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DECEMBER 2018

DECEMBER 2018

£4.95 • ISSUE 83

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Stallion Review

2018

All the facts, stats and stories from the year that was 2018

Blankets of mist by Malcolm Coward

EXPERTS IN OUR FIELD EXPERT EYE NEW FOR 2019

 The first British-trained winner of the Breeders’ Cup Mile Gr.1 since 1994

 Stormed to a four-and-a-half length victory in the Jersey Stakes Gr.3 at Royal Ascot, the biggest winning margin this century

 Winner of the Vintage Stakes Gr.2 as a 2YO in a performance described by Timeform as “arguably the most striking performance by a two-year-old in a Pattern race all year.”

 A fourth generation Juddmonte homebred from the family of Champion 2YO Filly in Europe and dual Classic winner, Special Duty.

By Acclamation, sire of leading stallion Dark Angel

BATED BREATH

KINGMAN

2007 b h Dansili - Tantina (Distant View)

2011 b h Invincible Spirit - Zenda (Zamindar)

A L E A D I N G S TA L L I O N

THE BRILLIANT MILER

SON OF DANSILI

IMPARTING HIS CLASS

2019 Fee: £10,000 SLF

2019 Fee: £75,000 SLF

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OASIS DREAM 2000 b h Green Desert - Hope (Dancing Brave)

2015 b h Acclamation - Exemplify (Dansili)

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FRANKEL 2008 b h Galileo - Kind (Danehill) THE MOST EXCITING

YOUNG SIRE IN THE WORLD 2019 Fee: £175,000 SLF

Contact Shane Horan, Claire Curry or Eoin Fives

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Semper Fortis.

Meaning “Always strong” this is the unofficial motto of the US Navy and it couldn’t be more appropriate for our equine luminary. Running hard from the front he became the first horse since Diesis in 1982 to land the Dewhurst/Middle Park Group 1 double and for good measure he added the Group 1 July Cup as a 3-year-old.

European Champion 2YO and European Champion 3YO Sprinter elect, race records don’t come much stronger.

“put in the season’s defining juvenile performance, in landing his second Group 1, the Dewhurst in record time.” Mark Bird, IHRB Handicapper

“Speed is his biggest attribute but heart is his next biggest, he never lies down and is an amazing horse.” Aidan O’Brien

• AUSTRALIA • CAMELOT • CARAVAGGIO • CHAMPS ELYSEES • CHURCHILL • EXCELEBRATION • FASTNET ROCK • FOOTSTEPSINTHESAND • GALILEO • GLENEAGLES • GUSTAV KLIMT • • HIGHLAND REEL • HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR • IVAWOOD • KINGSTON HILL • MASTERCRAFTSMAN • MERCHANT NAVY • NO NAY NEVER • PRIDE OF DUBAI • REQUINTO • • ROCK OF GIBRALTAR • RULER OF THE WORLD • SAXON WARRIOR • SIOUX NATION • STARSPANGLEDBANNER • THE GURKHA • U S NAVY FLAG • WAR COMMAND • ZOFFANY •

Champion 2YO and sprinting sensation by WAR FRONT. Out of Champion 2YO MISTY FOR ME and a full-brother to triple Group 1 winner ROLY POLY.

NEW FOR 2019 Fee: €25,000 Contact: Coolmore Stud, Fethard, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. Tel: 353-52-6131298. Fax: 353-52-6131382. Christy Grassick, David O’Loughlin, Eddie Fitzpatrick, Tim Corballis, Maurice Moloney, Gerry Aherne, Mathieu Legars, Jason Walsh, Tom Miller or Neil Magee. Tom Gaffney, David Magnier, Joe Hernon, John Kennedy or Cathal Murphy: 353-25-31966/31689. Kevin Buckley (UK Rep.) 44-7827-795156.

E-mail: sales@coolmore.ie Website: www.coolmore.com All stallions nominated to EBF.

STALLIONS

NEW TO TWEENHILLS 2019

World Champion 3yo

Champion Older Miler

Record Breaking Champion First Season Sire in AUS

Four time Gr.1 winner

Gr.1 winning son of Pivotal

Champion 3yo sprinter

£40,000 Oct 1st SLF

£8,500 Oct 1st SLF

£25,000 Oct 1st SLF

Contact Hannah Wall or Alex Lowe at Tweenhills on T: +44 (0) 1452 700177 E: alex@tweenhills.com

STANDING AT TWEENHILLS 2019

STALLIONS

Leading First Season Sire in GB 2018

Champion First Season Sire in GB 2017

Fastest 2yo of his generation

Triple Gr.1 winning miler

Gr.1 winning miler

First 2yos 2019

£17,500 Oct 1st SLF

£15,000 Oct 1st SLF

£7,000 Oct 1st SLF

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ka r a konti e 3 X G 1 -W I NNI NG MILER + Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère (G1) at 2 + French Two Thousand Guineas (G1) at 3 + Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) at 3

FIRST-CROP YEA RLINGS SOLD FOR: $220,000, $130,000, $120,000, $100,000,

Colt out of Judy In Disguise (GB)

$150,000, $125,000, $120,000, etc.

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Paul Haigh is pretty impressed by Cross Counter’s Melbourne Cup win, but as usual the fillies – Winx and Enable – are the ones for him

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Stallion fees

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Pure Acceleration

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Game on

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Breeders’ Cup 2018 was up with the best...

Murphy’s magic

It has been some year for jockey Oisin Murphy, who played a central role in setting up the two new stallions joining the Tweenhills roster, reports Graham Dench

First-season sire No Nay Never gets the biggest fee increase and joins the band of sires standing at six-figure fees The son of Lookin At Lucky put the pedal to the metal in the BC Classic, reports Alan Porter Day 1 of the Breeders’ Cup saw some exciting juvenile performances

... but Simon Rowlands didn’t feel there was a star Timeform performance

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A success story

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The making of stallions

It was a Group 1-winning 2018 for Team Gredley. Aisling Crowe meets son Tim at the family’s Newmarket stud Rathasker Stud enjoyed a great year with first-season sires Bungle Inthejungle and Gregorian.

We find out how important it is to take a stallion forwards after year one

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Donn McClean reviews the year that was for the filly by Mastercraftsman Our regular contributors and some industry participants offer views on the autumn’s yearling sales, Brexit, and the proposed British Bred Premium Scheme

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The barometer

We take a look at what has gone up in 2018 and what might be taking a sideways move

The solution

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Michael, Mags and Mecca

Marcus Townend meets trainer Michael Dods, who has won Group 1 sprints with fillies in three of the last four years

100 Protecting bloodstock investments

David Ashby of MS Amlin tells us about the latest developments in bloodstock and stallion insurance

104 Candle power

Sally Ann Grassick meets the connections of the Group 1 filly, Lily’s Angel

We have an idea that might help the industry, but it would need joined up thinking from all divisions

205 Race of the year

Atlantic shipping

208 Stud fees 2019

With progeny of American Pharoah likely to be campaigned in Europe, Alan Porter reviews the trans-Atlantic movements of stallions and racehorses since the 19th century

Watch Roaring Lion win the Irish Champion Stakes British and Irish stallion fees 2019

210 Photo of the month

New stallions, new jobs for Cracksman Expert Eye Sayer Blue Star strikes forand home

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112 Global stallions 2018

Dubawi is the leading European-based sire on global earnings

114 Domination

Jocelyn de Moubray sees Galileo and Dubawi maintain their hold at the top of the sires’ list

125 No Nay Never crowned the king...

...but there were some good performances by a wide range of first-season sires

134 Leading sires’ tables by distance From 5f sprinters to stayers

147 Stakes-winning sires

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Hyperion’s list of stakes-winning sires alongside their progeny and their broodmare sires

156 Select yearling sales held firm

Jocelyn de Moubray reviews a yearling sale season which, at the top end anyway, produced similar results to 2017

165 European sales averages

Yearling averages, medians and aggregates by sire

176 Who were the busiest stallions this spring?

We list the covering stats for British and Irish-based stallions

184 The Joy of six

Kitten’s Joy won his sixth Turf title and his second championship, writes Melissa Bauer-Herzog

190 US sire tables

Leading overall sires, first-season and Turf sires

204 European stallion tables

Leading overall sires, first-season and stakes sires

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Racing delights

Paul Haigh was pretty impressed by Cross Counter’s Melbourne Cup success, but it was the star fillies Winx and Enable, who really took his eye this autumn

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arl Haig (note the absence of an ‘h’) the WW1 general, who was described as one of those people who are like donkeys leading lions, once remarked scornfully of the then Lord Derby that: “Like a cushion he bears the imprint of the last man to have sat on him”.

The same could be said of most racing fans. We’re a terrible mob, invariably most impressed by what we’ve seen most recently. The most recent sight on the world racing stage was Godolphin’s Cross Counter cutting his way through the field at Flemington to win the Melbourne Cup going away. And boy wasn’t it impressive? His victory was a third in his country’s most coveted race for Kerrin McEvoy. It also provided another climactic moment in an extraordinary season for Charlie Appleby.

The fact remains though that it is a handicap, and winning handicaps doesn’t make horses champions.

That’s not to say the colt, who had St Leger winner Kew Gardens behind him last time they met, can’t aspire to championship status. He headed the British-trained trifecta in the style of a champion, and he’s still on his way up.

But, even in the immediate aftermath of this latest triumph, his trainer couldn’t bring himself to pretend the win equalled Masar’s in the Derby. Charlie Appleby, who a decade ago was a mere assistant in Godolphin’s operation, has now, in just the last three or four seasons, climbed into the stellar group of trainers worldwide. He says the Kentucky Derby is the next gift he wants to give his boss Sheikh Mohammed. America should consider itself warned.

The races that champions win are Group 1 races at set weights, and we’ve had a veritable blizzard of them in the last few weeks. A month ago this column opined that, as Winx had put away the proven European Group 1 performer Benbatl as effortlessly as she’s put away all the rest who’ve faced her in the period since Appleby began, then even those who’d still doubted would have to bow down before her.

She was attempting to win Australia’s championship for the fourth time in a row, and she did it, effortlessly.

It was her 29th successive victory, 22 of which have been in Group 1s. And still no one, not even the most

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The most recent sight on the world racing stage was Godolphin’s Cross Counter cutting his way through the field at Flemington to win the Melbourne Cup going away.

And boy wasn’t it impressive?

devoted Australians, can be quite sure she is even the best in the world, not even the best of her own sex. World racing is so spectacularly spoiled at the moment.

Enable didn’t improve her rating in winning the Breeders’ Cup Turf. You might say the proximity of Magical even reduced her grandeur. Plenty of people in the northern hemisphere were perfectly prepared to acclaim her as the best on earth after she’d become the first to add the race to not one but two Arcs. Cushion syndrome at work?

The international handicappers thought so. The two supermares will never meet of course unless Enable’s connections decide on an improbably quixotic trip to Australia. Yet the international handicappers have decreed that Winx is actually 6lb superior to Enable. Six pounds!

Does this mean they think Winx would have won the last two Arcs, and then the Breeders’ Cup Turf too?

Not necessarily. They will say they could only measure Enable’s ability by strict mathematical analysis of what she’s achieved this year.

This means (probably) that they can’t take into account what she achieved last year – although all other rating measurements do. Or the fact that she was unable to race until the autumn and then suffered another setback before the Arc between her facile comeback victory on the All Weather over the King George runner-up.

Or that no consideration can be given to the fact that the form she showed at Churchill Downs came after she’d travelled more than 3,000 miles.

Or that Magical may have been very good indeed all along, but was prevented from demonstrating it by the sickness that befell Ballydoyle in mid-summer. If they’re saying Enable is only a couple of lengths or so better than Benbatl there would be no shortage of Enable fans volunteering to burn down the handicappers’ offices.

On the other hand the handicappers can only make an educated guess about how far Winx could have beaten Benbatl if she’d been driven out. They have to assume that the Benbatl she beat was Benbatl at the top of his form, not a Benbatl in any way diminished by having travelled 12,000 miles.

Does your brain hurt yet? No doubt theirs did too. Yet they claim to have accomplished the impossible by placing

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Cross Counter added to the wonderful season enjoyed by Godolphin and trainer Charlie Appleby (below, right) with his Melbourne Cup victory

one of these sensational mares six whole pounds above the other.

Is there a male horse anywhere to match either of them?

Yes the handicappers say: Cracksman. But that would that be the October Cracksman who got the soft ground he apparently needs at Ascot, not the Cracksman who can’t show his best on ground firmer than “good”.

Who would have imagined we might be asking that question anyway after Justify’s fabulous career of just 111 days before he retired unbeaten? It was an astounding performance.

But the maths say Justify isn’t even the best horse trained in America this year. Not one of the colts he beat in his three-month rampage has done anything to frank his form, except maybe Audible who won the 7f Cherokee Run on the Breeders’ Cup undercard.

Mathematically on what Justify actually achieved you couldn’t fancy him to take on either of the queens when fully fit and in receipt of half a stone. Of course, you can argue, as Bob Baffert already has, that Justify “left a lot of bodies” behind him in the Triple Crown races, two of

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Who is the best horse in the world? Is it the 29-time consecutive winner Winx, or does the title belong to Enable (above), Cracksman or Gun Runner?

which were run in truly execrable conditions. But as things stand there’s doubt now about whether he can even claim the Horse of the Year title, an accolade that had seemed a formality in June. Is his body of work really superior to that of the Breeders’ Cup Classic winner, Accelerate?

Is the dominance of the US Triple Crown races still as absolute as it has been since the 19th century? An interesting detail about Accelerate’s Classic is that the winner is the third in a row from the crop that were three-year-olds in 2013, following Arrogate and Gun Runner – none of them ever won a Triple Crown race.

Setting that particular worm can aside, Breeders’ Cup 2018 was an exceptionally exciting one, littered with championship performances and those that seemed to presage them. What would the handicappers have thought of Enable if Magical hadn’t been in the race. Or Magical if Enable hadn’t run?

The meeting did establish a few truths as usual.

Europe’s champion three-year- old is not even a shadow of himself when moved from Turf to Dirt.

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Is it time to forget about the 3lb fillies allowance?

Or perhaps give it to the colts?

worthy successor to both the current queens.

When champion fillies lose interest they often do so almost in an instant, as Abel Tasman’s effort, or lack of it, in the Distaff showed.

Oh, and if only the meeting would stop calling itself “The World Thoroughbred Championships”, everyone outside America would be so relieved.

The organisers know very well that as long as it can’t attract runners from Australia, Japan or Hong Kong, it’s nothing of the sort (anymore than December’s “World Turf Championships” at Sha Tin can ever be what it claims to be). It’s just racing’s (terrific) equivalent of the Ryder Cup, though we’ve got as much chance of persuading the hype addicts to admit that as we have of getting Trump to show us the true colour of his face and hair.

What will concern American racing for the next two months or so is which horse to hail as their champion in an extraordinary year. The traditionalists will go solidly for Justify. The cool analysts will say Accelerate.

At a guess the voters will go for the one who made the most recent imprint on their minds.

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Stallion fees for 2019

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No Nay Never joins the elite group of British and Irish stallions standing at six-figures 18

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he SUPERB first season had by Coolmore’s sire No Nay Never has led to him receiving the largest fee increase of all stallions for 2019 – his nomination price going from €25,000 to €100,000, a 400 per cent increase.

Not only has No Nay Never had the highest number of winners – 26 at the time of writing and leading the first-season sires’ list by that measure – but he has had quality too, his best two-year-old in 2018 is one of the best juveniles of the year, the Middle Park (G1)

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winner Ten Sovereigns.

Furthermore, the sire also had the Group 2 winner Land Force, as well as another four Listed winners and four Listed-placed runners.

It means that for 2019 six sires (including Galileo’s private fee) are standing at fees of over €/£100,000, all the established six-figure sires on an unchanged price from 2017. In France, Siyouni, the sire of the brilliant Laurens, has also joined the €100,000 club.

The continuing progressive season had by Ballylinch Stud’s Lope De Vega has seen the son of Shamardal receive a

33 per cent increase, justified after the Grade 1 win by his highly impressive Breeders’ Cup winner Newspaperofrecord.

He now stands at €80,000.

Although at very differing price brackets than No Nay Never his fellow successful first-season sires Bungle Inthejungle (Exceed And Excel) and Gregorian have also received an upward hike in their fees.

Both are Rathasker Studowned sires, with Bungle based in Ireland and Gregorian at The National Stud in the UK. The former, who has had 25 winners as well as the Group 1-placed Rumble inthejungle,

stallion fees Top-priced stallions: 2019 Sire Price

Photo courtesy of Ballylinch Stud

Opposite, 2018’s leading first-season sire No Nay Never, above, Lope De Vega, who continues to progress, below left, Showcasing, who got his second Group 1 winner this summer and, below right, Kodiac

Photo courtesy of Tally-Ho Stud Photo by Equine Creative Media

will be available to breeders at €12,000, a 140 per cent increase from his €5,000 starter fee, while Gregorian, a son of Clodovil, will be standing at £8,000 from £4,500.

His three Group-placed runners and two Listed-placed performers eliciting the upward move.

The 16-year-old Camacho is a far more established sire, but the son of Danehill got his first Group 1 winner in 2018 as well as the Royal Ascot juvenile heroine Signora Cabella. It means the Yeomanstown stallion will receive a first fee increase since 2014 moving up from €7,500 to €12,000.

Through his initial period at stud from 2006 to 2012 the sire

stood for €4,000, while for 2013, his one year at Mickley Stud in the UK, he cost breeders just £2,750.

The final stallion to receive an increase of over 50 per cent for 2019 is the ever-progressive Whitsbury Stud’s Showcasing – his fee rising from £35,000 to £55,000.

The son of Oasis Dream got his second juvenile Group 1 winner through the summer with Advertise’s Phoenix Stakes victory at The Curragh before the Cheveley Park Stud-bred colt came home second behind Too Darn Hot in the Dewhurst.

Kodiac, the leading sire of two-year-olds, is to stand at €65,000 from €50,000.

The Tally-Ho Stud sire broke

the record for the number of two-year-old winners from one crop in 2017 at 62. At the time of writing he is on 45 and looks unlikely to break his own record this year.

However, it won’t be an impossibility in future years as with covering numbers of over 200 mares this year (see from page 176) he will have large numbers of stock on the ground in the upcoming years.

Of the new sires, the four-time Group 1 winner and the Cartier Horse of the Year, Roaring Lion, is to be introduced at £40,000 and is the most expensive new sire for 2019.

He is tracked by his frequent racecourse rival Saxon Warrior, who is starting out at €30,000.

See pages 208-209 for the full list of British and Irish stallion fees 2019

Galileo.............................................Private Dubawi........................................£250,000 Frankel........................................£175,000 Sea The Stars..............................€135,000 Invincible Spirit.........................€120,000 No Nay Never..............................€100,000 Dark Angel....................................€85,000 Lope De Vega................................€80,000 Kingman.......................................£75,000 Fastnet Rock.................................€70,000 Kodiac............................................€65,000 Showcasing..................................£55,000 Golden Horn.................................£50,000 Exceed And Excel..........................€50,000 Camelot.........................................€40,000 Teofilo...........................................€40,000 Acclamation..................................€40,000 Roaring Lion*...............................£40,000 Australia.......................................€35,000 Caravaggio....................................€35,000 Churchill........................................€35,000 Iffraaj.............................................£35,000 Oasis Dream..................................£30,000 Gleneagles....................................€30,000 Mastercraftsman.........................€30,000 Saxon Warrior*............................€30,000 New Approach..............................£30,000 Muhaarar......................................£30,000 US Navy Flag*...............................€25,000 Zoffany..........................................€25,000 Cracksman*..................................£25,000 Ribchester.....................................€25,000 Nathaniel......................................£25,000 Zoustar*........................................£25,000 Expert Eye*...................................£20,000 Intello............................................£20,000 Merchant Navy*...........................€20,000 Harry Angel*................................£20,000 Ulysses...........................................£17,500 Highland Reel..............................€17,500 Starspangledbanner...................€17,500 The Gurkha...................................€17,500 Charm Spirit.................................£17,500 New Bay........................................€15,000 Holy Roman Emperor..................€15,000 Night Of Thunder.........................£15,000 Postponed....................................£15,000 Awtaad..........................................€15,000 Dawn Approach............................€15,000 Sea The Moon...............................£15,000 Havana Gold.................................£15,000 * new for 2019

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KESSAAR - NEW FOR 2019

b 2016 by Kodiac - Querulous (Raven’s Pass) RACE RECORD: Won Gr.2 MILL REEF STAKES, 6f, Newbury, by 23⁄4 lengths A race won by leading sire DARK ANGEL, who retired at two, also Gr.1 winners HARRY ANGEL, RIBCHESTER, etc.

Won Gr.3 SIRENIA STAKES, 6f, Kempton Park, by 21⁄2 lengths

Sire:

KODIAC at TALLY-HO STUD

Champion Sire of 2yos 2017 (World Record)

Champion European Sire of 2yos 2018

Champion European Sire (Winners) 2018

Won EBF Novice Stakes, 6f, Windsor, by 10 lengths BHA rating: 115 (average requirement for 3yo Gr.1)

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ast November, Accelerate finished ninth of ten in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1). At that point, he seemed cast as a smart but second-tier performer.

Unraced at two, he’d taken the Los Alamitos Derby (G2) and run third in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1).

He added the San Diego Handicap (G2) last year at four and took third behind Collected and Arrogate in the Pacific Classic (G1).

This year at five Accelerate has taken his game to a new level winning six of seven starts, including the Santa Anita Handicap (G1), the Gold Cup at Santa Anita (G1), the Pacific Classic (G1), the Awesome Again Stakes (G1), and finally the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1).

He stays in training for a crack at the Pegasus World Cup Invitational (G1) early next year, but then will be off to stud at Lane’s End Farm, Kentucky.

Accelerate is a member of the second northern-hemisphere crop of Lookin At Lucky (Smart Strike), a Classic and five-time Grade 1 winner. He is most notable as being the only horse to earn honours as a champion two-year-old and three-year-old male since Spectacular Bid in 1976/77.

With his fourth US crop now threeyear-olds, Lookin At Lucky has sired 17 North American stakes winners, the others including Breaking Lucky, a multiple graded stakes winner and a Classic winner in Canada, the millionaire and multiple graded winner Madefromlucky and the Grade 2 scorers Money Multiplier and Dr. Dorr.

He’s also been very successful with shuttle crops in Chile where he has 22 stakes winners from four crops, seven Grade 1, including Wow Cat, who now campaigns in the US, and took second in this year’s Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1).

Accelerate’s dam Issues was a daughter of another Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) victor, Awesome Again.

On the track she won four times and took third in the Harmony Lodge Stakes at Calder.

Issues has been a very successful producer as, in addition to Accelerate, she is dam of the Scat Daddy duo – Daddy D T, winner of the Oak Tree Juvenile Turf Stakes, and third in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (GI), and Amarish, winner of Willard L. Proctor Memorial Stakes.

Her dam Darlin Echo was twice stakes placed at two, and is a half-sister to Wagon Limit, who won the Jockey Club Gold Cup (G1) with two of the biggest stars of the

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Accelerate wins his fifth Grade 1 of the year, the Breeders’ Cup Classic.

The son of Lookin At Lucky retires to Lane’s End Farm where he is due to stand at a fee of $20,000

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Pure Acceleration

Accelerate put the pedal to the metal to win the Breeders’ Cup Classic.

Alan Porter reports on a meeting that saw some excellent performances across the board

With his fourth US crop now three-year-olds, Lookin At Lucky has sired 17 North American stakes winners era, Gentleman and Skip Away among the defeated.

The fourth dam Smartaire was a broodmare of the year who produced the champion two-year-old filly Smart Angle, the multiple graded-winning Quadratic, the Garden City Handicap heroine Smart Heiress and Smarten, a five-time graded scorer, who is also broodmare sire of Smart Strike.

This means Accelerate is doubled to Smartaire.

As a Smart Strike line horse out of an Awesome Again mare, Accelerate is bred on a similar cross to Keen Ice (Curlin), who beat the champion three-year-old colt American Pharoah in the Travers Stakes (G1).

Curlin was by Smart Strike out of a mare

by Awesome Again’s sire Deputy Minister and the Smart Strike/Deputy Minister cross has produced at least 21 stakes winners, also including another Travers Stakes (G1) scorer V. E. Day. In addition to being by Mr. Prospector line stallions and from the same female line, Wagon Limit and Accelerate are both linebred to notable females. In the case of Wagon Limit it is Calumet Farm’s twice champion, Two Lea – here through her sons Tim Tam and On-and-On and Two Lea’s sister, Miz Clementine, who appears as grand-dam of Best Turn.

City Of Light shone in the Mile

The only horse to defeat Accelerate this year has been City Of Light, who achieved that feat by a neck in the 1m1f Oaklawn Handicap (G1).

In the Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) he never looked in danger of defeat going wire-to-wire to take his third Grade 1 victory of the year.

He will be joining Accelerate at Lane’s End for the 2019 breeding season.

City Of Light is by the fast-rising

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breeders’ cup Quality Road, who is by Elusive Quality – a son of Gone West, the US leading sire in 2004 – out of Kobla, a sister to the champion three-year-old filly Ajina, and from the same branch of the Frizette family as Mr. Prospector.

Kept out of the Classics by foot problems, Quality Road had earned early favouritism for the Kentucky Derby (G1) when taking the Fountain of Youth Stakes (G2) and the Florida Derby (G1) in a new track-record.

On his return he set another track record in the Amsterdam Stakes (G2) before he finished third in the Travers Stakes (G1), second in the Jockey Club Gold Cup (G1), then ended the year with a complete meltdown that caused him to be scratched at the gate in the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1).

He returned at four to tick off victories in the Hal’s Hope Stakes (G3), the Donn Handicap (G1), which he took by nearly 13l lengths while breaking his own Gulfstream Park 1m1f track mark, and the Metropolitan Handicap (G1).

The winning run came to a halt in the Whitney Handicap (G1) losing by a head while attempting to concede 5lb to that year’s champion Blame.

Retired to Lane’s End Farm, Quality Road

Quality Road now has had 35 stakes winners in his first five crops, 21 of them graded made an excellent start to his stud career, edging out Super Saver for the freshman sires’ title in 2014 represented by a pair of high-class runners in Hootenanny, who won the Windsor Castle Stakes at Royal Ascot and the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1), and Blofeld, successful in the Futurity Stakes (G2) and Nashua Stakes (G2).

Quality Road had a much quieter year in 2015 when only one of his offspring won a black-type event. This resulted in his stud fee dropping from $35,000 to $25,000, but he came roaring back to top the third-season sire standings the following year.

City Of Light is by the progessive sire Quality Road and out of a Deputy Minister line mare

Quality Road now has had 35 stakes winners in his first five crops, 21 graded, also including Abel Tasman, the champion three-year-old filly of 2017, Caledonia Road, a champion two-year-old filly of 2017, and the other Grade 1 scorers Bellafina, Illuminant, Salty, Klimt and Spring Quality.

Paris Notion, the dam of City Of Light, did not run. A daughter of Dehere, she is a threequarters sister to the Test Stakes (G1) winner Fabulously Fast, both being out of the Santa Susana Stakes (G1) heroine, Fabulous Notion.

She is by Somethingfabulous, a Northern Dancer half-brother to Secretariat and Sir Gaylord.

Fabulous Notion is a half-sister to Cacoethes, a son of Alydar who won the King Edward Stakes VII (G2) and the Derby Trial (G3), gave Nashwan a real scare in the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (G1) and subsequently took the Turf Classic Handicap (G1) in the US. City Of Light is bred on a version of a very successful cross – Quality Road with Deputy Minister line mares.

Abel Tasman and Spring Quality are two of the four starters by the sire out of mares by Deputy Minister, while from mares by sons of Deputy Minister he has City Of Light and the Grade 3 scorer Long Haul Bay. He also has graded winner Guest Suite out of a mare by Deputy Minister’s grandson, Ghostzapper.

Roy H gets the Sprint race double

For the second straight year the Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) went to the gelding Roy H, who almost certainly locked down a second Eclipse Award as Champion Sprinter.

Roy H is by the 21-year-old More Than Ready. A son of multiple champion Argentine sire Southern Halo (Halo), More Than Ready was one of the fastest two-year-olds of his generation and at three took the King’s Bishop Stakes (G1) – the premier sprint race for three-year-olds in the US. A very consistent sire in both the US and Australia, where he has been a long-term shuttler, More Than Ready has been a leading sire of two-year-olds three times in those two countries.

Between the two hemispheres, More Than Ready has sired 190 stakes winners, 86 group or graded, in those two countries.

This year has been one of his best in the US with Roy H being joined by Catholic Boy, the top Turf three-year-old of the year who won the Travers Stakes (G1) on Dirt, and Rushing Fall, the top three-year-old Turf filly.

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breeders’ cup In Australia he’s been represented by champions More Joyous, Sebring, Phelan Ready and Samaready.

Elusive Diva, the dam of Roy H, was an effective sprinter on both Dirt and Turf, winning the La Cienegas Handicap (G3), the Railbird Stakes (G3) and Senator Ken Maddy Handicap (G3).

A daughter of Elusive Quality, Elusive Diva is three-quarters sister to Tropics (Speightstown), who was a Group sprint winner in England, and twice finished second in the July Cup (G1).

The female line has been based in California/Washington for several generations, having arrived from Argentina in the shape of the tough stakes winner, Grillette.

The female line goes back to the British-bred Aventurera, who was imported to Argentina in 1889 and who is ancestress of several good runners in South America, and another US champion in the shape of Wayward Gal, the top three-year-old filly in 1981.

Roy H is the first stakes winner by More Than Ready out of an Elusive Quality mare,

Monomoy Girl

but the sire is hitting a 12 per cent strike-rate with all mares by Elusive Quality’s sire, Gone West, his sons and grandsons, getting ten other stakes winners, including the Group winner Nemoralia, and graded scorer More Than Love.

Monomoy Girl dominates the Distaff

The Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1) saw three-year-old Monomoy Girl complete a near-perfect season with a length victory over the Chilean-bred older mare Wow Cat. Monomoy Girl had won three of four starts at two, when her sole defeat saw her miss by a neck in the Golden Rod Stakes (G2).

This year she has won the Ashland Stakes (G1), the Kentucky Oaks (G1), the Acorn Stakes (G1) and the Coaching Club American Oaks (G1).

Monomoy Girl is from the second crop of Tapizar. A son of three-time leading sire Tapit, Tapizar won the Sham Stakes (G3) at three, but really came into his own at four when he took the West Virginia Governor’s Stakes, San Fernando Stakes (G2) and Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1).

Roy H (far side, blue) takes the Dirt Sprint for the second year. He is the sole stakes winner so far by More Than Ready out of an Elusive Quality mare

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By ZOFFANY - The second leading European sire of 2yos in 2018 by stakes winners From the family of leading sire GRAND LODGE

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Maiden 5f, Tipperary, by 2¾ lengths, at 2 years Windsor Castle Stakes LR 5f, Royal Ascot, in a fast time at 2 years Phoenix Sprint Stakes Gr.3 6f, Curragh, by ½ length beating Cougar Mountain Coolmore Stud Power Stakes LR 5¾f, Navan Woodlands Stakes LR 5f, Navan Patton Stakes LR 7f, Dundalk VIEW HIM AT CROCKFORDS STUD King George Stakes Gr.2 5f, Goodwood 1st-6th Dec. Woodditton Road, Flying Five Stakes Gr.2 5f, Curragh Newmarket CB8 9BH Temple Stakes Gr.2 6f, Haydock, to Battaash Palace House Stakes Gr.3 5f, Newmarket Prix de l'Abbaye Gr.1 6f, Chantilly, to Marsha Phoenix Stakes Gr.1 6f, Curragh, to champion 2yo Air Force Blue Commonwealth Cup Gr.1 6f, Royal Ascot, to Quiet Reflection He retires with career earnings of £513,679

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breeders’ cup He sired stakes winners Tip Tap Tapizar and Tap It All in his first crop. Monomoy Girl is the only stakes winner in his second crop and he has the Grey Stakes (G3) scorer Solidify in his third.

Monomoy Girl is is out of the Henny Hughes mare Drumette, a half-sister to the Knickerbocker Handicap (G3) scorer Drum Major.

The fourth dam My Lady Love is a stakes-placed half-sister to the champion two-year-old filly Heavenly Cause.

My Lady Love is out of Lady Dulcinea, an outstanding tap-root mare who is ancestress of nearly 50 stakes winners, including three-time Grade 1 winner Bounding Basque, a three-quarters brother to Heavenly Cause, and By The Moon, successful in the Frizette Stakes (G1) and Ballerina Stakes (G1).

Monomoy Girl is an example of the broad Tapit/Storm Cat cross that has produced more than 20 stakes winners, and Tapit sired the Grade 1-winning Careless Jewel out of a mare by Hennessy, the grand-sire of the dam of Monomoy Girl.

In addition, Monomoy Girl is inbred to Tapizar’s male-line ancestor Seattle Slew, a pattern that appears in five Tapit line graded stakes winners, including the Belmont Stakes (G1) victor Tapwrit, and other Grade 1 scorers Constitution, Frosted and Sweet Loretta.

We’ll also note that Monomoy Girl – whose sire is by a son of Pulpit out of a mare

by Deputy Minister, and who is out of mare by a son of Hennessy – is bred on a reverse cross to Triple Crowned Justify, who is by a grandson of Hennessy, and whose dam is by a grandson of Deputy Minister out of Pulpit mare.

Monomoy Girl is an example of the broad Tapit/Storm Cat cross that has produced more than 20 stakes winners A son of the A.P. Indy horse Stephen Got Even, First Dude was a “nearly” horse at three when he finished second in the Preakness Stakes (G1) and Pennsylvania Derby (G2), and third in the Travers Stakes (G1), Haskell Invitational (G1) and Blue Grass Stakes (G1).

Remaining in training at four, he broke through with a win in the Hollywood Gold Cup (G1).

He’s sired ten stakes winners so far, including another Breeders’ Cup Filly and

Mare contestant Sky Diamonds, a multiple graded winner, and other graded scorers Mom’s On Strike and Sticksstatelydude.

Like Roy H, who took the Breeders’ Cup Sprint, Shamrock Rose is out of a mare by Elusive Quality.

In her case it is the unraced Slew’s Quality, a half-sister to French Group winner Slew The Red. Slew’s Quality is also a half-sister to Marple, the grand-dam of Galileo’s champion South African two-year-old filly Mahbooba, also successful in the UAE 1,000 Guineas.

The second dam Great Lady Slew is by Seattle Slew, out of Great Lady Sharon, an Alydar half-sister to one of the all-time great mares of US racing history, Lady’s Secret.

The fouth dam Great Lady M. was a very rapid mare who won seven sprint stakes and twice set track records for 6f.

Looking at the five-cross pedigree we see that Shamrock Rose’s sire is a Seattle Slew/ Mr. Prospector cross, and her dam is a Mr. Prospector/Seattle Slew cross.

Enable conquered

Seven had tried, and seven had failed, but the unfortunate sequence of Arc winners in

It was a blanket finish to the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint, but it was Shamrock Rose, a daughter of the young Florida-based sire First Dude (Stephen Got Even), who prevailed

Progressive Shamrock Rose has the luck

The Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint (G1) resulted in a blanket finish with Shamrock Rose closing from last to prevail by a head.

Shamrock Rose, who started at nearly 26-1, is an improving three-year-old. She broke her maiden and took second in the Mazarine Stakes (G3) in three starts in Canada at two.

She has made a leap forward in the second half of the year at three, returning from a four-month absence to take the Malvern Rose Stakes at Presque Isle, a victory she followed with wins in the La Lorgnette Stakes (G2) at Woodbine and, just two weeks before the Breeders’ Cup, the Raven Run Stakes (G2).

Shamrock Rose is a member of the third crop of the fast-rising Florida-based sire, First Dude.

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Enable: the Juddmonte Farms-owned record-breaking daughter of Nathaniel

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Nathaniel has seven first-crop stakes winners, including God Given, winner of four Group events, including the Premio Lydia Tesio (G1) the Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1) was ended this year by the magnificent Enable, who fought off fellow European, Magical, to score by three-quarters of a length. This was Enable’s ninth straight win, and her tenth overall in 11 lifetime starts, her sole defeat when second in a conditions race on her debut at three.

Enable is a member of the first crop of Galileo’s son Nathaniel, who was a European highweight at three and four winning the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes (G1), Eclipse Stakes (G1) and King Edward VII Stakes (G2).

Nathaniel has seven first-crop stakes winners, including in addition to Enable, God Given, winner of four Group events, including the Premio Lydia Tesio (G1), and other Group race scorers, Chasedown and Precious Ramotswe.

There are another five stakes winners in his second crop, including the Group-winning duo Pilaster and Highgarden.

Enable’s dam Concentric, a French Listed winner and Group-placed runner, is by Sadler’s Wells. Since Nathaniel is by a son of Sadler’s Wells that horse appears 3x2 in Enable’s pedigree.

Concentric is a sister to Dance Routine, who won the Prix Royallieu (G2) and Prix de Royaumont (G3) and took second in the Prix Diane (G1). Dance Routine is also dam of the globe-trotting Flintshire – the joint highweight older horse in Europe in 2014, and champion Turf horse in the US for 2016 – and grand-dam of the US graded winner Projected.

Another sister to Concentric, Light Ballet, was a group-placed performer in France, and is dam of stakes winner Penchee. In addition, Dance Routine is a three-quarters sister to Group winner Apsis (Barathea), and half-sister to Listed winner Space Quest.

The second dam Apogee is a French Group

winner by Shirley Heights, so often a good foil for Sadler’s Wells.

She is a half-sister to Sadler’s Wells’ daughter Daring Miss, successful in the Grand Prix de Chantilly (G2), and also to Shining Bright. When she was bred to Sadler’s Wells’s son El Prado she came up with the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud (G1) victor Spanish Moon and the Ribblesdale Stakes (G2) heroine Spanish Sun. Apogee is out of one of the first good runners for Enable’s breeder Juddmonte Farms. This is the Ile de Bourbon mare Bourbon Girl, who despite not earning a win at black-type level, did take second in the Oaks (G1) and Irish Oaks (G1).

Liberal rode the Storm in the Turf Sprint

For the second straight year the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint (G1) went to Stormy Liberal.

He was claimed for $40,000 in October 2016 and since then has won nine races, all bar one black-type events, including the Daytona Stakes (G3) and Eddie D Stakes (G3).

Stormy Liberal is by the veteran Storm Cat horse Stormy Atlantic, who was only a minor sprint stakes winner but has been a very effective sire with 107 stakes winners to his name, including the other Grade 1 winners Get Stormy, Victor Security, Up With The Birds, Stormy Lucy, Stormello and Next Question.

Stormy Liberal’s dam Vassar, a daughter of Royal Academy, is also dam of Stormy Liberal’s Grade 1-placed brother Coast Guard, and of Shimmering Moment, a Listed winner in Ireland and Graded placed in the US. Vassar is out of the stakes-winning L’Emigrant mare Dixie Fine, a daughter of the excellent Raise A Native producer Luv Luvin.

She is the ancestress of more than 40 stakes winners, among them Henrythenavigator, whose victories included the English and Irish 2,000 Guineas (G1), Magician, successful in the Irish 2,000 Guineas (G1) and Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1), Saffron Walden, another Irish 2,000 Guineas (G1) victor, and other Group 1 scorers Beethoven, Listen, Sequoyah, Insight and Dolphin Street.

Stormy Liberal owns an intriguing pedigree pattern. His two grandsires Storm Cat and Royal Academy are very closely related – Storm Cat by Storm Bird, out of Terlingua, a daughter of Crimson Saint, and Royal Academy by Nijinsky, who is bred on very similar lines to Storm Bird, out of Crimson Saint.

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breeders’ cup is a grand-daughter of The Minstrel, another close relative to Storm Bird, and a three-quarters brother to Nijinsky.

Breeders’ Cup success for Myboycharlie

The Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf (G1) was effectively Chad Brown v the rest, the New York-based trainer supplying five of the 14-horse field. In the end it was one of his quintet, Sistercharlie, who made a late charge to deny English invader Wild Illusion by a neck.

Sistercharlie is now a winner of seven of her 11 starts. Three of her wins came in France where she annexed the 2018 Prix Penelope (G3) and took second in the Prix Diane (G1).

She ran just once in the US last year for a second in the Belmont Oaks Invitational Stakes (G1). This term she’s won four of five starts – in addition to her Breeders’ Cup triumph her other tallies coming in the Jenny Wiley Stakes (G1), Diana Stakes (G1) and

Sistercharlie winning the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf.

She is one of four stakes winners

by Myboycharlie and carrying Sadler’s Wells

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Beverly D. Stakes (G1). Her only defeat was a head loss to stable-companion Fourstar Crook in the New York Stakes (G1).

Sistercharlie’s sire, the Danetime horse Myboycharlie, was a champion two-year-old colt in France in 2007, a season in which he won three of four starts, including the Darley Prix Morny (G1) and Dubai Duty Free Anglesey Stakes (G3), and finished third to New Approach in the National Stakes (G1).

Currently standing in France and shuttling to Australia, he’s sired ten northernhemisphere stakes winners, including another North American Grade 1 scorer Euro Charline, successful in the Beverly D Stakes, and the Group winners Cheikeljack, Camprock, Noblesse Oblige and Landfall.

Myboycharlie’s southern-hemisphere crops have provided another seven stakes winners, all graded, headed by the three-time Grade 1 scorer Jameka, who defeated colts in the MRC Caulfield Cup (G1), and Peggy Jean, successful in the ATC Sires’ Produce Stakes (G1).

Sistercharlie’s dam, the placed Galileo mare Starlet’s Sister, is also dam of My Sister Nat, an Acclamation daughter who took the Prix Bertrand de Tarragon (G3) at three this year.

Starlet’s Sister, as her name indicates, is a sibling to the Group winner Leo’s Starlet, and half-sister to Anabaa’s Creation, a Listed winner in France and Group and Grade 1 placed in France and the US. The grand-dam Premiere Creation was second in the Prix Chloe (G3) in France, and third in the Del Mar Oaks (G1) in the US. Myboycharlie has Lear Fan, out of a mare

by Lt. Stevens, a brother to Thong, and Thatch, a brother to Rough Shod’s daughter, Thong (dam of Nureyev, grand-dam of Sadler’s Wells and Fairy King) in his pedigree.

Sistercharlie is one of four stakes winners for Myboycharlie out of mares carrying Sadler’s Wells, and he has three graded stakes winners, including Peggy Jean, out of mares carrying Fairy King, and another three out of mares with Nureyev in the dam.

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£15,000 A Leading European First Season sire in 2018 (1st Oct. SLF) with 16 individual first crop winners, including 2 Group 3 winners and a further 2 Black-type performers (to 19/11).

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Game on Day 1 Breeders’ Cup produced some highly promising juvenile performances, reports Alan Porter

Game Winner, the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile hero, is by the important Dirt influence and successful Argentine-bred stallion Candy Ride

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HE Beeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) went to Game Winner who had to live up to his name battling past a determined Knicks Go, who gave him a pretty solid bump on the way past.

This was the fourth victory – and third Grade 1 win following the Del Mar Futurity (G1) and American Pharoah Stakes (G1) – in four starts for Game Winner. He will go into the winter as clear leader of his division, and a favourite to follow Street Sense and Nyquist as the third horse to complete the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile/Kentucky Derby double.

Game Winner’s sire Candy Ride, who turns 20 on January 1, has long been amongst the upper echelon of North American stallions.

That being so it’s worth recalling that he looked a far from certain prospect when he retired to stud. It wasn’t that as a runner there was any doubts about his talent,

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indeed his brief career suggested that he might have been a phenomenon.

Candy Ride ran just three times in his native Argentina winning a 6f maiden race on Dirt by 12l on his debut in 1:09.31.

He switched to the Turf for the mile Clasico San Isidro (G1) scoring by 8l in a time of 1:32.16, despite running on going labeled as heavy.

He then took the Clasico Joaquin S. de Anchorena (G1) by a similar margin, his time on fast Turf in an extremely impressive 1:31.01 (which would be worth 1:31.57 for a mile). These final two efforts were sufficient to earn Candy Ride a title as Argentina’s Champion Miler.

Brought to the US by Jenny and the late Sydney Craig, Candy Ride began his US career by taking an 8f Dirt allowance race at Santa Anita by 3l.

He switched to the Turf to annex the 1m1f American Handicap (G2), then was back on

Dirt for the Pacific Classic (G1). Running over 1m2f for the first time, he put up a spectacular display to beat Medaglia D’Oro – runner-up in that year’s Breeders’ Cup Classic – in a track-record time of 1:59.11.

This effort earned him an off-the-charts Beyer Speedfigure of 123, the highest of that year.

The bay embarked on a stud career at John Sikura’s Hill ‘n Dale Farm standing his initial season at a fee of $10,000, later moving to Lane’s End Farm, Kentucky.

Less spectacular than Candy Ride’s form was his pedigree.

His sire Ride The Rails, US born and raced, won the Foolish Pleasure Breeders’ Cup Stakes at two, and finished second in the Florida Derby (G1) and third in the Fountain of Youth Stakes (G2) at three.

In Argentina, Ride The Rails has been a solid, rather than spectacular sire. His sire Cryptoclearance – a son of Fappiano – was a very useful stallion whose best runners

breeders’ cup included the champion older horse Victory Gallop, Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Volponi, Canadian champion Cryptocloser and the Grade 1 winners Millennium Wind, Strategic Maneuver, and Traitor. However, he never seemed a particularly strong candidate to extend his branch of the Fappiano line.

Candy Ride’s dam Candy Girl is a daughter of the French-raced Blushing Groom horse Candy Stripes, a very successful stallion in Argentina.

As it turned out, Candy Ride was a success from the word go, and he now has 80 stakes winners, 37 of them graded. They include Gun Runner, the 2017 Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) winner and Horse of the Year, the ill-fated champion two-year-old colt Shared Belief, the undefeated Grade 1 winner Mastery, who was favourite for the 2017 Kentucky Derby (G1) until his career was ended by injury, as well as nine other Grade 1 scorers.

Game Winner is the second foal and second winner for his dam the unraced A.P. Indy mare, Indyan Giving.

Although she never started, Indyan Giving had plenty of pedigree to recommend her as she is out of Fleet Indian, the champion

The world’s best stallion Galileo hasn’t been able to find success on Dirt yet, but that isn’t the case for his Lane’s End-based son Noble Mission older mare of 2006.

Fleet Indian is the only stakes winner under her dam, the Afleet mare Hustleeta.

The best runner under the fourth dam Bravo Native is Cherokee’s Boy, who earned over $1,000,000.

The fifth dam Bravissimo (Bold Ruler) is

most notable for her daughter Front Stage, who went to Australia and became ancestress of a slew of good winners there, amongst them Bravery, who was a joint leading three-year-old filly in Australia and took both Queensland Oaks (G1) and Queensland Derby (G1).

The sixth dam Batter Up was a top-class performer who won several major events and was seven-eighths related to one of the greats of US racing history, Buckpasser.

Game Winner is one of five stakes winners and the only graded winner from the 43 starters sired by Candy Ride out of mares by A.P. Indy.

Candy Ride also has five stakes winners from just 21 starters out of mares by sons of A.P. Indy, including Mastery and other graded winners Chocolate Ride and Eagle.

Line Of Duty on target in the Juvenile Turf

Since it’s inception in 2007, European invaders have won seven of 11 renewals of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1).

They did so again courtesy of Line Of Duty, although the victory was not without a scare,

The juvenile Line Of Duty, a son of Galileo and out of Jacqueline Quest, was bred by Triermore Stud and sold to Godolphin for 400,000gns last autumn

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breeders’ cup as Line Of Duty had to survive an objection by the rider on the runner-up Uncle Benny (from the second crop of Declaration Of War), which resulted in a fairly lengthy scrutiny from the stewards.

Line Of Duty is yet another credit for his sire Galileo although he carried unfamiliar colours for one by this sire – the Godolphin blue – his acquisition for 400,000gns being one of the outworkings of the new détente between Tipperary and Dubai.

After seconds in his first two starts, Line Of Duty presaged his Breeders’ Cup triumph with wins in a maiden at Goodwood and the Prix de Conde (G3).

There is something of an irony in Line Of Duty surviving an inquiry as his dam, the Rock Of Gibraltar mare Jacqueline Quest,

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by Galileo out of mares by sons of Danehill, seven Group or Grade 1 was first past the post in the 2010 renewal of the 1,000 Guineas (G1), but was disqualified for obstructing the second home Special Duty.

Jacqueline Quest is dam of two other winners, both full-siblings to Line Of Duty, the best being the black-type-placed Hibiscus.

The grand-dam Coquette Rouge, a daughter of the Rainbow Quest stallion Croco Rouge, won over as far as 2m1f.

She is half-sister to Regime (by Golan, another son of Rainbow Quest), winner of the Mooresbridge Stakes (G3) and Sandown Classic Trial Stakes (G3), and to the National Stakes (G1) scorer Salut D’Amour, also runner-up in the Cherry Hinton Stakes (G2) and Queen Mary Stakes (G2), and subsequent dam of the US stakes winner Mo D’Amour.

Line Of Duty’s third dam Juno Madonna raced twice without reaching the frame.

By Sadler’s Wells out of the speedy stakesplaced juvenile Tough Lady, Juno Madonna

Jaywalk left the field trailing for fast-time Juvenile Sprint win

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he Breeders’ Cup Juvenile SPRINT (G1) was won in wire-to-wire fashion by Jaywalk, who shrugged aside her pursuers at the head of the stretch and drew off to score by five and a half lengths in a time a few-thousands of a second quicker than her male counterparts.

Jaywalk had come to prominence with a similar effort in the Frizette Stakes (G1).

There her swift early fractions appeared to be setting up the race for a closer but, as in the Breeders’ Cup, she extended her lead to the wire covering the mile in a time that was a race-record. She’s now won four of her five starts.

Jaywalk’s go-from-the-gun running style is very reminiscent of her sire Cross Traffic.

A son of Unbridled’s Song and the Ballerina Stakes (G1) and Santa Monica Stakes (G1) scorer Stop Traffic, Cross Traffic didn’t race until was he was four.

He made his stakes debut in the mile Westchester Stakes (G3) where he rocketed through three-quarters in 1:08.99 only to get nailed on the line by Flat Out. The pair stopped the clock at 1:32.99 – just three-quarters of a second outside the track record.

A similar front-running effort in the Metropolitan Handicap (G1) did see Cross Traffic gain revenge on Flat Out, but this time he was foiled by the late-finishing Sahara Sky, who the photo showed just a nose to the good.

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Stretching out another furlong in the Whitney Invitational Handicap (G1) allowed Cross Traffic to get away with easier initial fractions before he opened up on the field with a 22.96s third quarter. Although he was visibly tiring at the end, Cross Traffic held on to gain his maiden stakes victory from Successful Dan with a pair of Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) runners, Mucho Macho Man and Fort Larned, further back.

On his only other run Cross Traffic finished Bulletin: the son of first-season sire Cross Traffic (Unbridled’s Song) charges home to take the Juvenile Sprint At the time of writing Cross Traffic has had 14 winners and two black-type performers

unplaced in the Jockey Club Gold Cup (G1) after stumbling at the start. He was found to have suffered a shin injury and retired to stand at Spendthrift Farm for 2015 at a fee of $15,000.

Now looking a lock-in as leading freshman sire of 2018, Cross Traffic has 14 individual first-crop winners, including other black-type scorers Dancin Shoes and Dame Plata.

Cross Traffic’s sire Unbridled’s Song was

breeders’ cup has an identical pedigree to the Groupwinning sprint filly Title Roll, who was by Sadler’s Wells’ brother Tate Gallery and out of Tough Lady.

Another of Tough Lady’s daughters Starring Role is grand-dam of the Europeanbred American Oaks (G1) scorer Cambina.

Line Of Duty follows Photo Call, a multiple Grade 1 winner in the US, as the second black-type winner from 11 foals by Galileo out of a mare by Rock Of Gibraltar.

There are a total of 33 stakes winners by Galileo out of mares by sons of Danehill, seven Group or Grade 1, also including Magician, Minding and The Gurkha.

Of course, the cross of Galileo with mares

by Danehill himself has been even more potent with 32 stakes winners from

a tremendous stallion, but so far his sons have continually fallen short of expectations in their stud careers.

There have been false dawns with Rockport Habor getting the 2013 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Filly scorer Ria Antonia and Dunkirk getting that same year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile second Havana, previous winner of the Champagne Stakes (G1), in his first crop.

It is hoped that Cross Traffic can break the trend, and perhaps he, alongside another son of Unbridled’s Song, the two-time world champion Arrogate, can ensure the future of

225 starters (20 per cent), 12 of them at Group or Grade 1 level.

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Newspaperofrecord cruised to a six and three-quarter length victory over Frankel’s daughter East in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies’ Turf (G1), running the mile 1.21 seconds faster than Line Of Duty.

Newspaperofrecord is something of a rarity – though a growing trend and repeated again this year by her trainer Chad Brown – having been purchased by her connections for 200,000gns at Tattersalls October Book 1 with the goal of racing on Turf in the US. She’s yet another feather in the cap of stallion Lope De Vega, who is doing an

Cross Traffic’s sire Unbridled’s Song was a tremendous sire, but his sons have continually fallen short of expectations in their stud careers this branch of the Fappiano line.

Jaywalk’s dam, the once-raced Orientate mare Lady Pewitt, had previously established her affinity for the Unbridled’s Song strain as the dam of the Dunkirk runner Danzatrice, winner of three black-type events, including the Listed Iowa Distaff Stakes, and also graded stakes placed.

Breeding Lady Pewitt to an Unbridled’s Song stallion had obvious appeal as she is out of Spin Room (Spinning World). She was an unraced half-sister to one of Unbridled’s Song’s more talented sons Mission Impazible, winner of the Louisiana Derby (G1) and New Orleans Handicap (G2), and runner-up in the Clark Handicap (G1), Stephen Foster Handicap (G1) and Donn Handicap (G1).

Spin Room is also half-sister to the Del Mar Futurity Stakes (G2) winner and sire Forest Camp, and to the graded scorer Spanish Empire. They are all out of La Paz, a multiple stakes-winning daughter of Hold Your Peace.

excellent job of replacing his semi-retired sire Shamardal.

Like Shamardal, Lope De Vega was a winner of the Poule d’Essai des Poulains (G1) and Prix du Jockey-Club (G1). He has sired 40 stakes winners, 20 group or graded, in his first five northern-hemisphere crops, including seven stakes winners from his current two-year-olds.

In addition to Newspaperofrecord his CV boasts Belardo, a champion two-year-old colt and winner of the Dewhurst Stakes (G1) and Lockinge Stakes (G1), the Al Quoz Sprint (G1) scorer The Right Man, Jemayel, successful in the Prix Saint-Alary (G1), and Capla Temptress, who took last year’s Natalma Stakes (G1) in Canada.

Lope De Vega also has two very good

La Paz’s dam Classy Craft was a stakes winner and is a half-sister to the dam of a real rocket in Zany Tactics, whose achievements included a then world-record clocking of 1:06 for 6f in the Phoenix Gold Cup (G3) at Turf Paradise.

The female line goes all the way back to Bimlette, who won the second-ever running of the Frizette Stakes in 1946.

Bimlette’s sister Be Faithful was also a top-class racemare defeating colts in the Hawthorne Gold Cup, while her daughter the Kentucky Oaks heroine Lalun had a breed-shaping influence as dam of Never Bend – sire of Mill Reef and Riverman – and of Bold Reason, broodmare sire of Sadler’s Wells and Fairy King.

Both Jaywalk and another of Cross Traffic’s stakes winners Dama Plata are out of mares by sons of Mt. Livermore.

It’s no surprise to see this cross working as Cross Traffic’s male line ancestor Fappiano and Mt. Livermore appear together in the pedigrees of nearly 50 stakes winners, including another of this year’s top two-year-old fillies, the Spinaway Stakes (G1) winner Sippican Harbor. She is by Orb, who is out of a mare by Unbridled with a second dam by Mt. Livermore.

Fappiano’s broodmare sire Dr. Fager was by Rough’n Tumble. He was by a son of Questionnaire out of a Bull Dog mare, and the same formula produced Mt. Livermore’s third dam Questar.

Cross Traffic has two crosses of Dr. Fager, and a third cross of Rough ‘n Tumble through daughter My Dear Girl, dam of In Reality, and a champion two-year-old filly.

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breeders’ cup sprinters in Australia – Santa Ana Lane, a recent Group 1 winner, and Vega Magic.

Newspaperofrecord’s dam Sunday Times, a daughter of Holy Roman Emperor, was a speedster – she won the Sceptre Stakes (G3) and finished second in the Cheveley Park Stakes (G1).

She’s also dam of the Lawman filly Classical Times, successful in the Listed Cecil Frail Stakes.

It is a family that has had a very good few months as Sunday Times’s half-sister Question Times (Shamardal) is dam of Latrobe, hero of this year’s Irish Derby (G1).

Question Times is also dam of Diamond Fields – by Danehill’s son, Fastnet Rock, so bred on a reverse cross to Newspaperofrecord – winner last year of the Gladness Stakes (G3).

Grand-dam Forever Times, a daughter of So Factual, was a six-time-winning sprinter and is half-sister to Welsh Emperor, winner of the Hungerford Stakes (G2) and Bentinck Stakes (G3) and twice runner-up in the Prix de La Forêt (G1).

Behind this, the family tails off somewhat as the third dam Simply Times (by the Mr. Prospector stallion, Dodge) was unplaced on her only two outings and was out of the minor stakes-placed horse Nesian’s Burn.

The female line is Argentine, but even back as far as the seventh generation the most notable descendents all stem from Simply Times and Forever Times.

The cross that produced Newspaperofrecord – Lope De Vega with Danehill mares – has been one of his strongest, and already has 11 stakes winners to it’s name, including Belardo, Santa Ana Lane and Capla Temptress, all of whom we’ve mentioned above as Grade 1 winners.

Bulletin zipped to Juvenile Sprint success

Although it’s not a graded event having been only introduced this year, we should also give a mention to the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Sprint given it’s purse of $920,000.

This event fell to Bulletin, who had scored a runaway win in the Hollywood Beach Stakes at Gulfstream Park on his only previous start.

Bulletin is by the late City Zip, a son of the Mr. Prospector speed influence Carson City.

A precocious two-year-old – he won the Tremont Stakes (G3), Sanford Stakes (G2) Saratoga Special (G2) and Hopeful Stakes (G1) – and a talented sprinter at three, City Zip began his stud career at a very modest fee in New York. He moved to Kentucky after the Horse of the Year

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campaign of his half-brother, Ghostzapper.

He has turned into a really good sire of tough and classy racehorses many of whom are effective on the Turf, and some that can stretch out.

Among his best are the previous Breeders’ Cup winners – the champion Turf female Dayatthespa (Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G1) and the champion sprinter Work All Week (Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1), Catch

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A Glimpse, successful in the Breeder’s Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1), and Finest City, who took the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (G1). He also has the Grade 1 winners Collected, Bustin Stones, Palace and Personal Diary.

Bulletin is a half-brother to Tiz Miz Sue, whose successes including the Ogden Phipps Handicap (G1), and to Tiz News, dam of the 2018 juvenile stakes scorer Made Me Shiver.

That duo are both by Tiznow, a grandson of City Zip’s broodmare sire, Relaunch.

The dam Sue’s Good News, a daughter of Woodman, won the Arlington Park Singapore Plate (G3), and was a half-sister to the stakes-winning and graded-placed Easyfromthegitgo.

City Zip has turned into a really good sire of tough and classy racehorses many of whom are effective on the Turf The second dam Montera was by Easy Goer and was a half-sister to Serape, who took the the Ballerina Stakes (G1) and produced Storm Cat’s stakes gradedwinning daughter Batique. She is best known as grand-dam of Hawkbill, winner of the Eclipse Stakes (G1) and Dubai Sheema Classic (G1), and of the Breeders’ Futurity (G1) winner Free Drop Billy.

Montera is out of the stakes-winning and Grade 1-placed In Reality mare Mochila, a half-sister to champion Turf horse and leading sire Cozzene.

Although City Zip was a grandson of Mr. Prospector, he did well when crossed back over mares from the male line of that horse – who appears 3x3 here – getting at least 12 stakes winners, including the Grade 1 scorers Finest City, Palace and Bustin Stones.

Bulletin also has In Reality close up on either side of the pedigree.

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Breeders’ Cup 2018 was up there with the best... ... but lacked a real Timeform star performance, writes Simon Rowlands

W

hen you excel, as the Breeders’ Cup has undoubtedly excelled since it was established in 1984, then your terms of reference inevitably become with yourself rather than with more mundane entities.

The 2018 “Thoroughbred World Championships”, held at Churchill Downs in early-November, was high-class from start to finish, of that there is no doubt.

But how did it, and its winners, compare to past Breeders’ Cups?

One way to measure such things is through Timeform ratings.

By such means several of the winners were superior or even outstanding for the races they contested, but the event itself lacked the one marquee performance which comes along every few years.

American Pharoah and Arrogate had posted performance figures of 138 and 139 respectively when winning the Classic in 2015 and 2016.

Accelerate (Lookin At Lucky), this year’s winner of the race, weighs in with the biggest rating at the meeting, but at a more modest 129.

A defeat of Gunnevera by a length with Thunder Snow and Yoshida breathing down the latter’s neck is certainly good, but it is not quite as good on

...her figure of 127 has Enable equal to or better than every winner of the Breeders’ Cup Turf since Daylami in 1999 Timeform ratings as Accelerate’s 12l demolition job in the Pacific Classic at Del Mar in August, which earned him a 131.

Only Cracksman (Frankel, 136 in the Champion Stakes at Ascot), Battaash (Dark Angel, 133 in the King George at Goodwood) and Winx (Street Cry, 132 in the Chipping Norton at Randwick) can boast higher Timeform performance figures in 2018.

However, more so than the first two, Accelerate has also been Winx-like in his consistency and durability.

Enable (Nathaniel) was seen only three times in 2018, but each appearance resulted in a

win. Her victory in the Turf was on the back of a repeat in the Arc at Longchamp and came by three-quarters of a length from the much-improved Magical, with the pair 9l and more clear.

Timeform has Enable’s US performance pegged at 127, which is still some way short of her 134 peak. Nonetheless, her figure has Enable equal to or better than every winner of the Breeders’ Cup Turf since Daylami (who ran to 135) in 1999 once her sex allowance is factored back in.

Other notable wins were achieved by Stormy Liberal (Stormy Atlantic) in the Turf Sprint and Roy H (More Than Ready) in the Dirt version, both of them repeating from 12 months earlier.

The former’s 124 figure (backed up by a good time) is the joint-best in the history of the race, while the latter’s 128 effort is the highest since Midnight Lute’s 130 in 2008.

The wins of City Of Light (Quality Road, 127 in the Dirt Mile), Sistercharlie (Myboycharlie, 119 in the Filly & Mare Turf) and Monomoy Girl (Tapizar, 125 in the Distaff) were all very close to historical standards, while Shamrock Rose (First Due, 118 in Filly & Mare Sprint) and Expert Eye (Acclamation, 122 in Turf Mile) were slightly below them.

Expert Eye’s main rivals on form failed to fire, but he probably did a bit better than

European Timeform Rankings (11.11.18) Rating Horse

Sire

Older Horses 136 CRACKSMAN Frankel 134 ENABLE Nathaniel 133 BATTAASH Dark Angel 131 HARRY ANGEL Dark Angel 129 CRYSTAL OCEAN Sea The Stars 129 POET’S WORD Poet’s Voice 129 BENBATL Dubawi 129 BLUE POINT Shamardal 128 CLOTH OF STARS Sea The Stars 128 ORDER OF ST GEORGE Galileo 127 STRADIVARIUS Sea The Stars 127 WALDGEIST Galileo 126 MERCHANT NAVY Fastnet Rock 126 THUNDER SNOW Helmet 125 BEST SOLUTION Dubawi 125 BLAIR HOUSE Pivotal 125 MUTAKAYYEF Sea The Stars 125 RECOLETOS Whipper 125 REDKIRK WARRIOR Notnowcato 125 THE TIN MAN Equiano Three-year-olds 130 ROARING LION Kitten’s Joy 129 SEA OF CLASS Sea The Stars 128 ALPHA CENTAURI Mastercraftsman 128 MAGICAL Galileo 127 KEW GARDENS Galileo 125p YOUNG RASCAL Intello 125 MASAR New Approach 125 SANDS OF MALI Panis 125 U S NAVY FLAG War Front 125 WISSAHICKON Tapit 124 EXPERT EYE Acclamation 124 JAMES GARFIELD Exceed And Excel 124 SAXON WARRIOR Deep Impact 123 Flag Of Honour Galileo 123 GUSTAV KLIMT Galileo 123 MENDELSSOHN Scat Daddy 122 I CAN FLY Fastnet Rock 122 LAH TI DAR Dubawi 122 OLD PERSIAN Dubawi 122 OSTILIO New Approach 122 STUDY OF MAN Deep Impact 122 WIND CHIMES Mastercraftsman 122 WITHOUT PAROLE Frankel

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TWO YEAR-OLDS 127p TOO DARN HOT

Dubawi

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Dubawi

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Kingman

116 MAGNA GRECIA Invincible Spirit 116 PRETTY POLLYANNA Oasis Dream 115 MADHMOON

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Medaglia D’Oro Raven’s Pass Scat Daddy

Invincible Spirit rounded off the year well with juvenile Group 1 success in France and the sire has two horses on Timeform’s end-of-season list of leading two-year-olds

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the bare result in coming from behind to win his race.

His Timeform master rating remains on 124.

The other main focus in recent weeks has been on Australia where Winx won an unprecedented fourth Cox Plate at Moonee Valley late in October to cement her place still further in the history books.

Winx’s comprehensive 2l defeat of the triple Group 1 winner Benbatl should have hushed most of her remaining critics, though in figures terms this 129 was a little below her Chipping Norton win and her 134 absolute peak.

Then there was the Melbourne Cup at Flemington 10 days later, which went to the lightly weighted Cross Counter. He repeated his 124 previous best in leading home a 1-2-3 for British-trained horses.

The Melbourne Spring Carnival featured several other Group 1s, the most meaningful of which was probably the Sprint Classic .

The top Australian sprinters are world-class, but have tended to beat each other in turn of late, and Santa Ana Lane (Lope De Vega) was the one who came out on top with a 126 performance.

A major force has emerged in Hong Kong recently in the form of Beauty Generation (Road To Rock). He followed

up a phenomenal handicap performance at Sha Tin in October with a track-recordbreaking success in the Jockey Club Mile at the same venue in November.

Timeform now have the six-year-old rated at 129, the best in Hong Kong since 130-rated Able Friend three years ago.

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Lope De Vega filly rated world’s best, G1s for Camelot and Invincible Spirit The 2018 Breeders’ Cup also settled some arguments in the two-year-old division, while leaving one or two others open.

The identity of the highest-rated juvenile filly in the world is Newspaperofrecord (Lope De Vega), who romped home in the Juvenile Fillies’ Turf by six and three-quarter lengths from East (Frankel), herself a ready winner of a Group 3 in France the time before.

The daughter of Lope De Vega gets a Timeform performance rating of 119, raised to 122p in recognition of the ease of her success, which comfortably eclipses Pretty Pollyanna (Oasis Dream, 116) in Europe. This was also by some way the highest rating posted in the history of this particular Breeders’ Cup race.

The unbeaten Game Winner (Candy Ride) deserves the accolade of best juvenile colt in North America following the Juvenile, in which he overcame trouble to beat Knicks Go by 2l.

But the unbeaten British colt Too Darn Hot (Dubawi) remains Timeform’s best two-year-old anywhere on 127.

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winner of the Juvenile Fillies’ on Dirt, running an above-average 118p figure, though still four points below the mark set by Songbird in this race in 2015.

Line Of Duty (Galileo) struck a blow for the raiders in the Juvenile Turf, but in quite a close finish and with a 112 rating, the lowest for a winner of the race since its inaugural running in 2007.

The finish of the Vertem Futurity at Doncaster the week before had been even closer, but the performance of Magna Grecia (Invincible Spirit) in beating Phoenix Of Spain (Lope De Vega) by a head was probably slightly superior, with Timeform having the Aidan O’Brien-trained colt running to 114 and rated 116p overall (still a pound behind the French colt Persian King, who had beaten him the time before).

There were significant wins at the end of October in France for Wonderment (Camelot) in the Group 1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud and Godolphin’s Royal Meeting (Invincible Spirit) in Chantilly’s Criterium International, the latter more meritorious than the former on 114 compared to 109.

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f a poet readied him or herself to compose a verse on the history of Stetchworth and Middle Park Studs, the stanzas which lyricise the year 2018 would take the form of an ode to one of the Gredley family’s greatest years in racing in a quarter of a century.

James Garfield, the equine namesake of the 20th president of the US, and Pretty Pollyanna, named for Bill Gredley’s daughter, have added new dimensions to the bloodstock and breeding interests of Gredley and his son Tim, the former international showjumper who switched equine disciplines to racing and breeding.

Tim confirms that his father names the horses that run in their unmistakeable yellow silks and a cursory glance at the names he has bestowed upon them reveals a man with a wide and varied cultural lexicon.

Garfield, the man, is a fascinating character and in his story there are parallels with that Miss Brown To You: the dam of Big Orange

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of Bill Gredley’s rise from London’s East End to property magnate, lord of a country estate and scion of a bloodstock empire.

It echoes that of Garfield who rose from the poverty of an Ohio childhood on the canals, raised by his widowed mother to become a congressman, senator and finally president, finding honour on the side of abolition during the initial fighting of America’s Civil War. James Garfield, the three-year-old colt, can not claim to have a life so consequential as the second assassinated US president, but in the story of the Gredley family and their involvement and influence in racing and breeding, his future stallion career at Rathbarry Stud marks a profound moment for Stetchworth and Middle Park Studs.

“We are really excited about James Garfield’s stud career. One of Dad’s ambitions

team gredley has been to breed a stallion and have him at stud,” reveals Gredley Jnr. “One of the best assets a stallion can have to pass on to his progeny is genuineness and James Garfield is a real trier. It is the first time we have a colt going to stud such as this and it is a big step.

“We have retained some breeding rights and have full faith in the horse and in the Cashman family. They certainly know how to develop the career of a stallion and give him every chance to succeed.”

The son of Exceed And Excel won the Group 2 Mill Reef Stakes last year and the Group 3 Greenham Stakes this year, as well as finishing a close second in the Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest.

Gredley purchased his dam Whazzis for 30,000gns as a yearling and bought James Garfield back for 80,000gns as a yearling, Below, Pretty Pollyanna out for a stroll, above, James Garfield winning the Mill Reef (G2). The Gredleys have breeding rights in the son of Exceed And Excel

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Weanlings at the farm enjoying this autumn’s mild weather, below, Pretty Pollyanna’s 2018 half-brother by New Approach

and his subsequent exploits have vindicated Gredley’s judgment in doing so.

James Garfield’s pedigree gives much hope for his future success at stud as his dam Whazzat is out of Wosaita, a younger half-sister by Generous to the Group 1 Prix de

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Diane heroine Rafha, the dam of invincible Spirit and Kodiac and second dam of another of 2019’s new stallions in Gustav Klimt.

“His Golden Horn half-brother [Zyz] looks quite smart and Whazzat has gone back to Exceed And Excel, naturally enough,” says Gredley. “She is very easy to breed from and she now has that Group winner that she needed on the page for her, but she is a great mother.”

James Garfield’s future takes the Gredleys in a new direction, but Pretty Pollyanna’s, another vendor buyback at 50,000gns, leads to more familiar territory.

Heroine of the Group 1 Prix Morny, the daughter of Oasis Dream has the Gredley family dreaming of Classic glory 27 years on from the wonderful summer of 1992 when User Friendly was victorious in three Classics.

“She is a fantastic stamp of a horse, alert and powerful. You couldn’t really say that she didn’t stay in the Fillies’ Mile and she was beaten by fillies who are bred to stay further so the aim is to run her in the Fred Darling and then decide what to do.

“She can always go back sprinting if the

team gredley 1,000 Guineas doesn’t work out. It’s a nice problem to have,” he smiles.

The Nations’ Cup-winning showjumper was just five when User Friendly triumphed in the Oaks, Irish Oaks and St Leger, but he has vague memories of a trip to France for her run in the Arc. Should Pretty Pollyanna be successful in the 1,000 Guineas, he won’t miss out on a moment the memories she will create.

If she does win, Pretty Pollyanna will be the second Classic-winning filly from her family as her second dam Friendlier is a half-sister to the great champion.

Those pedigree connections and threads of family, make the victories even more glorious.

“It’s great when you have a Group winner, but it means so much more when you have the mother and all her relations around,” smiles Gredley. “We have her sister here as well and a Nathaniel half-brother [Nevendon] to her who looks a nice yearling and a smart-looking New Approach colt foal.

“Her dam is three from three and now has a Group 1 winner so she looks like she is developing into a proper broodmare.

Below, the star stayer Big Orange, and, right, Gredley riding in the Nations Cup at the Longines Royal International at Hickstead

“She didn’t make it to the track because of injury but Barry Hills, who had her in training, told Dad she would make a good broodmare – he was quick to remind him of that when Pretty Pollyanna won!” laughs Gredley.

The filly Hills saw so much potential in was Unex Mona Lisa, a daughter of Shamardal, who is back in-foal to Oasis Dream.

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rior to Pretty Pollyanna’s Deauville success, the yellow and black silks were carried to glory in Group 1 contests over longer distances. From the days of Environment Friend and User Friendly, right up to Big Orange’s Ascot Gold Cup heroics, middle-distance horses were the aim but even the owner-breeders of St Leger and Gold Cup winners now worship at the altar of speed, although by no means have they abandoned their faith in stayers.

“I’ve only been involved with the racing and breeding business for the last three years, but Dad has enjoyed massive success with staying types all along.

“However, he decided that he wanted to put speed into his broodmare band. We are still advocates of the staying division and want to have a good mix of the two in our horses – the earlier, sharper types and the ones that are going to be middle-distance horses. My father knows the mares inside out and what they need, the only change since I came on board has been to have a mix of horses,” he explains.

They will have a large team of two-yearolds to represent them in 2019, 25 in total, broken in under the successful showjumper’s horseman’s eye and he can see their futures before them, pregnant with promise.

The cradle-to-grave involvement with the racehorses and broodmares provides him with as much of a thrill as winning international Grand Prixs did, with the added kick of point-to-pointing and riding out into the mix, just for fun.

“I get as much of a buzz out of breeding and owning a winner as I did from showjumping and it is just as tough when something goes wrong.

“There is no more satisfying a feeling than when a homebred wins a big race. You can make all the plans in the world, but in the end you need to be graced with luck.”

If Fortune is benevolent to Pretty Pollyanna, then the poet-chronicler will have further glory to tell in his canto of Stetchworth and Middle Park Studs.

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Rathasker Stud enjoyed a great 2018 with its first-season sires Bungle Inthejungle and Gregorian. We chat with the father and daughter team of Maurice and Madeline Burns and hear how important it is for a stallion to build on a good first year at stud

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ungle Inthejungle may have taken plenty by surprise with the stunning success of his first crop, but not Maurice and Madeline Burns.

The father and daughter team behind Rathasker Stud always believed that the son of Exceed And Excel had the potential to which many others are now belatedly awakening.

Affectionately known as Bungle, the muscular bay who is currently close up on the first-season sires’ list by number of winners behind the aristocrats No Nay Never and Charm Spirit, has fought his way to prominence. It is a tale Maurice Burns has seen played out before, with Bungle’s predecessor Mujadil.

“I was watching him because, and I keep saying this, he reminds me of Mujadil,” relates Maurice Burns, recalling the uncanny similarities which have brought the Burns family and Bungle to this juncture.

“When we got Mujadil I had been looking at a certain horse called Storm Cat in America, who was a very fast two-year-old by

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“We found with the Bungles here that they learn so quickly, and I think they do that on the racetrack too Storm Bird out of a Secretariat mare.

“He went to stud and didn’t stand at a huge fee to start with, but of course went on to become an enormously successful sire.

“Mujadil was by Storm Bird out of a Secretariat mare, also from a fast family as Storm Cat’s family was a speed one.

“We bought Mujadil, his first progeny went to the sales and people weren’t too worried

about him; his first runners went to track and the mares were upgraded and sales prices increased.

“So first of all I was looking at the pedigree and second of all his race record, both of those were very similar to Mujadil – he won the Cornwallis and was second in the Flying Childers, this horse did the same.”

Bungle has made a habit of making striking first impressions, but none more so than when Burns went to see him in the flesh, having followed his career from afar.

“The first time I saw him was at The Curragh, his trainer Mick Channon had him over for a race and I went over to see him.

“He’s a big horse and something set him off a little bit, but he reared up and put his head through the top of the old saddling boxes!

“All I could see was his head disappearing through the timber and I remember thinking that ‘the gap between his head and the ceiling wasn’t very far and that the horse was a big, strong bugger’.

“He was always in my head then and we went over to Channon’s to see him. He hasn’t the biggest walk in the world, but that’s

rathasker stud sprinters, he is a big strong horse with plenty of bone.”

That physicality is transferred to his offspring, but there is something more, as Madeline elaborates.

“His temperament is incredible,” she says, “the way he looks at you, all his progeny have that big, honest eye. You know a Bungle horse by looking at them.”

Intelligence and an appetite for work and racing have also endeared the young Bungles to their trainers.

“We found with the Bungles here that they learn so quickly, and I think they do that on the racetrack too. There isn’t much fighting with them and you can see it with his stock – they are precocious, come to hand early and learn quickly,” adds Burns.

Bungle has fought his way to prominence, not relying on a tall reputation, expensive stud fee or fashionable pedigree. Maurice and Madeline have matched his efforts with their own, supporting their stallion, giving him every opportunity to demonstrate his capabilities.

Purchasing stock from clients at the sales, putting the horses into training and providing their stallion and clients with every opportunity to succeed. Burns emphasises how important

it is to work that hard, but that Rathasker is not alone in this; other farms also put in the hard yards necessary to build the foundations of a successful stallion career.

Jungle Jane, trained by Willie McCreery, was the first Irish winner for Bungle and she ran in the white and red spotted silks of Madeline, beating the subsequent Group 1 Moyglare Sud Stakes winner and

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Bungle Inthejungle: the son of Exceed And Excel has had 25 winners, including Rumble Inthejungle, who is a Group 3 winner and Group 1 third

Cartier champion two-year-old filly Skitter Scatter at Dundalk in March.

Having provided her sire with one landmark success, they are hopeful that she can repeat the trick next season.

“Jungle Jane beat Skitter Scatter in her maiden, we then had a race targeted for her in Naas but it was a long time off, and she gave herself a little niggle, and another after that so we decided to pull the plug with her for the season,” relates Madeline.

“She has form in the book so let’s see if we can make her into a black-type filly. We had his second winner too, and that’s what you need to do, you have to push your stallion’s stock,” Burns remarks.

The old proverb that a rising tide lifts all boats applies to a stallion and their momentum.

When a young stallion sires winners, the breeders benefit too, and as Burns recalls the details of Bungle’s best winners of 2018, what is striking is his knowledge of the humans involved; the relationship is one beyond stallion master and client, it is of friendship.

Take his recall of the day Bungle sired

“He had five runners at Royal Ascot, which was great in his first year – to have five horses to get there is important his first black-type winner, June 9, and the people involved.

“Jungle Inthebungle, who won the Brian Yardley, was trained by Mick Channon, owned by my wife Teresa and bred at Rathasker.

“Country Rose won her novice that same

day and was bred by Seamus Finucane, who is a manager in Kildare Chilling and has two mares, and he keeps sheep here. That was the second winner for that mare.

“The Listed winner in Italy, Sporan Artemide, was bred by Eileen Farrelly who was a phlebotomist in the Mater Hospital. It was a working-class pedigree and now there’s a Listed horse under the dam.

“So you have great days like that, and he had five runners at Royal Ascot, which was great in his first year – to have five horses to get there is important,” adds Burns.

What is also extremely important for a fledgling stallion career is a Group winner in their first crop.

Rumble Inthejungle fulfilled that criteria for his sire with his victory in the Group 3 Molecomb Stakes at Glorious Goodwood, emulating Bungle. After that success he was purchased by Cheveley Park Stud. In their silks he finished third to Ten Sovereigns in the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes, and again Burns delights in the success for Rumble Inthejungle’s breeder.

“Paddy Gleeson bred Rumble and he was

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rathasker stud a beautiful yearling, was impressive in the Molecomb and showed his form at a high level again when third in the Middle Park,” delights Burns.

That success for their clients is vitally important for the success of a stallion farm such as Rathasker. Mujadil and Clodovil have both been good to those who believed in their stallion ability and now Bungle too has rewarded those with faith in him from the start.

“His fee has gone up because of demand and he is going to cover a nice book of mares next year,” says Burns. “We had it with Mujadil, he had a good first year and he got nice mares on the back of that and every year he was a horse that just kept doing his job. We had a solid book of clients who kept coming back because they were lucky with him.

“If your horse is successful people want to come on board and that’s what we have this year with Bungle; there are a lot of new people wanting to use him as well as clients and we are hopeful that everything will go on and progress” Madeline adds: “Suddenly a client has a mare who has now produced a highly-rated horse and, with the way the market is going now, everyone wants to upgrade their mare because everyone is looking for that quality.”

The stars have aligned for Bungle and Gregorian, who stands at The National Stud in Newmarket but is owned 50 per cent

by Rathasker, with the rest syndicated in breeding rights.

The striking grey is running at 12 per cent stakes horses-to-runners ratio and, has also benefitted from a fee increase for next season.

However, Es Que Love’s orbit is off its axis.

The Burns duo are circumspect about his lack of success just in comparison to his firstseason colleagues, Burns invoking Meatloaf’s philosophy that “two out of three isn’t bad”, adding: “One out of three would be good, but to have two stallions start their careers so well is brilliant.”

Coulsty is on the move and will stand at Norman Court Stud for next season, a decision inspired by the success the farm has with Sixties Icon and the proliferation of sons of Kodiac standing at Irish studs.

“There are a lot of young stallions by Kodiac in Ireland so we thought that we would let Coulsty go to England for a year and give him a chance.

“There are less Kodiac stallions there and he has access to a different bunch of mares,” Burns explains.

And what Bungle does next will no longer be a surprise to those outside Rathasker.

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Above, Anjaal, the July Stakes (G2)-winning son of Bahamian Bounty, has his first runners in 2019. His most expensive yearling, who fetched 100,000gns and was bought by trainer Clive Cox, is a colt out of Just Devine, the dam of the Group 1-placed Hong Kong runner Secret Weapon, and was bred and sold by Carmel Stud.

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Main picture: Alpha Centauri galloping to Royal Ascot Group 1 glory, it was one of the performances of 2018 Below, right: connections with the Coronation Stakes trophy.

From left to right, trainer Jessica Harrington, owners Maria and Electra Niarchos and jockey Colm O’Donoghue

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The four-time Group 1 winner Alpha Centauri is this year’s Cartier three-year-old filly of the year.

Donn McClean reviews the year that was for the talented Mastercraftsman filly

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he Niarchos Family and Jessica Harrington and Colm O’Donoghue have built solid bonds.

It was in April 2016 that O’Donoghue drove Bocca Baciata home in the Listed Victor McCalmont Memorial Stakes at Gowran Park.

He got her home by a head from Pat Smullen on the Dermot Weld-trained Juddmonte filly Discipline.

That was just the beginning.

Bocca Baciata went on to finish second behind Minding in the Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes at the Irish Derby meeting at The Curragh two months later and, three weeks

after that, back at The Curragh, at the Irish Oaks meeting, the Big Bad Bob filly landed the Group 2 Kilboy Estates Stakes.

The owner was Flaxman Stables Ireland Ltd, the trainer was Jessica Harrington and the rider was Colm O’Donoghue.

You hope that you will happen upon a filly who is as good as Bocca Baciata, and you dream that you will find one who is better. That dream was realised when Alpha Centauri came along.

Harrington loved Alpha Centauri from the first time she saw her. A big grey filly, she recalled, probably more like a NH store horse than a Flat-bred filly. But Jessica loved her

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alpha centauri sat on her before he got the leg up in the parade ring there. A big strapping filly, he recalled. He kicked her out of the stalls that day at Naas, sent her to the front from flagfall, and she didn’t see a rival until they were pulling up after passing the winning post.

They went back to Naas three weeks later for a Listed race, and Alpha Centauri was even more impressive. After that, the Albany Stakes (G3) at Royal Ascot was the obvious target.

Harrington had never trained a Royal Ascot winner, but she went mighty close in 2017, Alpha Centauri going down by just a neck to Different League. They were frustrated that she didn’t get there, but delighted that she ran so well, and they knew that she would improve with time. That 2018 could be her year.

It was. She was well beaten in the Guineas Trial at Leopardstown on her seasonal return in April on unsuitably soft ground but, when they went back to Leopardstown a month later to do a piece of work, the ground was much better, and she flew. That was 10 days before the Irish 1,000 Guineas, and it put her spot on for her Classic assignment.

walk and her balance. She thought that the filly had great movement. And she loved her pedigree.

By Mastercraftsman, Alpha Centauri is a half-sister to Tenth Star, who won a Listed race at Leopardstown over 7f for Aidan O’Brien. Her dam didn’t race, but her dam’s half-brother Helike won twice over 1m2f at Saint-Cloud, and her half-sister Moon Driver won a Group 3 race over 5f at Chantilly as a juvenile.

And Alpha Centauri’s grand-dam is the Niarchos family’s Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches, Prix Diane and Prix Jacques le Marois winner East Of The Moon, herself a daughter of the brilliant Miesque.

When the stable started to breeze their two-year-olds in March 2017, Alpha Centauri stood out. She’d just canter up beside her contemporaries Shortly after Alpha Centauri first arrived at Commonstown Stables, her trainer had her weighed. It’s usual with new recruits. Check their weights, monitor their progress. And the result came back: 530kg. They thought that the scale was wrong. A filly at that stage of her development should weigh around 430kg or 440kg. They weighed her again. 530kg.

Alpha Centauri was big, but she was not slow. On the contrary, everything her trainer asked her to do, she did easily. When the stable started to breeze their two-year-olds in March 2017, Alpha Centauri stood out. She’d just canter up beside her contemporaries.

Everything seemed easy.

So her trainer got brave, decided to run her early. She took her to Naas on May Day for a fillies’ maiden. She thought that people would think she was mad, a filly who was as big as Alpha Centauri running as early as the first day of May. O’Donoghue had seen the filly before he rode her in that Naas maiden, but he hadn’t

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Exciting times for Electra Niarchos with Alpha Centauri joining the family’s broodmare band

arringtON had never trained a Classic winner before Irish Guineas weekend this year. Alpha Centauri had to dig deep to catch and pass Could It Be Love, and she did, under a perfectly timed ride from Colm O’Donoghue.

O’Donoghue had ridden big winners before. Classic winners. He had won the Irish Derby on Treasure Beach, the Epsom Oaks on Qualify, the Irish Oaks on Bracelet and he had won the French Poule d’Essai des Poulains on Astronomer Royal. All for Aidan O’Brien.

But to win the Irish Guineas on Alpha Centauri was still massive for the rider. To deliver a first Classic for Harrington and repay the trainer for the faith that she had placed in him.

The Alpha Centauri story moved on. This year’s renewal of the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot looked like a warm order with the winners of the Irish Guineas, the English Guineas and the French Guineas clashing, joined, as they were, by potentially high-class fillies from the “right” yards.

It was a big test for the Niarchos family’s filly. She needed to step up, but she did. And how. She travelled really well for O’Donoghue early on, towards the outside, just behind the leading quartet. The pair rounded the home

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That Royal Ascot performance was one of the marquee performances of the 2018 season turn and she moved up on the near side, but the rider sat still.

Not yet. They had gone fast. It wasn’t until they hit the 2f marker that the rider said go. When he did, the response was electric.

The grey filly picked up smartly off the fast pace and powered clear. When she reached the winning line she had gone 6l clear of her closest pursuer, and she had smashed the track record.

That Royal Ascot performance was one of the marquee performances of the 2018 season. As well as that, it was a first Royal Ascot winner for Harrington.

Alpha Centauri moved forward again.

She took on the older fillies in the Falmouth

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Stakes at Newmarket, and she beat them. She took on the older colts in the Prix Jacques le Marois at Deauville, and she beat them.

Expertly prepared and campaigned by Harrington and her team. Expertly ridden

by O’Donoghue. No nonsense. Efficiency in simplicity.

It was a real shame that she suffered that injury in her final race in the Matron Stakes at Leopardstown.

-You knew immediately that something was up. It wasn’t her. Usually, when O’Donoghue gave her a squeeze, she picked up. But at Leopardstown, she faltered.

Laurens is tough and she is classy. Karl Burke’s filly is a quintuple Group 1 winner, and she ran all the way to the line that day at Leopardstown. But Alpha Centauri was brave too, getting to within three-parts of a length of the winner with a chipped joint in her fetlock.

It would have been great to see Alpha Centauri go to Churchill Downs. The Breeders’ Cup Mile was her race, a race that the Niarchos family have won six times in the past: Karakontie and Six Perfections and Domedriver and Spinning World, and Miesque. Twice.

Even so, we can bask in the indelible impression that Alpha Centauri and her connections have made on the 2018 season.

Her award as Cartier Three-Year-Old Filly of 2018 was absolutely deserved.

Above, a delighted Colm O’Donoghue after the excellent Royal Ascot success, and, below, the last time we saw the daughter of Mastercraftsman in action on a British racecourse was her success against the older fillies in the Falmouth Stakes at Newmarket

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Bloodstock letters It has been a steamy autumn with a tricky yearling trade, impending Brexit and a British Bred Breeders’ Scheme announced, all of which have caused a certain amount of discussion.

We asked some of our regular contributors, as well as a couple of industry participants to give their thoughts on the matters at hand.

Note: due to various industry allegiances we have allowed people to be anonymous. We appreciate that this is not usual, but we didn’t want people to contribute and not fear that their views might do harm to their businesses.

We can promise that those who elected to write anonymously are legitimate, well-regarded industry participants.

For the good of the bloodstock industry, Britain and Ireland has to work closely together The issue of Brexit is of great concern to me as I fear it could lead to a great deal of damage to the bloodstock industry.

For centuries, the Irish and English bloodstock industries have operated side by side in harmony with both sides benefitting from what is essentially a symbiotic relationship, whether that is in the breeding shed or on the racetrack.

In recent years this has extended to include other countries in Europe, especially France, thanks to the introduction of the tripartite travel agreement that allows for the free movement of horses between England, Ireland and France. This is all now under threat due to Brexit.

There have been numerous examples of our two great horse breeding nations working together to improve the industry, such as the Racing Post Bonus Scheme and the Plus 10 Bonus Scheme.

The existence of Brexit has encouraged some British breeders to turn away from the notion of co-operation and devise a bonus scheme – the British Bred Premium Scheme

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– that would exclude Irish-bred horses.

The motivation behind this seems to be to increase production of horses and the numbers of breeders in the UK, but the reality is something more unsavoury.

It is a well-debated topic that rather than there being underproduction of horses, as this would suggest, that the opposite is in fact true.

All anyone has to do to see the proof of this is to look through this year’s sales results. The smaller breeders are the ones who are suffering and the overhead costs and difficult markets are driving them out of business.

It is these breeders that this scheme is looking to encourage, but the reality is that these breeders can not afford to support this type of bonus.

Wealthier owner breeders with large numbers of horses will need to put horses into the scheme in order for it to work, and therefore they have increased benefits from the scheme.

The problems that we actually need to be

addressing are, in fact, the number of owners entering into racing and the levels of prize-money available to these owners.

The cake that we all want a piece of is decreasing year on year and we need to look at making that cake bigger so that more people have a chance to get a slice.

The desire for such bonuses appear to have run its course and my concern is that all this scheme will achieve is to drive wedges between big and small breeders, and the Irish and UK industries.

It is vital that the issues that face us are dealt with as failure to do so will detrimentally affect both the Irish and UK industries for future generations.

We need to move away from myopic and introverted ideas and see the bloodstock industry as an international network.

The reality of the modern era is that we rely on the international nature of our business for success and for both the horses and the people who buy and sell them.

Cathy Grassick

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Yearling sales were the “toughest for a decade” If you were not selling yearlings out of either elite mares or elite stallions then this year’s yearling sales where among the most difficult in the past decade in which to trade, and it was Middle Eastern investment that held up the entire industry.

Tattersalls Book 1, the flagship sale of the season, revealed major flaws and major touches in equal doses.

A number of owner-breeders such as Blue Diamond Stud, Phillipa Cooper and Rabbah Bloodstock have become vendors in recent years.

And many of the vendors are now richer than those coming to the door to buy their yearlings.

Some major pinhooked yearlings were withdrawn or traded at a loss – the foal purchases having to compete with the big owner-breeder-produced yearlings with pedigrees that are not obtainable in foal sales.

It revealed the difference in quality when comparing the availability of quality families in the foal sales as regards the yearlings.

In world terms our industry is small and removing £3-5 million from the foal market will have a 10 per cent downward effect on averages and medians.

Together with that effect and the general rarefied market at the top it will be interesting to see how may foals make over 100,000gns.

“Save the industry” schemes

The proposal to change the Plus 10 scheme from its forebearer the Racing Post Breeze Up Bonus Scheme to a Brish Bred premium Scheme – Plus 20 scheme – as a reaction to the Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association Economic Impact Study is convenient rather than purposeful in a solution to an industry in distress.

Two economic impact studies done four years apart confirm an industry failing as a business, but thriving at the top for ownerbreeders. They don’t need to make their stud pay but merely contribute to the pot so ultimately making it less expensive to operate their racing strings The Racing Post Bonus already walked away from its Breeze Up bonus pioneers Joe Foley and Paul Thorman et al, who drove a group of Anglo-Irish consignors to invent a self-help scheme to support the breeze up sales.

Then, when this scheme evolved into Plus 10, the scheme walked away from the

generous sponsorship and involvement of the Racing Post to rename and invite owner-breeders to create a bigger more robust scheme attracting Levy money and Horse Racing Ireland money.

That scheme became the catalyst, or at least the initiative, for the Tattersalls £25,000 bonus on their Book 1 progeny and again another massively successful bonus.

Proposals at this particularly sensitive Brexit period to divorce our Irish friends with a “Plus 20” for British-born and sired winners, cannot be the right thing to do.

The Levy board faces the FOBT’s drama, that has already cost the government a minister and a turn around to be introuduced in April, at the same time as Brexit.

It will still have to be persuaded that £3,000,000 is not just going into an elaborate breeders’ support scheme.

Such a scheme encourages mediocrity, but also an insular outlook and opens battles with our allies instead of creating a united front in which everybody prospers.

We have a number of very good stallions in the UK – horses such as Frankel, Showcasing and Dubawi, and many commercial sires retiring to stud Roaring Lion, Zoustar, Harry Angel and Cracksman – but to reward breeders for not using stallions such as Galileo, Invincible Spirit or Siyouni seems inconceivable. Neither should we be creating potential difficulties for breeders based abroad to use these stallions.

Our biggest owners Godolphin, Juddmonte, Lanwades and Shadwell have farms in both England and Ireland, and even the owner of this year’s champion two-yearold has an Irish base.

To remain competitive, we need British breeders to be able to invest in stallions and mares outside the confides of these shores to improve and diversify the bred.

To send a mare to Deep Impact, for instance, could not qualify her progeny as British unless the mare is resident in the UK for the prescribed amount of time, which she physically is unable to do.

Creation of our own prize-money is one thing, but at the exclusion of some of the top sires another.

After welfare and industry demands, the Levy money should be going into the greatest incentive there is and it does not need a bonus fund for its establishment, prize-money.

Anonymous, British-based breeder

A Brexit deal is essential for equine transport Weyhill Equine Transport’s Rupert Erskine-Crum outlines the likely different scenarios between a deal and a no-deal Brexit Deal: If the UK and the EU agree the deal on the table, then, in essence, nothing changes between now and the end of the transitional period, which is December 2020.

During that time lorries and horses can move exactly the same way they do today.

After the transitional period ends hopefully, agreements very similar to today’s will be in place and so we can all continue to move without significant hindrance.

No Deal: On March 30, 2019 the EU will impose full border controls on all goods and services trying to enter from the UK, this means health checks and customs checks along with possible import duty and VAT payable on incoming horses.

The current arrangements concerning health checks will cease to exist and until new ones are negotiated it is possible that the EU will not accept any livestock from the UK at all.

Both import duty rates and VAT will be governed by World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules – import duty is set at 0 per cent for “pure bred breeding horses” and should remain so, but the VAT position is less clear and it could be payable in full on the value of a horse every time that horse crosses into the EU. Whether the checks can be processed electronically or physically remains to be seen; if physical checks are needed then extremely long delays at the borders are inevitable for at least the first year.

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Constant quality, year after year.

SIX GROUP 1 WINS SINCE 2010

ROMAN CANDLE

The 2019 Classic prospect THE GREY GATSBY

The Champion

ONCE AGAIN IN THE TOP 5 BREEDERS in France in 2018

POS. 2018

BREEDER

HORSES

RUNNERS

WINNERS

PLACES

TOT. EARNINGS + FRENCH PREMIUMS

1st

Wertheimer & Frère

116

506

86

230

€3,477,527

2nd

Écurie des Monceaux

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275

32

124

€2,245,572

3rd

Franklin Finance S.A.

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380

59

178

€1,960,873

4th

S.A. Aga Khan

88

363

59

170

€1,791,191

ÉCURIE HARAS DU CADRAN 58

314

40

139

€1,444,565

5th

Each year, our aim is to offer you the chance to invest the best of our production, to race and to win.

The statistics confirm this: once again in 2018, we are in the Top 5 French Breeders and, amongst the regular yearling vendors, we are at the top of the list for number of wins, places, and for winners to runners percentage.

Thank you to our partners and to our clients for your loyalty and your support: your success is our goal.

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bloodstock letters Doug Proctor would like to see breeders continue to be rewarded if they produce a successful racehorse

The BBPS is supported, but lots of questions!

Brexit

I very much see the UK, Ireland and France as one place for the thoroughbred. I use stallions in all three countries and sell in all three countries.

Breeding

• Two thirds of our mares go to French or Irish stallions each year. At the moment, with the exception of going on a ferry, it is as easy as going to a UK stallion.

• Will I have to unload a mare and foal at the port for inspection or use an impractically long route to go via an “approved” port?

• Will I be paying duty on the mare and foal both ways as well as a pregnancy on the way back?

• I very much hope that the impact on the Irish industry of delays for mares coming through the UK to get to there from the continent will help with our getting a workable solution to horse movement.

• Practically speaking, and planning for 2019, at present I am considering only sending maiden or barren mares to Ireland or France early in the hope of getting out and back before mid-March.

• The issue with sales is not just ease of moving horses, but also tariffs and costs. It won’t take away the importance of selling a horse in the “correct” sale whether it is in the UK, Ireland or France, but, below the top end, any extra costs for the consignor or the purchaser via tariffs or duties will be hard to carry.

British Bred Permium Scheme

• I support the idea, the MOPS scheme is starting to work well for NH mares.

• I think breeders should get something when their horses do well, especially as many will have been produced at a loss!

• I see it as a way of rewarding breeding good racehorses rather than fashionable sales horses, very relevant to the current worries about the middle distance/staying horse.

Future concerns

• I think the biggest issue is ownership below the top tier.

• At the sales there is more and more money for the top lots and cold comfort below that.

• Top races and festivals get more prize-money, but grass roots racing gets very little.

• If we fund on a betting revenue model we want lots of big-field handicaps, however if 15 horses run in a race, then it means 14 owners go home out of pocket.

•The racing/breeding industry needs to decide if it going to stay the size it is and find more owners and prize-money, or get smaller and focus on quality, exclusivity.

Doug Proctor, Glanvilles Stud

It is vital to bring new (older) owners into the sport There has been much talk once again recently about overproduction following the high numbers of yearlings offered at European sales in the past few months.

This is still a major problem for the bloodstock industry – and many breeders and vendors were happy just to have broken even or moved on their yearlings without having to head down the route of training fees.

Attracting new owners to racing is vital and that is something that affects both the bloodstock and racing industries equally.

We are lucky to have organisations such as ITM and FRBC consistently bringing new prospective foreign buyers to European sales, but more can be done to make our sport attractive to outsiders.

In this current uncertain economic climate the various major racing nations need to work together for the good of racing. It is no secret that we have an ageing population in Europe and I would also love to see racing being marketed as a social sport for older generations.

There is so much focus on attracting young people to racing, which is important, but the majority of them will struggle to buy their first house before they are 40 years old, never mind a racehorse!

Racing is an ideal opportunity for older people, who are looking to expand their social circle in retirement.

The bloodstock and racing world is lucky to have a plethora of enthusiastic young people who are passionate about our industry.

They are the people who make their living from this sport, but unfortunately often not listened to by the powers that be.

They are the future of our industry and they need to have more of a say in the direction it is heading.

It is all of our responsibility to work together in what could be a difficult year for racing and breeding.

Sally Ann Grassick

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Lack of orders meant that trainers were not buying at this autumn’s yearling sales Support diversity of racing programme: ‘double-distance’ (10f+) & NH races.

We feel Brexit definitively had an influence at this autumn’s yearling sales – trainers didn't have many orders for horses in the middle-market, those owners are often business owners who were and are unsure of the future.

Further, and for various other reasons (such as general high costs of keeping horses today), many trainers didn’t buy on spec, and the importance of that on the market can not be underestimated.

As a breeder with four mares in the middle-market and generally sprint types we have read about the new British Bred Premium Scheme proposal.

The scheme has been designed to address fundamental problems confirmed by the Economic Impact Study and the report claims it will help the British trade deficit.

We presume this must be referring to the Irish-bred horses coming over here as we don't import hugely from any other country, do we?

Our initial thoughts on any scheme is that keeping it to just a British scheme is really tricky with something like 60 per cent of yearlings at the sales Irish-bred, due to the large number of pin-hooked horses.

Okay, so the same rules as Plus 10 apply so the breeders are eligible at a discount (50 per cent of the prize fund), but that is only if the initial payment and all staged payments are made.

When you are mating a mare, and making the best decisions for her as an individual and for your finances, the last thing on your mind (and indeed the last thing that should be on your mind) is whether or not the stallion you are using will eliminate you from the scheme.

The scheme claims it will encourage increased demand at sales...

How? We would love to know the thinking behind this. The owners would have had to win one of these prizes to know they exist unless you have a very active agent / trainer, or it is being pushed by ROA in conjunction with TBA. As far as we can see the only big-money prizes owners chase are the big sales races.

We don’t believe that Plus 10 has done anything for extra footfall at the sales, though the stats might say differently.

Further, it eliminates all Irish trainers and owners buying the qualified horses (we couldn't see anywhere stating that Irish races

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Anyone who can afford to use “long-distance” Flat stallions can afford not to bother with such a scheme.

This is the current new favourite topic of all these groups to start encouraging long-distance breeding again, but (a) most of us can't afford the stallions and (b) unless the yearlings are bred in the blue and in Book 1 then no one wants to buy them!

We have doubts that the new prize-money increases for some of the staying races will do much to increase demand in the middle-market for middle-distance horses – for some time anyway.

Increase appeal of fillies and mares as racehorses.

We see putting funds into these type of races is good and this is an area that needs improving.

Summary

With so many Irish-bred and consigned horses at the yearling sales in both Britian and Ireland, is it really sensible to cause a divide between them and British-bred horses?

were involved?) so the scheme immediately decreases sales demand.

Promote increased numbers of owner/ breeders?

Again owner knowledge will probably only happen if they win a few of these races.

Breeders are not going to increase their broodmare band because of such a scheme... no way!

We think the BBPS is better than Plus 10 with lots more races to win and an increased prize fund, but it still has a lot of flaws.

Once again the scheme depends a lot on the breeders – they are the ones paying nominations, the keep of mare and foals, sales entries and now bonus payments on top.

We have never liked paying the Plus 10!

Keeping the Irish-bred horses as a separate category is difficult with so many of them turning up at the sales.

Is it really sensible to think an agent will say “well if you buy this British-bred yearling there are bonus payments of £20,000 on certain races, but if you buy this Irish-bred horses it is only £10,000”?

There are lots of British-bred yearlings sold to race in Ireland so what will happen once the 2020 Plus 10 deadline is reached?

Also looking at sales results, Goffs v Tattersalls is an interesting battle and this scheme doesn't encourage Irish buyers to head to Britain, which is so important.

The perfect scheme would be a harmonious one between TBA and ITBA with auction houses helping to fund along with the Levy.

It is also necessary to eliminate the need for breeders to self-fund, while it needs to include races in both Britain and Ireland so all benefit evenly!

Anonymous, British-based breeder

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THE Barometer WE identify some positive trends and ideas seen this year in the world of bloodstock and racing, as well as outlining some issues that we don’t think are progressing, heading in the right direction, or simply concepts about which we need more information.

At this publication we are not negative thinkers so we’ve decided to think of those items as on “the sidelines”.

Camacho

After his very successful year on the track, yearling buyers could not get enough of his stock. His 2018 average was 37,000gns, with only a 7,000gns split between colts and fillies showing just how well regarded his girls are.

Oasis Dream

His average bounced back up to 136,000gns with a top price of 380,000gns. The speedy Ertijaal and the filly Pretty Pollyanna gave him two new Group 1 winners this summer.

Going up

Gloucestershire

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Tweenhills Stud has a fine roster developing and some exciting new stallions for 2019 – Roaring Lion, Zoustar and Lightning Spear With all the associated extra business this will bring to the region, could a new stud hub be developing in the west country?

The quality of racing in Britain and Ireland

Remains the highest in the world, and attractive to international owners to race horses here as well as those looking to buy from our stock of horses either as young horses or as horses in training to head abroad.

It is fantastic, and the strength of the international cosmopolitan HIT Sales continues to keep the wheel turning.

It also means that horses racing in Britain and Ireland have to be very good to compete (for those who take a very arrogant view about Class 5 or Class 6 handicaps just remember where that is in the world scheme of things).

This strength in depth has both pluses and negatives – racing is very good, but there is little room now for the lesser, possibly cheaper horses, those who might be appealing to “starter” owners to get on the racing ladder.

And although there are complex reasons behind the difficult sales market seen at this year’s non-select sales (lack of owners the main cause), the competitive racing we have has had an effect – horses who appear on paper or physically to be “lesser” types are just not worth buying no matter how cheap they are. They can’t compete and they are just too expensive to keep in training in Britain.

We don’t want a reduction in the class of the sport, but we have to weigh up what this sport is trying to acheive: large numbers and lots of racing to provide for funding with lots of owners owning racehorses, or high-quality racing, which is the best in the world with the added advantages that gives, but is exclusive?

ITM’s discount sales voucher

In our view, by far the best way to give an incentive bonus to owners. In ITM’s sponsored races, winning connections pick up a voucher redemable at a Flat or NH sale in Ireland.

It ensures that the extra cash given out as an owners’ incentive bonus comes right back into the industry, rather than be spent on a holiday or a new car.

Certainly an idea worth taking forward.

Racing Welfare

The charity has started a research programme looking into the mental health status of the wider church of racing participants, broadening out from jockeys through to trainers, breeders, and racing and stud staff.

Remember, the charity is there for all of us, whether we work in racing or bloodstock, whether we make our living from riding horses, selling them or marketing them.

Just pick up the phone if you need to talk about anything be it finances, depression or loneliness.

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On the sidelines ParisLongchamp

The jury is out regarding the track redevelopment. There were ground issues at the beginning of the year on French Guineas day, the cut away had to be omitted for the Arc meeting, and the grandstand struggled to accommodate that big meeting crowd, yet for the rest of the year all seemed fine.

The racecourse board has a chance to make improvements over the winter season, we’ll see if it makes the most of the opportunity.

Together for the Tote / Britbet

It is very exciting to see that British pool betting is coming back under racing management and it has to be hoped that the best will be made to develop new income streams.

There has been a lot of PR from Together For The Tote claiming it will secure the “financial future for British horseracing” and that it will “grow pool betting in the UK, provide more excitement and value for customers, and more funding for racing.”

We have yet to see anything concrete explaining how this will happen and what plans are being made to cause such a miraculous turnaround in a country that traditionally does not turn to pool betting.

Numbers of middle level owners

Involvement in racing at the highest level is still very appealing, however it is a tough ask to find (in numbers) the business man or woman on the street with available leisure spend to own racehorses, and further who thinks racehorse ownership is an attractive or sensible option.

Racing has always been called the Sport Of Kings and, yes is still a rich man’s sport, but today’s industry – and its associated bloodstock arm – needs a lot of owners, more than just kings, to keep it functioning... sadly they are just not there.

New thinking is required to find a solution

to the problem, make racehorse ownership affordable (big syndicates and big ownership groups are not necessarily the solution in Britian because the prize-money fund is not high enough).

In fact, marketing groups once again need to make the desire to own a racehorse an aspirational goal for competitive people.

We always argue that as a pretty “normal” human beings there is (and now sadly that we are middle aged, there was) no way that we could have competed in the greatest sporting arenas as we are not super human athletes or in fact at all talented at sport. Futher, we have no inclination to go for a run before work or push ourselves through the pain barrier .

However, we can own a racehorse and he or she is the one who goes out to exercise and get fit on our behalf every day.

Then he or she is the one that has to run fast in competition; we just need to get nervous, get competitive, cheer the horse home and then drink to success or drown the sorrows – and, of course, be there to ensure that the horse is well cared for.

And as stated opposite, even if our horse is running in a Class 5, then he or she is still competiting at a level (and the horse does not know he or she is not at the Olympics).

Anyway, who knows we might just fluke a horse good enough to get us to the top of the sport... and all we have had to do is choose a trainer, choose a horse, name him or her, choose the colours, pay the share of the bills!

And... be prepared to play the long game.

(And for those at the top of the earning pile, owning a string of racehorses is a lot cheaper than owning a football club, and gives far more of an adrenaline buzz than floating around on a yacht)

Breeders

A very unofficial and informal “vox pop” of breeders on both sides of the Irish Sea revealed that many are cutting back on broodmares covered next spring.

Good thing from their own financial point-of-view, but this is probably not from a long-term industry perspective.

We believe that the British and Irish industries need to talk together and work out the best way forwards for all arms of the racing industry, and we are not convinced the solution is yet another breeders’ scheme… we’d rather see funds put to solving the causes not patching up the symptoms!

We understand that there is (was) the possibiity of British Levy floating around and that it has problems involving Ireland, but surely good prize-money (alongside a marketing effort) is the greatest incentive for owners?

Then wners get money in their pockets, want (can) buy racehorses, the market improves, that trickles down to the lower levels and the breeders make money.

A prize-money incentive scheme must be backed by a broad racing programme that rewards a variety of types – sprinters, 10f horses and stayers – alongside ways to ensure that all standards of horses are recognised.

And, with a breeders-winning bonus in the mix, then you reward those who breed successful horses of all types and qualities.

Staffing

Racing and bloodstock is at a crisis point, and particularly severe if yards are looking for experienced staff capable of prepping and breaking yearlings, sale duties, riding work or managing stables.

Inexperienced staff are doing jobs they are not ready for with obvious safety implications, while the high horsemanship levels that the British and Irish industries are well known for are compromised.

There are less people are coming into industry, while many experienced staff are leaving to go overseas for opportunities.

Conversely, it is increasingly difficult for staff to come into Britain. It seems Brexit will only excacerbate a critical situation.

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our solution

Our solution...?

The industry to fund unsold breeders’ horses to go into training So here are the facts: • The British racing industry needs a certain number of horses in order to match its funding requirements and continue the sport at the size the industry needs or aspires to be • That requirement can be matched by horses bred in Britain and Ireland • However, the racing industry and its trainers are struggling to find enough owners to buy, pay and race these horses • Due to that lack of ownership support, this year a lot of yearlings were led out unsold from the sales ring or were sold at a minimum bid.

Some of these yearlings, of course, are not viable racehorses, but for various reasons a number are just not attractive for purchase due to either the sire’s commerciality, individual physiques or possibly for reasons as basic as the point in the mare’s breeding career i.e. she has had few runners and not yet had a winner

We havE the emergence of an idea that we think could work and it involves joined up thinking from all:

bloodstock, racing, betting, Britain Ireland

• Breeders are ready-made owners for the racing industry. They are already engaged with racing, probably own horses in training already, understand the ups and downs and are probably in for the long game, which quite frankly is something that takes a time for a new owner to get to grips with – and frequently they disappear before this point can be achieved.

• But breeders can not be expected to continue to fund horses to go into training.

Our solution?

Match breeders and their yearlings with trainers, while ensuring there are no costs incurred by either the breeders or the trainers.

How might this be done? By using the possibility of the available Levy funding (FOBT outfall permitting), alongside with further backing from BHA, HRI and bookmakers, to

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support breeders to put their horses in training.

Breeders and trainers could sign up and pay a membership to be part of this self-help scheme Breeders put forward yearlings and if they match certain set criteria – for instance, if he or she is out of a young mare, or if a mare who has had over six foals then she must have had a certain number of runners and / or winners – then the horse can be put forward into the scheme to go into training.

Trainers, who have also joined the scheme, could apply to train that horse and, if successful, the training costs for a certain period will be matched or part matched by the scheme’s funding.

It means that breeders can ensure that stock out of young mares are in training and the best is done by their mares and stud enterprise, stock is off their books, that horses have options even if the sale ring does not like them, while trainers have horses to train that are being paid for and that they have not had to buy on spec or pay for training costs themselves.

They are are also supplying the racing industry with horses, employing staff, using third-party providers and supporting their own businesses.

This idea merely formalises what happens at most sales: consignors hunting out trainers to take their horses and do a deal after a no-sale.

It could be run online and would be wholly transparent.

There are various items that need discussion: how long would the scheme run for per horse, what happens if the horse is not a viable racehorse, if there is an injury, or if the horse turns out to be very good and can be sold for a profit once there is some form under its belt?

Further, the scheme would not be something that a breeder relies upon year after year with stock from a mare who should not be bred from, nor can be it be a way for “associated parties” to work together under the radar.

The yearling would have to have been not sold in the ring having had a sensible reserve i.e. covering fee plus a pecentage?

A germ of an idea, maybe?

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Atlantic

“My grandfather founded Ballydoyle on American Dirt horses – that’s where Galileo comes from, that’s where Sadler’s Wells came from.

“It all goes back to the American Classic horse. And we strongly believe in American Pharoah. He really could be the next big thing.

“Be it him, or Justify, we think that a horse of that type can once again have a transforming impact on European bloodlines.

“So that’s what we want to do: to get the best American Pharoahs we can, put them in Ballydoyle, and try to make him a new Northern Dancer.

Remember Scat Daddy was an all-American hero, too, and look what he has been able to do on Turf in Europe.”

MV Magnier, Arqana August 2018

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he 2018 Arqana August yearling sales was enlivened by a pair of yearling fillies from the first crop of the 2015 US Triple Crown winner, American Pharoah.

The daughter of Marbre Rose realised €850,000 and was purchased by agent Deuce Greathouse on behalf of an American partnership, while the other, a half-sister to Yorkshire Oaks (G1) and Prix Vemeille heroine Shareta (G1), saw MV Magnier edge out Phoenix Bloodstock at €750,000.

Afterwards, Magnier, who represents the Coolmore organisation that stands American Pharoah at its Ashford Stud in Kentucky, gave the quote opposite.

What Magnier stated with regard to Sadler’s Wells and his son Galileo and their descent is correct, but it’s also a snapshot of just one stage of a fascinatining Atlantic to-and-fro that has seen many differing turns of the wheel.

It’s worth looking back to see just how we arrived at the current juncture so that we can make some sort of judgement concerning the speculation as to whether a North American Triple Crown winner could get effective runners in Europe.

Although it was as far back as 1881 that Iroquois became the first American-bred thoroughbred to win the Epsom Derby, for the first half of the following century it’s very likely that, in general, the best European thoroughbreds were superior to their trans-Atlantic counterparts, irrespective of racing surface.

That viewpoint tends to be borne out by

American Pharoah: Coolmore is keen to bring his progeny back to race in Europe and at Arqana in August spent €750,000 on a daughter (inset), a purchase which led to the press quotes opposite

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Nasrullah: he was the last leading US sire (1960) foaled outside of the US until El Prado gained the title in 2002

a look at the US leading sires’ lists for the middle of that century.

Then, imported horses such as Bull Dog, Sir Gallahad, Pharamond, Sickle, Blenheim, Mahmoud, Heliopolis, Nasrullah, Royal Charger, Princequillo, Ambiorix and Court Martial all but swept away the established North American sire lines of Man O’War, Ben Brush and Himyar, and his sons Plaudit and Domino.

Indeed in the 33 years from 1930 to 1962 imported stallions took the title 21 times.

The next development was one that would become the template for a pattern that would not only repeat itself in cycles between

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Europe and North America but also in other areas of the world.

When a region has been dominated by imports, what seems to happen next is that in “phase two” the offspring of those imports, who have thrived in the local environment, then come to the fore, frequently proving superior to successive invaders from the supposedly superior jurisdictions.

Thus in Australia the leading locally raced sons of Danehill – Redoute’s Choice, Flying Spur, Fastnet Rock, Exceed And Excel – and their heirs have generally rebuffed the next round of shuttle stallions.

Similarly in Japan after Sunday Silence

Sunday Silence: was imported into Japan and he headed the sires’ table for 12 years.

His sons have followed his domination, too

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One major point of divergence stems from the fact that it’s harder to accelerate on Dirt, so early speed to establish a forward position tends to be a prerequisite

headed the table from 1995 to 2007 his Japanese-raced sons, with Deep Impact to the fore, have ruled the roost every subsequent year, other than the two years when the table was headed by King Kamehameha, a Japanese-raced son of Kingmambo.

In North America, the first indication that the locally bred sons of the European imports would rise to the top came in the shape of Bull Dog’s son Bull Lea, who took the sires’ crown five times in the seven years from 1947 to 1953.

His era was followed by that of another import Nasrullah, but that horse’s fifth title won in 1960 was the last time a stallion foaled outside the US would achieve the feat until Irish-born El Prado in 2002.

To appreciate the next stage in the cycle, it’s necessary to understand that for the better part of 150 years racing in the US has primarily been contested on Dirt, a function of horses on a circuit being stabled, trained and raced at a single track for extended periods of time.

The differences between Dirt and Turf – we’ll leave aside All-Weather tracks that seem to have quirks that suit different individuals from either background – has led to the evolution of differences in physical and physiological types, particularly one suspects in the last 30 years or so.

One major point of divergence stems from the fact that it’s harder to accelerate on Dirt, so early speed to establish a forward position tends a prerequisite.

It means that you are looking at a type of horse who goes out hard and tries to slow down as little as possible, rather than running at steadier pace with an

acceleration in the closing stages.

In human terms we might be looking at the difference between a Diamond League race, with the field pursuing a pacemaker at a brisk pace, to a championship event, something such an Olympic 1500m, which often devolves into nearly three laps of jogging followed by a frantic last lap.

The championship is often won by the fastest finisher not the runner who can run the distance in the fastest time (in fact, the current Olympic 1500m champion is usually to be found languishing in mid-pack at the

finish of faster Diamond League events).

It’s likely that when the 1930s to 1950s European imports came to the US they were simply athletically superior as a group, to a degree that surface was immaterial, certainly as far as Classic distances were concerned.

To stay with our athletics parallels, an Olympic 5000m track athlete would trounce good club runners over a wide-variety of distances whether the surface be cross-country, road or track, but when competing with his peers, his range of superiority will be much more limited,

The last 30 years has seen a divergence of the thoroughbred into two distinct brackets: Turf v Dirt

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A classical landscape fit for thoroughbreds.

Coach House

Hellvelyn

Pearl Secret

Most precocious son of Oasis Dream

Proven source of 2yo speed

Gr.2 winning sprinter by speed sire Compton Place

ROYAL ASCOT GR.2 2YO SPRINTER And 5f 2yo Stakes winner.

SIRE OF TOP 2YO FILLY MRS DANVERS As well as 2yo Stakes winners/ performers Ardenode, Bonnie Grey, Hellofahaste, La Rioja, Mister Trader.

CONSISTENT 5F STAKES WINNER Won 3 Group/Stakes races and Gr.1 placed 3 times, all over 5f. Beating over 60 Group winners, including 16 Gr.1 winners.

6% BLACK-TYPE 2YO WINNERS TO RUNNERS (2016-2018) Better than Kodiac, Dark Angel, Acclamation, Lope de Vega, Teofilo, Exceed And Excel, Showcasing, Shamardal, etc.

OUT OF A 5F STAKES WINNING MARE From the family of Dutch Art.

BY A CHAMPION SPRINTER & SIRE Plus sire of sires including Showcasing.

Out of a Gr.1 sprinter.

FIRST 2YOS IN 2018 Include multiple winners I Believe In You, More Than Likely, & promising Stakes performer The Cruising Lord (TR: 97), etc.

Over 50 2yos in 2019.

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Coach House (centre) breaks the juvenile course record at Royal Ascot finishing 2nd in the Norfolk Stakes Gr.2.

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It is likely when the 1930s to 1950s European imports went to the US they were simply athletically superior as a group, to a degree that surface was immaterial certainly as far as Classic distances were concerned

and he will appear far more specialist.

From crosses of those European imports horses with early speed Dirt mares came another turn of the wheel, a phase in which US-breds started coming back to Europe in the late 1960s and the 1970s.

They frequently showed themselves speedier than the old-fashioned European Classic horse. For a visual image think of Nijinsky, a horse fast enough to win the 2,000 Guineas, subsequently cantering away from the “old-fashioned” bred Ascot Gold Cup runner-up Blakeney in the 1973 King George VI & Queen Elizabeth II Stakes.

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HROUGH 1968 to 1984 seven renewals of the Epsom Derby were won by Sir Ivor, Nijinsky, Mill Reef, Roberto, The Minstrel, Golden Fleece and Secreto, all North American-breds by North American-bred stallions.

Three of those – Nijinsky, The Minstrel and Secreto – were by the chief architect of the invasion Northern Dancer, who was by the Canadian-foaled but British-conceived Nearctic (by Nearco out of a Hyperion mare).

Northern Dancer was a champion three-year-old in the US and Horse of the Year in Canada. He won the Kentucky Derby – the first Canadian-bred to do so – the Preakness Stakes and the Queen’s Plate, but never started on Turf. However, his offspring proved brilliant on the surface and via his sons, Sadler’s Wells and Danzig, is the overwhelming sire-line force in Europe today.

(We might also mention as a sidenote that a less desirable side-effect of the US

onslaught was that the industry was able to foist upon the Europeans a whole slew of “has-beens and never-wases” whose sole “virtue” was a US suffix. Happily their names have all but disappeared from modern pedigrees, and mostly from memory too).

Just as had happened in the US a couple of decades earlier, and also as we’d mentioned, happened in Australia and Japan, the next generation of leading sires generally proved to be US-sired horses who’d proved their merit in Europe.

The US, whose industry then had a clear financial advantage, did take back Nijinsky, Roberto and The Minstrel at the end of their racing careers, and also snapped up such horses as Blushing Groom, Nureyev, Riverman, Green Dancer, Lyphard, Caro, Irish River and Sharpen Up, either off the track, or The “new” speed of Nijinsky (above, returning to the winners’ enclosure, and, below, leading the field up Ascot’s home straight) left the “old-fashioned bred” Blakeney trailing in the 1973 running of the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth II Stakes

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as they emerged as sires, but the result was in broad terms probably more that Europeans purchased back their offpring than them shaping the modern US

Classic horse.

Nearly parallel to the rise of the Sadler’s Wells/Green Desert/Danehill triumvirate in Europe came what we believe was the next evolution in the North American Classic horse.

We’d suggest that in addition to the dynamics of Dirt racing in general, this was driven by three factors.

First, a genetic shift shaped by Fappiano and the John Nerud-managed horses from the Tartan Farm/Genter Stables background, Tartan’s nonpariel Dr. Fager, being the shape of things to come.

Second, an era of powerful Californian stables – the leading stallion-making trainers of the era were the west coast-based Charlie Whittingham and D. Wayne Lukas racing over speed-favouring tracks,.

Third, leading trainers with quarter-horse connections such as Lukas, Bob Baffert and Todd Pletcher, whose horses almost invariably run on or near the pace if at all capable.

What has to be wrought by the confluence of these factors is the American Dirt Classic runner, who is a tall, long-striding bio-mechanically efficient horse with a big cardio and good lactate tolerance, and/or lactate use.

Essentially, fast milers who can carry their

speed, particularly when racing in their own age group at two and as spring three-yearolds. They are able to set a strong early pace, and then just don’t slow down enough for the more traditional US Classic type to catch them.

The revolution is similar to what happened in athletics with the men’s 800m. Go back to 1980 and Steve Ovett was able to win an Olympic Gold at 800m, while also being the world-record holder over two miles. He and Coe were 800/1500m types.

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hese days, you would never see the equivalent of a Mo Farah, who has the world indoor twomile record, be anywhere near as competitive over 800m, because the event is now run so much

faster.

David Rudisha, who set the world record for 800m in the 2012 Olympics, ran his second lap at more or less the same speed as Dave Wottle, a more endurance-based 800/1500m type and one-time 800m worldrecord holder, who won the 1972 Olympics.

So what’s the difference? Rudisha ran his first lap a full three seconds faster!

The modern North American Classic horse, such as American Pharoah, Arrogate or Justify is the equivalent of David Rudisha.

The separate development of this type, and the subsequent commercial demand for them, has coincided with a diminishing interest in North American stock from European breeders, who have had such an embarrassment of riches among the domestic

Left, David Rudisha setting the world record for 800m in the 2012 Olympics.

He ran his second lap at more or less the same speed as Dave Wottle, a more endurance-based runner and a one-time 800m world-record holder.

Rudisha is able to carry his speed for longer – he ran his first lap a full three seconds faster than Wottle

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... the confluence of these factors is the American Dirt Classic runner, who is a tall, long-striding, bio-mechanically efficient horse, with a big cardio, and good lactate tolerance, and/or lactate use

stallion colony that motivation to look further afield has been limited.

As a counter to that argument it might be that while the offspring of Kitten’s Joy, Scat Daddy and War Front have made a signficant impact in Europe, each in their own way is an anomaly.

Kitten’s Joy, by Sadler’s Wells’s Irishtrained son El Prado, was a champion US Turf horse, and to all intents and purposes is purely a Turf sire.

Scat Daddy, by the Irish-trained Johannesburg (himself by Hennessy, a son of Storm Cat, out of a mare by Hawaii, a champion in South Africa, and on the Turf in the US), never ran on the Turf, but he has been effective as a Turf stallion, and Justify is his only Grade 1 son on the Dirt.

War Front, similarly never ran on Turf, but he is very much a sire of Turf runners – he’s by Danzig and out of Starry Dreamer, who was very proficient on Turf. Although she was by Rubiano, she had a dam who was by Forli, a South American horse with a European pedigree, out of a mare by Round Table, both of whom’s parents were European.

Since the divergence over the last 30 years, the modern US Classic type has been little tried in regions where Turf racing is predominant.

One that did get a try was Unbridled’s Song, a grandson of Fappiano, and a tremendously successful sire in the US – he was leading US sire in 2017, the year his son Arrogate triumphed in the Pegasus Invitational World Cup and Dubai World Cup.

He shuttled between Taylor Made Farm in Kentucky, and Arrowfield Stud in Australia’s Hunter Valley, but he has proved far less effective in his southern-hemisphere sojourns getting just ten stakes winners from three crops, only one of them graded.

The problem has tended to be that this model of the the US Classic horse has a very high cruising speed, but their bio-mechanics

aren’t suited to sharp bursts of acceleration.

They are types of horses who might be going easily 2f out, but can’t quicken for the sprint to the line. That said, the perceived impression is that the American Pharoah’s stock “walk” like Turf horses, and his trainer Bob Baffert felt that American Pharoah would have been very capable on that surface.

It is possible if they are trained and ridden to their likely strengths, stride mechanics and cardio, a North American Dirt runner might once again bring a new dynamic to European Turf racing.

War Front: did not run on Turf, but has been getting good performers on the surface and hails from a European background

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Graham Dench chats with jockey Oisin Murphy, who enjoyed a breakout year in 2018 and played a significant role in setting up Roaring Lion and Lightning Spear for Tweenhills Stud

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sk Oisin Murphy to identify the highlight of his stunning 2018 and he finds it difficult to choose between a clutch of memorable moments, yet really one race stands alone as encapsulating his coming of age.

Murphy had eight Group 1 winners on the board by the time this year’s international racing circus headed for Australia, Hong Kong and Japan, but the one that sealed his status in the top flight was the first of them in Britain – on Roaring Lion in the Coral-Eclipse.

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Though Murphy had appeared almost fully formed when he burst upon the scene as an 18-year-old in 2013 and demonstrated skills that belied his age and lack of experience with a four-timer on Ayr Gold Cup day, Murphy’s transition from overnight sensation to established player at the highest level was not as smooth as it perhaps might have been.

The apprentice championship and his appointment to Qatar Racing as number two behind Andrea Atzeni had followed swiftly in 2014, as did a first Group race win on Hot Streak while still a claimer, but it was not

until the back-end of 2017 that he savoured Group 1 success on Aclaim and Blond Me. Yet some still wondered if he was the real deal at the highest level.

That all changed at Sandown when a display that combined Murphy’s tactical nous and strength in the saddle with Roaring Lion’s class and courage prevailed over a trio of Aidan O’Brien runners. Murphy exacted sweet revenge over Ryan Moore and Saxon Warrior for a narrow defeat in the previous October’s Racing Post Trophy (G1).

If Qatar Racing’s grey son of Kitten’s Joy

Main picture, Roaring Lion and Oisin Murphy go clear to win the Irish Champion Stakes after a titanic duel with his regular foe Saxon Warrior (inset).

The pair met five times with two fantastic home straight battles at Sandown and Leopardstown as three-year-olds (both going Roaring Lion’s way), and one battle as two-year-olds in the Racing Post Trophy, which saw the Irish horse emerge victorious

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oisin murphy had finally grown up, so too had his rider.

Between Eclipse day and British Champions Day the pair blossomed in harmony and rattled up four successive wins at the top level, the last of them back in distance on ground that was far from certain to suit in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes. The colt was never involved in his outing on Dirt in the Breeders’ Cup Classic; a sidenote that will be forgotten.

“The Eclipse was great, because it was never going to be an easy run and yet Roaring Lion was well on top at the finish,” reflects Murphy. “The Eclipse proved how good he was, and then he was explosive in the Juddmonte at York, where he gave me an unbelievable feel.

“Then the Irish Champion Stakes was very firm ground and a small field, so we knew beforehand it would be messy. It was either make the running or sit where I did, but we beat Saxon Warrior a neck, the same as at Sandown.

“The Eclipse proved how good Roaring Lion was, and then he was explosive in the Juddmonte at York, where he gave me an unbelievable feel “At Ascot I didn’t have any worries really as I thought he would get through the ground, but I wasn’t that pleased with the draw in stall 15 as all of the pace and fancied ones apart from Beat The Bank were on the other side.

“Ascot wasn’t straightforward, but I believed in him beforehand and he felt brilliant going to post. He got the job done, and we were very happy with him.”

Sandown provided vindication for Murphy, who had never doubted that Roaring Lion would one day make full use of his talent, while York was Roaring Lion at his most impressive, but both Leopardstown and Ascot were also very special to Murphy.

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oisin murphy “Irish Champion Stakes day at Leopardstown was massive for me,” he recalls.

“I had won on Limini for Willie Mullins earlier on the card, and that was my first winner in Ireland and my first ride for Willie, whom I had ridden out for when I was about 11.

“There were so many people there that day that I knew from growing up in Ireland, and it meant such a lot to do well in front of them.

“Ascot was another great day, and being presented the trophy by the Queen made it extra special. I’ve ridden winners for her, but it was ‘her’ race and Sheikh Fahad and his brothers had watched it with her.”

A less anticipated success in the same silks came on Lightning Spear in Goodwood’s Qatar Sussex Stakes (G1). That was huge for Murphy too, and not just because of the Qatari sponsorship – the son of Pivotal has a special place in Murphy’s affections.

But while he and Roaring Lion will always be held dear by the jockey, by far the most financially lucrative association of 2018 came on the Godolphin-owned four-year-old Benbatl, on whom he netted a staggering £2.6 million for connections in the Dubai Turf (G1).

Far left, Murphy returns to the winners’ enclosure all smiles after winning the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes on his star performer Roaring Lion, above, the jockey won the Group 2 Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot on the Phoenix Thoroughbreds-owned Signora Cabello, below, the Group 1 Sussex Stakes victory on the new Tweenhills Stud stallion Lightning Spear gave Murphy a great deal of personal satisfaction

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urphy counts himself lucky to have kept the ride on the son of Dubawi after blaming himself for the colt’s previous defeat in Meydan’s Jebel Hatta.

And although the jockey was not always available to ride the horse after the Dubai World Cup night success, the pair enjoyed a top-level win at Munich before resuming their partnership against Winx in the Cox Plate (G1) at Moonee Valley.

While those who believed Benbatl might prevent Winx extending her extraordinary run to 29 wins were made to feel somewhat foolish, Murphy hid his disappointment well and spoke positively about his flying visit – even though he had picked up a 15-meeting riding ban the previous day for an offence on Spirit Of Valor. It was an offence that might have cost him just three days at home.

Rather than sound-off about the injustice or try to make excuses for Benbatl, he garnered further respect from Australian reporters when he said: “Winx was completely dominant, we had targeted the race for six months or so and came up against an outstanding mare. It rode like a European race and we didn’t really have any excuses.”

He added: “When I came in on Spirit Of Valor I hadn’t foreseen that I had caused

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Creating a stallion roster for Tweenhills Nothing gave Oisin Murphy more satisfaction in 2018 than the part he played in creating two exciting new stallions for Tweenhills Stud – the sheikh was among the first to recognise his potential and showed extraordinary faith in him from a very early stage.

Murphy says: “I rode for Sheikh Fahad in my first year on Dubawi Sound in the apprentice handicap on Champions Day. The horse didn’t have an obvious chance and ran bad, but although I can’t say for sure that I was looking at the long term it was the right thing for me career-wise as everything grew from there.

“Qatar Racing could have had anyone when they made me number two. When Andrea went back to ride for Sheikh Mohammed Obaid, again the team could easily have looked elsewhere but made me number one.

“I’d say Roaring Lion will make an exceptional stallion, because besides his toughness and his exceptional quality he’s a complete outcross to Dubawi and Galileo. That’s going to make him very popular.

“If he had got beat at Ascot I don’t think breeders would have held it against him, but winning over a mile can only add to his value.

“I do think that the Roaring Lion we saw in the second half of the season would have won the 2,000 Guineas.

“Lightning Spear winning the Sussex was massive, too, as he’s knocked on the door so often and it meant so much to everyone.

“On pedigree, ratings and looks and everything he should make a wonderful stallion, but he needed a Group 1 win to cement his place in Britain at stud.

“He’d have had no problem going to Ireland or France as a stallion, but that Sussex Stakes win meant he could stand here.

“I’m sure they will both do really well.”

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interference, but obviously I had as on the head-on it was pretty clear. Hopefully, I can learn from my mistake.”

Murphy is his own harshest critic, and learning from his mistakes has been key to his development. He seems highly unlikely to have his head turned by success and is already looking ahead to the next season.

He says: “It’s been an exciting time. I’ve come across a lot of really good horses and I’ve made really strong contacts with the likes of Saeed Bin Suroor and my first retainer Qatar Racing.

“Now it’s all about finding the horses for the future.”

News that three-time champion jockey Silvestre De Sousa intends to concentrate more on quality than quantity in 2019 prompted bookmakers to make Oisin Murphy clear second best for the 2019 Stobart jockeys’ title behind the 1-2 favourite at around 4-1.

However, while a first title remains a

“Roaring Lion will make an exceptional stallion, because besides his toughness and his exceptional quality he’s a complete outcross to Dubawi and Galileo burning ambition for Murphy, who rode more winners than De Sousa in the calendar year though not during the “artificial” championship season, he points out that he has different priorities.

“If I can ride as many horses and enjoy the sort of percentage of winners I was having in the last few months of the 2018 championship it puts me in with a realistic chance,” he reasons, “but Silvestre is going to be very hard to beat, despite what he says about the change of emphasis.

“I can’t do what Silvestre does when he goes up north and rides Saturday, Sunday and Monday and comes back with 12 winners. Nobody can beat him if he does that – and I have to be wherever Qatar, Phoenix and Andrew Balding want me.

“There’s an order there, and I’ll put everyone ahead of me going to Redcar to try to win the championship.

“If I go up north I can’t get extra rides there because I’ve never ridden winners for any of those trainers, except for Richard Fahey, who has his own jockeys. I’m reliant upon trying to get on the best horses down south, where it’s very competitive.

“I’ll be trying again though, that’s for sure.”

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Marcus Townend meets trainer Michael Dods, who in three of the last four years has won Group 1 sprints with the fillies Meccas Angel and Mabs Cross

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f TRAINER Michael Dods can secure the £15,000 he needs before the end of the year to hit £1 million in prize-money for the first time in his training career, it will be the icing on the cake of a perfect season.

But the Country Durham-based trainer can already reflect on a memorable campaign.

His speedball filly Mabs Cross may have been the width of a cigarette paper from landing the Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes at York when edged out by Alpha Delphini, but she picked up some pretty adequate Group 1 race compensation when collaring Gold Vibe in the final strides to land the Prix de l’Abbaye on Arc day in Paris.

Had Mabs Cross won on the Knavesmire, it would have been a third win in four years for Dods in one of the biggest 5f races in Europe following his successes in 2015 and 2016 with another flying filly, Meccas Angel.

They are victories 56-year-old Dods would not have wasted time dreaming about when he inherited the training licence following the death of his father Dickie in 1990.

Dods says: “I don’t think my father would believe what has happened. He’d be very proud of the whole thing and so are we are.

We didn’t expect it to happen like it has.

“I never expected I would ever win the Nunthorpe and now we’ve won it twice and been unlucky not to win it three times!

“We farmed and father had a permit to train NH horses. He got a full licence for the Flat and within two months of getting his licence he died of cancer. He got his licence in July and died in September.

“I was already involved in the training, but we only had 10 horses.

Luckily, I had just got married and was with my wife Carole, without her it would have been impossible to try to take it all on.

“It was the long-term plan that I would take over, but I never expected it so quickly. It has built up because

we have been heavily backed by the owners to race decent horses.”

At the start of his training career, Dods would combine his training with running the family farm. But, with 80 horses now in Denton Hall stables, the day-to-day running of the 550-acre arable, cattle and sheep operation has been delegated to a manager.

It was in 2010, with the support of Stobart chief executive Andrew Tinkler, that saw better quality horses arriving in the Dods stable, including the 2011 Lincoln Handicap winner Sweet Lightning.

There was also Barney McGrew, the 2009 Mabs Cross got “faster” through 2018

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michael dods Ayr Gold Cup runner-up who gave Dods a first Group-race win in the 2010 Chipcase Stakes at Newcastle.

But the better divisions in which Dods could play really changed thanks to the arrival of the filly the trainer bought for 16,000gns and who, in 2015, became rated the world’s top female sprinter.

The approach of Dods, whose daughters Chloe and Sophie also are heavily involved in the family stable, is to remain firmly grounded. There is no desire to expand horse numbers further, just continually upgrade quality.

“We don’t want 200 horses, we don’t want 150, we don’t want 100,” he explains. “It’s not that we are not ambitious. We want better horses and we want to do the job right. The owners we have also like that because they still have the personal touch.

“Luckily, we now have people such as owner-breeder Geoff Turnbull, and David and Emma Armstrong, who breed nice horses, behind us.

“David Metcalfe, the owner of Meccas Angel, was also inundated with offers to sell her after her two-year-old year.

Throughout her career there were always people trying to buy her and he always said: ‘When I sell her, she’s retired’.

“You try and buy a nice horse and one looks the part – our dearest purchase this year was 120,000gns and our cheapest 5,000gns “He stood by his word. There would not be many people that would have stood up to the offers he received and then get to win two Nunthorpes.

“When Meccas Angel retired, I never gave it a thought that within a few years we would get another one as good which we have. You dream about that, but we aren’t in the middle of Newmarket with all that Arab support behind us.”

Nunthorpe winner Meccas Angel

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But Dods is not complaining that he does not have the mega-budget to spend at the sales afforded to some of his training rivals.

“I have always said money doesn’t buy them,” he says. “Everyone thinks the more you pay, the better you get. I disagree. It might help if you are buying a Derby winner, but we are not going to buy one of them.

“You try and buy a nice horse and one who looks the part – our dearest purchase this year was 120,000gns and our cheapest 5,000gns “We might buy the odd sharp one – they are the harder ones to buy because the likes of Richard Hannon want them – but we try to buy a nice stamp and a horse with scope to go on and have a future.

michael dods “We are not going to be winning the Brocklesby Stakes [at Doncaster at the start of the Turf season] but hopefully by May and June we have some nice horses to come through.

“The ones who are going to be 1m4f horses are probably easier to buy because a lot of trainers don’t want that type of horse, they want to win the Queen Mary at Royal Ascot.

“I am only going to win a race like that if the Armstrongs have bred one good enough.”

An influx of 25 yearlings will be the seed corn for the Dods stable in 2019. Mabs Cross will also be back and gunning for more big-race success in some of the season’s biggest sprints.

A late foal who did not run as a juvenile, the daughter of Dutch Art has surprised Dods. She improved with every run she had in 2017 after starting out in a Pontefract maiden when she broke slowly, got boxed in and was unplaced.

After opening her winning account third time out in a maiden at Newcastle, she progressed to land a Listed race at Musselburgh last October.

This year started out with an unlucky second at Bath before she landed the Palace House Stakes (G3) at Newmarket.

She was placed in the Temple Stakes (G2) at Haydock, King’s Stand Stakes (G1) at Royal Ascot, and the Sapphire Stakes (G2) at The

Curragh as well as in the Nunthorpe before finally cracking the Group 1 nut in France.

“Gerald Mosse, who rode her in France, said that he’d watched her races and she was getting quicker. He is right. Every time I have run her she has improved and you don’t see that often. She has surprised me,” he smiles.

Invitations to race abroad over the winter have been turned down with the focus firmly fixed on the next British summer.

“I said to David that to have her ready for Dubai World Cup day will cause problems when the main races come along,” explains Dods. “The Temple Stakes, King’s Stand, Nunthorpe and Abbaye will be the four definites.

“With some of the top sprinters retiring, the division looks pretty open – there is Sands Of Mali but he looks more of a 6f horse to me.

“Mabs Cross is doing what Meccas Angel did. Now everyone thinks I like sprinting fillies. Well I do, but we didn’t set out to plan that!’ A bit like the whole of Dods’ career, plans have been overtaken by successful circumstance.

Mabs Cross collecting her Group 1 in the Prix de l’Abbaye under Gerald Mosse

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n the midst of the hectic and exciting autumn sales season when mares and foals change hands, sometimes for staggering sums, and stellar colts retire to stud, thinking about protecting these investments is not always the first thought to spring to mind.

However, bloodstock insurance is a vital element of every owner and stud’s financial package.

MS Amlin Insurance specialises in bloodstock insurance at the highest echelons of the business globally and David Ashby, managing director and principle underwriter, explains what the company can offer to mare owners, stud farms and stallion buyers, as part of their vast portfolio of policies.

Through its links with some of the world’s leading equine veterinary facilities, MS Amlin is at the cutting edge of developments in medicine and science, allowing the company to offer its clients policies that take into account the most up-to-date innovations.

One such area in which MS Amlin offers an advantage to clients, particularly stallion owners, is in the type of cover it provides for first-season sire sub-fertility.

The prevailing method of calculating whether a stallion suffers from sub-fertility issues was previously based on the percentage of mares he successfully covered in a season.

However, Ashby, in conjunction with Charles Hamilton, Rossdales Veterinary Practice and a number of stud managers, devised a new method based on the latest innovations in fertility measurement.

“The lastest techniques enable the stud owner and insurer to come to a much faster decision about whether the sub-fertile stallion is a claim or not, and it has been written to keep up with developments in veterinary science rather than the old wording,” explains Ashby.

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MS Amlin Insurance’s managing director David Ashby explains the latest developments in stallion fertility testing, the influences of improved care for new-born foals, as well as the huge progress, with MS Amlin’s backing, being made in treating the distressing wobbler syndrome “It is based on a 30 to 35 per cent per cycle conception rate, which works out to 67 per cent of mares covered overall.”

The expertise behind this method is based on research conducted at Texas A and M University where Charles Love and Dickson Verner, global experts on stallion sub-fertility, lead one of the US’s largest and best equine veterinary faculties. Love, Verner and their team are consulted by MS Amlin.

“Largely I refer everything to Kentucky with whom I have worked with for years.

“The team at Texas A and M University – Dixon Varner, Charlie Love and Terry Blanchard – has literally written the book on stallion sub-fertility.

“Dixon came over and gave a lecture to the insurance market last August, which I organised,” adds Ashby The specialist equine fertility vets who carry out examinations for MS Amlin are highly skilled and trained individuals who offer clients the reassurance that their horses are in the care of the best people available.

MS Amlin’s clients purchasing or retiring a colt to stud will contact Ashby, who then makes the necessary arrangements for the vet to examine the colt.

Using ultrasound scanning, the vet can accurately measure the height, width and breadth of the colt’s testicles and using those measurements can predict the likely volume of sperm the colt could produce daily.

From that figure, they extrapolate the predicted successful covering rate, and so provide an accurate reading of the colt’s fertility.

A predicted daily output of five billion sperm is the magic number a stallion needs to reach in order to be fertile.

If the initial examination indicates that the stallion is unlikely to reach that target it is not time to despair. Ashby outlines the steps that are taken by MS Amlin in that scenario.

“It depends on how close the stallion is to five billion,” he says. “If it is 4.9 billion then it’s really not an issue, but if it works out to 1.3 billion then what we would have to do is re-examine him.

“Typically, we work with the stud farm during the winter – the stallion would be let down, be shown mares, wouldn’t be stressed or asked to do anything, he would just make the transition from a horse in training to a horse at stud.

“Generally, you would expect a horse’s testicles to get bigger as they mature. With maturity the testicles will get bigger, and as

bloodstock insurance they get bigger the sperm output increases.”

The close ties MS Amlin has with Texas A and M, and other leading specialists and veterinary faculties in the US, provides them, and therefore their clients, with access to innovative technology and current research.

In the area of stallion infertility and sub-fertility exciting new genetic developments are taking place that could change the future of breeding thoroughbreds with developing therapies for treating sub-fertility.

A chromosomal abnormality has been identified; a genetic component of stallion sub-fertility that has shown up in the DNA of stallions known to be operating less than optimally.

In blind tests on a leading US stallion farm where one of the stallions is known to be sub-fertile, the genetic testing precisely identified that stallion from the 25 horses that were tested.

The test is simple. All that is needed from the horse is a hair follicle from its mane or tail, which contains the horse’s genetic code.

As this is in the vanguard of equine reproductive technology, the technique is still in its infancy, but Ashby expands on what the next steps could be.

“There are lots of reasons why horses are

sub-fertile, but a number of horses who are known to be have been tested and found to carry the gene.

“What is not known is whether fertile stallions have copies of the gene. Large farms have tested their stallions sub-fertile horses and in a blind-test that sub-fertile horse has been accurately identified.”

Some of the world’s greatest bloodlines are on offer at the breeding stock sales, and protecting the investments in mares, no matter what the initial outlay, is another key element of MS Amlin’s insurance portfolio.

“There are lots of reasons why horses are sub-fertile, but a number of horses who are known to be have been tested and found to carry the gene

MS Amlin’s David Ashby: is working closely with veterinarians so that improved methods can help the owner, the insurer and the horse

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bloodstock insurance The company offers a multitude of policies to the mare owner, including one that, surprisingly, not many owners take up.

Breeding soundness cover is offered to clients when insuring their mares, but few buy the policy, which offers an examination by one of MS Amlin’s expert fertility vets.

The broodmare policies that are more popular with owners and breeders include insuring against delivering a filly foal, based on reliable scans, and insurance against the possibility of the foal being born prior to the January 1.

Innovations in veterinary medicine have also contributed to a reduction in the costs of broodmare and foal policies.

“One thing that has made a real difference and helped to lower the price of insurance premiums is the work that can be done with newborn foals, testing their blood for markers of infection. That has made a big difference to foal mortality rates, which has brought the costs of foal insurance down,” reports Ashby.

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S Amlin is at the leading edge of science and innovation in the equine veterinary sector and the work Ashby and the firm is undertaking in the area of “wobbler syndrome” or Cervical Vertebrae Stenotic Myelopathy (CVSM) could, potentially, change the future for horses diagnosed with the condition.

Before that can happen, MS Amlin has changed its policy criteria for paying out on a claim for wobbler syndrome.

Previously only a mortality claim could be made, but with the research the company has revised its approach to claims and now, if a horse is diagnosed as suffering from Grade 2 CVSM, MS Amlin will pay that as a loss-of-use claim.

The company currently has a gelding in pre-training who underwent pioneering surgery to cure his CVSM after the firm paid out on a claim days before he was due to sell as a yearling.

“We have been working on this issue for some time and I have worked a lot with vet Barry Grant in California, Barry is the man who operated on Seattle Slew.

“We paid out on a wobbler claim last year, just a week before the horse was due to sell. We flew Barry over from the states, he performed the fusion operation and the yearling is now in pre-training, and he is perfectly normal.

“We had him operated on by Bruce Bladon

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“One thing that has made a real difference and helped to lower the price of insurance premiums is the new work that can be done with newborn foals and Barry operated in Bruce’s Donnington Grove practice in Newbury. Bruce has supervised his recovery and, occasionally, he will perform a myleography.

“This is an imaging examination that involves the introduction of a spinal needle into the spinal canal and the injection of contrast material in the space around the spinal cord and nerve roots using a real-time form of x-ray called fluoroscopy. Even if Barry is in California he can watch the procedure.”

The initial operation involved putting a metal basket between the cervical vertebrae that were pressing on the spinal column, and

then fusing the vertebrae together to prevent them from pushing on the spinal column and stop the horse from “wobbling.”

If the horse goes on to have a successful racing career, Ashby hopes that the evidence will persuade more owners to abandon their prejudices and superstitions about horses who have undergone surgery, and encourage them to follow this route with the less-severely affected horses.

“People don’t like the concept of the operation, there are a lot of urban myths around these horses – that they are going to fall over, that they are going to be dangerous and so on – which is why we took this one home really,” he explains.

Ashby even got to observe the gelding’s progress at close hand, as the youngster spent his recuperation period with the managing director’s eventers.

“I think there is a feeling in the thoroughbred industry that people don’t like horses who have undergone surgery. We had the horse at home for eight months and he has never done anything untoward, and once we gelded him he was just like any other horse.

“He used to hold his head very low after he had his first operation, but now has a good head carriage.“ From wobblers to sub-fertile stallions, and at all points of a thoroughbred’s life and career, MS Amlin provides insurance and global expertise to its clients, protecting their bloodstock investments.

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Sally Ann Grassick chats with connections of the Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac winner, Lily’s Candle

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uch has been written about the fairy tales in racing over the years. Those stories keep us hooked on the sport in the hope that we might be the next person on whom Lady Luck chooses to shine on.

The superstar mare Treve was one of the most recent unlikely fairy tales in French racing – bought back as a yearling for just €22,000, the daughter of Motivator went on to win two Prix de l’Arc de Triomphes and capture the heart of racing fans the world over.

This year’s “Conte de Fee” (French fairy tale) comes in the shape of the Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac winner Lily’s Candle, whose Fairy Godmother has been scattering the ever-elusive magic fairy dust over every party involved with the two-year-old filly since her birth.

Let’s start at the very beginning, as every good story should.

From the second crop of Al Shaqab stallion Style Vendome, Lily’s Candle was bred by Monique Lepeudry and is the sixth generation of her family raised at Elevage de Tourgeville, located just over the hill from Arqana’s Deauville sales complex.

At 91 years of age, Monique Lepeudry owns just two broodmares in their entirety – one is the dam of Lily’s Candle and the other is the dam of Group 1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud winner Robin Of Navan.

The Lepeudry family are avid supporters of French-based stallions as explains Monique’s grandson Felix.

“We are proud that Lily’s Candle is 100 % Tourgeville; we are small breeders, but we’ve managed to make an impact

“If a mare does not have a pedigree that requires going abroad then we will stay to get her covered in France, if possible,” he says.

“The quality of stallions standing in France continues to improve each year and we have had great success with American Post, the sire of Robin Of Navan and Liliside, Style Vendome, the sire of Lily’s Candle, as well as with Kendargent and Trempolino.

“We have 13 broodmares of our own, but including boarders we will foal 30 mares next year at Tourgeville.

“We are proud that Lily’s Candle is 100 per cent Tourgeville; we are small breeders, but we’ve managed to make an impact.

“We buy mares as a project and we believe in our choices, so we keep trying even if it doesn’t work the first few times.”

The Lepeudry family may have sold Lily’s Candle for just €15,000 at the Arqana October Yearling Sale, but their luck eventually came in when they sold her half-sister by American Post for €230,000 at the same sale this year.

They are also planning on retaining another half-sister to Lily’s Candle, a filly foal

by Dariyan.

“Lily’s Candle is the seventh foal out of Golden Lily and by far her best to date,” adds Felix. “It will be superb to have one of her half-sisters to add to our broodmare band in the future.

“Golden Lily is 16 years old and is currently empty; we may well have to look at sending her abroad to be covered next year.”

Lily’s Candle was sold on privately after she went through the ring at Arqana as a yearling and ended up in the care of trainer Fabrice Vermeulen. Relatively unknown outside of France, Vermeulen set up training in Belgium around ten years ago with the aid of his partner Jeremy Para.

Now with 110 horses in his care, based at yards in Marseille and Chantilly, his figures have continued to improve year on year and he has trained over 100 winners in 2018.

With the rise in the number of horses and winners has come an improvement in the quality of horses too, and Lily’s Candle was the trainer’s first-ever Group 1 winner.

Para explained: “Lily’s Candle always showed quality in the mornings, but we honestly didn’t think she was as good as she

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lily’s candle has proved herself to be.

“She was always very calm and just kept progressing. We had not won a Group 1 before so I can’t compare it to anything else, but it was an amazing moment for both of us. We have had a super year, better than the previous years, so to end 2018 with a win in the Marcel Boussac was phenomenal. It still hasn’t sunk in yet to be honest.”

We have, however, skipped over a chapter in the Lily’s Candle story – on the eve of the Prix Marcel Boussac the filly returned once again to the Arqana sales ring, this time at Saint-Cloud for the Arc Sale.

This time the filly was purchased by Michel Zerolo’s Oceanic Bloodstock for €390,000 on behalf of American owner Martin Schwartz.

It was in the latter’s famous orange colours with blue stars that the filly achieved Group 1 glory at Longchamp less than 24 hours after the hammer fell.

“I had previously tried to find somebody to purchase Lily’s Candle privately,” said Zerolo when explaining his reasons for selecting the filly for his client. “I offered her to a couple of people with no response.

“When the Arc Sale catalogue came out, I put four horses up to owner Martin Schwartz,

“The win was thrilling for all involved, especially as it was a first Group 1 win for trainer Fabrice Vermeulen and the first to be trained in Marseille who has always bought at the sale in the past.

“Ten years ago we purchased Elusive Wave from the Arc Sale and she went on to finish second in the Boussac the following day so it was nice to go one better this time!

“We told her jockey Pierre-Charles Boudot to ride her for a place and he did brilliantly.

The win was thrilling for all involved, especially as it was a first Group 1 win for

trainer Fabrice Vermeulen and the first-ever to be trained in Marseille.

“Along with the Prix de Diane, this was one of the races we have always wanted to win.

“Schwartz has about ten horses in training, mostly with Jean-Claude Rouget. He is passionate about racing and he is great for the sport.

“He had never even heard of Fabrice Vermeulen before we bought the filly, but Fabrice’s strike-rate is amazing and he is achieving it with lesser horses.

“He deserves success and a good horse. I am delighted that Lily’s Candle will return to his care. Hopefully, she will be back for bigger and better things next year,” added Zerolo.

The decision for the filly to remain in training with Vermeulen provides a happy ending to our story for the trainer.

“Jean-Claude Rouget introduced us to Michel Zerolo and thanks to them we can access the highest level and still keep our filly,” smiles Para. “It is all a bonus now as we never dreamed any of this would be possible.

It really is a super story.”

Never a truer word was said. Let’s hope that as regards Lily’s Candle and her connections, they all live happily ever after.

The winning connections: trainer Fabrice Vermeulen (left), jockey Pierre-Charles Boudot and bloodstock agent Michel Zerolo

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global sires

Leading A global sires 2018

slightly quieter year for Galileo on the global stage saw the world’s best stallion drop from his third placing on this global earnings’ table in 2017 to 13th this year. His 2018 earnings fell to $15 million from $24 million in 2017.

However, it was the year in which he broke his Dad’s Group 1 winners race record, and he was still the leading stakes-producing sire globally – 36 black-type winners in 2018.

He is tracked in this respect by Dubawi with 31 stakes winners, and the Darley stallion is the one with the highest earnings of the European-based stallions.

His prize-money earnings increased from $13 million on this table last year to

$19 million. His biggest earners were Benbatl and Wild Illusion.

Tracking him was Galileo’s stud mate Fastnet Rock, whose progeny won over $17 million. His big earner was his Australian runner Comin’ Through, winner of the Doomben Cup (G1), and he heads up two further 2018 Australian Group 1 winners and the Euro runner I Can Fly, whose big day came when second in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes.

The third-leading Irish-based sire is Lope De Vega, his promise as a leading sire beginning to come to fruition. His recent Breeders’ Cup winner Newspaperofrecord and his November Australian Group 1 sprinter Santa Ana Lane helping greatly with the Ballylinch Stud-based sire’s earnings figures.

Leading 2018 global sires by earnings (listed by overall earnings in $ to November 6, 2018) STALLION

Country

Deep Impact (JPN) Japan King Kamehameha (JPN) Japan Heart’s Cry (JPN) Japan Stay Gold (JPN) Japan Snitzel (AUS) Australia Daiwa Major (JPN) Japan Dubawi (IRE) England Kitten’s Joy United States Harbinger (GB) Japan Fastnet Rock (AUS) Ireland Candy Ride (ARG) United States Gold Allure (JPN) Japan Galileo (IRE) Ireland Scat Daddy United States Street Cry (IRE) United States Lord Kanaloa (JPN) Japan Rulership (JPN) Japan More Than Ready United States Kurofune Japan Manhattan Cafe (JPN) Japan I Am Invincible (AUS) Australia Into Mischief United States Hard Spun United States South Vigorous Japan Exceed And Excel (AUS) Ireland Kinshasa no Kiseki (AUS) Japan Lope De Vega (IRE) Ireland Tapit United States Medaglia D’Oro United States Lookin At Lucky United States Helmet (AUS) England Curlin United States Quality Road United States Empire Maker United States Mastercraftsman (IRE) Ireland Frankel (GB) England High Chaparral (IRE) Ireland

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BS wnrs 27 8 7 6 0 4 31 16 8 7 15 4 36 19 6 7 2 12 3 3 0 17 5 1 10 0 13 12 11 6 3 15 16 2 10 18 5

BSh

Earnings

29 58,642,149 9 28,228,060 8 26,557,110 7 25,224,701 0 22,069,653 5 19,725,356 34 19,396,505 19 18,178,804 10 17,840,663 9 17,779,737 17 16,555,849 5 16,200,666 38 15,776,277 21 15,645,155 9 15,608,981 8 14,971,273 5 14,583,236 14 14,291,674 4 13,258,202 4 13,038,371 0 12,951,836 19 12,675,544 7 12,665,907 2 12,649,244 13 12,310,520 1 12,147,339 16 11,891,524 14 11,845,227 14 11,755,727 7 11,345,940 6 11,227,844 16 11,204,772 18 10,993,821 3 10,827,033 13 10,776,770 22 10,734,677 7 10,501,247

global sires Leading 2018 global sires by earnings (listed by overall earnings in $ to November 6, 2018) STALLION Country BSwnrs

BSh

Earnings

Teofilo (IRE) Ireland Symboli Kris S Japan Street Sense United States Orfevre (JPN) Japan Shamardal Ireland Flatter United States Captain Sonador (AUS) Australia Sea The Stars (IRE) Ireland Lonhro (AUS) Australia Malibu Moon United States Sebring (AUS) Australia Admire Moon (JPN) Japan Speightstown United States Uncle Mo United States Pyro Japan Kodiac (GB) Ireland Nathaniel (IRE) England War Front United States Congrats United States Not A Single Doubt (AUS) Australia Henny Hughes Japan Poet’s Voice (GB) England Giant’s Causeway United States Ghostzapper United States Written Tycoon (AUS) Australia Victoire Pisa (JPN) Japan Savabeel (AUS) New Zealand Sinister Minister Japan Neo Universe (JPN) Japan Kane Hekili (JPN) Japan Black Tide (JPN) Japan Myboycharlie (IRE) France English Channel United States Blame United States Midnight Lute United States Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) Ireland Zenno Rob Roy (JPN) Japan Artie Schiller Australia City Zip United States So You Think (NZ) Ireland Distorted Humor United States Bernardini United States Archarcharch Smart Missile (AUS) Australia Johannesburg Japan Majestic Warrior Japan Denman (AUS) Australia Jungle Pocket (JPN) Japan The Factor United States Tapizar United States Redoute’s Choice (AUS) Australia Harlan’s Holiday United States Pierro (AUS) Australia Roses in May Japan Kantharos United States

17 4 10 3 19 10 1 10 6 12 1 6 20 15 1 13 13 18 3 1 4 8 13 12 0 2 0 2 2 3 2 4 16 14 9 7 3 11 10 3 14 5 5 0 1 8 3 2 8 3 6 6 0 2 9

10,379,129 10,273,565 9,931,451 9,728,670 9,530,895 9,387,751 9,381,856 9,342,586 9,283,264 9,118,418 8,996,340 8,885,055 8,759,959 8,680,741 8,442,834 8,319,238 8,308,458 8,305,433 8,262,517 8,245,916 8,162,923 8,092,741 7,941,573 7,700,927 7,629,648 7,605,349 7,600,245 7,407,376 7,379,298 7,285,124 7,159,832 7,047,049 7,019,736 6,956,867 6,912,265 6,876,586 6,833,212 6,781,050 6,688,731 6,684,144 6,683,716 6,561,741 6,460,421 6,360,404 6,355,346 6,343,235 6,324,849 6,303,126 6,108,605 6,057,872 6,032,244 5,975,026 5,972,301 5,970,444 5,964,701

16 3 8 2 16 8 1 7 5 11 0 5 16 14 0 11 11 16 2 0 3 6 12 11 0 1 0 1 1 2 1 3 14 13 8 6 2 10 9 1 13 3 4 0 0 7 2 1 6 2 4 5 0 1 7

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Galileo and Dubawi: unshakeable at the top, writes Jocelyn de Moubray Dubawi: this year’s crop of three-year-olds were his first from a six-figure fee, while he had two of the best juveniles (right) of 2018

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he best races open to three-year-olds are still the races which count for a stallion’s career. These figures opposite, which are based on Racing Post Ratings, are designed to give a three-year rolling average of which European stallions are doing best in this category.

Every year a crop is removed and a new generation of three-year-olds added to the figures. It is perhaps surprising that the figures are consistent and changes happen slowly or when new sires join the ranks of older sires once they have had five crops of three-year-olds to race.

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...with the right opportunities, age is no bar to a stallion succeeding at the highest level

Galileo and Dubawi have been at the top of these tables for five consecutive years now.

During this period both of their results have improved showing that, with the right opportunities, age is no bar to a stallion succeeding at the highest level.

Indeed at 16 Dubawi is a youngster among the leading older sires as Galileo, Invincible Spirit and Pivotal are all over 20 and still returning consistently excellent results.

Galileo’s percentages are probably better because he covers fewer mares and those he does cover are not only the best, but also the best suited to him. Dubawi is still at the beginning of his time as an expensive sire as

older stallions

Too Darn Hot

Sires of 2013-2015 crops ranked by percentage of runners rated 110 or more Sire

Quorto

this year’s three-year-olds were the first from a six-figure covering fee and next year’s twoyear-olds are the first since his fee reached £200,000.

Dubawi’s results continue to improve with better mares and remarkably he is the sire of the two top-rated two-year-olds in Europe in 2018 in Too Darn Hot and Quorto.

In the near future the big two, Galileo and Dubawi, are going to be joined by Frankel as his second crop of three-year-olds confirmed his success rate with horse rated 110+ is similar to those of Europe’s best sires.

Sea The Stars is very close behind and, although the number of foal shares his

Foals (13-15)

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Galileo 460 45 9.80 103 22.0 Dubawi 353 29 8.20 85 24.0 Soldier Hollow 195 6 3.10 26 13.0 New Approach 281 8 2.80 27 10.0 Dark Angel 405 11 2.70 25 6.0 Invinicble Spirit 344 9 2.60 42 12.00 Teofilo 303 6 2.00 36 12.0 Pivotal 227 4 1.80 30 13.00 Acclamation 328 6 1.80 19 6.0 Shamardal 356 6 1.70 45 13.00 Tamayuz 118 2 1.70 14 12.00 Kodiac 432 5 1.20 35 8.0 Raven' s Pass 183 2 1.10 18 10.0 Dutch Art 279 3 1.10 18 7.0 Holy Roman Emperor 381 3 0.79 20 5.0 Iffraaj 282 2 0.71 29 10 Oasis Dream 291 2 0.69 18 6.0 Exceed and Excel 317 2 0.63 28 9.0 Lawman 323 2 0.62 20 6.20 Motivator 173 1 0.58 17 9.80 Kendargent 344 2 0.58 29 8.0 Footstepsinthesand 228 1 0.44 11 5.0 Rock of Gibraltar 283 1 0.35 19 6.70

Sires retired to stud in 2010 Sea The Stars 278 13 4.80 44 16.0 Adlerflug 52 2 3.80 8 15.0 Mastercraftsman 384 4 1.00 35 9.0 Fastnet Rock 355 2 0.56 30 8.0 Le Havre 265 1 0.38 21 7.9 Camacho 136 0 0 4 2.9 Sires retired to stud in 2011 Lope De Vega 217 5 2.30 36 17.0 Siyouni 271 4 1.50 29 11.0 Showcasing 205 3 1.50 11 5.0 Equiano 280 2 0.71 13 5.0 Fast Company 206 1 0.49 11 5.0

Sires retired to stud in 2012 Wootton Bassett 83 Dream Ahead 257 Zoffany 322

3 3.60 8 9.60 3 1.20 18 7.00 4 1.20 22 7.0

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older stallions owners agree make it difficult to be sure, he has covered more and probably better mares recently.

The other sires who could join the elite in the near future are Lope De Vega and Siyouni, both of whom have their first threeyear-olds from a higher fee on the track next year, and Wootton Bassett whose figures continue to be excellent, even if the small numbers involved adds an extra doubt.

Next year will be decisive for Lope De Vega and Siyouni, whereas it will not be possible to judge Wootton Bassett for sure until 2020 when his first large crop will be three-yearolds.

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...of the other leading middle-distance sires only Sea The Stars and Camelot reached the top 20 European sires by yearling average

their true value in the commercial market, aside of course from the big two/three.

Around 60 to 70 per cent of the three-year wins by Galileo, Frankel and Dubawi are over 1m2f or further and their yearling averages were close to double those of any other sire.

Yet while Galileo’s yearlings are more popular than ever, his average price was up by 25 per cent, Dubawi’s average was close to unchanged at four per cent and Frankel’s yearling average was slightly down from 2017.

Of the other leading middle-distance sires only Sea The Stars and Camelot reached the top 20 European sires by yearling average and it was only Camelot at +25 per cent who saw his average price rise from 2017 to 2018.

The average price of many of the other leading middle-distance sires fell, despite the

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older stallions Sires of three-year-olds listed by percentage of runners rated 110 or more 2018 Sire

Fee 2014

Nos Foals

Nos 110+

Galileo Private 137 Dubawi £100,000 120 New Approach £80,000 82 Invincible Spirit €70,000 123 Soldier Hollow £12,000 71 Mastercraftsman €35,000 157 Dark Angel €27,500 120 Sea The Stars €85,000 82 Exceed And Excel £35,000 87 Teofilo €50,000 101 Shamardal €50,000 123 Dutch Art £35,000 83 Oasis Dream £85,000 81 Holy Roman Emperor €20,000 92 Iffraaj €25,000 113 Kendargent €15,000 122 Le Havre €7,000 99 Kodiac £10,000 179 Epsom Derby winner, Masar (New Approach)

fact that they all enjoyed excellent years on the racecourse.

Nathaniel and Sea The Stars were, of course, the sires of the first two home in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, Mastercraftsman was represented by one of the year’s stars in Alpha Centauri, New Approach sired the Derby winner and six other Group winners, while Teofilo’s stars included the sprinter Tantheem.

Intello’s first crop of three-year-olds included a Group 1 winner over a mile Yet none of this success could stop their yearlings being worth significantly less than a year earlier.

The market has its own logic and these sires are more or less the only significant sires, aside from the big three, whose majority of winners come over 1m2f or further.

There is a demand for expensive middledistance yearling prospects, but it is only a restrained one and not broad enough to sustain demand for a range of expensive middle-distance stallions.

Aside from these middle-distance sires there are several others who seem to be good value for both breeders and yearling buyers.

Among the older sires Gestüt Auenquelle’s Soldier Hollow continues to return excellent results and, although it may not be

15 10 6 4 2 4 3 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0

%

Nos 95+

%

11.0 39 28.00 8.3 25 21.00 7.3 9 11.00 3.3 11 8.90 2.8 7 9.90 2.5 19 12.00 2.5 8 6.7 2.4 8 9.8 2.3 9 10.0 2.0 16 16.0 1.6 14 11.0 1.2 9 11.0 1.2 4 4.9 1.1 9 9.8 0 15 13.0 0 12 9.8 0 8 8.1 0 11 6.1

Retired to stud in 2011

Showcasing £4,500 71 1 1.4 4 5.6 Siyouni €7,000 83 1 1.2 13 16.0 Equiano £8,000 84 1 1.2 3 3.6 Lope de Vega €12,500 64 0 0 12 19.0

Retired to stud in 2012 Wootton Basset €4,000 45 2 4.4 5 11.0 Zoffany €7,500 96 0 0 3 3.1 Retired to stud in 2013

Frankel £125,000 103 8 7.8 27 26.0 Nathaniel £20,000 103 1 1.0 10 9.7

Retired to stud in 2014

Farhh £17,500 36 2 5.6 8 22.0 Intello £25,000 95 4 4.2 15 16.0 Camelot €25,000 135 4 3.0 21 16.0 Havana Gold £8,500 93 2 2.2 9 9.7 Dawn Approach €35,000 98 2 2.0 10 10.0 Dabirsim €9,000 96 1 1.0 4 4.2 Cityscape £5,000 46 0 0 4 8.7 Pedro The Great €3,000 35 0 0 2 5.7 Reliable Man €6,000 40 0 0 3 7.5 Stats courtesy of JdeM

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By European Champion Sprinter and leading sire influence OASIS DREAM Out of European Champion 2YO ATTRACTION (with 8 Gr.1 wins between them)

His impressive looking first yearlings include strong, athletic types already earmarked to join top two-year-old sprint trainers for 2019 David Barron Karl Burke Mick Channon Tom Clover (2) Clive Cox Michael Dods Michael Easterby Tim Easterby (3) Richard Fahey (3) Richard Hannon Mark Johnston (2) Martyn Meade Brian Meehan Johnny Murtagh Amanda Perrett Kevin Ryan (2) Bryan Smart (3)

Top prices include: £50,000, £42,000, £35,000, £32,000, €30,000, etc.

Rated 111 by Timeform at 3 years, higher than Oasis Dream’s most successful sire son Showcasing

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older stallions appreciated outside Germany, he is the type of middle-distance sire wh0 could attract interest as he is also a consistent producer of two-year-olds and many of his progeny don’t stay further than 1m2f.

The son of In The Wings sired the first two in the Deutsches Derby, Weltstar and Destino, but also Germany’s champion twoyear-old filly Whispering Angel and Nova Sol, who was Group placed at two in France, as

well as the 1m2f Group winners Dallas Affair and Wai Key Star.

Adlerflug is another German-based son of In The Wings with excellent results, but in his case from a very small sample and his first reasonably sized crop will be three-year-olds in 2020.

Little has gone right for Darley’s Ravens Pass since he retired to stud at €40,000 and this year his fee was down to only €10,000,

but it is a price at which he looks to be great value.

Sire of the Group 1 filly Via Ravenna in 2017, his two-year-old crop looks very promising and includes the Group 1 winner Royal Marine as well as the Group-placed Masaff.

Among the older sires whose fee has risen significantly in recent years is Tally-Ho Stud’s Kodiac. His first two-year-old runners from

Sires of two-year-olds in Europe up to October 28, 2018 Sire

2015 fee

Runners

Winners

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W/R %

110+

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%R

90+

%

Fast sires Showcasing Kodiac Oasis Dream Dream Ahead Camacho Zoffany Dandy Man Dark Angel Acclamation Dutch Art

£15,000 47 €25,000 125 £75,000 41 €15,000 45 €7,500 57 €12,500 78 €6,500 92 €27,500 96 €35,000 30 £40,000 32

16 34 2 4.30 6 45 36 4 3.20 12 17 41 1 2.40 8 7 16 1 2.20 2 18 32 1 1.80 3 20 26 1 1.30 6 24 27 0 0.00 4 28 29 0 0.00 4 7 23 0 0.00 3 11 34 0 0.00 2

13.0 10 21.0 9.60 20 16.0 20.0 11 27.0 4.40 4 9.0 5.30 5 8.8 7.70 10 13.0 4.30 6 6.5 4.20 8 8.0 10.0 5 17.0 6.25 2 6.0

Expensive sires Galileo private 56 Dubawi £125,000 44 Invincible Spirit €100,000 45 Frankel £125,000 26 Sea The Stars £125,000 36

21 37 5 8.90 17 18 41 2 4.50 6 18 40 2 4.40 5 12 46 1 3.80 4 13 36 1 2.80 4

30.0 17 30.0 14.0 7 16.0 11.0 10 22.0 15.0 6 23.0 11.0 5 14.0

Others

Raven’s Pass £20,000 20 Lope De Vega €40,000 66 Reliable Man €6,000 15 Soldier Hollow £15,000 21 Wootton Bassett €4,000 17 Siyouni €20,000 52 Pedro The Great €3,000 21 New Approach £80,000 33 Nathaniel £20,000 33 Teofilo £40,000 22 Camelot €30000 50 Exceed And Excel €40000 45 Dawn Approach £35,000 39 Dabirsim £9,000 25 Iffraaj £22,500 53 Holy Roman Emperor €20,000 26

6 30 1 5.0 2 25 35 1 1.5 7 5 33 0 0 3 6 29 0 0 3 4 23 0 0 2 19 37 0 0 5 8 38 0 0 2 9 27 0 0 3 8 24 0 0 3 8 36 0 0 2 13 26 0 0 4 14 31 0 0 3 11 28 0 0 2 8 32 0 0 1 16 31 0 0 2 10 38 0 0 1

10.0 3 15.0 11.0 8 12.0 20.0 3 20.0 14.0 4 19.0 12.0 4 24.0 10.0 12 23.0 10.0 4 19.0 9.0 3 9.0 9.0 4 12.0 9.10 2 9.1 8.0 6 12.0 6.70 3 6.7 5.10 2 5.1 4.00 2 8.0 3.80 2 3.8 3.80 1 3.8

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older stallions a higher fee – he stood at €25,000 in 2015 – were impressive, and included a Group 1 winner and four other Group winners, and he has covered at €45,000 and €50,000 since.

The majority of Kodiac’s two-year-old winners are still sprinters, but he has produced a top middle-distance horse in Best Solution and may well do so again now he is covering better mares.

Lope De Vega and Siyouni have both produced consistently above average results from the moment their progeny began to race, while, from the same generation, Whitsbury Manor’s Showcasing went through a slightly quiet period due to a lack of numbers.

However, his first two-year-olds since his fee went up to £15,000 include four Group winners from 85 foals, with Advertise and Soldier’s Call two of the best of their generation.

Lope De Vega and Siyouni have both produced consistently above-average results from the moment their progeny began to race Showcasing is clearly an excellent sire of two-year-olds and if his progeny tend to be sprinters there is no reason why they shouldn’t improve and maintain their form from two to three.

Three of the sires who retired in 2012 are

still attracting significant support. Wootton Bassett could yet be a top sire as from small numbers he continues to produce top horses.

His 40-odd three-year-olds included the Group 1 performers Wootton and Patascoy, while amongst his 40 two-year-olds are The Black Album, Trois Mats and Amilcar. Over the next two years when his larger crops reach the racecourse his true merit will be clear.

For each of their four crops of racing age Dream Ahead was more expensive than Zoffany, although from next year’s two-yearolds the situation is reversed as Zoffany stood at €45,000 in 2016.

Dream Ahead moved to France and stood at the Haras de Grandcamp in 2018 for €12,000 by which time Zoffany was at €25,000 still at Coolmore. Both have produced a Group 1 winner and had good two-year-olds running for them in 2018.

For this year’s full European stallion tables, see pages 198 onwards

Left, Lope De Vega at Ballylinch Stud, below, Siyouni, who has a first-time six-figure fee for 2019

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SCAT DADDY

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3rd Gr.3 Hill Prince Stakes, 1m1f, Belmont Park 3rd L Tropical Park Derby, 1m½f, Gulfstream Park 4th Gr.2 Monmouth Stakes, 1m1f, Monmouth Park

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No Nay Never

The Coolmore stallion may have dominated the first-season table, but as Jocelyn de Moubray reports, a number of sires put in good debut seasons

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y any standards No Nay Never has made an excellent start to his stud career and Coolmore’s son of Scat Daddy will be very popular in 2019, even at a significantly increased fee.

No Nay Never is Europe’s champion first-season sire by more or less every possible criteria.

Up to the end of October he was the leading first-season sire by number of winners and wins, by number of black-type winners, black-type performers, Group winners and Group performers, as well as by prize-money earned.

No Nay Never has in many ways already surpassed any reasonable expectations breeders may have had when he retired to Coolmore to stand at €20,000 in 2015.

No Nay Never raced six times at two and three winning four times, victories including the Group 1 Prix Morny and Group 2 Norfolk Stakes at two and a Grade 3 over 5f100yds at Keeneland at three.

He was beaten a half-length by Lanwades Stud’s sire Bobby’s Kitten in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint on his final start at Santa Anita over 6f. He never won over further than 6f and recorded his highest rating of 117 at Deauville in August at two,

No Nay Never is Europe’s champion first-season sire by more or less every possible criteria and again on his final start in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint.

He has already sired a horse with a higher rating than his own as Ten Sovereigns was given a Racing Post Rating of 121 after his victory in the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes and is unbeaten in three starts over 6f.

No Nay Never was among the leading first-season sires from early in the season, but several of his better horses – Ten Sovereigns, All The King’s Men, Art du Val and

Ten Soveriegns

young sires No Needs Never – were still putting up excellent performances in September and October alike.

In recent years the two benchmarks required for first-season sires to go on to make a lasting mark are two or more Group winners and more than 20 per cent of runners achieving a rating of 90 or higher.

No Nay Never achieved both of these with Ten Sovereigns and Land Force both winning Group races, while 16 of his progeny are rated RPR of 90 or higher.

If there are still questions marks over his future they can only concern whether or not his progeny are going to continue to progress from two to three, and what distances they are likely to be racing over.

To date around 80 per cent of his progeny’s wins have been over 5f or 6f. He has yet to sire a winner over a mile, even if Art Du Val was second in a Listed race over the distance in Deauville.

The programme for three-year-old sprinters has improved and expanded in recent years, but it will be difficult to maintain a high fee in the long run if No Nay Never is only a sire of sprinters.

Kingman is the sire of two Group-winning colts, Calyx and Persian King, who are among the leaders of their generation So far 66 per cent of No Nay Never’s first crop have run, and, at the time of writing, there are 25 two-year-olds who are still to run, figures which at least raise the possibility that he is going to be primarily a sire of twoyear-old sprinters.

Juddmonte Farm’s Kingman was the most expensive of this generation of sires retiring at a fee of £55,000 after winning seven of his eight career starts,

Calyx put his sire Kingman on the stakes-winning sires’ table at Royal Ascot

including four Group 1s over a mile and achieving a highest rating of 128+.

The son of Invincible Spirit’s first two-yearold runners made even more of an impression on the yearling market than No Nay Never’s with his 2018 average yearling price up 20 per cent up on the year before, while his median price grew by 60 per cent.

No Nay Never’s yearlings average and median advanced by a 12 per cent and 23 per cent.

Kingman is the sire of two Group-winning colts, Calyx and Persian King, who are among the leaders of their generation, even if Calyx has not run since winning the Coventry Stakes (G2) at Royal Ascot in June.

Whereas No Nay Never’s leading performers are overwhelmingly colts, Kingman has several good fillies too, including stakes performers Poetry, Look Around and Sicilia.

There is little doubt that Kingman’s progeny will stay at least a mile and 70 per cent of his progeny’s wins to date have come over 7f and a mile. Only 45 per cent of the 103 foals in his first crop have run and so at the time of writing there were 57 unraced Kingman two-year-olds.

The doubt about Kingman is whether or not the market has overreacted to his success.

His yearling average of 280,000gns puts him among the top five stallions in Europe, behind only Dubawi, Galileo and Frankel, and he is going to have to produce many more top-class runners in 2019 to justify this level of demand.

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he second most expensive sire of the group at the outset was Australia, Coolmore’s Derby-winning son of Galileo, who started at €50,000.

Middle-distance sires, aside from the big three of Galileo, Dubawi and Frankel, struggle in the yearling market, and Australia was no exception.

At the end of October, Australia was second in the first-season sire table by prize-money earned and three of his progeny had been Group 1 placed, and yet his yearling average and median were both down by more than 30 per cent on 2017.

It goes without saying that Australia’s first two-year-olds achieved far more than his sire did back in 2005 – the filly Beyond Reason won two Group races during the summer, while the colts Broome, Sydney Opera House and Western Australia improved at the end of the year to finish placed in Group 1

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young sires European-based first-season sires: to October 28, 2018 Sire

2015 fee

Named foals

Ruler Of The World €8,000 31 Australia €50,000 111 Kingman £55,000 103 No Nay Never €20,000 73 Anodin €7,500 92 Bungleinthejungle €5,000 76 Sea The Moon £15,000 99 Toronado £15,000 97 Charm Spirit £20,000 99 Olympic Glory €15,000 109 Garswood £7,000 53 War Command £15,000 87 Kuroshio £3,500 16 Sommerabend £3,500 42

From early in the season Anodin’s progeny impressed with Julius Limbani winning a maiden at Sandown in June

Rnrs

Wnrs

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W/R %

15 4 27 50 11 22 46 17 37 48 25 52 35 11 31 54 23 41 33 11 33 42 17 41 64 22 34 47 15 32 30 5 17 45 17 38 11 6 38 19 5 26

110+ 1 3 2 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

between Jean-Louis Bouchard and Mme Freddy Head, is one of the best two-year-olds in France and was beaten only just over a length when third in the Group 1 Prix Jean Luc Lagardère after completing two easy wins.

Anodin’s yearling average rose by more than 60 per cent from 2017 to 2018 and all 32 offered found a buyer.

Anodin was not a Group 1 winner himself, despite being placed in five at that level, and sons of Anabaa have not been huge successes to date, yet he has already joined the group of

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6.7 1 6.7 1 6.7 6.0 4 8.0 4 8.0 4.3 6 13.0 8 17.0 4.2 12 25.0 16 33.0 2.9 4 11.0 6 17.0 1.9 2 3.7 2 3.7 0 3 9.0 3 9.0 0 4 10.0 5 12.0 0 4 6.2 7 11.0 0 2 4.30 4 8.6 0 2 6.7 2 6.7 0 1 2.2 2 4.4 0 1 6.2 2 12.5 0 1 5.3 2 11.0

promising young sires in France and should receive his best book to date in 2019.

Sea The Moon’s first crop of yearlings sold remarkably well averaging more than £70,000 with a top price of 525,000gns, which was always going to be almost impossible to match this year given that neither he or his immediate family were at their best as two-year-olds.

He has however made a promising start and his sons Noble Moon and Quest For Moon won two of Germany’s first three Group

Sea The Moon: has had a good year and is 2018’s leading sire of juveniles in Germany races in France and England.

Only 45 per cent of Australia’s first crop of 111 foals have raced and his progeny are sure to stay middle-distances as 93 per cent of his winners to date have been over 7f or a mile.

Two other members of the group were champion first-season sires as the Haras du Quesnay’s Anodin is the clear leader among French-based new sires and, although Sea The Moon stands at Lanwades Stud in England, he is the leading sire of two-yearolds in Germany.

Anodin, a half-brother to Goldikova by Anabaa, started at only €7,500 and didn’t attract many high-quality mares. From early in the season Anodin’s progeny impressed with Julius Limbani winning a maiden at Sandown in June and Harmless completing a hat-trick of wins when taking a Listed race at Longchamp in July.

Anodor, who belongs to a partnership

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THE LEADING UK-BASED 2ND CROP SIRE 2018 (by earnings), including INTELLOGENT (Gr.1), YOUNG RASCAL (Gr.3 x 3) and REGAL REALITY (Gr.3)

2018 yearlings made up to 55,000gns.

2018 yearlings made up to €290,000.

■ Fee: £3,500 (1st Oct. SLF) ■

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2018 yearlings made up to £65,000.

3RD LEADING UK-BASED 3RD CROP SIRE 2018 (by earnings) behind only Frankel and Nathaniel.

Sire of 13 Black Type 2yos to date and of 61 winners of over 100 races in 2018 (to 18/11).

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2018 yearlings made up to 425,000gns.

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young sires races for juveniles. Both are graduates of the Baden-Baden October Sale.

Sea The Moon has also had promising winners in France and England and it is reasonable to assume that there will be more useful performers among the 66 Sea The Moon two-year-olds who are yet to race.

Several other first-season sires deserve a mention. Nobody would have considered Rathaskar Stud’s Bungle Inthejungle as a likely leader of his generation of sires and yet from the word go the son of Exceed And Excel’s progeny were out and winning.

At the end of the year he was second only to No Nay Never in number of winners and by winners to runners ratio and his son Rumble Inthejungle was a Group winner and Group 1 placed.

He had several other useful looking winners, including Bermejo who won so well in France in August that he was immediately sold to the US. Just like No Nay Never 80 per cent of his progeny’s wins to date have been at 5f and 6f, but he also had two winners, including

Photo courtesy of Tweenhills

Charm Spirit: his good first year was headed by the Group 3 winner Yourtimeisnow

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young sires Bermejo, over a mile.

Sommerabend and Kuroshio, another son of Exceed And Excel, also started out as cheap sires at the Haras de Saint Arnoult and Overbury Stud and yet both have produced several good winners and a highclass colt in Prince Hamlet and Dunkerron respectively. They will both get more chances in the future.

Ruler Of The World was about the least popular of all the Group 1-winning sons of Galileo at stud and his first-crop numbers only 31 foals, and yet he is already the sire of a Group 1 winner as his daughter Iridessa took the Fillies’ Mile at Newmarket in October having made a winning debut in July. He, too, will surely cover more mares at Coolmore in the future.

First-season sire championships have a greater significance for the market in the short run than on any long term success.

In the long run stallions are not judged on two-year-old racing alone and then even those sires who have had 50 runners have still not had a significant sample of their progeny on the track.

In the long run most variables revert towards the mean and nobody can be sure which of these sires will still be popular and commercially successful in 2022 after they have had three crops of three-year-olds to race.

It could just as well be those like Olympic Glory, Toronado, Charm Spirit, and Garswood, who have made a solid but as yet unspectacular start to their careers at stud, instead of those who did finish at or near the top of the first-season sire tables.

Al Shaqab’s Toronado has made a “solid start”

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Frankel: he and Nathaniel have plenty of promising types for next season

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Galileo’s sons Frankel and Nathaniel have continued to make good progress with their third-season runners

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he stand-outs from the 2013 intake are Frankel and Nathaniel and yet despite confirmation of their ability with their second crop of three-year-olds both saw their average and median yearling prices dip in 2018.

Both have also plenty of promising two-year-olds with Frankel’s 76 two-year-olds headed by the Group-winning Breeders’ Cup-placed filly East, while Nathaniel has five promising colts in Nate The Great, Dashing Willoughby, Floating Artist, West End Charmer and Kaloor and the filly Tamniah in France.

While he is alive and active Galileo’s sons seem to be in his shadow and struggling to gain consistent support in the market.

There are at least nine second-season sires who still have a chance of establishing a permanent place in the market.

Darley’s Farhh has made an excellent start with a string of high-class performers headed by Dee Ex Bee and Wells Farhh Go. but his sub-standard fertility will complicate

his future as a stallion.

Coolmore’s Camelot and Intello, who switches between Cheveley Park Stud and the Haras du Quesnay, have had similar results from their first crop, and yet Camelot’s yearling average in 2018 was double Intello’s.

The answer lies in their record with two-year-olds as, although at three Intello’s progeny have been successful over a mile, his son Intellogent won a Group 1 at the distance, few of his progeny were notable as two-year-olds.

Some 75 per cent of Camelot’s wins as three-year-olds are over 1m2f or further, and yet his progeny are well capable of racing and winning at two, and the filly Wonderment is a first two-year-old Group 1 winner for the son of Montjeu.

Tweenhills Stud’s Havana Gold started out as a relatively cheap stallion and maintained his good start with his first threeyear-olds as Havana Grey, Tabdeed and Crack On Crack On all winning high-class races.

His second crop of two-year-olds has not proved to be as good so far although it includes the promising Zuenoon.

young sires Dawn Approach started out as the most expensive of this group, but his lack of two-year-old success in 2017 sent his reputation into freefall.

However, Darley’s son of New Approach is now on has way back up as his second crop includes the unbeaten Group 2-winning colt Madhmoon and his first three-year-olds turned out to include several high-class performers too.

Dabirsim’s first crop of two-year-olds created a sensation in 2017 and yet few of these trained on at three and his second crop has been quiet in 2018.

It would be wise to see his first Frenchbred crop of two-year-olds in 2019 before writing off the Haras de Grandcamp’s son of Hat Trick as he probably covered more suitable mares when back in France.

Pedro The Great and Cityscape are two relatively cheap sires whose early crops have run surprisingly well.

Pedro The Great is a son of Henrythenavigator who stands at the Haras de Haie Neuve and whose first crop was

Cityscape stands at Overbury Stud and despite only 63 named foals from his first two crops has produced four horses rated more than 100 headed by the Grade 1 winner Fatale Bere.

His 40 two-year-olds from his second crop include the Group performer Lagrandcatherine as well as The Great Heir, who won three races including the Weatherbys Auction race at Doncaster.

Cityscape stands at Overbury Stud and despite only 63 named foals from his first two crops has produced four horses rated more than 100 – as well as the unbeaten two-yearold Urban Icon.

Reliable Man stood in France in 2018 and proved popular covering 130 mares after spending four years at Gestüt Röettgen in Germany.

His first crop included two Group-winning two-year-olds, neither of whom for different reasons reproduced this form as three-year-olds.

His second crop of German two-year-olds is also very promising and headed by the Listed winner Akribie, who was also second in Germany’s leading race for two-year-old fillies, the stakes performer Moonlight Man as well as Master Brewer, who won the Arqana Auction race for trainer Michael Bell.

The son of Dalakhani has only 92 foals of racing age from his first two crops and so is a promising sire particularly as he appears to be a middle-distance stallion whose progeny are able to win good races as two-year-olds.

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£150,000, £110,000, £90,000, £75,000, €75,000, £62,000, £60,000, £55,000, etc.

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FIRST FOALS IN 2019

MONDIALISTE GALILEO - OCCUPANDISTE (KALDOUN)

STANDING AT ELWICK STUD

A TOP CLASS STALLION’S PEDIGREE RACE RECORD DEFEATED 16 GR.1 WINNERS

A dual Gr.1 winning son of Galileo, out of the Champion racemare and multiple stakes producer Occupandiste.

Won Gr.1 Arlington Million, 10f, Arlington Park, beating Deauville (Gr.1), The Pizza Man (Gr.1), World Approval (Gr.1), Tryster (Gr.1), Wake Forest (Gr.1), Kasaqui (Gr.2), Take The Stand (Gr.2) and two Gr.3 winners.

Won Gr.1 Woodbine Mile, 8f, Woodbine, beating Lea (Gr.1), Obviously (Gr.1), Kaigun (Gr.2), Reporting Star (Gr.2), Tower Of Texas (Gr.2), etc.

Won Gr.3 Strensall Stakes, 9f, York, beating Mutakayyef (Gr.2) and five other Group/Stakes winners.

Won LR

Pomfret Stakes, 8f, Pontefract, by 10 lengths, beating Fire Ship (Gr.3), Stakes winner Let’s Go, etc.

2nd Gr.1

Breeders’ Cup Mile, 8f, Keeneland, beating Grand Arch (Gr.1), Mshawish (Gr.1), Make Believe (Gr.1), Esoterique (Gr.1), Tourist (Gr.1), Obviously (Gr.1), Karakontie (Gr.1), Impassable (Gr.2), Time Test (Gr.2), etc.

2nd Gr.2

York Stakes, 10½ f, 2016, beating two Group winners.

2nd Gr.2

York Stakes, 10½ f, 2017, beating two Group winners.

3rd Gr.1

Prix Jean Prat, 8f, Chantilly, beating Style Vendôme (Gr.1), Helene Super Star (Gr.1), Peace At Last (Gr.2) and four Gr.3 winners.

3rd Gr.3

Earl of Sefton Stakes, 9f, Newmarket, beating Glory Awaits (Gr.2), etc.

He was also placed in two other Stakes races and fourth in two Gr.1s.

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leading sires by distance Leading European sires of sprinters (5f-6f) in 2018 (by prize-money earned (£) to October 31, 2018) STALLION Kodiac (GB) Dark Angel (IRE) Exceed and Excel (AUS) Oasis Dream (GB) Invincible Spirit (IRE) Acclamation (GB) Showcasing (GB) Equiano (FR) Dutch Art (GB) Camacho (GB) Shamardal (USA) Dandy Man (IRE) Iffraaj (GB) Siyouni (FR) No Nay Never (USA) Kheleyf (USA) Dream Ahead (USA) Panis (USA) Mayson (GB) Footstepsinthesand (GB) Pivotal (GB) Dubawi (IRE) Fastnet Rock (AUS) Bated Breath (GB) Captain Gerrard (IRE) Pastoral Pursuits (GB) Lope De Vega (IRE) Havana Gold (IRE) Zoffany (IRE) Elusive City (USA) Clodovil (IRE) Pedro The Great (USA) Intense Focus (USA) Excelebration (IRE) Fast Company (IRE) Charm Spirit (IRE) Bungle Inthejungle (GB) Swiss Spirit (GB) Sepoy (AUS) Raven’s Pass (USA) Arcano (IRE) Dragon Pulse (IRE) Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) Kendargent (FR) Wootton Bassett (GB) Sakhee’s Secret (GB) Lethal Force (IRE) Helmet (AUS) Slade Power (IRE) Penny’s Picnic (IRE) Rock of Gibraltar (IRE) Kingman (GB) Stimulation (IRE) Dawn Approach (IRE) Teofilo (IRE)

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Runners

Winners

250 161 145 91 121 122 106 143 84 96 61 180 72 74 44 86 87 13 99 77 44 39 18 96 52 69 56 61 77 65 58 18 46 59 74 48 54 84 64 44 53 50 66 58 19 45 69 54 48 28 34 17 24 30 25

84 51 50 30 48 39 39 38 24 35 18 48 16 24 19 31 23 6 38 27 7 13 5 31 17 22 20 6 14 12 17 9 13 14 16 18 16 17 12 8 14 15 18 10 6 13 14 11 10 10 9 7 7 7 2

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W/R % 34 32 34 33 40 32 37 27 29 36 30 27 22 32 43 36 26 46 38 35 16 33 28 32 33 32 36 10 18 18 29 50 28 24 22 38 30 20 19 18 26 30 27 17 32 29 20 20 21 36 26 41 29 23 8

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Wins

Stakes wins

Earnings

984 500 608 321 397 536 440 581 309 434 197 666 199 216 121 447 301 43 383 264 163 107 46 310 279 366 170 152 219 236 224 61 170 181 227 140 179 284 185 117 232 175 180 149 60 173 208 145 136 86 139 37 105 77 48

130 68 79 48 64 59 55 56 32 53 24 72 24 34 26 52 35 11 51 46 9 20 8 48 26 35 32 11 16 17 28 14 26 22 23 24 19 24 19 11 22 25 25 12 8 17 18 11 14 11 16 9 11 12 3

9 7 6 6 6 3 5 3 3 5 3 2 2 3 6 0 0 4 2 2 1 2 2 0 1 3 2 2 2 1 0 0 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 2 2

2,164,580 1,545,768 1,384,912 1,351,565 1,344,338 993,763 961,635 949,540 890,338 887,724 879,548 855,876 838,575 814,468 805,113 725,481 719,696 716,864 689,455 590,999 575,242 539,403 509,406 484,617 428,123 418,318 404,400 383,505 379,065 363,835 351,238 323,998 322,597 319,350 293,673 282,207 264,953 257,575 254,567 247,521 244,312 239,429 237,948 234,181 222,616 221,390 218,700 210,324 200,717 190,053 182,118 179,963 168,994 163,047 160,127

leading sires by distance ...continued European sires of sprinters (5f-6f) in 2018 (by prize-money earned (£) to October 31, 2017) STALLION Casamento (IRE) Captain Marvelous (IRE) Evasive (GB) George Vancouver (USA) Dabirsim (FR) Gregorian (IRE) Requinto (IRE) Myboycharlie (IRE) Lawman (FR) Epaulette (AUS) Toronado (IRE) Monsieur Bond (IRE) Dylan Thomas (IRE) Elzaam (AUS) Garswood (GB) Tagula (IRE) Sixties Icon (GB) Blu Air Force (IRE) French Fifteen (FR) Cockney Rebel (IRE) Tamayuz (GB) Rajsaman (FR) Diamond Green (FR) Alhebayeb (IRE) Areion (GER) Moohaajim (IRE) Kingsalsa (USA) Mount Nelson (GB) War Command (USA) Style Vendome (FR) Soul City (IRE) Avonbridge (GB) Heeraat (IRE) Mastercraftsman (IRE) Coach House (IRE) Planteur (IRE) Zanzibari (USA) Gale Force Ten (GB) Assertive (GB) Mujahid (USA) Frankel (GB) Born To Sea (IRE) Olympic Glory (IRE) Air Chief Marshal (IRE) Vocalised (USA) Sommerabend (GB) Meshaheer (USA) Rio de La Plata (USA) Peer Gynt (JPN) Archipenko (USA) Soldier Hollow (GB) Cityscape (GB) Literato (FR) Slickly (FR) Galileo (IRE)

Runners

Winners

39 17 38 23 37 30 50 24 41 54 25 42 7 30 27 29 21 38 14 10 31 33 15 44 41 12 9 19 27 29 10 13 33 22 35 16 6 30 16 25 11 35 19 15 26 6 9 17 7 24 31 10 14 12 13

8 6 9 6 7 8 9 6 6 10 9 6 2 11 4 7 8 11 3 4 6 5 2 6 10 3 3 4 9 3 3 8 6 4 6 3 1 6 5 9 6 3 4 2 3 2 3 3 3 5 4 4 2 2 1

W/R % 21 35 24 26 19 27 18 25 15 19 36 14 29 37 15 24 38 29 21 40 19 15 13 14 24 25 33 21 33 10 30 62 18 18 17 19 17 20 31 36 55 9 21 13 12 33 33 18 43 21 13 40 14 17 8

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Stakes wins

Earnings

132 86 123 75 81 116 211 74 105 147 70 161 31 84 74 91 71 140 25 22 71 78 44 142 98 34 63 64 76 68 48 62 119 52 134 43 17 75 91 53 20 95 43 46 46 23 31 38 29 67 53 21 21 32 17

9 9 10 8 7 9 11 7 8 12 12 10 3 15 5 11 12 11 4 7 6 5 2 8 14 4 4 6 10 5 5 12 7 6 9 3 2 7 5 12 6 4 4 2 4 2 3 3 3 7 6 5 2 3 1

1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0

153,666 151,966 150,969 150,495 150,409 149,163 148,264 145,474 143,340 143,130 136,984 136,387 133,248 126,127 123,058 119,699 110,594 106,317 101,025 100,283 99,745 97,912 96,439 93,734 91,131 90,214 90,000 88,877 86,816 83,582 82,509 82,227 81,959 79,457 79,080 70,975 67,633 67,418 66,665 66,492 66,256 65,903 65,307 61,454 61,190 60,996 60,821 60,592 58,386 58,002 55,322 54,601 53,774 52,789 51,674

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leading sires by distance Leading European sires of milers (7f-8f) in 2018 (by prize-money earned (£) to October 31, 2018) STALLION Galileo (IRE) Dark Angel (IRE) Iffraaj (GB) Invincible Spirit (IRE) Galileo (IRE) Dubawi (IRE) Invincible Spirit (IRE) Mastercraftsman (IRE) Exceed and Excel (AUS) Lope De Vega (IRE) Pivotal (GB) Shamardal (USA) Siyouni (FR) Dark Angel (IRE) Acclamation (GB) Whipper (USA) Kodiac (GB) Frankel (GB) Iffraaj (GB) Oasis Dream (GB) New Approach (IRE) Fastnet Rock (AUS) Zoffany (IRE) Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) Dutch Art (GB) Kendargent (FR) Elusive City (USA) Dream Ahead (USA) Raven’s Pass (USA) Showcasing (GB) Rock of Gibraltar (IRE) Footstepsinthesand (GB) Areion (GER) Style Vendome (FR) Intello (GER) Soldier Hollow (GB) Dandy Man (IRE) Le Havre (IRE) Helmet (AUS) Camacho (GB) Tamayuz (GB) Lawman (FR) Champs Elysees (GB) Arcano (IRE) Camelot (GB) Bated Breath (GB) Fast Company (IRE) Equiano (FR) Mayson (GB) Dragon Pulse (IRE) Excelebration (IRE) Rajsaman (FR) Dabirsim (FR) Teofilo (IRE) Australia (GB)

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Runners

Winners

W/R %

Starts

Wins

103 225 135 172 128 161 202 124 160 155 92 161 130 240 147 42 232 70 175 123 97 53 156 146 133 146 106 108 81 99 101 124 90 43 45 102 140 73 104 86 50 120 79 109 94 128 106 105 66 62 101 83 81 95 57

37 59 31 53 39 57 63 23 41 45 29 45 31 60 36 12 46 26 44 30 28 18 35 43 35 28 33 22 24 24 32 28 30 16 11 33 25 17 23 19 17 22 9 33 24 34 23 32 19 22 23 18 19 26 10

36 26 23 31 30 35 31 19 26 29 32 28 24 25 24 29 20 37 25 24 29 34 22 29 26 19 31 20 30 24 32 23 33 37 24 32 18 23 22 22 34 18 11 30 26 27 22 30 29 35 23 22 23 27 18

283 751 399 576 278 402 656 323 484 433 257 454 375 761 531 153 782 167 517 347 235 199 467 504 419 420 419 343 230 269 366 388 324 138 118 304 423 161 329 246 171 383 181 361 232 333 319 390 269 221 325 242 204 246 105

56 77 40 70 48 79 87 32 57 61 37 56 43 75 48 18 65 38 62 36 37 29 45 54 42 35 47 33 32 30 39 41 42 20 17 50 36 20 25 21 26 31 11 52 26 45 27 49 32 36 29 21 20 32 11

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Stakes wins 18 14 8 8 11 15 13 7 6 8 4 5 5 2 4 4 4 7 3 2 2 4 9 1 1 1 2 3 2 3 1 1 4 2 3 3 0 1 2 1 7 1 1 1 3 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 2

Earnings 3,360,398 2,500,904 2,015,335 1,664,949 2,285,814 2,280,701 1,998,519 1,806,554 1,777,001 1,376,037 1,361,729 1,329,338 1,314,191 1,252,432 1,244,997 1,200,619 1,070,726 1,017,256 943,089 915,315 887,146 866,404 852,448 844,028 832,290 813,266 800,819 702,063 688,569 599,975 575,064 573,465 573,266 568,499 564,743 559,042 549,154 533,097 529,197 523,126 513,489 507,627 500,703 496,741 493,692 457,032 454,966 431,203 428,151 426,761 417,523 400,104 398,595 392,531 390,061

leading sires by distance ...continued European sires of milers (7f-8f) in 2018 (by prize-money earned (£) to October 31, 2018) STALLION Wootton Bassett (GB) Dawn Approach (IRE) Havana Gold (IRE) Sepoy (AUS) Air Chief Marshal (IRE) Sea The Stars (IRE) Rio de La Plata (USA) Lethal Force (IRE) Ruler Of The World (IRE) Casamento (IRE) Myboycharlie (IRE) Clodovil (IRE) Mount Nelson (GB) Intense Focus (USA) Sixties Icon (GB) Evasive (GB) Sea The Moon (GER) Kingman (GB) Pedro The Great (USA) George Vancouver (USA) Penny’s Picnic (IRE) Anodin (IRE) Epaulette (AUS) Kheleyf (USA) Elzaam (AUS) Lord of England (GER) Reliable Man (GB) Mujahid (USA) Monsieur Bond (IRE) Sageburg (IRE) Cityscape (GB) Toronado (IRE) Born To Sea (IRE) Kingsalsa (USA) Motivator (GB) Olympic Glory (IRE) Diamond Green (FR) Tagula (IRE) Vale of York (IRE) Manduro (GER) Arakan (USA) Nathaniel (IRE) Famous Name (GB) Panis (USA) Planteur (IRE) No Nay Never (USA) Archipenko (USA) Sakhee’s Secret (GB) Nayef (USA) Muhtathir (GB) Vocalised (USA) Dylan Thomas (IRE) Farhh (GB) Blu Air Force (IRE) Swiss Spirit (GB)

Runners

Winners

37 76 82 89 61 71 34 71 16 117 67 74 48 75 50 56 32 41 31 52 44 38 78 86 49 63 24 75 47 31 36 34 79 26 62 40 33 30 33 37 24 67 31 21 37 32 48 57 30 27 54 29 25 47 50

11 16 20 19 16 20 13 25 3 28 11 14 9 19 12 11 8 13 11 13 8 6 15 22 10 13 6 21 10 6 7 11 13 7 11 10 7 9 8 7 7 12 7 5 6 7 5 11 6 8 8 8 8 9 10

W/R % 30 21 24 21 26 28 38 35 19 24 16 19 19 25 24 20 25 32 35 25 18 16 19 26 20 21 25 28 21 19 19 32 16 27 18 25 21 30 24 19 29 18 23 24 16 22 10 19 20 30 15 28 32 19 20

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Wins

Stakes wins

Earnings

101 173 252 294 204 148 111 218 28 309 211 264 136 254 166 162 62 75 89 149 134 71 206 301 162 171 57 277 162 111 90 69 212 114 139 84 96 99 130 103 80 157 102 81 104 58 138 179 122 81 158 103 51 164 121

15 21 29 25 19 26 15 29 4 36 12 19 11 26 24 15 9 17 13 14 14 8 18 31 13 17 7 28 15 10 11 12 14 13 13 11 10 13 13 11 9 15 10 6 10 10 6 14 11 11 9 12 10 17 12

2 2 1 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 2 1 1 0 2 3 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0

375,903 374,328 363,580 347,975 346,898 341,967 338,603 331,088 324,165 319,999 315,042 298,335 293,389 278,714 275,781 260,732 260,721 248,413 241,022 240,851 240,066 238,375 232,165 222,867 222,677 217,685 212,295 206,979 197,911 196,567 188,277 186,936 180,332 175,481 174,496 173,513 172,065 157,763 157,545 152,560 151,976 151,612 150,042 139,500 135,693 135,440 130,973 130,953 130,505 130,206 130,148 127,229 125,968 125,148 123,805

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leading sires by distance Leading European sires of intermediate runners (9f-10f) in 2018 (by prize-money earned (£) to October 31, 2018) STALLION Dubawi (IRE) Helmet (AUS) Frankel (GB) Galileo (IRE) Siyouni (FR) Sea The Stars (IRE) Camelot (GB) Teofilo (IRE) Shamardal (USA) Pivotal (GB) Intello (GER) Mastercraftsman (IRE) Le Havre (IRE) Lope De Vega (IRE) Lawman (FR) Kendargent (FR) Wootton Bassett (GB) Motivator (GB) Casamento (IRE) Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) Fastnet Rock (AUS) Rock of Gibraltar (IRE) Soldier Hollow (GB) New Approach (IRE) Dawn Approach (IRE) Air Chief Marshal (IRE) Nathaniel (IRE) Iffraaj (GB) Manduro (GER) Zoffany (IRE) Champs Elysees (GB) Myboycharlie (IRE) Rajsaman (FR) Footstepsinthesand (GB) Whipper (USA) Invincible Spirit (IRE) Dark Angel (IRE) Dutch Art (GB) Oasis Dream (GB) Zanzibari (USA) Acclamation (GB) Elusive City (USA) Raven’s Pass (USA) Youmzain (IRE) Authorized (IRE) Areion (GER) Maxios (GB) Dabirsim (FR) Exceed and Excel (AUS) Rio de La Plata (USA) Soldier Of Fortune (IRE) Arcano (IRE) Lord of England (GER) French Fifteen (FR) Pour Moi (IRE)

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Winners

W/R %

Starts

Wins

106 53 68 123 76 91 88 110 96 55 58 140 93 76 103 97 25 79 83 96 53 91 79 83 39 74 80 81 65 70 87 59 86 60 49 68 85 57 68 26 47 65 43 29 39 57 50 49 44 42 27 60 57 28 44

33 12 23 30 16 23 30 35 23 12 14 29 24 21 23 24 5 25 19 20 13 22 22 15 6 15 19 14 16 15 21 13 9 11 8 11 19 16 13 3 9 11 12 8 8 17 16 7 7 9 8 13 15 7 9

31 23 34 24 21 25 34 32 24 22 24 21 26 28 22 25 20 32 23 21 25 24 28 18 15 20 24 17 25 21 24 22 10 18 16 16 22 28 19 12 19 17 28 28 21 30 32 14 16 21 30 22 26 25 20

202 126 118 234 181 182 211 263 210 149 131 326 238 186 276 254 63 226 243 253 118 272 186 166 79 258 173 201 182 172 191 186 231 173 132 159 217 157 187 73 112 193 104 112 77 171 103 126 98 111 79 159 146 76 100

48 16 30 30 21 27 39 43 26 17 20 32 35 27 25 33 5 33 32 23 16 30 32 25 7 20 23 19 19 17 24 17 11 18 9 14 23 21 18 6 13 15 16 12 9 19 21 7 8 13 10 15 20 8 16

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Earnings 5,373,201 4,592,008 1,786,928 1,549,071 1,170,007 1,099,222 938,208 825,848 820,785 622,010 613,465 605,763 593,325 570,756 535,322 523,333 485,831 460,263 448,447 404,218 397,604 375,711 375,270 372,803 357,893 350,787 335,727 319,809 307,369 306,409 304,880 301,012 299,504 294,989 293,009 288,592 276,121 262,084 252,500 250,350 246,189 243,736 234,745 231,745 227,623 225,108 219,031 218,434 200,325 195,456 186,217 170,975 167,691 160,027 157,626

leading sires by distance ... continued European sires of STALLION Mount Nelson (GB) Slickly (FR) Muhtathir (GB) Mujahid (USA) Clodovil (IRE) George Vancouver (USA) Tamayuz (GB) Kingsalsa (USA) Jukebox Jury (IRE) Showcasing (GB) Evasive (GB) Archipenko (USA) Tin Horse (IRE) Sixties Icon (GB) Literato (FR) Doctor Dino (FR) Kodiac (GB) Silver Frost (IRE) Kheleyf (USA) Zambezi Sun (GB) Excelebration (IRE) Intense Focus (USA) Born To Sea (IRE) Sir Percy (GB) Planteur (IRE) Montmartre (FR) Shirocco (GER) Fuisse (FR) Dylan Thomas (IRE) Sageburg (IRE) Dragon Pulse (IRE) Vision D’Etat (FR) Fast Company (IRE) Sepoy (AUS) Bated Breath (GB) Style Vendome (FR) Epaulette (AUS) Denon (USA) Falco (USA) Havana Gold (IRE) Dream Ahead (USA) Rail Link (GB) Lethal Force (IRE) Cityscape (GB) Pedro The Great (USA) Adlerflug (GER) Stormy River (FR) Diamond Green (FR) Vocalised (USA) Australia (GB) Elzaam (AUS) Farhh (GB) Worthadd (IRE) Sommerabend (GB)

intermediate runners (9f-10f) in 2018 (by prize-money earned (£) to October 31, 2018)

Runners

Winners

43 50 38 52 37 42 25 28 47 36 52 30 46 39 28 21 60 38 41 20 48 46 56 40 42 16 26 23 32 39 34 19 50 35 30 30 27 12 26 28 41 17 21 19 15 29 31 33 27 9 14 13 9 9

13 7 8 12 10 7 7 4 11 8 6 7 4 12 8 4 8 6 7 5 8 7 9 9 4 3 5 5 8 5 7 6 6 5 7 5 6 1 5 5 7 6 5 1 5 6 4 3 4 2 4 8 5 2

W/R % 30 14 21 23 27 17 28 14 23 22 12 23 9 31 29 19 13 16 17 25 17 15 16 23 10 19 19 22 25 13 21 32 12 14 23 17 22 8 19 18 17 35 24 5 33 21 13 9 15 22 29 62 56 22

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Starts

Wins

Stakes wins

Earnings

117 134 95 141 101 111 67 99 108 103 103 77 100 115 88 58 118 94 108 74 107 110 130 101 90 33 78 65 89 82 66 65 115 76 57 58 55 41 67 65 101 45 47 44 49 59 77 87 52 11 44 17 32 15

17 7 9 18 11 7 8 4 12 9 7 11 6 18 8 5 8 8 8 5 9 8 9 11 4 4 9 7 8 5 10 6 9 8 8 7 7 2 6 6 8 6 6 1 6 6 5 3 4 2 6 8 7 4

0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

156,145 154,615 153,969 153,914 150,743 145,152 140,344 139,539 134,304 133,618 132,233 130,556 129,921 125,647 122,665 122,580 121,078 117,990 115,797 111,997 111,401 109,615 109,420 107,284 104,401 104,255 103,906 103,410 102,790 98,560 95,062 94,953 93,302 89,468 88,692 88,237 87,252 86,660 86,462 86,177 83,743 80,529 76,340 75,042 71,303 70,255 69,059 68,310 64,427 62,644 58,088 57,485 54,443 54,321

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leading sires by distance Leading European sires of middle-distance runners (11f-13f) in 2018 (by prize-money earned (£) to October 31, 2018) STALLION Sea The Stars (IRE) Nathaniel (IRE) Galileo (IRE) Frankel (GB) Dubawi (IRE) Camelot (GB) New Approach (IRE) Teofilo (IRE) Mastercraftsman (IRE) Soldier Hollow (GB) Farhh (GB) Kodiac (GB) Champs Elysees (GB) Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) Motivator (GB) Casamento (IRE) Rock of Gibraltar (IRE) Manduro (GER) Le Havre (IRE) Intello (GER) Sir Percy (GB) Lawman (FR) Lope De Vega (IRE) Kendargent (FR) Air Chief Marshal (IRE) Youmzain (IRE) Dutch Art (GB) Oasis Dream (GB) Lord of England (GER) Adlerflug (GER) Myboycharlie (IRE) Shamardal (USA) Authorized (IRE) Fastnet Rock (AUS) Whipper (USA) Rio de La Plata (USA) Doctor Dino (FR) Archipenko (USA) Shirocco (GER) Pivotal (GB) Dylan Thomas (IRE) Rajsaman (FR) Literato (FR) Sixties Icon (GB) Pour Moi (IRE) Dawn Approach (IRE) Siyouni (FR) Acclamation (GB) Maxios (GB) Jukebox Jury (IRE) French Fifteen (FR) Soldier Of Fortune (IRE) Slickly (FR) Mount Nelson (GB) Silver Frost (IRE)

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Runners

Winners

W/R %

Starts

Wins

82 98 137 52 67 75 53 114 120 54 16 28 81 57 70 40 79 69 60 41 53 80 46 53 57 26 30 43 38 24 42 33 49 46 38 24 20 27 34 39 36 57 21 39 37 19 29 19 31 36 17 37 30 40 29

31 32 32 19 19 23 8 29 31 10 6 5 24 15 18 10 19 19 20 9 14 17 16 11 12 5 8 13 9 8 9 10 8 9 11 8 6 9 6 9 7 10 5 7 8 5 7 6 11 8 7 7 6 13 6

38 33 23 37 28 31 15 25 26 19 38 18 30 26 26 25 24 28 33 22 26 21 35 21 21 19 27 30 24 33 21 30 16 20 29 33 30 33 18 23 19 18 24 18 22 26 24 32 35 22 41 19 20 33 21

172 254 283 119 139 163 112 256 350 126 37 64 230 155 199 106 196 187 153 81 153 210 106 152 183 77 85 138 72 67 126 96 125 106 107 69 50 86 97 91 101 156 68 87 109 37 65 56 76 99 50 103 116 102 70

42 43 43 26 27 27 11 33 44 14 8 12 34 17 28 18 23 27 22 14 16 21 20 14 13 8 13 14 12 9 12 15 10 13 12 10 8 13 8 10 9 10 9 8 13 7 8 9 12 11 10 9 9 15 8

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Earnings 3,688,184 3,371,973 3,142,967 2,313,276 1,853,505 1,245,928 1,197,256 975,594 816,594 740,641 724,013 610,841 470,513 449,571 401,878 347,089 335,744 330,879 316,389 309,066 293,891 279,471 258,906 235,939 222,933 218,699 214,480 212,030 203,770 200,050 198,349 186,120 185,862 183,165 178,855 177,102 169,486 168,034 163,220 161,307 159,848 156,507 147,357 146,141 145,639 144,267 142,642 140,856 139,532 138,472 138,127 137,268 137,138 133,475 129,715

leading sires by distance ... continued European sires of middle-distance runners (11f-13f) in 2018 (by prize-money earned (£) to October 31, 2018) STALLION Muhtathir (GB) Zanzibari (USA) Falco (USA) Dark Angel (IRE) Bated Breath (GB) Stormy River (FR) Panis (USA) Invincible Spirit (IRE) Mujahid (USA) Zambezi Sun (GB) Excelebration (IRE) Tin Horse (IRE) Clodovil (IRE) Gladiatorus (USA) Arcano (IRE) Wootton Bassett (GB) Iffraaj (GB) Kheleyf (USA) Zoffany (IRE) Vision D’Etat (FR) Elusive City (USA) Tamayuz (GB) Intense Focus (USA) Footstepsinthesand (GB) Martaline (GB) Al Kazeem (GB) Areion (GER) Gentlewave (IRE) Carlotamix (FR) Helmet (AUS) Passing Glance (GB) Dragon Pulse (IRE) Nayef (USA) Planteur (IRE) Kamsin (GER) Fuisse (FR) It’s Gino (GER) Linda’s Lad (GB) Creachadoir (IRE) Elusive Pimpernel (USA) Scalo (GB) Exceed and Excel (AUS) Beat Hollow (GB) Style Vendome (FR) Raven’s Pass (USA) Pastorius (GER) Born To Sea (IRE) Sageburg (IRE) Tagula (IRE) Cat Junior (USA) Sholokhov (IRE) Mawatheeq (USA) Diamond Green (FR) Rail Link (GB) Fast Company (IRE)

Runners

Winners

42 16 20 43 13 27 12 23 26 27 26 26 21 7 30 17 36 26 39 28 27 21 31 29 12 9 16 18 7 20 8 13 24 20 28 18 14 17 13 18 8 17 17 9 18 13 31 27 9 7 14 16 17 15 20

4 4 9 5 2 5 3 4 7 6 6 7 5 1 7 5 5 6 7 4 4 2 7 4 3 4 6 7 4 5 5 5 6 4 4 5 5 3 3 2 5 3 4 1 2 3 2 3 3 3 6 3 1 3 5

W/R % 10 25 45 12 15 19 25 17 27 22 23 27 24 14 23 29 14 23 18 14 15 10 23 14 25 44 38 39 57 25 63 38 25 20 14 28 36 18 23 11 63 18 24 11 11 23 6 11 33 43 43 19 6 20 25

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Starts

Wins

Stakes wins

Earnings

100 56 65 81 21 86 44 53 73 90 52 77 55 15 59 48 75 71 93 75 61 46 80 58 26 21 38 59 34 48 21 38 86 62 77 42 27 58 39 36 27 45 48 23 45 29 82 70 21 29 36 45 38 50 53

4 8 10 6 3 8 3 5 11 6 6 8 8 2 8 5 7 7 8 6 4 2 9 4 5 5 7 7 5 5 8 6 9 4 4 6 6 3 3 4 5 4 4 2 2 4 2 3 3 4 6 3 2 5 6

0 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

128,173 125,982 123,274 121,956 110,504 109,041 100,309 100,287 100,279 98,006 93,046 90,876 89,714 88,341 87,816 85,052 81,215 79,977 79,052 77,358 77,272 75,517 74,506 73,041 69,038 67,773 67,748 66,715 66,431 64,938 63,386 61,547 58,882 57,545 56,170 55,504 50,708 49,784 49,613 48,966 48,324 46,950 45,668 45,581 44,812 44,252 43,188 42,057 41,719 40,788 40,069 40,041 39,220 38,747 38,649

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leading sires by distance Leading European sires of stayers (14f+) in 2018 (by prize-money earned (£) to October 31, 2018) STALLION Galileo (IRE) Sea The Stars (IRE) Dubawi (IRE) Manduro (GER) Champs Elysees (GB) Frankel (GB) Nathaniel (IRE) Fastnet Rock (AUS) Mastercraftsman (IRE) Teofilo (IRE) Sir Percy (GB) Shirocco (GER) Rock of Gibraltar (IRE) Camelot (GB) New Approach (IRE) Authorized (IRE) Motivator (GB) Kallisto (GER) Shamardal (USA) Pivotal (GB) Pour Moi (IRE) Dylan Thomas (IRE) Archipenko (USA) Jukebox Jury (IRE) Whipper (USA) Sixties Icon (GB) Farhh (GB) Footstepsinthesand (GB) Soldier Of Fortune (IRE) Lawman (FR) Lope De Vega (IRE) Zoffany (IRE) Adlerflug (GER) Vocalised (USA) Myboycharlie (IRE) Le Havre (IRE) Saddex (GB) Maxios (GB) Tamayuz (GB) Air Chief Marshal (IRE) Muhtathir (GB) Vision D’Etat (FR) Kendargent (FR) Excelebration (IRE) Born To Sea (IRE) Stormy River (FR) Mount Nelson (GB) Rail Link (GB) Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) Intello (GER) Casamento (IRE) Beat Hollow (GB) Yeats (IRE) Kheleyf (USA) Ask (GB)

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Runners

Winners

W/R %

Starts

Wins

Stakes wins

Earnings

74 29 30 28 45 21 39 26 50 36 36 21 22 17 21 29 30 4 12 14 20 18 15 14 12 17 5 6 15 25 20 10 14 3 11 17 3 13 7 16 16 14 15 4 11 8 14 13 17 7 8 8 11 7 5

14 6 7 7 13 7 10 9 11 9 9 6 5 3 6 5 2 1 1 5 5 3 4 3 2 6 2 2 4 5 4 4 2 2 2 4 1 3 0 1 2 1 2 1 3 2 2 2 1 1 2 2 1 3 0

19 21 23 25 29 33 26 35 22 25 25 29 23 18 29 17 7 25 8 36 25 17 27 21 17 35 40 33 27 20 20 40 14 67 18 24 33 23 0 6 13 7 13 25 27 25 14 15 6 14 25 25 9 43 0

167 59 62 56 112 42 77 57 126 80 89 70 57 27 48 60 72 4 17 36 42 43 30 39 29 67 13 12 34 48 36 40 30 5 25 32 8 20 16 36 29 27 27 9 27 22 30 18 35 10 23 15 20 16 15

21 10 12 8 15 10 13 11 15 10 11 6 7 3 10 7 2 1 1 8 6 4 6 4 3 8 2 2 5 5 5 5 3 3 2 4 3 3 0 1 2 1 2 3 5 2 2 3 2 2 6 4 1 3 0

9 4 4 3 0 1 4 1 1 2 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

1,582,029 1,136,692 956,442 724,525 565,816 537,453 490,764 326,251 313,898 289,955 224,990 219,273 199,264 187,500 184,373 177,556 145,829 145,108 133,783 132,259 130,173 124,515 101,586 89,753 89,509 88,692 76,339 73,829 71,517 69,427 68,951 67,000 66,042 62,050 59,121 59,009 55,792 54,395 51,918 51,053 50,555 48,114 47,593 47,399 46,259 45,791 45,642 40,032 39,155 39,110 38,216 35,035 32,736 32,279 31,725

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leading sires by distance ... continued European sires of stayers (14f+) in 2018 (by prize-money earned (£) to October 31, 2018) STALLION Well Chosen (GB) Siyouni (FR) Raven’s Pass (USA) Mamool (IRE) Rajsaman (FR) Elusive City (USA) Oasis Dream (GB) Ballingarry (IRE) Sholokhov (IRE) Westerner (GB) Poseidon Adventure (IRE) Spanish Moon (USA) Irish Wells (FR) Hannouma (IRE) Martaline (GB) Kamsin (GER) Doctor Dino (FR) Dutch Art (GB) Nayef (USA) Invincible Spirit (IRE) Falco (USA) Soldier Hollow (GB) Sageburg (IRE) Milan (GB) Arakan (USA) Honolulu (IRE) Dark Angel (IRE) Carlotamix (FR) Iffraaj (GB) Diamond Green (FR) Lord of England (GER) Gentlewave (IRE) Zanzibari (USA) Reliable Man (GB) Panis (USA) Finsceal Fior (IRE) Soul City (IRE) Sakhee’s Secret (GB) Fast Company (IRE) Areion (GER) Wootton Bassett (GB) Arcano (IRE) Famous Name (GB) Dragon Pulse (IRE) Croco Rouge (IRE) Getaway (GER) Royal Anthem (USA) Intense Focus (USA) It’s Gino (GER) Sabiango (GER) Literato (FR) Clodovil (IRE) Montmartre (FR)

Runners

Winners

3 4 4 9 14 6 17 3 8 6 1 6 6 5 7 11 6 13 10 5 5 12 10 2 3 4 11 5 7 3 5 3 10 3 7 1 8 2 9 5 4 7 2 5 3 2 2 8 5 3 6 9 5

2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 0 0 1 2 3 0 0 1 1 0 3 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 2 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1

W/R % 67 50 50 22 7 17 6 33 25 33 100 0 0 20 29 27 0 0 10 20 0 25 10 0 33 0 9 20 14 33 20 33 10 0 14 100 25 50 11 20 0 14 50 0 33 50 50 0 20 0 17 11 20

Starts 7 15 12 16 23 11 27 8 14 16 2 13 11 18 21 21 9 30 15 15 12 18 22 4 11 19 20 11 17 5 6 14 19 3 15 3 14 12 22 7 5 12 6 7 4 10 5 21 5 6 16 14 6

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Stakes wins

Earnings

0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

29,135 28,434 27,773 26,109 26,053 25,543 25,260 22,931 22,787 22,697 22,643 20,476 19,790 19,048 18,719 18,341 18,185 18,123 18,110 18,102 17,999 17,952 17,852 17,656 17,048 16,421 16,278 16,187 15,356 15,152 14,807 14,790 14,632 13,847 13,584 13,547 12,502 12,376 12,373 12,031 11,832 11,316 10,733 10,614 10,398 9,525 9,499 9,367 9,335 9,312 £9,223 £8,872 £8,8471

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stakes sires

The master list SIRES OF STAKES WINNERS IN EUROPE AND UAE IN 2018

Horses are listed under their sire with the respective broodmare sire in brackets.

Includes Group (1,2,3) and Listed (L) wins in Europe and UAE up to and including November 4, 2018 Data from Hyperion Promotions Acclamation Expert Eye (Dansili) My Sister Nat (Galileo) Oh This Is Us (Hawk Wing) Projection (Dr Fong) Tabarrak (Intikhab) Well Done Fox (Exceed And Excel) Adlerflug Iquitos (Areion) Al Kazeem Aspetar (Dansili) American Post Castellar (Highest Honor) Anodin Anodor (Kentucky Dynamite) Harmless (Pivotal) Appel Au Maitre Appelina (Hernando) Approve El Astronaute (Footstepsinthesand) Skrei (Lawman) Aqlaam Dancing Star (Danehill Dancer)

33 3 L 3 LL LL

Aussie Rules Against Rules (Johannesburg) Azzurro Cobalto (Selkirk)

L 3 3 3LL L

LL L

12 Australia Beyond Reason (Azamour)

23

Hunting Horn (Indian Ridge) 3 King Of Leogrance (Halling) L Latrobe (Shamardal) 1 Naturally High (Grand Slam) L Pollara (Storm Cat) 3 Sir Erec (Galileo) L Wait Forever (Holy Roman Emperor) 3 3 L Wonderment (Konigstiger) 1 Campanologist Oriental Eagle (Big Shuffle) Walsingham (Sternkoenig)

2 L

L Azamour Shahnaza (King’s Best)

L

23 Baltic King Gracious John (Lujain) 3 L

L

Bated Breath Worth Waiting (Sadler’s Wells) Binary File Visiteur Du Pom (Beckett)

L L

Blame Mrs Sippy (Encosta De Lago)

3

Blu Constellation American Coffee (Rail Link)

Arakan On The Go Again (King’s Theatre)

L

Arcano Spinning Memories (Hard Spun)

L

Arch Nyaleti (Verglas)

2L

Archipenko Va Bank (Dilshaan)

23

Areion Angelita (Royal Dragon)

Artistica (Pentire) Auenperle (Doyen) Binti Al Nar (Reset) Devastar (Platini) Wonnemond (Surako)

L

Bungle Inthejungle Rumble Inthejungle (Dark Angel) Sopran Artemide (Verglas) Camacho Ambiance (Green Desert) Happy Odyssey (Trans Island) My Catch (Barathea) Signora Cabello (Night Shift) Teppal (Cadeaux Genereux) Camelot Alounak (Rail Link) Arthur Kitt (Red Clubs)

Cape Cross Century Dream (Echo Of Light) Hamada (Kingmambo) Horseplay (Lemon Drop Kid)

3L 3 2

The Broghie Man (Dutch Art)

L

Clodovil Certain Lad (Galileo)

L

Cockney Rebel Monette (Areion)

L

Contat Schang (Tertullian)

L

Dabirsim Coeur De Beaute (Rock Of Gibraltar)

3

Dalakhani Defoe (Pivotal) Second Step (Sadler’s Wells)

23 L

L Captain Gerrard Alpha Delphini (Cozzene)

1

Captain Marvelous Forza Capitano (Monsun)

L

3L

L

L

Casamento Castle Hill Cassie (Dark Angel) Communique (Kris S) Frutireu (Mujadil) Princess Yaiza (Noverre)

L L L 2

Champs Elysees Barsanti (Zafonic) Billesdon Brook (Manduro)

L 1

Charm Spirit Yourtimeisnow (Gone West)

3

L

3 L

LL L 3 22L 1

Choisir Blue Uluru (Coronado’s Quest) Psychedelic Funk (Galileo) Zihba (Galileo)

L 3 3

L L

Cityscape Dan’s Dream (Royal Applause) Give And Take (Montjeu)

3 3

Dandy Man Comedy (Dubawi) My Lea (One Cool Cat)

3 3

Danehill Dancer Here Comes When (Spinning World) Mia Tesoro (Desert Style)

3 L

Dansili Crossed Baton (Beat Hollow) Efaadah (Oasis Dream) Environs (Oasis Dream) First Sitting (Distant View) Just Wonderful (Montjeu) Ligne D’Or (Galileo) Mootasadir (Galileo) With You (Inchinor)

L 3L L L 23 3L 3 1

Dark Angel Angelic Light (Zamindar) Angel’s Hideaway (Kheleyf) Ardhoomey (Orpen) Battaash (Lawman) First Contact (Verglas) Harry Angel (Cadeaux Genereux) Sovereign Debt (Most Welcome) Yafta (Oasis Dream)

L 3 L 22 L 2 L 3

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stakes sires Dawn Approach Haddaf (Cozzene) Madhmoon (Haafhd) Mary Tudor (Kaldounevees) Musis Amica (Darshaan) Second Generation (Iffraaj)

L 2 L 3 L

Declaration Of War Actress (Gulch) Assiro (Red Ransom) Olmedo (Pivotal)

3 L 1

Deep Impact Bartaba (Anabaa) Geniale (Refuse To Bend) Saxon Warrior (Galileo) Study Of Man (Storm Cat)

3 3 1 12

Delegator Accidental Agent (Xaar)

1

Diamond Green Sexy Metro (Vettori)

L

Dick Turpin Vintage Brut (Indesatchel)

LL

Distorted Humor Comicas (Touch Gold) Masaarr (Galileo) Mot Juste (Sadler’s Wells)

3 L 3

Doctor Dino Golden Legend (Kaldounevees) Dragon Pulse I’ll Have Another (Dylan Thomas) Dream Ahead Dark Vision (Dansili) Tornibush (Dansili) Dubawi Al Hilalee (Authorized) Anna Nerium (Old Vic) Bateel (Chief’s Crown) Benbatl (Selkirk) Brundtland (Hurricane Run) Coronet (Darshaan) Crown Walk (Danzig) D’Bai (Green Desert) Desert Diamond (Dansili) Ghaiyyath (Galileo) Ghostwatch (Beat Hollow) Glorious Journey (Dansili) Jordan Sport (Tiger Hill) Kitesurf (Danehill Dancer) Lah Ti Dar (Singspiel) Lillian Russell (Samum) Lunar Maria (Storm Cat)

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Muntazah (Rahy) North America (Yankee Victor) Old Persian (Singspiel) Plumatic (Anabaa) Poetic Charm (Danehill) Quorto (Mount Nelson) Rare Rhythm (Singspiel) Shillong (Oasis Dream) Soliloquy (Lonhro) Too Darn Hot (Singspiel) Wild Illusion (Monsun) Wuheida (Singspiel)

L 1 22L 3 L 12 3 L 3 123 11 2

Duke Of Marmalade Flower Party (Aptitude) Marmelo (In The Wings)

3L 2L

Dutch Art Al Malhouf (Danehill Dancer) Mabs Cross (Pivotal) Perfection (Pivotal) Zaman (Noverre)

L 13 L L

Dylan Thomas Dylan Mouth (Noverre) Extremely Vintage (Singspiel) Sweet Thomas (Protektor)

3 L 3

E Dubai Saltarin Dubai (Fitzcarraldo)

L

Eishin Dunkirk I Kirk (Johannesburg)

3L

Elnadim Elnadim Star (Redback) Mr Lupton (Docksider)

L 3L

Madhmoon (Dawn Approach) was very impressive winning the Group 2 Champions Juvenile Stakes at Leopardstown.

The Shadwell homebred looks a very promising type and has entries in next year’s Irish 2,000 Guineas and Irish Derby

3

L

2 3L

L 3L 2 1123 22L 2 3 3 L 3 L 3 3 123 LL L L

Elusive City Beauty Of Love (Mutakddim) Carpathian (Tiger Hill) Coco City (Storm Bird) Miss Moon (Titus Livius) Elusive Quality Snowy Winter (Pleasantly Perfect) Equiano Medicine Jack (Formidable) The Tin Man (Bishop Of Cashel)

L L L L

L L

Excelebration Speak In Colours (Verglas) Tilly’s Chilli (Montjeu)

3 L

Excellent Art Above The Rest (Tiznow)

3

Wells Farhh Go (Galileo)

3

Fast Company Downforce (Pivotal) Ginmann (Shirley Heights) Spectralight (Cape Cross)

L LL LL

Fastnet Rock Casterton (Sadler’s Wells) Euginio (Diktat) I Can Fly (Montjeu) Merchant Navy (Snippets) One Master (Pivotal) Torcedor (Sadler’s Wells) Turret Rocks (Galileo)

L 3 2L 12 13 3 3L

L

L 1L

Exceed And Excel Degas (Tertullian) 33 Folkswood (Galileo) 3 Heavy Metal (Lecture) 223 Hit The Bid (Selkirk) 3 James Garfield (Daylami) 3 Julio (Beat Hollow) 3 Queen Of Bermuda (Haafhd) 3L Royal Intervention (Jeune Homme) L

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Exchange Rate Homerique (Congaree) Thundering Blue (Forestry)

3 23

Falco Hipodamo De Mileto (Montjeu) Maifalki (Entrepreneur) Xenobia (Royal Academy)

L L 3

First Samurai Shamaal Nibras (Farma Way)

3

Farhh Nocturnal Fox (Rahy)

2

Footstepsinthesand Larchmont Lad (King’s Best)

2

stakes sires Forever Together (Theatrical) 1 Giuseppe Garibaldi (Danehill Dancer) L Gustav Klimt (Danehill) L Hermosa (Pivotal) 3 Idaho (Danehill) 3 Japan (Danehill) 2 Kew Gardens (Desert King) 112 Line Of Duty (Rock Of Gibraltar) 3 Magic Wand (Dansili) 2L Magical (Pivotal) 12 Mission Impassible (Exceed And Excel) 2 Mohawk (Encosta De Lago) 2 Norway (Kingmambo) L Order Of St George (Gone West) 3L Peach Tree (Pivotal) L Platinum Warrior (Clodovil) 3 Rhododendron (Pivotal) 1 Sarrocchi (Oasis Dream) L Sizzling (Smart Strike) 3L Southern France (Anabaa) L Waldgeist (Monsun) 1223 Yucatan (Celtic Swing) 3

Marie’s Diamond (Kalanisi) Summer Daydream (Oasis Dream) Foxwedge Urban Fox (Nashwan) Fracas Smash Williams (Pivotal) Frankel Call The Wind (Inchinor) Cracksman (Pivotal) East (Indian Ridge) Finche (Woodman) Frankel Light (Kingmambo) Lightening Quick (Marju) Mirage Dancer (Green Desert) Monarchs Glen (Lear Fan) Nelson (Dalakhani) Qazyna (Highest Honor) Rostropovich (Machiavellian)

3 L

Veracious (Pivotal) Wadilsafa (Rahy) Without Parole (Lemon Drop Kid) Zarkamiya (Zamindar)

3 L 1L L

Garswood Cala Tarida (Holy Roman Emperor) Little Kim (Lucky Story)

3 3

Giant’s Causeway Utmost (Alphabet Soup)

L

Gladiatorus Presley (Celtic Swing)

L

Halling Desert Encounter (Invincible Spirit) Thomas Hobson (Danehill Dancer)

L 2

Harbour Watch Malakeh (Desert Sun)

L

Hard Spun Clear Water (Storm Cat) Promising Run (Know Heights)

L 22

1 French Fifteen Teckwin (Medicean)

L

Hat Trick Peace In Motion (Sholokhov)

3LL

L

1 111 3 3 L 3 3L L 3 L 3L

Galileo Anthony Van Dyck (Exceed And Excel) 2 3 Beautiful Morning (George Washington) 3 Broadway (Danehill) 3 Bye Bye Baby (Danehill Dancer) 3 Capri (Anabaa) 3 Christmas (Lemon Drop Kid) L Cliffs Of Moher (Dansili) 2 Curly (Danehill) L Cypress Creek (Anabaa) 3 Easter Lily (Danehill) L Flag Of Honour (Warning) 123 Flattering (Pivotal) 3

Havana Gold Barade (Anabaa) Havana Grey (Dark Angel) Havana View (North Light) Headway (Medicean)

L 12 L L

Helmet Anda Muchacho (Shamardal) 2 Met Spectrum (Spectrum) L Thunder Snow (Dubai Destination) 1 2 Henrythenavigator Called To The Bar (Unfuwain)

3L

Henry Mouth (Noverre)

LL

High Chaparral Bella Estrella (Turtle Island) Big Country (Danehill) Main Desire (Orientate) Raymond Tusk (Danehill) Taraja (Big Shuffle) Tirano (Acatenango)

L L L 2L 3 L

Hold That Tiger Holdthasigreen (Muhtathir)

12LL

Holy Roman Emperor Fullness Of Life (Stravinsky) Romanised (Indian Ridge) Well Timed (Cadeaux Genereux)

L 1 12L

Hurricane Run Hurricane Red (Trempolino)

3

Ideal World Smart Call (Horse Chestnut)

3

Iffraaj Beshaayir (Mister Baileys) Chilean (Duke Of Marmalade) Judicial (Marju) Jungle Cat (Forest Wildcat) Rasima (Dalakhani)

L 3 3 12 L

Intello Gabr (Nayef) L Intello Kiss (Cape Cross) L Intellogent (Kheleyf) 13 Native American (Henrythenavigator) L Regal Reality (Medicean) 3 Young Rascal (Clodovil) 333 Intense Focus Awesometank (Lawman) Intense Romance (Woodman)

L LL

Invincible Spirit Ancient Spirit (Galileo) Baby Pink (Galileo) Deemster (Grand Slam) Emmaus (Galileo) Enlighted (Zamindar) Eqtidaar (Acclamation) Indigo Balance (Diktat) Inns Of Court (Seeking The Gold) Invincible Army (Diktat) Lethal Promise (Elusive Quality) Magna Grecia (Galileo) Muthmir (Danehill) Orbaan (Raven’s Pass) Pincheck (Arch) Royal Meeting (Lecture) Stunning Spirit (Dynaformer)

22 L L L L 1 L 3 3 L 1 L L 3 1 LL

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stakes sires Tomyris (Seeking The Gold) Zhui Feng (Inchinor)

3 L

It’s Gino Balmain (Highest Honor) Butzje (Areion)

L 3

Jukebox Jury Klungel (Dai Jin) O’juke (Peintre Celebre) Kendargent King Bubble (Layman) Marie D’argent (Vindication) Morando (Indian Rocket) Sky Full Of Stars (Samum) Kingman Calyx (Observatory) Look Around (High Yield) Persian King (Dylan Thomas) Poetry (Pivotal) Sangarius (Empire Maker)

L 3

L L 3 2L

2 L 3 L L

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Mastercraftsman Alpha Centauri (Rahy) Blue Gardenia (Galileo) Esteve (Red Ransom)

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Medaglia D’Oro Gyllen (Mr Prospector) Talismanic (Machiavellian) Medicean Mustajeer (Dynaformer)

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Montmartre Bebe D’Amour (Loup Solitaire)

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Motivator Way Back (Anabaa) Zascandil (Sagamix)

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Mount Nelson Mount Moriah (Night Shift) Yulong Gold Fairy (Dutch Art)

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Mr Sidney Mr Satchmo (Linamix)

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Mujahid Act Of War (Rainbow Quest) Dirk (Docksider) Perego (Singspiel) Myboycharlie Cheikeljack (Giant’s Causeway) Noblesse Oblige (Dansili) Nathaniel Amorella (Dubawi) Chasedown (Whipper) Enable (Sadler’s Wells) God Given (Dubai Destination) Highgarden (Green Desert) Palombe (Boreal) Perfect Clarity (Shamardal) Pilaster (Hernando) Precious Ramotswe (Danehill) Sladina (Machiavellian)

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New Approach Loxley (Nayef) Masar (Cape Cross) Nearly Caught (Danehill) Ostilio (Mark Of Esteem) Potemkin (Big Shuffle) Veneto (Zinaad) Waldlied (Monsun)

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No Nay Never All The King’s Men (Peintre Celebre) L Land Force (Rock Of Gibraltar) 2L No Needs Never (Cape Cross) L Servalan (Oratorio) L Ten Sovereigns (Exceed And Excel) 1 3 Oasis Dream Ertijaal (Seeking The Gold) Imaging (Dubai Destination) Mrs Gallagher (Refuse To Bend) Polydream (Green Tune) Pretty Pollyanna (Shamardal) Stage Play (Clodovil)

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Orpen Pretty Baby (Gold Away) Shadan (Giant’s Causeway)

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Oscar True Self (Mukaddamah)

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Paco Boy Beat The Bank (Diktat) Mission Boy (Second Empire) Mitchum Swagger (Dansili)

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Panis Alistair (Linngari) Sands Of Mali (Indian Rocket)

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Pastoral Pursuits Ipompieridiviggiu (Sakhee) Perfect Pasture (Diktat)

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Peer Gynt Frsco Bere (Hector Protector)

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Piccolo Nantany (Slip Anchor)

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God Given winning the Park Hill Stakes (G2). She went on to win the Premio Lydia Tesio (G1), giving Luca Cumani a fitting end to his training career

Lightning Spear (Royal Academy) Nikkei (Lando) Panstarr (Dubai Millennium) Rosa Imperial (Kingmambo) Together Again (Teofilo) Planteur Domagnano (Marchand De Sable) Poet’s Voice Arctic Sound (Royal Academy) Montsarrat (Entrepreneur) Poeta Diletto (Selkirk) Poet’s Word (Nashwan) Sand Zabeel (Gold Away) Summer Festival (Diktat) Posse Mind Your Biscuits (Toccet) Rail Link Chain Of Daisies (Kris)

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Rajj I’m So Fancy (King’s Best)

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Raven’s Pass Lake Volta (Shamardal) Nisreen (Kingmambo) Raven’s Lady (Pivotal) Royal Marine (Singspiel)

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Reckless Abandon Shepherd Market (Pivotal) Red Jazz Snazzy Jazzy (Byron) Redoute’s Choice Sevenna Star (Galileo) Spotify (Green Tune) Time’s Arrow (Monsieur Bond) Wajnah (Second Empire)

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Requinto Great Scot (Mr Greeley)

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Rip Van Winkle Almorox (Mizzen Mast)

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Royal Applause Royal Julius (Dubawi) Royal Experiment

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Stradivarius (Bering)

Ruler Of The World Iridessa (Danehill)

1

Sehrezad Millowitsch (Fath)

Sageburg Red Line (Gone West)

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Santiago Khan (Winged Love)

1

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Reliable Man Akribie (Haafhd)

Rock Of Gibraltar Atom Hearth Mother (King’s Best) Birthday Party (Aptitude) Kalaxana (Daylami) Ziyad (Sillery)

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Scat Daddy Dali (Cape Cross) Mendelssohn (Tricky Creek) Sergei Prokofiev (Tapit) Sioux Nation (Oasis Dream) Skitter Scatter (Street Cry) So Perfect (Songandaprayer) Van Beethoven (Montbrook)

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Sea The Moon Noble Moon (Singspiel) Quest The Moon (Rock Of Gibraltar)

3 3

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Sepoy Indian Blessing (Halling) Sparkle’N’Joy (Dubai Destination) Unforgetable Filly (Oasis Dream) Shamardal Aljazzi (Danehill Dancer) Blue Point (Royal Applause) Celebrity (Rock Of Gibraltar) Di Fede (Caerleon) Emaraaty Ana (Cape Cross) Emotionless (Unbridled’s Song) Global Giant (Dalakhani) Graphite (Linamix) Hazapour (Daylami) Lucie Manette (Tiger Hill) Magnolia Springs (Rainbow Quest) Shamtee (Dubai Destination) Sheikha Reika (Tobougg) Winter Lightning (Dubai Destination) Shanghai Bobby Shang Shang Shang (Yankee Victor) Showcasing Advertise (Pivotal) Devant (Galileo)

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Sixties Icon Iconic Choice (Choisir) Nagano Gold (Monsun)

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War Command Victory Command (Machiavellian)

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War Front Flavius (Dynaformer) Fleet Review (Galileo) Hakam (Arch) Lancaster Bomber (Indian Ridge) Naval Intelligence (Galileo) U S Navy Flag (Galileo)

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Western Winter Light The Lights (Northern Guest)

3

2

Silver Frost Cnicht (Cape Cross)

Sir Percy Blakeney Point (Danehill Dancer) Sir Prancealot Pepita (Highest Honor) Sir Dancealot (Danehill Dancer)

Vocalised Cimeara (Galileo) Sometimesadiamond (Galileo)

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Lancaster Bomber: the son of War Front picked up a deserved Group 1 win

Soldier Of Fortune Allons Y (Westerner) Busybeingfabulous (Kendor) Cashman (Hernando) Speightstown Scottish Jig (Danehill) Wusool (Orpen) Spring At Last Victor Kalejs (Mr Greeley) Stimulation Dave Dexter (Verglas) Stormy Atlantic Stormy Antarctic (Doyen) Strategic Prince Primo Uomo (Mujahid) Street Cry Agathonia (Diktat) Gold Town (Invincible Spirit) Yulong Warrior (Bernardini) Style Vendome Lily’s Candle (Dolphin Street) Tagula Limato (Singspiel) Tai Chi Armance (Sinndar) Scapina (Desert Story) Tamayuz Hunaina (Danehill Dancer) Making Light (Danehill) Mankib (Divine Light) Mustashry (Green Desert)

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Temple City Kimbear (Sky Mesa)

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Wootton Bassett The Black Album (Trade Fair) Wootton (American Post)

3 3

Youmzain Royal Youmzain (Shamardal)

33

Zafeen Son Cesio (Dansili)

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Zamindar Air Pilot (Dr Devious) Our Last Summer (Dansili)

23 33

Zanzibari Nonza (Kaldounevees)

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Zebedee Buonasera (Oratorio) Charline Royale (Tobougg)

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Three Valleys Summershine (Acatenango)

L

Tin Horse Folie De Louise (Observatory)

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Tiz Wonderful Rayya (Coronado’s Quest)

3

Tot Ou Tard Star Victory (Kadrou)

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Vale Of York Clon Coulis (Definite Article)

Whipper Jackfinbar (Slip Anchor) Lord Glitters (Homme De Loi) Recoletos (Highest Honor) Vilaro (Vettori)

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Zoffany Coral Beach (Tiger Hill) Crisaff’s Queen (Deep Impact) Dolphin Vista (Mozart) Fleeting (Motivator) Gold Tyranny (Hennessy) Hot Team (Elusive Quality) Main Edition (Woodman) Paint Island (Danehill Dancer) Pure Zen (Dr Fong) Spitzbergen (Iron Mask) Who’s Steph (Verglas) Wilamina (Lomond)

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yearling sales Right: the top-priced yearling sold at auction in the world this year – the Dubawi colt out of Dar Re Mi who fetched 3.5 million guineas at Tattersalls.

He ws sold by (left) Lady Lloyd-Webber ‘s Watership Down Stud Far right: top, the Goffs Orby Sale top lot, a sale record, was the Galileo ex Green Room filly sold by Ballylinch Stud (middle picture) to Phoenix Thoroughbreds for €3.2 million Far right, bottom: Phoenix also spent €2 million on Lot 165, the Galileo filly out of Aleagueoftheirown, sold by Glenvale Stud.

It is the first time that two lots have topped €2 million at the same year’s Orby Sale

Select yearling sales held firm Jocelyn de Moubray reviews the yearling season which saw continued demand at the top Photos courtesy of Goffs, GoffsUK and Tattersalls

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he 2018 European yearling sales season was in many ways a continuation of the previous year’s edition. Overall the aggregate and average at the major European sales combined was more or less unchanged with an aggregate of $355 million and an average price of $132,000.

The major trends were broadly similar with the market again dominated by the Maktoum

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family’s buying which was concentrated on the Tattersalls October Book 1 and Book 2 sales. The continued weakness of sterling against other major currencies still makes Britain, and above all Newmarket, an attractive place to buy for all.

These days this makes up most of the market – those who are not reckoning in sterling.

The change in Sheikh Mohammed’s buying team makes a big difference to which horses and sires were most

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sought after in the market.

Buying through Godolphin and Stroud Coleman Bloodstock, Sheikh Mohammed spent significantly more, even if in broader terms the Maktoum family’s spending was more or less unchanged at around $80 million or 25 per cent of the total market.

Alastair Donald was once again a major buyer on behalf of the late Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and Phoenix Thoroughbreds increased its

spending, particularly at the Goffs Orby Sale.

There was also significant new money from the US and Australia, both of which may be an important trend for the future – particularly with the success of the Tattersalls-purchased Chad Brown-trained juvenile Newspaperforrecord at the Breeders’ Cup The future will, unfortunately, be different with Srivaddhanaprabha’s tragic death only days after the end of

yearling sales Major yearling purchasers by $ spend in millions: 2015 Buyer

Purchased

Darley

Spend ($ millons)

69 27.0

Shadwell 82 19.8 Al Shaqab

57

17.0

MV Magnier

19

15.8

China Horse Club

20

12.4

Mayfair Speculators

19

9.2

Mohammed Obaida

18

5.3

Combined 284 110.0 All other buyers

2,479

196.0

Average spend by the leading buyers: $390,000 Average spend by other buyers: $80,000

Major yearling purchasers by $ spend in millions: 2016 Buyer

Purchased

Spend ($ millons)

Shadwell 97 27.9 Darley

54 26.2

Coolmore & partners

14

14.6

Al Shaqab

43

11.3

Mohammed Obaida

25

8.6

HKJC

20 4.9

Combined 253 All other buyers

2,525

93.5 229.0

Average spend by the leading buyers: $370,000 Average spend by other buyers: $91,000

There was also significant new money from the US and Australia, which may be an important trend for the future

the sales season.

The sterling effect on the yearling sales is obvious when you compare the results of Tattersalls’ two big sales in dollars and sterling.

Since 2015, the last pre-Brexit vote edition and this year’s sales, the combined aggregate and average at Book 1 and 2 have increased in sterling by 25 per cent and 28 per cent respectively, but in dollar terms the figures are three per cent for the aggregate and six per cent for the average,

and so just about in line with inflation.

If looking at this year’s sales in the domestic currencies Tattersalls succeeded in repeating its exceptional results of 2017.

Goffs Orby Sale managed to increase both its aggregate and average price significantly by reducing its catalogue size.

The other sales struggled in comparison with Baden-Baden being particularly hit by the loss of Mayfair Speculators as

a major buyer, while Arqana’s August and October Sales as well as the GoffsUK Premier Sale at Doncaster were down by around five per cent from the previous year.

Nevertheless, the market share of the various important sales have changed little if at all since 2015 with the Goffs Orby Sale the only real advance going from 11 per cent of the total in 2015 to 14 per cent in 2018.

Whether or not Tattersalls will be able to maintain or increase its

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yearling sales Major yearling purchasers by $ spend in millions: 2017 Buyer

Purchased

Spend ($ millons)

Godolphin 58 31.7 Sackville/Donald 106

27.3

Shadwell 87 25.4 Coolmore & partners

26

18.7

Roger Varian

21

11.8

Rabbah 75 7.7 HKJC Kerri Radcliffe

27 6.7 4

4.5

Combined 404 134.0 All other buyers

2,314

224.0

Average spend by the leading buyers: $330,000 Average spend by other buyers: $97,000 Top far left: US trainer Chad Brown added to his string at Tattersalls Bottom far left: Amer Abdulaziz of Phoenix spent $12 milion Left: Sheikh Hamdan as usual was a huge market influence

If there is a no deal Brexit it is more than likely that Tattersalls will have to hold its major yearling sales outside Britain as the VAT rulings will surely be an insurmountable obstacle share of the elite yearling market over the coming years is in many ways out of its own hands.

If there is a no deal Brexit it is more than likely that Tattersalls

will have to hold its major yearling sales outside Britain as the VAT rulings will surely be an insurmountable obstacle to continuing in Newmarket.

If, however, there is a “good” Brexit deal sterling may well return to its pre-2016 level against the US dollar and other currencies, which would also have a major effect on the European yearling market.

In 2018 several important French and German vendors chose to send some of their best yearlings to sell in Newmarket with success.

The market in Deauville and Baden-Baden appears to have stagnated in recent years, even if the difference with Newmarket is exaggerated by the change in the terms of trade.

As long as the biggest buyers – Godolphin, Shadwell, Sheikh Mohammed Obaida – concentrate their buying on Newmarket, then vendors with horses who could interest them will be tempted to sell there, wherever they are based.

For those consignors who

Major yearling purchasers: 2018 Buyer

Purchased

Spend ($ millons)

Stroud/Coleman/Godolphin 98

42.0

Shadwell 74 21.0 MV Magnier

25

19.0

SackvilleDonald 92

16.0

Phoenix Thoroughbreds 24

12.0

David Redvers

16

Hillen/Devin/Ryan 20

8.3 6.1

Rabbah 55 5.4 HKJC Roger Varian Al Shaqab

21 5.1 9

4.2

22

3.9

Shawn Dugan

8

3.8

Cheveley Park Stud

8

3.6

Ballylinch & partners

9

3.1

Combined 481 154.0 All other buyers

2,230

201.0

Average spend by the leading buyers: $320,000 Average spend by other buyers: $90,000

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yearling sales Major European sales 2015-2018 in domestic currency Sale & year

Nos sold

Aggregate (m)

Average

Tattersalls Book 1 and 2 (£) 2015 1,053 131 124,000 2016 979 133 136,000 2017 962 158 164,000 2018 1,023 163 159,000 % +/- 2017-18

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BBAG September (€) 2015 148 6.40 43,300 2016 174 7.98 45,900 2017 165 7.69 46,600 2018 157 6.05 38,500 % +/- 2017-18

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Arqana August and October (€) 2015 794 62.0 78,100 2016 830 63.4 76,400 2017 842 64.4 76,500 2018 805 60.4 75,000 % +/- 2017-18

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Goffs Orby (€) 2015 371 38.9 105,000 2016 401 42.9 107,000 2017 373 40.7 109,000 2018 326 43.4 133,000 % +/- 2017-18

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GoffUK Premier Sale (£) 2015 412 17.7 42,900 2016 394 17.4 44,100 2017 376 19.6 52,000 2018 400 18.6 46,600 % +/- 2017-18

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might have found that their horses were not on those buying lists, then the market was difficult to predict and sell.

The Deauville and Baden-Baden sales were very solid in many respects in 2018, but both were missing major players willing to take each other on and compete for the best lots.

A further uncertainty is added by the death of Srivaddhanaprabha, who has been a big supporter of the Newmarket sales over the last two years.

Sire power

Aside from changes in the terms of trade the big influence on the market is Sheikh Mohammed’s new buying policies.

The new two new major players in 2017 and 2018, King Power Racing and Phoenix

Thoroughbreds, were also focused on the top of the market regardless of where any stallion is standing.

The main beneficiary of these changes has been those who are selling the best yearlings by Galileo.

The progeny of Coolmore’s champion sire have never been more valuable. In the two years since 2016, the last season in which John Ferguson was buying for Darley, the average price of Galileo’s yearlings selling in England and Ireland has gone from 470,000gns to 910,000gns, up by 92 per cent, and his median price has advanced by 150 per cent from 300,000gns to 750,000gns.

No other stallion has received a similar boost – when demand is broader and not restricted, it is not surprising that the best stallion should benefit.

Left: Sheikh Fahad’s purchase of the Tattersalls top lot looked a good move after the colt’s full-brother Too Darn Hot won the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes three days later Below: Patricia Thompson of Cheveley Park Stud. The farm, was the leading Britishbased buyer (without foreign investment) and spent the equivalent of $3.6 million on yearlings this autumn

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The sires whose yearling medians saw the biggest increases were, as would be expected, the successful first and second-season sires – No Nay Never, Kingman, Anodin and Camelot

The sires whose yearling medians saw the biggest increases were, as would be expected, the successful first and second-season sires – No Nay Never, Kingman, Anodin and Camelot.

Other sires to have good years at the sales included the leading two-year-olds sires Kodiac, Showcasing and Oasis Dream, as well as Siyouni and the Coolmore sires Zoffany and Starspangledbanner.

The only Darley stallion strongly supported by Stroud Coleman and Godolphin was Dubawi, otherwise the stallions they bought most of included Lope De Vega, Sea The Stars, the Coolmore sires Galileo, No Nay Never and Camelot, as well as Kodiac, Siyouni and Showcasing.

MV Magnier’s purchases were mainly by the Coolmore sires Galileo, No Nay Never, Camelot and Zoffany, but he also purchased an expensive Lope De Vega colt in Deauville, and a Kingman colt in Newmarket, as well as a filly and a colt by Dark Angel.

US breeder Peter Brandt’s White Birch Farm and the US-based Klaravich Stables had bought yearlings in Newmarket in 2017, but they spent more this year buying a total of 20 yearlings between them at October Book 1 for some $10 million.

The US trainer Chad Brown was present at the sale again and his barn next year will include several two-year-olds

by Lope De Vega, Sea The Stars, Kingman and Siyouni.

Australian buyers Kingscraft, Orbis and John Foote were also active in Newmarket, Deauville

Anthony Stroud was a busy buyer for Godolphin this autumn

and Baden-Baden buying to race in both Australia and Europe with a view to exporting later.

Stability is a most unusual phenomenon in the bloodstock market which is swayed by decisions impossible to predict.

If the 2018 European sales season looks with hindsight to be similar to 2017, the chances are the 2019 season will be different.

In 2021, when the yearlings produced by next year’s coverings will be offered for sale, it will be a new world altogether.

Newsells Park Stud had a fabulous yearling season.

Not only was the farm leading consignor in both the Tattersalls Book 1 and Book 2 sales, it sold the year’s highest-priced Galileo colt (bottom, left) for 3.4 million guineas to MV Magnier.

Newsells also topped the GoffsUK Premier Sale with the colt by Gleneagles out of Lady Eclair (top) sold for £340,000 to SackvilleDonald

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A STELLAR YEAR IN 2018 La Pelosa

Dandhu

1 Gr.1 Natalma Stks.

2nd Gr.2 Rockfel Stakes

st

(Newmarket)

(Woodbine)

“Has Group-race talent on this experience”

2nd Gr.3 Albany Stks.

(Royal Ascot)

River Boyne 6 wins

Lady Kaya

from 9 starts in USA at 3yo inc;

1st Loder Fillies Stks.

1st Gr.2 Twilight Derby

(by 10lengths)

(Santa Anita)

2nd Gr.1 Moyglare Stud Stks.

1 Gr.3 La Jolla Stakes st

(Del Mar)

“A filly of the highest class”

1 LR Pasadena Stakes st

(Santa Anita)

Comedy

My Lea

1 Gr.3 Prix de Cabourg

1st Gr.3 Premio Tudini

st

(Rome)

(Deauville)

“She broke the track record at Doncaster so we knew she was good” Karl Burke

Leading Sires of 2yos in Europe in 2018 in order of winners in Europe

Ballyhane Stud Leighlinbridge, Co.Carlow, Ireland.

Sire

Born

Grandsire

Rnrs

Wnrs

KODIAC

2001

Danehill

129

47

DANDY MAN

2003

Mozart

94

30

DARK ANGEL

2005

Acclamation

101

28

NO NAY NEVER

2011

Scat Daddy

53

26

LOPE DE VEGA

2007

Shamardal

70

25

CHARM SPIRIT

2011

Invincible Spirit

68

25

ZOFFANY

2008

Dansili

85

24

BUNGLE INTHEJUNGLE

2010

Exceed And Excel

60

24

GALILEO

1998

Sadler’s Wells

56

23

Joe Foley: +353 86 252 4135 Office: +353 59 972 2068 Fax: +353 59 972 2566

Jane Foley: +353 86 806 6000 Email: info@ballyhane.com Web: www.ballyhane.com

Dandy Man His yearlings have made up to 240,000 Euro Breezers have made up to 280,000 gns Foals have made up to 120,000 gns 2018 yearling bought by; Phoenix Thoroughbreds

David Redvers x2

Rabbah x2

Hong Kong Jockey Club

Sackville Donald x4

Alex Elliott x2

China Horse Club/Ballylinch

Blandford Bloodstock x2

Stroud Coleman

BIGGEST AND BEST CROPS TO COME 2018 Foals ex; Maids Causeway

Viztoria

Percolator

Umlani

Invincible Ash

Moon Unit

Northern Mischief

Catalina Bay

Eastern Appeal

Dream Date

Veiled Beauty

Lily’s Rainbow etc.

2019 Fee: €12,500 Applications by December 17th

stallion yearling averages Top ten sires in Europe by yearling averages in 2018

Muhaarar: his first crop of yearlings was very well received by buyers.

He was the leading European-based new stallion at this autumn’s sales with an average of 165,374gns

(gns)

Sire Average Galileo 773,000 Dubawi 751,747 American Pharoah 674,251 War Front 374,550 Frankel 345,846 Kingman 269,847 Medaglia D’Oro 218,278 Invincible Spirit 191,239 More Than Ready 177,500 Muhaarar 165,374 Sea The Stars 162,092 Golden Horn 152,981 Oasis Dream 136,269 Lope De Vega 133,790 Dark Angel 132,200 Siyouni 130,249 Fastnet Rock 129,438

Photo courtesy of Shadwell

Stallion yearling averages Stallions with two or more lots sold, listed alphabetically and showing aggregate, average and colt and fillies’ figures from sales in Britain, Ireland and France. In guineas, compiled by Weatherbys. Some dual-purpose stallions included Sire Name

Sold

Acclamation Adlerflug Aiken Al Kazeem Alhebayeb Amadeus Wolf Amarillo Amaron American Devil American Pharoah American Post Animal Kingdom Anjaal Anodin Appel Au Maitre Arakan Arcano Archipenko Arctic Cosmos Areion Arrigo

48 3,123,545 65,073 350,000 22 11 275,173 25,015 84,281 8 4 20,225 5,056 10,113 3 8 105,797 13,224 34,285 5 34 282,605 8,311 46,354 26 2 10,956 5,478 8,428 1 6 26,547 4,424 6,742 2 16 301,721 18,857 134,850 7 4 32,868 8,217 18,541 2 2 1,348,503 674,251 716,392 0 8 344,709 43,088 193,847 1 2 90,179 45,089 63,210 2 66 929,504 14,083 100,000 46 32 1,153,797 36,056 117,994 19 5 79,779 15,955 56,824 2 2 21,237 10,618 13,484 2 5 36,238 7,247 10,956 0 16 368,186 23,011 90,000 11 2 10,956 5,478 5,478 2 9 137,373 15,263 33,712 5 2 4,635 2,317 2,528 1

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69,861 26 61,023 16,908 3 46,635 6,461 1 842 4,960 3 26,999 7,839 8 9,847 2,528 1 8,428 4,003 4 4,635 8,487 9 26,922 2,949 2 13,484 0 2 674,251 63,211 7 40,214 45,089 0 0 15,979 20 9,723 39,878 13 30,470 7,386 3 21,668 10,618 0 0 0 5 7,247 27,910 5 12,233 5,478 0 0 13,653 4 17,277 2,528 1 2,107

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Total

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Highest

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Average

Filly

Average

Ask Australia Authorized Baltic King Bated Breath Battle Of Marengo Beat Hollow Benvenue Big Bad Bob Black Sam Bellamy Blue Bresil Born To Sea Brazen Beau Bungle Inthejungle Cable Bay Cacique Califet Camacho Camelot Canford Cliffs Cappella Sansevero Captain Chop Casamento Center Divider Champs Elysees Charm Spirit Cima De Triomphe Cityscape Clodovil Cloudings Coach House Cockney Rebel Court Cave Dabirsim Dandy Man Dansant Dansili Dark Angel Dawn Approach Declaration Of War Delegator Desert Prince Diamond Boy Diamond Green Distant Music Doctor Dino Doyen Dragon Pulse Dream Ahead Dubawi Due Diligence Duel Dunaden Dunkerque

3 9,270 3,090 6,068 2 3,708 1 1,854 45 3,908,212 86,849 400,336 27 72,297 18 108,676 11 335,548 30,504 70,476 6 34,600 5 25,588 3 35,311 11,770 23,809 2 15,275 1 4,761 54 2,279,463 42,212 202,275 37 46,600 17 32,662 12 90,723 7,560 33,712 7 8,390 5 6,398 4 44,730 11,182 29,498 1 11,904 3 10,942 2 11,798 5,899 5,899 2 5,899 0 0 6 62,078 10,346 25,284 2 14,185 4 8,427 6 30,378 5,063 9,047 4 6,833 2 1,523 13 160,509 12,346 30,476 9 15,104 4 6,142 16 246,797 15,424 56,000 9 13,284 7 18,176 44 1,576,299 35,824 109,565 33 39,079 11 26,060 23 510,182 22,181 80,952 12 26,384 11 17,597 60 1,125,316 18,755 142,857 28 25,824 32 12,569 2 86,000 43,000 68,000 2 43,000 0 0 5 14,560 2,912 6,321 3 4,292 2 842 90 3,390,226 37,669 325,000 57 40,288 33 33,145 78 7,975,847 102,254 471,976 43 106,815 35 96,650 26 251,595 9,676 32,026 16 11,751 10 6,357 11 348,631 31,693 140,000 7 43,929 4 10,281 3 48,039 16,013 18,541 2 16,013 1 16,013 24 133,711 5,571 15,238 14 6,433 10 4,364 7 129,556 18,508 48,300 5 16,933 2 22,445 19 577,351 30,386 117,994 12 44,078 7 6,916 32 1,687,932 52,747 337,126 18 54,251 14 50,815 2 7,585 3,792 4,214 2 3,792 0 0 8 54,550 6,818 15,000 2 8,500 6 6,258 13 203,128 15,625 38,095 7 21,696 6 8,541 2 10,787 5,393 8,428 1 8,428 1 2,359 14 53,128 3,794 10,000 5 5,380 9 2,913 2 19,383 9,691 18,541 2 9,691 0 0 4 20,883 5,220 8,006 3 6,008 1 2,857 56 2,648,898 47,301 240,000 25 47,974 31 46,759 87 2,335,458 26,844 155,920 53 30,446 34 21,229 2 1,431 715 842 0 0 2 715 11 1,363,266 123,933 360,000 7 100,895 4 164,250 80 10,576,054 132,200 600,000 44 147,170 36 113,904 35 858,231 24,520 92,709 18 31,318 17 17,323 10 501,420 50,142 134,850 4 53,847 6 47,671 4 66,849 16,712 42,140 3 8,236 1 42,140 6 50,566 8,427 16,856 1 5,899 5 8,933 3 28,798 9,599 12,642 3 9,599 0 0 2 18,541 9,270 10,113 1 8,428 1 10,113 2 2,949 1,474 2,107 1 842 1 2,107 3 67,424 22,474 33,712 2 23,177 1 21,070 6 89,335 14,889 24,441 6 14,889 0 0 32 553,772 17,305 71,428 24 18,219 8 14,563 38 777,830 20,469 109,523 21 24,605 17 15,360 19 14,283,204 751,747 3,500,000 9 1,032,771 10 498,826 46 679,755 14,777 95,000 27 19,370 19 8,250 3 5,055 1,685 1,685 1 1,685 2 1,685 4 21,617 5,404 9,523 3 5,777 1 4,285 2 36,746 18,373 19,047 1 17,699 1 19,047

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SIXTIES ICON

COULSTY

B.H. Galileo / Love Divine

B.H. Kodiac / Hazium

£6,000 1st Oct SLF

ICONIC CHOICE wins the 2-y-o Listed Radley Stakes 7f Newbury

£4,000 1st Oct SLF

NEW FOR 2019

Gr.1 Sire by Galileo 50% Winners are Runners from 5f to 16f 22 Stakes Performers inc. 9 in 2018

First Yearlings 2019

SIXTIES ICON STAKES PERFORMERS 2018: SIXTIES SONG - Gr.1 - Copa d’Oro MR BARONI - Gr.2 - Classico Presidente de la Republica, Gr.3 - 3rd Clasico Santorin ITALO ICON - Gr.3 - Clasico Progreso NAGANO GOLD - LR - Prix HB de Puchesse, LR - 3rd Prix Bedel ICONIC CHOICE - LR - Radley Stakes HARRISON - LR - 2nd Mornington Cup SUMMER ICON - LR - 2nd Lady Wulfruna Stakes, LR - 3rd Fleur de Lys Stakes, 3rd LR - Dubai Duty Free Cup, LR - 3rd Rosemary Stakes STEFANINI - LR - 3rd Clasico Enrique Martinelli Tizón PATTIE - LR - 3rd Pipalong Stakes, LR - 3rd Prix Isola Bella

“Coulsty was a magnificent yearling with size, strength, quality and great movement. He was a precocious two-year-old winning first time out over 5f in May and progressing to win the Gr.3 Prix de Meautry over 6f” - Ed Sackville, purchaser of Coulsty as a yearling LEADING SIRES STANDING IN EUROPE 2018 (WINNERS) Sire Wnrs BTW BTH GW GH Total €

KODIAC Dark Angel Invincible Spirit Galileo

144 130 124 103

11 7 18 34

28 15 31 55

6 4 8 25

15 10 16 46

4,364,757 3,524,255 4,259,689 9,674,052

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West Tytherley, Nr Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP5 1NF, UK. Tel: +44 (0) 1794 341158, www.normancourtstud.co.uk Nominations: Tina Dawson, Mobile: +44 (0)7776 165854 Email: tina.dawson@tdbloodstock.com

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Sold

Total

Average

Highest

Colt

Average

Filly

Average

Dutch Art 30 1,621,923 54,064 450,000 18 39,334 12 76,158 Dylan Thomas 7 90,685 12,955 33,712 5 14,276 2 9,651 Earl Of Tinsdal 3 12,641 4,213 7,585 1 842 2 5,899 Elusive City 14 282,839 20,202 63,211 8 23,703 6 15,534 Elusive Pimpernel 5 40,619 8,123 32,026 3 12,416 2 1,684 Elvstroem 13 267,589 20,583 84,281 6 28,655 7 13,665 Elzaam 31 392,136 12,649 60,000 26 13,445 5 8,511 Epaulette 33 375,496 11,378 34,285 26 12,213 7 8,278 Equiano 28 494,154 17,648 115,000 14 24,887 14 10,409 Es Que Love 7 18,584 2,654 5,478 2 3,370 5 2,368 Evasive 11 151,281 13,752 42,140 3 10,816 8 14,854 Exceed And Excel 34 2,940,324 86,480 303,413 18 103,676 16 67,134 Excelebration 19 706,682 37,193 220,000 12 53,907 7 8,541 Fame And Glory 7 87,817 12,545 28,655 5 13,939 2 9,059 Famous Name 6 38,005 6,334 25,283 5 7,500 1 505 Farhh 9 420,903 46,767 185,000 6 65,023 3 10,253 Fast Company 17 236,318 13,901 80,000 9 17,679 8 9,650 Fastnet Rock 22 2,847,657 129,438 450,000 15 134,688 7 118,189 Finjaan 3 43,094 14,364 33,333 1 8,428 2 17,333 Flemensfirth 5 134,806 26,961 52,254 4 27,380 1 25,284 Footstepsinthesand 49 1,238,662 25,278 109,565 35 25,540 14 24,625 Fountain Of Youth 38 516,275 13,586 47,619 23 16,575 15 9,003 Fracas 2 12,640 6,320 10,113 0 0 2 6,320 Frankel 20 6,916,923 345,846 850,000 12 348,567 8 341,763 Free Eagle 39 1,889,221 48,441 337,125 24 50,699 15 44,829 French Fifteen 6 79,222 13,203 26,970 5 13,147 1 13,485 French Navy 10 51,690 5,169 10,113 8 5,102 2 5,437 Frozen Power 5 37,082 7,416 10,956 2 6,321 3 8,146 Fulbright 10 88,013 8,801 20,952 5 13,642 5 3,959 G Force 7 124,130 17,732 33,333 4 22,142 3 11,853 Gale Force Ten 13 83,587 6,429 19,047 12 6,684 1 3,370 Galileo 34 26,282,032 773,000 3,400,000 13 715,913 21 808,340 Galiway 5 114,621 22,924 47,197 4 24,441 1 16,856 Gamut 2 4,804 2,402 2,697 2 2,402 0 0 Garswood 16 244,265 15,266 55,000 11 20,357 5 4,066 Gatewood 2 9,692 4,846 6,321 2 4,846 0 0 Gentlewave 3 17,570 5,856 13,809 2 7,285 1 3,000 Geordieland 3 4,570 1,523 2,857 2 1,809 1 952 George Vancouver 10 194,687 19,468 46,354 3 27,250 7 16,133 Getaway 6 43,065 7,177 14,327 4 9,481 2 2,570 Gleneagles 50 5,467,951 109,359 500,000 27 97,284 23 123,533 Golden Horn 32 4,895,418 152,981 550,000 17 184,568 15 117,183 Great Pretender 2 25,279 12,639 14,327 1 10,952 1 14,327 Gregorian 13 108,845 8,372 22,756 6 11,399 7 5,778 Gutaifan 108 4,270,439 39,541 303,413 69 41,116 39 36,753 Hallowed Crown 31 523,857 16,898 52,254 17 18,906 14 14,460 Hamond 2 2,527 1,263 1,685 1 1,685 1 842 Harbour Watch 30 482,926 16,097 55,000 24 16,614 6 14,031 Havana Gold 25 818,760 32,750 250,000 15 38,535 10 24,072 Heeraat 24 177,023 7,375 34,285 12 11,097 12 3,654 Hellvelyn 2 8,974 4,487 4,761 2 4,487 0 0 Helmet 30 605,336 20,177 85,000 18 28,135 12 8,241 Henrythenavigator 2 52,616 26,308 42,140 2 26,308 0 0 Hillstar 4 34,132 8,533 19,384 4 8,533 0 0

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stallion yearling averages Sire Name Holy Roman Emperor Hot Streak Hunter’s Light Hurricane Cat Hurricane Run Iffraaj Imperial Monarch Intello Intrinsic Invincible Spirit Ivawood Jet Away Joshua Tree Jukebox Jury Juniper Tree Kalanisi Kallisto Kamsin Kapgarde Karakontie (Jpn) Kayf Tara Kendargent Kheleyf Kingman Kingston Hill Kitten’s Joy Kodiac Kyllachy Lawman Le Havre Leading Light Leroidesanimaux (Brz) Lethal Force Libertarian Lilbourne Lad Literato Lope De Vega Lord Of England Lucayan Mahler Make Believe Makfi Malinas Mamool Manduro Martaline Martillo Mastercraftsman Mawatheeq Maxios Mayson Medaglia D’oro Medicean Midnight Legend

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Total

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Filly

Average

45 1,813,757 40,305 252,843 28 50,922 17 22,818 51 2,002,556 39,265 220,000 32 49,837 19 21,460 18 189,024 10,501 52,000 7 14,893 11 7,706 11 143,273 13,024 42,140 6 15,451 5 10,113 3 42,982 14,327 33,712 2 4,635 1 33,712 50 2,957,337 59,146 250,000 24 56,550 26 61,543 3 22,755 7,585 8,849 3 7,585 0 0 36 1,979,841 54,995 244,416 18 77,999 18 31,991 3 12,379 4,126 5,714 1 5,714 2 3,332 35 6,693,374 191,239 900,000 12 245,558 23 162,898 42 814,007 19,381 67,424 23 23,240 19 14,709 3 8,828 2,942 6,321 2 4,214 1 400 2 19,805 9,902 12,642 2 9,902 0 0 11 93,128 8,466 21,913 4 10,535 7 7,284 6 59,662 9,943 20,456 1 20,456 5 7,841 3 8,080 2,693 4,285 2 3,809 1 462 3 34,976 11,658 25,284 2 16,434 1 2,107 3 33,712 11,237 21,913 1 4,214 2 14,749 3 59,999 19,999 38,095 1 38,095 2 10,952 5 154,822 30,964 52,000 3 40,370 2 16,856 17 404,752 23,808 49,523 13 26,739 4 14,285 30 937,946 31,264 110,000 17 34,579 13 26,930 13 359,631 27,663 75,853 5 32,314 8 24,757 39 10,524,038 269,847 1,050,000 31 298,635 8 158,293 23 346,626 15,070 60,000 14 12,918 9 18,418 15 1,610,183 107,345 700,000 8 78,883 7 139,874 112 11,372,845 101,543 600,000 59 114,038 53 87,633 28 1,195,173 42,684 175,000 19 44,092 9 39,712 35 1,232,583 35,216 290,000 22 35,232 13 35,189 52 3,990,007 76,730 850,000 29 54,198 23 105,141 3 17,613 5,871 13,063 2 8,217 1 1,179 4 119,219 29,804 55,000 4 29,804 0 0 46 693,652 15,079 61,904 29 17,389 17 11,137 2 4,212 2,106 3,202 1 3,202 1 1,010 2 1,682 841 841 2 841 0 0 2 18,120 9,060 16,856 1 16,856 1 1,264 78 10,435,664 133,790 800,000 47 127,011 31 144,069 11 222,414 20,219 48,883 7 22,683 4 15,907 7 80,485 11,497 33,712 3 17,136 4 7,268 5 59,415 11,883 32,026 4 14,432 1 1,685 46 1,790,364 38,920 210,000 20 40,404 26 37,779 20 447,524 22,376 52,254 16 20,385 4 30,340 3 39,780 13,260 17,699 3 13,260 0 0 2 5,899 2,949 3,371 2 2,949 0 0 23 366,089 15,916 54,782 15 16,322 8 15,157 6 200,713 33,452 45,714 4 35,008 2 30,340 3 8,848 2,949 3,792 3 2,949 0 0 33 2,311,825 70,055 280,000 21 65,622 12 77,812 2 8,426 4,213 5,899 1 2,527 1 5,899 38 480,769 12,651 60,000 23 14,985 15 9,072 27 544,475 20,165 57,142 20 23,915 7 9,451 2 436,557 218,278 286,557 1 286,557 1 150,000 3 33,284 11,094 25,284 0 0 3 11,094 2 24,761 12,380 17,142 1 17,142 1 7,619

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Colt

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Average

Milan Milanais Millenary Monsieur Bond Montmartre Moohaajim More Than Ready Morpheus Most Improved Motivator Mount Nelson Muhaarar Muhtathir Mukhadram Multiplex Mustajeeb Nathaniel Nayef Never On Sunday New Approach Night Of Thunder No Nay Never Norse Dancer Notnowcato Nutan Oasis Dream Ocovango Olympic Glory Orpen Outstrip Paco Boy Palace Episode Panis Papal Bull Pastoral Pursuits Pastorius Pedro The Great Penny’s Picnic Pether’s Moon Pistachio Pivotal Planteur Poet’s Voice Policy Maker Pomellato Pounced Pour Moi Power Presenting Prince Gibraltar Principe Adepto Rajsaman Raven’s Pass Red Dubawi

2 37,041 18,520 22,756 2 18,520 0 0 2 13,906 6,953 11,799 1 11,799 1 2,107 2 4,094 2,047 2,380 2 2,047 0 0 4 9,722 2,430 4,761 3 2,987 1 761 6 110,575 18,429 38,095 5 19,586 1 12,642 5 37,916 7,583 20,000 1 20,000 4 4,479 2 355,000 177,500 300,000 1 55,000 1 300,000 21 100,866 4,803 23,000 11 3,173 10 6,595 2 12,641 6,320 10,113 2 6,320 0 0 3 20,142 6,714 12,642 3 6,714 0 0 2 12,500 6,250 10,000 0 0 2 6,250 54 8,930,233 165,374 925,000 25 184,137 29 149,199 4 74,166 18,541 36,241 1 36,241 3 12,641 38 730,476 19,223 80,000 21 23,231 17 14,271 4 18,796 4,699 9,523 3 3,737 1 7,585 6 45,328 7,554 28,000 4 8,600 2 5,463 31 1,211,144 39,069 190,000 14 37,224 17 40,588 8 180,755 22,594 105,351 8 22,594 0 0 2 15,169 7,584 10,113 0 0 2 7,584 30 2,054,204 68,473 425,000 18 80,587 12 50,302 54 3,188,226 59,041 294,985 29 79,806 25 34,953 96 11,209,579 116,766 650,000 39 130,014 57 107,701 5 48,568 9,713 17,142 5 9,713 0 0 5 17,901 3,580 10,113 1 10,113 4 1,947 4 19,384 4,846 8,428 2 8,006 2 1,685 29 3,951,811 136,269 380,000 19 141,471 10 126,384 7 41,380 5,911 12,642 6 6,784 1 674 34 861,314 25,332 88,495 22 27,694 12 21,003 11 145,805 13,255 22,756 8 10,113 3 21,632 57 961,542 16,869 61,904 38 18,691 19 13,225 6 31,249 5,208 13,000 2 4,000 4 5,812 2 52,253 26,126 50,568 1 1,685 1 50,568 6 93,550 15,591 22,756 4 17,066 2 12,641 3 10,955 3,651 6,742 3 3,651 0 0 3 47,617 15,872 26,666 2 19,047 1 9,523 5 101,557 20,311 51,411 2 32,026 3 12,501 15 359,875 23,991 54,782 9 25,752 6 21,351 10 103,241 10,324 21,070 6 9,762 4 11,167 4 24,282 6,070 16,856 3 7,459 1 1,904 2 23,297 11,648 20,456 2 11,648 0 0 21 2,077,362 98,922 425,000 13 68,269 8 148,731 10 64,892 6,489 13,485 4 6,636 6 6,391 36 964,858 26,801 140,000 25 27,184 11 25,930 2 5,181 2,590 4,761 1 4,761 1 420 4 20,647 5,161 6,742 3 4,775 1 6,321 4 20,226 5,056 7,585 2 4,635 2 5,478 6 238,708 39,784 200,000 2 102,107 4 8,623 20 247,403 12,370 65,739 14 15,350 6 5,416 6 157,224 26,204 33,333 6 26,204 0 0 15 160,129 10,675 25,284 8 13,484 7 7,464 2 6,320 3,160 4,635 1 4,635 1 1,685 31 235,129 7,584 25,284 21 7,263 10 8,259 33 855,298 25,918 67,424 21 23,991 12 29,290 3 50,568 16,856 21,913 0 0 3 16,856

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Red Jazz 4 37,670 9,417 29,498 3 2,724 1 29,498 Reliable Man 15 279,843 18,656 43,826 9 22,115 6 13,467 Reply 2 16,855 8,427 10,956 2 8,427 0 0 Requinto 20 426,042 21,302 61,904 9 26,506 11 17,043 Rio De La Plata 13 126,559 9,735 26,970 7 12,301 6 6,742 Robin Des Pres 3 14,748 4,916 6,742 3 4,916 0 0 Rock Of Gibraltar 19 354,479 18,656 54,782 9 23,279 10 14,496 Roderic O’connor 14 132,372 9,455 50,000 9 8,730 5 10,759 Ruler Of The World 12 152,415 12,701 33,712 6 9,620 6 15,782 Sageburg 12 96,916 8,076 15,170 12 8,076 0 0 Sakhee’s Secret 11 72,476 6,588 16,013 7 8,066 4 4,002 Samum 8 228,819 28,602 101,137 3 19,524 5 34,049 Sans Frontieres 2 2,696 1,348 1,685 1 1,011 1 1,685 Santiago 2 3,791 1,895 2,949 1 842 1 2,949 Sayif 7 19,314 2,759 4,500 5 2,762 2 2,750 Scalo 3 23,176 7,725 13,485 0 0 3 7,725 Schiaparelli 6 25,044 4,174 11,428 4 5,880 2 761 Sea The Moon 29 1,025,344 35,356 125,000 22 40,680 7 18,625 Sea The Stars 62 10,049,731 162,092 1,000,000 26 166,440 36 158,952 Sepoy 35 573,282 16,379 70,000 21 15,743 14 17,333 Shamardal 14 1,685,000 120,357 350,000 9 117,222 5 126,000 Shanghai Bobby 2 47,187 23,593 25,283 2 23,593 0 0 Shantou 4 83,217 20,804 45,714 3 26,756 1 2,949 Shirocco 6 37,671 6,278 11,799 4 7,311 2 4,213 Sholokhov 7 68,770 9,824 16,856 2 10,745 5 9,455 Shooting To Win 10 80,099 8,009 28,571 7 8,543 3 6,764 Showcasing 67 7,110,924 106,133 716,392 37 106,931 30 105,148 Sidestep 20 404,931 20,246 80,067 13 21,327 7 18,239 Silver Frost 5 31,604 6,320 12,642 4 5,794 1 8,428 Sir Percy 23 683,587 29,721 176,990 17 24,842 6 43,544 Sir Prancealot 24 606,903 25,287 160,000 18 30,929 6 8,363 Siyouni 83 10,810,682 130,249 450,000 48 128,027 35 133,296 Slade Power 41 1,060,485 25,865 100,000 24 31,999 17 17,205 Society Rock 27 1,589,366 58,865 200,000 18 75,629 9 25,337 Soldier Hollow 26 1,134,361 43,629 117,994 16 37,768 10 53,007 Soldier Of Fortune 13 100,893 7,761 26,970 5 13,147 8 4,394 Sommerabend 8 72,899 9,112 16,856 4 13,484 4 4,740 Speightstown 2 176,000 88,000 100,000 1 76,000 1 100,000 Sri Putra 2 16,855 8,427 10,113 0 0 2 8,427 Starspangledbanner 34 2,625,729 77,227 750,000 16 80,400 18 74,406 Stormy River 6 47,615 7,935 25,284 1 25,284 5 4,466 Style Vendome 13 117,987 9,075 29,498 7 6,741 6 11,799 Sulamani 2 6,856 3,428 5,714 1 5,714 1 1,142 Sun Central 2 14,284 7,142 9,523 2 7,142 0 0 Supplicant 3 37,083 12,361 12,642 1 11,799 2 12,642 Swiss Spirit 28 233,159 8,327 29,498 13 7,903 15 8,694 Tagula 13 216,710 16,670 61,904 9 21,954 4 4,779 Tai Chi 9 184,993 20,554 51,411 8 23,018 1 842 Tamayuz 26 970,278 37,318 200,000 16 45,107 10 24,856 Telescope 16 107,392 6,712 20,000 12 8,155 4 2,380 Teofilo 23 1,269,375 55,190 176,991 13 49,628 10 62,420 The Factor 5 180,320 36,064 75,853 2 28,199 3 41,307 The Wow Signal 5 179,652 35,930 84,281 2 24,508 3 43,545 Thewayyouare 5 61,944 12,388 33,712 3 16,996 2 5,477

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Total

Tiberius Caesar Tin Horse Toronado Uncle Mo Universal Vale Of York Virtual Waldpark Walk In The Park War Command War Front Well Chosen Westerner Wiener Walzer Wiesenpfad Wootton Bassett Worthadd Xtension Yeats Yorgunnabelucky Youmzain Zanzibari (Usa) Zebedee Zoffany

2 7,584 3,792 6,742 1 842 1 6,742 5 25,282 5,056 10,113 3 6,742 2 2,528 33 739,979 22,423 80,952 19 20,492 14 25,044 4 392,834 98,208 160,000 1 151,706 3 80,376 4 30,065 7,516 14,285 2 13,332 2 1,700 2 12,642 6,321 8,428 1 4,214 1 8,428 2 1,008 504 504 1 504 1 504 2 18,962 9,481 16,013 1 16,013 1 2,949 8 132,032 16,504 22,756 5 19,384 3 11,703 51 1,253,897 24,586 100,000 33 30,055 18 14,558 2 749,100 374,550 529,100 1 220,000 1 529,100 3 15,168 5,056 6,741 3 5,056 0 0 8 81,497 10,187 26,127 5 13,906 3 3,989 2 24,862 12,431 21,913 1 21,913 1 2,949 3 16,012 5,337 7,585 2 4,635 1 6,742 47 2,927,779 62,293 425,000 24 84,275 23 39,354 2 18,428 9,214 10,000 1 10,000 1 8,428 2 16,906 8,453 11,428 2 8,453 0 0 5 51,976 10,395 14,285 3 12,114 2 7,816 5 23,616 4,723 9,523 5 4,723 0 0 8 82,536 10,317 33,712 4 16,118 4 4,515 10 162,659 16,265 35,398 7 13,725 3 22,193 42 765,297 18,221 114,285 31 21,236 11 9,724 85 5,668,503 66,688 273,914 50 67,176 35 65,991

After a good year with his racing progeny, Oasis Dream was back in favour with yearling buyers again: his average improved from 83,678gns in 2017 to 136,269gns this year Photo courtesy of Juddmonte and by Bronwen Healy

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STALLIONS

SIRE OF 12.2% STAKES PERFORMERS FROM HIS FIRST RUNNERS

FIRST FOALS 2019

ACLAIM

GREGORIAN

ACCLAMATION - ARIS | £9,500*

CLODOVIL - THREE DAYS IN MAY | £8,000*

FIRST FOALS 2019

TIME TEST DUBAWI - PASSAGE OF TIME | £8,500*

NOMINATION ENQUIRIES TIM LANE 07738 496141 JOE CALLAN 07872 058295 JAMES BERNEY 07717 558766

NEW FOR 2019 LANCASTER BOMBER WAR FRONT - SUN SHOWER | £8,500* •

The only Gr.1-winning son of Champion sire WAR FRONT to retire to stud in Britain

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Finished runner-up in the Dewhurst, two Breeders’ Cups, and the fastest-ever running of the St James’s Palace Stakes

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Impeccably bred half-brother to Gr.1-producing sire EXCELEBRATION, from a pedigree that is free of Danehill and Sadler’s Wells

RAJASINGHE CHOISIR - BUNDITTEN | £5,000*

*October 1st SLF

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Record breaking Gr.2 Coventry Stakes winner at two

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Ran the fastest ever recorded time for a two year-old over six furlongs at Ascot, beating subsequent Classic winner ROMANISED and Gr.1 winner US NAVY FLAG

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By a proven source of precocity and speed, and sire of sires CHOISIR, who is also the sire of STARSPANGLEDBANNER

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covering statistics

Stallion covering stats 2018

The covering sire table includes any sire who has covered 20+ mares in England or Ireland in 2018.

Some dual-purpose sires are included (and the figures will include their NH mares) From Weatherbys Stallion Acclamation (GB) Aclaim (IRE) Adaay (IRE) Al Kazeem (GB) Alhebayeb (IRE) Anjaal (GB) Ardad (IRE) Australia (GB) Awtaad (IRE) Bated Breath (GB) Battle of Marengo (IRE) Belardo (IRE) Bobby’s Kitten (USA) Brazen Beau (AUS) Bungle Inthejungle (GB) Buratino (IRE) Cable Bay (IRE) Camacho (GB) Camelot (GB) Cannock Chase (USA) Cappella Sansevero (GB) Caravaggio (USA) Champs Elysees (GB) Charming Thought (GB) Churchill (IRE) Cityscape (GB) Clodovil (IRE) Coach House (IRE) Cotai Glory (GB) Dandy Man (IRE) Dark Angel (IRE) Dawn Approach (IRE) Decorated Knight (GB) Divine Prophet (AUS) Dragon Pulse (IRE) Dubawi (IRE)

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2018 Standing IRE GB GB GB IRE IRE GB IRE IRE GB IRE IRE GB GB IRE IRE GB IRE IRE GB IRE IRE IRE GB IRE GB IRE GB IRE IRE IRE IRE IRE IRE IRE GB

Mares Covered 2018 120 160 106 24 76 58 132 191 69 142 38 97 94 95 77 122 54 72 135 25 26 217 218 58 211 72 33 38 179 103 218 84 66 59 63 170

Winners 77 85 61 13 35 26 71 128 37 80 12 45 56 54 39 56 29 32 79 8 9 125 57 30 144 41 13 21 77 53 168 38 39 27 30 149

BT Mares 22 22 3 2 4 7 11 64 10 21 2 10 10 7 6 4 8 8 28 1 2 60 9 7 77 5 2 3 15 10 124 5 8 2 3 133

BT Winning Mares 11 9 0 0 0 3 5 42 4 12 0 4 9 3 4 1 5 2 14 0 1 34 3 4 42 3 1 0 3 6 76 1 5 2 2 112

covering statistics Stallion

First year at stud

Due Diligence (USA) 2016 El Kabeir (USA) 2018 Elzaam (AUS) 2013 Epaulette (AUS) 2014 Equiano (FR) 2011 Estidhkaar (IRE) 2017 Exceed And Excel (AUS) 2004 Excelebration (IRE) 2013 Farhh (GB) 2014 Fascinating Rock (IRE) 2017 Fast Company (IRE) 2011 Fastnet Rock (AUS) 2005 Footstepsinthesand (GB) 2005 Fountain of Youth (IRE) 2016 Frankel (GB) 2013 Free Eagle (IRE) 2016 French Navy (GB) 2016 Fulbright (GB) 2016 Galileo (IRE) 2002 Galileo Gold (GB) 2018 Garswood (GB) 2015 Gleneagles (IRE) 2016 Golden Horn (GB) 2016 Green Moon (IRE) 2016 Gregorian (IRE) 2015 Gutaifan (IRE) 2016 Harzand (IRE) 2017 Havana Gold (IRE) 2014 Heeraat (IRE) 2015 Hellvelyn (GB) 2011 Helmet (AUS) 2012 Highland Reel (IRE) 2018 Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) 2007 Hot Streak (IRE) 2016 Iffraaj (GB) 2007 Intello (GER) 2014 Intrinsic (GB) 2016 Invincible Spirit (IRE) 2003 Ivawood (IRE) 2016 Jack Hobbs (GB) 2018 Kargali (IRE) 2013 Kingman (GB) 2015 Kingston Hill (GB) 2016 Kodi Bear (IRE) 2017 Kodiac (GB) 2007 Laverock (IRE) 2009 Lawman (FR) 2008

2018 Standing GB IRE IRE IRE GB IRE IRE IRE GB IRE IRE IRE IRE GB GB IRE IRE IRE IRE IRE GB IRE GB IRE IRE IRE IRE GB GB GB GB IRE IRE GB GB GB GB IRE IRE GB IRE GB IRE IRE IRE IRE IRE

Mares Covered 2018 59 146 107 32 93 80 95 70 76 64 163 103 161 52 183 58 67 46 164 140 102 119 107 26 50 133 30 182 127 31 71 184 162 67 157 58 28 104 39 160 27 114 180 106 239 33 75

Winners

BT Mares

33 73 45 13 60 33 61 37 45 37 91 61 81 35 160 32 25 17 142 59 57 77 78 12 23 69 15 120 65 19 39 106 91 40 115 39 15 81 17 65 15 84 39 55 135 7 35

3 19 9 2 12 4 25 8 12 13 23 35 11 2 128 9 4 1 127 18 6 34 44 1 0 9 10 35 7 2 7 41 22 7 60 15 0 46 4 2 2 51 6 8 69 0 11

BT Winning Mares 0 7 5 0 10 2 14 1 6 6 9 19 2 0 102 4 2 1 108 8 2 16 30 0 0 2 4 17 2 0 2 23 9 7 34 8 0 32 2 1 1 38 2 3 40 0 5

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MASSAAT TEOFILO - MADANY (ACCLAMATION) 16.1 (1.65m)

Classic placed Gr.2 winner of Hungerford Stakes

By Teofilo, the undefeated Champion European 2YO Dam Madany (Acclamation) 2 wins at 2 and Timeform 94, dam of Eqtidaar, winner of Gr.1 Commonwealth Cup, Royal Ascot at 3 2018 Top Timeform rating of 122, superior to Aclaim (121), Marsha (121), Ulysses (121), Jet Setting (120), Deauville (119) and Shalaa (119) Bred and Raced by Shadwell Estates who retain part-ownership “Massaat is a big, good looking individual. He possessed class and speed. He comes from a fast female family and I have no doubt he will do very well at stud.”

ANGUS GOLD

NEW FOR 2019

“Massaat’s win in the Hungerford was one of my best days in racing. He was a top Gr.1 performer and so consistent from 2 to 4.

A good looking, honest and sound individual.”

OWEN BURROWS, trainer

HEERAAT 2009 DARK ANGEL – THAWRAH (GREEN DESERT)

FROM HIS FIRST SMALL CROP

63%

WON/PLACED to RUNNERS

Including winners: MOTAKHAYYEL (Richard Hannon)

MAGICAL WISH (Richard Hannon)

HAADHIR (Ivan Furtado)

FREED FROM DESIRE (Ivan Furtado)

COTUBANAMA (Mick Channon)

PACINO (Richard Fahey)

PACKINGTON LANE (Tim Easterby)

HIDDEN HAPPINESS (Jahreskog Mikaela)

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covering statistics Stallion Lethal Force (IRE) Lope de Vega (IRE) Magician (IRE) Mahsoob (GB) Make Believe (GB) Markaz (IRE) Mastercraftsman (IRE) Mayson (GB) Mehmas (IRE) Mondialiste (IRE) Moohaajim (IRE) Morpheus (GB) Mount Nelson (GB) Muhaarar (GB) Mukhadram (GB) My Dream Boat (IRE) Nathaniel (IRE) National Defense (GB) Nayef (USA) New Approach (IRE) New Bay (GB) Night of Thunder (IRE) No Nay Never (USA) Oasis Dream (GB) Outstrip (GB) Parish Hall (IRE) Passing Glance (GB) Pastoral Pursuits (GB) Peace Envoy (FR) Pearl Secret (GB) Pether’s Moon (IRE) Pivotal (GB) Poet’s Voice (GB) Postponed (IRE) Pour Moi (IRE) Pride of Dubai (AUS) Prince of Lir (IRE) Proconsul (GB) Profitable (IRE) Raven’s Pass (USA) Red Jazz (USA) Requinto (IRE) Ribchester (IRE) Rock of Gibraltar (IRE) Ruler of The World (IRE) Sea The Moon (GER) Sea The Stars (IRE)

First year at stud 2014 2011 2015 2018 2016 2017 2010 2013 2017 2018 2015 2015 2009 2016 2015 2018 2013 2018 2004 2009 2017 2016 2015 2004 2016 2017 2005 2006 2018 2017 2016 1997 2012 2018 2012 2016 2017 2017 2018 2009 2014 2013 2018 2003 2015 2015 2010

2018 Standing GB IRE IRE GB IRE IRE IRE GB IRE GB IRE IRE IRE GB GB IRE GB IRE GB GB IRE GB IRE GB GB IRE GB GB GB GB GB GB GB GB IRE IRE IRE GB IRE IRE IRE IRE IRE IRE IRE GB IRE

Mares Covered 2018 67 178 50 22 73 81 171 83 176 58 35 29 253 133 32 60 148 64 20 113 99 111 144 123 145 26 43 24 59 48 59 53 25 112 91 100 84 37 185 57 51 39 154 39 47 101 162

Winners 42 134 19 5 39 38 100 51 70 31 16 11 63 106 20 15 108 35 8 80 70 66 78 91 79 7 9 15 32 24 10 36 15 72 12 59 33 20 108 32 19 17 95 20 24 63 124

BT Mares

BT Winning Mares

6 74 6 1 16 7 43 9 12 4 1 1 6 72 6 3 55 16 1 34 37 22 29 43 13 0 0 0 8 3 1 17 1 28 0 11 3 0 28 5 1 0 35 3 3 22 84

2 44 2 1 3 2 21 5 3 1 0 0 3 47 2 1 31 11 0 13 21 6 12 25 6 0 0 0 4 2 1 5 0 21 0 7 0 0 16 3 0 0 17 1 3 12 56

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Busiest Flat stallions in spring 2018

Stallions who saw most winning mares in 2018

Stallions who saw most b-type winners 2017

Stallion

Stallion

Mount Nelson (GB) Kodiac (GB) Champs Elysees (GB) Dark Angel (IRE) Caravaggio (USA) Churchill (IRE) Australia (GB) Profitable (IRE) Highland Reel (IRE) Frankel (GB) Havana Gold (IRE) Kingston Hill (GB) Cotai Glory (GB) Lope de Vega (IRE) Mehmas (IRE) Mastercraftsman (IRE) Dubawi (IRE) Galileo (IRE) Zoffany (IRE) Fast Company (IRE) Holy Roman Emperor (IRE)

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Dark Angel (IRE) Frankel (GB) Dubawi (IRE) Churchill (IRE) Galileo (IRE) Kodiac (GB) Lope de Vega (IRE) Australia (GB) Caravaggio (USA) Sea The Stars (IRE) Havana Gold (IRE) Iffraaj (GB) Profitable (IRE) Nathaniel (IRE) Highland Reel (IRE) Muhaarar (GB) Mastercraftsman (IRE) Ribchester (IRE) Showcasing (GB) Fast Company (IRE) Holy Roman Emperor (IRE)

19 54 95 30 28 53 18 76 10 27 8 22 59 63 62 67 17 68 58 81 30 28 47 21 88

Mares 168 160 149 144 142 135 134 128 125 124 120 115 108 108 106 106 100 95 95 91 91

4 31 28 4 2 11 2 15 1 1 2 2 13 36 21 25 1 21 9 39 1 3 11 1 32

BT Winning Mares

Shakeel (FR) 2018 Shamardal (USA) 2005 Showcasing (GB) 2011 Sir Percy (GB) 2008 Sixties Icon (GB) 2009 Slade Power (IRE) 2015 Spill The Beans (AUS) 2016 Starspangledbanner (AUS) 2011 Strath Burn (GB) 2017 Swiss Spirit (GB) 2014 Tagula (IRE) 1997 Tale of Two Cities (IRE) 2012 Tamayuz (GB) 2009 Teofilo (IRE) 2008 Territories (IRE) 2017 The Gurkha (IRE) 2017 The Last Lion (IRE) 2017 Time Test (GB) 2018 Twilight Son (GB) 2017 Ulysses (IRE) 2018 Vadamos (FR) 2017 Vocalised (USA) 2011 War Command (USA) 2015 Youmzain (IRE) 2011 Zoffany (IRE) 2012

Stallion

46 63 139 57 56 99 33 152 25 42 33 42 82 100 127 135 50 111 83 115 66 60 102 124 164

BT Mares

Dubawi (IRE) Galileo (IRE) Frankel (GB) Dark Angel (IRE) Sea The Stars (IRE) Muhaarar (GB) Lope de Vega (IRE) Churchill (IRE) Australia (GB) Kodiac (GB) Kingman (GB) Caravaggio (USA) Iffraaj (GB) Invincible Spirit (IRE) Nathaniel (IRE) Golden Horn (GB) Oasis Dream (GB) Ulysses (IRE) Teofilo (IRE) Highland Reel (IRE) Mastercraftsman (IRE)

1 20 19 2 0 4 1 7 1 0 0 1 10 24 9 10 0 10 2 25 0 1 4 0 16

Mares 112 108 102 76 56 47 44 42 42 40 38 34 34 32 31 30 25 25 24 23 21

One of the best proven dual purpose sires to join the British Stallion ranks

FALCO Sire of dual Gr.1 winner ODELIZ and Cheltenham Festival Gr.1 winner PEACE AND CO

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XENOBIA (Gr.2 winner) and BEAU GOSSE (Gr.2 hurdler) have starred for Falco in 2018

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56% Lifetime winners to runners, progeny have earned over £6,000,000 in prize money

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Stores in 2018 made up to £65,000

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By sire of sires PIVOTAL, he is a Gr.1 French Classic Winner

( U N B R I D L E D )

Standing at Elusive Bloodstock

FALCO FEE: £3,000

OCT 1ST SLF

Also standing dual Stakes winner SUN CENTRAL

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ACCLAMATION

111 Stakes Performers incl. 2018 Gr.1 Breeders Cup Winner EXPERT EYE 28 Black Type Performers in 2017/18 Sire of MARSHA, the 6 Million Guinea Filly who smashed the European auction Record Sire of Sires with 8 Sons at Stud

KODI BEAR

Group 2 Winner of 4 Stakes races at 2 & 3 years from 7f to 8f 2015 Timeform Rating 123 in GB/IRE versus Belardo (123), Custom Cut (122), Estidhkaar (121), Cable Bay (119), in the same year FIRST YEARLINGS 2019

By Champion Sire KODIAC

MOOHAAJIM Gr.2 Winning and Dual Gr.1 placed 2-Y-O

By Group 1 Champion Sire CAPE CROSS out of a KINGMAMBO mare 80% Winners / Placed to Runners (First crop 2-Y-O’s 2018)

TAGULA

Sire of Champions Canford Cliffs & Limato NORTHERN DANCER and MR PROSPECTOR outcross Proven source of precocious speed 90% Fertility in 2018

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STALLIONS FOR

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JAMES GARFIELD Record Breaking Gr.2 Winning 2-Y-O Won Gr.2 Mill Reef Stakes, Newbury, 6f.

Won EBF Maiden Stakes, Doncaster, 6f.

2nd Gr.3 Acomb Stakes, York, 7f.

4th Gr.2 Qatar Vintage Stakes, Goodwood, 7f

NEW FOR 2019

Gr.3 Winning 3-Y-O Won Gr.3 Greenham Stakes, Newbury, 7f.

2nd Gr.1 Prix Maurice de Gheest, Deauville, 6f.

4th Gr.2 Sandy Lane Stakes, Haydock, 6f.

“JAMES GARFIELD has been a lovely horse to ride. I think it is obvious to everyone his will to win. He was a very precocious 2 year old. We won the Mill Reef, came back at 3, won the Greenham, we tried in the Guineas, it was too far, we almost won the Maurice de Gheest. He was blessed with a tremendous amount of speed and I am sure he will be a good addition to the stallion rank in the world.”

Frankie Dettori, jockey

Record Breaking Gr.2 Winning 2-Y-O and Gr.3 Winning 3-Y-O Out of a Stakes winning Royal Ascot 2-Y-O, from the immediate outstanding stallion producing family of INVINCIBLE SPIRIT & KODIAC

By Champion 2-Y-O Sire EXCEED AND EXCEL

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Kitten’s Joy has had a superb year with Group and Grade 1 winners in three countries.

He is the leading overall sire in the US and also top Turf stallion, as usual

The Joy of six

Kitten’s Joy wins his sixth Turf title and a second championship, writes Melissa Bauer-Herzog

W

hile the invention of the Pegasus World Cup has boosted the progeny earnings of multiple sires, Kitten’s Joy was able to overcome the lack of even a runner in the race and lead the general sire rankings after the Breeders’ Cup The champion sire in 2013 before Tapit started his reign, Kitten’s Joy also led the Turf sires’ list every year from 2013 to 2017 and again leads the list this year.

The Hill ‘n’ Dale stallion found Group 1 success on three continents this year starting with Hawkbill in Dubai, following up with Roaring Lion in Europe and then Oscar

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Performance in North America.

Those three runners are all joining the stallion ranks next year, while Kitten’s Joy’s first major stallion sons are starting to have runners on the track.

In the sales ring, Kitten’s Joy also saw a 20 per cent upswing in his yearling average from $89,036 to $107,437, while his median also rose 25 per cent.

His worldwide success and 16 stakes winners in the year almost certainly contributed to the farm increasing his stud fee to $75,000 from the $60,000 he stood for his first year at Hill ‘n’ Dale.

Kitten’s Joy’s son Oscar Performance is one of the more exciting additions to the

North America Turf sire ranks in 2019. He is to stand at Mill Ridge Farm – the same farm that stood Diesis and Gone West – and is the only stallion retiring to a North American shed in over a decade to win Grade 1 races at two, three and four years of age.

The 20-year-old Candy Ride again had a stellar year in 2018 with nine graded stakes winners and three Grade 1 winners.

While Gun Runner contributed $7 million to the stallion’s earnings, his other stakes winners earned him another $9 million more. The stallion looks to have a legitimate Kentucky Derby chance going into the winter with the undefeated Game Runner, who locked up Eclipse honours as champion

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Candy Ride is proving himself to be one of those stallions who can be bred to any kind of mare with success two-year-old colt with three Grade 1s victories, including the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile.

Candy Ride has proven to be one of those stallions who can be bred to any kind of mare with success – from his 15 stakes winners in 2018, only two have the same broodmare sire with Grade 2 winner Ride A Comet and the Listed winner Trigger Warning out of Successful Appeal mares.

It is worth noting however, that three other stakes winners came from A.P. Indy and his sons or grandsons, which is fitting with the stallion residing just down the barn from that legend.

Candy Ride has quickly risen to the top of the Lane’s End roster, but he is far from the only top stallion at the farm.

Quality Road continued his meteoric rise in 2018 with 10 graded stakes winners, second only to Scat Daddy. The stallion sits in a land of his own with five Grade 1 winners in 2018, the winners ranging over 7f on Dirt to 1m2f miles on Turf. While that wasn’t enough to push him into the top five sires by earnings, he does lead all stallions by Grade 1 winners produced this year.

Not surprisingly, everyone is now looking for a Quality Road son to stand at stud and Lane’s End may have found the best one having purchased Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile winner City Of Light.

The multiple Grade 1 winner will be continuing on at the track over the next few months before joining the farm in time for breeding season.

Lane’s End has arguably the strongest hand of new stallions going into 2019 with all three freshman having connections to the farm through their sires.

Probable Eclipse older Dirt male winner

Accelerate is also due to join the roster after running in January’s Pegasus Stakes (G1).

While his sire Lookin At Lucky never stood at Lane’s End, his grandsire Smart Strike was one of the farm’s leading stallions before his death in 2015.

The farm also developed two of Smart Strike’s best sons in Curlin and English Channel, who relocated to Lane’s End in his third season, before they were moved to Hill ‘n’ Dale and Calumet Farm.

The champion three-year-old West Coast is the only colt of the three already retired to the farm after a seventh place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Classic. He is one of five stallions to trace back to the farm’s foundation stallion A.P. Indy with a sixth – Lemon Drop Kid – coming from A.P. Indy’s female family.

With family ties on display around Kentucky, Coolmore’s Ashford Stud continues in the same vein this year.

Uncle Mo continues quietly ticking away Top: Candy Ride, has good chances of siring a Kentucky Derby winner in 2019 Bottom left: Quality Road, the sire of 10 stakes winners in 2018 behind only Scat Daddy Bottom right: Cross Traffic making big strides and sire of the Breeders’ Cup winner Jaywalk Photos by Melissa Bauer-Herzog

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us stallions Justify: joins Ashford to stand alongside American Pharoah.

Coolmore will be the first farm to stand two Triple Crown winners at the same time since Spendthrift Farm in the early 1980s.

Busiest US Stallions in 2018 Stallion

Nos State

Into Mischief Cupid Klimt Practical Joke Violence Overanalyze Goldencents Classic Empire Tapiture American Pharoah Gormley Uncle Mo Dialed In Keen Ice Gun Runner Fed Biz Uncaptured Jimmy Creed Kitten’s Joy Connect Exaggerator Kantharos Union Rags Honor Code Quality Road Tiznow Nyquist American Freedom Frosted Unified Speightster Cairo Prince Maclean’s Music Creative Cause Candy Ride (ARG) Arrogate Hard Spun More Than Ready Twirling Candy Daredevil Malibu Moon Street Sense Curlin Mastery Outwork Distorted Humor

245 KY 223 KY 222 KY 220 KY 214 KY 195 KY 190 KY 185 KY 184 KY 182 KY 180 KY 179 KY 177 KY 176 KY 171 KY 169 KY 168 FL 165 KY 164 KY 163 KY 163 KY 161 KY 157 KY 154 KY 154 KY 154 KY 153 KY 152 KY 152 KY 152 KY 150 KY 148 KY 146 KY 145 KY 144 KY 143 KY 143 KY 141 KY 141 KY 140 KY 140 KY 140 KY 139 KY 139 KY 137 KY 136 KY

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as a top stallion after his first-crop success, with 19 stakes winners in 2018, including eight graded stakes winners.

One of those is the undefeated Dream Tree, who looks to be a rising star in the distaff division in 2019 after injury forced her to miss the Breeders’ Cup and ultimately kept her from visiting the sales ring in 2018.

The stallion could have a breakout year in 2019 with his first post-Nyquist crop hitting the track after his yearlings averaged $313,693 at the sales in 2018.

Uncle Mo is joined by his Grade 1-winning son Mo Town on the roster in 2019.

Continuing the family tradition, Mo Town was bred by John and Tanya Gunther, who also bred fellow Ashford newcomer Justify.

Ashford hasn’t had a replacement son at the farm since Scat Daddy’s death in 2015, but that all changes in 2019.

Scat Daddy had a North American high of 29 stakes winners and 12 graded stakes winners in 2018, led by Triple Crown winner

Justify. He also had graded stakes winners in six countries in 2018 with winners in 19 different countries, including 106 in the US as of this writing.

The first-crop success of No Nay Never, who has had a large fee increase in Ireland, shows promise for the stallion’s ability as a sire-of-sires, while the stallion was also broodmare sire of two Group 1 winners this year. It’s no surprise that Coolmore adds three sons to its rosters around the northernhemisphere with two for Ashford.

A Triple Crown winner, Justify has already locked up the champion three-year-old honours and he should win the Horse of the Year award, too and so becoming the second Horse of the Year to stand at the farm in the last four years.

His addition to the roster also makes Coolmore the first farm to stand two Triple Crown winners at the same time since Spendthrift Farm in the early 1980s.

While Justify boosts the race record,

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Unbridled’s Song hasn’t yet proven to be a sire-of-sires, but that may be changing soon if Cross Traffic is an indicator Mendelssohn boosts the pedigree as a Grade 1-winning Scat Daddy half-brother to Into Mischief and Beholder.

That son has put together an admirable US campaign in 2018 when travelling back and forth from Aidan O’Brien’s Ireland base. He’s another one who is to have a swan song in the Pegasus before taking up his second career in Kentucky.

Mendelssohn’s half-brother plays a part

in the leading first-crop rankings. Into Mischief’s Goldencents has two stakes winners and five stakes horses from 22 winners and is second in the first-season sire rankings as of this writing.

While he was the best to join the Spendthrift roster in 2015, it is his stablemate Cross Traffic who looks like he’s locked up championship honors with a lead of over $900,000 over Goldencents.

Unbridled’s Song hasn’t yet proven to be a sire-of-sires, but that may be changing soon if Cross Traffic is an indicator with 37 winners and five stakes winners.

Of those five, his leading earner is two-time Grade 1 winner Jaywalk, who made easy work of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) in early November.

Understandably, Cross Traffic has seen a big boost in his stud fee for 2019 and is stepping up from $7,500 in 2018 to $25,000.

Violence finished second to Overanalyze in last year’s first-crop sire rankings, but this year he’s made sure to win the second-crop championship with eight stakes winners and 10 stakes horses for over $4.3 million in earnings.

While ex-patriate Take Charge Indy has a clear second place hold in the standings and

has tied Violence with eight stakes winners, the real battle comes from the third to sixth ranked stallions.

Paynter, who sired his first Grade 1 winner with Knicks Go in October, has a $128,234 lead over the recently exported Shanghai Bobby, he’s only $290,552 ahead of the sixth-placed Point Of Entry.

There was no real standout of that crop of stallions and that looks to still be the case two years into their careers with runners, but they are a consistent group of horses that provide good value to breeders for a variety of broodmare needs.

Giant’s Causeway will earn a championship in the year of his death, leading the broodmare table by nearly $4 million.

That total was boosted by Gun Runner’s Pegasus win, but the stallion was also the dam-sire of 25 stakes winners and 11 graded stakes winners in 2018.

Runners out of Giant’s Causeway mares won stakes in nine countries and graded stakes in seven with three Grade 1 winners.

The stallion also ranks 20th on the general sires’ list with seven graded stakes winners.

Giant’s Causeway has two sons in the top 50 – Creative Cause and his full-brother Destin joins the New York stallion ranks in 2019.

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AFFAIRE SOLITAIRE B 2010 by DANEHILL DANCER – ARLESIENNE (ALZAO) FIRST CROP FOALS IN 2019 Very tough and sound, Affaire Solitaire won four races and placed 13 times from 22 starts 3-5 years, incl.

WON Gr.3 Prix Exbury, 2,000m Saint-Cloud, beating multiple Stakes winners 2nd Gr.2 Prix Harcourt, 2,000m Chantilly, btn 1l by Champion Al Kazeem (multiple Gr.1), beating Lucky Lion (Gr.1) etc.

3rd Gr.2 Prix Harcourt, 2,000m Chantilly, to multiple Group winner Garlingari, beating Silverwave (Gr.) and other multiple Group winners 3rd Gr.3 Prix Exbury, 2,000m Saint-Cloud, beating two Gr.2 winners Also placed in three LRs

FROM AN OUTSTANDING WILDENSTEIN FAMILY AND THE ONLY SON OF A LEADING SIRE AND SIRE OF SIRES IN ITALY SIRE – DANEHILL DANCER – Champion 2YO, Gr.1 National S, G.1 Phoenix S etc. and sire of sires incl.

MASTERCRAFTSMAN, CHOISIR, WHERE OR WHEN, MONSIEUR BOND, PLANTEUR etc DAM – ARLESIENNE – full-sister to ANGARA, winner of Gr.1 Diana H., Gr1 Beverly D. S, won three races incl LR Prix des Tourelles, 2nd LR Prix Urban Sea, 3rd Gr3 Prix de Flore, and dam of six winners incl. AFFAIRE SOLITAIRE, ALZAVOSKI (LR x 6, pl Gr.2 x 2, sire), ANDROMEDA GALAXY (LR, pl Gr.2 & Gr.3), ALTIMERA (LR pl, dam of AKATEA (LR, 2nd Gr.1 Prix du Moulin) Fee for 2019: €3,000 Live foal

Standing at: RAZZA TICINO

Via Monte Novegno, 18, Gornate Superiore (Va), Italy

Contact: Dr Alessandra Vigliani 00 39 (0) 335 6849353

BLU CONSTELLATION B 2008 by ORPEN – STELLA CELTICA (CELTIC SWING) CHAMPION 2YO colt & multiple 2YO Group winner of his first five starts, incl.

WON Gr.2 Criterium, 1,200m Maisons-Laffitte, by 6l beating Wizz Kid (Gr1), Approve (Gr.2), Broox (Gr.3), Split Trois (Gr.3), Keratiya (Gr.3), etc.

WON Gr.3 Premio Carlo e Francesco Aloisi, 1,200m Rome, beating Noble Hachy (Gr.3), Dagda Mor (Gr.3), Blue Soave (Gr.3) etc.

WON Gr.3 Premio Primi Passi, 1,200m Milan, at 2 2nd Gr.3 Premio Chiusura, 1,400m Milan OFF TO A GREAT START AT STUD with 38% winners to runners incl.

American Coffee - 2 wins incl. LR, Mondorame - 2 wins, Silallero - 2 wins, Texas Cactus - winner, Marzini - winner etc.

BY A CHAMPION 2YO FROM A FAMILY OF CHAMPION 2YOs SIRE - ORPEN - Champion at 2 from the family of NORTHERN DANCER and sire of TORRESTRELLA (Gr.1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches), WAR ARTIST (Gr1), DON PEDAL (Gr.1), LA LAGUNA AZUL (Gr.1), ROCK’s OFF (Gr.1), DON VALIENTE (Gr.1), TRUE PASSION (Gr.1), etc.

DAM - STELLA CELTICA - winner of 3 races and dam of 2 winners: BLUE CONSTELLATION and STAR FORCE (winner at 2 and dam of STELLA DI CAMELOT, won $200,000 Pebbles Stakes, Belmont and Gr.3 placed).

GRANDAM – KANUN – ½ sister to Champion 2YO ORATORIO, winner of Gr.1 Prix Lagardere, Gr.1 Eclipse, Gr.1 Irish Champion Stakes, Gr.2 Futurity, 2nd Gr.1 Dewhurst, Gr.1 Irish 2000 Guineas, Gr.1 Phoenix Stakes, Gr.1 St. James’s Palace Stakes, etc.

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Wnrs

BT Swnrs

359 161 224 114 302 146 316 165 219 103 206 126 271 130 268 127 177 82 193 95 267 116 212 92 212 116 223 111 229 114 194 93 237 124 193 86 210 102 251 111 173 91 243 123 178 99 259 125 284 132 228 138 146 71 177 94 157 84 210 107 121 61 185 105 298 145 148 66 222 94 214 107 161 76 182 90 174 87 177 78 181 100 167 78 139 65 151 82 177 85 129 63 144 58 154 80

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16 15 18 17 15 16 12 12 6 8 11 12 11 16 16 14 8 17 8 11 13 9 13 5 3 7 2 5 8 6 4 5 2 5 3 8 9 2 4 6 6 6 6 8 10 2 8 4

GSWs 8 9 12 7 8 10 5 7 6 1 4 6 5 7 7 4 5 8 1 7 5 1 8 2 - 1 2 3 2 1 1 3 1 1 2 2 4 - 1 3 - 1 3 3 2 2 4 1

G1SWnrs 3 3 2 1 1 5 1 4 2 - 2 - - 1 - 4 1 3 1 1 2 - 1 - - - 1 1 - - - - - 1 - - - - - - - - 1 1 1 - - -

Chief earner

Earnings

Hawkbill 17,730,246 Gun Runner 16,551,830 Justify 14,753,084 Audible 12,481,049 Good Magic 11,004,552 City of Light 10,938,950 Unique Bella 10,904,131 Roy H 10,197,795 Accelerate 9,842,943 West Coast 9,384,608 Magnum Moon 8,632,423 Wonder Gadot 8,500,460 Runaway Ghost 7,477,255 Unbridled Mo 7,348,143 Matera Sky 7,334,058 Channel Maker 6,994,861 McKinzie 6,962,554 U S Navy Flag 6,904,545 Midnight Bisou 6,878,636 Carrick 6,788,976 Marley’s Freedom 6,699,242 Collected 6,688,731 Restless Rider 6,438,962 Singing Bullet 6,435,536 Jupiter Gold 6,226,178 Lone Sailor 6,168,021 Monomoy Girl 5,947,928 Next Shares 5,917,966 X Y Jet 5,915,051 Bound for Nowhere 5,775,658 Gunnevera 5,430,255 Good Samaritan 5,224,615 Namura Arashi 5,174,087 Fourstar Crook 5,041,374 Lewis Bay 4,955,105 Axelrod 4,927,482 Red Ruby 4,891,524 Sneaky Betty 4,887,380 Insta Erma 4,844,737 Catalina Cruiser 4,774,555 Mitole 4,765,703 Chocolate Martini 4,735,787 Pavel 4,606,568 Shamrock Rose 4,596,860 Hawkish 4,540,034 Bravazo 4,512,702 Arklow 4,489,722 Startwithsilver 4,467,403

MERCHANT NAVY Winner of the Group 1 Diamond Jubilee. Trained by Aidan O’Brien

YUCATAN Winner of the 2018 Group 2 Herbert Power Stakes, Caulfield, Australia. Trained by Aidan O’Brien

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us stallion tables Leading first-season US sires 2018: (by prize-money earned in $ to November 5, 2018) Stallion Cross Traffic Goldencents Cairo Prince Will Take Charge Central Banker Noble Mission (GB) Fed Biz Verrazano Uncaptured Mucho Macho Man Souper Speedy He’s Had Enough Drill

Rnrs

Wnrs

BT Swnrs

37 13 57 22 49 14 33 10 24 8 46 9 39 8 43 6 16 6 29 7 12 7 38 9 18 6

4 2 1 1 2 - - 1 2 - 2 - 1

GSWnrs

BT SHs

1 - 1 - - - - - 1 - - - -

Chief earner

Earnings

6 Jaywalk 1,384,200 5 Mr. Money 1,060,684 2 Cairo Cat 858,618 5 Lightscameraaction 731,892 3 Bankit 716,336 2 Code of Honor 650,910 3 Absentee 499,321 4 Seek and Destroy 454,386 2 Catherinethegreat 452,216 2 Mucho Unusual 423,700 4 Speedy Soul 422,846 - Elgin Escape 401,278 1 Drillit 364,206

Leading US Turf sires 2018: (by prize-money earned in $ to November 5, 2018) Stallion

Rnrs

Kitten’s Joy English Channel Scat Daddy More Than Ready War Front The Factor Giant’s Causeway City Zip Artie Schiller Tapit Quality Road Freud Blame Arch Stormy Atlantic Nathaniel (IRE) Lemon Drop Kid Into Mischief Medaglia d’Oro Myboycharlie Ghostzapper Hat Trick Galileo ( Uncle Mo Candy Ride Broken Vow Kantharos Point of Entry Archarcharch

238 155 182 150 97 124 146 133 106 127 98 82 94 83 87 3 122 129 96 6 92 75 23 98 118 102 85 66 70

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Chief Earner

11 Sadler’s Joy 11 Channel Maker 7 Toinette 6 Catholic Boy 10 Lull 3 Bound for Nowhere 6 Carrick 5 Bulletin 7 Hawkish 2 Synchrony 5 Spring Quality 4 Fourstar Crook 5 Maraud 4 Arklow 2 Stormy Libera 1 Enable 1 Inspector Lynley 2 I’m Betty G 4 Lady Montdore 1 Sistercharlie 3 Proctor’s Ledge 4 Tricky Escape 2 Magica 4 Ultra Brat 3 Ride a Comet 2 Imprimis 2 World of Trouble 3 Analyze It 2 Next Shares

Earnings 7,727,424 5,412,647 4,486,465 4,368,730 3,766,574 2,960,325 2,925,018 2,828,333 2,765,562 2,732,907 2,612,549 2,610,396 2,370,835 2,330,177 2,251,149 2,227,245 2,217,185 2,136,217 2,121,347 2,099,053 2,004,932 2,002,154 1,995,418 1,945,514 1,934,567 1,927,062 1,849,168 1,832,616 1,811,692

KOROPIK

Bay 2014 by Kodiac – Kathoe (Fayruz)

GROUP WINNING SPRINTER

BY KODIAC

By Kodiac, record-breaking Champion Sire of 2YOs out of Kathoe, by leading sprint sire Fayruz. From the immediate family of Champion 2YO Woodstream.

RACE RECORD

NEW FOR 2019

Won 2 races at 2 & 3, 6f and placed twice incl. Gr.3 Chipchase S, 6f, Newcastle, beating Aeolus (Gr.3) and 5 other Stakes Winners.

FEE 2019:

£2,500 Oct 1st

Mahsoob

Bay 2011 by Dansili – Mooakada (Montjeu)

FIRST FOALS 2019 By sire of sires Dansili, out of MOOAKADA by Champion and outstanding broodmare sire MONTJEU.

RACE RECORD Won 5 races including 9f Earl of Sefton Stakes, Gr.3 Newmarket and 10f Wolferton Stakes, LR Royal Ascot.

Timeform Rated 120

FEE 2019:

£2,000 Oct 1st

INTRINSIC

Bay 2011 by Oasis Dream – Infallible (Pivotal)

OFF TO A GOOD START AT STUD The very fast son of Oasis Dream from a Stakes winning family including MUTAKAYYEF and INTIMATION and half-sisters VERACIOUS (won Atalanta S. Gr.3) and ALAADEL (3-time winner incl. on debut at 2)

RACE RECORD Winner of the Glorious Goodwood, Stewards’ Cup – in record 1 min 10.27 secs - A race he won in a faster time than LOCHSONG or DANETIME.

FEE 2019:

£1,750 Oct 1st

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us stallion tables Leading US sires of two-year-olds 2018: (by prize-money earned in $ to November 5, 2018) Stallion

Rnrs

Wnrs

BT Swnrs

Candy Ride 31 10 Into Mischief 70 26 Scat Daddy 67 29 Cross Traffic 37 13 Quality Road 33 14 Violence 41 20 Brethren 40 13 Paynter 42 14 City Zip 31 10 Goldencents 57 22 Flatter 38 11 Distorted Humor 21 9 More Than Ready 53 16 Kitten’s Joy 49 13 Uncle Mo 36 12 Cairo Prince 49 14 Declaration of War 39 11 Curlin 37 9 Kantharos 27 8 The Factor 53 20 War Front 41 12 Shanghai Bobby 47 19 Orb 34 10 Gio Ponti 34 10 Take Charge Indy 45 22 Super Saver 44 18 Will Take Charge 33 10 Jimmy Creed 28 10 Central Banker 24 8 Street Sense 36 13 Square Eddie 21 13 Exchange Rate 36 12 Munnings 50 16 Hard Spun 42 11 Noble Mission 46 9 Point of Entry 31 12 Tapit 28 8 First Samurai 24 7 Stay Thirsty 25 11 Adios Charlie 29 11 Blame 22 10 Congrats 48 13 Henny Hughes 54 14 Yes It’s True 33 11 Trappe Shot 39 12 Maclean’s Music 15 7 Twirling Candy 28 9 Alternation 28 8

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2 5 4 8 4 7 4 6 4 6 4 7 2 5 2 3 2 4 2 5 5 6 2 4 1 3 2 5 3 5 1 2 3 5 1 4 2 4 1 2 3 6 1 4 1 3 2 5 1 3 - 1 1 5 1 3 2 3 - 2 2 5 - 2 1 1 - 2 - 2 2 2 1 3 - 4 1 3 1 2 1 4 - 3 - - 1 3 1 2 2 3 1 6 2 2

Chief earner

Earnings

Game Winner 2,238,907 Sombeyay 1,973,635 Skitter Scatter 1,929,741 Jaywalk 1,916,176 Bellafina 1,423,931 Vibrance 1,377,402 Cookie Dough 1,234,932 Knicks Go 1,204,521 Bulletin 1,095,414 Mr. Money 1,060,684 La Fuerza 1,035,801 Restless Rider 1,002,092 Stellar Agent 1,001,910 Henley’s Joy 932,972 Forty Under 892,827 Cairo Cat 858,618 Uncle Benny 852,879 Current 819,535 Surge of Pride 805,088 Northwest Factor 786,559 Fog of War 780,092 Shang Shang Shang 776,906 Sippican Harbor 761,319 Miss Technicality 751,867 Long Range Toddy 751,815 Super Simple 736,177 Lightscameraaction 731,892 King of Speed 717,732 Banki 716,336 Tracksmith 696,636 Lippy 690,598 Gunmetal Gray 678,650 Wakefield 674,563 A Thread of Blue 654,082 Code of Honor 650,910 My Gal Betty 642,478 Nitrous 628,582 Chelsea Cloisters 621,164 Mind Control 602,235 Dugout 595,701 Mucho 582,934 Congrats Gal 581,148 Chuwa Flyer) 580,139 Si Si Tequila 579,076 Reflect 578,062 Complexity 571,209 Concrete Rose 566,401 Serengeti Empress 556,838

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euro stallion statistics Leading European sires 2018: (by prize-money £ earned to November 12, 2018) Stallion

Breeding

Galileo Dubawi Sea the Stars Frankel Nathaniel Mastercraftsman Kodiac Invincible Spirit Siyouni Poet’s Voice Kitten’s Joy Dark Angel Shamardal Camelot Pivotal Lope de Vega New Approach Victory Gallop Teofilo Oasis Dream Acclamation Dansili Exceed and Excel Fastnet Rock Holy Roman Emperor Footstepsinthesand Deep Impact Kendargent Cape Cross Dutch Art Champs Elysees Makfi Zoffany Rock of Gibraltar Soldier Hollow Whipper Kaneko Showcasing Elusive City Zebedee Camacho Dream Ahead Le Havre Iffraaj Lawman Kyllachy War Front Dandy Man

Sadler’s Wells - Urban Sea (Miswaki) 2002 246 1046 106 Dubai Millennium - Zomaradah (Deploy) 2006 197 807 103 Cape Cross - Urban Sea (Miswaki) 2010 156 576 69 Galileo - Kind (Danehill) 2013 121 467 72 Galileo - Magnificient Style (Silver Hawk) 2013 166 744 65 Danehill Dancer - Starlight Dreams (Black Tie Affair) 2010 279 1445 106 Danehill - Rafha (Kris) 2007 380 2141 148 Green Desert - Rafha (Kris) 2003 256 1401 125 Pivotal - Sichilla (Danehill) 2011 194 960 79 Dubawi - Bright Tiara (Chief’s Crown) 2012 214 1211 96 El Prado - Kitten’s First (Lear Fan) 2006 63 313 27 Acclamation - Midnight Angel (Machiavellian) 2008 323 1677 131 Giant’s Causeway - Helsinki (Machiavellian) 2006 211 979 99 Montjeu - Tarfah (Kingmambo) 2014 166 706 74 Polar Falcon - Fearless Revival (Cozzene) 1997 156 809 72 Shamardal - Lady Vettori (Vettori) 2011 212 1026 101 Galileo - Park Express (Ahonoora) 2009 160 622 64 Cryptoclearance - Victorious Lil (Vice Regent) 2000 154 1450 86 Galileo - Speirbhean (Danehill) 2008 196 939 90 Green Desert - Hope (Dancing Brave) 2004 202 1106 91 Royal Applause - Princess Athena (Ahonoora) 2004 211 1362 85 Danehill - Hasili (Kahyasi) 2001 174 830 76 Danehill - Patrona (Lomond) 2005 224 1314 101 Danehill - Piccadilly Circus (Royal Academy) 2010 104 610 57 Danehill - L’On Vite (Secretariat) 2007 223 1354 101 Giant’s Causeway - Glatisant (Rainbow Quest) 2006 222 1231 99 Sunday Silence - Wind in Her Hair (Alzao) 2007 15 58 7 Kendor - Pax Bella (Linamix) 2008 220 1174 76 Green Desert - Park Appeal (Ahonoora) 2000 164 850 77 Medicean - Halland Park Lass (Spectrum) 2008 196 1122 79 Danehill - Hasili (Kahyasi) 2010 175 834 66 Dubawi - Dhelaal (Green Desert) 2011 154 877 64 Dansili - Tyranny (Machiavellian) 2012 235 1230 86 Danehill - Offshore Boom (Be My Guest) 2003 198 1279 92 In the Wings - Island Race (Common Grounds) 2008 161 837 72 Miesque’s Son - Myth to Reality (Sadler’s Wells) 2006 87 556 35 Pivotal - Kalimat (Be My Guest) 2007 151 1329 74 Oasis Dream - Arabesque (Zafonic) 2011 164 978 78 Elusive Quality - Star of Paris (Dayjur) 2005 164 1123 74 Invincible Spirit - Cozy Maria (Cozzene) 2011 225 1371 83 Danehill - Arabesque (Zafonic) 2006 152 924 65 Diktat - Land of Dreams (Cadeaux Genereux) 2012 168 881 57 Noverre - Marie Rheinberg (Surako) 2010 167 726 65 Zafonic - Pastorale (Nureyev) 2007 222 1109 83 Invincible Spirit - Laramie (Gulch) 2008 210 1147 77 Pivotal - Pretty Poppy (Song) 2003 194 1193 78 Danzig - Starry Dreamer (Rubiano) 2007 74 317 37 Mozart - Lady Alexander (Night Shift) 2010 220 1305 83

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Runs

Wnrs

Wnrs/Rnrs 43.09 52.28 44.23 59.50 39.16 37.99 38.95 48.83 40.72 44.86 42.86 40.56 46.92 44.58 46.15 47.64 40.00 55.84 45.92 45.05 40.28 43.68 45.09 54.81 45.29 44.59 46.67 34.55 46.95 40.31 37.71 41.56 36.60 46.46 44.72 40.23 49.01 47.56 45.12 36.89 42.76 33.93 38.92 37.39 36.67 40.21 50.00 37.73

Wins

SWnrs

SWs

Earnings

151 34 46 8,581,960 172 24 36 6,007,574 106 7 20 5,817,232 112 15 20 4,898,767 103 10 14 4,390,722 165 9 13 3,974,875 236 11 17 3,911,613 196 18 20 3,808,813 122 10 14 3,570,038 174 5 9 3,502,554 46 3 7 3,246,414 184 8 9 3,184,043 135 13 13 3,061,409 106 10 12 2,985,427 117 10 10 2,892,017 164 12 13 2,753,868 96 8 12 2,738,110 177 6 7 2,703,665 126 15 18 2,680,359 133 5 8 2,662,079 141 6 9 2,640,606 111 8 11 2,596,575 169 8 10 2,399,523 88 7 11 2,358,209 155 3 5 2,199,546 160 3 3 2,133,489 11 4 5 2,011,651 114 4 5 1,993,746 119 3 4 1,977,832 112 3 4 1,974,943 104 2 2 1,969,949 105 5 7 1,922,722 118 11 13 1,911,522 142 4 4 1,892,725 125 11 13 1,875,064 54 4 6 1,862,687 162 1 1 1,852,425 115 6 9 1,820,193 119 4 4 1,812,140 134 2 2 1,699,070 106 4 7 1,690,801 90 3 4 1,649,868 97 4 4 1,648,936 129 4 4 1,641,853 105 7 8 1,617,286 122 3 3 1,614,955 52 6 6 1,589,011 126 2 2 1,580,789

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Breeding

Intello Motivator Luxor Lion Heart Equiano Casamento Kheleyf Manduro Sir Prancealot Air Chief Marshal High Chaparral Raven’s Pass Wootton Bassett Mayson Scat Daddy Rajsaman Canford Cliffs Win River Win Bated Breath Excelebration Rip Van Winkle Society Rock Clodovil Arcano Myboycharlie Foxwedge Areion Panis Dawn Approach Declaration of War Fast Company Farhh Intense Focus Helmet Havana Gold No Nay Never Dragon Pulse Harbour Watch Falco Bosporus Tamayuz Youmzain Dabirsim Sixties Icon Style Vendome Eishin Dunkirk Medicean Rio de la Plata

Galileo - Impressionnante (Danehill) 2014 95 379 36 37.89 58 6 9 1,573,773 Montjeu - Out West (Gone West) 2006 159 856 68 42.77 104 2 2 1,503,199 Distant Relative - Keep Shining (Stage Door Johnny) 2007 79 549 33 41.77 79 3 7 1,496,988 Tale of the Cat - Satin Sunrise (Mr Leader) 2005 157 1161 61 38.85 116 1 1 1,470,647 Acclamation - Entente Cordiale (Ela-Mana-Mou) 2011 182 1125 73 40.11 124 2 3 1,434,983 Shamardal - Wedding Gift (Always Fair) 2013 175 940 68 38.86 112 4 4 1,381,815 Green Desert - Society Lady (Mr. Prospector) 2005 165 1176 76 46.06 127 0 0 1,360,917 Monsun - Mandellicht (Be My Guest) 2008 120 651 53 44.17 79 6 8 1,314,066 Tamayuz - Mona Em (Catrail) 2013 92 620 48 52.17 80 2 4 1,312,303 Danehill Dancer - Hawala (Warning) 2011 133 969 60 45.11 89 0 0 1,309,951 Sadler’s Wells - Kasora (Darshaan) 2004 141 726 51 36.17 77 6 7 1,264,730 Elusive Quality - Ascutney (Lord at War) 2009 117 601 51 43.59 77 4 5 1,253,924 Iffraaj - Balladonia (Primo Dominie) 2012 59 298 25 42.37 36 2 2 1,245,612 Invincible Spirit - Mayleaf (Pivotal) 2013 123 771 57 46.34 95 2 2 1,230,446 Johannesburg - Love Style (Mr. Prospector) 2008 61 228 32 52.46 43 7 10 1,223,185 Linamix - Rose Quartz (Lammtarra) 2013 173 923 53 30.64 70 1 1 1,219,749 Tagula - Mrs Marsh (Marju) 2012 148 767 53 35.81 78 0 0 1,192,611 Virginia Rapids - Thirty Zip (Tri Jet) 2008 110 881 51 46.36 99 0 0 1,189,352 Dansili - Tantina (Distant View) 2013 166 782 72 43.37 111 1 2 1,186,865 Exceed and Excel - Sun Shower (Indian Ridge) 2013 147 804 64 43.54 95 2 2 1,179,277 Galileo - Looking Back (Stravinsky) 2011 184 859 58 31.52 83 1 1 1,167,452 Rock of Gibraltar - High Society (Key of Luck) 2014 128 709 49 38.28 82 3 3 1,147,492 Danehill - Clodora (Linamix) 2004 119 784 48 40.34 91 1 1 1,131,102 Oasis Dream - Tariysha (Daylami) 2011 150 949 66 44.00 118 1 1 1,123,436 Danetime - Dulceata (Rousillon) 2010 123 742 47 38.21 67 2 3 1,111,199 Fastnet Rock - Forest Native (Forest Wildcat) 2013 106 590 43 40.57 67 1 1 1,078,985 Big Shuffle - Aerleona (Caerleon) 2001 127 805 68 53.54 102 6 8 1,078,624 Miswaki - Political Parody (Doonesbury) 2002 50 295 19 38.00 27 2 4 1,061,424 New Approach - Hymn of the Dawn (Phone Trick) 2014 101 393 33 32.67 50 5 5 1,057,073 War Front - Tempo West (Rahy) 2014 92 450 47 51.09 64 3 3 1,049,786 Danehill Dancer - Sheezalady (Zafonic) 2011 157 836 56 35.67 80 4 6 1,015,395 Pivotal - Gonbarda (Lando) 2014 36 147 18 50.00 31 2 2 1,014,121 Giant’s Causeway - Daneleta (Danehill) 2010 116 821 52 44.83 94 2 3 1,011,166 Exceed and Excel - Accessories (Singspiel) 2013 145 728 52 35.86 65 2 2 974,003 Teofilo - Jessica’s Dream (Desert Style) 2014 113 544 34 30.09 56 4 5 960,951 Scat Daddy - Cat’s Eye Witness (Elusive Quality) 2015 53 189 26 49.06 36 5 7 948,882 Kyllachy - Poetical (Croco Rouge) 2013 107 618 52 48.60 93 1 1 932,732 Acclamation - Gorband (Woodman) 2013 138 739 50 36.23 72 1 1 902,320 Pivotal - Icelips (Unbridled) 2009 47 298 21 44.68 41 3 5 899,241 Night Shift - Rain Again (Relko) 2003 97 818 39 40.21 86 0 0 892,169 Nayef - Al Ishq (Nureyev) 2009 83 393 33 39.76 46 4 8 890,210 Sinndar - Sadima (Sadler’s Wells) 2011 64 364 22 34.38 37 2 4 873,783 Hat Trick - Rumored (Royal Academy) 2014 107 503 38 35.51 45 1 1 847,549 Galileo - Love Divine (Diesis) 2009 95 631 46 48.42 83 2 2 844,408 Anabaa - Place Vendome (Dr Fong) 2014 75 350 30 40.00 44 1 2 841,587 Mr. Prospector - Forest Flower (Green Forest) 2003 61 430 33 54.10 61 1 2 841,482 Machiavellian - Mystic Goddess (Storm Bird) 2002 137 775 52 37.96 79 1 1 824,831 Rahy - Express Way (Ahmad) 2013 67 396 33 49.25 49 0 0 823,316

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Kodiac Galileo No Nay Never Scat Daddy Dubawi Showcasing Lope de Vega Invincible Spirit Dandy Man Zoffany Oasis Dream Camacho Siyouni Australia Kaneko Society Rock Dark Angel Charm Spirit Camelot Kingman Footstepsinthesand Zebedee Pedro the Great Sea the Moon Dream Ahead Style Vendome Anodin Shamardal Kyllachy Exceed and Excel Bungle Inthejungle Toronado Acclamation Ruler of the World Olympic Glory Sir Prancealot Iffraaj Raven’s Pass War Command Dansili Dragon Pulse Mayson Dawn Approach George Vancouver Rajsaman Gregorian Fast Company Poet’s Voice

Danehill - Rafha (Kris 2007 129 539 47 36.43 74 4 8 1,522,532 Sadler’s Wells - Urban Sea (Miswaki) 2002 56 166 23 41.07 33 8 9 �,201,914 Scat Daddy - Cat’s Eye Witness (Elusive Quality) 2015 53 189 26 49.06 36 5 7 948,882 Johannesburg - Love Style (Mr. Prospector) 2008 33 118 19 57.58 28 4 7 �20,964 Dubai Millennium - Zomaradah (Deploy) 2006 45 120 22 48.89 31 3 6 864,607 Oasis Dream - Arabesque (Zafonic) 2011 51 181 16 31.37 25 5 8 828,677 Shamardal - Lady Vettori (Vettori) 2011 70 196 25 35.71 36 6 6 689,885 Green Desert - Rafha (Kris) 2003 47 152 19 40.43 27 4 4 673,154 Mozart - Lady Alexander (Night Shift) 2010 94 405 30 31.91 39 1 1 663,369 Dansili - Tyranny (Machiavellian) 2012 85 271 24 28.24 34 7 8 662,811 Green Desert - Hope (Dancing Brave) 2004 45 144 18 40.00 26 2 3 630,565 Danehill - Arabesque (Zafonic) 2006 62 278 21 33.87 31 2 4 603,787 Pivotal - Sichilla (Danehill) 2011 59 167 22 37.29 29 0 0 500,066 Galileo - Ouija Board (Cape Cross) 2015 54 140 14 25.93 17 1 2 475,193 Pivotal - Kalimat (Be My Guest) 2007 41 222 20 48.78 43 0 0 474,566 Rock of Gibraltar - High Society (Key of Luck) 2014 52 255 18 34.62 34 1 1 470,444 Acclamation - Midnight Angel (Machiavellian) 2008 101 338 28 27.72 34 2 2 454,024 Invincible Spirit - L’Enjoleuse (Montjeu) 2015 68 242 25 36.76 35 1 1 443,557 Montjeu - Tarfah (Kingmambo) 2014 60 158 15 25.00 18 2 2 443,486 Invincible Spirit - Zenda (Zamindar) 2015 50 121 20 40.00 27 5 5 440,594 Giant’s Causeway - Glatisant (Rainbow Quest) 2006 58 166 21 36.21 26 2 2 430,705 Invincible Spirit - Cozy Maria (Cozzene) 2011 64 274 16 25.00 18 0 0 394,792 Henrythenavigator - Glatisant (Rainbow Quest) 2014 21 66 8 38.10 13 0 0 380,353 Sea the Stars - Sanwa (Monsun) 2015 41 102 16 39.02 21 2 2 373,669 Diktat - Land of Dreams (Cadeaux Genereux) 2012 53 183 10 18.87 17 1 1 368,968 Anabaa - Place Vendome (Dr Fong) 2014 24 81 6 25.00 11 1 2 362,567 Anabaa - Born Gold (Blushing Groom) 2015 47 136 16 34.04 21 2 2 362,229 Giant’s Causeway - Helsinki (Machiavellian) 2006 35 91 13 37.14 18 1 1 361,521 Pivotal - Pretty Poppy (Song) 2003 38 149 13 34.21 20 0 0 354,666 Danehill - Patrona (Lomond) 2005 45 165 16 35.56 25 2 3 351,300 Exceed and Excel - Licence to Thrill (Wolfhound) 2015 60 253 24 40.00 28 2 2 342,734 High Chaparral - Wana Doo (Grand Slam) 2015 53 167 22 41.51 26 0 0 342,566 Royal Applause - Princess Athena (Ahonoora) 2004 32 127 7 21.88 11 1 2 340,164 Galileo - Love Me True (Kingmambo) 2015 16 35 4 25.00 5 1 1 334,529 Choisir - Acidanthera (Alzao) 2015 51 154 18 35.29 20 1 1 319,317 Tamayuz - Mona Em (Catrail) 2013 29 148 15 51.72 23 0 0 318,979 Zafonic - Pastorale (Nureyev) 2007 57 165 16 28.07 22 0 0 314,723 Elusive Quality - Ascutney (Lord at War) 2009 22 60 6 27.27 8 1 1 295,016 War Front - Wandering Star (Red Ransom) 2015 48 181 22 45.83 28 1 1 292,830 Danehill - Hasili (Kahyasi) 2001 38 95 12 31.58 16 1 2 285,335 Kyllachy - Poetical (Croco Rouge) 2013 37 160 15 40.54 22 1 1 280,435 Invincible Spirit - Mayleaf (Pivotal) 2013 43 181 11 25.58 14 0 0 280,181 New Approach - Hymn of the Dawn (Phone Trick) 2014 41 125 11 26.83 16 2 2 272,491 Henrythenavigator - Versailles Treaty (Danzig) 2014 28 112 10 35.71 14 0 0 270,044 Linamix - Rose Quartz (Lammtarra) 2013 59 201 13 22.03 16 0 0 269,877 Clodovil - Three Days in May (Cadeaux Genereux) 2015 42 182 10 23.81 13 0 0 260,058 Danehill Dancer - Sheezalady (Zafonic) 2011 43 156 9 20.93 19 1 2 259,746 Dubawi - Bright Tiara (Chief’s Crown) 2012 59 174 15 25.42 21 1 1 258,807

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Bated Breath Makfi Sea the Stars Excelebration Kendargent Frankel Slade Power Reliable Man Diamond Green Alhebayeb Lion Heart Wootton Bassett Sepoy Rock of Gibraltar Torok Evasive Penny’s Picnic Cape Cross Teofilo Garswood Win River Win Le Havre Native Khan Soldier Hollow Lethal Force Captain Rio Born to Sea Foxwedge Sommerabend Mendip Helmet Victory Gallop Paco Boy Dutch Art Sakhee’s Secret Kheleyf Dabirsim War Front Thewayyouare Eishin Dunkirk Casamento Requinto Holy Roman Emperor Mastercraftsman Clodovil New Approach Sixties Icon Tizway

Dansili - Tantina (Distant View) 2013 48 148 14 29.17 17 0 0 257,619 Dubawi - Dhelaal (Green Desert) 2011 31 91 11 35.48 15 1 1 253,891 Cape Cross - Urban Sea (Miswaki) 2010 39 80 13 33.33 15 1 1 249,893 Exceed and Excel - Sun Shower (Indian Ridge) 2013 35 148 13 37.14 19 0 0 249,078 Kendor - Pax Bella (Linamix) 2008 51 144 9 17.65 12 0 0 249,015 Galileo - Kind (Danehill) 2013 29 67 13 44.83 16 1 1 246,047 Dutch Art - Girl Power (Key of Luck) 2015 57 199 13 22.81 17 0 0 237,332 Dalakhani - On Fair Stage (Sadler’s Wells) 2014 22 62 8 36.36 11 1 1 232,806 Green Desert - Diamonaka (Akarad) 2007 21 86 6 28.57 7 1 1 227,226 Dark Angel - Miss Indigo (Indian Ridge) 2015 70 291 15 21.43 20 0 0 227,183 Tale of the Cat - Satin Sunrise (Mr Leader) 2005 38 139 16 42.11 22 0 0 225,866 Iffraaj - Balladonia (Primo Dominie) 2012 17 62 4 23.53 7 1 1 221,491 Elusive Quality - Watchful (Danehill) 2013 41 124 6 14.63 10 1 1 218,349 Danehill - Offshore Boom (Be My Guest) 2003 20 63 7 35.00 9 2 2 217,612 Singspiel - Chatila (Red Ransom) 2013 18 88 13 72.22 24 0 0 217,103 Elusive Quality - Canda (Storm Cat) 2011 47 155 12 25.53 15 0 0 210,300 Kheleyf - Zerky (Kingmambo) 2014 29 113 10 34.48 11 0 0 205,424 Green Desert - Park Appeal (Ahonoora) 2000 25 75 8 32.00 10 0 0 204,505 Galileo - Speirbhean (Danehill) 2008 24 62 8 33.33 10 2 2 204,297 Dutch Art - Penchant (Kyllachy) 2015 34 108 7 20.59 10 2 2 202,753 Virginia Rapids - Thirty Zip (Tri Jet) 2008 36 142 15 41.67 18 0 0 201,080 Noverre - Marie Rheinberg (Surako) 2010 34 70 9 26.47 12 1 1 198,001 Azamour - Viva Maria (Kendor) 2013 6 22 3 50.00 8 2 3 193,742 In the Wings - Island Race (Common Grounds) 2008 28 65 9 32.14 11 2 2 193,657 Dark Angel - Land Army (Desert Style) 2014 42 161 11 26.19 13 0 0 192,820 Pivotal - Beloved Visitor (Miswaki) 2004 28 128 13 46.43 19 0 0 188,085 Invincible Spirit - Urban Sea (Miswaki) 2013 50 179 13 26.00 14 0 0 187,725 Fastnet Rock - Forest Native (Forest Wildcat) 2013 26 105 9 34.62 13 0 0 184,333 Shamardal - Sommernacht (Monsun) 2015 21 83 6 28.57 9 0 0 178,522 Harlan’s Holiday - Well Spring (Coronado’s Quest) 2014 22 102 8 36.36 16 0 0 178,442 Exceed and Excel - Accessories (Singspiel) 2013 40 147 11 27.50 11 0 0 174,267 Cryptoclearance - Victorious Lil (Vice Regent) 2000 12 53 9 75.00 17 1 1 173,308 Desert Style - Tappen Zee (Sandhurst Prince) 2011 16 53 6 37.50 9 1 3 173,141 Medicean - Halland Park Lass (Spectrum) 2008 33 129 11 33.33 14 0 0 171,590 Sakhee - Palace Street (Secreto) 2009 34 155 15 44.12 19 0 0 170,904 Green Desert - Society Lady (Mr. Prospector) 2005 21 103 6 28.57 7 0 0 169,737 Hat Trick - Rumored (Royal Academy) 2014 29 78 10 34.48 11 0 0 166,167 Danzig - Starry Dreamer (Rubiano) 2007 23 63 8 34.78 10 0 0 159,429 Kingmambo - Maryinsky (Sadler’s Wells) 2010 8 33 3 37.50 7 2 2 157,938 Mr. Prospector - Forest Flower (Green Forest) 2003 10 39 3 30.00 6 0 0 156,534 Shamardal - Wedding Gift (Always Fair) 2013 48 145 13 27.08 14 0 0 154,234 Dansili - Damson (Entrepreneur) 2013 25 125 8 32.00 12 1 1 152,907 Danehill - L’On Vite (Secretariat) 2007 32 105 12 37.50 15 1 1 151,909 Danehill Dancer - Starlight Dreams (Black Tie Affair) 2010 51 113 10 19.61 13 1 1 150,984 Danehill - Clodora (Linamix) 2004 15 69 6 40.00 12 1 1 150,140 Galileo - Park Express (Ahonoora) 2009 37 78 11 29.73 12 0 0 149,677 Galileo - Love Divine (Diesis) 2009 14 81 8 57.14 15 1 1 142,398 Tiznow - Bethany (Dayjur) 2012 2 8 1 50.00 6 1 4 141,553

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euro stallion statistics Leading European first-season sires 2018: (by prize-money £ earned to November 12, 2018) Stallion

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No Nay Never Australia Charm Spirit Kingman Sea the Moon Anodin Bungle Inthejungle Toronado Ruler of the World Olympic Glory War Command Gregorian Slade Power Alhebayeb Garswood Sommerabend Gale Force Ten Moohaajim Kuroshio Invincible Son Hakeem Heeraat Battle of Marengo Coach House Barocci Le Vie Infinite Mukhadram Noble Mission Morpheus Juniper Tree Es Que Love Lucayan Magician Hallucinate Xtension Cardinal Pioneer Will Take Charge Burwaaz Waldpark Cardinal Power Star Poker Dunaden Deha Lord Chaparral Ergiyas Sir Lando Rosendhal Principe Adepto

Scat Daddy - Cat’s Eye Witness (Elusive Quality) 2015 53 189 26 49.06 36 5 7 948,882 Galileo - Ouija Board (Cape Cross) 2015 54 140 14 25.93 17 1 2 475,193 Invincible Spirit - L’Enjoleuse (Montjeu) 2015 68 242 25 36.76 35 1 1 443,557 Invincible Spirit - Zenda (Zamindar) 2015 50 121 20 40.00 27 5 5 440,594 Sea the Stars - Sanwa (Monsun) 2015 41 102 16 39.02 21 2 2 373,669 Anabaa - Born Gold (Blushing Groom) 2015 47 136 16 34.04 21 2 2 362,229 Exceed and Excel - Licence to Thrill (Wolfhound) 2015 60 253 24 40.00 28 2 2 342,734 High Chaparral - Wana Doo (Grand Slam) 2015 53 167 22 41.51 26 0 0 342,566 Galileo - Love Me True (Kingmambo) 2015 16 35 4 25.00 5 1 1 334,529 Choisir - Acidanthera (Alzao) 2015 51 154 18 35.29 20 1 1 319,317 War Front - Wandering Star (Red Ransom) 2015 48 181 22 45.83 28 1 1 292,830 Clodovil - Three Days in May (Cadeaux Genereux) 2015 42 182 10 23.81 13 0 0 260,058 Dutch Art - Girl Power (Key of Luck) 2015 57 199 13 22.81 17 0 0 237,332 Dark Angel - Miss Indigo (Indian Ridge) 2015 70 291 15 21.43 20 0 0 227,183 Dutch Art - Penchant (Kyllachy) 2015 34 108 7 20.59 10 2 2 202,753 Shamardal - Sommernacht (Monsun) 2015 21 83 6 28.57 9 0 0 178,522 Oasis Dream - Ronaldsay (Kirkwall) 2015 38 160 12 31.58 14 0 0 140,511 Cape Cross - Thiella (Kingmambo) 2015 14 54 6 42.86 10 0 0 125,204 Exceed and Excel - Arctic Drift (Gone West) 2015 16 67 6 37.50 7 0 0 118,318 Orpen - Safe Exit (Exit to Nowhere) 2015 29 106 4 13.79 6 0 0 112,961 Harlan’s Holiday - Michigan Bluff (Skywalker) 2015 35 161 7 20.00 8 0 0 107,423 Dark Angel - Thawrah (Green Desert) 2015 37 162 8 21.62 9 0 0 98,675 Galileo - Anna Karenina (Green Desert) 2015 27 94 7 25.93 12 0 0 91,919 Oasis Dream - Lesson in Humility (Mujadil) 2015 39 166 7 17.95 10 0 0 91,458 Deep Impact - Bastet (Giant’s Causeway) 2015 5 17 2 40.00 4 0 0 82,811 Le Vie Dei Colori - Looking Back (Stravinsky) 2015 13 54 5 38.46 8 0 0 80,440 Shamardal - Magic Tree (Timber Country) 2015 38 108 9 23.68 10 0 0 77,992 Galileo - Kind (Danehill) 2015 15 41 6 40.00 8 0 0 77,529 Oasis Dream - Kind (Danehill) 2015 53 181 4 7.55 6 0 0 76,946 Galileo - Alexander Goldrun (Gold Away) 2015 17 41 3 17.65 5 0 0 76,131 Clodovil - Es Que (Inchinor) 2015 12 65 4 33.33 9 0 0 70,585 Turtle Bowl - La Vltava (Grand Lodge) 2015 11 38 3 27.27 3 0 0 50,903 Galileo - Absolutelyfabulous (Mozart) 2015 9 30 3 33.33 5 0 0 47,867 Street Cry - Daydreaming (A.P. Indy) 2015 11 35 3 27.27 5 0 0 42,475 Xaar - Great Joy (Grand Lodge) 2015 6 25 3 50.00 4 0 0 42,350 Galileo - Bartrobel (Dilum) 2015 10 52 2 20.00 2 0 0 39,930 Unbridled’s Song - Take Charge Lady (Dehere) 2015 2 7 1 50.00 4 0 0 30,385 Exceed and Excel - Nidhaal (Observatory) 2015 4 17 3 75.00 4 0 0 29,948 Dubawi - Wurftaube (Acatenango) 2015 5 30 1 20.00 1 0 0 29,044 Papal Power - Thumb Print (Sunset Hue) 2015 5 31 2 40.00 4 0 0 26,735 Footstepsinthesand - Samphire Red (Sri Pekan) 2015 10 34 4 40.00 4 0 0 26,037 Nicobar - La Marlia (Kaldounevees) 2015 13 36 4 30.77 4 0 0 25,538 Mountain Cat - Tajarib (Last Tycoon) 2015 9 37 2 22.22 2 0 0 21,282 High Chaparral - Freccia d’Oro (Acatenango) 2015 4 27 2 50.00 3 0 0 21,078 War Chant - Southern Fiction (Brocco) 2015 5 19 3 60.00 5 0 0 19,919 Lando - Burqa (Nashwan) 2015 2 7 1 50.00 1 0 0 19,663 Indian Ridge - Kathy College (College Chapel) 2015 3 19 0 0.00 0 0 0 16,454 Dubawi - Aischa (Giant’s Causeway) 2015 6 27 1 16.67 2 0 0 15,425

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euro stallion statistics Leading European sires of stakes horses in 2018 (by prize-money earned (£) to October 31, 2018) STALLION Dubawi (IRE) Galileo (IRE) Sea The Stars (IRE) Helmet (AUS) Nathaniel (IRE) Frankel (GB) Mastercraftsman (IRE) New Approach (IRE) Siyouni (FR) Pivotal (GB) Camelot (GB) Invincible Spirit (IRE) Exceed and Excel (AUS) Shamardal (USA) Fastnet Rock (AUS) Kodiac (GB) Whipper (USA) Dark Angel (IRE) Teofilo (IRE) Soldier Hollow (GB) Oasis Dream (GB) Acclamation (GB) Iffraaj (GB) Manduro (GER) Intello (GER) Lope De Vega (IRE) Showcasing (GB) Panis (USA) Dutch Art (GB) Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) Farhh (GB) Zoffany (IRE) Camacho (GB) Wootton Bassett (GB) No Nay Never (USA) Dawn Approach (IRE) Dream Ahead (USA) Champs Elysees (GB) Raven’s Pass (USA) Tamayuz (GB) Lawman (FR) Areion (GER) Havana Gold (IRE) Australia (GB) Footstepsinthesand (GB) Ruler Of The World (IRE) Equiano (FR) Rock of Gibraltar (IRE) Style Vendome (FR) Casamento (IRE) Kendargent (FR) Captain Gerrard (IRE) Le Havre (IRE) Archipenko (USA) Dandy Man (IRE)

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% W/R 64 45 29 43 48 41 35 38 43 61 45 51 42 44 47 34 80 47 68 52 29 50 42 57 50 41 38 33 27 33 29 53 50 25 36 45 25 33 36 44 58 43 67 17 30 33 33 31 33 50 44 100 40 33 29

courtesy of the-racehorse.com Stakes starts 83 128 45 12 34 56 42 31 34 38 38 55 40 48 26 42 12 29 42 32 29 30 19 13 25 43 21 13 22 14 10 31 10 11 17 14 18 9 14 16 17 28 8 7 12 4 7 18 5 13 16 4 12 10 9

Stakes wins 44 46 20 4 14 20 12 12 14 11 12 20 13 14 11 17 6 9 18 13 9 8 6 6 9 13 8 4 5 5 2 12 6 2 7 5 3 2 5 8 8 9 5 2 3 1 3 4 2 4 5 1 4 3 2

Stakes earnings 8,353,070 5,901,103 5,113,028 4,657,412 3,422,692 3,325,017 2,006,490 1,800,711 1,722,385 1,664,490 1,617,121 1,592,475 1,579,585 1,471,606 1,444,932 1,289,363 1,032,681 1,015,954 944,178 929,360 886,187 831,542 794,676 789,882 770,759 722,402 710,949 673,740 644,502 643,312 635,410 626,672 620,332 608,195 507,294 498,833 474,176 457,890 403,697 379,573 352,509 338,691 326,367 312,245 312,230 303,285 295,397 277,317 258,159 256,034 240,792 223,646 218,361 218,240 201,686

Branding...

“The process involved in creating a unique name and image for a product in the consumers’ mind, mainly through advertising campaigns with a consistent theme.

“Branding aims to establish a significant and differentiated presence in the market that attracts and retains loyal customers.”

It’s a crowded market place: give your stallion the individuality he deserves

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euro stallion statistics Leading European sires of stakes horses in 2018 (by prize-money earned (£) to October 31, 2018) STALLION Adlerflug (GER) Mayson (GB) Kingman (GB) Dabirsim (FR) Sea The Moon (GER) Lord of England (GER) Zanzibari (USA) Cityscape (GB) Myboycharlie (IRE) Youmzain (IRE) Dylan Thomas (IRE) Mujahid (USA) Excelebration (IRE) Sepoy (AUS) Mount Nelson (GB) Tagula (IRE) Anodin (IRE) Shirocco (GER) Intense Focus (USA) Vocalised (USA) Elusive City (USA) Bated Breath (GB) Gladiatorus (USA) Fast Company (IRE) Jukebox Jury (IRE) Arcano (IRE) Bungle Inthejungle (GB) Sixties Icon (GB) Falco (USA) Garswood (GB) French Fifteen (FR) Toronado (IRE) Vale of York (IRE) Doctor Dino (FR) Dragon Pulse (IRE) Pastoral Pursuits (GB) Gregorian (IRE) Motivator (GB) Sakhee’s Secret (GB) Reliable Man (GB) Sir Percy (GB) Nayef (USA) Montmartre (FR) Clodovil (IRE) Maxios (GB) Tin Horse (IRE) Sageburg (IRE) Al Kazeem (GB) It’s Gino (GER) Soldier Of Fortune (IRE) Requinto (IRE) Cockney Rebel (IRE) Stimulation (IRE) Lethal Force (IRE)

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% W/R 33 25 83 13 40 33 50 50 33 100 50 50 29 75 50 100 67 0 50 67 67 14 100 50 25 20 50 40 100 100 33 0 50 33 17 67 0 0 0 20 25 33 50 17 17 33 25 50 67 100 25 50 100 0

courtesy of the-racehorse.com Stakes starts 11 13 6 10 5 7 3 6 9 4 9 9 12 5 7 3 4 7 6 6 7 7 4 7 11 9 3 9 3 3 7 5 3 4 8 4 8 8 7 6 5 5 3 7 7 4 4 4 3 3 4 2 2 4

Stakes wins 2 2 5 1 2 2 2 3 3 2 3 3 2 3 3 3 2 0 3 3 4 2 1 3 2 1 1 2 2 2 1 0 2 1 1 3 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 0

Stakes earnings 197,867 193,857 192,067 189,803 178,188 159,957 159,124 148,085 142,577 138,760 136,391 135,102 127,457 127,399 121,131 119,091 116,849 114,607 113,569 103,905 103,411 100,305 91,184 90,031 88,662 87,015 86,202 82,394 79,628 78,641 77,194 71,009 68,670 66,613 66,337 62,714 62,576 61,203 61,106 60,619 59,777 59,132 55,137 51,758 51,713 51,671 47,680 46,509 45,682 40,761 39,737 39,666 39,105 38,643

Advertising...

“Advertising is an audio or visual form of marketing communication that employs an openly sponsored, non-personal message to promote or sell a product or service. Sponsors of advertising are typically businesses wishing to promote their products or services.

“Advertising is differentiated from public relations in that an advertiser pays for and has control over the message.”

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Ballyhane Stud Dandy Man €10,000 €12,500 25 Elzaam €6,000 €4,000 -33 Prince Of Lir €4,000 €4,000 0 Ballylinch Stud Beat Hollow €6,000 €5,000 Fascinating Rock €10,000 €7,500 Lope De Vega €60,000 €80,000 Make Believe €15,000 €12,000 New Bay €20,000 €15,000

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Banstead Manor Bated Breath £10,000 £10,000 0 Expert Eye* - £20,000 0 Frankel £175,000 £175,000 0 Kingman £55,000 £75,000 36 Oasis Dream £30,000 £30,000 0 Bearstone Stud Fountain Of Youth £4,500 £4,500 Washington DC* - £6,000

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Chapel Stud Coach House £3,000 £3,000 0 Helvellyn £3,000 £3,000 0 Pearl Secret £4,000 £4,000 0 Cheveley Park Stud Dutch Art £15,000 Private 0 Garswood £4,000 £3,500 -12 Intello £20,000 £20,000 0 Lethal Force £8,000 £4,500 -43 Mayson £6,000 £6,000 0 Pivotal £40,000 Private 0 Twilight Son £10,000 £8,000 -20 Ulysses £30,000 £17,500 -41 Unfortunately* - £7,500 Coolmore Stud Australia €35,000 €35,000 0 Camelot €30,000 €40,000 14 Caravaggio €35,000 €35,000 0 Champs Elysees €6,500 €6,500 0 Churchill €35,000 €35,000 0 Excelebration €8,000 €8,000 0 Fastnet Rock €70,000 €70,000 0 Footstepsinthesand €10,000 €10,000 0 Galileo Private Private Gleneagles €40,000 €30,000 -25 Gustav Klimt* - €7,500 Highland Reel €17,500 €17,500 0 Holy Roman Emperor €15,000 €15,000 0 Ivawood €6,000 €5,000 -17 Kingston Hill €5,000 €5,000 0

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Mastercraftsman €25,000 €30,000 20 Merchant Navy* - €20,000 No Nay Never €25,000 €100,000 400 Pride Of Dubai €15,000 €12,500 -17 Requinto €5,000 €4,000 -20 Rock Of Gibraltar €7,500 €7,500 0 Ruler Of The World €8,000 €8,000 0 Saxon Warrior* - €30,000 Sioux Nation* - €12,500 Starspangledbanner €15,000 €17,500 16 The Gurkha €25,000 €17,500 -30 US Navy Flag* - €25,000 War Command €8,000 €8,000 0 Zoffany €25,000 €25,000 0 Dalham Hall Stud Brazen Beau £7,000 £7,000 0 Charming Thought £6,000 £6,000 0 Cracksman* - £25,000 0 Dubawi £250,000 £250,000 0 Farhh £10,000 £10,000 0 Golden Horn £60,000 £50,000 -17 Harry Angel* - £20,000 Hawkbill* - £7,500 Iffraaj £40,000 £35,000 -12 New Approach £30,000 £30,000 0 Night Of Thunder £15,000 £15,000 0 Outstrip £5,000 £5,000 0 Postponed £20,000 £15,000 25 Territories £12,000 £12,000 0 Derrinstown Stud Awtaad €15,000 €15,000 0 Haatef €2,000 €2,000 0 Markaz €6,000 €6,000 0 Tamayuz €12,500 €12,500 0 Elwick Stud Mondialiste £6,000 £6,000 0 Giltown Stud Harzand €15,000 €10,000 -33 Sea The Stars €135,000 €135,000 0 Hedgeholme Stud Intrinsic £1,750 £1,750 0 Mahsoob £2,000 £2,000 0 Koropick* - £2,500 Highgclere Stud Cable Bay £6,500 £6,500

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Irish National Stud Decorated Knight €15,000 €12,000 Dragon Pulse €8,000 €6,000

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stallion fee tables Stud / stallion

2018 Fee

Elusive Pimpernel Free Eagle Gale Force Ten Invincible Spirit National Defense

€1,000 €15,000 €5,000 €120,000 €12,000

2019 Fee €1,000 €12,500 €3,000 €120,000 € 8,000

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Kildangan Stud Belardo €15,000 €10,000 -33 Buratino €5,000 €5,000 0 Dawn Approach €20,000 €15,000 -25 Exceed And Excel €50,000 €50,000 0 Fast Company €9,000 €12,000 33 French Navy €4,000 €4,000 0 Fulbright €4,000 €4,000 0 Jungle Cat* - €8,000 Profitable €12,000 €12,000 0 Raven’s Pass €10,000 €10,000 0 Ribchester €30,000 €25,000 -17 Shamardal Private Private 0 Slade Power €15,000 €7,500 -50 Teofilo €40,000 €40,000 0 The Last Lion 7,500 €7,500 0 Lanwades Stud Bobby’s Kitten £12,500 £10,000 Sea The Moon £15,000 £15,000 Sir Percy £7,000 £7,000

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Laughton Manor Stud Falco - £3,000 Sun Central £2,000 £2,000

0

Morristown Stud Camacho €7,500 €12,000 60 Dark Angel €85,000 €85,000 0 El Kabeir €8,000 €8,000 0 Gutaifan €10,000 €10,000 0 Mickley Stud Captain Gerrard £2,500 £2,500 0 Heeraat £5,000 Massaat* - £5,000 0 Proconsul £3,500 £3,500 0 Newsells Park Stud Equiano £8,000 £6,000 -25 Nathaniel £20,000 £25,000 25 Norman Court Stud Coulsty €5,000 £4,000 0 Sixties Icon £5,000 £6,000 20 Nunnery Stud Muhaarar £30,000 £30,000 0 Mukhadram £7,000 £6,000 -14 Nayef £5,000 £5,000 0 Poet’s Word* - £7,000 -

Stud / stallion Tasleet*

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- £6,000 -

Oak Grove Stud Al Kazeem £12,000 £12,000

0

Overbury Stud Ardad £6,500 £6,500 0 Cityscape £4,500 £5,000 11 Dunaden £3,000 £3,000 0 Jack Hobbs £4,000 £4,000 0 Rathasker Stud Anjaal Bungle Inthejungle Clodovil

€5,000 €5,000 0 €5,000 €12,000 140 €7,500 €10,000 33

Rathbarry Stud Acclamation Kodi Bear James Garfield* Moohaajim Tagula

€40,000 €40,000 0 €8,000 €6,000 -25 - €7,000 0 €4,000 €3,000 -25 €4,000 €4,000 0

Tally-Ho Stud Cotai Glory Galileo Gold Kessaar* Kodiac Mehmas Vadamos

€6,000 €5,000 -17 €15,000 €10,000 -33 - €8,000 €50,000 €65,000 30 €10,000 €10,000 0 €10,000 €7,500 -25

Tara Stud Alhebayeb Estidhkaar

€5,000 €5,000 0 €5,000 €5,000 0

The National Stud Aclaim Gregorian Lancaster Bomber * Rajasinghe* Time Test

£12,500 £4,500 - - £8,500

£9,000 -28 £8,000 77 £8,500 £5,000 £8,500 0

Tweenhills Farm & Stud Charm Spirit €20,000 £17,500 0 Havana Gold £15,000 £15,000 Hot Streak £6,000 £7,000 16 Lightning Spear* - £8,000 Roaring Lion* - £40,000 Zoustar * - £25,000

Whitsbury Stud Adaay £6,000 £5,000 -17 Due Diligence £5,000 £4,000 -20 Havana Grey* - £8,000 Showcasing £35,000 £55,000 57 Swiss Spirit £4,000 £3,000 -25

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photos of the month: new stallions, new jobs Photos by Laura Green FIRST-SEASON Stallions heading to the new jobs.

Left is Cracksman, the four-time Group 1 winner and proudly wearing his 2018 British Champions Day hero’s rug.

He is seen here leaving Hascombe Stud on his journey to his new stud home at Dalham Hall.

There, the son of Frankel, the first colt to go to stud by the Juddmonte’s developing leading sire, will stand alongside his owner’s fellow champion, Golden Horn.

Cracksman is starting his stud career off at a fee of £25,000.

Juddmonte Farm’s homebred Expert Eye has returned to base from his training yard at John Gosden’s Clarehaven Stables after his successful US raid on the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Mile.

The son of Acclamation is out of Exemplify, a Dansili half-sister to Special Duty, winner of the Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes, the 1,000 Guineas (a race that has cropped up earlier in this issue in Alan Porter’s discussion of Line Of Duty’s Breeders’ Cup victory) and the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches.

The pair are out of Quest To Peak, a Distant View full-sister to Sightseek, a seven-time Grade 1 winner in the US, and trained for Juddmonte by Bobby Frankel.

Expert Eye’s opening fee is £20,000.

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LE HAVRE BIG PRICES AT THE SALES! 850,000 GNS - €€ 360,000 -€€ 240,000 - 180,000 GNS

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€45,000 live foal

AND THE BEST CROPS ARE COMING...!

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He came. He saw. He conquered.

Unbeaten Stakes winner at 2, Merchant Navy proved himself Australia’s best sprinter of his generation at 3 when winning Flemington’s Group 1 Coolmore Stud Stakes over six furlongs.

Unbeaten in two starts for Aidan O’Brien he proved more than able for Europe’s best sprinters winning the Group 2 Greenlands Stakes at the Curragh and the Group 1 Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot. This was despite being weighted as an older horse when still only three in his birthplace.

His sire Fastnet Rock has already proven a major success in Europe and as a sire of sires. So watch this space!

New for

2019

Fee: €20,000

Contact: Coolmore Stud, Fethard, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. Tel: 353-52-6131298. Fax: 353-52-6131382. Christy Grassick, David O’Loughlin, Eddie Fitzpatrick, Tim Corballis, Maurice Moloney, Gerry Aherne, Mathieu Legars, Jason Walsh, Tom Miller or Neil Magee. Tom Gaffney, David Magnier, Joe Hernon, John Kennedy or Cathal Murphy: 353-25-31966/31689. Kevin Buckley (UK Rep.) 44-7827-795156.

E-mail: sales@coolmore.ie Website: www.coolmore.com All stallions nominated to EBF.