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By AMY BENNETT
Sting in the tale of Molecomb triumph Triumph and disaster are regular companions in racing, and so the joy of seeing Cotai Glory win the Group 3 Molecomb Stakes in record time was bittersweet for breeder Julia Scott as his dam sadly died last year. Scott bred the son of Exceed And Excel at her Glebe Stud in partnership with her brother James Dean and Lady Fiona Trenchard, and sold the January-born colt for 75,000gns during Book 2 of last year’s Tattersalls October sales to Rabbah Bloodstock. Cotai Glory was the second foal of Continua, an unraced daughter of Elusive Quality and a half-sister to the Middle Park third Huntdown, purchased by Scott for 45,000gns at the Tattersalls December Sale in 2010. “I had been trying to buy a mare on both Monday and Tuesday and although I thought I had a good bit to spend I hadn’t got near on anything,” Scott recalls. “I happened to see Charles Spiller in the Darley box on Tuesday evening and he asked me if I had looked at Continua. I hadn’t had her on my list as I thought her page was a little bit light but as soon as I saw her I liked her. And she was in foal to Exceed And Excel, who I have always
Continua’s Authorized filly who was oprhaned at the age of two months
been a fan of as we have had some luck with him.” That first foal was a filly, bought by Rabbah Bloodstock for 56,000gns at the December
Yearling Sale. Named Excel’s Beauty, the filly won twice as a two-year-old last season and was runner-up in the Listed St Hugh’s Stakes behind Wind Fire. Having returned to Exceed And Excel for Continua’s second mating, which resulted in Cotai Glory, the mare then went to Authorized, producing a filly. “Sadly Continua died last year,” Scott says. “She got colic and had to be put down; she was only six. Her foal was orphaned at two months but we got a foster mother for her as a companion. Tattersalls were on the phone straight after the Molecomb but we want to keep the filly to race. Although she is by Authorized she does actually have a look of Excel’s Beauty, they both have that slightly dished face, so you can see the mare in her.” It is hoped that Continua’s Authorized daughter will eventually retire back to the paddocks at Glebe Stud, but in the meantime Scott, Dean and Lady Trenchard have another mare in partnership – Pretty Primo, a winning half-sister to the Group 1 winner and young sire Wootton Bassett and a full-sister to the stakes-placed Mister Hardy.
Noble Protector flies the flag for Nelson Farm Racing under the name Black Type Partnership states a clear intent, and Noble Protector lived up to the brief when landing her owners the Listed Newsells Park Stakes at Newmarket in July. The daughter of Haafhd was bred by Richard Tucker at his Nelson Farm Stud in Devon and he retained a share of the four-yearold in the Black Type Partnership, although the filly has now been sold to continue her career for Qatar Racing Ltd. “We decided to keep the filly because we had always liked her, and the Haafhds just weren’t making any value in the ring,” Tucker explains of the decision to retain the filly as a yearling. “We hadn’t got any value for her halfsister by Shamardal the year before, although
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we ended up selling her privately to Germany, where she won a Group 3.” Tucker bred Noble Protector out of the Alzao mare All Glory, whom he purchased for 12,000gns at the Tattersalls December Sale in 2007. “She was from a good family, was Group 3placed in France and was in foal to Beat Hollow,” Tucker explains. “Those more moderately covered mares can be value at the sales because people tend not to look at them.” The resulting Beat Hollow filly, Ventose, showed little in five starts, but All Glory subsequently produced two future stakes winners for Tucker. A covering by Shamardal produced a colt; named All Shamar, he won the Group 3 Preis der Wirtschaf at Dortmund
and is now in training in Hong Kong as Exquisite Champion. All Glory’s next mating was with Haafhd. Explaining the mating decision, Tucker says: “Of course he’s a Guineas winner, and we use a lot of sires like him – top-class horses that perhaps haven’t yet got the results you would expect. Fashion isn’t always the way!” Having produced two stakes winners, All Glory slipped her Kheleyf foal last year and was sadly put down. However, Nelson Farm Stud still welcomed 24 foals this year with around 30 mares covered. “We’re at 900ft and they live out so we do breed tough durable horses because of where we are,” Tucker says of his stud’s location near Cullompton in Devon.
WHAT BLOODSTOCK AGENT LINDA SADLER SAID ABOUT OUR UNIQUE WEBSITE:
Within two days of our advertisement going live on Race Horse Trader we had a viewing of our foal, and a few days later, two more interested parties were in touch.The first customer has now bought the foal, so within two weeks of advertising, I have made a sale.
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