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War loves the battle Is Declaration Of War the toughest horse in training?

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o how many of you fell into the trap of believing the Juddmonte International was a two-horse race and punted accordingly? This ‘judge’ expected a straight fight between Al Kazeem and Toronado, the two most exciting horses in Britain, with the winner set for stardom and a prized spot on the cover of this magazine.

I couldn’t have been more wrong.

Declaration Of War’s victory may have been something of an anti-climax – maybe even a disappointment – for racing fans expecting an epic battle between the two favourites a la Grundy and Bustino, yet a look at the winner’s profile makes this assessment harsh in the extreme.

The International Stakes was the four-year-old’s seventh run of the season, his last six coming at the top level. If there is a Group 1 event in Europe over a mile or ten furlongs, Declaration Of War is likely to turn up to the party, having already taken in Royal Ascot, Glorious Goodwood, Deauville and now York. Maybe there is a tougher horse in training, but I haven’t seen him/her.

Comparisons with former Ballydoyle star Giant’s Causeway may be wide of the mark – the so-called ‘Iron Horse’ chalked up ten runs during his three-year-old career, finishing first or second every time – though the fact they race in the same colours brings an inevitable connection.

A fascinating angle to the Declaration Of War success story is his pedigree, as he is US-bred, by the stallion War Front. The reputation of American sires in Europe has fallen over the past two decades but the signs are that this could be about to change, with No Nay Never, a son of Scat Daddy, also impressing with wins in the Norfolk Stakes at Royal Ascot and Prix Morny at Deauville.

The Keeneland September Yearling Sale is the place to go if you want to take a punt on progeny of Stateside stallions and Sid Fernando takes you through the possibilities in our exclusive preview on pages 52-53.

While Declaration Of War is not Irish-bred, he is Irish-trained, a fact sure to please Brian Kavanagh, the Chief Executive of Horse Racing Ireland and the subject of this month’s Big Interview (pages 34-38).

Kavanagh, who is also Chairman of the European Pattern Committee, offers plenty of food for thought on a variety of subjects, including the creation of Irish Champions Weekend, the announcement of which caused a rumpus on these shores due to its clash with the St Leger at Doncaster.

“This has been in the planning for two years,” says Kavanagh. “The mid-September slot is perfect as it fits in with the Arc and British Champions’ Day. “Doncaster has always clashed with either the Irish St Leger meeting or the Irish Champion Stakes meeting for each of the last 22 years. No new Pattern race clashes are created by this move.

“Looking at the big picture, this opens up wonderful possibilities for end-of-season championships and Triple Crowns in each of the major categories.”

Kavanagh also provides a fascinating insight into racing at Dundalk, Ireland’s only allweather track, where fixture numbers are strictly policed.

Unlike in Britain, with its glut of all-weather fixtures, the vast majority featuring moderate animals running for poor prize-money, Ireland has a different policy, one that views quality as more important than quantity.

Such is the benefit of an industry that does not rely on bookmakers’ demands to function.

Kavanagh says: “We did a deal that enabled us to run winter fixtures at Dundalk at the same prize-money levels as other fixtures. Any maiden at Dundalk is worth the same as one at Gowran Park or Navan.

“Racecourses in Ireland don’t own fixtures, as they do in the UK. They race when we allocate them fixtures, and we allocate the race programme as well.”

How successful is the Irish approach to staging allweather racing? Declaration Of War raced and won at Dundalk on his final start last year. Enough said.

“How successful is

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CONTENTS SEPTEMBER 2013

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NEWS & VIEWS

FEATURES

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ROA Leader French lesson must be noted

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Why some crops are superior

104 Flashback Green Desert in ‘85

The Big Interview Talking To...

Trainer Jim Goldie

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Foal Show Inaugural TBA event

Tony Morris St Leger thrills

Caulfield Files

Brian Kavanagh, HRI chief

Changes Your monthly round-up

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News Sungate trainers let off

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York, Deauville and Goodwood

TBA Leader Member survey launched

COVER STORY The Big Picture

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Richard Edmondson

Yearling Sales Previews Ireland and America

Dwyer treatment is unfair

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INTERNATIONAL SCENE 28

Sales Circuit Yearlings and stores in focus

View From Ireland Bryan Cooper raring to go

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Continental Tales Norway’s latest star

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Around The Globe

ALAN JOHNSON

Ken Ramsey’s golden year

Weights of justice: Martin Dwyer has been handed a big ban by the Indian racing authorities (page 26)

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TBA Seminar a big hit

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Next Generation Club Visiting Long Run at Upton Viva Stud

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Breeder of the Month Juddmonte Farms, for Flintshire

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Vet Forum Detecting lameness in racehorses

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The Fasig-Tipton July Selected Yearling Sale kicks off the North American yearling sales season today with a two-day stand at Fasig=s Newtown Paddocks in Lexington, Kentucky. A total of 407 yearlings have been catalogued, down 18 percent from the 494 catalogued last term, and down 28 percent from the 568 catalogued in 2008. Officials at the sales company hope the slimmed-down catalogue can help the sale recover from a 2009 renewal that saw the average ($77,716) slip 15.8 percent and the median ($55,000) drop 26.7 percent.

Last year=s opening session, featuring a New Sire Showcase comprised of first- and secondcrop sires, was particularly hard hit. Average on the opening day FTKJUL grad Blind Luck was down 23.8 percent, while Sarah K. Andrew the median was down 33.3 percent. By contrast, the second day of selling, with more established sires represented, was down only 4.3 percent in average and 15.3 percent in median. This year, the New Sire Showcase has been replaced by the Freshman Sire Showcase, which boasts offspring by one of the deeper sire classes in recent memory.

Whether that sire power, combined with a more stringent selection process by Fasig-Tipton, will help buoy a struggling market is anyone=s guess, but both buyers and sellers have been complimentary of the auction house=s efforts.

AI think Fasig-Tipton has done a great job of putting together a group of strong, athletic horses, and I think the pedigrees here are getting stronger,@ said Adena Springs General Manager Eric Hamelback. AObviously, they=ve always gone after the athletes, but it seems there is more substance to those pedigrees, where maybe a few years back there wasn=t. From what I see, barring any radiograph issues or anything, there will be buyers for the horses. It=s seems like a real racehorse catalogue.@ Fasig-Tipton July report Cont. p7

BOOK 1 October 8 – 10 featuring the Tattersalls Millions BOOK 2 October 14 – 17 BOOK 3 October 18 BOOK 4 October 31

JRHA SELECT SALE DEEP IMPACT COLT DOMINATES JRHA OPENER

Buyers new to racing swarmed the opening session of the Japan Racing Horse Association Select Sale on Monday at the Northern Horse Park on the island of Hokkaido, delighting consignors with a flurry of bidding, but keeping a fairly tight grip on their wallets.

By the time the last yearling had trotted out of the sale ring, results were mixed and there had been no fireworks, particularly when compared to the sale's halcyon days when Hip 50, Day 1 Topper $1-million horses were sprinkled throughout the catalog.

Yet the consensus reaction was that the sale held up as well as could be hoped in the prevailing economic conditions. Of 214 yearlings offered, 173 were sold for a total of -3.157-billion ($35,078,889) and an average of -18.250-million ($202,768).

A robust bay colt by two-time Japanese Horse of the Year Deep Impact (Jpn) out of French and American Group/Grade 3 winner Isle de France (Nureyev), topped the yearling session at -66-million ($733,333). In contrast, last year's top yearling, a colt by Rock of Gibraltar (Ire), sold for -145-million ($1,526,315).

Makoto Kaneko, who raced Deep Impact, purchased the Isle de France colt from the Northern Farm consignment of Katsumi Yoshida. The top five yearlings sold on Monday all came from Northern Farm.

Kaneko typically shies away from talking to the media at sales and declined to comment on the colt.

Yutaka Uda, a savvy Tokyo-based investment manager who obtained an owner's license last year, bought the co-second highest-priced yearling, a Deep Impact colt out of group stakes-placed Kiss Pasion (Jpn) (Jade Robbery), for -60-million ($666,666). The colt is a three-quarter brother to multiple group winner Admire Kiss (Jpn) (Sunday Silence), runner-up in the 2006 Oka Sho. Cont. p2

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RACHEL HOOD President Racehorse Owners Association

French lesson highlights importance of homework BHA must ensure UK racing receives rightful income from offshore operators

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ast month I wrote about French racing’s success in convincing the European Commission that a turnover levy on betting operators was legal and I make no apologies for returning to this subject.

A basic premise of the relationship between any racing and betting entity is that, when a bet is struck on a race, the performers and venue receive a percentage from the profit made on that bet. This is how it works in almost all sophisticated racing industries throughout the world but not how it works any more in Britain.

Of course, such a system applies automatically to a tote monopoly, with a proportion of the betting turnover being subtracted to cover prize-money and the running costs of racing and the remainder being returned to winning punters. In Britain, we have always been denied the simplicity of this arrangement but at least the levy – imperfect though it has been – was introduced in the early 1960s to recognise that racing was entitled to receive a payment from those bookmaker profits earned on horseracing.

The principle upon which the levy was founded began to disintegrate when bookmakers realised, if they were to situate large parts of their businesses offshore, they could avoid paying not only tax on their profits but also their payments to racing on those bets which were received in an offshore jurisdiction.

In the early years of bookmaker re-location, no-one truly appreciated the consequences of what was happening. Yes, it was understood that some of the credit bets taken on the phone would escape tax and levy, but this then still represented a relatively small proportion of all bets on horseracing at a time where betting shops continued to reign supreme.

We had little appreciation of what was around the corner in terms of information technology and therefore no real understanding that betting via the internet would soon dramatically transform the landscape. Then the realisation began to dawn that

British racing’s income from betting would be linked almost exclusively to those bets struck in British betting shops because the levy could not be applied to the fastgrowing offshore, online business.

So, while it is true that the sale of racing pictures to betting shops has done much to bolster the finances of racecourses – allowing horsemen to receive an indirect benefit – the fact remains that British racing’s income from the betting industry is short by a very large amount, though nobody on racing’s side of the fence is in a position to say exactly how much.

The solution seemed obvious. We needed to change the legislation underpinning the levy so that all bets struck on British horseracing overseas also attracted levy payments. But soon the bookmakers and government crushed this proposal on the premise that European law would not allow this. The levy, so the argument ran, was enshrined in legislation that pre-dated the European Union and any move in this direction would fall foul of our old friend State Aid. At the time, the BHA swallowed the argument, yet we now know that UK law is in the process of being changed so that gross profits tax is charged at the point of consumption, though, crucially, not the levy.

It seems the British, in typical fashion, had accepted the State Aid argument without too much rancour when, out of the blue, we hear that French racing has convinced the European Commission that a turnover levy on the betting operator of 5.8% is acceptable.

If the French can do this, the BHA must enlist the help of government to put British racing in the same financial position as its Gallic counterpart.

British horseracing is a massive contributor to both treasury coffers and employment numbers but this is simply not being acknowledged by the relevant minister. The BHA must continue to bang on his door until British racing receives its rightful income from offshore betting operators.

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RICHARD LANCASTER Chairman Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association

Survey will assess industry’s impact on rural economies We must be fully armed with all the facts when negotiating with government

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uestions at the TBA AGM and again at the TBA’s ‘The Bloodstock Market Today’ seminar, later the same month, have brought home the uncomfortable message that the economics of the industry are out of step with our ambitions for a healthy future.

These comments from breeders, echoed by owners, have now, thanks to coverage in Thoroughbred Owner & Breeder and the Racing Post, raised the profile of the importance of the production and ownership of the racehorse to a wider audience.

Members will recall that I prompted this discussion with an announcement that the TBA will be undertaking an economic impact study on the British thoroughbred breeding industry and the contribution it makes to the economy. We have now commissioned Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC), the major accountancy and consulting practice, to undertake this work.

The study is planned to be in two parts; firstly, to establish the hard data about our industry which is currently lacking and, secondly, to consider its future with any potential risks and opportunities identified.

You may or may not consider that this exercise will be relevant to your operation, but I believe your Association would be failing you if it was not able at least to present those facts, so that you can make your own decisions about the direction that may be best for you and your future.

Work upon this important study is now underway and we are asking for your full and committed involvement.

By the time you read this article, the TBA survey should be with you. It may look daunting, but I must stress there is a real need to have hard facts about the industry to hand when we discuss and negotiate important agreements and concessions with government and other bodies.

At a time when the government is examining future stud farm eligibility for basic payment schemes, under the CAP Reforms, and conducting a review of equine passports and movement regulations, it is essential that we can state with

authority the economic and rural contribution, employment and other important benefits, a healthy and vibrant thoroughbred breeding industry offers Britain.

In addition, it will be helpful to the Board and many of our members, if we can create a discussion concerning the future opportunities that may be presented to us as breeders of the essential racing stock. Without providing a complete or extensive list, this will include the size and quality of the foal production in Britain and the need to provide thoroughbreds to fulfil the British racing programme and the developing markets. Please do give this your urgent and detailed attention. The information you provide will be the cornerstone to our industry’s future. The TBA has a responsibility to ensure that this industry does not stand still. To do so in today’s world is a backwards step. Through this study we aim to identify the challenges and opportunities for breeders which some ten years ago would have been unthinkable.

Heading into the yearling sales season, I recall that 12 months ago I highlighted the increase in the number of yearlings offered at British sales. In 2013 these numbers have risen once again, in spite of a decrease in the size of the respective foal crops. This suggests that the attractions of buying and selling in Britain continue to influence the market heavily. Yet the figure for two-year-olds in training in Britain is at its lowest for ten years.

The attraction of British-sold stock remains incredibly strong, despite the return to owners in Britain lagging behind many competitors in the international league tables. This, in part, is as a result of the TBA and others punching above their weight when it comes to campaigning for the interests of their members, and our commercial partners, in particular the sales houses, are doing a great job. The main attraction is surely the quality of the bloodstock on offer, and Britain remains at the forefront of this highly competitive industry. Please help us to support you to keep it that way.

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NEWS Stories from the racing world

BHA lets Sungate trainers off the hook But Gerard Butler is still in the dock for administering anabolic steroid to horses in his care

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ollowing an investigation into the use of Sungate on 43 horses in nine different racing yards, the British Horseracing Authority has announced that there will be no charges brought against the unnamed licensed trainers involved.

Sungate, which is not licensed in Britain but was legally imported to the country from Italy under veterinary certificate by Newmarket practice Rossdales & Partners, contains stanozolol, an anabolic steroid, which means it is prohibited for use on racehorses in training.

A statement issued by horseracing’s regulatory body read: “The BHA became aware of the nature of Sungate and its use on horses in training following a visit to Gerard Butler’s yard in February 2013 as part of its testing in training sampling programme, from which nine horses produced positive tests for stanozolol.

“It became apparent that a veterinary practice, which had legally imported Sungate under licence into the UK, was prescribing this product and had recommended its initial administration to horses in training.

“The BHA subsequently met with representatives of the veterinary practice in question. As a result of that meeting the BHA became aware that Gerard Butler was not the only trainer to whom it was recommended that Sungate be administered to horses in the trainer’s care.”

Thirty-eight trainers were questioned by the BHA during the course of the investigation, which began shortly after Godolphin trainer

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Mahmood Al Zarooni was banned from racing for eight years after a total of 22 horses under his care were found to have been given anabolic steroids. A total of 43 horses were found to have been given Sungate under veterinary advice from early 2010.

“These administrations were recorded in the medication records required to be kept by trainers in accordance with the Rules, and in the clinical histories of the horses which were obtained, with the trainers’ consent, from the veterinary practice,” read the BHA press release.

Adam Brickell, Director of Integrity, Legal and Risk for the BHA, said: “Having carefully considered our options under the Rules, including taking legal advice and reviewing previous cases, we have concluded that there

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would no reasonable prospect of a Disciplinary Panel finding that these trainers have breached the Rules of Racing.

“Under the current Rules of Racing, in the absence of any positive samples, charges could only be brought in cases such as this if there is evidence that the trainer concerned has acted in a manner prejudicial to the integrity, proper conduct, or good reputation of the sport. In these cases there was no such evidence. This is because the nine trainers in question only allowed their horses to be administered with the product on the advice of – and by – veterinary surgeons to treat orthopaedic conditions.”

The charges brought against Gerard Butler in June also relate to the administration of Sungate but include the allegation that the trainer administered the drug himself via intra-articular injection (to the joint), an act that should only be conducted by a veterinary surgeon. The date of the BHA disciplinary hearing in this case is yet to be announced.

Jenny Hall, BHA Chief Veterinary Officer, said: “It is important to note that the product at the centre of this investigation is a treatment designed to be injected into a horse’s joints, and is very different to that which might be used in an intramuscular anabolic steroid product.

“However, it remains a matter of serious concern that a veterinary practice recommended and administered a product containing anabolic steroids.”

BOBIS registration open for foals of 2013 More than 65 two-year-olds have already won at least one BOBIS prize in the scheme’s inaugural year and the registration period for this year’s foal crop is now open.

To be eligible for the scheme, foals must be either by a British-based stallion or out of a mare usually domiciled in Britain. The initial registration fee is £150 if foals are registered before Tuesday, December 31. They can also be registered as yearlings after that date for the increased fee of £250.

BOBIS Manager Amy Bennett said: “BOBIS offers a valuable opportunity to win additional prize-money, and with over 800 races a year carrying a £6,000 BOBIS prize from 2014, there are plenty of chances to win.”

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NEWS

Great British Racing hires international executive Former Breeders’ Cup Vice President Carter Carnegie has been appointed as the International Executive for Great British Racing International (GBRI), in order to encourage overseas investment in the British bloodstock and racing industry.

Carnegie runs his own company in the US named Metrical, and through his background in commercial sports development has been associated with the National Basketball Association (NBA) and National Football League (NFL), as well as serving ten years with Breeders’ Cup Limited, where he was successful in seeking new marketing partners and securing sponsorship deals.

GBRI receives its funding from Great British Racing, the BHA and the Levy Board. Carnegie will report to an operating board chaired by Chris

McFadden and comprised of the respective Chief Executive Officers of the three organisations in Rod Street, Paul Bittar and Alan Delmonte.

Carnegie, who started in his new role on August 12, said: “I wish to thank the members of the GBRI operating board for giving me the opportunity to lead this new initiative. I look forward to working with and on behalf of all the various constituents of the British racing and breeding community in developing initiatives targeted at foreign investment in the sport, as well as promoting the values and prestige affiliated with racing and breeding in Britain.”

GBR Chairman Chris McFadden said: “The lead role at GBRI requires a strong and specialised skill-set with a balance of international racing experience, an understanding of the bloodstock industry and

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high-level commercial expertise. Carter has been able to demonstrate these, principally through his roles at the Breeders’ Cup. “Britain hosts some of the best racing in the world and the industry’s stakeholders have agreed that our unique assets provide a serious opportunity to attract greater investment from high net worth individuals and companies.”

Yorton operation moves base Moving four stallions and around 40 mares is no mean feat but at least the team at Yorton Farm won’t have far to go as it prepares for a hop across the border into Wales to a new base at Welshpool.

David and Teresa Futter, with sons Lester and Riley, have been at Yorton Farm in Shropshire for eight years but with a growing number of equine residents have taken up the opportunity to move to James and Jean Potter’s 300-acre Leighton Model Farm. The new operation will be called Yorton at Leighton Model Farm.

“It’s been fantastic living here and the Thompson family, who own the estate, have been brilliant but we’ve outgrown the farm,” explained David, who announced plans for the move at a party on the eve of the TBA National Hunt Foal Show (see pages 44-45), which he helped to organise.

“We’re very conscious that we need to keep the Yorton name. We haven’t been trading that long but people have to got to

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know us now and we don’t want to confuse people.”

The Futters hope to be fully settled in their new premises by the end of October and will live on site alongside the stallion yard, home to Malinas, Sulamani, Librettist and Sakhee.

David added: “We’re only about a mile over the border into Wales so we’re still very handy for all the National Hunt breeders in and around the Shropshire area.”

In order to glean a clearer picture of the contribution of the British thoroughbred breeding industry to the wider UK economy, the TBA has appointed Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) to complete an economic impact study on behalf of its members.

The study, which it is hoped will help the TBA to appreciate future risks and identify opportunities for British breeders, will be completed in October and will be published at the start of the December Sales at Tattersalls.

TBA Chief Executive Louise Kemble said: “This is a major investment on the part of the TBA and one that I am confident will pay dividends in a variety of ways in years to come.”

TBA members will be receiving a survey through the post in the near future and are urged to offer as much information about their breeding operations as possible.

Volunteers representing a cross-section of the industry will be asked to assist in a more detailed capacity.

The Futters are heading to Wales

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TWEENHILLS TIMES AN EYE FOR SUCCESS

SEPTEMBER 2013

Reminder of Makfi in Marois Deauville’s summer highlight, the Gr.1 Prix Jacques Le Marois, was a reminder of the day in August 2010 when Makfi won the race by trouncing a quality field that included brilliant Goldikova.

Makfi winning the Prix Jacques Le Marois in 2010

Nice work by the Davids

David Brown with bonus cheque

A second Classic placing for Secret Gesture and a six-figure bonus payout for My Catch were among recent racing highlights for horses connected with Qatar Racing and David Redvers Bloodstock.

He had already won the 2000 Guineas, but that victory against older horses sealed his place as the leading son of brilliant Dubawi.

Makfi hailed from the first crop of his sire, who was later described by pedigree analyst Bill Oppenheim as, “pretty certainly the best young stallion in the world”.

were also seen at DBS’s Premier Sale.

Tattersalls’ Ireland’s September Sale includes a couple of Makfi yearlings, while in October they will appear at Goffs’ Orby and Sportsman Sales (October 2 – 4) and Tattersalls’ October Yearling Sale, Books 1 (October 8 – 10) and 2 (14 – 17).

Dubawi has easily justified that praise, which makes Makfi’s first auction yearlings a prized group of horses as they appear at late summer and autumn sales. During August they went through the ring at France’s most significant yearling auction – staged by Arqana at Deauville – and

Orby offerings involve four colts and a filly, plus another filly at the Sportsman Sale, while Makfi’s Book 1 parade consists of 16 yearlings. And, returning to the Marois, a Makfi-sired half-sister to this year’s winner, Moonlight Cloud, was due to appear at the recent Arqana Sale in Deauville.

Having been runner-up in the Gr.1 Investec Oaks, Secret Gesture, who is owned in partnership with her breeders, Newsells Park Stud, took the same placing in Dusseldorf’s German equivalent, the Henkel Preis Der Diana.

My Catch, who was bought by the Tweenhills Stud boss for €135,000 at Arqana’s May breeze-up sale, recouped that and more when trainer David Brown cleverly targeted a bonus connected with the auction. It offered a €10,000 add-on to any of its graduates who scored in one of ten selected French maiden races, and €100,000 extra to the first of those winners to land a black-type race. My Catch duly won a Maisons-Laffitte maiden, and four days later added Deauville’s Gr.3 Prix de Cabourg, before any rival could get a look in.

Opening a Book on Colours David’s mother, Mary, was looking through a book recently when the drawing shown here fell out.

It depicts the chaser Pathos carrying the colours of her mother, Nell Pennell, whose husband was captain of a navy destroyer.

The silks are battleship grey, with a red sleeve (port side) and a green one (starboard) – it was drawn in the 1930s by an unknown artist who humorously gave Pathos some nautical accoutrements.

Odd-coloured sleeves are no longer permitted in racing – it is said they cause confusion when viewed from the side –

but the Redvers family’s silks pre-date that ruling. They caused a bit of banter when carried to victory by Green Door at Newmarket in May.

STAFF PROFILE Frankie Price Yearling prep and breakers

What is your background?

My father was a huntsman and my mother evented to three-star level, so I grew up with horses. In 2011, during a three-year degree at the Royal Agricultural University, I was lucky enough to get a four-months placement at Tweenhills.

That became a permanent role?

Returning to university I graduated last year, then did some mid-summer work for Tor Sturgis and Mark Rimell.

In the autumn David offered me a job breaking yearlings. I started in October.

What is entailed?

We lunge and drive them in long reins, and eventually lie on them in the stable before riding them away.

It can take a few days or longer, depending on the individual.

Favourite horse broken?

I prepped Kiyoshi when she was at Tor Sturgis’s, and then broke her in after David bought her at the sales.

It was a great feeling when she won at Royal Ascot.

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Racing’s news in a nutshell PEOPLE AND BUSINESS Nina Carberry Ireland’s most successful female jump jockey will become racing assistant to trainer Noel Meade at his Tu Va stables in County Meath.

Celebration Chase End-of-season event at Sandown is one of four races to be upgraded from Grade 2 to Grade 1 status, along with Cheltenham’s Jewson Chase plus Mildmay Novices’ Chase and Mersey Novices’ Hurdle at Aintree.

Kieren Fallon Six-time champion jockey splits with agent Laura Way and returns to the books of Gareth Owen.

Stan Cosgrove Retires from his role as manager at Moyglare Stud Farm after more than 50 years with the operation, having initially come on board as a vet in 1962.

John McCracken Stephane Pasquier One of France’s leading riders is banned for three months by France Galop having tested positive for a banned substance at Longchamp on April 11.

Sophia Brudenell Named as Jockey Club Racecourses’ new Communications Manager for the South West Region, following Andy Clifton’s move to Hong Kong.

Warned-off gambler starts four-year prison sentence for his role in a tipping scam that cost punters more than £1 million.

Eddie Ahern Jockey’s career looks to be over after he fails in bid to overturn ten-year disqualification for corruption and failing to ride a horse on its merits.

Anna Powell General Manager of Great British Racing International will move to a project role with the BHA in October, reporting to Chief Executive Paul Bittar.

More people and business...

Racheal Kneller fractures two vertebrae in her back after a fall at Mark Usher’s yard; the apprentice rider, 26, will be on the sidelines for around six weeks. Jerry O’Dwyer, the jockey warned off for 18 months in 2011, plans to take out a training licence in America, from his new base in Kentucky. Gloucestershire-based permit holder Susan Nock, who enjoyed success with grey chaser Senor El Betrutti, gives up training to spend more time with her family. Staffordshire-based trainer Mark Loughnane is barred from saddling runners for four months after one of his horses tested positive for ACP.

Jimmy McCarthy Calls time on career as a jump jockey at the age of 43 having partnered nearly 500 winners; he landed the 2009 Grade 1 Sefton Novices’ Hurdle on Ogee.

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RACEHORSE AND STALLION MOVEMENTS AND RETIREMENTS

Flashpoint Spendthrift Farm buys Grade 2-winning son of Pomeroy to stand at Le Mesa Stallions in Louisiana in 2014.

Liber Nauticus Winner of this year’s Musidora Stakes for owner/breeder Ballymacoll Stud is retired to the paddocks.

Sanctuaire Multiple Grade 2 scorer for Paul Nicholls makes £170,000 at DBS and will move to Willie Mullins in Ireland.

Mars St James’s Palace Stakes third joins Mike de Kock from Aidan O’Brien having been purchased by new owners, including Investec boss Bernard Kantor.

Law Enforcement

Vorda

Three-year-old son of Lawman, a Group 1 winner for the Richard Hannon stable, is sold to Hong Kong in a deal brokered by McKeever Bloodstock.

Unbeaten two-year-old daughter of Orpen, winner of the Group 2 Prix Robert Papin in July, is bought privately by owner Sheikh Mohammed Al Thani.

PEOPLE OBITUARIES Matthias Barth 43

For Non Stop High class chaser, a Grade 1 winner for the Nick Williams stable, sells for £175,000 at DBS and will continue his career in America.

HORSE OBITUARIES

Owner and breeder who enjoyed multiple Group 2 success with Vanjura, twice successful at Veliefendi’s international meeting in September.

Colm Murray 61 Much-loved RTE sport presenter who also owned horses with Willie Mullins.

Rhona Oliver 83 Widow of DBS co-founder Ken Oliver who was a former director of the sales company.

Mick Bass 78 Mel Smith 60 Comedian who loved racing and was jointowner of talented sprinter The Cheka and this season’s Listed-placed juvenile Mappa Mundi.

Spent three decades as a starting price reporter for The Sporting Life, having joined the newspaper in 1955.

Patrick Nixon 68

Simone Montgomerie 26

Chief Executive of the Association of British Bookmakers and secretary to the Levy Board’s Bookmakers’ Committee.

Jockey is killed in a fall at Fannie Bay racecourse in Darwin, Australia.

Uwe Stoltefuss 57

Ephie Robson 86 Point-to-point rider and permit holder from Northumberland.

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A multiple champion jockey and trainer under both codes in Germany; the best horse he trained was 1989 German Derby winner Mondrian.

Into The Red 29 Grand staying chaser who relished decent ground, winner of an Eider Chase and two Becher Chases for owners John and Edwina Huckle.

Northern Meteor 7 Group 1-winning son of Encosta De Lago, set to be Australia’s champion first-season sire, dies from colic at Widden Stud in New South Wales.

Rockport Harbor 11 Son of Unbridled’s Song, a Grade 2 winner on the track, who was standing at Pin Oak Lane Stud in Pennsylvania.

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BOBIS if they are either by a Britishbased stallion or out of a British-based mare. Once a horse has been registered for BOBIS, it must also be nominated as a two-year-old by its racing owner to be fully qualified.

The breeder who registers the horse for

Registration cost £150 at the foal

BOBIS will receive 30% of any BOBIS

stage, and breeders have until Tuesday

prizes won at two and three, while the

December 31st 2013 to complete the

racing owner receives 60% and the

registration form and return it to

remaining 10% is shared between the

Weatherbys with the payment. Foals born

winning trainer, jockey and stable staff.

and all Class 5 fillies’ maidens for twoyear-olds in Britain.

From 2014, £6,000 BOBIS prizes will also be awarded to the fully qualified winners of all Class 2 – 4 maidens, novice and conditions stakes, 3yo only handicaps and all Class 5 fillies’ maidens for three-year-olds in Britain, meaning there will be over 800 opportunities to win a £6,000 BOBIS prize. There are no limits to how many prizes a horse can win at two and three.

To view a list of eligible horses or to download a registration form, visit www.bobis.co.uk

IN THE SPOTLIGHT… We speak to Chris Mason, trainer of

A: I bought her dam Beveled Edge at

BOBIS winner Heavens Edge, a filly

the Ascot Sales in Malvern in 1990.

he also bred and owns with his wife

She won a little handicap at Chepstow

and assistant trainer Annabelle.

for us [trained by Bryn Palling]. She

Q: Congratulations on the win – it has been an exciting time for her family recently.

A: Yes, her full brother Rex Imperator

was our foundation mare really, and we have all the fillies from her family.

Q: Why did you send Elidore to Royal Applause?

Heavens Edge Q: What else do you have out of Elidore?

A: She has a Royal Applause filly foal,

won the Stewards Cup at Glorious

A: We’re looking to produce commercial

Goodwood a week before her win,

horses that trainers will want to buy

which was marvellous, and her half-

and that we can afford to breed, so we

brother Lexington Place has now won

need to look at commercial stallions at

five times.

up to £10,000. Although there are some

A: I qualified her because it is hard to

freshman sires coming through now,

make it pay with the standard of prize

there are very few stallions in that

money. You have got to maximise the

price bracket and Royal Applause

potential to make money and these

really fits the bill.

bonuses really help.

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GOODWOOD

TORONADO HITS BACK The highlight of Glorious Goodwood 2013 was the third clash between star colts Dawn Approach and Toronado in the QIPCO Sussex Stakes.

On this occasion it was the Richard Hannon-trained runner, racing in the now-familiar silks of Sheikh Joaan Al Thani, who came out on top, his finishing kick proving decisive under a delighted Richard Hughes Photos George Selwyn

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HAIL THE QUEEN George Strawbridge has seen his silks carried by some wonderful racehorses and Moonlight Cloud gave her owner/breeder another big-race success with a scintillating victory in the Prix Jacques le Marois.

The five-year-old daughter of Invincible Spirit, trained by Freddy Head, held off Olympic Glory to score by a short-head under Thierry Jarnet and could have her final start in the Prix de la Foret at Longchamp in October

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WAR DANCES HOME The Juddmonte International was hyped as a duel between Al Kazeem and Toronado, but Declaration Of War crashed the party with a decisive victory under Joseph O’Brien, beating Irish Derby hero Trading Leather.

Declaration Of War, owned by Coolmore and his US-based breeder, Joseph Allen, was contesting his sixth straight Group 1 of the season and gave a further boost to his American sire, War Front, who features in our preview of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale (page 52)

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THE MAN YOU CAN’T IGNORE COMMENT

Tony Morris

GEORGE SELWYN

Fifty years after witnessing his debut St Leger, our columnist recalls his experiences on Town Moor and looks back at some of the great winners of the world’s oldest Classic

Only Nijinsky and Reference Point (right) achieved a higher Timeform rating than 1963 victor Ragusa as St Leger winners

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’ve often thought that if I had been blessed with a private income, I would have been a historian. If I wasn’t actually born with a sense of history, I certainly acquired one very early. My parents never bought books, and I soon learnt that the relatively few about the house had been handed down from previous generations or – perhaps the majority – were marked ‘East Sussex County Library – Discarded’, acquisitions from Aunt Daisy, who worked at the library in Lewes.

Between the ages of 11 and 15, when I actually studied history at school, I gave my teachers, Eric Halliday and Dickie Snailham, no inkling that I had a gift for the subject, and the former expressed astonishment that I had contrived to pass my ‘O’ Level paper. I had struck lucky over that, because the period I studied – roughly from George III to William IV – coincided with the early years of the Classic races, and I could remember the dates of the supposed main events by reference to what was happening on the racecourse in those years.

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By 1958, when I sat the exam, I was already a seasoned buyer of racing books, most of them acquired very cheaply at the Caledonian Market in Exeter, and they were all very old. The Badminton Library’s volume on Racing and Steeplechasing, published in 1886, was one of the first, along with several works of Henry Hall Dixon, who used the nom de plume The Druid, and whom I still regard as the finest of all racing writers. He died in 1870, and from him I learnt about the great horses and racing personalities of his era. It would be a safe bet that I knew more about the lives of Frank Buckle, Jem Robinson and Sam Chifney than the average schoolchild; I certainly knew more about them than I knew about the William Pitts, Elder and Younger, and the Duke of Wellington.

Sure, I did know that the North American colonies declared their independence from Britain in 1776, but that was only because I had that date fixed in my mind as the inaugural year of the St Leger, the world’s oldest Classic race.

When I acquired the first three volumes of John

Fairfax-Blakeborough’s Northern Turf History, the third, which featured York and Doncaster and provided extensive material on all the St Legers up to 1950, was the one most eagerly devoured. Smart-arse kid that I was, I even wrote to the author, pointing out that he had given the wrong rider of Pewett, the winner of 1789. Gracious fellow that he was, FairfaxBlakeborough responded, admitting his error.

Fairfax-Blakeborough was in his 93rd year when he died on New Year’s Day 1976, having witnessed every St Leger between 1902 – when Sceptre became the only horse to win four Classics outright – and 1975. As the race was abandoned in 1939 on the outbreak of World War II, his score was 73, a tally perhaps matched only by Sir Tatton Sykes, the 4th baronet, who certainly watched more than 70, but for some reason missed the 1839 renewal, the occasion of the historic dead-heat and runoff involving Charles The Twelfth and Euclid.

He survived into his nineties and was on hand when the colt named after him scored in 1846.

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The Fairfax-Blakeborough and Sykes scores are under threat now from my esteemed colleague, Doncaster-born Howard Wright, who was the same age as the runners when he saw Black Tarquin win in 1948 and has been present at every St Leger since then. I look forward to seeing him on Town Moor this month, when he will be attending his 66th St Leger and my own relatively meagre tally reaches 51.

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In his Northern Turf History, Fairfax-Blakeborough said that none of the St Legers he had witnessed gave him the same thrill as the first. “The memory of that race and of Sceptre was lastingly photographed on my mind, and I somehow felt that I had attained the full heritage of a Yorkshireman, and that all my previous and limited experiences of racing at little local meetings was as nothing compared with the impressiveness, expanse, crowds, tenseness and wonders of Doncaster.”

I am no Yorkshireman, but I can readily relate to FairfaxBlakeborough’s sentiments. The 1963 St Leger was the first Classic I attended. I recall walking down Bennetthorpe among the mass of humanity emptying the town for the annual ritual enacted on Town Moor, realising that this was how it had been for close on two centuries; the past and present merged for the occasion, and I was experiencing nothing less than living history.

That is what our greatest racedays deliver, and I have never ceased to feel the connection with the ghosts of yesteryear when those occasions occur. What is taking place is taking place because it always has. These events matter because they have always mattered. At the same time, in the same place every year, they have mattered to umpteen generations of breeders, owners, trainers, jockeys and spectators. And when I raise my binoculars for what will be my 51st St Leger and 244th Classic, I shall feel conscious of being a witness to living history.

Like Fairfax-Blakeborough, I began my personal involvement with the St Leger in a top year. I did not arrive at Doncaster in the expectation of seeing a very competitive race, as there were only seven runners, and one, the Irish Derby and King George victor Ragusa, was at long oddson. What I wanted to see was a dominating performance, and that is just what I did see, Ragusa winning by six lengths to confirm that he was the best three-year-old in training in England or Ireland. Timeform rated him 137, one pound higher than Relko, who had beaten him at Epsom, and he was by some way the best horse I had seen in action up to that time.

On the journey home, when I had made up my mind that I would never willingly miss another St Leger, was I conscious that I would be lucky ever to see a better winner? I doubt it, but that turned out to be the case. Only two St Leger winners have since been Timeform-rated more highly – Nijinsky (138) in 1970 and Reference Point (139) in 1987. Both were also Derby winners and among the few Epsom heroes who were later to target the Doncaster Classic.

I saw Charlottown’s failure against Sodium in 1966, the mighty Shergar no nearer than fourth behind Cut Above in 1981, and Camelot’s vain bid to emulate Nijinsky as a Triple Crown victor last year. There will be no Derby winner at Doncaster in 2013, but in a season that has given us mixed messages over the three-year-old crop, we may well be able to celebrate a top-class performance in the most demanding race in the Classic canon. I can hardly wait.

“When I raise my

binoculars for my 244th Classic, I will feel conscious of witnessing history”

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RICHARD EDMONDSON COMMENT

Martin Dwyer’s treatment by the racing authorities in India is bad enough yet the real punishment is his ban being reciprocated globally

India takes away livelihood

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t used to be that India was a rather convivial place for British jockeys to spend the winter.

A warm welcome, warm weather, the prospect of a bit of pocket money to be earned and – if the old photographs are to be believed – the only downside being the compulsory wearing of budgie-smuggler swimming trunks at the poolside.

Now, though, it seems there are different reasons for the tears to come. India has become less of a working holiday haven for our little men, more a threat to their very livelihood.

First there was Richard Hughes, when the champion jockey was banned for 50 days for apparently failing to comply with a trainer’s instructions at Mumbai last year. Then we have the current case of Derby-winning jockey Martin Dwyer, who faces the prospect of eight months absent if a suspension incurred for an alleged ‘not off’ ride – also at the old Bombay – is upheld.

Such penalties could be laughed off and left behind on the runway if they pertained just to India. But the biggest democracy is a member of the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities and decisions there are apparently binding amongst fellow IFHA members, such as the British Horseracing Authority. Dwyer, in effect, faces a worldwide ban.

The BHA can hear appeals, but have a poor record in this department. Hughes’ punishment was rubber-stamped by them. The only leniency, according to archivists, came when Kevin Darley, hardly a Jack The Ripper of the saddle, had a suspension diluted several years ago. History shows they are not the rescue team Dwyer requires.

The jockey may have used up his Scouse humour in this matter already. An original ban came when his mount Ice Age, the favourite, swerved violently right across the track at Mahalaxmi racecourse, ultimately finishing a close third. The on-course crowd went bonkers and barricaded the jockeys’ room for three hours.

Dwyer was possibly guilty of employing his whip in the wrong hand, but it is hard to construct an argument that he deliberately threw the race. A careless or reckless riding judgement would have sufficed.

When the rider appealed this line – along with the revelation that his mount had bled –

The cap does not fit: Martin Dwyer’s eight-month disqualification is totally unjust

his penalty was perversely increased, apparently for his cheek in questioning the original decision. India is not a place where the privileged are used to having their sagacity challenged.

It does not augur well for Dwyer’s second Indian appeal or mercy from the BHA. Our rulers may well be given a choice between a mistaken body of powerful men from a similar background to them and an unfortunate jockey from Liverpool. Who will they choose?

The only way to go I met many old friends during my working time in India, not least a fellow athlete I first came across when he won the Predominate Stakes at Goodwood. Razeen was in a rather different setting for our reunion.

Gurgaon is a feeder city for Delhi and a monochrome place where water and hope are rather scarce until you reach the incongruously placed Usha Stud. Stepping onto its relatively verdant territory is rather like the moment when the Wizard of Oz switches from drab Kansas to multicoloured Munchkinland.

Dorothy in this case was the redoubtable Ameeta Mehra, the owner of the stud, who showed me to the paddock where the antique Razeen was pottering. By then he was one of the last-known Northern Dancers at work.

Not long afterwards Razeen died, but he did not go quietly. “Razeen’s great spirit left his body on 16th of February 2011,” his Usha obituary ran. “He lies here under the Kadam tree, while his spirit oversees the fortunes of Usha, and he lives on through his great daughters. He went like a hero, in the covering yard, with his working boots on... peacefully and painlessly at the age of 24.

“His face and eyes were calm and resplendent. He left only when he was sure that the future of Usha was secure in the hands of his successors China Visit and Multidimensional. Razeen is a legend... a horse with greatness who lived and died with dignity... he will be remembered as the greatest stallion in the history of Indian racing.”

If you have to go this seems to be the way to do it. This sort of fanfare and these sort of circumstances.

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Lord of the Ring First crop Lord Shanakill yearlings have arrived

Contact: John Osborne, SinĂŠad Hyland, Gary Swift or Helen Boyce.

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VIEW FROM IRELAND

By JESSICA LAMB OF THE RACING POST

Cooper poised to start making hay again Harvest Festival at Listowel is the target for ultra-talented 21-year-old’s comeback

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ryan Cooper is looking forward to belatedly starting his season this month after a summer off with a broken leg.

The former champion conditional enjoyed an unforgettable run last term, scoring Grade 1 wins at the Cheltenham and Grand National festivals on Our Conor, Special Tiara and First Lieutenant, but broke his left leg in a fall in May and has been sidelined since.

His aim was to return to the saddle for the Listowel Harvest Festival, a seven-day meeting in the middle of this month, and he remains on course for that. He said: “Everything’s going to plan. It has been very frustrating sitting at home watching races I could be riding in, but I have been able to spend time at home in Tralee, which I wouldn’t have been able to do otherwise, and it has been a big help to get back in the gym. I started physiotherapy in July. It was tough to start with but is going well now and as well as going to the gym I cycle almost every day and go swimming.

“The aim has always been to be back for Listowel. It’s a local meeting for me and the last big jumps meeting of the summer, so it seemed like a good target.”

The 21-year-old has struck up a formidable partnership with Tony Martin in the last 18 months, the pair teaming up for two Grade 1 wins with Benefficient, as well as a Cheltenham win with the same horse and with Ted Veale, who took the Vincent O’Brien County Hurdle.

Martin, once famous mainly for handicap plots, has been increasing the quality of his stock rapidly – Bog Warrior and Dedigout also provided him with Grade 1 wins for Gigginstown House Stud – and showed his worth in all spheres at the Galway festival with eight winners, in Flat handicaps, maiden hurdles, novice hurdles and handicap hurdles.

Cooper added: “What he did with Busted Tycoon at Galway, winning two handicaps and then a handicap hurdle in six days, was incredible. Ruby Walsh was so good on her the last day in the hurdle; he was at his very best.

“I was really pleased for her owner John Breslin. He’s a lovely man and I’ve ridden for him a lot. He’s straightforward and I have to say fair play to him and Tony. That last win at Galway was that filly’s sixth in a row.

“Ted Veale didn’t go well in the Galway Hurdle but I think the ground might have caught him out. Hopefully he can have another good season and I’ll be able to ride him again soon.”

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Apprentices have minimum The first compulsory minimum riding weights were set for apprentice riders last month and the effects are expected to have long-term significance for all jockeys.

Turf Club Chief Medical Officer, Dr Adrian McGoldrick, has been researching dehydration and bone density levels in Ireland’s jockeys for nine years and, having found severe dehydration to be dangerously common, he has employed dieticians and physical trainers to help jockeys combat the problem.

Sessions with these professionals and regular advice mailshots are not enough, though, and with McGoldrick’s new regime, young riders will be educated and looked after in a more structured way.

He said: “The majority I have spoken to have been adhering to what Gillian O’Loughlin [dietician] has said to them at their initial testing session and are on course to achieve their target weight by the

time the second session comes around.”

Every apprentice has taken a baseline test in a hydrated state in the morning, where hydration levels, body weight and fat were measured. They gained a target minimum weight based on minimum body fat levels of 6% for males and 12% for females, then received a full nutritional consultation, including a meal plan and exercise advice.

Six weeks later, at the end of August, they underwent the same tests twice in 24 hours. Their mean body weights for both weigh-ins was used to set the minimum riding weight that each jockey is permitted to ride at.

“What I found when we did our first piece of research was that our jockeys are chronically dehydrated – between 2-4% – even before the start of racing,” said McGoldrick.

“At that level you would normally see

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In 18 months Dermot Cumiskey has rejuvenated RTE Racing and begun promoting racing to a wider audience again.

Last summer was tough for every sporting event that was not the Olympics, yet Cumiskey’s four shows at Galway held their own and this year they excelled with over 30% more viewers on the star afternoons, Wednesday and Thursday.

This is off the back of a 30% increase on Irish 2,000 Guineas day, a 20% increase on Irish 1,000 Guineas day and an impressive Irish Derby evening.

Not only did peak viewing figures increase by 3,000 to 230,000 for that Classic but the programme held a 25% share of the television audience in Ireland at that time.

“Initially it was a brave switch for the Curragh to make the card an evening meeting and I have to congratulate them for doing so,” said Cumiskey. “It’s really working. If I’m honest I don’t know exactly why Galway’s figures were up so much. It competed well with the Olympics last year and I guess it’s mainly because the Galway Plate and Hurdle

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Galway boosts trend of healthy RTE figures Trading Leather’s Irish Derby victory this year was watched by 230,000 viewers

were such strong races.”

Cumiskey is a fan of feature races moving to later on cards to make them the end of his programmes as it gives him the longest build up possible.

He explained: “On Plate day, for example, we were interviewing the big-race jockeys throughout the show. They are very helpful and it’s better to have it this way so we’re not speaking to them too close to the race. I don’t want to do that. It’s not fair on them.”

That has always been a part of his programmes, but now he is working with the RTE team to improve the features too, aiming them at new viewers. Impressing new RTE racing viewers could lead to new racing fans, which dwindling attendances demand.

“When we’re doing features now we’re

looking for subjects that the broader RTE viewer will find interesting,” Cumiskey said.

“Like Paddy Courtney learning to be a bookmaker, which we broadcast for the Derby, and Tom Busteed [renowned producer of young jumpers], who was swimming his horse in the sea in Cork during his interview we showed during Galway.

“I also hope people appreciated Robert Hall’s tribute to [RTE broadcaster] Colm Murray during Galway. It was a difficult week for everyone after he died and I hope we did the right thing.

“It was a very poignant moment when the tribute was played on the big screens and a cheer rang out for him. I didn’t get to meet him but, from being at Galway, I can see that racing lost a true friend that week.”

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riding weight set after nine years of research

A study into dehydration and bone density levels will benefit all jockeys in Ireland

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effects at both a physical and cognitive function level. It was frightening then, but we did a pilot study five years later where we dehydrated a group of jockeys down to a level of 4% and we found no effect in cognitive function, although there was a slight reduction in physical function. This is because our jockeys have adjusted to constantly being dehydrated.

“There is still an issue there though and that comes back to jockeys having to make weight. That’s why this new minimum weight is so important.”

McGoldrick added: “This will be ongoing throughout their careers as apprentices, then they can appear every 30 days to have it lowered or increased.

We have been working towards this for some time and I’m pleased to hear that the UK are going to do it too using the same regulations.”

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start with, posting seven straight defeats, but once he got off the mark last September has run up a sequence of seven straight victories.

The sixth of these was his first stakes race, the Listed Polar Mile Cup, and though he passed the post half a length behind Avon Pearl he was repeatedly hampered by that rival and the placings were reversed.

Then came the Polar Cup and a drop down in trip to less than seven furlongs.

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orway’s tiny thoroughbred breeding industry received a big shot in the arm when Ragazzo took the Group 3 Polar Cup, one of the country’s three Pattern races, at Ovrevoll on August 1.

Norway has an annual foal crop of around 40 and most are, like Ragazzo, progeny of the Danehill stallion Academy Award. Ragazzo was not bred to be anything special; his dam, Private Property, fetched 5,000gns at Tattersalls in 1997 and, having scored on her debut in Stockholm, failed to win thereafter.

In contrast to his mother, Ragazzo found getting his head in front very difficult to

The only locally-bred member of a seven-strong field, Ragazzo was not expected to cope with Scandinavia’s top sprinter, Giant Sandman, a previous winner of the contest. But he dug deep to hold that rival and prompt wild celebrations, mainly on behalf of trainer Annike Bye Hansen, who was notching the biggest success of her career.

Hansen has held a licence for 20 years but only recently relocated to the Ovrevoll barn that until his retirement at the end of last season was home to Arnfinn Lund, one of Norwegian racing’s legends.

Ragazzo thus became the first locally-bred winner of the Polar Cup since it was awarded Pattern status in 2001. He is also the first Norwegian-bred Group winner since Funny Legend, who retired in 2007 and is now making a pretty good fist of her second career – so far she has produced Funinthesand, runner-up in the 2012 Swedish Derby, and Rock The Legend, second in this year’s Danish Derby.

Norwegian racing as a whole is basking in a golden summer. There was no rain during the whole of July and, thanks to a new agreement that has seen all Norwegian races televised live in Sweden and Denmark, betting turnover is up by almost 30%.

Espen Ski and Ragazzo record a home victory in the Polar Cup at Ovrevoll

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Kendargent and Osarus are on the rise

The recent Listed race success of the two-year-old filly Kenzadargent at Vichy was not only another boost for her outstanding young sire Kendargent, but further proof of the progress being made by the sales company Osarus, which has yet to complete its fifth year of trading.

Kenzadargent was acquired at the fourth annual Osarus Yearling Sale at La Teste racecourse, near Bordeaux, last September and cost €8,000. She was purchased by bloodstock agent Bertrand Le Metayer, who then put together a small syndicate and placed her in training with Marseille handler Jean-Marc Capitte, in the hope she would prove precocious and take advantage of the decent prize-money on offer in early-season

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French juvenile races.

“Horses bred in the south-west tend to come to hand quicker than those bred further north and, though her two older siblings had done nothing, she is by an exceptional stallion,” Le Metayer explained.

She certainly did come to hand early, making her debut on April 2 and running another five times over the next three and a half months. She failed to win during that period but, thanks to careful race selection from Capitte, managed to pick up €18,200 in place prize-money without going anywhere near one of the prestigious Parisian courses where racing is that much more competitive.

And, once you factor in French owners’ premiums, which add an additional 64% to any money won, her career bankroll was

already almost €30,000.

Not content with turning such a quick profit, Le Metayer then concocted a plan to change riding tactics and have her come from behind rather than race prominently. This allowed her to overturn form with Marie d’O, who had beaten her twice previously, and land the Listed Prix des Jouvenceaux et des Jouvencelles by a tidy length on July 27.

Now, just ten and a half months on from her sales ring appearance, Kenzadargent’s prizemoney haul was a good lunch short of €75,000 and she was a valuable black type-winning broodmare prospect to boot!

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Here’s a quick multiple choice question for you: who is the world’s top Group 1 trainer? A. Andre Fabre; B. Bart Cummings; C. Aidan O’Brien; D. Miltcho Mintchev The correct answer? It’s Miltcho Mintchev.

No, this is not a matter of some obscure Eastern European hoovering up pseudo Group 1 contests, granted such status by a globally insignificant local racing authority.

Mintchev may be Bulgarian but the races involved are accepted around the world as holding Group 1 standing and they all attracted top-class competition from around Europe.

The catch is that the question presumes that ‘top Group 1 race trainer’ means the trainer with the highest percentage of Group 1 horses in his yard. Mintchev, 47, has 14 horses under his care at Cologne racecourse and, after the success of Penelopa in the Preis der Diana (German Oaks) on August 4, three of them have won or been placed in Group 1 races.

His other two top-level performers are Temida, who won the Group 1 RheinlandPokal at Munich last August, and Baschar, who a month earlier had finished third to Meandre in the Group 1 Grosser Preis von Berlin at Hoppegarten.

Mintchev began his career as a professional showjumper and member of the Bulgarian national team, before becoming racing manager and then, in 2010, private trainer to Grisha Ganchev, one of Bulgaria’s richest businessmen who trades under the banner

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Trainer Miltcho Mintchev leads in Penelopa and Eduardo Pedroza after Oaks win

the clearly highly capable Mintchev it may not be long before he is making an impact in some of our top races – both Temida and Penelopa are entered in the QIPCO British Champions Fillies’ And Mares’ Stakes at Ascot in October.

Ganchev has already dipped his toe in the water, his distinctive ‘orange with white ‘L’ silks’ being carried into fifth place in the 2008 Falmouth Stakes by the Peter Schiergentrained German 1,000 Guineas winner Briseida. A year later he had a two-year-old, Astarta, in training with Paul Cole, but she cut little ice in three maidens before joining Mintchev.

‘Litex Commerce’.

Despite his riches, Ganchev did not shell out big money to acquire his top horses. With the help of bloodstock agent Anthony Penfold, he bought Baschar, a British-bred son of Starcraft, for 30,000gns, while Temida, an Irish-bred Oratorio filly, cost less than half that amount.

Penelopa, by contrast, is a homebred, by Giant’s Causeway out of Lady Linda, one of 17 mares that Ganchev keeps at his 140-acre Britton House Stud near Crewkerne in Somerset.

So Ganchev has already made his mark in Britain, breeding-wise. And, with the help of

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then onto his current base at Calas, between Marseille and Aix-en-Provence, six years later.

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fashionable trainers, he has always done well with the ammunition at his disposal and, thanks to Starine and Gris de Gris, has won

Grade/Group 2 contests on either side of the Atlantic.

Kenzadargent’s exploits are another feather in the cap of Osarus. Founded in 2008, the sales house hosts just three auctions per year, at the provincial racecourses of La Teste, Pornichet and Le Lion d’Angers.

All horses offered are eligible for French premiums and, after last September’s Yearling Sale produced an amazing clearance rate of more than 90%, this year’s corresponding event will for the first time stretch over two days – September 12 and 13.

Buyers should be aware that this auction is not only about unearthing speedy two-yearolds. Gemix, who cost €13,500 in 2009, has gone on to become France’s top hurdler who in June lowered the colours of Solwhit in the Grande Course de Haies d’Auteuil, while Les Beaufs, who fetched just €3,500 in 2010, landed the Group 1 Prix Royal-Oak two years later and is one of the nation’s top Flat stayers.

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AROUND THE GLOBE THE WORLDWIDE RACING SCENE

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by Steve Andersen

Ramseys’ joy from Kitten’s offspring

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On July 13 alone, Kitten’s Joy had progeny earnings of $472,622 throughout the United States. The Ramseys had 17 runners at four tracks – Arlington Park, Colonial Downs, Canterbury Park and Hollywood Park – and won three stakes events.

Kitten’s Joy, a son of El Prado who stands for $50,000 at the 1,400-acre Ramsey Farm in Nicholasville, was one of the busiest stallions in 2012, according to Jockey Club statistics. He was bred to 213 mares that year, third only to Cape Blanco (220) and Scat Daddy (217).

“He got a good book of mares this year and last year,” Ramsey said. “We think we have a world-class stallion.”

Ramsey and his wife, Sarah, have been honoured twice with Eclipse Awards as outstanding owners – in 2004 and 2011.

They won the 2005 Dubai World Cup with Roses In May, now at stud in Japan. In the future, Ken Ramsey said he would like to race more on a global basis.

“I’m only 77,” he said. “I think my best memories are in front of me. I haven’t won the Derby yet, the Arc yet or the Melbourne Cup. I’ll definitely bring something to Royal Ascot next year. I’ve got to get all that done before the fat lady sings.”

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ind an American horse with the word Kitten in its name and chances are its rider is wearing the red and white silks of Ken and Sarah Ramsey. There is a pretty good shot that horse has won this year at a major track in the United States.

The Ramseys, of Nicholasville, Kentucky, have had a prominent role in American racing for nearly two decades, but a gamble Ken Ramsey made on the 2004 champion turf male, Kitten’s Joy, has taken his stable to a level of national prominence this year.

Ken Ramsey, 77, heavily supported Kitten’s Joy when he entered stud, acquiring more than 30 broodmare prospects, many off the track, to support the young sire. “I literally bet the farm on the horse!” he recalled.

The programme has worked spectacularly.

Up to August 19, the Ramseys led all owners in the United States in earnings, and stakes earnings, with the potential to stay on the top of that list until the end of the year. The Ramsey string had overall earnings of $7,789,012.

The stable, operating primarily in Kentucky and on the East Coast, enjoyed a sensational day on August 17 with three Grade 1 successes at Saratoga and Arlington, courtesy of Big Blue Kitten (Sword Dancer Invitational Stakes), Admiral Kitten (Secretariat Stakes) and Real Solution (Arlington Million). They are all by Kitten’s Joy. “I’m delighted where we stand,” Ramsey said. “I’ve got a whole slew of stakes horses.”

At the Keeneland spring meeting in April,

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Ken Ramsey won the Dubai World Cup with Roses In May (top) in 2005

the Ramseys won a record 25 races, more than double the previous mark of 12 wins for the 16-day season.

This year, the Ramseys have approximately 110 horses racing, with trainers such as Chad Brown, Wayne Catalano, Mike Maker, Todd Pletcher, Tom Voss and Wesley Ward.

Dermot Weld has runners for the Ramseys in Ireland and Lucky Kitten scored at the Galway festival on July 31. That success was achieved on soft ground, while the trio of American Grade 1s in August were achieved on firm turf. Another top-level winner for the Ramsey stable this year, Just A Game Stakes heroine Stephanie’s Kitten, had previously landed a Grade 1 on Polytrack.

Those wins have helped Kitten’s Joy reach a prominent role on the American general sire list. Until August 19, Kitten’s Joy had 2013 progeny earnings of $7.5 million, making him the number one stallion on the continent, ahead of Speightstown.

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Khumalo carves slice of history On a day that saw 67 seconds of silence in support of the ailing Nelson Mandela it seemed fitting that S’manga Khumalo was the first black rider ever to win the Durban July.

In addition to landing the spoils in the big race on Heavy Metal, he also guided home For The Lads to victory in the Golden Slipper, bringing up a Grade 1 double for trainer Sean Tarry and owner Chris van Niekerk, who also teamed up on a memorable day to win the Grade 2 Gold Vase with Kolkata. For owner and trainer, it was a case of back-to-back wins in the Durban July, after Pomodoro, who this time finished a

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AUST R A L I A

by Danny Power

The news that Americain’s first-season book at Swettenham Stud is nearly full (130 or so) should bring a smile to the faces of racing fans and breeders hoping for a change in direction in Australia, albeit slight, from speed to stamina.

That is proof Australian breeders will support what they know and understand.

An example of the opposite reaction is Arrowfield Stud’s Gio Ponti (Tale Of The Cat), a better, more versatile horse than Americain.

Despite winning seven Grade 1s, three Eclipse awards and twice being named US Champion Turf Horse, Gio Ponti attracted only 53 mares in his first season at the famous Scone Stud.

Australians saw a lot of Americain. We saw him at his best when he won the Melbourne Cup in 2010 – the first French-trained horse to do so – and saw him a lot in subsequent visits.

Any fears Swettenham’s Adam Sangster may have had about standing a Melbourne Cup winner in a speed-happy environment were dispelled when the Nagambie farm’s phone began to ring off the hook and its email inbox was chock-full.

Such is the changing nature of the Melbourne Cup. It’s no longer won by the plodding gelding and occasional mare. Handsome, internationally acclaimed horses are winning it, and we are turning back the clock more than half a century when the Cup was still a source of providing

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Americain: support from breeders

Australia’s breeding industry with a good stallion or two.

The past five winners – Viewed, Shocking, Americain, Dunaden and Green Moon – are stallions, which is the first time this has happened since 1949 to 1953, when the great race was won by Foxzami, Comic Court, Delta, Dalray and Wodalla. Those stallions made a mark by siring stakes winners from leading commercial farms, except for Delta, who died in 1960 at Widden Stud without a feature winner to his name.

The Melbourne Cup has a long history of producing successful stallions, although this was in the first 100 years of the race, before the

advent of the most influential stallion Star Kingdom and the Golden Slipper (first run in 1957) sent us on a path of speed.

Apart from those mentioned, some of the most successful Cup-winning stallions include the internationally influential Carbine, the 1890 winner. He has his name etched into history and modern pedigrees through his grand-daughter Catnip, granddam of Nearco.

Of the most recent five stallion prospects to win the Cup, only the very moderately bred Dunaden (2011), with a pedigree awash with French steeplechasers, won’t find a place on a commercial roster, while Viewed died on the eve of covering his first book of mares.

The 2009 Melbourne Cup winner Shocking has had an immediate impact at stud. The son of Street Cry and the Danehill mare Maria Di Castiglia found the perfect place for a staying stallion, a commercial stud in New Zealand, where he has covered big books of mares.

Last year’s winner Green Moon, a smallish but well made son of the late champion sire Montjeu, is certain to have some appeal as a stallion in Australia or New Zealand. Montjeu,

by Sadler’s Wells, is doing well as a sire of sires through sons such as Motivator, Hurricane Run and Authorized. In New Zealand, his sons Nom Du Jeu and Tavistock have covered good early books and will have runners next season.

distant 13th of 20 behind Heavy Metal. He was bred at Bosworth Stud by Neil and Lyth Orford and is by Silvano, who overtook the late, great Jet Master at the head of the sires’ table.

The winner of Africa’s biggest race is now in quarantine at Kenilworth in Cape Town and will head for Dubai and lucrative pots elsewhere. South African fans will hope Heavy Metal, like Shea Shea, Jay Peg and Victory Moon, will carry the SAF suffix successfully.

Unusually heavy rain in the week before the Vodacom Durban July forced the organisers to shorten the card. Damage to the track by vehicles preparing hospitality venues impacted upon the Gold Vase, when the distance was reduced from 3,000m to 2,400m (1m4f). But by raceday the clouds had disappeared and the going was good. By the time the field for the main race went down to the start the crowd

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had been entertained by excellent racing.

Forest Indigo won the Grade 1 Golden Horseshoe and For The Lads beat Along Came Polly to bag the Golden Slipper.

Both Forest Indigo and Along Came Polly are exciting juveniles by Judpot, an emerging force in the stallion ranks. Though unraced during his time with Sir Henry Cecil, the eightyear-old has an impeccable pedigree, being by AP Indy and the last foal of the great Miesque.

Kolkata’s victory in the Gold Vase not only completed a hat-trick of fine wins for van Niekerk but ensured the trainers’ title went to the wire. Tarry just lost out to Mike de Kock.

The sires’ title was a different story, with Silvano way ahead of Jet Master after a stellar season that saw him get the winners of the Grade 1 J&B Met, Durban July, Woolavington 2000 and Alan Robertson Championship.

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by Nicola Hayward

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THE BIG INTERVIEW BRIAN KAVANAGH

Brian Kavanagh: steering an industry through difficult times, but with hopefully calmer waters ahead

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BRIAN As Chief Executive of Horse Racing Ireland and Chairman of the European Pattern Committee, Brian Kavanagh is at the centre of the sport’s hot topics, yet he remains unruffled by recent controversies and positive about Irish racing’s future Words Julian Muscat

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ny skin-deep comparison of racing in Britain and Ireland would suggest they run along parallel lines. The reality is somewhat different. In terms of funding, race planning, market drivers and government involvement, the two industries are chalk and cheese.

They do, however, share one thing in common. The global economic meltdown has sharply eroded fat deposits that accumulated in better times.

For Ireland, the Celtic Tiger was a hallucinogenic mirage. Years of overseas investment and rapidly escalating property prices brought a sense of financial impregnability.

The windfalls affected everyone, from highrolling traders to small farmers who sold land tracts for small fortunes.

And in the inimitable Irish way, a popular source of spend with this new-found wealth was to buy a racehorse.

“Four or five years ago we had a situation where everybody wanted to have a horse, or a leg of a horse,” says Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) Chief Executive Brian Kavanagh.

“The number of horses in training and the annual foal crop were unsustainable,” Kavanagh continues. “They have come down significantly since then. I’m sure people in Britain appreciate that the Irish economy has been really terrible.

That has had a knock-on effect and there has been a massive readjustment.”

That much is true of Britain, although the adjustment has been less pronounced. But there are signs that the Irish racing and breeding industry has turned the corner.

HRI’s half-year publication of trends in July saw most sectors post improved figures on the corresponding period in 2012. Crucially, the number of horses in training showed no appreciable fall. The foal crop showed a similar trend, while prize-money and race sponsorship recorded mild advances.

“There have been gains in many respects,” Kavanagh says, “but it is too early to call it a recovery.”

Kavanagh’s guarded tone within a positive overall picture is amplified by the most important litmus of any recovery. The number of new owners in Ireland remains on a resolutely downward spiral: registrations fell by 11% in the first half of 2013.

“Finding new owners is a major challenge,” Kavanagh concedes. “In March we appointed an executive within Irish Thoroughbred Marketing (ITM) to specifically target new owners.

“Against that, the number of active owners has stabilised somewhat, and because the number of horses in training is also stable it tells us that existing owners, the bigger operations,

“There have been

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have more horses. We are seeing that in the National Hunt sector.”

The stabilisation in Ireland has been driven by the combination of an unyielding commitment to attractive prize-money and high-profile exports. The two concepts are intertwined: a rewarding and selective race programme makes the winner of any race a saleable commodity at a time when Irish-bred horses are thriving on the international scene.

Yet the process has been abetted by a government receptive to the cause. While Irish racing’s annual government contribution has receded over the last five years, ministers recognise the sport’s importance – in particular the breeding industry – to rural employment.

“One of the key differences between Britain and Ireland is that we very much promote our sector in that way,” Kavanagh says.

“It’s easier to do that in a small country such as ours. Despite other recent developments in IT and pharmaceuticals, Ireland is still largely agriculture-based. Politicians are more in tune with it. It would be very difficult to get that message across in Britain.”

To emphasise his point, Kavanagh highlights the size of each country’s annual foal crop relative to their human populations. “If you wanted to establish the same ratio of foals-tobabies in Britain that are born in Ireland, the British foal crop would have to number 50,000,” he says. Last year’s British foal crop numbered 4,366.

Although prize-money in Ireland has suffered during the recession, it is a relative thing. The minimum value of any race is fixed at €7,000, although the majority of races on the lowest rung carry purses of €8,000.

Even though its 2013 budget was cut by €1.5 million, prize-money levels were ring-fenced.

And HRI is determined to raise minimum race values to €10,000.

This puts prize-money for Britain’s glut of allweather races to shame. Part of the reason is that Ireland keeps a firm grip on the number of fixtures. It can afford to, since prize-money is no hostage to betting turnover, as it is in Britain.

There is a formula by which the Irish government’s annual contribution to racing is calculated. Even when government revenues from racing leave a shortfall, the amount is topped up from central government funds – as has happened during the recession.

“It’s not something we ever wanted to see, or

Seven up: Green Moon leads home an Irish-bred septet in the 2012 Melbourne Cup –

something you can really justify when there are cutbacks in schools and hospitals,” Kavanagh admits.

The idea that a British government would ever help racing in this way is a non-starter. Yet this annual contribution enables HRI to plan in advance with a budget unaffected by levy yield from betting turnover.

Irish racing received €47m from government this year. That contribution is one of two

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Fall in number of new owner registrations in first half of 2013 Minimum value for any race No entries accepted for horses rated below this level (Flat) Government contribution to the racing industry this year Of all races, those which carry black-type status

principal sources of funding, the other being the sale of media rights. Those rights were worth around €25m in 2013 but it is safe to assume the imminent signing of a new deal with At The Races will see that figure rise.

Irish racing also stands to gain from the government’s determination to capture betting tax, at 1%, from offshore bookmakers. The Betting Amendment Act was published in July and is scheduled to come into force in the autumn.

This will advance the government’s betting tax revenues from €26m to €40m, in the process ensuring that HRI can operate effectively. It can do so entirely in the sport’s best interests.

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a huge fillip for the country’s breeders

encourage owners to discard such horses in favour of reinvesting in new ones – with positive knock-on effects for the bloodstock sector.

Indeed, the emphasis on quality is so pronounced that 10% of all races run in Ireland carry prestigious black type.

“We police those black-type races rigidly by enforcing quality control on the ratings of the races,” Kavanagh says. “These races reflect the quality of our breeding sector, which in turn creates demand for Irish-bred horses around the world.”

This is a world away from a British model forever gravitating towards maximising betting turnover. Such a model could never work in Ireland. Or at least, the racing industry would be a very different animal had it been financed by a turnover-based levy.

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The creation of Irish Champions Weekend has affronted both Doncaster racecourse and Ladbrokes, sponsor of the St Leger, highlight of the four-day festival which will clash with Ireland’s new initiative.

The two-day meeting, scheduled for September 13-14 next year at Leopardstown and the Curragh respectively, will host at least ten Group races – five of them Group 1 – as Ireland becomes the third European country to establish an end-of-term championship.

“Irish Champions Weekend has been in the planning for about two years,” says Brian Kavanagh, who also chairs the European Pattern Committee (EPC). “The mid-September slot was vital [to us] as it fits perfectly with the Arc and British Champions’ Day. “It was also logical because the five Group 1 races [Moyglare Stakes, National Stakes, Matron Stakes, Irish Champion Stakes and Irish St Leger] have all been run in the first two weeks in September in recent years.”

Ireland’s initiative shuts the door on Champions’ Day in Britain ever relocating to a mid-September slot. It is now locked into a mid-October date, although the EPC had received no British application for a change of date since Champions’ Day’s inception three years ago.

“The focus [of Britain’s presentations to the EPC] has been on getting its Champions’ Day races upgraded,” Kavanagh says. “Changing the date would be extremely problematic from a Pattern point of view.”

However, Kavanagh defended Ireland’s initiative, saying: “Doncaster has always clashed with either the Irish St Leger meeting or the Irish Champion Stakes meeting for each of the last 22 years. No new Pattern race clashes are created by

of the number of betting shops in Britain, yet we have a breeding industry twice as big.”

That latter detail underlines just how reliant Ireland is on exporting bloodstock, together with attracting overseas investors to participate on her soil. Bloodstock output far exceeds domestic demand – all the more so for its collective value, thanks to the quality of its leading stallions.

Britain is Ireland’s principal export market, so any development is closely monitored.

“At times, Irish breeders and vendors are

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this move, certainly not at Group 1 or Group 2 level.

“In fact, the European Pattern would be improved by moving the Irish Champion a week later, and therefore, a week further away from the Juddmonte International at York.”

Nor was he surprised that Britain’s representative on the EPC approved the Irish weekend within a unanimous endorsement from member countries.

“The overall impact on the European Patten is positive,” Kavanagh maintains.

“Looking at the big picture, this opens up wonderful possibilities for end-ofseason championships and Triple Crowns in each of the major categories. Some details concerning the races have yet to be finalised but the changes are generally positive.”

One welcome development for owners who may have runners at both venues on September 13 next year is that the Leopardstown card is likely to start some time after Doncaster’s earlier kick-off.

Whether that is sufficient for the Doncaster/Ladbrokes axis to continue with the St Leger on that day remains to be seen.

more concerned with what’s happening with British racing and issues like prize-money than what’s happening in Ireland,” Kavanagh says.

“In that respect the two spheres are very closely integrated,” he continues. “We obviously want to see British racing doing well and there are positive signs coming out. That is hugely important to us because we want British buyers to come here and buy horses.”

That last sentiment applies to owners everywhere. And the strength of Ireland’s product abounds. Ireland had its most

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14 winners. It matched its best-ever showing at Royal Ascot with eight winners. And further afield, Irish-bred horses filled the first seven places in the November renewal of the Melbourne Cup. Such deeds are hard currency for HRI’s marketing arm, Irish Thoroughbred Marketing (ITM), whose funding has been cut and whose activities occasionally draw criticism from some of Ireland’s racing professionals. Kavanagh defends the outfit robustly.

“I don’t accept the criticisms,” he says. “I would like to spend more money through ITM because its success is judged on the number of Irish horses sold abroad, the number of overseas buyers coming here to buy horses, the number of people coming over to buy stud farms and the horses they keep in training here.”

Kavanagh’s polished rebuttal amplifies his skills as a communicator, an individual renowned for listening more than he talks, and one who can dance in between delicate lines without taking a false step.

Prize-money at Dundalk is as good as for turf fixtures, in contrast to Britain

One of the fundamental differences between Britain and Ireland is inherent in the way both countries have developed their allweather racing programmes. Whereas Ireland’s is fully integrated, its British counterpart is still seen as turf racing’s impoverished relation.

Britain stages around 500 all-weather fixtures annually, the vast majority of them betting fodder with derisory prize-money levels. The opposite is true of Ireland, where all fixtures are subject to strict quality controls.

That policy puts a natural constraint on the volume of all-weather racing at Dundalk, Ireland’s sole synthetic facility. Fixtures were pegged at 34 this year from an original allocation of 25 in 2007, although an industry-led clamour for more was supported, needless to say, by the off-course betting industry.

“At the time it was an Irish joke,” Kavanagh reflects. “Ireland was the only country with an all-weather track that doesn’t race in winter.” However, the emphasis on healthy prize-money prompted HRI to reject Dundalk’s initial proposals for increased fixtures.

“They came to us with a funding proposal which would ultimately have resulted in us being able to run fixtures with maximum prize-money of €2,500 per race,” Kavanagh says. “We rejected that and we got slated for

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it. But we held out.

“Eventually a deal was done that enabled us to run winter fixtures at Dundalk at the same prize-money levels as other fixtures.

Any maiden at Dundalk is worth the same as one at Gowran Park or Navan. The shortfall was achieved by [increased] contributions from the betting industry and the racecourse.”

All-weather fixtures have not been governed by similar caveats in Britain, where betting turnover is paramount. Only when you consider what has been achieved on the all-weather front in Ireland do you fully appreciate how hamstrung Britain is by its betting-related financial model.

“In Britain there is scope for racecourse to ‘dumb down’ because they own the fixtures,” Kavanagh says. “Prize-money is an expense for racecourses, many of which have shareholders who demand a commercial return.

“Racecourses in Ireland don’t own fixtures, as they do in the UK. Irish racecourses race when we allocate them fixtures, and we also allocate the race programme as well.

“That’s why we can put on races which we know will attract only three or four runners.

We are not directly linked to a betting industry that will moan about the lack of turnover. We can do it simply to fulfil a need among trainers for that type of race.”

“I would like to

spend more money through ITM due to its success; I don’t accept the criticisms” Formerly general manager at the Curragh, the man from a non-racing background advanced to Chief Executive of the Turf Club and subsequently Chief Executive of HRI, which took over many a Turf Club remit on its inception in 2001. The transition marked a difficult time for many within Ireland’s closelyknit racing community, yet Kavanagh managed it smoothly.

Although he makes a plausible case for Ballydoyle’s exceptionally high standards acting as a spur to competitors in raising the bar, it will be interesting to see whether new owners in the post-Celtic Tiger era view that as a deterrent and gravitate towards jumping.

Whatever comes to pass, the Irish racing industry has taken its diverse interests and largely unified them within the HRI boardroom.

Board members recognise the importance of putting Irish racing’s collective interests ahead of the insignias on their hats – and within a small industry, some are obliged to wear two or three of those.

It is no mean feat to run a sport in which the world’s most potent racing and breeding empire engages alongside the 50-strong pub syndicate.

Racing in Ireland is many things to many people, but it certainly punches its weight.

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JIM GOLDIE

Going for

GOLD Scotland’s leading trainer for many a year, Jim Goldie is aiming his homebred Jack Dexter and Hawkeyethenoo at the country’s biggest sprint prize, the Ayr Gold Cup

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ou are Scotland’s leading Flat trainer. Do you have further ambitions? Will you be targeting more and more big races in the south?

Obviously we have ambitions to train nice horses and keep winning. We always plan to go wherever possible and accept that the top races are in the south. If we have a horse capable of competing at the highest level we will travel as far as we need to.

I go to the sales, where most of my horses are sourced, but Jeremy Brummitt, the bloodstock agent, does quite a lot of buying for me. Otherwise, we rely on keeping the flag flying and people sending us horses based on

how well we are doing. I have a reputation as a ‘retread specialist’, taking over horses from other yards; Hawkeyethenoo is a classic example, as are Nanton and La Vecchia Scuola.

How much of a disadvantage is it being so far north? Or are you in your own little kingdom?

I’ve always trained up here and I’ve never seen it as a disadvantage; we just make plans and carry them out accordingly. I have been leading trainer in Scotland for a while now and I suppose we do enjoy being king of our own little patch. It is good to have competition and Keith Dalgleish is chasing us up, keeping us on

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our toes and doing very well. The competition is good for Scottish racing and we are managing to hang on to top spot. Before Keith it was Ian Semple and Linda Perratt, and don’t forget Lucinda Russell, who is taking on the best with considerable success over jumps.

How did your interest in racing start and was it always the plan to set up a successful stable?

I was born into a horsey family and had the bug big-time from an early age. My dad hunted, point-to-pointed, bred horses and had a permit. He managed to buy Attractive, a halfbrother to Vaguely Noble before Vaguely Noble happened. Dad purchased Attractive as a hunter improvement society stallion; he was by Acropolis and bred by Major Lionel Holliday.

When Vaguely Noble won the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe Mum and Dad were guests at Longchamp. I was about 11 or 12 at the time and nowadays if I see Vaguely Noble in a pedigree I always sit up and take notice.

I bought the 100 acres that is Libo Hill Farm 20 years ago; we built the house and stables ourselves. I told the Department of Agriculture it was going to be a farm, but I always had an eye on being a trainer. Now we have stables for 65 horses.

What were you doing before your involvement in the sport?

I was a farm manager and trained under my dad’s permit. To supplement my expensive hobby I used to put up garden fencing in and around Glasgow in evenings and at weekends.

How far is your Libo Hill Farm base from Glasgow, and what are the advantages of being close to the busiest city in Scotland?

We are 20 minutes drive from the city centre and probably 15 minutes from Glasgow airport. Ayr racecourse is about 40 minutes away. We have owners from all over the world, Jersey, Hong Kong, London, but I suppose it must be an advantage being close to Glasgow, making us easily accessible to a large population, though Dundee is quite a hotbed of owners for us.

Did Hawkeyethenoo’s victory in last year’s Stewards’ Cup raise your profile enough to attract more owners?

To me it was just another handicap we had targeted and it was only afterwards that I realised the amount of prestige that went with the Stewards’ Cup. I don’t think it really attracted any new owners, even though it’s the biggest race we had won, but of course it kept us in the public eye, which is very important.

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How many horses do you train, and how many would you like to train?

I’m not planning to build any more stables and I’m happy with our current number of about 60. The knack is getting rid of the dross and acquiring a better class of horse. When Hawkeyethenoo came here he was rated 54 so in most stables he would have been considered dross in those days!

What is the most important part of training?

Know your horses and what they need. My dad packed up when I was 14 and I have never worked for a trainer, so I have picked up ideas and knowledge as I’ve gone along. I reckon I am very good at hoovering folk and picking their brains! It’s also a case of knowing your gallops and how to use them. There is no great secret about training. Of course it’s important to have your horses 100% fit and at their peak mentally if they are to do their best on a given day. The two go hand in hand. Horses don’t know they’re athletes and you must keep the training regime as a game to them, make it fun and keep them fresh so they give you 100%.

I was a great admirer of David Chapman, who took this style of training to a new level with so many successful sprinters. All our horses are fed six times a day. We trickle feed, little and often, starting at six in the morning and their last feed is ten at night. With this routine we try and control ailments like stomach ulcers using management techniques, rather than chemicals.

You bred Jack Dexter, one of the most successful horses you have trained. You also trained his sire Orientor and dam Glenhurich.

Has it helped being familiar with the quirks of Jack Dexter’s family? What did you learn from his parents?

He is very like his dad, who always knew he was special. And Jack Dexter certainly has a high opinion of himself and likes to show off. Orientor came pretty close to being a Group 1 winner. He was an entire, a bit of a jack the lad and very strong. So we had Jack Dexter gelded as we’re more interested in racehorses than stallions and he has done us proud.

Having nurtured him from day one, his achievements must give you enormous satisfaction? Is he your favourite horse?

Jack Dexter has given us tremendous pleasure.

He was named after my two grandsons, Jack and Dexter. They have great fun watching him and he is a very special horse. He is not big physically but is very well balanced, while he is not a lover of fast ground but still managed fourth in the King’s Stand. I don’t think we’ve

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“When Graham Lee did 8st 7lb for me on Jack Dexter he cut half the grass in Yorkshire to do it”

seen the best of him yet and he could be a horse for the autumn. Of course he has got to be one of my favourites.

Graham Lee, one of racing’s modern day revelations, is virtually your stable jockey. Have you been surprised by his smooth transition from top jump jockey to one of the leading riders on the Flat?

Not surprised at all because I have always thought Graham was one of the best jump jockeys. I used him when I could and he always gave you 100%, and the horse every chance.

We built up a good relationship over the years and I was always aware that he would be able to do the weight on the Flat. I even used to kid him on, telling him he ought to get a Flat licence. You see, whenever he got injured the weight would fall off him because when he was

riding all the training he did involved building and bulking muscle. He has always been the right size for the Flat and I think I planted the seed a bit with him when he asked his personal trainer if he could get the necessary weight off.

Graham is one of the most dedicated sportsmen I have come across, very, very focused. He will be fitter than any other jockey.

When he did 8st 7lb for me on Jack Dexter he cut half the grass in Yorkshire to do it. He mowed and mowed lawns and ran and ran to sweat the pounds off. He made a vow when he started on the Flat that he wouldn’t go in a sauna, and I don’t think he has. Above all, he is a horseman and believes in himself. His first winner on the Flat was Northern Fling for me and then he completed a quick double for us on Staff Sergeant at Musselburgh.

Alex Salmond, leader of the Scottish National Party and a big racing fan, has written racing and tipping columns in the Glasgow Herald. Has he visited your stables and has he ever been involved in any horses with you?

He has threatened to come and see us here, but frankly he wouldn’t win many votes by owning horses, would he? It is well known that he is a racing enthusiast and I have met him a few times at the races. Funnily enough, he came down with me to saddle Hawkeyethenoo before the Ayr Gold Cup, but I reckon that was just for a photo opportunity.

Has Salmond’s interest in racing helped to stimulate the sport north of the border?

The Scottish Nationalists put a stop to an allweather track at Musselburgh, so

Jack Dexter, named after his grandsons, has done Goldie proud by winning Group races and valuable handicaps

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JIM GOLDIE done amazingly to be champion conditional jockey from her home base, where her two principal stables were her dad Nicky Alexander’s and mine. I wouldn’t like to say if she should move south or not, it would be difficult for her if she is intending to compete at the top table.

Do you target the Ayr Western meeting with as many runners as possible, and is it a massive occasion for you and your owners?

Our strike-rate at Ayr drops at the Western meeting because it is so competitive. Quite often I am leading trainer at Ayr until Richard Fahey comes up in September and puts me in my place. We do target the meeting and my owners enjoy the craic, but it is more of a social occasion because the winners are so hard to come by.

Jim Goldie with Graham Lee, whom he always believed could become a Flat jockey

I’d have to say no. Salmond would probably like to be seen as a friend of Scottish racing but in politics, when there are votes to be had, they swim with the vote-winning tide.

Politicians don’t seem to realise what a big employer racing is. They don’t seem to see racing as a vote winner. In fact, Nicky Fairbairn, MP for Perth and Kinross, described people who gambled and frequented betting shops as “the dregs of humanity” and we now train for a syndicate of that name!

Do you have an interest in or follow other sports?

I used to play amateur football, but racing has always been my hobby, riding as an amateur jockey and training under permit in my early days, and now it has taken over my life. But I still have time to follow the golf and I really get into Wimbledon, particularly this year with Andy Murray winning.

What is your big ambition?

Having grown up in the point-to-point world, it would have to be to win the Grand National, which is always full of romance and such a unique event, but unfortunately I don’t have that type of horse. I have, mind you, won consecutive Grand Sefton Chases over the National course with Lampion Du Bost, at 1001, and Endless Power. The Ayr Gold Cup would be a more obvious ambition for our stable, being Scotland’s big Flat race.

How healthy is the state of Scottish racing and how could it be improved?

Scottish racing is in good health at the moment.

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not that long ago it was little more than a gaff track and last year it was voted Racecourse of the Year. They now stage a competitive sprint which attracts some of the fastest horses from the south. Ayr provides a very good day out, particularly for the owners, especially winning owners, who are given VIP treatment. Ayr was just about the first course to recognise the importance of owners and now other courses like Chester have followed their example.

What is it you like best about Scottish racing?

The fact that it’s Scottish! No, seriously, it’s like home to me, all very local and handy for me to reach. Ayr racecourse is like a second home because I used to go to Pony Club camp there.

We have a great product, which is well presented, and folk like to go and see it. Our racecourses are doing a great job.

What are you planning to run in the Ayr Gold Cup? Immediately after the Ayr Gold Cup I start to hide because the Scottish press always hype my horses for the race and no Scottish-trained horse has won the Gold Cup since Roman Warrior, trained by Nigel Angus, in 1975. He carried 10st and Jack Dexter is likely to be topweight. Jack Dexter couldn’t get in the handicap last year, when he won the Bronze Cup instead, and I’ll probably save him for the Gold Cup this time. I’ll enter Hawkeyethenoo as well.

CLOSE UP AND...

PERSONAL My favourite Scottish sportsman is… Andy Murray I relax by… watching sport Four words to describe myself… big and always optimistic

How big a part does your wife Davina play in your operation?

A very big part. Davina helps me feed in the morning. She used to drive the lorry and lead up at the races, but now she runs the office and prepares the tack. I have a really good team that has been with us for years and one should never forget how big a team effort it is to keep the operation on the road.

My guilty pleasure is… eating too much

Lucy Alexander, who rides for you over jumps, is the biggest riding name to come out of Scotland since Sandy Barclay. What is her greatest talent and do you think she should move south to fulfil all this promise?

She is very talented and, like Graham Lee, very fit. She gives every horse a ride and never gives up. She is one of the strongest jockeys out there, and that includes the men. Lucy has

I handle defeat by… looking for the positives

Can’t get through the day without… thinking about horses

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PROFESSIONAL My racing hero is… Lester Piggott

I’d get more people racing by… reducing prices My alternative career… I tried to be a farmer Most challenging part of the job is… dealing with injuries

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First of

MANY Breeders united in support of the inaugural TBA National Hunt Foal Show at Bangor, an event which supporters hope will become an annual fixture Words Emma Berry • Photos Stephen Davies/Emma Berry

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hen several hundred racing folk are gathered together, it’s very rare to find a subject on which they all agree, but the notion that the TBA National Hunt ‘Stars of Tomorrow’ Foal Show should become an annual fixture after its debut at the end of July was met with universal approval from attendees.

The idea was borrowed from the French AQPS breeding sector and we’ll also borrow the French word bonhomie to sum up the mood of the day at Bangor racecourse. As with all outdoor events, the good weather helped, but

most impressive was the spirit with which the venture was embraced by the National Hunt community. The location meant that local studs, such as Goldford, Mickley, Shade Oak and Yorton Farm were represented, but plenty came from farther afield to boost the entry to 44 foals shown alongside their dams.

Huge credit must go to David Futter and Richard Aston, both members of the TBA National Hunt Committee, for their efforts in turning the show from a good idea into being a great day, and one which will already be etched into a number of diaries for 2014. They

drafted in fellow committee member Nick Luck as compere and while one would expect a commentator of Luck’s standing to do a professional job, what shone through in his presentation of the day was his genuine passion and understanding for National Hunt breeding and pedigrees. The crowd certainly appreciated his verbal annotation as each foal entered the ring – all, that is, except his mother Maggie, who gave him a telling-off for not talking up her Malinas colt sufficiently.

“The team at Bangor racecourse has been really supportive and we’re very grateful to them for their help,” said Richard Aston. “We’ve taken the first step now in the north-west and it would make a lot of sense to hold the show here in future. We could perhaps expand it eventually – perhaps with the addition of yearling classes.”

While there has been a winter foal show in association with the sales at Doncaster for a number of years, emulating the French system of making the show not just about the serious business of judging potential jumping stars but also a really fun social occasion, seems to have paid off. Plenty of spectators turned out for the occasion and were rewarded by the appearance of some pretty special mares, including the David Nicholson Mares’ Hurdle winner of 2008, Whiteoak, with her Shirocco filly, and Christopher Harriman’s Welsh National winner L’Aventure with a Kayf Tara filly at foot.

David and Teresa Futter really turned on the style in regard to the social aspect of the event, hosting a barbeque at Yorton Farm for competitors and judges on the eve of the show with a seemingly endless supply of wine

Annie’s Gift and her champion colt by Malinas with Lester Futter and Lucy Dawson, Malcolm and Sue Jefferson, winning owner/breeder Peter Nelson, his daughter Sandra Windross and wife Anne with the Lord Oaksey Perpetual Challenge Trophy

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flowing well into the early hours of the next day.

Those fortunate enough to have witnessed the impromptu stallion parade that evening of the Yorton residents Malinas, Sulamani, Sakhee and Librettist, had a sneak preview of the sire of the overall show champion.

By chance, he was the first foal into the ring on Tuesday morning, but Peter and Anne Nelson’s Malinas colt out of Annie’s Gift held the judges’ attention all day to be awarded the Lord Oaksey Perpetual Challenge Trophy in the final against the winners and runners-up in all four classes. In the initial rounds, colts and fillies were judged separately, with each sex being divided again into those born before or after April 14.

Annie’s Gift is an unraced Presenting halfsister to the Nelsons’ talented homebred chaser According To Pete, who sadly lost his life in the 2012 Grand National. She and her foal were

“I feel like we’ve

won the Champion Hurdle; I never knew showing could be so exciting” presented at the show on their breeders’ behalf

by Lucy Dawson and Lester Futter of Yorton Farm.

A delighted Peter Nelson said after receiving his trophy from Lady Oaksey, “We never expected this but David [Futter] told us he was a lovely foal. We can’t quite believe it really.

“I feel like we’ve won the Champion Hurdle.

I never knew showing could be so exciting.”

Aiden Murphy is perhaps best known on the National Hunt circuit as a bloodstock agent but he enjoyed a major triumph as a breeder through his and wife Anabel’s Warren Chase Stud when their Yeats colt out of the Slip Anchor mare Maiden Voyage was judged to be reserve champion, having previously won the class for younger colt foals. Born on April 26, he hails from the high-achieving jumps family of Rule The World, Venalmar and One Gulp, all of whom, like the foal’s dam, are offspring of the multiple dual-purpose winner Elaine Tully (Persian Bold).

“I’m chuffed to bits,” said Aiden Murphy.

“He’ll go to one of the sales later this year but I think there were at least 20 foals here who would stand their ground in any sale. It’s a great idea this show – it encourages people to take an interest in breeding and if it brought, say, THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

even six more breeders into the industry it would be fantastic. I can see this flourishing.”

Murphy’s sentiments were echoed by Frannie Woods, one of six judges at the show along with French stud owner Pascal Noue, Grant Lewis and trainers Malcolm Jefferson, Will Kinsey and Ian Fergsuon. He said: “There was a great selection of foals and it was really close between the first six. The overall champion happened to be the first foal into the ring and we thought to ourselves ‘if they keep coming like this it’s going to be really difficult’.

He was really a stand-out but the standard was very high all day.”

Richard Kent of Mickley Stud supported the show with six entries and was rewarded when a Kayf Tara filly he owns in partnership with Peter Emery won the older fillies’ class. The Marchborn filly is out of the statuesque Be My Native mare Celtic Native, the winner of ten races for Emery when trained by Philip Hobbs.

Kent said: “The people who came along had a great time. Peter Emery came up from Devon for a couple of days and he has gone home with a rosette and said for him it was like winning a race. I’ll definitely support the show again next year and help in any way I can.”

The youngest of all foals on show was Caroline Shaw’s Malinas colt out of her homebred mare Shrophsire Girl, who was just 18 days old when making his first public appearance. The bonny little colt behaved beautifully throughout and was runner-up in the young colts’ class, while the young fillies’ class was won by another very well presented foal, Goldford Stud’s Shirocco filly out of Valleyofthedolls (King’s Theatre).

“I wanted to support the show and I was really proud of my foal for getting into the last six,” said Caroline Shaw from Oswestry, who was assisted at the show by son Ben and daughter-in-law Natalie. “He’s only very young still but coped with it all so well. It’s been a brilliant day and I’m just so glad we brought him along.”

The level of support for the show in its debut year was much appreciated by organiser David Futter, who said: “I’m really pleased and relieved that breeders in this country really got behind it and got together to present a good selection of foals – I’ve never been to an AQPS show with such a good selection of pedigrees and conformation. This is definitely something we can build on for the future and I very much hope we’ll be back here next year.”

From the top: Shropshire Girl and her 18-day-old Malinas colt; Sally Aston with Goldford’s Shirocco filly out of Valleyofthedolls; Megan Bates and Rachel Harte of Warren Chase Stud with Maiden Voyage and her Yeats colt; Richard Kent and Celtic Native’s Kayf Tara filly; judges Frannie Woods, Pascal Noue and Will Kinsey; winning breeders Aiden and Anabel Murphy; Robert Chugg; Lucinda Russell and Peter Scudamore among the crowd

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BREEDERS’ DIGEST

By EMMA BERRY, Bloodstock Editor

Our extended bloodstock coverage this month includes:

• • • • •

Tattersalls Ireland September: John Berry assesses ‘the trainer’s horse’ – pages 48-49 Goffs Orby: Nancy Sexton on the ground-breaking sale’s return to better days – pages 50-51 Keeneland September: Sid Fernando suggests US stallions with Euro appeal – pages 52-53 Sales Circuit: Yearlings at Fasig-Tipton; stores at DBS and Tattersalls Ireland – pages 55-58 Caulfield Files: Why is one generation less talented than its predecessors? – pages 60-61

Not so simple as merely a numbers game

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he issue of foal-crop numbers has been a topic of discussion at both the TBA AGM and the seminar (see pages 7072). While the decline has been more pronounced in Ireland, it seems to have halted in that country while in Britain the expected end to the falling numbers has not materialised. Not yet, anyway.

Naturally, fewer foals mean fewer mares, fewer breeders and, ultimately, fewer horses in training – though the latter is equally affected by owners reducing their numbers. While the British foal crop has fallen by just over 26% since 2008, the number of horses in training is down by only 10%. In Ireland, foals are down by 39% and horses in training by almost 30%.

The corresponding period has seen some big new overseas names become involved in British racing and breeding, not least the increasingly influential Al Thani family of Qatar, but the fact remains that there is a dearth of domestic owners, who in the past would have been responsible for filling the middle and lower tiers of prices given for horses at the sales. Ask almost any smaller trainer without Dubaian or Qatari patronage how many orders they have going into this season’s yearling sales and the answer is likely to be very few.

With the gaps in the domestic market having become more pronounced, it’s understandable that breeders have done the only sensible thing they could do, and that is to cut their numbers accordingly. The cyclical nature of the business we’re in means that the tightening of catalogues has produced better returns and clearance rates, which in turn has helped to boost market confidence. However, it’s still too soon to be over-confident, and breeders operating with a commercial aim must continue to be realistic with regard to the youngsters being produced for a still-select group of buyers. As Paul Thorman said in his presentation at the TBA seminar, “We don’t need the not-solds and the no-bids”, of which there were plenty before the

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booming production rates left some breeders well and truly bust.

It’s not all doom and gloom, however, and a fascinating seminar talk by bloodstock agent Alastair Donald, a specialist in the Hong Kong and Australian horses-in-training markets, predicted that owners from both these areas are likely to move more towards buying yearlings in Britain and Ireland in the coming years, rather than paying the very high prices commanded by those horses with decent form.

One thing’s certain, however appalling the prize-money situation remains in this country, the appeal of British and Irish thoroughbreds has never been stronger to overseas buyers (and in case you’re wondering where our potentially top-class older stayers have disappeared to, you’ll find Masked Marvel, Sea Moon, Seville and Thought Worthy in one Australian stable alone – Robert Hickmott’s – alongside last year’s Melbourne Cup winner Green Moon).

Breeders’ contribution recognised Paul Bittar, who spoke at the TBA AGM in early July, paid tribute to the resilience of British breeders, acknowledging the hard times of adjustment they have faced in recent years, but what must be remembered is that breeders are seldom just that. Almost every breeder in operation is also an owner, either by design or necessity, particularly in Britain. Many of the ‘not-solds’ and the ‘no-bids’, which haven’t disappeared from the sales ring completely, end up being put into training by their breeders.

This fact Paul Greeves believes has helped stop the number of horses in training in Britain fall by any more than it has. Referring to this at

DECLINE IN FOAL CROPS GB

Ire

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12,419

18,339

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4,366

7,546

11,912

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39.2

35.0

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the seminar, he said: “There is a continuing and significant dependence on owner/breeders to sustain the level of horses in training.”

As we know, through the BHA’s determination not to reduce the fixture list despite calls from almost every quarter to do so, a reasonable-sized horse population is required, though the idea that there aren’t enough horses to go round is perhaps overstated. The reality is that there aren’t enough owners for the existing number of racehorses available.

The answer to declining field sizes is clearly not so simple as running each horse just one more time per season – no owner or trainer keeps a fit horse standing in the stable just for the fun of it. Finding suitable races – and increasingly for smaller owners and trainers this means running as close to home as possible to keep transport costs down – and not risking horses on ground which has been over-raced owing to the packed fixture list are just two factors to be taken into consideration.

There are positives to be drawn from the current situation. Greeves’ research showed that members of the reduced foal crops are generally the offspring of better mares than was previously the case, with a portion of the lesser mares having been removed from the breeding pool.

BOBIS has been widely welcomed by owner/breeders and the bonuses from the initial BOBIS races for two-year-olds, with three-yearold races being incorporated from 2014, are being snapped up frequently. The one fly in the ointment on the BOBIS front is the BHA’s seeming desire to remove the extra incentive for TBA membership – once provided by the Breeders’ Prizes Scheme, which on the Flat has been subsumed by the new scheme – of better returns through BOBIS for TBA members (and also ROA members). However, this has not yet been confirmed, so let’s hope that the BHA Board and new Chairman, Steve Harman, another to make a welcome appearance at the AGM and awards night, will appreciate the work done by the TBA in the conception and launch of BOBIS and ensure that its members remain properly rewarded.

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The trainer’s

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It may be a wonderful auctioneer’s euphemism but it does genuinely apply to those lots which offer value to horsemen, and this is particularly so at Fairyhouse in September Words John Berry • Photos George Selwyn

Champion sprinter-elect Lethal Force was an inexpensive purchase at Fairyhouse

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t is the way of the modern world that there appears to be more of everything. Horses are no different and, notwithstanding the recent drop in the size of the foal crops, the market place is still awash with yearlings.

This glut has helped to create the situation that, while there is still huge demand for stock deemed to be among the highest tiers, there are so many yearlings on offer that demand for the supposedly lesser prospects is far outstripped by their supply. This basically means that, while prices at the top end of the market continue to rise, the lower tiers present plenty of opportunities to buy stock at what sometimes turns out to have been a bargain price.

Furthermore, the funding crises which most European countries (including Britain) face mean that, while the best horses can indeed represent very good investments, the economics of racing run-of-the-mill horses (even those

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capable of winning repeatedly in the middle and lower tiers) make unappetising reading. In short, other than for yearlings who are deemed likely to turn out to be superior racehorses, it remains a buyers’ market.

The problem, of course, is that nobody knows which yearlings will turn out to be the best of their generation. That does not, though, prevent the big spenders from homing in on the most obviously appealing lots, bidding sums which suggest that their transition from supposed heir apparent to champion is almost a formality – which, of course, it is not!

From this scenario has emerged the concept of ‘the trainer’s horse’ – and few yearling sales offer a better opportunity to buy a ‘trainer’s horse’ than Tattersalls Ireland’s September Yearling Sale at Fairyhouse.

In theory, the yearlings with the strongest pedigrees and the most muscular, athletic and

well-balanced physiques are those who will develop into the best racehorses. However, we know that that isn’t necessarily the case – and the people most aware of this are trainers, simply because they/we receive regular reminders as we go about the business of training horses that it is usually unwise to judge a book by its cover. The regular disappointments and occasional very pleasant surprises which come a trainer’s way serve to drum home the truism that the theory rarely becomes the practice: trainers are reminded on a daily basis that the most beautiful cygnets often develop into non-achieving geese, while occasionally the most unremarkable gosling can mature into a mighty swan.

Hence ‘the trainer’s horse’ – the horse who is not one of the most obviously appealing prospects at the outset (and who is generally priced accordingly) but who, owing to the vagaries of the progress or regress which a thoroughbred can make as he or she matures, has a chance of turning out to be far better than the uninitiated would deem possible.

Good record upheld Tattersalls Ireland’s September Yearling Sale does not receive the perceived cream of the yearling crop. That is not a criticism, but it is a fact – and a fact which can be confirmed by comparing its average figures (and the average foal prices of those yearlings in the catalogue who had been sold the previous year) against the same figures for the leading yearling sales on either side of the Irish Sea. In fact, even such basic instant assessments as density of black type on pages, or covering fees of the stallions represented, suggest that this is the case.

However, despite the fact that the average graduate of the September Sale costs a lot less both to produce and to buy than the average graduate of what the late, great Alan Whicker might have referred to as “er, certain other THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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yearling sales I could mention,” the sale keeps coming up not only with winners, but with high-class and cheaply-bought winners. And that is why so many trainers love it, and keep coming back for more.

One trainer in particular who has the dates of Tattersalls Ireland’s September Yearling Sale inked into his diary is Clive Cox, who has unearthed several of his recent stable stars there, as he recently confirmed: “Fairyhouse has always been a lucky sale for us, with some of the horses turning out to be extremely good value.”

That’s the understatement of the year when it comes to Cox’s chief flag-bearer this season, the champion sprinter-elect Lethal Force, whose triumph in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot was outstanding and whose recordbreaking victory in the Darley July Cup was even better. In retrospect, the €8,500 for which Cox bought him in September 2010 now looks like one of the bargains of the century.

Cox would have headed to Fairyhouse in September 2010 full of confidence, having earlier that year made the frame in the 2,000 Guineas with Xtension, whom he had bought there in 2008 for €15,000 and who had won the Richmond Stakes as a juvenile as well as being placed in both the Coventry and Dewhurst. Xtension had then been sold for, presumably, dozens of times his purchase price to join John Moore’s stable in Hong Kong.

Subsequently, the son of Xaar has gone on to become one of the highest-earning horses ever bred in Ireland thanks to three busy seasons’ worth of top-class performances at Sha Tin. Another trainer who might be excused for regarding attendance at the September Sale as a licence to print money is Andy Oliver, who secured a terrific bargain in 2008 when buying a colt from the first crop of Dubawi for €9,000.

Named Luck Or Design, this colt won a juvenile maiden at Naas the following autumn by five lengths, beating the Aidan O’Brien-trained odds-on shot Encompassing. He was sold shortly afterwards to Hong Kong – and now, named Lucky Nine, he is the winner of five Group 1 races, the earner of the equivalent of well over £3,000,000, and arguably the best sprinter in the world.

Richard Hannon has also enjoyed great success with graduates of Tattersalls Ireland’s September Sale. Dick Turpin, who won his first four juvenile races in 2009 before ultimately amassing a terrific haul headlined by two Group 1 victories, was picked up there in 2008 for €26,000. More recently, Hannon-trained Group winners Trumpet Major and Producer each came out of the 2010 sale, at €20,000 and €14,000 respectively; while the trainer’s recent Goodwood winner Pether’s Moon, whom Hannon marked down as a potential Cup horse in post-race interviews, is a graduate of 2011.

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Mark Tompkins is another to have enjoyed considerable success with graduates of the September Sale. Tompkins is adept at finding the archetypal ‘trainer’s horse’, having picked up umpteen decent horses over the years from less fashionable backgrounds, and is synonymous with succeeding with offspring of stallions whom the quidnuncs generally overlook.

Among those whom Tompkins has gleaned from Fairyhouse include his two Lincoln Handicap winners Babodana and Smokey

“Other than for

yearlings deemed likely to be superior racehorses, it remains a buyers’ market” Oakey, whom he bought for Ir17,000gns and €13,500 respectively and who both supplemented their big handicap victories with black-type success. His many years of attendance of the sale have led him to reflect that, “They always have a marvellous catalogue there, and this year’s one looks great too. The forte of the sale is that they always have something for everyone.”

Mick Channon, too, has landed plenty of

good wins with Fairyhouse graduates, most obviously with Music Show, a cracking filly who became a course specialist at Newmarket, where she won three Group races, culminating in her Group 1 victory on the July Course as a threeyear-old in 2010 in the Falmouth Stakes. Her story began at the 2008 September Yearling Sale, where she was bought for a mere €2,000.

If it is remarkable in retrospect how little attention was shown in a filly of the calibre of Music Show when she made her sales-ring debut that year, it is worth reflecting that she was not the most under-appreciated yearling filly to walk around Fairyhouse’s auditorium in 2008. Snow Fairy was offered by Anamoine Ltd (an entity owned by her owner/breeder Cristina Patino) at Fairyhouse later that year in the final sale of Tattersalls Ireland’s calendar, the sale in which multiple Group 1 winner Paco Boy had been picked up for €16,000 in 2006. At that sale, Snow Fairy attracted so little interest that she was knocked down to BBA Ireland for €1,800 before racing in the Anamoine Ltd colours, which she carried to victory so memorably in six Group/Grade 1 races with four of those, including both the Oaks and Irish Oaks, featuring in a sparkling Classic campaign.

The Fairyhouse sales-ring has thus been the source of many wonderful bargains in recent years for those who are prepared to look beyond the most obvious prospects, and it is fair to assume that the 2013 edition of Tattersalls Ireland’s September Yearling Sale will continue this proud tradition.

September Sale graduate Smokey Oakey won the Lincoln and the Brigadier Gerard

The Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale takes place at Fairyhouse on September 24 and 25 from 10am 2012 figures: Offered Sold 514 414

Aggregate (€) 4,823,000

Top price (€) 75,000

Average (€) Median (€) 11,650 9,250

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Rising to the

CHALLENGE Some eye-catching graduates coupled with rejuvenated trade in the ring have given the Goffs team plenty of confidence ahead of this year’s Orby Sale Words Nancy Sexton • Photos Peter Mooney

Big prices for Sea The Stars’ first foals led to healthier trade at the following Orby Sale

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hallenges remain but there is a sense of renewed optimism at Goffs as the company prepares ahead of its flagship yearling auction, the Goffs Orby Sale on October 2-3. Following five turbulent years that stemmed from the recession that hit Ireland particularly badly, the pressures appear to be easing; last year’s Orby sale posted its strongest results in five renewals while lending further impetus is the current vein of form of graduates on the track, topped by the 1,000 Guineas onetwo Sky Lantern and Just The Judge, and Hong Kong Horse of the Year Military Attack.

“It’s been a rough roll,” says Henry Beeby, Goffs’ Chief Executive. “Historically bloodstock markets rise and fall but Ireland was one of the worst hit countries of the recession. We had to act quickly and embark on cost-cutting exercises. It was very hard work.”

Publicly, the measures taken were severe. In 2009, the number of sales dates were slashed from 26 to 18, resulting in a third fewer horses offered, and the Million race series scrapped.

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Total sales tumbled from €121,772,750 to €48,901,300 from 2007 to 2009 and in 2010 Goffs launched legal action to recover a number of bad debts, some of which are still outstanding. That same year they sold their 26.67% stake in Arqana to Grenfell Ltd, a company owned by the Aga Khan. Behind the scenes, savings of €4 million were made.

But by the end of 2011, the tide was turning.

Even though the Orby Sale posted lacklustre returns, including a moderate top price of €350,000 (ironically, it is that ‘lacklustre’ sale from which Sky Lantern and Just The Judge hail), the November Sale featured a record top price of €2.3m, paid by Oceanic Bloodstock for Banimpire, and a trio of foals from the first crop of Sea The Stars that realised €800,000 or more.

And following strong persuasion from the Goffs team, several prominent Irish breeders chose to part with an increasing number of better yearlings at last year’s Orby Sale, which in turn contributed to a 49% rise in average to €89,699.

The top price of €800,000, paid by the South

African-based Form Bloodstock for a Galileo colt, overwhelmed the previous year’s top mark of €350,000, which was bettered on six occasions.

“We managed to cut €4m out of our overheads,” says Beeby, “and we had great support from our major shareholders, non executive directors and branding partners. Over the past two years, our sales have grown by 45% – a recovery which is very gratifying. We have a far more focussed and targeted approach to each sale.

“We were just about satisfied on the last day of the 2011 Orby Sale but that feeling had changed two weeks later when our competitors had an extremely strong sale. So we did a lot of work, talked to a lot of people and tightened the sale – it was down about 18% in 2012 – and thankfully some significant Irish breeders sent better yearlings. We knew in order to boost the quality that we would be down [on numbers].

Instead I told my team that the yearlings had to meet certain targets. This year we set the same standards and have catalogued 425.”

Record-breaking venue Goffs takes its name from Robert J. Goff, who became official auctioneer to the Turf Club in 1866, and became a limited company in 1922 when Edward Kennedy took up chairmanship.

Today, the Chairman’s role belongs to Eimear Mulhearn, who took over from Oliver O’Reilly in April 2008.

By the time Goffs moved to their current site in Kill, Co. Kildare, following the sale of their former base in Ballsbridge, the company could boast alumni such as Derby winners Hard Ridden and Larkspur and National Hunt greats Arkle and Hatton’s Grace. The new sales ground was launched in September 1975 and the ring christened in style by the sale of Be My Guest for 127,000gns, then a European record for a yearling. Just nine years later, prices had boomed to the extent that a new record was set at Ir3.1m guineas, paid for subsequent Irish St THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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Orby regulars reap rewards of loyalty

Corwyn Bay wins the Goffs-instigated Cartier Million, the first race of its kind, in 1988

Leger winner Authaal, a colt from the only crop of Shergar, by Tote Cherry-Downes on behalf of Sheikh Mohammed.

Goffs, by then a company with 500 shareholders including Walter Haefner and Robert Sangster, has never been afraid to explore new initiatives; 1978 marked the formation of Goffs France, which in 2006 merged with Agence Francais to form Arqana, while in 2007 Goffs itself merged with DBS. Six years on and even though both companies have retained their identities, there is interaction between the two sales houses through a crossover of auctioneers and a synergisation of branding.

It was also the brainchild of former Chief Executive Jonathan Irwin to attach a sales race to the company’s flagship yearling sale in a move which broke new ground within the industry; thus in 1988 the Cartier Million, then the world’s richest race, was born and won at Phoenix Park by Corwyn Bay, who led home a one-two-three for syndicate-owned horses.

In 2006, 16 years after the final Cartier Million was run and two years following the last running of the Challenge Bonus (attached to the Challenge Sale), the concept was reinvigorated to boost the Orby Sale, which by 2004 had suffered its fourth consecutive year of declines.

A highly ambitious and lucrative incentive, the Goffs Millions series comprised races for colts and fillies worth a combined €3.2m. For four years, the races were keenly contested – winners include Lush Lashes and Miss Beatrix while among the also-rans were Finsceal Beo and Intense Focus – and from 2007 were aligned with the Guineas Bonus Scheme, which handed the winners a €1m bonus if they went on to win an Irish Guineas.

Backed initially by the Shelbourne Hotel, the series was applauded as being the catalyst for a rise in fortunes at the first ‘Million’ sale in 2005, and again until 2007 when the average hit a high of €110,350. However, the recession combined with the withdrawal of a sponsor signalled the series’ death knell, and as Goffs THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

sought to tighten the catalogue the announcement came in 2009 that the races would be shelved. “They were introduced in a strong market,” says Beeby, “and did what they needed to do at that time. They were excellent but were of their day. While we never say never [bring them back], we don’t want to have to be filling catalogues to fill the races.”

According to Beeby, nothing so ambitious is on the horizon. Yet Goffs is not for standing still.

Recent developments include the appointment of an agent in China, Sun Min, as well as Mark Player and Joe Hopkins to represent their interests in Australia and America – the past few renewals have attracted investment from several American owners including Team Valor and West Point Thoroughbreds.

“We were very proactive in getting buyers to last year’s sale, particularly from overseas, and we tried to help buyers in every way we could – we put on three jets to fly out of Dublin to help people home,” says Beeby.

“Like everyone else, we’re watching China, and waiting and hoping. Eimear has been to China on two occasions and thought it would be sensible to have someone on the ground. So we’re ready to go when the time comes.”

In the meantime, there is the matter of this year’s Orby Sale to look forward to. At 425 lots, this year’s catalogue is slightly larger than last year’s edition of 400 and includes 15 yearlings

by Galileo, double the number of last year.

Of particular interest on paper is the Shamardal own brother to Casamento, who is also a half-brother to the dam of Toronado, a Montjeu colt out of Finsceal Beo and a Dubawi colt out of Chinese White.

On no fewer than seven occasions in the past 20 years has Pat O’Kelly’s Kilcarn Stud topped the Goffs Orby Sale. Much of that success belongs to O’Kelly’s famed Welsh Flame family; progeny out of Welsh Flame’s daughter, Welsh Love, were particularly popular with her Danehill colt Balestrini selling for €2.1 million in 2001 and Queen Of Tara, by Sadler’s Wells, realising €1.3m five years later.

“I believe if you live in Ireland then you should sell in Ireland,” says O’Kelly. “Once we decide what to sell they all go to Goffs.”

O’Kelly’s draft is smaller than usual this year but the quartet slated to sell are choice individuals since they include a “very nice” Invincible Spirit half-brother to Banimpire and an Oasis Dream colt out of Group 3 winner Prima Luce.

Another farm which has enjoyed ongoing Orby success is the Burns family’s Lodge Park Stud. It was in 2006 that they sold champion New Approach for €430,000 to Jim Bolger and the leading young sire is represented in this year’s Lodge Park draft with two yearlings.

“Goffs have marketed the sale in a certain way, focusing on quality,” says Damian Burns, “and we’re signing up to what they’re trying to achieve. We always try to send nice horses - we also sold First Cornerstone there - and this year I feel we have a particularly nice draft.”

In addition to the two yearlings by New Approach, Lodge Park is sending a Fastnet Rock half-brother to Chesham Stakes winner Tha’Ir, himself an Orby graduate, as well as a colt from the first crop of stud graduate Alfred Nobel.

Pat O’Kelly sells Banimpire’s half-brother

The Goffs Orby Sale takes place in Co Kildare on October 2 and 3, followed by the one-day Sportsman Sale on October 4 2012 figures: Offered Sold 354 303

Aggregate (€) 27,214,500

Top price (€) 800,000

Average (€) Median (€) 89,816 58,000

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Across the

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The Atlantic divide may not be as great as many commentators in the bloodstock industry imply, with plenty of American sires appealing to breeders on both sides Words Sid Fernando

The Danzigs Sadler’s Wells and Danehill are long gone, Galileo isn’t getting younger, and with the deaths of Montjeu and Monsun in 2012, there are some real opportunities for enterprising young stallions. One of these making a statement in Europe just now is Claiborne Farm’s 11-year-old Danzig horse War Front, a dirt sprinter who’s getting plenty of high-class turf runners as his own sire did.

Two sons of War Front, Group 1 Queen Anne Stakes winner Declaration Of War and Group 2 Coventry winner War Command, achieved their successes this season at Royal Ascot in full international view, and their triumphs couldn’t have been more pronounced for a stallion making his way up from the lower stud-fee levels. Their sire’s upcoming Keeneland September sales yearlings were conceived on a $15,000 fee, quite a bit lower than the $80,000 it cost to breed to him in 2013. By extrapolation, his future crops promise to be even better and – dare we say it?

– suggest Danehillian potential.

War Front’s crossover appeal – he’s just as popular Stateside with such recent stakes horses as Grade 2 West Virginia Derby winner Departing and Grade 2 Virginia Derby scorer

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alk on both sides of the pond has been the same for a bit now: that US-based sires, except for the odd horse like Dynaformer or Street Cry, no longer attract European interest, certainly not in the way they did during the glory days of the 1980s. And with years of Sadler’s Wells and his heirs, notably Galileo and Montjeu, plus the Danehills and other offshoots of Danzig leaving major footprints on European turf – not to mention horses like Monsun that have no context whatsoever in the US – Europeans haven’t needed to look elsewhere as they once did. But perhaps it might be the time to do so, with Keeneland’s September Sale offering the offspring of several young sires with potential international appeal.

Hard Spun’s runners include progressive sprinter Moviesta

War Dancer – will make his 44 yearlings in Keeneland’s first two books very much in demand with local and international buyers.

Two of his yearlings made $650,000 and $500,000 at the recently concluded FasigTipton Saratoga Selected Yearlings Sale, with Coolmore purchaser Demi O’Byrne buying the latter.

Built in the stocky Northern Dancer/Danzig mould, War Front was bred and raced by US owner Joseph Allen, who also bred the Royal Ascot duo and the 2013 Group 2 UAE Derby winner Lines Of Battle, all three of which he races with the Coolmore group. The latter, with a keen eye for sire talent, was one of the early believers in the stallion.

Allen also bred the French Listed winner The Brothers War, now racing for a Team Valor international partnership. Valor, like Coolmore, has been bullish on this son of Danzig, having raced his Grade 1 winner Summer Soiree and the Grade 2 winner State of Play, among others in the US.

War Front’s dam is the Rubiano Graded stakes winner Starry Dreamer, who acted on both turf and dirt, and his second and third dams are by Forli and Round Table, respectively. He won four races from 13 starts, including a Grade 2 dirt sprint at six furlongs, and was Grade 1-placed at seven furlongs. His oldest foals are five-year-olds.

Darley America’s Hard Spun is another with some European appeal, mostly because he’s a well-raced son of Danzig, too, and also because he is the sire of the recent Group 2 King George winner Moviesta. Hard Spun’s oldest foals are only four but already he’s had the Group 2 Superlative Stakes winner Red Duke in Europe as well, while in the States he’s been represented by such high-class runners as Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks and Alabama Stakes winner Questing and Grade 1 Mother Goose Stakes winner Zo Impressive. He stood this year for $60,000 but his yearlings may offer better pedigree value than those of War Front for the simple reason they were THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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Blame, left, the only horse ever to defeat Zenyatta, has first-crop yearlings; Declaration Of War flies the flag for War Front

conceived at a $30,000 fee in 2011 – double that of the Claiborne sire.

Physically, Hard Spun, at close to 16.3 hands, is a leggier, taller horse than War Front and not a stereotypical Danzig. But as a Grade 1 winner at seven furlongs, Classic-placed at up to ten furlongs, and a Breeders’ Cup Classic runner-up, of the two, he was more accomplished on the track. His stakes-winning dam acted on turf, and the next two dams are

by Roberto and My Babu, which makes his pedigree on broad strokes as Euro-friendly as War Front’s. Hard Spun has 46 yearlings in the first two books at Keeneland September.

Three Chimneys Farm’s Big Brown is by the Danzig horse Boundary, and he won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes in 2008, and seven of eight starts altogether. He was a top-class racehorse who also won on grass, but his reputation was somewhat besmirched by his trainer Dick Dutrow’s penchant for braggadocio and chequered history of drug violations. It didn’t help, either, that Big Brown started off at stud at a $65,000 fee in 2009, during the dark days of the worldwide economic collapse that shrank the breeding industry by quantity and quality.

His first crop, however, has yielded the three-year-old colt Darwin, a $1.3 million two-year-old in training purchase for Coolmore that won the Group 3 Minstrel Stakes at the Curragh in July. Big Brown has 11 yearlings catalogued in the first two books at Keeneland, and they were conceived on a healthy $40,000 stud fee.

A strongly made and well-balanced 16.1hand specimen, Big Brown is out of a Nureyev mare and is a half-brother to the Henrythenavigator stakes colt Afonso de Sousa. His second dam is by Lear Fan and his third dam is by Damascus. With only two crops of racing age, he still offers plenty of potential though it’s unlikely his sales THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

offspring will bring anywhere near Darwinlike money. He stood for $35,000 in 2013.

Sadler’s Wells line Only one son of Sadler’s Wells, the late El Prado, has had any lasting and profound impact in the States, and his success was based on his ability to sire dirt performers of the calibre of Medaglia d’Oro – now a top sire in the US as well, and one whose dirt performers are tend to fare better than his grass horses.

But another son of El Prado, US turf champion Kitten’s Joy, has been a much better sire of horses suited for European turf, though he hasn’t had much opportunity in Europe because he’s been largely supported in his early years by his breeder and owner, Ken and Sarah Ramsey of Ramsey Farm. This is changing, with such breeders as Khalid Abdullah sending Juddmonte mares to his court nowadays. And why not? Through July, Kitten’s Joy was ranked in a tie in second place with Galileo for black type winners globally, with 13 – one behind Juddmonte’s own Dansili, the leader.

Better was to come in August when he sired the winners of three Grade 1 contests – the Arlington Million, Secretariat Stakes and Sword Dancer Invitational – all on the same day. This puts Kitten’s Joy in heady company, ahead of such as Dubawi, Giant’s Causeway, Deep Impact, Medaglia d’Oro, and War Front.

Now standing for $50,000, Kitten’s Joy is a unique success story because he predominantly sires turf and all-weather horses in the US, where dirt racing is king. Yet despite limited

racing opportunity for his offspring, he has succeeded against the odds, and this without the backing of high-quality books of mares, as US breeders are not wont to breed their best producers to turf horses that matured later and won at up to 12 furlongs. Europeans, on the other hand, should find his profile appealing.

Kitten’s Joy is an attractive, well-made chestnut standing almost 16.2 hands. He’s out of a Lear Fan mare, and the next two dams are

by L’Enjoleur (by Buckpasser) and Prince John.

He is represented by 23 Keeneland September yearlings, conceived on a $25,000 stud fee.

First-crop sires Several first-crop sires showcased at Keeneland should have crossover appeal, perhaps none more so than Claiborne’s Blame and Lane’s End Farm’s Quality Road.

A scopey, 16.1-hand son of Arch from Liable,

by Seeking the Gold, Blame’s second dam is the Nijinsky mare Bound – the dam of Archipenko – and his third dam is, of course, Special, the dam of Nureyev and second dam of Sadler’s Wells. Blame gained fame defeating Zenyatta, and he is represented by 38 yearlings.

Quality Road should appeal to Europeans as a son of Elusive Quality, though at 16.3 hands, he is a much taller and lengthier model than his popular sire. Out of a Strawberry Road mare, his second dam is by Alydar and his Bold Bidder third dam is Irish champion juvenile filly Highest Trump. His yearlings, of which there are 43 in the first two books, were also conceived on a $35,000 covering fee.

The Keeneland September Yearling Sale takes place in Lexington from Monday, September 9 to Saturday, September 21 2012 figures: Offered Sold 3,604 2,516

Aggregate ($) 219,723,000

Top price ($) 1,650,000

Average ($) Median ($) 87,330 45,000

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By CARL EVANS

Dispersal of big-name performers adds an extra sparkle to a strong August sale

D

eprived of a famous name when Hunt Ball was sold privately hours before the May Sale, DBS had better luck when several well-known horses kept their date at the August Sale.

The sale of quality chasers For Non Stop and Sanctuaire was tinged with intrigue after businessmen Jared Sullivan and Chris Giles apparently suddenly opted to slash their racehorse partnership, although they retain top-flight duo Zarkandar and Silviniaco Conti with Paul Nicholls.

Somerset-based Nicholls lost out when Sullivan and Giles’s Sanctuaire went to the ring from his Manor Farm Stables and was bought by Willie Mullins, but the biggest loser was Nick Williams, the North Devonbased trainer whose yard handled most of the eight horses from the dispersal. They included top lot For Non Stop, an eightyear-old gelding who was third to Cue Card in March’s Grade 1 Ryanair Chase, and who, like Hunt Ball, was sold with a plan to race in America in mind.

Agent Matt Coleman, who bought him, was acting for Sean Clancy, a member of the same profession who is based across the Atlantic.

Sanctuaire’s empty box at Nicholls’ Ditcheat yard was soon filled when Tom Malone bought the Williams-trained halfbrothers Alibi and Urbain De Sivola, contributing to turnover that reached £2,685,875, up 49% from last year’s total, albeit the 380 horses offered amounted to 66 more than in 2012. The average and median figures rose, too.

Top-class chaser Sanctuaire has moved to Willie Mullins from Paul Nicholls

DBS August Sale Top lots Name/Sex/Breeding

Vendor

For Non Stop (Alderbrook-Lost Link)

Nick Williams Racing

Price (£) 175,000

Buyer S Clancy/A Stroud B/S

Sanctuaire (Kendor-Biblique)

Manor Farm Stables

170,000

H. Kirk/W P Mullins

Alibi De Sivola (Shaanmer-Neva De Sivola)

Nick Williams Racing

75,000

Tom Malone

Tattersalls Ireland August Sale

Kiwayu (Medicean-Kibara)

Nicky Vaughan Racing

75,000

Jane Sivils

Rally (Rail Link-Waki Music)

Camas Park

65,000

Highflyer Bloodstock

Urbain De Sivola (Le Fou-Neva De Sivola)

Nick Williams Racing

60,000

Tom Malone

During a week when the BBC headline news was reporting a rise in British house prices, Ireland was able to confirm a rise in horse prices.

To be more precise, that increase has come in store horses, the unbroken youngsters bred to become hurdlers and chasers. At early and mid-summer glamour auctions trade had been very strong, and at this lower-tier auction for stores who perhaps needed a bit more time, had a minor fault or weaker pedigrees, buyers were no less eager to tuck in.

Alasi (Alflora-Anamasi)

Cropredy Lawn Stables

51,000

John O’Byrne

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Attente De Sivola (Dom Alco-Gamine d’Ici)

Nick Williams Racing

45,000

Highflyer Bloodstock

Blakemount (Presenting-Smashing Leader)

Coolbawn Stud

40,000

Harvey Smith

Bedouin Invader (Oasis Dream-Hovering)

Rabbah Bloodstock

40,000

James Ryan Jnr

Five-year tale Year

Sold

Aggregate (£)

Average (£)

Median (£)

Top Price (£)

2013

266

2,685,875

10,097

5,750

175,000

2012

219

1,804,700

8,240

4,500

140,000

2011

243

1,649,100

6,786

4,000

90,000

2010

262

2,341,950

8,938

4,000

110,000

2009

285

2,190,900

7,687

4,000

100,000

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Winners in the Making This year’s outstanding Airlie Stud consignments at the Autumn yearling sales TATTERSALLS IRELAND SEPTEMBER YEARLING SALE (24-25th September)

GOFFS ORBY YEARLING SALE (2nd-3rd October)

Lot 116 Bay filly by Archipenko – Roses From Ridey (Petorius) Half-sister to 3 winners, incl. Armigerent (4 wins; 2nd Gr.2 July S).

Dam is half-sister to four-time Gr.1 winner Kutub.

Lot 204 Bay colt by Rip Van Winkle – Alleluia (Caerleon) Half-brother to Allegretto (6 wins, £494,983, incl. Gr.1 Prix Royal-Oak, Gr.2 Lancashire Oaks and Gr.2 Park Hill S; 3rd Gr.1 Yorkshire Oaks).

Dam Gr.3 winner of 6 races; half-sister to Last Second and to the SW dam of Albanova and Alborada.

Lot 235 Bay colt by Elnadim – Trullitti (Bahri) Full-brother to Fabrino (6 wins from 2 to 5 years, £82,812) and half-brother to a Hernando winner. Dam won and LR-placed.

3rd dam Fair Of The Furze (Gr.2 winner; dam and grandam of Gr.1 winners).

Lot 248 Bay colt by Archipenko – Vinales (Dilshaan) First foal. Dam unraced half-sister to Hordago (8 wins, £118,240), Semplicita (10 wins) and to the dam of Equiano (Gr.1 King’s Stand S, twice; sire).

Lot 282 Bay filly by Jeremy – All Day (Jaded Dancer) Half-sister to dual winner Regal Everyday, half sister to Bachelor Son, 6 wins to date incl. Gr.3 in Turkey. Dam Gr.1 winner of 6 races and own-sister to another Gr.1 winner. Classic winning South American family.

Lot 399 Grey filly by Aussie Rules – Dalannda (Hernando) Half-sister to 6 winners. Dam half-sister to Daliapour (Gr.1 Coronation Cup; sire) and Gr.3 winner Dalampour. Grandam Gr.2 winning half-sister to Darshaan.

Lot 489 Bay filly by Azamour – Green Tambourine (Green Desert) Half-sister to Maid For Music (winner at 2 & 3, incl. LR Golden Poppy S).

Dam winning daughter of Maid For The Hills (Stakes winning dam of 8 winners), who is herself half-sister to dam of Lady In Waiting (Gr.2 Sun Chariot S).

Lot 206 Bay filly by Rock Of Gibraltar – Alleviate (Indian Ridge) Dam won 4 races and is half-sister to Allegretto, 6 wins, £494,983, incl.

Gr.1 Prix Royal-Oak, etc. Her Montjeu 2-y-o made €500,000 in 2012.

3rd dam, Alruccaba, is dam of 8 winners and grandam of Gr.1 winners Aussie Rules, Albanova, Alborada, etc.

Lot 221 Bay filly by Dubawi – Arty Crafty (Arch) Half-sister to Enraptured (promising 2yo with John Gosden); dam won 4 races and is full-sister to Prince Arch (Gr.1 Gulstream Park Breeders’ Cup) and half-sister to Kingsfort (Gr.1 National S).

Lot 229 Bay colt by More Than Ready – Balletomaine (Sadler’s Wells) Half-brother to Gonetrio (7 wins). Dam winning full-sister to 3 winners, incl.

Iviza (also 2nd Gr.2 Ribblesdale S); and half-sister to Ivyanna (Gr.1 Oaks d’Italia).

Lot 298 Bay colt by Pivotal – Daneleta (Danehill) Half-brother to 4 winners incl. leading 2yo Intense Focus (Gr.1 Dewhurst S; successful 1st crop sire in 2013). Their Danehill dam won at 2 and was 3rd Gr.3 Railway S. She is a full-sister to Danelissima (Gr.3) from the family of Soldier of Fortune, Eva Luna, etc.

And here are some we prepared earlier...

DUNTLE – winner of the Gr.1 Matron Stakes (disq) and Gr.2 Duke of Cambridge Stakes, etc.

VIZTORIA – winner of the Gr.3 Athasi Stakes; 2nd Gr.2 Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte.

INTENSE FOCUS – winner of the Gr.1 Dewhurst Stakes (see lot 298, Goffs Orby Sale).

STEELER – winner of the Gr.2 Royal Lodge Stakes; 3rd Gr.1 Racing Post Trophy. (see lot 363, Tattersalls October 1).

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Lot 309 Bay filly by Paco Boy â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Donnellyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hollow (Docksider) Half-sister to a winner from a daughter of Fair Of The Furze (4 wins, ÂŁ82,213, incl. Tattersalls Rogers Gold Cup; dam of Gr.1 winner White Muzzle and grandam of Almutawakel, Gr.1 winner of over ÂŁ2m).

Tattersalls Ireland August Sale

Lot 352 Grey colt by Dark Angel â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Goldthroat (Zafonic) Half-brother to several multiple winners, incl.

Zafisio (Gr.1 Criterium International at 2), New Beginning and Harald Bluetooth. Dam 2yo winner from Reprocolor family.

Top lots

Lot 363 Bay Colt by Pivotal â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Helter Helter (Seeking The Gold) 2nd foal. Dam won 3 races in France; half sister to 5 winners.

Grandam Gr.2 and Gr.3 winning own-sister to Rostropovich.

3rd dam Infamy (Gr.1 and Gr.2 winner; stakes-producer of 11 winners).

Lot 393 Bay colt by Lawman â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Kate The Great (Xaar) 2nd foal. Half-brother to Eastern Impact (debut winner at 2, 2013; 3rd LR National S, Sandown; his first 2 starts). Their dam, Kate The Great, won at 2 and is from the family of Japanese Champion and Champion sire Deep Impact, Jeremy, Wind in Her Hair, etc.

Lot 399 Bay filly by Galileo â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Kincob (Kingmambo) Full-sister to Gemstone (2 wins, ÂŁ53,896, LR Lanwades & Staffordstown Studs Silken Glider S, etc.; 2nd Gr.3 Park Express S) and half-sister to another winner.

Dam is half-sister to Bachelor Duke (Gr.1 Irish 2,000 Guineas) and Translucid (Stakes winner of 10 races). Family of Nureyev, Northern Dancer.

Lot 482 Bay filly by Rock Of Gibraltar â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Rainbow City (Rainbow Quest) Half-sister to 3 winners, incl. City Stable and L Frank Baum.

Dam winning full-sister to Multicoloured (Gr.2 winner) and half-sister to Gamut (Gr.1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud).

Top-class Ballymacoll family of North Light, Tartan Bearer, Golan, etc.

Lot 626 Bay filly by Archipenko â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Flapper (Selkirk) First foal of a winner of 2 races at 3 years. Great grandam Pure Grain, won Gr.1 Irish Oaks and Gr.1 Yorkshire Oaks; 3rd Gr.1 Oaks; bred 4 winners and half-sister to 8 winners. Quay Line family.

TATTERSALLS OCTOBER YEARLING SALE, BOOK 1 (8th-10th October) Lot 203 Chesnut filly by Pivotal â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Vassiana (Anabaa) Full-sister to Girouette (3 wins, ÂŁ126,629, incl. Gr.3 Phoenix Sprint S, Curragh and LR Sweet Mimosa S), and half-sister to 5 winners, incl.

Prince dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Alienor (8 wins, ÂŁ160,348; 2nd Gr.3 Prix Messidor, 2012), etc.

Lot 252 Bay filly by Invincible Spirit â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Allannah Abu (Dubawi) First foal of an LR-placed winner of 3 races.

Grandam won 4 and has bred 7 winners to date; half-sister to 7 winners, incl.

Last Second (dam of Aussie Rules, Gr.1), Alleluia (dam of Allegretto, Gr.1) and Alouette (dam of Gr.1 winners Albanova and Alborada).

Lot 363 Bay colt by Shamardal â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Discreet Brief (Darshaan) Half-brother to Steeler (3 wins, ÂŁ118,141, incl.

Gr.2 Royal Lodge S; 3rd Gr.1 Racing Post Trophy, at 2: TFR: 115 at 2), Doggerbank (2 wins and twice LR-placed) and other winners.

Their dam won Gr.3 Park Hill S.

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Price (â&#x201A;Ź) 80,000

Buyer Aiden Murphy

3 G Oscar-Some Bob Back

Railstown Stud

60,000

Mags Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Toole

3 G Beneficial-Glacier Lilly

Kelburn Park

50,000

Gerry Griffin

3 G Network-Queissa

Moanmore Stables

50,000

Tom Lacey

3 G Beneficial-Pattern Queen

Graigue Farm

40,000

Tom Malone

3 G Excellent Art-Feather Star

Palace Farm

40,000

Tom Malone

3 G Robin Des Champs-Going My Way Limekiln Stud

40,000

Tower View Stables

3 G Arcadio-Anck Su Namun

Jimmy Finn

37,000

Gerry Griffin

3 G Flemensfirth-Sunset Queen

Mount Eaton Stud

34,000

Monbeg Stables

3 G Stowaway-Beneficial Lady

Redbridge Stables

33,000

Henry de Bromhead

3 G Malinas-La Star

Rathbarry Stud

33,000

Kirk/Mullins

Five-year tale

Lot 409 Bay colt by Cape Cross â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Lady Slippers (Royal Academy) First foal of a half-sister to CD Europe (6 wins, incl.

Gr.3 Coventry S, Royal Ascot; 2nd Gr.2 Champagne S), and to the dam of Corsica (Gr.3 Bahrain Trophy; Gr.1-placed).

GOFFS SPORTSMANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S YEARLING SALE (4th October)

Age/Sex/Breeding 3 G Scorpion-Sapphire Eile

Year

Sold

Aggregate (â&#x201A;Ź)

Average (â&#x201A;Ź)

Median (â&#x201A;Ź)

Top Price (â&#x201A;Ź)

2013

365

2,731,950

7,485

4,800

80,000

2012

327

1,897,400

5,802

3,750

52,000

2011

348

1,706,550

4,904

2,800

44,000

2010

251

1,547,350

6,165

3,500

120,000

2009

207

774,000

3,739

2,000

44,000

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In summary, sales of store horses have been boosted by eyepopping deals further up the chain at in-training auctions. That has encouraged pinhookers to get in on the action, but has also meant more racehorse owners have been prepared to buy stores and wait to see them in action, because they have been priced out of lightlyraced proven horses.

Add in a range of incentives to boost sales of fillies and you have a bubbling cocktail, which, at this annual auction â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the biggest of its kind this year â&#x20AC;&#x201C; achieved gains in all categories, as it had done 12 months ago.

No fillies made the top-ten board, but at this less rarefied level the best prices were divided up among a range of stallions. A son of Scorpion, consigned by Cyril Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Haraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s County Westmeath-based Ennel Bloodstock, topped proceedings when Aiden Murphy got the better of Mags Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Toole with a bid of â&#x201A;Ź80,000, the best price at this sale since 2010.

Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Toole gained an Oscar gelding for â&#x201A;Ź60,000, while British pointto-point trainer and pinhooker Tom Lacey made another mark across the Irish Sea when landing a son of Network for â&#x201A;Ź50,000.

Store foal sales are now just a couple of months away and buyers are likely to need sound bank accounts.

Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Yearling Sale Shale gas, highly controversial in Britain before so much as an egg has been cooked on it, is said to be a significant factor in Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s growing economy.

Whether the improved financial situation is having an impact at bloodstock sales is hard to gauge, but this yearling sale saw a 79% clearance rate (up from 67% in 2012), but slightly fewer sales of million- and half-million-dollar horses, suggesting greater demand from the domestic market. Turnover and average were very slightly down, but the median increased.

Fillies took the first two places, with daughters of Dynaformer and Distorted Humor making seven-figure sums. The sale-topping Dynaformer filly, whose sire died last year, is a half-sister to multiple Graded stakes winner Optimizer.

Consigned by John Stuartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bluegrass Thoroughbred Services, she was bought by Three Chimneys Farmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Robert Clay on behalf of the Borges Torrealba family of Brazil.

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Charlotte Weber’s Live Oak Plantation took the Distorted Humor filly, and while US sires dominated the top ten board, a Galileo filly – a half-sister to Grade 1 Garden City Breeders’ Cup Stakes winner Magnificent Song – crept onto it after making $600,000 when bought by Spendthrift Farm.

Fasig-Tipton July Sale This mid-summer auction, held in Lexington, Kentucky, had until this year been one of yearlings, but the current trend to offer horses with recent form cannot be resisted by sales companies.

Thus a ‘horses of racing age’ section was introduced, with Fasig-Tipton claiming “technological strides made by the thoroughbred industry” had been a factor.

Company President Boyd Browning expanded on that, explaining that information such as race-videos and work details published on the company’s website made the sale of ‘in-training horses’ easier.

He said: “For a horse coming off a good race or showing good form, the midsummer timing of the sale is ideal.” Trainers of these cast-offs could boost yearling business by their attendance, he added.

The horses-in-training section saw 65 horses walk through the ring and 55 sell for a total of $5,819,000 at an average price of $105,800. Those figures cannot be ignored, and the sales company soon confirmed it would repeat the format next year.

The sale’s top two lots were both in this category, headed by Starship Truffles, a fouryear-old who 12 months earlier had been claimed at Calder races for $6,250. A subsequent win in the Grade 1 Princess Rooney Handicap a week before the sale was another endorsement for her, and she was knocked down for $1,000,000 to Castleton Lyons. Nat Rea’s Regis Farms landed the top yearling, a filly from the first crop of Desert Party, for $460,000, a sum last bettered in 2006, when a Forestry colt made $1.2 million.

Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Yearling Sale Top lots Sex/Breeding

Vendor

Price ($)

F Dynaformer—Indy Pick

Bluegrass T’bred Services

1,225,000

Buyer Borges Torrealba

F Distorted Humor — Cascading

Hill ‘n’ Dale Sales

1,000,000

Live Oak Plantation

C Medaglia D´Oro—Crystal Current

Bluewater Sales

875,000

Team Valor

C Indian Charlie—Queenie Cat

Hill ‘n’ Dale Sales

750,000

Stonestreet & George Bolton

F War Front—Lerici

Gainesway

650,000

Steven W. Young

F Distorted Humor—Remember

Denali Stud

650,000

Solis B/s

F Indian Charlie—Alpine Garden

Gainesway

600,000

Team Valor

F Galileo—Song To Remember

Eaton Sales

600,000

Spendthrift Farm

C Medaglia D´Oro—Stop Traffic

Taylor Made Sales

600,000

Fox Hill Farm

C Distorted Humor—Life Well Lived

Taylor Made Sales

525,000

Shadwell

Five-year tale Year

Sold

Aggregate ($)

Average ($)

Median ($)

2013

108

31,870,000

295,093

250,000

1,225,000

2012

108

32,110,000

297,315

220,000

1,575,000

2011

103

32,892,000

319,340

250,000

1,200,000

2010

118

32,515,000

275,551

240,000

1,200,000

2009

160

52,549,500

328,434

250,000

2,800,000

Fasig-Tipton July Sale Top lots Age/Sex//Name/Breeding

Vendor

Price ($)

Buyer

4 F Starship Truffles (Ghostzapper-Bobbie Use)

Hidden Brook

1,000,000

Castleton Lyons

3 C Eastwood (Speightstown-Fifth Avenue Ball)

Baccari Bloodstock

800,000

Town & Country Farms

F y (Desert Party-Lil Cozette)

Allied Bloodstock

460,000

Regis Farms

C y (Bellamy Road-Affirmed Dancer)

Gainesway

420,000

Whisper Hill Farm

C y (Tapit-Sunny Morning)

Gainesway

375,000

Wounded Warrior

4 F Holiday Soiree (Harlan’s Holiday-Try To Remember) Four Star Sales

370,000

Phase II Thoroughbreds

2 F Spring Along (Spring At Last-Connate)

Paramount Sales

370,000

Off the Hook

3 F Kingston Jamaica (Galileo-Aleagueoftheirown)

Kingswood Farm

305,000

Justin Casse

C y (Kantharos-Candescent)

Warrendale Sales

300,000

Conquest Stables

F y (Harlan’s Holiday-Rockin’ Kate)

Select Sales

270,000

Conquest Stable

Five-year tale Year

Sold

Aggregate ($)

Average ($)

Median ($)

Top Price ($)

2013

218

20,454,000

93,826

60,000

1,000,000

2012

189

15.364,000

81,291

60,000

375,000

2011

191

13,349,000

69,890

60,000

310,000

2010

125

9,757,000

78,056

55,000

350,000

2009

247

19,808,000

80,194

60,000

425,000

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Diamond Jubilee Stakes (Group 1) July Cup (Group 1)

€8,500 yearling

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Hong Kong Gold Cup (Group 1) QEII Cup (Group 1) Singapore International Cup (Group 1)

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CAULFIELD FILES ANDREW CAULFIELD REPORTS ON THE BLOODSTOCK WORLD

Vintage year if weather gods allow

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A quirk of nature, or can climate account for one crop being better than the next?

Dansili, right, was less than a length adrift of Giant’s Causeway in the Sussex Stakes

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don’t think it was just a trick of my imagination that 2012’s European threeyear-olds were an unexceptional bunch.

Timeform gave only one of them a rating higher than 124 (Camelot on 128) and Paul Curtis of the Racing Post wrote that “the Classic generation failed to come up to scratch on almost every front”. He rated the Japanese colt Gold Ship superior to all the three-year-olds which raced in Europe.

The World Thoroughbred Rankings compilers also put the proverbial boot in, rating none of the three-year-olds higher than 125, even though every one of the previous 12 champion three-year-olds had been rated 128 or higher, with the best of them (Sea The Stars and Frankel) receiving ratings of 136.

So how do we explain why a whole generation appears to be less talented than its predecessors? I would be tempted to consider the effects of climate, such as the depressingly long periods of wet, dull weather in 2012, but surely this can’t explain why 2009’s whole northern hemisphere crop failed to live up to expectations. I’m afraid that I’ll have to fall back on that hoary cliché that animals are not machines and that it is unrealistic to expect each crop to replicate its predecessor’s achievements.

As a consultant to Juddmonte Farms, I have had first-hand experience of this phenomenon, even though Juddmonte’s stallions and broodmares have achieved admirable

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consistency over the years. Inevitably, though, there has been the odd blip, as has been highlighted by the sharply contrasting results achieved by Dansili’s 2009 and 2010 crops.

As the Juddmonte managers have been around long enough to have seen numerous Group winners graduate from Dansili’s first seven crops, they now have a very good idea of what a promising youngster by Dansili looks like. The general view was that Juddmonte’s 2009 Dansili foals were a particularly pleasing collection, and the anticipation was increased by the fact that they included brothers or sisters to several stakes winners, headed by the Group 1 winners Proviso, Passage Of Time and Zambezi Sun. Inexplicably, none of them has so far won a Group race, though three have become Listed winners. Dansili can’t be blamed, as his 2009 foals for other breeders included the Group 1winning fillies Fallen For You and The Fugue, plus their fellow Group winners Thomas Chippendale, Dank, Requinto, Fire Lily and Entifaadha.

Fortunately, it has proved a very different story with Juddmonte’s 2010 foals by Dansili, which so far include five Group winners and a Listed winner. Famous Name’s sister Big Break set the ball rolling last year, when she proved too strong for a field which included Magician in the Group 3 Killavullan Stakes. The Royal Ascot meeting saw Riposte add to the Frankel family’s achievements, when she took the

Group 2 Ribblesdale Stakes, a couple of hours before the progressive Remote landed the Group 3 Tercentenary Stakes.

In July it was the turn of Flintshire, who gave Dansili his third victory in the Grand Prix de Paris with a performance which marked him out as a potential Arc winner. Then August started in great style when the buzzy Winsili displayed plenty of courage to give Juddmonte its fourth recent victory in the Group 1 Nassau Stakes.

The Listed win came from Disclaimer and there have also been successes from Ashdan, So Beloved, Fledged, Abated, Premium, Mission Approved, Bracing Breeze and the French filly Shared Account, so there have been very few blanks among Juddmonte’s 2010 Dansilis.

Perhaps the hotter summer this year is proving beneficial to the progeny of a stallion who preferred a sound surface, but the contrast between these two groups is probably just another of those inexplicable quirks which make racing and breeding so fascinating.

Europe’s stars I suspect I’m not the only one who admires the versatility shown by many of Australia’s top performers. One of the first to catch my attention was the 1993 Hardwicke Stakes winner Jeune, a confirmed middle-distance performer in England who proved far less onedimensional after his transfer to Australia.

This son of Kalaglow earned two Group 1 wins in 1994, one over nine furlongs in the Underwood Stakes and the other over two miles in the Melbourne Cup. The following year saw him win the CF Orr Stakes over seven furlongs. Similarly, Lonhro, by Octagonal, moved up and down the distance scale, winning Group 1 races over virtually every distance from seven furlongs to a mile and a half.

It is the records which make me wonder whether Europe’s top performers could be more versatile than they are often given the chance to demonstrate. I had no such thoughts, however, about High Chaparral, who excelled over a mile and a half to the extent that he won the Derby, Irish Derby

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A generous pat on the back is surely owed to Peter and Ross Doyle, following the success of Toormore in the Group 2 Vintage Stakes at Goodwood. The Doyles paid £36,000 at Doncaster’s Premier Sale for this Arakan colt, who is now unbeaten in two starts.

Peter Doyle had previously paid €26,000 at Tattersalls Ireland’s 2008 September Yearling Sale for a colt from Arakan’s first crop and €20,000 for another son of the Ballyhane Stud resident at the same sale two years later. The 26,000-euro colt, of course, turned out to be Dick Turpin, who eventually retired to the National Stud as a dual Group 1 winner of nearly £1 million. His best efforts also included creditable seconds in the English, French and Irish versions of the 2,000 Guineas.

The 20,000-euro colt Trumpet Major also proved a rare bargain, as he has scored at Group level in each of his three seasons in training, including the Champagne Stakes at two and the Bet365 Mile at four. He also has a fourth in the 2,000 Guineas on his CV.

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The Doyles’ love affair with Arakan

Toormore becomes the third Doyle-bought Group winner for Arakan at Goodwood

What makes this trio of notable successes all the more remarkable is that Dick Turpin, Trumpet Major and Toormore are the only Group winners sired by Arakan, who has only one other stakes winner to his credit, in the three-year-old Sruthan, who cost only €1,000 as a yearling.

Arakan also deserves a pat on the back (as does the Richard Hannon team). He sired Toormore and Trumpet Major from unraced mares and Dick Turpin from a filly who failed to win in 12 attempts. However, Toormore has a Group 3 two-year-old winner as his third dam, Trumpet Major has a German Oaks winner as his second dam and Dick Turpin’s

dam is a half-sister to the fast and precocious Deep Finesse.

You can get a good idea of how difficult it has been for Arakan to make his mark from the fact that Trumpet Major comes from a 2009 crop numbering only 15; Sruthan comes from a 2010 crop numbering 17; and Toormore comes from a crop of 50, conceived after Dick Turpin began to draw attention to Arakan’s potential. Even Arakan’s 2012 crop numbers fewer than 40. However, this smart son of Nureyev was very busy in 2012, when he is credited with covering 239 mares, so the Doyles are going to be very busy inspecting his stock at the 2014 yearling sales.

could benefit from being raced at range of trips and two editions of the Breeders’ Cup Turf.

After all, he represented the same Sadler’s Wells/Darshaan cross as Ebadiyla (Prix RoyalOak), Septimus (Irish St Leger and Doncaster Cup), Milan (St Leger) and Election Day (third in the Gold Cup).

But as Galileo has repeatedly shown, the ability to shine over a mile and a half needn’t negate a stallion’s potential to sire outstanding milers, especially with some help from his mares. This High Chaparral has now done, in the shape of the admirable Toronado.

It is worth highlighting that High Chaparral wasn’t without an element of speed. He won the Racing Post Trophy over a mile at two and later collected four Group races over a mile and a quarter.

The way that National Hunt breeders were circling High Chaparral like hungry wolves a few years ago suggested that breeders were beginning to abandon him. However, he has confirmed that he can occasionally pass on his considerable two-year-old ability to such as Toronado, Wrote (Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf), Joanna and Serienhoehe.

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Of course his New Zealand-conceived progeny have won some top prizes over a mile and a half or more, including the Australian Derby, a Caulfield Cup and a VRC Victoria Derby, but there have been many more Group victories over shorter distances.

For example, his 2013 Australian Derby

“High Chaparral

benefits from the speed found in the Danzig line” winner It’s A Dundeel has also won Group 1 events over a mile and a mile and a quarter.

His first Australian Derby winner, Shoot Out, gained his three subsequent Group 1 successes over a mile, and So You Think’s third in the two-mile Melbourne Cup has to

be judged alongside his wins in the Underwood Stakes over nine furlongs and two editions of the Cox Plate over a mile and a quarter. So You Think also won the Group 1 Caulfield Stakes over a mile and a quarter, as did Descarado.

High Chaparral has repeatedly shown that he benefits from the speed normally to be found in the Danzig line. Wrote is out of a Green Desert mare, as is Fillies’ Mile runnerup Lady Darshaan, and his Group winners out of Danehill mares include Noll Wallop, a Group 3 winner over a mile. Toronado isn’t out of a Danzig line mare but his second dam Wedding Gift is a talented miler by a son of Danzig.

Needless to say, Toronado is by no means the first major performer sired by a son of Sadler’s Wells from a Gone West-line mare.

Montjeu’s son Motivator, another winner of the Racing Post Trophy and the Derby, was the first to draw attention to this cross’s potential and Montjeu went on to sire another five Group winners from mares belonging to the Gone West line.

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ROA FORUM The special section for ROA members

Let us know your views on ownership Richard Wayman urges members to take part in the online survey launched this month The raison d’être of the ROA is to promote and protect the interests of racehorse owners and there can be little argument that we can only perform that role effectively if we are in regular contact with our members, so that we truly understand their views and opinions.

In addition to the AGM, which takes place in London every June, we have recently introduced regional meetings with members and, over the course of the past year, have hosted well-attended gatherings at Musselburgh, Newton Abbot, Pontefract, Doncaster, Kelso and Newmarket. The next meeting is scheduled at Newbury on September 20 and we would encourage as many members as possible to join us at the Berkshire venue.

The regional meetings provide Council representatives and the ROA staff team with the opportunity to update members on the sport’s current issues and what we are doing on their behalf. Even more importantly, they also provide a welcome opportunity to listen to our members and understand the things that matter most to them.

As you would expect, the meetings are always lively affairs and, although there is never any

shortage of frustrations raised, the overwhelming message that emanates from these sessions is just how much owners care about their sport and its future.

Of course, not everybody can attend regional meetings and for this reason we have decided to launch our first detailed survey of members for several years.

The questionnaire should only take about ten minutes to complete but it covers a number of crucial areas including members’ background in

“Your responses will provide the basis for setting our targets for 2014”

ownership, their reasons for becoming owners, the best and worst things about being an owner, identifying the issues that matter most, the owners’ raceday experience, ROA member benefits, communication with owners and future ownership plans.

In terms of the practicalities, this will be an online survey as this is probably the quickest and certainly the least expensive way of

completing a questionnaire and members will be emailed the survey during the first week of September. We recognise, however, that some members prefer more traditional forms of communication and anybody that would like to complete a paper survey is invited to contact the ROA office for a printed version.

With a view to encouraging participation, we will make a contribution to one of three racing charities for every completed questionnaire returned and the survey results will be reported in a future issue of the magazine.

The ROA is focussed on ensuring that its 7,200 members are able to make their views heard and to also know their opinions will be effectively represented. Members’ responses will provide the basis for setting our targets for 2014 and I would urge all members to take this opportunity to help shape the future direction of the organisation.

Looking beyond the ROA, the future prospects of the racing industry will, to a very large degree, be determined by whether enough people remain prepared to contribute towards the significant costs associated with keeping a horse in training.

Acting on the messages that come out of our survey will be essential if the sport is going to give itself the best possible chance of retaining its existing ownership base, as well as recruiting a new generation of racehorse owners.

The ROA and Juddmonte Farms have collaborated to arrange a visit for members to Banstead Manor Stud, the European headquarters of owner/breeder Prince Khalid Abdullah, on the afternoon of Wednesday, September 25.

The highlight of the trip for many visitors will undoubtedly be the chance to see Frankel. The unbeaten winner of 14 races and the highest rated horse in the world, as a stallion he has covered his first book of mares this season. The stellar line-up has included Group 1 winners Alexander Goldrun, Danedream, Finsceal Beo, Midday and Stacelita.

Banstead Manor has generously agreed to accommodate 50 people for the visit. Places are offered on a first come, first served basis, and

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Don’t miss out on Frankel visit

He was immense on the track – but will Frankel be a success in his stallion career?

limited to two per ROA member.

The stud is located on the outskirts of Cheveley, south of Newmarket, in Suffolk.

Transport will be available to and from

Newmarket on the day.

To book a place, please contact Sarah Holton at the ROA on sholton@roa.co.uk or call 020 7152 0200.

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Decade of success for ROA’s owner-sponsorship scheme Rule changes to novices’ chases The BHA has announced the results of the trial of changes to the novice chase programme and race conditions in 2012/13.

The alterations saw a 20% reduction in the number of weight-for-age novice, beginners and maiden chases and all horses going chasing were required to have run in at least one weight-for-age chase prior to running in a handicap.

From October 1, the rule has been revised so that a horse’s first run over fences may now be in a novice handicap chase or a weight-for-age beginners’ or novices’ chase. A proportion of the existing novice and beginners’ chases will now be converted to novice handicaps.

See racehorseowners.net for more details.

This month marks the tenth year of the Racehorse Owners Association ownersponsorship scheme. Satellite Information Services (SIS) generously stepped in to pick up the sponsorship last year after the ROA were forced to cover the scheme themselves, when the contract with Totesport expired after eight years of support.

Each year over 1,750 horses have carried the scheme’s branding, enabling their owners to reclaim the VAT on their training expenses for that period and in some cases, the purchase price of the horse. Members reclaim an average of £4,000 of VAT for each horse sponsored.

During the past ten years, sponsored horses have won at the Cheltenham Festival, including Son Of Flicka in the Coral Cup and Cape Tribulation in the Pertemps Final, while classy Flat horses who have carried the logos with distinction include Group 1 winners Indian Ink, Sky Lantern and Canford Cliffs.

We are currently taking applications for the September 2013 scheme. In order to qualify, horses need to be owned 100% by ROA members, or in the case of a racing partnership, the nominated partners must be

Top filly Sky Lantern sports the SIS logo

members to gain a place on the scheme. Please email kbrewer@roa.co.uk for more information or to join.

Which horses deserve special recognition?

In advance of this year’s ROA Horseracing Awards, members are actively encouraged to nominate any racehorses that they feel would be worthy of being nominated for the Special Achievement Award.

This award was introduced last year to recognise horses that had made a particularly memorable contribution to the sport throughout the season, and which are not shortlisted for any other award.

The inaugural winner of this Award last year was Hunt Ball, who was recognised for his stratospheric rise in rating from 69 to 157 over nine races in the last half of the 2011/2012 jump season.

To nominate a horse for the Special Achievement Award, please email Keely Brewer at kbrewer@roa.co.uk with the horse’s name and a short summary of no more than 50 words detailing why you think it should be nominated.

The Awards celebrate the season’s champions – the horses and their owners – and members are encouraged to book to

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attend the glittering black tie dinner and dance, which attracts in excess of 500 guests.

This year’s ROA Horseracing Awards evening will take place on Thursday, December 5 at a new venue, the InterContinental Hotel on Park Lane, London.

Guests will enjoy a champagne reception, followed by a sumptuous three-course dinner, before the Awards ceremony, which will be compered by Nick Luck and Mike Cattermole. After the Awards, the popular Chance Band will then perform a selection of classic songs.

The evening will also include a live and silent auction, and this year’s main benefitting charity will be the Injured Jockeys Fund.

Tickets are now on sale, priced at £175 per person. This year the ticket price includes half a bottle of wine. Tables of ten are available at the discounted rate of £1,550. Bookings can be made online at racehorseowners.net or by calling the ROA office on 020 7152 0200.

Anthony Knott with Hunt Ball’s award

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Harry Williams joins Team ROA in London The first BHA graduate to serve their placement with the ROA shares his experience...

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lmost a month after first arriving at the ROA, things have not calmed down and neither will they. While the summer festivals may have passed for another year, working to establish a presence at upcoming open days and coordinating the 2013 ROA Horseracing Awards, racing’s social event of the year, have become new priorities.

As the first BHA graduate to serve their placement at the ROA, I have not only had my eyes opened to a proper day’s work but also the important role owners play in keeping the sport I love alive, as well as the role postgraduates have in shaping the racing industry.

Since 1992, racing has been looking to the future with the BHA Graduate Scheme. A course designed to bridge the gap between graduates and the racing industry, it has provided a springboard for many, including Alan Delmonte, Chief Executive of the Levy Board, Coral’s Director of Communication Simon Clare and the ROA’s very own

Harry Williams: enjoying his placement

Richard Wayman.

While the personnel selected for the course changes every year, the schedule remains the same; two weeks of residential and then eight weeks of placement. The residential course is designed to improve our working knowledge of

ROA Arkle celebration dinner A celebration dinner on a balmy summer evening at The Turf Club marked the 12th anniversary of the ROA Arkle Partnership on July 23.

The partnership, headed by former ROA Council member Peter Deal, has enjoyed phenomenal success on the racecourse, with 30 winners during the 12-year period. Their horses owned have included Infini (trained by Martin Pipe), Indalo, Back On Line and currently Quartz de Thaix and Renard.

Seven of the eight partnership members attended the dinner, organised by Pam Deal, and were joined by Venetia Williams, the partnership’s trainer for the past ten years, assistant Shirley Vickery and ROA membership manager Sadie Evans.

From left to right: John Dale, Peter Deal, Annie Lambert, Anthony Deal, Michael Silver, trainer Venetia Williams, John Tyndall and Derrick Mayes

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the racing industry through talks and visits, but it is outside of the timetable that you really begin to understand the opportunities the sport has to offer. Whether it is sharing a drink with Gordon Elliott, stumbling into Our Vic in the British Racing School’s fields or just talking racing with other graduates, it makes you wonder not only why you ever considered a career outside of racing, but how there could be a life outside it at all?

No sooner had I walked through the looming doors that guard 75 High Holborn, home of the ROA, than talk of prize-money agreements, commercial deals and Gold Standard Awards filled the air. While this fast start came as a shock to the student system, it has proved

“The fast start came as a shock to the student system – but it has proved advantageous”

advantageous. By meeting all the members of the team in the first week, and then going on some fantastic trips, including to see the ROA Racing Partnership V’s new acquisition Tiger Feat at Alan King’s stables, it is safe to say my knowledge of what the ROA aims to achieve has come on in leaps and bounds.

With this knowledge comes appreciation.

Two things in particular stand out. First, the ROA are guilty of underselling themselves. With 7,200-plus members and a six-person team and 16-strong Council, it is no mean feat to keep owners happy while simultaneously negotiating the financial future of racing.

Second, owners must be kept happy, as they put more into the sport financially than any other stakeholder. It is important to reiterate it, for nothing other than to remind ourselves the equine trinity of horse, rider and trainer is one vital component light. If owners’ contributions were to falter, the sport would be in real trouble.

So what now? Well it’s time to put what I’ve learnt into practice. Whether it be trying to answer racing’s biggest questions, or simply making sure that everyone has their car park labels on time, it’s vital I make the most of my two-month placement.

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MEET THE COUNCIL Alan Pickering talks money matters, meetings and Mill Reef

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hat is/was the day job?

I am the Chairman of a financial services company called BESTrustees. I’m on the board of nine pension schemes – including one that works in Kosovo – and Chairman of six of them.

Why did you get involved in racing politics and what do you bring to the ROA Council?

My enthusiasm for the sport got me involved in racing politics. It’s good to put something back and being on the ROA Council allows me to do that. I’m not a ‘techie’ but I’ve spent much of my life at the interface, attending business meetings and talking to people – I’m comfortable in that environment and enjoy discussing the issues that are important to owners.

How has your background/ upbringing influenced your views?

I grew up in York, which of course is a hotspot of racing and training. I was a sports fan growing up and enjoyed football, rugby league and racing. It was me that got my parents into racing, not the other way round.

One of my first jobs was as a gardener at York racecourse and I swept up after Mill Reef had left the parade ring on Gimcrack day in 1970 – not a lot of people know that!

My family was working class and when I first went racing it was in the four-shilling entrance – not Grandstand or Tattersalls. I suppose I’ve come from the other side of the tracks and sometimes have to pinch myself, as the success I’ve enjoyed as an owner has been an unanticipated privilege.

my toe in via syndicates with Martin Pipe, Jack Berry and Alex Stewart before taking the plunge of sole ownership with Ed Vaughan.

In terms of success, the last nine months have been my best – Robin Hoods Bay was a close second to Farraaj in the Winter Derby at Lingfield in March, when the track record was broken. He won a Class 2 handicap at Haydock on August 10, which was my biggest win to date, and the plan now is one more race before the Cambridgeshire.

I’d love to take him abroad next winter, with Dubai the target, as he needs good going and a flat track.

“I swept the parade

ring when Mill Reef won the Gimcrack in 1970 – not a lot of people know that” I’ve also had success with Cosmic Destiny, Flamborough Breeze and Mr Velocity, winners of 13 races between them.

Are you involved with any other racing organisations?

My only other racing role is as a member of the BHA Rules Committee. The ROA Council takes up a fair amount of my time and I want

to make sure I can perform that role properly.

What do you love/hate about racing?

I love most things about racing, particularly the people I meet, whether jockeys, trainers, owners or racegoers. I go racing as much as I can – probably about 100 days a year, although much of that is spent at my local track Lingfield, unless I have a runner elsewhere.

I’m more of a Goodwood person than an Ascot person; it’s more relaxed and not just a social occasion. Being wined and dined at the races is not for me – I like to eat quickly so I can get on and watch the horses!

In terms of things I hate, it would have to be arrogance, which you sometimes come across in this sport. Many racing people have been successful in other walks of life, which can give rise to a degree of arrogance. I remember a trainer once telling me that owners should stay out of the big issues in racing – I think racing needs to be very careful about denigrating its clients in that way.

Where would you like the sport to be in five years time?

On a firmer financial footing; it needs a more robust structure if owners are to receive reasonable compensation for their investment and all of racing’s employees, including jockeys and stable staff, are to be looked after financially. Racing also contributes massively to the rural economy and that deserves recognition.

What is your number one goal at the ROA?

JOHN GROSSICK

It has to be trying to ensure that everyone who owns a racehorse or has a share in a racehorse is an ROA member. I’m certainly not a slave to the corporate state but I believe in being a member of an organisation that represents your best interests. I want the ROA to have a seat at every racing table – it is right and responsible that racehorse owners make their views known.

How long have you owned horses and how much success have you had?

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Robin Hoods Bay sets up a tilt at the Cambridgeshire with victory at Haydock

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NH black-type programme boost Three new Listed races for mares have been added to the 2013/14 jumps black-type programme following positive indications from British and Irish auction houses regarding the sales prices of fillies.

The new races are a 2m5f mares’ hurdle at Warwick in February and mares’ bumpers at Cheltenham in November and Huntingdon on Boxing Day. All three are valued at £20,000. The uplift in the value of fillies and mares has been achieved in part thanks to a new series of seven Listed novices’ and juvenile hurdle races, complementing the existing programme of mares’ races for the 2012/13 season.

The initiative was launched by the BHA as part of an ongoing programme to increase opportunities for fillies and mares of all abilities, and provide further incentive for prospective owners to purchase jumping-bred fillies and mares at auction.

L’Unique: helped justify new races

Of the seven new races, all but one performed well above the expected rating. Of these, the juvenile hurdle at Aintree in December performed to an average rating of 125.50 (12lb above parameter). The winner, L’Unique, went on to Grade 1 glory at Aintree, while the second, Cockney Sparrow, scored at the same meeting.

Ruth Quinn, BHA Director of Racing, said: “Whilst 50% of the thoroughbreds born are fillies, the number of those that, having been bred to go jumping, actually do so, leaves considerable scope for growth. Against the backdrop of a horse population that has been contracting in the last five years, there is an ever greater incentive for us to aim to create a system that encourages quality fillies and mares to have the opportunity to demonstrate their ability on the racecourse before going to the paddocks.

“It will take a number of years before we see lasting results, but the introduction of a programme of black-type fillies’ and mares’ hurdle races and bumpers does appear to be providing immediate benefits. Such measures, after just one season, seem to be altering buyers’ behaviour and increasing the average sales price of fillies.”

She added: “If we can, over time, have a material impact in this area – by stimulating the market for fillies and mares and seeing a greater proportion of them campaigned on the racecourse – the potential long-term benefits are significant for all stakeholders.”

The full list of races, field sizes and ratings can be found on the BHA website.

Racing’s unsung heroes Haydock Park racecourse will be hosting the 2013 Pride of Racing Awards on Saturday, September 28 in aid of Racing Welfare.

The awards, supported by Betfair, celebrate British racing’s unsung heroes and provide the ideal opportunity to acknowledge the positive contributions they make to the sport of racing, either by one-off acts of generosity and heroism or through a lifetime commitment.

A champagne reception will start the day off at 11am, followed by lunch, the awards ceremony, charity auction and a great afternoon of racing, including a Channel 4 televised five-furlong sprint worth £50,000.

Tickets cost £110 each or £1,000 for a table of ten guests and can be ordered by contacting Tansy Challis: tchallis@racingwelfare.co.uk or 01638 560763.

The ticket price includes an entry badge, racecard, wine and afternoon tea.

Prize-money levels continue to improve The latest prize-money figures confirm that values are heading in a positive direction with almost £10 million more being paid out in the first seven months of the year compared with the same period in 2012. This growth has been driven primarily by the Levy Board’s increased prize-money budget, with some racecourses also making greater contributions.

The ROA and its partners in the Horsemen’s Group continue to discuss the introduction of prize-money agreements with racecourses, which would mean that racecourses’ contribution to prize-money would be contractually linked to their racingrelated revenues from the beginning of 2014.

ROA Chief Executive Richard Wayman said: “Through the pages of the ROA Forum, we will continue to provide members with

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quarterly updates on total prize-money levels.

It is encouraging that prize-money is now heading upwards but there is long way to go before we get to levels that would begin to reverse the recent decline in the sport’s ownership base.

“We have set a prize-money target for 2014 of £120m, which would be over £22m higher than last year, but this would require deals being reached with both racecourses and the betting industry. Establishing such agreements sits at the top of our current list of priorities.”

Sources of prize-money (January - July) 2010 (£m)

2011 (£m)

2012 (£m)

2013 (£m)

HBLB

34.1

19.8

20.0

26.9

Racecourses

19.4

26.8

26.4

28.5

8.8

8.5

8.7

9.6

62.3

55.1

55.1

65.0

Owners TOTAL

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ROA MEMBERS IN FOCUS:

DAVID ARMSTRONG

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hen leading owner David Armstrong was the subject of ‘Talking To’ in the September 2012 issue of this magazine, the deteriorating situation with prize-money led him to nominate that for his ‘magic wand’ question.

A year on and he is far more positive about the topic, and the state of British racing generally. On a personal level, Garswood has provided Armstrong and wife Emma with a Group 2 success in Glorious Goodwood’s Lennox Stakes.

Armstrong, who had never set foot on a racecourse until ten years ago, since when his red and white colours have become a familiar sight, with homebred Mayson providing the highlight with a Group 1 July Cup strike, says: “Prize-money has come back in the last year and I think British racing has turned the corner after a few years of doom and gloom.

“I think the BHA is doing a very good job – it is paramount we keep on top of corruption – but we have got to keep going forward.”

Progress, for Armstrong, would include starting the Flat turf season with more, er, turf fixtures, and better opportunities for three-yearold sprinters, especially against their own age group.

Speed and immediacy have always appealed to Armstrong, ever since the days when he raced pigeons over ‘sprint’ trips of 70 to 100 miles.

“We had a big racing pigeon set up but Emma had asthma and we’d sold up by the end of 2003, a few months after I had been smitten by racing on my first visit, to Haydock,” says Armstrong.

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“The National Hunt scene is fantastic, but injuries and putting a store horse in a field for three or four years is not for me,” he continues.

“I like to get on with it, I love two-year-old racing and like to focus on five to seven furlongs.”

Garswood has run over a mile, in this year’s 2,000 Guineas, in which he was well fancied but could not land a blow on Dawn Approach and co.

Garswood, his more celebrated predecessor Mayson, and promising two-year-old Parbold are shared by the Armstrongs and Cheveley Park, the Newmarket stud owning threequarters of stallion Mayson, and half-shares in the other two – they also bred Garswood.

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Cheveley Park, to Kyllachy, and although that never materialised as the mare suffered an aneurism, I have done plenty more since,” explains Armstrong.

“There were a lot of offers for Mayson but Cheveley Park was the choice. I have always admired Pivotal and he is Mayson’s broodmare sire. Cheveley Park is a fantastic place, and Mr and Mrs Thompson are fantastic people.”

Armstrong has enjoyed the journey of learning the ins-and-outs of horseracing and breeding since purchasing his first horse, Mind Alert, and has for the past three years had his string exclusively with Richard Fahey, who has become a close friend, as is Fahey’s assistant Robin O’Ryan.

“Richard is in North Yorkshire and we are in Lancashire, it’s about an hour and 20 minutes, and we enjoy going to the yard as often as we can,” Armstrong says.

As well as owning a farm, Armstrong has been in his line of business for 30 years. That business is quarries, waste management and recycling.

Rubbish, then, plays a big part in his life.

Happily, his experiences in racing have been anything but.

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Flat Racecourse League Table Ptn Racecourse

1 Ascot 2 York 3 Newmarket 4 Goodwood 5 Epsom Downs 6 Newbury 7 Doncaster 8 Sandown Park 9 Haydock Park 10 Chester 11 Ayr 12 Pontefract 13 Ripon 14 Salisbury 15 Nottingham 16 Musselburgh 17 Hamilton Park 18 Thirsk 19 Beverley 20 Warwick 21 Lingfield Park 22 Windsor 23 Leicester 24 Yarmouth 25 Redcar 26 Carlisle 27 Brighton 28 Newcastle 29 Southwell 30 Catterick Bridge 31 Wolverhampton 32 Kempton Park 33 Chepstow 34 Folkestone 35 Bath 36 Ffos Las Total

Figures for period August 1, 2012 to July 31, 2013

Ownership

Avg racecourse spend per fixture (£)

Avg HBLB spend per fixture (£)

Avg owner spend per fixture (£)

Avg prizemoney per fixture (£)

Total no. of fixtures

Total prize-money (£)

Avg racecourse spend per fixture 2011-12 (£)

I I JCR I JCR I ARC JCR JCR I I I I I JCR I I I I JCR ARC ARC I ARC I JCR ARC ARC ARC I ARC JCR ARC ARC ARC ARC

362,601 157,130 89,810 95,833 124,245 46,578 55,216 53,117 37,505 77,281 24,162 25,214 25,735 24,137 14,954 32,507 18,072 20,682 16,343 16,508 12,941 20,621 17,720 12,598 14,972 19,731 9,954 27,688 9,187 14,784 10,982 18,117 10,897 13,722 17,005 23,307 36,032

115,003 94,479 74,471 68,929 65,858 58,600 54,501 52,836 45,684 38,990 36,252 29,665 25,203 25,132 21,474 21,212 20,234 20,011 19,758 19,540 19,415 19,112 18,963 17,843 16,414 16,324 16,260 15,976 15,867 15,633 14,050 13,881 13,080 11,930 11,563 9,166 28,751

159,665 76,218 72,949 29,987 81,017 27,300 36,515 17,445 14,443 7,380 8,792 3,665 4,280 5,141 5,035 5,148 3,256 5,744 2,934 4,044 2,719 4,625 4,620 2,732 15,337 4,489 2,188 7,007 1,844 2,605 2,186 3,242 2,654 2,768 2,921 2,882 14,682

637,269 327,827 238,125 195,349 271,703 136,270 147,862 124,444 99,139 124,451 69,691 59,437 55,718 56,613 43,353 61,048 42,125 48,537 41,177 41,001 36,689 45,249 42,550 33,680 48,523 41,989 28,755 52,506 27,740 35,534 29,129 37,150 27,417 28,920 32,340 35,356 80,861

18 17 38 20 12 17 25 18 24 15 13 16 15 15 18 16 16 15 19 11 101 23 21 27 17 9 17 17 33 17 120 89 14 5 24 7 898

11,470,837 5,573,063 9,048,759 3,906,977 3,260,433 2,316,583 3,696,545 2,177,777 2,336,843 1,866,765 905,981 950,998 835,771 849,194 780,349 976,775 674,000 728,050 782,356 451,008 3,705,565 1,040,734 893,556 909,363 824,886 377,900 488,832 892,600 915,434 604,075 3,495,463 3,306,349 383,835 144,600 776,153 229,813 72,578,220

378,913 152,131 92,487 34,567 119,286 48,315 60,818 46,430 37,981 70,286 22,126 19,700 26,607 25,128 15,709 33,543 20,078 22,035 14,629 18,298 12,897 14,431 14,283 11,992 12,202 15,656 10,144 22,572 9,393 12,815 10,793 16,584 11,079 11,162 16,508 26,739 34,239

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43

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Cheltenham Aintree Ascot Haydock Park Sandown Park Kempton Park Newbury Ayr Warwick Chepstow Perth Musselburgh Wetherby Cartmel Newcastle Newton Abbot Wincanton Kelso Market Rasen Taunton Ludlow Fakenham Ffos Las Stratford-on-Avon Wolverhampton Carlisle Exeter Hereford Doncaster Fontwell Park Plumpton Hexham Southwell Uttoxeter Worcester Folkestone Bangor-on-Dee Leicester Lingfield Park Huntingdon Towcester Sedgefield Catterick Bridge Total

Ownership

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Total prize-money (£)

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JCR JCR I JCR JCR JCR I I JCR ARC I I I I ARC I JCR I JCR I I I ARC I ARC JCR JCR ARC ARC ARC I I ARC ARC ARC ARC I I ARC JCR I ARC I

236,956 235,377 109,586 87,068 67,068 44,662 42,259 32,818 27,256 26,551 26,214 24,399 23,488 23,257 21,429 21,248 21,121 19,845 19,308 18,722 18,485 18,469 18,385 18,319 17,500 16,779 14,605 14,439 13,969 13,319 13,196 13,166 12,940 12,410 11,824 10,384 9,808 9,682 9,543 9,412 8,945 7,654 5,470 30,998

100,692 114,745 72,839 68,647 64,629 49,865 60,345 43,855 36,116 25,558 22,193 29,776 24,623 17,107 26,086 24,776 30,101 27,134 22,378 22,323 24,239 22,484 19,766 20,380 24,500 24,175 26,133 8,000 37,507 17,026 21,214 13,281 16,144 19,431 16,427 11,470 19,162 23,781 21,157 22,294 13,682 19,173 28,813 29,805

60,830 62,942 16,877 16,573 13,740 9,715 14,798 11,678 6,863 6,904 1,624 4,632 4,625 4,609 3,689 0 4,569 3,203 4,477 4,726 4,654 0 3,907 4,212 0 3,864 4,613 2,841 6,198 2,960 3,611 2,070 2,914 4,435 3,647 2,179 2,256 3,394 1,966 3,532 2,764 2,596 2,695 7,242

398,478 413,065 199,301 172,289 145,858 104,550 117,402 88,831 70,665 59,663 50,030 59,933 53,474 44,973 52,679 46,024 57,133 51,432 46,646 45,771 47,664 40,953 42,058 43,646 42,000 44,818 46,582 25,800 57,674 34,048 38,256 29,058 32,819 36,977 33,431 24,033 31,426 37,571 32,665 35,861 25,690 29,422 36,978 68,503

15 8 7 7 10 13 10 10 7 12 16 8 16 7 8 17 17 12 18 13 14 10 18 17 1 11 13 5 9 21 14 12 14 22 18 3 13 7 9 13 15 14 9 512

5,977,171 3,304,518 1,395,107 1,279,859 1,385,649 1,359,151 1,174,016 888,315 494,652 715,950 800,485 479,462 855,585 314,809 421,434 782,404 971,261 617,189 839,627 595,022 667,298 409,534 736,023 741,975 42,000 492,999 605,569 129,000 519,066 715,000 535,590 348,700 459,468 813,485 601,766 72,100 408,532 263,000 293,983 466,194 385,357 411,914 332,800 35,103,020

209,617 226,828 122,357 81,366 56,975 45,908 43,018 28,208 10,368 24,676 31,265 17,126 20,463 25,587 20,611 20,728 23,753 23,557 18,667 19,094 14,720 16,563 17,543 21,239 0 14,665 13,856 14,622 26,363 12,610 11,714 8,948 12,423 13,190 9,443 9,997 14,708 8,799 11,657 13,046 8,374 9,110 5,558 29,409

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EXPLANATION The tables set out the average prize-money at each fixture staged by a racecourse over the last 12 months. They show how this is made up of the three sources of prizemoney: 1. Racecourses’ contribution 2. Levy Board (HBLB) 3. Owners The tables also confirm the number of fixtures staged and the total amount of prize-money paid out by each racecourse throughout this period.

The racecourses are ordered by the average amount of their own contribution to prizemoney at each fixture. This contribution originates from various sources including media rights, admission revenues and racecourse sponsors.

If a racecourse has increased its average contribution at each fixture compared with the previous 12 months, it receives a green ‘up’ arrow. If its average contribution has fallen, however, it receives a red ‘down’ arrow.

As these tables are based on the prize-money paid out by each racecourse, the abandonment of a major fixture could distort a racecourse’s performance.

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Crowded house at Tattersalls Lively debate and informative presentations make for an enjoyable TBA annual seminar

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t has been mooted that the TBA annual general meeting should coincide with the annual seminar, an idea which, judging by the excellent turnout at the latter, would help to increase attendance levels for the AGM. This year’s seminar, entitled ‘The Bloodstock Market Today’, boasted an impressive line-up of speakers, including the Queen’s racing and bloodstock advisor John Warren, veterinary experts Geoff Lane and Dr Peter Webbon, plus the ever-entertaining Paul Thorman, all of whom helped to attract an audience of more than 170 members and guests at Tattersalls.

The economy may be unfathomable to many but Weatherbys’ Private Banking Director Adrian Crichton is adept at presenting the key facts in a language that even the most numerically-challenged can understand. His cautiously optimistic assertion that the gloom is lifting, albeit slowly, echoes the message received from recent bloodstock sales and will be welcome news to breeders who have struggled through the recent years of recession.

Some entertaining presentations by guest speakers kept the delegates amused

at the sales have increased – we don’t need the not-solds and the no-bids.”

Larry Stratton, who had taken issue with Greeves’ apparent concern over the declining number of foals in Britain at the AGM earlier in July, reiterated his view that this was a good thing and that breeders should not be encouraged to return to the levels of overproduction seen up to 2007.

Greeves replied: “I’m giving you the statistics. If they show a decline then I do interpret that as a concern because we don’t know how low it will go. When I say a concern, I’m saying that the British racing industry should be concerned and shouldn’t take British breeders for granted. I don’t know where the bottom will be and the fixture list

It is that same group which most concerns Paul Greeves, the Keeper of the General Stud Book and Executive Director of Weatherbys, who presented a detailed analysis of the thoroughbred population of Britain and Ireland.

“The Irish numbers went down dramatically, dropped below a sustainable level and are now coming back up. In Britain we didn’t dip so dramatically,” said Greeves of the last five years of foal crops. “The past two recessions saw dips for three years then recovery. This recession has been tougher and recovery is still not evident in foal numbers.

“From 2008 to 2011, foal registrations in GB are down by 21.71% and in Ireland by 39.21%. There have also been dramatic declines in Germany and Italy, with Argentina the only country to show an increase.”

The word ‘recovery’ was one which sparked plenty of debate during the day. During his later speech, Paul Thorman’s reponse to the dramatic decline in foal numbers was, “Bloody good job”. He added: “I don’t like the use of the word recovery because we don’t need to recover to that level [in 2007]. Clearance rates

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hasn’t been reduced.”

He added: “The racing industry in this country is very dependent on British breeding and through the recession there has been a greater dependence on owner/breeders.”

Only talking sense It’s always good to hear the views of those actively engaged in the bloodstock market who are not just spending their own money but are entrusted by others with a significant investment in the industry. That’s the situation in which Paul Thorman finds himself as a noted consignor with his wife Sara through their Trickledown Stud and also as a breeder and pinhooker. Thorman’s not one to mince words, referring to the current book sizes of the popular stallions as “obscene”, adding, “We now have fewer stallions covering more mares which cannot be good for the gene pool.”

He offered good advice on buying mares to those starting out in breeding, saying: “If you spend enough time looking at foals and yearlings you realise that the same mares, same families, same farms regularly breed goodlooking horses even if the mare isn’t good-looking herself.

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www.thetba.co.uk the sales,” he added, encouraging vendors to ensure that their horses reached the sales in good time, even if it means incurring extra expenses.

An understanding of stallion statistics is also important, he averred. “When I’m going through a catalogue I eliminate offspring of old mares who do not have good produce records and also those by stallions proven not to produce a good percentage of decent horses.”

Outlining his selection process, Warren continued: “What does the horse say and what does the page say? The horse should follow the page. Conformation is very important for resale value. Prize-money in the UK is still so ordinary that we need a jackpot sale when selling a horse on. I don’t take many chances with crooked, incorrect horses – vetting is key.”

lessons. I don’t like to see everything at the bottom of the page.”

He also added weight to the belief of many sales regulars that horses’ ratings are a more useful guide than black type. “Pedigrees are less relevant now with all the publications available to us. We used to be obsessed with black type but now the ratings are readily available. I’d much rather have a mare with some well-rated offspring by bad stallions.”

Referring to the importance of having your horse in the right place during an increasingly packed sales calendar, Thorman remarked: “Getting the right horse to the right sale is absolutely paramount. I’d much rather be a big fish in a small pond – better to be at the top end of Book 3 than the bottom of Book 2.”

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As racing and bloodstock advisor to the Queen, it’s only right that John Warren should fly the flag and this he did with his assertion that Britain currently stands some of the best stallions in the world.

“I haven’t been to Kentucky for five years – there are more and more dirt stallions and we now have an extraordinary number of good

One person for whom vetting is a regular thorn in his side is Alastair Donald, who runs SackvilleDonald bloodstock agency with Ed Sackville and specialises in the overseas market for horses in training.

“The vetting process for Hong Kong is very strict and around 30% of horses tested fail,” said Donald. “In Hong Kong it’s all about speed, the horses need to like firm ground and they can’t get away with physical defects, such as bad feet or long pasterns.”

With such good prize-money on offer, buyers for Hong Kong, where there is no twoyear-old racing, can afford to pay decent sums for a horse who has shown a good level of form overseas and this has proved a lucrative outlet for owners and trainers in this country.

“Seventeen of the top 30 horses in Hong Kong are from Britain and Ireland,” said Donald. “I think that Hong Kong buyers are becoming more likely to buy yearlings here and race them here at two. Breeders should

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stallions in this part of the world. The reverseshuttle stallions may be starting to take off too with the success of the likes of Exceed And Excel, Fastnet Rock and Redoute’s Choice.

“Where the best stallions are the best mares will follow. Stallions are the lifeblood of British racing.”

He is not blinded to the bigger global picture, however, and, having recently started up several new Australian syndicates for Highclere Thoroughbred Racing with Britishbought stock, believes that southern hemisphere lines have an important part to play in the future of European racing.

“Australia is the place to source new blood to strengthen the turf horses,” he said.

Warren’s impressive buying record is hard earned through an exhaustive programme of yearling viewing both before the sales and at the sales grounds.

“Pre-looking before the sales is hugely helpful as there’s only ever very little time at

Sales vetting Both Dr John McVeigh and Geoff Lane have plenty of expertise in vetting at the sales, with the practice of the former, Baker McVeigh, being responsible for assessing potential purchases for the Hong Kong Jockey Club among others.

McVeigh’s belief is that the job of a vet at the sales is to “weigh up risk”, with clients having different preferences as to what they can and can’t overlook when it comes to conformation.

However, his research over the years points to the high heritability of certain traits and that these faults will invariably lead to soundness issues. On McVeigh’s scale of which of these to avoid, he posts offset knees on a horse who is base wide at the walk and trot at the top of the list, with horses who toe in or out from the fetlock being much less of a concern.

Geoff Lane, a surgeon who specialises in wind operations, outlined the history of windtesting at sales, which only began in 1983. At British and Irish sales, yearlings are tested by both standing endoscopy and a lunge test and Lane believes that overground endoscopy, for

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bear in mind their mare’s conformation when selecting a stallion, and also the need for firm ground.”

Other markets in which Donald is engaged include Australia, where the popularity of European imports for the major Cup races is at an all-time high.

He said: “In Australia, the demand is now higher than the supply for horses with form over 12 furlongs or more and who also like firm ground.”

Donald added that there’s a likelihood we’ll see more Australian buyers raiding the European yearling sales for staying blood rather than buying horses in training in years to come.

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will begin to be used at the yearling sales.

Currently this method of testing is only used on horses being ridden in training.

Lane issued a note of caution to those buying at American yearling sales, saying: “I find it extraordinary that they still rely only on standing endoscopy, with no lunge test.”

He also offered the opinion that foals should not be subjected to multiple scopes while at the sales but should arrive there with a good quality video of a scope taken at home.

He said: “Some apparently normal foals will deteriorate by the time they are yearlings but the reverse is also true. I just don’t think it’s right for foals to be stressed multiple times at the sales when good video would be fine. I would plead for the video to be done in the foal’s home environment.”

The science of breeding Dr Peter Webbon of the Animal Health Trust discussed differences between somatic cell therapy to treat diseases and germ cell therapy, or ‘gene doping’, in his talk ‘Defining the thoroughbred in today’s changing scientific

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Geoff Lane and John McVeigh shared thoughts on wind-testing and vetting at sales

world’. While a certain amount of genetic manipulation in thoroughbreds comes about naturally through selected breeding for performance and conformation, tools open to those in farming, such as genomic prediction for milk production, raise the question of how far we are willing to take similar advances when it comes to thoroughbred breeding.

“There are of course complex ethical issues surrounding germ cell gene therapy, and performance-enhancing genes may be closely linked to genes that increase the susceptibility to injury,” said Webbon, who outlined a study proposal by Dr Sarah Blott to identify horses with high and low fracture risks through whole genome scanning.

Wales and West Midlands Regional Day TBA members were given a warm welcome at the recent Wales and West Midlands Regional Day at Llety Farms, where owner/manager David Hodge and his staff pulled out all the stops to provide an enjoyable and interesting day.

Llety Farms covers 230 acres in the Vale of Towy, Carmarthenshire, and consists of rolling, well-sheltered grassland and excellent facilities including a horsewalker, all-weather paddocks and lungeing area, and a separate foaling unit with dedicated paddocks.

After a welcome cup of coffee and some delicious cakes, members first viewed resident stallions Stimulation, a son of Choisir, and new recruit Sayif, by Kheleyf. Stimulation’s first crop are now yearlings, and we were able to see a number of these later in the visit as well as this year’s foals born at Llety, all of whom confirmed his ability to stamp his stock in terms of conformation and temperament.

David has high hopes that Sayif, who has just covered his first book, will pass on his speed, toughness and temperament to his offspring.

There followed an opportunity to view three groups of mares and foals in their paddocks, all of whom impressed with their calm, relaxed temperaments. Finally, members were shown two groups of yearling destined for Tattersalls Books 1, 2 and 3 and for DBS later in the year, after which the morning finished with a convivial lunch at the nearby Halfway Inn. TBA NEW MEMBERS D Erskine Crum, London; M Greaves, Suffolk; Hambleton Racing Ltd, North Yorkshire; Mrs D J James, London; Mrs L Jewell, Kent; Mallards Bloodstock Ltd, London; R C Miquel, Perthshire R G Toes, Yorkshire.

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Sakha, by Wolfhound, with her strong bay filly by Stimulation at Llety Stud

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Forty TBA members enjoyed a glorious day at the Sangster family’s Manton House, where trainer Brian Meehan has been in residence since 2006.

The history of Manton as a training establishment goes back over 150 years and has seen many great horses emerge including the winners of over 50 Group 1 races. Brian Meehan’s first season there saw him win two of the world’s most valuable races, namely the Dubai Duty Free and the Breeders’ Cup Turf, along with the prestigious International Trainer of the Year award. The Sangster family were on hand to welcome TBA members, and Guy and Sam happily chatted to guests, answering any questions, whilst handing out refreshments, brochures and DVDs. The group gathered to see a parade of some of the inhabitants who were due to run in the

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Equine residents were paraded

coming days with Brian giving detailed and informative descriptions of each horse and its plan for the season. Members were then allowed unlimited access to the yard to go and explore and introduce themselves to the horses, who were obviously so relaxed and happy in their environment. The yard boasts an indoor swimming pool, horse walkers, a

solarium and, according to several guests, some of the largest and airiest stables they had ever seen.

With temperatures approaching 30 degrees, it was refreshing to climb aboard the airconditioned coach to see the estate. Jim, a staff member for many years, acted as the tour guide and he captivated his audience with anecdotes and knowledge of the area.

The first stop was at the top of the grass gallops, of which there are over 500 acres including the unique seven-furlong ‘Derby Gallop’. This was developed in 1985 to recreate the undulations found at Epsom and has been used by several outside trainers before heading to the Derby. Here the head gallop man, Mark, gave an insightful talk about the work that goes into maintaining some of best gallops in the country, detailing the various pieces of machinery that assist his

team including the estate’s own water supply which is used to water the gallops.

The final stop was at the Old Yard. Here the exterior of the boxes have changed very little since they were first built back in the late 19th century. Sam Sangster then kindly allowed members into Manton House itself, where they could view many of the family’s trophies along with the winners’ boards.

The party then headed to ‘The Outside Chance’, where Paul Mathie, author of The Masters of Manton, gave a short anecdotal chat about the history of the historic training establishment.

A wonderful lunch then followed, with many members remaining in the attractive courtyard to enjoy the afternoon sunshine before returning home, many commenting that if they were to return as a horse they had just seen where they would want to live!

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Within that area you can find contact details and editorials from the professional advisors (see last month’s Benefit in Focus), who offer free initial advice to TBA members, enabling many questions to be

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answered before picking up the telephone.

Links to various comprehensive breeding documents including the HBLB Code Of Practice and Boarding Stud Agreements, along with articles from VOSA regarding horsebox ownership and operating are also available.

There are several very useful documents for employers, which can be downloaded including sample procedures and policies on all aspects of employment and dozens of highly informative fact sheets.

All the presentations from the recent TBA Seminar, ‘The Bloodstock Market Today’, can be viewed or downloaded from this area of the website and information is regularly updated to create a current and valuable source of information.

As a TBA member, registration for the members-only area is free of charge and is very simple to do. Simply go to the homepage www.thetba.co.uk and click on the brown tab on the left hand side of the page before following the instructions.

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Breeders’ Prizes for TBA members Breeder

Prize (£)

Horse

Sire

Dam

Shadwell Estate Company Limited

16,200

Qawaasem

Shamardal

Misdaqeya

Mr Andrew Rosen

10,800

Date

Course

11 Jul 2013

Newmarket

Adhwaa

Oasis Dream

Hammiya

18 Jul 2013

Doncaster

Muwaary

Oasis Dream

Wissal

19 Jul 2013

Newbury

J Wonder

Footstepsinthesand

Canterbury Lace

19 Jul 2013

Newbury

3 Aug 2013

Newmarket

Avington Manor Stud

5,400

Djinni

Invincible Spirit

La Persiana

22 Jul 2013

Windsor

Sir Robert Ogden

5,400

Amazing Maria

Mastercraftsman

Messias Da Silva

1 Aug 2013

Goodwood

Raymond Miquel

5,400

Fast Track

Rail Link

Silca Boo

3 Aug 2013

Thirsk

Dunchurch Lodge Stud Co

1,800

Cornish Path

Champs Elysees

Quintrell

3 Jul 2013

Kempton

Jeremy Green and Sons

1,800

Woodland Girl

Kyllachy

Locharia

5 Jul 2013

Haydock

Sir Eric Parker

1,800

Musicora

Acclamation

Belladera

10 Jul 2013

Kempton

Barton Bloodstock

1,800

Dutch Courage

Dutch Art

Poldhu

13 Jul 2013

Newmarket

Highclere Stud

1,800

Il Paparazzi

Royal Applause

Birdie

26 Jul 2013

York

Highfield Farm LLP

1,800

Back Lane

Invincible Spirit

Rivalry

28 Jul 2013

Pontefract

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Breeders’ Prizes National Hunt HBLB Breeders’ Prizes worth £1,000 or more

Based on date money was paid

Breeder

Prize (£)

Horse

Sire

Dam

Date

Course

Darley

3,000

Sea Lord

Cape Cross

First Fleet

20 Jul 2013

Market Rasen

Mrs Nerys Dutfield

1,750

Man Of Leisure

Karinga Bay

Girl of Pleasure

20 Jul 2013

Market Rasen

Mr N. Shutts

1,250

General Miller

Karinga Bay

Millers Action

20 Jul 2013

Market Rasen

*See the table of breeders' prizes effective as from January 1 on the TBA website, www.thetba.co.uk These prizes are subject to confirmation of qualification with Weatherbys

RoR/TBA Retrained Racehorse Challenge Series Winners July 20 - Newton St Boswell & District Farmers Show, Newton St Boswell PRESENTING EDWARD (GB) Presenting – Edwards Victoria (IRE) (Buckskin (FR)) Ridden by: Miss J Luton Bred by: Edward F Brown Race Record: Trained by E J Jamieson, raced under rules 6 times, won 0, placed 0 July 22 – Royal Welsh Show, Builth Wells GRAY KNIGHT (IRE) Insan (USA) – Moohono (IRE) (Roselier (FR)) Ridden by: Laura Grey Bred by: D J Fitzpatrick Race Record: Trained by Lawney Hill, raced under rules 14 times, won 1, placed 2 July 27/28 – Aintree National Showing Show, Liverpool WHATCANYASAY (GB) Prince Daniel (USA) – Snowys Pet (GB) (Petong (GB)) Ridden by: Melanie Grey Bred by: A Stack Race Record: Trained by Evelyn Stack, raced under rules 46 times, won 4, placed 4 July 30 – New Forest & Hampshire County Show, Hampshire DUGATTI (GB) Bertolini (USA) - Go Polar (GB) (Polar Falcon (USA)) Ridden by: Louise Kaiser Bred by: Ian H Stephenson Race Record: Trained by Mike Murphy, raced under rules twice, won 0, placed 0

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TBA diary dates

Great time at Upton Viva

SATURDAY, AUGUST 31 Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association Atalanta Stakes at Sandown Park.

TBA members can gain free entry on production of their membership card.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 A visit to the Royal Paddocks at Hampton Court, lunch in the Tiltyard restaurant followed by a private tour of the Palace and the Royal Collection. Contact the office for an application form.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 North Regional Day A visit to Richard Ford’s Lancashire Racing Stables, the Oakhill Veterinary Centre followed by lunch and a guest speaker.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 TBA sponsored Forum at National Stud ‘The Mating Game’ Following the success of the TBAsponsored ‘Introduction to Broodmare Ownership’ forum held at the National Stud last year, the TBA is delighted to sponsor ‘The Mating Game’ in 2013, a oneday forum on broodmare mating decisions.

The programme will include assessment of conformation, pedigree research and an open floor discussion on mating decisions using example case studies. The day runs from 9.30am to 4.30pm and the course fee is £40 for TBA and NGC members, £90 for non-members. Further information and a booking form is available from Leaya Slater at the National Stud on 01638 675930 or email leaya@nationalstud.co.uk

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15

Mares and foals taking it easy at Upton Viva Stud in Warwickshire

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unday, July 21 saw 30 NGC members take in a breaktaking morning at the Waley-Cohen family’s Upton Viva Stud near Banbury, followed by an afternoon of summer jumping at the nearby charming Stratford-On-Avon racecourse.

We were warmly welcomed by Robert and his family and after a session of attemping to eat through the massive pile of delicious chocolate brownies and lemon drizzle cake, we eventually admitted defeat.

We made our way onto the immaculate stud to view the various generations of future champions, starting with his small but highly select band of blue-blooded National Hunt broodmares before making our way through the yearling, two-year-old, three-year-old and ultimately the crown jewels of Long Run, Radjhani Express and an absolute legend of the past in Katarino, who won the Triumph

Hurdle and rounded off his career by finishing second in the Aintree Foxhunters’ Chase at the grand old age of 13, on his quest for a third victory over the National fences (all under NGC President Sam Waley-Cohen) despite having been officially retired in between!

This amazing story fitted in with the rest of the morning in that it was so perfectly narrated by Robert with all 30 of us hanging onto every last word. Robert made everyone feel involved by asking for shows of hands on the likely sale-toppers and future stars of the various crops of horses and no doubt that will have ignited some strong future interest in these horses and his brown and orange silks in the coming years as a result!

Many thanks to Robert, his family and Stratford racecourse for making this fantastic day possible.

TBA NH Stallion Parade The parade of NH stallions will take place on Countryside Day prior to racing. More information will be available from next month onwards. TBA members can gain free entry on production of their membership card.

HEALTH AND SAFETY IN THE RACING AND BREEDING INDUSTRY – UPDATED GUIDE AVAILABLE As reported in last month’s magazine, the new guide to Health and Safety in the Racing and Breeding Industry will be distributed free of charge to TBA employers in September 2013. IOSHH accredited courses to accompany the guide will take place, with the first one being held at the National Stud on Monday, September 30.

For further information on this or to receive a copy of the guide, contact Caroline Turnbull on 01638 661321 or email caroline.turnbull@thetba.co.uk

FORTHCOMING NGC EVENTS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5 Visit to Frankel and racing at HQ A thrilling opportunity to see arguably the greatest thoroughbred racehorse of all time at Juddmonte’s Banstead Manor Stud just outside Newmarket.

The visit will be followed by racing at Newmarket afterwards where the TBA Next Generation Club are sponsoring the opening maiden race in what will be the biggest day yet for the NGC. A racing badge and the use of a marquee will be provided. Cost for the day is £20 per person or FREE for TBA 1835 members.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17 Tattersalls sales event, Newmarket An opportunity to discover the fascinating

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world of bloodstock sales at the Tattersalls Sales Complex at Park Paddocks, Newmarket during Part 2 of the October Yearling Sale. There will be lessons in conformation from leading bloodstock agents and trainers. All students from colleges and universities are welcome.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9 Paul Nicholls visit and racing A morning with none other than Paul Nicholls, trainer of the brilliant Kauto Star and Denman to name just two, at his Ditcheat base in Somerset. This will be followed by racing at Wincanton for their biggest day of the year, featuring the Badger Ales Chase. £10 per person or FREE for TBA 18-35 members.

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package when Khalid Abdullah purchased Dr Herbert Schnapka’s Ferrans Stud in Ireland in the 1980s. Fleet Noble was a daughter of Vaguely Noble bred by Dr Robert Franklyn, who had acquired the Arc hero for a world record 136,000gns as a two-year-old.

At Vichy, the day after Flintshire’s Group 1 victory, his elder brother Dance Moves earned a second Listed victory and there was more to celebrate in the USA that weekend when another homebred, Emollient, triumphed in the American Oaks, her second Grade 1 success of the season following the Ashland Stakes back in April. Emollient is by her owner/breeder’s Belmont Stakes hero, Empire Maker.

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Dansili is the sire of both Flintshire and Laughing

Since withdrawing its support from the Lockinge Stakes, there are fewer opportunities for Juddmonte Farms to win one of its own Group 1sponsored prizes, but Flintshire managed just that when winning the Grand Prix de Paris at Longchamp in July.

Obviously, with the pending reduction in Prince Khalid Abdullah’s bloodstock operation, it’s important that his horses in training keep maintaining results at the highest level, and ipso facto, the momentum of the female families that have earned Juddmonte its singular reputation.

As is the case with so many Juddmonte-bred stars, the involvement with Flintshire extends way beyond actually breeding the individual as both his sire Dansili, one of the resident stallion celebrities at Banstead Manor, and dam Dance Routine are likewise homebreds.

In fact Flintshire’s first three dams – Dance Routine, Apogee and Bourbon Girl – were all bred by Juddmonte. However, it has been a saga of classic near misses for them as Dance Routine (now back in foal to Dansili) finished runner-up in the 2002 Prix de Diane and Bourbon Girl was runner-up to Unite in both the Oaks and Irish Oaks in 1987.

The origin of the family at Juddmonte is owed to the next dam Fleet Girl, who together with her own dam, Fleet Noble, was part of the

The present Dukes of Roxburghe and Devonshire have each bred two top fillies in Attraction and May Ball respectively, since when they have joined forces to produce the five-year-old mare Laughing, successful in the Grade 1 Diana Stakes at Saratoga in July.

Whereas Attraction and May Ball were both homebred, Laughing (Dansili – Comic) was bred and reared at Guy Roxburghe’s Floors Stud at Kelso on the Scottish borders whence she was sold at Tattersalls’ 2009 October Yearling Sale (Book 1) for 275,000gns to Charles O’Brien.

By that stage, Laughing’s half-brother Comic Strip had already begun reinventing himself as Viva Pataca in Hong Kong, where he has earned champion status and earnings of around £6m. Their dam, the twice successful Comic, was homebred by Side Hill Stud and Floors Farming.

At that time the present Duke of Devonshire (then Lord Hartington) owned Side Hill, which he subsequently sold to Prince Khalid Abdullah – his general manager at Juddmonte Farms, Philip Mitchell, lives at Side Hill where John Warren followed him as manager.

Circus Act, Comic’s unraced dam, was bred locally by Snailwell Stud and sold by Darley as a three-year-old at the 1988 Newmarket December Sales for 43,000gns. She too produced a top winner in the USA for Floors with multiple Grade 2 winner Brave Act. At the last October Yearling Sale (Book 1), John Warren, who advises the owners of stately Floors and Chatsworth, paid 90,000gns for an ownbrother to Laughing, now with Luca Cumani and called Comedy King.

Earlier that day Roxburghe received 420,000gns for an Oasis Dream colt out of Attraction. Named Fountain Of Youth, he won impressively for Aidan O’Brien at Tipperary in June.

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Autumn Paddock Maintenance & Worming

Having endured a long and hard winter it seems only fitting that we have been able to enjoy a splendid summer, but we should already be thinking ahead to the steps that can be taken to preserve paddocks in the face of the next winter onslaught. Autumn is the perfect time to inspect, repair and replace fencing, test soil and deal with roundworms during the relevant part of their lifecycle, writes Lissa Oliver

Paddock maintenance is vital to ensure the safety of racing and breeding stock

Fencing “Primarily people are taking animals off their land at this time of year, so it makes perfect sense to carry out paddock maintenance now,” says Michael Moloney, Managing Director of Horserail. General maintenance will include repair and replacement of any damaged fencing, to ensure the safety of horses returning to those paddocks. Wooden posts and rails will require creosote or waterbased wood preservatives every four to five years, so it’s sensible to spread this task out evenly over a five-year period and treat individual paddocks annually. A maintenance book with details of repairs carried out and dates is a useful aid in this respect and can be referred to over the years.

Replacing fencing can be expensive, but the safety of horses and tidy appearance of the farm is of vital importance to any commercial enterprise. “Fencing remains an essential part of today’s equine industry. Owners and breeders rightly demand safety as a priority above all else, but also require strength, durability and a pleasing appearance,” according to Norcroft, the sole European distributors of Keepsafe Diamond-Mesh Fence. The smooth springy texture of Keepsafe allows horses to brush and bump harmlessly against the surface and virtually eliminates fence related equine injuries, as well as providing durability and low maintenance costs for a long-term economical benefit.

Another alternative to traditional post and rail is Horserail, which averages at £2.20 per metre. Horserail is a coated rail and wire fence that has the aesthetics of post and rail, but with additional strength and durability and low maintenance, with no painting required, cracking or splintering to repair. “We have been manufacturing Horserail for over 20 years

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and have never ever had a single injury,” Moloney reports. “It is pre-straightened and lies flat when rolled out, unlike wire, taking less to tension it and making it easier to install.”

Out wintering Most studs need to turn out stock over winter.

All-weather paddocks or large barns are now the preferred option, but where this is not possible lighter free-draining land with good natural shelter should be used. Winter damage should be minimised as much as is possible and stock should be moved out early in the spring to provide sufficient time for the damaged sward to recover before spring grazing.

“Wooden posts and

rails need creosote every 4-5 years; treat individual paddocks annually” Soil compaction, sampling and analysis The TBA warns that paddocks commonly suffer from compaction caused by field machinery, poaching damage by horses and other stock, as well as excessive or inappropriate rolling. Early autumn is therefore a good time to examine soil structure and to check for compaction by taking auger borings or digging small inspection pits with a spade.

If compaction is not alleviated the ground will

suffer as a result of excess water retention, reduced uptake of soil water and available plant nutrients, reduced quantity and quality of grass growth and in the longer term a change in the botanical composition of the pasture. Bare ground will provide unwelcome opportunity for weeds and dangers such as Ragwort.

Autumn is also a good time to carry out soil analysis to determine pH, phosphorus, potassium and magnesium content. Most British pasture is below pH 5.5, but the optimum for stud pastures is a pH of 6.5 and best for grass growth, mineral and trace element content. To achieve a good representative sample from each paddock the TBA advises members to walk in a W shape across the paddock, sampling at random, but avoiding gateways, areas around water troughs and obvious latrine areas, where horses dung and urinate. The weight of soil required for a sample is normally around 250g and samples should be taken to a depth of 810cm (3-4”) using a corer or garden trowel.

Soil Phosphorus, Potassium and Magnesium (P:K:Mg) are the major plant nutrients required for healthy plant growth, in addition to nitrogen. The aim should be to maintain soil reserves at an index of 2 and recommendations are given by the TBA to raise soil reserves to Index 2 where they are deficient and to top up phosphorus reserves at index 2 where required.

Fertilising Soil analysis is also a way to determine the requirements for lime and fertiliser prior to winter. Independent laboratories and fertiliser suppliers offer this service and provide lime and fertiliser recommendations based upon the results. With economic constraints high on most farm owners’ agenda it is important to apply fertiliser only as required, the TBA recommending application according to the soil analysis. Avoid unnecessary or excessive applications and ensure that the manufacturer’s recommendations are always followed.

Well-rotted farmyard manure is the best source of organic nutrients available to a stud farm, raising the organic matter content of the soil, which is particularly valuable for light sandy soils, helping to increase water holding capacity and promoting better grass growth in periods of low rainfall during the summer. It also masks the tainting effect of the horses’ droppings and urine, providing more even grazing the following season. The TBA recommends applying around ten tonnes per

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acre in the autumn, when ground conditions allow, ensuring an even application across the paddock. Winter weather will help breakdown the material and, with the increasing costs of artificial fertilisers, the use of organic manure makes sound sense. Ideally, as with fencing, it may be best to put down manure on a couple of paddocks each year so that after five years you will have covered all of the paddocks.

Winter Kill A heavy frost will kill excess grass, which then decays and smothers the sward. This will adversely affect spring growth and increase the incidence of pests and disease. Excess grass should be grazed off or topped prior to winter, to reduce the risk of winter kill. Sheep may be fetched in over winter to clean up the paddocks and are best removed by the end of January, to allow sufficient recovery time for spring growth.

Worming All horses need to be treated for tapeworm at the end of the season. During autumn/winter in Britain, encysted cyathostomin (small strongyles or small red worms) larvae in the gut wall add to the horse’s worm burden. These worms are immature and cannot be detected by means of faecal egg count (FEC) analysis.

This must be taken into consideration when designing year-round parasite control.

Moxidectin (MOX) and fenbendazole, when administered over five consecutive days, have been shown to kill high numbers of encysted cyathostomin larvae in the gut wall.

Dewormers for controlling roundworms in horses are divided into three types of classes: Benzimidazoles (BZs: e.g. fenbendazole), Tetrahydropyrimidines (THPs: e.g. pyrantel) and Macrocyclic Lactones (MLs: e.g.

Ivermectin and Moxidectin). Drugs in all three classes should be effective at killing male and female roundworms, whether they be large redworm, small redworm, Parascaris equorum, threadworm or pin worm. Moxidectin and Ivermectin have been shown to kill immature large redworm larvae. These are potentially

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dangerous stages that live in the arteries supplying the equine intestine. High levels of these larvae can cause life-threatening colic.

Most horses develop a natural level of immunity to most types of worms, but younger and geriatric horses tend to have burdens at the higher end of the spectrum. It is therefore worth paying particular attention to these age groups when designing worm control programmes.

Harrowing pasture at the end of the grazing season is a big help in exposing parasite eggs and reduces the over winter survival of worms.

Unfortunately, most horses are wormed too frequently and vets are not being sufficiently involved in parasite control. The TBA urges

“Redworm larvae live in the arteries and high levels of these larvae can cause lifethreatening colic”

stud owners and managers to work with their veterinary surgeon in designing sustainable control programmes. Dewormer treatments should be applied to target the appropriate type or stage of worm whilst applying these treatments sensibly to avoid or contain drug resistance.

Dr. Theo De Waal, Senior Lecturer and European Veterinary Specialist in Parasitology, UCD, reveals that chemical control has been used since the early 1900s, but it wasn’t until 1966 that a safe drenching was developed and recommended for use every six to eight weeks. That policy was widely adopted by horse owners and is still applied today, leading to the current widespread resistance of worms to wormers.

Those worms that survive dosing pass on

resistant genes, increasing with each generation. “Incorrect dosing, giving insufficient for the weight of the horse, also adds to the problem, as worms survive the smaller dose and again pass on resistance,” says De Waal. “The bad news for owners is that there are no new wormers in development. When resistance reaches 100% we are in big trouble.” The TBA advises members to always administer dewormers based on the accurate weight of each animal.

De Waal recommends regular faecal egg counts to identify individual shedders. “Twenty per cent of horses are responsible for 80% of eggs on a pasture,” he points out. “The Faecal Egg Count Reduction Test (FECRT) is the most important aid in reducing parasites, as well as significantly reducing costs to the owner. By carrying out FECRTs we can target those animals and only treat those animals. By leaving some horses untreated the worm population will become diluted, introducing non-resistant worms back into the cycle.”

Horses with less than 200 eggs per gram require no worming treatment. Between 200500 eggs per gram is moderate and some treatment should be given at targeted times.

Frequent treatment is needed for horses with higher than 500 eggs per gram. The latter group of targeted animals should be monitored every eight weeks. “Treat only when required,” De Waal warns. The reduction in costs is an added bonus. Research on 19 farms showed that such targeted treatment led to an 80% reduction in the use of wormers.

Because infection is acquired from pasture, it is important not to move animals onto a clean pasture after treatment, as they will introduce resistant worms. Quarantine of new animals is also important for at least 48 hours after treatment.

Egg count reduction test This is performed by assessing Faecal Egg Counts (FEC) on the day of dewormer treatment and then repeating the FEC analysis 10-14 days later. The percentage reduction in FECs is then calculated for the group of horses tested. In general the average reduction in FEC after treatment should be in excess of 90% for fenbendazole and pyrantel and above 95% for moxidectin and ivermectin. If the average is lower then dewormer resistance should be suspected and that class of dewormer should not be used.

The current best practice recommended by the TBA is to treat with moxidectin, preferably combined with praziquantel for tapeworms. A two-week post treatment FEC can be performed to ensure that the horse is not excreting and therefore introducing moxidectin resistant roundworms. This recommendation may change should moxidectin resistance be identified.

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VET FORUM: THE EXPERT VIEW

By ROB PILSWORTH, MA VETMB BSc (Hons) CERTVR MRCVS

Pinpointing the source of pain When it comes to investigating lameness in racehorses, image is everything

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hen I first joined a Newmarket practice over 25 years ago, the field of equine diagnostic imaging consisted solely of radiography. The X-ray machine ruled, there was no other way of investigating why a racehorse was lame. In the succeeding years a plethora of investigative aids have become available to the racehorse vet which have now lifted the possibilities of imaging the cause of a horse’s lameness beyond our wildest expectation back in those days.

In this feature we will have a look at some of these newer imaging modalities, weigh up their advantages and disadvantages, and try to explain why it is that vets so often want to move to these modalities beyond the simple radiograph.

What’s wrong with X-rays?

Although it is still the mainstay of diagnostic imaging in the racehorse, radiography has several disadvantages. The most obvious of these is that it only illustrates the integrity, shape and the density of bone and gives no information whatsoever about the other half of the athletic machine – the muscles, tendons and ligaments. Even within bone imaging, around 30% of the structural nature of bone has to change for it to show as a difference on a radiograph. This means that the subtle early stages of disease are often easily missed.

Another problem is that X-rays are ‘stopped’ by thickness of tissue. Taking radiographs of a horse’s foot presents no problem at all, but once we get up beyond the elbow or stifle the quality of the picture becomes so degraded because of ‘watering down’ and scattering of the X-ray beam by the thick masses of soft tissue that the pictures become almost useless. This is frustrating. The pelvis is a frequent site of racehorse injury and the ability to pick up early injury in this site would be a real bonus.

However, to take good quality radiographs of the pelvis requires the use of an enormously powerful machine and a general anaesthetic to flip the horse on its back. Clearly the last thing the vet wants to do in a horse suspected of having a pelvic fracture is to anaesthetise it and roll it around on its back! This has been a spur to the development of other imaging modalities to look in these less accessible sites, such as diagnostic ultrasound.

Ultrasound Ultrasound, as its name suggests, consists of

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Arkle, one of the most famous National Hunt horses of all time, undergoing radiographic examination in 1967. At that time (when vets clearly knew how to dress correctly!) the X-ray machine was the only ancillary aid available to them to investigate racehorse lameness. (Courtesy of Jan Butler, B and W Equine Group)

sound wave at a very high frequency, well beyond those audible to the human ear. Sound waves propagate in approximately straight lines and have an innate ability to bounce off objects in their way. A demonstration of this would be the echoes you hear in, for instance, a large empty room, as the sound waves bounce off the flat stone surfaces and return to your ears.

Ultrasound travels very well in liquids but is virtually stopped dead by air. For this reason, to use ultrasound to look into tissues, very good contact has to be made between the probe and the skin of the horse. This is the reason why vets often want to clip the horse’s limbs in order a them. With the racehorse’s fine coat it to scan is often possible to obtain images using alcohol and a coupling jelly instead of clipping, as this will often transmit the sound into the skin quite adequately. The probe which produces the ultrasound beam also has detectors on it which pick up the echo returns, which are then computed to form the structure of the image.

Ultrasound is reflected back by anything

An ultrasound scan of a damaged superficial digital flexor tendon.

Scan on the left is in transverse section (equivalent to looking down on the cut surface of a sawn log). The dark area in the centre of the tendon indicates damage to the fibres of the tendon has taken place causing fluid to accumulate. Ultrasound echoes are not returned by fluid, so the ultrasound scanner is able to map out its presence as a dark area.

On the right a longitudinal scan (the equivalent of looking at the inside of a split log) confirms the area of fibre damage running up and down the length of the tendon in the same site

which is solid, so unlike with X-rays, we can see the soft tissue structures of the leg such as the tendons and ligaments. Because ultrasound is not reflected by liquid, ‘holes’ which occur in structures which are filled with fluid are also therefore visible as they return little or no echo and look black (see image above right).

Ultrasound is completely reflected by a bone surface so once the sound beam hits bone that’s the end of the story as far as imaging is concerned. This sounds like a disadvantage, but it can actually be of use in examining the surface of bones such as the broad bones that comprise the pelvis. As we mentioned earlier, b X-ray examination of the pelvis has innate difficulties. By utilising ultrasound which is transmitted through the skin, muscle and tissues until it hits the bone surface, we can obtain a clear image of that bone surface and look for discontinuities typical of fracture or even the occurrence of callus on the surface of the pelvis which can be indicative of the early stages of a fracture before it has even taken THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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place (see images below). More and more uses are being found in employing ultrasound to examine bone surfaces such as evaluating osteochondrosis (OCD) lesions of the hock and fetlock and assessing the size and shape of ‘chip’ fragments prior to surgery.

Nulear Scintigraphy – scan or scam?

So bone is amenable to X-ray examination and soft tissues amenable to ultrasound examination. Why is it then that so many racehorses seem to be subjected to the very expensive procedure of a bone scan?

The bone scan is one of the few procedures used which actually reflects the metabolic state and activity of the structures under investigation rather than just its size or shape and this is where it scores heavily in relation to the athlete. One of the commonest injuries sustained by human and equine athletes alike is the stress fracture. Cricketers, footballers and racehorses are all very prone to these because they are subjected to cyclical, repetitive high speed exercise and high degrees of bone loading. Bone is often thought of as an inert material like stone, but it is in fact a highly flexible and dynamically deformable material, much more similar in behaviour to plastic.

Part of the purpose of bone is to bend and flex as the horse gallops in order to absorb some of the strain. If bone didn’t bend at all it would unquestionably break even under normal loading. Stress fractures occur at very well recognised predilection sites because these are the areas where the forces of compression and tension accumulate during this bone-bending.

The problem is that these stress fractures are often invisible on X-ray and even worse, the

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commonest sites for them are in bones in the top of the leg surrounded by very dense muscle and soft tissue, making radiographic quality poor.

To produce images in a bone scan, the horse is injected with a radioactive isotope which travels around in the bloodstream and is taken up by all of the bone. This isotope has been attached deliberately to a phosphate marker, which ‘cons’ its way into the bone as part of its normal metabolism. The bone absorbs this marker and the radioactive tracer then decays within the bone, giving off gamma rays. Once all of the marker has been cleared from the bloodstream the origin of the gamma rays gives us a very clear image of the distribution of the radioactive marker in the shape of the skeleton.

Moreover, the uptake of the marker is directly proportional to the activity of the bone.

‘Hot spots’, where early fracture is taking place, or where the body is trying to repair a repetitive strain injury, will take up much more radioactive marker and so will appear much blacker on the image than normal bone.

The procedure has to be very expensive because the equipment concerned in image acquisition is highly complicated and costs up to £100,000. Also, the radioactive isotopes used in bone scanning have to be sourced from a human hospital and transported by taxi to the veterinary practice, costing hundreds of pounds. The final bone scan is usually charged at around £1,000 but this is ‘small beer’ if it saves the life of a racehorse because of allowing early diagnosis of what can often be catastrophic and fatal fractures.

MRI – The Last Frontier?

The latest addition to the diagnostic imaging

toy box is Magnetic Resonance Imaging. This modality, of almost bewildering complexity in its design, gives thin slice images through the horse’s leg of startling clarity showing all of the different components in one composite image (see images overleaf).

The imaging system depends on extremely complicated physics for its operation. The working principle is that all biological tissues are composed of atoms and molecules which occur in different proportions in the different tissues. Plain water, for instance, is composed of only hydrogen and oxygen whereas the tissue such as fat also contains numerous carbon atoms. It’s these differences in the proportion of hydrogen to other atoms in each tissue that MRI exploits in allowing us to distinguish between them in an image.

In order to make this image, the horse’s leg is put into a strong magnetic field. This has the effect of orientating all of the atomic particles of the tissues in one direction. Once the magnetic field has exerted its influence, small pulses of electromagnetism are then shot across the limb in a perpendicular direction causing the electrons and the components of the atoms to ‘dance’ as they switch in direction from one magnetic field to the other.

These tiny ‘jumps’ in activity of sub atomic particles can be detected as an electromagnetic signal, which can then be located to a specific position within the field of view. By adding together many millions of such tiny signals, sophisticated computers are able to rebuild the origin of them as a picture.

Unlike an X-ray, where bone is white and all soft tissue is evenly the same grey, each tissue will be a slightly different shade of grey, allowing us to see anatomy in great detail. The

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An ultrasound scan of a horse with a stress fracture of the left wing of the ilium of the pelvis (a) showing disruption to the surface of the ilium and the presence of irregular callus often indicative of stress fracture. The photograph on the right (b) is a post mortem specimen of a similar fracture configuration allowing one to see how the ultrasound image mirror the changes in the bone

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proportional to the density of the tissue as much as to its molecular make-up, and how many hydrogen atoms it contains. In certain types of MRI image, bone can appear quite pale but areas of very dense bone will appear black which marks them out as abnormal (see right).

Unlike the other imaging modalities so far discussed, MRI can see into the body and identify abnormalities in bone, soft tissue, muscle, tendon and ligament all in one image.

The only region which is poorly imaged using MRI is cartilage.

In the early days when MRI was first being introduced, researchers such as Meredith Smith at the Animal Health Trust looked at limbs from dead horses, and were able to correlate the MRI appearance with the structural nature of the changes found by later dissection, verifying the technique. It has now become available wherever there are high numbers of horses in training and has allowed identification of injuries never previously imaged in any other way.

Whilst the diagnosis may sometimes appear to be of less interest to an owner or trainer than the cure, it is self-evident that unless the correct diagnosis is made, it is very likely that the treatment will be incorrect, or aimed at the wrong part of the leg, and a cure therefore less

A radiograph (left) and an MRI scan (right) of the same fetlock joint. Not only does the MRI scan give information about the internal structure of the bone simply not visible on the X-ray, but it also allows the clinician to examine all of the other soft tissue structures of the fetlock joint including the skin, joint capsule and suspensory ligament (Courtesy of Sarah Powell, Rossdales)

likely. Although MRI imaging is expensive when compared to an X-ray, it can make an enormous difference in the eventual outcome of the case.

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DATA BOOK STAKES RESULTS

European Pattern 152 FRANZ-GUNTHER VON GAERTNER-GEDACHTNISRENNEN G3 HAMBURG. June 29. 3yo+f&m. 1600m.

1. LADY JACAMIRA (GER) 4 9-0 £26,016 b f by Lord of England - Latley (Sillery) O-Stall Zaster B-Pegasus Europe AG TR-R Dzubasz 2. Akua’da (GER) 3 8-10 £8,943 b f by Shamardal - Akua’ba (Sadler’s Wells) O/B-Gestut Brummerhof TR-A Wohler 3. Scoville (GER) 4 9-2 £4,472 b f by Sholokhov - Stravina (Platini) O/B-M Seeber TR-H Hesse Margins 2, neck. Time 1:36.98. Going Good to soft.

Age 2-4

Starts 7

Wins 2

Places 3

Earned £38,490

Sire: LORD OF ENGLAND. Sire of 5 Stakes winners.

In 2013 - LADY JACAMIRA Sillery G3.

1st Dam: LATLEY by Sillery. 3 wins at 3 in Germany.

Dam of 4 winners: 2000: LADY ANNINA (f Dashing Blade) Winner at 2 in Germany. Dam of LADY ALIDA (Premio Mario Incisa della Rocchetta G3).

2001: LANABAA (c Anabaa) 3 wins.

2002: Lady Carina (f Loup Solitaire) 2003: Lady Janet (f Diktat) 2004: Lonely Star (c Lujain) unraced.

2006: Lord of Tara (g Kayf Tara) 2008: LORD EMERY (c Mamool) 6 wins at 3 to 5 in France, Germany.

2009: LADY JACAMIRA (f Lord of England) 8,428gns yearling at BBAGS. 2 wins at 3 in Germany, FG von Gaertner-Gedachtnisrennen G3, 3rd FG von Gaertner-Gedachtnisrennen G3.

2012: (f Cape Cross) 2013: (f Lawman) 2nd Dam: MASSKANA by Darshaan. 3 wins at 4 and 5 in France. Dam of EAGLE MOUNTAIN (c Rock of Gibraltar: Hong Kong Cup G1, 2nd Champion S G1, Derby S G1, Breeders’ Cup Turf G1, 3rd Irish Derby G1), SULK (f Selkirk: Prix Marcel Boussac G1, 2nd Nassau S G1, Prix Royal-Oak G1, 3rd Yorkshire Oaks G1), DANK (f Dansili: TBA Atalanta S G3, Dahlia S G3, 3rd Duke of Cambridge S G2), WALLACE (c Royal Academy: Silver Trophy S LR, 2nd Park S G3). Grandam of PIMPERNEL, IBN BATTUTA. Third dam of LORD BADGER.

LADY JACAMIRA b f 2009 Shirley Heights Elegant Air Elegant Tern Dashing Blade Sharpen Up Sharp Castan Sultry One LORD OF ENGLAND ch 03 Caracol Los Santos Loanda Loveria Literat Liranga Love In Red God Blushing Groom Runaway Bride Sillery Bellypha Silvermine Sevres LATLEY b 94 Sovereign Path Wolver Hollow Cygnet Loup de Mer Milesian Milveagh Minita

153 GRANGECON STUD S G3 CURRAGH. June 30. 2yof. 6f.

1. BYE BYE BIRDIE (IRE) 9-0 £31,707 b f by Oasis Dream - Slink (Selkirk) O-Mrs J Magnier, M Tabor, D Smith B-London Thoroughbred Services Ltd TR-AP O’Brien 2. Heart Focus (IRE) 9-0 £9,268 b f by Intense Focus - Have A Heart (Daggers Drawn) O-Mrs JS Bolger B-Mrs JS Bolger TR-JS Bolger 3. Clenor (IRE) 9-0 £4,390 b f by Oratorio - Chantarella (Royal Academy) O-P Piller, Mrs J Magnier B-Mrs Lucy Stack TR-T Stack Margins 3, 2.5. Time 1:10.94 (fast 0.06).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2

Starts 5

Wins 2

Places 2

Earned £43,808

Sire: OASIS DREAM. Sire of 68 Stakes winners. In 2013 - PEACE AT LAST Barathea G2, BYE BYE BIRDIE Selkirk G3, CHIGUN Nashwan G3, GALE FORCE TEN Kirkwall G3, MAINSAIL Theatrical G3, STRATHNAVER Lahib G3.

1st Dam: Slink by Selkirk. unraced. Own sister to SULK. Dam of 1 winner: 2009: Border Girl (f Rock of Gibraltar) unraced.

2010: Sleek (f Oasis Dream) unraced to date.

2011: BYE BYE BIRDIE (f Oasis Dream) Sold 300,000gns foal at TADEF. 2 wins at 2, Grangecon Stud S G3.

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Broodmare Sire: GENEROUS. Sire of the dams of 50 SWs. In 2013 - BERLIN BERLIN Dubai Destination G2, ADAMANTIUM Elusive City G3, SURVIVED Zed G3.

Sire: ELUSIVE CITY. Sire of 25 Stakes winners. In 2013 - XANADU Forest Glow G1, ADAMANTIUM Generous G3, VEDEUX Polish Precedent G3.

BERLIN BERLIN b f 2009

1st Dam: Qahatika by Polish Precedent. unraced.

Dam of 2 winners: 2009: SAND STAMP (c Footstepsinthesand) Winner at 3 in UAE. 2010: Queen Lyric (f King’s Best) in training.

2011: VEDEUX (c Elusive City) Sold 23,809gns yearling at ARAUG. 2 wins at 2 in France, Prix du Bois G3.

2012: (c Dylan Thomas)

The Oasis Dream/Selkirk cross has produced: MAIN AIM G1, MONITOR CLOSELY G1, DUX SCHOLAR G2, BYE BYE BIRDIE G3, FIELD OF DREAM LR.

Alleged Mysterial Mysteries Generous BOMBAZINE ch 94 Brocade

Foreign Courier

OASIS DREAM b 00 Dancing Brave Bahamian Selkirk

Sharpen Up Annie Edge

SLINK b 05 Masskana

Darshaan Masarika

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Sir Ivor Courtly Dee Lyphard Navajo Princess Mill Reef Sorbus Atan Rocchetta Nebbiolo Friendly Court Shirley Heights Delsy Thatch Miss Melody

154 IDEE HANSA-PREIS G2 HAMBURG. June 30. 3yo+. 2400m.

1. BERLIN BERLIN (GB) 4 9-3 £32,520 b f by Dubai Destination - Bombazine (Generous) O-Gestut Gorlsdorf B-Mr & Mrs AE Pakenham TR-Markus Klug 2. Runaway (GER) 6 9-6 £12,602 b h by Slickly - Rain Lily (Red Ransom) O/B-Gestut Weiherwiesen TR-A Trybuhl 3. Girolamo (GER) 4 9-6 £5,285 b c by Dai Jin - Golden Time (Surumu) O/B-Gestut Ebbesloh TR-P Schiergen Margins Nose, 1.25. Time 2:33.62. Going Good.

Age 3-4

Starts 7

Wins 3

Caerleon Doff The Derby Habitat Canton Silk

Danzig

Hope

Miesque

DUBAI DESTINATION b 99

BYE BYE BIRDIE b f 2011 Green Desert

Raise A Native Gold Digger Nureyev Pasadoble Hoist The Flag Princess Pout Seattle Slew Phydilla Nijinsky Foreseer Master Derby Margarethen Sir Gaylord Little Hut Runnymede Clouded Lamp

Mr Prospector Kingmambo

Broodmare Sire: SELKIRK. Sire of the dams of 37 SWs. In 2013 - BYE BYE BIRDIE Oasis Dream G3.

2nd Dam: Loup de Mer by Wolver Hollow. 2 wins at 2 and 3, 2nd Fern Hill H LR. Broodmare Sire: SILLERY. Sire of the dams of 18 Stakes winners. In 2013 - LADY JACAMIRA Lord of England G3.

Sound. Third dam of SAAMIDD, SHARED DREAMS, Ghimaar.

Places 2

Earned £50,438

Sire: DUBAI DESTINATION. Sire of 24 Stakes winners. In 2013 - BERLIN BERLIN Generous G2, MULAAZEM Danehill G2, DANCER DESTINATION Shareef Dancer G3, FARRAAJ Nureyev G3.

1st Dam: Bombazine by Generous. Winner at 3, 3rd John Musker S LR. Dam of 8 winners: 1999: CAMELOT (g Machiavellian) 4 wins at 3 and 4.

2000: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION (c Rainbow Quest) 5 wins, Prix du Carrousel LR. 2001: Tussah (f Daylami) unraced. Broodmare.

2002: DUBAI VENTURE (c Rainbow Quest) 5 wins.

2003: GRAVITAS (c Mark of Esteem) 6 wins, Prix de Suresnes LR, Derby du Languedoc LR. 2004: Shabrak (c Fantastic Light) unraced.

2005: ARMURE (f Dalakhani) Prix de Pomone G2.

2006: BIG SUR (g Selkirk) Winner at 4.

2007: SETA (f Pivotal) Atalanta S LR, Conqueror S LR, Eternal S LR, 3rd May Hill S G2.

2008: Rivara (f Red Ransom) unraced.

2009: BERLIN BERLIN (f Dubai Destination) 3 wins , Idee Hansa Preis G2, 2nd Grosser Preis Jungheinrich Gabelstapler G3.

2010: Izem (c Sir Percy) unraced to date.

2011: Sir Medbury (c Sir Percy) unraced to date.

2nd Dam: BROCADE by Habitat. Prix de la Foret G1.

Dam of BARATHEA (c Sadler’s Wells: Irish 2000 Guineas G1, Breeders’ Cup Mile G1), GOSSAMER (f Sadler’s Wells: Fillies’ Mile S G1, Irish 1000 Guineas G1, 3rd Prix du Moulin G1), ZABAR (g Dancing Brave: Prix du Chemin de Fer du Nord G3, Prix du Muguet G3, Prix Perth G3, Oettingen-Rennen G3 ), FREE AT LAST (f Shirley Heights: Countess Fager H G3, 3rd Santa Barbara H G1, Matriarch S G1), Zibilene (f Rainbow Quest: 3rd Severals S LR). Grandam of IBN KHALDUN, CORETTA, MIKADO, Mathematician, Oracle, Calico Cat, Fusaichi Hokutosei, Cheviot, Memory Cloth, Ahlaain, Rosa Parks, Trumpet

CURRAGH. June 30. 3yo+. 14f.

1. ERNEST HEMINGWAY (IRE) 4 9-11 £30,488 b c by Galileo - Cassydora (Darshaan) O-Mrs J Magnier, M Tabor, D Smith B-Barronstown Stud TR-AP O’Brien 2. Royal Diamond (IRE) 7 10-0 £9,654 b g by King’s Best - Irresistible Jewel (Danehill) O-Andrew Tinkler B-Moyglare Stud Farm TR-JP Murtagh 3. Voleuse de Coeurs (IRE) 4 9-8 £4,573 b f by Teofilo - Vadorga (Grand Lodge) O-Lady O’Reilly B-Irish National Stud TR-DK Weld Margins 5, 0.5. Time 2:56.33 (fast 2.17).

Going Good to firm.

Starts 7

Wins 3

Places 2

Broodmare Sire: DARSHAAN. See race 192.

The Galileo/Darshaan cross. See race 173 ERNEST HEMINGWAY b c 2009 Northern Dancer

Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta Darshaan CASSYDORA b/br 02 Claxon

Shirley Heights Delsy Caerleon Bulaxie

Mr Prospector Secrettame Hero’s Honor Touch of Greatness Ivory Wand Danzig Dayjur Gold Beauty Native Charger Liturgism Cult Northern Dancer Danzig Pas de Nom Buckpasser Past Example Bold Example Alydar Saratoga Six Priceless Fame Lyphard Lyrism Pass A Glance

Gone West Elusive Quality ELUSIVE CITY b 00 Star of Paris

Polish Precedent QAHATIKA ch 05 Brisk Waters

157 PRIX CHLOE G3

2nd Dam: CLAXON by Caerleon. 5 wins at 2 to 4 at home, Italy, Premio Lydia Tesio G2. Dam of CASSYDORA (see above), CLASSIC REMARK (f Dr Fong: Hoppings S LR), Clarietta (f Shamardal: 2nd John Musker S LR).

Fairy Bridge

Earned £42,276

VEDEUX b c 2011

Earned £72,119

1st Dam: CASSYDORA by Darshaan. 5 wins 2-5, Hillsborough S G3, 2nd Nassau S G1. Dam of 1 winner: 2008: Symi (f Hennessy) ran once.

2009: ERNEST HEMINGWAY (c Galileo) 3 wins at 3 and 4, Ballyroan S G3, Curragh Cup G3.

2010: Milestone (c Galileo) unraced to date.

GALILEO b 98

Places 0

2nd Dam: Brisk Waters by Saratoga Six. unraced.

Dam of Cadran (c Poliglote: 3rd Prix Isonomy LR), Scarlett’s Pride (f Singspiel: 2nd Grosser Preis der Sparda Bank Hannover LR).

Sire: GALILEO. See race 184.

Sadler’s Wells

Wins 2

Broodmare Sire: POLISH PRECEDENT. Sire of the dams of 38 Stakes winners. In 2013 - DUNBOYNE EXPRESS Shamardal G1, CATCALL One Cool Cat G3, VEDEUX Elusive City G3.

155 CURRAGH CUP G3

Age 3-4

Starts 2

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Lombard Anatevka Mill Reef Hardiemma Abdos Kelty Nijinsky Foreseer Bustino Galaxie Dust

156 PRIX DU BOIS G3 CHANTILLY. June 30. 2yos. 1000m.

1. VEDEUX (IRE) 8-11 £32,520 b c by Elusive City - Qahatika (Polish Precedent) O/B-Ecurie Haras du Cadran, P Hoze TR-C Lerner 2. Another Party (FR) 8-11 £13,008 ch c by Pomellato - Jummana (Cadeaux Genereux) O-Mrs Theresa Marnane B-Mme M-J Goetschy TR-Matthieu Palussiere 3. Empreinte (USA) 8-8 £9,756 ch f by Footstepsinthesand - Zagzig (Selkirk) O/B-Wertheimer et Frere TR-C Laffon-Parias Margins 1.25, head. Time 0:59.24. Going Good to soft.

CHANTILLY. June 30. 3yof. 1800m.

1. SPARKLING BEAM (IRE) 8-11 £32,520 b f by Nayef - Pearl Dance (Nureyev) O/B-George Strawbridge TR-JE Pease 2. Pearlside (FR) 8-11 £13,008 b f by Alhaarth - Prickly Pearl (Lahib) O-Safsaf Canarias Srl B/TR-M Delcher-Sanchez 3. Table Ronde (IRE) 8-11 £9,756 br f by Astronomer Royal - Tanzania (Alzao) O-Mme Yolande Seydoux De Clausonne B-SF Bloodstock LLC TR-J-C Rouget Margins 3, neck. Time 1:50.79. Going Good to soft.

Age 2-3

Starts 9

Wins 3

Places 4

Earned £82,615

Sire: NAYEF. Sire of 15 Stakes winners. In 2013 SPARKLING BEAM Nureyev G3.

1st Dam: Pearl Dance by Nureyev. Winner at 2, 3rd Moyglare Stud S G1. Dam of 4 winners: 2005: RIDGE DANCE (g Selkirk) 8 wins.

2006: White Dress (f Pivotal) unraced.

2007: THAT’S MY STYLE (f Dalakhani) Winner at 4 in Germany.

2008: Rainbow Springs (f Selkirk) Winner at 3, 3rd Prix Marcel Boussac G1.

2009: Can Dance (f Manduro) Unplaced in France.

2010: SPARKLING BEAM (f Nayef) 3 wins 2-3 in France, Prix Chloe G3, 2nd Criterium de Bordeaux LR, Prix Delahante LR. 2011: Born In Bombay (c Shamardal) unraced to date.

2013: (c Lawman) 2nd Dam: Ocean Jewel by Alleged. unraced. Dam of OCEAN SEA (c Bering: Preis der Firma Jungheinrich Gabelstapler LR), Dixie Splash (f Dixieland Band: 2nd Audubon Oaks LR, 3rd Budweiser Oaklawn Breeders’ Cup H G3), Pearl Dance (f Nureyev, see above).

Grandam of DELTA BLUES, IN THE SLIPS. Third dam of RED DAVIS. Broodmare Sire: NUREYEV. Sire of the dams of 202 Stakes winners. In 2013 - MAXIOS Monsun G1, FARRAAJ Dubai Destination G3, SPARKLING BEAM Nayef G3.

The Nayef/Nureyev cross has produced: TAMAYUZ G1, SPARKLING BEAM G3.

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Caulfield on Lucky Speed: “It was his stamina which earned him his Classic success.

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SPARKLING BEAM b f 2010 Raise A Native Gold Digger Gulch Rambunctious Jameela Asbury Mary NAYEF b 98 Busted Bustino Ship Yard Height of Fashion Queen’s Hussar Highclere Highlight Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Nureyev Forli Special Thong PEARL DANCE b 00 Hoist The Flag Alleged Princess Pout Ocean Jewel Sir Ivor Lady Offshore Bonnie Google Mr Prospector

158 PREMIO PRIMI PASSI G3 MILAN. June 30. 2yo. 1200m.

1. ARPINATI (GB) 8-11 £28,455 br c by Lucky Story - Lola Sapola (Benny The Dip) O-Dioscuri SRL B-GAG Equestrian TR-S Botti 2. Omaticaya (IRE) 8-8 £12,520 br f by Bernstein - Pronghorn (Gulch) O-Manila Illuminati B-Epona Bloodstock Ltd TR-Manila Illuminati 3. Quiz Evolution (ITY) 8-11 £6,829 b c by Mujahid - Marie Camargo (Kyllachy) O-Salvatore Pugliese B-Roberto Bacchilega TR-B Grizzetti Margins 0.5, 2.5. Time 1:10.90. Going Good.

Age 2

Starts 2

Wins 2

Places 0

Earned £34,552

1st Dam: Tirsa by Benny The Dip. Dam of 2 winners: 2006: ROMAN EAGLE (c Blu Air Force) 2 wins at 3 in France.

2008: PATTAYA (c Philomatheia) 11 wins at 3 to 5 in Italy, Premio Del Giubileo G3, Premio del Circo Massimo LR (twice), 3rd Premio Presidente della Repubblica G1.

2009: Detectorist (c Martino Alonso) Unplaced in Italy.

2012: (f Gladiatorus)

2. Along Came Casey (IRE) 5 9-8 £11,972 b m by Oratorio - Secretariat’s Tap (Pleasant Tap) O-Mrs CL Weld B-Murry Rose Bloodstock TR-DK Weld 3. Snow Queen (IRE) 3 9-0 £5,671 b f by Danehill Dancer - Bonheur (Royal Academy) O-Mrs D Nagle, Mrs J Magnier B-Barronstown Stud TR-AP O’Brien Margins Head, 1.75. Time 1:29.17 (slow 3.67).

Going Good.

2nd Dam: Early Call by Kind of Hush. 3 wins at 3, 2nd Ballymacoll Stud S LR. Dam of MIDYAN CALL (c Midyan: Premio Ribot G2, 3rd Premio Vittorio di Capua G1), Dinyeper (c Vettori: 2nd Burjuman Al Maktoum Challenge R3 G2), Springhill (g Relief Pitcher: 3rd Gerrard Novices’ Hurdle G2).

Age 2-4

Broodmare Sire: BENNY THE DIP. Sire of the dams of 3 Stakes winners. In 2013 - ARPINATI Lucky Story G3, PATTAYA Philomatheia G3.

PATTAYA b h 2008 Northern Dancer Danzig PHILOMATHEIA b 97 Persian Bold Kooyonga Anjuli Benny The Dip

2nd Dam: CUTPURSE MOLL by Green Desert. 1 win at 3. Dam of COLONEL COTTON (g Royal Applause: Rous S LR, 3rd Champagne Laurent-Perrier Sprint S G3, Bentinck S G3). Grandam of Judge ‘n Jury.

Broodmare Sire: BENNY THE DIP. Sire of the dams of 3 Stakes winners. In 2013 - ARPINATI Lucky Story G3, PATTAYA Philomatheia G3.

ARPINATI br c 2011 Hail To Reason Bramalea Princequillo Sharp Queen Bridgework Mr Prospector Miswaki Hopespringseternal Coco La Terreur Coco La Investment Great Investment Roberto Silver Hawk Gris Vitesse Ack Ack Rascal Rascal Savage Bunny Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier Final Straw Pretty Pol Port Ahoy Roberto Kris S LUCKY STORY b 01 Spring Flight

Benny The Dip LOLA SAPOLA b 02 Cutpurse Moll

Early Call

Age 3-5

Starts 27

Wins 11

Places 9

Earned £142,521

Sire: PHILOMATHEIA. Sire of 2 Stakes winners. In 2013 - PATTAYA Benny The Dip G3.

Nearctic Natalma Admiral’s Voyage Petitioner Bold Lad Relkarunner Northfields Katricia Roberto Gris Vitesse Ack Ack Savage Bunny Welsh Pageant Sauceboat Dike Hash Amato

160 PRIX DAPHNIS G3 COMPIEGNE. July 1. 3yoc&g. 1800m.

1. SUPERPLEX (FR) 8-11 £32,520 b c by Multiplex - Salute The Sun (Fly To The Stars) O-Stall Eivissa B-Lord Huntingdon TR-M Figge 2. Pilote (IRE) 8-11 £13,008 ch c by Pivotal - Legerete (Rahy) O/B-Wertheimer et Frere TR-A Fabre 3. Saint Thomas (FR) 8-11 £9,756 b c by Dansili - Metisse (Kingmambo) O-Ecurie La Boetie B-Janus Bldstk TR-P Bary Margins 1.5, 1.25. Time 1:55.36. Going Very soft.

Age 2-3

Starts 7

Wins 3

Places 1

Earned £63,739

1st Dam: SALUTE THE SUN by Fly To The Stars. 6 wins at 2 to 5 in France. Dam of 1 winner: 2010: SUPERPLEX (c Multiplex) Sold 22,167gns yearling at AROCT. 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix Daphnis G3.

2011: Superkate (f Green Tune) unraced to date.

2012: (c Myboycharlie) Broodmare Sire: FLY TO THE STARS. Sire of the dams of 1 Stakes winners. In 2013 - SUPERPLEX Multiplex G3.

SUPERPLEX b c 2010 Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Razyana Spring Adieu Mill Reef Shirley Heights Hardiemma Roberto Slightly Dangerous Where You Lead Storm Bird Bluebird Ivory Dawn Mill Reef Rise And Fall Light Duty Polar Falcon Pivotal Fearless Revival Robellino Twilight Patrol Warning Light Danzig MULTIPLEX b 03

Fly To The Stars SALUTE THE SUN b 03 Fulcrum

161 BROWNSTOWN S G3 FAIRYHOUSE. July 3. 3yo+f&m. 7f.

1. FIESOLANA (IRE) 4 9-11 £40,955 b f by Aussie Rules - Tidal Reach (Kris S) O-Kieran Leavy, Lorcan Cribbin, Amanda McCreery B-R De Vere Hunt TR-W McCreery

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Wins 6

Places 4

Earned £137,735

Sire: AUSSIE RULES. Sire of 11 Stakes winners. In 2013 - FIESOLANA Kris S G3.

1st Dam: TIDAL REACH by Kris S. Winner at 2. Dam of 9 winners: 1997: STEP AHEAD (f Shalford) Winner at 2.

1998: INNIT (f Distinctly North). 6 wins 2-3, Honeymoon Breeders’ Cup H G2.

1999: Bengali Lancer (c Perugino) unraced.

2001: ARFINNIT (g College Chapel) 8 wins.

2002: TIDAL FURY (g Night Shift) 9 wins, Prix Cambaceres Grand Course de 3yo Hurdle G1.

2003: MISS LATINA (f Mozart) Winner at 4.

2004: STONEACRE GARETH (g Grand Lodge) 3 wins at 2 and 7.

2005: CEKA DANCER (f Danehill Dancer) 1 win at 3.

2006: Rockinit (f Rock of Gibraltar) 2007: TIDARA ANGEL (f Oratorio) 7 wins, Prix Alain du Breil d’Ete 4yo Hurdle G1.

2009: FIESOLANA (f Aussie Rules) Sold 28,735gns 2yo at GBMBR. 6 wins 2-4, Ballyogan S G3, Brownstown S G3.

2nd Dam: DAVIE LADY by Bold And Brave. 2 wins at 2 in USA. Dam of DAVIE’S LAMB (f Unpredictable: San Jose H LR, Tizna H LR, Pink Pigeon S LR, Buena Vista S LR, 2nd Golden Poppy H G3, 3rd Palomar H G2). Grandam of Spy Hill, Caleb Pond. Third dam of Amir Khan, Salure, Davie’s Story.

2nd Dam: DIANA DANCER by Fabulous Dancer. 4 wins in France. Dam of Djibouti (c Dashing Blade: 2nd Mehl-Mulhens Rennen G2), Dancer Fred (c Kaldoun: 2nd Prix de Courcelles LR, Prix de Saint Patrick LR), Diamond Diggins (g Kendor: 3rd Sierstorpff Rennen LR, Preis der Hotellerie BadenBaden LR).

Broodmare Sire: LANDO. Sire of the dams of 12 Stakes winners. In 2013 - FARHH Pivotal G1, ALTANO Galileo G3, DABBITSE Soldier Hollow G3, GLOOMY SUNDAY Singspiel G3.

DABBITSE b c 2009

SOLDIER HOLLOW b 00 Island Race

Lando DJIDDA b 00 Diana Dancer

Danehill

Last Second

Kris S TIDAL REACH b 92 Davie Lady

Northern Dancer Danzig Pas de Nom His Majesty Razyana Spring Adieu Lyphard Alzao Lady Rebecca Crystal Palace Alruccaba Allara Hail To Reason Roberto Bramalea Princequillo Sharp Queen Bridgework Bold Ruler Bold And Brave Bases Full Blue Prince Basie Blues Family Pride

162 HAMBURGER FLIEGER PREIS G3 HAMBURG. July 3. 3yo+. 1200m.

1. DABBITSE (GER) 4 9-2 £26,016 b c by Soldier Hollow - Djidda (Lando) O-C Zschache B-Gestut Ebbesloh TR-C Zschache 2. Smooth Operator (GER) 7 9-0 £8,943 b g by Big Shuffle - Salzgitter (Salse) O-Gerd Zimmermann B-Mario Hofer TR-Mario Hofer 3. Best Regards (IRE) 3 8-7 £4,472 bbr f by Tamayuz - Neverletme Go (Green Desert) O-Gestut Brummerhof B-T Stewart TR-P Harley Margins Head, short head. Time 1:09.96.

Going Good.

Age 2-4

Starts 14

Wins 4

163 GROSSER PREIS VON LOTTO HAMBURG G3 HAMBURG. July 5. 3yo+. 2000m.

FIESOLANA b f 2009

AUSSIE RULES gr/ro 03

Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Shirley Heights High Hawk Sunbittern Kris Common Grounds Sweetly Caerleon Lake Isle Inisfree Surumu Acatenango Aggravate Sharpman Laurea Licata Northern Dancer Fabulous Dancer Last of The Line Forli Seronera Title Passer Sadler’s Wells

In The Wings

Broodmare Sire: KRIS S. Sire of the dams of 77 Stakes winners. In 2013 - MARKETING MIX Medaglia d’Oro G1, DARK COVE Medaglia d’Oro G2, FIESOLANA Aussie Rules G3.

Sire: MULTIPLEX. Sire of 2 Stakes winners. In 2013 SUPERPLEX Fly To The Stars G3.

Shirley Valentine

MILAN. June 30. 3yo+. 1800m.

1. PATTAYA (ITY) 5 9-4 £22,764 b h by Philomatheia - Tirsa (Benny The Dip) O-Dioscuri SRL B-Azienda Agricola Al Deni TR-S Botti 2. Storming Loose (GB) 6 9-4 £10,016 bbr g by Storming Home - Dan Loose (Danehill) O/B-Scuderia Blueberry TR-B Grizzetti 3. Orpello (IRE) 4 9-6 £5,463 b c by Orpen - Princess Angelina (Almutawakel) O-Effevi B-Deni SRL, Effevi SNC TR-S Botti Margins 0.5, 2.5. Time 1:48.50. Going Good.

Kind of Hush Matinata

Danehill

159 PREMIO DEL GIUBILEO G3

Silver Hawk Rascal Rascal

TIRSA b 02

Sire: LUCKY STORY. Sire of 6 Stakes winners. In 2013 - ARPINATI Benny The Dip G3.

1st Dam: LOLA SAPOLA by Benny The Dip. 2 wins at 2 and 3. Dam of 2 winners: 2007: Gilderoy (g Compton Place) 2008: CHOKIDAR (g Sleeping Indian) 2 wins at 3.

2011: ARPINATI (c Lucky Story) Sold 2,500gns foal at TADEF, 9,523gns yearling at TISEP. 2 wins at 2 in Italy, Premio Primi Passi G3.

2012: (c Sleeping Indian) 2013: (c Hellvelyn)

Pas de Nom

Starts 12

2006: DEXTERA (f Royal Dragon) 5 wins at 3 to 5 in USA, Glendale H, Chandler S, 2nd RudolfAugust Oetker-Memorial LR. 2007: Devilish Lips (f Konigstiger) Winner at 2 in Germany, 2nd Prix Amandine LR, Dallmayr Coupe Lukull LR, Grosser Preis des Hannover Airport LR, Uvex Trophy Badener Ladies Sprint Cup LR. Broodmare.

2009: DABBITSE (c Soldier Hollow) 4 wins 2-4, Preis Afrika Linen J Essberger Flieger Preis G3, Preis der Jungheinrich Gabelstapler LR. 2010: DIACCIA (f High Chaparral) Winner at 3 in Germany.

2012: Drejo (f Mastercraftsman) 2013: Diokletian (c Lawman)

Places 7

Earned £26,875

Sire: SOLDIER HOLLOW. Sire of 7 SWs. In 2013 PASTORIUS Monsun G1, ARS NOVA Surumu G2, IVANHOWE Sternkoenig G2, DABBITSE Lando G3.

1st Dam: Djidda by Lando. unraced. Dam of 6 winners: 2004: DANCING AMBER (f Ashkalani) Winner at 4 in Germany.

2005: Dragon Days (f Royal Dragon) Winner at 2, 3rd Dusseldorfer Galopp Stutenpreis LR.

1. NEATICO (GER) 6 9-4 £26,016 b h by Medicean - Nicola Bella (Sadler’s Wells) O/B-Gestut Ittlingen TR-P Schiergen 2. Petit Chevalier (FR) 5 9-2 £8,943 b h by High Chaparral - Pivoline (Pivotal) O/B-Rennstall Gestut Hachtsee TR-W Mongil 3. Russian Tango (GER) 6 9-2 £4,472 ch h by Tertullian - Russian Samba (Laroche) O-Rennstall Darboven B-Gestut Idee TR-A Wohler Margins 7, 1.75. Time 2:06.69. Going Good.

Age 2-6

Starts 29

Wins 6

Places 15

Earned £261,337

Sire: MEDICEAN. Sire of 40 Stakes winners. In 2013 - NEATICO Sadler’s Wells G1.

1st Dam: NICOLA BELLA by Sadler’s Wells. Winner at 3. Own sister to Sister Bella. Dam of 7 winners: 2001: Persian Belle (f Machiavellian) unraced. Dam of CALVADOS BLUES (Prix de Guiche G3, Prix des Chenes G3, 2nd Dubai City of Gold S G2, 3rd Dubai Sheema Classic G1).

2002: BEAUTYANDTHEBEAST (f Machiavellian) 6 wins 3-4, Las Palmas H G2.

2004: NOVO (c Rainbow Quest) 2 wins 3-4 in Germany.

2005: Narcisco (g Fantastic Light) Winner at 3 in Germany, 2nd Grosser Freiberger PremiumPreis LR. 2006: Nicella (f Lando) unraced.

2007: NEATICO (c Medicean) 6 wins 2-6 in Germany, Grosser Dallmayr Bayerisches Zuchtrennen G1, Grosser Preis der Dortmunder Wirtschaft G3, G Bombadier V Herzog von Ratibor Rennen G3, Grosser Preis von Lotto Hamburg G3, Henkel Meile LR, 2nd Badener Meile mit der Superdreierwette G3 (twice), Hessen-Pokal Traloppo G3, Wettenleip Fruhjahrs-Meile G3, Grosser Canon-Preis-Limitierter Int LR, Ilse und Heinz Ramm Erinnerungsmeile LR, 3rd Grosse Europa Meile G2, UVEX-Trophy Rennen G3, Belmondo-Preis G3, GP der Landeshauptstadt G3, Preis der Sparkassen Finanzgruppe G3, Excelsior Hotel Ernst-Meile LR. 2008: CAPTAIN BROWN (g Lomitas) 2 wins.

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2009: 2010: 2012: 2013:

SCARLET BELLE (f Sir Percy) Winner at 3.

PERNICA (f Sir Percy) Winner at 3. (c Sir Percy) Pernickety (f Sir Percy)

2nd Dam: Valley of Hope by Riverman. unraced. Dam of Sister Bella (f Sadler’s Wells: 3rd Irish Oaks G1).

Broodmare Sire: SADLER’S WELLS. Sire of the dams of 313 Stakes winners. In 2013 - FLINTSHIRE Dansili G1, NEATICO Medicean G1, RELIABLE MAN Dalakhani G1, SHE’S HAPPY Speightstown G1, AKUA’DA Shamardal G2, PEACE BURG Sageburg G2, TANNERY Dylan Thomas G2, THOMAS CHIPPENDALE Dansili G2, BALTIC BARONESS Shamardal G3, FORTE DEI MARMI Selkirk G3.

The Medicean/Sadler’s Wells cross has produced: BANKABLE G1, NEATICO G1.

NEATICO b h 2007

Third dam of FUTURE GENERATION, Woven Lace, Waitress, Rasmeyaa, Sheistheboss. Fourth dam of Magic Falcon.

Broodmare Sire: INDIAN RIDGE. Sire of the dams of 66 Stakes winners. In 2013 - KINGSGATE NATIVE Mujadil G2, MULL OF KILLOUGH Mull of Kintyre G3, ROMANTIC WAVE Rock of Gibraltar G3, TICKLED PINK Invincible Spirit G3.

The Invincible Spirit/Indian Ridge cross has produced: SWISS SPIRIT G2, TICKLED PINK G3, REYKON LR, VARESE LR, Russian Soul G3, Sgarzulina LR, Spirit of Pearl LR. TICKLED PINK gr f 2009 Danzig Green Desert

Kris Raise A Native Gold Digger Halo Coup de Folie Raise The Standard Northern Dancer Storm Bird South Ocean Sassafras Rose Goddess Cocarde Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special Never Bend Riverman River Lady Sodium Virunga Vale

Rafha

Mr Prospector Machiavellian MEDICEAN ch 97 Mystic Goddess

Sadler’s Wells NICOLA BELLA b 95 Valley of Hope

164 CORAL CHARGE SPRINT S G3 SANDOWN PARK. July 6. 3yo+. 5f 6yds.

1. TICKLED PINK (IRE) 4 9-4 £34,026 gr f by Invincible Spirit - Cassandra Go (Indian Ridge) O-Trevor C Stewart B-T Stewart TR-Lady Cecil 2. Kingsgate Native (IRE) 8 9-9 £12,900 b g by Mujadil - Native Force (Indian Ridge) O-Cheveley Park Stud B-Peter McCutcheon TR-RMH Cowell 3. Mince (GB) 4 9-0 £6,456 ch f by Medicean - Strut (Danehill Dancer) O-Lady Rothschild B-Lord Rothschild TR-Roger Charlton Margins 1, neck. Time 0:59.27 (fast 0.53).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-4

Starts 8

Wins 3

Places 3

Earned £73,245

Sire: INVINCIBLE SPIRIT. Sire of 66 Stakes winners.

In 2013 - SPIRIT QUARTZ Rainbow Quest G2, SPIRIT SONG Kingston Rule G2, MOONLIGHT CLOUD Spectrum G3, RAWAAQ Silver Hawk G3, TICKLED PINK Indian Ridge G3.

1st Dam: CASSANDRA GO by Indian Ridge. 6 wins at 3 to 5, King’s Stand S G2, Tripleprint Temple S G2, 2nd Darley July Cup G1. Own sister to Grey Eminence. Dam of 5 winners: 2002: NEVERLETME GO (f Green Desert) 2 wins at 3. Dam of Best Regards (2nd Preis der Jungheinrich Gabelstapler LR, 3rd Preis Afrika Linen J Essberger Flieger Preis G3).

2003: MANNIKKO (g Green Desert) Winner at 3.

2004: THEANN (f Rock of Gibraltar) 2 wins at 2 and 3, Summer S G3.

2005: HALFWAY TO HEAVEN (f Pivotal) 4 wins 2-3, Irish 1000 Guineas G1, Nassau S G1, Sun Chariot S G1, 3rd Matron S G1, Poule d’Essai des Pouliches G1. Dam of FLYING THE FLAG (International S G3, 2nd Futurity S G2).

2007: (c Shamardal) 2008: Velesgo (g Dansili) ran a few times.

2009: TICKLED PINK (f Invincible Spirit) 3 wins at 3 and 4, Abernant S G3, The Coral Charge Sprint S G3.

2010: Jayed Jidan (c Teofilo) 2012: (f Pivotal) 2nd Dam: RAHAAM by Secreto. 1 win at 3. Dam of CASSANDRA GO (f Indian Ridge, see above), VERGLAS (c Highest Honor: Coventry S G3, 2nd Irish 2000 Guineas G1, 3rd Phoenix S G1), PERSIAN SECRET (f Persian Heights: Prix La Sorellina LR), Grey Eminence (c Indian Ridge: 2nd Axminster Carpets Cathedral S LR). Grandam of DO THE HONOURS, PRIMA LUCE, OH BEAUTIFUL, SEBA.

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INVINCIBLE SPIRIT b 97

Eljazzi Indian Ridge CASSANDRA GO gr 96 Rahaam

Ahonoora Hillbrow Secreto Fager’s Glory

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Sir Ivor Courtly Dee Sharpen Up Doubly Sure Artaius Border Bounty Lorenzaccio Helen Nichols Swing Easy Golden City Northern Dancer Betty’s Secret Mr Prospector Street’s Glory

165 LANCASHIRE OAKS G2 HAYDOCK PARK. July 6. 3yo+f&m. 11f 200yds.

1. EMIRATES QUEEN (GB) 4 9-5 £51,039 b f by Street Cry - Zomaradah (Deploy) O-Sheikh Mohammed Obaid B-Darley TR-L Cumani 2. Moment In Time (IRE) 4 9-5 £19,350 b f by Tiger Hill - Horatia (Machiavellian) O-Mrs Julia Annable B-LKI Bloodstock Ltd TR-David Simcock 3. Albasharah (USA) 4 9-5 £9,684 b f by Arch - Desert Gold (Seeking The Gold) O-Godolphin B-Darley TR-Saeed bin Suroor Margins 0.75, short head. Time 2:30.84 (slow 4.34).

Going Good to firm.

Age 3-4

Starts 7

Wins 2

Places 1

Earned £64,356

Sire: STREET CRY. Sire of 62 Stakes winners. In 2013 - EMIRATES QUEEN Deploy G2, SEA LORD Dream Well G2, HURDY GURDY MAN Bluebird G3.

1st Dam: ZOMARADAH by Deploy. Champion 3yo in Italy, Champion older mare in Italy. 6 wins 3-4, Oaks d’Italia G1, 3rd Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf G1.

Dam of 6 winners: 2002: DUBAWI (c Dubai Millennium). 5 wins, Irish 2000 Guineas G1, National S G1, Prix Jacques Le Marois G1, 2nd Queen Elizabeth II S G1, 3rd Derby S G1. Sire.

2003: PRINCESS NADA (f Barathea) 2 wins at 3, Ballymacoll S LR, 3rd Lancashire Oaks G2.

2005: MUBROOK (g Alhaarth) 2 wins over hurdles.

2006: SUBA (f Seeking The Gold) Winner at 3.

2008: Dubai Queen (f Kingmambo) Winner at 3, 2nd Sandringham H LR. 2009: EMIRATES QUEEN (f Street Cry) 2 wins at 3 and 4, Lancashire Oaks G2, 2nd Lyric S LR. 2010: Gohar (f New Approach) unraced to date.

2012: (c Pivotal)

166 ECLIPSE S G1 SANDOWN PARK. July 6. 3yo+. 10f 7yds.

1. AL KAZEEM (GB) 5 9-7 £241,018 b h by Dubawi - Kazeem (Darshaan) O-DJ Deer B-DJ And Mrs Deer TR-Roger Charlton 2. Declaration of War (USA) 4 9-7 £91,375 b c by War Front - Tempo West (Rahy) O-Mrs J Magnier, M Tabor, D Smith, J Allen B-Joseph Allen TR-AP O’Brien 3. Mukhadram (GB) 4 9-7 £45,730 b c by Shamardal - Magic Tree (Timber Country) O-Hamdan Al Maktoum B-Wardall Bloodstock TR-William Haggas Margins 2, 1.25. Time 2:04.35 (fast 1.45).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-5

Starts 12

EMIRATES QUEEN b f 2009 Machiavellian STREET CRY b/br 98 Helen Street

Deploy ZOMARADAH b 95 Jawaher

Raise A Native Mr Prospector Gold Digger Halo Coup de Folie Raise The Standard Petingo Troy La Milo Riverman Waterway Boulevard Mill Reef Shirley Heights Hardiemma Roberto Slightly Dangerous Where You Lead Lyphard Dancing Brave Navajo Princess High Line High Tern Sunbittern

Places 4

Earned £801,883

Sire: DUBAWI. Sire of 60 Stakes winners. In 2013 AL KAZEEM Darshaan G1, HUNTER’S LIGHT Barathea G1, LUCKY NINE Green Desert G1, WILLOW MAGIC Tierce G1, PRINCIPE ADEPTO Giant’s Causeway G2, UNIVERSAL Giant’s Causeway G2, AHZEEMAH Entrepreneur G3, DANADANA Barathea G3, KIYOSHI Sri Pekan G3.

1st Dam: Kazeem by Darshaan. ran 3 times at 2 and 3. Own sister to Treasurer. Dam of 3 winners: 2003: (f Medicean) 2004: AZEEMA (f Averti) Winner at 3.

2005: King’s Kazeem (f King’s Best) 2006: PARK LANE (g Royal Applause) 4 wins.

2007: Fire Up (f Motivator) 2008: AL KAZEEM (c Dubawi) 7 wins at 2 to 5, 2013, Tattersalls Gold Cup G1, Eclipse S G1, Prince of Wales’s S G1, Jockey Club S G2, Gordon Richards S G3, 2nd Great Voltigeur S G2, St Simon S G3, Arc Trial G3.

2009: Sanctioned (g Authorized) ran 3 times.

2010: Kazak (c Royal Applause) in training.

2013: (c Makfi) 2nd Dam: KANZ by The Minstrel. 2 wins at 2 and 3, Princess Elizabeth S G3, 2nd Yorkshire Oaks G1. Dam of Treasurer (c Darshaan: 3rd Peter Pan S G2).

Broodmare Sire: DARSHAAN. Sire of the dams of 208 Stakes winners. In 2013 - AL KAZEEM Dubawi G1, AMBIVALENT Authorized G1, BYRAMA Byron G1, ESTIMATE Monsun G1, SAJJHAA King’s Best G1, DANK Dansili G2, LIBERTARIAN New Approach G2, VEREMA Barathea G2, ERNEST HEMINGWAY Galileo G3, FEEL LIKE DANCING Galileo G3, GLOBAL THRILL Big Shuffle G3, JUTLAND Halling G3, VIZTORIA Oratorio G3.

See race 86 in the July issue for analysis AL KAZEEM b h 2008 Mr Prospector Con Game Shareef Dancer Colorado Dancer Fall Aspen Shirley Heights Deploy Slightly Dangerous Dancing Brave Jawaher High Tern Mill Reef Shirley Heights Hardiemma Abdos Delsy Kelty Northern Dancer The Minstrel Fleur Rough’n Tumble Treasure Chest Iltis

Seeking The Gold Dubai Millennium DUBAWI b 2002 Zomaradah

Darshaan KAZEEM b 98 Kanz

2nd Dam: Jawaher by Dancing Brave. Dam of ZOMARADAH (f Deploy, see above) Broodmare Sire: DEPLOY. Sire of the dams of 6 SWs. In 2013 - EMIRATES QUEEN Street Cry G2.

Wins 7

167 PRIX DE LA PORTE MAILLOT G3 LONGCHAMP. July 6. 3yo+. 1400m.

1. MOONLIGHT CLOUD (GB) 5 8-11 £32,520 b m by Invincible Spirit - Ventura (Spectrum) O/B-George Strawbridge TR-F Head 2. Amarillo (IRE) 4 9-4 £13,008 b c by Holy Roman Emperor - Alte Kunst (Royal Academy) O-Stall Nizza B-Juergen Imm TR-P Schiergen 3. So Long Malpic (FR) 6 8-11 £9,756 b m by Fairly Ransom - Poussiere d’Or (Marchand de Sable) O-Pierre Pasquet B-Pierre Pasquet TR-T Lemer Margins 2.5, 0.75. Time 1:20.43. Going Good.

Age 2-5

Starts 17

Wins 10

Places 4

Earned £953,794

Sire: INVINCIBLE SPIRIT. Sire of 66 Stakes winners.

In 2013 - MOONLIGHT CLOUD Spectrum G1, SPIRIT QUARTZ Rainbow Quest G2, SPIRIT SONG Kingston Rule G2, RAWAAQ Silver Hawk G3, TICKLED PINK Indian Ridge G3.

1st Dam: Ventura by Spectrum. 2 wins at 3, 3rd Carlsberg Ruby S LR. Dam of 4 winners: 2003: CEDAR MOUNTAIN (c Galileo) 3 wins 4-5, Round Table H LR, 2nd Sunset H G2.

2004: Sarafsa (f Selkirk) unraced.

2005: LAKUTA (f Pivotal) 2 wins at 4 in France.

2007: EXTREME GREEN (f Motivator) Winner at 3 in Slovakia.

2008: MOONLIGHT CLOUD (f Invincible Spirit). 10 wins 2-5, Prix du Moulin de Longchamp G1, Prix Maurice de Gheest G1 (3 times), Prix de la Porte Maillot G3 (twice), Prix du Palais Royal G3, Prix Imprudence G3, 2nd Diamond Jubilee S G1, Prix du Palais Royal G3.

2010: Satin Box (f Manduro) unraced to date.

2011: When In Doubt (f Montjeu) unraced to date.

2012: (f Makfi) 2nd Dam: WEDDING BOUQUET by Kings Lake. 6 wins 2-4, C L Weld Park S G3, Monrovia H G3, 2nd National S G1, 3rd Phoenix S G1. Dam of Ventura (f Spectrum, see above), IRISH LEGEND (g Sadler’s Wells: Silver H Hurdle LR). Grandam of PROBABLY, BRUGES. Third dam of TALWAR, HAWAAFEZ. Broodmare Sire: SPECTRUM. Sire of the dams of 24 Stakes winners. In 2013 - MOONLIGHT CLOUD Invincible Spirit G1, SANGSTER Savabeel G1, TELLINA Silvano G2.

MOONLIGHT CLOUD b m 2008 Danzig Green Desert

Foreign Courier

INVINCIBLE SPIRIT b 97 Kris Rafha Eljazzi Spectrum VENTURA b 98 Wedding Bouquet

Rainbow Quest River Dancer Kings Lake Doff The Derby

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Sir Ivor Courtly Dee Sharpen Up Doubly Sure Artaius Border Bounty Blushing Groom I Will Follow Irish River Dancing Shadow Nijinsky Fish-Bar Master Derby Margarethen

168 ALMASED-CUP G3 HAMBURG. July 6. 3yof. 2200m.

1. DAYTONA BAY (GB) 9-2 £26,016 b f by Motivator - Daytona (Lando) O/B-Gestut Ittlingen TR-Ferdinand J Leve 2. Quilita (GER) 9-2 £8,943 b f by Lomitas - Quirigua (Intikhab) O/B-Stiftung Gestut Fahrhof TR-P Schiergen 3. Ars Nova (GER) 9-2 £4,472 b f by Soldier Hollow - Asuma (Surumu) O-Stall Salzburg B-Gestut Karlshof TR-W Figge Margins 1.75, 0.5. Time 2:19.08. Going Good.

Age 3

Starts 3

Wins 2

Places 1

Earned £33,658

Sire: MOTIVATOR. Sire of 16 Stakes winners. In 2013 - TREVE Anabaa G1, DAYTONA BAY Lando G3, FELICIAN Inchinor G3, FEREVIA Cat Thief G3, MOTIVADO Time For A Change G3.

1st Dam: DAYTONA by Lando. 4 wins at 3 and 5 in France, Germany, Prix Occitanie LR, Preis der Hotellerie Baden-Baden LR, Grosser Preis der SEB Bank LR, 2nd Grosser SWB Stutenpreis von Bremen G3. Own sister to DONALDSON. Dam of 1 winner: 2008: Daymond (c Selkirk) unraced.

2010: DAYTONA BAY (f Motivator) 2 wins at 3 in Germany, Almased Cup G3, 2nd BMW Preis Dusseldorf LR. 2013: Diamond Daisy (f Shirocco) 2nd Dam: Daytona Beach by Konigsstuhl. 4 wins at 2 and 4 in Germany, 2nd Fruhjahrs Stuten Preis LR. Dam of DONALDSON (g Lando: Preis Freunde und Forderer Deutschlandpreis G1), DUKE OF HEARTS (c Halling: Grand Prix de Compiegne LR), DAYTONA (f Lando, see above), DARK’N SHARP (g Sharpo: 3rd Rehabilitation of Racehorses Hurdle LR, Red Rum H Chase LR, 3rd Tote Exacta H Chase G2). Grandam of Delightful Sofie, Delightful Mood.

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Caulfield on Flintshire: “He has added further lustre to Dansili’s record with daughters of Sadler’s Wells; he is the tenth stakes winner from 63 starters representing this cross”

Broodmare Sire: LANDO. Sire of the dams of 13 Stakes winners. In 2013 - FARHH Pivotal G1, ALTANO Galileo G3, DABBITSE Soldier Hollow G3, DAYTONA BAY Motivator G3, GLOOMY SUNDAY Singspiel G3.

The Motivator/Lando cross has produced: DAYTONA BAY G3, Aviator LR. DAYTONA BAY b f 2010 Sadler’s Wells Montjeu

Floripedes

MOTIVATOR b 02 Gone West Out West Chellingoua Lando DAYTONA b 01 Daytona Beach

Acatenango Laurea Konigsstuhl Domestica

Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Top Ville Toute Cy Mr Prospector Secrettame Sharpen Up Uncommitted Surumu Aggravate Sharpman Licata Dschingis Khan Konigskronung Kaiseradler Donna

169 DEUTSCHES DERBY G1 HAMBURG. July 7. 3yoc&f. 2400m.

1. LUCKY SPEED (IRE) 9-2 £243,902 b c by Silvano - Lysuna (Monsun) O-Stall Hornoldendorf B-Gestut Ittlingen TR-P Schiergen 2. Tres Blue (IRE) 9-2 £81,301 b c by Anabaa Blue - Tres Ravi (Monsun) O-H Rapp B-Chevotel De La Hauquerie TR-H-A Pantall 3. Nordvulkan (GER) 9-2 £48,780 b c by Kallisto - Nur Bani (Artan) O-Stall Alemannia B-Stall Alemannia TR-R Dzubasz Margins 0.75, neck. Time 2:27.87. Going Good.

Age 3

Starts 4

Wins 3

Places 1

Earned £282,926

Sire: SILVANO. Sire of 46 Stakes winners. In 2013 DO YOU REMEMBER Casey Tibbs G1, HAPPY VALENTINE National Assembly G1, HEAVY METAL Baroon G1, LUCKY SPEED Monsun G1, MARTIAL EAGLE Jallad G1, VERCINGETORIX National Assembly G1, SILVANO’S JET Jet Master G2, TELLINA Spectrum G2, ASTRO NEWS Dominion Royale G3, GIFTED FOR GLORY Badger Land G3, SEAL Rambo Dancer G3.

1st Dam: Lysuna by Monsun. 3 wins, 2nd Preis Jungheinrich Gabstapler G3. Dam of 4 winners: 2007: Lyssio (g Motivator) 4 wins, 2nd Grosser Bavaria Preis LR. 2008: LYVIUS (g Paolini) 5 wins, Sportingbet Gerry Feilden H Hurdle LR. 2009: LYSINO (g Medicean) Winner at 3 in Germany.

2010: LUCKY SPEED (c Silvano) Sold 37,766gns yearling at BBAGS. 3 wins at 3, Deutsches Derby G1, Bavarian Classic G3, 2nd FruhjahrsPreis des Bankhauses Metzler G3.

2011: (c Montjeu) 2012: (f Lando) 2nd Dam: LA LYRA by Slip Anchor. 1 win at 2. Dam of Lymond (c Bakharoff: 3rd GP von Dusseldorf G3), Lysuna (f Monsun, see above).

Broodmare Sire: MONSUN. Sire of the dams of 26 SW. In 2013 - LUCKY SPEED Silvano G1, PASTORIUS Soldier Hollow G1, DON BOSCO Barathea G2.

The Silvano/Monsun cross has produced: LUCKY SPEED G1, Aurea LR. LUCKY SPEED b c 2010 Niniski Lomitas

La Colorada

SILVANO b 96 Beau’s Eagle Spirit of Eagles Big Spirit Monsun LYSUNA b 00 La Lyra

Konigsstuhl Mosella Slip Anchor La Luna

Nijinsky Virginia Hills Surumu La Dorada Golden Eagle Beaufield Big Spruce Beautiful Spirit Dschingis Khan Konigskronung Surumu Monasia Shirley Heights Sayonara Lyphard Belga

The 2012/2013 season in South Africa proved a runaway success for Maine Chance Farm’s Silvano. The German-bred son of Lomitas amassed earnings of nearly 21 million rand – roughly 6m rand more than his nearest pursuer Jet Master – with significant help from Heavy Metal (Durban July), Martial Eagle (J & B Met). Vercingetorix, Do You Remember, Happy Valentine, Silvano’s Jet, Gothic and Tellina.

Silvano was a very successful international performer whose record in 2001 featured successes in the Singapore Cup, Queen Elizabeth II Cup in Hong Kong and Arlington Million in the US. The original plan was for Silvano to shuttle between Germany and South Africa but he became stranded in South Africa in 2003 when the export of horses was suspended for two years due to a breach in the African Horse Sickness protocols.

At that stage Silvano had stood only two seasons in Germany, but those German crops ultimately produced numerous black-type performers, including the Gr2 winners Proudinsky, Fair Breeze and Mi Emma (2007 German 1,000 Guineas). Andreas Jacobs was therefore keen to return Silvano to Europe but the process was very difficult and costly, with Silvano having to spend more than three months in quarantine, including a stopover in Mauritius. However, all this effort proved worthwhile, as Silvano’s 2010 German foals, numbering more than 60, include Lucky Speed, winner of the Deutsches Derby.

It was Lucky Speed’s stamina which earned him his Classic success, as he didn’t lead until the final 50 metres.

This is hardly surprising, as his four great-grandsires include the dual St Leger winner Niniski (grandsire of Silvano) and the stamina-packed Slip Anchor. His third dam La Luna, was by Bigivor, an unraced son of Sir Ivor, while the next dam, Killymoon, was by No Argument, a sprinter-miler best known as a sire of jumpers.

170 PRIX MESSIDOR G3 MAISONS-LAFFITTE. July 7. 3yo+. 1600m.

1. INTELLO (GER) 3 9-1 £32,520 b c by Galileo - Impressionnante (Danehill) O/B-Wertheimer et Frere TR-A Fabre 2. Mainsail (GB) 4 9-5 £13,008 b c by Oasis Dream - Docklands (Theatrical) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-P Bary 3. Don Bosco (FR) 6 9-7 £9,756 ch h by Barathea - Perfidie (Monsun) O-Omar El Sharif B-Haras D’Etreham, Vision Bloodstock Ltd TR-D Smaga Margins 1.5, 0.5. Time 1:34.00. Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 6

Wins 5

Places 1

Earned £825,609

Sire: GALILEO. See race 155.

1st Dam: IMPRESSIONNANTE by Danehill. 3 wins 2-3, Prix de Sandringham G2, 2nd Poule d’Essai des Pouliches G1, Prix d’Astarte G1. Dam of 1 winner: 2009: Intelleto (c Pivotal) 2010: INTELLO (c Galileo) 5 wins 2-3, Prix du Jockey Club G1, Prix Messidor G3, Feilden S LR, 3rd Poule d’Essai des Poulains G1.

2011: No Mood (c Monsun) unraced to date.

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2nd Dam: OCCUPANDISTE by Kaldoun. Champion older mare in France in 1997. 6 wins 2-4, Prix de la Foret G1, Prix Maurice de Gheest G1. Dam of IMPRESSIONNANTE (f Danehill, see above), ONLY ANSWER (f Green Desert: Prix de Saint-Georges G3, Prix du Petit Couvert G3), Mondialiste (c Galileo: 3rd Prix Jean Prat G1).

Broodmare Sire: DANEHILL. Sire of the dams of 225 Stakes winners. In 2013 - FENOMENO Stay Gold G1, INTELLO Galileo G1, MORE THAN SACRED More Than Ready G1, RUUD AWAKENING Bernardini G1, FIX Iffraaj G2, MULAAZEM Dubai Destination G2, STAR OF GISELLE Reset G2, CUSTOM CUT Notnowcato G3, MOREISH More Than Ready G3, ROMANTIC MOON More Than Ready G3, ROMANTICA Galileo G3, SUGAR BOY Authorized G3, TREBLE JIG Gone West G3.

The Galileo/Danehill cross has produced: BANC DE FORTUNE G1, CIMA DE TRIOMPHE G1, CUIS GHAIRE G1, FRANKEL G1, GOLDEN LILAC G1, INTELLO G1, MAYBE G1, RODERIC O’CONNOR G1, SECRET GESTURE G1, TEOFILO G1, NOBLE MISSION G2, REEM G2, ROMANTICA G2, CRYSTAL GAL G3, LAGALP G3, SIDERA G3, MISS GALILEI LR, VIA GALILEI LR, Galileo’s Destiny G1, Gile Na Greine G1, Mars G1, Scintillula G1, The Assayer G1, Brightest G3, Claiomh Solais G3, Marksmanship G3.

INTELLO b c 2010 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells

Fairy Bridge

GALILEO b 98 Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta Danehill IMPRESSIONNANTE b 03 Occupandiste

Danzig Razyana Kaldoun Only Seule

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Lombard Anatevka Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Caro Katana Lyphard Elle Seule

171 PRINCESS OF WALES’S S G2 NEWMARKET. July 11. 3yo+. 12f.

1. UNIVERSAL (IRE) 4 9-5 £56,710 ch c by Dubawi - Winesong (Giant’s Causeway) O-Abdulla Al Mansoori B-Grangecon Stud TR-Mark Johnston 2. Ahzeemah (IRE) 4 9-2 £21,500 b g by Dubawi - Swiss Roll (Entrepreneur) O-Godolphin B-G O’Brien TR-Saeed bin Suroor 3. Cavalryman (GB) 7 9-2 £10,760 b h by Halling - Silversword (Highest Honor) O-Godolphin B-Darley TR-Saeed bin Suroor Margins 2.5, 2. Time 2:28.45 (slow 1.95).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-4

Starts 18

Wins 7

Places 6

Earned £227,657

Sire: DUBAWI. See race 166.

UNIVERSAL ch c 2009 Mr Prospector Con Game Shareef Dancer Colorado Dancer Fall Aspen DUBAWI b 02 Shirley Heights Deploy Slightly Dangerous Zomaradah Dancing Brave Jawaher High Tern Storm Bird Storm Cat Terlingua Giant’s Causeway Rahy Mariah’s Storm Immense WINESONG ch 02 Red God Red Sunset Centre Piece Sunset Cafe Espresso Cafe Au Lait Blue Sash Seeking The Gold

Dubai Millennium

172 JULY S G2 NEWMARKET. July 11. 2yoc&g. 6f.

1. ANJAAL (GB) 8-12 £45,368 ch c by Bahamian Bounty - Ballymore Celebre (Peintre Celebre) O-Hamdan Al Maktoum B-Carmel Stud TR-R Hannon 2. Figure Of Speech (IRE) 8-12 £17,200 b c by Invincible Spirit - Epic Similie (Lomitas) O-Godolphin B-Darley TR-Saeed bin Suroor 3. Jallota (GB) 8-12 £8,608 b c by Rock of Gibraltar - Lady Lahar (Fraam) O-Nick Dhandsa, Olga Dhandsa, John Webster, Zoe Webster B-Barry Walters TR-Mick Channon Margins Neck, head. Time 1:11.21 (slow 1.01).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2

Starts 3

Earned £48,603

1st Dam: BALLYMORE CELEBRE by Peintre Celebre. 2 wins at 3 in France. Dam of 4 winners: 2005: At All (c Dalakhani) 2006: Metraash (g Dubai Destination) unraced.

2007: SWEET SECRET (f Singspiel) 2 wins 3-4.

2008: PINTRADA (g Tiger Hill) 3 wins at 3 and 4.

2009: NO TIME TO LOSE (g Authorized) Winner at 3.

2011: ANJAAL (c Bahamian Bounty) Sold 105,000gns yearling at TAOC2. 2 wins at 2, Portland Place Properties July S G2.

2013: (c Canford Cliffs) 2nd Dam: IRISH ARMS by Irish River. 1 win in France. Dam of NYSAEAN (c Sadler’s Wells: Gallinule S G3, Mooresbridge S G3 (twice), 3rd Tattersalls Gold Cup G1), CHARME SLAVE (c Sicyos: Prix Cor de Chasse LR), Folle Allure (f Poliglote: 2nd Prix Panacee LR, 3rd Prix Fille de l’Air G3), Celtic Cavalier (c Caerleon: 2nd National S G1), Glitters (c Crystal Glitters: 2nd Prix La Fleche LR), Lady Slave (f In The Wings: 2nd Prix Scaramouche LR). Grandam of URUK, ALL THE ACES, Russian Tune. Third dam of Urban King, Victoria College, Ardetone. Fourth dam of Lucky Look.

Broodmare Sire: PEINTRE CELEBRE. Sire of the dams of 23 Stakes winners. In 2013 - TALENT New Approach G1, ANJAAL Bahamian Bounty G2.

ANJAAL ch c 2011

2nd Dam: SUNSET CAFE by Red Sunset. 1 win at 3.

Sister to BEESHI. Dam of SEAZUN (f Zieten: Cheveley Park S G1), Albertinelli (g Danehill: 3rd Celebration S LR), Mahogany (c Orpen: 3rd Tyros S LR), Albert Einstein (c Danehill: 2nd Killavullan S G3).

BALLYMORE CELEBRE ch 00

The Dubawi/Giant’s Causeway cross has produced: PRINCIPE ADEPTO G2, UNIVERSAL G2.

Places 0

Sire: BAHAMIAN BOUNTY. Sire of 24 Stakes winners. In 2013 - ANJAAL Peintre Celebre G2.

1st Dam: Winesong by Giant’s Causeway. Dam of 1 winner: 2008: Mancunian (g Motivator) 2009: UNIVERSAL (c Dubawi) Sold 134,850gns yearling at ARAUG. 7 wins 3-4, Jockey Club S G2, Princess of Wales’s S G2, John Porter S G3, 3rd Hardwicke S G2.

2010: Madam Mo (f Motivator) 2011: Windward Passage (c Dubawi) unraced to date.

2012: (c Dark Angel)

Broodmare Sire: GIANT’S CAUSEWAY. Sire of the dams of 25 SW. In 2013 - ESCADO Casino Prince G1, VERRAZANO More Than Ready G1, PRINCIPE ADEPTO Dubawi G2, SOFT FALLING RAIN National Assembly G2, UNIVERSAL Dubawi G2, PLATINUM KINGDOM Magnus G3.

Wins 2

Young Generation Cadeaux Genereux

Smarten Up

BAHAMIAN BOUNTY ch 94 Ballad Rock Clarentia Laharden Peintre Celebre

Irish Arms

Nureyev Peinture Bleue Irish River Arme d’Or

Balidar Brig O’Doon Sharpen Up L’Anguissola Bold Lad True Rocket Mount Hagen Sinella Northern Dancer Special Alydar Petroleuse Riverman Irish Star Armistice Balle d’Or

173 BAHRAIN TROPHY G3 NEWMARKET. July 11. 3yo. 13f.

1. FEEL LIKE DANCING (GB) 9-0 £34,026 b c by Galileo - Maid of Killeen (Darshaan) O/B-Lady Bamford TR-John Gosden 2. Jathabah (IRE) 8-11 £12,900 b f by Singspiel - Zibet (Kris) O-M Al Nabouda B-Rabbah TR-CE Brittain

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European Pattern Beat (IRE) 9-0 £6,456 >> 3. Havana b c by Teofilo - Sweet Home Alabama (Desert Prince) O-Mick And Janice Mariscotti B-Ms Natalie Cleary TR-AM Balding Margins Neck, head. Time 2:45.35 (slow 5.85).

Going Good to firm.

Age 3

Starts 5

Wins 2

Places 2

Earned £58,542

Sire: GALILEO. See race 155.

1st Dam: Maid of Killeen by Darshaan. Winner at 2, 2nd Ardilaun House Hotel Oyster S LR. Dam of 5 winners: 2001: UNAVAILABLE (f Alzao) 2 wins at 2.

2002: Princess Killeen (f Sinndar) ran once.

2003: Lamington (g Grand Lodge) ran 3 times.

2004: INDIAN INK (f Indian Ridge). 4 wins 2-3, Cheveley Park S G1, Coronation S G1.

2005: NAVAJO JOE (g Indian Ridge) Winner at 3.

2006: Grasshoppergreen (f Barathea) unraced.

2007: Kaizan (c Azamour) unraced.

2009: SURAJ (c Galileo) 2 wins at 3.

2010: FEEL LIKE DANCING (c Galileo) 2 wins at 3, Bahrain Trophy G3, 2nd Sir Henry Cecil Memorial Queen’s Vase G3.

2011: By Jupiter (f Sea The Stars) unraced to date.

2012: (c Sea The Stars) 2nd Dam: Sovereign Touch by Pennine Walk. unraced. Dam of SERAPHINE (f Dashing Blade: Premio FIA European Breeders Fund LR, 3rd Premio Sergio Cumani G3), Maid of Killeen (see above), Soverness (c Kaldounevees: 2nd Premio del Prato Hurdle LR, 3rd Corsa Siepi di Merano Hurdle G1).

Broodmare Sire: DARSHAAN. See race 166.

The Galileo/Darshaan cross has produced: ALANDI G1, MICHELANGELO G1, MIDAS TOUCH G1, VITA NOVA G1, ADORED G3, ERNEST HEMINGWAY G3, FEEL LIKE DANCING G3, PERFECT TRUTH G3, SENSE OF PURPOSE G3, SEVENNA G3, SHANTARAM G3, CHAMONIX LR, JANE AUSTEN LR, KISSED LR, Gan Amhras G1, New Zealand G1.

FEEL LIKE DANCING b c 2010 Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special Mr Prospector Miswaki Hopespringseternal Lombard Allegretta Anatevka Mill Reef Shirley Heights Hardiemma Abdos Delsy Kelty Persian Bold Pennine Walk Tifrums Sovereign Path Sovereign Dona Dogana Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells GALILEO b 98 Urban Sea

Darshaan MAID OF KILLEEN b 96 Sovereign Touch

NEWMARKET. July 12. 3yo+f&m. 8f.

1. ELUSIVE KATE (USA) 4 9-5 £102,078 b f by Elusive Quality - Gout de Terroir (Lemon Drop Kid) O-Teruya Yoshida B-Clovelly Farms TR-John Gosden 2. Sky Lantern (IRE) 3 8-10 £38,700 grro f by Red Clubs - Shawanni (Shareef Dancer) O-B Keswick B-Tally-Ho Stud TR-R Hannon 3. Giofra (GB) 5 9-5 £19,368 b m by Dansili - Gracefully (Orpen) O/B-Haras De La Perelle TR-A de Royer-Dupre Margins Neck, 2. Time 1:40.54 (slow 4.54).

Going Good to firm.

Starts 14

Wins 7

Places 6

Earned £846,198

Sire: ELUSIVE QUALITY. Sire of 79 Stakes winners.

In 2013 - ELUSIVE KATE Lemon Drop Kid G1, ANA LUISA Royal Academy G2, AVENGER OF LIGHT Put It Back G2, MERHEE Encosta de Lago G2, BAHNAH Glitterman G3, SHURUQ Noverre G3.

1st Dam: GOUT DE TERROIR by Lemon Drop Kid. Winner at 3 in USA. Dam of 1 winner: 2009: ELUSIVE KATE (f Elusive Quality) Champion 2yr old filly in France in 2011. 7 wins 2-4, Falmouth S G1, Prix Marcel Boussac G1, Prix

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2nd Dam: REGAL STATE by Affirmed. 2 wins at 2 in France, Prix Morny G1, 2nd Prix de la Salamandre G1, Prix Jacques Le Marois G1. Dam of PLEASANTLY PERFECT (c Pleasant Colony: Breeders’ Cup Classic G1, Pacific Classic S G1, Dubai World Cup G1, 3rd Breeders’ Cup Classic G1), HURRICANE STATE (c Miswaki: Prix Eclipse G3, 3rd Criterium des 2 Ans G2), SWAGGER STICK (g Cozzene: 3rd Stars and Stripes Breeders’ Cup H G3, Supreme Hurdle LR).

Broodmare Sire: LEMON DROP KID. Sire of the dams of 10 Stakes winners. In 2013 - ELUSIVE KATE Elusive Quality G1, LEMON PRETTY Scat Daddy G3, STRIKE THE STARS Haafhd LR. See race 199 later in this issue ELUSIVE KATE b f 2009 Raise A Native Gold Digger Secretariat Secrettame Tamerett ELUSIVE QUALITY b 93 Northern Dancer Hero’s Honor Glowing Tribute Touch of Greatness Sir Ivor Ivory Wand Natashka Mr Prospector Kingmambo Miesque Lemon Drop Kid Seattle Slew Charming Lassie Lassie Dear GOUT DE TERROIR ch 04 Exclusive Native Affirmed Won’t Tell You Regal State Lyphard La Trinite Promessa Mr Prospector

Gone West

175 DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE S G2 NEWMARKET. July 12. 2yof. 6f.

1. LUCKY KRISTALE (GB) 8-12 £45,368 b f by Lucky Story - Pikaboo (Pivotal) O-Graham Lodge Partnership B-Lilac Bloodstock, Redmyre Bloodstock TR-George Margarson 2. Rizeena (IRE) 9-1 £17,200 b f by Iffraaj - Serena’s Storm (Statue of Liberty) O-Sheikh Rashid Dalmook Al Maktoum B-Round Hill Stud TR-CE Brittain 3. Queen Catrine (IRE) 8-12 £8,608 b f by Acclamation - Kahira (King’s Best) O-J Gompertz, Mrs G Galvin, Marston Stud B-Mount Coote Stud TR-Charles Hills Margins 2.25, 0.75. Time 1:10.76 (slow 0.56).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2

Starts 4

Wins 3

Places 0

Earned £52,783

Sire: LUCKY STORY. Sire of 7 Stakes winners. In 2013 - LUCKY KRISTALE Pivotal G2, ARPINATI Benny The Dip G3.

174 FALMOUTH S G1

Age 2-4

Rothschild G1 (twice), Prix du Calvados G3, Prix Six Perfections LR, 2nd Falmouth S G1, Sun Chariot S G1, 3rd Queen Elizabeth II S G1, Prix Jacques Le Marois G1.

2010: Ducks Dock (g Mineshaft) unraced to date.

2011: Terrienne (f Henny Hughes) unraced to date.

2012: Gallice (f Fuisse)

1st Dam: Pikaboo by Pivotal. Dam of 3 winners: 2008: MON VISAGE (f Ishiguru) Winner at 2.

2009: I SEE YOU (f Sleeping Indian) 2 wins 2-3.

2011: LUCKY KRISTALE (f Lucky Story) Sold 22,000gns yearling at TAOC2. 3 wins at 2, Duchess Of Cambridge S G2.

2012: (c Intikhab) 2nd Dam: GLEAM OF LIGHT by Danehill. 2 wins at 3.

Dam of ARABIAN GLEAM (c Kyllachy: Challenge S G2, Great North Eastern Railways Park S G2 (twice)), Bumptious (c Mister Baileys: 3rd Bahrain Trophy LR).

Grandam of SKIA, TROPAIOS. LUCKY KRISTALE b f 2011 Hail To Reason Bramalea Princequillo Sharp Queen Bridgework Mr Prospector Miswaki Hopespringseternal Coco La Terreur Coco La Investment Great Investment Nureyev Polar Falcon Marie d’Argonne Cozzene Fearless Revival Stufida Danzig Danehill Razyana Runnett Gold Runner African Doll Roberto

Kris S LUCKY STORY b 01 Spring Flight

Pivotal PIKABOO ch 03 Gleam of Light

Broodmare Sire: PIVOTAL. Sire of the dams of 19 Stakes winners. In 2013 - GOOD OLD BOY LUKEY Selkirk G2, LUCKY KRISTALE Lucky Story G2, AYAHUASCA Johar G3, CHARLIE EM Kheleyf G3, FLYING THE FLAG Galileo G3.

176 SUMMER S G3 YORK. July 12. 3yo+. 6f.

1. LADIES ARE FOREVER (GB) 5 9-2 £34,026 b m by Monsieur Bond - Forever Bond (Danetime) O-RC Bond B-Bond Thoroughbred Corporation TR-GR Oldroyd 2. Gracia Directa (GER) 5 9-2 £12,900 b m by Kyllachy - Glyceria (Common Grounds) O/B-Rennstall Directa TR-D Moser 3. March (GB) 3 8-10 £6,456 b f by Dutch Art - Royal Pardon (Royal Applause) O-Al Asayl Bloodstock Ltd B-TK Knox, Mrs PA Knox TR-Marco Botti Margins 1.5, neck. Time 1:10.53 (slow 0.33).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-5

Starts 21

Wins 6

Places 6

Earned £272,114

Sire: MONSIEUR BOND. Sire of 4 Stakes winners. In 2013 - LADIES ARE FOREVER Danetime G3.

1st Dam: Forever Bond by Danetime. unraced. Dam of 5 winners: 2005: CHOSEN FOREVER (g Choisir) 7 wins to 2013.

2006: FOREVER’S GIRL (f Monsieur Bond) 8 wins at 3 to 5.

2007: Hoof It (g Monsieur Bond) 8 wins at 2 to 4, 3rd Betfred Sprint Cup G1.

2008: LADIES ARE FOREVER (f Monsieur Bond) 6 wins 2-5, Summer S G3 (twice), Cleves S LR, Two Year Old Trophy LR, Hever Sprint S LR, 2nd Golden Rose S LR, 3rd Queen Mary S G2, Cecil Frail S LR, Kilvington S LR, Land O’Burns S LR. 2009: BOP IT (g Misu Bond) 3 wins at 2 and 3.

2010: Forever Diamond (f Monsieur Bond) unraced to date.

2012: (c Monsieur Bond) 2nd Dam: OWDBETTS by High Estate. 4 wins 2-4.

Dam of RATIO (g Pivotal World Trophy G3).

Broodmare Sire: DANETIME. Sire of the dams of 5 Stakes winners. In 2013 - LADIES ARE FOREVER Monsieur Bond G3.

The Monsieur Bond/Danetime cross has produced: LADIES ARE FOREVER G2, Hoof It G1.

LADIES ARE FOREVER b m 2008 Danzig Razyana Sharpen Up Mira Adonde Lettre d’Amour MONSIEUR BOND ch 00 Sing Sing Song Intent Musical Essence Charlottesville Effervescence II Vareta Danzig Danehill Razyana Danetime Lear Fan Allegheny River Allesheny FOREVER BOND b 00 Shirley Heights High Estate Regal Beauty Owdbetts Ahonoora Nora Yo Ya Sabrine Danehill

Danehill Dancer

177 JULY CUP G1 NEWMARKET. July 13. 3yo+. 6f.

1. LETHAL FORCE (IRE) 4 9-5 £283,550 gr c by Dark Angel - Land Army (Desert Style) O-Alan Craddock B-Declan Johnson TR-Clive Cox 2. Society Rock (IRE) 6 9-5 £107,500 b h by Rock of Gibraltar - High Society (Key of Luck) O-Simon Gibson B-San Gabriel Investments Inc TR-JR Fanshawe 3. Slade Power (IRE) 4 9-5 £53,800 b c by Dutch Art - Girl Power (Key of Luck) O-Mrs S Power B-Mrs S Power TR-E Lynam Margins 1.5, 0.75. Time 1:09.11 (fast 1.09).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-4

Starts 15

Wins 4

Places 10

Earned £681,520

Sire: DARK ANGEL. Sire of 6 Stakes winners. In 2013 - LETHAL FORCE Desert Style G1, LILY’S ANGEL Docksider G3.

1st Dam: Land Army by Desert Style. ran once at 3.

Own sister to ASCOT FAMILY. Dam of 2 winners: 2006: ARMY OF STARS (g Kyllachy) 3 wins 4-5.

2008: Littlepromisedland (f Titus Livius) 2009: LETHAL FORCE (c Dark Angel) Sold 8,783gns foal at GONO1, 7,163gns yearling at TISEP. 4 wins at 3 and 4, Diamond Jubilee S G1, July Cup G1, Hungerford S G2, 2nd Duke of York S G2, Carnarvon S LR, 3rd Park S G2, Sandy Lane S LR. 2011: (f Thousand Words) 2nd Dam: FAMILY AT WAR by Explodent. 1 win at 2.

Dam of FLANDERS (f Common Grounds: Scarbrough S LR, 2nd King’s Stand S G2), ASCOT FAMILY (f Desert Style: Prix des Jouvenceaux et des Jouvencelles LR). Grandam of FAMILY ONE, LOUVAIN, LAAJOOJ, Desert Poppy. Third dam of FLOTILLA, LOUVAKHOVA. Broodmare Sire: DESERT STYLE. Sire of the dams of 6 Stakes winners. In 2013 - HAVANA GOLD Teofilo G1, LETHAL FORCE Dark Angel G1, SUDIRMAN Henrythenavigator G2.

See race 137 in the August issue for analysis LETHAL FORCE gr c 2009 Waajib Flying Melody Ahonoora Princess Athena Shopping Wise Mr Prospector Machiavellian Coup de Folie Night Shift Night At Sea Into Harbour Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier High Top Organza Canton Silk Nearctic Explodent Venomous Bold Bidder Sometimes Perfect Miss Ribot Royal Applause

Acclamation DARK ANGEL gr 05 Midnight Angel

Desert Style LAND ARMY b 01 Family At War

178 SUPERLATIVE S G2 NEWMARKET. July 13. 2yo. 7f.

1. GOOD OLD BOY LUKEY (GB) 9-0 £45,368 ch c by Selkirk - Pivotting (Pivotal) O-Leods Contracts Limited B-Mrs Sarah Hamilton TR-Richard Fahey 2. Somewhat (USA) 9-0 £17,200 b c by Dynaformer - Sometime (Royal Academy) O-Sheikh Majid Bin Mohammed al Maktoum B-BP Walden Jr, PW Madden et al TR-Mark Johnston 3. Washaar (IRE) 9-0 £8,608 b c by Kodiac - Dabtiyra (Dr Devious) O-Hamdan Al Maktoum B-Gerard Corry, Cristian Healy TR-R Hannon Margins Head, 2. Time 1:24.58 (slow 1.58).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2

Starts 3

Wins 3

Places 0

Earned £51,837

Sire: SELKIRK. Sire of 93 SW. In 2013 - GOOD OLD BOY LUKEY Pivotal G2, FORTE DEI MARMI Sadler’s Wells G3, THISTLE BIRD Marchand de Sable G3.

1st Dam: Pivotting by Pivotal. unraced. Dam of 1 winner: 2010: Hadeeya (f Oratorio) in training.

2011: GOOD OLD BOY LUKEY (c Selkirk) Sold 12,000gns yearling at TAOC2. 3 wins at 2, Superlative S G2.

2012: (f Sir Percy) GOOD OLD BOY LUKEY ch c 2011 Native Dancer Mixed Marriage Rockefella Rocchetta Chambiges SELKIRK ch 88 Yellow God Nebbiolo Novara Annie Edge Be Friendly Friendly Court No Court Nureyev Polar Falcon Marie d’Argonne Pivotal Cozzene Fearless Revival Stufida PIVOTTING ch 2006 Sadler’s Wells Barathea Brocade Spinning The Yarn High Top Colorspin Reprocolor Atan

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Caulfield on Chicquita: “She cost €600,000 as a yearling, reflecting the fact she comes from the Souk family – one that had enjoyed success with the Sadler’s Wells male line”

2nd Dam: Spinning The Yarn by Barathea. ran once at 3. Dam of NECKLACE (f Darshaan: Moyglare Stud S G1, 3rd Beverly D S G1).

Broodmare Sire: PIVOTAL. See race 175

179 SUMMER MILE S G2 ASCOT. July 13. 4yo+. 8f.

1. ALJAMAAHEER (IRE) 4 9-1 £56,710 ch c by Dubawi - Kelly Nicole (Rainbow Quest) O-Hamdan Al Maktoum B-Corrin Stud, Sean O’Keefe TR-Roger Varian 2. Mull of Killough (IRE) 7 9-1 £21,500 b g by Mull of Kintyre - Sun Shower (Indian Ridge) O-Invictus B-Owenstown Stud TR-Jane Chapple-Hyam 3. Guest Of Honour (IRE) 4 9-1 £10,760 b c by Cape Cross - Risera (Royal Academy) O-Giuliano Manfredini B-Azienda Agricola Gennaro Stimola TR-Marco Botti Margins 1, 0.5. Time 1:38.51 (fast 1.49).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-4

Starts 10

Wins 3

Places 7

Earned £209,100

Sire: DUBAWI. See race 166.

1st Dam: KELLY NICOLE by Rainbow Quest. 3 wins at 3. Dam of 2 winners: 2007: Super Hoofer (f Shamardal) 2008: Tinkertown (c Verglas) 3 wins at 2 and 3, 3rd Dee S G3.

2009: ALJAMAAHEER (c Dubawi) Sold 100,000gns foal at TADEF. 3 wins at 2 to 4, Summer Mile G2, King Charles II S LR, 2nd Queen Anne S G1, Leicestershire S LR, 3rd Lockinge S G1, Celebration Mile G2, Jersey S G3, Thoroughbred S G3.

2010: Elusive Girl (f Elusive City) in training.

2011: Countess Lemonade (f Duke of Marmalade) unraced to date.

Age 3-4

The Dubawi/Rainbow Quest cross has produced: ALJAMAAHEER G1, ASTROPHYSICAL JET G2, HISAABAAT LR. ALJAMAAHEER ch c 2009 Dubai Millennium DUBAWI b 02 Zomaradah

Rainbow Quest KELLY NICOLE b 02 Banquise

Mr Prospector Seeking The Gold Con Game Shareef Dancer Colorado Dancer Fall Aspen Shirley Heights Deploy Slightly Dangerous Dancing Brave Jawaher High Tern Red God Blushing Groom Runaway Bride Herbager I Will Follow Where You Lead Try My Best Last Tycoon Mill Princess Royal And Regal Arctique Royale Arctic Melody

180 PRIX MAURICE DE NIEUIL G2 LONGCHAMP. July 13. 4yo+. 2800m.

1. VEREMA (FR) 4 8-9 £60,244 b f by Barathea - Vermentina (Darshaan) O-HH The Aga Khan B-Haras De Son Altesse L’Aga Khan Scea TR-A de Royer-Dupre 2. La Pomme d’Amour (GB) 5 8-9 £23,252 ch m by Peintre Celebre - Winnebago (Kris) O-Exors Guy Reed B-Guy Reed TR-A Fabre 3. Goldtara (FR) 5 8-9 £11,098 b m by Gold Away - Diatara (Sillery) O-A Fehr, Mme M Fehr B-E Barbieri, P-L Uccelli TR-A Lyon Margins 0.75, 1.25. Time 3:00.01. Going Good.

Wins 3

Places 6

Earned £222,197

Sire: BARATHEA. Sire of 87 Stakes winners. In 2013 - DON BOSCO Monsun G2, VEREMA Darshaan G2.

1st Dam: Vermentina by Darshaan. unraced. Dam of 1 winner: 2007: Veratan (g Sinndar) 2008: Verseka (f Xaar) ran on the flat in France.

2009: VEREMA (f Barathea) 3 wins at 3 and 4 in France, Prix Maurice de Nieuil G2, Prix de Lutece G3, 2nd Prix de Barbeville G3, 3rd Dubai Gold Cup G3.

2010: Varna (f Monsun) unraced to date.

2011: (f Zamindar) 2nd Dam: VEREVA by Kahyasi. 3 wins at 3 in France Prix de Diane G1. Dam of Virana (f King’s Best: 3rd Prix Occitanie LR).

Broodmare Sire: DARSHAAN. See race 166.

The Barathea/Darshaan cross has produced: ALASHA G1, CHARMING PRINCE G1, HAZARISTA G1, PONGEE G1, SANAYA G1, VEREMA G2, TIAN SHAN G3, SHAWARA LR, TEA GARDEN LR, MADE IN JAPAN LR, SILK AFFAIR LR, Festival Princess G3, Brainy Benny LR, Hidden Brief LR, Mothman LR, Kalann LR. VEREMA b f 2009 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells

Fairy Bridge

BARATHEA b 90 Habitat Brocade Canton Silk Darshaan VERMENTINA b 01 Vereva

Shirley Heights Delsy Kahyasi Vearia

2nd Dam: BANQUISE by Last Tycoon. 1 win at 3.

Dam of COLD COLD WOMAN (f Machiavellian: CTT & TB Owners of California H LR), Robin Hood (g Galileo: 3rd Tattersalls Gold Cup G1), Shada (f Galileo: 2nd Coppa d’Ora di Milano LR).

Broodmare Sire: RAINBOW QUEST. Sire of the dams of 155 Stakes winners. In 2013 - JAVA’S WAR War Pass G1, JUST THE JUDGE Lawman G1, ALJAMAAHEER Dubawi G2, GLEN’S DIAMOND Intikhab G2, RIPOSTE Dansili G2, SPIRIT QUARTZ Invincible Spirit G2, LAST TRAIN Rail Link G3.

Starts 11

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Sir Gaylord Little Hut Runnymede Clouded Lamp Mill Reef Hardiemma Abdos Kelty Ile de Bourbon Kadissya Mill Reef Val Divine

181 GRAND PRIX DE PARIS G1 LONGCHAMP. July 13. 3yoc&f. 2400m.

1. FLINTSHIRE (GB) 9-2 £278,732 b c by Dansili - Dance Routine (Sadler’s Wells) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-A Fabre 2. Manndawi (FR) 9-2 £111,512 gr c by Dalakhani - Mintly Fresh (Rubiano) O-HH The Aga Khan B-HH The Aga Khan’s Studs SC TR-A de Royer-Dupre 3. Ocovango (GB) 9-2 £55,756 br c by Monsun - Crystal Maze (Gone West) O-Prince AA Faisal B-Watership Down Stud TR-A Fabre Margins 1.5, 1. Time 2:28.57. Going Good.

Age 3

Starts 4

Wins 3

Places 1

Earned £326,943

Sire: DANSILI. Sire of 82 Stakes winners. In 2013 FLINTSHIRE Sadler’s Wells G1, FORETELLER Warning G1, RIPOSTE Rainbow Quest G2, THOMAS CHIPPENDALE Sadler’s Wells G2, DANK Darshaan G3, LAUGHING Be My Chief G3, REMOTE Zamindar G3.

1st Dam: DANCE ROUTINE by Sadler’s Wells. 3 wins at 3 in France, Prix de Royallieu G2, 2nd Prix de Diane G1. Own sister to CONCENTRIC and Light Ballet. Dam of 4 winners: 2006: DELIBERATE (f King’s Best) Winner at 3.

2007: IDEAL MATCH (c Rock of Gibraltar) 3 wins at 4 in Hungary.

2008: DANCE MOVES (c Dansili) 5 wins at 3 and 4 in France, Prix de Boulogne LR. 2010: FLINTSHIRE (c Dansili) 3 wins at 3 in France, Grand Prix de Paris G1, Prix du Lys G3.

2012: (f Oasis Dream) 2nd Dam: APOGEE by Shirley Heights. 2 wins, Prix de Royaumont G3. Dam of APSIS (c Barathea: Prix du Chemin de Fer du Nord G3, Prix Thomas Bryon G3), CONCENTRIC (f Sadler’s Wells: Prix Charles Laffitte LR, 2nd Prix de Flore G3), SPACE QUEST (f Rainbow Quest: Prix Joubert LR), Light Ballet (f Sadler’s Wells: 3rd Prix Minerve G3). Grandam of KOCAB, PENCHEE. Third dam of VIRTUAL GAME.

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Broodmare Sire: SADLER’S WELLS. See race 163.

The Dansili/Sadler’s Wells cross has produced: FLINTSHIRE G1, PASSAGE OF TIME G1, TESTOSTERONE G1, THE FUGUE G1, FATHER TIME G2, THOMAS CHIPPENDALE G2, STIPULATE G3, DANCE MOVES LR, DARK ORCHID LR, DISCLAIMER LR, East Meets West LR, Galateia LR, Porgy LR. FLINTSHIRE b c 2010 Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Razyana Spring Adieu Ile de Bourbon Kahyasi Kadissya High Line Kerali Sookera Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special Mill Reef Shirley Heights Hardiemma Ile de Bourbon Bourbon Girl Fleet Girl Danzig Danehill DANSILI b 96 Hasili

Sadler’s Wells DANCE ROUTINE b 99 Apogee

For the third time in eight years, victory in the Juddmonte Grand Prix de Paris went to a Dansili colt owned and bred by the sponsor, with Flintshire following in the footsteps of Rail Link and Zambezi Sun. Flintshire won in such style on only his fourth start that he promptly became a leading fancy for the Arc – a race which Rail Link took in 2006.

Flintshire’s emergence has added further lustre to Dansili’s glowing record with daughters of Sadler’s Wells. He is the tenth stakes winner to emerge from the first 63 starters representing this cross, another being his year-older brother Dance Moves, a dual Listed winner over middle distances. The ten stakes winners also feature the high-class fillies Passage Of Time and The Fugue, plus the Gr2 King Edward VII Stakes winners Father Time and Thomas Chippendale and the smart Testosterone. Rather surprisingly, only one other son of Danehill – the South African-based Oratorio – has succeeded in siring a Gr1 winner from Sadler’s Wells mares, but several have Gr2 or Gr3 winners out of them.

Flintshire’s dam Dance Routine was a high-class middle-distance performer in France, where she followed up her second in the Prix de Diane with a victory in the Gr2 Prix de Royallieu. Dance Routine’s sister Concentric was very useful at around a mile and a quarter and Sadler’s Wells sired another smart filly, the Gr2 Grand Prix de Chantilly winner Daring Miss, from Flintshire’s third dam, Bourbon Girl. This daughter of Ile de Bourbon was second in both the Oaks and Irish Oaks. Flintshire’s second dam, the Gr3 mile-and-a-half winner Apogee, also did well with Sadler’s Wells’s son Barathea, producing the smart miler Apsis, while Apogee’s halfsister Shining Bright produced the high-class Spanish Moon to El Prado, another son of Sadler’s Wells.

182 GROSSER PREIS DER SWK STADTWERKE KREFELD G2 KREFELD. July 14. 3yo+. 1700m.

1. FELICIAN (GER) 5 9-2 £32,520 b h by Motivator - Felicity (Inchinor) O/B-Gestut Ittlingen TR-Ferdinand J Leve

2. Global Thrill (GB) 4 9-2 £12,602 b c by Big Shuffle - Goonda (Darshaan) O/B-Gestut Auenquelle TR-J Hirchberger 3. Gereon (GER) 5 9-2 £5,285 b h by Next Desert - Golden Time (Surumu) O-C Zschache B-Gestut Ebbesloh TR-C Zschache Margins 1, 1.5. Time 1:43.07. Going Good.

Age 2-5

Starts 11

Wins 6

Places 3

Earned £79,847

Sire: MOTIVATOR. Sire of 17 Stakes winners. In 2013 - TREVE Anabaa G1, FELICIAN Inchinor G2, DAYTONA BAY Lando G3, FEREVIA Cat Thief G3, MOTIVADO Time For A Change G3.

1st Dam: FELICITY by Inchinor. 4 wins at 2 and 3 in Germany, Bild Pokal-Grosser Preis von Berlin G3.

Dam of 2 winners: 2007: Fanny Brice (f Barathea) unraced.

2008: FELICIAN (c Motivator) 6 wins 3-5, GP der SWK Stadtwerke Meilen Trophy G2, Badener Meile G3, 3rd Ilse und Heinz Ramm Erinnerungsmeile LR. 2009: FLY FIRST (c Big Shuffle) Winner at 4 in Germany.

2010: Fiorella (f Oasis Dream) in training.

2011: Finch Hatton (c Pivotal) unraced to date.

2012: Fifth Avenue (f Adlerflug) 2013: Fascinator (c Lando) 2nd Dam: FELINA by Acatenango. 2 wins at 3 in Germany, IDEE Festa Rennen LR. Own sister to FRECCIA D’ORO. Dam of FELICITY (f Inchinor, see above), Felino (g Generous: 2nd GP der Hannoverschen Volksbank LR, Grosser Freiberger Premium-Preis LR), Fashion (f Anabaa: 2nd Iffezheimer Diana-Trial LR), Fredo (g Lomitas: 2nd Betfred Classic H Chase G3).

Broodmare Sire: INCHINOR. Sire of the dams of 16 Stakes winners. In 2013 - FELICIAN Motivator G2, PEARL FLUTE Piccolo G3.

FELICIAN b h 2008 Sadler’s Wells Montjeu

Floripedes

MOTIVATOR b 02 Gone West Out West Chellingoua Inchinor FELICITY ch 01 Felina

Ahonoora Inchmurrin Acatenango Fireglow

Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Top Ville Toute Cy Mr Prospector Secrettame Sharpen Up Uncommitted Lorenzaccio Helen Nichols Lomond On Show Surumu Aggravate Glow Flash Dancer

183 GRAND PRIX DE VICHY G3 VICHY. July 17. 3yo+. 2000m.

1. SAGA DREAM (FR) 7 9-6 £32,520 gr g by Sagacity - Manixa (Manninamix) O-F Lemercier B-A Audouinm, F Landais, A Oger, B Audouin TR-F Lemercier 2. Vally Jem (FR) 4 8-13 £13,008 b f by Dylan Thomas - Ballymena Lassie (Giant’s Causeway) O-Ecurie Saint Martin B-Brushwood Stable TR-D Sepulchre 3. Shamalgan (FR) 6 9-2 £9,756 b h by Footstepsinthesand - Genevale (Unfuwain) O-Ardak Amirkulov B-M Daguzan-Garros, Rolling Hills Farm TR-X Thomas-Demeaulte Margins Neck, 2.5. Time 2:07.79. Going Soft.

Age 3-7

Starts 43

Wins 9

Places 22

Earned £404,746

Sire: SAGACITY. Sire of 3 Stakes winners. In 2013 SAGA DREAM Manninamix G3.

1st Dam: MANIXA by Manninamix. Winner at 3 in France. Dam of 1 winner: 2005: Reve de Loire (f Esteem Ball) Unplaced.

2006: SAGA DREAM (g Sagacity) 9 wins at 3 to 7, 2013 in France, Prix du Conseil de Paris G2, Gand Prix de Vichy G3, Prix Exbury G3, Prix de Boulogne LR, 2nd GP de Bordeaux LR, 3rd Prix d’Harcourt G2 (twice), Prix Dollar G2, GP de Vichy G3, La Coupe de Maisons-Laffitte G3, Prix Exbury G3, Prix Gontaut-Biron G3, Prix de Boulogne LR.

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2008: 2009: 2011: 2012:

Dellamix (c Della Francesca) unraced.

Crystal Roc (g Vangelis) unraced.

History Dream (c Sagacity) unraced to date.

Your Dream (c Youmzain)

Broodmare Sire: MANNINAMIX. Sire of the dams of 1 SW. In 2013 - SAGA DREAM Sagacity G3.

SAGA DREAM gr g 2006 Kenmare Highest Honor

High River

SAGACITY b 98 Sagace Saganeca Haglette Manninamix MANIXA gr 00 Dafida

Linamix Mrs Annie Darly Dafille

Kalamoun Belle of Ireland Riverman Hairbrush Luthier Seneca Hagley Sucrette Mendez Lunadix Bolkonski Miss Satin Pharly Delphinia Filiberto Daniba

INTELLO G1, MAYBE G1, RODERIC O’CONNOR G1, SECRET GESTURE G1, TEOFILO G1, NOBLE MISSION G2, REEM G2, ROMANTICA G2, CRYSTAL GAL G3, LAGALP G3, SIDERA G3, WONDERFULLY G3, MISS GALILEI LR, VIA GALILEI LR, Galileo’s Destiny G1, Gile Na Greine G1, Mars G1, Scintillula G1, The Assayer G1, Brightest G3, Claiomh Solais G3, Marksmanship G3, Acteur Celebre LR, Amerique LR, Pageboy LR. WONDERFULLY b f 2011 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells

Fairy Bridge

GALILEO b 98 Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta Danehill MASSARRA b 99

Danzig Razyana Kris

Rafha

Eljazzi

184 SILVER FLASH S G3

185 MINSTREL S G3

LEOPARDSTOWN. July 18. 2yo. 7f.

1. WONDERFULLY (IRE) 9-0 £31,707 b f by Galileo - Massarra (Danehill) O-M Tabor, D Smith, Mrs J Magnier B-Massarra Syndicate TR-AP O’Brien 2. Perhaps (IRE) 9-0 £9,268 b f by Galileo - Anna Karenina (Green Desert) O-D Smith, Mrs J Magnier, M Tabor B-Anna Karenina Syndicate TR-AP O’Brien 3. Avenue Gabriel (GB) 9-0 £4,390 b f by Champs Elysees - Vas Y Carla (Gone West) O-Lady O’Reilly B-Plantation Stud TR-PD Deegan Margins 1, 0.5. Time 1:26.65 (slow 0.95).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2

Starts 3

Wins 2

Places 0

Earned £38,719

Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 143 SWs. In 2013 - INTELLO Danehill G1, LINTON Centaine G1, MAGICIAN Mozart G1, RULER OF THE WORLD Kingmambo G1, BATTLE OF MARENGO Green Desert G2, ALTANO Lando G3, ERNEST HEMINGWAY Darshaan G3, FEEL LIKE DANCING Darshaan G3, FLYING THE FLAG Pivotal G3, ROMANTICA Danehill G3, WONDERFULLY Danehill G3.

1st Dam: MASSARRA by Danehill. 3 wins at 2 and 3, Empress S LR, 2nd Prix Robert Papin G2. Own sister to Kodiac. Dam of 6 winners: 2004: TEBEE (f Selkirk) Winner at 3.

2006: MIDDLE PERSIA (f Dalakhani) Winner at 3.

2007: BASS ROCK (g Pivotal) Winner over jumps in Czech Republic.

2009: NAYARRA (f Cape Cross) Champion 2yo filly in Italy in 2011. Winner at 2 in Italy, Premio Gran Criterium G1.

2010: Mars (c Galileo) Winner at 2, 3rd St James’s Palace S G1.

2011: WONDERFULLY (f Galileo) 2 wins at 2, Silver Flash S G3.

2012: (c Galileo) 2nd Dam: RAFHA by Kris. 5 wins at 2 and 3, Prix de Diane G1. Dam of INVINCIBLE SPIRIT (c Green Desert: Sprint Cup G1), SADIAN (c Shirley Heights: John Porter S G3, Ormonde S G3, 3rd Geoffrey Freer S G2), ACTS OF GRACE (f Bahri: Princess Royal S G3), MASSARRA (f Danehill, see above), Kodiac (c Danehill: 2nd Hackwood S G3), Aquarius (g Royal Academy: 3rd Queen’s Vase G3), Al Widyan (c Slip Anchor: 3rd Serlby S LR).

Broodmare Sire: DANEHILL. Sire of the dams of 226 Stakes winners. In 2013 - FENOMENO Stay Gold G1, INTELLO Galileo G1, MORE THAN SACRED More Than Ready G1, RUUD AWAKENING Bernardini G1, FIX Iffraaj G2, MULAAZEM Dubai Destination G2, STAR OF GISELLE Reset G2, CUSTOM CUT Notnowcato G3, MOREISH More Than Ready G3, ROMANTIC MOON More Than Ready G3, ROMANTICA Galileo G3, SUGAR BOY Authorized G3, TREBLE JIG Gone West G3, WONDERFULLY Galileo G3.

The Galileo/Danehill cross has produced: BANC DE FORTUNE G1, CIMA DE TRIOMPHE G1, CUIS GHAIRE G1, FRANKEL G1, GOLDEN LILAC G1,

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Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Lombard Anatevka Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Sharpen Up Doubly Sure Artaius Border Bounty

CURRAGH. July 20. 3yo+. 7f.

1. DARWIN (USA) 3 9-2 £33,293 b c by Big Brown - Cool Ghoul (Silver Ghost) O-D Smith, Mrs J Magnier, M Tabor B-Lansdon Robbins, Tom Hansen TR-AP O’Brien 2. Gordon Lord Byron (IRE) 5 10-0 £9,732 b g by Byron - Boa Estrela (Intikhab) O-Dr Cyrus Poonawalla, Morgan J Cahalan B-Roland H Alder TR-T Hogan 3. Leitir Mor (IRE) 3 9-5 £4,610 b c by Holy Roman Emperor - Christinas Letter (Galileo) O-Mrs JS Bolger B/TR-JS Bolger Margins 1.75, 1.25. Time 1:24.08 (slow 0.58).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-3

Starts 4

Wins 3

Places 0

Earned £74,766

Sire: BIG BROWN. Sire of 1 Stakes winner. In 2013 DARWIN Silver Ghost G3.

1st Dam: COOL GHOUL by Silver Ghost. Winner at 4 in USA. Dam of 5 winners: 2004: Bad Boy Rising (c Freud) 5 wins at 2 to 5 in USA, 2nd Bertram F Bongard S LR. 2006: DAGNABIT (c Freud) 3 wins at 2 in USA, Tremont S LR, Aspirant S LR. 2007: OFFLEE COOL (f Offlee Wild) 3 wins 2-3.

2009: KENICHI (c First Samurai) 2 wins 3-4.

2010: DARWIN (c Big Brown) 3 wins at 2 and 3, Minstrel S G3.

2011: Worth Wild (c Offlee Wild) unraced to date.

2nd Dam: SINGLE BLADE by Hatchet Man. 4 wins at 2 and 3 in USA, Gazelle S G1, 2nd Monmouth Oaks G1. Dam of COMEONMOM (c Jolie’s Halo: Remsen S G2). Grandam of COSMO MARVELOUS, Nolan’s Cat, Stormin Eddie. Third dam of PEPTIDE RUBY. Broodmare Sire: SILVER GHOST. Sire of the dams of 26 SWs. In 2013 - DARWIN Big Brown G3.

DARWIN b c 2010 Danzig Boundary

Edge

BIG BROWN b 05 Nureyev Mien Miasma Silver Ghost COOL GHOUL b 99 Single Blade

Mr Prospector Misty Gallore Hatchet Man Single Track

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Damascus Ponte Vecchio Northern Dancer Special Lear Fan Syrian Circle Raise A Native Gold Digger Halo Flight Dancer The Axe II Bebopper Stage Door Johnny Clear Road

186 IRISH OAKS G1 CURRAGH. July 20. 3yof. 12f.

1. CHICQUITA (IRE) 9-0 £188,618 b f by Montjeu - Prudenzia (Dansili) O-P Makin B-Ecurie Des Monceaux, Ecurie Skymarc Farm TR-A de Royer-Dupre

2. Venus de Milo (IRE) 9-0 £61,789 br f by Duke of Marmalade - Inchmahome (Galileo) O-Mrs J Magnier, M Tabor, D Smith B-Tullpark Limited TR-AP O’Brien 3. Just Pretending (USA) 9-0 £29,268 b f by Giant’s Causeway - Moon Safari (Mr Prospector) O-M Tabor, D Smith, Mrs J Magnier B-Eagle Holdings TR-AP O’Brien Margins 0.5, neck. Time 2:35.01 (slow 3.01).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-3

Starts 4

Wins 1

Places 2

Earned £377,472

Sire: MONTJEU. Sire of 120 Stakes winners. In 2013 - CHICQUITA Dansili G1, ST NICHOLAS ABBEY Sure Blade G1, CAMELOT Kingmambo G3, LEADING LIGHT Gone West G3, MOUNT ATHOS Slip Anchor G3.

1st Dam: PRUDENZIA by Dansili. 2 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix de la Seine LR. Dam of 1 winner: 2010: CHICQUITA (f Montjeu) Sold 492,610gns yearling at ARAUG. 1 win at 3, Irish Oaks G1, 2nd Prix de Diane G1.

2011: Sinnamary (f Galileo) unraced to date.

2012: (f Galileo) 2013: (c Invincible Spirit) 2nd Dam: PLATONIC by Zafonic. 1 win at 4 in France.

Dam of PACIFIQUE (f Montjeu: Prix de Lutece G3, 3rd Prix Chaudenay G2), PRUDENZIA (see above).

Broodmare Sire: DANSILI. Sire of the dams of 4 Stakes winners. In 2013 - CHICQUITA Montjeu G1.

CHICQUITA b f 2010 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells

Fairy Bridge

MONTJEU b 96 Top Ville Floripedes Toute Cy Dansili PRUDENZIA b 05 Platonic

Danehill Hasili Zafonic Puce

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special High Top Sega Ville Tennyson Adele Toumignon Danzig Razyana Kahyasi Kerali Gone West Zaizafon Darshaan Souk

Montjeu was undoubtedly a brilliant sire of colts, as his record includes four winners each of the Derby and Irish Derby, two of the St Leger, two of the Grand Prix de Paris, two of the AJC Australian Derby and even one of the 2,000 Guineas. In comparison his daughters have been under-achievers, the nearest to a Classic-winning filly being Montare, winner of the Prix Royal-Oak, the so-called French St Leger, as a four-year-old. In fact Montjeu had only three Gr1-winning fillies to his credit before Chicquita challenged for the Irish Oaks and none of those three – Montare, Miss Keller and Sarah Lynx – had become a Gr1 winner before the age of four.

Consequently, the relatively inexperienced Chicquita did very well to win the Curragh Classic, despite again displaying her inability to keep a straight course under pressure.

Chicquita cost €600,000 as a yearling at Arqana, her price reflecting the fact that she comes from the very good Souk family – and one that had previously enjoyed plenty of success with the Sadler’s Wells male line.

Sadler’s Wells himself sired the dual Classic winner Alexandrova, winner of the Irish Oaks seven years before Chicquita, from Shouk, a close relative to Chicquita’s third dam, Puce. Sadler’s Wells’s son Barathea was responsible for the Gr1 Cheveley Park Stakes

winner Magical Romance and the Gr2 Lancashire Oaks winner Pongee, while another son, High Chaparral, sired the Irish Derby runner-up Golden Sword.

It is Montjeu, though, who has been consistently successful with this family, siring stakes winners from three generations of Chicquita’s female line. He sired the smart stayer Lion Sands from Puce, the third dam of Chicquita (and also the 2008 Derby fifth Washington Irving from Puce’s three-parts-sister Shouk). Next came the Gr3-winning stayer Pacifique, out of Chicquita’s second dam, the Zafonic mare Platonic. And now we have Chicquita, the first foal of Dansili’s daughter Prudenzia, a Listed winner over 11 furlongs. Prudenzia’s second foal, the €1.1 million Sinnamary, is by Galileo and is therefore a three-parts-sister to Chicquita.

Another of Montjeu’s best daughters, Sarah Lynx, is bred along similar lines to Chicquita, as her dam is

by Dansili’s sire Danehill. So too is the dam of Montjeu’s Gr3-winning daughter Albisola, and it mustn’t be forgotten that his top son Camelot has a Danehill mare as his second dam.

187 HACKWOOD S G3 NEWBURY. July 20. 3yo+. 6f 8yds.

1. HEERAAT (IRE) 4 9-4 £34,026 b c by Dark Angel - Thawrah (Green Desert) O-Hamdan Al Maktoum B-John McEnery TR-William Haggas 2. Hamza (IRE) 4 9-4 £12,900 b g by Amadeus Wolf - Lady Shanghai (Alhaarth) O-Mubarak Al Naemi B-Castlemartin Stud, Skymarc Farm TR-Kevin Ryan 3. Krypton Factor (GB) 5 9-4 £6,456 bbr g by Kyllachy - Cool Question (Polar Falcon) O-Fawzi Abdulla Nass B-Lady Fairhaven TR-Fawzi Abdulla Nass Margins 1.75, neck. Time 1:10.48 (fast 0.12).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-4

Starts 17

Wins 5

Places 8

Earned £111,510

Sire: DARK ANGEL. Sire of 7 Stakes winners. In 2013 - LETHAL FORCE Desert Style G1, HEERAAT Green Desert G3, LILY’S ANGEL Docksider G3.

1st Dam: Thawrah by Green Desert. unraced. Dam of 3 winners: 2007: DANCE EVERY DANCE (f Chineur) 2 wins at 4 and 5 in Germany.

2009: HEERAAT (c Dark Angel) Sold 50,000gns foal at TADEF, 140,000gns yearling at TAOC2. 5 wins 2-4, Hackwood S G3, 2nd City Wall S LR. 2010: (c Red Clubs) 2011: AMBIANCE (c Camacho) 2 wins at 2, Dragon S LR. 2012: (f Dark Angel) 2nd Dam: ARJUZAH by Ahonoora. 2 wins at 3, Sceptre S LR, 3rd Challenge S G2. Own sister to HEERAAT b c 2009 Waajib Flying Melody Ahonoora Princess Athena Shopping Wise Mr Prospector Machiavellian Coup de Folie Night Shift Night At Sea Into Harbour Northern Dancer Danzig Pas de Nom Sir Ivor Foreign Courier Courtly Dee Lorenzaccio Ahonoora Helen Nichols Lord Gayle Saving Mercy Fair Darling Royal Applause

Acclamation DARK ANGEL gr 05 Midnight Angel

Green Desert THAWRAH b 03 Arjuzah

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Caulfield on Nymphea: “Her smart form will make her a valuable broodmare prospect as she comes from the same distinguished German female line as the King George winner Novellist”

Missing You. Dam of MALHUB (c Kingmambo: Golden Jubilee S G1, 2nd Nunthorpe S G1, Sprint Cup G1), DHAAMER (g Dubai Destination: Sunset H G3, 2nd Del Mar H G2). Grandam of YELLOW ROSEBUD, SEEHARN. Broodmare Sire: GREEN DESERT. Sire of the dams of 97 Stakes winners. In 2013 - LUCKY NINE Dubawi G1, AMIRA’S PRINCE Teofilo G2, BATTLE OF MARENGO Galileo G2, GENGIS King’s Best G3, HEERAAT Dark Angel G3.

188 ANGLESEY S G3 CURRAGH. July 20. 2yo. 6f 63yds.

1. WILSHIRE BOULEVARD (IRE) 9-3 £31,707 b c by Holy Roman Emperor - Tyranny (Machiavellian) O-D Smith, Mrs J Magnier, M Tabor B-Denis Brosnan TR-AP O’Brien 2. Oklahoma City (GB) 9-3 £9,268 b c by Oasis Dream - Galaxy Highflyer (Galileo) O-D Smith, Mrs J Magnier, M Tabor B-Meon Valley Stud TR-AP O’Brien 3. Mansion House (IRE) 9-3 £4,390 b c by Galileo - Coralita (Night Shift) O-M Tabor, Mrs J Magnier B-Western Bloodstock TR-David Wachman Margins 0.75, 0.5. Time 1:15.78 (slow 0.28).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2

Starts 4

Wins 1

Places 2

Earned £12,927

Margins 2, 0.75. Time 2:02.40. Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 7

Wins 3

Places 4

Earned £137,083

1st Dam: Drei by Lyphard. Dam of 7 winners: 1996: TROIS (g Efisio) 3 wins at 3 and 4.

1997: TRIPLE SHARP (f Selkirk) 2 wins. Dam of Ellmau (3rd Superlative S G2), Nasri (2nd King Charles II S LR), Laureldean Express (2nd Criterium du Languedoc LR).

1998: DRY MARTINI (c Darshaan) 2 wins at 4.

1999: PINA COLADA (f Sabrehill) 3 wins at 2 and 3, Chandler H, 2nd San Clemente H G2.

2001: Mrs Marsh (f Marju) unraced. Dam of CANFORD CLIFFS (Irish 2000 Guineas G1, Lockinge S G1, Queen Anne S G1, St James’s Palace S G1, Sussex S G1, 2nd Sussex S G1, 3rd 2000 Guineas G1, Prix Morny G1).

2002: BALTIC DIP (f Benny The Dip) Winner at 2.

2004: Broader View (c Spectrum) unraced.

2006: EBIAYN (g Monsun) Winner at 4.

2007: Cape Codder (c Hawk Wing) 2009: Force Three (f Shirocco) unraced.

2010: TRIPLE THREAT (c Monsun) 3 wins 2-3, Prix Eugene Adam G2, Prix La Force G3, 3rd Prix de Guiche G3.

2nd Dam: TRIPLE TIPPLE by Raise A Cup. 10 wins 3-5, Wilshire H G2, 2nd Gamely H G1. Dam of Triode (f Sharpen Up: 2nd Oak Tree S LR, 3rd Premio Bagutta G3). Grandam of Lady Liz. Third dam of FLY

BY ME.

1st Dam: TYRANNY by Machiavellian. 2 wins at 3.

Dam of 3 winners: 2005: Danvers (f Cape Cross) ran twice.

2006: Good For Her (f Rock of Gibraltar) 2007: QUEEN OF MEAN (f Pivotal) Winner at 3.

2008: ZOFFANY (c Dansili). 5 wins at 2, Phoenix S G1, 2nd St James’s Palace S G1, Prix Jean Prat G1, 3rd Vincent O’Brien National S G1. Sire.

2009: That’s Plenty (g Dr Fong) 2011: WILSHIRE BOULEVARD (c Holy Roman Emperor) Sold 103,174gns yearling at GOOY1. 1 win at 2, Anglesey S G3.

2012: (f Galileo)

Broodmare Sire: LYPHARD. Sire of the dams of 202 SWs. In 2013 - TRIPLE THREAT Monsun G2.

2nd Dam: DUST DANCER by Suave Dancer. 4 wins at 3, Prix de la Nonette G3. Dam of SPOTLIGHT (f Dr Fong: Lake Placid H G2), Dusty Answer (f Zafonic: 2nd Swinley S LR). Grandam of Counterclaim.

DREI b 91

WILSHIRE BOULEVARD b c 2011 Danzig Danehill

Razyana

HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR b 04 Secretariat L’On Vite Fanfreluche Machiavellian TYRANNY b 00 Dust Dancer

Mr Prospector Coup de Folie Suave Dancer Galaxie Dust

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Bold Ruler Somethingroyal Northern Dancer Ciboulette Raise A Native Gold Digger Halo Raise The Standard Green Dancer Suavite Blushing Groom High Galaxie

189 PRIX EUGENE ADAM G2 MAISONS-LAFFITTE. July 21. 3yo. 2000m.

1. TRIPLE THREAT (FR) 8-11 £60,244 b c by Monsun - Drei (Lyphard) O-Team Valor, Gary Barber B-Team Valor, Gary Barber TR-A Fabre 2. Pilote (IRE) 8-11 £23,252 ch c by Pivotal - Legerete (Rahy) O/B-Wertheimer et Frere TR-A Fabre 3. Dalwari (USA) 8-11 £11,098 b c by More Than Ready - Dalmiya (Kalanisi) O-HH The Aga Khan B-Haras De Son Altesse L’Aga Khan Scea TR-J-C Rouget

TRIPLE THREAT b c 2010 Tamerlane Donna Diana Tiepoletto Kronung Literat Surumu Surama Authi Monasia Monacensia Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Court Martial Goofed Barra II Raise A Native Raise A Cup Spring Sunshine Nodouble Ameridouble Amerigo’s Fancy Dschingis Khan Konigsstuhl MONSUN br 90 Mosella

Lyphard

Triple Tipple

Konigskronung

190 PRIX ROBERT PAPIN G2 MAISONS-LAFFITTE. July 21. 2yoc&f. 1100m.

1. VORDA (FR) 8-13 £60,244 b f by Orpen - Velda (Observatory) O-G Augustin-Normand, R Picamau B-Edy SRL TR-P Sogorb 2. Omaticaya (IRE) 8-13 £23,252 br f by Bernstein - Pronghorn (Gulch) O-Manila Illuminati B-Epona Bloodstock Ltd TR-Manila Illuminati 3. Vedeux (IRE) 9-2 £11,098 b c by Elusive City - Qahatika (Polish Precedent) O-Ecurie Haras du Cadran, P Hoze B-Ecurie Haras du Cadran, P Hoze TR-C Lerner Margins 1.5, short neck. Time 1:05.00.

Going Good.

Age 2

Starts 3

Wins 3

Places 0

Earned £96,423

Sire: ORPEN. Sire of 71 Stakes winners. In 2013 SABAYON Fitzcarraldo G1, VORDA Observatory G2, ORPELLO Almutawakel G3.

1st Dam: VELDA by Observatory. 2 wins at 2 in Italy.

Dam of 1 winner: 2010: Ysper (f Orpen) 2011: VORDA (f Orpen) Sold 7,142gns yearling at AROCT. 3 wins at 2 in France, Prix Robert Papin G2, Prix La Fleche LR. 2012: (c Dr Fong) Broodmare Sire: OBSERVATORY. Sire of the dams of 1 Stakes winner. In 2013 - VORDA Orpen G2.

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Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Alydar Endear Chappaquiddick Halo Devil’s Bag Ballade Hoist The Flag Raise The Standard Natalma Mr Prospector Distant View Seven Springs Roberto Stellaria Victoria Star Darshaan Mark of Esteem Homage Ashmore Val d’Erica Laconia Danzig

Lure ORPEN b 96

Sire: MONSUN. Sire of 104 Stakes winners. In 2013 - ESTIMATE Darshaan G1, MAXIOS Nureyev G1, NOVELLIST Lagunas G1, SILASOL Gulch G1, OCOVANGO Gone West G2, TRIPLE THREAT Lyphard G2, PIRIKA Intikhab G3.

Sire: HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR. Sire of 29 Stakes winners. In 2013 - AMARILLO Royal Academy G3, LEITIR MOR Galileo G3, MAUREEN Linamix G3, VICTORY LAUREL Fasliyev G3, WILSHIRE BOULEVARD Machiavellian G3.

Broodmare Sire: MACHIAVELLIAN. Sire of the dams of 87 Stakes winners. In 2013 - VERXINA Deep Impact G1, MOMENT IN TIME Tiger Hill G3, WILSHIRE BOULEVARD Holy Roman Emperor G3.

VORDA b f 2011

Bonita Francita

Observatory VELDA ch 06 Viavigoni

191 GROSSER PREIS VON BERLIN G1 HOPPEGARTEN. July 21. 3yo+. 2400m.

1. NYMPHEA (IRE) 4 9-3 £81,301 ch f by Dylan Thomas - Neele (Peintre Celebre) O-Stall Nizza B-Juergen Imm TR-P Schiergen 2. Temida (IRE) 5 9-3 £32,520 b m by Oratorio - Interim Payment (Red Ransom) O-Litex Commerce Ad B-Anne & Gerard Corry TR-MG Mintchev 3. Meandre (FR) 5 9-6 £16,260 gr h by Slickly - Penne (Sevres Rose) O-Ramzan Kadyrov B-Rothschild Family TR-A Savujev Margins 3, 1.5. Time 2:26.30. Going Good.

Age 3-4

Starts 8

Wins 3

Places 5

Earned £198,874

Sire: DYLAN THOMAS. Sire of 8 SWs. In 2013 NYMPHEA Peintre Celebre G1, DYLAN’S PROMISE Rigoletto G2, TANNERY Sadler’s Wells G2.

1st Dam: Neele by Peintre Celebre. 2 wins at 2 and 3 in Germany, 2nd Fahrhofer Stutenpreis G3. Own sister to NIGHT OF MAGIC. Dam of 2 winners: 2009: NYMPHEA (f Dylan Thomas) 3 wins at 3 and 4 in Germany, Grosser Preis von Berlin G1, Baden-Badener Hotellerie & Gastronomie LR, 2nd Preis der Diana G1, Pinnacle S G3, 3rd Diana Trial G2, BMW Preis Dusseldorf LR. 2010: NOCTURNE (f Rock of Gibraltar) Winner at 3.

2012: Nutan (c Duke of Marmalade) 2013: (f High Chaparral) 2nd Dam: NIGHT TEENY by Platini. 1 win at 3 in Germany. Dam of NIGHT OF MAGIC (f Peintre Celebre: Oaks d’Italia G2), NIGHT SERENADE (f Golan: Nereide-Rennen LR), Neele (f Peintre Celebre, see above).

Broodmare Sire: PEINTRE CELEBRE. Sire of the dams of 23 Stakes winners. In 2013 - NYMPHEA Dylan Thomas G1, TALENT New Approach G1, ANJAAL Bahamian Bounty G2, PINTURICCHIO Holy Roman Emperor LR, PROTECTIONIST Monsun LR. NYMPHEA ch f 2009 Danzig Danehill

Razyana

DYLAN THOMAS b 03 Diesis Lagrion Wrap It Up Peintre Celebre NEELE ch 04 Night Teeny

Nureyev Peinture Bleue Platini Nightrockette

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Sharpen Up Doubly Sure Mount Hagen Doc Nan Northern Dancer Special Alydar Petroleuse Surumu Prairie Darling Rocket Nightlife

Dylan Thomas improved with age, with his Timeform rating progressing from 102 at two to 129 at three and finally to 132 at four. It seems that his firstcrop daughters are also progressive, as the 2013 season has seen three of them enjoy stakes success as fouryear-olds. After the ex-Irish Tannery won the Gr2 Sheepshead Bay Stakes in the US, Valley Jem became a Group-placed Listed winner in France and now the German filly Nymphea has provided her sire with his first Gr1

success with a remarkable performance in the Grosser Preis von Berlin. Ridden by the amateur son of her trainer, Nymphea went straight into the lead and built a considerable advantage over the opposition, which included three Gr1 winners. Although Temida and Meandre were closing the gap, the Dylan Thomas filly held on to win by three lengths.

Nymphea’s smart form, which also includes a close second in the Lancashire Oaks, will make her a valuable broodmare prospect, as she comes from the same distinguished German female line as the King George winner Novellist. Novellist’s fifth dam, the top German juvenile filly Night Music, was a sister to Nymphea’s fourth dam Nightlife.

Nightlife was also a half-sister to Novelle, winner of the Preis der Diana in 1983, Nymphea’s second dam, Night Teeny, was a winning half-sister to Night Petticoat, another Preis der Diana winner who found added fame as the dam of Next Desert (Deutsches Derby) and Next Gina (Preis der Diana). Night Teeny also did well as a broodmare, notably producing the Oaks d’Italia winner Night Of Magic, who is a sister to Nymphea’s Groupplaced dam Neele.

Nymphea’s broodmare sire Peintre Celebre also sired the dams of such good recent performers as Talent, Red Cadeaux, Anjaal and Ivory Land, plus the Australian Gr1 winner Nechita, who is another by a son of Danehill.

192 KILBOY ESTATE S G2 CURRAGH. July 21. 3yo+f&m. 9f.

1. DANK (GB) 4 9-9 £52,846 b f by Dansili - Masskana (Darshaan) O-James Wigan B-London Thoroughbred Services Ltd TR-Sir Michael Stoute 2. Say (IRE) 3 9-0 £15,447 b f by Galileo - Riskaverse (Dynaformer) O-D Smith, Mrs J Magnier, M Tabor B-Smythson TR-AP O’Brien 3. Caponata (USA) 4 9-9 £7,317 b f by Selkirk - Daring Diva (Dansili) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-DK Weld Margins 1.75, 2.25. Time 1:51.29 (slow 0.79).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-4

Starts 10

Wins 5

Places 3

Earned £156,566

Sire: DANSILI. Sire of 83 Stakes winners. In 2013 FLINTSHIRE Sadler’s Wells G1, FORETELLER Warning G1, DANK Darshaan G2, RIPOSTE Rainbow Quest G2, THOMAS CHIPPENDALE Sadler’s Wells G2, LAUGHING Be My Chief G3, REMOTE Zamindar G3.

1st Dam: MASSKANA by Darshaan. 3 wins at 4 and 5 in France. Dam of 6 winners: 1995: Guinevere (f Fairy King) unraced. Grandam of LORD BADGER (East Cape Guineas LR, 3rd Champion Juvenile Cup G3).

1996: WALLACE (c Royal Academy) 2 wins at 3, Silver Trophy S LR, 2nd Park S G3.

1997: TWILIGHT WORLD (g Night Shift) 1 win at 3.

1999: SULK (f Selkirk) Champion 2yr old filly in France in 2001. 2 wins at 2, Prix Marcel Boussac G1, 2nd Nassau S G1, Prix Royal-Oak G1, 3rd Yorkshire Oaks G1. Dam of IBN BATTUTA (HH The President Cup LR, 3rd Al Fahidi Fort S G2).

2000: Shostakovich (c Danehill) 2001: ANNA PALLIDA (f Sadler’s Wells) Winner at 3.

Dam of PIMPERNEL ( Radley S LR, 2nd Rockfel S G2).

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2003: Broadway Hit (f Sadler’s Wells) unraced.

2004: EAGLE MOUNTAIN (c Rock of Gibraltar). 5 wins at 2 to 4, Hong Kong Cup G1, 2nd Champion S G1, Derby S G1, Breeders’ Cup Turf G1, 3rd Irish Derby G1.

2005: Slink (f Selkirk) unraced. Dam of BYE BYE BIRDIE (Grangecon Stud S G3).

2007: Moby Dick (g Montjeu) 2009: DANK (f Dansili) 5 wins 3-4, Kilboy Estate S G2, Atalanta S G3, Dahlia S G3, 2nd Dick Hern EBF S LR, 3rd Duke of Cambridge S G2.

2011: Household Cavalry (c Oasis Dream) unraced to date.

2nd Dam: MASARIKA by Thatch. 4 wins 2-3, Poule d’Essai des Pouliches G1, Prix Robert Papin G1, 2nd Prix Marcel Boussac G1, 3rd Prix Morny G1. Dam of MASSYAR (c Kahyasi: Gallinule S G2, 3rd Irish 2000 Guineas G1), MADJARISTAN (c Irish River: Arcadia H G3, 3rd Eddie Read H G1). Grandam of MASALARIAN, Masani.

Broodmare Sire: DARSHAAN. Sire of the dams of 208 Stakes winners. In 2013 - AL KAZEEM Dubawi G1, AMBIVALENT Authorized G1, BYRAMA Byron G1, ESTIMATE Monsun G1, SAJJHAA King’s Best G1, DANK Dansili G2, LIBERTARIAN New Approach G2, VEREMA Barathea G2, ERNEST HEMINGWAY Galileo G3, FEEL LIKE DANCING Galileo G3, GLOBAL THRILL Big Shuffle G3, JUTLAND Halling G3, VIZTORIA Oratorio G3.

G3, 2nd Moyglare Stud S G1, Dubai Duty Free Celebration S LR. 2011: She’s Mine (f Sea The Stars) unraced to date.

2012: (c Teofilo) 2nd Dam: SMAOINEAMH by Tap On Wood. 4 wins at 2 and 3, Norelands Stud Trial LR, Challenge Race LR, 3rd Royal Whip S G3. Dam of LUMINATA (f Indian Ridge: Silver Flash S LR, 2nd Moyglare Stud S G1, 3rd Prix Marcel Boussac G1), Aretha (f Indian Ridge: 2nd Leopardstown 1000 Guineas Trial S LR, 3rd C L Weld Park S G3, Flying Five G3), Dathuil (f Royal Academy: 3rd Debutante S LR, 3rd Boiling Springs H G3), Luminous One (f Galileo: 3rd Eyrefield S LR).

Grandam of TUSHNA, PAENE MAGNUS. Third dam of Sandie, Tobann. Fourth dam of Heart Focus.

Broodmare Sire: DANEHILL. See race 184.

The Galileo/Danehill cross has produced: BANC DE FORTUNE G1, CIMA DE TRIOMPHE G1, CUIS GHAIRE G1, FRANKEL G1, GOLDEN LILAC G1, INTELLO G1, MAYBE G1, RODERIC O’CONNOR G1, SCINTILLULA G1, SECRET GESTURE G1, TEOFILO G1, NOBLE MISSION G2, REEM G2, ROMANTICA G2, CRYSTAL GAL G3, LAGALP G3, SIDERA G3, WONDERFULLY G3, MISS GALILEI LR, VIA GALILEI LR, Galileo’s Destiny G1, Gile Na Greine G1, Mars G1, The Assayer G1, Brightest G3, Claiomh Solais G3, Marksmanship G3.

SCINTILLULA b f 2010

The Dansili/Darshaan cross has produced: DREAM PEACE G1, DANK G2.

DANK b f 2009

Razyana

DANSILI b 96 Kahyasi Hasili Kerali Shirley Heights

Darshaan

Delsy

MASSKANA b 88

Thatch

Masarika

Sadler’s Wells

Fairy Bridge

GALILEO b 98 Danzig

Danehill

Northern Dancer

Miss Melody

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Ile de Bourbon Kadissya High Line Sookera Mill Reef Hardiemma Abdos Kelty Forli Thong Tudor Melody The Veil

Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta Danzig

Danehill

Razyana

SCRIBONIA b 01 Smaoineamh

Tap On Wood Fanghorn

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Lombard Anatevka Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Sallust Cat O’Mountaine Crocket Honeymoon House

LEOPARDSTOWN. July 25. 3yo+. 9f.

1. SCINTILLULA (IRE) 3 8-11 £31,707 b f by Galileo - Scribonia (Danehill) O-Miss K Rausing, Mrs JS Bolger B-JS Bolger TR-JS Bolger 2. Mars (IRE) 3 9-0 £9,268 ch c by Galileo - Massarra (Danehill) O-M Tabor, D Smith, Mrs J Magnier B-Massarra Syndicate TR-AP O’Brien 3. Along Came Casey (IRE) 5 9-6 £4,390 b m by Oratorio - Secretariat’s Tap (Pleasant Tap) O-Mrs CL Weld B-Murry Rose Bloodstock TR-DK Weld Margins 2.75, 3.25. Time 1:52.64 (slow 1.64).

Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 8

Wins 2

Places 4

Earned £93,238

Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 144 Stakes winners. In 2013 INTELLO Danehill G1, LINTON Centaine G1, MAGICIAN Mozart G1, RULER OF THE WORLD Kingmambo G1, BATTLE OF MARENGO Green Desert G2, ALTANO Lando G3, ERNEST HEMINGWAY Darshaan G3, FEEL LIKE DANCING Darshaan G3, FLYING THE FLAG Pivotal G3, ROMANTICA Danehill G3, SCINTILLULA Danehill G3, WONDERFULLY Danehill G3.

1st Dam: Scribonia by Danehill. unraced. Dam of 4 winners: 2005: Barromante (g King Charlemagne) 2006: CUIS GHAIRE (f Galileo) 3 wins at 2, Swordlestown Stud Sprint G3, Albany S G3, 2nd 1000 Guineas G1.

2007: Gile Na Greine (f Galileo) Winner at 2, 2nd Coronation S G1, 3rd 1000 Guineas G1.

2008: Claiomh Solais (f Galileo) Winner at 3, 2nd Brownstown S G3.

2009: Ferrycarrig (g Manduro) ran twice.

2010: SCINTILLULA (f Galileo) 2 wins at 3, Meld S

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1. EXOGENESIS (IRE) 9-3 £31,707 b g by Dark Angel - Secret Key (Key of Luck) O-Sean Jones B-Mrs J Donnelly TR-GM Lyons 2. Home School (IRE) 9-3 £9,268 b c by Intense Focus - Lavender Blue (Galileo) O-Mrs JS Bolger B-JS Bolger TR-JS Bolger 3. Sir John Hawkins (USA) 9-3 £4,390 b c by Henrythenavigator - Peeping Fawn (Danehill) O-M Tabor, D Smith, Mrs J Magnier B-Orpendale, Chelston TR-AP O’Brien Margins 0.5, 1.25. Time 1:30.50 (slow 4.80).

Going Good.

Age 2

Starts 4

Wins 3

Places 0

195 YORK S G2 YORK. July 27. 3yo+. 10f 88yds.

1. MUKHADRAM (GB) 4 9-2 £56,710 b c by Shamardal - Magic Tree (Timber Country) O-Hamdan Al Maktoum B-Wardall Bloodstock TR-William Haggas 2. Grandeur (IRE) 4 9-5 £21,500 grro g by Verglas - Misskinta (Desert Sun) O-Miss Yvonne Jacques B-Mrs Cherry Faeste TR-Jeremy Noseda 3. Wigmore Hall (IRE) 6 9-2 £10,760 b g by High Chaparral - Love And Laughter (Theatrical) O-MB Hawtin B-K And Mrs Cullen TR-Michael Bell Margins 0.75, 4. Time 2:07.18 (fast 0.32).

Going Good to firm.

Age 3-4

Earned £50,691

1st Dam: SECRET KEY by Key of Luck. Winner at 4.

Dam of 1 winner: 2007: (c Redback) 2009: Key Duchess (f Bachelor Duke) unraced.

2011: EXOGENESIS (g Dark Angel) 19,703gns foal at GONO1, 19,047gns yearling at DNPRM. 3 wins at 2, Tyros S G3.

EXOGENESIS b g 2011 Acclamation DARK ANGEL gr 05 Midnight Angel

Key of Luck SECRET KEY br 00 Sky Lover

Wins 4

Places 4

Earned £262,652

Waajib Flying Melody Ahonoora Princess Athena Shopping Wise Mr Prospector Machiavellian Coup de Folie Night Shift Night At Sea Into Harbour Danzig Chief’s Crown Six Crowns Gay Mecene Balbonella Bamieres Pitcairn Ela-Mana-Mou Rose Bertin African Sky Diamonds In The Sky Merdemain

2010: TASADAY (f Nayef) 4 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix de Psyche G3, Prix des Reservoirs G3, 2nd Prix de la Grotte G3, 3rd Poule d’Essai des Pouliches G1.

2012: (c Elusive Quality) 2013: (c Street Cry) 2nd Dam: Tashiriya by Kenmare. 1 win at 2, 2nd Prix Vanteaux G3. Dam of TASHELKA (see above), TASHKANDI (g Polish Precedent: Prix de Pontarme LR, 2nd Prix Messidor G3, 3rd Prix Jean Prat G1).

Broodmare Sire: MUJAHID. Sire of the dams of 2 Stakes winners. In 2013 - TASADAY Nayef G3.

TASADAY gr/ro f 2010 Mr Prospector Gulch

1st Dam: Magic Tree by Timber Country. ran once at 2. Dam of 3 winners: 2008: ENTIHAA (g Tiger Hill) Winner at 4.

2009: MUKHADRAM (c Shamardal) 190,000gns foal at TADEF. 4 wins at 3 and 4, York S G2, Brigadier Gerard S G3, 2nd Prince of Wales’s S G1, 3rd Eclipse S G1.

2010: Woodland Aria (f Singspiel) 2 wins at 3, 3rd Musidora S G3.

2011: (c Nayef) 2013: (c Sea The Stars)

Broodmare Sire: TIMBER COUNTRY. Sire of the dams of 6 Stakes winners. In 2013 - MUKHADRAM Shamardal G2, SWEET IDEA Snitzel G2.

MUKHADRAM b c 2009 Storm Cat Giant’s Causeway

Mariah’s Storm

SHAMARDAL b 02 Machiavellian Helsinki Helen Street Timber Country MAGIC TREE ch 02 Moyesii

Woodman Fall Aspen Diesis Cherokee Rose

Storm Bird Terlingua Rahy Immense Mr Prospector Coup de Folie Troy Waterway Mr Prospector Playmate Pretense Change Water Sharpen Up Doubly Sure Dancing Brave Celtic Assembly

196 PRIX DE PSYCHE G3 DEAUVILLE. July 27. 3yof. 2000m.

1. TASADAY (USA) 8-11 £32,520 grro f by Nayef - Tashelka (Mujahid) O-Godolphin SNC B-Darley TR-A Fabre 2. Sparkling Beam (IRE) 9-2 £13,008 b f by Nayef - Pearl Dance (Nureyev) O/B-George Strawbridge TR-JE Pease 3. Alumna (USA) 8-11 £9,756 b f by Mr Greeley - Alma Mater (Sadler’s Wells) O/B-Miss K Rausing TR-A Fabre Margins 2.5, 0.5. Time 2:09.07. Going Good to soft.

Age 2-3

Starts 7

Wins 4

Places 3

Earned £189,184

Sire: NAYEF. Sire of 15 SWs. In 2013 - SPARKLING BEAM Nureyev G3, TASADAY Mujahid G3.

1st Dam: TASHELKA by Mujahid. 4 wins at 3 in France, Prix de la Nonette G3, Prix Fille de l’Air G3.

Dam of 1 winner:

Jameela

NAYEF b 98 Bustino Height of Fashion Highclere Mujahid TASHELKA gr/ro 04

Sire: SHAMARDAL. Sire of 53 SWs. In 2013 DUNBOYNE EXPRESS Polish Precedent G1, MAYBE DISCREET Bluebird G1, AKUA’DA Sadler’s Wells G2, MUKHADRAM Timber Country G2, PUISSANCE DE LUNE Unbridled’s Song G2, BALTIC BARONESS Sadler’s Wells G3, CAMEO A P Indy G3.

Sire: DARK ANGEL. Sire of 8 SWs. In 2013 LETHAL FORCE Desert Style G1, EXOGENESIS Key of Luck G3, HEERAAT Green Desert G3, LILY’S ANGEL Docksider G3.

Royal Applause

Starts 9

2nd Dam: MOYESII by Diesis. 1 win at 3 in France.

Dam of KIRKLEES (g Jade Robbery: Gran Criterium G1), MASTERY (c Sulamani: St Leger S G1, Hong Kong Vase G1, 3rd Grand Prix de Paris G1).

194 TYROS S G3 LEOPARDSTOWN. July 25. 2yo. 7f.

193 MELD S G3

Broodmare Sire: KEY OF LUCK. Sire of the dams of 8 Stakes winners. In 2013 - SOCIETY ROCK Rock of Gibraltar G2, EXOGENESIS Dark Angel G3, SLADE POWER Dutch Art G3.

Tashiriya

Danzig Elrafa Ah Kenmare Tashtiya

Raise A Native Gold Digger Rambunctious Asbury Mary Busted Ship Yard Queen’s Hussar Highlight Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Storm Cat Bubbles Darlene Kalamoun Belle of Ireland Shergar Tremogia

197 KING GEORGE VI AND QUEEN ELIZABETH S G1 ASCOT. July 27. 3yo+c&f. 12f.

1. NOVELLIST (IRE) 4 9-7 £603,962 b c by Monsun - Night Lagoon (Lagunas) O-Dr C Berglar B-Dr C Berglar TR-A Wohler 2. Trading Leather (IRE) 3 8-9 £228,975 b c by Teofilo - Night Visit (Sinndar) O-Mrs JS Bolger B-JS Bolger TR-JS Bolger 3. Hillstar (GB) 3 8-9 £114,594 b c by Danehill Dancer - Crystal Star (Mark of Esteem) O-Sir Evelyn De Rothschild B-Southcourt Stud TR-Sir Michael Stoute Margins 5, 0.75. Time 1:24.60 (fast 5.40).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-4

Starts 10

Wins 8

Places Earned 2 £1,079,056

Sire: MONSUN. Sire of 104 Stakes winners. In 2013 - ESTIMATE Darshaan G1, MAXIOS Nureyev G1, NOVELLIST Lagunas G1, SILASOL Gulch G1, OCOVANGO Gone West G2, TRIPLE THREAT Lyphard G2, PIRIKA Intikhab G3.

1st Dam: NIGHT LAGOON by Lagunas. Champion 2yr old filly in Germany in 2003. 2 wins at 2 in Germany, Preis der Winterkonigin G3. Dam of 5 winners: 2006: NAVAJO DANCER (c Montjeu) 2 wins at 3 in Germany.

2007: NAVAJO QUEEN (f Monsun) Winner at 3 in Germany.

2008: NAVAJO STORM (c Monsun) Winner at 3 in Germany.

2009: NOVELLIST (c Monsun) Sold 84,281gns yearling at BBAGS. Champion 3yo colt in Italy in 2012. 8 wins from 2 to 4, King George VI & Queen Elizabeth S G1, Grand Prix de SaintCloud G1, Gran Premio del Jockey Club G1, GP der Badischen Unternehmer Rennen G2, Union-Rennen G2, Fruhjahrs-Preis des Bankhauses Metzler G3, 2nd Deutsches Derby G1.

2010: NUNTIUS (c Dalakhani) 2 wins at 2 and 3 in Germany.

2011: Ninfea (f Selkirk) unraced to date.

NOVELLIST b c 2009 Dschingis Khan Konigsstuhl

Konigskronung

MONSUN br 90 Surumu Mosella Monasia Lagunas NIGHT LAGOON b 01 Nenuphar

Ile de Bourbon Liranga Night Shift Narola

Tamerlane Donna Diana Tiepoletto Kronung Literat Surama Authi Monacensia Nijinsky Roseliere Literat Love In Northern Dancer Ciboulette Nebos Nubia

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2nd Dam: NENUPHAR by Night Shift. 3 wins at 2 and 3, Dusseldorfer BMW Preis LR. Dam of NIGHT LAGOON (f Lagunas, see above), NIGHT TANGO (c Acatenango: Grosser Freiberger Premium-Preis LR, Summer Trophy LR, 2nd Deutsches Derby G1).

Broodmare Sire: LAGUNAS. Sire of the dams of 26 Stakes winners. In 2013 - NOVELLIST Monsun G1.

The Monsun/Lagunas cross has produced: NOVELLIST G1, Litalia G2, Lysander LR. See race 139 in the August issue for analysis.

198 PRINCESS MARGARET S G3 ASCOT. July 27. 2yof. 6f.

1. PRINCESS NOOR (IRE) 8-12 £28,355 b f by Holy Roman Emperor - Gentle Night (Zafonic) O-Saleh Al Homaizi, Imad Al Sagar B-Lynch Bages Ltd, Camas Park Stud TR-Roger Varian 2. Queen Catrine (IRE) 8-12 £10,750 b f by Acclamation - Kahira (King’s Best) O-J Gompertz, Mrs G Galvin, Marston Stud B-Mount Coote Stud TR-Charles Hills 3. Along Again (IRE) 8-12 £5,380 b f by Elusive City - American Adventure (Miswaki) O-Ballymore Thoroughbreds Ltd B-Dayton Investments Ltd TR-Sir Michael Stoute Margins 2, 0.75. Time 1:12.74 (slow 0.34).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2

Starts 4

Wins 2

Places 0

Earned £33,418

Sire: HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR. Sire of 30 SWs. In 2013 - AMARILLO Royal Academy G3, LEITIR MOR Galileo G3, MAUREEN Linamix G3, PRINCESS NOOR Zafonic G3, VICTORY LAUREL Fasliyev G3, WILSHIRE BOULEVARD Machiavellian G3.

1st Dam: Gentle Night by Zafonic. ran once at 2. Dam of 5 winners: 2003: KNIGHT OF DANCE (c Singspiel) 3 wins at 4, 5 and 7 in UAE. 2004: (c Act One) 2005: (f Danehill Dancer) 2006: ORATORY (g Danehill Dancer) 3 wins 2-6.

2007: ROCKYMOUNTAINHIGH (c Danehill Dancer) Winner at 3.

2009: HE’S NO ANGEL (c Excellent Art) Winner at 4.

2010: (c Excellent Art) 2011: PRINCESS NOOR (f Holy Roman Emperor) Sold 114,285gns yearling at DNPRM. 2 wins at 2, Princess Margaret S G3.

2012: (c Excellent Art) 2nd Dam: SAHARA STAR by Green Desert. 2 wins at 2, Molecomb S G3, 3rd Lowther S G2. Dam of LAND OF DREAMS (f Cadeaux Genereux: Flying Childers S G2), Just A Poser (c Darshaan: 3rd Prix La Rochette G3). Grandam of DREAM AHEAD, INTO THE DARK, Zumbi, Say No Now. Broodmare Sire: ZAFONIC. Sire of the dams of 50 Stakes winners. In 2013 - PRINCESS NOOR Holy Roman Emperor G3.

PRINCESS NOOR b f 2011 Danzig Danehill

Razyana

HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR b 04 Secretariat L’On Vite Fanfreluche Zafonic GENTLE NIGHT b 98 Sahara Star

Gone West Zaizafon Green Desert Vaigly Star

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Bold Ruler Somethingroyal Northern Dancer Ciboulette Mr Prospector Secrettame The Minstrel Mofida Danzig Foreign Courier Star Appeal Dervaig

199 PRIX ROTHSCHILD G1 DEAUVILLE. July 28. 3yo+f&m. 1600m.

1. ELUSIVE KATE (USA) 4 9-2 £139,366 b f by Elusive Quality - Gout de Terroir (Lemon Drop Kid) O-Teruya Yoshida B-Clovelly Farms TR-John Gosden 2. Duntle (IRE) 4 9-2 £55,756 ch f by Danehill Dancer - Lady Angola (Lord At War) O-Flaxman Stables B-Airlie Stud TR-D Wachman

3. Kenhope (FR) 3 8-8 £27,878 b f by Kendargent - Bedford Hope (Chato) O/B-G Pariente TR-H-A Pantall Margins 2.5, short head. Time 1:35.20. Going Soft.

Age 2-4

Starts 14

Wins 7

Places 6

Earned £846,198

Sire: ELUSIVE QUALITY. Sire of 79 Stakes winners.

In 2013 - ELUSIVE KATE Lemon Drop Kid G1, ANA LUISA Royal Academy G2, AVENGER OF LIGHT Put It Back G2, MERHEE Encosta de Lago G2, BAHNAH Glitterman G3, SHURUQ Noverre G3.

1st Dam: GOUT DE TERROIR by Lemon Drop Kid. Winner at 3 in USA. Dam of 1 winner: 2009: ELUSIVE KATE (f Elusive Quality) Champion 2yr old filly in France in 2011. 7 wins 2-4, Falmouth S G1, Prix Marcel Boussac G1, Prix Rothschild G1 (twice), Prix du Calvados G3, Prix Six Perfections LR, 2nd Falmouth S G1, Sun Chariot S G1, 3rd Queen Elizabeth II S G1, Prix Jacques Le Marois G1.

2010: Ducks Dock (g Mineshaft) unraced to date.

2011: Terrienne (f Henny Hughes) unraced to date.

2012: Gallice (f Fuisse) 2nd Dam: REGAL STATE by Affirmed. 2 wins at 2 in France, Prix Morny G1, 2nd Prix de la Salamandre G1, Prix Jacques Le Marois G1. Dam of PLEASANTLY PERFECT (c Pleasant Colony: Breeders’ Cup Classic G1, Pacific Classic S G1, Dubai World Cup G1, 3rd Breeders’ Cup Classic G1), HURRICANE STATE (c Miswaki: Prix Eclipse G3, 3rd Criterium des 2 Ans G2), SWAGGER STICK (g Cozzene: 3rd Stars and Stripes Breeders’ Cup H G3, Supreme Hurdle LR).

Broodmare Sire: LEMON DROP KID. Sire of the dams of 10 Stakes winners. In 2013 - ELUSIVE KATE Elusive Quality G1, LEMON PRETTY Scat Daddy G3, STRIKE THE STARS Haafhd LR. ELUSIVE KATE b f 2009 Raise A Native Gold Digger Secretariat Secrettame Tamerett ELUSIVE QUALITY b 93 Northern Dancer Hero’s Honor Glowing Tribute Touch of Greatness Sir Ivor Ivory Wand Natashka Mr Prospector Kingmambo Miesque Lemon Drop Kid Seattle Slew Charming Lassie Lassie Dear GOUT DE TERROIR ch 04 Exclusive Native Affirmed Won’t Tell You Regal State Lyphard La Trinite Promessa Mr Prospector

Gone West

Robin Scully, the veteran owner of Clovelly Farms in Lexington, died on July 12 – the very day that the Clovelly-bred Elusive Kate notched her third Gr1 victory in a controversial edition of the Falmouth Stakes. Then, only 16 days later, this daughter of Elusive Quality gave another demonstration of her class when she dominated the opposition to take the Prix Rothschild at Deauville for a second successive year.

Deauville always figured prominently in Scully’s success story, as he won bred and owned three fillies who won the Prix Morny, with Ancient Regime winning in 1979 and then the half-sisters Seven Springs and Regal State in 1984 and 1985 respectively.

Appropriately, it is Regal State who appears in Elusive Kate’s pedigree as her second dam. Regal State also provided Clovelly with arguably its finest moments, as her Pleasant Colony colt Pleasantly Perfect triumphed in the 2003 Breeders’ Cup Classic and 2004 Dubai World Cup. Regal State also made her mark with her Miswaki colt Hurricane State (Gr3 Prix Eclipse) and her Cozzene gelding Swagger Stick, who did well

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over jumps in the USA. Elusive Kate’s third dam, the Lyphard filly La Trinite, was fourth in the 1978 Criterium des Pouliches. In addition to being the dam of Seven Springs and Regal State, she also produced the smart filly Spendomania.

Like Regal State, Seven Springs also became the dam of a major winner after her sale to Khalid Abdullah, notably producing the Sussex Stakes winner Distant View.

Elusive Kate’s fourth dam, the tenfurlong winner Promessa, was a sister to the Oaks winner Pia, who also collected the Cherry Hinton and Lowther Stakes at two. This is also the family of the top sprinter-miler Chief Singer.

The filly remains comfortably the best horse produced by a daughter of the 1999 Belmont Stakes winner Lemon Drop Kid. 200 PRIX DE CABOURG G3 DEAUVILLE. July 28. 2yo. 1200m.

1. MY CATCH (IRE) 8-11 £32,520 b c by Camacho - Catch The Sea (Barathea) O-Qatar Racing Limited B-D Noonan, Loughphilip Bloodstock TR-David Brown 2. Al Muthana (FR) 8-11 £13,008 b c by Pastoral Pursuits - Annabelle Ja (Singspiel) O-Khalifa Al Attiyah B-OJ McDowell TR-F-H Graffard 3. Jally (IRE) 8-11 £9,756 ch c by Tamayuz - Miss Beatrix (Danehill Dancer) O-Hamdan Al Maktoum B-Mrs B Durkan TR-J-C Rouget Margins Hd, sh nk. Time 1:10.10. Going Good to soft.

Age 2

Starts 4

Wins 2

Places 1

Earned £46,686

Sire: CAMACHO. Sire of 8 Stakes winners. In 2013 MY CATCH Barathea G3.

1st Dam: Catch The Sea by Barathea. Dam of 3 winners: 2009: VLADIMIR (g Kheleyf) 3 wins at 2, Criterium du Bequet LR, 3rd Prix Morny G1.

2010: Pearl Sea (f Elusive City) Winner at 2, 3rd Michael Seely Memorial S LR. 2011: MY CATCH (c Camacho) 85,000gns yearling at TAOC2, 104,529gns 2yo at ARMAY. 2 wins at 2 in France, Prix de Cabourg G3.

2nd Dam: CATCH THE BLUES by Bluebird. 3 wins 3-5, Ballyogan S G3, 3rd Sprint Cup G1.

Broodmare Sire: BARATHEA. Sire of the dams of 63 SWs. In 2013 - HUNTER’S LIGHT Dubawi G1, JAKKALBERRY Storming Home G2, PEACE AT LAST Oasis Dream G2, DANADANA Dubawi G3, MY CATCH Camacho G3, SHEER TALENT Redoute’s Choice G3.

MY CATCH b c 2011 Danzig Danehill

Razyana

CAMACHO b 02 Zafonic Arabesque Prophecy Barathea CATCH THE SEA b 04 Catch The Blues

Sadler’s Wells Brocade Bluebird Dear Lorraine

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Gone West Zaizafon Warning Andaleeb Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Habitat Canton Silk Storm Bird Ivory Dawn Nonoalco Native Loraine

201 GROSSER DALLMAYR-PREIS G1 MUNICH. July 28. 3yo+. 2000m.

1. NEATICO (GER) 6 9-6 £81,301 b h by Medicean - Nicola Bella (Sadler’s Wells) O/B-Gestut Ittlingen TR-P Schiergen

2. Opposite (IRE) 4 9-6 £24,390 b c by Dansili - Silver Rain (Rainbow Quest) O/B-Wertheimer et Frere TR-A Fabre 3. Hunter’s Light (IRE) 5 9-6 £12,195 ch h by Dubawi - Portmanteau (Barathea) O-Godolphin B-Darley TR-Saeed bin Suroor Margins 1.25, 1. Time 2:04.07. Going Good.

Age 2-6

Starts 29

Wins 6

Places 15

Earned £261,337

Sire: MEDICEAN. Sire of 40 Stakes winners. In 2013 - NEATICO Sadler’s Wells G1.

1st Dam: NICOLA BELLA by Sadler’s Wells. Winner at 3. Own sister to Sister Bella. Dam of 7 winners: 2001: Persian Belle (f Machiavellian) unraced. Dam of CALVADOS BLUES (Prix de Guiche G3, Prix des Chenes G3, 2nd Dubai City of Gold S G2, 3rd Dubai Sheema Classic G1).

2002: BEAUTYANDTHEBEAST (f Machiavellian) 6 wins 3-4, Las Palmas H G2.

2004: NOVO (c Rainbow Quest) 2 wins 3-4 in Germany.

2005: Narcisco (g Fantastic Light) Winner at 3 in Germany, 2nd Grosser Freiberger PremiumPreis LR. 2006: Nicella (f Lando) unraced.

2007: NEATICO (c Medicean) 6 wins 2-6 in Germany, Grosser Dallmayr Bayerisches Zuchtrennen G1, Grosser Preis der Dortmunder Wirtschaft G3, G Bombadier V Herzog von Ratibor Rennen G3, Grosser Preis von Lotto Hamburg G3, Henkel Meile LR, 2nd Badener Meile mit der Superdreierwette G3 (twice), Hessen-Pokal Traloppo G3, Wettenleip Fruhjahrs-Meile G3, Grosser Canon-Preis-Limitierter Int LR, Ilse und Heinz Ramm Erinnerungsmeile LR, 3rd Grosse Europa Meile G2, UVEX-Trophy Rennen G3, Belmondo-Preis G3, GP der Landeshauptstadt G3, Preis der Sparkassen Finanzgruppe G3, Excelsior Hotel Ernst-Meile LR. 2008: CAPTAIN BROWN (g Lomitas) 2 wins.

2009: SCARLET BELLE (f Sir Percy) Winner at 3.

2010: PERNICA (f Sir Percy) Winner at 3.

2012: (c Sir Percy) 2013: Pernickety (f Sir Percy) 2nd Dam: Valley of Hope by Riverman. unraced. Dam of Sister Bella (f Sadler’s Wells: 3rd Irish Oaks G1).

Broodmare Sire: SADLER’S WELLS. Sire of the dams of 313 Stakes winners. In 2013 - FLINTSHIRE Dansili G1, NEATICO Medicean G1, RELIABLE MAN Dalakhani G1, SHE’S HAPPY Speightstown G1, AKUA’DA Shamardal G2, PEACE BURG Sageburg G2, TANNERY Dylan Thomas G2, THOMAS CHIPPENDALE Dansili G2, BALTIC BARONESS Shamardal G3, FORTE DEI MARMI Selkirk G3.

The Medicean/Sadler’s Wells cross has produced: BANKABLE G1, NEATICO G1.

NEATICO b h 2007 Raise A Native Gold Digger Halo Coup de Folie Raise The Standard Northern Dancer Storm Bird South Ocean Sassafras Rose Goddess Cocarde Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special Never Bend Riverman River Lady Sodium Virunga Vale Mr Prospector Machiavellian MEDICEAN ch 97 Mystic Goddess

Sadler’s Wells NICOLA BELLA b 95 Valley of Hope

In 2009 Timeform’s highest-rated two-year-old in Germany was Medicean’s son Neatico, mainly on the strength of his win in the Gr3 Herzog von Ratibor-Rennen. However, it has taken Neatico a long time to fulfil his initial promise. After failing to win at three, he won only one of his nine starts at four and was again winless at five. His connections looked set for more frustration when the six-year-old Neatico was second in his first three starts of 2013. Fortunately, he has since won three consecutive Group

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races, including the Gr3 HamburgTrophy by seven lengths and now the Gr1 Grosser Dallmayr-Preis. He is clearly well suited by a mile and a quarter nowadays.

The motivation for sending Neatico’s dam, the Sadler’s Wells mare Nicola Bella, to Medicean no doubt came from the exploits of her filly by Medicean’s sire Machiavellian. Named Beautyandthebeast, she won the Listed Sandringham Handicap at the 2005 Royal Ascot meeting and then became a Gr2 winner in California.

Nicola Bella’s other Machiavellian filly, the unraced Persian Belle, has also done well, becoming the dam of Calvados Blues, a dual Gr3 winner in France who went on to show smart middle-distance form in Dubai.

Nicola Bella is a sister to the Irish Oaks third Sister Bella. The second dam, Valley Of Hope, comes from a family which did very well for the Wildensteins. Neatico’s third dam, the Classic-placed Virunga, was a halfsister to Vitiges, winner of the Prix Morny and Champion Stakes. Virunga in turn became the dam of the highclass colts Vin de France (Prix Jacques le Marois) and Vacarme, while her daughters produced the top fillies Victoire Bleue (Prix du Cadran) and Verveine. Virunga’s other descendants include the Gr1 winners Maids Causeway (Coronation Stakes), Vespone (Grand Prix de Paris), Vallee Enchantee (Hong Kong Vase) and Volga (EP Taylor Stakes).

202 MOLECOMB S G3 1. BROWN SUGAR (IRE) 9-0 £28,355 b c by Tamayuz - Lady Livius (Titus Livius) O-De La Warr Racing B-Ballylinch Stud TR-R Hannon 2. Anticipated (IRE) 9-0 £10,750 b c by Whipper - Foreplay (Lujain) O-Woodcock, Bull, Ivory, Hannon B-M Smith, Grennanstown Stud TR-R Hannon 3. Ambiance (IRE) 9-0 £5,380 b c by Camacho - Thawrah (Green Desert) O-Prince AA Faisal B-John McEnery TR-Mick Channon Margins Neck, 1.25. Time 0:59.30 (slow 2.30).

Going Good to soft.

Starts 4

Wins 2

Places 1

2nd Dam: REFINED by Statoblest. 2 wins at 2. Dam of GALEOTA (g Mujadil: Mill Reef S G2, 2nd Golden Jubilee S G1), LOULWA (f Montjeu: River Eden S LR).

Grandam of Jadanna, Justineo.

Broodmare Sire: TITUS LIVIUS. Sire of the dams of 2 Stakes winners. In 2013 - BROWN SUGAR Tamayuz G3.

203 LENNOX S G2 GOODWOOD. July 30. 3yo+. 7f.

1. GARSWOOD (GB) 3 8-9 £85,065 b c by Dutch Art - Penchant (Kyllachy) O-DW Armstrong, Cheveley Park Stud B-Cheveley Park Stud TR-Richard Fahey 2. Caspar Netscher (GB) 4 9-2 £32,250 b c by Dutch Art - Bella Cantata (Singspiel) O-Charles Wentworth B-Meon Valley Stud TR-David Simcock 3. Boom And Bust (IRE) 6 9-2 £16,140 b g by Footstepsinthesand - Forest Call (Wolfhound) O-Jas Singh B-Duncan A McGregor TR-Marcus Tregoning Margins Neck, 1. Time 1:27.30 (slow 3.00).

Going Good to soft.

Age 2-3

Earned £32,938

1st Dam: LADY LIVIUS by Titus Livius. 3 wins at 2 to 4. Dam of 3 winners: 2009: WIDYAAN (g Lawman) Winner at 4 in France.

2010: ELLE WOODS (f Lawman) 3 wins at 2 and 3.

2011: BROWN SUGAR (c Tamayuz) Sold 37,698gns yearling at GOOY1. 2 wins, Molecomb S G3.

BROWN SUGAR b c 2011 Mr Prospector Jameela Bustino Height of Fashion Highclere Northern Dancer Nureyev Special Riverman Allez Les Trois Allegretta Mr Prospector Machiavellian Coup de Folie Be My Guest Party Doll Midnight Lady Ahonoora Statoblest Statira Red Sunset Annsfield Lady Petit Eclair Gulch TAMAYUZ ch 05 Al Ishq

Titus Livius LADY LIVIUS b 03 Refined

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Wins 3

Places 4

Earned £134,149

Sire: DUTCH ART. Sire of 11 Stakes winners. In 2013 - GARSWOOD Kyllachy G2, PRODUCER Irish River G3, SLADE POWER Key of Luck G3.

1st Dam: Penchant by Kyllachy. unraced. Dam of 1 winner: 2010: GARSWOOD (c Dutch Art) 19,000gns foal at TADEF, 60,000gns 2yo at TAAPR. 3 wins at 2 and 3, Lennox S G2, European Free H LR, Harry Rosebery S LR, 2nd Cornwallis S G3.

2011: Bruni Heinke (f Dutch Art) in training.

2013: (f Holy Roman Emperor)

Broodmare Sire: KYLLACHY. Sire of the dams of 2 SWs. In 2013 - GARSWOOD Dutch Art G2.

GARSWOOD b c 2010 Mr Prospector Coup de Folie Storm Bird Mystic Goddess Rose Goddess DUTCH ART ch 04 Rainbow Quest Spectrum River Dancer Halland Park Lass Drumalis Palacegate Episode Pasadena Lady Polar Falcon Pivotal Fearless Revival Kyllachy Song Pretty Poppy Moonlight Serenade PENCHANT b 06 Young Generation Cadeaux Genereux Smarten Up Irresistible Danzig Polish Romance Some Romance Machiavellian

Medicean

Sire: TAMAYUZ. Sire of 4 Stakes winners. In 2013 BROWN SUGAR Titus Livius G3.

Nayef

Starts 8

1st Dam: VALLEY OF GOLD by Shirley Heights. 5 wins 3-4, Oaks d’Italia G1, 2nd Prix Vermeille G1, 3rd Irish Oaks G1. Dam of 10 winners: 1998: HONEST OBSESSION (c Sadler’s Wells) Winner at 4.

1999: HILLS OF GOLD (g Danehill) 5 wins 2-5.

2000: SPLENDID ERA (c Green Desert) 3 wins at 2 and 3, Joel S G3.

2002: WITWATERSRAND (f Unfuwain) Winner at 3.

2003: DUKE OF BURGUNDY (g Danehill) 2 wins in NH Flat races.

2005: COTSWOLDS (g Green Desert) 3 wins.

2006: (c Green Desert) 2007: LAKE MOON (f Tiger Hill) Winner at 3 in France.

2008: Pine Creek (g Doyen) 3 wins, 3rd Prix Matchem LR. 2009: AUTHENTICATION (g Authorized) 2 wins at 3.

2010: CAP O’RUSHES (c New Approach) 3 wins at 2 and 3, Gordon S G3.

2012: (c Halling) 2nd Dam: Lustre by Halo. 1 win at 2, 3rd Wallis S LR, 4th Fred Darling S G3. Dam of VALLEY OF GOLD (f Shirley Heights, see above), DUBLIN (c Carson City: Vintage S G3, 3rd National S G1), Dream Play (f In The Wings: 3rd Prix de Malleret G2). Grandam of DUFF. Third dam of Chere Lustre.

Broodmare Sire: SHIRLEY HEIGHTS. Sire of the dams of 183 Stakes winners. In 2013 - CAP O’RUSHES New Approach G3.

CAP O’RUSHES b c 2010

GOODWOOD. July 31. 3yo. 12f.

1. CAP O’RUSHES (GB) 9-0 £42,533 b c by New Approach - Valley of Gold (Shirley Heights) O-Godolphin B-Darley TR-Charles Appleby 2. Excess Knowledge (GB) 9-0 £16,125 br c by Monsun - Quenched (Dansili) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-John Gosden 3. Spillway (GB) 9-0 £8,070 b c by Rail Link - Flower Market (Cadeaux Genereux) O-Mrs Virginia Neale B-Cherry Park Stud TR-Eve Johnson Houghton Margins Head, 0.75. Time 2:39.13 (slow 5.13).

Going Good to soft.

Starts 8

Wins 3

Places 4

Urban Sea

NEW APPROACH ch 05 Ahonoora Park Express Matcher Shirley Heights VALLEY OF GOLD br 92

Mill Reef Hardiemma Halo

Lustre

White Star Line

205 SUSSEX S G1 GOODWOOD. July 31. 3yo+. 8f.

1. TORONADO (IRE) 3 8-13 £170,130 b c by High Chaparral - Wana Doo (Grand Slam) O-Sheikh Joann Bin Hamad Al Thani B-Paul Nataf TR-R Hannon 2. Dawn Approach (IRE) 3 8-13 £64,500 ch c by New Approach - Hymn of The Dawn (Phone Trick) O-Godolphin B-JS Bolger TR-JS Bolger 3. Declaration Of War (USA) 4 9-7 £32,280 b c by War Front - Tempo West (Rahy) O-Mrs J Magnier, M Tabor, D Smith, J Allen B-Joseph Allen TR-AP O’Brien Margins 0.5, 2.5. Time 1:36.29 (fast 0.71).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-3

Starts 7

Wins 5

Places 2

Earned £363,877

Sire: HIGH CHAPARRAL. Sire of 47 Stakes winners.

In 2013 - DUNDEEL Zabeel G1, SHOOT OUT Pentire G1, TORONADO Grand Slam G1.

204 GORDON S G3

Age 2-3

Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Miswaki Allegretta Lorenzaccio Helen Nichols Match II Lachine Never Bend Milan Mill Hardicanute Grand Cross Hail To Reason Cosmah Northern Dancer Fast Line

Sadler’s Wells Galileo

2nd Dam: IRRESISTIBLE by Cadeaux Genereux. 3 wins 2-3, Kilvington S LR, 2nd Brownstown S G3.

Dam of INFALLIBLE (f Pivotal: Nell Gwyn S G3, 2nd Coronation S G1, Falmouth S G1).

GOODWOOD. July 30. 2yo. 5f.

Age 2

2012: (c Lope de Vega) 2013: (f Dream Ahead)

Earned £87,390

Sire: NEW APPROACH. Sire of 8 SWs. In 2013 - DAWN APPROACH Phone Trick G1, TALENT Peintre Celebre G1, LIBERTARIAN Darshaan G2, CAP O’RUSHES Shirley Heights G3, MONTSEGUR Flying Spur G3.

1st Dam: WANA DOO by Grand Slam. 2 wins at 2 and 3 in France. Dam of 2 winners: 2005: Seventh Cloud (f Septieme Ciel) 2007: WAN (g Tagula) 4 wins over jumps 4-6, Gran Steeplechase di Roma G3.

2008: Wedding Dance (f Chichicastenango) ran on the flat in France.

2010: TORONADO (c High Chaparral) 33,712gns foal at ARDEC, 45,155gns yearling at ARAUG. 5 wins at 2 and 3, Sussex S G1, Champagne S G2, Craven S G3, Winkfield S LR, 2nd St James’s Palace S G1.

2011: (c Bahri) 2012: (f Lope de Vega) 2nd Dam: WEDDING GIFT by Always Fair. 2 wins in France Prix Saraca LR, 3rd Prix du Calvados G3, Prix Vanteaux G3. Dam of CASAMENTO (c Shamardal: Racing Post Trophy G1, 2nd Vincent O’Brien National S G1).

Broodmare Sire: GRAND SLAM. Sire of the dams of 12 Stakes winners. In 2013 - TORONADO High Chaparral G1, KITTEN’S DUMPLINGS Kitten’s Joy G2, SCATMAN Scat Daddy G3.

TORONADO b c 2010 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells

Fairy Bridge

HIGH CHAPARRAL b 99 Darshaan Kasora Kozana Grand Slam WANA DOO b 00 Wedding Gift

Gone West Bright Candles Always Fair Such Style

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Shirley Heights Delsy Kris Koblenza Mr Prospector Secrettame El Gran Senor Christmas Bonus Danzig Carduel Sassafras Regal Lady

Thanks to Toronado’s stylish defeat of Dawn Approach in the Sussex Stakes, the Racing Post handicappers promoted his rating to 130 – the best by a three-year-old in 2013. He is therefore a contender to end the year as champion three-year-old – a title which his family has attained before.

That was in 1968, when Vaguely Noble – a half-brother to Toronado’s fourth dam Regal Lady – achieved the magnificent Timeform rating of 140.

As a son of the unfashionable Vienna, Vaguely Noble was given no Classic engagements, which looked a tragedy when he won Ascot’s Sandwich Stakes by 12 lengths and the Observer Gold Cup by seven. He was then sold for 136,000gns – more than three times the previous record for a horse in training – and justified his price by decisively beating Sir Ivor in the Arc. Vaguely Noble then proved highly effective as a stallion, siring the extraordinary Dahlia, as well as winners of the Derby, Oaks and numerous other top international events – even a winner of the Sussex Stakes in Ace Of Aces.

Regal Lady did well too, producing the Gr2 Prix Hocquart winner Regency and the Oaks third Britannia’s Rule. Toronado’s third dam Such Style was stoutly bred, as her sire Sassafras won the Prix du Jockey-Club and the Arc and was awarded victory in the Prix Royal-Oak over nearly two miles. Such Style’s broodmare sire Relko had a similar record, as he won the Derby and the Prix Royal-Oak. Some speed was introduced when Such Style visited Always Fair. This son of Danzig had looked highly promising when he won his first three starts, including the Coventry Stakes and Acomb Stakes, but he ultimately won nothing more important than the Gr3 Prix Quincey. Always Fair sired 11 stakes winners from just over 300 foals. One of his stakes winners was Toronado’s second dam Wedding Gift, winner of a mile Listed race at two and fifth in the Prix de Diane. Wedding Gift also revived memories of Vaguely Noble when her son Casamento won the Racing Post Trophy. Toronado’s dam Wana Doo was by Grand Slam, another stallion with plenty of speed, and this filly was a mile winner at two, before scoring over 6.5 furlongs on Deauville’s all-weather track at three.

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Broodmare Sire: KYLLACHY. Sire of the dams of 3 Stakes winners. In 2013 - GARSWOOD Dutch Art G2, SAAYERR Acclamation G2.

206 VINTAGE S G2 GOODWOOD. July 31. 2yo. 7f.

1. TOORMORE (IRE) 9-0 £42,533 b c by Arakan - Danetime Out (Danetime) O-Middleham Racing IX, James Pak B-Bec Bloodstock TR-R Hannon 2. Outstrip (GB) 9-0 £16,125 gr c by Exceed And Excel - Asi Siempre (El Prado) O-Godolphin B-Darley TR-Charles Appleby 3. Parbold (IRE) 9-0 £8,070 b c by Dandy Man - Gala Style (Elnadim) O-DW Armstrong, Cheveley Park Stud B-Tony Cosgrave TR-Richard Fahey Margins Neck, 1.5. Time 1:27.57 (slow 3.27).

Going Good to soft.

Age 2

Starts 2

Wins 2

Places 0

1st Dam: Danetime Out by Danetime. unraced. Dam of 2 winners: 2008: TRY THE CHANCE (g Majestic Missile) 3 wins at 2 and 3.

2009: Cmonbabylitemyfire (f Piccolo) unraced.

2010: Captain Cruz (c Captain Marvelous) 2011: TOORMORE (c Arakan) Sold 34,285gns yearling at DNPRM. 2 wins at 2, Vintage S G2.

2012: (c Dark Angel) 2013: (f Arcano) 2nd Dam: MATILA by Persian Bold. 1 win at 3. Dam of Easaar (c Machiavellian: 2nd Dubai Duty Free G3) Broodmare Sire: DANETIME. Sire of the dams of 6 Stakes winners. In 2013 - TOORMORE Arakan G2, LADIES ARE FOREVER Monsieur Bond G3.

TOORMORE b c 2011 Nearctic Natalma Forli Special Thong Kris Common Grounds Sweetly Ardross City Ex Rythmique Danzig Danehill Razyana Lear Fan Allegheny River Allesheny Bold Lad Persian Bold Relkarunner Dominion Peace Girl Olderfleet Northern Dancer Nureyev ARAKAN br 00 Far Across

Danetime DANETIME OUT b 03 Matila

207 RICHMOND S G2 GOODWOOD. August 1. 2yoc&g. 6f.

1. SAAYERR (GB) 9-0 £42,533 b c by Acclamation - Adorn (Kyllachy) O-Sheikh Ahmed Al Maktoum B-Cheveley Park Stud TR-William Haggas 2. Cable Bay (IRE) 9-0 £16,125 b c by Invincible Spirit - Rose de France (Diktat) O-Julie Martin, David R Martin & Partner B-Irish National Stud TR-Charles Hills 3. Thunder Strike (GB) 9-0 £8,070 ch c by Sakhee’s Secret - Trump Street (First Trump) O-Mohamed Saeed Al Shahi B-Southill Stud TR-R Hannon Margins Neck, 2.25. Time 1:10.14 (slow 0.64).

Going Good.

Age 2

Starts 4

Wins 3

Places 0

Waajib

Earned £49,649

Sire: ACCLAMATION. Sire of 21 Stakes winners. In 2013 - SAAYERR Kyllachy G2, HITCHENS Royal Academy G3.

1st Dam: ADORN by Kyllachy. Winner at 2. Dam of 1 winner: 2011: SAAYERR (c Acclamation) Sold 90,000gns yearling at TAOC2. 3 wins at 2, Richmond S G2.

2012: (c Exceed And Excel) 2013: (c Bahamian Bounty) 2nd Dam: Red Tiara by Mr Prospector. Dam of RED DIADEM (f Pivotal: Daisycutter H LR)

Flying Melody

ACCLAMATION b 99 Ahonoora Princess Athena Shopping Wise Kyllachy ADORN b 06 Red Tiara

Pivotal Pretty Poppy Mr Prospector Heart of Joy

Earned £46,738

Sire: ARAKAN. Sire of 4 Stakes winners. In 2013 TOORMORE Danetime G2, TRUMPET MAJOR Cape Cross G2.

GOODWOOD. August 1. 3yo+f&m. 14f.

SAAYERR b c 2011 Royal Applause

Try My Best Coryana Auction Ring Whispering Star Lorenzaccio Helen Nichols Floribunda Sea Melody Polar Falcon Fearless Revival Song Moonlight Serenade Raise A Native Gold Digger Lypheor Mythographer

208 GOODWOOD CUP G2 GOODWOOD. August 1. 3yo+. 16f.

1. BROWN PANTHER (GB) 5 9-7 £56,710 b h by Shirocco - Treble Heights (Unfuwain) O-A Black, M Owen B-Owen Promotions Ltd TR-Tom Dascombe 2. Ahzeemah (IRE) 4 9-7 £21,500 b g by Dubawi - Swiss Roll (Entrepreneur) O-Godolphin B-G O’Brien TR-Saeed bin Suroor 3. Altano (GER) 7 9-7 £10,760 b g by Galileo - Alanda (Lando) O-Frau Dr I Hornig B-Gestut Ittlingen TR-Luca Cumani Margins 3.5, 0.75. Time 3:22.79 (slow 1.79).

Going Good.

Age 2-5

Starts 16

209 LILLIE LANGTRY S G3

Wins 7

Places 6

Earned £316,284

Sire: SHIROCCO. Sire of 11 Stakes winners. In 2013 - BROWN PANTHER Unfuwain G2, ABU SIDRA Smadoun G3, WILD COCO Sternkoenig G3.

1st Dam: TREBLE HEIGHTS by Unfuwain. 2 wins at 3 and 4, Aphrodite S LR, 2nd Prix de Pomone G2.

Dam of 4 winners: 2005: HOLOKO HEIGHTS (g Pivotal) 6 wins.

2006: PADDY PARTRIDGE (g Pivotal) 3 wins over hurdles at 4 and 6.

2007: Hot Head (g Selkirk) ran twice in NH Flat races and ran once over hurdles.

2008: BROWN PANTHER (c Shirocco) 1,428gns yearling at ASDEC. 7 wins at 2 to 5, 2013, Goodwood Cup G2, Pontefract Castle S LR (twice), 2nd St Leger S G1, Geoffrey Freer S G3 (twice), 3rd Irish St Leger G1.

2009: THIRD HALF (g Haafhd) 3 wins.

2010: Bomber Thorn (c Manduro) 2012: (c Shirocco) 2nd Dam: Height of Passion by Shirley Heights. Ran 3 times. Dam of TREBLE HEIGHTS (f Unfuwain, see above), Warm Feeling (c Kalaglow: 2nd John Porter S G3, Ormonde EBF S G3, 3rd Ascot Gold Cup G1), Tron (c Chief Singer: 3rd Alexander Rennen-Valentin Seibert Mem LR, Jean Harzheim Rennen LR), Rainbow Heights (c Rainbow Quest: 3rd Dee S LR), Precede (g Polish Precedent: 2nd Stardom S LR, 2nd Gran Criterium G1, 3rd Derby Italiano G1).

1. WILD COCO (GER) 5 9-5 £34,026 ch m by Shirocco - Wild Side (Sternkoenig) O-KI Farm Corporation B-Gestut Rottgen TR-Lady Cecil 2. Elik (IRE) 3 8-6 £12,900 b f by Dalakhani - Elopa (Tiger Hill) O-Nurlan Bizakov B-Frau N Bscher TR-Sir Michael Stoute 3. Alta Lilea (IRE) 3 8-6 £6,456 b f by Galileo - In My Life (Rainbow Quest) O-Mrs S Bianco, Ms J Bianco B-Rockhart Trading Ltd TR-Mark Johnston Margins 2.5, 1.75. Time 2:59.00 (slow 0.50).

Going Good.

Age 3-5

BROWN PANTHER b h 2008 Dschingis Khan Konigskronung Surumu Mosella Monasia SHIROCCO b 01 Northern Dancer The Minstrel Fleur So Sedulous Tap On Wood Sedulous Pendulina Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Unfuwain Bustino Height of Fashion Highclere TREBLE HEIGHTS b 99 Mill Reef Shirley Heights Hardiemma Height of Passion Fidalgo Maladie d’Amour Marie d’Ecosse Konigsstuhl

Monsun

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Wins 5

Places 1

1st Dam: WILD SIDE by Sternkoenig. 4 wins at 3 in Germany, Europachampionat G2. Dam of 6 winners: 2003: WINGS OF NIGHT (g Night Shift) 2 wins at 4 and 5 in Germany.

2004: Wendel (g Definite Article) 4 wins, 2nd Kelso Novices’ Hurdle G2.

2006: WEIPERT (c Platini) Winner at 3 in France.

2008: WILD COCO (f Shirocco) Sold 60,000gns yearling at TAOC1, 985,000gns 4yo at TADEM. 5 wins at 3 to 5, Park Hill S G2, Lillie Langtry S G3 (twice), Aphrodite S LR. 2009: Wilddrossel (f Dalakhani) Winner at 3 in Germany, 3rd Gerling Preis G2.

2010: WILD SILVA (f Silvano) Winner at 3 in Germany.

2011: Weltmacht (f Mount Nelson) unraced to date.

2012: Wild Motion (f Motivator) 2nd Dam: WILD ROMANCE by Alkalde. Champion 2yr old filly in Germany in 1993. 3 wins 2-3, Preis von Koln LR, 3rd Deutscher Buchmacher Stutenpreis Neuss G3. Dam of WILD SIDE (f Sternkoenig, see above), WIN FOR US (f Surumu: Deutsches St Leger G2), WHITE ROSE (f Platini: Prix Miesque G3, 2nd Preis der Diana G1). Grandam of WIN FOR SURE, PATH WIND, WHY NOT, PROMESSE DE L’AUBE, Champagnelifestyle.

Broodmare Sire: STERNKOENIG. Sire of the dams of 8 Stakes winners. In 2013 - IVANHOWE Soldier Hollow G2, WILD COCO Shirocco G3.

WILD COCO ch m 2008 Dschingis Khan Konigskronung Surumu Mosella Monasia Northern Dancer The Minstrel Fleur Tap On Wood Sedulous Pendulina Kalamoun Kalaglow Rossitor Wauthi Sternwappen Sternwacht Konigsstuhl Alkalde Astra Ela-Mana-Mou Win Hands Down Waitotara Konigsstuhl Monsun SHIROCCO b 01 So Sedulous

Sternkoenig WILD SIDE gr 97 Wild Romance

210 OAK TREE S G3 GOODWOOD. August 2. 3yo+f&m. 7f.

1. ANNECDOTE (GB) 3 8-10 £34,026 b f by Lucky Story - May Fox (Zilzal) O-Tom Edwards & Partners B-Mrs R Pease TR-Jonathan Portman 2. Winning Express (IRE) 3 8-10 £12,900 gr f by Camacho - Lady Fabiola (Open Forum) O-Milton Express Ltd B-Yeomanstown Stud TR-Ed McMahon 3. Instance (GB) 5 9-2 £6,456 b m by Invincible Spirit - Hannda (Dr Devious) O-William Vestey B-TRG Vestey TR-Jeremy Noseda Margins 0.75, 0.5. Time 1:25.33 (slow 1.03).

Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 10

Wins 5

Places 4

1st Dam: May Fox by Zilzal. unraced. Dam of 2 winners: 2007: MEGLIO ANCORA (g Best of The Bests) 3 wins at 2 and 5.

2009: (f Sakhee) 2010: ANNECDOTE (f Lucky Story) Sold 952gns yearling at ASDE1. 5 wins at 2 and 3, Oak Tree S G3, Sandringham H LR. 2012: (c Aussie Rules) 2013: (f Black Sam Bellamy) Broodmare Sire: ZILZAL. Sire of the dams of 30 SWs. In 2013 - ANNECDOTE Lucky Story G3.

ANNECDOTE b f 2010

Earned £137,845

Sire: SHIROCCO. Sire of 11 Stakes winners. In 2013 - BROWN PANTHER Unfuwain G2, ABU SIDRA Smadoun G3, WILD COCO Sternkoenig G3.

Broodmare Sire: UNFUWAIN. Sire of the dams of 37 Stakes winners. In 2013 - BROWN PANTHER Shirocco G2.

The Shirocco/Unfuwain cross has produced: BROWN PANTHER G1, Shirocco Star G1.

Starts 8

Sire: LUCKY STORY. Sire of 7 Stakes winners. In 2013 - LUCKY KRISTALE Pivotal G2, ANNECDOTE Zilzal G3, ARPINATI Benny The Dip G3.

Earned £93,127

Hail To Reason Bramalea Princequillo Bridgework Mr Prospector Miswaki Hopespringseternal Coco La Terreur Coco La Investment Great Investment Northern Dancer Nureyev Special Le Fabuleux French Charmer Bold Example Midyan Alhijaz Nawara French Friend Fox Oa Foxinette Roberto

Kris S

Sharp Queen

LUCKY STORY b 01 Spring Flight

Zilzal MAY FOX ch 03 Folly Fox

211 GLORIOUS S G3 GOODWOOD. August 2. 4yo+. 12f.

1. FORGOTTEN VOICE (IRE) 8 9-0 £34,026 b g by Danehill Dancer - Asnieres (Spend A Buck) O-Mrs Susan Roy B-Swettenham Sud, Ben Sangster TR-NJ Henderson 2. Lost In The Moment (IRE) 6 9-0 £12,900 b h by Danehill Dancer - Streetcar (In The Wings) O-Godolphin B-Rockhart Trading Ltd TR-Saeed bin Suroor 3. Sheikhzayedroad (GB) 4 9-0 £6,456 b g by Dubawi - Royal Secrets (Highest Honor) O-Mohammed Jaber B-Rabbah Bloodstock TR-David Simcock Margins 0.5, 1.5. Time 2:36.95 (slow 2.95).

Going Good.

Age 2-8

Starts 22

Wins 9

Places 6

Earned £251,685

Sire: DANEHILL DANCER. Sire of 151 Stakes winners. In 2013 - DUNTLE Lord At War G2, HILLSTAR Mark of Esteem G2, STEPS IN TIME O’Reilly G2, ESOTERIQUE Dancing Brave G3, FORGOTTEN VOICE Spend A Buck G3.

1st Dam: ASNIERES by Spend A Buck. Winner at 4 in France. Dam of 9 winners: 1997: AMBITIOUS (c Rahy) Winner at 3.

1998: Norwegian Princess (f Fairy King) Dam of PRIVATE JET (Criterium de Lyon LR, 2nd Prix Thomas Bryon G3), PRINCEDARGENT (Prix Marchand d’Or LR, 2nd Prix de Ris-Orangis G3).

1999: Keepers Hill (f Danehill) 2 wins, 2nd Marble Hill S LR. 2001: AUSTRALIE (f Sadler’s Wells) 4 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix de Flore G3.

2002: Source of Life (f Fasliyev) unraced.

2003: ANTIBES (f Grand Lodge) Winner at 3.

2004: GRAND ARCHER (g Grand Lodge) 5 wins at 4 and 8 in France, Germany.

2005: FORGOTTEN VOICE (g Danehill Dancer) Sold 230,000gns yearling at TAOC1.

9 wins, Glorious S G3, Wolferton H LR, 2nd Al Maktoum Chall 1 G3, 3rd Joel S G3, Dovecote Novices’ Hurdle G2, 2nd Top Novices’ Hurdle G2.

2007: BIG OCCASION (g Sadler’s Wells) 5 wins, Midlands Grand National H. Chase LR, 2nd Scottish Grand National H Chase G3.

2008: COSTA NOSTRA (g Encosta de Lago) Winner at 3 in Greece.

2009: Attire (f Danehill Dancer) 2010: ARDINGLY (f Danehill Dancer) Winner at 3.

2nd Dam: Albertine by Irish River. 2 wins at 3 in France, 3rd Prix de l’Opera G2. Dam of ARCANGUES (c Sagace: Prix d’Ispahan G1, Breeders’ Cup Classic

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G1, 2nd Prix d’Ispahan G1), AGATHE (f Manila: Prix de Psyche G3, 2nd Poule d’Essai des Pouliches G1, 3rd Prix de Diane G1), ALAMO BAY (c Nureyev: Prix du Pin LR, Prix Phil Drake LR, 2nd Prix de la Porte Maillot G3), Azay Le Rideau (g Miswaki: 2nd Prix de Saint Patrick LR). Grandam of ARTISTE ROYAL, AQUARELLISTE, ANGARA, CAPE VERDI, ACTRICE, GALATEE, L’AFRICAIN BLEU, ANNENKOV, ARLESIENNE, ANNA’S ROCK, Sugar Mint, Aniseed, Arme Ancienne. Third dam of GENRE, AQUAMARINE, AIZAVOSKI, DAME CLAIRE, GATERIE. Broodmare Sire: SPEND A BUCK. Sire of the dams of 38 Stakes winners. In 2013 - FORGOTTEN VOICE Danehill Dancer G3.

MOVIESTA b g 2010 Nearctic Natalma Danzig Admiral’s Voyage Pas de Nom Petitioner HARD SPUN b 04 Alydar Turkoman Taba Turkish Tryst Roberto Darbyvail Luiana Bold Reasoning Seattle Slew My Charmer A P Indy Secretariat Weekend Surprise Lassie Dear MISS BRICKYARD b/br 98 Lord Gaylord Lord Avie Avie Magical Maiden Magesterial Gils Magic Display Copy Northern Dancer

FORGOTTEN VOICE b g 2005 Danzig Danehill

Razyana

DANEHILL DANCER b 93 Sharpen Up Mira Adonde Lettre d’Amour Spend A Buck ASNIERES b 92 Albertine

Buckaroo Belle de Jour Irish River Almyre

213 THOROUGHBRED S G3 Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Atan Rocchetta Caro Lianga Buckpasser Stepping High Speak John Battle Dress Riverman Irish Star Wild Risk Ad Gloriam

212 KING GEORGE S G2 GOODWOOD. August 2. 3yo+. 5f.

1. MOVIESTA (USA) 3 8-12 £56,710 b g by Hard Spun - Miss Brickyard (A P Indy) O-Redknapp, Salthouse, Fiddes B-John D Gunther TR-Bryan Smart 2. Swiss Spirit (GB) 4 9-1 £21,500 b c by Invincible Spirit - Swiss Lake (Indian Ridge) O/B-Lordship Stud TR-John Gosden 3. Justineo (GB) 4 9-1 £10,760 b c by Oasis Dream - Loulwa (Montjeu) O-Saleh Al Homaizi, Imad Al Sagar B-Saleh Al Homaizi, Imad Al Sagar TR-Roger Varian Margins 1.5, head. Time 0:56.72 (fast 0.28).

Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 9

Wins 4

Places 4

Earned £114,821

Sire: HARD SPUN. Sire of 20 Stakes winners. In 2013 - MOVIESTA A P Indy G2, HARD NOT TO LIKE Tactical Cat G3, CRYSTAL WEB Snippets LR, NOW SPUN A P Indy LR, ROYAL HAUNT King’s Best LR, WESTERN BLAZE Marooned LR. 1st Dam: MISS BRICKYARD by A P Indy. Winner at 4 in USA. Dam of 3 winners: 2004: War Baby (f Belong To Me) Unplaced in USA. 2005: Brickyard Gal (f Proud Citizen) Unplaced in USA. 2006: Ayrus (c Dixie Union) 2007: BRICKLAYER (c El Corredor) Winner at 2 in USA. 2008: GOODTIMEHADBYALL (g Quiet American) 4 wins at 2 and 3 in USA. 2009: Sea Butterfly (c Henny Hughes) Unplaced in Singapore.

2010: MOVIESTA (g Hard Spun) Sold 44,000gns 2yo at TAAPR. 4 wins at 2 and 3, King George S G2.

2012: (f Warrior’s Reward) 2nd Dam: MAGICAL MAIDEN by Lord Avie. 8 wins at 2 to 5 in USA Hollywood Starlet S G1, Las Virgenes S G1, 2nd Santa Anita Oaks G1, 3rd Breeders’ Cup Distaff G1. Dam of MISS HOUDINI (f Belong To Me: Del Mar Debutante S G1). Grandam of PAPA CLEM, Magical Victory, Jomelo.

Broodmare Sire: A P INDY. Sire of the dams of 75 Stakes winners. In 2013 - CENTRE COURT Smart Strike G1, ROYAL DELTA Empire Maker G1, CHIEF HAVOC Giant’s Causeway G2, MORENO Ghostzapper G2, MOVIESTA Hard Spun G2, OPEN WATER Include G2, REVOLUTIONARY War Pass G2, CAMEO Shamardal G3, OPTIMIZER English Channel G3.

The Hard Spun/A P Indy cross has produced: MOVIESTA G2, NOW SPUN LR.

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GOODWOOD. August 2. 3yo. 8f.

1. MONTIRIDGE (IRE) 9-0 £34,026 b c by Ramonti - Elegant Ridge (Indian Ridge) O-M Clarke, J Jeffries, R Ambrose, B Reilly B-Century Bloodstock TR-R Hannon 2. Tawhid (GB) 9-0 £12,900 gr c by Invincible Spirit - Snowdrops (Gulch) O-Godolphin B-West Lodge Stud TR-Saeed bin Suroor 3. Snowboarder (USA) 9-0 £6,456 ch c by Raven’s Pass - Gaudete (Distorted Humor) O-Godolphin B-Fares Farm Inc TR-C Appleby Margins 1.25, 2.25. Time 1:37.37 (slow 0.37).

Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 8

Wins 5

Places 3

Earned £115,164

Sire: RAMONTI. Sire of 1 Stakes winners. In 2013 MONTIRIDGE Indian Ridge G3.

1st Dam: Elegant Ridge by Indian Ridge. 4 wins at 3, 5 and 6 in Germany, USA, 2nd Henkel Rennen (1000 Guineas) G2, Buena Vista H G2. Dam of 2 winners: 2003: Midnight Pearl (f Woodman) 2004: Zuluburg (g Johannesburg) unraced.

2005: WOODWARD PARK (g High Yield) 3 wins at 3 and 4 in USA. 2006: Mountain Ridge (c Gulch) Unplaced.

2007: Papa Toy (g Cape Cross) unraced.

2008: Elridge (c Iffraaj) ran on the flat in Germany.

2010: MONTIRIDGE (c Ramonti) Sold 8,209gns yearling at GOFEB, 52,380gns yearling at DNPRM. 5 wins at 2 and 3, Thoroughbred S G3, Heron S LR, Stubbs S LR, 2nd Jersey S G3, Autumn S G3, 3rd Royal Windsor S LR. 2012: (f Fast Company) 2nd Dam: ELEGANT BLOOM by Be My Guest. 1 win at 2. Own sister to Fly A Kite. Dam of ROLO TOMASI (g Mujtahid: Waterford Testimonial S LR, Prix Servanne LR, Sydsvenskan Jagersro Sprint LR, Zawawi Baltic Cup LR, Polar Million Cup LR), Elegant Ridge (f Indian Ridge, see above), Summer Sunset (f Grand Lodge: 3rd Silver Flash S LR, Flame of Tara S LR). Grandam of BLACK ELEGANCE, Favourite Girl.

Broodmare Sire: INDIAN RIDGE. Sire of the dams of 67 Stakes winners. In 2013 - KINGSGATE NATIVE Mujadil G2, MONTIRIDGE Ramonti G3, MULL OF KILLOUGH Mull of Kintyre G3, ROMANTIC WAVE Rock of Gibraltar G3.

MONTIRIDGE b c 2010 Marju Martino Alonso

Cheerful Note

RAMONTI b 02 El Gran Senor Fosca La Locandiera Indian Ridge ELEGANT RIDGE b 95 Elegant Bloom

Ahonoora Hillbrow Be My Guest Honey Bend

Last Tycoon Flame of Tara Cure The Blues Strident Note Northern Dancer Sex Appeal Alleged Moon Ingraver Lorenzaccio Helen Nichols Swing Easy Golden City Northern Dancer What A Treat Never Bend Honey Lake

214 NASSAU S G1 GOODWOOD. August 3. 3yo+f&m. 9f 192yds.

1. WINSILI (GB) 3 8-11 £113,420 b f by Dansili - Winter Sunrise (Pivotal) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-John Gosden

2. Thistle Bird (GB) 5 9-6 £43,000 b m by Selkirk - Dolma (Marchand de Sable) O-Lady Rothschild B-Lord Rothschild TR-Roger Charlton 3. Hot Snap (GB) 3 8-11 £21,520 ch f by Pivotal - Midsummer (Kingmambo) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-Lady Cecil Margins Neck, 2. Time 2:06.19 (slow 2.19).

Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 5

Wins 3

Places 2

Earned £149,859

Sire: DANSILI. Sire of 84 Stakes winners. In 2013 FLINTSHIRE Sadler’s Wells G1, FORETELLER Warning G1, LAUGHING Be My Chief G1, WINSILI Pivotal G1, DANK Darshaan G2, RIPOSTE Rainbow Quest G2, THOMAS CHIPPENDALE Sadler’s Wells G2, REMOTE Zamindar G3.

1st Dam: WINTER SUNRISE by Pivotal. 2 wins at 3.

Dam of 1 winner: 2010: WINSILI (f Dansili) 3 wins at 2 and 3, Nassau S G1, Swettenham Stud Fillies’ Trial S LR. 2011: Padma (f Three Valleys) unraced to date.

2012: (c Oasis Dream) 2013: (f Dansili) 2nd Dam: Winter Solstice by Unfuwain. 1 win at 2 in France, 2nd Prix d’Aumale G3. Dam of ICE BLUE (g Dansili: Prix Greffulhe G2) Broodmare Sire: PIVOTAL. Sire of the dams of 20 Stakes winners. In 2013 - WINSILI Dansili G1, GOOD OLD BOY LUKEY Selkirk G2, LUCKY KRISTALE Lucky Story G2, AYAHUASCA Johar G3, BANK OF BURDEN Hawk Wing G3, CHARLIE EM Kheleyf G3, FLYING THE FLAG Galileo G3.

The Dansili/Pivotal cross has produced: FIRE LILY G1, WINSILI G1.

WINSILI b f 2010 Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Razyana Spring Adieu Ile de Bourbon Kahyasi Kadissya High Line Kerali Sookera Nureyev Polar Falcon Marie d’Argonne Cozzene Fearless Revival Stufida Northern Dancer Unfuwain Height of Fashion Rainbow Quest Hunt The Sun Suntrap Danzig

Danehill DANSILI b 96 Hasili

Pivotal WINTER SUNRISE b 04 Winter Solstice

Likened by her trainer John Gosden to the Road Runner of cartoon fame, Winsili channelled her energies well enough to record a surprise victory in the Nassau Stakes.

She comes from a female line which has served Juddmonte Farms very well since Winsili’s fifth dam Sunny Bay was purchased for $430,000 in 1982. Sunny Bay’s Group-placed Roberto filly Suntrap became a regular visitor to Rainbow Quest and her five foals by the Banstead Manor Stud stallion featured the brothers Raintrap and Sunshack, winners of the Prix Royal-Oak in 1993 and 1995 respectively. Their sister Summer Breeze was also of Group standard and she became the dam of Derby fourth Doctor Fremantle and second dam of the smart Starboard.

Another sister, Winsili’s third dam Hunt The Sun, failed to win in four attempts. However, there was never a question of Hunt The Sun being sold and she proved a fine replacement for her dam, who died aged 11 soon after the filly’s retirement.

For example, Hunt The Sun enjoyed a magnificent time in March 2004.

Her third foal, the Bigstone horse

Meteor Storm, took the Gr2 San Luis Rey Handicap and then her first foal, Polish Precedent’s son Polish Summer, picked up a very valuable prize in the Gr1 Dubai Sheema Classic. Meteor Storm also enjoyed Gr1 success, in the Manhattan Handicap, and Hunt The Sun altogether produced three Group winners, a Listed winner and two black-type fillies.

One of those black-type fillies, Winter Solstice, produced Winsili’s close relative Ice Blue, whose temperament got the better of him after he’d won the Gr2 Prix Greffulhe.

Winsili is the first foal of Winter Sunrise, who inherited stamina from her female line rather than speed from her sire Pivotal. She started favourite when fifth in the Galtres Stakes, having won over a mile and a quarter on her first two starts.

215 PRIX MAURICE DE GHEEST G1 DEAUVILLE. August 4. 3yo+. 1300m.

1. MOONLIGHT CLOUD (GB) 5 8-13 £162,594 b m by Invincible Spirit - Ventura (Spectrum) O/B-George Strawbridge TR-F Head 2. Lethal Force (IRE) 4 9-2 £65,049 gr c by Dark Angel - Land Army (Desert Style) O-Alan Craddock B-Declan Johnson TR-Clive Cox 3. Gordon Lord Byron (IRE) 5 9-2 £32,524 b g by Byron - Boa Estrela (Intikhab) O-Dr Cyrus Poonawalla, Morgan J Cahalan B-Roland H Alder TR-T Hogan Margins 1.75, 0.75. Time 1:14.33. Going Good to soft.

Sire: INVINCIBLE SPIRIT. Sire of 66 Stakes winners.

In 2013 - MOONLIGHT CLOUD Spectrum G1, SPIRIT QUARTZ Rainbow Quest G2, SPIRIT SONG Kingston Rule G2, RAWAAQ Silver Hawk G3, TICKLED PINK Indian Ridge G3.

1st Dam: Ventura by Spectrum. 2 wins at 3, 3rd Carlsberg Ruby S LR. Dam of 4 winners: 2003: CEDAR MOUNTAIN (c Galileo) 3 wins 4-5, Round Table H LR, 2nd Sunset H G2.

2004: Sarafsa (f Selkirk) unraced.

2005: LAKUTA (f Pivotal) 2 wins at 4 in France.

2007: EXTREME GREEN (f Motivator) Winner at 3 in Slovakia.

2008: MOONLIGHT CLOUD (f Invincible Spirit). 10 wins 2-5, Prix du Moulin de Longchamp G1, Prix Maurice de Gheest G1 (3 times), Prix de la Porte Maillot G3 (twice), Prix du Palais Royal G3, Prix Imprudence G3, 2nd Diamond Jubilee S G1, Prix du Palais Royal G3.

2010: Satin Box (f Manduro) unraced to date.

2011: When In Doubt (f Montjeu) unraced to date.

2012: (f Makfi) 2nd Dam: WEDDING BOUQUET by Kings Lake. 6 wins 2-4, C L Weld Park S G3, Monrovia H G3, 2nd National S G1, 3rd Phoenix S G1. Dam of Ventura (f Spectrum, see above), IRISH LEGEND (g Sadler’s Wells: Silver H Hurdle LR). Grandam of PROBABLY, BRUGES. Third dam of TALWAR, HAWAAFEZ. Broodmare Sire: SPECTRUM. Sire of the dams of 24 Stakes winners. In 2013 - MOONLIGHT CLOUD Invincible Spirit G1, SANGSTER Savabeel G1, TELLINA Silvano G2.

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Caulfield on Winsili: “The Nassau winner comes from a female line which has served Juddmonte Farms very well since her fifth dam Sunny Bay was purchased for $430,000 in 1982”

Goldikova earned plaudits for winning three consecutive Prix Rothschilds.

Now another of Freddy Head’s mares, Moonlight Cloud, has won three consecutive editions of another of Deauville’s Gr1s, the Maurice de Gheest, and her achievement is arguably more meritorious as she had to defeat male opponents.

Moonlight Cloud continues to highlight the merits of Invincible Spirit, who is again doing well with the sprinters Swiss Spirit, Spirit Quartz and Tickled Pink, as well as smart middledistance gelding Ektihaam.

Ektihaam is a reminder that some of Invincible Spirit’s progeny stay much better than he did, no doubt helped by the fact Invincible Spirit’s dam Rafha won the Prix de Diane.

Moonlight Cloud is enormously valuable as a potential broodmare, as her third dam is the celebrated Doff The Derby, a daughter of the similarly celebrated Margarethen.

Margarethen’s name has cropped up again in 2013, as the fifth dam of the exciting Prix de Diane winner Treve.

Moonlight Cloud’s dam Ventura was a Listed-placed winner over a mile, sired by Spectrum, winner of the Champion Stakes. Ventura was sold for 500,000gns at the end of her racing career. It dropped to 58,000gns when George Strawbridge sold her in 2009 but Moonlight Cloud’s exploits at two restored Ventura’s price to 260,000gns a year later. Moonlight Cloud’s Gr1 victory at three prompted another visit to the sales ring for Ventura in 2011, when she sold for 900,000gns to M.V. Magnier.

Ventura’s half-sister Maddelina is the second dam of the smart middledistance stayer Hawaafez, while another half-sister, Wedding Morn, produced 2012 juvenile Gr2 winner Probably. Their dam Wedding Bouquet was a three-parts-sister to Generous, as well as sharing the same dam as Oaks winner Imagine. But Wedding Bouquet’s sire Kings Lake was much quicker than Generous’s sire Caerleon and Wedding Bouquet won the Gr3 Monrovia Handicap over 6.5 furlongs.

Ventura’s previous stakes winner,

Cedar Mountain, scored over a mile and six furlongs, but he was by Galileo.

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216 PRIX DE REUX G3

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DEAUVILLE. August 4. 3yo+. 2500m.

1. TRES BLUE (IRE) 3 8-11 £32,520 b c by Anabaa Blue - Tres Ravi (Monsun) O-H Rapp B-Chevotel De La Hauquerie TR-H-A Pantall 2. Montclair (IRE) 3 8-7 £13,008 b c by Montjeu - Minaccia (Platini) O-OTI Mgmt B-Elisabeth Fabre TR-A Fabre 3. First Mohican (GB) 5 9-5 £9,756 ch g by Tobougg - Mohican Girl (Dancing Brave) O-WH Ponsonby B-Bottisham Heath Stud TR-Lady Cecil Margins 0.75, short neck. Time 2:40.14.

Going Good to soft.

Age 2-3

Starts 9

Wins 3

Places 3

Earned £165,484

Sire: ANABAA BLUE. Sire of 7 Stakes winners. In 2013 - TRES BLUE Monsun G3.

1st Dam: Tres Ravi by Monsun. Winner at 3 in Germany, 2nd Prix de la Nonette G3, Deutscher Herold-Preis G3. Dam of 6 winners: 2002: Tres Preneur (c Entrepreneur) unraced.

2003: TRES BRAVE (c Fasliyev) Winner at 2 in France.

2004: TRES FINE (f Kutub) Winner at 3 in France.

2005: Tres Rapide (f Anabaa Blue) 2 wins at 3 in France, 2nd Prix de Royallieu G2, Grosser Preis der Badischen Unternehmen G2.

2006: TRES ROCK DANON (c Rock of Gibraltar).

7 wins 3-6, Grosser Ehrmann Steher Cup G3 (twice), Rossmann Rennen - Langer Hamburger G3, 2nd Prix du Cadran G1.

2007: Tres American Girl (f American Post) 2008: Tres Americanqueen (f American Post).

2009: TRES DANCE (f Sinndar) Winner at 3 in France.

2010: TRES BLUE (c Anabaa Blue) Sold 27,000gns foal at TADEF. 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix de Reux G3, Coupe des Trois Ans LR, 2nd Deutsches Derby G1, 3rd Prix du Lys G3.

2011: Duke of France (c Duke of Marmalade) unraced to date.

Monsun TRES RAVI br 97 Tres Magnifique

Konigsstuhl Mosella Gay Fandango Toscadora

G2), MISS ISELLA (f Silver Charm: Falls City H G2, Fleur de Lis H G2, Louisville Distaff S G2, 2nd Go For Wand H G1), GUAM TYPHOON (c Distorted Humor: Changing Times S LR, Senator Robert C Byrd Memorial H LR), Lady Linda (f Torrential, see above).

Grandam of Abraham.

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Gay Mecene Bamieres Never Bend River Lady Lombard Anatevka Dschingis Khan Konigskronung Surumu Monasia Forli Gay Violin Orsini Tosca Bella

Broodmare Sire: TORRENTIAL. Sire of the dams of 4 Stakes winners. In 2013 - PENELOPA Giant’s Causeway G1, BERLINO DI TIGER Tiger Heart G3.

PENELOPA b f 2010 Storm Bird Storm Cat

Rahy

217 PREIS DER DIANA G1

Mariah’s Storm Immense

DUSSELDORF. August 4. 3yof. 2200m.

1. PENELOPA (GB) 9-2 £186,992 b f by Giant’s Causeway - Lady Linda (Torrential) O/B-Litex Commerce Ad TR-MG Mintchev 2. Secret Gesture (GB) 9-2 £73,171 b f by Galileo - Shastye (Danehill) O-Qatar Racing Ltd, Newsells Park Stud B-Newsells Park Stud TR-Ralph Beckett 3. Adoya (GER) 9-2 £36,585 b f by Doyen - Akasha (Dashing Blade) O-Stall Waldecker B-Frau Doris & Dr Harald Mitze TR-Andreas Lowe Margins 0.75, neck. Time 2:13.53. Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 5

Wins 2

Places 2

Earned £201,027

Sire: GIANT’S CAUSEWAY. Sire of 119 Stakes winners. In 2013 - BLUERIDGE MOUNTAIN Distant View G1, PENELOPA Torrential G1, BOOK REVIEW Distorted Humor G2, CHIEF HAVOC A P Indy G2, DALKALA Anabaa G2, FED BIZ Wild Again G2, GIANT’S STEPS Hennessy G2, TABLEAUX Hansel G2, CIAO BELLA French Deputy G3, JUST PRETENDING Mr Prospector G3, WINNING CAUSE Kingmambo G3.

Broodmare Sire: MONSUN. Sire of the dams of 26 Stakes winners. In 2013 - LUCKY SPEED Silvano G1, PASTORIUS Soldier Hollow G1, DON BOSCO Barathea G2, TRES BLUE Anabaa Blue G3.

1st Dam: Lady Linda by Torrential. 7 wins at 3 to 6 in USA, 2nd All Along Breeders’ Cup S G3. Dam of 5 winners: 2005: LET IT GO LADY (f Cherokee Run) Winner at 3 in USA. 2006: SMOKIN’ CAT (c Tale of The Cat) 2 wins at 5 and 6 in USA. 2007: THREE DEGREES MON (f Maria’s Mon) Winner at 3 in USA. 2009: EVTALIA (f Exchange Rate) Winner at 4 in Germany.

2010: PENELOPA (f Giant’s Causeway) Sold 65,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 2 wins at 2 and 3 in Germany, Preis der Diana G1, 2nd Zukunfts Rennen G3, 3rd BMW Preis Dusseldorf LR. 2011: Ledena (f Pivotal) unraced to date.

2013: (c High Chaparral)

The Anabaa Blue/Monsun cross has produced: TRES BLUE G1, Tres Rapide G2.

2nd Dam: La Cucina by Last Tycoon. unraced. Dam of SIR CHEROKEE (c Cherokee Run: Arkansas Derby

2nd Dam: Tres Magnifique by Gay Fandango. 1 win at 2 in West Germany, 2nd Ludwig GoebelsErinnerungsrennen G3, 3rd ARAG SchwarzgoldRennen G2. Dam of TRES HEUREUX (c Konigsstuhl: GP von Dusseldorf Stadt Sparkasse G2), Tres Ravi (f Monsun, see above).

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Although he has been at Ashford Stud in Kentucky after only one season at Coolmore, Giant’s Causeway’s presence continues to be felt in Europe. His current crop of threeyear-olds includes Tableaux (Gr2 Prix Noailles and Gr2 Prix Hocquart), Just Pretending (Gr3 Derrinstown Stud 1000 Guineas Trial) and Penelopa.

This homebred filly stayed on too well for Oaks runner-up Secret Gesture to land the Preis der Diana.

Penelopa represents a quick return on $120,000 paid by her breeders, Litex Stud, for her dam Lady Linda.

She was sent to Giant’s Causeway and conceived Penelopa. The Diana winner was foaled in England for her Bulgarian owners, whose mares are at Britton House Stud, Somerset.

Lady Linda is by Mr Prospector’s grandson Torrential, who won the Gr1 Prix Jean Prat. Torrential wasn’t a success in the USA, though he sired good winners in Brazil. Penelopa’s dam Lady Linda was one of his better runners in the US, where she did all her winning on turf. This Gradedplaced mare gained all her black type at the ages of four, five and six, so there is every reason to expect Penelopa to continue to improve with age.

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DATA BOOK LISTINGS OF EVERY WORLDWIDE GROUP OR GRADED STAKES WINNER

Global Stakes Results Date Grade Argentina 03/08 G1 03/08 G1 29/06 G1 29/06 G1 29/06 G1 29/06 G1 29/06 G1 29/06 G1 01/08 G2 27/07 G2 25/07 G2 19/07 G2 14/07 G2 13/07 G2 04/07 G2 02/07 G2 28/07 G3 14/07 G3 12/07 G3 09/07 G3 08/07 G3 06/07 G3

Race

Dist

Horse

Gran Premio dos Mil Guineas Gran Premio Mil Guineas G.P.Estrellas Juv.Copa Sr. R.F.M.Lottero Gran Premio Estrellas Mile GP.Estrellas Classic Copa E.H.C.Cernadas G.P. Estrellas Juv-Copa Pedro C.Blaquier G. P. Estrellas Sprint - Revista Palermo G.P. Estrellas Distaff Hotel Presidente Clasico Polla de Potrancas Clasico Ignacio e Ignacio F Correas Clasico Polla de Potrillos Clasico Peru Clasico Chacabuco Clasico 9 de Julio-Anniv.Revista Palermo Clasico Isidoro Aramburu Clasico Miguel Luis Morales Clasico Eudoro J Balsa Clasico Old Man - Copa Revista Palermo Clasico Manuel J Guiraldes C. 9 de Julio dia de la Independencia Clasico Ines Victorica Roca Clasico Guillermo Paats

8.0f 8.0f 8.0f 8.0f 10.0f 8.0f 5.0f 10.0f 8.0f 12.5f 8.0f 9.0f 12.0f 8.0f 8.0f 8.0f 8.0f 7.0f 7.0f 8.0f 8.0f 5.0f

Koller (ARG) Juhayna (ARG) Got Talent (ARG) Johnny Guitar (ARG) Taifas (ARG) Juhayna (ARG) She's Happy (ARG) Miss Serendipity (ARG) Travelwell (ARG) Candy Marie (ARG) Mystery Train (ARG) Blue Snow (ARG) Soy Carambolo (ARG) Pataques (ARG) Bing Crosby (ARG) Travelwell (ARG) Infiltrada (ARG) Peten Itza (ARG) Norina (ARG) Furious Key (ARG) Personal Dot (ARG) Pedro Infante (ARG)

Alfredo Gaitan Dassie and Paraguayanborn jockey Eduardo Ortega Pavon dominated the last big meeting of the season, winning three of the six Grade 1s. That was only half of Ortega’s day, however, as he won another three of the 17 races. Taifas gave him his most important success, running on strongly to catch Girlie and Hagrid close home.

Although five, Taifas was a virtual unknown and started at 162-10. He ran once at two and three, and this was only his seventh start in four seasons.

The trainer-jockey combination also

scored with Got Talent in the Juvenile and She’s Happy in the Sprint. Got Talent had yet to win after five outings, largely because connections had not bothered to run him in a maiden. He also had three lengths to make up on the favourite Gracias Roman, who had beaten him into second in the Gran Criterium over course and distance.

However, Gracias Roman was caught flat-footed early in the straight and got going too late. She’s Happy justified favouritism with a decisive defeat of 13 rivals in the Sprint.

Age

Sex

3 3 3 4 6 3 4 5 3 4 3 5 6 4 3 3 5 3 3 4 5 3

C F C C H F F M F F C H H C C F M C F C M C

Sire

Dam

Broodmare Sire

Orpen (USA) Johannesburg (USA) Easing Along (USA) Lode (USA) Val Royal (FR) Johannesburg (USA) Speightstown (USA) Not For Sale (ARG) True Cause (USA) Pure Prize (USA) Not For Sale (ARG) Snow Ridge (USA) Val Royal (FR) Catcher In The Rye (IRE) Star Dabbler (USA) True Cause (USA) Footstepsinthesand (GB) Sultry Song (USA) Exchange Rate (USA) Key Deputy (USA) Not For Sale (ARG) Hollin (ARG)

Korea (USA) Jus Agendi (BRZ) Galicada (ARG) Jolie Caresse (USA) Sisinia (ARG) Jus Agendi (BRZ) She's An Angel (IRE) Marca Registrada (ARG) Cipaya Girl (ARG) Candy Of Mine (ARG) American Whisper (USA) Defiant Beauty (USA) La Carambola (ARG) Princesa Americana (USA) Halle Berry (ARG) Cipaya Girl (ARG) Ibella (ARG) High Book (ARG) Nearly Mad (ARG) Figuraza (ARG) Personal Right (ARG) Cross Tab (USA)

Southern Halo (USA) Nugget Point Halo Sunshine (USA) Septieme Ciel (USA) Fitzcarraldo (ARG) Nugget Point Sadler's Wells (USA) Candy Stripes (USA) Fitzcarraldo (ARG) Candy Stripes (USA) Quiet American (USA) Capote (USA) More Light Stravinsky (USA) Holt (USA) Fitzcarraldo (ARG) Lode (USA) Sonus (IRE) Careafolie Farnesio (ARG) Lode (USA) Relaunch (USA)

Juhayna started long odds-on for the Juvenile Fillies as a consequence of her eight-length triumph in the Gran Premio de Potrancas. She made most of the running but was taken on all the way and had to be driven out to beat her stable companion Ultimo Sueno by a short neck. She was one of four winners on the card for Altair Domingos.

Another Brazilian, Jorge Ricardo, was seen at his best on the 9.65-1 Miss Serendipity in the Distaff. The daughter of Not for Sale coasted to the

front well over 1f from home and won by an easy four lengths from La Laguna Azul.

Johnny Guitar, winner of the Dos Mil Guineas last August, had since struggled over longer distances but returned to his best in the Mile.

Juhayna and Koller (third to Got Talent) returned to G1 action at the first opportunity and were easy winners of their respective turf Guineas. Juhayna, whose dam was three times a G1 winner in Brazil, scored by eight lengths and Koller by five.

Australia 27/07 G3 29/06 G3

Sportingbet Bletchingly Stakes Strickland Stakes

6.0f 10.0f

Second Effort (AUS) Kincaple (NZ)

7 8

M M

Mossman (AUS) Pentire (GB)

Relativity (AUS) Kincaple Lass (NZ)

Geiger Counter (USA) Kaapstad (NZ)

Brazil 04/08 04/08 03/08 03/08 29/06 29/06 29/06 04/08 14/07 14/07 13/07 13/07 09/07 30/06 04/08 03/08 30/07 09/07 07/07 29/06

Grande Premio Brasil Grande Premio Presidente da Republica Grande Premio Major Suckow G.P. Roberto E Nelson Grimaldi Seabra G. P. J Adhemar de Almeida Prado G. P. Copa A.B.C.P.C.C.-Matias Machline Grande Premio Margarida Polak Lara GP.A.B.C.P.C.C.Taca Stud Book Brasileiro Grande Premio Gervasio Seabra Grande Premio Dezesseis de Julho Grande Premio Cordeiro da Graca GP Adayr Eiras Araujo - Taca 11 de Julho Grande Premio Ministro da Agricultura Grande Premio General Couto de Magalhaes Grande Premio Jose Paulino Nogueira GP. Joao Adhemar,Nelson de Almeida Prado Grande Premio Copa A.B.C.P.C.C Regional Grande Premio Luiz Fernando Cirne Lima GP.Pres.As.Brasil Criad.Prop Cav.Corrida G.P.ABCPCC Velocidade-M Belmonte Moglia

12.0f 8.0f 5.0f 10.0f 8.0f 10.0f 8.0f 15.0f 8.0f 12.0f 5.0f 10.0f 12.0f 16.0f 8.0f 8.0f 8.0f 9.0f 8.0f 5.0f

Aerosol (BRZ) Maltes (BRZ) Desejado Put (BRZ) Estrela Monarchos (USA) Farrier (BRZ) Poker Face (BRZ) Brilhantissima (BRZ) Viewfinder (BRZ) Maltes (BRZ) Energia Destaque (BRZ) Tap Is Back (ARG) Estrela Monarchos (USA) Sandbuck (BRZ) Jiraya (BRZ) Viking Gold (BRZ) Energia Fribby (BRZ) Uareademon (BRZ) Choreograph (BRZ) Imperatore (BRZ) Desejado Put (BRZ)

4 4 3 3 3 5 3 5 4 5 4 3 4 4 3 3 3 5 5 3

C C C F C H F H C H C F C C C F C M H C

Public Purse (USA) Red Runner (USA) Put It Back (USA) Monarchos (USA) Pioneering (USA) Wild Event (USA) Put It Back (USA) Wild Event (USA) Red Runner (USA) Sulamani (IRE) Put It Back (USA) Monarchos (USA) Hard Buck (BRZ) Bonapartiste (FR) Silent Name (JPN) Agnes Gold (JPN) Watchmon (USA) Sulamani (IRE) Ski Champ (USA) Put It Back (USA)

Nina Sabella (BRZ) Numero Uno (BRZ) Super Duda (BRZ) Dance Fever (USA) Kournikova (BRZ) Power Sound (BRZ) Lamparina (USA) Querenca (BRZ) Numero Uno (BRZ) Bear Hunter (BRZ) Tap (ARG) Dance Fever (USA) Quanto Amore (BRZ) Paixao Eterna (BRZ) Nayara Gold (BRZ) Karla Dora (BRZ) Universal Rara (BRZ) Crazy Jet (BRZ) E de Amor (BRZ) Super Duda (BRZ)

Jules (USA) Rahy (USA) Notation (USA) Fusaichi Pegasus (USA) Irish Fighter (USA) Shudanz (CAN) Roy (USA) Spend A Buck (USA) Rahy (USA) Infamous Deed (USA) Mari's Book (USA) Fusaichi Pegasus (USA) Shudanz (CAN) Kenetico (BRZ) Know Heights (IRE) Nugget Point Ramirito (BRZ) Notation (USA) Music Prospector (USA) Notation (USA)

G1 G1 G1 G1 G1 G1 G1 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3

Farrier extended his unbeaten sequence to three with a comfortable three and three-quarter lengths success in the GPJ Adhemar de Almeida Prado.

Clearly the best juvenile colt around, his time was 1.61s faster than that of Brilhantissima, who upset the oddson Ana Luisa by two lengths. Ana Luisa had won all her three races at Cidade Jardim, the latest a G2.

Poker Face, disqualified after finishing a close third in the GP de Sao Paulo the previous month, picked up his first G1 in an 18-race career. The GP Diana winner Sutil attempted to make all but Poker Face wore her down inside the final furlong.

Sutil started favourite to gain compensation in the GP Roberto e

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Nelson Grimaldi Seabra. Held up behind the leaders this time, Sutil was in trouble early in the straight and came home fifth. Kentucky-bred Estrela Monarchos gained command more than two furlongs out and quickly turned the contest into a procession, scoring by an impressive four and a quarter lengths. Estrela Monarchos has now won five out of seven and was completing a hat-trick over course and distance.

Desejado Put had upset the 1-5 Bottega in a G3 on June 29 but Bottega had the best of the draw – often vital on a course with a bend before halfway – and was made favourite to gain her revenge. Desejado Put, whose dam won this contest six

years ago, was only sixth straightening for home but ran on strongly to catch the favourite and beat her by one length. The first two are both by Put it Back.

Aerosol had been off the course from February 17, when he landed the Rio 2,000 Guineas, until finishing a close third in a G2 over the GP do Brasil course on July 14. That was his first attempt beyond a distance of one mile but he was still made favourite for the country’s richest race. His supporters must have had some major doubts as he set a runaway pace.

Aerosol was no fewer than six lengths clear after half a mile and although he was steadied thereafter, still looked a handful, erratic on the turns and

hanging away from the rail in the back straight. Nevertheless he had just enough left to hold off the 50-1 outsider Ganesh by a head.

Controversy raged after the GP Presidente de la Republica in which Baccelo scraped home a head in front of Maltes. Farrier, who had turned three only five weeks previously, was sent off at 1-10 but was soon in trouble and dropped out to finish seventh.

Baccelo hung in sharply when delivering his challenge, causing severe interference, but Maltes, who later closed strongly, was not one of his victims. Maltes was awarded the prize, to the fury of Baccelo’s connections, and Tiago Josue Pereira, Baccelo’s pilot, was suspended for 90 days.

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DATA BOOK

Canada 21/07 07/07 28/07 20/07 17/07 07/07 07/07 01/07

G2 G2 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3

Nijinsky Stakes Dance Smartly Stakes Royal North Stakes Ontario Matron Stakes Bold Venture Stakes Pizzaville Highlander Stakes Singspiel Stakes Dominion Day Stakes

9.0f 9.0f 6.0f 8.5f 6.5f 6.0f 12.0f 10.0f

So Long George (USA) Solid Appeal (USA) Nikkis Smartypants (CAN) Sisterly Love (USA) Essence Hit Man (CAN) Go Blue Or Go Home (USA) Forte Dei Marmi (GB) Delegation (USA)

4 4 4 5 6 4 7 4

C F F M M M M C

Arch (USA) Successful Appeal (USA) Smarty Jones (USA) Bellamy Road (USA) Speightstown (USA) Bluegrass Cat (USA) Selkirk (USA) Speightstown (USA)

Gal of Mine (USA) Star of the Woods (USA) Scarlet Slipper (USA) Odylic (USA) El Prado Essence (USA) Go Baby Go (IRE) Frangy (GB) Cindy's Hero (USA)

Mining (USA) Woodman (USA) Red Ransom (USA) Dixieland Band (USA) El Prado (IRE) Lion Cavern (USA) Sadler's Wells (USA) Sea Hero (USA)

Chile 29/06 28/06 04/08 04/08 03/08 03/08 27/07 13/07 28/06 28/06 19/07 15/07 12/07

G1 G1 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G3 G3 G3

Clasico Tanteo de Potrillos Classico Arturo Lyon Pena Premio Criadores Machos Premio Criadores-Dorama Gran Premio Criadores G. P. Criadores-Salvador Hess Riveros Premio Fernando Moller Bordeu Premio Pedro del Rio Talavera Premio Otono Pedro Garcia de la Huerta Premio Francisco Baeza Sotomayor P. Invierno-Sergio del Sante Monckeberg P. Carlos Valdes Izquierdo Vina Indomita Premio Raimundo Valdes Cuevas

7.5f 8.0f 8.0f 8.0f 8.0f 7.5f 8.0f 11.0f 10.0f 10.0f 10.0f 8.0f 8.0f

El Pinon (CHI) Solaria (CHI) El Bromista (CHI) Zambitamba (CHI) El de Botas Negras (CHI) Safawi (CHI) Telamon (CHI) McQueen (CHI) Papelon (CHI) Perseverante (CHI) Papelon (CHI) Lemon Pretty (CHI) Sonoma Band (CHI)

3 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 7 4 7 3 3

C F C F C F C C H F H F C

Dynamix (USA) Scat Daddy (USA) Scat Daddy (USA) The Mighty Tiger (USA) Newfoundland (USA) Seeking The Dia (USA) Fusaichi Pegasus (USA) Last Best Place (USA) Monthir (USA) Stuka (USA) Monthir (USA) Scat Daddy (USA) Sonoma Cat (USA)

Pina (CHI) So Linda (CHI) Bresca (CHI) Zubaida (CHI) Re Vive (CHI) Sirena Del Egeo (CHI) Trebellia (CHI) Talk Show (CHI) Encubierta (CHI) Pradilla (CHI) Encubierta (CHI) Lemon Classic (USA) Miss Communipaw (USA)

Squire Jones (USA) Seeker's Reward (CAN) Seeker's Reward (CAN) Doneraile Court (USA) Sam M (USA) Indian Lodge (IRE) Stuka (USA) High Pitched (GB) Edgy Diplomat (USA) Manos de Piedra (USA) Edgy Diplomat (USA) Lemon Drop Kid (USA) Dixieland Band (USA)

The stallion Scat Daddy ended his remarkable first southern hemisphere season with a 1-2-3 in the Premio Arturo Lyon Pena. Solaria took it up early in the straight and ran on to score

by four and a half and one and a half lengths from Dalala and Lemon Pretty.

Such feats are nothing new for their sire. Of 38 foals in his first local crop, the son of Johannesburg was

represented by 23 individual winners from 33 starters.

Scat Daddy also had the favourite for the Tanteo de Potrillos but Knockout could do no better than fourth of 16. El

Pinon was only seventh halfway up the home straight but paddled his way through the slop to catch the exhausted Iron Boy well inside the final furlong and beat him by two and a quarter lengths.

Denmark 04/08 G3

Lanwades Stud Scandinavian Open Ch'ship

12.0f

Bank of Burden (USA)

6

H

Hawk Wing (USA)

Wewantitall (GB)

Pivotal (GB)

Japan 04/08 04/08 28/07 28/07 21/07 21/07 14/07 07/07 07/07 30/06 30/06

The Leopard Stakes Kokura Kinen Ibis Summer Dash Hokkaido Shimbun Hai Queen Stakes Toyota Sho Chukyo Kinen Hakodate Nisai Stakes Hakodate Kinen Tanabata Sho Procyon Stakes Radio Nikkei Sho CBC Sho

9.0f 10.0f 5.0f 9.0f 8.0f 6.0f 10.0f 10.0f 7.0f 9.0f 6.0f

Incantation (JPN) Meisho Naruto (JPN) Hakusan Moon (JPN) I'm Yours (JPN) Fragarach (JPN) Xmas (JPN) Tokei Halo (JPN) Meiner Lacrima (JPN) Admire Royal (JPN) K I Chosan (JPN) Majin Prosper (JPN)

3 5 4 4 6 2 4 5 6 3 6

C H C F H F C H H C H

Sinister Minister (USA) Heart's Cry (JPN) Admire Moon (JPN) Falbrav (IRE) Durandal (JPN) Bago (FR) Gold Halo (JPN) Chief Bearhart (CAN) King Kamehameha (JPN) Stay Gold (JPN) Admire Cozzene (JPN)

Original Spin (IRE) Stapes Mitsuko (JPN) Ciliege (JPN) Cecile Blues (JPN) Skiffle (JPN) Aramasa Sniper (JPN) Dance Queen (JPN) Teardrops (JPN) Must Be Loved (JPN) Shadow Silhouette (JPN) Hollywood Dream (JPN)

Machiavellian (USA) Carnegie (IRE) Sakura Bakushin O (JPN) El Condor Pasa (USA) Tony Bin Stay Gold (JPN) Mill George (USA) Sunday Silence (USA) Sunday Silence (USA) Symboli Kris S (USA) Bubble Gum Fellow (JPN)

New Zealand 03/08 G3

Estaronline Winter Cup

8.0f

Karla Bruni (NZ)

6

M

Pins (AUS)

Cantante (NZ)

Centaine (AUS)

Norway 01/08 06/07

G3 G3

Polar Cup Suburu Oslo Cup

6.5f 12.0f

Ragazzo (NOR) Touz Price (FR)

4 5

F H

Academy Award (IRE) Priolo (USA)

Private Property (IRE) Touz de Saint Cyr (FR)

Pips Pride (GB) Saint Cyrien (FR)

Peru 29/07 30/06

G2 G3

Premio Independencia Clasico Pedro Garcia Miro

12.0f 9.0f

Ariso (PER) Sheriff Pete (USA)

5 3

H C

Six Zero (FR) Mineshaft (USA)

Importadora (PER) Siempre Lista (USA)

Spend One Dolar (USA) Unbridled's Song (USA)

Champions Cup Thekwini Stakes Premier's Champion Stakes The R1,25 Million Gold Cup Mercury Sprint Durban Golden Horseshoe Zulu Kingdom Explorer Golden Slipper Jonsson Workwear Garden Province Stakes Vodacom Durban July Gold Bracelet Stakes Mercedes-Benz Gold Vase Duie Son Champion Juvenile Cup Mango 2200 Lektron Winter Derby

9.0f 8.0f 8.0f 16.0f 6.0f 7.0f 7.0f 8.0f 11.0f 10.0f 12.0f 7.0f 11.0f 12.0f

Jackson (SAF) Along Came Polly (SAF) Kochka (SAF) Jeppe's Reef (SAF) All Is Secret (SAF) Forest Indigo (SAF) For The Lads (SAF) Beach Beauty (SAF) Heavy Metal (SAF) Razzle Dazzle Rose (SAF) Kolkata (SAF) Antonius du Bois (SAF) Master Plan (SAF) Gifted For Glory (SAF)

5 3 3 6 4 3 3 6 5 5 6 3 5 4

H F M M F C F M M M M C M M

Dynasty (SAF) Judpot (USA) Black Minnaloushe (USA) Jallad (USA) Captain Al (SAF) Judpot (USA) Trippi (USA) Dynasty (SAF) Silvano (GER) Jet Master (SAF) Requiem (AUS) Antonius Pius (USA) Jet Master (SAF) Silvano (GER)

Moonlit Prairie (USA) Perfect Polly (SAF) Little Strike (SAF) Studio Fifty Four (SAF) Secret of Victoria (SAF) Albizia (SAF) Skin Tight (SAF) Sun Coast (SAF) Percussion (SAF) Sydney Rose (AUS) City of Joy (USA) Balabos (USA) Princess Polly (SAF) Badger's Gift (SAF)

Cozzene (USA) Model Man (SAF) Elliodor (FR) Badger Land (USA) Goldkeeper (USA) Fort Wood (USA) Winter Romance (GB) Capture Him (USA) Baroon (GB) Last Tycoon Capitol South (USA) Theatrical Royal Chalice (SAF) Badger Land (USA)

G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3

South Africa 27/07 G1 27/07 G1 27/07 G1 27/07 G1 13/07 G1 06/07 G1 06/07 G1 06/07 G1 06/07 G1 27/07 G2 06/07 G2 12/07 G3 06/07 G3 29/06 G3

S’manga Khumalo celebrated with a flying dismount from Heavy Metal as the 28-year-old became the first black jockey to win South Africa’s biggest race, the Vodacom Durban July. Trainer Sean Tarry and owner Chris van Niekerk were notching their second consecutive Durban July triumphs but Heavy Metal’s defeat of Run For It was not quite enough to give Tarry a first trainers’ title – he finished £23,000 behind Mike de Kock. It did, however, seal an initial sires’ championship for the German-bred Silvano, winner of the 2001 Arlington Million.

The winning owner-trainer-rider combination also won the Golden Slipper (for juvenile fillies) with 40-1 shot For The Lads, who beat Along Came Polly. Those placings were reversed over the extra furlong of the Thekwini Stakes three weeks later.

The same thing happened in the two-year-old colts and geldings division as Forest Indigo nosed out Kochka in the Golden Horsehoe before being forced to settle for second, threequarters of a length behind Kockha, in the Premier’s Champion Stakes. Both Forest Indigo and Along Came Polly are

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by first-season sire, Judpot, who failed to make it to the track for Sir Henry Cecil but is a son of Miesque and a halfbrother to Kingmambo.

The main supporting events were completed by the Garden Province Stakes, in which Beach Beauty, outgunned by the brilliant Variety Club on her previous start, proved a length and a half too strong for Espumanti.

All Is Secret, the 2012 Thekwini Stakes heroine, put older speedsters in their places with a decisive victory in the Mercury Sprint. Three-time Grade 1 winner What A Winter was only third on

his final start before retirement, while Jackson, who did not get back to full fitness in time for the Durban July, was an eye-catching fourth over an inadequate trip. Stepped up to 1m1f a fortnight later for the Champions Cup, Jackson scored in imperious fashion, with Durban July runner-up Run For It this time beating just one horse home.

Two 25-1 shots fought out the finish to the nation’s top staying race, the Gold Cup, with Jeppe’s Reef, who had been unplaced in this contest’s two previous renewals, beating Masai Warrior by a length and a quarter.

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Sweden 11/06

G3

United States 04/08 G1 03/08 G1 03/08 G1 28/07 G1 28/07 G1 27/07 G1 27/07 G1 20/07 G1 20/07 G1 20/07 G1 13/07 G1 13/07 G1 06/07 G1 06/07 G1 06/07 G1 29/06 G1 29/06 G1 03/08 G2 29/07 G2 28/07 G2 28/07 G2 28/07 G2 27/07 G2 27/07 G2 24/07 G2 21/07 G2 21/07 G2 13/07 G2 13/07 G2 13/07 G2 06/07 G2 06/07 G2 06/07 G2 06/07 G2 04/07 G2 29/06 G2 29/06 G2 28/07 G3 28/07 G3 27/07 G3 26/07 G3 20/07 G3 20/07 G3 19/07 G3 19/07 G3 19/07 G3 14/07 G3 13/07 G3 13/07 G3 13/07 G3 13/07 G3 13/07 G3 06/07 G3 06/07 G3 06/07 G3 05/07 G3 04/07 G3 04/07 G3 02/07 G3 29/06 G3 29/06 G3 29/06 G3 29/06 G3 29/06 G3 29/06 G3 29/06 G3

IKC Fonder Stockholms Stora Pris

9.5f

Without Fear (FR)

5

M

Refuse To Bend (IRE)

Kansas (GB)

Kahyasi

Alfred G Vanderbilt Handicap Whitney Invitational Handicap Clement L Hirsch Stakes William Hill Haskell Invitational Stakes Bing Crosby Stakes Prioress Stakes Diana Stakes Eddie Read Stakes TVG Coaching Club American Oaks Delaware Handicap Man O'War Stakes American Oaks United Nations Stakes Princess Rooney Handicap Hollywood Gold Cup Handicap Triple Bend Handicap Shoemaker Mile Stakes West Virginia Derby Honorable Miss Handicap Amsterdam Stakes Monmouth Cup Stakes Molly Pitcher Stakes Jim Dandy Stakes San Diego Handicap Lake George Stakes Sanford Stakes San Clemente Handicap Virginia Derby Delaware Oaks A Gleam Handicap Dwyer Stakes Smile Sprint Handicap Suburban Handicap Royal Heroine Mile Stakes Swaps Stakes New York Stakes Firecracker Handicap Oceanport Stakes Matchmaker Stakes Ohio Derby Cougar II Handicap Arlington Oaks Shuvee Handicap James Marvin Stakes Schuylerville Stakes Schuylerville Stakes Sunset Handicap American Derby Stars and Stripes Stakes Virginia Oaks Modesty Handicap Arlington Handicap Carry Back Stakes Salvator Mile Stakes Azalea Stakes Parx Dash Handicap Jersey Shore Stakes Poker Stakes Dr James Penny Memorial Handicap Bashford Manor Stakes Iowa Derby Prairie Meadows Cornhusker Handicap Victory Ride Stakes Iowa Oaks Chicago Handicap Eatontown Handicap

6.0f 9.0f 8.5f 9.0f 6.0f 6.0f 9.0f 9.0f 9.0f 10.0f 11.0f 10.0f 11.0f 6.0f 10.0f 7.0f 8.0f 9.0f 6.0f 6.5f 8.5f 8.5f 9.0f 8.5f 8.5f 6.0f 8.0f 10.0f 8.5f 7.0f 8.5f 6.0f 9.0f 8.0f 9.0f 10.0f 8.0f 8.5f 9.0f 8.5f 12.0f 9.0f 9.0f 7.0f 6.0f 6.0f 12.0f 9.5f 12.0f 9.0f 9.5f 10.0f 6.0f 8.0f 6.0f 5.0f 6.0f 8.0f 8.5f 6.0f 8.5f 9.0f 6.0f 8.5f 7.0f 8.5f

Justin Phillip (USA) Cross Traffic (USA) Lady of Fifty (USA) Verrazano (USA) Points Offthebench (USA) Lighthouse Bay (USA) Laughing (IRE) Jeranimo (USA) Princess of Sylmar (USA) Royal Delta (USA) Boisterous (USA) Emollient (USA) Big Blue Kitten (USA) Starship Truffles (USA) Game On Dude (USA) Centralinteligence (USA) Obviously (IRE) Departing (USA) Dance to Bristol (USA) Forty Tales (USA) Pants On Fire (USA) Joyful Victory (CAN) Palace Malice (USA) Kettle Corn (USA) Kitten's Dumplings (USA) Wired Bryan (USA) Wishing Gate (USA) War Dancer (USA) Dancing Afleet (USA) Book Review (USA) Moreno (USA) Bahamian Squall (USA) Flat Out (USA) Schiaparelli (USA) Chief Havoc (USA) Starformer (USA) Wise Dan (USA) Silver Max (USA) Starstruck (IRE) Title Contender (USA) Richard's Kid (USA) My Option (USA) Authenticity (USA) Sage Valley (USA) Bahnah (USA) Brazen Persuasion (USA) Marketing Mix (CAN) Infinite Magic (USA) Dark Cove (USA) Nellie Cashman (USA) Ausus (USA) Rahystrada (USA) Mico Margarita (USA) Raging Daoust (USA) Wildcat Lily (USA) Ben's Cat (USA) Rainbow Heir (USA) King Kreesa (USA) Somali Lemonade (USA) Debt Ceiling (USA) Looking Cool (USA) Prayer For Relief (USA) Baby J (USA) Fiftyshadesofhay (USA) Cozze Up Lady (USA) Laughing (IRE)

5 4 4 3 4 3 5 7 3 5 6 3 5 4 6 5 5 3 4 3 5 5 3 6 3 2 3 3 3 4 3 4 7 5 3 5 6 4 4 3 8 3 6 4 2 2 5 3 6 3 4 9 3 4 3 7 3 4 4 2 3 5 3 3 4 5

H C F C M F M H F M H F H F M M M C F C H M C H F C F C F F C C H M C M M C F M H F M C F F M C H F F M C C F M C M F C C H F F F M

First Samurai (USA) Unbridled's Song (USA) After Market (USA) More Than Ready (USA) Benchmark (USA) Speightstown (USA) Dansili (GB) Congaree (USA) Majestic Warrior (USA) Empire Maker (USA) Distorted Humor (USA) Empire Maker (USA) Kitten's Joy (USA) Ghostzapper (USA) Awesome Again (CAN) Smarty Jones (USA) Choisir (AUS) War Front (USA) Speightstown (USA) Tale of The Cat (USA) Jump Start (USA) Tapit (USA) Curlin (USA) Candy Ride (ARG) Kitten's Joy (USA) Stormy Atlantic (USA) Indian Charlie (USA) War Front (USA) Afleet Alex (USA) Giant's Causeway (USA) Ghostzapper (USA) Gone West (USA) Flatter (USA) Ghostzapper (USA) Giant's Causeway (USA) Dynaformer (USA) Wiseman's Ferry (USA) Badge of Silver (USA) Galileo (IRE) Pulpit (USA) Lemon Drop Kid (USA) Belong To Me (USA) Quiet American (USA) Discreet Cat (USA) Elusive Quality (USA) Indian Charlie (USA) Medaglia d'Oro (USA) More Than Ready (USA) Medaglia d'Oro (USA) Mineshaft (USA) Invasor (ARG) Rahy (USA) Run Away And Hide (USA) Kafwain (USA) D'Wildcat (USA) Parker's Storm Cat (USA) Wildcat Heir (USA) King Cugat (USA) Lemon Drop Kid (USA) Discreet Cat (USA) Candy Ride (ARG) Jump Start (USA) J Be K (USA) Pulpit (USA) Cozzene (USA) Dansili (GB)

Ava Knowsthecode (USA) Stop Traffic (USA) K D's Shady Lady (USA) Enchanted Rock (USA) Mo Chuisle (USA) Pay Lady (USA) Comic (IRE) Jera (USA) Storm Dixie (USA) Delta Princess (USA) Emanating (USA) Soothing Touch (USA) Spent Gold (USA) Bobbie Use (USA) Worldly Pleasure (USA) Shootforthestars (USA) Leala (IRE) Leave (USA) Dance to Dawn (USA) Forty Love (USA) Cabo de Noche (USA) Wild Lucy Black (USA) Palace Rumor (USA) Somethingbeautiful (USA) Granny Franny (USA) Red Melody (USA) Rich In Spirit (USA) Deed I Do (USA) Mrs Vanderbilt (USA) Clever Babe (USA) Danceinthesunlight (CAN) Midway Squall (USA) Cresta Lil (USA) Cambiocorsa (USA) La Reina (USA) Etoile Montante (USA) Lisa Danielle (USA) Kissin Rene (USA) Agnetha (GER) Winter Garden (USA) Tough Broad (USA) Out of Options (USA) Court of Appeal (USA) Ashwood C C (USA) Flying Glitter (USA) Beholden (USA) Instant Thought (USA) Truly Enchanting (IRE) Crystal Cove (USA) Alison's Winner (USA) El Raabi (USA) Ministrada (USA) Wide Range (USA) Champagne Forever (USA) French Jubilee (USA) Twofox (USA) Rainbow Pride (USA) Storm's Advance (USA) Chic Corine (USA) Top Marks (USA) Coolwind (USA) Sparklin Lil (USA) Lavender Baby (USA) Quiet Kim (USA) The White Lady (USA) Comic (IRE)

Cryptoclearance (USA) Cure The Blues (USA) Maria's Mon (USA) Giant's Causeway (USA) Free House (USA) Seeking The Gold (USA) Be My Chief (USA) Jeblar (USA) Catienus (USA) A P Indy (USA) Cox's Ridge (USA) Touch Gold (USA) Unaccounted For (USA) Not For Love (USA) Devil His Due (USA) Seattle Slew (USA) Montjeu (IRE) Pulpit (USA) Louis Quatorze (USA) Forty Niner (USA) Cape Town (USA) Wild Again (USA) Royal Anthem (USA) Lil E Tee (USA) Grand Slam (USA) Runaway Groom (CAN) Repriced (USA) Alydeed (CAN) Citidancer (USA) Distorted Humor (USA) A P Indy (USA) Storm Bird (CAN) Cresta Rider (USA) Avenue of Flags (USA) A P Indy (USA) Miswaki (USA) Wolf Power (SAF) Kissin Kris (USA) Big Shuffle (USA) Roy (USA) Broad Brush (USA) Cohiba (USA) Deputy Minister (CAN) Cryptoclearance (USA) Glitterman (USA) Cat Thief (USA) Kris S (USA) Danehill Dancer (IRE) Kris S (USA) Pine Bluff (USA) Fusaichi Pegasus (USA) Deputy Minister (CAN) Mineshaft (USA) Caveat (USA) French Deputy (USA) Thirty Eight Paces (USA) Prospectors Gamble (USA) Storm Creek (USA) Nureyev (USA) Marquetry (USA) Forest Wildcat (USA) Mr Sparkles (USA) Rubiano (USA) Real Quiet (USA) Johannesburg (USA) Be My Chief (USA)

After a colts’ Triple Crown which produced three different winners, the three-year-old division is setting up nicely with a pair of Kentucky Derby flops, Verrazano and Palace Malice, now at the head of the standings.

Verrazano won the William Hill Haskell Invitational by almost ten lengths, with the Preakness Stakes winner Oxbow only fourth despite being allowed to set a sedate pace. And Palace Malice, who beat Oxbow into second in the Belmont Stakes, maintained his upward curve with a decisive Jim Dandy Stakes victory.

When the three-year-olds take on their elders in the Breeders’ Cup [BC] Classic at the end of the year, Cross Traffic and Game On Dude should

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provide stiff opposition. A stablemate of Verrazano’s in the Todd Pletcher barn, the four-year-old Cross Traffic was unraced until January but has since made rapid progress, culminating in his wire-to-wire triumph in the Whitney Invitational Handicap. His victims included the 1-2 from the 2012 BC Classic, Fort Larned and Mucho Macho Man. Hot favourite when only seventh in that BC Classic, Game On Dude made it five straight subsequent successes by winning a second Hollywood Gold Cup. Kettle Corn, who got to within a length at the line, franked the form by then lifting the San Diego Handicap.

Amongst the three-year-old fillies, Pletcher’s Princess Of Sylmar, who was widely-regarded as a fortunate

winner of the Kentucky Oaks, had her critics eating their words after she took the Coaching Club American Oaks by six lengths. But if she is to end the season at the head of the female rankings she will have to take down the dual BC Ladies Classic heroine Royal Delta, who returned to form when running away with the Delaware Handicap by nearly 11 lengths. Other possible Ladies Classic contenders are Lady Of Fifty, who bounced back following four short-odds defeats in the Clement L Hirsch Stakes, and the shock Prioress Stakes winner Lighthouse Bay. The pecking order among the sprinters received only a slight shake-up when Points Offthebench held off

Goldencents by a head to give trainer Tim Yakteen his initial Grade 1 in the Bing Crosby Stakes, then Justin Phillip went one place better than 12 months earlier in lifting the Alfred G Vanderbilt Stakes by two lengths.

In the female sprint section, Judy The Beauty made it three top-level seconds in a row when readily outspeeded by Starship Truffles in the Princess Rooney Handicap, while Centralintelligence, who required ten months off following the removal of two bone chips from a foreleg, earned himself a BC Dirt Mile berth by beating six previous Grade 1 winners in the Triple Bend Handicap.

On turf, Obviously and Laughing are a couple of Irish imports currently

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making names for themselves. The front-running Obviously, who won twice for Peter Fahey in 2011, finally cracked it at the top table after three Grade 2 scores with an easy success in the Shoemaker Mile. His performance looked even better three weeks later after Jeranimo, whom he beat by over six lengths into fourth, landed the Eddie

Read Stakes. A second tilt at the BC Mile, in which he ran third last year having set a torrid pace, is Obviously’s primary goal.

Laughing, who won in Listed company for Charles O’Brien two years ago, denied the crowd the billed battle between old rivals Centre Court and Stephanie’s Kitten when just

outgunning the former French filly Dream Peace in the Diana Stakes.

Another ‘Kitten’, this time Emotional Kitten, got to within half a length of upsetting the Juddmonte Farms-owned and -bred 6-5 favourite Emollient in the American Oaks.

But Ken Ramsey, who names his stock ‘Kitten’ after sire Kitten’s Joy, did

enjoy a big-race win when Big Blue Kitten burst through on the inside to land a United Nations Handicap in which last year’s BC Turf winner Little Mike faded into fourth. Big Blue Kitten had chased home Boisterous on his previous start and that form is strong – Boisterous broke his Grade 1 duck at the age of six in the Man o’War Stakes.

Leading sires 2013 by percentage of stakes winners to runners Name

YOF

1990 2004 2002 1996 2005 1998 1988 2004 1992 2002 2002 2002 2004 2000 2005 1999 2004 1994 1992 1993 Holy Roman Emperor 2004 Barathea 1990 Mujahid 1996 Elusive Quality 1993 Pivotal 1993 Shamardal 2002 Montjeu 1996 Mount Nelson 2004 Peintre Celebre 1994 Azamour 2001 Dalakhani 2000 Invincible Spirit 1997 Refuse To Bend 2000 Street Cry 1998 Dylan Thomas 2003 Muhtathir 1995 Footstepsinthesand 2002 Rail Link 2003 Monsun Duke Of Marmalade Dubawi Dansili New Approach Galileo Selkirk Teofilo Singspiel Oratorio Camacho Motivator Dutch Art Oasis Dream Dark Angel High Chaparral Authorized Cape Cross Anabaa Danehill Dancer

Sire

Konigsstuhl Danehill Dubai Millennium Danehill Galileo Sadler's Wells Sharpen Up Galileo In The Wings Danehill Danehill Montjeu Medicean Green Desert Acclamation Sadler's Wells Montjeu Green Desert Danzig Danehill Danehill Sadler's Wells Danzig Gone West Polar Falcon Giant's Causeway Sadler's Wells Rock Of Gibraltar Nureyev Night Shift Darshaan Green Desert Sadler's Wells Machiavellian Danehill Elmaamul Giant's Causeway Dansili

Rnrs

62 74 110 153 57 187 50 120 108 186 56 98 100 186 84 128 90 158 71 171 173 50 75 52 156 139 114 58 58 61 135 203 138 71 107 107 144 72

Wnrs

26 25 37 62 20 74 15 45 38 64 19 39 32 78 33 40 28 57 18 55 59 16 34 19 54 58 34 21 19 24 43 69 49 28 40 31 55 26

%WR

41.9 33.8 33.6 40.5 35.1 39.6 30.0 37.5 35.2 34.4 33.9 39.8 32.0 41.9 39.3 31.3 31.1 36.1 25.4 32.2 34.1 32.0 45.3 36.5 34.6 41.7 29.8 36.2 32.8 39.3 31.9 34.0 35.5 39.4 37.4 29.0 38.2 36.1

Races

39 35 53 88 27 95 20 65 50 97 26 55 48 109 53 55 36 82 23 64 79 21 52 27 67 73 44 27 25 31 49 96 75 34 51 43 77 34

AWD

11.4 9.5 9.7 10.0 9.4 11.0 11.4 9.7 10.7 9.1 6.8 10.4 7.2 8.1 7.4 10.5 10.9 9.4 8.7 9.0 7.9 9.7 8.9 8.3 7.9 7.9 11.6 9.9 10.2 10.1 10.7 7.5 8.8 10.2 10.0 9.6 7.6 11.3

Earnings (£)

1,503,457 345,433 1,627,227 1,891,980 1,373,036 3,862,097 251,874 1,741,954 774,563 1,342,245 269,783 1,240,520 696,546 1,620,073 1,234,251 653,853 664,103 1,168,936 667,114 1,176,423 1,354,711 314,304 416,802 407,797 1,007,446 977,600 1,257,551 313,758 355,761 438,558 862,367 989,907 532,838 302,103 489,901 786,735 802,688 411,703

SH

12 8 16 21 6 29 4 17 8 12 4 10 9 19 11 10 6 13 4 17 10 2 4 3 10 10 13 5 4 4 14 17 4 4 5 4 8 5

%

19.4 10.8 14.6 13.7 10.5 15.5 8.0 14.2 7.4 6.5 7.1 10.2 9.0 10.2 13.1 7.8 6.7 8.2 5.6 9.9 5.8 4.0 5.3 5.8 6.4 7.2 11.4 8.6 6.9 6.6 10.4 8.4 2.9 5.6 4.7 3.7 5.6 6.9

SW

9 6 8 11 4 12 3 7 6 10 3 5 5 9 4 6 4 7 3 7 7 2 3 2 6 5 4 2 2 2 4 6 4 2 3 3 4 2

%

14.5 8.1 7.3 7.2 7.0 6.4 6.0 5.8 5.6 5.4 5.4 5.1 5.0 4.8 4.8 4.7 4.4 4.4 4.2 4.1 4.1 4.0 4.0 3.9 3.9 3.6 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.3 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.8

Quality all the way for the late Monsun Having reached the 50-runner qualification for inclusion in this category, the late lamented Monsun is back in what is becoming his accustomed position. His mark of 14.3% is exceptional and emphasises once again the extent to which quality rather than quantity counts. He has had more than 100 fewer runners than five of his rivals, contributing to a table-topping figure of almost 45% in proportion of winners to runners.

Monsun has an exceptional team.

Estimate’s Gold Cup triumph was the icing on the cake during June. There was another Group 1 win, for Novellist in the Grand Prix de SaintCloud, following two earlier in 2013

by Silasol and Maxios.

Duke Of Marmalade increased his percentage but Dubawi dropped a bit. A headway maker was Dansili, his percentage rising from 4.1 to 6.7.

Leading sires of two-year-olds 2013 by earnings Name

YOF

2002 2001 2000 2000 2003 1994 1999 2001 Holy Roman Emperor 2004 Invincible Spirit 1997 Pastoral Pursuits 2001 Kodiac 2001 Henrythenavigator 2005 Orpen 1996 *Mastercraftsman 2006 Camacho 2002 Deportivo 2000 Red Rocks 2003 Blu Air Force 1997 *Intense Focus 2006 Lucky Story 2001 War Front 2002 *Bushranger 2006 Chineur 2001 Librettist 2002 Excellent Art 2004 Lawman 2004 Exceed And Excel 2000 Dutch Art 2004 Turtle Bowl 2002 Footstepsinthesand Iffraaj Oasis Dream Elusive City *Dandy Man Bahamian Bounty Acclamation Kheleyf

Sire

Giant's Causeway Zafonic Green Desert Elusive Quality Mozart Cadeaux Genereux Royal Applause Green Desert Danehill Green Desert Bahamian Bounty Danehill Kingmambo Lure Danehill Dancer Danehill Night Shift Galileo Sri Pekan Giant's Causeway Kris S Danzig Danetime Fasliyev Danzig Pivotal Invincible Spirit Danehill Medicean Dyhim Diamond

Rnrs

30 29 13 18 30 30 37 34 36 39 37 40 12 9 27 26 17 23 21 29 10 2 44 13 7 21 20 32 14 5

Wnrs

10 10 9 5 12 8 14 12 10 14 9 15 5 5 8 8 3 6 9 6 2 2 7 2 3 3 5 11 4 3

%WR

33.3 34.5 69.2 27.8 40.0 26.7 37.8 35.3 27.8 35.9 24.3 37.5 41.7 55.6 29.6 30.8 17.7 26.1 42.9 20.7 20.0 100.0 15.9 15.4 42.9 14.3 25.0 34.4 28.6 60.0

Races

12 13 11 11 14 12 18 16 11 14 15 19 6 8 12 10 3 8 15 6 5 3 9 4 5 4 6 11 7 4

AWD

6.1 5.7 5.7 5.6 5.1 5.3 5.9 5.3 5.6 5.9 5.3 5.4 5.8 5.1 5.8 5.2 6.0 5.6 5.3 5.8 6.0 6.0 5.5 4.9 6.4 5.8 5.7 5.7 5.9 6.3

Earnings (£)

192,898 185,503 160,523 156,541 151,590 148,971 140,086 131,628 126,429 123,465 123,227 122,539 118,404 117,443 113,475 108,607 101,219 97,513 95,402 92,251 89,722 89,015 83,487 80,979 78,495 71,825 71,559 67,389 62,973 62,560

Top horse

Sandiva Rizeena Coach House Vedeux Extortionist Anjaal Emirates Flyer Big Time Atlantic City Figure Of Speech Ventura Mist Quatuor Sudirman Vorda Pablosky Beldale Memory Larra Chope Grey Greezly Stay Tuned Heart Focus Lucky Kristale War Command Majestic Alexander Winshine Marie d'O Nisharora Club Wexford Ifwecan Lady Dutch Pleuven

Earned (£)

48,671 93,546 61,420 42,276 37,982 48,602 17,678 23,862 24,837 21,081 26,416 20,585 59,033 36,179 31,707 22,916 28,780 20,601 14,487 33,305 52,782 77,308 17,139 29,106 32,358 25,089 22,610 11,295 30,487 37,967

Ascot influential Royal Ascot had an inevitable effect, with Footstepsinthesand, Iffraaj and Oasis Dream storming to the top of the table thanks to Sandiva, Rizeena and Coach House. Oasis Dream’s strikerate of 66% is easily the best for sires with more than ten runners.

Kodiac had a good month, with five winners, and he is now the outright leader from Acclamation, who has also made excellent headway.

Next come first-season sire Dandy Man, Invincible Spirit and Kheleyf.

The other freshmen are not posing any threats to the leader at the moment, with Bushranger and Mastercraftsman on six followed by Intense Focus on five. With 40 facing the starter, Bushranger has had more runners than any in the list.

*First-season sire, statistics to August 4

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FLASHBACK

September 14, 1985 Green Desert and Lester Piggott battle it out with Marouble and Steve Cauthen in the Flying Childers Stakes

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$650,000 yearling purchase at Keeneland in 1984, from Danzig’s second crop, Green Desert came with a big price-tag and big expectations. He didn’t disappoint.

Racing in the colours of Maktoum Al Maktoum for trainer Michael Stoute, Green Desert proved a high-class twoyear-old sprinter, taking the July Stakes at Newmarket and the Flying Childers Stakes at Doncaster.

The latter success, with Lester Piggott in the saddle, came at the expense of Marouble, who had enjoyed a good season, his victories including the Norfolk Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Green Desert went from strength-tostrength at three, claiming the July Cup and Haydock’s Sprint Cup, as well as finishing second to Dancing Brave in the

2,000 Guineas, yet it was at stud that Green Desert achieved greatness.

While Sheikh Albadou and Owington made the top rank as sprinters, the likes of Cape Cross, Invincible Spirit and Oasis Dream all made the transition from high-class racehorse to first-rate stallion, rightly earning Green Desert the coveted ‘sire of sires’ tag.

Two of the greatest thoroughbreds of recent times – Sea The Stars and Black Caviar – both feature Green Desert in their pedigrees, the former a son of Cape Cross and Black Caviar through her dam Helsinge, by Green Desert’s son, Desert Sun. Based throughout his second career at Hamdan Al Maktoum’s Shadwell Stud, Green Desert was retired from covering aged 28 in 2011.

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