has been concern that racing young horses before their skeletons are mature, might blight their future and in particular lead to orthopedic problems.

Studies looking at lifetime achievements within racing have reported that 50% of thoroughbred foals worldwide fail to race, while in standardbreds a larger proportion, around 80%, will race. Reasons why foals do not make it to the racetrack include lack of ability, illness, and musculoskeletal injury. These statistics are a major cause for concern within the racing industry and this information has both important

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welfare and financial implications.

Building on these statistics, Dr Tanner’s group has looked at the association of age at entry to race-training with number of race starts, the number of years raced by the age of seven and overall earnings for the 4683 thoroughbreds and 1810 standardbreds in New Zealand’s 2001/2002 foal crop. The three training milestones that were used to indicate early entry into training were registration with a trainer; trialing to assess race potential; and racing. The statistics overall are sobering: only 68% of the thoroughbred foal crop were registered as entering training, 57% trialed, and 45% raced in New Zealand, but it is important to recognise that many New Zealand thoroughbreds are exported and so some of the most promising individuals, because they are particularly successful, may have been omitted from this survey. Twelve percent of thoroughbreds and 8% of standardbreds were exported in this group.

Recent data from the U.K. suggests around 65% of the thoroughbred foal crop will race, but it is telling that this statistic has not improved in the last three decades. More promisingly, of those that did race, in this survey 50% won at least one race and 64% were placed by the time they reached seven years.

Drilling down into the effects of age at entering training, Dr Tanner’s study found similar results in both standardbreds and thoroughbreds and came to the conclusion that racing at two years was beneficial to a horse’s later career. Horses that were registered as entering training as two-yearolds had more race starts at three and beyond compared to those that were first registered as three-year-olds. Likewise, those that trialed and raced at two years subsequently had more starts: for example, thoroughbreds that trialed at two went on to have a median of 12 starts at three and beyond compared to only eight in the group that trained first at three years. The figures were the same for those that raced at two years: a median of 12 future races compared to eight in the others. But, putting racecourse appearances aside, horses that entered race-training at two were also more likely to win or be placed than those that were first registered as entering training at three years: thoroughbreds that first raced at two years were roughly four times more likely to win and five times more likely to be placed than their less precocious fellows. Colts were very slightly more likely to be placed and, predictably, had more earnings.

Statistical analysis of earnings is tricky from the scientific point of view: one or two high earning horses can have a disproportionate effect on analyses. However, taking these potential problems into account, Dr Tanner

was able to prove that horses that achieved the two-year-old milestones in New Zealand of trialing and racing had greater earnings than those that achieved these milestones later.

Dr Tanner comments, “Musculoskeletal injuries are one the main causes of wastage in racing and days lost from training. Our study indicates that horses in training or racing as two-year-olds are more successful which suggests that may have better musculoskeletal health throughout life than those first in

“Our study indicates that horses in training or racing as two-year-olds are more successful which suggests that may have better musculoskeletal health throughout life than those first in training or racing at a later age” Jasmine Tanner

training or racing at a later age. This could have a positive impact on their future success in racing. If this is indeed the case then it may be possible to manipulate the initiation and structure of race-training to reduce the risk of such injuries in the future.”

We know that racing two-year-olds confers a lifelong racing career advantage; experimental studies suggest that bone, tendon, and other musculoskeletal tissues are made stronger by early exercise: the challenge now for the veterinary science community and trainers is how we can build on the Massey study to understand the interaction between race-training and musculoskeletal development to reduce injuries in racehorses.

This is an important study that exemplifies how science and the racing industry can work together for the ongoing benefit of the horse and horsemen. The data in this major study encapsulated the careers of an entire foal crop and included both thoroughbreds and standardbreds, and this partnership shows how collaboration between scientists and the racing industry can lead to robust populationbased analysis. The data comes specifically from New Zealand and this immediately begs the question – does this apply to the rest of the world? Exact statistics and specific data might vary by a few percentage points from country to country but the overwhelming message here has global resonance: racing two-year olds is to be encouraged. n

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ADVERTORIAL

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The front shoe shape means that the Kings Super Sound just drops on most thoroughbred feet, slightly wider than the normal Kings Plate速 Extra Sound; the Super Sound offers superior cover and support.

The toe design has been evolved to improve break over while the patented sole relief continues to protect against sole pressure and bruising.

Super Pitch Plus has been introduced to the first three nail holes, giving extra pitch. This allows the farrier to drive nails higher into the hoof wall even on flatter feet. (No other aluminium race plate has so much pitch available to the farrier) The Super Sound front shoe also features the new Heel Elevation, the subtle heel elevation will help farriers to achieve better anterior or posterior hoof balance while the wider heel design will improve the fit when extra cover and support is needed. This will also reduce stress to the back of the hoof.

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FAST BREAK ES Correctly fitted, the new Fast Break Extra Sound front shoe can improve break-over on a long toed thoroughbred hoof capsule, without having to overdress the hoof wall which can leave the hoof weaker and prone to over expansion.

The Fast Break Extra Sound follows the shape of the Extra Sound plate but has a flatter / shorter toe to improve break over.

This innovative shoe also has an improved design bevel around the toe and right back to the heel quarters which allows the hoof to break over more quickly, reducing the strain on the flexor tendons and ligaments down the back of the leg. This shoe will also reduce pressure to the back of the hoof capsule which can result in corns.

As well as the improved features at the toe of the shoe, this plate

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also includes many of the designs you find in the popular Extra Sound plate. Strong Radius quarter clips which are easy to fit and allow the plate to be fitted under the toe. The wide webbed section helps to distribute energy across a larger area of the hoof, while the new concaved section provides better grip and sole relief to reduce pressure while the hoof is weight bearing.

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A revolutionary new feeding system from Fodder Solutions will take the uncertainty out of providing reliable, good quality feed for horses. With rocketing feed costs, the Fodder Solutions system offers a viable alternative, with cost savings and added health benefits as well as helping to sustain top levels of performance. l Consistent, fresh green feed, daily, all year round l As used by Team Fredericks for their top event horses l “Live” feed breaks down into easily digestible sugars, amino acids and fatty acids. l Noticeable benefits to coat, hoof condition, demeanour and general wellbeing l Highly palatable and completely dustfree l Ideal for yards with limited grazing l Reduced feed costs and no waste

seed to feed and the rotation system is recharged daily to ensure a reliable, continuous supply of fresh green feed every day.

Fodder Solutions feed is ideal for racing and competition horses and contains as much energy as many popular pelleted feeds and grains but with very little starch. The protein levels are comparable to any quality processed feeds and over 90% of the feed is digestible; meaning more of what you are feeding is being utilised by your horses.

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PRODUCT FOCUS

IronXcell – the ideal supplement TRM’s IronXcell, an ideal supplement for horses in training and racing, is a premium, iron enriched B vitamin syrup that also contains Sorbitol, which enhances the serum concentrations that result from the oral administration of Vitamin B12.

Horses in training need dietary supplementation of B complex vitamins and iron to meet the physiological demands placed on them. These nutrients are required for red blood cell formation and other important metabolic functions relating to exercise. Vitamin B12 also improves both the uptake and utilisation of carotene (a precursor of Vitamin A) from the intestine and the function of vitamin A in maintaining the integrity of mucosal and epithelial cells.

Higher workloads, with an associated increased carbohydrate (cereal) diet and reduced access to fresh grazing, invariably lead to

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B complex vitamins are water soluble and therefore not stored in the body for any length of time, so ideally should be supplemented on a daily basis. Adding IronXcell to the daily feed will help to fortify and strengthen horses at every stage of production, training and racing, ensuring that their full athletic potential can be realised.

IronXcell is an effective appetite stimulant and an excellent nutritional tonic for all horses in work. It also provides nutritional support following treatment with antibiotics and can be valuable in supporting horses where health is compromised for other reasons.

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Introducing THE RUBBER FENCE A conductive rubber fence preventing fatal injuries to horses is now available.

Debilitating leg injuries to horses when they come into close contact with traditional electric fences or foals seriously injured when they are entangled in the wire can now be avoided.

The rubber fence is constructed of electric rubber wire that does not cut into the animals when they run into the wire. Under heavy pressure the wire will break so as not to cause damage to the horse and it can easily be put together again. The wire is easily installed and conductivity is not diminished even if it is in contact with grass or the ground, so the fence requires very little maintenance.

Hardly any loss of voltage even over very long distances and with a durability of at least 30 years means the rubber fence is the perfect solution to the fencing in the paddock.

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PRODUCT FOCUS

Importance of Electrolytes Electrolytes replace ionised body salts that are lost when the horse sweats. Horses loose many litres of sweat during hard work and competition and considerably more during hot conditions. This is because sweating is the only mechanism the horse has to cool down, and overheating can lead to serious complications and even death.

During prolonged periods of intensive exercise the mineral stores are depleted and the horse becomes deficient in sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium and phosphates. As a consequence of this the horse utilises stores from other areas of the body which support other mechanisms and functions and inevitably this has a negative effect on general wellbeing and performance. Further metabolic imbalances are evident, such as lactic acid accumulation in the muscles, dehydration and decreased performance.

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Races are divided by distance and the relevant surface is indicated as follows: AWT - All Weather Track D - Dirt T - Turf European counties covered in this issue are: Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Sweden and United Kingdom. The indexes also include Grade 1 races from North America as well major races from Australia and Japan.

CLOSING DATES

Closing dates for all Irish races are set for international entry dates. For certain races, Irish trained horses, may be able to enter after the published dates. Please check dates with the relevant issue of The Racing Calendar.

All main French races have been given an eight day closing date with provincial races set to a ten day closing

date. The Italian authority (UNIRE) do not publish closing dates for Listed races but we have been advised to set each race closing date ten days in advance of the race.

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1150 1150

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€22,000 £33,000 £25,000 £33,000 £33,000 €60,000 €60,000

15/09/2012 01/10/2012 22/08/2012 20/09/2012 22/10/2012

5.15

17/09/2012

4+ 3+ 2 3 + F&M 3 2F 2

T T T T T T T

1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200

5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5

04/07/2012 22/08/2012

5.75f (1150m)

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09/07/2012 05/06/2012 25/07/2012 26/07/2012 28/07/2012 06/08/2012 10/07/2012 07/08/2012 06/08/2011 26/06/2012 20/08/2012 20/08/2012 18/07/2012 27/08/2012 06/09/2012 08/09/2012 22/08/2012

5.5f (1100m)

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Closing 25/05/2012 26/05/2012 16/05/2012 31/05/2012 11/06/2012 12/06/2012 24/04/2012 13/06/2012 14/06/2012 15/06/2012 14/06/2012 18/06/2012 20/06/2012 23/05/2012 13/06/2012 30/06/2012 02/07/2012 09/07/2012

5.15f (1030m) 1030

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Furlongs 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5

5.75 5.75

16/04/2012 09/07/2012

6f (1200m) 6 6 6 6 6 6 6

24/04/2012 22/05/2012 28/05/2012 28/05/2012 28/05/2012 30/05/2012 30/05/2012

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6f (1200m)

Country USA ITY IRE GB ITY JPN GB GB GB CAN GER GB GB IRE IRE ITY JPN USA USA FR GB GB GB GB GB JPN IRE USA IRE GB FR USA FR GB USA USA GB USA IRE IRE SWE

Track Belmont Park Milan Leopardstown Salisbury Milan Hakodate Royal Ascot Royal Ascot Royal Ascot Woodbine Hannover Newcastle Newmarket Curragh Curragh Milan Chukyo Calder Calder Maisons-Laffitte Newmarket Newmarket York Newbury Newmarket Hakodate Fairyhouse Saratoga Naas Ascot Deauville Del Mar La Teste de Buch Goodwood Saratoga Saratoga Chester Saratoga Curragh Curragh Jagersro

Race Name & (Sponsor) True North H’cap Bersaglio Ballyogan St Cathedral St Crespi V. Hakodate Sprint St Coventry St Albany St Diamond Jubilee St Highlander S Grosser Preis der Jungheinrich Chipchase St (totesport.com) Empress St Railway St (Dubai Duty Free) Balanchine St (Grangecon Stud) Premio Primi Passi CBC Sho Princess Rooney H’cap Smile Sprint H’cap Ris-Orangis July (TNT) Cherry Hinton (Irish Thoroughbred Marketing) Summer St (Tyregiant.com) Rose Bowl St July Cup (Darley) Hakodate Nisai St Belgrave St Sanford St Sweet Mimosa EBF St Princess Margaret St (Juddmonte) Cabourg (Jockey Club de Turquie) Bing Crosby S Criterium du Bequet Richmond St (Audi) Honorable Miss H’cap Prioress Queensferry St Alfred G Vanderbilt H’cap Phoenix St (Keeneland) Phoenix Sprint St (Patrick O’Leary Memorial) Zawawi Cup

Class Gr 2 L Gp 3 L L Gr 3 Gp 2 Gp 3 Gp 1 Gr 2 Gp 3 Gp 3 L Gp 2 Gp 3 Gp 3 Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 2 Gp 3 Gp 2 Gp 2 Gp 3 L Gp 1 Gr 3 L Gr 2 L Gp 3 Gp 3 Gr 1 L Gp 2 Gr 2 Gr 1 L Gr 1 Gp 1 Gp 3 L

Race Date 09/06/2012 10/06/2012 14/06/2012 17/06/2012 17/06/2012 17/06/2012 19/06/2012 22/06/2012 23/06/2012 24/06/2012 29/06/2012 30/06/2012 30/06/2012 30/06/2012 01/07/2012 01/07/2012 01/07/2012 07/07/2012 07/07/2012 08/07/2012 12/07/2012 13/07/2012 13/07/2012 13/07/2012 14/07/2012 14/07/2012 15/07/2012 22/07/2012 25/07/2012 28/07/2012 29/07/2012 29/07/2012 02/08/2012 02/08/2012 03/08/2012 04/08/2012 05/08/2012 05/08/2012 12/08/2012 12/08/2012 12/08/2012

Value $400,000 €41,800 €57,500 £33,000 €41,800 $985,000 £85,000 £60,000 £400,000 CAN200,000+ €55,000 £55,000 £23,000 €95,000 €52,500 €61,600 $985,000 $400,000 $400,000 €80,000 £60,000 £60,000 £55,000 £23,000 £400,000 $780,000 €40,000 $200,000 €60,000 £50,000 €80,000 $300,000 €55,000 £70,000 $200,000 $300,000 £33,000 $400,000 €190,000 €62,500 SEK 500,000

Age 3+ 3+ 3+ F 3+ 2F 3+ 2 2F 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 2F 2 2F 2 3+ 3+ FM 3+ 3+ 2 C&G 2F 3+ F 2 3+ 2 3+ 2 3+ F&M 2F 2 3+ 2 2 C&G 3+ FM 3F 3+ 3+ 2 CF 3+ 3+

Surface D T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T D D T T T T T T T T D T T T AWT T T D D T D T T D

FR GB JPN GB GB GB FR JPN GB GER JPN GB GB GB GB IRE ITY JPN IRE GB GB USA IRE USA USA GB GB GB ITY GB GB CAN IRE GB ITY JPN GB FR FR ITY GB FR FR JPN ITY JPN

Deauville Pontefract Kokura York York Newmarket Deauville Sapporo Ripon Baden-Baden Kokura Salisbury Haydock Park Kempton Park York Curragh Milan Hanshin Curragh Ayr Newmarket Belmont Park Curragh Belmont Park Belmont Park Ascot Newmarket Redcar Milan Newmarket York Woodbine Curragh Doncaster Rome Nakayama Newmarket Maisons-Laffitte Maisons-Laffitte Rome Lingfield Park Fontainebleau Fontainebleau Kyoto Siracusa Nakayama

Prix Morny (Darley) Flying Fillies’ St (EBF) TV Nishinippon Corp Sho Kitakyushu Kinen Lowther St Gimcrack St (Irish Thoroughbred Marketing) Hopeful St Meautry (Lucien Barriere) Keeneland Cup Ripon Champion Two-Year-Old Trophy 2010 Kronimus-Rennen Kokura Nisai St Dick Poole St (EBF) Sprint Cup (Betfred) Sirenia St (Betfred Bonus King) Garrowby Go and Go Round Tower St Eupili Centaur St Renaissance St Firth of Clyde St (Laundry Cottage Stud) Cheveley Park St Vosburgh Invitational Blenheim St Futurity St Matron St Bengough St (John Guest) Boadicea St (EBF) Two-Year-Old Trophy Criterium Nazionale Middle Park St (Emaar) Rockingham (Coral.co.uk) Nearctic S Waterford Testimonial St Doncaster (Racing Post) Pandolfi Ubaldo Sprinters St Bosra Sham St (EBF) Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte Seine-et-Oise Premio Carlo & Francesco Aloisi (Ex Umbria) Golden Rose St Contessina Zeddaan Keihan Hai Criterium Aretuseo Capella St

Gp 1 L Gr 3 Gp 2 Gp 2 L Gp 3 Gr 3 L L Gr 3 L Gp 1 Gp 3 L Gp 3 L Gr 2 Gp 3 Gp 3 Gp 1 Gr 1 L Gr 2 Gr 2 Gp 3 L L L Gp 1 L Gr 1 L L L Gr 1 L Gp 2 Gp 3 Gp 3 L L L Gr 3 L Gr 3

19/08/2012 19/08/2012 19/08/2012 23/08/2012 24/08/2012 25/08/2012 26/08/2012 26/08/2012 27/08/2012 30/08/2012 02/09/2012 06/09/2012 08/09/2012 08/09/2012 09/09/2012 09/09/2012 09/09/2012 09/09/2012 15/09/2012 22/09/2012 29/09/2012 29/09/2012 30/09/2012 30/09/2012 30/09/2012 06/10/2012 06/10/2012 06/10/2012 07/10/2012 13/10/2012 13/10/2012 14/10/2012 14/10/2012 27/10/2012 28/10/2012 30/10/2012 02/11/2012 06/11/2012 06/11/2012 11/11/2012 17/11/2012 22/11/2012 22/11/2012 24/11/2012 08/12/2012 09/12/2012

€350,000 £38,000 $985,000 £110,000 £150,000 £40,000 €80,000 $985,000 £27,000 €20,000 $780,000 £25,000 £225,000 £37,000 £33,000 €52,500 €41,800 $1,433,000 €57,500 £40,000 £150,000 $400,000 €40,000 $200,000 $200,000 £70,000 £33,000 £150,000 €41,800 £150,000 £40,000 CAN500,000+ €40,000 £23,000 €41,800 $2,470,000 £23,000 €190,000 €80,000 €61,600 £33,000 €52,000 €55,000 $985,000 €41,800 $911,000

2 CF 3+ F&M 3+ 2F 2 C&G 3+ 3+ 3+ 2 2 2 2F 3+ 2 3+ 2 2F 3+ 3+ 2F 2F 3+ 2 2 2F 3+ 3+ F&M 2 2 2C 2 3+ 3+ 2 2F 3+ 2F 2 3+ 2+ 3+ 3+ 2 3+ 2F 3+

T T T T T T T T T T T T T AWT T T T T T T T D T D D T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T AWT T T T T D

Metres 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200

1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200

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Newbury Newbury

Hackwood St (Shadwell) Mill Reef St (Dubai Duty Free)

Gp 3 Gp 2

14/07/2012 22/09/2012

£55,000 £60,000

3+ 2

Furlongs 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6

6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6

Closing 26/05/2012 09/05/2012 11/06/2012 08/05/2012 13/06/2012 16/06/2012 24/04/2012 24/06/2012 15/05/2012 25/06/2012 25/06/2012 23/05/2012 26/06/2012 31/05/2012 28/06/2012 23/06/2012 23/06/2012 20/06/2012 06/07/2012 07/07/2012 07/07/2012 07/07/2012 06/07/2012 05/06/2012 10/07/2012 07/07/2012 19/07/2012 23/07/2012 11/08/2012 29/07/2012 25/07/2012 27/07/2012 21/07/2012 21/07/2012 30/07/2012 21/07/2012 18/06/2012 07/08/2012 09/07/2012

01/08/2012 13/08/2012 03/07/2012 10/07/2012 03/07/2012 20/08/2012 08/08/2012 17/07/2012 21/08/2012 21/08/2012 17/07/2012 31/08/2012 10/07/2012 03/09/2012 03/09/2012 04/09/2012 31/07/2012 08/08/2012 17/09/2012 24/07/2012 15/09/2012 25/09/2012 15/09/2012 15/09/2012 01/10/2012 01/06/2012 01/10/2012 31/07/2012 08/10/2012 26/09/2012 09/10/2012 22/10/2012 14/08/2012 29/10/2012 17/10/2012 17/10/2012 11/10/2012 12/11/2012

09/10/2012 23/10/2012

6.05f (1210m) T T

1210 1210

6.05 6.05

09/07/2012 31/07/2012

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Track Curragh

Race Name & (Sponsor) Anglesey St (Jebel Ali Stables & Racecourse)

USA GER USA FR USA USA USA USA USA GER FR

Belmont Park Frankfurt Saratoga Deauville Del Mar Saratoga Saratoga Presque Isle Downs Belmont Park Munich Maisons-Laffitte

Vagrancy H’cap Hessen-Sprint Amsterdam St Prix Maurice de Gheest Best Pal St Adirondack St Saratoga Special Presque Isle Downs Masters S Foxwoods Gallant Bloom (Hdcp) Bayerischer Fliegerpris Saraca

NOR NOR

Ovrevoll Ovrevoll

Norsk Jockeyklubs Jubileumslop Polar Cup

FR GB ITY IRE USA IRE GB GB GB FR GB USA IRE JPN FR FR GB GB USA IRE GB IRE GER FR GB IRE FR GER GB GB IRE GB IRE GB FR IRE FR GB GB GER GER GB IRE USA GB GB IRE USA USA CAN GB USA GER GER USA USA USA USA GB USA FR FR IRE GB GB GB IRE GB GB GB IRE GER

Longchamp Haydock Park Milan Naas Belmont Park Leopardstown Royal Ascot Royal Ascot Warwick Longchamp Newmarket Hollywood Park Fairyhouse Chukyo Maisons-Laffitte Longchamp Newmarket Chester Hollywood Park Leopardstown Ascot Curragh Cologne Vichy Sandown Park Leopardstown Deauville Munich Goodwood Goodwood Galway Goodwood Tipperary Newmarket Deauville Curragh Deauville Newbury Newbury Dusseldorf Dusseldorf York Tipperary Saratoga Goodwood York Curragh Saratoga Saratoga Woodbine Goodwood Del Mar Baden-Baden Baden-Baden Del Mar Saratoga Saratoga Saratoga Goodwood Del Mar Longchamp Longchamp Curragh Doncaster Doncaster Doncaster Curragh Newbury Newmarket Newmarket Curragh Cologne

Palais Royal John of Gaunt St (Timeform Jury) Nogara Whitehead Memorial Woody Stephens St Ballycorus St Jersey St Chesham St Eternal St Porte Maillot Criterion St Triple Bend H’cap Brownstown St (Irish Stallion Farms EBF) Tokai TV Hai Procyon St Amandine Roland de Chambure Superlative St (32Red.com) City Plate A Gleam H’cap Silver Flash St Winkfield St (Jaguar Xkr-S) Minstrel St Kolner Zweijahrigen Trophy Jouvenceaux et Jouvencelles Star St (Weatherbys Vat Services) Tyros St Six Perfections Dallmayr Prodomo Trophy Lennox St (Bet 365) Vintage St (Veuve Clicquot) Corrib EBF Oak Tree St Coolmore Canford Cliffs Sweet Solera St (Germanthoroughbred.com) Francois Boutin Debutante St (Keeneland) Calvados (Haras des Capucines) Hungerford St Washington Singer St (Denford Stud) Grosser Preis der Stadtsparkasse Dusseldorf Sparkassenpreis - Stadtsparkasse Dusseldorf Acomb St Fairy Bridge Ballerina St Prestige St (Whiteley Clinic) City of York St Futurity St (Galileo EBF) Test Foxwoods King’s Bishop Play the King S Supreme St Pat O’Brien H’cap Zukunfts-Rennen Coolmore Stud Baden-Cup Del Mar Debutante Forego H’cap Spinaway St Three Chimneys Hopeful St Stardom St (Peter Willet) Del Mar Futurity Pin La Rochette Moyglare Stud St Sceptre St (JRA) Champagne St Park St Vincent O’Brien National St Cup (Dubai Duty Free) Somerville St (Tattersall) Oh So Sharp St (Sakhee) Park St (CL Weld) Kolner Herbst Preis

Class Gp 3

Race Date 22/07/2012

Value €52,500

6.3f (1260m) Age 2

Surface T

Metres 1260

3+ FM 3+ 3 3+ 2 2F 2 3+ F&M 3 + FM 3+ 2

D T D T AWT D D AWT D T T

1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300

3+ 3+

T T

1370 1370

3+ 4+ 3F 3+ 3 3+ 3 2 3F 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ F 3+ 3F 2 2 3+ 3+ FM 2F 2 3+ 2 2 2F 2 2F 3+ 3+ 2 3+ 3+ F 2 2F 2 2F 2F 3+ 2 3+ F&M 3+ F 2 3+ F&M 3+ FM 2F 3+ 2 3F 3 3+ 3+ 3+ 2 3+ 2F 3+ 2F 2 2 2 3+ 2 2F 3+ F 2 C&G 3+ 2 CF 3+ 2 C&G 2F 2F 3+

T T T T D T T T T T T AWT T D T T T T AWT T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T D T T T D D T T AWT T T AWT D D D T AWT T T T T T T T T T T T T

1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400

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02/06/2012 07/06/2012 29/07/2012 05/08/2012 05/08/2012 12/08/2012 12/08/2012 08/09/2012 08/09/2012 16/09/2012 21/09/2012

$200,000 €20,000 $200,000 €250,000 $150,000 $200,000 $200,000 $400,000 $200,000 €20,000 €55,000

21/06/2012 02/08/2012

NOK 250,000 NOK 500,000

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€80,000 £55,000 €41,800 €40,000 $400,000 €57,500 £70,000 £50,000 £30,000 €80,000 £55,000 $250,000 €77,500 $911,000 €55,000 €55,000 £60,000 £33,000 $200,000 €47,500 £23,000 €57,500 €20,000 €55,000 £23,000 €47,500 €55,000 €20,000 £140,000 £60,000 €50,000 £55,000 €47,500 £45,000 €55,000 €95,000 €80,000 £90,000 £23,000 €30,000 €30,000 £50,000 €57,500 $500,000 £40,000 £50,000 €95,000 $500,000 $500,000 CAN200,000+ £55,000 $250,000 €55,000 €20,000 $300,000 $500,000 $300,000 $300,000 £23,000 $300,000 €80,000 €80,000 €225,000 £55,000 £75,000 £100,000 €200,000 £33,000 £37,000 £37,000 €55,000 €20,000

6 .5 6.5 6 .5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5

19/05/2012 29/05/2012 14/07/2012 18/07/2012 26/07/2012 28/07/2012 28/07/2012 29/08/2012 08/09/2012 04/09/2012

6.8f (1370m)

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Closing 17/07/2012

6.5f (1300m)

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Furlongs 6.3

6.75 6.75

02/04/2012 21/05/2012

7f (1400m) 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7

16/05/2012 28/05/2012 30/05/2012 26/05/2012 09/05/2012 14/06/2012 18/06/2012 22/06/2012 13/06/2012 25/06/2012 30/05/2012 22/05/2012 03/07/2012 06/07/2012 09/07/2012 09/07/2012 12/07/2012 16/07/2012 13/06/2012 10/07/2012 18/07/2012 20/07/2012 19/07/2012 20/07/2012 19/06/2012 25/07/2012 26/07/2012 26/07/2012 28/07/2012 06/08/2012 06/08/2012 03/08/2012 04/07/2012 01/08/2012 31/07/2012 13/08/2012 26/06/2012 16/08/2012 18/07/2012 11/08/2012 20/08/2012 20/08/2012 18/07/2012 11/08/2012 11/08/2012 08/08/2012 20/08/2012 16/08/2022 10/07/2012 10/07/2012 01/06/2012 18/08/2012 18/08/2012 18/08/2012 29/08/2012 01/06/2012 22/08/2012 22/08/2012 30/05/2012 07/09/2012 24/07/2012 24/07/2012 30/05/2002 15/09/2012 21/09/2012 22/09/2012 25/09/2012 25/09/2012

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Track Ascot Ascot Redcar Longchamp Longchamp Chantilly Dundalk Newmarket Newmarket Newmarket Longchamp Newbury Newbury Leopardstown Kyoto Milan Hannover Leopardstown Maisons-Laffitte Tokyo Kyoto Saint-Cloud Hanshin

Race Name & (Sponsor) Rous (Macquarie Group) October St (Miles & Morrison) Guisborough St Prix de la Foret (Total) Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere-Grand Criterium Herod Star Appeal EBF St Dewhurst St Rockfel St (Vision.Ae) Challenge St Saint-Cyr Horris Hill St (Worthington Highfield Social Club) Radley St Killavullan St Mainichi Broadcast Swan St Premio Chiusura Neue Bult Youngster Cup Knockaire St Miesque Keio Hai Nisai St KBS Kyoto Sho Fantasy St Ceres Hanshin Cup

Class L L L Gp 1 Gp 1 L L Gp 1 Gp 2 Gp 2 L Gp 3 L Gp 3 Gr 2 Gp 3 L L Gp 3 Gr 2 Gr 3 L Gr 2

Race Date 06/10/2012 06/10/2012 06/10/2012 07/10/2012 07/10/2012 08/10/2012 12/10/2012 13/10/2012 13/10/2012 13/10/2012 17/10/2012 27/10/2012 27/10/2012 27/10/2012 27/10/2012 03/11/2012 04/11/2012 04/11/2012 06/11/2012 10/11/2012 10/11/2012 22/11/2012 24/12/2012

Value £35,000 £35,000 £33,000 €300,000 €350,000 €55,000 €57,500 £300,000 £60,000 £80,000 €55,000 £37,000 £23,000 €47,500 $1,433,000 €61,600 €20,000 €40,000 €80,000 $931,000 $725,000 €55,000 $1,687,000

7f (1400m) Age 3+ 3+ F&M 3+ 3+ 2 CF 2 2 2 C&F 2F 3+ 3F 2 C&G 2F 2 3+ 2+ 2 3+ 2F 2 2F 3F 3+

Surface T T T T T T AWT T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T

Metres 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400

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Sandown Park

Solario St

Gp 3

01/09/2012

£34,000

Tipperary

Concorde St (Coolmore Stud Home of Champions)

Gp 3

07/10/2012

€65,000

2

T

1410

Milan Milan Naples Livorno Rome Rome Milan Rome Pisa Deauville

De Montel Luciano Mantovani Criterium Partenopeo Criterium Labronico Repubbliche Marinare Rumon Coolmore Criterium Femminile Criterium di Pisa Luthier

L L L L L L L L L L

IRE GER GER GER USA USA GB GB

Curragh Cologne Frankfurt Hannover Belmont Park Belmont Park Sandown Park Epsom Downs

Irish 1000 Guineas (Etihad Airways) Mehl-Mulhens-Rennen - German 2,000 Guineas Grosser Preis der Hannoverschen Volksbank Grosser Preis der Hannoverschen Volksbank Metropolitan H’Cap Acorn St Heron St (Betfair) Surrey (Investec)

01/07/2012 01/07/2012 22/07/2012 14/08/2012 16/09/2012 23/09/2012 30/09/2012 04/11/2012 09/12/2012 14/12/2012

€41,800 €41,800 €41,800 €41,800 €41,800 €41,800 €41,800 €41,800 €41,800 €52,000

3+

T

1490

27/05/2012 28/05/2012 28/05/2012 28/05/2012 28/05/2012 28/05/2012 31/05/2012 01/06/2012

€300,000 €153,000 €20,000 €20,000 $750,000 $300,000 £33,000 £33,000

22/10/2012 22/10/2012 22/10/2012 11/09/2012 04/10/2011 23/10/2012 30/10/2012 17/10/2012 25/09/2012 25/09/2012 06/10/2012

7.05

27/08/2012

7.4

29/08/2012

7.5f (1500m) 2 C&G 2F 2 2 2F 2C 2F 2F 2 3+

T T T T T T T T T AWT

1500 1500 1500 1500 1500 1500 1500 1500 1500 1500

T T T T D D T T

1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600

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08/10/2012 31/07/2012 08/10/2012 18/09/2012

7.4f (1490m)

Now available for iPhone/iPad via Appstore ITY ITY ITY ITY ITY ITY ITY ITY ITY FR

Closing 01/10/2012 01/10/2012 01/10/2012 22/08/2012 22/08/2012

7.05f (1410m)

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Furlongs 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7

3F 3 CF 4+ 4+ 3+ FM 3F 3 3F

7.5 7.5 7.5 7.5 7.5 7.5 7.5 7.5 7.5 7.5

8f (1600m) 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8

CLOSED

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8f (1600m)

Country CAN FR GER JPN JPN FR SWE FR USA GER ITY USA NOR FR ITY GB GB GB GB FR IRE GB CAN GER GB GER IRE USA FR FR USA FR GB USA FR GB GB SWE GER FR GB JPN USA NOR GB FR GB GER GB GB IRE FR FR FR JPN FR GB IRE USA FR GB FR JPN USA IRE GER GB GB TKY USA FR GB GB IRE IRE GER GER IRE ITY JPN SWE

Track Woodbine Chantilly Dusseldorf Tokyo Tokyo Longchamp Taby Galopp Chantilly Belmont Park Cologne Milan Hollywood Park Ovrevoll Chantilly Milan Royal Ascot Royal Ascot Royal Ascot Royal Ascot La Teste de Buch Leopardstown Royal Ascot Woodbine Hannover Windsor Hamburg Curragh Hollywood Park Chantilly Nantes Churchill Downs Deauville Sandown Park Hollywood Park Maisons-Laffitte Pontefract Newmarket Taby Galopp Hannover Vichy Ascot Chukyo Del Mar Ovrevoll Ascot Deauville Pontefract Munich Goodwood Goodwood Cork Deauville Deauville Deauville Niigata Deauville Salisbury Leopardstown Saratoga Deauville Goodwood Deauville Niigata Del Mar Killarney Baden-Baden Salisbury Sandown Park Veliefendi Del Mar Chantilly Haydock Park Haydock Park Leopardstown Leopardstown Dusseldorf Hannover Curragh Milan Nakayama Taby Galopp

Race Name & (Sponsor) Nassau S Prix de Sandringham German 1,000 Guineas Yasuda Kinen Unicorn St Lilas Bloomers’ Vase Paul de Moussac Just a Game St Oppenheim Union-Rennen Estate Vanity H’cap Polar Mile Cup Chemin de Fer du Nord Royal Mares Queen Anne St St James’s Palace St Windsor Forest St Sandringham H’cap La Sorellina Glencairn St Coronation St King Edward S - presented by TVG VGH Hannoversche Meile (EX Hamburger Meile) Midsummer St (Betfred) Hamburger Stutenmeile Celebration St Shoemaker Mile Prix Jean Prat Grand Prix d’Anjou Bretagne Firecracker H’cap Saint-Patrick Distaff St (Coral) Royal Heroine Mile Messidor Pipalong St (Weatherbys Bloodstock Insurance) Falmouth (Etihad Airways) Swedish Open Mile Meilen- Trophy (Grosser Preis von Audi Hannover) Jacques de Bremond Summer Mile (Transformers and Rectifiers) Toyoto Sho Chukyo Kinen San Clemente H’cap Lanmwades Stakes Valiant St (EBF) Prix de Rothschild Pomfret St Dallmayr Coupe Lukull Sussex (Quipco) Thoroughbred St (Rsa) Platinum St Tourgeville Prix Jacques le Marois (Haras de Fresnay-Le-Buffard) Grand H’cap de Deauville Sekiya Kinen Lieurey Sovereign St (totepool) Desmond St With Anticipation St Criterium du F.E.E. Celebration Mile (Betfair) Quincey (Lucien Barriere) Niigata Nisai St Del Mar Mile Ruby St Darley Oettingen-Rennen Stonehenge St (Weatherbys Bank) Atalanta St International Topkapi Trophy Yellow Ribbon Handicap La Cochere Ascendant St (Betfred) Superior Mile Matron St (Coolmore Fusaichi Pegasus) Golden Fleece St Junioren-Preis Grosser Preis der Metallbau Burckhardt Gmb Solonaway (Moyglare Stud) Bessero Pietro Keisei Hai Autumn H’cap Nickes Minneslopning

Class Gr 2 Gp 2 Gp 2 Gr 1 Gr 3 L L Gp 3 Gr 1 Gp 2 L Gr 1 L Gp 3 L Gp 1 Gp 1 Gp 2 L L L Gp 1 Gr 2 Gp 3 L Gp 3 L Gr 1 Gp 1 L Gr 2 L L Gr 2 Gp 3 L Gp 1 L Gp 2 L Gp 2 Gr 3 Gr 2 L L Gp 1 L L Gp 1 Gp 3 L L Gp 1 L Gr 3 Gp 3 Gp 3 Gp 3 Gr 2 L Gp 2 Gp 3 Gr 3 Gr 2 L Gp 2 L Gp 3 Gp 2 Gr 2 L L L Gp 1 L L L Gp 3 L Gr 3 L

Race Date 02/06/2012 03/06/2012 03/06/2012 03/06/2012 03/06/2012 05/06/2012 05/06/2012 09/06/2012 09/06/2012 10/06/2012 10/06/2012 10/06/2012 14/06/2012 17/06/2012 17/06/2012 19/06/2012 19/06/2012 20/06/2012 20/06/2012 21/06/2012 21/06/2012 22/06/2012 24/06/2012 24/06/2012 30/06/2012 30/06/2012 30/06/2012 30/06/2012 01/07/2012 02/07/2012 04/07/2012 07/07/2012 07/07/2012 07/07/2012 08/07/2012 10/07/2012 13/07/2012 14/07/2012 15/07/2012 20/07/2012 21/07/2012 22/07/2012 22/07/2012 26/07/2012 27/07/2012 29/07/2012 29/07/2012 29/07/2012 01/08/2012 03/08/2012 05/08/2012 07/08/2012 12/08/2012 12/08/2012 12/08/2012 15/08/2012 16/08/2012 16/08/2012 20/08/2012 21/08/2012 25/08/2012 26/08/2012 26/08/2012 26/08/2012 29/08/2012 30/08/2012 31/08/2012 01/09/2012 02/09/2012 03/09/2012 05/09/2012 08/09/2012 08/09/2012 08/09/2012 08/09/2012 09/09/2012 09/09/2012 09/09/2012 09/09/2012 09/09/2012 09/09/2012

Value CAN300,000+ €130,000 €125,000 $2,600,000 $889,000 €55,000 SEK 500,000 €80,000 $500,000 €50,000 $41,800 $250,000 NOK 250,000 €80,000 €41,800 £250,000 £250,000 £100,000 £50,000 €55,000 €40,000 £250,000 CAN 250,000 + €55,000 £33,000 €55,000 €50,000 $300,000 €400,000 €52,000 $175,000 €55,000 £33,000 $150,000 €80,000 £33,000 £160,000 SEK 400,000 €70,000 €52,000 £100,000 $985,000 $150,000 NOK 250,000 £33,000 €300,000 £33,000 €20,000 £300,000 £55,000 €40,000 €55,000 €600,000 €100,000 $985,000 €80,000 £55,000 €57,500 $200,000 €122,000 £100,000 €80,000 $780,000 $200,000 €45,000 €70,000 £23,000 £55,000 €459,000 $250,000 €55,000 £23,000 £33,000 €190,000 €37,500 €20,000 €20,000 €57,500 €41,800 $985,000 SEK 600,000

Age 3+ F&M 3F 3F 3+ 3 3F 3+ F&M 3 CG 3+ F&M 2 3 3+ FM 3+ 4+ 3+ F&M 4+ 3C 4+ F 3F 3F 4+ 3F 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ F 3+ 3+ 3 CF 4+ 3+ 3 C&G 3F 3+ F&M 3+ 4+ F&M 3+ F 3+ 3+ 4+ 4+ 3+ 3F 3+ 3+ F&M 3+ F 3+ 3+ 3+ 3 3+ 3 C&G 3+ CF 3+ 3+ 3F 3+ C&G 3+ 2 2 3+ 3+ 2 3+ 3+ 3+ 2 3+ F&M 3+ C&F 3+ FM 3F 2 3+ 3+ F 2 2 3+ 3+ 3+ F&M 3+ 3+

Surface T T T T D T T T T T T AWT T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T D

FR FR GB CAN IRE CAN FR GER GB FR USA

Chantilly Lyon-Parilly Doncaster Woodbine Curragh Woodbine Longchamp Munich Sandown Park Longchamp Turfway Park

Aumale Criterium de Lyon May Hill St (Barrett Steel) Natalma S Flame of Tara EBF St Ricoh Woodbine Mile Prix du Moulin de Longchamp Europa-Meile Fortune St Chenes WinStar Kentucky Cup

Gp 3 L Gp 2 Gr 2 L Gr 1 Gp 1 Gp 2 L Gp 3 Gr 2

11/09/2012 14/09/2012 14/09/2012 15/09/2012 15/09/2012 16/09/2012 16/09/2012 16/09/2012 19/09/2012 22/09/2012 22/09/2012

€80,000 €55,000 £70,000 CAN200,000+ €60,000 CAN1,000,000+ €450,000 €70,000 £33,000 €80,000 $200,000

2F 2 2F 2F 2F 3+ 3 + CF 3+ 3+ 2 CG 3+

T T T T T T T T T T AWT

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Metres 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600

1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600

Furlongs 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8

8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8

Closing 16/05/2012 16/05/2012 13/03/2012 24/04/2012 24/04/2012 28/05/2012 16/04/2012 23/05/2012 26/05/2012 20/03/2012

02/04/2012 23/05/2012 24/04/2012 24/04/2012 01/05/2012 14/06/2012 13/06/2012 14/06/2012 24/04/2012 06/06/2012 30/04/2012 25/06/2012 15/05/2012 25/06/2012 13/06/2012 25/06/2012 18/06/2012 29/06/2012 02/07/2012 20/06/2012 04/07/2012 19/06/2012 14/05/2012 22/05/2012 12/07/2012 16/07/2012 05/06/2012 12/07/2012 21/05/2012 21/07/2012 11/08/2012 23/07/2012 19/06/2012 29/05/2012 28/07/2012 31/07/2012 20/07/2012 25/07/2012 03/08/2012 03/07/2012 25/07/2012 10/08/2012 11/07/2012 18/08/2012 13/08/2012 10/07/2012 08/08/2012 17/07/2012 16/08/2012 23/08/2012 10/07/2012 13/08/2011 27/08/2012 23/08/2012 03/09/2012 03/09/2012 04/07/2012 03/09/2012 28/08/2012 28/08/2012 08/08/2012 31/07/2012 09/07/2012

22/08/2012 08/09/2012 29/08/2012 10/09/2012 29/08/2012 22/08/2012 24/07/2012 13/09/2012 05/09/2012 13/09/2012

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STAKES SCHEDULES Now available for iPhone/iPad via Appstore Country GER GER ITY FR GB GB GB GB GB USA IRE ITY ITY FR JPN USA USA FR FR FR GB GER GER IRE ITY

Track Cologne Cologne Milan Saint-Cloud Newmarket Newmarket Newmarket Newmarket Newmarket Belmont Park Curragh Milan Milan Longchamp Kyoto Belmont Park Belmont Park Longchamp Saint-Cloud Chantilly Newmarket Cologne Cologne Curragh Milan

Race Name & (Sponsor) Kolner Stutenpreis Winterkonigin Trial V. Riva (ex del Dado) Coronation Fillies’ Mile (Shadwell) Joel St (Nayef) Rosemary (Mawatheeq) Sun Chariot St (Kingdom of Bahrain) Royal Lodge St (Juddmonte) Kelso H’cap Beresford St (Juddmonte) Premio Vittorio di Capua Premio Sergio Cumani Prix Daniel Wildenstein (Qatar) Daily Hai Nisai St Champagne St Frizette St Prix Marcel Boussac (Total) Thomas Bryon Ranelagh Autumn St Winterfavoriten Weidenpescher Stutenpreis Silken Glider St Gran Criterium

Class L L L L Gp 1 Gp 2 L Gp 1 Gp 2 Gr 2 Gp 2 Gp 1 Gp 3 Gp 2 Gr 2 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gp 1 Gp 3 L Gp 3 Gp 3 L L Gp 1

Race Date 23/09/2012 23/09/2012 23/09/2012 28/09/2012 28/09/2012 28/09/2012 28/09/2012 29/09/2012 29/09/2012 29/09/2012 30/09/2012 30/09/2012 30/09/2012 06/10/2012 06/10/2012 06/10/2012 06/10/2012 07/10/2012 11/10/2012 12/10/2012 13/10/2012 14/10/2012 14/10/2012 14/10/2012 14/10/2012

Value €20,000 €20,000 €41,800 €55,000 £150,000 £100,000 £33,000 £160,000 £100,000 $400,000 €95,000 €209,000 €61,600 €200,000 $931,000 $400,000 $400,000 €300,000 €80,000 €52,000 £37,000 €155,000 €20,000 €42,500 €209,000

SWE GB IRE JPN GER IRE ITY ITY GB FR FR GB GER FR FR GB GB GB GER ITY USA FR IRE JPN JPN FR FR GB USA USA ITY JPN JPN

Taby Galopp Ascot Cork Tokyo Baden-Baden Naas Milan Milan Pontefract Nantes Deauville Doncaster Mulheim Saint-Cloud Saint-Cloud Lingfield Park Newmarket Newmarket Hannover Rome Belmont Park Toulouse Dundalk Tokyo Kyoto Saint-Cloud Saint-Cloud Kempton Park Aqueduct Aqueduct Siracusa Hanshin Nakayama

Matchmaker St (Coolmore) Queen Elizabeth II St (Quipco) Navigation St Saudi Arabia Royal Cup Fuji St Winterkonigon Garnet EBF St Del Piazzale Premio Dormello Silver Tankard St (totepool) Sablonnets Reservoirs (Haras d’Etreham) Trophy (Racing Post) Berberis-Rennen Criterium International Perth Fleur de Lys St (EBF) Ben Marshall St (Novae Bloodstock) Montrose St (EBF) Neue Bult Stuten Meilen Cup Premio Ribot Nashua St Criterium du Languedoc Cooley EBF St Tokyo Chunichi Sports Hai Musashino St Mile Championship Tantieme Isonomy Hyde St Go For Wand Hcap Cigar Mile H’cap Criterium Mediterraneo (ex Ippodromi e Citta) Hanshin Juvenile Fillies Asahi Hai Futurity St

L Gp 1 L Gr 3 Gp 3 L Gp 3 Gp 3 L L Gp 3 Gp 1 L Gp 1 Gp 3 L L L L Gp 2 Gr 2 L L Gr 3 Gr 1 L L L Gr 2 Gr 1 L Gr 1 Gr 1

14/10/2012 20/10/2012 20/10/2012 20/10/2012 21/10/2012 21/10/2012 21/10/2012 21/10/2012 22/10/2012 23/10/2012 24/10/2012 27/10/2012 28/10/2012 01/11/2012 01/11/2012 01/11/2012 03/11/2012 03/11/2012 04/11/2012 04/11/2012 04/11/2012 08/11/2012 09/11/2012 11/11/2012 18/11/2012 20/11/2012 20/11/2012 21/11/2012 23/11/2012 24/11/2012 08/12/2012 09/12/2012 16/12/2012

SEK 400,000 £1,000,000 €40,000 $985,000 €105,000 €60,000 €61,600 €88,000 £23,000 €55,000 €80,000 £200,000 €20,000 €250,000 €80,000 £33,000 £33,000 £23,000 €20,000 €104,500 $200,000 €55,000 €50,000 $911,000 $2,600,000 €52,000 €55,000 £33,000 $200,000 $350,000 €41,800 $1,687,000 $1,832,000

USA GB GB USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA JPN USA USA GER CAN GER

Belmont Park Epsom Downs Epsom Downs Belmont Park Hollywood Park Delaware Park Saratoga Del Mar Monmouth Park Del Mar Del Mar Saratoga Sapporo Saratoga Parx Racing Dusseldorf Woodbine Krefeld

Ogden Phipps H’cap Diomed St (Investec) Princess Elizabeth St (Investec) Mother Goose St Hollywood Oaks Delaware Oaks Lake George St San Diego H’cap Molly Pitcher St Clement L. Hirsch S La Jolla H’cap Fourstardave H’cap Elm St Ballston Spa H’cap Cotillion St Landeshauptstadt Dusseldorf Autumn S Herzog von Ratibor-Rennen

8f (1600m) Age 3+ F 3+ 2C 3F 2F 3+ 3+ 3+ F 2 C&G 3+ 2 3+ 3+ F 3+ 2 2 2F 2F 2 3+ 2 2 3+ F 2F 2 C&F

Surface T T T T T T T T T D T T T T T D D T T T T T T T T

Metres 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600

3+ F&M 3+ 3+ 3+ 2F 3+ F&M 3+ 2F 2 2 2F 2 C&F 3+ 2 CF 3+ 3+ F&M 3+ 2F 3+ F 3+ 2 2 3+ F&M 3+ 3+ 4+ 2 3+ 3+ FM 3+ 2 2F 2 No G

T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T AWT T T T T D T AWT D T T T AWT D D T T T

1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600

D T T D AWT D T AWT D AWT T T D T D T AWT T

1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700

Call us on +44 (0)1380 816 777 to subscribe from £18 Gr 1 Gp 3 Gp 3 Gr 1 Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 1 Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 1 Gp 3 Gr 2 Gp 3

28/05/2012 01/06/2012 01/06/2012 23/06/2012 23/06/2012 14/07/2012 25/07/2012 28/07/2012 29/07/2012 04/08/2012 11/08/2012 11/08/2012 25/08/2012 25/08/2012 22/09/2012 07/10/2012 10/11/2012 11/11/2012

$400,000 £55,000 £55,000 $300,000 $150,000 $400,000 $200,000 $200,000 $200,000 $300,000 $150,000 $500,000 $911,000 $250,000 $100,000 €55,000 CAN150,000+ €55,000

3+ F&M 3+ 3+ F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3+ 3+ FM 3+ F&M 3 3+ 3+ 3+ FM 3F 3+ 3+ 2

Furlongs 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8

8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8

Closing 11/09/2012 20/03/2012

24/07/2012 04/09/2012 22/09/2012 24/07/2012 24/07/2012 15/09/2012 22/08/2012 30/08/2012 30/08/2012 22/08/2012 28/08/2012 22/09/2012 22/09/2012 22/08/2012 26/09/2012 08/10/2012 06/12/2011 02/10/2012 09/10/2012 13/09/2012

06/08/2012 07/08/2012 15/10/2012 11/09/2012 06/12/2011 16/10/2012 20/09/2012 20/09/2012 16/10/2012 10/10/2012 14/08/2012 16/10/2012 10/10/2012 10/10/2012 26/10/2012 29/10/2012 29/10/2012 23/10/2012 04/10/2012 20/10/2012 05/11/2012 25/09/2012 02/10/2012

15/11/2012 10/11/2012 10/11/2012 23/10/2012 06/11/2012

8.5f (1700m) 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5

12/05/2012 26/05/2012 25/05/2012 09/06/2012 02/07/2012 14/07/2012 19/07/2012 15/07/2012 26/07/2012 02/08/2012 28/07/2012 17/07/2012 11/08/2012 04/07/2012 14/08/2012 24/10/2012 21/08/2012

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Track Jagersro

Race Name & (Sponsor) Margereta Wettemarks Minneslopning

GB

York

Strensall St (Sky Bet Mobile)

Class L

Race Date 12/08/2012

Value SEK 500,000

8.6f (1730m) Age 3-5 F&M

Surface D

3+

T

Metres 1730

Now available for iPhone/iPad via Appstore Gp 3

24/08/2012

£75,000

Furlongs 8.6

Closing 09/07/2012

8.95f (1790m) 1790

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8.95

18/08/2012

9f (1800m)

USA USA JPN USA USA JPN USA USA DEN FR FR ITY JPN USA USA CAN USA USA CAN GER IRE IRE USA USA JPN USA USA USA JPN USA USA GB IRE USA USA

Hollywood Park Belmont Park Hanshin Hollywood Park Hollywood Park Tokyo Monmouth Park Churchill Downs Klampenborg Longchamp Chantilly Milan Fukushima Hollywood Park Monmouth Park Woodbine Del Mar Saratoga Woodbine Berlin-Hoppergarten Curragh Leopardstown Saratoga Saratoga Sapporo Monmouth Park Saratoga Mountaineer Niigata Saratoga Del Mar Salisbury Gowran Park Del Mar Saratoga

Gamely St Sands Point St Naruo Kinen Californian St Honeymoon Hcap Epsom Cup Monmouth St Stephen Foster H’cap Dansk Pokallob Daphnis Chloe Del Giubileo Radio Nikkei Sho Swaps St Monmouth Cup Dance Smartly S Eddie Read S TVG Coaching Club American Oaks Nijinsky St Internationales Superhandicap Kilboy Estate St Jockey Club of Turkey Meld St Diana St Jim Dandy St Hokkaido Shimbun Hai Queen St Haskell Invitational (INV) Whitney H’cap West Virginia Derby Leopard St National Museum Racing Hall of Fame St John C. Mabee H’cap Upavon St (EBF) Hurry Harriet EBF St Del Mar Oaks Lake Placid

Gr 1 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 1 L Gp 3 Gp 3 L Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 2 L Gp 3 Gp 3 Gr 1 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 2 L L Gr 1 Gr 2

28/05/2012 28/05/2012 02/06/2012 02/06/2012 09/06/2012 10/06/2012 10/06/2012 18/06/2012 24/06/2012 30/06/2012 01/07/2012 01/07/2012 01/07/2012 04/07/2012 07/07/2012 08/07/2012 21/07/2012 21/07/2012 22/07/2012 22/07/2012 22/07/2012 26/07/2012 28/07/2012 28/07/2012 29/07/2012 29/07/2012 04/08/2012 04/08/2012 05/08/2012 10/08/2012 12/08/2012 15/08/2012 15/08/2012 18/08/2012 19/08/2012

$250,000 $200,000 $1,040,000 $150,000 $150,000 $1,040,000 $200,000 $500,000 DKK 200,000 €80,000 €80,000 €41,800 $965,000 $150,000 $200,000 CAN300,000+ $300,000 $300,000 CAN300,000+ €80,000 €65,000 €57,500 $600,000 $600,000 $911,000 $1,000,000 $750,000 $750,000 $1,040,000 $200,000 $250,000 £38,500 €50,000 $300,000 $200,000

3+ FM 3F 3+ 3+ 3F 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3 CG 3F 3+ 3 3 3+ 3+ F&M 3+ 3F 3+ 3+ 3+ F 3+ 3+ FM 3 3+ FM 3 3+ 3 3+ 3 3+ F&M 3+ F&M 3+ F&M 3F 3F

T T T AWT T T T D T T T T T AWT D T T D T T T T T D T D D D D T T T T T T

1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800

9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 8 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 8 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9

USA NOR JPN USA USA GER USA USA CAN JPN

Saratoga Ovrevoll Sapporo Saratoga Saratoga Baden-Baden Del Mar Belmont Park Woodbine Hanshin

Woodford Reserve Lake Placid Marit Sveaas Minnelop Sapporo Nisai St The Woodward Bernard Baruch H’cap Berenberg Bank Cup Del Mar Derby Garden City St Canadian S Kansai Telecasting Corp Sho Rose St

Gr 2 Gp 3 Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 2 L Gr 2 Gr 1 Gr 2 Gr 2

19/08/2012 26/08/2012 01/09/2012 01/09/2012 01/09/2012 02/09/2012 02/09/2012 15/09/2012 16/09/2012 16/09/2012

$200,000 NOK 1,300,000 $780,000 $750,000 $250,000 €20,000 $300,000 $300,000 CAN300,000+ $1,433,000

3F 3+ 2 3+ 3+ 3 3 3F 3+ F&M 3F

T T T D T T T T T T

1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800

9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9

04/08/2012 18/06/2012 17/07/2012 18/08/2012 18/08/2012 10/07/2012 23/08/2012 01/09/2012 29/08/2012 31/07/2012

USA NOR GB USA ITY USA JPN FR GB JPN FR FR ITY IRE JPN FR USA USA USA

Parx Racing Ovrevoll Goodwood Belmont Park Milan Belmont Park Tokyo Maisons-Laffitte Newmarket Tokyo Longchamp Longchamp Milan Leopardstown Kyoto Marseille Borely Aqueduct Aqueduct Aqueduct

Pennsylvania Derby Semb Hovedgard Hoppelop Foundation St Beldame Invitational M.Se Ippolito Fassati Jamaica H’cap Mainichi Okan Le Fabuleux Darley St Fuchu Himba St Conde Casimir Delamarre Campobello Eyrefield St Miyako St Delahante Gazelle St Demoiselle St Remsen St

Gr 2 L L Gr 1 L Gr 1 Gr 2 L Gp 3 Gr 3 Gp 3 L L L Gr 3 L Gr 1 Gr 2 Gr 2

22/09/2012 23/09/2012 26/09/2012 29/09/2012 30/09/2012 06/10/2012 07/10/2012 09/10/2012 13/10/2012 13/10/2012 21/10/2012 21/10/2012 03/11/2012 04/11/2012 04/11/2012 10/11/2012 24/11/2012 24/11/2012 24/11/2012

$1,000,000 NOK 250,000 £33,000 $400,000 €41,800 $400,000 $1,560,000 €55,000 £55,000 $1,324,000 €80,000 €55,000 €41,800 €37,500 $911,000 €55,000 $350,000 $250,000 $250,000

3 3+ F&M 3+ 3+ F&M 3 3 3+ 3 3+ 3+ FM 2 3F 2 2 3+ 2 3F 2F 2

D T T D T T T T T T T T T T D T D D D

1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800

9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9

04/07/2012 23/07/2012 20/09/2012 15/09/2012

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24/04/2012 27/05/2012 04/06/2012 12/03/2012 13/06/2012 13/06/2012 22/05/2012

20/06/2012 12/07/2012 07/07/2012 04/07/2012 08/05/2012 13/06/2012 20/06/2012 14/07/2012 14/07/2012 19/06/2012 21/07/2012 23/07/2012 19/06/2012 28/07/2012 02/08/2012 09/08/2012 09/08/2012 09/08/2012

22/09/2012 28/08/2012 08/10/2012 28/08/2012 03/10/2012

30/10/2012 25/09/2012 10/11/2012 10/11/2012 10/11/2012

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Track Hanshin Hanshin

Race Name & (Sponsor) Japan Cup Dirt Asahi Challenge Cup

FR

Longchamp

Prix d’Ispahan

Class Gr 1 Gr 3

Race Date 02/12/2012 08/12/2012

Value $3,392,000 $1,040,000

9f (1800m) Age 3+ 3+

Surface D T

4+

T

Metres 1800 1800

Now available for iPhone/iPad via Appstore Gp 1

27/05/2012

€250,000

Gowran Park

Denny Cordell Lavarack & Lanwades Stud Fillies St

Gp 3

23/09/2012

€70,000

Closing 09/10/2012 23/10/2012

9.25f (1850m) 1850

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Furlongs 9 9

3+ F

9.25

09/05/2012

9.4f (1890m) T

1890

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9.4

18/09/2012

9.5f (1900m)

USA USA FR FR SWE

Colonial Downs Arlington Park Deauville Deauville Taby Galopp

Colonial Turf Cup Beverly D. St Lyphard Petite Etoile Stockholms Stora Pris

Gr 2 Gr 1 L L Gp 3

02/06/2012 18/08/2012 27/11/2012 05/12/2012 05/06/2012

$500,000 $750,000 €52,000 €55,000 SEK 1,200,000

3+ 3+ FM 3+ 3F 4+

T T AWT AWT T

1900 1900 1900 1900 1950

9.5 9.5 9.5 9.5 9.5

16/04/2012

SWE FR

Taby Galopp Longchamp

Lanwades Stud St Prix Dollar (Qatar)

L Gp 2

09/09/2012 06/10/2012

SEK 400,000 €200,000

3-5 F&M 3+

T T

1950 1950

9.5 9.5

09/07/2012 22/08/2012

GB

Goodwood

Nassau

3+ F

T

1970

Now available for iPhone/iPad via Appstore Gp 1

04/08/2012

£185,000

9.85f (1970m)

Call us on +44 (0)1380 816 777 to subscribe from £18 FR GER IRE GER ITY FR FR GER USA USA USA IRE FR GB GER JPN GB GB GB GB ITY IRE GB USA USA IRE IRE IRE USA GB USA USA GB USA GER GER JPN FR FR USA FR FR JPN GB FR GER GER JPN FR IRE FR FR USA USA USA USA FR JPN FR GER USA USA USA FR JPN FR IRE

Longchamp Hoppegarten Curragh Munich Milan Maisons-Laffitte Maisons-Laffitte Dresden Belmont Park Hollywood Park Belmont Park Curragh Longchamp Newbury Dortmund Hanshin Warwick Royal Ascot Royal Ascot Royal Ascot Milan Naas Newcastle Belmont Park Belmont Park Curragh Curragh Naas Colonial Downs Sandown Park Hollywood Park Belmont Park Newbury Hollywood Park Hannover Munich Hakodate Vichy Vichy Delaware Park Maisons-Laffitte Maisons-Laffitte Fukushima York Deauville Munich Dusseldorf Kokura Deauville Curragh Deauville Le Lion d’Angers Arlington Park Arlington Park Arlington Park Saratoga Deauville Sapporo Deauville Baden-Baden Saratoga Del Mar Saratoga Longchamp Niigata Marseille Borely Leopardstown

Prix Saint-Alary (Montjeu Coolmore) Diana Trial Gallinule St (Airlie Stud) Bavarian Classic (Onextwo.com) Merano Matchem Melisande bwin Sachsen Preis Woodford Reserve Manhattan H’cap Charles Whittingham Memorial H’cap Manhattan Silver St La Coupe Ballymacoll Stud St (Lord Weinstock Memorial) Wirtschaft Mermaid St Warwickshire Oaks (Voute Sales) Prince of Wales’s St (150th Anniversary) Tercentenary Wolferton H’cap Premio Mario Incisa Naas Oaks Trial (EBF) Hoppings St (EBF) New York St Dwyer St Pretty Polly St (Stobart Ireland) International St Blue Wind St (Irish Stallion Farms EBF) Virginia Derby Gala St (Ambant) Hollywood Gold Cup Suburban H’cap Steventon St (Shadwell Beech House Stud) American Oaks Grosser Preis der Eilert Bauunternehmung Barvaria-Preis Hakodate Kinen Vichy - Auvergne Madame Jean Couturie Delaware H’cap Prix Eugene Adam La Pepiniere Tanabata Sho Lyric St (EBF) Psyche Grosser-Dallmayr Preis Henkel-Trophy Kokura Kinen Gontaut-Biron (Hong Kong Jockey Club) Royal Whip St (Keeneland) Prix Guillaume d’Ornano (Haras du Logis Saint Germain Grand Prix du Lion d’Angers Arlington Million XXVIII Armerican St Leger St Secretariat Stakes Alabama Prix Jean Romanet (Darley) Sapporo Kinen Nonette (Shadwell) Sparkassen- Finanzgruppe Travers TGV Pacific Classic Personal Ensign St Boulogne Niigata Kinen Coupe de Marseille Irish Champion St (Red Mills)

Gp 1 Gp 2 Gp 3 Gp 3 L L L L Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 1 L Gp 3 L Gp 3 Gr 3 L Gp 1 Gp 3 L Gp 3 L L Gr 2 Gr 2 Gp 1 Gp 3 Gp 3 Gr 2 L Gr 1 Gr 2 L Gr 1 L L Gr 3 Gp 3 L Gr 2 Gp 2 L Gr 3 L Gp 3 Gp 1 L Gr 3 Gp 3 Gp 2 Gp 2 L Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gp 1 Gr 2 Gp 2 Gp 3 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 1 L Gr 3 L Gp 1

27/05/2012 27/05/2012 27/05/2012 28/05/2012 03/06/2012 06/06/2012 08/06/2012 09/06/2012 09/06/2012 09/06/2012 09/06/2012 10/06/2012 11/06/2012 14/06/2012 17/06/2012 17/06/2012 18/06/2012 20/06/2012 21/06/2012 22/06/2012 24/06/2012 27/06/2012 29/06/2012 30/06/2012 30/06/2012 01/07/2012 01/07/2012 04/07/2012 04/07/2012 06/07/2012 07/07/2012 07/07/2012 14/07/2012 14/07/2012 15/07/2012 15/07/2012 15/07/2012 18/07/2012 21/07/2012 21/07/2012 22/07/2012 22/07/2012 22/07/2012 27/07/2012 28/07/2012 29/07/2012 05/08/2012 05/08/2012 11/08/2012 12/08/2012 15/08/2012 16/08/2012 18/08/2012 18/08/2012 18/08/2012 18/08/2012 19/08/2012 19/08/2012 21/08/2012 25/08/2012 25/08/2012 26/08/2012 26/08/2012 02/09/2012 02/09/2012 07/09/2012 08/09/2012

€250,000 €70,000 €52,500 €55,000 €41,800 €55,000 €55,000 €20,000 $500,000 $250,000 $500,000 €40,000 €80,000 £33,000 €55,000 $911,000 £33,000 £400,000 £70,000 £50,000 €61,600 €50,000 £33,000 $200,000 $200,000 €200,000 €57,500 €77,500 $600,000 £33,000 $500,000 $350,000 £33,000 $400,000 €20,000 €20,000 $1,040,000 €80,000 €55,000 $750,000 €130,000 €52,000 $1,040,000 £35,000 €80,000 €20,000 €20,000 $1,040,000 €80,000 €95,000 €400,000 €55,000 $1,000,000 $400,000 $500,000 $600,000 €250,000 $1,687,000 €130,000 €55,000 $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $600,000 €52,000 $1,040,000 €55,000 €750,000

27/04/2012

3F 3F 3 3 3 3 C&G 3F 4+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 4+ 3F 3+ 3+ FM 4+ F&M 4+ 3 4+ 3F 3 3+ F&M 3+ FM 3 + FM 3+ F 3+ 3+ F 3 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3F 3+ F 3+ 3+ 3+ 3F 3+ FM 3 4+ F&M 3+ 3+ F&M 3F 3+ 3+ 3+ 4+ 3+ 3 3 3+ 3+ 3yo 3F 4+ F 3+ 3F 4+ 3 3+ 3+ FM 4+ 3+ 3 3+

9.85

10/07/2012

10f (2000m) T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T D T T T T T AWT D T T T T T T T D T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T D T T T T D AWT D T T T T

2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000

10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10

15/02/2012 03/04/2012 22/05/2012 13/03/2012 29/05/2012 31/05/2012 29/05/2012 26/05/2012

05/06/2012 23/05/2012 08/06/2012 24/04/2012 08/05/2012 12/06/2012 24/04/2012 15/06/2012 16/06/2012 24/05/2012 21/06/2012 23/06/2012 16/06/2012 16/06/2012 25/04/2012 23/05/2012 11/04/2012 30/06/2012 23/06/2012 09/07/2012 03/07/2012 03/07/2012 05/06/2012 04/07/2012 13/07/2012 09/07/2012 04/07/2012 13/07/2012 22/05/2012 21/07/2012 11/07/2012 08/05/2012 24/07/2012 19/06/2012 25/07/2012 04/07/2012 25/07/2012 08/08/2012 24/04/2012 08/08/2012 08/08/2012 04/08/2012 01/08/2012 03/07/2012 01/08/2012 10/07/2012 11/08/2012 16/08/2012 11/08/2012 17/07/2012 23/05/2012

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Track Leopardstown Curragh Yarmouth Maisons-Laffitte Longchamp Ayr Rome Hanshin Belmont Park Belmont Park Chantilly Hoppegarten Newmarket Longchamp Woodbine Munich Milan Kyoto Taby Galopp Marseille Borely Ascot Leopardstown Frankfurt Rome Rome Tokyo Newmarket Rome Saint-Cloud Marseille Borely Saint-Cloud Doncaster Rome Dundalk Lingfield Park Frankfurt Fukushima Chukyo Chukyo Lingfield Park Hanshin

Race Name & (Sponsor) Kilternan St Blandford St (Moyglare Stud) John Musker (EBF) La Coupe de Maisons-Laffitte Prince d’Orange Doonside Cup (williamhill.com) Archidamia Sirius St Flower Bowl Invitational St Jockey Club Gold Cup Invitational St Charles Laffitte Deutschen Einheit Severals St (Trm) Prix de l’Opera (Longines) E P Taylor S Nereide-Rennen Premio Verziere (Memorial A. Cirla) Shuka Sho Songline Classic Andre Baboin Champion (Quipco) Trigo St Herbstpreis Premio Lydia Tesio Conte Felice Scheibler Tenno Sho (Autumn) James Seymour Premio Roma Criterium de Saint-Cloud Grand Prix de Marseille Solitude Gillies St (EBF) G, Valiani (ex Buontalenta) Carlingford St Churchill St Hessen-Pokal Fukushima Kinen Kinko Sho Aichi Hai Quebec St Radio Nikkei Hai Nisai St

Class Gp 3 Gp 2 L Gp 3 Gp 3 L L Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 1 L Gp 3 L Gp 1 Gr 1 L Gp 3 Gr 1 L Gp 3 Gp 1 L L Gp 1 L Gr 1 L Gp 1 Gp 1 L L L L L L Gp 3 Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 3 L Gr 3

GB GB GB

Sandown Park Sandown Park Windsor

Brigadier Gerard St (Betfair) Eclipse St (Coral) Winter Hill

GB GB GB

York Haydock Park York

York St (Sky Bet) Rose of Lancaster St (Betfred) International St (Juddmonte)

IRE FR FR IRE GER FR USA GER FR FR IRE FR FR

Curragh Saint-Cloud Chantilly Leopardstown Dusseldorf Chantilly Saratoga Bremen Longchamp Strasbourg Dundalk Saint-Cloud Le Croise-Laroche

Gold Cup (Tattersalls) Prix Corrida Prix du Jockey Club Nijinsky St BMW-Preis Prix de Diane (Longines) A P Smithwick Mem Walther J Jacobs Rennen Liancourt Grand Prix de la Region d’Alsace Diamond St Flore Grand Prix du Nord

GB GER GER IRE ITY JPN GER GER USA USA GB GER ITY CAN GB USA GER USA GB ITY JPN USA GER ITY USA GER JPN GER ITY

Haydock Park Bremen Baden-Baden Limerick Milan Hanshin Hamburg Hamburg Monmouth Park Belmont Park Hamilton Park Dusseldorf Merano Woodbine Windsor Del Mar Baden-Baden Louisiana Downs Newbury Milan Nakayama Belmont Park Hannover Rome Aqueduct Hannover Kyoto Dresden Pisa

Pinnacle St (New Approach Grosvenor Casinos) SWB Derby Trial Iffezheimer Diana-Trial Martin Molony St Paolo Mezzanotte Takarazuka Kinen Hanshin-Cup Hamburger Stutenpreis United Nations St Man o’ War BC St Glasgow St 154th Henkel Preis der Diana (Deutsches Stuten-Derby) EBF Terme di Merano Sky Classic S August St Del Mar H’cap Mercedes Benz Stutenpreis Super Derby Arc Trial (Dubai Duty Free) Premio Federico Tesio Sankei Sho All Comers Bowling Green H’cap Herbst Stuten-Preis Villa Borghese Memorial F. Cadoni Red Smith H’cap Neue Bult Stuten Steher Cup Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative Cup Grosser Dresdner Herbstpreis Andred (ex Regione Toscana)

ITY

Naples

Unire

Race Date 08/09/2012 09/09/2012 19/09/2012 21/09/2012 22/09/2012 22/09/2012 28/09/2012 29/09/2012 29/09/2012 29/09/2012 03/10/2012 03/10/2012 06/10/2012 07/10/2012 14/10/2012 14/10/2012 14/10/2012 14/10/2012 14/10/2012 19/10/2012 20/10/2012 27/10/2012 28/10/2012 28/10/2012 28/10/2012 28/10/2012 03/11/2012 04/11/2012 10/11/2012 10/11/2012 10/11/2012 10/11/2012 11/11/2012 16/11/2012 17/11/2012 18/11/2012 18/11/2012 01/12/2012 15/12/2012 22/12/2012 22/12/2012

Value €57,500 €100,000 £33,000 €80,000 €80,000 £35,000 €41,800 $911,000 $600,000 $1,000,000 €55,000 €80,000 £33,000 €400,000 CAN1,000,000+ €20,000 €61,600 $2,311,000 SEK 400,000 €80,000 £1,300,000 €40,000 €20,000 €209,000 €41,800 $3,437,000 £33,000 €209,000 €250,000 €60,000 €55,000 £33,000 €41,800 €40,000 £33,000 €55,000 $1,040,000 $60,000,000 $911,000 £33,000 $834,000

10f (2000m) Age 3+ 3+ F 3+ F&M 3+ 3 3+ 3+ F 3+ 3+ F&M 3+ 3F 3+ 3+ F&M 3+ F 3+ F&M 3+ F 3+ F 3F 4+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ F 3 3+ 3+ 3+ 2 CF 3+ 3F 3+ F&M 3+ F 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ F&M 3+ 2

Surface T T T T T T T D T D T T T T T T T T D T T T T T T T T T T T T T T AWT AWT T T T T AWT T

Metres 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000

Call us on +44 (0)1380 816 777 to subscribe from £18 Gp 3 Gp 1 Gp 3

31/05/2012 07/07/2012 25/08/2012

£55,000 £400,000 £50,000

28/07/2012 11/08/2012 22/08/2012

£100,000 £55,000 £725,000

T T T

2010 2010 2010

3+ 3+ 3+

T T T

2080 2080 2080

27/05/2012 28/05/2012 03/06/2012 08/06/2012 16/06/2012 17/06/2012 02/08/2012 19/08/2012 02/09/2012 15/09/2012 05/10/2012 29/10/2012 03/11/2012

€210,000 €130,000 €1,500,000 €40,000 €20,000 €850,000 $100,000 €55,000 €55,000 €60,000 €57,500 €80,000 €55,000

4+ 4+ F 3 CF 3+ 3 3F 4+ 3 3F 3+ 3+ 3+ F 3

T T T T T T T T T T AWT T T

2100 2100 2100 2100 2100 2100 2100 2100 2100 2100 2100 2100 2100

02/06/2012 17/06/2012 19/06/2012 22/06/2012 24/06/2012 24/06/2012 30/06/2012 05/07/2012 07/07/2012 14/07/2012 19/07/2012 05/08/2012 15/08/2012 19/08/2012 25/08/2012 25/08/2012 01/09/2012 08/09/2012 22/09/2012 23/09/2012 23/09/2012 25/09/2012 30/09/2012 30/09/2012 03/11/2012 04/11/2012 11/11/2012 21/11/2012 09/12/2012

£55,000 €20,000 €20,000 €40,000 €41,800 $3,437,000 €20,000 €55,000 $50,000 $600,000 £40,000 €400,000 €41,800 CAN250,000+ £33,000 $200,000 €55,000 $500,000 £55,000 €104,500 $1,570,000 $200,000 €55,000 €41,800 $200,000 €20,000 $2,352,000 €20,000 €41,800

4+ F&M 3 3F 3+ 3+ F&M 3+ 4+ F 3F 3+ 3+ 3 C&G 3F 3+ F&M 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ F 3 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+F 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ FM 3+ 3+ F&M

T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T D T T T T T T T T T T T

2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200

23/12/2012

€41,800

3+

T

2250

Le Lion d’Angers

Urban Sea

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€52,000

05/11/2012 12/11/2012 12/11/2012 25/09/2012 09/10/2012 23/10/2012 06/11/2012 17/12/2012 06/11/2012

10.05 10.05 10.05

25/05/2012 01/05/2012 20/08/2012

10.4 10.4 10.4

23/07/2012 06/08/2012 26/06/2012

10.5 10.5 10.5 10.5 10.5 10.5 10.5 10.5 10.5 10.5 10.5 10.5 10.5

21/03/2012 09/05/2012 15/02/2012 04/06/2012 05/06/2012 15/02/2012 21/07/2012 26/06/2012

29/08/2012 10/10/2012

11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11

28/05/2012 05/06/2012 18/06/2012 08/05/2012 19/06/2012 15/05/2012 23/06/2012 30/06/2012 13/07/1989 01/08/2011 01/08/2012 20/08/2012 16/08/2012 10/07/2012 25/08/2012 17/09/2012 23/08/2012 16/08/2011 25/08/2012 07/08/2012 20/10/2012 23/10/2012 02/10/2012 13/11/2012

11.25f (2250m)

Now available for iPhone/iPad via Appstore FR

11/09/2012 29/10/2012 04/10/2012 24/10/2012

11f (2200m)

Visit www.europe.trainermagazine.com L

07/08/2012 01/10/2012 22/08/2012 26/09/2012 04/09/2012 13/09/2012 28/08/2012 06/08/2012 03/10/2012 07/08/2012 22/10/2012 16/10/2012 27/09/2012

10.5f (2100m)

Call us on +44 (0)1380 816 777 to subscribe from £18 L L L L L Gr 1 L Gp 3 Gr 1 Gr 1 L Gp 1 L Gr 2 L Gr 2 Gp 3 Gr 2 Gp 3 Gp 2 Gr 2 Gr 2 Gp 3 L Gr 2 L Gr 1 L L

14/08/2012 15/09/2012 15/09/2012

10.4f (2080m)

Now available for iPhone/iPad via Appstore Gp 1 Gp 2 Gp 1 L L Gp 1 Gr 2 Gp 3 L L Gp 3 Gp 3 L

Closing 01/08/2012 01/08/2012 13/09/2012 05/09/2012 05/09/2012 17/09/2012

10.05f (2010m)

4+ 3+ 3+

Visit www.europe.trainermagazine.com Gp 2 Gp 3 Gp 1

Furlongs 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10

11.25

11.5f (2300m) 3F

T

2300

11.5

29/05/2012

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STAKES SCHEDULES Call us on +44 (0)1380 816 777 to subscribe from £18 Country ITY

Track Siracusa

Race Name & (Sponsor) Francesco Faraci

GB

Haydock Park

Lancashire Oaks (bet365)

Class L

Race Date 01/12/2012

Value €41,800

11.5f (2300m)

Age 3+

Surface T

3+ F

T

Metres 2300

Visit www.europe.trainermagazine.com Gp 2

07/07/2012

£80,000

Furlongs 11.5

Closing

11.9f (2380m) 2380

Now available for iPhone/iPad via Appstore

11.9

02/07/2012

12f (2400m)

JPN FR FR USA USA ITY FR FR FR IRE GB GB GB FR FR GB ITY GB IRE GER FR GER NOR IRE GB FR FR FR GB GB GER IRE GB GB DEN GB IRE IRE GER SWE USA GB GB GB USA NOR

Tokyo Chantilly Chantilly Belmont Park Belmont Park Milan Toulouse Lyon-Parilly Chantilly Cork Royal Ascot Royal Ascot Royal Ascot Saint-Cloud Saint-Cloud Pontefract Milan Newmarket Curragh Hamburg Nantes Hamburg Ovrevoll Roscommon Newmarket Longchamp Longchamp Vichy Ascot Newmarket Hoppegarten Curragh Goodwood Goodwood Klampenborg Newbury Cork Leopardstown Munich Jagersro Saratoga York York York Saratoga Ovrevoll

Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby) Grand Prix de Chantilly Royaumont Brooklyn H’cap Belmont St Gran Premio Milano Derby du Languedoc Grand Prix de Lyon Lys Noblesse St (Kerry Group) Ribblesdale St King Edward VII Hardwicke St Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud Abu Dhabi Malleret Pontefract Castle St (totepool) Gran Premio d’Italia Fred Archer St Irish Derby (Dubai Duty Free) Deutsches Derby Derby de l’Ouest-Grand Prix de l’Asselco Grosser Hansa Preis Walter Nilsens Minnelop Lenebane Princess of Wales’s St (Sportingbet.com) Grand Prix de Paris (Juddmonte) Thiberville Frederic de Lagrange King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (Betfair) Aphrodite St (Newsalls Park Stud) Deutschland Preis Irish Oaks (Darley) Gordon St (Bet365) Glorious St (Coutts) Scandinavian Open Championship Chalice St (EBF) Give Thanks St (Irish Stallion Farms EBF) Ballyroan St Grosser Pries Von Baden Swedish Derby Sword Dancer Invitational St Great Voltigeur St (Neptune investment management) Yorkshire Oaks (Darley) Galtres St (EBF) New York Turf Writers Cup Erik O Steens Memorial

Gr 1 Gp 2 Gp 3 Gr 2 Gr 1 Gp 1 L L Gp 3 Gp 3 Gp 2 Gp 2 Gp 2 Gp 1 Gp 2 L L L Gp 1 Gp 1 L Gp 2 Gp 3 L Gp 2 Gp 1 L L Gp 1 L Gp 1 Gp 1 Gp 3 Gp 3 Gp 3 L Gp 3 Gp 3 Gp 1 L Gr 1 Gp 2 Gp 1 L Gr 1 L

27/05/2012 03/06/2012 03/06/2012 08/06/2012 09/06/2012 10/06/2012 15/06/2012 16/06/2012 17/06/2012 17/06/2012 21/06/2012 22/06/2012 23/06/2012 24/06/2012 24/06/2012 24/06/2012 24/06/2012 30/06/2012 30/06/2012 01/07/2012 02/07/2012 02/07/2012 07/07/2012 09/07/2012 12/07/2012 14/07/2012 14/07/2012 19/07/2012 21/07/2012 21/07/2012 22/07/2012 22/07/2012 31/07/2012 03/08/2012 05/08/2012 05/08/2012 05/08/2012 09/08/2012 12/08/2012 12/08/2012 18/08/2012 22/08/2012 23/08/2012 23/08/2012 23/08/2012 26/08/2012

$3,682,000 €130,000 €80,000 $200,000 $1,000,000 €209,000 €55,000 €60,000 €80,000 €82,500 £100,000 £140,000 £100,000 €400,000 €150,000 £33,000 €55,000 £33,000 €1,250,000 €500,000 €55,000 €70,000 NOK 1,000,000 €40,000 £100,000 €600,000 €55,000 €55,000 £1,000,000 £40,000 €175,000 €400,000 £55,000 £55,000 DKK 500,000 £33,000 €77,500 €57,500 €155,000 SEK 1,870,000 $600,000 £140,000 £310,000 £40,000 $150,000 NOK 400,000

3 No G 4+ 3F 3+ 3 3+ 3 4+ 3 CG 3+ F 3F 3 C&G 4+ 4+ 3F 4+ 3 4+ 3 CF 3 CF 3 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3 CF 3F 3 3+ 3+ F&M 3+ 3F 3 4+ 3+ 3+ F&M 3+ F 3+ 3+ 3 3+ 3 C&G 3+ F 3+ F&M 4+ 3+ F&M

T T T D D T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T D T T T T T T

2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400

12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12

NOR GER TKY GB SWE

Ovrevoll Baden-Baden Veliefendi Kempton Park Taby Galopp

Scandic Norwegian Derby Longines Grosser Preis von Baden Bosphorus Cup September St (Betfred) Stockholm Cup International

L Gp 1 Gp 2 Gp 3 Gp 3

26/08/2012 02/09/2012 02/09/2012 08/09/2012 09/09/2012

NOK 1,100,000 €250,000 €306,000 £55,000 SEK 1,400,000

3 3+ 3+ C&F 3+ 3+

T T T AWT T

2400 2400 2400 2400 2400

12 12 12 12 12

IRE GB CAN FR FR FR FR IRE FR GER JPN FR GB SWE

Galway Chester Woodbine Longchamp Longchamp Longchamp Saint-Cloud Listowel Saint-Cloud Cologne Hanshin Toulouse Newmarket Jagersro

Oyster St Stand Cup (Star Sports) Northern Dancer BC Turf Prix Vermeille (Qatar) Prix du Niel (Qatar) Prix Foy (Qatar) Joubert Listowel Turenne Preis von Europa Kobe Shimbun Hai Panacee Princess Royal Richard Hambro (EBF) SFK Jubileumslöpming

L L Gr 1 Gp 1 Gp 2 Gp 2 L L L Gp 1 Gr 2 L L L

11/09/2012 15/09/2012 16/09/2012 16/09/2012 16/09/2012 16/09/2012 17/09/2012 19/09/2012 20/09/2012 23/09/2012 23/09/2012 26/09/2012 27/09/2012 27/09/2012

€50,000 £33,000 CAN 500,000+ €350,000 €130,000 €130,000 €55,000 €42,500 €55,000 €155,000 $1,354,000 €52,000 £33,000 SEK 500,000

3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ F 3 CF 4+ CF 3F 3+ 3 C&G 3+ 3 No G 3+ F&M 3+ 3+

T T T T T T T T T T T T T D

2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400

12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12

CLOSED 16/05/2012 16/05/2012 26/05/2012 21/01/2012 10/05/2012 07/06/2012 08/06/2012 23/05/2012 09/05/2012 01/05/2012 01/05/2012 01/05/2012 06/06/2012 06/06/2012 18/06/2012 25/06/2012 CLOSED 10/01/2012 25/06/2012 08/05/2012 07/03/2012 04/07/2012 19/06/2012 15/02/2012 06/07/2012 11/07/2012 05/06/2012 16/07/2012 08/05/2012 07/09/2011 25/07/2012 28/07/2012 18/06/2012 30/07/2012 27/06/2012 04/07/2012 22/05/2012 04/08/2012 03/07/2012 26/06/2012 17/08/2012 11/08/2012 18/06/2012

01/03/2012 12/06/2012 03/09/2012 09/07/2012

06/09/2012 10/09/2012 29/08/2012 22/08/2012 22/08/2012 22/08/2012 13/09/2012 26/06/2012 14/08/2012 21/09/2012 27/08/2012

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STAKES SCHEDULES Call us on +44 (0)1380 816 777 to subscribe from £18 Country GB USA GB FR JPN CAN IRE FR GER ITY FR GB ITY GB FR USA JPN GB FR

Track Newmarket Belmont Park Ascot Longchamp Kyoto Woodbine Curragh Longchamp Baden-Baden Milan Nantes Newbury Milan Kempton Park Lyon-Parilly Calder Tokyo Kempton Park Toulouse

Race Name & (Sponsor) Godolphin (Aqualaam) Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Invitational St Cumberland Lodge St (Grosvenor Casinos) Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (Qatar) Kyoto Daishoten Pattison Canadian International Finale St Conseil de Paris Baden-Wurttemberg-Trophy Gran Premio del Jockey Club e Coppa d’Oro Grand Prix de la Ville de Nantes St Simon St (Worthington’s Champion Shield) Falck G. Floodlit St Grand Camp WL McKnight H’cap Japan Cup Wild Flower St Max Sicard

GB GB GB

Epsom Downs Epsom Downs Epsom Downs

Oaks (Investec) Diamond Jubilee Coronation Cup Derby (Investec)

FR FR FR FR FR FR FR JPN FR JPN

Deauville Deauville Deauville Deauville Saint Cloud Longchamp Deauville Tokyo Saint Cloud Nakayama

Reux Prix de Pomone (Haras d’Etreham) Minerve Grand Prix de Deauville (Lucien Barriere) Tourelles Prix Royallieu (Qatar) Vulcain Copa Republica Argentina Belle de Nuit Arima Kinen (The Grand Prix)

GB GB GB GB

Newmarket Chester Ascot Lingfield Park

Trophy St (Bahrain) Chester H’cap Noel Murless (Keltbray) River Eden St (EBF)

GB

Newbury

Geoffrey Freer St

Class L Gr 1 Gp 3 Gp 1 Gr 2 Gr 1 L Gp 2 Gp 3 Gp 1 L Gp 3 L L L Gr 2 Gr 1 L L

Race Date 28/09/2012 29/09/2012 06/10/2012 07/10/2012 08/10/2012 14/10/2012 14/10/2012 21/10/2012 21/10/2012 21/10/2012 23/10/2012 27/10/2012 03/11/2012 07/11/2012 16/11/2012 24/11/2012 25/11/2012 28/11/2012 09/12/2012

Value £33,000 $600,000 £55,000 €4,000,000 $1,560,000 CAN 1,500,000+ €40,000 €130,000 €55,000 €209,000 €60,000 £55,000 €41,800 £33,000 €52,000 $150,000 $6,512,000 £33,000 €60,000

12f (2400m)

Age 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ CF 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ F 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+

Surface T T T T T T T T T T T T T AWT T T T AWT T

Metres 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400

3F 4+ 3 C&F

T T T

2410 2410 2410

3+ 3+ F 3F 3+ 3+ F&M 3+ F 3 3+ 3+ F 3+

T T T T T T T T T T

2500 2500 2500 2500 2500 2500 2500 2500 2500 2500

3 3+ 3 3+ F&M

T T T AWT

2600 2600 2600 2600

3+

T

2660

Visit www.europe.trainermagazine.com Gp 1 Gp 1 Gp 1

01/06/2012 02/06/2012 02/06/2012

£350,000 £275,000 £1,250,000

02/08/2012 11/08/2012 12/08/2012 26/08/2012 01/09/2012 06/10/2012 24/10/2012 04/11/2012 15/11/2012 23/12/2012

€52,000 €130,000 €80,000 €200,000 €52,000 €250,000 €55,000 $1,433,000 €52,000 $5,200,000

12/07/2012 01/09/2012 05/10/2012 01/11/2012

£55,000 £35,000 £35,000 £33,000

18/08/2012

£55,000

Leopardstown Curragh Longchamp York Leopardstown Goodwood Goodwood Baden-Baden Curragh Dortmund Saint-Cloud Milan Rome

Saval Beg St Curragh Cup (attheraces) Maurice de Nieuil Silver Cup H’cap (John Smith’s) Challenge St Lillie Langtry St (I-Shares) March St (Windflower) Preis der Casino Baden-Baden St Leger (Irish) Deutsches St Leger Scaramouche St Leger Italino Roma Vecchia

GER GB GB

Mulheim Doncaster Doncaster

Silbernes Band der Ruhr Park Hill St (DFS) St Leger (Ladbrokes)

FR FR FR FR JPN

Deauville Deauville Longchamp Longchamp Kyoto

Michel Houyvet Prix du Kergorlay (Darley) Lutece Prix Chaudenay (Qatar) Kikuka Sho (Japanese St Leger)

FR FR FR FR

Longchamp Longchamp Longchamp Saint-Cloud

Prix de la Vicomtesse Vigier Gladiateur (Qatar) Prix Royal-Oak Denisy

GB GER GB GB GB

Royal Ascot Hamburg Sandown Park Goodwood Newmarket

Queen’s Vase St Langer Hamburger Esher St (Coral) Goodwood Cup (Artemis) Rose Bowl St

GB GB

Sandown Park York

Henry II St (Betfair) Lonsdale Cup (Weatherbys Insurance)

GB JPN

Doncaster Nakayama

Doncaster Cup (Stobart) Sports Nippon Sho Stayers St

GB FR

Royal Ascot Longchamp

Gold Cup Prix du Cadran (Qatar)

L Gp 3 Gp 2 L L Gp 3 L L Gp 1 Gp 3 L Gp 3 L

08/06/2012 01/07/2012 14/07/2012 14/07/2012 19/07/2012 02/08/2012 25/08/2012 26/08/2012 15/09/2012 16/09/2012 05/10/2012 27/10/2012 11/11/2012

€47,500 €62,500 €130,000 £33,000 €40,000 £55,000 £33,000 €20,000 €220,000 €55,000 €52,000 €61,600 €41,800

07/06/2012 13/09/2012 15/09/2012

€20,000 £80,000 £550,000

4+ 3+ 4+ 3+ 3+ 3+ F 3+ 4+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+

T T T T T T T T T T T T T

2800 2800 2800 2800 2800 2800 2800 2800 2800 2800 2800 2800 2800

4+ 3+ F 3 C&F

T T T

2920 2920 2920

15/08/2012 19/08/2012 09/09/2012 06/10/2012 21/10/2012

€55,000 €130,000 €80,000 €200,000 $2,917,000

3 3+ 3 3 3 No G

T T T T T

3000 3000 3000 3000 3000

27/05/2012 16/09/2012 28/10/2012 15/11/2012

€130,000 €80,000 €250,000 €52,000

4+ 4+ 3+ 3+

T T T T

3100 3100 3100 3100

22/06/2012 04/07/2012 07/07/2012 02/08/2012 27/09/2012

£60,000 €20,000 £33,000 £100,000 £33,000

3 4+ 4+ 3+ 3+

T T T T T

3200 3200 3200 3200 3200

31/05/2012 25/08/2012

£55,000 £140,000

4+ 3+

T T

3280 3280

14/09/2012 01/12/2012

£100,000 $1,560,000

3+ 3+

T T

3600 3600

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13 13 13 13

06/07/2012 27/08/2012 29/09/2012 26/10/2012

13.5

13/08/2012

T T

4000 4000

14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14

04/06/2012 23/05/2012 27/06/2012 09/07/2012 12/07/2012 27/07/2012 20/08/2012 14/08/2012 23/05/2012 24/07/2012 27/09/2012

14.6 14.6 14.6

29/05/2012 07/09/2012 24/07/2012

15 15 15 15 15

07/08/2012 01/08/2012 22/08/2012 22/08/2012 CLOSED

15.5 15.5 15.5 15.5

09/05/2012 22/08/2012 10/10/2012

16 16 16 16 16

16/06/2012 26/06/2012 06/07/2012 27/07/2012 21/09/2012

16.4 16.4

25/05/2012 20/08/2012

18f (3600m)

Call us on +44 (0)1380 816 777 to subscribe from £18 Gp 1 Gp 1

25/09/2012 06/11/2012

16.4f (3280m)

Now available for iPhone/iPad via Appstore Gp 2 Gr 2

22/08/2012

16f (3200m)

Visit www.europe.trainermagazine.com Gp 3 Gp 2

25/07/2012 25/07/2012 25/07/2012 08/08/2012

15.5f (3100m)

Call us on +44 (0)1380 816 777 to subscribe from £18 Gp 3 L L Gp 2 L

12.5 12.5 12.5 12.5 12.5 12.5 12.5 12.5 12.5 12.5

15f (3000m)

Now available for iPhone/iPad via Appstore Gp 2 Gp 3 Gp 1 L

13/03/2012 03/04/2012 07/12/2010

14.6f (2920m)

Visit www.europe.trainermagazine.com L Gp 2 Gp 3 Gp 2 Gr 1

12.05 12.05 12.05

14f (2800m)

Call us on +44 (0)1380 816 777 to subscribe from £18 L Gp 2 Gp 1

10/11/2012 08/10/2012 22/11/2012

13.5f (2660m)

Now available for iPhone/iPad via Appstore IRE IRE FR GB IRE GB GB GER IRE GER FR ITY ITY

01/11/2012

13f (2600m)

Visit www.europe.trainermagazine.com Gp 3

22/10/2012

12.5f (2500m)

Call us on +44 (0)1380 816 777 to subscribe from £18 Gp 3 L L L

Closing 22/09/2012 15/09/2012 01/10/2012 09/05/2012 28/08/2012 26/09/2012 09/10/2012 03/10/2012 28/08/2012 20/09/2012

12.05f (2410m)

Now available for iPhone/iPad via Appstore L Gp 2 Gp 3 Gp 2 L Gp 2 L Gr 2 L Gr 1

Furlongs 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12

4+ 4+

18 18

08/09/2012 23/10/2012

20f (4000m) 20 20

24/04/2012 22/08/2012

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