Torquator Tasso at Gestüt Auenquelle
First-crop yearling sires
STRADIVARIUS Speed - Soundness First Yearlings 2025
Selling at
Goffs Premier Yearling Sale,
Goffs Orby Book 1, Tattersalls Book 1 & Book 2, etc.
Our Stradivarius colt has plenty of size, scope and substance. He looks to have a good chance of winning a £25,000 bonus as a two-year-old. LUKE LILLINGSTON
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STRADIVARIUS
Soundness - Sireline
I went to look at Stradivarius and was blown away by his walk and his whole presence. I have used him before and went back to him again this year
EMMA BALDING
Based off the result of the first foal we had by Stradivarius, we sent Lola Paige in his second season who is the dam of an exciting Too Darn Hot filly we sold for 600,000gns last October
CHOC THORNTON
Dual Gr.1-winning Cartier Champion 2YO Colt by NO NAY NEVER
His first six sires are all Gr.1-winning 2YOs Own-brother to the 2025 Gr.2 Norfolk Stakes winner at Royal Ascot CHARLES DARWIN
“controlled the race in the style of a top-class sprinter, the natural heir to his sire, who won this for Coolmore and Wesley Ward in 2013.”
RACING POST, on the Prix Morny
WON Gr.1 Middle Park Stakes, 6f, by 2 lengths
WON Gr.1 Prix Morny, 6f, emulating his sire No Nay Never
WON Gr.2 Prix Robert Papin, 6f, by 3 lengths in track record time
WON Gr.3 Marble Hill Stakes, 6f, by 3½ lengths
WON Listed First Flier Stakes, 5f
WON Maiden, 5f, on 8th April by 1½ lengths
DON’T
MISS HIS OUTSTANDING FIRST YEARLINGS!
NAVAL CROWN
This, would you believe, is the finish of the most competitive sprint race of its year. Not in shot: the winners of the Commonwealth Cup, Nunthorpe, Sussex, Maurice de Gheest, Flying Five, Forêt and British Champions Sprint.
As well as winning the G1 Platinum Jubilee from an elite field, Dubawi’s lookalike sprinting son beat the Breeders’ Cup Mile winner… over a mile. Must-see yearlings selling now.
DUBAWI LEGEND
#BecomePartOfTheLegend
A speedy, well bred son of Dubawi.
BRUCE RAYMOND
Second highest rated 2yo of his generation
2nd Gr.1 Darley Dewhurst Stakes to European Champion 2yo & 3yo Classic winner Native Trail. 3yo Group winnng sprinter.
A higher rated 2yo than his contemporaries
Better than Night Of Thunder, Modern Games, Ghaiyyath, Naval Crown, Space Blues, Zarak, New Bay, etc.
Aesop’s Fables Dubawi Legend Far Above King Of Change Space Traveller Galileo Chrome
I pulled him out and he went woosh... DANNY TUDHOPE
Won/placed in 10 Stakes races inc:
1st Gr.2 Boomerang Stakes, Leopardstown, 1m
1st Gr.3 Jersey Stakes, Royal Ascot, 7f
2nd Gr.1 Frank E. Kilroe Mile, Santa Anita, 1m
2nd Gr.1 Woodbine Mile, Woodbine,1m
3rd Gr.1 Pegasus World Cup, Gulfstream Park, 1m1f
Micheál Orlandi, Compas Stallions
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STRONGLY SUPPORTED BY LEADING BREEDERS IN BOTH HEMISPHERES FIRST CROP YEARLINGS 2025
STATE OF REST
Starspangledbanner x Repose (Quiet American)
THE ONLY HORSE IN HISTORY TO WIN THREE CONSECUTIVE GR.1’S ON THREE CONTINENTS
WON €3.4 MILLION IN PRIZE MONEY
GR. 1 WINS IN AUSTRALIA, AMERICA AND EUROPE
Gr.1 Prince of Wales’s Stakes, Royal Ascot
Gr.1 Prix Ganay, Longchamp
Gr.1 Ladbrokes Cox Plate, Moonee Valley
Gr.1 Saratoga Derby Invitational Stakes, Saratoga
TOP-RATED OLDER HORSE IN IRELAND & FRANCE IN 2022 (9.5–10.5f)
Northern-hemisphere first-crop yearling stallions listed by Timeform master ratings with Weatherbys’ winning distances
Weatherbys Stallion Scene: Torquator Tasso and Rubaiyat are out to make a mark at stud in Germany, writes Catrin Nack
Weatherbys Stallion Scene: Caturra is the second winner of the Flying Childers to stand at Overbury Stud, and manager Simon Sweeting is hoping the son of Mehmas can emulate Ardad’s success
Complete stallion statistics from last year’s European foal sales from Weatherbys
European commercial Flat stallions with first-crop yearlings, featuring all the facts and stats that you need to know
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LANWADES
Breeding Champions
1984-2025 : Breeders of the winners of over 204 Stakes Races WORLDWIDE 34 Group 1’s • 29 Group 2’s • 41 Group 3’s • 100 Listed
Selling own or half-brothers to GROUP 1 winners of 17 GROUP 1 races as well as the progeny of mares that have won GROUP 1, GROUP 3 and LISTED Races
ALPINISTA (6 x Gr.1 wins)
ELDAR ELDAROV (2 x Gr.1 Classic wins)
DURSTON (Gr.1 & Gr.3)
GLORIOUS FOREVER (Gr.1)
(4 x Gr.1 wins)
TIME WARP (3 x Gr.1 wins)
Tattersalls Ireland Sales – 23rd to 24th September 2025
Colt SAXON WARRIOR – ALIZARINE (Sea The Moon)
Filly ARDAD – HELVETIQUE (Bobby’s Kitten)
Colt OASIS DREAM – MEMORY LANE (With Approval)
Colt STUDY OF MAN – VINCITOMNIA (Invincible Spirit)
Goffs Orby Sales – 29th September to 30th September 2025
Colt BAAEED – ALOE VERA (Invincible Spirit)
Filly SEA THE STARS – HEAT AND DUST (Oasis Dream)
Colt FRANKEL – MADAME CHIANG (Archipenko)
Colt SEA THE MOON – RANI OF JHANSI (Invincible Spirit)
Tattersalls October Sales • Book 1 – 7th to 9th October 2025
Colt SIYOUNI – ALBAFLORA (Muhaarar)
Colt NEW BAY – ALL AT SEA (Sea The Stars)
Colt FRANKEL – ALWILDA (Hernando)
Tattersalls October Sales • Book 2 – 13th to 15th October 2025
Colt STUDY OF MAN – ALERTA ROJA (Golden Horn)
Colt SEA THE MOON – CARIBANA (Hernando)
Colt STUDY OF MAN – KESARA (Sadler’s Wells)
Colt STUDY OF MAN – LEADERENE (Selkirk)
Colt STUDY OF MAN – QUINTADA (Leroidesanimaux)
Colt WOOTTON BASSETT – HERE TO ETERNITY (Stormy Atlantic)
Tattersalls October Sales • Book 3 – 16th to 17th October 2025
Colt STUDY OF MAN – ALAMODE (Sir Percy)
Colt STUDY OF MAN – ALBARAKA (Selkirk)
Colt STUDY OF MAN – ALTRA VITA (Animal Kingdom)
ZAAKI
4YO
OMBUDSMAN
Prince of Wales’s Stakes, Gr. 1, etc purchased for 340,000 gns
2YO
VENETIAN SUN
Duchess of Cambridge Stakes, Gr. 2 Albany Stakes, Gr. 3, Royal Ascot purchased for 240,000 gns
Major northern-hemisphere stallions with first yearlings 2025: in order of Timeform
Flightline (USA) Tapit (USA)-Feathered (USA)
Baaeed (GB)
The
(IRE)-Aghareed (USA)
(IRE)
Torquator Tasso (GER) Adlerflug (GER)-Tijuana (GER)
Golden Pal (USA) Uncle Mo (USA)-Lady Shipman (USA)
Efforia (JPN)
(JPN)-Katies Heart (JPN)
Minzaal (IRE) Mehmas (IRE)-Pardoven (IRE)
Mystic Guide (USA)
Ghostzapper (USA)-Music Note (USA)
Sealiway (FR) Galiway (GB)-Kensea (FR) Haras
State of Rest (IRE) Starspangledbanner (AUS)-Repose (USA) Rathbarry
Hot Rod Charlie (USA) Oxbow (USA)-Indian Miss (USA)
Salios (JPN) Heart’s Cry (JPN)-Salomina (GER)
Mandaloun (USA) Into Mischief (USA)-Brooch (USA)
Speaker’s Corner (USA) Street Sense (USA)-Tyburn Brook (USA)
Bayside Boy (IRE) New Bay (GB)-Alava (IRE)
Marianafoot (FR) Footstepsinthesand (GB)-Marianabaa (FR)
Early Voting (USA) Gun Runner (USA)-Amour d’Ete (USA)
Crown (GB)
(IRE)-Come
Dicaprio (GER) Adlerflug (GER)-Donna Lavinia (GER)
Ilaraab (IRE) Wootton Bassett (GB)-Belova (IRE)
Keiai Nautique (JPN) Deep Impact (JPN)-Keiai Gerbera (JPN) Karwin
Mare Australis (IRE) Australia (GB)-Miramare (GER)
Nerium (IRE) Camelot (GB)-Nicolaia (GER)
Perfect Power (IRE) Ardad (IRE)-Sagely (IRE)
Thunder Moon (IRE) Zoffany (IRE)-Small Sacrifice (IRE) Haras de Bouquetot
Alignak (GB) Sea The Moon (GER)-Albanova (GB) Clongeel Stud
Blackbeard (IRE) No Nay Never (USA)-Muirin (IRE) Coolmore
Corniche (USA) Quality Road (USA)-Wasted Tears (USA) Ashford
Epicenter (USA) Not This Time (USA)-Silent Candy (USA)
Sir Winston (USA) Awesome Again (CAN)-La Gran Bailadora (USA) Crestwood
Waldkonig (GB) Kingman (GB)-Waldlerche (GB)
Fire At Will (USA) Declaration of War (USA)-Flirt (USA)
Space Traveller (GB) Bated Breath (GB)-Sky Crystal (GER)
Rubaiyat (FR) Areion (GER)-Representera (GB) Gestüt
Caturra (IRE) Mehmas (IRE)-Shoshoni Wind (GB)
Dubawi Legend (IRE) Dubawi (IRE)-Lovely Pass (IRE)
Wells Farhh Go (IRE) Farhh (GB)-Mowazana (IRE)
Ebro River (IRE) Galileo Gold (GB)-Soft Power (IRE)
Texas (FR) Wootton Bassett (GB)-Texalova (GB)
Pinehurst (USA) Twirling Candy (USA)-Giant Win (USA)
Lavello (IRE) Zarak (FR)-Laura (GER)
Makaloun (FR)
(FR)
Persian Force (IRE) Mehmas (IRE)-Vida Amorosa (IRE)
Idol (USA) Curlin (USA)-Marion Ravenwood (USA)
Martel (IRE) Frankel (GB)-Lady of Shamrock (USA)
torquator tasso and rubaiyat
Stallion stars in Germany
Exciting times in Germany with first-crop yearlings by the Arc winner Torquator Tasso and the top German two-year-old Rubaiyat hitting the sale ring this autumn, reports Catrin Nack
WHILE IT WOULD EXAGGERATE REALITY SLIGHTLY to say all is rosy in Germany’s horseracing garden, the two stallions on the German roster with first-crop yearlings add a frission of excitement.
German foal crops are dwindling and, in an ever-increasing global market, size simply matters. Speed sells, and Germany’s traditional – if not to say old-fashioned – approach to breeding might look just that: outdated.
But every time one looks at the figures and wonders where the saviour is going to come from, up springs a dual Derby-placed Lazy Griff or a Geography to fly the flag for German breeding. The latter was slightly disappointing at Epsom´s Derby meeting but left that form well behind when fighting all the way to the line to finish second in the mile Prix Messidor (G3) at Chantilly.
Lazy Griff is a true product of German breeding, and was bought by bloodstock agent Jeremy Brummitt at his happy hunting ground, the BBAG September Sale.
The horse surely stands for all that is good in the German thoroughbred – his dam may carry a slightly unusual DEN suffix, but he was born and raised on German soil, his father a late son of Monsun. A Group winner at two, Lazy Griff has been unlucky to meet Lambourn in all his three races in 2025. One-sided those results may have been, but Lazy Griff showed true grit and determination; and running in the colours of Middleham Park Racing he has not done his popularity any harm. In fact, his is the type of story that keeps the dream of the “normal” people alive.
Both were sold as yearlings at the BBAG September Sale, Germany’s premier sale, the
Above and below, a return in triumph: Torquator Tasso with jockey Rene Piechulek after success in Europe’s autumn all-aged, middle-distance highlight, the Group 1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe
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sale also having produced last year’s Sun Chariot Stakes (G1) winner Tamfana, who went on to run a fine race when third to Charyn and Facteur Cheval in last October’s Queen Elizabeth II Stakes.
This year’s sale is scheduled for the first Friday in September and, as usual, it will be flanked by racing.
There will be plenty of yearlings catalogued by local stalwarts such as Protectionist and Soldier Hollow and company, but two stallions will be represented by their debut crops.
The pair pick up where we started – one was a tip-top racehorse, unraced at two who went on to become one of the best – if not the bestGerman middle-distance horse of last decade; the other as early and as precocious a two-yearold as we have seen in Germany in a long time.
Both were born in 2017 and both raced until 2022.
The most recent of Germany’s three Arc winners, Torquator Tasso, a son of the late Adlerflug, is clearly one of the best racehorses to retire to stud in Germany for many a season.
With the fabled blue hen Allegretta as his fourth dam, he couldn’t have written himself a more interesting stallion pedigree either.
“He won the Arc, was placed in another and was runner-up in a King George as well,” acknowledges Karl-Dieter Ellerbracke, who owned the horse in a partnership in training and now stands him at Gestüt Auenquelle, adding: “We had decent offers from abroad but our aim was always to strengthen German breeding.”
Auenquelle was founded in the early 1980s, and has a long tradition as a stallion farm, Steffen Jacoby is now its stud manager.
Torquator Tasso is now the sole stallion
resident, but the farm’s own broodmare band of 30 has helped give him the numbers he needs to have an impact at stud.
Torquator Tasso is represented by 18 lots in the BBAG September Sale with six due to be consigned by Auenquelle.
“He was very popular from the start and many breeders who used him in his first season saw the foals and came right back,” says Ellerbracke.
“In fact, foreign breeders who saw his first foals at other studs were so impressed that they then sent their mares, too. He covered around 80 in his first season and was just as busy in the next two.
“He was your quintessential stayer with a great turn of foot, exactly what you want in a racehorse.
“He represents these traits in such an extraordinary way and convinces with his character and physique as well. He isn’t your typical Adlerflug, who can be a bit light in bone, but is simply a stunning looking horse.
“His fertility has always been very good at 90 per cent. As a typical owner-breeder, we are going to support him in the racing yards as well.”
Auenquelle offers a half-brother to the Listed winner and one-time Deutsches Derby favourite Delgardo (Lot 68), as well as a strong-looking filly from one of Auenquelle’s long-standing families, the “Oriental” dam-line (Lot 41).
Turfwilli (Lot 53) comes from Auenquelle’s “T-line” of Turfdonna and Turfkönig; Tarkhan and Turf Sumy are black-type names further up the young colt’s pedigree.
Torquator Tasso was never syndicated, but eight breeding rights were sold before his second career commenced. Those rights enabled buyers to send six mares in his first four seasons
The son of Adlerflug gets the better of Tarnawa and Hurricane Lane in a head-bobbing finish at ParisLongchamp
He was very popular from the start and many breeders who used him in his first season saw the foals and came right back
at stud, with one cover every year after.
Thus, major German consignors such as Gestüt Brümmerhof, Wittekindshof and Fährhof are set to offer yearlings by Torquator Tasso.
Brümmerhof, always one of the leading consignors at the September Sale, offers three lots of which Aureus (Lot 63), from the family that brought the champion Aspectus, and Macaron (Lot 166), whose dam Marshmallow was a smashing racehorse and who has the Preis von Baden (G1) winner Mendocino close up, are of particular interest.
There are also two by the stallion catalogued for the Arqana August Sale.
Haras du Capucines offers a March-born filly (Lot 243) out of Seeyouinseptember (Siyouni), a daughter of the Listed two-year-old winner Sivoliere (Sea The Stars) and a grand-daughter
Yearlings catalogued in early sales by Torquator Tasso
Arqana August Sale
243 f. Seeyouinseptember Haras des Capucines
f. Serienheilige Applewood Stud
BBAG September Sale LOT
12 c Alira Gestüt Auenquelle
f Campea Gestüt Fährhof 41 f. Oriental World Gestüt Auenquelle
c. Turfmaid Gestüt Auenquelle 63 c. Anna Kallista Gestüt Brümmerhof 68 c. Delegation (FR) Gestüt Auenquelle 70 c. Elle Memory Gestüt Wittekindshof 88 f. Reine des Fleurs Gestüt Auenquelle 91 c. Shana Doyenne Jamie Railton (Agent) 92 c. Soleila OH Consignment
f. Dynamique Gestüt Etzean (Agent)
f. Maha Kumari Gestüt am Schlossgarten
c. Anna Mia Gestüt Brümmerhof 154 c. Djumay Haras d’Ombreville 159 c. Good Harmony (GB) Gestüt Auenquelle
164 f. Lacuna (GB) Haras d’Ombreville 166 c. Marshmallow Gestüt Brümmerhof
170 c. Navarra Sun (IRE) OH Consignment
Goffs Orby Sale
30 f. Art Institute Kildaragh Stud
of the Listed winner and Group 3-placed Sefroua. The filly’s fourth dam is the Group 1 winner Sophisticat.
Applewood Stud sends Lot 247, a filly out of the Holy Roman Emperor mare Serienheilige, the dam of the 2022-born Serienadler, a twoyear-old Group 3-placed colt by Gleneagles from the family of the Group 1 winner Schnell Meister.
The Goffs Orby Sale also has a filly due to go through the ring from Kildaragh Stud (Lot 30).
She is out of the Arch mare Art Institute, the dam of two winners from three runners and a grand-daughter of the Prix Miesque (G3) winner Louvain, the dam of Flotilla, the French joint-champion two-year-old of 2012 and winner of the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches (G1) and the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1).
Torquator Tasso is at Gestűt Auenquelle, and has stood throughout at a fee of €20,000
torquator tasso and rubaiyat
Rubaiyat: stands at Gestüt Ohlerweiherhof
Photo: Galoppfoto
John James Clark
See photos of Gestüt Ohlerweiherhof: photo finish, page 90
Two-year-old form represented by Rubaiyat Rubaiyat, by Areion out of a mare by Lomitas, hails from the same sire’s crop as Alson, who is represented by his first two-year-olds this season. Both were precocious juveniles, by German standards, at least.
In Germany, two-year-old racing starts at the end of May; Rubaiyat kicked off his campaign in August and stormed through the year unbeaten, his victories including the Group 3 Preis der Winterfavoriten and the Group 2 Premio Gran Criterium.
At three, he stretched his unbeaten run, and then went on to be placed in the Mehl-MulhensRennen (G2) and the Premio Parioli (G3).
A true globetrotter, he was just shy of top-class, but he was hardy and willing, and a fighter.
“He was one of the top five two-year-olds of the last 20 years or so,” says Holger Faust of Gestüt Karlshof and who has been involved with the horse throughout his career.
“He had class and he was tough – for instance, he ran in the Italian Guineas just two weeks after the German, and he raced for four seasons.
“And don’t forget he was also Horse of the Year as a two-year-old in Germany! I have no doubt he is going to make his way as a stallion”
Faust’s family bred and consigned Rubaiyat;
Yearlings catalogued in early sales by Rubaiyat
BBAG September Sale
LOT DAM CONSIGNOR
81 f. Nazarabad Gestüt Karlshof
194 f. Baila Fabulous Gestüt Karlshof
Faust went on to manage him as racehorse for owner Darius Racing and he is now a part-owner now the horse is in the stallion ranks.
“I think he is a natural heir to Areion, from the dominant Big Shuffle sire line, and we need this sort of speed and precocity in Germany,” reports Faust.
“Rubaiyat covered 46 mares in his first year, and interest in him hasn’t dwindled. Karlshof has sent him more mares every year, that’s how happy we are with his foals.
“He was effective up to a mile, but I have no doubt his offspring may well get 1m2f at least, as he was Group-placed over 2000m.
“He got quality mares with some staying blood, and hopefully he can add his precocity.”
Gestüt Karlshof offers two fillies (Lot 81 and Lot 194) from interesting black-type producing families – ignore them at your peril! ■
Rubaiyat: the son of Areion was one of the best two-year-olds in Germany in the last 20 years, enthuses stud manager Holger Faust of Gestüt Karlshof
You can’t be everywhere. But you can be right.
Source of dual Oaks winner Minnie Hauk, Royal Ascot winners Garden Of Eden and Merchant, Saratoga Grade 1 winner Excellent Truth, Group 2 winning juvenile Green Sense, and prize money of €2,000,000 in the Go s Two Million Series.
ORBY SALE 2025 IRELAND
Orby Book 1: Monday 29 – Tuesday 30 September
Orby Book 2: Wednesday 1 – Thursday 2 October
GR.1 WINNING SON OF NEW BAY
BAYSIDE BOY.
THE RECORD
TOP CLASS AT 3
1st Gr.1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes defeating Gr.1 winners MODERN GAMES and INSPIRAL
PRECOCIOUS AT 2
1st Gr.2 Champagne Stakes
3rd Gr.1 Dewhurst Stakes
3rd Gr.1 Futurity Trophy Stakes 123
THE SPEED
RAN THE FINAL TWO FURLONGS FASTER THAN KINROSS IN THE SPRINT FASTER THAN BAAEED IN HIS QEII & OF THE QUEEN ELIZABETH II STAKES
THE PRECOCITY
Ran the best debut performance of the entire 2019 2yo crop with a of 105 before winning the Gr.2 Champagne Stakes
THE FAMILY
THE FAMILY
By NEW BAY one of the best sons of DUBAWI at stud, out of a Stakes winning, Group producing mare from a high quality damline
with
SPEED SPEED TO BURN
Covered the 2 BEST BOOKS of any Third Season Sire in Ireland! by % Blacktype mares/Covers
Following in the hoofsteps
Photography Zuzanna Lupa / Overbury Stud
Simon Sweeting of Overbury Stud is hoping for a repeat of Ardad’s stallion success with Caturra, who was an even faster winner of the Flying Childers Stakes and has large drafts catalogued in the Goffs Premier Sale, the Somerville Sale and the Tattersalls Ireland September Sale
IT TOOK THREE attempts to pin down the busy and multi-hatted Simon Sweeting of Overbury Stud for a telephone interview to chat about Caturra, the son of Mehmas standing at the farm and with first-crop yearlings this year.
First, a rookie mistake on behalf of the interviewer when a lack of preparation resulted in a call to Sweeting’s mobile while he was at Goffs UK and ten lots away from selling a NH three-year-old store. The offer to talk about the Flat stallion was very politely postponed.
The second call, this time arranged at a pre-allocated time organised via WhatsApp, clashed with something out of anyone’s control unfortunately coinciding with Sweeting rounding up some errant cows. Very kindly Sweeting managed to answer the phone, but obviously there were more immediate things on his mind and needing his attention.
It was a case of third call lucky – the busy, hands-on stud manager found time to chat when in his car on a Friday afternoon on his return from wearing his EBF hat for duties at Ascot.
The efforts taken to make contact with Sweeting were worthwhile – it goes without saying that chatting with him is always time well spent, but, as the stud manager is so optimistically looking forward to Caturra’s stock hitting the sale ring this autumn and next year’s racecourse, his enthusiasm was infectious.
Caturra: by Mehmas
Caturra won the Flying Childers in the race’s seventh-fastest recorded time and the quickest since 2015
Grosser Dallmayr-Preis, Gr.1, Munich
Grosser Preis von Bayern, Gr.1, Munich
Derby, Gr.1, Hamburg
Chariot Stakes, Gr.1, Newmarket
It was a concern that interviewing Sweeting might struggle to recall all the facts and figures required while doing the two things at once, but Sweeting was right on the bluetooth button, so well does he know his stallions.
The chance emerged for Sweeting to stand the Group 2 Flying Childers winner on the back of another success story for Overbury – the top first-season that had been enjoyed by the farm’s Ardad in 2021 meant that when bloodstock agent Richard Brown suggested to his client Saeed Bin Mohammed Al Qassimi, the owner of Caturra, that the Gloucestershire-based stud would be the right farm to stand the son of Mehmas, it was pretty much a done deal.
“Saeed Al Qassimi had seen the success we had enjoyed with Ardad,” recalls Sweeting. “They are very similar types of horses – both fast-running Flying Childers winners, and both were bred to be quick with Caturra by Mehmas and Ardad by Kodiac.”
Caturra was an even faster winner of the Doncaster race – as a side note, and not a fact for Sweeting to have recalled while he was driving, but Caturra won the 2021 renewal of the 5f Group 2 in the race’s seventh-fastest recorded time, and the speediest winning time since 2015.
He continues: “We were lucky enough to be able to buy half of him. Saeed Al Qassimi also kept half, and he has been amazing because he has bought a lot of mares to go to the stallion, he’s been a tremendous support, and he seems to have thoroughly enjoyed the process.”
Sweeting adds: “That has been a huge help and, of course, it is always more fun working
with someone who is fully engaged. I just hope he is rewarded for his efforts.”
As to be expected, Sweeting is enthusiastic about the prospects for the first crop of the stallion who also won the Listed Rose Bowl Stakes at Newbury and achieved a BHA rating high of 110 – yet he tempers his hopes with the realistic views of a stockman.
“Of course, you just don’t know until the two-year-olds hit the track, but the foals were very well received last year, I know every stallion owner says it, but they were a good bunch,” he announces.
“They did not make silly prices at the sales, but were sensible commercial prices and were bought by sensible and successful people, producers who have been around a long time and who know what a good foal looks like. That they were happy and keen to give him a chance was encouraging.”
Caturra’s yearlings will be early on the sale trail this summer with 14 catalogued in the Goffs UK Premier Sale, 13 in the Somerville Sale and five at Tattersalls Ireland September Sale.
Many hail from leading commercial British breeders, well-known for producing Britishbred sprinters, market-friendly stock and good solid racehorses, a hugely encouraging sign and building on the sale debut enjoyed by this crop last autumn.
“It is a good number to have in both early yearling sales,” says Sweeting. “As we stand at the moment we are pointing to positives.
“Of course, it’s entirely up to the stock now –whether they stay sound, have the right mind, the
Caturra enjoying a well-deserved drink of water after his speedy Flying Childers victory
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Goffs UK Premier Sale
LOT HORSE DAM CONSIGNOR
71 c. Baileys Liberty WH Bloodstock
96 f. Bubbly Ballyhane
136 c. Dhahabia Lynn Lodge Stud
153 c. Dudley Queen Jame Railton Sales Agency
170 c. Fairy Stories JMQ Bloodstock
211 f. Hoku Overbury Stud
232 c. Jillolini Mickley Stud
238 c. Kaiulani Bearstone Stud
299 f. Mother India Jamie Railton Agency
303 f. Mutoon S Fanning Sales
334 f. Pigeon Point Whatton Manor Stud
358 c. Rococoa Folland-Bowen Bloodstock
365 c. Sapphire Jubilee Oak Lodge & Springfield House
376 f. Siralen Consign Ltd
right temperament, and the right physical abilities. We just have to wait and see what happens next spring, but I think everything is in place so that it will not be a huge surprise if he is a success.”
Two factors that yearling buyers are unable to see when assessing horses are equine hearts and minds – as yet no AI tool has been invented to solve this age-old buying conundrum.
The only evidence available in this regard is to rely on how the youngster’s parents behaved themselves on the racecourse, and to hope that fate has put the required genetic chains in place.
Caturra could just have lined up the heredity dots for his stock – his former trainer Clive Cox frequently reiterated what an amenable
temperament the stallion had a racehorse.
Seemingly, age and retirement have not turned the stallion into a grumpy old man – Sweeting also enthusing as to the great personality the horse has and what a pleasure he is to have around Overbury Stud.
“He is very level-headed, and extremely straightforward to deal with, not all stallions are,” he says. “He is one who could be used to teach stallion handling because he already knows his job, and he has got a very relaxed attitude towards it all. He is so easy to deal with, which makes our life an awful lot easier.”
Of course, commercial stock having a good temperament is a hugely important plus point and one vital for a stallion’s prospects.
“If trainers enjoy having stock by a certain stallion on a yard, then they’ll go and have a look at them at the sales,” outlines the stud manager. “If they don’t like them, well then you are sunk, because no trainer is ever going to be encouraged to buy one – they are never going to smile when the agent says, ‘I’m thinking of buying one!’.
“If horses don’t have the right attitude, however good they could be, the trainers are not going to give them a chance.”
Numbers-wise Caturra, who is one of three sires by Mehmas with 2025 first-crop yearlings, has had three consistent books of mares, with breeders happy to return to use the bay having seen his early crops.
“He covered 74 mares this year, which I think is a decent number, more than our Ardad covered in this third year. He covered 80 last year, and saw 109 in his first year. The numbers are not huge, but certainly enough to give him coverage,” says Sweeting, recalling the numbers accurately but still concentrating on the road and making good progress now on the motorway back to Gloucestershire.
Caturra’s sire Mehmas is going from strength
Caturra has had consistent books throughout his three years at stud, enough Sweeting believes to give him “coverage”
caturra overbury stud
We just have to wait and see what happens next spring, but I think everything is in place so that it will not be a huge surprise if he is a success
to strength in the covering shed, getting better books of mares as his fee has climbed to €70,000 for this spring.
The Tally-Ho Stud-based stallion has also now proved himself as a sire of sires with Supremacy, the sire of last month’s Weatherbys Super Sprint winner Anthelia [Phew, got a mention in for the sponsor of this column].
It bodes well that Mehmas’ speed already appears to be transmitting to the second generation.
Despite Overbury standing the pair of Flying Childers winners, the stallions at Overbury are not all about speed, it has a broad base and the sires range from the star act and top-class dual-purpose sire Golden Horn to the younger NH sire Jack Hobbs and then back to the 11-year-old Ardad, the leading British first-crop Flat stallion of 2021 and sire of the three-time Group 1 winner Perfect Power in that first crop, the success having so vitally paved the way for Caturra.
“Ardad has been popular again, he covered 125 mares, and he is having a lot of winners,” says Sweeting. “National Hunt breeders can’t get enough of Frontiersman – he is inexpensive, having a lot of winners, has had a Grade 3 hurdler, and he gets fabulous-looking foals.
“Jack Hobbs is also having the winners, though he does need a Saturday horse now, and Schiaparelli, who is 22, has had a great season again and for a third year on the trot won the Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association’s Horse and Hound Cup for the leading living British sire of chase winners.”
Sweeting leaves the class act to last, and the pride in his voice when talking about
Golden Horn is unmistakable, and completely understandable.
“If I ever again have a stallion who has two winners at the Cheltenham Festival and a winner at Royal Ascot in the same year, I’ll consider myself to be a very lucky man,” he smiles.
“Golden Horn is just fabulous and for Trawlerman to have won at Ascot in the style he did, it was great.”
As ever the stud man, he says, “I am just looking forward to having another Group 1 winner!” ■
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Leading first-crop sires by foal averages in 2024 (gns) Sire
Baaeed (GB)
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Minzaal (IRE)
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Foal sales in 2024
Stallions with recorded foal sales in 2024. Listed alphabetically and showing aggregate, average and colt and fillies’ figures from sales in Britain, Ireland and France. Compiled by Weatherbys in guineas. Dual-purpose stallions included, new sires included in this Fact Pack in bold
The top-priced first-crop foal of 2024: by Baaeed, this colt is out of Waliyak, a Group 3-winning daughter of Le Havre and from the family of the 2022 European champion Vadeni. This colt was sold by Barton Stud, made 400,000gns and was bought by Shadwell
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Al Fateh Cup Thursday 5th March 2026
The International Handicap Thursday 5th March 2026
The Chairman’s Cup Friday 6th March 2026
Al Methaq Mile (Listed) Friday 6th March 2026
The King’s Cup (Group 3) Friday 6th March 2026
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The top-priced foal by Minzaal: out of the Oasis Dream mare Freedom March, he was sold by Kellsgrange Stud to Tally-Ho Stud for 165,000gns
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Last autumn’s top-priced filly by Space Traveller was sold by Sandra Russell Bloodstock to TLK Bloodstock for €37,000 at the Goffs November (Lot 273). She is out of True To Love and is catalogued in the Goffs Premier Sale as Lot 409
Thunder Moon’s top-priced lot was sold at the Arqana Breeding Stock Sale by Haras d’Etreham for €68,000, bought by MAB Agency (Lot 503) The stallion has eight lots listed in the Arqana August Sale
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BAAEED
CARTIER HORSE OF THE YEAR, a six-time Group 1 winner from a mile to 1m2f, descended from Shadwell’s blue hen Height Of Fashion and a son of the brilliant Sea
The Stars; Baaeed was the most expensive new stallion in Europe for 2023 and has the potential to be a hugely exciting prospect for Shadwell Stud.
A full-brother to the Group 1 Coronation Cup winner Hukum, Baaeed was an outstanding racehorse and the best sired so far by Sea The Stars with an official rating of 135.
Unraced at two, William Haggas unveiled the bay in a Leicester maiden in early June 2021, which launched a ten-race-winning streak that brought Baaeed to the highest peaks of the sport.
His second start, over the same trip but at Newmarket, created quite the impression, and he started a shade of odds-on in his next race, the Listed Sir Henry Cecil Stakes against a field that included the previous season’s Group 3 Autumn Stakes winner and Group 1 Vertem Futurity runner-up One Ruler. As it transpired, the victory set a template Baaeed would adhere to almost until the end of his racing career.
The Group 3 Thoroughbred Stakes at Goodwood was next on the agenda and it was a similar result and the clamour for Baaeed to step into Group 1 company grew to a cacophony. His first outing at the highest level was in the Prix du Moulin where he faced a field that included Group 1 winners Victor Ludorum, Order Of Australia and Snow Lantern.
For the first time in his short career, Baaeed had to show tenacity to cope with the race tactics and the softened ground, but he returned to the ParisLongchamp winners’ enclosure as a Group 1 winner and set up a thrilling clash with the year-older Palace Pier in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes. The younger horse won the clash of the generations and he was crowned champion three-year-old miler for 2021.
Kept in training at four, Baaeed picked up the winning thread in the Group 1 Lockinge Stakes and carried it into the Queen Anne Stakes (G1) where he was a comfortable winner once more over Real World and Order Of Australia.
At Goodwood for the Sussex Stakes, he triumphed over Darley’s dual Breeders’ Cup winner Modern Games and the previous year’s winner Alcohol Free, who came into the race on the back of July Cup glory.
The desire to see what Baaeed, such a strong finisher over a mile, could do when stepped up to 1m2f in the Group 1 Juddmonte International Stakes was strong and the colt produced his finest performance on the Knavesmire in the Juddmonte International Stakes (G1), putting daylight between himself and Mishriff, his closest pursuer in second.
The Irish Champion Stakes, Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe and Champion Stakes were all mooted as possible final races for Baaeed,
Racing Form
https://shadwellstud.com/stallions/baaeed
11 runs, 10 wins, 0 places | Master Timeform Rating: 137 | Average winning distance (f): 8.25
Stakes form
AT 3 Champion 3yr old miler in Europe in 2021. Won Prix du Moulin de Longchamp, Parislongchamp, Gr.1, (7½f. beating Order of Australia (IRE) and Victor Ludorum (GB)), Queen Elizabeth II Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1, (8f. beating Palace Pier (GB) and Lady Bowthorpe (GB)), Thoroughbred Stakes, Goodwood, Gr.3, (8f. beating El Drama (IRE) and Tasman Bay (FR)), Sir Henry Cecil Stakes, Newmarket, L., (8f. beating Maximal (GB) and One Ruler (IRE)).
AT 4 Champion older horse in Europe in 2022. Won Juddmonte International Stakes, York, Gr.1, (10f. beating Mishriff (IRE) and Sir Busker (IRE)), Lockinge Stakes, Newbury, Gr.1, (8f. beating Real World (IRE) and Chindit (IRE)), Queen Anne Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1, (8f. beating Real World (IRE) and Order of Australia (IRE)), Sussex Stakes, Goodwood, Gr.1, (8f. beating Modern Games (IRE) and Alcohol Free (IRE)).
but connections plumped for the QEII back over a mile.
On rain-softened ground, he never showed anything like his usual form finishing fourth behind Bay Bridge, Adayar and My Prospero.
It was a disappointing end to a glittering career but Baaeed is an excellent and exciting stallion prospect.
He is out of the Listed Prix de Liancourt winner Aghareed (Kingmambo), and her dam Lahudood (Singspiel) won the Grade 1 Flower Bowl Invitational and Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf (G1). She is a half-sister to the Listed winner Kareemah and fourth dam, the Listed Cheshire Oaks second Beshayer, is a half-sister to Nayef, Nashwan and Unfuwain.
Baaeed is bred on the outstanding Sea The Stars–Kingmambo cross, which has produced 23 winners from 25 runners with nine of them successful in black-type contests, which gives a stakes winners-to-runners rate of 36 per cent and a Group 1 winners-to-runners strike rate of 20 per cent.
Just nine members of Baaeed’s first crop came under the hammer as foals and they averaged 243,594gns with an even better median price of 260,000gns. The most expensive Baaeed foal was sold at the Tattersalls December Foal Sale where Shadwell went to 400,000gns for Barton Stud’s colt out of the Group 3 Prix Bertrand de Taragon winner Waliyak (Le Havre).
Katsumi Yoshida purchased going to 280,000gns for a colt out of the winning Galileo mare Tranquil Star, a daughter of dual New Zealand Group 1 winner We Can Say It Now (Starcraft). The colt was sold by Genesis Green Stud.
5 colts
4 fillies
bay colt ex Waliyak (FR) (Le Havre (IRE)) (31st March 2024)
chesnut colt ex Fahan Mura (USA) (English Channel (USA)) (25th February 2024)
UNNAMED bay colt ex Tranquil Star (IRE) (Galileo (IRE)) (3rd May 2024)
(IRE) (Dark
(IRE)) (20th March 2024)
grey filly ex Cloudy Dawn (IRE) (Kodiac (GB)) (14th February 2024)
(IRE) (Dylan Thomas (IRE)) (28th February 2024)
*UNNAMED bay filly ex Galova (FR) (Galiway (GB)) (20th February 2024)
1st Dam
AGHAREED (USA), won 2 races in France at 3 years and £39,000 including Prix de Liancourt, Longchamp, L. and placed once; dam of 5 winners:
HUKUM (IRE) (2017 c. by Sea The Stars (IRE)), Champion older horse in Europe in 2023 (11-14f.), won 10 races from 2 to 6 years and £1,276,884 including Coronation Cup, Epsom Downs, Gr.1, King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1, Brigadier Gerard Stakes, Sandown Park, Gr.3, Cumberland Lodge Stakes, Ascot, Gr.3, Geoffrey Freer Stakes, Newbury, Gr.3 (twice), Silver Cup Stakes, York, Gr.3 and Tapster Stakes, Goodwood, L., placed 3 times including second in September Stakes, Kempton Park, Gr.3 and third in Hardwicke Stakes, Ascot, Gr.2; also won 1 race in U.A.E. at 5 years and £155,493, Dubai City of Gold Stakes, Meydan, Gr.2.
BAAEED (GB), see above.
Naqeeb (IRE) (2020 g. by Nathaniel (IRE)), won 2 races at 3 years and £118,508, placed 6 times including third in Jockey Club Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.2 and Noel Murless Stakes, Ascot, L. KASBAAN (GB) (2015 g. by Dansili (GB)), won 3 races at 3 and 4 years and £67,699 and placed 5 times.
WALEEFY (IRE) (2021 c. by Night of Thunder (IRE)), won 2 races at 3 years, 2024 and £36,235 and placed 5 times, from only 9 starts.
Al Raahba (IRE) (2016 f. by Frankel (GB)); dam of a winner.
EHTIRAM (IRE), 1 race at 3 years, 2024 and £8,052 and placed once.
Heyzoom (IRE) (2023 c. by Sea The Stars (IRE)), in training.
2nd Dam
LAHUDOOD (GB), won 4 races in France and U.S.A. at 3 and 4 years and £869,448 including Flower Bowl Invitational Stakes, Belmont Park, Gr.1, Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf, Monmouth Park, Gr.1 and Prix de Liancourt, Longchamp, L., placed 6 times including second in Prix de Malleret, Saint-Cloud, Gr.2, P. de Royallieu Hotel Hermitage Barriere, Longchamp, Gr.2 and Prix de Psyche, Deauville, Gr.3; dam of 6 winners:
MAHRAJAAN (USA) (c. by Kitten’s Joy (USA)), won 5 races at home and in New Zealand at 3 and 5 years and £311,208 including Auckland Cup, Ellerslie, Gr.2 and New Zealand Cup, Riccarton Park, Gr.3.
AGHAREED (USA), see above.
THIBAAN (USA), won 2 races at 3 and 4 years and placed 5 times; also won 2 races in Poland at 5 and 6 years.
LAASUDOOD (USA), won 2 races at 2 and 3 years and placed once; also won 2 races in U.A.E. at 4 and 5 years, 2024 and £71,156 and placed 3 times.
MUNASARA (USA), won 2 races in U.S.A. at 3 years and £45,769; dam of winners.
MUAZARAH (USA), 3 races in U.S.A. at 3 and 4 years, 2025 and £125,375 and placed 7 times IN THE UNION (USA), 2 races in U.S.A. at 3 and 4 years and £30,003 and placed twice.
CHENTI (USA), 1 race in U.S.A. at 6 years, 2024 and £52,930 and placed 7 times.
MUNTALIQ (USA), 1 race in U.S.A. at 4 years, 2024 and placed 3 times.
LANEHAYA (USA), won 1 race in U.S.A. at 4 years, 2024 and placed twice.
Alaflaak (USA), unraced; dam of winners.
FALAKEYAH (GB), 2 races at 2 and 3 years, 2025 and £37,428 including Pretty Polly Stakes, Newmarket, L., all her starts.
ROWAYEH (IRE), 2 races at 3 years and £28,354 and placed 3 times.
3rd Dam
RAHAYEB (GB), won 1 race at 3 years and placed 5 times; dam of 6 winners including: LAHUDOOD (GB), see above.
KAREEMAH (IRE) (f. by Peintre Celebre (USA)), won 2 races in France including Prix Charles Laffitte, Chantilly, L.; dam of winners.
Ashaaqah (IRE), ran twice in France; dam of ADMIRAL DE VEGA (GB), 8 races in Norway and Sweden from 3 to 6 years, 2025 including Stockholms Stora Pris, Bro Park, Gr.3 (twice) and Swedish Open Mile, Bro Park, L. (twice), placed third in Challenge Stakes, Bro Park, L., ZEEYARA (IRE), 2 races in France including Prix Madame Jean Couturie, Vichy, L. SEVENTH SIGN (GB), won 3 races and placed twice
WUJOOD (GB), won 1 race and placed 3 times; also won 2 races over hurdles and placed 3 times.
FASHION NOTE (GB), won 1 race in France and placed 3 times; dam of winners.
GRINZINGER FASHION (AUS), 1 race in Australia at 3 years, 2024 and placed 3 times.
Height of Vanity (IRE), unplaced on the flat; dam of winners.
Speedy Approach (GB), 3 races at home, in Germany and Hong Kong, placed second in racebets.com Bavarian Classic, Munich, Gr.3.
BAYSIDE BOY
Bayside Boy foal sales: descending price order (gns) (* first foal, ** second foal)
UNNAMED bay colt ex Fairy Dancer (IRE) (Fastnet Rock (AUS)) (8th March 2024)
*UNNAMED chesnut colt ex Queen of Speed (IRE) (Siyouni (FR)) (4th April 2024)
UNNAMED chesnut colt ex Bratislava (GB) (Dr Fong (USA)) (9th April 2024)
UNNAMED bay colt ex Song of Time (IRE) (Kheleyf (USA)) (24th March 2024)
UNNAMED bay filly ex Dusty Red (GB) (Teofilo (IRE)) (7th April 2024)
**UNNAMED
colt ex Tooreen Katie (IRE) (Intello (GER)) (10th February 2024)
UNNAMED chesnut colt ex Sharapova (IRE) (Elusive Quality (USA)) (14th February 2024)
*UNNAMED bay colt ex Sherkin Island (IRE) (Fastnet Rock (AUS)) (21st February 2024)
**UNNAMED bay colt ex Coeur Battant (IRE) (Acclamation (GB)) (30th March 2024)
**UNNAMED bay filly ex Guerre d’Amour (IRE) (Camelot (GB)) (14th March 2024)
(GB) (Fastnet Rock (AUS)) (28th April
https://www.ballylinchstud.ie/stallions/bayside-boy/
Racing Form
10 runs, 4 wins, 3 places | Master Timeform Rating: 123 | Average winning distance (f): 7.51
Stakes form
AT 2 Won Champagne Stakes, Doncaster, Gr.2, (7f. beating Reach For The Moon (GB) and Twilight Jet (IRE)), second in Denford Stakes, Newbury, L., (to Masekela (IRE)), third in Dewhurst Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.1, (to Native Trail (GB)), Futurity Trophy Stakes, Doncaster, Gr.1, (to Luxembourg (IRE)).
AT 3 Won Queen Elizabeth II Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1, (8f. beating Modern Games (IRE) and Jadoomi (FR)), Fortune Stakes, Sandown Park, L., (8f. beating Sweet Believer (IRE) and Escobar (IRE)).
BAYSIDE BOY stands alongside his sire New Bay at Ballylinch Stud, was well regarded by connections throughout his career and he saved his best for last when taking a top-level success in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot, spoiling the Baaeed retirement parade.
A homebred by Ballylinch, the farm was so taken with him that it retained a share when selling him to Richard Ryan and Teme Valley at Tattersalls October Book 2 for 200,000gns.
Trained by Roger Varian, Bayside Boy was a classy juvenile who made a winning start to his life as a racehorse in a Newbury 7f maiden. He then was runner-up to subsequent Derby fourth Masekela in the Listed Denford Stakes, before showing enormous promise with his victory in Doncaster’s Group 2 Champagne Stakes.
Tried at Group 1 level in the Dewhurst Stakes, he proved himself amongst the best of his generation when third to Native Trail. He then filled the same position in the Vertem Futurity when denied a clear passage behind Luxembourg.
The first three starts of his second season were disappointing – he finished down the field in the Poule d’Essai des Poulains (G1) and St James’s Palace Stakes (G1) and was then fourth in the Group 3 Thoroughbred Stakes.
A preference for soft ground in the autumn helped his cause and led to victory in the Listed Fortune Stakes at Sandown setting him up for his triumph at Ascot.
He is a half-brother to Forest Ranger (Lawman), twice a winner of the Group 2 Huxley Stakes and also successful in the Earl Of Sefton and Darley Stakes, both Group 3s.
Another of his half-siblings, the Rip Van Winkle mare Home Cummins, was third in the Listed Fleur de Lys Stakes and is the dam of a winner.
Their dam Alava won the Listed Prix Occitanie and is an Anabaa half-sister to the Listed third Almaguer out of Cerita, who was second in a trio of Listed contests in France and is a daughter of Wolfhound.
Bayside Boy is one of three Group 1 winners from the first two crops of New Bay.
The Prix du Jockey-Club winner by Dubawi has sired 15 individual Group winners to date, three at Group 1 level, and has remained at a €75,000 fee for the past three seasons. His most expensively bred crop to run so far are two-year-olds of this year who were conceived at a fee of €37,500.
At the foal sales last year Bayside Boy averaged 28,446gns for 20 sold and they achieved a median of 29,493gns.
The most expensive of them was Ballylinch Stud’s homebred colt out of Fairy Dancer, a Fastnet Rock half-sister to Breeders’ Cup hero Red Rocks. He was bought by Oneliner Stables for 80,000gns at the December Foal Sale.
1st Dam ALAVA (IRE), won 4 races in France at 2 and 3 years and £64,225 including Prix Occitanie, La Teste De Buch, L. and placed once; dam of 6 winners: BAYSIDE BOY (IRE), see above. FOREST RANGER (IRE) (2014 g. by Lawman (FR)), won 6 races from 2 to 5 years and £352,430 including Homeserve Huxley Stakes, Chester, Gr.2 (twice), bet365 Earl of Sefton Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.3 and Darley Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.3, placed 6 times including second in bet365 Earl of Sefton Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.3, Betfred Strensall Stakes, York, Gr.3 and Robinson’s Merc. Sir Henry Cecil Stakes, Newmarket, L. and third in Bonhams Thoroughbred Stakes, Goodwood, Gr.3 and Silver Tankard Stakes, Pontefract, L. Home Cummins (IRE) (2012 f. by Rip Van Winkle (IRE)), won 4 races from 2 to 4 years and £88,805, placed 12 times including third in 32Red EBF Stallions Fleur de Lys Stakes, Lingfield Park, L.; dam of a winner.
She also has a yearling colt by New Bay (GB).
2nd Dam
Cerita (IRE), won 2 races in France at 3 years and £36,108, placed 7 times including second in Prix Coronation, Saint-Cloud, L., Prix des Lilas, Fontainebleau, L. and Prix Solitude, Saint Cloud, L.; dam of 8 winners: ALAVA (IRE), see above. Almaguer (GB) (g. by Spectrum (IRE)), won 25 races in France from 3 to 9 years and £270,320, placed second in Prix Georges Trabaud, Marseille Borely, L. ABRIL (FR), won 4 races in France and Spain; dam of winners. Abrantes (SPA), 6 races in Spain from 4 to 6 years and £121,064, placed third in Prix de Ris-Orangis, Maisons-Laffitte, Gr.3.
3rd Dam
Tanapa (FR), won 1 race in France at 2 years, placed once fourth in Premio Lydia Tesio, Rome, Gr.1; dam of 11 winners including: TAMISE (USA) (f. by Time For A Change (USA)), won 4 races in France including Prix de Flore, Saint-Cloud, Gr.3, Prix de la Seine, Saint-Cloud, L. and Prix Charles Laffitte, Longchamp, L., placed second in Prix d’Angerville, Evry, L.; dam of winners.
MOTIVADO (GB), 4 races at home and in Australia including Queen’s Cup, Morphettville, Gr.3, placed second in W J Mckell Cup, Randwick, L. Hideaway Girl (GB), placed 4 times; dam of SESTILIO JET (FR), 10 races in France and Italy including Prix de Saint-Georges, Parislongchamp, Gr.3, GOT AWAY (FR), 2 races over fences including Charnwood Forest Leicester Mares’ Chase, Leicester, L., placed second in Silver Trophy Handicap Chase, Cheltenham, Gr.2 and 3 races over jumps in France, Got Glory (FR), 1 race in France; also 1 race over hurdles, placed second in Shawiya Mares Novice Hurdle, Punchestown, L. Taminas Gift (GB), ran 3 times in France and Italy; grandam of QUEEN PROTEO (TUR), 2 races in Turkey at 3 and 4 years, 2025 including Kapadokya Stakes, Ankara, L., SILENT WAVE (TUR), 2 races in Turkey, Kapadokya Stakes, Ankara, L. and Dolmabahce Stakes, Veliefendi, L.
QUIRINETTA (USA) (f. by Ardross), won 4 races at home and in South Africa including Transvaal Cesarwitch, Newmarket, Gr.3, placed third in Len Harvey Memorial Handicap, Gosforth Park, L., dam of winners.
TARZAN CRY (IRE) (c. by Anabaa (USA)), won 7 races in France and U.S.A. including Prix Montenica, Maisons-Laffitte, L., placed second in Prix de Fontainebleau, Gr.3.
LUTHIER’S LAUNCH (USA) (f. by Relaunch (USA)), won 4 races in U.S.A. including Dogwood Stakes, Churchill Downs, L., placed third in Spinster Stakes, Keeneland, Gr.1 and Santa Margarita Invitational Handicap, Santa Anita, Gr.1; dam of winners.
ANNA’S HALO (USA), 2 races in U.S.A. and placed 5 times; grandam of HAYLEY’S HALO (USA), 11 races in U.S.A. including Chaves County Stakes, Zia Park (twice), El Diario Stakes, Sunland Park, Dr O G Fischer Memorial Handicap, Sunray Park, Czaria Stakes, Sunland Park and Zia Park Distaff Stakes, Zia Park (twice), Echo Zulu (USA), 1 race in U.S.A., placed second in C B Afflerbaugh Stakes, Fairplex Park and Everett Nevin Stakes, Pleasanton Catalyst (USA), unraced; dam of Ferment (AUS), 10 races in Australia, placed third in Patinack Blue Diamond Prelude (c&g), Caulfield, Gr.3, Atomic Huss (AUS), 2 races in Australia, placed third in Ambassador Travel Sir D. Wadley Handicap, Eagle Farm, L TOTEM POLE (USA) (c. by Relaunch (USA)), won 4 races over jumps in France including Prix Wild Monarch Hurdle (c&g), Auteuil, L.
Alekos (USA) (c. by Irish River (FR)), won 1 race in France, third in Prix Hocquart, Chantilly, Gr.2. Tabac (USA) (c. by Storm Cat (USA)), won 3 races in France and U.S.A., placed second in Prix Thomas Bryon, Saint-Cloud, Gr.3; sire.
Cerita (IRE), see above.
Parmenion (IRE) (c. by Indian Ridge), won 3 races in France, third in P. Point du Jour Fourrages, L. MY CHERIE AMOUR (USA), won 4 races in France and U.S.A. and placed 6 times; dam of winners. AUCILLA (USA), 9 races in U.S.A. including Gallorette Handicap, Pimlico, Gr.3 and Drumtop Handicap, Belmont Park, L., placed third in Beaugay Handicap, Aqueduct, Gr.3; dam of PASSING SHOT (USA), 6 races in U.S.A. including Personal Ensign Handicap, Saratoga, Gr.1 and Bed O’ Roses Breeders’ Cup Handicap, Aqueduct, Gr.3, placed third in Ogden Phipps Handicap, Belmont Park, Gr.1 and Ruffian Handicap, Belmont Park, Gr.1; grandam of Game Fair (USA), 3 races in U.S.A., second in Dr James Penny Memorial H’cap, Gr.3, Red Guernica (JPN), 6 races in Japan, third in Keyaki Stakes, , L.
BLACKBEARD
foal sales: descending price order (gns) (* first foal, ** second foal)
ex Sa Mola (GER) (Dabirsim (FR)) (17th February 2024)
UNNAMED bay colt ex Campion (GB) (Exceed And Excel (AUS)) (14th March 2024)
*UNNAMED
ex Lady Nora Mae (IRE) (Australia (GB)) (7th February 2024)
**UNNAMED brown colt ex Spurofthemoment (GB) (Brazen Beau (AUS)) (30th March 2024)
chesnut colt ex Opera Gal (IRE) (Galileo (IRE)) (17th April 2024)
**UNNAMED bay colt ex We Reach The Shore (IRE) (Galileo (IRE)) (1st March 2024)
And Sunny (IRE) (Galileo (IRE)) (13th March 2024)
Racing Form
8 runs, 6 wins, 1 place | Master Timeform Rating: 118 | Average winning distance (f): 5.65
Stakes form
AT 2 Champion 2yr old colt in France in 2022, Jt Champion 2yr old colt in England in 2022. Won Middle Park Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.1, (6f. beating The Antarctic (IRE) and Persian Force (IRE)), Prix Morny, Deauville, Gr.1, (5½f. beating Persian Force (IRE) and The Antarctic (IRE)), Prix Robert Papin, Chantilly, Gr.2, (5½f. beating The Antarctic (IRE) and Vicious Harry (FR)), Marble Hill Stakes, Curragh, Gr.3, (6f. beating Tough Talk (IRE) and Mehmar (IRE)), First Flier Stakes, Curragh, L., (5f. beating Crispy Cat (GB) and Treasure Trove (IRE)), second in Railway Stakes, Curragh, Gr.2, (to Shartash (IRE)).
1st Dam
MUIRIN (IRE), won 1 race at 2 years and £27,954 and placed once; dam of 4 winners: BLACKBEARD (IRE), see above.
CHARLES DARWIN (IRE) (2023 c. by No Nay Never (USA)), won 3 races at 2 years, 2025 and £114,073, including Norfolk Stakes, Ascot, Gr.2 from only 4 starts Run Away (IRE) (2021 f. by No Nay Never (USA)), won 1 race at 3 years, 2024 and £5,005; also, placed in France at 3 years, 2024 and £11,957 placed third in Prix de Saint-Cyr, ParisLongchamp, L. TUNBRIDGE WELLS (IRE) (2022 c. by No Nay Never (USA)), won 1 race at 2 years, 2024 and £19,718 and placed once, from only 3 starts.
She also has a yearling filly by No Nay Never (USA).
2nd Dam
GIROUETTE (IRE), won 3 races at 3 and 4 years and £126,628 including P. P O’Leary Mem.Phoenix Sprint Stakes, Curragh, Gr.3 and IrishStall.Farms EBF Sweet Mimosa Stakes, Curragh, L., placed 7 times including second in Irish Daily Mirror Renaissance Stakes, Curragh, Gr.3 and Knockaire Stakes, Leopardstown, L. and third in Oratorio EBF Athasi Stakes, Curragh, Gr.3, from only 11 starts; dam of 4 winners:
FEARLESS GIRL (IRE), won 2 races at 3 and 4 years and placed once; also won 1 race in U.S.A. at 5 years and £68,008 and placed 3 times.
MUIRIN (IRE), see above.
Tornadea (IRE), unraced; dam of a winner.
NIGHT TORNADO (GB), 10 races in France and Poland from 2 to 5 years and £148,554 including Prix du Grand Camp, Lyon-Parilly, L.
3rd Dam
Vassiana (FR), won 1 race in France at 3 years, placed 8 times including third in Prix Isola Bella, Maisons-Laffitte, L.; Own sister to VILLADOLIDE (FR) and VICTORIEUX (FR); dam of 7 winners: GIROUETTE (IRE), see above.
Prince d’Alienor (IRE) (c. by Verglas (IRE)), won 8 races in France, placed second in Prix Messidor, Maisons-Laffitte, Gr.3.
Paraphernalia (IRE) (f. by Dalakhani (IRE)), won 1 race, placed third in Irish Stallion Farms EBF Garnet Stakes, Naas, L.; dam of winners.
MAX VEGA (IRE), 6 races at 2, 5 and 7 years, 2024 including John Porter Stakes, Newbury, Gr.3, St Simon Stakes, Newbury, Gr.3 (twice) and Godolphin Zetland Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.3, placed second in Geoffrey Freer Stakes, Newbury, Gr.3 and St Simon Stakes, Newbury, Gr.3 and third in John Porter Stakes, Newbury, Gr.3 and September Stakes, Kempton Park, Gr.3.
Camphor (IRE), 3 races, placed third in Curragh Cup, Curragh, Gr.2. Quickstep Girl (IRE), 1 race in France, placed second in Premio Merano, Merano, L. and third in Mulheimer Diana Trial, Mulheim, L.
VALLEMELDEE (IRE), won 2 races and placed 5 times; dam of winners.
Sars (TUR), 4 races in Turkey, placed third in Nene Hatun, Istanbul, L.
CANAN SULTAN (TUR), 1 race in Turkey; dam of Mars (TUR), 6 races in Turkey, placed second in Burhan Karamehmet Stakes, Veliefendi, L.
VADIANA (IRE), won 2 races and placed 3 times.
VASSARIA (IRE), won 1 race and placed 4 times; dam of winners.
GOD OF WAR (TUR), 4 races in Turkey at 2 and 3 years, 2024 and placed 8 times.
SEA EAGLE (GB), 3 races at 2 and 4 years, 2024 and placed once.
VALTINA (IRE), won 1 race; dam of a winner.
Vegatina (GB), placed once; dam of KAIRYU (IRE), 2 races including Anglesey Stakes, Curragh, Gr.3.
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NO NAY NEVER’s price hike for the 2019 breeding season on the back of the success earned by his first runners, proved a justified one when that crop came to make its racecourse debut in 2022.
Bred at an advertised fee of €100,000 they increased No Nay Never’s northern hemisphere Group 1 tally to five.
In total that crop yielded six individual juvenile Group winners and included the Group 1 winner Blackbeard, victorious in the Prix Morny and Middle Park Stakes.
Bred by Newstead Breeding, he is the first foal out of Muirin, a daughter of Born To Sea who was fourth in the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes at two. She was sold at the end of her three-year-old season for €210,000 to Broadhurst Agency.
Muirin has subsequently produced Run Away, who was third in the Listed Prix Saint-Cyr last season and Charles Darwin, one of this year’s leading juveniles and winner of the Group 2 Norfolk Stakes. Both are full siblings to Blackbeard.
Muirin is out of the Group 3 Phoenix Sprint Stakes and Listed Sweet Mimosa Stakes winner Girouette, a daughter of Pivotal, which suggests plenty of speed influences on both sides of Blackbeard’s family.
Blackbeard was bought as a foal for 270,000gns by Jamie McCalmont from Norelands Stud and made a winning debut over 5f at Dundalk in April of his juvenile season. His next start returned a narrow win over Crispy Cat, who would go on to be third in the Norfolk and Flying Childers Stakes (G2), and was a second start winner of the Listed First Flier Stakes at The Curragh.
Stepped up to 6f for May’s Group 3 Marble Hill Stakes, Blackbeard made all to win but was then only fourth behind Bradsell, Persian Force and Royal Scotsman in the Coventry Stakes (G2). Next up he was second to Shartash in the Group 2 Railway Stakes at The Curragh before he resumed winning ways in the Group 2 Prix Robert Papin at Chantilly.
He returned to France for the Group 1 Prix Morny when he was more than up to the task and reversed Ascot form with Persian Force. His defeat of that rival and The Antarctic in the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes was even more impressive and an easier job than his French victory over that pair.
Speculation as to whether he would get the Guineas trip or be more of a sprinter, came to naught when it was announced that Blackbeard had suffered an injury in training which precipitated his early retirement to stud.
No Nay Never is now the sire of eight individual Group 1 winners with last season yielding another Prix Morny victor in Whistlejacket. His total of stakes winners so far is 76 from eight crops of racing age with his most expensively bred foals now this crop of yearlings. No Nay Never added two more Royal Ascot winners this June with Charles Darwin joined in the winner’s enclosure by True Love, victorious in the Group 2 Queen Mary. She has gone on to win the Railway Stakes (G2).
Blackbeard’s broodmare sire Born To Sea is the final foal out of the blue hen Urban Sea and won the Listed Blenheim Stakes at two and was runner-up to Camelot in the Irish Derby.
The first foals by Blackbeard averaged 69,445gns at the sales last winter with a median price of 43,204gns. A total of 28 foals sold and both the most expensive colt and filly from his first crop were sold at Tattersalls.
Awbeg Stud’s half-sister to last season’s Group 2 Debutante Stakes and Group 3 Silver Flash and Park Stakes third Barnavarna was the most expensive, making 300,000gns to Norris/ Huntingdon.
Glenvale Stud bought the next best-priced foal, a half-brother to Arizona Blaze, winner of the Group 3 Marble Hill Stakes and third in the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes in 2024, second in this year’s Commonwealth Cup and winner of the Sapphire Stakes (G2). His half-brother cost 190,000gns as a foal from Fittocks Stud.
CATURRA
foal
(gns)
*UNNAMED bay colt ex Baileys Liberty (GB) (Iffraaj (GB)) (20th January 2024)
**UNNAMED
Hollow (GB)) (15th February 2024)
*UNNAMED chesnut filly ex Pink Haze (IRE) (Lope de Vega (IRE)) (24th March 2024)
(Adaay (IRE)) (29th January
bay filly ex Rutherford (IRE) (Dutch Art (GB)) (26th March 2024)
UNNAMED
ex Citronella (GB) (New Approach (IRE)) (5th April 2024)
ex Poppets Sweetlove (GB) (Foxhound (USA)) (4th April 2024)
Racing Form
15
Stakes form
AT 2 Won Flying Childers Stakes, Doncaster, Gr.2, (5f. beating Armor (GB) and Corazon (IRE)), Rose Bowl Stakes, Newbury, L., (6f. beating Detail (IRE) and Orazio (IRE)), second in Roses Stakes, York, L., (to Attagirl (GB)).
AT 3 Second in Prix Sigy, Chantilly, Gr.3, (to Miramar (GB)), third in King George Stakes, Goodwood, Gr.2, (to Khaadem (IRE)), Scurry Stakes, Sandown Park, L., (to Mitbaahy (IRE)).
CATURRA, A SON OF MEHMAS and winner of the Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes, is another tough and talented representative of his high-flying sire.
Another graduate of Tally-Ho Stud, he was sold by the Westmeath farm to Blandford Bloodstock for 110,000gns at Tattersalls October Book 2 and was trained by Clive Cox.
As to be expected, he was a precocious juvenile and made his debut at the Craven meeting and then went on to win a Bath novice over 5f on his second start. He wasn’t beaten all that far in the Coventry Stakes (G2) and earned his first stakes success in the Listed Rose Bowl Stakes. He finished down the field in the Group 2 Richmond Stakes, and was second in the Listed Roses Stakes at York before his flying success over Armor in Doncaster’s Group 2.
His final start of the season was his fifth place behind Perfect Power in the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes.
Caturra ran seven times as a three-year-old and made a promising seasonal reappearance when second in the Group 3 Prix Sigy. He was also third in the Group 2 King George Stakes at Goodwood over 5f and in Sandown’s Listed Scurry Stakes.
From the extended family of Classic Cliche and out of the Sleeping Indian mare Shoshoni Wind, he is a full-brother to Tales Of The Heart, placed in the Empress Stakes (L) and Princess Margaret Stakes (G3) last year for Ralph Beckett. She made 650,000gns to John Stewart’s Resolute Racing at the Tattersalls December Sale.
He is a half-brother to the Listed Qatar Derby third Sir Arthur Dayne (Sir Prancealot).
Dam Shoshoni Wind finished second in the Listed Empress Stakes as a juvenile and is a half-sister to the Chipchase Stakes third Burnwynd Boy. Their dam Cadeau Speciale is a half-sister to Silver Flash Stakes winner Triskel and third dam Pat Or Else is an Alzao half-sister to the champion stayer Classic Cliche and to My Emma, who won the Yorkshire Oaks and Prix Vermeille. Also under the fourth dam are the Group 1 winners Satono Crown and Lightening Pearl.
Caturra’s foals averaged 16,089gns for 25 sold with the median matching the average. He was the sire of one foal to make more than £50,000 – Whatcote Farm Stud’s colt out of Shrara, a winning daughter of Dandy Man, who was bought by Blandford Bloodstock for 55,000gns at the December Foal Sale. Byerley Stud consigned Caturra’s two highest-priced fillies –half-sister to Zoulu Chief for 28,000gns to Edgar Byrne and a daughter of Bubbly, an Excelebration half-sister to the dam of
1st Dam
Shoshoni Wind (GB), won 3 races at 2 and 3 years and £43,744, placed 5 times including second in totesport.com Empress Stakes, Newmarket, L.; dam of 5 winners:
CATURRA (IRE), see above.
Tales of The Heart (IRE) (2022 f. by Mehmas (IRE)), won 1 race at 2 years, 2024 and £20,616, placed twice second in Empress Stakes, Newmarket, L. and third in Princess Margaret Stakes, Ascot, Gr.3, from only 5 starts.
Sir Arthur Dayne (IRE) (2017 c. by Sir Prancealot (IRE)), won 2 races at 2 years and £20,064 and placed 4 times; also won 1 race in Qatar at 3 years and £181,220, placed 4 times including third in Qatar Derby, Al Rayyan, L.
SPEEDING BULLET (IRE) (2021 g. by Inns of Court (IRE)), won 2 races at 2 and 4 years, 2025 and £15,838 and placed twice
Shadow Run (IRE) (2023 c. by Mehmas (IRE)).
She also has a yearling colt by Mehmas (IRE).
2nd Dam
CADEAU SPECIALE (GB), placed once at 3 years; dam of 6 winners:
Burnwynd Boy (GB) (g. by Tobougg (IRE)), won 4 races at 2 and 7 years and £34,362, placed third in Journal Chipchase Stakes, Newcastle, Gr.3.
Shoshoni Wind (GB), see above.
KEEP TO THE BEAT (GB), placed 8 times at 3 and 4 years; also won 1 race over hurdles at 4 years and placed 10 times.
CADEAU MAGNIFIQUE (GB), won 1 race at 3 years and placed 15 times.
PEARL SPECIALE (GB), won 1 race in Sweden at 4 years and placed 3 times.
PLAY MATE (GB), won 1 race at 3 years and placed twice, from only 4 starts; dam of winners.
3rd Dam
PAT OR ELSE (GB), placed 5 times at 3 years; dam of 6 winners including: TRISKEL (GB) (f. by Hawk Wing (USA)), won 1 race, Irish Stallion Farms Silver Flash Stakes, Leopardstown, L., dam of winners.
The next dam Pato, won 4 races at 2 and 3 years, placed 5 times including second in Garrowby Stakes Handicap, York, L.; Own sister to CREWS HILL; dam of 7 winners including:
CLASSIC CLICHE (IRE), Champion 3yr old stayer in Europe in 1995, won 6 races at home and in France including Ascot Gold Cup, Royal Ascot, Gr.1, Pertemps St Leger Stakes, Doncaster, Gr.1, Homeowners Dante Stakes, York, Gr.2, East Coast Yorkshire Cup, York, and Prix Kergorlay, Deauville, , placed second in Ascot Gold Cup, Royal Ascot, and King Gr.2 Gr.2 Gr.1 George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1; sire.
MY EMMA (GB), won 3 races at home and in France including Aston Upthorpe Yorkshire Oaks, York, Gr.1 and Prix Vermeille, Longchamp, Gr.1, placed third in Prix Maurice de Nieuil, M’-Laffitte, Gr.2; dam of winners.
MOMENTS OF JOY (GB), 2 races including Vodafone EBF Fillies’ Gladness Stakes, Goodwood, L., from only 4 starts; dam of MIZZOU (IRE), 5 races including Longines Sagaro Stakes, Ascot, Gr.3 (twice), placed second in The Queen’s 90th Birthday Ascot Gold Cup, Ascot, Gr.1, Unity (IRE), 1 race, placed third in Kerry Group Noblesse Stakes, Cork, Gr.3, Eternal Bounty (IRE), 1race, placed third in Irish Stall.Farms EBF Give Thanks Stakes, Cork, Gr.3; grandam of AL RIFFA (FR), 3 races at home and in Germany at 2 and 4 years, 2024 including National Stakes, Curragh, Gr.1 and Grosser Preis von Berlin, Berlin-Hoppegarten, Gr.1, placed second in Eclipse Stakes, Sandown Park, Gr.1 and third in Neom Turf Cup, King Abdulaziz, Gr.2, NATIVE POWER (GB), 6 races in Turkey from 2 to 4 years, 2024 including Buyuk Taarruz Stakes, Veliefendi, L., Mimar Sinan Stakes, Veliefendi, L. and Vehbi Koc Stakes, Veliefendi, L., CRIMEAN TATAR (TUR), 2 races including 32Red Wild Flower Stakes, Kempton Park, L., Secret Protector (USA), 2 races at home and in U.A.E., placed third in Hampton Court Stakes, Ascot, Gr.3. Admiral of The Red (IRE), 1 race, placed third in At The Races Curragh Cup, Curragh, Gr.3, from only 4 starts.
Light of Morn (GB), 1 race, placed third in Blue Square Chester Handicap, Chester, L. Eminencia (GB), unraced; dam of Edya (GB), 1 race in Italy, placed second in Premio Mario Incisa della Rocchetta, Milan, L.
Avyanna (IRE), unraced; dam of DEEPONE (GB), 3 races including Beresford Stakes, Curragh, Gr.2, AVYA D’OR (USA), 11 races in Chile including Clasico Municipal de Vina del Ma Valparaiso, Gr.3 (twice).
Mediterranean (GB), won 2 races, placed second in IAWS Curragh Cup, Curragh, Gr.3; sire. Threatening (GB), won 2 races, placed second in Bonusprint Masaka Stakes, Kempton Park, L.; dam of winners.
MUTINYONTHEBOUNTY (GB), 2 races including Royal Lodge Stakes, Ascot, Gr.2. Lightning Flash (GB), 2 races, placed second in SKF City of York Stakes, York, L. JUST DREAMS (GB), won 1 race and placed once; dam of winners.
Bounty Quest (GB), 4 races in U.A.E., second Marju Mahab Al Shimaal Stakes, Nad Al Sheba, Gr.3. Lust (GB), unraced; dam of winners.
SCREWDRIVER (GB), 1 race, Vodafone Woodcote Stakes, Epsom Downs, L.
Wavertree Boy (IRE), 3 races, placed third in Zetland Stakes L. and Bahrain Trophy, L. Eliza Gilbert (GB), placed 4 times; dam of MRS PATMORE (IND), 2 races in India including The Gitanjali Indian 1000 Guineas, Mumbai, L.R.
La Joconde (GB), unraced; dam of JIOCONDA, grandam of SATONO CROWN (JPN), LIGHTENING PEARL (IRE), PONT DES ARTS, Figlio Allegro, Jolie Jioconde; third dam of LIGHTENING QUICK (GB), Fast Approach (JPN), Matenro Diva (JPN)
13 fillies
DUBAWI LEGEND
ASON OF THE BREED-SHAPER Dubawi, who now stands at a fee of £350,000, Dubawi Legend was bred by Rabbah Bloodstock out of the Meydan Listed UAE 1,000 Guineas-winning and Group 3 UAE Oaks runner-up Lovely Pass (Raven’s Pass).
Lovely Pass is out of the Group 2 Falmouth Stakes winner Macadamia (Classic Cliche), and she is also the dam of Dubawi Legend’s 2018 half-sister Golden Pass (Golden Horn), who was a Listed winner over 1m4f.
Trainer Hugo Palmer kicked off her son’s career in a July maiden over 7f at Doncaster, a race he won, before stepping him up to the Group 3 Acomb Stakes in which he took third place. He then gained top-class Group 1 form with a 2l second placing to Native Trail in the Dewhurst Stakes.
As a three-year-old he failed to trouble the judge again until finishing third in the 7f Hackwood Stakes (G3). After a fifth placing in the 6f Phoenix Stakes Sprint (G3) at The Curragh, he travelled to Germany where he won the 6f Goldene Peitsche (G3). He ran down the field in the Group 1 Haydock Cup Sprint and was retired.
Dubawi Legend achieved a 90 per cent clearance rate at the sales with his ten foals sold making an average of 8,944gns with the median at 6,625gns.
Top of the charts was Starfield Stud’s own colt out of Alpha Lyrae, who made €32,000 to Rabbah Bloodstock at the Goffs November Foal Sale. Starfield Stud was also the vendor of the highest-priced filly, a daughter of Teofilo mare Too Big To Fail, who made €17,000 when bought by Flex Racing. Both were the first foals of their dams.
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Racing Form
10
Stakes form
AT 2 Jt 2nd top rated 2yr old colt in Europe in 2021. Second in Dewhurst Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.1, (to Native Trail (GB)), third in Acomb Stakes, York, Gr.3, (to Royal Patronage (FR)).
AT 3 Top rated 3yr old sprinter in Germany in 2022. Won Goldene Peitsche, Baden-Baden, Gr.3, (5½f. beating Best Flying (FR) and Irish Action (IRE)), third in Hackwood Stakes, Newbury, Gr.3, (to Minzaal (IRE)).
1st Dam
LOVELY PASS (IRE), won 2 races at 2 years and £19,503, placed third in Chesham Stakes, Ascot, L.; also won 1 race in U.A.E. at 3 years and £123,282, Gulf News UAE 1000 Guineas, Meydan, L.,placed second in Dana Wealth Management UAE Oaks, Meydan, Gr.3; dam of 4 winners:
DUBAWI LEGEND (IRE), see above.
GOLDEN PASS (GB) (2017 f. by Golden Horn (GB)), won 4 races at 3 and 4 years and £78,261 including Aphrodite Stakes, Newmarket, L., placed 3 times including second in Park Hill Stakes, Doncaster, Gr.2 and Pontefract Castle Stakes, Pontefract, L.; broodmare.
AHLAWI (GB) (2018 g. by Shamardal (USA)), won 2 races at 2 and 4 years and £16,257 and placed 5 times.
LOVELY APPROACH (GB) (2015 g. by New Approach (IRE)), won 1 race at 4 years and £6,785 and placed twice, from only 5 starts.
She also has a 4-y-o filly by Night of Thunder (IRE) and a yearling filly by Night of Thunder (IRE).
2nd Dam
MACADAMIA (IRE), won 5 races from 2 to 4 years and £190,523 including Stan James Falmouth Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.2 and Pipalong Stakes, Pontefract, L., placed 6 times including second in Peugeot Sun Chariot Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.2; dam of 5 winners:
SPIRIT RAISER (IRE) (f. by Invincible Spirit (IRE)), won 5 races from 3 to 5 years and £78,655 including Weatherbys GSB Pipalong Stakes, Pontefract, L.; dam of a winner.
STARLIGHT TIME (GB), 1 race at 2 years, 2025, his only start.
Solara (GB), placed once at 3 years, 2024.
LOVELY PASS (IRE), see above.
ALMOREB (IRE), won 3 races at 3 years and £33,829 and placed 7 times; also won 3 races in U.A.E. at 6 and 7 years and £82,026 and placed 12 times.
ROXELANA (IRE), won 2 races at 3 years and placed 3 times; also placed twice in U.S.A. at 4 years; dam of winners.
KONA COAST (GB), won 1 race at 2 years and £228,617 and placed 3 times.
3rd Dam
CASHEW (GB), won 1 race at 3 years and placed once, from only 3 starts; dam of 10 winners:
MACADAMIA (IRE), see above.
PISTACHIO (GB) (c. by Unblest (GB)), Champion 3yr old in Scandinavia in 1999, won 18 races at home, in Denmark, Norway and Sweden including Insightracing Taby Open Sprint Chpnship., Taby, Gr.3, Norsk Jockeyklubs Sprintlop, Ovrevoll, L. (twice) and Polar Sprint Cup, Ovrevoll, L., placed second in Polar Million Cup, Ovrevoll, Gr.3; sire.
CAPTIVATOR (GB) (f. by Motivator (GB)), won 4 races including Betfred Mobile Sports Snowdrop Stakes, Kempton Park, L., placed second in Qatar Bloodstock Dahlia Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.3. Azarole (IRE) (g. by Alzao (USA)), won 5 races at home and in U.A.E., placed second in Darley Oettingen-Rennen, Baden-Baden, Gr.2.
CASHPOINT (GB), won 7 races and placed 8 times; also won 1 race in France and placed twice; also won 1 N.H. Flat Race and placed once.
PRIME VERSION (GB), won 1 race and placed once; also won 3 races in Switzerland.
CASHIER (GB), won 2 races and placed 3 times; also won 1 race in U.A.E.
NUTKIN (GB), won 2 races and placed 5 times; dam of winners.
Gathering Power (IRE), 2 races, placed second in Betfred EBF Stallions Cecil Frail Stakes, Haydock Park, L. and Waterford Testimonial Stakes, Curragh, L. and third in Waterford Testimonial Stakes, Curragh, L. and Yeomanstown Stud EBF Sweet Mimosa Stakes, Naas, L. Billy Big (IRE), 6 races in U.S.A., placed third in Del Mar Juvenile Turf Stakes, Del Mar, L. HAZELNUT (GB), won 2 races and placed 3 times.
NUTSHELL (GB), won 1 race and placed 4 times; dam of winners.
Tuwaiq (IRE), 2 races at home and in Sweden, placed third in Beresford Stakes, Curragh, Gr.2. PALLAS LORD (IRE), 11 races to 7 years, 2025 and placed 13 times.
APERCU (IRE), 4 races from 3 to 5 years, 2025 and placed twice.
EBRO RIVER
Ebro River foal sales: descending price order (gns) (* first foal, ** second foal) EBROSINDRA (FR)
Racing Form
15 runs, 4 wins, 1 place | Master Timeform Rating: 113 | Average winning distance (f): 5.53
Stakes form
At 2 Won Keeneland Phoenix Stakes, Curragh, Gr1 (6f, beating Dr Zempf and Go Bears Go), Won Coral National Stakes, Sandown, LR (5f, beating Little Earl (IRE) and Navello), third Goffs National Stakes, Curragh, Gr1 (7f, to Native Trail)
At 3 Won Queensferry Stakes, Chester, LR (6f, beating Princess Shabnam (IRE) and Venture Diamond (IRE))
EBRO RIVER is a Group 1 winner by the 2,000 Guineas and St James’s Palace Stakes winner Galileo Gold, who has now been sold to stand in Indonesia.
Ebro River is another of this year’s cohort bred by Tally-Ho Stud, who sold him to Charlie GordonWatson on behalf of Al Shaqab for 75,000gns at the Tattersalls October Book 3 Yearling Sale.
Trained by Hugo Palmer, who also trained Galileo Gold, Ebro River was a precocious two-year-old and began his career in the same Newmarket race as Caturra before winning a 5f novice at Doncaster.
He then won the Listed National Stakes at Sandown and improved from fourth place efforts in the July and Richmond Stakes to win the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes.
He confirmed he was a Group 1 horse with his third to Native Trail over a furlong further in the National Stakes, but ended the season down the field in the Group 1 Prix Jean Luc Lagardère.
At three, he raced six times with a single victory in the Listed Queensferry Stakes at Chester and retired as the winner of four of his 15 races, having been placed on one other occasion.
Ebro River is a half-brother to Listed-placed Strong Power out of Soft Power, a Balmont half-sister to Girl Power, dam of the Group 1-winning sprinter Slade Power.
One foal from his first crop was offered for sale at Arqana’s December Breeding Stock Sale but Florent Picard’s half-brother to winning Goken filly Kendra was a vendor buy back at €3,000.
1st Dam
SOFT POWER (IRE), won 1 race at 3 years and £5,750; dam of 3 winners:
EBRO RIVER (IRE), see above.
Strong Power (IRE) (2017 g. by Kodiac (GB)), won 6 races at 2, 3 and 5 years and £87,423, placed 17 times including third in Hever Sprint Stakes, Lingfield Park, L.
IMPERIAL EXPRESS (IRE) (2021 f. by Inns of Court (IRE)), won 2 races at 3 years, 2024 and £31,490 and placed 3 times.
Frischs Joy (IRE) (2016 f. by Kodiac (GB)), placed once at 3 years.
2nd Dam
RUMUZ (IRE), placed 4 times at 3 and 4 years; dam of 7 winners:
Key Rose (IRE) (f. by Key of Luck (USA)), won 3 races at home and in U.S.A. at 2, 4 and 5 years and £57,324, placed third in Flame of Tara EBF Stakes, Curragh, L.; dam of winners.
SIR THEODORE (IRE), 2 races at 2 and 3 years and placed 6 times; also 3 races in Germany from 5 to 7 years and £25,232 and placed 15 times.
M’SELLE (IRE), 2 races at 2 years and placed 4 times.
EMPIRICAL POWER (IRE), won 6 races to 7 years and £103,855 and placed 11 times.
GOOD TO FOLLOW (IRE), won 2 races at 3 and 4 years and £35,387 and placed 5 times; dam of winners.
TIDE OF TIME (GB), 8 races from 4 to 8 years and £81,059 and placed 11 times.
ROUGH DIAMOND (IRE), 5 races at 3, 5 and 7 years, 2024 and £51,824 and placed 8 times.
GOBI STAR (IRE), 4 races at 4 and 5 years and £36,080 and placed 7 times.
MAGIC BEAR (IRE), 3 races at 3 and 4 years and £26,439 and placed twice.
PADLOCK (IRE), won 1 race at 2 years and placed once; also won 1 race in U.A.E. at 4 years and £32,530 and placed 5 times.
DAPPER POWER (IRE), won 1 race at 4 years and placed 4 times.
GIRL POWER (IRE), won 1 race at 3 years; dam of winners.
SLADE POWER (IRE), Champion older sprinter in Europe in 2014, 10 races from 2 to 5 years and £1,067,761 including Diamond Jubilee Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1, Darley July Cup, Newmarket, Gr.1, Qipco British Champions Sprint Stakes, Ascot, Gr.2, Weatherbys Ireland Greenlands Stakes, Curragh, Gr.3, Paypal Phoenix Sprint Stakes, Curragh, Gr.3, Woodies D.I.Y. Sapphire Stakes, Curragh, Gr.3, Blue Square Sandy Lane Stakes, Haydock Park, L. and Belgrave Stakes, Fairyhouse, L., placed second in Betfred Sprint Cup, Haydock Park, Gr.1 and third in Darley July Cup, Newmarket, Gr.1; sire.
HEAVENLY POWER (IRE), 5 races from 3 to 6 years, 2024 and £58,261 and placed 5 times.
NORDIC WARRIOR (IRE), 3 races in China and Hong Kong at 3, 4 and 6 years and £406,418 and placed 8 times.
SELECTIVE POWER (IRE), 3 races at 3 and 5 years, 2024 and £25,897 and placed 4 times.
Strait Power (IRE), unraced; dam of Shepherds Way (IRE), 4 races and £46,486, placed second in Flying Fillies’ Stakes, Pontefract, L., BRUMMELL (IRE), 4 races from 2 to 4 years, 2025 and placed 4 times.
Duchess Power (IRE), unraced; dam of Isabel Alexandra (IRE), 2 races in U.S.A. and £78,518, placed third in Galway Stakes, Saratoga, L. SOFT POWER (IRE), see above.
3rd Dam
BALQIS (USA), 3rd top rated 2yr old in Italy in 1984, 2nd top rated 2yr old filly in Italy in 1984, won 2 races at home and in Italy at 2 yearsincluding Premio Primi Passi, Milan, Gr.3 and placed once; Own sister to AMAZING LOVE (USA); dam of 7 winners including:
Haitham (c. by Wassl), won 2 races, placed third in Doncaster Cup, Doncaster, Gr.3; also won 2 races over hurdles. Libk (GB) (c. by Kalaglow), won 6 races, placed third in Westminster Taxi Ins. Godolphin Stakes, Newmarket, L.
DALALAH (GB), won 1 race and placed 5 times; also won 2 races in South Africa and placed 6 times; dam of winners.
PATRIOTIC GIRL (SAF), 1 race in South Africa and placed twice; dam of Poppins (SAF), 1 race in South Africa, placed second in Sunday Tribune Strelitzia Stakes, Scottsville, Gr.3.
BLACK TULIP (SAF), 1 race in South Africa and placed once; dam of Perpetua (SAF), 1 race in South Africa, placed second in Southern Pumps Perfect Promise Sprint, Kenilworth, L.
SABAYIK (IRE), won 1 race and placed twice, from only 5 starts; dam of winners.
KHIBRAH (IRE), 6 races including Grangewood Severals Stakes, Newmarket, L.; dam of Ainamaa (USA), 5 races in U.S.A., placed third in Robert G Dick Memorial Handicap, Delaware Park, Gr.3.
MARE AUSTRALIS
AGROUP 1 PRIX GANAY winner from a typically strong German family, Mare Australis is a son of Australia who has enjoyed a remarkably successful year in 2025 with his son Lambourn emulating him by winning the Derby and Irish Derby, while sandwiched between those victories his daughter Cerecene triumphed in the Coronation Stakes (G1) at Royal Ascot.
Bred by Gestüt Schlenderhan, Mare Australis won his only start at two, that came over a mile. He was transferred to France and André Fabre, and at three won the Listed Prix de l’Avre and finished second to Baron Samedi in the Group 2 Prix du Conseil de Paris.
On his seasonal reappearance at four, he chased home Skaletti in the Group 2 Prix d’Harcourt and then defeated Gold Trip and Mogul to win the Group 1 Prix Ganay. They were his only two runs of the season.
Kept in training as a five-year-old, he won the Group 2 Grand Prix de Chantilly and was third in the Group 2 Prix d’Harcourt and fourth in the Ganay.
He is one of three winners foaled so far out of the Listed Dragonfly Stakes, Pinnacle Stakes and Warwickshire Oaksplaced Miramare.
She is a Rainbow Quest half-sister to the Group 3 Prix de Pomone and Prix Allez France winner Macleya (Winged Love), who was also placed in the Group 1 Prix Royal Oak. She is the dam of Listed Glencairn Stakes winner Saltonstall and second dam of last season’s Group 2 Oaks d’Italia winner Tomiko.
Their Montjeu half-brother Montclair won the Group 3 Prix de Barbeville, while her unraced half-sister Mahendra is the dam of Grade 1 United Nations and Manhattan Stakes winner Tribhuvan (Toronado).
Racing Form
11 runs, 4 wins, 3 places | Master Timeform Rating: 119 | Average winning distance (f): 10.58
Stakes form
AT 3 Won Prix de L’Avre, Chantilly, LR (1m4f, beating Frohsim (FR) and Suffrage (FR)), second Prix du Conseil de Paris, ParisLongchamp, Gr2 (1m3f to Baron Samedi)
At 4 Won Prix Ganay, ParisLongchamp, Gr1 (1m2.5f beating Gold Trip (FR) and Mogul), second Prix d’Harcourt, ParisLongchamp, Gr2 (1m2f to Skalleti)
At 5 Won Grand Prix de Chantilly, Chantilly, Gr2 (1m4f beating Bubble Gift (FR) and Glycon (FR)), third Prix d’Harcourt, ParisLongchamp, Gr2 (1m2f to Skalleti)
1st Dam
Miramare (GER), , placed 4 times at 3 and 4 years and £13,561 including second in intercasino.co.uk Dragonfly Stakes, Kempton Park, L. and third in Betfred EBF J. Westbrook Pinnacle Stakes, Haydock Park, L. and Warwickshire Oaks Stakes, Warwick, L.; also won 1 race in Germany at 3 years and £1,791; dam of 3 winners:
MARE AUSTRALIS (IRE), see above.
2nd Dam
MINACCIA (GER), won 4 races in Germany at 2 and 3 years and £55,267 including Preis des Gestuts Wiesenhof, Krefeld, L. and Meile der Nord, Hannover, L., placed 6 times including second in Grosser Stutenpreis der Dreijahrigen, Hoppegarten, L.; dam of 9 winners:
MACLEYA (GER) (f. by Winged Love (IRE)), won 7 races in France and Germany from 3 to 5 years and £196,618 including Prix de Pomone, Deauville, Gr.2, Prix Allez France, Chantilly, Gr.3 and Prix Scaramouche, Chantilly, L., placed second in Prix Royal-Oak-Principaute de Monaco, Longchamp, Gr.1; dam of winners.
SALTONSTALL (GB), 10 races to 9 years and £293,297 including Glencairn Stakes, Naas, L., placed second in Heritage Stakes, Leopardstown, L.
CODICIL (GB), 4 races at 2 years and £28,727, from only 6 starts.
AL MAHER (QA), 1 race in Qatar at 5 years, 2025 and £55,842 and placed 4 times.
Testimony (GB), unraced; dam of TOMIKO (IRE), 1 race in Italy at 3 years, 2024 and £231,770, Premio Oaks d’Italia, Milan, Gr.2.
MONTCLAIR (IRE) (c. by Montjeu (IRE)), won 8 races in France and U.S.A. to 9 years and £286,532 including Prix de Barbeville, Longchamp, Gr.3, placed second in Qatar Prix Chaudenay, Longchamp, Gr.2.
Macassar (GB) (c. by Tertullian (USA)), won 2 races in France at 2 years and £56,238, placed second in Prix des Jouvenceaux et des Jouvencelles, Vichy, L.
Mahnaz (GB) (f. by Dansili (GB)), won 2 races in France at 4 years and £50,196, placed second in Prix Belle de Nuit, Saint-Cloud, L.; dam of a winner.
MER ET NUAGES (FR), 3 races in France at 3 years and £81,502 including Prix de Pontarme, Parislongchamp, L., placed third in Prix du Muguet, Saint-Cloud, Gr.2.
Miramare (GER), see above.
MIDAS (GER), won 5 races in Germany to 8 years and placed 19 times.
MOHAWK CHANT (GB), won 3 races in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at 4 and 7 years and £37,975 and placed 9 times.
MAHATI (FR), won 2 races in France at 3 and 4 years and £45,748 and placed 3 times; dam of a winner.
MANISHA (IRE), 3 races in France at 3 and 4 years and £110,663 including Prix de Liancourt, ParisLongchamp, L. and Prix Dahlia, Saint-Cloud, L., placed second in Prix de Flore, Saint Cloud, Gr.3 and Prix de Royaumont, Chantilly, Gr.3 and third in Prix de Flore, Saint-Cloud, Gr.3.
MATTINATA (GB), won 1 race in Netherlands at 3 years and placed twice; dam of winners.
Mahendra (GER), unraced; dam of winners.
TRIBHUVAN (FR), 6 races in France and U.S.A. from 3 to 6 years and £873,794 including Manhattan Stakes, Belmont Park, Gr.1, United Nations Stakes, Monmouth Park, Gr.1 and Fort Marcy Stakes, Belmont Park, Gr.2, placed second in Manhattan Stakes, Belmont Park, Gr.1.
Ibleo (FR), 4 races over fences at 7 and 8 years and £63,530, placed second in The tote.co.uk Handicap Chase, Ascot, L. and third in Grand Annual Handicap Cup Chase, Cheltenham, Gr.3 and 1 race over jumps in France at 3 years.
Val de Saane (IRE), 5 races over jumps in France from 4 to 6 years and £119,106, placed second in Prix de Beaune Handicap Hurdle, Enghien-Soisy, L.
3rd Dam
MAJI (GB), won 1 race at 3 years and placed 6 times; dam of 5 winners including:
MENDOSINO (GER) (g. by Acatenango (GER)), won 1 race in Germany, P. der Firma Jungheinrich Gabelstapler, Hannover, L., placed third in Dallmayr Prodomo Trophy, Munich, L.;
MINACCIA (GER), see above.
MALINDA (GER) (f. by Law Society (USA)), won 4 races in Germany including Dallmayr Prodomo Trophy, Munich, L., dam of a winner.
MANDRELLA (GER), won 1 race in Germany and placed twice; dam of winners.
MANINGREY (GER), 8 races in France and Germany including P. Fourrages T. Dutertre Point Du Jour, Craon, L., placed third in P. BBAG Hengstparade Wurttemberg Trophy, Gr.3.
Mahradeva (GER), placed once in Germany; dam of winners.
Madiva (FR), 6 races in France, placed third in P. Urban Sea Fond Europeen de L’Elevage, Le Lion D’Angers, L.
Moonchild (GER), placed once in Germany; dam of winners.
HENRY HIGGINS (IRE), 2 races, also 2 races over hurdles including coral.ie Handicap Hurdle, Leopardstown, Gr.2.
MOONFLASH (IRE), 11 races in Norway to 11 years, 2024 and placed 34 times.
Mare Australis foal sales: descending price order (gns) (* first foal, ** second foal)
MINZAAL
AGIMCRACK WINNER who broke Haydock’s track record when winning the Group 1 Sprint Cup as a four-year-old, Minzaal, by Mehmas, was bred by one of the best Irish nurseries, Ringfort Stud. Out of the Clodovil mare Pardoven, Minzaal was only twice out of the first three in an 11-race career. A Salisbury novice was the setting for his first win and he was then pitched straight into Group company proving more than up to the task with an easy success in the Gimcrack Stakes (G2). His fourth and final run of the season came in the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes when he was third behind paternal sibling Supremacy and Lucky Vega.
Minzaal foal sales: descending price order (gns) (* first foal, ** second foal)
UNNAMED bay colt ex Freedom March (GB) (Oasis Dream (GB)) (4th April 2024)
UNNAMED bay colt ex Miss Azeza (GB) (Dutch Art (GB)) (6th February 2024)
bay colt ex Erysimum (IRE) (Arcano (IRE)) (19th March 2024)
**UNNAMED bay colt ex Hidden Sky (IRE) (Sea The Stars (IRE)) (19th February 2024)
UNNAMED
UNNAMED
ex Moonlife (IRE) (Invincible Spirit (IRE)) (6th February 2024)
colt ex Armum (IRE) (Society Rock (IRE)) (14th April 2024)
bay colt ex Maimara (FR) (Makfi (GB)) (7th May 2024)
bay filly ex Chiclet (IRE) (Dandy Man (IRE)) (19th March 2024)
ex
ex Bellanodine (FR) (Anodin (IRE)) (1st March 2024)
Machine (GB) (Brazen
(AUS)) (5th March 2024)
UNNAMED bay filly ex Fine If (IRE) (Iffraaj (GB)) (29th March 2024)
**UNNAMED bay colt ex Sans Sommeil (FR) (Shalaa (IRE)) (8th March 2024)
UNNAMED bay colt ex Queen Mia (IRE) (Famous Name (GB)) (30th March 2024)
UNNAMED bay colt ex Fancy Feathers (IRE) (Redback (GB)) (6th April 2024)
*UNNAMED bay colt ex Salaasa (IRE) (Teofilo (IRE)) (8th February 2024)
**UNNAMED bay colt ex Florence Camille (IRE) (Galileo (IRE)) (15th April
bay colt ex Psychometry (FR) (Danehill Dancer (IRE)) (19th April 2024)
ex Aloisi (GB) (Kalanisi (IRE)) (3rd March 2024)
UNNAMED bay colt ex Condensed (GB) (Dansili (GB)) (4th March 2024)
UNNAMED bay colt ex Oriental Step (IRE) (Tamayuz (GB)) (19th February 2024)
UNNAMED bay colt ex Shimmering Moment (USA) (Afleet Alex (USA)) (6th May 2024)
UNNAMED bay filly ex Sparkling Beam (IRE) (Nayef (USA)) (4th February 2024)
*UNNAMED bay filly ex Champagne Please (IRE) (Australia (GB)) (26th February 2024)
UNNAMED bay colt ex Mitzi Winks (USA) (Lookin At Lucky (USA)) (21st March 2024)
UNNAMED bay colt ex Upstanding (GB) (Pivotal (GB)) (7th February 2024)
*UNNAMED bay filly ex Shazza (IRE) (Teofilo (IRE)) (14th March 2024)
**UNNAMED bay colt ex Let’s (IRE) (Shalaa (IRE)) (13th March 2024)
*UNNAMED bay colt ex Singsong Lady (IRE) (Cotai Glory (GB)) (5th April 2024)
UNNAMED bay colt ex Ashiqana (USA) (Giant’s Causeway (USA)) (17th February 2024)
UNNAMED
colt ex Peticoatgovernment (IRE) (Holy Roman Emperor (IRE)) (1st
*UNNAMED bay filly ex Dilawara (FR) (Dream Ahead (USA)) (24th January 2024)
*UNNAMED bay colt ex Purciaretta (IRE) (Cotai Glory (GB)) (20th January 2024)
**UNNAMED bay
ex Shenoya (FR) (Zoffany (IRE)) (31st January 2024)
ex Upstage (IRE) (Cable Bay (IRE)) (31st March 2024)
UNNAMED bay colt ex Izola (GB) (Beat Hollow (GB)) (19th March 2024)
bay filly ex In The Present (USA) (Karakontie (JPN)) (7th April
(GB) (Teofilo (IRE)) (2nd April 2024)
UNNAMED bay filly ex Tip It On The Top (IRE) (War Chant (USA)) (11th February 2024)
UNNAMED brown filly ex Maktabba (GB) (Dansili (GB)) (15th March 2024)
bay colt ex Anticipation (FR) (Muhtathir (GB)) (5th May 2024)
*UNNAMED bay filly ex Navratilova (IRE) (Morpheus (GB)) (29th February 2024)
UNNAMED bay filly ex Rasan (GB) (Dansili (GB)) (13th April 2024)
UNNAMED bay colt ex Shamardanse (IRE) (Shamardal
UNNAMED
Minzaal did not return to the track until the autumn of his three-year-old season and made a pleasing comeback in the Listed Rous Stakes finishing second on his first start over 5f and on soft ground. That run teed him up for the British Champions Sprint (G1) and, back up to 6f, he demonstrated that he had lost none of his class when third to Creative Force and Glen Shiel. Kept in training at four, he began his third season with a third to Highfield Princess in the Group 2 Duke Of York Stakes. The only disappointing run of his career came next time out in the Platinum Jubilee Stakes (G1) won by Naval Crown. Successfully returning to Group 3 company for the Hackwood Stakes he beat Dubawi Legend and Go Bears Go, but then was
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thwarted by Highfield Princess in the Prix Maurice de Gheest (G1).
A triumphant end to his career came in the Group 1 Haydock Sprint Cup, a scintillating success which set a speed record for Haydock, and earned Minzaal a stallion berth at Derrinstown.
He is one of three winners out of Pardoven, an unraced half-sister to the Group 3 Gordon Stakes second Firebet, and to Seeking The Prize, a son of Zafonic who was also Group 3-placed. Her half-brothers Special War (Warning) and Dilshaan’s Prize (Dilshaan) were both third in European Listed races.
Minzaal’s second dam Dancing Prize finished third in the Lingfield Oaks Trial (L) and is a Sadler’s Wells sister to Dance To The Top, who was second in the Fillies’ Mile and is the dam of Group 2 winner and Group 1-placed Bankable.
She is also a half-sister to the Listed City of York Stakes winner and the Group 1 Underwood Stakes second Polar Bear.
Minzaal’s first-crop was a hit at the foal sales earning an average of 45,926gns, almost four times his covering fee. The median was similarly impressive at 42,532gns.
Top price for the 46 sold came at the December Foal Sale where Tally-Ho Stud went to 165,000gns for Kellsgrange Stud’s half-brother to juvenile winners Confident Star and Spanish Phoenix.
There was another six-figure sale at Goffs where Rob Speers bought the half-brother to Listed Charles II Stakes winner Jash for €190,000 from Oak Leaf Stud.
A third Minzaal colt joined the six-figure club at Tattersalls –Baroda Stud’s son of the Listed Ruby Stakes winner Erysimum bought for 100,000gns by Glenvale Stud.
FOAL SALE STATISTICS (gns)
46 foals sold Average 45,926
29 colts
17 fillies
| 2025: €12,500
Racing Form
11 runs, 4 wins, 5 places | Master Timeform Rating: 127 | Average winning distance (f): 6.00
Stakes form
AT 2 Won Gimcrack Stakes, York, Gr.2, (6f. beating Devilwala (IRE) and Mystery Smiles (IRE)), third in Middle Park Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.1, (to Supremacy (IRE)).
AT 3 Second in Rous Stakes, Ascot, L., (to Tis Marvellous (GB)), third in British Champions Sprint Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1, (to Creative Force (IRE)).
AT 4 Won Haydock Park Sprint Cup, Haydock Park, Gr.1, (6f. beating Emaraaty Ana (GB) and Rohaan (IRE)), Hackwood Stakes, Newbury, Gr.3, (6f. beating Go Bears Go (IRE) and Dubawi Legend (IRE)), second in Prix Maurice de Gheest, Deauville, Gr.1, (to Highfield Princess (FR)), third in Duke of York Stakes, York, Gr.2, (to Highfield Princess).
1st Dam
PARDOVEN (IRE), unraced; dam of 3 winners: MINZAAL (IRE), see above.
CABO DA CRUZ (IRE) (2015 g. by Cape Cross (IRE)), won 5 races in South Africa at 4 years and £20,220 and placed 5 times.
MAXI KING (IRE) (2020 g. by Belardo (IRE)), won 3 races at 3 and 4 years, 2024 and £51,420. Tranquil Steps (IRE) (2021 f. by Footstepsinthesand (GB)), ran once on the flat at 3 years, 2024. How Are You (IRE) (2023 c. by Mehmas (IRE)).
2nd Dam
Dancing Prize (IRE), placed 3 times at 3 years including third in Champagne Ruinart Oaks Trial Stakes, Lingfield Park, L., from only 4 starts; Own sister to Dance To The Top (GB); dam of 10 winners: Firebet (IRE) (c. by Dubai Destination (USA)), won 6 races at 2 and 3 years and £137,660, placed second in Betfair Gordon Stakes, Goodwood, Gr.3.
Seeking The Prize (GB) (c. by Zafonic (USA)), won 2 races in U.A.E. at 5 and 6 years, placed third in Sheikh Maktoum Al Maktoum Challenge 2, Nad Al Sheba, Gr.3.
Special War (GB) (c. by Warning), won 16 races in Italy from 2 to 7 years and £81,804, placed third in Premio Divino Amore, Rome, L.
Dilshaan’s Prize (IRE) (g. by Dilshaan (GB)), won 3 races at home and in France at 2, 3 and 5 years and £43,628, placed third in Prix Michel Houyvet, Deauville, L.; also won 2 races over hurdles
3rd Dam
AIM FOR THE TOP (USA), 4 races at home and in Italy at 2 and 3 years including Premio Chiusura, Milan, won Gr.3 Princess Elizabeth Stakes, Epsom, L. and Firth of Clyde Stakes, Ayr, L., placed 4 times second in Princess Margaret Stakes, Ascot, Gr.3, third in Waterford Candelabra Stakes, Goodwood, Gr.3, Oak Tree Stakes, Goodwood, L. and October Stakes, Ascot, L.; dam of 8 winners including: POLAR BEAR (GB) (g. by Polar Falcon (USA)), won 6 races at home and in Australia including Len McCormick City of York Stakes, York, L. and HK Jockey Club Melbourne Cup Day Plate, Flemington, L., placed second in Underwood Stakes, Caulfield, Gr.1.
Dance To The Top (GB) (f. by Sadler’s Wells (USA)), won 2 races, placed second in Fillies’ Mile Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1; dam of winners.
BANKABLE (IRE), 8 races at home and in U.A.E. including Comm.Bank of Dubai Al Fahidi Fort Stakes, Meydan, Gr.2, Emirates Airline Mahab Al Shimaal, Meydan, Gr.3, Fortune Stakes, Sandown Park, L. and On The House Stakes, Goodwood, L., placed second in Dubai Duty Free Stakes, Meydan, Gr.1 and third in Singapore Airlines International Cup, Singapore, Gr.1. CHESHIRE (GB), 4 races in France including Grand Prix de Vichy, Vichy, Gr.3, Prix Ridgway, Deauville, L. and G. P. de la Region Alsace-Credit Mutuel, Strasbourg, L.
HADRIAN’S WALTZ (IRE), 1 race and placed 6 times; dam of Normandy Dela Vega (FR), 4 races over jumps in France, Italy and Switzerland, third in Corsa Siepi dei 4 Anni Hurdle, Milan, Gr.2. ANANDARA (IRE), 1 race in France and placed once; dam of LANANA (FR), 5 races in France including Prix Dahlia, Saint-Cloud, L. KIROV (GB), 1 race and placed once; dam of Keep Cool (GB), 6 races in Belgium and Germany, second in Fruhjahrspreis des Bankhauses Metzler, Gr.3 and Rashi Shaykhutdinov-Cup, Gr.3. Athenaire (IRE), placed once; dam of Amazing Lips (IRE), 1 race in France, placed second in Prix Cleopatre, Saint-Cloud, Gr.3.
Wings of Love (GB), placed once; dam of ARCISATE (FR), 1 race in Italy; 5 races over jumps inc Criterium di Primavera 4yo Hurdle, Gr.2, second in Gran Criterium d’Autunno Forst Hurdle, Gr.1. Dance Idol (GB), unraced; dam of Boris (IRE), 3 races in Italy; also 2 races over jumps in Italy placed second in Criterium di Primavera 4yo Hurdle, Merano, Gr.2 and Premio Criterium d’Inverno Hurdle, Rome, Gr.2.
Dancing Prize (IRE), see above.
DANCESOWELL (IRE), won 1 race and placed once; dam of winners.
Sillage (USA), placed in Japan; dam of DEEP DIVER (JPN), 3 races in Japan inc Tachibana Stakes, L. Afrodita (IRE), ran once in Germany; dam of winners.
Ajwad (GB), 5 races in U.A.E., placed third in HH The President Cup, Abu Dhabi, L. Right To The Top (GB), unraced; dam of winners.
Convent Girl (IRE), 4 races, placed second in Kotex Rosemary Rated Stakes, Ascot, L.; dam of BIBLE BLACK (IRE), 2 races including Irish Stall.Farms EBF Star Appeal Stakes, Dundalk, L.; grandam of Nomadic Empire (IRE), 6 races, second in Harry Rosebery Stakes, Ayr,
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NAVAL CROWN
DUBAWI’S sons already at stud and with runners have ensured their brilliant sire will have a lasting legacy – Naval Crown, as a Group 1-winning sprinter son of Dubawi, is a rare commodity.
Third on debut and in the 7f Listed Pat Eddery Stakes in his first two runs, he then won the Convivial Stakes (7f) at York. He was sent to France for his next start in the Group 3 Prix la Rochette when he finished third to Go Athletico and Sealiway, who went on to win the Group 1 Prix Jean Luc Lagardère.
Naval Crown returned to France for his fifth and final juvenile start, which resulted in another third place finish, this time in the Group 3 Prix Thomas Bryon.
Winter in Dubai beckoned and first time out he earned another Group 3 third, this time in the UAE 2,000 Guineas before earning his first stakes win in the Listed Meydan Classic.
On his return to Britain he finished second in the Listed European Free Handicap and then fourth in the 2,000 Guineas and second in the Jersey Stakes (G3). Another winter in Meydan yielded a Group 2 win in the Al Fahidi Fort and fourth in the Group 1 Al Quoz Sprint.
He proved that he belongs at the top level when he carried his Dubai form into Royal Ascot and made the breakthrough in the Platinum Jubilee Stakes. He then found only Alcohol Free too strong in the July Cup (G1)
In total he won or was placed in 12 of his 20 starts.
Naval Crown is the older half-brother of the German Listed winner Spring Promise (Lope De Vega) and they are the first two winners out of the Listed Prix Almandine winner Come Alive, a Dansili daughter of the Listed Severals Stakes winner Portrayal, who was second in the Group 3 Prix d’Aumale and third in the Prix Robert Papin (G2). The Saint Ballado mare is also the dam of the Listed-placed Belle Boyd. Under the fourth dam are the talented Group 1 performers Cerulean Sky, Moonstone and L’Ancresse.
His first crop of foals averaged 23,592gns for 29 sold with the median at 18,876gns.
Tara Stud’s half-brother to the Group 1 Al Quoz Stakes victor A Case Of You, was bought by Lynn Lodge Stud for €60,000, while at the Tattersalls December Foal Sale Northern Bloodstock’s half-brother to the Listed Blenheim Stakes second Born To Be, who made 48,000gns to JPD Bloodstock.
Racing Form
20 runs, 4 wins, 8 places | Master Timeform Rating: 121 | Average winning distance (f): 6.98
Stakes form
AT 2 Third in Prix La Rochette, Parislongchamp, Gr.3, (to Go Athletico (FR)), Prix Thomas Bryon, Saint-Cloud, Gr.3, (to Normandy Bridge (FR)), Pat Eddery Stakes, Ascot, L., (to Chindit (IRE)).
AT 3 Top rated 3yr old miler in U.A.E. in 2021. Won Meydan Classic, Meydan, L., (7½f. beating Master of The Seas (IRE) and Yurman (ARG)), second in Jersey Stakes, Ascot, Gr.3, (to Creative Force (IRE)), European Free Handicap, Newmarket, L., (to Tactical (GB)), third in UAE 2000 Guineas, Meydan, Gr.3, (to Mouheeb (USA)).
AT 4 Won Platinum Jubilee Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1, (6f. beating Creative Force (IRE) and Artorius (AUS) and Campanelle (IRE)), Al Fahidi Fort, Meydan, Gr.2, (6½f. beating Story of Light (IRE) and Zainhom (USA)), second in July Cup, Newmarket, Gr.1, (to Alcohol Free (IRE)).
SALE STATISTICS (gns)
29 foals sold Average 23,592
19 colts
10 fillies
14,079
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Crown foal sales: descending price order (gns) (* first foal, ** second foal)
(Tagula (IRE)) (13th February
UNNAMED bay colt ex Duquesa (IRE) (Intikhab (USA)) (23rd March 2024)
UNNAMED chesnut colt ex Experte (FR) (High Chaparral (IRE)) (28th February 2024)
**UNNAMED bay colt ex Glamour Queen (GB) (Shamardal (USA)) (17th February 2024)
UNNAMED bay colt ex Zaakhir (IRE) (Raven’s Pass (USA)) (7th April 2024)
UNNAMED bay colt ex My Wish (IRE) (Galileo (IRE)) (11th March 2024)
**UNNAMED bay filly ex Golden Angel (IRE) (War Command (USA)) (30th January 2024)
UNNAMED bay colt ex Lamsa (IRE) (Invincible Spirit (IRE)) (13th April 2024)
UNNAMED chesnut colt ex Zenara (IRE) (Sea The Stars (IRE)) (21st February 2024)
UNNAMED bay colt ex My Favourite Thing (GB) (Oasis Dream (GB)) (19th
UNNAMED bay colt ex Shama (IRE) (Danehill Dancer (IRE)) (6th May 2024)
**UNNAMED chesnut filly ex Mente Hermosa (GB) (Gleneagles (IRE)) (17th April 2024)
colt ex Winter Oasis (IRE) (Oasis Dream (GB)) (12th April 2024)
**UNNAMED bay colt ex A Touch of Luck (GER) (Frankel (GB)) (5th February 2024)
UNNAMED bay colt ex Logique (FR) (Whipper (USA)) (16th March 2024)
bay filly ex Iffa Red (IRE) (Iffraaj (GB)) (12th February 2024)
*UNNAMED bay colt ex Sasta (IRE) (Dawn Approach (IRE)) (25th February 2024)
(IRE) (Epaulette (AUS)) (3rd May 2024)
Nightingale (GB) (Nathaniel (IRE)) (20th April 2024)
UNNAMED bay filly
(IRE)) (29th March 2024)
**UNNAMED bay filly ex Mother’s Approach (IRE) (Dawn Approach (IRE)) (16th April 2024)
(GB) (Raven’s
bay filly ex Rocaverde (IRE) (Rock of Gibraltar (IRE)) (6th
**UNNAMED chesnut colt ex Albedo (IRE) (Australia (GB)) (16th
chesnut colt ex Solar Fire (IRE) (Tamayuz (GB)) (3rd
1st Dam
COME ALIVE (GB), won 3 races in France at 2 and 3 years and £50,499 including Prix Amandine, Maisons-Laffitte, L., placed second in Prix des Lilas, Deauville, L.; dam of 2 winners: NAVAL CROWN (GB), see above.
SPRING PROMISE (IRE) (2020 f. by Lope de Vega (IRE)), won 2 races at 3 years and £33,152 and placed twice; also won 1 race in Germany at 3 years and £16,039, Grosser Preis der Hannoverschen, Hannover, L., placed third in Grosser Preis der VGH Versicherungen, Hannover, L.; broodmare.
Magic Dream (IRE) (2021 f. by Shamardal (USA)), placed twice at 3 years, 2024 and £5,497. Paradise Springs (GB) (2022 f. by Ghaiyyath (IRE)), placed once at 2 years, 2024 and £2,418. She also has a 2-y-o filly by Dubawi (IRE) and a yearling filly by Dubawi (IRE).
2nd Dam
PORTRAYAL (USA), won 2 races at home and in France at 2 and 3 years and £59,847 including Lanwades Stud Severals Stakes, Newmarket, L., placed 5 times, placed second in Prix d’Aumale, Chantilly, Gr.3 and third in Prix Robert Papin, Maisons-Laffitte, Gr.2 and Totepool Middleton Stakes, York, Gr.3; dam of 6 winners:
COME ALIVE (GB), see above.
Belle Boyd (GB) (f. by Oasis Dream (GB)), won 1 race at 3 years and £42,727, placed second in Totepool Queen Charlotte Stakes, Chelmsford City, L..
STREET ARTIST (IRE), won 4 races at 4 and 5 years and placed 7 times.
PORTALMA (IRE), won 3 races in Spain from 2 to 4 years and £37,551 and placed 4 times.
POETIC IMAGINATION (GB), won 1 race at 3 years and placed 6 times, from only 9 starts; dam of winners.
NEVER JUST A DREAM (IRE), 3 races at 2 years and £33,718; also 1 race in U.A.E. at 4 years.
LADY SOPHIE (IRE), 1 race in Czech Republic at 5 years, 2024 and placed 7 times.
REPRESENTATION (USA), won 1 race at 3 years and placed once; also placed 3 times in U.A.E.
3rd Dam
TRUE GLORY (IRE), won 1 race at 3 years and placed twice, from only 5 starts; dam of 2 winners including: PORTRAYAL (USA), see above.
Trujillo (USA), unraced; dam of winners.
RUBY ARMANI (NZ), 5 races in New Zealand including Manawatu ITM Anzac 1550 Handicap, Awapuni, L., placed second in Bramco Granite & Marble Flying Handicap, Awapuni, L. Our Tigress (AUS), 2 races in New Zealand, second in Ladies Day Vase, Caulfield, L.
PERFECT POWER
Perfect Power foal sales: descending price order (gns) (* first foal, ** second foal)
UNNAMED bay colt ex Mutrecy (IRE) (Camelot (GB)) (26th February 2024)
UNNAMED bay filly ex Collegiate (IRE) (Declaration of War (USA)) (24th February 2024)
UNNAMED bay colt ex Perfect Muse (GB) (Oasis Dream (GB)) (12th March 2024)
UNNAMED bay colt ex Totally Lost (IRE) (Rip Van Winkle (IRE)) (6th April 2024)
UNNAMED bay filly ex Vaulted (GB) (Kyllachy (GB)) (3rd February 2024)
UNNAMED black colt ex Bedouin Dancer (IRE) (Pivotal (GB)) (5th March 2024)
UNNAMED bay filly ex Never Change (IRE) (New Approach (IRE)) (6th March 2024)
**UNNAMED bay colt ex Nassima (GB) (Fastnet Rock (AUS)) (26th February 2024)
UNNAMED bay filly ex Girls Talk (IRE) (Shamardal (USA)) (30th March 2024)
UNNAMED bay filly ex Cairncross (IRE) (Cape Cross (IRE)) (26th February 2024)
*UNNAMED bay colt ex Quartet (GB) (Lethal Force (IRE)) (24th February 2024)
UNNAMED bay filly ex O’Connor’s Girl (GB) (Roderic O’Connor (IRE)) (5th May 2024)
UNNAMED bay colt ex Scots Fern (GB) (Selkirk (USA)) (31st January 2024)
UNNAMED bay
(IRE) (Helmet (AUS)) (13th February 2024)
ex Pacific Pride (USA) (Storm Cat (USA)) (18th April 2024)
UNNAMED bay filly ex Voom Voom (IRE) (Bahamian Bounty (GB)) (6th May 2024)
**UNNAMED bay filly ex Shatha (USA) (Muhaarar (GB)) (16th March 2024)
UNNAMED brown filly ex White Wedding (IRE) (Green Desert (USA)) (26th February 2024)
colt ex Tanjia (GB) (The Gurkha (IRE)) (21st March 2024)
**UNNAMED bay colt ex Hipsway (IRE) (The Gurkha (IRE)) (20th March 2024)
colt ex Minalisa (GB) (Oasis Dream (GB)) (10th February
Racing Form
12 runs, 6 wins, 1 place | Master Timeform Rating: 119 | Average winning distance (f): 5.83
Stakes form
AT 2 Jt Champion 2yr old colt in France in 2021. Won Middle Park Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.1, (6f. beating Castle Star (IRE) and Armor (GB)), Prix Morny, Deauville, Gr.1, (5½f. beating Trident (FR) and Asymmetric (IRE)), Norfolk Stakes, Ascot, Gr.2, (5f. beating Go Bears Go (IRE) and Project Dante (GB)).
AT 3 Champion 3yr old sprinter in Europe in 2022. Won Commonwealth Cup, Ascot, Gr.1, (6f. beating Flaming Rib (IRE) and Flotus (IRE)), Greenham Stakes, Newbury, Gr.3, (7f. beating Lusail (IRE) and Angel Bleu (FR)).
PERFECT POWER was a breeze-up star and a brilliant two-year-old who trained on to be a Group 1 sprinter at three.
He was bred by Tally-Ho Stud from the first crop of another of its recent star graduates, the Flying Childers and Windsor Castle Stakes winner Ardad.
Perfect Power was bought for £110,000 at the Goffs UK Breeze Up Sale by Blandford Bloodstock and was third on debut for Richard Fahey.
The colt put that experience to good use when winning on his second start, and was then sent to Royal Ascot for the Norfolk Stakes (G2) in which he nailed Go Bears Go in the dying strides.
A bad trip in the Richmond Stakes (G2) on his next outing saw him finish fifth, but he was quickly back to winning ways in his very first Group 1 outing in the Prix Morny. The colt showed that 6f was well within his scope and repeated that in the Middle Park Stakes for a second Group 1 success.
He managed to eke out enough from his reserves to win the Group 3 Greenham Stakes on his seasonal reappearance but the mile of the Guineas was beyond him. He was then dropped back to sprint trips, and earned his third Group 1 in Royal Ascot’s Commonwealth Cup.
His pedigree is an interesting one – his dam Sagely is a daughter of Frozen Power, an Oasis Dream half-brother to Finsceal Beo and the winner of the German 2,000 Guineas.
Sagely won over a mile and 1m2f and is a half-sister to the Listed Upavon Stakes second Sagaciously, dam of Listed Prix Pelleas winner Epic Poet.
Third dam Saga D’Ouilly is a full-sister to the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (G1) winner and sire Sagamix and to Sage Et Jolie, the dam of Group 1 winner Sageburg. She is also a half-sister to the Group 1 winner Sagacity and to Shastye, the dam of the Group 1-winning full-brothers Japan and Mogul, as well as Secret Gesture and Sir Isaac Newton.
Perfect Power is from the first crop of Ardad and is one of just two Group winners that he has sired with the other – Sirenia Stakes (G3) winner Eve Lodge – also from his first crop.
The first foals by Perfect Power were received positively by the market with 28 sold for an average price of 38,463gns with the median at 30,000gns.
Altenbach Bloodstock’s colt out of the Camelot mare Mutrecy was the only one to break into six-figures with Peter and Ross Doyle going to 130,000gns for the half-brother to winning two-year-old Char at the Tattersalls December Foal Sale.
Tattersalls was also the venue for the sale of Perfect Power’s most expensive daughter – Cobhall Court Stud’s half-sister to Group 3 Oh So Sharp and Athasi Stakes third Small Oasis. She made 78,000gns and was bought by Federico Barberini.
1st Dam
SAGELY (IRE), won 2 races at 3 years and £24,047 and placed 6 times; dam of 3 winners: PERFECT POWER (IRE), see above.
WISE APPROACH (IRE) (2023 c. by Mehmas (IRE)), won 2 races at 2 years, 2025 and £70,382 including Rose Bowl Stakes, Newbury, L., placed second in Norfolk Stakes, Ascot, Gr.2, from only 4 starts.
Golden Mind (IRE) (2021 g. by Galileo Gold (GB)), won 2 races at 2 and 4 years, 2025 and £55,174, placed 3 times including third in Chesham Stakes, Ascot, L.
She also has a yearling filly by Mehmas (IRE).
2nd Dam
SAGA CELEBRE (FR), won 1 race at 3 years and placed twice; also won 1 race in U.S.A. at 4 years; dam of 5 winners:
Sagaciously (IRE) (f. by Lawman (FR)), won 3 races at 2 and 4 years and £58,076, placed second in EBF Stallions Upavon Stakes, Salisbury, L.; dam of winners.
EPIC POET (IRE), 5 races at home, in France and U.A.E. to 6 years, 2025 and £733,467 including Prix Pelleas, Compiegne, L., placed second in Red Sea Turf Handicap, King Abdulaziz, Gr.2 and third in Dubai Gold Cup, Meydan, Gr.2 and Al Khail Trophy, Meydan, L. La Filomena (IRE), 2 races in France at 3 years and £34,269, placed third in Prix Melisande, ParisLongchamp, L.
HANKELOW (IRE), 1 race at 2 years, 2025, his only start.
ACTION HERO (IRE), won 2 races at 3 years and placed 6 times; also won 2 races in Qatar at 3 years and placed 3 times.
SAGELY (IRE), see above.
SARKHA (IRE), won 1 race at 4 years and placed once.
SAGENESS (IRE), won 1 race at 3 years and placed once; dam of a winner.
FAR AHEAD (IRE), 1 race at 3 years, 2025 and placed once, from only 3 starts.
Life’s Saga (IRE), placed once in U.S.A. at 3 years, 2024.
3rd Dam
SAGA D’OUILLY (FR), won 1 race in France at 2 years and placed twice; Own sister to SAGE ET JOLIE (GB) and SAGAMIX (FR); dam of 8 winners including:
SAGAROI (FR) (g. by King’s Best (USA)), won 10 races in France including Eme Derby du MidiArqana Racing Club, Bordeaux Le Bouscat, L.
SAGAUTEUR (FR) (g. by Literato (FR)), won 6 races at home and in France including Prix F.B.A Aymeri de Mauleon, Toulouse, L., placed second in Prix Omnium II, Saint-Cloud, L.
SADIYNA (FR), won 3 races in France and placed once; dam of winners.
Sadarak (FR), 11 races in France, placed third in Eme Derby du Midi, Bordeaux Le Bouscat, L.
SAGARIYA (FR), won 1 race in France and placed 4 times; dam of winners.
PROTAGONIST (FR), 6 races at home and in Australia including Sky High Stakes, Rosehill, Gr.3, placed third in Hill Stakes, Rosehill, Gr.2.
GWENN HA DU (FR), 3 races in France at 3 and 4 years, 2024 and placed 4 times.
Chou Chou d’Aven (FR), placed once in U.S.A. at 3 years, 2024.
SAGHANIYA (FR), won 1 race in France and placed 4 times; dam of winners.
SAGAMIYRA (FR), 6 races in France including Prix du Pin, ParisLongchamp, Gr.3 and Prix Maurice Zilber, ParisLongchamp, L., placed second in Prix Rothschild, Deauville, Gr.1. Saganti (FR), 1 race in France, placed second in Prix du Lys, Chantilly, Gr.3 and Prix Thomas Bryon, Saint-Cloud, Gr.3.
Shahzad (FR), 4 races in Australia and France from 3 to 5 years, 2024, placed second in Grand Prix de Compiegne, Compiegne, L.
SADALIYA (FR), won 1 race in France; dam of winners.
PROELIA (FR), 6 races in France to 8 years, 2024 and placed 6 times.
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PERSIAN FORCE
ATOUGH AND A TALENTED JUVENILE who made a winning racecourse debut before his actual second birthday, Persian Force stands alongside his sire Mehmas at Tally-Ho Stud.
There are plenty of similarities between Persian Force and his sire, not least their race records and training establishments, although the son made it to the track earlier than his father.
He won the Brocklesby at Doncaster in late March whereas Mehmas made his winning debut at Chester in May.
On the back of his first two successful runs, Persian Force, like his father, ran in the Coventry Stakes (G2) at Royal Ascot.
The result for both father and son was the same – Persian Force finished second to Bradsell, the same slot that Mehmas had filled in that race behind Caravaggio.
Both horses gained their Group 2 victories in the July Stakes, their next start after Royal Ascot, and it is there where their paths diverged slightly. Persian Force went to The Curragh for the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes, where he found only Little Big Bear too good.
Blackbeard, a different son of No Nay Never, stood in his way at Deauville in the Prix Morny (G1), and he was third to him again in the Middle Park Stakes (G1), a race in which Mehmas
Persian Force foal sales: descending price order (gns) (* first foal, ** second foal)
colt
colt ex Sunshine Fantasy (IRE) (Make Believe (GB)) (12th April 2024)
UNNAMED bay colt ex Sundiata (GB) (Showcasing (GB)) (26th March 2024)
UNNAMED bay colt ex Volkovkha (GB) (Holy Roman Emperor (IRE)) (6th April 2024)
UNNAMED bay brown filly ex Crystal Morning (IRE) (Cape Cross (IRE)) (25th March 2024)
UNNAMED bay colt ex Dream Date (IRE) (Oasis Dream (GB)) (4th April 2024)
*UNNAMED bay colt ex Baroness Blixen (GB) (Showcasing (GB)) (26th February 2024)
UNNAMED chesnut colt ex Aunt Anny (IRE) (Exceed And Excel (AUS)) (24th January 2024)
UNNAMED chesnut colt ex Alissachope (FR) (Kheleyf (USA)) (4th February 2024)
UNNAMED bay colt ex Choc U Zel Nell (IRE) (Noverre (USA)) (29th February 2024)
UNNAMED bay colt ex Glittering Star (FR) (Lomitas (GB)) (11th March 2024)
UNNAMED chesnut colt ex
(IRE) (War
bay colt ex Sashiko (GB) (Iffraaj (GB)) (5th April 2024)
UNNAMED bay colt ex Suedehead (GB) (Cape Cross (IRE)) (15th April 2024)
UNNAMED bay colt ex Kerasona (FR) (Oasis Dream (GB)) (20th April 2024)
UNNAMED bay colt ex Demesne (GB) (Dansili (GB)) (25th February 2024)
UNNAMED chesnut filly ex Kakashan (IRE) (Kodiac (GB)) (21st January 2024)
UNNAMED chesnut filly ex Delft Dancer (GB) (Dutch Art (GB)) (5th March 2024)
UNNAMED bay colt ex Suaimhneach (IRE) (Vocalised (USA)) (7th March 2024)
*UNNAMED chesnut colt ex University (FR) (Siyouni (FR)) (4th January 2024)
UNNAMED bay brown colt ex Lawless (IRE) (Lawman (FR)) (23rd March 2024)
chesnut
ex
ex
Class (GB) (Highland Reel (IRE)) (22nd February 2024)
Straits (FR) (Dalakhani (IRE)) (9th February 2024)
UNNAMED bay colt ex Simaviya (IRE) (Zamindar (USA)) (4th April 2024)
bay colt ex Love Message (GB) (Siyouni (FR)) (22nd March
UNNAMED bay colt ex Rohesia (GB) (High Chaparral (IRE)) (18th February 2024)
UNNAMED bay filly ex Trump Alexander (IRE) (Iffraaj (GB)) (12th April 2024)
chesnut filly ex Thunder Queen (GB)
had also finished third. The Middle Park (G1) was the final race of his career for Mehmas, but Persian Force had one more run in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint. In a dramatic late finish, he was forced out of second and into fourth in the dying yards.
Bred by trainer Tom Lacy, Persian Force is a year younger full-brother to Gubbass, who was third in the Richmond Stakes (G2) and in the Listed King Charles II Stakes. They are out of Vida Amorosa, an unraced daughter of Lope De Vega and a half-sister to the dam of Group 3 Prix de Meautry and Prix de Ris-Orangis winner Garrus, by Acclamation, who was also third in the Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest.
Persian Force’s third dam Nuit Chaud is a half-sister to Mira Adonde, the dam of Group 1-winning two-year-old and excellent sire and broodmare sire Danehill Dancer.
With Mehmas having a brilliant season with his two-yearolds in 2024, Persian Force’s stock elicited plenty of attention at the foal sales and he was the sire of a trio to break the €50,000 mark at the Goffs November Sale.
Top price of €68,000 was paid by Tally-Ho for a colt out of Princess Rose offered by Baroda Stud.
Greenville House Stud’s filly out of Playful Dance brought €60,000 from RC Bloodstock, while White House Bloodstock went to €50,000 for Awbeg Stud’s son of Testimony.
1st Dam
VIDA AMOROSA (IRE), unraced; dam of 2 winners: PERSIAN FORCE (IRE), see above.
Gubbass (IRE) (2019 g. by Mehmas (IRE)), won 2 races at 2 years and £127,495, placed twice third in Richmond Stakes, Goodwood, Gr.2 and King Charles II Stakes, Newmarket, L.; also won 3 races in Qatar at 4 and 6 years, 2025 and £91,890 and placed twice.
Manhattan Mirage (IRE) (2021 g. by Inns of Court (IRE)), placed 5 times at 2 and 3 years, 2024 and £9,111.
Stella Amorosa (IRE) (2023 f. by Starman (GB)), ran once on the flat at 2 years, 2025. She also has a yearling filly by Mehmas (IRE).
2nd Dam
DANAMIGHT (IRE), placed 4 times at 2 and 3 years; dam of 4 winners:
Further (IRE), won 1 race at 3 years, 2025 and £90,763, second in Queen’s Vase, Ascot, Gr.2
RICHTER SCALE (IRE), won 2 races at 2 and 3 years and placed 4 times, dam of a winner.
OCTAVIA (IRE), won 1 race at 3 years and placed 6 times; dam of winners.
TAUFAN (BHR), 2 races in Bahrain at 2 and 3 years and placed 7 times.
TORPEDO (BHR), 2 races in Bahrain at 3 and 5 years, 2024 and placed twice.
QUEEN OF POWER (IRE), won 1 race at 3 years and placed once; dam of winners.
GARRUS (IRE), 8 races at home and in France to 7 years and £332,689 including Abernant Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.3, Prix de Meautry, Deauville, Gr.3, Prix de Ris-Orangis, Deauville, Gr.3 and BSS EBF Westow Stakes, York, L., placed third in Prix Maurice de Gheest, Deauville, Gr.1.
REGAL VEGA (IRE), 1 race at 3 years and placed once; also 3 races in Italy at 3 and 4 years.
UNIVERSALLY (IRE), 3 races at 4 and 5 years, 2024 and £28,506 and placed 4 times.
SISSI (IRE), 1 race at 4 years, 2025 and placed once.
3rd Dam
NUIT CHAUD (USA), ran a few times in U.S.A. at 3 and 4 years; dam of 6 winners including: Hallhoo (IRE) (c. by Indian Ridge), won 2 races, placed second in Shadwell Estate Fairway Stakes, Newmarket, L.
GREY DYLAN (IRE), won 5 races in Switzerland and placed 9 times.
SECRET STORY (IRE), won 1 race and placed twice; also won 2 races in U.S.A. and placed twice; dam of winners.
SECRET MISTRESS (USA), 4 races in U.S.A. to 7 years, 2025 and placed 12 times.
NELSON STREET (USA), won 2 races in U.S.A. and placed twice.
Latino L’Amour (IRE), unraced; dam of winners.
Sweet Dreams Baby (NZ), unraced; dam of WINDBORNE (NZ), 3 races in New Zealand including NZ Bloodstock Canterbury Belle Stakes, Riccarton Park, L. and Murdoch Newell Counties Challenge Stakes, Avondale, L., placed third in Stella Artois Mr Tiz Trophy, Ellerslie, Gr.3, DARCI’S DREAM (NZ), 3 races in New Zealand including NZ Bloodstock Canterbury Belle Stakes, Riccarton Park, L., second in New Zealand 1000 Guineas, Riccarton Park, Gr.1.
RUBAIYAT
Horse Price Consignor Purchaser Sale Lot
Rubaiyat foal sales: descending price order (gns) (* first foal, ** second foal)
UNNAMED chesnut filly ex Kashmar (GER) (Samum (GER)) (29th April 2024) 5,797 Mr. Stephen Lanigan O’Keeffe
John Hore Goffs December N.H. Sale 2024
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Racing Form 24
Stakes form
At 2 Won Gran Criterium, San Siro, Gr2 (7.5f, beating Cima Ermergency (IRE) and Elaire Noir IRE)), Won Preis des Winterfavoriten, Cologne, Gr3 (8f, beating Wonderful Moon (Ger) and Palao (Ger)Won Junipren Preis, Dusseldorf, LR (8f, beating Frankel’s Storm and La La Land (Ger)
At 3 Won Dr Busch-Memorial, Hoppegarten, Gr3 (8f, beating Zavaro (GER) and Fearless King), second German 2000 Guineas, Cologne, Gr2 (8f to Fearless King), Premio Parioli, Capanelle, Gr3 (8f, to Cima Emergency), third Kronimus Oettingen Rennen, Baden-Baden, Gr2 (8f, to Dark Vision (IRE), Premio Vittorio di Capua, San Siro, Gr2 (8f, to Out Of Time (ITY)
At 4 Won Premio Vittorio di Capua, San Siro, Gr2 (8f, beating Cima Emergency (ITY) and Wonnemond (Ger), won Waldpfad Cup, Hanover, LR (6.5f, beating Majestic Colt (IRE) and Ninario (GER), second Grosser Preis der Dresden, Dresden, Gr3 (7f, to Alpen Rose (IRE)
At 5 Won Premio Ribot, Capanelle, Gr3 (8f, beating Mordimi (IRE) and Breughel (ITY), second Premio Vittorio di Capua, San Siro, Gr2 (8f, to Bounce The Blues (IRE), second Grosser Preis der Wirtschaft, Dortmund, Gr3 (9f, to Parol (GER), Premio Ambrosiano, San Siro, Gr3 (10f, to Dawn Intello (FR), Kalkmann Fruhjahrs-Melle, dusseldorf, Gr3 (8f, to Mythico (FR), third Grosser Preis der Dresden, Dresden, Gr3 (7f, to Fire Of The Sun (FR)
ASON OF leading German speed influence Areion from the Big Shuffle sire-line, Rubaiyat was 2019’s leading German juvenile. He won that country’s most prestigious two-year-old race for colts, the Group 3 Preis der Winterfavoriten, San Siro’s Group 2 Gran Criterium, as well as the Listed Junioren Preis.
The winner of seven of his 24 starts over four seasons, he was one of the best German milers and won the Group 3 Dr Busch Memorial at three and finished second in the German 2,000 Guineas.
As a four-year-old he was successful in the Premio Vittorio di Capua (G2) and the Listed Waldpfad Cup over the shorter trip of 1300m. At five he won the Group 3 Premio Ribot and was second when attempting to win back-to-back runnings of the Group 2 Premio Vittorio di Capua. In total, he was placed in ten Group races to add to his seven wins.
Bred by Gestüt Karlshof he was bought by HFTB Racing for €26,000 at the BBAG September Yearling Sale. He is a halfbrother to the Listed Prix Amandine winner Rose Flower out of Representera, a Lomitas sister to the Listed-winning juvenile Becomes You and a half-sister to the Poule d’Essai des Poulains (G1) winner Tin Horse (Sakhee).
Rubaiyat shares his sire with the Criterium International winner and Poule d’Essai des Poulains third Alson, who has his first runners this year. Areion is the sire of 29 individual Group winners.
1st Dam
REPRESENTERA (GB), won 1 race in France at 4 years and £8,058 and placed twice; Own sister to BECOMES YOU (GB); dam of 3 winners RUBAIYAT (FR), see above.
ROSE FLOWER (GER) (2016 f. by Dabirsim (FR)), won 3 races in France and U.S.A. at 3 years and £99,097 including Prix Amandine, Maisons-Laffitte, L., placed 3 times including third in Christiecat Stakes, Belmont Park, L. and Autumn Days Stakes, Aqueduct; broodmare.
ROSE GOLD (GER) (2015 c. by Havana Gold (IRE)), won 2 races in Italy at 4 and 5 years and £14,959 and placed 15 times.
Runahead (GB) (2013 f. by Makfi (GB)), placed 4 times in Germany at 3 years and £3,162; broodmare. Made of Grey (GB) (2014 f. by Oasis Dream (GB)), placed once in France at 3 years and £3,077; broodmare.
2nd Dam
JOYEUSE ENTREE (GB), won 4 races in France at 2 years and £80,134 including Prix d’Aumale, Longchamp, Gr.3 and Prix Roland de Chambure, Saint-Cloud, L., placed twice including second in Prix La Fleche, Evry, L.; dam of 7 winners:
TIN HORSE (IRE) (c. by Sakhee (USA)), won 4 races in France from 2 to 4 years and £461,882 including Poule d’Essai des Poulains, Longchamp, Gr.1 and Prix Messidor, Maisons-Laffitte, Gr.3, placed second in Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere-Grand Criterium, Longchamp, Gr.1 and Darley Prix Morny, Deauville, Gr.1; sire.
BECOMES YOU (GB) (f. by Lomitas (GB)), won 2 races in France at 2 years and £49,626 including The Baileys Criterium de l’Ouest, Craon, L., placed third in Prix de Conde, Longchamp, Gr.3; dam of winners.
BADEN ROCKS (FR), 5 races in France to 8 years, 2025 and £140,821 and placed 16 times.
ELSANTA (GB), 4 races in France at 4 years and placed 8 times.
RED WHISPER (FR), 4 races in France at 3 and 4 years and £54,487 and placed 6 times.
REUNION ISLAND (IRE), 4 races in Denmark and Sweden from 2 to 4 years and £39,233 and placed 5 times.
NON PAREILLE (IRE), 2 races in France at 3 years and placed 3 times; dam of TENNESSEE JOHN (FR), 4 races in France at 4 and 5 years, 2024 and £52,409 and placed 4 times, KING’S CROWN (FR), 2 races in France and Germany at 3 and 5 years, 2025 and placed 4 times
BLUEGRASS BOY (FR), 2 races in Slovakia at 2 years and placed once.
SWING VOTER (GB), won 7 races in France from 3 to 6 years and £86,916 and placed 21 times.
DEUX SAISONS (GB), won 2 races in France at 3 years and placed once; dam of winners.
SAISONS D’OR (IRE), 10 races to 10 years, 2025 and £81,618 and placed 28 times.
MITSHURIN (IRE), 4 races in Switzerland at 3 and 4 years and placed 7 times.
REPRESENTERA (GB), see above.
SELDOM FOUND (IRE), won 1 race in France at 3 years and placed once; dam of a winner.
RESINITE (GB), 1 race in France at 3 years and placed twice; dam of REDKAN (FR), 2 races in France and placed once; also placed once over jumps in France.
SOUTH SISTER (GB), won 1 race in France at 3 years and placed once; dam of winners.
JADOOMI (FR), 5 races at home and in France at 2 and 4 years and £462,668 including Celebration Mile, Goodwood, Gr.2, Solonaway Stakes, Leopardstown, and Prix du Pays d’Auge, Clairefontaine, , placed third in Queen Elizabeth II Gr.2 L. Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1 and Criterium International, Saint-Cloud, Gr.1.
Track of Time (FR), 3 races in France at 3 years and £60,350, placed second in Prix Turenne, Saint-Cloud, L.
MEANDYOUTWO (FR), 2 races in Norway and Sweden at 3 and 4 years and placed 3 times.
SISTERLAND (FR), 1 race in France at 3 years, 2024 and placed twice.
DIXIELAND BLUES (GB), 1 race at 3 years, 2025 and placed twice, all his starts.
Nada Es Amor (IRE), placed once in France at 3 years; dam of winners.
Parcelle Perdue (FR), 3 races in France at 2 years and £41,993, placed third in Gd. Criterium de Bordeaux P.de Sauternes, Bordeaux Le Bouscat, L.; dam of SPANISH ARCHER (FR), 3 races and £42,234 and placed 7 times.
DESDICHAS (FR), 4 races in France from 3 to 5 years and £50,551 and placed 23 times.
NINE LIVES (FR), 3 races in France at 3 years and £34,908 and placed 8 times.
Hold The Thought (GB), placed once in France at 2 years; dam of winners.
AUTORISATION (FR), 7 races over jumps in France from 4 to 6 years and £129,616 including Grand Steeple Chase de Craon, Craon, L.
TRUFFLE BLACK (GB), 8 races in France to 8 years and £78,102 and placed 15 times.
MORANDI FIRST (FR), 5 races in France from 3 to 6 years, 2024 and £63,810 and placed 10 times.
MORANDI SECOND (FR), 1 race at 5 years, 2024 and placed once; also placed once in France at 3 years; also placed 4 times over hurdles from 3 to 6 years, 2025.
JACAMAR (FR), 1 race in France at 3 years and placed twice; dam of PALMEIRA EMERY (FR), 2 races in France at 3 and 5 years, 2025 and placed 4 times.
Acentela (IRE), placed twice in France at 3 years; dam of BLUE HILLS (FR), 8 races in France and £182,258 and placed 23 times.
Fancy Intense (GB), ran twice in France at 3 years; dam of winners.
TRUE BLUE MOON (IRE), 6 races to 7 years and £76,409 including Coolmore War Command Rochestown Stakes, Naas, L.
REFRACTOR (IRE), 3 races at 3 and 4 years and placed 5 times; also 2 races in Italy at 6 years and placed 3 times.
HILLS OF ROME (IRE), 2 races in Italy at 6 and 9 years and placed 9 times.
FANCY FOOTSTEPS (IRE), 2 races at 4 years and placed 5 times.
KID SUITOR (IRE), 2 races at 2 and 3 years and placed 4 times, all his starts.
3rd Dam
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE (FR), won 4 races in France at 2 and 3 years and placed 3 times; dam of 1 winner: JOYEUSE ENTREE (GB), see above.
SEALIWAY
Sealiway foal sales: descending price order (gns) (* first foal, ** second foal) *UNNAMED bay colt ex Rasca (FR) (Zarak (FR)) (28th January 2024)
ex
(FR) (Fastnet Rock (AUS)) (14th March 2024)
https://www.harasdebeaumont.com/detail-etalon/Sealiway
AGroup 1 winner at two and three, Sealiway’s stallion career marked a major milestone for the Chehboub family’s involvement in bloodstock as he was the first stallion to stand at their Haras de Beaumont where he has been joined by champion three-year-old Ace Impact and Prix Jean Prat winner Puchkine, and to where Intello and Stunning Spirit relocated on the closure of Haras du Quesnay.
Sealiway is a product of Guy Pariente’s breeding programme and was bought by Paul Nataf for €62,000 as yearling from Haras de Colleville. He was out early at two, making a winning debut over 6f in May and then won over the same trip at Chantilly before finishing third to King’s Harlequin and Go Athletico in the Listed Prix Roland de Chambure.
He earned his Listed stripes at Vichy on his next start before splitting Go Athletico and Naval Crown in the Group 3 Prix la Rochette. On his first try at the top level he stepped up to win the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère, defeating Nando Parrado and Laws Of Indices on heavy ground at Paris Longchamp. He went on to show that was no fluke with his fifth place in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf.
He started his three-year-old season with second in the Group 3 Prix de Fontainebleau and then was only 3l behind St Mark’s Basilica when eighth in the Poule d’Essai des Poulains (G1). Less than 2l separated the pair when first and second in the Prix du Jockey-Club (G1), with the 1m2f trip playing to Sealiway’s strengths.
In the Arc, on his next run and first at the 1m4f trip, he finished a close fifth to Torquator Tasso, Tarnawa, Hurricane Lane and Adayar and then added his second Group 1 with success in Ascot’s British Champions Stakes just 13 days’ later.
Switched to Francis-Henri Graffard for his four-year-old season, his best performances came when third behind State Of Rest in the Prix Ganay (G1) and second to Skaletti in the Group 2 Prix Harcourt.
Sealiway is the third foal out of the Listed Prix Herod winner Kensea, a daughter of Pariente’s remarkable sire Kendargent.
His younger full-brother Sunway was also a Group 1 winner at two, with success in the Criterium International at Saint-Cloud. Last year he was placed in the St Leger and Irish Derby for David Menuisier.
Kensea is the dam of four winners and she was the best horse in her family, which includes Tiger Roll all the way back under the fifth dam, for three generations until Sealiway emerged.
On the track, Galiway was a Listed winner at three and Group 3-placed but he has already outshone his own performances in his second career, producing three Group winners with two of them out of Kendargent mares.
From his first six crops he has produced 15 stakes winners, supplementing his Group 1 winners with Vauban, who is a Group 2 winner on the Flat and a Grade 1 winner over hurdles.
In total, 14 of Sealiway’s first crop were sold as foals with an average price of 18,019gns and the median significantly better at 19,048gns.
Top price came at Arqana for Haras de Tourgeville’s colt out of Rasca, an unraced Zarak full-sister to the Listed and Group 3-placed Rashford.
Salcey Forest Stud’s filly out of Tikitiki, a winning daughter of Fastnet Rock, brought 27,000gns at the December Foal Sale from Flyingbolt Bloodstock.
de Beaumont 2023: €12,000 | 2024: €12,000 | 2025: €12,000
1st Dam
KENSEA (FR), won 2 races in France at 2 years and £51,805 including Prix Herod, Chantilly, L., placed twice including second in Prix Ronde de Nuit, Chantilly, L.; dam of 4 winners:
SEALIWAY (FR), see above.
SUNWAY (FR) (2021 c. by Galiway (GB)), won 1 race at 2 years and £395,558, placed 4 times second in Irish Derby, Curragh, Gr.1 and Champagne Stakes, Doncaster, Gr.2 and third in St Leger Stakes, Doncaster, Gr.1 and John Porter Stakes, Newbury, Gr.3; also won 1 race in France at 2 years and £143,807, Criterium International, Saint-Cloud, Gr.1, placed second in Prix Greffulhe, Saint-Cloud, Gr.3.
SEAGALI (FR) (2019 g. by Galiway (GB)), won 3 races in France at 3 and 5 years, 2024 and £42,827 and placed 5 times.
GLAMOUR VENDOME (FR) (2015 c. by Style Vendome (FR)), won 1 race in France at 3 years and £7,346 and placed twice.
Peggysueway (FR) (2022 f. by Galiway (GB)), in training.
She also has a yearling filly by Zarak (FR).
2nd Dam
SEA ISLAND (FR), won 5 races in France at 2 years and £53,825 and placed 10 times; dam of 2 winners: KENSEA (FR), see above.
POKERA (FR), placed twice in France at 2 years; also won 3 races over jumps in France at 3 and 4 years and £37,585 and placed 15 times.
Diva Island (FR), placed 4 times over jumps in France at 3 years; dam of a winner.
DIBOY (FR), 2 races in France and Spain at 3 and 5 years and placed 9 times.
3rd Dam
EQUATORIALE (FR), won 1 race in France at 3 years and placed 6 times; dam of 7 winners including: Gold des Bois (FR) (g. by Full of Gold (FR)), won 1 race over hurdles and won 4 races over fences at 7, 8 and 10 years, 2024, placed third in Scotty Brand Handicap Chase, Ayr, L.; also won 1 point-to point.
ROSEAL DES BOIS (FR), won 6 races in France and placed 25 times.
BACARA DES BOIS (FR), won 5 races over jumps in France and placed 10 times.
SEA ISLAND (FR), see above.
Racing Form
18 runs, 5 wins, 6 places | Master Timeform Rating: 127 | Average winning distance (f): 7.16
Stakes form
AT 2 Champion 2yr old colt in France in 2020. Won Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere, Parislongchamp, Gr.1, (6½f. beating Nando Parrado (GB) and Laws of Indices (IRE)), P. des Jouvenceaux et Jouvencelles, Vichy, L., (6½f. beating Stormy Pouss (FR) and Central Park West (FR)), second in Prix La Rochette, Parislongchamp, Gr.3, (to Go Athletico (FR)), third in Prix Roland de Chambure, Parislongchamp, L., (to King’s Harlequin (IRE)).
AT 3 Won Champion Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1, (9½f. beating Dubai Honour (IRE) and Mac Swiney (IRE)), second in Prix du Jockey Club, Chantilly, Gr.1, (to St Mark’s Basilica (FR)), Prix de Fontainebleau, Parislongchamp, Gr.3, (to Policy of Truth (FR)).
14 foals
6 colts
AT 4 Second in Prix d’Harcourt, Parislongchamp, Gr.2, (to Skalleti (FR)), third in Prix Ganay, Parislongchamp, Gr.1, (to State of Rest (IRE)). FOAL SALE STATISTICS (gns)
8 fillies
SPACE TRAVELLER
UNNAMED
bay colt ex
(USA) (Bernardini (USA)) (4th
UNNAMED bay filly ex Brynica (FR) (Desert Style (IRE)) (29th April 2024)
UNNAMED bay filly
colt ex
(USA)) (5th February 2024)
Dream (IRE) (Oasis Dream (GB)) (8th May 2024)
UNNAMED bay colt ex Sousmain (GB) (Shamardal (USA)) (27th March 2024)
UNNAMED bay colt ex Obsara (GB) (Observatory (USA)) (2nd March 2024)
bay filly ex Mikandy (IRE) (Arcano (IRE)) (2nd March 2024)
**UNNAMED bay colt ex Zahira Loredana (IRE) (Zoffany (IRE)) (2nd May 2024)
(USA)) (18th
ex Ola Bonita (IRE) (Zebedee (GB)) (12th March 2024)
(Arch (USA)) (10th April 2024)
**UNNAMED bay filly ex Last Phase (GB) (Twilight Son (GB)) (11th February 2024)
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Racing Form
25 runs, 5 wins, 7 places | Master Timeform Rating: 117 | Average winning distance (f): 6.88
Stakes form
AT 2 Second in Prix Eclipse, Maisons-Laffitte, Gr.3, (to Sporting Chance (GB)).
AT 3 Won Boomerang Stakes, Leopardstown, Gr.2, (8f. beating Matterhorn (IRE) and Pincheck (IRE)), Jersey Stakes, Ascot, Gr.3, (7f. beating Space Blues (IRE) and Angel’s Hideaway (IRE)), second in bet365 European Free Handicap, Newmarket, L., (to Shine So Bright (GB)), third in Sky Strensall Stakes, York, Gr.3, (to Zaaki (GB)), Shalaa Carnarvon Stakes, Newbury, L., (to Khaadem (IRE)).
AT 5 Won Ganton Stakes, York, L., (7½f. beating Azano (GB) and Duke of Hazzard (FR)), second in Woodbine Mile Stakes, Woodbine, Gr.1, (to Town Cruise (CAN)).
AT 6 Second in Frank E Kilroe Mile Stakes, Santa Anita, Gr.1, (to Count Again (CAN)), third in Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational , Gulfstream Park, Gr.1, (to Colonel Liam (USA)).
SPACE TRAVELLER was the first son of Bated Breath to retire to stud in Ireland. Successful in his first two starts as a juvenile, including over 5f, Space Traveller finished second in the Group 3 Prix Eclipse for Richard Fahey. He filled the same position in the European Free Handicap on his seasonal reappearance the following spring and then was third in the Carnarvon Stakes (L).
He defeated subsequent Group 1 winner Space Blues to win Royal Ascot’s Group 3 Jersey Stakes and gave owner Steve Parkin of Clipper Logistics plenty to smile about when winning the Boomerang Stakes (G2), sponsored by his firm. At five, he won the mile Listed Ganton Stakes and was second in the Grade 1 Woodbine Mile.
He moved across the Atlantic Ocean and to the barn of Brendan Walsh and as a six-year-old was placed in two further Grade 1 contests: the Pegasus Turf and the Frank E Kilroe Mile.
Bred by the El Catorce Partnership, he was bought by Joe Foley for 85,000gns at Book 3 and is out of the Galileo mare Sky Crystal.
She is the dam of four winners, headed by Space Traveller and also the Group 3 Dick Poole Stakes third Pellucid (Excelebration), who is the dam of Group 3 Horris Hill Stakes winner Orne.
Sky Crystal is a half-sister to the Italian Listed-placed Mitrandir, who shares his sire with Space Traveller, and she is a winning daughter of Snow Crystal, a half-sister to the Fillies’ Mile (G1) winner Crystal Music and the Group 3 winners State Crystal, Solar Crystal and Dubai Success. It is also the family of Group 1 Prix Jean Prat winner and sire Zelzal.
Space Traveller’s first foals averaged 14,188gns for 31 sold with the median at 5,797gns. The most expensive of them was Barton Stud’s colt out of the winning Showcasing mare Burmese Waltz, who made 82,000gns to KCS Bloodstock at the December Foal Sale. He is a half-brother to 2024’s Listed Windsor Castle Stakes winner Ain’t Nobody.
Mareshah Stud’s half-brother to Oaks d’Italia runner-up Must Be Late made €50,000 to Pat McCarthy at Goffs November Foal Sale.
Sandra Russell consigned the daughter of True To Love, an Es Que Love half-sister to Group 2 winner First Cornerstone. She made €37,000 to TLK, and achieved the highest price for a first-crop filly by Space Traveller.
31 foals
1st Dam
SKY CRYSTAL (GER), won 1 race at 3 years and £2,386, from only 2 starts; dam of 4 winners inc:
SPACE TRAVELLER (GB), see above.
Pellucid (GB) (2014 f. by Excelebration (IRE)), won 1 race at 2 years and £12,731, placed third in BathwickTyres Dick Poole Stakes, Salisbury, Gr.3; dam of a winner.
ORNE (IRE) (g. by Acclamation (GB)), 2 races at 2 years and £100,000 including Horris Hill Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.3, placed 4 times including second in Sandy Lane Stakes, Haydock Park, Gr.2 and third in Spring Cup, Lingfield Park, L. and Burradon Stakes, Newcastle, L.; also placed in Qatar at 3 years, 2024.
RUBIA BELLA (GB) (2017 f. by Bated Breath (GB)), won 1 race; dam of a winner. CRYSTAL LOVE (IRE), Champion 2yr old filly in Scandinavia in 2024, 3 races in Norway and Sweden at 2 years, 2024 and £30,108 and placed once.
Sea Robbo Run (IRE) (2022 g. by Bated Breath (GB)), ran once on the flat at 3 years, 2025. Dark Halo (IRE) (2023 c. by Dark Angel (IRE)).
She also has a yearling colt by Dark Angel (IRE).
2nd Dam
SNOW CRYSTAL (IRE), won 1 race at 2 years, from only 2 starts; dam of 4 winners inc: Mitrandir (GB) (c. by Bated Breath (GB)), won 8 races in Italy, second in Premio Bersaglio, L.
3rd Dam
CRYSTAL SPRAY, won 1 race at 4 years and placed 5 times; dam of 7 winners including:
CRYSTAL MUSIC (USA) (f. by Nureyev (USA)), JT 2nd top rated 2yr old filly in Europe in 2000, JT 4th top rated 3yr old filly in England in 2001, won 3 races including Meon Valley Stud Fillies’ Mile Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1, second in Coronation Stakes, Gr.1 and Entenmann’s Irish 1000 Guineas, Curragh, Gr.1; dam of winners. FIRNAS (GB), 5 races at home and in U.A.E. including The Entisar Stakes, Meydan, L High End (GB), 3 races, placed second in Foundation Stakes, Goodwood, L. Crystany (IRE), 1 race, placed second in totetentofollow.co.uk Kilvington Stakes, Nottingham, and third in Timeform L. Cecil Frail Stakes, Haydock Park, L.; dam of Glesga Gal (IRE), 2 races, second in Guisborough Stakes, Redcar, L., Vivianite (IRE), 1 race, placed third in Conqueror Stakes, Goodwood, L.; grandam of Queen’s Reign (GB), 2 races, second in Prix Maurice Zilber, L. Treasury Devil (USA), 7 races, third in Makfi Newmarket Stakes, Newmarket, L. Crystal Moment (USA), 3 races., third in Evangeline Mile H’cap, Evangeline Downs, L. Crystal Maze (GB), unraced; dam of OCOVANGO (GB), 3 races in France including Prix Greffulhe, Saint-Cloud, Gr.2, placed third in Juddmonte Grand Prix de Paris, Longchamp, Gr.1; sire; grandam of Manchu (AUS), 1 race in New Zealand, placed second in Lawnmaster Eulogy Stakes, Awapuni, Gr.3; granddam of Glitter Girl (GB), 3 races, second in v Oh So Sharp Stakes, Gr.3. DUBAI SUCCESS (GB) (c. by Sadler’s Wells (USA)), won 3 races including Dubai Irish Village John Porter Stakes, Newbury, Gr.3, placed second in Stan James Geoffrey Freer Stakes, Newbury, Gr.2.
STATE CRYSTAL (IRE) (f. by High Estate), won 2 races including Lancashire Oaks, Haydock Park, Gr.3, placed third in Aston Upthorpe Yorkshire Oaks, York, Gr.1 and Prix Vermeille, Longchamp, Gr.1; dam of winners.
Crystal Curling (IRE), 1 race, placed third in Letheby & Christopher Cheshire Oaks, Chester, L. and Swettenham Stud Fillies’ Trial Stakes, Newbury, L.; grandam of ROYAL CRYSTAL (IND), 1 race in India, Golconda Derby, , L., N R I Doublepower (IND), 5 races in India , third in Deccan Fillies Championship, Hyderabad, L. TIME CRYSTAL (IRE), 1 race and placed twice, from only 4 starts; dam of SPARKLING PORTRAIT (GB), 4 races including Glasgow Stakes, Hamilton Park, L., Bedouin’s Story (GB), 6 races at home and in U.A.E., placed second in Darley Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.3 and Dubai Millennium Stakes, Meydan, Gr.3, Start Right (GB), 3 races, third in Abu Dhabi Championship, Abu Dhabi, Gr.3.
TRUE CRYSTAL (IRE), 1 race and placed once; dam of LIBRAN (IRE), 9 races at home and in Australia including Schweppes Chairman’s Handicap, Randwick, Gr.2, Manion Cup, Rosehill, Gr.3 and Kingston Town Stakes, Randwick, Gr.3, second in Schweppes Sydney Cup, Gr.1; grandam of Lady Jaguar (IRE), 6 races in Poland, third in Premio E.B.F. Terme Di Merano, L. NO TRUTH (IRE), 1 race; dam of Aljady (FR), 7 races, second in Rous Stakes, L. Top Crystal (IRE), ran once on the flat; dam of THREE ROCKS (IRE), 5 races including Keeneland Minstrel Stakes, Curragh, Gr.3.
Opera Aida (IRE), ran once in U.S.A.; grandam of ZELZAL (FR), 4 races in France including Prix Jean Prat, Chantilly, Gr.1 and Prix Paul de Moussac, Chantilly, Gr.3, placed third in Qatar Prix du Moulin de Longchamp, Chantilly, Gr.1; sire, SOLAR CRYSTAL (IRE) (f. by Alzao (USA)), Jt 4th top rated 2yr old filly in England in 1995, won 2 races including May Hill Stakes, Doncaster, Gr.3, placed third in P.Marcel Boussac-Criterium des Pouliches, Longchamp, Gr.1; dam of winners.
Feared In Flight (IRE), 1 race, placed third in Racing Post Trophy, Doncaster, Gr.1. Mango Groove (IRE), dam of Cristal Fashion (IRE), 1 race, second in Irish Stallion Farms EBF Salsabil Stakes, Navan, L.
Elegantly (IRE), unraced; grandam of Stenton Glider (IRE), 1 race, placed second in German 1000 Guineas, Dusseldorf, Gr.2 and third in Cape Verdi Stakes, Gr.2. Tchaikovsky (IRE) (c. by Sadler’s Wells (USA)), won 2 races, third in Irish Derby, Gr.1. Crystal Melody (GB), unraced; dam of winners.
GRANDE MELODY (IRE), 3 races in France and U.S.A. including Dahlia Handicap, Hollywood Park, Gr.2; dam of Broadway Boogie (IRE), 10 races in France, second in G.P. de Bordeaux-Etape du Defi du Galop,, L.; grandam of TUZ (USA), 10 races in Russia and U.A.E. to 8 years, 2025 including Dubai Golden Shaheen, Meydan, Gr.1, Al Shindagha Sprint, Gr.3 (twice), Mahab Al Shimaal Stakes, Meydan, Gr.3 and Dubawi Stakes, Gr.3 (twice)
STATE OF REST
THE WINNER OF FOUR GROUP 1s in four different countries and in three different continents, State Of Rest’s stallion career is already a dual-hemisphere one, too, as he is part-owned by Newgate Stud and shuttles between Rathbarry and Australia.
One of eight Group 1 winners sired by Starspangledbanner, State Of Rest demonstrated toughness and talent in a 13-race career that began with success over 6f on debut at two for Joseph O’Brien, and a third in the Group 2 Champagne Stakes at Doncaster.
A sparse three-year-old campaign paid off spectacularly for State Of Rest, who began the season in Ireland by finishing third in the Listed Celebration Stakes at The Curragh on Irish Derby weekend and then went to Saratoga for the Grade 1 Derby, where he earned the first of his top-level victories.
An audacious Australian adventure was next on the cards yielding a narrow victory over Anamoe in the Cox Plate (G1), whose previous winners include the best of Australian horses such as quadruple heroine Winx.
His first start at four was at ParisLongchamp for the Prix Ganay (G1) in which he defeated Group 1 winners, including Sealiway, Mare Australis and Skaletti.
His fourth Group 1 win in a fourth different country came in the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes (G1) when he beat Bay Bridge, Grand Glory, Shahryar and Lord North to earn that fourth Group 1.
Dropped to a mile for the Group 1 Prix Jacques le Marois, State Of Rest failed to fire on the final start of his racing career.
The five-year-old was bred by Tinnakill Bloodstock out of the Quiet American mare Repose and sold for 45,000gns as a foal to Diamond Bloodstock.
https://rathbarrystud.com/?page_id=4043
Racing Form
13 runs, 5 wins, 4 places | Master Timeform Rating: 127 | Average winning distance (f): 9.21
Stakes form
AT 2 Third in Champagne Stakes, Doncaster, Gr.2, (to Chindit (IRE)).
AT 3 Jt 3rd top rated 3yr old colt in Ireland in 2021. Won Saratoga Derby Invitational Stakes, Saratoga, Gr.1, (9½f. beating Soldier Rising (GB) and Du Jour (USA)), WS Cox Plate, Moonee Valley, Gr.1, (10f. beating Anamoe (AUS) and Verry Elleegant (NZ)), third in Celebration Stakes, Curragh, L., (to Fourhometwo (GB)).
AT 4 Top rated older horse in Ireland and France in 2022 (9.5-10.5f.). Won Prince of Wales’s Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1, (9½f. beating Bay Bridge (GB) and Grand Glory (GB)), Prix Ganay, Parislongchamp, Gr.1, (10f. beating Pretty Tiger (IRE) and Sealiway (FR)), third in Tattersalls Gold Cup, Curragh, Gr.1, (to Alenquer (FR)).
FOAL SALE STATISTICS (gns)
14 foals sold Average 24,400
7 colts Average 17,409
7 fillies Average 31,392
Median 23,251
Median 16,563
Median 28,986
Joseph O’Brien and Aidan O’Ryan purchased him for 60,000gns from the draft of Whatton Manor Stud at the Tattersalls October Book 2 Yearling Sale.
He is one of two winners from three runners produced by his unraced dam, who was then sold privately to Juddmonte.
His three-year-old half-sister by Australia, named Tranquil Lady, won the Group 3 Blue Wind Stakes and was bought by Godolphin for 2,700,000gns in the Sceptre Session of the Tattersalls December Mare Sale.
Repose is a half-sister to the Listed winners Echo River and Alzain out of the Listed Virginia Stakes winner Monaassabaat, who is a daughter of Zilzal and the US champion It’s In The Air.
Monaassabaat is a half-sister to Try To Catch Me, dam of the Group/Grade 1 Champion Stakes, Clement L Hirsch Memorial Turf Championship and Charles Whittingham Handicap winner Storming Home. Try To Catch Me is also the second dam of Australian Group 1 winner Glencadam Gold.
Another of Monaassabaat’s half-sisters is Note Musicale, the dam of Poule d’Essai des Pouliches( G1) winner Musical Chimes and the triple Grade 1 winner Music Note, who in turn is the dam Dubai World Cup (G1) winner Mystic Guide.
Starspangledbanner is now the sire of 54 stakes winners including recent impressive Coventry Stakes (G2) winner Gstaad, a half-brother to Vandeek.
State Of Rest’s broodmare sire Quiet American is notably the damsire of the outstanding Bernardini and Saint Liam, whose only crop of foals included the champion Havre De Grace.
From 14 sold, State Of Rest’s first crop of foals created an average price of 24,400gns and a median 23,251gns. The two highest prices were for fillies with Rathbarry Stud going to €58,000 at Goffs for Boherguy Stud’s daughter of Divanova, a Lope De Vega half-sister to the Group winners Nyaleti, Sir Patrick Moore, Stellar Path and Alsaakib.
Tinnakill House got 45,000gns from Equos Racing International for a half-sister to the Listed winner and Group 3-placed Sotteville, dam of Classic-placed Survie.
Linehan Bloodstock purchased the most expensive colt from State Of Rest’s first crop; again from Tinnakill who offered the son of Italian Listed winner Crisaff’s Queen at Goffs. He made €40,000.
7yo | Starspangledbanner-Repose (Quiet American) Rathbarry Stud 2023: €25,000 | 2024: €20,000 | 2025: €20,000
1st Dam
REPOSE (USA), unraced; dam of 2 winners: STATE OF REST (IRE), see above.
TRANQUIL LADY (IRE) (2019 f. by Australia (GB)), won 2 races at 2 and 3 years and £62,798 including Blue Wind Stakes, Naas, Gr.3, placed second in Silken Glider Stakes, Curragh, L.; also won 1 race in France at 3 years and £33,613, Prix de Flore, Saint-Cloud, Gr.3; broodmare.
Apricate (IRE) (2022 f. by Sea The Stars (IRE)).
Courtly (GB) (2023 f. by Frankel (GB)).
She also has a yearling colt by Frankel (GB).
2nd Dam
MONAASSABAAT (USA), won 3 races at 2 and 3 years and £50,510 including Tattersalls Virginia Stakes, Newcastle, L., placed 8 times, placed second in John Musker Stakes, Yarmouth, L. and third in Oak Tree Stakes, Goodwood, L. and Cardinal Stakes, Churchill Downs, L.; dam of 7 winners, including:
PRINCE ALZAIN (USA) (c. by Street Sense (USA)), won 5 races from 2 to 4 years and £80,539 including coral.co.uk Churchill Stakes, Lingfield Park, L., placed second in Freebetting International Trial Stakes, Lingfield Park, L.
ECHO RIVER (USA) (f. by Irish River (FR)), won 2 races at 2 years and £33,237 including Milcars Star Stakes, Sandown Park, L., placed second in Rothmans Royals May Hill Stakes, Doncaster, Gr.3; dam of winners.
ANGEL CRAFT (USA), won 2 races in U.S.A. at 4 years and £63,967 and placed 5 times; dam of winners, including Artigiano (USA), 2 races at home and in U.A.E., placed second in Vintage Stakes, Goodwood, Gr.2 and Juddmonte Royal Lodge Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.2.
3rd Dam
IT’S IN THE AIR (USA), Champion 3yr old filly in U.S.A. in 1979, Jt Champion 2yr old filly in U.S.A. in 1978, won 16 races in U.S.A. from 2 to 5 years including Alabama Stakes, Meadowlands, Gr.1, Delaware Oaks, Delaware Park, Gr.1, Ruffian Handicap, Belmont Park, Gr.1, Vanity Handicap, Hollywood Park, Gr.1 (twice), Arlington-Washington Lassie Stakes, Arlington Park, Gr.2, Oak Leaf Stakes, Santa Anita, Gr.2, El Encino Stakes, Santa Anita, Gr.3 and Mademoiselle Stakes, Arlington Park dam of 9 winners including:
BITOOH (f. by Seattle Slew (USA)), won 4 races in France including Criterium de Maisons Laffitte, M’-Laffitte, Gr.2, Prix du Pin, Longchamp, L. and Prix Amandine, Saint-Cloud, L., placed fourth in Prix de la Grotte, Longchamp, Gr.3; dam of a winner.
MONAASSABAAT (USA), see above.
AIR DANCER (USA) (f. by Northern Dancer), won 4 races in U.S.A. including Honeymoon Handicap, Atlantic City, R., second in Ryland Group Maryland Turf Handicap, L. Sous Entendu (USA) (f. by Shadeed (USA)), won 1 race in France, placed third in Prix de la Grotte, Longchamp, Gr.3; dam of winners.
PORTE BONHEUR (USA), 6 races in Canada & U.S.A. including First Flight Hcap, Gr.2 SLIP STREAM (USA), 3 races at home and in Germany including Berlin Brandenburg Trophy, Hoppegarten, Gr.2 and Vodafone Thoroughbred Stakes, Goodwood, L., placed second in Prix Jean Prat Emirates Airlines, Chantilly, Gr.1.
BANAFSAJEE (USA), 5 races in France including Prix Casimir Delamarre, Longchamp, L. and Prix du Ranelagh, Longchamp, L.;
RAVARINO (USA), 2 races and placed 4 times, from only 8 starts; dam of JACK D’OR (JPN), 8 races in Japan including Osaka Hai, Hanshin, Gr.1, Sapporo Kinen, Sapporo, Gr.2 and Kinko Sho, Chukyo, Gr.2.
Grilse (USA), ran once in France; dam of ALVERTA (AUS), 8 races in Australia including Tad Kennedy Coolmore Classic, Rosehill, Gr.1 and Breeders’ Classic, Randwick, Gr.2, placed third in Darley July Cup, Newmarket, Gr.1
TRY TO CATCH ME (USA), won 1 race in France and placed once; dam of winners.
STORMING HOME (GB), 4th top rated 3yr old in Europe in 2001, 8 races at home and in U.S.A. including Emirates Airline Champion Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.1, Clement L Hirsch MemTurf Championship, Santa Anita, Gr.1, Charles Whittingham Handicap, Hollywood Park, Gr.1, King Edward VII Stakes, Gr.2.
DESERT FROLIC (IRE), 5 races and placed 4 times, from only 11 starts; dam of DUBAI PRINCE (IRE), 5 races including JRA Killavullan Stakes, Leopardstown, Gr.3 and Sky Bet Strensall Stakes, York, Gr.3; grandam of TUTTIPAESI (IRE), 7 races in Italy and U.S.A. including Santa Ana Stakes, Santa Anita, Gr.2; third dam of UMM KULTHUM (IRE), 3 races including Firth of Clyde Stakes, Ayr, Gr.3, placed third in Cheveley Park Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.1.
Sandrella (IRE), unraced; dam of GLENCADAM GOLD (IRE), 6 races at home and in Australia including McGrath Metropolitan Handicap, Randwick, Gr.1 and Toohey’s New Newcastle Gold Cup, Newcastle, Gr.3, Mothman (IRE).
Note Musicale (GB), unraced; dam of winners.
MUSIC NOTE (USA), 7 races in U.S.A. including Beldame Stakes, Belmont Park, Gr.1, Coaching Club American Oaks, Gr.1, Mother Goose Stakes, Gr.1, Ballerina Stakes, Gr.1 and Gazelle Stakes, Gr.1; dam of MYSTIC GUIDE (USA), Top rated older horse in U.A.E. in 2021 (9.5-11f.), 4 races in U.A.E. and U.S.A. including Dubai World Cup, Meydan, Gr.1, Jim Dandy Stakes, Saratoga, Gr.2
MUSICAL CHIMES (USA), 4 races in France and U.S.A. including Gainsborough Poule d’Essai des Pouliches, Longchamp, Gr.1, John C Mabee Handicap, Del Mar, Gr.1 and Oak Tree Breeders’ Cup Mile Stakes, Santa Anita, Gr.2, TOP OF THE BILL (USA), 2 races in France and U.S.A.
Music Room (USA), unraced; dam of Zinzay (USA), 1 race in U.S.A., placed second in J P Morgan Chase Jessamine Stakes, Keeneland, Gr.3; grandam of SANDMAN (USA), 1 race in U.S.A. at 3 years, 2025, Arkansas Derby, Oaklawn Park, Gr.1
STRADIVARIUS
STRADIVARIUS ran 35 times over seven seasons, his racing career kicking off at two with three starts. In the second of those he finished fourth behind Cracksman in a Newmarket maiden before going on to Newcastle for an All-Weather maiden for the first of in his amazing career which yielded 20 victories.
He opened his three-year-old season with victory at Beverley, got off the mark on his Group race bow in the Queen’s Vase (G2), and then took on, and beat, the older horses in the Group 1 Goodwood Cup.
In the St Leger (G1), he finished third to Capri and Crystal Ocean and signed off for the season with third place in the British Champions Long Distance Cup.
His four-year-old season established a familiar pattern –victory in the Group 2 Yorkshire Cup followed by the Ascot Gold Cup, then Goodwood and back to York for the Lonsdale Cup – with victories collected each time and a Weatherbys’ bonus collected along the way. He returned to Ascot for the Group 2 on Champions’ Day and won the race this time.
Next year it went like clockwork again – the same four races, the same results but with the addition of the Group 2 Doncaster
Cup. The winning streak eventually came to an end in the Long Distance Cup when he was bettered by Kew Gardens.
The pattern was changed up the following year. Stradivarius started the year in a Coronation Cup (G1) that was rerouted to Newmarket because of Covid – he finished third to Ghaiyyath and Anthony Van Dyck.
Further Group 1 glory awaited with his hat-trick in the Gold Cup and a fourth successive Goodwood Cup earning him a place in the pantheon of staying legends. He was sent to ParisLongchamp for the Prix Foy (G2) where he was second to Derby winner Anthony Van Dyck, while in the Arc, he finished seventh to Sottsass.
At seven, he went on to add further renewals of the Lonsdale (G2) and Doncaster Cups (G2) to his trophy cabinet and was second to Trueshan in the Group 1 Prix du Cadran and third behind that rival and Tashkhan in the Long Distance Cup.
In 2022, he won the Group 2 Yorkshire Cup and then was hampered when a length third to Kyprios and Mojo Star in Ascot’s Gold Cup. On what was to be his final run, he went out on his shield going down by a head to Kyprios at Goodwood.
Stradivarius comes from one of the Wildensteins’ best
chesnut colt ex Balance (GB) (Pivotal (GB)) (6th April 2024)
chesnut colt ex Reflective (USA) (Seeking The Gold (USA)) (4th March 2024)
chesnut colt ex Ten Thousand Stars (GB) (Toronado (IRE)) (15th March 2024)
**UNNAMED bay colt ex Greatestshowgirl (GB) (Showcasing (GB)) (3rd March 2024)
*UNNAMED bay colt ex Friendly Fire (IRE) (Walk In The Park (IRE)) (7th April 2024)
UNNAMED chesnut filly ex Mary Elise (IRE) (Mastercraftsman (IRE)) (1st February 2024)
**UNNAMED chesnut colt ex Sweet Bonnet (IRE) (Zoffany (IRE)) (23rd February 2024)
*UNNAMED bay filly ex Midrarr (IRE) (Dubawi (IRE)) (3rd March 2024)
UNNAMED chesnut colt ex Mondalay (GB) (Monsun (GER)) (13th April 2024)
bay colt ex Gold Ribbon (GB) (Golden Horn (GB)) (4th April 2024)
chesnut colt ex Sea My Angel (FR) (Dark Angel (IRE)) (12th March 2024)
UNNAMED chesnut colt ex Scarlet Sonnet (IRE) (Invincible Spirit (IRE)) (24th February 2024)
(GB) bay filly ex All Bated Up (GB) (Bated Breath (GB)) (1st February 2024)
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Racing Form
35
Stakes form
AT 3 Won Qatar Goodwood Cup Stakes, Goodwood, Gr.1, (16f. beating Big Orange (GB) and Desert Skyline (IRE)), Queen’s Vase, Ascot, Gr.2, (13½f. beating Count Octave (GB) and Secret Advisor (FR)), third in William Hill St Leger Stakes, Doncaster, Gr.1, (to Capri (IRE)), Qipco Brit. Champions Long Distance Cup, Ascot, Gr.2, (to Order of St George (IRE)).
AT 4 Champion older stayer in Europe. Won Ascot Gold Cup, Ascot, Gr.1, (20f. beating Vazirabad (FR) and Torcedor (IRE)), Qatar Goodwood Cup Stakes, Goodwood, Gr.1, (16f. beating Torcedor (IRE) and Idaho (IRE)), Mansionbet Yorkshire Cup, York, Gr.2, (14f. beating Desert Skyline (IRE) and Call To Mind (GB)), Qipco Brit. Champions Long Distance Cup, Ascot, Gr.2, (16f. beating Thomas Hobson (GB) and Sir Erec (IRE)), Weatherbys Hamilton Lonsdale Cup Stakes, York, Gr.2, (16f. beating Count Octave (GB) and Idaho (IRE)).
AT 5 Champion older stayer in Europe. Won Ascot Gold Cup, Ascot, Gr.1, (20f. beating Dee Ex Bee (GB) and Master of Reality (IRE)), Qatar Goodwood Cup Stakes, Goodwood, Gr.1, (16f. beating Dee Ex Bee (GB) and Cross Counter (GB)), Magners Doncaster Cup Stakes, Doncaster, Gr.2, (17½f. beating Cleonte (IRE) and Max Dynamite (FR)), Matchbook Yorkshire Cup, York, Gr.2, (14f. beating Southern France (IRE) and Mildenberger (GB)), Weatherbys Hamilton Lonsdale Cup Stakes, York, Gr.2, (16f. beating Dee Ex Bee (GB) and Il Paradiso (USA)), second in Qipco Brit. Champions Long Distance Cup, Ascot, Gr.2, (to Kew Gardens (IRE)).
AT 6 Champion older stayer in Europe. Won Ascot Gold Cup, Ascot, Gr.1, (19½f. beating Nayef Road (IRE) and Cross Counter (GB)), Goodwood Cup, Goodwood, Gr.1, (16f. beating Nayef Road (IRE) and Santiago (IRE)), second in Prix Foy, Parislongchamp, Gr.2, (to Anthony Van Dyck (IRE)), third in Coronation Cup, Newmarket, Gr.1, (to Ghaiyyath (IRE)).
AT 7 Won Doncaster Cup, Doncaster, Gr.2, (17½f. beating Alerta Roja (GB) and Nayef Road (IRE)), Lonsdale Cup, York, Gr.2, (16f. beating Spanish Mission (USA) and The Grand Visir (GB)), Sagaro Stakes, Ascot, Gr.3, (15½f. beating Ocean Wind (GB) and Nayef Road (IRE)), second in Prix du Cadran, Parislongchamp, Gr.1, (to Trueshan (FR)), third in British Champions Long Distance Cup, Ascot, Gr.2, (to Trueshan (FR)).
AT 8 Won Yorkshire Cup, York, Gr.2, (13½f. beating Thunderous (IRE) and Tashkhan (IRE)), second in Goodwood Cup, Goodwood, Gr.1, (to Kyprios (IRE)), third in Ascot Gold Cup, Ascot, Gr.1, (to Kyprios (IRE)).
1st Dam
Private Life (FR), won 2 races in France at 2 and 3 years and £29,923, placed 4 times including third in Prix de Liancourt, Longchamp, L. and Prix de Thiberville, Deauville, L.; dam of 6 winners:
STRADIVARIUS (IRE), see above.
PERSIAN STORM (GER) (2004 g. by Monsun (GER)), placed twice at 5 years and £1,625; also won 3 races in Germany at 2 and 3 years and £59,890 including Furstenberg Rennen, Baden-Baden, Gr.3 and German Tote Bavarian Classic, Munich, Gr.3, placed twice including second in Merrill Lynch Euro Cup, Frankfurt, Gr.3
Magical Eve (GER) (2008 f. by Oratorio (IRE)), won 1 race in South Africa at 4 years and £5,982, placed 7 times including third in Steel Doctor The Scarlet Lady, Scottsville, L.; dam of 2 winners.
SIMPLY MAGIC (SAF), 2 races in South Africa at 4 and 5 years and £9,434
Rembrandt Van Rijn (IRE) (2011 g. by Peintre Celebre (USA)), won 4 races at 4 years and £48,436 and placed 3 times; also, placed 5 times in U.A.E. at 5 and 6 years and £72,991 placed third in Abu Dhabi Championship, Abu Dhabi, Gr.3.
PERFECTIONIST (GER) (2003 c. by Fantastic Light (USA)), won 7 races in Denmark from 4 to 6 years and £20,775 and placed 5 times.
PLUTOCRACY (IRE) (2010 g. by Dansili (GB)), won 4 races at 3 and 6 years and £33,352 and placed 13 times; also won 1 race in France at 8 years and £19,776.
2nd Dam
POUGHKEEPSIE (IRE), won 1 race in France at 3 years and placed twice; dam of 9 winners:
PRETTY TOUGH (IRE) (c. by Desert King (IRE)), won 4 races in France at 5 years and £49,550 including Prix La Moskowa, Chantilly, L.
PARISIENNE (IRE) (f. by Distant Relative), won 2 races in France at 2 years and £27,158 including Grand Criterium de Bordeaux, Toulouse, L., placed second in Prix Roland de Chambure, Deauville, L.; dam of winners.
OLIMPIC BOY (TUR), 2 races in Turkey at 2 years and placed 5 times.
BABA NEVZAT (TUR), 2 races in Turkey at 3 years and placed 4 times.
INGILIZ KEMAL (TUR), 2 races in Turkey at 2 and 3 years and placed twice.
Patineuse (IRE), unraced; dam of PROTECTIONIST (GER), Champion older stayer in Europe and Australia in 2014, Champion older horse in Germany in 2016, 8 races in Australia, France and Germany and £2,249,870 including Longines Grosser Preis von Berlin, Berlin-Hoppegarten, Gr.1, Emirates Melbourne Cup, Flemington, Gr.1, Darley Prix Kergorlay, Deauville, Gr.2 and Lucky Speed Hansa Preis, Hamburg, Gr.2 (twice); sire.
Poincon de France (IRE) (c. by Peintre Celebre (USA)), won 6 races in France from 5 to 8 years and £100,007, placed third in G.P.Conseil General des Alpes Maritimes, Cagnes-Sur-Mer, L.
Pirate Bay (GB) (c. by Hawk Wing (USA)), won 3 races in France at 2 and 3 years and £60,896, placed third in Prix de Saint Patrick, Deauville, L. and Japan Racing Association Plate, Randwick, L.
Private Life (FR), see above.
3rd Dam
PAWNEESE, Champion 3-y-o filly in Europe in 1976, Champion 3-y-o stayer in England in 1976, won 6 races at home and in France, King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1, Oaks Stakes, Epsom, Gr.1, Prix de Diane de Revlon, Chantilly, Gr.1, Prix Cleopatre, Saint-Cloud, Gr.3, Prix Penelope, Saint-Cloud, Gr.3 and Prix La Camargo, Saint-Cloud, L. and placed twice; dam of 5 winners including:
PERREAL, won 2 races and placed once; also won 1 race in France; sire.
Pawnee Dancer (IRE), placed once in France; dam of winners.
Special Envoy (FR), 3 races in France, placed third in Marit Sveaas Minnelop, Ovrevoll, Gr.3; also 2 races over hurdles, placed second in totesport.com Long Distance Hurdle, Newbury, Gr.2.
Perichole, ran twice on the flat; dam of.
Their dam Private Life was third in the Prix de Thiberville and Prix de Liancourt and is a Bering half-sister to the Listed winner Parisienne, who is the grand-dam of the Melbourne Cup and Grosser Preis von Berlin winner and sire Protectionist.
Her dam Poughkeepsie is a daughter of Sadler’s Wells and Pawneese, champion three-year-old filly of 1976 courtesy of her wins in the King George, the Oaks and the Prix de Diane.
Nousa Nousa (FR), unraced; dam of WINSLOW (FR), 3 races over jumps in France including P. Le Parisien Aujourd’Hui en France Stp, Auteuil, L., Westville (FR), 2races over jumps in France, placed second in Prix Triquerville Handicap Chase, Auteuil, L. and Prix Ketch Handicap Hurdle, Auteuil, L., Nuit de Siam (FR), 5 races in France and U.S.A., placed third in CTT & T.B. Owners of California Handicap, Del Mar, L., Coblant (FR), placed twice over jumps in France including third in Prix Wild Monarch Hurdle (c&g), Auteuil, L.; grandam of Bal Celtique (FR), 4 races over jumps in France, placed third in Prix Predicateur Handicap Hurdle, Auteuil, L.; third dam of Saint Segal (FR), 2 races over hurdles and 4 races over fences from 4 to 7 years, 2025, placed second in Finale Juvenile Hurdle, Chepstow, Gr.1 and third in Greatwood Gold Cup Handicap Chase, Newbury, Gr.3, Celtic Dino (FR), 2 N.H. Flat Races at 4 and 5 years, 2024; also 2 races over hurdles at 5 years, 2024, placed third in Dovecote Novices’ Hurdle, Kempton Park, Gr.2, Celtic Girl (FR), 1 race over jumps in France, placed third in P. Alain Et Gilles de Goulaine Hp Hurdle, Auteuil, L., Authoceltic (FR), placed 3 times over hurdles at 3 and 4 years, 2024 including third in Future Champions Finale Juvenile Hurdle, Chepstow, Gr.2. pedigrees. He is a half-brother to the Group 3 Furstenberg Rennen and Bavarian Classic winner Persian Storm (Monsun), the Group 3 Abu Dhabi Championship third Rembrandt Von Rijn and the South African Listed-placed filly Magical Eve (Oratorio).
Nielsen is offering a generous bonus scheme for first-crop foals – the breeder of a Group 1 winner in Britain, Ireland or France will receive £250,000, while the breeders of the winner of a Group 2 and Group 3 can pick up £100,000. The breeders of the first ten two-year-old winners by Stradivarius will each take home £25,000.
The stallion had 14 foals sold for an average of 14,584gns. The most expensive was Brook Stud’s 48,000gns colt out of Pivotal mare Balance, while the pricest filly is out of Mary Elise, a half-sister to the Grade 1-winning juvenile hurdles A Wave Of The Sea and Hello Neighbour.
THUNDER MOON
THE ROLL CALL of honour for the Group 1 National Stakes reads like a Who’s Who of equine celebrities and includes a number of notable stallions such as Danehill Dancer, Dubawi, Teoflo and New Approach. Haras de Boquetot will hope that the 2020 winner Thunder Moon will one day end up a stallion of the same quality.
Bred by Aidan and Anne Marie O’Brien’s Whisperview Trading, Thunder Moon hails from a branch of an outstanding Moyglare family tree through his third dam, the Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Trusted Partner.
Trained by Joseph O’Brien, he was one of the best two-yearolds of his generation. He made a winning start in a 7f maiden at The Curragh and immediately was thrown in at the deep end, making his second start in the Group 1 National Stakes – Thunder Moon swam elegantly, winning from a field that included St Mark’s Basilica, Lucky Vega, MacSwiney and Laws Of Indices.
His third start of that campaign came in the Dewhurst Stakes (G1) – St Mark’s Basilica and Wembley turning the tables on Thunder Moon who finished third. He made six starts as a three-year-old and his best showing was in the Group 1 Prix Jean Prat when a head second to Laws Of Indices.
At four, he ran four times and was second in a conditions race at Dundalk and third in the Group 3 Gladness Stakes at The Curragh.
Thunder Moon is a half-brother to the Listed Sir Henry Cecil Stakes winner Table Rock (Fastnet Rock), who was also second in the Listed Queen Mother Memorial Cup in Hong Kong. They are two of the three winners from four runners out of Small Sacrifice. She is an unraced Sadler’s Wells half-sister to the dam of Group 1 Criterium International winner Vert De Grece and to the dam of Group 3 Sirenia Stakes winner Love Lockdown (Verglas).
His second dam Trust In Luck is a Nashwan half-sister to the Grade 1 Matriarch Stakes winner Dress To Thrill and to Polished Gem (Danehill), dam of Group 1 winners Kyprios, Free Eagle and Search For A Song as well as the Group winners Custom Cut, Sapphire and Valac and the Listed winners Amma Grace and Falcon Eight.
Thunder Moon is one of five individual Group 1 winners sired by the late Zoffany, who has had a lot of success with mares from the Green Desert line.
Five of the young stallion’s first crop sold with the median price a touch higher than the average. The median was 37,267gns while the average came in at 36,108gns.
His most expensive was Haras d’Etreham’s half-brother to the Group 3 Prix de Conde winner Shiffrin, who made €68,000 to MAB Agency at Arqana’s December Breeding Stock Sale.
Pegasus Bloodstock bought the highest-priced filly foal by Thunder Moon, a half-sister to triple Listed-placed Roquemont for €48,000 from Arcadia Elevage at Arqana.
https://www.alshaqabracing.com/fr/thunder-moon
Racing Form
13 runs, 2 wins, 4 places | Master Timeform Rating: 118p | Average winning distance (f): 7.00
Stakes form
AT 2 4th top rated 2yr old colt in Europe in 2020, 3rd top rated 2yr old colt in Ireland in 2020. Won National Stakes, Curragh, Gr.1, (7f. beating Wembley (IRE) and St Mark’s Basilica (FR)), third in Dewhurst Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.1, (to St Mark’s Basilica (FR)).
AT 3 Second in Prix Jean Prat, Deauville, Gr.1, (to Laws of Indices (IRE)).
AT 4 Third in Gladness Stakes, Curragh, Gr.3, (to Markaz Paname (IRE)).
FOAL SALE STATISTICS (gns)
5 foals sold Average 36,108
3 colts Average 42,788
2 fillies Average 26,087
THUNDER MOON
7yo | Zoffany-Small Sacrifice (Sadler’s Wells) Haras de Bouquetot 2023: €6,000 | 2024: €6,000 | 2025: €5,000
Median 37,267
Median 37,267
Median N/A
1st Dam
SMALL SACRIFICE (IRE), unraced; dam of 3 winners: THUNDER MOON (IRE), see above.
TABLE ROCK (IRE) (2011 g. by Fastnet Rock (AUS)), won 4 races at 3 years and £70,413 including Hastings Direct Sir Henry Cecil Stakes, Newmarket, L. and placed 3 times; also won 1 race in Hong Kong at 5 years and £357,847, placed 10 times including second in The Queen Mother Memorial Cup, Sha Tin, L.
JAQEN H’GHAR (IRE) (2013 c. by Fastnet Rock (AUS)), won 4 races at 2 and 3 years and £39,824 and placed 8 times; also placed once in Bahrain at 5 years and £2,353. Beyond Limits (IRE) (2014 f. by Zoffany (IRE)); dam of a winner.
BEYOND BORDERS (IRE), 4 races at 2 years and £40,531 and placed 3 times.
OPTIMATUM (GB), 1 race at 3 years, 2025 and £4,523 and placed onc
2nd Dam
TRUST IN LUCK (IRE), won 1 race at 3 years, from only 3 starts; dam of 5 winners: Aahaykid (IRE) (g. by Intikhab (USA)), won 1 race at 2 years, placed third in Mountgrange Horris Hill Stakes, Newbury, Gr.3.
OUT OF THANKS (IRE), won 2 races at 3 years and placed once, ; dam of winners.
LOVE LOCKDOWN (IRE), 4 races at 2 years and £120,331 including Totepool Sirenia Stakes, Kempton Park, Gr.3 and Kerry Spring Water Rochestown Stakes, Cork, L. Tiny Petal (IRE), unraced; dam of winners.
VERT DE GRECE (IRE), 2 races at home and in France at 2 years and £151,752 including Criterium International, Saint-Cloud, Gr.1, placed second in Galileo EBF Futurity Stakes, Curragh, Gr.2.
3rd Dam
TRUSTED PARTNER (USA), 4th top rated 2yr old filly in Ireland in 1987, 3rd top rated 3yr old filly in Ireland in 1988, won 3 races at 2 and 3 years including Goffs Irish 1000 Guineas, Curragh, Gr.1 and C L Weld Park Stakes, Phoenix Park, Gr.3, placed second in Mount Coote Stud Matron Stakes, Curragh, Gr.3; Own sister to LOW KEY AFFAIR (USA), EASY TO COPY (USA), EPICURE’S GARDEN (USA) and Magical Cliche (USA); dam of 11 winners inc: DRESS TO THRILL (IRE) (f. by Danehill (USA)), 4th top rated 2yr old filly in Ireland in 2001, JT 4th top rated 3yr old filly in Ireland in 2002, won 7 races at home and in U.S.A., Matriarch Stakes, Hollywood Park, Gr.1, Peugeot Sun Chariot Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.2, Desmond Stakes, Leopardstown, Gr.3, Matron Stakes, Leopardstown, Gr.3, All Along Breeders’ Cup Stakes, Colonial Downs, Gr.3, EBF Brownstown Stakes, Leopardstown, L. and Flame of Tara Tyros Stakes, Curragh, L.,; dam of winners.
SUPERNOVAE (IRE), 1 race and placed 4 times, from only 7 starts; dam of SOLENE LILYETTE (IRE), 3 races including Hurry Harriet Stakes, Gowran Park, L. Ki Maniere (IRE), unraced; dam of Glory (USA), 3 races in U.S.A., placed second in Santa Ana Stakes, Santa Anita, Gr.2; grandam of Escape Artist (USA), placed in U.S.A. third in Singletary Stakes, Santa Anita.
POLISHED GEM (IRE), won 1 race and placed twice, from only 5 starts; dam of winners KYPRIOS (IRE), Champion older stayer in Europe in 2022 & 2024, Champion older horse in Ireland and France in 2022, 16 races at home and in France to 7 years, 2025 including Ascot Gold Cup, Ascot, Gr.1 (twice), Goodwood Cup, Goodwood, Gr.1 twice), Irish St Leger, Curragh, Gr.1 (twice), Prix du Cadran, ParisLongchamp, Gr.1 (twice), British Champions Long Distance Cup, Ascot, Gr.2, Saval Beg Stakes, Leopardstown, Gr.3 (twice) and Vintage Crop Stakes, Navan, L. (3 times)
SEARCH FOR A SONG (IRE), Jt Champion 3yr old filly in Europe in 2019, Jt top rated 3yr old stayer in Ireland in 2019, 5 races including Comer Int. Irish St Leger, Curragh, Gr.1 (twice), Loughbrown Stakes, Curragh, Gr.3 and EBF & Sir H. Cecil Galtres Stakes, York, L.
FREE EAGLE (IRE), Jt Champion older horse in Ireland in 2015, Jt Champion older horse in Europe in 2015 (9.5-10.5f.), 3 races including Prince of Wales’s Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1 and Kilternan Stakes, Leopardstown, Gr.3
CUSTOM CUT (IRE), Jt top rated older miler in Ireland in 2015, 13 races including bet365 Mile, Sandown Park, Gr.2, Clipper Logistics Solonaway Stakes, Leopardstown, Gr.2, Shadwell Joel Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.2, Invesco Desmond Stakes, Leopardstown, Gr.3, Big Bad Bob Gladness Stakes, Curragh, Gr.3, Betfred Strensall Stakes, York, Gr.3, Ard Glen Construction Amethyst Stakes, Leopardstown, Gr.3, Unibet Midsummer Stakes, Windsor, L. and Skybet Y’shire Festival Pomfret Stakes, Pontefract, L.
SAPPHIRE (IRE), 6 races including British Champions Fillies/Mare Stakes, Ascot, Gr.2, Irish Stall.Farms EBF Give Thanks Stakes, Cork, Gr.3, Kerry Group Noblesse Stakes, Cork, Gr.3 and Go Racing in Kildare Finale Stakes, Curragh, L. VALAC (IRE), 8 races in Australia including Dominant Port Adelaide Queens Cup, Morphettville, Gr.3 and R M Ansett Classic, Mornington, L FALCON EIGHT (IRE), 7 races to 10 years, 2025 including Loughbrown Stakes, Curragh, Gr.3 and Coral Marathon Esher Stakes, Sandown Park, L., AMMA GRACE (IRE), 2 races including Trigo Stakes, Leopardstown, L., placed second in Blandford Stakes, Curragh, Gr.2.
Myth And Magic (IRE), unraced; dam of winners.
Eudokia (GB), 4 races in France and Germany, placed third in Premio Giovanni Falck, Milan, L.; dam of Euboa (FR), 2 races in France, placed second in Prix Fille de l’Air, Toulouse, Gr.3 and Prix Zarkava, L. and third in Prix Allez France, Gr.3. SIMILU (GB), placed once; also 1 race in U.S.A. and placed once; dam of Mystery of Love (IRE), 2 races in Italy at 3 years, 2025, placed third in Premio Oaks d’Italia, Milan, Gr.2 and Premio Regina Elena 1000 Guineas, Rome, Gr.3.
TORQUATOR TASSO
TORQUATOR TASSO was a bargain buy for Gestüt Auenquelle at the 2018 BBAG October Yearling Sale when he was picked up for just €24,000.
Unraced at two, he began his career as a three-year-old for Marcel Weiss and gave early indications of his talent with a maiden success over 1m3f before running second to In Swoop in the Deutsches Derby (G1) and was then third to Barney Roy in the Group 1 Grosser Preis von Baden before earning his first Group 1 victory in the Grosser Preis von Berlin. He ended his first season by finishing second in the Group 1 Grosser Preis von Bayern.
At four, he resumed winning ways in the Group 2 Grosser Hansa Preis before bumping into Alpinista in the Grosser Preis von Berlin, a race that produced successive Arc winners in the pair. He beat that season’s Deutsches Derby winner Sisfahan in the Group 1 Grosser Preis von Baden, which was the warm-up event for his Parisian triumph. His Arc victory saw him run down Group 1 winners Tarnawa and Hurricane Lane in the final furlong with Adayar, Sealiway, Snowfall and Chrono Genesis filling the next four positions.
His five-year-old season got off to a disappointing start in the Group 2 Grosser Preis der Badischen Wirtschaft, but he redeemed himself with success in the Group 2 Grosser Hansa Preis.
A bid to emulate Danedream and Novellist in the King George and Queen Elizabeth Stakes
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Racing Form
16 runs, 6 wins, 7 places | Master Timeform Rating: 130 |
Stakes form
AT 3 Won Grosser Preis von Berlin, Berlin-Hoppegarten, Gr.1, (11½f. beating Dicaprio (GER) and Kaspar (GER)), second in Deutsches Derby, Hamburg, Gr.1, (to In Swoop (IRE)), Grosser Preis von Bayern, Munich, Gr.1, (to Sunny Queen (GER)), third in Grosser Preis von Baden, Baden-Baden, Gr.1, (to Barney Roy (GB)).
AT 4 Champion older horse in Europe in 2021 (11-13f.), Champion older horse in Germany in 2021 & 2022. Won Grosser Preis von Baden, Baden-Baden, Gr.1, (11½f. beating Sisfahan (FR) and Passion And Glory (IRE)), Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, Parislongchamp, Gr.1, (11½f. beating Tarnawa (IRE) and Hurricane Lane (IRE)), Grosser Hansa Preis, Hamburg, Gr.2, (11½f. beating Sunny Queen (GER) and Nerium (IRE)), second in Grosser Preis von Berlin, Berlin-Hoppegarten, Gr.1, (to Alpinista (GB)).
AT 5 Champion older horse in Germany in 2021 & 2022. Won Grosser Hansa Preis, Hamburg, Gr.2, (11½f. beating Northern Ruler (GER) and Virginia Storm (GER)), second in Grosser Preis von Baden, Baden-Baden, Gr.1, (to Mendocino (GER)), King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1, (to Pyledriver (GB)), third in Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, Parislongchamp, Gr.1, (to Alpinista (GB)).
at Ascot was thwarted by Pyledriver but his second place earned Torquator Tasso huge plaudits.
He was then paired up with Frankie Dettori for the first time in the Group 1 Grosser Preis von Baden and he split Mendocino and the dual Group 1 winner Sammarco before a return to Paris and Longchamp’s crown jewel. He stayed on well from the back of the pack to be third, less than a length behind Alpinista and Vadeni.
He has the genes to be a successful stallion, hailing from one of Germany’s most outstanding families and inbred to the great Allegretta and her full-sister Alya.
Torquator Tasso’s dam Tijuana was bred by Gestüt Schlenderhann, who has cultivated this family over many generations.
She is a half-sister to the Group 2 Diana Trial winner Tusked Wings and the Group 3 Premio St Leger Italiano second Tangut, both by Torquator Tasso’s sire Adlerflug. Her other half-siblings include the Listed winner Tahini and the Listed-placed Titurel.
They are out of Tucana, a winning Acatenango half-sister to the five-time Group 3 winner and leading sire Tertullian, closely related to Urban Sea being by Miswaki and out of her half-sister Turbaine.
Tucana is also a half-sister to the Group 3 winner Terek and Tusculum by Sadler’s Wells, who won the Listed Ballycullen Stakes.
Torquator Tasso’s third dam is Turbaine, who was second in the Listed Prix Occitanie and is a Trempolino half-sister to the incredible Urban Sea. Adlerflug’s second dam Alya is a Lombard full-sister to Allegretta making Torquator Tasso inbred 4 x 5 to her dam Anatevka.
Adlerflug was beginning to gain wider recognition when he died at the start of the 2021 breeding season, and his loss has left a space in the industry which Auenquelle hopes to fill with his best son.
The chestnut is one of nine individual Group 1 winners sired by the Deutsches Derby and Deutschland Preis winner, who was a son of In The Wings, and the sire line has flourished in Germany through both Adlerflug and Soldier Hollow.
Just one foal from Torquator Tasso’s first crop was offered for sale and the filly, who is descended from Alouette, made 12,000gns to Isinglass Bloodstock at the Tattersalls December Foal Sale, offered by Gestüt Westerberg.
1st Dam
TIJUANA (GER), placed once in Germany at 3 years; dam of 5 winners:
TORQUATOR TASSO (GER), see above.
TUNNES (GER) (2019 c. by Guiliani (IRE)), Champion 3yr old colt in Germany in 2022, won 5 races in Germany at 2 and 3 years and £244,732 including Grosser Preis von Bayern, Munich, Gr.1, Deutsches St. Leger, Dortmund, Gr.3 and Herzog von Ratibor Rennen, Krefeld, Gr.3, placed 5 times including second in Carl Jaspers Preis, Cologne, Gr.2, Grosser Hansa Preis, Hamburg, Gr.2 and Furstenberg-Rennen, BerlinHoppegarten, Gr.3 and third in Carl Jaspers Preis, Cologne, Gr.2.
TIARA HILLESHAGE (GER) (2020 f. by Adlerflug (GER)), won 1 race in Germany at 4 years, 2024 and £9,488 and placed twice.
TIAMO HILLESHAGE (GER) (2021 c. by Adlerflug (GER)), won 1 race in Germany at 3 years, 2024 and £10,173 and placed twice.
TELLEZ (GER) (2018 f. by Guiliani (IRE)), won 1 race in Germany at 4 years and £6,183 and placed once; broodmare.
Tyliani Hilleshage (GER) (2022 f. by Guiliani (IRE)).
She also has a 2-y-o filly by Alson (GER).
2nd Dam
TUCANA (GER), won 2 races in Germany at 3 years and placed 6 times; dam of 6 winners:
TUSKED WINGS (IRE) (f. by Adlerflug (GER)), won 1 race in Germany at 3 years and £67,026, Soldier Hollow Diana Trial, Berlin-Hoppegarten, Gr.2; dam of winners. TASMANIA (GER), 3 races in France at 3 years and £152,091 including Prix Charles Laffitte, Compiegne, L., placed third in Prix de Diane, Chantilly, Gr.1. Task (IRE), 1 race in France at 3 years and £27,340, placed third in Grosser Preis von Rossmann, Hannover, L. and Grosser Preis der Sparkasse Dortmund, Dortmund, L. Talasar (IRE), placed once in Italy at 3 years, 2024
TAHINI (GER) (c. by Medicean (GB)), won 2 races in Germany at 3 and 4 years, placed third in GP der Landschaftlichen Derby Trial, Hannover, L. and Iffezheimer DerbyTrial, Baden-Baden, L.
Titurel (GER) (c. by Dr Fong (USA)), won 7 races in France and Germany at 3, 4 and 6 years and £117,102, placed third in Prix Maurice de Nieuil, Longchamp, Gr.2.
Tangut (GER) (f. by Adlerflug (GER)), won 1 race in Germany at 4 years and £57,647, placed second in Premio St Leger Italiano, Rome, Gr.3.
THE FAIRY (GER), won 1 race in Germany at 3 years and placed 4 times; dam of winners. The Dancing Fairy (IRE), 1 race in Germany at 3 years, placed third in G. P. Jungheinrich Gabelstapler Neue Cup, Hannover, L.
TRIBECA (GER), won 1 race in France at 4 years, 2024.
Tamaja (GER), ran a few times in Germany at 3 years; dam of winners.
TIME OF MY LIFE (GER), 1 race at 5 years and placed twice; also 2 races in France at 3 years and £49,853 and placed 8 times.
TRYST (GER), 2 races in France at 3 years and placed twice
3rd Dam
Turbaine (USA), 2 races in France at 3 years, placed 7 times including second in Prix Occitanie, Bordeaux Le won Bouscat, L.; dam of 6 winners including:
TERTULLIAN (USA) (c. by Miswaki (USA)), Jt top rated older sprinter in Germany in 1999, won 12 races in France, Germany and Italy including Prix de la Porte Maillot, Longchamp, Gr.3, Premio Chiusura, Milan, Gr.3 (twice), Grosser Buchmacher Springer Sprint Preis, Munich, Gr.3, Grosser Preis von Berlin, Hoppegarten, Gr.3, Allianz Pokal, Munich, L., Bayerischer Fliegerpreis, Munich, L., Toto-Lotto Sprint Preis, Hannover, L. (twice) and Euro American Sprint Cup, Krefeld, L., placed third in Jacobs Goldene Peitsche, Baden-Baden, Gr.2; champion sire.
TEREK (GER) (g. by Irish River (FR)), won 8 races in Germany including P. Deutschen Einheit-Berliner Sparkasse, Hoppegarten, Gr.3, P. der Merck Finck & Co. Privatbankiers, Munich, L., Muller Brot-Riemer Meile, Munich, L. and Preis der Hotellerie Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, L., placed third in Lotto Hessen Pokal, Frankfurt, Gr.3; also won 1 race over hurdles and won 1 race over fences.
TUSCULUM (IRE) (g. by Sadler’s Wells (USA)), Top rated 3yr old stayer in Ireland in 2006, won 3 races including Cill Dara Securities Ballycullen Stakes, Curragh, L.
Tabari (GER) (c. by Sadler’s Wells (USA)), won 4 races in Germany, placed third in pferdewetten.de-Criterium, Munich, L.
TOSEN STARDOM
Tosen
Racing Form
26 runs, 4 wins, 5 places
Stakes form
At 3 Won Kisaragi Sho, Kyoto, Gr3 (9f, beating Bandwagon (JPN) and A Shin Erwin (JPN), Won Challenge Cup, Hanshin, Gr3 (9f, beating Deus Vult (JPN) and Fluky (JPN)
At 4 Second Ranvet Stakes, Rosehill, Gr1 (10f, to Contributer (IRE)
At 6 Won Toorak Handicap, Caulfield, Gr1 (8f, beating Sovereign Nation (AUS) and Petrology (AUS), Won Emirates Stakes, Flemington, Gr1 (10f, beating Happy Clapper (AUS) and It’s Somewhat (USA), second Futurity Stakes, Caulfield, Gr1 (7f, to Black Heart Bart (AUS), Blamey Stakes, Flemington, Gr2 (8f, to Palention (AUS)), third Memsie Stakes, Caulfield, Gr1 (7f, to Vega Magic (AUS))
At 7 Second Futurity Stakes, Caulfield, Gr1 (7f, to Brave Smash))
ADUAL GROUP 1 WINNER by Deep Impact who is an outcross for Galileo mares, Tosen Stardom was a fascinating recruit for Zenith Stallion Station at Lemongrove Stud.
Now a 14-year-old, he is the sire of four crops of racing age in Australia where he has produced several winners from a handful of runners and shuttled to Europe for the first time in 2023.
He began his career in Japan as a two-year-old, and won both of his starts that year, including the Listed Nisai Stakes. At three he won two of his six starts, both Group 3 contests and was a Listed winner at four in Japan before his move to Australia which yielded a second place in the Group 1 Ranvet Stakes behind Contributer.
In three starts at five he failed to win, but developed into a Group 1 performer as a six-year-old winning the Group 1 Emirates Stakes and the Group 1 Toorak Handicap. He was also second in the Group 1 Futurity Stakes and third in the Group 1 Memsie Stakes.
Tosen Stardom’s best performance at seven was a repeat of his second place in the Group 1 Futurity Stakes.
Tosen Stardom is a full-brother to the Group 3 Saneki Sho All Comers Stakes winner Centelleo and a half-brother to the Hanshin Listed third Neo Stardom, by Neo Universe. Their dam Admire Kirameki won four races and is the dam of six winners from as many runners and is a half-sister to the Group 1 Tenno Sho winner and Japan Cup runner-up Tosen Jordan and to the Group 2 Kyoto Shimbun Hai winner and Group 1 Tokyo Yushen third Tosen Homareboshi (Deep Impact).
Her Listed-placed half-sister Careless Whisper is the dam of Group 1 Underwood Stakes second and Group 1 Hong Kong Vase third Tosen Basil. Under the third dam, the American Listed winner Crafty Wife is the Group 1 Tenno Sho and Mile Championship winner Company.
Tosen Stardom’s broodmare sire End Sweep is a son of Forty Niner and his dam Admire Kirameki is inbred to Mr Prospector.
Two members of his first Irish crop were sold at the Goffs, both by Lewinstown Farm.
Browne Brothers Bloodstock went to €7,500 for a half-brother to winning juvenile Lord Roxby at the Goffs November Foal Sale, while a month later at the Goffs December NH Sale, the same consignor sold a half-brother the Grade 3-placed hurdler Tara Dylan for €3,500
1st Dam
ADMIRE KIRAMEKI (JPN), won 4 races in Japan at 2, 4 and 5 years and £353,516 and placed 12 times; dam of 6 winners:
TOSEN STARDOM (JPN), see above.
CENTELLEO (JPN) (2015 f. by Deep Impact (JPN)), won 5 races in Japan from 3 to 5 years and £1,290,892 including Sankei Sho All Comers, Nakayama, Gr.2, placed 7 times including second in Mermaid Stakes, Hanshin, Gr.3.
Neo Stardom (JPN) (2012 c. by Neo Universe (JPN)), won 4 races in Japan from 2 to 4 years and £572,313, placed 13 times including third in Marguerite Stakes, Hanshin, L.R. JOHN DOE (JPN) (2014 c. by Deep Impact (JPN)), won 7 races in Japan from 4 to 7 years and £104,685 and placed 10 times.
TOSEN ALAN (JPN) (2018 c. by Kizuna (JPN)), won 3 races in Japan at 3 and 4 years and £220,434 and placed twice.
LA SCINTILLANTE (JPN) (2009 f. by Agnes Tachyon (JPN)), won 3 races in Japan at 2 and 3 years and £331,333 and placed once; dam of 2 winners.
Mirai E (JPN) (2010 f. by Deep Impact (JPN)), placed twice in Japan; dam of 2 winners. Fine Future (JPN) (g. by Fine Needle (JPN)), 5 races in Australia at 4 years, 2024 and £99,021, placed 7 times including third in Hahn Cummings Stakes, Gr.3.
2nd Dam
EVERY WHISPER (JPN), placed 6 times in Japan at 3 years and £27,490; Own sister to BIG SHORI (JPN), Crafty Gold (JPN) and Kyoei Forte (JPN); dam of 6 winners:
TOSEN JORDAN (JPN) (c. by Jungle Pocket (JPN)), won 9 races in Japan at 2, 4 and 5 years and £5,282,849 including Tenno Sho (Autumn Emperor’s Cup), Tokyo, Gr.1, American Jockey Club Cup, Nakayama, Gr.2, Sapporo Kinen, Sapporo, Gr.2, Copa Republica Argentina, Tokyo, Gr.2, Hopeful Stakes, Nakayama, L. and Ireland Trophy, Tokyo, L., placed second in Japan Cup, Tokyo, Gr.1 and Tenno Sho (Spring), Kyoto, Gr.1 and third in Japan Cup, Tokyo, Gr.1.
TOSEN HOMAREBOSHI (JPN) (c. by Deep Impact (JPN)), won 3 races in Japan at 3 years and £965,554 including Kyoto Shimbun Hai, Kyoto, Gr.2, placed third in Tokyo Yushun (Derby), Tokyo, Gr.1.
Dark Message (JPN) (c. by Dance In The Dark (JPN)), won 5 races in Japan to 6 years and £1,081,449, placed second in Nikkei Shinshun Hai, Kyoto, Gr.2.
Careless Whisper (JPN) (f. by Fuji Kiseki (JPN)), won 3 races in Japan at 3 and 4 years and £455,994, placed second in Kanto Oaks, Kawasaki, L.; dam of winners.
Tosen Basil (JPN), 5 races in Japan at 2 and 4 years and £1,138,037, placed second in Hyland Race Colours Underwood Stakes, Caulfield, Gr.1 and third in Longines Hong Kong Vase, Sha Tin, Gr.1.
3rd Dam
CRAFTY WIFE (USA), won 7 races in U.S.A. at 2 and 3 years including Florida Stallion Stakes (Desert Vixen), Calder, L., Florida Stallion Stakes (Susan’s Girl), Calder, L.R., Hibiscus Stakes, Hialeah Park, Playpen Stakes, Pimlico, R., Faneuil Miss Stakes, Rockingham Park and Heather Stakes, Gulfstream Park, placed 4 times second in Ta Wee Stakes, Calder, Sunrise Stakes, Calder and Buddleia Stakes, Philadelphia Pk and third in Sunny Isles Stakes, Hialeah Park; dam of 12 winners including:
BIG SHORI (JPN) (c. by Northern Taste (CAN)), won 7 races in Japan including Yomiuri Milers Cup, Kyoto, L., placed second in Hankyu Hai, Hanshin, L., Tokyo Chunichi Sports Hai Negishi Stakes, Tokyo, L. and Procyon Stakes, Hanshin, L. BATTLE BANYAN (JPN) (c. by Jungle Pocket (JPN)), won 7 races in Japan including Cassiopeia Stakes, Kyoto, L. and Fukushima TV Open, Fukushima, L., placed second in Kokura Daishoten, Kokura, Gr.3 and Kokura Kinen, Kokura, Gr.3.
SPICULE (JPN) (c. by Sunday Silence (USA)), won 7 races in Japan including Betelgeuse Stakes, Hanshin, L. Crafty Gold (JPN) (c. by Northern Taste (CAN)), won 4 races in Japan, placed third in Kokura Sansai Stakes, Kyoto, L. Kyoei Forte (JPN) (f. by Northern Taste (CAN)), won 6 races in Japan, placed third in Sirius Stakes, Hanshin, L.; dam of winners.
Sound Axis (JPN), 5 races in Japan, placed third in NST Sho, Niigata, L. FORTEPIANO (JPN), 3 races in Japan and placed 6 times; grandam of TASTIERA (JPN), Champion 3yr old colt in Japan in 2023, 4 races in Hong Kong and Japan at 2, 3 and 5 years, 2025 including Tokyo Yushun (Derby), Tokyo, Gr.1, Queen Elizabeth II Cup, Sha Tin, Gr.1 and Hochi Hai Yayoi Sho Deep Impact Kinen, Nakayama, Gr.2, placed second in Tenno Sho (Autumn Emperor’s Cup), Tokyo, Gr.1, Satsuki Sho (2000 Guineas), Nakayama, Gr.1 and Kikuka Sho (Japanese St.Leger), Kyoto, Gr.1 and third in The Hong Kong Cup, Sha Tin, Gr.1. BRILLIANT VERY (JPN), won 3 races in Japan and placed twice; dam of winners.
COMPANY (JPN), 12 races in Japan including Tenno Sho (Autumn Emperor’s Cup), Tokyo, Gr.1, Mile Championship, Kyoto, Gr.1, Nakayama Kinen, Nakayama, Gr.2 (twice), Osaka Hai, Hanshin, Gr.2, Yomiuri Milers Cup, Hanshin, Gr.2, Mainichi Okan, Tokyo, Gr.2, Sekiya Kinen, Niigata, Gr.3 and Keihan Hai, Kyoto, L., placed third in Tenno Sho (Autumn Emperor’s Cup), Tokyo, Gr.1.
HISTORICAL (JPN), 5 races in Japan including Mainichi Hai, Hanshin, Gr.3, Osakajo Stakes, Hanshin, L. and Ireland Trophy, Tokyo, L., placed third in Mainichi Okan, Tokyo, Gr.2.
NEW VERY (JPN), 10 races in Japan including Final Stakes, Hanshin, L., Subaru Stakes, Kyoto, L. and Port Island Stakes, Hanshin, L. , placed second in Sports Nippon Sho Kyoto Kimpai, Kyoto, L. and Miyakooji Stakes, Kyoto, L.
LENINGRAD (JPN), 4 races in Japan including Copa Republica Argentina, Tokyo, L., placed third in Kyoto Daishoten, Kyoto, Gr.2.
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photo finish
Horses in training, yearlings, mares and foals all resident at Gestüt
found in the Rhineland
region of Germany around half an hour from Saarbrücken. The farm stands our featured firsrt-crop yearling stallion Rubaiyat (page 22).
Ohlerweiherhof,
Palatinate
Europe’s highest-rated sprinter in 2022
Stands at Derrinstown Stud, Ireland
To
Broke the track record when taking the Gr.1 Sprint Cup by 3¾ lengths
Emphatic winner of the Gr.2 Gimcrack at two
Group 1 performer at two, three and four
“MINZAAL is easily the fastest I’ve trained, when he went up through the gears it was a sight to behold!”
Owen Burrows, Trainer