NH Special 2022

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NH SPECIAL 2022

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GALILEO NH SPECIAL

> Cheltenham Festival bloodstock round-up > Aisling Crowe’s A-Z profile of young NH stallions at stud in Britain and Ireland > Victor Connolly of Burgage Stud is plotting NH stallion careers for Jukebox Jury, Sea Moon and Fascinating Rock > Exciting times at Haras de Montaigu with a young NH roster headed by star jumps stallion No Risk At All > Point-to-point sales are flourishing: James Thomas looks at the reasons why trade is just so strong

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He’s a beautiful looking individual, I could not recommend him enough.

JOSEPH O’BRIEN, TRAINER

CLASSIC WINNER OF THE

Even if his foals get a quarter of his temperament they’ll be doing well. He’s an exceptional horse in what he achieved in such a short time.

TOM MARQUAND, JOCKEY

GR.1 ST LEGER

Gr.1 winner undefeated as a 3yo Also winner of the Listed Yeats Stakes by 5l.

Beating Gr.1 horses Subjectivist, Pyledriver, Santiago, Serpentine, Berkshire Roco, Dawn Patrol, Mythical, etc.

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Higher rated than Affinisea, Berkshire, Blue Brasil, Diamond Boy, Elusive Pimpernel, Idaho, Jet Away, Mahler, Malinas, Old Persian.

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Festival Winners

HONEYSUCKLE CHAMPION HURDLE, Grade 1 sold Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale

by The Glanvilles Stud to Mark O’Hare for €9,500

LOVE ENVOI RYANAIR MARES’ NOVICES’ HURDLE, Grade 2 sold Tattersalls Cheltenham March Sale

by Monbeg Stables to Jeremiah McGrath for £38,000 BILLAWAY ST. JAMES’S PLACE FESTIVAL CHALLENGE CUP OPEN HUNTERS’ CHASE sold Tattersalls Cheltenham February Sale

by About Time Stables to Harold Kirk / WP Mullins for £50,000

STATTLER UKRAINE APPEAL NATIONAL HUNT CHALLENGE CUP NOVICES’ STEEPLE CHASE, Grade 2 offered at Tattersalls February NH Sale COMMANDER OF FLEET CORAL CUP HANDICAP Hurdle, Grade 3 sold Tattersalls Ireland November NH Sale

by Egmont Stud to Mount Eaton Stud for €35,000 COOLE CODY CRAFT IRISH WHISKEY CO. PLATE HANDICAP CHASE, Grade 3 sold Tattersalls Ascot July Sale

by Sundale Farm to Tom Malone for £5,200

Cheltenham

GLOBAL CITIZEN THE JOHNNY HENDERSON GRAND ANNUAL CHALLENGE CUP HANDICAP STEEPLE CHASE, Grade 3 sold Tattersalls Cheltenham April Sale

by Ballycurragh Stables to Stroud Coleman BS for £275,000 BANBRIDGE MARTIN PIPE CONDITIONAL JOCKEYS’ HANDICAP HURDLE sold Tattersalls Ireland November NH Sale

by Springhill Stud to Ian Ferguson for €36,000

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FORTHCOMING

ENERGUMENE QUEEN MOTHER CHAMPION CHASE, Grade 1 sold Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale

by Moanmore Stables to T Lacey for €50,000

SALES Tattersalls Cheltenham, Ascot & UK NH Sales

THE NICE GUY ALBERT BARTLETT NOVICES’ HURDLE, Grade 1 sold Tattersalls Ireland November NH Sale

by Kilbarry Lodge Stud to Hit The Diff Syndicate for €33,000

CONSTITUTION HILL SUPREME NOVICES’ HURDLE, Grade 1 sold Tattersalls Ireland November NH Sale

by Throckmorton Court Stud to Warren Ewing / Barry Geraghty for €16,500

Ascot March Sale 31 March Cheltenham April Sale 22 April Tattersalls May NH Sale 26 May

Tattersalls Ireland Store Sales

May Store Sale 10 May Derby Sale 22 - 23 May July Store Sale 13 - 14 July

SIR GERHARD BALLYMORE NOVICES’ HURDLE, Grade 1 sold Tattersalls Cheltenham December Sale

by Coolmeen Stables, Ireland to Gordon Elliott Racing for £400,000

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First Word

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Cheltenham Festival review

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Pointing the way

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Leave it to the Jury

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Risk assessor

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2022 NH Stallion Fact Pack

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Established NH sires

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Young British-based stallions

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Young guns at stud in Ireland

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NH foal sale averages

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NH store sales returns

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Stallion covering stats 2021

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Photo of the month

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There was not a ride available for Brian Hughes at The Festival Bloodstock review from the biggest week in the jump racing calendar James Thomas talks with Tattersalls Ireland’s Richard Pugh, founder of p2p.ie, and Matthew Flynn O’Connor of Ballycrystal Stables, and hears the reasons why the point-to-point market is just so strong Burgage Stud’s Victor Connolly is plotting NH stallion careers for Fascinating Rock, Sea Moon and Jukebox Jury Sybille Gibson talks with James Thomas about Haras de Montaigu’s exciting young roster of NH stallions, headed by leading sire No Risk At All

We scan through the leading ranks of older jumps sires at stud in Britain, Ireland and France

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Aisling Crowe’s A-Z outlining the young British jumps stallion roster The young Irish-based NH sires at stud From NH foal sales in Britain, Ireland and France in 2021 Store sales in Britain, Ireland and France in 2021 Statistics provided by Weatherbys The Tiger’s last day at the races

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A Plus Tard

by Debbie Burt

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first word

No Festival rides for Hughes...

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...due to the influence of a handful of large, dominant NH yards

T AMAZED me one day in March when hearing tthe comments made by pundits through an afternoon of mid-week racing when they were discussing the phenomenon that is the British champion NH jockey elect Brian Hughes.

It was a concern that the conversation revealed how little they seemed to understand about the current make up of NH horseracing.

The guys were voicing their opinion on the planned non-appearance of Hughes at The Festival, which was a pre-announced decision made by the jockey. Both pundits declaring what a shame it was that the leading jumps jockey in Britain was not riding at the country’s pre-eminent jumps race meeting.

One went as far as to imply that it was wrong of Hughes to have made the decision to stay riding at smaller meetings in the north, that he owed it to the sport to be at Cheltenham.

Of course, a man of Hughes’s talents should be at the meeting with chance after chance after chance of riding big-race winners.

But he does not have those opportunities due to the current make up of the NH training ranks.

Hughes essentially rides in the north of England, most of the main (largest) NH yards are in the south of England or Ireland. Those few NH yards have the bulk of big race chances because big race owners seem to prefer having their horses trained in those larger yards… in England, Nicky Henderson, Paul Nicholls, Dan Skelton, and Colin and Joe Tizzard dominate.

In Ireland, Willie Mullins and Gordon Elliott head

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“Of course, a man of Hughes’s talents should be at the meeting with chance after chance after chance of riding big-race winners

affairs, with Henry De Bromhead loitering behind.

Most of the races at Cheltenham are dominated by this handful (Nicholls and Skelton aside this year) and all these yards have their own attached jockeys – and numbers of them – in order to ride the second, third and, on occasions, fourth to seventh strings.

On Tuesday’s opening Supreme Hurdle, the top ten in the ante-post betting were trained by one of the above, in the Arkle, Alan King had the favourite and eventual winner with Edwardstone but he was the only “outside” trainer with a horse in the top seven fancied horses. The Ultima Handicap Chase was a more open affair, in the Champion Hurdle, David Pipe was the only trainer to break up the De Bromhead / Mullins / Elliott / Henderson dominance at the top of the market Trainer Donald McCain, who has supplied (at the time of writing), 87 of Hughes’s winners this season, had a handful of entries, the shortest-priced at ante-post stage was Richmond Lake, a 20/1 shot in the conditional jockeys’ race.

In the end the trainer did not have a single runner over the four-day meeting.

How is Hughes going to get on any of those horses who were going into The Festival with a legitimate winning or even each-way chance?

There are just no opportunities for him, and why (why?) would he want to get on an outsider that is only running to give the owner a day out? It is just not worth Hughes’s time, effort or risk. He’d have been crazy to have put his stated goal of becoming champion jockey and riding 200 winners in the season at such threat.

As he seems like a good bloke, too, it is doubtful he’d ever

first word chase around the few opportunities to “jock off” a regular rider from a “smaller” yard, or try and pick up a spare ride for a trainer or owner he’d be unlikely to ride for again.

What really struck me was how little the pundits in question realise just how dominating the handful of NH trainers are at the top of the business and how little there is go around for the rest – particularly for jockeys who are not attached to one of those big yards.

In the end Hughes rode two winners through the week at Sedgefield on Champion Hurdle day. None of his closestyet-at-a-distance challengers (Harry Skelton, Sam TwistonDavies, Harry Cobden) rode a winner at Cheltenham – all they achieved was a handful of third placings.

The bulk of wins and placed results – as has been usual for the last few years – went to Paul Townend, Racheal Blackmore, Nico De Boinville and Patrick Mullins. Twelve other jockeys rode a winner apiece It not only proves that how difficult it is to get a winner at The Festival, but also how focused the winners are on a handful of jockeys and trainers.

In the trainers’ table, five yards produced more than one winner – Venetia Williams this year, as is fitting for the incredible season she has enjoyed, joining the top table of Henderson, De Bromhead and Elliott, with Mullins once again out on his own. Since 2010, Mullins had been leading trainer at the Festival nine times and this year he underlined his dominance with a record-breaking ten winners, 36 per cent of the races run.

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O WHAT of a five-day Festival plans, which was a frequent topic of discussion on course through the week.

It is quite understandable that the Jockey Club, owner of the racecourse, is seriously considering the growth to an extra day, after all it is a business that needs to make money and is running a successful event that could have opportunities to make even more money.

Cheltenham is The Jockey Club’s cash cow, as we all know, racing needs to make the most of all the chances it has to make money as it can.

“A fifth day needs lot of consideration and, if it is going to become a reality, it needs to have a different outlook... maybe along the lines of the former Heath day once attached to the end of Royal Ascot week, now viewed as a family day?

Maybe offer tickets at a reduced price...

A fifth day would give opportunities for the course to make more cash, but also the associated businesses – bookmakers, TV companies, hotels and hospitality – could benefit, too.

Cheltenham racecourse has successfully grown the facility with its recent redevelopments allowing increased daily crowd numbers, and was rewarded this year with record figures. Whether that has been the right thing to do and has worked from a crowd experience perspective, that will have to be a discussion that Cheltenham needs to have with its racegoers.

Will it work going to another day? Will the quality of racing be maintained? Will it just be an instance of the racecourse going to the well too often and killing the goose that laid the golden egg? Will the meeting still be able to call itself “The Festival of jumps racing”? Will Cheltenham become an ever-more focus of the season and the sport to the detriment of other tracks and race days and NH racing?

This year we witnessed some smaller fields than would be desired – the Grade 1 Turners Novice Chase only saw four runners and it was a pretty uncompetitive affair.

With the leading raft of horses with just that small handful of trainers, it easy for them to sidestep each other, and ensure, as far as possible, that their own leading horses do not take each other on.

Surely, even would more races just exacerbate this further and lead to reducing field quality again – the racing could come under serious danger of losing its mantle of top quality? How many racegoers even care about the standard of the racing?

Or would more races spread the love amongst more names and give more trainers and their jockeys a day in the sun so help to break down that Mullins et al dominance?

A fifth day needs lot of consideration and, if it is going to become a reality, it needs to have a different outlook... maybe along the lines of the former Heath day once attached to the end of Royal Ascot week, now viewed as a family day? Maybe offer tickets at a reduced price to encourage families with the next generation of racegoers, or those who might not be to get away from work, or wish to or be able to pay price of a weekday ticket.

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A spread of success

A fantastic four days at The Festival saw success for 24 different stallions, writes Aisling Crowe

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HE CROWDS were back at Cheltenham and so too were the French-breds, back with a vengeance.

Of the five Championship races, three went to horses bred in France, all of them over fences. The Gold Cup, the Champion Chase and the Ryanair Chase were won by horses bred under the blue, white and red tricolour, while Britain and Ireland split the hurdling championships apiece with reigning champions Honeysuckle and Flooring Porter defending their titles in the Champion Hurdle and Stayers’ Hurdle respectively.

In total, the winners of 15 of the 28 races were bred in Ireland with French-breds

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winning nine and four races going to Britishbred runners.

When it came to stallions, only two, both prematurely deceased, managed to sire more than one winner with Jeremy earning the 2022 title on a countback by virtue of Scarlet And Dove’s third place finish in the Grade 2 Mares’ Chase for Joseph O’Brien. The Jersey Stakes-winning son of Danehill Dancer supplied Grade 1 Ballymore Properties Novice Hurdle winner Sir Gerhard, who won last season’s Champion Bumper, and the Grade 3 Ultima Handicap Chase winner Corach Rambler.

Fame And Glory was the sire of the Grade 1 winner The Nice Guy and Commander Of Fleet, who won the Grade 3 Coral Cup.

That ensured that 24 different stallions sired a winner over the four days with the Sadler’s Wells line dominating. His sons Sholokhov, Kayf Tara, Milan and Yeats and grandsons Galiway, Walk In The Park and Fame And Glory all sired Grade 1 winners, while Galileo, Doyen and Well Chosen also sired winners during the four days.

Sadler’s Wells sons and grandsons also shone as broodmare sires with the stunning Supreme Novices’ winner Constitution Hill out of a King’s Theatre mare and Sir Gerhard’s dam by Authorized. Old Vic, Beat Hollow, Saffron Walden and Hurricane Run were other broodmare sires from that line to feature in the pedigrees of Festival 2022 winners.

cheltenham review Rachael says “A Plus Tard” to her rivals

Rachael Blackmore left Cheltenham a superstar last year, but there was also the sense that the first woman to be leading jockey at the meeting also had unfinished business with Cheltenham’s Holy Grail.

For all her 2021 history-making six winners, victories that included a Champion Hurdle and a tour de force in the Ryanair, there was a nagging feeling that the Gold Cup was the one that got away.

Trainer Henry De Bromhead saddled two horses in last year’s Gold Cup, Minella Indo and A Plus Tard, and Blackmore plumped for the latter. It was the former, however, who took gold under Jack Kennedy with Blackmore having to settle for silver one and a quarter lengths behind the horse she turned down. When you’re panning for gold, finding silver is no consolation.

Twelve months on and Blackmore was back in the Cheltenham winners’ enclosure, continuing her outstanding unbeaten partnership with Honeysuckle and benefitting from Galopin Des Champs’ unfortunate stumble at the back of the last with Bob Olinger.

Her mind was set on that elusive gold. She maintained her partnership with A Plus Tard

How it started...

...how it ended up

and Robbie Power was given the ride on defending champion Minella Indo.

A Plus Tard, owned by Cheveley Park Stud, was sent off favourite on the strength of a much better season than his stable companion for whom the electricity of Cheltenham sparks him alive.

As the field rounded the home turn both the De Bromhead horses looked to be travelling better than their rivals and the pair jumped the second last together. Blackmore

has not become one of the best jockeys around by accident, and the Tipperary woman did not repeat her (own perceived) mistake of 2021, and she held on to A Plus Tard down the hill and until the very last moment possible.

The pair galloped into the history books by 15l with De Bromhead celebrating another Gold Cup 1-2.

Richard Thompson, son of Cheveley Park Stud’s owners Patricia and the late

Blackmore took the Champion Hurdle winner Honeysuckle wide, hit the front two out and went clear to win her 15th race

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cheltenham review David Thompson, said: “We’ve been talking about this moment, and it’s happened. It’s absolutely fantastic to win the Gold Cup. Incredible. My father would have loved it, he watched the Gold Cup for many years and to actually win it is incredible. I can’t even speak. What a day for racing.”

A Plus Tard was bred by Henri and Sophie Devin at their Haras du Mesnil in France and is one of six individual Grade 1 winners

by Haras de la Hetraie’s Kapgarde, the best of whom is Grand Steeple Chase de Paris winner Milord Thomas.

Kapgarde was a Grade 3 winner at Auteuil and second in the Grade 1 Prix Ferdinand Dufaure. He boasts a strong NH pedigree as a Garde Royale half-brother to Geos, who won the Grade 1 Christmas Hurdle at Kempton for Nicky Henderson.

He is also a half-brother to Cybersun, who was third in the Grade 1 Prix Reynaud de Vivier.

His Epervier Bleu half-sister Daprika is

My father would have loved it, he watched the Gold Cup for many years and to actually win it is incredible the dam of Chilli Filli (Presenting), who has won three Listed mares’ chases for trainer Henry Daly over the past two seasons.

Another half-sister, Kapricia Speed, is the dam of Fergal O’Brien’s Grade 3 handicap hurdle winner Barney Dwan and the second dam of French Listed hurdle winner Kasad Coko.

Kapgarde’s Video Rock half-brother Kap Rock moved to Knockhouse Stud from Haras

de la Hetraie last season.

Their dam Kaprika is a Cadoudal halfsister to Listed Brown Lad Handicap Hurdle winner Lord Dal and they are out of Lady Corteira, who won the Listed Prix A de Goulaine.

Bar Vauban’s powerhouse performance in the Triumph Hurdle, it would have been a Grade 1 Festival double for the Devins and their Gold Cup hero’s family.

A Plus Tard is one of six reported foals out of the Kahyasi mare Turboka, who won eight times for the Devins when trained by Guillaume Macaire.

A Plus Tard’s year-younger full-brother Kap Auteuil is trained by Toby Lawes for Andrew and Sarah Wates and has won five of his ten starts to date, two of them this season.

Their four-year-old half-brother by Doctor Dino, who stands at Haras du Mesnil, won a three-year-old hurdle at Auteuil in October for the couple and trainer Gabriel Leenders.

Vauban, by Galiway, wins the Triumph (G1) from Caldwell Construction-owned pair of Fil Dor (red cap), who is related to A Plus Tard, and Pied Piper

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cheltenham review Turboka’s first foal La Turbale is by Ange Gabriel, a dual winner of the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud whom the Devins stood at Mesnil.

The unraced La Turbale has developed into quite the broodmare for the team – her first foal, the Doctor Dino mare Style Icon won the Listed Prix Charles Lafitte on the Flat at Maisons-Lafitte for trainer HenriFrancis Devin and his parents, while her six-year-old Turgeon gelding Le Lude was Listed-placed over hurdles.

Her four-year-old full-brother to Style Icon is Fil Dor ,who was second in the Triumph Hurdle, having previously filled the same position behind Vauban in the Grade 1 Spring Juvenile Hurdle at the Dublin Racing Festival.

Trained by Gordon Elliott for Andrew and Gemma Brown, Fil Dor won the Grade 2 Juvenile Hurdle at Leopardstown’s Christmas Festival and a Grade 3 at Fairyhouse earlier this season.

La Turbale has a yearling full-brother to Fil D’or and Style Icon named Dino Style.

W family continues its wonderful run

Waldgeist’s first foals broke the mould at the Flat foal sales a few months’ ago – the Arc winner bucking the trend of middledistance stallions overlooked by the narrow commercial focus of the market.

In December, his family also created a stir at the Tattersalls and Arqana mares’ sales as the partnership between Gestüt Ammerland and Newsells Park Stud was dissolved .

At the Arqana December Sale his fullsister Wildfeder helped to accumulate record-breaking returns when selling to Crispin de Moubray on behalf of Ammerland for €2,050,000 just a handful of days after their three-parts sister by New Approach, the Group 3 winner Waldlied, made 2.2m guineas at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale sold to Jill Lamb on behalf of Newsells’ new owner Graham Smith-Benal and a new partnership.

Now it was Cheltenham and the turn of Vauban to add the Triumph Hurdle to his Dublin Racing Festival Grade 1 victory for Willie Mullins and Rich Ricci.

Bred by P Decouz and SCEA du Bas Bugey, he hails from a branch of the

The French-bred Energumene wins the Queen Mother Champion Chase (G1). In total French-breds won nine races, GB-breds took four races (two Grade 1s) and Irish-breds were successful in 15 races

wonderful German Wurfbahn family.

Vauban is out of Waldfest, a winning daughter of Hurricane Run and out of Gifted Icon, a Peintre Celebre half-sister to St Leger winner and sire Masked Marvel and to the Group 3 winner Waldlerche, dam of Arc and Prix du Jockey Club winner and exciting young stallion Waldgeist.

Waldlerche, Gifted Icon and Masked Marvel are out of the Falmouth Stakes (G1) runner-up Waldmark, a Mark Of Esteem half-sister to Deutsches Derby winner and sire Waldpark, the Listed winner Waldvogel and the unraced Waldbeere, dam of the Group 3 winners Wiesenpfad and Waldpfad, who was also Group 1-placed and the Listed

winner and Preis der Diana third Waldtraut.

Another half-sister produced the Group 2 Gran Premio del Jockey Club winner Walderbe (Maxios).

Vauban’s fourth dam is the German champion older female stayer Wurftaube by Acatenango, who won the Group 2 German St Leger and was placed at Group 1 level.

Vauban was trained by his part-breeder Philippe Decouz and was purchased privately last summer by his Irish connections after his victory at Lyons.

Vauban made one more start in France, winning the Listed Prix Frederic de Lagrange over 2400m at Vichy.

On his first start over hurdles, Vauban

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cheltenham review L’Homme’s a Diamond for Kilbarry Lodge

was half a length second to Pied Piper (New Approach) at Punchestown on New Year’s Eve and that horse went on to annihilate the opposition in the Grade 2 Triumph Hurdle Trial at Cheltenham in January before finishing third behind Vauban and Fil Dor in the Triumph itself.

“He was our best chance of the week and we are delighted with that, he’s a proper little taxi,” commented winning owner Rich Ricci, who explained how Vauban came to be running this season.

“I was having a war with Willie at the beginning of the season because none of our horses were running well and we didn’t have that many.

He was our best chance of the week and we are delighted with that, he’s a proper little taxi “He wanted to keep Vauban for next year and, while we are happy to do that with some of ours, we bought quite a few last year that we did put away. I thought I didn’t have enough runners that were quality and we are in a transition year, which I have spoken about, so I said to Willie to just run him and see how he gets on.

“If it didn’t work, we still have a nice horse for next year but he came out and won the Grade 1 at Leopardstown. He really only ran because our string weren’t firing at the time and I thought ‘he’s supposed to be a good one so let’s have a go!’”

Talk in the immediate aftermath of the race centred on the possibility of an audacious raid on Australia and the Melbourne Cup in November.

“Why can’t we win both? Why not in the same year?” replied Ricci in answer to questions about the possibility of Vauban taking on the race that stops a nation.

“I’d definitely be on for going to the

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L’ Homme Presse put in an exhibition round of jumping in the 3m Grade 1 novice

Melbourne Cup with him. I love going down there, it’s a fantastic experience and the prize-money is terrific but he has clearly brushed up his jumping a little bit.”

In the very next race the Grade 3 County Hurdle, Colonel Mustard, a relation of Vauban’s, put in his best performance yet to finish third to the highly-talented State Man. Trained by Lorna Fowler, Colonel Mustard is out of Waldblume, a winning Halling half-sister to Waldmark, the second dam of Waldgeist and Vauban. Bred by Gestüt Gorlsdorf, who bred Sea The Moon, he is a half-brother to the Listed-placed Waldblumchen by the aforementioned Deutsches Derby winner, and was sold for 20,000gns to Stroud Coleman at the 2015 Tattersalls December Foal Sale by his breeders.

L’Homme Presse’s victory in the Grade 1 Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase was a milestone one not only for trainer Venetia Williams and jockey Charlie Deutsch, but also for his sire Diamond Boy. It was a first Festival winner for the Mansonnien full-brother to Willie Mullins’ four-time Grade 1-winning chaser Golden Silver. L’Homme Presse’s success earlier this season in the Scilly Isles Novice Chase (G1) was a first at the highest level for a runner

by Diamond Boy, who is standing his fifth season at Con O’Keeffe’s Kilbarrry Lodge Stud in County Waterford having transferred from Haras de la Croix Sonnet.

A seven-year-old, L’Homme Presse is from the third crop of Diamond Boy who was a Listed winner on the Flat in France, winning the 1m6f Listed Prix Scaramouche at SaintCloud. Diamond Boy was also placed in two further Listed contests.

From small numbers in his French crops, he is the sire of five individual Graded winners with L’Homme Presse the best of the quintet.

Diamond Boy is also the sire Kingwell Hurdle (G2) winner Grand Sancy, who was also placed in the Tolworth Hurdle and Henry VII Novices’ Chase, both Grade 1 contests, for Paul Nicholls. His best runner in France is the dual Auteuil Grade 3 winner Cat Tiger.

Diamond Boy’s final French-bred crop is the largest from his time there with 82 registered four-year-olds. His first Irishbred crop will be hitting the store sales this summer and there are 143 three-year-olds registered by him. He has 137 two-year-olds and 49 yearlings and covered just 38 mares in 2021.

L’Homme Presse is owned by Andy Edwards’ Dfa Racing and was sourced in France after winning twice over hurdles for Mickael Seror. He was bred by Bernard Camp out of the winning Romance Turgot by Bateau Rouge and is the third and final foal produced by her.

He was offered for sale as a yearling at Arqana’s Autumn Sale by Haras du Dorat but was unsold at €22,000.

It is a very interesting pedigree as he is by far the best horse under his first three dams, but his fourth dam Emmaline was a

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Blue is the colour for Rathbarry Stud

Above, Constitution Hill, has been rated the highest-ever novice hurdler

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Listed winner on the Flat in America and is the second dam of the Group 1-winning sprinters and half-brothers Tangerine Trees and Alpha Delphini. Emmaline is an Affirmed half-sister to the American Grade 1 winners and sires Bates Motel and Hatim.

Trainer Venetia Williams revealed just how nerve wracking it was watching her first Festival Grade 1 win.

“I don’t think I’ve felt so sick during a race, which is rare, but I’m really looking forward to watching it again. I couldn’t be more thrilled.

“He’s such a spectacular jumper and it was lovely to hear the crowd cheer every time he put in a big leap.

“I think this race was always the most likely, but the only thing which would have changed our minds was if it was going to be heavy ground and even this rain has made it just soft ground.”

It was part of an excellent week for Con O’Keeffe’s Kilbarry Lodge Stud as the Waterford farm bred the Grade 1 Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle winner The Nice Guy. Stayers’ Hurdle winner Flooring Porter (Yeats)

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By the late Fame And Glory, he is the only foal out of Kilbarry Beauty, a winning Saffron Walden three-parts sister to the Grade 1 Ballymore Properties Novice Hurdle winner Massini’s Maguire. O’Keeffe sold him to the Hit The Diff Syndicate at the Tattersalls Ireland November NH Sale for €33,000 in 2015.

Blue Bresil’s rise to the upper tiers of NH stallions has gathered much momentum this season, with soaring Supreme Novices’ Hurdle winner Constitution Hill truly advertising his sire’s credentials with aplomb.

Blue Lord, successful in the Grade 1 Irish Arkle at the Dublin Racing Festival, was third in the Cheltenham equivalent to emphasise the quality that Blue Bresil offers.

Between the pair, they managed to double their sire’s tally of Grade 1 winners in a few short weeks this winter and the clamour for places in his book has reached fever pitch.

Blue Bresil attained quite a high level of form on the Flat winning from 9.5f to 1m6f at two and three and he finished third in the Group 2 Prix Noailles and Prix Hocquart and two Listed contests. He also ran in Vision D’Etat’s Prix du Jockey-Club and Zarkava’s Arc, but when switched to jumping at four he discovered his metier. The son of Smadoun was second in three Graded contests at Auteuil, including the Prix Amadou Hurdle (G2) and, like Diamond Boy, began his stud career at Haras de la Croix Sonnet.

He has three individual Grade 1 winners and four Grade 1-placed performers from his French crops and transferred to Yorton Farm for the 2016 season. Constitution Hill is from that first Yorton crop, which has 94 registered foals, the biggest number for Blue Bresil to that point. He is one of 11 winners from 46 runners and one of

cheltenham review two black-type-performing five-year-olds by Blue Bresil.

His second crop conceived at Yorton consists of 93 registered foals with a winner from just seven runners. There are 77 threeyear-olds by him registered and they are certain to be hugely sought-after at the store sales in the summer.

The final foal crop bred at Yorton commanded a fee of £6,000 and there are 107 of them. He switched to Glenview Stud, the NH division of the Cashman family’s stallion farms, for the 2020 season and has 136 registered yearlings who were bred from a fee of €8,000. His 2021 and 2022 fees have been listed as private.

Constitution Hill, who has shone a bright spotlight on his sire’s abilities, was bred by Sally Noott out of the Listed Jane Seymour Mares’ Novices’ Hurdle third Queen Of The Stage by King’s Theatre.

The first foal of his dam, he was sold by Throckmorton Court Stud to Warren Ewing and Barry Geraghty for €16, 500 at the 2017 Tattersalls Ireland November NH Sale.

He was a narrow second on debut in a Tipperary point-to-point for Ewing last spring and was sold for £120,000 to Nicky Henderson and Michael Buckley at the 2021 Goffs UK Spring Point-To-Point Sale.

Constitution Hill has a year-younger halfbrother by Flemensfirth and a three-yearold half-sister by Jack Hobbs. His yearling half-sister made £50,000 to Alne Park Stud at Goffs UK in January.

Speaking to Goffs UK after watching Constitution Hill make easy work of his highly-regarded stablemate Jonbon, Ewing remarked: “That was brilliant, he broke the track record as well, it was just an outstanding performance.

“We always thought that Constitution Hill was a good horse which is why we advised Nicky to buy him and it’s fantastic that he has turned out to be even better than we thought. I think it will be a long time before he will be beaten.

“I am delighted for Michael Buckley, too, The Flooring Porter syndicate gave the biggest celebration of the week in the winners’ enclosure, and jockey Danny Mullins was held aloft amidst singing and cheers from the owners and the crowd

he has bought a few horses from us and it’s great that he has such a talented horse.”

Bumper just a walk in the park for Mullins

Facile Vega gave his legendary dam Quevega her first Grade 1 winner when successful in the Champion Bumper.

Unbeaten now in three starts for his owner-breeders the Hammer And Trowel Syndicate, Facile Vega is the second foal and winner for the remarkable mare, who won six runnings of the David Nicholson Mares’ Hurdle at The Festival. The tough as teak Quevega, who is now 18, was successful in 16 of her 24 starts and her Grade 1 victories encompassed four Tipperkevin Stayers’ Hurdles at the Punchestown Festival.

She was also placed three further times in Grade 1 company.

The daughter of Robin Des Champs was bred by Pierre Rives out of the six-times winning jumper Vega IV, who is also the second dam of Auteuil Listed Handicap Hurdle winner Flip De Vega.

Quevega’s first foal, the Beat Hollow mare Princess Vega, won a Tramore maiden hurdle on debut as a fouryear-old and she is due her first foal by Order Of St George at the end of April.

Facile Vega is the second foal out of Quevega, who has a four-year-old full-sister to him now in training with Willie Mullins.

Her threeyear-old Camelot filly is in pretraining with John Berry

and her two-year-old daughter of the Derby winner Australia is at the Irish National Stud where Quevega recently foaled a full-brother to Facile Vega.

A delighted Willie Mullins commented: “Facile Vega was very good, he’s shown me at home that he’s always good. We were really worried about conditions here today, but he relished it. That’s what I see every day, this horse just travels when we do work and now you’re seeing what I see.”

It was also an important success for his sire Walk In The Park, whose offspring include the Arkle and Ryanair Chase winners Douvan and Jonbon, but this was a first Cheltenham success for his Irish-bred crops, of which Facile Vega is a member of his first conceived at Coolmore’s Grange Stud.

That first Irish crop has produced the Listed-winning mares Haute Estime and Mullenberg, who are both out of mares by Oscar and inbred 3S x 3D to Sadler’s Wells.

Eabha Grace, out of Myska, a Listedwinning half-sister to the dual Grade 1 winner Bob Olinger, is also from Walk In The Park’s first Irish crop and she has been second in the Listed EBF Mares’ Bumper.

Already his second Irish-conceived crop has produced a Listed performer, the Prix Antoine de Palaminy Chase third Nambiti.

The initial Irish crop of 180 was by far the biggest of his stud career to that point dwarfing all his previous crops. In fact, he sired 198 foals in total from his first eight crops. His current bunch of four-year-olds are his largest crop to date numbering 182 and he has 136 three-year-olds registered.

His stock have generated headlines and sale-topping prices over the last few years particularly on the back of the success of Douvan and Min, with Douvan’s full-brother Jonbon setting the record for a point-topoint horse when selling for £570,000 to JP McManus in 2020 having won his four-yearold maiden for Ellmarie Holden.

It would appear that the “sales hype” behind Walk In The Park is justified based on his early results from his time in Ireland.

At the time of writing he had 29 individual winners from 98 runners born in 2017 with four black-type performers.

Of his current four-year-olds, 14 have run and four have won with the aforementioned Listed-placed chaser in France.

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Pointers for the future James Thomas chats with Richard Pugh who explains the reasons behind the huge growth in the point-to-point sales division

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HEN EDMUND BLAKE challenged his neighbour Cornelius O’Callaghan to a race across country from St John’s Church in Buttevant to St Mary’s Church in Doneraile, County Cork, neither man could have possibly imagined what the four and a half mile match would foretell.

That 1752 contest is credited as being the first recorded steeplechase run in Ireland and laid down the blueprint for point-topoint racing, which was officially recognised in 1889 and is now a multi-million pound industry and an important proving ground for young NH horses.

Recent times have ushered in a boom

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p2p sales Sir Gerhard: the wining point-to-point graduate is a three-time Grade 1-winning son of Jeremy.

He was bought from Ann Marie Holden at the Tattersalls Cheltenham December Sale 2019 by trainer Gordon Elliott for £400,000.

He won the Grade 1 Ballymore Novices Hurdle at The Festival, backing up his Champion Bumper win in 2021

period for the commercial point-to-point sector, particularly in Ireland, and there is now a strong element of success breeding success.

High levels of racecourse performance from point-to-point graduates fuels increasing demand – and prices – at boutique sales, which in turn gives the sport’s trainers greater financial firepower to restock on raw materials.

Indeed, 89 former Irish point-to-point graduates won 113 Graded races during the truncated jumps 2020-21 season. This number was headed by 27 Grade 1 victories achived by household NH names such as Bob Olinger, Envoi Allen, Honeysuckle, Minella Indo, Monkfish and Shishkin.

Of course, high-achieving former pointers

are not a new phenomenon, nor is the sport operating on a commercial basis. However, there is no mistaking that the landscape has changed dramatically in recent years, although the catalyst for the current situation came from far beyond the flags and fences of the point-to-point field.

While the last seven years have seen an acceleration in the flow of former point-topointers making up into Grade 1-winning jumpers, Richard Pugh, founder of p2p.ie and Tattersalls Ireland’s director of horsesin-training sales, says the wheels have been in motion for the current model since at least 2001.

The advent of the internet was the first building block in a new era for point-topointing. But not because of any direct

impact on NH racing initially, rather that ready access to form, pedigrees, race replays and statistics transformed the Flat horse into a global commodity.

This meant that the kind of Flat performer, who once would have been tested over jumps, is now being sold for big money to race abroad, and with NH owners increasingly priced out of the market they had no alternative but to look elsewhere.

“It’s not a coincidence that we won’t see the likes of horses such as Royal Gait, Kribensis and Istabraq run over hurdles because the global market for those horses started making them very expensive for the NH owner,” says Pugh. “It’s supply and demand; supply deteriorated from the Flat and the NH man, whether he cared or not

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p2p sales about point-to-pointing, really didn’t have a choice.”

This shift was recognised by the BHA, who, in its 2015 jump racing review, noted that Irish point-to-points had overtaken Flat racing as the most popular source of previously raced NH recruits, writing: “The source of horses into jump racing has shifted

significantly, with far fewer horses having their first run on the Flat compared to threefive years ago. The downturn in the number of Flat horses going jumping has created a reliance on Irish point-to-point.”

As the internet was disrupting the market for Flat performers, the point-to-point season was also being altered by an insidious

external factor: foot-and-mouth disease.

It was in 2001, when the outbreak led to the traditional spring point-to-point season being cancelled, that the modern day autumn campaign was developed. Changes that were brought in as a quick fix proved so popular they were soon adopted on a permanent basis.

A rich seam for Ballycrystal Stables Matthew Flynn O’Connor with Anthony Bromley at the Tattersalls Cheltenham December Sale with his top lot by Shantou

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HE LEADING POINT-TO-POINT HANDLERS, names such as Colin Bowe, Donnchadh Doyle and Denis Murphy are firmly established as powerful figures in the NH marketplace. Not only are they selling high-class talents for six-figure sums on a regular basis, their business model dictates that they are also significant investors in the unbroken store horse market.

But there is another generation of trainers coming on stream, too, plenty of whom are proving equally adept at turning base metal into solid point-topointing gold.

One such trainer is the 38-year-old Matthew Flynn O’Connor, who operates out of Ballycrystal Stables in the point-to-point heartland of Wexford.

O’Connor, who grew up immersed in ponies and hunting, first dipped his toe into the pointto-point world with an interest in horses trained

by Monbeg Stables’ Sean and Donnchadh Doyle, but says he always had ambitions of having his own operation in time. The commercial realities of training racehorses, which have been brought into sharp relief by the disparity between prices at the sales and returns on the racecourse, made the point-to-point model more appealing than racing under Rules, O’Connor says.

“We always wanted to do our own thing and we were either going to buy them to race them on the track or we were going to go down the selling route and try to produce good young horses who can go on for other trainers,” he says. “You can only do one or the other and it’s a very expensive game either way.

“If you’re buying expensive stores and deciding to keep a few to go on with, you have to be operating at the top end so they pay their way, so we decided we wanted to go the other way and treat it as a business and buy them as two- and three-year-olds and produce them as four-year-olds.”

O’Connor, who started the current campaign with

p2p sales Prior to foot-and-mouth even the most renowned handlers tended to earn their living from other agricultural endeavours, training point-to-pointers as a sideline.

But the introduction of an autumn season opened point-to-pointing up to a new world of commercial opportunities.

“Previous to [foot-and-mouth] you had

people who were relatively self sufficient, or even wealthy in their own right, and as an additional layer of their business they had a point-to-pointer,” says Pugh. “Now there is enough substance and enough longevity to the season that they can frame a business around point-to-pointing.

“You can cash pre-Christmas or

45 pointers, says he spent time with the Doyles as well as Colin Bowe before embarking on his own training career. He has clearly learned plenty from those past masters having enjoyed some noteworthy early successes.

On the track his talents have been advertised by Sporting John, whom O’Connor saddled to win a Borris House maiden before a £160,000 transfer to JP McManus and Philip Hobbs, for whom he landed the Grade 1 Scilly Isles Novices’ Chase.

He says: “The Grade 1 horses don’t come along too often so we’re absolutely delighted with Sporting John. We never thought we’d have such a good horse so early on.”

Such results have given buyers confidence in the Ballycrystal brand – at last year’s Tattersalls Cheltenham December Sale, O’Connor sold not one but two lots for north of £300,000.

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EADING THE WAY was the wildly impressive Lingstown winner Deeply Superficial, who went to Gordon Elliott and Aidan O’Ryan for a salestopping £385,000, while earlier in the session Tom Malone and Paul Nicholls combined at £305,000 for Stay Away Fay, another debut winner at Lingstown.

This pair perfectly illustrate the rewards on offer for trainers who buy smartly and prepare their horses with skill – the pair cost a combined £65,000 at the store sales, but generated a windfall of £690,000!

“We had a very good day at Cheltenham,” says O’Connor, modestly. “I’ve had luck before as I owned a horse with Donnchadh Doyle called Classic Getaway, who made a lot of money [£570,000] at Yorton. But, having gone out under my own name, we never dreamed we’d be topping a Cheltenham sale so early on.

“The two horses are pretty special though, and based on the reports I’ve heard on Deeply Superficial

When you’re starting off it’s hard to stand up there and give fifty grand for one when all you’re getting is a horse you don’t know much about and a head collar!

post-Christmas as the season goes on long enough. So at the same time that point-topointers were becoming more sought after because Flat horses were harder to get, a new generation of trainers could see a business model set up around point-to-pointing.”

So the demand for point-to-pointers was created by a shortfall in Flat recruits and

I think we could hear a good bit more about her.”

While examples such as Deeply Superficial may make the game look straightforward, O’Connor says trainers have their share of pressure to deal with, particularly when it comes to going toe-totoe with the established names at the store sales.

“Don’t get me wrong, when they win like Deeply Superficial you are going over to the sales with your chest out and you’re looking for it all,” he says. “But, at the same time you have to get there, get through the vets and there’s plenty of pressure, too. You also have to get the trainers’ trust so they can have confidence when you’re telling them this is the horse they want, especially when they cost plenty of money. But, when you’re in the ring and the price starts to get going, it becomes a bit more enjoyable!

“Believe it or not there’s probably more stress during the weeks when you’re buying these horses than when you’re getting them over the line.

“You’re investing an awful lot of money and you only get one chance to buy them. Everything has to be right, their conformation has to be right, they need to be good movers, and they want to have a bit of pedigree... but the more of that they have, the more expensive they become!”

He continues: “If you get a horse going into the ring who ticks all the boxes, they become nearly impossible to buy because it’s at such a high level now. The likes of Donnchadh Doyle, Colin Bowe and Pat Doyle, they’re having plenty of winners and have the money to back them up and can afford to buy those expensive ones.

“When you’re starting off it’s hard to stand up there and give fifty grand for one when all you’re getting is a horse you don’t know much about and a head collar!

“There’s a lot of pressure when you’re trying to buy the right one. But it’s something we thought we’d go at positively because if you win your pointto-point, go back to the sales, tick all the boxes and it happens on the day, then you do get well paid.”

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p2p sales the supply was fuelled by a recalibrated, more commercially friendly season, and the missing link in the chain between buyers and sellers was hit upon through the emergence of boutique sales.

In 2009, Brightwells began hosting auctions at Cheltenham and the select sale calendar has grown almost exponentially since, with Goffs and Tattersalls, who bought Brightwells in 2015, each hosting a busy calendar of events that bring a year-round supply of point-to-pointers with recent form to market.

While point-to-pointers had previously been traded privately by agents out in the field, Pugh says the increased transparency of a public auction, along with some sensational racecourse results, has underpinned a veritable explosion in prices.

I’ve seen horses and sales hitting levels where I’ve thought ‘woah, I’m not sure it can get bigger than this’ but it’s always gone up another level

“Now that these select sales are here buyers can put their hand on the horse’s leg, look in his eye, walk and trot him and buy into the process and not just take somebody’s word on it,” reports Pugh. “That isn’t to say people will always pick a better horse, but it’s that if you don’t, you still feel that you had every chance to do so.”

Moreover, it is well known that data helps stimulate the marketplace and in December 2003 Pugh launched p2p.ie.

Although he rather modestly asserts that “If it wasn’t me it would’ve been someone else” who started the online service, the fact remains that the website is now an industry leading source of information that has brought Irish point-to-point form, stats and content to a wider audience than ever before.

Moreover, Pugh and p2p.ie were

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p2p sales instrumental in Irish point-to-point form becoming a permanent fixture in leading racing publications, sales catalogues and race cards across Britain and Ireland.

“I thought racecards were a big one,” says Pugh. “So when there’s racing at Leopardstown and Willie Mullins finishes second in the bumper and sees that the horse who beat him wasn’t a debutant but had won at Dromahane, it might help focus his mind.”

In summarising the chain of events that shaped the current point-to-point landscape, Pugh is keen to stress just how big a part serendipity played, saying: “So at its core the Flat went world-wide, foot-and-mouth created the opportunity, p2p.ie was doing its thing and select sales were bringing the horses to market, so people who already had an opinion now had more of an ‘in’.

“There was no joined-up thinking though, I wasn’t a visionary any more than the fella who put the autumn season in to help catch up from foot-and-mouth. It’s just that a lot of things happened in the world that all bounced in the favour of point-to-pointing.”

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HILE THE IRISH point-to-point industry quickly regained its momentum after a COVID-enforced shutdown, a new existential threat loomed over the sector as 2021 neared its end. A number of insurance providers left the equine market after some multi-million Euro payouts, and with Brexit red tape compounding the situation, the hunts, who run the point-to-points, were unable to obtain the necessary cover to host race meetings.

However, after much heavy lifting behind the scenes, including from politicians who raised the plight of the point-to-point community in the Dáil Éireann, the Irish parliament, a deal was brokered that sees point-to-points covered for a €1,250 premium.

“A lot of work was done by a lot of people who pulled together a complex enough package that allowed the point-to-pointing to continue,” says Pugh. “It’s now on the hunts to stump up and pay this amount of money. It’s a leap but I hope the hunting

The 2022 Cheltenham Festival Sale top lot:

by Pour Moi the winning four-year-old filly is out of a half-sister to Don Cossack and was sold by Pat Doyle’s Suirview Stables to trainer Henry de Bromhead for £370,000.

She is called Kudasheva, watch out for the name!

...the Flat went world-wide, foot-and-mouth created the opportunity, P2P.ie was doing its thing and select sales were bringing the horses to market, so people who already had an opinion now had more of an ‘in’

community is able to stomach that going forward, and that we as an industry are able to support that as and when we’re needed.

“We hope that’s behind us and there’s no more bumps on that road. If there’s demand for racehorses, and we’ve seen during the pandemic that luxury items are sought after, then point-to-pointing has a good chance of providing what the market needs.

“I’m not optimistic and many times over the last seven years I’ve seen horses and sales hitting levels where I’ve thought ‘woah, I’m not sure it can get bigger than this’ but it’s always gone up another level.”

Pugh says the thing most likely to change the dynamic in Irish point-to-points is the British point-to-point, which has already produced the likes of the Queen Mother Champion Chase (G1) winner Energumene and Sky Pirate, as UK trainers begin to mirror the Irish model.

“There are some excellent handlers and some wonderful racecourses in Britain that we’d be jealous of over here,” he says.

“And there’s no logic that dictates that if Faugheen or Honeysuckle ran around Chaddesley Corbett or Barbury Castle that they would be any better or any worse.

“Those horses are going to emerge and I’m almost seeing now what we were seeing in 2005 in Ireland – two, three or four good winners appearing every Saturday. I don’t see that as competition for Ireland though, I think that keeps the brand of point-topointing strong.”

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Making stallions

Bob Back and Shantou enjoyed long successful careers at Burgage Stud with Victor Connolly, but a new roster is now in development,writes Sally Duckett

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OMETIMES THINGS can be argued away as mere coincidences, but when those events are repeated, there has to be more to it than mere lucky chance.

Over the last 20 years Victor Connolly of Burgage Stud has successfully produced and managed the careers of leading NH stallions Bob Back and Shantou, and both sires enjoyed a longevity to their stud careers rarely achieved.

Burgage Stud stood Shantou, a son of Alleged, for 16 years. The farm imported the sire, who had started his career in Italy, in 2004, and his last covering season came in 2020, the stallion dying in 2021 as a 28-year-old.

He had nine runners and three horses placed in graded races at The Festival this year, including in the Champion Bumper.

His impact on the NH races will be felt for at least another decade – arguably he was as well regarded as a sire, both in the sale ring and on the racecourse, at the end of his career as he was at his peak.

Burgage has sourced two new sires to Victor Connolly and his wife Elizabeth

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take the farm forward into the 2020s, and Connolly is more than happy with the new residents, despite the sizeable shoes they need to fill.

Jukebox Jury, a 16-year-old son of Montjeu, transferred to Ireland for the 2018 season having stood five years in Germany at Gestüt Etzean – in some ways mirroring Shantou’s move to the farm after starting his career in Europe.

“We hope Jukebox Jury will be the successor to Shantou,” says Connolly. “His profile is quite similar at the moment, and he’s had a Grade 1 performer so we’re very happy with what he’s doing so far. He’s been very popular in the sale ring, and you know, the trainers seem to like them, which is important.”

The stallion, a dual Group 1 winner, whose CV boasts victories in the 1m2f Preis von Europa and the Irish St Leger, as well as four Group 2 wins and a Group 3 success over distances from a mile to 1m4f, can claim highest level progeny results both on the Flat, courtesy of the admirable filly and 2020 Prix du Cadran (G1) winner Princess Zoe, as well as over hurdles – in 2018 Farclas annexed the Grade 1 Triumph Hurdle.

The Gordon Elliott-trained runner has

burgage stud now successfully transitioned to fences and could have a million pound challenge ahead of him in the Aintree Grand National (G3).

This season Jukebox Jury has also produced Stuke, a Grade 1 winner over hurdles who has been placed at that level this season in Italy, the Grade 1-placed juvenile hurdler Il Etait Temps, who was also a good fifth in the Triumph Hurdle (G1), the Arkle Chase (G1) fourth-placed War Lord, as well as a graded hurdler and graded chaser in France.

Trainers and agents don’t ignore such results and there has been (as can be seen in the chart below) a considerable uplift in his progeny prices for both his foals and his store horses. His store horse price in 2021 was around four times that of 2020.

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ND WHILE it must be tempting for Connolly to bust the stallion’s book this spring, and take his charge into book size territories of over 200 mares, the stallion man is sensibly erring on the side of restraint.

“Last year he covered 175 mares,” outlines Connolly. “If we get that sort of number we’ll take it. We’d rather stand the horse at a higher fee and get more quality mares, if we can. That’s what I like to try to do because numbers of mares don’t make a stallion – if a stallion isn’t very good to begin with then thousands of mares won’t make him any better.

“If you do that then you are in danger of just getting left with a whole lot of horses that nobody wants because they have such bad memories about those by that sire.

“I keep on referring to Northern Dancer, he only saw 36 mares a year and look what he left! He didn’t cover many mares compared to what happens now. He didn’t have many foals, but he left such a legacy he is proof of a horse that, if a sire is good enough, numbers are not important.

“Of course, in the jumping game there are injuries and setbacks happen, but I think if you have a good sire, how you manage them is important. We’ve been delighted with Jukebox Jury so far.”

Connolly’s management skill was clearly evident in his handling of the late Shantou

Jukebox Jury: has a progressive profile and his first Irish-bred crop are three-year-olds of this year

I keep on referring to Northern Dancer, he only saw 36 mares a year and look what he left!

and Bob Back, the sire of 12 Grade 1 winners and numerous Cheltenham Festival winners, including Bacchanal, Back In Focus, Back In Front, Cousin Vinny, Putty Road, Thisthatandtother and, of course, the 2011 Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Bob’s Worth, who won at three Cheltenham Festivals.

Bob Back is also broodmare sire of the 2012 Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Synchronised, and 2015 Aintree Grand National hero Many Clouds.

Bob Back died in January 2011, aged 30,

Jukebox Jury’s sale returns 2020 compared with 2021(€)

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burgage stud and actively covered until 2008.

For good NH sires whose careers naturally take off later in their lives, this careful management helps give stallions a chance to be still actively covering mares when the better crops are producing good results on the racecourse.

On purely a financial basis it means that the stud has some opportunity to financially benefit from the improvement of results, instead of watching from the side lines.

Judicial use of a stallion’s natural instincts has certainly been a watch word for Connolly.

The three-time 1m4f Group 2 winner Sea Moon, by Ballylinch Stud’s Beat Hollow, joined Burgage for the 2016 spring season.

He has not had big books – the most numerous so far being his first crop of 27 foals born in 2017.

He has had just 11 runners, three winners, but already has had one blacktype performer – Hi Stranger who finished runner-up in the Listed Mucklemeg mares NH Flat race at Gowran Park.

Connolly says: “He hasn’t had big numbers, he just wasn’t very fashionable before he had runners. And fashion in this game is so much a feature, but it’s just fashion, it’s nothing else it doesn’t guarantee success and always changes.

“Results are all that matters. Sea Moon’s runners have operated, they have won, they won bumpers first time out, they got black-type. He had two mares who ran in the Grade 2 bumper at the Dublin Festival, and okay, they didn’t win, but the fact that they were entered by trainers who would know the difference, John Kiely [Hi Stranger] and Willie Mullins [Nikini] tells you something.

“We’re hoping that some of the horses he has in training will add to what they’ve done already.”

To help Connolly rock the boat of fashion, he has concentrated on ensuring a quality book for his stallion.

He adds: “Sea Moon might not have covered a lot of mares, but he’s covered some very well-bred mares. We’re happy with him and he’s work in progress.”

Fascinating Rock (Fastnet Rock) joined Burgage for this spring from Ballylinch Stud, where he retired to in 2017 as a six-year-old at the end of a racing career that yielded two

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Sea Moon: has only had a handful of runners to date but has had three winners

Fascinating Rock is a big, strong scopey horse and maybe his profile just didn’t suit the Flat Group 1 victories, four Group 3 successes and a Listed win for trainer Dermot Weld.

“His own best form came at four and five when he beat Found in the Champion Stakes at Ascot and she was an Arc winner, so that form was very good,” says Connolly, who adds: “He didn’t show as much form as a two and three-year-old, and I guess some of the Flat breeders might have said he wasn’t sharp enough as a Flat prospect.

“Time will tell, but Fascinating Rock is a big, strong scopey horse and maybe his profile didn’t suit the Flat. There’s been plenty of sires whose progeny didn’t do well on the Flat, but, when they had distance, hurdles and age, then they do well and the stallions become different sires.

“He makes me think of the Yeats, who he could be champion NH sire this year.

“He went to stud as a Flat sire, but his percentages were low. He’s been left alone now and he’s doing it in his own time, and he’s become a very competent jumping sire.

“The important thing about Fascinating Rock is that his owners [Patricia and Maurice Regan of Newtown Anner Stud] are going to support him with some very nice mares, which is the vote of confidence.”

If Burgage’s past results can be used to predict the future, we will be hearing about these three young stallions for some years to come yet.

The late Shantou

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John O’Connor on Burgage, stallions and Fascinating Rock How did Ballylinch’s association with Burgage begin?

“I knew Victor from the time when he ran Rosemount Stud, which is just to the south of Ballylinch near New Ross.

“Bob Back was with us and had developed then into a leading NH sire, but at the same time we had King's Theatre coming through. We wanted to only have one NH sire at Ballylinch so it just worked from a logistics point of view to move him.

“I contacted Victor and we sent Bob Back there. And he did a great job with him, a magnificent job in terms of keeping him going well and healthy right into his old age. It is testament to Victor's skills as a horseman. The horse did really well when he was there, he sired a Gold Cup winner when he was 25 years of age!

“I think it's fair to say that Bob Back sired more good horses in his 20s than most stallions do with their entire career.”

Why do you think that Bob Back and Shantou enjoyed such long careers?

“I do think the longevity that Bob Back and then Shantou enjoyed is probably related to good management and planning of book sizes. The whole Connolly family are involved with the business – Victor and his wife Elizabeth, who is a leading physiotherapist, as well as the two sons, George and Thomas.

“I think the fact that it's a family-run operation means that they're very close to the horses.

“Victor is careful how he manages their books, their feed regimes and day to day handling. It's impressive how he does it and the horses have lived long and productive careers; “None of the stallions that he has stood for us have ever covered enormous books – we took the view with Victor that, if you have a stallion

whose percentages are really good, you don't need to cover enormous books to be successful. The high-quality sires can succeed without a massive books.

“Victor has bred good horses by both Bob back and Shantou, and the cross of Bob Back mares with Shantou has now become a very successful cross [see Coral Cup third Ashdale Bob, Ed] .

“Burgage has now developed some really good NH families, a lot of them associated with those with those two stallions.”

Fascintating Rock has followed the path to Burgage….

“We thought it was the right thing for Fascinating Rock to move at this time, to give him a chance while he's young enough to succeed.

“I’d have a lot of confidence that he will do well. He is a big, scopey horse, a pure breeding bay who gets great walking horses.

“His first crop is only young, but his first NH runners are showing plenty of promise over hurdles, including a four-year-old gelding in France called Halite whom we bred. He has won over hurdles and has already got a high rating at this stage.

“Fascinating Rock’s half-brother won the Galway Hurdle so there is also some reasoning in his pedigree as to why he could do well in the NH sphere. I think he's made for it as he is a big sound horse and I think Victor will do a good job with him.

“He's owned by Newton Anner and Ballylinch, and we've committed some really nice mares for him. We bought the Grade 3 winner Surin (Authorised) and Listed-placed The Sliding Rock (Shantou), and we have sent him Royal Illusion, a really good King’s Theatre mare and she has already tested in-foal to him.

“He will cover some proper mares and give him a good chance to launch himself.”

Fascinating Rock: the two-time Group 1 winner moved to Burgage for this spring’s season and has transitioned to the NH sphere

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haras de montaigu

A new dawn James Thomas chats to Sybille Gibson at Haras de Montaigu about the farm’s exciting roster of young NH sires headed by its star stallion No Risk At All (the Flat guys get a mention, too)

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ARAS DE MONTAIGU has a rich history of standing influential stallions, with the likes of Nikos, Kendor and Martaline having plied their trade at the picturesque Normandy farm. There is now a new generation in situ, who are ensuring the operation has a bright future to go with its storied past.

Three new recruits for 2022 has seen the roster reach six resident stallions, with the sextet headed by No Risk At All. The Montaigu team finds itself in an enviable position with the son of My Risk – he is already proven as one of the best jumps sires around but, at the age of 15 and with his debut crop only eight, his best days surely still lay ahead.

No Risk At All was bred by Sylvia Wildenstein and trained by Jean-Paul Gallorini, for whom he won five races from 13 starts. His record includes Listed

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successes at two, three and four before he rounded out his racing days with back-toback Group 3 victories in the La Coupe and the Grand Prix De Vichy-Auvergne.

Moreover, he is a half-brother to six black-type performers, including the late Nickname, the star-crossed sire of high-performing jumpers Cyrname, Frodon and Yala Enki.

“Jean-Paul Gallorini contacted us after No Risk At All’s racing career as he was looking for a stud to retire his horse,” explains Sybille Gibson, the fifth generation of her family to take the reins at Montaigu.

“Jean-Paul’s wife Alexandrine had been a trainee at our farm before she created her own breeding operation and Jean-Paul had a good relationship with [Montaigu owner] Gilles Forien.

“Haras de Montaigu had proven in the past its good results with stallions such as Nikos, Kendor, Martaline, etc and we felt that with this fantastic pedigree – his dam

Newness produced six black-type horses like N’Avoue Jamais, Nom D’Une Pipe, Nickname, Nom De D’La – the horse would do well at the stud.”

That inkling has been borne out many times over with No Risk At All’s burgeoning stud record headed by a whole host of Grade 1 talents, such as dual runaway Ryanair Chase hero Allaho, the Champion Hurdle scorer and runner-up Epatante and the Henry VIII Novices’ Chase victor Esprit Du Large.

While he is advertised at a fee of €12,000, the “fully booked” sign went up on No Risk At All’s stable door long ago, which is unquestionably a privileged position for Montaigu to be in, albeit one that comes with its own pressures.

“The horse was syndicated very quickly and important breeders came on board with high-quality mares,” says Gibson. “No Risk At All has been fully booked each year since year one and he is now a leading NH sire

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in France. Many British and Irish breeders send their best mares to No Risk At All too, so he’s in very high demand and it’s sometimes hard to please everyone.

“The quality of his books has improved year after year and it’s great to see that he now only covers the crème de la creme mares. He has a fantastic character that he transmits to his progeny. He also gives his speed and turn of foot to his progeny, qualities that the NH breeders especially look for.”

No Risk At All’s emergence came at a time when Montaigu was searching for a successor to the mighty Martaline, who’d developed into one of the most accomplished and in-demand sires during his 15-year stint on duty. The son of Linamix, who was pensioned in early 2019, was responsible for the likes of Agrapart Dynaste, Disko, Kotkikova, Terrefort, Vanillier, Very Wood and We Have A Dream, to name but a few.

Montaigu’s Aliette Forien described standing Martaline as a “fairytale” and Gibson, Forien’s daughter, was no less effusive in her praise when discussing Martaline, No Risk At All and the breeders who’ve helped make the two star stallions.

“Having these two top sires is a bit like a dream come true,” she says. “But those two champion sires wouldn’t have done so well without the support of our faithful clients bringing some of their best mares to Martaline and No Risk At All year after year.”

Although Martaline died aged 20 in November 2019, his influence is still being felt on the Montaigu roster through his son Beaumec De Houelle, who is standing his fourth season in 2022 at a fee of €6,000.

A remarkably similar model to his instantly recognisable sire, Beaumec De Houelle won five of his six starts, including the Grade 1 Prix Cambaceres at three.

Although it is still very early days for

Beaumec De Houelle, with his debut crop only two, he has already captured the imagination of jumps breeders and buyers, as evidenced by supplying the most expensive NH-bred yearling filly of 2021 when Midland Equine gave €72,000 for the daughter of the dam Best Exit at the Arqana Autumn Sale.

Gibson notes there are plenty of similarities between Beaumec De Houelle and Martaline, saying: “Beaumec De Houelle is a copy of his sire; we found an old pic of Martaline as a yearling and one cannot say which is which! They’re very similar; both have fantastic characters and are extremely good looking.

“We feel extremely privileged to also have Beaumec De Houelle after Martaline, and we’re very excited for next year with his first three-year-olds on the track.”

New to Montaigu for 2022 is Dschingis Secret, who transferred from Haras de Saint Arnoult, where he spent the first three

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haras de montaigu seasons of his stallion career. The son of Soldier Hollow was crowned champion older horse in German in 2017 after a campaign capped by victory over Hawkbill in the Group 1 Grosser Preis von Berlin, while he also won four Group 2s and a Group 3 contest during a racing career characterised by class and consistency.

“Dschingis Secret moved from Saint Arnoult a few months ago and we’re delighted to have him at Montaigu,” says Gibson. “Dschingis Secret was Horse of the Year in Germany in 2017 and he was extremely talented and tough, like German horses can be.

“He’s the best son of Soldier Hollow at stud and his dam, Divya, has only been covered by Soldier Hollow. She has only produced black-type horses such as

Dschingis Secret was Horse of the Year in Germany in 2017 and he was extremely talented and tough, like German horses can be

Dschingis Secret’s sister Deia, who was Group 3 placed and sold for €600,000 [to Westerberg] at Arqana in December.

“Dschingis Secret is also a full-brother to Destino [Group 3 winner and second in the Group 1 Deutsches Derby], Diana Storm [Group 2 placed] and Dschingis First [Group 3 placed].”

Gibson says that both Flat and NH breeders have lent their support to Dschingis Secret and the nine-year-old duly has a split fee, breeders with a Flat mare pay €4,000, while a jumps cover costs €2,500.

She adds: “His owner [Company Avatara] is offering an interesting bonus for all foals conceived in 2022 with €10,000 to the breeder of a Group 1 winner and €5,000 to the breeder of a Group 2 or Group 3 winner.”

Having retired to Haras de Saint Arnoult

No Risk At All: is one of the best NH stallions now standing in Europe and he is only an 15-year-old; the “full” sign went up a long time ago

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haras de montaigu Gibson adds that both sides of Technician’s pedigree enhanced his appeal, saying: “He’s by Mastercraftsman, sire of the champions Alpha Centauri, Amazing Maria, The Grey Gatsby, Kingston Hill, A Raving Beauty and the sire of five NH Graded winners, including Grade 1 winner Metier.

“Danehill Dancer [Mastercraftsman’s sire] is the sire of Jeremy, who sired eight NH Grade 1 winners.

“His dam is from the same Sadler’s WellsDarshaan cross as Great Pretender, plus he’s an outcross for Cadoudal, Linamix and Garde Royale bloodlines, making him easy to mate.

“Technician has been well received by top breeders. The horse is under syndication, but his trainer kept 50 per cent of the horse and will support him. We will support him too and we are very excited about this newcomer.”

Technician: the Group 1-winning son of Mastercraftsman will be well supported by Montaigu

in 2019, Dschingis Secret’s first juveniles will hit the racecourse later this year and Gibson says that trainers such as Francis Graffard, Mathieu Brasme and Yann Barbetot have all offered positive early reports on his progeny.

Also joining the line-up for 2022 is Technician, the strapping son of Mastercraftsman whose five wins for Martyn Meade include a ready success in the Group 1 Prix Royal-Oak in 2019.

Unusually for a horse trained in the UK at Manton, Technician boasts an unbeaten record at Longchamp, having also won the Group 2 Prix Chaudenay and the Listed Prix Ridgway.

“Richard Venn kindly proposed the horse to us in the autumn and we liked him physically,” Gibson says of the new recruit, who has been introduced at a fee of €3,000.

“We liked his racing performances as he’s a Group 1 winner and is unbeaten in three outings in Paris Longchamp. Also, like Turgeon, he won the rare double of the Prix Chaudenay and the Prix Royal Oak.”

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HERE IS NO MISTAKING that the Montaigu team appears to have hit upon a winning formula when it comes to turning promising credentials into proven performance, which augurs well for the stud’s young names like Beaumec De Houelle, Dschingis Secret and Technician.

“Our jump sires were successful Flat runners, which we think is important for NH as many breeders try to add speed into their

Dschingis Secret has moved to stand at Montaigu from Saint Arnoult, he has been supported by NH and Flat breeders and will have two-year-olds on the track this summer.

There is a bonus available for breeders of 2022-conceived foals if those offspring can win a Group 1, Group 2 or Group 3 race

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haras de montaigu for a very long time at a high level, which is the reason they are so popular in Britain and Ireland.”

Of course, it is not only jumps stallions that can be found behind the gates of Haras de Montaigu as the six-strong roster also includes two interesting Flat sires. New for 2022 is Flintshire, who stands at €6,500 and arrives from Hill ‘N Dale Farms in the US, where he has stood since 2017.

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Flintshire: moved from the US to France, is already the sire of a Grade 3 and a Group 3 winner

matings for their jump mares,” says Gibson.

“Sires like Nikos, Martaline and No Risk At All were tough, consistent and all have been well received by breeders and covered their best jump mares year after year.

“Syndication has helped a lot, too, as those sires have covered a good number of good mares each year, supplied by top and faithful breeders who regularly invest in the sires we propose.”

Given its past glory and diverse 2022 roster, Haras de Montaigu rates an important pillar of the thriving French jumps breeding industry. The country is home to other high-class stallions such as Cocoriko, Doctor Dino and Saint Des Saints, while French imports continue to succeed on the biggest stages in Britain and Ireland.

“Jumps breeding in France is top class,” says Gibson. “We have very good and very strong bloodlines that have been established by breeders year after year, generation after generation.

“France also has top-class sires and the French breeders do a very good job breeding tough horses who are good jumpers, sound and able to finish races with good attitudes.

“The English and Irish invest a lot of money in our French-breds and there are

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so many French-bred winners among the racing results.

“The French-breds are precocious and we have excellent trainers here in France who do a very good job in educating and teaching the young horses, who are ready to show their ability sooner than in England or Ireland. They stay sound and are able to run The late Martaline

HE FIVE-TIME Grade/Group 1 winner, who scooped toplevel prizes in three different judictions, namely France, Hong Kong and the US, has already sired Group/Grade 3 winners Verbal and Cheshire Academy on opposite sides of the Atlantic, with the former claiming the Cecil B. DeMille Stakes and the latter scoring in the Prix Noailles.

Gibson says the blue-blooded Juddmontebred son of Dansili is proving popular now that he is back in the country in which his racing career began with André Fabre.

“The champion Flintshire arrived at Montaigu in December for his sixth year at stud and his book already contains 80 mares so far,” she says. “We think Flintshire is a very important and exciting addition to the French stallion roster. He has one of the best pedigrees on earth and he’s the only winner of five Groups 1 to stand in France.”

The Montaigu Flat ranks are completed

by Jimmy Two Times, whose first two-yearolds hit the racecourse this year. As a son of Kendargent, Jimmy Two Times hails from the lineage of a Montaigu great in Kendor.

“Jimmy Two Times is the best son of Kendargent at stud according to the ratings,” says Gibson. “This talented horse was trained by Andre Fabre and won the Group 2 Prix du Muguet and Group 3 Prix Edmond Blanc. He was pure speed and precocity, and from two to five he won or was placed 12 times in stakes races over distances of six and a half furlongs to a mile.

“He’s from the fabulous bloodline of Kenmare, Kendor and Kendargent. We expect a lot from him and think we’ll have the same success that we had with his great grandfather, the great Kendor.”

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Allaho (No Risk At All) jumps the water in the Grade 1 Ryanair Chase, Eldorado Allen’s head is just appearing over the fence

nh stallion stats Top 100 NH sires in Britain and Ireland 2021-22: (by prize-money earned to March 20, 2022) Stallion

Breeding

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Fame And Glory Yeats Getaway Flemensfirth Shirocco Kapgarde Milan Shantou Stowaway Jeremy Mahler Kayf Tara Westerner Presenting Midnight Legend Gold Well Martaline Doyen Sholokhov Saint des Saints No Risk At All Oscar Court Cave Sulamani Dylan Thomas Walk In The Park Arcadio Authorized Beneficial Black Sam Bellamy Nathaniel Doctor Dino Dubai Destination Malinas Scorpion Blue Bresil King’s Theatre Califet Beat Hollow Kalanisi Diamond Boy Born To Sea Saddler Maker Schiaparelli Ask Coastal Path Great Pretender Network Mastercraftsman Montmartre

Montjeu-Gryada (Shirley Heights) Sadler’s Wells-Lyndonville (Top Ville) Monsun-Guernica (Unfuwain) Alleged-Etheldreda (Diesis) Monsun-So Sedulous (The Minstrel) Garde Royale-Kaprika (Cadoudal) Sadler’s Wells-Kithanga (Darshaan) Alleged-Shaima (Shareef Dancer) Slip Anchor-On Credit (No Pass No Sale) Danehill Dancer-Glint In Her Eye (Arazi) Galileo-Rainbow Goddess (Rainbow Quest) Sadler’s Wells-Colorspin (High Top) Danehill-Walensee (Troy) Mtoto-D’Azy (Persian Bold) Night Shift-Myth (Troy) Sadler’s Wells-Floripedes (Top Ville) Linamix-Coraline (Sadler’s Wells) Sadler’s Wells-Moon Cactus (Kris) Sadler’s Wells-La Meilleure (Lord Gayle) Cadoudal-Chamisene (Pharly) My Risk-Newness (Simply Great) Sadler’s Wells-Snow Day (Reliance II) Sadler’s Wells-Wemyss Bight (Dancing Brave) Hernando-Soul Dream (Alleged) Danehill-Lagrion (Diesis) Montjeu-Classic Park (Robellino) Monsun-Assia (Royal Academy) Montjeu-Funsie (Saumarez) Top Ville-Youthful (Green Dancer) Sadler’s Wells-Urban Sea (Miswaki) Galileo-Magnificient Style (Silver Hawk) Muhtathir-Logica (Priolo) Kingmambo-Mysterial (Alleged) Lomitas-Majoritat (Konigsstuhl) Montjeu-Ardmelody (Law Society) Smadoun-Miss Recif (Exit To Nowhere) Sadler’s Wells-Regal Beauty (Princely Native) Freedom Cry-Sally’s Room (Kendor) Sadler’s Wells-Wemyss Bight (Dancing Brave) Doyoun-Kalamba (Green Dancer) Mansonnien-Gold Or Silver (Glint of Gold) Invincible Spirit-Urban Sea (Miswaki) Sadler’s Wells-Animatrice (Alleged) Monsun-Sacarina (Old Vic) Sadler’s Wells-Request (Rainbow Quest) Halling-Coraline (Sadler’s Wells) King’s Theatre-Settler (Darshaan) Monsun-Note (Reliance II) Danehill Dancer-Starlight Dreams (Black Tie Affair) Montjeu-Artistique (Linamix)

2013 2010 2011 1998 2007 2004 2004 1999 2001 2008 2009 2001 2006 1997 1998 2006 2005 2006 2004 2003 2013 1998 2004 2005 2008 2008 2008 2008 1997 2004 2013 2010 2004 2006 2008 2010 1997 2005 2003 2002 2012 2013 2005 2011 2011 2010 2006 2002 2010 2009

310 273 335 225 247 83 232 175 161 139 240 197 184 222 116 128 108 136 109 67 51 157 154 71 121 113 138 71 93 106 62 25 47 94 153 57 37 94 58 128 40 40 61 73 105 46 59 52 62 48

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Runs 1183 1128 1300 745 904 325 873 639 636 569 924 608 688 802 489 539 398 536 409 216 173 535 710 298 463 335 567 263 392 389 240 84 199 295 574 155 135 313 208 440 152 200 204 251 371 144 201 179 243 165

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Wins

111 97 96 68 79 37 65 53 47 51 75 52 56 55 45 48 34 47 32 26 18 34 35 28 28 31 30 21 26 30 21 12 18 33 35 11 10 21 13 21 15 17 23 23 32 17 19 16 16 16

159 148 139 84 112 54 104 88 68 80 113 77 89 82 68 65 53 74 55 39 31 48 49 42 49 43 45 40 30 42 26 22 26 47 42 17 14 29 16 30 25 23 35 32 37 22 24 23 25 22

Wnrs/Rnrs% SWnrs 35.81 35.53 28.66 30.22 31.98 44.58 28.02 30.29 29.19 36.69 31.25 26.40 30.43 24.77 38.79 37.50 31.48 34.56 29.36 38.81 35.29 21.66 22.73 39.44 23.14 27.43 21.74 29.58 27.96 28.30 33.87 48.00 38.30 35.11 22.88 19.30 27.03 22.34 22.41 16.41 37.50 42.50 37.70 31.51 30.48 36.96 32.20 30.77 25.81 33.33

11 9 6 9 8 4 2 9 5 7 4 3 5 5 4 4 8 2 3 5 4 4 1 1 4 5 1 2 1 2 3 5 2 2 0 4 3 3 3 1 1 3 1 2 0 1 1 0 0 2

SWins 13 13 6 11 9 6 3 10 7 9 4 6 6 5 4 5 10 2 6 5 7 4 1 3 5 8 2 3 1 3 4 8 3 2 0 5 4 3 3 2 3 3 1 2 0 1 1 0 0 3

£ 2,074,402 2,061,993 1,660,373 1,363,389 1,361,119 1,295,743 1,251,488 1,248,406 1,239,848 1,239,297 1,216,419 1,190,384 1,178,449 1,156,722 1,140,964 985,833 979,377 923,834 853,656 851,557 808,710 806,417 796,577 756,601 704,409 634,216 628,902 613,221 605,640 575,279 531,507 509,464 505,592 497,562 497,250 464,695 456,635 454,465 450,539 437,820 433,011 427,576 401,650 392,998 386,632 381,938 377,303 352,469 349,716 341,893

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Denham Red Passing Glance Leading Light Morozov Muhtathir Robin des Champs Noroit Cloudings Poliglote Brian Boru Trans Island Maxios Galileo Arakan Le Fou Khalkevi Sea The Moon Sir Percy Spanish Moon Soldier of Fortune Winged Love Ocovango Motivator Dream Well Well Chosen Jet Away Masked Marvel Aizavoski Poet’s Voice Champs Elysees Mountain High Soldier Hollow Nickname Fair Mix Balko Cokoriko Dark Angel Voix du Nord Jukebox Jury Imperial Monarch Elusive Pimpernel Golden Horn Brave Mansonnien Pour Moi Turgeon Camelot Fast Company Craigsteel Al Namix Valirann

Pampabird-Nativelee (Giboulee) Polar Falcon-Spurned (Robellino) Montjeu-Dance Parade (Gone West) Sadler’s Wells-High Hawk (Shirley Heights) Elmaamul-Majmu (Al Nasr) Garde Royale-Relayeuse (Iron Duke) Monsun-Noble Princesse (Windwurf) Sadler’s Wells-Ispahan (Rusticaro) Sadler’s Wells-Alexandrie (Val de L’Orne) Sadler’s Wells-Eva Luna (Alleged) Selkirk-Khubza (Green Desert) Monsun-Moonlight’s Box (Nureyev) Sadler’s Wells-Urban Sea (Miswaki) Nureyev-Far Across (Common Grounds) Polish Precedent-Floripedes (Top Ville) Kahyasi-Khalisa (Persian Bold) Sea The Stars-Sanwa (Monsun) Mark of Esteem-Percy’s Lass (Blakeney) El Prado-Shining Bright (Rainbow Quest) Galileo-Affianced (Erins Isle) In The Wings-J’Ai Deux Amours (Top Ville) Monsun-Crystal Maze (Gone West) Montjeu-Out West (Gone West) Sadler’s Wells-Soul Dream (Alleged) Sadler’s Wells-Hawajiss (Kris) Cape Cross-Kalima (Kahyasi) Montjeu-Waldmark (Mark of Esteem) Monsun-Arlesienne (Alzao) Dubawi-Bright Tiara (Chief’s Crown) Danehill-Hasili (Kahyasi) Danehill-Hellenic (Darshaan) In The Wings-Island Race (Common Grounds) Lost World-Newness (Simply Great) Linamix-Fairlee Wild (Wild Again) Pistolet Bleu-Ella Royale (Royal Charter) Robin des Champs-Cardounika (Nikos) Acclamation-Midnight Angel (Machiavellian) Valanour-Dame Edith (Top Ville) Montjeu-Mare Aux Fees (Kenmare) Galileo-Ionian Sea (Slip Anchor) Elusive Quality-Cara Fantasy (Sadler’s Wells) Cape Cross-Fleche d’Or (Dubai Destination) Mansonnien-Tikisol (Solid Illusion) Montjeu-Gwynn (Darshaan) Caro-Reiko (Targowice) Montjeu-Tarfah (Kingmambo) Danehill Dancer-Sheezalady (Zafonic) Suave Dancer-Applecross (Glint of Gold) Linamix-Dirigeante (Lead On Time) Nayef - Valima (Linamix)

1997 2005 2015 2005 2001 2001 2005 1999 1998 2005 2001 2014 2002 2006 2006 2004 2015 2008 2011 2010 1996 2015 2006 2000 2004 2015 2015 2013 2012 2010 2008 2008 2009 2005 2007 2014 2008 2006 2013 2014 2012 2016 2010 2012 1994 2014 2011 2003 2005 2015

6 64 109 52 25 60 15 36 22 43 37 34 46 50 36 9 25 34 28 69 38 87 20 7 45 54 22 38 37 57 46 11 7 36 38 36 26 14 17 73 56 15 8 29 18 55 28 30 36 43

25 228 344 222 94 208 64 132 83 163 172 137 184 194 184 32 81 118 111 185 131 266 60 26 144 185 71 126 178 186 195 37 27 150 141 107 101 42 63 273 165 61 25 98 67 157 104 128 116 162

3 20 21 20 8 18 8 8 7 10 11 11 16 12 10 3 8 10 11 21 14 17 9 5 15 18 9 13 12 8 14 3 3 12 9 10 11 4 4 12 7 9 3 10 7 10 10 8 7 13

Wins 8 29 24 35 14 31 11 11 10 17 17 16 21 18 15 5 8 16 15 25 16 25 13 7 21 21 17 18 17 13 24 4 4 15 13 17 15 4 8 15 8 15 9 13 9 14 15 11 10 18

Wnrs/Rnrs% SWnrs 50.00 31.25 19.27 38.46 32.00 30.00 53.33 22.22 31.82 23.26 29.73 32.35 34.78 24.00 27.78 33.33 32.00 29.41 39.29 30.43 36.84 19.54 45.00 71.43 33.33 33.33 40.91 34.21 32.43 14.04 30.43 27.27 42.86 33.33 23.68 27.78 42.31 28.57 23.53 16.44 12.50 60.00 37.50 34.48 38.89 18.18 35.71 26.67 19.44 30.23

1 0 1 1 2 0 1 1 1 2 2 0 1 1 1 2 2 1 0 0 1 0 2 3 0 0 2 1 1 1 0 1 2 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0

SWins 2 0 1 1 3 0 1 1 1 2 2 0 1 2 1 3 2 3 0 0 1 0 2 3 0 0 4 1 1 1 0 2 2 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 2 1 1 1 2 0 0 1 1 0

£ 339,160 331,968 312,288 272,700 269,759 252,215 251,347 250,776 250,742 248,521 248,034 244,470 242,840 229,907 228,790 225,436 224,341 224,138 212,365 206,617 205,402 200,390 199,073 196,363 195,538 192,501 187,644 184,513 181,469 180,023 179,347 178,045 174,778 173,430 172,045 168,655 166,566 165,399 164,379 163,830 162,994 157,833 157,420 155,830 155,120 152,710 151,579 151,043 150,334 147,251

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established active nh sires Statistics courtesy of Weatherbys NH Stallion Book

The top of the table

We take a look at the leading active NH stallions standing in Britain, Ireland and France

Yeats: has been at or near the top of the 2021-22 NH sires’ table all season

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HE NH SIRE YEATS, who finished third in last season’s stallion table, is busy proving that he is no one season wonder, and the son of Sadler’s Wells currently sits at the top of the NH stallion table for 2021-22.

The 21-year-old stallion had spent most of this season through to Christmas behind his late stud mate Fame And Glory, but he started to nose ahead in the New Year, and the Dublin Racing Festival victory of Conflated in the Irish Gold Cup put him some distance ahead of his pursuers.

The pair flip-flopped through The Festival, but the time of writing Yeats has nosed ahead again and is in front by around just £5,000.

This year’s Stayers’ Hurdle winner Flooring Porter, under a brilliant ride from Danny Mullins, has once again been the stallion’s leading season performer.

Yeats did not have the rub of the green at The Festival for his other top runners of this season – Conflated, Aye Right and Chantry House, otherwise he might have extended his lead again. He has six entries in the Grand National so Aintree’s high prizemoney levels might have wield its influence.

And while Yeats has also been supported by numbers – only Getaway and Fame And Glory have had more runners than him this season, with the last named the only sire at the time of writing to have had over 100 winners this season, Yeats is still managing to boast a 35 per cent strike-rate, one of the

Shirocco has broken all of his best-ever results this season and is currently fourth-leading sire and the third-best active sire highest for leading active stallions.

His fee has been held at the same €5,000 price since 2017, and he looks superb value for NH mare owners looking to get winners, and better ones, on the board. He is likely to have some better crops come forward over the forthcoming years, too, and his The Gunner Yeats made £310,00 at the Cheltenham December Sale to Willie Mullins and Harold Kirk.

Despite the year-younger Getaway failing to get a result at The Festival, he is putting together his strongest season so far, and already has registered his best seasonal total in terms of winners and prize-money.

He has produced three career Grade 1 winners, and 15 black-type performers.

The mare Verdana Blue got the ball rolling for him, with her consistent top-level

performances on the Flat and over hurdles through 2018 and 2019, Sporting John took up the baton in 2021 with his Scilly Isles success last February.

That horse had subsequently lost his way a little, but he has found his mojo again running over 3m over hurdles with a Listed victory at Cheltenham and Pertemps victory at Warwick. He did not get to Cheltenham and Aintree has been nominated as a rerouted target.

Getaway has found himself another good one this season courtesy of Assemble, winner of the Kerry National and a possible Grand National contender.

The second-leading sire at the Tattersalls Ireland November NH sale, Getaway is leading the Irish point-to-point table with 16 winners, and set for a best-ever year in the Irish point-to-point field aside from his stand-out of 2018-19 in which he bagged 33 winners. His point-to-point winner Weveallbeencaught made £210,000 at Cheltenham in January and has already gone on to win a bumper for trainer Nigel Twiston-Davies.

In Getaway’s slipstream, both on the Irish point-to-point field and under British and Irish NH rules, is Rathbarry Stud’s Shirocco.

Shirocco, like Getaway, is a son of the influential NH sire of sires Monsun. He finished 21st on last year’s table, but he has broken all of his best-ever results this season and is currently fourth-leading sire and the third-best active sire.

He is also the sire of three career Grade 1

YEATS CAREER STATS: by season Season Rnrs Wnrs % Wins NH BT wnrs % NH BT pfers % Earnings (£)

BHA highest-rated

2013-14

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

2,100

0

2014-15

25

7

28

7

0

0

0

0

39,666

129

2015-16

59

19

32

26

1

2

3

5

209,667

142

2016-17

114

48

42

72

3

3

7

6

772,324

143

2017-18

143

52

36

83

4

3

16

11

1,109,225

158

2018-19

186

66

35

104

4

2

12

6

1,221,439

157

2019-20

219

69

32

93

8

4

20

9

1,653,583

160

2020-21

293

85

29

134

10

3

26

9

2,123,764

160

2021-22

270

95

35

146

9

3

22

8

1,925,771

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established active nh sires winners, headed by the outstanding Annie Power, a mare whose influence on breeders’ mating plans through the seasons 2013-2016 is now making its presence felt.

Lily Du Berlais, purchased by the Crawford Brothers at the 2019 Derby Sale from Mill House for €25,000, is now a dual bumper winner, her last-time-out victory coming in a Grade 2 mares’ INH Flat race at Leopardstown in February. She has already picked up over £50,000 in earnings for owners Simon Munir and Isaac Souede.

Queen’s Brook, who was third to Fury Road in the 2020 Champion Bumper at The Festival, has had a bit of a “gappy” career since, she collected a Grade 2 placing over hurdles at Fairyhouse in November 2020, won over hurdles last November and ran the race of her life so far when second in the Grade 1 Festival Mares’ Hurdle.

Shirocco has had 15 point-to-point winners, and his gelding Third Win took the Pertemps at the Festival.

Shirocco has a good record with his fillies, is capable of getting top-level performers on the Flat, is a good broodmare sireand his sale results have been strong of late, too – Ross O’Sullivan sold the five-year-old point-to-point winner Alfie’s Princess

Blue Bresil’s sale returns 2020 compared with 2021 (€)

at the Festival Sale for £220,000.

Ask, the son of Sadler’s Wells recently moved to stand at Willow Wood Stud in Cheshire, is continuing his progression, and is currently the third-best active sire on the Irish p2p.ie point-to-point table.

He did not have a runner at The Festival, and neither did Boardsmill Stud’s Court Cave.

However, the 21-year-old son of Sadler’s Wells has seen his number of winners and his prize-money total (apart from COVIDaffected years) improve every season.

His 2013 crop (nine-year-olds) is by bar his strongest so far by winners and earnings,

Jet Powered: most expensive horse by Jet Away sold so far, he fetched 350,000gns online

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and with three black-type winners and 14 performers. It is the only crop he has had numbering over 100 foals, breeders keen to avail of the sire’s services after Champion Court’s graded performances on the racecourse.

Pay The Piper, his highest-earning performer this season, and from that 2015 crop, has won over £45,000 this year and finished second in the Listed Colin Parker Memorial Chase.

Blue Bresil will have a very different profile in years to come, the sire has only had 11 winners so far this season (by far the lowest number in the highest echelons of jumps sires), but that includes the recordbreaking highest-ever Timeform-rated novice hurdler, the winner of the Grade 1 Supreme Novice Hurdle, Constitution Hill.

He also had the Arkle third Blue Lord, winner of the Grade 1 Irish Arkle at the Dublin Racing Festival, and Royale Pagaille, twice winner of the Grade 2 Peter Marsh Handicap, runner-up in the Lancashire Chase (G1) and fifth in the Gold Cup (G1).

The 17-year-old has a private fee at Rathbarry, has broken the £1 million earning barrier this season, and last year’s store horses and foals certainly started to catch buyers’ eyes – he was the fifth-leading sire at the Tattersalls November NH Sale of those sires with drafts of 30 or more, and his son Willmount topped the Tattersalls Cheltenham February Sale The younger NH stallion ranks are generally dominated by French-based sires with the exception of the 2007-born Jet Away, who stands at Arctic Tack Stud.

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Walk In The Park is very well supported at the sales and last year boasted a store horse average of €63,390 and foal average of €43,000 winners, and Brandy Love, trained by Willie Mullins for Michael Grech, was the runnerup in January’s Solerina Mares’ Hurdle (G3).

His second crop has produced five of those winners (from 28 runners so far) and he has a four-year-old winner from just four third crop winners to date.

The son of Cape Cross had three-figure crops for his first two years, returning to that level since his first three-year-olds appeared at the store horse sales in 2019.

Jet Powered, one of the sire’s four winning Irish point-to-pointers this season, sold at the Tattersalls Cheltenham December Online Sale 2021 for £350,000 bought by Highflyer Bloodstock for owners based with Nicky Henderson.

He had two geldings make in excess of €50,000 at the 2021 Goffs Land Rover Sale with Michael Holden and Paul Shefflin going to €74,000 for Cloncolman Stables’ gelding out of Jet Setting Fiona from the family of Spirit Leader. Marcus Collie paid €52,000 for a full-brother to Transition Period from Peter Nolan at the same sale.

The 2021 sales also saw Jet Away record his best foal sale price to date; €54,000 at Goffs December NH Sale. Bobby O’Ryan bought Clonmore House Stud’s first foal out of Demon Daisy, a Yeats half-sister to Abolitionist and Askanna out of a half-sister to Racing Demon.

His largest crop to date are yearlings of which he has 170 and he covered 279 mares last season on the back of those early results.

Walk In The Park is the leading active sire of NH Flat race winners this season with 11, ahead of Getaway and Shirocco on ten.

Facile Vega flew the flag for the sire at The Festival, justifying favouritism in the Grade 1 Champion Bumper by 3l. He has an exciting novice hurdle campaign ahead in 2022-23 and will be flying the flag for the sire alongside Jonbon.

Walk In The Park is well supported at the sales and last year boasted a store horse average of €63,390 and foal average of €43,000, and go the top two lots at the Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale.

The future also looks bright for Kilbarry Lodge Stud’s Diamond Boy, sire of L’Homme Presse, the Grade 1 3m novices chase winner.

He looks a real type to make up into a Gold Cup horse for 2023.

Nathaniel continues to put together solid NH performers and Zanahiyr finished third in the Champion Hurdle (G1) and the sire will have more NH representatives in the future, while Golden Horn has been wellsupported in the sale ring by NH buyers and is apparently covering NH mares at Darley.

He could be another one who will see more success over jumps than on the level.

Progressive jumps stallions in France

The Haras de Cercy sire Cokoriko (Robin des Champs), a Listed-winning hurdler who retired to stud for the 2014 season, is enjoying a strong stint with a best-ever score of 30 winners so far this year – Polirico has been flying the flag in France with a Grade 2 victory in June and a victory in France. His career earnings are over €500,000.

In Ireland, the Willie Mullins-trained Icare Allen won the Grade 3 Winning Fair Juvenile Hurdle having previously finished fifth in Leopardstown’s Grade 1 Spring Juvenile Hurdle behind Vauban (a son of progressive French Flat sire Galiway) and then finished fourth in the Triumph Hurdle, once again behind Vauban.

The 20-year-old Doctor Dino continues to be a source of talented performers – he has had 16 black-type performers this season, including Docteur de Ballon and Sharjah both Grade 1 winners this season.

Kapgarde, of course, took leading honours at The Festival with his star Gold Cup winner

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Sire

Wnrs

Yeats Getaway Shirocco Mahler Milan Westerner Kapgarde Court Cave Malinas Sholokhov Ask Walk In The Park Arcadio Saint des Saints Schiaparelli Authorized Nathaniel Leading Light Soldier of Fortune Passing Glance No Risk At All Jet Away Born To Sea Ocovango Montmartre Diamond Boy Well Chosen Mountain High Mountain High Aizavoski Valirann Doctor Dino Blue Bresil Maxios Spanish Moon Dark Angel Brian Boru Sir Percy Cokoriko Pour Moi Camelot Motivator Masked Marvel Balko Golden Horn Muhtathir Sea The Moon Elusive Pimpernel Al Namix

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established active nh sires A Plus Tard. His seven-year-old Fakir D’oudairies won the Grade 1 Ascot Chase in February and 23-year -old sire of deserving of his €15,000 fee.

He had a great last day at this year’ s Cheltenham Festival – State Man won the Grade 3 County Hurdle, and Fil Dor finished second in the Triumph Hurdle (G1).

Their performances have been backed by the five-year-old L’Aubonniere and Sceau Royal, all achieving further placed efforts at Grade 1 level, while Gin On Lime won the Like a Butterfly Novice Chase (G3).

Pastorius, the three-time Group 1 winner and a son of Soldier Hollow who stands at Haras de la Hetraie, has had just ten starters this season but six of those are winners headed by Schone Aussicht and Arctic Warrior in Ireland, Essential Jaco in Britain and Poulorius in France. Schone Aussicht and Essential Jaco are both out of mares by Mount Nelson.

Pastorius’s stud mate Born To Sea (Invincible Spirit) has had two placed Grade 1 performers this season – A Wave Of The Sea, runner-up in the Munster National, and My Mate Mozzie, who finished second in the Royal Bond Novice Hurdle. Poseidon collected the Kinsale Handicap Chase (G2), while Cormier was the runner-up in the valuable Swinton Hurdle (G3).

The 13-year-old produced just 16 foals in 2018 which fell to just nine in 2019, however, since his move to France for the 2019 season and a transition to a stallion career a jumps sire those figures have vastly inflated to 69 and 97 in 2020 and 2021.

No Risk At All continues to go from strength to strength, his achievements considerable for the 15-year-old. He sits in fourth on the French sires’ list for 2022.

This year aside from his Cheltenham stars, Allaho and Epatante, he is sire of Starlet Du Mesnil, trained by François Nicolle for Madame Henri Devin and an Auteuil Grade 3 winner in the autumn, the Grade 1-placed Folsom Prison, trained by Yannick Fouin, and Chris Gordon’s six-year-old Aucunrisque, winner of Kempton’s Grade 2 Dovecote Novices Hurdle.

He sired 42 winners in France through 2021, numerically behind only Kapgarde, Saint Des Saints and Balko.

Karaktar, by High Chaparral, winner of the Group 3 1m2f Prix du Prince d’Orange and another Haras de Cercy stallion, has had two winners from a handful of runners, including Isatis Macalo, who beat the Gordon Elliot-trained Iberique Du Seuil (Spanish Moon) at Vichy in August over 1m4f on the Flat.

The Nicolas De Lagenestre-trained Il Est

Leading French jumps sires 2022 (by prize-money earnings to March 5, 2022) SIRE

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Saint Des Saints Network Balko No Risk At All Kapgarde Martaline Great Pretender Doctor Dino Cokoriko Martinborough Coastal Path Saddex Spanish Moon Choeur Du Nord Montmartre

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Wnrs

Races

Wins

Earnings

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4 3 5 3 4 1 6 4 5 4 4 5 1 3 2

34 28 37 36 53 41 32 25 20 14 26 21 26 18 23

5 3 5 3 4 1 6 5 5 5 4 6 1 3 2

222,330 181,200 178,580 162,085 161,665 139,885 129,710 123,830 114,440 101,310 101,295 98,150 87,520 82,190 78,180

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Francais, who is out of the Video Rock mare Millesimee, finished second in a Lyon Parilly NH Flat race in November before going on to finish second again in the Grade 1 AQPS Prix Jacques De Vienne, with the Emmanuel Clayeux-trained Ile O Vent, winner of a NH Flat race at Moulins in October, 5l behind in fifth.

The Haras d’Annebault stallion Spanish Moon, a Juddmonte Farms-bred son of El Prado, has been a bit of a slow burner compared to some NH stallions in France, but he is gaining some traction, and Gordon Elliot seemingly has logged to the quality of the sire’s stock headed by his Grade 2 winner and Grade 1 fourth-placed staying hurdler Grand Roi, the best performer so far by the sire. Elliott also trains the 140-rated Dallas des Pictons for Gigginstown.

Irish point-to-point sires 2021-22 (five or more winners to March 18, 2022)

Sire Getaway Shirocco Fame And Glory Presenting Ask Westerner Court Cave Doyen Milan Mahler Yeats Walk In The Park Oscar Soldier Of Fortune Stowaway Imperial Monarch Ocovango Robin Des Champs Scorpion Jet Away Alkaadhem Martaline Flemensfirth Kayf Tara Well Chosen

Wnrs 16 15 13 12 11 10 10 8 8 8 8 8 7 7 7 6 6 6 6 6 5 5 5 5 5

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Standing at an advertised fee of £2,000 or above ARRIGO

Shirocco-Aiyana (Last Tycoon) Yorton Farm Stud €2,000 Year to Yorton Farm Stud: 2021 Arrigo has the pedigree to succeed as a stallion as a member of the leading Monsun sire line, from the family of Galileo and a half-brother to the top-class Adlerflug; his credentials are undoubtedly of the highest calibre.

The son of Shirocco, sire of Champion Hurdler Annie Power and six Group 1 winners on the Flat, including the Classic

winners Brown Panther and Windstoss, stood his first season in the UK in 2021 having begun his career in his native Germany.

Bred by Gestüt Schlenderhan, the Group 2 Oppenheim-Union-Rennen winner resembles his sire physically with the same strong shoulder and forearm.

Second in the Group 1 Gran Premio del Jockey Club and Group 3 Bavarian Classic (over 1m2f), he is a half-brother to the German champion three-year-old of 2007 Adlerflug.

By In The Wings, Adlerflug is the sire of

last season’s Arc hero Torquator Tasso and the 2020 Group 1 Deutsches Derby winner In Swoop, who was second to Sottsass in the Arc that year.

Arrigo’s Last Tycoon dam Aiyana was a winner at two and three in Germany and has also foaled the Listed winner Andorn by Monsun, and is the second dam of Zoffany’s German 2,000 Guineas winner Knife Edge.

Second dam Alya was runner-up in the Preis Der Diana and is a full-sister to the dynasty-founding matriarch Allegretta. The daughter of Lombard, the German St Leger winner and twice Horse of the Year, she is

Arrigo: Yorton Farm Stud’s son of Shirocco, moved to the UK for the 2021 season and saw 39 mares last spring

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young nh sires: gb a full-sister to another German St Leger winner in Anno and Listed winner Arionette.

She is also a half-sister to the Group 2 winner and Group 1 second Anatus and Andronikus, a Listed winner. It is arguably one of the best families in the Stud Book.

Arrigo’s pedigree has two lines of Northern Dancer through The Minstrel, who is the dam-sire of Shirocco, and Try My Best, the sire of Arrigo’s broodmare sire Last Tycoon.

Despite this influence, he is free of Northern Dancer’s most successful son Sadler’s Wells so is an option for mares by his sons and grandsons.

Annie Power, Shirocco’s most famous NH runner, is out of an Old Vic mare, as is the Grade 3 Joe Mac Novice Hurdle winner Shewearsitwell.

The Listed-winning hurdlers Dysart Diamond and Off Your Rocco have Accordion as their broodmare sire.

The Grade 2 Dovecote Novice Hurdle winner Highway One O Two is out of a Supreme Leader mare and Shirocco’s Gold Cup runner-up and Cheltenham Festival winner Minella Rocco is out of a mare by Alleged so daughters of Flemensfirth and Shantou are options for Arrigo.

Shirocco has been enjoying a good season in Britain and Ireland this winter.

The mares Arrigo has covered in France and Germany included Kauto Abana, whose dam Kauto Karolyna is a full-sister to the legendary Kauto Star. She has a two-year-old colt by Arrigo named Zorro Mes. Sun Seal, a Cape Cross whose dam is a half-sister to the dam of Laurens, has a three-year-old colt and a two-year-old filly, both by Arrigo.

He covered 39 mares in his first season at Yorton.

BANGKOK

Australia – Tanaghum (Darshaan) Chapel Stud £3,000 Year to stud: 2022 The first son of Australia to retire to stud in Britain, Bangkok descends from the blue hen Fall Aspen and has an outstanding pedigree, as well as all the necessary attributes required by a successful sire.

Bred by David and Diane Nagle at the world renowned Barronstown Stud, Bangkok was the joint second-most expensive yearling from the first crop of the dual Derby winner Australia making 500,000gns when bought

by Alistair Donald on behalf of King Power Racing at the Tattersalls October Book 1 Sale in 2017.

Sent into training with Andrew Balding, Bangkok ran three times in just over a month at two finishing second in a 7f Newmarket maiden on debut. Bangkok won his maiden at Doncaster over 1m2f on his first start at three, defeating subsequent Dante Stakes winner Telecaster. On his next start, his first at stakes level, he won the Group 3 Classic Trial at Sandown beating another subsequent Group 1 winner, this time Technician who was also bred by the Nagles and would win the Prix Royal-Oak. Considered a live chance in the Derby, Bangkok couldn’t handle Epsom and beat just Telecaster home. However, he showed his true colours on Ascot’s more forgiving track to finish second behind Japan in the Group 2 King Edward VII Stakes.

Showing a perference for trips around 1m2f, he was also a close second to Zaaki in the Group 3 Strensall Stakes at York – that horse has gone on to become a multiple Group 1 winner in Australia. Bangkok’s final start of his three-year-old season was in the Qatar Derby just prior to Christmas, in which he was second.

He started his four-year-old season by winning the Listed Winter Derby Trial at Lingfield and was third in the Group 3 Winter Derby itself. Back on Turf for the Group 1 Prince of Wales’s Stakes he finished fifth behind Lord North and seventh in the Eclipse.

A summer break followed before he went to the Middle East once more, this time to Bahrain for the International Trophy. He returned to England for the Listed Quebec Stakes at Lingfield and was second, beaten just a nose by Sangarius.

He tackled the Saudi Cup in late January before he returned to Lingfield for a repeat of his Winter Derby Trial success. He was fourth in the Group 2 Huxley Stakes at Chester and in the Group 2 Princess of Wales’s Stakes before gaining a deserved success in the Group 2 York Stakes. He

ended his career in the Group 3 Winter Hill Stakes at Windsor.

Bangkok has an outstanding pedigree and it is quite simply a stallion’s family; he is a half-brother to the Group 1 winner Matterhorn by Raven’s Pass, the Group 3 winner Tactic by Sadler’s Wells and the Listed winner Yaazy by Teofilo.

He is also a half-brother to the Listedplaced Zahoo, dam of the Group 3 winner Convergence and to Mujarah, the dam of European champion miler Ribchester.

His dam Tanaghum was second in the Listed Harvest Stakes and is a Darshaan half-sister to the Group 2 Premio Lydia Tesio winner Najah. They are out of the Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Mehthaaf (Nureyev).

Mehthaaf is a half-sister to the July Cup winner, champion sprinter and sire Elnadim and to Only Seule, who is the dam of the Group 1 winner Occupandiste. She is the dam of Group 1 winner Mondialiste and second dam of Group 1 winner and sire Intello.

Bangkok has an outstanding pedigree and it is quite simply a stallion’s family Bangkok’s third dam Elle Seule won the Group 2 Prix d’Astarte and is a daughter of Exclusive Native and blue hen Fall Aspen, who is the second dam of Dubai Millennium.

Other stallions under the Grade 1-winning daughter of Pretense are Timber Country, Fort Wood, Harbour Watch and Charnwood Forest.

His sire Australia had his best year to date in 2021, doubling his tally of Group 1 winners to four thanks to Broome and Mare Australis.

The son of Galileo and Ouija Board is now the sire of 22 individual stakes performers with Point Lonsdale, a full-brother to Broome, having the potential to add Group 1

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DARTMOUTH

Dubawi-Galatee (Galileo) Shade Oak Stud £2,500 Year to stud: 2018 The Royal Ascot winner Dartmouth, whose eldest foals are three-year-olds of 2022, offers NH breeders access to the exciting Dubawi-Galileo cross that has produced leading young sire Night Of Thunder and world champion Ghaiyyath.

The Group 2 Hardwicke Stakes winner and King George third is one of three black-type winners so far out of Galatee, a member of Galileo’s first crop and winner of the Group 3 Blue Wind Stakes.

She has also foaled the Group 2 Grand Prix du Chantilly and Prix du Conseil winner Manatee (Montjeu) and the Listed-winning Dubai Destination filly Gaterie.

Galatee is a half-sister to the dam of

Australian Group 2 winner Aylmerton.

Bred by The Queen, Dartmouth hails from a wonderful Wildenstein family. His second dam Altana is a half-sister to the champion Arcangues and to Group 3 winner Agathe, who is the dam of champion Aquarelliste and Group 1 winner and sire Artiste Royal, and the second dam of 1,000 Guineas winner Cape Verdi. Altana is also a half-sister to the dams of Group 1 winner Angara and Group winners Actrice, Breton Rock and Forgotten Voice.

Fifteen members of the first crops by Dartmouth have sold at auction. The most expensive foal by the sire to sell so far was bred Dr Bryan Mayoh, breeder of Gold Cup winner Sizing John, who has bred two Dartmouth colt foals out of Unika Le Reconce, a winning Robin Des Champs half-sister to the dam of Grade 1 Kauto Star Novice Chase winner Black Corton.

Her now three-year-old made €35,000 to Kevin Ross and Ben Case at the 2019 Tattersalls November NH Sale, while his year-younger full-brother sold for €24,000

in November 2020 to Lulham Bloodstock.

Ballincurrig House Stud also sold a Dartmouth colt out of La Doelenaise, a King’s Theatre half-sister to Sizing John, for €24,000 at the 2019 November NH Sale.

Dartmouth has 46 three-year-olds and quite a proportion of those will be on the market at the upcoming store sales. In his second crop there are 44 two-year-olds and his largest cohort to date are his yearlings, of which there are 55.

He is 5S x 4D to Northern Dancer and 4D x 5S to Mr Prospector, and Sadler’s Wells would be in the fourth generation of his foals meaning he is perhaps an option for daughters and granddaughters of Montjeu.

Dubawi has sired the Group 1 winner Journey and the Group 2 winner Indigo Girl out of a Montjeu mare, and the Group 2 winners Al Hilalee and Brundtland have sons of Montjeu as their broodmare sires.

Dubawi has gelled with the In The Wings branch of the Sadler’s Wells tree, with four Group 1 winners out of Singspiel mares,

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Dartmouth’s sire and broodmare sire both work exceedingly well with mares by Monsun and, with that sire line one of the pre-eminent in Europe, Dartmouth is an attractive option for Monsun mares.

Dubawi has a 24 per cent stakes winnersto-runners rate with his runners out of Monsun’s daughters, headed by the triple Group 1 winner Wild Illusion and her full-brother Yibir, successful in last season’s Breeders’ Cup Turf.

DIPLOMAT

Teofilo-Desidera (Shaadi) March Hare Stud £2,000 Year to stud: 2021 This son of Teofilo was a Group 2 winner on the Flat and successful over hurdles.

Bred by Gestüt Roettgen, Diplomat showed plenty of speed during his racing career with his two best performances coming at around a mile. He won Cologne’s Group 2 Meilen Trophy at that trip and the mile Premio Presidente della Repubblica, also a Group 2.

At the age of eight, Diplomat made his hurdling debut at Auteuil and it was a successful one, defeating subsequent Listed winners Derby De Tendron and Bonaparte Sizing. He ran twice more over hurdles, once in a Listed contest, but failed to improve on his initial success.

Diplomat is out of the Group 3 Grosser Preis von Berlin winner Desidera, one of the handful of good horses sired by the 1989 Irish 2,000 Guineas and St James’s Palace Stakes winner Shaadi, a son of Danzig.

Shaadi is also the broodmare sire of Telescope’s dam and her half-brother Moon Ballad, the Group 1 Dubai World Cup winner. His pedigree also contains the influence of Hoist The Flag as the broodmare sire of Shaadi. He is sire of Alleged whose sons Flemensfirth and Shantou both retired last year after long and distinguished careers as NH stallions.

Desidera was a successful broodmare for Röttgen, producing the Listed winner and Deutsches Derby second Dickens and

Flag Of Honour’s first crop of 24 foals were born in 2021 and he covered 45 mares in 2022 the Listed winner Daressalam. She is also the second dam of Sancta Simona, who won the Grade 3 Lough EBF Mares’ Novice Hurdle and was second in the Grade 1 Future Champions Novice Hurdle for Willie Mullins and JP McManus.

Desidera was champion two-year-old filly in Germany and her Cadeaux Genereux half-sister Diacada, who won the German 1,000 Guineas, was a champion three-yearold filly. They are out of a German champion two-year-old filly in Diasprina, who won the Group 3 Preis der Winterkoenigen. Another of Diasprina’s offspring, Dynamis, belied her moderate racing career to produce the Group 3 winner Dalicia, who is better known as the dam of Animal Kingdom.

Despite the speed in the sire line, Teofilo has a superb record siring stayers – his progeny include winners of the Melbourne Cup, Ascot Gold Cup, Prix Royal-Oak, Prix du Cadran and Irish St Leger.

The duplication of Danzig in Diplomat’s pedigree through Danehill and Shaadi, as well as his own race record, suggests that Diplomat should be capable of adding speed to more stoutly bred mares.

FLAG OF HONOUR

Galileo-Hawala (Warning) National Stud £3,000 Year to stud: 2020 The acquisition of Group 1 Irish St Leger winner Flag Of Honour was something of a coup for the National Stud, as it gives British NH breeders access to a Classic-winning son of Galileo.

Bred by Barronstown Stud out of the winning Warning mare Hawala, Flag

Of Honour is a half-brother to Air Chief Marshal, who won the Minstrel Stakes (G3) and was runner-up in the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes at two, the Listed Redcar TwoYear-Old Trophy and the European Free Handicap winner Misu Bond, and the Irish 2,000 Guineas second Foxtrot Romeo.

Their Celtic Swing half-sister Slip Dance won the Listed Empress Stakes and Listed Flower of Scotland Stakes and is the second dam of Listed winner and Grade 1 Beverly D Stakes second Awesometank.

Although Flag Of Honour only made his two-year-old debut in late September of 2017, Aidan O’Brien managed to get four runs into him and he ended October with victory in the Group 3 Killavullen Stakes. He ran in the Group 1 Prix du Jockey-Club won

by Study Of Man before going on a winning run that started in the Group 2 Curragh Cup over 1m6f, took in the Group 3 St Leger Trial where he prevailed by a neck from the 2020 Melbourne Cup winner Twilight Payment, and culminated in his Irish St Leger triumph over a field that included Irish Derby winner Latrobe, Twilight Payment and Idaho.

At four he was dropped back in trip to 1m2f for his first three starts, occupying the runner-up slot behind Magical in each of them, including the Group 1 Tattersalls Gold Cup. His final race was the Ascot Gold Cup when he was fifth to Stradivarius, Dee Ex Bee, Master Of Reality and Cross Counter.

Flag Of Honour’s first crop of 24 foals were born in 2021 and he covered 45 mares last year. Stuart Parkin’s Listed EBF Mares Novices Chase Series Finale winner Pumped Up Kicks foaled a filly by Flag Of Honour.

The first foals by Flag of Honour to sell made an average of €9,338 with the top price of €17,500 achieved at the Tattersalls Ireland November NH Sale – Mill House Stud sold a colt, the second foal out of Shalltou, a Shantou half-sister to Grade 1 winner Dedigout to KPM Bloodstock.

FOREVER NOW

Galileo-All’s Forgotten (Darshaan) Norton Grove Stud £1,000 Year to stud: 2020 Forever Now is a younger full-brother of Shantaram, who has made an encouraging

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The Galileo-Darshaan cross has a 19 per cent stakes winners-to-runners rate and Forever Now is one of the 22 blacktype winners bred on the cross with his victory coming in the Listed March Stakes at Goodwood over 1m6f.

He was also third in the Sagaro Stakes and the Bahrain Trophy, both Group 3 contests.

His oldest crop is three this year and numbers 15. He has covered small numbers from his Yorkshire base with seven two-yearolds and the same number of yearlings, but has been strongly supported by northern breeders, including Mick Easterby and the Lingwoods themselves.

Bezant, dam of the Group 3 Jersey Stakes second and Group 3 Diomed Stakes third Deposer, who was also fourth in the Group 1 Breeders’ Futurity, has a yearling colt by Forever Now.

FRONTIERSMAN

£1,000 Dubawi-Ouija Board (Cape Cross) Overbury Stud Year to stud: 2019 An impeccably bred son of Dubawi, who is a half-brother to Derby winner Australia out of seven-time Group 1 winner Ouija Board, the appeal of Frontiersman is obvious.

The Listed Godolphin Stakes winner, who was runner-up to Highland Reel in the Group 1 Coronation Stakes, impressed breeders with his first crop of 63 foals, and his second book increased by 54 per cent in 2020.

Bred by Ouija Board’s owner-breeder Lord Derby, the eight-year-old is also a half-brother to the Australian Group 3 winner Voodoo Prince.

Frontiersman raced in the Godolphin blue silks for Charlie Appleby and made his debut at three, winning over 1m2f on his second start. In all he ran five times that year and won twice. On just his third start at four, he was pitched into Group 1 company and produced possibly the best performance of his career, running second to the global Group 1 winner Highland Reel and finishing ahead of Group 1 winners Hawkbill and Journey, as well as the Group 2 winners

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Idaho, Red Verdon, Prize Money, the Group 3 winner and the Derby runner-up US Army Ranger, the Listed winner and Group 1-placed Elbereth and the Listed winner Air Patrol.

Later that summer he won the Godolphin Stakes, a 1m4f Listed race at Newmarket, defeating subsequent Group 1 winner Best Of Days, and he was placed in the Group 2 Princess Of Wales’s Stakes and the Group 3 Geoffrey Freer Stakes.

Frontiersman made two starts in Meydan at five and was placed both times, as a runner-up to Hawkbill in the Group 2 Dubai City of Gold Stakes and fourth to Vazirabad in the Group 2 Dubai Gold Cup on the World Cup card. He ran 16 times and was only out of the first four on three occasions.

His Galileo half-brother Australia won three times at the highest level and was third in the 2,000 Guineas before commencing a promising stallion career that has yielded 17 individual stakes winners from his first three crops headed by last year’s St Leger winner Galileo Chrome and the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Mile hero Order Of Australia, as well as seven further Group 1-placed horses.

Among the seven top level trophies collected by Ouija Board, Lord Derby’s homebred daughter of Cape Cross, were consecutive victories in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf.

Her dam Selection Board is a Welsh Pageant full-sister to the Grade 1 Arlington Million and Queen Elizabeth II Stakes winner Teleprompter and a half-sister to Rosia Bey, the dam of Group 1 winners Roseate Tern and Ibn Bey and second dam of Red Camellia, a Group 2 winner who has been a highly influential broodmare for Cheveley Park Stud.

As a son of Dubawi and with a pedigree absolutely clear of Sadler’s Wells, he is an excellent choice for daughters of Galileo and his stallion sons. As mentioned earlier, Dubawi has an excellent record with various branches of the Sadler’s Wells line and daughters of Kayf Tara, Milan, Old Vic, Singspiel, In The Wings, Adlerflug, Soldier Hollow et al would also suit Frontiersman on pedigree. Black Sam Bellamy could be a good fit as he is a full-brother to Galileo.

His first foals clearly impressed breeders, his second crop is 58 per cent larger than

his first with 60 registered yearlings, and he covered 75 mares in 2021.

A gelding from his first crop made £25,000 at the 2021 Goffs UK Yorton Sale where the now two-year-old was bought by Peter Molony’s Rathmore Stud. He is out of a half-sister to the dual Scottish National winner Merigo.

HARBOUR LAW

Lawman-Abunai (Pivotal) Batsford Stud £2,000 Year to stud: 2019 A tough and talented Classic winner from an excellent Hascombe Stud family, Harbour Law brings an exciting genetic mix to NH breeders as a son of Lawman out of a Pivotal mare.

Bred by Anthony Oppenheimer’s Hascombe and Valiant Studs, Harbour Law is a half-brother to the Group 3 Craven Stakes third Moheet out of Abunai, a Pivotal half-sister to the Grade 1 EP Taylor Stakes winner Miss Keller by Montjeu. Abunai is also a half-sister to Group 2 May Hill Stakes second Kotsi, Sir George Turner, who was second in the Group 3 Select Stakes and Listed Dee Stakes, and to Oshiponga, the winning dam of Hatta Fort and Spirit Of Appin and Group 3 winner Blue Bayou and the second dam of Irish St Leger second and Group 2 Geoffrey Freer Stakes winner Agent Murphy.

His second dam Ingozi won a Listed mile at Sandown and is a Warning half-sister to Inchinor who died before he could fulfil his early stallion potential. She is also a half-sister to Listed winner Incheni and to Inchyre, the winning dam of Group 3 winner Ursa Major and second dam of Poet’s Word, the dual Group 1 winner by Poet’s Voice.

Sold by Malcolm Bastard to Killtown Bloodstock at the Goffs London Sale in 2015, Harbour Law had a short but successful racing career that began at three with a debut second place in a 1m4f maiden. He won a Salisbury maiden over that trip on his second start and stepped up to 1m6f for his third run, and he added a second success.

Harbour Law was less than a length behind Sword Fighter when second in the Listed Queen’s Vase at Royal Ascot, and

young nh sires: gb ahead of subsequent Melbourne Cup winner Twilight Payment. Dropped back to 1m5f for the Group 3 Bahrain Trophy for his next run, he was 2l fourth behind Housesofparliament.

His greatest moment came in his sixth race, the St Leger, where he provided trainer Laura Mongan with her first Classic success showing determination and talent to defeat Ventura Storm and Housesofparliament.

He ran twice at four, his final start a sterling effort when chasing home Big Orange and Order Of St George to finish third in the Group 1 Ascot Gold Cup. The merits of that performance only increased when it was discovered he had suffered a tendon injury that ultimately proved careerending.

Lawman is the sire of six individual Group 1 winners, the most recent being the 2020 Fillies’ Mile heroine Pretty Gorgeous.

He has 21 individual Group winners and 13 Listed winners and one third of Lawman’s Group 1 winners are out of mares

by Rainbow Quest. In total, 19 per cent of Lawman’s Group winners have Rainbow Quest as their broodmare sire.

Lawman’s Group 1 winner Most Improved and the Group 3 winner and Group 1-placed US Law are both out of mares by Linamix,

which would hint that mares with Linamix and his sons such as Martaline might suit Harbour Law. Lawman has also sired the Grade 2-placed chaser Secret Sinner in Italy and the Listed Summer Handicap Hurdle second Legal History.

Harbour Law’s owners Jackie and Nick Cornwell have invested heavily in supporting Lawman at stud and his first crop numbers 36 two-year-olds.

He has 12 registered yearlings and covered eight mares last year. None of his progeny have gone through the sales ring.

JACK HOBBS

Halling-Swain’s Gold (Swain) Overbury Stud £3,000 Year to stud: 2018 Over the past four decades the Irish Derby has impacted massively on the breeding of thoroughbreds with winners including Kahyasi, Old Vic, Montjeu, Galileo, High Chaparral, Soldier Of Fortune and Fame And Glory making their mark on the breed.

Through stallions such as Old Vic, Montjeu and Galileo, with their sons Soldier

Of Fortune and the late, lamented Fame And Glory, the Irish Derby has exerted enormous influence on NH racing.

Jack Hobbs, the John Gosden-trained winner of the 2015 race, is the first Irish Derby hero since Fame And Glory to retire directly to the NH breeding ranks.

Bred by legendary jockey Willie Carson and his late wife Elaine, Jack Hobbs was sold for 60,000gns to Blandford Bloodstock at the 2013 Tattersalls October Book 3 Sale.

He had the misfortune to be of the same Classic crop as stable companion Golden Horn, who he chased home in both the Group 2 Dante Stakes and Derby. In between those two runs he was purchased

by Godolphin for whom he comfortably won the Irish Derby, beating Storm The Stars, Highland Reel and Oaks winner Qualify.

Gosden sent him to Kempton for the Group 3 September Stakes which he won easily before his third place behind Fascinating Rock and Found in the Group 1 Champions’ Stakes at Ascot.

Injury problems meant he ran just twice at four, again taking the third step on the podium in the Champions’ Stakes, this time behind Almanzor and Found with Group 1 winners My Dream Boat and

Jack Hobbs: the Group 1-winning son of Halling has three full crops on the ground, and has had 106, 90 and 95 foals in each of those crops

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Kept in training at five, he started the season with a triumphant return to the winners’ enclosure after the Group 1 Dubai Sheema Classic, defeating Group 1 winners Highland Reel, Postponed and Seventh Heaven.

He ran twice more that year both times finishing down the field at Group 1 level and he was retired to Overbury Stud for the 2018 season.

He is one of four winners out of Swain’s Gold and the best runner she has produced so far. Her other black-type performer is Niceofyoutotellme, a son of Hernando who was third in the Group 3 Brigadier Gerard Stakes for Ralph Beckett the same season Jack Hobbs won the Irish Derby.

His second dam Golden Pond, by the Ahonoora stallion Don’t Forget Me, was twice a Graded winner at Gulfstream Park and won the Listed Prix de Cochere at Saint-Cloud. At stud she foaled the stakes winner Stravinsky mare Brazilian and is a half-sister to the dam of Group 3 May Hill Stakes winner Pollenator.

As a son of Halling out of a Swain mare, Jack Hobbs offers breeders a vital complete outcross with a pedigree clear of inbreeding within the first five generations and with just one line of Northern Dancer through Nijinsky.

Halling is already the sire of Coastal Path, who was on his way to becoming an influential NH sire before a testicular problem forced his retirement from stud duties at the age of 15. He is the sire of a trio of Willie Mullins-trained Grade 1 winners Asterion Forlonge, Bacardys and Franco De Port, as well as the Closutton maestro’s 2020 Fred Winter winner Saint Roi. Jack Hobbs has received strong support from breeders in his first four seasons at stud with a first crop of 106 foals and 90 foals registered in 2020. He has 95 yearlings registered and covered his largest book in 2021 when he received 163 mares.

The most expensive foal of those was the half-sister to Grade 1 winner L’Ami Serge out of the Auteuil Listed winner La Zingarella who made €42,000 to Kieran Mariga, sold by Stephen Kemble.

The sire’s most expensive colt foal so far was the first foal of Luz de la Vida, a King’s Theatre half-sister to the four-time

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Grade 1 winner Punjabi and the Grade 3 winner Attribution. He was sold by Throckmorton Court Stud for €38,000 to Timmy Hillman.

Brendan Bashford went to €33,000 to secure Mill House Stud’s Jack Hobbs colt out of Clever Mode, a Poliglote half-sister to Master Minded, while Stephen Kemble also sold a Jack Hobbs colt out of the Listedplaced Blaeberry for €25,000.

Three members of that first crop went under the hammer at the 2019 Goffs December NH Sale bringing an average price of €22,333.

The most expensive was Thistletown Stud’s colt out of Lady Karina, a daughter of Kayf Tara and Lady Rebecca, who made €34,000 to Kevin Ross.

Mill House Stud also sold the most expensive Jack Hobbs’ weanling at the 2020 Goffs UK January Sale, a colt out of Grade 2 winner Easter Legend, who made £24,000 to George Mullins.

At this year’s Goffs UK January Sale, his weanling average was £14,588 for 17 sold and his highest-priced offspring so far. Alne Park Stud went to £50,000 to secure the seven-month-old Jack Hobbs half-sister to Grade 1 Tolworth Novices’ Hurdle winner Constitution Hill from Throckmorton Court Stud.

Jack Hobbs also had two weanlings make £32,000 apiece at Doncaster – the first foal out of the three-time Listed-winning chaser Atlanta Ablaze bought by Stroud Coleman from Mill House Stud, and the colt out of the Listed-placed chaser Buddy Love sold by Harris Piece Stud to JW Bloodstock.

The first appearances of Jack Hobbs’ stores are imminent and if the young stock prices are anything to go by, then they should make waves in the ring this summer.

KINGSTON HILL

Mastercraftsman-Audacieuse (Rainbow Quest) Nunstainton Stud £2,000 Year to stud: 2016 The St Leger and Racing Post Trophy winner has entered a new phase of his career for 2022 having moved from Coolmore to the north of England, and Nunstainton Stud in Durham.

Kingston Hill was a Group 1 winner at two and three, and hails from the Danehill Dancer sire line with the excellent Rainbow Quest as his broodmare sire. His first crop is now five, but as he began his stud career at Coolmore’s main base in Fethard and only transferred to Castlehyde Stud in 2020, his purely NH-bred crops are a few years away from making the track.

His pedigree is a mix of speed and stamina influences. Kingston Hill is out of the Rainbow Quest mare Audacieuse, who won the 1m2f Group 3 Prix de Flore at SaintCloud and is a half-sister to the Group 3 Acomb Stakes winner and the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes fourth Waiter’s Dream by Oasis Dream.

Another of her half-brothers is the Listed Challenge Stakes winner Lord Jim, while her half-sister Intellectuelle is the second dam of Captain Conan, winner of the Grade 1 Tolworth Novices’ Hurdle and three Grade 1 novice chases.

His second dam Sarah Georgina is by Persian Bold and was fourth in the Group 3 Princess Margaret Stakes at two.

She is a half-sister to the Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches and Prix de la Forêt winner Danseuse du Soir, who is the dam of Scintillo, a son of Fantastic Light who won the Group 1 Gran Criterium, and the Group 3 winner Jumbajukiba. Sarah Georgina is also a half-sister to the Group 1 Prix du JockeyClub third Circus Dance.

He has 100 three-year-olds and 117 two-year-olds registered and his yearlings number 94. His store sales average increased significantly last year to €21,629 from €14,315, a jump of 51 per cent.

The most expensive foal sold so far by Kingston Hill is a relation to the multiple Grade 1-winning hurdler and chaser Altior, Patrick McCann going to €72,000 at Tattersalls Ireland November NH Sale 2019 for a colt foal out of Altior’s Old Vic halfsister Princess Leya, winner of the Grade 2 New Stand Handicap Hurdle at Fairyhouse.

All eight at Tattersalls Ireland’s Derby Sale in 2021 were sold with Highflyer Bloodstock going to €52,000 for Glen Stables’s halfbrother to Grade 1 Punchestown Champion Novice Hurdle winner Don’t Touch It. Two further Kingston Hill geldings sold for €42,000 each and they were destined for

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Top Dog (check cap): the son of Leading Light ahead of winning the Listed bumper at Newbury

the pointing field. Monbeg bought a gelding from Tally-Ho Stud, who had cost €32,000 as a foal, and Cobajay purchased Glidawn Stud’s half-brother to the French Listed-winning Catmoves out of the Flat Listed winner and Group 3-placed Cattiva Generosa.

At Part 2 of the 2021 Goffs Land Rover Sale, JP Flavin bought a Kingston Hill gelding for €22,000, who was consigned by Peter Nolan Bloodstock. He is the second foal out of Queen Cassiopeia, an Echo Of Light half-sister to the Listed Flying Fillies’ Stakes winner Fruit Of Glory.

Amongst his first crop is a gelding out of Milly’s Gesture so he is a half-brother to the Grade 1 Drinmore Novice Chase winner Coney Island. Milly’s Gesture is a halfsister to the Grade 1 Aintree Hurdle winner Rhinestone Cowboy and Wichita Lineman, winner of the Challow Novice Hurdle (G1).

LEADING LIGHT

Montjeu-Dance Parade (Gone West) Dunraven Stud £2,500 Year to stud: 2015 Leading Light has joined Kingston Hill in exiting Coolmore and heading across the Irish Sea joining Dunraven Stud.

He is a dual Group 1 winner bred on the same Montjeu-Gone West cross as the Derby winner Motivator, who is the sire of a pair of Grade 1-winning hurdlers in the last couple of seasons.

Leading Light is out of a mare who won the Group 3 Queen Mary Stakes at two so Leading Light’s DNA possesses speed and precocity as well as stamina.

Winner of the Group 1 St Leger and Group 3 Queen’s Vase at three and the Group 1 Ascot Gold Cup, Leading Light was a 520,000gns yearling purchase by Coolmore at the Tattersalls October Book 1 Sale.

He is a full-brother to the Grade 3 Swinton Handicap Hurdle winner Sir John Constable and the Group 2 Royal Whip Stakes third Warwick Avenue out of Dance Parade. She was a Grade 2 winner at Santa Anita and also won the Group 3 Fred Darling Stakes and Royal Ascot’s Queen Mary Stakes (G2).

She is a Gone West half-sister to Treasure Trove, the dam of the Group 1 Prix de la Forêt winner Toylsome (Cadeaux Genereux) and the Group 3 Firth of Clyde Stakes winner Coral Mist (Bahamian Bounty).

Leading Light was one of the busiest stallions in Britain and Ireland in his first season at stud and he is the sire of 205 sixyear-olds. From that cohort, 99 have raced

so far with 23 individual winners, headed by Three Stripe Life, who has had three second places in succession in Grade 1 hurdles this season culminating in the Ballymore Novices Hurdle.

Also from that first crop is Fergal O’Brien’s Listed Evesham Mares’ Bumper second Light Brigade Leading Light’s second crop of 142 fiveyear-olds has returned nine winners from 48 runners headed by the Listed Newbury Bumper winner Top Dog, who is out of the Grade 2-winning hurdler Princess Leya, an Old Vic half-sister to Altior.

Top Dog was the most expensive store from Leading Light’s second crop in 2020, making €40,000 to Gerry Hogan at the Goffs Land Rover Sale from Railstown Stud. Top Dog went on to make €130,000 at the Goffs Punchestown Sale last April, making him the most expensive offspring of Leading Light.

That first crop averaged €18,569 at the store sales with the headline sales being those of the filly out of Grade 3-placed chaser Glibin, who made €68,000 to Brendan Bashford from Peter Nolan at Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale.

At the same sale Highflyer Bloodstock purchased a half-brother to Presenting Mahler consigned by Monanore Stables for €50,000.

Kilbarry Leader made £75,000 to Kevin Ross Bloodstock at the 2020 Yorton Farm Goffs UK Point to Point Sale having won her four-year-old mares’ maiden at Dromahane for Con O’Keeffe.

His third crop consists of 80 four-yearolds and their average at the store sales in 2021 was €10,142. The top price at the Derby Sale was €35,000 for the gelding out of the Listed-placed chaser Gli Gli by Supreme Leader and out of a half-sister to the dam of Gold Cup hero Garrison Savannah.

At the 2021 Goffs Land Rover Sale the best price achieved by a Leading Light store was €32,000. The Crawford brothers bought Des Horgan’s gelding out of Zoeys Dream, an unraced Flemensfirth half-sister to the Grade 3 winning hurdler Our Vinnie. The second dam Boopsey is an Old Vic full-sister to Grand National hero Comply Or Die. Leading Light has 61 registered threeyear-olds, 60 two-year-olds and 28 registered yearlings.

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Frankel-Scuffle (Daylami) Shade Oak Stud £4,000 Year to stud: 2022 A Classic-winning son of Frankel from a typically strong Juddmonte family – Logician is out of a half-sister to Bated Breath – this new recruit for Shade Oak Stud is an exciting addition to the British NH stallion ranks in 2022.

The six-year-old went through his threeyear-old season unbeaten, beginning with a debut success in Newbury maiden over 1m2f for trainer John Gosden, who increased the scale of the challenge faced by Logician with each run.

Victory in a Newmarket novice followed on his second start and he returned to

Newbury for a 1m4f handicap after which his record read three wins from three starts.

Gosden decided to test the horse’s mettle in the Group 2 Great Voltigeur Stakes at York on his next run and he passed with a comfortable success over a field which included Nayef Road.

Sent off odds-on favourite for the St Leger, he defeated Sir Ron Priestley, Nayef Road, Sir Dragonet and Technician to secure the final Classic of the season and European champion three-year-old stayers’ honours.

A couple of months after his Classic triumph, Logician had to undergo surgery to treat life-threatening peritonitis and pleurisy and his joust with illness left its mark on the grey. He returned to race almost exactly a year after his St Leger victory, winning a conditions race over course and distance.

He ran once more at four and had two further starts last year as a five-year-old before the decision was made to retire him and he was purchased by Shade Oak for stallion duties.

Logician is a full-brother to Collide, a Listed winner in France who was also Listed-placed in Australia. They have a Champs Elysees half-sister Suffused, who won three Grade 3 contests in the US and was second in the Grade 1 EP Taylor Stakes.

Dam Scuffle was third in the Listed Snowdrop Stakes at Kempton and is a Daylami half-sister to the Group 1 Dubai Duty Free winner and sire Cityscape, and the Group 2 winner and multiple Group 1-placed sire Bated Breath. Scuffle has produced six winners with her first six foals and is also a half-sister to Tarentaise, the unraced dam of

Logician: by Frankel and out of a half-sister to Cityscape and Bated Breath, stands at Shade Oak at a fee of £4,000 for 2022

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young nh sires: gb Group 2 Meydan Sprint winner and Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes second Equilateral.

His second dam Tantina was twice a Listed winner at Goodwood and is a Distant View half-sister to the Chilean Listed winner Colonialism, and to the dam of Gimcrack Stakes (G2) winner Ajaya and Group 3 winner Extra Elusive.

Third dam Didina won the Dahlia Handicap at Hollywood Park and is a Nashwan daughter of Didicoy, a half-sister to European champion two-year-old Xaar.

Didicoy is a granddaughter of blue hen Best In Show, so from an outstanding female line.

Logician’s sire Frankel has sired 20 individual Group 1 winners. He is the sire of 84 individual stakes winners from 552 runners, which gives him a stakes winnersto-runners rate of 15.2 per cent.

Frankel has done well on the Flat with mares by Monsun and his son Shirocco, who is the broodmare sire of last season’s Irish Derby, St Leger and Grand Prix de Paris winner Adayar. Monsun himself is the dam sire of Frankel’s Japanese Group 1 winner Soul Stirring.

Mares by Monsun and his sons Shirocco, Manduro, Maxios, Getaway, Schiaparelli, Gentlewave and Masterstroke could all suit.

Logician is inbred 5x5 to Blushing Groom through Rainbow Quest and Nashwan, and is also 4x4 to Miswaki, who is the broodmare sire of both Galileo and Daylami. He is 4x5 to both Danzig and Northern Dancer.

MARMELO

Duke Of Marmalade-Capriolla (In The Wings) Norton Grove Stud £2,000 Year to stud: 2020 One of two sons of the late Duke Of Marmalade at stud in Great Britain, the Group 2 winner Marmelo has an ideal race record and staying pedigree to make a lovely NH stallion.

Bred by Deepwood Farm Stud, Marmelo won or was placed in 16 of his 22 starts in Europe and Australia. Trained by Hughie Morrison, he was unraced at two and broke his maiden at the third attempt as a threeyear-old. After that success he finished second in the Listed Prix Michel Houyvet over 1m7f, then third to Doha Dream in the

There is more to encourage breeders with Pether’s Moon’s second crop as two of its five runners have won Group 2 Prix Chaudenay and rounded off the campaign with second in the Listed Prix Vulcain at Deauville.

As a four-year-old he defeated Bateel in the Group 3 Prix de Barbeville on his seasonal reappearance and later that season claimed the first of his two victories in the Group 2 Prix Kergorlay. He was also second to Breeders’ Cup Turf winner Talismanic in the Group 2 Prix Maurice de Nieuil before his first trip to Australia where he contested the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups.

At five he was second to Vazirabad in the Group 2 Prix Vicomtesse Vigier and then took the Listed Grand Cup at York before going one better than the previous season in the Prix Maurice de Nieuil. He finished his European season in the runner-up position in the Prix Kergorlay and, returning to Australia for a second successive year, he ran Cross Counter to a length when second in the Melbourne Cup. Kept in training as a six-year-old, he retained all his ability with two wins from five starts.

Those victories came in the Group 3 John Porter Stakes and his swansong, the Prix Kergorlay. He also contested the Prix Maurice de Nieuil for the third time and was second behind Way To Paris.

Marmelo is a half-brother to the Group 3 Henry VII Stakes winner Vent Du Force and to the Italian Grade 3-winning chaser Atalan and they are three of the eight winners out of Capriolla. She is an In The Wings half-sister to the Lingfield Derby Trial winner Saddler’s Quest by Saddler’s Hall and to the French

Listed-winning fillies Seren Hill and Quiz Mistress. Capriolla is also a half-sister to the dam of Group 3 Prix Thomas Byron winner Circumvent and the Group-placed Tioga’s Pace and Devious Company.

His second dam Seren Quest is a Rainbow Quest daughter of Italian Listed winner Serenesse.

Marmelo’s Ulysses half-brother made 67,000gns at last year’s Tattersalls December Foal Sale where he was purchased by the Jamie Railton Sales Agency from Selwood Bloodstock.

From his first season at stud, Marmelo has ten yearlings on the ground.

PETHER’S MOON

Dylan Thomas-Softly Tread (Tirol) Yorton Farm Stud £2,000 Year to stud: 2016 The Group 1 Coronation Cup winner is one of seven individual Group/Grade 1 winners by the Arc winner Dylan Thomas, the first horse to win successive renewals of the Group 1 Irish Champion Stakes.

Pether’s Moon was bred by Michael Daly and bought for €52,000 by Peter and Ross Doyle at the 2011 Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale.

Trained by Richard Hannon, he made two starts at two finishing runner-up by a neck over a mile on the second of them. He ran seven times at three at trips varying from 1m to 1m6f and won three, first over a mile while his second success came over a 1m4f.

The most important victory was his first at stakes level in the Listed Floodlit Stakes at Kempton. He was also placed three times from 1m2f up to 1m6f.

He ran up a sequence of four placed results in Group company on his first four starts at four, including behind Telescope and Hillstar in the Group 2 Hardwicke Stakes at Royal Ascot, before defeating the St Leger winner Encke in the Group 3 Glorious Stakes at the Goodwood Festival.

Pether’s Moon won the Group 2 Bosphorus Cup and the Group 3 Cumberland Lodge Stakes, beating Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes winner Parish Hall, during his four-year-old season.

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young nh sires: gb in training at five and was rewarded with a breakthrough Group 1 success in the Coronation Cup. That triumph was the final act of a 21-race career in which he failed to finish in the first three on just four occasions, demonstrating remarkable consistency across a variety of distances.

He is out of the Group 3 Gladness Stakes and Listed Tyros Stakes winner Softly Tread (Tirol) so his dam showed precocity to win a Listed race at two and was successful over 7f at three. She is one of two winners produced by the Listed Trigo Stakes second Second Guess who is by Ela-Mana-Mou. Pether’s Moon is another outcross option for British NH breeders given that Sadler’s Wells is entirely absent from his pedigree.

He is inbred 5x5 to the great Natalma through his grandsire Danehill and with the known affinity of the Galileo line with Danehill line sires, he is a valid option for mares by Galileo and his stallion sons. There have been ten winners from 17 runners by Dylan Thomas out of Galileo mares, headed by the Listed winner Ralston Road.

Two of Dylan Thomas’s Group 1 winners had Sadler’s Wells as a broodmare sire, while the Australian Group 2 winner and the Group 1-placed Not Listenin’tome was out of a mare by Encosta De Lago, a son of Sadler’s Wells full brother Fairy King, so mares by Sadler’s Wells and his sons are an obvious choice for Pether’s Moon.

Peintre Celebre and the Nureyev line could also work as two more of Dylan Thomas’s top level winners were out of Nureyev mares So far, from a first crop of 45 registered five-year-olds, Pether’s Moon has had 17 runners and a winner. His daughter Anneloralas won an Auteuil three-year-old hurdle for Gabriel Leenders and was placed in the Listed Prix Robert Weill and Prix Fiferlet. She was bought at the 2019 Yorton Sale and is out of Kahyasi mare Loralas, a half-sister to two Listed placed jumpers.

He is also the sire of Honey Wolf, who was second on debut at Pau in December for David Cottin. The AQPS filly was bred by the Futters at Yorton, as was Anneloralas.

There is more to encourage breeders with Pether’s Moon’s second crop as two of its five runners have won with Realta Royale a promising winner of a mare’s bumper at Taunton on debut in January.

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The most expensive store by Telescope at the Derby Sale was Glenvale Stud’s gelding out of the Kheleyf mare Frosted Grape bought for €78,000 by Kieran McManus At last September’s Goffs UK Yorton Sale, Pether’s Moon recorded some impressive prices with the highest being the £75,000 NBB Racing went to for a then two-year-old gelding out of Azza, bred by Jean and James Potter. Azza won the Listed Prix Finot at Auteuil and is a Great Pretender half-sister to Vieux Lion Rouge from the family of Tolworth Hurdle winner Marcel.

Alan King and Highflyer Bloodstock paid £42,000 for the yearling gelding out of Fabrika, a winning Presenting full-sister to the Listed-winning chaser Chilli Filli. His second dam Daprika is a half-sister to Geos and Kapgarde.

Peter and Ross Doyle, on behalf of the Tizzards, purchased a Pether’s Moon halfbrother to the Listed handicap hurdle winner Benson for £50,000 at the Goffs UK Spring Store Sale from Yorton Farm.

His third crop numbers 41, while he has 36 two-year-olds registered from his fourth crop and 30 yearlings. Last year he covered 53 mares.

TELESCOPE

Galileo-Velouette (Darshaan) Shade Oak Stud £3,000 Year to stud: 2016 Bred by the David and Diane Nagle at their renowned Barronstown Stud, Telescope was

trained by Sir Michael Stoute for Highclere Thoroughbred Racing and his career received the careful nurturing that has been the hallmark of his trainer’s approach.

He made his racecourse debut in the September of his two-year-old season, finishing second over 7f before stepping up to a mile for his second start and winning a Newmarket maiden.

Successful on his seasonal reappearance at three, he was then second in the Group 3 Rose of Lancaster Stakes ahead of Noble Mission before winning the Group 2 Great Voltigeur Stakes.

At four he won Royal Ascot’s Hardwicke Stakes (G2) and performed well in defeat at Group 1 level, giving Taghrooda a stone in the King George but managing to get within 3l of the filly in second, while he was also third to Australia and The Grey Gatsby over the 1m2f of the Juddmonte International.

He was also twice runner-up to Noble Mission – in the Gordon Richards Stakes and the Huxley Stakes both Group 3 contests. Telescope ended the season taking fourth place behind Main Sequence and Flintshire in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Turf.

He ran three times at five, adding the Listed Aston Park Stakes to his career wins and was beaten a head into second in the Group 2 Jockey Club Gold Cup finishing 18l clear of Pether’s Moon in third.

Telescope is by Galileo and out of the Darshaan mare Velouette, thus bred on a cross that has an impressive 19 per cent black-type winners-to-runners rate.

Velouette is an unraced half-sister to the Group 1 Dubai World Cup winner, Champion Stakes second and Derby third Moon Ballad, who also won the Group 2 Dante Stakes. She is also a half-sister to the Nashwan mare Velvet Lady, who is the dam of Grade 2 Elite Hurdle winner Purple Bay (Dubawi).

His second dam Velvet Moon is a daughter of Shaadi, already discussed under Diplomat, and won the Group 2 Lowther Stakes at two so there is potential for speed in Telescope’s genes along with the obvious stamina influences of Galileo and Darshaan and the stouter elements of his dam’s family.

Velvet Moon is a half-sister to the Cheltenham Festival-winning hurdler Buena Vista (In The Wings), and his Group 1

young nh sires: gb Derby Italiano and Premio Presidente della Repubblica-winning full-brother Central Park and full-sister Mellow Park, winner of the Group 3 Lancashire Oaks. They are out of the Relkino mare Park Special.

Telescope’s first crop has produced three winners from 42 runners and all three have been fillies.

Martha Divine was successful in a 2m6f mares’ maiden hurdle at Punchestown in February for Paul Nolan and she was a €30,000 purchase by Barry O’Neill and Milestone Stables at the 2020 Tattersalls Ireland May Sale. Out of a King’s Theatre mare, she is inbred 3x3 to Sadler’s Wells.

I Spy A Diva won a bumper on debut last season for Kim Bailey and has been placed in her three completed starts over hurdles this season, while Checkitsme won a Leicester mares’ handicap hurdle in January for Milton Harris.

His second crop numbers 128 registered four-year-olds and has produced two winners from ten runners, including Grace’s Quest, who was a winner on the Flat last season over 1m4f for Iain Jardine.

Telescope’s second crop averaged €34,044 at the store sales in 2020 which represented an amazing rise on the average achieved by

Telescope: sale averages 2020 and 2021

his first crop of three-year-olds. The gain of 105 per cent from the 2020 average of €16,579 was truly remarkable At Part 1 of the 2021 Goffs Land Rover Sale, he recorded a top price of €85,000 which was given for the Bleahen brothers’ gelding out of Chico Time, a winning Presenting half-sister to Galway Plate second Knock On The Head. He was purchased by Michael Hyde.

At the same sale, Peter Molony’s Rathmore Stud sold the Telescope half-brother to Monbeg Legend to trainer Eric McNamara for €70,000. Milestone Bloodstock went to €50,000 for the Telescope gelding out of the Grade 2 Dovecote Novices’ Hurdle winner Senorita Rumbalita, dam of the Listed-placed Havana Dancer. He was sold by Ballincurrig House Stud.

The 2021 Goffs UK Spring Store Sale saw the Telescope half-brother to Gold Cup winner Sizing John make £60,000 to Peter and Ross Doyle for the Tizzard team. Also at Doncaster, Monbeg Stables paid £40,000 for a Telescope half-brother to the Grade 2 winning hurdler and chaser Killala Quay.

The Bleahen brothers also had another good payday with a Telescope gelding at the Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale.

Aiden and Olly Murphy went to €68,000 for Clifton Farm’s half-brother to the Grade 2 winners Out Sam and Honest John.

The most expensive store by Telescope at the Derby Sale was Glenvale Stud’s gelding out of the Kheleyf mare Frosted Grape bought for €78,000 by Kieran McManus.

His foal sale average in 2021 was €12,959 which was an increase of 30 per cent on the 2020 figure of €9,959 and higher than the 2019 average of €12,299.

Telescope’s books have been large on both quantity and quality; in 2019 he was the second busiest stallion in Britain covering 176 mares, which was bettered only by Kingman that year.

He covered 120 mares in 2020 and 100 mares last year. Amongst those due foals by Telescope this year are Amaretto Rose, Pepite Rose and the aforementioned Senorita Rumbalita.

WALZERTAKT

Montjeu-Walzerkoenigin (Kingmambo) Chapel Stud £2,500 Year to stud: 2017 (to Chapel for 2022) The brilliant Montjeu, sire of four individual Derby winners, has left an indelible legacy as a sire of NH stallions. His own greatest accomplishment as NH sire was the brilliant Hurricane Fly, but his stallion sons Authorized, sire of the little legend that is Tiger Roll, Fame And Glory, Jukebox Jury and Motivator have all become Grade 1 sires in that sphere.

Masked Marvel, his St Leger-winning son has made a promising start to his stud career, too, with the Grade 2 winner Teahupoo leading the charge .

It is an excellent time for Chapel Stud to launch Walzertakt on to the English market.

The Group 2 winner is a half-brother to a Deutsches Derby winner and was bred by Gestüt Schlenderhann. He won four of his 21 starts over three seasons with his best season coming in 2015 when he won the Group 2 Prix Maurice de Nieuil, beating Bathyrhon and Spirit Jim, and the Group 3 Prix Gladiateur. He was also third to Alex My Boy in the Group 2 Prix Kergorlay.

He is a half-brother to Wiener Walzer whose two Group 1 victories included the

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young nh sires: gb Deutsches Derby. Their Galileo half-brother Port Douglas won the Group 2 Beresford Stakes for Ballydoyle and Coolmore and Port Douglas is a full-brother to Boulevard, who was third in the Group 2 Premio Frederico Tesio and the Group 3 Prix Gladiateur.

Walzertraum, their half-brother by Rahy, won the Group 3 Bavarian Classic.

Walzertakt is one of seven winners out of the German champion older mare Walzerkoenigen, who won the Premio Emilio Turatti (G2) and the Euro Cup (G2), and the Group 3 Prix Chloe. The daughter of Kingmambo was also second in the Grade 1 Flower Bowl Invitational and third in the Falmouth Stakes over a mile.

Walzerkoenigen is out of Great Revival by Keen, a full-brother to Diesis and Kris who was placed in the St James’s Palace Stakes.

Great Revival is a half-sister to the European champion two-year-old filly Play It Safe, who won the Prix Marcel Boussac, and to the Grade 1 Washington DC International Stakes

winner and sire Providential.

He is bred on the same MontjeuKingmambo cross as Camelot, who is the sire of the ill-fated Grade 1-winning juvenile hurdler Sir Erec.

Camelot has two Group 1-winning daughters out of Danehill mares and his Vertem Futurity (G1) winner and Derby hope Luxembourg has Danehill Dancer as a broodmare sire, which would make Walzertakt an attractive prospect for mares

by Jeremy.

Interestingly, Sir Erec had Galileo as his broodmare sire, creating 3x3 inbreeding to Sadler’s Wells and 4x5 to Mr Prospector.

With the proliferation of sons of Sadler’s Wells and Galileo in the NH stallion ranks, plenty will be encouraged to attempt that with Walzertakt.

The 13-year-old retired to stud in 2017 and spent his first season at Haras de la Hetraie before moving to Haras de la Croix Sonnet.

His first crop are now four-year-olds and

he has had four winners from 14 runners so far. Three of those are over jumps in France with the fourth successful on the Flat. Leading French jumps trainers Arnaud Chaille-Chaille and the team of Lageneste and Macaire have won races with horses from Walzertakt’s first crop.

Walzertakt has 41 three-year-olds registered, 40 two-year-olds and 24 yearlings.

One member of his first crop was offered for sale at last year’s Goffs Land Rover Sale and the sibling to Listed-winning chaser Hawai Tree by Joshua Tree sold for €55,000, making her the most expensive offspring of Walzertakt to sell at public auction so far.

Ice Day was consigned by Brook Lodge Farm and purchased by Stroud Coleman. Her second dam is a half-sister to the multiple Auteuil Grade 1 winner Questarabad and from the family of Grade 1 Prix Renaud de Vivier winner Rock Noir.

Walzertakt, by Montjeu and from a leading German pedigree, has moved to Chapel Stud for this season and stands at a fee of £2,500

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Young NH sires at stud in Ireland

The young Irish-based NH sires at stud come under Aisling Crowe’s microscope Standing at an advertised fee of €2,000 or above AFFINISEA

Sea The Stars-Affianced (Erins Isle) Whytemount Stud POA Year to stud: 2017 As a Sea The Stars three-parts brother to Group 1 winner and established NH sire Soldier Of Fortune, the appeal Affinisea holds for NH breeders was immediately apparent when he retired to the O’Neill family’s Whytemount Stud.

Bred by Jim Bolger’s Redmondstown Stud from the first crop of world champion Sea The Stars, Affinisea topped the Goffs November Foal Sale when selling for €850,000 to his sire’s owner-breeder.

He made a winning racecourse debut at four over 1m4f for John Oxx and narrowly failed to make it two wins from two starts when second over 1m6f at Killarney as a five-year-old.

Affinisea has an outstanding pedigree that has been nurtured by Jim Bolger over successive generations; in addition to boasting an Irish Derby and Coronation Cup-winning sibling, he is also a three-parts brother to Group 3 Meld Stakes and Listed Silver Stakes winner Heliostatic, who is at stud in Argentina.

Carriglawn, their Rock Of Gibraltar halfbrother also won the Listed Silver Stakes, and they are out of Affianced, a daughter of Erins Isle and winner of the Curragh’s Debutante Stakes when it was a Listed race.

Affianced is a half-sister to the Group 1-winning two-year-old Sholokhov, the sire of Gold Cup winner Don Cossack and leading 2m chaser Shishkin.

Another half-sister, the Listed winner Zvaleta, is the second dam of Group 1

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Affinisea’s oldest crop is four and, from just three runners in point-to-points, he has sired a winner Dewhurst Stakes winner Intense Focus and third dam of Skitter Scatter, winner of the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes.

In his first season at stud, Affinisea covered 123 mares but that number has increased in each of the subsequent three seasons with his book accommodating 203 mares in 2020 on the strength of the quality of his foals. In 2021 he was the busiest stallion in Europe, covering in excess of 320 mares.

Affinisea oldest crop is four and, from just three runners in point-to-points, he has sired a winner – Affordable Fury won at Ballycahane on debut for Cudgely Stables.

Bred by Deirdre Connolly and sold for just €8,000 at the Tattersalls Ireland May Store Sale, he is the first winner from two runners out of his dam No Greater Fury from the family of Sunspot.

That first crop averaged €28,761 at the store sales last year with the top price of €84,000 achieved at the Goffs Land Rover Sale. Ballincurrig House Stud consigned the Affinisea gelding out of Medicine Woman, a Stowaway full-sister to the Grade 1 winner Outlander, the Grade 2 winners Western

Leader and Ice Cold Soul and the Listed winner Mart Lane. He was bought by Liam Cusack and had been sold as a foal by the O’Neills to Richard Rohan at Goffs for €50,000.

At the Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale two Affinisea geldings sold for in excess of €50,000 – Aiden and Olly Murphy went to €65,000 for Lakefield Farm’s second foal out of the dual-winning point-to-pointer Ballymac Present, while Timmy Hillman gave €62,000 for another well-bred Affinisea offering from Ballincurrig House Stud.

The gelding is a half-brother to the Grade 1 Tolworth Hurdle winner Fiddlerontheroof and his full-brother made €62,000 to the aforementioned Timmy Hillman at last November’s Tattersalls Ireland November NH Sale.

Some other well-bred members of Affinisea’s first crop include a son of Sosua, an Exceed And Excel half-sister to Hurricane Fly and to the dam of this season’s King George winner Tornado Flyer, a half-brother to the Grade 3-winning chaser Village Vic, and a colt out of an unraced full-sister to Grade 1 Drinmore Novice Chase winner Bog Warrior.

AUSTRIAN SCHOOL

Teofilo-Swiss Roll (Entrepreneur) Clongiffen Stud POA Year to stud: 2020 A Teofilo half-brother to one of the most famous and popular chasers of the decade, Austrian School’s kinship with Tiger Roll is not the main reason why this 16.2hh bay was snapped up for stud duties – he has a further pedigree to recommend him.

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Dam Swiss Roll has produced blacktype performers on the Flat, as well as her Cheltenham Festival and Grand Nationalwinning son. The daughter of Entrepreneur was second in the Listed Vintage Crop Stakes and her Dubawi son Ahzeemah was a high-class stayer on the Flat for Godolphin winning the Group 2 Lonsdale Cup and the Group 3 Nad Al Sheba Trophy, and finishing second in the Group 1 Irish St Leger to Voleuse De Coeurs.

Austrian School was a classy performer and earned an official rating of 110 during his four-year-old season. Forward enough to win on his debut at two over a mile for Mark Johnston in August, he also won over 1m2f that season. At three he made a winning seasonal reappearance over 1m6f and was second in the Listed Glasgow Stakes over 1m6f. His final start of 11 that year came in the 1m6f Listed Noel Murless Stakes when a close third.

The following year he won on his seasonal bow once more and was third to Dee Ex Bee in the Group 3 Henry II Stakes at Sandown and second in the Listed Rose Bowl Stakes.

A remarkably consistent horse, Austrian School ran 18 times and won four races, finishing out of the first four on just three occasions.

His dam Swiss Roll is a full-sister to Berenson, who was second in the Group 1 National Stakes at two and is a half-sister to Group 3 Park Express Stakes winner Pollen, the dam of the Japanese Group 3-placed Pollentia.

Swiss Roll’s three-year-old full-brother to Austrian School made 155,000gns to Peter Brant’s White Birch Farm at 2020’s Tattersalls October Yearling Sales.

Austrian School retired to Clongiffen Stud in 2020 and is an option for mares free from Sadler’s Wells blood considering he is inbred 3x3 to the dominant sire of our times.

He has 17 reported foals in his first crop, including a filly out of Mariah Mooney, a half-sister to the Grade 1 Leopardstown novice chase winner Mariah Rollins, who is also the dam of Pendra, a Grade 3-winning chaser and second-placed in the Grade 1 Tolworth Novice Hurdle.

Haarth Of Gold, an unraced Alhaarth half-sister to the Grade 3-winning mare

Listen Dear from the family of Grade 1 Finale Hurdle winner Tempo d’Or, has a yearling filly by Austrian School.

Austrian School covered 37 mares in 2021.

BERKSHIRE

Mount Nelson-Kinnaird (Dr Devious) Kedrah House Stud Private Year to stud: 2018 The strikingly handsome Berkshire impressed breeders when he transferred to the Meaghers’ Kedrah House Stud from

France in 2019, and so happy were those who patronised him in his first Irish season that his book grew to 193 in 2020, from 149 a year previously. He covered 183 mares last year.

By the late Mount Nelson, sire of top level winners on the Flat and over hurdles, Berkshire is an excellent cross for the sizeable broodmare population that hails from the Sadler’s Wells line.

He was a high-class juvenile, winning at Royal Ascot and the Group 2 Royal Lodge Stakes and was successful in the Group 3 Darley Stakes at three, beating Mutakayyef.

As a five-year-old, he won the Listed

Berkshire, the son of Mount Nelson, winning the Royal Lodge Stakes (G2) at Newmarket in 2013

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He began his stud career at Haras de Gelos in 2018, but spent just one season in France before his acquisition by Kedrah House Stud.

Bred by Newsells Park Stud, he was bought by trainer Paul Cole for 60,000gns at Tattersalls October Book 2 and has an excellent pedigree as a son of Group 1 Prix de l’Opera winner Kinnaird, by Doctor Devious.

He is a half-brother to Keenes Royale, the winning dam of the Group 2 Richmond and July Stakes winner Ivawood, who was also placed in the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes and Group 1 2,000 Guineas and Irish 2,000 Guineas.

Dam Kinnaird is a half-sister to the Group 3 Chester Vase winner Mickdaam and it is also the family of multiple Group 1 winner Laurens.

Berkshire is inbred 4x3 to the highly influential stallion Be My Guest, and has four lines of Northern Dancer in his first five generations, but three of them are in the fifth generation and one in the fourth so it is the only one which will appear in his foals’ pedigrees.

At the 2020 foal sales, 14 members of his first Irish-bred crop were sold for an average price of €8,821.

The most expensive of those was the colt out of Chosen Destiny, a Well Chosen halfsister to the triple Grade 2-winning novice chaser Burton Port.

Sold by Kedrah House Stud at the Tattersalls Ireland November NH Sale, he made €20,000 to Gatterstown Stud.

Robert Wade’s Tipperary nursery was also the buyer of the second highest-priced Berkshire foal at the sale, going to €16,000 to secure a colt from the same family. He is the first foal out of Chosen Law, an unraced Rule Of Law half-sister to Burton Port.

The Bleahen brothers were amongst the purchasers of Berkshire’s first Irish crop securing Barbara Lordan’s colt, the first foal of a Getaway half-sister to Grade 1 Golden Cygnet Novices’ Hurdle winner and Coral Cup (G3) second Commander Of Fleet, for €15,500.

They were again amongst the buyers of his 2021 foal crop purchasing the most

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Capri’s first crop averaged €15,145 at the sales last year with eight foals making at least €25,000 expensive member at Tattersalls Ireland in November going to €18,500 for a halfbrother to Grade 2 Kelso Novice Hurdle winner and Grade 1-placed Mount Mews out of a half-sister to Burton Port.

BOSCACCIO

Mount Nelson-Bianca De Medici (Medicean) Knockhouse Stud POA Year to stud: 2022 A son of the late Mount Nelson, who stood only three seasons at Boardsmill Stud before his untimely demise, was bred by Gestüt Fahrhof out of the Medicean mare Bianca de Medici.

Sent to trainer Christian Sprengel, he won on his debut at two in August over a mile at Hanover.

He reappeared in May as a three-yearold back at Hanover, stepping up to 1m3f and Listed class, which he won by 3l, with Dschingis Secret back in third. He continued his winning progression to Group 2 class, winning over the same distance at Cologne with Dschingis Secret again in third.

A move up to Group 1 company in the Deutsches Derby resulted in an eighth place with Isfahan the winner and Dschingis Secret again in third. It was the first time he had encountered heavy ground. A down-thefield run in the Group 1 Grosser Preis der Baden rounded off his season.

At four, he took second in a Cologne handicap over 1m3f, won at Hoppegarten over 1m1f and then had two runs in Group races in which he did not feature finished his career.

His dam has produced a 2020 jumping winner in France by Maxios, and is a half-

sister to a Listed race winner in Germany

by Halling, while his third dam Trevillari (Riverman) is grand-dam of the superstar mare and multiple champion Treve (Motivator).

She is also dam of Tsigane (Big Shuffle), whose best performance came when third in the Shoemaker Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) and the Godolphin Mile (G2).

Mount Nelson’s best runner over jumps is the dual Grade 1 Stayers’ Hurdle and Albert Bartlett winner Penhill by High Chaparral.

This bodes well for mares from the Sadler’s Wells line as Boscaccio is free of his influence.

CAPRI

Galileo-Dialafara (Anabaa) Grange Stud €4,000 Year to stud: 2020 A striking looker with the pedigree and race record to excite in equal terms, Capri has 106 first crop yearlings of 2022. He covered 122 mares in his second season.

The handsome grey is a dual Classic winner defeating Cracksman and Wings Of Eagles in the Irish Derby and Crystal Ocean and Stradivarius in the St Leger. He was also a classy juvenile, landing the Group 2 Beresford Stakes at two for Aidan O’Brien.

Bred by Lynch Bages and Camas Park Stud, Capri ended a juvenile season that included a Listed win and defeat of Melbourne Cup winner Rekindling in a Galway maiden with third place to Waldgeist and Best Solution in the Group 1 Criterium de Saint Cloud.

He remained in training at four and won the Group 3 Alleged Stakes over 1m2f at Naas on his seasonal reappearance. His best performance of the season in Group 1 company was his fourth place over the same trip in the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes behind Cracksman and Crystal Ocean and ahead of Group 1 winners Rhododendron and Verbal Dexterity.

At five he was third in the Listed Saval Beg Stakes at 1m6f behind subsequent Melbourne Cup winner Twilight Payment and filled the same position in the 2m Group 3 Loughbrown Stakes.

The seven-year-old is one of nine stakes winners from 27 runners, including his

young nh sires: ire full-sister Passion and full-brother Cypress Creek, bred on the successful Galileo-Anabaa cross.

Europe’s champion three-year-old stayer of 2017 is a grandson of the Group 2 Prix de Malleret winner and the Group 1 Prix Vermeille second Diamilina, a daughter of the hugely influential sire Linamix.

The top class NH stallion Martaline was a son of Linamix, while the Group 1 Prix du Cadran and dual Group 1 Prix RoyalOak winner Vazirabad, the Classic winner Blue Bunting, the Group 1 winner Ectot and his Group 1-winning half-brother Most Improved are amongst the top class horses with Linamix as their broodmare sire. Bauer, who was second in the Melbourne Cup for Luca Cumani and comes from the same family as Capri, is also out of a Linamix mare.

Capri’s first crop averaged €15,145 at the sales last year with eight foals making at least €25,000. They were headed by Baroda Stud’s €38,000 colt at the Goffs December NH Sale, who was bought by Kieran Shields

and is the third foal out of a winning half-sister to Irish St Leger winner and Grade 1 Punchestown Champion Hurdle winner Wicklow Brave.

At the Tattersalls Ireland November NH Sale a pair of Capri colts hit that mark.

Sweetmans Bloodstock bought a halfbrother to the Listed bumper winner Belle Metal from Castledillon Stud, while Charles Shanahan bought a colt out of Leinster National winner Miss Xian from Borris House.

CRYSTAL OCEAN

Sea The Stars-Crystal Star (Mark Of Esteem) Beeches Stud €8,000 Year to stud: 2020 Coolmore’s move to take Crystal Ocean for NH stallion duties at The Beeches caused quite a stir.

A select few of his first foals were snapped up by shrewd pinhookers at the Tattersalls December Foal Sale, but the majority of his

The top-priced foal at Tattersalls Ireland NH November 2021 is by young sire Crystal Ocean.

He cost €120,000 bought by Kevin Ross / Ben Case and is out of a mare by Mahler

foals who were offered were sent to jumps sales. His NH sale average for his first crop was an impressive €35,688 with the session-topping €120,000 foal from Tattersalls Ireland, the standout amongst some meaty auction prices.

Bred by the late Renee Robeson and raced in the colours of her brother Sir Evelyn Rothschild, Crystal Ocean was an incredibly consistent racehorse. Trained by Sir Michael Stoute, he was never once out of the first three in 17 career starts, all but two of which were in Group races. One of those was his debut over 7f at two, when he was second by just a neck in a Newbury maiden.

At three he finished third in the Group 2 Dante Stakes to the more experienced Permian and Benbatl. He occupied the same position behind Permian in Royal Ascot’s Group 2 King Edward VII Stakes before breaking through the glass ceiling in the Group 3 Gordon Stakes. He went down fighting to Capri in the St Leger, a trait that would come to define some of his greatest performances over the following two seasons.

Given time to mature, Crystal Ocean developed into one of the best horses in the world at four and five. He ran off a treble of Group wins in his first three starts at four and then was second to Poet’s Word in the Group 1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, losing out by a neck with the pair pulling 9l clear of the field. He was second to Cracksman in the 1m2f Group 1 Champions’ Stakes, beating Group 1 winners Capri, Rhododendron and Verbal Dexterity.

As a five-year-old he was involved in some of 2019’s most memorable European races, starting off his campaign with his second successive victories in the Group 3 Gordon and Aston Park Stakes before finally getting his head in front in the Group 1 Prince of Wales’s Stakes, defeating Group 1 winners Magical, Waldgeist, Sea Of Class, Deirdre, Zabeel Prince and Desert Encounter.

In a thrilling renewal of the Group 1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II Stakes, he and Enable battled most of the way up Ascot’s home straight with the mare just getting the better of him by a neck.

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young nh sires: ire to dig deep into his reserves to see off Crystal Ocean by a head, getting 7lb from his elder.

Crystal Ocean is a three-parts brother to the dual Group 2 Pride Stakes winner Crystal Capella (Cape Cross) and a half-brother to Grade 1 Canadian International winner Hillstar. He is also a half-brother to the Listed Newbury Fillies’ Trial winner Crystal Zvezda.

With Darshaan as the sire of Mark Of Esteem and Be My Guest the sire of his second dam Crystal Cavern, he has noted NH stallion credentials and his own sire Sea The Stars is a half-brother to Galileo, who has 20 sons at stud who have sired at least one Group/Grade 1 winner.

Crystal Ocean’s average for 36 foals sold at the Tattersalls Ireland November NH Foal Sale was €32,728.

His top-priced lot was the Mariga family’s colt out of Daydream Beach, a Mahler fullsister to Royal Bond winner Airlie Beach from the family of the 2021 Grade 3 mares’ hurdle winner Our Girl Salley. He was purchased by Kevin Ross and Ben Case.

Aiden Murphy went to €80,000 for a pair of Crystal Ocean colts at the same sale, Carrowmore Stud’s son of a Yeats half-sister to Grade 1 Top Novices’ Hurdle winner Pingshou and the Grand National second Magic Of Light, and Oliver Loughlin’s first foal out of the Yeats mare Hour Before Dawn from the family of Louisa Carberry’s dual Grand Steeplechase de Paris winner Docteur De Ballon.

Yellowford Farm’s Crystal Ocean colt out of Blixt, a Yeats half-sister to Hurricane Fly and to the dam of Tornado Flyer, was bought for €70,000 by Kilbride Equine.

At the Goffs December NH Sale it was a similar story with Crystal Ocean’s stock averaging €33,886 for 22 sold.

The most expensive was a colt out of Lucky Fancy, a Kayf Tara half-sister to the Grade 2 winner Diamond Sale and Listed winner Ring The Boss, who made €80,000 to Gerry Aherne from The Beeches Stud.

Robert McCarthy’s farm, where Crystal Ocean stands, also sold a colt for €70,000 to Jamestown House Stud. He is the third foal out of the Listed winner and the Grade 1 Fighting Fifth Hurdle third Aurore D’Estruval.

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€75,000 for their colt out of a half-sister to the Grade 2-winning hurdle Deputy Dan and the Grade 1 Tolworth Hurdle third Minella Class. He was purchased by Oaks Farm Stables.

DEE EX BEE

Farhh-Dubai Sunrise (Seeking The Gold) Artic Tack Stud €3,500 Year to stud: 2022 Trained by Mark Johnston, Dee Ex Bee ran 21 times, won four races, and was placed second or third 12 times. He was a consistent runner and was unlucky to bump into first Kew Gardens and then Stradivarius.

He won on his first start at Goodwood over 7f in August, finished third at Listed level in September, won at Epsom over a mile in October and at the end of the season finished second in the 1m2f Zetland Stakes to Kew Gardens.

His appreciation for Epsom continued as a three-year-old – he was second in the racecourse’s Listed Blue Riband Stakes on his first start in April, was second in the Chester Vase (G3), before he ran the race of his career in the Epsom Derby (G1) when just a length second to Masar.

He finished down the field in the Irish Derby but bounced back when third to Kew Gardens in the Grand Prix de Paris (G1), second to Cross Counter in the Gordon Stakes (G3), fourth in the Group 1 St Leger (once again behind Kew Gardens), and then third to Iquitos in the Grosser Preis von Bayern (G1).

At four, he won on his first two starts – on his first try over 2m in the Sagaro Stakes (G3) and then over the same distance in the Henry VII Stakes at Sandown.

He took on Stradivarius in the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot, and was just a length down at the line, shortening that distance to just a neck in the Goodwood Cup. He rounded the year off with a third-placed finish in the Prix du Cadran, behind Holdthasigreen and Call The Wind.

A two-race sojourn to the Middle East did not reap rewards and he has retired Artic Tack Stud for this season.

His sire Farhh has not really had the opportunity to prove himself due to fertility

problems, but his progeny are headed by the Group 1-winning miler King Of Change, who is out of an Echo Light mare and is standing at Derrinstown Stud.

Wells Farhh Go, winner of the Group 3 Acomb Stakes and the Group 3 Bahrain Trophy is out of a Galileo mare.

Dee Ex Bee hails from a leading stallion family – his unraced dam Dubai Sunrise is full-sister to the champion and leading sire influence Dubai Millennium, of course, the sire of one of the world’s best stallions, Dubawi.

His third dam Fall Aspen, a two-time Grade 1 winner, was dam of the sires Hamas, Fort Wood, Timber Country and grand-dam of Elnadim.

FIFTY STARS

Sea The Stars-Swizzle Stick (Sadler’s Wells) Sunnyhill Stud €3,000 Year to stud: 2022 From 36 starts, Fifty Stars won seven races, was placed 10 times and picked up race earnings over £1,500,000.

His strong prize-money record is due to the fact that he raced throughout his career in Australia, despite having been bred in Ireland by Airlie Stud. He was bought as a yearling by John Foote at the Tattersalls October Book 2 Sale 2016, the agent paying 110,000gns for the colt.

He did not run at two, and began his racing career in May 2018 winning on his career debut over 7f and rounding the year off on his fourth start with success in a Group 3 over the same distance.

He ran 11 times in 2019, mainly over 7f and a mile, and while he did not trouble the judge at Group 1 level, he collected two Group 2 races in succession – Flemington’s mile Blamey Stakes and the 7f Ajax Stakes at Rosehill.

He finished mid-division on his next five starts before he finished second in the Group 1 Cantala Stakes over a mile, beaten just a short-head.

The following February, after he finished second on that year’s debut, he made it two in a row in the Blamey Stakes and then collected his Group 1 when winning the Australia Cup at Flemington.

young nh sires: ire Spelled then through to the southernhemisphere spring season, he ran from October 2020 to September 2021 in nine Group 1s, four Group 2s, once in a Group 3 and once in a handicap without success but with three runner-up results, including in the McKinnon Stakes (G1) behind Arcadia Queen and in the A D Hollindale Stakes (G2) to the British-bred Zaaki, who is now a three-time Group 1 winner.

A sound horse he has been repatriated to Ireland to stand at Sunnyhill Stud as a jumps sire, the farm keen to capitalise on the fact that he is a half-brother to Whiskey Sour, winner of the Future Champions Novice Hurdle (G1) at Leopardstown.

His second dam Viz (Darshan) was dam of Viztoria (Oratorio), a joint champion juvenile filly of 2012 in Ireland, while third dam For Example is dam of Forbearing, placed second in the Rose of Lancaster Stakes (G3), the Winter Hill Stakes (G3) and a three-time hurdles winner. She is granddam of King Of Camelot, who finished third in the Prix de Conde (G3).

Swizzle Stick is an unraced daughter of Sadler’s Wells so it does rule mares by him or his immediate descendants.

GALILEO CHROME

Australia-Curious Mind (Dansili) Starfield Stud €4,000 Year to stud: 2021 The first son of dual Derby winner Australia to retire to stud, Galileo Chrome, notwithstanding his slightly misleading name, covered 101 mares in his first season at stud.

As well as being Australia’s first stallion son, Galileo Chrome also has the distinction of being the first Group 1 winner by the impeccably bred sire.

Raced once at two, Galileo Chrome pieced together an unbeaten three-year-old season starting with a maiden success over 1m2f at The Curragh where the vanquished included subsequent runaway Derby winner Serpentine. His first attempt at stakes level gave him victory in the 1m5f Listed Yeats Stakes, an impressive performance which convinced connections to let him take his chance in the Group 1 St Leger at Doncaster,

a decision that was rewarded with a thrilling success over Berkshire Rocco and Pyledriver with Irish Derby winner Santiago in fourth.

Bred and raced by Mohamed Ali Meddeb, who will be lending his star stayer significant support in his stud career with some choice mares, Galileo Chrome hails from the outstanding Lanwades Stud family founded

by Alruccaba.

His dam Curious Mind is a Dansili half-sister to a pair of Listed Cocked Hat Stakes winners in Private Secretary and Michelangelo, who was also third in the St Leger.

They are out of the Listed-placed Galileo Chrome after winning the St Leger

Intrigued, a Darshaan full-sister to the Listed Ballymacoll Stakes winner Approach, who is the dam of Group 1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud and Prix Jean Romanet winner Coronet (Dubawi) and Midas Touch (Galileo), who won the Group 2 Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial and was second in the Irish Derby.

Intrigued’s Danehill half-brother Aussie Rules won the Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains and Grade 1 Shadwell Turf Mile for Coolmore. They are out of the Alzao mare Last Second, who won the Nassau Stakes and Sun Chariot Stakes when they were both Group 2 contests.

Last Second is a half-sister to the Group 3 Doncaster Cup winner Alleluia (Caerleon), who is the dam of Group 1 Prix Royal-Oak winner Allegretto (Galileo), and she in turn is the dam of last season’s Listed Aphrodite Stakes winner and Group 2 second Cabaletta. She is also a half-sister to Listed Oyster Stakes winner Alouette, a daughter of Darshaan, who was also third in the Group 1 Moyglare Stakes at two and is the dam of the Group 1-winning Alzao full-sisters Albanova and Alborada, a dual winner of the Champion Stakes.

Another of Last Second’s half-sisters is Jude, a daughter of Darshaan who failed to win on the track but has made a lasting impact as a broodmare with no less than six daughters earning black-type. They are headed by the Sadler’s Wells full-sisters of Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Yesterday and Group 1 Moyglare Stakes winner Quartermoon, who was also placed in three Classics and is the dam of four blacktype performers including Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes winner Diamondsandrubies.

Quartermoon is also the second dam of Group 2 winner and Group 1 placed Eminent

by Frankel.

The dynasty-founding matriarch Alruccaba is Galileo Chrome’s fourth dam.

He has a yearling half-brother by Dream Ahead and Curious Mind was covered by Gleneagles last year.

Galileo Chrome is inbred 4x5 to Northern Dancer and 5x4 to his son Danzig so they are far enough back that they will only appear in the fifth generation of his foals’ pedigrees and Sadler’s Wells will be back in the fourth generation.

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young nh sires: ire HILLSTAR

Danehill Dancer-Crystal Star (Mark Of Esteem) Garryrichard Stud On application Year to stud: 2016 A Danehill Dancer half-brother to Crystal Ocean with his first crop of 51 runners ready to go, and already a Flat winner in their midst, Hillstar is an exciting young sire for Garryrichard Stud.

The untimely demise of Jeremy, whose success came towards the end of his sire Danehill Dancer’s stud career, has transformed Danehill Dancer stallion sons into a hot commodity for NH stud masters.

The Grade 1 Canadian International winner Hillstar was one of the first to retire to an Irish NH stud, the Hickey family’s Garryrichard in Wexford, after the brief but brilliant career of the star-crossed Our Conor and Jeremy’s deaths in 2014.

His pedigree is top notch and has only improved in the intervening years thanks to his young half-brother Crystal Ocean’s Group 1-winning exploits.

Hillstar represented the same connections as the world champion and was a high-class racehorse in his own right. Unlike Crystal Ocean, he won at two and went two better than his sibling when winning the Group 2 King Edward VII Stakes at Royal Ascot.

On his next start Hillstar was third to Novellist and Irish Derby winner Trading Leather in the Group 1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and ahead of Cirrus Des Aigles and Red Cadeaux.

At four he won the Grade 1 Canadian International at Woodbine, beating the fourtime Grade 1 winner Big Blue Kitten. He also won the Group 3 Newbury Arc Trial and was second in the Hardwicke Stakes and Princess of Wales’s Stakes, both Group 2 races.

He was second to Group 1 winner Brown Panther in the Group 3 Ormonde Stakes and occupied the same position in the Rose of Lancaster Stakes, also a Group 3.

Hillstar’s best result at five was third place in the Group 3 Cumberland Lodge Stakes at Ascot.

From 94 horses of racing age, Hillstar is the sire of four winners from 13 runners with the Listed Henrietta Knight Mares’ Bumper third Hillfinch, his first black-type performer.

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From 94 horses of racing age, Hillstar is the sire of four winners from 13 runners with the Listed Henrietta Knight Mares’ Bumper His first crop stores averaged €15,000 in 2020, which is a significant return on their covering fee, which was €2,500 on both years it was advertised. His second crop of stores performed even better with an average of €18,800.

His best result has been the €60,000 Mags O’Toole paid at the Goffs Land Rover Sale for a half-brother to two winners from two runners out of Luanna, an unraced Luso mare from the family of Lord Of The River.

He was sold by Peter Nolan Bloodstock.

HUNTING HORN

Camelot-Mora Bai (Indian Ridge) Castlefield Stud €2,000 Year to stud: 2021

By Camelot, who hails from the influential Montjeu line, what makes Hunting Horn of particular interest is his female family – his dam Mora Bai is an Indian Ridge half-sister to High Chaparral. His best NH offspring has been Altior and he was an excellent stallion and sired Group 1 winners in both hemispheres and his best son So You Think is enjoying a fantastic season in Australia.

Hunting Horn is a closely-related to the Group 2 Beresford Stakes winner David Livingston by Galileo, who was also third in the Group 1 National Stakes. Their dam Mora Bai is a full-sister to Treasure The Lady, who was Listed-placed and is the second dam of last season’s Group 3 Leopardstown 1,000 Guineas Trial winner Love Locket and the Listed winner Raakib Alhawa.

Mora Bai is also a half-sister to

Chenchikova, the dam of the 2020 Group 1 Prix de Diane and Nassau Stakes winner Fancy Blue, the Listed winner and Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes third Smuggler’s Cove and Casterton, a Listed winner in France. She is also a half-sister to Black Bear Island, by Sadler’s Wells, and winner of the Group 2 Dante Stakes who was second in the Grade 1 Secretariat Stakes.

The family is a fine Aga Khan one and second dam Kasora, by Darshaan, was bred

by His Highness out of thr Group 2 winner Kozana, who was placed in the Group 1 Prix du Moulin at a mile and the 1m4f Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe. A daughter of Kris, she produced four black-type performers at stud, including the Group 1-placed Khoraz.

From Camelot’s first crop, Hunting Horn was a Group winner in both hemispheres claiming the Group 3 Hampton Court Stakes at Royal Ascot at three and the Group 2 Moonee Valley Gold Cup as a four-year-old.

He ran twice at two, placing on both occasions at the start of a 25-race career that included third in the Grade 1 Belmont Derby, fourth to Old Persian in the Dubai Sheema Classic, fourth in the Grade 1 Man O’War Stakes and the same place in the Group 1 Prince Of Wales’s to Crystal Ocean, Magical and Waldgeist.

His maiden victory at three came over 1m2f and at the expense of Latrobe, also by Camelot, while his Group race wins were at 1m2f and 1m4f and he was placed in Group 1 contests at both those distances.

Hunting Horn covered 80 mares in his first year at stud.

IDAHO

Galileo-Hveger (Danehill) Beeches Stud POA Year to stud: 2019 A full-brother to the globe-trotting seventime Group 1 winner Highland Reel, from a top class family and a Royal Ascot winner on the track, it’s easy to see why Idaho has been popular with breeders with 134 foals in his first crop and 122 in his second.

Successful on debut at two, and pitched straight into Group 1 company on just his second start by Aidan O’Brien, Idaho was a high-class performer from the start of a

young nh sires: ire career that took him around the world.

Placed behind Harzand in both the Derby and Irish Derby, Idaho was an authoritative winner of the Group 2 Great Voltiguer Stakes and was sent off favourite for the St Leger at Doncaster in which he suffered a nasty spill.

At four he was a comfortable winner of the Group 2 Hardwicke Stakes at Royal Ascot and then finished third to Enable and Ulysses in the Group 1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes. Sent on his travels, his next four starts were all in Group or Grade 1 company and he went from New York to Paris to Woodbine and then Tokyo with fourth in the Grade 1 Canadian International at 1m4f his best result.

His first start at five was in Dubai for the Group 1 Dubai Sheema Classic and he next popped up at Chester where he easily won the Group 3 Ormonde Stakes over 1m5f.

In that last year his best performances came in his two third places behind Stradivarius in the Group 1 Goodwood Cup and York’s Group 2 Lonsdale Cup, both around 2m.

Idaho has an impressive pedigree and is bred on the excellent Galileo-Danehill cross that has produced Group 1 winners and leading stallions Frankel and

In Swoop and Ronan Thomas after winning the Deutsches Derby in 2020

Teofilo, as well as his full-brother Highland Reel whose first crop run on the Flat this summer.

Idaho is also a full-brother to Cape Of Good Hope, who won the Group 1 Caulfield Stakes, and the Group 3 Ballysax Stakes winner Nobel Prize. Idaho’s full-sister Cercle De La Vie is the dam of last season’s dual Group 1-winning juvenile Angel Blue by Dark Angel. Another sibling is the Group 1 Storm Queen Stakes and Victoria Oaks second Valdemoro.

Their dam Hveger was placed in the Group 1 Australasian Oaks and is a full-sister to the Australian champion and five-time Group 1 winner Elvstroem, and a half-sister to another Australian champion, the threetime Group 1 winner Haradasun. They are out of Circles Of Gold, winner of the Group 1 AJC Oaks and a half-sister to the second dam of Group 1-winning sprinter and good sire Starspangledbanner.

His first crop of foals went under the hammer in 2020 and averaged €10,575 for 17 sold, last year his second crop averaged €6,800.

The most expensive foal by Idaho was a half-brother to the Grade 2 Paddy Mullins’

Mares Handicap Hurdle winner and Grade 1 Fairyhouse Mares’ Novice Hurdle third Alletrix. He made €28,000 to Richard Frisby at Goffs December NH Sale from The Beeches Stud.

At the same sale Lisnagar Paddocks sold a colt out of unraced Westerner mare West Elite, from the family of Gold Cup winner Lord Windermere, to Ford Bloodstock for €20,000.

His second crop to come under the hammer was topped by a €16,000 colt out of Rose Cottage, an unraced Flemensfirth sister to the Grade 3 winner Emily Gray and the Grade 3-placed Pride Of The Parish. He was sold at Tattersalls Ireland November NH Sale by The Beeches Stud to Lulham Bloodstock for €16,000.

Idaho saw 136 mares in his third book.

IN SWOOP

Adlerflug-Iota (Tiger Hill) Beeches Stud €4,500 Year to stud: 2022 The talented son of Adlerflug did not run as a two-year-old but made his three-year-old debut a winning one over 1m3f in May at Lyon Parilly. He was sent off race favourite so had not been hiding his talent in his home work.

He was stepped up quickly to Group 2 company in the Prix Greffulhe over the same course and distance and finished just a length and a quarter behind the race winner, despite lacking a bit of room in the last furlong.

Connections maintained their ambitious approach and he ran in the Grade 1 Deutsches Derby, which he won by three-quarters of a length.

It is a race that with the benefit of hindsight is looking amazingly strong – in second was the subsequent 2021 Arc winner Torquator Tasso (also by Adlerflug), third (but disqualified) was Grocer Jack, the multiple Grade 1 and Grade 2 winner who was sold for a sale-topping 700,000gns at the Tattersalls Autumn HIT Sale.

In Swoop then finished second to Mogul in the Grand Prix de Paris (G1) and filled the same position putting in his most memorable performance when a

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Amongst the mares he covered last year are Cattiva Generosa, who is the dam of multiple Listed winning hurdler Catmoves neck runner-up to Sottsass in the Arc de Triomphe.

An Arc challenge was firmly on the cards as four-year-old, and his early runs in 2021 looked as though he had retained all of his ability – he won the Group 3 Prix d’Hedouville, the Grade 2 Grand Prix de Chantilly and then finished fourth in the Grade 1 Grand Prix de Saint Cloud. Sadly, that was to be the last race in the horse’s career as injury intervened.

He is the best son by the influential Adlerflug, who was sadly lost as a 17-yearold as he was starting to make a real mark on the breed, he boasts a cracking Germanproduced pedigree. He is out of the Preis der Diana winner Iota and is a full-brother to Ito, the German champion, winner of the Grosser Preis von Bayern (G1) and also a multiple Group 2 winner and Group 1 placed.

His second dam Iora by Konigsstuhl is dam of the Group 3 winner Illo (Tertullian), Ioannina, a Listed winner and Group 1 third, and to Iowa, dam of the Group 2 winner Itoba (Areion). It is also the further family of Iran, the top-rated German miler of 2009, and Iberus, the third top-rated German twoyear-old of 2000.

Sadler’s Wells and Danehill are in In Swoop’s third generation so there is room for mares from those lines. On the Flat, Adlerflug has also done well with mares by Monsun, Areion, Toylson and by Mount Nelson, while from his few jumps runners he has had winners from mares by Arctic Tern, Protektor and Platini.

KEW GARDENS

Galileo-Chelsea Rose (Desert King) Castle Hyde Stud €5,000 Year to stud: 2021 A handsome son of Galileo with a Group 1-winning dam and a stakes-winning juvenile himself, Kew Gardens was amongst

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the busiest new stallions at stud in 2021 when he covered 198 mares.

Bred by David and Diane Nagle at their renowned Barronstown Stud nursery, Kew Gardens ran five times at two for Aidan O’Brien winning the Listed Zetland Stakes at Newmarket in a track record time by more than 3l from Dee Ex Be,e who went on to finish second in the Derby. Kew Gardens was also second in the Group 3 Champions’ Juvenile Stakes at Leopardstown and won his maiden over a mile on his second start.

At three, he won the Group 2 Queen’s Vase at Royal Ascot on his first start over 1m6f, stretching more than 4l clear of his pursuers.

That victory set him up for Group 1 glory in the Grand Prix de Paris at Longchamp, the first of his two triumphs at the highest level at three. He added the St Leger comfortably from Lah Ti Dar with Dee Ex Bee and Old Persian further back. Kew Gardens was also third to Old Persian and Cross Counter in the Group 2 Great Voltiguer Stakes.

Remaining in training at four, he performed at the highest level losing by a nose to Defoe in the Group 1 Coronation Cup and finishing runner-up to Search For A Song in the Irish St Leger. His final race was memorable for halting the unbeaten run of champion stayer Stradivarius by a nose in thrilling finish to the Group 2 British Champions’ Long Distance Cup. He is one of three Group winners out of the Moyglare Stakes winner Chelsea Rose, a daughter of Desert King, so he is bred on a version of the Galileo-Danehill cross.

His full-sister Snow won the Group 3 Munster Oaks and their older Tamayuz halfsister was a Group 3 winner and was second in the Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest.

Chelsea Rose’s Red Ransom colt Hamlool was second in the Listed Lingfield Classic Trial and her winning Invincible Spirit daughter Pale Orchid is the dam of Free Eagle’s first crop Listed Caravaggio Stakes winner Justifier.

Chelsea Rose trained on to win the Ballyroan and Dance Design Stakes (both Listed contests then) and to be placed in the Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes and Premio Lydia Tesio. She is a half-sister to Downdraft by Camelot, who won the Group 3 Holtham Stakes in Australia and the Listed Lenebane Stakes and Her Majesty’s Plate in Ireland.

European, their half-brother by Great Commotion won the Listed Amethyst Stakes.

Their dam Cinnamon Rose is by Trempolino, and out of the Green Dancer mare Sweet Simone, who is the dam of Group 2 Prix Eugene Adam winner River Warden and Sweettuc, who won the Grade 3 Hoist The Flag Stakes.

Galileo now has 20 stallion sons who have sired at least one Group/Grade 1 winner, but Kew Gardens stands out due to his inbreeding to the great mare Special. She features in the fourth and fifth generations of his pedigree through her daughter Fairy Bridge, dam of Sadler’s Wells, and son Nureyev who is a three-parts brother to Sadler’s Wells and is the broodmare sire of Desert King.

Kew Gardens is also 4S x 5D x 5D to Northern Dancer but two of those lines won’t appear in the first five generations of his foals’ pedigrees.

Amongst the mares he covered last year are Cattiva Generosa, who is the dam of multiple Listed winning hurdler Catmoves, the Listed winner and Grade 1-placed hurdler Merie Devie and the Grade 2 winner Lounaos.

KHALIFA SAT

Free Eagle-Thermopylae (Tenby) Lacken Stud €2,000 Year to stud: 2022 Runner0up to fellow new stallion Santiago in the 2020 Derby, Khalifa Sat comes from a high-class staying family.

The son of Free Eagle is a threeparts brother to Unsung Heroine (High Chaparral), who won the Group 3 Give Thanks Stakes and was second in the St Leger. He is also a half-brother to Ghostmilk by Golan who was Listed-placed in Australia.

young nh sires: ire They are out of Thermopylae, a Tenby full-sister to the Listed Singapore Gold Cup winner Carry The Flag and a half-sister to the Gran Premio di Milano (G1), the Hardwicke Stakes (G2), the Princess of Wales’s and John Porter Stakes (G3) winner Posidonas.

Thermopylae is also a half-sister to Nomothetis, the dam of Italian 2,000 Guineas winner Spirit Of Desert and second dam of the Minstrel Stakes and the Somerville Tattersalls Stakes winner Larchmont Lad. Khalifa Sat’s second dam Tamassos is by Dance In Time, a son of Northern Dancer, and is a half-sister to the Juddmonte International winner and Coronation Cup second Ile De Chypre and to the classy hurdler Halkopous, who won the Fighting Fifth, Bula and West Yorkshire Hurdle for Venetia Williams.

A son of Free Eagle, Khalifa Sat was bred

by Declan Phelan and the Irish National Stud and sold for €20,000 at the Goffs November Foal Sale. As a yearling he made €40,000 at Goffs Orby to Andrew Balding who trained him for Ahmad Al Shaikh.

From his Group 1-winning sire’s first crop, Khalifa Sat ran twice at two winning his maiden over 1m2f at Goodwood on his second start. At three he came out and won the Listed Cocked Hat Stakes on his seasonal reappearance and then came his second place in the Derby. Khalifa Sat had one more run, behind Mogul in the Group 3 Gordon Stakes.

He is inbred 4S x 5S x 5D x 4D to Northern Dancer through Sadler’s Wells, Danzig, Nijinsky and the aforementioned Dance In Time and also has Mill Reef 6S x 5D.

Altior. The St Leger winner and leading NH sire Milan is also bred on this cross as are Group 1 winners Islington, Yesterday and Quarter Moon. Telescope is out of a Darshaan mare and shares his sire Galileo with New Approach as does Irish St Leger and Group 1 Prix du Cadran winner Alandi and St Leger and Irish Derby second Midas Touch amongst others.

Libertarian is one of seven winners foaled so far by Intrum Morshaan with his siblings including the Group 3 Winter Hill Stakes winner and the Group 1 Criterium International second Prince Siegfried by Royal Applause and the Listed-winning Zamindar filly Bigzam. She is also the dam

of Ned Buntline by Refuse To Bend, who was Graded placed over hurdles and fences, including when second in the Grand Annual Chase at the Cheltenham Festival.

Intrum Morshaan is a winning half-sister to the Florida Grade 3 Hillsborough Stakes and Listed Entrepreneur Stakes winner Coney Kitty out of the winning Roi Danzig mare Auntie Maureen. Their dam is the Listed-placed sprinter Midnight Child so there are speedier elements to Libertarian’s female family.

Libertarian is the sire of 10 winners from 47 runners out of his first three crops with a four-year-old winner already this season from his third crop. That crop is his

Khalifa Sat: the son of Free Eagle was an Epsom Derby runner-up and won the Cocked Hat Stakes

LIBERTARIAN

New Approach-Intrum Morshaan (Darshaan) Knockhouse Stud POA Year to stud: 2015 From the first crop of Derby and Champion Stakes winner New Approach, Libertarian is bred on a variation of the Classic cross of Sadler’s Wells over Darshaan which produced the top-class racehorse and stallion High Chaparral, who is the sire of

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young nh sires: ire smallest with 43 members, but he returned an improved store sale average in 2021 of €10,913 last year up from €9,126 in 2020.

At last year’s Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale, Peter Nolan sold a Libertarian gelding out of Getaway Lady, a Getaway half-sister to Drinmore Chase winner Jessie’s Dream and to the dam of this season’s Drinmore winner Beacon Edge, to CAM Bloodstock for €25,000. During the same company’s May Sale, Harley Dunne and Declan Byrne went to €20,000 for Busher Bloodstock’s Libertarian gelding out of Beneficial Gold.

Libertarian has 43 four-year-olds, with his three-year-olds of this year his smallest crop to date number just 24.

He has 31 two-year-olds, 37 yearlings and covered 50 mares in 2021.

Mirage Dancer taking the Glorious Stakes (G3) The son of Heat Haze went on to win the Group 1 level in Australia

MANATEE

Monsun-Galatee (Galileo) Whytemount Stud €3,000 for colt, €1,500 for filly Year to stud: new to Whytemount 2022 New to Ireland for 2022 is Manatee, a son of Monsun whose oldest crop are four-yearolds of 2022 from his time in France.

The Group 2 Prix de Conseil du Paris and Grand Prix de Chantilly winner is one of three black-type winners so far out of Galatee, a member of Galileo’s first crop and winner of the Group 3 Blue Wind Stakes.

She has also foaled the Group 2 Hardwicke Stakes winner and King George third Dartmouth, who stands at Shade Oak Stud, and the Listed-winning Dubai Destination filly Gaterie. Galatee is a halfsister to the dam of Australian Group 2 winner Aylmerton.

Bred by Darley, Manatee hails from a wonderful Wildenstein family. His second dam Altana is a half-sister to the champion Arcangues and to the Group 3 winner Agathe, who is the dam of champion Aquarelliste and Group 1 winner and sire Artiste Royal, and the second dam of 1,000 Guineas winner Cape Verdi.

Altana is also a half-sister to the dams of Group 1 winner Angara and Group winners Actrice, Breton Rock and Forgotten Voice, who won the Dovecote Hurdle and is a half-brother to the dam of the current Derby favourite Luxembourg.

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Manatee won four of his 13 races over three seasons and was placed in a further six contests, including the Group 2 Prix Vicomtesse Vigier. He was also fourth in consecutive runnings of the Group 1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud for André Fabre.

He retired to Haras du Hoguenet where he stood for five seasons prior to his acquisition

by Ronnie O’Neill.

Manatee covered relatively large books of mares in France with 49 horses in his first crop. From those 15 have run, four have won and three more have been placed with the best so far Imagine Allen, bred by the leading French breeder Bruno Vagne.

His second crop numbers 65 and his third crop is his biggest so far with 68 two-yearolds registered. He has 48 yearlings so far recorded and his books and opportunities are certain to increase at Whytemount Stud.

Manatee is the best of the three runners

by Monsun out of Galileo mares and his pedigree is free of inbreeding in the first five generations.

MOGUL

Galileo – Shastye (Danehill) 2017 The Beeches Stud €4,000 Year to stud: 2022 News of Mogul’s retirement to stud followed closely that of his older full-brother Japan, who began his stud career in Japan this season.

Successful over 12f at the highest level and a Group 2 winning juvenile, Mogul is bred on the outstanding Galileo – Danehill cross that produced the 2021 champion sire Frankel, as well as Teofilo who is the sire of more than 20 individual Group 1 winners, Mogul got off the mark on his second

young nh sires: ire start at two, in a mile maiden at The Curragh before he was sent into Group 2 company for the Champions Juvenile Stakes at Leopardstown, which he won before ending his juvenile season with fourth to subsequent 2,000 Guineas winner Kameko in a rearranged Vertem Futurity Trophy on Newcastle’s all-weather track.

COVID disrupted the 2020 Flat season and Mogul was forced to make delayed seasonal debut in the King Edward VII Stakes (G2) at Royal Ascot in which he was fourth to Pyledriver. The topsy- turvy nature of the season meant that the Derby was run on July 4, and Mogul finished sixth to runaway winner Serpentine.

Stepped up to 1m6f for the Group 3 Gordon Stakes at Goodwood on his next start, Mogul returned to winning ways, defeating subsequent Ascot Gold Cup hero Subjectivist. He couldn’t follow up in the Great Voltigeur Stakes (G2), in which he finished third of four but in the Grand Prix de Paris (G1), which was run in September 2020, he succeeded his older full-brother Japan as the winner of that 1m4f Group 1.

His immediate victim that day was German Derby winner In Swoop, who would follow up that performance with a close second to Sottsass in the Arc and joins Mogul on the Coolmore NH roster in 2022.

Mogul went to the Breeders’ Cup and was beaten just 3l by Tarnawa in the Grade 1 Turf before heading on his travels once more, this time east to Hong Kong for the Group 1 Vase at Sha Tin, in which he defeated champion and horse of the year Exultant to win his second Group 1 over 1m4f.

Kept in training as a four-year-old, Mogul was campaigned at the highest level around the world with his best performance third to Mare Australis in the Prix Ganay at Longchamp.

Bred by Newsells Park Stud, Mogul cost MV Magnier 3.4m guineas at the 2018 Tattersalls Book 1.

His year-older full-brother Japan was also a dual Group 1 winner and beat Crystal Ocean in an epic tussle for the Juddmonte International. Their older full-sister Secret Gesture won the Group 2 Middleton Stakes and was placed five times at the highest level, including in the Oaks. He is also a full-brother to the Group 3 winner Sir Isaac

Newtown and a half-brother to the Austalian Listed winner and the Group 3-placed Maurus by Medicean. His unraced Sadler’s Wells three-parts sister Shabyt is the dam of 2021 Listed winner Shandoz by Golden Horn and the Listed-placed Shaherezada by Dutch Art. Dam Shastye has produced sales of over 14m guineas for Newsells Park Stud with three of her yearlings selling for in excess of 3m guineas apiece. On the track she was second in the Listed Pontefract Castle Stakes and boasts an excellent pedigree.

Her Linamix half-brother Sagamix won the Arc, while her Highest Honor half-brother Sagacity was a Group 1 winner at two. She is also a half-sister to the Group 2 winner Sage Et Jolie, dam of the Group 1 Prix d’Ispahan winner and sire Sageburg and her winning Linamix half-sister Saga D’Ouilly produced two Listed winners and the granddam of 2021’s Group 1 Middle Park and Prix Morny winner Perfect Power.

Crossing Mogul with daughters of Soldier Hollow would create 3x4 inbreeding to Sadler’s Wells, which is a little further back than crossing a son of Galileo with a daughter of Montjeu. That particular cross has produced Group 1 winners for both Frankel and Teofilo so crossing Mogul with Soldier Hollow mares could prove successful.

Another avenue open to him will be the abundance of Monsun mares in the NH broodmare herd in Ireland and the UK. On the Flat the best example of the Galileo-Monsun cross is the Group 1 winner Waldgeist, who is one of 13 winners from 19 runners bred that way.

MIRAGE DANCER

Frankel-Heat Haze (Green Desert) Castlefield Stud €3,500 Year to stud: 2022 Mirage Dancer hails from the amazing Juddmonte-produced family of Hasili. He is out of her daughter, the dual US Grade 1 winner Heat Haze (Green Desert), a close sister to fellow two-time Grade 1 winner Intercontinental, Cacique, also a dual Grade 1 winner, Champs Elysess, a threetime Grade 1 winner and late sire, who was developing into a NH sire, as well as the

champions filly Banks Hill, the leading sire Dansili and the Grade 3 winner Delux.

He ran 40 times and was with Sir Michael Stoute in Europe for whom he won on his sole start as a juvenile. At three, he collected placed results in the 1m2f Hampton Court Stakes (G3) and the Group 2 Great Voltigeur Stakes.

In the May of his four-year-old season, he won at Listed level over 1m4f at Goodwood before a good second to Best Solution in the Princess Of Wales’s Stakes (G2) and then winning the 1m4f Group 3 Glorious Stakes from Red Verdon.

As a five-year-old in 2019 he continued to run to placed efforts in Group company before the decision was made to send him Down Under for a Melbourne Cup. He kicked off with a third placing in the 1m4f Group 1 Caulfield Cup before finishing middivision in the big Group 1 in November.

He remained in Australia, put in some good placed efforts over middledistance trips before gaining victory in the Metropolitan Handicap (G1) in October 2020. In ran in 14 further Group and stakes races until his last start in October 2021 and although he failed to trouble the judge was always in the first quarter of the field.

OCOVANGO

Monsun-Crystal Maze (Gone West) Beeches Stud €2,500 Year to stud: 2015 The sire of Langer Dan, winner of the Grade 3 Imperial Cup and Listed Wensleydale Juvenile Hurdle and second in the Grade 3 Martin Pipe’s Conditional Hurdle in his first crop.

Ocovango’s pedigree combines the influences of Monsun, Surumu, Gone West and Nureyev and it is free of inbreeding through the first five generations.

Langer Dan is out of a Milan mare which bodes well for Ocovango’s prospects as an option for mares by Sadler’s Wells line sires, despite the presence of that stallion’s three-parts brother Nureyev as the sire of Ocovango’s second dam.

By Monsun and out of the Gone West mare Crystal Maze, Ocovango was trained by André Fabre for Prince Faisal.

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young nh sires: ire A winner on his only start at two, he began his three-year-old career with victory in the Listed Prix Francois Mathet and followed that up with success in the Group 2 Greffulhe, both at around 1m2f. He was then fifth to Ruler Of The World and Libertarian in the Derby at Epsom and third to Flintshire in the 1m4f Group 1 Grand Prix de Paris. He filled the same position behind Kizuna and Ruler Of The World in the Group 2 Prix Niel, again at 1m4f, before finishing down the field in the first of Treve’s successive Arc wins. Ocovango ran five times at three with his best result third in the Group 3 La Coupe at Longchamp over 1m4f.

Bred by Lord and Lady Lloyd-Webber’s Watership Down Stud, he comes from an excellent family that has excelled.

His second dam Crystal Maze won the Group 1 Fillies’ Mile at two and was second in the Irish 1,000 Guineas and Coronation Stakes at three. She is the dam of five blacktype performers, headed by the Meydan Listed winner Firnas. Crystal Music is a half-sister to the Group 3 winners Dubai Success by Sadler’s Wells, Solar Crystal, an

Alzao mare, and State Crystal, a daughter of High Estate.

State Crystal is the dam of Jack The Giant

by Giant’s Causeway, who won the Grade 2 Wayward Lad Novices Chase for Nicky Henderson.

Her Sadler’s Wells daughter Opera Aida is the second dam of Group 1 Prix Jean Prat winner Zelzal, a son of Sea The Stars who stands at Haras de Boquetot and had his first highly promising runners in 2021.

Opera Aida’s full-sister True Crystal is the dam of Australian Group 2 winner Libran. Space Traveller, winner of the Group 2 Boomerang Stakes and Group 3 Jersey Stakes is a grandson of Snow Crystal, a Kingmambo half-sister to State Crystal.

Ocovango retired to The Beeches Stud in 2015 and was heavily subscribed, resulting in 204 foals from that first crop. He has 170 five-year-olds, his third crop numbers 117 registered horses, he has 110 three-year-olds with 76 two-year-olds registered and he covered 86 mares last year From the first crop 77 horses have made their debut with 20 individual winners,

Old Persian: the son of Dubawi stands at Glenview Stud. He saw 158 mares in year one

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headed by the aforementioned Langer Dan who is the only black-type winner from the first two crops of Ocovango. From his second crop, who are now five, 52 horses have run and eight have won while he has two fouryear-old runners so far.

At this year’s Tattersalls Cheltenham January Sale, Sam Curling sold his second crop Dromahane four-year-old maiden winner Inch House for £125,000 to Peter and Ross Doyle.

His store sale average dropped from €15,161 in 2020 to €13,763 last year.

Ballycrystal Stables bought the two most expensive store horses by Ocovango last year – at the Derby Sale it paid €47,000 for Mount Eaton Stud’s gelding out of a full-sister to Preist’s Leap and a half-sister to the dam of Paisley Park, and at Goffs Land Rover went to €30,000 for a half-brother to Listed winner Mrs Hyde out of a half-sister to Champion Bumper winner Relegate.

OLD PERSIAN

Dubawi-Indian Petal (Singspiel) Glenview Stud POA Year to stud: 2021 Old Persian, a Group 1-winning son of Dubawi from one of the greatest families of the past 40 years, was an exciting new recruit to the ranks of Irish NH stallions.

Dubawi isn’t a stallion normally associated with NH racing, but he has produced a number of classy performers over jumps, including the Grade 1 Champion Chase, the Tingle Creek and the Clarence House Chase winner Dodging Bullets. He is also the sire of Grade 1 Punchestown Champion Four-YearOld Hurdle winner Hisaabaat, who is from the same crop as Dodging Bullets.

Old Persian’s dam-sire is Singspiel, a Group 1-winning son of In The Wings who is no stranger to NH breeders and those interested in producing top-class middledistance horses and stayers on the Flat.

In The Wings himself sired triple Grade 1 Stayers’ Hurdle hero Inglis Drever, while his son Winged Love produced the dual Tingle Creek winner Twist Magic. Singspiel is the sire of Irving, who won two renewals of the Grade 1 Fighting Fifth Hurdle, and the Grade 2 winners Junior and Prima Vista.

HIGH-CLASS STAYER BY MONTJEU

BRED ON THE SAME CROSS AS CAMELOT

Won/placed in 5 Stakes Races

Half-brother to 4 Group horses including German Derby winner and Grade 1 sire Wiener Walzer

NEW NH TO GB IN 2022

Fee: £2,500 1st October FFR

“I sent him mares as he is a good looking horse and he inspires me.

I subsequently had success with Santa Clarita who has won twice.”

“He has an excellent pedigree.

His progeny have an aptitude for jumping, physical solidity and very good minds.”

Erick Aubree,

Pierre de Maleissye Melun,

breeder of Gr.1 winner Hinterland and Hennessy winner Smad Place

“He is very good looking and a son of Montjeu! All my foals have frame and good energy. The first Walzertakt I bred, In Excess, ran second on his debut and was promptly sold to Willie Mullins.”

breeder of the Champion Azertyuiop

Nicolas Madamet,

breeder of Graded winners Geluroni and Martalette

Concessions available

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Order Of St George received a larger number of mares in 2020 with his booking growing to 236 and it went over 300 for 2021 The In The Wings’ sire line has excelled in Germany where his son Soldier Hollow, sire of Grade 1-winning hurdlers Arctic Fire and Saldier, is the outstanding stallion.

His dominance was challenged by another son of In The Wings in the late Adlerflug, who was German champion sire in 2020 with his son In Swoop claiming the Deutsches Derby and running Sottsass very close in the Arc. Torquator Tasso, who was second to In Swoop in the Deutsches Derby went on to win the 2021 Arc for Alderflug.

Old Persian’s female family traces back to Pasadoble, his fourth dam who was a Listed winner in France but excelled as a broodmare, foaling the champion racemare and broodmare Miesque to Nureyev.

At stud Miesque produced the Group 1 winner and top-class sire Kingmambo, the triple Group 1 winner East Of The Moon, who is the second dam of Group 1 winners Alpha Centauri and Alpine Star, and the dam of dual Group 1-winning two-year-old Rumplestiltskin, who is the second dam of Japanese Group 1 winner Real Steel.

Miesque is also the second dam of Group 1 Prix du Jockey-Club winner and young sire Study Of Man by Deep Impact.

Miesque is a full-sister to Massaraat, a Listed winner in France and the dam of Tessa Reef, who was also a Listed winner in France and is the dam of Group 2 Dante Stakes and Group 2 King Edward VII Stakes winner Permian by Teofilo.

Now seven, Old Persian is a Darley homebred who was third on debut at two and won his next two starts, both over mile, that season.

At three he progressed from victory in a 1m2f handicap at Newmarket to winning the Listed Fairway Stakes over course and distance before emulating his relative Permian with victory in the Group 2 King Edward VII Stakes at Royal Ascot.

He added the Group 2 Great Voltiguer Stakes in which he defeated Group 1 winners

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Kew Gardens and Cross Counter before finishing fifth in the St Leger itself.

Shipped to Dubai he began his four-yearold season with success in the Group 2 Dubai City Of Gold Stakes before making the breakthrough at Group 1 level in the Dubai Sheema Classic over the Japanese-trained Cheval Grand and Suave Richard with Hunting Horn and Magic Wand in fourth and fifth.

Back in Europe he was a narrow third in the Group 1 Grosser Preis von Berlin behind French King before Canadian success in the Grade 1 Northern Dancer Turf Stakes over 1m4f. He made two starts at five; in the Group 1 Grand Prix de Saint Cloud won by Way To Paris and the Group 2 Princess Of Wales’s Stakes.

In his first season at stud, Old Persian covered 158 mares.

ORDER OF ST GEORGE

Galileo-Another Storm (Gone West) Castle Hyde Stud €6,500 Year to stud: 2019 The first foals by the Ascot Gold Cup winner set sales rings ablaze in December as buyers fell for the impressive physiques of foals who were moulded in the image of their triple Group 1-winning sire.

His advertised fee in 2019 was €6,500 and his foals averaged €24,856 for 47 sold, indicating a sustained level of quality throughout the crop which numbers 166 registered foals. The most expensive of his foals was Ballyreddin Stud’s half-brother to Listed bumper winner Tetlami, who made €90,000 to Mags O’Toole on behalf of Aiden Murphy at the Tattersalls Ireland November NH Sale.

Dam Tetou is a Peintre Celebre half-sister to the dams of six black-type performers, including the Grade 3 Winter Festival Juvenile Hurdle winner The Last Stand and

to the second dam of Grade 1 Frank E Kilroe Mile winner River Boyne.

That colt was one of four by the sire to sell for more than €50,000 at the 2020 Tattersalls Ireland NH Foal Sale, including a half-sister to the Gold Cup winner Bob’s Worth, who made €55,000 to Kieran Mariga’s Coolmara Stables from Thistledown Stud.

Mags O’Toole, this time on behalf of Chris Jones’s Killeen Glebe, bought an Order Of St George colt out of a winning half-sister to Grade 1 Long Walk Hurdle winner Sam Spinner for €55,000.

At the Tattersalls Ireland NH November Sale in 2021, his top price of €58,000 was given by Alan Harte Bloodstock for Ballyreddin Stud’s half-brother to Labaik.

The price was matched by Glenvale Stud, which bought the half-brother to Mister Blue Sky, while Henrietta Knight went to €52,000 for Limekiln Stud’s colt from the cracking family of Offshore Account, The Listener, Yorkhill and Gallant Oscar.

At Goffs December NH Sale in 2020, Mags Melody’s colt, consigned by Peter Molony’s Rathmore Stud, topped the charts when selling for €65,000 to Kevin Ross and Ben Case. A half-brother to a winner, he is out of a half-sister to Grade 3 winner and Grade 1-placed Splash Of Ginge and their dam is a half-sister to Gold Cup winner See More Business.

As well as large numbers, Order Of St George attracted high class mares in his first season at stud.

On the strength of breeders’ pleasure in his first crop, Order Of St George received a larger number of mares in 2020 with his booking growing to 236 and it went over 300 for 2021.

Amongst them were Zuzka, dam of two winners from her first two runners, and the winner of the Grade 3 Greenmount Novices’ Hurdle and placed in the Grade 1 Royal Bond. She is a Flemensfirth half-sister to Grade 2 winner Puffin Billy out of a half-sister to Grade 1 winner The Railway Man from the family of Bob Olinger.

Wurfklinge, dam of the Grade 3 winner and the Grade 1-placed Landofhopeandglory, was another to visit Order Of St George last year, as did Gorgeous Kate, an unraced Westerner full-sister to Grade 1 Challow

young nh sires: ire Novices’ Hurdle winner Captain Kate from the family of multiple Grade 1 winner Alberta’s Run. The top price given for a foal from his second crop at the 2021 Goffs December NH Sale was €30,000 for Shanaville Stables’ colt out of bumper winner Carrigmoorna Wood, a Shantou half-sister to Bet365 Gold Cup winner Talkischeap. He was bought by Roxborough Stud.

As a racehorse, Order Of St George was out of the top drawer; his second victory in the Irish St Leger was hailed on these pages as one of the greatest staying performances of modern times.

That was the third of his three Group 1 victories having won his first Irish St Leger by 11l and the Ascot Gold Cup by 3l.

Despite having the stamina to win the 2m4f Ascot Gold Cup and finish second in it, he also had speed and played his part in the unprecedented clean sweep of the Group 1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe for his sire Galileo and trainer Aidan O’Brien, finishing third to Found and Highland Reel who were both

Group winners over shorter trips. He was also fourth to Enable the following year, ahead of the Group 1 winners including Brametot, Iquitos, Winter, Zarak, Seventh Heaven and Capri.

Order Of St George was a tough and sound horse who demonstrated remarkable consistency to only once finish outside the first four in 25 starts over four seasons. His overall record reads 13 wins of which 11 came in stakes races, six seconds and a third.

His pedigree marks him out as something special, coming from an excellent female line. He is one of six foals out of Another Storm to earn black-type; the others include Grade 3 winner Angel Terrace, Asperity, the winner of the Group 3 Prix Paul Moussac, and Listed winner Sehoy.

Another Storm is daughter of Gone West and the US champion two-year-old filly of 1996 Storm Song, and her Kingmambo half-sister Strawberry Fair is the dam of nine winners including Japanese Group 2 winner Midsummer Fair.

Poet’s Word’s top-priced lot at the Tattersalls Ireland NH Sale, bought by Joey Logan for €85,000

POET’S WORD

Poet’s Voice-Whirly Bird (Nashwan) Boardsmill Stud €6,000 Year to stud: 2019 (2020 to Boardsmill) Poet’s Word began his stallion career at Shadwell’s Nunnery Stud in Norfolk before his switch to the Flood family’s Boardsmill Stud in 2020 after just one season as a Flat stallion. The change from Flat to NH made a marked difference to his book size, indicative of the disappointing shift away from high class middle-distance horses on the Flat.

His first foals are just two-year-olds and there are only 20 of them registered, but his first crop of Boardsmill foals numbers 193 and he covered 229 mares in 2021.

Of course, given his race record and pedigree he is another stallion who should have major appeal to Flat breeders looking to produce a middle-distance prospect.

He also has the major attraction of being entirely free of Sadler’s Wells blood, making him an attractive proposition, especially as he is inbred 5x3 to the great Shirley Heights.

Poet’s Word also offers a different sireline, he is a grandson of the brilliant Dubawi, who has worked to great effect with Galileo mares to produce top class racehorses, including the exciting young stallion Night Of Thunder.

With all of these pedigree pointers, without even looking at his own female family and his race record, it’s easy to see why he attracted such large books of mares in Ireland.

That female family is top notch – he is out of the Nashwan mare Whirly Bird, who was third in the Listed Harvest Stakes and is also the dam of Malabar by Raven’s Pass, who won the Prestige Stakes and the Thoroughbred Stakes, both Group 3 contests at Goodwood, and was fourth in three Group 1 races including the 1,000 Guineas.

She is also the second dam of Beckford, who won the Group 2 Railway Stakes at two and was second in the both the Phoenix Stakes (G1) and National Stakes (G1) that season.

Whirly Bird is a half-sister to Ursa Major

by Galileo, a Group 3 winner who was also fourth in the St Leger. Her Sadler’s Wells half-sister Inchiri won the Listed Galtres Stakes and is the dam of South African

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Rich History is a son of Dubawi gains a place at stud due to his wonderful pedigree, long nurtured by Moyglare Group 3 winner Hawk’s Eye. Inchberry, a Barathea half-sister to Whirly Bird, was fourth in the Oaks and is the dam of Australian Group 3 winner Divine Unicorn.

Second dam Inchyre is a half-sister to Inchinor who was putting together a good stud career prior to his early death. Inchyre is also a half-sister to the Listed winners Incheni and Ingozi, the latter is the dam of Grade 1 EP Taylor Stakes winner Miss Keller and the second dam of Harbour Law, successful in the St Leger.

Ingozi’s daughter Oshiponga is the dam of Group 2 winner Hatta Fort and the Group 3 winners Spirit of Appin and Blue Bayou and the second dam of Group 3 winners War Story and Agent Murphy, who was also second in the Group 1 Irish St Leger. The Group 3 Give Thanks Stakes winner and Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes and Irish Oaks second Venus De Milo is out of Inchmahome, a half-sister to Inchyre.

Poet’s Word is a son of Poet’s Voice who was a classy miler and won the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes over that trip at three. He also won the Group 2 Champagne Stakes at two and the Celebration Mile, also a Group 2, as a three-year-old.

At four, he was second in the 1m2f Group 2 Jebel Hatta and third in the Joel Stakes.

He died at the age of 11 having stood just six full seasons at Darley’s Dalham Hall Stud and Poet’s Word is the best of his runners.

Trained by Sir Michael Stoute, Poet’s Word had a profile typical of his trainer’s classy middle-distance horses.

Bought for €300,000 as a yearling, he ran once at two and moved up through the ranks at three. He ran five times during his threeyear-old season, winning a 1m2f maiden and an 1m3f handicap as well as recording a second place finish in a 1m2f 0-105 handicap at Doncaster’s St Leger meeting which earned him a rating of 104.

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resulted in second to Deauville in the Group 3 Huxley Stakes. Stepped up to 1m4f for the Group 3 Glorious Stakes he made the breakthrough to win comfortably before an impressive brace of second places in his first two runs in Group 1 company behind Decorated Knight in the Irish Champion Stakes and Cracksman in the Champion.

He fulfilled that promise as a five-year-old becoming one of the best middle-distance performers in Europe; turning tables on the Cracksman in the Group 1 Prince Of Wales’s Stakes and defeating Crystal Ocean to win the Group 1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes.

Poet’s Word also added a second place in the Group 1 Dubai Sheema Classic to Hawkbill and he ended his career with second in York’s Group 1 International Stakes.

His first foals made waves at the sales, averaging €19,291 with three making in excess of €50,000 at the Tattersalls Ireland November NH Sale – Joey Logan purchased three of them, including the most expensive which was a colt out of Dinaria Des Obeaux, successful in a Grade 2 chase and a Grade 3 hurdle. Consigned by Mountain View Stud, he made €85,000.

Logan paid €53,000 for Graiguebeg Stud’s colt out of a Regal Return, an unraced halfsister to Grade 1 Royal Bond Novice Hurdle winner Ballyadam. Also at that sale, Kevin Ross bought the Poet’s Word half-brother to triple Grade 1 winner Benefficient for €62,000 from Clonbonny Stud.

RICH HISTORY

Dubawi-Polished Gem (Danehill) Kedrah House Stud €3,500 Year to stud: 2022 It did not really happen for Rich History on the racecourse, in five starts in Ireland for owner-breeder Moyglare Stud he failed to finish better than sixth place.

Transferred to Qatar and ownership of owner Hamad Ahmed Hassan Al Malki Al Jehani, he won twice over 1m1f and 1m2f and picked up a handful of placed efforts.

Rich History is a son of Dubawi gains a place at stud due to his wonderful pedigree, long nurtured by Moyglare. Dam Polished Gem won at two and she has gone on to produce seven black-type winners, headed

by Search For A Song (Galileo), a joint champion European three-year-old of 2019 and three-year-old stayer in Ireland, the accolades given after her two Irish St Leger victories.

Her closely related brother is Free Eagle, a joint champion older horse in Ireland Europe and winner of the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes (G1). He stared out as a Flat sire at the Irish National Stud, his best runner the Epsom Derby third-placed Khalifa Sat, who is out of a mare by Tenby. He is now getting some jumpers and Coltar out of a Red Ransom mare, and See The Eagle Fly, out of a Verglas mare, are heading that division to date.

Polished Gem is also dam of the multiple Group 2 winner Custom Cut, top-rated older mile in Ireland for 2015, Sapphire, winner of the British Champions Fillies/Mare Stakes (G2), and dam of the Group 2 placed Kiss For a Jewel (Kingman).

Falcon Eight, her 2015 gelding by Galileo, was a Listed winner and Group 3 Loughbrown Stakes placed and has won over hurdles this year.

Polished Gem is out of the Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Trusted Partner, dam of Dress To Thrill, winner of the Grade 1 Matriarch Stakes, and of Archive Footage (Sadler’s Wells), who won three times over hurdles, including a Grade 1 at Leopardstown. She is also dam of three further hurdle winners and the dam of Indian Pace, who won the Galway Hurdle (G1).

Rich History’s third dam is the US champion Talking Picture, dam of Easy To Copy (Affirmed), a champion older stayer in Ireland in 1985.

It is also the further family of Unaccompanied, winner of the December Hurdle (G1) and the Spring Juvenile Hurdle (G1), Plinth, a Grade 2 winner over hurdles and multiple Grade 1 placed, and

young nh sires: ire Heaven Help Us, runner-up in the Future Champions Novice Hurdle (G1).

Rich History is from a top-class Flat family and there are plenty of jumpers in there too, giving NH breeders some confidence, he looks an interesting acquisition for Kedragh Stud.

SANTIAGO

Authorized-Wadyhatta (Cape Cross) Castle Hyde Stud €4,500 Year to stud: 2022 The Irish Derby winner Santiago ran three times as a juvenile, finishing second in his first two maidens until breaking his duck on September over a mile at Listowel.

In the interrupted COVID year he made his three-year-old debut a winning one in Royal Ascot’s 1m6f Group 2 Queen’s Vase before heading to The Curragh for the Irish Classic which he won by a head. A step up to 2m at Goodwood for the Cup saw him finish a two and a quarter lengths third to Stradivarius before he concluded the year with a fourth place finish in the St Leger.

At four, he collected a fourth placing in April’s Group 3 1m6f Vintage Crop Stakes, a second placing in the Group 2 Yorkshire Cup, was down the field in the Cup at Ascot before rounding things off with a good fourth to Trueshan.

His sire Derby winner Authorized, a son of Montjeu, has become a significant NH sire, whose leading performers include the dual Aintree Grand National winner Tiger Roll, the Stayers’ Hurdle (G1) winner Nichols Canyon, the talented Goshen and Zamdy Man. Montjeu is sire of this season’s leading sire, the late Fame And Glory, as well as Walk In The Park. His best so far Douvan, and his Supreme Hurdle runner-up brother Jonbon, is out of a mare by Saint Des Saints, while Ginot is out of a Cadoudal mare. The Champion Bumper winner Facile Vega is out of the leading mare Quevega (Robin des Champs).

Santiago’s half-sister La Jocondae, third in the Group 1 Prix Vemeille and the Group 1 Yorkshire Oaks, is by Frankel, while his Cape Cross dam Wadyhatta is a half-sister to Montamarris (Le Have), third

in the Prix du Jockey-Club, to the dam of Tantheem (New Approach), winner of the Prix de Cabourg (G3), and to the Listedplaced Saraaba (New Approach) and to the dam of Glounthaune (Kodiac), a Group 3 winner of the Killavullan Stakes (G3) in 2021.

Under his third dam is the Prix Jean Prat and Prix Jacques Les Marois (G1) winner Tamayuz, the Group 3 winner Nuqoosh (Machiavellian), the Listed -placed Thamarat and the dam of the Muhaarar’s Group 1 winner Eshaada.

His fourth dam is the blue hen Group 3-winning mare Allez Les Trois, dam of Anabaa Blue, and a daughter of Allegretta and a half-sister to Urban Sea.

SUCCESS DAYS

Jeremy-Malaica (Roi Gironde) Kilbarry Lodge Stud €2,000 Year to stud: 2020 The 2021 victories of Appreciate It in the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle, Black Tears in the Mares’ Hurdle and Sir Gerhard in the Champion Bumper as well as Belfast Banter

in the Grade 3 County Hurdle, emphasised just how big a role the Group 3 Jersey Stakes winner could have played in NH breeding had he not died at the young age of 11.

His son Success Days could be the one to carry on his sire’s good work from Kilbarry Lodge, where he is currently standing his third season.

Success Days was a remarkably tough and sound racehorse who ran 30 times during the course of his six-season career, winning a 7f maiden at two.

He announced himself as a Derby contender with victories in both of Ireland’s most successful trials – the Ballysax Stakes and the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial – both 1m2f Group 3 contests but he finished down the field in the Blue Riband itself. Given a break, he came back to run in the Group 1 Grosser Preis von Bayern but ran too keenly.

At four he was unlucky to come up against Group 1-winning mares Zhukhova and Found in his first two starts, finishing second to the former in the Listed Alleged Stakes and the later in the Group 3 Mooresbridge Stakes. He was third to Fascinating Rock and Found in the Group 1 Tattersalls Gold Cup and then turned the tables on Fascinating

Success Days: the son of Jeremy ran 30 times and won six, four stakes and was placed 11 times

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He ran six times at five and won the Group 2 York Stakes from Mondialiste and was placed in the Group 3 Alleged Stakes and International Stakes. He travelled to Australia in early 2018 for the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes and returned to Ireland where he was second in the Group 2 Mooresbridge Stakes and ended the season with a third place finish in the Listed Trigo Stakes.

Kept in training as a seven-year-old, he ran five times and his best result was third to Forest Ranger in the Group 2 Huxley Stakes at Chester. In total, he won six races during his career, including four stakes races, and finished second or third on 11 further occasions. After his 7f win at two, all of his other victories were at around 1m2f.

Success Days was bred by Robert Ng and Dermot Farrington out of the Roi Gironde mare Malaica and trained by Ken Condon.

Malaica was a classy juvenile with podium positions in the Albany Stakes and the Prix Miesque and she is a half-sister to the Group 3 Fort Marcy Stakes winner Olympico.

His second dam Carmel is an unraced Highest Honor mare, which is where he gets his grey colouring, and she is a half-sister to Group 1 Prix Ganay winner Execute, who was twice runner-up in that race also. She is also a half-sister to the Group 2 Grand Prix d’Evry winner Tot Ou Tard and Ing Ing, who won the Group 3 Prix Quincey. Her unraced half-sister Sissysis is the dam of French Listed-winning hurdler Magneli.

His pedigree includes three lines of Northern Dancer through Danzig, Danseur Fabuleux, who is the dam of Jeremy’s broodmare sire Arazi, and Fairy King, the full-brother to Sadler’s Wells who is the sire of Success Day’s damsire Roi Gironde.

He also has two lines of Sharpen Up, 4 x 5, through Mira Andonde, who is the dam of Danehill Dancer and Sharpo sire of his third dam Sharpo.

Success Days has 38 members in his first crop, including a filly out of Dona Katharina, who is a winning hurdler and full-sister to the multiple Grade 1 winner Outlander, the Grade 2 winners Western Leader and Ice Cold Soul, the Listed winner Mart Lane

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Sumbal is by Jeremy and out of a daughter of Linamix – enormous positives for his stud career and the Grade 2-placed Now McGinty. That foal is the most expensive by Success Days, selling for €70,000 to Stroud Coleman Bloodstock at the Tattersalls Ireland November NH Sale.

Kilbarry Angel, a winning Kalanisi halfsister to Irish Grand National winner Rogue Angel from the family of Gold Cup winner Minella Indo, has a colt yearling by Success Days, who made €40,000 to JJD Bloodstock at the same sale, sold by Kilbarry Lodge Stud.

His average for six sold at Fairyhouse was €25,500, while it was €8,000 for three sold at the Goffs December National Hunt Sale. At Goffs UK in January, Ian Ferguson bought a Success Days colt out of the placed Kayf Tara mare Night At Tara for £17,000.

On the strength of his first foals, Success Days’ book size doubled for his second season and he covered 98 mares last year.

SUMBAL

Danehill Dancer-Alix Road (Linamix) Boardsmill Stud €2,500 Year to stud: 2019 Sumbal is by Jeremy and out of a daughter of Linamix – enormous positives for his stud career.

Sumbal was bred by Aleyrion Bloodstock and, as befits a six-figure yearling, he is a handsome looker with an attractive profile.

He was bought by David Redvers at Arqana and was trained initially by FrancoisHenri Graffard for Qatar Racing. Unraced at two, he was unbeaten in his first three starts at three, including the Group 2 Prix Greffuhle before finishing fifth to New Bay in the Group 1 Prix du Jockey-Club on his next

start. He was also second in the Group 3 Prix du Prince d’Orange that season.

As a four-year-old he was second to Garlingari in the Group 2 Prix d’Harcourt and Group 3 Prix Exbury, both 1m2f races and ran twice more in France before he was switched to England and the yard of David Simcock. His best result in England was fourth placed in the Group 3 St Simon Stakes over 1m4f.

He is a half-brother to the Listed Grand Prix du Nord winner Lily Passion and Lavender Lane, who was third in the Group 2 Prix de la Nonette and Group 2 Prix de Malleret.

His dam Alix Road was a three-time winner by Linamix and was also second in the Group 2 Prix du Conseil de Paris and third in the Group 1 Prix Saint-Alary. She is a half-sister to the Listed Prix du Courcelles winner Fils De Viane and to Princesse de Viane, dam of Group 3 Prix de la Nonette winner Viane Rose, who is the dam of two Listed winners in Japan.

Second dam Life On The Road is a Persian Heights half-sister to Listed Prix de Tuilleries winner West Side out of the unraced Irish River mare Arkova.

His pedigree is an interesting mix and although there is plenty of Northern Dancer in there, he is 5x5 to him and 5x5 to his son Lyphard, he is free from all Sadler’s Wells blood. He is also inbred 4x5 to the influential Caro through Lettre d’Amour, second dam of Danehill Dancer, and Miss Carina the dam of Linamix’s sire Menez.

Sumbal has nine registered two-yearolds from his first season in France and 19 yearlings from his season at Anshoon Stud.

He covered 120 mares in his first season at Boardsmill.

VADAMOS

Monsun-Celebre Vadala (Pientre Celebre) Coolmore €6,000 Year to stud: 2017 The transfer of Vadamos from Tally-Ho Stud to Coolmore’s NH division before his second crop even ran, raised a few eyebrows among commentators who were desperate to see a son of Monsun get the chance to shine as a Flat stallion.

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young nh sires: ire However the switch made enormous sense – Vadamos is a Group 1-winning miler by Monsun so theoretically should bring speed to some of the more stoutly bred mares amongst the NH broodmare population and he was already covering NH mares so the demand for breeders to use him was there.

Vadamos has a similar profile to Maxios – both horses won the Group 1 Prix du Moulin over mile and are sons of Monsun with the influence of Nureyev on their dam’s side.

Vadamos is out of the Peintre Celebre mare Celebre Vadala, while Maxios is out of the Nureyev mare Moonlight’s Box. The two stallions are impressive physical specimens with good looks to go with their pedigrees and proven ability.

That ability to inject an element of pace into NH pedigrees might be seen in Vadamos’s relative success as a first season Flat sire. Overshadowed by his former stud mate Mehmas, Vadamos still managed to quietly compile 17 individual Flat winners headed by Spycatcher who was second in the Group 3 Acomb Stakes to Gear Up, and that horse went on to win the Group 1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud.

As a four-year-old Spycatcher won the Listed Kachy Stakes at Lingfield in February and is one of two members of that first crop rated over 100.

In New Zealand, where Vadamos shuttled to Rich Hill Stud as late as last year, he is the sire of this season’s Group 2 Avondale Guineas winner and Group 1 New Zealand Derby second La Crique, as well as the Listed winners Grace’s Secret and Art De Triomphe.

Vadamos’s NH sales averages for 2020 and 2021

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He recorded a NZ$198,000 average at Book 1 of the Karaka Yearling Sale in March.

His four-year-olds with NH pedigrees include half-brothers to Marsh Warbler, who won the Grade 1 Finale Juvenile Hurdle, Nicky Henderson’s Listed Summer Cup Handicap Chase winner Brave Eagle, and Grade 3 handicap hurdle and chase winner Rock The Kasbah out of a half-sister to Top Novices’ Hurdle winner Royal Shakespeare.

Vadamos recorded his first four-yearold maiden winner at Tallow in February when Matata won on debut for Barry Court Stables and was sold to Highflyer Bloodstock for £75,000 at the Tattersalls Cheltenham February Sale.

That crop did particularly well at the store sales last year with an average of €33,000 headed by the €105,000 purchase by Kevin Ross Bloodstock of a half-brother to Australian Listed winner Future Score at the Derby Sale.

Consigned by Glenvale Stud, he is out of Theola, a Kalanisi half-sister to Grade 2 National Spirit Hurdle and Monet’s Garden Old Roan Chase winner Third Intention and the Grade 2 Lartigue Hurdle winner Orgilgo Bay. At the Goffs Land Rover Sale, Bobby O’Ryan bought the Vadamos half-brother to last season’s Grade 1 David Nicholson Mares’ Hurdle winner Black Tears for €50,000 from Glen Stables.

Vadamos has 192 four-year-olds with 52 three-year-olds registered, 56 two-yearolds and 113 yearlings. In his first season at Coolmore he covered 244 mares

VALIRANN

Nayef-Valima (Linamix) Whytemount Stud €2,000 Year to stud: 2015 Valirann has made an encouraging start to his stud career with the Grade 2 Aintree Bumper winner and Kennel Gate Novices’ Hurdle third Knapper’s Hill in his first crop.

The Paul Nicholls-trained gelding currently holds the distinction of being his sire’s most expensive store horse when making €155,000 to Tom Malone and Nicholls at the Goffs Land Rover Sale in 2019.

So far, there have been 15 winners from 48 runners out of his 83-strong first crop who are six-year-olds of 2022. He has five winners from 24 runners in his second crop, which contains 80 horses and a single winning four-year-old from seven starters to date.

He was bred by the Aga Khan and ran five times as a three-year-old, winning four times Those victories included the Group 2 Prix de Chaudenay and the Group 3 Prix de Lutece, both over 1m7f, and his only defeat came in his debut when he was second by a short head over 1m4f.

His family is that of Vadamos and was acquired by the Aga Khan in 2004 with the purchase of the Jean-Luc Lagardère stock which included Valirann’s dam Valima and her sire Linamix. The intergration of the Lagardère and Aga Khan bloodlines proved an instant success and Valima produced the 2021 Group 1 Prix de Diane winner to the Aga Khan’s Azamour. She is also the dam of

young nh sires: ire the Listed Prix Matchem winner Valiyr and the Listed Prix de Liancourt second Valasyra

by Sinndar. Valasyra is the dam the Listed placed pair of Vadsariya and Valana.

Valima was a good race filly winning the Listed Prix Imprudence and is the best runner out of her dam Vadlawysa, an Always Fair full-sister to Group 2 Prix Hocquart winner Vadlawys and a half-sister to the sire Val Royal, winner of the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Mile.

Her Listed Prix de Lieurey winner Vadlamixa produced the Aga Khan’s Group 1 Queen Anne Stakes and Prix d’Ispahan winner Valixir and the Listed winner Celebre Vadala, the dam of Vadamos. Vadlamixa’s Listed-placed daughter Vadaza by Zafonic is the dam of Group 1 Prix Saint-Alary winners Vazira and Vadawina and the Group 3 Prix Cleopatre winner Vadapolina.

Valirann has 55 three-year-olds registered of whom a significant proportion will be seen at the store sales. There are 36 two-yearolds by Valirann and 46 yearlings; last year his numbers increased substantially and he covered 156 mares.

His store sale average also improved in 2021 from €15,863 to €19,625 with the most expensive of his 2021 stores made in Whytemount.

Glen Stables sold the Valirann gelding out of Anno Whyte, a Stowaway full-sister to Grade 2 Michael Purcell Memorial Novice Hurdle winner Giantofaman, for €60,000 to Harold Kirk and Willie Mullins. His second dam Anno Mundi is a Red Ransom halfsister to Mullins’ Champion Hurdle winner Annie Power.

Topspeed Thoroughbreds and Peel Bloodstock bought the Valirann half-sister to the Champion Chase and Arkle winner Put The Kettle On for €55,000 at the Goffs Land Rover Sale from breeders Butlersgrove Stud.

Highflyer Bloodstock went to £60,000 for his point-to-point runner-up Val Dancer at the Tattersalls Cheltenham January Sale

WAY TO PARIS

Champs Elysees-Grey way (Cozzene) Coolagown Stud €3,500 Year to stud: 2021 The Group 1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud

Way To Paris proved to be very popular with breeders and covered 110 mares at Coolagown Stud in his first season winner offers breeders a proven outcross for the Galileo line as he is a son of the Group 1 winner Champs Elysees by Danehill.

His sire proved enormously popular with NH breeders when he moved to Coolmore’s Castle Hyde Stud from breeder Juddmonte Farms’ Banstead Manor Stud and covered over 400 mares in the two seasons he stood there before his premature death at the age 16 in 2019.

Way To Paris was a tough, sound, cleanwinded horse who made 35 starts over six seasons and mixed in the best company.

Once-raced at two, he won a pair of Listed races at three. He ran seven times at four, finishing second in the Gran Premio di Milano and the Premio Federico Tesio and third in the Gran Premio del Jockey Club, all Group events from 1m2f to 1m4f. He was also third in the Group 3 Prix d’Hedouville behind Tiberian and subsequent Breeders’ Cup Turf winner Talismanic.

He started his five-year-old season with second in the Group 3 Prix Exbury and was second to Waldgeist in the Group 3 Prix d’Hedouville.

Way To Paris was third to Waldgeist and Group 1 winner Dschingis Secret in the Group 2 Grand Prix de Chantilly, defeating Tiberian and Cloth Of Stars. He was also fourth to Waldgeist, Talismanic and Cloth of Stars in the Group 2 Prix Foy at Longchamp.

As a six-year-old he won the Group 2 Prix Maurice de Neuil at Longchamp from a field that included Marmelo and Call The Wind. He was also second to Waldgeist in the Group Prix Foy and was runner-up in the Group 2 Prix Vicomtesse Vigier and Group 3 Prix de Barbeville.

Kept in training at seven, he started off the season with a narrow defeat to Shaman in

the Group 2 Prix d’Harcourt and then went down by a head to subsequent Arc winner Sottsass in the Group 1 Prix Ganay before making the breakthrough at Group 1 level in his next start, the Grand Prix de Saint Cloud.

Given a summer break he ran three more times, including a swansong in the Japan Cup. Way To Paris is a half-brother to the dual Group 1 Premio Presidente della Repubblica winner Distant Way by Distant View and the Group 3 Premio Ambrosiano winner Cima de Pluie, who is by Singspiel. Their dam is the Group 2 Premio Lydia Tesio winner Grey Way by Cozzene who was champion sire in North America in 1996 and is a son of Caro.

Way To Paris proved to be very popular with breeders and covered 110 mares at Coolagown Stud in his first season.

WINGS OF EAGLES

Pour Moi-Ysoldina (Kendor) Beeches Stud €4,000 Year to stud: 2018 A gorgeous stallion from the excellent Montjeu line, Wings Of Eagles emulated his sire Pour Moi with a breathtaking last-gasp victory in the Group 1 Derby at Epsom but unlike his sire he looked a horse with more to give.

Unfortunately he suffered a career-ending injury in the Irish Derby, but the fact that he managed to finish a close third in that race to Capri and Cracksman, while fracturing his near-fore sesamoid, speaks volumes to the courage and ability of the horse, characteristics that if he passes them on to his offspring are likely to make him a success at stud.

Bred by Aliette and Giles Forien, the imposing bay was bought by Coolmore’s MV Magnier at the 2015 Arqana August Yearling Sale for €220,000.

He won his maiden over mile at Killarney and finished fourth to Coronet, who would go on to be a Group 1 winner, in the Listed Zetland Stakes.

On his seasonal reappearance he was second to stable companion Venice Beach in the Group 3 Chester Vase before his sensational Epsom triumph over a field that included subsequent Group 1 winners

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Despite his injury in the Irish Derby, he still managed to finish a length and a half clear of Prix du Jockey-Club and Arc winner Waldgeist who was fourth.

Wings Of Eagles is out of the Kendor mare Ysoldina, who won the Group 3 Prix de la Grotte and was third in the Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches. He is the best of five winners so far produced by Ysoldina, who also include the Group 2 Ribblesdale Stakes third Sparkle Roll and the Listed-placed fillies Torentosa and Gyrella. Ysoldina is a half-sister to the Group 1 Prix Saint-Alary winner Belle Et Celebre and Group 2 Prix Jean Romanet winner Whortleberry, who is the dam of Group 3 Unicorn Stakes winner Straw Hat. Her half-brothers are the Group 3 winners Valentino and Appel au Maitre and they are out of Rotina by the Blushing Groom stallion Crystal Glitters.

Third dam Rudolfina is a Listed-winning daughter of Pharly and is the dam of Listed Prix Ridgway winner Rupert and the Group 3 Prix Daphnis second Rampoldi. Over jumps her progeny include the Listed placed

pair of Riccordo Bello and Reach Me. He is inbred 4x5 to Northern Dancer on his sire’s side as Pour Moi’s third dam Royal Statue is a daughter of the breed-shaping sire.

Once recovered from his surgery it was announced that Wings Of Eagles would return to his breeders’ Haras du Montaigu to begin his stud career. Wings Of Eagles spent one season in Normandy at a fee of €12,000 before being recalled to Coolmore and a spot in the team at The Beeches Stud.

His first crop, conceived in France, are now three-year-olds and number 36 registered foals, including the Listed Prix Delahante winner Blue Wings. She is one of three juvenile winners from 17 runners in that initial crop. He has 156 two-year-olds, from his first season at The Beeches Stud, and 147 yearlings. He covered 135 mares in 2021.

His first crop of Irish foals achieved an average of €8,437 at the sales in 2020. The most expensive foal from that was at Goffs’ December NH Sale where Conor O’Brien bought a half-sister to the Grade 2 handicap chase winner Noble Endeavour for €25,000

Wings Of Eagles: the son of Pour Moi has a 156 two-year-olds and 147 yearlings for 2022

from The Beeches Stud. Out of a half-sister to Grade 1 Kauto Star Novices Chase second Warden Hill, she is from the further family of Mole Board, Deep Dawn and Bob Olinger.

At Tattersalls Ireland’s November NH Sale in 2020, the most expensive foal by Wings Of Eagles was also consigned by Robert McCarthy’s farm. The colt out of a half-sister to Grade 3 Shannon Spray Mares’ Novices’ Hurdle winner Kate Appleby Shoes was bought by Ryan Mahon for €21,000. Patrick Molloy sold his colt out of the winning hurdler and chaser Kylebeg Krystle at the same sale for €20,000 to Killameena Farm.

The average price for his second Irish crop of foals dipped with a top price of €25,000 at the Goffs December Sale where Matt O’Connor bought a colt out of a half-sister to Simon and to the dam of last year’s Irish Grand National winner Freewheelin’ Dylan from The Beeches Stud.

Two foals surpassed that mark at the Tattersalls Ireland sale with The Beeches Stud once again supplying the most expensive offspring of the Derby winner.

Kevin Ross Bloodstock purchased their grandson of the Grade 1 Tipperkevin Hurdle and Punchestown Champion Bumper winner Refinement for €33,000.

The April-born foal is a half-brother to the Grade 2 bumper placed Letsbeclearaboutit.

Yellowford Farm’s Wings Of Eagles halfbrother to Bellshill, whose multiple Grade 1 triumphs included the Irish Gold Cup, made €27,000 to Vanquish Bloodstock at the same sale.

WORKFORCE

King’s Best-Soviet Moon (Sadler’s Wells) Knockhouse Stud POA Year to stud: 2017 (transfer from Japan) Workforce’s first crop has hit the ground running with Man O’War winning two of his three completed starts.

Givehimthehonour made a winning debut in a quicker than average renewal of the four-year-old maiden at Castlelands for Denis Murphy who sold him at the Tattersalls Cheltenham Festival Sale for £75,000 to Gerry Hogan Bloodstock / Paul Nolan Racing.

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Returned to Europe in time for the 2017 breeding season from Japan, where he had stood since retiring in 2012, Workforce has 55 registered four-year-olds in his first NH and European crop.

Workforce was an exciting colt from the start of his career, winning a 7f maiden on debut at two by 6l at Goodwood for Sir Michael Stoute and Ryan Moore. Put away for a Classic campaign at three, he made his seasonal debut in the Group 2 Dante Stakes wher a tack malfunction hampered him but he ran on to take second place behind Cape Blanco.

That experience was put to good use in the Derby where he was a commanding 7l winner on just his third start, evoking comparisons with Shergar such was the authority of his success in a track record time.

He appeared to be suffering a hangover from his Epsom exploits in his next start when he could only manage fifth behind stable companion Harbinger in the Group 1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes.

However, he was back to his Derby winning self in the Arc, winning the European showpiece in just the fifth race of his life by a head from Japanese raider Nakayama Festa and a field that included Group 1 winners Sarafina, Fame And Glory, Planteur, Victoire Pisa, Youmzain, Lope De Vega, Wiener Walzer and Cape Blanco.

Juddmonte Farms resisted the temptation to retire him to stud after his Parisian triumph and he made his four-year-old debut a winning one in the Group 3 Brigadier Gerard Stakes and then took on So You Think in the Group 1 Eclipse Stakes, in which the Australian raider’s superior turn of foot proved decisive.

A second attempt at the King George again proved unsuccessful, being struck into during the second last furlong and veering across the course. Despite this he managed to be second to Nathaniel and beat St Nicholas Abbey in third.

He ended his career with a below-par effort in his attempt to win successive runnings of the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.

His stud career in Japan was a quiet one ,but he is the sire of six stakes performers

Givehimthehonour: the son of Workforce made £75,000 at the Cheltenham Festival Sale

there, headed by the Listed Kobi Stakes winner Meisho Keimei.

Bred by Juddmonte Farms he is by King’s Best, winner of the 2,000 Guineas and a three-parts brother to the outstanding broodmare Urban Sea. His dam is a Sadler’s Wells unraced full-sister to the Group 1 St Leger winner Brian Boru and the Listed Park Express Stakes winner Kitty O’Shea who is the dam of the Listed winner Kissable.

Another of Soviet Moon’s full-sisters is Kushnarenkova, who was second in the Group 3 Noblesse Stakes and is the dam of Listed winner Kosmische and second dam of Group 1 Grosser Preis von Baden and Caulfield Cup winner Best Solution by Kodiac.

She is also a three-parts sister to Group 2 Great Voltiguer Stakes and Hardwicke Stakes winner Sea Moon, and there is more on the family under his entry in this guide.

Workforce’s pedigree features inbreeding to Special, dam of Nureyev and second dam of Sadler’s Wells and Fairy Bridge who are sons of Fairy Bridge, her daughter by Bold Reason. Workforce is inbred 5x4 to Special through the three-parts brothers Sadler’s Wells and Nureyev who also create 5x3

inbreeding to their sire Northern Dancer. He is also inbred 5x5 to Native Dancer through his son Raise A Native who is the sire of Mr Prospector, the grandsire of King’s Best, and through Natalma dam of Northern Dancer.

While not boasting huge numbers of mares, Workforce has received solid support in his four years at stud with 55 foals registered in his first Irish crop who are now four. His three-year-olds number 71 and he has 66 two-year-olds registered and 36 foals.

He covered 58 mares last year.

His first stores averaged €21,933 with the most expensive member of that crop to come under the hammer a granddaughter of Cleeve Hurdle winner Kates’ Charm who made €37,000 at the Land Rover Sale to Milestone Bloodstock from Carrigbawn Stud. Joey Logan was also in the hunt for a Workforce filly at that sale, purchasing Glen Stables’ filly out of Grangeclare Flight, an Old Vic full-sister to the Grade 3 winner Grangeclare Lark and a half-sister to Grade 2 winner Scarthy Lad, for €34,000.

At the Goffs UK Spring Store Sale, Twiston-Davies Equine bought a Workforce gelding from Treannahow Stables for £27,000.

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NH stallion

foal averages

Stallions with horses sold as foals at NH sales in 2021 in Britain, Ireland and France showing numbers sold, averages and medians. In guineas, compiled by Weatherbys.

STALLION

sold

average

median

STALLION

Affinisea (IRE)

sold

average

median

31

9,765

6,803

Dschingis Secret (GER)

1

5,952

5,952

Alkaadhem (GB)

1

2,551

2,551

El Salvador (IRE)

4

7,228

5,953

Arctic Cosmos (USA)

1

2,126

2,126

Elusive Pimpernel (USA)

33

8,934

6,803

Ascalon (GB)

1

2,976

2,976

Falco (USA)

1

6,803

6,803

Austrian School (IRE)

4

3,146

2,764

Fascinating Rock (IRE)

3

13,322

12,755

Axxos (GER)

1

6,378

6,378

Feel Like Dancing (GB)

14

5,752

4,252

Bande (IRE)

2

7,653

7,653

Flag of Honour (IRE)

1

14,881

14,881

Barastraight (GB)

1

17,857

17,857

Frammassone (IRE)

2

4,975

4,975

Bathyrhon (GER)

2

6,590

6,590

Free Eagle (IRE)

2

8,716

8,716

Beaumec de Houelle (FR)

6

19,133

14,881

Gemix (FR)

1

12,755

12,755

Berkshire (IRE)

13

4,121

3,401

Gentlewave (IRE)

1

8,503

8,503

Blue Bresil (FR)

65

19,358

17007

1

28,061

28,061

54

18715

13,818

Getaway (GER)

Brave Mansonnien (FR)

1

27,211

27,211

Golden Horn (GB)

Buck’s Boum (FR)

3

20692

22,109

Golden Lariat (USA)

Bullet Train (GB)

1

13,180

13,180

Goliath Du Berlais (FR)

1

1488

1,488

11

25,588

19,558

Califet (FR)

3

4,677

5,102

Great Pretender (IRE)

Capri (IRE)

33

12,168

8,503

Harzand (IRE)

Castle du Berlais (FR)

2

14,456

14,456

Cloudings (IRE)

3

7,369

5,102

Hillstar (GB)

Cokoriko (FR)

2

3,827

3,827

Ice Breeze (GB)

Court Cave (IRE)

5

5,646

5,527

Idaho (IRE)

Creachadoir (IRE)

1

17,007

17,007

Intello (GER)

1

8,503

8,503

Crystal Ocean (GB)

61

26,621

21,259

It’s Gino (GER)

2

10,204

10,204

Dartmouth (GB)

Highland Reel (IRE)

4

16157

17,858

15

21,117

18,707

2

23,810

23,810

18

11,258

6,591

2

2,976

2,976

26

5,704

6,165

4

10,948

11,905

Ivanhowe (GER)

2

9,779

9,779

Diamond Boy (FR)

14

7,592

7,653

Jack Hobbs (GB)

2

7,398

7,398

Doctor Dino (FR)

8

40,179

36140

Jet Away (GB)

44

11,712

8,291

10

9,669

7,653

Jeu St Eloi (FR)

1

17,007

17,007

1

9,779

9,779

Jimmy Two Times (FR)

1

18,707

18,707

Doyen (IRE) Dragon Dancer (GB)

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sold

average

median

Joshua Tree (IRE)

9

8,267

6,803

Jukebox Jury (IRE)

32

14,854

12,543

2

3,827

3,827

Kamsin (GER) Kap Rock (FR)

1

850

850

Kapgarde (FR)

2

24,660

24,660

Karaktar (IRE)

1

3,401

3,401

Kingfisher (IRE)

1

3,401

3,401

Kingston Hill (GB)

19

5,057

2,551

Lauro (GER)

1

17,007

17,007

Leading Light (IRE)

6

4,748

2,764

Libertarian (GB)

9

5,811

4,252

Linda’s Lad (GB)

2

8,079

8,079

Lucky Speed (IRE)

6

6,052

3,189

25

10,646

10,204

Malinas (GER)

8

9,194

6,165

Manatee (GB)

1

9,354

9,354

Manduro (GER)

1

9,354

9,354

Mahler (GB)

Marcel (IRE)

6

6,732

4,252

11

10,127

9,354

Mastercraftsman (IRE)

1

47,619

47,619

Masterofthehorse (IRE)

1

8,503

8,503

Masterstroke (USA)

4

9,673

6,803

Maxios (GB)

64

13,574

11,693

Milan (GB)

6

11,792

9,992

Mizzou (IRE)

3

2,438

1,871

Montmartre (FR)

2

4,465

4,465

Morpheus (GB)

1

10,204

10,204

Motivator (GB)

1

3,401

3,401

My Dream Boat (IRE)

1

2,551

2,551

Nicaron (GER)

1

1,701

1,701

Night Wish (GER)

2

11,905

11,905

Nirvana Du Berlais (FR)

9

15,684

14,456

No Risk At All (FR)

9

43,084

35,714

Ocovango (GB)

8

3,061

2,126

49

16,602

14,456

Papal Bull (GB)

1

10,204

10,204

Pillar Coral (GB)

14

3,359

2,976

1

8,929

8,929

58

15,588

12,330

Masked Marvel (GB)

Order of St George (IRE)

Planteur (IRE) Poet’s Word (IRE) Policy Maker (IRE)

2

6,250

6,250

Prince Gibraltar (FR)

1

5,952

5,952

Proconsul (GB)

1

1,361

1,361

STALLION

sold

average

median

Quest For Peace (IRE)

2

4,039

4,039

Rail Link (GB)

1

6,803

6,803

Retirement Plan (GB)

1

1,701

1,701

Robin du Nord (FR)

1

12,755

12,755

Rubik (GB)

2

4,890

4,890

Saddex (GB)

6

8,574

4,677

Sageburg (IRE)

1

1,701

1,701

Saint des Saints (FR)

2

48,470

48,470

Salutino (GER)

1

1,020

1,020

Sandmason (GB)

2

3,614

3,614

Scorpion (IRE)

1

850

850

Sea Moon (GB)

4

11,161

12,117

Shantaram (GB)

2

3,614

3,614

Shirocco (GER)

48

9,940

8,078

Sholokhov (IRE)

16

15,891

14,031

Silverwave (FR)

3

14,456

1,701

Snow Sky (GB)

3

8,418

7,228

Sogann (FR)

1

28,912

28,912 12,755

Soldier of Fortune (IRE)

45

17,659

Spanish Moon (USA)

1

850

850

Success Days (IRE)

7

19,011

12,755

Sumbal (IRE)

6

5,882

4,890

Telescope (IRE)

13

10,400

8,503

Tirwanako (FR)

9

6,189

5,527

Ultra (IRE)

1

1,701

1,701

Vadamos (FR)

50

9,757

8,504

Valirann (FR)

12

5,740

5,740

1

7,653

7,653

53

29,906

29,762

1

2,551

2,551

Vendangeur (IRE) Walk In The Park (IRE) Walzertakt (GER) Well Chosen (GB) Westerner (GB) Willywell (FR) Wings of Eagles (FR) Workforce (GB)

2

22,959

22,959

21

13,059

11,480

1

5,952

5,952

49

6,291

4,252

8

5,049

2,339

13

11,022

11,054

Yorgunnabelucky (USA)

2

3,189

3,189

Youmzain (IRE)

8

4,624

2,764

Zarak (FR)

1

44,218

44,218

Yeats (IRE)

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NH stallion store horse averages

Stallions with two or more horses sold as NH 3yo and 4yo store horses at the major NH store sales in 2021 in Britain, Ireland and France, showing numbers sold averages and medians. In guineas, compiled by Weatherbys.

STALLION

sold

average

median

STALLION

sold

average

median

Affinisea (IRE)

20

23,150

19,133

Dansant (GB)

3

8,645

7,653

Aizavoski (IRE)

2

16,191

16,191

Davidoff (GER)

4

31,208

24,150

Al Namix (FR)

8

45,094

38,606

Diamond Boy (FR)

10

14,335

13,997

Alkaadhem (GB)

6

8,931

7,653

Doctor Dino (FR)

Arcadio (GER)

7

5,721

3,401

Doyen (IRE)

Arctic Cosmos (USA)

3

9,779

9,354

Arvico (FR)

2

13,946

13,946

Ask (GB)

7

67,823

51,020

35

17,323

12,755

Dunaden (FR)

2

29,524

29,524

Dylan Thomas (IRE)

6

7,075

5,740

11

7,382

8,503

Elusive Pimpernel (USA)

7

14,638

7,653

Authorized (IRE)

8

73,869

65,902

Elzaam (AUS)

2

2,679

2,679

Balko (FR)

6

39,263

38,180

Famous Name (GB)

11

11,234

6,803

Beat Hollow (GB)

17

31,803

22,109

Feel Like Dancing (GB)

2

8,291

8,291

Black Sam Bellamy (IRE)

10

11,057

11,429

Flemensfirth (USA)

38

39,925

39,830

Blue Bresil (FR)

29

41,244

38,265

Gamut (IRE)

2

7,441

7,441

Brave Mansonnien (FR)

2

50,170

50,170

Gatewood (GB)

3

4,025

3,571

Buck’s Boum (FR)

3

37,245

23,810

Gentlewave (IRE)

3

14,957

9,524 19,558

Califet (FR)

33

15,954

9,048

63

27,505

Cannock Chase (USA)

2

16,191

16,191

Golden Lariat (USA)

3

7,936

5,952

Carlotamix (FR)

3

7,143

5,527

Great Pretender (IRE)

8

25,255

27,041

41

25,429

18,707

Gris de Gris (IRE)

4

19,175

18,368

Champs Elysees (GB) Cloudings (IRE)

Getaway (GER)

7

15,129

8,503

Harzand (IRE)

2

28,895

28,895

Clovis du Berlais (FR)

11

22,537

17,007

Hillstar (GB)

5

15,986

7,653

Coastal Path (GB)

22

35,053

32,347

Imperial Monarch (IRE)

6

8,123

4,762

6

25,935

24,660

Jet Away (GB)

26

17,041

13,521

Cokoriko (FR) Conduit (IRE)

2

1,276

1,276

Jeu St Eloi (FR)

7

45,156

34,014

Court Cave (IRE)

21

15,812

12,755

Joshua Tree (IRE)

3

60,692

51,020

Creachadoir (IRE)

5

18,537

18,707

Jukebox Jury (IRE)

7

41,205

30,612

Crillon (FR)

4

60,077

56,378

Kalanisi (IRE)

14

21,216

14,031

Curtain Time (IRE)

2

1,786

1,786

Kapgarde (FR)

7

30,809

29,762

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STALLION

sold

average

median

Karaktar (IRE)

2

14,881

14,881

Kayf Tara (GB)

30

47,257

40,816

Kingston Hill (GB)

20

17,359

14,881

Kitkou (FR)

5

31,208

27,636

Lauro (GER)

2

23,606

23,606

Laverock (IRE)

5

7,483

6,803

Leading Light (IRE)

25

7,869

4,677

Libertarian (GB)

11

9,280

8,503

5

12,146

11,054

Mahler (GB)

60

17,112

13,605

Malinas (GER)

31

15,836

13,180

Marcel (IRE)

2

12,968

12,968

Martaline (GB)

7

70,214

49,320

13

25,243

17,007

Mastercraftsman (IRE)

2

24,660

24,660

Masterofthehorse (IRE)

4

2,657

2,551

Maxios (GB)

5

45,238

44,218

Milan (GB)

60

28,735

21,684

2

6,905

6,905

Lucky Speed (IRE)

Masked Marvel (GB)

Millenary (GB) Montmartre (FR)

12

43,573

33,163

Morandi (FR)

3

30,442

42,517

Morpheus (GB)

2

1,574

1,574

Most Improved (IRE)

2

6,888

6,888

Mount Nelson (GB)

73

26,137

20,408

Mustameet (USA)

2

13,818

13,818

Network (GER)

5

57,878

59,524

Night Wish (GER)

2

9,643

9,643

No Risk At All (FR)

10

53,174

41,667

Norse Dancer (IRE)

4

9,538

4 30

Notnowcato (GB) Ocovango (GB) Ol’ Man River (IRE)

16

Pether’s Moon (IRE)

8

Policy Maker (IRE) Pour Moi (IRE) Presenting (GB) Proconsul (GB) Quest For Peace (IRE) Sageburg (IRE) Saint des Saints (FR)

The Goffs Land Rover Sale top lot is an own-brother to the Grade 1 winner Airlie Beach (Shantou). He was sold by Peter Nolan Bloodstock and bought by Bective Stud for €230,000

Leading NH stallions by store horse average 2021 (two or more sold) Sire Name

Average

10,000

Authorized (IRE)

73,869

21,684

22,109

Martaline (GB)

70,214

11,463

8,503

Doctor Dino (FR)

67,823

9,779

Saint des Saints (FR)

64,682

Joshua Tree (IRE)

60,692

10,269 17,637

14,847

2

6,803

6,803

Crillon (FR)

60,077

9

10,905

9,354

Network (GER)

57,878

30,476

No Risk At All (FR)

53,174

Walk In The Park (IRE)

52,385

19

39,921

2

12,721

12,721

3

9,354

5,952

Brave Mansonnien (FR)

50,170

24

9,389

5,740

Kayf Tara (GB)

47,257

Maxios (GB)

45,238 45,156

9

64,682

61,224

Sans Frontieres (IRE)

7

6,706

3,827

Jeu St Eloi (FR)

Schiaparelli (GER)

5

10,096

7,619

Al Namix (FR)

45,094

Scorpion (IRE)

5

7,143

9,524

Montmartre (FR)

43,573

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STALLION

sold

average

median 31,888

Sea Moon (GB)

6

27,324

Shantaram (GB)

2

2,977

2,977

Shantou (USA)

33

38,462

22,959

Shirocco (GER)

30

22,334

16,582

Sholokhov (IRE)

26

28,210

24,235

Sir Percy (GB)

2

28,493

28,493

Sixties Icon (GB)

2

28,486

28,486

Snow Sky (GB)

5

11,650

12,755

Soldier of Fortune (IRE)

93

29,131

23,810

Spanish Moon (USA)

21

19,742

18,707

Sun Central (IRE)

2

857

857

Telescope (IRE)

33

22,930

16,190

Toronado (IRE)

2

10,238

10,238

Triple Threat (FR)

2

33,164

33,164

Turgeon (USA)

3

17,007

17,007

Vadamos (FR)

10

29,762

25,511

Valirann (FR)

19

14,635

8,078

Vendangeur (IRE)

10

17,813

17,007

Vision d’Etat (FR)

2

15,170

15,170

Voiladenuo (FR)

2

14,881

14,881

Walk In The Park (IRE)

86

52,385

42,517

Walzertakt (GER)

2

23,861

23,861

Well Chosen (GB)

10

21,641

19,558

Westerner (GB)

56

22,519

18,028

Workforce (GB)

12

15,819

15,272

Yeats (IRE)

8

20,256

22,960

Yorgunnabelucky (USA)

3

5,527

4,252

Zambezi Sun (GB)

4

14,401

12,330

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covering statistics

Stallion

covering stats 2021 Table showing the covering statistics of the major NH / dual-purpose sires standing in Britain or Ireland in 2021.

Black-type results include both NH and Flat From Weatherbys STALLION

NH stallions by nos of mares covered

covered

wnrs

BT pfrs

BT wnrs

324

60

10

3

Alhebayeb (IRE)

8

2

-

-

Affinisea (IRE)

324

Altruistic (IRE)

7

1

1

-

Order Of St George (IRE)

313

Arrigo (GER)

39

15

3

-

Maxios (GB)

309

Ask (GB)

13

6

-

-

Crystal Ocean (GB)

302

Austrian School (IRE)

37

8

-

-

Jet Away (GB)

279

5

2

-

-

Vadamos (FR)

244

Berkshire (IRE)

183

30

4

-

Poet’s Word (IRE)

229

Blue Bresil (FR)

215

75

25

10

Walk In The Park (IRE)

226

Bullet Train (GB)

16

2

-

-

Blue Bresil (FR)

215

122

31

7

5

Soldier of Fortune (IRE)

203

Carlotamix (FR)

9

1

1

1

Kew Gardens (IRE)

198

Court Cave (IRE)

45

10

2

Berkshire (IRE)

183

302

121

49

25

Yeats (IRE)

180

Dartmouth (GB)

65

30

9

8

Jukebox Jury (IRE)

175

Diamond Boy (FR)

38

9

1

-

Getaway (GER)

164

Dink (FR)

47

31

5

-

Jack Hobbs (GB)

163

1

-

-

-

Old Persian (GB)

163

Doyen (IRE)

49

12

-

-

Mahler (GB)

162

Dragon Dancer (GB)

27

17

-

-

Valirann (FR)

156

Dragon Pulse (IRE)

14

3

-

-

Idaho (IRE)

136

El Salvador (IRE)

32

3

-

-

Nathaniel (IRE)

136

Elusive Pimpernel (USA)

84

26

1

1

Wings of Eagles (FR)

135

Falco (USA)

62

27

5

2

Capri (IRE)

122

Fascinating Rock (IRE)

26

12

2

-

Sumbal (IRE)

120

Affinisea (IRE)

Axxos (GER)

Capri (IRE)

Crystal Ocean (GB)

Diplomat (GER)

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mares

covering statistics

covered

wnrs

Feel Like Dancing (GB)

STALLION

51

8

-

-

Finsceal Fior (IRE)

11

3

1

-

Flag of Honour (IRE)

45

19

1

-

1

1

-

-

Frammassone (IRE)

23

8

-

-

Free Eagle (IRE)

48

23

4

2

Frontiersman (GB)

78

37

4

-

Fuisse (FR)

41

4

-

-

101

33

8

4

9

3

2

-

Fountain of Youth (IRE)

Galileo Chrome (IRE) Gamut (IRE) Gemix (FR) Gentlewave (IRE) Getaway (GER) Golden Lariat (USA) Harbour Law (GB) Harzand (IRE) Highland Reel (IRE)

BT pfrs

BT wnrs

1

-

-

45

20

12

3

164

64

27

14

10

3

-

-

8

4

-

-

76

35

11

5

Poet’s Word: his first crop of NH foals were popular at the sales, and the sire is likely to be highly patronised again by NH breeders

104

61

22

9

Hillstar (GB)

65

16

7

3

Hunting Horn (IRE)

82

22

1

1

NH stallions by winning mares covered

Idaho (IRE)

136

21

1

-

STALLION

Jack Hobbs (GB)

163

92

19

8

Jet Away (GB)

279

75

20

10

Walk In The Park (IRE)

127

10

Crystal Ocean (GB)

121

-

Nathaniel (IRE)

101 95

Jukebox Jury (IRE) Kamsin (GER) Kap Rock (FR) Kew Gardens (IRE) Kingston Hill (GB) Lauro (GER)

175 1

68 -

24 -

mares

34

8

2

1

Maxios (GB)

198

51

14

5

Order Of St George (IRE)

94

-

Jack Hobbs (GB)

92

-

Poet’s Word (IRE)

88 84

33 33

5 5

-

Leading Light (IRE)

23

4

-

-

Vadamos (FR)

Libertarian (GB)

50

12

3

1

Jet Away (GB)

75

-

Blue Bresil (FR)

75

-

Jukebox Jury (IRE)

68 64

Linda’s Lad (GB) Lucky Speed (IRE) Mahler (GB) Malinas (GER) Masterstroke (USA) Maxios (GB) Media Hype (GB) Milan (GB) Monitor Closely (IRE) Mountain High (IRE) My Dream Boat (IRE) Nathaniel (IRE) Ocovango (GB)

31 23

10 1

-

162

43

5

1

Getaway (GER)

46

11

3

3

Highland Reel (IRE)

61

3

Affinisea (IRE)

60

7

Soldier of Fortune (IRE)

60 55

60 309

28 95

8 30

2

-

-

-

Yeats (IRE)

36

10

2

1

Passing Glance (GB)

53

-

Kew Gardens (IRE)

51

-

Telescope (IRE)

50

Mahler (GB)

43

Shirocco (GER)

40

Planteur (IRE)

39

12 8

3 -

-

1

1

-

-

136

101

54

29

86

29

5

-

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covering statistics

STALLION Ol’ Man River (IRE)

covered

wnrs

27

7

BT pfrs -

BT wnrs -

Old Persian (GB)

163

38

8

4

Order of St George (IRE)

313

94

26

10

Passing Glance (GB)

93

53

8

4

Phoenix Reach (IRE)

4

4

2

116

18

77

Poet’s Word (IRE)

NH stallions by BT-performing mares STALLION

mares

Walk In The Park (IRE)

65

Nathaniel (IRE)

54

Crystal Ocean (GB)

49

-

Poet’s Word (IRE)

31

1

-

Maxios (GB)

30

39

11

4

Getaway (GER)

27

229

88

31

15

Order of St George (IRE)

26

Policy Maker (IRE)

56

11

2

-

Blue Bresil (FR)

25

Primary (USA)

25

3

-

-

Jukebox Jury (IRE)

24

Saddex (GB)

71

16

-

-

Soldier of Fortune (IRE)

23

Scalo (GB)

17

9

3

2

Highland Reel (IRE)

22

Schiaparelli (GER)

28

11

3

1

Pillar Coral (GB) Planteur (IRE)

Scorpion (IRE)

21

8

2

1

Sea Moon (GB)

74

17

5

1

Shantaram (GB)

21

2

-

-

Shirocco (GER)

118

40

6

3

Sholokhov (IRE)

83

24

8

2

Sir Percy (GB)

26

17

4

3

Sixties Icon (GB)

30

15

1

-

Snow Sky (GB)

1

1

-

-

203

60

23

5

1

1

-

-

Soldier of Fortune (IRE) Spanish Moon (USA) Success Days (IRE)

95

17

2

-

Sumbal (IRE)

120

28

6

2

Telescope (IRE)

100

50

14

8

Tirwanako (FR)

84

18

2

1

9

4

-

-

Urban Poet (USA) Vadamos (FR)

244

84

20

8

Valirann (FR)

156

24

6

2

Walk In The Park (IRE)

226

127

65

41

Way To Paris (GB)

110

28

8

6

Well Chosen (GB)

26

5

2

-

Westerner (GB)

110

30

6

3

Wings of Eagles (FR)

135

32

5

3

58

11

2

2

180

55

14

6

Yorgunnabelucky (USA)

39

19

1

-

Youmzain (IRE)

30

3

1

1

Zambezi Sun (GB)

23

3

-

Workforce (GB) Yeats (IRE)

Nathaniel: was kept busy by breeders in 2021 and saw a quality book, too

NH stallions by BT-winning mares STALLION

mares

Walk In The Park (IRE)

41

Nathaniel (IRE)

29

Crystal Ocean (GB)

25

Poet’s Word (IRE)

15

Getaway (GER)

14

Order of St George (IRE)

10

Blue Bresil (FR)

10

Jukebox Jury (IRE)

10

Jet Away (GB)

10

Highland Reel (IRE)

9

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photo of the month: the Tiger’s last day at the races WHILE THE DREAM result would have been a cross-country chase win at The Festival for Tiger Roll on his final career start, his last-ever race gave everything else, the warrior went down fighting in a fine second place to Delta Work.

Chat after that connections should not have run Delta Work was ridiculous – there was never a guarantee that the Tiger would have been involved in the finish. If trainer Gordon Elliott and owner Michael O’Leary had worked out that it was the race they wanted for Delta Work, why would they make any other choice?

The decision made by O’Leary, to the annoyance of some, to retire Tiger after Cheltenham and not take in another Grand National has been completely vindicated Tiger Roll was not a free marketing tool for Aintree.

The superstar can now enjoy his well-earned retirement.

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