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Stallion Review 2016

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“Fighting all the way” by Roger Simpson

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2007 b h Dansili - Tantina (Distant View)

2011 b h Invincible Spirit - Zenda (Zamindar)

“One of the best freshman sires of 2016”

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Over 70% of the 280 mares covered in his first two books are blacktype earners or producers 2017 FEE: £55,000 slf

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1996 b h Danehill - Hasili (Kahyasi)

2000 b h Green Desert - Hope (Dancing Brave)

Sire of 20 Gr.1 winners and over 110 stakes winners 2017 FEE: £65,000 slf

A top five active European sire by Group winners and Gr.1 winners 2017 FEE: £50,000 slf

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Frankel 2008 b h Galileo - Kind (Danehill)

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French 2,000 Guineas-Gr.1, Deauville, by 5½ lengths (PICTURED).

Faster than Kingman, Makfi and Dubawi over course and distance.

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Sussex Stakes-Gr.1, Goodwood by a neck from Gr.1 winners Galileo Gold, Ribchester, Toormore and Awtaad.

Faster than Solow, Kingman and both of Frankel’s wins.

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Maiden, Navan, by 9 lengths.

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St James’s Palace Stakes-Gr.1, Royal Ascot to Galileo Gold.

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Eclipse Stakes-Gr.1, Sandown, beaten ½ length.

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contents december 14 First word

Paul Haigh witnesses two memorable races at the Breeders’ Cup

17 News

Galileo and Dubawi again head the list as the two most expensive stallions standing in Europe

80 Global stallions

Japan’s Deep Impact is the clear leader on earnings; it’s tough for other stallions to keep up due to high prize-money levels in Asia

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82 He just gets better and better

22 Siezed!

90 Prancing around

Arrogate is the highest US Timeform horse ever after his Breeders’ Cup win, writes Simon Rowlands Alan Porter sees Arrogate head up a fine Breeders’ Cup meet for the Unbridled’s Song line

36 Roar!!

The Last Lion won the Brocklesby in April and the Middle Park in the autumn.

Paul Haigh chats to owner John Brown

44 Back to the Manor

Ed Harper talks about managing Whitsbury Manor Stud, his star stallion Showcasing and new boy Adaay

53 California dreamin’

Melissa Bauer-Herzog visits Taylor Made Farm, excited about California Chrome’s spring arrival

60 That day in May...

Move over Dubai, there’s a new race in town, writes Marcus Townend

72 Names for 2017

Frankel was beaten for the first time in his life by Tally-Ho Stud’s Sir Prancealot, winner of the first-season sires’ title

155 Three titles for Tapit

Melissa Bauer-Herzog reviews a US racing season which saw Tapit march clear for the third time

94 Wootton Bassett: champion sire Despite just a small initial crop, the Haras d’Etreham sire has produced a European champion racehorse

160 Leading US stallions

Leading general US sires, leading first-crop and Turf sires

102 Leading stallion tables

Listed by progeny racing distances

170 Leading European stallions

The top 100 European sires and the top 100 sires of two-year-olds

109 Stakes-winning sires

Hyperion’s alphabetical list of sires with stakes performers in 2016

176 Stallion fees

A comprehensive list of British and Irish stallion fees for 2017

120 Brexit influence

Jocelyn de Moubray takes a look at the financial and currency changes that took place in 2016 and their influence on the bloodstock market

2016

68 Big money

Galileo’ s progeny enjoyed yet another superb racecourse year

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...changed the life of Jet Setting’s trainer Adrian Keatley. He looks back on an exciting year with Aisling Crowe

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126 What happened at the sales?

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Were the record-breaking results and decent clearance rates just a lucky break or a sign of longer term trends?

Who’s going to be hot next year

168 Photo competition

143 Covering stats

Dr Joe Pagan examines inflluences on growth rates of thoroughbreds

178 Cartier awards

A gallery of some of this year’s winners

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Weatherbys alphabetical list of stallions by their yearling averages 2016

Weatherbys list showing which stallions were the busiest sires in England and Ireland through 2016

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130 Stallion averages by fees

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164 Equine nutrition

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first word

Paul Haigh reviews a Breeders’ Cup which will live long in the memory

It was a magnificent meeting

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hether the Breeders’ Cup really is thoroughbred racing’s “World Championships”, or ever can be without the participation of the best Australians, Japanese and Hong Kongers, is open to doubt.

Certainly its claim was seriously diminished by the absence of such luminaries as Winx, Almanzor and Maurice.

Minding too, who could probably have won any of the races on Turf restricted to Fillies and Mares, or even some of the biggest prizes if she’d been asked. She and Almanzor didn’t come because connections felt they’d done enough for the year; Winx and Maurice because theirs felt they had bigger fish to fry.

What’s not in doubt is that there’s no more beautiful place to try and hold a world championships than Santa Anita with its waving palm trees, lustrous blue skies and sensational backdrop of the San Gabriel Mountains. If a lot of the world’s best horses were missing, a lot of them were there too, and what’s also a fact is that those who turned up delivered some magnificent races.

At least two of those were ones that will never be forgotten as long as this sport thrives.

Whether it’s really a good idea to spread the event over two days remains a matter for debate. But those who defend the two-day model have some more evidence on their side after Friday’s Breeders’ Cup Distaff, a race that evoked memories of Go For WandBayakoa, though mercifully without the tragic outcome.

The Distaff was a race Gary Stevens immediately declared the “best he’d ever ridden in”. Even allowing for emotional hyperbole you have to take some notice of that.

If this year’s Distaff, between Mike Smith’s “girlfriend” Songbird, and Stevens’s beloved Beholder had been held over to the Saturday we wouldn’t have had the evening to drool over it.

With other races coming at us every 45 minute

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The Distaff was a race Gary Stevens immediately declared the “best he’d ever ridden in”.

Even allowing for emotional hyperbole you have to take some notice of that

intervals we might not even have had time to give it the thought it deserved.

This wasn’t the highest-class race we were going to see at the 2016 Breeders’ Cup. Beholder had swerved another clash with California Chrome after being humbled in the Pacific Classic. And Songbird’s team had sensibly decided against a tilt at the Classic too. But what we were left with was an extraordinary tussle for supremacy between a three-year-old filly, who’d never known defeat, and a six-year-old mare giving it one last try.

In the end the mare, now a three-time Breeders’ Cup winner, was just too strong. But it was just on the nod, and as the commentator said of the filly who was coming back as the line arrived: “I doubt she knows she lost”.

As usual there’s only space to mention highlights of what occurred on the Saturday. For us on this side of the Atlantic, Queen’s Trust and Frankie Dettori running down Lady Eli has to come in that category. It was an atypical Dettori ride in that he came from far back to mow them down. Sir Michael Stoute, using deliberate understatement, conceded that Dettori had been “quite good”.

The Dirt Sprint didn’t concern us. There were only seven runners and none of them European, but it was still thrilling to watch the best of the American speedballs doing what they do best.

Should the Turf Sprint have been the race for Limato?

Well, none of the Europeans who did run in it could make any impression at all. But he is a much better sprinter than they are, although it was most ungracious of one pocket talker to refer to Ryan Moore’s Ballydoyle contender as “Doshington WC”.

Is Classic Empire next year’s Kentucky Derby winner? No idea at all, not even after the Juvenile. We’ll leave that question to the American analysts – with just the thought that he might have “too odd” a personality.

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There is an argument to be made that the Turf is usually the best race on the Breeders’ Cup card.

It was certainly a thriller this year even if, with great respect to the globetrotting Highland Reel, you weren’t sure the best horse had won it. It went to the one who was given the best ride. What on earth was Javier Castellano doing letting a King George winner get 8l away from him at the entrance to the straight?

Seamie Heffernan mugged him completely. By the time Castellano got going Heffernan had already fled the scene.

In the end Flintshire, twice second in the Arc, proved once again that he’s now the best Turf horse in the US at what we’d think of as middle-distance.

He may have been eating into the winner’s lead at the end, but it seems deeply unlikely that he’s the best in the world. That title now surely has to go to Winx.

She had Highland Reel far behind her in last year’s Cox Plate, admittedly over a trip too short for the horse who wanders the world picking up 1m4f prize-money.

She was even more brilliant in this year’s running of Australia’s best race.

But Winx needs to run outside Australia to get the credit she deserves. Her connections don’t like the idea, however this year’s Breeders’ Cup Turf winner did prove yet again that travelling needn’t necessarily do a horse any harm.

In fact, Highland Reel seems to get better the more air miles he racks up.

The same could almost be said of Found. Almost, but not quite. Her third place wasn’t a good as her Arc victory nor was it as good as either of her seconds to Almanzor, but it was still a miracle of fortitude.

Found’s run two races 5,000 miles apart since the Arc a month ago. The only way of stopping Found from running well wherever she races would be to fit her with a ball and chain.

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Found’s run two races 5,000 miles apart since the Arc a month ago.

The only way of stopping her from running well wherever she races would be to fit her with a ball and chain

Americans talking about Tepin’s brilliance having been blunted by the “miles she’s got on the clock”.

(They mean the trip to Ascot where she won the Queen Anne). She proved the absurdity of that suggestion by proving herself once again the best horse in the Mile.

Sure, Tourist won the race, but again it was because of the ride he got. Joel Rosario found a perfect seam up the rail and got first run on her. She was gobbling Tourist up at the end, but the post came in time.

Limato is not a miler. We know that now. It may be that he’ll just come home after this defeat. But wouldn’t it be great if he’s come out bouncing, and this disappointment turns out just to have been a warm-up for the Hong Kong Sprint at his proper trip?

The Classic always gets the hype and this year it deserved it: a perfect battle between an idolised champion and a young pretender.

Is California Chrome a completely different class of horse now from the one who lost the 2014 Dubai World Cup to Prince Bishop? Yes, he certainly is.

Had Arrogate’s extraordinary speed record-breaking 13l victory in the Travers been a fluke? No it hadn’t.

This was the confrontation between the best older Dirt horse in America, by far, and the best younger one, and it didn’t let us down for one step of the race. In the end the new kid was just too strong, but the pair put more than 11l on some very respectable rivals battling for third place.

Bob Baffert has saved Arrogate to allow him to develop. The colt never ran at two and he missed the entire Triple Crown (although in hindsight he might have done a Secretariat in the Belmont).

You have to suspect that what he achieves in the future will prove, even to the satisfaction of the “Chromies” clutching straws trying to think of ways of blaming Victor Espinsosa, that in just failing to give Arrogate 4lb weight for age, “Chrome” ran his greatest race in defeat.

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Stallion fees for 2017 Four stallions are advertised in the £100,000+ club ahead of the 2017 covering season

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he same quartet of stallions as in 2016 head the advertised stallion fee list for 2017 with fees over £100,000 – Dubawi, Frankel, Sea The Stars and Invincible Spirit.

Galileo’s price is advertised as private, but his fee it has to be assumed is at least equal and probably above that of his nemesis Dubawi. The pair are the only two sires standing in England and Ireland for £200,000+.

After another strong year on the track and in the sale ring, Darley stallion Dubawi has been given a fee increase from £225,000 to £250,000.

The fees for the other three in the £100,000+ club are unchanged from 2016.

Dansili, who stood last year at £85,000 has had a 22 per cent price decrease to £65,000, and although he is the next expensive sire on the list, his fee is approx £50,000 less than Sea The Stars, Frankel and Invincible Spirit.

Fellow Juddmonte sire Oasis Dream has also received a price adjustment – a reduction of 33 per cent from £75,000 to £50,000. He, along with Dutch Art’s 37 per cent reduction to £25,000 from £40,000, are the stallions in the top echelons in Britain and Ireland to receive significant price decreases of over 30 per cent.

New Approach, with progeny prize-money earnings in 2016 of approx £720,000, has had his fee halved from £60,000 to £30,000.

Alternatively, Showcasing, sire of this year’s Cartier Award winner and dual Group 1 winner Quiet Reflection, has had his fee increased from £25,000 to £35,000 (up 40 per cent), the same price change (albeit in euros) given to the dual Derby winner Camelot, whose first yearlings sold for an average of 91,000gns this autumn.

The year’s leading first-season sire Sir Prancealot has had a tweak upwards from

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Price (€/£)

Galileo Private Shamardal Private Fastnet Rock Private Dubawi £250,000 Frankel £125,000 Sea The Stars €125,000 Invincible Spirit €120,000 Dansili £65,000 Golden Horn £60,000 Kingman £55,000 Oasis Dream £50,000 Lope De Vega €50,000 Kodiac €50,000 Exceed And Excel €50,000 Gleneagles €40,000 Teofilo €40,000 Pivotal £40,000 Australia €35,000 Zoffany €35,000 Showcasing £35,000 Camelot €35,000 New Approach £30,000 Dawn Approach €30,000 Muhaarar £30,000 Acclamation €30,000 Iffraaj £27,500 Dutch Art £25,000 Mastercraftsman €25,000 Night Of Thunder €25,000 Lawman €25,000 The Gurkha (New) €25,000

Dubawi: has had a price increase to £250,000

€5,000 to £8,000, as has fellow successful new sire Helmet. He began the season with a number of early winners and gained a Group 1 winner in October courtesy of Thunder Snow’s Criterium International win.

Fellow Darley stallion Fast Company, sire of the Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Jet Setting, has transferred to Kildangan, Ireland and his fee has changed from £4,000 to €7,000.

The most expensive new sire for 2017 is Coolmore’s The Gurkha. The son of Galileo, Group 1 winner of the Poule d’Essai des Poulains and the Sussex Stakes, has been given a starter fee of €25,000.

Fees for around 60 of the major commercial stallions in England and Ireland are unchanged from 2016, while Shamardal, who has l argely a private book, Coolmore’s Fastnet Rock, alongside super sire Galileo, have been kept private.

See back pages for a full list of British & Irish fees

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simon says Arrogate at Santa Anita after beating California Chrome in the “best race staged anywhere on the planet in 2016”

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Arrogate and California Chrome have six of the top seven performances of the year globally between them

Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Arrogate becomes Timeform’s highest-rated US racehorse ever, writes Simon Rowlands

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he fact that the Breeders’ Cup unilaterally chooses to refer to itself as “the World Thoroughbred Championships” is a source of no little annoyance elsewhere around the globe where some meetings in Dubai, France, Britain – and even (at a push) Hong Kong, Australia and Ireland – have competing claims.

But there should be few quibbles with such an accolade this year as the action at Santa Anita in early-November delivered on the billing. In particular, the Breeders’ Cup Classic looked beforehand as well as after the event to be the best race anywhere on the planet in 2016.

California Chrome had run a succession of high ratings in victory earlier in the year, notably a 138 in the Pacific Classic at Del Mar, and he ran out of his skin again. But he met his match – just – in the young pretender Arrogate, who followed up his recordbreaking Travers Stakes win with a halflength success on the biggest stage of all.

The pair were a long way clear of some classy rivals, in a good overall time, and the resulting Timeform figures of 139 for Arrogate and 138 for California Chrome are most unlikely to be surpassed in what remains of 2016. That makes Arrogate the highest-rated US horse since Timeform started assessing them as a matter in 1993, also just ahead of American Pharoah and Cigar on 138.

Arrogate and California Chrome have six of the top seven performances of the year globally between them, with the other – a 133 figure – belonging to the brilliant Australian mare Winx, who entered Black Caviar

territory when winning the Cox Plate at Moonee Valley in October by 8l.

America looked to have its own Winx in Songbird, who lined up for the Breeders’ Cup Distaff unbeaten but went down by a nose to Beholder, winner of the race back in 2013.

The Distaff might not quite have matched the Classic in pure quality (the first two are now rated 129 and 128) but it was an even more pulsating duel between two neversay-die individuals and will live long in the memory.

While the Classic and the Distaff were close-fought but seemed definitive, some of the other races at the Breeders’ Cup are more open to interpretation.

In particular, the Turf saw Highland Reel get every bit as good a ride from the front as the second and third, Flintshire and Found, got poor ones from further back. All three are rated 129 by Timeform post-race (with Found getting a sex allowance on top of that).

The opposite scenario – that of a stronglyrun race – helped Tamarkuz (125 rating), Queen’s Trust (122) and Tourist (124) come from behind to win the Dirt Mile, Filly And Mare Turf and Turf Mile respectively.

The last-named could not be considered an especially good winner of this great race, though he did miss breaking the Santa Anita track record by just a fraction and held last year’s winner Tepin by a diminishing halflength in a race in which a strong European challenge came to little.

Being up with a good gallop did not, however, prevent Drefong (127), Obviously (122) or Finest City (123) from “gutsing” it out for success in the Sprint, the Turf Sprint and the Filly & Mare Sprint.

The first-named has now won on all five of his appearances since his debut and was recording the highest figure in the Sprint since Midnight Lute registered 130 in 2008.

Comfortably the best winning performance by a two-year-old at the Breeders’ Cup came from Classic Empire in the Juvenile, which he won by a neck from Not This Time, the pair clear. Classic Empire’s Timeform

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rating of 123 places him with the sidelined Caravaggio and behind only Lady Aurelia (127 for her remarkable Royal Ascot romp) among juveniles around the world.

The Juvenile Fillies over the same track and distance as the Juvenile earlier on the card was fully 2.52s slower, and it remains to be seen if the winner Champagne Room will justify her 117 rating.

Many would regard Caravaggio’s stablemate Churchill as the rightful European champion two-year-old, though his bare form makes it difficult to rate him above 120.

Churchill had beaten Lancaster Bomber by a length and a quarter in the Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket in October, and the latter went down by the same margin to Oscar Performance (rated 116) in the Juvenile Turf.

Oscar Performance was in turn 0.73s quicker than New Money Honey, winner of the Juvenile Fillies Turf, in which she ran to a figure of 113. Several reputations were dented in this contest, including those of a handful of fillies who had been running well in leading contests in Britain and Ireland.

Churchill’s Dewhurst form had received bigger boosts in the interim as a result of wins from Rivet (113) in the Racing Post Trophy at Doncaster and Thunder Snow (119) in the Criterium International at Saint-Cloud, the pair having been fifth and fourth at Newmarket.

Thunder Snow’s 5l win looks better than Waldgeist’s length win (rated 111) in the other Group 1 on the card, the Criterium de Saint-Cloud.

On the same day, over in Tokyo, Japanese

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Horse of The Year in 2015, Maurice, made a bold bid for the same title this year with a ready victory over Real Steel in the Tenno Sho, an effort worth a Timeform figure of 131. A Shin Hikari, whose Prix d’Ispahan cakewalk in May is looking more and more of a head scratcher, finished only 12th and has had his rating trimmed to 130.

If you ask some, none of the above races was the biggest on the world stage in the period under review, however. Even the Breeders’ Cup cannot claim to “stop a nation”, but the Melbourne Cup can, and does.

This year’s race was as spectacular as usual, and went to an ex-European in Almandin, narrowly from the Irish-trained Heartbreak City and the ex-Brit Hartnell.

“The Cup” is, of course, a handicap, and Almandin’s weight concession means his rating comes out inferior to the two he beat, at 119 compared to 123 and 122.

Top, Almandin beats the appropriately named Heartbreak City in a “spectacular” Melbourne Cup, above, the day after the race the horse is with his trophy, and, right, Maurice under Ryan Moore put in a stellar effort to win the Tenno Sho

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Seized!

Alan Porter reports on a fabulous Breeders’ Cup meeting which saw Arrogate, Juddmonte’s three-year-old colt by Unbridled’s Song, put in a stunning performance in the Classic to beat California Chrome, America’s favourite racehorse

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Glory for victor and vanquished.”

That was the headline from the Spirit of the Times following the epic match between Salvator and Tenny, run at Sheepshead Bay on Long Island in 1890.

That race inspired the poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox – best known for the lines “Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone” – in piece called “How Salvator Won.” Whether the latest renewal of the Breeders’ Cup Classic will inspire an ode or not we don’t know, but the “glory for victor and vanquished” line was certainly applicable.

The race was viewed as a virtual match between the five-year-old California Chrome and the three-year-old Arrogate.

California Chrome, unbeaten this year and officially rated the best racehorse in the world, has been performing at a level that raised him to the level of greatness. Arrogate, unraced at two, and an unlucky loser on his debut at three, emerged an easy winner of two allowance races.

While clearly promising, there was nothing in those efforts to prepare us for the Arrogate we saw in August’s Travers Stakes (G1) in which he scored by 13l setting a new trackrecord for 1m2f at Saratoga, and earning near off-the-charts speed figures.

Since Arrogate had not started again since the Travers, the public was left to wonder whether the Travers was an unrepeatable fluke. We now have the answer to that question, and it is a resounding “No!”

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California Chrome certainly ran a champion’s race and appeared to be holding his own, until Arrogate found one last surge to go half a length up at the wire.

To give some context, Keen Ice – who won the Travers from American Pharoah last year – was over 11l back in third.

Arrogate is a son of the late Unbridled’s Song, who passed in 2013. Injuries prevented Unbridled’s Song – a son of the Kentucky Derby (G1) and Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) victor Unbridled and from the Fappiano branch of the Mr. Prospector line – from fully realising his potential as a runner, but at his best, in efforts such as the Florida Derby (G1) and the Wood Memorial Stakes (G1), he appeared almost invincible.

Although they’ve had a tendency to be somewhat brittle, especially if exploited early, Unbridled’s Song has been responsible for a string of exciting Dirt runners.

He’s been represented by 55 graded stakes winners and 22 at Grade 1 level, the best known being the champion three-yearold Will Take Charge, a Travers winner who missed by a nose in the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1), the champion two-year-old colt Midshipman, last year’s Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) hero Liam’s Map, as well as Zensational, Octave, Thorn Song, Splendid Blended, Graydar, Unbridled Elaine, Unbridled Belle, First Defence and Magnficent Song.

He’s still awaiting his heir as a sire son, but Will Take Charge, Liam’s Map, Graydar and Cross Traffic have yet to have starters.

Arrogate’s dam Bubbler was a smart

Arrogate (left ) with jockey Mike Smith gets the better of a home-straight duel with future Taylor Made sire, California Chrome

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breeders’ cup performer in her own right winning six of nine starts, and took third in the Ouija Board Distaff Stakes (G3).

What’s more Bubbler has a pedigree that was made to fit Unbridled’s Song. A halfsister to a stakes winner by Unbridled, the sire of Unbridled’s Song, she’s a daughter of Distorted Humor, a horse who’s sired two stakes winners out of Unbridled’s Song mares, and who is a son of Forty Niner. He is also found in the broodmare sire line of Liam’s Map, and as sire of the second dam of Unbridled’s Song’s three-time Grade 1 winner Zensational.

Arrogate’s grand-dam, the graded stakesplaced Grechelle, is by Deputy Minister, who appears in the broodmare sire line of Will Take Charge and other Unbridled’s Song Grade 1 winners Tara’s Tango and Graydar.

The third dam, the wonderful Meadow Star – a champion at two and dual Grade 1 winner at three – is by Meadowlake, who is broodmare sire of Unbridled’s Song’s graded winner Old Fashioned. He is a son of Hold Your Peace, broodmare sire of Unbridled’s Song graded scorers Mission Impazible and Unbridled Energy.

To complete the story, the fourth dam is by In Reality, sire of the second dam of Unbridled, and duplicated in eight of Unbridled’s Song’s Grade 1 winners.

Battle of the female champions

With overtones of a later installment of the “Rocky” franchise, the Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1) featured an older champion – who’d

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What’s more Bubbler has a pedigree that was made to fit Unbridled’s Song

been beaten by a younger champion in their last two meetings – winding up for one last title fight, while the younger champion was ready to confirm her ascendency. And to add a twist, a brilliant undefeated young star who had dominated her age group, but who had yet to step outside her division.

Beholder kept a watching brief as threeyear-old Songbird – undefeated in 11 starts – set what was for her a comfortable pace.

In her previous starts, Songbird had run her opponents off their feet a long way from home, but this was a different proposition.

At the head of the stretch she met a challenge the like of which she had never faced before. To her credit, she proved almost equal to it, digging in with the utmost resolution against her battle-hardened opponent as the duo engaged in a furious battle down the lane, before the challenge finally fell Beholder’s way by the width of a flared nostril.

This year, Beholder gained admission to a very exclusive club consisting of performers who have won Grade 1 events at two, three, four, five and six.

Beholder has also garnered Eclipse Awards as a champion of her sex at two, three and

five. As well as brilliance, Beholder has also showed rare versatility, scoring at 5f, 6f, a mile, eight and a half furlongs, 1m1f and 1m2f, and on both Dirt and All-Weather surfaces.

She has also defeated colts with a spectacular triumph in the Pacific Classic (G1).

Although she fetched $180,000 as a Keeneland September Yearling, it would have been hard at the time to have predicted that Beholder would have scaled such lofty heights, nor have carried her speed so far.

Her sire Henny Hughes (by Storm Cat’s son, Hennessy) was an early-season juvenile sensation winning his first three starts, including the Tremont Stakes (by 6l) and the Saratoga Special Stakes (G3).

His superstar reputation was derailed by First Samurai, who defeated him in both the Hopeful Stakes (G1) and Champagne Stakes (G1), but Henny Hughes ran that rival into submission in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1), although it proved to be a pyrrhic victory as Stevie Wonderboy ran down the weary duo to claim both the race and the juvenile crown.

At three, Henny Hughes was restricted to sprints, and for much of the year he appeared as if he might be the nation’s top speedster.

Not seen in action until July, he opened with a 10l victory in the Jersey Shore Breeders’ Cup Stakes (G3), then took the King’s Bishop Stakes (G1) by 5l, and the Vosburgh Stakes (G1), by 2l.

Henny Hughes was dispatched as favourite for the Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1), but stumbled at the start, and could never get untracked, finishing 14th.

Race of the year: with “Rocky” type overtones, in the Distaff the champion Beholder (left) saw off the attentions of the younger pretender, Songbird

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breeders’ cup Retired to stand at Darley, Henny Hughes was a hot sire when his first yearlings reached the sales, but he quickly fell from favour and in 2012 was sold to stand in Australia. He returned to the US for 2013, then back to Australia, before standing the 2014 northern hemisphere season in Japan.

Though he didn’t prove the font of precocious juvenile stakes winners that might have been hoped, Henny Hughes has sired 29 stakes winners, including, in addition to Beholder, the Japanese Grade 1 winners Asia Express and Moanin.

If, Henny Hughes appears an unlikely sire of a superstar who is a Grade 1 winner at 1m2f, one might say the same of Beholder’s dam, Leslie’s Lady.

By the three-time Grade 2 winner but modest sire Tricky Creek, Leslie’s Lady was a hard-knocking sprinter who gained a black-type victory as a juvenile in the Hoosier Debutante Stakes.

Leslie’s Lady first showed the ability to outproduce herself with her 2005 foal, Into Mischief. By Harlan’s Holiday – like Henny Hughes a grandson of Storm Cat – Into Mischief ran only six times, but won the CashCall Futurity (G1) at two, and at three from three starts took the Damascus Stakes, and ran second in the Malibu Stakes (G1) and San Vicente Stakes (G2).

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Henny Hughes was a hot sire when his first yearlings reached the sales, but he quickly fell from favour

Retired to Spendthrift (in whose colours Beholder runs), Into Mischief has rapidly risen through the ranks and is advertised for $50,000 for the coming season.

Leslie’s Lady also appears as the granddam of the stakes-winning Harlan’s Holiday colt, Harry’s Holiday.

Most of the black-type in Leslie’s Lady’s first and second dam is relatively minor, but her grand-dam, the stakes-placed One Last Bird, is half-sister to the Californian Stakes (G1) scorer Roanoke, and to graded stakes placed Last Cause, the third dam of the 2012 Kentucky Derby (G1) and Preakness Stakes (G1) victor, I’ll Have Another.

Shadwell Stable’s Dirt Mile winner Tamarkuz

Beholder has comprehensively outrun her pedigree, in terms of both class and distance and the reasons don’t immediately leap off the pedigree page, but we can note that she is a product of a cross – that of Hennessy and his sons with mares by Clever Trick and his sons and grandsons – that has significantly outperformed opportunity.

Hennessy’s great-grandsire Northern Dancer and Clever Trick’s sire Icecapade are three-quarters related, and Beholder has two other crosses of Northern Dancer, one through Nijinsky, who has significant pedigree similarities to Storm Cat’s sire Storm Bird.

The other is through One For All, the sire of Beholder’s third dam, and he is by Northern Dancer out of the champion two-year-old filly Quill, where Henny Hughes is a Northern Dancer line stallion whose dam is from the male line of Quill’s three-quarters relative, Prince John.

Tamarkuz: Mile winner for Speightstown

In the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1), last year’s champion sprinter Runhappy, trying further, and the 2015 Kentucky Derby (G1) third, Dortmund, dueled through the early stages before this year’s Kentucky Derby (G1) third Gun Runner took command.

However, long shot Tamarkuz was closing fast, and he ran right by Gun Runner, something of a perpetual bridesmaid in big

races this year, for a convincing win.

Tamarkuz began his career in England, where he won three of six starts. Shipped to Meydan, after a second on his debut, Tamarkuz won four on the bounce, including the Buri Nahaar (G3), the Firebreak Stakes (G3) and the Godolphin Mile (G2).

Brought to the US last year, the fiveyear-old ran fourth to Honor Code in the Metropolitan Handicap (G1) on his debut stateside, then fourth, sixth and fourth in graded company. He was a distant ninth of ten in this year’s Metropolitan Handicap (G1), but ran better when second in the Forego Stakes (G1) and Kelso Handicap (G2).

Tamarkuz’s sire Speightstown earned a Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) victory, and a champion sprinter title as a six-year-old.

He has turned out to be a prolific sire of stakes winners and came close to lifting a leading sires’ title in 2013.

He’s sired more than 70 stakes winners, and although he’s primarily a speed influence, his offspring have won good races over a wide range of distances, on Dirt and Turf, and in both the US and Europe.

Fourteen of his progeny have won Group or Grade 1 races, including Jockey Club Gold Cup winner Haynesfield, Golden Ticket, who deadheated in the Travers, Lord Shanakill, who took the Prix Jean Prat, and Reynaldothewizard, winner of the Golden Shaheen.

Tamarkuz is out of the unraced Lemon Drop Kid mare Without You Babe, a half-sister to Travers and Cigar Mile Stakes (G1) victor Stay Thirsty.

The third dam Make Change was a stakes winner and was multiple Grade 1 placed. The female line traces to Masda, a stakes-winning sister to Man O ’War, via a sister to the 1946 Triple Crown hero, Assault. Tamarkuz’s pedigree has a version of what, over the years, we’ve come to recognise as a “parallel pattern” in that both his sire and his dam are bred on a Mr. Prospector/Storm Bird crosses.

Drefong: super-sub in the Sprint

When, on the eve of the race, a trainer loses a Breeders’ Cup favourite who is four-for-four on the season, with three straight Grade 1 wins it’s a major blow, but if you’re Bob Baffert, and the race is the Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1), you just reload with another stellar speedster.

Baffert’s four-year-old Pulpit colt Lord Nelson had been unbeaten in his last three starts seeing victories in the Triple Bend Stakes, Bing Crosby Stakes and Santa Anita

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breeders’ cup Sprint Championship. Unfortunately a couple of days prior to the Breeders’ Cup Sprint, a minor nick on a leg became infected, and Lord Nelson was scratched.

However, Baffert had a ready replacement in the shape of the flying three-year-old, Drefong. A 9l scorer on the second of two starts, successful in allowance company on his first two outings at three, Drefong’s only other run saw him lead from start to finish to take the King’s Bishop Stakes (G1) – the premier sprint restricted to three-year-olds – by 0ver 3l. Here he duelled with favoured

Masochistic through fast fractions before drawing off for a 1l win.

Drefong is from the first crop of his sire, Gio Ponti, a son of Tale Of The Cat out of an Alydar mare from a Californian family.

Gio Ponti was a top-class racehorse, a graded winner from two to six, champion Turf horse at four and five, and champion older male at six.

He captured 11 stakes, seven of them Grade 1, including two renewals of the Shadwell Turf Mile (G1), but also the two runnings of the Man O’ War Stakes (G1) at

1m3f. He also ran second to Goldikova in the Breeders’ Cup Mile and second to Zenyatta in an All-Weather track renewal of the Breeders’ Cup Classic. Gio Ponti has two other stakes winners in his first crop, including Sir Duddley Digges, successful in Canada’s premier Classic, the Queen’s Plate.

Eltimaas, the dam of Drefong, did not run, but she is the daughter of another horse who could stretch out – Ghostzapper.

He won the Vosburgh Stakes (G1) over six and a half furlongs, but also took the fastest-ever Breeders’ Cup Classic.

Juvenile success for Pioneerof the Nile’s Classic Empire The Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) went to Classic Empire who held the late rush of Not This Time – a Giant’s Causeway half-brother to Liam’s Map – by a neck with the third horse, the two-time Grade 1 winner Practical Joke, 7l behind.

Classic Empire, who looks guaranteed for the champion two-yearold colts’ title, should be five-for-five had he not taken a sharp right leaving the stalls in the Hopeful Stakes (G1) and unseating his rider.

Like the Classic winner Arrogate, Classic Empire stems from the Fappiano line through the Unbridled branch.

His sire Pioneerof the Nile – by the Belmont Stakes (G1) winner Empire Maker – won the Cashcall Futurity (G1) at two, and at three took three graded stakes events, including the Santa Anita Derby (G1), and ran second in the Kentucky Derby (G1).

Classic Empire is from Pioneerof the Nile’s fourth crop, but he sired the magnificent Triple Crown laureate American Pharoah from his second crop. To date, Pioneerof the Nile is sire of 16 stakes winners, including another Grade 1 scorer Midnight Storm from his first crop.

Classic Empire is out of the non-winning Cat Thief mare Sambuca Classic and is bred on the same formula as American Pharoah, both being out of mares by sons of Cat Thief’s sire, Storm Cat. Sambuca Classica has proved a much better producer than runner as from three other named foals, she is also dam of the stakes winners Anytime Magic and Uptown Twirl.

The second dam In Her Glory, a daughter of Miswaki, won the Garland of Roses Stakes, and also ran third in two Grade 1s.

In Her Glory is out of Forever Waving, a sister to the champion three-year-old filly Revidere. Forever Waving’s grand-dam Alanesian was a high-class runner. She produced a very good mare in Princessnessian – ancestress of the successful sire Harlan’s Holiday – and made an impact on the breed through her Bold Ruler son, Boldnesian, the grandsire of Seattle Slew.

Champagne popped open for the Juvenile Fillies

The Juvenile Fillies lacked a decisive favourite and the race was duly won by Champagne Room, the second longest shot in the field.

She is another Fappiano line representative this time by veteran sire Broken Vow, a son of Unbridled out of a Nijinsky mare.

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Broken Vow has never quite hit the commercial heights, but he’s been a consistent stakes sire and has had 65 black-type winners, including Grade 1 winners Sassy Image, Unbridled Belle, Rosalind – a fast-closing third in this a couple of years back – and Cotton Blossom.

Champagne Room is out of Lucky To Be Me, a daughter of the Storm Cat stallion Bernstein. A winner of three races, and fourth in stakes company at Saratoga, Champagne Room is a three-quarters sister to the minor stakes winner Inhisglory.

The second dam Belle Erzulie is an unraced daughter of Pulpit, out of the Known Fact mare, Fancy Freda.

A winner of three black-type events, including the Honey Bee Handicap (G2), Fancy Freda is a sister to She’s Got The Facts, a stakes winner who appears as the dam of the Norfolk Stakes (G2) victor and Middle Park Stakes (G1) winner, Radiohead.

Bred on a version of the Unbridled/Storm Cat cross that also produced Classic Empire, Champagne Room is one of six stakes winners for Broken Vow out of a mare by Storm Cat or a son, a mating that gives a combination of Nijinsky and Storm Bird, sons of Northern Dancer, with a similar background.

Fancy Freda, the third dam of Champagne Room, is by a son of In Reality out of a mare by Fappiano, while Broken Vow’s sire Unbridled is by Fappiano, and has a second dam by In Reality.

Oscar Performance: the leading man

The Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1) saw an impressive effort from Oscar Performance staying on from Irish invader Lancaster Bomber.

Oscar Performance is by Kitten’s Joy, a son of Irish champion two-year-old El Prado (Sadler’s Wells), and a champion US Turf horse in 2004. Initially supported virtually exclusively by owners Kenneth and Sarah Ramsey, Kitten’s Joy has become the dominant sire of Turf runners in the US and earned the leading sires’ title since 2013.

Kitten’s Joy has sired 73 stakes winners, including last year’s champion US Turf male Big Blue Kitten, Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G1) scorer Stephanie’s Kitten, Hawkbill, successful in the Eclipse Stakes (G1) and Tercentary Stakes (G3) this year, and Bobby’s Kitten, who was runner-up in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1) and returned to defeat No Nay Never for the Breeders’ Cup

breeders’ cup Eltimaas is a half-sister to the champion two-year-old and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) scorer Action This Day, and out of Najecam, a graded stakes-placed daughter of Trempolino, winner of the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (G1), and runner-up in the Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1).

Najecam is a sister to Lady Isley, Listed placed in France, and is dam of Lord Admiral, a Group/graded winner in Dubai and Ireland, and grand-dam of the siblings Cannock Chase and Pisco Sour, who both took the Tercentanary Stakes (G1). Cannock Chase added the Canadian International (G1) and

Pisco Sour the Prix Eugene Adam (G3).

Drefong’s third dam Sue Warner is by the South American sire Forli, a horse who won over as far as nearly 2m, but is out of the fast and precocious Bitty Gir, a member of the first crop of Habitat, who won the Queen Mary Stakes (G2), Molecomb Stakes (G3) and Lowther Stakes (G3). She produced two stakes winners, and is ancestress of several other talented runners, among them the Arkansas Derby (G1) winner, Kentucky Derby (G1) and Preakness Stakes (G1) second Bodemeister.

City was Finest in the Filly and Mare Sprint

In the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint last year’s winner Wavell Avenue tried hard to defend her title, but fell three-quarters of a length shy of catching Finest City.

A graded winner sprinting on Dirt, Finest City then took to the Turf, and unusually she prepped for a Dirt sprint by finishing second in the 1m1f John C. Mabee Stakes (G2).

Finest City is by the son of Carson City, City Zip, a precocious two-year-old and talented sprinter, and a half-brother to Ghostzapper.

Oscar Performance (Kitten’s Joy) saw off the late challenge

by Lancaster Bomber.

His run makes Churchill’s Newmarket victory look strong form

Turf Sprint (G1) the following year.

Oscar Performance is a brother to the 2016 Spiral Stakes (G3) winner Oscar Nominated. Their dam, the Theatrical mare Devine Actress, was a Listed winner at Santa Anita.

She is out of Devine Beauty, a Mr. Prospector daughter who is a three-quarters sister to the Arlington-Washington Futurity (G3) scorer Scorcer’s Stone, and is out of a sister to the tough Dramatic Gold, a winner of over $2,500,000 in prize-money. The family goes back to Lady Pitt, the champion three-year-old filly of 1966.

Kitten’s Joy is a grandson of Sadler’s Wells and Oscar Performance’s broodmare sire, Theatrical, is by Sadler’s Wells’s three-quarters brother Nureyev.

This duo combine in the pedigrees of more good horses than one would care to list. As far as Kitten’s Joy is concered, 12 of his stakes winners have Nureyev in the dam, including other Grade 1 winners Chiropractor (also out of a Nureyev mare) and Divisidero.

Show me the Money, Honey

While Medaglia D’Oro’s daughter Songbird narrowly lost the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare (G1), the sire did gain some compensation on the same day when his New Money Honey finished up well to take the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Filly Turf (G1).

Medaglia D’Oro, like Kitten’s Joy, is a son of El Prado. He plied his trade on the Dirt with wins including the Travers Stakes (G1), Whitney Handicap (G1) and Donn Handicap (G1).

Medaglia D’Oro has made a tremendous start to his stud career, his first crop including the wonderful Rachel Alexandra, and he’s now firmly established as one of the world’s leading sires.

Medaglia D’Oro has sired 94 stakes winners, and 10 top level winners, including Vancouver, a champion two-year-old and Golden Slipper (G1) winner in Australia, Passion For Gold, a top two-year-old colt in France, and the Kentucky Oaks (G1) queen Plum Prettys.

New Money Honey is out of Weekend Whim, a Distorted Humor daughter who was unraced, but is a sister to Any Given Saturday, whose victories included the Haskell Invitational Handicap (G1).

Weekend Whim is also half-sister to graded stakes winner Bohemian Lady, whose son Almooonquith, was a graded winner.

The third dam Spectacular Bid’s daughter Wow was a stakes winner, as was the fourth dam Hooplah. She was a successful producer, her offspring including the Grade 1-winning Afifa, Auction Ring, a speedy and precocious runner in England and later a useful sire, and Alias Smith, a US graded winner.

Hooplah is also ancestress of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Filly (G1) scorer Phone Catter, and Grade 1 winners Dixie Chatter and In Lingerie.

The next dam Beadah is an even more important tap-root mare as she’s ancestress of Relaunch, Rubiano (broodmare sire of War Front), Tapit, and the champion three-year-old colt Summer Bird.

The cross of Medaglia D’Oro with Distorted Humor mares has produced two other graded stakes winners. Distorted Humor is by Forty Niner, and it’s the cross of Medaglia D’Oro with two other sons of Forty Niner that has produced Rachel Alexandra and Songbird.

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Kitten’s Joy brings home an Oscar at Santa Anita as Oscar Performance wins Best Picture in BC Juvenile Turf (G1) Oscar Performance looked the part of a leading man as he forged to the front of the pack at the top of the stretch, acting like a true star, a length and a quarter to the good at the wire. The winner accomplished this feat without the aid of Lasix.

This was the fourth victory for progeny of Kitten’s Joy at the Breeders’ Cup. Kitten’s Joy has been the Leading Turf Sire in America for 4 years in a row.

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CIty Zip began his stud career at a very modest stud fee in New York, but moved to Kentucky after his half-brother’s Horse of the Year campaign.

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

Amongst his best are the champion Turf female Dayatthespa, the champion sprinter Work All Week, Catch A Glimpse, successful in the Breeder’s Cup Juvenile Fillies’ Turf, as well as the Grade 1-winning sprinters Bustin Stones, Palace and Personal Diary Finest City is out of stakes-placed Be Envied, a daughter of Lemon Drop Kid. She, along with Tamarkuz and the European star Elusive Kate, is one of five Group or Grade 1 winners by a Mr. Prospector line stallion out of a mare by Lemon Drop Kid, a son of the Mr. Prospector horse, Kingmambo.

Finest City is a half-sister to Burning Roma, who co-incidentally was beaten a nose

by City Zip in the Futurity Stakes (G1), but who was awarded the race when City Zip was taken down for bumping Burning Roma late.

The grand-dam While Rome Burns is a half-sister to the multiple graded stakes winning Vivano. She is out Fiddlesticks, a Northern Dancer daughter whose dam Discipline was a good stakes winner and was out of the Phipps family foundation mare, Lady Be Good.

A number of horses from this family have enjoyed success in Europe, including Epsom Derby (G1) victor Motivator, the top milers Zilzal, Polish Precedent, Intikhab and Posse, the champion two-year-old Culture Vulture, and Italian Classic scorers Menhoubah and Lonely Bird.

Heffernan stole it!

Had they not had the imminent post-event traffic to deal with, the relavant branch of California law enforcement would surely have been seeking Seamus Heffernan on charges of daylight robbery after he stole the Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1) with an inspired ride on Ballydoyle’s second string Highland Reel.

For Highland Reel, who has run in no less than seven different countries, including scoring in the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes (G1), the Secretariat Stakes (G1) and Hong Kong Vase (G1), this was a new career high.

As for Flintshire, a son of Dansili who started the year in brilliant form but has been

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At the line, Highland Reel was still nearly 2l ahead of his field after Heffernan’s brilliant ride

Highland Reel is one of 12 Group or Grade 1 winners by Galileo from a daughter of Danehill

beaten by loose-on-the-lead front runners in his last two starts, retires to stud in Kentucky for 2017 with an Eclipse Award as champion Turf horse virtually guaranteed.

Highland Reel and third-placed Found are both by the all-conquering Galileo, and the former is a brother to Idaho, winner of the Great Voltigeur Stakes (G2), runner-up in the Prix du Jockey-Club (G1) and third in the Epsom Derby (G1) this year.

Highland Reel is one of 12 Group or Grade 1 winners by Galileo from a daughter of Danehill being out of the Australasian Oaks (G1) third Hveger. She is a sister to Elvstroem, champion older horse in Australia, and winner of the Dubai Duty Free (G2), second in the Prix d’Ispahan (G1) and third in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes (G1).

She’s also half-sister to Haradasun, the champion three-year-old colt in Australia, also successful in the Queen Anne Stakes (G1) at Royal Ascot.

The grand-dam Circles Of Gold, by the outstanding Australian sire Marscay, won the AJC Australian Oaks (G1). The family goes back to one of the most famous New Zealand tap-root mares Eulogy, who was imported from England in 1915.

Highland Reel descends from Gold Vink’s branch, and she is also ancestress of the brilliant sprinter, Starspangledbanner, a champion in Europe and Australia, and Golden Slipper (G1) heroine Polar Slipper.

Queen gets the Filly And Mare glory

While Dansili’s son Flintshire didn’t succeed in the Breeders’ Cup Turf, his daughter Queen’s Trust took the Filly and Mare Turf.

This was only the second win in eight starts for Queen’s Trust – the first coming in a maiden at Kempton on her debut at two – but on her last three starts she’d run second in the Nassau Stakes (G1), third in the Yorkshire Oaks (G1) and third in the British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes (G1).

Queen’s Trust is the 20th Group or Grade 1 winner for Dansili, who had a previous winner of the Filly & Mare Turf in Dank.

Queen’s Best, the dam of Queen’s Trust, was a talented performer winning the Winter Hill Stakes (G3), and running second in two other Group events. A daughter of King’s Best, Queen’s Best was half-sister to stakes winners Urban Castle and Reverie Solitaire,

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Queen’s Trust’s victory crowns a great autumn on the racecourse and in the sales ring for Cheveley Park

the dam of the Group winner Royal Solitaire.

The second dam Cloud Castle won the Nell Gwyn Stakes (G3), and ran second in the Prix Vermeille (G1) and Yorkshire Oaks (G1).

Cloud Castle was half-sister to a trio of accomplished colts – Warrsan, successful in of two runnings of both the Coronation Cup (G1) and Grosser Preis von Baden (G1), Luso, a winner of three Group 1 events in Germany and Italy, including the Italian Derby (G1), and Needle Gun, who won two Group events in Ireland, and who was five-time runner-up in Group 1 events, including Italian Derby and the St. James’s Palace Stakes (G1).

The dam of the quartet Lucayan Princess is ancestress of several other stakes winners, including the Prix Diane (G1) and 1,000 Guineas (G1) winner Avenir Certain, and Mehmas, one of this year’s top European twoyear-old sprinters.

In direct female line, she goes back to Quick Change, also the fifth dam of Dansili’s sire Danzig.

Queen’s Trust is the best of three stakes winners by Dansili out of Kingmambo line mares, but he’s also done well over Mr. Prospector – the sire line supplying the dams of 20 of his stakes winners, including Emulous, Proviso, Zambezi Sun, and Zoffany.

Tepin succumbs to Tourist

From October 2015 to October 2016, Tepin went undefeated through eight races, those victories including last year’s Breeders’ Cup

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Mile (G1), an historic success in the Queen Anne Stakes (G1) and the Woodbine Mile Stakes (G1), her third Grade 1 victory over males in a third different country.

The run broke in the First Lady Stakes (G1) in early October when Photo Call was allowed to poach a lead which had grown to 10l at the three-quarters pole.

Once again the Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) conspired against her. Tepin had to move four wide to make her run, while the five-year-old Tourist found a perfect route on the rail. He was still a half length ahead as he completed the mile in an exceptionally fast 1:31.71.

Tourist has been an improved horse this year, taking a second and third in Grade 1 events, before breaking through at the highest level in the Fourstardave Handicap (G1).

Improvement with age is something that is typical of the offspring of Tiznow. Now a 19-year-old, Tiznow has sired 13 Grade 1 winners, among them Dubai World Cup (G1) captor Well Armed, champion two-year-old filly Folklore, Da’ Tara, who took the Belmont Stakes (G1), as well as the Travers Stakes (G1) victor Colonel John.

Tourist is the best of the four stakes winners out of Unbridled Melody. A threetime winner by Unbridled’s Song, Unbridled Melody is a sister to the Hopeful Stakes third Unbridled Express, and half-sister to Abbeyville Miss, the dam of graded winners.

The second dam Skye Castles is by Nijinsky’s champion Turf horse Sky Classic out of two-year-old stakes winner My Sea

Castles, herself a three-quarters sister to the July Cup (G1) and Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp (G1) scorer, Agnes World.

My Sea Castles is out of the Musidora Stakes (G3) third Mysteries, also ancestress of champions Hishi Akebono and Librettist, and Group 1 winner Dubai Destination.

The cross of Tiznow and mares by Unbridled’s Song has produced three blacktype horses from nine starters, including Tourist and fellow graded winner Kentuckian.

Seattle Song, the broodmare sire of Tiznow, is half-brother to the grand-dam of Unbridled’s Song, and Tourist’s dam also carries Seattle Song’s sire, Seattle Slew.

Tiznow is from the male line of In Reality, and Unbridled’s Song’s sire, Unbridled, has a second dam by In Reality. Unbridled is by Fappiano, whose broodmare sire, Dr. Fager, is by Rough’n Tumble, and In Reality’s dam, the champion two-year-old filly My Dear Girl, is by also by Rough’n Tumble. All in all, this is a pretty tight pedigree.

Obviously gained success in the Sprint

Obviously changed Breeders’ Cup targets this year tackling the Turf Sprint (G1) over Santa Anita’s downhill 6f Turf course.

Worries that Obviously would struggle to assert himself early were dismissed as he rocketed into a daylight lead.

Obviously’s sire Choisir, a son of Danehill Dancer, was champion two-year-old colt in Australia, and a champion sprinter at three.

Shipped to England, he also claimed the Golden Jubilee Stakes (G1) and King’s Stand Stakes (G1) at the same Royal Ascot meet.

At stud, Choisir has been a consistent source of good winners, ten of them Group or Grade 1, including Starspangledbanner, twice champion sprinter in Australia and champion older sprinter in Europe, Olympic Glory, winner of four Group 1 events in England and France, as well The Last Lion, successful in this year’s Middle Park Stakes (G1).

Obviously is the only winner from four starters from his dam, the unraced Montjeu mare Leala. Second dam Silver Bubble is a sister to the top-class colt Hawkster, a threetime Grade 1 winner in the US, to Silver Kite, winner of the Prix Yacowlef, and to Silver Lane, who won the Group 3 Prix de la Grotte, and was third in the Group 1 Irish Oaks.

Silver Lane went on to become an excellent producer, her offspring including the Japanese sprint star Black Hawk, Japanese stakes winners Kauai Lane and Pink Cameo, and Shakespeare, a Listed winner in Ireland.

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Roar The Last Lion won the Brocklesby in April, the Middle Park Stakes in September and has been retired to stud. Paul Haigh talks to owner John Brown about the decision to sell

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his year has been littered with astonishing occurrences. Leicester City’s Championship, Carlos Brathwaite’s four consecutive sixes, Ireland beating the All Blacks, the Chicago Cubs winning the World Series from a point where their supporters were already packing up the car. Brexit, Trump, Winx, Arrogate – and The Last Lion.

You don’t think the Lion belongs in that company? No, perhaps you’re right. The rest were all just so improbable as to be ridiculous. What he did was in contravention of all the basic laws of Nature.

For the information of those unfamiliar with the Brocklesby Stakes: it is a race for two-year-olds run at Doncaster in late March over 5f during the first meeting of the British season.

It is specifically targeted by trainers of

early foals who’ve shown a bit of precocious promise, but who aren’t bred to do anything much except flaunt that precocity. It’s usually run on what might be called bad jumping ground, and it’s customary for the winner to win one, maybe two races more before disappearing into the wastelands of moderate handicapping, until eventually his owner decides there has to come a time when to stop throwing good money after bad.

What the Brocklesby winner does not do, not even in exceptional circumstances, is make any sort of impact on the season once his well-bred contemporaries arrive to elbow him aside as the top class racing gets underway.

What he absolutely does not do is win Group 1 races at Newmarket nearly six months later as the season approaches its finale.

The Last Lion began his two-year-old career winning the Brocklesby. He ended it

winning the Middle Park on September 24.

Well, a colt named Donovan did that double back in 1888, but no one else has even dreamt of it. I am indebted for this information to the Mark Johnston stable’s excellent monthly publication Kingsley Klarion, but not even the Klarion is able to confirm that Donovan ran up a record anywhere near as good as The Last Lion was able to in the intervening months.

In nine outings The Last Lion was never out of the first three, winning three, finishing second in four and third twice, all at or near the top level.

Looking at that record though it does seem he made one serious mistake. That was to win the Brocklesby on soft ground, which at that time of year means “soft”.

As a result Johnston who as everybody knows makes very few mistakes, made the mistake of assuming that soft was his favoured surface. The only time he was ever

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The Last Lion went from winning the Brocklesby first time out on April 2 from Simmy’s Temple (never raced again in 2016) and 70-rated Monte Cinq . .

invited to make his own running on good to firm he beat the best sprinting two-year-olds in the country.

Actually the use of the word “allowed” may be doing a serious injustice to the supremely reliable Joe Fanning, who gradually squeezed the energy out of the opposition with middle fractions of not much over 11sec a furlong and whose first Group 1 victory this was at the age of 46. The Middle Park was run on Joe Fanning’s birthday.

Something even more remarkable was to come. Just when his fans, who’d savoured the 25-1 available about him in the Middle Park, were wondering what sort of a fast ground,

Of course, we’ll always be wondering whether he would have trained on.

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front-running three-year-old he might make, it was announced that the son of Choisir and a Brief Truce mare (very good breeding for a Brocklesby runner, particularly as his dam was half-sister to the same owners’ ill fated Mister Monet) had run his last race.

Just as Joe Fanning had demonstrated how he needed to be ridden and the colt himself had clearly demonstrated what ground and trip he preferred, it was announced that The Last Lion had been sold to Godolphin and was going to be retired to stud.

By strange coincidence Mehmas who’d been beaten only by Caravaggio in the 18-runner Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot and

. . . to success in the Group 1 Middle Park In September from the 115-rated Blue Point, with two further race victories and five runner-up spots in between

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Just because of him we’ve been given the chance of coming out of 23 years of horse ownership in front, and not many people in Britain can say that who’d been able to finish no closer than third behind the Johnston horse at Newmarket, had also finished his racing career and was taking the same route.

What was going on? Fit fast two-yearolds ending their careers only six months after they’d begun? There was plenty of muttering about what people feared might be a developing and unsatisfactory trend.

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nly one person to ask about the reasons for his horse’s retirement, and that’s the horse’s joint owner, the former William Hill boss John Brown.

The other is Megan Dennis, wife of Arthur (AR Dennis) another successful retired bookmaker. The offer came from Godolphin straight after The Last Lion had beaten Blue Point in the Middle Park which must say a fair bit about what Godolphin think of Blue Point.

“Yes,” says John speaking from winter quarters in Florida. “I think it probably does.

Our original plan was to put him in a Guineas trial to see if he’d get a mile, and then if he didn’t he would have gone back to sprinting, maybe to the Commonwealth Stakes at Ascot.

“But then the offer came and we just couldn’t turn it down. We had such a good horse in Mister Monet who broke his leg in the Champion Stakes a few years ago. We’d lost some other brilliant horses too. We found out it was going to cost between £40,000 and £50,000 to insure him against injury if we kept him racing another year.

“There’s no chance of him earning as much in prize-money as he could at stud in any case – assuming he proves fertile – and here was the chance to get back all the money we’d spent on owning horses over 23 years.

“Well yes, we might find ourselves looking at some of the sprints next year and thinking he might have won them.

“And of course we’re going to miss him. He’s perfectly fit and sound and as tough a horse as you’ll find.

“His record could have been even better

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because he was so unlucky in the Flying Childers.

“Jimmy lost an iron and couldn’t get it back for a furlong, but he still only just got chinned on the line. And in the Middle Park he made all the running straight into the teeth of a gale. Lady Aurelia tried that on the same day and even she couldn’t cope with it.

“He’ll probably wind up as a shuttle stallion now, travelling between Britain and Australia.

If you’d asked me before we got one what I think of the idea of sending two-year-olds to stud I’d probably have said I don’t really approve of it.

“But look at it this way. We’re not Coolmore. We haven’t got lots of horses; if they have really good one come along they can take the chance of continuing racing because they know there are plenty more like him back home.

“We’ve just got the one. Just because of

him we’ve been given the chance of coming out of 23 years of horse ownership in front, and not many people in Britain can say that.

“We’ve still got a minority share and we’re looking forward to owning some of his progeny. Of course, we’ll always be wondering whether he would have trained on. But sometimes you’ve just got to do what makes sense.”

So here’s The Lion’s roll of honour. He was bred by Tommy Stack. He was bought

by Mark Johnston whose policy it is to load up on horses he likes at the sales and then set about passing them on to his owners. (See his website for the few still looking for an owner).

He cost €93,000, or as that then was, about £65,000. He was foaled on February 12, 2014 and, according to stable records first galloped on February 24, 2016.

He won his first race in the first week of April. He won his last on September 24. He was sold for what is traditionally referred to as “an undisclosed sum”. He now lives at Kildangan Stud and is available to breeders for an investment of €12,000.

If you enjoyed him, better wish he passes on his splendid characteristics to all his sons and daughters. And do stop saying “bookmakers get all the luck”.

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whitsbury manor stud Main picture, new Whitsbury stallion Adaay (Kodiac) walks to the paddocks under the beautiful autumn leaves for some sun, below, Ed Harper with a Foxwedge colt out of Frequent, a Three Valleys half-sister to Showcasing.

The colt was catalogued in the December Foal Sale (Lot 651)

Ed Harper came back home to Whitsbury Manor Stud seven years ago and has now fully taken over management of the stud from his father Chris.

Harper talks about the farm’s stallions, including the headline act Showcasing, tells us what a great team there is at Whitsbury and how he is learning the art of stallion management Photography by Debbie Burt and courtesy of Whitsbury Manor Stud

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ometimes the most information you can glean from an interview is from what is left unsaid. When meeting Ed Harper at Whitsbury Manor Stud at the beginning of November for a chat about the farm and its stallions, we had an interesting discussion about a young man taking over a successful business established by his father, and what the role is of an independent stallion farm in the current commercial bloodstock industry. When we moved onto to discuss what future ambitions are for Harper and the Hampshire-based stud, which currently stands four stallions, Harper became a little more coy.

“I have got big plans,” he smiles, before adding with a shrug of the shoulders, “but I learnt a little time ago that if you do have plans you don’t let them out of the bag because you either sound crazy or arrogant... and I don’t wish to sound either.”

It is a poor indictment of today’s culture that a young 30-something businessman with ambitions to look forward and plans to achieve more, does not feel able to express those hopes and dreams.

“Look, we are delighted with where we are at present, we are just going to keep

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The Whitsbury stud opportunity given to young Harper finds its roots in 1986 when father Chris Harper purchassed the 2,800-acre estate, comprising a stud farm, agricultural land and training centre, from the L&G pension company who had bought it from his late uncle, bookmaker and bloodstock investor William Hill.

As Harper junior explains it was purchased on finance, and we “didn’t own a hair of any of the stallions then”, all managed for outside parties.

“I suppose when I was growing up the first batch of stallions I took an interest in were Cadeaux Genereux, Midyan and Distant Relative, all managed by the farm for others.

“We started then to build up a brand for speed – in fact, Cadeaux was really our first high-profile speed horse.

“Managing for others meant that we got a number of nominations free in return, so our broodmare band then always had to reflect the profiles of those stallions.

“Those 25 years of hard work from Dad and his team now allows us to own at least half in all the stallions we have here; it gives us more flexibility in supporting them with our own mares.”

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hose foundations on speed were laid in the 1990s and since then the farm has branded itself as a stud standing stallions and with a broodmare band from the quicker end of the thoroughbred

spectrum.

“We want precocious and speedy mares, we want to produce fast horses – we couldn’t compete trying to produce horses in the Derby bracket so we don’t try. I am absolutely positive that we can’t produce everything so we try and be good at one aspect,” explains Harper, who also admits that as a child he was obsessed by sprinting both of the two-legged and four-legged variety – Linford Christie was a hero and, with some pride, Harper (proudly) recalls that he held the 100m school record aged nine, a speed figure still standing when he left the school.

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Harper’s stallion sale pitch: Showcasing (above): “He has the ability to upgrade his mares. It’s exciting to think what he might achieve from this year’s crop of foals, his first crop bred after such success on the track” Due Diligence (below): “We covered a very good book of mares with him first season, as you’d expect from a son of War Front who was rated even higher than his sire”

“We are trying to breed, if possible, a horse who can win the Coventry, but who will train on to win the July Cup, or now the Commonwealth Cup,” he outlines. “The sprinting programme has improved so much that we are seeing the benefit now, and it was brilliant to think that one of our stallions produced the winner of the Commonwealth Cup in just its second year.”

The profile of the current quartet of Whitsbury stallions certainly fulfills brand requirements and are headed by the stud’s star act, Showcasing, that sire of the threeyear-old Royal Ascot Group 1 6f winner and brilliant flying filly of 2016, Quiet Reflection.

“Showcasing yearlings this year are the last produced off a cheaper fee, and there will be marked upgrade of foals and in-foal mares. There was always a ceiling to what the yearlings would make this year, but still we were delighted that they fetched up to 220,000gns,” says Harper. “He upgrades so much and he just seems to do his thing with all of his mares.

“He is exactly the sort of sire that we are doing this for. Are we surprised by his success? In a way no, because we would not have bought him if we did not think he had

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Stallions such as Showcasing don’t come around often and it has been hard work to get the farm into this position, but finding stallions like him is what this is all for a good chance of doing this, and every horse we buy should have the capacity to do what he is doing.

“We had come close to it in the past – Dad had Young Generation who was sire of Cadeaux, but died of colic. Stallions such as Showcasing don’t come around often and it has been hard work to get the farm into this position, but finding stallions like him is all what this is all for,” says the 32-year-old Harper.

“Showcasing is limited to 125 mares on a contractual basis which means that anyone

whitsbury manor stud who uses him knows that there is a value to their produce. He is also an independent horse so all of the big operations can use him and, as a lot of those are not sellers, it means there will be less yearlings on the market too.”

The success of Showcasing was rather a learning curve for Harper.

“He has shown me that some stallions are able to break through the normal ‘rules of the game,’” he says, explaining: “When my father and I had a run through a list of Showcasing’s first crop after the yearling sales we mentally put a line through some of them for traditionally negative reasons – were out of an old mare, were late-born foals, or had no winning siblings.

“However, once they started running it wasn’t long before we realised that Showcasing wasn’t playing by the normal rules. And it seems, whether his progeny are rated 125 or 65 they all try their guts out and the trainers love them for it.

“It has also been a test of nerve. We have received two big offers to buy Showcasing since his first runners hit the track.

“The first came after Cappella Sansevero finished second in the Coventry. The second far bigger offer came after Tasleet won the

Adaay, seen here with Phil Haworth (left) stud manager, and stallion man Dan Briggs: “He fits our commercial sector of the market perfectly, and to have a dual Group 2-winning son of Kodiac, who had speed to beat Limato over 6f, stand at Whitsbury is more than I could have hoped for”

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whitsbury manor stud Sales and the Whitsbury team “I go to all the sales and I am able to ‘shark’ about, and if I see a filly or mare whom I think is value I will try and buy her; I hope I am a good buyer of value.

“I enjoy going to the sales – I really am a sales junkie! I always meet someone or find out something new, and I always get an updated feel for the market place.

“But I can I only get away because I have got such a good team here headed by Phil Haworth, the stud manager. He has been here for four years, works extremely hard, is brilliant with both the horses and management of the place.

“Carole Steel, in the office, has been here for 46 years and operates the whole admin side of things; there is not a thing she does not know.

“We employed Charlie Pinkham as a resident vet this year, and that has worked well. With more mares and horses here – we will have upward of 200 in the spring – it has been a massive benefit, it helps the stallions as the mares are set up so much better.

“Dan Briggs, our stallion man, came from two years at Coolmore and just has so much experience for a young person.

“The team has bought into the atmosphere here, we all muck in, every job can be anyone’s.

“And, of course, another important part of the team is the bank manager! Ahead of buying a stallion, I have to put together a properly detailed cash flow forecast and a strong argument for purchase before I can even get close to getting funds.”

Learning “Looking back to when I started it is slightly worrying the big decisions I was making and how little I knew! I am not sure how I managed it.

“I am not sure I know a lot more now, but I am more comfortable with the decision making.

And if we have some luck, I just put it down to luck, but if we get bad luck I try not to take it too hard; it would drive me insane otherwise.

“I have been making decisions by myself for the last five years, but Dad is always there to bounce ideas off.”

Coach House and Foxwedge “Coach House, who stands at Bucklands in a partnership with us and Trickledown, has done everything we hoped and has some lovely stock.

“Foxwedge has done well in Europe, but the balance of power is Australia – he has got results, is popular and can stand at a higher fee.

“A stallion can only take so many mares happily and with the strength in Australia it would have taken a bit away from what we were going to be able to do with him here if we extended the agreement.”

“I thought long and hard about the decision, but I wanted to do best for our clients – I didn’t want to push another big lot of mares at him on the back of a huge book in Australia.”

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Swiss Spirit: “He looks like being the most reliable stallion we’ve had for producing a good type of foal”

Doncaster sales race last year.

“Since we live and die by the viability of the stud we have to consider every commercial offer sensibly. I suppose if I’d been a bit more middle-aged, or a bit less ambitious, I would have snapped their hand off, but I feel as though we’re just getting started and Showcasing could be the foundation for everything that my team and I want to try and achieve.”

Showcasing’s supporting cast are Swiss Spirit, a Group 3-winning son of Invincible Spirit, out of the fast dam Swiss Lake and whose first yearlings sold this autumn, Due Diligence, the Diamond Jubilee (G1) runnerup and the only son of War Front standing in England owned in partnership with Coolmore, and new sire Adaay. He is a dual Group 2-winning son of Kodiac and standing in partnership with Shadwell.

“We approached Lordship Stud for a partnership with Swiss Spirit and this is the first time the farm has been involved in a stallion. We have worked it out as we have gone along, and I think the relationship has grown in confidence,” reflects Harper.

“We were delighted with how well Swiss Spirit’s yearlings were received by the market.

Before the yearling sales we were hoping for one six-figure sale, in the end he got three – one at Doncaster, Goffs and Tattersalls – that takes some doing off a £4,000 covering fee!

“His fillies sold well too. I couldn’t have hoped in my wildest dreams for a better start for him, and it is fantastic to see our clients, who are looking to be commercial, get a good return; it is very rewarding for us and

certainly helps keep the wheels turning – it means that clients come back to us and trust us. Our regular breeders rely on us to get hold of a good commercial stallions whom they can make money out of and I am so pleased that we gave them a return.”

Adaay, winner of the Hungerford and Sandy Lane Stakes, had just arrived at the farm ahead of our visit, and is as athletic and good-looking a son of Kodiac as you would expect.

“We were not dead set on buying into a new stallion this winter,” explains Harper, “but when the opportunity came to go into partnership with Shadwell, it was too good a chance to miss.

“You can’t choose when horses become available and you have to be ready to move as and when. He suits both the commercial market and our broodmare band perfectly, and he will get plenty of support from both us and Shadwell.

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California dreamin’ Melissa Bauer-Herzog visits Taylor Made Farm which is looking forward to California Chrome’s arrival next spring after his run in the Pegasus World Cup Photography by Melissa Bauer-Herzog

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ntering Taylor Made Farm’s office in Nicholasville, Kentucky it’s hard not to feel the atmosphere of excitement emanating from the farm’s staff.

The office is full of memorabilia tracing the top horses with whom the farm has been involved since Taylor Made’s creation in 1976, including Horse of the Year winners American Pharoah and Havre De Grace.

But right now all those horses are overshadowed by the farm’s newest team member – California Chrome.

“He’s definitely re-energised our operation, really the whole farm in general,” said Travis White, Taylor Made’s stallion nominations manager.

“What he’s done has been beyond our expectations – we’ve been a part of and stood nice stallions before, but there’s a big difference in standing nice stallions and owning part of a good racehorse, just from the fan perspective.

“We’ve had people from all across the world come here, we have held the fan days here. We get letters and emails, people just generally care about California Chorome and are so glad we’re part of him now.”

Taylor Made first started as a service to care for broodmares shipping to Kentucky during the breeding season, but today has developed into a farm doing everything from boarding mares, consigning horses at the sales to standing stallions.

The farm stood only three stallions in 2016, but exciting times are ahead. Right back in July 2015, Taylor Made had the foresight to purchase 30 per cent of 2014’s Horse of the Year, California Chrome, and then a share of dual Grade 1 winner Mshawish this summer.

California Chrome first came on the farm during the summer of 2015 while he recovered from bone bruising, and it wasn’t certain if the son of Lucky Pulpit would return to the track or be retired for the 2016 breeding season.

But after a few months off, he returned to action with the addition of few more shareholders making up his new ownership group of California Chrome LLC. “At first we reached out to a few of our core customers who had been with us a long time and got them involved in the early stages,” explains White.

“These guys took a pretty good risk when we weren’t certain if he was going to make it back to the track or not. They had faith in us and they gambled alongside us, and

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Left, Mshawish, a Grade 1 winner on Turf as well as on the Dirt. He is a son of Medaglia D’Oro, and offers Taylor Made a new outcross pedigree for clients

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We have a stallion prospect list that we work off of and update repeatedly and Mshawish was always kind of on our radar fortunately it turned out great and has been good for all of us.”

California Chrome’s return to the racecourse at five has gone a long way toward adding to his stallion appeal after his botched four-year-old season. His wins this year have included the Dubai World Cup (G1), the Pacific Classic (G1) and the Awesome

Again Stakes (G1), while right back in March the two-time US Classic winner also became the all-time leading money earner in North America.

With every one of California Chrome’s wins, White says the farm receives more calls about buying shares, the latest being new international owner China Horse Club’s who bought into the horse in late October before the Breeders’ Cup. But while California Chrome still has at least one more start before retirement, with the horse pointing to the $12 million Pegasus World Cup (see page 68), the rest of Taylor Made’s 2017 stallion roster is preparing for the breeding season.

Although overall a roster with youth on its side, Taylor Made Farm has a stalwart stallion in Northern Afleet, who is 15 years older than the next oldest stallion on the roster.

While that next on the age scale is Astrology, who is proving himself with his first crop on the track and has already produced a graded stakes winner, having a dependable stallion such as Northern Afleet, a proven getter of talented racehorses, provides a level of comfort for the farm.

“It’s always good to have at least one or two established horses. We lost Unbridled’s Song [in 2013] and that was a huge loss for us, he’d been the flagship of the operation for a very long time,” recalls White sadly. “Northern Afleet has been very solid, and he’s getting older, but it’s important to have the peace of mind that he brings.

“Just having a proven sire in whom people can have faith in as far as breeding and producing a good racehorse is helpful.”

Northern Alfeet, now a 23-year-old, has averaged 98 mares a year since his first season at Taylor Made, when he stood as part of a Taylor Made/WinStar venture in 2005, the year that his son Afleet Alex won two legs of the US Triple Crown.

And he has another important job to do this year.

Stabled in the two-stall stallion barn closest to Taylor Made’s main office, one of five such barns in the stallion complex, Northern Afleet is teaching Mshawish the ropes of stallion life.

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Northern Afleet has been very solid, and he’s getting older, but it’s important to have the peace of mind that he brings The two stallions live across the aisle from each other and get turned out near each other every day.

While Northern Afleet is a favourite with breeders, having produced graded stakes winners every year and standing for a fee of $6,500 in 2017, Mshawish still has a lot to prove to breeders but he’s off to a good start.

He started out in Europe, went on to win graded stakes on three different continents, including a Dirt and a Turf Grade 1 in the US. By hot sire Medaglia D’Oro and raced by Al Shaqab Racing, Mshawish was guaranteed to have strong support in the breeding shed, but adding Taylor Made to the mix has made his book even stronger.

“We have a stallion prospect list that we work off of and update repeatedly and Mshawish was always kind of on our radar,” explains White.

“Mshawish is a horse always on that prospect list because he was a Grade 1 winner on Turf, but when he won that Grade 1 on Dirt that obviously peaked our interest and we became heavily involved then.

“He has a lot of the qualities we like, especially from the sire line. It’s kind of an outcross and we thought he’d fit not only us, but our customer base as well. There’s not a whole lot out there as far as Medaglia D’Oro goes.

“We wanted to have something of him in our stallion operation so he is a huge key to that, plus being partners with Al Shaqab Racing was attractive.”

Youngest and oldest: Astrology (top), by A.P. Indy, and, below, stalwart stallion Northern Afleet

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he interest in Mshawish has encouraged Taylor Made to stand him for $20,000 in 2017, the most expensive fee on the roster after California Chrome’s advertised fee of $40,000.

Another unproven stallion at the farm is Graydar, who will cost breeders $12,500 this spring.

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Graydar, a son of Taylor Made’s late stallion Unbridled’s Song, will be sharing his barn with California Chrome, the highest-earning US racehorse ever

Graydar had very good weanling results last November and the yearlings sold pretty well too, but I think with him the key thing is the support with Twin Creeks Farm A Donn Handicap (G1) winner by the late Unbridled’s Song, Graydar’s first yearlings averaged $54,465 in 2016 with his top offering of the 45 sold being a $250,000 filly.

While Taylor Made was happy with the numbers, White explains that his good foal sales season, in which he averaged $65,851, played a part in lowering his yearling numbers.

“Graydar had very good weanling results last November and the yearlings sold pretty well too, but I think with him the key thing is the support with Twin Creeks Farm.

“The farm not only bred very, very good mares such as Grade 1 producer Baffled to him, they also went out and bought the top five or six highest-priced weanlings.

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yearling market because they are going to be raced by the farm, so that kind of hurt the top of his sales.

“He kind of missed having the ‘homerun’ horses, the top five or six horses who were going to bring $300,000 to $400,000 because they have been kept for the Twin Creeks racing programme,” he said.

While those yearlings weren’t able to boost his averages this year, they should help him get off to a fast start on the track next year.

Twin Creeks Farm is sending many of the yearlings they have by Graydar to the stallion’s former trainer Todd Pletcher, in addition to a few other top trainers.

As those horses prepare for their two-yearold debuts next year, closer to home Graydar will be reuniting with his buddy California

Chrome. During California Chrome’s two breaks at Taylor Made, he has shared his two-stall barn with Graydar, and he will be returning to the same barn when he retires.

With five empty stalls left in the complex after California Chrome retires to the farm, Taylor Made’s goal is to fill the stalls with a diverse roster of stallions to fit a variety of customers stretching right from commercial breeders to breed-to-race clients.

And Graydar won’t be the only one excited to see his old mate California Chrome return to the farm early next spring, Taylor Made has already had an influx of fans touring the farm since it was announced he would be living there upon his retirement.

Due to the interest, Duncan Taylor’s longstanding idea of creating a shop with Taylor Made gear has come to fruition – the farm has bought the golf course across the street with plans to turn part of the pro shop into a visitor center.

It’s not yet known who in Taylor Made’s stallion barn will be their next Unbridled’s Song but one thing is for sure – the excitement around the farm is far from disappearing any time soon.

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adrian keatley Euphoric moments: trainer Adrian Keatley with jockey Shane Foley after they had won the Irish 1,000 Guineas with Jet Setting.

In the background is bloodstock agent John Kilbride, buyer of the Fast Company filly for 12,000gns at the Tattersalls HIT sale

That day in May... ...when Jet Setting won the Irish 1,000 Guineas propelled trainer Adrian Keatley into the Classic limelight. He looks back on a whirlwind of a year with Aisling Crowe

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ORSES IN TRAINING SALES are a curious mix of hardheaded pragmatism, dashed hopes and the repository of a dream. Hand-me-downs and cast offs find new homes, new purposes, and all the while there are those who look at the remnants of somebody else’s plan and find there is a spark, a glimmer that fires a new plan.

Adrian Keatley and John Kilbride went to Newmarket in October 2015 looking for horses that could further their ambitions. They found one who brought them further along the road than even they could have foreseen.

A maiden after four starts for Richard Hannon, Jet Setting cost just 12,000gns and Keatley was happy with his purchase. The Curragh trainer had plans for her, but as that cliché goes, life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.

“She was a good-looking filly and I thought she could win a Listed race on soft ground if she stepped up in trip,” he remembers.

“All her races were over 5f and 6f, but there is a Listed race in France at the end of November that I thought she would fit the criteria for. I was delighted when she finished third to Le Cressoniere, who turned out to be the best three-year-old filly in France this year, but I never expected Jet Setting would reach the

pinnacles that she did,” Keatley admits.

The summit Jet Setting reached was a Classic one, winning the Irish 1,000 Guineas, but she had climbed some smaller peaks on the way claiming the Group 3 1,000 Guineas Trial at Leopardstown before contesting the 1,000 Guineas at Newmarket, finishing ninth behind Minding.

Keatley knew that soft ground would allow Jet Setting to fire her rocket boosters so when the Irish summer provided its usual rainy days, the ground at The Curragh was perfect.

Minding was a hot favourite to add the Irish Classic to her Newmarket success and it was hard to find anyone who would countenance defeat for the daughter of Galileo, even when it happened.

Shane Foley sent Jet Setting into the lead after 3f and she relished the yielding to soft turf under her hooves. Still travelling smoothly as the race built to a crescendo, Ryan Moore had Minding in full flight and it looked as if the cat was about to pounce on the mouse and devour her.

Jet Setting had other ideas and when Minding drew alongside, from somewhere within herself, she found more fight, more energy and went toe to toe with the aristocrat, battling back to get her nose in front on the line.

The contrast between the two fillies could not be different.

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Jet Setting “eyeballing” and then beating Minding in the Irish 1,000 Guineas. Minding was only headed twice in 2016 – here by Jet Setting and then in the Irish Champion Stakes, one of the key races of the season, when she was beaten by the European champion Almanzor and tough-as-teak Found

Minding was bred from the most regal of Coolmore’s bloodlines, a culmination of the most potent genes in the studbook with Galileo as her sire and Lillie Langtry, a dual Group 1-winning grand-daughter of Danehill, as her dam.

As a two-year-old Minding had lived up to her genes as winner of the Group 1 Moyglare Stakes before annexing a Classic, almost a birthright of those genes.

Plenty scarcely believed that the Fast Company filly who was sold by Julie Woods and Richard Hannon without a win to her name, out of a Johannesburg mare whose sole win in a 15-race career came on the All-Weather at Dundalk, could beat a racing blueblood.

That disbelief and the condescension towards his filly’s achievements still rankles a little with Keatley.

“Pundits, especially in England, have

I never expected Jet Setting would reach the pinnacles that she did been knocking Jet Setting’s win ever since and making excuses for Minding that day,” Keatley says. “Anyone looking carefully at the race can see that the pair of fillies pulled 10l clear of Now Or Never in third place so there was no fluke about her win.

“She eyeballed Minding and didn’t back down. At Newmarket the ground was in Minding’s favour and she kicked away but there was no fluke about Jet Setting’s win at The Curragh. She had conditions in her favour and she really needs her ground, when

she gets it there are not many who can live with her.

“I think people were unfair to Jet Setting because when Minding won the Guineas, you would think she was the best horse ever to step into a bridle.”

Well down the field were Pretty Perfect, who would go on to be placed in the Group 1 Yorkshire Oaks and British Champions’ Filly and Mares Stakes, and Coolmore, a full-sister to Gleneagles and Marvellous, who subsequently finished third in the Grade 1 Belmont Oaks. Good fillies who couldn’t live with Jet Setting at The Curragh.

For Keatley, Jet Setting is the “dream filly, the dream race horse” and he hopes that he gets to live the dream for a little longer.

After her Classic success Jet Setting lived up to her name, heading to Royal Ascot but stopping off first at Kensington Palace when selling to the China Horse Club for

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adrian keatley £1.3 million at Goffs London Sale. Selling her on, after improving her form had always been the plan, it’s just that the improvement brought everything into a larger scale.

“I’m hoping that the China Horse Club allow her to race in the spring, but that’s totally up to them to decide. They could send her to a stallion and then let her race for a while afterwards.

“She would be a contender for all those early mile races on soft ground – there’s the Gladness Stakes at The Curragh’s second meeting, a race in Sandown in April for her and there’s always the prospect of the Lockinge if it turns up soft.”

Whenever she eventually departs Rossmore Cottage Stables, Jet Setting will leave behind a rich legacy.

Winning a Classic, beating the behemoths of the scene with a filly who was a cast off as a two-year-old, has advertised Keatley’s talents better than Don Draper ever could. Whatever happens next for Jet Setting, she has allowed Keatley and John Kilbride to pursue their ambitions in a way they could only have dreamt of.

“It has been brilliant and opened up so many doors for me and the team, we have been on an upward curve ever since and it is allowing us to grow and expand into the prominent racing outfit we want to be,” Keatley says of the Guineas triumph.

“We want to be part of that higher bracket of racing and we were lucky that Jet Setting brought us to that level so soon, but now that we have been there once, we want to get there again as often as we can. It allowed big owners to see that we can train the big winners.”

A first Group win and a Classic success just two years after the former amateur jockey took out his training licence lends the Jet Setting story even more of a fairytale aspect, but there is no fairy godmother hiding in the shadows, every ounce of success the result of hard work and a meeting of minds.

Keatley was introduced to John Kilbride by bloodstock agent Johnny McKeever at York races two summers ago and the pair found in each other a like-minded approach to winning their way into the top echelons of racing.

The idea was to buy yearlings and horses in training and turn them into winners selling them to new owners for a profit. Jet Setting is a spectacular example of what they can do, operating on a tight budget. The finances have grown in tandem with her success.

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It has been brilliant and opened up so many doors for me and the team, we have been on an upward curve ever since team moved into their Friarstown base last February and he is still adding and improving. This winter another 15 boxes will be built along with a second water walker. Currently there are around 50 horses occupying the stables and the team includes some talented jumpers to keep the name in lights during the winter.

As well as a spell in Australia with Chris Waller, Keatley’s education included five years working with Oliver McKieran that coincided with the trainer’s best horses – Grade 1-winning chaser Follow The Plan and star hurdlers Whatuthink and Whodouthink – while time with Dermot Weld has given him a template to emulate.

He says: “Dermot Weld always produces

a couple of nice jumpers and has a nice horse for the novice hurdles at Christmas in Leopardstown and the Festivals, that’s what I would like to do.

“We have a small team of jumpers for the winter, but they are for the higher end. I have a cracking bumper horse called Mountain Rock who won a bumper at Killarney and Galway during the summer. He could be decent and he might even develop into a high-class stayer on the Flat.”

Having begun his career with the late Francis Flood, NH racing is part of who Keatley is but the pragmatic trainer and businessman did the sums and for him they didn’t add up.

Costs for training, gallops, facilities and the horses themselves revealed themselves to be prohibitive and the arithmetic for the Flat game had more positive results, not least that the global resale market place for Flat horses is at an all-time high.

Jet Setting is an early indicator that he chose the right answer.

Two years into his training career, already a Classic winner, Jet Setting has shown that Keatley has the talent to match his ambitions.

Now, along with Kilbride, he will scour the sales looking for the horses to take him further down the road towards the top.

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Marcus Townend meets Belinda Stronach, CEO of The Stronach Group, the brainchild behind the new Pegasus World Cup, which is set to be the richest race in the world with a prize-money fund of $12 million

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ven with its $12 million purse, a glittering sideshow of entertainment and an invitation list dripping with A-list celebrities, the inaugural Pegasus World Cup next month probably still largely seems an irrelevance to racing in Europe.

The only chance of a contender in what will become the richest race in the world at Gulfstream Park on January 28 seems to be if Aidan O’Brien and Coolmore decide to pitch in their King George and Breeders’ Cup Turf winner Highland Reel.

That would mean a first run for him on Dirt over 1m1f against the two current thoroughbred giants in the US, Breeders’ Cup Classic 1-2 Arrogate and California Chrome.

But Euro runners or not, what happens at Gulfstream is definitely not irrelevant to European racing.

Belinda Stronach, chief executive and chairman of The Stronach Group which both operates Gulfstream and has devised the Pegasus World Cup, is planning for Pegasus

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to become the blueprint for a future series based on the same concept.

The next one would almost certainly be an equally richly-endowed Turf race, a contest in which European involvement would be significantly higher given the annual success of transatlantic raiders.

Owners will have to pay $1m to secure a starting berth in Pegasus. It is a huge entry fee, but the rewards are equally grand with $7m to the winner and an estimated $250,000 even to the horse which finishes last.

Owners will also get a share of betting turnover, media rights and sponsorship revenue. They can “trade” their place in the race – selling it or making partnerships if a contender without a slot wants in.

Michigan-based Dan Schafer, who made his money out of a Pizza restaurant franchise, has bought a slot even though he is a racing newbie who has never owned a racehorse before. He’s now in the market for a good one or a share, and a slot for Arrogate might be sought for.

pegasus world cup The Pegasus World Cup is due to be staged at the Stronach Group’s Gulfstream Park racecourse in Florida, where a massive Pegasus statue has been built. It is the size of a six-storey building Photo: courtesy of Gulfstream Park

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pegasus world cup Belinda Stronach hopes to develop the race model. A race on Turf would extend appeal to the international racing community

Stronach said: “It’s a bit like a poker game.

Entrants or stakeholders have paid to purchase a slot. They have the right to trade or make deals based on the ownership of that slot.

“They could make a partnership with someone if they feel they don’t have a suitable horse or sell it to someone potentially for a profit.

“We’ve already had interest from other horseman’s groups from different states asking if we would be interested in putting on a similar type of race based on the same model. Our goal is to make this a great success, refine the model and hopefully create a brand of race.

“We’d like much more international competition and I think our next race will be on Turf. We have already had internal discussions.”

National broadcaster NBC, who only rarely dips into US horseracing, has signed up to cover the race and deals are currently being brokered for international coverage.

Stronach said broadening racing’s engagement especially with the young is also a key element of the Pegasus World Cup. She added: “We view our company through the lens of entertainment. Like any other sport, we are competing for attention and eyeballs with other sports products.

“We have to be innovative and modernise

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I really believe horseracing is the last great legacy sport which has not modernised like the NFL and broaden our fan base. We want to make it a compelling experience.

“The fact it is the richest horserace in the world is pretty exciting. We will have 12 of the world’s finest horses competing for the world’s most lucrative prize. But it will be much more than a race; it will be an event.

“I really believe horseracing is the last great legacy sport which has not modernised like the NFL or NBA.” Pegasus takes its name from a huge bronze statue of a horse, standing the height of a sixstorey building.

It cost $30m to build and stands alongside Gulfstream.

It’s an example of Americans thinking big, just like the race. It appeals to their mentality and the race will feed off the egos of the biggest US players.

If it works it could change plenty.

The Pegasus World Cup: what is it?

A Grade 1 run over 1m1f on Dirt at Gulfstream Park in Florida and open to horses four years old and up, with a prize-money fund of $12 million

Entrants The race will have 12 runners, with each entrant required to pay $1 million to purchase a position. The entrant has the right to race, lease, contract or share a starter, or sell their place in the gate, and would have the first right of refusal for subsequent races. Entrants will also have an equal share in the net income from the race.

California Chrome LLC Coolmore Dan Schafer, restaurateur Frank Stronach Jerry and Ronald Frankel Jim McIngvale, founder of Gallery Furniture Reddam Racing Reeves Thoroughbred Racing Rosedown Racing Ruis Stable Sol Kumin Starlight Racing

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Exciting first foals selling in 2016. £7,000(1st JAN, SLF)

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Trainer: Roger Varian

The Newmarket-based trainer hit the news for various reasons through 2016, but it was his headline-making purchases at the Tattersalls October Sales that may have a longer-lasting effect on his business.

Not many trainers are ever set to receive more than a handful of horses from Book 1 and Book 2 – this year Varian bought 24 horses for a variety of clients, but mainly new owner Sheikh Mohammed Obaid. With yearlings by Dubawi, Shamardal, Sea The Stars, War Front, Kodiac, there is the potential (along with the numbers and pedigrees already in the yard) to propel Varian to the top of the trainers’ table, if not for 2017 at least for 2018.

Horse: Jack Hobbs

Trainer: Laura Mongan

A pelvic injury in his first race of 2016 and a season when the horses of trainer John Gosden never seemed to reach their peak, with all the sicknesses that swirled around Newmarket, meant a frustrating time for the 2015 Irish Derby winner.

But his third to Europe’s top horse Almanzor and Arc winner Found in the Champion Stakes at Ascot in October was a hint at what might have been.

That was over 1m2f, but this son of Halling will surely be better over 1m4f.

He could start off at the Dubai Carnival and will surely be a contender for the King George at Ascot in July.

He is potentially the flagbearer Godolphin desperately need.

One horse doesn’t necessarily make a trainer but it can make a massive difference.

Mongan has St Leger winner Harbour Law in her stable and he potentially will develop into a leading contender for the Cup races.

To date, the Epsom trainer has had to play with largely moderate horses, but she and husband Ian proved they can play the game when dealt the right cards This summer will be the time to build on those Leger foundations.

Apprentice: Clifford Lee In hot water in June when losing out on a winning ride for boss Karl Burke for oversleeping but, lesson learnt, Lee turned out to be one of the riding finds of the season.

One winner in 2015 turned into 24 in 2016 (at writing) and, with plenty of trainers latching on to his talent, it will be a surprise if he does not become a contender for the apprentice title.

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We thought we’d pick out for you a selection of trainers, jockeys, stallions and more whom we think will be making the headlines through next year Jockey: Donnacha O’Brien He has some big shoes to fill, being the younger brother of former Irish champion jockey Joseph O’Brien and son of Aidan, but the signs so far are good.

Of all apprentices in Britain and Ireland in 2016 with a significant number of rides, he had comfortably the best record of actual performance compared to expected performance as measured by Timeform post-race and pre-race ratings, more than 5lb better than an average apprentice.

It helps to have good ammunition – courtesy of brother and father among others – of course, but young Donnacha impressed when delivering on the big stage with Intricately (Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes) and Order Of St George and not just against other apprentices.

Next year could well see him following further in the family tradition by making a significant breakthrough internationally.

First-season sire: Intello Beautifully bred on the same cross as Frankel (Galileo out of a Danehill mare), this Prix du Jockey-Club winner had his first yearlings sell in 2016.

And they sold well. Overall 82 per cent catalogued were sold at an average of 90,000gns, whilst his 19 colts that went through the ring averaged a mouth-watering 121,458gns.

Intello has stood his first three seasons at £25,000 at Chevely Park Stud, and €25,000 his first year in France.

He’ll need to make an impact with his first crop on the track to maintain that kind of fee, but the confident start he made at the yearling sales gives him every chance to succeed.

Jockey: Josephine Gordon You might say that suggesting Gordon is nothing new… she certainly made her name through 2016 winning first the All-Weather Apprentice title and then the British Apprentice Championship and establishing herself as the best female jockey riding in GB since Hayley Turner.

But she certainly deserves to known for more than just being the “best girl riding”; and we are not sure people actually fully realise just how good Gordon is.

We are unashamedly going to say that we think she is pretty brilliant, she rides most of her competitors to sleep, and thinks so far ahead tactically in races that her brain is already in the finishing straight even before they come around the home turn!

She deserves to land herself a top job, and get to ride some “proper” horses – and unlike many rising apprentices, she possesses an incredibly level-headed personality and would never let herself get carried away with the importance of it all.

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names for 2017 Jockey: Colin Keane Colin Keane’s career has been on a significant upward trajectory since he rode his first winner at Dundalk in 2010, and he reached a new peak in 2016.

He had 80 winners in Ireland, his best yet, and he had his breakthrough winner in Britain when he rode Clear Spring for John Spearing to spring a 25/1 shock in a handicap at Newbury on Lockinge Stakes weekend in May. He was champion apprentice in 2014; and trainer Ger Lyons (pictured with Keane) saw enough in the youngster to entrust him with the job as first rider, and it is a trust that Keane has re-paid in spades.

The pair of them have established a hugely successful partnership, and the rider is now firmly established among the top echelons of riders in Ireland.

It is difficult to believe that he has just turned 22, and he could go even higher in 2017.

Photo: John Reardon

Stallions Iffraaj and Mastercraftsman Although the two stallions hail from the opposing camps of Coolmore and Darley, the two sires have fairly similar profiles.

Iffraaj retired to stud in 2007, but his progeny’s first noticeable year on the track did not really come until 2013 (although Wootton Bassett had given a nudge in the right direction in 2010) with the appearance of the talented juvenile filly Chriselliam, winner of the Fillies’ Mile and European winner of a Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies’.

She was a one-time 1,000 Guineas hope until her sad loss in the spring of 2014.

Her efforts were backed up in 2014 by sprinter and now sire Hot Streak, who took the Temple Stakes and Cornwallis and finished third in the King’s Stand.

Mastercraftsman’s first crop ran through 2013 and immediately made their mark, headlined by the then Group 2-placed The Grey Gatsby and Racing Post Trophy (G1) winner Kingston Hill, both of whom went on to Classic success in 2014 – Kingston Hill won the St Leger, The Grey Gatsby the Prix du Jockey-Club.

Subsequent dual Group 1 winner Amazing Maria won the Prestige Stakes (G2).

Both sires were given a hike in fees for 2014 – Mastercraftsman went from €12,500 to €35,000 and Iffraaj from €10,000 to €25,000.

The resulting foals from that crop will be running in 2017 as two-year-olds and already have propelled their sires forward – Iffraaj was the second-leading sire in Book 2 with an average of 110,000gns for 20 sold, while the Coolmore sire had 26 sell for an average price of 54,000gns

names for 2017 Trainer: Markus Klug Markus Klug is set to become Germany’s champion trainer in 2016 for the second time in the last three years. The 40-year-old’s rise to prominence since he moved to Gestüt Röttgen at the beginning of the 2011 season has been nothing short of remarkable.

In 2010 he was a permit trainer based at Baden-Baden and won eight races.

This year, only six years later, he is very likely to break his previous best set in 2014, the year of Sea The Moon, when he won his first championship with 68 wins.

It is not as if he was taking over the German equivalent of Ballydoyle as the previous trainer at the Cologne stud had won fewer races than Klug in 2010.

Röttgen itself won only four races as an owner in 2010 and yet this year it looks set to win 20 with a string of Group and Listed performers. Klug’s stable of 87 includes many of the best two-year-olds in the country, including the Group 3 winner Well Spoken, the winner of the country’s most valuable two-year-old race, Dia Del Sol and numerous other Classic prospects.

Klug has focused on Germany and his ambition to be champion trainer and win his country’s best races. This will change and the quality of horses now in his care from Rottgen, Gorlsdorf, Itlingen, Park Wiedingen, Wittekindshof and others suggest that he will soon be following the path set by other German champion trainers such as Andreas Wohler and Peter Schiergen and start winning top races abroad.

Racecourse: Newbury Newbury (pictured) is a beautiful track, fitting of its Grade 1 status. In the past it has not provided perhaps the customer service required and has slightly been stuck in a dated past. But with a need to remedy its finances, the track has sold off much of its outlying land for building. This caused something of an outcry amongst the racing “traditionalists”, but the work has been very well planned, it has given something of a “Happy Valley feel” to the racecourse, and has meant, with money put back into the racecourse, many of the facilities and operational layout have been improved for the better.

Owners are now well-looked after with a free meal in the bistro, and there is a new £20m “heartspace” development under way, starting with the construction of the new owners’ and trainers’ facility, remodelled saddling boxes and parade ring. The track is positioned now to join the highest echelons – and with a direct train line from London, it is hugely well positioned to make the most of the Thames Valley customer base as well as something more widely international. If some thought now could be given to staging suitable races and making more of what it already has, Newbury racecourse could become its own little mecca and join the elite tracks operating race metings on an international scale.

US stallion: Shanghai Bobby In the US, eyes will be on Shanghai Bobby in 2017.

The champion two-year-old colt in 2012, Shanghai Bobby covered 160 mares during his first year at stud in 2014 with breeders so impressed with his first foals that he became one of the rare stallions who went on to be visited by increased numbers in his second year (202) than his first.

Shanghai Bobby passed the first test of his young career this year at the sales when his first yearlings averaged nearly $100,000 over his 2014 stud fee with his top offering being a $575,000 colt.

Shanghai Bobby will have to compete against stallions such as Animal Kingdom, Declaration Of War and Orb on the first-season sires’ list, but Harlan’s Holiday has become a sneaky good sire-of-sires in the past few years so hopes are high that he’ll prove to be another young leading sire for Coolmore’s Ashford Stud.

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Beat Hollow €6,000 Sire of Group 1 Classic winner WICKLOW BRAVE in 2016 and 36 Stakes performers.

The best dual-purpose stallion around.

His first crop of Ballylinch bred horses are 4yo in 2017.

Dream Ahead

€12,500

Sire of Group performers DONJUAN TRIUMPHANT, BOOS, SILENT ATTACK, DREAM OF DREAMS and RAUCOUS in 2016.

Unbeaten 2yo stakes winner AL WUKAIR (A.Fabre), is a top Classic prospect for next year.

New for 2017

Fascinating Rock

€10,000

Dual Group 1 winner over 10 furlongs.

Won the Group 1 Champion Stakes in a faster time than FRANKEL, beating FOUND, JACK HOBBS and VADAMOS.

Lawman

€25,000

Sire of Group 1 Classic winner HARBOUR LAW and dual Classic placed DICTON in 2016.

Also sire of 25 individual 2yo winners in 2016.

Yearlings have made up to €470,000 this year.

Lope De Vega

€50,000

Outstanding young sire with 2 Group 1 winners and 25 Stakes horses in 2016.

A yearling average of over €100,000 in 2016.

His biggest and best crops are still ahead of him.

Make Believe

€17,500

Classic winning miler with speed to burn.

Dual Gr.1 winner including the Prix de la Forêt in course record time.

Exceptional first book of 120 mares with great fertility.

New for 2017

New Bay €20,000 Won the Group 1 Prix du Jockey Club ahead of HIGHLAND REEL in a time faster than ALMANZOR, LE HAVRE and SHAMARDAL. From the family of OASIS DREAM and KINGMAN by DUBAWI.

INTRINSIC EAGLE TOP Bay 2010

by Oasis Dream – Infallible (Pivotal)

Chesnut 2010

by PIVOTAL – GULL WING (IN THE WINGS)

Tough and consistent sprinter, winner of ultra-competitive Stewards’ Cup.

NEW FOR 2017

Outstanding G1 performer and Royal Ascot winner.

PEDIGREE

PEDIGREE

Out of INFALLIBLE, winner of G2 Nell Gwyn S., 4th 1,000 Guineas and also 3nd in both Coronation Stakes G1 and Falmouth Stakes G1. Dam of MUTAKAYYEF (SEA THE STARS), winner and not out of the placings in all ten starts incl. 2nd Tercentenary S. G3, 2nd Darley S. G3 (twice), 2nd Strensall S. G3 etc.

Out of Gull Wing - rated 106 and three time winner including LR Further Flight stakes. Half-sister to dual Oaks G1 winner Sariska.

Dam of G2 Park Hill winner and 3rd Epsom Oaks G1 The Lark.

A Classic pedigree

By OASIS DREAM, one of the world’s leading sires of: MUHAARAR, SHOWCASING, POWER, APPROVE, GALE FORCE TEN, CAPTAIN GERRARD etc.

RACE RECORD WON WON WON WON

6f Maiden, Newcastle at 2 6f Handicap, Ascot from 18 runners 6f Handicap, Goodwood 6f Stewards’ Cup, Heritage Handicap, Goodwood from 24 runners

FEE 2017: £1,750 Oct 1st

By 6 time Champion Sire Pivotal, sire of sires including: Siyouni, Farhh, Kyllachy and G1 winners Sariska, Immortal Verse, Somnus, Regal Parade, Falco etc.

RACE RECORD (RPR 123) WON 11f Maiden, Newbury, first start WON 12f King Edward VII Stakes, G2 Royal Ascot (beating G1 winners Adelaide, Dylan Mouth etc.)

2nd 12f King George VI, G1 Ascot (btn nose to Postponed) 2nd 12f Hardwick Stakes, G2 Royal Ascot 3rd 11f Arc Trial, G3 Newbury 4th 12f King George VI, G1 Ascot FEE 2017: £3,000 Oct 1st

CONTACT

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2016 stallion facts

“Catching up”

by Roger Simpson

global sires

Leading global sires 2016

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t is no surprise to SEE stallions from Japan dominate the global sires’ list – the prize-money levels in Asia being so high, and the top sire Deep Impact being so dominant in the region. His earnings are nearly double that of runner-up King Kamehameha.

It really is to Galileo’s credit that he is so high on the list – and it is due to his huge numbers of stakes horses he had through 2016, ten more than Deep Impact.

Dubawi’s position as Galileo’s lurking shadow is also evident by his number of stakes horses (second best) and his position as the second-leading European sire by earnings.

Although Fastnet Rock enjoyed something of a breakthrough year in Europe, his high placing here is really due to his southern hemisphere progeny earnings, in particular of Awesome Rock, winner of the Emirates Stakes (G1).

Harbinger, the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes winner, by Dansili, out of Penang Pearl and sold to stand in Japan at Shadai Stallion station at the end of his racing career, is the youngest sire in the top 20 – his first crop now just four-year-olds.

As you can see from the list, stallions based in Japan don’t need many high level performers to feature here – the prize-money earned by the day-to-day horses being so good.

Sea The Stars, whose first crop are now five-year-olds, is the highest listed young European sire. His earnings of nearly $6.5 million came from a solid year put in by his progeny, including the Classic successes courtesy of Harzand. The efforts were enough to give him a third-placed and best so far finish on the European leading sires’ table (see back pages), yet he is only 74th on this list!

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Leading 2016 global sires by earnings Name

Country

Data to November 6, 2016

BT wnrs

Deep Impact (JPN) Japan King Kamehameha (JPN) Japan Galileo (IRE) Ireland Daiwa Major (JPN) Japan Stay Gold (JPN) Japan Heart’s Cry (JPN) Japan Tapit US Dubawi (IRE) England Gold Allure (JPN) Japan Manhattan Cafe (JPN) Japan Kurofune Japan Street Cry (IRE) US Medaglia D’Oro US Fastnet Rock (AUS) Ireland Zenno Rob Roy (JPN) Japan Neo Universe (JPN) Japan South Vigorous Japan More Than Ready US Bernardini US Harbinger (GB) Japan Curlin US Uncle Mo US Hard Spun US Exceed And Excel (AUS) Ireland Snitzel (AUS) Australia Lucky Pulpit US Candy Ride (ARG) US Kitten’s Joy US Giant’s Causeway US Unbridled’s Song US Scat Daddy US Admire Moon (JPN) Japan Empire Maker US Black Tide (JPN) Japan Shamardal Ireland City Zip US Symboli Kris S Japan Not A Single Doubt (AUS) Australia High Chaparral (IRE) Ireland Smart Strike US Kinshasa no Kiseki (AUS) Japan Congrats US Malibu Moon US Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) Ireland Jungle Pocket (JPN) Japan Harlan’s Holiday US Savabeel (AUS) New Zealand Speightstown US Teofilo (IRE) Ireland Written Tycoon (AUS) Australia

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Earnings ($)

28 30 60,270,730 9 11 34,765,159 39 42 29,942,610 6 7 22,040,400 4 5 19,458,354 6 7 19,169,104 21 25 18,436,967 33 36 18,369,426 4 5 15,682,340 4 5 14,822,666 3 4 14,569,442 6 9 14,191,963 13 16 14,111,396 11 15 13,718,431 2 3 13,394,577 4 5 13,015,444 3 4 12,584,684 11 13 12,084,072 14 17 11,835,979 2 3 11,699,137 11 12 11,589,834 16 17 11,523,250 10 13 11,288,052 10 13 11,241,267 2 2 10,401,231 3 4 10,395,828 12 13 10,167,459 15 17 10,155,101 12 14 9,982,338 7 8 9,894,666 13 15 9,795,461 - 1 9,706,037 2 4 9,701,193 2 3 9,625,790 18 22 9,520,911 13 14 9,520,812 - 1 9,469,908 - - 9,353,915 4 5 9,133,148 11 12 8,827,074 - 1 8,774,995 7 8 8,761,407 10 13 8,608,319 7 8 8,418,446 1 2 8,369,161 7 10 8,287,568 1 2 8,286,469 13 15 8,190,802 11 13 8,170,068 - - 8,095,780

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Data from equineline

Country

BT wnrs

Street Sense US Lonhro (AUS) Australia Choisir (AUS) Ireland Pyro Japan Encosta de Lago (AUS) Australia Street Boss US Ghostzapper US Flatter US Sebring (AUS) Australia War Front US Sakura Bakushin O (JPN) Japan Mineshaft US Screen Hero (JPN) Japan Dansili (GB) England Lemon Drop Kid US Tavistock (NZ) New Zealand Any Given Saturday Republic of Korea Victoire Pisa (JPN) Japan Iffraaj (GB) England Redoute’s Choice (AUS) Australia Artie Schiller US Mastercraftsman (IRE) Ireland Meisho Samson (JPN) Japan Sea The Stars (IRE) Ireland Meisho Bowler (JPN) Japan Agnes Digital Japan Commands (AUS) Australia Myboycharlie (IRE) France I Am Invincible (AUS) Australia Dylan Thomas (IRE) Ireland Kane Hekili (JPN) Japan Dark Angel (IRE) Ireland Pioneerof the Nile US Invincible Spirit (IRE) Ireland Mizzen Mast US Deep Sky (JPN) Japan Swept Overboard Japan Footstepsinthesand (GB) Ireland Roses in May Japan Bluegrass Cat US Henny Hughes Japan Tale of the Cat US Pivotal (GB) England Matsurida Gogh (JPN) Japan Tiznow US Distorted Humor US Rock of Gibraltar (IRE) Ireland Quality Road US Johannesburg Japan Wildcat Heir US

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Earnings ($)

4 5 3 5 4 6 1 1 1 1 5 7 8 10 10 11 1 1 18 20 4 5 5 7 4 5 12 15 9 11 1 1 2 4 2 3 6 8 - 2 4 5 4 6 - 1 10 12 1 2 1 2 - - 5 7 - - 6 8 1 2 18 19 7 8 8 9 7 8 2 2 2 2 9 12 1 2 5 6 3 4 3 4 8 10 1 2 4 5 3 6 6 7 5 6 - 1 3 4

7,958,113 7,956,600 7,926,202 7,895,302 7,571,973 7,470,592 7,314,776 7,286,132 7,280,964 7,260,457 7,211,745 7,179,083 7,110,547 7,101,111 7,085,892 7,044,325 7,020,092 6,927,787 6,924,409 6,699,453 6,648,650 6,563,144 6,534,632 6,455,435 6,430,085 6,403,457 6,389,171 6,322,384 6,233,229 6,157,359 6,076,067 6,032,521 5,998,241 5,997,624 5,971,346 5,896,966 5,823,255 5,734,550 5,697,350 5,682,558 5,612,587 5,582,782 5,576,932 5,535,310 5,516,350 5,508,403 5,414,080 5,394,222 5,379,864 5,320,107

The $6 million Dubai World Turf winner Real Steel, Deep Impact’s highest-earner in 2016

about prize-money in England.

Britain’s and Ireland’s standing as a global producer of racehorses and stallions could be in danger if we don’t try to make some attempt to at least keep tabs on the rest of the world.

We’ve been blessed recently by the presence of two very good stallions in Ireland and England, and continued ongoing investment in European-based stallion farms Darley, Coolmore and Juddmonte; we can’t rest on our laurels that this will continue regardless of racing’s finances.

Two current stallions who have done better globally and pulling them higher on this table than on the European progeny preformances list are Dansili and Teofilo.

The Juddmonte stallion benefited greatly from Queen’s Trust’s late season Breeders’ Cup victory, as well as Flintshire’s continued good US performances though 2016 rounding off with his Breeders’ Cup second.

Teofilo’s strength came from his southern hemisphere runners. His figures were boosted

by Scottish, who finished second this autumn (spring) in the Caulfield Cup (G1), while Kermadec, New Zealand-bred and trained in Australia by Chris Waller, finished second in the 2016 George Ryder Stakes (G1).

Both sires get progeny who have a marked preference for faster ground US sire Uncle Mo has only had his first crop of three-year-olds this season but Nyquist carried all before him, maintaining his strong juvenile year of 2015 into 2016 with victory in the Kentucky Derby.

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The Galileo girls: main picture, the 2016 1,000 Guineas winner Minding, top, Found after her Arc success, Alice Springs taking the Falmouth Stakes

He just gets better and better

Galileo’s prize-money haul of £10 million marks yet another record for the Coolmore sire

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n 1989, Nashwan scorched his way through summer, bagging a quartet of Group 1 contests including a Classic brace. His heroics landed his sire Blushing Groom the title of champion sire in Britain and Ireland, with the son of Red God bearing the title from his base at Gainesway Farm in Kentucky.

In the 27 years that have elapsed since then, the champion sires’ title has not once left Ireland.

For many years it lay in the grip of Sadler’s Wells, champion on 14 occasions, and it was no surprise at all to see the most mighty of his sons Galileo claim an eighth title for himself in 2016, marking his seventh consecutive year with the crown. His progeny earnings of over £10 million put him more than £6 million

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clear of his nearest pursuer Dubawi.

In another superlative year for the perennial champion that saw him sire no fewer than 12 individual top-level winners, the season was dominated by his outstanding daughters, most notably Minding who won five Group 1s, including the 1,000 Guineas and Oaks.

Found arguably garnered more headlines for her sole top-level victory, after an agonising summer as a bridesmaid on five occasions, when she led home a remarkable 1-2-3 in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (G1) at Chantilly.

The teak-tough Alice Springs contributed a further three Group 1s to her sire’s seasonal tally, while the Irish and Yorkshire Oaks heroine Seventh Heaven added two. The

juvenile Rhododendron led home yet another paternal 1-2 at Group 1 level in the Fillies’ Mile, followed a day later by Churchill who emulated the same feat when defeating his paternal half-brother Lancaster Bomber in the Dewhurst.

Of course, it would not be a complete season for Galileo without a Classic victory and The Gurkha scored an impressive victory in the Poule d’Essai des Poulains (G1) at Deauville, before outbattling the English 2,000 Guineas victor Galileo Gold in the Sussex Stakes at Glorious Goodwood, the latter, of course, a grandson of Galileo.

Interestingly, the year also yielded a top-flight winner in Australia for Galileo as the six-year-old entire The United States triumphed in the

Ranvet Stakes (G1) at Rosehill in March.

The southern hemisphere is not an arena in which Galileo has excelled, albeit from limited opportunities, and it was notable to see a Group 1 victory in a country which is dismissive of his charms.

Fine stakes race strike rate for Dubawi

Dubawi secured the runner-up spot for the third time and while he could not rival Galileo in either prize-money or number of Group 1 winners, Darley’s flagship stallion could still boast a season of which to be proud with a tally of 28 European stakes winners compared to Galileo’s 34.

That total gave him a staggering strike rate of 47 per cent stakes winners to runners, well clear of Galileo’s 34 per cent and his Darley stud mate Shamardal’s figure of 35 per cent for 17 stakes victories.

Arguably, the most notable victory of Dubawi’s year came not in a Classic or at one of the high-summer meetings, but on Arc day when the filly Wuheida finally gave him a Group 1 juvenile victory. A sphere in which Galileo excels, that victory in the Prix Marcel Boussac (G1) plugged a much-remarked gap in Dubawi’s CV. It also highlighted a potential emerging nick with daughters of Singspiel – a perhaps inevitable by-product of covering so many

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...the notable victory of

Dubawi’s year came not in a Classic or at one of the high-summer meetings, but on Arc day... homebred members of the Darley broodmare band. The same nick also yielded another new Group 1 winner for the sire in 2016 when Left Hand landed the Prix Vermeille (G1) The gallant filly Journey also became a new Group 1 winner for her sire, while Postponed swept all before him in the middle-distance category.

Due no doubt in part to the hat-trick of top-level victories by Postponed in 2016, it is interesting to note that his sire actually surpassed Galileo by European earnings with his progeny over 9f-10f. A distance at which Galileo himself excelled and Dubawi arguably struggled saw the latter sire 34 per cent winners to runners and 16 stakes winners, while Galileo achieved a strike rate of 28 per cent and 13 stakes winners.

Over 7f-1m, the distance at which Dubawi

favoured and Galileo only once contested, the situation is reversed with Galileo’s progeny bagging £4.6m in earnings with 18 stakes victories, while Dubawi’s runners yielded “just” £1.2m and 11 stakes victories (see tables on page 103).

Perhaps such results are not surprising as breeders seek to balance out the talents of each stallion with either speedier mares or those who provide more stamina in a bid to achieve the Classic distances with their progeny.

It is also notable that the two leading sires are forming something of a nick together.

Following from Dubawi’s 2,000 Guineas and Lockinge Stakes (G1) winner Night Of Thunder who is out of a Galileo mare, this season saw Group success for Dartmouth – another son of Dubawi out of a daughter of Galileo.

Having headed Galileo’s Highland Reel in the Hardwicke Stakes (G2) at Royal Ascot, Dartmouth went on to contribute another notable result for his sire when runner-up to his paternal half-brother Erupt in the Canadian International (G1) at Woodbine in October.

Best placing yet for Sea The Stars

Galileo’s sons US Army Ranger and Idaho were forced to play second fiddle in the

Older stallions: % of horses rated 110+ and 95+ (listed by % horses rated 110+, 2012, 2013, 2014 crops) Stallion Galileo Dubawi Shamardal Pivotal Dansili Oasis Dream Azamour Invinicble Spirit Iffraaj Footstepsinthesand Kodiac Lord of England Acclamation Rock of Gibraltar Exceed And Excel Motivator Holy Roman Emperor

Average fee (2011-13) Private £50,000 €40,000 £55,000 £68,000 £78,000 €15,000 €55,000 €10,000 €11,000 €6,000 €4,000 €22,000 €19,000 £16,000 £6,000 €13,000

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Horses rated 110+

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Horses rated 95+

(% of foals)

494 357 375 294 270 317 240 361 354 287 332 140 364 307 324 116 311

44 28 21 14 10 10 6 10 9 6 7 2 5 3 3 1 2

(8.9) (7.8) (5.6) (4.8) (3.7) (3.2) (2.5) (2.8) (2.5) (2.1) (2.1) (1.4) (1.4) (0.9) (0.9) (0.8) (0.6)

101 87 71 43 55 49 29 49 36 24 33 10 35 23 48 8 13

(20) (24) (19) (14) (20) (15) (12) (14) (10) (8) (10) (7.1) (10) (7.5) (14.8) (6.9) (4)

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ALHEBAYEB

GR, 16.0hh, by DARK ANGEL ex MISS INDIGO (Indian Ridge)

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older stallions Epsom and Irish Derbys respectively to the dual Classic winner Harzand, by Galileo’s outstanding half-brother Sea The Stars.

Harzand was responsible for more than half the prize-money that boosted his sire into third place in the leading sires’ table. He was also one of two Group 1 winners by Sea The Stars in 2016, with Prix Jean Prat (G1) victor Zelzal the second.

Sea The Star’s season included ten European stakes winners, among them the Group 2 winners Mutakayyef, Cloth Of Stars, Across The Stars and Endless Time, several of whom also contributed Group 1 placings to their sire’s results.

Dark Angel and Kodiac far from “cheap speed” options

Commanding a stud fee of €60,000, Dark Angel has assuredly shrugged off the dismissive categorising as “cheap speed”, even if that was the title awarded him on his retirement as a two-year-old.

Cannily managed throughout his career by the O’Callaghan family, Dark Angel now sits fourth among the leading sires in Britain and Ireland by prize-money, due in part to weight of numbers but also due to the good percentage of talented stakes horses.

His tally of 331 runners to early November is more than double Sea The Stars and 150 more than Dubawi.

Dark Angel’s strike rate of 31 per cent winners to runners might be the lowest in the

Dark Angel’s star daughter Mecca’s Angel winning her second Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes

top five stallions, but it is still a strong figure, particularly as it yielded over £2.3m in prize-money.

The flying filly Mecca’s Angel gave her sire his sole top-level win of the year in the Nunthorpe Stakes (G1), but her victory was backed up by a solid raft of Group winners – four of the top six, including Mecca’s Angel,

bred by the O’Callaghans – including a 1-2 in the Mill Reef Stakes (G2) at Newbury for Harry Angel who led home his paternal half-sister Perfect Angel, another bred by Yeomanstown Stud.

Dark Angel leads the field as the leading sire of two-year-old winners in Britain and Ireland with 31 individual winners to early

Stallions to stud 2008: % of horses rated 110+ and 95+ (listed by % horses rated 110+, 2012, 2013, 2014 crops) Stallion Dark Angel Teofilo Soldier Hollow Dutch Art Kendargent Lawman

Average fee (2011-13) €9,000 €20,000 €6,000 £8,000 €2,000 €15,000

Nos Foals 262 367 90 248 153 306

Horses rated 110+ 12 12 3 6 3 3

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(% of foals)

Horses rated 95+

(% of foals)

(4.6) (3.3) (3.3) (2.4) (2.0) (0.9)

28 39 17 25 24 18

(11) (11) (19) (10) (16) (5.9)

Stallions to stud 2009: % of horses rated 110+ and 95+ (listed by % horses rated 110+, 2012-2014 crops) Stallion Mount Nelson Tamayuz New Approach Raven’ s Pass

Average fee (2011-13) £7,000 €15,000 £25,000 €25,000

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Nos Foals

Horses rated 110+

(% of foals)

Horses rated 95+

175 122 302 154

6 3 7 3

(3.4) (2.5) (2.3) (1.9)

20 18 38 21

(% of foals) (11) (15) (13) (14)

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older stallions November, but he is hotly pursued by another fantastic source of juvenile talent in Kodiac.

Kodiac boasts the most number of juvenile wins in Britain and Ireland with 44 victories by 29 winners and a strike rate of 39 per cent.

He has also earned a top ten spot in the leading Flat sires’ table in Britain and Ireland for the second year running, leading all as sire of 106 individual winners to early November and claiming sixth spot by total prize-money.

Standing for a career high of €45,000 this year at Tally-Ho Stud, Kodiac is another to have shrugged off any mention of cheap speed, and he is an outstanding source of precocious juvenile talent.

That fact was underlined yet again by a juvenile double at Royal Ascot where Prince Of Lir scorched home in the Norfolk Stakes (G2) and Ardad added the Windsor Castle Stakes (L) to the tally.

The latter, of course, followed up in the Flying Childers (G2) three months later, while Best Solution continued his sire’s excellent autumn with victory in the Autumn Stakes (G3) and a Group 1 second place.

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Kodiac boasts the most number of juvenile wins in Britain and Ireland with 44 victories by 29 winners by total earnings since 2008.

It might not have been a flagship year for his performers, but there were still solid highlights from such as the Dante Stakes (G2) victor Wings Of Desire, who went on to be Group 1-placed, as well as Racing History, a full-brother to one of Pivotal’s top performers in Farhh, who was runner-up in Group 1 company in Germany late in the season.

The five-year-old Lightning Spear also provided a high point with victory in the Celebration Mile (G2) and two close Group 1 finishes, while Brando contributed a Group 3 success and a sizeable chunk of prize-money with victory in the Ayr Gold Cup. Acclamation bagged his first top ten finish in 2016, courtesy largely of his highclass juvenile Mehmas.

That colt landed the July Stakes (G2) and Richmond Stakes (G2) for Al Shaqab, and also claimed a couple of Group 1 finishes,

never finishing worse than third in eight starts. With his retirement at the end of his juvenile season announced before his third place in the Middle Park (G1), Mehmas will be of no help to his sire in 2017, but can hopefully follow in the footsteps of his sire’s previous juvenile retiree Dark Angel who has been such a storming success at stud.

Acclamation is not just responsible for talented two-year-olds; his three-year-old daughter Marsha sprang a 16-1 surprise in the Prix de l’Abbaye (G1) at Chantilly, while six days later another three-year-old, the colt Acclaim, bagged the Challenge Stakes (G2).

With over 1,280 runners in 2016, Acclamation fielded the most representatives of any stallion in the top ten, but it has also meant that his strike rate of 29 per cent winners to runners was the lowest in the top echelons.

Older hero for Invincible and juvenile star for Exceed And Excel

After having a juvenile – Shalaa, who landed the Bengough Stakes (G3) late in the 2016 season – as his flag bearer in 2015, it was an older horse who headed the table for Invincible Spirit in 2016.

Profitable completed a hat-trick of victories culminating in a neck success over Cotai Glory in the King’s Stand (G1) at Royal Ascot, and also saw off the flying filly Mecca’s Angel

Stallions to stud 2010: % of horses rated 110+ and 95+ (listed by % horses rated 110+, 2012-2014 crops) Stallion Sea The Stars Adlerflug Archipenko Champs Elysees Le Havre Mastercraftsman

Average fee (2011-13) €85,000 €5,500 £6,000 £9,000 €5,000 €18,000

Nos Foals 299 86 133 230 290 347

Horses rated 110+ 22 3 3 5 6 6

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(% of foals)

Horses rated 95+

(% of foals)

(7.4) (3.5) (2.3) (2.2) (2.1) (1.7)

65 12 11 24 29 34

(22) (14) (8.3) (10) (10) (10)

Stallions to stud 2011: % of horses rated 110+ and 95+ (listed by % horses rated 110+, 2012-2014 crops) Stallion Lope De Vega Siyouni Paco Boy Makfi Fast Company Equiano

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Nos Foals

Horses rated 110+

(% of foals)

Horses rated 95+

(% of foals)

165 149 171 214 152 204

12 5 4 3 2 2

(7.3) (3.4) (2.3) (1.4) (1.3) (0.9)

39 16 16 24 10 14

(24) (11) (9) (11) (7) (7)

older stallions

Lightning Spear and Oisin Murphy win the Celebration Mile (G2). Sire Pivotal had 14 horses rated over 110 in 2016 – 4.8% of his foals born 2011-2013

in the Temple Stakes (G2) and a large field for the Palace House Stakes (G3) on his seasonal debut. The colt will race on at four, having been purchased by Godolphin in the summer Signs Of Blessing could not make it a Group 1 sprint double for his sire at Royal Ascot when third in the Diamond Jubilee (G1), but did add a Group 1 sprint to the seasonal tally when landing the Prix Maurice de Gheest in August.

Touted as the world’s leading source of juvenile winners and stakes winners, Darley’s Exceed And Excel has lived up to his name in both hemispheres for several years now.

His northern hemisphere tally of 22 juvenile winners in Britain and Ireland included Yalta, who set a new juvenile track record at Goodwood in the Molecomb Stakes (G3), defeating the subsequent Group 1 winner The Last Lion in so doing.

Exceed And Excel’s older horses were led

by Cotai Glory who finished a close second to Profitable in the King’s Stand (G1).

Exceed And Excel’s stud mate Shamardal, who stands alongside him at Darley’s Kildangan Stud in Ireland, may have only just made it into the top ten sires in Britain and Ireland by earnings, but he achieved third behind Galileo and Dubawi

with his 17 European stakes winners.

That 35 per cent strike-rate of stakes winners bettered all bar Dubawi in the top ten of that list, and included three Group 1 victories in France by Dariyan and Speedy Boarding, with the latter claiming both the Prix Jean Romanet and the Prix de l’Opera.

Blue Point could manage only second and third respectively in the Middle Park and Dewhurst Stakes but his victory in the Gimcrack Stakes (G2) at York hinted at much to come in 2017, ensuring his sire will continue to generate headlines.

Profitable (Invincible Spirit) beating Cotai Glory (Exceed And Excel) in the King’s Stand Stakes

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first-season sires Sir Prancealot: despite being at the lower end of the fee scale, covered himself in glory with his first crop of runners in 2016 boasting two stakes wins and 30 winners

Prancing around The first-season Tally-Ho Stud stallion Sir Prancealot hit all the top notes this summer

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he first runners by a top-class horse are always eagerly awaited, but few can have arrived on the track with more fanfare than those by Frankel. The interest was unsurprising – the unbeaten son of Galileo was one of the bestever to tread the Turf and his first book as a stallion was one of the best-ever accorded to a freshman.

But Frankel fascination extended beyond professional ranks to the wider public – he has his own Facebook page and Twitter handle – who would perhaps not understand that excellence as a runner does not always guarantee excellence as a progenitor, even for one as freakishly talented as this 10-time Group 1 winner.

Right from the start, though, Frankel’s

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Leading Europe first-season sires by winners Stallion Wnrs Sir Prancealot 30 Dragon Pulse 21 Excelebration 18 Foxwedge 17 Sepoy 17 Requinto 16 Frankel 16 Power 16 Bated Breath 16 Helmet 16 Elzaam 15

two-year-olds made an impact, prompting headlines outside the trade media.

In May his first runner – also his first-born – was a winner. In one seven-day stretch in early June, he rattled in three more first-timeout successes. His phenomenal strike-rate continued through the summer, with four of his winners coming at Group 2 or 3 level.

It seemed an inevitable progress towards all that was needed to make the first chapter of Frankel’s new story complete – the first-season sire’s title and a Group 1 winner.

But by the time the final page of the European season was turned, things had settled down and those honours were elsewhere.

Sir Prancealot was champion, leading the way with earnings, wins and winners while Helmet, from Australia, was the only

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But Frankel fascination extended beyond professional ranks to the wider public – he has his own Facebook page and Twitter handle

European freshman with a top-level success to his credit.

Remove the weight of public expectation, though, and Frankel – based at his birthplace, Banstead Manor near Newmarket – has made a perfectly good start, as did two of Galileo’s now-proven stallion sons, New Approach and Teofilo.

His strike rate has remained excellent and five Group winners of five races is the best score since – well, since Zoffany notched five of seven last year.

But not since 2003 has a first-season sire provided four individual Group winners: that year Fasliyev’s seven stakes winners of 12 races included Carry On Katie (G1, G2), Much Faster (G2, G3), Russian Valour (G3) and King’s Point (G3).

Frankel’s highest-rated performers to date are fillies: Queen Kindly, winner of the Group 2 Lowther Stakes and fourth in the Group 1 Cheveley Park; Fair Eva, winner of the Group 3 Princess Margaret Stakes and twice Group 2-placed, in the Lowther and Rockfel Stakes, Toulifaut, winner of the Group 3 Prix d’Aumale and subsequently sold for €1.9 million, and late in the year Mi Suerte, the Japanese winner of the Kyoto Sho Fantasy Stakes (G3).

His top colt so far Frankuus took the Group 3 Prix de Conde, and while the best of his first crop have shown precocity, their sire got better with age and there are plenty of back-end maiden winners – names such as Mirage Dancer, Swiss Storm, Eminent, Atty Persse – who promise more to come.

Frankel was not a typical Galileo in that his mind sometimes showed cracks, and some of his progeny seem to have inherited his feisty temperament.

Neither are the first Frankels peas in a pod.

But they set the first-crop standard for overall quality and professional confidence in their sire which carried forward to the yearling sales, where his second crop provided three

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Photo: Asunción Piñeyrúa

Frankel: made an unexpected early impact in 2016 and has had five winners of Group races

Sir Prancealot won his spurs decisively, a long way ahead of his rivals as far as numbers are concerned, and with a very decent strike rate to boot

seven-figure transactions and the second-best average and median, behind Dubawi and ahead of his own sire.

Frankel started his stud career at £125,000, while Sir Prancealot was priced at €6,000.

Sir Prancealot leading first-season sire

There could hardly be a greater contrast between the blue-blooded once and (perhaps) future king and the unheralded knight, who usurped his glory in the lists.

But Sir Prancealot won his spurs decisively, a long way ahead of his rivals as far as numbers are concerned, and with a very decent strike rate to boot.

The son of Tamayuz, based at the O’Callaghan family’s Tally-Ho Stud, followed the modern trend among speedy juveniles of starting his second career after just one season plying his first, though by accident rather than design, joining the roster in County Westmeath after sustaining an injury in training.

He had proved one of the fastest of his generation in 2012, first catching the eye streaking more than 4l clear of his rivals in the National Stakes, and signing

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first-season sires Leading Europe first-season sires by stakes wnrs Stallion

stakes wnrs

Frankel 5 Power 5 Mayson 3 Sir Prancealot 2 Dragon Pulse 2 Sepoy 2 Famous Name 1 Helmet 1 Rajsaman 1 Harbour Watch 1 Torok 1

Leading Europe first-season sires by % w-r Stallion Wnrs/Rnrs Native Khan 65.00 Requinto 51.61 Torok 50.00 Dragon Pulse 46.67 Frankel 45.71 Redoute’s Choice 45.00 Elzaam 44.12 Sir Prancealot 40.54 Power 39.02 Foxwedge 37.78 Sepoy 36.17 Bated Breath 34.04 Rio de la Plata 33.33 Jukebox Jury 32.14

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off with success in the season’s top 5f juvenile contest, the Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes.

In between, he confirmed his class and consistency in defeat, fourth to the divisional champion Dawn Approach in the Coventry Stakes (G2), and then second in the Robert Papin (G2) and fourth on his only Group 1 venture, the Prix Morny, on both occasions to Reckless Abandon.

Sir Prancealot’s sire, by Nayef, was a high-class miler and, incidentally, shares one of his four grand-dams with Frankel – Alegretta being second dam of Galileo and of Tamayuz’s dam Al Ishq.

His dam is a Catrail mare who won a French Listed juvenile contest on debut, and so represents a valuable outcross.

He is from Tamayuz’s first crop – the second-produced Group 1-winning sprinter G Force and smart middle-distance performer Roseburg – and remains his best juvenile.

Most of Sir Prancealot’s progeny are as might be expected – precocious, fast, useful at best – but top of his pile are a couple of smart ones in Sir Dancealot, a Listed winner and Group 3-placed, and Madam Dancealot, a Group 3 winner and since sold on for €260,000.

He owes his place at the top of the earnings table to Stormy Clouds, who picked up a win and a second in valuable sales races, and was also Listed-placed.

Helmet: gets off the mark early, achieves G1 success late in the day

Like his sire Exceed And Excel, who has lived up to his name as a stallion in both hemispheres, Helmet was a top-class performer in Australia, a Group 1 winner at two and three up to a mile.

His first European crop reaped its top-level reward on the last day of opportunity, when his son Thunder Snow, already placed in the Champagne Stakes (G2) and Dewhurst Stakes (G1), ran away with the Criterium International at Saint-Cloud.

The Dalham Hall resident is from a family that has distinguished, and is still distinguishing, itself in Australia and Europe. His third dam, the top German filly Anna Paola, is also ancestress of the 2016 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère winner National Defense.

Helmet is not the only Australian star to have made a mark with his first European runners, with quality among their quantity.

Good fillies for Sepoy and Foxwedge

Helmet’s Darley stud-mate Sepoy, a top-class juvenile and senior sprinter

by Elusive Quality, is responsible for two smart fillies in Kilmah, winner of the Group 3 Prestige Stakes, and Dabyah, a close third in the Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac.

Likewise Foxwedge, based for four seasons at Whitsbury Manor and the best Australian runner by Fastnet Rock, had a top-level place in Fillies’ Mile third Urban Fox, plus Group-placed King Of Spades and Seafront.

Power: he’s got the numbers

Of those in the top rank with European stakes winners Power matched Frankel’s numbers but not his quality. His best was the speedy Peace Envoy, winner of the Group 3 Anglesey Stakes and third in the Prix Morny (G1), and Pleaseletmewin, who took the Group 3 Horris Hill Stakes before being sold for 450,000gns to race in Qatar.

The son of Oasis Dream was high-class at two when a win in the Group 1 National Stakes was sandwiched by close Group 1 seconds in the Phoenix and Dewhurst Stakes, and at three when he had his day of days in the Irish 2,000 Guineas.

He is a half-brother to high-class Curvy out of Glatisant, a half-sister to Footstepsinthesand, and is another whose distaff family has produced a star 2016 juvenile – Glatisant is third dam of Racing Post Trophy winner Rivet.

Mayson: three Listed winners

Another senior Group 1 winner to have made a mark is Mayson, the Cheveley Park-based July Cup winner.

After Frankel, he is the British-based freshman with the best numerical European stakes record – the son of Invincible Spirit being responsible for three Listed winners, Global Applause (who took the notable scalp of Mehmas in Sandown’s National Stakes and has been Group 2-placed), Private Matter and Rose Briar.

Unsurprisingly, the top of the first-season table were mostly about speed and precocity, for only two 1m4f Group 1 performers retired in Britain or Ireland in 2013.

Nathaniel: keep an eye on next year

Nathaniel met Frankel twice, beaten half-a-

first-season sires length when the pair met on their juvenile debuts and four and a half lengths

when they both signed off in the Champion For full stallion tables, go to pages 170-179 Stakes.

In between they charted contrasting paths – Nathaniel, now based at Newsells Park Stud, failed to win at two but developed into a top middle-distance performer, winning one King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes and beaten a nose in another.

He is by Galileo, his sister won an Irish Oaks, and the best is likely to be seen of his clutch of maiden winners next year.

Born To Sea’s best top-level place came when he chased home Camelot in the Irish Derby after running fourth in the St James’s Palace Stakes.

His only win came in his juvenile maiden but, as an Invincible Spirit half-brother to Galileo and Sea The Stars, he was given his chance at stud.

His first crop, conceived at Rathasker, Left, Pleaseletmewin, the Group 3 Horris Hill-winning son of Power, sold at Tattersalls for included Group 3-winning filly Sea Of 450,000gns to Gassim Mohammad Ghazali, above, Urban Fox seen here winning a conditions race Grace and two Listed places. He now stands at the Cambridgeshire meeting. The daughter of Foxwedge and Irish 1,000 Guineas entrant went Firebreak1-2p ITB Dec 2016:Layout 2 8/11/16 16:11 Page 1 on to finish third in the Group 1 Fillies’ Mile behind Rhododendron and Hydrangea alongside Sea The Stars at Gilltown.

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Wootton Bassett: champion sire Etreham’s son of Iffraaj heads the second-season sire list with his superstar Almanzor, while Zoffany backs up with a Group 1 winner and numbers in the bag

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f a stallion at the start of his career doesn’t produce a top-level winner in his first season, then the next best thing is for one of his first crop to oblige in his second season. Particularly if that three-year-old turns out to be the champion of Europe. Step forward Wootton Bassett, responsible for the outstanding colt Almanzor.

Wootton Bassett was classy and precocious at two, unbeaten in five runs over six and 7f. His sequence included two valuable sales-related contests in Britain, after which he stepped up to the top table and saw off subsequent Poulains winner Tin Horse and six-time

Group 1 heroine Moonlight Cloud in the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère.

He was unplaced in all four runs at three and retired to stud at Etréham in Normandy, in the land of his best performance, where his first crop, conceived at €6,000, was only 17-strong.

That Wootton Bassett has sired a horse of the calibre of Almanzor, three times successful in the French provinces at two before his Prix du Jockey-Club and dual Champion Stakes triumphs in 2016, from so few chances is the more commendable.

The triple Group 1 winner, who is out of a well-related Aga Khan cast-off acquired by Etréham to support the new recruit, is his

only stakes success, though another of his first crop, Do Re Mi Fa Sol, came close to a Group 2 when third in a photo for the Prix Malleret.

Wootton Bassett, by Iffraaj out of the Primo Dominie mare Belladonia, is from his sire’s first crop, and was his highest-rated runner until the emergence of top-class miler Ribchester this year.

Speed was the forte of Dalham Hall-based Iffraaj, runner-up in a July Cup, and Primo Dominie, second in a King’s Stand and a Nunthorpe. But there is stamina onside too; Belladonia won over 1m1f and stayed 1m4f, and she is out of a half-sister to the dam of Silver Patriarch and Papineau.

Wootton Bassett: was the surprise stallion and it will be very interesting to see how his career develops moving forwards with bigger books and better mares

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second-season sires Leading European 2nd-season sire by winners Stallion

Wnrs

Zoffany Canford Cliffs Poet’s Voice Pour Moi Dream Ahead Frozen Power Lilbourne Lad Roderic O’Connor Kingsfort Wootton Bassett Elusive Pimpernel

% wnrs-rnrs

48 37 48 37 45 38 33 42 33 29 31 37 29 30 29 34 16 50 8 31 8 28

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Zoffany: got the winners and the stakes winners as well as a late-season Group 1 winner in Italy

Almanzor’s haul took Wootton Bassett, whose 2017 fee has been upped to €20,000, to the top of the second-season European earnings’ leader board for the year.

Behind him there was a certain amount of continuity, with the first three on the 2015 first-season list – Zoffany, Canford Cliffs and Dream Ahead – again taking high rank.

Zoffany only other with a G1 winner

Not one of 2012’s stallion intake supplied a first-season Group 1 winner and, perhaps disappointingly, Zoffany was the only other to enhance his reputation with a top-level victory from a three-year-old.

The Coolmore-based son of Dansili led

the second-season list in terms of individual winners, wins and stakes winners and found late-season Group 1 glory when Ventura Storm followed up his close St Leger second spot by taking the Premio Jockey-Club in Milan.

That tough colt’s Doncaster effort gave Zoffany a second Classic runner-up, his daughter Architecture having found just one too good in both the Epsom and Curragh Oaks.

In addition, Washington DC came close to a top-level strike in the Prix de l’Abbaye and Knife Edge won the Group 2 German 2,000 Guineas.

What Zoffany did lack in 2016 was a juvenile of the quality of his young 2015 stars – Illuminate, Waterloo Bridge and Foundation.

Canford Cliffs Photo: courtesy of Coolmore

Stallions to stud 2011: % of horses rated 110+ and 95+ (listed by % horses rated 110+, 2012-2014 crops) Stallion Wootton Bassett Zoffany Pour Moi Dream Ahead Poet’s Voice

Average fee (2011-13) €6,000 €7,500 €20,000 €17,500 £12,000

Nos Foals 21 127 88 103 104

Horses rated 110+ 1 5 1 1 1

Stats by Jocelyn de Moubray

(% of foals)

Horses rated 95+

(4.8) (3.9) (1.1) (0.9) (0.9)

2 17 3 9 9

(% of foals) (9.5) (13) (3.4) (8.7) (9.8)

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second-season sires As a runner Zoffany’s best performance came when he got closer to Frankel in a Group 1 contest than any other horse, beaten less than a length in the St James’s Palace Stakes. He was also high-class at two when his five victories included the Phoenix Stakes.

So far he is the fastest and most precocious

by Dansili, and the Banstead Manor stallion’s only Group 1-winning juvenile colt.

Zoffany is out of a minor 7f-winning Machiavellian mare from the good Hesmonds Stud family that produced such as Dust Dancer and Bulaxie.

He cost 220,000gns as a yearling at Tattersalls, and from the latest Book 1 catalogue the Coolmore partners took his Frankel half-brother into the fold for 1.1 million guineas.

Canford Cliffs: Classic placings

His stud-mate Canford Cliffs was also one of Frankel’s victims, but was a top-class miler in his own right fulfilling the promise of his runaway Coventry Stakes (G2) success at two with five straight Group 1 victories (Irish 2,000, St James’s Palace, Sussex, Lockinge and Queen Anne) at three and four.

As a sire he is yet without a Group 1 success, but is another with Classic and toplevel placings to his credit with three-year-old Harlequeen third in the Epsom and Curragh Oaks, and exciting juvenile Salouen second in the Lagardère and third in the Racing Post Trophy.

Canford Cliffs, by Tagula and out of an unraced Marju mare, is his sire’s only representative at stud – and easily his best runner – and is an obvious outcross. Salouen and the progressive three-year-old staying handicapper Wall Of Fire are both out of Galileo mares.

Dream Ahead: sprint sire

Dream Ahead, based at Ballylinch Stud, was rated Frankel’s equal at two, courtesy of his 9l romp in the Middle Park Stakes (G1). He was champion sprinter at three, winning the July Cup (G1), Prix Maurice de Gheest (G1) and Sprint Cup (G1), following in the hoofprints of his sire Diktat at Deauville and Haydock.

He is the best by Diktat, out of the Flying Childers Stakes winner Land Of Dreams, herself by sprint champion in Cadeaux Genereux. Unsurprisingly Dream Ahead’s best are also very fast – in 2016 Donjuan Triumphant, a Group 2 winner as a juvenile,

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kept company with some of the top-rated in the division and found only Signs Of Blessing too good as he tried to make it a family treble in the Maurice de Gheest.

He has a promising juvenile in Boos, who beat Spain Burg early in the season and missed a Group 2 win, in the Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte, by a head. His top European earner, though, was miler Silent Attack, courtesy of second place in the valuable Topkapi Trophy at Veliefendi.

Late action for Poet’s Voice

Poet’s Voice is vying with Zoffany on the numbers’ lists, and also has one of the best strike-rates among those with two crops running.

The Dalham Hall resident, by Dubawi out of a Chief’s Crown sister to multiple Grade 1

winner Chief Honcho, won the Champagne Stakes at two and had his day of days when he nosed out Rip Van Winkle in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at three.

He was Dubawi’s first Group-winning son, his highest-rated juvenile and one of the first to take his great sire’s legacy on.

This year he has added to his first-crop juvenile stakes haul with the smart two-year-old filly Poet’s Vanity, who put herself in the 1,000 Guineas frame by winning the Group 3 Oh So Sharp Stakes late in the season.

Voice Of Love took the Group 3 Premio Del Piazzale at San Siro on October 16, while the 101-rated Ode To Evening plied the high-class handicap route rather than stakes race sucess.

A similar route was taken by Sir Michael Stoute for the 104-rated Poet’s Word.

Darley sire Poet’s Voice came good late in the year and Poet’s Vanity is now a 1,000 Guineas hopeful Photo: John Reardon

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from The Last Lion, Peace Envoy, Global Applause etc. “quickened up well...in control close home”

“We’ve been waiting 18 years for something like this. We bought him as a Norfolk horse, so we are just absolutely over the moon that the plan has come off” - Peter Swann - Owner (Cool Silk Partnership)

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Dandy Man

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1st Crop Sire of 2016 Champion sprinter Peniaphobia

Over 10% of his 2yo’s earned Black Type SIZZLING HOT IN THE SALES RING

2016 Yearlings made; €220,000, €180,000, €135,000 etc.

Elzaam

FEE: €10,000

Upgrading his mares

Sensational 47% winners to runners in 1st Crop inc. Clem Fandango, King Electric, Pretty Vacant, Andok etc.

Sales-Topping Yearlings have made;

175,000, 150,000, 140,000, 130,000, 110,000, 95,000 etc.

FEE: €6,000

Prince Of Lir Top Sprinting Pedigree Gr.2 Norfolk Stks winner at ROYAL ASCOT With Sales Topping Good Looks “The best horses are readily identifiable... ...Prince Of Lir timed outstandingly”- James Willoughby

Red Jazz

FEE: €5,000

by the sire of Scat Daddy

A high class miler with precocious speed – Rated 120

1st yearlings made up to €150,000 and bought by: Shadwell G. Lyons H. Palmer C. Cox etc.

“I must say I’ve been impressed with the sires first crop of yearlings” - Michael O’ Callaghan

Ballyhane Stud

Leighlinbridge, Co.Carlow, Ireland.

Joe Foley: +353 86 252 4135 Office: +353 59 97 22068 Email: info@ballyhane.com

FEE: €4,000

Jane Foley: +353 86 806 6000 Fax: +353 59 97 22566 Web: www.ballyhane.com

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Group 1 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint winner Won

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$1,424,417

in the USA and Ireland, all on Turf

Graded Stakes winner at 2 and 3 years

View videos of his races on www.lanwades.com Own brother to two Stakes winners; dam by 2016 Leading Broodmare Sire in USA First stallion son of

KITTEN’S JOY

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SEA THE MOON 2011 by Sea The Stars – Sanwa (Monsun)

• Sensational German Derby winner; CHAMPION 3yo and HORSE OF THE YEAR, 2014 • Winner at 2 on debut by 4 lengths • First sire son of SEA THE STARS – Classic German female family • Supported by Europe’s Leading Breeders in his first two seasons

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SIR PERCY

2003 by Mark of Esteem – Percy’s Lass (Blakeney)

• Undefeated CHAMPION 2yo; CHAMPION 3yo and Derby winner • Sire of 37 individual Stakes horses including 2016 Group 1 winners WAKE FOREST and SIR JOHN HAWKWOOD • Sire of 59 individual 2yo winners • 2016 yearlings sold in UK/IRE at the end of Tattersalls Book 2 averaged £66,184 (11 times his 2014 stud fee) • A consistent and proven sire of STAKES winners 2017 fee: £7,000

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leading sires by distance Leading European sires of sprinters (5f-6f) in 2016 (by prize-money earned (£) to November 2, 2016) Stallion Oasis Dream (GB) Invincible Spirit (IRE) Exceed and Excel (AUS) Dark Angel (IRE) Acclamation (GB) Kodiac (GB) Equiano (FR) Kyllachy (GB) Showcasing (GB) Shamardal (USA) Pivotal (GB) Zebedee (GB) Bushranger (IRE) Arcano (IRE) Pastoral Pursuits (GB) Iffraaj (GB) Sir Prancealot (IRE) Elusive City (USA) Tagula (IRE) Kheleyf (USA) Dutch Art (GB) Sakhee’s Secret (GB) Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) Mayson (GB) Dream Ahead (USA) Choisir (AUS) Dandy Man (IRE) Zoffany (IRE) Royal Applause (GB) Monsieur Bond (IRE) Siyouni (FR) Kendargent (FR) Intense Focus (USA) Bahamian Bounty (GB) Clodovil (IRE) Fast Company (IRE) Lope De Vega (IRE) Paco Boy (IRE) Fastnet Rock (AUS) Le Havre (IRE) Bated Breath (GB) Helmet (AUS) Stormy River (FR) Dragon Pulse (IRE) Captain Gerrard (IRE) Compton Place (GB) Frankel (GB) Approve (IRE)

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Runners

Winners

W/R

Starts

Wins

81 131 169 157 171 173 129 142 79 64 49 136 102 77 71 58 63 80 38 134 92 68 88 37 68 29 94 58 109 69 44 51 61 91 59 70 38 77 38 23 38 31 13 35 40 87 9 69

23 43 58 44 54 61 48 48 21 28 17 46 30 24 28 18 20 25 12 42 30 23 28 14 17 9 23 10 24 23 14 9 15 25 14 23 9 20 15 2 14 8 6 13 15 23 7 18

28 33 34 28 32 35 37 34 27 44 35 34 29 31 39 31 32 31 32 31 33 34 32 38 25 31 24 17 22 33 32 18 25 27 24 33 24 26 39 9 37 26 46 37 38 26 78 26

307 456 677 501 714 733 542 630 310 220 273 626 352 302 415 195 240 304 157 586 305 267 296 141 203 134 331 159 385 317 141 149 217 395 218 229 84 259 125 60 124 83 46 123 203 396 17 260

28 59 93 58 79 94 63 62 33 42 31 63 48 43 44 27 25 41 19 63 37 40 39 21 22 16 31 12 34 42 17 10 26 37 24 33 17 25 23 2 18 12 10 17 26 31 11 24

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Stakes wins 3 9 6 12 6 4 3 2 5 4 2 2 4 2 2 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 3 0 4 2 1 1 0 2 1 1 0 2 1 5 1 0 0 0 0 3 1 1 1 2 1

Earnings 2,117,701 1,511,200 1,477,302 1,411,600 1,344,589 1,331,691 1,076,492 1,051,626 844,392 829,486 762,033 635,780 610,340 608,849 563,703 562,009 505,025 503,522 498,574 498,572 489,018 462,981 453,144 446,148 433,754 433,641 413,997 412,501 411,673 411,013 399,448 356,581 352,301 337,877 332,113 302,650 301,691 276,190 260,292 258,062 252,974 245,360 242,771 237,229 234,894 225,033 220,914 212,976

leading sires by distance Leading European sires of milers (7f-8f) in 2016 (by prize-money earned (£) to November 2, 2016) Stallion Galileo (IRE) Pivotal (GB) Iffraaj (GB) Dark Angel (IRE) Lope De Vega (IRE) Dubawi (IRE) Invincible Spirit (IRE) Shamardal (USA) Siyouni (FR) Paco Boy (IRE) Cape Cross (IRE) Acclamation (GB) Footstepsinthesand (GB) Exceed and Excel (AUS) Kodiac (GB) Dutch Art (GB) Fastnet Rock (AUS) Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) Le Havre (IRE) Lawman (FR) Teofilo (IRE) Makfi (GB) Rip Van Winkle (IRE) Rock of Gibraltar (IRE) Sea The Stars (IRE) Kendargent (FR) Elusive City (USA) Dansili (GB) Areion (GER) Zoffany (IRE) Fast Company (IRE) Arcano (IRE) Raven’s Pass (USA) Kyllachy (GB) Canford Cliffs (IRE) Whipper (USA) Oasis Dream (GB) American Post (GB) Mount Nelson (GB) Bushranger (IRE) Soldier Hollow (GB) Kheleyf (USA) Tamayuz (GB) Poet’s Voice (GB) Clodovil (IRE) Myboycharlie (IRE) Literato (FR)

Runners 117 119 134 191 106 138 164 162 90 94 110 176 112 157 161 127 107 157 85 160 96 106 98 112 56 99 122 91 95 106 90 102 81 131 108 62 118 57 51 137 61 120 60 87 80 88 27

Winners 40 47 39 54 36 44 49 49 35 19 32 52 40 39 47 38 29 41 20 48 30 29 26 25 18 24 35 35 36 25 15 36 20 38 23 15 35 15 9 31 18 35 16 20 23 12 10

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W/R

Starts

Wins

34 39 29 28 34 32 30 30 39 20 29 30 36 25 29 30 27 26 24 30 31 27 27 22 32 24 29 38 38 24 17 35 25 29 21 24 30 26 18 23 30 29 27 23 29 14 37

274 349 429 617 314 335 498 479 328 277 308 642 462 474 533 372 273 524 247 491 272 293 272 345 124 314 426 274 351 304 309 365 228 446 303 242 333 208 151 475 149 439 173 223 299 226 99

55 63 53 71 50 61 63 58 44 27 43 76 58 53 66 50 40 60 27 60 37 41 31 36 25 28 44 40 53 31 21 53 29 53 29 20 46 19 15 35 22 51 21 24 36 13 13

Stakes wins 18 1 5 9 7 11 2 9 6 3 5 4 7 3 3 5 4 3 4 4 2 5 3 3 4 2 0 3 3 4 4 1 5 2 1 2 1 0 0 1 2 0 3 3 0 0 1

Earnings 4,625,621 1,673,590 1,519,963 1,483,362 1,339,966 1,262,603 1,226,529 1,197,053 1,175,596 1,164,780 1,060,687 1,059,374 945,012 834,878 807,974 797,295 770,871 764,992 754,563 741,535 718,197 688,220 640,263 635,186 583,483 580,163 574,339 542,081 527,007 492,055 479,373 472,457 463,113 462,978 451,906 448,652 447,934 406,298 393,010 377,831 377,445 348,902 344,536 333,405 316,848 316,531 312,635

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leading sires by distance Leading European sires of intermediate runners (9f-10f) in 2016 (by prize-money earned (£) to November 2, 2016) Stallion Dubawi (IRE) Galileo (IRE) Wootton Bassett (GB) Shamardal (USA) Teofilo (IRE) Myboycharlie (IRE) Le Havre (IRE) Lope De Vega (IRE) Pivotal (GB) Sea The Stars (IRE) Dansili (GB) Fastnet Rock (AUS) Rock of Gibraltar (IRE) Footstepsinthesand (GB) New Approach (IRE) Mastercraftsman (IRE) Lawman (FR) Dylan Thomas (IRE) Makfi (GB) Kendargent (FR) American Post (GB) Invincible Spirit (IRE) Elusive City (USA) Iffraaj (GB) Slickly (FR) Areion (GER) Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) Aussie Rules (USA) Whipper (USA) Champs Elysees (GB) Mount Nelson (GB) Siyouni (FR) Manduro (GER) Air Chief Marshal (IRE) Cape Cross (IRE) Soldier Of Fortune (IRE) Silver Frost (IRE) Acclamation (GB) Dalakhani (IRE) Sir Percy (GB) Soldier Hollow (GB) Motivator (GB) Big Bad Bob (IRE) Oasis Dream (GB) Kodiac (GB) Poet’s Voice (GB) Dark Angel (IRE) Tamayuz (GB)

Runners 106 135 10 80 102 56 85 58 81 79 101 95 106 68 83 111 113 76 77 64 70 50 70 80 75 56 89 54 73 72 50 55 78 62 94 57 53 59 48 76 48 46 49 75 48 44 66 40

Winners 36 38 3 35 26 10 23 13 25 31 30 25 28 18 15 22 26 22 27 20 16 8 14 24 12 20 21 12 17 22 14 7 16 16 24 10 7 14 11 17 16 10 13 19 9 8 15 16

W/R

Starts

Wins

34 28 30 44 25 18 27 22 31 39 30 26 26 26 18 20 23 29 35 31 23 16 20 30 16 36 24 22 23 31 28 13 21 26 26 18 13 24 23 22 33 22 27 25 19 18 23 40

224 269 24 221 232 123 254 142 199 158 242 229 333 224 145 313 289 248 214 198 242 136 225 213 207 169 235 189 242 174 133 119 184 174 198 165 165 150 117 189 121 106 116 184 125 98 153 106

45 42 7 46 32 13 30 15 29 39 36 42 39 27 17 33 30 29 35 27 21 13 18 28 16 25 23 16 21 32 16 8 21 22 28 12 10 17 13 20 21 14 20 21 13 10 20 19

courtesy of the-racehorse.com Stakes wins 16 13 5 11 6 3 3 3 4 4 2 4 1 1 3 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 5 1 3 1 2 3 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 2 0 3 3 2 0 0 2 0 0

Earnings 3,760,122 2,715,722 2,266,061 1,857,179 1,255,176 1,146,715 1,018,387 745,799 710,590 699,214 657,421 602,291 580,456 567,596 557,724 502,408 470,625 458,977 427,398 426,288 380,057 376,763 372,945 348,931 342,472 328,838 320,265 312,619 310,809 300,118 287,157 285,138 284,696 282,948 281,744 281,609 276,117 275,397 272,623 272,442 268,783 262,285 250,899 245,662 238,304 200,196 199,100 182,258

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Runners

Winners

W/R

Starts

Wins

Galileo (IRE) 132 46 35 297 52 Dubawi (IRE) 55 20 36 124 33 Sea The Stars (IRE) 67 25 37 155 29 Soldier Hollow (GB) 35 15 43 103 19 Adlerflug (GER) 34 12 35 92 14 Champs Elysees (GB) 83 23 28 247 37 Fastnet Rock (AUS) 74 20 27 164 25 Dansili (GB) 58 16 28 138 21 Mastercraftsman (IRE) 82 25 30 222 33 Pivotal (GB) 41 10 24 88 10 Zoffany (IRE) 24 5 21 63 9 Dylan Thomas (IRE) 62 17 27 172 25 Air Chief Marshal (IRE) 31 10 32 90 14 Dalakhani (IRE) 53 17 32 163 25 Lord of England (GER) 42 11 26 90 12 Cape Cross (IRE) 74 20 27 206 27 Silver Frost (IRE) 34 10 29 95 12 Shamardal (USA) 35 5 14 80 10 Sir Percy (GB) 77 21 27 242 33 Mount Nelson (GB) 43 10 23 108 13 Authorized (IRE) 76 14 18 188 21 Teofilo (IRE) 76 20 26 188 22 Soldier Of Fortune (IRE) 56 21 38 182 28 American Post (GB) 55 13 24 187 15 Manduro (GER) 78 22 28 167 28 Le Havre (IRE) 44 14 32 100 17 Nayef (USA) 48 16 33 137 20 New Approach (IRE) 57 12 21 114 16 Stormy River (FR) 45 10 22 144 17 Medicean (GB) 48 14 29 141 19 Rock of Gibraltar (IRE) 72 12 17 166 16 Whipper (USA) 42 7 17 127 10 Pounced (USA) 6 2 33 13 3 Lawman (FR) 64 12 19 170 18 Aussie Rules (USA) 45 13 29 141 21 Tamayuz (GB) 25 8 32 87 13 Slickly (FR) 52 10 19 146 13 Oasis Dream (GB) 32 9 28 95 12 Muhtathir (GB) 35 8 23 112 10 Intikhab (USA) 14 3 21 39 4 Kallisto (GER) 8 3 38 23 3 Siyouni (FR) 16 6 38 62 6 Pour Moi (IRE) 32 6 19 82 7 Gold Away (IRE) 30 7 23 120 11 Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) 46 12 26 103 13 Rip Van Winkle (IRE) 51 15 29 128 18 Beat Hollow (GB) 15 6 40 51 6 Makfi (GB) 44 10 23 88 15

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Stakes wins

Earnings

17 7,746,370 12 4,313,867 7 2,600,483 2 673,394 5 631,711 2 577,546 6 561,965 4 551,848 3 531,900 1 510,721 3 488,535 2 478,067 1 471,167 3 462,135 2 462,020 1 439,271 2 398,965 2 390,419 0 345,534 5 344,676 1 314,965 1 307,522 0 301,259 0 285,477 3 276,482 1 261,492 1 239,991 1 215,604 1 208,912 1 208,240 1 204,396 0 194,884 2 190,449 0 181,906 0 178,386 0 172,884 0 170,609 0 161,187 0 160,363 0 157,114 1 156,692 0 155,081 0 153,284 0 152,624 1 148,569 0 148,208 1 145,736 0 144,827

stakes sires

The master list SIRES OF STAKES WINNERS IN EUROPE AND UAE IN 2016

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 1, 2016 Data from Hyperion Promotions Acclamation Aclaim (Danroad) Attendu (Green Tune) Kassia (Stravinsky) Marsha (Marju) Mehmas (Machiavellian) Queen Catrine (King’s Best) Adlerflug Iquitos (Areion) Ito (Tiger Hill) Meergorl (Tertullian) Moonshiner (Monsun) Savoir Vivre (Monsun)

2L 3 L 1LL 22 3

12 2 2 3L 2

Air Chief Marshal Mont Ormel (King’s Best)

1L

American Post Kourkan (Keos) Quarterback (Surumu)

L 33

Approve Sopran Verne (Mujadil) Swift Approval (Spectrum) Aqlaam Sea Of Flames (Alhaarth) Arakan Sruthan (Mark Of Esteem) Toormore (Danetime)

L L

L

L 2

Archipenko Algometer (Alzao) Time Warp (Stormy Atlantic) Va Bank (Dilshaan) Areion Arazza (Lomitas) Articus (Medicean) Devastar (Platini) Palace Prince (Tiger Hill) Shy Witch (Monsagem) Wonnemond (Surako) Aussie Rules Game Theory (Tertullian) Ground Rules (El Prado) Quelindo (Fantastic Light) Sadalmelik (Medicean) Authorized Elite Army (Platini) Azamour Best Of Days (High Chaparral) California (Machiavellian) Hawksmoor (Danehill Dancer) Minotaur (Inchinor) Thikriyaat (Whipper) Twitch (Marju)

3L L 3

L 3L 3L 3 3 L

Bernstein Tepin (Stravinsky) Bertolini Coprah (Selkirk)

3L

Big Bad Bob Bocca Baciata (Desert King) Brendan Brackan (Unfuwain)

2L L

Born To Sea Sea Of Grace (Vettori)

L L L L

Bushranger Mobsta (Okawango) Now Or Never (Pivotal) Ridge Ranger (Indian Ridge) Ross Castle (Byron)

L

Byron Gordon Lord Byron (Intikhab)

2 3 2 L 3L L

1

Call Me Big Daring Match (Arazi) Campanologist Langtang (Oasis Dream) Canford Cliffs Al Jazi (Cape Cross) Princess Asta (Unfuwain)

3

2L 3 3L 3

2

LL

3

3 3L

Bahamian Bounty Breton Rock (Rock Of Gibraltar) Donnerschlag (Diktat)

23 2

2 3L 1

Cape Cross Always Smile (Dubai Destination) L Awtaad (Shamardal) 12L Mister Universe (Selkirk) L Montataire (Smart Strike) L Moonlight Magic (Lammtarra) 3

2

Captain Gerrard Alpha Delphini (Cozzene) L

Arcano Erysimum (Alhaarth) Just Glamorous (Air Express) Kathy Dream (Be My Guest)

L 3 L

Beat Hollow Exosphere (Danehill) Fly With Me (Highest Honor) Wicklow Brave (Rainbow Quest)

Arch Rostova (Sadler’s Wells) Syphax (Kingmambo)

L 3

Bernardini Le Bernardin (Wild Again)

Captain Rio Champagne Or Water (Dynaformer) Jane’s Memory (Averti) Champs Elysees Dal Harraild (Grand Lodge) Shocking Blu (Almutawakel) Way To Paris (Cozzene)

L L L L LL

Choisir The Last Lion (Brief Truce) 13L Yulong Baobei (Bahamian Bounty) L Clodovil Shining Emerald (Zafonic) Compton Place Easy Road (Pivotal)

3L LLLL

Congrats Polar River (Empire Maker)

3L

Contat Schang (Tertullian)

3L

Dai Jin Girolamo (Surumu)

L

Dalakhani Alakhana (Galileo) Ayrad (Sadler’s Wells) Candarliya (Barathea) Golden Valentine (Caerleon) Moonrise Landing (Anabaa) Pacific Angel (Sadler’s Wells)

L L 2 3L L L

Dandy Man Big Time Baby (Tobougg) L Rapacity Alexander (Great Commotion) L Danehill Dancer Qemah (Rainbow Quest) 113 Smuggler’s Moon (Dubai Destination) L

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stakes sires Dansili Bess Of Hardwick (Rainbow Quest) Come Alive (Saint Ballado) Convey (Mr Prospector) Darabad (Selkirk) Discipline (Quest For Fame) Mahsoob (Montjeu) Muntahaa (Linamix) Platitude (Sadler’s Wells) Sarandia (Dashing Blade) So Beloved (Kenmare) Dark Angel Ardhoomey (Orpen) Birchwood (Exceed And Excel) Dame Du Roi (Authorized) Divine (Common Grounds) Easton Angel (Elnadim) Estidhkaar (Danetime) Gabrial (Mtoto) Harry Angel (Cadeaux Genereux) Log Out Island (Footstepsinthesand) Markaz (Atraf) Mecca’s Angel (Atraf) Melesina (Haafhd) Nations Alexander (Whipper) Persuasive (Choisir) Sovereign Debt (Most Welcome) Vona (Dansili)

L L L L L 3 L L L L

2 L L 3 LL L L 2 L 3 12 3 3L 3L L L

Deep Impact A Shin Hikari (Storm Cat) Akihiro (Anabaa) Makahiki (French Deputy) Real Steel (Storm Cat)

1 3 2 1

Delegator Delectation (Pivotal)

3

Deportivo Demora (Groom Dancer) Desert Prince Sun Devil (Hurricane Run)

L

LL

Doctor Dino Palinodie (Kouroun)

L

Dragon Pulse Legendary Lunch (Hansel)

L

Dream Ahead Al Wukair (Machiavellian) Basileus (Hussonet) Dubai Destination Black Sea (Royal Applause)

110

L LL

L

Dubawi Amazona (Monsun) L Ame Bleue (Danehill) L Bateel (Chief’s Crown) L Calare (Storm Cat) L Coronet (Darshaan) L Dartmouth (Galileo) 233 D’bai (Green Desert) L Diploma (Montjeu) L Gm Hopkins (Lomitas) L Intimation (Pivotal) L Journey (Montjeu) 13L Laugh Aloud (Singspiel) L Left Hand (Singspiel) 13 Move Up (Soviet Star) 33 New Bay (Zamindar) 3 Nezwaah (Dansili) L Pabouche (High Chaparral) L Postponed (Dubai Destination) 1 1 1 2 Powder Snow (Sadler’s Wells) L Raseed (Fantastic Light) 3 Rose De Pierre (Danehill) L Safety Check (Royal Academy) 22 Shamreen (Bahri) 2 Sheikhzayedroad (Highest Honor) 2 2 3 Skiffle (King’s Best) L So Mi Dar (Singspiel) 3L Tanaza (Dalakhani) 3 Time Test (Dansili) 23 Wuheida (Singspiel) 1 Duke Of Marmalade Big Orange (Fasliyev) 22 Duchess Andorra (Cadeaux Genereux) 3 Duke Derby (Medaaly) L Pamona (Inchinor) L Responsibleforlove (Vettori) L Simple Verse (Sadler’s Wells) 2 Sound Of Freedom (Invincible Spirit) 1 Swinging Duke (In The Wings) L Dutch Art Arthenus (Efisio) L Besotted (Barathea) L Don’t Touch (Falbrav) L Dutch Connection (Dubai Destination) 2 Eternally (Pivotal) L Evil Spell (Fasliyev) L Flanders Flame (Redback) L Zonderland (Pivotal) 3L Dylan Thomas Arya Tara (Barathea) Caspian Prince (Rainbow Quest) Dylan Mouth (Noverre) Nightflower (Peintre Celebre) Dynaformer Forever Popular (Real Quiet)

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Elnadim Arabda (Seeking The Gold)

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Elusive City Carpathian (Tiger Hill) Love Spirit (Indian Ridge) Magnanime (Redoute’s Choice)

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Elusive Quality Ambassadorial (Discreet Cat)

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Elzaam Clem Fandango (Coronado’s Quest)

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English Channel Foxtrot Charlie (Storm Cat) Our Channel (Rahy)

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Equiano Alicante Dawn (Rock Of Gibraltar)

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Medicine Jack (Formidable) The Tin Man (Bishop Of Cashel)

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Exceed And Excel Belgian Bill (Singspiel) Cotai Glory (Elusive Quality) Hit The Bid (Selkirk) Marenko (Pivotal) Morawij (Piccolo) Priceless (Rudimentary) Red Box (Singspiel) Shanghai Glory (Hector Protector) Signora Queen (Street Cry) Windfast (Docksider) Yalta (Elusive Quality)

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Excellent Art Aim To Please (Anabaa Blue) Dynamic Lips (Konigstiger)

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stakes sires It was something of a breakthough year for Fastnet Rock – his daughter Intricately (right), out of a Galileo mare, was one of three Group 1 winners in 2016 for the son of Danehill

Exchange Rate Rodaini (Pulpit)

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Falco Falconet (Woodman)

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Famous Name Escobar (Brief Truce) Fast Company Devonshire (Trans Island) Jet Setting (Johannesburg) Val Nanda (Xaar) Fastnet Rock Cougar Mountain (Nureyev) Fascinating Rock (Polar Falcon) Intricately (Galileo) Laganore (Royal Applause)

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One Foot In Heaven (Peintre Celebre) 2 2 3 L Rivet (Galileo) 12 Somehow (Sadler’s Wells) 3L Tres Rock Glory (Monsun) L Zhukova (Galileo) 33L Footstepsinthesand Fourioso (King’s Best) Heshem (Stravinsky) Kaspersky (Grand Lodge) Larchmont Lad (King’s Best) Onenightidreamed (Pivotal) Pas De Soucis (Whipper) Frankel Fair Eva (Observatory) Frankuus (Linamix) Queen Kindly (Rahy) Toulifaut (Darshaan)

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Fuisse High Alpha (Daliapour)

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Galileo Alice Springs (Danehill Dancer) 111 Apple Betty (Mozart) L Beacon Rock (Danehill Dancer) 3 Best In The World (Intikhab) 3 Black Sea (Lemon Drop Kid) L Bondi Beach (Danehill) 3L Capri (Anabaa) 2L Churchill (Storm Cat) 1123L Cuff (Danehill) L Decorated Knight (Storm Cat) 3L Found (Intikhab) 13 Highland Reel (Danehill) 1 Housesofparliament (Dixieland Band) 3 Idaho (Danehill) 2 Khaleesy (Invincible Spirit) L Launched (Darshaan) LL Maniaco (Anabaa) L Midterm (Oasis Dream) 3 Minding (Danehill Dancer) 11111 Mizzou (Darshaan) 3 Order Of St George (Gone West) 1 3 L Pretty Perfect (Danehill) 3L Promise To Be True (Danehill) 3 Rhododendron (Pivotal) 12 Sandro Botticelli (Dr Fong) L Sayana (Danehill) L Seventh Heaven (Johannesburg) 1 1 L Sir Isaac Newton (Danehill) 3L Sword Fighter (Grand Lodge) 2L The Gurkha (Danehill Dancer) 11 The Major General (Danehill) L Ulysses (Kingmambo) 3 US Army Ranger (Dalakhani) 3 Waldgeist (Monsun) 1

Hat Trick Toliman (Chester House) Hellvelyn Mrs Danvers (Kyllachy)

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Helmet Thunder Snow (Dubai Destination)

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Hernando Altesse (Selkirk)

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High Chaparral Nazbanou (Peintre Celebre)

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Hold That Tiger Holdthasigreen (Muhtathir)

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Holy Roman Emperor Flying Fairies (Sadler’s Wells) Hoku (Cadeaux Genereux) Kadra (Dalakhani) Parvaneh (Kahyasi) Rich Legacy (Galileo) Rich Tapestry (Sadler’s Wells)

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Hurricane Cat Hurricane (Hector Protector)

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Hurricane Run Hurricane Red (Trempolino)

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Iffraaj Latharnach (Danehill) Mehronissa (Beau Genius) Muffri’ha (Dansili) Nathra (Danehill) Ribchester (Marju) Tickle Me Blue (Groom Dancer)

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Gio Ponti Planchart (Green Desert)

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Greys Inn Forries Waltz (Rich Man’s Gold)

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Haafhd Fityaan (Selkirk) Hillbilly Boy (Desert King)

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Harbour Watch Tis Marvellous (Oasis Dream)

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Hard Spun Ghaamer (Seeking The Gold) Khusoosy (Galileo) Promising Run (Know Heights)

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Invincible Spirit Grendisar (Mark Of Esteem) 3L National Defense (Kingmambo) 1 Profitable (Indian Ridge) 123 Rivellino (Pivotal) L Shalaa (War Chant) 3 Signs Of Blessing (Seeking The Gold) 1 L Spirit Quartz (Rainbow Quest) LL Spirit Raiser (Classic Cliche) L

Harlan’s Holiday Pretty Girl (Candy Stripes)

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It’s Gino Rosebay (Dr Fong)

Intense Focus Intense Life (Machiavellian)

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Intikhab Circus Couture (Orpen) Lily’s Rainbow (Indian Rocket)

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stakes sires Jazil Sefri (Danzig)

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Jeremy Queen Blossom (Mark Of Esteem) Success Days (Roi Gironde)

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Kallisto Nepal (Soldier Hollow)

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Kendargent Jimmy Two Times (Anabaa) Restiana (Montjeu) Xaarino (Xaar)

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Kheleyf Plusquemavie (Sri Pekan)

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King’s Best Best Fouad (Riverman) Kings Fete (Singspiel) Sagaroi (Linamix)

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Kitten’s Joy Bobby’s Kitten (Forestry) Hawkbill (Giant’s Causeway) Taareef (Carson City)

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Kodiac Apex King (Rainbow Quest) Ardad (Red Clubs) Best Solution (Kingmambo) Gifted Master (Shamardal) On Her Toes (Averti) Prince Of Lir (Whipper)

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Kodiak Kowboy Cool Cowboy (Grand Slam)

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Kyllachy Ashadihan (Malibu Moon) Kyllachy Queen (King Charlemagne) Mujadil Lachy (Daggers Drawn) Twilight Son (Bin Ajwaad)

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Lando Landym (Desert Prince)

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Rymska (Lend A Hand) Sotteville (Verglas) Zghorta Dance (Anabaa)

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Le Vie Dei Colori Tullius (Kingmambo)

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Lemon Drop Kid Cannock Chase (Horse Chestnut)

Lawman Chartreuse (King’s Best) Dicton (Giant’s Causeway) Double Dream (High Chaparral) Harbour Law (Pivotal)

Le Havre La Cressonniere (Galileo) Qatar Power (Aldebaran)

Protectionist: the son of Monsun added the Grosser Preis Von Berlin to his Group 1 haul after his Melbourne Cup success in 2014

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Linngari Garlingari (Poliglote) Literato Calantha (Galileo) Kambura (Kaldoun) Lope De Vega Belardo (Danehill) Candy Store (Noverre)

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Eskimo Point (Daylami) Fort Del Oro (Redback) Jemayel (Homme De Loi) Navarra King (Singspiel) She Is No Lady (Cape Cross) South Seas (Mizzen Mast) Steel Of Madrid (Royal Applause) The Right Man (Warning) Very Special (Danehill) Lord Of England Isfahan (Polar Falcon) Near England (Galileo) Penny Lane (Surumu) Lord Shanakill My Dream Boat (Choisir) Lucky Pulpit California Chrome (Not For Love)

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Makfi Maimara (Hernando) Mate Story (Giant’s Causeway) Noor Al Hawa (Street Cry) Not Only Florina (Monsun)

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Manduro Duretto (Lando) Plein Air (Galileo) Red Stars (Galileo) Techno Queen (Priolo) Vazirabad (Linamix) Wanderina (Dashing Blade)

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Mastercraftsman Carnachy (Tobougg) Even Song (Sadler’s Wells) Mambomiss (Kingmambo) Spring Master (Caerleon)

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Mayson Global Applause (Royal Applause) Private Matter (Azamour) Rosie Briar (Kris) Medaglia d’Oro Floodlight (A P Indy) Talismanic (Machiavellian)

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Arles (Danehill) L Lopera (Anabaa) L Protectionist (Peintre Celebre) 12 The Juliet Rose (Dubai Destination) 2 3 L Vadamos (Peintre Celebre) 123 Montjeu Impressionist (Darshaan) Justice Belle (Woodman) Sky Kingdom (Starcraft)

Medecis Again Charlie (Kendor)

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Medicean Alveena (Spinning World)

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Milanais Damila (Marchand De Sable)

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More Than Ready Boynton (Distorted Humor) Mokarris (Street Cry) More Aspen (Jade Hunter) Nemoralia (Came Home)

Monsun Arab Spring (Darshaan)

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Moss Vale Harlem Shake (Mujadil)

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Mossman Buffering (Anabaa) Motivator Banzari (Cape Cross) Pallasator (Ezzoud) Sky Hunter (Silver Hawk)

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Mount Nelson Berkshire (Dr Devious) L Boscaccio (Medicean) 2L Elbereth (Desert Prince) L Highlands Queen (Polish Precedent) 2 3 Maleficent Queen (Manila) L Mountain Bell (Mark Of Esteem) L Strawberry Martini (Lomitas) L Weltmacht (Sternkoenig) LL Mountain Cat Waneta (Running Stag)

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Mr Vegas Cosmelli (Lomitas)

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Mujahid Brex Drago (Barathea) Cleo Fan (Best Of The Bests) Penalty (Noverre)

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My Risk Kontrastat (Linamix)

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Myboycharlie Camprock (Sadler’s Wells) Cheikeljack (Giant’s Causeway) Landfall (Arch) Sweet Charity (Peintre Celebre)

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Nayef Al Wathna (Marju) Sussudio (Monsun)

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New Approach Beautiful Romance (Cape Cross) Elliptique (Kendor) Mount Logan (Distant View) Nearly Caught (Danehill) Potemkin (Big Shuffle)

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Norse Dancer Norse King (Barathea)

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Oasis Dream Incahoots (Inchinor) Justineo (Montjeu) Muarrab (Wolfhound)

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Oratorio Hawke (Sadler’s Wells)

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Paco Boy Galileo Gold (Galileo) Rainbow Royal (Haafhd) Pastoral Pursuits Lightscameraction (Efisio) Spiritual Lady (Elusive City)

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Pivotal Alignement (Maria’s Mon) Brando (Silver Hawk) Lightning Spear (Royal Academy) Loving Things (Galileo) One Man Band (Cape Cross) Porthilly (Titus Livius) Rosental (Kingmambo) Wings Of Desire (In The Wings)

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Poet’s Voice Mi Raccomando (Mtoto) Poeta Diletto (Selkirk) Poet’s Vanity (Thatching) Voice Of Love (Tale Of The Cat)

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stakes sires Pounced Aury Touch (Touch Gold) Full Drago (Almutawakel) Pour Moi Freedom Beel (Rainbow Quest) Only Mine (Rock Of Gibraltar)

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Power Biz Power (Tobougg) Cristal Fizz (Galileo) Peace Envoy (Dansili) Pleaseletmewin (Indian Ridge)

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Primo Valentino Clever Cookie (Ela-Mana-Mou)

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Proclamation Frosty Berry (In The Wings)

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Rail Link Chain Of Daisies (Kris) Trip To Rhodos (Mark Of Esteem) Wasir (Lomitas) Rajsaman Brametot (Law Society) Raven’s Pass Greg Pass (St Jovite) Ibn Malik (Storm Cat) Richard Pankhurst (Elmaamul) Secret Number (Alleged) Zayva (King’s Best) Rip Van Winkle Almorox (Mizzen Mast) Bravo Zolo (Bertolini) Creggs Pipes (Indian Ridge) Dick Whittington (Danehill) The Happy Prince (Oasis Dream) Rock Of Gibraltar Jallota (Fraam) Justwantacontact (Grand Slam) Miss Infinity (High Chaparral) Ray (Rainbow Quest) Rock Of Romance (Indian Ridge) Wordless (Hernando)

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Roderic O’Connor Haalick (Key Of Luck)

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Royal Applause Bridge Royal Game (Fasliyev) Nice Name (Zafeen)

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Saddex Bastille (Artan) Pas De Deux (Big Shuffle)

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Sageburg Spain Burg (Anabaa Blue)

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Sakhee’s Secret Wick Powell (Cape Cross)

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Santiago Fashion Queen (Chineur)

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Scat Daddy Caravaggio (Holy Bull) Lady Aurelia (Forest Wildcat)

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Sea The Stars Across The Stars (Mark Of Esteem) 2 Almela (Darshaan) L Astronereus (Surako) 3 Cloth Of Stars (Kingmambo) 23 Endless Time (Fantastic Light) 2 Harzand (Xaar) 113 Mekhtaal (Silver Hawk) 2 Mutakayyef (Pivotal) 2L Stellar Mass (Danehill) 3L Zelzal (Kingmambo) 13 Seeking The Gold Haatheq (Danzig)

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Sehrezad Millowitsch (Fath)

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Sepoy Baileys Showgirl (War Chant) Kilmah (Act One)

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Shamardal A Shin Erwin (Monsun) Aljazzi (Danehill Dancer) Alrahma (Oasis Dream) Anamba (Redoute’s Choice) Blue Point (Royal Applause) Dariyan (Selkirk) Doha Dream (King’s Best) Gouache (Dynaformer) Lumiere (Tobougg) Really Special (Monsun) Royal Solitaire (Nashwan) Show Day (Maria’s Mon) Speedy Boarding (Diktat) Subway Dancer (Galileo) Toscanini (Panoramic) Tryster (Riverman) Usherette (Maria’s Mon) Wildpark (Mark Of Esteem) Shantou Toe The Line (Charnwood Forest) Sholokhov Night Wish (Monsun)

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Dubai Group 1 winner Tryster is by successful international sire Shamardal Showcasing Conselice (Diktat) 3L Maximum Aurelius (Deputy Minister) L Moonlit Show (Lyphard) L Quiet Reflection (Haafhd) 1123 Tasleet (Cadeaux Genereux) 3

Siyouni Finsbury Square (Dyhim Diamond) 3 3 Siyoushake (Giant’s Causeway) 33 Spectre (Dai Jin) 3 Trixia (Lahint) 3 Volta (Machiavellian) 2L

Silver Frost Silver Step (Danehill Dancer) Silverwave (River Mist)

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Slickly Apilobar (Take Risks)

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Singspiel Take Cover (Magic Ring)

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Soave Cosachope (Indian Rocket)

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Sir Percy Alyssa (Galileo) Cleonte (Beat Hollow) Madrileno (Zilzal) Quebee (Intikhab)

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Sir Prancealot Madam Dancealot (Danehill) Sir Dancealot (Danehill Dancer)

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Sixties Icon Czabo (Danehill Dancer) Epsom Icon (Bahamian Bounty)

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Soldier Hollow Dschingis Secret (Platini) Serienholde (Highest Honor) Son Macia (Zinaad) Wai Key Star (Danehill) Well Spoken (Bertrando) Wilder Wein (Turtle Island) Soldier Of Fortune Amie Noire (Acatenango) Bokan (Desert Prince) Shutterbug (Polish Precedent)

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stakes sires Speightstown Hargeisa (Lomitas) Hathal (Royal Academy) Reynaldothewizard (Meadowlake)

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Starspangledbanner Home Of The Brave (Beat Hollow) Meliora (Noverre) Silver Rainbow (Linamix) Spangled (Pivotal)

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Stormy Atlantic Stormy Antarctic (Doyen) Stormy River Sans Equivoque (Malibu Moon) Storm River (Dernier Empereur) Tempete Nocturne (Desert Style)

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Strategic Prince Saent (Highest Honor)

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Street Cry Abingdon (Galileo) Pure Diamond (Platini) Tribal Beat (Mujahid)

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Sunday Break Brownie (Mark Of Esteem) Cavale Doree (Enrique)

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Tagula Humphrey Bogart (Kahyasi) Limato (Singspiel)

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Tamayuz Blond Me (Docksider) Ghaaly (Seeking The Gold) Making Light (Danehill)

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Tapit Frosted (Deputy Minister) Lani (Sunday Silence) Teofilo Adool (Storm Cat) Diplomat (Shaadi) Dubai Sand (Rock Of Gibraltar) Eziyra (Dubai Destination) Fireglow (King’s Best) Portage (Zamindar) Quest For More (Rainbow Quest) Scottish (Zieten) Special Fighter (Machiavellian) Twilight Payment (Oasis Dream) Tertullian Guiliani (Monsun)

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War Front’s pair of Group 1 fillies: Brave Anna (right) beating Roly Poly in the Cheveley Park Stakes Thewayyouare Thewayyouwish (Danetime) We Are Ninety (Sadler’s Wells)

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Thousand Words Opal Tiara (Fraam)

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Tiger Hill Fair Mountain (Silvano)

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Torrential Energia Davos (Maria’s Mon)

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Tot Ou Tard Star Victory (Kadrou)

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Trade Fair Nameitwhatyoulike (Emarati) Twirling Candy Viren’s Army (Oratorio) Unbridled’s Song Market Rally (Mr Greeley) Vale Of York Afandem (Teofilo) Verglas Let’sgoforit (Seattle Slew) Vertigineux Becquamis (Septieme Ciel) Vocalised Steip Amach (Noverre)

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War Chant Time Chant (Tale Of The Cat)

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War Front Bolting (A P Indy) Brave Anna (Sadler’s Wells) Guerre (Hennessy) Intelligence Cross (Unbridled’s Song) Long Island Sound (Pulpit) Roly Poly (Galileo) Royal Artillery (Dynaformer) War Decree (Street Cry) War Flag (Arch) War Pass Confrontation (Successful Appeal) Giftorm (Until Sundown) Whipper Settler’s Son (Darshaan) Waikika (Green Tune) Wiener Walzer Skarino Gold (Lando)

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Windsor Knot Asidious Alexander (Cadeaux Genereux) L Wootton Bassett Almanzor (Maria’s Mon)

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Zafeen Five Fifteen (Linamix) Son Cesio (Dansili)

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Zamindar Air Pilot (Dr Devious)

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Okana (Forest Wildcat) Our Last Summer (Dansili) Swiss Range (El Prado)

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ACCLAMATION

Creating His Own Legacy

• Leading Sire in GB/IRE & Europe in 2016 by Races Won, (ahead of Galileo, Kodiac, Exceed and Excel, Dark Angel, etc.)

(Source: Hyperion statistics 6/11/16) • 94 Stakes Performers incl. Gr.1 Winners; 34 Black Type Horses in 2015/2016 • Proven Sire of Sires with 4 Sons at Stud inc. Dark Angel and Equiano • 2016 yearlings sold for: €600,000, €320,000, €290,000, €250,000, €210,000, €190,000, €180,000, €170,000, etc.

MOOHAAJIM

Bred on similar lines to Golden Horn • Gr.2 Winning and Dual Gr.1 placed 2-Y-O

• Rated 116 as a 2-Y-O in GB/IRE versus Reckless Abandon (117), Olympic Glory (116), Gale Force Ten (115), Toronado (113), Sir Prancealot (111), Bungle Inthejungle (109) and Alhebayeb (105) in the same year.

• By Gr.1 Champion Sire Cape Cross out of a Kingmambo mare •First crop yearlings 2017

TAGULA

Multiple Group 1 Sire

• Proven source of precocious speed • Star Performer in 2016 was LIMATO Dual Gr.1 winner of 6 Stakes races and €1,190,000 • Gr.1 Sire of the World Champion Older Miler Canford Cliffs • Northern Dancer and Mr Prospector outcross

XTENSION

Tough, Consistent Dual Gr.1 Winner

• Dual Gr.1 Winning Miler in Hong Kong and Gr.2 Winning 2-Y-O in UK and over €3.4 million • Rated 116 as a 2-Y-O in GB/IRE versus successful young sires Showcasing (117) and Siyouni (117) in the same year.

• By a Gr.1 Champion Son of Zafonic and a Group 1 Sire • First crop yearlings 2017

Your Key to Success

STALLIONS FOR 2017 AJAYA

Group 2 Winning 2-Y-O

• Winner of Gr.2 Gimcrack Stakes, 6f. (defeating Ribchester etc.)

• 2nd Gr.2 Prix Robert Papin, 51/2 f. (to Gutaifan, beaten a head) • Placed Gr.1 Middle Park Stakes, 6f.

• Winner of Maiden over 51/2f. at York.

• 2015 Timeform rating 117 in GB/IRE versus Gutaifan (117), Ribchester (115) in the same year • From the family of BATED BREATH, CITYSCAPE and REDOUTE’S CHOICE • By Leading Sire and Sire of Sires INVINCIBLE SPIRIT

NEW FOR 2017

“AJAYA was a high-class two year-old blessed with bags of speed and a good temperament. His performance in the Gimcrack was a top-class one, beating subsequent Group 1 winner, Ribchester, and he loved fast ground. He is a thoroughly likeable colt who thrived on racing”.

William Haggas, Trainer

KODI BEAR

Group 2 Winner of 4 Stakes races Impressive 3-Y-O

• Winner of Gr.2 Celebration Mile, 8f. (defeating Cable Bay (IRE), Breton Rock (IRE), etc.).

NEW FOR 2017

• Winner of Gr.3 Sovereign Stakes, 8f. (defeating Custom Cut (IRE), etc.).

• Winner of L.R. Midsummer Stakes, 81/2f.

High Class 2-Y-O • Winner of L.R. Winkfield Stakes, 7f. (defeating Muhaarar (GB)).

• 2nd Gr.1 Dewhurst Stakes, 7f. (to Belardo (IRE), defeating Estidhkaar (IRE)) • Placed Gr.1 Prix Jean Prat, 7f.

• 2015 Timeform rating 123 in GB/IRE versus Belardo (123), Custom Cut (122), Estidhkaar (121), Cable Bay (119), Breton Rock (118) in the same year • From the family of ESOTERIQUE and COOL CREEK and by Multiple Stakes Producing Sire KODIAC KODI BEAR was a pleasure to train and showed a lot of class right from the beginning. He was an exceptional winner of the Sovereign Stakes and confirmed that form when winning the Celebration Mile at Goodwood in tremendous style. His temperament and appetite for racing was first class and I am sure he will pass on these qualities to his offspring”.

Clive Cox, Trainer Rathbarry Stud, Fermoy, Co Cork, Ireland.

Tel +353 (0)25 36362 rathbarr@iol.ie www.rathbarrystud.com

Contact: Catherine Cashman, Paul Cashman, Frannie Woods, Niamh Woods, Micheál Fahy or Paul McCarthy

yearling review

Above, the first-ever Goffs UK Premier Sale top lot was a son of Dark Angel, out of an Oasis Dream half-sister to Swiss Spirit, sold by Highclere and bought by Peter & Ross Doyle Bloodstock for £280,000 Left, Lot 222, the Tattersalls Ireland September Sale top lot

by Epaulette.

He was bought by Amanda Skiffington from Rathasker Stud for €150,000.

Below, the Goffs Orby sale topper –

by Dubawi and sold

by The Castlebridge Consignment, he was a John Ferguson purchase for €1.4 million

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Top, Lot 39, and, below, Lot 427, the Dubawi top lot duo sold at Tattersalls Book 1.

The pair shared a price of 2.6 million guineas, the third-best price ever given at the sale

yearling review

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he most significant event for European bloodstock through 2016 was a political one rather than anything directly linked to bloodstock or racing.

In the short run the victory for leave in the Brexit referendum in June changed the terms of trade for the European bloodstock market as sterling lost about 20 per cent of its value against both the euro and the US dollar between the major yearling sales of 2015 and those of 2016.

In the long run, Brexit and how and when it comes into effect, could transform the European bloodstock market.

Britain has been the centre of this market since the early 1980s when the Maktoum family, Prince Khalid Abdullah and other Middle Eastern owners, chose to base their racing and breeding operations in Britain.

The only moment when this position appeared to be in doubt was in the early 1990s when the combination of the first Gulf War and doubts about whether it was going to be possible to claim back VAT on bloodstock services and purchases in Britain meant that for a year or two the equilibrium looked in doubt.

Last time around, the questions and fears were resolved quickly, but whatever the final outcome or Brexit looks like, it is most unlikely to be settled in a hurry and in the meantime the British bloodstock market looks sure to lose at least part of its dominant position.

The weakness of sterling has a positive side, particularly against the US dollar as there are probably more potential customers who calculate in dollars than in euros, however, if it persists it will have a negative effect on supply.

Nobody chooses to sell in a weak currency, which is likely to become weaker when there is a low risk alternative at hand. For the many commercial breeders in Ireland keeping their best yearlings at home or going to France with them to sell will seem more attractive next spring than it did a year earlier.

The catalogues of both the first part of the Arqana August Sale and Goffs Orby Sale are going to be stronger in 2017 than they were in 2016 and this trend will continue until there is a settlement in sight.

The VAT question may turn out to be important, too, as in the event of what the British press call a “hard Brexit�, buyers of horses and bloodstock services who are based in the EU will have to pay VAT at rates to be decided in Britain, whereas in Ireland and

Major buyers: European Sales 2015 (in $) Buyer

Nos

Shadwell Darley Al Shaqab China Horse Club MV Magnier Mayfair Speculators Mohammed Obaid

Spend (m)

82 19.8 69 27.0 57 17.0 20 12.4 19 15.8 19 9.2 18 5.3

Combined 284 110 Average: 390,000 All other buyers Average: 80,000

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Major buyers: European Sales 2016 (in $) Buyer

Nos

Shadwell Darley Al Shaqab Coolmore & partners Mohammed Obaid HKJC

Spend (m)

97 27.9 54 26.2 43 11.3 14 14.6 25 8.6 20 4.9

Combined 253 93.5 Average: 370,000 All other buyers Average: 91,000

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yearling review France there will be no VAT due.

It is again difficult to imagine the British government will reduce VAT on bloodstock and so the possibility arises that a yearling bought in Britain will have 20 per cent VAT to be paid by non-British residents, whereas one in Ireland or France has none for all those people and companies based in the European Union!

The bloodstock market is an international one and in this respect British sales companies and commercial breeders have benefited from the EU.

Shadwell’s European spending in 2016 increased by 40 per cent compared with 2015

Tattersalls and Premier share fall

Looking at the major British sales the share of the market taken by Tattersalls October 1 and 2 and Goffs UK Premier fell from 67 per cent in 2015 to 61 per cent in 2016, and this trend is set to continue over the coming years.

The two features of the British yearling market in 2016 which stand out are a lack of demand at the bottom of the market, and a narrowing of an already sharp peak at the top of the market.

The China Horse Club was far less active in Britain in 2016 than it had been in 2015, and Markus Jooste and the Mayfair Speculators bought with only two exceptions as partners with the Coolmore group. With no new players at the top levels this meant less competition for the top lots.

At Tattersalls October 1, 2 and 3 combined the number of yearlings sold fell by 15 per cent, demonstrating the lack of demand in the lower part of the market.

The top of the market was dominated by Darley, Shadwell and trainer Roger Varian buying for Sheikh Mohammed Obaid. If you include Rabbah Bloodstock and a proportion of the purchases of Blandford, the Maktoum family and associates must have accounted for close to half of the turnover at the Tattersalls October 1 Book sale.

In sterling the average price at October 1 rose by around two per cent although in dollars, and these buyers were probably reckoning in dollars, it was down by 18 per cent.

If you take out the yearlings by Dubawi from 2015 and 2016 the average price for all of the other yearlings offered fell by five per cent in sterling and close to 25 per cent in dollars.

Select yearlings in Britain look very expensive if your income is in sterling, and the offshore clients who are active at the British select yearling sales are only interested

Major yearling sales by % of market share 2015 (in $) Sale Tattersalls 1 & 2 Arqana A + O Goffs Orby Doncaster Premier BBAG Sept

Nos sold

Aggregate (m)

1,048 781 371 416 187

201 68 38.9 27.5 7.2

% 59 20 11 8 2.1

Combined 2,803 342 Combined average price: 124,000 Major yearling sales by % of market share 2016 (in $) Sale Tattersalls 1 & 2 Arqana A + O Goffs Orby Goffs UK Premier BBAG Sept

Nos sold

Aggregate (m)

979 810 363 396 156

173 70.5 48 22.6 8.9

Combined 2,704

% 54 22 15 7 2.8

323 (-5.6%)

Combined average price: 116,000 (-6.2%)

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yearling review BBAG September sale topper was a daughter of Sea The Stars, bought by Mayfair Speculators and Doyle Bloodstock from Ronald Rauscher for €500,000

Major yearling sale 2016 performance compared with 2015 (in own currency)

Year Numbers Tattersalls Book 1, 2 and 3 (gns) 2015 1,536 2016 1,306 % change -14

Aggregate

Average

131,494,400 132,705,800 0.9

85,608 101,612 18.6

BBAG September (€) 2015 156 2016 187 % change 19.8

Arqana A + O (€) 2015 780 2016 809 % change 3.7

6,433,250 8,448,500 31.3

41,238 45,179 9.5

60,533,000 62,705,000 3.5

77,606 77,509 -1.12

Goffs Orby and Sportsman (€) 2015 575 2016 699 % change 21.5

43,824,200 45,489,400 4.7

76,216 65,077 -14.6

Goffs UK Premier and Silver Sale (£) 2015 515 2016 510 % change -0.9

19,126,500 18,711,500 -2.1

37,138 36,689 -1.2

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in a small segment of what is on offer.

Sterling has lost 40 per cent of its value against the dollar since the yearling market reached its last peak in 2007 and if this fall has helped to maintain the value of bloodstock in Britain it is only postponing the inevitable readjustment to come.

The Euro sales in Ireland, France and Germany are for the moment on a different trend altogether.

All of these sales sold more individual yearlings in 2016 than they had in 2015 and all featured new foreign and domestic buyers.

Arqana’s yearling sales featured the return after several years absence of Prime Equestrian, while Chantilly Bloodstock, acting for Jean Louis Bouchard and others, was a major buyer in August.

Other important buyers included Jean Claude Rouget, the Hong Kong Jockey Club, Sun Bloodstock, several different Japanese groups and Justin Casse.

The Baden-Baden September Sale was boosted by the return of the Mayfair Speculators and the Hong Kong Jockey Club, while buyers at the Goffs Orby Sale included several different groups of Americans such as Peter Brandt, Zayat Stables and Gatewood Bell, as well as Asian buyers like Julian Bahen and Sun Bloodstock. These buyers, and others like them, were not significant players at the British yearling sales.

These trends will swiftly become established if there is not a solution or a resolution of current uncertainties.

All select yearling sales are driven by success and if the Hong Kong Jockey was so active at Arqana this year it was probably because of the success of Pakistan Star who had been bought there in 2014.

If these new or returning buyers are not active in Britain they are not going to buy top horses there. Similarly, any short term change in the supply at any select yearling sale has a long run effect due to future results, or lack of them, on the racecourse.

Neither sales companies nor breeders have any influence over trade and taxation policies and can only try to adjust their own strategy as a result of wider macroeconomic trends.

When these trends are so hard to discern clearly commercial breeding looks to be a riskier business than ever.

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bloodstock comment

What happened at the sales this autumn?

Were the surprising and record-breaking results seen at this autumn’s top British bloodstock sales a fluke or a market trend?

A number of factors emerged to produce a strong market in October, and we ask whether the industry is doing itself a disservice by seeking to limit production when there is such a huge international demand for British and Irish-bred horses, as well as the “manufacturing” scope to meet that demand.

Instead, perhaps rather more needs to be done to increase domestic demand for lower and middle-ranking yearlings with more joined-up thinking linking yearling production with the HIT trade, while greater pressure needs to be put on British racing to view the industry as a “bloodstock product” and to work in conjunction with the breeding industry.

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t has been an interesting sales year. Much of the spring was spent dealing with the warnings of overproduction, that the bottom will fall out of the market, that we will be heading back into the gloom of 2007; instead many sales boasted record aggregates, high clearance rates, top prices not seen for years and generally positive vibes.

The numbers of foals and yearlings on the ground have indeed been increasing – again this year has seen an extra 500 born in Ireland and another 130 in the UK. So did we get just get lucky at this autumn sales season and get through to other side more by luck than judgement, or can we expect trends from this year to continue?

There are several mitigating factors behind this autumn’s sales, both in the yearling market and at the Horses in Training Sales, which led to many after the Tattersalls HIT Sale to describe trade as “amazing”.

1. Tattersalls, the dominant company in the market, very successfully managed its yearling and HIT numbers ensuring that the market was not flooded with low-value and sub-standard “product”.

2. Galileo, commonly known as the “best

stallion in the world” had 16 lots on offer through Book 1, Dubawi viewed as the “second-best stallion in the world” had 15, compared just with 11 in 2015, 10 in 2014 and six in 2013. In Book 2 through those corresponding years the Darley stallion had one, zero and one.

This autumn also saw the second yearling crop by Frankel sell, and he is commonly perceived as the most “exciting stallion in the universe”. He had 10 yearlings offered who sold at an average price of 735,00gns.

The top trio of stallions created a staggering turnover of 31,690,000gns, 35 per cent of the record Book 1 aggregate, with Dubawi providing an astonishing 14 million guineas of that value.

Their international dominance is a reflection to an extent of the quality product on offer in Britain and Ireland, the current stallion power we have, as well as the recent determined efforts by the sales companies and the marketing groups to ensure that our racehorse industry is viewed best in the world.

3. For the first time in what seems like

forever there was significant competition for the top lots, in particularly for the progeny by Dubawi.

In recent years, amongst those buying from the Middle East, there has been a quiet understanding that Sheikh Mohammed gets first preference, followed then by Sheikh Maktoum, and no one takes them on.

All other Middle Eastern buyers interested in racehorse ownership have generally grouped together under the Rabbah banner.

This year, Sheikh Mohammed Obaid with

trainer Roger Varian in charge of bidding and purchase (no bloodstock agent allowed) appeared to break ranks.

Varian battled with John Ferguson and Angus Gold for most of the stock by Dubawi, was a significant purchaser of 13 lots in Book 1 and 11 in Book 2 (not all for Obaid, but a majority) and was a multiple underbidder on many of the top lots.

As is oft-repeated in bloodstock market circles quite frequently the most important character in a sale is the underbidder.

These battles were mainly responsible for the huge turnover in Book 1, but the trickledown effect was also seen right through all the branches of the Newmarket yearling sale, down to the first day of Book 3. Wider batches of buyers needed to move down the books to fulfill purchase orders.

4. The purchasing merger of Mayfair

Speculators with Coolmore led to reduced spend (see page 121), but as a buying group the partnership was important in the autumn market and topped the BBAG September Sale.

If success from this year’s purchases is forthcoming, the union could develop into a significant entity in the bloodstock market as we move forward through the next decade.

Particularly if, in the Coolmore stallion ranks, a serious successor to Galileo is found.

5. A further major influence and perhaps

very important to the market, particularly at the horses in training sale, has been the continued weakening of sterling. This helped to increase the spending power and raise the demand for horses to go abroad (allied, of course, with the marketing efforts of the sales companies alongside the national breeders’ and racing associations).

Significantly, and in tandem wth this, has been the growing need for “better” racehorses abroad – Saudi Arabia does not want horses rated less than BHA 80, the Dubai Carnival

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bloodstock comment needs horses at least in the 90s, Hong Kong, as is known, is generally looking for horses rated over 100.

With high prize-money levels abroad, buyers backed by royal families and rich businessmen, and Britain producing horses who have the soundness of wind, limb and mind (as well as a limited HIT market around the world), why would anyone wanting to buy racehorses buy elsewhere?

Buyers from the Middle East particularly enjoy coming to auction, and enjoy the market atmosphere of purchase.

5. National Hunt buyers seemed more

enthused to buy at the HIT sale than for a number of years. This greater energy from the NH buyers quite possibly a response to the strong store horse market seen in Ireland this spring.

6. The strong private market of HIT and

form horses has also ensured that supply to the October HIT market is reduced focusing demand on a limited number of horses.

While a few moons certainly collided this autumn to produce such results, there is no reason to think it can not happen again.

I feel that those asking for a reduction in production have little faith in the excellent equine thoroughbred product on offer in GB and Ireland, fail to realise just how far ahead of many other producers GB and Ireland currently are, and just how reliant other countries with emerging horseracing industries are on buying here.

If this were a manufacturing or service industry, with such a vibrant and enthusiastic international market coming to our shores to either buy a top-end yearling to have trained in Europe or to take all levels of HIT horses back to their own countries, we would never ask that industry to start limiting production; especially if there is the space and manufacturing scope to realise that output.

Lower level lack of demand

Our problem is with a lack of demand in the middle and lower echelons of the yearling market. There has been such a push to maintain the higher quality of British racing and make the sport attractive to those investing in yearlings from Qatar and the Middle East, that racing has taken its eye off the ball at this level.

Currently, it makes little sense for the man-on-the British street to consider

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There is no point anymore for anyone in England to own a horse who is likely to be rated in the 60s

becoming involved in a racehorse. Due to the high costs of living in this country, training fees need to be high and they prohibit someone who is relying on even a decent wage to fund a horse in training – and with prize-money at such low levels, he has little chance of recouping his outlay.

Currently, there is no point anymore for anyone in England to own a horse who is likely to be rated in the 60s, and only just if it is rated in the 70s – unless he sells the horse as a three or four-year-old.

Obviously lots of owners do own lesser horses, because that is largest talent pool in the racehorse pyramid, but when owners are running for prize-money levels in the regions of £2,000, it makes no sense. The argument that money does not matter works to a point, but all owners like to get a return of funds to help cover the ever-growing expensive nature of training fees.

Further, it is impossible for “lower level” owners to try compete with buyers from abroad in the HIT market. This autumn what are considered in GB to be almost economically non-viable racehorses rated in the 60-70s were fetching a healthy 20,000gns to 30,000gns, bought by purchasers from Saudi, Kuwait, Qatar and Scandinavia.

Generally, there is no sense anyone in the UK spending money on a racehorse at that level, unless it is viewed that the horse has scope for significant improvement.

However, aside from the obvious needs for our racing industry to be attractive to owners at all levels, we need to continue to be producing enough mid-range horses for that incredibly healthy “second-hand” HIT market.

We need to ensure that home-based buyers purchase lower to middle market yearlings – those in the value of £10,000 to £40,0000 – and then sell them on again to supply this healthy second-hand market. Currently, we are in danger of failing to ensure that the first base is covered.

So what is required is not a limiting of production (aside from advertised limited stallion books, which is an important process

Sheikh Mohammed Obaid, owner of Postponed, had a huge influence on the market this autumn

of creating a value for that produce), but rather an increase in demand.

The racing industry needs to ensure that British-based owners can get in at the base level with a yearling – that yearlings bred into the board £10,000 to £40,000 category have a market and can be run on a viable economical basis.

Let those owners enjoy their sport, but it should be making something back for them.

They can race their horse in whatever options available until the horse is three or four, then their 65-rated horse can be returned to the sales where, and on the basis of the market this autumn, it can find a value between £10,000 and £25,000.

For such owners, if there were respectable prize-money levels monthly training fees can be met in part by prize-money returns, while that final HIT sale can help provide the perfect avenue toward reinvestment.

And, of course, if the magic arrow of luck strikes and our owner ends up with an aboveaverage horse, with the current huge HIT market in GB, that arrow could prove to be very valuable.

This argument is not to say that a yearling with turned-out feet, out of a mare without any racing form, by a stallion without a pedigree and if it can’t gallop, should have a value – quite clearly this sort of horse should not find a buyer at either the yearling or the HIT sales.

But I do believe we are in danger of talking

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In order to ensure that overproduction does not become a reality, it is up to racing to help increase domestic demand down our industry too much – even the so called “lesser” yearlings on the market in GB and Ireland will generally be by stallions who have something to recommend them, are far better produced (and are bred and raced drug free, which not all countries can boast) than in many other countries.

What needs to be understood by racing is the role it plays internationally as a product.

And not only for the betting and mediarights industries, but also as a way of providing high-end buyers with a racing and bloodstock product suitable for their requirements of investments, power and ego, whilst also providing the raw material “equine base source” for racing industries elsewhere.

If racing realises that it produces so much more economically than just as a betting product, perhaps it could be more strongly armed when it comes to negotiations?

In order to ensure that overproduction does not become a reality, it is up to racing to help increase domestic demand, and catch up with a bloodstock industry that has successfully created a huge international market for our home-produced horses.

And while many will shout “this will only produce betting fodder”, “there is too much racing”, racing needs to make it easier and more viable for British-based owners to own perfectly sound and competitive horses

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rated through the 60-70s.

This can only happen via some out-of-thebox thinking regarding creating differing types of races – such as auction-related races, more sponsored race series offering extra value – as well as options for bookmakers to support the industry in other ways.

The whole process just requires a little more joined-up industry thinking, realisation of the strength and a rarity value of our product.

An “improved” system will not only provide the betting industry with a product, but also the racecourses with the numbers of competitive horses needed for the races they wish to stage, whilst also ensuring that the bloodstock industry can continue to provide for the market it has developed and deserves to be rewarded for.

The last thing we want to be doing is sending international buyers to Australia, New Zealand or America to make their equine purchases.

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Stallion yearling averages Stallions with more than one lot sold, listed alphabetically and showing aggregate, average and colt and fillies’ figures from sales in Europe. In guineas, compiled by Weatherbys

Sire Name

Sold

Acclamation Adlerflug Aiken Air Chief Marshal Alfred Nobel Alkaadhem Al Kazeem Amadeus Wolf American Post Amico Fritz Appel Au Maitre Apple Tree Approve Arakan Arcadio Arcano Arch Archipenko Arctic Cosmos Areion Art Connoisseur Ask Assertive Atraf Aussie Rules Authorized Avonbridge Azamour Bahamian Bounty Bated Breath Beat Hollow

56 4,017,071 71,733 5 50,067 10,013 2 4,691 2,345 12 172,264 14,355 2 2,800 1,400 2 9,802 4,901 7 900,111 128,587 2 21,008 10,504 3 36,413 12,137 2 9,452 4,726 15 175,137 11,675 2 1,512 756 25 146,217 5,848 26 258,664 9,948 6 27,239 4,539 47 673,709 14,334 5 464,115 92,823 4 64,563 16,140 4 14,004 3,501 7 95,235 13,605 2 5,881 2,940 3 14,704 4,901 3 31,904 10,634 2 4,200 2,100 6 69,061 11,510 17 300,062 17,650 2 14,509 7,254 6 435,825 72,637 23 752,308 32,709 47 1,469,771 31,271 6 96,252 16,042

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Highest

Colt

Average

420,167 19,607 3,991 63,025 1,960 5,251 252,100 10,504 15,406 7,002 34,451 952 16,806 105,042 12,605 100,000 278,587 28,010 7,002 34,313 3,501 7,002 15,238 3,500 22,967 46,918 12,605 230,000 133,333 182,072 43,417

27 90,326 5 10,013 1 3,991 8 17,856 2 1,400 2 4,901 4 156,775 0 0 2 10,503 0 0 5 11,575 1 560 13 8,398 18 12,328 4 6,529 27 18,322 2 158,551 2 12,674 3 4,434 3 11,437 1 3,501 3 4,901 2 10,714 2 2,100 2 12,302 7 17,906 1 12,605 4 80,303 17 37,961 23 39,116 4 12,683

Filly

Average

29 0 1 4 0 0 3 2 1 2 10 1 12 8 2 20 3 2 1 4 1 0 1 0 4 10 1 2 6 24 2

54,423 0 3,991 7,352 0 0 91,003 10,504 15,406 4,726 11,726 952 3,0860 4,594 560 8,950 49,004 19,607 700 15,230 2,380 0 10,476 0 11,114 17,471 1,904 57,305 17,828 23,754 22,759

stallion yearling averages Sire Name

Sold

Bernardini Big Bad Bob Binary File Black Sam Bellamy Blue Bresil Blue Canari Born To Sea Cacique Califet Camacho Camelot Campanologist Canford Cliffs Cape Blanco Cape Cross Captain Chop Captain Gerrard Captain Marvelous Caradak Carlotamix Casamento Center Divider Champs Elysees Choisir (Aus) Cityscape Clodovil Cockney Rebel Cokoriko Compton Place Court Cave Dabirsim Dalakhani Dandy Man Dansili Dark Angel Dawn Approach Declaration Of War Delegator Deportivo Diamond Boy Diamond Green Dick Turpin Discreetly Mine Distant Music Doyen Dragon Pulse Dream Ahead Dubawi Duke Of Marmalade Dutch Art

3 56 2 8 3 3 40 11 6 55 85 14 33 4 26 3 13 2 4 3 58 11 60 24 18 28 3 3 16 7 38 4 59 15 88 40 72 9 3 2 5 6 1 2 3 31 39 17 3 48

Total 178,500 759,600 3,764 33,016 38,150 39,215 593,191 723,558 46,426 1,278,998 8,165,208 243,060 680,280 49,216 1,882,084 29,410 84,938 20,307 28,100 18,066 835,143 59,884 1,335,701 829,158 238,262 409,624 26,609 35,634 188,684 41,083 1,079,114 299,005 1,236,717 3,301,662 11,026,886 3,566,629 5,829,454 129,146 23,107 30,461 80,530 33,412 11,904 4,831 7,666 610,622 1,168,483 15,870,391 42,714 3,261,377

Average 59,500 13,564 1,882 4,127 12,716 13,071 14,829 65,778 7,737 23,254 96,061 17,361 20,614 12,304 72,387 9,803 6,533 10,153 7,025 6,022 14,399 5,444 22,261 34,548 13,236 14,629 8,869 11,878 11,792 5,869 28,397 74,751 20,961 220,110 125,305 89,165 80,964 14,349 7,702 15,230 16,106 5,568 11,904 2,415 2,555 19,697 29,961 933,552 14,238 67,945

Highest 105,000 84,033 2,823 11,428 17,507 18,207 55,000 210,000 11,554 125,000 400,000 48,000 110,000 17,506 224,089 21,008 18,207 11,904 21,000 14,005 65,000 11,483 220,000 91,036 68,000 45,000 13,305 28,711 28,571 11,904 91,036 160,000 154,060 650,000 700,000 275,000 380,000 58,000 14,005 28,011 42,016 16,806 11,904 4,201 4,901 71,428 170,000 2,600,000 21,007 315,126

Colt 1 25 1 3 2 3 22 7 5 36 44 8 17 4 10 1 10 1 4 3 34 5 35 13 11 18 1 2 11 6 24 4 25 9 42 21 47 8 2 1 1 5 1 2 2 24 23 13 2 31

Average 105,000 18,560 2,823 8,127 17,324 13,071 17,871 66,075 9,173 24,719 109,669 23,642 29,025 12,304 54,483 3,501 7,433 11,904 7,025 6,022 18,999 7,767 22,080 46,383 11,790 14,139 13,305 17,117 15,078 6,543 29,746 74,751 29,305 228,818 133,204 104,338 90,784 16,048 8,052 28,011 42,016 6,472 11,904 2,415 3,570 23,152 24,671 1,055,414 15,405 75,241

Filly

Average

2 31 1 5 1 0 18 4 1 19 41 6 16 0 16 2 3 1 0 0 24 6 25 11 7 10 2 1 5 1 14 0 34 6 46 19 25 1 1 1 4 1 0 0 1 7 16 4 1 17

36,750 9,534 941 1,726 3,501 0 11,112 65,257 560 20,478 81,457 8,986 11,678 0 83,578 12,954 3,536 8,403 0 0 7,881 3,508 22,514 20,560 15,510 15,511 6,652 1,400 4,564 1,820 26,084 0 14,825 207,049 118,093 72,396 62,503 761 7,002 2,450 9,628 1,050 0 0 525 7,852 37,564 537,500 11,904 54,641

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Sold

Dylan Thomas Eishin Dunkirk Elnadim Elusive City Elusive Pimpernel Elusive Quality Elzaam (Aus) Epaulette (Aus) Equiano Evasive Exceed And Excel (Aus) Excelebration Exchange Rate Fair Mix Falco Fame And Glory Famous Name Farhh Fast Company Fastnet Rock (Aus) Finjaan Finsceal Fior Firebreak First Defence Flamingo Fantasy Flemensfirth Footstepsinthesand Foxwedge (Aus) Frankel French Fifteen Frozen Power Fuisse Galileo Geordieland George Vancouver Getaway Great Pretender Haatef Hamond Harbour Watch Havana Gold Hellvelyn Helmet (Aus) Helsinki Henrythenavigator High Chaparral Holy Roman Emperor Hurricane Cat Hurricane Run Iffraaj

4 16 5 25 20 4 28 74 47 10 38 38 4 3 9 16 10 18 48 18 13 4 3 2 2 7 57 30 23 12 9 4 32 5 23 15 5 6 3 49 59 9 47 8 13 45 43 5 8 64

Total 18,486 216,530 51,598 388,645 94,141 227,573 434,473 2,380,848 1,232,101 151,605 4,042,722 988,938 228,990 7,380 234,909 153,562 138,716 813,904 738,008 1,945,557 87,066 34,309 18,571 26,500 2,100 72,824 1,338,121 444,800 11,585,862 222,683 66,381 58,821 13,934,490 12,591 293,757 86,055 80,250 11,380 5,880 1,032,527 1,553,241 151,309 1,522,523 24,824 206,970 2,503,253 2,140,956 31,511 200,382 5,887,009

Average 4,621 13,533 10,319 15,545 4,707 56,893 15,516 32,173 26,214 15,160 106,387 26,024 57,247 2,460 26,101 9,597 13,871 45,216 15,375 108,086 6,697 8,577 6,190 13,250 1,050 10,403 23,475 14,826 503,733 18,556 7,375 14,705 435,452 2,518 12,772 5,737 16,050 1,896 1,960 21,071 26,326 16,812 32,394 3,103 15,920 55,627 49,789 6,302 25,047 91,984

Highest 12,605 28,232 20,000 36,414 21,708 84,033 90,476 150,000 180,000 53,921 480,000 112,044 120,000 3,151 98,039 23,809 80,952 161,904 104,761 315,126 35,000 18,206 8,095 22,000 1,050 16,806 140,055 58,000 1,600,000 31,512 24,761 43,417 2,100,000 5,252 56,022 21,708 35,014 3,500 2,100 100,000 200,000 71,428 150,000 6,117 66,526 315,125 250,000 12,605 105,000 320,000

Colt

Average

Filly

Average

2 9 4 17 16 3 18 40 28 6 26 23 3 2 4 9 5 13 27 7 7 3 3 1 0 4 33 15 15 8 4 2 15 2 11 12 4 5 1 31 26 7 26 4 7 27 28 3 4 37

8,053 15,765 12,614 16,435 5,452 58,350 19,529 41,656 27,540 9,978 118,209 25,126 72,203 2,976 42,728 13,974 22,351 52,146 21,698 152,018 10,580 10,736 6,190 22,000 0 14,004 30,845 15,543 536,002 18,469 12,107 24,159 279,514 4,201 14,419 6,751 19,705 2,164 2,100 24,603 41,312 17,828 43,995 3,147 15,745 63,909 59,037 7,936 37,191 96,697

2 6 1 8 4 1 10 34 19 4 12 15 1 1 5 7 5 5 21 11 6 1 0 1 2 3 24 15 8 4 5 2 17 3 12 3 1 1 2 18 33 2 21 4 6 18 15 2 4 27

1,190 10,654 1,142 13,655 1,724 52,521 8,294 21,017 24,261 22,933 80,771 27,401 12,380 1,428 12,799 3,970 5,391 27,200 7,244 80,129 2,166 2,100 0 4,500 1,050 5,601 13,342 14,109 443,227 18,732 3,590 5,251 573,045 1,396 11,262 1,680 1,428 560 1,890 14,989 14,518 13,253 18,030 3,058 16,125 43,205 32,526 3,851 12,904 85,526

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stallion yearling averages Sire Name Imperial Monarch Intello Intense Focus Intikhab Invincible Spirit It’s Gino Jeremy Jukebox Jury Kallisto Kamsin Kapgarde Kayf Tara Kendargent Kentucky Dynamite Kheleyf Kitten’s Joy Kodiac Kyllachy Lawman Le Fou Le Havre Lemon Drop Kid Leroidesanimaux (Brz) Lethal Force Libranno Lilbourne Lad Linda’s Lad Linngari Liquido Literato Lonhro (Aus) Lope De Vega Lord Of England Lord Shanakill Lucarno Mahler Major Cadeaux Makfi Malinas Mamool Manduro Martaline Mastercraftsman Masterofthehorse Masterstroke Mawatheeq Maxios Mayson Mazameer Medicean

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Sold 13 51 23 19 51 10 16 15 2 14 2 14 49 5 15 3 131 38 44 3 47 2 14 65 2 33 3 6 2 7 5 41 8 25 5 14 5 28 3 4 20 6 75 3 6 2 43 37 3 16

Total 69,111 4,779,752 290,013 400,413 10,686,739 26,254 147,343 288,438 65,125 141,171 20,797 167,248 2,287,970 25,558 96,099 503,570 9,382,782 2,213,575 2,150,411 6,090 2,577,292 114,000 392,265 2,297,755 3,808 162,413 8,052 36,410 6,651 97,335 337,055 3,148,027 160,360 122,522 9,634 78,634 62,333 585,742 20,188 33,962 336,825 141,455 3,932,477 14,775 62,323 15,096 1,607,304 950,057 11,666 319,378

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Highest

Colt

Average

Filly

Average

5,316 93,720 12,609 21,074 209,543 2,625 9,208 19,229 32,562 10,083 10,398 11,946 46,693 5,111 6,406 167,856 71,624 58,251 48,872 2,030 54,836 57,000 28,018 35,350 1,904 4,921 2,684 6,068 3,325 13,905 67,411 76,781 20,045 4,900 1,926 5,616 12,466 20,919 6,729 8,490 16,841 23,575 52,433 4,925 10,387 7,548 37,379 25,677 3,888 19,961

13,655 300,000 60,924 90,000 525,209 4,201 29,411 63,025 59,523 40,616 19,047 36,190 525,000 11,204 23,809 325,000 380,000 270,000 329,131 2,240 364,145 72,000 70,000 160,000 2,666 22,408 3,151 14,005 4,551 33,613 140,055 400,000 56,022 11,904 6,302 16,106 45,000 57,422 8,761 17,507 56,022 52,521 165,000 8,753 18,207 8,095 168,067 88,000 5,000 55,000

10 32 11 12 35 6 14 11 2 9 0 8 27 3 9 1 59 24 21 3 28 1 7 40 1 18 3 3 1 5 5 26 5 17 2 9 2 14 2 3 11 3 41 2 3 1 27 21 2 12

6,687 107,512 13,985 22,442 220,581 2,216 10,199 21,892 32,562 12,993 0 16,785 38,036 4,551 8,442 91,036 85,732 68,767 59,436 2,030 49,550 72,000 36,918 43,380 2,666 7,008 2,684 6,068 2,100 8,402 67,411 67,700 24,649 4,926 3,431 7,718 3,428 19,978 7,713 8,986 18,907 34,080 59,951 7,177 8,636 8,095 41,701 32,211 3,333 19,956

3 19 12 7 16 4 2 4 0 5 2 6 22 2 6 2 72 14 23 0 19 1 7 25 1 15 0 3 1 2 0 15 3 8 3 5 3 14 1 1 9 3 34 1 3 1 16 16 1 4

746 70,492 11,347 18,729 185,400 3,238 2,275 11,904 0 4,845 10,398 5,494 57,317 5,952 3,352 206,267 60,063 40,225 39,227 0 62,624 42,000 19,119 22,501 1,142 2,417 0 6,068 4,551 27,660 0 92,520 12,371 4,847 924 1,834 18,492 21,860 4,761 7,002 14,316 13,071 43,366 420 12,138 7,001 30,085 17,101 5,000 19,975

stallion yearling averages Sire Name

Sold

Merchant Of Venice Midnight Legend Milan Milanais Mingun Monsieur Bond Montalegre More Than Ready Most Improved Motivator Mountain High Mount Nelson Muhaymin Muhtathir Mujahid Multiplex Mustameet Mutajally Myboycharlie Nathaniel Native Ruler Nayef Never On Sunday New Approach Norse Dancer Oasis Dream Orpen Oscar Paco Boy Panis Pastoral Pursuits Pastorius Pedro The Great Peer Gynt (Jpn) Peintre Celebre Penny’s Picnic Philomatheia Piccolo Pivotal Planteur Poet’s Voice Pour Moi Power Presenting Rajsaman Ramonti Raven’s Pass Reckless Abandon Redback Red Jazz

6 2 15 3 7 9 3 5 39 23 2 22 2 7 4 5 4 4 12 45 2 3 7 18 2 25 29 4 12 6 13 13 14 5 3 20 16 6 18 21 48 17 26 12 25 3 29 10 4 63

Total 15,308 30,475 158,325 15,054 20,702 162,894 9,802 337,206 747,582 611,769 2,940 394,926 8,403 103,078 12,603 12,665 14,074 20,232 294,532 2,482,602 1,522 36,711 54,619 1,758,005 25,713 3,803,904 445,628 69,186 191,215 124,647 174,466 257,360 138,648 63,723 80,531 498,169 137,030 78,013 1,519,631 212,300 1,068,037 383,400 851,647 145,455 470,229 19,256 1,125,435 519,347 7,729 990,515

Average

Highest

Colt

Average

Filly

Average

2,551 15,237 10,555 5,018 2,957 18,099 3,267 67,441 19,168 26,598 1,470 17,951 4,201 14,725 3,150 2,533 3,518 5,058 24,544 55,168 761 12,237 7,802 97,666 12,856 152,156 15,366 17,296 15,934 20,774 13,420 19,796 9,903 12,744 26,843 24,908 8,564 13,002 84,423 10,109 22,250 22,552 32,755 12,121 18,809 6,418 38,808 51,934 1,932 15,722

6,124 20,952 25,210 7,002 6,587 101,540 7,002 112,044 85,714 108,543 2,240 120,000 5,602 35,014 5,602 5,714 7,002 7,528 70,028 200,000 761 25,210 14,005 472,688 20,952 600,000 42,016 42,016 45,714 63,025 57,000 56,022 23,809 21,008 42,717 59,523 27,560 59,047 350,000 26,610 90,000 95,000 108,542 25,210 140,056 7,002 170,000 200,000 3,809 125,000

2 1 10 1 3 4 2 2 26 11 2 15 1 2 1 2 4 1 5 27 2 0 6 8 2 12 16 3 6 2 10 9 8 3 2 11 10 3 6 10 35 10 14 6 9 3 17 5 1 37

2,104 20,952 14,614 7,002 2,823 2,550 1,400 50,872 21,279 19,646 1,470 14,193 5,602 16,806 3,501 4,666 3,518 7,058 35,013 58,904 761 0 8,403 105,441 12,856 186,098 11,204 22,875 23,512 8,753 16,382 16,545 11,029 14,472 29,761 22,688 7,387 23,846 72,368 12,674 21,516 28,827 37,009 18,804 8,869 6,418 43,638 66,405 3,809 20,477

4 1 5 2 4 5 1 3 13 12 0 7 1 5 3 3 0 3 7 18 0 3 1 10 0 13 13 1 6 4 3 4 6 2 1 9 6 3 12 11 13 7 12 6 16 0 12 5 3 26

2,774 9,523 2,436 4,026 3,058 30,538 7,002 78,487 14,947 32,971 0 26,003 2,801 13,893 3,034 1,110 0 4,391 17,066 49,565 0 12,237 4,201 91,447 0 120,825 20,489 560 8,356 26,785 3,547 27,111 8,402 10,153 21,008 27,621 10,526 2,158 90,451 7,777 24,228 13,590 27,793 5,438 24,400 0 31,964 37,464 1,306 8,955

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stallion yearling averages Sire Name

Sold

Redoute’s Choice (Aus) Red Rocks Reliable Man Reply Requinto Rio De La Plata Rip Van Winkle Robin Des Champs Robin Des Pres Rock Of Gibraltar Roderic O’connor Royal Applause Royal Assault Saddler Maker Sageburg Sakhee’s Secret Samum Sans Frontieres Saonois Sayif Scat Daddy Schiaparelli Scorpion Sea The Stars Sepoy (Aus) September Storm Shakespearean Shamalgan Shamardal Shamdinan Shantou Shirocco Sholokhov Showcasing Silver Frost Sinndar Sir Percy Sir Prancealot Sixties Icon Siyouni Sleeping Indian Slickly Smart Strike (Can) Soave Society Rock Soldier Hollow Soul City So You Think (Nz) Special Quest Speightstown

17 6 18 2 16 15 39 3 2 47 27 8 3 2 5 4 3 4 5 12 7 3 9 38 35 3 2 4 39 2 3 22 7 42 8 8 18 35 10 38 3 7 2 2 87 27 2 31 5 3

Total 1,692,182 35,361 411,197 7,002 338,659 114,534 580,365 92,436 4,061 970,983 408,604 179,737 1,400 58,823 118,345 15,385 49,788 12,323 48,668 99,309 1,251,960 13,903 33,062 5,539,443 1,720,014 4,131 27,309 31,510 8,585,431 9,102 30,531 158,350 69,746 1,782,583 71,074 246,649 754,845 594,430 220,748 2,395,784 2,513 165,263 124,649 16,106 2,734,436 1,140,047 28,011 797,646 14,114 700,000

Average

Highest

Colt

Average

Filly

Average

99,540 5,893 22,844 3,501 21,166 7,635 14,881 30,812 2,030 20,659 15,133 22,467 466 29,411 23,669 3,846 16,596 3,080 9,733 8,275 178,851 4,634 3,673 145,774 49,143 1,377 13,654 7,877 220,139 4,551 10,177 7,197 9,963 42,442 8,884 30,831 41,935 16,983 22,074 63,046 837 23,609 62,324 8,053 31,430 42,223 14,005 25,730 2,822 233,333

350,140 10,504 84,033 3,501 125,000 23,809 115,000 46,918 3,501 105,042 85,000 36,190 700 37,815 45,518 5,714 44,817 4,061 15,406 20,000 336,134 6,666 10,504 700,000 200,000 3,151 22,408 10,504 870,000 4,901 16,106 32,212 21,008 220,000 29,411 165,000 120,000 82,000 140,000 266,106 952 94,537 105,042 10,504 210,000 210,084 17,507 91,036 5,646 525,000

12 4 8 1 11 9 20 3 1 35 17 5 2 2 3 1 1 3 3 8 4 2 8 25 23 2 1 2 25 0 3 12 5 20 4 7 12 18 8 19 2 3 0 1 57 13 2 18 1 1

87,246 6,914 33,378 3,501 18,609 6,112 15,313 30,812 3,501 19,655 22,033 24,480 350 29,411 16,339 5,714 3,501 3,454 11,087 7,056 199,061 5,713 3,894 146,688 37,816 1,785 22,408 8,753 196,690 0 10,177 9,206 13,571 56,369 11,204 34,635 48,495 21,553 24,825 46,107 856 34,546 0 5,602 42,068 48,480 14,005 31,846 2,352 525,000

5 2 10 1 5 6 19 0 1 12 10 3 1 0 2 3 2 1 2 4 3 1 1 13 12 1 1 2 14 2 0 10 2 22 4 1 6 17 2 19 1 4 2 1 30 14 0 13 4 2

129,045 3,851 14,417 3,501 26,792 9,920 14,425 0 560 23,585 3,402 19,111 700 0 34,663 3,223 23,143 1,960 7,702 10,714 151,904 2,476 1,904 144,017 70,852 560 4,901 7,002 262,011 4,551 0 4,786 945 29,781 6,564 4,201 28,815 12,145 11,071 79,986 800 15,405 62,324 10,504 11,217 36,414 0 17,262 2,940 87,500

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stallion yearling averages Sire Name

Sold

Spirit One Sri Putra Stimulation Storm Mountain Stormy River Stowaway Street Cry Style Vendome Sulamani Sunday Break (Jpn) Swiss Spirit Tagula Tai Chi Tamayuz Teofilo Tertullian Thewayyouare Timos Tin Horse Tough As Nails Trans Island Turati Universal Vale Of York Verde Mar (Brz) Vertigineux Vinnie Roe Violence Virtual Vision D’etat Vocalised Watar Well Chosen Westerner Westlake Whipper Wiener Walzer Wiesenpfad Wootton Bassett Worthadd Yeats Youmzain Zaahid Zafeen Zambezi Sun Zanzibari Zebedee Zoffany

2 8 3 3 6 5 2 26 3 7 51 15 4 7 28 9 36 3 13 5 3 2 3 9 7 3 2 2 1 4 6 5 4 3 1 4 4 6 21 8 19 5 4 2 5 3 67 72

Total 14,005 47,965 35,000 6,301 78,428 23,120 230,055 717,073 19,522 135,151 1,295,583 51,601 38,163 208,638 2,602,847 105,447 298,822 12,253 135,489 52,393 13,332 5,601 47,619 16,124 32,150 8,051 2,170 72,575 3,501 36,412 35,499 11,426 18,520 28,710 2,500 55,320 12,182 37,812 586,980 115,344 176,607 126,748 19,520 30,811 14,704 30,111 903,229 3,263,369

Average

Highest

Colt

7,002 5,995 11,666 2,100 13,071 4,624 115,027 27,579 6,507 19,307 25,403 3,440 9,540 29,805 92,958 11,716 8,300 4,084 10,422 10,478 4,444 2,800 15,873 1,791 4,592 2,683 1,085 36,287 3,501 9,103 5,916 2,285 4,630 9,570 2,500 13,830 3,045 6,302 27,951 14,418 9,295 25,349 4,880 15,405 2,940 10,037 13,481 45,324

7,703 8,403 18,000 3,501 38,515 7,002 140,055 140,056 8,571 38,515 130,000 12,605 19,607 100,000 350,140 35,714 60,000 8,403 35,014 17,507 8,095 3,851 20,000 4,901 7,655 3,501 1,330 55,069 3,501 13,305 15,405 4,761 8,403 14,005 2,500 28,711 4,901 10,504 84,033 33,333 21,008 70,028 8,421 16,106 5,602 17,507 71,428 210,000

1 5 1 0 2 4 0 12 3 4 29 4 2 2 16 4 23 2 9 4 1 1 1 5 4 1 2 1 1 2 5 3 2 3 0 2 3 3 11 7 14 4 0 2 3 1 44 34

Average

Filly

Average

6,302 6,442 18,000 0 5,951 5,430 0 26,260 6,507 18,382 31,722 6,914 6,652 62,254 84,218 14,180 9,211 5,426 13,109 11,260 8,095 3,851 7,619 1,418 3,827 2,450 1,085 55,069 3,501 10,153 6,679 3,174 8,228 9,570 0 17,856 3,010 8,052 31,587 15,977 11,802 29,936 0 15,405 3,734 10,504 15,789 56,677

1 3 2 3 4 1 2 14 0 3 22 11 2 5 12 5 13 1 4 1 2 1 2 4 3 2 0 1 0 2 1 2 2 0 1 2 1 3 10 1 5 1 4 0 2 2 23 38

7,703 5,251 8,500 2,100 16,631 1,400 115,027 28,710 0 20,541 17,073 2,176 12,429 16,825 104,612 9,745 6,689 1,400 4,376 7,352 2,618 1,750 20,000 2,258 5,613 2,800 0 17,506 0 8,052 2,100 952 1,032 0 2,500 9,803 3,151 4,551 23,951 3,500 2,275 7,002 4,880 0 1,750 9,803 9,064 35,166

Figures compiled by Weatherbys

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PACO BOY SIRE OF THIS YEARS GR.1 2000 GUINEAS AND GR.1 ST JAMES’S PALACE STAKES WINNER GALILEO GOLD FEE: £6,500 1st Oct, SLF

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TOP LEADING 3RD CROP SIRES

TOP LEADING SIRES

Sire

Sire

LOPE DE VEGA PACO BOY SIYOUNI MAKFI

Group Horses Gr.1 Winners

20 10 10 9

2 1 1 1

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Av. Earn.

Runners Winners Gr.1 Winners per Runner £

GALILEO SEA THE STARS PACO BOY LOPE DE VEGA

72 45 44 25

43 28 18 13

4 1 1 0

67,444 47,696 23,295 17,576

Statistics supplied by Hyperion Promotions Ltd to September 22nd 2016

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Al Kazeem bay 2008, 16.1hh by Dubawi - Kazeem (Darshaan) European Champion at 10 furlongs Winner of 10 races at 2 to 7 years including 4 Gr.1 races

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10 wins from 23 career starts inc: Gr.1 Tattersalls Gold Cup, 2015 Gr.1 Coral-Eclipse, 2013 Gr.1 Prince Of Wales's Stakes, 2013 Gr.1 Tattersalls Gold Cup, 2013 Gr.2 Jockey Club Stakes, 2012 Gr.2 Prix d'Harcourt, 2015 Gr.3 Winter Hill Stakes, 2014 Gr.3 Gordon Richards Stakes, 2014

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covering stats

Stallion covering stats 2016

Covering returns featuring the major Flat stallions standing in Britain and Ireland, giving an indication as to the quality of the book each stallion received this spring From Weatherbys Stallion

Mares covered

Winning Mares

Acclamation 104 Al Kazeem 57 Albaasil 10 Alhebayeb 143 Anjaal 194 Arakan 42 Archipenko 80 Australia 137 Avonbridge 4 Baltic King 27 Bated Breath 131 Battle Of Merengo 82 Beat Hollow 62 Big Bad Bob 19 Black Sam Bellamy 59 Brazen Beau 109 Bungle Inthejungle 53 Cable Bay 152 Cacique 14 Camacho 179 Camelot 207 Canford Cliffs 124 Cape Cross 34 Cappella Sansevero 104 Captain Gerrard 21 Casamento 157 Champs Elysees 60 Cityscape 42 Clodovil 42 Coach House 73 Dandy Man 193 Dansili 79 Dark Angel 199 Dawn Approach 146 Declaration Of War 2 Desideratum 2 Dick Turpin 5

BT performers

BT winners

68 25 11 36 7 1 2 - 59 14 5 88 7 2 9 63 21 14 87 45 28 2 - 12 1 86 28 16 37 2 13 - 9 6 1 11 2 1 65 11 4 23 5 3 88 22 12 9 2 1 89 20 11 130 50 30 61 11 6 22 10 4 48 5 1 10 1 80 14 6 43 8 3 17 4 3 21 3 3 42 2 88 16 5 63 39 26 152 83 51 79 40 26 2 1 1 - 3 1 1

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Mares covered

Winning Mares

Dragon Pulse 150 Dream Ahead 116 Dubawi 159 Due Diligence 124 Dunaden 33 Dutch Art 82 Dylan Thomas 164 Eastern Anthem 7 Elusive Pimpernel 75 Elzaam 201 Equiano 95 Es Que Love 33 Exceed And Excel 114 Excelebration 79 Famous Name 54

76 64 138 77 10 59 33 4 29 72 60 14 81 49 19

BT performers

BT winners

11 3 22 8 120 95 14 3 - 27 15 4 2 1 3 2 9 4 16 8 3 1 38 21 16 5 5 2

Irish National Stud’s first-season stallion Dragon Pulse had 16 winners in 2016, covered 150 mares of which 76 were winners and 11 black-type runners Photo courtesy of the Irish National Stud

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covering stats Stallion

Mares covered

Winning Mares

Farhh 35 Fast Company 64 Fastnet Rock 74 Finjaan 24 Firebreak 6 Footstepsinthesand 180 Fountain Of Youth 85 Frankel 102 Free Eagle 112 French Navy 68 Fulbright 56 G Force 79 Gale Force Ten 72 Galileo 158 Garswood 57 Golden Horn 145 Gregorian 58 Gutaifan 203 Haafhd 11 Haatef 7 Hallowed Crown 115 Harbour Watch 69 Havanna Gold 56 Heerat 94 Hellvelyn 11 Helmet 130 Henrythenavigator 25 Holy Roman Emperor 120 Hot Streak 96 Iffraaj 146 Indian Haven 8 Intense Focus 22 Intrinsic 39 Invincible Spirit 151 Ivawood 160 Kingman 137 Kingston Hill 146 Kodiac 232 Kyllachy 58 Lawman 120 Lethal Force 130 Lilbourne Lad 19 Lope De Vega 183 Make Believe 120 Mastercraftsman 118 Mayson 106 Medicean 28

BT performers

BT winners

19 2 2 36 3 3 35 19 8 11 8 3 5 1 1 97 20 8 49 7 2 87 67 50 59 20 14 27 2 1 21 4 4 37 8 23 3 129 112 90 33 5 1 119 81 56 26 4 1 101 23 10 4 - 1 - 55 6 3 39 10 7 40 11 8 48 5 1 6 61 18 10 12 2 1 69 27 17 61 11 2 103 48 29 5 - 6 - 22 1 1 110 83 61 73 15 7 102 65 41 61 14 6 138 62 31 41 9 4 56 17 7 75 17 9 8 2 1 131 82 46 76 31 13 76 30 16 56 12 7 19 5 3

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covering stats Judmonte stallion Oasis Dream: he saw a solid book of over 100 mares with 61 stakes runners, of which two-thirds are black-type winners Photo: Asunción Piñeyrúa

Stallion

Mares covered

Winning Mares

BT performers

BT winners

Monsieur Bond 40 25 8 2 Moohaajim 12 6 1 Morpheus 99 39 7 3 Most Improved 39 14 4 2 Mount Nelson 24 11 4 3 Mr Medici 18 5 Mukhadram 110 63 19 7 Mullionmileanhour 4 - - Multiplex 38 12 - Music Master 19 14 1 1 Mustajeeb 35 23 5 1 Nathaniel 135 83 37 14 Native Ruler 11 - - Nayef 36 22 2 New Approach 105 77 50 28 Night Of Thunder 144 78 33 17 No Nay Never 170 88 34 14 Norse Dancer 48 8 - Notnowcato 153 13 1 Oasis Dream 107 82 61 47 Outstrip 150 69 10 5 Paco Boy 31 17 1 1 Pastoral Pursuits 18 12 5 2 Phoenix Reach 11 4 1 Piccolo 8 6 - Pivotal 81 57 24 14 Poet’s Voice 118 68 14 5 Pour Moi 57 28 7 3 Power 185 89 19 11 Proclamation 5 1 - -

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MOST PRECOCIOUS SON OF OASIS DREAM

Coach House breaks the 5f 2yo track record at Royal Ascot finishing 2nd in the Norfolk Stakes Gr.2

Stud Fee: £3,000 October 1st LFFR

COACH HOUSE OASIS DREAM EX LESSON IN HUMILITY (MUJADIL)

Precocious first yearlings in 2017 From a book of over 100 mares

Royal Ascot 2yo breaking the 5f 2yo Track Record 5f juvenile Stakes winner

By a Champion sprinter and sire From a top class sprint family

BUCKLANDS FARM & STUD Oridge Street, Corse, Gloucester, Gloucestershire GL19 3DA Roisin Close M: 07738 279071 Paul Thorman M: 07831 431556 W: www.bucklandsfarmandstud.co.uk

Great value son of Oasis Dream SHOWCASING MUHAARAR POWER COACH HOUSE

2017 STUD FEE

£35,000 £30,000 €8,000 £3,000

In partnership with Whitsbury Manor Stud and Trickledown Stud

covering stats Photo courtesy of Lanwades Stud

Stallion

Mares covered

Raven’s Pass Red Jazz Reliable Man Requinto Rock Of Gibraltar Roderic O’connor Royal Applause Ruler Of The World Sakhee Sayif Schiaparelli Sea The Moon Sea The Stars Sepoy Shamardal Shantaram Shirocco Shooting To Win Showcasing

Winning Mares

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Sea The Moon: a champion three-yearold colt in Germany and Europe in 2014, he won the Deutsches Derby by 11l.

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BT winners

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Winning Mares

Sir Percy 98 Sir Prancealot 100 Sixties Icon 39 Slade Power 110 Sleeping Indian 14 Stimulation 5 Sulamani 28 Swiss Spirit 108 Tagula 49 Tamayuz 56 Teofilo 139 Tobougg 11

BT performers

49 40 21 58 7 2 5 63 22 33 99 2

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New sire for 2016 Golden Horn, based at Darley Stud, covered 145 mares, of which 81 were black-type runners and 56 were black-type winners

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Kodiac 232 Zoffany 208 Camelot 207 Gutaifan 203 Elzaam 201 Dark Angel 199 Anjaal 194 Dandy Man 193 Power 185 Lope De Vega 183 Footstepsinthesand 180 Camacho 179 No Nay Never 170 Dylan Thomas 164 Ivawood 160 Dubawi 159 Galileo 158 Casamento 157 Cable Bay 152 Requinto 152 War Command 152 Invincible Spirit 151 Dragon Pulse 150 Outstrip 150 Dawn Approach 146 Iffraaj 146 Kingston Hill 146 Golden Horn 145 Night Of Thunder 144 Zebedee 144 Alhebayeb 143 Teofilo 139

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BT performers

Toronado 110 74 Universal 34 13 War Command 152 90 Westlake 1 - Windsor Knot 5 2 Worthadd 41 19 Xtension 10 7 Yeats 149 32 Zebedee 144 59 Zoffany 208 135

BT winners

22 9 1 20 8 - - 3 2 1 1 14 8 69 36

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Stallions with most BT winners 2016

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Stallion

Mares

Dark Angel 152 Kodiac 138 Dubawi 138 Zoffany 135 Lope De Vega 131 Camelot 130 Galileo 129 Golden Horn 119 Invincible Spirit 110 Iffraaj 103 Kingman 102 Gutaifan 101 Teofilo 99 Footstepsinthesand 97 War Command 90 Power 89 Camacho 89 Anjaal 88 Dandy Man 88 No Nay Never 88 Cable Bay 88 Shamardal 88 Australia 87 Frankel 87 Bated Breath 86 Showcasing 86 Nathaniel 83 Sea The Stars 83 Oasis Dream 82 Exceed And Excel 81 Casamento 80 Dawn Approach 79 Night Of Thunder 78

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Dubawi 95 Galileo 90 Invincible Spirit 61 Golden Horn 56 Dark Angel 51 Frankel 50 Oasis Dream 47 Lope De Vega 46 Shamardal 46 Kingman 41 Zoffany 36 Kodiac 31 Camelot 30 Iffraaj 29 Teofilo 28 New Approach 28 Australia 28 Sea The Stars 28 Dawn Approach 26 Dansili 26 Exceed And Excel 21 Night Of Thunder 17 Holy Roman Emperor 17 Mastercraftsman 16 Bated Breath 16 Dutch Art 15 Nathaniel 14 No Nay Never 14 Pivotal 14 Archipenko 14 Free Eagle 14 Make Believe 13 Cable Bay 12

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Dubawi 120 Galileo 112 Dark Angel 83 Invincible Spirit 83 Lope De Vega 82 Golden Horn 81 Zoffany 69 Frankel 67 Kingman 65 Shamardal 63 Kodiac 62 Oasis Dream 61 Teofilo 52 Camelot 50 New Approach 50 Iffraaj 48 Australia 45 Sea The Stars 41 Dawn Approach 40 Dansili 39 Exceed And Excel 38 Nathaniel 37 No Nay Never 34 Night Of Thunder 33 Make Believe 31 Mastercraftsman 30 Bated Breath 28 Holy Roman Emperor 27 Dutch Art 27 Showcasing 26 Acclamation 25 Pivotal 24 Gutaifan 23

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Three titles for Tapit The Gainesway sire is well on the way to gaining a third sires’ title and bagging himself another earnings record, reports Melissa Bauer-Herzog

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or the third year in a row, leading sire Tapit confirmed his superiority over US stallions by dominating the leading sires’ list.

While the stallion had a rough Breeders’ Cup, with none of his five runners hitting the board in their respective races, that didn’t stop him marching towards his 2015 earnings record of $18,397,691.

As of the time of writing, with nearly two months left in the season, the stallion was only a little over $370,000 away from breaking the record yet again.

Gainesway Farm’s pride and joy, Tapit had five Grade 1 winners in 2016, led by Frosted and Creator.

A Grade 1 winner at three, Frosted was even better this year at four when winning the Sun Metropolitan Handicap (G1) and Whitney Stakes (G1) by a combined 16l.

With those victories, Frosted became Tapit’s leading stallion prospect for next year when he retires to Darley in Kentucky for the 2017 season at a fee of $50,000.

Meanwhile, Creator became Tapit’s second Belmont Stakes (G1) winner in three years when following Tonalist’s hoof-steps. He also became Tapit’s first son to stand in Japan a few months later when retired and purchased by the Japan Bloodhorse Breeders’ Association for a first covering season in 2017.

But perhaps the most memorable race of Tapit’s year was the Spinaway Stakes (G1) at Saratoga. With only two entries in the field, Tapit made history when Sweet Loretta and Pretty City Dancer came to the wire together in a deadheat for the first time in the history of the Spinaway.

Another daughter, Time And Motion, showed the stallion is still as versatile as ever with her success on the Turf. The filly had

run six times this year as of November, to win three straight off the bat.

She finished a close second to reigning Canadian Horse of the Year Catch A Glimpse in the Belmont Oaks (G1) going 1m2f on Turf before turning the tables in the Lake Placid (G2) when winning by a neck.

She secured her first career Grade 1 win in the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup (G1) at Keeneland to give her sire his fifth Grade 1 winner.

Tapit led the all North American-based stallions list with stakes winners and graded stakes winners, making it clear why he is the most expensive stallion in North America with a $300,000 fee.

But he can’t claim honours as the only North American stallion with five internationally recognised Grade 1 winners in 2016.

When Scat Daddy died in late 2015, the effect was felt soon after his death. He had been slated to stand at a deserved $100,000 in 2016,

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Lady Aurelia’s success in Europe, winning Group races in both France and England, made her the first US-trained horse to win a Cartier Racing Award in Europe when she took home champion Two-Year-Old Filly honours, while Caravaggio was a finalist for champion Two-Year-Old Colt honours at the same awards.

In the US, Scat Daddy took his place among the best-of-the-best in the US Turf rankings, third behind only Kitten’s Joy and Galileo and ahead of stallions such as

City Zip, War Front and Tapit.

The search for more successful runners by the stallion helped Scat Daddy’s yearling average rise by nearly $50,000 in 2016 going to $243,158, led by a Beholder half-brother who sold for $3 million to Coolmore.

War Front going into battle

When War Front’s best-bred crop of twoyear-olds so far came out with a bang this summer in Europe, odds were that the stallion would again be popular at the US yearling sales and he didn’t disappoint.

War Front had the sixth best yearling average this year at $613,276 from 22 sold with his top price a $1.9 million colt bought

by Shadwell Estate.

Exaggerator: was Curlin’s headline act but his fillies held their own with Stellar Wind his queen

That average price looked even better when his daughter Avenge won the Rodeo Drive (G1) in California in October before finishing third in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf (G1) where the stallion also had Lancaster Bomber finish second in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1).

Curlin: Mr Consistency

Possibly the most consistent of all stallions since the start of his career is the number two ranked Curlin.

While the stallion’s home location changed in 2016 with Hill ‘n’ Dale standing him for the first time, his Classic success didn’t disappear as he had his fourth Classic placed horse in as many years when Exaggerator won the Preakness Stakes (G1) to become his second Classic winner.

The only son of Smart Strike ranked in the top 50 as of mid-November, Curlin has represented his late sire well with six graded stakes winners and four Grade 1 winners.

While Exaggerator was undoubtedly his sire’s top three-year-old with Preakness and Haskell Invitational Stakes (G1) wins, his fillies proved to be the stronger sex for their sire on the track with four winning graded stakes compared to the two colts. Last year’s champion three-year-old Stellar Wind proving to be the best of that bunch, beating champion Beholder in two of their four match ups and pulling off some of the top upsets of the year.

Curlin’s success on the track this year led to the stallion having a $50,000 fee increase from his 2016 fee of $100,000. The stallion only had 41 two-year-olds in 2016, but already has Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies’ runner-up Valadorna in addition to a twoyear-old stakes winner Bonita Bianca.

Candy enjoying sweet success

One of the strongest lines of the Mr. Prospector legacy is the Fappiano line and it was no different this year.

Two stallions tracing back to Fappiano ranked in the top 10 on the leading list after the Breeders’ Cup, led by Candy Ride.

While he had no Grade 1 winners as of mid-November, he still proved to be a useful graded stakes sire with seven graded stakes winners and 12 stakes winners overall.

Candy Ride’s son Gun Runner led the charge on the year, winning two graded stakes when on the Kentucky Derby trail before finishing third in the premier Classic.

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Also carrying Candy Ride’s flag was the Grade 2 winner Paid Up Subscriber, who sold for $1.1 million in November at Fasig-Tipton, and the multiple graded stakes winning Unified.

A year after Liam’s Map won the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile, Unbridled’s Song was again back on top in the Breeders’ Cup with Arrogate doing his bit for the sire line.

A late developing three-year-old, Arrogate won the Travers Stakes (G1) in his first stakes start by an impressive 13l then came back in November to pull an upset over California Chrome in the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1).

With his final crop turning three in 2017, Unbridled’s Song is going out with a bang with two-time Grade 1 winner Forever Unbridled also putting up a top notch showing when finishing third to Beholder in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1) for ownerbreeder Charles Fipke.

While Arrogate looks like he may be the most promising son of Unbridled’s Song to hit the shed in recent years, breeders will have to wait with owner Juddmonte Farms saying the colt will race in 2017.

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Two stallions tracing back to Fappiano ranked in the top 10 on the leading list after the Breeders’ Cup, led by Candy Ride 2-year-old in training sales, Uncle Mo made headlines late in the year when he led The Jockey Club’s Report of Mares Bred with 253 mares bred in 2016.

Distorted Humor: broodmare sire

The 23-year-old Distorted Humor is quickly emerging as a very successful broodmare sire. Ranked four on the broodmare sire list behind Sunday Silence, Storm Cat and Danehill, Distorted Humor’s daughters produced 12 stakes winners in 2016 for over $15.6 million in earnings.

Neither of the Distorted Humor-sired runners hit the board in the Breeders’ Cup, but it wasn’t a lost weekend for the stallion.

Of the four Breeders’ Cup runners produced by his daughters, two won races including Classic winner Arrogate and Practical Joke finished third in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile.

In addition to his daughters, Distorted Humor is also looking like a sire-of-sires.

In 2016, South Korea-based Any Given Saturday is the sire of graded stakes winners Hoppertunity and Mongolian Saturday and Ohio-based Cowtown Cat is represented by Grade 2 winner Calgary Cat.

Super filly sire: Medaglia D’Oro

Medaglia D’Oro is known as the sire of superfillies and 2016 wasn’t any different. Songbird

Uncle Mo’s Nyquist: built on his Breeders’ Cup Juvenile win in 2015 with Kentucky Derby success

Uncle Mo backing up year one

It was going to be hard for Uncle Mo to top his first-crop success, but the stallion tried his best in 2016. After becoming the first two-year-old champion to sire a two-yearold champion since 2002 when Nyquist was named champion in 2015, he then had three Kentucky Derby (G1) runners with Nyquist winning by just over a length.

Much like last year as a freshman, Uncle Mo dominated the second-crop sires’ list with progeny earnings coming in at $3 million, more than any leading second crop sire in the 2000s and with nearly two months left in the season at the time of writing.

In addition to his Grade 1 winners, Nyquist and Outwork, Uncle Mo is the sire of seven other northern hemisphere graded stakes winners this year, including San Clemente (G2) winner Mokat, who showed her sire’s versatility by winning her graded stakes on the Turf.

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Songbird has been a star filly for sire Medaglia D’Oro and she lost nothing in defeat when headed by Beholder in the last yards in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff

continued on her demolition the three-yearold fillies, justifying her sire’s 2016 fee hike to $150,000 when winning her first seven races of the year, including four Grade 1 wins.

Songbird’s undefeated streak ended in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1) when she lost by a nose to Beholder, but it didn’t do her sire’s reputation any harm with the stallion getting a Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1) winner in New Money Honey in the race before the Distaff.

Medaglia D’Oro sired 13 stakes winners as of mid-November with six graded stakes winners, including Donn Handicap (G1) winner Mshawish and Noble Damsel (G3) winner Mrs. McDougal.

With Medaglia D’Oro’s popularity rising to an all-time high and his son Violence having success at the yearling sales, he has seen the number of sons in the stallion market rising with Mshawish and Vancouver joining the line up in the Kentucky market in 2017.

City Zipped in again at Breeders’ Cup

Standing for $50,000 in 2017, City Zip is proving to be one of the best value sires in Kentucky with six graded stakes winners and average earnings of $88,073 this year as of mid-November.

One of the most versatile stallions in

Fourth on the broodmare sires’ list behind Sunday Silence, Storm Cat and Danehill, Distorted Humor’s daughters produced 12 stakes winners in 2016 Kentucky, he sired his fourth Breeders’ Cup winner in three years when Finest City won the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint (G1) in early November going 7f on Dirt, while his other Grade 1 winner of the year came in the form of Catch A Glimpse winning the Belmont Oaks (G1) at 1m2f on Turf.

City Zip is part of a powerful Lane’s End Farm roster that includes the aforementioned Candy Ride and Lemon Drop Kid in addition to young stallions The Factor, Twirling Candy and Union Rags.

Grade 1 winners for young sire Union Rags In a tough group of first-crop sires

Union Rags has proven to be one to watch after siring two Grade 1 winners in the fall However, he has had to worry about multiple rivals in 2016 with his two graded stakes winners tying him with Gemologist.

Gemologist looks to take over the “Tiznow son” mantle at WinStar Farm with the farm’s former stallion and Tiznow son Tiz Wonderful sold to South Korea earlier this year.

Due to the success of his first crop, Gemologist received a stud fee bump to $25,000 for 2017.

The surprise freshman stallion of the year may be Dialed In, who was tied at number one for number of winners as of midNovember with 15.

The stallion has also sired two stakes winners so far, including Saratoga Special Stakes (G2) winner Gunnevera.

Dialed In’s first two-year-olds were conceived on a $7,500 stud fee, the same fee he stood at for the following three years. He has doubled in price to $15,000 in 2017.

While it looks like Union Rags has the freshman title sealed up by earnings with nearly $300,000 more than the second-placed Gemologist, he won’t be taking home a clean sweep of all the categories when the year is over in a very competitive generation.

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Rnrs

Tapit Curlin Uncle Mo Lucky Pulpit Candy Ride (ARG) Kitten’s Joy 310 Medaglia d’Oro Unbridled’s Song City Zip Bernardini Giant’s Causeway Scat Daddy Malibu Moon Congrats Speightstown Smart Strike Flatter Harlan’s Holiday War Front Ghostzapper Lemon Drop Kid Mineshaft Hard Spun More Than Ready Pioneerof the Nile Any Given Saturday Tiznow Quality Road Empire Maker Distorted Humor Wildcat Heir Street Sense Broken Vow Bluegrass Cat Munnings Majestic Warrior Northern Afleet Sky Mesa Colonel John Mizzen Mast Jump Start Street Boss Freud Indian Charlie Tiz Wonderful Into Mischief Posse Street Cry (IRE) Bellamy Road

285 132 189 108 142 76 155 72 272 149 135 15 209 93 174 73 260 149 245 115 299 131 263 126 291 120 290 149 218 116 209 99 234 113 320 148 176 86 213 120 231 116 169 90 261 121 224 104 134 68 178 87 204 81 150 85 336 142 203 85 228 136 215 96 174 79 225 122 123 76 232 117 197 117 208 96 223 108 172 87 177 91 163 83 184 91 90 53 188 89 156 73 161 85 201 95 203 102

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BT Swnrs

20 12 16 2 12 10 13 7 13 14 12 15 10 7 13 11 10 7 19 8 9 5 11 12 8 3 4 5 2 3 3 4 5 6 7 4 4 9 6 8 3 5 3 5 6 6 6 6 6

GSWs

15 6 9 1 7 3 6 4 6 10 6 6 4 4 5 4 5 4 10 5 6 4 5 6 5 2 1 4 1 2 1 - 2 1 3 - 3 1 2 5 - 2 1 3 1 2 1 3 1

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Chief earner

Earnings

5 Frosted 17,922,601 4 Exaggerator 11,435,976 2 Nyquist 11,036,299 1 California Chrome 10,395,828 - Gun Runner 9,974,631 - Camelot Kitten 9,972,697 3 Songbird 9,947,947 3 Arrogate 9,618,830 2 Catch a Glimpse 9,520,600 1 Cavorting 9,483,579 1 Destin 9,434,586 5 Dacita 8,793,728 2 Carina Mia 8,349,867 1 Polar River 7,779,536 1 Tamarkuz 7,552,020 - Family Tree 7,423,228 2 Upstart 7,275,514 - Lightstream 7,159,901 2 Avenge 7,141,442 1 Paulassilverlining 7,027,763 1 Da Big Hoss 6,947,778 1 Effinex 6,888,047 - Hard Aces 6,693,094 - Tom’s Ready 6,483,788 2 Classic Empire 5,816,816 1 Hoppertunity 5,502,574 1 Tourist 5,438,490 2 Klimt 5,376,232 - My Tity 5,345,883 1 Ironicus 5,232,771 - Chief Lion 5,208,239 - Tower of Texas 5,132,142 1 Champagne Room 5,092,417 - Flexibility 4,901,710 1 I’m a Chatterbox 4,893,793 - Best Warrior 4,782,234 1 World Approval 4,780,407 - Highland Sky 4,695,221 - Dalmore 4,669,109 1 Stonetastic 4,628,917 - Disco Chick 4,543,184 1 Cathryn Sophia 4,538,832 - Fourstar Crook 4,455,751 1 A. P. Indian 4,427,307 - S’maverlous 4,237,682 1 Practical Joke 4,204,339 - Royal Posse 4,189,984 - Trojan Nation 4,151,870 - Land Over Sea 4,132,886

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Union Rags Gemologist Dialed In Tapizar Creative Cause Stay Thirsty Bodemeister Maclean’s Music The Factor Dominus Hansen Mission Impazible Astrology Shackleford Algorithms To Honor and Serve Caleb’s Posse Biondetti Brilliant Speed Overdriven Empire Way Signature Red Indian Firewater

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Wnrs

BT SWs

41 12 32 11 32 15 48 11 43 13 40 15 39 7 34 15 43 7 17 8 39 10 19 5 34 12 42 11 29 9 32 8 17 7 25 6 15 8 23 7 11 3 7 3 10 4

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2 4 2 2 2 3 2 4 2 3 2 3 3 2 4 3 1 0 1 0 0 1 2

Chief Earner

Earnings

Dancing Rags 1,100,211 Yellow Agate 804,063 Gunnevera 749,389 Tip Tap Tapizar 736,677 Theonewewaitedfor 688,547 Thirstforlife 640,856 Royal Copy 632,052 Made Me Shiver 629,540 Noted and Quoted 587,237 All Right 567,334 Han Sense 540,469 Silver Mission 493,713 Arella Rockstar 491,107 Wellabled 488,236 Vanish 394,710 For Honor 370,044 Divine Kaleb 305,804 Bella Vincenza 275,735 Americium 260,627 Red Crescent 250,186 Dutt Bart 202,422 Signature Spring 184,966 Vocally 177,990

Leading US Turf sires 2016: (by prize-money earned in $, to November 6, 2016) Stallion

Kitten’s Joy Galileo (IRE) Scat Daddy City Zip War Front Tapit Lemon Drop Kid Giant’s Causeway Dansili (GB) English Channel Medaglia d’Oro More Than Ready Smart Strike Tiznow Harlan’s Holiday Temple City Candy Ride (ARG) Bernstein Unusual Heat Sky Mesa Mizzen Mast

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BT SWnrs

11 5 7 9 9 5 4 6 2 5 4 6 5 3 5 4 2 1 5 5 4

Chief Earner

Earnings

Camelot Kitten 6,587,161 Highland Reel (IRE) 5,448,285 Dacita (CHI) 4,701,187 Catch a Glimpse 4,389,041 Avenge 4,293,382 Time and Motion 4,169,592 Da Big Hoss 3,617,125 Giant Run 3,607,334 Flintshire (GB) 3,186,800 Al’s Gal 3,106,680 New Money Honey 2,897,239 Tammy the Torpedo 2,837,063 Strike Charmer 2,793,250 Tourist 2,669,913 Good Samaritan 2,349,367 Miss Temple City 2,307,665 Grand Tito 2,296,107 Tepin 2,241,535 Cheekaboo 2,130,655 Highland Sky 2,012,878 One Mean Man 2,008,875

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Factors affecting growth rates in thoroughbreds

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horse’s maximal body size is genetically predetermined.

As horsemen, we cannot manipulate genetic potential, though we can influence growth rate through nutrition, at least to a certain extent.

We can make horses grow faster or slower than normal, though there are risks and rewards associated with each.

If horses grow too fast, breeders may face developmental problems such as physitis and OCD. If horses grow too slow, horses may not reach industry expectations at certain points in time, such as at yearling sales.

Therefore, trying to find that sweet spot, or that window when young horses grow optimally, is important.

Aside from nutrition, other factors affect growth rates in thoroughbred horses, including age, gender, and environment, which can be further segmented into season, temperature and rainfall.

Kentucky Equine Research, in conjunction with its feed manufacturing partners around the world, has measured growth in thousands of thoroughbred foals over the past 30 years.

Much of these data have been

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collected in Kentucky by Hallway Feeds and in the UK by Saracen Horse Feeds. These regional data sets have provided interesting insights into how environment affects growth.

Age

In thoroughbreds raised in Kentucky and UK, average daily gain (ADG) in weight drops linearly and steeply during the first 12 months of life, but then a bump occurs during the yearling year.

Horses gain 50 per cent of their 18-month weight by the time they are six months old, and 75 per cent by the time they get to 12 months old. Thus, the first 12 months are a period of rapid weight gain.

If you look at height, 50 per cent of the height at 18 months is attained by four months of age, and 75 per cent of the 18-month height occurs in the first nine months.

Though few people look closely at average daily height gain, this measurement is a very useful parameter of growth. Early on, foals grow tall quickly and then level out later, near the eight or nine-month mark.

Given a mature body weight of 570kg and height of 16 hands, foals are about 11 per cent of their mature body weight at birth, but

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by 18 months of age, they are about 80 per cent.

With regard to height, foals are born at 65 per cent of their mature height, and reach 95 per cent of their adult height by 18 months.

Growth patterns allow us to understand how nutrients are allocated in young horses.

In the first six to nine months of life, skeletal growth predominates.

As yearlings, nutrients are allocated more to muscle accretion, and then to fat deposition as horses reach the 18-month milestone.

Gender

Although average daily gains are typically similar between colts and fillies, fillies tend to fatten more than colts, thus having higher body condition scores, especially as yearlings in the spring.

Season

Season has a large effect on

yearling growth patterns in both Kentucky and UK-born foals.

When expressed relative to age, average daily weight gain (ADG) is quite different between yearlings born during different months (see Figure 1).

However, when the same data is examined by month of year (Figure 2) the differences disappear, indicating that spring-time growth, which peaks in April in Kentucky-raised yearlings, is unrelated to the age of the yearling but is heavily influenced by season.

Other researchers have documented the same seasonal change associated with spring in the US. For withers height, there is no seasonal change. Data from the UK indicated the same seasonal changes, though the growth peak occurred in May. Why would peak growth be at separate points of the year – a month apart – in Kentucky and in the UK? We looked at environmental factors, such as temperature, day

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Horses must burn calories to stay warm at or below the point of lower critical temperature, even when dry and out of the wind

length and rainfall, to see if we could see why growth of yearlings peak differently in those two regions.

The day length and temperature change in Kentucky is much different than in the UK. England is much further north so there are greater swings in day length, though there is much less variability in temperature.

Kentucky has colder winters and hotter summers, generally.

Temperature is important for

two reasons: pasture growth and energy requirements.

As temperatures warm, pastures come out of dormancy and begin to green up, and this can be an important factor when growth accelerates.

Temperature also influences the energy requirements of horses and therefore how much must be fed.

Horses have different energy requirements, dictated by age, based on lower critical temperature, which simply means cold temperatures outside of their zone of thermal neutrality.

Horses must burn calories to stay warm at or below the point of lower critical temperature, even when dry and out of the wind.

In newborn foals, for example, any temperature under 22°C would require them to expend calories to stay warm.

We looked at maximum and minimum temperature over a 30-year period in both Kentucky and the UK. Recorded low temperatures

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in both regions are well below a newborn foal’s lower critical temperature, though Kentucky winters are harsher.

For every degree Celsius below lower critical temperature, a foal has to increase its energy intake by 1.3 per cent, so energy consumption can be quite large in terms of how much a foal actually needs.

Yearlings, by contrast, have a much different lower critical temperature, near O°C, so they have to expend little energy to stay warm in typical environments in both Kentucky and the UK. The lower critical temperatures for adult horses are extremely low, about -15°C. Examining temperature and ADG may help explain why we have considerable bumps in growth during the yearling year.

In the UK, the highest regrowth of yearlings occurs in May and June.

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Average spring temperatures in central England are April, 9°C, May, 11°C, and June, 14°C. Kentucky’s average temperature in April is 14°C, and this is when the growth uptick occurs in Kentucky yearlings.

These data show that because the ground warms and the grass grows earlier due to higher temperatures, Kentucky yearlings experience a spring growth effect a month earlier.

In addition to temperature, we investigated day length.

Surprisingly, in April, average day length is not that much different in Kentucky (12.6 hours) and the UK (13 hours).

The final environmental factor that we examined was rainfall.

Looking at data from 2010 to 2014 for central England, the average annual rainfall was 31 inches, with the majority of rain occurring in the autumn and winter, with relatively dry springs. Kentucky, on the other

hand, has an average of 53 inches of rainfall annually. Particularly, there is usually a lot of rain in April.

The rain, combined with rising temperatures, causes grass to grow, and further supports the earlier accelerated growth of Kentucky yearlings.

In conclusion, certain factors beyond nutrition affect growth of young thoroughbred horses.

Age is an important element. Foals grow fast early in life, especially in height.

Gender differences have been documented, with fillies growing fatter with less muscle when compared to colts. Seasonal influences, like temperature and rainfall also have a bearing, especially in terms of forage availability.

For further information on equine nutrition, please visit www.ker.com.

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stallion stats Leading European sires 2016 (by prize-money earned (£) to November 11, 2016 *first-season sire) Stallion

Y of B

Galileo Dubawi Sea the Stars Shamardal Victory Gallop Invincible Spirit Dark Angel Pivotal Acclamation Fastnet Rock Kodiac Iffraaj Le Havre Wootton Bassett Lion Heart Footstepsinthesand Lope de Vega Exceed and Excel Teofilo Kaneko Cape Cross Lawman Siyouni Unaccounted For Dansili Mastercraftsman Zoffany Mountain Cat Rock of Gibraltar Luxor Holy Roman Emperor Elusive City Kyllachy Dutch Art Paco Boy Bosporus Kendargent War Front American Post Duke of Marmalade Yonaguska Dylan Thomas New Approach Makfi Soldier Hollow Oasis Dream Bushranger High Chaparral Equiano Mount Nelson

1998 285 2002 192 2006 137 2002 216 1995 175 1997 233 2005 286 1993 185 1999 278 2001 199 2001 276 2001 195 2006 151 2008 29 2001 171 2002 186 2007 143 2000 260 2004 192 2001 128 1994 193 2004 237 2007 130 1991 93 1996 170 2006 218 2008 145 1990 97 1999 218 2000 98 2004 251 2000 195 1998 220 2004 195 2005 146 1995 132 2003 149 2002 68 2001 121 2004 174 1998 109 2003 149 2005 151 2007 164 2000 101 2000 211 2006 216 1999 202 2005 164 2004 113

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Wnrs/Rnrs

137 101 79 108 80 107 122 88 121 90 117 88 62 11 85 99 57 112 76 67 92 99 56 56 82 84 53 36 87 38 103 91 96 91 57 66 54 34 56 66 51 68 53 78 45 87 95 78 72 45

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SWs

Money Won

Top Earner

48.07 195 58 16,202,863 Found 52.60 165 39 5,623,957 Postponed 57.66 114 17 4,219,383 Harzand 50.00 164 26 3,473,870 Speedy Boarding 45.71 175 5 3,383,515 Victory is Ours 45.92 161 13 3,169,030 Profitable 42.66 180 22 3,148,440 Mecca’s Angel 47.57 140 8 2,877,139 Wings of Desire 43.53 196 10 2,781,234 Mehmas 45.23 150 18 2,487,872 Tenerife Song 42.39 186 7 2,460,432 Gifted Master 45.13 137 9 2,454,575 Ribchester 41.06 90 8 2,426,245 La Cressonniere 37.93 15 5 2,416,691 Almanzor 49.71 154 3 2,404,296 Dayim Benim 53.23 160 9 2,351,363 Volunteer Point 39.86 86 14 2,263,046 Belardo 43.08 186 10 2,260,915 Cotai Glory 39.58 108 11 2,203,008 Quest for More 52.34 143 2 2,179,323 Nalan Sultan 47.67 149 8 2,157,551 Awtaad 41.77 153 5 2,144,737 Harbour Law 43.08 82 8 2,119,348 Volta 60.22 126 3 2,064,852 Foulita 48.24 113 10 1,900,700 Queen’s Trust 38.53 126 5 1,895,207 Even Song 36.55 78 9 1,877,089 Ventura Storm 37.11 78 14 1,863,050 Waneta 39.91 132 7 1,852,453 Jallota 38.78 73 4 1,797,695 Graystorm 41.04 158 6 1,776,471 Colour Blue 46.67 139 3 1,748,102 Elusive Dancer 43.64 146 5 1,695,535 Twilight Son 46.67 143 9 1,687,644 Dutch Connection 39.04 82 4 1,622,167 Galileo Gold 50.00 123 0 1,590,486 Laguardia 36.24 80 4 1,574,845 Jimmy Two Times 50.00 50 12 1,563,764 Roly Poly 46.28 86 3 1,550,862 Quarterback 37.93 111 9 1,542,425 Big Orange 46.79 121 0 1,539,128 Bavi Res 45.64 111 4 1,535,204 Nightflower 35.10 78 8 1,526,108 Potemkin 47.56 119 6 1,505,491 Noor Al Hawa 44.55 72 8 1,498,018 Serienholde 41.23 133 3 1,488,343 Growl 43.98 153 8 1,478,397 Outback Traveller 38.61 111 3 1,461,926 Western Hymn 43.90 105 5 1,417,753 The Tin Man 39.82 76 11 1,308,051 Librisa Breeze

stallion stats ....Leading European sire 2016 cont (by prize-money earned (£) to November 11, 2016 *first-season sire) StallionName

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Rnrs

Arcano Monsun Areion Royal Abjar Showcasing Excellent Art Manduro Azamour Champs Elysees Air Chief Marshal Kheleyf Dalakhani Rip Van Winkle Danehill Dancer Whipper Tamayuz Sir Percy Soldier of Fortune Zebedee Myboycharlie Okawango Dream Ahead Canford Cliffs Lord of England Cuvee Win River Win Silver Frost King’s Best Medicean Lord Shanakill Slickly Fast Company Adlerflug Aqlaam Tagula Clodovil Amer Royal Applause Kitten’s Joy Poet’s Voice Dai Jin Aussie Rules Stormy River Intense Focus Turtle Bowl Pastoral Pursuits Halling Zamindar Authorized Raven’s Pass

2007 151 1990 55 1995 136 1991 73 2007 118 2004 158 2002 135 2001 113 2003 128 2007 126 2001 231 2000 101 2006 159 1993 94 2001 125 2005 105 2003 156 2004 118 2008 186 2005 141 1998 63 2008 123 2007 136 2003 111 2001 64 1999 66 2006 91 1997 132 1997 177 2006 67 1996 122 2005 132 2004 53 2005 95 1993 75 2000 124 1984 32 1993 215 2001 39 2007 128 2000 53 2003 128 2003 87 2006 139 2002 98 2001 130 1991 102 1994 110 2004 128 2005 116

Wnrs

Wnrs/Rnrs

71 29 73 41 50 76 53 48 58 49 99 38 64 38 52 41 51 48 74 49 37 42 49 47 32 24 29 45 64 26 43 50 26 37 20 48 13 68 20 52 25 52 34 51 34 46 40 46 38 44

Wins

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Money Won

Top Earner

47.02 128 4 1,301,857 Mubtasim 52.73 43 11 1,300,186 Vadamos 53.68 124 8 1,251,561 Devastar 56.16 80 1 1,245,844 My Royal Sun 42.37 79 9 1,245,155 Quiet Reflection 48.10 126 2 1,235,860 Primitivo 39.26 79 8 1,232,687 Vazirabad 42.48 72 7 1,227,448 Thikriyaat 45.31 100 4 1,226,013 Barsanti 38.89 85 2 1,212,885 Mont Ormel 42.86 164 1 1,178,346 Big Time 37.62 55 7 1,150,642 Candarliya 40.25 81 5 1,131,361 Creggs Pipes 40.43 54 4 1,130,357 Qemah 41.60 72 3 1,122,354 Waikika 39.05 70 4 1,119,949 Blond Me 32.69 83 4 1,087,080 Scarlet Dragon 40.68 71 3 1,070,465 Fire Fighting 39.78 101 3 1,061,141 Magical Memory 34.75 68 5 1,045,440 Camprock 58.73 67 0 1,021,018 Sinclar 34.15 59 3 1,014,549 Silent Attack 36.03 67 3 1,013,729 Harlequeen 42.34 66 6 990,178 Isfahan 50.00 58 0 983,000 Mi Bombon 36.36 47 0 963,288 Blaze to Win 31.87 41 3 960,102 Silverwave 34.09 67 5 951,944 Kings Fete 36.16 99 1 938,712 Alveena 38.81 41 2 933,823 My Dream Boat 35.25 70 1 927,790 Apilobar 37.88 71 5 905,873 Jet Setting 49.06 40 7 879,767 Savoir Vivre 38.95 58 1 876,699 Dancing Star 26.67 32 3 867,459 Limato 38.71 83 2 866,190 Alben Star 40.63 19 0 856,687 Mehdaaf Athbah 31.63 99 2 852,951 Englishman 51.28 27 6 847,312 Hawkbill 40.63 71 5 833,841 Ode to Evening 47.17 49 3 828,901 Temsil 40.63 78 3 816,418 Star Sun 39.08 54 5 810,893 Sans Equivoque 36.69 82 1 808,068 Wolowitz 34.69 54 0 804,233 Azaelia 35.38 68 2 786,102 Hoofalong 39.22 58 1 784,030 Jack Hobbs 41.82 69 4 783,874 Our Last Summer 29.69 58 1 774,871 Prize Money 37.93 66 7 774,449 Richard Pankhurst

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stallion stats Leading European sires of two-year-olds 2016 (by prize-money earned (£) to November 11, 2016, *first-season sire) Stallion Galileo War Front Kodiac Dark Angel Fastnet Rock Acclamation Shamardal Sir Prancealot* Helmet* Lion Heart Arcano Invincible Spirit Scat Daddy Frankel* Exceed and Excel Mountain Cat Choisir Dragon Pulse* Mayson* Three Valleys Myboycharlie Victory Gallop Kaneko Dubawi *Power* Sageburg Native Khan* Luxor Soldier Hollow Rajsaman* Equiano Harbour Watch* Stormy River Bated Breath* Bosporus Holy Roman Emperor Dandy Man Canford Cliffs Torok* Poet’s Voice Lawman Dream Ahead Fast Company Foxwedge* Sepoy* Rip Van Winkle Kendargent Hellvelyn Excelebration* Elzaam*

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Rnrs

1998 68 2002 24 2001 81 2005 100 2001 47 1999 65 2002 35 2010 74 2008 52 2001 44 2007 55 1997 62 2004 8 2008 35 2000 67 1990 10 1999 21 2009 45 2008 47 2001 29 2005 55 1995 38 2001 33 2002 40 2009 41 2004 32 2008 20 2000 26 2000 30 2007 50 2005 54 2009 70 2003 14 2007 47 1995 30 2004 61 2003 58 2007 39 2009 12 2007 59 2004 64 2008 43 2005 51 2008 45 2008 47 2006 42 2003 47 2004 16 2008 60 2007 34

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26 14 32 38 15 23 18 30 16 23 20 22 4 16 27 1 8 21 15 10 18 15 12 16 16 11 13 13 10 12 17 15 7 16 16 17 19 14 6 18 25 10 14 17 17 12 11 8 18 15

Wins

SWs

courtesy of Weatherbys Money Won

Top Earner

38.24 38 12 2,122,786 Churchill 58.33 20 6 912,411 Roly Poly 39.51 47 6 882,860 Best Solution 38.00 49 7 757,655 Dame du Roi 31.91 21 3 613,452 Rivet 35.38 30 2 608,999 Mehmas 51.43 23 3 597,712 Blue Point 40.54 43 2 591,614 Stormy Clouds 30.77 27 1 587,939 Thunder Snow 52.27 32 1 541,488 Denizcanim 36.36 30 0 534,957 Mubtasim 35.48 27 1 532,739 National Defense 50.00 8 5 499,322 Lady Aurelia 45.71 26 5 479,285 Queen Kindly 40.30 36 2 451,254 Yalta 10.00 6 5 423,231 Waneta 38.10 13 4 408,153 The Last Lion 46.67 30 2 407,331 Legendary Lunch 31.91 23 3 404,638 Mazyoun 34.48 20 2 400,411 Copperfield 32.73 21 1 387,975 Landfall 39.47 25 0 384,140 Ayrton 36.36 24 0 383,038 Nalan Sultan 40.00 20 4 380,695 Wuheida 39.02 23 5 369,464 Peace Envoy 34.38 16 2 347,518 Spain Burg 65.00 21 0 340,018 Zippy 50.00 22 2 336,615 Finesse 33.33 12 2 334,876 Dia del Sol 24.00 18 1 317,296 Brametot 31.48 22 2 315,113 Medicine Jack 21.43 22 1 307,862 Tis Marvellous 50.00 13 3 305,703 Sans Equivoque 34.04 22 0 301,975 Al Johrah 53.33 25 0 300,158 Utkunbaba 27.87 18 1 297,314 Rich Legacy 32.76 24 2 294,315 Big Time Baby 35.90 18 0 284,740 Salouen 50.00 11 1 279,463 Piano Sonata 30.51 23 2 278,849 Mi Raccomando 39.06 28 0 275,371 Masham Star 23.26 14 1 267,715 Boos 27.45 18 1 264,311 Red Onion 37.78 20 0 263,593 Urban Fox 36.17 21 2 257,654 Baileys Showgirl 28.57 14 0 257,408 Bahamas 23.40 15 1 255,617 Xaarino 50.00 13 2 252,102 Mrs Danvers 30.00 20 0 244,320 Fulminato 44.12 22 1 242,884 Clem Fandango

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Requinto* 2009 31 Dehere 1991 16 Lope de Vega 2007 36 Unaccounted For 1991 16 Sakhee’s Secret 2004 23 Siyouni 2007 32 Zebedee 2008 56 Paco Boy 2005 45 Casamento* 2008 52 Cape Cross 1994 32 Areion 1995 19 Makfi 2007 32 Dutch Art 2004 49 Tamayuz 2005 33 Teofilo 2004 32 Footstepsinthesand 2002 25 Air Chief Marshal 2007 33 Intense Focus 2006 51 Country Reel 2000 25 Pressing 2003 27 Elusive City 2000 29 Royal Applause 1993 50 Clodovil 2000 34 Delegator* 2006 27 Kheleyf 2001 46 Born to Sea* 2009 43 More Than Ready 1997 9 Showcasing 2007 28 Zoffany 2008 46 Evasive 2006 17 Big Bad Bob 2000 37 Rock of Gibraltar 1999 24 Oasis Dream 2000 32 Pivotal 1993 33 Bushranger 2006 50 Yonaguska 1998 21 Dai Jin 2000 15 Desert Prince 1995 19 Literato 2004 10 Scarface 2003 15 Lilbourne Lad 2009 36 Royal Abjar 1991 12 Kyllachy 1998 52 Eishin Dunkirk 1997 17 Falco 2005 19 Henrythenavigator 2005 50 Elusive Quality 1993 22 Rio de la Plata* 2005 24 Redoute’s Choice* 1996 20 Campanologist* 2005 18

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Wins

*first-season sire) SWs

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Top Earner

16 51.61 23 0 240,925 Trevanna 7 43.75 13 0 240,041 Salamis 10 27.78 16 4 233,879 South Seas 7 43.75 13 0 225,810 Triton 7 30.43 9 1 219,885 Wick Powell 8 25.00 13 0 218,503 Kestila 19 33.93 24 0 214,283 Smokey Lane 16 35.56 23 2 214,212 Rainbow Royal 12 23.08 16 0 213,617 Stamp Collecting 14 43.75 21 1 204,564 Montataire 8 42.11 12 1 197,124 Alwina 10 31.25 12 1 196,583 Mate Story 18 36.73 22 0 196,473 Clef 13 39.39 15 1 185,942 Making Light 10 31.25 15 2 184,335 Eziyra 8 32.00 12 1 183,428 Dragon Lips 8 24.24 10 0 181,722 Screwbox Carlras 14 27.45 18 0 180,542 Morgan Blond 8 32.00 15 0 178,210 Kiyamet 7 25.93 11 0 178,085 Edinburgh 11 37.93 13 0 176,392 Vega Sicilia 11 22.00 16 1 174,229 Domfront 11 32.35 14 0 173,689 Something Brewing 7 25.93 11 1 169,809 Accidental Agent 14 30.43 16 0 162,810 California Tee 11 25.58 13 1 162,294 Sea of Grace 3 33.33 6 2 154,452 Boynton 10 35.71 12 1 153,066 Savannah’s Dream 12 26.09 17 0 152,711 Opinion Maker 5 29.41 9 0 152,180 Mademoiselle Marie 8 21.62 13 0 150,382 Belle de Belle 7 29.17 11 1 149,564 Miss Infinity 13 40.63 15 0 146,523 Mystic Dawn 11 33.33 14 0 146,142 Cosmique 12 24.00 16 0 144,019 Spy Ring 7 33.33 14 0 143,558 Into Star 7 46.67 11 0 142,594 Oglum Beratim 7 36.84 14 2 142,424 Sun Devil 3 30.00 6 1 141,055 Kambura 7 46.67 9 0 140,331 Gina Montana 6 16.67 12 0 138,792 Rainbow Mist 6 50.00 9 0 137,929 Siverek Diyari 13 25.00 17 2 137,791 Mujadil Lachy 6 35.29 10 0 134,446 Golden Dollar 4 21.05 6 0 132,469 Fuenteesteis 12 24.00 16 0 131,266 Jessy’s Wonder 8 36.36 10 1 125,870 Ambassadorial 8 33.33 9 0 125,224 Thais 9 45.00 9 0 124,783 Gold Luck 4 22.22 5 1 124,780 Langtang

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stallion stats Thunder Snow: won the Group 1 Criterium International.

He is by first-season sire Helmet, out of the Dubai Destination mare Eastern Joy, and is a half-brother to three black-type horses including Ihtimal (Shamardal), who finished third in the Fillies’ Mile as well as in the 1,000 Guineas

Leading European first-season sires 2016 (by prize-money earned (£) to November 11, 2016) StallionName

Y of B

Sir Prancealot Helmet Frankel Dragon Pulse Mayson Power Native Khan Rajsaman Harbour Watch Bated Breath Torok Foxwedge Sepoy Excelebration Elzaam Requinto Casamento Delegator Born to Sea Rio de la Plata Redoute’s Choice Campanologist Nathaniel Tin Horse Sayif Captain Chop Famous Name Scalo Jukebox Jury Brilliant Speed So You Think

2010 74 2008 52 2008 35 2009 45 2008 47 2009 41 2008 20 2007 50 2009 70 2007 47 2009 12 2008 45 2008 47 2008 60 2007 34 2009 31 2008 52 2006 27 2009 43 2005 24 1996 20 2005 18 2008 38 2008 23 2006 13 2008 8 2005 21 2007 5 2006 28 2008 2 2006 19

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SWs

Money Won

Top Earner

30 40.54 43 2 591,614 Stormy Clouds 16 30.77 27 1 587,939 Thunder Snow 16 45.71 26 5 479,285 Queen Kindly 21 46.67 30 2 407,331 Legendary Lunch 15 31.91 23 3 404,638 Mazyoun 16 39.02 23 5 369,464 Peace Envoy 13 65.00 21 0 340,018 Zippy 12 24.00 18 1 317,296 Brametot 15 21.43 22 1 307,862 Tis Marvellous 16 34.04 22 0 301,975 Al Johrah 6 50.00 11 1 279,463 Piano Sonata 17 37.78 20 0 263,593 Urban Fox 17 36.17 21 2 257,654 Baileys Showgirl 18 30.00 20 0 244,320 Fulminato 15 44.12 22 1 242,884 Clem Fandango 16 51.61 23 0 240,925 Trevanna 12 23.08 16 0 213,617 Stamp Collecting 7 25.93 11 1 169,809 Accidental Agent 11 25.58 13 1 162,294 Sea of Grace 8 33.33 9 0 125,224 Thais 9 45.00 9 0 124,783 Gold Luck 4 22.22 5 1 124,780 Langtang 9 23.68 9 0 109,031 Kastano 3 13.04 5 0 87,101 Ndesha 4 30.77 7 0 81,084 If I Say So 4 50.00 6 0 80,517 Capchop 4 19.05 5 1 75,491 Famous Milly 1 20.00 4 0 62,476 Icalo 9 32.14 10 0 60,514 Royal Flag 2 100.00 3 0 47,329 Trickbag 2 10.53 2 0 30,182 Neguev

stallion stats Wootton Bassett’s champion, Almanzor

Leading European second-season sires 2016 (by prize-money earned (£) to November 11, 2016) StallionName

Rnrs

Wnrs

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Wootton Bassett (GB) Zoffany (IRE) Canford Cliffs (IRE) Dream Ahead (USA) Poet’s Voice (GB) Roderic O’Connor (IRE) Pour Moi (IRE) Lilbourne Lad (IRE) Frozen Power (IRE) Wiener Walzer (GER) Shakespearean (IRE) Elusive Pimpernel (USA) Soul City (IRE) Kingsfort (USA) Dick Turpin (IRE) Milanais (FR) Vol De Nuit (GB) Cat Junior (USA) Loup Breton (IRE) Skins Game (GB) Intrepid Jack (GB) Hello Sunday (FR) Magadan (IRE) Monitor Closely (IRE) Palavicini (USA) Masterofthehorse (IRE) Frozen Fire (GER)

26 130 131 112 119 86 78 96 84 13 26 29 22 32 44 7 10 5 9 5 4 1 4 5 1 2 4

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Starts 106 668 600 477 542 397 363 533 508 50 121 133 102 224 179 37 61 47 47 24 25 10 11 19 14 8 10

courtesy of the-racehorse.com Wins 12 68 64 47 62 48 39 49 52 10 9 12 9 24 11 2 9 5 1 4 1 1 1 2 1 1 0

SWs 1 5 2 2 4 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Money Won 2,354,244 1,750,109 985,798 810,233 780,547 512,287 506,352 444,015 410,179 176,728 169,684 155,628 146,652 127,885 99,487 84,375 68,553 66,224 42,872 27,970 24,169 23,862 23,028 12,611 10,122 4,077 1,433

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Ballyhane Battle Of Marengo €6,000 €4,000 -33% Dandy Man €8,000 €10,000 25% Elzaam €3,500 €6,000 71% Prince Of Lir (New) - €5,000 Red Jazz €4,000 €4,000 Ballylinch Beat Hollow €6,000 €6,000 Dream Ahead €17,500 €12,000 -31% Fascinating Rock (New) - €10,000 Lawman €25,000 €25,000 Lope de Vega €45,000 €50,000 11% Make Believe €20,000 €17,500 -12% New Bay (New) - €20,000 Banstead Manor Stud Bated Breath £10,000 £8,000 -20% Dansili £85,000 £65,000 -22% Frankel £125,000 £125,000 Kingman £55,000 £55,000 Oasis Dream £75,000 £50,000 -33% Beechwood Grange Stud Haafhd £3,000 £3,000 Bearstone Firebreak £4,500 £3,500 -22% Fountain Of Youth £5,000 £4,500 -10% Bridge House Stud Cappella Sansevero Strath Burn (New)

€4,500 -

€4,500 €5,500 -

Bucklands Coach House £3,000 £3,000 Helvellyn £2,000 £3,000 50% Cheveley Park Stud Dutch Art £40,000 £25,000 -37% Garswood £5,000 £4,000 -20% Kyllachy £15,000 £15,000 Lethal Force £10,000 £10,000 Mayson £5,000 £6,000 20% Medicean £7,000 £6,000 -14% Pivotal £45,000 £40,000 -11% Twilight Son (New) - £10,000 Coolmore Australia € 50,000 € 35,000 -30% Camelot € 25,000 € 35,000 40% Canford Cliffs € 17,500 € 10,000 -42% Excelebration € 15,000 € 10,000 -33% Fastnet Rock Private Private Footstepsinthesand € 10,000 € 10,000 Galileo Private Private -

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Gleneagles €60,000 €40,000 -33% Holy Roman Emperor €17,500 €17,500 Ivawood €9,000 €7,500 -16% Kingston Hill €6,000 €5,000 -16% Mastercraftsman €35,000 €5,000 -28% Most Improved €4,000 €4,000 No Nay Never €17,500 €17,500 Power €8,000 €8,000 Pride Of Dubai (New) - €15,000 Requinto €5,000 €5,000 Rock of Gibraltar €10,000 €9,000 -10% Ruler Of The World €10,000 €8,000 -20% Starspangledbanner €15,000 €15,000 The Gurkha (New) - €25,000 War Command €15,000 €12,500 -16% Zoffany €45,000 35,000 -22% Dalham Hall Brazen Beau £10,000 £10,000 Casamento £5,000 £5,000 Charming Thought (New) £8,000 Dubawi £225,000 £250,000 11% Farhh £8,000 £8,000 Golden Horn £60,000 £60,000 Helmet £8,000 £10,000 25% Iffraaj £22,500 £27,500 22% New Approach £60,000 £30,000 -50% Outstrip £5,000 £5,000 Poet’s Voice £12,000 £8,000 -33% Sepoy £15,000 £15,000 Territories (New) - £12,000 Toormore (New) - £5,000 Derrinstown Awtaad (New) - €15,000 Haatef €2,000 €2,000 Markaz (New) - €6,000 Tamayuz €12,500 €8,000 -36% Gilltown Born To Sea Harzand (New) Sea The Stars

€10,000 - €125,000

€10,000 €15,000 €125,000 -

Hedgeholme Eagle Top (New) Intrinsic

- £1,750

£3,000 £1,750 -

£6,500 £6,500

£5,000 -16% £6,500 -

Highclere Cable Bay Paco Boy

Irish National Stud Dragon Pulse Elusive Pimpernel

€ 5,000 € 1,000

€8,000 60% €1,000 -

stallion fees: 2017

Stud / stallion

2016 Fee

2017 Fee

Famous Name €4,000 €4,000 Free Eagle €20,000 €20,000 Gale Force Ten €5,000 €5,000 Invincible Spirit €120,000 €120,000 Worthadd €5,000 € 5,000

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Kildangan Belardo (New) - €15,000 Buratino (New) - €5,000 Dawn Approach €35,000 €30,000 -13% Epaulette €7,000 €7,000 Exceed and Excel €40,000 €50,000 25% Fast Company £4,000 €7,000 33% French Navy €4,000 €4,000 Fulbright €4,000 €4,000 Hallowed Crown €7,000 €7,000 Night Of Thunder €30,000 €25,000 -16% Raven’s Pass €15,000 €12,000 -20% Shamardal Private Private Slade Power €20,000 €20,000 Teofilo €50,000 €40,000 -20% The Last Lion (New) - €12,000 Kingfisher Stallions Burwaaz £2,000 £1,000 -50 Mazameer £3,000 £3,000 Lanwades Archipenko £10,000 £10,000 Bobby’s Kitten (New) - £12,500 Sea The Moon £15,000 £15,000 Sir Percy £7,000 £7,000 Llety Stud

Stud / stallion

2016 Fee

2017 Fee

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Overbury Cityscape £4,500 £4,500 Delegator £4,000 £5,000 25% £3,000 Dunaden £3,000 £4,000 -20% Mustajeeb £5,000 Rathasker Stud Anjaal €5,000 €5,000 €5,000 Bungle Inthejungle €5,000 Clodovil €10,000 €8,000 -20% Coulsty (New) - €5,000 Es Que Love €5,000 €5,000 Rathbarry Acclamation € 30,000 €30,000 Ajaya (New) - €10,000 Kodi Bear (New) - €10,000 Moohaajim €4,000 €4,000 Tagula €4,000 €4,000 Xtension €4,000 €4,000 Tally-Ho Baltic King €1,500 €1,500 Kodiac €45,000 €50,000 11% Mehmas (New) - €12,500 Morpheus €5,000 €5,000 Sir Prancealot €5,000 €8,000 60% Vadamos (New) - €10,000 Zebedee €8,000 €7,500 -6% Tara Alhebayeb €5,000 €5,000 The National Stud

Sayif £3,000 tbc Stimulation £3,000 tbc -

Gregorian £4,500 £4,500 Marcel (New) - £5,000 Toronado £15,000 £12,500 -17%

Mickley

Tweenhills

Captain Gerrard £3,500 tbc Heeraat £4,000 tbc Multiplex £3,500 tbc Phoenix Reach £5,000 tbc -

Charm Spirit €27,500 £20,000 Harbour Watch £7,500 £6,000 -20% Havana Gold £8,500 £7,000 -17% Hot Streak £7,000 £6,000 -14%

Newsells

Whitsbury Adaay (New) - £7,000 Due Diligence £6,500 £5,500 -15% Showcasing £25,000 £35,000 40% Swiss Spirit £4,000 £4,000 Yeomanstown Camacho €7,500 tbc Dark Angel €60,000 tbc Gutaifan (New) €12,500 tbc -

Equiano £7,000 £8,000 14% Nathaniel £20,000 £17,500 -12.5% Norton Grove Stud Monsieur Bond

£4,000

£4,000 -

Nunnery Muhaarar £30,000 £30,000 Mukhadram £7,000 £7,000 Nayef £5,000 £5,000 Oak Grove Al Kazeem £12,000 £12,000 Avonbridge £2,000 £2,000 -

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photos of the month: Cartier Awards

THE CARTIER AWARDS 2016

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1. Quiet Reflection: Dougie Costello, Christopher Patten, Karl Burke, Laurent Feniou, Elaine Burke, Niall O’Brien, Mika Strecker, Hubert Strecker 2. Almanzor: Christophe Soumillon, Jean-Claude Rouget, Laurent Feniou 3. Lady Aurelia: Peter Leidel, Karin McKinnell, Frankie Dettori, Leia Bolton, George Bolton

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4. Minding: Nick Luck, Ryan Moore, Christy Grassick 5. Victoria Pendleton 6. Clare Balding with Johnny Murtagh

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LA CRESSONNIÈRE : Poule d’Essai des Pouliches Gr1

LA CRESSONNIÈRE : Prix de Diane Gr1

RYMSKA : Critérium de l’Ouest Listed 2nd Miss Grillo Stakes Gr3

SUEDOIS : 2nd July Cup Gr1

SOTTEVILLE : Derby du Languedoc Listed 3rd Prix de Royallieu Gr2

ZGHORTA DANCE : Prix Vanteaux Gr3 2nd Premio Lydia Tesio Gr.1

CLASSIC SIRE 13 Stakes horses in 2016 (conceived at €5,000 fee) 2016 Yearlings have sold up to

€520,000

la Cauvinière

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3 Royal Ascot-winning 2YO’s 5 Group 1 horses 6 Group winners

VENTURA STORM 1st Premio Jockey Club-Gr.1 1st Prix de Reux-Gr.3 2nd St. Leger Stakes-Gr.1 FOUNDATION 1st Royal Lodge Stakes-Gr.2 3rd Racing Post Trophy-Gr.1 ILLUMINATE 1st Duchess of Cambridge Stakes-Gr.2 1st Albany Stakes-Gr.3 2nd Cheveley Park Stakes-Gr.1 KNIFE EDGE 1st German 2,000 Guineas-Gr.2 WATERLOO BRIDGE 1st Norfolk Stakes-Gr.2 DOLCE STREGA 1st Athasi Stakes-Gr.3 WASHINGTON DC 1st Windsor Castle Stakes-L.R. 2nd Phoenix Stakes-Gr.1 2nd Prix de l’Abbaye-Gr.1 3rd Commonwealth Cup-Gr.1 ARGENTERO 1st Rochestown Stakes-L.R. LIGHT UP OUR WORLD 1st Coral Distaff-L.R. 2nd Fred Darling Stakes-Gr.3 ARCHITECTURE 2nd Epsom Oaks-Gr.1 2nd Irish Oaks-Gr.1

All from his first crop (from €7,500 nominations)

Only 8 mares % of the in his fi he covered were B rst crop perfor lack-Type It was mers.

33% in 2016!

Yearlings in 2016 sold for €245,000, €185,000, €175,000, €150,000, €150,000, €145,000, €140,000, €130,000, €130,000, €130,000

AFANDEM impressed on debut at Deauville

on 17 Oct for J-C Rouget & Al Shaqab Racing

Fee €35,000 Christy Grassick, David O’Loughlin, Eddie Fitzpatrick, Tim Corballis, Maurice Moloney, Gerry Aherne, Mathieu Legars or Jason Walsh Tel: +353-52-6131298. David Magnier, Tom Gaffney, Joe Hernon or Cathal Murphy. Tel: 353-25-31966/31689. Kevin Buckley (UK Rep.) Tel: +44-7827-795156. E-mail: sales@coolmore.ie Web site: www.coolmore.com