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Mukhadram’s useful half-sister Woodland Aria, who was third in the Musidora Stakes – she actually failed to find a buyer as a foal and was submitted as a yearling from Whitsbury Manor Stud. This quintet aggregated a substantial 578,000gns, of which 240,000gns was paid by John Ferguson for Magic Tree’s Sea The Stars colt foal at the last December Sale. Currently she has a filly foal by Oasis Dream. Andrew Wardall’s Alvediston Stud is near Salisbury, no distance from Whitsbury Manor Stud, and Paul Thorman used to be stud groom there. It is also close to Woodminton Farm, where the late Helen Kennard bred champion sprinter Cadeaux Genereux, who spent his stallion career at Whitsbury. The original owner of Alvediston Stud, a Mrs Beckingham, took the name with her when she decided to sell the property in 1966 and board her stock at the Sellars’ Lanhill Stud near Chippenham in Wiltshire. This lady had founded Alvediston with the acquisition of Oaks heroine Why Hurry, acquired from the J V Rank dispersal in July 1952.
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Mukhadram earned his Group 1 stripes in the Eclipse Stakes
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What sets Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum’s Oaks heroine Taghrooda and his Eclipse winner Mukhadram apart is that the filly (to whom the five-yearold entire finished third in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes) was homebred at Shadwell. Step forward Mukhadram’s breeder Wardall Bloodstock, aka Andrew Wardall, of Alvediston Stud in Wiltshire. Shadwell bought the son of Shamardal as a foal for 190,000gns at Tattersalls’ 2009 December Sale when consigned through Paul Thorman’s Trickledown Stud. That year Mukhadram’s grandam Moyesii was voted the TBA’s Broodmare of the Year, in recognition of her two sons Mastery, the St Leger and Derby Italiano winner, and dual Group victor Kirklees. Moyesii is out of Cherokee Rose (Sprint Cup, Prix Maurice de Gheest), one of Sheikh Mohammed’s earliest Group 1 winners, and her dam Celtic Assembly was acquired by Darley as a yearling for $175,000 in 1982. As for Mukhadram’s dam Magic Tree, she was culled for just 2,800gns as a three-year-old at Doncaster in January 2005. With a single juvenile appearance to her credit when trained by Mick Channon, Magic Tree’s next owner was Alan Kent, who then sold the filly privately to his friend Andrew Wardall. Magic Tree’s first five offspring have all been consigned to Tattersalls by Trickledown Stud either as foals or yearlings and they include
The Cheveley Park stallions had been making a bigger impression at the top level than the Thompsons’ own mares this season – that is until Integral came to the rescue. This four-year-old daughter of Dalakhani won the Falmouth Stakes (how satisfactory that the race reverted to its original name, commemorating one of the leading owner/breeders of the Victorian era) to augment her Royal Ascot victory in the Duke of Cambridge Stakes (previously the Windsor Forest Stakes). Integral was emulating both her homebred dam Echelon (Matron Stakes) and grandam Exclusive (Coronation Stakes) in landing a Group 1 prize. Exclusive also had a Cheveley-bred heritage handicap winner in July with De Rigueur (Old Newton Cup). The family owes its origin at the Thompsons’ stud to the next dam Exclusive Order. A multiple Group winner in France, she cost $825,000 in 1987 and is also responsible for 2,000 Guineas hero Entrepreneur. Provenance, Integral’s retained three-year-old half-sister, also scored in July. They are two of Echelon’s first four produce all trained by Cheveley Park Director Sir Michael Stoute, the most recent being the Shamardal juvenile filly Entity. Meanwhile, Echelon has a yearling colt by Medicean heading to Tattersalls’ October Sale and she is in foal to Integral’s sire Dalakhani, as is Provenance’s own-sister Elysian, who has a colt foal by Dutch Art.
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