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contents march-april 8

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Paul Haigh takes a look at the popular ladies’ days and debates their success or otherwise

13 News

New GB race funding discussed in government, writer Cathy Grassick makes her International Thoroughbred debut, while William keeps an eye on the racing action Down Under

18 California back to business

New columnist Simon Rowlands analyses the action in Dubai ahead of the World Cup at the end of March

28 Happy Birthday Dubai!

It is 20 years since the start of the Dubai World Cup, Paul Haigh looks at the progress made by the meeting

36 Leader of the pack

Sally Duckett meets Jassim Ghazali, who has been champion trainer in Qatar for the last nine years

44 Asian Racing Conference

Racing and betting needs to catch up with the digital revolution, reports Jocelyn de Moubray

50 Top of the table

Liz Price visits Drakenstein Stud in South Africa, the new home of former Coolmore sire Duke Of Marmalade

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Racing’s fair ladies S “ Paul Haigh debates the role played by racing’s popular “Ladies’ Days”

tephen Fry doesn’t often get mentioned when the subject is racing, but while hosting this year’s BAFTA Awards he made a jovial remark about one of his friends which not only drew the hysterical ire of PC fanatics on Twitter but also the attention of Guardian columnist Sara Pascoe, who found a racing comparison on which to feed, and tucked straight in.

Fry’s joke, at the expense of no one, was to tease his friend that only the very greatest could get away with coming to accept a prize at an awards ceremony while “dressed as a bag lady”.

Pascoe saw a link with the Grand National meeting’s attempt to rebrand and resuscitate its Ladies’ Day, which occurs on the Friday before the famous steeplechase that once used to attract the attention of nearly half the population of Britain as well as around 300 million allegedly glued to TV around the world.

She made her own position on racing quite clear pretty early on: “I have never been to Ladies’ Day at the Grand National. I have never been to any day there if truth be told and unless they introduce a ‘Scruffy People Who Believe Horse Racing To Be Deeply Cruel Day’ and pay me to attend I can’t see that changing”.

Okay Sara. Glad we cleared that up. We’ll put you down as a ‘No’ for the hospitality tent then. Her main point seemed to be that both Fry’s remark and the National’s desire to promote its Ladies’ Day were symptomatic of the tendency to make women conform to expectations of how they ought to look and dress.

Anyone who‘s actually been to Ladies Day at the Grand National meeting knows exactly why it needs

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It’s a day for showing off, which is why it’s so popular.

Everybody who goes to Ascot dressed in about 5k’s worth of fashion and matching Louboutins goes to be noticed. And remembered.

Or so they hope

makeover because of its “declining popularity”.

There are various plausible definitions of madness, but one of them must have something to do with going out in what’s invariably the sort of weather that would have made Ernest Shackleton order his men back to base camp, while dressed in nothing but very short dresses, tattoos and spray-on suntan. And that’s only part of the entertainment. The drunken determination of some patrons to show off knickers or absence thereof would be frowned on at a hookers’ convention.

Coarse racing males love it of course, and laugh a lot.

Maybe numbers are declining because regulars are dying of frostbite.

But it does remind us of the Ladies’ Day phenomenon in general. How has it survived and even thrived so long in a society which now regards it as a solecism if not an actual insult to describe a female actor as an “actress”, and in which many believe that even to use the word “ladies” rather than “women” implies all sorts of condescension and incorrectness?

Apparently Coco Chanel said: “Dress shabbily, and they remember the dress. Dress impeccably, and they remember the woman”. (This is tripe incidentally. Great looking women look great whatever they’re wearing – even the now clichéd black binbags. And my two daughters regularly prove it).

But the most famous woman in fashion history probably put her finger on the reason why Ladies’ Day is always sell-out day at Royal Ascot – even though it’s the least inspiring racing day of the meeting, its feature being the Gold Cup, an interminable anachronism whose main purpose these days seems to be to identify horses who might one day make jumping stallions.

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Girls just wanna have fun... Ladies Days seem to have an enduring attraction and all racecourses stage them for their money-making potential

It’s a day for showing off, which is why it’s so popular.

Everybody who goes to Ascot dressed in about 5k’s worth of fashion and matching Louboutins goes to be noticed. And remembered. Or so they hope. It’s glamorous and it’s cool to be seen on Ladies’ Day at Ascot. Or at least that’s the widespread perception.

Compare and contrast Ladies’ Day at Aintree where most of the once-a-year 18-30 crowd go to get smashed and /or picked up. (This is not of course to say that none of that sort of thing goes on at the Royal Meeting, too). If they freeze, they freeze. Keeping warm is not part of the exercise.

Sadly they’re never going to make Ladies’ Day at Aintree chic. The two events have very different clienteles, although Berkshire does attract a fair few TOWIE fans too. Not better, not worse, just different.

Whether Aintree Ladies’ Day is salvageable probably depends on whether the authorities are able to persuade the core attendees that it isn’t necessary to turn up

They attract young women who attract young men, which makes for bigger attendance, bigger turnover and bigger bar sales

dressed as though you’ve been shipwrecked on a palm fringed island in order to look “fit”. And there’s about as much chance of that as there is of moving the Winter Olympics to Ibiza.

They have Ladies’ Days everywhere there’s racing now though, and why not? They attract young women who attract young men, which makes for bigger attendance, bigger turnover and bigger bar sales. In short, they make money.

Now, to add a direct racing topic to this column’s content, a not quite seamless transition to Hong Kong where their Ladies’ Day is known as Sa Sa Ladies’ Purse Day and attracts about 70,000: almost exactly the same number as Ascot’s. No bag ladies here either unless the bags cost at least a couple of grand.

From the start of next season, which begins in September, the Hong Kong Jockey Club has opened 17 of its best races to international competition. The local crown jewels, notably the Hong Kong Derby, which

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It is not often that racing and Stephen Fry’s name are linked, but after some thought, might he be a good shout for one of the new ITV racing jobs?

is run each year at about the same time of year as the Grand National, are excluded because the Derby is the greatest prize for any Hong Kong owner and the Club’s members (who are the only ones allowed to own horses in Hong Kong) just wouldn’t wear it if invading predators were allowed to snap at their grail.

But the interesting question here is what the HKJC is up to? Cutting through official statements, which will all have been discussed, re-discussed and approved down to the last comma before release, because that’s the HKJC’s way, the message to the rest of us is that the jurisdiction with by far the highest per race turnover on earth, the richest administration and a growing reputation for leadership in other respects, now wants to be accepted as one of the world’s major racing nations.

Whether they’ll succeed in attracting runners from Japan and Australasia – presumably their initial targets – never mind Europe, remains to be seen. But you can’t call yourself a world power in racing if most of your races are closed to international competition, and the HKJC has realised this.

Strangely the Sa Sa Ladies’ Purse isn’t one of the 17.

What’s this? An insult to womanhood? Not really. The

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But you can’t call yourself a world power in racing if most of your races are closed to international competition, and the HKJC has realised this

Purse itself is a Group 3 handicap and open to all sorts, including geldings.

One day, before it packs up for health’ n’ safety reasons or because its regulars just prefer clubbing, Sara Pascoe should try Ladies’ Day at the Grand National meeting.

There’d be material there for half a dozen cris de coeurs about judging women on their merits rather than just their appearance. But what about the ones who want to be judged on their appearance? Don’t they have rights too?

And what about Stephen Fry? He closed down his Twitter account, though not before telling his critics just where they can stick their stupid self-righteous sanctimony.

Fair play to Sara, she defended him, but it seems it’s just not safe to kid your friends in public anymore, not even if you’re one of the most admired men in the country.

Will we ever think of Fry in a racing context again?

Probably not. But he’d make a wonderful fashion commentator on the Friday before the National, wouldn’t he, as long as he was given his head.

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Government proposes new funding mechanism for British horseracing

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he Government is to replace the horseracing Levy with a new funding mechanism next April, a move the sport believes will help it plug its looming cash shortfall and achieve a fairer return from bookmakers.

The scheme will see all bets made on British horseracing

by British-based customers – whether they are betting in shops or online – subject to the new funding arrangement.

Money has been leaking out of the Levy as the percentage of offshore online betting has grown in recent years – possibly now as high as 50 per cent of all bets.

Nick Rust, the chief

executive of the BHA, called the announcement “truly historic”.

He said: “This announcement is one that should prove truly historic. The new funding model will ensure a fair transfer of funding to British racing based on all betting activity on the sport – a link that was first established in law in 1961.

“It meets all of racing’s requirements for a new funding model and can bear fruit in 2017, which is crucial given the significant Levy cliff we face.

“In the longer term, this means greater financial security for the sport, a platform for growth, a huge boost to our participants and more certainty for the tens of thousands of people who rely on racing for their livelihoods.

“We look forward to working with government on the details of these proposals and to make sure the implementation timetable they have announced today is achieved.

“We now have a great opportunity to bring together racing and betting in tackling the sport’s funding issues for the benefit of all.”

It is also proposed that racing will be empowered to make it’s own decisions as to how the income from the new funding system will be spent.

Culture secretary John Whittingdale said to the House of Commons: “Racing will be responsible for making decisions on spending the new fund and will be making further

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announcements shortly.”

At the beginning of 2016, the BHA implemented an interim measure called the Authorised Betting Partners (ABP) which was designed to encourage bookmakers to contribute a fixed amount of their racing revenues.

Those not agreeing to sign up to the scheme have been prevented from sponsorship agreements at participating racecourses, principally those run by the Jockey Club and ARC. ABP’s will continue until next April in order to help smooth the path to the new system.

Racehorse sustainability could be an heritable trait

Researchers have recently found that sustainability (how long the horse can keep racing without illness or injury) is a trait which is just as heritable as performance.

The 2015 heritability study examined the racing records and bloodlines of 168,993 thoroughbreds in Australia and Hong Kong.

Findings concluded that the following are all heritable traits: • the length of the horse’s racing career (longevity) • the number of events the horse raced in (persistence) • how many spells or breaks the horse had recorded (breaks of longer than 90 days between performance events) The findings were similar to previous studies on performance where traits of durability were significantly influenced by environmental variables such as age, sex, trainer and the region in which a horse originated, suggesting that while environmental factors shape sustainability and performance, genetic influences exist too.

In a recent interview with The Horse.com Dr. Brandon Velie said: “I don’t know of anyone in the industry who doesn’t think winning performance is heritable, and sustainability without injury is no more complex than winning performance.

“Breeding for sustainability in addition to performance keeps horses on the track for longer – which is better for the owner’s investment. It also keeps them healthier for longer giving racehorses the chance for a second career in leisure or sport once their racing careers are over.”

Velie also suggested that aiming for sustainability in racehorses could help the industry’s image as a whole.

“Longer careers for horses will likely increase field sizes, and, as we’ve seen with American Pharoah, the longer a horse is around, the more likely the industry will recruit new fans.

“That’s very hard to do with very short racing careers and even more difficult to do when injured horses are what comes to mind when the average person thinks of the racing industry.”

This new study supports past research that has also indicated there is a genetic influence on tendon injuries and fractures: • Oki, et al. (2008) reported the commonly injured Superficial Digital Flexor Tendon (SDFT, the suspensory tendon) may have a hereditary component.

• Welsh et al. (2014) reported that injuries to the SDFT and distal limb fracture were positively genetically correlated.

Further research proposes that genetic testing may be a consideration for the future as specific genes have been associated with SDFT injury in British NH horses (Tully et al. 2014) giving rise to the possibility of using genetic markers to identify horses at risk of injury.

Therefore, research evidence is building up to suggest that using targeted breeding strategies may help to reduce the risks of injury which in turn, will increase sustainability amongst racehorse generations.

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Work starts in June on new turf track at Santa Anita Santa Anita RACETRACK is to begin installation of a completely new Bermuda Turf course in June. It is planned for the track to be ready for use in

advance of Santa Anita’s autumn meeting, which begins in late September, in plenty of time for the Breeders’ Cup meeting on November 4-5.

“With the impact of additional racing dates and increased demand for Turf racing, the replacement of the course is something we have been anticipating and planning for several months,” said Joe Morris, senior vice president of

West Coast operations for owner The Stronach Group.

“The new course will be very tight-knit and uniform, and we’re confident that we can have it fully installed by early July, which will give it the time it needs during optimum growing conditions.

“Turf racing is extremely popular with our fans and horsemen, and, with our expanded racing calendar, we are placing demands on this course

that have never before existed.

The new turf is designed to be robust enough to handle the additional use.

“The horsemen are fully supportive of this project and together we look forward to its implementation.”

Trainer Jim Cassidy, president of the California Thoroughbred Trainers, said: “A completely new and durable Turf course is essential to successful year-round

xxxxx Keeping an eye on the action from Down Under

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Februaries at home, I think the rival attraction of a visit Down Under for the southern-hemisphere yearling sales may win out next year.

Sales results have been very strong in every state with the best pedigrees still to come at Inglis Easter.

I have enjoyed the high quality racing coming from Down Under, especially since I have mastered the “recording and fast forward” button on At The Races.

At this time of year the focus switches from racing in Melbourne to Sydney. For once the toprated two-year-old seems to be a Victorian-trained colt Extreme Choice, the Blue Diamond winner who overcame a bad draw to win the important juvenile race convincingly.

He has already won going right-handed and takes after his successful sire Not A Single Doubt in stature at just 15.3hh. He was the first by Redoute’s Choice go to stud as a stallion in 2005 and stood for six seasons at under £7,500.

Extreme Choice has already been snapped up by Newgate Stud

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Extreme Choice has already been snapped up by Newgate Stud as a potential stallion and is typical of many Australian horses in having multiple owners: 18, including three syndicates

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“He was stunningly lazy and violently shallow, but ? knew how to sell fantasies that made people feel better. He couldn’t drive, swim or ski. He played no sports and took no exercise. He much preferred having relationships with teenagers than women his own age.”

Taken from David Aaronovitch’s review in a new biography... so who is it?This winter at Kingsclere it has been the continuation of the wet, windy weather and only recently have a few frosts halted grass growth.

I mowed the grass the week before Christmas and again in the first week of March, once we had a few dry days.

Having spent the last two

as a potential stallion and is typical of many Australian horses in having multiple owners: 18, including three syndicates!

Meanwhile, Teofilo also had a strong beginning to the year with Group 1 winners in Dubai (Special Fighter), while Palentino, also in multiple ownership, won at Flemington.

Life has been busier with the acquisition of a three-year-old Oasis Dream gelding who had one run as a two-year-old.

He has a history of being fairly spooky when ridden and eventually we have tried a pair of blinkers on him. I well remember Peter Jones at Lindsay Park using them as a breaking-in aid and Monty Roberts has advocated a modified version with restricted vision on top to correct a rearing horse.

Gary Witherford, who first came into my life with a stalls-shy colt of George Ward’s named Smart Squall, uses it as a breaking-in tool for horses that are difficult to tack up.

One of my best fillies, the Gold

the news racing at Santa Anita.

“Track leadership has been careful to consider our suggestions and we are pleased to endorse their plan.”

Beginning on June 6, preparations will begin on the hillside portion of the track, with the Turf oval scheduled for closure beginning June 20.

The first plan of action will be to remove the existing turf and prepare the soil for the installation of the fully mature Bermuda grass, which has been grown in preparation at La Quinta in California.

With an oval that measures about 7f, Santa Anita’s grass course is unlike any other in North America, in that it features a hillside component, which measures about 6f100yds (4,777 feet) from the top of the hill to the finish line.

With Santa Anita’s current winter meet closing on April 10, Turf racing in California will move to Golden Gate Fields.

Turf Festival purses will be increased and trainers will be offered free transportation for horses between Santa Anita and Golden Gate.

Santa Anita’s unique Turf track

Michael Dickinson: a new approach

Cup winner Indian Queen, always wore a visor at exercise and when racing as she was very nappy.

Fingers crossed, it does seem to help this gelding and he is now concentrating in his canter work.

Any friendly aids such as shadow rolls, cheek pieces, breast girths and hoods with neoprene ears should all form a valuable part of the equine tack box.

I was pleased to read that Michael Dickinson has returned to the training ranks.

My first encounter with him, and his notebook, was in my first year of training at Marriott Stables in Newmarket after we had put air extractors in the barns on the advice of my vet, Richard Greenwood.

Michael’s first venture into training Flat horses was with the ill-fated Golden Fleece, who was a thoroughly disappointing shortlived sire. Owner Robert Sangster probably did not appreciate Michael’s professional intensity.

I stayed with Michael at Tapeta Farm in Maryland and, as Gai Waterhouse found out, you had to remember some of the answers to questions asked some years previously!

I am interested to hear that

he has designed a purpose-built performance centre with a biomechanical analyser, therapeutic laser, salt room, spa and plans for a hyperbaric chamber. He has bought more land for turnout paddocks and is utilising a pond for equine swimming.

I well remember my persuading him to visit Heath House to see the pool some years ago and arranged to meet at 9.00am.

Unfortunately not only was he ten minutes late, he also parked in the wrong place. Considerably flustered, Michael wound the window to apologise to Sir Mark Prescott, who quoted his father’s words: “You should never meet your heroes, they will always disappoint you!”

It took Michael at least 20 minutes to regain his composure!

Finally, an entertaining blog site from Mark MacDonald, a retired Canadian trainer who has firm views on most racetrack issues having trained in California and operated as a bloodstock agent.

He now lives in Shoal Bay, British Columbia and his blog can be found at blog.shoalbay.ca.

If you have got this far… the answer to the opening question is Adolf Hitler.

All change at Goffs and DBS Goffs has given a spring change to a number of sales planned through 2016, while its sister company Doncaster Bloodstock Sales has been given a name change.

The company has added an extra day to its Sportsman’s Yearling Sale, which follows on from the flagship two-day Orby Sale. Called Part 2 it will take place on Friday, September 30.

“Buyers will not want to miss yearling sales week at Goffs this year,”said the company’s chief executive Henry Beeby. “The Orby offers an exceptional selection of some of the best yearlings in Europe, while the Sportsman's Sale features top quality commercial yearlings.”

Goffs has also altered the start date of its November Foal Sale, which will begin on Sunday, November 13 a day earlier than its traditional Monday start in order to cater for clients attending sales in Britain the following week.

Finally, Goffs is also introducing a Flat foal section to the December National Hunt Sale that will begin on Friday, December 9.

Doncaster Bloodstock Sale from now will be known as Goffs UK Ltd. The change comes nine years after the merger of Goffs and DBS in 2007 and is seen as a natural progression.

Since the merger of the two companies in 2007, Goffs and DBS have integrated a number of areas such as the auctioneers’ panels, client accounts, Conditions of Sale etc, while the management teams on both sides of the Irish Sea have continued to promote and run the sales in each location under the direction of Goffs chief executive Henry Beeby who remained as DBS managing director.

The move to rebrand DBS to Goffs UK is seen as another positive step that strengthens both Goffs and DBS.

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pring really is a time for fresh starts and new beginnings and nowhere is this more evident than in the bloodstock industry. The first few weeks of every year are filled with anxious moments as we all wait for the first new arrivals, and with every crop of foals comes fresh hopes and dreams for their breeders.

By the time February comes rushing in we all seem to have forgotten the exhaustion created from the previous year’s sales season and return to the various February sales around Europe with renewed vigour.

Then, before we know it, romance fills the air around February 14 and the stallions swing back into action. Trainers start to get to grips with their fresh crop of two-year-olds and the excitement starts to build in anticipation for the start of the Flat racing season. It is a time filled with plans for the future, excitement and hope.

It is hard to believe that only a few months previously we were all hunched over our catalogues swaddled in multiple layers of clothing, regarding each other suspiciously and guarding the all-important “list”.

The pressures involved with making that sale or securing that purchase gives us all a competitive edge during the sales season.

There has been much focus in the media and within the industry in recent weeks on this commercial side of the business. There have been industry seminars and bloodstock publications highlighting our need to breed more commercially and warning of the dangers of over-production, a problem which is clearly looming on the horizon.

Foal crop numbers have risen steadily year on year for the past three years and we are in danger of returning to the unsustainable highs of 2007 and 2008.

These are undoubtedly important issues and they deserve our attention, but there have been other events happening these past few weeks which have filled me with positivity. I have recently been reminded that while this is indeed a profitable and commercial industry, there is also something unique and wonderful about our bloodstock family too.

In November at Goff’s wonderful support raised over €150,000 when 14 lots, all donated by key industry professionals, were auctioned for the Ann Hanley Parkinson’s Research Fund. Ann, wife of the former Curragh trainer and Winstar Farm manager David Hanley, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease at age 49 and is now a member of a research team led by Professor Greg Gerhardt and

The most popular sire in France last spring was Haras de la Cauvinire’s Rajsaman, the only Frenchbased stallion to cover over 200 mares.

The son of Linamix has stood at €4,000 for three of his four years at stud, but has had a price increase to €6,000 for this year’s stud season.

The first crop of twoyear-olds by the dual Group 2-winner and Group 1 third hit the racecourse this year.

His top-priced yearling was sold by the Coulonces Consigment for €67,000 at the Arqana October Yearling Sale.

In total, nine stallions in France covered over 150 mares, and 23 over 100, including leading sire Le Havre, young sire sensation Siyouni and Evasive, whose first crop will be three-year-olds of this season.

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Dr Craig Van Horne in Kentucky. The fund was set up solely to finance their work and continue research into the disease.

Richard Farquhar is “Walking the Courses”, a 3,000 mile walk covering all 60 of the racecourses in mainland Britain. This walk is taking place in aid of Pancreatic Cancer UK and Racing Welfare – along the way he is being joined by trainers, jockeys and other racing professionals. Richard lost his father to Pancreatic Cancer in 2012, and was inspired to raise much needed funds for the two charities which were so closely linked to his family. His dad, Peter, was a stable lad and later a stud hand and gave Richard his lifelong love of racing. Richard feels that he owes racing a debt of gratitude for all the pleasure that it has provided him over the years.

Recently a racing and breeding quiz was held by the Irish Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association (ITBA) in memory of the late Mark O’Hanlon, who was an integral member of Irish Thoroughbred Marketing and a truly wonderful man.

There was also an auction held in conjunction with this event, which raised over €30,000 for the Naughton Family Trust Fund. This trust was set up to support the family of the late David Naughton, who was manager of Loughtown Stud.

These recent events are but a few reminders of the too many to mention acts of support, kindness and charity carried out by our industry. Every year equine-related charities and fundraising by industry professionals raise much needed money and support for those in need, whether they are involved in the bloodstock world or not.

So you see, when I describe the bloodstock business as a “family”, I did not choose this word lightly; because that is what we are – a large global bloodstock family. The Oxford Dictionary defines family as “a group of peoples from common stock” – I think that just about fits the bill!

We are united by a common passion and divided by our competitive nature, but at the end of the day, like any family, when the “proverbial” hits the fan, we have each other’s back.

Sometimes I think we need to take a step back, recognise and congratulate the wonderful work carried out by so many great people in this game. We need to acknowledge the generous support this industry gives to people who find themselves in difficult situations. We are indeed an industry like no other.

Written in memory of Beryl “Jo” Jones – a kind and generous lady who was a discreet supporter of so many bloodstock charities.

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he Dubai Carnival has undoubtedly succeeded in its aim of bringing together many of the best horses, trainers and jockeys from around the world to compete against one another at Meydan racecourse in the first three months of the year.

But such internationalisation can provide a headache to the racing enthusiast trying to make sense of events, both before and after they have taken place. With so few lines of direct form to fall back upon, other means of comparison are required.

Form-based ratings have stood the test of time in this respect, and Timeform’s have stood the test of time longest of all.

Ranging from 140 or higher (Frankel was rated 147), to 40 or lower on the Flat, Timeform ratings indicate the theoretical merit of a horse at its recent best, in terms of pounds carried. They aim to be comparable across different distances, surfaces, geographies and even timescales.

There is a three-way tie on 126 for the horse with the highest Timeform rating to have run at the 2016 Dubai Carnival so far, between California Chrome, Postponed and Ertijaal, though Tryster (125) and Frosted (124) are just two of many to be snapping at their heels.

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winner California Chrome did nothing in form terms that he had not done before when landing a handicap over 2000metres in February, when all of his rivals carried minimum weight and he went off at long odds on.

But he seemed to run to a figure of 123 and won with every bit as much authority as might be hoped for.

California Chrome remains just ahead of Frosted in the pecking order, despite the latter’s highly authoritative win in Round 2 of the Al Maktoum Challenge in course-record time in February, which resulted in that personal-best 124 rating.

The 2015 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes winner Postponed, having his first run since leaving Luca Cumani for Roger Varian, had more credible opposition in the 2410-metre Group 2 Dubai City of Gold on Super Saturday in March, and dealt with them easily, running to 124.

The French Group 2 winner Dariyan – a 123-rated colt himself – could get no nearer than 3l down at the line.

This augurs well for Postponed for the Dubai Sheema Classic (G1) on World Cup Day when he may meet the crack Japanese King Kamehameha colt Duramente (rated 123) and 129-rated Highland Reel, who has not been seen this year.

Postponed put himself on track for the Dubai Sheema Classic with easy success on Super Saturday

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A son of Shamardal, Tryster has been visually impressive – he is on course to meet the 2015 brilliant five-time Group 1 winner Solow in the Dubai Turf

Ertijaal (the one with the “IRE” suffix, not to be confused with the “AUS” version also running at Meydan this year) has been the big mover in the elite ranks, with two easy wins under big weights in well-contested 1000 metre handicaps propelling him to his lofty rating.

He has not run in Group company lately, but the numbers say he is just about the one to beat in the Al Quoz Sprint at the end of March.

The Group 3 Meydan Sprint on the Super Saturday card might have been expected to provide a strong contender for the Al Quoz also, but shock winner Fityaan seemed suited by how things panned out and has been credited with a figure of just 115.

Close second and third, Jungle Cat and Sole Power (the latter the Al Quoz winner in 2015), ran a few pounds below their pre-race 120 ratings.

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among the biggest highlights of the Carnival.

The Charlie Appleby-trained gelding has the distinction of having run the last 2f at Lingfield faster – much faster – than any horse at the track, over any distance, and his turn of foot has been deployed to devastating effect in Dubai.

To start with, he came from last to first in the Group 3 Dubai Millennium in February, beating 117-rated Haafaguinea by nearly 3l, then he did the same in another steadilyrun race, the Group 1 Jebel Hatta on Super Saturday, beating Farrier and the other Ertijaal readily.

Tryster looks unstoppable when things come down to a straight-out sprint at distances of a mile or a bit further, but, much as the clock identified his remarkable potential at an early stage, it also implies his limitations.

Tryster may well encounter Solow on World Cup Day, and a one-on-one

comparison between the former’s recent win and the latter’s success in the Dubai Turf 12 months ago favours the latter.

Solow ran nearly a second faster than did Tryster on very similar going, and he did so by running the last 1000 metres faster (if by only one-hundredth of a second), too.

Solow’s fastest 200 metres at Meydan of 10.93s is not as fast as Tryster’s of 10.88s, but overall he still looks the better horse, if not by a wide margin. His recent Chantilly win tees him up nicely for an attempted repeat at the end of the month, when his peak 129 rating may again be required.

The Dubai Carnival tends to be about achievement more than promise, but the Classic generation has also played its part, with Market Rally winning the UAE 2000 Guineas and a Listed race and Polar River unbeaten in four races in all, including the UAE 1000 Guineas and the UAE Oaks.

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The filly is easily the better of the pair on the face of it, but the clock was again useful in making that call with confidence.

Polar River was 0.99s quicker than Market Rally, and also quicker than a useful older horse, when crushing four rivals in the Guineas, and that earned her a rating of 117.

By way of comparison, that is the same rating as the average of the last five winners of the 1000 Guineas at Newmarket.

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Polar River should be a major player on the world stage, and not just when duffing up inferior opposition in her backyard

the world stage, and not just when duffing up inferior opposition in her backyard, but she was far less authoritative in the UAE Oaks over a longer distance.

There is also the far-from-small matter of Songbird to consider if, as has been mooted, Polar River heads Stateside. Jerry Hollendorfer’s unbeaten filly has taken things to a different level for three-year-old fillies this year and is now rated 125, with a good chance of even better still to come.

Irish eyes were smiling at the Emir’s Sword meeting in Qatar

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he thoroughbred racing over the three-days of the Emir’s Sword meeting at Al Rayyan racecourse, Doha, Qatar was not only dominated by the country’s champion trainer Jassim Ghazali, but also by his mainly Tattersalls-bought equine purchases as well as Irish-bred racehorses and stallions.

Over the three days, 22 races were staged, of which 11 were for thoroughbreds (excluding a few races catering solely for locally bred thoroughbreds).

Eight of the 11 winners were bought at Tattersalls, and seven were bred in Ireland.

However, The Blue Eye, winner of the Emir’s Trophy, the big middle-distance thoroughbred race on the Saturday card and worth $570,000 to the victor, was bought at Arqana for €400,000, the most expensive winner purchased at auction.

Izzthatright (Moss Vale), successful in the weekend’s $250,000 sprint, was purchased at DBS for £185,000, while Nayef Dancer was the only European import bought in a private sale.

Horses purchased at sales for lesser sums also reaped rewards – Baltic Knight, a son of Baltic King, took the second day’s big race, the Irish Thoroughbred Cup worth $200,000. The sixyear-old was bought for just 20,000gns by John Walsh Bloodstock last October, the transaction providing a rapid and profitable return on investment for his new owners.

Stallions such as Dark Angel and Invincible Spirit, known for producing sound, adaptable and straight-forward horses with good temperaments, were responsible for a number of the winners and horses who ran well – their abilities as successful stallions crossing the geographical zones. The prevailing fast ground and tight track does mean that a handy, pacey horse is needed, and one happy to go on the quicker surface.

The Blue Eye achieved the notable distinction of becoming star stallion Dubawi’s 100th stakes

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Baltic Knight: Irish-bred and Tattersalls bought, he won the ITM-sponsored Thoroughbred Cup

winner – the race ranked as Listed in international terms.

The weekend’s racing highlighted the value of the European horses-in-training sales, and the desire by those in the Middle East to purchase European-produced horses from all levels.

It is important for the horseracing industry in Europe – and particularly in Britain where prizemoney returns for owners are so low – that the sales companies, marketing organisations and Destination Europe ensure that this demand is maintained and the strong links with Qatar and the Gulf area continue to be nurtured.

For British-based owners, onward sales of horses is vital for funding continuing involvement in the sport and is the current financial lifeblood of the industry.

A number of races are restricted to locally produced thoroughbreds in order to offer Qatari stud farms and owners the opportunities to compete with home-produced stock.

The Qatari stud farms need to source colts capable of stallion duties and mares as breeding stock – again, it is an important outlet for British

and Irish colts and mares.

If Dubai and Qatar could be happy to work together, the onward development of the racing in Doha would dovetail well with the Spring Carnival racing in Dubai offering more and extended opportunities for horses and jockeys who are in the region for the spring.

And although this is probably something easier said than done, the Emirates should take a whole region view in order to establish a successful racing programme through the racing season.

Some observers have asked whether the Doha meeting could one day challenge the Dubai Word Cup meeting? While the ambition is there in Qatar to take the country’s racing to the highest level, much more development needs to take place on the ground before those lofty ambitions could be realised.

Apparently, much over the past two seasons has been done to improve facilities at the racecourse, the stable yards and quarantine sections as the racing organisation has seen racing as a desirable method of marketing the country, but to take the racing up to international Group race level would be a significant step again.

The current Turf track at Al Rayyan would not be capable of hosting racing of that level, and the grandstand, while currently more than adequate, is not large enough to accommodate significant numbers of racegoers.

There would have to be an overhaul of facilities, and to approach being able to host anything like the Dubai World Cup, is likely to need a new racecourse.

General building is going on apace in Qatar with the nation concentrating its efforts on building facilities ahead of the 2022 Football World Cup. It is unlikely that moves will be made to significantly challenge the supremacy of the Dubai Carnival and World Cup meeting with new facilities in the near future.

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stallion stats Leading British and Irish NH sires 2015-16: (by prize-money earned, to March 3, 2016) Stallion KING’S THEATRE (IRE) PRESENTING (GB) KAYF TARA (GB) BENEFICIAL (GB) FLEMENSFIRTH (USA) MILAN (GB) WESTERNER (GB) OSCAR (IRE) MIDNIGHT LEGEND (GB) OLD VIC SHANTOU (USA) MARTALINE (GB) DOM ALCO (FR) NETWORK (GER) GOLD WELL (GB) ROBIN DES CHAMPS (FR) AUTHORIZED (IRE) DEFINITE ARTICLE (GB) ALFLORA (IRE) VOIX DU NORD (FR) CLOUDINGS (IRE) WINGED LOVE (IRE) NOTNOWCATO (GB) VINNIE ROE (IRE) DR MASSINI (IRE) BRIAN BORU (GB) KALANISI (IRE) COURT CAVE (IRE) POLIGLOTE (GB) STOWAWAY (GB) SMADOUN (FR) GOLAN (IRE) HERON ISLAND (IRE) HALLING (USA) CAPE CROSS (IRE) INDIAN DANEHILL (IRE) HIGH CHAPARRAL (IRE) MEDICEAN (GB) TURTLE ISLAND (IRE) CRAIGSTEEL (GB) GENEROUS (IRE) GAMUT (IRE) FRUITS OF LOVE (USA) TIKKANEN (USA) SAINT DES SAINTS (FR) GERMANY (USA) JEREMY (USA) MILLENARY (GB) HELISSIO (FR) SIR HARRY LEWIS (USA)

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Winners

Races Won

Places

265 331 272 295 269 274 177 259 140 87 96 39 38 41 76 78 53 108 81 22 59 59 14 77 82 91 113 57 23 80 14 66 70 46 35 51 66 37 53 78 60 54 52 47 29 17 43 27 37 36

95 96 82 87 90 77 56 63 45 29 29 18 14 21 23 24 19 24 27 9 21 20 8 28 17 27 27 20 8 16 3 21 18 13 11 13 18 11 16 23 16 11 11 10 12 6 12 11 12 11

138 133 122 116 116 105 81 85 58 44 50 30 18 33 37 31 29 35 36 19 28 28 16 35 23 39 32 24 13 21 7 34 24 20 21 14 25 15 23 38 22 17 19 14 16 7 17 21 17 16

332 406 316 382 305 299 228 216 186 103 133 59 54 54 105 81 64 130 116 27 101 72 18 99 97 115 117 84 27 75 11 71 61 59 47 59 67 54 73 74 56 70 63 44 37 19 44 23 47 55

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Av. earnings

35.84 29.00 30.14 29.49 33.45 28.10 31.63 24.32 32.14 33.33 30.20 46.15 36.84 51.21 30.26 30.76 35.84 22.22 33.33 40.90 35.59 33.89 57.14 36.36 20.73 29.67 23.89 35.08 34.78 20.00 21.42 31.81 25.71 28.26 31.42 25.49 27.27 29.72 30.18 29.48 26.66 20.37 21.15 21.27 41.37 35.29 27.9 40.74 32.43 30.55

7,663 5,183 5,038 4,446 4,494 3,777 5,159 3,329 3,941 6,040 5,162 11,048 10,789 9,894 5,320 5,055 6,982 3,327 4,190 15,135 5,475 5,334 22,472 4,002 3,692 3,326 2,555 4,711 11,449 3,086 17,581 3,708 3,380 4,791 6,017 4,053 3,103 5,532 3,733 2,498 3,246 3,598 3,727 4,106 6,518 11,025 4,357 6,933 4,982 5,104

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Winners

Races Won

Places

Money Won (£)

Wnrs to Rnrs %

41 76 55 37 46 54 49 50 71 70 38 40 37 56 47 49 27 41 47 49 26 51 16 27 44 40 41 48 42 51 26 26 42 40 36 43 26 10 31 25 10 38 32 34 43 27 32 25 25 8

13 15 16 13 19 11 8 15 19 12 12 13 10 12 14 16 7 9 7 7 6 9 5 9 12 8 6 6 6 12 4 8 8 4 7 15 7 4 8 6 1 8 4 6 4 0 8 4 5 3

16 16 19 17 21 13 10 18 27 13 20 16 10 17 17 18 9 9 10 10 6 11 7 11 13 10 8 6 6 13 4 11 9 6 8 17 7 5 8 7 2 8 5 6 4 0 11 4 7 4

37 66 49 25 30 54 34 34 56 49 29 24 22 45 27 39 17 28 27 45 18 32 5 23 39 21 15 23 34 38 20 22 34 43 29 27 15 12 37 14 6 28 24 17 37 26 15 22 11 7

235,440 214,845 203,627 156,385 137,724 134,719 129,361 129,256 123,552 122,529 118,737 117,850 112,323 111,662 110,943 107,305 98,210 96,876 96,553 95,537 95,456 92,118 90,756 89,301 89,151 87,617 86,888 86,272 84,683 81,708 81,515 77,806 76,048 74,555 74,241 73,213 71,943 71,675 71,215 70,317 70,157 69,427 69,116 68,292 67,845 67,194 66,835 66,748 66,376 65,008

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Paul Haigh looks at the progress made in the 20-year history of the World Cup meeting

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t’s now been 20 years since Cigar swaggered to victory in the first Dubai World Cup. He was heralding, so we thought, a whole new era in international racing: an era beyond anyone’s wildest dreams – except Sheikh Mohammed’s.

We hacks could hardly believe it. The best horses in the world were coming, out of season, to what was then still more or less desert. The prize-money was stupendous, the hospitality stupefying. Sheikh Mohammed was picking up all the bills. The late Clement Freud, in memorable mimickry of the also late Saddam Hussein’s defiance before the first Gulf War predicted “the Mother of all Freebies”.

Things have changed a bit since then.

The hospitality having been fantastically abused has dwindled. Rumours that some of the then assembled troughers had bathed and brushed their teeth in nothing but Vintage Krug were probably exaggerations, but at least two of them, who had better remain nameless just in case their livers are still functioning, ran up bar bills and room service charges that wound up in five figures (sterling).

The prize-money is still colossal, though not perhaps quite as colossal as it seemed then as inflation has taken its toll and other great races have tried to keep pace.

The cynics who gave that opening meeting “a couple of years at the outside” have been confounded. Dubai has developed into one of the world’s glossiest and most recognisable Sheikh Mohammed: is the Dubai World Cup and its Carnival living up to his dreams?

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Cigar won the first-ever running of the Dubai World Cup in 1996.

The great horse’s arrival in the Gulf helped to get the race and meeting off to a fantastic start

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2011 Changing views from the racecourse in Dubai

cities, and a centre of excellence for many other sports too. Sheikh Mohammed who conceived it all and drove through its construction with single-minded zeal (some might say ruthlessness) even when the oil ran out and the recession bit, is now Prime Minister and ruler.

The glamour of Nad Al Sheba where Cigar did his strutting has been replaced by the super glamour of Meydan. Above all, the show has gone on.

It’s beyond doubt that the Dubai World Cup meeting has been a success in spite of blips along the way.

Why did Nad Al Sheba have to go? Because Sheikh Mohammed didn’t think it was grand enough. Why was Tapeta introduced?

Because Sheikh Mohammed thought, very reasonably, that it was the future in the US, and it has been the Americans particularly

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But is the DWC growing, or is it surviving? Has it achieved its ambition of becoming the greatest, as well as the richest, meeting in the world? that he’s always wanted to attract.

Why was Tapeta ripped up and replaced overnight by old fashioned American Dirt?

Because the Americans changed their minds about synthetics and seemed to be boycotting Dubai until old fashioned Dirt was restored.

Why was the Carnival introduced? Because Sheikh Mohammed saw that the end of March meeting required a chronological hinterland, a Dubai season to go with it and provide the big meeting with context.

How did the meeting and even Dubai itself survive the economic disasters at the end of the millennium’s first decade? Because Sheikh Mohammed went to neighbouring Abu Dhabi, which still has plenty of oil, and explained to them that it was in their interests as well as his that Project Dubai should continue to survive and flourish.

Will the project survive the current Cheap Oil crisis? (Well, it’s a crisis for countries that depend on oil sales for their income anyway).

Almost certainly, because Abu Dhabi and the other members of the UAE have got so much accumulated wealth to fall back on, and because in any case if the crisis deepens Sheikh Mohammed will just bring his fabled energy and ingenuity to play on the problem … and in one bound, as they used to say in novels published about a century ago, Jack would again be free.

What’s of immediate interest is the question of how the Dubai World Cup is doing in racing terms?

It was a miracle it developed at all without permitted betting, which for most other countries is racing’s indispensable precondition. But is the DWC growing, or is it surviving? Has it achieved its ambition of becoming the greatest, as well as the richest, meeting in the world? Has it met our, or more importantly, Sheikh Mohammed’s expectations?

There is no doubt that on the last Saturday in March it provides one of the world’s most spectacular meetings in one of world’s most

20 years dwc Gloria De Campeao (far right) wins the Dubai World Cup in 2010

spectacular settings. But is the World Cup title actually a misnomer? Is the big race holding its own or is it in decline?

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ertainly the last five winners of the main event hardly compare with the first five in terms of fame and quality.

The first five were Cigar (1996), Singspiel (1997), Silver Charm (1998), Almutawakel (1999), and Dubai Millennium (2000). All of these were horses of genuine substance, three of them US champions, and one, Dubai Millennium, a horse with few peers in the history of the sport. The most recent five have been very different.

In 2011 there was Victoire Pisa, not quite a champion even back home in Japan, although he did arrive with a narrow victory over Buena Vista in the Arima Kinen.

The 2012 winner was Animal Kingdom, a William Buick on Godolphin’s Prince Bishop after victory in the showpiece event last year

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20 years dwc Thoughts on Dubai “It’s become one of the major race meetings worldwide. I always send horses to Dubai if they’re good enough because I want to go where the prize-money is.

“About the move to Dirt from Tapeta – well one suited the Europeans, the other suits the Americans. One of mine Big Baz loves working on the Dirt, but I don’t think I’d run him on it because the kickback’s so ferocious. He’s run well at the Carnival, but I’ll probably bring him back to Lingfield next because it’s not realistic to see him beating Solow and co in the Turf.”

William Muir, British racehorse trainer “The quality at the Carnival is definitely getting stronger. For years you didn’t need a very good horse to win a race or two there – now you need a Group horse just to win a handicap.

“And the quality at the Carnival means the general level on World Cup night is deeper too.

“The switch back to Dirt means it’s better for the Americans, but if you’re European you feel you’re missing opportunities with your horses if you don’t try the Dirt.”

Marco Botti, British-based Italian trainer “You’ve got to give Dubai credit because it’s come a long way since Year 1 some 20 years ago.

Then it was the World Cup and the Dubai Duty Free and not much else, but Cigar coming made a great difference to prestige.

“They’ve developed since with outstanding Turf races and very good sprints, and they haven’t diluted it.

“I’d say Dubai World Cup is now well established as one of the “majors”, along with Royal Ascot, the Arc meeting, the Breeders’ Cup and perhaps Hong Kong in December.

“Possibly because of its geography it does get a really good representation from countries in Asia as well as Europe and the US.” Alastair Donald, managing director, International Racing Bureau “Since the inception of the World Cup the intention has always been to get horses from all over the world.

“We look on World Cup night as a time when people can judge competition from different countries and different continents and partly thanks to the development of the Carnival that competition is getting stronger and stronger.

“As far as the switch back to Dirt is concerned there’s bound to be some transition period whenever you make a change, but we’re working on that. We have strong US representation in the World Cup this year and I think we may have turned the corner.”

Frank Gabriel, director of racing, Dubai Racing Club

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Kentucky Derby winner but certainly not a great one with five wins from 12 starts, a horse who finished ninth of 11 in the Queen Anne (G1) on his only subsequent start.

Animal Kingdom beat the wonderful two miler Red Cadeaux, but the indefatigable globetrotter was closing on him at the end of his Dubai World Cup, and the relative proximity of such honest toilers as Planteur and Side Glance hardly suggests it was necessary for him to have displayed anything like brilliance, even on his biggest payday.

About the 2013 and 2014 winners, Monterosso and African Sky, it’s probably best not to say too much, except that they had no other claim apart from these victories to be taken seriously as top class horses, never mind world champions.

Perhaps it’s doing the Dubai World Cup meeting an injustice though to concentrate solely on the World Cup itself when there are two very fine Group 1 Turf races as well.

The Dubai Turf (formerly the Dubai Duty Free) and the Sheema Classic provide much better examples of international competition than the World Cup ever has.

The Dubai Turf has been won by nine Godolphin horses, three French, three South African, two Japanese, two British and one Australian. The Sheema Classic has had five British winners, four Dubaian, three Japanese, three French, and one each from South Africa, Ireland and Hong Kong.

Spearheading the US attack on this year’s World Cup will be 2014 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner California Chrome, and Wood Memorial Stakes (G1) winner Frosted.

“Spearheading” may well be the wrong word, however, as there is a possibility they may be the only North American contenders (although Hoppertunity may join them).

Last year California Chrome failed to beat the admirable but by no means world championship class Prince Bishop. It will be a major blow to both the prestige of US racing and the World Cup’s apparent raison d’etre if none of them is able to win the race which has always seemed to have been put on essentially for America’s benefit.

The change from Tapeta to Dirt doesn’t really seem to have achieved its purpose if that was to attract more Dirt performers from the US whose trainers had started boycotting the race, Animal Kingdom notwithstanding, the more so while the unfairly scorned “synthetic” was in place.

There has been no great influx of US Dirt horses since the change. Shunned by

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The most eagerly awaited race at this year’s renewal is the clash in the Dubai Turf of Solow and Maurice – a race that really should tell us who is the best miler in the world Europeans, the Dirt races at the Carnival aren’t filling.

One of the reasons why US trainers declined to bring horses to Dubai was the perception, created by the records of the returning champions, that a trip to Arabia in March caused inferior performance during the US season. sThis may or may not be correct. But while Tapeta was in place it gave the Americans an excuse not to come.

Why Sheikh Mohammed should want to continue pandering to North Americans by staging the world’s most valuable horse race on Dirt – a surface no other major racing country really bothers with – is a source of bafflement to some observers of Dubai racing.

Perhaps it has something to do with his long held dream of winning the Kentucky Derby with a Dubai-trained colt, a dream that shows very little sign of coming to reality.

The most eagerly awaited race at this year’s renewal is the clash in the Dubai Turf of Solow and Maurice – a race that really should tell us who is the best miler in the world.

Heretics murmur that if the Sheikh really wants to stage a race that might be recognised as a world championship he should rip up the Dirt and stage a $10 million race over 1m2f on Turf, because how can you have a world championship on Dirt when around 90 per cent of the best horses never go near it?

The Dubai World Cup meeting remains a success, a qualified one but a success nevertheless. But there is a feeling about that it could be even more.

Some hacks love it, although perhaps they love the Dubai sunshine at least as much as they do the racing, the form of which seldom tells us much about what’s going to happen when the horses get home.

One hopes they’re not holding their breaths for a repeat of the Mother of all Freebies though. Events like that happen only once in a very blue desert moon.

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Sally Duckett meets top Qatari trainer Jassim Ghazali at his stable in Doha to find out why his string is nigh on...

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here has beEn a lot of chat in British and Irish racing circles about dominance.

Tony McCoy started things off with his imperious 20-year reign as champion jockey, and Paul Nicholls had his era when Kauto Star, Denman and Master Minded took him to the top of the training list.

This year, Willie Mullins’s team of horses, supported by a group of immensely strong, committed, ambitious and rich owners, have seen him reign supreme in both Britain and Ireland. His superiority has caused repeated calls from many quarters that “it’s not fair” and “it’s not good for the sport”.

Qatari racing has its own version of Willie Mullins – Jassim Ghazali, who has been champion trainer for nine consecutive years, is easily the most successful trainer the country has seen, has by far the largest string of horses, and, as is the want for those who are clearly the leader in their field, is continually searching the horizons for new challenges, and for unique ways to test his considerable abilities.

And as is also the want for those watching his progress and in competitive action against him, perhaps jealous of his achievements, the cries of “it’s unfair” and “it’s not good for the sport” have also been levelled at his door.

(Appropriately, for one leading his field, after our interview, which was held at his stables on the morning of the Emir’s Sword meeting at Doha racecourse, Ghazali went onto train five winners on the card, successes coming in the day’s big thoroughbred race, the Emir’s Trophy, and in the thoroughbred sprint, the Katara Sprint Cup.)

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In fact, it is those possibly jealous voices who are the ones being unfair, for Ghazali, now a trainer of 20 years standing, has brought a new level of professionalism to the career of training racehorses in Qatar.

“Many trainers just work part-time at training,” he explains, “and they earn their salaries elsewhere. When I started to get more horses, I took the decision to do this full-time in order to do it on a professional basis.”

Ghazali’s background is not in horses but rather on the football pitch – his first job after leaving school was as a professional footballer for a local Qatari side. Unbeknownst to the young sportsman, he was then laying the foundations for his future career.

“It was an invaluable experience,” he says, “and helped me understand the rigours that an athlete experiences. The team had a number of different trainers come to us from a variety of nations, which gave us chances to work with different approaches.”

When the football career came to an end, a stint in the family’s new and second-hand car showroom followed, in association with him dipping his toe in the horse-training-water when he gathered two or three horses to race.

Success followed along with his ambition, and the equine side of things grew so that six or seven years ago the car salesroom was put on the sidelines as Ghazali took that gamble of leaving salaried employment to become a racehorse trainer.

He now has over 200 horses in training, buys 50 or 60 new horses each year, payment for which he is, of course, ultimately responsible, his team of horses earn over a million Qatari riyal a season in prize-money,

jassim ghazali Ghazali at Al Rayyan racecourse on Emir’s Sword day being interviewed by local TV after training a fifth winner on the card

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jassim ghazali The Blue Eye wins the Emir’s Trophy with Harry Bentley. The jockey has enjoyed a great winter in Qatar, is leading the championship and has struck up a good working relationship with Ghazali

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We work hard and we do a professional job – it really is up to the other trainers to catch up with us

One of Ghazali’s immaculate barns, the air conditioning units a vital accessory in the summer

and he employs three retained jockeys, one of which is this year’s Qatar riding sensation, Harry Bentley. Every new owner wishing to have a horse in training in Qatar is likely to approach Ghazali first as their prospective racehorse trainer.

“I introduce at least two or three new

owners to the Qatar Racing and Equestrian Club [QREC] a year,” he says proudly. “We work hard and we do a professional job – it really is up to the other trainers to catch up with us.”

QREC has brought a new ruling into force this year, possibly to deal with the cries of “it’s

With around 200 horses on his books, Ghazali is keen to see racing in Qatar move forwards

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The more horses who come here to race from abroad, the better for us to gauge the quality of horse that we have unfair”. In the local thoroughbred races an owner can only run have a maximum of two runners and a trainer four. Quite obviously the one person whom this new rules affects more than any other is Ghazali.

“This causes problems for my owners and is bad for them. They are paying me to train their horses and I can’t run them in the right races. What really needs to happen is to have more races and more racing,” he says shugging his shoulders with regret at the constraints.

What possibly needs to happen is for Qatari racing to catch up with its leading trainer and provide him with a service suitable to meet the demands of his sizeable stable.

“We also don’t yet have a programme book that is written a year in advance,” he adds.

“How can I buy horses and map out a plan for that horse when I don’t even know what races there are going to be available in two months’ time? I can’t make a plan with an owner or look as to how I can naturally progress that horse.”

Buying and progressing with a horse is a theme of Ghazali’s training technique.

He enjoys his summer and autumn visits to Europe looking for additions to his equine team and has been a regular and busy buyer at Tattersalls for the last seven years. His shopping sprees have recently extended to Doncaster and to France and Arqana. He prefers to buy in the auction ring, and has a good handle on the type of horse and ratings level he needs to buy, and at what budget.

“I will have orders from £10,000 to open budget,”’ he explains. “I buy in Europe and I like going to Newmarket – there is plenty of choice, especially at the Horses In Training Sale. I know many people, the facilities are good and I have somewhere to stay.

“I have found that I need to build a twoyear plan for a horse, especially for a horse who may run in the Qatari Derby – the race is run in December and is just too close to the October HIT sale.

“It can take a horse some time to acclimatise to the temperature through the summer – even with the air conditioning, if a horse arrives in the height of our summer when temperatures can be as high as 40°C, they can not cope and can lose condition.

Through the hotter months first lot will go out at 3.30am!

“When you start running them, a horse may not show anything in its first few outings, but often when they have had a break in the summer, they come back much improved. It is very unusual for a horse to be successful straight off when coming to Qatar.”

The whole Ghazali family has embraced the horseracing industry, with oldest son Mohammed already a trainer in Qatar, Nassar has been showjumping at an international level, while the secretarial work is also done by Team Ghazali. His wife has the happy job of trying to reorganize the trophy cabinet every week in order to accommodate Ghazali’s ever-growing haul.

Mohammed travelled with his father to Ghazali has purchased nearly 200 horses at the July and Autumn Tattersalls HIT sales since 2010

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Newmarket last year and Dad is keen for any of his family, who wish to be involved in the horses, to spend time with trainers and in yards in Europe. The importance in business terms of having his family fully involved in the racing is not lost on Ghazali, and it is not just for selfless reasons.

“Working with them – they know how I think, what I like to do,” he explains. “They will have new ideas, but they know me so they know what to suggest and what will work for the whole. It means that we can all move forwards together and build a stronger team; it is all about having a good team behind us.”

Bringing horses to race in Britain last summer was a ground-breaking and a learning experience for Ghazali, but he is keen to repeat the experiment again this year.

Last year’s headline act was Al Shaqab’s Dubday. Unbeaten in Doha, with victories including the Emir’s Trophy in 2014, the son of Dubawi finished down the field on a trip to Meydan in 2014, fifth behind Brown Panther in the Dubai Gold Cup last March before finishing second in the Listed Al Rayyan Stakes behind Telescope at the Newbury May meeting and in the same position in the Listed Fed Archer Stakes at Newmarket in June.

Victory came at Goodwood in the Glorious Stakes (G3) in July, while a European Group 1 third place was gained behind Nightflower in the Preis von Europa at Cologne.

“It is difficult to always know here where you are with horses in Qatar,” says Ghazali, who does not believe that Qatari racing should operate as a closed shop, rather something open for all in order to take the emirate’s sport forwards. “A horse can win a race here and then gets a rating over 100 – that would be a very good horse in Britain!

“The more horses who come here to race from abroad, the better for us to gauge the quality of horse that we have.”

This year’s Trophy winner The Blue Eye, also by Dubawi and bought for €400,000 by Ghazali at Arqana in 2014, is hoped to be the one worthy of a trip overseas and capable of making a European racing visit pay off.

It seems neither boundaries, borders nor convention will stop this ground-breaking trainer who combines a successful mix of business acumen, a thirst for knowledge, sporting prowess, an outgoing charismatic personality with a Middle Eastern horseman’s love of the equine.

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Toast Of New York While in Qatar for the three-day Emir’s Sword meeting, photographer Debbie Burt visited Umm Qarn Stud to see how the UAE Derby winner, Breeders’ Cup Classic runner-up and one of our favourite racehorses Toast Of New York is progressing in his new role as a stallion.

As the pictures show, he is still full of energy (as a racehorse when in training with Jamie Osborne his natural exbuberance meant that ex-NH jockey Jimmy McCarthy had to be his regular rider) and he looks a picture.

He has started covering mares and his stock will initally be produced for the clutch of races in Qatar restricted to

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Racing needs to keep pace with the digital revolution

Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges: the HKJC’s CEO dominated many of the proceedings, not only because the organisation had the best presentations, but because it is now an “extraordinarily influential racing organisation”

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Jocelyn de Moubray reports from the 36th Asian Racing Conference, which featured some interesting discussions on the lifeblood of racing – gambling

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he biannual Asian Racing Conference is one of the most important gatherings for international racing administrators and for those who provide goods and services for them.

The 36th conference was held in Mumbai in January and attracted some 800 delegates from around 34 different countries. The Asian Racing Conference is, in fact, closer to being the conference for a wide remit of racing nations as its members also include Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Qatar and the UAE. The delegates also included large contingents from Europe and the Americas, looking to build on existing commercial and administrative ties.

The conference was a showcase for Indian racing and breeding, and all delegates were invited to attend the Indian Oaks meeting and visit the Poonawalla Stud Farm, but it was above all a meeting place and forum for professionals.

Although a significant number of Indian racing professionals were present the vast majority of those who made the trip to Mumbai were racing officials and representatives of the media and broadcasting companies, the gambling multinationals, and those who wish to sell their products to them – ranging from Australian starting stalls manufacturers to British rails makers and feed companies and many others from all over the world.

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...wagering is the lifeblood of racing – alone among major sports, racing depends upon gambling for the major proportion of its revenue

than 50 different speakers meant that the conference covered a huge variety of different topics from almost as many different points of view. It is not easy to compress so many different opinions and so much information, but there were some themes running through many of the sessions.

Racing professionals: spilt into two

There is clear gulf between racing professionals and those who organise their business and set the framework in which they operate.

The two groups are racing professionals, who are the trainers and breeders who earn their livelihoods from the results of races, and the administrators, who do not have the same perspective of what they observe or participate in. Of course, they have different priorities concerning the present and the future.

One group is often so focused on the details they don’t have time to consider the overall picture, while on the other side too much time spent contemplating the structure can lead to received opinions divorced from the realities of the daily details.

One of the few racing professionals to speak at the conference was Terry Henderson of OTI Racing whose viewpoint on drugs in racing in Australia and Europe was strikingly different from that given or implied throughout the remainder of the event.

The conference, its members and the speakers do, of course, represent many different cultures, and as far as racing itself from hugely varied circumstances.

Some members organise racing without betting, whereas most of the member countries rely upon betting to finance their organisations.

Some operate in open, international competitive markets, others are more or less removed from international competition for either betting or racing. Some operate in highly sophisticated technological markets, others much less so.

And yet if there was an overall conclusion to be drawn it is that international exchanges and co-operation are vital for the future of racing and betting.

The chief obstacles for future growth of both businesses can only be overcome with international accords and it is ever more difficult to exist, let alone to prosper, in isolation.

To a large degree, although not a subject that was specifically addressed, the racing and betting worlds have been transformed by the technological changes of the 21st century. These present fantastic opportunities, but the necessary new legal and contractual framework has yet to be established to allow well structured, legal businesses to flourish.

These are problems which affect every racing country in the world and can only be

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asian racing conference resolved together. Digital technologies and smartphones have changed the world, but, as is the case for many other sectors, the racing world is still in the process of adapting to the new possibilities that are emerging.

HKJC: the racing power force

The overall tone of the conference was set by the opening speech from Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges, the CEO of the Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC).

Engelbrecht-Bresges and his team dominated most gatherings – it is not only that they have the best presentations, together with the statistics, the graphics and the videos to illuminate them, but the HKJC

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The illegal markets have gone from local markets to international markets.

The major change is now the global consolidation of illegal betting on internet platforms

Businessman and stud owner Cyrus Poonawalla chaired the 36th Asian Racing Conference

has become an extraordinarily influential racing organisation.

For the time being the club organises less than 800 races a year, compared with some 15,000 in Japan or 6,000 in Britain, yet it has the world’s fourth-largest betting turnover on racing at €11.5 billion, behind Britain and Australia on €14.0 billion and €14.6 billion.

The HKJC pays £1.8 billion in tax, which represents eight per cent of Hong Kong’s total tax revenue, and gives some £350 million a year to charity making it the world’s sixth largest charity donator.

Hong Kong is an unusual place with a unique racing setup, but there was no reason to imagine it would hold its current position when Engelbrecht-Bresges joined the club as its director of racing in 1998.

The HKJC is a world leader in terms of betting, but also for the quality of its races and those who participate in them, which was not the case 20 years ago.

Engelbrecht-Bresges was keen to point out that wagering is the lifeblood of racing – alone among major sports, racing depends upon gambling for the major proportion of its revenue.

For rugby, football and other major sports somewhere between 60 per cent and 70 per cent of revenue comes from broadcasting rights and match day receipts; for racing these provide only 15 per cent of revenue whereas gambling represents 65 per cent.

This structure obviously makes racing particularly vulnerable to any changes in the gambling market.

Engelbrecht-Bresges outlined the competitive threat posed by casino betting, but above all by sports betting. Turnover on sports betting surpassed turnover on racing in 2014 and continues to grow, while betting on racing has stagnated over recent years. The rise of sports betting, and related betting on fantasy events, has been created by technological changes. This season 60 per cent of football betting with the HKJC was on mobile phones, up from only 25 per cent five years previously.

lllegal gambling: a huge threat

However, if casinos and sports betting are a growing challenge to racing businesses everywhere, the biggest threat EngelbrechtBresges confirmed is from illegal betting.

He put a figure of $500 billion on the annual turnover of illegal betting with the majority of this money coming from Asia, but

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asian racing conference the overall problem is bigger still. Offshore betting is a major problem in Europe where is it has brought Italian racing to a virtual standstill, has greatly reduced German racing and is currently creating problems for British racing.

A population which enjoys betting does not lead to a thriving racing business. The Economist published a list of countries by annual gambling losses in 2015 and in Europe the joint leaders with $24 billion were Italy and Britain with Germany in third place with $15 billion.

“The illegal markets have gone from local markets to international markets. The major change is now the global consolidation of illegal betting on internet platforms,” said Engelbrecht-Bresges.

Martin Purbrick, the HKJC’s director of security and integrity, estimated that 80 per cent of all sports betting is with illegal bookmakers and that just one Asian illegal betting exchange Citibet takes the equivalent of 60 per cent of turnover on Hong Kong racing and 10 per cent of the official turnover on Australian racing.

Technology has once again transformed the problem. Whereas a major illegal bookmaker would once have had an office building and a large number of employees, when a major Asian operator was arrested and closed down in Las Vegas during the 2014 football World Cup, there were only eight people working with computers in a hotel suite. Illegal gambling threatens racing’s revenue, and will undermine its integrity.

Digital advances to track customers

For Hong Kong the future will involve continuing to develop its own betting model, while fighting against the illegals.

Richard Cheung, the club’s marketing director, presented some of its current ideas starting with accessing data to show what customers look at first when they switch on or pick up their smartphones in the morning, apparently the most likely being either What’s App or Instagram.

Hong Kong follows its customers so closely, he explained, that from the pattern of their attendance and gambling they can predict in advance when they are likely to start spending or gambling less, allowing the club to contact them, market to them or find out why even before the customer has altered his or her behaviour.

Hong Kong racing is also going to be transformed over the next five years when the

new Conghua training centre in Guangdong Provence is fully operational. By 2020 the training centre will house around 700 horses, taking the total in Hong Kong from 1,200 to nearly 2,000. There are going to be many more horses going to Hong Kong, more races, and no doubt even more extraordinary figures for the total turnover on racing.

How does racing make money?!

For the remainder of the racing world future developments will be a little different.

For most racing countries the dilemma is how to secure revenue, while at the same time maintaining popularity. Many will follow the new British model of seeking to establish a privileged relationship with those international gambling giants who are prepared to play the racing game and provide revenue for the racing business and national government.

Fixed odds growing in popularity

Another theme to come out of the conference, and one which was brought up by most of the Australian speakers, is the move from pool betting towards fixed odds betting.

At the beginning of the 21st century pool betting turned over around four times more than fixed odds betting in Australia, whereas by 2014 fixed odds turnover had grown to 30 per cent more than pool betting.

For many speakers this was seen as a problem, as is the success of betting exchanges.

The first, they argue, gives a smaller return to racing and the second threatens integrity, both do however have the advantage of being popular with racing’s customers.

Betting exchanges are not going to disappear, they are just too much fun!

As a general rule those countries with no tradition of legal bookmakers find betting exchanges hard to come to terms with, but it is not impossible to imagine that one day in a distant future even France’s PMU could be running its own betting exchange.

As Engelbrecht-Bresges pointed out gambling is the lifeblood of racing and most racing countries will, at some point, have to consider what their customers enjoy betting on, if they wish to prosper.

US medication ruling discussed

It is not just fixed odds betting and betting exchanges which are frowned upon, a third topic on which the conference had an overwhelmingly negative viewpoint is US racing and its raceday medication.

Here again it is possible to argue that a lack of understanding leads to an easy judgment, which overlooks the positive aspects of American racing.

Every time American Pharoah was mentioned there would be at least one negative comment about US racing in general, without drawing attention to the huge enthusiastic crowds which were drawn to the track to be part of his victories.

Korea the anticipated next venue

The next Asian conference will be held in Seoul in 2018. Ben Heo, the chief marketing officer of the Korea Racing Authority, made a presentation of remarkable honesty as he outlined that they had got it all wrong and were setting out to “change everything except the horse”.

The aim, he said, is that the service provided on their racetracks will be as good as you would expect in a luxury hotel.

If they succeed it will be worth making the trip to Seoul to understand how.

It wasn ‘t all hard work, the delegates enjoyed a spot of Bollywood glamour after the conference

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Marmalade: top of the table Liz Price reports from a visit to Drakenstein Stud to meet “The Duke�

Photography by Liz Price

Duke Of Marmalade had four European Classic wins in 2015, and covered over 220 mares in two seasons in South Africa

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s auctioneer Grant Burnt’s hammer came down an audible ripple came from the tightly packed audience sat ringside at the Cape Premier Yearling Sale in Cape Town.

The bidding was intense and when over the Drakenstein Stud team struggled to stifle a bout of spontaneous applause.

The team’s smiles, though, were there for all to see – and rightfully so as Silver Coin, a good-looking colt by Silvano out of the Fort Wood mare National Banker, had just set an all-time auction record, exceeding the previous best by 15 per cent. He was bought

by Mayfair Speculators.

Founded only 12 years ago, and set against the breath-taking backdrop of the Franschhoek Mountains that create a natural amphitheatre around the paddocks and the adjacent L’Ormarins (Antonjii Rupert) vineyards, Drakenstein Stud has quickly established itself as one of South Africa’s leading stud farms.

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Gaynor Rupert, owner of Drakenstein Stud

Trippi: the first stallion to stand at Drakenstein and was sire of Royal Ascot winner Jealous Again

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drakenstein stud To consign such a yearling is an enviable achievement for any stud, and owner Gaynor Rupert, who is very involved in the daily running of the stud, was naturally elated.

“I am very proud to have sold the colt for a record price,” she said. “He is a beautiful colt and we loved him from day one. He is going to great owners.”

Drakenstein Stud yearlings are not the only hot property on the farm right now – its sires are equally in demand, especially Duke Of Marmalade, the latest addition to the stud’s ever-increasing stallion roster. “The Duke”, as he is referred to in the farm’s brochure, only arrived in South Africa in 2014.

Unsurprisingly, he became an immediate hit with breeders.

“Over the last two seasons, Duke has covered over 220 mares,” confirms Kevin Sommerville, Drakenstein Stud’s racing manager who was working in Ireland when Duke Of Marmalade made his racecourse debut as a two-year-old. “The Duke has been very popular here,” he continues, “and only a few stallions in South Africa would cover over 100 mares in a season.”

A son of Danehill out of the Kingmambo mare Love Me True, Duke Of Marmalade raced in Ireland with Aidan O’Brien, for whom he won five consecutive Group 1 races – including the Prince of Wales’s Stakes and the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes – during his four-year-old season.

Following his retirement to Coolmore he shuttled between Ireland and Australia before he was snapped up by Rupert and brought to Cape Town.

She smiles as she remembers: “Bloodstock agent Tom Goff was the one who brought Duke Of Marmalade to our attention. We went over to Ireland to see him and I liked him very much. We always make a point of looking at a stallion because you have to fall in love with him, and I did just that!”

She pauses before adding: “John Magnier is a great friend of ours from a long time back.

We had already looked at stallions all over the world, but figured that Coolmore have the best stallions and so many of them.

“So I thought I’d rather buy from Coolmore, where possibly one might fall through the cracks, rather than buying one from someone who has two or three. At that stage Duke Of Marmalade had 252 unraced two-year-olds in both hemispheres, but we thought we would take a chance.”

Rupert might have taken a calculated risk, but she was handsomely rewarded by events

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The Duke has been very popular here and only a few stallions in South Africa would cover over 100 mares in a season in Europe in 2015. It was a season when Duke Of Marmalade sired four individual Classic winners in Europe.

The quartet, headed by the Group 1 Prix de Diane heroine Star Of Seville, also included Deutsches Derby (G1) victor Nutan, the Italian 1,000 Guineas winner Sound Of Freedom and Simple Verse, winner of the St Leger.

Duke Of Marmalade’s exploits read like a modern-day fairy tale and Rupert admits: “John [Magnier] did say that he thought it was possibly too early to sell, and that he would have liked to have waited for a while.

“So to have him in South Africa, to have these exceptional bloodlines here, is just so great. It is a real privilege, and obviously

Joey Ramsden has been Cape champion trainer three times in succession

when he had those four Classic winners after he arrived here we were over the moon with joy.

“And I know Star Of Seville’s owner Lady Bamford really well and it was just lovely when she won. So it’s been an amazing year.”

If his offspring succeed and make the same impact in the southern-hemisphere, Duke Of Marmalade will quickly take his place among the leading sires in South Africa, a list which includes the likes of Silvano, Captain Al, Dynasty and Trippi.

In fact, the last-named became the first stallion bought to stand at Drakenstein, even though Rupert bought her first broodmare right back in 1986.

“Trippi was the first stallion to stand at Drakenstein Stud,” confirms Sommerville.

“He was the foundation stallion for the farm.

In fact, only a short while after he joined us, he had a Royal Ascot winner. He is the sire of Jealous Again, who was Wesley Ward’s first Royal winner when she took the Group 2 Queen Mary Stakes in 2009.

“Trippi is still doing well even though he is slowing down a bit,” he continues.

“He is 19 years old and we are looking after him, but he is still highly prolific. He gets a high percentage of winners over a range of distances and they seem to get better with age as well. He is also predictable. If you send him a stayer, he gives you a stayer. If you send him a sprinter, you get a sprinter.”

Duke Of Marmalade has joined an illustrious selection of stallions at Drakenstein that also features Philanthropist, What A Winter and Kingsbarns. And while a significant number of races in South Africa are run over sprint distances, Duke Of Marmalade ticks all the right boxes in the eyes of South African breeders.

“Yes, the majority of races are over sprint distances, but the really good races, the ones people want to win, are beyond the mile and are for older horses,” explains Sommerville.

“We are the opposite of Australia where the Golden Slipper rules the stallion ranks.

“Here, races such as the L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate, which is for older horses, or the Durban July, the J&B Met, the Summer Cup, the Gold Challenge, or the Champions Cup – they all have the biggest prize-money and are for older horses.

“And the Duke was a horse that really came into his own when he was four.

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I love seeing the foals being born, which is exquisite, and I really love racing. I love the beauty of a horse in training, who is just perfection when he gets to the racecourse his first Group 1 as a four-year-old.

“South African trainers are very patient, and we hope they will be patient with his produce. We also thought that the Duke would complement our stallion roster. We wanted a bit more stamina injected into the farm. The Duke is incredibly well bred, and those types of horses have done well here.”

The top South African race meetings are fiercely competitive and are popular – even the cricket series against England did nothing to stop crowds from flocking to the racecourse for a day at the races. The L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate is a truly festive occasion at which spectators sport the light blue and white colours of sponsor L’Ormarins for a day of top-class racing.

“I cannot separate breeding from racing,” says Rupert. “I love seeing the foals being born, which is exquisite, and I really love

racing. I love the beauty of a horse in training, who is just perfection when he gets to the racecourse.

“I love the silks, the people – everything.

And it doesn’t matter if the horse carries my silks or those of someone else, I just love seeing them on the racecourse.”

Drakenstein’s policy is to keep the fillies with the aim of creating a band of superior broodmares, while selling most of the colts.

Silver Coin, who made headlines at the sales, will be carrying the silks of Markus Jooste’s Mayfair Speculators and the Coolmore partnership, and will be trained by Joey Ramsden in Cape Town.

The British-born son of former British trainer Lynda Ramsden has been in Cape Town for longer than he cares to remember and is among the country’s leading trainers.

“I can’t remember how long I have been here,” he laughs. “Too long, probably. I guess it’s about 18 years or so.”

Ramsden has about 110 horses in training, mainly owned by South Africans, as well as some British racing lovers among his patrons.

His big successes on the track include the L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate: he won the race twice with Winter Solstice, a son of Western Winter out of the South African mare French Muse, owned by his mother.

Apart from being the only British trainer in the Cape, he is the only trainer who uses an equine treadmill.

“I think it is a great bit of machinery,” he says. “I have had it now for about four years. Horses enjoy going on it and you can do different types of work with it. It is an amazing machine for keeping horses sound here. We are treating about 50 per cent less injuries now than when we did before we had the machine.”

The sandy training tracks of the Milnerton training centre, which lies beneath the majestic silhouette of Cape Town’s Table Mountain, are straight, flat and only about 5f long. From a European point of view,

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drakenstein stud The Ramsden string enjoying the benefits of sea air, and, bottom left, the string walking home after working on deep sandy tracks at the Milnerton training centre – Table Mountain can be seen in the background

the sand tracks are unusually deep, which makes working horses just that little bit more challenging.

“I think there are about 14 or 15 trainers here,” continues Ramsden. “About 1,400 horses train on these tracks all year round.

Some of the trainers also take their horses to the beach. It really works out well, though.

“We have some very good work riders, which is one of South Africa’s strong points.

We only work horses over 2f here, and a lot can be learned from having heavier tracks.”

He pauses and then explains in his typically direct dialogue: “The only difficulty here is that there is no ‘turn-around’ of horses, which is to do with the African Horse Sickness that hasn’t been seen here since – oh, I can’t remember! Maybe never? Attracting new owners is not easy.”

Prominent South African breeder Mick Goss discussed the subject of African Horse Sickness at the 36th Asian Racing Conference in Mumbai, which will hopefully bring a solution to travel restrictions placed on South African-based horses.

That issue aside, the South African breeding and racing industry got itself

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The only difficulty here is that there is no ‘turn-around’ of horses, which is to do with the African horse sickness that hasn’t been seen here since – oh, I can’t remember off to a good start in 2016. In a difficult economic climate in which the rand is on a continuous downward spiral, the country has nevertheless just seen a new record for a yearling sold at public auction, while Duke Of Marmalade, undoubtedly one of the best-bred stallions ever to stand in South Africa, is already making his name.

Furthermore, following years through which international stallions held sway amongst the breeding ranks, a generation of locally bred young stallions is making its

mark on the South African breeding industry.

The likes of Dynasty, a son of Fort Wood, has sired multiple Group 1-winning horses such as Legislate, Futura and Jackson, while Al Mufti bequeaths his legacy through Captain Al, last year’s leading sire before Silvano took over this year.

The Justin Snaith-trained five-year-old Legislate, who was just touched off by the Sean Tarry-trained Legal Eagle in this year’s renewal of the L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate, is a stallion prospect who will soon be joining Drakenstein Stud.

“Yes,” confirms Rupert. “Legislate and Futura will retire to Drakenstein, but not necessarily after this season. I love the idea of a horse who is sound, well and can continue racing. It’s good for the racing public, as they get to have a hero and I’m happy to race them.”

Drakenstein Stud might still be relatively young in terms of the Cape’s thoroughbred breeding history, but it already has made its mark on the industry in more ways than one.

Next year’s round of yearling sales, which will feature the first South African-conceived crop of Duke Of Marmalade, cannot come around fast enough.

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oisin murphy Murphy enjoys an early success – and the rewards of victory! – as an apprentice jockey when successful on Highland Colori in the 2014 running of the Ayr Gold Cup

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Some very successful jockeys have started their careers at Andrew Balding’s Park House Stables, what sets it apart from other big yards for an apprentice?

When I arrived in October 2012 there were eight resident apprentices – the difference at Park House is that we were all competing against each other and that enabled us to improve.

Andrew provided opportunities to all the apprentices in the yard and the grounding there is world class.

His whole family, particularly his mother and father, play a big part in the apprentice’s education.

You rode out for Aiden O’Brien aged 16 – how do you think you might have fared had you stayed in Ireland? Were you tempted?

I spent six months at Ballydoyle and Aidan asked me my plans. I told him I’d like to try my hand in England as in my opinion it’s the land of opportunity. There’s racing everyday and I’d known of jockeys who had struggled in Ireland but took off in the UK. I wasn’t a gifted rider, but I wanted it badly and thought by going to England I was giving myself every opportunity to succeed.

Your family has a strong NH tradition, do you follow the NH racing?

My uncle has trained three Cheltenham Festival winners in his short time training and this has whet my appetite for National Hunt racing.

I grew up going to point-topoints and jump racing was always on the telly at home – in fact, in the Munster area of Ireland, jump racing is the mostfollowed sport.

You have been lucky enough to live and ride around the world – Australia and then last winter Dubai – has riding abroad made

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I wasn’t a gifted rider, but I wanted it badly and thought by going to England I was giving myself every opportunity to succeed you a better jockey? What do you learn?

Riding and particularly living abroad has made me stand on my own two feet.

In Australia I learned a lot about pace and how fast I was going. Craig Williams and Damien Oliver are world-class jockeys and I was riding out with them six days a week.

I grafted hard but got lots of opportunities, which culminated in winning a Listed race over the Melbourne Cup course and distance.

Dubai racing – It must have been great to have won the Abu Dhabi Championship (Group 3 Turf) while out there?

Dubai is where I had dreamed of riding ever since watching Pat Smullen riding for Sheikh Ahmed and Dhruba Selveratnam.

I was lucky enough to have got that particular position last season and it was a fantastic experience to ride 21 winners and have five rides on World Cup night.

It must need to be a quick learning curve when you are suddenly on different tracks?

I try and prepare myself as best I can for each race and I watch lots of replays of different tracks to identify their idiosyncrasies.

oisin murphy Do you think there are more opportunities for young talent overseas? Is there anywhere else you would particularly like to ride?

I was fortunate to be given opportunities abroad, but I believe it’s competitive wherever a young jockey goes.

It’s just about riding for the right people and in turn getting on the right horses.

I watch Hong Kong racing twice a week; I’d love to ride there some day.

You are coming to the end of your first season on the All-Weather as a professional – how has it been? The cold dark evenings must be a bit different to Dubai… Has it been a good decision to stay in the UK? I’ve had a good winter season, I think it was the right decision to stay and cement my contacts further with trainer Andrew Balding and Stuart Williams.

I’ve also developed a relationship with Saaed Bin Suroor through the absence of the Godolphin jockeys and this can only help me in the future.

I’ve sat on some Qatar Racing horses such as Bellajeu, who will hopefully go on to much better things on turf.

Hope your collarbone is ok?

How are you staying entertained while you are out of action?

When are you due back in action? I guess you are having to watch what you are eating while unable to ride?

Fortunately I’ve been blessed with an injury-free career before sustaining this broken collarbone.

I’m currently in Ireland where I will watch Uncle Jim’s [Culloty] point-to-pointers and select string of track horses go through their routine exercise. It’s an opportunity for me to relax and come back ready for action. I hope I will be back in action by the time this is published!

I do have to watch what I eat,

The QUESTION and ANSWER SESSION: Louise Ruffell chats with jockey Oisin Murphy ahead of his first season as the number one for Qatar Racing

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Heeraat Bay 2009, 16.1hh (1.65m) DARK ANGEL – THAWRAH (GREEN DESERT)

The Fastest Winner of the Hackwood Stakes since 2001 Won 5 races, £128,161 from 2-4 years; also placed 9 times including: Won

Gr.3 Hackwood Stakes, 6f, Newbury, 2013, beating Gr.1 winner KRYPTON FACTOR (at levels).

2nd (nk) Gr.3 Hackwood Stakes, 6f, Newbury, 2014, beating Gr.2 winner ES QUE LOVE (at levels).

Defeated 43 Stakes winners (5 Gr.1 winners)

By DARK ANGEL out of a half sister to Gr.1 winning sprinter and Gr.1 sire MALHUB Half brother to Stakes winner AMBIANCE (TFR 103) from the top sprinting family of DANDY MAN, ANTHEM ALEXANDER and SUDIRMAN, etc.

The same successful cross as Champion Sprinter LETHAL FORCE

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but I try to live an active lifestyle.

One of your highlights last season must have been Litigant – a fairy tale story with a relatively small-scale trainer and a horse that is notoriously difficult to keep sound, how was it to win the Ebor on him?

To win the Ebor for Joe Tuite was fantastic. It promoted his training talent and also gave me a lift – as Ed Dunlop reminded me a jockey is only as good as his last winner.

As Qatar Racing’s main jockey next year – must be an exciting prospect? Which horses are you particularly looking forward to riding this season?

I believe that the fire power that will be at my disposal is good enough to compete in the major Group 1s.

I don’t feel any pressure because I have faith in the horses, and Sheikh Fahad understands racing – I can’t wait to sit on Strath Burn and Elm Park.

Duke Of Marmalade has made his mark with fillies so hopefully Simple Verse will continue to come forward from three to four.

Of last year’s two-year-olds La Rioja and Katie’s Diamond have already made the grade with a Group 3 and a Listed race to their names.

Ones to watch this season at Andrew Baldings?

Heartless, who is a half-sister to Secretariat Stakes and the Irish Derby winner Treasure Beach, is lightly raced and should progress through the handicaps.

What are the immediate goals in the career? Guess riding 100 winners in a season must be high up on the list?

I’d love to get my hands on a Group 1, but one must remember

setting targets can lead to disappointment.

I hope to ride to the best of my ability and then the winners will come.

Do you have any advice to any youngsters coming into the sport?

I help those who ask for help.

The best advice I’ve been given is keep your mouth closed and your ears open. It’s amazing what you can learn when you want to learn.

Do you get to do anything else other than riding in races, go racing, riding work and talking about horses?!!

I love show jumping; I used to dream about winning Olympic gold medals for Ireland!

I watch a lot of international racing, but I do find time to keep up to date with show jumping too.

You’re a good communicator, it is such an important part of the job, especially when developing a career. Have you had to have any media training at all, or is it all natural Irish charm?!

I received some media training in school, but was fortunate to also get a lot of advice from Clare Balding.

I do as many interviews as I can, and do a blog for British Champion’s Series.

Do you follow bloodstock and sales?

I attended Tattersalls Books 1 and 2, and I’m keen to develop an opinion on conformation.

Everyone has their own opinion, but I’d like to pick as much up from David Redvers as I can as his success speaks for itself.

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I love show jumping; I used to dream about winning Olympic gold medals for Ireland! horses’ pedigrees and that’s important. The two-year-old yard I worked at in Ballydoyle produced seven individual sires, some of which I was lucky enough to ride work on.

We will see the first runners from a lot of stallions this year – (Excelebration, Nathaniel, Born To Sea…) any that you are particularly looking forward to?

Born To Sea was well received at the sales, he was a Listed winner first time out and has the precocity that commercial breeders crave.

the best tw0-year-olds of his generation.

He’s got a remarkable physique.

He needed a large girth – that proves his depth and strength.

I rode him to win the Temple Stakes, defeating multiple Group winners. My concern from halfway round was whether I could get him pulled up without doing another circuit of Haydock Park!

You’ve quit twitter – thoughts on social media as a sportsperson?

Why did you feel the need to quit? Can’t those who are “difficult” to you just be blocked?

Social media is a useful tool in keeping up to date with the thoroughbred world.

Unfortunately I found it a hindrance rather than a help as punters often use it as an abuse system. I’m hard enough on myself without needing the opinion of a “sofa jockey”.

The most high profile of which is, of course, Frankel – have you ridden any of his offspring at home yet?

I haven’t sat on any of Frankel juveniles, but did see some at the yearling sales.

In my opinion they may take a bit more time and I’d be surprised if he had many two-year-old winners before July.

Hot Streak commences stallion duties this year, it must be exciting to see your first Group winner go on to his new career?

Hot Streak was one of

Murphy wins a fillies´ handicap at Wolverhampton on the Stuart Williams-trained Oakley Girl.

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Battle at the top of the Australian sires’ table Street Cry and Not A Single Doubt in a head to head for leading honours February proved to be a fruitful time for the late Darley sire Street Cry and Not A Single Doubt as the two continued their head to head battle at the top of the Australian sires’ championship.

Street Cry’s leading performer, Horse of the Year favourite Winx, took her win record to 11 from 17 starts when taking the Chipping Norton Stakes (G1; Solicit, who set a Randwick course record for 1400m winning the Group 2 Guy Walter Stakes in a time of 1:20.34, while Street Cry also gained a third Group race victory via his three-year-old colt Tally. He remained unbeaten in three starts this season with a victory in the Group 2 Autumn Classic at Caulfield.

Despite those three Group winners Street Cry slipped to second place on the Australian

general sires’ table behind Not A Single Doubt. The move could be temporary as Winx will surely further add to her laurels before the season’s end.

“The Queen Elizabeth Stakes is her target and will be her only run over 2000 metres this campaign,” said trainer Chris Waller of the four-year-old.“How we get there I’m not sure. There’s the George Ryder Stakes and the Emancipation Stakes and the Doncaster are still there.”

A $230,000 purchase by Magic Bloodstock from the Coolmore Stud draft at the 2013 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale, Winx was bred by Fairway Thoroughbreds.

She has now won $4,146,925 from 11 wins and three placings from 17 starts.

Winx is the only foal to race out of her dual Listed-winning dam Vegas Showgirl, a half-sister to the Group 3-placed Black Magic Maggie (Westminster).

Vegas Showgirl was covered by Snitzel last September having missed to that stallion the previous year. Winx has a yearling Snitzel half-brother to be offered for sale this season.

Extreme Choice takes Blue Diamond Stakes Not A Single Doubt went to the head of the sires’ table after Extreme Choice’s brilliant win in the $1.5 million Blue Diamond Stakes at Caulfield. He became the Arrowfield sire’s third Group 1 winner, and took his sire’s seasonal earnings past A$7 million.

Not A Single Doubt also tops the tables by number of winners (102) and wins (155) and also leads the juvenile list with earnings of A$1,670,825 achieved by his son Written Tycoon.

Unbeaten in three starts, Extreme Choice has now earned almost A$1.3 million for his syndicate of owners, a group put together by trainer Mick Price and

Top sire: Not A Single Doubt at Arrowfield Stud

his bloodstock manager Luke Wilkinson.

Price and Wilkinson bought Extreme Choice for A$100,000 as yearling when he was offered by his breeders Bell River Thoroughbreds last year.

The colt’s dam Extremely (Hussonet) is an unraced daughter of the Canadian Group winner Going To Extremes and has left three other winners, including multiple Singapore winner Raise No Doubt (Not A Single Doubt).

They are the only foals of racing age out of Extremely, who is a daughter of Canadian Grade 2 winner Going.

Extremely has a yearling filly by Duporth, a weanling colt by Smart Missile and is back in-foal to Not A Single Doubt.

Extreme Choice joins a previous Blue Diamond winner Miracles Of Life and Good Project as Not A Single Doubt’s third Group 1 winner.

Not A Single Doubt now sits on seasonal earnings of A$7,244,601, followed by Street Cry (A$7,005,889), Lonhro (A$5,575,258), Fastnet Rock (A$5,536,857) and Sebring (A$5,162,813).

Extreme Choice’s future beyond racing is in the hands of Newgate Farm, the NSW stud farm that acquired partial equity in the horse earlier this month.

Even though Winx (left) won the Chipping Norton Stakes for her late sire Street Cry, Not A Single Doubt went to the top of the sires’ table in February after Extreme Choice’s Blue Diamond Stakes victory

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So You Think off the mark

The Coolmore sire’s first winner takes a Group 2 on just her third career start

So You Think has already had Group-winning and stakes-placed fillies

Gold Rush became the first winner and first stakes winner for firstseason sire So You Think when she won the J Swap Contractors Ltd Matamata Breeders’ Stakes (G2) run Matamata, New Zealand.

A NZ$60,000 NZB Premier purchase for Wexford Stables from the Phoenix Park draft, Gold Rush is a half-sister to Listed Gimcrack Stakes winner Calaverite and is out of the G2I WATC Karrakatta Plate winner Gold Rocks, a daughter of Oratorio.

So You Think’s two year-old filly Conscious was also stakes placed on her debut at Flemington.

“It’s a fantastic result for us,” said Gold Rush’s trainer Andrew Scott.

“She’s pretty game and really stuck to her task – she looked gone turning in.

“Being by So You Think she will be better the further she goes. We bought her at the sales and to take her right through to this is very satisfying.”

Gold Rush, now likely to head toward the upcoming Group 1 juvenile features, broke quickly from the gates to sit on the pace.

“She jumped well but she was off the bit a fair way out and I was concerned, but to her credit she really fought hard,” reported jockey Craig Grylls.

Fellow Coolmore stallion and former champion Australian sire Fastnet Rock sired his 90th stakes winner when two-year-old colt Heroic Valour won the Listed Matamata Slipper.

The colt, a NZ$400,000 purchase by Te Akau Racing at last year’s New Zealand Bloodstock Premier Yearling Sale, held off the late challenge of Mongolian Falcon (Fastnet Rock) by a head with a further long head back to Gasoline (Pluck) in third.

“We think he’s a Group 1 horse and he’s going the right way,” said co-trainer Stephen Autridge.

The colt will now head to the Group 1 Diamond Stakes at Ellerslie this month.

Leading Australian sires’ 2015-2016 (to February 25, 2016) Stallion

Rnrs

Not a Single Doubt Street Cry Lonhro Fastnet Rock Sebring Pentire Written Tycoon Redoute's Choice Encosta de Lago High Chaparral Snitzel Choisir Exceed and Excel Mossman More Than Ready Stratum Flying Spur Bel Esprit Magnus Holy Roman Emperor Commands Husson

242 102 134 57 265 84 220 89 204 77 79 28 218 87 171 77 158 60 220 73 199 81 251 83 199 74 143 57 199 62 174 62 146 51 208 82 170 71 72 27 154 51 112 36

Wnrs

Swnrs

G1 wnrs Earnings

7 8 5 10 4 1 4 7 5 4 2 4 8 4 4 1 2 2 2 3 3 1

2 2 1 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1

Leading performer Earnings

7,255,271 Extreme Choice 7,005,889 Winx 5,598,613 Exosphere 5,541,507 Amicus 5,168,764 Criterion 4,988,142 Prince of Penza 4,928,561 Capitalist 4,896,888 Royal Descent 4,511,279 Chautauqua 4,364,014 Sacred Eye 4,230,010 Nikitas 4,214,999 Japonisme 4,187,700 Flamberge 4,185,342 Buffering 3,972,331 Perfect Reflect 3,383,581 Stratum Star 3,308,427 Mahuta 3,223,890 Keen Array 3,151,227 The River 3,089,358 Mongolian Khan 2,969,001 Holler 2,940,992 Lucky Hussler

1,299,750 3,096,000 966,650 317,500 1,132,750 3,867,500 1,419,200 367,000 1,490,500 385,150 426,600 555,500 431,330 1,564,000 884,450 507,150 1,688,460 444,200 224,700 1,962,000 276,525 990,250

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southern hemisphere A son of Snitzel provided a late highlight to the three days of Session 1 of the Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale when the colt sold the top price of $700,000 on the final day.

He was purchased from the Blue Gum Farm draft by Hong Kong-based agent Justin Bahen on behalf of Little Hung. Blue Gum Farm consigned the colt as agent for Western Australia’s Oakland Park Stud, breeders of the champion Northerly.

Blue Gum Farm became the first vendor ever at the sale to gross over A$4 million.

Cumulative figures for the three-day sale were up across the board. The gross rose 15 per cent to A$51,393,000 for 463 horses sold and the average climbed 14.4 per cent to A$111,000. The median was up 6.3 per cent to A$85,000.

Snitzel colt tops Melbourne sale

Blue Gum Farm sells two of the top five, and The China Horse Club picks up four lots

Progeny by Arrowfield’s leading sire Snitzel have been in demand at the Australian yearling sales this year.

At the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale in January he sired three of the six million dollar lots, including the A$1.6 million top-priced colt, while the Premier sale-topping colt is the second most expensive yearling ever sold in Melbourne.

“Mr. Hung and I knew he was the colt we wanted, he was at the top of our list,” said Bahen.“We viewed him half a dozen times.

He was full of energy and had a consistent attitude. We spent enough time to make sure he was the right horse for us.

“He will spell for about a month at Booralite Park. The aim is to get him going for a couple of races around this time next year.”

The colt is the eighth foal out of Beauty World (Danehill Dancer), who has produced the Group 3 Frank Packer Plate and Group 3 Carbine Club Stakes winner Hi World (High Chaparral), the Group 3 winner Lite’N In My Veins (Henrythenavigator), Listed winner Loveyamadly (Bel Esprit) and Group 1-placed

American Crew (Stratum).

Fillies by Fastnet Rock took the second and third best prices of the sale. Pat Carey Racing / Group One Bloodstock VIC spent A$675,000 on a daughter of the Group 1-placed Hidden Energy (Dehere) from Swettenham Stud, while C Roscoe went to A$460,000 for a filly from the family of Holy Roman Emperor sold by Blue Gum Farm.

McEvoy Mitchell Racing Pty Ltd was the leading buyer with eight bought for A$1,480,000, while The China Horse Club purchased four lots for A$1,120,000.

The club’s top buy was a Reward For Effort colt who cost A$380,000, while CHC also went to A$340,000 for a Snitzel colt out of Miss Iguacu, a sister to Group 2 winner Niagara and from the family of Redoute’s Choice.

The club’s horses will stay in Australia to race and will be trained by Snowden Racing.

A total of 12 lots were secured by Chinese buyers for a total of A$2,455,000. YuLong Investment and RIFA Mustang Pty Ltd were among the buyers.

Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale 2016 (A$) Cat Offered Sold % Snitzel

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Average Median

463 87 51,393,000 111,000 85,000

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Alleged-Seasonal Pickup (The Minstrel)

Designs On Rome returned to Group 1-winning form in February for a second consecutive win in the Citi Hong Kong Cup under jockey Tommy Berry

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he Irish-bred son of Holy Roman Emperor, Designs On Rome, has been one of the best horses in Hong Kong since he made a winning debut in the principality in July 2013.

He has since won seven more races, four of which have been at Grade 1 level, and has only finished out of the first four placings in five races from 17 starts. He had an outing in the Dubai Sheema Classic (G1) last spring finishing fourth to Dolniya.

Despite this high level of consistency, until a win this February in the Citi Hong Kong Gold Cup (G1), the six-year-old gelding had a year since he won the same race last March.

The gelding could only finish fourth, sixth, fourth and eighth in his last handful of starts

through the end of last spring’s campaign and in the early part of this Hong Kong season.

After trialling badly in February, rumours in the gambling busy nation were rumbling that the horse had come to the end of his career.

However, reunited with jockey Tommy Berry, who had not ridden him since 2014, the gelding put retirement plans on hold taking the £499,124 Gold Cup winners’ prize by a half length from stable companion Helene Happy Star.

Designs On Rome was born in Ireland by Moyglare Stud. He is the 14th and best foal out of the prolific producer Summer Trysting, a non-winning daughter of Alleged, who was bred and raced by Moyglare Stud.

She is out of Seasonal Pickup, a four-time

Listed winner and a Group 3-placed daughter of The Minstrel. She only produced one stakes performer Strong Commitment (Super Concorde), a German Group 2 runner-up.

It is as a grand-dam that she has had some influence – and in the southern hemisphere.

Summer Trysting’s sister, the Rainbow Quest daughter Rekindled Affair, is the dam of seven winners, including the Group 2 winner and Group 1-placed Rekindled Interest (Redoute’s Choice).

Seasonal Pickup is a full-sister to Style Of Life, both being out of the Group 3 Italian winner and third-best filly in Italy in 1979, the American-bred Bubinka (Nashua).

It is Style Of Life who is the stand-out producer in this immediate pedigree being dam of 2004’s top-rated three-year-old in

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mare of the month Ireland, the winner of the Tattersalls Gold Cup, and Irish Derby (G1), Grey Swallow.

He was bred by Mrs Mary Weld, wife of trainer Dermot and the long-time retained trainer for Moyglare Stud.

If taking the pedigree back to fourth and fifth generations, there are strong links to some of the best very US and European horses of the late 20th century, including the Grade 1 winner Blush With Pride, Turnberry Pride, Peeping Fawn, Jazil, Thewayyouare, Rags To Riches, Monroe and the champion European juvenile of 1997 Xaar, and, before him El Gran Senor, champion in 1983 and 1984. There is even a distant link to Redoute’s Choice, who has worked so well as a sire under Rekindled Affair.

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ummer Trysting has produced nine winners and three black-type performers – her first being Sights On Gold, a 1999 foal

by Indian Ridge.

Bred and raced initially for Moyglare Stud, he was a Brigadier Gerard Stakes (G3) and Dubai Duty Free Arc Trial winner after selling to Godolphin in 2003.

He was the first of the mare’s flock to venture overseas and picked up a best-placed second in the Hong Kong Vase (G1) in 2005.

Her 2001 foal Simple Exchange (Danehill) was a multiple Listed winner and performer with two big days coming stateside when taking the American Derby (G2) and finishing fourth in the Secretariat Stakes (G1). He was also raced by Moyglare until a six-year-old when he sold for 72,000gns at Tattersalls.

Designs On Rome did not appear until 2010, and it had been a bleak spell in stakes race terms for Summer Trysting, who was barren to Holy Roman Emperor in 2009.

The pedigree had gone so quiet by this point that Designs On Rome was not deemed worthy of a place on the Moyglare books and was sold at the Goffs 2011 Yearling Sale to Patrick Flynn for just €10,500.

“It’s a great story - we had retained the a few of the previous colts out of Summer Trysting before Designs On Rome appeared,” explains Fiona Craig of Moyglare Stud.

“They had all won but were all a little limited, and he was a tall, unfurnished leggy yearling – there was nothing wrong with him and totally healthy, so we put him through Goffs with a relatively low €19,000 reserve.

“As a half-brother to two Group winners and a bunch of winners he had masses of

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The son of Holy Roman Emperor did not get a bid when offered by Moyglare as a yearling at Goffs

If taking the pedigree back to fourth and fifth generations, there are strong links to some of the best US and European horses of the late 20th century lookers, but, on the day, no one bid anything in the ring – he was led out without one bid.

Just proves, you can never tell what is going to happen in the ring!

“Anyway, two buyers came back to the barn afterwards – Andy Oliver and Pat Flynn and the rest is history.

“It’s a great story, a great leveller and an education in horses – there was a six-time Group 1 winner walking around the ring and everyone was too scared of their shadow to bid on him!

“And would he have become Designs On Rome if we’d kept him? I doubt it, and I very much doubt he would have ended up in Hong Kong as a three-year-old – so selling him was best thing we ever did!” smiles Craig.

He finished third on his first start in the May of his juvenile year, followed up with a fourth (coincindentally behind current stable mate Helene Super Star, then trained

by Aidan O’Brien) before collecting his first victory when successful over 7f at Naas from

the Dermot Weld-trained Mouteab. A followup handicap second to Sugar Boy and then up in grade when runner-up to Dawn Approach in the National Stakes (G1) saw the expected valuable offers from abroad.

Flynn took his opportunity to cash in and sold to Hong Kong owner Cheng Keung Fai. It was probably the best horse trading both parties have ever done.

In filly terms, Summer Trysting has since had the winning, 81-rated Holy Roman Emperor filly Antique Platinum, who has been retained by Moyglare, and previously produced in 1997 the Indian Ridge filly Romantic Venture.

She was a winner in Moyglare colours in Ireland and bred the Listed winner Fictional Account. She was sold in 2009 and went onto produce the 2014 Italian Group 3 winner Rock Of Romance by Rock Of Gibraltar.

Summer Trysting was barren to Lawman in 2012 and in 2013 produced her last foal, the Kodiac filly Love In The Sun.

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UAE

MINA JEBEL ALI SINGSPIEL STAKES, L, Meydan, January 14, 1800m

1 More Aspen (USA) 5 ch f More Than Ready (USA) - Jade Aspen (USA) (Jade Hunter (USA)) 2 Big Baz (IRE) 6 b g Pivotal (GB) Gracefully (IRE) (Orpen (USA)) 3 Mujaarib (AUS) 8 br c Nadeem (AUS) - Mihnah (IRE) (Lahib (USA)) Halo Southern Halo Northern Sea MORE THAN READY b 97 Woodman Woodman's Girl Becky Be Good MORE ASPEN ch f 2011 Mr Prospector Jade Hunter Jadana JADE ASPEN ch 98 Northern Dancer Northern Aspen Fall Aspen

DP WORLD UAE REGION DUBAWI STAKES, L, Meydan, January 14, 1200m 1 Reynaldothewizard (USA) 10 b c Speightstown (USA) - Holiday Runner (USA) (Meadowlake (USA)) 2 Cool Cowboy (USA) 5 ch c Kodiak Kowboy (USA) - Grand Breeze (USA) (Grand Slam (USA)) 3 Let'sgoforit (IRE) 8 gr c Verglas (IRE) - Slewcie (USA) (Seattle Slew) Mr Prospector Gone West Secrettame SPEIGHTSTOWN ch 98 Storm Cat Silken Cat Silken Doll REYNALDOTHEWIZARD b c 2006 Hold Your Peace Meadowlake Suspicious Native HOLIDAY RUNNER b 2000 Dixieland Band Dixie Holiday Really Fancy

MEYDAN SOBHA AL FAHIDI FORT STAKES, G2, Meydan, January 21, 1400m 1 Safety Check (IRE) 5 ch c Dubawi (IRE) - Doors To Manual (USA) (Royal Academy (USA)) 2 Harry's Son (AUS) 5 b c Haradasun (AUS) - Dash On Ruby (AUS) (Anabaa (USA)) 3 Mastermind (SAF) 5 b c Var (USA) - Model Iq (SAF) (Jallad (USA)) Seeking The Gold Dubai Millennium Colorado Dancer DUBAWI b 2002 Deploy Zomaradah Jawaher SAFETY CHECK ch c 2011 Nijinsky Royal Academy Crimson Saint DOORS TO MANUAL ch 2005 Kenmare Mercantile Mercuriale

DERRINSTOWN STUD JEBEL ALI MILE, G3, Jebel Ali, January 22, 1600m 1 Sefri (USA) 6 b g Jazil (USA) Taseel (USA) (Danzig (USA)) 2 Forjatt (IRE) 8 b g Iffraaj (GB) Graceful Air (IRE) (Danzero (AUS)) 3 Ennobled Friend (USA) 6 b c Malibu Moon (USA) - Seek To Soar (USA) (Seeking The Gold (USA)) Mr Prospector Seeking The Gold Con Game JAZIL b 2003 Deputy Minister Better Than Honour Blush With Pride SEFRI b g 2010 Northern Dancer Danzig Pas de Nom TASEEL b 2005 Riverman Alabaq Salsabil

MEYDAN GROUP AL RASHIDIYA STAKES, G2, Meydan, January 28, 1800m 1 Forries Waltz (SAF) 5 b c Greys Inn (USA) - Rose of Tralee (SAF) (Rich Man's Gold (USA)) 2 Ertijaal (AUS) 5 ch c Hard Spun (USA) - Alharir (AUS) (Jeune (GB)) 3 Earnshaw (USA) 5 gr/ro c Medaglia d'Oro (USA) - Emily Bronte (GB) (Machiavellian (USA))

Zabeel

Sir Tristram

Lady Giselle GREYS INN b 2000 Christmas Tree Great Verdict Summoned FORRIES WALTZ b c 2011 Forty Niner Rich Man's Gold Honest Joy ROSE OF TRALEE b 2006 Kenmare Kenmare Belle Taj Eclipse

FIREBREAK STAKES, G3, Meydan, February 4, 1600m 1 Confrontation (USA) 6 b/br g War Pass (USA) - Successfully Sweet (USA) (Successful Appeal (USA)) 2 One Man Band (IRE) 5 b c Pivotal (GB) - Musicanna (GB) (Cape Cross (IRE)) 3 Watershed (USA) 4 b c Bernardini (USA) - Thousand Islands (GB) (Dubai Millennium) Runaway Groom Cherokee Run Cherokee Dame WAR PASS b/br 2005 Mr Prospector Vue Harbor Flag CONFRONTATION b/br g 2010 Valid Appeal Successful Appeal Successful Dancer SUCCESSFULLY SWEET b 2002 Meadowlake Princess Meadowlak Princess Polonia

CAPE VERDI STAKES, G2, Meydan, February 4, 1600m 1 Very Special (IRE) 4 ch f Lope de Vega (IRE) - Danielli (IRE) (Danehill (USA)) 2 Excilly (GB) 4 br f Excellent Art (GB) - Afra Tsitsi (FR) (Belong To Me (USA)) 3 More Aspen (USA) 5 ch f More Than Ready (USA) - Jade Aspen (USA) (Jade Hunter (USA)) Giant's Causeway Shamardal Helsinki LOPE DE VEGA ch 2007 Vettori Lady Vettori Lady Golconda VERY SPECIAL ch f 2012 Danzig Danehill Razyana DANIELLI b 2002 Taufan Ingabelle Bodelle

AL MAKTOUM CHALLENGE 2, G2, Meydan, February 4, 1800m 1 Frosted (USA) 4 gr/ro c Tapit (USA) - Fast Cookie (USA) (Deputy Minister (CAN)) 2 Gold City (IRE) 7 b g Pivotal (GB) - Storm Lily (USA) (Storm Cat (USA)) 3 Faulkner (GB) 6 ch c Pivotal (GB) - Fibou (USA) (Seeking The Gold (USA)) Pulpit

A P Indy

Preach TAPIT gr/ro 2001 Unbridled Tap Your Heels Ruby Slippers FROSTED gr/ro c 2012 Vice Regent Deputy Minister Mint Copy FAST COOKIE b 2000 Avenue of Flags Fleet Lady Dear Mimi

UAE 2000 GUINEAS, G3, Meydan, February 11, 1600m 1 Market Rally (USA) 3 ch c Unbridled's Song (USA) - Boodles (USA) (Mr Greeley (USA)) 2 Lazzam (GB) 3 ch c Archipenko (USA) - Empire Rose (ARG) (Sunray Spirit (USA)) 3 Hombre Rojo (IRE) 3 b c Intikhab (USA) - Sidney Girl (GB) (Azamour (IRE)) Fappiano Unbridled Gana Facil UNBRIDLED'S SONG gr 93 Caro Trolley Song Lucky Spell MARKET RALLY ch c 2013 Gone West Mr Greeley Long Legend BOODLES ch 2006 Phone Trick Tricky Laura My Dream Come True

UAE 1000 GUINEAS, L, Meydan, February 11, 1600m 1 Polar River (USA) 3 b f Congrats (USA) - Bayou Tortuga (USA) (Empire Maker (USA)) 2 Promising Run (USA) 3 b f Hard Spun (USA) - Aviacion (BRZ) (Know Heights (IRE))

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international database 3 Kabaw (IRE) 3 b f Elusive Pimpernel (USA) - Holly Hawk (IRE) (Dubai Destination (USA)) Seattle Slew A P Indy Weekend Surprise CONGRATS b 2000 Mr Prospector Praise Wild Applause POLAR RIVER b f 2013 Unbridled Empire Maker Toussaud BAYOU TORTUGA b 2008 Dixieland Band Tortuga Band Super Fan

AL SHINDAGHA SPRINT, G3, Meydan, February 11, 1200m 1 Rich Tapestry (IRE) 8 b g Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) - Genuine Charm (IRE) (Sadler's Wells (USA)) 2 Muarrab (GB) 7 b g Oasis Dream (GB) - Licence To Thrill (GB) (Wolfhound (USA)) 3 Reynaldothewizard (USA) 10 b c Speightstown (USA) - Holiday Runner (USA) (Meadowlake (USA)) Danzig Danehill Razyana HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR b 2004 Secretariat L'On Vite Fanfreluche RICH TAPESTRY b g 2008 Northern Dancer Sadler's Wells Fairy Bridge GENUINE CHARM b 2001 Gulch Market Slide Grenzen

HH THE PRESIDENT CUP, L, Abu Dhabi, February 14, 1400m 1 Ghaamer (USA) 6 b g Hard Spun (USA) - Teeba (USA) (Seeking The Gold (USA)) 2 Zahee (NZ) 7 b c Dylan Thomas (IRE) - Zaheeya (AUS) (Encosta de Lago (AUS)) 3 Forjatt (IRE) 8 b g Iffraaj (GB) Graceful Air (IRE) (Danzero (AUS)) Danzig

Northern Dancer

Pas de Nom HARD SPUN b 2004 Turkoman Turkish Tryst Darbyvail GHAAMER b g 2010 Mr Prospector Seeking The Gold Con Game TEEBA ch 2002 Shadeed Shadayid Desirable

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DUBAI MILLENNIUM STAKES, G3, Meydan, February 18, 2000m 1 Tryster (IRE) 5 b g Shamardal (USA) - Min Alhawa (USA) (Riverman (USA)) 2 Haafaguinea (GB) 6 ch g Haafhd (GB) - Ha'penny Beacon (GB) (Erhaab (USA)) 3 Meadow Creek (GB) 5 b c Dansili (GB) - Gentle On My Mind (IRE) (Sadler's Wells (USA)) Storm Cat Giant's Causeway Mariah's Storm SHAMARDAL b 2002 Machiavellian Helsinki Helen Street TRYSTER b g 2011 Never Bend Riverman River Lady MIN ALHAWA b/br 93 Shareef Dancer Saffaanh Give Thanks

JEBEL ALI STAKES, L, Jebel Ali, February 19, 1800m 1 Haatheq (USA) 9 b c Seeking The Gold (USA) - Alshadiyah (USA) (Danzig (USA)) 2 Farrier (USA) 8 b c Tapit (USA) Wild Vision (USA) (Wild Again) 3 Sefri (USA) 6 b g Jazil (USA) Taseel (USA) (Danzig (USA)) Raise A Native Mr Prospector Gold Digger SEEKING THE GOLD b 85 Buckpasser Con Game Broadway HAATHEQ b c 2007 Northern Dancer Danzig Pas de Nom ALSHADIYAH gr 98 Shadeed Shadayid Desirable

AL NABOODAH CONSTRUCTION ZABEEL MILE, G2, Meydan, February 25, 1600m 1 Safety Check (IRE) 5 ch c Dubawi (IRE) - Doors To Manual (USA) (Royal Academy (USA)) 2 Ghaamer (USA) 6 b g Hard Spun (USA) - Teeba (USA) (Seeking The Gold (USA)) 3 Zahee (NZ) 7 b c Dylan Thomas (IRE) - Zaheeya (AUS) (Encosta de Lago (AUS))

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LA CANADA STAKES, G2, Santa Anita, January 16, 8f 110yds

1 Taris (USA) 5 b f Flatter (USA) Comedy (USA) (Theatrical) 2 Birdatthewire (USA) 4 b f Summer Bird (USA) - My Limit (USA) (Wagon Limit (USA)) 3 Yahilwa (USA) 6 b f Medaglia d'Oro (USA) - Verbanella (USA) (Smart Strike (CAN)) LECOMTE STAKES, G3, Fair Grounds, January 16, 8f 1 Mo Tom (USA) 3 b/br c Uncle Mo (USA) - Caroni (USA) (Rubiano (USA)) 2 Tom's Ready (USA) 3 b/br c More Than Ready (USA) - Goodbye Stranger (USA) (Broad Brush (USA)) 3 Uncle Walter (USA) 3 b c Uncle Mo (USA) - Look for Good (USA) (Unbridled's Song (USA)) COLONEL E R BRADLEY HANDICAP, G3, Fair Grounds, January 16, 8f 110yds 1 Chocolate Ride (USA) 6 b c Candy Ride (ARG) Heatherdoesntbluff (USA) (Old Trieste (USA)) 2 Roman Approval (USA) 5 b/br c Roman Ruler (USA) - Highest Approval (USA) (High Fly (USA)) 3 Blarp (USA) 5 b c War Front (USA) - Storm Tracer (USA) (Pulpit (USA)) MEGAHERTZ STAKES, G3, Santa Anita, January 18, 8f 1 Keri Belle (USA) 6 b f Empire Maker (USA) - Belleski (USA) (Polish Numbers (USA)) 2 Stormy Lucy (USA) 7 b f Stormy Atlantic (USA) - Here Comes

Lucinda (USA) (Dixieland Band (USA)) 3 Theatre Star (USA) 6 b f War Front (USA) - Comedy (USA) (Theatrical) SANTA MONICA STAKES, G2, Santa Anita, January 23, 7f 1 Lost Bus (USA) 4 b f Bring The Heat (USA) - Frysland (USA) (Stravinsky (USA)) 2 Finest City (USA) 4 ch f City Zip (USA) - Be Envied (USA) (Lemon Drop Kid (USA)) 3 Tara's Tango (USA) 4 gr/ro f Unbridled's Song (USA) - Scarlet Tango (USA) (French Deputy (USA)) JOHN B CONNALLY TURF CUP STAKES, G3, Sam Houston, January 24, 12f 1 Da Big Hoss (USA) 5 ch c Lemon Drop Kid (USA) - Lady Struck Gold (USA) (Touch Gold (USA)) 2 Kaigun (CAN) 6 ch c Northern Afleet (USA) - Cruising Kris (CAN) (Kris S (USA)) 3 Big John B (USA) 7 b/br g Hard Spun (USA) - Baldomera (USA) (Doneraile Court (USA)) HOUSTON LADIES CLASSIC STAKES, G3, Sam Houston, January 30, 8f 110yds 1 Forever Unbridled (USA) 4 b f Unbridled's Song (USA) - Lemons Forever (USA) (Lemon Drop Kid (USA)) 2 Cali Star (USA) 5 ch f Street Cry (IRE) - Graeme Six (USA) (Graeme Hall (USA)) 3 Cassatt (USA) 5 gr/ro f Tapit (USA) - Justenufftime (USA) (Giant's Causeway (USA)) SWEETEST CHANT STAKES, G3, Gulfstream Park, January 30, 8f 1 Pricedtoperfection (USA) 3 b f Temple City (USA) - Glittering Tax (USA) (Artax (USA)) 2 Spinamiss (IRE) 3 b f Lilbourne Lad (IRE) - Spinamix (GB) (Spinning World (USA)) 3 Born To Be Winner (USA) 3 b f Einstein (BRZ) - Orphea (USA) (Medaglia d'Oro (USA))

international database SWALE STAKES, G2, Gulfstream Park, January 30, 7f 1 Awesome Banner (USA) 3 b c Awesome of Course (USA) Miranda Stands (USA) (Zamindar) 2 Economic Model (USA) 3 b c Flatter (USA) - Queen of America (USA) (Quiet American (USA)) 3 Richie The Bull (USA) 3 b c Benny The Bull (USA) Richiesgirlgotgame (USA) (Five Star Day (USA)) LAMBHOLM SOUTH HOLY BULL STAKES, G2, Gulfstream Park, January 30, 8f 110yds 1 Mohaymen (USA) 3 gr/ro c Tapit (USA) - Justwhistledixie (USA) (Dixie Union (USA)) 2 Greenpointcrusader (USA) 3 b/br c Bernardini (USA) - Ava Knowsthecode (USA) (Cryptoclearance (USA)) 3 Fellowship (USA) 3 ch c Awesome of Course (USA) - Go Girlfriend Go (USA) (Demidoff) FORWARD GAL STAKES, G2, Gulfstream Park, January 30, 7f 1 Cathryn Sophia (USA) 3 b f Street Boss (USA) - Sheave (USA) (Mineshaft (USA)) 2 Island Saint (USA) 3 ch f Speightstown (USA) - Prospective Saint (USA) (Saint Ballado (CAN)) 3 Ballet Diva (USA) 3 ch f Hear No Evil (USA) - Dame Sylvieguilhem (USA) (Nureyev (USA)) WITHERS STAKES, G3, Aqueduct, January 30, 8f 110yds 1 Sunny Ridge (USA) 3 gr/ro g Holy Bull (USA) - Lignum Vitae (USA) (Songandaprayer (USA)) 2 Vorticity (USA) 3 b/br c Distorted Humor (USA) - Tar Heel Mom (USA) (Flatter (USA)) 3 Adventist (USA) 3 b c Any Given Saturday (USA) - Sharp Minister (CAN) (Deputy Minister (CAN)) TOBOGGAN STAKES, G3, Aqueduct, January 30, 6f 1 Sassicaia (USA) 5 b c Bernardini (USA) - Hishi Aspen (USA) (Forestry (USA))

2 Mewannarose (USA) 6 ch g Bwana Charlie (USA) - Darby Rose (USA) (Red Bullet (USA)) 3 Green Gratto (USA) 6 b/br c Here's Zealous (USA) - Starship Smokester (USA) (Smokester (USA)) SAN MARCOS STAKES, G2, Santa Anita, February 6, 10f 1 Flamboyant (FR) 5 b c Peer Gynt (JPN) - Relicia Bere (FR) (Until Sundown (USA)) 2 Gaga A (URU) 7 gr/ro f T H Approval (USA) - Yin (BRZ) (Quinze Quilates (BRZ)) 3 Quick Casablanca (CHI) 8 b c Until Sundown (USA) - Quick (ARG) (Cipayo (ARG)) SAN ANTONIO STAKES, G2, Santa Anita, February 6, 9f 1 Hoppertunity (USA) 5 b c Any Given Saturday (USA) - Refugee (USA) (Unaccounted For (USA)) 2 Imperative (USA) 6 b c Bernardini (USA) - Call Her (USA) (Caller I D (USA)) 3 Donworth (USA) 4 b/br c Tiznow (USA) - Temple Street (USA) (Street Cry (IRE)) ROBERT B LEWIS STAKES, G3, Santa Anita, February 6, 8f 110yds 1 Mor Spirit (USA) 3 b/br c Eskendereya (USA) - Im A Dixie Girl (USA) (Dixie Union (USA)) 2 Uncle Lino (USA) 3 b c Uncle Mo (USA) - Haysee (USA) (Orientate (USA)) 3 I Will Score (USA) 3 b/br c Roman Ruler (USA) - Grassy Nellie (USA) (Belong To Me (USA)) LAS VIRGENES STAKES, G2, Santa Anita, February 6, 8f 1 Songbird (USA) 3 b/br f Medaglia d'Oro (USA) Ivanavinalot (USA) (West Acre (USA)) 2 Land Over Sea (USA) 3 ch f Bellamy Road (USA) - Belle Watling (USA) (Pulpit (USA)) 3 She's A Warrior (USA) 3 b f Majestic Warrior (USA) - Blabby B (USA) (Tabasco Cat (USA))

SUWANNEE RIVER STAKES, G3, Gulfstream Park, February 6, 9f 1 Tammy The Torpedo (USA) 4 b/br f More Than Ready (USA) Search And Seizure (USA) (War Chant (USA)) 2 Rainha Da Bateria (USA) 4 ch f Broken Vow (USA) - Amelia (USA) (Dixieland Band (USA)) 3 Habibi (NZ) 7 b/br f Ekraar (USA) - Danny Holiday (NZ) (Danasinga (AUS)) GULFSTREAM PARK TURF HANDICAP, G1, Gulfstream Park, February 6, 9f 1 Lukes Alley (CAN) 6 b c Flower Alley (USA) - Vaulcluse (CAN) (A P Indy (USA)) 2 Shining Copper (USA) 6 ch c Aragorn (IRE) - La Minuta (CHI) (Winged Victory (USA)) 3 All Included (USA) 5 ch c Include (USA) - Eximius (GB) (Atticus (USA)) FRED W HOOPER STAKES, G3, Gulfstream Park, February 6, 8f 1 Tommy Macho (USA) 4 b c Macho Uno (USA) - Starstream (USA) (Awesome Again (CAN)) 2 Stanford (USA) 4 b c Malibu Moon (USA) - Rosy Humor (USA) (Distorted Humor (USA)) 3 Grande Shores (USA) 8 b c Black Mambo (USA) - Sexy Stockings (USA) (Tabasco Cat (USA)) DONN HANDICAP, G1, Gulfstream Park, February 6, 9f 1 Mshawish (USA) 6 b/br c Medaglia d'Oro (USA) - Thunder Bayou (USA) (Thunder Gulch (USA)) 2 Valid (USA) 6 b/br g Medaglia d'Oro (USA) - Grand Prayer (USA) (Grand Slam (USA)) 3 Mexikoma (USA) 5 b/br c Birdstone (USA) - Toccet Over (USA) (Toccet (USA)) PALOS VERDES STAKES, G2, Santa Anita, February 7, 6f 1 Kobe's Back (USA) 5 gr/ro c Flatter (USA) - Well (USA) (Well Decorated (USA))

2 Salutos Amigos (USA) 6 b g Salute The Sarge (USA) - Sarasota (ARG) (Luhuk (USA)) 3 Cautious Giant (USA) 5 b c Giant's Causeway (USA) Dangerous Diva (USA) (Deputy Minister (CAN)) TAMPA BAY STAKES, G3, Tampa Bay Downs, February 13, 8f 110yds 1 Reload (USA) 7 ch c Hard Spun (USA) - Hidden Reserve (USA) (Mr Prospector (USA)) 2 Take The Stand (ARG) 5 b/br c Not For Sale (ARG) - Taken Away (BRZ) (Wild Event (USA)) 3 Karibu Gardens (USA) 6 b/br c Flower Alley (USA) - Flower Forest (USA) (Kris S (USA)) SAM F DAVIS STAKES, G3, Tampa Bay Downs, February 13, 8f 110yds 1 Destin (USA) 3 gr/ro c Giant's Causeway (USA) - Dream of Summer (USA) (Siberian Summer (USA)) 2 Rafting (USA) 3 ch c Tapit (USA) Paiota Falls (USA) (Kris S (USA)) 3 Morning Fire (USA) 3 ch c Friesan Fire (USA) - Four Star Morning (USA) (Press Card (USA)) LAMBHOLM SOUTH ENDEAVOUR STAKES, G3, Tampa Bay Downs, February 13, 8f 110yds 1 Tepin (USA) 5 b f Bernstein (USA) - Life Happened (USA) (Stravinsky (USA)) 2 Lady Lara (IRE) 5 b f Excellent Art (GB) - Shanty (GB) (Selkirk (USA)) 3 Lovely Loyree (USA) 5 b f Cactus Ridge (USA) - Lil Cora Tee (USA) (Lil E Tee (USA)) SANTA MARIA STAKES, G2, Santa Anita, February 13, 8f 110yds 1 Tara's Tango (USA) 4 gr/ro f Unbridled's Song (USA) - Scarlet Tango (USA) (French Deputy (USA)) 2 Yahilwa (USA) 6 b f Medaglia d'Oro (USA) - Verbanella (USA) (Smart Strike (CAN))

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international database 3 Living The Life (IRE) 6 b f Footstepsinthesand (GB) - Colour And Spice (IRE) (Machiavellian (USA)) ARCADIA STAKES, G2, Santa Anita, February 13, 8f 1 Bolo (USA) 4 b/br c Temple City (USA) - Aspen Mountain (USA) (Chief Seattle (USA)) 2 Obviously (IRE) 8 b g Choisir (AUS) - Leala (IRE) (Montjeu (IRE)) 3 Om (USA) 4 ch c Munnings (USA) - Rare Cat (USA) (Tabasco Cat (USA)) BARBARA FRITCHIE STAKES, G2, Laurel, February 13, 7f 1 Dancing House (USA) 5 gr/ro f Tapit (USA) - Tout Charmant (USA) (Slewvescent (USA)) 2 Clothes Fall Off (USA) 4 b f Daaher (CAN) - Tequilas Dayjur (USA) (Dayjur (USA)) 3 Lady Sabelia (USA) 6 b/br f Majestic Warrior (USA) - Terra Maria (USA) (Citidancer (USA)) ROYAL DELTA STAKES, G2, Gulfstream Park, February 13, 8f 110yds 1 Penwith (USA) 5 b f Bernardini (USA) - Composure (USA) (Touch Gold (USA)) 2 Sandiva (IRE) 5 ch f Footstepsinthesand (GB) - Miss Corinne (GB) (Mark of Esteem (IRE)) 3 Best Behavior (CAN) 6 b f Into Mischief (USA) - Queenship (USA) (Line In The Sand (USA)) EL CAMINO REAL DERBY, G3, Golden Gate, February 13, 9f 1 Frank Conversation (USA) 3 b c Quality Road (USA) - Rushen Heat (USA) (Unusual Heat (USA)) 2 Tusk (USA) 3 gr/ro c Tapit (USA) It's Midnight (USA) (Shamardal) 3 Kasseopia (GB) 3 ch c Showcasing (GB) - Dream Again (GB) (Medicean (GB)) BAYAKOA STAKES, G3, Oaklawn Park, February 14, 8f 110yds 1 Call Pat (USA) 6 b/br f Lawyer Ron (USA) - First Song (USA) (Rahy (USA))

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2 Streamline (USA) 4 b/br f Straight Line (USA) - Love Handles (USA) (Sahm (USA)) 3 Meshell (USA) 4 b f Elusive Quality (USA) - Kobla Cat (USA) (Tale of The Cat (USA)) SAN VICENTE STAKES, G2, Santa Anita, February 15, 7f 1 Nyquist (USA) 3 b c Uncle Mo (USA) - Seeking Gabrielle (USA) (Forestry (USA)) 2 Exaggerator (USA) 3 b/br c Curlin (USA) - Dawn Raid (CAN) (Vindication (USA)) 3 Denman's Call (USA) 3 ch c Northern Afleet (USA) - Maggie McGowan (USA) (Salt Lake (USA)) SOUTHWEST STAKES, G3, Oaklawn Park, February 15, 8f 110yds 1 Suddenbreakingnews (USA) 3 b c Mineshaft (USA) - Uchitel (USA) (Afleet Alex (USA)) 2 Whitmore (USA) 3 ch g Pleasantly Perfect (USA) Melody's Spirit (USA) (Scat Daddy (USA)) 3 American Dubai (USA) 3 b/br c E Dubai (USA) - Smash Review (USA) (Bates Motel (USA)) GENERAL GEORGE STAKES, G3, Laurel, February 15, 7f 1 Page McKenney (USA) 6 ch g Eavesdropper (USA) - Winning Grace (USA) (Yarrow Brae (USA)) 2 Majestic Affair (USA) 4 ch g Majesticperfection (USA) - Blumin Beauty (USA) (Blumin Affair (USA)) 3 Sonny Inspired (USA) 5 b c Artie Schiller (USA) - Argentesque (USA) (Silver Deputy (CAN)) BUENA VISTA STAKES, G2, Santa Anita, February 20, 8f 1 Paulina's Love (USA) 4 ch f Mizzen Mast (USA) - Electric Cove (USA) (Spinning World (USA)) 2 Stormy Lucy (USA) 7 b f Stormy Atlantic (USA) - Here Comes Lucinda (USA) (Dixieland Band (USA)) 3 Keri Belle (USA) 6 b f Empire Maker (USA) - Belleski (USA) (Polish Numbers (USA))

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RISEN STAR STAKES, G2, Fair Grounds, February 20, 8f 110yds 1 Gun Runner (USA) 3 ch c Candy Ride (ARG) - Quiet Giant (USA) (Giant's Causeway (USA)) 2 Forevamo (USA) 3 b c Uncle Mo (USA) - Candlelightdinner (USA) (Slew Gin Fizz (USA)) 3 Mo Tom (USA) 3 b/br c Uncle Mo (USA) - Caroni (USA) (Rubiano) RACHEL ALEXANDRA STAKES, G2, Fair Grounds, February 20, 8f 110yds 1 Venus Valentine (USA) 3 ch f Congrats (USA) - Valentine Fever (USA) (Stormin Fever (USA)) 2 Midnight On Oconee (USA) 3 b/br f Midnight Lute (USA) - Just Fabulous (USA) (Include (USA)) 3 Shaken (USA) 3 b f Uncle Mo (USA) - Seattle Shimmer (USA) (Seattle Slew (USA)) MINESHAFT HANDICAP, G3, Fair Grounds, February 20, 8f 110yds 1 Majestic Harbor (USA) 8 b c Rockport Harbor (USA) Champagne Royale (USA) (French Deputy (USA)) 2 Eagle (USA) 4 ch c Candy Ride (ARG) - Sea Gull (USA) (Mineshaft (USA)) 3 Point Piper (USA) 6 b c Giant's Causeway (USA) - Imagine (IRE) (Sadler's Wells (USA)) FAIR GROUNDS HANDICAP, G3, Fair Grounds, February 20, 9f 1 Chocolate Ride (USA) 6 b c Candy Ride (ARG) Heatherdoesntbluff (USA) (Old Trieste (USA)) 2 Roman Approval (USA) 5 b/br c Roman Ruler (USA) - Highest Approval (USA) (High Fly (USA)) 3 Departing (USA) 6 b c War Front (USA) - Leave (USA) (Pulpit (USA)) XPRESSBET.COM FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH STAKES, G2, Gulfstream Park, February 27, 8f 110yds 1 Mohaymen (USA) 3 gr/ro c Tapit (USA) - Justwhistledixie (USA) (Dixie Union (USA))

2 Zulu (USA) 3 b c Bernardini (USA) - Temporada (USA) (Summer Squall (USA)) 3 Fellowship (USA) 3 ch c Awesome of Course (USA) - Go Girlfriend Go (USA) (Demidoff (USA)) PALM BEACH STAKES, G3, Gulfstream Park, February 27, 8f 110yds 1 Converge (USA) 3 b c Sidney's Candy (USA) - Atlantic Ocean (USA) (Stormy Atlantic (USA)) 2 Giant Run (USA) 3 ch c Giant's Causeway (USA) - Who Did It And Run (USA) (Polish Numbers (USA)) 3 Ousby (USA) 3 gr/ro g Shakespeare (USA) - Diverse (USA) (Kingmambo (USA)) HERECOMESTHEBRIDE STAKES, G3, Gulfstream Park, February 27, 8f 110yds 1 Catch A Glimpse (USA) 3 ch f City Zip (USA) - Halo River (USA) (Irish River (FR)) 2 Lira (USA) 3 ch f Giant's Causeway (USA) - Lerici (USA) (Woodman (USA)) 3 Gone Away (USA) 3 b f Leroidesanimaux (BRZ) - Miss Tullamore Dew (USA) (Mecke (USA)) GULFSTREAM PARK SPRINT STAKES, G3, Gulfstream Park, February 27, 6f 110yds 1 X Y Jet (USA) 4 gr/ro g Kantharos (USA) - Soldiersingsblues (USA) (Lost Soldier (USA)) 2 Candip (USA) 5 b c Candy Ride (ARG) - Indefinable (USA) (Storm Cat (USA)) 3 Ready For Rye (USA) 4 b g City Zip (USA) - Embroidery (USA) (More Than Ready (USA)) FASIG-TIPTON DAVONA DALE STAKES, G2, Gulfstream Park, February 27, 8f 1 Cathryn Sophia (USA) 3 b f Street Boss (USA) - Sheave (USA) (Mineshaft (USA)) 2 Lewis Bay (USA) 3 b f Bernardini (USA) - Summer Raven (USA) (Summer Squall (USA))

international database 3 Dearest (USA) 3 ch f Midshipman (USA) - Keowee Clai (USA) (Cherokee Run (USA)) CANADIAN TURF STAKES, G3, Gulfstream Park, February 27, 8f 1 Heart To Heart (CAN) 5 b c English Channel (USA) - Ask the Question (USA) (Silver Deputy (CAN)) 2 Long On Value (USA) 5 b c Value Plus (USA) - Long Message (USA) (Orientate (USA)) 3 Divisidero (USA) 4 b c Kitten's Joy (USA) - Madame Du Lac (USA) (Lemon Drop Kid (USA))

WORLDWIDE Woodbridge Homes Levin Turf Classic, G1, Trentham, January 16, 1600m 1 Dukedom (NZ) 4 b g Bachelor Duke (USA) - Bianca Bay (AUS) (Bianconi (USA)) 2 Son Of Maher (AUS) 4 b c Al Maher (AUS) - Dance Hit (NZ) (Tights (USA)) 3 Rangipo (AUS) 4 b g Stryker (AUS) - Holloway (NZ) (Zabeel (NZ)) Sire: BACHELOR DUKE. Sire of 15 Stakes winners. In 2016 DUKEDOM Bianconi G1, MULTIVICTORY Danehill LR. 1st Dam: Bianca Bay by Bianconi. unraced. Dam of 1 winner: 2011: Gone Girl (f Excellent Art) unraced.

2012: DUKEDOM (g Bachelor Duke) 2 wins in New Zealand, Woodbridge Homes Levin Turf Classic G1, 2nd Trevor Eagle Memorial S LR, 3rd The Hits Great Northern Guineas G2.

2014: (f Sakhee's Secret) 2nd Dam: Te Akau by Jugah. unraced. Dam of Celtic Trial (g Celtic Swing: 2nd Sir Edward Williams H LR), Jayemzed (c Lion Cavern: 2nd Programmed Maintenance Serv.Anniv.Vase LR) Broodmare Sire: BIANCONI. Sire of the dams of 7 Stakes winners.

In 2016 - DUKEDOM Bachelor Duke G1, SONNY CORLEONE Mr Greeley G2.

Mr Prospector Miswaki Hopespringseternal BACHELOR DUKE b 2001 Seattle Slew Gossamer Lisaleen DUKEDOM b g 2012 Danzig Bianconi Fall Aspen BIANCA BAY 2005 Jugah Te Akau Princess Phoenix

JR & N Berkett Telegraph Handicap, G1, Trentham, January 16, 1200m 1 Adventador (NZ) 8 b g Fast 'n' Famous (AUS) - Alpine Beauty (NZ) (Khozaam (USA)) 2 Miss Seton Sands (AUS) 5 b f Gonski (AUS) - Whodat Cugat (AUS) (King Cugat (USA)) 3 Trepidation (NZ) 8 b f Falkirk (NZ) - Rebellious Angel (NZ) (Success Express (USA)) Sire: FAST 'N' FAMOUS. Sire of 8 Stakes winners. In 2016 ADVENTADOR Khozaam G1.

1st Dam: ALPINE BEAUTY by Khozaam. Winner in Australia.

Dam of 4 winners: 1998: ALPINE DELIGHT (f Bluebird) 6 wins in Australia, Telecom Invercargill Gold Cup LR (twice), 2nd Speights Dunedin Gold Cup G3. Dam of ALPINE HEIGHTS (g Spartacus: Mills Reef Winery Trentham S G3) 1999: Highview Star (g Hennessy) unraced.

2000: Senorita Rosay (f Senor Pete) unraced. Broodmare.

2003: Southern Belle (f San Luis) unraced. Broodmare.

2006: Southern Heights (f Align) unraced. Broodmare.

2007: WINNING GLORY (g One Cool Cat) XXXX Gold Newcastle Gold Cup G3.

2008: ADVENTADOR (g Fast 'n' Famous) 7 wins in New Zealand, JR & N Berkett Telegraph H G1, Chainey's Panasionic Levin S LR,

3rd NZ Bloodstock City of Napier Park Sprint LR. 2010: DIVINE SHIVA (f No Excuse Needed) 2 wins in New Zealand.

2014: (f Ocean Park) 2nd Dam: MOUNT TRYST by Sir Tristram. 2 wins in South Africa.

Dam of Aurum Heights (f Dahar: 3rd Canterbury Cup G3, Chairman's H G3), Waitryst (f Bassenthwaite: 3rd Santa Barbara H G1). Grandam of VIEWED, Love To Honor.

Broodmare Sire: KHOZAAM. Sire of the dams of 11 Stakes winners.

In 2016 - ADVENTADOR Fast 'n' Famous G1.

Danehill Redoute's Choice Shantha's Choice FAST 'N' FAMOUS b 2002 Zabeel Zalinda Alynda ADVENTADOR b g 2008 Seattle Slew Khozaam Par Excellance ALPINE BEAUTY b 91 Sir Tristram Mount Tryst Mountain Heights

Grande Premio Henrique Possollo, G1, Gavea, January 17, 1600m 1 Dolemite (BRZ) 4 b f Adriano (USA) - Quanto Carina (BRZ) (Wild Event (USA)) 2 Ciao Bella (BRZ) 4 b f Vettori (IRE) - Risamixa (FR) (Linamix (FR)) 3 Double Care (BRZ) 4 b f Wild Event (USA) - Laura Ricci (BRZ) (Lode (USA)) Sire: ADRIANO. Sire of 2 Stakes winners. In 2016 - DOLEMITE Wild Event G1.

1st Dam: QUANTO CARINA by Wild Event. Winner in Brazil. Dam of 3 winners: 2009: Arrive In Style (c Northern Afleet) unraced.

2010: BACCELO (c Northern Afleet) 2 wins in Brazil, Grande Premio Jockey Club Brasieiro G1, 2nd Grande Premio Presidente da Republica G1, GP Linneo de Paula Machado Gd Criterium G1, Grande Premio Estado de Rio de Janeiro G1.

2011: CARROCEL ENCANTADO (c Elusive Quality) 5 wins in Brazil, Grande Premio Salgado Filho G2, 2nd Grande Premio Jockey Club Brasieiro G1.

2012: DOLEMITE (f Adriano) 4 wins in Brazil, Grande Premio Henrique Possollo G1, Classico Luiz Alves de Almeida LR, Classico Armando Rodrigues Carneiro LR, 2nd G. P. Francisco Villela de Paula Machado G2, GP. Joao Adhemar,Nelson de Almeida Prado G3, Grande Premio Roger Guedon G3, 3rd Grande Premio Luiz Fernando Cirne Lima G3.

2013: Escrittora (f Put It Back) unraced to date.

2014: Flight Time (c Put It Back) unraced to date.

2015: Garotice (c Put It Back) 2nd Dam: Shanty by Southern Halo. ran on the flat in Argentina.

Own sister to KAVALLA. Dam of BOTTEGA (f Put It Back: Grande Premio Costa Ferraz G3, Grande Premio Jockey Club de Sao Paulo G3, 2nd Grande Premio Major Suckow G1). Grandam of Diversione.

Broodmare Sire: WILD EVENT. Sire of the dams of 15 Stakes winners. In 2016 - DOLEMITE Adriano G1, AMOR GITANO Northern Afleet LR. Seattle Slew A P Indy Weekend Surprise ADRIANO ch 2005 Mr Prospector Gold Canyon Golden Treat DOLEMITE b f 2012 Wild Again Wild Event North of Eden QUANTO CARINA b 2003 Southern Halo Shanty Shangri-La

Grande Premio Estado de Rio de Janeiro, G1, Gavea, January 17, 1600m 1 Editore (BRZ) 4 b c Redattore (BRZ) - Jolie Rose (ARG) (Easing Along (USA)) 2 Like Desire (BRZ) 4 ch c Public Purse (USA) - Intense Desire (USA) (Siphon (BRZ))

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international database 3 Daniel Boone (BRZ) 4 b c Wild Event (USA) - Bia Don't Cry (USA) (Street Cry (IRE)) Sire: REDATTORE. Sire of 29 Stakes winners. In 2016 - EDITORE Easing Along G1.

1st Dam: Jolie Rose by Easing Along. unraced. Dam of 1 winner: 2012: EDITORE (c Redattore) 2 wins in Brazil, Grande Premio Estado de Rio de Janeiro G1.

2013: Finneon (c Roderic O'Connor) unraced to date.

2014: (f Redattore) 2nd Dam: Rosa d'Oro by Karabas. unraced. Own sister to SEA PRINCE. Dam of CRISTIE (f Baronius: G. P. Barao de Piracicaba (1000 Guineas) G1, 2nd Grande Premio Diana (Oaks) G1), Darcy (f O Maior: 3rd G.P. Edmundo Pires de Oliveira Dias G3), Happy Friend (c Riton: 3rd Clasico Manuel Anasagasti LR). Grandam of DAVIGNON. Broodmare Sire: EASING ALONG. Sire of the dams of 11 Stakes winners. In 2016 - EDITORE Redattore G1.

Exclusive Native Roi Normand Luth de Saron REDATTORE b 95 Deputy Minister Political Intrigue Fascinating Trick EDITORE b c 2012 Storm Cat Easing Along Cadillacing JOLIE ROSE b 2004 Karabas Rosa d'Oro Gayomba

Harcourts Thorndon Mile, G1, Trentham, January 23, 1600m 1 Kawi (NZ) 6 b g Savabeel (AUS) Magic Time (NZ) (Volksraad (GB)) 2 Stolen Dance (NZ) 5 b f Alamosa (NZ) - Songbird (NZ) (Black Minnaloushe (USA)) 3 Sports Illustrated (NZ) 6 b f Fast 'n' Famous (AUS) - Pin Up (NZ) (Pins (AUS)) Sire: SAVABEEL. Sire of 46 Stakes winners. In 2016 - KAWI Volksraad

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G1, MABEEL Cape Cross G3, FLAME HERO Pins LR. 1st Dam: Magic Time by Volksraad. unraced. Dam of 3 winners: 2005: SHEZAMAGIC (f Danroad) Winner in New Zealand.

2006: (f Ishiguru) 2009: NO MAGIC NEEDED (g No Excuse Needed) 2 wins in Australia.

2010: KAWI (g Savabeel) 11 wins in New Zealand, Makfi Hawke's Bay Challenge S G1, Zabeel Classic Galaxy S G1, Harcourts Thorndon Mile G1, Kamada Park Manawatu Challenge S G2, Hooker Pacific Taranaki Cup G3, Tui-Back a Winner Anniversary H LR, 2nd Windsor Park Stud Japan NZ Int. Trophy G2, Stella Artois Thames Valley S G2, 3rd Manco Easter H G1.

2011: Van (g Sufficient) unraced.

2012: On Debut (f Postponed) unraced.

2014: (f Zed) Broodmare Sire: VOLKSRAAD. Sire of the dams of 29 Stakes winners.

In 2016 - KAWI Savabeel G1.

The Savabeel/Volksraad cross has produced: KAWI G1, Sam Mesi G3.

Zabeel

Sir Tristram

Lady Giselle SAVABEEL br 2001 Success Express Savannah Success Alma Mater KAWI b g 2010 Green Desert Volksraad Celtic Assembly MAGIC TIME 2001 Last Tycoon Super Wench Honey Bunny Baby

The Stewards' Cup, G1, Sha Tin, January 31, 1600m 1 Sea Defence (USA) 5 gr/ro g Mizzen Mast (USA) - Palisade (USA) (Gone West (USA)) 2 Luger (AUS) 6 b g Choisir (AUS) Miss Conception (AUS) (Danzero)

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3 Chilton County (AUS) 6 ch g Hussonet (USA) - Jemison (AUS) (Commands (AUS)) Age: 2-5; Starts: 15; Wins: 5; Places: 6 Earnings: ÂŁ1,313,937 Sire: MIZZEN MAST. Sire of 32 Stakes winners. In 2016 - SEA DEFENCE Gone West G1.

1st Dam: PALISADE by Gone West.

2 wins. Dam of 7 winners: 2000: SELF EVIDENT (c Known Fact) 3 wins at 2 and 3.

2002: (c Devil's Bag) 2003: FORTIFICATION (g With Approval) 6 wins over fences.

2004: JIBBOOM (f Mizzen Mast) 5 wins at 3 to 5 in USA, Buena Vista H G2, Lexus Raven Run S G2, 2nd Santa Monica H G1. Dam of FLYING JIB (f Oasis Dream: 3 wins at 2 and 3, Canford Cliffs EBF Athasi S G3) 2007: Seize Power (c Mizzen Mast) 2008: ACTION FRONT (g Aptitude) Winner at 3.

2009: MAGNIFICA (f Mizzen Mast) Winner at 3 in USA. Broodmare.

2011: SEA DEFENCE (g Mizzen Mast) 5 wins at 2 to 5, 2016 at home, Hong Kong, The Stewards' Cup G1, 2nd Longines Hong Kong Mile G1, The Celebration Cup H LR, 3rd Hong Kong Classic Mile LR, The Hong Kong Classic Cup LR. 2012: SCOONER (c Mizzen Mast) Winner at 3.

2013: Banham (c Exchange Rate) in training.

2014: Piaffe (f Successful Appeal) unraced to date.

2nd Dam: PEPLUM by Nijinsky. 2 wins at 3 Shadwell Stud Cheshire Oaks LR, 3rd Princess Royal S G3.

Dam of Boatman (c Irish River: 2nd Tom McGee Autumn S LR, 2nd Clement L Hirsch Turf Championship G1, Manhattan H G1). Grandam of AVIATE, EARLY MARCH. Broodmare Sire: GONE WEST. Sire of the dams of 114 Stakes

winners. In 2016 - SEA DEFENCE Mizzen Mast G1.

The Mizzen Mast/Gone West cross has produced: JIBBOOM G1, SEA DEFENCE G1, SEASPEAK G2, CROW'S NEST LR, Mentor Cane G1, Straight Thinking G3.

Caro Cozzene Ride The Trails MIZZEN MAST gr/ro 98 Graustark Kinema Mrs Peterkin SEA DEFENCE gr/ro g 2011 Mr Prospector Gone West Secrettame PALISADE b 94 Nijinsky Peplum Chain Store

Waikato Sprint, G1, Te Rapa, February 13, 1400m 1 Xtravagant (NZ) 4 b c Pentire (GB) - Axiom (NZ) (Zabeel (NZ)) 2 Vespa (NZ) 5 br c Elusive City (USA) - Miss Avalon (IRE) (Fantastic Light (USA)) 3 Recite (NZ) 6 b f Darci Brahma (NZ) - Chant (NZ) (Traditionally (USA)) Sire: PENTIRE. Sire of 51 Stakes winners. In 2016 - XTRAVAGANT Zabeel G1.

1st Dam: Axiom by Zabeel. unraced. Own sister to MAYTHEHORSEBEMAGIC. Dam of 4 winners: 2006: FASHION BLACK (f Bertolini) 5 wins in Australia.

2007: HE'S REMARKABLE (c Pentire) 6 wins in Australia, New Zealand, HSG Newmarket H G3, 2nd Carlton Draught Railway S G1, New Zealand 2000 Guineas G1, 3rd NZ B'stock Ins.Spring Classic Ormond Mem G1.

2008: XAVI (c Pentire) 3 wins in Australia.

2012: XTRAVAGANT (c Pentire) 5 wins in New Zealand, Sothys New Zealand 2000 Guineas G1, Waikato Sprint G1.

2nd Dam: ARLETTY by Centaine. 8 wins in Australia, New Zealand Queen of the Turf S G2, Villiers S G2. Own sister to FIRETAINE, Spillway and River Century. Dam

international database of MAYTHEHORSEBEMAGIC (c Zabeel: 2nd Bmag Queens Queensland Cup G3, Australian Chase LR, J J Houlahan Hurdle LR, Ajra Mosstrooper Chase LR).

Grandam of KOALA BEAR, EXCLUSIVE LASS.

2011: Xinjiang Yarn (g Mastercraftsman) ran on the flat in Hong Kong.

2012: VALLEY GIRL (f Mastercraftsman) 3 wins in New Zealand, Herbie Dyke S G1, 3rd Cambridge Stud Eight Carat Ladies' Mile G2.

Broodmare Sire: ZABEEL. Sire of the dams of 162 Stakes winners. In 2016 - XTRAVAGANT Pentire G1, HASSELHOOF Tavistock G2, MAHUTA Flying Spur G2, RANGIPO Stryker G2, RAGHU Showcasing LR.

2nd Dam: Eastend by Bigstone. unraced. Dam of LEIGH VALLEY (f Bianconi, see above)

The Pentire/Zabeel cross has produced: ART SUCCESS G1, HE'S REMARKABLE G1, LARRY'S NEVER LATE G1, XTRAVAGANT G1.

Northern Dancer Be My Guest What A Treat PENTIRE b 92 Mill Reef Gull Nook Bempton XTRAVAGANT b c 2012 Sir Tristram Zabeel Lady Giselle AXIOM b 2002 Centaine Arletty Riverlette

Herbie Dyke Stakes, G1, Te Rapa, February 13, 2000m 1 Valley Girl (NZ) 4 b f Mastercraftsman (IRE) - Leigh Valley (NZ) (Bianconi (USA)) 2 Stolen Dance (NZ) 5 b f Alamosa (NZ) - Songbird (NZ) (Black Minnaloushe (USA)) 3 Kawi (NZ) 6 b g Savabeel (AUS) Magic Time (NZ) (Volksraad (GB)) Sire: MASTERCRAFTSMAN. Sire of 30 Stakes winners. In 2016 VALLEY GIRL Bianconi G1, MIME Montjeu G2, FLAVIGNY Point Given LR. 1st Dam: LEIGH VALLEY by Bianconi. 5 wins in New Zealand, Coupland's Central Trial Cuddle S G3. Dam of 2 winners: 2008: Cool Sheets (f Dehere) 2009: RONNIE BROWN (g Darci Brahma) 5 wins in Singapore.

2010: Toomanycandles (f Pentire) unraced.

Broodmare Sire: BIANCONI. Sire of the dams of 8 Stakes winners.

In 2016 - DUKEDOM Bachelor Duke G1, VALLEY GIRL Mastercraftsman G1, SONNY CORLEONE Mr Greeley G2.

Danehill Danehill Dancer Mira Adonde MASTERCRAFTSMAN gr/ro 2006 Black Tie Affair Starlight Dreams Reves Celestes VALLEY GIRL b f 2012 Danzig Bianconi Fall Aspen LEIGH VALLEY b 2001 Bigstone Eastend Effie And Alice

C F Orr Stakes, G1, Caulfield, February 13, 1400m 1 Suavito (NZ) 6 b f Thorn Park (AUS) - Queen Cha Cha (NZ) (High Chaparral (IRE)) 2 Lucky Hussler (AUS) 7 b c Husson (ARG) - Talaq Dancer (AUS) (Black Hawk (GB)) 3 Hucklebuck (AUS) 6 b/br g Elvstroem (AUS) - Kondari (NZ) (O'Reilly (NZ)) Sire: THORN PARK. Sire of 24 Stakes winners. In 2016 - RYAN MARK Kingdom Bay G1, SUAVITO High Chaparral G1.

1st Dam: Queen Cha Cha by High Chaparral. unraced. Dam of 1 winner: 2010: SUAVITO (f Thorn Park) 2 wins in Australia, C F Orr S G1, Italktravel Futurity S G1, Inocgnitus Blamey S G2, Momentum Energy Matriarch S G2, Eliza Park International Tesio S G3, 2nd Hilton Hotels/Resorts Springtime S LR, Schweppes Alexandra S LR, 3rd TAB Kewney S

G2, Nine West Ladies Day Vase G3.

2011: Our Drahma Queen (f Darci Brahma) unraced.

2012: Sultan Of Swing (c Bachelor Duke) 3rd Trevor Eagle Memorial S LR. 2014: (f Mastercraftsman) 2015: (c Ocean Park) 2nd Dam: Chablis by Kingmambo.

Dam of Pinot Grigio (g O'Reilly: 2nd Wellington Thoroughbred Breeders Guineas G2, Sky City Avondale Guineas G2) Broodmare Sire: HIGH CHAPARRAL. Sire of the dams of 8 Stakes winners. In 2016 - SUAVITO Thorn Park G1.

Nureyev Spinning World Imperfect Circle THORN PARK ch 99 Bluebird Joy Christmas Spirit SUAVITO b f 2010 Sadler's Wells High Chaparral Kasora QUEEN CHA CHA b 2006 Kingmambo Chablis Nicer

Grande Premio Francisco E Paula Machado, G1, Gavea, February 14, 2000m 1 Daniel Boone (BRZ) 4 b c Wild Event (USA) - Bia Don't Cry (USA) (Street Cry (IRE)) 2 Chicao (BRZ) 4 b c Out of Control (BRZ) - Feiticeira Regina (BRZ) (Roi Normand (USA)) 3 Drollig (BRZ) 4 b c Wild Event (USA) - Rescue Force (BRZ) (Roi Normand (USA)) Sire: WILD EVENT. Sire of 57 Stakes winners. In 2016 - DAFFY GIRL Tokatee G1, DANIEL BOONE Street Cry G1, COSMOPOLITAN Critique LR. 1st Dam: Bia Don't Cry by Street Cry. unraced. Dam of 1 winner: 2012: DANIEL BOONE (c Wild Event) 4 wins in Brazil, Grande Premio Francisco E Paula Machado G1, Classico Ernani de Freitas LR, 3rd Grande Premio Estado de Rio de Janeiro G1.

2013: Every Last Dime (f Wild Event) unraced to date.

2014: Fruttaiolo (c Put It Back) unraced to date.

2nd Dam: Born Something by Caerleon. 4 wins at 2, 4 and 5 in France, USA, 2nd West Virginia Senate President's Cup S LR, 3rd Prix de la Grotte G3. Own sister to GOLD ROUND. Dam of Tarbawi (g Anabaa: 3rd Shahrazad Ladies Banking Meydan Classic LR) Broodmare Sire: STREET CRY. Sire of the dams of 14 Stakes winners.

In 2016 - DANIEL BOONE Wild Event G1.

Icecapade Wild Again Bushel-N-Peck WILD EVENT b 93 Northfields North of Eden Tree of Knowledge DANIEL BOONE b c 2012 Machiavellian Street Cry Helen Street BIA DON'T CRY b 2008 Caerleon Born Something Born Gold

Grande Premio Diana, G1, Gavea, February 14, 2000m 1 Daffy Girl (BRZ) 4 b f Wild Event (USA) - Ilang-Ilang (BRZ) (Tokatee (USA)) 2 Dutota Desejada (BRZ) 4 b f First American (USA) - Lady Thong (BRZ) (Nindiano (ARG)) 3 Energia Hupp (BRZ) 4 b f Gloria de Campeao (BRZ) - Querida Julia (BRZ) (Wild Event (USA)) Sire: WILD EVENT. Sire of 57 Stakes winners. In 2016 - DAFFY GIRL Tokatee G1, DANIEL BOONE Street Cry G1, COSMOPOLITAN Critique LR. 1st Dam: Ilang-Ilang by Tokatee.

2nd Grande Premio Diana G1.

Dam of 2 winners: 2003: Quatro Islas (f Trempolino).

Dam of Camonete (f Put It Back: 3rd C. Presidente Luiz Alves de Almeida LR) 2005: SKYPILOT (c Put It Back) Grande Premio Juliano Martins G1, 2nd Grande Premio Ipiranga (2000 Guineas) G1.

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international database 2006: Tarry Town (f Wild Event) unraced. Broodmare.

2009: Across The Sky (c Wild Event) unraced.

2010: Bandito (c Elusive Quality) unraced.

2012: DAFFY GIRL (f Wild Event) 4 wins in Brazil, Grande Premio Diana G1, Grande Premio Diana (Oaks) G1, Grande Premio Margarida Polak Lara G1, 2nd G.P. C. G. e Carlos Telles Rocha Faria G2.

2nd Dam: Ocala Gal by Vacilante. unraced. Dam of Fast Goer (c Bright Again: 2nd Grande Premio Salgado Filho G2), Ilang-Ilang (f Tokatee, see above) Broodmare Sire: TOKATEE. Sire of the dams of 21 Stakes winners. In 2016 - DAFFY GIRL Wild Event G1.

The Wild Event/Tokatee cross has produced: DAFFY GIRL G1, VIP STAR G2, VIVA-VOZ G3, SANDUKA LR, Trapeze G1, Bonitaca G2.

Icecapade Wild Again Bushel-N-Peck WILD EVENT b 93 Northfields North of Eden Tree of Knowledge DAFFY GIRL b f 2012 Seattle Slew Tokatee Misukaw ILANG-ILANG b 96 Vacilante Ocala Gal Cat Nap

Lightning Stakes, G1, Flemington, February 20, 1000m 1 Chautauqua (AUS) 6 gr/b g Encosta de Lago (AUS) - Lovely Jubly (AUS) (Lion Hunter (AUS)) 2 Terravista (AUS) 7 ch c Captain Rio (GB) - Parfore (NZ) (Gold Brose (AUS)) 3 Japonisme (AUS) 4 ch g Choisir (AUS) - Haiku (AUS) (Encosta de Lago (AUS)) Sire: ENCOSTA DE LAGO. Sire of 112 Stakes winners. In 2016 CHAUTAUQUA Lion Hunter G1, SULTRY FEELING Silver Deputy G3.

1st Dam: LOVELY JUBLY by Lion Hunter. Sires' Produce S G1, T J

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Smith H G1, 2nd Tad Kennedy Coolmore Classic G1. Dam of 6 winners: 2004: CRAVINGS (c Encosta de Lago) 2 wins in Australia.

2005: FOOTHILL ROAD (f Show A Heart) Winner in Australia.

Broodmare.

2006: MAHJONG (c Lonhro) Winner in Australia.

2007: POLLY (f Fusaichi Pegasus) Winner in Australia.

2009: You Got The Love (c More Than Ready) 2010: CHAUTAUQUA (g Encosta de Lago) 10 wins in Australia, Manikato S G1, Lightning S G1, Darley T J Smith S G1, Gilgai Baguette S G2 (twice), Schweppes Rubiton S G2, Mitty's Ian McEwan S G2, Bobbie Lewis Quality G3, Blacktown Workers Hawkesbury Guineas G3, 2nd Lexus Newmarket H G1, Darley Victoria Racing Club Classic G1 (twice), De Bortoli Wines Gosford Guineas LR, 3rd Schweppes All Aged S G1.

2011: LONDON LOLLY (f Charge Forward) 2 wins in Australia, Big Screen Video Breeders' S G3.

2012: Radradra (g Street Sense) unraced.

2014: Mulberry Walk (f More Than Ready) unraced to date.

2nd Dam: JABOULET by Vice Regal. 4 wins in Australia. Dam of SIR HOWARD (g Alannon: Highview Stud Trophy G2, 3rd Prized Captain Cook S G1), LOVELY JUBLY (f Lion Hunter, see above) Broodmare Sire: LION HUNTER. Sire of the dams of 9 Stakes winners. In 2016 - CHAUTAUQUA Encosta de Lago G1.

Northern Dancer Fairy King Fairy Bridge ENCOSTA DE LAGO b 93 Star Way Shoal Creek Rolls CHAUTAUQUA gr/b g 2010 Danehill Lion Hunter Pure of Heart LOVELY JUBLY gr 99 Vice Regal Jaboulet Avadell

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February Stakes, G1, Tokyo, February 21, 1600m 1 Moanin (USA) 4 ch c Henny Hughes (USA) - Giggly (USA) (Distorted Humor (USA)) 2 Nonkono Yume (JPN) 4 ch c Twining (USA) - Nonko (JPN) (Agnes Tachyon (JPN)) 3 Asukano Roman (JPN) 5 ch c Agnes Digital (USA) - Asukano Himiko (JPN) (Tabasco Cat (USA)) Sire: HENNY HUGHES. Sire of 17 Stakes winners. In 2016 - MOANIN Distorted Humor G1.

1st Dam: Giggly by Distorted Humor. unraced. Dam of 1 winner: 2011: (c Stephen Got Even) 2012: MOANIN (c Henny Hughes) February S G1, The Negishi S G3, 3rd Chunichi Sports Hai Musashino S G3.

2013: (f Bluegrass Cat) 2014: (f Broken Vow) 2nd Dam: Chaste by Cozzene. 4 wins at 4 and 5 in USA, 3rd Ballston Spa Breeders' Cup H G3.

Own sister to Call An Audible.

Broodmare Sire: DISTORTED HUMOR. Sire of the dams of 33 Stakes winners. In 2016 - MOANIN Henny Hughes G1.

Storm Cat Hennessy Island Kitty HENNY HUGHES ch 2003 Meadowlake Meadow Flyer Shortley MOANIN ch c 2012 Forty Niner Distorted Humor Danzig's Beauty GIGGLY b 2005 Cozzene Chaste Purity

Precise Air Chipping Norton Stakes, G1, Randwick, February 27, 1600m 1 Winx (AUS) 5 b f Street Cry (IRE) - Vegas Showgirl (NZ) (Al Akbar) 2 Dibayani (IRE) 6 b g Shamardal (USA) - Dibiya (IRE) (Caerleon (USA)) 3 Hauraki (AUS) 5 b c Reset (AUS) Youthful Presence (AUS) (Dehere (USA))

Sire: STREET CRY. Sire of 95 Stakes winners. In 2016 - WINX Al Akbar G1, SOLICIT Danehill G2, TALLY Kris S G2, TELPERION Redoute's Choice LR. 1st Dam: VEGAS SHOWGIRL by Al Akbar. 7 wins in Australia, New Zealand, New Zealand Bloodstock 2yo Fillies S LR, Leila Macdonald Soliloquy S LR, 2nd Hawkeye @ Stoney Bridge Evergreen S G3.

Dam of 1 winner: 2010: Miss Atom Bomb (f Encosta de Lago) unraced.

2011: WINX (f Street Cry) 11 wins in Australia, Precise Air Chipping Norton S G1, The Star Epsom H G1, Treasury Casino & Hotel Queensland Oaks G1, William Hill WS Cox Plate G1, Apollo S G2, Cellarbrations Phar Lap S G2, Theo Marks S G2, Coolmore Furious S G2, XXXX Sunshine Coast Guineas G3, 2nd Seven News Australian Oaks G1, Coolmore Flight S G1, Coolmore Tea Rose S G2.

2012: (c Fastnet Rock) 2013: (c Snitzel) 2014: (c Snitzel) 2nd Dam: VEGAS MAGIC by Voodoo Rhythm. 2 wins in New Zealand. Dam of VEGAS SHOWGIRL (f Al Akbar, see above), Black Magic Maggie (f Westminster: 2nd Ecolab Optimum S G3) Broodmare Sire: AL AKBAR. Sire of the dams of 5 Stakes winners.

In 2016 - WINX Street Cry G1.

Mr Prospector Machiavellian Coup de Folie STREET CRY b/br 98 Troy Helen Street Waterway WINX b f 2011 Success Express Al Akbar Gala Night VEGAS SHOWGIRL b 2002 Voodoo Rhythm Vegas Magic Vegas Street

Haunui Farm Otaki-Maori WFA Classic, G1, Otaki, February 27, 1600m 1 Volkstok'n'barrell (NZ) 5 b g Tavistock (NZ) - Volkster (NZ) (Volksraad (GB))

international database 2 Julinsky Prince (NZ) 7 b c Darci Brahma (NZ) - Julinsky Princess (NZ) (Stravinsky (USA)) 3 Scapolo (NZ) 7 b c Bachelor Duke (USA) - Kadesa (NZ) (Zabeel (NZ)) Sire: TAVISTOCK. Sire of 7 Stakes winners. In 2016 VOLKSTOK'N'BARRELL Volksraad G1, HASSELHOOF Zabeel G2.

1st Dam: Volkster by Volksraad. unraced. Own sister to Champion Chestnut and Dame Mapperley.

Dam of 1 winner: 2002: Baron Orczy (g Rory's Jester) unraced.

2006: Zidansky (g Kempinsky) unraced.

2010: Galaktika (f Thorn Park) unraced.

2011: VOLKSTOK'N'BARRELL (g Tavistock) Sky Racing Rosehill Guineas G1, Otaki-Maori WFA Classic G1, The Sound Great Northern Guineas G2, Manuka Doctor Bonecrusher Stakes G3, NZ Bloodstock Insurance Karaka Mile LR, 2nd TV3 New Zealand Derby G1, 3rd BMW Australian Derby G1, Avondale Guineas G2.

2nd Dam: ROW OF MAPPERLEY by Long Row. 1 win in New Zealand.

Own sister to GETTING CLOSER. Dam of Champion Chestnut (c Volksraad: 2nd Sharp Juvenile S G2, 3rd Cape of Good Hope Derby S G1), Buckton Lad (g Creese: 3rd Ford Thoroughbred Breeders' Plate LR), Dame Mapperley (f Volksraad: 2nd Maytag Colin Stephen H G3). Grandam of LE BARON, Queen of Pop. Broodmare Sire: VOLKSRAAD. Sire of the dams of 30 Stakes winners.

In 2016 - KAWI Savabeel G1, VOLKSTOK'N'BARRELL Tavistock G1, FIRST AMONG EQUALS Exceed And Excel LR. Sadler's Wells Montjeu Floripedes TAVISTOCK b 2005 Quest For Fame Upstage Pedestal VOLKSTOK'N'BARRELL b g 2011 Green Desert Volksraad Celtic Assembly VOLKSTER 96 Long Row Row of Mapperley Petwood

Ladbrokes Blue Diamond Stakes, G1, Caulfield, February 27, 1200m 1 Extreme Choice (AUS) 3 ch c Not A Single Doubt (AUS) - Extremely (AUS) (Hussonet (USA)) 2 Flying Artie (AUS) 3 b c Artie Schiller (USA) - Flying Ruby (AUS) (Rubiton (AUS)) 3 Zamzam (AUS) 3 b f Redoute's Choice (AUS) - Fleur De'here (NZ) (Dehere (USA)) Sire: NOT A SINGLE DOUBT. Sire of 30 Stakes winners. In 2016 EXTREME CHOICE Hussonet G1, DON'T DOUBT MAMMA Fantastic Light G3, LET IT SLIP General Nediym LR. 1st Dam: Extremely by Hussonet. unraced. Dam of 4 winners: 2010: RAISE NO DOUBT (g Not A Single Doubt) 5 wins in Singapore.

2011: AMERICAN HUSSLER (g All American) 4 wins in Australia.

2012: SCRUM (f Flying Spur) Winner in Australia.

2013: EXTREME CHOICE (c Not A Single Doubt) 3 wins in Australia, Ladbrokes Blue Diamond S G1, Chairman's S G3, Inglis Nursery LR. 2014: (f Duporth) 2015: (c Smart Missile) 2nd Dam: GOING TO EXTREMES

by Nasty And Bold. 11 wins at 3 to 5 in USA Royal North S LR. Broodmare Sire: HUSSONET. Sire of the dams of 48 Stakes winners.

In 2016 - EXTREME CHOICE Not A Single Doubt G1, HONESTY PREVAILS Redoute's Choice G3, MR RODRIGO Hurricane Cat LR. Danehill Redoute's Choice Shantha's Choice NOT A SINGLE DOUBT b 2001 Rory's Jester Singles Bar Easy Date EXTREME CHOICE ch c 2013 Mr Prospector Hussonet Sacahuista EXTREMELY 2005 Nasty And Bold Going to Extremes Ole Bow Wower

Italktravel Futurity Stakes, G1, Caulfield, February 27, 1400m 1 Turn Me Loose (NZ) 5 b c Iffraaj (GB) - Indomitable (NZ) (Danehill (USA)) 2 Stratum Star (AUS) 5 ch c Stratum (AUS) - Purely Spectacular (NZ) (Pins (AUS)) 3 Suavito (NZ) 6 b f Thorn Park (AUS) - Queen Cha Cha (NZ) (High Chaparral (IRE)) Sire: IFFRAAJ. Sire of 35 Stakes winners. In 2016 - TURN ME LOOSE Danehill G1, XIONG FENG Tale of The Cat LR. 1st Dam: Indomitable by Danehill. unraced. Dam of 1 winner: 2011: TURN ME LOOSE (c Iffraaj) Italktravel Futurity S G1, Emirates Cantala S G1, Sothys New Zealand 2000 Guineas G1, DHL Hawke's Bay Guineas G2, Schweppes Crystal Mile G2, Darley Seymour Cup LR, 2nd Paris Lane S LR, 3rd James & Annie Sarten Memorial S G3.

2nd Dam: Kwan by Sadler's Wells. unraced. Own sister to PUERTO RICO. Dam of Martial Art (g Tiger Hill: 3rd Longines Singapore Gold Cup LR) Broodmare Sire: DANEHILL. Sire of the dams of 306 Stakes winners. In 2016 - TURN ME LOOSE Iffraaj G1, SOLICIT Street Cry G2, VERY SPECIAL Lope de Vega G2, APACHE Ad Valorem LR, MULTIVICTORY Bachelor Duke LR, ROCHES CROSS Whipper LR. The Iffraaj/Danehill cross has produced: CHRISELLIAM G1, FIX G1, TURN ME LOOSE G1, Latharnach G1, Nathra G1, Liberating LR. Gone West Zafonic Zaizafon IFFRAAJ b 2001 Nureyev Pastorale Park Appeal TURN ME LOOSE b c 2011 Danzig Danehill Razyana INDOMITABLE b 2003 Sadler's Wells Kwan Commanche Belle

Clamms Seafood Oakleigh Plate, G1, Caulfield, February 27, 1000m 1 Flamberge (AUS) 7 ch g Exceed And Excel (AUS) - Razor Blade (AUS) (Blazing Sword (AUS)) 2 Fell Swoop (AUS) 5 b g Not A Single Doubt (AUS) - Touched In Flight (AUS) (Fasliyev (USA)) 3 Heatherly (AUS) 4 br f Lonhro (AUS) - Dancing Heather (AUS) (Danzero (AUS)) Sire: EXCEED AND EXCEL. Sire of 108 Stakes winners. In 2016 FLAMBERGE Blazing Sword G1, FIRST AMONG EQUALS Volksraad LR, HEADWATER Hurricane Sky LR. 1st Dam: RAZOR BLADE by Blazing Sword. 8 wins in Australia, Winter S G3. Dam of 6 winners: 2001: Gunstan (c Distorted Humor) ran on the flat in Australia.

2002: DANCING BLADE (g Spectrum) Winner in Australia.

2003: SUNBURNT LAND (g Scenic) 8 wins in Australia, Thai Airways Int. Caulfield Sprint G2, 3rd Patinack The Age Vic. Racing Club S G1.

2004: Joyeuse (f King's Best) 5 wins in Australia, 3rd Emirates James H B Carr S LR. Dam of SWORD OF LIGHT (f New Approach: Ladbrokes Blue Diamond Preview (f) G3) 2007: CURTANA (f Exceed And Excel) 6 wins in Australia, The Straight Six LR, Gucci Red Roses S LR, 2nd Coolmore Stud Ascot Vale S G1. Broodmare.

2009: FLAMBERGE (g Exceed And Excel) 8 wins in Australia, Darley Goodwood H G1, Clamms Seafood Oakleigh Plate G1, Standish H G3, Sebring Star Kingdom S G3, theshark.com.au The Heath 1100 S G3, Programmed Durbridge S LR, 2nd Schweppes Rubiton S G2, Mitty's Ian McEwan S G2, MSS Security Moomba Plate LR, 3rd Kevin Heffernan S G3, ATA Bob Hoysted H LR.

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photo of the month: Chinese jockey Qin Yong wins in Barbados Chinese jockey Qin Yong became the first Chinese jockey ever to win a race in Barbados.

Qin Yong’s March win on Jonn Three-Sixteen in The Green Monkey Trophy may be seen as a watershed moment for China’s emerging thoroughbred racing industry.

The result ensured that the possibility of Chinese jockeys competing successfully around the world is no longer considered just a pipe dream.

Qin Yong and fellow jockey Chen Li are in Barbados for the 2016 season as part of an initiative called the CHC China Dream Project, which delivers international opportunities to young people from the thoroughbred racing industry.

The programme was launched last September at CECF Wuhan by the China Horse Club and it is hoped that more inductees and more countries will be added to the programme.

“I could never have imagined yesterday could become a reality, even after being selected to be a part of the CHC China Dream Project,” said Qin Yong.

“Our generation is lucky. I have grown up at a time when my family has been able to provide better for me than the previous generation, when there are more opportunities. In my case, that opportunity is the horseracing industry, which is growing in China.

“With the support of the Barbados Turf Club, the China Horse Club, our families and trainers like Xavier [Blanche] and Jonathan [Simpson] Chen Li and I have been able to do something very special.”

The China Dream Project may be an initiative of the China Horse Club, but its success in Barbados has been heavily reliant on the Barbados Turf Club and a number of island’s most prominent people.

“The club’s chairman Sir David Seale, CEO Rosette Peirce, Richard Seale and Sir Charles Williams are among many who have worked tirelessly over several months to ensure Qin Yong and Chen Li were able to be in Barbados and to excel on this stage. Our club is very thankful for their continued efforts and energy,” said Eden Harrington, China Horse Club vice president and head (partnerships/ membership).

“Lady Seale, Sir Charles Williams and leading trainers Jonathan Simpson, Victor Cheeseman and Xavier Blanche are committed to supporting both riders having never met them before and having never seen them ride and that support is not forgotten.

“This support and the knowledge we have of Barbados through our partners John Magnier and Derrick Smith helped provide us with the confidence that Barbados was an appropriate centre for Chinese jockeys to begin their international careers and, hopefully in time, launch onto the world stage.”

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