European Trainer, issue 45 - Spring 2014

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European Trainer ISSUE 45 – SPRING 2014

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FEEDING the FILLIES A sensitive issue?

Weighing up the options

Transport made clear

The FALL and RISE of Greek racing

Focused on the future

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GILES ANDERSON Looking forward to the months ahead

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ITH spring now firmly upon us, it’s an exciting time to look forward to the great racing that awaits us in the months ahead. Not only do we have the obvious highlights of the Flat campaign ahead, but also the major jump meetings at Punchestown and Auteuil. Will Quevega bid for her tenth consecutive victory? Come to think of it, how does Willie Mullins keep this temperamental mare in such fine condition every spring? Is there a way we should be feeding fillies and mares to optimise performance? In these pages, our nutritional expert Dr Catherine Dunnett examines the subject of feeding fillies.

In the previous issue of the magazine (Winter 2013) we looked at the way that teeth interact with the skeletal structure of the horse, and continuing that theme this quarter, Dr Colin Roberts asks if there is a correct feeding position to aid maximum digestion.

Our cover trainer profile is on Brian Meehan, who by his own standards had a quieter than normal campaign last year, but as Frances Karon discovered on her recent visit to Manton, Brian has regrouped his team and is very much focused on the season ahead. Brian shares the training grounds at Manton with the up-and-coming George Baker, who seems to epitomise the phrase of “have horse will travel.” Both will be fascinated to read Tony Lindsell’s piece charting the history of the famed Wiltshire training centre from its early beginnings to current prominence under the careful guidance of the Sangster family.

Injuries suffered by two-year-olds are, by their nature, always prevalent at this time of the year. To that end, Dr Celia Marr and Matt Smith from the Newmarket Equine Hospital examine the treatment and management of a common injury – split pastern fractures, while Thomas O’Keeffe delves into the latest research on diagnostic imaging, which helps to predict soundness and racing performance Transportation is always common subject for discussion at the annual European Trainers Federation AGM. This May, there are further changes to the regulations across Europe for the transportation of animals, and these will seemingly have an impact on the racing industry. Lissa Oliver sets out to unpick the rule changes and discover what this means for the industry, in a “must read” article for any trainer who runs their own horsebox.

Finally, a worthy mention to three major trade bodies – Irish Thoroughbred Marketing (ITM), Great British Racing Internat ional (GBRI) and the French Racing & Breeding Committee (FRBC), who have joined forces under the banner of “Destination Europe” to promote European racing to an international audience this summer. Such an effort can only be good news for racing and breeding across Europe.

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Chairman’s message

CRIQUETTE HEAD This is a time of year to be hopeful. Over jumps, trainers have spent the past few months preparing for the Cheltenham Festival and Aintree, with Punchestown coming up, while on the Flat we are busy considering Classic hopes for the spring and summer season. We have plenty to look forward to and I hope that you will all enjoy success with your horses.

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N A more sombre note, my sympathy goes out to those who have been affected by the terrible flooding that has hit parts of Europe and particularly the South of England in recent weeks. I wish you courage to get through these difficult times and hope that training activity will be able return to normal as soon as possible.

We have had wet conditions in France but are fortunate that the weather has not prevented us from working and racing. Race meetings at Chantilly’s all-weather track have been a success over the winter, attracting a good number of runners.

Although all-weather racing is not my personal cup of tea, it now plays a vital role in the calendar and I am sure that in the future we will see a stakes programme on the

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“I am sure that in the future we will see a stakes programme on the fibresand tracks, similar to the turf and dirt programmes in the USA”

fibresand tracks, similar to the turf and dirt programmes in the USA. I applaud the recent announcement of an alliance between British, Irish, and French racing and bloodstock industries to attract international investment. The world is now a small place and all efforts that we make to unite and promote our sport are very welcome. n

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Brian Meehan

Manton’s main man Brian Meehan in profile, by Frances J Karon.

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Transporting horses

A breakdown of the complex issues that arise when transporting horses, by Lissa Oliver.

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The history of Manton

Tony Lindsell with a brief overview of the history of the classic training facility.

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Feeding position

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Diagnostic imaging

Thomas O’Keeffe on the link between sesamoiditis in yearlings and suspensory branch injuries in racehorses.

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Split pasterns

An explanation of how pastern fractures heal,

by Matt Smith and Professor Celia Marr.

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Greece

Could the Greek racing depression be turning a corner?

by Nikos Papadopoulos.

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Dr Colin Roberts on why it may be healthier to look to the wild horse for tips on how to feed the racehorse.

Contributors

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European Trainers’ Federation

Trainer on the up

Alan McCabe talks candidly about his hopes for the future.

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Food for thought

Should we be feeding our fillies differently? wonders Dr Catherine Dunnett.

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TRM Trainer of the Quarter

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Product Focus

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Stakes Schedules

Bill Heller profiles racing’s fifth-generation Harty boys.

David Crosse

Relative Values

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CONTRIBUTORS Publisher & Editorial Director Giles Anderson Editor Frances Karon Circulation/Editorial Executives Suzy Crossman/Louise Crampton Picture Editor/Editorial Executive Harriet Scott Design/Production Neil Randon Advertising Sales Giles Anderson Photo Credits: Benoit Photos, Mark Cranham Photography, Dubai Racing Club/Andrew Watkins, France Galop/ APRH, Frances J Karon, Tony Knapton, Caroline Norris, Nikos Papadopoulos, ODIE, Sangster Family, Shutterstock, Matt Smith, Nick Smith, Frank Sorge, Stefan Uppström.

Cover Photograph Nick Smith

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David Crosse is a professional National Hunt jockey. He moved to England from Ireland when he was 16 starting his career as an amateur for Charlie Mann in Lambourn. Champion Amateur jockey in 2001/02, he rode a Cheltenham Festival winner for Nicky Henderson. He then took out a Conditional licence, riding out his claim with 75 winners in 2004. David now rides out for Colin Tizzard, Tom Symonds and Nigel Twiston-Davies and has ridden more than 170 winners. He writes a blog for Love The Races website.

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.

Bill Heller, Eclipse Award winner and author of 25 books including biographies of Hall of Fame jockeys Ron Turcotte, Randy Romero, and Jose Santos, is a member of the Harness Racing Hall of Fame Communications Corner. He and his wife Anna live just 30 miles south of Saratoga Race Course in Albany, where their 24-year-old son Benjamin also resides.

Frances J. Karon is from Puerto Rico and graduate of Maine’s Colby College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. She operates Rough Shod LLC based in Lexington, Kentucky and specializes in sales, pedigree research and recommendations.

Tony Lindsell is a graduate of the University of St Andrews. His early career culminated in the position of managing editor with Samsom/ Croner Publications. He later studied for a degree in marketing and formed Atlantic Equine Ltd, a supplier of equine hoofcare and farriery products, specialising in the racing industry.

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 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.

Thomas O’Keeffe is a graduate of University College Dublin, working in Ocala, Florida. He worked for Rossdales and Partners in Newmarket, UK as a member of their ambulatory racing veterinary team and in their hospital facility. He was also an associate with Scone Equine Hospital, Australia, as resident veterinary surgeon for Darley’s Kildangan Stud in Ireland and worked in Lexington, Kentucky with Dr Ruel Cowles, DVM. 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.

Nikos Papadopoulos owned 1976 Greek Derby with Balaton and races under his father’s colours, the oldest in Greek racing. A writer and steward since the ’80’s, in 2001 he founded the Greek Horse Owners Association (ELSIIP). Director General of Anavyssos Stud Farm followed and Goff’s Bloodstock Sales exclusive agent in Greece in 2006. Nikos set up Balaton Hellas/N Papadopoulos in 2009, trading in riding and racing equipment. He is also the exclusive agent in Greece for TRM and Red Mills.

Dr Colin Roberts BVSc, MA, PhD, FRCVS is an independent equine veterinary consultant and an Affiliated Lecturer in Veterinary Anatomy at the University of Cambridge. His professional areas of interest include equine internal medicine, equine upper airway disease, equine welfare and equine sports medicine.

Matt Smith BVetMed Dipl. ECVS DEO MRCVS is an independent equine veterinary consultant and an Affiliated Lecturer in Veterinary Anatomy at the University of Cambridge. He has extensive experience in equine sports medicine.

His professional areas of interest include equine internal medicine, equine upper airway disease, equine welfare and equine sports medicine.

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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.

ETF REPRESENTATIVES Chairmanship:

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Avon Pearl wins the Meydan Sohba Handicap for Rune Haugen (pictured opposite with 2013 Norwegian Derby winner Probably)

TRM Trainer of the Quarter

RUNE HAUGEN

The TRM Trainer of the Quarter award has been won by Rune Haugen.

Rune 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.

WORDS: GILES ANDERSON PHOTOS: DUBAI RACING CLUB/ANDREW WATKINS/STEFAN UPPSTRÖM

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UNE Haugen, the leading Scandinavian trainer added another string to his bow when training his first winner at the Dubai Carnival on February 20th, courtesy of Avon Pearl who won the Meydan Sohba Handicap.

Haugen has held the Avonbridge entire in

high regard since purchasing him as a 2yo at the 2011 horses in training sale for a meer 11,000gns on a handicap mark of 78. His best performance in England was when running second to the talented and unbeaten Harbour Watch.

In Scandinavia, Avon Pearl has been a regular stakes performer and on arrival in Dubai he fitted neatly into the handicap division with a mark of 100.

Now back in training outside Oslo, Avon Pearl is set to be campaigned across Europe this summer with plans afoot to run in a Listed race on Derby Day in Germany followed by a trip to Newmarket during the July Festival.

Haugen is a well known figure on the

Scandinavian circuit having been champion jump jockey in Norway in 1994 and then champion trainer for the three seasons from 2004.

He was also a leading Scandinavian show jumper and in the build up to the Beijing Olympics was looking after much of the training (of horses) for the Olympic show jumping team.

Adding a further string to his bow, as a man never afraid of challenge, Haugen has recently also started training and driving trotters.

Haugen is a great passionate believer in technology to help him train horses and has spent much time working with and developing strategies for the use of heart rate monitors as well as analysing lactate rates in blood tests.

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PROFILE

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BRIAN MEEHAN Brian Meehan with his string lined up after exercise, with assistant Rory O'Dowd (laughing)

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The Range Rover skips over the sodden terrain of the Manton estate, sending sprays of water and mud high over the top of the vehicle. “This old thing shouldn’t be doing this, really,” Brian Meehan says.

“It’s been trooping up and down the gallops for the last several months while I’ve been waiting to get a gallop car.”

Any car with a lesser constitution would get stuck on these soggy grounds. The same, too, could be said of the constitution of Meehan, who calls Manton his home base.

WORDS: FRANCES J KARON PHOTOS: NICK SMITH, FRANCES J KARON

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HE 2,500-acre Manton House Estate in Manton, Wiltshire, could easily dwarf – physically and historically – any trainer bold enough to take it on. But Meehan, with the physique of a rugby player and a hard expression lined on his face, does not look intimidated. Instead, as he stops his car to get out and straighten a fence rail here or a gate there, he gives every impression of being enamoured by the estate.

“It’s such a great place, you know? It’s a lot of fun to be here.”

Manton produced the first of its many Classic winners in 1873, when Alec Taylor Snr sent out Gang Forward to win the 2,000 Guineas. The great Sceptre was based at Manton when she was sent to Alec Taylor Jnr from her four-year-

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Meehan, armed with his walkie talkie, putting the second string of the day through their paces

old season in 1903 onward. The younger Taylor conditioned Bayardo to win the 1909 St Leger and that colt’s sons Gay Crusader and Gainsborough to win the Triple Crown in 1917 and 1918, respectively. Another of Taylor junior’s 21 Classic winners from Manton was Sceptre’s grandson Craig an Eran in the 1921 2,000 Guineas. And in the Sangster family era that began with patriarch Robert in 1984, Classic winners Rodrigo de Triano, Dr Devious (both trained by Peter Chapple-Hyam) and most recently Lahan (John Gosden) in 2000 emerged from the facility. (For more on this, see “The History of Manton” beginning on page 28.)

Although Brian Meehan has yet to turn out a Classic winner, he is anything but small in the historical landscape of Manton.

Foremost among the 15 Group or Grade 1

races won by Meehan’s horses are two editions of the $3 million Breeders’ Cup Turf, with J Paul Reddam’s Red Rocks in 2006 and Iraj Parvizi’s Dangerous Midge in 2010. The preserved purple-and-gold garlands from those wins are framed on either side of the television in his racing office. It’s no great surprise that the trainer identifies Churchill Downs, the scene of two of his biggest triumphs, as his favourite racecourse.

“I’d like to go back and win more Breeders’ Cups. Definitely,” Meehan says. “I guess when I was younger the Breeders’ Cup sort of captured the imagination.”

The son of an orthopaedic surgeon, Meehan, 46, grew up in County Limerick, Ireland. “My mother and father were interested in the game.

It was kind of a hobby for them,” he says. “They

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did a little bit of breeding. It’s not a difficult thing for somebody in Ireland at my age at that time to get into, really. There were a lot of horses around and a lot of good farms.” He got morning jobs riding out, including for Phil Canty – who trained 1985 Moyglare Stud Stakes winner Gayle Gal – and enrolled in the Irish National Stud Course after graduating from school.

Near the completion of the stud course, Meehan wrote to three trainers: Robert Armstrong, Dick Hern, and Richard Hannon, looking for a position as pupil assistant.

Hannon, whose stable standout that season was English and Irish 2,000 Guineas winner Don’t Forget Me, was the only one Meehan eventually heard from. “It’s quite a funny story,” Meehan says. “He called up because he thought I was

from the Irish National Stud interested in buying his Guineas winner. So he called up by default and when I explained what I’d written about, he said, ‘Well, come over,’ I went and stayed for six years. I loved it.”

When, in December of 1992 at the age of 25, Meehan left Hannon and set up to train on his own merits with eight horses, Hannon’s wife Jo sent him Connect. Connect became his first winner, trotting up by five lengths in his third start, a six-furlong maiden at Brighton in May ’93. It was “quite special,” says Meehan of the win’s association with Hannon, with whom he remains “great friends.”

The montage of photos on a wall shows the horses that provided the stable with 15 wins in its first season. So Saucy was the most prolific, with three victories for Leslie Ward of

Clarendon Park Stud (now racing as Longview Stud & Bloodstock Ltd), and there was a National Hunt winner: Pam Jubert’s novice hurdler Julios Genius. “That was quite a good year, Year One,” Meehan says.

That was before Meehan became a globetrotting trainer of Pattern winners, before The Harlequin Partnership’s Amaretto Bay gave him a first black-type win in May of 1995; before The Tumbleweed Partnership’s Tumbleweed Ridge gave him a first Group win in the Group 3 Horris Hill at Newbury in October of 1995; and before John Good’s Tomba gave him two milestone firsts in 1998: Royal Ascot (Cork and Orrery Stakes-Gp2) and Group 1 (Prix de la Foret at Longchamp) wins.

Tomba and Tumbleweed Ridge ran from Lambourn’s Newlands Stables, Meehan’s base

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PROFILE until he moved to Manton in 2006 upon entering into an agreement to train for the Sangster family, whose Swettenham Stud, spearheaded by the late Robert Sangster’s sons Guy, Ben and Sam, owns the estate. Although that association came to an amicable end at the close of last season, Meehan – who still owns Newlands, which he leases to Brendan Powell – signed a three-year lease to remain at Manton.

It’s no great mystery why he chose to stay on, with Manton’s private, uphill gallops, stunning panoramas and a little bit of magic in the air. On a high vantage point overlooking the estate, he asks, “You like the views?” A reply would be superfluous, as Meehan well knows; he doesn’t wait for one. “It’s a great place. The trouble is you never want to leave it.” He points to remnants of a glacial deposit, hundreds of millions of years old, off in the distance. “They must have excavated here,” he says, marvelling

at the undertaking it would have been to clear the gallops of these rocks with the equipment available 150 years ago.

Meehan’s office is located in Astor Yard, where the boxes, built during Michael Dickinson’s stint at Manton, are laid out in single rows designed give their occupants as much direct sun as possible. Like his predecessors, Meehan has made his own changes, adding portable, open boxes to the hay barn to create a more social environment. “If I was a horse, this is where I’d want to be.” He checks in on a well-bred filly. “I brought her in here because she’s kind of nervy, so I thought if she’s in here with a horse there, a horse beside her and a horse in front of her, it’d help.

“It’s quite nice to have more in one place than 50 or 60 in four different places. One year we had 60 or 70 in Astor Yard, 30 in Old Yard, 50 in Barton Yard,and another 25 in Fyfield Yard.”

Now George Baker, in his second season of training at Manton, leases Barton Yard with Meehan stabling his projected 100 head of horses in Astor and Old Yards. The open, square-shaped Old Yard, attached to the main house on the estate, is the oldest and, this early in the season, sparsely occupied, with three of Meehan’s horses still in Dubai and not all of the two-year-olds in yet.

“Great spot. A lot of history,” he says of the Old Yard. In one corner is a fully licenced pub, the Trelawny, that was restored in Barry Hills’ time. Its namesake Trelawny was a Mantonbased gelding who won back-to-back Ascot Stakes and Queen Alexandra Stakes within days of each other, as well as a Goodwood Cup for George Todd in the 1960s. The Trelawny opens once a week, or more if Meehan wants to have “a little party for the guys.”

Not only is there a pub, but the Manton estate also has an old chapel – looking after the souls of saints and sinners of yore. Meehan says, “They say [George Todd] used to give the Sunday morning service and every member of the staff had to go.” It would be hard to imagine Meehan delivering Sunday sermons. Now, the chapel is used as a shooting lodge.

“I’d like to go back and win more Breeders’ Cups. Definitely. I guess when I was younger the Breeders’ Cup sort of captured the imagination”

There is a quietly efficient buzz in the yard

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His appreciation for Manton’s history is as evident as his seeming familiarity with every dip in its ground, but it’s when he says, “I’m bringing you up to meet Pistolero. He’s our pride and joy,” that Meehan’s tone really softens.

A paint gelding, Pistolero is turned out with 26-year-old Another Excuse, a retired hack who won the 1996 Midlands Grand National. The older gelding barely raises his head from grazing but Pistolero walks over as soon as he sees Meehan. Meehan, with his first unguarded smile of the morning, tugs and scratches on the ten-year-old’s ear, talking to him. “Hey, old man.

Look at you, all hairy and dirty! What’s going on, man? Are you having a nice holiday, are you?” Pistolero pokes his nose around looking for a treat. “I love riding him. He’s gorgeous to ride,” says Meehan, giving the gelding one last pat on the neck.

Pistolero was bought in the US as a companion for Red Rocks, who “didn’t really like him.” Meehan says, “And yet he liked him too much. They travelled to Ireland for a race and the boys said it didn’t work very well. [Red Rocks] was just a bit too randy around him but

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BRIAN MEEHAN he’s been with us ever since. He does wonderful things.” Meehan proudly reels off a list of Pattern races whose winners Pistolero has ponied to the start for his stable.

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“This place is known for being cold and windy,” Meehan says, bracing against the firm breeze. Mobile phone reception is poor, so he and key members of his staff carry around walkie-talkies, which buys him time to look after other business until he knows that the horses are near the rendezvous point, where they will circle around until their trainer is satisfied they’re relaxed enough to head off up the gallops.

“Most of the day is taken up by things other than the horses,” Meehan says. This morning, ‘other’ business includes inspecting one of many on-site lodgings with his assistant, Rory O’Dowd, to see if it’s ready for new staff to move in.

At the Godolphin Stable and Staff Awards in February, O’Dowd was a runner-up behind Hannon’s head lad Tony O’Gorman for the Leadership Award, while Meehan’s racing manager Marbeth Blair, who works in the office alongside Ruth Morgan, collected the Administration Staff Award.

A couple of days after the ceremony, Blair receives a large bouquet of flowers, and she continues to take congratulatory phone calls.

“Thank you very much indeed,” she tells a caller. “It was one for the team and it was smashing. And Rory got to the final three, which was tremendous.”

Blair came to Manton via Newlands, and her perfectly organised files, if not her recall, provide endless information on Meehan’s horses past and present trained. When he quizzes her about a horse from many years ago, she’s quick to supply the answer. As Blair might say, it’s a good team.

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Of course, not everything can go smoothly.

This morning’s hiccup comes before third lot can head out, when Meehan unexpectedly has to scramble to leg up the riders himself. He doesn’t waste energy getting upset, which puts his philosophy of what he looks for in a racing prospect into perspective: other than good movement and balance, he is drawn to “steadiness, a little bit of plainness. Old fashioned, straightforward. Uncomplicated.”

These traits mirror his working demeanour. He recalls that Hannon’s advice when he took out his licence was, ‘Just keep it simple and the horses will find their level.’” So, too, has Meehan seemed to find his.

One of the last horses awaiting a rider is a More Than Ready first foal from a half-sister to 1,000 Guineas winner Speciosa. The filly is a homebred for American Andrew Rosen, for whom Meehan trained her dam Liberally to win three races before she was placed in a Grade 3 in the US for another trainer. Of Rosen, Meehan

says, “He’s been a massive supporter of mine over the years.”

In 2003, Rosen, Peter Minikes (Georgica Stable) and Stephen Mack – whose uncle Earle Mack campaigned Electrocutionist prior to the horse’s sale to Godolphin and subsequent Dubai World Cup win – bought into three-year-old Listed-winning filly Buy the Sport, a US-bred by Devil’s Bag that Meehan was training at Newlands. Meehan and bloodstock agent Hugo Merry had purchased Buy the Sport for $155,000 out of a breeze-up sale in Florida. For her first start in new colours, Meehan shipped her to New York in September to win the Grade 1 Gazelle Handicap, at odds of 48-1, before handing her over to local trainer Robert Barbara.

Meehan had told Buy the Sport’s partners about a good two-year-old, Master David, he had and they bought that colt prior to his running second in the Grade 2 Remsen Stakes at Aqueduct Racecourse, also in New York, in November. Master David also remained in the US, where he later won a black-type race and was Grade 1 placed for Bobby Frankel.

fillies, such as a $1 million Malibu Moon signed for by Merry at Keeneland last year. She has yet to travel to the UK, but one expensive two-yearold already at Manton is Alkhayyam, a 1,100,000 guineas Tattersalls October Book 1 purchase by Shadwell Estate Company.

Alkhayyam is an own brother to Arcano – who Meehan trained for Sheikh Hamdan – and the most expensive of his sire Oasis Dream’s yearlings in 2013. Coincidentally, Oasis Dream was based at Manton during John Gosden’s tenure.

Arcano’s first two-year-olds run this year, and although Meehan tries “to stay away from first-season sires,” he has several Arcanos and one by another first-year sire he trained, Fast Company. Fast Company won the Acomb Stakes-Gp3 for Earle Mack before being sold

“It’s a great place. The trouble is you never want to leave it” After such a successful first foray into business with Meehan, Rosen began sending his two-year-olds to him, with an eye to switching them to the US to pursue their further careers. “It’s a really good setup,” Meehan says, “and it’s something that’s really evolved over the years.” Both Icon Project and First Passage went on to win Graded races for Marty Wolfson at three and four after early training with Meehan.

Theyskens’ Theory stayed with him through most of her three-year-old season, winning the Prestige Stakes-Gp3 at Goodwood at two and two Listed races at three, before joining Shug McGaughey’s stable.

Theyskens’ Theory was a homebred by Bernardini, but Rosen also shops at the high-end marketplace for his

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PROFILE Meehan with paint gelding, Pistolero

“When I came out of the joint venture with the Sangsters we did make some redundancies. I’d never done that before. It wasn’t pleasant at all”

to Godolphin, who also snapped up Craven Stakes-Gp3 winner Delegator, a future Group 2 winner, out of Meehan’s yard.

“You tend to sell them at two to keep the thing rolling,” Meehan says. “I’d rather keep them but you have to be realistic about it, too, so if the owner can make a profit and you can make a commission, you know – business has to be kept going, too.”

St James’s Palace Stakes-Gp1 winner Most Improved was sold on to Ballydoyle to race at

four, but some, like Red Rocks and Racing Post Trophy-Gp1 winner Crowded House, stay with Meehan after a new owner purchases all or part of them. This may be down to the way the stable’s owners are treated as much as it is to winning important races. Blair’s take on it is thus: “The name of the game is the owner getting what the owner wants, whatever he’s happy with.” Meehan encourages owners to visit and will hold weekly work mornings for them when the weather “cheers up.” “You like to see more people involved and to enjoy it,” he says.

Owner Jane Cunningham didn’t sell Donna Blini, fondly remembered as “a lovely old thing” – despite breaking one of Meehan’s fingers – until the end of her three-year-old season. A £20,000 yearling purchase, the Bertolini filly triumphed in the Cheveley Park Stakes-Gp1 and Cherry Hinton Stakes-Gp2 before Katsumi Yoshida bought her out of the 2006 Manton House Stables Tattersalls December sale draft for 500,000 guineas. For Yoshida’s Northern Farm, she has produced Japanese Filly Triple Crown winner Gentildonna.

Meehan, Merry, and the late Richard Galpin used to shop regularly at the US two-year-old sales, where they picked out Buy the Sport for Gold Group International and David JuniorGp1 (bought for $175,000), FreefourracingGp3 ($47,000), Freefourinternet ($200,000), and Master David ($100,000) for Roldvale Limited.

David Junior was the best of the lot; at three he won the Champion Stakes and at four, the Eclipse and the Dubai Duty Free, all Group 1s,

BRIAN MEEHAN’S PAttERN wINNERS

Group/Grade 1

Group/Grade 3

*Arcano

*Admiral’s Cruise

Bad As I Wanna Be

*Archbishop

Buy the Sport

*Cat Junior

*Crowded House

Charlie Farnsbarns

*Dangerous Midge

*Delegator

*David Junior (x3)

*Dhanyata

Donna Blini

*Fast Company

Kaieteur

Freefourracing

Magical Romance

Leitrim House

*Most Improved

Potaro

*Red Rocks (x2)

Romantic Liason

Tomba

Savannah Bay

Group/Grade 2

*Shumoos

Carrizo Creek

*Theyskens’ Theory

*City Leader

Tumbleweed Ridge (x5)

Easycall (x2)

*Violet Park

*Lady of the Desert (x2)

*Waiter’s Dream

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Twilight Blues

* indicates horses that won from Manton

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PROFILE earning the equivalent of more than £2.3 million. Though many of US-bought horses were by dirt sires, Meehan says that “a lot of them had a bit of turf about them,” perhaps none more so than David Junior, a Pleasant Tap colt whose dam was an own sister by Irish River to US turf champion Paradise Creek, from the female family of another turf champion, Theatrical.

“The client that was sending me out there every year got into football, so I kind of pulled back for a little bit,” Meehan says of the overseas in-training sales. “I’d like to try to bring it back.

We had so much luck out there. I think we had like five Group 1 performers out of it all, which is pretty good.”

fe Meehan leans against the grill of his truck and smokes, waiting for the two-year-olds to wend their way to his viewing spot. “It’s a big step for these, what they’re doing right now,” he says. “Two of them have done a little breeze before but nothing kind of structured like this.

If they come out of it and they haven’t coped with it then you just stop back for a few weeks and then bring them back into it. They’ll all deal with it in the end, it’s just how long it takes.”

As the horses approach at a good clip, several deer stand off to the side. “They always time it right,” he says of them, watching his string pass by before the deer cut across the all weather gallop, which is utilised for routine work year-round. Meehan says, “Once a week we’ll come up on the grass, wherever the gallop man chooses a stretch of ground” after the grass gallops open in the spring. Meehan pays a gallops fee to Swettenham.

The new arrangement with Swettenham hasn’t completely altered the scope of Meehan’s day-to-day business. “For the first 13 years I was training,” he says, “I was on my own anyway. And then I was just in a joint venture for seven years, so what I’m doing now isn’t something I’m unused to. But when I came out of the joint venture with the Sangsters and went back into just renting, we did make some redundancies. It didn’t turn out to be too many but I’d never done that before, so that was a first for me. It wasn’t pleasant at all.”

And despite a “huge” overhead, Meehan lowered his fees after stable numbers dipped slightly. The training fee “is all you’ve got coming in during the off season,” he says. “If it isn’t enough, I’d have gone and robbed a bank.”

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Meehan is no stranger to difficult times, none more so than after his name appeared in the gossip section of a mainstream media newspaper for a delicate, private matter in the autumn of 2012, an incident that ultimately led to a divorce from his wife Kim. “I was

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annoyed because I couldn’t understand what the interest was, to be honest,” he says. “I’m not a footballer or a politician or an actor.

From a personal point of view, it wasn’t fair on my kids. It wasn’t necessary. When it came out in the papers, a week or two later I went to Keeneland. And nobody cared. I was hanging out with [Reddam’s agent] Jamie McCalmont and Hugo Merry. Andrew Rosen was buying fillies and jeez, it was just the best week.

“You know, we dropped in numbers a little bit, we didn’t have a great year last year. Sure, people like to surmise, but what did happen a few years ago was that I overbought spec horses. And that’s what put the pressure on – nothing else.”

For the first season since 1994, in 2013 the Meehan stable didn’t produce a black-type winner. He reasons, “It sort of goes like that.

You have a run of big ones and then, because we don’t train 200 horses or 150 – it’s right at about 100 – it’s a bit of a cycle. Half my horses are two, so they’re untried, unknown, unproven. In, say, April, half your string are two-year-olds, so that cuts you in half straight away, and then half of the other half aren’t ready to run, so if you’ve got a hundred horses,

you’re down to maybe 25 that are ready to run in April or May. “We’re hoping that we have a couple of stars on the place,” he says, looking forward to the prospect of running two in Guineas trials: Windfast, an Exceed and Excel colt owned by Trelawny II; and Rosen’s Footstepsinthesand filly J Wonder, an own sister to Matron StakesGr1 victress Chachamaidee. J Wonder won two of three starts last year, and Windfast one of two, having finished second on his debut to subsequent Group 2 Flying Childers winner Green Door.

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At the end of the day, Meehan often trades horsepower and muddy tyres for trainers to run three or four miles. “I like jogging around cities,” he says. “I plan my route to go and see things. [Washington] DC, New York, Geneva, Toronto, Dubai, Rome, Paris, London – it’s good fun.”

Be it against the backdrop of the world’s leading metropolises or the country’s most historic training centre, Brian Meehan is ready to focus on the future and carve out his own place in history. n

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TRANSPORTING HORSES A heavy issue

No matter where we intend to transport our horses throughout the European Member States, we will find a pretty standard set of rules and an EU Driving Licence, issued since 19th January 2013, gradually replacing the former licences and clearly indicating our allowances and limitations.

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OWEVER, for most of us, driving licences that were issued prior to 1997 enable the holder to drive a lorry up to 7500kg (7.5 tonnes) on a standard car licence. Anyone who has held a UK driving licence for more than 17 years may transport their horses by means of their own trailer or lorry, but the question is – is this cost effective or do shipping agents offer a better alternative?

In Ireland, driving licences must be renewed every ten years (in some circumstances every three years on medical grounds) and therefore all Irish drivers will, within the next ten years, need to update their EU licence to a BE in order to pull a trailer up to 3500kg, or to a C1 category in order to drive a lorry up to 7500kg. A category B licence will only allow you to drive a vehicle up to 3500kg.

Although trainers with fewer runners may find a Jeep and trailer very cost effective, in terms of fuel and safety it could still be more value to use a shipping agent. As one smaller trainer in Ireland pointed out, the £330/€400 he could be charged to ship a horse to the UK was easily exceeded by the cost of taking a Jeep and trailer over on the ferry, without taking into consideration manpower and hours. He was also very aware that from his Jeep he had no way of monitoring the horses being towed behind in the trailer, while a dedicated lorry is fitted with cameras and the horses monitored

EU DRIVING LICENCE CATEGORIES Driving licence A Driving licence AM Driving licence B Driving licence BE Driving licence C

motorcycle moped, scooter and microcar passenger car passenger car with trailer lorry

Driving licence CE

lorry with trailer

Driving licence C1

'light' lorry (vehicle with a maximum authorised mass of between 3500 kg and 7500 kg)

Driving licence C1E

'light' lorry with trailer

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at all times, offering additional peace of mind on longer journeys. It’s worth bearing in mind that taking a trailer or lorry on a ferry between the UK and Ireland or France can cost anywhere from £250/€310 to £500/€620.

For those who feel it’s worthwhile investing in a lorry, which can start at £40,000/€48,700 for a brand new two-horse box, there are still

pitfalls to steer clear of, particularly when it comes to weight. It is imperative that a reputable coachbuilder is approached, either for new vehicles or refurbishment. While the laws regarding the weight carried by a vehicle are stringent, a coachbuilder is under no legal obligation to meet those requirements and many of the less reputable companies will use

LORRY OPERATOR LICENCE CATEGORIES (OVER 3,500kG) Restricted Operator's Licence

To carry your own goods in the course of your trade or business within your resident country.

You cannot carry goods for other people for hire or reward.

Standard National Operator's Licence

To carry your own goods in your country of residence and to carry goods for other people for hire or reward.

No matter how occasional the carriage of goods for reward, you must have a standard licence.

Standard International Operator's Licence

Allows you to carry your own goods, and goods for other people for hire or reward, both in your country of residence and on international journeys.

Operators who are issued with international licences will also receive Community Authorisations, which are required for all hire or reward operations in, or through, European Community countries.

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the cheapest available chassis and materials, with the result that a four-horse box (7500kg) can weigh anything up to 5500kg empty and not, therefore, legally carry four 500kg horses and their groom and driver (each of around 75kg).

Twin-horse lorries often weigh 2550kg unladen. Again, the addition of a single horse, tack, and driver bring that weight dangerously close to the 3500kg limit. Bear in mind that even a yearling filly weighs around 350kg and 100 litres of fuel weighs 90kg. Two-year-old colts can weigh around 460kg and older horses and NH horses up to 550kg. New twinboxes are being produced with claims to weigh 1100kg empty, but even so are coming close to the limit when fully loaded. A 7500kg lorry (7.5 tonne) is so-named because that’s the maximum weight it may legally weigh. It is up to the operator of the box to ensure it does not exceed that limit. And the obligation is an important one financially.

The police now have the ability to weigh vehicles on the spot with the introduction of portable weighbridges, and they can not only issue fines (on a sliding scale of £200/€240 upwards) but may also impound a vehicle and prevent it from being moved until it is under the legal weight. This can mean having to send for another horsebox, which can be expensive, in addition to the time lost in such a delay.

Furthermore, the maximum weight of the vehicle is measured across both axles, each with their own limit. A 7500kg lorry is allowed a maximum weight over the front axle of 3000kg (including the engine, driver, and fuel tank), with 5500kg allowed over the rear axle.

Although this does equate to 8500kg, the weight must be within the perimeters of all three requirements to be legal. Well-designed lorries therefore have plenty of space at the rear, and professional transporters baulk at the sight of limited rear space. The purchase of the latter type is a trap the unsuspecting often fall into.

A very useful app for iPhone users greatly assists with weights and calculations and can be downloaded at:https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/weighbridge s-uk/id553331161?mt=8 Of course, a lorry is of little use without personnel. Within the EU, if you operate a lorry over 3500kg (3.5 tonnes) you will require an operator’s licence. An operator’s licence can be issued in one of three formats: All types of operator’s licence require certain conditions to be met in terms of care and maintenance, and they are checked on a regular basis. Furthermore, a Professional Transport Manager must be used on every journey as a condition of a standard operator’s licence. A Professional Transport Manager is a member of staff who has completed a certificate of professional competence – a CPC that is entirely separate from, and additional to, that required by non-operator’s licensees.

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TRANSPORT to have a different type of CPC – a Certificate of Professional Competence. This is required by all those who drive a lorry over the distance of 65km for a living. While it may be argued that bringing a pet horse to a hunt or show is technically not ‘earning a living,’ a common counter-argument is that it will enhance the future value of your pet. Additionally, all prize money is recognised as financial gain, however meagre. To avoid problems, the required CPC is awarded after an annual one-day course at a cost of around £50/€60 and is therefore well worth obtaining. In France, there must be someone – not necessarily the driver – with equine Captav (Certificate for Transport of Live Animals) in the vehicle.

Drivers of a horsebox are legally required to have a tachograph to record driver hours and speeds. The EU laws regarding the Working Time Directive are very specific, and any breech of these laws will be pinpointed by a tachograph. Driving hours must not exceed four-and-a-half consecutive hours, which must be followed by a 45-minute break. Another four-and-a-half hours may then be completed.

A basic daily maximum of nine driving hours may be increased to ten hours twice in a week.

There must be a clear 11-hour break between each working shift, and a consecutive 45-hour break must be taken weekly, with a maximum working week of six days. A slight leeway is permissible, in that a 24-hour break may be taken one week in two, providing the additional hours are made up for within a three-week period.

This can lead to problems for trainers whose travelling head lads ride out one or two lots in the morning, prior to travelling to the races; as well as additional contraventions incurred by attending evening meetings. EU legislation limits the working week to a maximum of 48 hours.

For shipping agents, the friction with clients often arises in a five-hour trip to a racecourse, necessitating in the horsebox pulling over for 45 minutes within half an hour of the destination. The easy way around this is to have a second driver on board to enable a continuous journey, but clients are often

The police now have the ability to weigh vehicles on the spot with the introduction of portable weighbridges, and can impound a vehicle and prevent it from being moved until it is under the legal weight” disinclined to pay the additional £100/€120 for a second driver.

DEFRA (Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) imposes additional conditions in ensuring the welfare of the horse. Every livestock transport company must have a DEFRA licence. All drivers must hold an Equine Transport Certificate, Type 1 for their country of residence or Type 2 for international. Vehicles under 3500kg are exempt from this certificate and if the number of humans on the lorry equals the number of horses, up to a maximum of four, then a certificate is also unnecessary, since it can be

assumed the horses are destined to race, or compete, and are not travelling to slaughter.

DEFRA also provides rules on space allowances for road transport: There has also been a significant change to the Tripartite Agreement with effect from 18th May 2014. Thoroughbreds moving between Ireland and France will be subject to the new revised rules, although there will be no changes to the rules affecting horses travelling between Ireland and Britain. Horses travelling from Ireland to France will be subject to a new document called a DOCOM. The Department of Agriculture, Ireland, has approved the Irish Thoroughbred Breeders Association (ITBA), the Turf Club, and Horse Sport Ireland as authorising authorities for this new document.

From 18th May, a thoroughbred owner wishing to travel a horse between Ireland and France will be required to fill out a DOCOM with details including: l The breeder is a current member of the ITBA l The shipping agent is approved by the Department of Agriculture and ITBA l A declaration that the breeder adheres to the ITBA Codes of Practice l A declaration that the animal travelling is free from disease l The breeder’s Registered Equine Premises number Thoroughbred owners moving horses

DEfRA SPACE ALLOwANCES Adult horses

1.75 m2

Young horses (6-24 months old) for journeys of up to 48 hours

1.2 m2

Young horses (6-24 months old) for journeys over 48 hours

2.4 m2

Ponies (under 144cm)

1.0 m2

Foals (0-6 months)

1.4 m2

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TRAINING between France and Ireland who are not ITBA members will be required to obtain an EU health certificate for the animals, signed, stamped, and processed by a veterinary surgeon. The Turf Club will act as agents for all trainers and are currently working with the Department of Agriculture on a code of practice, which should be completed shortly The Tripartite Agreement, allowing horses to travel between the UK, France, and Ireland without the need for a health certificate, applies only to registered racehorses and FEI approved competition horses.

Such regulations can appear to negate the cost-effectiveness of transporting one’s own horses, but the average £250/€310 fee charged by shipping agents nationally, which covers considerable overheads and staffing costs, can often be put to better use by a trainer, who has none of the agents’ administrative costs. It has been said that for a trainer, having one’s own horsebox is the equivalent income of two horses in training.

However, there are many trainers who might disagree. Newmarket-based Ilka GanseraLévêque took out her public licence in 2012 and has recently been looking into the possibility of investing in a lorry. “If you have 15-20 horses in training and regular runners, it might be worthwhile,” she concedes, “but I’m still trying to build up my string and it is better for me at the moment to out-source. It is also better for my cash flow. When I send a horse to the races, the owner is invoiced directly by the shipping agent, so I am not having to pay up front and then wait a further 30 days for reimbursement. I know that some trainers like to charge on an all-inclusive basis, and will have to meet the costs of a shipping agent

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themselves, but I feel it’s fairer on an owner to only pay for what they need individually and an itemised bill works much better.”

The UK’s Gloucestershire-based NH trainer, Tom George, finds it much more economical to operate his own box and it provides him with the additional flexibility of being able to “come and go as it suits.” He sends horses regularly to France and the main Parisian tracks, and can plan his trips to avoid peek traffic. “It could end up very expensive using hauliers, and having my own box is much cheaper for me and therefore for my owners,” he says. “I have two travelling staff, both with HGV licences, and usually have one other person away with them. You could normally get away with two people away with two horses. I can get to Paris in the same time it takes to get to Perth and it’s not that big a mileage. I like to get the horses there two days ahead of their race.”

In Ireland, Kildare-based Paul Deegan regularly has international runners and has been using his own lorry for a number of years. It is fully-fitted according to distance

“It could end up very expensive using hauliers, and having my own box is much cheaper for me and therefore for my owners” Tom George

regulations and has fans, air-conditioning, and CCTV cameras. However, he confesses, “We’re at the stage now where it’s not always worth sending our own box to France. It’s okay to travel to the UK, but travelling to France we sometimes sub-contract out. Otherwise it means that we’re losing two-to-three lads for three or four days, and it’s the cost to manpower that can make using a shipping agent to France more worthwhile.”

George Mullins, one of Europe’s largest and most respected shipping agents, points out that sending runners to Germany from Ireland, for example, could involve a nearly two-week trip, as it’s preferable for a horse to arrive a day or two before the race and the horse will be stabled overnight en route, in the UK and during the three days of travel. Most trips would normally be in the region of three-tofour days, depending on the trainer. The highly skilled and experienced staff travelling with agents such as Mullins ensure that only the horse’s own groom need accompany it.

Cost of shipping can vary greatly according to destination and full or individual loads, and trainers with runners for specific meetings often don’t have the luxury of waiting for a full or shared load. In general, however, a very rough starting point can be measured from the following guides: Lambourn to Longchamp: £2,000/€2,500 + VAT. This trip would take approximately 12 hours from yard to racecourse and it therefore might not be necessary to stable on route.

Lambourn to Baden-Baden: £2,500/€3,000 plus VAT. Health papers are required and, depending on the vet, usually around £83/€100 per horse and valid for that trip alone. This trip would normally take 15 hours

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Horseboxes for a work morning at Leopardstown Racecourse

from yard to racecourse and is unlikely to require overnight stabling if there are two drivers on the horsebox.

Lambourn to Curragh: £1,600/€2,000 plus VAT. The trip would take about 12 hours from yard to racecourse.

In addition, new regulations affecting horseboxes over 3500kg were due to come into force in France on 1st January 2014. The HGV Ecotax will apply to all French and foreign vehicles transporting commercial goods weighing over 3500kg, which use the 15,000km taxable road network defined by the Government. These include 10,000km of national roads and 5,000km of secondary county roads, including free motorways.

Any applicable vehicle driven on French roads must be registered for the country’s ecotax, which is paid according to the distance travelled. Registration requires ten different documents and takes an average of six weeks.

One document, the Certificate of Conformity, does not exist in the UK, and conformation must be obtained from the vehicle’s manufacturer. Successful registrants are then supplied with an On Board Unit (OBU) exclusive to the vehicle to which it is registered, for use from the date of introduction of the ecotax.

All liable vehicles weighing over 3,500kg must be equipped with an OBU, which is an interoperable device comprising of an up-todate GPS system, programmed according to the category of the vehicle. Easy to install, it

accurately calculates the amount of ecotax due based on the distance and roads travelled. The fine for unregistered vehicles is £640 for the first offence.

Ecotax charges are based on vehicle weight and the number of axles. Charges were set between 8.8cts-15.4cts (7.5p-13.2p) per kilometre, in the hope of reducing medium and short transportation and to generate additional income for the improvement of the French road system. The final definitive prices may be subject to change and will also take into account the European emission standard of the vehicle as an additional parameter. In Aquitaine and Midi-Pyrénées, the ecotax charge will be 30% less, whilst in Brittany, it will be 50% less. Écomouv’ is the company appointed by the French Government to collect the ecotax, either through one of the Registered Electronic Toll System Companies (SHT) for hauliers who have chosen to subscribe to a contract or directly with Écomouv’ in one of the 420 distribution points located near the taxable networks in France and near the borders.

In view of costs, many smaller trainers might be tempted to disregard the regulations and continue to do it themselves, operating from the viewpoint that “I haven’t been caught so far.” Of concern here are the words “so far”! What should also trigger alarm bells is the no small matter of insurance, rendered invalid if the weight has been exceeded, working hours exceeded, or with any other legal infringements.

The details laid out here on transportation are never going to be quite the headache of the repercussions from being caught in infringement and, on the basis that one or the other must inevitably be faced at some future point, correct licensing seems a sensible option.

Spare a thought, instead, to the shipping agent. Uniquely in the business of transportation, racehorse transport requires no contract. If a large shipment is booked, requiring an 11-horse box to the value of £200,000, there is no guarantee to safeguard the transporter’s investment. The client may pull out or switch allegiance at any time.

Within the general haulage world, where contracts are signed for five-year periods, that is an unheard of risk.

Checklist:

3If travelling outside of UK, Ireland, and France, does your horse have the necessary Health Certificates?

3Have you the correct category licence?

3Are you pulling/driving the correct weight?

3If driving a lorry, do you have a CPC? 3When purchasing a lorry, is there enough stall space behind the rear axle?

3Is your load distributed correctly over both axles?

3If driving a lorry, do you have a tachograph?

3Is your journey within the maximum of nine driving hours in one day?

3Are you within the legal maximum of 48

ECOTAx CATEGORIES

hours driving in a week?

Category 1:

2 axles up to 12 tons

8.8ct/km

3If you hold a standard operator’s licence,

Category 2:

2 & 3 axles of 12 tons and over

11.1ct/km

Category 3:

4 axles or more

15.4ct/km

do you have a Professional Transport Manager?

Source: www.legifrance.gouv.fr.

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3Have you an OBU fitted to your lorry of over 3500kg for journeys in France?

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AYLOR had been appointed as trainer to a private yard in Fyfield.

Very quickly he saw major success with wins for Aphrodite in the 1,000 Guineas and Teddington in the Derby of 1851.

When the owners of the yard fell out, Taylor became a tenant as a public trainer. His success continued and he began to attract more wealthy and high-profile owners, one of whom was Stirling Crawfurd, for whom he won the 1868 2,000 Guineas with Moslem.

The Fyfield yard was no longer big enough and, by now independently wealthy from his success and his gambling exploits, Taylor decided to create his own purpose-built yard on the other side of the Bath Road. With the support of Crawfurd, what had been a bare down on which he had worked his horses was transformed into ‘one of the most perfect training establishments in England’ – Manton.

He built it from the ground upwards, spending years clearing the stones from the downs to create perfect gallops. Manton was also designed for secrecy – to keep the horses and the gallops away from the prying eyes of touts.

Alec Taylor won the 1878 Derby with Sefton

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The dream of Manton was written in 1870 by Alec Taylor, coloured and embellished by his son and successive trainers, allowed to fade from time to time, then coloured again.

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for Crawfurd and his new wife, the wild and brash Duchess of Montrose, winning a substantial sum in bets himself. But the Duchess wanted more of her horses trained in Newmarket – there was no social scene in the remote Manton – and this meant the dilution of Crawfurd’s string.

New owners came in, however, in the shape of such as Lord Beaufort and Hamar Bass, heir to brewery millions, for whom he won the 1887 1,000 Guineas and Oaks with Reve d’Or. Taylor was not a socialiser. Rough, rugged, surly, and taciturn were some of the adjectives

applied to him. He did not like publicity and preferred to let his achievements speak for themselves. By the end of his time he had trained 12 Classic winners, eight of them from Manton.

YOUNG ALEC In a convoluted will, Taylor left the Manton estate to his two sons Tom and ‘young’ Alec, the latter having the right to buy out Tom if they were unable to work together.

In the late 1890s and early 20th century, winners were few from Manton under this joint

Aerial view of Manton in 1948

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“Taylor was not a socialiser. Rough, rugged, surly and taciturn were some of the adjectives applied to him. He did not like publicity and let his achievements speak for themselves” arrangement, and the nadir came with a case involving the death of an apprentice in which Tom Taylor was only acquitted of murder after invoking the Master and Servant Act. In his summing-up, the judge commented: “In these stables there was sometimes a great deal of cruelty going on.” Of the head lad he said, “His conduct seems to have been that of what might vulgarly be called a nigger-driver, the superintendent of slaves who went about with a cruel whip to keep the slaves in order.”

As a result of this episode, the partnership was dissolved and Tom Taylor left Manton.

With young Alec in charge, things took a sudden turn for the better when he took over the training of Sceptre after she had been bought by Sir William Bass, son of Hamar. He trained her through her highly successful fouryear-old and five-year-old careers, putting Manton back on the map in the process.

A new owner, Fairie Cox, brought his horses

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to Manton in 1905. Cox had made his fortune from securing a one-fourteenth share in Broken Hill Proprietary (now BHP) in Australia in a card game when only a station hand.

Cox was the owner of Bayardo, whose stellar three-year-old campaign culminated in the 1909 St Leger and who made Taylor the season’s leading trainer. He retained the title the following season when Cox had another good horse in Lemberg who won the Derby, whilst Bass’s Rosedrop won the Oaks.

During the First World War, racing was severely curtailed and much of what there was was held only in Newmarket. Use of trains for transport was not allowed and so Manton’s ability to progress effectively was severely limited. But that did not stop Taylor from winning the 1917 2,000 Guineas with Gay Crusader, who followed up in the Newmarket Derby and St Leger. Taylor was leading trainer again for that year and his dominance

continued with Gainsborough’s Triple Crown for Lady James Douglas in 1918, and another trainer’s championship in 1919.

But by this time Fairie Cox had died, Sir William Bass had sold all his horses, and Lady Douglas was becoming more intent on her breeding interests. Young Alec did not bet, like his father. He scrimped to the extreme, and long after electricity arrived in Marlborough, paraffin lamps were still in use at Manton.

Before and during the war, Taylor had bought up farms adjacent to Manton, and in 1919 he put the property up for sale, a total of 5,500 acres. It was bought by the wealthy Joseph Watson, who had sold the family soap manufacturing business to Lever Brothers.

Watson was a great benefactor – amongst other generous gifts, one of his more unusual was to set aside 20,000 acres for research into animal and plant strains.

He put money into the yard and the lads’

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MANTON facilities and brought electricity to Manton. He also spent money on yearlings, and the wins of his two-year-olds contributed to Taylor’s fourth successive season as champion trainer.

The 1921 season started off well with Craig an Eran winning the 2,000 Guineas for Lord Astor. Yet another Classic winner was marked down to Taylor when Watson’s Love in Idleness won the Oaks. In the New Year Honours list, Watson was elevated to the peerage, but within three months the new Lord Manton was dead.

Manton was again put up for sale and so began a period of uncertainty that was to last for six years. Taylor was, however, champion trainer again in the 1922 season with Lord Astor now the most successful owner in the yard, Somerville Tattersall being another significant owner.

The bandwagon moved along sweetly through the mid-1920s, with Astor providing a

continuous flow of successful fillies from Cliveden, for which a new 24-box yard was built. But Taylor’s failing health and the long period on the market caused major concerns for both staff and owners. The future of Manton as a training establishment was precarious at this time and it was only saved when Somerville Tattersall agreed, a little before Book Law’s St Leger in 1927, that Tattersalls should buy it.

Taylor signed off with 21 Classic winners, but his huge success was also experienced on the stud. One prominent breeder wrote: “We owe much to Alec Taylor for bringing the horses placed under his care slowly but surely to full maturity and not over-racing them. No trainer has benefited the turf more. The sires Bayardo, Lemberg, Gay Crusader, Gainsborough, Buchan, Craig an Eran and Magpie have all been under his care. No trainer of the past – not

even the great three, John Scott, Mathew Dawson and John Porter – has passed on from the stable to the stud such a series of sires.”

LAWSON Tattersalls immediately appointed Joe Lawson as trainer. He had been Taylor’s travelling head lad for 30 years, having arrived at Manton in 1898 from the northeast as a 16-year-old, and so was well acquainted with his methods. Now in 1928, he was in charge of the yard.

His first few seasons were successful if unspectacular, but he won his first Classic with Pennycomequick in the 1929 Oaks for Astor.

His string was sharply reduced to 55 in 1931, as a result of the Great Depression, but he ended the year not only as champion trainer but also setting a prize money record that was not to be broken for 26 years.

The year 1936 saw another trainers’

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RACING championship, with Lord Astor again leading owner and breeder and in 1937, Exhibitionist’s year, Lawson had 84 horses in training at Manton, a number that was not to be exceeded until Barry Hills took the reins 50 years later.

Galatea also took both fillies’ Classics in 1939 before the war took its toll on racing and by September 1939, there were just 35 horses at the yard.

Tattersalls found themselves in a position where the firm was earning little income with the bloodstock market at a virtual standstill, yet they were the owners of one of the largest training establishments in the country. Although Lawson took some of the wartime Classics, only a skeleton staff remained to look after 20 horses in 1943, and dilapidation had started to set in.

In addition, Somerville Tattersall died.

Court Martial took the 1945 2,000 Guineas, run just a few days after the German surrender, and Lawson was restored to second in the trainers’ table, but Manton had become an asset that Tattersalls could no longer support by 1946 and it was put on the market again. With this uncertainty, Lord Astor moved all his horses and another major owner sold all his, leaving the yard empty.

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“Horses were off or not off at will. Paul Cole, who was assistant trainer for a time, is quoted as saying, ‘It was all gambling. Todd gambled.

The lads gambled.

Everyone was punting in Marlborough’” TODD In early 1947, it was announced, to much astonishment, that the new master of Manton would be George Todd, someone known as a trainer of platers and handicappers. Todd was a man who had gradually built his success and his list of owners, and he made his winners pay, hitting the bookmakers hard and often.

The Manton that he inherited was some way

from perfect. The gallops were overrun by rabbits and the buildings were run down, but these were soon restored, and he had early success with wins in the Rosebery Stakes and Queens Prize at Kempton, with plenty of winnings to boot. But it was Dramatic’s wins in the 1948 Stewards Cup and 1950 Lincoln that gave Todd his biggest paydays. After the Lincoln, Todd drove up to Tattersalls and paid the balance outstanding on Manton of £47,000 in cash (over £1 million in today’s money).

In many ways, Todd was a contradiction. He demanded perfection and an immaculate yard from his staff, he mixed each horse’s feed personally, he ensured good food for the lads, and funded a new suit for each of them every year. A training under Todd at Manton was regarded as a passport to a job in any other racing stable. He held no truck with dope despite some prevalence of it in the late 1940s and 1950s, and he loved his horses and all other animals, even protecting nests on the gallops.

Yet it was a gambling yard to the extreme.

Horses were off or not off at will. Paul Cole, who was assistant trainer for a time, is quoted as saying, ”It was all gambling. Todd gambled.

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MANTON Marlborough.” Todd put up with owners as a necessary evil and told them as little as possible. He preferred the letter to the telephone and would rarely even tell them whether a horse was running, let alone trying.

Lord Howard de Walden described Oncidium as his horse behind the Iron Curtain.

One of Todd’s apprentices described his instructions. Most of the time they were “Drop it out,” he said. “I stopped horses for as long as two years. I stopped Tarquinian so many times I wondered, ‘What day is this horse ever going to try?’”

At the same time, Todd had a great deal of success with horses cast off by other trainers and with stayers, and came to be known as the Wizard of Manton. But it was not until the early 1960s that the wizardry translated into topclass and Group One horses. Roan Rocket was a great miler and Todd’s name is almost synonymous with the stayer Trelawny.

Oncidium won the Coronation Cup for him in 1965 and Sodium won his two Classics in the 1966 Irish Derby and St Leger, while Parthian Glance excelled in that same year.

But Todd was now into his seventieth year.

By 1967, he had just 25 horses in his string and

Michael Dickinson (centre, second row) with his team in 1988

talk of the sale of Manton came into play again.

Arnold Weinstock signed a blank cheque, but Todd said that he would never sell to “some chap who doesn’t stand up when my wife comes into the room.” Sir Gordon Richards proposed a lease of the main yard and the gallops, with a younger trainer coming in to the

Astor Yard, but the plan never came to fruition at that time.

THE INTERREGNUM In the end, as Todd was dying of cancer, Manton was sold for £1.25 million to the financier John Bloomfield. The trainer was to

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Little has changed in the Old Yard and Manton remains a pastoral idyll

be George Peter-Hoblyn, whose tenure extended from 1974-1978. Peter-Hoblyn was a relatively new name amongst trainers and, as such, never managed to attract either the big owners or the top class horses to Manton.

SANGSTER / DICKINSON John Bloomfield had no interest in racing, and the stable lay more or less idle for six years until Robert Sangster expressed interest in the estate in 1984. Sangster had teamed up with the highly successful National Hunt trainer Michael Dickinson, impressed with his extremely high strike rate. Sangster had had huge success with Vincent O’Brien in Ireland and envisaged, perhaps, an English Ballydoyle at the yard that had already turned out 43 Classic winners.

Bloomfield asked for an unacceptably high price and so Dickinson suggested Whatcombe instead. Sangster agreed, bought Whatcombe and then finessed Bloomfield. “We went back to him and told him that we were quite happy to train from Whatcombe – it had after all produced four Derby winners,” says Dickinson.

Bloomfield then lowered his price significantly; Sangster bought Manton and immediately sold Whatcombe.

During Todd’s final years, the winter gallops had been ploughed up. In addition, as Dickinson relates, the Derby gallop, rising 150

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feet in seven furlongs, had not been used since 1932 and the main Clatford gallops had been neglected. “There was a lot of disease in the dead grasses and some of the chalk had moved, meaning that quite a few of the turf gallops were uneven, lumpy and ridge and furrow.”

Dickinson travelled the world researching the best in training facilities, then came back to implement his plan in 1985. He rebuilt and refurbished at least half of the old turf gallops, installed an irrigation system, and built a drought weather gallop and two all weathers.

“Robert should not have asked me to be his main trainer in England and I should not have accepted.

I hadn’t had any experience of Flat racing at that time and we both made a mistake” Michael Dickinson

“Manton has the best grass gallops in the world,” says Dickinson.

At the same time, major building works were undertaken to create a state-of-the-art complex that included two new yards.

Through the 1986 season, few winners emerged from Manton and in November of that year Sangster and Dickinson parted company.

Now, Michael Dickinson comments philosophically, “Robert should not have asked me to be his main trainer in England and I should not have accepted. I hadn’t had any experience of Flat racing at that time and we both made a mistake.”

But, though his tenure was short, Dickinson’s legacy at Manton was probably second only to that of old Alec Taylor. Sangster said at the time: “Michael has done a wonderful job in creating such a magnificent training establishment.” And that Dickinson-inspired training establishment has flourished and gone on to produce many Group 1 and Classic winners under the trainers that have succeeded him.

HILLS Barry Hills was appointed to take over. “It was the challenge of a lifetime,” Hills said, but he was confident of his success because he had trained over one thousand winners on downland at Lambourn. At this time, the Manton estate covered 2,300 acres, with 500

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acres devoted to racing, including 140 boxes between the Manton House and new Astor and Barton yards.

In his first season, Hills turned out 101 winners from Manton, 73 of them for Sangster, and including the Irish Derby winner Sir Harry Lewis, so renewing Manton’s Classic heritage.

Over four seasons there, Hills turned out 358 winners with 32 Group wins, but, with the world economic situation deteriorating and Stavros Niarchos pulling out of his bloodstock syndicate, Sangster decided to put the estate on the market.

A long period ensued where Hills explored all possibilities of remaining at Manton. He proposed the creation of a mini-Newmarket, with a consortium of other trainers owning yards on the estate and sharing the gallops, and obtained the necessary planning permissions. It was a similar idea to that Sir Gordon Richards had put forward in lesser form twenty years previously when George Todd was considering selling. But Hills’ bid was ultimately unsuccessful and the estate remains to this day in the ownership of the Sangster family’s Swettenham Stud. Barry Hills’ lease was not extended beyond the end of 1990, and the reins were turned over to Peter Chapple-Hyam, who had been one of Hills’ assistant tr ainers. Before 1992 was out, Chapple-Hyam had won the Derby with Dr Devious and the English and

“It’s a completely different discipline training on downland to training on heathland.

At Manton, the gallops can be severe – you have to be careful” John Gosden Irish 2,000 Guineas with Rodrigo de Triano.

John Gosden, who had visited Manton as a boy with his father Towser Gosden in George Todd’s time, left Newmarket to take over the yard in 2000 and was quickly off the mark with Lahan winning the 1,000 Guineas of that year, and many other big race wins followed over the ensuing five years.

“It’s a completely different discipline training on downland to training on heathland,” says Gosden. “The foundation work can be similar, but faster work is different. At Manton, the gallops can be severe – you have to be careful.”

In another comparison with Newmarket, he noted, ”Manton is a very big place. Just to keep

the gallops in order takes a great deal of time, money, and energy. But in Newmarket, Jockey Club Estates takes care of these things and you don’t have to worry about it.”

In 2002, Gosden oversaw the building of a one-mile-and-one-furlong Polytrack gallop, parallel to the Clatford gallops, which is now in daily use.

He moved back to Newmarket at the end of the 2005 season having bought Clarehaven Stables as his own base. “I’d done enough time on the road,” he says.

This left the way clear for Brian Meehan. The Fyfield yard, comprising two barns, each of 20 boxes and a covered ride, was completed soon after his arrival, increasing the potential Manton horsepower to around 180 horses.

Meehan, now based in the Manton House and Astor yards, was joined in 2013 by George Baker who assumed control of the Barton yard… n

PUBLISHED SOURCES: The Masters of Manton – Paul Mathieu Frankincense and More (The Biography of Barry Hills) – Robin Oakley The Cox Library (of Thoroughbred Horse Racing and Breeding) – www.thecoxlibrary.com

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FEEDING POSITION A horse prefers to eat with its head low to the ground

What is the correct feeding position?

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The wild horse lives a very different life to the modern racehorse but its lifestyle is worthy of our consideration as, in order to minimise the adverse effects of the artificial way of life that we impose on the modern horse, it is essential to understand how the horse is actually designed to live.

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N its natural state, the horse is a browsing, herd-dwelling herbivore, living on a diet of varied forms of herbage and typically eating for around sixteen to eighteen hours a day. Wild horses are not particularly fit, they usually move at a slow pace and high speed exercise is usually limited to brief bouts of exercise, frequently when under attack from predators.

When keeping horses under our modern, unnatural forms of management, we should consider what detrimental effect this may have on the health of the horse. Amongst the many factors that should be considered, an important one is our feeding practices.

The normal herbage eaten by horses is of low dietary quality and contains a high proportion of roughage. Much of the energy contained in herbage is bound up in complex carbohydrates that cannot be broken down by mammalian digestive enzymes. To combat this, herbivores rely on a symbiotic relationship with microbes (primarily bacteria and protozoa) that live in specially-designed regions of the intestine. The microbial flora is able to digest much of the plant material that is unavailable to mammalian digestive processes and the products of its work may then be absorbed by the host herbivore. In ruminants, such as cattle and sheep, the microbial flora is housed in specially-adapted regions of their complex stomach and microbial digestion precedes a more conventional form of digestion. In the horse, however, whilst there is a certain amount of microbial digestion in the stomach, by far the majority of the microbial flora is found further down the digestive tract, in portions of the large intestine known as the caecum and large colon.

After the horse has subjected its food intake to a conventional form of digestion, the microbial flora break down much of the plant material that cannot be dealt with by the horse’s digestive pathways. This results in the availability of substances known as volatile fatty acids (VFAs) that can be absorbed across the wall of the caecum and colon and used for energy. The gut microflora also build proteins

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from the nitrogenous material present in plants but, whereas in the ruminant this bacterial-derived protein can be broken down and absorbed by the animal in its small intestine, the horse has no mechanism to deal with bacterial protein in the large gut and so it is lost.

The dentition of the horse is very different to that of man. Horses have six incisor teeth in the front of the upper and lower jaws and these are used to grasp food. In the cheeks there are a further six teeth in both the upper and lower arcades on each side. These consist of pre-molars (the front three teeth in each arcade), which have temporary and permanent sets and the molars, (the rear

“Eating a kilogram of hay takes a horse about 40 minutes compared to ten for a kilogram of oats.

Hence, eating concentrate feeds reduces feeding time and may be a factor in the development of behavioural abnormalities� three), of which there is only one set. These teeth are used for the grinding of food urging chewing and they continue to erupt throughout life as they are worn down, typically at a rate of around two to three millimetres per year.

In front of the premolars teeth, much smaller, rudimentary premolar teeth known colloquially as wolf teeth are found in many horses in the upper jaw and in a few horses in the lower jaw. The full complement of teeth is completed by the canines, which are found in most male horses and a few mares. They lie a short distance behind the incisor teeth in the space between the incisors and premolars,

known as 'the bars', the space in which the bit is situated when the horse is wearing a bridle.

When chewing food, horses move the cheek teeth in a three phase cycle, consisting of opening, closing and power strokes. During the power stroke, the lower cheek teeth move over the upper ones in a grinding movement.

The horse's lower jaw is narrower than the upper one and so as the cheek teeth wear on each other, they need a wide range of lateral (sideways) movement so that they move across and abrade each other sufficiently to avoid the formation of sharp points on the outer aspect of the upper cheek teeth and the inner aspect of the lower ones.

It has been found that in equids that live in a more natural fashion, obtaining food solely by grazing, such as Przewalski's horse, zebras or mules rarely have lateral points on their teeth and when they do, they are slight in degree whereas, without appropriate dental attention, sharp points occur on the cheek teeth of the vast majority of domesticated horses. In fact, the degree of movement of the lower jaw is sufficient to give full contact of the upper and lower teeth when horses chew hay but not when they are fed pelleted feed.

The tendency to form lateral points on the teeth is, therefore, likely to be increased when horses eat a greater proportion of concentrates compared to forage. Jaw movements during eating are also reduced when horses eat dry food as opposed to grass.

The use of high roughage feeds appears therefore, to be good for dental health in the horse, however, performance horse diets must be high in energy and this necessitates making up a significant part of the horse's ration with high energy concentrate feeds, predisposing to the development of dental problems and necessitating frequent dental attention.

Head position may also have an important influence on dental health. When horses are fed forage from a hay net or a rack that forces them to eat with an elevated head position, the lower jaw moves back on the upper one so that the two dental arcades do not move over each other correctly. With time, this can cause the formation of a hook on the front of the first upper premolars and the back of the last lower molars. As it grows, the upper front hook can push the lower jaw further back, making the teeth move even further out of correct line with each other. This backward pressure can also cause abnormal pressure on the temporomandibular joint (TMJ), the joint between the lower jaw and the skull.

Occasionally, this may progress to degenerative joint disease in the TMJ joint, which can cause pain, reduced jaw motion and resentment of attempts to open the mouth.

When eating hay, a 500 kilogram horse typically takes around 3,400 chews per kilogram of hay, whereas when eating oats this falls markedly to around 850 chews per kilogram. Eating a kilogram of hay takes a

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horse about 40 minutes compared to ten for a kilogram of oats. Hence, eating concentrate feeds reduces feeding time and it has been suggested that this may be a factor in the development of some behavioural abnormalities, some workers having reported an increase in the prevalence of stereotypical behaviour such as crib biting, wind sucking, wood chewing and box walking (behavior patterns once so wrongly described as ‘stable vices’) in horses fed diets that were lower in forage.

Respiratory disorders occur frequently in horses. In younger racehorses, they are frequently related to bacterial and, less frequently, viral infections, but as horses get older a respiratory hypersensitivity or allergy known as recurrent airway obstruction (RAO) occurs more frequently. Horses with RAO have a hypersensitivity to the spores of moulds that occur commonly in the stable environment. The condition may be viewed a little like the occupational asthmas of man where prolonged exposure to aeroallergens (airborn substances capable of generating an allergic response), are inhaled over a long period of time. Forage can be a major source of aeroallergens and reduction of exposure of the horse to them, either by the use of a minimum-dust form of forage, such as the haylage type feeds, or by soaking or steaming good quality hay can minimise exposure to

the allergens and may minimise the risk of horses developing RAO. The prevalence of gastric ulceration in racehorses is very high; it has been variously estimated as occurring in 80 to 100% of horses in training. It has also been reported to occur in a high proportion of horses used for other activities including endurance, eventing, showing and even pleasure riding.

The horse's stomach is divided into two parts, the first, so-called squamous portion has a lining that is continuous with that of the oesophagus (or gullet), whilst the second, glandular portion contains the cells that release gastric acid and other secretions.

Gastric ulcers have been reported in both regions of the stomach, with ulcers in the squamous part being reported most

“The prevalence of gastric ulceration in racehorses is very high; it has been variously estimated as occurring in 80 to 100% of horses in training”

frequently as well as being the most studied and the more easily seen on gastroscopy (examination of the stomach with an endoscope).

The most important factor in the development of gastric ulcers in the horse appears to be excessive exposure of the gastric surface to acid. Hydrochloric acid, which is secreted continuously into the stomach as part of the normal digestive and gastrointestinal protective process, provides the main source of acid, but VFAs produced in the stomach by bacterial fermentation can also contribute to the problem.

There are a number of risk factors for the development of gastric ulcers and, as well as dietary considerations, these include stressful events such as transport, competition and training. Intense exercise may predispose to the development of gastric ulcers by causing the diaphragm and the abdominal contents to press on the stomach and cause gastric acid to contact the squamous part of the stomach, which lacks protection against acid insult.

Water deprivation also appears to be a risk factor for the development of gastric ulcers.

Whilst non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), such as phenylbutazone, can also be involved in their development, many horses with gastric ulcers have no history of NSAID administration. In humans, an important cause of gastric ulcers is infection

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VETERINARY that they spend eating, they produce copious amounts of saliva for the majority of the day.

Saliva contains bicarbonate, an alkaline substance that buffers (negates the effects of) gastric acid.

The signs of gastric ulceration in the horse are very variable and may include any combination of poor appetite, dullness, change of attitude, reduced performance, reluctance to train, poor condition, weight loss, low-grade colic, excessive periods spent lying down and, in foals (in which gastric ulcers are a risk following a wide range of medical disorders), tooth grinding. Whilst the majority of horses with gastric ulcers show no overt clinical signs, it is possible that they still feel pain from them and this, of course, carries important welfare issues and well as being a sub-clinical cause of impaired performance.

“Horses at pasture have the lowest prevalence of gastric ulcers, whilst those whose diet contains less roughage and more concentrates have a higher prevalence�

with the bacterium, Helicobacter pylori, but in the horse there is no convincing evidence that this organism has a role in the development of gastric ulcers.

Dietary factors appear to play an important role in the development of gastric ulcers.

Fasting is associated with the development of ulcers and the intermittent feed intake that occurs in horses fed a high-concentrate, low forage diet is also a risk factor. Horses at

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pasture have the lowest prevalence of gastric ulcers, whilst those whose diet contains less roughage and more concentrates have a higher prevalence.

Left to his own devices, the horse would spend up to eighteen hours per day grazing and he would rarely go for more than two to four hours without eating. Horses produce saliva in response to chewing and under natural conditions, due to the amount of time

Given the high prevalence of gastric ulcers in racehorses, it is perhaps unfortunate that the use of the effective inhibitor of gastric acid production, omeprazole, which is a very effective treatment for gastric ulcers and is licensed for the treatment of horses in the UK, is not permitted during racing. However, there are a number of dietary measures that may be helpful in some cases. Allowing free access to good quality grazing or increased access to forage can help to combat the development of gastric ulcers. Although this is often not feasible in the racing environment, minimising the time for which the horse is fasting and providing as much forage as possible can certainly help. The use of alfalfa hay has been shown to reduce stomach acidity and this may reduce the prevalence of gastric ulcers. Feeding meals that are low in starch can reduce VFA formation in the stomach and it has been suggested that horses prone to the development of gastric ulcers should be fed no more than 0.5 kg of concentrate per 100 kg bodyweight and at intervals of at least six hours.

It is apparent that there is much more to the feeding of horses than solely the basic ingredients that constitute their diet. The frequency of feeding and how the feed is given are also important and a consideration of factors such as these can bring about easily achieved, but significant improvements to horse health and welfare that may reflect also on performance.n

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ALAN McCABE

HEN Equine Products’ Enda Kelly visited Averham Park Racing Stables he was immediately struck by the efficiency with which the yard was run and the quality of the horses in training; he was also impressed by the friendly, hard working and energetic attitude of McCabe and his team. Therefore, he felt McCabe to be the perfect trainer to feature this issue.

Alan uses Equine Products Free Flow – a completely new herbal product which helps remove excess fluid and toxins quicker and has been found to assist the maintenance of the circulatory system. Free Flow contains a unique blend of natural herbal extracts including bearberry, marshmallow root, cornsilk and juniper, combined in a palatable gel base in a handy 1 shot syringe.

McCabe has just trained his 300th winner with Raizin’ Hell triumphant at Southwell earlier this month, following a string of successful horses including Fratellino and Caspar Netscher. Alan has a great winner/place record with 39% of his horses coming in the top 3!

After an early career as an apprentice jockey to Noel Meade before riding

for David Elsworth, Alan McCabe went on to work for Goldolphin, spending two years breaking yearlings in Dubai. In 2003, when David Loder left Godolphin to set up on his own, McCabe went with him as head lad, progressing quickly to assistant trainer. He successfully completed his training modules in 2005 at Newmarket and, the following year, became trainer for Paul Dixon at Dixon’s Retford Yard. McCabe was offered the opportunity to set up his own operation and he moved to Averham Park Racing Stables in 2009.

PHOTOS: TONY KNAPTON

Who has been your greatest influence as a trainer?

I'd have to say my greatest influences have been David Elsworth, David Loder, and Sir Mark Prescott. I spent 12 years with David Elsworth, during which time he trained horses such as Desert Orchid, Cavvies Clown, and Barnbrook Again in the winter, and Indian Ridge, Dead Certain, and In the Groove during the summer – probably one of the best dual-purpose trainers in my lifetime. David Loder was brilliant at nurturing young horses to bring them to their full potential and Sir Mark places his horses to perfection.

What has been the most useful and advantageous piece of advice given to you with regards to training?

The most advantageous piece of advice I was given was not to change anything when things aren't going as well as they should be. It's always tempting during a lean spell to start looking at your regime and wondering what you should do differently to improve matters but if you've enjoyed good times employing the same methods, you should resist the urge to do things differently. Form ebbs and flows, and you need to just follow your instincts and stick with your original plan – things will always turn back around.

What advice would you give to a trainer staring out on their own?

Any trainer starting out on their own needs to know that you are only as good as those around you – staff, owners, and horses. There can be a temptation to rush headlong into filling a yard, but if you fill it indiscriminately you'll probably end up regretting it. Scrutinise those who want to send you horses and don't be afraid to turn away poor horses or people you have doubts about. Employ people you trust and who know what they're doing. And resist the urge to own the horses yourself! Legs here and there quickly mount up.

If you could spend the day with any other trainer, who would it be?

I'd like to spend a day with Mike de Kock. He manages a huge number of horses on a global scale and is a truly international trainer. It's very impressive how he keeps such a string of high-quality animals and has mastered the intricacies of various racing authorities around the world with such success.

What piece of training equipment could you not live without?

Razin' Hell winning the 32red.com Handicap at Southwell

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The one piece of training equipment I couldn't do without is a telephone.

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My usage is so great I once got asked by Vodafone to take part in trials as to the effect of heavy use of mobile phones on the brain.

What is the main quality in a horse you look for when buying?

The main qualities I like to see in a horse are scope and strength. You need a good physical constitution to work with.

Looking at genetic traits and temperament, who is your most reliable stallion at the moment?

I've got a lot of time for Dutch Art as a stallion, but having trained his winningmost progeny (Aubrietia) and his most prolific (Caspar Netscher), I may be a little biased. Both horses were very willing and hardy but very amenable characters too.

McCabe and Elusive Warrior in the winners’ enclosure at Southwell

What is your favourite racecourse?

I would say that York is my favourite track. It's a very fair, good galloping track with large, enthusiastic crowds.

Does technology feature in your training regime?

Apple technology features most highly in my training regime. My iPhone is always in my hand.

What is your proudest training achievement?

My proudest training achievement was winning the Gimcrack with Caspar Netscher for Charles Wentworth. It was both mine and Charles' first Group winner and it's a race steeped in history. Caspar went on to also win the Mill Reef (the only horse to do the Gimcrack/Mill Reef double) before taking the Greenham and the German 2,000 Guineas the following season. We had some great times with him and I will always be grateful for being given the opportunity to handle a horse like him.

What do you do to go that extra mile with regards to your horses’ wellbeing?

I think you can do no better for a horse than to treat it as an individual, and we pride ourselves on attention to detail to get the best out of any horse, regardless of their natural ability. Knowing a horse's quirks, likes, and dislikes is the key to reaping rewards – happy, well-adjusted horses win races and we will leave no stone unturned in the quest to understand each individual horse in the yard and give them whatever they need to thrive. n

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT Does diet make a difference in performance between colts and fillies?

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FILLIES Zenyatta, America’s Horse of the Year in 2010 and 2011, enjoyed dandelions as part of her diet

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There are certain trainers who seem to be particularly adept at bringing talented fillies to the racetrack to produce winning performances, often over and over again. Some will even race following a quick return from the breeding shed, with great success. While inherent ability from their genetic makeup must be a huge factor in their success, the skill of the trainer and his or her team in knowing just how hard to push to achieve optimum training must also be key. Are fillies ‘dynamic divas,’ or should they be regarded as the ‘weaker sex’? Should we treat them any differently to colts when it comes to their feeding and management? In exploring these questions, I will focus on these real or perhaps perceived differences between colts and fillies.

WORDS: CatheRine Dunnett BSC, PhD, R.nutR PhOtOS: ShutteRStOCK, BenOit PhOtOS, CaROline nORRiS, FRanCe GalOP/aPRh

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ROM a comparison of various elite human disciplines, it is estimated that men are about 11% faster than women and there are some obvious physical differences contributing to this in terms of stature, muscle mass, bone density, etc. In horses, fillies are generally slightly shorter and lighter than colts and they have a higher percentage of body fat. However, there are few studies that describe any appreciable differences in muscle mass, bone density, lung capacity, or heart size. Perhaps not

surprisingly researchers suggest that the difference in speed between colts and fillies is only about 1%. Interestingly, however, the ability to tolerate muscle lactic acid, which is largely genetically controlled but which can be influenced by diet, is likely to be lower in fillies compared to colts. This is because muscle carnosine (a dipeptide involved in buffering lactic acid in muscle) is lower in fillies compared to colts.

Evolution is likely to provide the reason for the comparatively small difference in running speed between fillies and colts. As an animal of flight, the fastest horses would have

survived irrespective of their sex. So it would seem that the fillies can seriously take on the colts and compete effectively; however, for the biggest racing accolades there are procedural

TABLE 1: PERCENTAGE OF INJURIES COLTS/FILLIES No. of horses out of 514

2-year-olds

No. of horses out of 424

3-year-olds

2-year-olds

Colts

Fillies

3-year-olds

Colts

Fillies

Sore Shins

150

58%

42%

53

65%

35%

Inflammatory Airway Disease

68

54%

56%

35

51%

49%

Joint Problems

57

49%

51%

55

69%

31%

Fractures

52

33%

67%

40

65%

35%

Tying Up

27

22%

78%

17

24%

76%

Knee Chips

17

53%

47%

17

53%

47%

Tendon Problems

12

50%

50%

16

69%

31%

Soft Palate problem

8

50%

50%

13

62%

39%

Colic

8

50%

50%

3

33%

67%

Roaring

6

100%

0%

7

71%

29%

Other

68

46%

54%

49

55%

45%

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Snow Fairy, seen winning the 2012 Irish Champion Stakes, beating the colt Nathaniel into second place

limitations. Firstly the number of ‘open races’ are limited and secondly there may be an economic argument at play, since a top race winning colt is infinitely more valuable at stud than a similar broodmare that can only foal once a year.

Temperament is another factor that has stereotypically defined fillies, with many being described as highly strung or stressy, although this should certainly not be taken as the norm. Multiple Group winning fillies Ouija Board and Snow Fairy were described

by Ed Dunlop as being tough and gutsy. He said, “They always galloped well and generally ate well – the exceptional ones are tough and will keep going.” However, where fillies do have a difficult temperament it can bring particular issues to training them successfully.

They may be fussy feeders and whilst they eat up when they first come into training, finishing up a feed is a target that is not always reached as training work increases and pressure mounts. Fillies particularly can be very skilled at filtering out small pellets which they find unpalatable in mixes or sweet feed, which are unfortunately often the carrier for important vitamins and minerals. The addition of powdered supplements can add to the problem because these can be left at the

“Evolution is likely to provide the reason for the small difference in running speed between fillies and colts. As an animal of flight, the fastest horses would have survived irrespective of their sex” bottom of the feed bowl. Adequate intake of forage can also go by the wayside as the season progresses, which can contribute to nutritionally related problems such as gastric ulcers and tying up.

It has long been anecdotally believed in racing that tying up is more prevalent in fillies than colts, and data published by Dr Sandra Wilsher and Dr ‘Twink’ Allen demonstrates dramatically that this is indeed the case [Table 1]. Whilst accepting that genetics have a part to play, Dr Stephanie Valberg of the University of Minnesota suggests that a frequent trigger for an acute episode of tying up can be any

excitement or stress, such being held up at the rear of the string. Fillies can also be anxious travellers, sweating heavily and thus losing important electrolytes, the balance of which is vital for normal muscle function.

Interestingly other issues such as fractures that can also be influenced by nutrition were significantly more common in fillies as twoyear-olds but in colts as three-year-olds, whilst joint problems were more significant in older colts.

Long distance travel when racing on other continents can mean that continuity in feeding is difficult to achieve unless you take your own feed with you. It can take some fillies a few days to fit into a different feeding regime when racing abroad. Neophobia, which is essentially a fear of new feedstuffs, is a behaviour that is commonly seen in other species and is sometimes described in horses travelling to other countries. Some fillies become seasoned travellers and by all accounts adapt well to their changing environment and feed. Pragmatically, It is always going to be difficult getting your exact feed when abroad and you just have to do the best you can and hope they will adapt well within the time frame.

Energy requirements for horses in training

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NUTRITION are calculated using body weight and, because fillies will usually weigh less than colts of a similar age and stage of training, it is normal for them to require less feed to maintain condition. On the contrary some fillies will eat as much as a big strapping colt but this largely depends on their comparative body size.

The picture is complicated where a filly is a fussy feeder and some increase in energy density of feed is needed. This basically means that more energy has to be packed into a smaller volume.

Feeding a less than straightforward filly should mean that they receive a balanced diet that is suitable for intense exercise, but also one that keeps them occupied and stimulated psychologically and reduces stress and anxiety. Ideally meal times need to be regular and consistent, and meal size kept small and frequent. John Shirreffs, trainer of one of the greatest mares in Zenyatta, likes to feed small amounts five times times a day. He says “Always the trick is to keep trying feeds until you find something she likes and don’t train so hard that she won’t eat – they love attention so bring fun treats like dandelion, sweet potatoes, Guinness, or aloe vera juice.”

Interestingly, he also said that he always likes to feed from the floor in a rubber trug bucket or rub, as he feels this is a much more natural position for feeding.

Regard must be given not only to how much energy is provided from feed, but also where that energy is coming from in terms of the balance between fibre, starch, sugar, and oil. This is particularly important where temperament is an issue, or if there is a family history or previous incidence of muscle stiffness or acute tying up.

For fillies in early training, a minimum of

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1.5% of bodyweight in hay should be allowed as this will set up good eating habits for the rest of the season and will also reduce the reliance on concentrate feed. Forage intake can decrease as work increases but a minimum of 1% of bodyweight must always be goal. Feeding fillies different types of forage such as hay, haylage, alfalfa chop, and grass chaff in one sitting can help to tempt them to eat an adequate amount.

“A ration that provides plenty of forage combined with a concentrate feed that is low in starch and sugar is much more likely to keep a stressy filly settled than a lowforage, high-starch, and sugar-based ration” During this time, a feed that is low in starch (20% or less) and sugar that also provides adequate quality protein (e.g. from soya) is desirable. Whilst some low-energy feeds may be low in starch, they do not provide adequate quality protein to support muscle turnover in these elite athletes in my opinion. As training progresses, a higher starch feed can be introduced, but this is not always necessary or desirable, especially where the filly is of a very excitable disposition. Recent research in trotters suggested that ‘performance’ was not

diminished in horses fed an exclusive foragebased ration. These findings need to be examined further because ‘in field’ performance is so different to treadmill tests and comparatively difficult to quantify, and intensity of exercise somewhat different between trotting and certainly flat racing.

What is clear is that energy source has a far more evidence-based effect on behaviour than many supplements. A ration that provides plenty of forage combined with a concentrate feed that is low in starch and sugar is much more likely to keep a stressy filly settled than a low-forage, high-starch, and sugar-based ration. If supplemental ‘calmers’ are effective and are acceptable within the rules of racing then they could be beneficial; however, most do not offer any tangible evidence of benefit.

High-oil feeds for top dressing such as linseed and rice bran, or even straight vegetable oil, are excellent for increasing the energy density of the ration and so maintaining condition. Sugar beet, whilst not hugely popular in racing circles, is a great feed to add moisture and to help disguise powdered supplements or to carry those vitamin- and mineral-containing pellets.

It has been suggested that hormones account for the large difference in the incidence of tying up between colts and fillies, but no study to date has unequivocally proven a causal link. There is no doubt in some individuals, however, that behaviour and the ‘will to win’ may be affected by stages in the oestrus cycle. Some fillies can be either cranky or too docile during oestrus, either of which can have a negative effect on performance.

Interestingly some really talented fillies may show little evidence of oestrus and simply get on with their job. The stable hormonal state established following a visit to the breeding barn may explain the relative success of some great mares. Although it is not allowed under BHA rules, Regumate seeks to address this situation, with marbles inserted in the uterus to mimic pregnancy being used as a nonpharmacological option with relative degrees of success. There are also many supplements that seek to address so called ‘PMT’ in fillies and mares, most of which contain herbs including agnus castus (chaste berry). Agnus castus would appear to have some benefit in humans although its effect in horses has not been investigated fully.

So it would seem that the fillies certainly have the talent, and when trained and fed sympathetically they are able to deliver at the highest level. John Shirreffs’ bottom line is to keep their ears forward and keep them happy!

And if Black Caviar could speak, perhaps she would agree with another world-class female athlete: “Some people say I have attitude – maybe I do – but I think that you have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner!’’ – Venus Williams, a worldclass tennis player. n

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PROFILE The Hartys: Edward, Carolyn, Eoin and Eddie Sr

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When he was 17 years old and in the breeding program at Irish National Stud in County Kildare, Eoin Harty, a fifth-generation horseman, couldn’t wait for the arrival of racing magazines from America. “We used to get them every week at Irish National,” Harty said. “I saw pictures of Claiborne and Gainesway in the Blood-Horse and Thoroughbred Record. I said, ‘I’m never going to be able to compete with them.’”

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WORDS: BILL HELLER PHOTOS: CAROLINE NORRIS, HORSEPHOTOS.COM

R. Michael Osborne, the director of the program, convinced him to try. “He said, ‘It’s a land of opportunity, even if you have to work at McDonald’s,’” Harty said. “’Go over there and test the waters. The opportunities are vast in the States. These do not exist in Ireland. Seize the moment.’”

Smart man, that Dr Osborne. Harty, now 51, has not only competed with the best in the United States, but he has succeeded there and in Dubai, where he won the world’s richest race, the $6 million Dubai World Cup, by 14 lengths with Well Armed, who also won the Grade I Goodwood and the Grade 2 San Antonio and San Diego Handicaps. Harty has also won the Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby and Travers with Colonel John and the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies with Tempera. As 2013 wound down, he’d won 343 races from 2,140 starts with earnings of nearly $21 million in just 13 years.

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Newbridge, Ireland. “I’m delighted that fortune has smiled on him, but he does his job very well. I am pleased and proud, but not surprised.”

As a rider, Eddie, now in his late ’70s, competed in the 1960 Olympics in Rome for Ireland and he won England’s prestigious Grand National Steeplechase in 1969 on Highland Wedding. “He paralysed his arm in a racing accident,” Eoin said. “He’s got partial use of it now. To him, the glass is always half-full.

He went on to something else. That’s when he started training.”

The Harty family, which had been living in England for ten years, moved back to Ireland.

“I was born in Dublin, but I spent my first ten years in England,” Eoin said. “At ten years of age, I must say I thoroughly enjoyed my time in England.”

But in Ireland, there was a family legacy, one he and his older brother Edward, also now a trainer, are continuing. “Every waking moment of your life over there, it’s all people talk about: horses,” Eoin said. “Friends, family. It’s hard to describe because there’s nothing like it in America. Where my parents live, it’s a horse

area. Everybody is doing horses, talking about horses. If you didn’t like horses, it wouldn’t be good.”

The Harty family has loved horses for five generations.

When asked about the impact of having such deep roots, Eddie said, “I think the way I can explain it is I had four uncles who were professional jockeys. My dad was a champion amateur rider. My grandfather was the first trainer licensed outside of the Curragh. When I won the National, he was battling cancer and couldn’t attend. I called him from the hotel to tell him I won, and he said, ‘It was a great day.

It would have been better if Boss was there.’”

Michael “Boss” Harty – Eddie’s grandfather – followed his brothers, Edmund and John, into Irish racing in 1980, training and riding. Boss expanded his stable throughout Ireland and into England and Wales and died before Eddie was born.

Five of Boss’s sons continued the Harty legacy: Henry was a successful jump rider and trainer; Michael rode in Ireland and India; George rode and trained, and John was killed while riding in a race at Curragh in 1929. The fifth son, Eddie’s dad, Cyril, was a member of the Irish Army showjumping team and trained Knight’s Crest, who won the 1944 Irish Grand National.

Eddie and his brothers, Buster and John, all rode and trained. John was an accomplished rider, catching many of Ireland’s most important stakes. Buster’s daughter, Sabrina, won her first race as a trainer in 2006 at Roscommon. Her cousin Delma was the first woman trainer to win at the Cheltenham Festival and also the first woman steward in Ireland.

“We have tremendous respect for the horse game, the integrity and everything about it,” Eddie said. It’s a big advantage and it’s a great responsibility.”

Eddie has successfully borne that responsibility. “He’s the best,” his wife Patricia, a native of New York, said. “It’s something he’s always done. He knows the job from start to end. It’s gone back for generations. It’s something that’s in the blood. It’s still there.”

Two of Eddie and Patricia’s three children continue their family’s racing legacy: Edward,

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who also goes by the name “Eddie,” and Eoin.

Edward went to college and became a successful currency trader before returning to a business and a life with horses as a trainer in 2004. “He was the smart one,” Eoin said. “He was always passionate about training. He was probably more passionate about horses than I was.”

Edward understands the history behind his own love of horses. “The family’s been training continuously,” he said. “There hasn’t been a break. That’s all we really wanted to do: ride and train. It’s something you’re bred to do.””

Like his father before him. “He’s been successful most of the time,” Edward said.

“He’s got a great eye for a horse.” Edward also appreciates his mother’s role in continuing this training tradition: “Behind every good man, there’s a great woman. She’s held the whole thing together.”

Edward took out his trainer’s license in March, 2004, and registered his first victory just three months later when Misty Mountain won a maiden fillies race at Leopardstown. “It’s something you were doing as a kid,” he said. “I wasn’t starting from scratch.”

He had three more winners in 2004: Bixaare, Stormy Larissa, and Edaliya, and has gone on to win multiple stakes with Itsonlywoody in 2005 and 2006 and Baron

Edward Harty with Captain Cee Bee (right and above), the Grade 1-winning chaser who helped launch his National Hunt training career.

Eoin Harty (opposite) in his office

De’l from 2007 to 2009. He also won a stakes with Corcovada in 2009. But he credits Captain Cee Bee with jump-starting his training career. “He was the real turning point,” Edward said. Captain Cee Bee was an instant success in his first year of hurdling in 2007 and is still racing now. “It’s gone very well with him,” Edward said. “You’ve got to be patient.”

That impresses his mother: “He’s still successful, and he knows what he wants to do.”

Edward has an ally. His wife Marie is one of the leading equine veterinary surgeons in Ireland. “She was the top equine surgeon in the country,” Edward said. “She’s been a great help.

She knows horses. She was brought up with horses.”

Their two children have extended the Harty legacy into a sixth generation. Carolyn is a

leading show rider while attending college, and Patrick is an assistant to National Hunt trainer Nicky Henderson. “Carolyn rides Captain Cee Bee every day,” Edward said. “I think she’ll end up in the industry, maybe in three-day eventing. Patrick is now Nicky’s Number One assistant. You don’t have to be a brain surgeon to figure out where he’s going to wind up.”

Edward and Eoin’s sister, Freda, became a Cordon Bleu chef and now owns a string of restaurants with her husband Paul. “She had a pony when she was younger, but she didn’t do any competitive racing,” her mother said.

“She’s a very good cook and is a wonderful, wonderful daughter to us.”

Asked if she feels blessed to have three accomplished children, Patricia said, “Absolutely.” Then she added, “Eddie gets all

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PROFILE the credit, but if it wasn’t for me, they wouldn’t be here.” And she laughed.

Eoin is happy to have his spent his whole life with horses. “If it’s not fun, why are we doing it?” he asked. “If you’re dealing with a limited number of horses, you have to know every inch of the horse; know what they like or what they don’t like. Besides keeping them fit, you have to keep them happy. If you believe the talent is there and it’s not coming out, you have to figure out why. That’s the fun part of it.

It’s the little things that wins races. I like being around horses. They’ve all got their things: rub them here or there, leave them alone, take them out to graze in the afternoon. It’s fun figuring them out.”

Asked if he is still learning how to figure them out, Eoin said, “Every day. I like to just walk up and down the barn.”

That approach doesn’t surprise his dad. “He was always a leader,” Eddie said. “He had a good sense of what had to be done.” Asked if that sense came from his dad, Eddie laughed.

“He got it from me or his mother,” he said.

Eoin had little interest in riding, so, like his father before him, turned to training, trying to absorb all that he could from his dad. “He showed me how horses have nuances, differences, subtleties, the gap between a horse’s eyes, the way they carried their head, the way they walked, the angles of their legs, if a horse had irregularities; the things most people didn’t notice,” Eoin said. “I learned from osmosis.”

And by example. He said his dad “had a very strong work ethic.”

Eoin was barely in his teens when he realized that he would be spending his life with

“The family’s been training continuously. There hasn’t been a break. That’s all we really wanted to do: ride and train. It’s something you’re bred to do” Edward Harty horses: “Growing up in Ireland, they were very cut and dry about which kids were going to college and which go to work. It became quite apparent which way my life was going.”

He was very happy with that direction.

Asked if he wanted to go to college, Eoin said, “Hell, no. I hated school. I hate school to this day.”

Eoin worked summers for the prominent McGrath family. “He did very good there,” his dad said.

Eoin continued his education at the Irish National Stud. “It’s a one-year program,” Eoin said. “It was a fantastic year of my life. I met some special people. We stay in touch.”

Following Michael Osborne’s good advice, Eoin journeyed to America. He did sales prep in Kentucky with Crescent Farm and then at Taylor Made Farm, a job he landed by answering an ad in the Blood-Horse. He longed for a different experience. “I knew I didn’t want to stay working on a farm,” he said.

“I wanted to experience the racetrack.”

A friend of Eoin’s dad knew trainer John

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Russell, who was also a talented writer. Eoin worked for Russell for 7½ years. “I was very fortunate to work for John,” Eoin said. “He was a very intelligent man. He was a great tennis player. Great writer. Wry sense of humor. We were very good friends. We’d have dinner or cocktails. He’s one of those rare people who can expound on anything. [Owner] Bill Casner is the same way.”

Eoin can thank Russell, who passed away in 2004, for meeting his wife, Kathy. “John needed an exercise rider in the mid-’80s, and my wife showed up one day from Florida,” Eoin said. They married. “I tried to drag it out as long as possible,” he said. “It’s too late now.

If I had my way, we’d still be dating.”

Eoin said he learned valuable lessons from Russell. “I learned a lot of things I would never know,” Eoin said. “He talked about running a business. John loved to teach. I learned the management of your business. Don’t get into debt. Watch the bottom line. Don’t order too much hay. A lot of people don’t think like that.

It was a great education.”

Then it was time to move on. Eoin became Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert’s assistant in 1993. “John was winding down his career, and I ran into Bob,” Eoin said. “Bob needed an assistant and I needed a job. He might have been out of Quarter Horses for a year.”

Eoin called to tell his dad the news. “He called and he said he was going to work for Bob Baffert,” Eoin’s dad said. “I said, ‘I don’t know who he is.’ Eoin said, ‘You will.’”

Eoin was right, and he was with Baffert for his Triple Crown blitz of the late 1990s. After losing the 1996 Kentucky Derby with Cavionnier by a nose to Grindstone, Baffert’s Silver Charm and Real Quiet won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness the following two years before each narrowly lost the Belmont Stakes in their bids to become the first Triple Crown since Affirmed in 1978. “I had a great experience with Bob,” Eoin said. “It was a lot of fun. With Bob, I got a lot of exposure.”

He had no idea how important that was until he received a call from Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, patriarch of Godolphin Racing, during the 1999 Breeders’ Cup at Gulfstream Park. “I couldn’t believe it,” Eoin said. “I thought it was a joke.”

Eoin went to Dubai to meet Maktoum. “He’s a great guy with a great sense of humour,” Eoin said. “Like John Russell, he’s very intelligent. I enjoyed the excitement from going to Dubai to meet him. I’d seen it as a tourist. Now it was from an insider’s view.”

Sheikh Mohammed wanted Eoin to take over a new American stable of Godolphin twoyear-olds. “I figured if you turn that down, you’re never going to train,” Eoin said.

Eoin didn’t turn down that offer, taking out his license to begin doing what he was meant to do his entire life: train thoroughbreds.

He had immediate success with Godolphin’s juveniles. Street Cry finished third in the 2000 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile behind Macho Uno and

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EDWARD AND EOIN HARTY Point Given. A year later, Tempera won the 2001 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies.

After having spent three winters in Dubai, Eoin remained in California in the winter of 2003-2004 to train several horses for Sheikh Mohammed’s Darley Stable, including, for the first time, older horses.

Eoin added Bill Casner, then of WinStar Farm, as a client in 2007. “That happened all because of Silver Charm,” Eoin said. “I met the Casners over there when I was in Dubai.”

Silver Charm won the 1998 Dubai World Cup for Baffert and maintains a special place in Eoin’s heart. “He was tough, physically and mentally,” Eoin said. “Those horses are few and far between. A combination of talent and mental fortitude. It’s like catching lightning in a bottle. In the World Cup, I was more spent than the horse was. The stretch was three furlongs. He took on three different challenges by three different horses. He put them all away.

That just doesn’t happen.”

Opportunities to train for world class owners are just as rare. The Irish teenager who thought he could never compete with the big names in American racing has trained for Godolphin, Darley, and WinStar. “I’ve been lucky,” Eoin said. “Life has been good to me.”

Life was so good to Eoin on one weekend in 2008 that he almost posted a unique, historic double. At New York’s Saratoga Race Course, where Eoin continues to spend his summers, WinStar Farm’s Colonel John, a son of Tiznow,

got a fortuitous bobbing nose victory over Mambo in Seattle in the $1 million Travers Stakes. After jumping into Casner’s private jet with Casner’s wife, his own wife Kathy, and jockey Garrett Gomez, Eoin saddled WinStar’s Well Armed, another son of Tiznow, in the $1 million Pacific Classic at Del Mar Racetrack in California. He led late before finishing second by a neck to Go Between.

Eoin remains stoic about those two races.

“You win some; you lose some,” he said. “You can’t be greedy.”

Well Armed more than made it up to him.

He finished third by eight lengths in the 2008 Dubai World Cup to two-time Horse of the Year Curlin. A year later under Aaron Gryder, Well Armed’s only jockey in his final 13 starts, Well Armed won the $6 million 2009 Dubai World Cup by a record 14 lengths. “You should never think that you’ve got it won, but I did expect the horse to win that night,” Eoin said. “It was a race that was devoid of any speed. I thought if I could make the lead, I could stretch the competition out.”

And when he did? “It was a great achievement,” Eoin said. “The Maktoums were instrumental in my starting out. It was a great night.”

No matter how well he does, Eoin is forever connected to his deep roots. He and his family return to Ireland every year to spend a week with his parents and reunite with his brother and sister and their families. “The older my

parents get, the more time I want to spend with them,” Eoin said.

Usually, Eoin departs California at the end of November. Last year, he delayed his departure until early December so he could saddle Darley Stable’s two-year-old filly Arethusa in the $500,000 Grade 1 Hollywood Starlet at Hollywood Park. Arethusa had broken her maiden by winning the $100,000 Sharp Cat Stakes by 8¼ lengths in her previous start. She finished fifth in the Hollywood Starlet to Streaming.

Then Eoin was headed home. Once again, he would get to spend time with his dad. A lot of time. “I hang out with my dad, and we look at what horses I might buy, why we like horses, pluses and minuses,” Eoin said. “He always dealt with a limited budget, but his record is exemplary.”

His son is headed in that direction. “He’s part of a great tradition,” Eoin’s dad said.

Edward said of his brother, “He’s worked very hard for it. He’s only getting the fruits of his labor.”

Edward is too. While Eoin’s son, another Eddie, is in college in California and hasn’t expressed an interest in horseracing, his uncle Edward noted, “It doesn’t look like he’ll end up with horses, but in our family, God knows what’s down the line.”

Edward is forever grateful that he returned to horses. “I always wanted to train,” he said. “I wouldn’t change a day. I’ve had a great life.” n

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Predicting future soundness

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The quest to own or train the perfect racehorse can have many starting points. For many people the search for the Holy Grail begins at the yearling sales, where horsemen from around the globe inspect and agonise over young horseflesh, dreaming and hoping of attaining that future champion. A prominent part of this process is the pre-sales veterinary examination, which usually includes the reading of a set of repository radiographs of the prospective purchase.

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EW issues spark more debate and controversy than the interpretation of a juvenile thoroughbred’s radiographs and their relevance to the horse’s future racing career. This article aims to review the most common radiographic finding, sesamoiditis, in the thoroughbred yearling and discusses new research published in 2013 exploring the link between sesamoiditis and suspensory branch injuries and the effect these conditions can have on soundness and racing performance. This research can provide horsemen with accurate information with respect to the risk associated with these conditions and can aid them in the selection process and training of the young thoroughbred racehorse.

Anatomy of Suspensory Apparatus The recently deceased top sire and multiple Grade 1 winner Harlan’s Holiday and the Australian phenomenon that is Black Caviar are two high profile examples of thoroughbreds who suffered suspensory branch injuries during their racing careers.

The suspensory ligament’s function is crucial to a horse’s movement since it prevents excessive extension of the fetlock joint during the weight-bearing phase of the stride, and it is the combination of skeletal and soft tissue structures that make up the suspensory

apparatus that allow the racehorse to fulfill its athletic potential.

The suspensory apparatus consists of the suspensory ligament and its extensor branches, the proximal sesamoid bones, and the distal sesamoidean ligaments. The suspensory ligament bifurcates into lateral and medial branches one-half to two-thirds down the cannon, and the branches insert mainly onto the proximal sesamoid bones.

Sesamoiditis is thought to be an indicator of inflammation of the proximal sesamoid bone at the insertion site of the suspensory ligament branches.

The focus of much scrutiny and examination is the suspensory branch itself, as injuries that cause a loss of integrity to where it attaches to the sesamoid bone can result in an inability of the ligament to function properly. Clinical signs of suspensory branch injuries vary depending on the severity and chronicity of the lesion and usually include heat and swelling.

There may be fetlock joint distension in some cases due to the close proximity of the suspensory ligament to the joint capsule. Pain on palpation of the branch is present during the acute stage but lameness is not a consistent feature of this condition and should not be used as a barometer of severity or clinical progress.

Ultimately, diagnosis is relatively

straightforward based on clinical signs and ultrasonography. Ultrasound features of this injury include fibre pattern disruption, altered echogenicity, ligament enlargement, and in moderate to severe cases a core lesion within the branch may be identified.

Research performed in horses in training Despite the high prevalence of the condition and the economic loss that can be suffered as a result of a suspensory branch injury, the subject has been poorly investigated until recently. Ultrasound examinations are being performed with a greater frequency now as part of a pre-purchase examination and ultrasound abnormalities of the suspensory branch are found with enough frequency to warrant further investigation into their significance.

The presumption is and has been that these abnormalities indicate the presence of current or previous injury and infer potential future weakness, thereby influencing the saleability of these horses. However this viewpoint is based on anecdotal observations, and it has not been until this year that a more detailed look at the condition has been performed. Pete Ramzan and colleagues at Rossdales and Partners in Newmarket, UK, published a study in May of 2013 in the Equine Veterinary Journal, where they

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A normal sesamoid (left), and an enlarged example of sesamoiditis (above).

Suspensory branch ultrasounds (below)

of suspensory ligament branch injury in early racehorse training.

Plevin and McLellan reviewed pre-sales radiographs of 291 clinically normal yearling thoroughbreds and graded them for the presence of and/or the level of sesamoiditis present. Medical records for each of these horses during their first year of training were reviewed to identify cases of suspensory branch injury.

The objective was to evaluate the usefulness of radiologic grading of yearling sesamoiditis as a marker for subsequent suspensory branch injury, which would allow veterinarians to more accurately provide pre-purchase advice to their clients. All the horses in their study were trained at a single training centre in Florida and all suspected cases of suspensory branch injury as exhibited by clinical signs were confirmed with diagnostic ultrasound.

The study showed that yearlings with significant sesamoiditis at the time of the yearling sales are more likely to develop suspensory branch injury in the corresponding suspensory branch than those with mild or no sesamoiditis. In order to categorise it further, researchers proved that yearlings with severe sesamoiditis are five times more likely to develop clinical signs of suspensory branch injury within the first year of race training.

This information provides veterinarians with a grading scale for reading radiographs of yearling’s sesamoid bones with which they can appropriately advise their clients when it comes to the pre-purchase examination. This should not be seen as a negative by consignors and breeders, as information and studies such as this allow veterinarians to advise clients with confidence of the statistically low risk of future injury of the majority of sales horses with low grade sesamoiditis.

Suspensory Branch Problems and Racing Performance completed ultrasounds on sixty racehorses in training known to be free of history and clinical signs of suspensory branch injury or proximal sesamoid injury, in a bid to quantify the prevalence of the condition subclinically in a cohort of horses in training.

The study revealed that nearly 7% of the horses were found to have what would be considered moderate ultrasound abnormalities, with no history of clinical suspensory branch injury. These are findings significant enough to preclude the horses from being permanently imported into Hong Kong for racing or to negatively impact acceptability to purchaser regardless of destination, yet these horses had no clinical signs and have been in full training up until the time of the ultrasound examination. This study highlights the need for further research into the suspensory branch in racehorses to

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determine whether these abnormalities are predictive for future clinical injury.

Sesamoiditis and Suspensory Branch Desmitis Following the same theme in the US, Sarah Plevin and Jonathan McLellan of Florida Equine Veterinary Associates in Ocala have done extensive research on sesamoiditis and suspensory branch injuries and had two studies published in the Equine Veterinary Journal in August 2013. The first looked at the relationship between the radiographic signs of sesamoiditis in yearlings and whether they predispose these young horses to suspensory branch injury in their future racing careers.

Sesamoiditis has always been believed to be associated with injury to the suspensory branch attachment, however no study has investigated the relationship between yearling sesamoiditis and the subsequent development

The second study performed by McLellan and Plevin explored the effect suspensory branch injury can have on racing performance, including number of starts, interval to first race, career earnings, and “speed figures” and compared to a control group. Records were reviewed of 896 horses in training, with horses who suffered an injury of the suspensory branch between September of their yearling year and May of their twoyear-old year were identified.

These horses’ race records were compared against their cohorts in the training group who served as the control group. All case horses were managed with stall rest and a controlled increasing exercise program with sequential ultrasound examinations and physical examinations every 30 days during their rehabilitation period. Racing data from this study was obtained from the Equibase website, and the average Equibase “speed figure” was used as a measure of performance.

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Acquiring an ultrasound image

In the study, 9.5% of the horses were found to have suspensory branch injury, a figure that correlates well with previous research. The left front inside suspensory branch was found to be most commonly affected, which may be as a result of either the counterclockwise training routine customary in North America placing an increased stress on this branch or other factors such as individual horse conformation, track surface, etc. Horses who suffered suspensory branch injury before May of their two-year-old year were significantly less likely to reach the racetrack than their contemporaries.

Only two-thirds of the case horses made the racetrack by the end of their three-yearold season, compared to nearly 90% of the control group. Less than a third of the case horses started a race as a two-year-old, compared to over 60% of the control group.

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number of days taken to achieve their first start.

It was, however, demonstrated during the review of the data that the comparison of the speed figures of horses with previous suspensory injury and those that were free of the problem did not yield a difference, suggesting that horses with this type of injury who actually race successfully have a similar performance level to their matched controls.

The other interesting conclusions from the study were that severe injuries to the suspensory branch had a 50% chance likelihood of reccurrence and that sesamoid bone abnormalities noted during the examination of the medical records coincided with a more severe suspensory branch injury and reduced racing performance.

Discussion The equine thoroughbred suspensory apparatus is arguably the most biomechanically stressed part of the

thoroughbred’s anatomy and managing and treating suspensory branch injuries remains one of the most challenging problems that trainers and veterinarians encounter today.

This places an even greater emphasis on accurate diagnostic imaging not only in its traditional guise as a diagnostic tool in the face of an injury but also as an aid in predicting which horses may suffer from the condition in the future The three studies mentioned above demonstrate that injury to the suspensory branch is a serious career-limiting injury and reiterate how the anatomical relationship between sesamoid bone and suspensory ligament means that often, bone and soft tissue injuries occur simultaneously. The studies show that a very large percentage of young thoroughbreds have, on radiographic examination, what would be considered strictly by textbook definition an “abnormal� sesamoid. However, the conclusion from should not be that any young horse with an abnormal sesamoid must be avoided; rather, that we now have an accurate grading system for sesamoiditis in yearlings that can aid veterinarians in predicting the likelihood of that horse developing a suspensory branch injury.

The grading system should allow for less yearlings to be criticised for having sesamoiditis at sales, increasing their prospects of finding a buyer and allowing those that are found to have significant sesamoiditis, and consequently high-risk candidates for a suspensory problem, to be managed and trained in the appropriate fashion for optimum chance of making the racetrack. This is especially relevant when the studies proved that individual cases with suspensory branch injury who make it to the racetrack achieve comparable speed figures with respect to their contemporaries, showing them to have no difference in racing ability.

The high prevalence of both sesamoiditis and suspensory branch injury in young thoroughbreds highlights the need for caution and more research into the area for a greater understanding of the significance of these findings and to prevent their overinterpretation.

Unfortunately, despite the many options available to the trainer and veterinarian for the treatment of suspensory branch injury, this is definitely one scenario where prevention is better than cure and why regular diagnostic imaging, coupled with a symbiotic relationship between trainer and veterinarian in the management of subclinical cases, should lead to the best outcome for all concerned. As a result of the dedication of veterinarians on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, our understanding of this troublesome condition has grown exponentially over the past twelve months and in the interests of horsemen and their racehorses, long may this continue to be the case. n

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Fractures are relatively common injuries in thoroughbred racehorses. This relates to the high athletic demands of racing and training, and the cumulative stresses imposed on the musculoskeletal system by the repetitive nature of race training.

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N A recent scientific report published in Equine Veterinary Journal, equine orthopaedic surgeons from Newmarket Equine Hospital (NEH) detailed the healing process and warned that radiographs taken at the time of the initial injury may not be revealing the full extent of the damage that is present.

What is a “split pastern?”

A “split pastern” is one of the most commonly encountered fractures – a longitudinal fracture of the proximal phalanx (long pastern bone) that extends from the metacarpophalangeal or metatarsophalangeal (fetlock) joint towards the proximal interphalangeal (pastern) joint.

This is the most common long bone fracture of thoroughbreds in race training, accounting for 15% of all fracture cases.

Fractures of the pastern occur more commonly in training than when racing. Two-year-olds are most often

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The term ‘fracture configuration’ refers to the path of the fracture through the bone, and there is remarkable consistency in the location and direction in pastern fractures. At the fetlock joint, the bottom of the cannon bone has a ridge that runs from front to back along the centre line of the bone. Opposing this in the top surface of the long pastern bone is a groove – the sagittal groove – that accommodates this ridge. Most commonly, fractures start in the sagittal groove and then course distally (towards the hoof). Fractures can be complete – extending to emerge either at the cortex of the bone or into the pastern joint, or incomplete – with the fracture ending somewhere in the central portion of the bone.

Incomplete fractures are more common than complete.

This radiograph (above) shows the typical appearance of a ‘split pastern’ – in this case a long incomplete parasagittal fracture of the proximal phalanx indicated by the arrows. The sagittal plane divides the body into left and right sections and the term parasagittal is used to describe any parallel plane. Pastern fractures (below) are usually repaired surgically by placement of screws across the fracture to compress and stabilise the fractured bone

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The Newmarket Equine Hospital study In all previous reports of fractures of the proximal phalanx, only descriptions of fracture configuration from radiographs obtained at the time of initial injury were available. In cases treated at NEH, vets had observed that pastern fractures often appeared radiologically more complex, and extensive, on follow-up radiographs obtained between during the first two months following initial

injury. This concern had not previously been investigated, and it prompted the Newmarket group to embark on a more detailed objective study to document the true configuration of fractures, and investigate how, and over what time period, fractures healed.

As cases are usually treated by screw repair, this was set as an entry criteria to identify cases for the fracture-healing part of the study.

Radiographs were examined from 121 cases of fracture seen over a five-year period at NEH. Radiographs from the time of initial injury, and then throughout the horses’ recovery from injury whilst the fracture was healing, were examined. The configuration of fracture was determined from the radiographs taken at the time of injury, and then any changes observed in length or complexity of the fracture during the horses recovery were documented. Finally, the way the fracture healed and the time taken was recorded.

Progression of the fracture The majority of horses in the study were two- and three-year-olds training or racing on the flat. Consistent with previous observations, long incomplete fractures running parallel with the long axis of the bone were the most common configuration, with complete and comminuted (multi-piece) fractures making up a much smaller proportion of the case population.

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St Nicholas Abbey recovered well from surgery after suffering from a split pastern during exercise, but lost a battle against colic this year

The study confirmed the surgeons’ suspicions, and a novel conclusion was that in the first two months following injury, in many cases, the fracture was longer or more

A radiograph obtained shortly following injury demonstrates a typical incomplete parasagittal fracture of the proximal phalanx. (b) At a month after surgery, the fracture line appears much more obvious, but it is also longer and changes direction in the lower third of the bone

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complex than seen on the initial radiographs.

Fractures were on average 15 mm longer, with some cases being over 30 mm longer than initial X-rays suggested.

One possible explanation for this was that fractures become longer when the horses recovered from general anaesthesia – a highrisk period for the horse undergoing fracture

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Universal suffered a pastern fracture on the gallops in September and now stands at stud

repair. However,radiographs obtained within the first week after surgery showed injury during anaesthesia was not the culprit.

Instead, the change in fracture configuration

was a result of the normal process of fracture healing. Damaged, non-viable bone along the fracture line has be removed by the body before healing can occur – resulting in the true configuration of the fracture becoming more apparent on X-rays taken two-to-seven weeks after the injury was sustained.

Completion of the healing process After this first seven-week bone removal phase, radiographs showed that the fractures went on to heal progressively, with the majority of them having healed by 100 days following injury. When following cases through during healing, however, it was observed that the bone nearest the fetlock joint surface was slowest to heal. In some horses, delayed healing in this location can require further surgery to obtain complete healing.

Advice for the future This study provided some important information for equine surgeons managing split pastern cases in future. There is often During recovery from anaesthesia at the end of fracture repair surgery, a cast is applied to the lower leg to protect the fracture. The recovery stall has padded floors and walls to prevent the horse injuring itself as it stands. This is a high-risk period, but the NEH study showed that most damage to the fractured bone occurs in the following seven weeks

“Vets observed pastern fractures often appeared radiologically more complex, and extensive, on follow-up radiographs obtained between during the first two months following initial injury” quite marked disparity in the degree of comfort of the horse following repair of fractures of the proximal phalanx, a feature that could be explained by the fracture being more complex than suspected on radiographs obtained at the time of initial injury.

The second important conclusion from the Newmarket Equine Hospital study is that serial X-rays should be obtained routinely during the period two-to-seven weeks following injury to allow better guidance as to how the horse should be managed during recovery from injury.

Thirdly, knowledge of the normal timeframe for fracture healing to occur gained from this study allows more confident identification of cases where healing is delayed which in turn will allow more timely veterinary intervention if problems arise. n

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Greek racing hoping for revival of fortunes The deep financial crisis that Greece has been going through for the last six years has had, unsurprisingly, damaging effects onto Greek horse racing.

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HE first racecourse located in Athens was established

by William Reese, an Englishman coming from Smyrna, Turkey, following the Asia Minor catastrophe.

This was a time when Greek expatriates, forced into displacement, moved to Greece – specifically, to a large extent, to Athens.

A keen horse and racing enthusiast, Reese was effectively the initiator of horseracing in modern Greece, and the sport was soon to become the favorite of Greek society's elite of the time.

The company Reese founded, Ippotour S.A., was granted by the Greek government exclusive rights to conduct horseraces for 50 years beginning in 1927. During its first day of operation, the racecourse, or “hippodrome,” attracted such large crowds of people to the district of the Faliron Delta that it caused quite a stir in Athenian life. From then on, and up to 1967 when the military dictatorship withheld the company's license renewal, the hippodrome remained in operation uninterrupted, save the period of the German occupation of Greece.

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several countries with an established horseracing tradition. Often these events were accompanied by fashion shows as well as art exhibitions, while equiphiles included wealthy businessmen, politicians, artists, writers, etc., all of whom contributed to a rather sophisticated and cosmopolitan environment that attracted a turnover amounting to €3 million at each race meeting, thus reaching a total of €9 million per week for 11 consecutive months each year.

However, in 1967, when the hippodrome was nationalised, the status of horseracing started to change. Despite the notable increase in the numbers of both horse owners and thoroughbreds, rising to over 500 and 1500 respectively during the 1980s, the races began to decline. Although each race meeting attracted 20,000 spectators, their social profile had slowly but inadvertently changed in qualitative terms, with the introduction of a new class of agents. Political transitions and the shift brought about by the Socialist government (PASOK) in the decades between the ’80s and 2000 affected Greek society in its entirety, and consequently the social profile of horseracing.

The aforementioned changes maintained high numbers in statistical terms but their overall effect on racing was effectively detrimental. To add insult to injury, those appointed to manage the Hellenic Horse

Racing Organization (ODIE) by the successive Greek governments of the time were selected not on the grounds of their skills and knowledge regarding equestrian and race management, but rather to serve matters of petty political expediency. As a result, individuals unable to meet the requirements of the posts they held and drew disproportionately high salaries in exchange for virtually no service whatsoever. Instead of planning the future development of the racecourse they acted counterproductively, thus squandering its profits.

In 2003 the hippodrome was moved from its original setting in the district of Markopoulo.

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GREECE TOTE BETTING BID IN GREECE French sports betting company PMU and South Africa-based Phumelela Gaming and Leisure have formed a consortium, 2PU, in an attempt to win the right to offer tote betting on horse races in Greece.

The privatisation process is now in the final stages, and the directors of the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund – which is overseeing the sale – have qualified 2PU as one of two candidates asked to enter the tendering process.

The successful bidder is to take over the responsibilities of the Hellenic Horse Racing Organisation (ODIE) and be granted the right to organise and conduct mutuel betting on horse races in Greece by the end of September, 2014, for a period of 20 years.

PMU has already been in collaboration with ODIE since 2010 by offering betting on French races to Greek horse racing enthusiasts. Today, wagers on foreign races account for approximately half the total betting in Greece.

The ‘amateur horse owner’ status in Greece was abolished in 2010, meaning that owners of three or more horses were considered professionals and taxed accordingly. This forced out the majority of amateur racehorse owners, their numbers decreasing from 200 before the law was introduced to just 60 one year later.

After calls from interested investors as well as market professionals, an amendment – in effect re-introducing the amateur horse owner status – to the 2010 law is expected to be voted in by the Greek Parliament this month.

With this hurdle taken away, the number of owners and professionals will have the chance to grow, bolstered by the knowledge that the industry will be run by a worldwide-reputable operator, creating both local and international interest – the revival of Greek racing.

removed from the centre of Athens, with no public transport service to the location, and the move proved devastating.

To make matters worse, in addition to all of the above, the ongoing economic depression that hit Greece in 2008 caused further deterioration, both in terms of numbers and of the social status of horseracing.

Today, the owners of racehorses in Athens do not exceed 50, while the horses are no more than 350. Race meetings are held twice a week, and organisers make excessive efforts to arrange six races per meeting. In order to raise wagering turnover, meeting schedules have to be filled in with races from France and South Africa.

The number of trainers currently active is no more than 25. Up until 2003, there were over 60 trainers. There used to be 100 jockeys; now,

there are 30. Finally, turnover is not higher than €300,000 per race meeting.

Markopoulo currently has a chance to be reinstated and to achieve success once again, due to the country's obligation to denationalise it, undertaken by the Greek government within the context of the Memorandum of Understanding on Specific Economic Policy and Conditionality. Fulfilling this obligation, however, has been delayed for three years.

Two multinationals – the French PMU in cooperation with South Africa's Phumelela, and a Greco-Argentine consortium – have already expressed their interest in renting the Greek racecourse for the next 20 years as called for by the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (TAIPED).

As this article is being written, Markopoulo is in its death throes. However, the fondness of

Greeks for horses and horseracing lives on and patiently waits for the racecourse to be back in operation as in its glorious past, despite the gigantic obstacles that faces at the moment. The races are expected to raise considerable income for the state, thus aiding the Greek economy, as well as to provide spectacular recreation to thousands of Greek equiphiles who anticipate the immediate participation of the Greek hippodrome to international horseracing events through the annual European race schedule.

To conclude, Greeks are seeking aid of any form, not specifically financial, by the European Horse Racing Authorities and Federations. Greek trainers of racehorses have already contacted the European Trainers Federation, in order to inform and publicise their requests. n

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STAKES SCHEDULES 2014 RACES 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. Races highlighted in purple indicate the race is a Breeders’ Cup win and you’re in race.

CLOSING DATES Closing dates for all Irish races are set for domestic entry dates.

Please check International entry dates with the relevant issue of The Racing Calendar. The Italian authority (UNIRE) do not publish

closing dates for Listed races but we have been advised to set race closing dates ten days in advance of the race.

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Lansdown St (EBF and Whitsbury Manor Stud) Certosa Woodlands St Palace House St (Pearl Bloodstock) Saint-Georges Marygate St (Langleys Solicitors EBF) Temple St (Bedfred.com) Marble Hill St National St Achilles St Prix du Gros Chene La Fleche Hampton Scurry St Hoppegartener-Sprintpreis Windsor Castle St King’s Stand St Queen Mary St Norfolk St Land O’Burns St (EBF) Yacowlef Sapphire St (Dubai Duty Free) Bois Sprint St (Coral) City Walls Tipperary St Citta di Napoli Reves d’Or - Jacques Bouchara Molecomb St (Bet365) Cercle King George (Betfred) Ibis Summer Dash Abergwaun St La Vallee d’Auge St Hugh’s St (Bathwick Tyres) Nunthorpe St (Coolmore) Roses St (Julia Graves) Curragh St Beverley Bullet Sprint St (Betfred) Scarbrough St Flying Childers St Petit Couvert (Qatar) Flying Five St (www.bettor.com) Divino Amore Harry Rosebery St World Trophy (Dubai Airport) Rous (Albert Bartlett) Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp (Qatar) Cancelli Cornwallis St (Dubai) Premio Omenoni Mercury St Criterium de Vitesse

Bath Milan Naas Newmarket Longchamp York Haydock Park Curragh Sandown Park Haydock Park Chantilly Chantilly Chantilly Sandown Park Berlin-Hoppergarten Royal Ascot Royal Ascot Royal Ascot Royal Ascot Ayr Deauville Curragh Chantilly Sandown Park York Tipperary Naples Vichy Goodwood Deauville Goodwood Niigata Tipperary Deauville Newbury York York Curragh Beverley Doncaster Doncaster Longchamp Curragh Rome Ayr Newbury Ascot Longchamp Milan Newmarket Milan Dundalk Longchamp

Breeders’ Cup

Turf Sprint

5f (1000m)

Class

Race Date

Value

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19/04/2014 26/04/2014 28/04/2014 03/05/2014 11/05/2014 16/05/2014 24/05/2014 24/05/2014 29/05/2014 31/05/2014 01/06/2014 07/06/2014 07/06/2014 14/06/2014 15/06/2014 17/06/2014 17/06/2014 18/06/2014 19/06/2014 21/06/2014 26/06/2014 28/06/2014 30/06/2014 05/07/2014 12/07/2014 12/07/2014 13/07/2014 24/07/2014 29/07/2014 31/07/2014 01/08/2014 03/08/2014 08/08/2014 15/08/2014 15/08/2014 22/08/2014 23/08/2014 23/08/2014 30/08/2014 10/09/2014 12/09/2014 14/09/2014 14/09/2014 14/09/2014 19/09/2014 20/09/2014 04/10/2014 05/10/2014 05/10/2014 17/10/2014 19/10/2014 24/10/2014 28/10/2014

£40,000 €41,800 €40,000 £60,000 €80,000 £40,000 £90,000 €52,500 £26,000 £37,000 €130,000 €55,000 €52,000 £37,000 €27,000 £60,000 £375,000 £100,000 £80,000 £40,000 €55,000 €62,500 €80,000 £60,000 £40,000 €42,500 €55,000 €55,000 £50,000 €52,000 £100,000 $371,748 €50,000 €55,000 £25,500 £250,000 £50,000 €40,000 £40,000 £40,000 £70,000 €80,000 €100,000 €41,800 £40,000 £55,000 £45,000 €350,000 €41,800 £37,000 €61,600 €40,000 €55,000

Age

Surface

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

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 AWT T

Metres

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Maisons-Laffitte Rome Rome Chantilly Chantilly

Texanita Alessandro Perrone Giubilo Alberto Arenberg Bonneval

L L L Gp 3 L

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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 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5

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14/04/2014 22/04/2014 28/04/2014 23/04/2014 10/05/2014 06/05/2014 19/05/2014 23/05/2014 26/05/2014 14/05/2014 30/05/2014 30/05/2014 09/06/2014 03/06/2014 11/06/2014 22/04/2014 12/06/2014 13/06/2014 16/06/2014 18/06/2014 21/05/2014 11/06/2014 30/06/2014 07/07/2014 07/07/2014 16/07/2014 23/07/2014 23/07/2014 26/07/2014 24/06/2014 02/08/2014 08/08/2014 09/08/2014 24/06/2014 18/08/2014 18/08/2014 25/08/2014 04/09/2014 06/09/2014 27/08/2014 06/08/2014 13/09/2014 15/09/2014 29/09/2014 27/08/2014 11/10/2014 18/09/2014 18/10/2014

5.5f (1100m) €55,000 €55,000 €41,800 €80,000 €52,000

3 2F 2 C&G 2 3+

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1100 1100 1100 1100 1100

5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5

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SWE

Taby Galopp

Taby Varsprint

SWE

Taby Galopp

Taby Open Sprint

Breeders’ Cup

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Race Date

Value

Age

Surface

L

10/06/2014

SEK 400,000

4+

T

1150

5.75 05/05/2014

L

14/09/2014

SEK 400,000

3+

T

1150

5.75

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Cork Rome Chantilly Newmarket Maisons-Laffitte Ascot Nottingham Jagersro

Cork St Premio Carlo Chiesa Sigy Abernant St (Connaught Access Flooring) Servanne Pavilion St Kilvington St (EBF) Lanwades Stud Jagersro Sprint

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York Newbury Rome Haydock Park Curragh Haydock Park Baden-Baden Windsor Naas Naas Naas Epsom Downs Milan Leopardstown Salisbury Milan Royal Ascot Royal Ascot Royal Ascot Hakodate Deauville Newmarket Newcastle Curragh Curragh Milan Hamburg Jagersro

Duke of York St (Blue Square) Carnarvon St (Bathwick Tyres) Premio Tudini Cecil Frail St (EBF) Greenlands St (Weatherbys Ireland) Sandy Lane St (BetVictor) Benazet-Rennen Leisure St (coral.co.uk) EBF Rochestown St Lacken Woodcote St (Investec) Bersaglio Ballyogan St Cathedral St Crespi V. Coventry St Albany St Diamond Jubilee St Hakodate Sprint St Prix de Ris-Orangis Empress St Chipchase St (totesport.com) Railway St (Gain) Balanchine St (Grangecon Stud) Premio Primi Passi Hamburg Flieger Trophy Zawawi Cup

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

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Calder Hanshin Newmarket York Newmarket Fairyhouse Newbury Hakodate Curragh Newbury

Princess Rooney H’cap CBC Sho July (Portland Place Properties) Summer St (Tyregiant.com) July Cup (Darley) Belgrave St Rose Bowl St Hakodate Nisai St Anglesey St (Jebel Ali Stables & Racecourse) Hackwood St (Al Basti Equiworld)

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NOK 250,000

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Furlongs

5.85f (1170m) 3+

T

1170

€40,000 €77,000 €55,000 £60,000 €52,000 £37,000 £40,000 SEK 400,000

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

T T T T T T T D

1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200

6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6

31/03/2014 13/03/2014 08/04/2014 11/04/2014 14/04/2014 24/04/2014 05/05/2014 07/04/2014

14/05/2014 16/05/2014 18/05/2014 24/05/2014 24/05/2014 31/05/2014 01/06/2014 02/06/2014 02/06/2014 02/06/2014 02/06/2014 07/06/2014 08/06/2014 12/06/2014 15/06/2014 15/06/2014 17/06/2014 20/06/2014 21/06/2014 22/06/2014 28/06/2014 28/06/2014 28/06/2014 28/06/2014 29/06/2014 29/06/2014 01/07/2014 05/07/2014

£100,000 £37,000 €61,600 £47,000 €62,500 £37,000 €25,000 £37,000 €57,500 €60,000 €40,000 £40,000 €41,800 €60,000 £40,000 €41,800 £12,000 £70,000 £525,000 $371,762 €80,000 £26,000 £60,000 €95,000 €52,500 €61,600 €55,000 SEK 600,000

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

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

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

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

01/04/2014 10/05/2014 17/04/2014 19/05/2014 16/04/2014 26/05/2014 20/05/2014 27/05/2014 27/05/2014 27/05/2014 27/05/2014 02/06/2014

11/06/2014 14/06/2014 22/04/2014 13/05/2014 11/06/2014 23/06/2014 23/06/2014 21/05/2014 24/06/2014 29/05/2014 06/05/2014 02/06/2014

05/07/2014 06/07/2014 10/07/2014 11/07/2014 12/07/2014 13/07/2014 18/07/2014 19/07/2014 19/07/2014 19/07/2014

$300,000 $371,511 £60,000 £60,000 £500,000 €40,000 £25,500 $293,564 €52,500 £60,000

3+ FM 3+ 2 C&G 3+ F 3+ 3+ 2 2 2 3+

D T T T T T T T T T

1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200

6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6

21/06/2014 27/05/2014 04/07/2014 02/07/2014 06/05/2014 07/07/2014 12/07/2014 10/06/2014 14/07/2014 14/07/2014

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5.85 07/04/2014

6f (1200m)

07/05/2014 09/06/2014

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Imprudence Prix Djebel Carter H’cap Greenham St (Aon) Fred Darling St (Dubai Duty Free) Hanshin Himba St Madison St Gladness St (Big Bad Bob) Oka Sho (Japanese 1000 Guineas) European Free H’cap (CSP) Nell Gwyn (Lanwades) Patton St King Richard III EBF St (Stallions Totepool) Tetrarch St (EBF) Athasi St (EBF) Pont Neuf

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6f (1200m)

Class

Race Date

Value

Age

Surface

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23/07/2014 26/07/2014 31/07/2014 03/08/2014 03/08/2014 06/08/2014 10/08/2014 10/08/2014 17/08/2014 21/08/2014 23/08/2014 23/08/2014 23/08/2014 24/08/2014 24/08/2014 25/08/2014 31/08/2014 31/08/2014 31/08/2014 31/08/2014 04/09/2014 04/09/2014 06/09/2014 06/09/2014 07/09/2014 07/09/2014 07/09/2014 14/09/2014 20/09/2014 20/09/2014 27/09/2014 28/09/2014 28/09/2014 04/10/2014 04/10/2014 04/10/2014 05/10/2014 10/10/2014 11/10/2014 12/10/2014 17/10/2014 25/10/2014 26/10/2014 31/10/2014 04/11/2014 04/11/2014 08/11/2014 09/11/2014 15/11/2014 20/11/2014 20/11/2014 30/11/2014 14/12/2014

€54,000

Metres

£75,000 €80,000 £37,000 €55,000 €27,000 €60,000 £50,000 £150,000 £40,000 £200,000 €57,500 €350,000 $371,868 £30,000 €80,000 €70,000 €52,500 $391,646 £35,000 €25,000 £40,000 £250,000 £37,000 €41,800 $293,713 $558,347 £50,000 £65,000 £170,000 €40,000 €41,800 £40,000 £150,000 £70,000 $930,269 €80,000 £45,000 €40,000 £170,000 £27,000 €41,800 £30,000 €80,000 €190,000 £40,000 €61,600 £37,000 €52,000 €55,000 $371,285 $342,015

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

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

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

€55,000 €55,000 €250,000 €25,000 €55,000

3+ 3 3+ 3+ 2

T T T T T

1300 1300 1300 1300 1300

3+

T

1370

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

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

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

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01/05/2014 13/06/2014 10/08/2014 14/09/2014 19/09/2014

31/07/2014

NOK 500,000

03/04/2014 03/04/2014 05/04/2014 12/04/2014 12/04/2014 12/04/2014 12/04/2014 13/04/2014 13/04/2014 16/04/2014 16/04/2014 16/04/2014 26/04/2014 05/05/2014 05/05/2014 08/05/2014

Closing

17/07/2014 21/07/2014 25/07/2014 09/07/2014 28/07/2014 29/07/2014 08/07/2014 16/04/2014 11/07/2014 08/07/2014 18/08/2014 01/07/2014 16/07/2014 30/07/2014 08/07/2014 19/08/2014 06/08/2014 15/07/2014 26/08/2014 22/07/2014 29/08/2014 19/08/2014 01/09/2014 08/07/2014 01/09/2014 22/07/2014 05/08/2014 15/09/2014 29/07/2014 22/07/2014 22/09/2014 29/09/2014 29/09/2014 29/09/2014 19/08/2014 24/09/2014 06/10/2014 06/10/2014 29/07/2014 20/10/2014 25/10/2014 15/10/2014 15/10/2014 03/11/2014 09/10/2014 10/11/2014

14/10/2014 28/10/2014

6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5

04/03/2014 05/06/2014 16/07/2014 02/09/2014

6.8f (1370m)

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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

6.5f (1300m)

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Furlongs

6.8

02/06/2014

7f (1400m) €80,000 €80,000 $500,000 £60,000 £60,000 $515,770 $300,000 €60,000 $890,000 £37,000 £60,000 €42,000 £45,000 €50,000 €72,500 €55,000

7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7

19/03/2014 19/03/2014 22/03/2014 07/04/2014 07/04/2014 04/03/2014 05/03/2014 04/03/2014 10/04/2014 10/04/2014 10/04/2014 21/04/2014 29/04/2014 02/04/2014 30/04/2014

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Race Name & (Sponsor)

Breeders’ Cup

GB GB IRE ITY GB JPN FR GB ITY IRE GB GB IRE GB GB GB IRE FR FR GB GB FR JPN IRE GER GB IRE IRE GB GER GB GB IRE GB FR FR IRE GB GB GB FR GB GB FR GB IRE GB IRE IRE GB GER GER FR FR GB GB GB GB IRE IRE GB GB GB IRE GER GB GB GB FR FR FR IRE FR GB GB GB GB IRE GER GER IRE ITY JPN FR JPN JPN FR JPN

Haydock Park Lingfield Park Leopardstown Rome Newmarket Tokyo Longchamp Haydock Park Milan Naas Epsom Downs Royal Ascot Leopardstown Royal Ascot Warwick Newmarket Fairyhouse Longchamp Maisons-Laffitte Chester Newmarket Longchamp Chukyo Curragh Cologne Sandown Park Leopardstown Leopardstown Ascot Munich Goodwood Goodwood Galway Goodwood Vichy Deauville Tipperary Newmarket Newbury Newbury Deauville York York Deauville Goodwood Curragh Goodwood Curragh Tipperary Sandown Park Baden-Baden Baden-Baden Longchamp Longchamp Doncaster Doncaster Doncaster Doncaster Curragh Curragh Newbury Newmarket Newmarket Curragh Cologne Newmarket Redcar Ascot Longchamp Longchamp Chantilly Dundalk Longchamp Newmarket Newmarket Newbury Newbury Leopardstown Hannover Hannover Leopardstown Milan Kyoto Maisons-Laffitte Kyoto Tokyo Fontainebleau Hanshin

Spring Trophy Chartwell St 1000 Guineas Trial (Derrinstown Stud) Emirates Airline King Charles II St Keio Hai Spring Cup Palais Royal John of Gaunt St (Timeform Jury) Nogara Whitehead Memorial Surrey (Investec) Jersey St Ballycorus St Chesham St Eternal St Criterion St Brownstown St (Irish Stallion Farms EBF) Porte Maillot Amandine City Plate Superlative St (32Red.com) Roland de Chambure Procyon St Minstrel St Kolner Zweijahrigen Trophy Star St (EBF) Silver Flash St Tyros St Winkfield St Dallmayr Prodomo Trophy Lennox St (Bet 365) Vintage St (Veuve Clicquot) Corrib EBF Oak Tree St Jouvenceaux et Jouvencelles Six Perfections El Gran Senor Sweet Solera St (Germanthoroughbred.com) Washington Singer St (Denford Stud) Hungerford St Francois Boutin Acomb St City of York St Calvados Prestige St (Whiteley Clinic) Debutante St (Keeneland) Supreme St (Greene King) Futurity St (Galileo EBF) Fairy Bridge Solario St Coolmore Stud Baden-Cup Zukunfts-Rennen Pin La Rochette Sceptre St (JRA) Flying Scotsman Champagne St Park St Moyglare Stud St National St (Goffs Vincent O’Brien) Cup (Dubai Duty Free) Somerville St (Tattersall) Rockfel St (Shadwell) Park St (CL Weld) Kolner Herbst Preis Oh So Sharp St Guisborough St October St (Miles & Morrison) Prix de la Foret (Qatar) Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere-Grand Criterium Herod Star Appeal EBF St Saint-Cyr Challenge St Dewhurst St Radley St Horris Hill St (Worthington Highfield Social Club) Killavullan St Neue Bult Youngster Cup Neue Bult Stuten Sprint-Preis Knockaire St Premio Chiusura Swan St Miesque Fantasy St Keio Hai Nisai St Ceres Hanshin Cup

Juv F Turf

Mile Juv Turf

7f (1400m)

Class

Race Date

Value

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

10/05/2014 10/05/2014 11/05/2014 11/05/2014 17/05/2014 17/05/2014 31/05/2014 31/05/2014 01/06/2014 02/06/2014 06/06/2014 18/06/2014 19/06/2014 21/06/2014 26/06/2014 28/06/2014 02/07/2014 05/07/2014 06/07/2014 12/07/2014 12/07/2014 13/07/2014 13/07/2014 19/07/2014 22/07/2014 24/07/2014 24/07/2014 24/07/2014 26/07/2014 27/07/2014 29/07/2014 30/07/2014 31/07/2014 01/08/2014 02/08/2014 02/08/2014 08/08/2014 09/08/2014 16/08/2014 16/08/2014 17/08/2014 20/08/2014 22/08/2014 23/08/2014 23/08/2014 23/08/2014 24/08/2014 24/08/2014 28/08/2014 30/08/2014 03/09/2014 05/09/2014 07/09/2014 07/09/2014 11/09/2014 12/09/2014 13/09/2014 13/09/2014 14/09/2014 14/09/2014 19/09/2014 25/09/2014 26/09/2014 28/09/2014 03/10/2014 04/10/2014 04/10/2014 04/10/2014 05/10/2014 05/10/2014 06/10/2014 10/10/2014 17/10/2014 17/10/2014 17/10/2014 25/10/2014 25/10/2014 25/10/2014 26/10/2014 26/10/2014 26/10/2014 01/11/2014 01/11/2014 04/11/2014 08/11/2014 08/11/2014 20/11/2014 27/12/2014

£37,000 £60,000 €47,500 €41,800 £37,000 $558,191 €80,000 £60,000 €41,800 €42,500 £40,000 £75,000 €60,000 £60,000 £40,000 £60,000 €77,500 €80,000 €55,000 £37,000 £60,000 €55,000 $342,498 €57,500 €25,000 £30,000 €47,500 €47,500 £30,000 €25,000 £150,000 £75,000 €55,000 £60,000 €55,000 €55,000 €50,000 £50,000 £25,500 £90,000 €55,000 £60,000 £100,000 €80,000 £40,000 €95,000 £60,000 €95,000 €57,500 £40,000 €25,000 €55,000 €80,000 €80,000 £60,000 £27,000 £75,000 £100,000 €300,000 €200,000 £37,000 £40,000 £60,000 €55,000 €25,000 £40,000 £40,000 £40,000 €300,000 €350,000 €55,000 €47,500 €55,000 £100,000 350000 £25,500 £37,000 €47,500 €25,000 €25,000 €40,000 €61,600 $558,092 €80,000 $274,148 $352,473 €55,000 $635,085

Age

Surface

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

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 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 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 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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Tipperary

Concorde St (Coolmore Stud Home of Champions)

Gp 3

05/10/2014

€65,000

Dusseldorf

Preis der Dreijahrigen

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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 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7

Closing

05/05/2014 05/05/2014 06/05/2014 12/05/2014 01/04/2014 14/05/2014 26/05/2014 27/05/2014 31/05/2014 12/06/2014 14/05/2014 16/06/2014 20/06/2014 23/06/2014 28/05/2014 18/06/2014 27/06/2014 07/07/2014 07/07/2014 04/07/2014 27/05/2014 11/06/2014 08/07/2014 18/07/2014 17/07/2014 17/07/2014 20/07/2014 17/06/2014 29/07/2014 24/07/2014 25/07/2014 26/07/2014 25/07/2014 25/07/2014 02/08/2014 04/08/2014 11/08/2014 29/07/2014 11/08/2014 14/08/2014 16/08/2014 30/07/2014 18/08/2014 16/07/2014 18/08/2014 16/07/2014 23/07/2014 25/08/2014 15/07/2014 15/07/2014 20/08/2014 20/08/2014 05/09/2014 06/09/2014 22/07/2014 22/07/2014 28/05/2014 28/05/2014 13/09/2014 19/09/2014 22/07/2014 23/09/2014 23/09/2014 29/09/2014 29/09/2014 28/09/2014 27/08/2014 27/08/2014 04/10/2014 16/09/2014 29/07/2014 20/10/2014 20/10/2014 20/10/2014 14/10/2014 14/10/2014 20/10/2014 02/10/2014 16/09/2014 15/10/2014 30/09/2014 30/09/2014 11/11/2014

7.4f (1490m) 3+

T

1490

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Furlongs

7.4

27/08/2014

7.5f (1500m) €25,000

3

T

1500

7.5

01/04/2014

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Race Name & (Sponsor)

Breeders’ Cup

Class

ITY ITY ITY ITY ITY ITY GER ITY ITY ITY FR FR

Milan Milan Naples Rome Milan Rome Cologne Milan Rome Pisa Deauville Deauville

De Montel Luciano Mantovani Criterium Partenopeo Repubbliche Marinare V. Riva (ex del Dado) Rumon Winterkonigin Trial Coolmore Criterium Femminile Criterium di Pisa Luthier Miss Satamixa

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

Leopardstown Lingfield Park Milan Milan Nakayama Saint-Cloud Keeneland Nakayama Longchamp Longchamp Dusseldorf Rome Newmarket Kempton Park Cologne Toulouse Sandown Park Rome Rome Kyoto Ascot Leopardstown Saint-Cloud Dusseldorf Goodwood Newmarket Newmarket Cologne Milan Longchamp Longchamp Leopardstown Rome Tokyo Windsor Chantilly York York Newbury Cologne Rome Tokyo Saint Cloud Longchamp Curragh Curragh Dusseldorf Curragh Milan Sandown Park Baden-Baden Ovrevoll

Heritage International Trial Gardone Seregno Lord Derby Challenge Trophy Edmond Blanc Maker’s 46 Mile New Zealand Trophy Grotte Fontainebleau Fruhjahrs-Meile Natale di Roma Craven St Snowdrop St Karin Baronin von Ullmann- Schwarzgold-Rennen Aymeri de Mauleon (FBA) Sandown Mile (Bet365) Premio Regina Elena Premio Parioli Yomiuri Milers Cup Paradise St Leopardstown 2000 Guineas Trial Prix du Muguet Henkel Stutenpreis Conqueror St (EBF) 2000 Guineas St (Qipco) 1000 Guineas St (Qipco) Excelsior Hotel Ernst Meile Bereguardo Poule d’Essai des Poulains Poule d’Essai des Pouliches Amethyst St Tadolina NHK Mile Cup Royal Windsor St Volterra Hambleton H’cap (Betfred) Michael Seely Memorial St Lockinge St (Jlt) Mehl-Mulhens-Rennen - German 2,000 Guineas Mauro Sbarigia (ex Righetti) Victoria Mile Pontarme Montretout Ridgewood Pearl St (Lanwades Stud) Irish 2000 Guineas (Tattersalls) German 1,000 Guineas Irish 1000 Guineas (Etihad Airways) Premio Carlo Vittadini Heron St Badener Meile Polar Mile Cup

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

02/04/2014 05/04/2014 06/04/2014 06/04/2014 06/04/2014 08/04/2014 11/04/2014 12/04/2014 13/04/2014 13/04/2014 13/04/2014 13/04/2014 17/04/2014 19/04/2014 21/04/2014 25/04/2014 25/04/2014 27/04/2014 27/04/2014 27/04/2014 30/04/2014 30/04/2014 01/05/2014 01/05/2014 03/05/2014 03/05/2014 04/05/2014 04/05/2014 04/05/2014 11/05/2014 11/05/2014 11/05/2014 11/05/2014 11/05/2014 12/05/2014 13/05/2014 15/05/2014 16/05/2014 17/05/2014 18/05/2014 18/05/2014 18/05/2014 19/05/2014 20/05/2014 24/05/2014 24/05/2014 25/05/2014 25/05/2014 25/05/2014 29/05/2014 29/05/2014 29/05/2014

FR FR FR ITY JPN GER SWE

Chantilly Longchamp Chantilly Milan Tokyo Cologne Taby Galopp

Prix de Sandringham Lilas Paul de Moussac D’Estate Yasuda Kinen Weidenpescher Stutenpreis Bloomers’ Vase

Gp 2 L Gp 3 L Gr 1 L L

01/06/2014 03/06/2014 07/06/2014 08/06/2014 08/06/2014 09/06/2014 10/06/2014

L L L L L L L L L L L L

7.5f (1500m)

Race Date

Value

Age

Surface

29/06/2014 29/06/2014 20/07/2014 14/09/2014 21/09/2014 21/09/2014 28/09/2014 28/09/2014 02/11/2014 07/12/2014 13/12/2014 28/12/2014

€41,800 €41,800 €41,800 €41,800 €41,800 €41,800 €25,000 €41,800 €41,800 €41,800 €52,000 €52,000

Metres

2 C&G 2F 2 2F 2C 2C 2F 2F 2F 2 3+ 3+

T T T T T T T T T T AWT

1500 1500 1500 1500 1500 1500 1500 1500 1500 1500 1500 1500

€40,000 £37,000 €41,800 €41,800 $369,847 €80,000 $300,000 $506,048 €80,000 €80,000 €55,000 €41,800 £60,000 £37,000 €55,000 €55,000 £90,000 €110,000 €110,000 $554,653 £37,000 €40,000 €130,000 €25,000 £40,000 £400,000 £400,000 €25,000 €41,800 €450,000 €450,000 €57,500 €41,800 $900,461 £37,000 €55,000 £40,000 £40,000 £180,000 €153,000 €41,800 $880,895 €55,000 €52,000 €62,500 €300,000 €125,000 €300,000 €104,500 £37,000 €55,000 NOK 250,000

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

T AWT T T T T T 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

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

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

€130,000 €55,000 €80,000 $41,800 $978,704 €25,000 SEK 400,000

3F 3F 3 CG 3 3+ 4+ 3+ F&M

T T T T T T T

1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600

8 8 8 8 8 8 8

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Furlongs

7.5 7.5 7.5 7.5 7.5 7.5 7.5 7.5 7.5 7.5 7.5 7.5

Closing

16/09/2014

8f (1600m) 27/03/2014 31/03/2014

18/02/2014 19/03/2014 04/03/2014 26/03/2014 26/03/2014 04/03/2014 11/04/2014 14/04/2014 25/02/2014 17/04/2014 19/04/2014 31/03/2013 31/03/2014 18/03/2014 24/04/2014 24/03/2014 09/04/2014 22/04/2014 28/04/2014 04/03/2014 04/03/2014 22/04/2014 19/02/2014 19/02/2014 02/04/2014 01/05/2014 06/05/2014 05/05/2014 09/05/2014 10/05/2014 01/04/2014 25/02/2014 01/04/2014 12/05/2014 12/05/2014 16/05/2014 04/09/2013 04/03/2014 04/09/2013 24/04/2014 23/05/2014 15/04/2014 31/03/2014

14/05/2014 26/05/2014 21/05/2014 29/04/2014 27/05/2014 05/05/2014

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Race Name & (Sponsor)

IRE GB FR GB ITY GB GB GB GB FR JPN IRE FR FR GER GB FR GB GB GB GB FR IRE NOR

Leopardstown York Chantilly Windsor Milan Royal Ascot Royal Ascot Royal Ascot Royal Ascot La Teste de Buch Tokyo Curragh Nantes Deauville Hamburg Sandown Park Maisons-Laffitte Pontefract Newmarket Newmarket Ascot Chantilly Killarney Ovrevoll

FR GB FR GB GER JPN GB GB FR FR IRE GB GB IRE FR FR JPN IRE GB FR GER GB GB FR IRE JPN FR GER FR GB GB TKY ITY TKY FR GB IRE IRE FR GER GER JPN SWE GB FR GER FR FR GB GB GB IRE ITY ITY SWE FR

Vichy Ascot Chantilly Pontefract Munich Chukyo Goodwood Goodwood Deauville Deauville Cork Haydock Park Salisbury Leopardstown Deauville Deauville Niigata Killarney Goodwood Deauville Dusseldorf Salisbury Sandown Park Deauville Curragh Niigata Chantilly Baden-Baden Toulouse Haydock Park Haydock Park Veliefendi Milan Veliefendi Chantilly Doncaster Leopardstown Curragh Longchamp Dusseldorf Munich Niigata Taby Galopp Sandown Park Longchamp Cologne Lyon-Parilly Saint-Cloud Newmarket Newmarket Newmarket Curragh Milan Milan Taby Galopp Longchamp

8f (1600m)

Class

Race Date

Value

Glencairn St Ganton Prix Bertrand du Breuil Longines Midsummer St (Betfred) Royal Mares St James’s Palace St Queen Anne St Sandringham H’cap Coronation St La Sorellina Unicorn St Celebration St Grand Prix d’Anjou Bretagne Saint-Patrick Hamburger Stutenmeile Distaff St (Coral) Messidor Pipalong St Stubbs Falmouth (Etihad Airways) Summer Mile (Fred Cowley MBE Memorial) Prix Jean Prat Cairn Rouge Lanwades Stud Fillies St

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

12/06/2014 14/06/2014 15/06/2014 15/06/2014 15/06/2014 17/06/2014 17/06/2014 18/06/2014 20/06/2014 21/06/2014 22/06/2014 28/06/2014 30/06/2014 02/07/2014 02/07/2014 05/07/2014 06/07/2014 08/07/2014 10/07/2014 11/07/2014 12/07/2014 14/07/2014 14/07/2014 24/07/2014

Jacques de Bremond Valiant St (EBF) Bagatelle Pomfret St Dallmayr Coupe Lukull Toyoto Sho Chukyo Kinen Sussex (Quipco) Thoroughbred St (Bonhams) Tourgeville Prix de Rothschild Platinum St Dick Hern (EBF) Sovereign St (totepool) Desmond St Lieurey Prix Jacques le Marois (Haras de Fresnay-Le-Buffard) Sekiya Kinen Ruby St Celebration Mile (Betfair) Criterium du F.E.E. Sparkassenpreis - Stadtsparkasse Dusseldorf Stonehenge St (EBF) Atalanta St Quincey (Lucien Barriere) Flame of Tara EBF St Niigata Nisai St La Cochere Darley Oettingen-Rennen Prix Millkom Ascendant St (Betfred) Superior Mile International Istanbul Trophy Bessero Pietro International Topkapi Trophy Aumale May Hill St (Barrett Steel) BC Juv Turf Trial (Golden Fleece St) Solonoway (Moyglare Stud) Prix du Moulin de Longchamp Junioren-Preis Grosse Europa-Meile Keisei Hai Autumn H’cap Lanwades Stud St Fortune St Chenes Kolner Stutenpreis Criterium de Lyon Coronation Rosemary Joel St (Nayef) Royal Lodge St (Juddmonte) Beresford St (Juddmonte) Premio Sergio Cumani Premio Vittorio di Capua Swedish Open Mile Prix Daniel Wildenstein (Qatar)

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

25/07/2014 25/07/2014 27/07/2014 27/07/2014 27/07/2014 27/07/2014 30/07/2014 01/08/2014 02/08/2014 03/08/2014 05/08/2014 09/08/2014 14/08/2014 14/08/2014 15/08/2014 17/08/2014 17/08/2014 21/08/2014 23/08/2014 24/08/2014 24/08/2014 29/08/2014 30/08/2014 31/08/2014 31/08/2014 31/08/2014 03/09/2014 03/09/2014 06/09/2014 06/09/2014 06/09/2014 06/09/2014 07/09/2014 07/09/2014 09/09/2014 12/09/2014 13/09/2014 13/09/2014 14/09/2014 14/09/2014 14/09/2014 14/09/2014 14/09/2014 17/09/2014 20/09/2014 20/09/2014 25/09/2014 26/09/2014 26/09/2014 26/09/2014 27/09/2014 28/09/2014 28/09/2014 28/09/2014 29/09/2014 04/10/2014

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Mile

Juv Turf

Juv Turf

Age

Surface

Metres

Furlongs

€40,000 £37,000 €80,000 £40,000 €41,800 £375,000 £375,000 £70,000 £375,000 €55,000 $332,645 €45,000 €52,000 €55,000 €55,000 £37,000 €80,000 £40,000 £40,000 £160,000 £100,000 €400,000 €50,000 NOK 225,000

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

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

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

€52,000 £40,000 €55,000 £45,000 €25,000 $371,808 £300,000 £60,000 €55,000 €300,000 €40,000 £47,000 £62,500 €57,500 €80,000 €600,000 $371,868 €40,000 £100,000 €122,000 €35,000 £26,500 £60,000 €80,000 €50,000 $293,667 €55,000 €70,000 €55,000 £25,500 £60,000 €195,500 €41,800 €459,000 €80,000 £70,000 €100,000 €200,000 €450,000 €25,000 €55,000 $372,198 SEK 400,000 £37,000 €80,000 €25,000 €55,000 €55,000 £40,000 £100,000 £100,000 €95,000 €61,600 €209,000 SEK 400,000 €200,000

4+ 3F 3F 3+ 3+F 3+ 3+ 3 3 C&G 3+ F 3+ 3+ 3+ C&G 3+ 3F 3+ CF 3+ 3+ 3+ 2 3+ F 2 3+ F&M 3+ 2F 2 3F 3+ 3 2 3+ 3+F 3+ F&M 3+ C&F 2F 2F 2 3+ 3 + CF 2 3+ 3+ 3-5 F&M 3+ 2 CG 3+ F 2 3F 3+ 3+ 2 C&G 2 3+ F 3+ 3+ 3+

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

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

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

06/06/2014 09/06/2014 21/05/2014 09/06/2014 22/04/2014 22/04/2014 12/06/2014 22/04/2014 13/06/2014 13/05/2014 23/06/2014 23/06/2014 24/06/2014 06/05/2014 30/06/2014 18/06/2014 02/07/2014 04/07/2014 17/06/2014 06/07/2014 25/06/2014 08/07/2014 19/05/2014

17/07/2014 18/07/2014 18/07/2014 21/07/2014 17/06/2014 10/06/2014 27/05/2014 26/08/2014 25/07/2014 09/07/2014 30/07/2014 04/08/2014 08/08/2014 09/07/2014 23/07/2014 23/07/2014 08/07/2014 15/08/2014 08/07/2014 15/08/2014 01/07/2014 23/08/2014 25/08/2014 06/08/2014 25/08/2014 22/07/2014 15/07/2014 01/09/2014 01/09/2014 06/08/2014 06/08/2014 20/08/2014 06/09/2014 08/09/2014 06/08/2014 27/08/2014 02/09/2014 22/07/2014 05/08/2014 11/09/2014 20/09/2014 16/09/2014

14/09/2014 02/09/2014 22/07/2014 20/08/2014 28/08/2014 28/08/2014 27/08/2014

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Race Name & (Sponsor)

Breeders’ Cup

GB FR FR FR GB GER IRE ITY GB GB IRE GER GER IRE ITY ITY GB FR GB JPN FR FR GB IRE GB GB JPN GER ITY FR FR JPN JPN JPN FR FR JPN JPN IRE

Newmarket Longchamp Saint-Cloud Chantilly Newmarket Cologne Curragh Milan Newmarket Ascot Cork Baden-Baden Baden-Baden Naas Milan Milan Pontefract Nantes Doncaster Tokyo Saint-Cloud Saint-Cloud Lingfield Park Dundalk Newmarket Newmarket Tokyo Frankfurt Rome Compiegne Toulouse Kyoto Tokyo Kyoto Chantilly Chantilly Hanshin Hanshin Leopardstown

Sun Chariot St (Kingdom of Bahrain) Prix Marcel Boussac (Total) Thomas Bryon Ranelagh Autumn St Preis des Winterfavoriten Silken Glider (Staffordstown) St Gran Criterium Fillies’ Mile (Dubai) Queen Elizabeth II St (Quipco) Navigation St Winterkonigon Preis der Winterkonigin Garnet EBF St Premio Dormello Del Piazzale Silver Tankard St (EBF) Sablonnets Trophy (Racing Post) Saudi Arabia Royal Cup Fuji St Criterium International Perth Fleur de Lys St (EBF) Cooley EBF St Ben Marshall St Montrose St (EBF) Artemis S Hessen-Sprint Premio Ribot Isola-Bella Criterium du Languedoc Daily Hai Nisai St Musashino St Mile Championship Tantieme Isonomy Hanshin Juvenile Fillies Asahi Hai Futurity St Matron St (Coolmore Fusaichi Pegasus)

FR FR

Craon Craon

Criterium de l’Ouest Point du Jour

USA USA USA USA GER GB GB GER JPN GER GER

Keeneland Santa Anita Oaklawn Park Keeneland Krefeld Epsom Downs Epsom Downs Krefeld Sapporo Dusseldorf Krefeld

Central Bank Ashland St Santa Anita Oaks Apple Blossom H Jenny Wiley St Dr. Busch-Memorial Diomed St (Investec) Princess Elizabeth St (Investec) Meilen Trophy Elm St Landeshauptstadt Dusseldorf Herzog von Ratibor-Rennen

SWE

Jagersro

Margareta Wettermarks Minneslopning

SWE

Jagersro

Pramms Memorial

GER

Dortmund

Grosser Preis der Wirtschaft

8f (1600m)

Class

Race Date

Value

Age

Surface

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

04/10/2014 05/10/2014 09/10/2014 10/10/2014 11/10/2014 12/10/2014 12/10/2014 12/10/2014 17/10/2014 18/10/2014 18/10/2014 19/10/2014 19/10/2014 19/10/2014 19/10/2014 19/10/2014 20/10/2014 25/10/2014 25/10/2014 25/10/2014 26/10/2014 30/10/2014 30/10/2014 31/10/2014 01/11/2014 01/11/2014 01/11/2014 02/11/2014 02/11/2014 03/11/2014 11/11/2014 15/11/2014 15/11/2014 23/11/2014 25/11/2014 25/11/2014 14/12/2014 21/12/2014 13/09/2014

£160,000 €300,000 €80,000 €52,000 £40,000 €155,000 €42,500 €209,000 £170,000 £1,000,000 €40,000 €105,000 €105,000 €50,000 €88,000 €61,600 £40,000 €55,000 £200,000 $391,680 €250,000 €80,000 £40,000 €50,000 £37,000 £30,000 $274,148 €25,000 €104,500 €52,000 €55,000 $351,753 $362,311 $976,929 €52,000 €55,000 $635,154 $683,899 €300,000

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

T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T AWT AWT T T T T T T T T D T T T 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 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600

2 3+

T T

1650 1650

$500,000 $400,000 $600,000 $300,000 €55,000 £60,000 £60,000 €70,000 $342,473 €55,000 €55,000

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

AWT D D T T T T T D T T

1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700

3+ F&M

D

1730

8.6

02/06/2014

8.6

07/04/2014

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08/09/2014 22/09/2014

Metres

05/04/2014 05/04/2014 11/04/2014 12/04/2014 27/04/2014 06/06/2014 06/06/2014 13/07/2014 27/07/2014 05/10/2014 09/11/2014

05/07/2014

SEK 400,000

Gp3

08/04/2014

SEK 1,200,000

4+

D

1730

€55,000

3+

T

1750

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York

Strensall St

Gp 3

23/08/2014

Maisons-Laffitte Aqueduct Santa Anita Longchamp

Jacques Laffitte Wood Memorial St Santa Anita Derby Finlande

L Gr 1 Gr 1 L

03/04/2014 05/04/2014 05/04/2014 06/04/2014

30/09/2014 30/09/2014 30/09/2014

28/10/2014 11/11/2014 02/07/2014

8.25 8.25

8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5

22/03/2014 29/03/2014 25/02/2014 31/05/2014 31/05/2014 20/05/2014 10/06/2014 12/08/2014 19/08/2014

£75,000

8.75 29/04/2014

8.95f (1790m) 3+

T

1790

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12/08/2014 16/09/2014 08/10/2014 15/10/2014 24/10/2014 25/10/2014 27/10/2014 27/10/2014 16/09/2014 21/10/2014 02/10/2014

8.75f (1750m)

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06/10/2014 CLOSED 06/10/2014 11/09/2014 22/07/2014 05/08/2014 13/10/2014 CLOSED CLOSED 13/10/2014 18/09/2014 18/09/2014 14/10/2014

8.6f (1730m)

L

22/06/2014

Closing

22/07/2014 27/08/2014 24/09/2014

8.5f (1700m)

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Gp 3

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

8.25f (1650m) €55,000 €52,000

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Furlongs

8.95 18/08/2014

9f (1800m) €52,000 $1,000,000 $1,000,000 €55,000

4+ 3 3 3F

T D D T

1800 1800 1800 1800

9 9 9 9

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Race Name & (Sponsor)

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

Keeneland Oaklawn Park Newmarket Newmarket Hanshin Nakayama Fontainebleau Fukushima Gowran Park Rome Newmarket Chantilly Ovrevoll Goodwood Goodwood Baden-Baden Tokyo Milan Chantilly Compiegne Fukushima Curragh Curragh Klampenborg Sapporo Niigata Salisbury Gowran Park Clairefontaine Clairefontaine Ovrevoll

IRE JPN GER FR JPN GB ITY FR JPN GB JPN FR FR IRE ITY ITY FR JPN JPN JPN

Breeders’ Cup

9f (1800m)

Class

Race Date

Value

Age

Surface

Toyota Blue Grass St Arkansas Derby Feilden (Ebm-Papst) Earl of Sefton St (Weatherbys) Antares St Satsuki Sho (Japanes 2000 Guineas) Suresnes Fukushima Himba St Victor McCalmont Memorial EBF St Signorino Dahlia St (Qatar Bloodstock) Guiche Semb Hovedgard Hoppelop Height of Fashion St Festival St (32Red) Iffezheimer Diana-Trial Epsom Cup Del Giubileo Chloe Prix Darphnis Radio Nikkei Sho Kilboy Estate Meld St Dansk Pokallob Queen St Leopard St Upavon St (EBF) Hurry Harriet EBF St Luth Enchantee Pelleas Marit Sveaas Minnelop

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

12/04/2014 12/04/2014 16/04/2014 17/04/2014 19/04/2014 20/04/2014 22/04/2014 26/04/2014 27/04/2014 27/04/2014 04/05/2014 13/05/2014 17/05/2014 22/05/2014 24/05/2014 31/05/2014 15/06/2014 29/06/2014 30/06/2014 30/06/2014 06/07/2014 20/07/2014 20/07/2014 03/08/2014 03/08/2014 10/08/2014 13/08/2014 13/08/2014 14/08/2014 20/08/2014 24/08/2014

Curragh Sapporo Baden-Baden Longchamp Hanshin Goodwood Milan Maisons-Laffitte Tokyo Newmarket Tokyo Longchamp Longchamp Leopardstown Rome Milan Marseille Borely Kyoto Tokyo Hanshin

Dance Design St Sapporo Nisai St Berenberg Bank Cup Bertrand de Tarragon FEE Rose St Foundation St M.Se Ippolito Fassati Le Fabuleux Mainichi Okan Darley St Fuchu Himba St Casimir Delamarre Conde Eyrefield St Premio Guido Berardelli Campobello Delahante Miyako St Tokyo Sports Hai Nisai St Challenge Cup

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

31/08/2014 06/09/2014 07/09/2014 20/09/2014 21/09/2014 24/09/2014 28/09/2014 07/10/2014 12/10/2014 17/10/2014 18/10/2014 19/10/2014 19/10/2014 26/10/2014 26/10/2014 01/11/2014 09/11/2014 09/11/2014 24/11/2014 13/12/2014

FR FR

Longchamp Longchamp

Vanteaux Prix d’Ispahan

$750,000 $1,000,000 £37,000 £60,000 $340,609 $970,000 €55,000 $360,012 €50,000 €41,800 £60,000 €80,000 NOK 250,000 £40,000 £40,000 €25,000 $391,437 €61,600 €80,000 €80,000 $361,861 €100,000 €60,000 DKK 250,000 $342,443 $391,332 £41,000 €50,000 €64,000 €55,000 NOK 1,300,000

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

AWT D T T D 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

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

€67,500 $293,715 €25,000 €64,000 $489,672 £40,000 €41,800 €55,000 $607,118 £55,000 $519,023 €55,000 €80,000 €40,000 €88,000 €41,800 €55,000 $362,311 $312,578 $390,663

3+ F 2 3+F 3+ F 3F 3+ 3 3 3+ 3+ 3+ FM 3F 2 2 2 2 2 3+ 2 3+

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

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 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9

€80,000 €250,000

3F 4+

T T

1850 1850

IRE

Gowran Park

Denny Cordell Lavarack & Lanwades Stud Fillies St

€70,000

3+ F

T

1890

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27/04/2014 25/05/2014

Metres

21/09/2014

Pimlico Bordeaux Kyoto Hannover Arlington Park Bordeaux Deauville Deauville Hannover

Preakness St Grand Prix de Bordeaux Heian St Grosser Preis der VGH-Versicherungen Beverly D. St Grand Criterium de Bordeaux Lyphard Petite Etoile Grosser Preis der Metallbau Burckhardt GmbH

F&M Turf

Gr 1 L Gr 3 L Gr 1 L L L L

17/05/2014 24/05/2014 24/05/2014 09/06/2014 16/08/2014 08/10/2014 02/12/2014 03/12/2014 21/09/2014

Taby Galopp

Stockholm Stora Pris

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10/06/2014

28/04/2014 23/04/2014 17/03/2014 16/05/2014 19/05/2014 20/05/2014 29/04/2014 29/05/2014 11/06/2014 11/06/2014 27/05/2014 11/06/2014 11/06/2014 24/06/2014 24/06/2014 07/08/2014 07/08/2014 06/08/2014 12/08/2014 23/06/2014

23/07/2014 22/07/2014 15/07/2014 21/09/2014 18/09/2014

02/09/2014 11/10/2014 02/09/2014 08/10/2014 20/10/2014 25/09/2014

30/09/2014 14/10/2014 28/10/2014

9.25 09/04/2014 9.25 30/04/2014

$1,500,000 €60,000 $342,481 €25,000 $750,000 €55,000 €52,000 €55,000 €25,000

9.4

13/08/2014

9.5f (1900m) 3 4+ 4+ 4+F 3+ FM 2 3+ 3F 3+F

D T D T T T AWT AWT T

Visit www.trainermagazine.com SWE

29/03/2014 10/04/2014 11/04/2014 04/03/2014 04/03/2014 14/04/2014 18/03/2014 21/04/2014

9.4f (1890m)

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Closing

9.25f (1850m)

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Furlongs

1900 1900 1900 1900 1900 1900 1900 1900 1900

9.5 9.5 9.5 9.5 9.5 9.5 9.5 9.5 9.5

22/03/2014 16/05/2014 15/04/2014 27/05/2014 25/04/2014

09/09/201

9.75f (1950m) SEK 800,000

4+

T

1950

9.75 05/05/2014

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Breeders’ Cup

FR SWE

Longchamp Taby Galopp

Prix Dollar (Qatar) Stockholm Fillies And Mares St

GB

Goodwood

Nassau

9.75f (1950m)

Class

Race Date

Value

Gp 2 L

04/10/2014 12/10/2014

€200,000 SEK 400,000

Age

Surface

3+ 3+F&M

T T

1950 1950

3+ F

T

1970

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02/08/2014

£200,000

Metres

Longchamp Longchamp Hanshin Leopardstown Navan Curragh Berlin-Hoppergarten Milan Milan Toulouse Tokyo Chantilly Saint-Cloud Newmarket Newmarket Milan Curragh Frankfurt Leopardstown Rome Niigata Marseille Borely York Naas York York Newbury Newmarket Longchamp Curragh Sandown Park Milan Maisons-Laffitte Compiegne Hanshin Hoppegarten Curragh Munich Longchamp Newbury Le Lion d’Angers Dresden Hanshin Warwick Royal Ascot Royal Ascot Royal Ascot Milan Compiegne Compiegne Naas Newcastle Sandown Park Hamburg Delaware Park Hannover Munich Fukushima Newbury Maisons-Laffitte Maisons-Laffitte Hakodate Vichy Le Lion d’Angers Vichy York Munich Deauville Kokura Deauville Deauville Arlington Park Arlington Park Krefeld Deauville Deauville Curragh Sapporo Baden-Baden Longchamp Toulouse Niigata Marseille Borely

Prix La Force Prix Harcourt Sankei Osaka Hai Ballysax St (P W McGrath Memorial) Salsabil EBF St Alleged St Preis der Dahlwitz Emanuele Filiberto Premio Ambrosiano Le Vase d’Argent Flora St Allez France Prix de Greffulhe Newmarket St Pretty Polly St (Tweenhills) Baggio Mooresbridge St (High Chaparral EBF) Fruhjahrs-Preis des Bankhaus Metzler Derby Trial (Derrinstown Stud) Premio Presidente della Repubblica Niigata Daishoten Georges Trabaud Musidora St (Tattersalls) Blue Wind St (Irish Stallion Farms EBF) Dante St (Betfred) Middleton St (Betfred) Fillies’ Trial (Swettenham Stud) Fairway St Prix Saint-Alary (Pour Moi Coolmore) Gallinule St (Airlie Stud) Brigadier Gerard St (Cantor Fitzgerald) Merano Matchem Melisande Naruo Kinen Diana Trial Silver St Bavarian Classic La Coupe Ballymacoll Stud St (Lord Weinstock Memorial) Urban Sea Bwin Sachsen Preis Mermaid St Warwickshire Oaks (Voute Sales) Prince of Wales’s St Tercentenary Wolferton H’cap Premio Mario Incisa Ridgway Grand Prix de Compiegne Naas Oaks Trial (EBF) Hoppings St (EBF) Gala St (Ambant) Hamburg Trophy Delaware H’cap Neue Bult Stuten Meilen Cup Bavaria-Preis Tanabata Sho Steventon St (Sharps Brewery) La Pepiniere Prix Eugene Adam Hakodate Kinen Madame Jean Couturie Grand Prix du Lion d’Angers Vichy - Auvergne Lyric St (EBF) Grosser-Dallmayr Preis Psyche Kokura Kinen Prix Guillaume d’Ornano (Haras du Logis Saint Germain Gontaut-Biron (Hong Kong Jockey Club) Arlington Million XXXI Turf Secretariat Stakes Grosser Preis der Sparkasse Nonette (Shadwell) Prix Jean Romanet (Darley) Royal Whip St (Kilfrush Stud) Sapporo Kinen Sparkassen- Finanzgruppe Boulogne Occitanie Niigata Kinen Coupe de Marseille

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

06/04/2014 06/04/2014 06/04/2014 12/04/2014 12/04/2014 13/04/2014 20/04/2014 20/04/2014 20/04/2014 25/04/2014 27/04/2014 28/04/2014 03/05/2014 03/05/2014 04/05/2014 04/05/2014 05/05/2014 11/05/2014 11/05/2014 11/05/2014 11/05/2014 13/05/2014 14/05/2014 14/05/2014 15/05/2014 15/05/2014 16/05/2014 17/05/2014 25/05/2014 25/05/2014 29/05/2014 01/06/2014 04/06/2014 06/06/2014 07/06/2014 08/06/2014 08/06/2014 09/06/2014 12/06/2014 12/06/2014 14/06/2014 14/06/2014 15/06/2014 16/06/2014 18/06/2014 19/06/2014 20/06/2014 22/06/2014 25/06/2014 25/06/2014 25/06/2014 27/06/2014 04/07/2014 05/07/2014 12/07/2014 13/07/2014 13/07/2014 13/07/2014 19/07/2014 20/07/2014 20/07/2014 20/07/2014 22/07/2014 22/07/2014 23/07/2014 25/07/2014 27/07/2014 31/07/2014 10/08/2014 15/08/2014 16/08/2014 16/08/2014 16/08/2014 17/08/2014 19/08/2014 24/08/2014 24/08/2014 24/08/2014 30/08/2014 04/09/2014 06/09/2014 07/09/2014 11/09/2014

Closing

9.75 27/08/2014 9.75

9.85f (1970m)

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Furlongs

9.85 08/07/2014

10f (2000m) €80,000 €130,000 $603,456 €47,500 €50,000 €42,000 €27,000 €41,800 €61,600 €52,000 $486,499 €80,000 €130,000 £40,000 £40,000 €41,800 €72,500 €55,000 €95,000 €297,000 $391,650 €55,000 £75,000 €77,500 £150,000 £100,000 £37,000 £37,000 €250,000 €52,500 £60,000 €41,800 €55,000 €55,000 $391,475 €70,000 €40,000 €55,000 €80,000 £37,000 €64,000 €25,000 $342,471 £40,000 £375,000 £75,000 £70,000 €61,600 €55,000 €60,000 €50,000 £40,000 £37,000 €55,000 $750,000 €25,000 €25,000 $391,486 £37,000 €64,000 €130,000 $391,461 €55,000 €55,000 €80,000 £40,000 €155,000 €80,000 $391,332 €400,000 €80,000 $1,000,000 $500,000 €55,000 €130,000 €250,000 €95,000 $636,233 €55,000 €52,000 €55,000 $391,666 €55,000

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

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 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

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19/03/2014 19/03/2014 18/02/2014 07/04/2014 07/04/2014 07/04/2014 18/03/2014 20/03/2014 17/04/2014 18/03/2014 09/04/2014 09/04/2014 28/04/2014 28/04/2014 02/04/2014 11/03/2014 06/05/2014 10/04/2014 01/05/2014 05/05/2014 08/05/2014 09/04/2014 01/04/2014 01/04/2014 10/05/2014 12/05/2014 19/02/2014 20/05/2014 23/05/2014 27/05/2014 29/05/2014 29/04/2014 15/04/2014 02/06/2014 18/03/2014 21/05/2014 06/06/2014 06/06/2014 03/06/2014 29/04/2014 10/06/2014 22/04/2014 13/06/2014 14/06/2014 22/05/2014 17/06/2014 17/06/2014 19/06/2014 21/06/2014 28/06/2014 13/05/2014 01/07/2014 01/07/2014 27/05/2014 14/07/2014 11/07/2014 02/07/2014 10/06/2014 15/07/2014 15/07/2014 02/07/2014 19/07/2014 06/05/2014 09/07/2014 24/06/2014 23/07/2014 23/07/2014 25/04/2014 25/04/2014 24/06/2014 30/07/2014 30/07/2014 16/07/2014 08/07/2014 15/07/2014

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Track

Race Name & (Sponsor)

Breeders’ Cup

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

Leopardstown Leopardstown Curragh Yarmouth Maisons-Laffitte Longchamp Ayr Rome Chantilly Hoppegarten Hanshin Longchamp Saint-Cloud Newmarket Munich Milan Taby Galopp Lyon-Parilly Dundalk Ascot Baden-Baden Kyoto Leopardstown Rome Rome Newmarket Rome Tokyo Saint-Cloud Saint-Cloud Doncaster Marseille Borely Rome Lingfield Park Fukushima Kyoto Chukyo Chukyo Krefeld

Kilternan St Irish Champion St (Qipco) Blandford St (Moyglare Stud) John Musker (EBF) La Coupe de Maisons-Laffitte Prince d’Orange Doonside Cup (williamhill.com) Archidamia Charles Laffitte Preis der Deutschen Einheit Sirius St Prix de l’Opera (Longines) Dahlia Pride Nereide-Rennen Premio Verziere (Memorial A. Cirla) Songline Classic Andre Baboin Carlingford St Champion (Quipco) Baden-Wurttemberg-Trophy Shuka Sho Trigo St Conte Felice Scheibler Premio Lydia Tesio James Seymour Premio Roma Tenno Sho (Autumn) Solitude Criterium de Saint-Cloud Gillies St (EBF) Grand Prix de Marseille G, Valiani (ex Buontalenta) Churchill St Fukushima Kinen Radio Nikkei Hai Nisai St Kinko Sho Aichi Hai Niederrhein-Pokal

GB GB GB GB

Sandown Park Sandown Park Sandown Park Windsor

Classic Trial (Bet 365) Gordon Richards St (Bet365) Eclipse St (Coral) Winter Hill

GB GB GB GB GB

Chester Chester York Haydock Park York

Huxley St (Betfair) Dee St (ChesterBET) York St (Sky Bet) Rose of Lancaster St (Betfred) International St (Juddmonte)

GER ITY FR FR FR FR ITY FR FR IRE FR FR GER GER FR FR IRE FR FR FR

Cologne Rome Saint-Cloud Longchamp Toulouse Longchamp Rome Saint-Cloud Saint-Cloud Curragh Chantilly Chantilly Dusseldorf Dusseldorf Longchamp Strasbourg Dundalk Saint-Cloud Croise-Laroche Toulouse

Grand Prix Aufgalopp Circo Massimo Penelope Prix Noailles Caravelle (Haras des Granges) Prix Ganay Botticelli Cleopatre Prix Corrida Gold Cup (Tattersalls) Prix du Jockey Club Prix de Diane (Longines) BMW-Preis Henkel-Trophy Liancourt Grand Prix de la Region d’Alsace Diamond St Flore Grand Prix du Nord Fille de l’Air

Turf

F&M Turf

10f (2000m)

Class

Race Date

Value

Age

Surface

Gp 3 Gp 1 Gp 2 L Gp 3 Gp 3 L L L Gp 3 Gr 3 Gp 1 L L L Gp 3 L Gp3 L Gp 1 Gp 3 Gr 1 L L Gp 1 L Gp 1 Gr 1 L Gp 1 L L L L Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gp 3

13/09/2014 13/09/2014 14/09/2014 17/09/2014 19/09/2014 20/09/2014 20/09/2014 28/09/2014 01/10/2014 03/10/2014 04/10/2014 05/10/2014 09/10/2014 11/10/2014 12/10/2014 12/10/2014 12/10/2014 14/10/2014 17/10/2014 18/10/2014 19/10/2014 19/10/2014 25/10/2014 26/10/2014 26/10/2014 01/11/2014 02/11/2014 02/11/2014 08/11/2014 08/11/2014 08/11/2014 09/11/2014 09/11/2014 15/11/2014 16/11/2014 29/11/2014 06/12/2014 20/12/2014 09/11/2014

€100,000 €1,000,000 €200,000 £40,000 €80,000 €80,000 £60,000 €41,800 €55,000 €85,000 $342,758 €400,000 €64,000 £37,000 €25,000 €61,600 SEK 400,000 €80,000 €40,000 £1,300,000 €55,000 $871,592 €40,000 €41,800 €209,000 £37,000 €209,000 $1,292,420 €55,000 €250,000 £40,000 €60,000 €41,800 £45,000 $390,800 $312,578 $585,958 $341,958 €55,000

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

T T T T T T T T T T D T T T T T D T AWT T T T T T T T T T T T T T T AWT T 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 2050

£60,000 £60,000 £425,000 £60,000

3 4+ 3+ 3+

T T T T

2010 2010 2010 2010

£60,000 £75,000 £100,000 £60,000 £750,000

4+ 3 C&G 3+ 3+ 3+

T T T T T

2080 2080 2080 2080 2080

€25,000 €41,800 €80,000 €130,000 €55,000 €300,000 €41,800 €80,000 €130,000 €210,000 €1,500,000 €1,000,000 €25,000 €25,000 €55,000 €52,000 €57,500 €80,000 €55,000 €80,000

4+ 4+ 3F 3 CF 3F 4+ 3 C&G 3F 4+ F 4+ 3 CF 3F 3F 3+ 3F 3+ 3+ 3+ F 3 3+ F

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

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

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25/04/2014 25/04/2014 05/07/2014 23/08/2014

08/05/2014 09/05/2014 26/07/2014 09/08/2014 20/08/2014

06/04/2014 06/04/2014 15/04/2014 21/04/2014 25/04/2014 27/04/2014 27/04/2014 14/05/2014 23/05/2014 25/05/2014 01/06/2014 15/06/2014 21/06/2014 03/08/2014 01/09/2014 28/09/2014 03/10/2014 30/10/2014 05/11/2014 11/11/2014

Hannover Chester Kyoto Longchamp Longchamp Frankfurt Rome Goodwood Milan

Grosser Preis von Rossmann Cheshire Oaks (Weatherbys Bank) Kyoto Shimbun Hai La Seine Prix d’Hocquart Grosser Preis der Hannoverschen Volksbank Derby Italiano Cocked Hat St (Casco) Oaks d’Italia

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21/04/2014 07/05/2014 10/05/2014 11/05/2014 11/05/2014 18/05/2014 18/05/2014 23/05/2014 25/05/2014

Closing

06/09/2014 21/05/2014 06/08/2014 11/09/2014 03/09/2014 03/09/2014 15/09/2014

05/08/2014 19/08/2014 27/08/2014 06/10/2014 02/09/2014 11/09/2014 24/09/2014 11/10/2014 05/08/2014 26/08/2014 02/09/2014 20/10/2014 25/09/2014 27/10/2014 02/10/2014 16/09/2014 22/10/2014 03/11/2014

10/11/2014 30/09/2014 14/10/2014 28/10/2014 11/11/2014 CLOSED

10.05 10.05 10.05 10.05

19/04/2014 19/04/2014 29/04/2014 18/08/2014

10.4 10.4 10.4 10.4 10.4

02/05/2014 02/05/2014 21/07/2014 04/08/2014 24/07/2014

10.5f (2100m)

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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

10.4f (2080m)

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Furlongs

10.05f (2010m)

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Metres

€25,000 £40,000 $508,960 €55,000 €130,000 €25,000 €55,000 £40,000 €330,000

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 10.5 10.5 10.5 10.5 10.5 10.5 10.5

25/03/2014 26/03/2014 02/04/2014 17/04/2014 09/04/2014 23/04/2014 30/04/2014 19/03/2014 19/02/2014 19/02/2014 10/06/2014 22/07/2014

27/08/2014 15/10/2014 22/10/2014

11f (2200m) 4+ 3F 3 3F 3 CF 3 3 C&F 3 C&G 3F

T T T T T T T T T

2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200

11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11

08/04/2014 01/05/2014 01/04/2014 02/05/2014 23/04/2014 06/05/2014 31/03/2013 17/05/2014 31/03/2013

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Track

Race Name & (Sponsor)

Breeders’ Cup

GER GER GER IRE GER GER ITY JPN GER GB GER ITY GB GER GB ITY JPN ITY JPN GER GER JPN GER

Baden-Baden Baden-Baden Baden-Baden Leopardstown Cologne Bremen Milan Hanshin Hamburg Hamilton Park Dusseldorf Merano Windsor Baden-Baden Newbury Milan Niigata Rome Niigata Hannover Hannover Kyoto Dresden

Preis der Baden-Badener Hotellerie & Gastronomie Iffezheimer Derby Trial Grosser Preis der Badischen Unternehmer Nijinsky St Oppenheim Union-Rennen SWB Derby Trial Paolo Mezzanotte Takarazuka Kinen Hamburger Stutenpreis Glasgow St Henkel Preis der Diana German Oaks EBF Terme di Merano August St Baden Racing Stutenpreis Arc Trial (Dubai Duty Free) Premio Federico Tesio St Lite Kinen Villa Borghese Memorial F. Cadoni All Comers Neue Bult Stuten-Steher-Cup Herbst Stuten Steher-reis Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative Cup Grosser Dresdner Herbstpreis

ITY

Naples

Unire

Turf

11f (2200m)

Class

Race Date

Value

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

28/05/2014 31/05/2014 01/06/2014 06/06/2014 15/06/2014 22/06/2014 22/06/2014 29/06/2014 08/07/2014 18/07/2014 03/08/2014 15/08/2014 23/08/2014 06/09/2014 20/09/2014 21/09/2014 21/09/2014 28/09/2014 28/09/2014 05/10/2014 26/10/2014 16/11/2014 19/11/2014

€25,000 €35,000 €70,000 €40,000 €70,000 €25,000 €41,800 $1,291,213 €55,000 £40,000 €400,000 €41,800 £37,000 €55,000 £60,000 €104,500 $509,279 €41,800 $607,290 €25,000 €55,000 $879,240 €25,000

Age

Surface

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

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

3+

T

2250

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21/12/2014

Lingfield Park Lingfield Park Siracusa

Oaks Trial Derby Trial (Betfred) Francesco Faraci

L L L

10/05/2014 10/05/2014 08/12/2014

Haydock Park Haydock Park

Pinnacle St (betvictor.com Royal Ascot Money) Lancashire Oaks (bet365)

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

Newbury Longchamp Longchamp Limerick Goodwood Newmarket Tokyo Cologne Longchamp Lyon-Parilly Lyon-Parilly Ascot Hamilton Park Rome Bordeaux Goodwood Longchamp Tokyo Chantilly Chantilly Tokyo Belmont Park Milan Toulouse Lyon-Parilly Chantilly Cork Royal Ascot Royal Ascot Royal Ascot Pontefract Milan Newmarket Curragh Klampenborg Saint-Cloud Saint-Cloud Hamburg Nantes Hamburg Roscommon Newmarket Longchamp Longchamp Newmarket Curragh Vichy Vichy

John Porter (Dubai Duty Free Finest Surprise) Prix du Niel (Qatar) Lord Seymour Martin Molony St Daisy Warwick EBF (EBF) Jockey Club St (Qatar Bloodstock) Aoba Sho Gerling-Preis Hedouville Coupe des Trois Ans Bedel Buckhounds St (Carey Group) Braveheart H’cap (Ginger Grouse) Premio Carlo d’Alessio Derby du Midi Tapster L’Avre Yushun Himba (Japanese Oaks) Royaumont Grand Prix de Chantilly Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby) Belmont St Gran Premio Milano Derby du Languedoc Grand Prix de Lyon Prix du Lys longines Noblesse St (Kerry Group) Ribblesdale St King Edward VII Hardwicke St Pontefract Castle St (totepool) Gran Premio d’Italia Fred Archer St Irish Derby (Dubai Duty Free) Scandinavian Open Championship Abu Dhabi Malleret Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud Grosser Hansa Preis Derby de l’Ouest (Haras du Saz) IDEE 145. Deutsches Derby Lenebane Princess of Wales’s St (Sportingbet.com) Thiberville Grand Prix de Paris (Juddmonte) Aphrodite St (Newsalls Park Stud) Irish Oaks (Darley) Hubert Baguenault de Puchesse Frederic de Lagrange

Gp 3 Gp 2

31/05/2014 05/07/2014

£40,000 £100,000 €41,800

3F 3 C&G 3+

T T T

2300 2300 2300

Turf

12/04/2014 14/04/2014 17/04/2014 26/04/2014 03/05/2014 03/05/2014 03/05/2014 04/05/2014 08/05/2014 09/05/2014 09/05/2014 10/05/2014 16/05/2014 18/05/2014 24/05/2014 24/05/2014 25/05/2014 25/05/2014 01/06/2014 01/06/2014 01/06/2014 07/06/2014 08/06/2014 13/06/2014 14/06/2014 15/06/2014 15/06/2014 19/06/2014 20/06/2014 21/06/2014 22/06/2014 22/06/2014 28/06/2014 28/06/2014 29/06/2014 29/06/2014 29/06/2014 29/06/2014 30/06/2014 06/07/2014 07/07/2014 10/07/2014 13/07/2014 13/07/2014 19/07/2014 19/07/2014 21/07/2014 26/07/2014

Closing

20/05/2014 20/05/2014 08/04/2014 31/05/2014 25/03/2014 10/06/2014 13/05/2014 13/05/2014 12/07/2014 02/12/2014 18/08/2014 15/07/2014 15/09/2014 21/08/2014 08/08/2014 19/08/2014 23/09/2014 02/09/2014 30/09/2014 11/11/2014

11.25

11.5 05/05/2014 11.5 05/05/2014 11.5

11.9f (2380m) £60,000 £90,000

4+ F 3+ F

T T

2380 2380

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

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 T T T T T T T T T T T T T T 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 2400 2400

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

11.5f (2300m)

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Furlongs

11.25f (2250m) €41,800

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Metres

11.9 26/05/2014 11.9 30/06/2014

12f (2400m) £60,000 €130,000 €52,000 €40,000 £40,000 £100,000 $505,990 €70,000 €80,000 €55,000 €52,000 £45,000 £40,000 €88,000 €55,000 £40,000 €55,000 $945,792 €80,000 €130,000 $1,950,131 $1,500,000 €209,000 €55,000 €60,000 €80,000 €82,500 £160,000 £185,000 £200,000 £40,000 €55,000 £37,000 €1,250,000 DKK 500,000 €150,000 €400,000 €70,000 €55,000 €500,000 €40,000 £100,000 €55,000 €600,000 £40,000 €400,000 €52,000 €55,000

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 12 12

07/04/2014 27/08/2014 09/04/2014 21/04/2014 28/04/2014 15/04/2014 18/03/2014 11/03/2014 16/04/2014 02/05/2014 02/05/2014 05/05/2014 10/05/2014 17/04/2014 16/05/2014 19/05/2014 16/05/2014 CLOSED 14/05/2014 14/05/2014 CLOSED 25/01/2013 08/05/2014 05/06/2014 06/06/2014 21/05/2014 07/05/2014 29/04/2014 29/04/2014 29/04/2014 16/06/2014 23/06/2014 06/11/2013 05/05/2014 11/06/2014 11/06/2014 06/05/2014 23/06/2014 02/12/2013 01/07/2014 17/06/2014 04/07/2014 19/02/2014 14/07/2014 06/11/2013 15/07/2014 18/07/2014

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12f (2400m)

Country

Track

Race Name & (Sponsor)

Breeders’ Cup

Class

Race Date

Value

Age

Surface

GB GB NOR

Ascot Goodwood Ovrevoll

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (Betfair) Gordon St (Neptune Investment Management) Oslo Cup

Turf

Gp 1 Gp 3 Gp 3

26/07/2014 30/07/2014 31/07/2014

£1,000,000 £75,000 NOK 1,000,000

3+ 3 3+

T T T

2400 2400 2400

12 12 12

10/06/2014 24/07/2014 02/06/2014

GB GB IRE IRE GER GB GB GB NOR NOR

Goodwood Newbury Cork Leopardstown Hoppegarten York York York Ovrevoll Ovrevoll

Glorious St (Coutts) Chalice St (EBF) Give Thanks St (Irish Stallion Farms EBF) Ballyroan St Grosser Preis Von Berlin Great Voltigeur St (Neptune investment management) Galtres St (EBF) Yorkshire Oaks (Darley) Scandic Norwegian Derby Erik O’ Steens Memorial

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

01/08/2014 03/08/2014 05/08/2014 07/08/2014 10/08/2014 20/08/2014 21/08/2014 21/08/2014 24/08/2014 24/08/2014

£60,000 £40,000 €77,500 €57,500 €175,000 £150,000 £60,000 £325,000 NOK 1,200,000 NOK 400,000

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

T T T T T T T T T T

2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400

12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12

26/07/2014 28/07/2014 02/07/2014 02/07/2014 20/05/2014 01/07/2014 15/08/2014 24/06/2014 23/06/2014 23/06/2014

FR GB GER TKY FR IRE FR GB FR FR SWE FR IRE FR SWE GB GB GER JPN GB FR FR IRE JPN FR ITY FR GB GER ITY GB FR JPN FR

Clairefontaine Kempton Park Baden-Baden Veliefendi Craon Galway Saint Cloud Chester Longchamp Longchamp Taby Galopp Saint-Cloud Listowel Saint-Cloud Jagersro Ascot Newmarket Cologne Hanshin Ascot Longchamp Toulouse Curragh Kyoto Longchamp Milan Nantes Newbury Munich Milan Kempton Park Lyon-Parilly Tokyo Toulouse

Grand Prix de Clairefontaine September St (Betfred) Longines Grosser Preis von Baden Bosphorus Cup Grand Prix de Craon Oyster St Tourelles Stand Cup (Stella Artois) Prix Foy (Qatar) Prix Vermeille (Qatar) Stockholm Cup International Joubert Listowel Turenne Skanska Faltrittklubbens Jubileumslopning Princess Royal St Godolphin Preis von Europa Kobe Shimbun Hai Cumberland Lodge St (BMW) Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (Qatar) Panacee Finale St Kyoto Daishoten Conseil de Paris Gran Premio del Jockey Club e Coppa d’Oro Grand Prix de la Ville de Nantes St Simon St (Worthington’s Champion Shield) Grosser Pries Von Bayern Falck G. Floodlit St Grand Camp Japan Cup Max Sicard

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

26/08/2014 06/09/2014 07/09/2014 07/09/2014 08/09/2014 08/09/2014 09/09/2014 13/09/2014 14/09/2014 14/09/2014 14/09/2014 15/09/2014 17/09/2014 18/09/2014 25/09/2014 26/09/2014 26/09/2014 28/09/2014 28/09/2014 04/10/2014 05/10/2014 10/10/2014 12/10/2014 13/10/2014 19/10/2014 19/10/2014 25/10/2014 25/10/2014 01/11/2014 01/11/2014 05/11/2014 22/11/2014 30/11/2014 07/12/2014

€55,000 £55,000 €250,000 €306,000 €52,000 €50,000 €52,000 £37,000 €130,000 €350,000 SEK 1,000,000 €55,000 €42,500 €55,000 SEK 400,000 £40,000 £40,000 €155,000 $509,273 £60,000 €4,000,000 €52,000 €40,000 $607,118 €130,000 €209,000 €60,000 £60,000 €155,000 €41,800 £37,000 €52,000 $2,442,708 €60,000

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

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

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

18/08/2014 01/09/2014 17/06/2014 06/08/2014

GB GB GB GB

Chester Epsom Downs Epsom Downs Epsom Downs

Chester Vase (MBNA) Oaks (Investec) Coronation Cup (Investec) Derby (Investec)

£60,000 £400,000 £350,000 £1,325,000

3 C&G 3F 4+ 3 C&F

T T T T

2410 2410 2410 2410

JPN FR FR FR FR FR FR JPN FR

Tokyo Deauville Deauville Deauville Deauville Longchamp Deauville Tokyo Saint Cloud

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

$538,263 €80,000 €130,000 €80,000 €200,000 €250,000 €55,000 $538,502 €52,000

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

T T T T T T T T T

2500 2500 2500 2500 2500 2500 2500 2500 2500

GB GB

Newbury Newmarket

Aston Park St Trophy St (Bahrain)

4+ 3

T T

2600 2600

F&M Turf

Turf

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08/05/2014 06/06/2014 07/06/2014 07/06/2014

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17/05/2014 10/07/2014

Closing

02/09/2014 08/09/2014 27/08/2014 27/08/2014 18/08/2014 11/09/2014

20/09/2014 20/09/2014 01/07/2014 19/08/2014 29-Sept-14 14/05/2014 06/10/2014 02/09/2014 08/10/2014 18/09/2014 20/10/2014 12/08/2014 30/10/2014 14/10/2014

12.05 12.05 12.05 12.05

02/05/2014 11/03/2014 01/04/2014 14/12/2012

12.5f (2500m)

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Furlongs

12.05f (2410m)

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Metres

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12.5 12.5 12.5 12.5 12.5 12.5 12.5 12.5 12.5

15/04/2014 16/07/2014 23/07/2014 23/07/2014 06/08/2014 27/08/2014 30/09/2014

13f (2600m) 13 13

12/05/2014 04/07/2014

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Track

Race Name & (Sponsor)

GB GB

Chester Lingfield Park

Chester H’cap River Eden St (EBF)

Breeders’ Cup

Class

L L

13f (2600m)

Race Date

Value

30/08/2014 30/10/2014

£37,000 £40,000

Age

Surface

3+ 3+ F&M

T AWT

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Chester Newbury

Ormonde St (Boodles Diamond) Geoffrey Freer St

GB GB IRE GB IRE IRE GB FR IRE GB GB IRE GER IRE GER FR GB ITY ITY

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

Further Flight St (E.B.F) Yorkshire Cup Vintage Crop St Grand Cup St (Stowe Family Law) Saval Beg St Curragh Cup (attheraces) Silver Cup H’cap (John Smith’s) Maurice de Nieuil Challenge St Lillie Langtry St (Blackrock) March St Ballycullen St Preis des Casino Baden-Baden St Leger (Irish) Deutsches St Leger Scaramouche Noel Murless St Leger Italiano Roma Vecchia

GB GB

Doncaster Doncaster

Park Hill St (DFS) St Leger (Ladbrokes)

ITY FR FR FR FR FR IRE FR JPN

Milan Chantilly Maisons-Laffitte Deauville Deauville Longchamp Curragh Longchamp Kyoto

Coppa d’Oro La Moskowa Carrousel Michel Houyvet Prix du Kergorlay (Darley) Lutece Loughbrown St Prix Chaudenay (Qatar) Kikuka Sho (Japanese St Leger)

FR FR FR FR FR FR

Saint-Cloud Longchamp Longchamp Longchamp Saint-Cloud Saint-Cloud

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

GB JPN GER GB GER GB GB GB

Ascot Kyoto Hoppegarten Royal Ascot Hamburg Sandown Park Goodwood Newmarket

Sagaro St (Longines) Tenno Sho (Spring) Oleander- Rennen 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 Stayers St

GB FR GER

Royal Ascot Longchamp Cologne

Gold Cup Prix du Cadran (Qatar) Silbernes Band des Rheinlandes

Gp 3 Gp 3

Metres

2600 2600

09/05/2014 16/08/2014

09/04/2014 16/05/2014 18/05/2014 31/05/2014 06/06/2014 29/06/2014 12/07/2014 13/07/2014 17/07/2014 31/07/2014 23/08/2014 23/08/2014 31/08/2014 14/09/2014 21/09/2014 03/10/2014 03/10/2014 25/10/2014 09/11/2014

£75,000 £60,000

4+ 3+

T T

2660 2660

£40,000 £140,000 €40,000 £40,000 €47,500 €62,500 £40,000 €130,000 €40,000 £60,000 £40,000 €40,000 €25,000 €300,000 €55,000 €52,000 £37,000 €61,600 €41,800

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

T T T T T T 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 2800 2800 2800 2800 2800 2800

11/09/2014 13/09/2014

£90,000 £600,000

3+ F 3 C&F

T T

2920 2920

25/05/2014 23/06/2014 27/07/2014 17/08/2014 24/08/2014 07/09/2014 28/09/2014 04/10/2014 26/10/2014

€41,800 €52,000 €52,000 €55,000 €130,000 €80,000 €40,000 €200,000 $1,091,954

4+ 4+ 4+ 3 3+ 3 3 3 3 No G

T T T T T T T T T

3000 3000 3000 3000 3000 3000 3000 3000 3000

08/04/2014 27/04/2014 25/05/2014 14/09/2014 26/10/2014 13/11/2014

4+ 4+ 4+ 4+ 3+ 3+

T T T T T T

3100 3100 3100 3100 3100 3100

£60,000 $1,284,727 €55,000 £85,000 €25,000 £37,000 £100,000 £37,000

4+ 4+ 4+ 3 4+ 4+ 3+ 3+

T T T T T T T T

3200 3200 3200 3200 3200 3200 3200 3200

£60,000 £150,000

4+ 3+

T T

3280 3280

£100,000 $585,958

3+ 3+

T T

3600 3600

4+ 4+ 3+

T T T

4000 4000 4000

€52,000 €80,000 €130,000 €80,000 €250,000 €52,000

30/04/2014 04/05/2014 11/05/2014 20/06/2014 01/07/2014 05/07/2014 31/07/2014 25/09/2014

29/05/2014 22/07/2014

12/09/2014 06/12/2014

19/06/2014 05/10/2014 12/10/2014

15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15

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15.5 15.5 15.5 15.5 15.5 15.5

31/03/2014 09/04/2014 30/04/2014 27/08/2014 08/10/2014

16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16

24/04/2014 18/03/2014 01/04/2014 14/06/2014 24/06/2014 30/06/2014 25/07/2014 19/09/2014

16.4 23/05/2014 16.4 16/08/2014

18f (3600m)

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14.6 05/09/2014 14.6 22/07/2014

16.4f (3280m)

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26-Sept-14 25/09/2014

16f (3200m)

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03/04/2014 01/04/2014 09/04/2014 26/05/2014 31/05/2014 21/05/2014 07/07/2014 25/06/2014 11/07/2014 25/07/2014 18/08/2014 16/07/2014 19/08/2014 21/05/2014 29/07/2014

15.5f (3100m)

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14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14

15f (3000m)

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13.5 03/05/2014 13.5 11/08/2014

14.6f (2920m)

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Closing

25/08/2014 24/10/2014

14f (2800m)

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13 13

13.5f (2660m)

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Furlongs

£375,000 €300,000 €25,000

18 18

06/09/2014 28/10/2014

20f (4000m) 20 20 20

22/04/2014 27/08/2014 30/09/2014

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DAVID CROSSE VIEW FROM THE SADDLE

Is the Grand National still the greatest steeplechase?

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NE of the first races my grandfather re-lived for me was the victory of Foinavon, a 100-1 outsider winning the race after carnage at the smallest fence on the course. It is a race that at its peak had huge entries, attracting 66 runners in 1929 and has had as little as two finishers, in 1928.

This year, the Grand National has attracted 115 entries. Well up on previous years. Why? Well, most are saying it is because there is an increase in prize money to £1,000,000. Sure, that is a big part of it but as a jockey I feel that the real reason is that it is now a much safer race to run a horse in. We are all for safety, for ourselves and especially the horses, but for me the big challenge of the Grand National has been taken away.

When I watched the race last year, it was like watching just another Handicap Chase. I still wouldn’t mind winning it, but for me, the Grand National was a race that if you even got around it, it was like winning it! That is how big a task it was.

Last year they changed the fences and nearly half the field completed, which, of course is fantastic news but you have to ask the question: in gaining all these finishers, has the Grand National lost the

I ask this question as I remember as a youngster getting so excited about the Aintree showcase and the challenge that the race presented. It is a race that has been around since 1839, some 154 years. A race where jockeys were, for 12-and-a-half minutes, the single bravest men on the planet.

The horses that ran were as brave as lions and the television spectacle was almost a National holiday. That is what I remember. challenge that made it what it is?

But when I look at the race today I still see a wonderful race. It totally captures the imagination of a whole nation and gets complete attention. It’s still a tremendous test of bravery and skill, stamina and sheer ability. I just feel that the Grand National as an entity is at an interesting point in its legacy.

I am all for making races safer, and we must move with the times and use the technology available to us. But making fences smaller and tracks wider does not always make for safer racing. In fact what does happen is horses race faster and take more chances. In past years a trainer would never dream of running a bad jumper in the Grand National. That is no longer the case and the Grand National is now at risk of losing its magic.

In order for the Grand National to remain the greatest test of man and beast it must keep its challenge. It must remain an achievement to just complete the course. It must remain a no-go area for bad jumpers and above all it's got to be a destination for only the best staying chasers. The truth is that a top-class racehorse will make any track in the country look easy and the opposite is also true. A bad horse will make leaving the stable in the morning look too dangerous.

I for one hope the race lives for many, many generations to come and that the powers that be find a way to balance the challenge and safety. The Grand National has been the greatest race in the world since 1839 because of what makes it special – it must keep its challenge. n

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