European Trainer - Issue 49 - April to June 2015

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ISSUE 49 – APRIL TO JUNE 2015 £5.95

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THE QUARTERLY MAGAZINE FOR THE TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE THOROUGHBRED

EDDIE LYNAM A 30-year journey

to sprint supremacy WESLEY WARD

Honing US raids on Europe

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CLIMATE CHANGE At risk from new disease?

MARK BRADSTOCK On my Cheltenham Gold Cup win

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N Irishman, an American, and an Englishman are our featured trainers in this, the April to June issue of European Trainer. Each is unique in his outlook to training, yet all are incredibly successful as well. Our cover profile trainer, Eddie Lynam, is proven at getting into the mindset of the precocious sprinter. Wesley Ward has a knack for conditioning juveniles, and Mark Bradstock, our TRM Trainer of the Quarter, perfects the conditioning of the staying steeplechaser.

Despite using very different skill sets, each trainer brings nuances to the accepted norm of what really makes their horses tick. “We never push them,” says Lynam. “I don’t like the idea of horses training on a straight gallop,” he confides to Lissa Oliver. Mark Bradstock tells us in his own words: “... his ridiculously long legs were easily tangled and [my son] Alfie, [jockey] Nico [De Boinville], and [my wife] Sara spent many hours playing around with grids and combinations until one day he seemed to work it out. From that moment on he has been able to jump at speed around a 60-by-30m school jumping fences up to 1.30m with awe-inspiring accuracy,” on how has turned Coneygree, a perhaps uncoordinated novice jumper, into a Gold Cup winner in one season. And Wesley Ward’s approach? “I’m the first one on their back when they come into train. If horses are mishandled, they develop bad habits,” he tells Bill Heller.

Yes, each of these three men does thing his own way. They’ve learnt the hard way and have been through hard times to get where they are today. There is a sense of quiet pride in their own achievements and the closeness of their families, which in a way makes their successes even more special. Four Grade One victories including two Breeders’ Cup winners, four European Group One sprints, and a Cheltenham Gold Cup between them in the last year is some record.

Elsewhere in this issue we consider the threat to the equine world posed by climate change. Veterinarian Bernard Stoffel examines the likelihood of disease spread as a result of warmer environment and changing weather patterns, highlighting the key ‘new’ diseases and their risk factor. Racehorse headgear and today’s multiple variations on what used to be a simple pair of blinkers is the focus of our ‘science behind the mask’ feature. We look at the headgear rules and regulations in force in different parts of the world, along with an assessment of the efficacy of such equipment. An insight into the role of racing schools in producing the next generation of jockeys addresses concerns for the future supply of stable staff in Europe. And veterinary features on stress fractures, the respiratory system, and equine metabolic syndrome spotlight the latest scientific research in these areas.

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I hope that 2015 has begun well for you all, whether racing over jumps, on the all-weather, or preparing for the turf Flat season. As ever, I enjoyed following the international Flat action over the winter and look forward to the big jumps festivals during the coming weeks in England, Ireland, and France.

HE AGM of the European Trainers Federation (ETF) was held in Ghent in Belgium last November with representatives present from France, Germany, Belgium, Ireland, Great Britain, Holland, Hungary,

and Sweden.

In addition to discussing the usual subjects of the harmonisation of racing rules and regulations concerning equipment, I am delighted to announce that the ETF have officially joined the European Horse Network (EHN). This very important development means that the Federation is now officially represented in the European Parliament.

The EHN, which was created in 2009, brings together 20 equine sectors from across Europe and plays a major role in lobbying parliament members and keeping all parts of the horse industry well placed in the minds of decision-makers. Our inclusion in the network is a vital step forward in defending trainers’ interests within Europe.

Following the official business of the AGM, we listened to fascinating talks from two veterinarians.

Bernard Stoffel addressed us on the impact of

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climate change on the evolution of equine disease, then Professor Gasthuy gave an informative lecture on horse rescue and first aid. The environment is of concern to all of us and I found the first talk particularly interesting, as Dr Stoffel explained to us the effects global warming is having on the spread of diseases that were previously confined to areas with warmer climates. Many of these infections are transmitted by ticks or mosquitoes which are able to survive today in European weather and it is worth being aware that these illnesses, previously rare, can now affect horses’ performances. The talk served as a reminder to all of us to be as environmentally friendly as we possibly can within our training operations.

Of course Giles Anderson of European Trainer was also present at the AGM, and he gave us an update on the efforts that are being made to increase circulation and develop the online presence of the magazine.

I encourage you all to visit the website on www.trainersfederation.eu.

I wish you all the very best for the exciting spring season at racetracks across Europe. ■

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Eddie Lynam

Stress fractures

Lissa Oliver goes one-on-one with Eddie Lynam, who has plenty to say on the state of racing

Melissa MacKinnon looks at stress fractures as a by-product of training and racing surfaces

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The art of breathing

The concept of strengthening respiratory muscles as a method of combatting fatigue, by Dr Kate Allen and Alison McConnell

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Headgear and the racehorse

Thomas O’Keeffe breaks down the different headgear horses wear on race-day, where and when permitted.

Equine metabolic syndrome

Can a broodmare’s blood glucose level and body condition influence her future foal’s racing career? By Cath Dunnett

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Course to Course

A new feature looking at stories in the news from racecourses across Europe

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Contributors

The American trainer who has conquered Royal Ascot now has sights on this season’s European Classics, by Bill Heller

ETF members

Wesley Ward

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TRM Trainer of the Quarter

Dr Bernard Stoffel on a rash of diseases introduced into Europe by to the climate change

Product Focus

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ETF AGM

The danger within

Racing schools

Where once yards had to break in staff from scratch, racing schools are producing well-informed stable hands, by Lissa Oliver

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Dr Kate Allen is Senior Lecturer in Equine Sports Medicine and is responsible for the clinical services at the Equine Sports Medicine Centre at Bristol University. Kate’s research interest is primarily the management of diseases that affect equine athletic performance and in particular the diagnosis, cause and management of dynamic upper respiratory tract obstructions.

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.

Professor Alison McConnell is Professor of Applied Physiology at Brunel University. Alison’s research interests are in respiratory limitations to exercise in human beings. She is the inventor of two commercially available inspiratory muscle training products, and has pioneered the introduction of inspiratory muscle training in human athletes. One of her products is also prescribed on the NHS for the treatment of breathlessness.

Dr Melissa MacKinnon is an equine surgeon at Milton Equine Hospital in Ontario, Canada. She is boarded with the American College of Veterinary Surgeons and received her surgical training at the University of Pennsylvania’s New Bolton Center.

Her clinical interests include emergency case management (colics, fractures, lacerations) and orthopaedic imaging.

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.

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

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.

Dr Bernard Stoffel has held a doctorate in veterinary medicine since 1984. Before graduating, he was already a breeder with a passion for horseracing. He practiced equine veterinary medicine in the south west of France, near Agen, creating the “ Haras de Hautefage”, and in 1994 worked for Darby Farm in Belgium. Subsequently he expanded and worked with various companies across the world active in equine medicines and food supplements as a researcher and scientific support, as well as with bloodstock agents as a consultant. He also runs “The Blue Spirit”, dedicated to professional services to owners and trainers of racehorses and with a website offering a selection of nutritional supplements.

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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:

Criquette Head-Maarek Association des Entraineurs de Galop 18 bis Avenue du Général Leclerc 60501 Chantilly FRANCE Tel: + 33 (0)3 44 57 25 39 Fax: + 33(0)3 44 57 58 85 Email: entraineurs.de.galop@wanadoo.fr

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Max Hennau FEDERATION BELGE DES ENTRAINEURS Rue des Carrieres 35 5032 - Les Isnes BELGIUM Tel: Fax: +32 (0)81 56 68 46 Email: mhennau@gmail.com

Christian von der Recke Hovener Hof 53919 Weilerswist Germany Tel: +49 (0 22 54) 84 53 14 Email: recke@t-online.de

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DEADLY DOPING MEETS ITS MATCH: Trainers Praise Natural Alternative

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Alfie Bradstock and Coneygree schooling over fences at home

Trainer of the Quarter

MARK BRADSTOCK

The TRM Trainer of the Quarter award has been won by Mark Bradstock. In his own words, Mark describes how Coneygree was prepared for his Cheltenham Gold Cup success.

Mark and his team will receive a selection of products from the internationally-acclaimed range of TRM supplements, as well as a bottle of fine Irish whiskey.

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heltenham this year was dominated by the might of Willie mullins and the other big trainers, and on the morning of the Gold Cup none of the many expert commentators were willing to entertain the possibility that a long-legged novice from a small yard held any chance of beating the big battalions. at the Old manor Stables in letcombe Bassett, Coneygree was blissfully unaware that he was being dismissed in this way. the great advantage of the personal attention that is only possible in a small stable is that the horses have enormous confidence.

We believe the reason Coneygree was able to put up the polished and professional front-running and brilliant jumping performance he did is because there was nothing left to chance in the training programme. It allowed him to have such self belief that jumping and galloping his rivals into submission around Prestbury Park was executed with ruthlessness and accuracy. at the beginning of the season when we started to jump all the horses over poles in our new sand school, Coneygree, known as “max� at home, did not show the aptitude of his big (although much smaller in stature) brother Carruthers. he always had the scope but his ridiculously long legs were easily tangled, and [my son] alfie, [jockey] nico [de Boinville], and [my wife] Sara spent many hours playing around with grids and combinations until one day he seemed to work it out. From that moment

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on he has been able to jump at speed around a 60-by-30m school jumping fences up to 1.30m with awe-inspiring accuracy. When we moved to the schooling fences on the gallops and later at nicky henderson’s he was always brilliant and because it was clearly his favourite occupation, we continued to school him at least twice a week.

On the racecourse he was just as good but because we knew how much practice it had taken, our wonderful gallop man was asked to make some downhill fences in the build up to Cheltenham. We were all very relieved that we had gone to all the effort when max made his first approach and was clearly rattled by not being able to see his landing clearly.

Once again practice made perfect and after a few more attempts he was foot perfect. max is pretty unimpressive on the gallops at home so we keep him entertained by using different connotations of our beautiful downland gallops, and he particularly enjoys the odd trip to Paul Cole’s all-weather at Whatcombe. his long, fragile legs are hosed twice daily, and [physio] Philippa James and [massage therapist] marnie Campbell are regulars in his box.

Sara and alfie do almost everything with him and so it has been possible to tailor his workload exactly to how he is feeling that day. the more he bites, the happier we are. the bruises that cover anyone who dares undress him are all forgiven now! n

Sara on Coneygree with Mark holding Carruthers

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PROFILE

Eddie Lynam A 30-year journey to sprint supremacy

The Eddie Lynam story appears to be one of overnight success, but like all overnight success stories, it was 30 years in the making. His story illustrates how tough things really are for most trainers, while highlighting why it is that they persevere. Success hinges on the right horse coming along and, for Lynam, they’re now coming along in their droves.

WORDS: LISSA OLIVER PHOTOS: CAROLINE NORRIS

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’VE held a licence since I was 20, so I’m self-taught and I’ve made loads of mistakes,” Lynam, now approaching 53, says candidly, but he has clearly learned from those early mistakes and last year dominated the sprint championships, winning no less than four Group Ones in that division. But even though Slade Power, who he bred himself, and Sole Power have catapulted him into the headlines recently, success goes back much further and Lynam isn’t just a whiz with sprinters.

“Mum’s brothers were trainers and, despite Dad’s best efforts, I ended up being a trainer,” he explains. “To begin with, I worked for Jim Bolger and then I went to my uncle, Eamonn O’Connell. He only had a small string, but he did quite well.” It is obvious to anyone who has ever taken a stroll with Lynam around his stables, or stood with him at the races or sales, that he is more than just a horseman, but a ‘horse’s man’. They adore him as much as he adores them and it’s touching to see the rows of gentle muzzles extending over the stable doors, waiting to blow softly into the nose of their best friend. This must have been obvious even to Lynam’s father, whose “best efforts” were evidently shelved with the purchase of Sir Hugh Nugent’s stables, Lohunda Park. A training career was now nurtured in full and Lynam took out his licence at the beginning of 1984.

“Lohunda Park was Jim Bolger’s old yard.

It had big gallops and the leading miler of the 1960s, Red Slipper, was trained there,” Lynam recalls. “When Jim moved to Carlow I set up

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there. I only had four horses in training to begin with, it was very slow. In the late 1980s I started to do well, but then things dipped again. There was a massive recession early on.

I’ve trained through two recessions, and they say they come in threes…”

For Lynam, a recession is not as damaging as it might appear. “I pride myself in buying cheap horses,” he says and perhaps a key to his survival and ultimate success is in those bargain purchases and his “financial suicide” method of ownership. “I’ve never been great at getting owners and I’m still not,” he admits. “I could be put in a room with 100 would-be owners and still not come out with one. I’m an atypical kind of trainer, I have 60 horses in the yard and I own more than half of them. It’s financial suicide, but it’s the way I prefer to work. If I

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I pride myself in buying cheap horses.

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have a good horse, I don’t want to sell it. I’ve a big investment in the yard.” Which probably isn’t as good as it sounds. “In general, we run at a loss,” he says.

This is true of most trainers, who only earn a living through trading. With Lynam’s disinclination to sell a promising animal, it’s easy to see why he’s running at a loss most seasons. But by hanging on to those promising animals, he has certainly made a name for himself in the good years. And that, he acknowledges, is the Catch-22 faced by all trainers initially. “Good horses are sparse and good owners few and far between,” he reflects.

One wonders what sort of offers were refused for past stable favourite Duff, following a good juvenile win and places behind George Washington in the Group One National Stakes and Septimus in the Group Two Beresford Stakes. Duff was a key ingredient in Lynam’s success, but things might have been different had he transferred elsewhere at three, as is so often the case.

“I started with four and it dripped on; eight, 12. My father and mother owned a lot of my horses, they were a big support to me. Tantum Ergo was my first big winner, in 1988 she won the Group Three C. L. Weld Park Stakes at the Phoenix Park. My first major winner was on Cartier Million day! The papers were full of the Cartier Million, there was no mention of the Park Stakes! Another later big winner was in 2004, when Red Feather won the Group Three International Stakes at the Curragh, but she had One Cool Cat behind her, so again all the papers could write about was the shock

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Which goes to show that it takes more than just a good horse and a big track success to get your name out there, the biggest challenge faced by trainers. “The last two years have been my biggest,” Lynam says, “but I won an awful lot before that – the Group Three Ballycorus Stakes, Group Three Concorde Stakes and Group Two Park Stakes with Duff (2009), the Group Three Tetrarch Stakes with Capt Chaos (2008), the Group Three Prix Eclipse with Domingues (2007) and the Group Three International Stakes with Red Feather, who was also second in the Group One Moyglare Stud Stakes. But Sole Power was really the big turning point.”

And therein lies another moot point with trainers, one often shared by the acting profession – typecasting. “People talk about sprint trainers and staying trainers and twoyear-old trainers,” Lynam says. Of course, the reality is he is capable of training all types of performer, but whether due to the commercial marketplace or being pigeonholed by owners, as he points out, “it’s very hard to branch out and try to get those types, the middle-distance horse. When a middle-distance-bred is good they’re great, but if it’s not good it’s slow and owners very quickly get disillusioned. I personally like a miler or quicker.

“The purists don’t want the sprinters and two-year-old types, but commercially the sales are full of them. There are 200 Kodiacs going to be born this year. These days you even get two-year-olds going straight to stud. One worry I would have is that the best horses, the Galileos and those types, are dominating and we could do with another Danehill type, a sire who can impart a bit of speed as well.”

Slade Power was one of the horses Lynam bred from a small band of half a dozen or so broodmares that he owns. “It’s cheaper than buying horses. I like to use cheap stallions,

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that’s my trouble. At the sales I’ll buy 12-15, all for myself. If someone wants half, they can, but I always keep half. I had a couple of good ones that were sold on, and I had no control over it.” But he acknowledges the doubleedged sword. “Complete honesty – if your best friend had a horse that had just won a nice maiden and was offered €400,000 for it, what advice would you give? I pride myself in having cheap horses and a control in a horse’s destiny.

I won’t jump at a big offer, a good horse is too hard to source.”

After a good, if quiet, spell at Lohunda Park, Lynam later rented Summerseat Stables in County Meath, another former home to Classic winners. Green Banner was sent out from there by Kevin Kerr to win the 1965 Irish Two Thousand Guineas and the good filly Irish Chorus landed the 1962 Phoenix Stakes. “We only had 20 boxes, but I don’t like training big strings.” Given his intensive hands-on approach, that’s understandable.

“Rolo Tomasi was trained from there (1999), who beat Namid in the Listed Testimonial Stakes. He was probably the best one while I was there.”

Lynam with one of his leading three-year-old fillies, Agnes Stewart, held by daughter Sara

He has now been in Garretstown House, Dunshaughlin, County Meath, for 12 years.

“The first year here I trained High Society, she was very good.” After an excellent two-yearold campaign, she was sold and completed her career in the USA, placed in a Grade Two. Here is a classic example of trading, but by cashing-in the trainer is denied the opportunity to lead in a future big race winner and thereby raise his or her profile. “In the last five or six years, our better horses we’ve kept,” Lynam says.

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commercial, but then they get a good one and they have to sell. Now I’m seeing the likes of the Qataris buying good horses and leaving them with the trainers. That’s a nice new thing that’s happened, a big help to trainers.”

From renting two superb yards to starting from scratch at Garretstown House, Lynam has enjoyed the best of both worlds. He designed and built the current yard, based on experience and the needs of his horses. The only compromise made was on the length of the straight on his fibresand 10-furlong gallops, due simply to the geography.

“In building the new yard, the boxes are insulated the same as a house,” he reveals. “I went with the quadrangle, it’s more expensive than a barn but I like it better. The boxes are very big and very airy with good ventilation, which is important. Initially I put in air-conditioning, it’s

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still there, but just not used now. I did away with it after a couple of years as we found the horses were getting sore throats and colds more, even though the Irish Equine Centre came out and tested regularly and found the boxes free from dust.

“The Equine Centre is very good and they come out and test the boxes from time to time and they’ve always been very helpful over the years. Recently, in December, a lot of the horses had the flu virus and the Equine Centre came out and tested them all and then came back and re-tested and gave them the all-clear.

I’ve never been afraid of asking for their help.”

Out on the gallops he points out where wife Aileen took a serious fall in April 2013, the day before his birthday. “We all got a shock.” She was very lucky to survive a broken back after months in a plaster cast and the risk of paralysis, but is no longer allowed to ride out! Lynam reveals that though they didn’t immediately know how serious Aileen’s injuries were, unusually the various Lynam dogs, of which there are many, arrived from all points. “They sensed something.”

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rides groundwork every afternoon on any of the horses who need help with their stride or recurring lameness issues. She has previously worked with Gai Waterhouse and was the regular exercise rider of Fiorente in the year he won the Melbourne Cup. Opposite the spot where Aileen’s mount took a fright, together with all those watching at the time, is a large shady tree, under which the horses can walk in a figure eight as they collect for exercise. The largest of the gallops extends to the right, while a smaller b-shaped circuit threads off it to the left.

“I couldn’t put in a big straight because of the ground, which I would have liked, but it’s a big figure eight. If they go a mile left, then I like them to go a mile right, too. I don’t like the idea of horses training on straight gallops, keep going up the same straight every morning, it must get monotonous. I like my horses to be alert and happy. You can blow a horse’s mind very easily and you won’t get them back.

You’ve got to be very patient, I’d be guilty of giving horses too much time, that’s why it’s a great advantage owning them myself.”

Keep it simple is a phrase you’ll hear from most horsemen and the routine here is just that. “We’ll put them on the walker for half an hour first, then tack up and out they go. They go out for 20 minutes and canter, starting off on the smaller circuit to warm up first, trotting round what I call the backward b. Then they join the larger loop, which they go round in both directions, usually doing two circuits. We have a slight hill, I like them to pull up going uphill, it helps them to pull up gently, especially the two-year-olds. I hate to see a horse being pulled up too quickly.

“We never push them. After exercise they walk back in, we wash them down and put them on the free-schooler (a larger, speedier 18

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type of automated walker) for half an hour.

They do an eight-minute trot to cool off and recover, then walk, then trot another eight minutes, the other way. They’re out for an hour and 40 minutes in total and only ridden for 40 minutes, which is a downside. I haven’t enough riders. We have four lots each day with 12 riders in each, which isn’t ideal, I’d like more riders.”

Staffing issues, Lynam believes, is the biggest problem faced by today’s trainers and he feels sorry for those who are just starting out. But, for now, the topic remains on horses. “We’re busier now at this time of year (January) and have to work harder, but it’s the least productive time of the year,” he points out.

This is when the new bunch of two-year-olds begin their education and that comes with its own rewards. “When you see a good one – you know.” He says it with feeling. “You know straight away what you’ve got. It’s a great feeling.”

In the yard, the routine remains simple and without fuss. “I like to get as much condition as possible into them, then turn it to muscle.

We feed Red Mills and keep it simple. No big secrets. We feed 18-20Ib a day, if they’ll

eat it. The standard of hay and straw and feed has come a long way in recent years. They’re bedded on straw, some of them on shavings, if they have allergies.”

The horses are certainly at ease and contented, the quiet secluded environment appreciated, although, as Lynam points out, “it has its drawbacks, too – some of them can get a bit of a shock when they arrive at the races for the first time. It can be a bit too peaceful here.”

He is quick to point out the biggest training asset in his yard, which turns out not to be Sid the Cocker Spaniel, self-appointed assistant trainer. An immensely scaled up version of a horse-walker, the free-schooler or “hurdygurdy” as Lynam calls it, takes pride of place.

“The very best thing we have here for training is this – the polytrack is 170m, a walker but at speed, they can canter. It freshens them up, it’s great, I love it. Sole Power has been on it throughout the winter. They can go down in the sand and have a roll and the gate just lifts up and goes over them, it’s designed perfectly for safety. Some like to race it, with their heads over the gate, while others just hack canter with a good space around them.” Again, they’ll do a couple of circuits in each direction, as required.

When it comes to training horses, the education works both ways. As much as an asset the free-schooler is, the aforementioned horse, Duff, also has a lot to be credited for. “Duff gave me the confidence to travel horses,” reveals Lynam. “He proved to me we could do it.”

Duff’s first outing was across the water to Redcar, running third in a Listed. He found Yorkshire to be a happy hunting ground, picking up the Listed City Of York Stakes the following summer. Save for the delights of a Listed win at Cork, there was pretty much

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“Sometimes trainers are a little bit cowardly.

If you’ve got a good one, go out and enjoy it.

If you’ve got a good one, cherish it,” Lynam advises. “Sole Power would die for you.”

And before Duff? “Some of the mistakes I made early on?” Lynam considers. “I was a bit naïve. A bit too honest. I’d be winning a maiden, and then you’re waiting the rest of the season for the right race.” As he alludes to, it’s sometimes better not to win maidens. “I’m not a great delegator,” he adds. “I like a small string and to watch them all the time and be fully involved. I stop short of riding out, but I have to be involved in everything else.”

When it comes to the mistakes to be learned from, shared and avoided, there’s a bit of a list that many can relate to. “A lot of trainers have great PR skills, but it’s not a skill I have,” he admits. “A lot of jockeys, too. You’ll find the ones with the best PR skills are the busiest and some very good jockeys hardly get used.

“If you’ve a nice horse that needs time, you’d tip the owner off and not rush. With the late maturing horses, there’s an art to keeping the owner happy. You need an owner to back you 100%. That’s one of the biggest pitfalls for trainers.

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like handicaps, I think there should be more conditions races. The smaller commercial trainer is limited with the horses he’s got and wasting time trying to win a maiden. What else can they do? They have to let horses qualify for handicaps, what else is there for them? For some reason we don’t have claimers in Ireland.

I think that’s down to trainers not liking them.

If trainers won’t run in them, they won’t work.”

Another problem for Irish trainers is the lack of facilities provided for owners at many racetracks. Without a dedicated Owners & Trainers’ Bar, the opportunities to buy food and drink are not only limited, but very often poor. This makes it difficult to reasonably entertain one’s owners and does nothing to enhance the race day experience so well promoted in Britain and France, for example.

“Trainers in Ireland struggle more,” Lynam insists. “If you go racing in Britain you’ve an area for owners and we could do with that here. You’d like to see the hobby owners eager to go racing again, with good facilities and food and drink. Racecourses need to step up and use some of their TV income, instead of

turning to HRI (Horse Racing Ireland), to provide a dedicated Owners & Trainers’ Bar. Just a dedicated area with complimentary tea and coffee and a place to buy a nice dinner and a bar.

“The people who come up with the ideas are in the private boxes or the pressroom, they don’t know what it’s like for the small owner.

They’ve never been in some cold unwelcoming area under the grandstand paying too much money for a not-very-nice burger. I’d like to see the wife of an owner driving home and saying ‘when can we go racing again?’ instead of ‘don’t ever drag me to that kip again.’”

He offers a solution that adds a twist to the usual prize money arguments. “Bring down entry fees to 0.5% instead of 1%, rather than putting extra money on top of prize money that’s only going to a few lucky owners.

Why not halve entry fees and everyone can benefit? If you give more to prize money we know where 80% of it will end up going – to Gigginstown and Coolmore and the other small handful of leading owners. But halve the entry fees and all owners will benefit.”

One serious problem he finds most worrying has no immediate solution. “The day of the stable lad is gone,” he says with concern. “At least half are foreign, because the school-leavers here set their sights higher, they don’t want to pursue what is a highlyskilled and dangerous job for little more than minimum wage. The average member of staff here is on €26,000 a year, which is above minimum wage, but still isn’t recognising their true value.

“For a new trainer, good staff and good owners is the number one priority. Fran is my headlad and he’s been with me for years.

There are two Ukranian girls who have been here for 10 years, they have Irish passports now, and they do a good job. All of the staff

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“They’re the forgotten people of racing and when you think of the huge investment that goes into horses, they’re completely undervalued. When the TV money was given out, the stable staff missed out. Their canteens and facilities at the races should have benefited from that added income. The stable staff canteens are poor in general. They’re on not much more than minimum wage and it’s a highly-skilled job they’re doing, it doesn’t compare to a minimum wage job. They’re getting up on a 450kg horse and telling you how it’s going and what’s wrong – that’s an art. It’s a vocation. They’re well enough looked after in the bonus system, although they end up having to pay tax on that, but I worry for the future, I really do. I’m training nearly 30 years, I’ve not that many years left, but what is the new trainer going to do? In 20 or 30 years time, there may not be the staff.

“I watch all the work, but I rely on the staff in the afternoon, when some of the horses do groundwork or they notice something when they’re taking round the feeds. They’ll tell me this one’s a bit quiet, or something is a bit unusual or a horse is a bit anxious. That’s valuable.

“I worry for the long-term. They get minimum wage and how can you class them in that category? The trouble is, there’s not enough money in training to pay them their value, so I don’t know what the answer is. A new trainer just starting up could have real problems with staff.”

Increasing size is another long-term concern, too. “The weight is an issue. Horses can work in the morning and do routine exercise carrying 11st. A colt carrying 9st5Ib in a maiden is just about palatable and we can’t go over that, they can’t be carrying that sort

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of weight in fast times over fast ground, their bones haven’t matured yet,” he argues. “I can understand where Dr Adrian McGoldrick (Turf Club, Irish Jockeys’ Association) is coming from, but if the UK, France, USA and Hong Kong don’t need to raise weights, then we don’t need to. The minimum weight of 8st4Ib to 8st7Ib is fine, but a top weight that tops 10st, no. Every pound after 9st7Ib is like double weight, it really kicks in and gets really hard to carry. If a Flat jockey can’t do 9st then he shouldn’t have a Flat licence. That’s fair.”

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the premier ‘breeding’ ground, if you will, for top class jockeys. “I like to think the government is watching and seeing all the talented young jockeys we have in Ireland,” Lynam says, listing those who have made a name for themselves at home and abroad, on the Flat and over jumps.

“There’s no forward thinking,” he insists.

“That’s what’s wrong with the industry. If they’re doing up the programme for next year, what do they do? They take out last year’s programme book! They’re slowly but surely tweeking some things, the sprint programme has improved, but there’s not enough forward thinking.

“The racing industry is no different to the rest of the world. If you look at the 0-50 horses, they’re like the people who aren’t working and can’t get jobs. Then you’ve got the few who are doing well.”

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Do the muscles of the respiratory system affect performance?

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OWEVER, until recently, the role of breathing in exercise performance in both human and equine athletes was largely unknown, as was the response of the respiratory system to training. Although it has been understood for many years that human lungs do not adapt to the rigours of aerobic training, it was only recently that is was discovered that the respiratory pump muscles (that is rib cage, diaphragm and abdominal wall) can be improved by training, and the degree which an individual is able to adapt to training influences their performance.

Because current knowledge regarding the contribution of respiratory muscle performance in human athletes is very relevant to horses, HBLB is funding research Equine Sports Medicine Centre at Bristol University where techniques established in humans are applied in the thoroughbred racehorse.

The respiratory system is divided into the upper respiratory tract – from the nostrils to the trachea (windpipe); and the lower respiratory tract – from the trachea to the lungs.

lower respiratory tract What are the muscles influencing the respiratory tract?

The muscles influencing the lower respiratory tract provide the pumping action that draws air into the lungs. The main respiratory muscle is the diaphragm, but there are accessory muscles in the rib cage (intercostals) and neck. When the muscles of the ribcage and the diaphragm act to expand the chest cavity, air is sucked in (inspiration). During expiration, the ‘elastic’ lungs and rib cage recoil, reducing the size of the chest cavity, which forces air out. The muscles of the abdominal wall also

Over the last two decades the Horserace Betting Levy Board (HBLB) has funded substantial research to understand how various body systems respond to training. For example, because of this HBLB investment we now know that the hearts of thoroughbred racehorses get bigger as a response to athletic training and that big hearts are typically associated with better performers. We also know that bones respond to training by remodelling and hence become better prepared for the strains associated with galloping.

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contribute to expiration during exercise, when high breathing rates are required.

What happens to breathing during exercise?

At rest both humans and horses breathe at approximately 12 breaths per minute; in horses the breath volume is around 6 litres, whilst in humans it is around 0.5 of a litre.

As the horse exercises, breathing frequency increases, and during canter and gallop it becomes linked to stride frequency – so that one breath occurs every one stride.

At gallop breathing frequency increases to on average 120 breaths per minute with volumes in the region of 13 litres. Minute ventilation is the amount of air inhaled per minute, and in the thoroughbred at gallop it reaches values between 1500 - 2000 litres per minute. In contrast, humans are not obliged to breathe in synchrony with running stride, so breathing frequency rarely exceeds 50 breaths per minute and ventilation is typically around 150 litres per

minute at peak exercise in the average man, but can be as high as 250 litres in elite male athletes.

In both species, the movement of such relatively large volumes of air so rapidly imposes a huge demand upon the respiratory pump muscles, so much so that in humans the diaphragm can exhibit fatigue during intense exercise.

The horse is very interesting in that during gallop the ribcage doesn’t actually change size much – you will have noticed this when riding in that when the horse is galloping you don’t actually feel the ribcage expanding and contracting. What actually happens is that the muscles of the ribcage act to splint or stabilise the chest cavity and most of the work of breathing is done by the diaphragm. As we can’t see the diaphragm it is difficult to appreciate how hard this muscle is working, but we know that it is actually one of the major muscles involved in high-speed exercise.

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Respiratory muscle fatigue

The respiratory tract has two main regions: in the upper airways muscles of the nostrils, pharynx, and larynx contribute to function while in the lower respiratory tract, the intercostal muscles in the rib cage and the muscle of the diaphragm act as the respiratory pump. Just like the muscles in the limb, respiratory muscles may become “fitter” with training Athlete using an inspiratory muscle trainer. The device imposes a resistance to inhalation and can be likened to lifting a weight

It has recently been shown that fatigue of the respiratory muscles can occur during intense exercise in humans and, more importantly, that this fatigue limits performance. Of particular significance is a cardiovascular reflex originating within the major respiratory muscles, such as the diaphragm. When exercise is sufficient to exhaust the diaphragm this induces a reflex that constricts the blood supply to the exercising limb muscles. The reduction in blood supply to the limb muscles reduces delivery of oxygen, hastens limb fatigue, and results in a decrease in exercise performance.

Fatigue of the respiratory muscles may also result in a reduction in airflow in and out of the lungs and an increase in the perceived effort of exercise. These factors further reduce exercise performance. In humans, research has shown that specific training of the breathing muscles prevents this cascade of events, thereby improving performance.

Currently, the extent to which respiratory muscle fatigue might affect exercise performance in racehorses is unknown.

However, as the racehorse’s respiratory system is already considered to be an important limiting factor, it is highly likely that these mechanisms could play an important role in fatigue on the racetrack.

Current research on horses

Research at Bristol’s Equine Sports Medicine Centre is attempting to understand whether and if so to what extent respiratory muscle fatigue occurs in horses. The challenge was to develop a diagnostic tool to measure the strength of equine respiratory muscles. In humans, respiratory strength is assessed during a single maximal voluntary inspiratory effort – but because we can’t order a horse to take a deep breath on command, this inability to undertake maximal voluntary breaths is the main factor to overcome.

Methods used in human ICU patients on life support have been adapted in order to estimate the strength of equine inspiratory muscles. Once this tool has been further validated, it will be used to assess how conventional racehorse training programs increase respiratory strength and to what degree, if any, respiratory fatigue occurs during racing. An important practical benefit from this HBLB-funded research will be to contribute to the development of specific methods for increasing the strength, power, and endurance of respiratory muscles, which 24

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VETERINARY will hopefully improve race performance in horses prone to respiratory fatigue.

The dynamic endoscopy image shows dorsal displacement of the soft palate, which causes a ‘gurgling’ or ‘choking’ noise. The soft palate is now positioned above the epiglottis so that the epiglottis cannot be seen

Upper respiratory tract What are the muscles of the upper respiratory tract?

The upper respiratory tract is essentially a floppy tube that connects the lungs to the outside world. During inspiration, the pressure inside the lungs and upper airway is negative, but whereas the lungs expand during inspiration, the negative pressure in the upper airway can cause it to collapse.

There are three areas of the upper airway where muscle activity is key to opposing the pressure gradient and maintaining an open airway. These are the nostrils, the pharynx, and the larynx. This horse’s ability to maintain a dilated upper airway in the face of the extreme negative pressures created by the diaphragm during gallop occurs because of complex activity of a multitude of muscles within the upper airway.

Soft palate

Paralysed arytenoid cartilage of larynx

The dynamic endoscopy image shows laryngeal paralysis, which causes a ‘roaring’ noise. One side of the larynx is paralysed and instead of being in an open position can be seen hanging in the midline

Upper airway obstructions

A high proportion of racehorses suffer from collapse of the upper airways during strenuous exercise. The vast majority of these types of collapse affect the pharynx and larynx. Collapse of the upper airways leads to airway obstruction, which results in abnormal respiratory noise and poor performance. Upper airway obstructions occur because the muscles of the upper airway are too weak or fatigued to keep the airway stable when exposed to the very negative pressures that occur when galloping. In many cases the cause of the muscle weakness is not known but is likely to involve multiple factors – with genetic, infectious, and training factors all playing a role. Most ‘wind’ surgeries attempt to provide a mechanical solution, and at the moment, there is no specific method of increasing the strength of the upper airway muscles. Some of the current surgical options are known to have only limited benefits whilst others can be associated with long-term complications.

Current research

Obviously, it is well known that the locomotor muscles show responses to athletic training, and it would be reasonable to expect the muscles of the upper airway to also respond to a training stimulus.

Research at the Equine Sports Medicine Centre is exploring the extent to which the muscles of the equine upper airway respond to training, and which training techniques could maximise this response.

Up until now there has been no data to show whether the upper airway muscles of the horse respond to training, but it is known that the upper airway muscles

in other species are trainable. Trainers often report that some two-year-olds stop ‘gurgling’ on the gallops as their fitness levels increase – and this suggests there must be a training-induced increase in the strength of the upper airway muscles.

We do know that in human athletes, specific forms of upper airway collapse – such as vocal cord collapse – can be successfully treated with specific training of the respiratory muscles. The research challenge now is to identify whether these techniques might be applicable in either prevention or treatment of upper airway collapse in athletic horses. n

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HEADGEAR AND THE RACEHORSE

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The science behind the mask

OmETImES these aids may work very well, and a horse may wear a certain type of headgear regularly thereafter.

Sometimes such aids may work but only for a short period, and sometimes headgear may not have the desired effect at all. The racing public are always informed of the use of headgear on a particular horse and the race card will indicate if a horse is wearing headgear by including the first letter of the particular equipment next to a horse’s name – for example, a ‘b’ next to a horse’s name denotes that runner is wearing blinkers. much of the reasoning behind the use of such headgear is anecdotal; however, it may have a valid place in the arsenal of a trainer in the bid to help a horse to reach his or her full potential. This article aims to explore the different types of headgear used and the reasoning behind the usage, with a look at the scientific research into such equipment.

Why use headgear?

mother Nature designed horses for speed and flight to stay alive, supplying them with a commanding field of vision to detect predators and an instinct to react when scared or surprised. The theory behind the use of headgear on race day is to harness the horse’s natural instinct and thus to keep him running straight towards the finishing line.

Horses’ eyes are at the side of their heads, giving them 340-degree vision. Their vision evolved so they could see if a predator was sneaking up behind them, enabling them to run away. Headgear is used to keep the eyes focused in front of them and away from other distractions like competing horses.

There can be no doubt, given the empirical evidence of the number of racehorses running well in cheekpieces, visors, blinkers, eyeshields, and sheepskin nosebands each day, that there is evidence that headgear can provide a positive stimulus for some horses.

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Across the world in all racing jurisdictions, there are horses that perform with a type of headgear for a multitude of reasons. From blinkers to hoods, there a variety of makes, types, and forms of equipment that can be placed on or over a horse’s head with the ultimate aim of enhancing performance.

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Science behind the use of blinkers

A recent study performed in Texas aimed to determine the effect of blinkers on driving horses’ reactions to visual and audible stimuli and was published in scientific literature in 2011.

Horses were randomly assigned to either wear blinkers or not wear blinkers, and then subjected to repeated sequences of four distinct stimuli. Two weeks later, this process was repeated with the ordering of wearing blinkers reversed. Responses were recorded as inter-beat times (the time between each heartbeat) and via video recording.

Analysis of the first 10 seconds of inter-beat times post-stimulus assessed the effect of the presence of blinkers, order of blinker application, and stimulus type. Wearing blinkers was shown to be significantly associated with a decrease in the inter-beat times (increase in heart rate) when they are worn by horses experiencing an unfamiliar sound. However, wearing blinkers is significantly associated with an increase in the inter-beat times (decrease in heart rate)

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This paper showed that horses wearing blinkers react more when they are exposed to unexpected noises

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when worn by horses experiencing a familiar sound.

The purpose of this study was to quantify horses’ responses to stimuli when their visual fields were decreased with blinkers compared to not wearing blinkers. It would seem obvious that wearing blinkers would be advantageous when the blinkers hide a visual distraction; as the horse cannot see the object, he has no reaction to this object that is potentially frightening. However, sounds are different, and this paper showed that horses wearing blinkers react more when they are exposed to unexpected noises. An observer does not necessarily see this reaction, because many of the horses showed little or no reaction when they heard the noise, despite the fact that their heart rates increased dramatically.

Rules and regulations

Until recently, horses trained in Ireland who have worn visors were officially described as racing in blinkers, and this outdated system meant that when a horse went to run in Britain and was declared with a visor, he or she was described in the press as being visored for the first time, regardless of whether he had carried similar headgear in the past.

Trainers are now required to declare the exact type of headgear or combinations of headgear that will be used. The Irish Turf Club felt that it was important that everyone be aware of the exact type of headgear that is being used, and the new rules will provide this clarity.

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TRAINING Currently at the declaration stage in the UK and Ireland, the trainer must specify any headgear that is to be worn by the horse. In England, this refers to hood, blinkers, visor, eyeshield, eyecover, and sheepskin cheek pieces. In addition, if the horse is to run in a tongue strap, it must also be declared at the “Declaration to Run” stage. When weighing out, the rider must present to the clerk of the scales any headgear that is to be worn by the horse during the race.

The rules of racing in Dubai, as governed by the Emirates Racing Authority, state that if a horse is intended to wear blinkers, hood, visor, earplugs, shadow roll, cheek pieces, pacifier, or tongue tie, the equipment must be worn by the horse on the way to the start and during the race.

Australian specifications for blinkers

Voler La Vedette wearing earplugs after winning at Navan

The Australian Racing Authority has set out very clear and defined rules regarding the use of headgear: l Blinkers must be open cupped, to permit a full forward and peripheral view, with the cup not exceeding 6cm in width.

Visor Blinkers must conform to the requirements for Blinkers provided that no more than 50% of the cup may be removed. Blinkers or Visors must not be cut back in anyway to reduce their original width. Blinkers/Visors must be worn under bridle and have buckles or interlocking clips. A one cupped visor or blinker can be used and the trainer must notify at acceptance what side it will be worn. Steeplechase racing in Australia allows only non-hooded Blinkers or Visors that have been specifically approved by the Stewards. l Winkers must be lambs’ wool and not exceed 270mm in length and be of a reasonable thickness to allow adequate forward and peripheral vision. Winkers must be attached to the cheek strap of the bridle. Winkers must not be used in combination with Blinkers/Visor Blinkers.

Palace Malice ran too freely when wearing blinkers in the 2013 Kentucky Derby then won the Belmont Stakes without them

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Common types of headgear used Blinkers

This is a hood made of fabric with cups sewn onto the eye openings, which is then fitted to the horse’s head. The cups force the horse to look straight ahead and are put on a horse for a few reasons. The main one is so he/she is not distracted by other horses and is a bit easier to handle for the jockey. If a horse is wearing blinkers for the first time it can have a dramatic effect on his/her race performance.

This often equates to a much improved race effort, while some horses seem to really relax much better when wearing blinkers.

These are usually fit to a horse that has concentration problems, and if a horse has been looking around during a race, blinkers can be fit to restrict its view to around 30 degrees. We have to remember they are animals that often run in packs and they place value in safety in numbers, yet a jockey is asking them to kick clear and run alone to the winning post. A horse wearing blinkers for the first time can often show an improvement in performance but it is thought that this improvement can wear off the more a horse wears headgear and gets used to it.

Visor

This looks very similar to blinkers yet has

Prior to being permitted to wear Ear muffs in a race, a horse must trial to the satisfaction of the Stewards wearing Ear muffs. Ear muffs must be of wetsuit material, vinyl or cloth and must be attached by a buckle or interlocking clip.

No foreign material is to be inserted in the ears of any horse wearing Ear muffs. l Nose Rolls must be made of lambs’ wool and must be of a reasonable thickness to allow adequate vision. must be positioned no further up the nasal bone than half way between nostrils and eyes. Prior to being permitted to wear a combination of Blinkers/Visor Blinkers or Winkers with a Nose Roll in a race, a two year old or unraced horse must trial to the Stewards satisfaction prior to acceptance time wearing the relevant gear. l

Practical use of headgear: different views in US and Europe

Blinkers are so common on the American racetrack that they escape notice much of the time. Blinkers can turn an anxious horse docile and a docile horse anxious, and they can cure bad habits and create new ones.

Racehorse trainers are tinkerers, and blinkers are a tinkerer’s delight. Todd Pletcher, the highly decorated US trainer, used blinkers on Palace malice in the 2013 Kentucky Derby, with the result being the colt exploded out of the gate and had run his 32

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a slit in the side so the horse has some extra reassurance that other horses are running at his side during a race.

An example of the use of a visor in a competitive setting is the great Irish hurdler Hardy Eustace, who was twice-winner of Champion Hurdle at Cheltenman in blinkers, and then was fitted with a visor on his hat-trick attempt.

His trainer, the late Dessie Hughes, thought the greater lateral vision would increase the horse’s battling qualities if he could see other horses running up to him.

(Hardy Eustace finished fourth that year.)

Eye Shields

These are worn simply as eye protectors and can often be used when horses run on an all-weather surface to stop sand/ polytrack being kicked up into their faces. Eye shields do not usually change a horse’s vision and are not used for concentration purposes. In some rare cases a horse that is blind or missing an eye may race wearing an eye cover.

Cheekpieces

These are also used for concentration purposes but don’t restrict a horses view as much. They are used to help a horse settle or concentrate during a race and can be quickly removed after a race.

race in the early part of the race. On seeing Palace malice’s radical reaction to blinkers, Pletcher took them off immediately and five weeks later, Palace malice won the third leg of the Triple Crown, the Belmont Stakes.

In tinkering with a horse’s field of vision, though, one trifles with nature. Horses have a highly developed sense of smell, with olfactory systems finely tuned like a dog’s.

Keen hearing and a nearly panoramic field of vision add to a survival system based on flight, not fight. Horses don’t see as sharply as humans – their average vision is pegged at 20/60 rather than 20/20, and they can see a limited color range – but horses’ eyes protrude from the side of their head and

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This sense of blinkers as a crutch comes straight out of the European school leading blinkers to be described as “The Rogue’s Badge” overseas

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Hood

Hoods, which cover a horse’s ears, are becoming increasingly more popular in recent times. They are not used as a tool for vision but instead to restrict noise, and they are padded around the ears.

They can help horses that tend to be quite nervous and affected by crowds and noises. Horses have an excellent sense of hearing, and hoods are designed to help a horse of a nervous disposition to relax.

Noseband

A noseband is worn to restrict a horse’s field of vision and encourage him to lower his head and focus on racing, rather than throwing his head in the air and making control difficult for the jockey.

Ear Plugs

Usually made of cotton, foam, or rubber, these aids reduce surrounding noise and are used to better control nervous or ‘highly-strung’ horses.

Earplugs are now used more widely in British racing, particularly over jumps, given the greater influx of horses from France, where the instruments have been used widely for many years.

Earplugs must not be removed during the race.

create a vision field covering everything except what lies directly behind them and a small space right in front of their face.

There is a school of thought, long associated with blinker use, that states that a genuine racehorse who fully understands racing doesn’t need to be coaxed into anything by means of headgear.

This sense of blinkers as a crutch comes straight out of the European school leading blinkers to be described as “The Rogue’s Badge” overseas. The application of the hood stood about one step above gelding a horse, an admission that the animal could not fulfill his potential through his own force of will. It was thought to be a major black mark against a horse, an assassination of his character and desire.

For years there have been different perceptions of blinkers in the United States and Europe. It is clear the style of racing in each jurisdiction asks different requirements of the racehorse. For the big, open turf racecourses, some with homestretches a half-mile long, in Europe, a horse’s training revolves around relaxing and conserving energy early in a race. most European races are run faster at the finish rather than the start, the opposite of American-style racing on smaller ovals with shorter stretch runs that leave little time for relaxed, come-from-behind runners to make up ground.

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Ruler Of The World wins the Investec Derby at Epsom in 2013 wearing cheekpieces

Discussing horseracing in the US, it is clear that speed from the gate and position are crucial, and it’s very noticeable that some of the all-time great American horses, such as Secretariat and Northern Dancer, ran in blinkers.

European attitudes toward blinkers have softened in recent years, with more trainers willing to experiment with the equipment, particularly since a cheater-style blinker, called a cheekpiece, was recently introduced. The cheekpiece is just a thick length of sheepskin that attaches to the bridle, acting like a cheater blinker to stop a horse from looking at his rider or finding other distractions behind him.

This form of headgear gained further notoriety when Ruler Of The World winning the 2013 Epsom Derby for Irish trainer Aidan O’Brien wearing cheekpieces.

The Norwegian model

The use of “blinkers” has been a very regular way to get horses to concentrate during races throughout the world, and in Scandinavia a different form of blinkers has been used with apparent success. These are called sidewinders and shown with an “S” in race cards. In Norway, Arnfinn Lund was the first to introduce sidewinders in the thoroughbred industry, as he was familiar with the subject from the trotting industry.

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A ‘Norwegian bridle’ is a bridle with blinkers, which can be lifted up from the eyes as the speed increases and the race finish appears

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The use of “flexible blinkers” has also increased, and in Sweden they are shown with an “F” in race cards. Flexible blinkers are only allowed in Scandinavia, and they can be adjusted mid-race depending on the effect the rider wishes to have from the blinkers.

A “Norwegian bridle” is a bridle with blinkers that can be lifted up from the eyes as the speed increases and the race finish appears. This is done in order to give the horse a surprise and an extra burst of speed near the finishing line. This is thought to have a performance-enhancing effect; results have backed this up, but there are ethical concerns.

In a bid to be competitive, should we be using absolute fear as a primary method of encouraging horses to run faster? Is

this ethical, or is it no different to many practices in many sports, which prey upon weakness to promote success? my personal opinion is that headgear has a place in aiding horses to concentrate and focus on their performance, but a line must be drawn to avoid encouraging our athletes to run in blind panic.

Conclusion

When asked why they use blinkers on a particular horse, trainers will invariably deliver a multitude of very different reasons for their use. Training horses has changed dramatically over the past 30 years with the arrival of the technological age. The development of veterinary knowledge and equipment, the evolution of the tack and equipment the horse and riders wear, and the development of a variety of different surfaces that horses now run on has modernised the training of racehorses.

Despite this, training thoroughbred racehorses will always be part science, part art, with the trainer’s understanding of the needs of an individual horse to achieve optimal performance crucial for overall success. The use of headgear has a valid place in the trainer’s arsenal and it allows for the “tinkerer” within the trainer to bear itself out in an attempt to maximise a horse’s potential. n

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Wesley Ward’s 2,000 Guineas hope, Hootenanny, was the trainer’s first Breeders’ Cup winner in the Juvenile Turf at Santa Anita

Wesley Ward didn’t invent thinking outside the box, but he’s certainly living it – and increasingly so in Europe; training four Royal Ascot winners in the last five years; scoring his first European Group One with No Nay Never’s blistering performance in the Prix Morny; preparing a live contender in Hootenanny for the coming English 2,000 Guineas; in all, becoming a force European trainers cannot ignore.

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ESLEY does things nobody else does, ever since he was a little guy,” said his father Dennis, who, like his 47-yearold son, is a former jockey who switched to training after years of battling weight problems. Dennis did a fine job filling in at Santa Anita in the winner’s circle and with the media after Hootenanny gave Ward his first Breeders’ Cup victory. A second one with Judy the Beauty, a five-year-old mare Ward owns, followed the next day.

Wesley Ward’s reaction to his Breeders’ Cup success? “Chad Brown had a better day,” he said. Brown did: three victories. That does nothing to diminish the performances of Ward’s horses in last year’s Breeders’ Cup. With six starters, he had two wins, three seconds, and one third.

Dizzying success hasn’t gone to Ward’s head, nor had it five years earlier when he became the first American trainer to win a race at Royal Ascot. If anything, success has made him more appreciative of racing. “It took me all over the world,” he said. “It’s opened up so many doors for me. I’m just a 38

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boy from way out in the country.”

One who’s breathed, lived, and loved horses his whole life, Ward admits. “I just can’t get enough of what I do,” he said. “It’s seven days a week. I absolutely love it. I have a passion for it. I’m hands-on, doing what I love.”

It shows. Thirty-one years after winning the Eclipse Award in 1984 as outstanding apprentice jockey in the US, he is one of a handful of former riders to have continued, or in his case greater, success as a trainer.

Opened doors only matter if you walk through them. Opportunities are wasted if

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I just can’t get enough of what I do. It’s seven days a week. I absolutely love it. I have a passion for it. I’m hands on, doing what I love

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not seized. And Ward has never been shy about reaching for the stars.

He has a burning competitive drive to win at the highest level, which makes his decision to miss the Breeders’ Cup to see his 16-yearold son Riley run in a high school meet even more remarkable. “I think it speaks volumes of Wesley’s character,” his friend, former jockey and now trainer Robbie Davis, said.

“He’s got his ducks in a row. He’s got his priorities straight. To miss your kid rips your heart out. You can always watch a replay to see how your horse did. He got the horse ready. He did everything to get him to the race. All they had to do was put a saddle on him. He just wanted to be with his family.

His father is very close to him. He knows what it means to be there to see your kid.

This game, they play it seven days a week, 365 days a year. But we have another life.”

Ward doesn’t understand what the fuss was about his Breeders’ Cup absence, especially since he’d done the same exact thing the year before. “Everyone made a big deal out of it after I won,” he said. “The year before I didn’t win and it wasn’t a big deal. It’s just important to [Riley] for me to be there. It’s just the one sport he does. There are certain days of the year I need to be there for him.

I just make a point to do it. My owners understand. They’re fine with it.”

Racing has been “fine” with Ward his whole life, a life that seemed destined to be spent with horses. His maternal grandfather, Jim Dailey, was an outrider in New York.

His father’s father, Glenn, was a jockey and blacksmith. Ward’s mother, Jeanne, trained horses, and father Dennis rode and still trains.

He has four aunts, and they’re all involved

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I’m the first one on their back when they come in to train. I think it means a lot. If horses are mishandled, they develop bad habits

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with horses: Gwyn, the oldest of Dennis’s sisters, galloped and trained; Linda was an outrider in California for 30 years and now works in the pari-mutuel department at Del Mar; Dove works for Arizona breeders; and Dawn rode horses, married jockey Orlando Garrido, and quit riding after having a baby.

Just like his son, Dennis began riding before he became a teenager. “I rode for six years, then I worked as a valet and jock’s agent for 20 years,” Dennis Ward said. “I started training the same year Wesley started riding, in 1984, just so he could get on horses. I took him all over the country. He rode quarter horses and thoroughbreds.”

More than three decades later, Wesley Ward is still getting on every single horse he trains. “I think it’s very important with the younger horses,” he said. “I’m the first one on their back when they come in to train. I think it means a lot. If horses are mishandled, they develop bad habits.”

Born an only child in Selah, Washington, Ward began galloping horses when he was 12. “I rode my first race when I was 13,” he said. “You didn’t need a licence at the bush tracks.”

Ward realised he was getting an education.

“I just got a wealth of experience,” he said.

“It was a different era. They let you drive cars when you were 14. Riding races to me was like a drug. I quit school when I was in the ninth grade. [Riding] was the only thing I knew. It was everything. I had to just quit [school].”

Being immediately successful eased his transition. “He won 300 races before he came to New York,” Dennis said.

After the move in 1984, Ward continued his sensational season. “We chose Lenny Goodman [the jockey’s agent who had represented Steve Cauthen] before he went to New York,” Dennis said. “His mom went with him to New York.”

Ward’s career immediately skyrocketed.

“I knew I was living a dream,” he said. “I’d ridden at the small fairs with one goal: to go to New York and ride. I’d been riding at Yakima Meadows [in Washington]. That’s where you want to be: New York – best horses, best riders, best trainers.”

On his way to winning the Eclipse Award, he rode 335 winners and won riding titles at Aqueduct, Belmont Park, and Meadowlands.

“I started at the bottom and I made it to the top when I was 16 years old,” he said.

On closing day at Belmont Park, Gregg

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Appreciate what you accomplished.’”

While in New York, Ward became friends with Robbie Davis, then one of the state’s top riders. “We grew up in the same part of the country,” Davis said. “He rode at a lot of the tracks I rode at: Longacres [in Washington], Billings, Montana. Then he came to New York. I don’t think he had a licence to drive.

He’d ask me to give him a ride to work, a ride home. He was a real likeable kid.”

Davis remembers driving with Ward on the Long Island Expressway, singing songs together from Madonna’s first album. “I had just bought it,” Davis said. “We’d both be singing in on the parkway.”

Twenty-eight years later, Ward repaid Davis’s kindness by giving his son Dylan, a ‘triple bug apprentice,’ his first mount. Dylan finished fourth on Black Rhino at Saratoga

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that day in 2012. “You can’t get a better spot than [Saratoga] to start your career,” Davis said. “It was a great honour.”

Ward didn’t stop there; he personally oversaw Dylan’s early career as well as helping Dylan’s sister Katie begin hers. “We call him ‘Uncle Wes,’” Robbie Davis said. “He took Dylan under his wing like he was his own kid.

At one point, Wesley said, ‘I might lose a few owners, but I’m going to make him a rider.’”

Ward didn’t have to think long about helping Dylan. “He reminded me of myself from yesteryear – a wonderful young guy who really seemed to have the drive, who really wanted to be a jockey,” he said. “It’s

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There were times I couldn’t pay the feed guy.

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tough to make a name for yourself. Nobody was really helping him.”

So Ward did.

All the great memories of his jockey titles in New York – an Eclipse and an endless stream of victories on high-profile horses (e.g., he rode 1986 Kentucky Derby winner Ferdinand to his maiden victory in 1985) – made it that much harder on Ward after he lost his ‘bug’ weight allowance and began an unending battle with his weight. “I knew I was in trouble from the day I started,” he said. “My dad had a similar career. I knew I had a limited time. So I enjoyed it. I knew there was going to be an end. I paid attention a lot because I knew I was going to be a trainer.”

Yet he wanted so desperately to keep riding.

“Right after I lost the bug, [making] the weight, it became terrible,” he said. “Then it just got so bad I went overseas where weights are higher.” He rode in Malaysia, Singapore, and Italy.

He had the nerve to eat like a normal person and when he returned to the United States, he got on a scale and was shocked.

“I weighed 150lbs,” he said. He headed for Florida in the spring of 1989 to lose weight and resume riding in the US. “I went on this juice diet,” he said. “You eat all the fruit and fruit juice in the morning, then all the vegetables you can eat…then nothing else.

I’d run twice a day, at 4 a.m. in the morning and 4 p.m. in the afternoon. I’d put 20lbs of clothes on and run on the beach in August.

It was very, very difficult. Every day. Every single day. I went down to 114lbs in 43 days.

I rode one last year. I wanted to end it on my terms.”

When it was over, Ward wasn’t sure what he’d do. He put training on hold and decided he might become a racing official. He was accepted for the renowned University of Arizona Racing Industry Program and, for a month before classes started, worked as a jockey agent, representing Eusebio Razo Jr and Jose Corrales. “We were doing well, but then you have to deal with different personalities – the trainers, the jockeys, the stewards,” Ward said. “I found out I didn’t want to be a jock’s agent. And the racing people weren’t dealing with horses, they were dealing with horsemen. I missed the horses so much. I never went to Arizona.”

Instead, he went home to Washington in the summer of ’90. “I went back and started galloping horses for my dad,” he said. “Then, I kind of went into depression for the only time in my life. ‘How am I going to be a trainer?’ I took the summer off.”

His life changed with a single conversation with his father Dennis. “My dad came into my apartment and said, ‘You have to get back and go to work. Because that’s what we do.

When you take the white pants off, you’re just another guy.’”

Dennis Ward remembers the conversation: “I told him, ‘You’ve got to persevere.’ He went through a lot of low spots, but he keeps persevering. That’s just the way he is. You don’t want to tell him not to do it. He’ll

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do it. He was on the wrestling team in high school. He was 85lbs. He wanted to try freestyle wrestling. He came back with a trophy bigger than him. That’s just the way he is.”

Dennis gave his son one horse to train, Mariani Red, which he had claimed years earlier. In January of 1991, Mariani Red won in his first start for Ward. “That was his first win, at Yakima Meadows,” Dennis said. “I had done the same thing, also. I won with my first horse, Yes Father, at Portland Meadows.”

Wesley Ward had placed an ad in Washington Thoroughbred magazine in the autumn of 1990 and was surprised when he received several answers. “A lot of owners who didn’t have a trainer answered,” he said. “Then I broke other trainers’ yearlings.

That’s how I got going.”

Ward showed up at his father’s barn, gave Mariani Red back to him, and said, “I’m going to California.” Dennis responded, “Good luck.”

He was 22, with five horses he’d been racing at Yakima Meadows, when he showed up at Santa Anita. “I had a burning desire to get to the highest level,” he said. “I always had a yearning to get back to New York.”

Having spent most of his life in racing helped prepare him for the difficult realities he faced trying to make it at Santa Anita at a young age.

He struggled. “There were times I couldn’t pay the feed guy,” he said. “The first guy I ‘buddied up with’ was my feed guy.”

Ward augmented his meagre income by galloping horses for other trainers. And he tried to figure out what he needed to do to jumpstart his career. “When I first started training, I really felt like the only time you can get an edge in this business, a legal edge, you have to take advantage of it,” he said.

“I thought, ‘How can I win at this level?’

I went to the sales at Barretts that fall and bought a couple cheap yearlings for a couple thousand dollars. I had them dead fit. They

ran a quarter of a mile race for two-yearolds in late February or March. I thought if I could get these horses – they weren’t [Kentucky] Derby-type horses – ready, I’d be okay. It took me six months to win my first race [in California], but I started getting more and more horses. Then racing shifted from Santa Anita to Hollywood Park. I started claiming them, and I had a knack at it. I finally got to where I was making it. I made a name for myself as a trainer of two-year-olds.”

But Ward shouldn’t be pigeonholed for his incredible success with two-year-olds.

Yes, he’s become an annual presence in some of Europe’s most prestigious twoyear-old races, but he has also done a superb job training and managing Judy the Beauty, his first champion after she was named the top female sprinter in 2014 following her victory in the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint.

Some 20 years earlier, Ward had notched his first stakes and graded stakes victory when Unfinished Symph captured the Grade 3 Will Rogers Handicap in 1994. Later that season, Unfinished Symph won the Grade 3 Cinema Handicap and the Grade 2 Shoemaker Handicap before finishing third in the Breeders’ Cup Mile as Ward’s first starter in the Breeders’ Cup. His first four Breeders’ Cup starters all finished third.

Ward raced in California, winning four graded stakes races with Men’s Exclusive and three with Bear Fan before moving to Florida with his family – his wife Kimberly and their children Riley, Denae, and Jack – in 2006. At the time, the kids were eight, five and two. “The eastern tracks were having bigger purses with slot machines,” Ward said. “The East Coast seemed like there would be a lot more opportunities.

That’s when I approached Bobby Frankel.

I rode for Bobby as a jockey, and we maintained a friendship through my training career. We were going out to dinner often.

I said, ‘Is there any way you can help me

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with some clients?’ He said, ‘Where?’ I said, ‘Florida, because of the schools.’ He called Mr Ramsey the next day.”

Ken Ramsey and Ward have been working together ever since. Ward calls Ramsey “Boss.” Ramsey said, “I hired him because of Bobby Frankel. I told Bobby I don’t have a good two-year-old trainer for my Kitten’s Joys and he said, ‘I’ve got just the man for you: Wesley Ward. He rides his own horses.’

That’s when we got started. I think he’s the best with two-year-olds, but he’s branched out. Wesley is a very likeable guy. He knows how to give instructions to riders. And he’ll go anyplace.”

In 2009, the country boy from rural Washington went across the pond to Royal Ascot and made history. Then he did it again and again. “I don’t know if I would have gone back if I didn’t win with the very first year I started,” he said. “I’d never been there.”

He didn’t go on a whim. “It’s something that I’d been looking at,” Ward said. “I have a little edge with two-year-olds, but after they win here, you have nowhere to go. There aren’t a lot of races for them. I thought about the climate over there, and the way they’re trained. They don’t train a lot for sprinting.” But Ward does.

Royal Ascot was an adventure Ward, his dad, and his oldest son will never forget. The impetus was an invitation for the Ramseys’s Cannonball – who had been second by a head and a neck in his prior two starts, both Grade 3 – to compete in the five-furlong, Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes.

But Ward didn’t send Cannonball to England alone. “Wesley saw all these twoyear-old stakes,” Dennis Ward said. “He took a few [horses]. I’m reading the [Daily Racing] Form on the airplane. They said, ‘If we finish fifth, we’d be doing good.’ I said,

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‘Fifth? Are they kidding? We’re going over there to win.’ He worked them [on the turf] at River Downs [in Ohio] to get them ready.

He took the right ones. I took my grandson, Riley. We had a ball. That was the greatest place we’ve ever been. My grandson won a mechanical bull-riding contest. We couldn’t get him on it, then came back two hours later and we couldn’t get him off it.”

Cannonball finished sixth at 33-1 under US-based rider John Velazquez in the King’s Stand on 16th June. “After Cannonball, I was worried about getting embarrassed,” Ward said. “I said, ‘What am I doing here?’”

One of his two-year-olds provided the answer later that afternoon. Strike the Tiger, a two-year-old gelding Ward owned in a partnership and who could have been claimed for $30,000 in his first start, went off the same 33-1 odds under Velazquez in the field of 22 in the five-furlong, Listed Windsor Castle Stakes. Strike the Tiger won by a neck, making Wesley Ward the first American trainer to win a race, let alone a black-type race, at the Royal Ascot meet.

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The following afternoon, Ward sent out Jealous Again, another two-year-old he owned in partnership, in the Group 2 Queen Mary Stakes over five furlongs. It would be her first time competing against fillies: Ward doesn’t hesitate to occasionally race two-year-old fillies versus colts.

“I just think in the early part of the year, [fillies] mature faster, and they’re mentally more advanced,” he said. In her only two previous races, she won on the all weather at Keeneland by 11¼ lengths and ran second, leading most of the way before tiring, as the favourite in the Grade 3 Kentucky Juvenile Stakes on dirt.

In the Queen Mary, Jealous Again and Velazquez set the pace and this time held on to win by five lengths.

In two days, Wesley Ward had saddled two winners at Ascot. “I was proud,” Dennis said.

But Ward wasn’t done. On four days of rest, Cannonball ran in the Group 1 Golden Jubilee Stakes, and the gelding finished second by a neck. “Three jumps after the wire, he wins the race,” Ken Ramsey said.

Ward wasn’t a one-year wonder in Europe but rather has been a presence since his initial foray. In May of 2011, his Judy the Beauty won a race for two-year-old fillies at Chantilly in France. She is named for Ward’s mother’s best friend, who “was called Judy the Beauty because she was as beautiful inside as she was on the outside,” he said.

“She died from cancer.”

In 2013, No Nay Never followed a maiden victory on all weather at Keeneland with victories in the Group 2 Norfolk Stakes at Royal Ascot and the Grade 1 Darley Prix Morny at Deauville.

Last year, Mrs John Magnier, Michael Tabor, and Derrick Smith’s Hootenanny won the Windsor Castle by 3½ lengths, three days before Sunset Glow was second in the Group 3 Albany Stakes, and later finished second by a half-length in the Prix Morny. Then Hootenanny gave Ward that first Breeders’ Cup victory, edging his stablemate, the Ramseys’s Luck of the Kitten, by three-quarters of a length in the Juvenile Turf for a Wesley Ward Breeders’ Cup exacta.

Ward watched the race in his tack room in Florida. “All by myself,” he said. “I’ll tell you what, it was really unbelievable. I was screaming and yelling. Somebody would have thought I was having a heart attack.”

The next day, Judy the Beauty won the Filly and Mare Sprint by a head. All she’s done is post nine victories, seven seconds, one third and a fourth in 18 career starts.

She capped an incredible two-days for Ward, in absentia for his son’s meet.

He hopes his three children do not follow him into racing. “I would never want my kids to come into this business, just because it’s so hard,” he said. “Not just financially, but it can be very difficult. The mental part is difficult.”

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VETERINARY

The danger within Climate change and the

threat of new equine diseases It is important trainers know more about some new pathological threats that might affect more and more horses in training in European countries. Worldwide, when there are new disease outbreaks – human or horse – there seems to be a link between climate change and infectious disease risk.

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ARMER environment and changing weather patterns influence many factors that encourage disease outbreaks, disease transmission, and the emergence of new diseases. The warmer temperatures that are now more prevalent enable disease-carrying organisms to extend their ranges, have a longer breeding season, and generally become more virulent.

CLIMATE CHANGE Changes in the distribution and abundance of insects are likely to be amongst one of the most important and immediate effects of climate change.

Evolutions in average climate conditions are observed between regions; if the conditions in Western and Northern Europe were to be described, it would be shorter, less severe winters and wetter summers.

These anomalies can have a direct impact on the survival and development of arthropod vectors (disease-transmitting insects), which today is well demonstrated among ticks but also in some mosquitoes.

Impact of climate change on ticks

The tick (vector of babesiosis and borreliose) is present in two-thirds of the French territory. It is clearly spreading to the East and North, favouring milder winters.

Ticks have now been reported in Belgium and the Netherlands, where cases of babesiosis have become more common.

This has also been observed in the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and also in the area of Russia near Moscow.

These studies conducted in continental Europe have shown that shorter winters have a direct impact on the ecology of ticks.

By observing the activity of the three main tick vectors encountered in Europe over relatively short periods of time, changes associated with an increase in activity and thus in the risk of transmitting pathogenic agents have been noted.

But we nevertheless must keep in mind that other human-induced factors such as transport and travel have a negligent effect.

Impact of climate change on mosquitoes and sand flies

Culicidae mosquitoes and biting midges are present all over Europe, including in the harshest climates (Scandinavia, Siberia). The risk of transmission of pathogenic agents by mosquitoes is not only linked to their mere presence but also to other factors, such as their vector competence (ability to complete the cycle of the pathogenic agent within the vector followed by transmission, and the meteorological conditions enabling the pathogen to complete its extrinsic cycle during the vector’s period of activity), and to the presence of the pathogen and at

least one reservoir. Climate change may be reflected by an increase in the number of days of activity per year.

Prevention and management

1. Reduce ticks and the horse’s exposure: ticks live in moist and humid environments, particularly in or near wooded or grassy areas.

They can be carried on mammals, wildlife, and birds, and ticks can also be brought into stables by dogs, cats, and people, often through clothing. Prompt tick removal with tweezers is essential to reduce the transmission of pathogens causing tickborne disease (TBD).

Manage your stables to reduce tick populations by: Treating your dogs and cats.

Removing leaf litter and weeds at the edge of the lawn or in the pasture.

Cleaning horses’ feet and pasterns when they come inside the stable.

Discouraging formation of wildlife habitats on farms by feeding grain in

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Changes in the distribution and abundance of insects are likely to be amongst one of the most important and immediate effects of climate change

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containers and keeping feed in tightly sealed containers.

2. Reduce mosquitoes and their breeding grounds and reduce your horses’ exposure to mosquitoes: Eliminate any unnecessary standing water on your property (tyres, wheelbarrows, old buckets, etc.), make certain roof gutters drain properly, and remove any standing water, especially from flat roofs.

Clean out waterers, birdbaths, plant saucers, etc., at least weekly.

Schedule pasture irrigation to minimise standing water.

Keep swimming pools clean and free of water on their covers.

Stable horses inside during active mosquito feeding times (dawn and dusk).

Utilise fans, barrier cloths, screens, flysheets, repellent sprays (permethrin, DEET), and insecticide misting systems.

Turn off lights that attract mosquitoes at night or use fluorescent lights, which do not attract mosquitoes.

Keep screens in stable windows, if possible.

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4. Create a quarantine barn for all new arrivals or horses coming back from a spell, and check them over carefully.

Have a history on file for each animal and be particularly careful with horses coming

from southern areas or from another continent.

Do not neglect any blood tests required for travels.

Epidemiosurveillance has become an important part of the veterinary teams’ and trainers’ jobs. In equine medicine,

vectorborne diseases have recently become a serious concern in in Europe, following the re-emergence of diseases.

Most importantly, be vigilant. These diseases can have a devastating effect on equine welfare and the productivity of the stable. n

The new diseases be healthy carriers. The incubation period for equine piroplasmosis is 12-to-19 days for T. equi, and 10-to-30 days for B. caballi.

symptoms

PIroPlasmosIs

agent and transmission

Babesia caballi (B. caballi; more in the North) and Theileria equi (T. equi; more in the South) are transmitted by ticks, which become infected when they ingest parasites in the blood of infected horses. Equine piroplasmosis can also be transmitted directly between animals by contaminated needles and syringes, or by blood transfusions.

After recovery, animals infected with B. caballi can remain carriers for up to four years, but might be able to clear the organism eventually. Equines infected with T. equi appear to remain permanently infected.

Parasitemia is often absent in carriers, but can re occur after immunosuppression or strenuous exercise. T. equi can be passed to the foal in utero, and some foals can

The clinical signs of piroplasmosis are variable and often nonspecific. T. equi tends to cause more severe disease than B. caballi.

More often, piroplasmosis presents as an acute infection, with fever, loss of appetite, malaise, laboured or rapid respiration, and congestion of the mucus membranes.

The faeces may be small and dry, but diarrhoea has also been reported.

Anaemia, thrombocytopenia, jaundice, hemoglobinuria, sweating, petechial hemorrhages on the conjunctiva, a swollen abdomen, and posterior weakness or swaying may also be seen. Subacute cases have similar but less severe clinical signs.

The fever may be intermittent, and animals may show weight loss, signs of mild colic, and mild edema of the distal limbs. The mucus membranes in subacute cases can be pink, pale pink, or yellow, and they may have petechiae or ecchymoses.

In chronic cases – and these are probably very common – symptoms include mild inappetence, poor exercise tolerance, weight loss, transient fevers, and an enlarged spleen (only palpable on rectal examination). diseases, this condition causes less severe symptoms in horses that are less than three years old. Equine anaplasmosis is transmitted by ticks of the Ixodes family known as deer ticks.

symptoms

ErhlIchIosE (anaPlasmosIs)

agent and transmission

Equine anaplasmosis (formerly Ehrlichiosis) is an infectious, non-contagious, seasonal (late fall-to-spring) disease reflecting the activity of ticks (mostly Ixodes). The agent is named Anaplasma phagocytophilum (A. phagocytophilum). Equine anaplasmosis has been seen with increasing frequency over the past few years in southern countries. It affects horses of all ages, and the symptoms usually appear suddenly. Unlike many 46

After being infected, horses will be normal for 10-20 days prior to developing clinical signs.

After clinical signs develop, the horse will deteriorate rapidly and often will show mild signs of colic and become jaundiced over the next three-to-four days. Most horses will survive after 10-14 days of severe illness, but some will develop subclinical infection.

Diagnosis

Demonstration of the characteristic cytoplasmic inclusion bodies in a standard blood smear is diagnostic. However, inclusion bodies are difficult to see in the first day or two of fever. PCR can detect A.

Diagnosis

Equine piroplasmosis can be diagnosed by identification of the organisms in blood.

T. equi can often be found in the blood when acute infection is present but may be very difficult to find in carrier animals. B. caballi can sometimes be difficult to find even in acute disease.

Because organisms can be difficult to detect in carriers, serology is often used for diagnosis. Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) assays to detect DNA are available in some laboratories.

Treatment

Imidocarb (Carbesia) is the main form of treatment but can also cause side effects such as colic, sweating, and diarrhoea.

Treatment can suppress clinical signs, but the currently available treatments are ineffective in clearing T. equi from carriers.

Some studies have suggested that treatment could eliminate B. caballi from infected horses; however, in a recent study, this organism persisted in carriers after even high-dose treatment with imidocarb.

Although this drug could temporarily clear the parasites and result in transiently negative PCR results, B. caballi DNA was found in horses after the treatment ended.

There is no vaccine for either B. caballi or T. equi. phagocytophilum DNA in unclotted blood an indirect fluorescent antibody test can detect rising antibody titres to A. phagocytophilum.

Treatment

Oxytetracycline is extremely effective against A. phagocytophilum, and tetracycline, 7 mg/kg, IV, once daily for eight days, has eliminated the infection. Penicillin, Chloramphenicol, and Streptomycin have no inhibitory effect.

Horses with severe ataxia and oedema may benefit from short-term corticosteroid treatment. Recovered horses are solidly immune for more than two years and are not believed to be carriers. A recent finding suggests persistence of infection with some European strains, but further verification is required.

Prevention

Tick control measures are mandatory for control of disease. There is no vaccine.

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lEPTosPIrosIs

agent and transmission

Leptospirosis is a zoonotic (transmitted between animals and man) bacterial disease found worldwide and it can affect any mammalian species, including humans, wildlife, rodents, livestock, and horses. The disease is caused by leptospires, which are motile (capable of moving) bacteria called spirochetes.

Transmission occurs either through direct contact with an infected animal or through indirect contact with soil or water contaminated with urine from infected animals. The incubation period for leptospirosis in horses is one-to-three weeks.

symptoms

Horses might experience a variety of clinical signs, including fever, loss of appetite, swelling of the eyes, light sensitivity, tearing, ocular discharge, eye cloudiness, and redness around the eye, as well as lethargy and mid-to late-term abortion. Adult horses have been known to develop jaundice

and even die from kidney and/or liver failure.

Diagnosis

Leptospirosis can often be overlooked because the clinical signs of the disease are common to other diseases. The primary conditions associated with leptospirosis in horses are chronic uveitis (moon blindness) and abortion. Chronic uveitis occurs when the leptospira bacteria enter the eye, creating an immune reaction.

The clinical signs, as touched on above, are ocular inflammation, redness, cloudiness, tearing, light sensitivity, and strong muscle spasms closing the eyes. In severe cases, it can cause calcification of the cornea, permanent blindness, atrophy of the eye, and glaucoma (an increase in intraocular pressure that can cause blindness).

Leptospirosis-induced uveitis is often a painful condition for the horse, and it is recommended that treatment begin as soon as possible. Only blood or urine tests can confirm if leptospirosis is present. It needs two different serological tests with the

second sample showing a huge increase.

More than 80% of horses show positive serology. PCR is a very promising technique.

Treatment

Drugs of choice are antibiotics (oxytetracycline, streptomycin, or penicillin). Although leptospirosis vaccines are available for dogs, cattle, and pigs, there are no approved vaccines for horses. Cattle vaccines have been tried in horses but they are not proven to be effective and might even produce negative side effects.

Prevention

Prevention is the best option available at this point. Good management techniques at the farm can help reduce the risk of infection.

Keep wildlife away from feed sources and do not allow standing water to accumulate (or at least do not allow the horses to drink from stagnant water sources). Standing water might be contaminated with leptospirosis-tainted urine from wildlife or cattle. Good disinfection programs will help reduce the risk of exposure to leptospirosis.

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VETERINARY Arthritis attacks maybe periodic, and it may wax and wane.

The wax and wane of the symptoms may have to do with the ability of the immune system to respond. Studies have shown that the primary factor leading to arthritic inflammation is the health of the immune system. Spirochete levels have been found to be irrelevant to the severity of the disease.

Diagnosis

Detection is not easy because spirochetes have developed a high ability of adaptation.

Serological tests and PCR can be used. Up to 30% of horses can show positive serology, with just a few showing symptoms.

The longer the spirochetes are in the body prior to treatment the more adjusted they become to the specific immune situation in that host.

An example of how this works is that the spirochetes may stay in the synovial lining of a joint, then evade the immune system or the antibiotic by entering the synovial cells. Once the antibiotics are out of the system or the immune system is weakened, the spirochetes re-enter the joint.

Treatment

BorrElIosIs

Lyme disease (LD) has been recognised for about 40-50 years. It is now the most commonly reported tick-borne illness in the US and Europe and it is also found in Asia.

agent and transmission

The Lyme spirochete (Borrelia burgdorferi) is a very mobile, corkscrewshaped bacteria and involves ticks of the Ixodes ricinus in Europe and other Ixodes varieties in other parts of the world.

Contrary to popular belief, deer are far

from the only hosts for the infected tick, as the different tick species prefer different hosts. Many small mammals are part of the host cycle, from mouse and rats to humans and dogs.

symptoms

The most common thing we see is lameness that is difficult to specifically identify. Many if not most of the horses show behavioural changes of various sorts, the most usual being lethargy, irritability or lack of interest in their surroundings.

lEIshmanIosIs

This is quite common in South and Central America, and some cases have been related also in Spain, Portugal, and even south of Germany.

agent

Leishmania infantum (L. infantum) is the aetiological agent of leishmaniasis in Portugal, as in other southern European countries, where the dog is the domestic reservoir. Leishmaniasis is a disease caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Leishmania and transmitted through the bites of female phlebotomine sand flies.

Considering recent developments in central Europe and particularly in Germany, the occurrence of foci endemic for L. infantum in these regions does not appear as unlikely as originally suspected. Phlebotomines, the potential vectors, are obviously more widely distributed.

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Even if antibiotics can be used, the real key to treating Lyme disease is to help the immune system be as strong as possible, not just during the immediate treatment but over the long term.

Due to Lyme’s ability to “recur” the immune system must be ready to go to work at a moment’s notice. Vitamin C, omega-3 fatty acids, and some herbal extracts known for their immune stimulation effect can be used. There are no vaccines approved.

As it is thought that the Lyme disease pathogen attacks the thyroid which in turn would lower immune system function, iodine could be a relevant treatment.

symptoms

In all equine cases, leishmaniasis was a skindwelling disease. A percentage of horses living in L. infantum endemic areas present specific humoral and cellular immune responses, suggesting that exposure to the parasite is common.

Cases of equine leishmaniasis are very rare however, indicating that the immune response mounted by horses is generally effective in preventing the development of disease.

Diagnosis

Serological tests and histopathology of skin’s lesions.

Treatment

Fortunately, many equine leishmaniasis lesions regress spontaneously, but again, immune status is the key.

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EquInE InfEcTIous anEmIa (EIa)

A non-contagious, infectious disease of horses and other equidae. The most frequently encountered form of the disease is the inapparent, chronically infected carrier.

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WEsT nIlE VIrus agent

The West Nile virus (WNV) is an arbovirus transmitted by mosquitoes belonging to the Flaviviridae family (genus Flavivirus).

It has been serologically classified in the Japanese encephalitis (JE) antigenic complex that includes four related viruses.

The enzootic virus cycle involves transmission between avian hosts and mosquitoes, whereas humans and horses are considered dead-end hosts.

symptoms

Diagnosis

Serological tests and PCR are used

Treatment

Nursing care and treatment is important to the recovery process, and each animal is assessed according to its age and health.

With animals who are unable to rise, mortality rate is over 65%.

Once the horse has demonstrated significant improvement, full recovery within one-to-six months can be expected. In 90% of the patients, residual weakness and ataxia appear to be the main problems. The long-term effects of the disease in horses are not yet known.

The most common signs of WNV infection in horses include stumbling, lack of coordination, weak limbs, partial paralysis, muscle twitching, and in some cases, death.

Fever has occurred in less than one-fourth of all confirmed equine cases.

There are two approved vaccines available on the European market.

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symptoms

agent

The agent responsible for AHS is the African horse sickness virus (AHSV), an Orbivirus of the family Reoviridae. Nine different serotypes have been described.

AHS is an infectious but non-contagious viral disease affecting all species of equidae and characterised by alterations in the respiratory and circulatory functions.

The disease has both a seasonal (late summer/autumn) and a cyclical incidence, with major epizootics during warmphase events. This is closely related with the airborne vector transmission of AHS that involved at least two species of mosquitos (Culicoides imicola and C. bolitinos).

Recent emergence of bluetongue virus, which belongs to the same family and genus and shares the same vector for propagation, increases the threat of emergence of the disease in EU countries.

There is a subclinical form with fever (4040.5°C) and general malaise for one-totwo days, but for thoroughbreds, the subacute or cardiac form (fever, swelling of the supra-orbital fossa, eyelids, facial tissues, neck, thorax, brisket, and shoulders, then death usually within one week) or acute respiratory form (fever, dyspnoea, spasmodic coughing, dilated nostrils with frothy fluid oozing out, redness of conjunctiva, and death from anoxia within one week) are frequent.

Diagnosis

symptoms

Three different sets of symptoms occur: acute, chronic, and the asymptomatic carrier. With acute infection the horse has fever, depression, and no appetite. The acute horse may be difficult to diagnose because the symptoms are very general and he will not be positive on the EIA test for a month and a half. Approximately one-third of infected horses will die of the acute form within a month.

Diagnosis

The famous Coggins test checks for EIA antibodies in the horse’s blood and is a reliable test for the detection of EIA in horses, except for animals in the early stages of infection and foals of infected dams. There are other testing procedures, including PCR when some confirmation is needed.

A horse will not become EIA positive unless it develops a serious, febrile illness after contact with a horse of unknown EIA status.

Treatment

There is no treatment and no vaccine.

Serological tests and PCR are used.

Treatment

There is no specific treatment for animals with AHS, apart from rest and good husbandry. Complicating and secondary infections should be treated appropriately during recovery. There is no vaccine.

EquInE aTyPIcal myoPaThy

A frequently fatal condition affecting autumn and/or spring grazing horses.

The disease’s clinical signs seem to appear after occurrence of specific climatic conditions.

agent

Hypoglycin, a toxin found in specific maple seeds, is, today, considered as the Atypical Myopathy cause.

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It is caused by a virus classified in the Lentivirus genus, from the Retroviridae family. Under natural conditions, the most important mode of transmission of EIA is by the transfer of virus-infective blood by blood-feeding insects between horses in close proximity.

Additionally, EIA can be readily transmitted iatrogenically through use of blood-contaminated syringes, needles, or surgical equipment. Once a horse is infected with EIA, its blood remains infectious for the remainder of its life.

symptoms

Acute myopathy.

Treatment

Symptomatic treatment can be put in force. It will not directly attack the disease’s causal agent, but will fight and decrease its clinical effects. The treatment focuses on limiting horse suffering, stopping muscular destruction, correcting electrolyte imbalances, restoring hydration, supporting renal function, and preventing complications.

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Racing schools

Do they produce the staff trainers need?

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HERE are many renowned racing schools, including those affiliated with EARS (European Association of Racing Schools) in France, Italy, Ireland, Germany, and Britain, and they offer students practical hands-on training coupled with classroombased academic skills. The typically nonacademic horse-mad youth might regard with horror the prospect of having to sit through afternoon lessons in such things as communications, work practice, business calculations, workplace safety, health-related fitness, Information technology skills, and very often languages, but these things are now a standard feature of life in any workplace.

Graduation from a racing school demonstrates a certain basic level of competency in riding and stable management that will hopefully enable a graduate to work within the racing industry.

Nutrition is often a major part of the courses on offer and is a vital part of modern stable staff education, as each generation increases in terms of average weight and physique.

It might look a little bit too much like school to some, but show them the education and conditions of their pre-war (and even many post-war) counterparts, and they would recoil in even greater horror. Previously, new employees could be working in a yard for a month or more without being allowed near a horse and training was virtually non-existent. Staff had to be dedicated and determined in order to get through those first few months.

One former apprentice, attached to a leading Newmarket yard in the early 1980s, describes his first three days as “falling off a horse until I could stay on.” Despite never having ridden before, his instruction consisted only of “get back up.” Had he not been riding out on the heath by day four, he was given the impression he would have been dismissed. In contrast, a former Cravache d’Or holder describes his first eight months with the trainer for whom he later won Classics as “sweeping the yard.”

Tellingly, a leading trainer raised the argument, “I can’t put you up on a horse – I haven’t seen you ride,” an impasse that may not have been reached had he employed a graduate from a racing school rather than a school-leaver. Was it ever practical to expect trainers or their long-serving staff to take time out from their busy schedules to train new staff members?

It’s spring, and colleges are advertising the courses on offer for the coming autumn. Among these are the racing schools of Europe, offering schoolleavers the opportunity to train as stable staff, with a lifelong career in the thoroughbred industry the least they can expect if their dream of being a jockey never quite materialises.

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Clearly the racing schools are fulfilling a role that few trainers ever had time for, ensuring that every graduate is sent to the workplace with the same necessary skill sets.

The EARS mission statement declares that it is “promoting the benefits of training, education and lifelong learning so as to support the work of employers and help them achieve their business objectives.” This has to be lauded by trainers. EARS itself is now progressing into an international federation.

However, not every racing nation in Europe can provide such opportunities. At the recent European Trainers’ Federation Annual General Meeting it was noted that, remarkably, there are currently no apprentice jockeys in either Belgium or Holland. In the absence of an educational structure in place to encourage young people to enter the industry, trainer Christian von der Recke suggests that every trainer should be made to take on an apprentice, to ensure adequate numbers of work riders in the future. But isn’t that simply putting us back to square one again?

Keith Rowe, Director of Ireland’s RACE (Racing Academy & Centre of Education), points out, “In the top tier, stables generally have very good structures in place, but below that, many small trainers are living hand-tomouth and realistically they haven’t got the means to put training structures in place. The economic realities are that many stables are 54

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almost a one-man operation and it is very hard to improve the educational structure on that basis. The leading trainers are fortunate to have experienced staff who can coach new people and bring them on, but if a young person leaves school and goes straight to a small trainer, their training may be minimal.

“We have a lot of young people applying to RACE and on paper the work experience on their CV looks very impressive, but when they arrive their skills are often very weak and they are virtually self-taught, so that’s a problem. The industry should be able to offer basic competency courses to get them started. In terms of staff, it’s not realistic to expect trainers to put structured training in place themselves.”

By the end of a course at any of the racing schools, students should be graduating as useful members of a team of stable staff, progressing to roles such as groom, head lad, work rider, travelling head lad, or assistant trainer. When coupled with a recognised education, the idea of a ‘dead-end job’ in a stable no longer applies, and the industry looks more appealing to school-leavers, as well as to their parents, who at that stage carry a certain amount of influence.

“Investment in people – investment in racing’s future” should be the raison d’être of every horseracing authority. So why does it still so frequently fall to trainers to recruit and train their own staff? Are the racing schools failing them or are the governing

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“In terms of the funding available to racing and the relatively small numbers when it comes to staff, it wouldn’t cost a great deal,” argues RACE’s Rowe, “but it must come from the governing bodies. Trainers need staff with a basic level of competence and, with all the funds washing around, it isn’t unreasonable for the industry to have a training fund. It’s an issue that has never had a hearing at the top table, at least not here in Ireland. If we looked for only 0.5% of the prize fund available in Ireland we could have €250,000 as a training fund. It’s a tiny, tiny slice that would help all stakeholders.”

With 60% of jockeys in Sweden coming from Chile and Brazil and no apprentices in Holland and Belgium, the fears raised by von der Recke are very real. Elsewhere in this issue of the magazine, trainer Eddie Lynam also expresses concerns for the future in terms of stable staff. However, responsibility shouldn’t have to fall on the shoulders of trainers and, as Rowe argues, there could be a viable alternative. Yet many trainers feel that the racing schools are not fulfilling their responsibilities either.

Is it possible that the balance of classroom education and practical skills is giving young people too high an expectation of their future career? While the pre-racing school regimes of sweeping the yard and learning to stay on a horse may not have been ideal, some trainers have described racing school graduates as “soft” and feel the dropout rate

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is far too high. You join a stable because you want to, but you join a racing school because you think you might want to?

Rowe has his own opinions on that. “At RACE, the ratio of boys to girls is three to one and we have them for 42 weeks,” he explains, “but the British schools, for example, only have people for a short time and their ratio of boys to girls is the opposite, so the retention levels are not great. The graduates are fired out into yards, where they are not always treated well, so you can’t be blaming just the schools.

“What are we offering to staff? Why should they stay in the industry, what’s going to hold them there? As an industry, we don’t offer much,” he says. “There are work riders

driving round to three or four yards every morning in the promise of getting a ride on the track, which might not materialise. That’s still happening. It’s short-term thinking and we’re not building for the future.

“Certainly in Ireland, we’re great at saying we produce the best horsemen in the world, but it’s not backed up in any way by a structured support towards the development of people. We still rely on young people wanting to work with horses simply because they love horses. We can’t build a sustainable world-leading industry on that basis.

“At least the people coming through the racing schools have a certain baseline standard of competence and a decent foundation, on coming into the industry,” continues Rowe. “It’s very much a slow burner that needs to be invested in and a strategic approach taken. We could eventually maintain a uniformly good standard of young people coming into the industry and retain these people longer in various roles within the racing industry.

“Because if you start them off with a good foundation, and put some development opportunities and a good support structure in place, the likelihood is they’ll stay in the industry longer. If you don’t provide that system of support, it’s hardly a surprise if there’s a large amount who dropout.”

As Rowe concludes, “the industry is quite close-knit and there’s money to be found.

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STRESS FRACTURES

Are they linked to training surfaces?

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Stress fractures not only lead to training interruptions but if they are not identified early and managed appropriately, they can be associated with subsequent catastrophic fractures.

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Here the nuclear scintigraphic image will be a side view the right front lower limb. The left forelimb is being shielded so to prevent any signal from it distorting the right limb images

TRESS fractures are a late stage on a pathway of stress-related bone injury, and those of the humerus, tibia, ilium, and cannon bone (a.k.a. third metacarpal bone, or McIII) are most common.

During race training, bone undergoes repetitive cyclical loading leading to a high rate of microcrack formation and in turn, an intense remodelling response occurs.

If bone repair lags behind microcrack formation, microcracks can coalesce to form stress fractures (macrocracks).

Nuclear scintigraphy the optimal tool for detection of stress fractures

Nuclear scintigraphy is the most commonly used and sensitive method to detect long bone and pelvic stress fractures while dorsal McIII stress fractures are usually diagnosed by palpation and radiography. With nuclear scintigraphy, a radioactive marker that is attracted to damaged bone is injected into the horse, and then a gamma camera is used to screen the limbs and identify sites of damage. It is particularly useful for finding stress fractures because the whole limb, or if relevant, the whole skeleton, can be scanned in one exam ensuring that the full extent of bone injury can be detected.

The New Bolton Center training surface study

Numerous factors contribute to musculoskeletal injury during racing and training. Although the type of training surface is a very obvious potential culprit, to date, there has not been very much scientific evidence to support that theory. There is evidence that there is higher race-day fatality rate data on synthetic surfaces, but the effect of track surface on non-fatal racing and training injuries requires investigations.

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For hindlimb nuclear scintigraphic imaging, the camera is positioned behind the sedated patient while the forelimbs are shielded

injury change when horses switch from dirt to synthetic track surface and in particular there is speculation that hindlimb lameness and tibial stress fractures are more common on synthetic tracks.

Researchers based at the University of Pennsylvania’s New Bolton Center have completed a study, recently published in Equine Veterinary Journal, addressing this issue. To evaluate the impact of training track surface on the proportion of long bone and pelvic stress fractures, the researchers reviewed nuclear scintigraphy (bone scan) records from two hospitals over two time periods for thoroughbreds in flat race training. For confidentiality reasons, we will call the Hospitals A and B. Hospital A had records spanning 2003-2009 and Hospital B had records available 1994-2006. Horses from trainers using Hospital A trained at a single track at which the main training surface

changed from dirt to synthetic on August 27, 2006. Two distinct populations typically attended Hospital B: horses that trained on dirt (numerous trainers) and those that trained on turf (single trainer).

This large-scale study involved 1,075 scintigraphic records, with a stress fracture diagnosed in 18.6% of the cases. At Hospital A, there were 528 examinations, comprised of 257 horses trained on dirt and 271 trained on synthetic. At Hospital B, there were 547 scintigraphic examinations, with 349 horses trained on dirt, and 198 trained on turf by a single trainer. Age and sex of the horse did not impact the diagnosis of stress fractures but there were significantly more stress fractures diagnosed at Hospital A (27.5%) than at Hospital B (10.1%).

Two-thirds of the cases involved diagnosis of a single stress fracture at one site, but the other third had multiple sites. And of those

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To image the full lower limb it must be flexed at positioned towards the centre of nuclear scintigraphy camera

A dedicated examination room where the nuclear scitigraphic images are obtained with the gamma camera is suspended from an overhead gantry, allowing easy positioning around the standing, sedated patient

Nuclear scintigraphic image being obtained from the pelvic region. This area is extremely difficult to image with older technologies like conventional x-ray but can be easily scanned with scintigraphy

In this radiograph of the same stifle region (front to back view) from the horse in images below left, there is new bone formation around the outside of the upper tibia in the area of the tibial stress fracture

horses that had more than one fracture, 86.6% had two stress fractures, 9.0% had three stress fractures, and 4.3% had four stress fractures.

A unique opportunity to examine the impact of a change from dirt to synthetic surface

Nuclear scintigraphic images showing the intense area of increased radiopharmaceutical uptake creates a black area in the proximolateral (upper and outside) tibia. These images confirm a tibial stress fracture is present

The researchers took advantage of the change from dirt to synthetic surface on the main training and racing track next to Hospital A, which created a unique population of horses for study. There were numerous trainers using Hospital A so it is unlikely that trainers’ differing methods could have influenced the observations. There was a smaller backstretch dirt track that remained in use after the change of surface on the main racetrack and therefore should not impact results. The most important factor that differentiated the two groups at Hospital A was training track surface. Looking specifically at the Hospital ISSUE 49 TRAINERMAGAZINE.COM

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Was anything discovered about the impact of turf?

The study was not designed to determine the impact of training on turf. In the Hospital B population, there was a significantly higher proportion of stress fractures diagnosed in horses trained by 59 trainers on dirt (14.6%) compared to the horses trained on turf (2%)

by a single trainer. However, because only one trainer used turf, it is very likely that other factors contributed to the differences in the proportion of stress fractures in this subgroup. Clearly, track surface was different but this is unlikely to be the only factor accounting for the lower proportion of stress fractures. Nevertheless, this turf-trained group does highlight the importance of characterising training philosophy in future studies, so it was a valuable if not immediately conclusive element of the overall research.

Was surface the only factor influencing stress fracture?

The New Bolton Center team acknowledged that there might be confounding variables that were not examined or detected in the analyses. The study relied on nuclear scintigraphy records, and the proportion of stress fractures diagnosed using nuclear scintigraphy is greatly influenced by how easy or difficult it is for trainers to access this tool. Factors including the proximity of the hospital and ease of referral will vary from one training centre to another. Horse-related factors such as age, racing schedule, and Left: Nuclear scintigraphic image showing the intense area black area of radiopharmaceutical uptake in the proximal humerus. This image confirms a humeral stress fracture.

Below: Nuclear scintigraphic images showing the intense black areas in the ilial bones. The images confirm bilateral ilial stress fractures

perceived or actual value could be important.

Synthetic surface is not necessarily identical from track to track, and maintenance, temperature, and moisture levels will mean that it will be different between locations.

Why might race day and training injuries be affected by surface in different ways?

The New Bolton Center study focused specifically on training injuries. There is already a substantial body of research evaluating the influence of track surface on race-day fatal and non-fatal musculoskeletal injury in racehorses. These studies have reported contradictory results, emphasising the difficulty of comparing results from different racetracks.

In California, a 37% decrease in raceday fatalities after the main racetracks were converted from dirt to a synthetic surface was reported. It’s important to emphasise that race-day fatality data measures the catastrophic end result of accumulated stress-related bone injuries rather than the influence of surface on the development of stress-related bone injury, since it is the training surface that has the most profound influence on this. Studies on the influence of training track surface on non-fatal musculoskeletal injuries are scarce, which is why the New Bolton Center study was so valuable. The next challenge is to look at why a synthetic surface may have contributed to the development of stress fractures. Future research aimed at uncovering a reason for this apparent association between synthetic surfaces and increased risk of stress fracture is required.

The bottom line

All the evidence to date has shown that race-day fatality rates may be reduced by the change to synthetic surfaces. However, when considering the effects of a synthetic surface on training, it is important to understand the condition of the surface, the distinct horse populations, and training philosophy. The latest research suggests that the proportion of stress fractures in horses training on synthetic surfaces may be higher than in horses training on other surfaces, emphasising that a more extensive investigation of training effects from synthetic surfaces is needed. n

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NappROpRIaTe nutrition will contribute to all three factors.

Calorie excess can soon lead to horses becoming overweight, but the extreme and often prolonged obesity associated with eMS is characterised by significant localised fat pads forming particularly in the tail head and in the crest of the neck. Whilst some horses with eMS are not considered overweight they may still show these critical localised fat pads.

Insulin’s call to action is reduced with insensitivity

With insulin resistance, horses are unable to normally regulate circulating glucose, leading to an elevated level in the blood.

The hormone insulin encourages the tissue cells to take up circulating glucose.

Sometimes this ‘call to action’ by insulin is slow or ignored and so glucose uptake is reduced.

This is known as insulin insensitivity.

In this situation, more insulin is initially produced to try to resolve the issue and normalise blood glucose but this can result in an abnormally elevated blood insulin concentration.

Certain breeds and type appear to be more at risk of eMS than others and these are typically ponies, particularly native breeds; warmbloods; Morgan horses; and any other horse commonly regarded as a ‘good doer’ or ‘easy keeper.’ Certainly thoroughbreds, arabians, standardbreds, or quarter horses would not be historically regarded as prime candidates for eMS. On the other hand, we are all familiar with the devastation caused by laminitis, which is frequently but not always linked to eMS. Laminitis is a disease that readily crosses breed boundaries. I have often come across thoroughbred and arabian broodmares afflicted by laminitis, and the condition has also been a nemesis for many a stallion.

A racehorse in training is an unlikely candidate for EMS

Racehorses in training of whichever breed would rarely be described as obese, nor would they typically exhibit extravagantly cresty necks or fat pads. elevated blood glucose and/or insulin concentrations would rarely be seen during routine blood screens.

In addition, exercise – particularly fast exercise – is regarded as a potent stimulant to improve insulin sensitivity.

So whilst eMS is a fascinating area of veterinary medicine and represents an intriguing biochemical mystery to resolve, does it have any relevance for horses in training? Intuitively, I would say that horses in full race training are very unlikely to suffer from eMS, however, the relevance for racing might be found much earlier in a racehorse’s life and perhaps even before they were born.

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Equine metabolic syndrome (EMS) is a disease characterised by three main features, namely obesity, insulin resistance, and a propensity towards laminitis. Nutrition, whilst not necessarily the root cause, is regularly seen as a common denominator in EMS. WORDS: DR CATHERINE DUNNETT BSC, PHD, R.NUTR PHOTO: SHUTTERSTOCK

Broodmares in the spotlight

an almost unabated supply of fresh and often lush pasture, as well as abundant concentrate feed, has led many broodmares to become obese. according to some veterinary centres, the severity of laminitis in broodmares can be high. Obesity in broodmares is relatively common and often tolerated, if not seen to cause any direct problems with the resultant foals or during foaling.

The odds are stacked against broodmares in this respect, as is relatively difficult to maintain a largely inactive horse in good but not overweight condition when there is no shortage of grass and concentrate feed is required to sustain the quality protein and micronutrient requirements of the incumbent foal.

In addition, the hormonal milieu of pregnancy may increase the chance of eMS and resultant laminitis. Nature very cleverly makes the mother, whether a human, horse or dog, become significantly resistant to

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insulin during pregnancy, as this facilitates better delivery of glucose to the growing offspring. This is well documented in humans, where sensitivity to insulin may reduce by up to 60%. a proportion of mothers will tip over into what is termed gestational diabetes.

In thoroughbreds, a transient gestational decrease in insulin sensitivity has also been reported in pregnant verses non-pregnant mares. Certainly, it is suggested that the risk of laminitis, due to the increased metabolic stress of pregnancy, is increased in mares that are insulin-resistant with eMS prior to pregnancy.

What are the issues with EMS?

Clearly one of the major issues with eMS is its close association with laminitis, which can be life threatening. Broodmares with eMS have been suggested to show irregular

cycling and be more difficult to get in foal.

Recent studies have failed to show a clear link between either obesity or eMS and fertility issues in mares. In contrast, obese women are three times more likely to have difficulty conceiving.

It is also known that obese mothers, especially those that tip over into gestational diabetes, can produce large babies, with a heightened risk of placental abruptions, infarctions, and pre-eclampsia. Increased delivery of glucose to the baby at the expense of the mother due to her insulin insensitivity fuels ‘large baby syndrome.’ In addition, the incidence of a slow initiation of lactation and then poor lactation is increased in obese mothers.

The relevance of this hormonal mystery for young horses in training is that in the in utero environment, hormonal balance and delivery of nutrients to the growing foal is likely to have far reaching effects on its longterm health and performance. In a study of 191 yearlings and their respective dams, researchers from australia’s University of Queensland in 2012 reported some interesting findings in relation to skeletal development.

They presented data showing that the mares that gave birth to foals that subsequently went on to develop osteochondrotic lesions or other bone abnormalities had a significantly higher circulating blood glucose and greater body condition scores during pregnancy compared to the mares whose foals had no issues as yearlings.

Feeding and management

One of the key factors in warding off laminitis and eMS in broodmares is to ensure that they remain at a sensible body condition throughout pregnancy. Where mares are already severely overweight, slow but steady weight loss needs to be encouraged during the early-to-middle trimester, depending on whether there is a foal at foot.

The time-honoured combination of energy restriction and increased energy expenditure through gentle exercise is successful. Restriction of grazing may be needed. Restricting grazing by area, or through the use of a grazing muzzle, is usually more successful than restricting the time at pasture. It is, however, vitally important that protein quality is maintained and vitamin and mineral needs are still met. a more concentrated ‘balancer’ type of feed may need to be employed. Balancer products that are specifically designed for breeding and growth must be used in order

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eMS to provide a correct balance of nutrients, minerals, and vitamins, e.g. Dodson & Horrell Suregrow, Baileys Stud Balancer, Top Spec Stud Feed Balancer, Spillers Grow’N Win. For mares who remain obese and are at risk of eMS and/or laminitis, the choice of concentrate feed is vitally important when moving into the latter stages of pregnancy.

Look for feeds designed for breeding that have a low non-structural carbohydrate content (NSC), which includes hydrolysable carbohydrate (starch and sugars), as well as fermentable carbohydrate (fructan, pectins, etc.). NCS is typically recommended to be less than 12% for these horses.

There are a number of ‘stud’ and ‘youngstock’ feeds that have moved away from cereals as the main energy source to produce what’s termed a ‘low glycaemic’ feed, e.g. Winergy Growth and Saracen Level Grow. Severely insulin-resistant animals, or those with an ongoing history of laminitis, should have grass severely restricted or even removed from their diet altogether.

Where hay or haylage is fed the same rules need to apply, although some loss of sugars can be achieved through soaking hay prior to feeding.

Interesting additives for EMS

There is no doubt that attention to energy

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intake as well as the source of that energy within the diet is vital in managing a horse with eMS. However, there is also interest in the use of additives, which may have a positive effect on insulin sensitivity.

One such additive is resveratrol, a natural compound found in low concentrations in grapes, peanuts, and blueberries. a recent meta-analysis published on humans (in an independent review of published studies) concluded that resveratrol significantly improved glucose control and insulin sensitivity in people with diabetes, although there was no similar effect in non-diabetic individuals. an initial study in broodmares showed

no effect on insulin dynamics or other reproductive parameters.

However, a more recent study (as yet unpublished) carried out in the US at the University of Kentucky Maxwell H. Gluck equine Research Center using the resveratrol-derived product equithrive Metabarol revealed more positive results.

Dr patrick Lawless of equithrive described a significant decrease in serum insulin concentration of near to 30% following a glucose challenge test, as well as a reduction in concentration of serum leptin (a hormone that regulates fat storage and drives appetite).

There is also a suggestion that omega-3 containing oil from either fish oil, algae, or linseed may have a positive impact on insulin sensitivity, although further work in insulin-resistant horses is required for confirmation.

While this is an emerging area of research, the early indications are that although eMS may not be a direct issue within horses in training, it is likely that its impact may be made much earlier in a racehorse’s life, potentially even in utero. Body condition and metabolism in broodmares could be shown to have far reaching consequences for their offspring in later life. However, the wheels of research move slowly, and only time will tell.. n

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Trainer, breeder and owner meeting August 28, 2015 – Baden-Baden, Germany on the occasion of the Great Race Week

Old and unsolved problems and important changes in the conditions of Thoroughbred racing are the foundation for the international meeting, discussing the future of racing, the position of trainers, breeders and owners within the system and questions of Thoroughbred health care. Renowned speakers ensure an interesting scientific programme and the organiser provides an attractive social ambience.

Iris M. Bergmann, Robert Dallas, Mark Dunnett, Stephen Eversfield, Bendict Forndran, Emmeline Hill, Des Leadon, Hanspeter Meier, Tim Parkin, Claire Scicluna, Harald Sieme and René van Weeren speak about and discuss a variety of pertinent subjects with the participants. The themes include: sustainability as a framework for Thoroughbred protection; how to finance racing in the future; using databases to predict risk; biosecurity of stud farms; effects and consequences of long-distance elite horse transport; early exercise: beneficial or detrimental for joint health and longevity; behind the scenes of the yearling pre-purchase examination; understanding the genomics of exercise performance traits in racehorses; equine gastric ulcers; managing the risks of prohibited substances from feeds and supplements; and the care and management of retired racehorses.

Come to Baden-Baden, benefit from an outstanding scientific programme, enjoy the lovely wine region on the hillsides of the Black Forest and attend the races at the Great Race Week. Find more information on

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COURSE TO COURSE A new feature looking at stories in the news from racecourses across Europe.

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Plus 10 bonus scheme for two-year-olds European trainers with a two-year-old horse in training have the opportunity to increase their earnings during the 2015 Flat season by targeting Plus 10 bonus races.

Plus 10 is a £5.5 million bonus scheme which will see qualified two-year-olds (and three-year-old horses in 2016) race for cash bonuses of £10,000 or €12,500 across several hundred races in Britain and Ireland.

This season there will be more than 480 opportunities for qualified two-year-olds to claim a Plus 10 bonus.

Each time a £10,000 bonus is won by a qualified horse, the trainer, jockey and stable staff will be paid a 5% (£500) share on top of race prize money, with the balance shared between the owner and breeder. Three registration stages must be completed for a horse to be qualified.

Ruth Quinn, the British Horseracing Authority’s Director of Racing, said: “Plus 10 offers significant opportunities for a trainer to increase their own earnings and provide an owner with a return on their investment into a horse.

“In 2015 there will be an anticipated 314 Maiden races in Britain to feature a bonus, 37 of which will be Auction

the year, there are many opportunities for early maturing two-year-olds to sweep up a €12,500 Plus 10 bonus in Ireland before claiming a Nursery or Winners race later in the season.”

To view the March-June Plus 10 race programme for Britain and Ireland, check a horse’s qualification status, or for further information, visit plus10bonus. com.

or Median Auction Maidens.

“For trainers with qualified fillies, the Plus 10 programme offers significant opportunities with more than 42% of the Plus 10 races in 2015 being restricted to fillies only.

“We urge trainers to visit the Plus 10 website to find out more about the many opportunities for a two-year-old to win multiple bonuses in 2015.”

Horse Racing Ireland’s Director of Racing, Jason Morris said: “With 40 Maiden races in the next three months and at least 100 opportunities throughout

Plus 10 bonuses will feature on the following races: Britain 2YO – All Class 2-4 Maiden, Novice and Conditions and Class 5 Fillies’ Maiden races.

3YO – All Class 2-4 Maiden and Conditions and Class 5 Fillies’ Maiden races Ireland 2YO – 100 bonuses available on all two-yearold, non-black-type races (including Open Maiden, Auction Maiden, Median Auction Maiden, Nursery and Winners) rolled over until all 100 bonuses are won.

3YO – Unclaimed two-year-old bonuses applied to three-year-old only Maiden races from the beginning of the 2016 Flat season, until all remaining bonuses are won.

Big Listed prize up for grabs at Hamilton Park The £40,000 EBF Glasgow Listed Stakes on Friday (evening) 17th July at Hamilton Park (near Glasgow, Scotland) is the feature race within a £100,000 card.

Since this historic race was switched to mid-July four years ago, it has quickly become a popular stepping stone for trainers with major autumn targets.

Luca Cumani demonstrated this last year by winning The Glasgow with Postponed before going on to win The St Leger. Now open to Fillies as well as Colts/ Geldings, this 3-Y-O Listed contest is over 11 furlongs.

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Commonwealth Cup eighth Royal Ascot Group One Royal Ascot has been lit up by many big international names in recent years – Black Caviar becoming the fifth Australian-trained winner at the meeting in 2012 will be many people’s highlight but there have also been memorable winners from Hong Kong and the USA, as well as from all over Europe.

It was Wesley Ward who stole most of the limelight on the international front in 2014, with Hootenanny winning the Windsor Castle Stakes en route to victory at the Breeders’ Cup in late October. In addition, Wesley’s Sunset Glow found only Cursory Glance too good in the Albany Stakes.

Royal Ascot has seen over 50 runners from outside Europe in its two Global

Sprint Challenge legs since the series began in 2005 and this year, the meeting will stage a third Group One sprint for the first time – the Commonwealth Cup, limited to threeyear-olds and run over 1200 metres (six furlongs).

It is hoped that this race, whilst providing a valuable early season sprint championship for European horses, will also appeal particularly to the American market but also perhaps, in time, to Australian twoyear-olds, Golden Slipper types, who are able to participate with a 10lb Southern Hemisphere Allowance.

With the addition of the Commonwealth Cup and the promotion of the QIPCO

British Champions Sprint in the autumn to Group One status, Ascot will stage 13 top level races in 2015.

It was tremendous to see Animal Kingdom from the USA run in the Queen Anne Stakes of 2013 and we hope that this race particularly, along with the Prince of Wales’s Stakes, will continue to develop in intercontinental terms like the established sprints and two-year old races.

It is still early days, but to have Hong Kong’s Able Friend being talked of as a Queen Anne horse for this year and Japan’s Spielberg being trained for the Prince of Wales’s Stakes is tremendously encouraging.

Business and Ethics of Racing A “Business and Ethics of Racing” meeting is being held at Baden Baden on August 28.

Old and unsolved problems and important changes in the conditions of Thoroughbred racing are the basis for the meeting. On the agenda will be the future of racing and the position of the trainer, breeder and the owner.

The meeting is expected to last four hours and will run simultaneously with a veterinary meeting set to address similar issues. The organsiers are pleased to have a group of renowned speakers along with an interesting scientific and social programme.

The meeting starts on Friday, August 28, at 10 a.m. and the programme includes subjects such as managing the risks of prohibited substance from feeds and supplements, Biosecurity protocols for stud farms, joint and tendon stress in young Thoroughbreds, and many more important subjects in racing, owning and breeding.

Guests are also invited to attend the social programme of the veterinary conference which will include a Klaus Philipp exhibition at Brenner’s Park Hotel and a dinner at the famous Casino of Baden-Baden on Saturday evening.

The famous spa of Baden-Baden is located in the south west of Germany in the Black Forest mountains near the River Rhine, and close to the French border. By car, Baden-Baden is on the A5 motorway from Frankfurt to Basel.

There is a direct train connection (1.5 h) from Frankfurt International Airport.

The regional Baden Airport is only 20 min away, and connects Baden-Baden directly to Berlin, Hamburg, London and Rome, and, via Berlin, to other European capitals.

The meeting place in Baden-Baden is the historic villa Palais Biron, lying just outside the city centre on Lichtentaler Strasse.

Fees and information

Early booking (until June 30) €160 ex 19% VAT Normal (July 1st – August 20th) €180 ex 19% VAT Late booking (after August 20th) €200 ex 19% VAT Casino Dinner €60 (Must be booked separately)

Information for registration

Hippiatrika publishing, P. B. 100085, 76481 Baden-Baden, Germany Phone: 0049 (0)176 23 41 14 22 Registration can be done online or by fax: www.racing.care Email: reg@phkforum.cc Fax: 0049 (0)561 970 107 02 No refunds after 20th August 2015.

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What is SiMPLEFEEDER? SiMPLEFEEDER is an Automatic Horse Feeder which greatly improves horse health. Enabling you to feed up to eight times daily, it is not only better for your horse but it saves you time and money.

The concept behind SiMPLEFEEDER is to provide each horse with a feeding regime which replicates as close as possible to the natural feeding environment, ensuring the horse gains its full nutritional value from their feed.

The main benefits of SiMPLEFEEDER are that it produces a better, more consistent performing horse. It improves the horse’s recovery time from stress and or injury. You can feed smaller but more frequent meals, greatly improving horse’s health and reducing the risk of your horse getting Stomach Ulcers and/or Colic.

It enables your horses to be fed prior to training or competition, meaning your horse is ready when you are and is not fed late due to being worked.

By installing a SiMPLEFEEDER you no longer need somebody there to feed your precious animals, massively reducing labour costs plus you can be rest assured that your horses are being fed on time. SiMPLEFEEDER is also fussy eater approved.

Check out what are valued customers had to say about us: “We have all our horses fed using SiMPLEFEEDER and it had a big impact on labour savings in our yard. I frequently travel to racecourses and used to have to come home early to feed horses.

Now I can take my time as the horses will be fed.

No more kicking of stable doors.”

Ballyhampshire Stud – Castlelyons Co. Cork – Ireland For more information and testimonals visit www.simplefeeder.com

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HELP YOUR HORSE WITH READYSUPP RACING GUT Racing Gut has been developed to support all horses under the stress and pressure of training.

The comprehensive supplement includes apple pectin, a complex soluble carbohydrate, and emulsifying phospholipid soy lecithin, which can help form an acidprotective hydrophobic barrier on the gastric wall.

Active herbs slippery elm, liquorice and marshmallow are combined with antioxidants, zinc and the essential amino-acid threonine to formulate this soothing supplement. The natural ingredients are designed to ‘soak’ up harmful excess acid and encourage natural healing of stomach cells to help soothe, support and reduce the risk of gastric disturbances in hard working horses.

Racing Gut is suitable to be fed as a course, or on a long-term basis, and is suitable for horses prone to gastric challenges or with compromised gastric health, such as those fasting, on restricted diets, on high starch or low-fibre diets, or medication.

The supplement is manufactured under the NOPS code and all products are batch trackable for increased traceability.

Racing Gut does not contravene FEI or Jockey Club rules and is 100% race safe.

Active ingredients: Lecithin, apple pectin, threonine, calcium carbonate, magnesium hydroxide, zinc, slippery elm powder, liquorice root powder, marshmallow root powder, grapeseed extract.

Racing Gut can be purchased online at www.readysupp.com or over the phone on 01672 541 157.

This supplement is available in a 30-day or 90-day supply.

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RDINDUCOAT coating enhance bio-security Bio-security is a priority for all training yards, with the main focus on the care of the environment in which the horse spends most hours of the day: the stable. Whilst not seeking complete sterility, the aim should be to reduce your animal’s exposure to pathogenic mould and bacteria. Stable walls might look clean yet swabs will reveal a bacterial growth and mould. Hence the use of coatings on walls to protect against harmful micro-organisms makes perfect sense.

RDInducoat offers coatings which are tried, tested and approved by leading horse yards. Since 1948 it has been developing a reputation for its easy, safe and ecological coatings systems which specifically focus on protecting against harmful micro-organisms. All of the coatings are safe for humans, horses and the environment. Their efficacy complies to the strictest industry ISO standards. And, most importantly, they have been adding value in selected horse yards – both in the Netherlands and in Ireland. Independent horse hygiene specialist have concluded that the coatings are protected against harmful micro-organisms for 24 hours every day, all year.

The key to the system is the ease of application, durability, and suitability for use by staff. The value of of the coatings for any yard owner trying to achieve a high level of biosecurity for their performance horses has now been verified by bio-security specialist Alan

Creighton, of the Irish Equine Centre.

“His test results were positive,” says Jack McGuinness, RDInducoat distributor in Ireland. “This is why our team felt that it is now the time to give RDInucoat coatings some exposure to the readers of Trainer Magazine. After all, if you are painting anyway, why not choose a smart coating?”

For more information please visit www.rd-inducoat.com

Racing FX: foreign exchange and payments provider

With the cost of owning and training horses only going one way, costs and fees become ever more important. At the same time the number of horses being bought, trained and raced overseas continues to grows, meaning owners and trainers should be mindful of what they’re paying for converting currency and making overseas payments. Banks typically charge between 3% and 5% for foreign exchange transactions, plus transfer fees on top, while providing what is often a slow and convoluted process.

Racing FX is a Foreign Exchange and payments provider to the Equine and sports industries. It delivers a private personal service to its clients offering cheaper rates, fast payments and a hassle free solution whilst ensuring client money is fully protected at all times. We can save you money on purchase costs, regular fees – such as overseas training cost – purchase of goods and equipment, or conversion of prize money, as quickly as same day, or by fixing a rate for conversion for a future time.

Racing FX is fully authorised by the FCA and registered with HMRC as a money service business so adheres to the strictest controls and regulations to ensure client money is never at risk; it is held in segregated and protected client accounts with a major UK bank at all times.

For further information please contact Andy Rowland at RacingFX on +44 (0) 207 321 5666 or andy@racingfx.co.uk or visit us at www.racingfx.co.uk

Byerley Technologies develops leg injury detector Byerley Technologies has combined the knowledge of the horse industry with experts in data management systems to develop Tendon Manager, an automatic system that allows for the early detection of potential lower leg injuries.

Tendon Manager is a world first in the management of equine lower leg health and delivers a simple user-friendly end solution to the equine sector.

Key Early Detection benefits include: reassurance for trainers and owners; economic benefit for both trainer and owner and improved welfare. The system is fast, non-invasive, accurate and easy to interpret.

Byerley Technologies will be launching Tendon Manager this April at DBS, Doncaster Breeze up Sales, on 22nd and 23rd April.

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Monarch Equestrian: leading the field Monarch Equestrian is the leading UK brand of stabling and horse exercisers used by professionals, worldwide. For decades we have been designing, patenting and producing high quality and affordable products for the racing industry at our family-run engineering HQ in the midlands.

The horse exerciser offers flexible training options for a busy race yard and many trainers use it to warm up or cool down their horses, as well as for rehabilitation and fitness. At all times superior safety design and build quality is of paramount importance. We produce four different sizes of exercisers ranging from the 36’0 for 4-5 horses up to the 66’0 for ten horses.

The additional advantage of having a larger diameter is that the increased size offers the opportunity to increase the speed, to include some trot and canter work, without adding additional pressure or strain to the horse’s body.

All sizes can be fitted with optional

extras including a roof, auto reverse twin timers and thick rubber floor pavers, to reduce the risk of slipping and protect from possible concussion. Both the Consort and Sovereign have been designed specifically with additional safety being paramount.

Monarch are well renowned for creating prestigious stable yards, with a classic bygone elegance. However, the range

seen in many UK racing yards is from our standard range, with a stocked service offering a fast turn around on delivery.

The design and quality of this collection remains the same, but it enables superior stabling solutions at affordable prices and quick delivery. For further information please visit www.monarch-equestrian or phone 01902 605566.

Five Star nutritional support with Respirator Boost A clear way to performance with racehorses can often be hindered by man-made factors. We all want to reach the winners post first and we therefore need our horses at their peak, but with modern husbandry systems there are many ways in which performance can be compromised and result in many horses not making the trip. The respiratory system is particularly vulnerable to stresses, predominantly from dust or spores commonly found in stabling, forage and kick back from schools or gallops. It only takes a small amount of dust to irritate the delicate airways, causing a rapid and dramatic trailing off. However, with the correct management and high quality supplementation, we can help to support the respiratory system.

Five Star Respirator Boost provides invaluable nutritional

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support to the respiratory mucosal immune system and the delicate capillary blood vessels that surround the lungs. These minute capillaries are placed under immense strain during vigorous exercise and thus it is essential to offer them five star backing in order to achieve the best performance. Research shows that, by supplementing the diet with naturally sourced anti-oxidants, the horse’s lungs can be given valuable support and this in turn will help the horse to perform to the best of their ability.

Anti-oxidants are found in many feedstuffs but it is important that they are high quality in order to flush free radical toxins from the system for enhanced performance and recovery. Five Star Respirator Boost contains a concentrated solution of natural antioxidants, alongside herbs such as ginger, rosehip and blueberries, long standing ingredients chosen for their targeted support of healthy lung function. In addition Echinacea is also included for immune system support while essential oils help maintain clear airways.

Clear the respiratory system FAST with Five Star Respirator Boost and help your horse cope with the pressures of the modern equine lifestyle with this Five Star Formula.

For further information please visit www.naf-equine.eu/uk

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Yard and Stable Hygiene services Racing stables, and indeed most yards, now recognize the need to improve their hygiene and biosecurity levels, often having learnt the hard way at some point in their careers.

But how many think buying a disinfectant and adopting a lower dust regime is enough?

In order for any disinfecting treatments to work they must be applied properly, thoroughly and regularly on a cleaned surface to all areas of the yard including those so often overlooked: roof areas, beams, tops of grills, feed mangers, ablution blocks, tack rooms and the like.

Yard and Stable Hygiene Services was established by Tom Fillery, with ten years hands-on experience in the racing industry, to combat increasing problems and challenges that trainers are encountering due to climate and environmental changes. The thought of someone coming into the yard to clean and overhaul the facilities while trying to get on with training routines can be a worry, yet staffing levels and their duties are such that its near impossible to achieve it ‘in house.’

YSHS understand these timescales and the necessity to work around them with minimal disturbance for maximum improvement while providing a professional, friendly, cost-and-time effective bespoke service, using specialised equipment and only professionally tested and endorsed materials and coatings. Says Alan Creighton, Environmental Scientist at the Irish Equine Centre: “Stable hygiene is about being proactive rather than reactive. Barrier paints/coatings and disinfection are an essential part of the modern performance yard.”

For further information please visit www.yardandstablehygieneservices.com

Polystuds Racing stud Brand new for 2015 with fresh approval from the BHA is the Polystuds Racing stud.

Designed and manufactured in the UK from a high density polymer this globally unique, innovative stud, gives all the grip of a steel stud but with several huge advantages.

The Polystuds Racing Stud is super lightweight, at just 3.75g per stud compared to approximately 25g per traditional stud and, unlike a steel stud, is 100% rust proof. It is ergonomically designed to greatly reduce studding injuries, whilst also being shock absorbing, In addition, it can be used in steel, aluminium and plastic shoes and, significantly, conforms to BHA regulations.

This revolutionary new studding system is the result of a vast amount of research into current systems, together with an understanding of the physiology of the horse as an equestrian athlete. Our aim was to create a stud which gave the horse a lighter and more forgiving footing where needed without compromising on functionality.

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ETF visits Belgium for AGM and joins the European Horse Network The 2014 European Trainers Federation (ETF) AGM was held in Ghent on the 22nd November, with representatives in attendance from eight of the 12 member countries.

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HE meeting was an opportunity for representative trainers from across Europe to discuss issues affecting them and the training of horses.

Holland, represented by Gert van Kempen, was welcomed as a new member by the chairperson, Criquette Head-Maarek.

Harmonisation of rules was a major talking point, with particular focus on the

different types of racing plates in use in respective countries, along with the different sets of rules. As one example, members heard how if a runner loses a shoe on the way to the start in France or Germany, the horse is automatically withdrawn. It was agreed that clarification of the situation in the UK was needed, and that every Jockey Club should be contacted with a view to reaching consistency throughout Europe.

The varying applications of the

Interference Rule from country to country came under scrutiny, with general agreement on the need for harmony; likewise, the need to agree on permitted race-day tack items should be addressed. Jim Kavanagh will talk to the Irish Turf Club and organise a letter to all ETF members seeking a solution.

The differing stances on the use of Lasix in certain countries, and its implications, were discussed as were the varied drug testing regimes in force across Europe.

From left to right: Max Hennau, Jim Kavanagh, Michael Grassick and Alex McLaren

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NEWS Criquette Head-Maarek receives a painting of Treve from the ETF and the Belgium Federation

Members were given details of new racecourses in Holland and Sweden, and heard that the whip may be banned outright in Sweden in two or three years.

A shortage of young people entering racing in Hungary was highlighted, along with the fact there are no apprentice jockeys in either Belgium or Holland. It was suggested that the EU Agricultural Commissioner be approached with a view to seeking funding for racing and breeding in Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia.

Marking the ETF’s new membership of the European Horse Network (EHN), Head-Maarek welcomed Florence Gras of the EHN, who gave a presentation about the organisation’s role across Europe.

Founded in 2009, the EHN brings together 20 major horse sectors across Europe and works to keep equine issues at the forefront of the European Parliament.

Veterinarian Dr Bernard Stoffel addressed the meeting about the effect of climate change on the spread of horse disease, with full details covered in this issue of the magazine.

Professor Frank Gasthuys spoke about work at the front line of horse rescue and first aid – this work will be featured in the next issue of European Trainer.

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

Race Name & (Sponsor) Lansdown St (EBF and Whitsbury Manor Stud) 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 Midsummer Sprint Windsor Castle St King’s Stand St Queen Mary St Norfolk St Land O’Burns St (EBF) Yacowlef Bois Dragon St (Bank of New York Mellon) Sprint St (Coral) City Walls Tipperary St Sapphire St Citta di Napoli Hoppegartener-Sprintpreis Reves d’Or - Jacques Bouchara Molecomb St (Bet365) Cercle King George (Qatar) Ibis Summer Dash Abergwaun St St Hugh’s St (Bathwick Tyres) La Vallee d’Auge Nunthorpe St (Coolmore) Roses St (Julia Graves) Curragh St Beverley Bullet Sprint St (Betfred) Divino Amore Scarbrough St Flying Childers St Petit Couvert (Qatar) Flying Five St (Derrinstown Stud) Harry Rosebery (EBF) (Stallions) Cancelli Rous (Albert Bartlett) Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp (Qatar) Criterium de Vitesse Cornwallis St (Dubai) Premio Omenoni Mercury St

GB

Newbury

World Trophy (Dubai Airport)

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

Race Date 17-Apr-2015 27-Apr-2015 2-May-2015 10-May-2015 15-May-2015 23-May-2015 23-May-2015 28-May-2015 30-May-2015 31-May-2015 6-Jun-2015 6-Jun-2015 13-Jun-2015 14-Jun-2015 16-Jun-2015 16-Jun-2015 17-Jun-2015 18-Jun-2015 20-Jun-2015 26-Jun-2015 29-Jun-2015 3-Jul-2015 4-Jul-2015 11-Jul-2015 11-Jul-2015 18-Jul-2015 18-Jul-2015 19-Jul-2015 23-Jul-2015 29-Jul-2015 30-Jul-2015 31-Jul-2015 2-Aug-2015 7-Aug-2015 14-Aug-2015 15-Aug-2015 21-Aug-2015 22-Aug-2015 22-Aug-2015 29-Aug-2015 6-Sep-2015 9-Sep-2015 11-Sep-2015 13-Sep-2015 13-Sep-2015 18-Sep-2015 20-Sep-2015 3-Oct-2015 4-Oct-2015 9-Oct-2015 9-Oct-2015 18-Oct-2015 23-Oct-2015

Value £40,000 €40,000 £60,000 €80,000 £40,000 £90,000 €52,500 £26,000 £37,000 €130,000 €55,000 €52,000 £37,000 €45,000 £60,000 £375,000 £100,000 £80,000 £40,000 €55,000 €80,000 £25,500 £60,000 £40,000 €42,500 €62,500 €55,000 €27,000 €55,000 £50,000 €52,000 £100,000 $685,000 €50,000 £25,500 €55,000 £250,000 £50,000 €40,000 £40,000 €41,800 £40,000 £70,000 €80,000 €100,000 £40,000 €41,800 £45,000 €350,000 €55,000 £80,000 €61,600 €40,000

5f (1000m) Age 3+ F 3+ 3+ 3+ 2F 3+ 2 2 3+ 3+ 2 3+ 3 3+ 2 3+ 2F 2 3+ F&M 2 2 2 3+ 3+ 2 3+ 3+ 3+ 2 2 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 2F 2 2+ 2 2 3+ 2 2+ 2 3+ 3+ 2 3+ 3+ 2+ 2 2 3+ 2+

Surface 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 AWT

3+

T

Metres Furlongs Closing 1000 5 11-Apr-2015 1000 5 22-Apr-2015 1000 5 27-Apr-2015 1000 5 22-Apr-2015 1000 5 9-May-2015 1000 5 5-May-2015 1000 5 19-May-2015 1000 5 22-May-2015 1000 5 26-May-2015 1000 5 13-May-2015 1000 5 6-Jun-2015 1000 5 29-May-2015 1000 5 8-Jun-2015 1000 5 9-Jun-2015 1000 5 9-Jun-2015 1000 5 21-Apr-2015 1000 5 11-Jun-2015 1000 5 11-Jun-2015 1000 5 15-Jun-2015 1000 5 18-Jun-2015 1000 5 10-Jun-2015 1000 5 27-Jun-2015 1000 5 29-Jun-2015 1000 5 6-Jul-2015 1000 5 7-Jul-2015 1000 5 10-Jun-2015 1000 5 1000 5 1000 5 15-Jul-2015 1000 5 23-Jul-2015 1000 5 30-Jul-2015 1000 5 23-Jun-2015 1000 5 23-Jun-2015 1000 5 3-Aug-2015 1000 5 8-Aug-2015 1000 5 7-Aug-2015 1000 5 23-Jun-2015 1000 5 17-Aug-2015 1000 5 18-Aug-2015 1000 5 24-Aug-2015 1000 5 1000 5 1-Sep-2015 1000 5 8-Sep-2015 1000 5 26-Aug-2015 1000 5 5-Aug-2015 1000 5 10-Sep-2015 1000 5 1000 5 27-Sep-2015 1000 5 26-Aug-2015 1000 5 1000 5 3-Oct-2015 1000 5 1000 5 19-Oct-2015

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19-Sep-2015

£55,000

5.15f (1030m) 1030

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Maisons-Laffitte Rome Maisons Laffitte Chantilly Chantilly Keeneland

Texanita Alessandro Perrone Robert Papin Arenberg Bonneval BC Turf Sprint

L L Gp 2 Gp 3 L Gr 1

11-May-2015 2-Jun-2015 26-Jul-2015 3-Sep-2015 5-Oct-2015 31-Oct-2015

€55,000 €55,000 €80,000 €52,000 $1,000,000

5.15 14-Sep-2015

5.5f (1100m) 3 2F 2 CF 2 3+ 3+

T T T T T T

1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100

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5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5

22-Apr-2015 8-Jul-2015 12-Aug-2015 19-Oct-2015

5.75f (1150m)

Täby Galopp - Täby Vårsprint (L) 400,000 SEK / June 9th 2015 1150m / 5.75f - Turf - Closing Date: May 4th - 3yo+ For further information, please contact Richard Penney: richard@irbracing.com +44 (0)1638 668881 or Nicholas Cordrey: nicholas.cordrey@svenskgalopp.se +46 76 785 9455

SWE

Taby Galopp

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Taby Varsprint

L

9-Jun-2015

SEK 400,000

4+

T

1150

5.75

4-May-2015

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Track Taby Galopp

Race Name & (Sponsor) Taby Open Sprint

Class L

Race Date 20-Sep-2015

5.75f (1150m)

Value SEK 400,000

Age 3+

Surface T

Metres Furlongs 1150 5.75

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Closing

5.85f (1170m)

JUNE 25th – TO CLOSE ON APRIL 20th

NORSK JOCKEYKLUBS SPRINTLOP (L) NOK 225.000 / €26.470 | 1170m / 5.85f | 3YR+ VISIT WWW.OVREVOLL.NO FOR MORE DETAILS NOR

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Norsk Jockeyclub Sprintlop

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25-Jun-2015

NOK 250,000

3+

T

1170

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Cork Chantilly Newmarket Maisons-Laffi tte Ascot Nottingham

Cork St Sigy Abernant St (Connaught Access Flooring) Servanne Pavilion St Kilvington St (EBF)

L L Gp 3 L L L

6-Apr-2015 15-Apr-2015 16-Apr-2015 21-Apr-2015 29-Apr-2015 9-May-2015

€40,000 €55,000 £60,000 €52,000 £60,000 £40,000

5.85

20-Apr-2015

6f (1200m) 3+ 3 3+ 4+ 3 3+ F

T T T T T T

1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200

6 6 6 6 6 6

26-Mar-2015 25-Mar-2015 10-Apr-2015 13-Apr-2015 23-Apr-2015 5-May-2015

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

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

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

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

7-Apr-2015 31-May-2015 9-May-2015

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

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

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

15-Jun-2015 16-Jul-2015 19-Jul-2015 9-Jun-2015 24-Jul-2015 18-Jul-2015 8-Jul-2015 27-Jul-2015 28-Jul-2015

Jägersro - Lanwades Stud Jägersro Sprint (L) 400,000 SEK / May 12th 2015 1200m / 6f - Dirt - Closing Date: April 7th - 3yo+ For further information, please contact Richard Penney: richard@irbracing.com +44 (0)1638 668881 or Nicholas Cordrey: nicholas.cordrey@svenskgalopp.se +46 76 785 9455

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

Lanwades Jagersro Sprint Duke of York St (Blue Square) Carnarvon St (Bathwick Tyres) Premio Tudini Cecil Frail St (EBF) Greenlands St (Weatherbys Ireland) Sandy Lane St (New Timeform Flags) Lacken Leisure St (Weatherbys Private Banking) EBF Rochestown St Woodcote St (Investec) Kronimus-Rennen Benazet-Rennen Ballyogan St Bersaglio Cathedral St Crespi V. Coventry St Commonwealth Cup Albany St Diamond Jubilee St Hakodate Sprint St Empress St Chipchase St (Betfred TV) Belgrave St Railway St (Gain) Balanchine St (Grangecon Stud) Premio Primi Passi Hamburg Flieger-Preis Prix de Ris-Orangis CBC Sho July (Portland Place Properties) Duchess of Cambridge Summer St (Tyregiant.com) July Cup (Darley) Rose Bowl St

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

12-May-2015 13-May-2015 16-May-2015 17-May-2015 23-May-2015 23-May-2015 30-May-2015 1-Jun-2015 1-Jun-2015 1-Jun-2015 1-Jun-2015 6-Jun-2015 6-Jun-2015 7-Jun-2015 7-Jun-2015 7-Jun-2015 14-Jun-2015 14-Jun-2015 16-Jun-2015 19-Jun-2015 19-Jun-2015 20-Jun-2015 21-Jun-2015 27-Jun-2015 27-Jun-2015 27-Jun-2015 27-Jun-2015 28-Jun-2015 28-Jun-2015 1-Jul-2015 5-Jul-2015 5-Jul-2015 9-Jul-2015 10-Jul-2015 10-Jul-2015 11-Jul-2015 17-Jul-2015

SEK 400,000 £100,000 £37,000 €61,600 £47,000 €62,500 £37,000 €40,000 £37,000 €57,500 €60,000 £40,000 €25,000 €25,000 €60,000 €41,800 £40,000 €41,800 £125,000 £385,000 £70,000 £525,000 $685,000 £26,000 £60,000 €40,000 €95,000 €52,500 €61,600 €55,000 €80,000 $685,000 £60,000 £80,000 £60,000 £500,000 £25,500

18-May-2015 15-Apr-2015 25-May-2015 27-May-2015 26-May-2015 27-May-2015 27-May-2015 1-Jun-2015 29-Apr-2015 8-Jun-2015 9-Jun-2015 20-Apr-2015 12-Jun-2015 20-Apr-2015 12-May-2015 22-Jun-2015 22-Jun-2015 CLOSED 20-May-2015 23-Jun-2015 4-Jun-2015 5-May-2015 17-Jun-2015 26-May-2015 3-Jul-2015 4-Jul-2015 4-Jul-2015 5-Jul-2015 11-Jul-2015

Jägersro - Zawawi Cup (Gp 3) 600,000 SEK / July 18th 2015 1200m / 6f - Dirt - Closing Date: June 15th - 3yo+ For further information, please contact Richard Penney: richard@irbracing.com +44 (0)1638 668881 or Nicholas Cordrey: nicholas.cordrey@svenskgalopp.se +46 76 785 9455

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Jagersro Naas Ascot Hakodate Goodwood Saratoga Deauville Chester La Teste de Buch Berlin-Hoppergarten Curragh Pontefract York York

Zawawi Cup Sweet Mimosa EBF St Princess Margaret St (Juddmonte) Hakodate Nisai St Richmond St (Qatar) Alfred G Vanderbilt H’cap Cabourg (Jockey Club de Turquie) Queensferry St Criterium du Bequet Hoppegartener- Flieger-Preis Phoenix Sprint St (Keeneland) Flying Fillies’ St (EBF) Lowther St Gimcrack St (Irish Thoroughbred Marketing)

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

18-Jul-2015 22-Jul-2015 25-Jul-2015 26-Jul-2015 30-Jul-2015 1-Aug-2015 2-Aug-2015 2-Aug-2015 5-Aug-2015 9-Aug-2015 9-Aug-2015 16-Aug-2015 20-Aug-2015 22-Aug-2015

SEK 600,000 €54,000 £50,000 $542,000 £75,000 $350,000 €80,000 £37,000 €55,000 €27,000 €60,000 £50,000 £150,000 £200,000

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Track Curragh Deauville Kokura Deauville Baden-Baden Curragh Sapporo Ripon Salisbury Kempton Park Haydock Park York Milan Saratoga Kokura Hanshin Ayr Chantilly Newmarket Newmarket Curragh Redcar Ascot Niigata York Newmarket Curragh Maisons-Laffi tte Ascot Doncaster Rome Newmarket Fontainebleau Maisons-Laffi tte Keeneland Doncaster Rome Lingfi eld Park Fontainebleau Kyoto Nakayama

Race Name & (Sponsor) Renaissance St Prix Morny (Darley) Kitakyushu Kinen Meautry (Lucien Barriere) Goldene Peitsche Round Tower St Keeneland Cup Ripon Champion Two-Year-Old Trophy 2013 Dick Poole St (Country Gentlemen’s Association) Sirenia St (The Millionare Maker) Sprint Cup (Betfred) Garrowby Eupili Prioress Kokura Nisai St Centaur St Firth of Clyde St (William Hill) Eclipse Cheveley Park St Middle Park St Blenheim St Two-Year-Old Trophy Bengough St (John Guest) Sprinters St Rockingham (Coral.co.uk) Boadicea St (EBF) Waterford Testimonial St Criterium de Maisons-Laffi tte QIPCO British Champions Sprint S Doncaster Ubaldo Pandolfi Bosra Sham St (EBF) Zeddaan Seine-et-Oise BC Sprint Wentworth St (Betfred) Premio Carlo & Francesco Aloisi (Ex Umbria) Golden Rose St Contessina Keihan Hai Capella St

GB GB

Newbury Newbury

Hackwood St (Al Basti Equiworld) Mill Reef St (Dubai Duty Free)

IRE

Curragh

Anglesey St (Jebel Ali Stables & Racecourse)

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

Race Date 22-Aug-2015 23-Aug-2015 23-Aug-2015 30-Aug-2015 30-Aug-2015 30-Aug-2015 30-Aug-2015 31-Aug-2015 3-Sep-2015 5-Sep-2015 5-Sep-2015 6-Sep-2015 6-Sep-2015 6-Sep-2015 6-Sep-2015 13-Sep-2015 19-Sep-2015 21-Sep-2015 26-Sep-2015 26-Sep-2015 29-Sep-2015 3-Oct-2015 3-Oct-2015 4-Oct-2015 10-Oct-2015 10-Oct-2015 11-Oct-2015 16-Oct-2015 17-Oct-2015 24-Oct-2015 25-Oct-2015 30-Oct-2015 31-Oct-2015 31-Oct-2015 31-Oct-2015 7-Nov-2015 8-Nov-2015 14-Nov-2015 19-Nov-2015 29-Nov-2015 13-Dec-2015

Value €57,500 €350,000 $685,000 €80,000 €70,000 €52,500 $723,000 £30,000 £35,000 £40,000 £250,000 £37,000 €41,800 $300,000 $542,000 $1,030,000 £50,000 £80,000 £170,000 £170,000 €40,000 £150,000 £70,000 $1,718,000 £45,000 £40,000 €40,000 €190,000 £600,000 £27,000 €41,800 £30,000 €55,000 €80,000 $1,500,000 £40,000 €61,600 £37,000 €52,000 $685,000 $633,000

6f (1200m) Age 3+ 2 CF 3+ 3+ 3+ 2 3+ 2 2F 2 3+ 3+ 2F 3F 2 3+ 2F 3 2F 2C 2 2 3+ 3+ 2 3+ F&M 3+ 2 3+ 2 2 F 2F 2 3+ 3+ 3+ 2+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+

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

Metres Furlongs Closing 1200 6 15-Jul-2015 1200 6 29-Jul-2015 1200 6 7-Jul-2015 1200 6 5-Aug-2015 1200 6 14-Jul-2014 1200 6 25-Aug-2015 1200 6 21-Jul-2015 1200 6 25-Aug-2015 1200 6 28-Aug-2015 1200 6 31-Aug-2015 1200 6 7-Jul-2015 1200 6 1-Sep-2015 1200 6 1200 6 22-Aug-2015 1200 6 21-Jul-2015 1200 6 4-Aug-2015 1200 6 14-Sep-2015 1200 6 2-Sep-2015 1200 6 21-Jul-2015 1200 6 21-Jul-2015 1200 6 24-Sep-2015 1200 6 28-Sep-2015 1200 6 28-Sep-2015 1200 6 18-Aug-2015 1200 6 5-Oct-2015 1200 6 5-Oct-2015 1200 6 6-Oct-2015 1200 6 23-Sep-2015 1200 6 3-Aug-2015 1200 6 19-Oct-2015 1200 6

1200 6 24-Oct-2015 1200 6 1200 6 14-Oct-2015 1200 6 19-Oct-2015 1200 6 2-Nov-2015 1200 6 15-Oct-2015 1200 6 9-Nov-2015 1200 6 1200 6 13-Oct-2015 1200 6 27-Oct-2015

3+ 2

T T

1210 1210

2

T

1260

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18-Jul-2015 19-Sep-2015

£60,000 £65,000

6.05f (1210m)

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18-Jul-2015

€52,500

Munich Krefeld Maisons-Laffi tte Deauville Munich Maisons-Laffi tte

Silberne Peitsche Krefelder Sprint-Cup Marchand D’Or Prix Maurice de Gheest Bayerischer Fliegerpris Saraca

Gp 3 L L Gp 1 L L

1-May-2015 16-May-2015 11-Jun-2015 9-Aug-2015 13-Sep-2015 15-Sep-2015

€55,000 €20,000 €55,000 €250,000 €25,000 €55,000

13-Jul-2015 28-Jul-2015

6.3f (1260m)

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6.05 6.05 6.3

14-Jul-2015

6.5f (1300m) 3+ 3+ 3 3+ 3+ 2

T T T T T T

1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300

Now available for iPhone/iPad via Appstore

6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5

3-Mar-2015 3-Jun-2015 15-Jul-2015

6.8f (1370m)

JULY 30th – TO CLOSE ON JUNE 1st

POLAR CUP (GR 3)

NOK 500.000 / €58.823 | 1370m / 6.85f | 3YR+ VISIT WWW.OVREVOLL.NO FOR MORE DETAILS NOR

Ovrevoll

Polar Cup

Gp 3

30-Jul-2015

NOK 500,000

3+

T

1370

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

1-Apr-2015 2-Apr-2015 2-Apr-2015 4-Apr-2015 4-Apr-2015 11-Apr-2015 12-Apr-2015 15-Apr-2015 15-Apr-2015 18-Apr-2015 18-Apr-2015 19-Apr-2015 25-Apr-2015 4-May-2015 4-May-2015 6-May-2015 9-May-2015 9-May-2015 16-May-2015 16-May-2015

€42,000 €80,000 €80,000 $400,000 $350,000 $955,000 €47,500 £37,000 £60,000 £60,000 £60,000 €60,000 £45,000 €50,000 €72,500 €55,000 £37,000 £60,000 £37,000 $1,030,000

6.8

1-Jun-2015

7f (1400m) 3 3 F 3 C&G 4+ 4+ FM 4+ FM 3 3 3F 3 C&G 3F 4+ 4+ 3 CF 3+ F 3 3+ 3+ F 3 4+

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

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

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

CLOSED 18-Mar-2015 18-Mar-2015 21-Mar-2015 18-Mar-2015 3-Mar-2015 1-Apr-2015 9-Apr-2015 9-Apr-2015 13-Apr-2015 13-Apr-2015 11-Mar-2015 20-Apr-2015 29-Apr-2015 1-Apr-2015 28-Apr-2015 5-May-2015 4-May-2015 11-May-2015 31-Mar-2015

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

Race Name & (Sponsor) John of Gaunt St (Timeform Jury) Palais Royal Nogara Whitehead Memorial Surrey (Investec) Jersey St Ballycorus St Chesham St Eternal St Criterion St Porte Maillot Amandine Brownstown St (Irish Stallion Farms EBF) City Plate Superlative St (32Red.com) Procyon St Roland de Chambure Minstrel St Star St (EBF) Silver Flash St Tyros St Winkfield St Dallmayr Prodomo Trophy Lennox St (Bet 365) Vintage St (Qatar) Corrib EBF Oak Tree St Jouvenceaux et Jouvencelles Six Perfections El Gran Senor Sweet Solera St (Germanthoroughbred.com) Test Washington Singer St (Denford Stud) Hungerford St Francois Boutin Acomb St City of York St Calvados Debutante St Futurity St (Galileo EBF) Fairy Bridge Hopeful St King’s Bishop Prestige St (Whiteley Clinic) Ballerina St Forego Supreme St (Doom Bar) Coolmore Stud Baden-Cup Zukunfts-Rennen Spinaway St Pin La Rochette Hopeful St 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 Guisborough St October St (Totepool EBF) Prix de la Foret (Qatar) Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere-Grand Criterium Oh So Sharp St Challenge St Star Appeal EBF St Dewhurst St Saint-Cyr Radley St Horris Hill St (Worthington’s) Killavullan St Neue Bult Youngster Cup Knockaire St Herod Miesque Premio Chiusura Swan St BC Filly & Mare Sprint Fantasy St Keio Hai Nisai St Ceres Criterium del Immacolata Hanshin Cup

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

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

Race Date 30-May-2015 30-May-2015 31-May-2015 1-Jun-2015 5-Jun-2015 17-Jun-2015 18-Jun-2015 20-Jun-2015 24-Jun-2015 27-Jun-2015 4-Jul-2015 5-Jul-2015 5-Jul-2015 11-Jul-2015 11-Jul-2015 12-Jul-2015 14-Jul-2015 18-Jul-2015 23-Jul-2015 23-Jul-2015 23-Jul-2015 25-Jul-2015 26-Jul-2015 28-Jul-2015 28-Jul-2015 30-Jul-2015 31-Jul-2015 1-Aug-2015 1-Aug-2015 7-Aug-2015 8-Aug-2015 8-Aug-2015 15-Aug-2015 15-Aug-2015 16-Aug-2015 19-Aug-2015 21-Aug-2015 22-Aug-2015 23-Aug-2015 23-Aug-2015 27-Aug-2015 29-Aug-2015 29-Aug-2015 29-Aug-2015 29-Aug-2015 29-Aug-2015 30-Aug-2015 2-Sep-2015 2-Sep-2015 5-Sep-2015 6-Sep-2015 6-Sep-2015 7-Sep-2015 10-Sep-2015 11-Sep-2015 12-Sep-2015 12-Sep-2015 13-Sep-2015 14-Sep-2015 18-Sep-2015 24-Sep-2015 25-Sep-2015 27-Sep-2015 3-Oct-2015 3-Oct-2015 3-Oct-2015 4-Oct-2015 4-Oct-2015 9-Oct-2015 9-Oct-2015 9-Oct-2015 10-Oct-2015 16-Oct-2015 24-Oct-2015 24-Oct-2015 24-Oct-2015 25-Oct-2015 25-Oct-2015 30-Oct-2015 31-Oct-2015 31-Oct-2015 31-Oct-2015 31-Oct-2015 7-Nov-2015 7-Nov-2015 19-Nov-2015 8-Dec-2015 26-Dec-2015

Value £60,000 €80,000 €41,800 €42,500 £40,000 £75,000 €60,000 £60,000 £40,000 £60,000 €80,000 €55,000 €77,500 £37,000 £60,000 $633,000 €55,000 €57,500 £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 $500,000 £25,500 £90,000 €55,000 £60,000 £100,000 €80,000 €95,000 €95,000 €57,500 £350,000 $500,000 £40,000 $600,000 $700,000 £60,000 €25,000 €55,000 $350,000 €80,000 €80,000 $350,000 £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 €300,000 €350,000 £80,000 £150,000 €47,500 £5,000,000 €55,000 £25,500 £37,000 €47,500 €25,000 €40,000 €55,000 €80,000 €61,600 $1,030,000 $1,000,000 $504,000 $647,000 €55,000 €41,800 $1,173,000

7f (1400m) Age 4+ 3+ 3F 3+ 3F 3 3+ 2 3F 3+ 3+ 3 F 3+ F 3+ 2 3+ 2 3+ 2F 2F 2 2 3+ 3+ 2 3+F 3+ F 2 2F 2 2F 3F 2 3+ 2 2 3+ 2F 2F 2 3+ F&M 3+ 3 2F 3+ FM 3+ 3+ 3+F 2 2F 3+ 2 2 3+ F 2 2 C&G 3+ 2F 2 CF 3+ 2 C&G 2F 2F 3+ 3+ 3+ F&M 3+ 2 CF 2F 3+ 2 2 3F 2F 2 C&G 2 2F 3+ 2 2 F 2+ 3+ 3+ F&M 2F 2 3F 2 3+

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

Metres Furlongs Closing 1400 7 25-May-2015 1400 7 13-May-2015 1400 7 1400 7 27-May-2015 1400 7 30-May-2015 1400 7 10-Jun-2015 1400 7 13-May-2015 1400 7 14-Jun-2015 1400 7 16-Jun-2015 1400 7 22-Jun-2015 1400 7 17-Jun-2015 1400 7 26-Jun-2015 1400 7 27-May-2015 1400 7 6-Jul-2015 1400 7 6-Jul-2015 1400 7 26-May-2015 1400 7 6-Jul-2015 1400 7 10-Jun-2015 1400 7 17-Jul-2015 1400 7 16-Jul-2015 1400 7 16-Jul-2015 1400 7 19-Jul-2015 1400 7 1400 7 23-Jun-2015 1400 7 22-Jul-2015 1400 7 23-Jul-2015 1400 7 25-Jul-2015 1400 7 24-Jul-2015 1400 7 24-Jul-2015 1400 7 3-Aug-2015 1400 7 3-Aug-2015 1400 7 25-Jul-2105 1400 7 10-Aug-2015 1400 7 28-Jul-2015 1400 7 7-Aug-2015 1400 7 13-Aug-2015 1400 7 15-Aug-2015 1400 7 29-Jul-2015 1400 7 15-Jul-2015 1400 7 15-Jul-2015 1400 7 22-Jul-2015 1400 7 24-Aug-2015 1400 7 15-Aug-2015 1400 7 24-Aug-2015 1400 7 15-Aug-2015 1400 7 15-Aug-2015 1400 7 24-Aug-2015 1400 7 1400 7 14-Jul-2015 1400 7 22-Aug-2015 1400 7 19-Aug-2015 1400 7 19-Aug-2015 1400 7 22-Aug-2015 1400 7 4-Sep-2015 1400 7 5-Sep-2015 1400 7 21-Jul-2015 1400 7 21-Jul-2015 1400 7 27-May-2015 1400 7 27-May-2015 1400 7 12-Sep-2015 1400 7 18-Sep-2015 1400 7 21-Jul-2015 1400 7 22-Sep-2015 1400 7 1400 7 28-Sep-2015 1400 7 27-Sep-2015 1400 7 26-Aug-2015 1400 7 26-Aug-2015 1400 7 3-Oct-2015 1400 7 8-Sep-2015 1400 7 5-Oct-2015 1400 7 4-Aug-2015 1400 7 1400 7 19-Oct-2015 1400 7 19-Oct-2015 1400 7 20-Oct-2015 1400 7 1400 7 20-Oct-2015 1400 7 1400 7 14-Oct-2015 1400 7 8-Oct-2015 1400 7 15-Sep-2015 1400 7 19-Oct-2015 1400 7 29-Sep-2015 1400 7 29-Sep-2015 1400 7 1400 7 1400 7 10-Nov-2015

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Track Sandown Park

Race Name & (Sponsor) Solario St

Class Gp 3

Race Date 22-Aug-2015

Value £40,000

7.05f (1410m) Age 2

Surface T

Metres Furlongs Closing 1410 7.05 17-Aug-2015

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Concorde St (Coolmore Stud Home of Champions)

Gp 3

4-Oct-2015

€65,000

7.4f (1490m) 3+

T

1490

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Dusseldorf Milan Milan Naples Rome Rome Milan Milan Rome Deauville Pisa Deauville

Preis der Dreijahrigen De Montel Luciano Mantovani Criterium Partenopeo Rumon Repubbliche Marinare Coolmore Vittorio Riva (ex del Dado) Criterium Femminile Luthier Criterium di Pisa Miss Satamixa

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

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Kempton Park Nakayama Saint-Cloud Keeneland Nakayama Lingfi eld Park Leopardstown Hanshin Longchamp Longchamp Dusseldorf Leopardstown Newmarket Cologne Sandown Park Toulouse Kyoto Rome Rome Ascot Saint-Cloud Goodwood Newmarket Newmarket Dusseldorf Milan Chantilly Chantilly Leopardstown Longchamp Longchamp Leopardstown Rome Tokyo Windsor York York Newbury Rome Tokyo Saint Cloud Longchamp Curragh Curragh Curragh Koln Sandown Park Chantilly Dusseldorf Milan Longchamp Baden-Baden Chantilly Belmont Park Belmont Park Belmont Park Milan Tokyo

Snowdrop St Lord Derby Challenge Trophy Edmond Blanc Maker’s 46 Mile New Zealand Trophy International Trial Heritage Oka Sho (Japanese 1000 Guineas) Grotte Fontainebleau Fruhjahrs-Meile Leopardstown 2000 Guineas Trial Craven St Karin Baronin von Ullmann- Schwarzgold-Rennen Sandown Mile (Bet365) Aymeri de Mauleon (FBA) Yomiuri Milers Cup Premio Regina Elena Premio Parioli Paradise St Prix du Muguet Conqueror St (EBF) 2000 Guineas St (Qipco) 1000 Guineas St (Qipco) Henkel Stutenpreis Bereguardo Maurice Zilber - Fonds Europeen de L’Elevage Volterra 1000 Guineas Trial (Derrinstown Stud) Poule d’Essai des Poulains Poule d’Essai des Pouliches Amethyst St Tadolina NHK Mile Cup Royal Windsor St Hambleton H’cap (Betfred) Michael Seely Memorial St Lockinge St (Al Shaqab) Mauro Sbarigia (ex Righetti) Victoria Mile Pontarme Montretout Ridgewood Pearl St (Lanwades Stud) Irish 2000 Guineas (Tattersalls) Irish 1000 Guineas (Etihad Airways) Mehl-Mulhens-Rennen - German 2,000 Guineas Heron St Prix de Sandringham German 1,000 Guineas Premio Carlo Vittadini Lilas Badener Meile Paul de Moussac Metropolitan H’Cap Acorn St Just a Game St D’Estate Yasuda Kinen

12-Apr-2015 5-Jul-2015 5-Jul-2015 18-Jul-2015 13-Sep-2015 13-Sep-2015 20-Sep-2015 27-Sep-2015 8-Nov-2015 12-Dec-2015 13-Dec-2015 27-Dec-2015

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

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

T T T T T T T T T AWT T

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

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

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

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

1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 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 8 8

T T T

1600 1600 1600

8 8 8

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

4-Apr-2015 5-Apr-2015 5-Apr-2015 10-Apr-2015 11-Apr-2015 11-Apr-2015 12-Apr-2015 12-Apr-2015 12-Apr-2015 12-Apr-2015 12-Apr-2015 12-Apr-2015 16-Apr-2015 19-Apr-2015 24-Apr-2015 25-Apr-2015 26-Apr-2015 26-Apr-2015 26-Apr-2015 29-Apr-2015 1-May-2015 2-May-2015 2-May-2015 3-May-2015 3-May-2015 3-May-2015 4-May-2015 8-May-2015 10-May-2015 10-May-2015 10-May-2015 10-May-2015 10-May-2015 10-May-2015 11-May-2015 14-May-2015 15-May-2015 16-May-2015 17-May-2015 17-May-2015 18-May-2015 19-May-2015 23-May-2015 23-May-2015 24-May-2015 25-May-2015 28-May-2015 31-May-2015 31-May-2015 31-May-2015 2-Jun-2015 4-Jun-2015 6-Jun-2015 6-Jun-2015 6-Jun-2015 6-Jun-2015 7-Jun-2015 7-Jun-2015

£37,000 $685,000 €80,000 $300,000 $942,000 £37,000 €40,000 $1,608,000 €80,000 €80,000 €55,000 €40,000 £60,000 €55,000 £90,000 €55,000 $1,030,000 €143,000 €143,000 £37,000 €130,000 £40,000 £400,000 £400,000 €25,000 €41,800 €48,000 €55,000 €62,500 €450,000 €450,000 €57,500 €41,800 $1,667,000 £37,000 £40,000 £40,000 £80,000.00 €41,800 $1,636,000 €55,000 €52,000 €62,500 €300,000 €300,000 €153,000 £37,000 €130,000 €125,000 €121,000 €55,000 €55,000 €80,000 $1,250,000 $750,000 $700,000 $41,800 $1,808,000

7.4

26-Aug-2015

7.5f (1500m)

8f (1600m) 30-Mar-2015 17-Feb-2015 18-Mar-2015 25-Mar-2015 3-Mar-2015 6-Apr-2015 9-Apr-2015 3-Mar-2015 25-Mar-2015 25-Mar-2015 3-Mar-2015 1-Apr-2015 10-Apr-2015 CLOSED 18-Apr-2015 17-Apr-2015 17-Mar-2015 31-Oct-2015 31-Mar-2015 23-Apr-2015 8-Apr-2015 27-Apr-2015 3-Mar-2015 3-Mar-2015 27-Apr-2015 30-Apr-2015 5-May-2015 CLOSED CLOSED 1-Apr-2015 31-Mar-2015 5-May-2015 7-May-2015 9-May-2015 31-Mar-2015 31-Mar-2015 11-May-2015 11-May-2015 15-Apr-2015 CLOSED CLOSED 3-Mar-2015 22-May-2015 13-May-2015 10-Mar-2015 7-May-2015 25-May-2015 14-Apr-2015 20-May-2015 23-May-2015 23-May-2015 23-May-2015 28-Apr-2015

Täby Galopp - Bloomers’ Vase (L) 400,000 SEK / June 9th 2015 1600m / 8f - Turf - Closing Date: May 4th - 3yo+ F&M For further information, please contact Richard Penney: richard@irbracing.com +44 (0)1638 668881 or Nicholas Cordrey: nicholas.cordrey@svenskgalopp.se +46 76 785 9455

SWE IRE GB

Taby Galopp Leopardstown York

80

Bloomers’ Vase Glencairn St Ganton

L L L

9-Jun-2015 11-Jun-2015 13-Jun-2015

SEK 400,000 €40,000 £37,000

3+ F&M 3+ 3+

4-May-2015 29-Apr-2015 8-Jun-2015

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Track Belmont Park Chantilly Cologne Royal Ascot Royal Ascot Royal Ascot Royal Ascot Royal Ascot La Teste de Buch Milan Tokyo Windsor Hamburg Curragh Nantes Sandown Park Maisons-Laffi tte Pontefract Deauville Newmarket

Race Name & (Sponsor) Wild Applause Prix Bertrand du Breuil Longines Weidenpescher Stutenpreis St James’s Palace St Queen Anne St Duke of Cambridge S Sandringham H’cap Coronation St La Sorellina Royal Mares Unicorn St Midsummer St (Betfred) Franz Günther von Gaertner-Gedächtnisrennen-Hamburger Stutenmeile Celebration St Grand Prix d’Anjou Bretagne Distaff St (Coral) Messidor Pipalong St Saint-Patrick Sir Henry Cecil (Hastings Direct)

Class Gp 3 L Gp 1 Gp 1 Gp2 L Gp 1 L L Gr 3 L Gp 3 L L L Gp 3 L L L

Race Date 14-Jun-2015 14-Jun-2015 14-Jun-2015 16-Jun-2015 16-Jun-2015 17-Jun-2015 17-Jun-2015 19-Jun-2015 20-Jun-2015 21-Jun-2015 21-Jun-2015 27-Jun-2015 27-Jun-2015 27-Jun-2015 29-Jun-2015 4-Jul-2015 5-Jul-2015 7-Jul-2015 8-Jul-2015 9-Jul-2015

Value $100,000 €80,000 €25,000 £375,000 £375,000 £140,000 £70,000 £385,000 €55,000 €41,800 $618,000 £40,000 €55,000 €45,000 €52,000 £37,000 €80,000 £40,000 €55,000 £40,000

8f (1600m) Age 3F 4+ 4+ 3C 4+ 4 + FM 3F 3F 3F 3+ F&M 3 3+ 3+ F M 3+ 4+ 3F 3+ 4+ F&M 3 C&G 3

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

Metres Furlongs Closing 1600 8 30-May-2015 1600 8 20-May-2015 1600 8 1600 8 21-Apr-2015 1600 8 21-Apr-2015 1600 8 27-Apr-2015 1600 8 10-Jun-2015 1600 8 20-Apr-2015 1600 8 12-Jun-2015 1600 8 1600 8 12-May-2015 1600 8 9-Jun-2014 1600 8 5-May-2015 1600 8 23-Jun-2015 1600 8 29-Jun-2015 1600 8 29-Jun-2015 1600 8 17-Jun-2015 1600 8 1-Jul-2015 1600 8 30-Jun-2015 1600 8 1-Jul-2015

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

T T T T T T T T T

1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600

8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8

4-Mar-2015 16-Jun-2015 6-Jul-2015 19-May-2015 19-May-2015 24-Jun-2015 8-Jul-2015 7-Aug-2015

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

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

18-May-2014 16-Jul-2015 17-Jul-2015

JULY 9th – TO CLOSE ON MAY 4th

POLAR MILE CUP (L)

NOK 225.000 / €26.470 | 1600m / 8f | 3YR+ VISIT WWW.OVREVOLL.NO FOR MORE DETAILS NOR GB GB GER GER FR IRE GB SWE

Ovrevoll Newmarket Ascot Hannover Krefeld Chantilly Killarney Salisbury Taby Galopp

Polar Mile Cup Falmouth Summer Mile (Fred Cowley MBE Memorial) Grosser Preis der VGH-Versicherungen Meilen Trophy Prix Jean Prat Cairn Rouge Sovereign St (totepool) Lanwades Stud St

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

9-Jul-2015 10-Jul-2015 11-Jul-2015 12-Jul-2015 12-Jul-2015 12-Jul-2015 13-Jul-2015 13-Jul-2015 23-Jul-2015

NOK 250,000 £160,000 £100,000 €25,000 €70,000 €400,000 €50,000 £62,500 SEK 400,000

JULY 23rd – TO CLOSE ON MAY 18th

LANDWADES STUD STAKES (L) (F) NOK 225.000 / €26.470 | 1600m / 8f | 3YR+ VISIT WWW.OVREVOLL.NO FOR MORE DETAILS NOR FR GB GER JPN FR GB GB GB FR FR IRE GB IRE FR FR JPN IRE GB GB GER SPN FR GB FR IRE JPN GER FR TKY GB GB ITY FR TKY FR FR GB GER IRE IRE IRE CAN FR GER

Ovrevoll Vichy Ascot Munich Chukyo Chantilly Pontefract Goodwood Goodwood Deauville Deauville Cork Haydock Park Leopardstown Deauville Deauville Niigata Killarney Salisbury Sandown Park Dusseldorf San Sebastian Deauville Goodwood Deauville Curragh Niigata Baden-Baden Toulouse Veliefendi Haydock Park Haydock Park Milan Chantilly Veliefendi Chantilly Longchamp Doncaster Dusseldorf Leopardstown Curragh Leopardstown Woodbine Longchamp Munich

Lanwades Stud Stakes Jacques de Bremond Valiant St (EBF) Dallmayr Coupe Lukull Chukyo Kinen Bagatelle Pomfret St Sussex (Quipco) Thoroughbred St (Bonhams) Prix de Rothschild Tourgeville Platinum St Dick Hern (EBF) Desmond St Lieurey Prix Jacques le Marois (Haras de Fresnay-Le-Buffard) Sekiya Kinen Ruby St Stonehenge St (EBF) Atalanta St Sparkassenpreis - Stadtsparkasse Dusseldorf Gobierno Vasco Criterium du F.E.E. Celebration Mile (Betfair) Quincey (Lucien Barriere) Flame of Tara EBF St Niigata Nisai St Darley Oettingen-Rennen LC International Istanbul Trophy Ascendant St (Betfred) Superior Mile Pietro Bessero La Cochere International Topkapi Trophy Aumale Chenes May Hill St Junioren-Preis BC Juv Turf Trial (Golden Fleece St) Solonaway (Clipper Logistics Boomerang) Matron St (Coolmore) Ricoh Woodbine Mile Prix du Moulin de Longchamp Grosse Europa-Meile

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

23-Jul-2015 NOK 225,000 24-Jul-2015 €52,000 24-Jul-2015 £40,000 26-Jul-2015 €25,000 26-Jul-2015 $685,000 26-Jul-2015 €55,000 26-Jul-2015 £45,000 29-Jul-2015 £300,000 31-Jul-2015 £60,000 2-Aug-2015 €300,000 4-Aug-2015 €55,000 4-Aug-2015 €40,000 8-Aug-2015 £47,000 13-Aug-2015 €57,500 15-Aug-2015 €80,000 16-Aug-2015 €600,000 16-Aug-2015 $685,000 19-Aug-2015 €40,000 21-Aug-2015 £26,500 22-Aug-2015 £60,000 23-Aug-2015 €35,000 23-Aug-2015 €68,000 23-Aug-2015 €122,000 29-Aug-2015 £100,000 30-Aug-2015 €80,000 30-Aug-2015 €50,000 30-Aug-2015 $542,000 3-Sep-2015 €70,000 5-Sep-2015 €55,000 5-Sep-2015 €195,000 5-Sep-2015 £25,500 5-Sep-2015 £60,000 6-Sep-2015 €41,800 6-Sep-2015 €55,000 6-Sep-2015 €459,000 8-Sep-2015 €80,000 9-Sep-2015 €80,000 11-Sep-2015 £70,000 12-Sep-2015 €25,000 12-Sep-2015 €100,000 12-Sep-2015 €200,000 12-Sep-2015 €300,000 13-Sep-2015 CAN1,000,000+ 13-Sep-2015 €450,000 13-Sep-2015 €55,000

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Track Niigata Sandown Park Taby Galopp Lyon-Parilly Newmarket Saint-Cloud Newmarket Newmarket Cologne Curragh Milan Milan Longchamp Newmarket Longchamp Saint-Cloud Chantilly Newmarket Newmarket Munich Cologne Zarzuela Curragh Milan Ascot Cork Baden-Baden Baden-Baden Naas Milan Milan Taby Galopp Pontefract Deauville Nantes Doncaster Tokyo Rome Lingfi eld Park Keeneland Dundalk Keeneland Tokyo Newmarket Newmarket Keeneland Saint-Cloud Saint-Cloud Compiegne Toulouse Kyoto Tokyo Kempton Park Kyoto Chantilly Chantilly Hanshin Hanshin

Race Name & (Sponsor) Keisei Hai Autumn H’cap Fortune St Nickes Minneslopning Criterium de Lyon Rosemary Coronation Joel St (Shadwell) Royal Lodge St (Juddmonte) Kolner Stutenpreis Beresford St (Juddmonte) Premio Sergio Cumani Premio Vittorio di Capua Prix Daniel Wildenstein (Qatar) Sun Chariot St (Kingdom of Bahrain) Prix Marcel Boussac Thomas Bryon Ranelagh Fillies’ Mile (Dubai) Autumn St Winterfavoriten Preis des Winterfavoriten Gran Premio de la Hispanidad Silken Glider St Premio Dormello Queen Elizabeth II St (Qipco) Navigation St Winterkonigon Preis der Winterkonigin Garnet EBF St Gran Criterium Del Piazzale Swedish Open Mile Silver Tankard St (EBF) Reservoirs (Haras d’Etreham) Sablonnets Trophy (Racing Post) Saudi Arabia Royal Cup Fuji St Premio Ribot Fleur de Lys St (EBF) BC Juvenile Fillies Turf Championship Cooley EBF St BC Dirt Mile Artemis S Ben Marshall St Montrose St (EBF) BC Mile Criterium International Perth Isola-Bella Criterium du Languedoc Daily Hai Nisai St Musashino St Hyde St Mile Championship Tantieme Isonomy Hanshin Juvenile Fillies Asahi Hai Futurity St

FR FR

Craon Craon

Criterium de l’Ouest Point du Jour

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

Keeneland Santa Anita Oaklawn Park Keeneland Krefeld Epsom Downs Epsom Downs Belmont Park Belmont Park Hakodate Dusseldorf Keeneland Keeneland Krefeld

Central Bank Ashland St Santa Anita Oaks Apple Blossom H Jenny Wiley St Dr. Busch-Memorial Princess Elizabeth St (Investec) Diomed St (Investec) Ogden Phipps H’cap Mother Goose St Elm St Landeshauptstadt Dusseldorf BC Juvenile Fillies BC Juvenile Herzog von Ratibor-Rennen

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

Race Date 13-Sep-2015 16-Sep-2015 20-Sep-2015 24-Sep-2015 25-Sep-2015 25-Sep-2015 25-Sep-2015 26-Sep-2015 27-Sep-2015 27-Sep-2015 27-Sep-2015 27-Sep-2015 3-Oct-2015 3-Oct-2015 4-Oct-2015 8-Oct-2015 9-Oct-2015 9-Oct-2015 10-Oct-2015 11-Oct-2015 11-Oct-2015 11-Oct-2015 11-Oct-2015 11-Oct-2015 17-Oct-2015 17-Oct-2015 18-Oct-2015 18-Oct-2015 18-Oct-2015 18-Oct-2015 18-Oct-2015 18-Oct-2015 19-Oct-2015 21-Oct-2015 24-Oct-2015 24-Oct-2015 24-Oct-2015 25-Oct-2015 29-Oct-2015 30-Oct-2015 30-Oct-2015 30-Oct-2015 31-Oct-2015 31-Oct-2015 31-Oct-2015 31-Oct-2015 1-Nov-2015 1-Nov-2015 3-Nov-2015 11-Nov-2015 14-Nov-2015 15-Nov-2015 18-Nov-2015 22-Nov-2015 24-Nov-2015 24-Nov-2015 13-Dec-2015 20-Dec-2015

Value $685,000 £37,000 SEK 400,000 €55,000 £40,000 €55,000 £100,000 £100,000 €25,000 €95,000 €61,600 €242,000 €200,000 £160,000 €300,000 €80,000 €52,000 £500,000 £80,000 €155,000 €155,000 €30,000 €42,500 €121,000 £1,000,000 €40,000 €105,000 €105,000 €50,000 €209,000 €61,600 SEK 400,000 £40,000 €80,000 €55,000 £200,000 $723,000 €104,500 £40,000 $1,000,000 €50,000 $1,000,000 $504,000 £37,000 £30,000 $2,000,000 €275,000 €80,000 €52,000 €55,000 $647,000 $671,000 £40,000 £80,000 €52,000 €55,000 $1,173,000 $1,274,000

8f (1600m) Age 3+ 3+ 3+ 2 3+ 3F 3+ 2 C&G 3+ F 2 3+ F 3+ 3+ 3+ F 2F 2 3+ 2F 2 2 2 3+ 2F 2F 3+ 3+ 2F 2 3+ F&M 2 C&F 3+ 3+ 2 2F 2 2 C&F 3+ 3+ 3+ F&M 2F 3+ F&M 3+ 2F 3+ 2F 3+ 2 CF 3+ 3+ F 2 2 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 2 2F 2 No G

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

Metres Furlongs Closing 1600 8 4-Aug-2015 1600 8 10-Sep-2015 1600 8 1600 8 1600 8 19-Sep-2015 1600 8 1600 8 1-Sep-2015 1600 8 21-Jul-2015 1600 8 1600 8 19-Aug-2015 1600 8 3-Sep-2015 1600 8 3-Sep-2015 1600 8 26-Aug-2015 1600 8 4-Aug-2015 1600 8 26-Aug-2015 1600 8 23-Sep-2015 1600 8 1600 8 4-Aug-2015 1600 8 5-Sep-2015 1600 8 1600 8 CLOSED 1600 8 1600 8 6-Oct-2015 1600 8 17-Sep-2015 1600 8 3-Aug-2015 1600 8 6-Oct-2015 1600 8 CLOSED 1600 8 CLOSED 1600 8 13-Oct-2015 1600 8 24-Sep-2015 1600 8 24-Sep-2015 1600 8 1600 8 13-Oct-2015 1600 8 30-Sep-2015 1600 8 1600 8 11-Aug-2015 1600 8 15-Sep-2015 1600 8 8-Oct-2015 1600 8 23-Oct-2015 1600 8 19-Oct-2015 1600 8 26-Oct-2015 1600 8 19-Oct-2015 1600 8 15-Sep-2015 1600 8 26-Oct-2015 1600 8 26-Oct-2015 1600 8 19-Oct-2015 1600 8 14-Oct-2015 1600 8 14-Oct-2015 1600 8 1600 8 1600 8 29-Sep-2015 1600 8 29-Sep-2015 1600 8 12-Nov-2015 1600 8 29-Sep-2015 1600 8 1600 8 1600 8 27-Oct-2015 1600 8 10-Nov-2015

2 3+

T T

1650 1650

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

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

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

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7-Sep-2015 21-Sep-2015

8.25f (1650m)

€55,000 €52,000

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4-Apr-2015 4-Apr-2015 10-Apr-2015 11-Apr-2015 26-Apr-2015 5-Jun-2015 5-Jun-2015 6-Jun-2015 27-Jun-2015 16-Aug-2015 4-Oct-2015 31-Oct-2015 31-Oct-2015 8-Nov-2015

$500,000 $400,000 $600,000 $300,000 €55,000 £60,000 £60,000 $1,000,000 $300,000 $633,000 €55,000 $2,000,000 $2,000,000 €55,000

8.25 8.25

8.5f (1700m)

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8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5

21-Feb-2015 21-Mar-2015 28-Mar-2015 25-Mar-2015 CLOSED 30-May-2015 30-May-2015 23-May-2015 13-Jun-2015 7-Jul-2015 11-Aug-2015 19-Oct-2015 19-Oct-2015 18-Aug-2015

8.6f (1730m)

Jägersro - Pramms Memorial (Gp 3) 800,000 SEK / May 12th 2015 1730m / 8.65f - Dirt - Closing Date: April 7th - 4yo+ For further information, please contact Richard Penney: richard@irbracing.com +44 (0)1638 668881 or Nicholas Cordrey: nicholas.cordrey@svenskgalopp.se +46 76 785 9455

SWE

Jagersro

Pramms Memorial

Gp 3

12-Apr-2015 SEK 1,200,000

4+

D

1730

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Dortmund

Grosser Preis der Wirtschaft

Gp 3

21-Jun-2015

€55,000

3+

T

1750

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York

82

Strensall St

Gp 3

22-Aug-2015

£75,000

8.6

7-Apr-2015

8.75f (1750m) 8.75

28-Apr-2015

8.95f (1790m) 3+

T

1790

8.95

17-Aug-2015

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Track Maisons-Laffi tte Aqueduct Santa Anita Keeneland Longchamp Oaklawn Park Newmarket Newmarket Fontainebleau Hanshin Fukushima Klampenborg Gowran Park Churchill Downs Churchill Downs Newmarket Chantilly Ovrevoll Goodwood Goodwood Churchill Downs Tokyo Chantilly Chantilly Fukushima Curragh Curragh Saratoga Saratoga Hakodate Klampenborg Berlin-Hoppegarten Saratoga Niigata Salisbury Gowran Park Clairefontaine Clairefontaine

Race Name & (Sponsor) Jacques Laffi tte Wood Memorial St Santa Anita Derby Toyota Blue Grass St Finlande Arkansas Derby Feilden (Ebm-Papst) Earl of Sefton St (Weatherbys) Suresnes Antares St Fukushima Himba St Dansk Jockey Club Cup Victor McCalmont Memorial EBF St Kentucky Oaks Woodford Reserve Turf Classic Dahlia St (Qatar Bloodstock) Guiche Semb Hovedgard Hoppelop Height of Fashion St Festival St Stephen Foster H’cap Epsom Cup Prix Daphnis Chloe Radio Nikkei Sho Meld St Kilboy Estate Diana St Coaching Club American Oaks Queen St Dansk Pokallob Hoppegartener Sommer-Preis Whitney H’cap Leopard St Upavon St (EBF) Hurry Harriet EBF St Luth Enchantee Pelleas

Class L Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 1 L Gr 1 L Gp 3 L Gr 3 Gr 3 L L Gr 1 Gr 1 Gp 3 Gp 3 L L L Gr 1 Gr 3 Gp 3 Gp 3 Gr 3 Gp 3 Gp 2 Gr 1 Gr 1 G3 L L Gr 1 Gr 3 L L L L

9f (1800m)

Race Date Value 2-Apr-2015 €52,000 4-Apr-2015 $1,000,000 4-Apr-2015 $1,000,000 4-Apr-2015 $1,000,000 6-Apr-2015 €55,000 11-Apr-2015 $1,000,000 15-Apr-2015 £37,000 16-Apr-2015 £60,000 17-Apr-2015 €55,000 18-Apr-2015 $633,000 25-Apr-2015 $671,000 25-Apr-2015 DKK 180,000 26-Apr-2015 €50,000 1-May-2015 $1,000,000 2-May-2015 $500,000 3-May-2015 £60,000 8-May-2015 €80,000 17-May-2015 NOK 250,000 21-May-2015 £40,000 23-May-2015 £40,000 13-Jun-2015 $500,000 14-Jun-2015 $723,000 29-Jun-2015 €80,000 29-Jun-2015 €80,000 5-Jul-2015 $671,000 16-Jul-2015 €60,000 19-Jul-2015 €100,000 25-Jul-2015 $500,000 26-Jul-2015 $300,000 2-Aug-2015 $633,000 2-Aug-2015 DKK 250,000 8-Aug-2015 €45,000 8-Aug-2015 $1,250,000 9-Aug-2015 $723,000 12-Aug-2015 £41,000 12-Aug-2015 €50,000 13-Aug-2015 €64,000 19-Aug-2015 €55,000

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

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

Metres Furlongs Closing 1800 9 25-Mar-2015 1800 9 21-Mar-2015 1800 9 28-Dec-2014 1800 9 21-Feb-2015 1800 9 30-Mar-2015 1800 9 28-Mar-2015 1800 9 9-Apr-2015 1800 9 10-Apr-2015 1800 9 9-Apr-2015 1800 9 3-Mar-2015 1800 9 17-Mar-2015 1800 9 1800 9 14-Apr-2015 1800 9 21-Feb-2015 1800 9 21-Feb-2015 1800 9 14-Apr-2015 1800 9 22-Apr-2015 1800 9 1800 9 14-May-2015 1800 9 18-May-2015 1800 9 30-May-2015 1800 9 28-Apr-2015 1800 9 10-Jun-2015 1800 9 10-Jun-2015 1800 9 26-May-2015 1800 9 10-Jun-2015 1800 9 10-Jun-2015 1800 9 11-Jul-2015 1800 9 11-Jul-2015 1800 9 23-Jun-2015 1800 9 1800 9 1800 9 25-Jul-2015 1800 9 23-Jun-2015 1800 9 4-Aug-2015 1800 9 6-Aug-2015 1800 9 5-Aug-2015 1800 9 11-Aug-2015

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

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

3F 4+

T T

1850 1850

3+ F

T

1890

AUGUST 23rd – TO CLOSE ON JUNE 22nd

MARIT SVEAAS MINNELØP (GR 3) NOK 1.300.000 / €152.941 | 1800m / 9f | 3YR+ VISIT WWW.OVREVOLL.NO FOR MORE DETAILS NOR USA IRE JPN USA GER IRE JPN GB FR FR FR GB JPN JPN FR ITY IRE USA FR ITY JPN JPN JPN ITY

Ovrevoll Saratoga Curragh Sapporo Saratoga Baden-Baden Listowel Hanshin Goodwood Longchamp Longchamp Maisons-Laffi tte Newmarket Tokyo Tokyo Longchamp Milan Leopardstown Keeneland Marseille Borely Rome Kyoto Tokyo Hanshin Milan

Marit Sveaas Minnelop Personal Ensign Inv St Dance Design St Sapporo Nisai St The Woodward Berenberg Bank Cup Listowel Rose St Foundation St Bertrand de Tarragon FEE Conde Le Fabuleux Darley St Mainichi Okan Fuchu Himba St Casimir Delamarre Campobello Eyrefi eld St BC Distaff Championship Delahante Premio Guido Berardelli Miyako St Tokyo Sports Hai Nisai St Challenge Cup Del Giubileo

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

FR FR

Longchamp Longchamp

Vanteaux Prix d’Ispahan

IRE

Gowran Park

Denny Cordell Lavarack & Lanwades Stud Fillies St

23-Aug-2015 NOK 1,300,000 29-Aug-2015 $750,000 30-Aug-2015 €67,500 5-Sep-2015 $542,000 5-Sep-2015 $600,000 6-Sep-2015 €25,000 16-Sep-2015 €47,500 20-Sep-2015 $908,000 23-Sep-2015 £40,000 24-Sep-2015 €64,000 5-Oct-2015 €80,000 6-Oct-2015 €55,000 10-Oct-2015 £80,000 11-Oct-2015 $1,173,000 17-Oct-2015 $955,000 18-Oct-2015 €55,000 24-Oct-2015 €41,800 25-Oct-2015 €40,000 30-Oct-2015 $2,000,000 8-Nov-2015 €55,000 8-Nov-2015 €88,000 8-Nov-2015 $671,000 23-Nov-2015 £80,000 12-Dec-2015 $723,000 21-Jun-2016 €61,600

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3-May-2015 24-May-2015 20-Sep-2015

€70,000

Pimlico Kyoto Bordeaux Hannover Deauville Belmont Park Arlington Park Hannover Bordeaux Deauville Deauville

Preakness St Heian St Grand Prix de Bordeaux Hannover-Cup La Calonne - Fonds Europeen de L’Elevage Saginaw Beverly D. St Grosser Preis der Metallbau Burckhardt GmbH Grand Criterium de Bordeaux Lyphard Petite Etoile

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

16-May-2015 23-May-2015 23-May-2015 14-Jun-2015 27-Jun-2015 18-Jul-2015 15-Aug-2015 13-Sep-2015 6-Oct-2015 1-Dec-2015 2-Dec-2015

$1,500,000 $633,000 €60,000 €25,000 €48,000 $100,000 $750,000 €25,000 €55,000 €52,000 €55,000

9.25 9.25

16-Sep-2015

5-Oct-2015 1-Sep-2015 1-Sep-2015

20-Oct-2015 19-Oct-2015 15-Oct-2015 29-Sep-2015 13-Oct-2015 27-Oct-2015 28-May-2015 15-Apr-2015 29-Apr-2015

9.4

12-Aug-2015

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

D D T T AWT D T T T AWT AWT

1900 1900 1900 1900 1900 1900 1900 1900 1900 1900 1900

9.5 9.5 9.5 9.5 9.5 8.5 9.5 9.5 9.5 9.5 9.5

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9.4f (1890m)

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22-Jun-2015 15-Aug-2015 22-Jul-2015 21-Jul-2015 22-Aug-2015

9.5f (1850m)

€80,000 €250,000

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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

17-Jan-2015 14-Apr-2015 15-May-2015 19-Jun-2015 4-Jul-2015 23-May-2015

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Race Name & (Sponsor)

Class

Race Date

Value

9.5f (1950m) Age

Surface

Metres Furlongs

4+ 3+ 3+F&M

T T T

1950 1950 1950

Closing

Täby Galopp - Stockholm Stora Pris (Gp 3) 800,000 SEK / June 9th 2015 1950m / 9.5f - Turf - Closing Date: May 4th - 4yo+ For further information, please contact Richard Penney: richard@irbracing.com +44 (0)1638 668881 or Nicholas Cordrey: nicholas.cordrey@svenskgalopp.se +46 76 785 9455

SWE FR SWE

Taby Galopp Longchamp Taby Galopp

Stockholm Stora Pris Prix Dollar (Qatar) Stockholm Fillies And Mares St

Gp 3 Gp 2 L

GB

Goodwood

Nassau

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

Hanshin Longchamp Longchamp Leopardstown Navan Nakayama Curragh Milan Toulouse Berlin-Hoppergarten Tokyo Chantilly Newmarket Churchill Downs Newmarket Frankfurt Curragh Saint-Cloud Leopardstown Milan Rome Niigata Marseille Borely York Naas York York Newbury Munich Longchamp Hoppegarten Curragh Sandown Park Newmarket Nottingham Maisons-Laffi tte Compiegne Hanshin Belmont Park Curragh Newbury Longchamp Dresden Le Lion d’Angers Hanshin Royal Ascot Royal Ascot Compiegne Compiegne Royal Ascot Naas Newcastle Curragh Curragh Milan Hamburg Sandown Park Belmont Park Belmont Park Munich Fukushima Newbury Maisons-Laffi tte Maisons-Laffi tte Hakodate Vichy Le Lion d’Angers Vichy York Munich Deauville Kokura Arlington Park Arlington Park Deauville Deauville Deauville Saratoga Deauville

Sankei Osaka Hai Prix La Force Prix Harcourt Ballysax St (P W McGrath Memorial) Salsabil EBF St Satsuki Sho (Japanes 2000 Guineas) Alleged St Premio Ambrosiano Le Vase d’Argent Preis der Dahlwitz Flora St Allez France Newmarket St Kentucky Derby Pretty Polly St (Tweenhills) Fruhjahrspreis des Bankhaus Metzler Mooresbridge St (So You Think EBF) Prix de Greffulhe Derby Trial (Derrinstown Stud) Premio Mario Incisa 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 (Al Shaqab) Bavarian Classic Prix Saint-Alary (Pour Moi Coolmore) Diana Trial Gallinule St (Airlie Stud) Brigadier Gerard St (Cantor Fitzgerald) Fairway St Nottinghamshire Oaks (EBF) Matchem Melisande Naruo Kinen Manhattan S Silver St Ballymacoll Stud St (Lord Weinstock Memorial) La Coupe Bwin Sachsen Preis Urban Sea Mermaid St Prince of Wales’s St Tercentenary Ridgway Grand Prix de Compiegne Wolferton H’cap Naas Oaks Trial (EBF) Hoppings St (EBF) Pretty Polly St (Stobart Ireland) International St Merano Hamburg Trophy Gala St (Ambant) Belmont Oaks Invitational Belmont Derby Invitational 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 Arlington Million XXXI Secretariat Stakes Prix Guillaume d’Ornano (Haras du Logis Saint Germain Gontaut-Biron (Hong Kong Jockey Club) Nonette Alabama Prix Jean Romanet (Darley)

9-Jun-2015 3-Oct-2015 18-Oct-2015

SEK 800,000 €200,000 SEK 400,000

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9.5 9.5 9.5

4-May-2015 26-Aug-2015

9.85f (1970m)

Gp 1

1-Aug-2015

£200,000

3+ F

T

1970

9.85

23-Jun-2015

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

5-Apr-2015 6-Apr-2015 6-Apr-2015 12-Apr-2015 18-Apr-2015 19-Apr-2015 19-Apr-2015 19-Apr-2015 25-Apr-2015 26-Apr-2015 26-Apr-2015 27-Apr-2015 2-May-2015 2-May-2015 3-May-2015 3-May-2015 4-May-2015 5-May-2015 10-May-2015 10-May-2015 10-May-2015 10-May-2015 12-May-2015 13-May-2015 13-May-2015 14-May-2015 14-May-2015 16-May-2015 17-May-2015 24-May-2015 24-May-2015 24-May-2015 28-May-2015 30-May-2015 3-Jun-2015 3-Jun-2015 5-Jun-2015 6-Jun-2015 6-Jun-2015 7-Jun-2015 11-Jun-2015 12-Jun-2015 13-Jun-2015 14-Jun-2015 14-Jun-2015 17-Jun-2015 18-Jun-2015 20-Jun-2015 20-Jun-2015 20-Jun-2015 24-Jun-2015 26-Jun-2015 28-Jun-2015 28-Jun-2015 31-Jun-2015 3-Jul-2015 3-Jul-2015 4-Jul-2015 4-Jul-2015 12-Jul-2015 12-Jul-2015 18-Jul-2015 19-Jul-2015 19-Jul-2015 19-Jul-2015 21-Jul-2015 21-Jul-2015 22-Jul-2015 24-Jul-2015 26-Jul-2015 1-Aug-2015 9-Aug-2015 15-Aug-2015 15-Aug-2015 15-Aug-2015 15-Aug-2015 18-Aug-2015 22-Aug-2015 23-Aug-2015

$1,173,000 €80,000 €130,000 €47,500 €50,000 $1,757,000 €42,000 €61,600 €52,000 €27,000 $908,000 €80,000 £40,000 $2,000,000 £40,000 €55,000 €72,500 €130,000 €95,000 €61,600 €242,000 $723,000 €55,000 £75,000 €77,500 £150,000 £100,000 £37,000 €55,000 €250,000 €70,000 €52,500 £60,000 £37,000 £42,000 €55,000 €55,000 $723,000 $1,000,000 €40,000 £37,000 €80,000 €25,000 €64,000 $633,000 £375,000 £75,000 €55,000 €60,000 £70,000 €50,000 £40,000 €200,000 €57,500 €41,800 €55,000 £37,000 $1,000,000 $1,250,000 €25,000 $723,000 £37,000 €64,000 €130,000 $723,000 €55,000 €55,000 €80,000 £40,000 €155,000 €80,000 $723,000 $1,000,000 $500,000 €400,000 €80,000 €130,000 $600,000 €250,000

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

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

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

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

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10f (2000m)

17-Mar-2015 8-Apr-2015 27-Apr-2015 17-Jan-2015 27-Apr-2015 3-Mar-2015 1-Apr-2015 15-May-2015 5-May-2015 16-Apr-2015 31-Mar-2015 4-May-2015 7-May-2015 8-Apr-2015 31-May-2015 31-Mar-2015 9-May-2015 3-Mar-2015 CLOSED 31-Mar-2015 19-May-2015 22-May-2015 26-May-2015 26-May-2015 26-May-2015 28-May-2015 28-Apr-2015 23-May-2015 2-Jun-2015 5-Jun-2015 20-May-2015 5-Jun-2015 28-Apr-2015 20-Apr-2015 11-Jun-2015 12-Jun-2015 12-Jun-2015 14-Jun-2015 18-Jun-2015 20-Jun-2015 22-Apr-2015 20-May-2015 5-May-2015 27-Jun-2015 Inv Inv 26-May-2015 13-Jul-2015 10-Jul-2015 1-Jul-2015 9-Jun-2015 13-Jul-2015 13-Jul-2015 1-Jul-2015 18-Jul-2015 5-May-2015 8-Jul-2015 23-Jun-2015 23-May-2015 23-May-2015 22-Jul-2015 22-Jul-2015 29-Jul-2015 8-Aug-2015 29-Jul-2015

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Track Curragh Sapporo Baden-Baden Saratoga Longchamp Fontainebleau Toulouse Niigata Marseille Borely Leopardstown Curragh Yarmouth Maisons-Laffitte Longchamp Ayr Chantilly Hoppegarten Hoppegarten Hanshin Longchamp Newmarket Newmarket Newmarket Munich Milan Le Lion d’Angers Saint-Cloud Dundalk Ascot Baden-Baden Woodbine Kyoto Leopardstown Rome Rome Keeneland Newmarket Keeneland Saint-Cloud Tokyo Doncaster Marseille Borely Rome Saint-Cloud Taby Galopp Lingfield Park Frankfurt Rome Fukushima Kyoto Chukyo Lingfield Park Nakayama

Race Name & (Sponsor) Royal Whip St (Kilfrush Stud) Sapporo Kinen Sparkassen- Finanzgruppe Travers Boulogne Gd Prix de Fontainebleau - Fonds Europeen de l’Elevage Occitanie Niigata Kinen Coupe de Marseille Irish Champion St Blandford St (Moyglare Stud) John Musker (EBF) (At The Races) La Coupe de Maisons-Laffitte Prince d’Orange Doonside Cup (williamhill.com) Charles Laffitte Deutschen Einheit Preis der Deutschen Einheit Sirius St Prix de l’Opera (Longines) Pride Pride Stakes (Dubai) Zetland (Dubai) Nereide-Rennen Premio Verziere Andre Baboin Dahlia Carlingford St Champion (Qipco) Baden-Wurttemberg-Trophy E P Taylor S Shuka Sho Trigo St Conte Felice Scheibler Premio Lydia Tesio BC Filly & Mare Turf James Seymour BC Classic Criterium de Saint-Cloud Tenno Sho (Autumn) Gillies St (EBF) Grand Prix de Marseille Premio Roma Solitude Songline Classic Churchill St Hessen-Pokal G, Valiani (ex Buontalenta) Fukushima Kinen Radio Nikkei Hai Nisai St Kinko Sho Quebec St Hopeful S

GB GB GB GB

Sandown Park Sandown Park Sandown Park Windsor

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

GER GER

Krefeld Krefeld

Grosser Preis der Sparkasse Niederrhein-Pokal

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)

FR GER FR FR FR FR FR IRE FR FR FR GER GER FR FR IRE FR FR FR

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

Zarkava - Fonds Europeen de L’Elevage Grand Prix Aufgalopp Penelope Prix Noailles Caravelle (Haras des Granges) Prix Ganay Cleopatre Gold Cup (Tattersalls) Prix Corrida 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

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

Race Date 23-Aug-2015 23-Aug-2015 29-Aug-2015 29-Aug-2015 3-Sep-2015 4-Sep-2015 5-Sep-2015 6-Sep-2015 10-Sep-2015 12-Sep-2015 13-Sep-2015 16-Sep-2015 18-Sep-2015 19-Sep-2015 19-Sep-2015 30-Sep-2015 3-Oct-2015 3-Oct-2015 3-Oct-2015 4-Oct-2015 9-Oct-2015 9-Oct-2015 10-Oct-2015 11-Oct-2015 11-Oct-2015 12-Oct-2015 14-Oct-2015 16-Oct-2015 17-Oct-2015 18-Oct-2015 18-Oct-2015 18-Oct-2015 24-Oct-2015 25-Oct-2015 25-Oct-2015 31-Oct-2015 31-Oct-2015 31-Oct-2015 1-Nov-2015 1-Nov-2015 7-Nov-2015 8-Nov-2015 8-Nov-2015 9-Nov-2015 12-Nov-2015 14-Nov-2015 14-Nov-2015 15-Nov-2015 15-Nov-2015 28-Nov-2015 5-Dec-2015 19-Dec-2015 27-Dec-2015

10f (2000m)

Value €95,000 $1,226,000 €55,000 $1,250,000 €52,000 €48,000 €55,000 $723,000 €55,000 €1,000,000 €200,000 £40,000 €80,000 €80,000 £60,000 €55,000 €85,000 €85,000 $633,000 €400,000 £37,000 £50,000 £50,000 €25,000 €61,600 €80,000 €64,000 €40,000 £1,300,000 €55,000 CAN500,000 $1,608,000 €40,000 €41,800 €264,000 $2,000,000 £37,000 $5,000,000 €250,000 $2,721,000 £40,000 €60,000 €242,000 €55,000 SEK 400,000 £45,000 €55,000 €41,800 $723,000 £80,000 $1,085,000 £37,000 $1,173,000

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

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

Metres Furlongs Closing 2000 10 15-Jul--2015 2000 10 7-Jul-2015 2000 10 14-Jul-2015 2000 10 15-Aug-2015 2000 10 2000 10 2000 10 2000 10 21-Jul-2015 2000 10 2000 10 27-May-2015 2000 10 5-Aug-2015 2000 10 10-Sep-2015 2000 10 2-Sep-2015 2000 10 2-Sep-2015 2000 10 14-Sep-2015 2000 10

2000 10 4-Aug-2015 2000 10 4-Aug-2015 2000 10 3-Oct-2015 2000 10 26-Aug-2015 2000 10 3-Oct-2015 2000 10 2000 10 5-Oct-2015 2000 10 2000 10 17-Sep-2015 2000 10 23-Sep-2015 2000 10 2000 10 12-Oct-2015 2000 10 4-Aug-2015 2000 10 25-Aug-2015 2000 10 30-Sep-2015 2000 10 1-Sep-2015 2000 10 20-Oct-2015 2000 10 2000 10 8-Oct-2015 2000 10 19-Oct-2015 2000 10 26-Oct-2015 2000 10 19-Oct-2015 2000 10 14-Oct-2015 2000 10 15-Sep-2015 2000 10 2-Nov-2015 2000 10 2000 10 15-Oct-2015 2000 10 2000 10 2000 10 9-Nov-2015 2000 10 2000 10 2000 10 29-Sep-2015 2000 10 13-Oct-2015 2000 10 27-Oct-2015 2000 10 14-Dec-2015 2000 10 10-Nov-2015

3 4+ 3+ 3+

T T T T

2010 2010 2010 2010

3 3+

T T

2050 2050

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

T T T T T

2080 2080 2080 2080 2080

4+ F 4+ 3F 3 CF 3F 4+ 3F 4+ 4+ F 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 AWT T T T

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

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24-Apr-2015 24-Apr-2015 4-Jul-2015 29-Aug-2015

£60,000 £60,000 £425,000 £60,000

10.05f (2010m)

Visit www.trainermagazine.com Gp 3 Gp 3

16-Aug-2015 8-Nov-2015

10.25f (2050m)

€55,000 €55,000

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

7-May-2015 8-May-2015 25-Jul-2015 8-Aug-2015 19-Aug-2015 1-Apr-2015 6-Apr-2015 14-Apr-2015 20-Apr-2015 25-Apr-2015 3-May-2015 13-May-2015 24-May-2015 29-May-2015 31-May-2015 14-Jun-2015 20-Jun-2015 2-Aug-2015 3-Sep-2015 27-Sep-2015 2-Oct-2015 1-Nov-2015 4-Nov-2015 11-Nov-2015

€48,000 €25,000 €80,000 €130,000 €55,000 €300,000 €80,000 €210,000 €130,000 €1,500,000 €1,000,000 €25,000 €25,000 €55,000 €52,000 €57,500 €80,000 €55,000 €80,000

Chester Kyoto Belmont Park

Cheshire Oaks (Weatherbys Bank) Kyoto Shimbun Hai Man o’ War BC St

L Gr 2 Gr 1

6-May-2015 9-May-2015 9-May-2015

£40,000 $942,000 $400,000

10.4 10.4 10.4 10.4 10.4 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

1-May-2015 2-May-2015 20-Jul-2015 3-Aug-2015 23-Jun-2015 24-Mar-2015 25-Mar-2015 1-Apr-2015 17-Apr-2015 15-Apr-2015 22-Apr-2015 18-Mar-2015 13-May-2015 CLOSED CLOSED

26-Aug-2015 14-Oct-2015 21-Oct-2015

11f (2200m) 3F 3 4+

T T T

2200 2200 2200

11 11 11

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10.25 10.25

10.4f (2080m)

£60,000 £75,000 £100,000 £60,000 £75,0000

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10.05 18-Apr-2015 10.05 18-Apr-2015 10.05 28-Apr-2015 10.05 24-Aug-2015

30-Apr-2015 31-Mar-2015 25-Apr-2015

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Track Longchamp Longchamp Rome Goodwood Frankfurt Milan Baden-Baden Leopardstown Baden-Baden Baden-Baden Baden-Baden Cologne Cork Koln Bremen Milan Hanshin Hamburg Hamburg Hannover

Race Name & (Sponsor) La Seine Prix d’Hocquart Derby Italiano Cocked Hat St (Casco) Grosser Preis der Hannoverschen Volksbank Oaks d’Italia Preis der Baden-Badener Hotellerie & Gastronomie King George V Cup (Nijinsky) Iffezheimer Derby Trial Grosser Preis der Badischen Unternehmer Badischen Unternehmen Oppenheim Union-Rennen Munster Oaks Oppenheim-Union-Rennen SWB Derby Trial Paolo Mezzanotte Takarazuka Kinen Esso-Cup Hamburger Stutenpreis Neue Bult Cup

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

Race Date Value 10-May-2015 €55,000 10-May-2015 €130,000 17-May-2015 €770,000 22-May-2015 £40,000 25-May-2015 €25,000 31-May-2015 €407,000 4-Jun-2015 €25,000 5-Jun-2015 €40,000 6-Jun-2015 €35,000 7-Jun-2015 €70,000 7-Jun-2015 €70,000 14-Jun-2015 €70,000 14-Jun-2015 EUR48,750.00 14-Jun-2015 €100,000 21-Jun-2015 €25,000 21-Jun-2015 €41,800 28-Jun-2015 $2,721,000 4-Jul-2015 €25,000 4-Jul-2015 €55,000 12-Jul-2015 €20,000

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

Surface T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T

Metres Furlongs Closing 2200 11 1-May-2015 2200 11 22-Apr-2015 2200 11 31-Mar-2015 2200 11 16-May-2015 2200 11 2200 11 31-Mar-2015 2200 11 2200 11 1-Jun-2015 2200 11 2200 11 14-Apr-2015 2200 11 14-Apr-2015 2200 11 24-Mar-2015 2200 11 6-May-2015 2200 11 2200 11 2200 11 2200 11 12-May-2015 2200 11 2200 11 12-May-2015 2200 11

HAMILTON PARK – GLASGOW STAKES (L ) 17 JULY 2015 – 11 FURLONGS / 2200m PRIZE MONEY - £40,000 CLOSING DATE - 11 JUL 2015 For further information, please contact Hazel Peplinski on +44 1698 283806 or hazel@hamilton-park.co.uk

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

Hamilton Park Dusseldorf Merano Windsor Baden-Baden Newbury Milan Niigata Hannover Niigata Hannover Kyoto Dresden

Glasgow St Henkel Preis der Diana German Oaks EBF Terme di Merano August St Mercedes Benz Stutenpreis Arc Trial (Dubai Duty Free) Premio Federico Tesio St Lite Kinen Neue Bult Stuten-Steher-Cup All Comers Herbst Stutenpreis Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative Cup Grosser Dresdner Herbstpreis

ITY

Naples

Unire

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

17-Jul-2015 2-Aug-2015 15-Aug-2015 29-Aug-2015 5-Sep-2015 19-Sep-2015 20-Sep-2015 21-Sep-2015 27-Sep-2015 27-Sep-2015 25-Oct-2015 15-Nov-2015 19-Nov-2015

£40,000 €500,000 €41,800 £37,000 €55,000 £60,000 €104,500 $942,000 €25,000 $1,173,000 €55,000 $1,636,000 €25,000

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

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

3+

T

2250

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20-Dec-2015

€41,800

Lingfield Park Lingfield Park

Oaks Trial Derby Trial (Betfred)

GB GB

Haydock Park Haydock Park

Pinnacle St Lancashire Oaks (bet365)

L L

9-May-2015 9-May-2015

£40,000 £100,000

30-May-2015 4-Jul-2015

£60,000 £90,000

3 F 3 C&G

T T

2300 2300

4+ F 3+ F

T T

2380 2380

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

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Noblesse St (EBF) Lord Seymour John Porter (Dubai Duty Free Finest Surprise) Martin Molony St Daisy Warwick EBF (EBF) Jockey Club St (Qatar Bloodstock) Aoba Sho Hedouville Coupe des Trois Ans Buckhounds St (Carey Group) Gerling-Preis Bedel 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 Ribblesdale St King Edward VII Hardwicke St Gran Premio d’Italia Pontefract Castle St (totepool) Fred Archer St Irish Derby (Dubai Duty Free) Scandinavian Open Championship Malleret Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud Grosser Hansa Preis Derby de l’Ouest (Haras du Saz) River Memories IDEE 145. Deutsches Derby Lenebane Princess of Wales’s St

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

4-Apr-2015 16-Apr-2015 18-Apr-2015 19-Apr-2015 2-May-2015 2-May-2015 2-May-2015 6-May-2015 7-May-2015 9-May-2015 10-May-2015 14-May-2015 17-May-2015 23-May-2015 23-May-2015 24-May-2015 24-May-2015 31-May-2015 31-May-2015 31-May-2015 6-Jun-2015 7-Jun-2015 12-Jun-2015 13-Jun-2015 14-Jun-2015 18-Jun-2015 19-Jun-2015 20-Jun-2015 21-Jun-2015 21-Jun-2015 27-Jun-2015 27-Jun-2015 28-Jun-2015 28-Jun-2015 28-Jun-2015 28-Jun-2015 29-Jun-2015 5-Jul-2015 5-Jul-2015 6-Jul-2015 9-Jul-2015

€82,500 €52,000 £60,000 €40,000 £40,000 £100,000 $942,000 €80,000 €55,000 £45,000 €70,000 €52,000 €88,000 €55,000 £40,000 €55,000 $1,757,000 €80,000 €130,000 $3,617,000 $1,500,000 €242,000 €55,000 €60,000 €80,000 £160,000 £185,000 £200,000 €55,000 £40,000 £37,000 €125,0000 DKK 500,000 €150,000 €400,000 €70,000 €55,000 $100,000 €650,000 €40,000 £100,000

14-Sep-2015 27-Aug-2015 4-Aug-2015 18-Aug-2015 1-Sep-2015 29-Sep-2015

11.25 11.5 11.5

5-May-2015 5-May-2015

11.9f (2380m)

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24-Aug-2015

11.5f (2300m)

Now available for iPhone/iPad via Appstore Gp 3 Gp 2

11-Jul-2015 CLOSED

11.25f (2250m)

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

11.9 11.9

29-Jun-2015

12f (2400m) 3+ F 4+ 4+ 4+ 4+ 4+ 3 4+ 3 4+ 4+ 4+ 4+ 3 4+ 3 3F 3F 4+ 3 3 3+ 3 4+ 3 CG 3F 3 4+ 3 4+ 4+ 3 CF 3+ 3F 4+ 3+ 3 4 + FM 3 CF 3+ 3+

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

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

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

31-Mar-2015 8-Apr-2015 13-Apr-2015 11-Mar-2015 27-Apr-2015 14-Apr-2015 17-Mar-2015 15-Apr-2015 29-Apr-2015 3-May-2015 17-Mar-2015 6-May-2015 23-Apr-2015 23-May-2015 18-May-2015 15-May-2015 14-Apr-2015 13-May-2015 13-May-2015 14-Apr-2015 17-Jan-2015 14-May-2015 4-Jun-2015 5-Jun-2015 20-May-2015 28-Apr-2015 28-Apr-2015 28-Apr-2015 15-Jun-2015 22-Jun-2015 CLOSED 4-May-2015 10-Jun-2015 10-Jun-2015 22-Jun-2015 20-Jun-2015 CLOSED 1-Jul-2015 16-Jun-2015

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Track Longchamp Longchamp Newmarket Curragh Jagersro Vichy Vichy Ascot Avenches Goodwood

Race Name & (Sponsor) Thiberville Grand Prix de Paris (Juddmonte) Aphrodite St (Newsalls Park Stud) Irish Oaks (Darley) Swedish Derby Hubert Baguenault de Puchesse Frederic de Lagrange King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (Betfair) Grand Prix d’Avenches - Defi du Galop Gordon St (Neptune Investment Management)

Class L Gp 1 L Gp 1 L L L Gp 1 L Gp 3

12f (2400m)

Race Date Value 14-Jul-2015 €55,000 14-Jul-2015 €600,000 18-Jul-2015 £40,000 18-Jul-2015 €400,000 18-Jul-2015 SEK 1,870,000 20-Jul-2015 €52,000 25-Jul-2015 €55,000 25-Jul-2015 £1,000,000 29-Jul-2015 €50,000 29-Jul-2015 £75,000

Age 3F 3 CF 3+ F&M 3F 3 4+ 3 3+ 3+ 3

Surface T T T T D T T T T T

Metres Furlongs Closing 2400 12 6-Jul-2015 2400 12 CLOSED 2400 12 13-Jul-2015 2400 12 2400 12 2400 12 13-Jul-2015 2400 12 17-Jul-2015 2400 12 9-Jun-2015 2400 12

2400 12 23-Jul-2015

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

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

1-Jun-2015 25-Jul-2015 27-Jul-2015 1-Jul-2015 1-Jul-2015 19-May-2015

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

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

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

22-Jun-2015

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

T T T T

2410 2410 2410 2410

3+

T

2475

JULY 30th – TO CLOSE ON JUNE 1st

OSLO CUP (GR 3)

NOK 600.000 / €70.588 | 2400m / 12f | 3YR+ VISIT WWW.OVREVOLL.NO FOR MORE DETAILS NOR GB GB IRE IRE GER SPN GB GB GB

Ovrevoll Goodwood Newbury Cork Leopardstown Hoppegarten San Sebastian York York York

Oslo Cup Glorious St (Betfred) Chalice St (EBF) Give Thanks St (Irish Stallion Farms EBF) Ballyroan St Grosser Preis Von Berlin Copa de Oro de San Sebastian Great Voltigeur St (Neptune investment management) Galtres St (EBF) Yorkshire Oaks (Darley)

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

30-Jul-2015 NOK 1,000,000 31-Jul-2015 £60,000 1-Aug-2015 £40,000 4-Aug-2015 €77,500 6-Aug-2015 €57,500 9-Aug-2015 €175,000 15-Aug-2015 €68,000 19-Aug-2015 £150,000 20-Aug-2015 £60,000 20-Aug-2015 £325,000

30-Jun-2015 14-Aug-2015 23-Jun-2015

AUGUST 23rd – TO CLOSE ON JUNE 22nd

ERIK O STEEN’S MEMORIAL (F)

NOK 400.000 / €48.058 | 2400m / 12f | 3YR+ VISIT WWW.OVREVOLL.NO FOR MORE DETAILS NOR NOR FR USA GER GB GER TKY FR IRE FR IRE GB CAN FR FR FR FR FR SWE GB GB GER JPN GB FR FR SWE IRE JPN GB IRE CAN FR ITY FR GB SPN USA GER GB FR GB JPN FR

Ovrevoll Ovrevoll Clairefontaine Saratoga Baden-Baden Kempton Park Baden-Baden Veliefendi Craon Galway Saint Cloud Leopardstown Chester Woodbine Longchamp Longchamp Longchamp Saint-Cloud Saint-Cloud Taby Galopp Ascot Newmarket Cologne Hanshin Ascot Longchamp Toulouse Jagersro Curragh Kyoto Ascot Naas Woodbine Longchamp Milan Nantes Newbury Zarzuela Keeneland Munich Kempton Park Lyon-Parilly Kempton Park Tokyo Toulouse

Erik O Steens Memorial Scandic Norwegian Derby Grand Prix de Clairefontaine Sword Dancer Invitational St Baden Racing Stutenpreis September St (Betfred) Longines Grosser Preis von Baden Bosphorus Cup Grand Prix de Craon Oyster St Tourelles Kilternan St Stand Cup (Stella Artois) Northern Dancer BC Turf Prix du Niel (Qatar) Prix Foy (Qatar) Prix Vermeille (Qatar) Joubert Turenne Stockholm Cup International Princess Royal St Godolphin Preis von Europa Kobe Shimbun Hai Cumberland Lodge St (Ascot) Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (Qatar) Panacee Skanska Faltrittklubbens Jubileumslopning Finale St Kyoto Daishoten QIPCO British Champions Series Fillies & Mares New Race (EBF) Pattison Canadian International Conseil de Paris Gran Premio del Jockey Club e Coppa d’Oro Grand Prix de la Ville de Nantes St Simon St (Worthington’s) Gran Premio Memorial Duque de Toledo BC Turf Grosser Pries Von Bayern Floodlit St Grand Camp Wild Flower St Japan Cup Max Sicard

GB GB GB GB

Chester Epsom Downs Epsom Downs Epsom Downs

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

SWI

Zurich-Dielsdorf

Grand Prix Jockey Club

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

23-Aug-2015 23-Aug-2015 25-Aug-2015 29-Aug-2015 5-Sep-2015 5-Sep-2015 6-Sep-2015 6-Sep-2015 7-Sep-2015 7-Sep-2015 8-Sep-2015 12-Sep-2015 12-Sep-2015 13-Sep-2015 13-Sep-2015 13-Sep-2015 13-Sep-2015 14-Sep-2015 17-Sep-2015 20-Sep-2015 25-Sep-2015 25-Sep-2015 27-Sep-2015 27-Sep-2015 3-Oct-2015 4-Oct-2015 7-Oct-2015 8-10-15 11-Oct-2015 12-Oct-2015 17-Oct-2015 18-Oct-2015 18-Oct-2015 18-Oct-2015 18-Oct-2015 24-Oct-2015 24-Oct-2015 25-Oct-2015 31-Oct-2015 1-Nov-2015 4-Nov-2015 21-Nov-2015 25-Nov-2015 29-Nov-2015 6-Dec-2015

NOK 400,000 NOK 1,200,000 €55,000 $1,000,000 €55,000 £55,000 €250,000 €306,000 €52,000 €50,000 €52,000 €100,000 £37,000 CAN300,000+ €130,000 €130,000 €350,000 €55,000 €55,000 SEK 1,000,000 £40,000 £40,000 €155,000 $942,000 £60,000 €4,000,000 €52,000 SEK 400,000 €40,000 $1,173,000 £565,000 €55,000 CAN 1,000,000 €130,000 €242,000 €60,000 £60,000 €56,100 $3,000,000 €155,000 £37,000 €52,000 £37,000 $5,426,000 €60,000

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7-May-2015 5-Jun-2015 6-Jun-2015 6-Jun-2015 13-Sep-2015

€100,000

Tokyo Zarzuela

Meguro Kinen Gran Premio de Madrid

Gr 2 L

31-May-2015 28-Jun-2015

$997,000 €60,000

12.05 12.05 12.05 12.05

17-Aug-2015 19-Sep-2015 19-Sep-2015 30-Jun-2015 18-Aug-2015 28-Sep-2015 13-May-2015 6-Oct-2015 1-Sep-2015 3-Aug-2015 18-Oct-2015 30-Sep-2015 30-Sep-2015 24-Sep-2015 19-Oct-2015 19-Oct-2015 11-Aug-2015 29-Oct-2015 19-Nov-2015 13-Oct-2015

1-May-2015 14-Apr-2015 14-Apr-2015 CLOSED

12.3

12.5f (2500m) 4+ 3+

T T

2500 2500

12.5 12.5

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12.3f (2475m)

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22-Jul-2015

12.05f (2410m)

£60,000 £400,000 £350,000 £1,325,000

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17-Aug-2015 15-Aug-2015 14-Jul-2015 31-Aug-2015 16-Jun-2015 5-Aug-2015

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Track Deauville Deauville Deauville Deauville Longchamp Deauville Tokyo Saint Cloud Nakayama

Race Name & (Sponsor) Osaf Prix de Reux Prix de Pomone (Shadwell) Minerve Grand Prix de Deauville (Lucien Barriere) Prix Royallieu (Qatar) Vulcain Copa Republica Argentina Belle de Nuit Arima Kinen

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

GB GB GB

Newbury Chester Lingfield Park

Aston Park St Chester H’cap River Eden St (EBF)

GB GB

Chester Newbury

Ormonde St (Boodles Diamond) Geoffrey Freer St

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

Nottingham York Navan York Leopardstown Curragh York Longchamp Leopardstown Goodwood Curragh Goodwood Curragh Dortmund Ascot Saint-Cloud 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 Ballycullen St March St St Leger (Irish) Deutsches St Leger Noel Murless Scaramouche St Leger Italiano Roma Vecchia

GB GB

Doncaster Doncaster

Park Hill St 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 GER USA GB GER GB GB GB GB

Ascot Kyoto Hoppegarten Baden-Baden Belmont Park Royal Ascot Hamburg Sandown Park Goodwood Newmarket Ascot

Sagaro St (Longines) Tenno Sho (Spring) Oleander- Rennen Oleander (exBetty Barclay-Rennen) Belmont Gold Cup Invitational St Queen’s Vase St Langer Hamburger Esher St (Coral) Goodwood Cup (Qatar) Rose Bowl St QIPCO British Champions series Long Distance Cup

GB GB

Sandown Park York

Henry II St (Cantor Fitzgerald) 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

Race Date 9-Aug-2015 14-Aug-2015 16-Aug-2015 30-Aug-2015 3-Oct-2015 21-Oct-2015 8-Nov-2015 14-Nov-2015 27-Dec-2015

Value €80,000 €130,000 €80,000 €200,000 €250,000 €55,000 $997,000 €52,000 $4,530,000

12.5f (2500m) Age 3+ 3+ F 3F 3+ 3+ F 3 3+ 3+ F 3+

Surface T T T T T T T T T

Metres Furlongs Closing 2500 12.5 15-Jul-2105 2500 12.5 22-Jul-2015 2500 12.5 22-Jul-2015 2500 12.5 5-Aug-2015 2500 12.5 26-Aug-2015 2500 12.5 2500 12.5 29-Sep-2015 2500 12.5 2500 12.5 10-Nov-2015

4+ 3+ 3+ F&M

T T AWT

2600 2600 2600

4+ 3+

T T

2660 2660

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

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

3+ F 3 C&F

T T

2920 2920

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

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

T T T T T T

3100 3100 3100 3100 3100 3100

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

T T T T D T T T T T T

3200 3200 3200 3200 3200 3200 3200 3200 3200 3200 3200

4+ 3+

T T

3280 3280

3+ 3+

T T

3600 3600

4+ 4+ 3+

T T T

4000 4000 4000

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16-May-2015 22-Aug-2015 29-Oct-2015

£37,000 £37,000 £40,000

13f (2600m)

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8-May-2015 15-Aug-2015

£75,000 £60,000

8-Apr-2015 15-May-2015 17-May-2015 30-May-2015 5-Jun-2015 28-Jun-2015 11-Jul-2015 14-Jul-2015 16-Jul-2015 30-Jul-2015 23-Aug-2015 29-Aug-2015 13-Sep-2015 20-Sep-2015 2-Oct-2015 2-Oct-2015 24-Oct-2015 15-Nov-2015

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

10-Sep-2015 12-Sep-2015

£90,000 £600,000

24-May-2015 24-Jun-2015 26-Jul-2015 16-Aug-2015 23-Aug-2015 6-Sep-2015 27-Sep-2015 3-Oct-2015 25-Oct-2015

€41,800 €52,000 €52,000 €55,000 €130,000 €80,000 €40,000 €200,000 $2,029,000

5-Apr-2015 3-May-2015 24-May-2015 13-Sep-2015 25-Oct-2015 14-Nov-2015

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

29-Apr-2015 3-May-2015 14-May-2015 14-May-2015 5-Jun-2015 19-Jun-2015 3-Jul-2015 4-Jul-2015 30-Jul-2015 24-Sep-2015 17-Oct-2015

£60,000 $2,721,000 €55,000 €55,000 $2,500,000 £85,000 €25,000 £37,000 £100,000 £37,000 £310,000

28-May-2015 21-Aug-2015

£60,000 £150,000

11-Sep-2015 5-Dec-2015

£100,000 $1,085,000

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18-Jun-2015 4-Oct-2015 11-Oct-2015

£375,000 €300,000 €25,000

4-Sep-2015 21-Jul-2015

15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15

16-Jun-2015 26-Jul-2015 7-Aug-2015 29-Jul-2015 19-Aug-2015 22-Sep-2015 26-Aug-2015 15-Sep-2015

15.5 15.5 15.5 15.5 15.5 15.5

27-Mar-2015 15-Apr-2015 29-Apr-2015 26-Aug-2015 7-Oct-2015

16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16

23-Apr-2015 17-Mar-2015 31-Mar-2015 31-Mar-2015 Inv 12-Jun-2015 29-Jun-2015 23-Jun-2015 18-Sep-2015 3-Aug-2015

16.4 16.4

22-May-2015 15-Aug-2015

18f (3600m)

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14.6 14.6

16.4f (3280m)

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1-Oct-2015

16f (3200m)

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2-Apr-2015 31-May-2015 8-Apr-2015 26-May-2015 1-Jun-2015 20-May-2015 6-Jul-2015 24-Jun-2015 9-Jul-2015 24-Jul-2015 15-Jul-2015 24-Aug-2015 27-May-2015 28-Jul-2015 26-Sep-2015

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

15f (3000m)

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2-May-2015 10-Aug-2015

14.6f (2920m)

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13.5 13.5

14f (2800m)

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11-May-2015 17-Aug-2015 23-Oct-2015

13.5f (2660m)

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13 13 13

18 18

5-Sep-2015 27-Oct-2015

20f (4000m) 20 20 20

20-Apr-2015 26-Aug-2015

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